California Highway Patrol officer, Andrew Camilleri, was with his partner, doing a maximum enforcement patrol on highway 880 in heyward. The office as part the shoulder to use radar and license plate readers to search for potentially dangerous drivers out on the holiday weekend. Instead, chp says an impaired driver found them. A cadillac being driven by a 22yearold, at a very high rate of speed, drifted off the road and hit them from behind. Reporter officer Andrew Camilleri, in the passenger seat later died. His partner, officer Jonathan Velasquez was treated and released. Both officers were wearing their seatbelts. The impact was so severe that it turned a Utility Vehicle into a very small compact vehicle. It gives you an idea of the speed the ball. Reporter the driver who hit them, had previously been consuming alcohol, and m arijuana. This person, a 22 year old, chose to drive while under the influence of alcohol, and also drugs. This needs to stop. Reporter officer Andrew Camiller
Caught up. Im glad the Police Caught them. And why the rush to pay ahead on property taxes might not put any more money in your pocket in 2018. Announcer news 4 begins now with storm team 4. And we begin tonight in a deep freeze. Shock to the system tonight for georgetown fans leaving capital one arena. Its not just freezing outside. It feels like the temperature outside tonight getting close to zero. Team coverage of the freezing conditions with chief meteorologist Doug Kammerer. Already there you mentioned zero. Thats exactly where we are in the hagerstown region. D. C. Coming in at 6 degrees. Current wind chill. Winds not very strong but it does not take a lot of wind to give you that wind chill and it blows through you at 5, 10, 15 Miles Per Hour it makes it feel so much colder. Look at these numbers. 4 below zero in state college. 9 i extreme cold around our region. As we move on through the next couple of days its going to stay that way. Waking up tomorrow winds 10 to 20 Miles Pe
Holiday week. Your news starts now. And we begin with a Winter Weather alert. Temperatures as you know if you stepped outside plummeted below freezing as we head into the new year holiday weekend. And theres also a possibility some areas see snow tonight. Road crews are getting ready and the Virginia Department of transportation says crews will be out this evening to treat the roads. Since roads are cold and any snow will likely stick and drivers license should Pay Attention to ice that may development on wet pavement that will create slick conditions. Vdot is urging drivers to stay off the roads altogether ft. Weather takes a turn. Are we talking significant snow . The districts snow team is going into action. 200 trucks will hit the road and pretreating major highways and primary and secondary and neighborhood routes. Maryland sends out trucks and pretreats corrodes. Person to answer your question is gwen. Gwen, how serious is this. Were not getting a major snowstorm this is a klirp
Tonight. Chopper 4 showing you now the crews getting ready right now. Not so much the amount of snow were going to get thats the problem. Its how cold the surfaces out there are. So whatever snow will fall is actually going to stick and pile on. You can look right now on the radar and starting to move in the western zone and to reach the ground. But once it does and move into the dc area over the next couple of hours. You see the moisture and then not a very powerful system at all. Some moisture associated with it and moves across our area and you can see the snow to the west. Notice our zones to the north, west virginia, under the Winter Weather advisory and areas to the north there. The most snow from this. Not expecting all of that much. Dc area, back to the west, you could see it around winchester and hagerstown and it will move in quickly and once it does, could be dealing with problems early tomorrow morning. What to expect in your area. Got a brandnew snowfall amount as well as
Sure looks pretty outside gary. It does, all the snowy rooftops out there. Yes and you know what the snow does when you have a beautiful blanket of light snow is that it lights up that dark sky. It does. So pretty. Listen, it looks like for the most part the snow is over but the cold temperatures are not. One of the this is not really a big deal in terms of snow. Very little snowfall across the region but its so cold and its caused some definitely some slippery conditions out there this morning. Theyre out treating and pretreating but when it gets this cold that doesnt make much of a difference but i just want to show you, theres still technically some Winter Weather advisories in place. All of this is to the north of the city. You know be careful in the city, theres no doubt about that. Give it a couple more hours and it will be a lot better to get around out there if you have to. Again, cold is going to be the big story because theres even colder air coming in tonight. So, the Winter