the car felt like it broke lose a couple times on the road coming in. so scary. snow is so much bert than ice. i did not have to scape the windshield we had drizzle out there some of it is freezing drizzle. especially i think your sidewalks. i can tell you baltimore county side streets sheets of ice. that will fix itself rather quickly this morning. nonetheless the first step outdoors speegsly before dawn could be a little tricky. be careful. i wouldn t totally trust the road between black ice and wet pavement it is hard to tell the difference. at the moment all we have happening in the immediate metropolitan area is drizzle. we have a batch of slightly more moisture coming in. it could be slight rain. some could freeze on contact. moving quickly what you see on the radar is one hour of movement of this precipitation. so that s going to dash through the area in the next hour, hour and a half or so. use some caution today. but the main story is rain. most of that is
and that is what we re expecting to see more of as it moves into the region. we re seeing temperatures staying right at freezing, as bob mentioned. but they are going to go up. so it makes most of this stay in the form of rain as it stays close to the coastline and starts to make its way up to the northeast. we are seeing the temperatures hovering right around freezing as bob mentioned, which means that we still have the potential for that wintry mix, at least into the early morning hours. but we do expect to see more of a rain event as it moves into the mid-atlantic. bob will have your details coming up into the weekend in our complete first warning weather forecast. for now, back inside. thank you, tim and bob. check in for first warning weather coverage. for updates on the forecast, live doppler radar and information on closings and delays. log onto cbsbaltimore.com. updating breaking news from 5:00. johns hopkins hospital could soon face a tidal wave of lawsuits. as a
at 7:00 in the dark as she walked the short distance home from her job as a nanny in this friendship heights neighborhood. he was a hispanic man about 5 danny or 5 11, short hair 5 10 or 5 11, short hair, jeans, t-shirt, not normal attire in freezing cold weather. reporter: she said he followed her in his mini van, then got out and went after her. he wasn t walking out of his car. he swung open the door and started walking towards me fast. reporter: earlier that afternoon here along south park avenue in the commercial part of friendship heights a man driving a maroon suv approached a 13-year-old girl and started asking questions including her name. it s terrifying. ying. i have a teenage daughter. it s terrifying. it s a shame our children can t just go out and be safe. reporter: in the first incident just after school last friday a group of kids at rolling wood apartments after east west highway in silver spring was approached by a man asking inappropriate q
craig: to be part of the gang. it is the three amigos here. smell that. geoff: oh, man, that is good. craig: all right then. so we got mine done. we got geoff s done. and we got one for secretariat and we ll be all good. are you ready? you put that on right there, buddy. [applause] , check out the snow. you better break out the gloves and the hats because the same winter system blanketing the midwest is coming our way. good evening. snow is the last word we always want to hear but topper says this time we cannot avoid it. senate s coming our way tomorrow. top, the big question, when is it going to start? i m actually a little less concerned now than i was earlier. i thought we might have to break out the impact meter but we do not. i think we are going to be okay through the morning commute. let s start with the advisories. they are all to the west. no worries for the immediate metro area. if you are doing some traveling across the divide you are going to run into sleet and
lahood warns cancelled and delayed flights, long lines and angry passengers will dominate the nation s airport and lahood said members of congress will take the blame. your phones are going to ring off of the hook when people are delayed at airports and their flights are delayed and that is 90 minutes or flights are cancelled. reporter: the d.o.t. faces a $1 billion cut with 600 million coming from the faa. 74,000 employees face furloughs. it has to cut staff and to limit the number of planes flying. reporter: at the major international airports, the average wait times to clear customs will increase by 50%. reporter: delays will only be in the air. just getting through the airport could be a nightmare. a valentine s day set is hearing the homeland security janet napolitano and that security furloughs could slow security checkpoints to a crawl. the busiest airports like newark and jfk, lax and chicago o hare, pack wake times wait times can grow to four hours or mor