Doug kammerer. As we turn towards a colder pattern, the chances for snow are going up into next week. What i am watching is a storm system to your south. If youre leaving out of washington, run into some of this rain, you can see it down to our south along i95 right to raleigh back to roanoke and towards atlanta, some rain in those areas and because of that, temperatures start to fall and 46 right now in downtown. We could have issues and then looking cold for christmas. You mentioned snow chances. I have those for you, too, see you back here in 20 minutes. You got now its time to have the nbc washington app on your phone. You can see the forecast at any time, anywhere. Were staying on top of breaking news. Members of a virginia family killed in mexico. They were riding in a bus that flipped on tuesday morning. The skies were clear when the crash happened. News4s Jackie Bensen is in the lorton neighborhood with more. Jackie . Reporter you know, so many of us in this area dont know our
Solstice. Only 9 26 of daylight today. Tomorrow we get 3 seconds more of daylight than today. Washington southbound, the skies have been clear. Any travel plans today . This is good news for today and tomorrow. Looks unsettled around here as we get closer to saturday. Ill show you that forecast in a minute. As we get your thursday morning started, 22 in warrenton. 24 in dulles. 26 in montgomery county. A milder 36 at National Airport. Theres your planner then. A fair amount of sunshine today. Temperatures in the low to mid40s for most. Closer look at the travel plans forecasts in a few more minutes. Molette . Thanks, chuck. We wanted to let you know about a water main break impacting connecticut Avenue Northwest near the university of the district of columbia. The campus and six other buildings are impacted here. Were stilry how it will impact the roads. Were going to keep you posted with updates throughout the morning. Today is the worst travel day of the Holiday Season for our area.
Morning at a home on 21st Street Southeast near trenton place. We think about the timing coming up to christmas. You and i just retweeted derrick wards tweet. He is live at southeast this morning. He put out information about how you can help the folks. Derrick, what else are you gathering . Reporter right now, this is still under investigation. Crews are still on the scene, as you can see here. Often, that is the case because with a fire like this, it could still be hot spots. Thats why they keep trucks here. Take a look. You see the damage there. The most significant damage done to the corner house. The house across that little breezeway from there, that house was damaged, too, just from the radiant heat. The house on the other side of that house also offered significant damage. 4 00 a. M. , when the fire broke out, crews responded. Everyone got out of these houses. No one was injured. In fact, were told one of the residents uz t s was the first detect something was wrong. She knocke
As a matter of fact, thats what were talking about today. The rain has already come through, some of it has already come through. We do have more mild showers around today. Temperatures are in the 40s and the 50s right now. Were going to warm up today. Were going to head up to 60 degrees plus for almost the entire area by this afternoon. Here are our temperatures out there this morning. Dulles at 44. Gaithersburg 46. Here in town our temperature continues to go up. Were 50 degrees now. Fredericksburg is 54 and leonardtown is 52. All right, looking at Storm Tracker radar right now, it looks pretty dry, okay, at least here in the city. If youre out early, early this morning, you get on the roads theres a lot of road spray still out there this morning. Look at the past couple of hours. Most of the showers have been to the north of us and northwestern suburbs this morning. Well have the possibility, kind of periods of showers today but i think most of the rain will come through again later
Winds are picking up. But we should start to see this quiet down overnight. Straight to the radar so i could show you what im talking about. So right now that line of heavier showers is getting ready to move through the district. You could see it in that deep red and orange and yellow continuing to push toward the east. So in the d. C. Metro you will hear the rain coming down. And then the winds picking up. So here is what you need to know. As we said through tonight and into tomorrow, dry for sunday. But by cass d by christmas da, we are feeling cold. Snow chances taye to the north and west. A mix of sun and clouds. But ill talk about your full christmas forecast. Thank you. Switching gears now, police plan to charge a teenager with a double murder that shocked a Quiet Community in reston. The victims a husband and wife would recently moved into the neighborhood. Darcy spence ser live along black fur court with reaction from residents to this darcy. Reporter erika, Fairfax County poli