>> this is storm team 4's special coverage of the blizzard of 2016. right now at 6:00, blizzard 2016's storm gives way into the record books and many of you are starting to dig out of this big mess. >> it will be a slow start to the week and every major school district in our region is closed and some closed for days and metro just announced when it will start running again. we'll break down everything you need to know. >> the storm may be gone, but the potential danger remains. what you need to know as you get ready for a massive clean up. and, folks, we begin with breaking news just in. we have heard from the office of personnel management.

the federal government is closed tomorrow. closed on monday. emergency and telework-ready employees must follow their agency's policies. good evening, everybody. i'm jim handly. >> i'm erika gonzalez. the sun has now set on a beautiful day here in the district, a day in which many of you walked outside for the first time in a long time trying to dig yourselves out. >> the cabin fever is about finished with us and we are helping you get back to normal tonight and we have new information for you this evening on everything from closings to that metro service. >> we've got team coverage, teams of reporters covering the big story for you and storm team 4 chief teorologist doug kammerer here with what to expect tonight and into the morning. >> well, guys, what we'll expect tonight is the re-freeze and it wasn't a lot of. temperatures today barely got above freezing and with some sunshine, we were able to get milking tonight and i want to take you back to yesterday. look at the storm, really just

hammering the entire area. tremendous amounts of snowfall around the region. this storm definitely one for the record book, for sure and this is what we said. this is the original snowfall forecast and 20 to 30 inches or more and some areas could see 40 and amazing that we saw 42 inches in west virginia and ten to 20 down to the south and 5 to ten. so this is what we mentioned and that's exactly what we got across our area and at national, 17.8 and i don't believe this number at all, where number four we were around top two with 22 inches and unfortunately the records were not kept at national very well and the top two snowstorms and bwi coming in at number one and 29.two inches of snow. tomorrow, everything frozen and slick conditions and some melting during the day, but i'll tell you why, amelia segal outside and this is going to be a big issue for people not just today, but most likely for the rest of the week and exactly, dealing with melting during the day and re-freezing overnight. outside here it is so tranquil.

the winds aren't blowing and the skies are clear and it's really nice. we're at a temperature of 33 degrees and as we work our way into the early evening hour with light winds, temperatures are going to plummet and 28 degrees by 7:00 p.m. and boy 9:00 in the low 20s and already in the teens before midnight. so anything that has melted today will turn to ice overnight tonight, tomorrow morning you're dealing with icy sidewalks. so as you walk to work you'll want to keep that in mind. driving much of the same and snow and ice-covered roads and especially the secondary roads and if you plan on shifling once again, it will be cold, but at least you won't be dealing with any wind and like you said, doug, you continue to talk about freezing overnight and melting during the day and doug will have much more of of that coming up in the weather. just like you, metro is digging out today. the transit agency just announced limited underground service will resume tomorrow. so here's what will be open.

the orange line between boston and eastern market. the red line between medical center and union station and the green line between fort totten and anacostia. this is limited underground service and trains will run every 20 to 25 minutes from 7:00 a.m. until midnight and you can ride free. metro bus will also run for free between noon and 5:00. just noon and 5:00 on the so-called lifeline service and only 22 routes are open and you can find all of the routes and more details on metro service on our nbc washington app, just search metro. >> it's going to take a while. bottom line, be patient. >> in just moments ago, mayor muriel bowser the d.c. government will be closed tomorrow. >> tom sherwood was at that news conference and he's live in northwest d.c. with the progress report on the big bigout from this storm.

>> the city has made a lot of progress, but there's still a great deal of work to do and right behind me here on 14th street right near 14th and u, this big pile of snow right here blocking two lanes of traffic. the mayor says closing the general government will help. >> we are going to close d.c. government tomorrow and we want to have tomorrow to continue to keep cars off the road so that we can clear those major arterials and also clear the places where many people who come to our downtown would normally park. >> now it's a big job out there to clean both the streets and the sidewalks. >> how are you? >> throughout the day, mayor muriel bowser was hitting all city wards including citizens clearing their ward and public space. >> taking care of the bus stop. >> thank you. i appreciate

snow crews extra time to do your work. and in neighborhoods across the city people were eyeing the mounds of snow to be moved and wondering if monday would be any different. and again, d.c. public schools and the general d.c. government are closed tomorrow to help clear the streets for more of the big dig. in downtown, washington, tom sherwood. news 4. >> we also just learned that the

district had the first snow-related death this afternoon and police tell us an 82-year-old man died of an apparent heart attack while he was shoveling and remember to stay hydrated and take plenty of breaks ask volunteered for elderly neighbors. the federal government is closed tomorrow and your kids want tomorrow, too and that became a little longer and every major school system in the area is closed tomorrow and some districts even announced plans to close on tuesday, too. >> parents are flipping out going, what am i going to do with the kids. two more days and we want to give you the school districts that are closed tomorrow and tuesday. so this is monday and tuesday. in virginia, fairfax county and prince william county. loudoun, arlington and fauquier and manassas city schools and manassas park city schools and in maryland, these are all of the schools that are closed tuesday as well, monday and tuesday. if you ever have a question

about the closings or the delays, you can always go back to the nbc washington app and go there. >> i'm hearing a chorus of cheers out there. >> from the kids, not the parents. montgomery county also just let us know that government offices will be closed tomorrow and there will be no ride-on bus service. >> they're in bethesda where some used the beautiful day where they start to get us under the snow. what a job it is and the plow is in the process of clearing it up right now as we speak and it's 6:00 in the evening and so this is an effort and montgomery county officials say to get to those side streets it may be a multi-day effort. it's back breaking, miserable work to move three feet of snow, but it has to be done. >> i would say five hour, but

that includes starting yesterday at 9:00 p.m. when the snow stopped. >> and this was used to it and this is not that stressful, but work wise, it's a lot of work, i have to say. >> it was all that. >> you have $20 each for what's left here in the car. >> frostberg state university students tony and antonio home on winter break found plenty of work helping people out. >> they said they tried to keep the price reasonable $10 or $20 per driveway with discounts for the elderly. >> it's a small price. >> we're college students and we're home for break just trying to help out and making sure everybody is good, you know? just do our part. >> reporter: what we have been seeing this evening is people getting cabin fever. they're fed up with being in the house. the street gets plowed out and they get in the car and they get

stuck at one of these intersections where it just not the way it normally is. please, local officials are saying there are streets that have not been plowed out yet. please stay home. it is the best way for all of us to get out of this. >> the national mall and monuments were closed this weekend, of course, but that didn't stop our chopper 4 from taking to the skies. >> as we go to break, we want to leave you with the picturesque aerial view. isn't that gorgeous?

buildings, check this out from chopper 4 over the scene in fredericksburg, and you can see the entire front facade of the strip mall, completely caved in and all of the businesses were closed. >> the snow was so heavy and the winds so strong that the redskins indoor training facility deflated. the team says it will wait for the snow to be removed and for conditions to improve before reinflating the practice bubble. our own deflate gate there right in our own backyard. >> we've got a good reminder of just how hard it is for emergency crews to work in conditions like these. >> an nbc news crew was doing a news crew and the fire department responded to a call for a sick child and the fire

truck went as far as they could into the subdivision and then got stuck. crews were able to get that child to the ambulance and on their way to the hospital and then they went to shovel out the truck. >> lots of calls where the people have been unable to make it themselves to the hospital or doctor's offices. car accidents related to snow. stuff like that. this is another good reminder to check on the elderly or disabled and make sure their homes are shovelled out so crews can get there in case of an emergency. >> it is just day one of our big dig. >> this blanket of snow isn't going anywhere any time soo >> digging out is going to be a long and tedious road. >> prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins joins us from lanover with more on how things are looking there. tracy? >> reporter: things are looking really good here in dunnbar avenue. >> there are many who see this street and think, i wish that

was my street and they've had a plow come through which is unusual because the county has not had an opportunity to hit a lot of these residential streets and the folks who live on this road have been doing a great job of getting their driveways taken care of, as well. >> this is what many of the main roads in prince george's county are looking like. plowed, but just passable. what we try to do is to create a lane to allow them in and out or to travel that road. >> with about 70 to 75% of the main roads plowed the attention on is expected to choose from residential streets tonight and tomorrow. >> there will be a couple of more days tomorrow. >> meanwhile, the great dugout is under way in the neighborhood. >> how long did it take you? >> pretty much all day. maybe four hours on saturday and six hours today. >> reporter: county officials still have plenty of work to do on the road.

so the less traffic, the better. >> that's something this resident is fine with. >> i'm not going to go out. i work for the federal government and not until they tell me to drive to work will i try the main road. >> reporter: when you're riding on the main road in prince george's county, what happens is you have a lane that possibly could disappear when you go to the light. instead of trying to do two or three lanes it's probably best for you to stick to the middle lane because there's no telling if you have a snow bank or anything else and the cars are trying to drive side by side and the roads are not good enough to do that, yet and they're calling the roads passable for now, meaning if you have to get out, then go ahead and prince george's is still under a state of emergency and possibly for the next two days. for now, they still are trying to get emergency equipment to where they need to be. they still have the assistance from the national guard here as well, helping to get employees from where they need to be, as

well. >> county departments and schools. back to you in the studio. >> good advice. >> more proof of just how dangerous this blizzard has been. more than two dozen deaths have been linked to this particular storm. u.s. capitol police officer vernon aleston died yesterday. the 20-year veteran was shoveling snow while off duty and died of an apparent heart attack. he was 44 years old and this has been an incredibly deadly storm and there were 29 weather-related deaths across the country. they died from car accidents, blizzard conditions and carbon monoxide poisoning and heart attacks while shoveling snow. 29-year-old man died shoveling snow. we know of two confirmed storm deaths from maryland and investigators in baltimore, laurel and carol county are trying to figure out if the storm is to blame for three more deaths today. >> the snow may have topped

falling, but the commonwealth is not clear from danger? that's the message tonight from virginia governor terry mcauliffe. he says the impacts of this blizzard lasts for day, if not longer. the government flew over the commonwealth to tour the storm's wrafr math. reagan national and dull us national is back open as will virginia's ports. national guard troops may be needed to help check off people trapped in their homes still. >> we are very worried, obviously, in the rural communities and elderly folks, slip and fall. they have to get medical care. you see the humvees and the big equipment they have in the national guard. they're delivering medicine. >> boy, they are working hard. you're being asked to make sure sidewalks are cleared in your neighborhoods and school won't open back up until they are. >> and the fire hydrants, emergency personnel have done a great job tweeting pictures of

clearing it for fire hydrants, in case the fire trucks can get through there and we want to get right back to storm team 4 meteor ol just doug kammerer and amelia segal who join us from the storm team 4 weather center with how things are looking now. >> things are looking probably right on par with what we were thinking they would. we also knew today was going to be the day when you had to get out of there and you might not able to dig out for a couple of days. >> it is a single lane at rush hour and that is packed and speaking of getting back to normal. >> take a look outside and first off, i want to take you back to where the storm was earlier and what we saw, that storm making its way up from the south and bringing the snow across the area and developing right off the coast. we did, i'm not -- i haven't heard it just -- i haven't heard it just from the weather service just yet, but we did look like we hit our blizzard criteria, three hours consecutively with

winds over 35 miles an hour and here's the snow that fell and we predicted 20 to 30 inches and 40.5 around shepherdstown and three feet in win chester and over two feet and over to dulles airport and to portions of charles county and we did see some mixing over a foot, and absolutely amazing. so much snow. you heard me say i was promising my kids i would build the biggest igloo they've ever seen. >> that's it! i was actually in there earlier. i ate dinner in there, as a matter of fact. it was pretty nice stuff. right now temperaturewise, 33 degrees and it's on the calm side and it will stay calm and that's the wind aspect of that. because of the calm winds the temperatures will fall quickly and 28 in frederick and 17 in west virginia and 29 in culpeper and the cold temperatures and that will lead to big problems tomorrow. >> lots of icy spots to be dealing with tomorrow on area roads and sidewalks and it will

be dangerous out and about tomorrow morning as we work our way to midday and afternoon hours and still areas of ice especially on sidewalks as we mauve in through the evening hours and we were talking about refreezing once again and here's the hour by hour forecast and 15 degrees in the district and you can see the temperature in your neighborhood on my facebook and twitter pages tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. and we warmed to high of 35 and the sun melting tomorrow and thinking about school this week and lots of ice tomorrow and no chance for school on tuesday and doug was talking about it and maybe schools opening on wednesday and maybe more snow in the forecast. >> maybe more snow in the forecast and that's right. take a look at the next seven days and 45, anything that falls on tuesday will fall in the form of rain. that system moves off the coast and another one tries to move in and it could give us snow on wednesday and maybe a mix thursday. we're looking at 37 degrees and there could be on thursday night a little bit in the way of snow. this is the system that we'll watch and it will be another coastal low moving up the coast and could we see some

accumulation and it does look possible right now and again, this is something to watch and not predicting the storm right now, and again, something that we'll continue to watch behind it and temperatures get above average and boy, will we need that as we head into the weekend. we'll be right back. ♪ know you can keep your financial big picture under control. know you can see how much you have to spend and whether you should transfer funds.

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let's head to arlington now and our darcy spencer is live with the cleanup there. >> how are things looking, dh s

darcy? >> reporter: they're in 24-hour snow removal and on clairendon boulevard, they're loading up the snow, putting it in dump trucks and moving it out and they'll need a couple of more days to get it all done. some are digging out and others are simply waiting. they don't have any work or school tomorrow so they said they're going to go ahead and

>> more than 200 people showed up in a massive snowball fight. it was named snow wars. the snowball strikes back, a play on "star wars," it was mostly people that lived around the area that attended. >> what a turnout. we'll be back here right at 11:00 for ne

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