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WRC News4 At 6 March 5, 2015

For you now. The last gasp of snow trying to make its way through the d. C. Metro area. A little bit of enhancement right downtown and through portions of northwest. Still snowing heavily towards the south, southern portions of maryland fredericksburg still seeing snow and another band coming in from the northwest. This is actually the cold front coming through and boy, behind it it will be really cold. Look at this band of snow right here fairfax through d. C. Up there towards the Baltimore Area and more snow down toward the south. What are we going to see . The snow ending for the most part 5 00 back to the west 7 00 down toward the south and east with a few more snow showers, the roads extremely slick and cancellation we should change this now, probable not just possible. Weve already gotten them across our region. Next the cold moves in and well set some records again. Winters hanging on. Thanks doug. Right now, were awaiting word on the status of Commuter Rail service. There are no marc trains running today because the federal government is closed. All vre service is canceled as well. Both marc and vre say they will make decisions about tomorrows service at some point during the evening. Well let you know as soon as we hear from them. We tweeted this alert about Metro Bus Service being suspended at 9 00 tonight because the roads are expected to be too icy and dangerous. Service will resume at 4 00 in the morning, but some routes may be suspended or detoured because of the icy conditions. Metro rail is operating normally for above and below ground trains. Metroaccess service may, may resume tomorrow afternoon with but the exact time isnt set yet. Tricky conditions in Prince Georges County as well tonight. Shomari stone in clinton, maryland weather more on that. Shomari . Reporter im here on wood woodyard road in clinton, maryland and it is continuing to snow. We drove here from college park and it was a total mess on the roadways. We saw spinout, some cars in ditches and also accidents. You look over there, stik roadway right now. Plows have come through and then it continues to snow. And then they have to replow. One of the things we saw on the freeway, we would see snow from top of vehicles falling and distracting us. I must say that its okay to clear thew off your windows but make sure you get the top of your cars because what happens is you have people who are driving, this snow is flying in the air and its a huge distraction, its a huge problem on the roadways. Also over here you can see folks have been coming here trying to get gas and filling up and one of the things theyre having a problem with is getting gas because right here he has to clear out all this ice because what happens, they have those truck, they come here they put the gas in which allows folks to go to the pumps and fill up their tanks, and this guys been working really hard. Im going to help him a little bit. Its hard because this ice is, you know really hard and i must say, hope youre okay, a lot of folks tell me they are around about the roadways. As you saw, there is ice out there. If you plan on coming out, make sure youre okay. Also you might want to stay inside because these roads are no joke. Looich live in clinton, maryland shomari stone. Fascinating video of a fire in hyattsville. A neighbor on jefferson street took this cell phone video just as firefighters were arriving this afternoon. Several people were in that house, but they got out of there safely. Were told the snow did not slow the crews down from getting to the scene. Still waiting to find out just what caused that fire. The National Guard has been called in to help rescue hundreds of drivers stranded on interstate highways in kentucky. Two sections of interstate 65 were shut down there stretch, the other ten miles long. 50 miles of interstate 24 also shut down in kentucky. Nearly 2 feet of snow has fallen in parts of that state. Some drivers had to spend the night in their cars overnight. The governor has declared a state of emergency for the second time now in less than a month. Laguardia back open now but a few hours ago a delta jet skidded off the runway and stopped just a few feet from an icy bay. 130 people were on that flight. It came from atlanta. Five people take on the hospital with minor injuries. A wing on that plane sustained some heavy damage. It was snowing heavily at the time that plane was landing. But the National Transportation safety board will investigate exactly what happened. The trouble weve been seeing on our roads all day long it is very likely to get worse overnight. Were heading into a deep freeze as weve been telling you. Northern Virginia Bureau reporter david culvert is live in reston where even the snowplows have had trouble getting around. Hi david. Reporter hi there, doreen. It has been a struggle for some of those plows. Youre about to see a big parade of them coming up to my left here. This is on wheelie avenue. It has been a struggle for these snow has just continued to come down. Finally were at a point where its stopped and theyre able to keep roads like this main roads clear. The problem will be the side roads, the neighborhood streets, vdot just tweeting out a short time ago that folks can expect in their neighborhood a path 8 to ten feet wide and theyre working hard while these temperatures continue to plummet. A rough start on route 7 for this driver. The suv just couldnt keep straight. Only took a few minutes for the tow truck operator to get him hitched and on their way. Think the bigger the better . Not the case for this salt and sand plow truck. It turned over in a ditch in reston. In less than an hour vdot crews got to work first trying to pull it up with the hopper on but the line snapped. Then they tried without it. Up it came. Driver is expected to be okay. Ahead of the deep freeze tonight, youre going to want to do some brushing. Clean that car off. And some shoveling. If youve not gotten to it yet. Because all this slush will become ice. Shoppers at this strip mall tempted by a Swimming Pool open sign today, thinking about warmer weather, albeit indoors. Im ready for spring. Reporter shes ready for spring and a lot of folks also feeling the same way. Believe it or not, next week spring break for a lot of universities here in the commonwealth of virginia. Vdot tweeting out some suggestions for those of you who have kids who may be traveling for spring break, ways to get to the airport a little safer. Find that on my twitter. I just retweeted it. Live in reston. Back to you. Spring break on a lot of mind right now. Thank you, david. Snow emergency still in effect in the district right now now. For drivers it means you cannot park along snow emergency routes. That includes many main roads in the city. If you do your car will be towed and its expensive to get it back. The parking ban lets crews clear streets from curb to curb. You can find a map of the snow routes on nbcwashington. Com. Another School Closing to pass along to you right now. Prince georges county schools have announced they will be closed tomorrow. But this storm is not stopping the capps. The washington caps are hosting the Minnesota Wild at the Verizon Center tonight. Tights teams 13th annual salute to the military night. The puck drop ts at 7 00. Well have more of the weather impact on local sports and some warm thoughts from the nats spring down in florida coming up in the sports report. Something to look forward to. Absolutely. A family driving a pregnant women to the hospital couldnt wait for help after they got stranded on connecticut avenue in Montgomery County this afternoon. They called an ambulance to take her to the hospital while waiting for help to change a flat tire. The ambulance arrived in plenty of time. News4s chris gordon is in rockville now with some of the other problems people are facing in all this snow. Hi chris. Reporter hi doreen. Traffic is light and moving well along Rockville Pike much better conditions now than just a few hours ago. At times today, wind blew the snow horizontally right in their face making it hard to see. This car broke down on old georgetown road near the busy intersection with Rockville Pike. This must have been the best possible day for perfect day for this to happen you know . Couldnt have been a better day. Reporter on river road there was a twocar wreck. Montgomery county police tell us they responded to 38 accidents with Property Damage eight with personal injuries since midnight which is fewer than normal for a heavy snow day. At a park in North Bethesda it was a perfect day. We found the answer to the question who let the dogs out as these owners played fetch with snowballs. Shes loving it. Shes running around. She loves getting loves eating snowballs when we throw them at her. Shes having a great time. Reporter taco got a face full of snow. He is a great reminder of the beauty of the moment. Its just really great to be engaged and present with him and his excitement for the snow. Reporter as for dog owners themselves they tell me they are over this winter weather, and thats a sentiment that probably a lot of people in this region share. Thats the latest live in Montgomery County. Back to you. Thanks chris. Virginias Governor Terry mcauliffe says his snow team hit the storm early and hard. The governor joined us on set here today for news 4 midday. He says there are 9,000 trucks out on the roads in virginia and 3,500 of them are deployed in northern virginia. While the dpof nor was here we also asked him act the controversy surrounding Hillary Rodham clintons emails. Mccauliffe worked on her president ial campaign back in 2008. Well we see the stories, many of the president ial candidates have been involved in the same situation. General colin powell did the exact same thing. The law had been changed after she left office so, you know listen this is going to be a long campaign. Youll see a lot of activity on both sides. I hope she runs. In the meantime it could take months to vet Hillary Clintons 55,000o they can be released to the public. Thats according to the reuters news agency. The controversy erupted on monday when the New York Times reported that clinton used her private email when she was secretary of state rather than the government account. Mrs. Clinton tweeted last night that she wants the public to see her emails. She says she has asked the state department to release them. Were learning new details about the man suspected in a series of shootings in our area over the past week. Charging documents released today claim that hong young admitted to the shootings and told officers he was hearing voyless. Young was arrested this week after shots were fired near the intercounty connector and the National Security agency. Police say ballistics link him to four shootings and hes a suspect in a fifth. No one was seriously hurt in any of the shootings. A virginia teenager radicalized by internet propaganda and now connected to isis. New at 6 00 nbcs Pete Williams explain what is got a local High School Student arrested. Another example of how treacherous the roads are tonight. This is the Fairfax County parkway early. Conditions are getting worse as temperatures drop. Everything on the roads now is going to freeze. Live look at storm team 4 radar tonight. The snow is move for some of us but its not over yet. Were going to take a look at the road now in nournl. Looks not all that bad, really. He certain certainly looks passable at least for now. Doug and veronica are will tell us about the trouble on the way after the snow moves out. The Boston Marathon bombings trial as wrapped up for the week after two days of testimony. Today the prosecution called more victims to the stand. They described for jurors what s exploded. Dzhokhar tsarnaev is charged with 30 counts. The trial continues on monday. It could last until june. Tonight the u. S. Ambassador to south korea says hes doing okay after he was attacked by a guy with a knife in seoul. Mark lippert was in surgery for more than two hours after a man slashed him on the face and the wrist. He required 80 stitches. Doctors say hes suffering some paralysis of his face and arm. The suspect was protesting u. S. And south Korean Military xer siszs. He is now locked up. New information tonight about the woodbridge teenager accused of helping another teen travel to syria to join isis. Were learning he may have been radicalized online. Nbc justice correspondent Pete Williams ha the latest developments. Reporter local and federal Officials Say a 17yearold from the Powells Creek neighborhood in woodbridge helped an 18yearold get to syria with a goal of joining up with isis fighters. Officials say the 17yearold whose name has not been released because hes a juvenile was arrested a week ago at home. An internal advisory from the fbi and dhs issued last weekend to local Law Enforcement said isis propaganda likely influenced a virginiabased youth to create produce, and disseminate violent extremist metsaging via social media. Authorities say the student who attended Osbourne Park High School used the internet to make travel arrangements and find contacts in syria. Federal Officials Say theyre work ong plans to charge the student as an adult and they are preparing to file terrorism support charges against the 18yearold who headed for syria. Authorities say this is the latest example of whats becoming a familiar scenario. A young person radicalized by internet propaganda. Experts say the jihadist message is attractive to young people who are struggling to understand their own identities and how their muslim religion fits in with events halfway around the world. Pete williams nbc news. Pete will have more on the arrest coming up on nbc nightly news starting at 7 00. We go back to doug in the Weather Center now with the latest on has the snow stopped for us yet, doug . Its stopped for much of the region but still snowing in northwest, still snowing downtown area just a little sliver of snow continues but most down towards Southern Maryland. Thats where the heaviest snow continues to be. Take a look at the snowfall map. This was close to what we put out for last night. We did a pretty good job here 6 to 9 inches for the most part back to the west, a few areas got a little more 4 to 6 inches d. C. Down to the south and we have seen totals over that 6inch mark. Fredericksburg at 7 inches down around the southern portions of leonardtown, just six miles to the north, about 5 inches of snow toward that region. A pretty good hefty snowfall around the area today. Storm team 4 radar currently show where is that snow is. Again, its just down to the south in through Southern Maryland leonardtown picking up 1 to 2 inches per hour right now. Heres that band coming in through the d. C. Metro area. And then back to the west weve got another band that were going to be looking at too. We have some live pictures. Where are these from guys . Oh this is prosperity road in fairfax. This is a plow plou that is stuck. We have our crews out there right now. Yet another plow actually stuck on the roads too. You can see this is one of those back roads there in the areas of Fairfax County. Fairfax county upwards of 4 to 6 inches of snow. Some areas, reston coming in at 8 inches in Fairfax County. But the snow is all done. Down to the south, still seeing that snow down toward st. Marys county southern portions of calvert county. Another band right here. What is this band . Thats the arctic part of this front. Its coming down behind it much colder air. Temperatures now in the Single Digits to lower teens back there and thats where well be overnight tonight. Our snow will continue to move down to the south by 8 00 tonight, just about everybody, a few snow showers left over. But the real factor tonight is going to be the cold. Once the snow is ended, the cold really moves in and it will be rather breezy too, so with that were talking act windchills and a windchill advisory in in effect. 25 in winchester 28 down towards fredericksburg. That after a high of 51 yesterday. Much colder today with that snow and theres that windchill advisory. Howard county Montgomery County Loudoun County northern faulkier and everybody to the west. Windchills tonight 15 below to 5 below zero. Now, just because Southern Maryland fredericksburg the Northern Neck just because d. C. Youre not in the advisory to be just as cold in those areas. Take a look. Feelslike temperatures tonight, down to 15 in gaithersburg by 8 00 15 manassas by 11 00 sinls back to the west 16 in d. C. And by early tomorrow morning were below zero in many areas. 5 below in gaithersburg 3 below martinsburg, 3 below in Leesburg Fredericksburg coming in at zero degrees. A very cold start to our friday. Good thing that the schools are starting to cancel because its going to be very slick, very icy, and, yes, very cold too. 27 for a High Temperature tomorrow. 42 degrees on saturday. 47 on sunday. And notice were moving in the right direction. 50 on monday. Lets just keep going. We increase every single day. 53 on tuesday. 59 on wednesday. 64 on thursday. The last time we had at least three days in a row, 50 degrees or better christmas. Say that again, doug. Next thursday looking at 64 okay. 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