Here. Look for a wintry mix early this afternoon and then perhaps changing to rain but again the rain, the wintry mix everything will get a chance to stick on roads and sidewalks as ground temperatures right now are in the teens. We are under a Winter Weather advisory. Ill show you that coming up but again the timing on this ill say between about 1 00 and 7, 8 oclock tonight look for a wintry mix across the area and icing will be an issue. Guys ill have more on this in a minute. Back to you. Tuck thanks. School closings and delays. A lot might come as a surprise as we thaw out from the weekend deep freeze. Its the threat of a wintry mix this afternoon thats leading many systems to close early. Fairfax, loud couldnt loudon and what are havent. Fauquier king george page county schools. In virginia john adams elementary in alexandria is closed because theres no heat. All other alexandria city schools though will open on time. Stafford county schools and fredericksburg okay. Lets head over
To todays outage suffered by the wall street journal site and by united airlines. More on both of those in a bit. Sources tell cnbc that the New York Stock Exchange problem may have been the result of an overnight Software Upgrade and traders got a little bit of warning because before the exchange opened this morning there was a bulletin sent out, we have got some kind of a technical problem. So, when it actually struck about 11 30 there wasnt panic there wasnt a big selloff, because there still was trading. These stocks that couldnt be traded on the New York Stock Exchange could be traded on the internet on something called bats. So, in summary, problem fixed, not a hack attack and no official word on what caused the worst technical outage ever to strike the New York Stock Exchange. Steve handelsman, thanks steve. Now to the other big computer glitch thats still causing a Summer Travel nightmare for thousands of people. United airlines was forced to ground some 3500 flights across the
I think well see flooding for the next several hours where were seeing flooding now. Never try to cross a flooded street by car or by foot. Computer chaos. First United Airlines and then the new york Stock Exchange. Computer glitches took down the wall street journal too. Causing hassles and heartaches. Lets go straight to debra alfaron where shes standing by with the story. Debra. Reporter to be clear trading on the floor of the Stock Exchange was halted. You could still trade electronically. Thats where 75 of the trades get done these days. If youre shaking your head with all these coincidences you would not be alone. Heres how it went down. A few hours of this this. This new york Stock Exchange shut down trading on the floor at 11 32. It remained down for 4 hours. The exchange blame ed d this on internal technical issues. This is so newsworthy the white house chimed in. Theres no indicator that it was malicious. There was no coordinated cyber attack. While a 4hour outage seems like
On the forecast. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein with a look at what we can expect today. Good morning. Good morning. We have showers right along 270 from near rockville and then up near the Frederick County line. This is moving off to the east, this one downpour quickly moving on through. Dont have any reports of any lightning or thunder with this. But a brief downpour coming near lleytonsville and south of damascus and then another batch north of mt. Airy in southeastern Frederick County. Elsewhere the pavement is dry. We have some residual high water here in the Shenandoah Valley. Shenandoah county into northern page county from yesterday mornings heavy downpours so watch out for some road closures this morning. And temperatures right now are mild and rather muggy. In the 70s around the metro area. Reagan national at 77. How is the commute so far . We have some construction hanging around. Thats okay. Should be out of the way by about 5 00 a. M. This is 66 eastbound between t
Would be south and west of dc and that is what you are seeing now . Reporter absolutely. We have the Flood Warnings in place of the shenendoah valley. This is video from woodstock. This is why the Flood Warnings are in place. You dont know how deep that water is. Do not drive or each walk through water or even walk through water. It will sweep you off your feet. The warnings are in place until 5 30. Woodstock saw over four inches of rain in a very short amount of time. It is going to take awhile for the waters to recede. Lets look at doppler 9000. On top of the warnings we have more Flash Flood Warnings in place. Out of culpepper we have the Flash Flood Warning until 3 00 this afternoon and it is also for parts of orange. So the aerial Flood Warning from parts of the video shows rain pushing out. We have heavy rain moving south of dc through 95, dunkirk, south of bowie as well. This will push off to la plata very slowly. A lot of rain. That is why we have Flash Flood Warnings in place.