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Wintry Storm
Aired December 05, 2003 - 07:41 ET
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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Some major winter-like weather is moving into the northeast. Major. It is already crossing the Washington area. The storm is expected to hang around most of the weekend, making problems for millions of people.
For more, we go to reporter Sarah Lee of our affiliate, WJLA. She joins us from Germantown, Maryland.
Good morning.
SARAH LEE, CNN AFFILIATE WJLA REPORTER: Good morning, Anderson.
I am in a town called Germantown, which is north of Washington, D.C., about 15-20 miles, and this is a regular commuter community. So, people are trying to head into D.C. for the rush hour.
But this is what with they're dealing with. Down here, you can see my very unscientific analysis here of the weather situation. All of this snow looks like it's a good five to six inches at this point. And as you can see, it's still coming down.
And this is the real sticky, snowball-packing kind of snow. So, it is sticking to the road surfaces.
Let's take a look at some video from earlier today, commuters getting ready, digging their cars out of the snow, so that they could head onto the interstates, which are covered at this point. The road crews have been going through regularly, but it's an ongoing process, and it is very slick underneath.
We have heard of incidents, where emergency response vehicles have hit the Jersey wall, and another situation here just outside of Germantown where a snow plow trying to avoid an accident was, in fact, struck and did cause yet another accident.
So, again, back here live in Germantown, we show you here behind me, this is Route 118. You can see this is the morning rush hour headed down toward Washington, D.C., people taking it a little bit slower than normal because we do have the flakes still coming down. It's been coming down like this for the past several hours. So, people are taking it really slow as they are headed off to work this morning.
Back to you -- Andersen.
COOPER: All right, Sarah Lee, thanks very much.
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Aired December 5, 2003 - 07:41 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Some major winter-like weather is moving into the northeast. Major. It is already crossing the Washington area. The storm is expected to hang around most of the weekend, making problems for millions of people.
For more, we go to reporter Sarah Lee of our affiliate, WJLA. She joins us from Germantown, Maryland.
Good morning.
SARAH LEE, CNN AFFILIATE WJLA REPORTER: Good morning, Anderson.
I am in a town called Germantown, which is north of Washington, D.C., about 15-20 miles, and this is a regular commuter community. So, people are trying to head into D.C. for the rush hour.
But this is what with they're dealing with. Down here, you can see my very unscientific analysis here of the weather situation. All of this snow looks like it's a good five to six inches at this point. And as you can see, it's still coming down.
And this is the real sticky, snowball-packing kind of snow. So, it is sticking to the road surfaces.
Let's take a look at some video from earlier today, commuters getting ready, digging their cars out of the snow, so that they could head onto the interstates, which are covered at this point. The road crews have been going through regularly, but it's an ongoing process, and it is very slick underneath.
We have heard of incidents, where emergency response vehicles have hit the Jersey wall, and another situation here just outside of Germantown where a snow plow trying to avoid an accident was, in fact, struck and did cause yet another accident.
So, again, back here live in Germantown, we show you here behind me, this is Route 118. You can see this is the morning rush hour headed down toward Washington, D.C., people taking it a little bit slower than normal because we do have the flakes still coming down. It's been coming down like this for the past several hours. So, people are taking it really slow as they are headed off to work this morning.
Back to you -- Andersen.
COOPER: All right, Sarah Lee, thanks very much.
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