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What can we expect . A good question very sometimes Mother Nature throws a curve ball and it is hard to pinpoint who will get what. A mix of rain and snow across the area. We have seen heavy accumulations Harford County, northern baltimore, carol and even frederick. A some places can seat up to four in a suit inches of snow. The transition to rain will stop the snow from falling. But until that, watch out for ice. Across the metro, the white shading represents snow and pink is ice and yellow and orange are heavier rain. It is a hard line to draw who is getting rain and snow but over all you can see the transition from the south. Temperatures close to the freezing mark at bwi marshall, it has warmed by one degree, good news. Temperatures mid 30s 4 baltimore this afternoon which could change to rain. But north and west of the city i would be careful. If you are a north and west of the city, if you do not have to be on the roads, i would say stay home. The other big story. Police and Anne
Old, leaves behind a devastated family. We want to know why, why this happened. Reporter hoffman has been hailed a hero, awarded the chief thomas medal of courage in 2010 for rescuing a man from a fire on gillman street. And this year, recognized by wjz, helping to save this 3 yearold boy who had wandered away from home. Friends say the Third Generation firefighter was heroic, even in his 90 final minutes. The night he was killed, he did all he could to protect his girlfriend and her sister, who survived the terrible ordeal. And i think without andys help, that would not have been possible. Reporter wjz was there, as his uncle collected some items from andrews home, needed for funeral arrangements. His father released a written statement, on behalf of his family, saying our hearts are absolutely broken over the loss of our son, brother, grandson and uncle. Its hard to imagine Going Forward without him. But we know andy died a hero. That is the way he lived his wife and we wouldnt life,
Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org broadcastom the abc 7 center, this is abc 7 news at noon. On your side. Dealing with the mess left after the storm. Roads thatovered fortunately, we are done with all of the snowfall, but now the big concern is the bitterly cold weather. Consider yourself lucky if you dont have to go outside at all today because once you add in the windchill, we are seeing one of the coldest days we have had in a long time. Eileen rail and is here to show us what is in store for the rest of the day. We have a cold week ahead of us. The weekend is actually going to be a little bit better compared to today. Temperatures in the teens, right around 20 degrees. 22 degrees at Reagan National. Just fromtiful looking outside of our weatherbug camera, with the clear skies. It looks gorgeous, with the snow covering the city. But wins northwest at 10 to 20 miles an hour. The windchill is at five degrees. This is dangerously cold air. The wind chill a
Is this is abc 7 at 6 00, on your side. The big story is the cold weather. The country is cleaning up from the recent winter storm more problems are heading our way. If you think it is called now, get ready for bone chilling temperatures we have not seen in years. In addition to the extreme cold, we could see slick roads tomorrow because freezing rain is on the way. Meteorologist dave writ steve rudin begins our coverage. Wild weather is on the way for the next 48 hours. We will have ups and downs and then we will go way down. Look at the temperatures. Quantico is 35. Fredericksburg is looking at 33. Mainly clear skies around the beltway. North and west is where we have cloud cover beginning to increase. The clouds will increase overnight. Eventually, we will see freezing rain develop west of the seat d. C. We have a freezing rain advisory set to go in effect on sunday morning. The further south and west you go, that freezing rain advisory starts at 2 00 in the morning. We could see sl