That fire. Roads in the area are blocked. Theres 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 dont mind cold when youre travelling. Its 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. Theres 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 were expecting a much warmer day tomorrow. D. C. Has dropped down to 37 greece and there are
Airplane theres plenty you should know before you get to the airport. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live at Reagan National with some of those details. Mel, good morning. Reporter hey, good morning, guys. Still only seeing really delays out of los angeles this morning and even then not that many. So, things do seem to be moving pretty well given the fact that this is supposed to be a record year for Holiday Travel. This seventh year in a row travel has increased. Its not your imagination if you think there are more people on the airplanes and the security lines. Weve seen a couple of different configurations here going on in these t. S. A. Lines. Right now this is pretty normal. Passengers are moving pretty steadily. Now, when the k9s are in operation, then its a little bit of a different scenario. They come back and forth and they sniff the shoes and the bags and those instances then people dont have to take off their shoes at security and it really does make things go a lot quicker. We ti
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. Lets 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 thats 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, well see some lingering through before we get a bit of a break, if you are going out to do last minute shopping or maybe some of th
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 . Lets check in with the person that knows . Gwen jointlies us now. We got mixed, had some rain earlier, now out of the picture, its moved off to the northeast, however, where theyre seeing snow. And a little bit of wintery mix. Now, were 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 60s. We now well 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. Its coming. Nations capitol we got 49 at baltimore, 44 at gaithersburg, 50 at fredericksburg.
Morning, gary. Not as gloomy. Were not talking about well i just will say this. Theres 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. Thats my Christmas Gifts to you. Listen i wont make a big deal out of this. Its possible. I mentioned this yesterday we could have a few evening snowflakes around. Ill be more specific coming up in a few minutes if you stay with us and ill 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 comes and into rain if it