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 residential streets.

>> 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. >> reporter: here in clinton, path pat is fine with doing her own shoveling and she has a plan. >> my intention is to get out there far enough to where the snowplow can block my driveway. >> reporter: state roads are looking pretty good, but at times some of the outer lanes are narrowing. the beltway is bone dry in most areas, but this is what we saw in brandywine road, sidewalks so full of snow some people were taking to the streets on already snowy, narrow roads. prince george's county's executive had this to say about cleaning up these residential streets. >> right now we've got a ways to go. it's going to take us at least another probably 24 hours, another day to get to those streets. >> reporter: that's one of the

huge snow piles they have here at national harbor as they continue to try and dig out. again, some of the businesses closed and some of the streets as well. now, the counsel at the executive just got out of a helicopter. he had flown around prince george's county with police taking a look at the streets and he did say the secondary roads, that's what he's really concerned about. he's asking folks to give the county the next day or to get that cleaned up, and they are looking into what happened with the website not working as well. but they are asking people to still try to call 311 if you're having issues with your road being cleared but they're hoping to get this done and a much better handle on this by tomorrow. >> tracee, thanks. metro is working hard to clear all the snow and get back on track. just about an hour ago we learned all rail lines will be running tomorrow but for one. transportation reporter adam tuss got exclusive access to the cleanup and he's live at the brookland station with details for us. adam? >> reporter: it has not been an easy operation. right now as we speak, 80 of the

91 metrorail stations are open. here are the only ones still closed, van dorn, franconia springfield, east and west falls church, dunn loring, vienna, and then the five siller line stations in northern virginia. all of those still closed, but 80 of the 91 are back open. now, by tomorrow morning all stations except the five silver line stations in northern virginia will be back open. metrorail will open at 5:00 tomorrow morning. trains will be on a modified schedule though. they will be running every 12 minutes. here is metro's general manager at a press conference a short time ago. >> 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 the most elevated structure and it creates its own set of issues. we will go back to regular fares, i'm sorry, tomorrow. no more free service that way, and parking fees will also kick

in tomorrow as well. >> reporter: now, take a look at this video that we shot earlier here. this is the cleanup effort that we got to see up close at the alexanderia rail yard. it's been tough trying to get it all cleaned up. again, let's sum up everything as we come back out here to the brookland metro station for you. the system metrorail opens at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow. buses will be running on a limited service, and all stations on the rail system except the five silver line stations in northern virginia will be open tomorrow. you will have to pay full fare and there's no expectation about metro access service. we'll still have to wait for that. so clearly things not back to normal yet. all this snow still causing some headaches. reporting live at brookland, adam tuss, news4. big storm here for the arlington plows to deal with. >> this is awful. my god.

i can't believe it. >> those scenes from virginia show how the commonwealth got hit hard. loudoun county recorded some of the biggest snowfall totals. people in a number of subdivisions are still waiting to see their first plow truck. our bureau chief julie carey is on one of the streets in ashburn farm. hey, jules. >> reporter: this is what some of the roads in the amberly subdivision in south riding look like. feet of snow still cover the street. they haven't seen a plow yet. then there's peppercorn alley, clean down to the asphalt. only this wasn't plowed out. it was a shovel brigade of neighbors who jumped into action when they realized not one, but two pregnant women on their block are due to give birth this week. >> i think we all just came out

doing our little thing to our driveways and then we heard girls are pregnant. let's get them out, you know. so we started digging. >> so we all got together and did the whole alley yesterday. it took about 4 1/2 hours, but we had a great team. >> reporter: christina is carrying a nine-pound baby, her second child. she admits when the snow piled up, she started to worry. >> i'd like to say i was calm, but i really wasn't. i tried to be. i tried to be. >> reporter: the shovels are idle now but yesterday christina watched in amazement as a half dozen men and several women scooped and tossed show. you can tell which town homes thea expectant mothers live in y the clear paths to the front door. >> i felt so honored that they would do that for me and then the other people to help out. people are good. >> reporter: pretty great story over there of neighbors coming together. as i was saying at the

beginning, we had some microphone trouble, you can see exactly where the plow stopped here on summerwood circle. neighbors behind it have carved maze-like paths so they can get out of this area, but what do you do if you have a medical situation and need to get to the doctors? we'll show you what they did in this neighborhood coming up on news4 at 6:00. reporting live, i'm julie carey, news4. the view at the u.s. capitol with knee high snows. >> several days of cleanup ahead of us. >> we're here right in the heart of the city, the heart of the government, the heart of commerce, the heart of retail. they got a ways to go. >> and hard at work. to the district we go now. any moment city leaders will give us an update on snow removal and when our schools and government offices will likely reopen. tom sherwood joins us live from

the reeve center in northwest d.c. what's the word now, tom? >> reporter: jim, we are expecting the mayor about 5:15. is the city ready? is the downtown ready? a lot has been done, a lot more needs to be done. they were busy clearing the sidewalks at the martin luther king library on g street and across the street at catholic charities, snow crowded the homeless jesus bench designed to call attention to the needy. some streets like north capitol were ready for thousands of commuters and visitors. k street was clearing but critical service roads alongside were snow packed. normal street parking downtown was impossible to find. those who were getting around were doing so carefully. >> a lot of businesses are closed. hundreds of thousands of people need to be down here. sure looks like a lot of snow to move by tomorrow morning. >> it does, yeah. i'm actually from minnesota, and i'm used to seeing the snow move

a lot quicker, but, you know, what are you going to do? this is the snowzilla. >> if they can get the snow out of the way, my street hasn't been plowed. >> reporter: many stores were closed or seeing few customers. an economic hit to the city. that's why the mayor says she's doing everything she can to get the nation's capital reopened. now, some officials are telling me that the city may try to do a half day tomorrow, but it's not clear that will happen. we'll know in a few minutes when mayor bowser joins us at the reeve center. i'm tom sherwood. back to you, wendy. >> thank you, tom. and back up in the air we go. because the snow looks good from up here. this is sledding in silver springs. that's a great hill. >> it's our favorite sport now. >> yes, it is. >> we have team coverage, more from our team of meteorologists taking a look at what could help get rid of these mounds of snow. a lot of kids out there don't want to get rid of it. >> that's exactly right and the good news for the kids is, you

know, those will last towards the weekend. this much snow, even with temperatures above freezing, i think the sled hills will be a-okay. i was out there today with my kids, yeah. 100%. i had a blast. take a look, show you what the numbers were like early this morning. it was extremely cold. 16 d.c. 4 out towards dulles. 3 in manassas. 2 towards martinsburg. everything that melted a little yesterday refroze quickly last night and it was a very cold start. however, this afternoon temperatures warmed into the upper 30s to low 40s. we've seen some melting, and now look at the cloud cover here. we've got some clouds moving overhead. those clouds will act as a blanket and it will help to keep things on the warmer side and by tomorrow morning we're not going to get nearly as cold. look at the temperatures right now. 35 in d.c. 38 fredericksburg. only 30 in frederick. we are going to see some refreezing tonight and that's going to be the case over the next couple days. we're going to melt some stuff during the day and maybe a little refreeze at night.

one thing though we're looking at as we look towards veronica johnson who is out on the weather deck, v.j., mother nature playing a pretty good role in helping to get rid of some of the snow. >> i like where temperatures are going to be this week. they're going to be way up. well above freezing. not too high where we would see flooding if there were clogged drains around the area. our temperatures are going to be low. they will be below freezing but not that low for that long. we're going to really see our temperatures rebound rather quickly as we move into the day tomorrow. 28 early tomorrow morning. gaithersburg, leesburg as well.. i spoke to maryland's highway administration, they said if it's above 25, they can just go with the salt. so when you've got the sunshine as we had today, that's always a plus, but even if you've got temperatures that are 40 degrees or higher for three days or

longer, you can melt about 2 or 3 inches of snow a day. of course, the other considerations, fog, which we're going to have quite a bit of coming up over the next couple of 24 hours. we're going to give you the time line on that in a few moments. doug? >> so we're looking at 2 to 3 inches a day. let's go 2 1/2 inches times 36 inches that some of us had. we're still looking at close to two feet, guys. >> but there's that fog we're all hoping for, you know. >> the fog would help. >> we learned about fog and snow melt. thanks, doug. >> reporter: and, yes, we're talking about a lot of snow. i'm mark segraves and i will show you where they're going to put it all. >> reporter: the pat collins snow stick challenge. meet the judges. check out the competition. that story coming up. and the storm team 4 x 4 back on the road monitoring conditions before you have to head back to work.

we'll have more live team coverage next.

we're getting a good look from chapper 4. this is over a chump on new hampshire avenue a mile north of the icc in montgomery county.

you can see the roof on the sanctuary has just collapsed through the weight of that snow. we're told this is the shiloh christian fellowship. emergency crews are also seeing roof collapses north of baltimore. an explosion caused a collapse at an industrial building and a grocery store had a partial collapse. the national guard had to help transport crews to a massive fire at a building that houses an auto body shop. firefighters had a tough time finding the high drants because they were buried in the show. >> we have been hearing about the rough conditions on your streets. shomari stone is in the storm team 4 x 4 giving us a close up view. where are you now? >> reporter: i'm on northwest 47th street. take a look at this. you can see the snow on both sides. only one lane is open. to the left there are cars covered in snow, buried in snow. a lot of those folks are going

to have a tough time getting out. you look right over here straight ahead and it's slippery in some spots, and you have to be very careful when you're driving in these conditions. this is a secondary road. if you go out on wisconsin avenue, there's no snow whatsoever. they've done a really good job treating this road. now, plows continue to come through here and other areas but, again, the toughest part is when you're driving in one lane an a car is coming towards you, who is going to move out of the way so you have to be courteous, patient. if you have the opportunity to move over to allow that driver to go through, go ahead and do so. that's what i did while i was driving to work today. another thing, be careful when you're driving on the secondary roads because you will see folks like this gentleman up here shoveling snow, so when you go through, you want to be very, you know, slow down and let them know you're coming. the last thing you want them-to-do is to back into your vehicle. live in storm team 4 x 4, i'm shomari stone. >> still a lot of work to be

done there. thanks, shomari. >> it wouldn't be a big snowfall out our pat collins snow stick challenge. >> oh, no, it wouldn't. this time we have a brand new one. it's bigger, too. we asked you how you beat cabin fever, and the response has been tremendous with nearly 2,000 entries. >> let's check in with pat. he's in his snow office at connecticut in northwest d.c. with a look at the judging process. patrick? >> reporter: how are you doing, guys? first, let me show you what's going on here. they have brought in the big guy. they have these gigantic end loaders. then they bring in these big dump trucks, load the snow into the dump trucks, and then they're going to take it to mark segraves probably over at rfk. it's pretty fascinating to watch. it stops traffic. it's something to see. but let's talk about the snow stick challenge. who is going to win the pat collins snow stick? don't ask me. talk to the judges.

we got more than 1,700 entries. you guys did all sorts of things to pass the time. snow jumping, game playing, igloo making. somebody even made a snowman in their bathtub. in their bathtub. there was a pat collins coloring book, a pat collins look-alike. pat collins on the top of a smith island cake. now, i was impressed. but then again, i'm not a judge. today we assembled an award-winning panel to sort through all the entries and choose the best of the best. the one deserving of an official pat collins snow stick. our three judges, nbc 4 general manager jackie bradford, our morning news anchor eun yang and our traffic reporter melissa. all three women known for their

style, good taste, wit, and straightforward opinions. let's just say they were impressed by what they saw. >> overall i think the blizzard made people feel really good and made them go, go big or go home. >> reporter: it went on and on and on. a woman doing yoga in her garage. there was a lot of cooking and eating and drinking and eating and eating. a little kid trying to catch a snowflake on her tongue through a pane of glass. so many choices. who is going to get the snow stick? now, coming up at 6:00, the final four. i'll see you at 6:00. wendy, back to you. >> it's the finale because your flaps are up. >> that's a good sign. >> the entries are all in. >> reporter: no gloves. >> it's a good day. >> you look like you lost 50 pounds. >> i'm ready for spring. >> baseball. bring it with your stick. >> aren't we all?

>> unbelievable pictures this year. i think the best ever. >> i love the -- >> reporter: what a response. >> yeah. >> thank you, patrick. the coastal communities were also hard hit. have you seen these pictures? we're going to show you some damage at a popular vacation destination in maryland. plus the storm over, but the nightmare continues for anybody trying to change flight plans. find out what you need to know about travel insurance, but first the mayor of d.c. holding her press conference. an update now. let's listen. >> the blizzard of 2016. we, as you know, are in our second day of really digging out from the storm and director geldhart will give you a brief update of where we are with the dig out and the condition of our roadways. you have probably already heard from metro. we reported earlier today that almost every station was open in the district of columbia, and now at this time every station

in the district of columbia is open on metrorail, and we also understand that metro has upgraded its bus service from lifeline to severe snow, to their severe snow schedule, and those schedules are available on their website. we are also announcing that d.c. public schools will open on wednesday. we will reopen d.c. public schools on wednesday. we will continue to offer breakfast and lunch at the ten d.c. public schools identified earlier today. and today we served more than 500 meals at those schools serving breakfast and lunch. you can also find out about those sites for breakfast and lunch at our schools by calling 311. i will open district government tomorrow on time, and so we will get back to the business of all

of our agencies serving d.c. residents, our visitors, and people who do business in the district of columbia. d.c. government will open on time tomorrow. i should also take a minute to thank all of the government employees. some you see who have been working 12-hour shifts so that we could respond to this storm. we want to also remind people to use public transportation. it's back up. metro can talk a little bit about the schedules, but we do need you to continue to stay off the roads so we can get curb-to-curb access on all of our major streets. that's very important. and also there is while all of our main thoroughfares are passable, there is limited parking, so we encourage you to take the metro to get to work.

also, i want to remind you about trash. we are suspending trash pickup today, tomorrow, and wednesday, and we hope to resume regular trash pickup on thursday. if your trash day is monday or wednesday, we ask that you hold your trash and put it out next week when your regular service will resume. if we need to make any operational changes to trash given weather, we will continue to announce that to the public. i also just want to say how grateful we have been to -- from the support of our partners. the director mentioned to you earlier this morning that we're finalizing the paperwork that will allow us to apply for disaster assistance from fema, and i was very pleased to get a call from the white house this afternoon to offer any support from the president to make sure

that that process went smoothly, and we're very grateful for that call and offer of assistance. so with that i'll turn to chris for a brief operational update. >> thank you, madam mayor. i'm the director of d.c.'s homeland security emergency management agency. for the last 48 hours of our response in this storm, we have been focusing on ensuring that we open up our primary routes, get to our secondary routes, and put a presence out there throughout the city in all 14 snow zones we have. i'm happy to say that today we reached 100% passability on all of our major arteries, so all of our main roads have 100% accessibility. with that being done now, work moving on to our next phase in these operations where we are going to take resources and guide them to the areas that have been less treated so far. we're going to look at those areas where there have been

passes or there may not have been passes in the last 24 hours on certain streets. we're going to angle our forces towards that and start to really get deeper into the residential areas to start to really hit those hard throughout the city. so first 48 hours focused on getting our main arterials and secondary streets done. now we're taking the resources and focusing them on the areas that have not been hit as hard as the main lines. so there will be an increased presence that folks will see throughout the 14 zones. in particular areas where we know we may not have hit in quite some time. so that's what we're looking at now as far as our operations. and we can take some questions. tom? >> downtown a lot -- under snow but -- [ inaudible ]. >> the service roads are still

snow packed. what are you telling people in terms of downtown? it's difficult to get around downtown. >> tom, we put a lot of effort into downtown today, and i think we made downtown passable. remember, that's our goal in there is to make things passable. 24 inches of snow plus plowing on top of that, it's not going to be perfect. we're not going to have bare pavement everywhere. as far as we got today, we're going to continue our efforts going on past today. we wanted to make sure that the main arterials again, like i said earlier, are open, so when we do open roads and we do open our residentials fully for folks, that they have some place to go. so those areas like that curb lanes and things, we'll be working on the snow pickup over the next 24 to 48 hours but we're passable. >> and you are working -- >> two big take nbs awaways. d.c. public schools will open on wednesday and the government

opens tomorrow in d.c. >> let's find out from doug, we've got some fog coming in, we've got some rain coming in. how will these two elements help us get rid of some of the snow? >> we have warmer temperatures moving in as well. all of those elements will help to melt the snow, you saw veronica at the beginning of the show say 2 to 3 inches of melt per day. that's pretty much what we're going to be seeing here, so with two to three feet you're still talking about 10 to 15 days. it's going to be a long time before we start to get out of this as we move through. i want to show you rockville camera first. uk you can see what's happening. 355 mostly clear. right now temperaturewise above freezing. 35. we're not dealing with a whole lot of ice right now. as we move through the night temperatures will start to cool below freezing, however not nearly as cold as they were last night. last night we were in the single digits. d.c. around 16. that's not the case tonight. we may not go below freezing in

the city and that would really help the crews tonight. 30 in frederick. 31 in hagerstown. already below freezing to the north and west. nothing on the radar picture but i want to show you what's going on with the cloud cover. the cloud cover making its way overhead now and starting to get a little thicker cloud cover moving in. that's really good news. why? the clouds act like a blanket keeping any of the warm air we've seen and we did have some with the sunshine, that keeps the warmer air in and it does not allow temperatures to fall. last night clear skies, snow cover, temperatures were between 5 and 15 degrees. that's not going to be the case tonight. the clouds will help keep us well above that. next storm system is back here towards the west. it looks pretty good on the satellite picture. snow back to the west, shower activity towards chicago. it will give us a slight chance of a shower tomorrow but not much. you probably won't even need the umbrella during the day. here we are around noon. a couple showers over towards montgomery county and up towards baltimore but, again, that's

really about it. just a few showers during the day. they would be rain showers as temperatures will be quite warm enough. wednesday morning, something to watch, a little system moving through with the same frontal boundary. maybe some snow showers. it's possible. not going to mean anything for you. we're not expecting any accumulation and they do move through very, very quickly. the school outlook, again, most everybody closed tomorrow. haven't heard a single opening tomorrow. wednesday, 80% of no school. we just heard d.c. does have school on wednesday but most of the counties i bet are still going to be out of school on wednesday. thursday starting to get back to normal. most locations starting to see that getting back to school so that will be a good thing as far as planning is concerned. for a lot of us parents. 45 on your tuesday. 40 degrees on wednesday. 37 thursday, and 39 on friday. notice each day above freezing and with at least a little bit of sunshine towards the end of the week we will continue to see that melt. we get a lot warmer towards the weekend. veronica has that whole forecast for you, that seven-day, in a

few minutes. >> thank you. you know, we're learning more today about the deadly toll of this blizzard. 39 people died. 5 had ties to our area. these deaths happened in 11 states and in d.c. the local deaths include an elderly man in the district, a capitol hill police officer who lives in delaware, two men in prince george's county, and another man in leesburg. a number of the deaths were caused by shoveling snow. heart attacks from shoveling snow. other storm-related deaths happened in car accidents or from carbon monoxide poisoning. investigators are trying to figure out if another death may be blizzard related. this one at a shopping center along livingston road. a plow truck operator tells us they found a man's body near a dumpster as they removed snow this morning. the driver tells us the victim did not have any shoes on when they found him. police have not identified him. and while -- in fairfax county, snowplows are slowly but

surely making their way through those neighborhoods but it could take several days. as news4's meagan fitzgerald tells us at least one stranded neighborhood in mclean has found a way to help each other through this snowy ordeal. jr. just until a couple hours ago this neighborhood behind me was just one of many in fairfax county that was still buried in snow. a driver who says he does not work with vdot plowed some of the neighborhood but many folks here say for the last few days, they've been depending on each other for help. the snow provides a beautiful scenery. but after being snowed in for three days, neighbors along noble drive say they're ready to get out. >> it's fun but i think everybody is getting cabin fever at this point because they haven't plowed our neighborhood. >> reporter: lena's neighborhood is just one of many around fairfax county still buried in two feet of snow. many folks have cleared their own driveways but they're

nowhere to go. >> we own a snowblower with a 20 inch mouth. we did our driveway, my father lives next door, we did his driveway. >> reporter: so these neighbors are helping each other. holly says the kids have been walking to the store to pick up groceries and shoveling walkways for the elderly people who live down the street. >> it really teaches our kids smunt servi community service and to do things that are not just for yourself. >> reporter: a vdot spokesperson says because we don't typically get this much snow, they don't have the type of equipment needed to plow the streets. it could be days for plow drivers to make their way to many of the neighborhoods that are still buried. now, coming up at 6:00, why some neighbors say they're frustrated after having to dig out a plow driver who was there to try to clear their streets. back to you. >> meagan fitzgerald, thank you. a lot of people had the day off but there were plenty of people who had to go to work and had to get there. we caught up with this operating room nurse. she had to walk along a very

dark rockville pike early this morning to get to nih. maureen george tells us she had to walk in the street because the snow on parts of the sidewalks is just too deep. >> my house and my neighbor's house, we're pretty -- we shoveled a lot yesterday but where people didn't shovel their walks, it's over my knee to get down the street. >> a short time after we talked with maureen, we did see a truck come through to treat the streets in that area. don't know if anyone picked her up and gave her a ride. >> well, many of you spent some time today digging out, but with this much snow, the question is, what do you do with it all? we find news4's mark segraves on top of this story literally. he joins us now live from northeast washington. mark? >> reporter: hey, jim. yeah, i am full of cliches tonight, but i don't know what's more impressive here in the rfk parking lot, the sunset over my shoulder here or all of this snow. if you think this pile of snow i'm standing on is a big pile,

take a look over here. these trucks have been coming in all morning, all afternoon, and will be coming through here all night dumping the snow here, tons of it. getting ready so people can go back to work on the streets of d.c. tomorrow. mother nature made it hard, and the snowplows made it even harder to dig out. >> there's only so much you can do when you get 20-plus inches of snow. >> reporter: the district had crews moving the snow off major roadways today. they're hauling all of that snow here to lot seven next to rfk stadium. truck after truck after truckload. to give you an idea how much snow we're talking about, just take a look. as for the neighborhood streets, plows had made it to some, and residents who were busy digging out were also faced with the question of where to put all the snow. >> i made it! >> reporter: what is the attitude? do you throw the snow into the street for the plows to get or

throw it -- i guess you're trying -- >> i think you try to make it to the boulevard. yoor these residents were piling it in the middle of the street but this guy found another use. has he got a name? >> snow bot the robot. >> reporter: is he here to guard over your parking space once you move your car? >> that's the plan. i also don't plan on moving my car. >> reporter: snow bot getting a lot of attention on twitter this afternoon. that was down on east capitol street, and, again, city officials want you to know if you're clearing out your sidewalk, your walkways, or your cars, they do not want you to throw that snow back into the streets. they're afraid it's going to refreeze tonight and just cause a mess overnight for tomorrow morning. they want you to throw that snow onto the land scaped areas between the curb and the sidewalks. now, coming up at 6:00, we'll be back here at rfk to tell you why there are environmental concerns about dumping all this snow here and what's being done to mitigate that. wendy, back to you in the studio. >> impressive. >> yeah. >> thank you, mark.

the big storm also led to big disruptions for our local sports teams. >> after having saturday's game postponed, the wizards are back in action. >> as jason pugh reports, this game is going to be a little different than others. >> reporter: usually over the weekend the verizon center has something going on. if it's games or a concert. but this past weekend because of the blizzard, this place was an absolute ghost town. today, however, it was back to business as usual. >> guys are anxious. you can tell guys are ready to play. you know, a lot of guys got workouts in whether it be ellipticals, treadmills, got their cardio in. we're ready to come out here and play some ball. >> reporter: playing ball was simple. getting to the arena, well, that was the hard part. john wall had a two-hour commute to get to work this morning and because of those conditions, players are expecting a light crowd tonight. >> will be worse than my high school game. some people can't even get out of their neighborhoods right now. >> they still have the metro shut down.

that's a lot of -- that's 50% of people traveling. >> last time i think we played ball since we got a couple go boston chants, celtics chants. it may be good for it to be just the real wizards fans coming out, the ones that can make it out. >> reporter: it's either watch a basketball game or -- >> a lot of shoveling or -- for you? >> no, no. i have a garage. >> there you go. half the battle. >> that's half the battle right there. >> reporter: i'm sure the wizards don't want him shoveling snow at all under any circumstance. coming up on news4 at 6:00, i'm explain how the blizzard helped the former georgetown hoya. i'm jason pugh, news4 sports. ocean city just got slammed by this storm. now we're getting a better look at the damage for the first time. >> also, the whole coastline, the jersey shore hasn't seen anything like this since

we know many of you are wondering about the damage this storm caused at the beach. the iconic fishing pier suffered some of the worst damage. parts were broken off by the wind and strong surf there. it's similar to what happened back during hurricane sandy in 2012. work is already under way to clean up the debris so the contractors can begin looking at

what it will take to rebuild. two deaths in new jersey are a tragic reminder of the dangers of carbon monoxide during a storm. investigators say a woman and her two children got into their car to stay warm as her husband was digging them out. but because the tail pipe was covered in snow, the exhaust went into the car and it only took 20 minutes for that poison to kill the woman and her 1-year-old child. the victim's 3-year-old who was also in the car is still in critical condition. i'm scott mcfarlane in montgomery county, so many roads in this area, so many communities remain impassable, and so many neighbors band together to free their roads and fail. we'll show you coming up. after what has been a historic snowstorm for this area, we now have rain showers in the forecast. what will that do to area snow pack and what impact will it have on area roads? i'll tell you when news4 at 5:00 returns.

the driveways are clear but so many families in montgomery and frederick counties are still stranded. scott macfarlane canvassed the counties today and was surprised by some of what he found. he's live in gaithersburg with more on this. >> reporter: wendy, so many areas it is so easy to be stranded. we're on cherokee lane year ridge view middle school. we spent the afternoon watching that man that owns that gray car shovel a path from his driveway

to the road. for the other homes there's no answer. it's clear they won't be cleared out tonight. this is amelia, born 24 hours before the snow started burying frederick. mom was induced and avoided a midblizzard trip to the hospital but the problem is they couldn't get home. >> by the looks of it, it was pretty intense. there's like an eight foot mound of snow piled up right outside of our driveway. >> reporter: their neighborhood near route 15 was buried until this afternoon when the side roads were finally cleared. they spent five days at frederick memorial hospital. >> we were up pretty much all night. >> yeah. >> trading responsibilities as new parents do. >> reporter: in montgomery county, this woman lives alone and played a crew to clear her driveway. >> i'm afraid when the county people come they will make a big mountain here. i get my driveway clear but that mountain i won't be able to

clear up. >> reporter: her road is impassable even though neighborhood banded together to try to clear the intersections. a different concern at a gaithersburg safeway where today they're dumping snow from the roof. so when will the side streets finally be cleared? we brought that question to montgomery county's highway services department right into the war room where they oversee street operations. their answer coming up when we rejoin you in about 20 minutes. that's the story in gaithersburg. jim, back to you. >> all right, scott mcfarlane, thank you. with all the snow days piling up out there, we know many of you are wondering what to do with your kids. one option, take them to a museum. >> yeah. the smithsonian museums are getting ready to open back up. they were forced to close due to the storm but we know at least four of them will open up tomorrow for regular hours and that includes the national museum of natural history, air and space, and the american art museum and the national portrait gallery. check this out from one of

the area the areas that got a lot of snow. one of our photographers captured this. this is poolsville. pretty cool. >> that is cool. so when is it going to go in the other direction, veronica? >> it was going in the other direction today. even our snow stick out front of the storm team 4 weather deck going down a lit bitle bit. as that snow does get more compact, as it gets icier, it, of course, weighs more. so that's more in your shovel, more on your roof as well. take a look at the graphic here we put together because just five pounds, you talk about the type of snow we had, anywhere from around 20, over 20 inches of snow, that's 5 pounds per cubic feet. of course, in your shovel or on your roof. as it gets more compact you can double that certainly as we get icy the consistency of what we have. early tomorrow morning watch for the icy spots. it will be slippery.

temperatures drop down to the 30s, low 30s by early tomorrow morning. not nearly the deep freeze we had this morning. but tomorrow we're back with lots of melting. temperatures quickly rise into the 40s and i think we'll top out right into d.c. at 45 degrees. lots of melting for tomorrow. the other thing is we're going to have some fog for tomorrow afternoon. 39 in frederick. 41 in leesburg. 44 manassas. we have a lot of snow pack on the ground. that's cold. you get the warm air that comes over it, and hence you're talking fog that will start to form. and i think that is the case tomorrow between 3:00 p.m. and midnig midnight. for the afternoon, evening hours we will have to deal with that. it really is the neck thing that you're going to notice along with the higher temperatures. after noon tomorrow. then some rain comes our way tomorrow afternoon. i think it's just very light showers. the numbers behind me, these are the visibilities that are changing. just wanted to show you it's really from lunchtime to about 4:00. some of the lowest visibilities. so keep that in mind if you do

have to go to work. we will see improving conditions by 11:00 p.m. to midnight. usually we get the fog in the wee hours othe morning. this time it's for your afternoon and for your evening. so your forecast for tomorrow again, light rain showers coming into the area about 3:00. still raining at about 7:00, very light. mainly along and east of i-95. by the time we get to the early morning hours on wednesday, just a nuisance system is how you will remember this one. there could be a few wet flakes of snow in these areas in red down 301 just east of i-95. even annapolis may see just a few wet flakes of snow for early wednesday morning. of course, wednesday you heard d.c. schools back in session, but i think most of them in some of the outlying areas will not have school. high chance of that. there's a 50% chance we will see more schools heading back on thursday. take a look at the temperatures over the next four days. into the 40s the next two and close to that even thursday and

friday. but, again, well above freezing and that's what i like with those overnight temperatures not too shabby at all. look at the weekend. you know, this was an exhausting weekend. so we really need a weekend. 45 on saturday. close to 50 degrees on sunday. not looking at any rain until we get to monday, and that is right now just rain for monday of next week. we've got more on that, our pattern change coming up on news4 at 6:00. >> nuisance never sounded so good. no word on what will happen tomorrow with amtrak. right now trains are running between d.c. and boston with extremely reduced service. for lines heading south of the district. amtrak tells us it did everything possible to have crews ready to respond to any issues. >> just to make sure that, you know, we were quickly able to clear tree limbs from the tracks and any debris that would impact

services. >> amtrak says riders should check the status of their route before heading off to the station. you know, canceled flights are backing up nationwide, so many of you are asking about the fees and the fares you might be hit with. >> consumer reporter susan hogan joins us with some insight. susan? >> people are so frustrated certainly. we help them out a little bit. we were looking up seven major airlines' policies currently in place for the blizzard. we found all seven, delta, southwest, american, united, spirit, frontier, and jetblue have waived ticket change fee. when it comes to paying for the difference in fees it varies airlines to airline. several have waived the fare difference when rebooking. be sure to find out the rebooking deadlines. so how can you protect your money for future travel? well, airlines are not legally responsible for weather-related events. the u.s. travel insurance association tells us that most comprehensive travel insurance policies will reimburse you for

the unused portion of your air ticket. that allows you to rebook at your convenience. now, when it comes to resorts, they're typically nonrefundable unfortunately. if a trip is delayed or interrupted because of weather. some travel insurance companies will reimburse you for those expenses. when it comes to alternate arrangements, if flights are grounded, most comprehensive travel insurance policies will locate hotel accommodations and help with rescheduling and transportation which is certainly key there, and if you buy travel insurance, always review the policy to see what is covered and if you're still trying to rebook a flight, we have helpful links on our nbc washington app for you. search flights. coming up tonight at 6:00, we'll talk about storm damage and insurance claims. what's covered, what's not when it comes to your home and your car. >> there's a lot of fine print out there. >> there is. you absolutely have to read it. >> right. thanks, susan. >> sure.

well, we've learned two people involved in making those undercover videos on planned parenthood are facing felony charges. a grand jury indicted them today with tampering with a governmental record. they also found that they're both with the center for medical progress. one of them faces a misdemeanor related to purchasing human organs. now, the center for medical progress was behind the videos that purported to show planned parenthood officials discussing the saele of aborted fetuses. the grand jury was tasked with investigating planned parenthood, came back no grounds for charges and instead brought back indictments against two of the people who made the videos. jim? >> chris lawrence, thank you. the same community devastated by hurricane sandy dealing with flooding again. next, a look at the aftermath of the storm on the jersey shore. >> but first, check out these beautiful photos of d.c. and the

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people in several towns up and down the jersey shore are cleaning up the muddy mess left behind after floodwaters. >> and some of these towns, the same ones that were devastated when hurricane sandy hit. ted greenberg has more from stone harbor in new jersey. >> reporter: the beach here is

closed off, one of many along the coast severely damaged by the nor'easter, and in some places houses are in danger as well. >> one more nor'easter and we're under water. >> reporter: homes on the edge in long beach township. beach front houses are in peril. after the nor reecer's massive waves washed away protective dunes and parts of people's property. >> many of them are tinkering on the edge of falling over it looks like. >> this was an area that got devastated in superstorm sandy. we lost probably half a million cubic yards of sand here. >> reporter: now, the township is having sand trucked in to build a barrier between the homes and the ocean. >> we'll start with 600 truckloads. we can probably use 600 truckloads every three days. >> reporter: in north wildwood an urgent effort to repair a major breech in the dune system. this drone video provides an

aerial look at the damaged area before and after the storm. >> mobilized heavy equipment trying to fix that breach right now so that we don't have any more storm tides coming through this area. >> reporter: north wildwood's mayor hopes that emergency beach work will be done late tonight and tomorrow. both he and officials in long beach township say there's no time to waste. i'm ted greenberg, news4. now, at 6:00, the big dig officially under way. >> i looked out the window and my car wasn't there. >> our region caught in the crosshairs of an a historic storm, and tonight some neighborhoods are still covered in snow. >> there's only so much you can do when you get 20-plus inches of snow. >> schools and federal offices closed. metro service scaled back. and hundreds of flights still grounded. >> everybody is stuck, everybody is trying to get out. some people have patience, some people don't have patience. the blizzard may be gone but the cleanup is just getting

started. >> and it could be several days before things get back to normal. a look first in northern virginia. the snow there piled so high in some places that some people are trapped in their own neighborhoods. >> a similar scene in maryland. a snowplow truck struggling to clear the streets in gaithersburg got stuck. another example of the dangers as people try to venture out. >> and check out this picture over our nation's capitol. a woman posted it online and wrote, quote, caught one of the first flights out after snowzilla. >> tonight our team of reporters are out surveying the damage. let's start with julie carey live in loudoun county. jul julie? >> well, waiting on the snowplows. that is what thousands of northern virginians are doing tonight including the residents on summerfield circle. you can see where the plow here stopped. now, some folks complaining already. others taking it in stride recognizing the historic pr