moving over the potomac to the chesapeake. that's where we have an enhancement from the relatively warmer water in the air. that is a heavy band of snow moving through that area right now. a couple of snow totals. up in washington county, western maryland, hancock, seven inches of snow. over in northern virginia, fairfax county, lorton 5.3. western virginia, warren county, front royal checked in with five inches of snow. west virginia, romney, hampshire county ten inches. i want to touch upon this coming back outside one last time. my great hat here is courtesy of derek mcginty and you may remember he wore that for the inauguration last year. so i joked around. thanks so much for the hat. i was missing one. so i will have to see if i get the flint lock out of my car later. >> i think you need a more stylish hat. >> temperatures 28 to 32 and the winds northeasterly. don't forget to check on the elderly and bring in your pets. shovel in shifts and have flash lights ready should we lose power with the storm. a reminder here, wet

of west virginia up to six to nine inches around mineral county and kaiser and even now out in north potomac, four inches and three inches measured downtown. go to the computer and talk about how much it will fall and then show you totals. we are talking 20 to 30 inches. i can't believe it is coming out of my mouth but it is. 12 to 20 to the south. if this pans out, this is going to be, this is going to be your third 12-inch plus snowstorm, which is pretty darn incredible. we have almost two inches now in bethesda. and we have almost three inches down in mechanicsville in st. mary's county. so their snowfall totals are coming in. go to our website at wusa9.com and fill them out. six to 12 in extreme southern maryland to the delmarva because i'm telling you it will mix with sleet and rain before it is said and done. clarksburg three inches. -- going. this is sort of what we call presnow, bonus snow before the main act develops tonight. it is still a dangerous super storm. we are not trying to scare you but to tell you it is a serious snowstorm. conditions are as bad as they will get during we

potomac, you are seeing it here on falls road here, 189. extending in to fairfax county, outside of the beltway. vienna is seeing heavy snow as well and also at times down, not quite chantilly but as we head to fairfax. i want to put this in motion and you can see how the heavier snows have been occurring west of vienna and north of fairfax and annandale right now. let's go to the weather computer. we have somes, not just the winter storm warnings in affect for four to eight inches of snow today but the winds are a problem. winds are blowing and blizzard warnings in the pink counties go in to affect at 10:00 a.m. we could have gusts over 40 miles an hour. that will cause more problems with the power and other things. let's talk traffic. here's angie goff with more. >> definitely low visibility which is another reason not to hit the roads. good morning. it is 6:31. we begin with 270 here at montgomery village avenue. looks like there are a few drivers moving on this roadway. you can see some of the pavement but a lot of lanes are clearly inv

it looks like the snow line crosses the potomac by about noontime. the friday evening rush hour, and looks like we will be dealing with moderate to heavy snow coming in from the southwest. perhaps 2 to 4 inches of snow. intensity is decreasing as we get into friday night. 29, they're going to get heavy snow in the mountains once you get on the road and head out that way. around the bay by evening, 37 degrees. the rain, sleet, snow mixture will change over to also know as the star begins to pull away -- will change over to all snow as the storm and begins to pull away. as the cold air gets pulled into the storm, even ocean city gets a shot at some snow as the storm is moving away. sunshine returns for super bowl sunday. it is going to be windy and cold. a little less as you get into some of the mixed precipitation. a good 17-26 inches by saturday evening. it starts tomorrow midday. by saturday evening, we have fresh snow on the ground around the baltimore area. snow likely from late tomorrow and saturday with the wind kicking in. 32 for the high on sa

the parking lot at potomac mills was empty today. >> the start of this year, we were looking at a good start of january. second part of january wasn't so great. now here we are in the beginning of february with two big storms. this is not the way to start a business year. >> economic experts are worried about the impact on workers who are missing so many days of work. >>> you dig yourself out of a parking space and you don't want anybody to take it. what folks do as they have done for many years, they take their lawn furniture, toy, whatever you can find, you put it in the space. the district, of course, that's illegal, but nobody seems to enforce that too terribly much. >>> still to come tonight on news4, bob is back with the latest on the storm. >>> we are looking at junctions i-66 and 50 in virginia. things looking clear there. for a better look we go to julie carey in fairfax county. >> reporter: i'm on gallows road on lee highway and route 50. the road's not all clear here. it is getting clearer because of what is ahead of me. two plows working this road right now. we've got preci

show you more clearly where these are located, stretching from the chesapeake right up to the tidal potomac. there will be more of that moving through. the storm scan it tracks those. the agreement. is it 2 inches per hour snowfall -- the green areas is 2 inches per hour snowfall. the storm scan showing heavy snow, the warmer part of this bill or, very heavy. it is close to moving offshore. it will really intensify. the wind is already increasing. we have seen that clearly over the past hour. we're also watching the latest computer model guidance that some areas over northern neck, tidewater, lower southern maryland will have rain, snow, sleet mix. the bottom line is this really indicates the power of the storm developing. it on the weatherbug, south and east, these are sustained winds. they're not high wind, but it is indicative of slowly rising wind, directly related to the steady progression of the storm. that will continue through the evening. we're talking up to 50 mile per hour wind gusts near the beach. this is what we're dealing with. most of the area, which are storm warning contin

the satellite and radar starting to show up precipitation here around the potomac. this is the first of the storm. right now, no reports of this stuff reaching the ground. i'm saying that with some hesitation because we may saturate the air in a hurry. this is a powerful storm. right now, it appears as if the stuff is showing up on radar falls from the sky and dries up before reaching the ground. however, the real line is back here on and through central virginia, back through lynchburg and heading in through charleston. you see a lot of rain mixed in. the pink and purple shadings with the mix. it is locked down and will get pulled down behind the storm but we'll be mixing that stuff in, which means for those of you snow lovers wondering how much moisture is available with this particular storm, we'll waste a few hours of flakes with sleet and maybe freezing rain mixed in on the eastern shore. we've got a severe band of rain pushing its way on in through the florida panhandle. this has damaging winds. there may be hail and even twisters firing up as the storm itself

it does look impressive here, at least around the potomac. it will feel like it wants to do something when you step outside. it may look like it at 31 in baltimore and 30 in easton. we're aiming for temperatures to warm into the mid-30s when it begins between 10:00 and 2:00. it will mix with sleet, maybe some freezing rain. that will cut down on some of our totals. by tonight, it goes back to all snow and we talk about how much you do expect in your backyard. here's the latest on traffic with kim brown. >> reporter: thanks, justin. this is probably one of the areas we're seeing the most congestion. as you see it's not much at all. volume is lighter than normal on the west side at liberty road headed towards the route 70 interchange. 95 southbound through the white marsh boulevard area down towards the townls. aside from that, we're looking good and incident free around the area except one accident in howard county. as we check the city cameras, jfx looking good in both directions. jamie and megan, back to you. >>> we love him. justin is givin

was brought across the potomac river into arlington as the first military burial. things were so desperate at that time in the civil war, there were so many people dying, that there wasn't much time for ceremony or ritual at arlington. they would bring people over for burial day after day after day. and they went into the ground as william christman dead with no flags flying, no bugles playing, all quite often not a chaplain to give him a sendoff. so basically we're just trying to keep up with the carnage from the civil war. >> there wasn't any time for tombstones that they had headboards. they were made out of pine or walnut, painted white with black lettering. those, of course, have to be maintained or they fell apart, so that in the years after the civil war we begin to clean up, we began to make sense of things. someone came up with the design in the 18 '70s, late 18 '70s, ray 1800s, for the white marble tombstones you see at arlington today. it is a uniform design, anyone who qualified for burial here are qualified for one of these tombstones. the earliest sto

looking at a live picture, actually, we are looking at the potomac river. it's hard to tell, the snowbank along the edges there. i'm not sure where we are, perhaps right here in the district for that picture. and we have seen snow falling there, as we have all around our region, throughout the night and going to be a long haul. many of the equipments cannot handle this snow. we have our repair shop operating 24 hours a day. equipment is falling down. the governor, my understanding is, going to be talking to the secretary of homeland security, to try to get some additional equipment into the region. so we're hoping that will happen by tomorrow. but right now, it's just really, really awful. our citizens, please, please, stay off the road and allow the emergency vehicles to continue operating. >> jack, share with us, if you're aware of emergency calls that are coming into your responders there in prince george's county, what's the situation like, getting people unstuck, to hospitals, what have you heard? >> well, our biggest problem is that we do have a list

and a little bit of the activity on the other side of the river, over towards poo tommic -- potomac down towards seven locks. now, we'll move up to the north a little bit. we'll see where the heaviest activity has been, right on point for the rocks, down 85 over towards dickerson and over here with pretty good batch of snow showers. all right, let's go back to the computer. and we'll talk about tomorrow morning, we're still talking snow showers. 20s and 30s and a trace of two inches is possible. knocked the winds down a little bit. not much. and westerly at 25 to 40 miles per hour and gusty. by the afternoon, thed cold snow showers are still possible. highs in the 30s. and the winds are northwest at 15 to 35 and gusty. and the satellite picture and the radar combined. a massive storm for them. and it is essentially the winter hurricane. doesn't have an eye, but it has almost the hurricane-forced winds with it. what's going to happen, right over new york city now. they will move back and make a loop back into the jersey area. and slingshot out there. as they make the loop tonight, that's

. -- potomac." if you want to see the entire list, inside of "the new york times" is an entire list broken down by drug makers, of all and tobacco companies, finance and lending institutions, food and beverage companies, telecommunication companies, general motors, toyota, insurance, state farm, and other donors, like wal-mart. stephanie is joining us, independent line. caller: i would be all for that bill if he included individuals that lobbied. for the simple fact that the supreme court, years and years ago, said that corporations were individuals, which was widely applauded the government. if they do away with one, they should be doing away with the other. the markets are running the country. if you want to add that to the bill, i would be all for it. host: steve, not stephanie. thank you for the call. one twitter comment saying "as far as i am concerned, politicians should wear patches like nascar drivers so that you can see who contributes to them." more from last week in the story on friday, d

a stalls car across the potomac for the southeast-southwest freeway. there is a portion of north cal toll street closed between mission and road island activity and there are delays. and a portion of beech drive shut down due to icy conditions. a live shot of 2 70 south out of germantown. some kids will get to take the day off or going to school late and that's what it contributing to this and that's why it looks better than unusual in germantown. but keep an eye out for the icy stuff. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. >>> turning now to breaking news we're following from southeast washington. three children seriously hurt in a fire this morning. this happened at an apartment building in the 1900 block of naylor road and we're told the children were pulled from the fire and have been taken to the hospital. joining us on the phone right now, pete parringer from d.c. fire and ems. good morning. >> good morning. >> please tell us the update on the fire and the condition of the kidsa you know it. >> they are very serious. this morning we were

we zoomed in and are looking at moderate snow in potomac and mclean. moderate all the way to annandale and over to beltsville, as well. heavy snow around fedex and we are looking at moderate snow in vienna and as you go toward great falls, route 7, some moderate snow. we have a ways to go before the snow ends. the problem is when the snow ends the winds will continue today, tonight and tomorrow. it will take you until tomorrow afternoon to slacken off. five to ten foot drifts not out of the question. we will talk about the wind gusts. this is expanding. look at the winds now. 44-mile an hour winds at patuxent river. 36-mile an hour gusts at reagan national. another reason not to go out. i would discourage kids even sledding right now. gaithersburg a wind gust in loudoun county and around dulles and 33-mile an hour wind gusts in patuxent river. that is unbelievable. visibilities, they are going up a little bit. a quarter mile at andrews. up a half mile at national and three-quarters of a mile in gaithersburg. notice you folks back to the south and west,

across the potomac into maryland there's just some light to moderate snow there. there's a little batch of moderate snow around mclean, virginia. what's falling is certainly sticking. winter storm warnings throughout much of the gion blizzard warnings farther to our north. all these counties in red under blizzard warnings. highlands of west virginia, howard, anne arundel and eastern shore, strongal winds there later today. eight to 12 inch total amounts across much of the region. northeastern maryland, a little less south and west. 45-mile-per-hour gusts later this afternoon and this evening when the snow ends. into tomorrow morning the gust also still be quite powerful. now, jerry, how is the traffic? >> a live look around the metropolitan area, around 270 near shady grove road, authorities have been dispatched to check on the reports of an accident over there. if you're headed in that direction, heads up. let's take a look at the xwelt way north of town around colesville road, making the trip on the inner and outer loop not bad. here is the district at 16th and

[laughter] >> in the potomac. or rahm emanuel and barack obama. our cable news cycle which shows us that they would go for these horseback ride or skinny dip in the potomac or they would vigorously hike through -- and they say roosevelt burned up $2000 before noon and a cup of coffee with sugar as well. but that's with a conversation id came from. pinchot said a came on one of these. that he brought the idea to rosa. it's a very simple idea. they didn't call it environmentalism. they didn't public safety or that basically said we're a nation of 92 million people. what will it be like when we are i nation of 300 million people. by the way, we are a nation of more than 300 million. will that be anything left for our great grandchildren. it was so the idea, let's not consume it all in our generation. we owe something to future generations. that was a simple idea around conservation. so they set up this public land and they set it up for the little guy. remember, they're not taking private land and putting it in the public domain. they are taking over

that green zone coming down near mclane into the potomac river and up toward rockville and wheaton and gaithersburg oosz, now snowing pretty hard there. we've had about three inches in washington and in prince george's county there's been three to four inches. charles up to three inches. up to five inches in anne arundel county. up to seven inches has already been reported so far in the panhandle of west virginia, berkeley county there. around wind chester, three inches, central shen valley around two. we're just beginning the storm. as we look at the temperatures, well below freezing, in the 20s all around the area. 30 degrees in washington. what is falling certainly going to stick. blizzard warning in effect across all of northern maryland, includes closer into washington, howard county and anne arundel county under a blizzard warning meaning we'll have winds sustained over 35 miles an hour as we get into the afternoon, gusts higher than that there in those counties t. blizzard warning may be extended farther south to include our region. elsewhere blizzard warning in the panhandle of

we've got a heavy band of he snow just passed over the potomac, moving in towards maryland, moving through fairfax county where that heavy band is going through, eventually up to the city of fairfax, up around the springfield area. it just moved through woodbridge not too long ago. that is a very heavy dose of snow. if you are not in the heaviest band, you're still getting at least moderate snow. maryland snowfall totals, gaithersburg at 6:30 measured two inches of snow. la plata, four inches of snow measured at 6:00. in virginia, cross junction in frederick five inches of snow. front royal, five inches of snow. and lorton, 5.3. if i can, if we can come outside quickly to the weather tear remarks we've talked about how wet of a snow this is. if you can come out to me, i know this -- move on out to our oftenbacher's, we appear fresh 80 it. it just sticks to anything. very high water content. >> good job. and you do wear it well. it's actually going to be a dryer snow tomorrow. winter storm juaning in effect for everybody, but prince george's county and the district will go into a blizzard w

the bands come through and we see the intensity of two inches an hour, thunderstorms reported around potomac. there will be areas when we increase the amounts. some areas may have 12 inches, 15 inches. could be 30 inches because of that banding effect. >> earlier i heard you say something the first time, this could be bigger than -- this could be the biggest snow ever. >> outside all you have to do is, unfortunately everybody inside, look outside. unfortunately winds have come up a bit faster. i thought the winds would be up as we got past midnight. the temperature is still around 33 degrees. it's a wet snow combined with the wind. later on tonight, the colder air will be coming in. we'll get a powdery snow. that means more snowing and drifting. greatest snow for national airport. this is national airport 1979. that was the president's day storm. first the measurements remained downtown around m street. that's where the measurements remain, over 28 inches was the record, the greatest snowstorm ever in washington. we had only two snowstorms of 20 inches or more. this one will be right u there

. -- potomac." if you want to see the entire list, inside of "the new york times" is an entire list broken down by drug makers, of all and tobacco companies, finance and lending institutions, food and beverage companies, telecommunication companies, general motors, toyota, insurance, state farm, and other donors, like wal-mart. stephanie is joining us, independent line. caller: i would be all for that bill if he included individuals that lobbied. for the simple fact that the supreme court, years and years ago, said that corporations were individuals, which was widely applauded the government. if they do away with one, they should be doing away with the other. the markets are running the country. if you want to add that to the bill, i would be all for it. host: steve, not stephanie. thank you for the call. one twitter comment saying "as far as i am concerned, politicians should wear patches like nascar drivers so that you can see who contributes to them." more from last week in the story on friday, d

the whole army of the potomac was there. it was estimated that there were present 25,000 -- 25,000 artillery and calvary and 75,000 infantry. the men appeared in their best condition, with their uniforms of dark or light blue, with very distinguishing colors and bright guns of the artillery, the flashing sabers of the calvary and the long lines of infantry with their glittering bayonets, with their numberless right flags and guide ons. these gathered host presented an experience that for magnificence has never been equaled on the american continent. they recall the pictures of the great armies of the napoleon, a battery on the bright fired all its guns, a battery in the center fired its guns and this was followed by a battery on the left. seven times this was done. the salute of 21 gun fired by battery in honor of president of the united states. the salute was followed by a mighty volume of cheers along the lines. then from the military bans came the notes, hail to the chief. as soon as general mcclellan and president lincol

we are across the potomac river. elevated portions 102 refreezing first. back to alison and doug. >> thank you. >>> 6:12, 31 degrees. >> this is not the day to do it but you soon could drive a little faster on virginia highways without a speeding ticket. we will tell you why. >> a clear morning scott after a snowy night. and as a progressive customer, you get to use any of our concierge claim centers. so i can just drop off my car and you'll take care of everything? yep, even the rental. what if i'm stuck at the office? if you can't come to us, we'll come to you in one of our immediate response vehicles! what if mother won't let me drive? then you probably wouldn't have had an accident in the first place. and we're walkin'! and we're walkin'... making it all a bit easier -- now that's progressive! call or click today. >> you are watching abc 7's "good morning washington," with doug mckelway, alison starling, meteorologist brian van de graaff, weather, and lisa baden, traffic. this is "good morning washington," on your side. >>> the latest school closings a

more coming across the eastern shore, and right now, another area coming right down the potomac, we're going to see this pattern of little more widespread late tonight and tomorrow morning as the storm system intensifies. there is no appreciable accumulation. war wind blowing the flakes, take a look at the storms can. it wraps the cold air -- the periphery of has a circulation -- and the wind is going to get stronger around here. for most of the viewing area except those -- what does that mean? the wind is expected between 25 and 35 miles an hour sustained. there are 60 miles an hour possible across the area. the winter storm warnings, gusting 55 miles an hour possible that will impact later on. there are other bridges on the potomacin southern maryland. temperatures in the 30's to about 40. you factor in does winds we expect, it is going to get really cold. it will expect to make that maneuver, that is going to bring some of the heavier storms closer to our area. that will be the story here as the storm had out slowly. it is going to keep strong news in the gusty wind. 24-28 in the mo

was brought across the potomac rivers here to to arlington as the first military burial. things were so desperate at that time in the civil war, there were so many people dying, and that there wasn't much time for ceremony or ritual at arlington. they would bring people over for burial day after day after day and they went into the ground as william christman dead with no flags flying, no music playing, quite often not a chaplain to give them a signal. so basically we're just trying to keep up with the carnage from the civil war when arlington began. during the war, things are so desperate that there was no time for tombstones. they have had words that were made out of time or walnuts, painted white with black lettering. those, of course, to be maintained or they fell apart. so that in this years of the civil war we begin to clean up and make sense of things. someone came up with a design in the 1870's, late 1870's, early 181900. it's a uniform design, anyone who qualified for burial qualified for one of these tombstones. the earliest stones were like these you see here,

heavy snow by late this afternoon across virginia and crossing the potomac into maryland. overnight tonight is when we'll have the very heavy snow moving through, tapering off and ending during the day on saturday with total amounts of 18 to 24 inches across most of the region. somewhat lighter amounts around the lower bay because of a mix with sleet and maybe a little bit of rain. that includes the northern neck and lower eastern shore. 30 inches around the blue ridge. how the traffic? >> moving along pretty well. picking up volume along the 95 corridor. northbound traffic up towards lorton and hov lanes moving nicely. southbound wide-open at this early hour with no incidents to report. hov restrictions are being enforced this morning. so important to know. few folks have asked about that. over on 270 concerns moving along pretty well under both directions. out on the rails this morning metro rail, no delays, vre again a reminder they will be running the biggest capacity trains midday today instead of the afternoon, early afternoon. marc, brunswick train 890 is cancelled.

snow bands from front royal, north of fredericksburg, southern half of charles county, right down the potomac river, northern neck, southern maryland, moving southwest to northeast. the storm scan technology enables us to see that and more. all of the snow on the map and green represents the rain, heavy rain across the western slopes the appalachian mountains, west virginia, heavy rain tidewater. on the lower chesapeake bay, they just changed the gale warning to a storm warning, meaning higher wind. off the coast, baltimore county, shipping channel, they just issued a very rare winter time a hurricane force wind warning. the storm is intensifying, the rate of the snowfall, the wind, all will increase. the worst of the storm tonight, at 10:00, 6:00 in the morning. centreville 2 inches, columbia a little bit less than 2 inches. we will continue to update the reports through the night. what will happen next? so far, we have had 27.3 inches this winter. these are the top winters over the past five, six years. we are clearly in the lead. will we wind up wi the most snow this winter? we are well on

. >>> washington played a little hollywood on the potomac on thursday night. first stop the white house. she gave president obama a big hug. clint eastwood and bob dylan won awards but weren't present ♪ [ music ] that's musical legend stevie wonder. he performed last night at the ken city center. was a benefit for the duke ellington school of the arts. we caught up with him after the concert and asked him about the importance of the school. >> this is the original, the original might mile, the real deal. >> reporter: and here's a little more of last night's kennedy center concert for you to enjoy. stick around. we'll be right back. m÷ >>> here's what is in the news now. virginia is taking potholes head on. they want to focus on fixing potholes for the entire month of march. he vows they will be fixed in 24 hours on major roads. >>> the bear win mayor is suing prince georges county over a mistaken drug raid at his home two years ago. it left his dog dead. >>> the big apple is getting a big taste of snow this morning. this is video from times square. a few in

along the potomac we have ourselves a push of heavy snow. that's the band some of these computer models have been pick to move on top of baltimore and sit for a few hours. like that weekend storm we had ten days ago, that could really make the difference. 50-miles or so of who gets clobbered with exceptional snow amounts. down to 32 easton. 30 baltimore. 28 york, pennsylvania. winds picking up out of the northwest 5 to 15 miles per hour. it is a matter of hours until the winds really get cranking. blizzard warning. that tax -- takes us from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. with. the winds gusting 40 miles per hour. that will take our wind chills into the single digits. factor in the heavy snow and we have a full on blizzard and whiteout conditions. you can see where we have those deeper darker blues and bands of heavy snow from central pennsylvania through southern virginia. that's an upper level piece of energy. that's the last ingrediant to take this coastal storm and have it explode with development. that creates a little vacuum in atmosphere. air

. >>> and snow coverage looks across the potomac. our jessica doyle is in alexandria. what do you see out there? >> reporter: well i'll tell you the snow is still coming down but it's sort of an icy, rainy, snowy mix. it's very cold and miserable out here on foot, which a lot of people are. this is the building behind us. this is the hotel monaco. this is where a lot of national guardsmen are saying to help out. and we caught up with a crew of folks in from out of town that are helpingment and i caught up with a lady named jeanette who is in town and this is what she had to say. >> where are you from? >> we're from the department of forestry and we have 7 of us from an incident management team yesterday that help with the eoc. >> reporter: and what sort of jobs have you been assigned. >>> >> we're broken out into several different locations just filling in where they need help. it's a lot of snow to take care of. >> reporter: now you were telling me that you guys are working on finding hydrants. what are you doing? >> they have a group specifically tasked with locating

about 3: 5 in the afternoon, this is sharon and dave on the potomac river. we are looking at the still photos and live videos. on myfoxdc.com. if you stroll over here to the right underneath the max hd radar. we have web cams. the live videos that we have been talking about, wobs an -- once an hour the web team will be updating this. it may not be live on the air but live on the internet. you can contact us throughout the day. you may have your featured web cam on there as well. we will pull the best out and share the experience together. >> indeed. we are getting in more pictures. a lot of folks are sending us pictures via twitter, the road conditions. it's interesting. we appreciate you sending this in. >> it give us a perspective that we can't get with our crews. keep sending outside the tweets, pictures, live video and we will put it on the air. let's head to karen gray houston. she is following amtrak and the situation with the trains. what is the latest? >> reporter: activity in general is slowing down. shops and stores have been shutting down closing

of moderate to heavy snows once again moving through montgomery county, about ready to pass over the potomac. you folks around vienna and mclean, falls church, you'll see that over the next hour. veronica, i think you're joining us. there is something from the snowiest february ever. we're closing in on that. 1899. >> that's right. we're in second place right now with over 30-some inches of snowfall. this, again, the images from the blizzard of 1899. we've got another one to show you there from crowley's. this is columbia avenue with the big mounds of snow. we have surpassed that with over 55 inches. you mentioned syracuse. i looked at what other cities average around 55 inches. hartford, connecticut, 50. minnesota, rochester, st. cloud in minnesota, 50 inches. and right down the road, beckley, west virginia, they average around 60 inches. their elevation is so much higher than ours is right here. >> a lot of folks thatave moved here from out of town say it feels like oer winters. look at the area that it's still under a blizzard warning. that storm which is intensifying continues to intensi

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our team of reporters is out on the streets to bring us the latest conditions from both sides of the potomac. let's start in maryland. >> kristin fisher is live in downtown silver spring. kristin? >> it stopped snowing here in four corners about two hours ago. in total we had five inches of snow and for that much snowfall i have to say the roads are looking good this morning. you can see the roads are wet and the reason why the roads are looking so good is for what you are about to see. check out the video we saw earlier this morning. you can see the road crews are out this morning an they have done a good job here in montgomery county and silver spring of plowing the streets, getting the salt on the road needed to make sure that everybody can get in to work for this morning commute. the one place i would tell you to watch for is the side streets. you are going to see a lot of excess snow on the roads there. plan a few extra minutes for that. as for schools, schools here in montgomery county are closed. get outside and go for a walk. enjoy the beautiful snowfall because it really is looking

. >> i have to travel to potomac so i hope tomorrow is good. >> kindergartener kevin lee is out with his mother. >> i'm thinking somebody may be off school tomorrow so this is about a 50/50 chance. so i'm not anning anything big. >> reporter: montgomery county school officials say they will make the decision early tomorrow based not only on road conditions but school parking lots and bus stops. they want to keep school open. they've already had three snow days, but will keep safety first. >> i thought it was a bad decision to have school on onday. at least a two-hour day they should have given us. >> reporter: the city of rockville is treating road surfaces but other local governments are not going to bother considering their roadway is already treated from the weekend snow. prince georges officials say the entire snow budget was depleted in december but not to worry. >> the salt is not going to run out. the crews are not going to run away. the truck will be on the road. we have maintenance crews to work throughout every event. >> reporter: at the salt dome in gaithersburg the mound

it is still amazing how many streets and areas of rockville and areas of potomac and even very close to the beltway driving down old georgetown road, streets that we drive all the time still are covered with snow and to put one of our bucket trucks into the smaller neighborhoods has been a challenge. montgomery county is helping us and we continue to press on. >> have we learned anything from this storm, clay, that you may be should have done before the storm that you can apply to what's coming up now tonight? >> i would say probably something that a lot of people don't want to hear is that the beautiful canopy of trees that we do enjoy when it's time to trim those trees, when your power lines start to disappear under that canopy atrees through april and september, it's probably time to get the trees trimmed and get those cut. we're learning that we have a lot of great folks that bring in mutual assistance that helps. they're working with sxus staying with us through the second storm. so lessons learned. >> clay, i'm wondering what -- what you -- what pepco says to families like some

there is the picture of the lincoln memorial on the banks of the potomac river. and we've got that fresh coating snow from last night. right now at reagan national, it's 35 degrees. where the winter so far, the snow total there at reagan national is about 26 inches, which is about 17 inches above average, but about 16 inches of that amount was just that one freak storm we had back in december. otherwise, without that, we would have just sort of average snow to date so far. well, let's take a look at radar. no more precipitation now. here are some of the snow totals. we had reports from weather watchers and observer this morning. generally, right around 3 to 4 inches fell in washington and in montgomery, fairfax, arlington, and prince george's county. a little bit less in southern maryla maryland. and across northern virginia, 4 to 5 inches out in loudoun county. elsewhere, generally 3 to 4, 5-inch amounts in a few isolated locations farther to the west and north. and temperatures now are getting above frzing. w in the mid-30s in prince george's county and in mont

local radar showing a band of some light to moderate snow, right across charles county, across the potomac river, into fairfax and loudoun county. that's the one that's now falling out at dulles. you can see the visibility's lower there with that. that's going to move into the metro area over the next half hour or so. temperatures are a little bit above freezing, so what is falling is melting on the roads, but it's going to start to stick to the grassy areas, and these temperatures that are a little bit above freezing will fall below freezing by the time we get into the midafternoon hours. eastern shore, now mid-30s. mid-30s out of the mountains into the low 30s. richmond at the freezing mark. broad area under a winter storm warning. most these counties in pink, all of maryland, including the district of columbia. those counties in red on the eastern shore, blizzard warnings. yes, 3, 4-foot drifts are possible with the strong winds coming in off the atlantic as a powerful low pressure system will deep sken and lower as tim goes by this area of low pressure is barely beginning to take shape

and i think it is very arrogant to think that we can govern this country from one corrupt city on the potomac river so that really the localism you can call it populist conservatives, localism but it makes far more sense to meet the needs of the american people to handle most things at the state and localities and individuals the way jefferson envisioned it as opposed -- the way that he envisioned it as opposed what we have today. >> do what he party protester is doing, the town hall protesters are doing >> [inaudible] the republican to parties. >> that's right. i think the part of what we have to do is unfortunately we have our own way to communicate with each other now. we don't have to depend on abc, nbc and cbs. we have other ways but what is interesting is that if you look at a recent polling data it is that 40% of the american people call themselves conservative while only 20% call themselves republicans. i think that speaks volumes about the state of the republican party in america today that -- but it's the way that it was in 1977. history repeated itself. the republican party because

>> the famous image of abraham lincoln visiting the battle of the potomac, with corps commanders near the battlefield. on the right is lincoln or officers and he is facing general mccollum on the left. >> did you choose it? >> i chose it. i was in gettysburg awhile ago and this is the post card we picked up and it is a famous photograph of lincoln with cash and i picked up this photograph of lincoln's dog which i had never seen before. so these were pictures to put near the lincoln papers. this is one of my favorite pictures of lincoln. it is the only photograph of lincoln wearing reading glasses. >> you can view booktv programs online? go to booktv.org, type the name of the author or subject into the search area in the upper left-hand corner of the page. select the watch link. you can view the entire program. you can explore the recently on booktv box with a featured programs box to find and view recent featured programs. >> your 1-stop shop for everything c-span is at c-span.org/store. you will find documentaries on the capital, supreme court and the white house. our series on presi

and across the potomac river in la charles county, they're getting a band of some very heavy snow as well. we're going to continue to see these bands of heavy snow throughout the rest of the morning and into the early afternoon. then it should taper off and end, maybe a couple of hours after sunset, around 7:00 or 8:00 this evening. here are some of the snow totals that are just coming in now. up in new market, ryland, that's in frederick county, they have had 11 inches. bakers town, 11 inches. out here in morgan county and western berkeley county, up to a foot as fall from this storm. winchester, 5, 6, 7 inches. four to five inches in fairfax county, five to six inches in prince george's and anne arundel county, three to four inches in charles county and to near fredericksburg. it is below freezing all around the region. it is certainly sticking, temperatures in the 20s. there's that gus as dulles airport just had a gust of 40 miles an hour. i'm not sure if that's perhaps a typo, but still t story is that we're seeing some strong gusts coming in. right now, all these counties in pin

that is what is like to live inside the potomac. it is so refreshing to be here rather than the university of maryland this morning. everyone is polite to me there but no one wants to discuss my ideas. i'm viewed as a heretic. i'm going to talk about some things that you may find her radical today as well. and would it take you to places that are uncomfortable for conservatives to be at times. as a professor, when i was asked to do this -- and i am not often as to think about civil liberties although i think about them constantly and i am fearful of mine disappearing -- i would say, let me go back to the founding documents, that the relation of independence, but constitution, and all that fine language about the pursuit of happiness and so on. it is very important to remember that those documents and the conditions which gave rise to them had strong and significant economic underpinnings. george washington was converted from an empire loyalists to a revolutionary, to someone who led an army against the king's army, because this econ

george washington spent the years after the revolution before he became president trying to develop the potomac for the same purpose he also happen to be the largest landover and the ohio valley so he had a double interest but that yuri really opened up america to the mississippi valley and made it possible to begin to exploit that. i cite the numbers in the book but the amount of economic growth and transformation of america from that point* is enormous instead of northwest northwest -- north-south it was east west. we developed hydropower and the development of steel and the camels industry all that was developed in the east. the second seascape however came next and it paralleled the rise of the naval power. the great innovation there was the panama canal. again it brought that east and the west coast into great alignment and pivoted of whole world westward towards us. and then there was the west that this cannot develop like it did with the individual yeoman going forward it needs a socializing influence thinking that we change the nature of his independent spirit but he helped not. thought

of that light snowfall moving south, southeast in to the general movement and eventually across the potomac in to maryland. not expecting any accumulation but may see a few flakes fall as the final portion of the upper-level storm rolls through. we are dealing with a touch of fog. visibility is slowly improving. a quarter mile at dulles. those areas had been zero and we sit with 2 1/2 mile visibility here in washington. temperature, well, upper 20s, 27 culpeper. 28 montgomery county and frederick and easton. but many areas, up around that freezing mark. except here in town, 34. wind chill 34. that tells you about the wind speeds. cold air to the north in canada. some of it is sneaking in to minneapolis and in texas, watch over the last 12 hours, the last six how the moisture has exploded here in advance of the upper level energy feeding in to that and that's the system that's moving toward us for late friday, saturday. a lot of moisture to work with. the seven day, low 40s the next couple of days. snow returns on friday afternoon and everyoning. dry on sunday and monday and then another sto

and also the owner of the potomac riverboat in alexandria, virginia, there as well. these folks, no. these folks know that these have been a rough couple of years for our economy and for our country. the deepest downturn since the great depression ripped through our economy, costing more than eight million jobs and rocking businesses large and small. that's why we took some very tough steps, in some cases, some unpopular steps, when i took office to break the back of this recession. today we received additional news suggesting that we are climbing out of the huge hole that we found ourselves in. last january, the month i took office, almost 800,000 americans lost their jobs. today we learned that job losses for this january were 20,000. the unemployment rate dropped below 10% for the first time since the summer. manufacturing employment grew last month for the first time in three years. led by increased activity in the production of cars and trucks and auto parts. now, these numbers, while positive, are a cause for hope, but not celebration. because far too much of o

and also will pollack who is the owner and operator of the potomac riverboat company in alexandria, virginia, there's will. these folks know as every living soul in america does that these have been a rough couple of years for our economy and for our country. the deepest downturn since the great depression ripped through our economy, costing more than $8 million jobs and rocking businesses large and small. that's why we took some very tough steps and in some cases, unpopular steps when i took office to break the back of this recession. today we received additional news suggesting that we are climbing out of the huge hole that we found ourselves in. last january, the month i took office almost 800,000 americans lost their jobs. today we learned that job losses for this january were 20,000. the unemployment rate dropped below 10% for the first time since the summer. manufacturing employment grew last month for the first time in three years led by increased activity and the production of cars and trucks and autoparts. these number, while positive, are a cause for hope, but not celebration, beca

we're also joined by the owner and operator of potomac little boat company in alexandria, va. these folks know, as every living soul in america does, that these have been a rough couple of years for our economy and country. it is the deepest downturn since the depression that ripped through our economy, costing more than 8 million jobs and hurting businesses large and small. that is why we have taken some stuff and sometimes unpopular steps to break the back of the recession. today, we received additional news suggesting that we are climbing out of this huge hole that we found ourselves in. last january, almost 800,000 americans lost their jobs. today, we learned that the job losses this january or 20,000. the unemployment rate dropped below 10% for the first time since the summer. manufacturing employment grew last month for the first time in three years. that was led by increased activity in production of cars and trucks. while these numbers are positive, that are cause for hope but not celebration. far too many of our neighbors, friends, and families are still a lot of work

thompson and of being the one to go to mount vernon, virginia, washington's home along the potomac, and tell him you've got to be president. we have all talked and you are going to be the first president of the united states. and thompson road from mount vernon to new york city, the first inauguration took place in the wall street area of new york, and he ended up standing by washington when he was sworn in as our first president. it was thought -- and i think accurately so -- that we were very lucky to have a man of washington's stature, almost university -- universally loved, with the former colonies, and even the people who were loyal to the british crown admired his cunning and his heroism and guts and bravery on the battlefield. he was a very judicial man who was able to take the best of all the difference leading lights in the area -- era and listen to the ideas and incorporate them. finally, washington was a man without pretense. he spoke the american tongue. he was not trying to be a british swell. he tried to dress in a characteristic american clothing. he ate american foodstuf

i also use the metaphor of a rower on the potomac with one powerful muscular arm and one scrawny arm, rowing with all of his or her might. it is inevitable the boat will not go on a straight trajectory forward. so it goes that u.s. biomedical advances over the next several decades, basic science is pulling hard, but it also takes muscle to create innovative tools, standards, and approaches for the fission assessment -- the efficient assessment. promising therapies may be discarded during the process. an outmoded -- of mountain revue message can delay approval of critical treatment -- outmoded review mess since can delay approval of critical treatments. with better -- outmoded revue methods can delay approval of critical treatment. a robust state of the artt( regulatory science is essential to fda's work, yet it also represents an important driver of our nation's health, our health care system, and our economy, and it is a goal we must all obey. i feel confident if we do so, we will be able to speed the movement of new discoveries and practical applications, and we have seen examples i

it basically enforces its values on us or what the values are the folks inside the potomac, inside the beltway think we should have. we hear about employees for free choice so we can alleviate the necessity for elections. i love that. elections are now a burden if you're a progressive. the most burdensome election of all may be 2010. but in any case, elections are burdens. but in any case, let's look at banking. everybody was outraged this week, as i was, as john reed was as john involve kerr is of the outrageous bonuss that were paid this week. $140 billion was more than the u.s. grew in the third quarter, probably as much as it grows in both quarters, the first half year of this recovery. we have to look back at where it came from. in the beginning, we provided banks with an fdic insurance scheme because we decided that banks are a vital facility like the electric lights. we have to say the lights never go off in new york city, so we have to in some way protect that industry from self-destruction. that's fine. but then to accomplish social purposes over the years, the government has

i mean, you'd look out there and look at the potomac river and think of north korea. [laughter] but it's, it's all gone now, and in its place is a beautiful, beautiful facility which i really do believe befits the status and the tremendous mission of the u.s. institute for peace, the things you've done, your work and really all over the world. i've worked with usip in every different part, i mean, whether in the balkans or in east asia, but i particularly appreciate what you all are doing in iraq because you're taking on one of the major challenges there which is conflict resolution and getting people in the same room to talk to each other and getting people to sort of understand that there's a way through problems. and a way through by dialogue. i really appreciate the fact i saw ambassador bill taylor out there just a couple months ago, i think, and visiting and your office, i mean, you have a standing office there. it's working, you've gotten iraqis to buy into the process. in fact, i think you've got some iraqi employees there. and i think it's just a great credit