live in leesburg, jeff goldberg abc 7 news. >> thanks jeff. you can get up-to-the-minute information about the weather on our website at wjla.com. you can also see what the weather looks like in your neighborhood on the abc 7 stormwatch weather app on your smartphone. a news conference begins in just a few minutes with new information about the investigation into the metro smoke incident at the l'enfant plaza station. we expect to hear from lawmakers and the ntsb. roz slater is live at the capitol tonight with more. >> we expect that briefing to start in a couple of minutes or so after a closed door meeting between the ntsb and 12 members of the national capital delegation. that's all our lawmakers. what they've been talking about, of course is that deadly metro incident last week where smoke filled the tunnel at the l'enfant plaza station. it trapped some 200 passengers on that yellow line train. one passenger died. as a result it was, and dozens of others were hospitalized. now, these investigations usually take time. but -- and they are in

we love you. >> this evening, a prayer vigil will be held at the yoga studio in leesburg where simran worked. that's tonight at 7:00 and richard reid will have the latest on that tonight at 11:00. cloudy skies this evening could give way to wintry weather by the morning. meteorologist steve rudin is in the weather center to tell us which areas will be affected. steve? >> all right maureen, it looks like it will be mainly north and west of us here in d.c. and some changes are on the way as we move towards the latter part of the upcoming weekend. look at satellite and radar not a whole lot going on out there right now other than the cloud cover. it stays dry for this evening and at least until about midnight or so but we do have a winter weather advisory that will go into effect. areas shaded in purple. those are the areas under the winter weather advisory starting at 4:00 morning and it includes frederick and washington counties. the panhandle of west virginia and the i-81 corridor where you may see a little bit of a wintry mix, even some freezing rain. not looking for anything like th

looking at the ground reports still some snow in leesburg, but there is a lot of rain. you know if you have been tuning in this was mainly going to be wet across most of the washington area. low pressure over the gulf in florida, coming up the coast. it has not really turned into a coastal storm just yet. advisories until noon, winter storms to the west. we will be hard-pressed to see the snow levels getting close. the temperatures do it close to freezing. there could be some icy spots but we will have to track the second half of the weekend and quite possibly the likeliest snow set up this season so far. the full forecast just minutes away. >> road crews were not taking any chances with the winter weather. dozens of trucks hit the streets afternoon. they are standing by in the overnight hours as well. richard reeve has the latest from virginia. >> good evening, leon, this was a night of what if. what if it snows like crazy, what if the roads froze, what if conditions are terrible. we ended up with this, and it kept a lot of folks busy. vdot crews are remaining on stand

until then live in leesburg jeff goldberg, abc 7 news. >> jeff thank you very much. let's go now from northern virginia to maryland where chris has been driving around in mobile track 7 checking out the roads there and he joins us now. what are you seeing chris? >> well alison much like what jeff said the news for drivers right now is pretty good. you can see we're traveling about 60 65 miles an hour here on route 270 heading north through maryland. there isn't any snow. doesn't appear to be any ice on the roads right now. traffic is moving really well. if you look on the side this is the type of snow that is a little bit heavier, a little bit wet and makes for very pretty driving. trees are covered in this type of snow. since it's not on the roads, you can appreciate it a little bit more. now, we are heading towards frederick. we hear that there are some roads in frederick that did get a little bit more snow on them. perhaps, didn't get as well driven as this one. a little bit warmer to melt that snow. so once we get there, we'll let you know what we see. also, as w

live in leesburg jeff goldberg abc 7 news. >> thank you. of course the stormwatch weather team is continuing to track conditions as the weather system moves out and another potentially more powerful one begins to take shape. chief meteorologist doug hill breaks down the timing of the next winter weather threat in a few minutes. leon? >> we go to breaking news coming out of annapolis where crews have recovered two bodies with the charred remains. this comes hours after news chopper 7 captured these images of the search crews of the investigators getting their first look inside the ruins. stephen tschida is live in an annapolis to tell us what he just learned there. what's the latest? >> i went back into the fire station and spoke with the captain russ davies just seven minutes ago. he was a bit more forthcoming one-on-one than he was during the news conference. we now know that those two bodies which were found today were discovered in the basement of this massive home but he did qualify that by saying the fire was so intense that the house

our team coverage continues now in leesburg rich how does it look out there? >> leon the snow definitely picking up now. we just want to show you we're right off edward's ferry road off route 50. i want to show you some of the grass to give you an idea not too bad. it's sticking on grass. when we look over the road over here edward's ferry road not a big deal yet. wet surfaces but vdot says it is ready. now, today we did visit a vdot facility off of route 7. they say they have between 650 and 700 trucks with salt and sand. add midnight they'll have about 1,000 trucks ready to go. and the district says it has about 200 snow plows that will be in service by 8:00 p.m. and in maryland about 2400 pieces of snow equipment statewide. most of the major thoroughfares around this area at least have been pretreated to deal with anything hopefully to keep this snow from sticking. loudoun, though expected to be one those hard hit areas especially when you get into those higher elevations towards the blue ridge. >> it's kind of a crap chute for us. at the same time we'll be

live in leesburg richard reeve abc 7 news. >> ok rich thank you for that. the stormwatch weather team is on your side during this winter weather alert. meteorologist jacqui eileen and the rest of the "good morning washington" team will help you navigate around the problem areas and let you know about any school closings and delays. and they are starting early tomorrow at 4:00 a.m. >> all right. so the morning drive could be interesting. we've been telling you about two breaking stories that are affecting tonight's drive home. the first is three lanes that have been shut down on the inner loop in greenbelt where a tractor-trailer and a motorcycle collided. we're told the motorcycle driver was critically injured. police hope to begin opening more lanes sometime in the next half-hour. we'll keep you posted on that situation there. also in maryland a man is dead after being struck by a marc train. newschopper 7 is live over the scene right now at north summit avenue in gaithersburg. all the brunswick line traffic on the marc line has been suspended now. one mar

tonight, nothing will melt. 27 degrees right now in leesburg. the network members you see a live numbers. so, they should change. 30 degrees right now. chevy chase, 28. morningside, 29 degrees. those values will all drop. their temperature, 28 in gaithersburg. 34 in fredericksburg. the wind played a key role and they will knock the temperatures down. 37-30, the high low officially at reagan national. i will point out that our average high 44-29 tells us statistically, climatological he we are past the coldest part of the winter. guess what happened? we will have the coldest weather pattern we have had all winter. so, we will drop down the thermometer tonight, 14-23 degrees. this is a satellite and radar. we've had some heavier snow bounds moving in. notice the pattern is slowly shifting out. the strong winds come down the backside of the system. we will continue to enjoy sunshine and breezy weather tomorrow. the next system, a cold front. and wintry mix thursday evening and thursday night clear out on friday and have a potentially more subst sys

tomorrow morning, the windchill factor will be in the single digits with actual air temperatures near 15 leesburg, 18 gaithersburg. near 23 degrees. at least we have a good deal of sunshine to make it look pretty, but don't be full debt will be cold. a lot of talk about the big blizzard across upper new england. that is quickly moving off towards the north and east. the high pressure gradually settles across our area, meaning clearing skies overnight, lots of sunshine tomorrow. the stiff wind out of the north and west will keep the temperatures down. another storm system may bring a winter mix, even snow, to the higher elevations off to the west. tomorrow morning 14 to 23 degrees, lots of sunshine, the wind out of the north asked that -- the wind out of the northwest at 10 to 20 sustained. 34 degrees the high. 40% chance of a winter mix on thursday windy friday, cold saturday, highly near 30. sunday could be looking another round of wintry weather. i know the kids are excited about that. that means there could be school delays monday morning. >> again? >> my gosh, they have been talking about it

seven degrees leesburg, nine degrees gaithersburg, eight manassas, 16 arlington, 11 bowie. it will be a very cold start. plenty of sunshine in the futurecast. we are under the influence of high pressure. gusty breezes through the day. temperatures only in the lower to middle 20's. lower tony'sr 20's tomorrow. sunday we start with bright sunshine through the morning. clouds move in from the south and west. we will hit the mid to upper 30's. in the news gets more testing. several computer models are suggesting a storm system will move across moisture from the gulf coast and intensify the storm system of the carolina coast. depending on the computer model, some of the precipitation is further north, some is further south and east. the potential is there for this precipitation to begin as sleet or freezing rain monday morning. that could eventually change terrain is the system moves out in the temperatures warm. there is a window during the morning rush-hour i could be an issue. stay up-to-date date all weekend. eileen whelan will have the computer updates. tomorrow we know wil

light snow leesburg. it will not amount to a whole lot. the snow will fall over about 3 4 hours. at that it will be about an inch or so. as it lifts off towards the north and east, the skies begin to clear by late in the afternoon. that will give us a better chance of sunshine later tomorrow. that sunshine will return a good portion of the upcoming week. by the time we reach the weekend, temperatures near 50 degrees. in terms of the projected snowfall totals, keep in mind this is just possible. a traced to possibly an inch in d.c., fairfax, alexandria. the further south and east, southern maryland may have a mixture of sleet and snow, potentially 1 5oto 2 inches, but i think the two inches may be optimistic. to the north, just a few flurries of that. if you are looking for school cancellations, at this point i don't think it is a good bet. 7:00 in the morning, 21 degrees snow, wintry mix. that will began to taper off by noontime. for clock, peaks of sunshine the temperature near 32. lower 40's friday. saturday, middle 40's near 50 degrees. not a bad extended holiday weekend. jacq

moving through the morning hours tomorrow a cold start to our first day of 2015. 17 at leesburg. the same at manassas. 26 in arlington. a couple of degrees warmer in bowie, but lots of sunshine. our futurecast look like this. ep in late in the day on friday. high pressure is going to move out. and then our next beg weather maker so the south and west of us will likely bring us shourt on saturday, and then another round of showers on sunday. but temperatures by then will be well into the middle 50's. here we have it for tonight. 15-25 degrees. highs tomorrow 43-48. winds out of the southwest at 8-12 miles per hour. a soggy weekend ahead. sarpped and sunday. it is not going to be a total watch-out, but more than likely you will need an umbrella at some point. temperatures will rebound to the middle 50's on sunday. a cold front moves through late sunday night, and temperatures by monday and tuesday, back to school back to work and back to reality. temperatures in the lower foirts. happy new year to everyone. make 2015 a great year. >> before we are back to reality, the big game tomo

six degrees leesburg, eight degrees gaithersburg, 12 arlington. the wind out of the northwest tomorrow and then we get the high pressure finally moving out. this cold front will bring another shot of colder air just-in-time in time for the start of the upcoming weekend. we will feel that saturday. projected windchill tomorrow morning well below zero for much of the area. by midday, it will feel like the middle to upper teens. overnight, 4 to 12. high temperature tomorrow, 20 to 26 degrees. highs towards the end of the week, upper 30's, upper 20's saturday. will we break any records tomorrow morning? jacqui jeras will have the answers tomorrow morning. >> miserable outside. >> yes, cold. >> what's going on? >> i'm going to do sports. coming up, the wizards, college basketball. sports is coming up. >> and now the toyota sports desk brought to you by your local toyota dealers. >> we all remember what happened the last time the wiz and knicks matched up. tonight was a clean fight. carmelo anthony out with a sore knee and was ernst took advantage. john

these folks heading west towards leesburg right now. traffic was stacked up and very much stop and go at this point. but vdot says it is ready. now, we visited a vdot facility off route 7. they have 650 to 700 trucks loaded with salt and sand. by midnight, they stay they'll have 1,000 trucks that cross northern virginia. in the district they have about 200 snow trucks in place by 8:00 tonight and in maryland about 2400 pieces of snow equipment across the state. now, major thoroughfares have all been pretreated pretty much vdot tells us but it is a gamble, you know, no one knows exactly how much will fall or where. it is a very inexact science. >> we take the worst scenario and mobilize to that level and prestage our equipment. that way we can be ready for the worst part of it. >> this is the 10th weather event we've had this season so far. last year, if you may recall we had 19 by this time of year. take a look down at the roadway. you can see how they pretreated it and it's just kind of wet right now. nothing really sticking. but as do

today, we had the blue sky in leesburg, the weatherbug camera. putting this in motion, the lingering snow pack in front of the soccer field. the clouds moved in late in the evening. that really set the stage for a beautiful sunset across the area. the temperatures today on the chilly side. southwest of d.c., 40 degrees the high today at the elementary school in manassas, virginia, 33 degrees. 35 at nats park. in maryland, 33 degrees. and boyds, maryland, 29 degrees. the clouds have streamed in, but there are still some clear skies. the satellite radar, not bad, but a want to zoom out and show you the next weather system where its emerging from. a cold front from the west, the trough over the eastern part of the united states. that will be drawing moisture along the eastern seaboard. keeping a close eye off the coast of the carolinas. the low pressure will develop overnight and bring us rain for the day tomorrow. overnight, most of us pretty much a dry, clouds increasing. a sprinkle is possible by dawn but otherwise temperatures not falling too mu

only 6 in leesburg. 8 in gaithersburg. lots of sunshine. that will make it look pretty out there. as you wake up tomorrow morning, this is what it's going to feel like. zero, below zero. not out of the question. but at least the winds will diminish just a little bit as they move through the midday hours, we'll crank those wind chills up into the lower teens in d.c. but it still stays cold out there. we have a bit of a warming trend or a warmup i should say as we move into the end of the work and school week. so for tonight, temperatures, actual air temperatures around 4 to 12 degrees. winds out of the northwest at 10 to 20 with higher gusts. that will make it feel so much colder out there, below zero for feels right temperatures. sunny, breezy and cold tomorrow to start your day as you head off to work or school. 20 to 26 definitely need an extra layer out there. the scarf, the gloves, the hat the works. winds on of the west. here's the extended outlook as we move through the next seven. 37 on friday. 28 on saturday. good deal of sunshine saturday and a few added clouds on sunday

for the overnight lows and then tomorrow morning, just a map form with temperatures to look at. 25 in leesburg when you wake up and manassas. 28 in bowie. 30 in arlington, a little heavier jacket than normal for these temperatures. yesterday, sunshine and a few clouds and this cold front, no weather expected with it. sunny day with the high pressure system moves through the day on saturday. another one comes to the south and those two will combine more likely to get in some sunday showers. wake up on a friday 32 degrees with westerly wind. 10 to 15-mile-per-hour winds. upper 40's tomorrow afternoon. the dr. martin luther king jr. holiday weekend. enjoy the numbers. 39 on saturday. and a 30% chance of showers that will hit the area. looks good partly cloudy 43. 43 on tuesday and rain showers of anything next wednesday with highs continuing near average numbers in the low to middle 40's. maureen and tim? >> thank you. so much, doug. >> it looks like the wizards are celebrating christmas every day of the year. >> it's fun. this is really fun. i've got the very latest on the red hot wizards. aaron

leesburg looking at a morning temperature of 25 degrees. this same in manassas. just a few clouds. this is cold front number one. this will move through through the daytime hours tomorrow. it will not bring us any rain or snow. maybe a few added clouds late in the day but high pressure -- that is what is going to build back across the mid-atlantic. another cold front well off to the west. this will become our weather maker for the day sunday. ringing is a better chance for showers. not a total washout, but the best news -- we get all of this out of here by martin luther king day monday when temperatures will be in the lower 40's. here is our forecast for tomorrow. 7:00. a few clouds. 28 degrees. temperatures in the lodi 40's -- lower 40's. looking at temperatures 45 at 4:00. saturday of 30's to around 40 degrees. the clouds along with areas of rain on sunday. not going to be a washout. temperatures in the middle 40's. on martin luther king day on monday -- 43 degrees. partly cloudy skies. a bit breezy out there. and the next seven days -- wednesday worth watching. right now it appe

we could get an inch or two in montgomery county towards leesburg and up towards frederick and right around the mason-dixon line and into some of the mountains you'll have the most snow out of all of this. it's more than inconvenient than anything else. today, we'll be blustery and colder. temperatures will be falling today through the 30's. keep that in mind. so the clouds are going to start moving in tonight. the snow will be developing before you wake up. temperatures will be in the mid 20's downtown and we'll see some teens in the northern and western suburbs. for tomorrow we'll expect to see the snow especially in the morning and watch for partly sunny skies as we head into the afternoon. highs will be in the 30's and winds won't be quite as strong for tomorrow. seven day forecast will show you the cold air, really cold air settles in for wednesday and thursday. high temperatures only in the 20's. lows in the teens even in the city with single digits from the north and west and we'll warm up a little bit more as we head towards the weekend. big changes in the next 24 hours. >> y

as the search intensifies for a leesburg man who disappeared four days ago on a hike. authorities are looking for him he runs a yoga studio in loudoun county and is actively involved in the sikh american community. annette raez spoke with fellow members. >> all day you'll hear continuous prayers from this small room. included in those prayers is a member of the temple who has been missing for several days. >> my heart felt like it was breaking in two. >> the 25-year-old and his wife went to mexico last week for a yoga retreat. on tuesday, he went for a short hike simran later texted his wife telling her he was lost and would be a little late. this room here is where hari simran teaches his yoga classes. it sits empty this afternoon as the desperate search continues in mexico. congregants at this sikh temple say they've been praying nonstop for his safe return. >> i was worried. i immediately went into a state of prayer. >> international sikh community prayed and recited a global chat for him last night. >> everybody wants, he should become alive and he should be back s

. >> reporter: it is coming down here in leesburg. as we drove from the district through fairfax county, it started re ago we were seeing flakes starting to come down. we are again seeing that through in leesburg hasn't let up over the last hour. trucks are already out. we've got hundred and hundreds of trucks on the roads already. they are reloading and refueling and gassing up and loading up here at this silo behind me. virginia d.o.t. has deployed hundreds of them. they've been preparing all day long laying down salt and chemicals in an effort to pretreat the roads. now they are out there on stand- by redding to begin clearing the -- ready to begin clearing the roads as needed. they're at a very low level of deployment, but as officials monitor the storm, they say they are ready to increase the level of deployment. they have a few-on stand-by, really the same story in maryland. they say they've been pretreating roads all day ready to go. they've got hundreds and hundreds of pieces of equipment on stand-by. more than anything else t

leesburg, alexandria, 2.5. if you had to drive in it made some pretty pictures. jacqui jacqui, what do you think? >> it did. we want to thank our viewers for sending us in on so many on twitter and facebook and e-mailing them as well. it helps us tell the weather story, too, we know it's impactful to all of you and this morning when we woke up, our radar was showing it was well to our west. nothing was reaching the ground. so it took us a while to saturate the atmosphere. take a look at that picture. that's from kim brown, west springfield, virginia. i believe that's a little one all bundled up in a frozen hat, right? you have to love "frozen" and another viewer photo for you from tom and you can see his backyard is covered up. got a nice little one on top of the deck as well. and this last picture, so beautiful to me. kim strickland from purceval, virginia. that's a pretty picture, is it not? the snow is on the ground and acts as a refrigerator and helps keep things cold at the surface and boy, we are chilly right now and tonight, temperatures are going to drop

roads here in leesburg are in very good the, loudoun county the city of leesburg and local shops out here putting chemical down. there's no snow sticking on the roadway. sidewalks, depends if anyone's put it out. this bank on my right here the capital one bank here on east market street you can tell they've salted sidewalks and the snow is not sticking much there. the grass is totally starting to turn over to white. we've had about a quarter inch of snow maybe one-third inch so far, but we do have light to moderate steady snow now. snowing 35 or 40 minutes here in leesburg and will continue throughout the remainder of the afternoon. running errands today, leave extra time. drive slow. roads are in good shape for now because they've been treated. any steadier snow they could lighten up and the get snowier at times. back to you. use caution out there. >>> and keeping an eye on the roads from the first 4 traffic center. joining us with the latest. >> good morning, barbara. take a look here. seeing pretty good accumulation. this is 270 at old hunter road. all of these folks hopefully hea

we're looking at 16 in sterling, 15 in leesburg and laytonville and 18 or 19 in rockville. we've got a clipper tomorrow, rain or snow shower. morning commute is fine, evening commute could have showers pushing through. behind it very cold friday and saturday and still tracking this mix coming from the south for super bowl sunday. i would go ahead and plan for some kind of winter precipitation sunday afternoon into sunday night. in the wake of that a very cold start to next week. come back. we'll talk more about the super bowl mix in a bit. >>> still ahead on wusa9 the defense department says farewell to the outgoing defense secretary chuck hagel. >> plus pope francis has some parenting advice for all the dads out there, those stories over 20 years 31 million students started college, but didn't complete a degree for lots of reasons. at devry university we believe there are also lots of reasons to finish. so we help you maximize qualifying credits you've already earned. so you can graduate sooner and get on to a great career. because whatever kept you from finishing before..

by lunchtime maybe walk to lunch, not a bad day but windy by this point, 44 downtown, low 40s in leesburg and manassas. by 6:00, 5:30 going back home, winds now northwesterly and temps are beginning to fall back in the 30s in the suburbs. tomorrow night it's going to be cold if you have plans, looking at mid-20s as early as 10:00 in gaithersburg, upper 20s in leesburg, manassas and 28 in la plata. wind gusts, at 8:00 in the morning not a problem, but by 3 in the afternoon winds could gust over 26 miles per hour and by 9:00 they could still gust by about 10 to 25 miles per hour. get ready for some winds. day planner, 30 to start, 34 at 9:00, up to 41 by 11:00, 44 by 1:00 with sunshine. next three days, a bit cold

border, 1 to 4 between frederick and over toward leesburg and winchester. you get up south of montgomery county, gaithersburg, leesburg, rockville, silver spring trace to an inch and that might be pushing it. unfortunately normally in january this would be a slam dunk for a snowstorm, but we don't have any cold air. tonight here comes the heavy activity. you'll see yellows with 30s across the board. by midnight that's heavy rain, fredericksburg to manassas to culpeper, a cold rain, a miserable night, 34 in manassas, 33 in gaithersburg, but the upper air is what's going to lose the cold profile. that's why we're thinking primarily rain tonight. 3:30 in the morning heavy rain exiting east of 95. we get a little break early in the morning, about 6 a.m. on futurecast. then we'll see another round of rain and snow shower for the remainder of the day, but even then temperatures will be above freezing. day planner, 39 at 7:00, 38 at 9:00 with rain, 39 at 11:00 and 39 at 1:00 with showers. not a lot of movement in the temps. about next three days miserable for the

and we talk about low temps tonight in the teens fairfax and sterling, 18 leesburg, bethesda, 24 black ice is possible, may look wet but frozen u down, be careful getting the paper tomorrow. quiet and cold wednesday afternoon but then we're tracking a weak clipper for thursday, very cold in the wake of that clipper friday and saturday and we're really kind of turning our attention for super bowl sunday, what that means if you're going to attend a super bowl party. >> failed to materialize, however, boston and other parts of new england not as lucky this is a view from the storm from sfais at its peak a satellite captured the images after it moved over new york and boston last night marlie hall has more from new york. >> reporter: the storm pounded cape cod with heavy winds and blinding snow, knocking out power for many residents first responders helped this elderly couple exit. snow fell through the night and through the morning, some parts of the state had two feet of snow fred schultz was out early with his shovel. >> a lot of hard work so far two hours in to doing this drip from the

by 6:30 maybe 39 in gaithersburg, 41 in manassas and leesburg. even though the atmosphere may support snow late tuesday night and wednesday, these surface temperatures will make it a hard time to stick around. so tonight partly cloudy, cold, 26 to 34, winds light west, northwest at 10. by morning partly cloudy and cold. some clouds come in late, temperatures 26 to 42 and by afternoon increasing clouds, cool. this is clipper no. 1, 45 to 50 with light wind. solooks like. this oakland 34 tomorrow, near 50 in culpeper, 47 manassas, mclean and reston, downtown, 46 in gaithersburg. on the day planner these are downtown temps, starting above freezing 34 at 7:00, 37 at 9:00, in the 40s by 11:00 and 47 by 1 p.m. next three days there's your rain and snow showers on wednesday, 41 and seasonable tuesday, temperatures back in the low 40s. next several days, we'll stay cold and dry, 39, watch the storm to our south. right now it should stay to our south, temperatures in the >>> now wusa9 game on sports with kristen berset brought to you by xfinity. >> the ph

a little snow still around leesburg either side of 15. we're looking at reports of sleet toward new brunswick. for the most part, we are looking at a half rain overnight. there are still winter weather advisories essentially west of i-95 until noon. there's still winter storm warnings out toward cumberland, romney and hagerstown. i think hagerstown will have a hard time making criteria. you'll probably get 1 to 3 inches in the winter storm warning area. in the meantime leesburg, gaithersburg, manassas, you've probably seen all the snow you'll see tonight. temps are still above freezing, 34 in leesburg, manassas and culpeper. we'll come back, talk about when the precip shuts off completely tomorrow and look ahead to the strongest clipper of the season sunday night. >>> we just checked a bunch of traffic cameras and as you mentioned, it is tough to find any snow out there tonight. >> our mola lenghi saw some snow earlier tonight in leesburg, but he's moved over to maryland where now it's just cold rain. it looks nasty. >> reporter: that's r

winds could gust miles per hour. 38 mile-per-hour wind gust at leesburg at 7:00, 37 in manassas and a 41 mile-per-hour wind gust at national. so far we've had a 43 mile-per- hour wind gust at dulles today. temperatures in the 20s across the board falling like a stone. 22 in hagerstown, 21 in cumberland, 27 leesburg and manassas. factor in the winds it feel like 10 in gaithersburg -- feels like 10 in gaithersburg, leesburg and 11 in frederick. by 11:00 tonight it's going to feel like 0 or below. the lows tonight will be in the teens across the entire metro area. 19 downtown, 16 in sterling, 15 in leesburg, 17 in rockville. we'll come back, look ahead to our sunday, monday storm. >>> tonight some firefighters are questioning the first response to that deadly mansion fire in annapolis. the fire alarms rang in the basement, first and second floors and anne arundel county initially sent one fire engine to check out the fire. >> reporter: i'm bruce leshan in annapolis. the anne arundel county fire department now engaged in an after action investigation trying to determine if it could have r

at 8:00 tonight 30 in gaithersburg, 32 in leesburg, 33 in manassas. by 10:00 we're in the upper 20s northern sections and by late tonight, midnight in the 20s just about everywhere, 25 in gaithersburg, 27 in leesburg, 28 in manassas. we'll come back. we have a front on the map for sunday. we'll tell you what that means and we have a couple snowflakes on our seven-day. >>> coming up an app that lets you know when it's a good time for a bathroom break at the movies. >> reporter: are tiny mussels that are common in the chesapeake bay killing dogs that come in contact with them? i'm scott broom in anne arundel county, maryland. coming up what >>> maryland's department of health is joining into the investigation into mysterious dog deaths along the waterfront on anne arundel county. >> authorities want to hear from you if you suspect your dog is showing symptoms. >> reporter: i'm scott broom in anne arundel county, maryland, where billions of tiny mussels attach themselves to about every surface under water and environmentalists are looking into the possib

we'll keep you updated from leesburg. for now, back to you guys in the studio. >>> wusa9's coverage of the freezing rain continues with a look at conditions just north. >>> delia goncalves is live in germantown. rain so far delia yes? >> reporter: this day is tricky for everyone. especially for commuters who are heading out. talking about the dangerous french russ steps and walkways in the parking lot. we are in one parking lot here off wisteria drive in germantown. pretty much the same situation here. a lot of it you have to be careful from the snow that is leftover from the last storm. this snow that is left over, there is a very slick coating of ice on top of that snow. so a lot of this remaining snow that is left over, that is certainly frozen up fairly quickly. the rain you can see is falling here in germantown, so it is a bit colder than it was each the last hour 15 minutes ago when we were in kensington. certainly has gotten a bit colder now. but take a look at the roads. looking really great. that, in part, to a l

temperatures, 32 in leesburg, 36 in manassas and downtown and 35 in la plata. fortunately temperatures at or a bit above freezing. looking ahead it's going to get busy. wind chills tomorrow night 5 below to 10 above, very cold and dry saturday. we said this yesterday. plan for some snow or a mix for super bowl sunday and super bowl night will be slippery as you try to get home. we'll come back and talk about how the models have now gone one side as opposed to what they were showing yesterday. >>> let's check in now with mola lenghi who is live in frederick. [ audio difficulties ] >> reporter: d.o.t. crews in maryland and virginia have been pretreating roads all day. between the two they have 1,000 pieces of equipment out and about on the road. i'm told they'll keep a few hundred out well after the storm has past to monitor typical trouble spots. still d.o.t. officials stress they cannot be everywhere. they do expect patches of black ice here and there. if you have to be out on the roadways, you still want to be careful. live in frederick county i'm mola lenghi

it's 36 in frederick and 35 in leesburg. yes, the atmosphere can president snow. surface temperatures will dictate -- can create snow. surface temperatures will dictate. so how much? rain and snow combined a trace to an inch d.c., manassas, fairfax, mclean, reston, silver spring, wheaton, gaithersburg, rockville. north of gaithersburg and north of leesburg up with to 3 inches possible and 3 inches is primarily over the border up into pennsylvania. break it down on the day planner, 36 at 7:00, maybe a shower, snow possible downtown, 37 but it won't stick. once we get through tomorrow great, pleasant thursday and friday, mid-40s. the next saturday, that coastal looks more threatening to us. we'll say rain and snow for now, 37, cold sunday, another clipper monday with snow showers and near 40 but sunshine on tuesday. we'll thank you for being a sailor and my daddy. thank you mom, for protecting my future. thank you for being my hero and my dad. military families are thankful for many things. the legacy of usaa auto insurance could be one of them. our world-class serv

futurecast 10:00 tonight already 19 in gaithersburg, 21 in leesburg and manassas. single digits early morning and back up to 10 in gaithersburg, 11 in leesburg, 12 in manassas, 13 in la plata. these are not wind chills. by 1:00 tomorrow, upper teens and low 20s in full sun. winds will subside tomorrow afternoon. so while it will be very cold, it will not be windy. by 6:00 we're in the teens again in the suburbs, but low 20s in d.c. 8:00 mid-teens gaithersburg, manassas, culpeper upper teens headed for the low to mid-teens again tomorrow. futurecast, widen this out a bit. sunday at 9:30 clouds in place and temps right around the freezing mark and by 6:30 in the morning monday you see the magenta there. that is freezing rain. this is not a snowstorm, nor a classic ice storm, but that said we're still very concerned about the morning commute on monday, thus we've issued a yellow alert. not concerned about snow, just a freezing rain event. so tonight clear, breezy, very cold, late wind chills 0 to 10 above, temps themselves bottoming out 8 to 18 above. day planner 16 a

around 30 in frederick and leesburg. ginsburg around 32. 20s in hagerstown. tomorrow evening in 24 hours from now we do it over again. temperature tomorrow night the same as tonight. 25 at 6:00. 27 in leesburg and 32 downtown as we get into the 8:30 hour. temperatures already in the low 20s in gaithersburg and mid 20s in manassas and culpepper and 26 in la play ta, another cold night tomorrow. tonight clear to partly cloudy. windy and very cold. yes, more slick spots. low temperatures 18 to 24. winds out of the northwest at 10 to 20. 24 tonight downtown. 19 in fairfax and sterling. 21 in college park and bowie. plenty of sunshine tomorrow morning and peasy and cold. temperatures -- morning and breezy and cold. temperatures 18 to 30. by afternoon mostly sunny, breezy and still cold. high temperatures 34 to 38. winds out of the northwest at 10 to 15. it will feel a little colder than 30s tomorrow. day planner, downtown temp, low 20s to start. sunshine, yes. 24 at 9:00. 29 at 11:00. only 33 with full sun by 1:00. so, the next three-day, the afternoon rain shower

the earlier crash headed to leesburg on eastbound route 9 is cleared. this is a good way to finish up the weekend. >> happy friday, everybody. the weather will be changing over the next couple of days. a few flurries will be possible this morning. sunshine by this afternoon. temperatures are trying to work above freezing and will do so about midday, but the feel factor will still be in the teens and 20's through much of the day. still kind of a cold one. highs will range from 32 to the north and west to 38 degrees or so downtown. tomorrow we will drop the temperatures back into the 20's. it will rival what we had yesterday and will be bitterly cold. clouds will increase sunday. we worry about monday because a mentor he -- a wintry mix will move and. >> thank you for watching this morning. we will see you around 8:57. ♪ oh here we go feeling in my soul ♪ >>> great crowd. we promised hot chocolate is on the way. we have it for you. so great to see you out supporting us. >> you know what ginger -- >>re fantastic. they are still the best crowd in americ

leesburg lower 40s. maybe 43 in reston and mcclain. 40 in andrews, maybe 45 as you get in to charles county and southern maryland. and the temperatures are still pretty uniform. 34 in annapolis without any wind to speak of. so there is not a small craft advisory. now we'll break it down, these are city temps. 32 to start. you'll be in the 20s to start. 34 at 9:00. and 42 with the sunshine at 1:00 p.m. okay, so on saturday, yellow alert, no surprise there, mainly rain with a little bit of snow and the polar plunge fest that will be so cold and miserable. but a good cause. 40 for the high. 44 and pleasant on sunday. but then the clouds are return. next seven days. the reason why the clouds were returning on sunday is because of a clipper approaching our area from snow showers possible on monday. i'm not sold on the track of this just yet that they might dive up to the north. but in the wake of the clipper, much colder on tuesday and wednesday lower 30s. sunshine next thursday and back in the mid-40s. >>> t

again 33 in gaithersburg, 34 in leesburg, 35 in manassas by this time tomorrow. then by 9:00 we're back in the 20s in the suburbs north and west and around 30 down as far south as la plata. wind gust tracker, 8:00 tomorrow, this may be overdone, but you get the idea. these are winds out of the south and west, 26 mile-per- hour wind gust is possible. by 1:00 winds could still gust 20 to 25 and by 6:00 winds from the northwest gusting over 20 miles an hour. they will subside tomorrow night. for tonight clear skies to partly cloudy skies and cold, low temperatures 24 to 30, winds southwest at 10. by morning mostly sunny and cold, 24 to 42, winds picking up after about 9:00 or 10:00 southwest 10 to 15. by afternoon it will be breezy but not as cold, high temperatures 40 to 45, southwest winds become northwest winds 10 to 15 behind the front. the front goes through dry. oakland will have flurries, only 29. jump the divide, 37 in cumberland, 40 in hagerstown, martinsburg and winchester, mid-40s for culpeper, low to mid-40s for warrenton, manassas, 43 in leesburg, bluem

we get into saturday night, 17, leesburg at about 7:00. let's jump ahead now to sunday night into monday on our futurecast. clouds in place 9:30 on sunday. we'll put this into motion. here comes the motion. yes, the arctic air is leaving, but at the surface is where the problem is going to be. the magenta is freezing rain. falls as liquid and freezes on contact. probably won't see a flake, could be icing in the morning monday, thus the yellow alert for the morning commute. tonight clear, breezy, very cold, late wind chill 0 to 10 above and low temperatures 8 to 18. those are actual temperatures. on the day planner temps don't go up much, 19 at 11:00. this is full sun and 22 with sunshine at 1:00. the next three days, we're looking at some afternoon high clouds on sunday, 38, but a pretty nice day sunday and morning freezing rain on monday, yellow alert, temperatures back to around 40. i think the warm air will win, but freezing rain during the morning commute. next seven days, dry and cold on tuesday, snow showers possible wednesday and th

leesburg 30 mime ace way from d.c. if that moves back 30 miles we could see some rain there, but all of us will have a good chance of rain i-95 to the east. back to the west maybe we all want to move back towards our friends, leesburg and frederick during to the day on sunday. 45 degrees on sunday martin lug day, 41 degrees. and then next week we stay side most of the day, but look at thursday. back into the 30s during thursd afternoon. >> all right. thank you, doug. >>> new at 6:00, anoty bottom bar dealing with fallout from recent violence. coming up, the debate over its liquor l. > right now a man is facing a murdr allegedly similar cone and she ultimately died. >>> in a report out today, navy says a pilot flew too low in a maneuver. severely injured after e jebting durg the training exercise. >>> in one of his last days in office martin o'mall says he white house. he said today he'll join johns s univey as a visiting profr next month. he will focus on government by and urban issues. o'malley a democrat finishes s s

leesburg, we are starting to see the change over. just south of leesburg, bright colors, that is going to be sleet. not so much of heavy rain, but rain continues for areas off to the south and right along the blue ridge we are starting to see flow as well. off to the newport, temperatures you can start to see the temperatures dip. 30 for westminister, 34 for frederick and 32 for gaithersburg. a lot of areas will see snow later on tonight as the change over occurs. more on the futurecast coming up. let's go to beverly with traffic. >> reporter: 270 corridor primarily wet pavement. a new crash 270, they looked both directions near falls road. i believe what they found is in the southbound sound near falls road and impacting traffic there as you come down out of the local lanes and the main lanes both slow there, too look at that crash activity. on the inbound lanes of route 4 the crash past wood yard, moved over to the quote unquote right shoulder, which is a travel lane at this hour. that is why it is so slow out of upper marlboro. th

there will be icy patches when you wake up in the morning, temperatures will range between 22 in leesburg and 30 in arlington. plenty cold enough to cause slick spots and icy conditions. again, winds will help us out for a while overnight. through the day tomorrow it will stay quite breezy and cold. highs 28 to 34 with partly cloudy skies and northerly wind so those atmospheric conditions should dry up anything left over and we're in for a day on wednesday that might feature for some folks especially south of the district morning flurries and midday flurries. it will be one of the patterns where the storm system moves through eastern carolina so most areas will have clouds. farther south and east you go from washington, better chance for light snow. highs only 31. then look after that thursday friday, saturday, sunday partly cloudy skies with a nice little warming trend. eventually climbing to and then above average temperatures by saturday and sunday. fresh look at the numbers come up at 6:00. leon alison back to you. >> ok doug. thank you. >> didn't think to ask you this. are you wearin

leesburg looking at 6 degrees. 9 in bowie, maryland with lots of sunshine. our futurecast looks like this. here are those strong winds out of the northwest. if one cold front is not enough another one that's on the way. this will arrive on friday. that's going to drop our temperatures for at least the first half of the upcoming weekend. and that will rebound as we move into sunday and rebound, we're talking temperatures in the upper 30's. here's our windcast futurecast our wind chills showing temperatures waking up tomorrow morning. what it will feel like below zero across montgomery county and into fairfax and loudoun. looking at temperatures that will eventually rebound in terms of how cold it feels out there as they move through the midday hours and by thursday feels like temperatures back into the teens. so improvements are on the way or it's going to be very slow. 4 to 12 degrees. that's it for an overnight. mainly clear skies. winds out of the northwest 10 to 12 miles per hour. wind chills will make it feel much colder than that. lots of sunshine wakin

temperatures will range from 16 in leesburg and manassas. 19 in gaithersburg. 24 in arlington. 21 degrees in bowie. and just about everybody else in the viewing area will be somewhere in between those numbers. we'll see the clouds increase through the day. some areas may see blue skies earlier but the cold front advances, a little rain a little snow. old wintry mix moving through. we think very low impact. temperatures above freezing and maybe a flurry early in the morning and windy and cooler. highs in the lower to mid 30's on friday. weekend looks good until we hit late sunday. late sunday with that brings a 60% chance of rain or snow or a mix. it's because the system is moving in from the south. it's going to bring some warmer air with it. that's going to determine precipitation types. maybe a leftover flurry monday morning as it's turning freezing colder and definitely colder that we have through tuesday and wednesday. that's the very latest from the weather center. back to you. >> we're so glad that we have doug hill and not marshawn lynch back there. he wouldn't know nothing about t

early tomorrow morning, we think air temperatures will be as low as 16 in leesburg. 20 in bowie. 25 degrees here in arlington under sunny skies and our futurecast shows it will be sunny throughout the day tomorrow. but by sunday it changes. clouds move in early in the morning and rain with a coastal system. we're thinking just as a rule of thumb that the best chances of rain sunday will be along east of i-95. doesn't mean that you may not see rain east of 95. better chances east. we clear back on again on monday to end the weekend. there's the temperatures. 43 with clearing on monday and stay rather quiet as we head through next week. only chance of precipitation next week will be wednesday and that's a 30% chance of some showers. that's the latest. leon alison and robert back to you. >> thank you. >> boy, talking some really big hockey tonight here. >> yeah. maybe a little bit of payback here. >> i've never been fired. i don't want i'd want to go back. barry trott is doing it tonight. never fun to visit that old job that told you, i'm sorry, but we got to let you go. that's unless you're b

temperatures are going to tank by tomorrow 16 degrees in leesburg. 19 in gaithersburg. 24 in the nation's capital and tomorrow's weather coming from a cold front in the west. we'll increase cloudiness through the day and see a little mix by tomorrow evening and tomorrow night. clearing skies, windy and colder for the day on friday. check it out. we have a 50% chance of a little precipitation with the front tomorrow and a morning flurry on friday. sunny cold saturday and then that southern system could bring us a 60% chance of rain or sleet or snow. or everything put together. sunday night to monday morning. then we'll clear out and remain rather chilly through next week. >> we'll check in with you again soon. thank you. >> coming up next at 4:00 losing money. why the district is losing millions on some traffic cameras next. as a small business owner you wouldn't deliver just half of what you have to offer to your customers. so why are you settling for half-fast internet? only verizon fios comes with speedmatch. upload speeds as fast as your download speeds. so large files go out in a snap

numbers right now at 29 in frostburg and a little higher elevation in allegheny county maryland. 34 at leesburg, 35 in waldorf. morning lows range through the teens and 20's. we won't be terribly cold tonight. we're in the upper 30's in some spots now. we'll drop to about 25 to 30 degrees overnight with partly cloudy skies. and as we get through the day tomorrow, we'll warm it up a little bit more and get into the 40's. that should be a very pleasant day. there's the official range of the forecast from 24 to 30 with partly cloudy skies. as far as what's happening weatherwise, area of high pressure that's built in today chased away some of the cloudiness but down to the south, there's more clouds. another disturbance building up and this is going to bypass us totally but there's a cold front that's going to associate with this. so once all this moves through tomorrow and tomorrow night, temperatures will get colder. so with this action missing the rain to the south and missing most of the clouds i think tomorrow will be a pleasant day. partly cloudy. it will be breezy because of the sun approach

30s in gaithersburg downtown and 34 out towards leesburg. again what appears wet is actually black ice. we're already below freezing in gaithersburg and manassas. we'll come back and talk more about black ice and not one, but two more storms headed our way. >>> the maryland state highway are expecting the snow to put a dent in this evening's commute. our stephanie ramirez is in frederick. how are the roads looking out there where you are, steph? >> reporter: the area right now we're done with the heavy snowflakes, but look at this view that you have behind us downtown. if we move over to the roadway, they are wet. and that's what you want for the commute home, was it the biggest snowfall that we have seen in that area, but enough to get people talking. on a snowy day like this, what else do you do, but pose for a photo? >> what we don't have is weird for me. >> reporter: at least for some it was enough to have fun. the snow blanketing a little bit more than expected today on the beltway by tyson's corner on 270 headed north. no plows or caut

these folks heading west towards leesburg right now. traffic was stacked up and very much stop and go at this point. but vdot says it is ready. now, we visited a vdot facility off route 7. they have 650 to 700 trucks loaded with salt and sand. by midnight, they stay they'll have