Northbound. If you can avoid these roadways, please do for your sanity. Seeing a bit of a slowdown headed southbound. Taking a look at prince georges, looking good derrick ward is out there at the crash. What are you seeing now . All right. There is a look at the scene from some of the footage we received this morning of the breaking news. Derrick ward on the scene. He is there. He is gathering new information. Well get you the very latest on news 4 today. Storm team 4 is tracking a strong line of storms rolling this way. Meteorologist chuck bell with that weather. Good morning, everybody. It is indeed a weather alert day here at nbc 4. What does that mean . You need to be weather aware. A possibility of heavy rain. It can cause scattered power outages. Severe weather potential. Main threats will be heavy rain. Rain more than two inches between now and the time the sun goes down. A lot of leaves still on the trees starting to come down. Slippery sidewalks. It is mild outside. Temperatu
That way. We all know that within the Civil War Community there are rock stars. Historians, women we have all heard of. We have read their books. Everyone knows who they are. We talk about them in hushed tones. It has been my and privilege to be friends with one of those rock stars. Eric wittenberg is known by every civil war student across the country. He is not only known for his expertise in the Union Calvary but his opinion on many challenging topics where he challenges people to reconsider what they know. He is never one who takes a position because it is popular. He takes it because it is well considered, well researched, and well thought out. So he is sometimes not so afraid to challenge conventional thinking. It is that sense of going for the truth that has always made me admire his work. Starting out when i first got into the civil war, and thought this guy was fantastic. He has 17 books you can read. As our friendship has grown, someone who has challenge you to rethink what y
Clobber new england when it combines with the northern one. Just cold enough to the west this little area of wet snow out to winchester and strasburg, toms brook those areas and Mount Jackson and the Shenandoah Valley and watch it in frederick, could have a few slick spots but most of the roads were hearing are wet. With more on that here comes Monika Samtani and timesaver traffic. You want to be careful especially as you saw coming south on 270 out of frederick and far west as well. Lets take a look closer in. No problems to report as you travel in from cheverly on the bw parkway and route 50. Heading into the northeast corridor you should be okay right now. A little bit of slow traffic here on 295 leaving the 11th Street Bridge but no big deals all the lanes are open. The beltway looks good here in Prince Georges County as well. A live look outside, show you what it looks like here, this is new york avenue at bladensburg road and as i said coming in through cheverly this is what you
Bell, who has been triple checking the monitors. Hey, chuck. Its pretty much what he we thought we would get. Still waiting for Mother Nature to throw us a last minute curveball but it will start as snow this morning, then mix in with sleet, and rain in the afternoon and then freezing rain overnight. Winter weather advisories from 95 eastbound and warnings to the west of there. The dividing line between light problems and moderate problems between all of this. Temperatures generally at or below freezing pretty much everywhere. Mid 20s in Northern Maryland. Storm team 4 radar shows the leading edge of the snowflakes now, blue ridge. Havent heard reports of it covering the ground yet. It should be covering it shortly. Theres the warm air down to our south. Thats the reason Southern Maryland will be mostly a rain event for you, but with sleet mixing in. Temperatures in the 20s and 30s. Out the door for this morning. Snow arriving during the morning hours. Ill get more into the details of
Rain drops along the coast of North Carolina are the leading drops now from what is once again Hurricane Sandy. No weather concerns today. A good day to clean the gutters and storm drains and get yourselves ready. Tomorrow the rain drops move in. Rain and wind increasing rapidly and then monday and tuesday will be the worst of it for us. More on that coming up. Thanks, chuck. Cuba and the caribbean are cleaning up the destruction from sandy after the hurricane packed a punch through the day yesterday. In the caribbean the death toll is up to 43 people including 29 in haiti. The numbers are expected to rise because more than a quarter Million People are still living in temporary, unsecured housing from the earthquake there from 2010. Flooding is also a concern as river levels are also on the rise. As we continue to track Hurricane Sandy people are getting ready for big storm. Many people will get a little extra help to prevent flooding from the district public works department. News 4s