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Today. And berkeley, hampshire and hardy and grant counties in west virginia. Falls church and Winchester City schools are all on a twohour delay today. Well let you know about any others we find them out. I will post it on social media and the nbc washington app. Now, we want to get a check on our forecast with the news4 team kicking off your day. Well begin with our meteorologists chuck bell and Sheena Parveen. Oh, its so cold out there. It is very cold. I would just say its painful when you walk outside. It really hurts. It will the old man jack frost will be nipping at your nose and your ear buds as soon as you go outside this morning. So be ready for it. Thats right. Temperatures are feeling like Single Digits. Look at gaithersburg now down to 1 degree. So if you are waking up in gaithersburg you will feeling c 10 i ....
I said im getting on my bike to ride the 17 miles down to capitol hill because i dont know when im going to get in. I think metro in so many ways is, unfortunately, an embarrassment of our nations capitol. Reporter this mornings issues messed up the morning commute. Metro gm Paul Wiedefeld said it was all related to water issues. As you know there was a lot of rain in the last two or three weeks and that not only brings moisture and sediment and then clings to the insulators and collects dust and the brakes and that keeps that cycle going. Reporter weve documented the water problems in this section of track even though maintenance crews are putting an extra focus the red line right now. Metro says maintenance teams havent had a chance to make meaningful repairs at the Medical Center and this morning that turned into one brutal commute. At the height of this mornings commute a ....
Announced the first confirmed case of the virus. It appeared a person traveled to a country where mosquitos carried the virus. That person has fully recovered and it poses no danger to the community. Maryland has sent more test kits and is awaiting those results. While the threat of zika is relatively low in the u. S. , it is major concern in brazil where athletes and spectators will gather for the rio olympics in a little more than 160 days. As chris gordon tells us, when Montgomery CountyCompanies Working hard to rid the country of the virus in time for the games. This little lab in rockville, maryland, is taking on a giant challenge. They want to help eradicate the zika virus in time for the olympics in rio this summer. I believe that we can. I believe we can work with government such as the brazilian government. I know that theyre very motivated to make people as s ....
Rain to the south. Very splotchy in nature. The real precipitation, the real area of rain way back to the west. But by the time that gets here it will be warm enough for all rain. We still have to contend with the areas of freezing rain. Take a look at the numbers. 29, the temperature right now in d. C. Only 23 in martinsburg. That tells us that it will be prolonged periods of freezing rain as we move through the night tonight. Some locations picking up a tenth to potentially a quarter inch of freezing rain. And thats why we still have the winter storm warnings in effect for everybody in the pink. Montgomery county, anne arundel, and howard county, but everybody else under that winter storm warning. The next thing, we did have areas of snow this morning and that caused a lot of problems out there. Lauren is here with some of the snow totals we saw. Some of the snow totals and the reason we had the high snow totals, it was so darn cold. For every one inch of water you get 20 inches ofow ....
Hi, everyone. Im veronica johnson. Well show you some of the more interesting local stories making news this week. Among them, theyre devices that save lives. The news4 itaken discovered defibrillators can be hard to find and that can be the difference between life and death. Plus, she is taking signing casts to a whole new level. We meet a physical therapist who is using her experience to make a painful experience more fun. And if you think its been cold, try a trip to antarctica. We go on a once in a lifetime trip. First a closer look at the threat of the zika virus. In the past week maryland it appeared a person traveled to a country where mosquitos carried the virus. That person has fully recovered and it poses no danger to the community. Maryland has sent more test kits and is awaiting those results. While the threat of zika is relatively low in the u. S. , it is major concern in brazil where athletes and spectators will gather for the rio olympics in a little more than 160 days. ....