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sunday night. last chance to warn you about a major commuter alert. beginning tomorrow morning expect major delays into and out of the district if you are using new york avenue. we are talking about a quarter of a million drivers who are going to need a lot of patience when they go through that repair work. city transportation officials say that work simply cannot be delayed any longer. the work has already started. terrible. reporter: if you think traffic is bad now on new york avenue. horrible. reporter: just wait until tomorrow morning. awful. reporter: that s when a two- year $40 million project will begin to replace the new york avenue bridge over the railroad tracks. for all two years of the project two of new york avenues six lanes will be closed between penn street north east and florida avenue northeast. it is going to be very crowded. reporter: and city transportation officials estimate the closures will call delays of up to 30 minutes for the ....
commuter alert tonight that will get you ready for a big traffic headache on a major route in and out of dc. work is all set to begin monday on the reconstruction of the new york avenue bridge. that s just east of florida avenue. now we have got team coverage so you can try to avoid the potential commuter catastrophe. i m lindsey mastis in northeast washington. starting at 10:00 p.m. tonight vdot is going to shut down two more lanes on the new york avenue bridge. it will stay that way for two years. we are going to lose a third of the capacity on the bridge. reporter: according to john lyle with dc s department of transportation the lane closures are a necessary evil. this is an old bridge. it is on our list of critically fractured bridges. reporter: so how long can drivers expect to be on the bridge? the delays could be 15 to 30 minutes. reporter: but vdot is offering an incentive program. $50 a month loaded onto a smart card or other fare media to take p ....
potomac up toward ashburn and leesburg over to poolesville, some flurries there. same story in montgomery county. just a few flurries left over. only down toward laurel as we head into prince george s and anne arundel counties. some light snow from annapolis down toward davidsonville. the ride on route 50 will be with a couple of snowflakes flying here or there. very light snow down in southern prince george s county. we go to charles county and things are also flurrying down there as well. and into st. mary, it may mix a little bit with the sleet and freezing rain. winter weather advisories until 7:00. they ve. just been pulled with the warnings along the shenandoah valley. we ll probably lose these in the next hour. temperatures today, they re going into the mid-30s. we ll see some sunshine this afternoon. monika, over to you. thanks, howard. good morning, everybody. crews are out dealing with the road conditions about 1,000 trucks in the area. about 500 trucks in ....
kiein with the latest on the storm. good morning. i did begin with snow and sleet asnticipated yesterday. no transitioning to rain, it is still snowing i areas north an northwest o washingt, where you see areas of blue and dark blue, whe it i still snowing in loudoun county, montgomery county, panhandle of west virgia and howardcounty. that area of snow iscontinuing. an inch to two inches on some of the grassy area to the south, in the mixture of sleet and rain. some in montgomery county, northe prince george s county, andnow, western charltz county to prince william, a mixture of sleet and rain. south of there, i is all rain. we do have a winte storm warning for the heaviest amount of snow, loudoun, monomery and howard, south and east from this storm. temperatures above freezing, west and north, above freezing thsnow will stick for a while. out of the mountains, near the freezing mark around the bay. near 40. ra, overnight. this rain continuing to advance the noh, ....
have the combination of snow and sleet. take you to germantown, maryland. mark is out there for us dealing with some big, fat wet flakes mixing in with a little sleet by now. we have a snow cover. that s route 118 look toward middlebrook from around the sunoco station. if you know that corner where the safe way shopping center is. snow pack is on a little bit. about half an inch to an inch so far. let s go over to live doppler 9000 hd. northern montgomery county, northern howard county into frederick, still snow falling although that sleet is starting to mix in getting closer and closer. here in town, we ve gone from snow to sleet to plain old rain at national airport. with still some pockets of sleet here to fairfax county. sleet out at dulles and fairfax and great falls. even up into northern prince george s and howard counties. although you go south and east, we re dealing with more rain. want to take you north first, germtown, the heavier bright banning is where we ....