Mount vernon. Extremely heavy rain in this area. Lets zoom in even more and right along i95, some extremely heavy rain around the springfield area just south of clinton and hello waldorf. Youve been under the gun for the last half hour to 45 minutes and not just the heavy rain and watch the lightning. Wow look at the amount of lightning. Nearly 1,000 lightning strikes every ten minutes and a lightning show going on right over toward waldorf and right on through the mechanicsville area through st. Marys county and also under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning. Take a look at the wider view and you can see the frontal boundary making its way down slowly right along the pennsylvaniamaryland border and we still have storms left to go and we think the strongest storms are moving down to the south and east. This is a sign of things to come for thursday. We have another day of potentially Severe Weather. Well talk much more about that and weve had warningll seen areas of damage and wendy rieger is
Darren wilson for anything. At the other end, indict him for first degree murder. And then there is a long list of things in between. At this point, theres no word about any crowds having gathered or to watch a decision come down or to take part in any particular protests in that area. We know missouri governor, jay nixon, is in the st. Louis area at this hour. He was planning, as we understand it, to be to participate in a 6 30 News Conference. We dont know yet whether that was actually a part of this grand jury decision coming down. Obviously, were going to stay on top of this. Were going to keep digging for more information on this. Well bring that to you as soon as we learn new details. Jim and wendy. All right, Aaron Gilchrist. Our other big story right now, ready or not, like it or not, a winter storm watch just issued for parts of our viewing area. Yes indeed. Lets go to storm team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson. When and where and really . Yeah, really, i know. Hard to believ
virginia will be with us for another two or three hours, and some of that may be thickening a bit. now, here s how things will be looking for the next few days. we ll have a pleasant pattern all of the way into the weekend with morning lows in the 60s and afternoon highs into the 80s. we ll take a look at your hour-by-hour forecast and a hometown 4-cast coming up in about ten minutes. and look who s back! welcome back, danella, your first 4 traffic. good morning. thanks, tom, good to be back. and hey, we re back to construction road work. luckily in our area, no accidents to report. so, first set of road work is really down here at braddock road on the inner loop and outer loop, left side blocked by road work there. let s head to the inner loop at arlington boulevard in virginia. right here you ll see a disabled vehicle in the right shoulder lane, not bad. let s head to montgomery county. a work zone on the outer loop past new hampshire avenue along the left side of the r
metro riders are all but certain to pay more. how much and when. and down to the wire. the caps and bruins in a dogfight that needed extra time. good morning, i m aaron gilchrist. i m eun yang. welcome to news4 today for this friday, the 13th. cold out there. 41 degrees at 5:01. probably warmer than some other spot. tom, more winter weather. we re all excited about the warmup you ve been telling us about all week. yeah. you re probably sick of wearing the puffy coat. you do need it this morning. off to a cold start. right now the view showing a few clouds passing over the region, obscuring a little of the moon. the moon shining through. low in the southeastern sky on this friday morning. look at the areas in blue. those are areas in the 30s and 40s. the light blue, 40s. dark blue, 30s. that includes most of west virginia, pennsylvania, parts of maryland and virginia. right now in washington, at 47 at reagan national. the warmer waters of the potomac, as well as near
but tom s here to tell us if that s gone, and whether things are melting because it was a little ice oh my front porch this morning when i walked out. yeah. that ice and snow we had on saturday has stayed frozen all weekend. and it s still frozen this morning. okay. in fact, because of some of the weather, we before you get started, let me tell you about school delays and closings we are hearing about so far this morning. the federal government has announced that it will have an 11:00 a.m. late arrival, and employees have the option of unscheduled leave and telework, taking unscheduled work and working from home. d.c. government and public schools will open on time. in virginia, alexandria and prince william county schools will open two hours late. stafford county schools will also open two hours late. and there s no morning kindergarten. in west virginia, schools in jefferson and morgan counties will also open two hours late. you can find a full list of delays at