Blanket of a deadly weather these days. A deadly pileup and a dozen injured in michigan. It happened near whiteout conditions, dangerous travel, a polar vortex and much, much more. All of that is really on the way. Heres nbcs kristen dolgren. Reporter another multivehicle accident near erie, pennsylvania shut down parts of interstate 90 and in upstate new york, a funnel cloud, along with proceeding snow and slippery roads. We had to drive really slow. Reporter even the professionals had trouble. Some areas could see more than two feet of this lake effect snow. Out west, places like salem and portland, oregon, under a blanket of snow and ice, schools and city offices closed and flights cancelled. An arctic plast hitting hard wallia wallia washington 16 degrees, boulder dropped to 3. And casper, wyoming, a bone chiming 30 below, 44 degrees lower than normal. And its far from over t. Polar vortex could plunge temperatures even lower next week. Our meteorologist bill karens is going to joi
The way for so many like her inn a Police Department that hastmen strived to be progressive much b the praise has been strong, but tonight fox5 uncovers some disturbing information about that d. C. Police officer that has not been made public untilc now . Fox5s Marina Maracco isis here now with the exclusive. Reporter the d. C. Policee department has allow Sergeant Jessica Hawkins to tell her story repeatedly for the pastast two years since she came out as a transgender woman. But tonight inter chief Peter Newsham would notot allow her to speak to fox5 a. She has become the face of the ltgt. They havent found abusive andnd unbecoming conduct. Shes been called a trail blazer. She was born billy but now jessica. Sergeant event jessica hawkins. Her coming out has been outlets. S. This week,abcbc news has said she was a woman Building Trust and easing fear in the district. These documents obtained by fox5 shows a different side to the leader the mpd by sexual and transgender downit. Allega
Were starting on the air conditioning for next summer now. Reporter metro giving us an up close look to new upgrades and trains maintenance. Sometimes we have to pull the cars out because they get too hot. Reporter the plan is to use this specialized wand to better clean the air conditioning system so that it works consistently. We actually test these on the car. Reporter metro showed us how theyre going to get broken down trains back in Service Faster with this new tester. For the first time engineers can troubleshoot on board instead of hauling the train off to the shop. That saves us times and we can make sure to have the car back in service as quickly as possible. Reporter metro says the train boors open and close 45 million times a month throughout the system. Some older and newer models are getting new parts. We are changing all of the rollers. Reporter those trying to mainta t says upgrades mean fewer delays for the riders. Theres a lot of work to do but metro wont rush their ba
Slippery spot or two. So be careful. Big drop in temperatures arrives here Late Wednesday and chance for wintry weather as we get toward the weekend. So this is the week to have your nbc washington app downloaded. Its rain up and down the i95 corrid corridor. Temperatures are near 40 around town and will be in the upper 40s to maybe low 50s briefly this afternoon. Maybe a peek or two of sunshine, but on the whole going to be a lot of cloud s around here. More about the polar plunge coming up. Taking a look at the situation 95 and the icc, again, we still have the wet roads all over the area. It will be this way as chuck has been saying through much of the morning commute. Northbound 95 at 200 is where the crash is. In the service roadway. Is out of the roadway. 66 looking pretty typical. 95 north through woodbridge is getting a little slow here this morning. Looking at the beltway overall, inner loop and outer loop are okay. 66 inside the beltway, a bit slower than normal at this point
Discussions centered on global affairs. We talked about china and our most important adversary we talked about hacking, whether its chinese hacking or purported russian hacking. Just a short time ago, the vote recount in wisconsin ended and latest word was that Hillary Clinton. Picked up 25 votes. Donald trump won the state by more than 22,000. And jill stein requested a recount and fade for it u but her attempts to have them in pennsylvania and michigan have been blocked in court. The revolving door at the pentagon now in the president elects cross hairs. Well have more on that in a live report coming up from capitol hill at 4 45. Desk. Were following breaking news. A deadly crash in Loudoun County. A dramatic impact on the roads in that area. This is far western Loudoun County along route 7. One person was killed after a truck and car crashed. Deputy says u they had to shut down all westbound lanes of route 7 in the area of yellow schoolhouse road. Investigator says its going to be a