Transcripts For WRC News4 Midday 20160216 : vimarsana.com

Transcripts For WRC News4 Midday 20160216

That goes for the district of columbia. This goes to prince georges, anne arundel and up through baltimore. Thats until 2 00. The National Weather service issued that because of the rain and the snow patches. We see it pounding on the roadways and storm drains are clogged. Please, please, please be careful. Look at that. A lot with that line of tlan came on through our area. And you can seeve about a half an inch here in d. C. So far. And its just now starting to move out of here. Were going to show you the radar in just a few minutes. But i want to show you tom kierein out in the storm team 4 x 4. Are you out there . Reporter im just about to get there. Were sort of on the edge of the rain t back edge. Its tapered off to a weve got the wipers just on delay. Were on 28 in manassas headed on 66. Well be headed inbound on 66 through Fairfax County. Everything is just west. What a difference from this morning when we started off with Everything Ice covered and snow covered, and now that rain has done quite a number on melting all of that ice. Theres still some lingering slush in some of the parking lots and on the side streets, but so far tremendous improvement from where we were at dawn. The rain is coming down, the pavement is heated up and were wet all across most of Northern Virginia now. The pavement is wet. Thats the way it looks here. Back to you. Thanks, tom. You can see the back edge where tom was talking about. Heres Fairfax County. The back edge coming through our area, and it continues to move through the northeast. St h Southern Maryland. This should all be out of here over the next half hour. We did have freezing rain reports over the last hour. Well let you know. Thats coming up in just a few minutes. Im angie goff here at the live desk. One of the big things were dealing with when we have weather like this are the Power Outages. Weve been checking them all morning long. In Northern Virginia, nearly 2,000 dominion customers dont have power right now. That includes a thousand in fairfax a fairfax. Pepco. About 300 bg and e customers dont have power. Keep in mind if you do ever lose power you can get our newscasts and latest information on your digital phon live banner which is also available at nbcwashington. Com. Barbara . Thank you, angie. We have Team Coverage on the conditions. The ice is melting but you need to be cautious if youre going outside. News4s mollette green is talking to people who have been walking through puddles and ponds. Molette, youve seen just about every kind of weather condition the past couple of days, huh . Reporter no actual flooding but we see water on the roads. Were going to get you video of that. Its been raining steady and heavy since 6 00 a. M. And all that working to melt and washawwash iow away a bunch of snow. We see people out driving and walking to get a feel for the conditions. Now slushy in many spots because freezing temperatures. And all of this rain is creating hydropla hydroplaning. A little slit on t slick oe secondary roads. Be careful. Ive only been twout hours. Very icy. If you dont need coffee, dont come out. Reporter let me put my foot through this. Earlier when we got here around 4 26 when we came on the air, all of this was hard as a rock, frozen so solid. When wi come back and join you, were going to take you inside a frozen residential neighborhood and tell you about that. Maryland state police, a good one. The inner loop as we take a live look between connecticut avenue and georgia avenue. Notice all lanes open after a real nasty pothole backed up traffic for miles. The majority of that pothole is fixed at least temporarily. This is some old video. This is the damage it had caused, the big crater on the ground causing a backup that stretched for three miles. We know at least seven cars got a flat tire from it. Not good stuff. Follow first4 traffic for more on what to avoid on this weather alert day. Meagan . As the rain was coming down they were working to treat the roads. Its the sidewalks that still seem to be a problem. The sidewalks are definitely walk, sliding. All from the sidewalk into the street. News4s derrick ward will be live in about 15 minutes with another look at the conditions in the county and a reminder to download our nbc washington app. Its the best way to get uptotheminute information when were not on air, plus you can see our live radar and track when potentially dangerous weather is headed your way. A live picture of the national airport. It looks like weve got melling fog going on all over the place, and thats a good thing. I said national airport. Were working for you, bringing you live reports from across the area. A quick break from weather coverage. 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Im Kathleen Matthews and i approve this message. While city officials are asking them to cle not forcing any requirements. Right now there isnt a snow emergency in effect either, so you dont have to worry about parking restrictions. As the snow starts to melt, flooding is becoming a problem. Theyre reminding you to drive slowly this morning with all the extra slush on the roads. There may also be patches of ice out there. Weve also gotten word from sligo creek in takoma park has started rising because of all the extra water out there. You can see it. It will make the river levels rise in areas like georgetown, the waterfront there. More on the rising in prince jormgs county coming up but now we turn to storm team 4 meteorologist lauryn ricketts. Weve got flood warnings and flood watches out there. Weve got a whole mixed bag of stuff mainly for flooding. The winter storm warning has now area. Frederick county, virginia, and going up i81 through the pab panhandle of hagerstown. We have Flooding Issues but its going to be quiet through the weekend, thank goodness. We head to around 50 today. We went back down, but the sun will come back up and well get some of that this afternoon. Ill give you the daytime highs and let you know what the rest of the seven days look like in just a few minutes. Thank you, lauryn. Stay with us. Were going to take a look at prince georges and the live conditions coming up. And the latest on how to get around town this afternoon. Were back in a its got a lot of what we were kinda talking about. [mother] yeah but this neighborhood,i feel like the kitchen is light and bright,new. We should definitely go see it. [agent] hi. Welcome im maggie. Melanie. Maggie. So nice to meet you. [mother] this is brendan. [agent] hey brendan. Living room. [dad] hey. [mother] hey sweetie. [dad] sorry about that. What about this . This looks good. [brendan] no. [mother] isnt it so great . I think we found it. [announcer]redfin pays its agents based on your happiness. Thats real estate, redefined. Im live in the storm team 4 x 4 in Fairfax County. Right now on 66 heading inbound, Irene Johnson at the wheel. Irene, how fast are we doing . Not very fast. Rerter were doing about 55 miles an hour. So were doing at speed. You can see the pavement is improving. Its drying out a little bit. Were on the back edgel;vn of t rain. The heaviest rains we had two or three hours ago, pretty much tapered off and ended in Fairfax County and points west. Were getting a nice high five thats nice. As were heading closer getting toward fairfax here on 66, it does look like were coming into more roadspray. You can tell some of the heavier rain is just ahead. Lauryn is going to look at the rain and tell us whats going on. Oh, yeah. Looking at the precipitation moving through our area, you can see its moving through pretty quickly through the north and east. Areas here in d. C. Seeing maybe a little bit of lighter rain. Coming through Loudoun County and down the back edge now through the Northern Edge and will continue to push to the northeast. Then that swath of moisture is finally out of here. We have that winter warming up here three Shenandoah Valley mainly because of this right here. The temperatures are just below freezing or at the freezing mark. We could have freezing rain mixed in. Otherwise this is done for holding steady. Were at wow. We just dropped down to 42. We did make it down to 51. Now we have dropped. I do believe well come back up. We may not hit that mark again. A lot of areas are going to stick in the 40s for the daytime high today. Then as we go through the next four days, look at that. We are quiet, thank goodness. That forecast coming up in just a few minutes. All right. Lauryn, thanks. Look at the conditions in Montgomery County where were seeing high waters in sligo creek. Derrick ward is there live. Hey, derrick. Reporter good afternoon or morning, i guess it still is. Were in sligo park. Theres a quote posted from thomas frost, from the snow that melted yesterday, the trees now have their bent up buds to darken nature and become woods. Weve got a way to go before darkening or budding woods. Take a look at what happens when the snow melts. The creeks are running high. Hence the flood warnings later today. Just since the time weve been here, we receive the water level rise. Nothing threatening yet. Again, this is typical of having a lot of snow and being deluged with rain as we have been for the past couple of hours. Weve also seen some ponding along the parkway. If youre traveling those areas, lowlying areas, be aware of that. If youre near a creek, watch out because the creek is going to rise. Were live in Montgomery County. Derrick ward, news4. Back to you. Youre a poet, derrick. As of right now, Reagan National airport has had 40 cancellations today and more than 70 delays. At bwi marshall,e 19 Flights Canceled and 49 delayed. Dulles airport has had 25 canceled and more delayed. Despite the cold Metro Services are running as normal but there may be some delays. Metro rail is running on a scheduled delay. Metrobus is back to schedule. There are service delays on m. A. R. C. Trains, but its running with normal service and vre also has full service today. Keep up to date with all the latest newsbreaking alerts. Download the app at the app store. A Chain Reaction has forced a highway to close due to ice. Were talking about an 11car pileup. Police closed a fivemile stretch of the highway while crews work to clean up the debris. Were told no one was seriously hurt. And the storm system is causing all kis touched down in the south. There were as many as tell in alabama and the florida panhandle. In louisiana, one ripped off the roof of a car wash and it slammed into a nearby pizza hut. My car was shaking and my window busted. Like i seen it like coming at me. Ooh, its scary. As for the wintry impact in new york, the cold weather is causing pipes to freeze and bust. And in kentucky, the streets were so slick a snow plow slid off the road. So what would you do for a free lunch . This restaurant was asking you to tough it up outside. If you were willing to take a seat outside, the food is free. Vortex. All the money that would have been taken in is donated. A look at the best youre probably thinking about the conditions on the road this morning but transportation officials also want you to be aware of something else. Vdot is asking drivers to scrape off their cars snow haul on top of the car. It could slide off while driving. If it happened, it could obstruct someones view and cause an accident. A snow hawk. I never heard it called that before. Kind of cute but not funny if it happens. Pat collins received many entries. Heres a look at a few of them. The best patriot in the gets an official pat collins snow stick. The winner will be announced later today. You can watch on our nbc washington app. Make sure you have it. Get everything that storm weather 4 offers you. Welcome back to news4 midday on tuesday. Youre looking at the radar. Lets check in with storm team 4 meteorologist lauryn ricketts. I do believe that sun will come through. I was looking at some observations from the satellite. Down through southwestern virginia theyre getting a little on the clouds. Thats going to translate slowly into our area. So well get some sunshine. Hopefully well warm people up. Ive got to tell you the we hit 50 and went back down the low 40s. Were all over the place in terms of temperatures. The rain is not all over the place, thank goodness. We still have some flood watches up. Thats the dark green. The brighter green, thats flood warning. D. C. , Montgomery County, anne arundel county, going up near baltimore, that goes until 2 00. Thats because of the snow melt. Weve gotten over a half an inch of rain. Near an inch in gaithersburg. That rain will push out of here and then we started to clear out. So this is 4 30 this afternoon. Again, that will help bump up the temperature. A little bit over icy spots. Well go partly cloudy through the day tomorrow but i dont think theres going to be any issues with schools and then well get some sunshines s as w mid 50s on sunday. Its going to be so nice go. Ahead and make plans for the weekend. ve got more rain by the time we get to monday. Feels like springs coming. Check out storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein out and about looking forrouble t well, we continue to see come up a little bit, but the rain is moving out of our area. That is good news, but flood warnings, thats going to last into the night. Were definitely going have a warmup. Were going to be talk about that coming up. All right, lauryn. We have teams following the weather in your neighborhood this morning. Flooding is the big concern. Also drivers driving through slushy spots. Molette green is live watching it all, watching it all morning. Good morning, molette. Reporter good morning. It finally stopped raining in leesburg after an icy morning gave way to all that rain. Just got some video into the newsroom showing the high water touching the bridge along wood burn road. Thats the big concern right now with all of the rain that we had. And, of course, the melting of snow and ice. Icing conditions overnight, of course, closed schools in Loudoun County and it gave road crews time to crews of all the slush and snow. Youre looking at Frederick Douglass elementary school. Many people, you know, just stayed home, delayed their commute and took their time scraping off frozen cars. But those sideways, walkways, theyre melting but still very dicey. Well, the roads werent too bad. A little slush and things like that. But just mainly the parking lot and the sidewalks, trying to get out and make the deliveries and slipping and sliding. Reporter and take a live look now at east market street. Clear and wet. But, of course, were okay the lookout for water and high ponding in other areas creating tricky conditions in leesburg and throughout Loudoun County. Thats the latest live. Im molette green. Back to you. Thanks, molette. Now storm team 4 meteorologist lauryn ricketts. Raining in some its going to brighten up later, right . Yeah. Sorry. I was already walking over. Were going to get sunshine later on as we continue really throughout the day. And, you know, we looking at the winds right now. And theyre calm. They were a little on the breezy side as we went through the morning. Now theyre calm. Thank goodness. I think were going have a little bit of a breeze out there today but not too much. Let me give you the next 24 hours. What were looking at for the next 24 hours is drying out. Were seeing that rain moving out of that area. Temperatures are nearing 50 degrees today. I think well come back up a little bit. We hit 51. Then we came back down into the low 40s. Well start to come back up and as we get some more sunshine. Temperatures will fall tonight. There could be a few icy spots. I do have d. C. Coming down to about 34 degrees. Once you step outside the beltw Shenandoah Valley, the temperatures come down. I do believe once we get outside it will be on the colder side and there could be icy spots to deal with. Its going to be nice by tomorrow. Low 40s by noon and well be in the mid, possibly upper 40s by the time we get into the late afternoon. That rain moving out today. And then as we continue through your thursday and friday, again, friday is going to be on the cooler side. Temperatures dip a little bit. Really not too bad. Well get sunshine. For your the next few days well have a mix of sun and cloud with sunshine out there and then its going to be very warm as we get into the weekend. Make some plans because its going to be extremely warm with temperatures in the 60s. And then our next chance of rain is going to be by the time we get to monday and tuesday could add a little bit of snow. Its the best way to get information forecast live. Look for breaking news alert if anything major develops. Thank you. When the snow starts to melt, flooding becomes an issue. It means the rivers will likely rise. That could mean a problem including along the georgetown waterfront. Transportation officials reminding folks to watch out for patches of ice. This mornings icy sidewalks are a slushy mess. Youll still want to take your time walking anywhere because there may still be patches of ice that you cant see. Many of the sidewalks that didnt get cleared of snow yesterday became sheets of ice overnight. And due to

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