Worried it was going to be snow snow at all. Maybe she brought it down from philadelphia. Clouds are moving in this morning. Might get a sliver or two of sunshine early. Temperatures just barely above freezing during the afternoon. It could start out as a flurry or a sprinkle. By tonight, light snow very, very likely. Might get as much as an inch. Planning it out today, temperatures below freezing this morning. Staying cold and cloudy. Any sliver the sunshine will be early on in the day, but temperatures will be back below freezing by this evening. Exactly how much snow . Lets find out from sheena. Were looking at not much. But the problem here is going to be the timing of it allege. So as we go through the hours early tomorrow morning, we are looking at the snow falling right around the overnight hours. So before the morning rush, temperatures will be at or below freezing. That will be the Biggest Issue here. Take a look at the snowfall totals north of the off to the west. B less than an inch b around the district and points south. So that is going to be one area that well be watching as far as the time, the major roadways. But, of course, untreated roads, that will be the biggest concern. Well take a closer look at the timing and what you can expect with your driving, coming up. Lets get a check off traffic. Oh, hi, and im standing. Beltway here, inner loop and outer loop, everything looking quite good here this morning. Very different from perhaps what we will see tomorrow morning with that snow were talking about. Top of the beltway, all of these routes into town and out of town looking good here right now. Woodsboro road north of libber thety, still shut down in both directions because of an overturned box truck. Police are on the scene and they are turning you around to get around that one. Should be out of the way soon. Theyve had that wrecker on the scene for quite some time now. 66 inbound, you are on time. Its going to take you eight mi aaron. Melissa, thank you. Right now, were getting you ready for the snow that is set to hit our area. Up to an inch of snow is expected this evening. You may remember this dusting from last year. This is video from january 12th, 20 2016. And the dusting skam just before rush hour and stalled traffic all over the area for hours. Justin finch is out as crews pretreat the roads for your safety. Good morning. What are you seeing out there . Hey there, good morning. We are just behind the road crews here in d. C. They have made their way ahead on connecticut avenue. Show you what we are seeing right now. They say these conditions right here are very much ideal. As you can see, pretty much open roads and on the ground. Perhaps you can see there, there are all those salt granules on the ground and they dropped here just moments ago. Now, they say this is great because cars will come out here throughout the day and grind that salt into the ground and it should be ready at some point later this afternoon. Now, maryland officials are telling us, too, they are doing everything they can to get ahead of this snow to protect the roads. Take a listen. Our maintenance officials here are talking not only with our own personnel but contract trucks if needed to be ready once the precipitation hits. Now, there are chances, too, you will see these crews out working throughout the morning, throughout the day. And if you perhaps are behind them and hear that salt pinging on your car, we are told that is not a good sign. That means you are too close so slow down and allow those crews to work. Back in to you. Justin, thank you. Were also following breaking news this morning at the bethesda metro station. Overnight, firefighters can ducted a rescue worker for a worker who fell 35 feet down a shaft. Megan mcgrath has more morning. Megan. Well, the worker was pulled out of this had utility shaft that you see behind me here. Its a shaft in the sidewalk on wisconsin avenue. He was rescued at about 3 00 this morning. Has serious injuries. Injuries to his legs, his back, also suffering tr hypothermia. But were told that he is expected to recover. Now, there was some overnight done in this shaft. Im joined by pete with the Montgomery County fire and ems. Talk about what was going on. Some maintenance work, they were down in the shaft. Yeah. You know, they are doing a lot of work throughout the whole metro system. This is just some of it is that is going on. This is next to the vent shaft, its a utility shaft, tul. This worker fell about 35 feet. So it was a little bit of a we had to do some roping and rigging and what we would call technical rescue to bring him up. Talk about his injuries. So it was consistent with what you might expect from fall. As you mentioned, possible leg injuries, back injuries, things of that nature. We had medics down with him right away. We had a plan a, b and c. But plan a went fine and we got him out in about 90 minutes or so. Thanks for joining us. At this point, emergency crews have cleared the scene and everything is back to normal here at the metro station. Were tracking an inch at the washington adventist hospital. There is a water main break. Folks notice dollars a problem with the water pressure last night, even a slight discoloration with that water. So theyre giving folks there, patients and staff, bottled water to drink. Wsfc is helping plumbers with this fix. The hospital is accepting patients, but emergency crews may have to reroute some patients to other facilities. Were staying on top of this. Updates in our app and them. Molette, thank you. It is 5 06. Were about to get a new word in the governors race. Former represent Tom Perriello is expected to announce his bid today. He is a democrat and that could create some issues for the party because the current lieutenant governor, ralph norsom was considered the top democratic frontrunner for the job. Cyber security will take center place on capitol hill today. There will be closed door briefings on russias interference in the election. This comes after the Intelligence Committee said russia tried to interfere in the president ial election to help donald trump win. Democrats have a new slogan to defend the Affordable Care act. They say republicans want to, quote, make america sick again. They unveiled it after meeting with president obama yesterday on capitol hill. Elect mike pence met with republicans pushing for a swift repeal of the law. While republicans appear united in that goal, it is still not clear how they plan to do it. Republicans commit a new alternative wouldnt kick in for a few years. Children left out in the cold waiting for their school buses. One School District says its because they dont have enough drivers. How it could influence your childs ride. Plus, a Beltway Police chase ends in a crash. Youll never believe who was in the car when Police Caught up. Snow is coming. Chuck and sheena working othe n y27mky y16fy preparations are under way to the 74th annual with golden globe. Its this sunday. Your host will be jimmy fallon. He was in las vegas for the official rolling out of the red carpet. And we are rolling out the red carpet this morning for the newest member of storm team 4. Oh, thank you. The. Well find the red carpet for you. In theory, its there. Its gray right now, but, erin, ill be waiting for it. In the next hour. Thank you so much, toe. Im very happy to on be here. Ilbe morning and ive been with the nbc family for five years in philadelphia in the nbc station there. So im very happy to on be here with you guys. Youre always of fun to work with. Well, thanks. Were happy to have you. Tell us what you have in store for us weatherwise. Its colder this morning than it was yesterday morning. If youre about to head out, youll need a thicker coat. 39 in the district, 27 in frederick. Leaseberg, 28 degrees. Fredericksburg coming in at 26. Its going to be staying cold as we go through the rest of the day today. Take ta look at your fitness forecast. Temperatures will be staying only in the 30s this average. By noon today, more clouds move in. Take a look at 6 00 p. M. We could be seeing the leading edge of snow that could be causing problems for the morning commute tomorrow. More details on that, coming up. Melissa mollet has a new crash. Thats not good. Right lane is what is getting by right now, 28 doesnt seem to be slowing thing too much yet. Northbound 295 near beng road, work zone still blocking that right lane. Inner loop and outer loop of the beltway, no problems there. Everything looks nice and smooth. Still have a situation in Frederick County with the overturned box truck. Woodsboro road north of liberty is shut down. Were working to learn the name of the person who led police on a chase tr d. C. To virginia. Police tell us they found a young girl inside a car when that chase ended in a crash on the beltway. It started last night when a Police Officer attempted to pull over a driver on gainesville street in southeast. When the officer approached, the suspect backed into the Police Cruiser and took off. The chase ended on the beltway in virginia near 95. A disturbing find in the district yesterday, a woman came across a violin case full of guns. She was hiking off canal road parking lot and called police. They did a full search of the area and found more guns. Were told they were in all kinds of bags and buckets, but no actual gun cases. Police are checking to see whether the guns were used in any crimes. Prince William County police are searching person responsible for a shooting. All this happened in a stretch between manassas mall and tone wall jackson high school. One man was shot and another was injured. Police think it may have been a drive by shooting. Both men are expected to be okay. Family and friends are begging the person who ran down a deaf woman to come forward. Despite the cold, loved ones of Jacqueline Cole met for a vigil. The suv that hit her never stopped. D. C. Police have released some image hes of the darkcolored suv they believe was involved. You see the video been able to speak, but she didnt need words to communicate. I understood every word she said. Just from her expressions mainly. She brings smiles to me every time she come around. The cole if family is asking the city to do more to make the crosswalk where Jacqueline Cole died more visible to drivers. Updates on those problems at a Montgomery County hospital. Molette green is at the live desk. Moments ago, we heard that water main break on campus, on that Hospital Property is fixed and everything is back to normal. That is the latest. Back to you, eun. Thank you, molette. A Prince Georges County mother wants answers after her special needs son was left stranded at the bus stop. When sylvia called the schools transportation department, she found out several students were left stranded this week and it wasnt jun ride home after school. Prince georges County School says they dont have enough bus drivers right now. In fact, theyre short 50 drivers. The problem gets worse when someone quits, calls in sick or unexpectedly retires. Doubling up on routes when necessary and trying to remain in contact with the School Officials so that they can communicate to parents whats going on. Its not fair to them. Its not fair to us and furthermore, its not fair to the teachers who are stuck had here with them. The School System says theyre looking for qualified drivers right now. If youre interested, you can find more information in our nbc washington app. Search school bus jobs. Tonight, youll be able to weigh in on the 2018 fiscal year budget for Montgomery County schools. Superintendent jack smith is propose ago 2. 5 billion budget. That includes more than 62 million in new spending. Thats an increase of about 2. 5 over last fiscal year. After tonights hearing, the next hearing is and news 4 is working for you in the community. Specifically, we want to help military members and their families find jobs. We partnered with the u. S. Department of commerce for our hiring of the job fair. The fair itself runs from 10 00 in the morning until 1 00 in the afternoon. The event is free, but you have to be a military Service Member wab veteran or Military Spouse to attend. You can register by searching hiring our heros on the nbc washington app. We should note that the workshops, resume writing and interviewing, things of that sort, will start earlier in the morning and the job fair is at 10 00. The. Tomorrow. Tomorrow, yes. And you will be there. I believe so. I will now. Okay. Way to put him on the spot, eun. And youre working all weekend, right . Lets talk to sheena paveen. You are because we also have the expo this weekend. A busy week. Lots of stuff to do this here, were tracking snow. Way to come into the team, right . Am i coming in with bad news . No. This is great news. Hes down right giddy over here. Absolutely. Yeah. They did even better in the blizzard last winter than we did. I dont even remember. There was so much snow. It was just walls of snow. Id have to go back. Look at the numbers. Some areas got close to two feet. Werent you trauma advertised . Im still trauma advertised. Oh, no, it was awesome. Dulles and bwi the 29 inches of snow. Were not talking about 29 inches, but sheena will have your estimated amounts here in just a second. Back out across parts of the ohio valley, this will be a less, not more kind of an event. Generally speaking, i wouldnt count on a whole lot more than ankle deep at the most. Right n degrees. Sky res postally cloudy. Most everybody is not just below treezing, but way below freezing. Only 21 in winchester right thou. Even though the skies arent full overcast yet, that wont take long. We should be full cloud cover before lunchtime. It might start as a sprinkle or rain or a flurry of snow. Temperatures this evening, definitely back down into the chillier 20s for sure. Exactly how much snow . Its going over to sheena and find out exactly how much snow we might be talking about. Even though its not a lot of snow, the timing is not good and the temperatures will be making some problems on the roadways. Now, we could see the leading edge of this snow approaching by about 5 00 p. M. This afternoon. Take a look at 1 00 p. M. The model has been updating, so were getting updated times on everything now. What were seeing currently across the yeah, dry companies. Starting at 1 00 p. M. This afternoon, we c s snow flurries around. Look at 5 00 and 6 00 p. M. Gaithersburg, 30 degrees. So below freeze, snow moving in on untreated roads could cause slippery spots. Here is 9 00 p. M. Tonight. We could be seeing more snow showers. Ing, widespread across the area. Morning commute tomorrow. Temperatures in the 20s. So we could be seeing, again, the road impact tomorrow morning. As far as total res concerned north of the district and off towards shennendoah valley, less than an inch around the district and points south. But, again, the main issue is going to be those temperatures. So as we go through the overnight hours, snow showers mainly before 5 00 a. M. Temperatures around freezing. And then some slick spots possible on untreated roads. This is all going to be a concern because of the timing. Not a lot of snowfall. But the weekend is going to be cold. Lets take a look at your tenday forecast with chuck. Thats right. Temperatures may not get above freezing all weekend long. On saturday, most ly cloudy. Temperatures only about 31 degrees. 24r8 be a storm cg at the beach in the middle of winter, you might have some accumulating snow down towards ocean city this weekend. That storm looks to be far enough off the coast where we wont get any more of a passing flurry or two. If that storm tracks farther to the north and west, we will see that immediately. Come and visit us at the health and expo. Were going on early tomorrow morning, 4 00 a. M. Back those alarm clocks up. I thought, if i come in late tomorrow im getting up at 2b 2 32. The extra two minutes makes a difference. Trust me. Nobody at yorkshire lane, right lane getting by the crash. Southbound is unaffected by that accident. Southbound 270, slow as youre leaving 70. Then youre nice and clear down to the beltway. Northbound looking quite good this morning on 270 in frederick liberty, blocked because of the overturned box truck. Aaron. Thank you. North carolinas bathroom bill caused nationwide outrage. Now, question, could one be coming to virginia inspect the changes one lawmakers wants to make to public stropts rest rooms ahead at 5 30. But first, a College Student proving oh, here comes nancy. Wow, shes sure making a splash in that designer dress and with a thicker, more fabulous formula, shes not splashing. You can wear anything and pour bleach. And her whiter whites, just dazzling. Clorox splashless bleach. Also try crystals and packs. Were getting a look at disturbing video taken in a nursing home. It is from the son of one of the residents. He pulled out his phone when he saw roaches runninging through his dads room. It happened at a home in louisiana. A state inspection found the facility to be unclean and found roaches in several rooms. Officials say the issue will be corrected by next week and then the state will go back to the facility. A carolina student who has autism has made the grade. With the help and sacrifice of his mom, jorey fleming is now a rhodes scholar. The geography and marine science major is one of 32 americans to get that honor. His mother gave up a medical career to home school her son. Together, they will travel to oxford. He acknowledges the road to where he is now was a tough one. Road may have had a lot of potholes and bumps in it and diversions, but eventual it it got to where it needed to go. Everybody can have something that they can contribute. They may just not know how. He has a gpa of 4. 0. Its minoring in geophysics. Can you say just genius . Geography, marine science, geophysics, 4. 0, rhodes scholar. And we werent to school to learn how to talk. Were looking a little lazy ht rhodes schoolers in this had area. And congratulation toes his mother who gave up everything for him, as moms do. Snow is making its way into our area later today. Chuck and sheena are racking the weather. A brutal attack unfolds on facebook live. The people now under arrest for allegedly beating a m its go time at dunkin with two wakeup wraps for 3. Enjoy two freshly made oventoasted wraps with bacon, sausage, or ham and keep on all day