now, for some of you the snow could definitely pile up, abobu for others it will be mostly rain. let's start in the storm center. >> veronica and doug are there. since it's so warm now, when are we really going to see the impacts of the storm? >> probably won't be until tomorrow even though the storm system itself moving in across the area right now. we may start to see some rain showers, but temperatures right now still in the mid-40s. >> and this really is a tough forecast. it's all based on temperatures and who will be at what temperature when, but really your biggest impacts will be tomorrow early and especially late as you will see in a moment. >> that's when the colder air moves in. let's show you the radar now. nothing on the radar now in our region. we do expect to see things over the next couple hours start to develop but anything that falls later this evening, even into the early portion of the overnight will most likely be some rain. you can see the wider picture. here is the ongoing blizzard up there towards the boston area. that's one storm moving out. here is our storm system, very disorganized storm system, and actually this is a number of

storms together making their way our way. so who is going to see what and when? that's the big issue. there goes the blizzard. here comes our storm system making its way out towards the area and eventually out into the ocean. snow continuing during the afternoon tomorrow. again, tonight temperatures in the 40s right now. how will this impact you? v.j. is here with more on that. >> i think we will just see rain showers tonight. take a look at the temperatures for the evening. if you're going to be going out over the next few hours, up until 9:00, maybe 10:00, i think we're just fine. here is a look at the animation for you. yes, just rain showers mainly across the area with warm pavement. 37 to 41 degrees the air temps. the pavement temperature is little higher than that. here is your tuesday morning with moderate impacts on area roads, mainly snow by early tomorrow morning. around 7:00, 8:00 a.m. roads will become slick. as we make our way through the midday hour, it will start to approach more hazardous

conditions. roads will be more hazardous with several inches on roads tomorrow. >> we'll talk much more about it and we'll break down the forecast. again, a much tougher forecast even than the blizzard was. blizzard fairly easy to forecast. this one a lot tougher. we'll talk about the reasons why in a few minutes. >> all right, doug. montgomery county is gearing up for snow tonight. news4 crews just shot this video of plow trucks loading up on salt and sand at the depot on seven locks road in rockville. earlier today the montgomery county department of transportation tweeted its storm ak vation sactivation center wo activated at 4:00. >> virginia crews start with the main ones and we're told they've already hit most of those. adam tuss continues our team coverage live from leesburg. >> reporter: these road crews aren't taking this lightly at all.

take a look at the crews getting filled up here at the salt dome out in leesburg. it is heavy-duty work, and then swing it around and take a look at all the trucks that are already lined up waiting to get filled up. we've seen them getting filled up with sand. they're coming in here for salt, and they're getting their rigs all ready to go. this is really go time before this next operation. you know, doug was talking about snowfall totals. up here in leesburg, they're planning for at least three inches of snow. at least that's what road crews tell me and possibly more than that, but the rain, yeah, the rain is tricky. that could wash away the chemical that's already on the road. >> we applied the brine last week because we thought maybe some would come in over the weekend. we've deployed some additional trucks tonight because it just comes in as rain, it washes most of that brine operation away. so we're going to overcompensate that by bringing in additional trucks. >> reporter: now, listen, road crews are always taking lessons

learned from storms of the past. the blizzard that we just had, they said one thing that worked really well, park your car on the odd number side of the street. that way the plows can get down your street and take care of what they need to. also, of course, if you have a driveway, put your car there, save yourself some headache. we'll see what happens, guys. everybody out here waiting. chris, back to you. >> thanks, adam. remember no, matter what the weather throws your way, you can stay one step ahead of it with the nbc washington app. we'll send you weather alerts and you can see if schools decide to close or even delay classes. i'm jim handly at the news4 live desk with some breaking news. we're waiting for a press conference at this hour to begin in prince george's county where we expect to learn about what's being called a wide-ranging child porn investigation. police have already made an arrest. coming up, this is 22-year-old dean tay careaway of glenarden. police tell us he's an

elementary school volunteer and associated with the community choir. that press conference expected to begin in 20 minutes. jackie bensen is there and we'll bring you updates as soon as we learn them. >> all right, jim. we are learning more about that oily sheen on the potomac river. the first test results on the substance are back. the slick was first spotted a week ago just north of reagan national airport. it had spread all the way down to the wilson bridge, but it's mostly contained now. news4's mark segraves is live along the potomac where a news conference just wrapped up. mark, are they closer to figuring this out? >> reporter: well, a little bit closer. the preliminary, and again they stress the word preliminary, test results show that the oil they took out of the potomac river was petroleum-based that mostly had the characteristics of a degraded fuel oil, but, again, those are very preliminary test results. we can tell you here we still see the sheen of oil on the river here and back in the

wildlife refuge, and the smell is still very strong, and as you said, this was first reported on february 1st just above reagan national airport and an eight-mile stretch of the river, the sheen showed up on all the way down to the wilson bridge but most of the oil has been contained to a wild fowl sanctuary and in that sanctuary so far 30 wild canada geese have been removed and taken to delaware for decontamination. we can tell you also a duck was taken. so far they say those are the only wild animals that have been removed and they hope to be able to relocate them back in this area soon. you'll probably recall that last week we reported that a local utility had a mineral oil spill not too far from the site of this fuel spill. we asked the coast guard today if these test results exonerate that utility company. here is what they had to say. >> the spectrum that mineral oil has a chance to fall within the spectrum of the fuel oil, so

until we get the full comparison, dominion has been supportive of this. they've provided samples for us, so we'll be able to analyze that and hopefully make a good determination if it's a match, but right now we're just right now still continuing the investigation to try to identify that. >> reporter: so still no word on the source of this oil spill here, but the good news it is mostly contained. we have some bad news to report from the wildlife experts. one of those wild geese that was taken for decontamination has died. coming up at 5:00, you will hear more from the coast guard and from the wildlife experts who are still on scene here trying to save the geese. reporting live along the potomac river, mark segraves, news4. i'm julie carey in woodbridge, virginia, where there is a big contingent of washington gas employees on the

scene trying to pinpoint the cause of an apparent gas leak that caused an explosion yesterday afternoon in that house over there on the corner. railroad cents s residents first began to smell the odor of gas last week. then yesterday more reports of natural gas let prince william firefighters to go door to door. inside this home, levels so high they immediately evacuated the residents. just as they cleared the house, an explosion. coming up on news4 at 5:00, you will hear from the family who lives in this house. they believe they were just minutes away from either being seriously injured or possibly even killed. it's a plan that could put an end to the zika virus. how the fight against the quickly spreading illness now comes down to a decision right here in washington. cold, rain, and snow. we're going to see it all over the next few days. storm team4 is tracking the timing and how much snow could pile up. that's where we're calling this

this is a storm team4 weather alert. >> okay, guys. we're going to see rain showers first and then a mixture of rain and snow. then we'll move over to the all snow i think by tomorrow morning's rush. the warnings have been posted, the advisories as well in the pink. this is where most of the impact will be with some of the higher snowfall amounts. 10:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. wednesday that winter storm warning. prince george's county, anne arundel county, howard county, northern montgomery, and your advisory everywhere in the purple, the d.c. metro area and surrounding areas up until

midnight tuesday. the showers, they're trying to get organized right now. you can see some of the snow is well back to the west but that's going to start again. i think our first chance of seeing any rain showers right around 7:00, 8:00, and then the mix conditions. here are the roads impacted early tuesday morning, 70, 270, 695, 495, even out 66 we'll see this line drop down to the south as the day unfolds tomorrow. doug has more on that and the amounts of how much snow we're going to see around here in just a few. >> thanks, veronica. it sure wasn't the cruise they were hoping for. passenger aboard royal caribbean's "anthem of the seas" are headed back to port. the ship turned around and is going back to new jersey after rough going in the atlantic. it hit bad weather off the carolina coast. people were stuck in their cabins as the ship was tossed back and forth. their belongings flying around the cabin. the passengers were going to the bahamas. they had been using social media to broadcast video and pictures of the damage.

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first at 4, a weather alert today. storm team4 is tracking rain and

snow. which one you're likely to get depends on where you live and work. >> and that's right. you can always check out the radar on the nbc washington app. doug kammerer will join us again in about two minutes to update that forecast. but first, some new developments in the fight against the rapidly spreading virus. the obama administration is asking congress for nearly $2 billion to help fight the zika virus. the white house says the money would be used to expand mosquito control programs, speed up the development of a vaccine, and conduct new tests for the virus. it would also set aside money to support low-income pregnant women. on tuesday white house officials will brief congressional leaders on the zika response plan. right now police in prince william county are asking for help finding a woman they say may be in need of help. no one has talked with rose since thursday morning. we're told she was last seen near the comfort suites hotel in manassas. she has a tattoo across her knuckles that spells out hold fast. the government just

announced some new steps to protect you and your kids. the government wants to prevent waste and abuse within higher education. >> consumer reporter susan hogan is here with details about this plan. susan? >> that's right. the obama administration is calling it aggressive action to protect students and taxpayers. the department of education announced it's creating a student aid enforcement unit to respond more quickly and efficiently to allegations of illegal actions against colleges and universities. now, it's intended to strengthen the office of federal student aids enforcement and oversight. we're told the unit will be made up of four divisions including an investigations group and a barrower defense group. the government said today one of the nation's top enforcement attorneys, rob kay, you who see there, notably a former leader in the federal trade commission, will lead the enforcement unit. >> adding the investigations unit will allow us to take a more aggressive stance with respect to investigating

allegations against institutions and adding rob's relationship will position the department differently. >> now, the department of ed says it recently took a series of enforcement actions against three colleges. back to you. well, we know it's probably a little warm out there right now for snow, but i got a feeling that's all going to change. >> yeah. doug, when is it going to start dropping? >> well, i think the temperatures will start dropping a little bit tonight, and as the storm system moves in, it will help to bring in some slightly cooler air and that's all you'll need tonight. temperatures right now in the mi mid-40s right now. you can see the cloud cover across our area. we'll continue to see the clouds. temperatures at the airport sitting at 46 degrees. winds are out of the south, and that's ahead of the storm system. so as long as we have that southerly wind, as long as we have the clouds, temperatures

are not going anywhere very fosfos fast, and i think for most of the event it will be rain in most areas. everybody over the 40 degree mark. 47 in culpepper. 44 down towards huntington. a warm afternoon for sure. here is the advisories. winter storm warning in effect for the pink, anne arundel, northern, and frederick county, maryland. the bull's-eye will be up in this area, baltimore, howard county, maybe northern anne arundel for that winter storm between 10:00 to 6:00 a.m. the winter weather advisory 10:00 p.m. to midnight tomorrow night. that includes lower montgomery, p prince george's, county, prince william and everybody back towards the west. winter weather advisory in effect for just a few inches of snow. nothing on the radar right now. we're not seeing it just yet but it is fairly close. two systems. here is the big storm system. that's the blizzard up toward boston. that one not affecting our

weather. here is the big one for us. look how much moisture is here, but it's not very well defined, and the reason is this. we've got not just one, three different areas of low pressure right now all spinning around a central area, and it's where these areas of low pressure develop that really tell who is going to get it's most snow. that's why this is such a tough forecast, because we have to look at each one of these storms to make -- to see which one is going to give us the most snow. eventually the shift will happen offshore. we'll see an area of low pressure offshore and that's when everybody gets the snow tomorrow. but tonight look at the rain. around 11:00, d.c., brg frederi. by 7:00 a.m., this is the latest computer model giving us from d.c. and points to the north. fredericksburg down to most of southern maryland, you are rain, and you stay rain all day. fredericksburg, quantico, waldorf, you are rain with this storm.

we are not worried about you at all. it is everybody to the north. gaithersburg, leesburg, frederick. snow even around the 5:00 hour. look at d.c., the mixing right around the d.c. metro area and then tomorrow night everybody switching over, even down to the south you may get some of that snow, too, but we're not talking about a lot. let's talk about that snowfall forecast. 1 to 3 inches the bulk of the area. d.c., waldorf, fredericksburg i don't have you seeing much at all, maybe a coating. 3 to 6 frederick, baltimore over towards columbia, gaithersburg, maybe montgomery village. some areas maybe a little bit more. coming up in a couple minutes, we'll talk about that seven-day forecast because, guys, the snow moves out but the cold moves in, and we're talking the coldest air so far this year. we'll talk much more about that in a few minutes. >> thanks, doug. >> shivering already. thousands of restaurants make an unprecedented move. >> they're all part of the same chain that shut its doors but they're making it up in a big way by offering free food and that has social media hungry for more.

and they were the big super bowl moments between the plays. first at 4, the local commercial that's getting a huge response. and tomorrow voters in new hampshire head to the polls. after all the speeches, twashtiattacks, and an interesting debate over the weekend, who do you think has the most momentum. >> call or text the number on your screen. you can also vote on

hey, if you decide to come back, if you can do it, we'll follow you again, man. >> fans in denver are still riding high after last night's super bowl win for the broncos. a lot of those bronco fans are still also waiting to hear whether star quarterback peyton manning will officially hang up his cleats as has been widely speculated. last night's big win was his 200th. >> perfect time to go out, on top. >> while you're on top. and on our nbc washington facebook page today a lot of you are also talking about the winners and losers among the advertisers in the game. >> they all spent millions of dollars on the commercials. but nbc's mark barger sifts through the super bowl's real hits and misses. >> make it 24-10. >> reporter: the winner on the field was decisive. >> in my face! >> reporter: but the super bowl's ad winner was debatable. >> i don't think there was a winner. it was fairly safe.

>> reporter: that's due to the pressure that comes along with the commercial's $5 million price tag. >> last year we saw nationwide experiment with an ad, the dead kid ad. it totally tanked. >> reporter: comedy was king this year including hyundai's first ad with kevin hart. it was number one in usa today's ad meter ranking. >> you have to use the right celebrity i think. it has to really coalesce with your brand or, you know, reach your demographic that you're trying to target. >> reporter: doritos put two spots in ad meter's top five. both from the tenth annual contest. the one featuring some cunning canines won a million dollar prize. >> inside i was totally going nuts and i did feel like i was about to faint. >> urgent diarrhea. >> reporter: tumbling to the bottom of the rankings were a pair of ads from drug companies. >> when you're eating the doritos and the hotdogs, you don't want to think about those issues. >> but many people were thinking

about mountain dew's puppy baby. >> which stirred up a love it or hate it debate. >> it blew up on twitter. >> reporter: meaning last night's upsets were not confined to the field. mark barger, nbc news. >> well, one super bowl spot that raced more than a few eyebrows in our area was this one. mike tyson singing a well-known jingle for the local plumbing company michael & sons. everybody i was watching with did a double take. there's also a longer version of the ad we saw. you can check it out on the nbc washington app and hear how the company got iron mike to take part in its commercial. just search mike tyson. >> you have to wonder if it will work. >> michael's is almost like a local company. i didn't expect to see their ad. i know how expensive it is to advertise during the super bowl.

>> maybe that was the point. >> they hooked me now. you have to hear how that happened. for a lot of people winter is causing real big problems. >> we'll show you where the snow is so bad people are being told flat out to stay off the roads. we have some winter weather of our own to worry about this afternoon. storm team4 is tracking how much snow we're going to get over the next 24 hours. it's another weather alert day and the updated forecast is coming your way.

23ir9 first at 4:30. it's a storm team4 weather alert. >> veronica johnson is in the storm center with the forecast. give us the time line, v.j. >> tracking just some rain showers right now but it's a change that takes place overnight where we start to see more snow come into the area. from rain to mix by 11:00, midnight and snow a lot of locations after midnight. let me show you, we're tracking it all. showing you some of the moisture making its way up from the south. you can see around fredericksburg, shcharlottesvil. after 6:00, 7:00, just more rain showers. the change you will notice when we go from rain to snow at 11:00 p.m. to all snow early tomorrow morning. 37, 35 degrees, we'll start cooling down a bit more and that's why this is really a tough forecast for us. so just this evening rain. you got the green light there.

overnight a few slick roads mainly north. so moderate impacts on area roads. as we get into early tomorrow morning, still moderate impacts on area roads but they will be becoming more snow covered as we get into the midday hours and for tomorrow evening as well as wednesday morning, notice how we have the red there. that's when we see roads becoming more snow covered, the secondary roads, even some of the one that is maybe were already treated as there might be still some rain early part of the day. snow covered and hazardous for early wednesday morning. these impacts even though it's a system that comes into the area late tonight, it's with us through tuesday, and probably will still be impacting the area early wednesday. doug has more on the totals in a few minutes. a developing story in new england where people are being told to stay off the roads as a blizzard roars in. many schools are closed, some areas could get more than a foot of snow. police are reporting a lot of accidents, including a tractor-trailer that jackknifed and closed part of i-95.

it's always a good idea to be ready for snow, and we have a checklist in our nbc washington app to help you prepare. open up the app and search snow preps. and all of that snow could have an impact on voter turnout in new hampshire. that's where the candidates are preparing with just hours to go before the first primary in the presidential race. surprising number of voters have yet to make up their minds. steve handelsman is live in manchester with the latest. steve, what are you hearing there on the ground? >> reporter: well, first, what i'm seeing is know and it's on the ground, but this is new hampshire. people are used to it and they have super plows, et cetera, et cetera. might not affect turnout. this is nbc election headquarters in manchester. the turnout tomorrow here in new hampshire looks like it will be pretty strong, but even with the final push on, surprising number of voters here say they still can't decide which candidate or which party to support. it's not a classic push to get out the vote.

volunteers are still trying to win support for candidates. from new hampshirites who will vote. >> oh, my gosh, i never missing a year. >> reporter: that's for jeb bush. >> he has good moral standards. that is very, very important. >> reporter: but many others remain undecided. nbc's mark murray says voters here also waited in 2012. >> half of them according to the last election ended up not deciding until the very last few days. >> reporter: and what about the last day? >> the last day almost 20% made up their minds on that very last day. >> reporter: with donald trump far ahead in gop polling -- >> get out tomorrow and vote. so important. i love you all. >> reporter: jeb bush is dreaming of second place. >> i feel like we're going to have a good night tomorrow night, and i'm nin it for the long haul. >> reporter: marco rubio has a shot at that and so does ted cruz. john kasich is looking ahead so south carolina. >> we're confident we'll be eating gumbo and wearing flip-flops. >> reporter: but the cold reality of new hampshire this afternoon is hillary clinton,

the national democratic front-runner, is also just hoping for a strong second place here. >> i don't think a little snow is going to stop anybody, do you? >> our government belongs to all of us, not just the 1%. thank you. >> reporter: bernie sanders looks set for a sure win, but volunteer pete christopher went out to whip up the sanders' turnout. and 44% of voters here in new hampshire are registered undeclir und undeclar undeclared. several told me they can't decide even now between bernie sanders and donald trump. at nbc election headquarters, steve handelsman. >> that's a pretty wide variety, steve. thanks a lot. you have until midnight to register to vote in virginia's

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i'm jim handly, just into the live desk, we're following this approaching storm. d.c. director of emergency management chris geld hart just wrapped up a news conference about the city's preparation for the coming snow. he says unlike january, the sciy is going all out for this storm to make sure the commutes are smooth and you should already see the trucks out on the roads this evening. >> knowing we're going to have potentially something at the tail end of this commute and definitely something during morning rush hour, we went ahead as a city and did a full deployment of our snow team. >> not taking any changes. >> no, sir. we'll make sure we have that full complement out there, over 200 pieces of equipment salting, sanding, making sure we have our brine out there is we can have decent roads for folks if they choose to commute in the morning. >> d.c. emergency management is also asking you pretreat your sidewalk to make it easier to clear after the snow ends.

i'll see you for news4 at 5:00. weather alert mode for sure. weather alert mode. you know, we already had one week a couple weeks ago where the entire week was weather alert mode. this may be another one not just because of the snow we have coming in overnight tonight and tomorrow but also because of the very cold air later this week. the coldest air we've seen so far this season. v.j. will have more on that in a minute. i'm talking about the storm right now. you can see the storm coming together across the area. very disorganized right no you though and that's the way it's going to play out here. a fairly disorganized storm, 1 to 3 inches. d.c. down to the south. to the north 3 to 6 inches. we'll do a couple zooms, warrenton, manassas, quantico. 1 to 3. fredericksburg, mostly rain. you may see a little snow. southern maryland, maybe a little snow, maybe a coating to an inch. that's about it. most of it should melt and i think the roads will be fine. this is the area of highest concern. 3 to 6 inches, gaithersburg, maybe columbia, frederick, around the bowie area towards

laurel. this is the area we'll be watching. some computer models give us more than that, others a lot less. a very tough forecast. we'll be talking much more about this. veronica will be back in a few minutes with the seven-day forecast. wait until you hear how cold the windchills get for valentine's weekend. >> bad timing. >> yeah. >> all right, doug. well, another first for the baby panda at the national zoo. this is something that people are also talking about. bei bei climbed a tree this morning. took him several tries and mama helped get him back down. bei bei is now two weeks shy of his six-month birthday. and you know what i love about that? >> what. >> she's really attentive. she is one, you know, doting mama. >> yeah. and it's actually a defense mechanism because actually the mother goes off for hours to forage for food, so the baby climbs so he's less chance of getting eaten by a predator. >> i see. >> if he's higher up.

>> see how much you learn watching news4 at 4:00. >> useless facts. >> things you never knew about pandas. >> that's right. well, a little girl overcomes the odds. >> yeah. it's a dramatic story of survival stoking new hopes that some are still alive after a devastating earthquake. doug just told us about the snow that's coming our way. what local leaders want you to do right now that could make the next few days a lot easier.

right now we've got a weather alert from storm team4. brace yourself, over the next 24 to 36 hours we're all going to see some sort of rain or snow showers. so now is the time to get the nbc washington app for your weather alerts. and how much you will see all depends on where you are. a winter weather advisory will kick in for much of the area in just a couple hours. >> yeah. let's mhead to the storm center for an update. >> on the radar i'm seeing some of the moisture in the form of rain showers. this is not a big system but it's one that's going to be impacting us starting late tonight running through tuesday, even into early wednesday morning with impacts on area roads. i'll talk about when we think there may be school this week. here is a look at the rain showers coming into the area. charlottesville down to roanoke. here is the bigger batch up to fredericksburg. very light showers there. that's what we're going to see around 7:00, 8:00, mainly rain showers, but then as we get into

the latter part of the evening, early part of the snnight, more snow showers will start mixing in. look at the temperatures, into the 40s. the road temperatures are running a few degrees higher, more like 45. 47 right now. this is what we're expecting. areas in blue, leesburg, manassas, fairfax, d.c., bethesda, 1 to 3 inches of snow and it will be very slushy in this area because in this area again our temperatures will be high enough that at times we will start to see a lot of rain mixing in. for areas north and especially up through here where road impacts will be pretty high around gaithersburg, frederick, leesburg, even baltimore, 3 to over 6 inches of snowfall. again, road conditions here in the early morning pretty hazardous. as we get into the latter part of the evening, we'll start to see the line drop further south to quantico, waldorf, south of i-66. roads snow covered and slick, especially the secondary ones.

for high temperatures tomorrow, in the 30s. that's it. and you can see that we're going to rise to around 38 degrees in d.c., even areas likes pax river, manassas, culpepper, but after 6:00, 7:00 the temperatures will start to tumble fast. with the fact it will still be snowing, that means i think our worst conditions come late tomorrow from midday to late tomorrow. early tuesday morning, cancellations likely so we've got you in the red for school. wednesday delays likely with a few cancellations. by thursday we still could be looking at delays across the area. here is a look at the sky cast for tomorrow. there you can see some of the big flakes at 9:00 a.m. at 11:00 a.m. as well. as we get into tomorrow afternoon, just some mixture of rain showers throughout the area. so on your storm team four-day forecast, some flurries still with us with highs in the 30s, upper 30s. thursday, windchills will be very, very low. the arctic air moves in. windchills 5 to 15 degrees and

it gets even colder this weekend. we'll have more details on just how cold. 28, 25 degrees saturday and sunday. we've got that coming up on news4 at 5:00. >> thanks, v.j. remember before the blizzard that one inch of snow that brought our area to a standstill? well, road crews in the district are already getting in position trying to prevent another traffic nightmare. >> that's right. because late action to treat the roads in d.c. during that storm led to huge backups and an apology from the mayor. news4's molette green shows us what the plan is this time to prevent a repeat of that ordeal. >> reporter: salt, chemicals, and plow trucks on stand-by. >> snow, s-n-o-w. >> reporter: it's coming up, but the timing of it is a bit tricky during tuesday morning's rush when folks head out to school and work. mary tiananmen is happen she doesn't have to go out in it. i'm going to go to the store and stock up and then i'm going to

look out my window and watch two or three flakes fall. >> reporter: full deployment of d.c.'s snow team kicks in 200-plus plows at the ready to roll out spreading salt and plowing if necessary and avoiding a repeat of the last minor snowfall just days before the blizzard event where untreated roads iced over and created dangerous conditions and a traffic nightmare. >> i mean, they're saying 1 to 3 inches but we'll probably get one inch. >> d.c. mayor wants property owners to do their part and pretreat sidewalks. l.c. cook says he's lucky his house is just steps away from one of the city's salt domes where plow trucks often hit his street first since health challenges and a pacemaker prevent him from shoveling. >> they usually come down here the first go-around and put salt down for us. so very seldom do we get stuck up in any kind of way. >> reporter: since we're expecting some rain to start falling first before the snow comes, ddot crews will actually

be on stand-by to wait for the rain to stop before putting down chemicals to treat the roads. in northeast d.c. inside one of the city's many salt domes, molette green, news4. that same storm system that headed our way surprised a lot of folks in kentucky. they expected a few snow showers but some areas got a lot more than that. now the temperatures are falling below freezing and officials are warning people about icy roads. overseas rescuers in taiwan are desperately trying to reach people who may still be trapped in debris after saturday's powerful earthquake. at least four people were rescued today from a collapsed high rise apartment building including an 8-year-old girl who had been trapped for more than 61 hours. the 6.4 magnitude quake left at least 38 people dead and injured more than a dozen -- dozens more we should say. we're working several developing stories in the newsroom including how a tragedy

is ushering big change for police in one part of our area. the strong message this afternoon, one year since a local woman died in custody. by now you have noticed deep, deep dive in prices at the pump, but will these low prices stick around or is a rebound just around the corner? i'm tracee wilkins in upper marlboro outside of the prince george's county courthouse where we're seeing an extraordinary amount of security and precaution has brian may hue is once again tried for the murder of his uncle miko. mayhew was killed in 2012. according to the state his murder was orchestrated by his cousin brian while his cousin was locked up inside of the prince george's county jail. coming up on news4 at 5:00, what it is about this case that changed so much within the prince george's counsel toy jail. in upper marlboro, i'm tracee wilkins news4. breaking news in prince

george's county. we just learned new information about a story we told but at the top of this newscast. a school volunteer accused of making child porn on school grounds. news4's jackie bensen is at the news conference with the new details. >> plenty to talk about this afternoon with storm team4. they're tracking snow and rain and most of the area is going to be under a winter weather advisory. >> it's a weather alert day. you're watching news4 at 4:00.

we're approaching the top of the hour. storm team4 is going to have a busy next few days. >> doug and veronica are in the storm center tracking the arrival of rain and more snow. they'll tell us how much we could get in a few minutes on news4 at 5:00. new york city has put new rules in place this afternoon in the wake of friday's deadly crane collapse. >> operators have to secure cranes when the forecast calls for 20-mile-per-hour winds or gusts up to 30 miles per hour. there are also new safety measures for pedestrians. the collapse killed a worker from wall street. >> workers are still trying to fix the damage on the street. the victim of friday's accident is remembered as a man of kindness and generosity. >> wnbc reports his widow is

calling her pain unbearable. >> i want to thank you for giving me the most amazing years of my life, the happiest i have ever known. it was such a true honor and a privilege to be your wife. >> reporter: the pain felt by the loss of david wichs would be heard outside of an upper east side synagogue. her his wife told loved ones the type of man wichs was. >> i was experiencing a storybook romance that you only read about in novels or see in the movies. i would constantly ask myself what did i ever do to deserve a man such as this. >> reporter: a fairytale that came to an awful end friday morning. wichs, a harvard-educated mathematician, was walking to work. a crane collapsed on worth street killing the 38-year-old. >> my first phone call afterwards was please tell me it's not true. >> reporter: sunday morning his

family, his friends, those who went to school with him showed up to remember someone described as simply brilliant. wichs had come to the united states from prague seeking a better life, an amazing education, and future. >> he was a very kind person. outside of him being extraordinarily intelligent, he was gentle, extraordinarily respectful. >> reporter: with memories on their mind, pain in their hearts a family says good-bye too soon to a man so very loved. >> i am devastated that i have to live my life without you. the pain right now is unbearable. i want you to know that i will do my best to live for us both. >> reporter: news4 new york. news4 begins now with storm team4. >> it's a weather alert day, and we're tracking our next chance for snow here. >> here we go, folks. road crews across our region

already working to prepare for the winter weather coming. >> and this one all comes down to timing. >> it does, indeed. folks, we have team coverage for you on the impact of this snowstorm. temperatures will play a big role because what starts as rain tonight will change over to snow tomorrow. >> we're going to begin with doug and veronica with detail on the snow coming at us in the next 24 hours. here we go again, guys. >> here we go again, but this time we're not talking about feet. we're talking just couple of inches in most areas, and the other thing we're talking about, too, is the difference in the temperature. last time we knew it would all be snow. this time a little bit different. those temperatures playing a big role. >> exactly. we're not going to have to shovel much, but roads certainly will be slick and slushy and impacted in a big way tomorrow morning as well as during other times during the day tomorrow which we'll talk about in a moment. >> let's somehhow you the advis. prince george's county and areas to the west, that includes d.c., southern montgomery county, fairfax, arlington, prince william, and off to the west

around winchester and leesburg. anne arundel, northern portions of montgomery county and frederick, that's for the area that's going to be most impacted by this storm. we do think that's going to be the best chance for significant accumulation, over three, four, five inches. winter storm warning 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. now, there's not much on the radar now. sna as a matter of fact it's clear. off to the west we are starting to see the storm system move in. here is the rain, the first batch that will try to move into the area over the next few hours. the snow back to the west. this is what we'll continue to watch. right now, veronica, the numbers are into the 40s and even tonight we're above freezing. >> that's right. it's early tomorrow morning when the temperatures really start to tumble and late tomorrow evening when we're closing to the critical mark around 32 to 35 degrees. let me show you what we're talking about here because this is a look at early tomorrow morning. 32 up in baltimore. 33 hagerstown. only 31 in frederick. 33 in leesburg. these are the areas closer t