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Its almost midnight, and for many First Responders fighting covid19 theyre hard at work. We told you about those on the front lines, battling day and night to save lives. But now those traveling hundreds of miles to help their colleagues in hot zones like new york city. It is 18 22. April 2nd. On the road. Driving to nyc. Icu nurses, jamie and ryan, on a whirlwind road trip from their home in oklahoma to new york city, after responding to an online posting for crisis travel nurses. Theyre the arches. Yeah. Passing st. Louis. Six hours into the drive. I feel like its our responsibility to step up and do what weve been trained to do and what weve known and felt like was our calling to do. Jamie and ryan, part after growing wave, nurses by the hundreds, who will work 12 hour shifts for 21 straight days. Their helping hands desperately needed in new york city. Where there are more dead from covid19 than the 9 11 terror attacks. I am asking Health Care Professionals across the country, if y
Single shot and it missed him and went through the hourair of a man getting a cut. Police recovered the gun and all three suspects were arrested. The barber in the shot told me no one else was hurt and the person who was shot is facing lifethreatening injuries. You may be hearing some of the crowd in the background showing up and theyre angry at police angry another person has been shot on the disof d. C. We are keeping a close eye on temperatures. Temperatures that could take a dangerous dripip and could make the sidewalks even more dangerous. Good evening. Its not just the temperatures the winds. When you factor in winds were dealing with zero and 10 below zero. Only the entire eastern half of the country is under a windchill advisory including our area 10 become p. M. To 8 a. M. Tomorrow morning and putting windchill temperatures below zero. Currently it feels like single digit digits and teens and 21 in washington and by 8 00 feels like zero in d. C. 10 00 p. M. Tonight when the ad
Loop we saw this morning. The snow making its way in and filling in very quickly. We saw some of the snow coming down pretty fast upwards of a half inch to an inch per hour between 6 00 and 9 00. That was it. But that was enough to cause a lot of problems as it occurred just during the rush hour. Now no more snow no nothing on the radar as far as that is concerned. But this is how much snow we saw, ashburn over 4 inches. 4 inches in rockville. 3. 5 in reston. Reagan national 2. 4 inches of snow. So yes, a little more than expected and colder temperatures helped it to stick on the roadways very quickly. Now, talk about those temperatures. This is where well be tomorrow morning. In the low 20s. But wind chills in the teens. Watch out, everything will freeze very quickly as we move through the rest of the overnight hours. Temperatures are already below freezing right now. I do expect a lot of ice on those roadways both tonight and tomorrow morning. Tomorrow mornings rush could be another
So everything will freeze tonight. We are talking about the problems with ice. I do think the roads will be a problem once again tonight and then again tomorrow morning. But guys these temperatures they dont even tell the whole story. The wind chill is the big deal. Well talk about that coming up in a minute. Todays winter blast created some tricky situations for School Bus Drivers across our region. Our storm team 4 by 4 00 found buses struggling on the slick roads. In Prince William county. And a frightening ride for those students. A frustrating one for hundreds of thousands of others in fairfax, arlington and other Virginia School districts. The twitter hash tag, closefcps or close Fairfax County public schools, is still trending in our area right now. It was actually trending worldwide this morning. We gathered some of the post on the nbc washington Facebook Page and they were shared hundreds of times. News4s Mark Segraves is live in falls church with more on the frustration and s