Where fishing is the Economic Life of some. Reporter were outside a restaurant and seafood retailer where crab is big business. The decision by tomorrows Commission Emergency meeting could have a big impact on the seafood industry up and down the west coast. Theres a whole lot of fish and chips coming out of the kitchen tonight, but no crab. Theyre asking the same question did you, are we flying them in . Where are they coming from . Were just going to wait it out. Reporter tomorrow morning in sacramento, the california fish and Wildlife Commission will decide if and when the crab season will begin. He not only owns this restaurant. He has 250 crab pods waiting to be dropped from his commercial boats. It affects everybody, even the public. A lot of people want the crab. Its a tradition with a lot of families. Reporter the sun may be setting on the season before it even starts. The restrictions could stretch from Santa Barbara to the oregon border. Youve been here 33 years. Yes. Reporte
And a few other things throughout that continue to fall. How much snow have we seen . Gaugersberg, 1. 2 inches. Winchester, around 4 inch mark. This is right where we were talking about during the day yesterday. Our forecast looking good for this. Back towards the west though, r romney, west virginia, 14 inches. Higher elevations getting more than the six inches. They saw that back to places in the west. The big issue is the temperatures tonight. And notice were very close to freezing. Dulles right now at 33. Reston, 33. 34 in rockville. Many of the secondary roads will become rather slick overnight tonight. Any snow left on the roads farther to the north and west will become rather slick. Watch out there tonight and watch out early tomorrow morning. Ill have more if a minute. All right. And our Team Coverage continues now. News 4s david cukul cull culve tracking the weather in hay market. Vdot crews are out this hour and continuing to treat the roads. Now you remember last winter, i d
Hours. Were expecting the roads to be on the slick side. Ill be back in a couple minutes to talk about that tranforecast. Thank you. Heres a look at some of the conditions that drivers had to contend with in an effort to make it to the thanks giving destination. David has been tracking the trip across Northern Virginia all day. He is live in hay market, virginia, with the accidents along the way. Test the roads we did to a lot of driving. We started out in arlington where this this cold rain coming down. We headed into western Fairfax County that crossover snow began and we made our way out to winchester where it was a much heavier snow. It was a tough commute on this thanksgiving eve. Route 7, the first of a few cars we found spun out. Farther down, another driver split off the road. That is where Steve Shannons crews come in. Theyve been treating the roads most of today. Heerd in loudon, i have between 120 and 130 pieces of equipment. Were getting hit harder out here than the rest of
Gaithersburg. Low temperatures overnight are going to be below freezing, 29, 30 in rock field, 0 in bethesda, downtown still above freezing but 31 in springfield and 29 or 30 this fairfax. Thats just enough to cause black ice. What is black ice . The road looks wet but its actually frozen. Slow down and if youre walking to get the paper super early tomorrow morning, if your driveway looks wet, that could be ice as well if you live north and west of the town. Upper 20s to mid30s at 7 00 and low 30s to upper 30s by 9 00 but still cold. Well talk about a clipper thats going to roll through south of us tomorrow and take you all the through the holiday weekend. Topper warned us about the potential tore black ice tonight and early in the morning. Jim os mond live tonight. Reporter good evening, folks, at home things are going smoothly here, were between exits 4 and 5 in Montgomery County. The falls road exit, traffic going at a pretty good clip. Were assuming maybe folks got to their thanksg
Of Going Forward to legalize small amounts of marijuana in the district. The policies take effect tomorrow. Sam ford is live in northwest with how the mayor is standing her ground. Sam . Alison leon a defiant mayor bowser stood here about an hour ago backed by eight members of the council and the d. C. Attorney general and said that in essence, despite statements from the congress, not to implement initiative 71 it will take effect at 12 01 tonight. Our government is prepared to implement and enforce initiative 71 in the district of columbia. Bowser insisted that the citys actions are legal despite claims in congress that the city is violating a law Congress Passed prohibiting the city from spending any money implementing initiative 71. Congressional republican of utah and mark meadows of North Carolina sent bowser a letter yesterday saying Congress Took clear action to stop the law suggesting she might go to jail. But punishment if the law actually took effect tonight. So i have a lot