95. Bw parkway, 295 an option for folks heading out of baltimore. Northbound lanes are open. Other big deal now, a crash on the beltway in Silver Spring. Thats going to be on the outer loop of the beltway near georgia avenue. Were told initially the right half of the roadway is blocked. A tractortrailer is involved and may be jackknifed. Outer loop jammed into Silver Spring headed toward georgia avenue, 395 north of duke street, your volume lineup but lanes are open to the 14th street bridge. Mike, andrea, back to you. Two people are being treated at Virginia Hospital Center after an overnight fire in arlington. The scary morning for them a scary morning for them. Delia goncalves is more from the scene. Do we know the cause yet . Reporter we dont know the cause. We do know the fire was pretty extensive, even though the house at this point looks okay. Were told most of the damage is in the back and there was fire in the basement first and second floors. Good news here, captain gregg karl says two adults that lived here did get out of the home. They did have a smoke alarm. Yes, a smoke alarm alerted the occupants. It could have been different if the smoke alarm didnt alert them. Its very important that people test their alarms. Reporter they were rescued off the roof. They were standing on the the porch roof at the time. Tell me about the conditions inside the home that made fighting this fire a bit more difficult. There were hoarding conditions present in the home. Completely changed the operation. The normal firefighting operation. Crews definitely had to take more caution because they werent sure what structural members may or may not have been burned out or the extent of the damage to the floor underneath them. So they definitely moved slower, more cautiously just to make sure we didnt have any firefighter injuries. Is the investigation going to take longer because of all of this debris inside the home . Its definitely going oblems with the investigation because theyll have to remove the debris as they search for the source of the fire. Thank you, captain. I appreciate it so much. Thats the very latest here from arlington. Back to you in the studio. Thank you, delia. In Anne Arundel County today, fire investigators will focus their attention on what remains of a mansion in annapolis. Theyll be looking for the homeowners and four grandchildren who have been missing since that fire started. Nikki burdine is live near the home with more on where the investigation goes today. Nikki . Reporter today the excavation process is expected to begin. Thats why were standing where we are right now. Were about a quarter mile down childs point road away from the house. All morning long weve been seeing the fire trucks and other equipment being moved in and out. This is very large equipment. The crane is just massive. I want you to take a look at some of this video so you can see how big this crane is. They moved it in yesterday but theyve been moving the equipment in and out over the past day and again this morning. The reason for that is because they have to make sure that its safe for investigators, a. T. F. Officials and firefighters to get in and start digging through all the rubble. Essentially were looking at about five houses worth of debris in one. Its a 16,000 square foot house. It will take them a lot of time to dig through three floors compressed into one. Investigators will have to dig through all the layers in the search for what happened and of course potential victims feared dead, don and sandy pyle and of course their four grandchildren are potential victims. They have been unaccounted for as the fire started on monday. Well keep you updated on if and when they find anything. Back you to in the studio. Thank you, nikki, live in annapolis this morning. 6 04 now. The president says the state of the union is strong. He spent part of his address last night outlining a new agenda he believes will help the middle class. Susan mcginnis tells us the president is together his proposals on the road amid growing dissension here in washington. Tonight we turn the page. Reporter in his sixth state of the Union Address, the president called on the congress to help middle class proposals, including tax hikes for the wealthy and raising the minimum wage. If you truly believe you can work fulltime and support a family on less than 15,000 a year, try it. [ inaudible ] no hacker should be able to shut down our networks, steal our reporter while promising to work with republicans, he also threatened to stop any attempts to unravel his actions on health care, immigration and financial reform reform. If a bill comes to my desk, i will veto it. Reporter the republicans criticized the proposal before he gave the speech and continued afterwards. He is floundering the last opportunity to set things right with the american people. Reporter in the official republican response [indiscernible] congress is back to work on your behalf ready to make washington focused on your concerns again. Reporter the president heads to idaho today to push his proposals. Susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. Republicans will continue their efforts to roll back the Affordable Care act and she challenged the president to sign a fasttrack to the keystone xl pipeline. The white house says it would veto it. A new era in maryland. Today larry hogan will be sworn in as the new governor of the free state. Hell become the states second republican governor in the last 45 years. Inauguration events for governorelect hogan began at 8 00 this morning with a Prayer Service at st. Marys church in annapolis. Then hell take the oath of office in the Senate Chamber of the statehouse just after noon. And then Governor Hogan will deliver his inaugural address at 12 30 on the statehouse steps. Tonight at 8 00 theres the inaugural gala at the Baltimore Convention center. Washed 8 d. C. Council ward 8 d. C. Council candidate Christopher Barry is turning himself into authorities today. Hes accused of throwing a trash can and damaging a Security Camera inside a bank in chinatown. Christopher barry is the son of the late ward 8 councilman marion barry. Metro is considering raising fares and cutting services. A working budget document explores the ways to cut the amount of money metro requests from local governments. One of the suggestions . Raising bus and rail fares by 10 cents and running trains every six to eight minutes during rush hour. One county in the metro area is banning your favorite container material. Well tell who you will be affected and when. Police are looking for answers after a shooting left one dead in prince georges county. It is here you go. 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Were looking at a little bit of snow. In d. C. Probably not too much. A trace to outside chance we get an inch. Im leaning more to a coating on the grass. Along and north of i70, west of the blue ridge now were talking 1 to possibly 3 inches in a spew for thes. In a few spots. Now beverly with timesaver traffic. On the beltway getting into Silver Spring, normally a big bottleneck. Even bigger on the outer loop of the beltway between colesville and georgia avenue. A tractortrailer broken down. Im told its leaking fluid, possibly transmission nude soit not moving on its own and tying up the right half of the roadway. A heavy duty wrecker to tow it away. Thats why youre jammed in Silver Spring. Virginia 95 none of those obstacles but the building volume north of 610, the hov express lane entrance getting into dale city, newington. Lanes are especial up toward the are open up toward the beltway. Volume in manassas and centreville and getting into vienna on 66. Michael johnson, the man accused of killing Felicia Barnes is a free man. A judge dismissed all charges against him in the the murder of the North Carolina teenager. The judge cited insufficient evidence. Barnes disappeared while visiting her sister in baltimore in 2010. Her body was found months later in the susquehanna river. Johnson was thesters the sisters exboyfriend. He was convicted of murder in 2013 but a judge ruled prosecutors withheld evidence and granted johnson a new trial. That case led to a mistrial. A new witness coming forward might trig area new trial for a baltimore man convicted of killing his high school girlfriend. He is serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of 18year old minley. Now stepping forward is asia mclean who claims she saw syaid in a Public Library at the time prosecutors said his ex girlfriend was killed. They said the defense attorney never bothered to call her as a witness. Styrofoam containers and packing peanuts will be a thing of the past in Montgomery County soon. Council members voted unanimously to ban them both. Restaurants, supermarkets may no longer be able to use products made with styrofoam. A 2010 report found that nearly a quarter of the trash that flows into the Anacostia River was bits of styrofoam. It is 6 13. Heres another look at the question of the morning. 9 of americans say they never have this in their wallet. Is it a, business cards, b, photo i. D. Or c, cash . Good morning, lucky. She good morning, libby. She writes millennials use debit for everything and many people, teachers, dont ny im Nick Giovanni live in the newsroom. Heres whats in the news right now. The leader of boak company ha ram has boko haram has claimed responsibility for mass killings in a town in northeast nigeria. Estimates say 2,000 people were killed on january 3. Boko haram still maintained control of that town and a military base as well. A prosecutor with the International Criminal court says those most upon for war crimes will be responsible for war crimes will be held accountable. A case of International Computer hacking. Federal prosecutors say hackers gamed access to a u. S. Army Computer Network while targeting microsoft and several video game dovers. Sentencing were told is set for may. Police are looking for clues into a shooting which left one man dead in prince georges county. It happened yesterday morning on Coral Gardens court in capitol heights. Medics rushed the victim to the hospital but doctors were unable to save him. Police are looking for witnesses and other information to help solve the case. Two people suffered minor injuries last night when a military helicopter overturned. The army chopper flipped during a hard landing atra money that airport in at Ramona Airport in san diego. The two people inside managed to escape without assistance. The cause of the crash still under investigation. A stretch of i75 in ohio where an overpass collapsed during demolition work has reopened. Monday nights collapse killed a construction worker and injured the driver of a semi. Crews kept part of the highway in cincinnati closed most of the day yesterday to remove tons of debris scattered across the roadway. Mike, andrea, again that highway is now back open. They said they cleared it a lot more quickly than they thought so thats good news there. 6 18 now. It is a yellow alert day. We have four count them, four School Systems closed. Loudoun, winchester, frederick and Clarke County all in virginia closed this morning. Any icing conditions we have to worry about because of whats happening . Up there a little bit more, especially when you get into northern and western loudoun, those areas of the shenandoah valley, the mountains north of i70. Im more concerned there than toward the metro. Even parts of upper montgomery, howard could see a little bit of accumulation on some of the roadways. Some of those surface temperatures are down mid to upper 20s right now. Lets show you whats happening with doppler 9000. We do have snow and mix were tracking coming out of ohio into pennsylvania, West Virginia. Now parts of virginia. The stuff out ahead of the main system were seeing in virginia, this stuff is pretty light. Stles you see it up i also you see it up i81, winchester, hagerstown. A few places reported frederick, damascus, olney. Thats it where maybe some lighter snows are actually reaching the ground across parts of West Virginia, paw paw, cross junction, northern Frederick County. This is the area where we have the few School Closures weve reported this morning. Cumberland, down 219, 220, 522, this is where were seeing some of those issues potentially more so than areas closer toward d. C. So the day planner calling for temperatures which will start at least in town mid to upper 30s. Not move much. 38 or so for the high. By noon better chances of seeing the snow in areas north, northwest with perhaps a little snow or mix here in d. C. South of interstate 66, south of d. C. , does look like the moisture will be limited. This trace to an inch, even this may be wishful thinking. 1 to 2 inches from loudoun and montgomery and howard. Im leaning more toward the 1 than the 2 and more on the grassy surfaces than the roads. Well have temperatures in the 30s today. We have residuals of road salt as opposed to january 6 where there was nothing on the roads. Thats why it stuck so quickly and 2 to possibly 4 in the Higher Elevations west of i81. 34 annapolis. 34 d. C. Notice the upper 20s here. This is why anything thats not treated i do believe could see those slick spots. Thats a 23 in westminster. Snow gets up there, no problems sticking to the secondary, tertiary roads. 38 today. A trace possibly to an inch in the d. C. Area. 1 to 3 northwest. Watch out for slick spots. Tomorrow mader, milder, sun returns. Saturday has the potential for another rainsnow mix. Well see highs on saturday in the 30s. Sunday okay. Maybe another chance of snow monday. Its 6 21. Hey, bev. On dry pavement weve got enough trouble. We cant blame the weather for the tractortrailer thats broken down on the outer loop in Silver Spring, georgia avenue. Sky 9 has been checking that out for us. The outer loop right before georgia, the truck leaking a substance. The two right lanes are blocked to clean that up. Were talking now just the right center lane blocked. Three lanes are able to travel by splitting down the middle. Look at this lineup coming over east of New Hampshire avenue back toward the 95 interchange. Beltway as you make your way on 395 north of the beltway and head up past duke street, youve got the volume delays. Lanes are open as you make your way north continuing up to the 14th street bridge. Thanks for joining wusa9 this morning. We will keep you up to date on the weather forecast, everything thats. More than 15 measles cases have now been reported in california with additional cases on record in four other states. Health officials have traced the scout break to the disney parks in anaheim. Five of the patients who have come down with measles are employees and two of them say they had measles vaccines. Three of those five workers have recovered and have now returned to their jobs. The claims that some of these measles patients actually had been vaccinated is starting to raise concerns for health officials. But as we report from son upon, there may santa monica, there may be explanations why some people can contract measles even if they have had the vaccine. Reporter one door tore says she thinks doctor says she thinks is he knows why some who claim to have been vaccinated now have the measles. My suspicion if they were vaccinated they received one dose. The first dose didnt check their immunity and they didnt get the second dose of the vaccine. Reporter the centers for Disease Control recommends giving two doses of the measles vaccine which was created in 1971. Most children born after that received the first dose at age 1 and the second dose at age 4. Once its administration iied, the vac administered, the vaccine lasts a live time. Those born before 1957 are probably already immune because theyve been exposed to the measles but those born between 57 and 71 to check their immunity. Anyone born between 1957 and 71 you definitely want to check because the vaccines that were created in the 60s, at least one we found later didnt work. Reporter for anyone who questions their immunity, doctors can do a simple test. They take blood specimens and look to see if you have immunity to the disease. If not they start the twodose regiment. Reporter the total measles cases in the state is at 53. Thats concerning. For one sick person, about 90 of people around them who dont have immunity will pick up the disease. Some High School Students in orange county, california were exposed to measles by a