news 4 begins now with storm team 4. >> now at 11:00, here we go back to work and school tomorrow after our first big snow day of the season. but the refreeze is on tonight. and those wet surfaces are turning to ice.

now is posing a major threat to d.c.'s cherry blossoms. why this night is so critical down at the tidal basin. and the northeast in the grips of this cold air but in some cases digging out from more than a foot of snow. last night it was snow and sleet. bitter, bitter cold. i'm wendy rieger. >> ithe question is how good wil those roads be? opm says federal offices in washington are open and most of the major school districts are opening two hours late. we have the full list on your screen and on our nbc washington app. >> we have team coverage on our roads and concerning those cherry blossoms. we will start with doug with the latest on the forecast. >> you mentioned the cold. this could be record cold

temperatures the way we are going to be tomorrow was back in 1993 after another major nor'easter. that one the storm of the century. this was a monster of a storm for everybody across the northeast and the mid atlantic. for our region we kind of dodged a bullet as far as heaviest snow but we saw a lot of ice and a lot of sleet and a lot of problems. some areas in pennsylvania and new york upwards of 30 inches of snow. it is all moving now. what is moving in behind it is the cold air. wind chills 16 at d.c. right now. 0 in pittsburgh and that is the way we can be tomorrow morning. we could see wind chills between 0 and 5 degrees in many locations. below freezing now through thursday. temperatures stay below freezing all day tomorrow in just about all locations. milder by the weekend and tracking our next system which also comes during the weekend. i have your foreca.

about ten minutes. all that melted snow has already turned to ice. that is why crews will be out all night treating the roads to make sure that your wednesday commute is safe. news 4's shomari stone is live with more on what you can expect in the morning. >> reporter: good evening. right now it is very cold out here especially when you feel that wind on your face. this is a good example of what you guys have been talking about. look down here. i am on 270 and this is solid ice in the neighborhood. the last thing you want to do is people driving on this and slipping and sliding so you have to make sure that you slow down and be careful on the roadways. >> cold. it is biting. >> reporter: she describes the bone chilling temperatures. >> it rips right through you. it iste

streets. tonight wet roads are frozing making driving potentially dangerous in fredrick, maryland. >> you have to be very careful if anything looks wet treat it like it is frozen. >> it is still scary to drive. so it is slippery. >> reporter: this lady lives on celebration way on german town. there isn't a block party tonight. she says her homeowner's association hasn't sent a crew to plow the street. >> it looks like dangerous to drive like this. >> reporter: the maryland department of transportation state highway administration said even treated roads may be icy and slippery so people should stay alert and slow down. as for cleoshe wants warmer temperatures. >> i hate winter. >> reporter: tired of it? >> yes. i'm always tired of winter. >> reporter: i hate wi,

it feels awful out here. the maryland state highway administration recommends the best advice when you get to your destination, stay there. i'm shomari stone, news 4. >> and the news 4 today team will have you covered with all the road conditions, weather and traffic tomorrow morning. they will be starting early once again, 4:00 a.m. our beloved cherry blossoms are in some real trouble out there tonight. it is so cold out there that peak bloom might not happen at all. all this after that peak date kept moving up because it was so warm in february. jackie bensen is along the blustery tidal basin. this is the make or break night for the trees. >> reporter: jim, 24 degrees. that is the make or break temperature. it is so cold, so windy out here that the national parks service spokesman's ranger hat

>> these are probably stage three and stage four. you can see they are tightly bundled and still protected in the bud. take a look up here. these are stage five. a couple of these have reached bloom. sorry about that. >> reporter: he says the possibility that washington, d.c.'s famous cherry blossom trees might not reach peak bloom this year for the first time in their century of history is generating world wide interest. >> if it has been unprecedented this year. i did an interview with the national network yesterday. it is all number one in d.c. and seems to be around the world. >> reporter: despite the bitter cold, steady stream of visitors flock. most hoped to be here during peak bloom which has been moved up

weather. >> we are from oak ridge, tennessee. all four elementary schools and we came here on spring break to see the sites and do the touring. >> from where? >> honolulu, hawaii. when we left it was about 90 degrees. >> reporter: did you come here to see the cherry blossoms today? >> i did. frozen toes and fingers. >> reporter: the park service says presence of nearby water can make a difference and increase the temperature maybe a degree or two. fingers crossed. jackie bensen, news 4. >> here is hoping. new tonight a bitter cold assignment for about 65 firefighters in montgomery county. they put out a fire at this house on blue meadow road in potomac. fire officials tweeted these pictures from the scene not far from wooten parkway. they believe the blaze began in the chimney. no one was hurt.

place to recover. crews are working to restore power in parts of the region still in the dark. fewer than 100 customers per pep co without power. about 1,700 customers with smeco. dominion power says it is working to get power on for about 1,500 customers in northern virginia. route 5 in charles county back open tonight closed all day in both directions because of the ice covered tree branches that had fallen. that caused three utility poles stoosnap and more than 1,000 homes to lose power. residents are hoping tonight's strong winds will not cause more outages. >> i won't be able to get ready for work tomorrow. i can't do that. no hot water for the shower. >> cleanup continues tonight

prince georges county to clear fallen limbs. some d.c. teachers are criticizing the school district's decision to open today. d.c. students had a two-hour delay. one teacher claimed the classroom was empty and said teachers outnumbered students today. the chancellor says staying open allowed parents to decide what was best for their kids. >> we were able to open up aska provide a place for families who needed school to be open. i think things went well and some folks weren't able to make it and made decisions to keep their children at home, as well. >> the chancellor says it is his plan to keep schools open whenever possible. schools will be on a two hour delay again tomorrow. a single tweet gaot the entire country talking. >> $38

>> rachel madow teased that she would release the president's tax returns. she showed two pages, his form 1040 from year 2005. it is a snapshot. she says it came from david cay johnston. he says someone mailed it to him. it showed donald trump reported income of more than $150 million and white house says he paid $38 million in taxes. top tax bracket in 2005 was 35%. >> my wife and i make about 400,000 a year, donald trump and his wife made $418,000 a day. >> the white house fired back saying mr. trump had a responsibility to his company, his family and his employees to pay no

required and goes on to say he pays tens of millions of dollars in other taxes such as sales and excise taxes. the statement mocked madow as being so desperate for ratings she would violate the law to push two pages from 12 years ago. we are going to head up the coast to see how this storm is impacting new england including reports of the first deaths related to this nor'easter. and this never ending political season means a fixture of

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weekend update will be coming on during the week when "saturday night live" goes on its summer break. host colin jost and michael shay will do four episodes in primetime thursday night here on nbc. some fellow cast members will join them. "snl" has done similar primetime shows in the past in the fall during election season. families may not have to leave their homes at a mobile home park after all. two nonprofits have stepped in to help. catholics for housing has offered to buy the east end mobile home park. it would allow residents to stay. they say the city was going to close the property and kick families out in order to fix the park's leaking sewer system. residents tell the city council they don't want that to happen. >> it is my hope that you will support catholics for housing offer. that would allow me

>> a second nonprofit says it will find a contractor to fix that sewer system. the property owner failed to fix it for years. the same system that dumped as much as ten inches of snow in parts of our region is now responsible for two deaths. >> in parts of new england it just stopped snowing. >> reporter: just a few days before the start of spring winter came roaring back. >> warm next week. >> reporter: a powerful but fast moving nor'easter brought blizzard conditions to starts of eight states from washington, d.c. through new york and deep into new england. at one point 70 million people were under winter weather watches and warnings. in places in massachusetts snow fell at a rate of more than two inches an hour. hardest hit areas drivingrl

impossible. with schools out and most businesses closed road crews rushed to make roads passable. >> i advise everybody to stay home if possible. >> reporter: airlines cancelled thousands of flights. new york, boston and washington avoided direct hits of the worst snowfall. in places that got it up to 30 inches from pennsylvania to new jersey. this storm system is being blamed for at least two deaths. police near hartford, connecticut, sa man was killed. the cold and slick streets didn't stop a local nonprofit from holding its annual fundraiser gala. tonight instead of cancing the event because of the storm they came up with plan b donating hundreds of meals that went uned

shelter. it helps women with housing, employment and health services. take a picture and then tweet it . who knows, you too can end up with your snow dance. >> they are good. been waiting for a long time for the chance to break out the snow stick. >> how convenient it comes right before st. patrick's day. asked people to get creative and come up with a theme. >> look at that guy. >> how cool is that? pat and a group of judges from our news 4 team will decide who has the most creative picture and the winner will be honored with an official snow stick. they have been measuring blizzards in the d.c. area for

decades, these sticks have. the winner will be announced tomorrow at news 4 at 5:00. the winner of the stick at 6:00 in the evening. you get to carry it around. >> so proudly. >> somebody came to the weather center looking for his snow stick. we don't have it. >> i think he forgot it. he forgot the password. we can never remember passwords. let's show you what is happening outside right now. extremely cold is the word of the night. cold, cold and cold. boy, when i say cold i mean cold. that was five colds. take a look outside. look at the temperatures. 29 degrees. the temperature is not the issue. it is the wind. winds northwest at 21 miles per hour. wind will be a factor. winds currently gusting 30 miles per hour d

35 martinsburg. 37 in baltimore. you add the wind in and this is sustained wind brings the wind chill down to 7. 19 at fredricksburg. that is the kind of temperatures we will be dealing with early tomorrow morning. a major refreeze happening by morning. extreme cold. hats, gloves, coats. make sure the kids are ready for it. make sure you bring pets in. lots of slick spots on the roadways and on the sidewalks. give yourself a little extra time out there even though kids have an extra two hours it will not help all that much with the cold tomorrow. radar all clear in our region. we did have quite a few snow showers coming through and still lake effect snow coming down from lake superior down through ohio and towards our region. behind the

cold side. how about the wind chill tomorrow morning? what about the day? we will have sunshine so we should warm. no. the wind chill around 16 in d.c. that is going to be quite brutal making your way out and about. i am going for a high temperature of 30 degrees. this is very significant. the last time we saw a temperature march 15 this cold back in 1932. this would set a record that stood now for close to 80, 90 years. windy and cold. a few snow showers are possible. many of you may not get out of the 20s all day. the wind chills will be colder. high temperatures on thursday around 36. we don't get above freezing until thursday afternoon. 48 degrees on friday. 59, close to 60 on saturday so we start to moderate a little bit. 46 degrees rather windy during the day on sunday

as we make our way into wednesday and into late next week. i do not see any 60s or 70s like we saw so much of over the past four or five weeks especially in towards february. we are coming off one of the warmest februarys ever into what has been so far an extremely cold march. >> i'm going the wrong way. >> we keep going this way. >> we can't keep going this way. >> thank you. coming up, the caps were sucking the dry spell after a winless . >> first seth myers with what is coming up on late night. >> all our viewers in d.c. m

this is the xfinity sports desk. >> caps back home and loving it. >> they are. caps fans, breathe in that sigh of relief. the washington capitals knocking their first win in five games against the best in the west, the minnesota wild. there seems to be something about being on home ice at the verizon center for this caps team. he enjoyed a good night tonight. second period washington up 1-0 and the drought finally over. alex ovechkin from his office scores his fourth goal in 20 games. more from the caps.

niklas backstrom better shot. his 16th goal of the season. caps lead 3-0. into the third period wild power play. eric staal cutting the lead to one. jay beagle finds his scoring touch, his first goal in 17 games right here. caps end the four-game skid 4-2 the final. mt. st. mary's keeps dancing. they outlasted new orleans and will face top seed and defending national champions villanova in buffalo. playing thursday the men's basketball team. the terps arrived a day early to beat the snow. news 4 along for the ride getting inside access for the 90-minute private practice. maryland practicing again tomorrow at the amway center. and it was

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