Expects around the district, most of our counties in maryland expecting very high winds today and were talking about wind gusts near 60 Miles Per Hour. These are winds that we typically see in a thunderstorm. We do expect it to continue through the afternoon so its not just this morning. Its going to run through almost the rest of the day. Current wind gusts near 26 Miles Per Hour in the district. Leesburg near 40mileperhour wind gusts. Take a look at martinsburg now up to 45 but these winds will be increasing so make sure you plan accordingly. We also have some issues out there on the roads. Good morning. Several problems on the roadways here this morning. This one is actually one thats starting to get some real delays southbound. Southbound near 109. Crash on the left side of the roadway, the rest of what im talking about this morning, lots of downed trees, lots of downed wires. Wyoming avenue at connecticut, downed tree with some lanes blocked there. 66 and inner loop and outer loop of the beltway are just fine as well. Well have a lot more, and ill talk about travel times coming up in a couple of minutes. Weve been tracking all the damage all morning long for you. Weve seen quite a bit of it. This is what it looks like where a downed power line has knocked out power there. Were live with a look at what it could mean for folks in that area. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Weve got some progress to report. Theres a do minian virginia power truck on the scene here. Still very dark and quiet on this street here but theres progress. Weve been waiting for that crew to get here to join up with the v dot cruise so they can work on the power lines and the tree branches that are hanging on those sagging lines. Also a power pole caught up in all of that. Nearby, Marshall High School and Mcclain High School and several other schools in this vicinity, so that could be the reason for obviously making the call for school to be delayed today. Virginias department of transportation has been on the scene here for quite some sometime so progress to report. There was a crash truck trying to get down this street but of course this area is blocked off. Thats the situation here in this part of town this morning. Back to you. Thank you. And we want you to take a look at this video from arlington. High winds took out a power line lighting up a fire at columbia pike and south quin street. Those flames sparked in the middle of the street. The high winds knocking down trees and branches intooa clean up this mess. This is germantown maryland. Its blocking the entrance to two homes. Justin finch is staying on top of the issues in Montgomery County. The wind has been so strong it ripped off part of an Apartment Building in southeast washington. Look at the scene here. Theres debris, wires down, a transformer also brought down. There was no one injured though. The red cross is helping families now that are displaced. And with so many wires down were keeping an eye on the Power Outages. Angie has the number from the live desk. Good morning. Some good news, more people getting their power back on this hour, but we still have a lot of you in the dark. 14,458 dominion customers still without power. Pepco it looks like just a little more than 1,000 as you break down the novec, just 453 in the dark. Moving over to maryland, first Energy Reporting 1,463 without power. Bge looking at 609 and we know that there are more in baltimore and smeco just 22. Schools in Fairfax County looking at a twohour delay because of all the debris in the road. One of the most helpful things to have today is the nbc washington app. You can sign up for alerts and well send you updates on any big issues happening on the roads and the latest forecast so you can stay ahead of the game. And for the second straight week President Trump will welcome a foreign leader to the white house. Hes expected to immediate with canadian Prime Minister today. Theyre expected to talk about common interests like jobs, Economic Growth and trade, but theyre also expected to touch on subjects they disagree on like immigration and refugee policies. North korea is calling its latest missile test a success. It was launched sunday. South korea has condemned the test and the u. S. Military says a launch was no threat to north america. Some breaking news now, we are working to find out more about a deadly shooting in d. C. This happened in southeast d. C. Right by the Ferebee Hope Rec Center. All we know right now is there was a shooting and someone died. Well let you know when we learn something. Take a look at your screen. Police are looking for this boy. Miguel escobar. He is 14 years old and has been missing since wednesday. Escobar was last seen on hol brook terrace. He was wearing a black sweater, khaki pants and red and black shoes. If you have any information about his where abouts call police. There are some big changes because of safe track. Until february line will be shut down between rosland and the pentagon stations. The Arlington Cemetery station will stay closed but you can hop on a shuttle there from the pentagon. Yellow line rush plus trains will run all day between franconia, springfield and green belt. They will also run between Mount Vernon Square and untington. You will have to wait about 8 minutes to catch a green line train. New reports of arrests in northern virginia. Whats being done to help People Living in fear . And did you see it . The battle of the music divas. Well get you caught up on the grammy awards. 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M. , 60mileperhour wind gusts starting to develop. Temperatures in the upper 30s. 40mileperhour wind gusts. Dry roads though and through the afternoon. Dry roads but still very windy. Highs near 50 degrees. We do have the high wind warning through most of the area and that just means winds will continue to gust near 60 miles an hour. Lets take a look at the roads with all that wind out there. A lot of problems here. Birchwood drive, this is a new one here. At galloway we are shut down because of a downed tree. 270 southbound near 109. That crash is gone, still have a little bit of delay southbound as youre headed toward 109 there. Taking a look at travel times, 270 south from germantown to the spur, top of the beltway no major problems there. 95 north just fine. More than 100,000 people of a break. Aaron, eun, that number that are being told right now to leave their homes in fact, is growing. Officials saying the emergency spillway in the countrys tallest dam could still fail at any moment. That number closer to 200,000 people now from several Northern California towns that surround the dam. Theyre being told to evacuate. The National Guard ready to move in to help with ground and air support. The main spillway was damaged by severe storms. Now, fit fails Officials Say the damage could be catastrophic. Back to you. Thank you. Wow, if all the snow they had wasnt bad enough, snow again in multiple states. New york is under a winter storm warning as much as 8 inches is supposed to fall there and boston even more, two feet. Theyre dealing with blizzard co closed today. Thats a rarity in that part of the country. Emergency officials asked people to clear off fire hydrants in case of a fire. A federal judge . Washington will hear arguments on whether to stop work on the Dakota Access pipeline until a legal battle with American Indian tribes is resolved. They say that the pipeline threatens Drinking Water and cultural sites. The developer received permission to lay pipe in north dakota. President trump is taking credit for what he calls the crackdown on criminals. After reports of possible ice arrests in alexandria, a Democratic State senator said some are afraid to go to church and school. Members of casa went door to door to make sure immigrants knew their rights. This one is you dont have to open the door when the police or ice o your house. You dont have to open the door. You dont have to sign up anything. You you can remain silent. Ice says the majority of those arrested in raids across the country had criminal convictions. The music word is mourning the loss of a jazz legend today. Al jarreau. He was a 7 time grammy winner and one of the few artists to win grammies in three different categories. His biggest single, were in the love together hit the charts in 1981. Now, he was slated to play the Howard Theater here on friday. He was 76 years old. Actors, musicians and lovers of jazz and music all over the world pay tribute on social media. Many of you on our Facebook Page as well. Well have more on his life and mu music in our nbc washington app. And his death came as a shock just before the music world came together. The big story was adele at the grammies. And the grammy goes to t 25, adele. Adele made history. She took home the three top awards last night. Album, record and song of the year. What makes that an even bigger deal, this is the second time shes done this and no other artist has done it twice and she thanked another artist in her ak suspe acceptance speech. Queen b and i adore you, and you move my soul every single day and you have done the last 17 years. A lot of people also talking about adeles tribute to george the song after there was a Technical Glitch which is sort of how adele works. Its so charming and sweet when it comes from her. She just is very real to me. She apologized over and over saying she had to get it right for him. Eight more days until bao bao leaves the national zoo. Shes going to move thousands of miles away to take care of the Conservation Program in china. A huge party. Look at all the crowds who showed up and i attended of course to say goodbye myself. Shes grown so much. Right . Heres what the zoos director had to say about bao baos future. Shes already part of the this Species Survival plan and maybe in two or three years she might become a mom herself and some of her grandchildren may be introduced back into the wild in just wrap your head around that. Little baby bao baos everywhere. You can join in the farewell festivities uchl you can follow the zoo on social media or watch the panda camptoonline. Something you can join in on, 10 00 and 1 30, the keepers give her a treat. You can watch that on the cam. Its like moving for a new job. The 18 month old, heel also have to leave before he turns four. Were not letting you go anywhere. And that big fur coat on this morning, thats what youre going to need. Ins laug insulation. Had a Little Thunder shower go through but the atmosphere, the winds are really howling up about 3 or 4,000 feet above the surface and any time you get a convection, a thunderstorm or even daytime heating you have the over the atmosphere and you can mix those wind speeds down to the surface and thats what happened last night. A 65mileperhour gust at reagan national. A 73mileperhour gust, dulles 58mileperhour and the high Wind Warnings there for all the d. C. Metro area. That continues until 6 00 tonight and theres a real possibility here, once we get the sun back up that we could have winds gusting to near 60 Miles Per Hour. Stay ahead of the weather. Have your nbc washington app downloaded and fired up to keep you ahead of the forecast and the weather and you can also find me on facebook and twitter. So weather impacts this morning, problematic. Watch out for downed trees and power lines. If you have any unsecured items outside, trash cans make sure any downed power lines, stay away from them. Treat them as though they have electricity running through them. Tomorrow, nothing to worry about. A peek at the weekend, saturday and sunday both look good. Saturday mostly in the upper 50s. Those howling northwest winds could even have a come of snow showers. I did have a twitter follower send me some pictures of snow flakes on the window here. If you see any of those you can send that to me on twitter. So heres your extended forecast then. For today, windy and in the 40s. Tomorrow 53 and sunny. A little chance for showers early in the day on wednesday and better rain chances the farther south you live. Top of the hour, a check on these extreme winds. Few nor it is time to check on Melissa Mollet and see if theres any extreme traffic. No extreme traffic right now. I do have a problem on the yellow line. Delays both all of the main routes in and out of town everything looking good. No major issues. Well talk about a couple of little problems we are seeing though. Wire down across the roadway there. This is our one issue. Northbound 295 north of the beltway, one lane is getting by the crash there. Thats the only real issue were seeing right now. That is not weather related from all the wind bringing down trees and wires. Wyoming avenue at connecticut avenue there in northwest, still have that downed tree here this morning. As far as travel times well take a look at those in just a couple of minutes. All right. Thank you. It is a special week here at news 4. This is our random acts of kindness week and we are paying it forward all week long. We want to hear the ways that you are helping to spread kindness in your community and we are thinking you too. Were going to thank the staff, were going teachers, we know theyll be excited. Here we go. All right. 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She talked about her divorce, the election and wasnt even in uniform. The captain is late and then she shows up dressed like a civilian and asked us to take a vote to see whether we should have her change in her uniform or fly as is. United release this statement which says they replaced the pilot immediately with a new one. The company apologized for what happened and said they hold theirmp standards. The College Basketball player shot. What were learning about the condition of this star caught in a drive by shooting. A large limb comes crashing down in Montgomery County in the wake of those high winds overnight. A live report coming up. And coming up ill show you what you can expect for the rest of the day today with those dangerous winds in place. Also chuck has a look at if four things you need to know before you step outside. All wild winds, trees down. You may be waking up to a cleanup job outside. North korea says it has successfully conducted a test of a new missile. And grammy night is over but the reaction is still pouring in. It is 6 30 right now. It is a busy weather alert morning. We normally go straight to weather and traffic but first a live look at some of the wires down in Fairfax County. We have a number of Power Outages and due to those outages all Fairfax CountyPublic Schools will open two hours late. Chuck bell is here now with a look at what we can expect in the next few hours. Really windy out there. Dangerously so and it is c