Right here. That is going to affect people as they make their way to work. I street is closed. Theres no access to the 66 west ramp. At least not from this i street ramp here. Virginia avenue westbound is closed. You cant get on to the rock creek parkway from that vantage point. Northbound rock creek is closed. Theyre going to detour you on to virginia avenue. If you come off the whitehurst freeway to get on to rock creek, you wont be able to do that either. Its a weird little area where a lot of Access Points come together and all of it right now is iced up. Back to you. I had to take a different route today because of that. Megan, thank you. Well check in later. These nightmares continue for folks trying to get to the northeast. The winter storm has left airports closed and hundreds of flights canceled. You take a look at the map from flight aware. Com. Anywhere th are flights that are either delayed or canceled. Youll start to see a lot more red in the coming hours. Several flights
City, winchester schools are also closed. Now to the delays in maryland. Montgomery anne arundel, washington and Frederick County schools will open two hours late. Arlington, alexandria and Falls Church Schools will open two hours late in virginia as Will Jefferson county schools in west virgin virginia. The federal government is open today. Why ask for this. Chuck bell has the forecast. Good morning, aaron. Eun, good morning. Welcome to friday, a day spent mostly inside. About 9 degrees in not about. It is 9 in gaithersburg. 13 manassas. 14 here in washington. The feelslike factor, it is still windy. Windchills below zero across the region. A windchill advisory continues through noon. The advisory criteria, whi minus 15 degrees. The wind is here, not just for today and tonight. It will stay windy through the day tomorrow as well. No real relief from the bitter cold wind until sunday. Ill show you the forecast and highs and lows for the weekend coming up. For now almost killed myself o
Down to accommodate all of these stranded airplanes. They finally got them empty late last night, people coming in from moscow, argentina, people brought into the terminal and there was no help because a number of these airlines do not actually have service at the less, so they had no dulles, so they had no staff to handle it. The Metropolitan Airport authority did a wonderful job. Many people were sleeping on boxes, but the airport staff got them food and blankets to get them through the night. Some people chose to go hotels. A number of them were put on buses up to jfk without their luggage and it could be days before their passengers see their luggage. We just did a tour of the tarmac and we will have another report coming up at 4 00. Reporting live, sam sweeney. Adrianna lets get to some live pictures of new york city a lot of passengers are trying to get to. The streets are not doing too bad at this hour. It is another story for boston. These images are breathtaking. Streets turne
Of room. Is one safer than the other . The vernado is the safest. The vernado is not going to get hot. Next stop we skipped all the way across town. And fraegers on capitol hill where its slim pickings today. Heaters flew off the shelves yesterday and customers still coming in to heat homes or keep their pipes warm during this arctic blast. Were getting another at least 200 heaters at least tomorrow sometime, late tomorrow. But if you want to avoid traveling all over town call your local hardware shop first. So if youre on the hunt for a space heater this weekend, please remember these safety tips. Avoid plugging it in with an extension cord or a power strip. Always combustibles and never leave them unattended. So listen, millions of others along the east coast are also in for a brutally cold night. Some places could have a record setting deep freeze. Minus 35 degrees in some parts of the east. No thanks. This videos from massachusetts after the massive storm hit yesterday. Boston got
Scheme. And a scandal over schools with no heat. But the money issue is statewide. Lets start by asking this cold question. Was it casino, gambling money supposed to prevent problems like this. You can see your breath. Instead this weeks scandal. Baltimore schools are in such bad shape kids froze in unheated classrooms. Screwed up Construction Financing was exposed. They want to fix schools too. But they came up 90 million short from last years budget request. These are reasons why critics like state comptroller peter frafrjer called it a big lie. But it is not the casinos fault. The casinos have delivered at least 2 billion in additional Education Trust fund funding in 2011. But instead of more money for schools, not much has changed. Thats because marylands Legislature Just switched the share they put in and spent it on other stuff they like. Before casinos, the state spent 21 of its general fund on schools. Now its down to 18 . Critics call it bait and switch. So it may all have bee