Trying to restore the situation. Plus a 92yearold war veteran dead after his house caught fire this morning. And tonight we hear from his family. And President Trump returns to washington facing a new crisis overseas in the new year. Well, where else do we begin tonight but with the cold blast of arctic air still gripping all of us in this new year . If you can believe it, doug said its going to get even worse in the tenday forecast. So lets get right to him in the storm center with more on tomorrow morning. Its going to get worse before it gets better. Kind of hard to believe, leon. I think we may get above freezing on wednesday, but then we come crashing back down, and boy, it gets even colder. Right now its just frigid. The big deal, its still the wind. The wind. Take a look at the flag blowing out there in the wind. Weve got winds that are gusting over 20 Miles Per Hour at this hour. Take a look at the current wind gusts. 22 Miles Per Hour in d. C. , 18 every once in a while the gu
Is for us. This water main break on hampshire avenue. One southbound lane getting by and a couple of northbound lanes. If we can, lets switch it and take a look from above. Chopper 4 over the scene for us this morning. Southbound New Hampshire avenue at oakview. Just a slushy mess. Very slick. Very slippery. Not to mention, a bit dangerous here. Where the water main breaks are happening, no doubt very slick through the area. Austin hill. St. Barnabas. Crittend crittendon, because of the water main break, rest of the beltway, all other main routes looking okay right now. Eun . Melissa, thank you. Its 6 01. Were following breaking news out of southeast washington. Kramer middle schools basement is flooded after a pipe burst. Justin good morning. Reporter hey there, aaron, eun. Crews are working to secure this at kramer middle school. I can tell you, were hearing all of this is resulting from a broken boiler in the basement that caused several feet of flooding in that area at the time. As
How expansive this cold is. Its snowing just south of new orleans right now. The cold air all the way down to the gulf coast state, now for us in our region, you know its on the cold side. Today a little better than it was yesterday, but look at these numbers right now. These are the current wind chills across the midatlantic. 18 . D. C. , 13 in hagerstown, 2 in state college. Yesterday we had negative numbers. It is 3 below towards columbus, ohio. And we have colder air moving in. It wont be tomorrow, though. Right now temperatures 26 degrees in d. C. , 25 in reston, 22 the current temperature in gaithersburg. So, another day that is below freezing and thats why the potomac is frozen. And its going to get a lot more frozen over the next couple of days because we have colder air coming in. Frigid air continues. We might get freezing in spots but not a lot. Tracking storm for thursday, a chance for snow in parts of the area. Not everybody is going to see it but im going to break it down
If it was 25 today, it could be 40 degrees colder than that or at least feel 40 degrees colder by friday morning. Thats the kind of cold air were talking about. Doug, thank you. Its hard to keep the chill from getting into the house right now. You probably needed an extra layer at work, too. Its the same at some local schools. Check out this retweet from our scott macfarlane. It shows 48 degrees inside a Montgomery County classroom today. But for another School District, the trouble started even before the bell rang. News4s Meagan Fitzgerald is in Fairfax County. Meagan, what was the issue with the buses . Reporter well, Fairfax County officials tell us the problem is the school buses have been sitting outside in the freezing cold weather like they are behind me here for the last two weeks while students were on winter break. So, this morning when they started them up, some of them didnt turnover. Others broke down later. But this is just one of several issues we saw in School District
Will join shortly. The Committee Clerk is steve stamose and the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record our meetings and make the transcripts available to it public online and of course the staff are gym smith and jessie larsson. Mr. Clerk, you have announcements . There are no announcements. Okay. Um, could you please call item number 1. Item 1, roll call. Peskin, present. Safai, present. Yee, present. We have quorum. Alright. Please call item number 2. Approve the minutes of december 15, 2017 meeting. This is action item. Okay. Any comments . I have no comment. I was not on the Vision Committee at the time but i have read the minutes and in so far as commissioner safai was not on there either i will not abstain as i usually do so we can get them passed and subject to Public Comment and move the minutes. Any other comments . Seeing none, any Public Comment on the item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Is there a motion . So moved. Any objectio