hours because of the beltway water main break. and elsewhere in maryland, garret and allegany county schools both on a two hour delay. in west virginia a two hour delay for mineral county schools. >> let's find out what is happening with the weather before we get to traffic and we say good morning to tony perkins. good morning to both of you and good morning to everybody. bitter cold temperatures across the region continue this morning and through the day today. let's take a look at what is going on out there as far as temperatures go. 18 degrees right now in washington. it's also 18 in annapolis. but it's 11 in quantico. 9 in gaithersburg. 7 in manassas. 6 at dulles airport. some of the coldest temperatures we've seen so far this season. we're not alone. you can see pittsburgh is at 5 degrees this morning. binghamton new york is 6 below, that's the cold air temperature. and by tomorrow we'll have a little bit of a warm-up but this morning bitterly cold. snow out to the west. most of that will not make it in here. that is the leading edge of a warm front. that will make it in here and bring us warmer temperatures for tomorrow. but for today, it will be a cold one. your forecast for today looks like this: partly sunny skies, the cold continues. many of you will see high temperatures in the 20s today. at reagan national we should hit a high of about 30 degrees. so a cold, winter day with temperatures well below normal. we'll talk about the precipitation event coming up in a bit. back to you, steve and allison. >> tony, thank you very much. a traffic alert for commuter this is morning. a water main break on the beltway in prince george's county has should down the inner loop. the moving water has brought delays for travelers. and there are not only traffic problems but people throughout the county now without water. >> right now crews on the scene trying to fix the break. let's check in with sarah simmons first, live along the outer loop in largo with more. good morning. >> reporter: steve and allison, good morning. i'm standing on the inner loop of the beltway which is shut down and they are still trying to shut the water off at this time. you can see this water still rushing down through here and it's been this way all morning long. this is actually decreased somewhat, if you can believe it or not, since earlier this morning. i talked to wssc, and they are in the process of still trying to shut down this 54-inch water main that did break around 4:00 this morning. i know we've had viewers that have called if and said they are without water and in like temple hills, upton hill and suitland, so i told wssc and they looked into it and said there are some people that may experience some water outages off and on as they try to reroute the water and try to get it turned off. they tell me at the source they've been able to see the water has decreased somewhat. so yes, viewers, you may have issues with water over the next couple of hours. out here on the beltway, traffic is a major issue. also here on the inner loop, this is going to be a major mess. looking back out here live, take a look at this sheet of ice right here. this is just a mess. and they have crews out here trying to spread salt in certain areas where they can. now earlier this morning it was dire for travelers. it was dark and a man trying to come down the inner loop who got caught up in this water. i talked with him earlier and this is what he had to say about his experience. >> basically a river of water coming out of nowhere and you hit it and hydroplane. it was crazy. it lifted me over the fence going up the hill and they just took me away from over there. >> reporter: now that man, justin hill, he is okay this morning. traveling is not going to be okay. take a look back down this way. this is the inner loop, still amess and will be that way quite sometime. and traffic will be backed up for hours. and wssc think they can shut off the valves but in the meantime some you may have low water pressure or not water at all in some cases but they do hope to get that back on in the next hour or so at the very most. live in largo, back to you in the studio. >> thank you, sarah. the latest on the morning commute now from julie wright. a mess out there, julie? >> starting at 4:00 this morning and the hits keep on coming. to the screw in sky fox to give you the bird's eye view. we saw from sarah simmons the beltway is closed off at 214 central avenue. traffic on the inner loop slowing back near arena with all traffic diverted off at central. so the roadway still closed off and the water still gushing into the highway causing ice. so not only do they have to turn off water but they have to treat the road and start with repairs. so this is with us throughout the middle of our rush hour and into the midday commute. so tran your trip accordingly as folks try to turn off the water at 214. let's work around it. let's go inside and start off with the map and show what you is happening here. if you are traveling from the north to the south, sheriffly toward pennsylvania avenue, still a good option for you at this point. only about a 15 minute commute as you travel from the bw parkway. southbound i-95 callers tell me traffic slows at 212. they are reading the overhead sign that warns you of the closure and that is causing the backup there. police activity closing new hampshire avenue because of an accident and now outbound on new york avenue the ramp to the beltway is closed because of an overturned vehicle. and we have trouble coming into the city and out bound because of the accident here. again overturned vehicle blocking the ramp to the bw parkway. southbound lanes are open but yes that is working as a alternate rude. accident at telegraph has only the right lane squeezing by toward the wilson bridge. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. and if you are traveling in d.c. today, you can expect several rode closures during the march for life beginning at 9:30 a.m. parts of 4th street northwest, constitution avenue and first street near the supreme court will be closed as will 7th street near the verizon center. this is a live look as participants line up. the roads will reopen mid afternoon. you can get all of this information and the latest on traffic around the region at myfoxdc.com. we have interactive maps and cameras stationed along major intersections and roadways all over the place that are available with a single click. for more, again, go to myfoxdc.com and click on traffic. the suspect in the death of a d.c. teenager appears in court later today. letitia frazier disappeared in august but police have not been able to find her body. a tipster called in after seeing the news and police arrested 23-year-old brian gaither, charging him with murder but not elaborating on the relationship between the two. >> he knew the victim. it is not a domestic murder. >> although police won't reveal what evidence they have. they do claim it is enough to prosecute a murder case without a body. new detail this is morning in the investigation into the death of former white house staffer john wheeler. a cab driver in wilmingtonton, delaware, said he gave wheeler a ride two days before his bondy was ground in -- his body was found in a land phil. he said he drove him to a hotel and described him as chatty. wheeler was wearing only a sports coat and slacks despite the cold weather. authorities have not disclosed how he died but they have ruled it a homicide. and the man accused of shooting gabrielle giffords and others will be in a courtroom today. gerald loughner's case was moved from tucson after all federal judges there recused themself. the attorney for arizona filed a request to have future hearings back in tucson. he is expected to enter a plea today and a trial date should be set. less than two months after prince george's county executive jack johnson is arrested as part of an fbi investigation there is a new focus on fighting corruption in the county. >> new county executive rushern bake certify opening up and we'll take a look coming up next. and traffic updates. and boy is traffic a problem on the beltway this morning. we'll get latest from julie and check in with tony for the forecast. there is the beltway. no traffic on it. we'll steer you through it after the break coming up. it's 7:10. seven years ago, i had this idea. to make baby food the way moms would. happybaby strives to make the best organic baby food. in a business like ours, personal connections are so important. we use our american express open gold card to further those connections. last year we took dozens of trips using membership rewards points to meet with the farmers that grow our sweet potatoes and merchants that sell our product. we've gone from being in 5 stores to 7,500. booming is using points to make connections that grow your business. can help your kids' school get extra stuff. ♪ 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problem in prince george's county this morning. we are staying in the county as county executive rushern baker opening up about the need to fight corruption in the county and this is two months after jack johnson was arrested in connection with an fbi investigation. and joining us robert mccarthy from the washington post. thanks for joining us, bob. it seemed like for a while he didn't want to address this issue. >> when this first happened and jack johnson was arrested and rushern baker was elected county executive and hadn't taken office, he didn't want to talk about corruption. he didn't want this to distract from jobs and schools and other pressing issues and he didn't want to be piling on. he didn't want to be talking about this and sort of adding to the bad publicity for prince george's county. but now that he's been in office since december 6th, rushern baker is opening up about it and he said that fighting corruption has got to be a priority. he said that the problem of corruption's reputation that the county has for corruption, which discourages business development there, that is the elephant in the room that cannot be ignored. and he's taking steps to deal with it. >> what is the best way for him to approach this now, now that he is finally talking about it to make sure that the county takes a step forward? because you would think with new leadership, that's the one thing he would do, set himself apart from what has happened in the past. >> i'm not sure what is most important, but when he first came in he fired a lot of people from johnson's administration and he told me in the interview thursday that he fired so many people so quickly, more quickly than he had hoped, more quickly than he planned because he wanted to show the public that he was making a clean break with the past and that there was, in effect, a new sheriff in town. but he has also proposed very important legislation, a couple of bills that would make it harder -- basically crack down on key sources of corruption in the county. one would make it harder for county council people to raise money to get campaign contributions from developers if they were ruling on those developer's projects and the other would reduce the amount of energy and time that the county council spends on land- use projects. he's also got a couple of task forces going. a big task force that will recommend measures to try to deal with corruption and has the virginia tech university doing an audit of the housing department to sort of see where all of the money has been spent there in the last few years. that's a very suspicious department, the housing department. >> you mentioned the business climate and you don't want to damage the business climate when you talk about existing business or attracting new business to the county, but in a case like this you have to worry about the perception of doing business where there is alleged corruption going on. how damaging could that have been if he didn't take this step forward now, the new county executive to step in. >> i think the business time is bad enough now as it is, it's harder to find money for projects and it makes it harder if people are worried about coming in and making a commitment and be afraid to be shaken down or do favors for people or possibly pay bribes. we don't know the full scope of it, but it is clear there is a serious problem in the county and has been for a long time. and promoting business development especially around metro stops inside the beltway, like new carrollton and branch avenue, this is a big priority for rushern baker. this is one of the top things on his list. he wants to build up commercial development in the county which would not only create jobs but also raise the tax base, get more money for schools and stuff. and it's going to be harder to do that if he hasn't addressed the corruption issue. >> which he is now doing. >> he's starting. >> you can read more on the column in the washington post. we'll put it on the website at myfoxdc.com. bob, thanks. >> good to see you, steve. we're taking another look at the beltway in prince george's county. and speaking of prince george's county, the inner loop has been closed for most of the morning. it was closed at 4:25 this morning when we went on the air. it is still closed and expected to be closed for sometime. you're looking at live pictures from sky fox as we are now seeing that it is light out and appearing to see the cause of the water main break. and there is the result of one driver would happened upon it at the wrong time and hydroplaned. and they shut down before it could be involved in any other incident but the water still running like a river down the inner loop of the beltway. and that that's it shut -- has it shut down this morning. we'll check in with sarah simmons in a few minutes. >> and it's a good thing it's shut down and we'll continue to have the frigid cold temperatures across the region through the day today. i don't expect us to get to the freezing point today. so the temperatures are well below normal. let's tack -- take a look. we remain -- at 18 degrees at this hour. baltimore is at 8 degrees. winchester 6. hagerstown 8. patuxent naval air station is at 18 degrees along with us. here is a look at the radar for our region and then we'll pull it out and take a lookout west. we are dry this morning. at least in terms of no precipitation. you do see some snowfall to the west but most of that is not hitting the ground. a lot of that falling from clouds but not hitting the ground. a warm front will warm us up briefly, not today but tomorrow temperatures into the 40s. today different story. here is your five-day. partial sunshine and partly to mostly sunny and very cold. high about 30 degrees in town. that means most of you will see highs in the 20s today. tomorrow it warms up, some clouds move in, but it warms up to the mid-40s. i think we went through this last week where tuesday i believe was the warmest day of the week, somewhere in the middle of the week. we will do it again. and then remember last week we were talking about a possible precipitation event. that will be on wednesday as opposed to tuesday. it could start overnight on tuesday and then into wednesday night as tucker was saying, kind of a messy mix. likely there will be rain with it, could be snow or freezing rain or sleet with it as well. temperatures will be key. then breezy on thursday and friday cold, mostly sunny and 38 degrees for your high. it is winter time, folks. >> last week we had the warm temperatures before the snow so that kept us warm. >> and i think probably on wednesday it will mainly be rain until later after some of the cold air works it's way back in and then it should turn over. >> we're keeping an eye on that. and a lot of people wishing it was 45 and not 18 this morning dealing with the water on the roads. >> and god bless sarah simmons out there. and looking down upon this break which occurred shortly after 4:00 this morning. we were told the break occurred as a result of a crash. we'll find the activity with gushing water on the -- highway. and wssc still trying to turn off the valves so the water will stop gushing and causing the icy patches. and the inner loop is still shut down at 214, central avenue. from there all traffic diverted into the city. ritchie marlboro is your workarn and there is a rubbernecking delay past the scene. and elsewhere, we have bailout traffic heading into the city. coming in off the bw parkway from cheverly down to pennsylvania avenue a 20 minute ride as the north and south alternate route. inbound on route 50, slow out of riverdale into northwest washington. and callers say 95 jamming up out of laurel. a overhead sign at 214 warning you of the closure and that is causing delay. so delays stacking up out of laurel. and bw parkway slow between 197 and powder mill road. now back into northeast washington, trouble out bound on new york avenue. a crash involving an over turned vehicle at the bw parkway. closed toward the third street tunnel. and in virginia, this is a mess at the beltway at outer loop from springfield in the direction of the wilson bridge. crash at telegraph road causing a backup from eisenhower avenue. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. 7:22 right now. well he set off a fitness revolution that lasted 75 years. this morning we're remembering jack la lane. and also ahead this morning, more on a story that made headlines last week. a woman reunited with her mother 23 years after being kidnapped as an infant. now there is an arrest in the case. that's next. and coming up later in morning, keeping libraries relevant in the age of instant access to information. we're checking out two brand new libraries in the district coming up. 7:23. we'll be right back. 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