Welcome back at 4 15. A live look at union station. If you have to venture out this morning, you need to take it slowly. Yesterdays snow is mixing with freezing rain, ice and slush makinging for a dangerous drive. We just heard from the federal government. It is open with a twohour delay arrival. You have the option for an unscheduled leave or telework. All School Closings are running at the bottom of your screen. Our coverage of storm team 4. Drivers are dealing with messy roads as well. A steady flow of snow, sleet, and freezing roads left a mess out there. A county transportation leader says drivers should expect slick spots as you head to work this morning. Hes been sleeping, you know. The road is not clean. Our neighborhood is not good at all. Yeah. So once we got on the main road, its not too bad. As the rain came down, it froze and turned some parking lots into solid sheets of ice. Be careful out there when when youre walking to your car as well. And if youre about to head out t
Advancing southwest to northeast. Areas in green, thats some light rain now falling in much of prince georges county, charles, calvert, the eastern shore. Further north and west, prince william, fauquier, much of Fairfax County getting some light freezing rain. Many of those locations have had about a tenth of an inch of ice and much of Loudoun County as much as 0. 3 of an inch of ice, a little over a quarter of an inch as well as around Montgomery County, southern frederick and up into carroll county, those are the zones that got the heaviest icing. The pan hahandle of west virgin northern shenandoah valley. Steven city up to winchester, they, too, got about a quarter of an inch of ice on the tree limbs and power lines. As a result we have Power Outages and we still have a winter storm watch in effect all these counties in color Northern Virginia, the district, prince geor georges, montgomery, fairfax, arlington, falls church in effect until 10 00 this morning. Temperatures right now
Friday, november 30th im dave clark. Good morning, im pam cook. Thank you for waking up with us. Traffic and weather certainly topping our news this morning. Lets go to steve for the very latest. How does it look . There are some areas that looks okay. There are other areas where its coming down like crazy. Give yourself extra time. On the backside of this. It looks like there is a little bit of a break. Weve had reports of decreasing rain to the north the cloud cover is not moving through. There could still be a bigtime enhancement. There is really bigtime rain especially vacaville to fairfield, antioch, brentwood, oakley. Well take a closer look coming up. Here is tara. Yes, we have a lot of spinouts, some mud slides to report up in the Sonoma County area. Flash Flood Warning in effect up there until 5 5 22. There are so many parts of the roadway flooded out. Too many to mention here. Right now this is a live look outside. You can see that it is wet out there. It is extremely dark to
The 7th grader was missing for a day before her body was found in court. The accused killer did not enter a plea when he was in court but now he is charged with murder and they added kidnapping, rape, and lewd acts on a child. Because of the special circumstances he could be sentenced to death if he is convicted. He is due in court at 8 30 this morning and is being held in jail without bail. Thank you very much. New this morning the lead investigator in the Oscar Pistorius case is facing attempted murder charges of his own. We could find out today if Oscar Pistorius is granted bail. Katie marzullo has the latest from the newsroom. Yesterday was not a good day for the prosecution. No, bombshell and a real blow to the case and also happening right now, cnn is reporting there was a threat in the courtroom and the judge cleared the courtroom because of that but moments later everyone was blot back in and the judge, Oscar Pistorius, with no mention of the threat. On we go with the Defense A
The only people working today a lot of heroic firemen and fire women on the road and in the air. Its as close as this library has come to this kind of danger. This is serious stuff but they seem to be right on top of it. Chris fox news reporting starts right now. A wildfire alert. This is the scene in simi valley, california, where a wildfire is closing in on the reagan president ial library. The librarys executive director says the flames are wrapping around the building. Literally has been encircling the library, theres residential communities on both sides and its formed a half circle around the entire Reagan Library structure. They are fighting it as best they can. Chris we will speak to the director live in a few minutes to get the latest. We are waiting for him an update from fire officials, we will bring that to you when it happens. The fire broke out early this morning about 20 miles northwest of los angeles extreme winds reaching 50 Miles Per Hour causing it to spread quickly.