>> what her mom says about the new era at today. >> starting things off on this tuesday afternoon with the story impacting all of us, freezing frigid air that we just can't shake off no matter how hard we try. i'm leon harris. >> and i'm wendy rieger sitting in for pat lawson muse. it is officially cold enough now that the potomac is frozen over. take a look at this, chopper4 flew over great falls a few minutes ago. we even saw people l skating on the ice along the canal despite how cold it is, you might want to avoid that. might be dangerous. >> we're far from alone, folks. the places we escape to when it's this cold are in the ice box as well. savannah, georgia. this fountain looks like something out of the movie frozen, doesn't it? this cold is nothing compared to what you're going to see here later this week. team coverage for you this afternoon. >> let's start off with doug in the storm center. walk us through what's going to happen starting tonight. >> guys, that was ju

how expansive this cold is. it's snowing just south of new orleans right now. the cold air all the way down to the gulf coast state, now for us in our region, you know it's on the cold side. today a little better than it was yesterday, but look at these numbers right now. these are the current wind chills across the mid-atlantic. 18? d.c., 13 in hagerstown, 2 in state college. yesterday we had negative numbers. it is 3 below towards columbus, ohio. and we have colder air moving in. it won't be tomorrow, though. right now temperatures 26 degrees in d.c., 25 in reston, 22 the current temperature in gaithersburg. so, another day that is below freezing and that's why the potomac is frozen. and it's going to get a lot more frozen over the next couple of days because we have colder air coming in. frigid air continues. we might get freezing in spots but not a lot. tracking storm for thursday, a chance for snow in parts of the area. not everybody is going to see it but i'm going to break it down for you. the coldest air moves in. i said our wnd

to 40 degrees colder than that. >> that's insane. >> think about that. >> that's insane. >> my house is not going to be able to take this. i just know it's not. it's hard to keep the chill from getting into the house and you probably need an extra layer while you're at work as well. >> that's right. it's the same at some area schools. check out this tweet from our scott macfarlane. it shows 48 degrees inside a montgomery county classroom today. that's a classroom, indoors. but for another school district, the trouble started before the bell rang. >> news4's meagan fitzgerald is live in prince george's county. what was the issue with the buses? >> reporter: guys, the short answer is the cold weather. fairfax county school says buses like the ones here have been sitting outside while kids were on winter break. over the last two days they've been working to try and workout some of the mechanical issues here so they wouldn't have this issue. but despite their ets

morning, upwards of 100 buses had either broken down or wouldn't even start, which meant hundreds of kids had to wait outside in the freezing temperature while those problems were fixed. it was a chilly and unexpected start to the new year. >> the cold weather, you know, really kind of gripped all of us this morning. >> reporter: buses are moving steadily now that school is over. but jeff with fairfax county public school says that wasn't the case this morning. mechanical issues from the freezing temperatures caused buses to break down. some couldn't even start. out of the 8700 bus routes in fairfax county, the school district says 200 were impacted. that means hundreds of students were forced to wait in the cold for nearly an hour. >> even with us doing the starts the past couple days, letting them run 30 minutes, sometimes the cold krafrcranking required little too much. tomorrowe

out early, having dds meet our buses as well to address any issues we have. >> reporter: now, fairfax county public schools says it is possible that students could see delays at the bus stop tomorrow morning, but they do post delays of 15 minutes or more on their website. you can find that website by going to our nbc washington app and searching school delays. back to you. >> i'm impressed meagan is in a stylish little coat. i'd need a coat this big if i was out there. you're very calm. >> reporter: true. i'm layered, but it's still freezing out here. >> i would feel like a hand grenade if i were out there. thanks, meagan. we're working to find out if cramer middle school in washington is going to reopen tomorrow as scheduled after a pipe burst, flooded the basement there. mayor muriel bowser toured the school this afternoon and crews are working to fix up the pipe to clean up that mess. we'll let you know what we hear

classes. >> expect a longer evening commute thanks to a series of water breaks on oak view drive in silver spring allowing one lane of traffic to get by. there is another break nearby. it sent water into several basements. look at that mess. in all, dozens of customers there would not have water. with this bitter cold sticking around for a while, now is the time to stay a step ahead of the winter weather. open up the nbc washington app and get the latest of storm team4 any time, anywhere. >> in other news this afternoon, she was just trying to go to school, but an 11-year-old girl from prince george's county is in critical condition this evening. she was hit by a car this morning. the driver did stay on the scene. news4's prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins is live along pennsylvania avenue where countless students crossed that street to get to and from school. tracee? >> reporter: you know, we've been watching today. there was a crossing guard

period of time and there were still students who were coming to class at pennsylvania avenue. we're talking about a state highway here. burkes drive crosses in this direction, four lanes there. and multiple turning lanes. all of this stuff is what kids have to navigate. right down this way where that child was struck. now, prince george's county police are investigating this accident. they are trying to figure out exactly what happened. the driver is cooperating with police. the driver did stay on the scene as you mentioned. we're talking about an 11-year-old girl who was struck here. she attends drew freeman middle school. we are told that her principal is with her family right now, all at the hospital because she's in critical condition. again, this is a dangerous crosswalk here, a dangerous road to cross for children. we talked with one parent who said it bothers her every day. >> a lot of times, yes, you do have the crossing guards up there, but if they're late or if they're coming early, you know, it's nobody there to secure them and make sure that they're getti a

really sad to hear that somebody's child was injured. >> reporter: prince george's county police have not released the name of the girl who was struck. again, she is in the hospital right now in severe, critical condition. reporting live in suitland, i'm tracee wilkins. back to you in the studio. >> from the looks of the car, that was an awful, awful hit. thank you, tracee. later this month, maryland state leaders are going to be considering ordering a statewide review of all the safety and engineering of the school crossings. stateate delegate eric lutte kef montgomery county will formally propose this review when the legislature reconvenes in annapolis. earlier this week he said an engineering study of school crossings could reveal vulnerabilities and hazards to these children. in 2012, a sophomore was hit, killed by a car. just trying to cross germantown road to approach seneca valley high school. >> new information rle

attempted abduction of a child in takoma park this morning. police say two men in a gray mini van tried to take a girl near pine avenue. they said the van may be a chrysler pacifica with d.c. tags and may have damage on the passenger's side. the child says that the passenger opened up the door and told the girl to come to his house for candy. the child pushed the door closed and then ran into her house. police now are hoping the neighborhood home surveillance video will show them more details of the van. we don't have a good description of the driver, but the man in the passenger seat had a nose ring and a flower tattoo on his left hand. so, if you have any information that sounds like that, call takoma park police. >> and the alleged isis supporter who was arrested at his sterling virginia home during a raid last week makes his first court appearance. sean duncan is charged with attempting to obstruct justice, but more serious terrorism charges could follow. chris gordon is covering duncan's appearance at the

chris? >> reporter: wendy, the fbi says that sean duncan is the target of an isis-related terrorism investigation, but that's not why he was in federal court here in alexandria today. they say it was because of his behavior during the fbi search of his home last friday. they accuse him of attempting to destroy evidence. chopper4 gives us a bird's eye view as the fbi searches the sterling, virginia home of sean duncan on friday. they were not intending to arrest him at that time, but agents say duncan, the alleged isis supporter, tries to destroy evidence. court papers say duncan tries to run and get rid of a thumb drive and memory chip. duncan is now charged with obstruction of justice. the judge tells duncan he is charged with impeding a federal investigation by destroying evidence.

sentence and $250,000 fine. duncan appears in court wearing a beard and a t-shirt. on the back of the shirt there is a stars and stripes in black and white. underneath the flag it reads, herndon police department supporter. but more serious charges could be filed against duncan. the fbi and sheriff's deputies searching his home removing boxes to be analyzed as evidence. investigators say duncan expressed interest in joining isis and conducting an attack in the united states. sean duncan will be brought back here to federal court in alexandria next monday afternoon for a detention hearing and a preliminary hearing to determine if the case against him is strong enough to keep him in jail pending trial. that's the latest from the federal court house in alexandria. back to you. >> all right, chris gordon. thank you, chris. >> despite high profile mass shootings like the harvest festival m

violent crime was down in big cities last year. one of the biggest drops in crime happened right here in washington, d.c. here in the district, crime fell at more than three times the national rate. violent crime down more than 20%. property crimes down nearly 10%. and overall crime down 11%. the murder rate also fell, d.c. police chief says there were two big factors behind this drop. >> trust and legitimacy with your police department. we need to have trust and legitimacy with the community that we serve. we also need a community who takes an active role in making our community safe. >> he also credits new technology, like free resident security cameras and improvements at the d.c. crime lab. news4's mark segraves has a look at the areas of the city that haven't been part of this improvement trend and that is coming up in our next hour. >> and we have some breaking news. the longest serving republican senator is retiring. orrin hatch of utah made that announcement

senator hatch, the chairman of the powerful senate finance committee, he was instrumental in pushing through tax reform last month. he says he will serve the rest of his term. he'll be retiring around this time next year. his exit leaves an opening in utah for mitt romney, a critic of the current administration. >> our coverage of this painful cold just getting started. keep it locked right here. over the next three hours we'll track how it's going to get worse before things get better. and we'll look at what's up with that storm that dumped snow along the coast. >> also, how about some couple $100 million to make you feel warm and fuzzy? >> that will work. >> those big lottery jackpots, they just got a little more enticing. >> and, hey, grandma, meet google. the adorable interaction between a grandma and a new gadget has

you see that temperature there in your lower right portion of your screen? it says 26, but that doesn't tell the whole story. wind chills make it feel like we're in the teens. >> and i'm looking at 17 out there, 15. and this is nothing compared to what's coming our way later this week. doug will be here in just a few minutes to tell you about that. but first we have some breaking news from our live desk. scott macfarlane with an update on a story we brought you

>> good afternoon. the husband of a young mother of three has been arrested in her murder. we first told you about that attack yesterday. prince george's county police say irwin lorenzo sanchez stabbed his wife in their home. she died at the hospital. she was in years old. officers say the couple had been arguing at the time. sanchez is in jail with no bond, facing first and second degree murder charges and an assault charge. at the live desk, i'm scott macfarlane. back to you. >> thank you, scott. >> getting back to the cold weather, we are not the only ones dealing with this extreme cold. a huge swath is stuck in the deep freeze. >> temperatures at 20 to 30 glez below average in some areas, that is proving dangerous, even deadly. nbc's sarah dalov is in chicago. >> reporter: just days into the new year, new winter weather records in communities across the u.s. chicago's high on new year's day, a bone chilling 1 degree. and conditions haveim

morning commuters making their way to work tuesday in sub-zero temperatures. >> it is just frigid. like it's biting in the face, just cold. it's no way around it. >> reporter: classes at this connecticut middle school canceled after heating units on the roof froze. elsewhere in the state, crews working overtime to thaw infrastructure. >> we fix one and it puts pressure on another area of the pipe. >> reporter: in dachl enpart, this car was frozen in place. >> i can't tell you how many inches of ice it has on it. >> reporter: the cold not just miserable, but life-threatening. at least eight deaths in seven states attributed to the weather and the danger isn't over. 116 million people now impacted. and winter storm watches have been issued for as far south as coastal georgia, and florida. homeless shelters there scrambling to accommodate overflow. >> we don't want anyone to perish because of the weather. >> reporter: a wait for warmer days that se a

across much of the country. sarah dalov, nbc news. >> that does not look good. >> niagara falls looks like it's freezing. at what point is this going to move out and the jet stream readjust? >> there is indications, i think, by next week. by the middle of end of next week i think we start to get a bit of a break. >> end of next week? >> it's going to continue into the weekend, probably monday and tuesday. it gets a little warmer then another cold snap comes through. the whole pattern change comes mid month. we have a little ways to go here. the biggest factor in this thing is going to be the cold and we are watching a major storm. you just heard there, yeah, tallahassee, florida, right now, winter storm warning in effect. >> what does that mean? how does that express itself in tallahassee? >> they could get one to 3 inches of snow in florida and south georgia. most of it is going to be sleet and freezing rain. >> i have been in tallahassee in january. normally 50s. >>

out there right now, we are in the 20s. we should be about 20 degrees warmer. that's the average high, 44 or 45 degrees, the average high. winds out of the west at 8 miles per hour. it is cold again today but this is nothing like we've seen over the past week. we've seen it all as a matter of fact. 2 gaithersburg, 28 in culpepper, some of you said without the wind it wasn't that bad. compared to what we've seen over the past week, it's not. 18 the wind chill right now. the wind chill yesterday was between 5 and 10. last night the wind chill was below 0 in many areas. now, winter storm watch -- >> where? >> not in our area. it's off to the east including areas like ocean city, salisbury and cambridge, right on down towards the south. does not include any part of our area. this is a huge thing here for the storm coming up on thursday. i do not want you to think about this event at all unless you're thinking about driving to ocean city. as far as the radar is concerned, nothing on there right now. tracking a storm system, and it's actually a

systems. you see a little piece of energy right in here, and there is another piece of energy coming down right around minneapolis. these two pieces are going to come together right off the coast and create a monster storm. by thursday afternoon, there will be a really a megastorm right off the coast and i mean right off the coast. it's going to be so close. but notice here it is 11:00 on wednesday night. we've got the cloud cover. here's the snow. down towards ocean city, down towards rehoboth. here's 5:00 a.m. on thursday, the heaviest storm along the coast. it never makes its way into d.c. now, could it come back farther to the west? yes, it could. this is something i'm watching. do i think we're going to have any problem at all, is there anything that tells me we're get egg more than an inch? no. most of this will stay at the coast. that's the issue. however, the cold air, i think, is the bigger issue here as the snow moves out, we see sunshine in the afternoon. but look at the wind chill. 7:00 a.m., 11 degrees.

that's cold. you haven't seen nothing yet. 7:00 monday night, 4 in d.c., minus 4 in martinsburg, 13 below 0 gaithersburg, 16 below winchester, 7 below washington. we're talking wind chill level advisory friday. here's friday around 11:00 in the morning. still below 0 in most locations. we're talking some frigid numbers here on friday into saturday. i think we could actually see some records as far as temperatures go. 28 above -- well, this should be above freezing on wednesday. chance of snow is coming up on thursday. look at this. dangerous cold here. highs only in the teens and it does get a little bit better wednesday, little bit better monday and tuesday, but that is about it. much more on this, guys. i have it coming up for you a little bit later. >> thankfully, we think. >> there is a 46. >> i think we're adapting. we're learning to appreciate 26 degrees without wind. >> thank you.

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a new year is here, but what about a new you. >> a lot of us want to get fit in 2018, but just starting, getting the whole thing starting and getting it going can be tough, right? >> news4's justin finch is working for you. he has a few simple changes you can make right now for a healthy new year. >> reporter: this may be among the last places you'll want to find yourself after weeks of big meals, snacks and celebrations. but show up anyway. >> you start the new year off getting your mind-set right. if your mind can get yourself wrapped around it, your body will follow. >> reporter: personal trainer and lifetime fitness in fairfax encouraging you to give yourself a life-style reset for new year. starting with finding a workout you can do

it doesn't have to be long. >> i firmly believe that you can put in at least half an hour. it doesn't take much really. again, it's just the commitment to saying i want to live a nice healthy life-style. >> reporter: and to power your new routine, choose the right fuel. >> try to get as much fresh vegetables as you can. it may not be organic, but at least you're shooting in the right direction. if you're going to get something read the labels. >> reporter: and hydrate. >> shoot for half your body weight in ounces. that's the goal you want to shoot for. >> reporter: justin finch, news4. >> so, have you broken your new year's resolution yet? i broke mine even before the new year. that's our flash survey question this afternoon. many of you say you didn't make a resolution. always smart. for those of you who did make one, about one in three say you've already fallen off the wagon. vote now on the nbc washington facebook page. come join the rest of us losers. >> why am i not surprised you broke yours before you made it? not even surprised. all right, folks, winter weather ishe

the cold. >> consumer reporter susan hogan will show us some simple steps you can take with your car that can prevent a big problem in the near future. >> speaking of the cold, we haven't been above freezing in days. another deep freeze is coming. and if you think it's cold now, this is nothing. so, i'm going to go join doug

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move of this awful winter weather coming through. we're working for you. welcome back. i'm wendy rieger. >> hey, wendy. i'm in the storm center here with doug, and i'm wondering if you scared everybody away when you said it would be 30 degrees colder possibly. >> we were talking about the weather all over the place. it's like where do you go? let's go to south florida. my brother lives in miami. it could be below freezing miami friday and saturday. there is nowhere you can go. out west, southern california, much nicer, but they're starting to get rain. >> savannah dash -- >> they're under a storm watch. we have the storm coming up on thus, but i want to show you this. this is very important. look, this is the future snowfall from the storm to the model that gives us the most snow of any and it still gives washington zero. it gives annapolis about an inch. somebody behind me yes, i'm excited about that. i want this mess out

this is 6 to 8 inches towards portions of ocean city. i'm not expecting ocean city -- i'm thinking 3 to 6 inches. this goes to show you this is the model that gives you the most and it's nothing around d.c. baltimore a little bit. patuxent river 2.5, over towards cambridge around 3. i'm not expecting a lot of snow. that's not the big issue here. it is going to be the wind chills. today wind chills are in the teens, 18 degrees in d.c., 12 in gaithersburg. some areas like winchester, culpepper, not seeing any wind. wind chill not a factor here. but the wind chill coming up the next couple days as i mentioned could be 15 to 20 below 0 for many. much more on that. somara is joining me in just about 15 minutes with a closer look where you live on the cold coming our way. >> all right. keep it tuned right here, folks. and, of course, you can always stay updated minute to minute on the weather and everything storm team4 is covering by opening up the nbc washington app. wendy, back over to you. >> all right, thank you, gentlemen. a developing story in new york, a massive fire in the bronx this time. injured, 23 people, nine he

children. a firefighter also injured. those flames barreled through this multi-story building early this morning. it started in a furniture store and spread. everyone is expected to survive, but new york, as you know, has had a tough time with fires. 200 firefighters fought this 7-alarm fire for eight hours. not clear what caused it in that furniture store. now to politics and a new year, bringing a familiar challen challenge. two u.s. military officials tell us another north korean ballistic missile launch may be coming this week. this comes as the white house and congress get ready to tackle a host of domestic issues. blayne alexander tracking it for you from capitol hill. blayne? >> reporter: and, wendy, first and foremost on that long list, avoiding a government shut down. the deadline for that is january 19th. but that's just the beginning. the senate returns tomorrow and the house next week, already full plates for these lawmakers at the beginning of a pivotal election year.

for washington the 2018 to-do-list is starting off somewhat like the end of 2017. most pressing, avoid a government shut down again. congress has less than three weeks to pass a budget. also on the list, fund children's health insurance, approve natural disaster relief for hurricane hachlagravaged ci. republicans hope the to use the momentum of the stacks law to jump start the new year. >> tax reform is working incredibly well. we are seeing our economy take off. >> reporter: among republicans wish list items, an infrastructure overhaul. for democrats, fixing daca, the law protecting thousands of undocumented immigrants brought here as children. but a compromise could prove difficult. >> daca has several issues. it's not just the wall. there is citizenship issues, chain migration issues, all sides have to be ready to compromise here. >> reporter: from president trump today, plenty of tweets on everything from the

investigation to airline security. and major news on capitol hill, this announcement from a top republican senator. >> after much prayer and discussion with family and friends, i have decided to retire at the end of this term. >> reporter: senator orrin hatch, the longest serving gop senator, announcing he will leave his office when his term expires this year. one big name that is reportedly considering a run for that nearly vacant senate seat, former massachusetts governor and one time presidential candidate, mitt romney. leon? >> thank you, blayne. blayne alexander reporting live. so many of you have been sending out well wishes on social media. it's been one of the trending stories all day. hoda kotb officially now has been named as the new co-anchor of the today show. >> and here is what the today show opened with, what it sounded like this morning. >> from nbc news, this is today with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb, live from

rockefeller, plaza. >> hoda said she is incredibly excited about this opportunity to co-host with savannah and this morning savannah said this was the most popular decision that nbc news has ever made. kotb made sure to give a shout out to her mom. >> i'm pinching myself. i think we should send some medics to alexandria, virginia, where my mom is after hearing this. >> and, you know, hoda's mother, again, she lives in alexandria. she's a local. and she also works at the library of congress, which i think is interesting. >> that's great. and she couldn't hide her excitement when she spoke to hoda on the phone. this happened during the 10:00 a.m. hour of today. check it out. >> we are so excited. >> you are? >> yes. we are so excited and happy. hello? >> and hoda will also continue to host that 4th hour of the today show with kathie lee gifford. hoda went to fort hunt high

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prince george's county. she was struck on pennsylvania avenue this morning. the driver did stay there on the scene and that girl is now in critical condition. senator orrin hatch is going to be retiring at the end of this term -- his term this year. the republican from utah is the longest-serving gop senator. he was instrumental in the passage of tax reform last month. former presidential candidate mitt romney may be the man who makes a run at his seat. >> and the sterling man arrested in that fbi isis raid last week appeared in federal court this afternoon. sean duncan is accused of trying to destroy evidence during the raid. so far he's also charged with obstruction of justice and impeding a federal investigation. investigators say more charges could be coming. and the cold has road crews trying to repair water main breaks. this one near new hampshire avenue in silver spring will be impacting traffic through this evening's rush. >> i feel bad for the guys who have to work on that. >> that is tough.

crews in general, yeah. they're not going to get a break. >> most of us, you know, we go from our car to work, our car to the store or whatever it is. >> and complain mightily about that trek. >> so anybody working outside these days, they're the ones that are really going to be affected. it only gets worse coming up thursday and friday. outside now not too bad. i have a little bit of good news. you want to hear the good news? the sunset coming up on thursday actually after 5:00. >> there you go. >> how about that? there you go. the sunset is actually right around -- now actually it's 4:585 4:58. we have a little day light left. wind chills tonight not a huge factor, but again, even a 5 mile an hour wind gives you a little bit of wind chill out there. current temperatures 23 rockville, 25 in reston and 24 down towards camp springs. the cold air is still in place. and it's not going anywhere any time soon. if anything was to fall here, it would be snow. and, yes, we have a big storm, a moer

but off the coast is key. here it is, down to the south. notice jacksonville, it's well off the coast. they've upgraded the winter storm watch in savannah. they are expecting 1 to 2 inches of snow in savannah, georgia with ice. same thing around charleston, south carolina. they have a much better chance of snow than we do because this snow is tracking too far to the east. watch what happens on thursday morning. here we are at 6:00 a.m., the storm way out to sea. but here's the snow coming close to the d.c. area. notice you folks in southern maryland have the best chance to get some of this snow. but over towards portions of ocean city, that is where we see accumulating snow fall. the winter storm watch is upwards of 3 to 6 inches. i'm thinking it will be on the lower side. this storm tries to make it our way. it stays farther to the east. storm track snow chances, the more it shifts east, the lower the snow chances, the more it shifts west the higher the

what comes in next is the coldest air we have seen. it's hard to say, but yes, it gets a lot colder than what we've seen the last two days. somara theodore taking a look at your four zone forecast with wind chills by friday morning. >> yes, some of us are going to feel colder than others. we know it gets cold toward the mountains. this isn't fair. areas like front royal could feel like 17 degrees below 0 friday morning. this is some extreme cold we're talking about. we could see wind chills below 0 in the mountain zone. all day long on your friday. let's head out towards the western zone. my friends in manassas, about 10 degrees below 0. it's feeling friday morning. waking upstanding at the bus stop in leesburg kiddos will be feeling temperatures 11 below zero. make sure they're bundled p. this zone below 0 most of the day. bumping up into the single digits. then we head to

area. for us still very cold. maybe not down towards the teens below 0, but minus 8 in the district. that is fairly cold, you know. and we are going to be seeing these numbers feel like the single digits at best for your friday afternoon. so, it's really important to stay warm. not only that, another thing i want to point out is thursday morning for us here in the d.c. metro area, we could be feeling wind gusts upwards of 30 miles per hour. it is really going to add a sting to the air. as we head towards our eastern zone, you can see temperatures maybe not as cold, but i think after 0 we're all feeling it at that point. and one thing to note as doug mentioned, our snow chances are greater the farther south and east you go. doug? >> that is exactly right. we're going to be tracking the snow chances and that storm making its way up the coast. i continue to get tweets, i continue to get people text messaging me, the storm on thursday looks huge. no, it does not. this is a chance of snow to the east. it would be light snow. most of thursday looks sunny, but windy. 28 degrees, wind chills falling down to 8 des

temperature. wind chills between 10 and 20 below 0 for most of the night. frigid on friday and into saturday. we could set some record low temperatures here places like dulles airport, definitely has that in the offing. 44 on monday, 46 on tuesday. tracking another storm system monday into tuesday. that one is going to have to be watched right now. i think it's going to stay on the warmer side of things, but if it stays a little cooler that's why i have a chance for a mix in there. we'll talk much more about that the next few days. right now it's all about the cold. >> okay, thank you, doug. >> you got it. if the holidays had you too busy to think about winterizing your car, now is the time to do it. >> yeah, news4's consumer reporter susan hogan is here with some advice to keep you safe when you're out on the roads. >> every year more than 200,000 car crashes happen due to these wintry conditions. but there are some things that you can do right now to your car to prevent some dangerous situations. consumer reports says one of the best ways to stay safe on slick roads is to prep these thgs

affect battery's performance. it is a good idea to check the contacts are nice and solid and free of corrosion. it is a smart idea to check your battery every four years to see if it needs to be replaced. >> while your hood is popped, top off your washer fluid. you'll need it to keep dirt, salt and ice from blocking your view. make sure you're using winter formula so the tank and nozzle won't freeze. now check the air pressure on your tires. cold weather can decrease air pressure, which can affect your car's handling and traction. consumer reports says you can check the treads on all of your tires using a quarter. if you can see the top of george washington's head when you put it into a groove in the tread, it's time to consider buying a new set. and winter tires might be a good investment. >> our tire tests show winter tires provide an added margin of grip to start, stop, and corner than typical season tires. >> the michellin

2. consumer reports also warns you not to get lulled into that false sense of security if your car happens to have all-wheel drive. back to you. >> all right, susan. scott macfarlane at the live desk back with some breaking news from our partners at wtop radio. the man accused of shooting five coworkers at a horford county business in october has been indicted by a grand jury. prosecutors say 38-year-old ray d. prince killed three people and wounded two others when he opened fire at a granite manufacturer in edgewood. he was caught in wilmington delaware after another shotting there. a horford county jury charged him with two counts of attempted murder. >> now to something a lot more uplifting. the grandmother you are about to meet lived through the invention of t m

now she has something to master and her thick italian accent makes things a little complicated. check it out. >> okay, google. >> what's the weather? >> what's the weather? he wants to know what is the weather. >> in flagler beach there will be showers with a high of 55 and a low of 36. [ laughter ] >> i'm scared. >> this is grandma maria. she got a google home for christmas. her grandson posted the video a couple of days later. this thing has already had more than 1.2 million views. no doubt will get more, many more. >> she is so fun. well, our weather has a few tricks up its sleeve. >> we can see even colder air coming and what's up with this storm that is going to be churning in the atlantic? doug is keeping an eye on it for you. first here's tommy. >> kang a roos, they don't make the best christmas

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right now at 5:00, the dmv stuck in a deep freeze, from broken pipes to frigid classrooms. >> it is really cold. i don't know how to describe it. >> and broken down school buses. this arctic air tightens its icy grip on our area. >> and the worst is yet to come. i'm doug kammerer. i'm talking about the sub-zero wind chills we're going to have and who gets snow. >> and a little girl in critical condition after being hit by a car -- >> it's really hard and it's really sad to hear that somebody's child was injured. >> tonight a neighborhood's concern about their kids' safety and the impact on a new effort to make walking to school safer for children. >> we begin this evening with this cold weather. you know, the temps haven't even gotten close to freezing yet. >> now, that's a picture.

it shows you the scope of things out there. this is the potomac river frozen over this evening. we even saw some folks skating on the ice along the canal. >> the frigid temperatures are causing a number of problemsal around our area. we have team coverage tonight. >> let's start it off with doug in the storm center where he's tracking even colder numbers ahead of us. huh, doug? >> yeah, guys, this is day six of extreme cold across our area. we've been at 33 two of those days, but that's just one degree above freezing. the most of the time we've been below freezing. the current wind chill it is warmer than yesterday at this time. if that makes you feel any better. 16 d.c. right now, 15 in hagerstown. we're looking at minus numbers, and we were in the single digits. tomorrow we get a little bit of a break, a little less wind right now, too, so that's helping. current temperature down to 20 in gaithersburg, 23 in manassas, 21 in camp springs 12k3 23 over towards annapolis. so, extreme cold coti