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Order. Today, saturday, december 29, order. Today, saturday, december 29, 2012. Captions paid for by Nbcuniversal Television and welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im cain for lester holt. Just when you thought it was safe to go out, another storm is hitting the east coast. There wont be as bad as the storm that spun off tornadoes and dumped heavy snow across the northeast and the east this week. It could certainly impact holiday travel. Well have the latest coming up in a moment. Also ahead, in the wake of the Sandy Hook School tragedy, a new plan from the controversial sheriff in arizona. He wants armed volunteers to patrol the schools there. Well get into that debate. Then, well share with you a romance story 20 years in the making. It began with a simple love letter in Elementary Sch ....
Advancing southwest to northeast. Areas in green, thats some light rain now falling in much of prince georges county, charles, calvert, the eastern shore. Further north and west, prince william, fauquier, much of Fairfax County getting some light freezing rain. Many of those locations have had about a tenth of an inch of ice and much of Loudoun County as much as 0. 3 of an inch of ice, a little over a quarter of an inch as well as around Montgomery County, southern frederick and up into carroll county, those are the zones that got the heaviest icing. The pan hahandle of west virgin northern shenandoah valley. Steven city up to winchester, they, too, got about a quarter of an inch of ice on the tree limbs and power lines. As a result we have Power Outages and we st ....
Other side of southern avenue, Prince Georges County. For that reason, this is a multiagency effort. Park police, d. C. Police and prince georges coupoce are all involved. Zachary kiesch, news 4. The area near southern and pennsylvania avenues in southeast washington is just one of two scenes were following. There are also a lot of officers Near Division avenue and hey street. Derrick ward is following the search you said way there in the live desk. In the moments imdiel after thehoinway there in the live desk. In the mes mey a t sotg, officers from several agencies are involved in that search. Metropolitan police, u. S. Park police and Prince Georges County police have all converged on the area around the division avenue and hey street d also youncded helicopter and as well as officers on foot. Officers did ....
A lot of folks will likely see that move in during the rush hour. Melissa mollet live in jermantown with a check on things there. Kind of is bad timing. You can see that freezing rain really is coming down a bit more than it was earlier. Looking at the light, it i will lum its a it. On the pavement, this is the problem. Its very, very slick. This has only been giving us this freezing rain, a little bit of snow and sleet for the past, i dont know, 45 minutes in jermantown. You can see that little bit still causes a problem. Lets walk across here if we can. The grass not an issue. The tiniest bit of accumulation on some of the grass blades. You can see in the distance here. The road in germantown, 118 not any issues right now. Of course, state highway has lots of crews out all over the area trying to keep things safe and try. There we go. A plow driving by right now. Weve talked to a couple of drivers as they come into the gas station where we are in germantown this morning. Heres what t ....
The storms down south, part of the same weather system headed even. Were on the leading edge of some of those heavy rains and the high winds too. You can see around columbia, gaithersburg, through montgomery county, even leesburg, blue mount areas. And even some gusty conditions, too. Headed towards gaithersburg, in the next 20 minutes, so all against eastbound for us, from in and out until 11 00 p. M. We have the possibility of seeing not only heavy rain, but also very high winds throughout the area. Those heavy rains could be delivers ponding on area roads. We could get quite a bit of rain in a short period of time. Lets go to chief meteorologist Doug Kammerer standing by with more on our potential for flooding and wind damage. Yeah, veronica, the National Weather service just issued the wind advisories for the entire area. Earlier today it was out towards portions of the ....