neighborhood roads still aren't passable. and a lot of you are waiting to hear if you will have to go to work tomorrow. most of the kids will not be heading back to school. good afternoon. i'm chris lawrence with meteorologist veronica johnson. >> i'm pat lawson in the storm center with chief meteorologist doug kammerer. doug, how much melting is going on and do we have to worry about a refreeze tonight? >> we saw that last night. we saw a lot of melting during the day today, plenty of sunshine today. refreeze going to be an issue a little bit, but some really good news coming up over the next couple days. >> we need that. look at the low temperatures this morning. we saw a little bit of melting yesterday but look at the temperatures overnight last night. 3 in manassas. 2 in martinsburg. 16 downtown. incredibly cold out there this morning. that's why we encountered a lot of ice. made the snow harder, too, a little harder to move. we've see mid to high level

clouds today. we'll see the clouds lower and that will help to create a blanket on top of the atmosphere. keeping things a little bit more mild tonight. look at these numbers. well above freezing. 41 right now in d.c. 44 in fredericksburg. we are seeing the melting. there's a lot of snow left, veronica johnson. i know you're outside right now talking about the chance for melting over the next couple days. >> it's amazing when you look around and you see a sea of white and you know it goes deep. where are we going to put all this snow? we will get some help with mother nature with the melting and a couple other key factors, the sun, the wind, fog, moisture, even a chance for a little bit of rain coming our way this week. all part of that along with, of course, alongside the road as the snow gets dirtier, it does allow for more melting. it's the absorption as opposed to the reflection that the sun typically does when it's so white and clean. but at 40 degrees for three days straight, you can melt about 2

to 3 inches of snow per day. we're really going to get a chance to eat away at all the snow that's on the ground and right near area roads, neighborhoods included. i talked to maryland highway administration. they said that they use salt above 25 degrees. temperatures will be above 25 degrees. we shouldn't have too much ice to worry about this week at all because when we drop, the temperatures drop overnight, they're not going to stay there for very long before we bounce back. your walking forecast, a lot of folks on foot, chris, slippery at 31 in the morning. lots of melting, 45 in the afternoon. >> tonight you think that salt is going to be able to get down, they'll make some progress tonight. >> exactly. for sure. we do have a chance, doug, for maybe a few flakes of snow. that's about it. you've got more on that i know coming up. >> that's exactly right. we'll be talking about the snow chances. yesterday it looked like a little better for snow toward the end of the week. today not quite as good and that makes a lot of people happy, even me.

guys? >> we could be taking you out to a news conference with metro's general manager with. within the last hour metro opened most of the above ground stations on the blue and yellow lines. the red, green, around orange lines are operating on limited service but on a lot of those lines you have some of the above-ground stations closed. bus service still limited. we'll get to that news conference as soon as it starts. >> here at the live desk, we are monitoring closings as schools and businesses decide whether to close their doors again tomorrow. right now most major school systems have decided to stay closed tomorrow. they are running on the bottom of the screen. we're still waiting to hear from the office of personnel management with the federal government. remember, as these closings and delays come in, we will send a breaking news alert to your phone or your tablet through the nbc washington app. you can also track the forecast in the palm of your hand. there is still a snow emergency in effect in d.c. right now, which means you still

cannot park on snow emergency routes. >> yeah, pat. if you do, the police are going to give you a ticket and crews are just going to tow your car away. in an hour muriel bowser will talk about the ongoing cleanup efforts. this morning she said the crews have made a lot of progress towards making the main roads passable. now they're focusing on residential streets but a lot of roads in d.c. are still dangerous and the cleanup will last through the end of the week. >> we are using different equipment for smaller residential roads. we just yesterday morning talked about the big infusion of additional equipment that we have gotten in the district of columbia from all across the country, including bobcats and other smaller equipment that's going to help us today. it is important to note if you come out in a vehicle, and trust me a lot of vehicles think they can make it out because they see the main roads and they're getting suctuck, we cannot have

vehicles abandoned on our street and if your car becomes stuck and abandoned, we will ticket and tow you as well. >> now, across northern virginia, many neighborhoods, residents in many neighborhoods are waiting to see the first signs of a snowplow. >> yeah. bureau chief julie carey has been driving all around loudoun county. now she's in an area of ashburn farms. what is it looking at where you're at? >> reporter: i'm on summerwood circle and this is what we found in a lot of subdivisions. behind me they haven't seen a plow. you can see right there where the plowing stopped. now, while we see vdot making good process on the main roads, the only owner's association contracts for plows in the subdivisions and for the smaller trucks, three feet of snow is a real challenge. take a look now at what we found in another part of loudoun county. this is the amberly subdivision

where the hoa contracts for the snow removal. some roads in the subdivision have been plowed, others have not even seen a first pass. that's why we found john hutchens tackling the mountain of snow behind his house. he's taking matters into his own hands. he's a u.p.s. driver and he said he'd like to get back to work. he and his neighbors are frustrated because last night the plows came into the neighborhood but when one of them got stuck, the drivers gave up. >> the guy that was trying to come the other way, he completely got stuck and he was there for about an hour and then another tow came, got him, pulled him out, and then they talked and he said, i'm gone, forget it. >> reporter: you haven't seen him yet today. >> haven't seen him yet today. hopefully we'll get out by later this evening but i'm doing it myself now. >> reporter: getting back to work is one thing, but in another part of that subdivision we found a block where there was not one, but two women due to

give birth this week. coming up on news4 at 5 d:00, i will show you how neighbors jumped into action to give them a little praes of mieace of min. >> thanks. seeing julie there. if you were able to drive out of your neighborhood today, consider yourself lucky. a lot of folks out there still waiting for the plows to come through. even if you did make it out, by now you've noticed there's not a lot of places to go. our team coverage continues. tracee wilkins is live in national harbor. not a place i usually describe as quiet. >> reporter: yeah, but it is definitely quiet today. you can take a look behind me and see that they have been doing all kinds of shafling out here and we've got huge piles here at national harbor. if you look over here to my right, that's a huge, huge massive pile. because of that, some of the entrances into national harbor are closed for right now, and some of the businesses are also closed as they try to deal with all of this snow. now, we took a drive through some of the residential streets.

let me show what you we saw here in parts of southern prince george's county and it's pretty muchhis way across the county, that the trucks just have not made it to these residential so what they're finding is that less than 50% of their residential streets and secondary roads have been taken care of, but they're saying now something like 85% to 90% of their primary roads have been taken care of. state roads are looking very good as well. we talked with some of the residents who are a little frustrated about the wait. >> i have seen them clear, and i understand why they're not being cleared, but i have seen them clear. they used to do a much better job on this street than they've done. >> they should be plowed by now, but if they aren't, you do the best you can, you get out here and do it yourself. complain being it doesn't get anything done. you get out here and do something about it. >> reporter: coming up on news4 at 5:00, hear from the county executive and we'll show you how the beltway is looking, county

roads, and state roads. i'm tracee wilkins, news4. >> we want to take you live to a press conference with the metro gm talking about the progress in reopening after the blizzard. listen in. >> so they'll get there. i wanted to thank them. let me give you an update real quick on metrorail. because of that hard work from lots of people, as of 3:00 we've had limited service across the system on the blue, yellow, orange, red, and green lines. on the bly line we're from largo town center to hunting done. the orange line from boston to new carrollton. the red line from medical center to glenmont and the green line, this is just from a little while ago, fort totten to branch avenue. we're actually starting right now from greenbelt all the way to branch avenue. so that takes us up to 79 to the 91. that's really good. and as soon as we get more, we'll keep romilling them out there as soon as we feel comfortable from a safety stand

point and a service reliability standpoi standpoint. on the metrobus side we are working limited service. that service will stop at 5:00. we'll be picking people up until 5:00 not sending buses out after 5:00. that's just to be dealing with some of the situations on some of the roads and keeping employees and the customers safe. we did offer today, we started the b-30 service, the route up to baltimore, and also the 5a which is the route to dulles. those services are on primary roads so it was easier to get them going as well. so -- as you nknow, these work n snow routes. they've been running every 30 minutes. tomorrow, let me start with metrobus, if i could. we will begin at our normal schedule service tomorrow which starts at 3:30 in some cases. pretty early. we'll be upgrading the bus service from tlifeline to sever.

that is 79 routes, 27 in the district, 26 in virginia, and 26 in maryland. we also not only do they serve the local routes but obviously they feed the metro. we are ready to roll with that. we have the equipment, we have the street people ready to roll on that, and a lot of that effort has been working locally -- working with the local jurisdictions across the entire region, and i really want to emphasize how well that's gone. i talked directly with the head of department of transportation in the district, the secretaries of transportation of maryland and virginia, and leaders in the transportation side at the local level, the county level and the town level and the mayor has been fantastic for us. that's really what helps us get the bus service out. turning to metrorail, rail tomorrow the system will open at 5:00 a.m. with service on all lines, all the lines will be served tomorrow except the silver line. as you all know, that was the hardest hit area of the region, and that's also, you know, the most elevated structure and

creates its own set of issues. we will go back to regular fares, i'm sorry, no more free service, and parking fees will also kick in tomorrow as well. you have until 9:30 tomorrow morning to basically get out for free. it will be a model 5 weekday schedule. basically we'll be running trains every 12 minutes on each line and obviously where there's overlap it will be more frequent service. we're working real hard on the silver line but i just don't want to commit to that right now until we're comfortable that we can meet that and we're doing it safely. so basically we'll have all the stations open except for those five stations as of tomorrow. that takes us up to 86 of the 91 stations. in terms of metro access, that service does remain suspended now. we'll re-evaluate that in the morning. as you know, that's door-to-door service, presents its own set of challenges to make sure we can get to customers safely. we'll continue to work that. my plan -- our hope is we can get that up later in the afternoon but until i feel comfortable, we're just not going to commit to that right

now but you will hear more about that tomorrow. and then finally before any questions, i do encourage customers to basically get on the internet for the latest information and the signup for the metro alerts program that we have and then you can get all the information you need. okay? so with that i'd be glad to take any questions. >> i talked with some commuters today who were a bit upset about closing underground stations because there weren't power outages. what would you say to them? >> well, you know, we've got to think back, you know, 48 hours now. at that time if you remember the national weather service was very concerned about the winds and that was a big part of the storm that everyone was preparing for across the entire region. so that was a big part of it, of the issue, and also all three jurisdictions, you know, the two states and the district, claimed emergency, you know, and we don't want to be attracting people out in conditions like that. so at some point they're going to be out on the street, all the equipment is out there, and the conditions were just too bad. so i'm very comfortable that that was the best decision for

our customers and our employees, and, you know, i have to factor that in because our employees have to get there and out of there as well, and to me that's too high of a risk. >> metro general manager with some really good news for metro commuters. the big news, the rail service will be reopened back to normal tomorrow starting at 5:00 in the morning except the hard-hit silver line stations. they will not be opened and running tomorrow. bus service will be upgraded tomorrow with 79 routes running in the dmv. the fares tomorrow will be the regular fares. today a lot of bus and metrorail riders were able to ride for free, and, of course, metro has been running on limited schedule today, limited service, with the trains running until midnight. the bus service, the last routes will be leaving at 5:00 this afternoon. well, snowplows are supposed to clear the roads so you don't get stuck in the snow. what are you to do when the plow is the one that's stuck in the snow?

wait until we tell you what happened in one local community today. and more coverage coming your way next as we recover and dig out from the blizzard of 2016.

i'm scott mcfarlane in north potomac. you will see a man snow blowing in the distance. he's trying to snow blow out the entire community. the roads here near jones lake

elementary school mirror those throughout montgomery county and frederick county. they have been cleared partially. coming up on news4 at 5:00, we talked to montgomery county and ask them the question how long until people can get their roads clear, even the backroads, even the secondary roads? also frederick county couple has a new baby and had to bring the baby back to the hospital because their driveway was impassable. for now in north potomac, scott mcfarlane, news4. >> you heard how metro is going to have most of its stations back online tomorrow morning but we're still waiting to hear what other train systems will do tomorrow. for now service is limited on amtrak's northeast corridor. trains between there and boston -- here and boston are running on a modified schedule. marc and vre trains are out of service completely. let's take a look at the weather right now. doug, how is it out there? great for making snowmen and all those things we do after a storm? >> you know what? it really was -- i know i was able to make a snow fort out of

this. a lot of people out sledding across the area. the fun is there to be had. obviously the kids are still out of school, most likely during the day tomorrow, and probably for much of this week so that's going to be something we're watching out for. the only concerns that we have is going to be on those roadways, so if you don't have to go out, still an idea not to do so. a good look at 355 looking at our rockville camera. looks like 355 looking pretty good right there. as far as the rest of the area goes, the potomac frozen over. we were so cold last night, down to 16 in d.c. many areas even cooler than that. 41 degrees the current temperature. winds are calm. temperatures well above freezing so we have seen that melting going on across the region. temperature right now, 38 martinsburg, 37 in gaithersburg, 44 down towards the fredericksburg area. well above freezing everywhere so the melting is occurring. now, normally we'd be talking about that refreeze, but overnight low temperatures aren't going to be all that cold and that's some very good news. no rain, no snow in the forecast

as far as storm team 4 radar is concerned. notice the cloud cover moving in across the region and there's more clouds back to the west. look at this storm. pretty potent little storm system. nice comma feature there but what it's going to do is bring in milder air, bring in more cloud cover, and that will help temperatures stay a little above where they were, actually a lot above where they were last night. so we're going to have a chance tomorrow for some rain, not snow. future weather timing it out for us, here is tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. no problems around our region. as we move through the day, here comes that little frontal boundary with that storm system but that's it. look at the chance of showers right around the 3:00 hour. just showers, they will be very, very light. this is not going to help much to melt any of the snow. what any rain would do is compact the snow and make it even heavier. so next couple days you will notice if you don't shovel today, if you don't shovel tomorrow, by the end of the week the snow will actually feel heavier out there. here is something interesting on wednesday, 7:00 a.m., notice some flakes down toward the south. this is something we'll be watching. not expecting anything from this.

all it would really do is just coat some of the areas with a little bit of snow maybe down to the south but we're not calling for any real accumulation. school outlook. tomorrow, no chance of school. we already know that. wednesday, most areas still no school on wednesday. if they do have school, i would anticipate at least a delay. thursday, well, that's when we start to get back to normal. i still think we'll have a lot of delays, still a lot of cancellations. now, next few days, 45 on tuesday. 40 on wednesday. 37 thursday. colder towards the end of the week but mild as we head towards the weekend. and we were talking about a chance of snow possible thursday into friday. i'm not talking about it anymore. no more snow. i don't need any more, you don't need any more. we'll wait. i think mid-february is the neck time we might see some. all right. who is going to get the pat collins snow stick? time to stop looking. time to start judging. that story coming up. and if what everybody is

dealing with right now. this afternoon we want to know, is your street plowed yet? >> it's our nbc washington flash survey. let us know. just call or text the number on your screen or head over to the nbc washington facebook and twitter pages.

no one has an easy time in snow like this, not even the men and women driving the snowplows.

chopper 4 caught up with this one just as it got stuck on a back road in gaithersburg. another plow came by to help an even after they shoveled around it, the truck still had to be towed out. it was a tight squeeze but it looks like crews freed the truck without taking out any mailboxes or light poles nearby. >> and that music after a snowstorm can only mean three words "snow stick challenge." >> that's right. and this time you didn't even have to go outside to take part. >> i didn't know this, but pat collins has a snow office set up at connecticut in northwest d.c. what's going on there at your office? >> reporter: well, pat, chris, take a look at me. no gloves, no heavy coat, flaps up. it's getting better and better every minute out here. now, little by little, step by step, we're getting closer and closer to selecting a winner in the pat collins snow stick challenge.

>> reporter: it was a simple proposition. show us your best cabin fever cure. the most creative cure gets an official pat collins snow stick. we received more than 1,700 entries. we found that a number of people broke the boredom by just getting one with the snow. i guess it worked for them, but it gave me goose bumps just looking at it. here is an idea. one woman took the time to clean and arrange her button collection. that's a lot of buttons. but then again we had a lot of snow. we saw kids doing all sorts of things, making indoor forts and hideaways, using inside stairs as a sledding slope. there was a lot of food consumed, a lot of beverages downed. somebody even made an outdoor refrigerator. how about a little snow bathing?

or a quick mail run? don't have a pat collins snow stick, measure snow this way. but enough of the looking, it's time to do some choosing. [ no audio ]

>> not their swimming gear. thousands of you could be heading back tomorrow, back to work. first at 4:00, is the heart of the nation's capital ready to reopen? and what do crews do with all that snow? >> in storm center 4 doug is keeping the eye on potential for melting snow. more (phone ringing) you can't deal with something, by ignoring it. but that's how some presidential candidates seem to be dealing with social security. americans work hard, and pay into it. so our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. (elephant noise) (donkey noise) hey candidates, answer the call already.

getting back to normal after the blizzard. now at 4:30, the entire region is still trying to dig out from that snowstorm that brought as much as two feet or more to the front door. this is the giant distribution center in jessup ready to restock stores around the area. >> take a look at this new time lapse video as the storm arrives in springfield, virginia. wow. look how quickly those cars were buried in snow. that's something a lot of you are still struggling with today. we have team coverage with the latest on the roads and what it's going to take to get back to noorm idermal. >> let's start with veronica johnson in the storm center. v.j., tell us what the weather is going to be like tonight? >> overnight the temperatures will drop but not to anywhere the levels they dropped this morning. we were down into the single digits. here is your commuter forecast for anyone that has to go to work tomorrow morning. 35 the temperature. that's inside the beltway. outside of the beltways a

opposed to in, the temperatures will be upper 20s to low 30s. icy and slippery early on and then we'll hit 45. light showers that will start to come our way after lunchtime to 1:00. look at the temperatures. upper 20s gaithersburg. 29 in nmanassas. in the afternoon we're in the low 40s. another 2 to 3 inches melting hopefully in many areas as the early morning snow helps to eat away with the snow and the moisture with the rain coming in. we'll go from dangerously slick conditions with the ice in the morning, this is your midday/afternoon. some spots icy, and then as temperatures fall off right back to the refreeze during the overnight period. we'll have more on what you can expect the week ahead, how much warmer can it get than 40-some degrees? wait until you see. we've got it. all right. about 30 minutes from now top d.c. officials will give us another update on the status of know removal in the district. and when city government and public schools will likely

reopen. tom sherwood is inside the reeve center at 14th northwest where the news conference will be held. tom, what are they telling you? >> reporter: pat, we're here waiting for the mayor. she's upstairs talking with officials. will the schools open? will the d.c. government open? and there are lots of questions, including is downtown ready? today it was still snow packed. d.c. police squad cars were blocking whole blocks downtown to speed up snow removal. there was some traffic on k street, normally one of the busiest business corridors downtown, but crucial service roads alongside k street for deliveries and parking were 100% snowed in late monday afternoon. >> several days of cleanup ahead of us. >> reporter: top city officials were still hoping downtown would be ready tuesday for thousands of commuters and businesses. >> but i went through downtown this morning, a lot of work still. >> yeah. you know, it's an epic storm. we're really dealing with a lot

of snow. we'll clear certain areas and then folks will do sidewalks and things like that and we have snow back on roads. >> reporter: but people struggling to get around downtown today had their own advice. >> one more day. >> reporter: tomorrow morning? >> one more day. no, one more day, wednesday. >> reporter: wednesday. >> it's a lot of snow down here. you have to think a lot of people drive in the city and we have to park. there's nowhere to park. >> reporter: now, as the mayor said this morning, a lot has been done, a lot of snow has been moved, but still a lot more needs to be done. coming up we'll hear from the mayor when she comes down to join us. i'm tom sherwood, news4. >> you heard her in tom's piece say it all, nowhere to park. >> here is another example of how destructive snow can be. a church's roof claollapsed nor of the icc. chopper 4 showed us how the snow caved in the sanctuary at shiloh christian fellowship. no one was hurt but fire

officials have called in a building inspector. in virginia right now the main roads are relatively clear, but a lot of those neighborhoods are still buried. news4's meagan fitzgerald is in mclean where neighbors say they're just not used to this much snow. >> reporter: and, chris, i can tell you there was a lot of frustration this morning for neighbors here in this mclean neighborhood on noble drive because their naked was covered with two feet of snow, but if you take a look behind me things quickly changed. just within the last hour a snowplow driver drove through here to dig these folks out, but take a look at what things looked like earlier today. for the last three dayings, neighbors have been hunkering down while the snowstorm dumped upwards of two feet of snow. but now the storm is gone. many folks wants to get out. from neighbors on noble drive, that doesn't seem likely anytime soon. many driveways are shoveled out, but every street in their neighborhood is buried in snow. >> if something goes wrong,

people need to get out, that would concern me. >> they missed us obviously, but, you know, why that happened, i don't know. >> reporter: because we receive more snow than virginia typically sees, they didn't have enough heavy equipment available to plow all the roads out as quickly as needed it could be. it could be days for many other neighborhoods that are still buried in snow. coming up at 5:00, hear from neighbors and how they're banning together to help out each other and what some kids are doing to help elderly people in the community. chris? >> thanks, meagan. this storm brought huge amounts of snowfall to our area. it also brought other troubles to parts of the country that have had a rough few years. and now that the big storm has passed, what's next for the washington area? chief meteorologist doug kammerer is looking at when the snow could start to melt and whether you need to be worried about flooding.

this is a storm team 4 weather alert. >> some good news on the weather alert front, at least for us. the weather alert now is really the impacts that the snow has been having across our area. the snow is done. weather for the most part is actually going to help over the next couple days. just take a look at the temperatures. we saw everybody above freezing. these are the highs today. 39 in leesburg, 38 in culpepper. 41 in d.c. today. very good news there. out in easton, i guarantee all

their snow is melted because it was 129 there today. i have no idea why it made it there. obviously a typo. weather impacts, walking still very tough across the area even though some areas are starting to get a little bit better. it was not good around my neighborhood for sure. driving snow and ice covered roads, those will continue, especially those back roads. that's what we continue to talk about. that will be the concern the next couple days and that's why schools will continue to be closed. flying getting much better. many of the airports now open, starting to get -- trying to get back to normal. as i mentioned, driving is the tough part here. 355 is looking okay. you can get through, but both lanes not quite open or all three lanes not quite open there. it has been a major issue. driving is going to continue to be an issue. shomari is live in the storm team 4 x 4. this is what we will continue to see until the crews can really get in there and do their work.

>> reporter: good evening, doug. let me tell you, with he just left nbc news 4's headquarters and right now we are on wisconsin avenue. i don't know if you want to take a quick look at that. wisconsin is pretty much clear. however, when you just go one street over, just one block, there are cars covered in snow because a lot of the plows are coming through and there's so much snow they have nowhere to put it so what do they do? they just plow it away and then that snow gets on top of cars. so what you'll have is you'll find someone who digs out their car and all of a sudden more snow is put on it, so it's an ongoing process for a lot of folks out here. >> all right, shomari. plows from as far away from canada are on the streets of baltimore. mayor stephanie rawlings-blake said they are among the crews brought in to help with the job of plowing. baltimore has 5,000 miles of roads, more than half them in neighborhoods.

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digging out after the bruising blizzard. right now all of us are still trying to get around the heavy snow that slammed us and hemmed us in all along the east coast. >> the cleanup is still going strong and all of us want to know what's coming next. >> veronica johnson is standing by in the weather center. veronica, everything is quiet now. it's the calm after the storm. when does the next big change come? >> everything will continue to be calm. we're not expecting any high winds or any other big major storms coming into our area. a little weak storm tomorrow will lay down a few light rain showers across the area. not everyone is even going to see the rain. next big change for us in what you will notice in a big way is the fog. that tomorrow afternoon as temperatures start to warm. 45 degrees at 3:00. so between noon and 3:00, i think the fog will form. it will get fairly thick and

fairly dense by the time we get to tomorrow, late afternoon tomorrow evening. as far as the rain, it's going to develop during the afternoon hours and continue probably up until like 5:00, 6:00 or later. so it's warm air over the snow pack. your best chance of fog tomorrow afternoon up until midnight. then as we get into early wednesday morning, there might be a few little wet flakes as the rain switches over just for a brief period of time. 35 degrees early tomorrow morning. a little slippery early on. clouds are back for sure by noon. so is that fog again from 45 to 41 with rain showers at 7:00 tomorrow evening. the system that we're going to have coming through here with the light rain showers and maybe a few wet flakes of snow early wednesday, nothing more than a nuisance system. fast-moving in and out after just a couple of hours. here is the zone in red. this is for early wednesday morning where we could see a few wet flakes of snow. again, that nuisance event. so down areas of 301, east of

i-95, leonardtown area and st. mary's through areas of the northern neck. school outlook tomorrow, of course 100% no school at all. 80% chance on sunday that there might be some schools that start to go back, especially down through areas of southern maryland. thursday maybe a 50% chance but for sure this is going to be an event that has impacts again all through this week. melting, yes. you can see the temperatures coming up on the four-day forecast here. some rain showers tomorrow, just a 30% chance. we have 45 for a temperature. 40 on wednesday, and then back into the upper 30s for the end of the week. there's your thursday, friday, but right now it is looking dry. i know there was some indication early this morning we may get another little weak system coming in thursday. now we've taken that out because the chances really are just so low and not even there anymore. your we could, a lot of folks focusing on that, getting back out and continuing to clean. nice and mild this weekend. lots of melting taking place.

as we get close to 50 degrees on sunday. not expecting any rain for the weekend, but as we get into the early part of next week, monday there is that possibility of rain. so really now, the recap for you, there's your seven-day forecast from 40s the next two days, upper 30s thursday and friday, well above freezing. those overnight temperatures in the 20s instead of the single digits where we should get a chance to bounce back rather quickly during the afternoon hours and get more melting not only over the next five days but over the next seven. guys? >> all right. thanks, veronica. as if piles of snow aren't bad enough, a water main break is causing more trouble for drivers in montgomery county. take a look at the scene along university boulevard at tiny branch road in silver spring. crews have finished repairing the break, water service has been restored, and all travel lanes are expected to be open in the next couple hours. that'good news there. well, they are calling storm chasers -- they're called storm chasers for a reason. scammers who go door to door

offering to repair storm-related damage to your house. >> yes. sounds too good to be true, consumer reporter is here with a warning we need to hear. >> these guys know we're in a panic, right? and so they obviously want to try to take advantage of us and it's also so important right now not to let our guard down. so before you hire a contractor, we have got four red flags you really need to be aware of. door-to-door contractors, if someone shows up to your house offering you a deal on the spot, beware. often times they will demand you pay up front in cash to get that deal. don't do it. if they are legit, that so-called deal today should be a deal tomorrow. hire only a licensed contractor in your state. some states now offer protections to homeowners who get scammed by contractors. you can go to our website right now, nbcwashington.com, to check out whether a contractor you want to hire is licensed. get everything in writing, including a start and end date of the work. ask for a copy of their certificate of insurance.

call the insurance company to make sure they're really covered. if they don't have insurance and they fall on your property, you may be responsible to pay up. and don't pay all at once. remember this easy payment schedule, one third up front, one third halfway through the job, and one third once all the work is complete, which is so important. scammers will travel near and far to take advantage of people who really need help right now, so don't make any of those quick decisions and also now coming up at 5:00, if you got travel insurance would it have made a difference in this blizzard? we'll answer those questions and let you know what to ask for. >> wow. and it's tough because, you know, when your gutters are falling off your house, you have a hole in the roof, the snow -- the ice is tearing parts of your house down, you're like, hey, help me. >> exactly. and you really just have to kind of step back, take a big, deep breath, and put common sense on the front burner instead of the back. >> and they always show up after every disaster. >> you're so right. >> they're always there. thank you, susan.

>> you're welcome. >> thanks, susan. the snowstorm put the brakes on the washington auto show, but now that the streets are clearing up, it's raring to go. you can check out all the new cars and trucks starting noon tomorrow at the washington convention center. the show was scheduled to open last friday right when the snow started falling. the rest of the week's activities will go on as planned and organizers will be honoring any and all discounts for admission. the auto show runs through sunday. on the jersey shore, crews are assessing the flood damage and beach erosion. thtion vid this is video from wildwood where more than two feet of icy cold water swamped the streets. this afternoon the water has receded but it left behind a muddy mess. the coastal flooding was six inches higher than it was during superstorm sandy. if you are still watching out of the window to see your company. many neighborhoods are still waiting for one. the situation isn't exclusive to our area either. most new york city neighborhoods have seen plows. however, folks in queens have

not. wnbc's andrew sif ff reports. >> reporter: the mayor made a visit to queens. the other half of the street has yet to see a plow since the snow ended. >> that's not acceptable to me and obviously during the snowstorm is one thing but the day after the snowstorm, every place should have been touched. we're obviously today really focusing our efforts on the neighborhoods in queens. >> reporter: the mayor said after the cleanup is finished, they will do a neighborhood by neighborhood review to see what can be done better after the next storm. sending it back to you. i'm mark segraves in the district where the recovery is under way but the snow emergency remains in effect. district officials are still ticketing and towing any cars found parked in snow emergency routes. at last count, more than 500 cars towed and more than three

quarters of a million dollars in fines have been issued. businesses and residents and the government spent today digging out. coming up, i'll show you where people are putting all of this snow. >> my goodness. yeah, i had to do a double take seeing mark up there. the blizzard caused a lot of headaches for a lot of people. some had to change plans. others just had to stay put. >> when air travel could finally get back to normal after our big snow. you're watching news4 at 4:00.

we are coming up on the top of the 5:00 hour. even though the blizzard of 2016 has passed, we're still in el alert mode this afternoon. >> going to take a while to dig out from this storm but we have another change in the weather on the way. doug and v.j. are tracking what's next and will update us in a few minutes. workers are already clearing debris from ocean city's damaged fishing pier. wind and strong surf took a toll on the structure. the damage is similar to that done by hurricane sandy in 20ven in half. >> if you're concerned about catching a flight. some good news. crews have opened a single runway at reagan national and dulles and some airlines have started flying today. bwi marshall says it is gradually going back to normal operations. and it's not just airports still struggling to put passengers back in the air.

>> as kristin dahlgren discovered, flights have been impacted nationwide and these delays and cancellations could linger well into the week. >> reporter: hello from laguardia airport where there is a lot more activity than there has been over the past few days, but still difficult travel day for a lot of people. there's still a huge snow clearing operation going on at the runways, so here at laguardia we are still seeing cancellations. about 30% of flights canceled for today. nationwide we're seeing more than 1,500 flights canceled. so airports and airlines trying desperately to get back to normal, but really a difficult task for them. they're still clearing the runways and then, of course, when you think about it, more than 12,000 flights canceled between the time the storm started on friday and today. that is an awful lot of travelers that need to get rebooked and put on flights to where their final destination is so we're still seeing a lot of people who say they won't get out until tomorrow, perhaps the next day or the day after that.

and that with the possibility of another storm coming, it could be some difficult travel days ahead. that's the latest at laguardia airport. i'm kristin dahlgren, back to you. >> news4 5:00 starts now with jim and wendy. storm team 4. >> and the first flight out of washington, and this is the view. our nation's capital draped in winter white. >> live from chopper 4, the cleanup effort down below under way after the blizzard of 2016. but for some just getting out on the main roads has been a huge challenge. >> well, here is the latest on the aftermath of this winter storm. it's going to take some time, as you can imagine, to clean up, but there are signs of progress today. metro is now expanding its service and flights are back in the air at the region's major airports. >> but there is still a struggle this evening from the many sidewalks that have not been cleared properly to the mounds of snow that block intersections

still, even entire lanes of roadways. travel conditions have forced many area school systems to cancel classes for another day tomorrow. >> and from maryland to virginia and the district, we have live team coverage tonight. >> our crews are stretched out all across our region this evening, and the focus now is on who is getting out and who is still stranded by all this snow. we begin tonight in maryland. >> the challenge is still out here for motorists and pedestrians. >> with images like these, consider yourself lucky if you did make it out of your driveway today. a lot of neighborhoods are still impassable, and if you were lucky enough to get to a main road, there weren't all that many places to go. our coverage begins in prince george's county. tracee wilkins is live in the normally bustling national

harbor. not so much today, tracee. >> reporter: some of the businesses are closed here and they're still plowing. let me tell you something, wendy. we have been getting all the e-mails, all the calls from folks across prince george's county complaining when are they going to come to my street? we know when you call the snow number to try to find out when you can get a truck, this is what you're hearing. i just dialed the number a couple seconds ago myself. so we get the frustration. we also know that the website went down so you can't track what's going on with trucks. so what we're hearing from residents is that they want to know when is help going to be on the way? one after the other, people were venturing out and not getting very far. >> i was using my blower and trying -- after i used my blower, i tried to get out and i got stuck here. >> reporter: this was the scene on most neighborhood streets we passed in southern prince george's. neighbors helping neighbors. but once out of the driveway, they then had toeal with unplowed