Bringing snow back to the west. Bringing snow right now to areas like chicago, just south of chicago seeing snow. This storm making its way to our north and will allow for slightly milder air tomorrow, but were still about 10 degrees below average tomorrow. The cold pattern, it is locked in. Even colder for the new year. Wait until you see those numbers if you havent seen them already. And, yes, tracking our snow chances for saturday but really increasing as we head towards next week. Much more on all of that. See you at 6 17. Now lets look at the breaking news that caused the traffic nightmare on i95 in virginia. Police say they were closing in on a murder suspect in Stafford County and moments later officers say he shot at their cruisers. Then crashed just south of garrisonville road. News4s david culver has been following this story all day long. He is live from where this all started, near the suspects home. David . Reporter wendy, a short time ago i caught up with a neighbor who l
Yesterday. 21 degrees right now in the district. Its 18 dulles. 16 gaithersburg. Manassas 17. In clinton, in the middle teens for winchester and martinsburg. We could see a few passing snow flurries today. We have mostly cloudy skies around. But its really overnight and into tomorrow when we have snow coming and we do expect the accumulations across the area too. For your friday, not as cold as yesterday. Yesterday, we had a high of 25 degrees. Today a high of 34 degrees. But most of your Morning Hours for our suburbs especially, will be in the teens. Well take a closer look at the snow for saturday coming up and your new years forecast. But now over to dave for a look at the traffic. A whole lot of nothing to talk about. If youre going to hit the road, were working the roads. Look at 95 heading northbound at 395. There are no delays from quantico toward the very light traffic. Thats how its been this week. Really light morning rush hours. The afternoons have been much, much busier by
Volumes this morning. Nothing in the way on the beltway. The springfield interchange. Been keeping a close eye on the afternoon as people hit the roads. On route 27 in damascus, a crash near the northern oak drive intersection under Police Direction at the scene. Light traffic getting to it and a brief delay getting past it. Thats the latest. Aaron and susan, back to you. Dave, thank you. 6 01. A terrifying scene after an Apartment Fire kills at least a dozen people. Tracie strahan from our new york sister station is live on the scene with the latest for us. Reporter good morning from belmont section of the bronx where 12 people were killed from that fastmoving fire. This morning, weve learned that four are children. Thick smoke shot out of a top floor apartment before 7 00 last night on prospect avenue. According to fire officials, it started in a ground floor apartment and shot all the way up like a chimney. There was a scramble from safety. 15 of them were rescued by fire officials.
All right, thank you, doug. We have some breaking news now in Prince Georges County. Nine people are homeless after a fire in brentwood this afternoon. Fire crews there still on the scene at this home on 39th street. The fire broke out around 2 00 this afternoon on the first floor and it spread to the roof of the structure. Fire crews in Prince Georges County was caused by a toddler playing with burners on a stove. The flames raced through an open apartment door and up the buildings stairwell chasing residents who were trying nbcs chris palone is in new york. He has new details on the 12 people who were killed. Reporter a dozen people are dead and fdny investigators say a young boy is the blame. We found that this fire started in the kitchen on the first floor. It started from a young boy 3 1 2 years old playing with the burners on the stove. The fire broke out in a bronx Apartment Building thursday night. Investigators say it spread quickly to other floors when the young boys mother l
[ ] welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. For generations, one way people upset about black aspirations, angry at demand for equality made their displeasure known was by setting churches on fire. During the bloodiest days of racial conflict sometimes there were people inside the burning churches much in more recent years churches burst into flame under the cover the darkness. What does it happen . What are the vandals trying to say . Is an assault on a building a reminder of how Little Things have changed. Movie reel exploding on a sunday morning, killing four girls. 196 3 birmingham alabama members of the ku klux klan bombed a church. Fastforward to the 1990s, 60 churches set ablaze in 18 months a rash of fires leading to the Church Arson Prevention act. I want to ask every citizen in america to say we are not going back we are not slipping back to those dark days. November 2008 three white men burnt down a predominantly black church in springfield massachusetts, hours after preside