Transcripts For WRC News4 Today 20140214 : vimarsana.com

Transcripts For WRC News4 Today 20140214

Commercial vehicle truck. Again, just spoke with police, this is what theyre saying. Inner loop of the beltway, approaching the southeast southwest freeway, crash here blocking the local lanes. It looks like at least one left local lane now gets by. The other accident im tracking, this one from earlier, crossing the wilson bridge. Also on the inner loop. And also in the local lanes. This one is still just blocking the right lanes. Left side. Thats getting by. Again, your right lane is blocked, and if youre taking the rails, im still tracking red line delays. This is because of an earlier track problem at dupont circle. Are you seeing delays in both you are seeing delays in both directions. Back at 6 11. Back to you. See you then. Thank you. It is 6 02. It could be a rough commute this morning. Richard jordan is moving around, checking out the conditions in Loudoun County, and has more. Reporter we are just off of Market Street and route 15. Things are looking pretty good. Yesterday, this street here was a nightmare. The snow was coming down so fast and so heavy that plows couldnt keep up. You see the plows are still out this morning trying to get those side streets and going over the major roadways and highways again just to make sure theyre clear. But really they have done a fantastic job out here in Loudoun County because most of the roads are completely clear. You have no issues with snow that was left over or ice. Take a look because there is a dividing line when it comes to side stets. It is pretty clear. Youve got the white snow that was left over, and right over it, the dark pavement. So it is very clear that there are some streets that the crews have not hit yet. So once you get on the roads, not too many issues. However, getting your car out on to the road, that could be a problem. A lot of cars are actually stuck. What happened was those plows started coming through, hitting the streets, they pushed that snow and in some cases right up against some vehicles that were parked on the street there. Basically locking those cars in. So the first order of business for a lot of people that took the advice that officials put out yesterday and said stay incoarse doors, dont go out if you have to, the people who did that and left cars parked on the street, the first thing theyll have to do today is dig their cars out. Good luck to all of them. Reporting live in leesburg, news4. Police are investigating a number of deaths in our area that could be linked to the snowstorm. A man was found buried under a pile of snow in southeast washington yesterday. When police got there, the man was already dead near the Anacostia Metro station along Shannon Police in southeast. How he died remains unclear. 6 04. Three people are dead in Howard County, maryland, after going into cardiac arrest while shoveling snow. The men ranged in age from 45 to 57. We told you yesterday about a wreck. That was yesterday morning. It killed a vdot contract worker in Loudoun County. That man was standing behind his salt truck in ashburn on Belmont Ridge road when a dump truck hit him and killed him. 6 04. Even though schools are closed and the government is on a twohour delay, you might still have to get up and move your car. D. C. Is enforcing morning rush hour parking restrictions. Thats from 7 00 a. M. Until 9 30 this morning. If youre caught parked in a rush hour zone, you could be fined 100, and your car could be towed. This winter has been brutal for people trying to fly anywhere. According to the associated press, this winter has had the highest number of flight cancelations in more than 25 years nationwide. Since december 1st, 75,000 nationwide flights have been canceled. Taking a live look at Reagan National airport, now 70 Flights Canceled today. 37 have been canceled at Dulles Airport today. And 32 at bwi marshall. If youre trying to fly out of town this morning, check your flight before you leave for the airport. Ifs a busy morning for power crews, too. Right now more than 1,300 domini Dominion Virginia Power companies dont have power. Pepco working to restore power to 600 mainly in the district. Bge has more than 2,200 outages now. About 240 Potomac Edison customers are out of power, mostly Montgomery County. Smeco has 900 outages, mostly in charles county. The numbers down in the last hour. This morning the hardest roads to drive are the side streets. Take a live look now. News4s Megan Mcgrath is in d. C. Live to show you what youll have to battle if you are heading out. Plus, trapped in an avalanche and thrown 100 feet. How the man wearing the camera that shot the video got himself to safety. And the snow is gone for now. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kiereins tracking how much we could see this weekend. Preskiing fuel up dunkindonuts. Mydunkin. 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Theyll have more work to do through the day today. The problem, though, the cold temperatures now creating some icy and slushy conditions. Could still be a problem. Lets check in with storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. Weather traffic on the 1s. Tom . Yeah. Thats right. What has melted yesterday has refrozen. Slippery conditions all around. Temperatures at or a little below freezing. And its going continue to drop a little and hover near 30 degrees for another couple of hours. Watch out for the slick spots. Temperatures today i think will get above freezing by 9 00 this morning. By noontime, we should be near 40 degrees. Then midafternoon, should make it into the low 40s. Then another refreeze tonight. Could get accumulating snow on saturday. Ill show the timing, how much well get at 6 21. Weather traffic on the 1s. Breaking news with danella. Thats right. Bw parkway shut down now. I just got off the phone with park police. Theyre shutting down at the beltway. Theyll force you to go on the beltway. Theyve had multiple accidents between 410 down to the route 50 split. Again, southbound bw parkway, not an option as theyre dealing with multiple accidents in that area. The other thing that im tracking if youre traveling the beltway in the local lanes, at 295, this time heading toward the wilson bridge, that earlier accident involving a tractortrailer is clear. Still seeing delays in the local lanes. Im back in ten minutes with a live look from chopper 4. See you then. Thank you. A man in colorado gets caught in an avalanche and gets the whole thing on tape. Take a look. You see here he is riding along on his snowmobile when all of a sudden the snow sweeps him away. The snow was moving incredibly fast there. The man and his snowmobile were pushed forward almost 100 feet. He wasnt bury toad deeply and was able to buried too cleanly and was able to dig out. We have crews moving around to check out the snow. The trouble spots nears derek ward found so far this morning in Montgomery County. And news4s Megan Mcgrath is live in southeast washington with more. Every day i spend three hours on weights. Four hours on the slopes. And two hours doing this stuff. Which leaves me approximately two minutes to get my banking done. So i use the citi mobile app to quickly check my accounts and pay my bills. Which leaves me about five seconds to kick back. That was nice. Bank from almost anywhere with the citi mobile app. Citi, with you every step of the way. Right here in d. C. On 7th street, the road is kind of okay. The sidewalk, your yard, not so good. You see snow and ice. You can sort of see what looks like that. A t of places close to the freezing mark or lower. Our storm team 4 radar may be one of the most revealing images we can show you after nearly 24 hours. This snowstorm ms. Moved out of the area, but not before it left behind snow that some of are you measuring by the foot. Storm some of you are measuring by the foot. Storm team 4 has more from derek ward with tough road conditions. Hour are things how are thing looking . Reporter ive seen people coming through at normal speed. Probably not the best with these condition. It doesnt look like its freezing. Feels slightly above freezing. So you might not have a problem with black ice. You have to assume especially at intersections places where plows had to make a turn, youve got slush. You probably wont be able to stop in those conditions. People have been out and about moving around. Weve seen some pedestrians going to bus stops. The good news is weve seen rideon buses riding through here, at least this part of east diamond. Whether theyre running on some of the smaller streets, it may be a bit more hard to navigate. You might want to find out. We have seen people starting to move around. And that, again, is good that people are moving around. If youre a driver, its Something Else to look out for. A lot of people are moving around on the streets because the sidewalks are not cleared. If you come back live here, you can take a look at the typical sidewalk here. Near the marc station, theyve taken the opportunity to clear the sidewalk pretty well. Take a look, thats solid ice there. And to get to the sidewalk, youre going to have to traverse this icy pond right here thats sort of sprung up in the gutter. Be careful. Thats the main thing if youre walking or driving. Were live in inMontgomery County, news4. Thank you. Were also keeping an eye on roads and sidewalks in d. C. Megan mcgrath live near the Eastern Market metro station in capitol hill. Megan, how are things looking there . Reporter its very icy. On d street, you see all the slush on the road. We also have a lot of water on. Somef in some areas, the water actually has a layer of ice on top. The slush, chunky, slippery, very slick. Treacherous conditions on side roads here in d. C. We also are having issues with sidewalks. This is a sidewalk, not that you can see it, frozen solid. Because the sidewalks in many areas are in such bad shape, folks have chosen ton use them and are walking down the middle of the street. Weve encountered a number of people doing that. Volume is light, so its not a huge issue, although it is still dangerous. Lots of folks say the sidewalks are so icy that theyre afraid theyll fall if they use them. Some of them are just straightup covered with ice. The rest are covered with bumpy, frozen, slushy stuff. I was hoping they would melt overnight, but they didnt. Reporter and just keep in mind if are you a pedestrian, if youre going to be walking around, its kind of hit or miss. Some folks have taken care of their sidewalks and are okay. Other areas, theyre not good. Theyre completely covered or if they have been shoveled, not reshoveled after the additional snow last night, that has frozen up, as well. Difficult conditions out here. A lot of people say theyre leaving their cars at home. Theyll take the metro. Not a bad idea. Even walking to the metro can be difficult. Back to you. Thank you. If youre taking amtrak, youll want to check your train status, as well. Lines are running on a reduced schedule because of the snow. This includes acela. Several trains have already been canceled. Meantime, vre and marc trains running on a reduced schedule, as well. Vre officials confirmed about two hours ago that theyre running on an s schedule. Theyll be adding train cars to help with the passenger load. Marc pushed by the 880 train, 880 train on the brunswick line. That is departing at 8 25 this morning. This is to accommodate the twohour delay set by the government. Penn line train 425 is also on a delay leaving at 9 25. And while much of the midatlantic is getting a slight break from the snow, many are using this time to dig out. Video from pennsylvania had over a foot dumped on parts of it. The weather channels kate parker is live in phoenixville now to tell us more. Good morning to you. Reporter ood morning. Yes, we came here to phoenixville because of trees like this one you see behind me. This tree came down last week. Last weeks ice storm took a lot of trees from this neirh out. Were by valley forge to give you an idea outside of fill extra y where were located here. We saw about ten inches of snow yesterday morning followed by a break in the afternoon. Then we saw the freezing rain. 1 inch. And additional snow overnight. We got up to about a foot in this particular area. 10. 4 inches. A recordbreaker at philadelphia international. And that also puts us in the alltime record for four sixplusinch snowfalls in a single season. That has never happened before in philadelphia. Today kids are out of school. Well be using time to dig out. We see the plows and sand trucks around nonstop around the clock. Theyve been working hard to keep the roads in good shape. The snow did inhibit that a bit. So far, its been pretty good. Well kind of wrap up this current snowstorm here. Getting geared up for more snow later in pennsylvania. New York City Schools havent canceled classes this week which proved to be a controversial decision. One of the issues being talked about, safety. Hundreds of students depend on Public Transportation and money buses werent able to arrive at their normal stop. This left kids in the cold. More than half of the students abandoned the idea and stayed home. Students could be facing the same problem again today. Part of bw parkway is shut down. Breaking news with danella from first 4 traffic. Good morning. Right now, live look from chopper 4. This is bw parkway southbound at 202. Multiple vehicles involved in the accident here. These drivers in the left lane, shut down at the beltway because of multiple accidents. I was watching thisview, and you see these guys are just down one vehicle completely off of the roadway. Again, you cannot use bw parkway as a route. And you see solid delays from the beltway. Heads up. Over here, you see the cars off to the side of the roadway. Just slid off of the roadway. Now the big question i have for you is when are we going to get above freezing because this refreezing is really making thing a mess for drivers in the area. It is. I dont think well get above freezing until 8 30, 9 00 this morning. A critical time between now and then when all the slush and whatever turned to water overnight has frozen up. Big area with ice in the red zone. Covering much of virginia, west virginia, maryland. Nearby suburbs in the rural areas, hovering at 30. Some upper 20s. The big weather story today, this icy morning. But then we have a possibility of another round of snow coming in. When will it arrive . This is saturday morning at 6 00 a. M. , leading edge of the snow coming into Northern Virginia, Loudoun County, western maryland, frederick, Washington County, points west. But then i think it will be getting closer to washington by mid mortgage, getting close mid morning, getting closer. It will move in from 10 00 in the morning until 2 00, 3 00 in the afternoon, moving east of the bay. How much snow would it leave . Nothing like the last couple of days. There may be an inch or so in washington to a couple of inches, two to four, Montgomery County, howard, northern fairfax, Loudoun County, and four to six, the higher amounts, six just in some of the higher ridges farther to the west. But mainly up to around four inches many counties near the border. For your valentines day, though, youll love the forecast. Highs making it to the low 40s. A lot of melting today. Lots of sunshine. Well have a light southwesterly breeze. If youre going out tonight, should be staying above freezing. Near freezing, then snow mid morning and midday. Sun back in the afternoon. Partly cloudy, sunday, monday, then look at the seven day, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, into the 50s. Like that, thank you. 6 24 the time. Today in prince georges county, a judge is preparing to sentence a former Deputy Sheriff after he admitted to having sex with an inmate. Lamar macintyre is looking at less than 18 months in jail. He pled guilty to having consensual sex with a woman waiting to see a judge in june of 2012. The encounter tax place at a courthouse holding cell. And take a look at these surveillance photos now. Police are asking for help to find this man. They say he robbed the hsbc bank in bethesda on wednesday. This is along old georgetown road. Crime solvers is offering cash reward up to 10,000 for any information at leads to an arrest. Prince georges county schools chief Kevin Maxwell will find out today whether he is the National Superintendent of the year. Maxwell was nominated for his work in his previous job as head of the Anne Arundel School system. The announcement will be made at the National Conference on Education Today in nashville. Maxwell will named maryland superintendent of the year in october. Loudoun county saw some of the most snow during this storm. Were live to show you why it may be even harder to get to your car this morning than it was yesterday. Look at that. And some streets are still covered in snow. Well take you through todays temperatures hour by hour to see whether theres a chance for it to melt. Plus, a clean sweep in one event for americans in sochi. This morning some

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