Here. Look for a wintry mix early this afternoon and then perhaps changing to rain but again the rain, the wintry mix everything will get a chance to stick on roads and sidewalks as ground temperatures right now are in the teens. We are under a Winter Weather advisory. Ill show you that coming up but again the timing on this ill say between about 1 00 and 7, 8 oclock tonight look for a wintry mix across the area and icing will be an issue. Guys ill have more on this in a minute. Back to you. Tuck thanks. School closings and delays. A lot might come as a surprise as we thaw out from the weekend deep freeze. Its the threat of a wintry mix this afternoon thats leading many systems to close early. Fairfax, loud couldnt loudon and what are havent. Fauquier king george page county schools. In virginia john adams elementary in alexandria is closed because theres no heat. All other alexandria city schools though will open on time. Stafford county schools and fredericksburg okay. Lets head over
Two. Take it. Feels nice. Thaws you out for a little bit. Not for long though. It feels good for sure. Well be back into the deep cold by saturday night and sunday is looking very, very chilly ind d indeed. Between now and then, we have a surge of warmer air and milder, more moisture as well. Thats coming in our general direction. Were dry now but skies are partly to in some cases mostly cloudy. The skies had been clearer overnight. The temperatures have fallen below freezing. Martinsburg and winchester. Around the city, in the upper 30s to 40. Its not a bitter cold start to the day at all. With a lot of clouds, we should have no trouble making it into the mid50s. Melissa mollet, that is ten degrees warmer than average today. I like that. I mean, were going below average, so this is nice. To be warmer an thafrj. 270, live look at Montrose Road northbound, southbound. Rolling along fine this morning. No issues on 270. Same situation he inner loop and outer loop, dont have any troubles.
Of electrical problems caused the fire this time. Lets talk about the forecast. At 4 31, yesterday was a pretty hot and humid day. I was out in the latter part of the day and it wasnt that hot. Well see if that continues. Heres tom to look at the forecast. Humidity did drop yesterday but its right back up as were looking at the rain moving into the mountains. Generally drying out as it gets closer to the Shenandoah Valley. And a few showers coming down in winchester. And as it moves east of the blue ridge, it looks like it will try out at least temporarily. Heres the hourbyhour timing by noon time and then by 2 00 this afternoon, showers with thunder, mainly just south of the washington, but our Eastern Suburbs could see that as well. By 4 00, scattered showers with a Little Thunder around Northern Virginia, eastern shore. That continues to move off to the east by 5 00 or 6 00 p. M. Lingering showers maybe thunder as well all the way to late to midevening. There could be ponding of wat
Well see you then, melissa. Thank you. 6 01 now. New this morning the governor of South Carolina expected to sign a bill today that will remove the Confederate Flag from the state capital grounds there. The South Carolina house of representatives passed a bill, that was after hours of emotional, sometimes tearful debate. Once Governor Haley signs the bill, the flag should come down within 24 hours. Haley and a lot of her fellow lawmakers are responding to calls from across the country to remove that flag after the racially motivated killing of black worshipers in charleston. At 1 30 this morning after a vote there, haley tweeted its a new day in South Carolina. Now a lot of folks seem to agree with her, there was a cartoon posted showing the flag and it said, going, going gone on that cartoon. Another person tweeted finally. One state, one flag. Efforts here on capitol hill to ban the Confederate Flag in federal cemeteries is proving controversial as well. The measure was added as an a
Thats next weather and traffic on the 1s coming up at 6 11. Melissa has an update on 66. Slowdowns on 66 three mile backup as youre headed inbound. 66 east at 123, we have that center lane blocked because of the crash and a lot of volume. 66 at 50, you can see those backups building outer loop at 395, i spoke with police, that crash has cleared out of the way. Prince georges county, no major problems there. B. W. Parkway 29 95 everything rolling along nicely. Its 6 01. Breaking news now. We found out that president obama will address the nation about the Historic Nuclear Deal with iran this morning. News4s angie goff is breaking it down from the live desk. Hi, aaron. First getting word from white house now that president obama will speak about this deal around 7 00 a. M. So in just about an hour, be sure to stay with us about that. Hes going to talk about this deal that were hearing is about 80 pages long. Big take away so far, it limits irans ability and access to build a Nuclear Weap