It is friday, january 5th. Lets tell you about the School Closings first. Then well get to erin and also to mike about our weather and traffic which are of course the big stories today. Area School Systems are not taking any chances with the extreme and dangerous cold. Most are delayed or closed. Lets go over to big ones and well start in maryland where the latest delay is for Frederick County schools. They are delayed two hours now. Anne arrundel and Montgomery County schools are also on a twohour delay. Saint marys county schools are closed. Charles county schools closed. Prince georges county schools closed. Calvert county schools closed. Lets go to virginia. Arlington county schools twohour delay. Alexandria city and Falls Church City schools twohour delay. Fairfax county schools closed. Loudoun county schools closed. Prince William County and Spotsylvania County schools are also closed. Stafford county schools are closed. Manassas city and Manassas Park schools are closed. Also in
You can see the cuban flag going up at the u. S. State department. You will see one on 16th street later on today. Well have news4s molette green with us. Thats in 15 minutes. A man charged with killing four people in d. C. Will be in court today. Follow nbc washington on twitter for updates on daron wints hearing. Wint is accused of killing the savopoulos family and a housekeeper on Woodland Drive in northwest in may. He has changed lawyers twice. Police believe there are other suspects in the case, but have not arrested anyone so far. And this just in to the live desk from metro. The third in the 7000 series trains starts today. Enters the fleet on the orange line, starting in New Carrollton this morning. Heres a picture of that that train looks like. The new cars replace the oldest cars in metros entire system. The 7000 running game cars feature electronic signs noslip flooring and sleek blue seats replacing the brown and orange color scheme in the old cars. The series first rolls o
Afghanistan, and other nations. He is a washington ancestor. A descendent. You are not that old. He is the fifth great grandnephew of George Washington through his brother. He began his writing at uc berkeley, covering the rugby conflict reporting on burma and cambodia. He has interviewed many important leaders. Includingpublications the Atlantic Monthly and the new york times. He is the author of two other books. My brother my enemy. Al qaedas greatest escape. He has received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his articles. Most importantly among all of this he has been one of the Research Fellows at the mount vernon Research Fellows. He is somebody who puts us off to go cover a war. That is unusual but we are very accommodating. We welcome him in suggesting presenting his newest book read writing with riding with george sportsmanship and chivalry in the making of. Ericas first president lets give a warm welcome to him. [applause] phillip thank you very much. It is obvious a incredi
Questions fifty via email. No charges have been filed. Police want to conduct an investigation first. Around 8 30 last night little xavier lucky six years old as you mentioned on his birthday was trying to cross livingston road here apparently attempting to get over to that playground right across the street in oxon run park. Lets show you some video from last night. The section of the road where xavier lucky lost his life curves to the right for northbound traffic and runs along a stretch of three story apartment buildings. Police say xavier was attempting to cross the road when the unnamed driver struck him and kept on going. It was just after 8 30 in the twilight hours. There are no speed bumps and there are no crosswalks that would assist pedestrians waiting to get across to the park and the xavier lucky was in kindergarten at henle elementary where according to a letter sent home to parents he was remembered as a sensitive boy who had many friends at school. His teachers appreciat
I was shocked. You never think youre going to die, but that was very hard. Fox5 was there as she was reunited with the officer who especially hed save her life. And the National Debate over confederate symbols comes to Northern Virginia. Will a local school named after a confederate general make a change. The news at ten starts now. Ominous clouds, lightening rain, thats what weve been seeing in our skies over our area nievment im tony perkins and im shawn yancy. Now, those storms knocked out power to a little more than 7,000 people in Northern Virginia. Lets get right to sue palka to find out if the storms are behind us. Its still going down strong across Charles County, but it is weakening a lot. Believe it or not. That was one big super cell storm that affected so many areas. We tracked it for several hours and i love h this picture sent to me. Its a time lapse actually of the storm coming through dale city. This is you can see all the structure with it, the boiling clouds. A shelf