Travelers this holiday season. Today the busiest day this week for airline travel. The lightest day will be Christmas Day and new years eve. Folks traveling on those days, they shouldnt have to deal with too much in terms of crowds. The rule of thumb is to arrive early to make sure you dont have any problems. The suggestion is to arrive two hours early just to make sure you get on that plane. Everything is pretty well booked. If you were to miss your flight, youd have difficulty rebooking. Get there a little early and go to one of the restaurants here at national airport. This is one of my favorite live shot locations because theres so many great amenities, coffee, restaurants. Oh, yeah. Spend all your money. They got doughnuts there. I love those. Thanks so much, megan. Hopefully, it stays nice and quiet and stressfree the rest of the day. Thank you so much. Look, a lot of the way to the airport. But at dulles, united is working to make the experience a little easier. I think this is
Christmas. Chilly temperatures starting off this friday. Wait until you see the rest of the forecast. Good morning everybody. Im chris lawrence. Im molette green. Eun and aaron have the morning off. Meteorologist Sheena Parveen is here with the Holiday Weekend forecast. A lot going on in this Holiday Weekend forecast. There is a lot going on, especially depending where youre going. We have snow in new england right now. Thats going to continue. We have rain locally that will be moving in later tonight. This morning, were starting off with cool temperatures. If you are stepping out of the house soon, if the kids have to stand at the bus stop, warm coats. Otherwise, 31 degrees in lorton. 38 now washington. Some of these numbers are continuing to drop. Manassas is now at 29 degrees. 36 in gaithersburg. 37 in leesburg. Theres that snow up to our north. If you are heading into areas like boston or points north of that, expect some travel issues. The snow is going to stay to our north. Its n
Inside a burning car in d. C. Someone reported the fire around 7 00 on ridge road. Police found the body inside. A neighbor tells news 4 homicide detectives are now investigating. Back to you. All right, chris, thank you. Two shootings along two busy highways. May have affected your commute last night. Let start with the most recent one that happened in bladensburg. A man found shot along 295. We have video to show you from the scene. Prince georges county police say a man was found near the Eastern Avenue exit. This happened around 6 30 last night. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Hackers took control of d. C. Police surveillance cameras days before President Trumps inauguration. Two of those hackers are in custody in romania. Th computers that controlled 123 cameras. Thats about twothirds of what d. C. Police have at their disposal. It happened january 12th and a federal complaint unsealed thursday says the cameras were unable to record video for several days. It w
Yesterday. 21 degrees right now in the district. Its 18 dulles. 16 gaithersburg. Manassas 17. In clinton, in the middle teens for winchester and martinsburg. We could see a few passing snow flurries today. We have mostly cloudy skies around. But its really overnight and into tomorrow when we have snow coming and we do expect the accumulations across the area too. For your friday, not as cold as yesterday. Yesterday, we had a high of 25 degrees. Today a high of 34 degrees. But most of your Morning Hours for our suburbs especially, will be in the teens. Well take a closer look at the snow for saturday coming up and your new years forecast. But now over to dave for a look at the traffic. A whole lot of nothing to talk about. If youre going to hit the road, were working the roads. Look at 95 heading northbound at 395. There are no delays from quantico toward the very light traffic. Thats how its been this week. Really light morning rush hours. The afternoons have been much, much busier by
Were having trouble with daves microphone. Well get back to him in just a moment. Phase 2 of metros Safetrack Program is getting the first workday test this morning. Route options are reduced until july 3rd. The potomac and armory stations are closed. Blue line no service between Arlington Cemetery and rosslyn. Our team has you covered this morning from rails to roads to issues coming into our live desk. Lets begin with david culver live at the Eastern Market station. David . Reporter eun, you can see its busier behind me. This is one of several shuttle buses that have been opening up to let folks load here at Eastern Market. From here theyll continue along the portion of the rail thats not operable via metrorail itself from here benning road buses are lined here waiting for folks to get off metro. Part of the problem is each metro train according to the spokesperson has 800 people on it if its at capacity. Each bus holds 50 people. Youre talking about lag time in trying to get these p