Radar is picking up snow, in two parts of louisiana, texas, new mexico, in mexico itself. Inse are all the shades pink, and the Winter Weather advisory is up for the d. C. Metro. It will be out until 4 00 tomorrow. You are going to need your code tonight. 40s. Going to be in the a few flakes are possible, but it is mainly tomorrow and into the day tomorrow. We will talk more about those totals and how cold it is going to get coming up in a little while. We will see you in just a minute. Anytime snow is in the forecast, it quickly becomes the talk of the town. What are people saying as we prepare for this first wintry blast . We sent Maryland Bureau chief brad bell to District Heights to find out. Hey there, brad. Brad hey there. People are talking about it. There are preparations underway. Prince georges county, 200 pieces of equipment are ready to go tonight. Most of them have their plows on but probably are not going to use those plows. If anything, they are going to use their salt s
6 50 in the morning. That is minutes before they got a call for help. The units arrived quickly. Make the call. The next challenge was water supply. The complex was overwhelmed by the department of the fire hoses. They had to get them off of properties. They were trying to put them out. There was people screaming. Then the fire trucks are coming. Everybody getting out the building. Many more displaced. The families were looking forward to the holiday. The red cross, the churches were working with them and make sure they have the shelter. The churches are working on the clothing. The Fire Department in conjunction with a red cross to replace toys that the children might have been expecting from santa for christmas. Reminder of the new smoke alarm law taking effect in two weeks. All alarms that are older than ten years old must be removed and replaced with the new alarms with the tenyear batteries built in. Once those are installed you dont replace batteries. You replace the device once
Live on the scene. Do we know how this started . Jay we do not. The calls of the fire is under investigation. Of the fire is under investigation. The road is closed down to fight the fire. There is a huge gaping hole in the middle of the home. Fire Officials Say when they arrived flames were shooting out and it was fully engulfed. On the video, you will see the backside of the property, where the whole back of the home is blasted open, totally gutted. Firefighters were back there. We just got the video moments ago and sent it in. They are trying to clean up the hotspots and make sure that the blazes out. The good news is it appears nobody was home at the time. Firefighters scoured the home. Here, but again, no cause of the fire. This is an area of germantown that does not have hydrants accessible to the house, so they had to get a lot of fire trucks here with a lot of water to put this blaze out. Jay korff, abc 7 news. Kimberly another house fire, this one in fairfax county. The flames
Meanwhile flames shooting out of an antique market in Fairfax County. The popular shot left in ashes. The neighbors await to hear if the owner will rebuild. Tom roussey is live in alexandria with the story. Tom the Fire Department appears to have finished the investigation for the night. The crews put up a fence around the prompt. To protect the evidence. This is an investigation scene at this point. This is a place that meant a lot to a lot of people. We found that out. Throughout the day folks come by who worked here or have been a customer here for many, many years. It just stuck out. The yellow building stuck out. Folks cant imagine route 1 without the mouth vernon antique center. Its one of the unique things in the community. The building that burned christmas night dates to 1946. It started as a lumberyard. Former owner tells me opened as an antique pal in 1961. Becoming well known enough that elvis and liberace shopped here. After becoming a Furniture Store it reopened as an ant
Leon days after the immigrant workers raised questions about working on the trump high profile hotel. A high profell chef pulled out of the project. Jose andres pulled out after trump put himself in the middle of nationwide debate on immigration. Stephen tschida is live at the renovation project and he has the latest on the developing story which could involve a lot of money. Stephen yeah. A lot of march is an understatement. We were able to confirm from the chef he canceled his deal with trump. It go an email from donald trump jr. Who says jose andres has no right to terminate or abandon his obligation under the lease. If he defalls we the trump cooperation will not hesitate to take legal action to recover ten years of rent. This is because of the statement over the illegal mexican immigrants. The castle getting a trump makeover. A critical piece of the project pulled out. I want to say thank you for supporting us. Stephen jose andres planned open an establishment in the new touch hot