A cold start to your morning. Warm coat, the clouds will hang around today. Not much in the way of sunshine. Theres that storm system. Its starting to come together down south. Rain and snow with it. Thats going to be closer to us. Ill show you what to expect coming up. Thank you, sheena. Well start out with break news on the wildfires burning in california. Take a look at the pictures. Six fires now burning across the state including a new one that broke out in san diego county. In all, about 500 buildings destroyed, 5700 firefighters are working the frontlines trying to get a handle on the fires. Lets go to jinah kim in ventura with more on the Biggest Challenges facing the firefighters this morning. Good morning, jinah. Good morning, chris. What a difference 24 hours makes. This time yesterday we were el fires in southern california, mostly contained to the general l. A. Area. Since then, weve added the lilac fire and the liberty fire in murieta. The lilac fire being the one theyre
Remember a man as funloving. He was shot and killed by u. S. Park police last month. The family is still looking for answers demanding transparency throughout the investigation. Police say they followed his suv after a hitandrun accident on the gw parkway near reagan national. Officers tried to stop him but they led him on a chase. He was shot three times in the head after that chase. Through the tears, friends and family honored him at last nights vigil. My dearest angel. Full of love, you always expressed that happiness. His family says he was unarmed and fbi is now investigating that case. Its 4 31. Shutdown averted. Congress struck a deal to prevent the government from shutting down this weekend. The agreement helps to buy time for challenging talks on everything from immigration to aid and puerto rico. Lawmakers pass a twoweek spending bill yesterday. It is now headed to the president s desk. He is expected to sign it. Were learning a lot more about what forced arizona congressman
Md. Highs 4042 winds n to s 5 mph tonight cloudy cold. Rain snow mix over southern md. Lows 2934 winds s 5 mph saturday am rain snow mix. Any accumulation over southern md. Clearing west to east. Highs 3539 winds ne to se 5 mph just as fire crews in southern just as fire crews in southern in Southern California started making slow progress an explosive new fire erupted north of san diego. Flames quickly exploding. Scorching more than six square miles in the first few hours. That wildfire now brings the diane macedo has the latest on the fire fight in california. New this morning hundreds turn out remembering the victims of a shooting at Aztec High School in new mexico. A man opened fire yesterday killing two students. The gunman is also dead, but it isnt clear if he shot himself or someone else killed him. And take a look at this new video that came in about two hours ago students huddled inside a classroom hiding during the shooting. This was taken on a students cell phone. Police hav
Not yet. Of course, thats going to change as the morning wears on. If they dont clear this accident soon. Were trying to get some information about the timeline here. But for the moment, all lanes of 95 south are closed. Theyre going to be detoured in dumfries. As for the northbound lanes, theyre moving at speeds. The express lanes are open as well. That doesnt seem to be affected. Well have to wait and see whether we get any rubber necking delays on that side or not. Well keep an eye on it. Melissa, back to you. Thanks, megan. Well be checking with megan throughout the morning. Heres the other closure. Southbound bw parkway being pushed off. This is another crash investigation with all lanes shut down. Northbound is open and unaffected this morning. Taking a look at 270 from 70 down to the spur, you dont have any worries there. Everything is looking quite good. Same situation if youre headed northbound this morning on 270. No big problem there either. Beltway, inner loop and outer loo
Surface temperatures dipping close to freezing. Lets get to Veronica Johnson. The National Weather service issuing Winter Weather advisories as we get ready to get the first snow of the season. Calverto stafford and under the advisory. It starts at midnight and runs through 4 00 saturday. We could see one to two inches of snowfall. The high is 42. We will have more, coming up. On the roads, lanes are open. This crash is gone as you approach powder mill road. Delays are improving quickly for those traveling out of laurel. All lanes are open. Ride virginia, a 19 minute on the northbound side. The earlier crash we had southbound in dumfries has cleared. To the update the ride west on 66 in 10. Yournna we are always on side with traffic alerts. Get the latest sent to your phone. Inria a massive response just the. More than 50 firefighter more firefighters are putting out flames at a hotel. It was put out quickly. No one was hurt. Adrianna we are watching the developments in the fight again