as a matter of fact, let's time this out for you. leesburg right now barnesville at 5:04 damascus 5:14 germantown around 5:21 redland and 5:38. farther to the south and through falk year county, through 66, 66 could quickly become a mess. look at these numbers, watson 5:06, haymarket at 5:16. chan tilly, too. that's why the winter weather advisory is in effect, for this band of snow making its way through. we've sent amelia segal out in the storm 4x4 it's right on your doorstep, wendy. >> it's about four miles away here in leesburg. we're in the storm team 4x4. we've seen trucks treating the roads. you can see outside gray skies. we can actually see the snow. it's hard to tell on your screen, but there's actually the mountains there that you would be able to see in this picture on a clear day. that's the snow moving over the mountains almost right now as it moves into the area.

again, it's only four mile as way. we're going to track this line of snow as it moves into the area, bringing updated conditions and also on twitter and facebook i'll post them. doug, you've been talking about the timing. it will move through quickly. >> it will move very quickly. amelia just right about there. it's about to come in. once again, waiting to see how much of an effect this has an away awayrea roadways. leave early if you can, or wait until it passes by. once it passes by the roads should be able to get up to speed in about an hour. we'll be back in the storm center talking about the winds and extremely record breaking cold temperatures coming up. >> also our road crews are setting up to take care of this mess. news4's transportation reporter adam tuss is on chain bridge road in mcclain at this moment. how is it looking there? >> reporter: well wendy, as you can see, the traffic is making its way from d.c. into virginia and i've got to tell you a lot of the drivers we're talking to out here tonight don't even know

that this is coming. they probably thought that the snow from the past couple of days was it and it was all said and done. a lot of people out here not sure this fast moving snow line is coming through here. and the problem with road crews why they're so concerned about all it is because like a couple of years ago, when we saw carmageddon the snow can literally freeze everybody in place. that's why hundreds of crews are out pretreating the roads. they'll try to stay on top of this. this will be a tricky one. we will be out here monitoring the situation on the bridge and around the region and bring you the latest conditions coming up next hour at 6:00. back to you. >> adam, thanks zthanks. the slick roads aren't the only danger. pipes could burst in your home creating a huge mess. news4's kristin wright is live in rockville with what you need to know to protect your belongings. kristin? >> reporter: montgomery county firefighters here have responded to close to 2,000 calls over the

past four days a big increase as a result of the cold, many of those calls are for broken pipes. take a look. water just coming down like a waterfall really right through the kitchen of this house. it was like rain. tonight the basement is completely flooded, 6 to 8 inches of water down there. firefighters had to trudge through it to shut off the water. now, many of our local fire departments have been taking a lot of these types of calls over the past few days. the montgomery county fire chief told us today he expects more problems with more snow and cold in the forecast. and keep in mind, one broken pipe is potentially a very dangerous situation. >> the other problem deals with water and electricity. when you get that much water in your house, you could cause a fire and could have an electrical short based upon the water and the electricity mixing, which is never good. that then, in turn, creates another problem with the electrical system, having a fire

as well. >> reporter: so you have kept your cabinets open, kept your faucets running and your pipes still burst. tonight at 6:00, the first thing you should do when that happens. live in rockville kristin wright news4. a popular d.c. tourist attraction has been closed all day because of flooding. water from a broken pipe flooded the museum and basement from ford theater in downtown d.c. we first reported this on twitter. news4's mark segraves joins us live with a look at what crews are doing to dry things out right now. mark? >> reporter: good evening wendy. this water pipe burst actually affected several buildings downtown here near 10th and "f" street. most notably the historic fords theater. crews are downstairs in the basement trying to remove the water. and the basement is the home to the theater's museum. the museum is home to irreplaceable artifacts like the

gun that fired the fatal shot that killed abraham lincoln as well as clothing worn by john wilkes booth and medical instruments that were used to treat booth. luckily the water didn't get high enough to damage the artifacts but the damage is bad enough to temporarily close the museum. >> the theater remains open, performances go on as scheduled. just the museum is affected. we don't have a projected time with when we'll be able to reopen. >> reporter: the closure comes as a disappointment to the nearly 1,000 visitors a day who come to this museum, and it comes as fords theater is preparing for the 150th anniversary of lincoln's assassination this april. again, the good news, if you have tickets for the play here "lincoln's widow," still come down. the play is going on as scheduled every night. the bad news, they don't know when the museum will reopen. and there is still concern for some of those artifacts. coming up at 6:00, we'll tell you what the concern is and what

it will take to get this museum reopened. reporting live in northwest, mark segraves, news4. we have just learned a deadly crash late this morning may have involved an intoxicated driver. police have taken a man into custody on suspicion of dui for a wreck in silver spring that you see here. chopper 4 flew over the scene along crest haven drive. we do know this involved a car and an shufsuv. one of the vehicles killed a pedestrian. no word on her identity. new tonight, the man accused of killing hannah graham will go to trial this summer it's expected to last three weeks. matthew's attorney will be getting help from two attorneys in the public defender's office. and in a mysterious development today matthew's attorney got a march 4th hearing to file a sealed motion privately in the judge's chambers. matthew is accused of murdering the uva student last september.

her remains were found five weeks later. the d.c. parents accused of leaving their children in a cold car were in court today for a pretrial hearing. christophe lucas and his wife jenny chang covered their faces with scarves as they walked out of d.c. superior court today. police tell us the couple left their 1 and 2-year-old children alone in a car for an hour while they attended a wine tasting inside a foggy bottom restaurant last month. it was 35 degrees outside. the couple are charged with attempted child cruelty. they're due back in court early next month. a woman is recovering from a dangerous and deadly valentine's day dispute in loudoun county. investigators say the woman had to fight off her estranged husband who burst into her home with a gun in middleburg. the husband fired one round wounding his wife before she wrestled the gun away from him and the husband drove off. fairfax county police later found the man dead of an apparent suicide in a parking

lot in herndon. in maryland, police arrested this howard county man, and they're warning inging parents to keep a closer eye on their kids' social media. vincent hill is charged with soliciting sex from a 12-year-old through something called the kick messaging app. detectives took over the girl's account after she allegedly that she got sexually explicit messages from hill. they arrested him in a sting after hill tried to get the girl to cut school, according to police, and meet him at a shopping center. he is now out on bond. an apparent electrical malfunction will force a family in our area to stay somewhere else tonight. the homeowner says they got an alert from an alarm that there was an issue inside their home earlier today. so they asked a neighbor to check it out. when firefighters got there, flames and smoke had spread from the basement throughout. this is just off bradley boulevard in bethesda. a dog and her puppy were found shivering on the side of a

local road. new at 5:00, why firefighters think the pets were abandoned and the help they're getting tonight. picture this. an arlington county police officer chasing a suspect thief right here in front of pentagon city mall. but it's who gave the officer a lift to track down the suspect that might surprise you. and how's this for smack talk, we say? it's snowing right now and people around the country think d.c., we don't handle it too well. >> today boston told d.c. to man up. so what do you have to say to boston? go to nbc washington's facebook page and weigh in.

we're here in the storm team 4x4 in leesburg where the snow has just begun. we saw some salt trucks that just went out to begin treating the roads in the area. it's only been snowing here for about five minutes, but it's really picked up already at this time period. as we look outside right now, you can see snow already starting to stick a little bit to the side of the roads. of course we are worried about slick conditions and reduced visibilities. we'll let the snow continue to push off to the east and then we'll be moving in the storm team 4x4 along with this snow squall to let you know the latest conditions on area roads. we plan on hopping on route 7

and heading back toward the beltway, again, bringing you updates throughout 5:00 and 6:00. >> we see that snow. amelia, thanks. tonight police are looking for a mysterious crime fighting cabbie. >> this taxi driver helped an arlington county police officer nab a suspected thief. david culver is live outside pentagon city mall with that story. >> reporter: wendy and jim, usually it's the cops who put the criminals in the back seat of their squad cars. but last night here at pentagon city, one arlington county police officer himself took the back seat of a nearby cab all to catch his suspect. it started with a call from inside the mall. two guys walked out of a store without paying for clothes. officer fitzgerald head thad way. he spotted the pair at this metro station. >> one suspect immediately fled. >> reporter: notice all the gear officer fitzgerald has to wear. still he took off after the suspected thief. then all aif sudden, unexpected

backup arrived. >> a red taxicab and the driver roefled down his window and said, hey, hop in, i'll help you out. >> i thought about it for a second. i thought, well, not such a bad idea. >> reporter: together the crime fighting duo, cabbie and cop, followed the suspect down 12th street. >> he waslike an all pro. he was yelling go go go hop around the corner. he did an ads brake right next to the suspect and i hopped out. >> reporter: the officer cupped the surprised suspect. we learned the 23-year-old was out on bond accused of stealing in fairfax county too. his accomplice on the loose. the driver had already took off before he was thanked. >> hopefully he can come forward. >> reporter: he was handed the cap rates by his fellow officers. >> i would like to pay up the fare or whatever it was. couldn't have been more than $5. it was just right around the corner. >> reporter: officer fitzgerald says he will gladly pay whatever

fare it was. meantime, the other suspected thief is still on the loose tonight. as far as that mystery crime fighting cabdriver, who is he? we're still working to find that out. we put several calls into several different cab companies trying to get a name. they're also working to get that name. once we get it we'll pass it along to you. we're live in arlington david culver news4. >> thanks, david. you know, it not out of the ordinary for d.c. to catch some flak for the way we handle snow or don't handle it. >> boy, are we getting it this week from jimmy fallon no less. >> one of ours. >> boston told d.c. to yes, man up and fallon fired a big shot on "the tonight show" last night. take a look. >> it seems like everyone has been affected by the snow. in fact, schools and federal offices in washington, d.c., were shut down today after the city received four inches of snow in their first major snowstorm of the season. or as boston residents put it are you [ bleep ] kidding me?

four inches of snow! i left work this morning out of a second story window. cowboy up! >> yes, he did. >> we wanted to know what you thought of the criticism so we asked, why do you think cities like to pick on us? >> we have been getting on earful. cynthia writes in when boston complained about an 85-degree heat wave in august are we allowed to tell them to man up, too? >> yes, we are! bob says, i'm not a wimp and as soon as i finish my fuzzy naval i'm going to drive up there and yell at them from a safe distance. of course, you go bob! >> they're fighting mad up there. to be fair, a lot of people are saying we are indeed wimps here in washington on the roads. >> but you know, we're proud of that, aren't we, doug? >> yeah! heck yeah. four inches will shut down this city. we all know that. two inches will shut down this city today. we're not talking about a

shutdown but a very quick hax hour burst of snow. that's all it will be, but it will cause a few problems. >> even by 9:00 10:00, road conditions should be improving. it's just for a period of time we've got to get through. then of course the extreme cold. we'll have more on that. >> that's probably the brutal portion. let' show you toward the west, you can see our reston camera. one thing you notice, look at the cloud cover. you can actually see the snow coming down right there, that snow line making its way closer to the reston area through portions of fair frax county. here's the snow burst coming through the region. again, very, very narrow. this is not a big snow event. don't expect it to snow all night. it's only going to snow for 15 to 30 minutes. but where it's snowing we're seeing fairly heavy snow reduced visibilities. it's quickly coating some of the roadways. right now frederick through leesburg seeing the snow. over the next half hour or so coming through the gaithersburg, damascus, 5:21, gaithersburg, fiech:37, rockville at about

5:52. then down to the south, the band continues into prince william county and fairfax county. gainesville 5:45, chantilly at 5 5:38. just know when it's coming through. maybe wait to head out the front door. i do think it could produce slick roadways out there. there is another band. here's one. there's another band back to the west and yet one more. we may see a couple of bands move through this one right now by far the strongest. that's why we have the winter weather advisory in effect across the area. just about everybody in effect for that because of the bursts of snow. generally an inch or less. we're really thinking a half inch. it will produce slippery roads as we move through the evening hours. that moves through and then the wind really comes in. the cold temperatures look at this, 10 right now in columbus 15 in elkins, west virginia. that's the cold air. and the windchill advisories between 5 and 15 below zero. veronica, this is something we're talking about because it's not just tomorrow. this extends through friday. >> exactly. near record cold for us this evening, as soon as the snow

kicks out of here and heads east. that's when the wind will ramp up with gusts around 30 miles per hour. we're going to see windchill values around 20 degrees. those are going to drop in a hurry. this is 11:00, single digit windchill values. early tomorrow morning at 7:00, 5 to 10 degrees below. but it drops even lower as we get into friday morning. 5 to 10 degrees below most of tomorrow,s wind chill values, 10 to 20 below by thursday night/friday morning. again, near record cold knz. you're looking at the records nor reagan national, dulles bwu marshall, 8 to minus 2, most of the records have been held since 1979. we could be getting very close to those values by friday morning. doug? >> that's for sure. the cold definitely here over the next couple of days. 18 for a high on thursday, 19 on friday. 32 on saturday, maybe a late mix late saturday night. then all rain, look at 50 gle s

degrees but it comes to rain. then we go below average by close to 15 degrees 30 for a high on tuesday, 35 wednesday. once again we continue to track the storm, storm 4x4 is out with amelia segal. amelia, it's really coming down now. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely doug. it's reducing visibilities to about a quarter to half a mile. next time you see me we'll be on route 7 bringing you the latest road conditions. >> reporter: i'm dianna russini at the nfl combine. we're supposed to be talking about the future prospects for the redskins. once again rg3 steals the show. stay here. >> i'll tell you how. two dogs found stranded on the side of the road. why a local shelter thinks they're abandoned and how the community is comin

>> p of. don't let the sunny day fool you. we have a snow squall moving in.

our storm team 4x4 has amielelia in leesburg. this is the leading edge of it moving fast with a lot of winds. it will be coming through and she is riding it on the way in. stay tuned. >> proof is in the pictures. it's come down. big day for the nfl as the movers, shakers and future stars of the league are all gather nd one place. >> at the nfl scouting combine out in indianapolis. that's where dianna russini is, working to find out more about the redskins' off-season plan. >> reporter: one of the most exciting events in the nfl. everywhere you turn you have gms, coaches owners. you also have 300 football players trying to stand out above the rest. head coach jay gruden here talking about the draft, but of course the first thing he was asked about, robert griffin iii. >> going into the season as robert as the number one guy obviously. then it's up to robert to continue to grow and mature as a quarterback and as a person and moving forward just want to see

improvement. it's up to us as a staff to get more out of him. >> reporter: unexpected news coming from jay gruden, naming robert griffin iii the starter. >> we will have things drawn out for him, specific things he can do to get better from the quarterback position mechanicwise all of that stuff. >> reporter: working right now in florida the backup quarterback kurt cousins. he's working out with gruden's older brother, former super bowl winning head coach jon gruden. jay, did you know jon was going to work with kurt cousins? have you spoken to your brother since then? >> no, i didn't know about it. obviously jon is my brother, and i knew after the fact that he went down there. as do a lot of quarterbacks. in's a lot of guys who go down there, coaches included. he's got a great setup down there. >> reporter: while jay gruden only spoke for a few minutes, a former redskins head coach mike sharn shanahan was on the radio back in d.c. and not holding back. we'll have that coming up at

6:00. in indianapolis, dianna russini news4 sports. this just in, spotsylvania county schools announced they will be closed tomorrow. we'll update you throughout the evening on air and on the nbc washington app. coming up a mother dog and her puppy are finally getting the care they need tonight. >> why shelter workers believe they were dumped on the side of a road. >> reporter: after millions of dollars of earthquake restoration work has been done, a lot more work needs to be done and money raised. i'll have the story coming up. and pat and his snow stick challenge, not just dogs but horses, cows, pigs. go check out the photos in the how

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right now at 5:30, a brief but a blast of snow is starting to sweep through the d.c. region. >> take a look. those heading out right now need to use caution. this snow will move through quickly, but it could be heavy at times. >> and windy out there. a winter weather advisory is in effect right now and what's behind the snow will chill you to the bone. >> our live team coverage continues now with doug. doug, where is the squall line right now? >> it's right over her. that's exactly right, it's over amelia. she was in leesburg earlier. we'll get to her in a second. this is what we'll be seeing this evening snow bursts

between now and 9:00. once it moves flu ss through, that's really it. it will create a quick coating to an inch. it will cover the roads the cars very quickly. then it will move out. then we have windy and cold conditions. take a look at the radar. you can see it coming through frederick, snow covered roads, leesburg, warrenton. i'll zoom in on the leesburg area here. as we do that, we will continue to watch as it moves toward the east. it will move fairly quickly. look behind it, one other band toward winchester. the portions west virginia west virginia panhandle may see a burst. amelia segal is in the storm team 4x4. amelia, you're seeing the snow come down fairly heavily. >> >>. >> reporter: absolutely doug. when we were in leesburg, the temperature was 35 right before the snow move nd. now just outside of ashburn heading to sterling, the temperature has dropped to 28

degrees. a pretty quick seven-degree temperature drop. also something to note as we look outside with the storm team 4x4 out of our dash camera, you can see the snow is already sticking to parts of the roads. it's kind of giving that slush on roads that can make shem slick quickly. we're going to continue to track this squall lineling bringing you updates of what you can expect. if you are traveling in the squall line, also noticing reduced visibilities as low to a quarter to half a mile, doug. >> tell your driver photographer b.j., slow down, buddy. keep amelia safe. we need her miraculous friend. at least he's in the right lane. we'll continue to monitor this situation, the winds coming in. windchill advise i inory in effect tomorrow, even worse friday. >> doug, thank you. this weather has also been dangerous for some vulnerable four-legged friends. now there's a call for help for two abandoned dogs. prince george's county bureau chief tracey wilkins shows who's

helping keep these pets wa the meantime. >> reporter: kitty gardner couldn't pass them by when they saw the two rung around route 1 in beltsville. >> saw these animals running. i couldn't leave them out there. they were trying to get in a building. >> reporter: kitty brought them here to the branchville fire department. >> i i've got a couple of dogs. i found them on the street. they came in. they were hungry because they ate about five or six chicken breasts. >> reporter: she works for branchville's auxiliary and knew it would be a good place to start. the firefighters then passed the two on to greenbelt's animal shelter. >> it's a no kill shelter. we wouldn't want to see these dogs be euthanized. >> they were probably not out for long. >> reporter: this is most lickly a 2-year-old mother and 3-month-old son, she said. they looked like they were well taken care of. >> they are pretty socialized and they're not very skinny.

this guy is actually kind of pudgy. >> reporter: with below freezing temperatures, getting the dogs off the streets could have meant saving their lives. >> these guys are short haired not built for cold temperatures. they definitely should not be outside for long periods. >> hopefully someone is able to claim them. if not hopefully they'll be adopted. >> reporter: you can see how busy it is on route 1. tess a great thing the dogs are are out of the cold and away from this roadway. if you're interested in adopting either one of these doggies, log on to nbcwashington.com. we have a link just search "greenbelt animal shelter." in benchville, tracey wilkins, news4. restorations inside the national cathedral have been completed but it will be many years before the work outside is done. >> reporter: tom sherwood got a tour of the progress. so far he's live outside the cathedral this evening. >> reporter: wendy, in about an hour, the cathedral will be

holding its third ash wednesday service. the cathedral was closed for three months after that earthquake, all the repairs will still take many years. few people have ever seen this view. more than six stories high in the gothic rafters of the washington national cathedral. up-close looks at the towering stained glass and stone. every square inch of the ceiling in the cathedral has been touched by human hands. there's an area there that no one's been up in that ceiling since 1917. >> reporter: national cathedral officials took the media on a tour of narrow ceiling passageways to show how they're wrapping up the $10 million first phase of restoring the cathedral. it was severely damaged in the august 2011 earthquake, destroying parts of the iconic cathedral. >> where the earthquake shook the building mortar between stones came loose. so we took that mortar out and

put new mortar in. >> reporter: beginning tomorrow, workmen will begin removing scaffolding and plywood that has covered the ceiling and outside architectural support beemz. there will be a ceremony to celebrate this part of work that still may last another ten >> we do hope to have a more formal celebration of the completion of what we're calling phase one after easter. >> reporter: now coming up at 6:00 all of this work here takes a lot of money. money that the cathedral right now doesn't have. in the district tom sherwood news4. >> thank you, tom. a mother comes to the rescue of a wounded officer. >> new tonight her heroic calls for help and why the police department believes she may have saved a life. tonight the news4 i-team will show you the first line of defense for local mental health emergencies. we'll take you inside a week of intense training and show you how officers are changing minds. >> storm team 4 tracking the

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to nbcwashington.com. we're talking about that burst of snow. take a look at it right now on our reston camera. it is coming right across herndon right now. you can actually see the white wall of snow making its way to the dulles toll road. notice the traffic not moving much at all. don't know if that's weather related. it's normally like that this time of evening. that snow continues to move closer and closer just now moving in toward fairfax county. i'll have the latest on the snow the latest on how cold we get coming up in a second. amelia segal has been driving right through it live. looks like it's really coming down around reston. >> reporter: doug it is. we're right around sterling headed toward reston. we're noticing greatly reduced visibilities. fat flake sz flowing. the traffic is moving a little slower than normal but moving just fine. some slick reports, a full report coming up in a little

bit. >> reporter: snow us your pet. judgment day for the snow stick challenge. who's going to get the stick? i'm pat collins. the story

oh, take a look live outside. this is reston folks. the dulles toll road and the parkway a burst of snow moving through the washington area right now. chief meteorologist doug kammerer will have your storm team 4 forecast in a couple of minutes. well, out of a crowd of hundreds of entries the field has officially been narrowed. >> oh did we have some good ones this time out. pat collins reveals the finalists in our snow us your pet snow stick challenge. >> say that fast. >> reporter: our snow stick challenge. snow us your pet. best pet picture gets an official pat collins snow stick. we got scores and scores of entries. dogs all dressed up. dogs with their own sticks. big dogs, little dogs, regal looking dogs. check this out. no dog but a hat that looks like

one. and paw-like gloves to complete the outfit. we got all sorts of things a cat, a pig a sugar glider, and a goat. our judges had a lot to work with. >> lots of good entries. >> reporter: we assembled an award winning panel, liz crenshaw tish thompson and scott macfarlane. they were impressed. >> i think people are extremely creative and people love pets and people love snow. >> anything that's out there running around and getting outside, it's a fabulous thing. >> reporter: and now the final four. druck roll drum roll, please. i said drum roll, please. that's better. in no particular order, the black lab with a big orange tennis ball the little bunny sledding in the snow, the bird

perched on top of the snowman, and buster, a snowball-encrusted snowdog. so which one of the final four would you pick? the judges' choice, the big winner coming up at 6:00. live in northwest, pat collins, news4. well, look at this. this is what's awaiting you as you head up i-270 in father hurley. that snow squall we've been talking about is finally getting closer and closer to d.c. and up into montgomery county. how fast is this moving, doug? >> pretty quickly about 25 to 30 miles per hour. it's only going to last about 15 minutes, maybe up towards a half hour. it's a very quick mover. the one thing we're not seeing we saw valentine's day, that storm came through with 40-mile-per-hour winds, this one 20 to 30-mile-per-hour winds. it's a little easier to get through.

reston live camera, the visibility has come down big big-time and it will continue through the evening. this line an extremely narrow line. can't forget what's going on toward the northern neck, maryland, also lighter snow here. this is the area of heavier snow. one other band back to the west woo we're going to watch that one, too. but right in through the region thshgs is around weston, herndon, over towards rockville, about to come through the bethesda area, right along 66. here's route 7, actually route 7 here, fairfax about to see that snow then toward the bethesda area too. want to show you a different vantage point. this is taking the radar a little differently. anywhere you see yellow, gaithersburg, herndon reston, the darker green, the heavier snow that continues to move in. as he move this out over the next half hour, oakton at 5:54, fairfax 5:56, bethesda, 6:07 and d.c. around 6:22. in about the next half hour to 45 minutes through the metro and again coming down very heavily.

we are see something of the roadways that are starting to get snow covered, especially those secondary roads. that moves on through, and then the cold air moves through. we have the winter weather advisory in effect until 9:00 tonight. then we have the windchill advisory that goes into effect overnight too. temperatures 33 in d.c. down to 28 now in dulles. we'll continue to watch out for that. take a look, back to the west the snow is starting. amelia segal has been in it for the last hour or so. you're just tracking this thing right on in amelia. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely, doug. we're still on route 7 heading toward reston. our plan is to then head toward the beltway and track this line as it moves through the district. looking outside right now the snow is reducing visibilities to about a quarter to half a mile, and we are seeing potentially some slick spots starting to develop t. is sticking to roads. you can see as we head under this underpass here snow is sticking to the ground. also something to note, at 4:30, the temperature 35 degrees. now here in the storm team 4x4

doug a temperature of 27. also noticing the temperature drop but no wind. >> the temperature drop comes down the wind will start to pick up later in the evening. then we get just really cold high of 18 tomorrow, windchills below zero to start off the day. then we get to 4 degrees on friday morning. and take a look, friday morning how about these windchills? 25 to 10 below zero here, then even around noon we're still zero to 10 below. it will be an amazingly cold day, one of the coldest we've seen in quite saturday a high of 32 with a mix late in the evening into the overnight, changing over to all rain. sunday rain with a high of 50. then right back down to colder numbers but at least not the teens anymore. >> finally. they are often the first line of defense for mental health calls in our area. >> and hundreds of police officers have stepped up now to get special training to handle the cases. >> as part of our year-long campaign on mental health issues, the news4 i-team's tisha

thompson reveals how the training is changing minds.patrolling the streets in d.c. -- >> we get the calls over here. >> reporter: -- officer robert scipio might look like any other police officer. >> she has been dealing with some time. >> reporter: but he's been specially trained to respond to a certain type of call which experts say is on the rise in our area. >> i know she's not in compliance with taking her medication. i already know that. >> reporter: officer scipio is a crisis intervention officer. >> there's two reasons for the program, safety and nonviolent zwergs. >> reporter: one of more than 650 mvpd officer whoz have gone through 40 hours of training to better understand mental illness and how to safely respond to thoiz dealing with it. >> we want to give you all the tools you need to deescalate the situation resolve the situation. >> reporter: our news4 i-team cameras were allowed inside the session, even getting a look at

this tactical village where officers role-play scenarios from classrooms and apartments to scores and banks. >> we're glad that everybody that comes in here wants to be here. we warrant to keep it that way. >> reporter: this in-depth training is voluntary. mpd says it passed its goal of getting 15% of the force trained. 650 officers in montgomery county received similar training, 400 in fairfax and the training is mandatory for new recruits with prince george's county's police 402 trained so far. >> it started changing our minds about the stigma of mental illness. >> reporter: steven bigelow says the classes gave him specific techniques for defusing situations instead of immediately resorting to force. >> if you talk in a calm manner, it calms the situation down. it's less likely you're going to get involve nd a physical altercation with those folks and it works. >> reporter: he wants viewers to know you can ask for one of

these officers when you call 911. d.c.'s department of behavioral health tells the i-team a high percentage of calls for cios are suicide threats or attempts. and officers like sergeant brent parson says they often encounter people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. >> when you take a step back and understand where it's coming from and this person deep down inside doesn't mean me any harm, then you start to understand the levels of force you may need to use. >> mental illness is here. people need to be aware. >> reporter: back in ward 5, officer scipio approaches the woman he sees regularly on the streets and thinks might be in trouble. she does not want to talk this day. >> doyou want to leave a person off better than you first encountered them. >> reporter: but he says he'll be there if she ever needs him. >> even if you can't really give them what they want at least give them some type of hope you know?

>> most new recruits in our area get some training for mental health help buff not as in depth. coming up at 6:00, doreen gentzler continues by sitting down with two officers who deal full time with mental health calls. how they're saving lives and making the community safer. tisha thompson, news4 i-team. a staten island mother comes to the rescue in a new york minute. >> and the new york police department says she may have saved an officer's life. >> reporter: undocument immigrants living in our area fear deportation after a federal judge in texas overturns the president's executive order granting amnesty. this is chris gordon. we'll tell you what to

we're just hearing the harrowing 911 calls made in a bad crash that involved a roll reversal of sorts in new york. >> nbc's michael george shows us why a mother who responded to an injured police officer didn't initially know she was saving

his life. >> hello? hello? hello? there's a police officer that was in an accident. >> reporter: that's not a police officer you're hearing on this radio. it's staten island mom debbie. debbie saw an officer get into a car crash near her home. she sprang into action. >> her kids screamed, he's dead. so i ran across the street and while the -- i didn't know he was an officer at first. so i opened up the passenger's door. his air bag was deployed and he was laying across the front seat of the car. >> reporter: she didn't have her cell phone, but she spotted the officer's walkie-talkie. i saw an antenna sticking out. i was like, what's this? so i grabbed it and i pressed a button. and it was working. i was like hello, hello, is anybody there? >> is the officer still conscious? >> he's breathing, but he's not conscious. >> so i sat on the floor next to the seat and i just kept talking and talking. >> reporter: debbie said she

checked his pulse and breathing and she waited for emergency responders. do you have any medical training? >> no none at all. >> reporter: but debbie had one thing going for her. >> i don't know. instinct just kicked in. >> reporter: thanks to her quick response, rescuers were on the scene within minutes. the officer escaped with only a concussion and we're told he's now in stable condition. >> i would hope that that would happen for me, for my sons. i would hope that anyone that sees somebody hurt would respond. >> reporter: michael george "news 4 new york." >> announcer: this is a storm team 4 weather alert. now at 6:00 a fast moving system brings a blast of snow and wind thatat the worst possible time. it won't last long but it's causing problems on the drive home. >> there is bitter cold coming behind the snow and that could cause a lot more problems such as this one at ford's theater where a pipe burst and flooded the museum. >> new details are coming out

about a deadly crash in the middle of a residential neighborhood. we begin tonight with team coverage of this snow squall out there. it's moving closer to the d.c. metro area right now. amelia segal riding along with it in the storm team 4x4. >> let's start with chief meteorologist doug kammerer in the storm center tracking this thing on radar. doug? >> you saw adam tuss on the key bridge. i'm curious what happens with the key bridge, an -- chain bridge, rather. it's interesting to see what will happen with that region because bridges always freeze over first. we'll go to adam in a second. but first there's the band making its way to the south. these two will meet up over southern maryland where some of the heaviest snow may be in the next hour. but currently the heaviest snow in montgomery county just about everybody seeing snow. reports of 270 snow covered now, back around the gaithersburg