Were here at the d. C. Department of public works storm team 4 command center. The employees will be looking at these monitors. There are nine of them. If you notice, theyll sometimes go to black and what they are doing, this is realtime live video from major intersections throughout the district. For example, we have florida avenue, bening road, pennsylvania avenue, first street and potomac avenue southeast. Around 8 00, that is when the snow table will send out the trucks to pretreat the roads with salt brine and then 200 trucks will be deployed. If youre out and about, stay away. Give these guys and women working out there time and room so that they can get t make the roads safer for all of us. Youre now going to hear from the d. C. Department of public works director. Lets hear what he has to say. We have had very dangerously low temperatures. Any amount of precipitation can create ice and black ice, whether its half an inch tomorrow or, like i said, it can affect traffic. Reporter
To delmarva, all the way up to long island, not including the bureau of manhattan and up into the boston area, lets get in a little bit closer, what does a blizzard warning mean compared to the Winter Weather advisory that dc is in that parts of Lehigh County are in, montgomery county. Sustained winds will be over 35 Miles Per Hour loading be visibility be that will be rough at the coast. We expect gusts to 50 miles an hour and if you head on up to boston, that could be gusting to 60 or 70 miles an hour, so thats why some people are referring to this as nearly a winter hurricane. Where is the storm right now . We showed you some of the pictures, snow is trying to leave the charleston area and the snow is creeping into north korea. We dont care to see any snow because the air is very dry, after 1 00 in the morning, we could definitely see it. Can we run through the whats going to happen . Here we go, the snow tonight, if, as we see light snow coming on in, it will likely develop after 1
Shawn and jim, thats a look at your forecast. You can track the cold and the snow on our website any time fox5dc. Com, you can get water alerts on the mobile ap. Fire and fury inside the white house, the new book by michael wolf says its based on hundreds of interviews and conversations with senior white house staffers and President Trump himself. One of the more interesting stories comes from steve bannon who blasted the Trump Administration. He describes a 2016 don junior Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort had with a group of russians to reportedly get dirt on Hillary Clinton he wrote the guys thought it was a good idea to meet with the Foreign Government inside trump tower with no lawyer, they didnt have any lawyer, even if you thought that was not treason us patriotic, and i happen to think it was all of that you should have called the fbi immediately. We should also points outlet theres no evidence that donald trump senior met with the russian that is day, but the book includes excer
Valley. Four to six in good swath through south jersey and our suburbs in philadelphia including philadelphia and six to ten as you head down the shore with wicked winds blowing snow, poor visibility. Huge problems down the shore. Lets take it down the shore to Chris Oconnell live in ventnor. Chris, youre definitely going to bear the brunt down there. Reporter certainly seems like it, kathy. Preparations in full swing down the shore here as residents are listening to what youre saying as a blizzard warning now in effect for atlantic, burlington and cape may counties. Weve been out here on the bay in ventnor. Take look behind me. I know its very dark out here but theres a stunning site. Something you dont see very often, and that is, a frozen back bay. In the distance you see atlantic city. But boaters take a look at video down here. Some say in parts of the bay ice was more than 6inches thick. This is something that does not happen very often, and that is on top of it a blizzard coming
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