the pedestrian walk over and the snow picks up again. it's just not melting quickly enough. in the fairfax county, many of the roads living up to vdot's promise of a passable lane by today but some have just that, one lane. meaning someone has to pull aside and let the other pass. we found wax pool road narrowing from four lanes to two. route 28, another lane disappears, and 66 inside the beltway, jam packed at times today. >> so for the roads we are responsible for, we're very comfortable where we are today. our team has worked 12-hour shifts literally since wednesday. >> reporter: the governor happy with the progress but noting it won't be cheap. >> it's going to cost us a lot of money. this could be north of $175 million, may even top $200 million which would be a historic storm for us, would be the most expensive one we've ever had, but cost is not the issue. >> i am hopeful that by the

weekend, the end of the weekend, we'll be back to something like normal. >> reporter: so what's left to be done? we asked fairfax county's chairman. >> shoveling of sidewalks. we need to open things up so kids are going to be safe when they head back to school. >> reporter: she also points to intersections like these. drivers' views blocked by the mounds of snow. crews working again today on school sidewalks and lots, but in fairfax and loudoun county, students off until february now. mostly because of snow-covered paths making it a struggle for young walkers. we've heard from fairfax and loudoun county and arlington county a school spokesperson telling me they anticipate to make the announcement soon. stand by for that. with so many kids off through the rest of this week, it puts a lot of pressure on working parents. ahead on news4 at 6:00, you're going to hear who they're turning to for some help. chris? >> thanks, david. you know, our inconveniences are

one thing, but in the last hour, we learned the weather caused the death of an 84-year-old woman in prince george's county. orinda nelson was found in the snow right near her home in windsor lane in hyattsville. she had been suffering from alzheimer's. significant signs of progress in prince george's county which says a vast majority of roads are passable. people who hadn't seen a plow since the storm hit are now seeing crews move in. tracee wilkins is live in temple hills this evening where people are so glad to see the plows but not happy it took this long. tracee? >> reporter: yeah, wendy. we definitely saw a mixed bag of emotions, but this temple hills neighborhood is a good example. this morning they saw plows for the first time coming through their neighborhood and cleaning up these roads. people could not have been happier. we followed a prince george's county road crew around today and were there as they made their first pass through this neighborhood. when we first entered off old

baltimore pike, it was snow covered. just minutes later some pavement. >> i do appreciate them finally coming out. >> reporter: george booth says the neighbors have been digging themselves out the last few days. >> what can you do other than go out and try to clear the street yourselves? i'm sure other people have done this in other neighborhoods, but i'm in my 70s now and it's rather difficult for me. >> i was really glad to see they just came around and cleared our hill. i'm going to get his medicine he needs. so that happened right on time. >> reporter: we drove farther south to temple hills in an area that was notoriously bad with its hilly roads and found completely clear streets. crews made it here this morning. >> considering what we dealt with with this blizzard, i think they did very well. >> we're very confident that by 9:00 p.m. all of our residential neighborhoods, the roads will be passable. >> reporter: the cleanup did not go the way a lot of residents

wanted it to, and the prince george's county department of public works is aware of that. >> we had our challenges through this event and we learned a lot from this event and we will continue to work to improve, of course, our communication to our citizens. >> reporter: those challenges included their plow tracker going down online so folks couldn't tell when a truck was going to come to their road. 311 crashing, a number of other things shut down on folks in prince george's county. last night when they said they'd have the roads clear by 9:00 p.m., there were plenty of folks doubting that would happen but as we drove around, roads are looking really good. what's going on on the primary roads? we'll show you that coming up on news4 at 6:00. >> thanks, tracee. in montgomery county they're calling it a complete success. they promised to get a plow on every street in every neighborhood in the county by

7:00 this morning and they did so. some residents tell us that's not the case. some neighborhoods eventually hired a public contractor to dig them out. officials admit they have heard some complaints. >> we have been getting some e-mails, some calls, and we are responding to those. we're sending a truck right away. >> we'll have more coming up in a few minutes. we'll hear from some who spent the day waiting for a plow to come. metro announces plans for tomorrow. both the rails and buses will remain on a slightly modified schedule. all metro stations will be open and during rush hour expect trains about every eight minutes. metro officials also say you can expect trains to be more crowded than usual. rush plus on the yellow line will not be operating. buses will be in a light snow service plan which means all routes will be in service but there may be some detours because of the road conditions. >> just about 90 minutes from now, the snow emergency in the district will be lifted which

means you will be able to park in those snow emergency lanes again. the district issued $1.2 million in snow emergency tickets, and theyed nearly 700 vehicles off the streets. today marked the first big commute for people headed back to work and school and our coverage continues at freedom plaza with tom sherwood. >> reporter: chris, here on 14th street, look at this, a sea of red taillights heading to virginia. rush hour is getting a little thicker now. the city is starting to get back to normal, but not yet. the museums and monuments were open today. but getting there and to work took monumental effort around many traffic hurdles. police were still blocking off whole blocks to speed the snow removal for tonight's evening rush. >> it's been -- it's hit and miss. i'd say that's the best way to describe it is hit and miss.

>> reporter: and possibly icy conditions in the morning could make streets and steep steps dangerous for the a.m. rush. >> if it seems icy, then i may not come in as planned. >> reporter: today several major roadways like massachusetts avenue in northwest d.c. poked along with some curb lanes still coated in snow. >> we're hoping for a pretty smooth rush hour tomorrow. what we do ask people is to build in extra time, take public trg transportation if you can. >> reporter: the popular food truck business in town was struggling to get customers back. just one of the city's small retail industries hurt by the storm. and coming up at 6:00, city officials are now saying that the snow cleanup will last into next week. i'm tom sherwood in downtown washington, wendy, back to you. >> thank you, tom. and you may not want to hear this, but we are on a weather alert again because the conditions are changing pretty fast out there. >> yeah, doug.

a lot of people want to know not just, you know, how far the temperatures are going to fall, but how -- you know, how quickly. >> they're going to fall very quickly. sun going down right now. sunset tonight at 5:23. in about the next 15 minutes that sun goes down. now we're already seeing the numbers falling, and that is going to be the case tonight, too. we're going to see freezing temperatures, most likely in most areas by 7:00, 8:00 tonight. right now still at 40 degrees so no worries about a freeze currently for the next one to two hours. at least in the d.c. metro area. take a look at the numbers though. down to 36 right now in gaithersburg, 27 in winchester, 35 in hagerstown. temperatures are starting to fall and they will start to fall. satellite and radar showing clear skies, some clouds trying to move up from the south. that may help temperatures to steady as we move on through the evening, but here is the latest computer model as far as future temperatures go. around 7:00, still above freezing in d.c., but look at this. 29 degrees in gaithersburg, 30 in leesburg. we're going to see some major

issues as we head into the night tonight and into tomorrow. we'll talk much more about it coming up. i'm cat lawson. a 2-year-old is getting airlifted to the hospital. more of this story after police say the toddler shot himself. chopper 4 is live over the apartment complex in waldorf where it happened. the child's father says he was asleep. then he heard a loud bang. this happened just before 4:00 this afternoon. he found the little boy shot in the leg. the 2-year-old is expected survive. back to you, wendy. >> thank you, pat. and if you plan on working tomorrow, you may want to see what's happening at the commuter lots for the vre and the marc services. we will take you there next. and only on news4, one death has been linked to the latest takata air bag recall. susan hogan sits down with the victim's family. how this one death led to millions more vehicles being rec

only on news4, one man's death has been blamed on a defective air bag and his family sat down with susan hogan. >> you just got back from south carolina where you spoke with the family. >> they were so brave to do this. it was very sad. they were thrust into a world

they never imagined. they hadn't even heard of takata air bags but on december 22nd, joel knight was driving home from work when he hit a cow and his air bag deployed. according to a lawsuit filed by the family yesterday, the air bag ruptured with such force a metal fragment severed knight's spinal cord. >> i think about it every day, every minute of the day that if this air bag was not in my dad's truck, my dad would still be here. >> knight's death led to the recall of 5 million more takata air bags just last week. the announcement came one month to the day of his fatal accident. tonight at 6:00, hear more from the family, plus we uncover disturbing details of the crash you will only see on news4. thank you, susan. >> you're welcome. tomorrow could be the first day since the blizzard that

we're going to see a full-blown morning rush hour and if getting to work means you're depending on a commuter parking lot, you may be in for a rough morning. mark segraves is live at the marc station in germantown. what's going on, mark? >> reporter: taking the rail could be a good way to get to work, chris, and you can see a lot of people chose to do that today at the marc station in germantown, but if you come here tomorrow, this is what you're going to find, many of the parking spaces are still snowed in. across maryland and throughout virginia, many commuters parking lots are still filled with piles of snow. while crews have been busy pushing the snow out of the way, they had to pile it onto parking spaces. even some handicap spaces are covered. virginia governor terry mcauliffe was on wtop radio today talking about tomorrow morning's commute. >> vre where people can park and the metros, that has to be hit

hard. remember, we can't push the snow. it literally has to be picked up and taken somewhere. >> reporter: even today some commuters gave up looking for a space like this man's wife, so he had to drive her to the station. >> she commutes from here and she goes to tyson's and i drove here because it's my day off. i knew they couldn't find a parking spot because i listened to the news. >> reporter: even on a good day these lots fill up fast, so with so many parking spaces still covered in snow, finding an open spot tomorrow morning is sure to be a challenge. so there are still crews working right now as a matter of fact in the upper part of this parking lot clearing it out. officials say they hope it will be better tomorrow but they warn there will still be fewer spaces than normal. right now i say a rough sti estimate, about 30% of the parking spaces are still covered. at 6:00, some tips from the experts if you need to ride the rail tomorrow. how to make finding a space and getting here just a little bit easier. wendy, back to you guys.

>> thanks, mark. with the schools empty because of the snow days, a principal in howard county decided to have a little bit of fun. take a look. sean martin is the head of waterloo elementary in columbia. they have been out of school since friday and earlier this week martin drove an hour from his house to the empty school and does this look family. he recreated a scene from the movie "risky business" and then he started toilet papering the hall between the bathrooms. he also took time for a serious message. >> i want to thank our chief at wooter loo and all the custodians throughout howard county for coming in during impossible situations so they could prepare the school for our students. >> martin's video now has more than 10,000 hits on youtube. cabin fever is hitting arun dell school officials in a different way. check out the voice mail with the announcer channeling his

inner adele. >> hello, it's me. ♪ the voice you love to hear from and the face you do not see, and i've got news for you ♪ ♪ we will close schools for another day, parents will cry boo hoo ♪ >> that's the end of the voice mail. it indicates this is a one-time only thing unfortunately. but you can always find the latest delays at our nbc washington app. the warmer weather we've had the past couple days has definitely helped with the melting but as the pavement starts to resurface we're finding a new issue, potholes. adam tuss has a look at one of the big problem spots in arlington. >> reporter: well, as we get into the freeze/thaw cycle, we're not only worried about this being on the ground. now we're worried about this.

the actual road coming apart with potholes. that's what's happening right here on williamsburg boulevard. with every hit -- >> it's just really loud. it's like our whole house is shaking. >> christina thomas and her boys feeling it. >> it's a little bit -- yeah, there you go. you can hear it. >> reporter: christina's house right next to these newly formed potholes at the bottom of the hill. as the temperatures go up and down, the roads gives a little bit. drivers noticing the new craters. >> i didn't like them. but i have a jeep. >> reporter: and then there are the other challenges right now, lanes disappearing. bike lanes? what bike lanes. and the sidewalks. good chance if you live in a neighborhood or in the city you're dealing with this on the sidewalk. not a single snowflake shoveled off of this sidewalk. we still have a ways to go, and it will require your patience. now, as we go through tonight, the other big issue you're going to have to worry about is the big refreeze, and that means your driveway could be pretty

slick tomorrow morning. use some extra care as you get to your car. back to you. >> and we now know the cause of that massive fire at the prince george's county apartment building. chopper 4 was over the scene of it earlier this month. this was in adelphi. investigators say a flammable spray adhesive came into contact with an open flame on the stove. the resulting fire spread through that apartment injuring a husband and wife. the wife is still in the hospital, but the man is just out of the burn unit. it caused more than $200,000 in damages. well, pat collins is calling this guy the blizzard bandit. a crook was using the winter storm to help hide his tracks during a crime spree. and hackers may have hit again and this time fast food lovers may be the ones at risk. watching for one word tonight, ice. the sun going down right now makes for a very nice sunset across the area, but that sun, well, giving way to much colder temperatures as the temperatures drop tonight, the ice will form

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and with that we're going to ste a refreeze. you can see the sun going down as we speak. sunset at 5:23. 40 degrees. winds out of the northwest at 9 miles per hour. tough right on through tomorrow morning. we're going to see a quick refreeze. now that the sun is down, it is going to refreeze very, very quickly as temperatures drop. lots of ice. take your time on the roads. give yourself a lot of extra time, a lot of extra space between you and the car in front of you. one system moving down to the south, you can see clear skies for the most part around our area. as long as we stay clear and you can see clear skies around us, we'll cool very quickly, very efficiently. there are more cloud cover -- there is more cloud cover down toward richmond, southern maryland. you won't cool quite as fast here. here is current temperatures. i just showed you. by 7:00, already down to 30 in gaithersburg. 32 in manassas. starting to see that refreeze even as early as 7:00. that's just an hour and a half

away. and then by wednesday, by tonight around 10:00, look at the numbers. look how fast we fall. 15 in martinsburg, 22 in gaithersburg. 28 in d.c. by early tomorrow most areas in the teens. that's why we're so concerned about this ice overnight into early tomorrow morning. i think tomorrow morning's rush is going to be a big problem. know that when you step out. even around noon tomorrow just getting above the freezing mark. so it's going to take some time to break out of the ice tomorrow morning. so this evening, freeze happens very quick. i have got you in the yellow right now. so if you've got something to do in the next one to two hours, i think you're okay but get back by 8:00 or 9:00. dangerously slick tomorrow morning. it will really be a big issue. we're not playing this up. i really worry about tomorrow morning's rush. friday's a.m., subfreezing and icy again on friday, maybe a little bit less of an issue but in the yellow on friday morning. i think we'll do a better job by tomorrow and on friday of clearing some roads. tomorrow afternoon, more

melting. we get to that 41 degree mark. that's why i'm talking about friday morning as an issue, too. 41 on thursday. 39 on friday. now, friday going to be rather chilly because of a wind. we're going to see winds out of the northwest, 10, 20, even 25 miles per hour. windchills in the 20s just about all day. warming towards the weekend. saturday and sunday, 44 on saturday. 49 on sunday. a very nice weekend. great weekend to go skiing. i'm hoping to be the only one up there, but if you want to go too, go right ahead. warmer temperatures next. i'm talking about 60s. >> the roller coaster continues. thanks, doug. it was back to class for students in d.c., and while the roads were mostly clear, hear why some parents were none to happy to send their kids back to class. and a deadly shootout. police arrest the leader of the armed militia of ranchers that has occupied that wildlife refuge but there is concern there could be more violence. nbc's pete williams will be joining us with the details. there's a guy over the

weekend who used the big snow sort of as an accomplice to ghit five a commit five armed robberies.

good morning. >> well, it wasn't the easiest trip but students in the district did make it back to school for the first time since

the blizzard. in northwest d.c. the sidewalks outside coolidge high were mostly clear, but those high mounds of snow on the curbs made it pretty tough to get in. >> anyone who was late or didn't make, it they were excused today, but the decision to open did frustrate some parents. >> were you surprised that they let them come back to school today? >> yes. >> did you walk on the sidewalk or walk on the street? >> i walked on the street. >> d.c. wasn't the only system to open today. charles, calvert, and st. mary's county schools all opened on a two-hour delay. >> while most of us were hurngerred down or digging out, one guy used this blizzard for an advantage. >> he went on an armed robbery spree. pat collins is live in college park with some surveillance video of the man. >> chris, he has a gun, he wears a mask. he used the big snow over the weekend as a distraction to commit five armed robberies. here now the story of the blizzard bandit. >> reporter: robbery number one,

perlas restaurant in beltsville. they were just getting ready to close when he came in and at gunpoint made off with some serious money. saturday, january 23rd, just before midnight, by that time we had a ton of snow on the ground. that's when the gunman hits this 7-eleven on powder mill road. gun drawn, he goes inside, gets the money, and off he goes. you can see on this surveillance picture here the snow is up over the robber's knees. sunday january 24th, dig out day. 3:58 in the morning, the gunman hits this 7-eleven on cherry hill road. you can see in the surveillance video he goes in, he pulls a gun, he gets his money, he tells the employees to put their hands in the air and then go to the

back room and then off he goes. he was in at 3:58. he was out at 3:59. hunter carter, he was there when it happened. >> he came in, was just like give me the money. i don't want anything else. give me the money. >> reporter: how did he get away in all that snow? >> he just walked. >> reporter: it's still sunday morning. there's still about that much snow on the ground. about a half hour later the gunman robs another 7-eleven on garrett avenue in beltsville, but he didn't stop there. with all the snow on the ground, 30 minutes later, 5 miles away he robs yet another 7-eleven on route 1 in college park. now, coming up at 6:00 more about the robbery at the perlas restaurant. it left three women in tears. pat collins, news4. i'm pat lawson, news at the

live desk. we just got the picture of a man who lis say shot two d.c. school administrators this week. justin is wanted on a charge of assault with intent to kill. investigators believe he shot the administrators as they sat in a car on eaton road in southeast monday night. they worked for roosevelt high school and blue state high school. both were found conscious and breathing but at this point the school system is not releasing their identities. now that there's no women and children here, the fbi can kill everybody. >> is that what you're worried will happen? is that what you're worried will happen? that's what i keep hearing over and over and over again. >> there's been a deadly turn in the armed standoff at a u.s. wildlife refuge in oregon. one man is dead and the leader of the protest is under arrest. >> but the occupation still continues tonight. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams joins us now. the fbi, do they feel like they

handled that traffic stop well? they do have one person that was killed. >> well, the fbi says they did what they thought they had to do. their goal was to try to end the occupation and they waited until all the group's leaders had left the wildlife refuge and were on their way to community meeting about 100 miles away. about halfway along the route at 4:30 yesterday afternoon, the fbi and the oregon state police set up a road block. two cars were coming up according to law enforcement officials, both stopped, but one law enforcement official says the lead car took off and ultimately ran into a snowbank and they say one of the men jumped out and was brandishing a weapon. he was shot and killed. one of the other leaders was wounded in the arm. then they were -- the rest of them were arrested. they were taken to portland and they just appeared in federal court in portland this afternoon, including this man, amon bundy, who is the leader of the group. they're charged with interfering

with federal officials in the performance of their duty using violence or threats. it is a felony. it can bring a maximum penalty of six years in prison. the fbi is telling those who remain in the compound that they need to leave and it's made this extraordinary statement. it's saying that they're in essence free to go, that the fbi will ask them their names as they leave but they've in essence said nobody else will be arrested. >> why do you think that is? do they feel like these are the five or six people that we wanted to get and the rest of them no problems, just go away? >> yes, that's right. i'm just looking at the charges now that have just been unsealed in portland, and it's a long list of what the government says is their efforts to intimidate federal employees and keep the federal officials out there from doing their jobs. i think there are sort of two goals here. one was the fbi's long-standing goal was to get this over with without bloodshed, without anybody being killed, but the second thing is they were under

enormous pressure from people in the community. the county sheriff said this afternoon, it wasn't just the people at the wildlife refuge. he said the folks there kept coming into town and trying to, as he said, trying to stir up trouble, so for all those reasons they wanted to bring it to a close. >> if the ones who were still left behind, if they don't leave? >> well, we don't know what the answer to that is if they don't leave. the federal authorities tried to say in as strong a way as they could today, that those people needed to leave, that they had been given ample opportunities to leave peacefully, and one person we heard quoted today was told by one official if i were you, i'd be gone. but who knows what that means. >> sure. pete williams. >> thank you very much, pete. >> thank you so much. >> you bet. >> wendy's is investigating a potential security breach. wendy's said it launched the investigation earlier this month after being alerted of possible fraudulent charges made to cards that were used in the restaurant. the company is now working with a cyber security expert and law enforcement agencies to look into the potential fraud.

it's not clear how many cards or locations have been affected. a warm welcome home for "the washington post" journalist recently released from that prison in iran. jason rezaian returned to "the washington post" newsroom this morning and received a well-deserved standing ovation as he attended the morning editorial meeting. it was his first visit to the paper since his release. he was accompanied by his wife and brother. rezaian was held for 18 months in iran accused of being a spy. he was one of the four u.s. citizens released earlier this month as part of a prisoner swap. d.c. police chief cathy lanier has turned down an opportunity to lead the chicago police department. a spokesperson for lanier tells news4's mark segraves say officials with the city of shi reached out to gauge her intere interest. she respectfully declined. chicago has been searching for a new chief since the last one was

fired in december because of the shooting of that man 16 times by police. she has been with the d.c. police department since 1990 and spent the last nine years as its chief. the battered coast is nowhere near recovery after that winter storm. find out what's being done for the folks on the jersey shore. and we're learning a lot more about a patient from virginia who came down with the zika virus.

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myself than somebody else. >> reporter: that's a great answer. >> she's very, very funny and she can be charismatic. >> reporter: she says brianna really needs a permanent family. >> a mom and dad that's understanding and supportive, that's always going to be there, that's never going to give up. >> particularly when a child has been in different homes, it's really important that people are very clear and express to her that we're going to stick it out with you. >> if i do one mistake, they're not quick to give me back. >> reporter: trusting doesn't come easy when you have had a lot of disappointments. her beautiful smile showed off her beautiful makeover. but makeup is temporary. a family would be forever. if you have room in your home and your heart for brianna or another child who is waiting, please call our special adoption hotline, the number is 188-to adopt me or search wednesday's

child on nbcwashington.com. >> thank you, barbara. during our storm coverage we found a loudoun county community that couldn't wait for those plows. >> we are updating the story because they ended up clearing the way for an expecting mother. >> reporter: montgomery county pledged to have every neighborhood plowed by 7:00 this morning. this is chris gordon. ahead, i'll tell you if the county succeeded. subfreezing and icy over night through your morning rush. looking forward, looking at the chance for what could be a little flooding coming our way. we'll talk more about

we're coming back at 5:45 with breaking news. we have just learned you can add prince george's county schools to the long lost of schools that are going to be closed. employees come back on a two-hour delay. there's a potential for big problems on the roads tomorrow. for some they're still not over the challenges today. >> chris gordon begins our team coverage in rockville. bottom line, did the county fulfill their promise to plow every neighborhood today? >> reporter: chris, montgomery county calls it a complete success, but officials do admit this they didn't get a plow through every neighborhood by 7:00 a.m., and it was about that time that news4 started getting viewer e-mails complaining they had not seen a plow. so i replied, i got in touch, and found out by 10:00 a.m. that many of those had been plowed

out. but others were frustrated, and they decided to take matters into their own hands. the only snowplow on lesscot terrace belonged to a neighborhood. bob gave up on montgomery county sending in a plow and decided to dig out himself. >> the only way we got out of here was this plow right here, manual neighbors, snow blowers from the neighbors. we cut the road open to george washington. no help from the county at all. >> reporter: this family says they contacted the county over and over but got nowhere. >> the first time we called was 4:00 a.m. because people had to get out and they didn't. we called hourly, and every time we call we have to go through the whole scenario. it's almost like they're hearing fro from us for the first time.

>> reporter: i took the complaints from this neighborhood and other neighborhoods we heard from today to the montgomery county snow command. >> a lot of people say they called 311. >> they don't need to call. get online, or even if they call they can call and get online and let us know which street or court has been missed. we send a truck right away. >> reporter: late this afternoon i received a text from a resident of lescot terrace saying county plow just came through our end of the cul-de-sac. another problem being monitored at the command center is traffic. on old georgetown road this morning, it was gridlock heading toward d.c. and 270 south was backed up long after what would be a normal rush hour had ended. tomorrow morning montgomery county will lift its snow emergency and we'll tell you how that might affect your morning commute ahead on news4 at 6:00. wendy and chris, back to you. >> all right. thanks a lot, chris. now to northern virginia. we want to update you on a community who decided they

couldn't wait for a plow. >> some neighbors in south riding shoveled their own street because two of the women on their block were expecting, and today we learn one of those women we talked with, christina, she did give birth to a baby girl. this is eden storm pe ebearca. dad says they were already considering that middle name and considering the situation it really fits. so it worked out for everybody. >> i got to tell you, driving in here, those streets and sidewalks were just soaking, soaking wet. >> so now that stuff is freezing? >> it's all starting to freeze up. of course, the ground still frozen. so even for some of the very thin layers of moisture where they got down to the black paft, now we're starting to see the black ice and the bigger areas, there you can see some of the streets glistening. probably by the time we goat to 7:00, 8:00, we'll be looking at more icy conditions, especially out in the suburbs for the overnight period, early tomorrow

morning. down to the black pavement it's black ice. other areas, the puddles, the slush, all freezing up. a look at early morning temperatures and you really get the idea why we're talking about widespread ice. this teens to mid-20s across the area. 14 manassas. 19 degrees around waldorf and it's not until i think late in the morning that we start to see our temperatures come up. it's the reason why it's another weather alert day for storm team4. again, slushy conditions by the afternoon between 10:00 and 6:00 p.m. your ice impact forecast, dangerous overnight, so be alert when you're out and about. if you do have to go out this evening. then the early morning hours, i think we'll see widespread ice and just slushy from 10:00 to 6:00 p.m. on thursday. then we get the refreeze again. all things to remember. i know that you know this, but just a reminder, avoid hitting the gas or brakes hard. keep that distance in between you and the car in front of you, and if you do start to skid,

skid in the drekirection that y want to go and be patient. we've been patient for so long but just a little while longer because our temperatures will come up in a big way as we get into the weekend and early next week. the next change you will notice is when we do get above freezing, that's tomorrow right before 10:00 a.m. 37 your temperature. we'll get to around upper 30s to around 40 degrees tomorrow. and we will see quite a bit of sunshine across the area for tomorrow. so back again, it's back out with the rain boots for tomorrow and a nice warm jacket. we'll see some clouds move through our area during the afternoon hours, but i think enough sunshine that our temperatures will easily get to the 40s down to the south of d.c., 37 up to the north around frederick. so biggest thing for us is driving and walking around. parking again, as you heard, those spaces are very few and even slick in some of the parking lots. the windchill temperatures on friday will be in the 20s. it is going to be a cold one but we bounce back this weekend.

then as we look forward, a run of 60s early next week. right now it looks as though not on tuesday but on wednesday there is the potential for a half inch of rain and with the melting snow the chance of seeing some at least minor to moderate flooding across the area. something storm team4 will be monitoring. we'll talk more about this coming up on news4 at 6:00. i'm jason pugh in the newsroom. the redskins general manager talking about kurt cousins' future. they are scouting players for the upcoming draft. so many questions surrounding the quarterback's free agency and here is what he had to say about the contract talks today. >> we start some preliminary talks right now. i had a really good conversation twice with kirk. you know, i know i like the person he is, i like the player he shows, especially second half

of the season. of course we want him here because he's a red skin, he's a drafted red skin, and i think he embodied what a red skin is supposed to look like, competitiveness, toughness, smartness. >> he also talked about robert griffin iii's future. the team has until march 9th to make a decision. i'm jason pugh. you may have heard of the zika virus. >> we know there's been a confirmed days in virginia. doreen gentzler has a look at what you need to know. >> zika virus has been around. it was discovered in 1947 from the zika forest of uganda. you get it from mosquitoes. it's showing up in south and central america and the caribbean. that virginia resident was diagnosed with it after returning from a country where the virus is ongoing. because it is not mosquito

season in virginia, the individual with zika virus pose nos risk to other virginians. here are four things you should know about this virus. we're going to be hearing a lot more about it. one, pe one, president-elegnant women a risk and are encouraged to postpone travel to zika-affected countries. health officials in brazil have speculated that in some women, infections from zika have led to higher rates of miscarriages and birth defects in babies. so far there is no proof of a real connection. two, our centers for disease control has issued travel advisories for 24 countries, mostly in latin america and the caribbean. the mosquito is a daytime biter and likes to live in houses and near people. three, the virus can cause flu-like symptoms and it can be treated successfully with over the counter medicines but be careful with aspirin. dengue fever and zika can be

caught in the same place and dengue fever can cause hemorrhaging which would, of course, be made worse by aspirin. and, four, there is no vaccine available for the zika virus. two major airlines are offering refunds for passengers worried about the zika outbreak and with the summer olympics in brazil, there is concern about how to manage the issue for visitors there. open up the nbc washington app and find out more by searching zika. >> thanks, doreen. some of the images that are coming out of the jersey shore are just incredible. firefighters are dealing with flooding and flames and that's just scratching the surface of what they're facing there. ♪

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we got the snow, the jersey shore got severe flooding from that blizzard. >> and it is just adding to the frustrations for those who have not rebounded from the flooding that was caused by hurricane sandy. >> yes. ted green burg discovered some of the biggest frustrations are coming from firefighters. >> reporter: when emergency calls brought ocean city firefighters into the elements during saturday's storm, some first had to step foot in the flood. >> the guys would have to come out, wade through the watter to get into the trucks. >> reporter: since hurricane sandy frooded the 29th street firehouse, it's only been used for housing department vehicles with this neighboring trailer serving as home base for the

professional firefighters stationed here. then this weekend water rushed inside the firehouse again. >> to come back to the same issue that started it with floodwaters in the building with nothing being done, you know, it's frustrating. >> reporter: in a statement a city spokesman said they are committed to finding a solution that wouldn't be affected by flooding. jersey shore firefighters faced a slew of challenges in the nor'easter including a battle against flame and fires. that ladder truck damaged by sandy and then repaired got swamped a second time but i'm told it's been cleaned, is still operational and a replacement was already on order. on long beach island, members of the beach haven volunteer fire company were left to clean up a major mess after ice filled water poured into their station. >> all these cracks are -- every flood they get worse. >> reporter: four floods in just over three years have damaged the floor of the building's

dining hall which the department rents out to raise money. members are worried the room will soon become unusable but say replacing the floor will cost tens of thousands of dollars. >> any help that the public can give us, we'd greatly appreciate it. >> the beach haven fire department has a turkey dinner fund-raiser coming up. their last one in october had to be canceled because of flooding. in ocean city, new jersey, i'm ted greenberg, news4. next and only on news4, a recent death linked to an effective air bag. the emotional interview with the victim's family and why they say this tragedy could be been prevented. and the race to clear neighborhood streets a few hours before a self-imposed deadline and there's concern about tomorrow morning's commute as many roads are still narrowed by piles of snow. we have team coverage and we begin with tracee wilkins live in temple hills.

hi, tracee. >> reporter: hi, doreen. we have a lot of good news. first of all, here in temple hills they have been able to clear the street after it was packed in snow for this entire duration of the storm. they saw their plow trucks for the first time today. neighbors were very excited about it. we know some good news for the roads tomorrow. prince george's county schools will be closed again to students tomorrow giving road crews more time to get this straight. >> it's unfortunate it took so long. >> it was too little too late for some prince george's county residents who just today saw a plow on their snowy streets for the first time. >> the fact that the snowplows just came today, this morning, on day was this four or five? it's unacceptable. >> reporter: some residents in this beltsville neighborhood had a suggestion for how to get it done faster. >> the idea is if you assign one small plow to each development and just have them constantly plow, you don't allow the