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WRC News4 Midday February 26, 2015

Mornin amelia begs our coverage and shes in the weather center. The National Weather service has canceled a large portn of the Winter Weather adviso. Howevet remains in effect r many parts of the Northern Neck until 1 00 this afternoon. Thats going to run until noon. I do think even these weather alerts will canceled within the hour or so. You can see here for the most part were dry and only a few isol flurries stl hanging on. Area of low pressure quickly pullg away from the area. Limited sunshine. Howeve dispurr bans might bring light snow. Overnit tonight, we cant ru out a few light flurries moving thh the area. Ill l youw how warm it will get today, and if melting today cou lead to more proble tom morning. All right, well see you here shortly then, amelia thank you. This is what many of you saw when you headed out the door this morning. Snow on the roadways. This is video from prince wim county this morning. The snow rea started to come during the morning commute, blanke the roads. Megan h is live in woodbr w even though the roads were treated, the snow still caused some problems out there, right, megan . Rep yeah, we did have foa few hours this morning, it was pretty slippery out there. But take a look now. You can see the improvement that e seeing here. Earlier this morning, that d turn lane in the center it was white. You could barely see any pave there but you can see right now, it is just wet. Now, this is our sixth snow in february r secon in just a week. People we spoke to this morning, they say they are just sick of winter. Don and big daddy out for a work don heads to the office. G daddy is loving it. Don, not so much. Ive had enough snow this year. I be glad when spring gets me. Rep and big daddy seems to lik the snow . He. These folks, e definitely not having a good time. Several cars slid off the road. Some banged into each other on grifn boulevard in woodbridge. This driver on the phone with his insurance company. Hes had it. I am so sick of it. I thinm goi to pack up and move to florida at my earliest opport and he isnt alone in his feelin toward mother natures snowy streak. We asked this nom what she thin of this years winter. Its probably not broadc youe done . Yeah. Yeah i am. Im ready for him to get back into school. Its tough, they keep having snow days. I know. And i work over in reston, and havi to drive to reston is just scary. And she had to take leave from her job aga today becau of the snow. Prince William County schools were closed. Her son was out of school. So it has been diffict for a lot of parents who then have to scra to figure out what to doh their kids on these snow days. Report in prince William County Megan Mcgrath knew 4. It a confusing morning if your kids go to d. C. Public School School delay two hours while mos oth districts in our area closed. Someti around 7 00 metro bus sent out this tweet, saying d. C. Schools were closed and students wouldn be able to get rides. E agency said it confirmed that informati with the d. C. Mayors office. Wrong information. Mo a thousand flights are gr nearly 7,000 canceled flights sin saturday. Here in our area reagan nati is reporting 31 flights cancel today. Dulles is reporting 12 cancel check your airline for because of the weather befe you head out to the airport. If you plan to use amtrak today, some services will be canceled becae of the weathern several virginia lines, including those in norfk richmond have be cancel. Same g and savannah, georgia. Acela express will operate on a norm schedule and vre is operg a full and normal today as well. Vdot crews spent the night and early morni treating the roadwa. Yester Governor Terry mcaue and brian moran person thanked tran workers. Mcaulie says the state has already spent 150 million of its snow budget. During most storms, virginia deploys 12,000 pieces of equit and 2,500 operators across the state. A developing story. The man seen and heard in isis vide now identified. The white h just released a statem the n information from the desk. Plus the fcc is set to make an hist vote on regulating the intern. The ruling will mean for the average user. E winte storm that f battered the south and then moved across our area this morning. An update from the weather ce im richard jorn at the li desk following a developing story. The man known as jihadi john has now been identified by multiple a outlets and u. S. Inte officials confirm that he is a london man named moha emwazi who joined isis a few years ago. Hes believed to be the execr oft seen in these vide with a mask clutg a knife. Hes ae deaths of american host james foley and Steven Sotlof ac several reports, 27 years old, from a middle class family educated graduad from the university westmir, tn went to syria in 2012 to join isis and has been elevated now, working as an executr for them. The white hou released this statt saying that at this time the administratn is not in a position to confirm or deny the identity of the individual but u. S. Officials are working to investigate who was behind the murders of american citizens and working with british auths to do just that. Ba thankyou, richard. Ths a new law in virg rig now legalizing maria for a very specific kind of medical use. You may remember when david culver interviewed 15yearold collins. S epileptic seizures somes hundreds a day. To treat them, she uses a cann oil, which is derived pot but doesnt have the high generally associated pot. Terry mcauliffe legalized it for patiene jennife hours ago. Meanwh a few hours before that pot became legal in the dist to have up to two ounces of it in the city. Youre a allowed to grow up to six ounces at home as long as three are fully grown. The drug is totally against the law on federal land. You also cant smoke in public even in your car. Its banned for anyone under 21 years old. We know this is a lot of informn, so we put all of this all of the rules for you on our website, nbcwas you can check it out there. And were learning mo about the three men arrested in new accused of supporting e terro group isis and their suspd plans for attacking the u. S. Plus tak a look at this. Brandy its been a busy mornin for people shoveling out there. A the snow for the most part h come to an end, but what kind of impact does it leave on the roads this im amelia segal. Talking with melissa about trafc and being out in the storm Truck Driving all around heres how the weather will impact the roads on into the aften hours. For the most part the main road this point have been treated and are just wet, not slick. T some of the secondary roads still hav snow on them in spots, so you do want to be carefu that. Sidewas right now are slushy. If theyre not treated this aftern theyll become icy this evening and on into tomo evening. As far as snow totals go barbar not as much snow for areas h of the district. The district is all about one to two inches. The most snow fell in parts of sout maryland and the nort neck areas around leonn up to four inches. Going to have a ld the weekend coming up at 11 30. Were keeping a close eye on the roads in maryland. This is what it looked like a coup of hours ago on the morng rus in rockville. You can see, it wasnt too bad. We saw more snow in prince county. Thats zachary kieh joins us from with a look at the condit now. Whats it looking like . Yeah barbara. You know here in prince county we got the brunt of it. We got here about 4 30 before the flakes started to come down. This is the result. If you take a peeko bran road there was still a lot of slush on the road. But theres still a lot of cleani up to do. Some people just look miserable the snow but folks like clifn seem to relish it. How is the snow moving, is it heavy . Its good. Its good and soft. Movi pretty good. Rep for 13 years, hes been respo for this lot. The pa wasnt open. If it was, he wouldnt mind. Wait is that a flag on the tracto redskins. Rep south prince county got its fair share of snow today. In a lot of places it stuck. Not looking all that clear out there. The roads haven been salted. None of t trucks have come throh at all. Rep starting to see some accumulatio out here. Parking lots and side streets similar to this, although drivs tell us some of the main areas like branch avenue are rollg pretty well. A lot of slush on the roads. Same old same old. Rep keith butlers lookin for something new. Im looking for the big dump. Im just waiting for that. Its coming. Rep we watched the snow watched it grow little by little and learned a thing or two about removing it from someon may the only one that actual likes this stuff. The longer you wait the more treachou it is. Rep the longer you wait the more treacherous it become y whas going to happen here. The mo you pack this stuff down the more opportunity it has to fre again, the tougher it is to get up. But for the most part things are looking good after a busy mornin we could be dealing with a wint mix next week. Right now, the fcc is holdin a closely watched vote on whether your internet provid should able to choo which sites load fastest for you. The proposal would stop internet provids by favoring certain sites by declaring the internet a pu utility. Of people have weighed in online on this. Many big content providers and free marke advocates are agait these rules. If the Net Neutrality is approv is very likely to be challe in court later. A developing story out of new york. Three men from brooklyn are in custy this morning, accused of suppor the tr group isis. S say two of them planne to jn isis. Their bacp plan was to attack the u. S if they couldnt make it to syria. Officis admit that these types of home grown terror pl lawmakers will look closely at this trend. A global threat during these two hearin that are going on right now. Happe on capitol as we speak. Direct of National Inte James Clapper test morning saying unprey is the new normal in less than 37 hours, the depa of homeland se runs out of money unless cong can make a deal. The u. S. Is dealing with frightening reminds of the growing infle of isis. News4s tracie pott on capi with a look at how thiss impacting the countrys securi. Rept t morning, a u. S. Intelligee official has confird t identity of the executioner in those beheadg videos. He is a london man, Mohammed Emwazi o known by auths as jihadi john. Also three people are under arre as of today, two of them trying to leave Kennedy Airport in new york to go overseas to fight wh isis. This is why homeland se money is so important, and its what theyre talking about again here on capitol hill today. Senate democrats have said they willd and approve a bill that only deals with funding not with the immigration issue that conserve republicans haven pushing. But will the house go along with that . Dont know. There e sti lots of quess about how this might work out here on capitol hill. Presid has said that he will push for more immigration reformd he wants to put pres on republicans, but they insist immigration is tied in wh homelsecurity. Its part of that department d they dont want the money gointhere. Bottom line deadline is midnig tomw night and this issue remains unresolved. Barbar thank you, tracie. This congression battle has y put john boehner in an incredible political bind. If the senate he has to decide what to do in the house and this is happin right as the nations most wellknown conservativ are gathered for an event in our area. R me on that were joined by carrie dana. Its the cpac meeting. Us about that. Its an annual gathering, and a lot of big names come to speak the group. Could any of those folks w are and is he to be influe . I thinkt john boehner is going o w hes going to do. He been thr a lot of these fights before and has his unique style. I do think the publicie more likely to call their membf congr to try to infle that members decisi so when do you think were going to kw what the house is going to on this . Its a little bit too early to tell because we dont even know what the senate is going to do yet. They started debate on this issue yesterday. They could do final par it could be sunday. Could blow through the deadli. We just really dont know yet. Are there any temporary moves that can be made to fund the depart of homeland se . They can. They could pass a very short continuation of the budg while they work out this proble one way this may end up gettg resolved. They may end up punting it for a week or two weeks as they work it out. We talked a cpac. Its a playful jab that one potee gave to anothe lets that. What aim really ready for . Im not ready for hillary but what am i ready for . Im ready for a country that puts our constitution on the top shelf. So what do you think of that . I think that this cpac conf is going to be really intereg to watch a lot of the candidates. Dr. Ben carson talking about hillclinton. There will plenty of jabs. The person i want to watch the most is the former florida gove jeb bush. This is not really his crowd. Hes not really a candidate, hes more embraced by the esta. Will here, but this is a litt bit more of a cons cro than hes been used to. Hes going to do sort of a q a style a answer some questions. Im re curious to see how this group reacts to him. Youll tell us abo it tomorr. Sure thing. Thank you. And for more from c check out first read on nbcnews. Com. The new tool facebook is maki for people dealin suicidal thoughts, and police in our area have been tweeti safety tips all morng for people who had to be out in the snow. How one police depart added right now metro is meeting to let you kw how its working on preventing smoke incidents like the ones we saw this weeken the transit autty is holding a safety and security meeting. At meetings later today, the board wl also consider raising fares by ten cents per ride. Theyll also look at adding two minus to how long you have to wait during peak travel times. A new feature on facebook will offer help to those who have bn posting suicidal commen. A trained team will look at time line posts and review them for suic traits. The author will then be sent notis offering suicide prev resources. The univey of washington helped with the design of this new feature. It all began with a student who read some dark thoughts from his friend on facebook but didnt get the chance to reach him in time. I think about this tool as a way to save lives and to save other communities and families from this excites me very much. Their new future includes an opti for the Facebook User to speak dir with a trained profes. Right now were dealing with the aftermath of a quick winter storm. Te remain in place. A look at what that means for gettin the rest of the day and the rest of this week. And todays snow will only add to the pothole problem that were dealing with right now. Coming up a look at potholes that weve sn reported but have gone unrepaired for. It seems no one is escaping the Winter Weather. Even the deep south is dealing with a deep freeze. This is northern georgia. Parts of the region could see up to six inches of snow. In alabama, there could be recog snow totals as they expect to see ten inches or more. If that happens, it would break snow set back in the 1890s. Storm team 4 radar is also starti to clear out a little bit in our area. It was a quick storm we had, star around 4 00 this mornin and moving out in just the last two hours. Meteoro amel is back with what we can exp the rest of the day d the rest of the week. Hey, amelia youve been busy havet you . Yes tracking the latest road condit. Weve been saying this. Everyb s team 4. Its not about the amounts but the timing. As we head into the afternoon hours, were dry. But getting into the evening hours, especiay the late eveng hours, and extreme tomorrow morning, cant rule out some light snow showers moving through the area. Well wes metro area. Temper remain cold. Our average high is now 50 degreen the seven below average. Not only that but looking to next week as we begin march, a very active pattern. Plenty of chances of rain and a wintry mix in the forecast. Here the latest on storm team 4 radar. Course you can always down the storm team 4 weatr app and keep the radar right there on your smart phone. You can see for the most part the area is dry. Otherwe some limited suns as we get into the afternn hours. A high today inside of the beltway of 35. Coming up at 11 45, im going to take a look at the high tempe in your neighborhood y because some of us could see a little bit of melting, and of course then we have the concn for refreeze overnight tomorrow morning. 5 00 you had to go into work today,w someb that had to go into work today, it will b dry for the evening commut te 34 degrees. 8 00 p. M. Were at 31 in the distris in the suburbs. And heres this chance of snow im talking about. 10 00 here around winchester, louray down h charlo this line helicopters to move toward the east it really falls apart. The d. C. Metro area and areas north, if it is still together at this point, its only very light snow showers or flurries. No accumulation. Were looking at plenty of sunshi despite the cold temper. Partly to mostly sunny skies, so thats always nice. Mainly cle skies across the area. E impact forecast for your friday t weather having a low impact on your day. Maybe some isolated slk spots the morning. But it is cold. 15 to 20 degrees below normal. Some slick stops at the bus stop becaus the cold temper. Tomorrow for the kids indoors. Friday night dinner plans, teens and 20s. But like i said at least it wille dry. On saturday, plenty of sunshine. A High Temperature of 31 degree most of the day is dry on sund. Getting into the evening and overnit hours, we could start to see a wintry mix moving into the area. A High Temperature of 39 on sunday. D then the chance of that wint mix early on monday. And then another storm system may impact the area tuesday on into wednesday. All right, thanks amelia. Many of you were waking up to ts sight this morning. Anothed of sw out there. David culver tweeted this video of the snowcovered state house in richmond. Most of virginia is blanketed in snow today, including the roads. So far today, Virginia State poli are saying its fielded moren 800 calls statewide. Megan mcgrath is live in wood where the snow came down fast and furiously this morning. Megan . Yeah and unfortunatel it came down during the start of rushr and lasted through rush hour so the timing on this was terrible. It wasnt that we got that much snow. It was jus that it was mixed in with the normal rush hour traffi you take a look behind me here this is route 1 in woodbr. U can see at this point, its in pretty good shape t seeing any snow cover at all. We just have wet conditions. So everythin is aokay on the major roads here in wood

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