>> good for the confidence, too. >> you're back again? >> we're here. changing clothes, to he. >> see you tonight in prime time. right now over to mike tirico. >> look forward to being back with you. we talked at the beginning of the program, while the focus is on who is making the olympic team in the four different disciplines of figure skating, such significance in the national championship. you saw with the husband and wife team with the knierims how important it was to them, all they've overcome including her health scare and to win a national championship and get that one spot in what is the weakest of the four skating disciplines for the united states. last time the u.s. medaled in pairs 1988. that not the case for the men, as everyone was just talking about, we look forward tonight to seeing nathan chen on nbc sn. his terrific athletic ability, the ability to put these quads together. it's been a strong season, a sewson that perhaps is ramping up towards pyeongchang. he has not lost a competition in this season. we will see nathan chen probably the biggest american favorite to win a

speaking of american favorites to win medals, did you catch what happened with mikaela shiffrin today? won six of her last seven races including a giant slalom this morning seen on nbc sn in slovenia. she's 3 of 3 in the calendar year and looking for another tomorrow in slalom, 6:00 a.m. eastern time on nbc sn. the victory, her 39th world cup race victory that is exactly halfway to lindsey vonn's 78. no female alpine skier has won more than lindsey vonn, so vonn and schiffry, two of the big names along with nathan chen we'll look for in 33 days when the olympics begin. shiffrin with a big performance looking to continue that tomorrow on nbc sn. we'll see you right there in a couple of hours as the prudential u.s. figure skating championships continue tonight at 8:00 eastern/5:00 pacific live across the country with the men's free skate. reminder, relive all the action from the u.s. figure skating championships at icenetwork.com.

to southern california, 09 minutes on nbc, the falcons and the rams, the nfc wildcard game. "football night in america" will begin the coverage here in the home of super bowl lii and the home of the olympic games. for now, mike tirico. so long. we'll see you tonight on nbc sn from san jose.

. right now at 6:00 the brutal cold, bursting pipes and leading to bad breaks. a sink hole nearly swallowed a car. i want to show you a live look outside our studios in northwest d.c. feels like temperatures falling to minus 10 degrees leading to a storm team 4 weather alert. >> very excellent student. came after me. billions and billions of dollars. >> president trump defends his mental fitness as a scathing new book that ripped his white house flies off the shelves. >> announcer: news 4 begins now with storm team 4. >> all right. so we tried to catch video of people braving the cold, but key word try. it was really tough because so many of you were inside.

joining us tonight. we have the wind chill advisory that just went into effect. it is wicked cold out there. >> wicked. this cold is not nice at all. you know what, erica, that wind chill advisory sticks with us overnight. we've got to bear and grin this cold just a few more hours through your sunday. guess what, folks? we have a warmup on the way. there is hope to hold on to. here's a look at the wind chiel advisory. winds tonight were only around 5 or tennessee mil10 miles an hou. the windchill factor will go to possibly 10 below 0. your forecast tonight, 8 degrees in you're stepping out. temperatures expected to drop to the single digits in the d.c. metro area. our headlines, we're talking about that dangerous cold again tonight. i'll walk you through the timing if you are planning ongoing

our week where we have a rain wintery mix monday into tuesday. i'll let you know which days we could be touching near 60. back you to. well, the wind seems to cut right through you when you step outside and going outdoor system really the last thing any of us wanted to do. >> if you weren't a fan of crowds, the national mall was the place to be provided you could stand the cold. not too many ventured out in the subfreezing weather. there were those who had to be out. >> the beat goes on. you've got to do what you've got to do. the bills don't stop. >> here in the market he had his prime competition. most vendors had moved inside. would he move inside? >> no. then i'd be going home. >> the performersoo

bill alfred helped set the mood. >> i'm trying to provide a little soft music in the background, old school. ♪ don't need to ticket >> seth jacobs moved his wood crafting work inside today. he's tried it outside in similar weather. >> i have to soak the wood to fan it so my water freezes so i have to keep changing my water. >> speaking of water, a crew had to tend to this water main that had iced over some travel mains in central avenue. a busted main led to an icy hole that almost swallowed up this suv in the early morning hours but all around the area the outdoor places that would normally be crawling with people were almost empty. back at the market sometimes the spring blooms reminding us that we have to bear the cold for a bit longer before the colors of spring get here. in the meantime, time to bundle

were slammed today with about 1,500 calls from folks who didn't have water because of frozen pipes or meters. it's a good reminder you may want to leave your water dripping tonight. stay with news 4 for continuing coverage on the storm team 4 weather alert. we've got tips on how to beat the cold. switching gears now, the president of the united states today declaring he is not mentally unstable and is, in fact, a genius. the newly released book set president trump on a new twitter rant and it didn't end there. here's nbc's sarah. >> in the midst of a retreat with congressional leaders, donald trump on the defense again. >> everything that i've done is 100% proper. that's what i do is i do thing proper. >> during a question and answer questions with reporters at

the 2018 midterms. >> we need more republicans. we have to have more republicans. with that being said, i think we're going to go bipartisan. i think we're going to have some really great bipartisan bills. >> and on his own mental health, early sunday he described himself as a very stable genius in a tweet. >> why did you feel the need to tweet about that this morning? >> only because i went to the best colleges for college. i went to a -- i had a situation where i was a very excellent student, came out and made billions and billions of dollars. >> the tweets appeared to be in response to a new tell-all book among alleged concerns some white house aides, trump has described it as a work of fiction and his efforts at president were praised by those flanking him saturday. >> the president's policies have been achieves extraordinary results. nearly two million jobs created. >> while the president is riding high on the best approval ratings he's seen since the

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you're hearing passengers screaming as they felt the impact and saw the other plane's wing catch fire. the passengers were on a west jet flight that had just arrived from cancun. there were no passengers on the other plane. it was backing up when it hit the west jet flight. >> all of a sudden it started spitting fuel all over the wing. about a second or two later, not even a second, it kind of all ignited and there was a big fire ball and everyone started yelling and panicking. >> everybody evacuated using these emergency slides there on the plane. no passengers were hurt. a school lunch aide sits in a jail cell tonight charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. maryland state police arrested shaun kelly of silver spring yesterday. he had been working at the elementary skill and kids a

the principal said he put kelly on administrative leave after hearing about the allegations. he no longer works after hours. police believe the photos discovered on his computer are not of students in the montgomery county public schools. chapter 4 capturing this dramatic scene. fire flaring up the back of this row of town homes in bitter cold just adding to the very daunting task of getting all of this under control. today firefighters are back out there cleaning up. as darcy spencer explains, the cold and ice are a huge factor. >> reporter: we're here on the scene of the fire. if you take a look here you can see everything has frozen over because of those frigid temperatures. this started when someone used a flammable liquid to try to restart a fire in th

those flames went out of control, shot through the roof and spread to neighboring town homes. 20 people were displaced. several firefighters were injured as well as a resident here. residents had to rush out into the cold to escape the smoke and flames. i just spoke to one resident who was temporarily displaced because his home filled with smoke. >> i really only had a couple of seconds to grab my things and run outside. that's when i noticed the fire from the back yard. at that point i just saw everybody banging on doors, telling everybody to get out. and i just saw a lot of smoke. >> montgomery county firefighters returned today to talk to neighbors about fire safety and to test smoke alarms in the community. this fire caused $1.4 million in damage. the displaced residents are getting assistance from the red cross. darcy spencer, news 4. a show of support for the people of iran outside the

house today. iranian americans calling for regime change during this rally. similar protests are being held in major u.s. cities today. this follows a wave of violent clashes in iran that began over economic issues and soaring unemployment. president trump is supporting the anti-government protest. iran's supreme leader says enemies of iran are behind the uprising. it may be the dead of winter but many local students are already thinking about summer jobs. prince georges county kicked off their summer job today. the program gives hundreds of teens paid jobs in fields like government, business and i.t. they'll also learn how to manage their money. >> you can give so much back. it's to the community. it's to the children. when you see what comes out of it,

>> applications open february 1st. we've got one big winner and tens of millions of hopeful winners ahead of tonight a massive power ball drawing. somebody won the $450 million mega millions last night. he are the numbers. 28, 30, 39, 59, 70, and the power ball was 10. the 7/11 in florida sold last night's winning ticket f. your luck ran outlast night, you've got another chance tonight. the jackpot has grown to $570 million. we're going to have the winning numbers tonight after football. those numbers were much mier than temperatures. >> yes, they were. i think what was so tricky is the sun was so deceiving because it looked so bright and beautiful. >>

>> you're saying it's not gray and bitterly cold. >> yeah. it's going to be really cold tonight. we are expecting these temperatures to drop into the single digits, not only that we've got a wind chill advisory in effect. it went into effect and it's sticking with us until 6:00 a.m. let's get to those current temperatures. these are the actual temperatures stepping outside. 17 degrees right now. mo montgome montgome montgomery county 11 degrees. what it actually feels like, in the district it feels like 4 degrees already so you know it's only going to get colder as we head to the overnight hours. feeli feeling below 0 in frederick. some of us feeling minus 10 wind chilled chills. again that is correct wind chill advisory went into effect. it sck

if you are headed out, multiple players. about 30 minutes in this we could be talking frost bite. and then it falls below zero. tomorrow morning waking up dangerous cold. temperatures in the single digits. these are not feel like. these are actual temperatures tomorrow waking up. 5 degrees in leesburg. just around that hour where you might be hitting the pave ment for that running runaround 4 degree, calm winds. that should take the edge off as opposed to today it was brutal out there. it will be a tad bit warmer for your sunday. if you are running errands. by the afternoon, calm winds. temperatures should be in the 20s. we could approach the mid to upper 20s for a lot of us as we head through sunday evening. we shift gears and head toward the top of the week. we do have a warmup on the way. before we get to that, i want

take a look at monday. we do have a chance of some wintery precip. temperatures will be volleying along the freezing line. we've got a chance of snow, possible freezing rain mix. storm team 4 ten day outlook will spend some time. dangerous cold tomorrow. temperatures waking up in the single digits. we head towards monday. got a little bit of a mix there as we head toward the afternoon and evening. temperatures monday afternoon will be in the upper 30s. notice that warming trend. that rain is out of here by tuesday morning. lots of sunshine filling in for your tuesday. temperatures on tuesday in the upper 40s. bit of a bump down on wednesday. look at that rebound. thursday and friday, folks, we are headed to the mid to upper 50s. i think we might be able to approach that 60 degree mark as we head into your friday. we are going to have a very soggy end to the week, but boy, would i take that over the numbers we're seeing right now. there's hope in the forecast. >> it's incredible what a

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james madison, were they able to add another "w." >> big title game. going for 27 straight wins. james madison last year ended north dakota north dakota run of five national titles. the two met again this year in one of the most highly anticipated fcs national championship games in history. north dakota north dakota state looking to reclaim the top spot in the game. the game did not disappoint. james madison looking for win number 27 straight and a second straight national title. second quarter north dakota state up 7-3. launches it to wide open, going in

led 17-6. third quarter, third and goal from the one. punt its in. james madison cuts the lead to four. fourth quarter, three minutes left. fourth and nine, james madison with the fake punt. kel kelly himself gets the first down and more. 24 yards. later in the drive, fourth and 16. stewart scrambles. he gets to the end zone and it falls incomplete. north dakota state wins its sixth national championship. 17-13 the final. college basketball, virginia hosting number 12 north carolina. first half cavaliers by two. right place, right time. throw its down with a monster one in slam. more defense. hall comes up with the steal. right back to the slam. virginia led by seven at the break. second half, none of those dunks compare to this. watch this. hunter chases down the

he knows what to do with it. above the rim, virginia holds the tar heels under 50 points. 61-41. we can all do, that right? patrick euwing. second phalf down 21. touches to 19 but it was all creighton. thomas open on the wing. he buries three. 16 threes. georgetown leads for the third time in four games. >> we have to compete. we have to do a better job of competing. they're one of the elite teams in the big east. games like this you have to rise. if peewe want to be one of thos teams that's considered up there in the big east, these are games we have to step up and play better, especially our best

and carry. >> buzz williams and virginia tech hosting pitt. up and under, slam. career day for him. later in the second. all by himself here in the corner. nails the three. career high 31. virginia tech beats the panthers. last night the wizards ended the fourth quarter against one of the worst teams in the league with a 15-point lead. bradley beal scored 34. wizards win their fourth straight. averaging more than 27 points while shooting over 50%. he says he's doing what he's supposed to do. >> i'm just confident in myself. i just want to help us win in any way i can. my job is to score and take care of the ball as best as i can and i do that. i'm confident, i'm beyond confiden

constantly putting the work in and my teammates continue to trust me to make the right decisions. >> wizards got in about 4:30 in the morning and they're right back on the court this morning. no rest for anybody. >> all right, george wallace. thank you so much. that about does it for us. nightly news is coming up next and then we will see you tonight after the nfl playoff game. good night, everybody. see you later.

tonight, the president lashes out at the author of that new and critical book while defending his own mental stability. and makes new comments about the russia investigation, north korea and immigration. tens of millions suffer more record breaking cold. is a warming trend finally on the way? planes collide, a fireball erupts. and what some passengers did that could have made things worse. new tax bills, prompting some local governments to find creative ways to help taxpayers. how these students are using america's past to become its newest citizens.