But I wanna get you an update
on our road conditions.
We did have some trouble this morning.
Sasha Wilson is in this
morning to give us an update.
Morial, good morning.
Good morning, everyone.
If you can stay home today,
definitely one of those days
you want to stay inside.
I'm just going to go
through a few camera shots,
kind of show you what's happening right now.
USA, DEA, Bennett, town east.
You have an 18 Wheeler
still blocking those lanes.
I35E and thou would N we had a pretty
decent backup in those southbound
lanes that's already cleared out.
And then 114 going over to Tarrant County.
You have some slow moving traffic there.
You can see really from our cameras that
people are definitely taking their time.
If you do have to venture out,
that's the you want to err
on the side of caution.
That's definitely the route
that you want to go around.
Downtown Dallas,
just driving in,
I noticed people were
definitely slowing down.
What happens in these types of
situations is that we have a little bit
of drizzle that starts to pick up and
those temperatures that are definitely
at the freezing point or lower,
you can have these patchy ice
conditions that definitely can cause
some big problems on the roadway.
So it's.
Really just one of those things
where maybe it looks OK,
but once you get out there you
can really realize it's not a
situation that you want to be in.
So that's just why we're asking folks
if you can today stay off the roadways.
Just looking at the rest of the Metroplex,
what we're dealing with in Dallas County,
couple of problems.
So I mentioned that you have
that little bit of backup around
USA DE founded Town East Blvd.
and then areas east of Dallas
County seeing some problems.
We have some ice.
This is the right around Union Valley,
I-20 westbound at FM 148 and
then also I-20 eastbound at.
With him 1641 over in Tarrant County,
we are watching slow moving
traffic along I-35 W through Fort
Worth in those southbound lanes.
Alright,
let's go ahead and check in with Chris Soggy,
who has been along the high
5 all morning long.
And Chris, I know you got to be cold.
What's the situation like there now?
Yes, stacia, it is cold,
and it's been cold all morning,
but we've been here because we like to
keep an eye on the high 5 because we know
when the temperatures drop below freezing,
the bridges and overpasses,
when they get some precipitation,
can really be slick and dangerous.
At least since we've been
out here so far this morning,
we haven't seen a whole lot of problems.
But within probably the last couple
hours or so, we're starting to see
a little bit of that precipitation,
some raindrops here and there.
Not a lot, but it doesn't take much.
A little bit of misting, it's what?
We talked about all morning
long just a little bit.
You can't see it.
You get lulled into a sense of
complacency and you don't realize
just how slick the roadways can be.
That is why tech stocks had their trucks out.
We saw them out there yesterday.
We've seen them out this morning. Really.
They've been doing this since the end of last
week when it dipped below freezing.
They wanted to get out there and
make sure that the roadways were
pretreated with that, Brian.
It keeps the precipitation from sticking.
Through the roadways,
they've got their trucks out.
They also told us that they'd have
around 400 crews working at all
times of the day around the clock,
treating those troubled
areas where they pop up.
But everybody needs to do their part.
They urge everybody to
lower their temperatures.
Also, make sure your vehicles,
that you have all the fluids topped off,
that you gas up,
have all your engine fluids at it
filled up so that you don't run
into any troubles out on the road.
In case of a breakdown.
Make sure your tires are inflated,
because we know that.
Happened during cold weather.
So that's the situation over
here on the Dallas side.
We heard that the western side of
the Metroplex could feel this first.
That's why I'm going to send it out to you,
Megan Mitchell, who's informed.
There.
Yeah. And Chris,
we're seeing a lot of the same um,
but I think what's most important is
that especially if you are traveling
on some of those raised surfaces like
the one that I'm standing on here,
I'm actually, I'm on, I'm Terrell Blvd.
just above Route 30.
And these types of surfaces
free so much quicker, right,
because if you can stand below something,
see the top of it, that's a raised surface.
It's getting hit by that cold
air from every direction.
And so when I talk to Texas or Texas.
The Department of Transportation,
they were telling me that there
are a number of things that they
are really trying to do to make
sure that everyone stays safe.
Chris, you mentioned it,
24 hours, 24/7,
people are working here in
specifically Tarrant County.
They have 150 vehicles of all
shapes and sizes that are going
around all of these roads.
They started with these overpasses and
I think the overpasses is something
that I do really want to under score
because just within the last several
hours we heard of a wreck that happened.
But this was earlier this morning,
MedStar telling us that it happened
just north of us in Fort Worth and
an 18 Wheeler slid off of a roadway
down an embankment at Blue Mound Rd.
And 287 that driver transported
to the hospital.
We are not sure if their condition,
but just here in Fort Worth,
when we talked to the Police Department,
they were telling us that just today
they've already gone to 90 accidents.
They've responded to them,
so they expect that number to
rise as of course this ice comes
in within the next several hours.
We'll keep you updated here,
but the number one thing that they tell
us is please be careful out on the roadways.
Give those drivers who are trying
to treat the roadways some patients
and of course stay home if you can.
If you have that option to work
from home the next several days,
they tell us that you should
do it reporting live.
Megan Mitchell,
WW FAA I'm going to send it
back to the studio right now.