Virginia Visitors Center around 9 00 this morning. Vdot reported 600 vehicles on the road and crews are only plowing areas with more than two inches of snow theyre telling us. Well we have heard a lot from parents in fairfax and loudon counties who said they were too slow to start on time. At one time Fairfax CountyPublic Schools was trending worldwide on twitter. This is video from Sterling Virginia this morning where buses were out on the snow covered roads trying to get through to kids and then to school. Most of the area remains under a Winter Weather advisory right now until 1 00 this afternoon. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein begins our Team Coverage from the weather channel. Tom. Hey, barbara, most of the snow has ended in the metro area. The snow has ended. As we look at the storm team 4 radar, right now the last of the know is just to our north in the panhandle of West Virginia into washington and frederick county. A few lingering snow flurries in the eastern shore. It has ended in West Virginia. This is all quickly tracking away. As it is tracking away we may get sunshine breaking out late in the afternoon. Snow totals reported in around one to three inches in the metro area. There were some higher spots that got more than that and out in western maryland, may get a few more snow showers into this evening which may bring their snow totals up a little bit. The accumulating snow is all gone from the metro area and its a cold morning. We have warmed up a little bit. Near 20 a couple of hours ago. Now the snow is climbing into the mid and upper 20s. It may get a little above freezing with a few breaks in the clouds and a little sunshine breaking out, we ought to make it to the mid 30s everyone single afternoon. A look at a big change. Chuck bell joins us now in Prince William county. Where are you now . Reporter good morning. We are ingainsville virginia in Prince William county. Weve seen about two inches of snow. Its turned everything out here into very much a winter landscape, and many parents were not happy about their kids still having to go to school. It started snowing in Prince William county around 3 00 a. M. And long before 6 00 the roads had changed over from black pavement to winter white. Schools remained open in the county. Much to the surprise and disappointment of many parents. Its a lot of snow. Maybe schools should be closed today. I think that i should be able to stay home because its not safe for all the buses to be driving because somebody could get hurt in an incident. Those walking to school had it the easeiesteasiest, but even those would have preferred a snow day. Reporter are you supposed to be throwing snow on your sister . I dont think so. Reporter you think you should be going to school in the snow . You do . It was more than half an hour after the first bell before the first yellow bus with only a handful of students on board came inches its way and sliding its way down the hill to buckland mills elementary school. And parents driving their kids to school werent fairing much better either. The schools made a mistake this time. Just getting here talk about an extra half hour. Its a long drive for a tenminute drive. Sbl and this parent estimates many others werent attempting the trip. How many out of ten decided to not bring their kids to school . Probably eight out of ten. Reporter though it added up to two inches of snow it came at the least opportune moments and had many parents second guessing the School Districts decision to stay open. And this is what we were talking about. The slipping and sliding on the hill. Again, were live in gainsville. This little green car is not having any success. Theyre giving up and doing what a very big Prince WilliamCounty School bus had to do which is come back down the hill backwards because they couldnt make it up. Theres a lot of hills out here on the foothills of the blue ridge. A lot of parents think most if not all of the kids should have had the day off. If nothing else, but for safety. This is playing out across the area. This is from prince georges county. Snow covered roads, cars backed up for miles. We have reports of people pushing stranded motorists. Even buses got stranded this morning. Megan mcgrath is live in rockville with a look at conditions there. Megan . Reporter well were along shady grove road in rockville. The snow has begun to taper off. Just a little flurry heen and there. And the the road crews are finally getting work done on the roads. We still have slushy conditions. But its no longer the snow pack pavement that we saw earlier. This mornings rush hour was just absolute misery for thousands of people who had to go to work this morning. Take a look at this video. This is southbound 270. It was at a crawl this morning. We were driving along. At times we were going 15 miles an hour. There were other times where we came to a complete stop as people were exiting in front of us. It was a terrible situation. People were not happy about the Road Conditions. A lot of frustrated people out there. Lower the plows and move them around. The damage had been done at that point. Side streets that hadnt been treated, they were particularly bad. We saw people sliding off the roads. We talked to a number of commuters. And some it took them hours to get to work. I was stuck in traffic for three and a half hours coming from virginia. It was pretty rough. Three and a half hours . Im treating myself to starbucks right now. My drive was horrible. I came from baltimore city. I probably saw eight wrecks. Cars turned around. A lot of people going fast and tons of people going slow which is great, but it was at a standstill at one point. And spots got two to three inches of snow. Little surprised by the amount of snow they saw when they walked out of the house and plenty of people had to go to work and brave the roads. But at least at this point we can say there has been improvement. Well they seemed to be moving along. Thank you so much megan. And right now tepco is working to restore power to thousands of customers near dupont circle. You can see fire and smoke coming from a manhole there. Three underground breakers tripped. At last check, more than 6100 customers were without power. No word on when the problem will be fixeded. And the power will be restored. And the former virginia Bob Mcdonnell is waiting to hear his fate right now. And barbara, we just learned through david culver that the judge has adjusted the sentencing guidelines in favor of the defense. Bob mcdonnell now faces six to eight years in prison, as opposeded to the ten years min many um the prosecution wanted. You can see the former governor arriving at the courthouse in richmond. Grieving reporter. Now if his lawyers get what they want it would be no jail time. And just thousands of hours of Community Service. More than 400 family and friends wrote letters asking for leniency. He was convicted of multiple counts of corruption. His wife was also there, she was also found guilty of corruption last september. She will be sentenced next month. Thats the latest back to you. We have a team of reporters out there to bring news on this whenever it happens. Thanks so much angie. Right now we are checking airports for delays and cancellations. The weather is not just the problem here. Despite weather, a new congress will be sworn in less than an hour. A look at if we should expect any drama there today. Webuyanycar. 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That was shutdown because of a jackknifed semi. Overall, looking a lot better than we were. Top of the beltway inner and outer loop probably the nastiest spot right now. You can see a live picture there. Very slow there. 270 is looking a lot better than it did earlier. 66 west of nutley, a little bit of volume there but nothing major. Melissa . Chris grover is outside bethesda with more on how the snow created a mess of a commute in that krear. Chris . Reporter well, good morning, barbara. Metro bus is on what they call a moderate snow surface schedule. Which means they stick to main roads and they dont go up to the narrow roads, the neighborhoods, the hilly terrain, the problem areas. You see people arriving here for metro rail. It is running well. We also had seen a lot of rideon buses. People getting rides over here to the metro station. Reporting that old georgetown road and connecticut avenue are both a mushy mess. A mushy mess with slow traffic. Now 355 on Rockville Pike is moving pretty good. But we want to show you some of the other roads throughout montgomery county. Lets show you route 28. This is between Quince Orchard between rockville and 270. And our camera man was coming to meet me and it was a slow go. About 5 miles an hour at best. And very crowded, and he got on 28 because he had to get off 270. It was such a slow mess on 270 trying to head south. So the conditions throughout our area are beginning to let up. Treatment on roads, old georgetown and connecticut, only one lane has been plowed. The rest may have been treated, but it is difficult because traffic for the most part is heavy. Now met retoles us that if you are waiting for a bus, now the bus stop is snowy. But do not stand in the street. Do not stand in the street when you wait for a metro bus. Well all the take it more seriously and get out earlier next time. So there were some problems today. Chris gordon news 4. Thank you. School closings are one of the biggest issues this morning. Many virginia schools opened on time despite poor Road Conditions out there. How parents are reacting coming up. Accumulating snow has ended in the metro area. Big change blows in tomorrow. Its strong winds, im storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. The accumulating snow has ended in the metro area. Were seeing still a little bit of light snow in the panhandle of West Virginia and frederick county. Thats passing north of the metro area, and were starting to see pavement now as things are beginning to warm up a little bit. This is continuing to track off to the east. Temperatures right now are still below freezing. Were in the mid to upper 20s in the metro area. Reagan national is at 20 degrees. Stay up with the weather with the storm team 4 weather app. You can get it on google play and the itunes store. A look at the cold winds coming up at 11 30, barbara. Crews are in Fairfax County treating roads right now. We saw pictures all over twitter. Cars and school buts stung stuck in the snow. Richard jor don is live outside Luther Jackson middle school with more on that part of the story. Richard . Reporter barbara, here at this school like every other school in Fairfax County there is class. The bell just rang to indicate a change of period. But now the School District is facing a backlash. Many parents say the School District should have either delayed classes a few hours or canceled them all together because the conditions were treacherous for parents to get their children to school. Fairfax Public Schools saying that they are apologizing to their parents. They have just put out a letter to the parents this morning. They say they have to make the call on whether or not to open or close schools by 5 00 a. M. They say by that time very early in the morning, the snow was light. They thought it would be best to keep the schools open. Now they are regretting that decision. There has been an outpouring online. On twitter its trending. On vine videos posteded them walking to school because their bus was stuck. There were minor accidents because of the weather. Een a lot of posts, a lot of pictures. Some students showing empty classrooms. School is open but many decided not to send them to school. Many teachers didnt change it to school the parents are saying the School District paid a bad call. I know we had difficulties with the school closings. I guess thats the reasoning behind it. But other than that yeah im very surprised. The traffic is dangerous and awful in many i state. Fairfax county Public Schools saying regular dismissal today. They dont want to let the kids out early because with the Road Conditions were seeing right now, it would just not be safe to get the school buses back on the roads. So theyre hoping once the afternoon hits the plows have time to hit the streets, things will be better. However, if there are parents who want to pick up their students early, the school will accommodate them. Richard jordan news 4. Angie goff is following breaking news for us at the live desk. Really Important Information into the live desk. We have learned the Walker Health center is closed for the day. Thats because they lost power. At this point they dont know when the lights will come back on. We did make contact with them. Theyre calling as many patients as they can to inform them. Trying to reschedule them as well. Meanwhile, the center has not been impacted. That one is open for business today. Back to you. Thank you. All the snow did not shut down the federal government. At noon the house and senate will be in session for the start of the 114th congress. For more on todays activity were joined by mark murray. Were there any chance they werent going to show up . It would have taken a lot of snow. Everyone is ready. And most of them are there. Tell us what we can expect today. Not yet. Really everything starts happening around noontime. The biggest will be the vote for speaker. We pretty much know who the speaker of the house of representatives will be. Its the same speaker but there is a vote for speaker. And right now 10 to 15. Maybe a few more house conservative republicans. And there is a magic number. John boehner needs to more than 28 29 to get his majority without a second vote. But were watching the little drama with a little bit of rebellion. Hes probably going to end up being speaker. A few folks are trying to make it difficult for him. Any names floating around. The stiff conservatives have two people voting. One is a republican from florida. Another is a conservative republican from texas. I see the new congress. Quickly tell me what it looks like. Washington post has a great statistic statistical break down. 80 white. 8 90 male. Its not diverse as the country as a whole. The whole is 63 white, 49 male and 73 christian. But this is more diverse than its ever been before. Glass half full glass half empty. Its really striking to look at the statistics and see the makeup of the congress. Its moving in the right direction. Very slowly. Very slowly thanks a lot. And for more from mark and the rest of the Political Team check out first read on nbcnews. Com. Congress is back in work with republicans in charge of the house and the senate. On the agenda a showdown over the pipeline. The gop wants to push it through the house later this week and in the senate where there now appears to be enough votes to pass it. Whats going on with the weather out there . Snow will not. Its a snowy scene in washington today. Pat collins is out in the mess and joins us along with his famous snow stick. Good morning. Reporter good morning, barbara. Here it is. The official pat kol lincollins snow stick. Its out and at the ready for the first measurement for winter 2015. As you recall on the back ive marked all the big snows weve had over the years so you get a little bit of history. Then we have the numbers to measure the snow of the day. Later on i will tell you how you can get one of these from your very own. Now here to make our first measurement of the 2015 weather is pat collins. Pat collins. Where are you from . Im from minnesota, eh. Youve seen your share of snow. Oh, you betcha. Okay pat. Take that stick. Go over to untouched snow. Insert the stick into the snow. What do you got . You got four inches. Four inches here at connecticut. Pat collins from minnesota. He knows snow. He knows how to measure snow. Now heres what were going to do. Were going to have our first snow stick challenge of the year. Were going to ask you to take a picture of your best snow hat. Tweet that picture to to patcollins. The one with the best snow hat gets the chance to get an official pat collins snow stick. Compared to minnesota, what is this . This is a nice dusting. This is like Easter Sunday in minneapolis, isnt it . Early summer. From one pat collins to another pat collins, to you, barbara. You found a comedian out there today. Thats great. Is he really pat collins . Hes really pat collins. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Hes been here 25 years. I would show you his drivers license, but its under like four layers of clothe ls. Well hear from you later today about thanks a lot. Right now many people are hoping the evening commute will not look like this. Snow covereded roads and bumper to bumper traffic this morning. Well get you up to date on Road Conditions. And a col