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during a desperate get away. a shoplifting situation turned into this. plus, would you drive through these flames to get to work? new footage from the fire burning from a california freeway. first at home, a cooldown is coming. if you think today is cold, you really need to bundle up this weekend. i see temperatures in the 29 up there. these are current temperatures and the sun is not up. good point chuck. but we are. so whatever. you still have to walk outside in it. unless we work from home. take turns. we ll take turns. meanwhile, we ve got breaking news on the commute. we have breaking news on the roads this morning. this is in chill em. we know this is an investigation and lanes are blocked. between road. university boulevard. live pictures from the scene here this morning. another investigation down south in la plata. between bell alton, and cooksey road. you re able to get around with police on the scene. around that one. another situatio ....
towed away a suburban a few moments ago. behind us, it appears to have skbroos crashed into the power pole behind us. two cherry pickers trying to repair the pole. they have to stabilize it and remove. it does not appear any power is jeopardized to the area here. you can see why traffic is closed in the area of east-west highway between riggs and also new hampshire and why both lanes are congested at this time with this crash response. that is the latest live. justin finch. back to you, melissa. good to see what s happening there from the ground. eastbound 70, 85 e street. two right lanes blocked by a crash. inbound east capitol, near rfk, truck blocking the center of the road as well. this is what chopper was over a short time ago in the sunoco gas station parking lot and the outside area there. northbound road. no major problems. as far as your travel times, 66 inboubd is fine. 95 north is also looking good. top of the beltway rolling along. listen to wtop 103.5 fm ....
a cold start to your morning. warm coat, the clouds will hang around today. not much in the way of sunshine. there s that storm system. it s starting to come together down south. rain and snow with it. that s going to be closer to us. i ll show you what to expect coming up. thank you, sheena. we ll start out with break news on the wildfires burning in california. take a look at the pictures. six fires now burning across the state including a new one that broke out in san diego county. in all, about 500 buildings destroyed, 5700 firefighters are working the frontlines trying to get a handle on the fires. let s go to jinah kim in ventura with more on the biggest challenges facing the firefighters this morning. good morning, jinah. good morning, chris. what a difference 24 hours makes. this time yesterday we were el fires in southern california, mostly contained to the general l.a. area. since then, we ve added the lilac fire and the liberty fire in murieta. the lila ....
not yet. of course, that s going to change as the morning wears on. if they don t clear this accident soon. we re trying to get some information about the timeline here. but for the moment, all lanes of 95 south are closed. they re going to be detoured in dumfries. as for the northbound lanes, they re moving at speeds. the express lanes are open as well. that doesn t seem to be affected. we ll have to wait and see whether we get any rubber necking delays on that side or not. we ll keep an eye on it. melissa, back to you. thanks, megan. we ll be checking with megan throughout the morning. here s the other closure. southbound bw parkway being pushed off. this is another crash investigation with all lanes shut down. northbound is open and unaffected this morning. taking a look at 270 from 70 down to the spur, you don t have any worries there. everything is looking quite good. same situation if you re headed northbound this morning on 270. no big problem there either. bel ....
cold air is and locally we have some hints of flurries kind of induced by the mountains near luray, charlottesville. we ll be watching for that. your wake-up weather. temperatures mid to upper 30s. look at future weather. here s the wide view. there s the storm system offshore. that is snowfall. we expected more widespread now into your saturday morning. we ll zoom in on this. we ll show you more detail what you can expect for your saturday and the totals in a bit. let s check the roads before you head out on your friday. good morning, sheena. chopper 4 moved to the east. powder mill road at edmonton road. right now traffic is alternating around this. completely shut down. a short time in beltsville. southbound bw parkway at powder mill. we had that crash investigation from overnight. the lanes have reopened. that s looking better. outer loop before georgia. left side blocked by the crash. inner loop, outer loop everywhere else looking good right 66 and 95 just fine ....