Today. And yeah, were continuing to see lots of rain, low visibility, even some fog. Look at our live tower camera. Cant see much from that. Probably the view from some windows out and about the region. Because we just have a dreary, cloudy day on our hands on this tuesday. Now were seeing a few showers working their way through the region right now. The heaviest move through i95. Were still seeing showers back off to the west. And you can see just a few through West Virginia, continuing to move to the east. And we will continue to see some showers. Unfortunately, through much of the day. Temperatures at 44. We have not budged much at all this morning. Eventually well take it up, a run at that 50 agree mark. Still scattered showers this afternoon. In case you have plans for this afternoon, Inauguration Day forecast, a few changes to that. Thats coming up in 15 minutes. All right, thanks, au upper marlboro. Prince georges county police say a man and woman were stabbed in a house on pomp
Move close to the substation. The officer of Emergency Management is monitoring the situation and urging drivers to avoid the area, as the substation continues to burn. Lets go to the chopper for the gridlock in philadelphia as well. As i said just bumper to bumper vehicles here. All the traffic lights in a large area are out and 20,000 people still without power. Firefighters have not moved toward the substation, they are not pouring water on that, but trying to deenergize the substation. People are worried. We spoke to one woman. We understand there is a safety issue but nobody is answering any of our questions, give us an idea. Will our services be rerouted. We have groceries and children and i have a sick husband at home. What is going on . Nobody wants to answer any questions. Looking back live in north philadelphia. That is the end of the fox street as this fire continues to burn, they are working to deenergize the area, the peco crews are, so firefighters can start to extinguish
Afternoon. And firefighters tried to put a flame retardant chemical on the flames but with the wires energized it just reunited. Huge plumes of spoke blanketed north philadelphia and some were evacuated. The fire commissioner explained why the fire burned so long. Before they could douse it with water. We are going to end up putting the fire out the old fashion way without water but we have to make sure the power is shut off. So we have unmanned water streams and putting up a water pipe with the aerial ladders and when we have confirmation that the power is off from peco we can start to put out the fire. That happened shortly after 5 00. Hazmat teams were called and 75 firefighters on the scene and the commissioner was asked if the smoke was toxic and he told reporters it was something to be concerned about and get out of its path but less toxic due to the change in construction of the power grids, you see the flames that were burning, we spoke with one neighbor saying what others were
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We want to see some of your pictures. Tweet us at nbc washington. We have a new Holiday Gift Guide on nbcwashington. Com. Check out the photos of the coolest toys for kids. All you have to do is search holiday. Today on the busiest shopping day of the year, workers at walmart plan to walk off the job. They will strike to ask for better pay and full time work. It begins at 8 45 this morning. More than 1,600 protests are planned today around the country. You want to pick up something you can actually use today, a coat would be a good idea. And amelia also mentioned a hat. I would say so. Its going to be breezy throughout the day. When you factor in the winds throughout the day, about 10 to 20 miles per hour, it will feel like temperatures are only around 30 at best. Right now 35 degrees. Well drop from 7 00 a. M. Down to 32. Its breezy through the midafternoon hours until about 2 00, 3 00 p. M. After that, the winds will die down. Plenty of sunshine throughout the entire day. Skycast 4 a