As planned. Laed. Theres a live look thereook t washington points north andnts a west now starting to see thatett transition to a period of snow. Not terribly heavy. Hea of course with the recordrecord breaking temperatures in theem last couple days its notpets o sticking to roadways ino roadwai general. Ill let erin tell you moreou about that but you get the h ready here to that there couldto be a slick spot tha or two andwa well keep snow in theow in th forecast for a few more hours. O i think by 8, 9 oclock this his should all be out of here andf d again here in washington were s going to see that raint rain transition to a light periodio of snow here pretty soon. So heres a look, the real story rs is going to be philadelphia,hila new york and boston. Os. Well talk more about that butat upwards to a foot in parts ofrt new york and connecticut and rhode island here up towardstowa massachusetts. Early rain to snow. O ow could be a few snow showersow sh this afternoon. This ill show you those coming upcoi in just a minute. In just a were not quite done miwithwit that. And let me mention much, much mh colder air today. Colder aoday. Erin has got roads. Ads. Erin, wet not fun. F wet, no the fun and wevend e seen a lot of heavy volume sool with the good news tucktory. Uckr metro is on time. Im if you want to skip the rails, s wear your rain or snow bootssnos but keep in mind all rains arers on time right now. Ime right now. As we move to our maps we have a crash southboundout baltimorewashington parkway. Wah the easintgtbound onramp to i5 is closed right now with thattht crash scene. Use caution especially bridgesrs overpasses that wasnts they th tend to ice and freeze first. Ze. This morning 95 northbound5 nort crash blocking the shoulder at 610 garrisonville road. You can see that blip ofthat blf yellow on our map there. Letse hop outside and show you some ye of those nasty rainy camerasames with a lot of backed up of backp traffic this morning. M this is 66. This i we dont have any crashes tohes report but as you make your you way past 50 look at that,at, average speeds under 10 mileser1 per hour and just a ton of congestion for 6 02 this morning. Morng. Seeing a lot of volume volume excuse me before that point bytb 630 excuse me 234 as yousu make your way to sudley road sua as well. This is in clarksburg. Rksbu 270 southbound very heavyhe traffic from that 70 down tohato the truck scales. Th and then again as you trye thet orgeat down to the spur. N get an early drive slowly and pack yourack patience this morning. Ence allison and steve. Al lets continue our teamliso c coverage on titodaysnu wee athn Frederick County. Ick coun thats where melanie iss wh keeping a close eye on roadon rd conditions. Nditions hows it look so far, mel . Reporter hey, guys. G pretty good so far in our travels up to and aroundarund Frederick County. Fr were in middletown marylandeddl right now. Etow right we stopped here because we just wanted to show you someou of the coverage on the grassy areas but it disappears eprettyy quickly. Just about a half hour ago,go, pretty heavy squall of snowall f coming through here in our live shot. Ve sh it now looks like itsow l like starting to really just kindjnd of disappear. Disappe the big story also i think forfo us is the winds. The wind squalls, wind gustssqu anywhere from 15 to 25 mileso an hour is what is being reported on maryland roadwayroay weather and some isolatedsoated coverage in parts of frederickek county here as well. L. So, i think the twohour delay definitely a very prudentery p decision to sort of wait andit d see is this the last of it, are we expecting to get a to little bit more coming here. Pavement temperatures still t above freezing but weve seen them slowlyempezing b ticking ln lower bust hovering bufferering freezing so that could alsobu have an simpacto that on some e untreated sidewalks andted salkd parking lots and roads ass as well, but weve been up herep he to middletown, maryland,mar before. This is a pretty good spot for us as we can watch and seeptch p things coming down and itss really, really good here rightei now to be honest. H things are looking great onng gn the roads but do you have tou hv be careful. Be c if you happen to hit one of o those snow squalls definitely su youre going to get pusalhedpusd around a little bit on thee bitn roads so you definitely want to hold on tight and pay py attention. Back to you guys. Ba all right, melck thanks veryk much. Yeah, of course were notmu the only onesof c oudealing witt Winter Weather today. Eather tod parts of new york a blizzarda b warning is in effect. Eff they can get a foot of snow orn more in new york city and thendn up in the boston area airportse also having some issues withes delays and cancellations. About 2000 flights rushed alreay canceled. Eled. Amtrak no Service Alerts fore ar the northet that could change as the snow sn continues to fall. Co well let you know. Ntinwelt 6 04 right yonowu. Knright nw back at home and developingev right now this is in fairfaxirfx county, a manhunt continues inin vienna for several suspects accused of stealing pursesn last night from theht from e bloomingdales at tysons corner. Ect then led police p on a chase. A ch officers tried to pull the t suspects car over near thee intersection of boyce avenueon e and abveeasley road in vienna. Three people inside the cinarthr got out and ran. And. Happening today, theappening Fairfax County police chiefunty will be in court pover the the departments decision not to release the name of these officer who shot and killed tild man in herndon last month. Ast m that man identified asd mohammed duzai allegedly shot so two men took a hostage and setd a home on fire before he was was killed. Virginias aclu says a federall judges order barring fairfaxair police from publiclym publicly identifying an officer in a public scoot shooting does not n take into consideration the cone publics right to know. Know the chief says it helps tohelpso protect an officer from potential threatsly. Ntia tonight residents in upperper northwest will have a chancewil to engage with pout areas recent uptick in upn robberies. A meeting is set for 7 30 at30 t american universitys lawrsity school. Police say there have been nearly 35 thefts and robberiests in the area over th ae past past week. The victims include a coupleuple robbed at gunpoint whilenpoint w getting their young kids outut of the car in friendshipfi heights. Six past the hour lets getu back to tucker gewith all theall activity going on out thereout e today. Not just here in d. C. But in. C. The whole area. E are were kind of on the backthe edge of it. It. This one is not going toone is o feature a big snow event for or us but enough to be b conversational at this hour. Oh, conversational. Vers polinow. Now. Right, exactly. Rightexactl oh, look at that. H, look at t a few snow showers out there. 39 let me mention cold and an wind, thats back. Bac i dont know if you saw melanies live shot but her r hair was really blowing around. Around 39 Reagan National 36 at bwi. 35 degrees colder than they col were yesterday afternoon sooon the real deal cold moving backk in. Winds out ofhe very blustery very cold day. Dy. That will be the main theme. T lets talk snow. Lets talk s thit iit is. Generally washington points pois north and west still dealing d with snow showers. Could be enough towith cover thv grassy spots. Thats what we thought what we t yesterday. Roads are in good shape. Shap. Yesterday afternoon road temperatures were still in the l 50s so i dont think wellthinl get any sticking on the roadshe but we will have some issuesi hhere and there be there someerm wet accumulation as. As. Places like frederickfred temperatures now 32 degrees sod we could start to see someee som things freeze up as you get aeta little further north and west. Forecast for today. Tody. Temperatures will be in theres 30s this afwiternoon. Aft there could be a few more snowmo squalls a little later today. Ite make sure youre bundled tupund ready for a cold day. Day. Wont be like yesterday. Be lik i missed you yesterday. Es oh you missed yesterdaysed ye already. I got to be ho nest. Onest. It will be back this weekend maybe. Okay. Check in with erin. Eri hi erin. Eri i wore my flipflops toe work because i was inmy a sprina frame of mind. Min just friendly reminder putrut your boots on youre going i can shareyone my bear paw a boots with you. Bo i love you. One for me, one for you. Y i love you. Love you. Thats why were buddies. Udies. Taking a look at our tweetsour rain changing over to snow and temperatures dropping useatureso caution. Advice from maryland statestate Highway Administration andtratid d. C. Police traffic letting usts know when youre driving on driv snow ice or wet roads mergead me slowly since sudden movementscee can cause your vehicle tntoe yoh slide. Ic put on your headlights even ind light rain or gloomy foggy foggy conditions use your low beams. Lets take a live look outsideoe because were seeing a lot ofngf congestion. Maryland,arylanern five at the 301 split some1 spls volume increasing already. Al suitland parkway inbound heavy y past silver hill road. Hi pennsylvania avenue cominglan au frome Upper Marlboro jams up. Ju this is a look 28 at route 50. E you can see a lot ofee a lot of congestion in both directionsres already. Things picking up on a lot of at our roads through virginia,iria, maryland and the district. I things are crawling alongrawl right now as you make your wayuy ouon seven eastbound out byd ouy Fairfax County parkway. Give minutes there. The. Heavier lane in some areas and a a solid block of traffic on 50 0 inbound past 202 really from the beltway through cheverlyth heavy trafficroug outside theide beltway by 301 heavier traffic c as well. As well. Top side by colesville road outer loop jams also. Ls metro is on time right now. Ow dont forget to dressdress appropriately. Appr its no the that spring weather any more. Moe. Its colder, rainier and weerd e may get some snow. Ow. Allison and steve back to you. C today the United States t will have a new attorneyheavw an general. Genera the white house Jeff Sessionsus will be sworn ine je today. Day. And his swearing in comes s with plenty of controversy andoe hes not the only president ly p trump pick that is shaking sha things up. Up. Fox5s bob barnard is lives at the white house to explain. X good morning, bob. Ing, reporter hey, allison hey, l and steve, good morning tog you. Let you know first no snow here at the white house,know jut still a little bit of rain rin quite windy here. H weather is not going to be ao ba factor with what will happen win inside the white house att 10 30 this morning. Orni you mentioned the swearing ine n of our new attorney general,ene, jeff s Vice President mike pence willen do thet mi honors again at 10 30 th momorning. Sessions was confirmed by the t u. S. Senate last night. Sen the vote n was 52 to 47, roughly along party lines. L West Virginia democrat senatorot joe manchin voting for Jeff Sessions. There were questions about theut new attorneyhe generals civiliv rights record dating back to his years as an official inial n alabama. He spent 20 years in then te senate. Got on the floor last nightt nig after he was confirmed andd and basically encouraged hillscoural senates now former senate s colleagues to try to dollar a tr better job of gettiny gto alonga try to be a little moree me respectful and what have you. T. You also mentioned another nominee still for the supremee e court, neil gorsuch will be upgp on capitol hill again todaytoday making the rounds. Round the news coming out of capitol hill yesterday was that during a a sitdows n with connecticutnnt democrat senator Richard Blumenthal neil gorsuch called disheartening and demoralizingmg President Trumps decisionmps c about the immigration ban. So, here you have thee th president s nominee for theee Supreme Court actually criticizing comments that thecom president made. President de. So well see what, ifwhat if anything, the president says sas about that. Were not sure if donald trump u is up yet. He has not tweeted yet this yets morning. His last tweet was last night congratulating Jeff Sessions ses for becoming our next attorneyey general, guys. Guys bob, thank you. Bob, thank. Were continuing to tracknti the snow acrossng t the region. Starting to come down in down so areas. S. Right now lets look outside our studios. Our stud the rain just turning over tove some snowflakes right now. Wfla well have more news coming up u after the break. R the of course keeping an eye onng an whats happening all acrossacrs the greater d. C. Region. Eate back in just 30 seconds. Ecos. 6 12. Welcome back. In the news today japans news minister heads to washington today wheremi henilt meet President Trump tomorrow at the white house. Nt tru the two will discuss trade and d japans promise to create r 700,000 u. S. Jobs. Jo. The visit is also expected toxpo include a round of golf at a President Trumps maralago resort in palm beach on on saay. Day. Dhs officials expected toalst return to an island off the the coast of australia this screening refugees for potential resettlement in thee United States. The screening process onit thatt island began in november after r a deal was struck with theruck h United States during the obama administration. Admi last week President Trumpeek prs called theident deal dumb and n officials return theylln theyl conduct what President Trumpesid describes as aen extremeexeme vetting process. Construction of the dakotahea access oil pipeline back on bac track now. The Company Building it gott got final permission from the army m to proceed with crossing thed wh Missouri River in north dakota. It should take three months to e months complete the job. Mplete theob. The work had been stalled forler months due opposition by many protesters and the Standing Rock sioux nation. Ation. The tribe fierce a pipelinepipen leak could contaminate its its drinking water. A former nsa contractor. Tr Harold Martin of glen burniebure in custody since his arrest in august. Martin collected stolent documents for more than a 20fort year period and kept some of kee th car. 6 13 now. 6 13 now. The president is set to meet with executives from severalfrol Major Airlines today. Ines today well talk more about that inatn todays business beat. Ys busins and a live look outside aside we head to break on this ts thursday morning. Sday moing. Well, that looks like weree w heading a little north right rit now. Live look outside. Ide yeah, its new york. Getting a lot of snow upng a there, up to a foot of snow expected in some parts of thets new york area. Rea. Here a few flurries in the nations capitol. Well check in with tucker next. There are some people who are absolutely want and love the snow. This is a ski resort insort in western maryland. Some areas not too far fromot tf there have closed schoolschool today. Theyre still making snow butnob now theyre getting some of the natural stuff as well, well, tucker. And im sure thats a big relief. Reli its been prettyef snowless sno winter across the east coast. Co. Dana sent me a picture. Pture please tweet me your picturespis if theyre worthy of tweeting on at tucker fox5. F thank you dana. D you can see enough to coat theoe ground there as snow is reallyoy coming down just about an hournu ago looks like they have aoks le delay out there as well. Tout th lets get te o the forecast her for you. This is a closeup. Yeah, you can see looks like aoa good solid inch out there. Ut the letget toto it. We got much colder letsldes set the scene here. Se it was in the 70s yesterday. Te now in the 30s and it ishe 30s really getting windy out there h as well. 39 now in washington. Shington. Notice the freezingf temperatures breaking out to br the north. Westminster 30 degrees, 38degre8 manassas. Getting drawnett into our system now and its i going to be a cold andd blustery day. Its not going to be abea terribly snowy day. D wont snow for another hour orur so. But the winds and cold will stay with us throughout thethrot day. Make sure youre prepared for a cold winter afternoon andr af not the 70s we had the last t couple days. 32 the wind gust in washington, snow showers yeahs y were transitioning veryitionvey quickly inside the beltway. Bel most of this is just somejustome light to moderate snow. Sno not enough to cause any to caus problems out on the roadways. R im not anticipating anycipg any problems on the again road temperatures werempes very warm yesterday andry war expected to remaim n warm today. And this should all kind of allf push off to the east and toand o the north over the next couple e hours. South of washington you may see a few flakes but this willeb not be a big deal for youut as were just sort of on the on southern end of what willat will become a very impressive areae a of low pressure off the coastthe and a big time snowstorm. Snowst. Philly, new york, up towardstows boston, steve just mentioned, 10 to 15inches up towards newtw york and boston. York and bn. Thats going to be the main m event. So if youre traveling laterelir today expect some problems. Pr later this afternoon for us fo well get what we call streamers. Lakes are not frozen very persistent northwest winds. Wi we could get a few snowfew showers later this afternooner o but notice the theme. Theme. Cold the next couple days but dont despair. Don spring will be back. Look at saturday and by sut sprs well be in the upper 60s to t near 70 again just in time for valentines day temperatures will be iten the 50s. E 50s. Yay little part beat on thet seven day. Boop boop. In a in ou the radar in little rain can cause problems foro the morning commute. Com seeing a lot of crashes and a lo slow moving traffic. A outer loop crash at georgiagegia avenue. Look at that red line from 95 to georgiath ati rts about a 20 minute delay. Light volume building south ofso the icc from beltsville 95te southbound to the inner loopnd t and then you can see that thethe southbound side of bw parkway p picks up once you get inside ise the beltway. The belt southbound bw parkway andpaand eastbound onramp to i195 is19i closed because of a crash becauh scene there.