Stressful profession . No. On the line every day. The new fox drama 911 dee abuse tonight. This morning, were meeting the real life men and women answering the phones in an emergency and helping safe lives. And later, feeling lucky . Theres 850 million up for grabs in the next Mega Millions and powerball drawings. Your odds are winning, just one in 88 quad drill i dont know this morning were talking about the Little Things you can do to increase those odds. Good day at 9a starts now. So you say weve got a chance . No. Right . Yup. You got to have hope. Everybody believes right now and we sure are glad that youre with us. Good day d. C. On this wednesday january 3rd. Well, if youre looking to warm up from this bitter cold weather in the Nations Capital you can always go tola and get warm. Weve been dealing with several days straight of subfreezing temperatures the mercury in anchorage hit 45 degrees yesterday. Thats a record high for this time of the year. So people in alaska enjoying w
Recently as to what is cold. Arlington county schools decided to close, same deal with alexandria city schools, Fairfax County schools Largest School district there in Northern Virginia is closed and Loudoun County schools also closed. Prince William County and Spotsylvania County schools Stafford County manassas city and Manassas Park schools, all closed this morning. In virginia, fauquier county, Culpeper County, Warren County, page county schools, you are on a twohour delay. Ignore the alexandria city schools at the top of that. We just said that they were closed so that has changed recently. D. C. Public schools here on a twohour delay this morning and for federal workers or those who follow opm, the federal government is opened today but operating on a twohour delay. Federal workers do have the option for unscheduled leave or unscheduled telework. Those are your closings. Well keep them on the bottom of your screen throughout the morning. Tucker barnes how is it right on time. Got
Bomb cyclone. Well talk more about that coming up. Lets get right to the radar. Snow continues across the area. Not terribly heavy up and down the i95 corridor but it is coming down, it is sticking and it will be with us for a few more hours. I will give you all the details on how much snow weve seen and how much more we can expect and what we can look forward to later today. Ill give you a hint. Lots of wind and lots of cold coming up in just a couple minutes but you can see that live radar, our storm our snow continues across the area. It will be with us for a few more hours. Erin im going to toss to you. I take it most everybody is kind of waiting it out or allison and steve . We are trying. The situation with the schools have been changing throughout the morning a lot of schools going from delayed earlier this morning or overnight to closed now. They are all scrolling at the bottom of your screen throughout the morning show. Lets get you caught up on the major systems closed or del
Rolled over again. That makes saturdays drawing now worth more than half a billion dollars. This is what we came here to do. Later first look at the four. Celebrity judges diddy, dj khaled and Meghan Trainor tell u what makes this show so unique. Two of the singers hand picked by the super stars will join us live. Good day at 9a starts now. Good day, everybody. Its 9 01 on this snowy thursday january 4th and, boy, what a start to the morning for a lot of us in this region. My goodness. Got started early and figuratively. The big story the bomb cyclone. Well call a snowstorm. Its been fall along morning long. The snow should wrap up soon in the area but blizzard conditions couldnt further east and all the way up the Atlantic Coast right now. The first real wint storm of 2018 has brought the region to a standstill most schools in the area are either closed or delayed. Many of them closed. The federal government opening late. And again were not the only ones feeling the effects the snow h
Calvert county schools are closed. In virginia arlington county, alexandria city and Falls Church City schools on a twohour delay. Fairfax county and Loudoun County no school today. Youre closed. Prince william, spotsylvania and Stafford County schools also closed. Manassas city and Manassas Park schools are closed. Also the federal government is open on time today. You can see all the latest closings and delays, they are scrolling along the bottom of your screen. And also on fox5d. C. Com and on the fox5 news and weather apps. Lets get right to Tucker Barnes for a first check on our forecast this morning and i can only assume from the School Closings its because of the cold because were not expecting accumulation, right, tuck. I think its a combination of some of the leftover snow and ice from yesterday and certainly these bitter cold temperatures and the wind chills right now pretty extraordinary here. Getting minus numbers for just about everybody. There are your wind chills. You pr