Bag of ice, freezing rain and sleet made for a tricky commute. The worst is over while the major roadways are clear, side streets and walk withes could be slippery. You want to be careful. There are already a number of School Delays tomorrow. Schools in fairfax county, loud, Prince William, spotsylvania and Stafford County as well as Montgomery County maryland, will open on a twohour delay, check the bomb of your screen for an updated list cori coffin is live way look at road conditions. We begin with the forecast and sue palka. Tony and sarah, as you said, the worst is over, in terms of the rain is pretty much pulling out. I got it in motion for last six hours, we have rain and also that pinkish color you see there, thats how the radar shows us sleet and freezing rain. And as you can see, it is pulling on out. If theres anything left tonight, its probably just the lightest of drizzle or mist and even that will be ending if youre still getting a little of a closer look at radar, most rain pushed over to the eastern shore. The damage is somewhat done, we have heard from so many of you vee social media that your sidewalk, front step, driveway, cars have a slight glaze of ice, its a trace to maybe a few hundreds of an inch because the pavement has been so cold for so long we found things getting able to ice up with temperatures like, these its warmer now than all day in dc, ill show you why in a moment. A lot of places are near or above freezing, winchester 39, culpeper 38, cumberland 43. South and east of dc not as much, but you get north and the sidewalks are slick. Warm tonight and is this going to get rid of the ice for morning . Not necessarily. Were warming up because we have a south wind and it will be a thaw is going to get underway, unfortunately later tonight, while were rising now for a little while we got a weak front that will come through and that will help temperatures fall and we refreeze. We may drop to 27 or 32 even here in the dc area and that means patchy ice for a couple hours tomorrow morning, possibly so you have to watch your step. Ill tell you what. We have had Team Coverage on this all day long and well continue right now with fox 5 cori coffin, shes in burtonville. Youve been looking around. Burtonville was an area that got pretty good sleet. How are things right now . Were seeing the freezing over of the sidewalks and some of the more rural streets, its exactly like you said, kind of hard to tell because at some point feels quite warm or a maybe you walk and a particular area you walk is fine and in that next moment, youre stepping on a sheet of ice and its quite slippery. Weve seen a couple of deal with that tonight. And weve been through the Montgomery County weve been over to gaithersburg, columbia. And we were off 29, we were near the substation where the Maryland Department of transportation state highway steaks had their trucks loaded up with salt. We were just behind a salt truck as we spoke, we saw a lot of them treating those roads, theyre out now in full force. Its a busy night. They will be out around the clock, but of course, as we talked about, they cant treat everywhere, the sidewalks, some of the more smaller neighborhood streets, those are the streets that will be dealing with it. As we mentioned we saw folks walking from store to store from their car, trying to kind of make do, kind of hold each others arms not to slip, that sort of thing and you know, the residents we spoke to say they kind of do take it in stride. No pun intended still with the black ice especially you have to be careful. Im worried about black ice i live in an apartment complex down here. The sidewalks are black ice as she mentioned theyre going slow. Of course, with all of these, hopefully you can see kind of the side picture of what were seeing, there is always an increase of chance for accidents to happen, and well be monitoring that because of the chances of it for the whole night throughout the whole night rather for several more hours. So in that case, of course, not only do you need to go extra slow you need to keep extra room in case you do find yourself slipping or skidding on the ices and with the salt trucks right now, give them plenty of room to work as well. We know that not only Maryland Department of transportation and the department of transporting all of their crews around the clock until they start to see the thawing temperature tomorrow. Sending it back to you guys in the studio dont forget you can track winter fox5dc. Com and you can get up to the Minutes School closings and delays and breaking weather alerts. The problem weve seen a lot this winter, a chimney fire damaging a home and this time it happened at a house on fly wheel court in columbia. Firefighters tell us the fire broke out in a chimney and flames shot through the attic. The house was badly damaged and the family looking for another place to stay. Meanwhile, developing now, in Montgomery County, it is a rough night for some folks in bethesda an suv crashed into an apartment building, no one seriously hurt, self units badly damaged and left a bunch of residents in the cold. Marina marraco is live in bethesda with more. Marina . Reporter you can see why these units are condemned. Of you see this gaping hold on the ground level. A car careened io living room a family of five inside. The woman who lives in there, she was too shook up to go on camera but she said she had just stepped into the kitchen, she thought it was an earthquake and she saw the car lights and realized exactly what had happen. I will show you out here, theres a road just behind me here in Montgomery County police say the woman in that suv was traveling up this road in a form that potentially obscuring the break and the accelerator. She could not discern between the pedals, she panicked and thats like what will led her to drive into the wall. Youll see the inside of the house a picture taken by Montgomery County firefighters. Building inspectors as well as Montgomery County came out. Checked out this building, unfortunately they have deemed all units here as unsafe and this families have, looking for a place to stay tonight. The the nightmare said she thought it was an earthquake we heard a really loud crash and just my whole Kitchen Table just moved. And i thought it might be an earthquake or something at the beginning, then it was just momently and it stopped, but i was startled and wondering what it is and i had no idea that a car came through the wall and we can feel it all the way there. Outside four apartments. Montgomery county saying that theyre working on their condition. Red, blue alert that means theyve got an increased volume of calls coming into the 911 call center and for now, ems all the ambulances are Tropical Storm nating patients to the nearest hospital to get crews off the road which are icy and to also get to the next call quicker. Theyre saying the number of calls are mainly for car wrecks as well as for slip and live in Montgomery CountyMarina Marraco fox 5 local news a home in bethesda where a man was killed in a mysterious fire last september may soon be demolished. Ordered the home be torn down, Authorities Say tunnels built underneath the home while making the home unstable. The homes owner david beck with is appealing the order. After the fire broke out, his body was found in one of the underground tunnels. Still unclear how he died or what started that fire. A Montgomery CountySchool Employee is behind bars charged with possessing and destructing child pornography. 30yearold shawn kelly is a parttime lunch aid and a local day care worker placed on administrative leave. In july, National Center for missing and exploited children noticed suspicious activity involving child porn from a computer at kellys home in silver springs. Police tracked the address and it makes me worried. Worries me. Especially with them i have a 10yearold, in fifth grade. With him being so much older. He kind of understands whats going on. Investigators say the pornographic images did not show any pictures of Montgomery County students. In the district, a child was electorated at simon elementary school. Officials tell us the student was shot by an unplugged computer. That student was taken to the hospital. Right now, their condition is unknown. In statement, School Officials say, quote, the safety of our students is critical to dc public schools. We follow protocol in cases like this one to act swiftly and appropriately. An investigation is underway. New details are merging about the accidental death of a Walt Whitman High School student. Police found the body in a wooded area of bethesda last month. Investigators say he was at a suspected under age drinking part t detectives found a bottle of vodka near the teens body and two fake ids from penss no charges will be filed against the homeowners where the party was held, who told officers they had no idea alcohol was being served an update in the Prince Georges County grade fixing scandal. The steps Maryland Governor larry hogan is taking to resolve the issue. A distinction, where dc ranks among the top 50 cities with bed bugs. Fox 5 Lindsay Watts is live in georgetown. Lindsay, what are you working on. Reporter if you have kids in your life you know how difficult it can be to get them to look up from their phones and other gadgets. Now theres a new push to try to get Technology Companies like apple to try to combat the addiction. Back after this. Back after this. Hey yeah . I switched to geico and got more more savings on Car Insurance . They helped with homeowners, too ok plus motorcycle, boat and rv insurance geicos got you covered like a blanket houston . You seeing this . Geico. Expect great savings and a whole lot more. Dc has made the list for one of the worst cities in the u. S. Two. On the annual ranking of the top cities, dc came in second to baltimore while chicago took nuke three spot, the ranking includes the results of tests on both residential and commercial buildings. According to the National Management association, bed bugs are most commonly found in apartments, Single Family homes and hotels. Now to a fox 5 followup on the grade fixing scandal in Prince Georges County. Public schools. Its a story we broke here on fox 5 last june. Today, were learning governor larry hogan has had enough of what has happened in Prince Georges County schools and other jurisdictions. The Maryland Governor said he wants to create a special unit within the state Education Department that will investigate complaints of wrongdoing. He said the lack of accountability will not be to my tolerated if youre a parent you know how tough it can be a pry your childs smart phone or tablet away. Two major investigators and help. They say apple needs to do nor prevent smart phone addiction among kids. Lindsay watts is live at the apple store in georgetown lindsay . Tony, of course, its not just kids who are addicted to their phones and other devices. Adults are just as guilty. This apple store here was busy up until closing time. The issue though, that these investigators are raising is that research shown being glued to a screen is especially bad for kids as theyre developing and can impact mental and health the letters from investigators who say they represent buy 2 billion in apple shares, apple needs to work with researchers and do its own research on the impacts smart phones and device have on kids. Another idea was making iphone settings specifically for children that give parents more control over things like time limits and social media opts, basically the letter is urging apple be more proactive and involved in the letter cites research including a study that shows theres a higher risk of suicide and depression for young people who spend hour as day on devices. People we spoke to do agree more needs to be done. They have seen this addiction first hand. Theyre also stuck to it. I can never get their attention, my little brother, dinner is ready, hes like ten minutes later, i go upstairs and hes glued to the tablet this mostly can be fixed in the the home where parents kind of everybody put their phones down when i was growing up we didnt have the technology, i went outside and go play and learned things a different way. Its very important. Reporter so i think there is agreement that this is definitely important. You heard that one mother, who believes this starts in the home. She said apple could certainly use the money, influence, to to do more but she believes this really lies with parents. Were live in georgetown Lindsay Watts. Fox 5 local news. All right. Its not too bad outside. If you think about where we were at a couple of days ago weve been in the deep freeze so long, thats contributed to why we saw ice buildup with temperatures above freezing. Its been a glaze and thats all it takes. I heard one of our reporters say the number one call they were get wind gust slip and falls. So the main roads appear to be in pretty good shape and there was so much treatment on them from last thursday that you know, you see clouds of salt on the road you could barely see the markings on the road. So main roads did well. We got through the evening commute. Lets hope morning commute goes as well. Because we do know this little glaze ice has accumulated on sidewalks, on cars, and on front steps on your driveways, so be careful. But yes, the pavement has been were about do something about that. But thought i would show you a stat, because its been so unusual for us to spend so many day below 32 degrees typically, in one winter, we might have nine days in which we dont break 32. Weve had ten so far this year, and today, we actually have 39 degrees last hour. That is the warmest weve been since december 26th. Amazing, warmest day of the month so far. Were ending a stretch a long cold stretch, the longist since 1961, i love this tweet who is tweeting dulles district. I got home at 7 00, roads fine until i got to my culdesac, which has a pronounced downhill slope to it. He slid the entire way down the hill. Even with the brake on. Now, tomorrow, were going to be begin or january thaw. Unfortunately because there is still a little bit of glaze around, we want to remind you that there could still be slick spots for a couple of hours post sunrise tomorrow morning. The rain pretty much out of is very light pushing across the bay over to the eastern shore. If theres drizzle left or a little bit of mist, that should be ending by midnight and that does not show up on radar very well. So you can watch that pulling away most of the areas its touching temperatures come pretty far up. We actually updated the temperature here to 37 now. And you can see as we look north and west, its not terribly cold with behind the cool front thats going to cross us. But again, in many areas were either near freezing or starting to drop just a little bit, although quantico 41, annapolis 40, from the south wind we have but even at this, were going to go see temperatures dropping likely below freezing in many areas, and thats why we want to caution you to watch your step in the morning. 32 is where we should drop to even in dc, which is a lot better than it has been but still promotes the possibility of a little slipping here and there. 27 frederick, dulles and manassas, 31, an for leonardtown. As we look at your day tomorrow, again, maybe a little bit of slipperiness at 8 00 with a temperature of 35. But long gone by the time we get to noon, 42 degrees, dry sunny day, really going to be a nice day i think it will lift spirits. And by 4 00, 47, and it should be dry weve got even warmer temperatures on the sevenday forecast, ill share that with you coming up in a few minutes. Sarah . Well, most of us are trying to stay inside from the cold. An attraction in minnesota drawing hundreds of people. This ice castle in still water opened to the public overtime weekend. Took nearly four weeks to build the 25 Million Pound ice sculpture. The castle is on a one acre space and it has tunnels, slides, and frozen thrones. At least 100,000 visitors are expected to stop by the season, the operators plan to stay open as long as it stays cold outside pretty cool it probably will stay cold up there in add is drawing International Outrage and has Company Officials apologizing tonight. Coming up tomorrow, morning on fox 5, a fashion expert has advice on thousand make your clothes last longer. Consumer electronic slow and Kevin Mccarthy is oneonone with actor chris hemsworth. Back after this. 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