This is on target for the forecast that we had been planning on for the past several days. Snow will come to an end. Look at the temperatures in town waking up tomorrow morning, only around 10 degrees. Talk about a warmup in the sevenday outlook. All that and much more coming up in a few minutes. Thanks for not saying i told you so. Lets get out to the team of reporters out there showing the conditions all across the region. Our Stormwatch Team coverage continues with rich live in winchester. Hi, rich. You how are you doing . Talk about getting slammed. Winchester got it pretty good here. Were talking about eight inches, that heavy, wet snow that maybe skiers like but drivers dont. Look behind me. This is an access road to one of the shopping plazas we talked about this. This is the stuff thats going to freeze tonight but when we pan over further, we can see route 7. We actually have some pavement showing, folks it has been a struggle here. Look earlier, this is i81 a little after 2 00 this afternoon, they had a car fire combined with the conditions out here and it backed up traffic in the northbound lane for quite a long time. A backup for several miles. Other route as weve been talking about, route 7 pretty stubborn. They had an army of plows, vdot plows and county plows up and down this road and it still remains slushy for much of the day. This is a challenging time for drivers, even for folks with s. U. V. S. Lot of folks getting weary of this. The roads are horrible and visibility is less than a quarter mile. A lot of snow coming down right now. First half was kind of not so bad with the snow you know, its cold. Hopefully its the last one. Getting tired of this . Yes, sir. Yeah, a lot of folks are getting tied tired of this. The snowfall is beginning to dissipate but again the big challenge, this stuff behind me is stuff that slush will be freezing later. More challenges for drivers. In winchester Richard Reeve abc 7 news. The Virginia National guard is prepared to tackle Winter Weather problems today. More than 60 soldiers from the 116th Infantry Combat Team was deployed in Northern Virginia and the shenandoah valley. They are to get out to help first responders. Some use humvees to provide transportation where heavy snow is probleminging the roads. Were seeing a number of crashes and slideoffs because the roads are slick and snow covered. Thats right. Montgomery county reporter kevin lewis spoke with the driver whose car ended up in a precarious position teetering on a guard rail. Whiteout conditions along 270 in frederick county. This car slammed into a guard rail another urbana while this vehicle skated into a ditch. Im lucky. Im real lucky. Mike snyder stood tall as this ford escort rested on its side. The seat belt and sturdy guard rail kept him safe in this curious crash. Next thing i know im sliding up the hill and my gosh look where i ended up on the guard rail. Thank goodness it saved me from going down this ravine. Someone pulled up next to me and they were like hey, you you got a flat. You need help . Tyler hit a slick spot while driving in germantown nailed the concrete curb. This was the outcome. Too slippery. My car is just not good enough to get up those kinds of hills. Its a civic. I call it a honda sled. Planning for the worst, Montgomery County deployed the entire armada of snow plows and salt trucks. Drivers say they need space to do their job right. Trying to maneuver around the traffic in our way is less traffic, the quicker we can do our job. In case you didnt know, Montgomery County has a live interactive map showing which streets have and have not been plowed. We have a link to that map on our website to get there go to wjla. Com. Kevin lewis, abc 7 news. And also a driver is recovering after his box truck overturned in camp springs. It happened this morning along the outer loop near the branch avenue exit. The driver suffered minor injuries. Cleanup there. Now, lets turn to the district to see how things are shaping up there. D. C. Bureau chief sam ford is live in southwest. Actually northwest. Sam, where are you . Whats happening out there . Im at Dupont Circle leon and take a look over there, you got a convoy of plow trucks who have been moving around the circle here today. Some 220 trucks d. C. Says it has out in the city today. The federal and d. C. Government were closed today and the deputy mayor for Public Safety said that was good. He thought if had not been closed, it would have been as he put it a dangerous rush hour. One thing the city seems to have plenty of today was taxi cabs. Drivers were offered a 15 surcharge for each trip to encourage them to come out today and it seems to have worked. The surcharge ends at 7 00 tonight unless they extend it. The snow Emergency Declaration meant snow emergency routes had to be cleared of parked cars. 250 fines for those who didnt get the message. City officials invited reporters into the snow Operation Center where monitors showed conditions at numerous conditions and where public works director William Howland says this is not a normal winter. 2011 was the last normal year that weve. 2010 we had the blizzard but we had almost 70 inches of snow in d. C. 2012 and 2013 we had less than four inches of snow in those years. There has not been other than in the last six years, theres been one normal winter. The rest of them have either been warm or unbelievably cold. And were back here live at Dupont Circle. Theres talk there will be a snowball fight at 5 30. Well be here of course to see what happens there. But back to what he was talking about. He said that last year the city put down 55,000 tons of salt because of weather. This year he says the city will put down at least that much and may have to buy more. Reporting live from northwest washington sam ford abc 7 news. Ok sam, thank you so much. Well Metro Bus Service is operating on a moderate snow plan today. Under that plan, some of the routes are suspended while others operate on detours. At this time all metro rail stations are open with service above and below ground. However, metro Access Service is suspended for the entire day. Metro encourages riders to sign up to receive updates of any change in their service. Amtrak is running on a modified schedule today. The acela express and northeast Regional Service will operate between new york city and d. C. But less frequently. The Keystone Service between harrisburg and pennsylvania is modified as well. Check the train schedule before you leave. Lets check in with Horace Holmes live in mobile track 7. How is it looking out there right now . Not too good alison, as a matter of fact. The photographer and myself have been on the roadways. Were just pulling at this point on to i270 in germantown all the way from damascus. The plows, we saw an army of plows a little while ago hitting 270 and theyve done a good job but its still a little slippery. We took a detour into germantown a moment ago and listening very closely to kevin lewis story shot earlier in the day with the spinouts in the area and things have not gotten better on the roadways since he filed that report. Earlier in the day. But the good news is as you can see from mobile track 7 our cameras out here as were looking at 270 at least going in this direction north towards frederick, there are not too many people on the roads. Coming on the southbound area back into d. C. There are a number of people in the roads and thats not what the snow plows want to see. They want to see these roadways cleared as the snow continues to come down here it is slick. They want to have their way out here so they can get these roads cleared off for people who were absolutely necessarily need to be out here on the roadways. Right now, were going to try to make our way as far as we can as close as we can to frederick and see things are farther up on i270, the snow is still coming down and its coming down a little lighter than it was earlier in the day but its still very very slick out here on the roadways. Back to you guys. Be careful out there, horace. This brutal Winter Weather has been a travel nightmare across the country this afternoon. In new york, a delta plane skidded off a snowy runway at Laguardia Airport and crashed into a chain link fence barely missing the water. The passengers had to slide down an inflated chute to get to safety. At least six people suffered minor injuries. Officials say the runway had been reported safe minutes before that accident. Shortly before the incident at approximately 11 05, two planes landed and reported good braking action on the runways. The runway this particular runway had been plowed shortly before the incident and pilots on other planes reported good braking action. So the weather is causing plenty of cancellations and delays at local airports, too. Chris pabst is live at Reagan National and hes got a look at the latest numbers there. Leon and alison on an average day here at Reagan National airport, this is about 850 flights that go in and out of here. But today, 520 of them have already been canceled and, of course, today is not over. Another 100 has been delayed but if you look behind me here there is some evidence that some more planes here will be leaving here very shortly. The runway is technically open its not closed here officially. We havent seen a plane going in here or out of here in some time. I cant see what theyre doing down there. With a zoom of the camera you can probably see better than me. I can assume theyre trying to do something to get the plane ready for some flight. 520 planes already have been canceled here. 520 flights and we spoke to people who are going all over the place, of course its an airport. We spoke to one guy trying to go to columbus ohio. Heres what he had to say for his luck so far to get a plane to get him home. I was scheduled for a 3 00 flight today and they called this morning and said that was canceled. Got rebooked. The next flight got canceled. Airport Officials Say that they do hope by early in the evening, the planes perhaps the one behind me here they can start flying out of here. The terminal is getting packed with people, 520 flights. Clearly a lot of people are in there. The trains amtrak trains have been full going out. The people dont have any other option except to get on one of those planes that could be leaving later tonight. Awful lot of people sleeping in this terminal on this wednesday night. Thursday night. Live at Reagan National airport, chris pabst, abc 7 news. It feel like wednesday, thursday and friday. The days are running together. Exactly. All right, chris. Coming up at 4 00 here our Winter Weather coverage continues with a live look at the roads. When we return, well go live to the wtop Traffic Center and check on any accidents out there. One of the challenges of course, we got you covered on this snow day. Im joce sterman and well show you whtt2wut2nuq4 bt qi. 4 tt2wut2nuq4 a qyp tt2wut2nuq4 bm qr e tt4wut2nuq4 dztq 0n tt4wut2nuq4 entq j tt4wut2nuq4 gzt ymx tt4wut2nuq4 hnt ic4 tt4wut2nuq4 iztq al tt4wut2nuq4 jntq 1z, tt4wut2nuq4 lzt 7p okay, i need a better pizza. One made with only real cheese. A pizza my family will love. announc freschetta naturally rising crust pizza. Freschetta. Made better to taste better. Youre Winter Weather coverage continues with a live look at the roads. Steve will have an update on the forecast here in a few minutes. Dont go away. It is no surprise that pictures are a hit on social media today. The snowday is trending on twitter. Joce sterman live in the newsroom with this tough assignment today. Down there playing with the storyteller looking at photos all day. Joce . Absolutely. I got the primo gig here. I get to stay inside and talk about what other people see while theyre out and some of that is challenges guys like this photo that came from one of the d. C. Area airports that points out the only thing getting out today are the snow trucks, lots of frustrations there. This woman in the district says you know its bad when a snow plow gets stuck for 10 minutes on your street in the district. That is tough. Talking about earlier today, this protest of sorts on the capitol lawn. Hashtag that was trending for a while. Sled free or die. They refuse to back down from that one and carried out sledding earlier today and seeing a lot of snow measurements. People want to share exactly how much theyre dealing with. This one from fairfax, virginia i love this video so much. This little girl cant get started. Its not the biggest hill youve ever seen. But man she is tenacious. She scoots that little bum down and she gets right down the hill. And look at the giggles for that. Thats what its all about, these snow days. Right . You get a little bit of that. Were seeing pretty photos. Silver spring snow there artistic. Lots of clogges snowy sidewalks will be a problem for people getting around. Got to take care of the birds, dogs, cats in this kind of weather and just leave you with this one, guys. You dont have a sled . No problem. Find yourself a cafeteria tray. Go old school dorm style like this kid do. Youre no worse for the wear. Does he look like hes not having fun . See all your pictures and videos, too like this little guy. Were posting them all to our website at wjla. Com. We want to see your snowman, your snow angels your fun, your challenges, all that. Post them to our facebook account and well get them here on the web. Back to you. All right. Good deal. Thats funny. You guys talking about the hills that you thought were big when you were little. Huge. Wow. Wait a minute. Out of breath which you get out of there. We have better news on the way. The snowline quickly, quickly coming to an end and the roadways stink out there. No other way of putting it. Bad driving and later on tonight when temperatures fall well below freezing, talking Single Digits and teens, thats where well look for the refreeze with the stuff that had an opportunity to melt so far today. Lots to get through but the seven day, im liking it. Talk about the good first i wish. Heres outside right now looking from the roof camera and the visibilitys are down and look at the visibles on this map here. Looking at 1 2 mile at Reagan National and the same in frederick, maryland and in Montgomery County, dulles down to 1 2 mile but well off to the west of us cumberland maryland now has visiblities at 10 miles. Thats because the snow has finally come to an end. The skies beginning just starting to finally clear on out. Thats the best news of all. Bad news is clear skies will really allow our temperatures to drop quickly especially with the fresh snow pack out there. 30 degrees at the airport right now. Winds are out of the northnorthwest at 10 miles an hour. Wind chill factor making it feel a bit colder out there. If you head out to walk the dog or maybe going to the market that youve been delaying all day, temperatures are cold and only going to get colder as you move through the next several hours. Heres the back edge. Now cleared. Frederick county beginning to move into Montgomery County and fairfax, should arrive inside the capital beltway within the next 45 minutes or so. Heaviest snow to the east of us. Annapolis, dunkirk also mixing in a little bit of sleet across extreme southern maryland. As mentioned, this is the back line and this will continue to move towards the east as we move through the dinnertime hours. The wider view shows the action moving out of here. Here are the skies, trying to clear out. The cloud cover beginning to clear out but the snow pack, thats whats going to keep us cold. Heres the hourly forecast moving through the overnight hours into early tomorrow morning. Look what happens to these temperatures. Talking teens by 1 00 in the morning. By 4 00 in the middle teens. Waking up inside the beltway, temperatures around 10 11 12 degrees and out to the west, dulles could see Single Digits and that will likely at least top the existing record out there. You could also tie a record low at b. W. I. Marshall. This is our storm scan. It gives you the wider view showing that line now quickly advancing towards the east. Another small band to the north and west. I dont think thats going to amount for a whole lot as it moves through the next several hours. Futurecast looks like this. 8 00 tonight, well see a few scattered snow showers here and there. Clouds will quickly clear waking up early early tomorrow morning. Sunshine, beautiful sunrise. Its going to be cold. Definitely want to bundle up and tomorrow will be the one cold day one super cold day on the seven day outlook. Morning lows around 10 in gaithersburg. Around 14 in quantico. Daytime highs around 30 degrees. Average high for this time of year is 52 degrees. Yes, 52 degrees. Lets end on a policy note. Look for the daytime highs on saturday sunshine. Daylight saving time 52 for a high on monday. Talking 50 on tuesday. Middle 50s on wednesday. And by thursday of next week, we could be looking at temperatures around 60 degrees. So that is what one, two, three, four five days at 50 degrees or higher. Eileen whelan, you are outside. If only we could fast forward to thursday, i think we could probably be feeling your feet and hands at this point. Youve been out there all day long watching the snow and talking about building in arlington. Is it finally starting to come to an end . You know, i can tell that its just about to. But, you know, steve what i noticed is in the past hour or two as the temperature is falling, the snow texture is changing. Its more of the sandlike feature and the winds are start to go blow. You can see how this snow has impacted our little snowman here. Hey, i got to give a thanks to whoever was Walking Around arlington and put these tree branches in for arms. I feel like my snowman is now complete. You can see the snow starts piling