week? alison ray has your first alert forecast. a little icky out there today. it s gray, rainy, and chilly as well. it s kind of a cold rain. but at least we re staying away from that freezing rain potential we had earlier this morning. everyone stayed above freezing. that s a little bit better. it s just one of those days, maybe stay inside, take down the christmas decorations. some pockets of heavy rain. not so much today. but tomorrow we re going to see heavy rain. north of sterling, we see one pocket of heavier rain. taking a wider view, temperatures aren t going to budge today. upper 30s, low 40s. cloudy, foggy, drizzly with mist out there as well. these showers are pushing to the northeast. things will wind down a little bit as we head into the evening hours. take a look at your future cast, noontime today, the band of showers around the district and just to the north, just a bit. but it s going to look like it s about to rain at any point. just one of those days. as
people and wounding six others in fort lauderdale s airport on friday. charges against him could carry the death penalty if he is convicted. craig boswell is at the courthouse in fort lauderdale. reporter: 26-year-old esteban santiago was taken to court this morning. he faces a federal judge for the first time since friday s shooting rampage in the fort lauderdale airport. dramatic video from tmz captures the moment the suspect pulled out a gun and opened fire. it s not known how tmz obtained the video. he told investigators he stopped shooting when he ran out of ammunition. he randomly shot anyone in his path. he didn t select anyone or target anyone. if you walked in his path, you got shot. he s gone through a lengthy journey through the federal court system. they ll have to decide if the iraq war veteran is competent to stand intelligence was controlling his mind and he was being forced to watch isis videos. people like this shouldn t have firearms period. federal
not a nice way to start the week. but it s better than it was a year ago when all that moisture was snow. hello and welcome to wusa 9news at noon. alison remembers that snow storm well. and she s here with our first alert forecast, alison? it was so different one year ago. we had all this moisture. but we were a lot colder. we re in the 40s and around 50 degrees. so just rain. there are areas with snow. we ll detail that out in a minute. not around the metro, that s for sure. we have a steady light rain through the metro right now. but pockets of heavier rain off to the west. winchester is seeing some good down pours. and there s that snow through west virginia. that s elevation driven. the higher you go, the colder it is, you ll see snow there. everywhere else, some good steady rainfall. you can see 2 to 3 inches of rain for some areas. and that could cause some flooding concerns. a flood watch is issued for those areas. we have a while to go with this rain. it will be hea
side streets, where is it snowing? here is the trend. starting to wind down already by 6:00 a.m. we will generally be done with this batch of snow. we will talk about later on this afternoon in just a bit. areas where they are going to see an inch, a dusting up to an inch are going to be south of 66, south of dc right now i want to pinpoint prince georges county, charles county and ann arun dell this is where we see the blue ann arun dell. this is where we see the blue color. 301 this is a big commuting line we are looking at snow showers moving on through there. the good news within the next couple hours a lot of it will be cleared up before the morning rush gets going. a lot of areas, north of dc, just going to see a trace or dust but chances are already starting to wind down. this is bands of blue, a little bit more prince georges county and charles county. winding down west of 95 and some areas an inch or some take a look at your feature cast. notice as you head west we
well, today we re looking at just some snow showers, there is something on the seven- day that i want you to stay tuned for that s worth paying attention to. let s get through this morning. this morning we did have 2 inches of snow for parts of stafford county, prince william and prince georges county. this is lighter. but it s going to hang around for another two hours. let s zoom in. we have snow showers just south of hagerstown. these are snow showers mixed with flurries. there are bands of more intense snow showers. but they re not long lasting. they re moving off to the south and east at 20 miles per hour. so this will be through frederick at 12:32. and lovettesville. this will stick around for the mid afternoon. by 2:00, a lot of these snow showers over through the eastern shore. as you head west will stick around not only today but for the next few days with that strong westerly wind. we ll see a little sunshine before the sunset. so your drive home today will be fin