Well continue to watch this throughout the night. The hope is pretreated roads in Northern Virginia will hold up to the snow sleet, rain ice tonight. Vdot crews were out in full force for hours getting the streets in arlington, fairfax, Prince William counties. About 500 trucks are out right now ready to retreat roads as the snow falls. Crews will be out again on sunday night as well. They ask everybody to slow down if you have to be out. He spent more than 30 years teaching special education students in bethesda. Tonight that teachers career is over after he was indicted on child pornography charges. Derrick ward is live outside of Bethesda Chevy Chase High School with more. Reporter by all accounts a popular teacher. None of the charges with which he is charged or is facing are believed to have had anything to do with the school. None of this happened on school prop he did make his first appearance today in federal court. Federal prosecutors charged 61yearold peter flynn with one cha
Folks there received up to a foot of snow, but you know that famous line about neither snow nor rain . This is what we do. This is our job. Reporter but letter carriers like tex roberts would appreciate a little help. It would be great if the homeowners would make a path for us on their porches and aly make sure its not icy and slippery. Reporter heading east to little rock, arkansas, not much snow or ice, but the city is ready even if they arent happy about it. Really hard type of event it. Does cost a lot. Reporter across North Carolina sleet and snow already causing problems. The fear there is ice could bring down branches and power lines. Of course, wusa9 will stay on top of all this weather tonight and into the weekend. To track the storm with us, get up to the minute information on closings, delays and weather news, just go to our news app or our website. We are expecting word at any moment now about what came of this new day of searching for bodies in the ruins of the waterfront
Between now and tomorrow morning. Normally it would be a slam dunk in terms of snow. We dont have the cold air. That said it is snowing in leesburg, dulles and much of Montgomery County. I think this initial burst will be a lot of snow. That will kick to rain. Once that kicks to rain it will become heavy rain overnight. Well come back, talk about when the precip shuts off and look lady to a very healthy clipper look ahead to a very health clipper late into weekend. Road crews are around the area gassing up ready to clear the roads when the snow hits. Mola lenghi is live at vdots truck yard in leesburg. Reporter it is coming down here in leesburg. As we drove from the district through fairfax county, it started re ago we were seeing flakes starting to come down. We are again seeing that through in leesburg hasnt let up over the last hour. Trucks are already out. Weve got hundred and hundreds of trucks on the roads already. They are reloading and refueling and gassing up and loading up h
It is a miserable and nasty night out there. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im jan jeffcoat. Im lesli foster. It is cold, wet and where you are makes the difference on whether you are seeing snow or rain. First alert meteorologist topper shutt is here to show us where that line is. Were looking at temperatures in the mid30s with heavy rain in d. C. , heavy rain up 270 and in between frederick and baltimore. See the reds and oranges. A little snow out toward leesburg and mixed precipitation down i81 toward Orange County and luray. This is all rain through the immediate metro area, Silver Spring, rockville, heavy rain down toward old town moving to the north and east. This is going to be the most intense part of the storm between now and 3 a. M. Well move it north. A little snow still around leesburg either side of 15. Were looking at reports of sleet toward new brunswick. For the most part, we are looking at a half rain overnight. There are still Winter Weather advisories essentially we
But still there will be pockets of a mix of snow and sleet in parts of the area, but the roads are fine, temperatures above freezing. Were looking at a little snow still in frederick back toward the border of montgomery and Frederick County and snow toward germantown and sleet. 34 pretty much across the board and 37 downtown. Well come back, talk about when the heavy precipitation rolls in, what that means for saturday and were tracking a monster clipper for the weekend. The snow has been falling in Loudoun County a while now. Road crews wasted no time hitting the highways. Mola lenghi joins us live now from leesburg with a look at conditions there. Reporter its been coming down a couple hours now, nothing really sticking, just at this point creating very wet conditions. Virginia d. O. T. Deployed hundreds of crews there out on the roadways now. You see the silo behind me. Thats where those trucks are coming sort of in waves, coming to not only refuel, but to reload on salt. Right now