Looming on the horizon. Well have the latest from capitol hill in the morning briefing. Santa baby, you . Slip a sable under the tree pgh. Later another kardashian to keep up with khloe couldnt Philadelphia International airporting the west kept secret in hollywood. She is having her first child. Well have details in the celebrity dish. Good day at 9a starts now. Two different versions. Right. Who water first one that was playing . Was it you are that kits. Thats the one i think of. I like that one, too. Who is this . Cindy lauper . Madonna. Oh. She had had cindy lauper like face she kind of sounded like her. She durtha kits traditionally way to go. Good day d. C. 901 on this thursday morning. Its december 21st. I know. T minus four days, right. Yes. Before we get going we actually need your sound tracking the show. Okay . We want to play some christmas hits the next two days. So heres what were doing. Were taking requests. Love it. Total requests live one might say, right . To submit
It is friday, january 5th. Lets tell you about the School Closings first. Then well get to erin and also to mike about our weather and traffic which are of course the big stories today. Area School Systems are not taking any chances with the extreme and dangerous cold. Most are delayed or closed. Lets go over to big ones and well start in maryland where the latest delay is for Frederick County schools. They are delayed two hours now. Anne arrundel and Montgomery County schools are also on a twohour delay. Saint marys county schools are closed. Charles county schools closed. Prince georges county schools closed. Calvert county schools closed. Lets go to virginia. Arlington county schools twohour delay. Alexandria city and Falls Church City schools twohour delay. Fairfax county schools closed. Loudoun county schools closed. Prince William County and Spotsylvania County schools are also closed. Stafford county schools are closed. Manassas city and Manassas Park schools are closed. Also in
Erin como has traffic. We have heat today, some scattered thunderstorms later this afternoon but heat does break for the weekend. Much cooler weather in place. Er are eerin. A deadly hitandrun has two lanes of 210 shut down. Residents at a Prince Georges County home awake concerned by flames ripping through their home. The home is not far from the university of maryland. Our Melanie Alnwick live in University Park with more. What happened here, mel . Reporter hey, good morning, guys. Want to let you know first of all that baltimore avenue is back opened now but you can see here just the complete devastation. Watery and smoky mess left behind here. The orange tag on the door showing that this place is condemned. It was about 2 oclock in the morning when the fire started. Firefighters tell me that when they arrived the fire and the flames were shooting from the basement to the center of the house and all the way through the roof. This is the kind of fire that went u this video here provi
We have something you may see that you should not be alarmed about. Out annie yu joins us with whatwt you should be wear of before you go outer the door. D heads up morning commuters. Dont be alarmed if you see a sa huge number of first of fi responders and fire apparatuspps equipment near the pentagonhen later this morning. R th the pentagon and firstd responders are gettingsp together holding a mass casualty exercise fromro 9 oclock this morning until 1 oclock. Its going to be on the north n side of the pentagon. En the exercise will involve a simulated Helicopter Crash and a a fire. A and the scenario may be visible from the virginiaa state highway routes 27 and a 110 with a lot of police and and Emergency Response activity inec and around the pentagon mall. Ml the pentagon says this is ayss a way for First Responders tos t test their skills and by thend way the exercise will not disrupt normal employee orye visitor access to thesi pentagon. To holly and maureen. Re thanks, annie. A
Tonight we have an update on a story we bright you last fall. The Desert Research institute in reno has been working on its very own weather model for a while now. Since september, its been able to test the model for accuracy to help refine it. Angela schilling joins us live in the newsroom with more. Angela . Kristen, while the folks at dri have a long ways to go, they i last spoke with them in the fall. Both on a Business Front and Research Side of the project. The model indeed looks a little bit different now. If all goes well, they hope to have a Business Partner within the next few months. Brian speicher Everyone Wants to know first and foremost how accurate you are. Especially when your new model forecasts the weather. Brian speicher over about a four month time we looked at the performance of the model over reno and las vegas and compared to really recognizable names. In weather. In december the results came in, showing their in house model could compete with the rest. The test