The snow expected to startd stt falling in just a matter ofr hours later tonight. Onig tuck, whats the deal . Hey, lets get right to it. G. Heres the bottom line. M youll need a broom not aro n shovel. This is any other going to be a major eanvey nt. Otrvent since yesterday the timing on tn this has changed a little bit. Looks like it wants to arriveket a little earlier this eveninghie than what we thought yesterday y so towards the tail end of thed rush hour tonight perhaps pha between 8 oclock and midnight h will be kind of prime time. Ime. There it is developing to our west and you can see snow showers back into ohio and kentucky parts of and ys ibands well. Well that was headed in ouratas headr direction. So a little sunshine here l early. Ittl then well cloud up. Again prime time tonight for tor some snow showers, some light sh snow across the area betweenetwe about 8 oclock and midnight and by early tomorrow morningor this whole system will be outte of here. Of by this time tomorrow morni hngg its all out of here. F here. And theres our expected snow accumulations. Light stuff. Dusting t o about an inch fornc much of the area, maybe more m like an inch plus if youreou further off to the north andnd west. We we have no advisories but i do d think some of the roads roa tonight particularly therl t become slick as temperaturesempa will be at or below freezing frg so everything that falls willlsl be snow but it will be veryeer light. Good to know. Aybe more thee t broom than the shovel needed. L. Yeah the broom. All right. Good to know. Tinge lets find out whats happening on the roads. D the question is are weoutpeni gg to be dodging a bullet becauseit of this snowstorm. Lets check in with anjalicka hemphill in northwest d. C. D good morning. Reporter well, good morning, guys. H snowh smatter rhoepw moruc we end up getting tonight and into tomorrow, ddot crews say cs theyre prepared. Red. They spent early this morning tm and last night spreading somedie of this huge salt pile alonglelg d. C. Roadwas as we are allre a familiar by now the dmv is notorious for that snarledsn traffic and slippery roadsd slip pretty much any time we even wee have a small Winter Weather smal event out here. Enout remember around this time lasttt year, guys, when just dayst ds ahead of a historic snowstormstr d. C. Traffic turned to uttero u chaos when the area got just 1us inch of unexpected snowfall. S there was during that eveningni rush hour commute there and itnt was pretty naty in that storm, the d. C. Mayor m even apologized for the citysry inadequate response sayinge sayi they should have been out withda more resources. Reses well, ever since then, the then, National Weather service has now putting an extra effort to mitigate Something Like lastom l year happening again. They now issue winterue wter commuting hazard statementsd ahead of snowfall that couldou impact traffic. Pact traffic. However, guys, the good news is is the snow were about tobot get looks like its going tos go be falling in between thoseenho busy rush hour times here iner the dmv. Thmv so, as of now, that warningarnig has not been issued but as weuta all know that could change. Chag were going to be keeping api a close eye on the weather. Ea for now live in the northeast Anjali Hemphill fox5 local loc wsws. 7 03. Developing overnight a metro workerng p oulled to safety aftt falling nearly 35 feet down a dn shaft. This happened at theth hap intersection of wisconsinon owin avenue and elm street. Fox5s Melanie Alnwicke has been following the storyry all morning long. Lon shes there in bethesda with bee more on how this happened. Mel, good morning. Reporter good morning, steve and allison. Folkors thtestat are familiar wf southbound wisconsin avenue wis will recognize whereco we a because its where there was aea Movie Theater here and reallyana the only thing thats left of lf the scene is just this police tape that was left behind butt d the entire southbound lanes of wisconsin avenue were blockedock early this morning. Morning that is the shaft where thehe worker needed to be rescued rcu from. Fr well show you some video fromoo Montgomery County fire andmery rescue of that. Of it was a technical rescue. Escu they had to bring in a ladder l truck and use that sort of to rig up app rope and pulley system getting 35 feet belowel the ground to get that workeror out. Were told that he had some orthopedic injuries so perhapsjp an injury to his back or his lower legs or feet, but but fortunately just a priority prir two transport, a nonlifethreatening injuriesthre there. It did take some time, though,eo for rescue workers to rig all rg of this up, but montgomeryontgom county fire chief scottef s goldstein told me they really r wanted to be careful here,er they didnt want to cause any ta further injury to him we alsoe shot some video of what it i looks like inside that shaft we dont know exactly whatctly happened here but theres sorts of a ledge and then it dropsrops down another 20 feet. 0 et these metro workers were inere this tunnel clearing out tnel leaves and debris and theres ane sort of thing just part of the routine maintenance that theyman do during thete overnight hoursh and unfortunately, this workeror had that perhaps slipandfallan incident so again the goodnto ag news is that he is going to be okay. I assume that metro is goingok t to continue following up on its accident investigationnves report. Im melanie iie, alnwick fox5 local news. N this morning water has beenrn restored to washingtonto adventist hospital in takomal in park. They had a pipe burst lastbursta night. Officials say that happened around 6 00 p. M. Als saarnd 6 so, they had advised patientsate visitors and staff not toot to drink any water from faucetset and make sure to use handd sanitizer in addition todditn to washing their hands. Ds. Wssc crews are still theretill this morning but the hospital is opened. Is its still accepting patients pe and working its a full comasul is the so basically businessbasu as usual. Al. A Wild Police Chase with ah a small child in the suspects s car. Ca it ends in a crash at the mixing bowl in northernngl in n all started srtit though when an officer triedicer to pull over a car in in southeast d. C. C the driver backed into aba Police Cruiser then took off. O Police Chased that car through h Prince Georges County into Fairfax County where the c suspect crashed into a jersey je wall in springfield. Inie officers then discovered a tn di young girl in the suspects suse car. Ca fortunately she was not hurt. T. That driver was arrested. Aes all right. Ht. Tucker, 7 06. 7 0 i feel like were talking to aaa lot this morning. T this mor yeah, well, i think nk a lot going on, right. Rig lets do it. Temperatures have gotten cold ovures hernight. Lets start with that. Stage is set fts or our light t snow event and again this willhl not be a major storm. Rm but as just mentioned, men remember the last year we gote an inch of snow and we were ae w not prepared and you know whatwh happened. Pp 32 reagan national. N nio i think were prefaired forf this one. Bwi marshall 29 degrees. 9 gree looking at our satellite andte a radar, theres our storm system developing out to the west. We will cloud up here quickly. Y today, only in the upper 30s. U3 you may see a few flurries as early as this afternoon. Afternn the main event for us will bell between about 8 oclock 8 oclok tonight and 2 oclock in theand morning. The good news tomorrowews torrow mornings commute will not beilb compromised with any falling anl snow. Anything that falls overnightig will still be on some of those o roads early tomorrow morning. Ori but were not expecting anyectia falling snow for tomorrow tomro mornings commute. Mo aligright. No advisories local. Local. I would not be surprised ifnot i these are not extended aended little bit further east later today. Toda and im going to show you thegoo seven day and well read those in a minute but i want tot i mention we got a coastal stormal on saturday we need to talk o tl about today. Tay one at a time,ing. O really. Lets check in with erins c sehee hckow the roads are. Are good morning. Good morning. Cold ineezing cold in thego hallway outside the studio. S whats going on. I want to put m wy wind my w jacket on. Put the air conditioning on. Oh, its wintertime. Inte im not dressedress appropriately. Bundle up with layers, theayer sweaters you need all that stuff. Now college park at 95 jammed up earlier crash bloegcks thee h traffic is slow from route one o over and then the inner loopnn l also little bit heavy so all all in all top of the beltway gete a an early start. Sta its back to that normal bac morning congestion pattern. G co as we move ovengres to our mapsr top of the beltway is not thee e only problem were dealingng with this morning. We have a few other issues buths well start you off with the wie good news on the rails. Ai we had earlier delays on the red line. That is cleared and bac k tok normal and normal serviceervice resumed on the orange blue and silver from vienna franconia fra and wiehle. We had an earlier malfunctionalc at stadiumarmory but typicaluma metro patterns gettirmng back bc into the swing. As for the rest of your friday f eve commute taking a wide viewtt of the area you can see slowak movingrea trayoffic university boulevard in the Silver Spring area. Freeway on the westbound sidendi out by east capitol. By east capl well keep you updated. Ed back to you guys. U erin thanks. Tha want to talk about this disturbing facebook videong fac coming out of chicago. Chica this morning four people undernd arrest after that video wentidet viral appearing to show them shm torturing and holding a developmentally disabled man hostage. They live streamed it ony facebook. Latest. La s just arent strongtr enough. Reporter they arent strong enough. Epor this is one of thest morero unsettling stories i think t that weve had to report in some time. E. The person that could do thiso i i just cant wrap my mind wra md around that. Video is very is v hard to watch showing several sr people verbally and physicallysl abusing the man inside a home. H now formal charges against thegt suspects could come soon as comn many are calling it a hate crime. Cr bleep donald trump. Ru bleep white people, boy. Reporter after a brutalorte abatr tack o an a mentally challenged man in chicago inhica which was seen around the arothe world on this Facebook Livece lv video, police have arrestedve as four people. Pl images in the video put on display the brazenness of the offenders who assaulted theed t victim and then broadcast itroat for the entire world to see. To reporter the victim washeici from the suburbs but the t attack happened on chicagoscago west side. Westide. The video shows the suspects spe ripping the mans clothes, beating him and cutting him were still talking to the ctim. M. Its quite a possibility that it is a kidnapping and thatss certainly one of the chargeson well be seeking if it turns sei out to be that. Ha but hes a little hes traumatized by the incident inc its very tough to communicateoi with him at this point. S reporter the suspectsorter s can be heard swearing abouting t president elect donald trump but Chicago Police donttelont believe this attack is att is politically motivated. They think somehow thatk sort of invoking trump is sort s of their ticket to doing this t because everybody hates trump,ru they see celebrities hater on trump. Reporter Community Activists are calling this a hate crime. I think this is a hate crime. N i dont care what race you are r think and thats why wraece y a havret crimes and this law. Politics asides this beating b is disgusting. Reporter police are now interviewing the victim. Icti our detectives upon being notified by the officers from the 11th by th district becamete involve in the investigation ini and communicated with the suburb where the subject was missing from. Missing fro after his treatment at theeat hospital, he was released and his parents came. Aren president elect donald trumptel was mentioned in the videontne again Chicago Police do notdo nt believe the crime wase the crim politically motivated. Ot however, theres a big debate dt on social media with manyhan saying this should beying tsh considered a hate crime. At c and that if the role were reversed way black person p tortured by four whitert suspects that hate crimeme charges would definitely be oni the table. Able and im just going to have too say i dont really see whatlly e the debate s i dont d understand how it could not be t a hate crime. Right. I think there when i think its a hate crime, okay, letthe, me start by saying. That i think its a hatete crime. I think what happens thoughat hh when you look historically in the baggage behind why a hate ht crime would be used or that term invoked then you get ited but however you have to look l at this case and when you inject race or faith then it. Reporter . Whatever the race is. Then it becomes a hatee crime. I think that the debate ishe des when i think the debates, d its like that reverse discrimination piece whenrimi people sort of used that term gravity of discrimination inisco the first place or racism andra i think maybe thats where thete debate comes from. Deba com i hope you are following whatwia im saying here but what im saying today is that to me to would be considered a hate h crime but i understand theerst debate. Reporter oh, i see what you mean. You know whatorter im saying. Imayin reporter i understandepor what youre saying. I will say this and you know, we hear law etewhnfatorayce tmey all the time its a good thingng criminals arent very smart sma because they would get awaye th with a lot more. Ey the fact that they postedosted this. Ridiculous. Reporter Facebook Live was not a smart move. Its how they got caught. Ortewao how its not even a tngot if smart. They did this intentionally. Hise if you watch the wholen videoido theyre showing their facesr f the entire time laughing about it. They want to go viral. In doing this they have no no even thought process that procea theres anything wrong with this is the way that it comesth acrowass. Reporter which is whatshich scary is that they dontey don understand the gravity of whathy theyre doing. You can look in a persoinnino and see that complete fear and horror in their eye and think t its funny and to go on its a humanity period. Ty reporter right, it iseporig and i will say this too i did id when reading about this storys s at least one of the four people was either a formerorme classmate or a classmate ofsste the person that was tortured. Okay. Reporter someone did know him. Atepor least o ne person knew him. H all right. Rht. Disturbing no doubt. Dist a somber tribute in other o news for two of hollywoods ahead. How Carrie Fisher and debbied db Reynolds Family will remember them. President elect donald trump could have major changesri in store for some ofd ve our our nations most powerful agencies. Ci bob. Reporter allison, at the center of all this is russiaus and its potential role in ourn r most recent election. Leion. There are hearings on the hillhe here today. Well tell you all about itar tell you when we come back. My daughter wants to stay organic. My husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. Whole family nts to stay free from artificial preservatives. And my debit card wants to stay on a diet. Fill your cart with giants natures promise brand. Great prices on over 800 organic and freefrom items. My giant. All right. Lets get to it. Theres a sunrise. Stevethay, steveey sayll r, and allison. And whats that. What. Red sky i wn the morningorni sailors take warning. Arnig its kind of a orange one bute e you get the idea. I im not sure how much warning we need to take from this one but we need to be prepared because what we geted lat ter ts evening will be enough to stick to theing wi roads and cs i think some minor travel tvel issues. All right, lets get to it. S ge. Afternoon snow showers certainly possible. Ternnly psib. You could see a few flakesa particularly off to the north and west byarly o midafternoon. The steadiest of the lighteadi snow will be tonight between about 8 oclock andl be 2 oclok in the morning. Orni and were still again lookingga at some very lightlight accumulations across the area. I think the whole thing is out a of here by 3, 4 oclock in the4h morning and by sunrise by our bo morning commute tomorrow theom t system will be completely outomt of here. Well likely see a niceic sunrise tomorrow morning somo mr the bottom line the systemys moving a little faster than it will likely get in here her towards the tail end of rushf ru hour and be with us throughhr about midnight tonight. Ight. 32 now in washington. Ngton. Plenty of cold air in place. Ple that has moved in overnight. Ovt what we get later thisater this afternoon and tonight will article arrive in the form ofari just plane snow. Lane s you can see it out here just out to our west. West. Kentucky now parts of ohio indiana not very welly w organized. Ornize not by any means an intensenten system but there will bere wil e enough snow that falls betweenle again about 8 oclock tonightou and 2 oclo8 ck tomorrow morninr that we can expect a dustingus to about an inch maybe up to 2inches here in a spot or two w off to the north and west. Wes please tweet me tucker fox5 f let me know how much snow you sy get later today when itr y wh arrives. Ri first one of the year. Thats always significant around here. Theres your seven day. D i want to mention this coastalms storm im going to go on. This coastal storm on saturdayrn could impact parts of the area particularly Southern Maryland n lower Eastern Shore. You could have lightloweyod accumulations to that. T stay tuned for that. Stay erin is back and shes busy as s well. Yeah roads see. Someone tweeted me i cant believe youre tracking e so many crashes and its nottweeun snowy yet so im bracingra myself for tomorrow morning. Orrr do you think its going to behi a roughnk i ride. R i think people will beple wib cleaning up there. Will be some delays. Del skyfox moved from the topx mo of the beltway very scenic and beautiful headed to a crash ontn seven so lets get to our mapsap and well help you get aroundron the area but looks kind of gray and gloomy. Lo normal Service Across theervicet orange blue and silver. And sir. Metro rails on time. On time. Thats good news if youreou skipping the roads and keeping g it to the rails. Crash block the soldier top ofd the beltwa