that fire. roads in the area are blocked. there s no word right now on any injuries. we will continue to monitor the situation and keep you posted. now to the weather. winter officially arrived today with very little fanfare in the d.c. region at about the same time that thousands of people hit the red for the holiday weekend. it is a clear nievment but it is cold tonight. sue palka has the all important holiday travel forecast. hey, sue. hi, tony and shawn. we don t mind cold when you re travelling. it s the rain and snow that we have to watch out for. good news for travelers as we look across the country there is not a lot going on. there s a little stripe of snow. the leading edge of warmer air, but most of the country is pretty quiet includ ing right in h our area where we can expect to see clouds thickening up a little bit. temperatures should level off and maybe even rice a little bit because we re expecting a much warmer day tomorrow. d.c. has dropped down to 37 greece
taking a live look outside right now at the washington monument. many people are busy with last minute traveling, and probably some shopping ahead of the christmas holiday. time is running out. let s check in with gwen for a look at what you can expect outside. hey there, gwen today brought exactly what we did anticipate and that was clouds and some rainfall. i know, everybody wants the snow. however, mother nature was not cooperating today at all. because we had rain across many areas, take a look at this national satellite radar map because i want to tell you anybody traveling from the deep south all the way through to the northeast are running into problems right now, because that s where we have a lot of active weather, and some snow, some rain, some wintery mix, and there are many as a result of that. here at home, as the rain continues to head through, we ll see some lingering through before we get a bit of a break, if you are going out to do last minute shopping or
the president insulted an entire nation, congress pushes off their unfurred business until next year an local family struck by tragedy gets a message of hope in time for christmas. your news starts now. all eyes on the road and on the weather it was a ryan knee day to start the relied weekend but if you still need to get last minute gifts or head out of town, how is the weather going to be? let s check in with the person that knows? gwen jointlies us now. we got mixed, had some rain earlier, now out of the picture, it s moved off to the northeast, however, where they re seeing snow. and a little bit of wintery mix. now, we re going to deal way change in temperature, take a look. arctic air mass to the north will head our way: we reached a high in the mid 60 s. we now we ll see things take a reverse. across the area. in the meantime getting a little bit of now. it was a mild treat for mother nature. it s coming. nation s capitol we got 49 at baltimore, 44 at gaithersbu
morning, gary. not as gloomy. we re not talking about well i just will say this. there s a little bit of sunshine from time to time today and a lot of clouds too. any sun would be great because clouds is overcast. more surprise christmas day. that s my christmas gifts to you. listen i won t make a big deal out of this. it s possible. i mentioned this yesterday we could have a few evening snowflakes around. i ll be more specific coming up in a few minutes if you stay with us and i ll give you the full forecast. it does not look like accumulation. all that looks like it take place back to the west of us for higher elevations back to western virginia and west virginia and western maryland too. they could pick up 2 to 4 of snow today and this evening. it could be a white christmas out there. not for us though. look, we have rain streaming up to the south along a fr frontal bound write down th there. and it looks like later on this afternoon and this evening some of this