Fredericksburg 6. Culpeper 2. Gaithersburg 8. And unfortunately we have lots and lots of cold in the 7 day forecast and well fwet used to it. Lets get to news. School skimzal begany and garrett out of maryland and hampshire and Orange County virginia sklz on two hour delay today. Cold weather might be to blame for blooded middle school with gas leak in south east d. C. No electricity, heat, crime are middle school. Melanie alnwick is there though live with the latest. Mel, its hard welcome back to class for these kids. Good morning. Thats right, it is. We should say they get one extra day here because d. C. Public schools g lot of damage here to clean up because of the problems with water and gas. And you can see here right in front the Washington Gas crews theyve been digging down to get to the gas line there. There was a strong smell of natural gas in the air and d. C. Fire hazmat crews tell me they understand that the water that was in the basement somehow compromised boiler room an
Sorry but it may be too little too late. Well tell you why. Dawned the dawgs home. Later a wild end the rose bowl. Georgia needing Double Overtime to punch their ticket to the National Championship game. The bug dogs are the underdogs going into next weeks champion schill because they have to face alabama. Well have all the highlights as good day at 9a starts now. 12 degrees outside at 9 00 oclock on this new years day after new years day. Right. Everybody shaking off cobwebs of new year. Hold on. Let me drink my tea. Utoh. 12 degrees outside. 42 inside today. Well huddle for warmth. Glad youre with us. A minute past the hour. Hope awed great new years. Welcome back everybody. Hopefully getting back not swing of things. Schools in d. C. Open tomorrow. It is january 2nd. Glad to be with ahead this morning new year in the Nations Capital what does the mayor have in store for 2018. We sat down with her 30 minutes ago. What she told us is coming you. Lets continue to talk about it. The wea
A deadly arctic blast is gripping the country from coast to coast. Tens of millions of americans are shivering in record low temperatures and dangerously cold wind chills. Drone video captures growing chunks of ice floating along the Mighty Mississippi river. In georgia the iconic mountain at a complete stand still with ie ice sickles forming there. The bitter cold being blamed for a number of deaths. Nbcs blake mccoy has the latest from chicago. Oh, my gosh reporter 19 degrees and snowing in buffalo. Look at that. Reporter a massive pile up is snarling interstate 90. A forebodeing look with a major snowstorm set to move up the east coast. Look at the truck. Reporter much of the country sits under the brute grip of a deep freeze responsible for 14 deaths. Chicago the below zero temperatures. Its no way around it. I dont think you can prepare. Reporter more than half the u. S. Population, 200 million americans, saw temperatures below freezing. From the north at niagara falls, down south
Morning, 8 degrees in clinton right now. Aside from this, were tracking snow in part of the area as we go overnight into early tomorrow morning. Ill show you the timing on that and well talk more about it straight ahead. What a relief to neighbors and anyone who commutes through silver springs. New hampshire avenue is back open this morning. Part of the road near the beltway was shut down all day tuesday for a broken water main. The water in that area is back on too, from bethesda to southeast d. C. The frigid cold caused several water main breaks on tuesday. The break on the road in bethesda turned the street into a virtual ice rink. That bitter blast were feeling could keep kids in fairfax waiting on their ride to school today. On tuesday some oe because of the cold weather and hundreds of students were forced to wait in the cold for nearly an hour. This morning you can track any delays from the nbc washington app. Just search bus delays. In southeast d. C. , Cramer Middle School wil
Im aaron gilchrist. Im eun yang. Before we get to the forecast, we have district wide delays. Page and Frederick County schools in virginia are on eye twohour delay. Berkeley and jefferson schools in virginia are on a twohour delay. Sheena, today is the best day temperature wise . You know, i think that might be a stretch but, yes. Its all relative. Yes. When you say that, you dont mean the morning temperatures, you mean the afternoon temperatures, but i want to talk about this first. We have some snow and a wintry mix in florida. Now this is a rare event, but that shows you how far south that cold air has gone and if we zoom out, this is our next weather system, our next storm is going to remain off shore. Its starting to organize off shore. Well be on the edge of it. And that could give part of the area some snow overnight. Not everybody. Look at these temperatures right now. This is not the wind the area. Dulles is 3 degrees. Manassas, 1 degree right now. Leesburg and gaithersburg c