Temperatures plummeted from 45 degrees at 6 00 last night to 18 degrees before midnight. So an enormous drop in temperatures. These are the current wind gusts. Winds are still gusting between 30 and 40 Miles Per Hour right now. So damaging winds are a real issue here trees and branches are down all over the area and there are scattered Power Outages first thing this morning. Actual air temperatures are in the Single Digits to around 12 degrees. Factor in that crazy wind and windchills are running 10 to 20 below zero. If youre outside, dont expect any improvement today. Temperatures will struggle to get near 20 degrees for a High Temperature this afternoon. These winds are going know where between fou and sundown tonight. When i see you next, well tell you how long the cold sticks around. Its not just the air thats cold and icy out there. Roads, walkways, roofs and power lines are in dangerous shape. Pepco working to restore power to 12,000 customers. Dominion virginia and bge dealing w
Ill have the latest impacts coming up in about 10 minutes, pat, but again, this evening were not looking at the worst conditions. Again, talking act windchill temperatures on into the evening, 2 00 a. M. Temperature around 12 degrees. But saturday night, sunday morning windchills in spots could be as bad as 20 to 30 degrees below zero. So thats going to be dangerous windchills. Now, windchills that low are only going to be for someus. Ill let you know if thats for you coming up in about ten minutes. Thanks amelia. Not everyone gets to stay indoors during this frigid friday. We found people who are braving the arctic blast to help make your drive a little easier. David culvert picks up our Team Coverage in arlington. Reporter this is one of those days folks are hiding their faces, trying to wear as many layers as they can to fight off this brutal cold. Work crews facing some tough Office Conditions houtout here for hours today, dragging heavy equipment, layered up but still taking break
Below in some areas. Heres a live look what it looks like outside our tv station in northwest washington right now. You can see the flag flapping in that cold breeze. This is a big chill under way out there. The arctic air is causing schools to delay start times. Well get to that in a minute but first, the feellike temperatures are in the Single Digits right now. And thats why were starting here in the news 4 weather center. Dougs here to tell us what its going to be like as we go through the night and when we get up in the morning. You mentioned that big drop. We were at around 41 42 degrees this afternoon. Now were around 1 or 2 degrees with that wind chill. A bigtime temperature drop. We have the wind chill advisory. You notice Howard County Montgomery County parts of Loudoun County and everybody off to the west including our friends down to the Northern Neck with wind chills potentially near that negative 10 number early tomorrow morning. Now, right now were still seeing those wind
This young man shoved me and told me to get like out of the way, i old man. That man was eli shah smith. The two exkinged words. I said youre a disgrace to the human race. He got right in my face and said do you want to take this outside . Reporter they went up the escalator arguing when the man police guyed as smith spits in langerfords face and punches him. He had come back at me again and asked me the same question and i said the same statement. I barely got it out of my mouth before that is about all i are e member. Reporter langerford was sent to the hospital with minor injuries. His face was bruised under his right eye and the glasses he was wearing cut into his cheek. Police looked for smith for days and arrested him late last night. In atwitter on an account Police Identified as the suspect, smith tells the friend that he punched langerford because he was being disrespectful. The video shows he swat at the other man after that guy spit. For now, it will go to the court. Smith i
Tom brady continuing to make history. Now hes getting ready to play in his tenth not a mistake, im saying it correctly, his tenth super bowl. Yesterday, his team beat the green bay packers, brady doing at this time without his former team and coach the patriots and Bill Belichick. But it wont be easy. Tom brady will have to outdo the Kansas City Chiefs who are the current champs, patrick mahons and their highpowered offense. If overwhelmed, this years super bowl is in tampa making them the first team to play the big game in their home stadium. The two quarterbacks getting ready for the match up. For the first time in nfl history, ill put lot of cool things in perspective and a time as the first time doing something is usually a pretty good thing. Work hard to this point and thats a tough game, had a few tough games in a row in the next one will be really tough. Being able to go up against one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time in this 150th super bowl to get out there and have a