tracking the reaction to thises alike have renewed safety concerns. a woman who was struck by a bus fights for her life. live with team coverage as we come on the air this afternoon, gathering details in our newsroom and out in the field. we're going to get to those stories in just a moment. first the big story is the frigid air outside. >> blast of bitter cold is about to set in for another night. storm team 4 is tracking how cold it's going to get. let's start off with chief meteorologist doug kammerer. >> guys, waking up this morning, extremely cold temperatures out there. temperatures in the teens. the wind was gusting upwards of 20 miles per hour and put windchills down below zero in some locations. currently 33 degrees in d.c. 28 toward hagerstown. 29 in hagerstown, rather. look where we were this morning. 10 in frederick. 13 in dulles.

the wind chil down to zero. the wind has begun to subside. the windchill not nearly as big a factor. 26, pitbutsburgh. virginia beach at 32. 32 in philadelphia. 28 new york. the cold air is here. at least for one more night and one more day. so one more cold one here. milder late next week or late this week. we'll talk much more about that. the rain chance on the increase for friday and sunday. of course, sunday, big game in town. we'll talk much more about that as well in my full forecast. >> all right, doug, thank you. metra says it's not sure if cold weather caused a crash along the green line. chopper 4 was over the college park space after crews found this crack after 9:00 this morning. repairs are still under way at this hour so expect delays in both directions as you head home tonight. well, you saw it streaming in our nbc washington app today

when president obama announced the new steps he's taking to reduce some of the gun violence. you can see the emotion there, speaking more as a father than the president. he said the murder of 20 first graders at sandy hook elementary school was the saddest day of his presidency. three years later, the emotions are still very strong. he was wiping tears away when he talked about those children. news 4's steve handelsman is live at white house with details on this plan. steve? >> reporter: chris, thanks. here at the white house today president obama said most americans including, he said, most republicans and most gun owners, support tougher background checks. which is what he has decided to mandate. >> thank you. >> reporter: president obama ordering the changes was cheered by gun control activists. >> because people are dying. >> reporter: and he got emotional. wiping away tears, citing the mass shootings at columbine, at virginia tech, and sandy hook elementary. >> every time i think about those kids, it gets me mad.

>> reporter: he is ordering more background checks, hiring more fbi examiners to do them 24/7 and many gun shows now no background checking is required for so-called private sales. same on the internet in many states. from now on, the obama order says, if you're in the business of selling guns you must do background checks. support from hillary clinton. >> because i called for some of those measures a couple of months ago. >> reporter: support from the mother of report eer alison parr whose killer passed his check and bought his gun legally. >> if background checks can save one life, it may not have saved alison's but that's not a reason to do nothing. >> reporter: the nra tweeted "president obama's executive orders will do nothing to improve public safety." marco rubio agreed. >> gun violence is committed by criminals. criminals don't care what the law is. >> reporter: rubio, ted cruz and other gop candidates vow to roll back the tougher gun rules president obama is ordering into

effect on his own. president is asking congress for a half billion dollars more for mental health care, but house speaker paul ryan's making clear republicans will not support tougher gun control. live at the white house, steve handelsman, news 4. and new reaction to the president's announcement just in to the live desk from the top cop in montgomery county. chief tom manger just held a press conference saying many of the initiatives unveiled today are, in his words, a step in the right direction. he says anything is better than what we have now. >> congress, because other lawmakers in our states haven't had the courage, haven't had the willpower, haven't had the inclination to take some of these much-needed steps and, again, i don't think any of these are perfect solutions that are going to bring our homicides down to zero, but i do believe as a police chief that this is going to -- it's a great step in

the right direction. >> elsewhere in montgomery county the previous u.s. house candidate from the county, dan bongino issuing a statement critical of the proposal saying president obama has, in his words, no credibility on gun issues and the nra also called the initiative announced today political rhetoric instead of a meaningful solution. chris? >> thanks, scott. whether you're watching at home or on the nbc washington app, we want to know your reaction to the president's gun proposal. it's our nbc washington flash survey. call or text the number on your screen or head over to our facebook and twitter pages. we'll be revealing the results all afternoon. turning now to new details about the pedestrian hit by a ride on bus this morning many bethesda. it happened at old georgetown road and battery lane. our transportation reporter adam tuss is there now. adam, what are the investigators saying happened there? >> reporter: well, barbara, as you mentioned, just before 8:00 this morning, the woman is in critical condition.

her identity has not been released. we do know it was a bad crash. let me show you what happened in this area. the bus was coming from battery lane making a left on to old georgetown road there when it hit the woman right in that area. we don't know if she was in the crosswalk, but take a look at the scene this morning. the woman's purse and a bag on the ground, the bus stopped after it hit her. there is a ride on bus stop nearby. now, the bus driver has been with ride on since 2006, so this was a veteran driver, and after an extensive reconstruction of the crash took place while the road was shut down. again, rush hour is back in full swing across our area. this is another reminder you have to pay extra attention at all times especially when crossing a busy road like this one. residents here say this is a dangerous intersection. >> i mean, do you see people running across the street all the time to try to catch the bus or -- >> especially right here, the bus stop right here, of course, busy time. traffic is insane. >> reporter: yeah. >> and, yeah, i'm one of those people as well. >> reporter: you catch the bus

here, too if. >> of course, i go to school. >> reporter: now, coming up on news 4 at 5:00, we get reaction from a bus driver who tells us flat-out our roads aren't safe enough. he says more needs to be done. chris, back to you. >> all right, thanks, adam. right now, we're trying to learn more about fighting in afghanistan that took the life of a u.s. service member and injured two others. this happened during fighting in southern afghanistan. we know they're all members of u.s. special operations command, but don't know much else. we know the u.s. and afghanistan are pushing back against recent gains by the taliban in that area. if you don't have a powerball ticket yet, this may change your mind. first at 4:00, how the people behind the mega jackpot just made the big upcoming drawing even bigger. plus a piece of history unearthed at last. wait until you hear about the incredible find that's been under one busy neighborhood for hundreds of years.

and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> well, the cold air can certainly do a lot to make it feel much colder than what it actually is and certainly was the case this morning starting out in the teens. our windchill minus zero, regular national. right now the windchills are in the 30s. the wind pretty light right now. we're going calm as we head into the evening hours. the wind can also help when it eases up. we drop to 28 by 7:00. 27 degrees by 8:00. under very clear sky. take a look at the satellite and radar. hardly a cloud to be found until you get way down here around norfolk, areas of eastern north carolina where there were some flurries this morning, light snow showers. we got that coming up in just a couple minutes. more on our next big change,

where you get over 40 degrees. that's tomorrow afternoon with sunshine. doug has more on that as well as the warming through the weekend in just a few minutes. >> all right, thanks, v.j. for the first time a woman is in charge of cadets at westpoint. today brigadier general diana holland assumed command of the u.s. military academy. she graduated from westpoint 27 years ago and served overseas in iraq and afghanistan. at today's swearing in ceremony she acknowledged who other graduates who recently became the first female army rangers. westpoint first accepted women in 1967. last month the pentagon announced it was opening all combat roles to women. there's a good chance you or someone you know is holding a powerball ticket right now. the jackpot for wednesday's drawing soared from $400 million to $450 million today due to fast sales out there. it's the largest jackpot in nearly a year and the sixth largest ever. if you buy your powerball ticket in maryland and you win, you can stay anonymous if you want to. we just posted a story explaining the rules on our nbc

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first at 4:00, we're tracking the cold. take a look at some of the

frigid windchills from this afternoon. doug kammerer says tonight and tomorrow morning will bring more cold weather. he brings us an update in a moment. first we're following developments in oregon right now where the group of armed protesters have occupied a federal wildlife refuge since d saturday. >> the group leader says they will leave when a plan is put in place to turn the land over to locals. we get the latest from nbc's leeann greg. >> reporter: anti-government protesters continue to control buildings at a federal wildlife refuge in remote eastern gorego. leaders of the occupation say the group won't leave until it's implemented a plan. >> where the community will begin to participate more in that and then begin to take that over and so that they can claim their own rights so that they can begin using them and then they can stand strong enough to

defend themselv themselves. >> reporter: digging in despite a direct plea from the sheriff. >> it's time for you to leave our community, go home to your families, and end this peacefully. >> reporter: they call themselves citizens for constitutional freedom and think the federal government has too much control over western land. some local ranchers agree and tin the generation's old debate. >> feels like we're getting pinched out. >> reporter: the occupiers are rallying behind ranchers dwight and steven hammond who reported for prison monday after being convicted of starting fires on federal land, but the hammonds made it clear they don't want militant support. the occupation has closed schools for a week. unsettling much of the community. >> i don't think he really has any business doing this. i think he's insight iting, you, unrest. >> reporter: law enforcement led by the fbi taking a low-keyed approach for now seems ready to wait them out. leeann greg, nbc news. and according to the congressional research service, the federal government owns

about a million square miles of land and most of it is out west. the government started acquiring the land in the late 1800s when settlers started expanding that way. it wanted to protect areas like yellowstone national park and the oregon wildlife refuge and the debates over how it manages and use that land has been going on ever since. i'm tracee wilkins where a house is still at times burning after a major fire yesterday. you can see what's left here of the house more than 75,000 square feet here. all we see is the brick outside that's left here. the roof and ceiling collapsed to the inside of this home. that's going to cause some issues for fire investigators who are taking a look at how this all started and also inspecting how well the sprinklers here worked for this home. this is a major part of this investigation because out here in this portion of accokeek, there are to fire hydrants. the people who live here depend

on their sprinkler systems and water tanks inside of their hom homes built to help deal with fires. why did this house burn so severely and why does it have neighbors rethinking the infrastructure of this entire community? we'll have that story coming up on news 4 at 5:00. hundreds of people brave the cold morning air in alexandria for a peek into the past. part of a ship's hull was discovered during the construction of a new hotel between union and strand streets on the waterfront there. city archaeologists who have been on site throughout the construction believe it dates back to the 1700s. >> the city's very excited to have this discovery made. the fact that this is such an early ship. >> it looks l a skeleton of, you know, a dinosaur that you'd find. so i'm excited to learn more as they learn more. >> and that ship's hull is not

the only thing found on the site during construction. to find out more, search alexandria ship on the nbc washington app. you thought the air out there today was frigid, we got some news for you, it ain't over yet. >> oh, my goodness. i was cold all day. >> yeah. >> how about you, doug? >> you know, walking outside you just felt it right away. the big thing, though, the cold is one thing, the wind's something completely different. the windchill is what we are dealing with earlier today. those windchills down below zero in some locations. so right now, much better out there at least as far as the wind is concerned. temperature actually made it above freezing today. how about that? up to 33 degrees. plenty of sunshine. wind out of northwest at 3 miles per hour. a far cry from the 20, 30 mile per hour wind gusts we've been dealing with the last 24 hours. at least the wind is better but it's still on the cold side. temperatures right now 28 gaithersburg. 29 hagerstown. 32 manassas.

32 culpeper. by far today the coldest day we have seen so far this season. we're going to see a couple l more of them. i think we got one more day this cold tomorrow. maybe just a tad warmer. storm team 44 radar not showing anything. no rain, no snow. it would be snow if we were seeing anything at all. i want to show you something, though, something really, really cool. most of the mid-atlantic completely clear from new york, d.c., down toward richmond, completely clear, right? look at this right here. what's going on down here? this was actually chesapeake bay-effect snowfall. you hear about lake-effect snow up toward buffalo all the time. this was actually chesapeake bay-effect snow coming across the norfolk area earlier. that created a dusting of snow even on the roads, they did have some tracvel problems. also saw ocean-effect snow down toward the outer banks. they, too, saw a dusting of snow out there. yeah, that can happen this time of year if the trajectory of the wind is just right and it was today. right of of the north-northeast.

look at the streamer coming down across the norfolk area. quite amazing. now, overnight low temperaturesen temperatures en tonight going to be cold again. 13 in frederick. 13 in manassas. tomorrow morning extremely cold. we're not going to be dealing with those windchills. we're not predicti ining anythi like earlier this morning. high temperatures tomorrow, still cold but at least we're closer to the 40 degree range. 35 gaithersburg, 39 leesburg, 36 in frederick. plenty of sunshine, less wind tomorrow. will be a better day. it's going to be quite cold. bundle up. 3 2 thursday with more cloud cover. we get into friday and saturday, another storm system moves in on friday. high temperature around 45. this should be just rain. late friday night into the day early saturday. most of saturday looks dry, but coming up at 4:45, veronica has more on the next system that will affect you saturday night into sunday. >> wow, talk about a roller coast r. >> really. first at 4:00, last year's unrest in baltimore is about too lead to some major changes. >> we're talking a ining about

of changes you can actually see and they're sure to make a big impact on communities that have already been through a lot. it's a show that so many of you can't stop talking about but now a disturbing revelation from a juror in the case

well, the head of facebook says you should get off your portable device, the latest is the top story on our nbc washington app. the documentary "making a

murderer." hot 99.5's kane joining us. hundreds of thousands of people have been signing online petitions to free this convicted killer. this show, the impact is amazing. >> was he framed or not? it's one juror that raises the question about a murder. >> yeah, for people who don't know, the juror came to the creators of the show, right? >> steven avery was convicted of murder and now they say that there was vote trading going on behind the scenes and the reason was we thathey didn't want a mi. they were worried about their own safety. they wanted to go ahead and have an answer by the end of the case. now it looks like and sounds like thanks to podcasts like hbo shows like "the just" that there may be a behind-the-scenes on this that is a cover-up. >> yeah. >> and it's all thanks to one juror who doesn't want to come

forward, but they said they would testify if it went back to court. >> yeah, i think now the creators are trying to get to some of the other jurors to try to verify this. >> yeah. >> this isn't the last you've heard of it. the other thing, why is the ceo of facebook telling people to turn away from social media? >> well, last year mark zuckerberg did a year of books and every year, mark does some sort of project. this year he wants you to run one mile a day. so his challenge is called 365 miles in 2016. we checked the math, by the way -- >> it's a leap year this year. >> yeah. >> you get a day off. >> technically you would get a day off, exactly. i was wondering about that. we sure enough found out. it's got 43,000 members so far, and they say on average it's about 10, 15 minutes. >> jingle ball was a huge success. >> all sorts of things to give away tomorrow including free

money, $1,000 cash on hot 99.5 on the kane show. >> all right, my friend. happy new year. >> thank you, chris. when the u.s. is ready for battles overseas they're the first americans to see the danger for themselves. we're going to show you the rare look at an elite group of meteorologists who forecast the weather in the most dangerous of places. plus another day you'll want to layer up. we're tracking some frigid weather. how cold will it be tomorrow? and how many changes could be ahead. s

every time i think about those kids, can gets me mad. and by the way, it happens on the streets of chicago every day. >> barack obama sounding more like a father than the president. getting unusually emotional today when he talked about the toll that gun violence takes on children. he just issued executive order saying that reducing that violence. republicans say he's acting outside his authority. a woman is in critical condition after being hit by a ride on bus this morning in bethesda. the bus was turning left onto old georgetown road when it hit the pedestrian. we learned the driver has been with ride on since 2006. southern afghanistan, a u.s. service member killed and two others injured in fighting. all are members of the special operations forces but few other details are known. the u.s. is pushing back against recent taliban gains in that

area. well, it's still cold out there, but we're going to be seeing our temperatures go up and way up for the end of the week and the weekend. right now still having to deal with that cold, so all buttoned up for sure when you step out the door. 26 degrees, the current wind chill reading manassas. 33 now finally above freezing in d.c. we got 20s to the north around gaithersburg. but it's a light wind for early tomorrow morning. now, it's still going to be cold. we're still going to see our temperatures drop down into the teens and low teens at that. again, 13 to 20 degrees. 20 right inside of the beltway. so if you're traveling torn, we're expecting sunshine again. you got the green light thon th. no problems on area roads. exercising, kids recess will be outside. that should be a green light. out and about, coats needed for tomorrow unless you really want to bundle it all up again. one thing for sure, while it has been cold today, this weekend i'm calling it cooler.

temperatures go up again next week. what looks like a good part of next week. gets very cold again. we'll look at the seven-day forecast, the extended into next week in a few minutes. >> thanks, v.j. with temperatures below freezing it's been a hat, gloves, scarves, puffy coat kind of day. >> anything you can put on. a shock when you remember how warm december was. news 4's mollet green continues our coverage with a look at how commuterses with braving this brutal cold. >> it's 17 degrees in lake ridge. >> reporter: though it's sunny it's way too cold for commuters to stand outside for long. >> wear a bunch of layers. just prepare yourself. >> reporter: you don't have on a hat. >> i know, but i have a hood, so, and i just got out of the car so i'm still okay. >> reporter: and their wait no more than five or ten minutes for a warm carpool ride to work, some come dressed in layers and furry boots. or with hot coffee in hand. >> it will make it to crystal city. i see a couple of prospects here.

there's a roslyn prospect and here's a crystal city prospect. >> reporter: car after car headed out of this lake ridge lot. >> crystal? all right. it's a deal. >> reporter: but the wait is longer for regette washington, sitting steps away in a bus stop bay in these dangerously cold conditions. >> oh, i'm cold. very cold. i'm actually a dialysis patient so i stay cold, anyway, so this is quite cold for me. >> reporter: lucky for her, the bus is on time. back at the line, we find a scotland native calling for -- >> bring on the snow. >> reporter: bring on the snow? >> bring on the snow. >> reporter: are you sure about that? >> my kid's ready to get the sled out. absolutely. bring on the snow. >> reporter: okay. we're not ready for snow just yet. baby steps until we get to that point. we put together an entire cold weather section inside our nbc washington app. tips for your home, your cars and your pets and, of course,

hot line numbers because this is hypothermia weather. check it out. inside our nbc washington app. in lake ridge, virginia, molette green, news 4. just into the live desk, this ruling federal court in massachusetts, look at it, camille cosby will not have to give a deposition tomorrow. last week the judge ruled the wife would have to. cosby's lawyers appealed the ruling and asked the deposition be stayed until the outcome of the appeal. a judge granted that stay today. when and if she is required to testify, camille cosby would be forced to disclose about what she knows of allegations bill cosby drugged and sexually assaulted dozens of women. back to you. >> thanks, scott. first at 4:00, there's a plan to demolish thousands of vacant buildings in baltimore. it's going to start with the neighborhood where freddie gray was arrested. that neighborhood was the scene of rioting and looting after

gray died in custody. governor larry hogan announced $75 million in state funding for that plan today. it's going to make way for new development of affordable housing, businesses, and new parks. baltimore has about 17,000 vacant homes. now to a developing story in the fight against isis. tensions between saudi arabia and iran are threatening to derail talks and ending those conflicts in iraq and syria. today kuwait cut diplomatic ties with iran joining saudi ally, bahrain, and the united arab emirates. over the weekend protesters attacked the saudi embassy in tehr tehran. the u.s. need those two sides united to fight common terrorist threats. this is a man identified by british media as the new jihadi john in the latest isis propaganda video. his latest name, siddartha dhar.

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♪ and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> oh, you know it's cold out there, the coldest day we've seen so far this year. 27 state college. 33 right now in d.c. at least we made it above freezing. cold enough for snow. now, we're not -- we don't have any natural snow, but they're making snow at aught ski resorts and coming up over the next couple days a lot of the resorts around the area will be opening. liberty opening up on thursday. brown top in pennsylvania, opening up tomorrow. and white tail also opening up on thursday as well. so some good news for the local ski resorts thinking about getting skiing in, looking pretty good this weekend. now, what to wear again

tomorrow, it's all the above. with the exception of the umbrella. get that out of here. heavy coat. gloves. hat and scarf. a very cold day for your wednesday. we'll talk much more about that. we got some rain. another storm moving in just in time for sunday. the redskins game. veronica has more on that in a couple minutes. >> thank you, doug. a dose of winter weather hit the hampton roads area of virginia overnight. that area isn't used to seeing much snow so though it was just flurries it was a pretty big deal for them. crews were out treating streets. there was enough snow it did stick in a few places and with temperatures this low, some of it may hang around until tomorrow. and now that we're into the new year, you're going to be hearing a lot about the summer olympics in brazil. they're coming up in august. we will broadcast the games on nbc 4. at our annual nbc 4 health and fitness expo this weekend, you'll have a chance to meet a few olympic athletes. they're going to talk about their story of perseverance and how they got their tickets to rio. they'll be speaking on the main stage at 1:30 saturday. then again at noon on sunday.

the nbc 4 health and fitness expo is at the washington convention center this weekend. it's completely free. i'm going to be there bright and early on sunday morning and you can learn all about the speakers and schedules at nbcwashington.com. well, it's a weather forecast like you've never seen before. meet an elite group of military meteorologists risking their lives to get much-needed information for american servicemen and women in the battlefield. >> wait for us to ensure that the forecast is as accurate as possible to keep troops on the ground safe as possible.

the weather so up and down like we've seen in the last month, wow, must be pretty tough forecasting the weather like this. >> yeah, and that's from a nice heated studio like we have here. storm team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson caught up with some members of the military who have it really tough. >> yeah, those of us on storm team 4, we know how difficult some forecasts can be. i recently had the honor of travelering to pope airfield at ft. bragg, north carolina, and spoke to an elite group of battlefield meteorologists. they forecast the weather while driving into some of the most hostile areas around the world. ♪ they are the department of

defense's elite group of weather forecasters for the u.s. air force. they are trained as weather forecasters, but also in many of the same skills required by any special operations soldier. special operations weather technicians also known as sowts are highly trained meteorologists who provide realtime combat zone weather reports an analysis. they are embedded in every branch of the u.s. military special operations division, including navy s.e.a.l.s and army rangers. >> sowts are some of the first to head into hostile environments. they provide the information to help make that call of go or no go to unit leaders or commanders. sowts go through a two-year pipeline considered one of the longest in any branch of service. >> we train to take advantage of every asfepect of the weather there is, tethered to mission we're on. you're definitely looking out for specific instances that might help your mission. >> reporter: i traveled with the sowts on a recent training

exercise. on this day their mission was to complete a river assetment. river depths, check for obstacles and forecast record the weather. during drills like this, team members learn their roles and responsibilities. >> we go to those places that lack data, collect the data and put that in our forecast which allows other special operations forces that are doing current and future operations there to ensure mission success. >> reporter: each sowt keeps instruments on them at all times. >> i have a handheld weather sensor, handheld finder to determine cloud height as well as height of obstacles whenever we're doing environmental reconnaissance. >> reporter: in 2011 the sowt mission was to come up with a weather sensor that would withstand harsh conditions along a dangerous winter passage that leads to northern afghanistan. just a year prior, that pass had been hit several times killing 160 people. the sowt mission was to

construct a weather station that would measure and relay weather information to help forecast avalanches. this photo shows them raising the completed weather station. >> that is what we are skilled in is making this forecast under pressure, trusting this forecast, and making them as accurate as possible, keep our fellow guys on the ground safe. >> now i asked the special operations weather team what they enjoy most about their job. as you might imagine, it was serving country. well, they really are truly amongst some of the most highly trained personnel that we have in the u.s. armed forces. >> wow, that's something, isn't it? >> they have to do it all. right now it's open only for men, but that could change. >> yeah. it was interesting, we think of forecasting as temperature, rain, snow, precipitation. they're looking at the height of the clouds and all the details. >> sometimes having to come up with data where data doesn't exist which is tough to do. >> amazing. >> data does exist here. we're well aware of that.

>> right. at least the temperatures are going to go going up over the next coupling days. a lot of folks will like that. i know the cold came in in a big way with temperatures bottoming out just so low this morning. as far as what you need to know for tomorrow going out the door, same drill, heavy coat, gloves, hat, scarf all still despite the fact we're not going to have as much wind around tomorrow morning. tomorrow morning, it's going to be cold again. temperatures drop to 14 degrees. germantown, olney, gatorsburg. 17 around waldorf, la plata, 18 degrees in greenbelt. university of maryland, koelcol start for the morning again. not as cold as we get into the afternoon especially with a light wind. the weather tomorrow is going to have a low impact on our area. you'll see those temperatures rise very quickly from about freezing 11:00 a.m. to lunchtime to around 40 degrees for tomorrow afternoon. again, a nice calm wind.

we've got sunshine across the area tomorrow and will continue to climb as we go through thursday as well as friday. wednesday night into thursday morning, look at this, all the white you see, these are clouds that are painting throughout the area. those clouds move through and they're going to hang on for a good part of thursday. right now your thursday is dry. it's friday that we do have a chance of rain. you can see it there coming into our area. very late in the day. the temperature goes up to 45 degrees. saturday, as high as 50 degrees. so right now it looks as though the rain should be in and out of here and gone by around sunrise on saturday. ending saturday morning. but we'll get anywhere from about a half to an inch of rain. as for sunday right now, again, there's a lot going on. health and fitness expo saturday and sunday. washington convention center. the whole storm team 4 will be on stage answering your questions, so make sure you check the schedule on nbcwashington.com and, of course, we know that there's a big game going on sunday. right now that rain is out of here. still going to be cloudy. plenty chilly with a high

temperature of 49. close to 50 degrees. at least it's going to be milder. doug has more on the weekend impacts coming up in just a few minutes. >> thanks, v.j. a man jumps off his hov eer hoverboard just in time and is blaming faulty batteries for sparking the fire. >> wow. oh. there it goes. there it goes. >> the man bought the hoverboard in los angeles and never had a problem with it before. he says he charged it up and had only been riding for five minutes when it exploded. the consumer products safety commission is investigating the potential dangers of hoverboards. a new study is warning kids about the risk of getting addicted to a relatively new form of tobacco. advertising for e-cigarettes reaches about 70% of middle and high school students. according to the centers for disease control, that works out to be 18 million young people. the cdc recommends more restrictions on selling e-cigs online and wants to restrict the numbers of stores that sell them, especially near schools.

inova health showed off its new women's hospital in falls church this morning. the hospital will treat pregnant women and their babies and treat women's surgical procedures. 192 beds for women and 118 for babies. this was angie goff emceeing today's ribbon cutting. >> this is a big gain for the women of northern virginia. it marks the celebration of a huge milestone. >> the women's hospital will officially open on january 26th. we're working several developing stories in the newsroom. right now we're learning more about the driver who crashed into a crowd of people on new year's day. he's been charged with dui, bullet mark segraves was in court today and discovered he is no stranger to police. more on that and why his lawyer says he's not guilty coming up at 5:00. and strong reaction to the president's executive orders on gun laws from montgomery county's top cop. he says they are steps in the right direction. in ten minutes, jackie bensen will join us live from rockville where the chief suggested the

president could have gone even further. for more than 50 years, the why not store has been a fixture in oldtown alexandria. talking to customers today, they say it's an institution, part of their childhood. but now it's closing its doors. >> it makes me sad. it's like a historical landmark. >> when places like this go, it's hard to replicate them. >> reporter: just ahead on news 4 at 5:00, you're going to meet the woman who's run this place for half a century. why she says it's time. a teenager's controversial excuse for a deadly crash was just the start of a wild story. now the case of the so-called affluenza teenager has developed into a missing person search, his lawyer speaking out for the first time just as the teenager's mother makes an announcement of her own. >> you're watching news 4 at 4:00.

oklahoma is debating what to do next in the wake of several earthquakes in the state. most of them happened in areas where injection wells pump salty waste water deep into the earth. state officials order most companies that do that to cut their operations in half while they're researching this issue. they acknowledge shutting down operations isn't all that plausible. a hearing friday will address residents' fears over what's been going on. we're also learning new details in the so-called

affluenza case. the teenager's mother agreed to go back to texas and face a charge of helping her sun go on the run. >> the teen's new attorney is speaking out in mexico now, but nbc's gabe gutierrez says it could be months before ethan couch is extradited. >> okay. yeah, that's great. >> reporter: ethan couch's new attorney says his client's detention hasn't been a piece of cake. >> he's not at the four seasons right now. >> reporter: fernando bonites known here in mexico as the rock star attorney. who's paying you? >> that's something of a confidential nature. >> reporter: he is meeting with his client for the first time this morning. >> he's a young man, an unexperienced young man in a foo foreign country being detained. he's entitled as the same compassion any other human being would in a similar situation. >> reporter: there are those who disagreed. couch drove drunk in 2013 causing a horrible crash that killed four people and injured nine. he got no jail time, just probation after the now-infamous

affluenza defense. >> we would like to still see accountability. if there was any kind of remorse at all or any acknowledgement that, you know, he took the life of their family member, there just hasn't been that. >> laws are anot in place to del with issues with popularity or opinion. >> just when the wound starts to heal a little bit there's another development and rips the bandage right off the wound again. >> reporter: he says as far as he knows, his client broke no laws here in mexico. as for how long this deportation case could drag on, it could be weeks or months. bonites calls it speculation but it could be up to ethan couch, himself. if he decides we wants to return to texas, his deportation case could be over very quickly. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, mexico city. news 4 at 5:00 starts now with jim and doreen.

>> now -- now at 5:00, storm team 4 coverage of the coldest weather of the season. >> windchills made it feel like it was zero this morning. >> chief meteorologist doug kammerer begins our team coverage with a look at the conditions out there right now. hi, doug. >> yeah, hey, guys. i tell you what, it was extremely cold out there this morning. you knew when you stepped out the front door. as soon as the wind hits you, it blew right through you. take a look at the numbers this morning. these were the actual lows. these were not the windchills. these were the actual lows down to 10 in frederick. 16 d.c. 15 in laurten. extreme cold. combine that with the wind, we saw windchills below zero early this morning. currently we're at the 3 2 degree mark. at least we made it to fwrereez in d.c. hagersto hagerstown, 29 degrees. the cold air is going to stick around one more night and one more day tomorrow. much milder as we head toward late week.

we'll talk about that. the rain chances will be on increase, too. we have a couple storm systems, one of which could affect your weekend. we'll talk about that in a second. right now veronica johnson outside. v.y v.j., the wind in a situation like this makes a difference. >> reporter: we were buttoned up, scarves, hat on. i lost the hat for right now. i'm still going with the gloves. it is cold, just not quite as windy. our windchills this morning, take a look at them, they were down below zero briefly around 5:004:00, 5:00, 6:00 a.m. the windchills are in the low 30s because we barely have any wind left hanging on. the wind is pretty calm. this evening, a calm wind, settles down to the upper 20s by 8:00, 9:00. as doug mentioned, a cold start before we see those temperatures rebound. doug, of course, you'll have more on that coming up a little later. >> yeah, that's right. we're talking about coming up at 5:25, not just one, but two areas around us that saw snow od