Could be just hours away. Fox 5 morning news continues right now. Right now. It is friday, february 22nd. Taking a live look outside right now at the Woodrow Wilson bridge. Traffic moving along pretty well right now but as this Winter Weather system moves in, that may be a different story later on today. Good morning. Im sarah simmons. Im wisdom martin. Welcome to fox 5 morning news. Before we get to tucker, pouring snow across parts of the nations midsection and it is having a nationwide impact. Hundreds of flights have been delayed because of the record winter storm that stretches from colorado to kansas. Already, it has dropped as much as 17inched of snow in places. Winter storm warnings are in if he can for parts of kansas, missouri, arkansas, nebraska, iowa and illinois and forecasters say more snow, sleet and freezing rain is on the way today. It has my husband is supposed to fly out heading to minneapolis. Already had a flight canceled trying to get on another one. Did he . A bi
Along with their plan to raise higher tax revenues. And since the new congress began, they have not put forward one proposal to oppose, to prevent the acrosstheboard sequester. And i try to put myself in the place of the regular citizens who sits here and watchesy this and they have to be scratching their heads. Reporter republicans insist that deeper entealment cuts are needed and not more tax money. Its time to get serious about reducing washingtons out ofcontrol spending. Reporter randy forbes said the white house is to blame for the sequestration crisis because he said that that created the mechanism mechanism in the first place. He signed it into law. For over a year from august 2011 through the end of the last year, the president did nothing to stop it. Reporter for his part, president obama hit the road in recent days, hoping to bring public pressure to both sides from lawmakers. If there is a deal out there to be made on capitol hill, lawmakers are running out of time here to m
Ice. But as we start you out. Marylands most powerful radar, this is the storm back off towards the west dumping snow now around chicago and they could see about 6 inches maybe more across the area. But closer here at home, we can see on the southern extent of this, we are getting reports in roane own of light snow coming into the area. This will begin to continue to move into our direction as we go further into the afternoon and also the evening time frame as well. With that, we will get sleet and also icy roads. So check out whats going on. Slick roads are possible. We have black ice which is a thin ice coating, the same color as the roads. So be prepared for that and know bridges and overpasses they ice first and they are the greatest threat. Get the cold air through that. So make sure you are conscious and cautious when you are driving. Now back over to megan and charley. We have breaking news. One person is dead after an overnight crash. This is the scene along the inner loop of t
Mid30s and transition most of this to plain old light rain and drizzle. To be honest, it will be a slow go, particularly west of town, where temperatures now are in the mid20s. 34 at reagan national. 31 at dulles. 32 bwi marshall. These temperatures should warm up a little later today as that warmer air up in the upper layers of the atmosphere work their way down. Theres your Winter Weather advisory. Nothing locally along the 95 corridor. Western maryland, west virginia, and western virginia, advisory until 10 00 tomorrow morning. Main concern there is icing. If youre traveling in that direction, if youre a viewer out there, be ready for the potential for icing later. 37 in washington. Cloudy skies. Wintry mix. Not expecting a lot in the way of accumulations. Could be enough to cause a little coating or icing in spots. Particularly this afternoon if youre traveling, be ready for that possibility. More on the weather coming up in just a minute. Back to you at the desk. Tucker, thank you
The rest of your day, we start off very cold and will be in the clouds for today. We wont get any sunshine and we will wait for the mix and if it does so it will start off as sleet, snow and switch over to rain. Lets check the timesaver traffic. Reporter one person has been hospitalized after a Early Morning crash. This is the scene earlier this morning. It shut down northbound lanes at middletown road. It was a liquid gas tanker that crashed but it was not carrying gas. The driver of the truck has been taken to the hospital with nonlife threat eke injuries. August northbound lanes have reopen. And traveling southbound everything nice and clear. In hunt valley at shawan road traffic is moving and it will remain this way as you get on the jfx. An 11 minute drive southbound to east fayette street. If you are traveling the west side, a 7 minute ride normal conditions right now outer loop. You will want to watch out for a crash in pikesville at mcdonna and shell road. A crash on 95 along t