Area. We feel it here at this stage. We are stuck in a deep freeze. Alison abc7s tom roussey joins us from siller is spring where crews are work Silver Spring where the crews are working on a water main break. This is just part of the problem out there today, right . Tom it is. There are a lot of affects from the cold. The water main break is one of the worst. This is on New Hampshire avenue. So as you can imagine its wreaking havoc on traffic. I just got an update. Good news. They have made progress. It wont last forever but it will last through the evening rush hour. Thanks to the water main break the traffic was bad even before rush hour started. Bad. Really bad. How bad was the traffic you were in . Bad. Back like 20 minutes. That is right. 20 minutes from the beltway, which you could see less than a quarter mile away. Everything had to merge to one lane. What i dont like about it is the left lane, they think they automatically can get in without any courtesy. New hampshire avenue
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
Possibility of snow to some areas. Sue palka is standing by with the latest. Reporter those are two big stories, guess which one is bigger. At this moment its the cold because look how much of the country is covered in this birth cold air and the next round will be even colder thats going to be coming in the friday , saturday timeframe. We start feeling it friday. A. M. Ril oh, 15, 26 for dallas. Its only three in cincinnati. 2 degrees in detroit. Boston, 16, d. C. At 21, but also i wanted to show you that we have a couple other spots here in the region that have dropped even colder, manassas is 5degrees right now, quul pepper nine degrees, the winds have gotten lighter and the temperatures bitter cold and theyre going to continue to remain in the teens with some areas obviously heading for the Single Digits. Lets talk about whats next because this time tomorrow night starting to come up the coast. Its a big deal. It looks like its going to get quite intense even though that intensific
Spotsylvania you let the glean. You get the green. We have rain and its moving up. So areas to the north is where we are watching for mainly sleep. As it transitions to rain some could hit the freezing ground. The advisory until 9 00. We are tracking that and temperatures. 35 in d. C. 33 in manassas. Fredericksburg at 37. Freezing and below freezing to the north. This is something to be careful with. We talk about the roads and the sidewalk. Talk about the roads and go out live to meteorologist josh knight in stormwatch7. You are on the dulles toll road heading where . Toward reston . Josh that is right. We are heading to reston. A chance to look and see the roads. Its moving here and we want to head north and west. Where the colder temperatures are. We are checking to leesburg. Hanging around the freezing mark. Right here the roads are dry. I have gotten a chance to dry out from the rain we had earlier so i havent seen issues. The big thing to keep in mind traffic is a mess. A lot of
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