Ive been looking at the observations through kentucky and it has not been able to produce over 2 inches in any location. Were thinking here it could be a dusting to maybe an inch, but i would not be shocked if a couple spots fluff up into a couple inches. Thats the system were watching, a clipperlike system, very dry air overhead, not as cold as some of the last couple systems that came through for us on the ground. I think this quick burst of snow may slow you down a little bit in the morning. Lets talk about again light snow expected for the morning commute. It will begin before the commute, too by the way, minor accumulations, grass, perhaps sidewalk. In terms of sticking on the roadways, i know theyre scrambling some trucks. A lot of the heavy rain yesterday got rid of the chemicals on there. This thing will be gone way before noon, probably on the Eastern Shore by 9 00 and then get ready for the bitter wind chills and real strong wind again tomorrow. It could be a second clipper to watch over the weekend. Well talk more about that in the full forecast. Continuing to follow our big story tonight, the Civil Emergency has been lifted for laurel, maryland. Not before some people in the low lying areas evacuated from a potential flood, though. All day people watched the Patuxent River as it rose and hoped it stop before disaster struck. It rose 8 feet higher than normal forcing wssc to open floodgates. The water caught many off guard including some Homeless People living in nearby anne arundel county. One woman drowned in the floodwaters. There shouldnt be anybody who is forced to live outside in freezing cold conditions and to lose their life because theyre homeless. Many residents were asked to leave their homes ahead of the rising water and as the day went on parks and playgrounds disappeared under the cold and cloudy water. Audrey barnes is live now on main street in laurel with the story. Reporter people are being allowed to return home just off main street in downtown laurel after an anxious day of watching the water rise and lap at their backdoors. Jose norris never expected to see anything quite like this behind the river view apartments. Have you been watching the water rise and rise . Yeah, ive been watching it rise. It actually covered up the playground over there. It covered up the trail as well. So yeah, its been amazing to watch. Hopefully everybody is safe. Reporter by 4 p. M. The playground and park were submerged. Looks more like a pond or a Swimming Pool now. Ive never seen it like this before. I was at work in Upper Marlboro when i saw it and im like okay, i need to go. I dont know whats going on. Reporter the apartments managers posted signs urging resident to leave voluntarily if they felt unsafe. Its not mandatory yet . Reporter once they close main street. The Community Center was opened as a temporary shelter. For some the decision to stay or go was made as Riverfront Park went under water. The path around it was submerged, too. I packed a bag. Im going to go and stay with my daughter. Reporter a little too concerned about that water. Norris decided to chance it. Well see. I dont know yet. Im going to work, so hopefully nothing happens to my house up here. Reporter jose norris should be okay tonight. People who are monitoring the water levels say it is receding, which is very good news. Back to you, brian. A big headache for marc train riders traveling on the brunswick line. A large tree fell on the tracks this morning forcing trains to stop at various points in montgomery county. Riders were picked up by metrobuses taken to the nearest station. No word on the impact for tomorrow mornings commute. A news alert from Prince William county tonight. Police are looking for the driver who hit and killed a man in front of his home and then drove away. Will thomas has the latest in the newsroom now. Hi, brian. It happened in an instant. 59yearold joseph lyons was standing in the road near his house in triangle today when a car hit him and took off leaving him to die. He was found unconscious here on Woodland Drive and later died in the hospital. Neighbors say its very possible he died doing a good deed. He was retired and spent a lot of time outside and neighbors say he was known to pick up trash along the side of the road. Woodland drive is very windy and theres no sidewalks. Neighbors tell us drivers are known to speed through here. Youve got to ally be careful. When i walk on these roads, i walk with the traffic coming towards me so i can see whats coming. I dont be out here picking up any trash. Thats for sure. It happened during a quiet time of day and apparently no one saw the car that hit mr. Lyons. So police arent sure what the lookout information should be at this point. They dont know what this car looks like. If you have a tip, this is obvious, but well say nevertheless. Youre asked to call Crime Stoppers or Prince William county police. Hopefully someone will do just that. The d. C. Court of appeals overturned the conviction of the man known as the georgetown cuddler. 26yearold todd thomas of sentenced to 26 years in prison in 2010 after being convicted of 11 counts of burglary and sexual and simple assault for assaulting five Georgetown University students. The court is overturning that ruling saying the superior court judge who oversaw the trial allowed thomas prior conviction to be present to the jury. The Appeals Court says thomas is entitled to a new trial. Firefighters responding to an accident on beltway between a fire truck and a tractor trailer we told you about last night, seven people hurt including a firefighter from west lanham hills. Tonight fox 5s beth parker has more on the amazing surgery that literally gave him his arm back. Literally right through the elbow joint. Reporter that is the spot where lieutenant ryan emmons arm was severed in an accident on the beltway. So we received a call from the outside hospital at approximately 3 30 or 4 a. M. Reporter and the work began. Now in these situations the preservation of the limb and also the timing are both important. For example, this firefighter was driven to baltimore and was actually in the operating room here at Medstar UnionMemorial Hospital just three hours after the accident. Fortunately this patient was very young, very healthy and we received him very quickly from a very efficient field system. Reporter that means the severed limb was properly packed on ice and quickly transported. His fate was up to surgeon dr. James higgins of the Curtis National Hand Center in baltimore. It was by no means me alone performing this operation. There was a team of nurses and hand surgical assistants. Reporter higgins gives credit to his colleagues, but hes had quite a week. He was part of a team of surgeons who made National News at Johns Hopkins earlier this week for performing a double arm transplant on a Wounded Warrior named brendan morracco. Thats certainly one of the best parts of the job is the sense that you have made a huge difference in someones life and that you have redirected the course of their future and there are a lot of things that we do that are routine and there are some things that we do that are quite impactful. Reporter this will certainly impact ryan. Literally his arm will be numb leaving the hospital meaning for the first several months regaining sensation will be a huge goal for him. He will have the ability to fire his elbow. Reporter young and healthy and lieutenant emmons has Something Else going for him. The thing that immediately struck me was his tremendous amount of support. The family waiting room was overfilled with family, friends and fellow firefighters. I think perhaps the entire Fire Department was there. Reporter the doctor says it will be difficult, but emmons seems to be on his way back. Hes handling the challenge quite well. Reporter in baltimore, beth parker, fox 5 news. We wish him the absolute best. Being a redskins fan is not cheap. Ticket prices going up at fedex field, how much youll be asked to pay including parking coming up and check out the ere back. This is fox 5 news edge at 11 00. Lucky charms . yer always after me lucky charms whoa. I forgot how good these taste [ lucky ] theyre magically delicious the one and only, cheerios just ask pc mag. [ man ] cable cant touch fios upload speeds. Its hard to imagine anyone ever beating fios. Theres no doubt fios is the fastest in the country. [ male announcer ] after 110,000 speed tests, nothing came close to fios. And with fios you get unlimited internet use. Period. Because according to pc mag. [ man ] if its available, you should get it. 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They may be cash in on a very exciting season that started with rg3 and the first playoff season since 2007, parking were told going up to 40 bucks a game. The government may restrict the snacks your kids eat at school and local restaurants getting ready to offer some great deals. Shawn yancy has your fox 5 top five. Up first tonight, brian, a benefit of marriage you may not know. About no. 5, marriage appears to reduce the risk of heart attacks in men and women. Researchers found unmarried men and women were 60 more likely to have a heart attack. They arent sure why but suggest single people may be more likely to be in poor health. No. 4, reducing morbidity and mortality, the World Health Organization issued new salt intake guide lines and recommends limiting kids daily assault consumption based on size, age and energy needs. For adults its less than 2,000 milligrams a day. No. 3, making sure your kids eat right at school, the usda expects a proposal by april on what types of foods and drinks should be sold outside traditional cafeteria meals. It could restrict the sale of things like chips, candy bars and sodas. Parents are concerned about sugary high calorie foods with no nutritional benefits. No. 2, the washington auto show opens up tomorrow at the Washington Convention center. Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected. This show will include more than 700 new makes and models of cars, trucks, minivans, Sport Utility vehicles running through february 10th. No. 1, washington d. C. s Restaurant Week kicks off next week. More than 200 of the citys top restaurants will offer up three course lunches for 20. 13 and three course dinners for 35. 13. Restaurant week runs from february 4th through the 10th. Thats tonights fox 5 top five. A famous Georgetown University alum spotted on campus. Actor Bradley Cooper seen Walking Around the school today. He was also spotted at sacksbys coffee where an employee snapped this picture. Cooper is going to speak at Walter Reed ArmyMedical Center for mental health. Hes nominated for pan oscar in his role in the an oscar in his role in the Silver Linings playbook where he plays a man released from the Silver Lining facility. I loved the Silver Lining playbook. Its so good and hes amazing. I hope he gets an oscar for it. Youre saying western suburbs with this snow thing about 3 00 in the morning . 3 a. M. Or 4 a. M. , a coating to 1 2 inch for most places. If it fluffs up enough, we might get an inch. Someday id love to say this wont cause any problems except that day will never come. Maybe because its coming in so early the two hour delay makes sense. If they even have to do that. I know the road crews are scrambling because everything has washed off the roads, all the chemicals from yesterdays Power Washing rain. A live look outside, just some clouds. Its not particularly cold compared to where we have been. Winds have been on the stronger side this evening. Theyre settling down a bit, but boy, we do still have a wind chill. It will be back with us again tomorrow. Let me show you the big weather headline. That is some light morning snow followed by a gusty wind and more cold temperatures. Let me show you where temperatures are now. We came up 1 degree since 10 00 to 34. This isnt like the teens we saw, but i do expect this to be a fluffy dry snow when it comes through because the air is real dry and temperatures will clearly fall from these levels through the overnight hours, so probably mostly in the 20s. Thats where the wind chill is. 29 is what it feels like in the district, 21 in frederick and 26 in annapolis, but earlier tonight we saw the wind chills even worse. This is what were tracking. Well call it clipperlike, a weak system riding the leading edge of more arctic air coming into town. Its trying to cross into west virginia. As ive been telling you, it dropped an inch or 2 in kentucky, but as it comes across the mountains a lot of times these dont hold onto their moisture, certainly doesnt have a lot of moisture, but in some spots its been able to put down that coating. This is what were expecting. It doesnt really get down into Southern Maryland for the most part, but well probably see these areas in the light blue getting anywhere from a dusting to 1 2inch or maybe 1 inch of fluffy snow. Sometimes people can fluff up a bit more. I think the best chance of that might be far to the west and maybe a bit to the east if we pick up a bit of moisture along the bay. We wont see any of this for a few more hours, but at 4 a. M. Our futurecast suggests its moving into those western suburbs. These types of snows tend to stick very quickly. Thats something we need to remember even if it only lasts four or five hours. At 7 a. M. This is about the most enhanced it gets. Its not quite continuing on in Loudoun County and Frederick County or western montgomery, but its moved into the Eastern Suburbs and is dropping a coating to 1 2inch. I think it might get a bit more enhanced in these areas and get an inch or 1 1 2 inches, obviously not a big deal, but timing is everything. Its out of here by 9 00 in the district and 10 00 for the Eastern Shore. Then its those whipping winds and real cold temperatures. Its only going to be in the 30s tomorrow. Yeah, it really was 72 degrees yesterday. Do you have whiplash yet . 31 degrees tonight. Winds are still rather breezy. The light snow will arrive in four or five hours. Tomorrow 35 degrees and with these winds its going to feel a lot colder. It will feel like its in the 20s. The snow is over with by 9 00 or 10 00, but the wind will hang in most of the day. Its an early clipper, maybe another one over the weekend, too saturday night into sunday with a similar amount of snow. At 8 a. M. 31 degrees, light snow especially east. By noon brightening skies, 33 and by 4 00 only 34. Your fox 5 accuweather seven day forecast, how about the weekend, groundhog day about 37 degrees, possibility of a little light snow late saturday into sunday. Sundays temperature about 43. Were cold monday, might have another clipper somewhere in the tuesday time frame as well. Well try to nail that down as we get closer. Wednesday and thursday seasonable temperatures for february in the 40s. Thats it for weather. Lets see whats happening in sports. Heres scott smith. The shortened season not only means every caps game counts but so does every minute. The capitals have struggled to put together a solid 60 minutes so far whether its a slow start and a furious finish like in new jersey last week or a fast start and slow finish like tuesdays visit to ottawa. Tonight visiting frontism less than two minutes in toronto. Less than two minutes and caps drive first. Now tied 1 High Pressure 1. 2nd period caps on the power play. Ribeiro finds Alex Ovechkin and ovies second goal of the season. Caps in front 21. Head to the final period Marcus Johansson careless with the puck. Matt fratten gets it. Leafs first lead 32. Caps have one last chance. The final rush and they get a good look at it, too ribeiro back to ovie fires. He misses. Caps fall surrendering two goals in the final period. Now 151 on the season. Theyre back home against the flyers tomorrow. The cost of redskins tickets are going up for the first time in seven years. However, the bump will be no more than 10 hike. The skins still have the cheapest ticket in the nfc east. Speaking of expensive tickets, super bowl xlvii now three days away, both teams held their second day of workouts this afternoon, John Harbaugh trying to keep his ravens insulated from the distractions as they take aim at their second lombardi trophy, but the talk goes for the coaches, too. Of course, the game is being billed as the har bowl. I think theyve done a great job of carpettallizing. I was worried i was going compartmentalizing. I was worried i was going to mess that word up. As far as the joint press conference tomorrow, we thought of that we would switch uniforms and i would come dressed as jim and jim would come dressed as me, see if you guys could figure it out. Jim is the taller one in case you wondered. Perhaps a little flashback on the pga tour. 2009 was the last time tiger and phil won in consecutive weeks. Lefty trying to follow up tigers win last week in san diego today in scottsdale, a record opening round for mickelson with a heartwrenching shot on 18. Well show you next. For most of us hack golfers, a certain sense of saw of what Phil Mickelson was able to do today. Lefty approached the 18th green with a chance to become the eighth player to post a 59 in a pga round. So how in the world does 60 feel like a punch in the gut when it looks like this . Lefty for eagle on 18 and a full revolution. Phil cant believe it. The 25footer not meant to be. Watch the replay. Yeah, there it goes. Watch Phil Mickelson and his caddy on the left of your screen and just crumbling in disbelief. Phils scorecard read 11 birdies, seven pars. He leads the field through 18 by four. Some hoops tonight, george mason hosting drexel tied 52 52. Sherrod wright strong to the bucket, two of his team high 15. Mason leads by two. Final 40 seconds tied 5454 but its drexels damien lee for three. Hes got it, a game high 29 for lee. The dragons by three. Mason with a chance to tie, but its out of bonds along the sidelines and the upset 5854 mason falls 129 overall, 54 in ncaa play. Finally d. C. United coach ben olson signed an extension through 2014. Brian is back to wrap things up right after this. Making the big romantic gesture. Thats powerful. Verizon. Get a nokia lumia 822 in red for free. 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Were thinking this will be a coating to 1 2inch, maybe a few places get an inch, begins about 4 a. M. And wraps up around 8 00. Maybe some problems out there. And the latest on www. Myfoxdc. Com. As always thanks for staying up late. See you. fox 5 news isnt over. Go to www. Myfoxdc. Com now for news, weather and entertainment updates. Fox 5 news is washingtons best news on air and online on www. Myfoxdc. Com brought to you by verizon 4g lte