Fox5 is on snow patrol this morning. Rning. More Winter Weather headinginte our way. R virginias governor has declared a state of emergency as in that state. N th hn roth has beenta monitoring this. Ng this. You said its going to be a busy weather day. Good morning melanie andie everyone else. Yone areas south and east going toh t see the best bet for snow. No its amazing of seeing thein t heavy snow in the carolinasinas georgia. Ge a vorery unusual southernal soun snowstorm for this time of year or any time of year as weos take a live look outside onden this saturday morningng january 7th. Nuar still dark and very, very coldey by the way. Way even though were seeing somege snow today a big headline willii be how cold it is and willndil feel through the rest of the weekend. Weeken weather alert snow showerssnow s moving in now, flurries being reported at Reagan Nationalat since 5 00 a. M. And flurriesur making it as far west as places like leesburg and over o into the blue ridge. E ri at least showing up on radarad weve got a few snow showersnowo over the mountains an bit of a hole just west of washington was right now. Frederick youre seeing some seg flurries and they saw theiraw t first couple of thursday night. They are not in the game soe so much as areas south and east a of us where you can see then t darker purples as you head hea into places like charlesrles county Anne Arrundel countyarruc and Calvert County couy specifically the further south s and east you go here in ourur area. Area. Zooming in on washington lightto flurries some of it not makingon to the ground inside theid t beltway but yes, it is furtherur south and east along the t Eastern Shore, salisbury toisbu the Northern Neck thats wherehe youre seeing more substantialui snow now and where youll seels the more substantial snow amounts. Am winter storm warning in dark blue including calvert courmntyu and Saint Marys County heremart in our area. So, especially the southern sour parts of those counties could see up to 6inches of snow tw Winter Weather advisory along a 95 into the mountains. Ai its a wind chill advisoryd chis where the wind and cold willd wl feel much more substantial. St temperatures right now itsig i only ninety four washington, 21 at dulles. In the teens to the mountainsoui and 23 in cambridge. Ambridge we will likely not rise much from where we are right now. Timing out the snowfall foror you, 95 is the big dividerig did line i believe through today. Oud you can see were r northwestern edge here in her washington and through about noon well see some snow ssn flurries but there could be a bt difference between an inch att reagan to friendship heightsp hs maybe just a dusting butjust aui further south and east where w the snowfalls longer theyonger h should see on the order of two to three to 4inches. Nche 4 oclock the snow ended inend d. C. And by sunset really fory f just about everyone so the t latest on snowfall amountsmoun just flurries north and westnors along 95 an inch to maybe twobe but that would be more outsidese the beltway into Prince Georges County for the 2inches. 2 two to four from dover downov d through Calvert County. Nt northern Calvert County andy a into parts of northern thern southeastern virginia. Gia. The highest amounts four tountsu six the Eastern Shore downre d through the Northern Neck andecd thats really just the way it ti looks through today. Ay so count on the snow showers sws especially in the morningcial through aboutly i midafternoon. N High Temperature of just 26. Cold and windy tonight. Well talk about wind chills for your sunday flkorec aast. F. Thats still ahead in your y seven day. Melanie we know how to handle theha snow so you know were all set for whatever might come thisu ki way. 3inches, that doesnt really da seem like a big emergency to me. Thats how a lot of thats virginia residents feel at least those here in Northern Virginia not too worried about the snow headed this way evenaye though the storm as you heardy h from caitlin could really hiteah some in virginia. Vgini state of emergency is ine of effect in the entire ent commonwealth. Our Team Coverage continues on this weekend winter storm. Testo Anjali Hemphill live this morning in fredericksburg, virginia with what shes w seeing there. Good morning. Od morng. Anything out there yet . Reporter hey, good hgo morning, melanie. Ing, manie well, were actually still on sn our way down to fredericksburg. Right now we are on i95 south h and what youre seeing is the view out of our windshield while my photographer and iapand make that drive. Drive we are heading south s specifically i95 near fredericksburg because we hearea thats where the heaviest snowfall in at least our our viewing area were going see and i95 is going to be anen issue this morning because asnga we all know no matter what matt time of day or day of week, i95 has last traffic on it. Astf people travel up and down itow any time of day and that can certainly cause trafficra nightmares even up to some eveut dangerous driving conditions. Onn again, farther south we go, the more snow were expectingno and we are expecting several svl inches there. Ches as you can see, though, right now were not dealing with a lot. Traffic is moving great. G we are just around the off point area and were just getting out of the northerng ouf Virginia Area at this pointint but traffic is moving well. Wel you can maybe hear a littleite pitter patter on our on windshields. Thats actually just salt andust brine that has been spread onat the roadway kind of has kickingg which is a great reminder that t crews have been how the. S ha ddot has been out since sce midnight treating the roadsheoa ouerhere. They deployed a fleet of salt sl trucks and we see them as as weve been driving. We see them drivi weve also seen several trucks standing bile either on exit bye ramps or on the shoulder. Houl mower 1,000 trucks arer 1,0 tr expected to be on the road. Theyve been on the road sinceon midnight treating the roadht tre with that salt and sand and i believe even some brineeve ev mixture. Again, roadwaysmi looking goodd but we do expect to hit snowno any moment. Mom weve heard it is actually aua slowing in the fredericksburgrir area so were excited aboutitedo that but again, you know, youou can see while traffic isic i moving well its busy, thereshe a lot of cars on the roads the r even for an early saturday surda morning so were hoping not to hit any traffic snarls butsnarls virginia residents have been urged and especially travelers e through the i95 corridor haver been urged to stay off thetay fe roads if they can because bse again certain areas are going to get hit harder than otherss and, you know, weve seen see those pictures already farther r south out of georgia and North Carolina. Otherwise things are looking aro good. Well keep you posted melanie. Back to you. I hope you have a short trip. Tr Winter Weather impactingtheg the south and eastern United States this weekend. Georgia, thestat carolinas,olin alabama all getting hit from heavy snow to ice and freezing rain this winter storm systems s will impact tomillions of peopll many of them living in as wen ae know places that typicallyic dont see more than a dusting of snow. Sno governors in all four statess iu have declared states of of emergencies there. Ie there. Well, now to the latest onwt the deadly airport shooting. Hoin we still dont know why a w a former National Guard member opened fire at the fort for lauderdale airport killingli five people and injuring eight others. 26yearold Esteban Santiago is in custody this morning. Mori Fort Lauderdale airport alsoalr back up and running. Rni Service Resumed today. Foxs joel waldman has the latest. I can hear the percussion pen of the gunfire. Of gun immediately it was massed chaos people running by. S peopln it wasing hard to decipherdecir exactly what was happening. Reporter friday afternoon Authorities Say any wr airline Esteban Santiago arrived atn Fort Lauderdalesasnt airport. Retrieved a gun from checkedm ec luggage and started shooting sot killing at least five in a i baggage claim area andre injuring others. Ers. No one who arrived at the hospital has expired. Expir theyre all in the hospital doing best as we can do right now. Now. But everybody is stable. We received as traumas fiveum f patients. Tien reporter santiago was taken into custody as then in incident forced people to ppl flee. Then wait for hours as thes t airport was locked down and d t ept by police. The fbi now questioning santiagos family. s last year the suspect was was discharged from alaskas army ay National Guard for unsatisfactory performance. Form originally from new jersey, santiago served a tour of dutyut in iraq. Q. Do we know enough now towe kh know whether it was an act n of terror . As a general rule, untilule,u ive got all the informationnfma george i dont want to comment e on it other than just to say how how heartbroken we areoka for the families that havehat been affected. Aec that was joel waldmanha reporting. T Law Enforcement official toldial the Associated Press that t santiago said the governmentovnn was controlling his mind and forced him to watchro illslamicm state videos. Id the gunmans brother says he sas had been receiving reivi psychological treatment. Logicalm a new declassifiedd Intelligence Report makingin stunning claims about the claimu russian hacking scandal t the report reveals russian rus president vladimir putinident vr personally ordered a hiddenedid campaign to help donald trumpmp win the president ial electionl t which included internet hacking and social media trolling. Trolng. Intelligence Officials Say russias goal was to help t trump by discrediting Hillary Clinton. Trump was briefed yesterdaywas while he finally acknowledgedbrk russia did hack the d inform inr cs Computer Systems hes co insisted the effort hadmp no effect on the outcome of the election. Election. So whats next for Hillary Clinton . How about mayor of maf new york city . The new york ner times reports that many big big apple democrats are urging hergh bill deblasio in this novembers elct. Deblasio worked for both clintons four years but insiders say their relationship fizzled whened whe deblasio initially refused rus to endorse hillarysil president ial bid. Ifpr she won, it would put herer in charge of president elect Donald Trumps hometown. Ow so far clinton has not commented on that race. The inauguration of donald trump just two weeksenteaugu aw. Yesterday d. C. Leaders and the secret service briefed thevice b media about the planning. The pin security as we know, no surprise here is going to be her tight. Thousands of National Guardua members d. C. Police secret sre service and other lawice othe enforcement officers fromemoffim around the country will be on hand. Hand. The city says protestors are welcome as long as they are peaceful. The fact that you have someth folks that are indicating onndin social media that theyrey coming to shut down the t inauguration or the events isves something well be preparedpad metro is opening early atoper 4 00 a. M. And closing atclosg at midnight. Five stations near the mallall are closed for security reasons. D. C. Keeping people informed on twitter. Ed o you can get textn alerts by texting to 8887777. Well, coming up a fight f against planned parenthood. T pl the gop wants to pull fundianngi and the uproar from those whohoe want politics and sexual aex health to remain separate. Ar and its donald trumpmp versus Arnold Schwarzenegger. Rzn what the president elect is saying about the newdente hostf celebrity apprentice. Nt and caitlin will be backeac with another look at yourour saturday forecast. Sa fox5 news morning will beil right back. Ri i tried hard to quit smoking. But when we brought our daughter home, that was it. Now i have nicoderm cq. The nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release Technology Helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. Its the best thing that ever happened to me. Every great why needs a great how. With the gop in control ofth Congress Members are hedginggoea their bets and adding in legislation to strip planned parenthood of federal funding. You may remember the last time around it was losing of memb ba. Foxs james rosen reports this time could be different. Dif reporter 11 words from f House SpeakerPaul Ryan Rya reignite add major battle onn capitol. Planned parenthood nobody aby reconciliation bit. That means congressionaleanses republicans will use these t Obamacare Repeal effort as a vehicle for stripping plannedpi parenthood which carries outesut some 325,000 abortions a year ay of roughly 400 million in00 mili medicaid funding the group g receives for its otherther services such as contraceptionai and cancer screening. Screening we will fight that decision n by the speaker to defundo d planned parenthood and youd pa know what, the american peoplepl are with us. H reporter republicans andca d pro life groups say the fund thf willing go to local healthcaree providers that steer clear of tions. Ons. The congressional budgetonalt office estimates t would impact 400,000 women. They dont come to planned td parenthood to make a political statement. They come because they need to e theyee high quality Affordable Careeca and were proud to provide itroe to them and for many of themf te we are their only healthcare hee providerrism a similar effort ef by republicans one year agoea a ended way veto by president obama. Ob among other president obamaot promises theher pro life groups president elect trump fledged writingtelec in september to dd planned parenthood but justd six months earlier he was talking likeparemonths this. Look, planned parenthood has done very good work for some for many foran millions of women. Were not going to fund asd long as you have the abortion going on at planned parenthoodtl and we understand that and u ivend said it loud and clearler but and well see what see w happens. Reporter still, pro lifell,e advocates expect the next n president to make thee t defunding and his other o pledges a reality. S we got those in writing, a letter from him and werende looking forward to him holding good on his pledge to defundo planned parenthood and redirect those monies toies to facilities that will provide comprehensive healthcare forlthr women. Reporter polls show mostte americans do wr ant women underu certain conditions to haveditise access to abortions but one in five voters according to the t november exit polling dataxit pa cited supreme courtd prem nominations as their number num one issue. Such voters went heavily foreavy donald trump who promised to appoint pro life justices. Usce in washington, James Rosen Fox news. And welcome back. 7 16. 7 16 everybody wants to know whaty is going on with the snowaw. Th o i know. Waiting for it yet again and aga were not going to get much m but flurries are starting toto move into d. C. Its probably gone byon midafternoon but at least maybe our first inch of thencof season would be nice. E nice. We didnt really get it erehe in d. C. On thursday nighty nig areas north and west and todayod south and east will see theee highest communications. Muniti flipflopping from what happened a couple days ago. Loedu lets take a live look outsideui right now. We have been on flurry watch. At they have been reported downepon by Reagan National but a lot bul of people not quite yet. Y live look at the capitol right l now. No snow at least from our cameras but let me know what youre seeing. Eeing. Send pictures. Tu if you are seeing some snow and that would be probably wou areas south and east of us of that are seeing the snow right now. And will see the highest snow accumulation. Accu so, whatsmu ahead . Weekendee snow and cold. Ol snow today, the cold all all weekend long and that will behae a big story with wind chillnd cl values in the teens especiallyia tomorrow afternoon. Afternoon satellite and radar right nowra you see the lightda snow thatsa been filling in across our o area during overnight hour. The darker purples are the purpt higher resolution returns thatet are picking up the steadier s snow which is mainly south andly east of us although along the mountains and just east of 81 o moving into Fairfax County andy even into southern fauquierau county or parts of fauquierr county also seeing snowo see showers as well. Owers as w lets zoom out and you can see the scope of this winterhiwint storm. Snow showers from new england back down into thewers f caroli. Woof got rain shows off the southeast coast andst a winter storm warnings in dark blue still frandsen federalsen mississippi through atlanta,anta straight up the east coast all a the way into eastern massachusetts. Those pinks on the cape and nor soak Virginia Beach areirgii blizzard warnings where theningt winds combined with thembed falling snow will causel cause whiteout conditions. Con closer to home its a winters aw storm warning for calvertfor cve county Saint Marys County in ct Southern Maryland<