hit cities across the deep south. take a look. berming lamb, alabama where snow is stuck to the pavement. in atlanta, schools and businesses closed early. more than 100 flights were canceled because of the treacherous conditions. and in mississippi the weight of the snow weighing down the tree branches there. you note what that means. it takes down the power lines and that causes widespread outages there. but even in texas, this is as far south as you can get almost in that state. look at this. what an unusual state. a beach correspondvered in a bl snow. it s heading this way. let s go to doug to see who is getting hit next. doug? that is actually where hurricane harvey made land fall. the hurricane and now snow down in that area. power outages there as well. we could see some power out, too, in our areas. down in southern maryland. if you re seeing snow now, these are the areas that have seen it. this is the area around california, maryland area. this is from you re wa
most local governments also closed. emergency personnel, though, are still asked to report. every major public transportation agency is closed today, including metro transit and vre. pretty much every flight into and out of our region has been canceled. you re advised to call your airline first if you have any questions about getting in or out of town. marc is shut down today. amtrak canceled most of its northeast corridor trains. again it s pret much a quiet day. today is also the third day of an extended weekend for most school systems in our region, and we have all of this information on our website. it s wusa9.com. we keep it updated 24/7. very little traffic out there, but that doesn t mean we don t have problems and road closures. so let s go to monika samtani who s going to tell us about that. if you re planning to head around town, let me take you to a graphic. here at the bay bridge, level one wind restrictions. that means winds are 40 to 49 miles an hour. no emp
terrorists. reporter: but tests designed to make airports safer not exactly boosting confidence in the tsa. brian mooar, nbc news, washington. a man being monitored 24 hours a day by terrorism investigators was shot and killed this morning. officers say he lunged at them with a knife when they tried to question him outside a drugstore in boston. nbc s pete williams has been working this story all day. a couple of things are interesting. what do we know about the suspect? and is it normal for them to be monitoring someone and then to just approach them outside a drugstore like this to question him? reporter: he s from boston, 26 years old, his father had been an imam in the boston area but no longer lives there, now lives in california. but they say they got onto him because of what they considered disturbing compunctions he s had with others potentially inspire d by isis social media. they say in recent days he had talked about trying to stage some kind of an attack w
the media. the trial starts monday. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey is inside the courtroom. she ll keep us updated on developments. right now storm team4 is tracking another wet gloomy afternoon. but compared to the last couple of dies, the rain is going to be a little more steady tonight. that s right. all from areas down south we re tracking an associated with that area of low pressure that has kept us locked in this pattern. there is the latest in cloud conditions and storm team4 radar, too. showers coming up from the south, full-flenched showers. this there is your spin. this is the area of low pressure we ve been looking at and watching over the last couple of days spinning just south of richmond virginia, right now. that area of low pressure will start heading out to sea and our weather will start improving. but until it zshgs we re going to get more rain in there, until then, pockets of heavy rain there around 301, calvert beach up toward waldorf with r
little bit earlier, too pounding dulles they had a ground stop there i believe is back up and running now, as they have seep some snipe back toward that area, 64-mile-an-hour wind gust, seen hail the size of ping pong balls and even larger hail as well. that will put dents in cars and right now tracking this rain as it moves down to the south. here it is around is under lynn, prince frederick, waldorf hammered the last 20 to 30 minutes, same thing toward brandy wipe, hughesville, you can see where this is going, chaptico, 6:34, calvert beach, 6:20, leonard town, 6:50 if it does, in fact, make its way all the way there. not the only game in up to, over the city of fairfax, over the beltway, very heavy rain, continue to keep an eye on it for you in the storm center. doug, thank you. now to the latest on that church massacre in charleston. this is a live look at the scene in north carolina where the suspect has been arrested. investigators are getting ready to take him back