you likely heard the wind howling outside your window tonight. with temperatures down in the 20s, that wind is making it feel even colder out there. as i was driving in -- >> you're all choked up. >> i'm all choked up. as i was driving in, i looked at the -- my odometer, 21 degrees. >> chilly. >> wow! wow! >> it doesn't measure the wind chill, it just measures the air temperature. even colder for the feels like factor. not much of an improvement in the weather picture coming your way any time soon. wind chills are down close to zero this morning in the suburbs. teens in the city. it will stay windy all day long today. the wind won't start to ease up until probably after 4:00, 5:00 this afternoon. could see a few flurries tonight. on the whole, snow chances have been going down not up. snow lovers not all that happy about it, but such is life. current temperatures 19 in

the wind has the atmosphere very mixed up. down to 2 above for wind chills in hag gars town. as you're planning out the day, highs only up around the freezing mark with a northwest wind at 20 to 30 miles an hour all day long. what about snow chances later on during the week? we'll talk more about that in a few minutes. >> if you don't already have the nbc washington app, today may be a good day to download it. you can find the latest alerts and forecast information right there on your phone. call it a political earthquake. for the first time in 25 years voters in alabama have elected a democrat to the u.s. senate. last night doug jones appeared speechless at the magnitude of what his campaign and

jones beat roy moore by 2%. moore was not however only fighting jones, he was also fighting that wave of allegations of sexual misconduct and this morning the republican is not ready to add mate defemi. chris, i thought this was over? >> reporter: yeah, chris, and i think that it's pretty safe to say it is over, although it appears that the republican roy moore does not want to admit that at this point. we understand that there was no concession call to doug jones made last night and moore did make an appearance at his victory party claiming that he is not conceding this race. what they are saying they're asking for is right now there's about a 1.5% margin. doug jones has about a 20,000 vote lead. if the vote

automatic recount. right now roy moore is hoping there are enough essentially military ballots or challenge provisional ballots that people cast at the polls yesterday that would bring him into that .5% margin. secretary of state here says that is very unlikely so it looks like with pretty good confidence that doug jones is the next senator from alabama, a democrat. we heard from both of them last night. roy moore essentially blaming the media for his apparent defeat. >> problem with this campaign is we've been tainted in an unfavorable and unfaithful light. >> at the end of the day this entire race has been about dignity and respect. >> reporter: now the vo

almost the end of the month so it's very likely doug jones won't be sworn in until early january. live montgomery, alabama, i'm chris pollone. >> president trump aggressively supported roy moore. arizona senator flake simply tweeted decency wins. former vice president joe biden tweeted, thank you, alabama. you've elected a man of incredible integrity, grit and character. he will make you proud in the senate. you can read more on the senate tax bill in the nbc washington app. developing this morning, bullet holes right next to where people were diej in germantown. this was the scene at a mcdonald's. chaos broke out when two men were shot in the parking lot. mgo

they ran into the mcdonald's looking for help. now police are trying to find whoever is responsible. no one else was hurt and the men are expected to be okay. police think the victims knew the person who shot at them. we're learnings some new details about the hours leading up to a bethesda teenager's tragic death. sources say navide perry was at a party thursday night when police showed up. there's body camera video showing them talking to perry before he went missing. the teenager's father went to the police station to report him missing. montgomery county police did not take the missing person's report until about nine hours later. our news partner wtop reports once police started searching, it was social media that led them to the woods where they found his body. they don't know how he died. they don't suspect foul play. pretty bizarre scene on a road in northern virginia

a naked man on the back of a truck striking it repeatedly. this is on route 28 not far from dulles. drivers stopped to record what was happening. >> get away from him! oh, my god! >> i think she captured it. you can hear one of those drivers yelling when she realizes something is very wrong. a witness tells us the man started to take off his clothes and became violent after being involved in a car crash on sully road. no word on how he got on the back of that truck but eventually he does get off and run off into the woods. police caught him, arrested him and sent him to the hospital. he has not been identified yet. heads up for metro riders. you can expect delays on the red line the rest of this week. metro is replacing an old communication cable and has to reduce the number of trains running between brooklyn, fort to totten and

alternate route use the green line between fort totten and gallery place. if all goes well the work should be finished up by monday. chuck, the question everyone is asking, does that mean that's when we're going to climb out of the deep freeze? >> a couple of days. a few alberta clippers coming our way, may bring us a snow fleury or two. complete check on the forecast in a few minutes. the question a lot of us parents are starting to ask more and more, what kind of impact does all that time on the phone or tablet having on our kids? disturbing new information on how it could be affecting their mental health. and it started out as a romantic honeymoon trip, quickly turned into something, well, pretty frightening. what happened during th

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things to come. >> i'll marry you, but we have to go snorkeling. >> snl members, cast members are getting new titles. >> weekend update with collin jones and michael james. [ cheers and applause ] >> yeah, thooeat's right, they e named co-head writers of "saturday night live." the pair are the faces of the show's weekly newscast which began back in 2014. the two are joining current head writers kent sublet and bryant tucker. jones started back in 2005 with chay joining him four years ago. congratulations to them. >> congrats both of them. when you have the ability to literally make it up, it's good. >> i feel like they have really reinvigorated weekend update. it's been sharp. a professor at

university sharing an old photo on twitter getting a lot of laughs. here it is. karen spencer's a mom who lives in maryland and before her son samuel could even speak she taught him american sign language. don't think she ever expected him to sign for help while meeting santa claus. >> that's funny. >> santa's a little spooky for little kids. my son, we have this iconic picture of him screaming with his mouth open. he hated every minute of it. >> well, you know, it's the beard. it's the whole experience. >> yeah. as we head out the door this morning, boy, layer, layer, and more layers. >> absolutely right. if you've got it, put it on. that's the recommendation for today. the cold is here to stay for today. little bit of a relaxation in the cold pattern coming, but not

it is now 4:15 on the storm team 4 weather alert day. our area waking up to temperatures in the 20s. thanks to the wind chill it won't even feel close to that. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell will have a closer look at when this cold blast of air will move up coming up in a few minutes. welcome back, everybody. i'm chris lawrence. another busy day for thousands of firefighters working on the massive thomas fire in california. it's consumed more than 230,000

homes. the fire has spread into santa barbara county causing more evacuations. it is about 25% contained. the wind will pick up and that will cause more flare-ups. today deputy attorney general rob rosen will testify before the house judiciary committee on capitol hill. he's preparing for the panel to discuss special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation. the deputy attorney general told scott mcfarland he is satisfied so far with the special counsel's work on the russia probe. in just a few weeks we'll be celebrating a new year. that means times square is already getting prepped for the ball to drop. last year's number '17 is arriving in new york city. this year's '18 arrives in the city. the seven foot tall numbers will be all set to light up when the clock strikes midnight on december 31

have you heard of hq? well, it's a new game show. you play it right on your smartphone. it's become the sensation sweeping across the country. nbc's katie beck explains why it's also caused an amount of offices to grind to a stand still right in the middle of the workd workday. >> reporter: in offices from coast to coast, every afternoon thousands of employees clock out and log in to hq trivia. addicted to a game show played on the phone with a live host. >> we've got 17 winners! you. >> we thought, a game show we would play ourselves, that it just might work. >> launched in august recent games showing crowds of over 440,000 contestants. games streamed over an app twice

you must log on to play. 12 questions, subjects ranging from geography to pop culture. >> which of these was never a tv show on nbc. >> reporter: just seconds to answer. get it right, move on. get it wrong, you're knocked out. at the end, typically $1,000 prize split among winners. investors put up the prize money and in house researchers vet questions. the host is a standup comic on what makes hq special. >> i think it's the live tune in element. it's the idea of fomo, people are afraid of missing out, fear of missing out. >> reporter: families, co-workers, contestants. >> who doesn't want to be a contestant. >> reporter: old-fashioned fun, catching fire on a platform. katie beck, nbc news, new york. a lot of the bosses aren't too happy about it but it sure

fun, chuck. >> you better make sure you can win a lot of money from what you will lose when you get fired from your job. >> very true. >> we are dealing with a lot of cold outside. the cold is here to stay for the day unfortunately. wind chills are back down into the single numbers here early this morning. skies are clearing out though so at least we'll end up with a little bit more sunshine than i had originally thought. clouds won't come back in until later on in the day and evening hours. right now in washington it's 23 degrees. winds out of the west averaging 16 miles per hour gusting up near 30 miles per hour at times. so the wind chill is down to 10 here in washington. 6 in frederick, 4 in gaithersburg. eight the wind chill in manassas. a whole lot of sunshine the first part of the day, but windy and cold. that's the way it will stay through at least lunchtime and early afternoon. chills near zero this morning. wind chills staying near 15 degrees through the first half of the day. later on in the afternoon

bit. that will help. on the whole, the daily grade today the worst. the worst it could be. temperatures today staying below freezing most of the day. high temperature may not happen until after the sun goes down tonight. northwest wind will gradually relax and become a southerly wind overnight tonight. that will mean that temperatures may actually rise after midnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. that's because of this alberta clipper right here. most of it will go well to our north. as it passes by it sort of drags up some slightly milder air. not as cold tomorrow morning but behind it another shot of cold air comes back in for friday. we'll give you the whole ten day forecast. sheena is here. she's not happy about the cold either. see you in a few minutes. >> i'm sure she's not. thanks, chuck. it's a terrifying claim. this generation of kids is really on the verge of a mental health crisis. it's all related to their cell phones. how screen time is having such a startling impact. and we continue to follow that breaking news out of alla

the entire country talking this morning. the latest reaction coming in from the soon-to-be colleagues of doug jones after he

. sad to say, but one in five children or teenagers have an emotional, behavioral or mental health disorder. this morning we're taking a deeper look at a question so many parents ask themselves. is there a link between smart phones, screen time and my kid's mental health. nbc's kate stone has more. >> reporter: there's a nickname for the generation born between 1995 and 2012, igen as in iphones and ipads. they don't know a life without phones

hours a day? more than five hours a day? maybe? maybe? on average teens touch their phones 80 times a day. no surprise to meredith cohen and her friends at the marin school. >> is there anything hang that feels like you have to do it all the time? >> yes. making sure i look at all my instagram feed and snap chat stories. also, being up to date like on netflix and youtube. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: when you post something, are you looking to see whether people like it? >> back in like fifth grade i would buy them to make myself look popular. >> you would buy likes? >> yeah, i bought 50 of them and i feel horrible about it. >> reporter: psychologists argue this generation is on the verge of the most severe mental health crisis of young people in decades. >> teens are saying they're more anxious than they were five to ten years ago, more feeling depressed, feeling lonely.

clinical level depression. more being admitted to the emergency room for self-harm and more are committing suicide. >> reporter: what happened? >> started spending more time online, started spending less time with their friends in person. >> hello. >> if i'm on my phone and a text comes, i have to respond. >> reporter: have you ever had an instance where somebody posts a picture and you weren't invited? >> yes. >> reporter: it stings a little bit? >> yes. >> reporter: meredith was diagnosed with an arranges ietd d -- anxiety disorder at 6. >> when it gets right down to it, my concern about all the screen time is what it is taking the place of. baking, going for hikes. >> reporter: still, some psychologists wonder whether researchers like twangy are overstating screen time and mental health? >> it's not all doom and gloom. there's a positive way kids are using their phones to connect

>> let's hope they get some help that they need but it is coming up on 4:26. i'm heading over to the live desk to bring you more on that stunning upset down in alabama. "news 4 today" continues right now with aaron and eun. "news 4 today" begins with breaking news. >> i think that i have been waiting all my life and now i just don't know what the hell to say. >> the breaking news out of alabama this morning, and a stunning end to a race for the senate as doug jones claims victory while his opponent roy moore says things are far from over. a warning for metro riders this morning. a warning for you with a heads up about the line that could see delays. >> and we are in storm team 4 weather alert mode as the winds continue to whip up this morning. what you need to know before you walk out into the arctic tundra. whenro

joking. he is on full out -- >> you know, you do the lean in with the angry face, you walk really fast. >> you have to hold your breath, too, because it's so cold you don't want to breathe it in. >> i am not letting go of the warmth inside. >> i'm amazed at what eun saw she didn't put her coat on. >> listen, i thought about it. i didn't want to take it off. >> this is the four day? >> if not more. >> where's your bonaclava? >> i couldn't find it this morning. >> weekend weather alert mode for days and you can't find that thing, aaron? come on. viciously cold morning outside. wind chills down in the single numbers. be ready for a very unpleasant surprise unless you're really liking the cold. i'm a snow lover, but wind chills down near zero. i'm not a fan of that. 23 degrees the air pe

washington. west winds and northwest wind today will average 15 to 30 miles per hour at times. look at those numbers this morning. the feels like factor down near zero and that's where it's going to stay the next couple of hours. there's your planner for today. don't plan on much of a warmup at all. highs might just barely get above the freezing mark by 1 degree. there's another little chance for some cold coming our way later on before we get to the weekend. more on that. it is traffic time. here's melissa. she can handle the cold. >> i did wear like the most turtlenecky dress i could possibly find today. at least it's dry. the roads are dry though it is very, very cold out there this morning. taking a look inner loop and outer loop at the beltway, no big problems now. 66 and 95 in virginia, same situation there. taking a look at 270. frederick down to the spur, you are on time. guys? >> melissa, thank you. and our team coverage continues with

reporter adam tuss and the metro riders who are going to be standing out in the cold a little longer than usual today. >> adam, riders dealing with delays on top of that. not a good morning to be waiting. >> not at all, guys. it's going to be a tough ride out here for a lot of metro riders. this all has to do with a communication cable that has to be fixed along part of the red line. that means train service will be reduced all along the red line today. that will be a tough ride. it will be about every ten minutes for trains instead of every eight minutes along the red line. outdoor station like this, that certainly could be an issue. take a look. this communication cable is something that dates back to the original metro system, 40 years ago. metro has to put a whole service plan in place when it comes to fixing that cable and getting the system ready. what's really going to happen here, there's going to be one train every -- on every track between brooklyn,

fort totten. the red line will run every ten minutes today instead of every eight minutes and then further down the line this is going to mean weekend closures for the -- that section of the red line between blieng, at throok line, fort totten. it will be cold waiting for the red line. beware of that as you are coming out to get ready. >> what is this cable? what does it do? why wasn't it discovered until now? >> reporter: this is a communication cable that basically tells trains where they are on the system. and that's pretty important because you have to have even space in between trains for safety purposes. it's a communication cable. dates back 40 years ago on the metro system. metro says this problem just popped up with it and in an extreme measure of safety here, they have to replace it immediately. it's not s