Gravity warm coats and mittens. Temps will be falling throughout the day. Wind chills will be a problem, hovering close to five to 10 degrees. Eric thanks metinka. Right now we want to take a look at 511ia. Org. You can see the storm this morning is taking its toll on iowa roads. Throughout most of central iowa roads are pink meaning theyre completely covered in snow or ice. Blue means partially covered. Take a look up to the northwest. The purple you see means travel is not advised there and the dark red means those roads are impassable. Kccis alyxyxacks is keeping an eye on the roads here in the metro for us this morning. Alyx where are you and what are you seeing right now . Alyx good morning. Were on east side of 35. What we are seeing is a lot of snow still hanging around on the interstates here it interstates here. That can impact visibility. Maybe a little bit over in the right corner. Quite a bit of blowing snow. That is an issue. Another issue is going the speed. We see people
Too. Guys . Thanks doug. Crews in our area say theyre ready for whatever comes. Dozens of trucks already out this evening. Theyre pretreating the roads across d. C. Maryland and virginia. Theyre using more than salt as well. Well tell you what else theyre using to keep the pavement from freezing coming up in a report just a few minutes from now. Potential jurors in the Boston Marathon bombing trial got their first look at suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev today. Some of them seem transfixed by the sight of him. As Nbcs Jay Gray reports now, this is likely to be the nations most closely watched terror trial since the Oklahoma City bombings two decades ago. Reporter the marathon bombing trial began under heavy security this morning. Officers on the ground and in the harbor surrounding the federal courthouse. Throughout the day, as many as 500 prospective jurors shared an Assembly Room with the suspect in the case 21yearold Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Dressed in a dark shirt and khaki pants, tsarnaev seem
Good morning to you. Good saturday morning, everybody. Welcome to your weekend. It is warm and humid outside right now. But it is not going to stay like that for the remainder of your weekend n fact this is the warmest part of the whole weekend is right now. Outside, kind of soupy out there first thing this morning. You can see from our tower camera in northwest washington. Hit and miss rain chances throughout right now. Nothing all that heavy. You may want to have the umbrella to play it on the safe side this morning. A couple sprinkles here in Northern Maryland, frederick to hagerstown and leaving the West Virginia panhandle. Most of us are dry. The roads are wet due to overnight rain showers. It is mild. Mid up toer eupper 60s and 70s. Dont get used to it. The wind will increase from the west and northwest and temperatures will start to fall around lunch time or earlier. Temperatures already going to be falling this morning across parts of western maryland. Ohio state taking on mary
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Time is running out for congress to agree on a budget deal that will avoid a government shutdown. The house is in session as we speak. These are live pictures from washington. They are expected to vote on a bill the Senate Passed yesterday. It keeps the Affordable Care act, something House Republicans are trying to kill. The house leadership is trying to pass an alternative delaying obamacare by a year, but keep the government open. Senate leadership said changes to the Health Care Law will not be considered. In other words, money for the federal government appears to run out on tuesday and all but essential operations will stop. The white house released a statement saying returning to libby casey on capitol hill. Are we still expecting the house to vote on this tonight . It will be a late night. Yes, indeed. Now, they want to make crucial changes to the bill that would fund the government into the next couple of months. Here are the changes they want to make postpone the federal Healt