Of it. Well get into the timing of all this as well as your sevenday forecast coming up. Chuck, thank you. Right now as you mentioned, we are watching those flakes and flurries in d. C. Maryland and virginia. It is a weather alert day with snow expected all around our area and news 4s derrick ward there in his hat is live in rockville to show us whats going on rig now. Hi derrick. Reporter well weve got snow flurries coming down. This can be the start of something slick. Its going to get worse later on. Take a look at the road. This is rockville pike. Obviously nothing to worry about at this point. Dont let that deceive you. As the temperature drops and more of this falls, it will get treacherous. Maryland is asking motorists to delay any travel. Weve been lucky to have snowfalls on the weekends where traffic is a lot lighter and allows crews to get out. Vdot has 1500 trucks on the road. D. C. Has gone into a full deployment starting at 6 00 a. M. We dont have numbers on how much maryl
As they heard those tornado sirens going off. A school gym also collapsed, 60 to 70 people inside that gym. Many have serious injuries. Right now about 41,000 people are without power. And several schools in the area are closed this morning. A lot of damage there to clean up. Again, we have learn that had one person was killed as a result of the tornado touchdown oig. That had one person was killed as a result of the tornado touchdown oig. Lets get a look at our weather now with tom kierein. Along with the warmer temperature, well have rain showers passing mainly south and ooefs the metro area. Already had one batch. Now its the on the Eastern Shore. Now pulling away heading toward the beaches. And we have another cluster of showers and thundershowers right now into northern North Carolina just crossing into virginia. These too are on a track to pass just south of the metro area another several hours. Most of the metro area should stay dry through the Daylight Hours. Its later this eve
They are getting heavy downpours and into Montgomery County and Prince William. A look at how much longer this will last and the threat for that Severe Weather. The sevenday outlook in a few minutes. As tom reported, we are getting reports of flooding. Richard jordan has the latest. The storm this morning did pack a punch and we are starting to see the impact. The first report from the loud on county sheriffs office. They say there is flooding on route 7 between the dulles greenway to east market street. Flooding on route 7. This is the area of concern. Thats where you see the standing water build up. Drivers are urged to use caution. The rule of is if you come across the flooded street and cant tell how deep the water is, its best to turn around. We will keep monitoring them. Im richard jordan. A Group Pushing for the redskins to change their name is bringing their fight to the district. Members of the Indian Nation are in georgetown as the owners will gather later today for the annua
Moving in, moving through. You can see the white there. As i zoom in on d. C. , you can see that weve got it right now around fairfax, around warrenton. The snow will be moving eastward. We have the chance of snow now for the next three, maybe four hours until noontime, but were not going to get much. After noon, its rain that takes over and starts eating away at the storm system. This whole event is over with at 3 00, except for the wind and cold. Ill have more on that and what you can expect for the rest of your weekend in a couple minutes. Thank, veronica. The snow has already started falling in the northern parts of the metro region. News 4s derek ward is live in frederick with more. Good morning, derek. Looks like you have quite the coating out there so far. Reporter well, indeed, we do. This has been here for a while. This actually fell on about wednesday. I dont know if the camera can pick it up now, but there is some precipitation falling now. It seems to be sleet. When we got
Cold air is moving in on us and we have complete Team Coverage here. We are blanketing the region, and much like the white stuff is out there, and so how much snow on the ground, v. J. . Well, quite a bit. Ok at the amounts. Westminster is 7 inches, and fredrick, maryland, 7 inches, and columbia and howard also 3 inches, and so it the pocket north and west of d. C. Where we are really seeing the snow coming down hard. Talking about it outside now, and the temperatures of the conditions out there, and of course, the visibilities are reduced across the area, and the winter storm warning continues through 11 00 p. M. This evening, and through the area, and it is around 10 00 or 11 00 p. M. When i expect the sfoe to make its way out of here, but look at the coverage on storm team 4 radar here, and look at that covering the beltway there. Even some of the main roads are slippery today, and not just the secondary roads, but bethesda and kettering and bowie, and the snow covered roads, but th