county, stafford, king georgege culpepr, fauquier and fredericksburg city schools closed. calvert county and st. mary's county public schools are closed today. charles county public schools will start two hours late today. the full listing of closings and delays on the bottom of the screen ightnow. they're also available on our p. >> let's start with chuck bell to see what we can expect for the week ahead. >> good morning, everybody. monday morning and almost everybody around the d.c. metro area saying what snowstorm. it w piling up fast and furious. these are totals well down to our south. linville, north carolina. 18no inches of boone, north carolina, 16 inches. winston-salem, 14.5. that's down in south western

virginia. even blacksburg, virginia tech, 9.5 inches of snow there and 10 inches in ttcharville. what do you need to know about today? it's very slushy andno and icy for the southern part of the area. a lot of melting during the daytime hours today but a hard refreeze likely tomorrow morning. the snow isn'tur over for friends and neighbors well down to the south. around here it's all come to a stop because it is cold but just about everyone below freezing. teens and 20s for most. low 30s around the city and by the bay. for today, a cold srt but plenty of sunshine. afternoon temperatures today in the low 40s, but again, we're expecting aio s refreeze for tomorrow morning. that could be trouble on tuesdaor >> that'ssure. going to impact the roads tomorrow morning. chopper 4 right now hded to that problem on braddock road. here's what we know so far.

braddock road north of little river turnpike, all of those lanes shutdown because of downe. wi now we have wires across the road. they're trying to get that out of ty way 7:00 a.m. but it's still hanging around right now. lanes blocked by a crash there. inner loop and outer loop no major issues. nice and clear, but we still have the delay on 295 inbound near pennsylvania >> it's 6:02, our team coverage of this latest bout o winter weather begins in virginia. cole, how are the roads there? >> well, we continue to just kind of crue around and we're now on one of those side roads that we have been hearingas been giving crews quite a bit of trouble. we'll give you a look now. this is fox gate drive in chancellorsville. very snowy and slushy and icy as

well. this is something drivers if you'll have to be out,ou'll contend with this morning. i can tell you that on route 3 which is toad we took to get here is some what clear. you can tell those roads been well treated although there's several abandoned vehicles along the side of the road. you'll have to be mindful of what is around as well.e emperature is hovering around 56 degrees. everything that's fallen hast frozen this point. while some roads might have been treated. there's some that are still problematic this morning. if you have to be out on the roadways, give yourself extra time and be cathful. good news is there's no school in these areas so that will lessen the amount of traffic that you'll s on the roadways. back to you. >> nicole, thank you.

>> prince wilubam countyc schools are closed today because of the weather. justin has been cheing out conditions for us in that area. good morning. over here toward the sidewalk here, this is more of a trouble spot. some ice there underneath that could bery hazardous. not like some of the pavement that drivers are telling us they're seeing on side streets and parking lots and drive ws they're encountering this morning. but clear roadways here this is

at drivers are seeing. their neighborhood streets do not look as clear. they're warning all of their fellow dvers to be careful out here today and make sure that they keein mind that they may not always see the ice below their cars and that any o the wet spots just might be slick. we're still below freing at this point here. we're here live in prince william county. j i'mtin finch, news 4. back in to you. thank yoght, justin >> 6:05 now and during the worst part of the storm, virginia state police responded to more than 2,000 crashes and disabled vehicles across the state. you're looking atfthemath of two crashes involving state troopers. the first, this happenedast night around 6:45 on interstate 81 north. that trooper and the driver were not injured. about 20 minutes later on i-95 south, a vehicleo slammed i the back of a trooper's car. he was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. >> the storm tt hit u

actually dumped several feet of snow, ice, and freezing rain on much of the south. take a look at what happened in north carolina. you can see the dangerous mix, blanketed roads, trees, and brought down power poles. the storm is being blamed for at least four >>deaths. e have not had a snow likeis th in recent memory. we're m gettinge snow in one day than we normally get the entire year. >> north carolina's governor declared atate of emergency. >> news 4 will be tracking road conditions all morning for you. keep it here for another update on what the winter weather system has done to our commute and for updates up to the minute go to the nbc washington app. >> it's n 6:06. following two big overnight fires in ohiond philadelphia. chris lawrence is at the live desk. what's going on. the details are devastating. our nbc affiliate is that 5 children have been killed

in this house fire. witnesses are telling them thao ther reportedly jumped out of a window and told firefighters her five children were still inside the burning home. 9. chdren, the oldest is the youngest was a 1-year-old baby. they were able to pull three of them out of the home to get them to the hospital. take a look at the live ptures from philadelphia. a 5 alarm apartment fire. dozens of people had to go out in the sub freezing temperatures. they are still not sure they got everybody outf that building. two firefighters have minor injuries. we did see one man tha was able to grab his cat and gsbelong and run down the stairs. they set up a shelter at a school nearby. keep an eye on that and learn more information. >> just terrible, chris, thank you. now, road crews have

reopened the arlington memorial bridge to traffic. the bridge was shutdown late frid night. that shutdown ended about an hour ago as scheduled. work on the bridge will last until 2021. >> also happening now, metro's yellow line trains are running again. that lin reopenedhis morning after a two week shutdown for repairs over the r.potomac rive they were able to get a look at the work they were doing there. crew replaced cracked and crumbling concrete during the shutdown. 's been called one of the worst in the metro system. >> today sentencin begins for the man convicted of driving his car into a group of counter protestors at a unite the right rally last year. he was protesting the removal of a confederate heatue. was found guilty of ramming

his car io the crowd. >> he is expected to appear in court a 9:30his morning. he's accused of abusing a child inside a northwestd.c. church. she says the abuse happened when she was 13 years old. >> ts happened early tuesday morning. she was walking her dog when she says she saw a lot of police rs. moments later a k-9 latched on g to her and she was unable to

free herse. >> i was terrified. i never had a bad encounter with a dog ever. >> she suffered sious cut to her hands as she tried to pry open thedog's jaws. she received 21 stitches. police tell us the dog has been tan out of active service as a precaution while they investigate. >> a coach with plenty of experience set to take over the bison program. he held several coaching positions with the detroit lions and indianalis colts and the jacksonville jaguars. >> all after one of home losses in franchise

history. e to t gives fans a new n learn at quarterback. firstr, qu the pass tipped and then intercepted by reilly.f returned a touchdown. the skins gave up 34 points in the first half alone. the loan brightspot, johnson, the team's new starting quarterback. he threw for one touchdown and ran for another but an overall performance to forget. >> got taken behind the barn like your andma woulddo. one of those big thick paddles and we got put to theackside pretty good. got [ bleep ] handed to us. that's what happened. >> the redskins taking their 4th starting quarterback of the year to jacksonville to try to snap their four game losing streak. news 4 . spor

>> 6:12. a virginiaeacher may head to court to get his job back. the dispute is over how hers reo a transgender student. >> the president is searching for a new chief of staff. details on who may be replacing john kelly. >> good morning. d your schoo forecast, a lot of the kids around the city here have to go to schooltoday. not so in parts of southern maryland. a complete list of closures and delays. but your school day forecast for the kids that do haveo go today, sunny. layer up, arf,sc

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a man stabbed the woman and then took off. surveillance video captured this. the attack happened on fort myer drive in arlington. the woman was walking in the area when the p suspectled out a knife and stabbed her. e e victim is now in sta condition. >> political backlash at a virginia school. theuperintendent says h refused to use a transgender students preferred identity pronoun. he was put on administrative leave. when he returned the principal onsaid henued using the incorrect pronoun for that student. >> i'm happy to use the new namd and a female pronouns so as not to offend. i'm not here to tovoke. >> twas, in fact,

discriminatory because all the other students were being used pronoun but this student was not. he wanted the position to be temporary and the president t wanted a year committee. he already has plans to move and to georgia to be in his white house chief of staff john kelly would be leaving by the end of the year.

volunteers now loaded them on tractor-trailers and that convey of trucks is making t 740 mile journey. >> it is such a scene. >> if you have never been out, a lot of people have never been there. it really is -- i is a total different look and feel out there at arlington national. check this out.lu absoly. it will not be snowy. >> okay. just a trace or a flurry yesterday in southern fairfax county. ou get into prince william county and points south of

there, it was obviously a very different story because that's whe the schools are closed. anywhere from 3 to 6 inches of snow higher snowfall amounts across central and southern virginia. so your hit the road forecast for everybody going out to work this morning. temperures are below freezing this morning. it will be a bright and sunny day. eztemperatures above fg for a big meltdown for those that did get the snow but afr ze is expected for tomrow morning. if you're traveling down into north carolina, a big impact there. >> look at , the snow, never quite made it to the beltway and

then moved on further down to theouth andway it goes. here's our extended forecast for the work and school week ahead. but afternoon highs in the low to mid 40s. plenty ofne suns next storm will be rain. that arrives on friday. melissa.ing, >> good morning. brand new problem here. take a look at this. soutound lee highway, chopper 4 over this crashhis morning. they were trying to get things out of the way. lanes were blocked. now it's just slow through that area but the lanes were actually

open. just starting to get slow approaching georgia tavenue. most wonderful time of the year can turn into the most depressing. we have tips on how to break the depression cycle straight ahead on news 4 today. >> on ellen, find out what stevw harv thinking when she decided to let go of his mustache. that starts at 3:00 and then stay tuned for news 4 at 4.

the holiday season is inet full swingen the parties and shopping and a fresh blanket snow >> some folks get a real case of the holiday blues. ectations that are almost impossible to livep to. we use the future circuitth and 's dopamine. >> hwrote a book on how it effects our lives.

>> when christmas is no longerd anticipaut it's here, we switch into the present oriented chemicals and that can actually feel like a crash. if it's starting to interfere withour ability to interact with loved ones, that's a sign it might be a problem. >> ils hard to p out of a funk but not impossible. >> you'll be saying whas the point? i'm tired. trdon't want to go out to this party. to push through that because it will help you feel better being with other people. >> talk to friends face to face. snuggle with your dog.

if you have the holiday blues, hugging is a very good idea. >> that holds true no matter what time of theyear. news 4. >> good morning. it's a storm team 4 weathert alecause of the snow in the southern parts of the news 4 nation i'll show you the whole ten day forecast in the next half hour. also multiple schoollosures and delays and road conditions in the d.c. region. ly>> plus john k is stepping down from his position as white house chief of staff but who will replace

>> news 4 begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. >> we are in weather alert mode this morning. >> a late weekend snowstorm hit portions of ouregion hardnd this morning many school districts have decided to close.

prince williams, stafford, king george, page, culpeper and city schools are closed. warren county public s open two hours late. a full list of closings at the bo som of youreen now. they're also at the app. the snow and ice are impacting areas of virginia. news 4 was there this weekend the impact continues this morning. nicole jacobs will join us live with a look at conditions and melissa has a checkn the roads. >> a big hit of snow, just barely to the south of the

washington area. almost six inches. again, southern maryland, 5.5 inches there. 4.5 inches. charlottesville 10 and fredericksburg virginia 4.3. temperatezes way above fg this afternoon. all the unsettled wther is w down to the south. it will be a tough day if you're heading southbound into

washington. chopper 4 showingsh you the c a the middle of the roadway. one personeady out of here. we do have a crash there this morning that just popped up. inner loop and outerloop at the sbeltway, noting big delays. looking typical right now. outerloop atam newhire avenue, crash just reported so slower here at the top of the beltway. southbound 29 there. >> we are kicking off our team coverage of this winter weather in prince william county this morning. >> justin finch is checking out that area for us. good morning. >> good morning.

after 6:30 we're still coming in below freezing here. they're seeing conditions and sis parking lot here represents sideeets and neighborhoods they have seen throughout the area. some parts with slick patches, ice and snow as well. >> are the side streets looking bad? >> very bad. >>he have that option.

they look like this. nice and clear this morning. but those wet spots could be icy. so be careful as you're making your way out there toork and on the roads there this morning. >> news 4 will be tracking road conditions for you all morning. another update on how this wintry weather is impacting yr mmute and for up to the minute updates go to the nbc washington wapp. >> we'king to learn more about what caused an overnight accident on the parkoy. en were in a car that went off the road. one ofthhem died. second was taken to the hospital. howard countys asking a federal judge to step in regarding a petition regarding the faa.

they repor the new air traffic control system calls for planes to flyower but it increases in noise around surrounding neighborhoods. they're reviewing the petition and will decide what to do next. >> more than 200 faith leaders e expected to arrive in san diego. they plan to voice support for the migrant caravan from central america. >> here's look at our other top stories this morning. crews replacednd cracked a the bridgeoncrete on over the potomac river. that been called one of the worst in the metr system. >> this morning a woman is recovering after she was bitten

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now the threat of snow and ice forced several local school districts to close today. here's a lk in virginia. prince william, spotslyvanian, page county, culpeper and fredericksburg city schools a all closed today. warren county schools will start 2 hours late. >> st. mary's public school schools are closed.

twoles county will start hours late today. for a complete list of school closures,heck out the bottom of your screen or head to the app. ashington >> president donald j. ump. >> president trump received a warm reception at philadelphia's lincoln financial field over the weekend. he became the first sitting prttident tod the army-navy game in seven years. he helped with the coin toss and then went on to watch army beat navy 17-10. >> meanwhile, a shake up at the white house back here in d.c., chief of staff john kelly will step down from his post at the end of the year. complicating matters for president trump. a man seen as a potential replacement for kelly has turned down the offer to ste into that position. >> this isn't the only position the white house needs to fill.ll o'donnell looks at the uphill climb facing the fministration in the las weeks of the year. >> good morning, there's a help

wanted sign in the west wing here after this weekend's abrupt announcement that o chief staff john kelly will be leaving his position by the end of the year. the president needs a new chief of staff and he'll make a decision over the next feweeks and that in and of itself is a change. it comes at a tim when the president is almost at the halfway mark and he has other big jobs to fill. a new attorney geral has been named but has to be confirmed. a new ambassador to the un needing to get through senate and it comes at a time that the president is also trying to manage the on going fall out of the russia io investig this weekend again claiming that he had been cleared without facts to supporthat andt the same time also denying claims made by prosecutorshat he directed michael cohen, his

former lawyer to violate the law with illeg hush money payments to two women during the campaign. all of that is the the white house going into the final weeks of the year with a lot on the agenda and important jobs to fill. more on all of this coming up on today. >> clean up continues across much of the southeast this morning. a major snowstorm hit. cars became stranded and roads turned into trails. the majority of the weather hit to the sou us but many local schools decided to ngose. this morwe're getting a closer look at the mess left behind. >> nicoles jacobs live in fredericksburg with a look at conditions there. good momoing. >> gooing to you. we made our way back to fredericksburg from chancellor chancellorsville. i want to show you the contrast. this is hard as a rock.

completely iced over but just a little bit away, you have snow. underneath all of this is that ice. that's what you want to bef careful ohen you're on the roads. it's more of the same there as well. ayette see here on l boulevard, the roadway has been etreated a littl but this truck here actually a just did little skid. so you see him continuing town do the roadway, you cannot underestimate the road conditions here in fredericksburg or throughout the surrounding areas. the roads have been treated but they're still very slushy and very icy. one other thing i want to tell you e'about, seen several cars with snow on the roof, on the hood, and jus a little circle in the windshield where they have cle sed off they can see. clear your car off co tletely. ont snow starts to move around and flies off of your caa it hazard to other vehicles on the roadways. that's something you want to be mindful of if you're going

on the roadways this morning. back to you. >> thank you. >> during the height of the storm, vir state troopers who were out helping those stucm in the snow b involved in crashes themselves. the first one happened last night around 6:45 along interstate 81 north. a vehicle hit the trooper's cruise the trooper and the driver were not injured. about 20 minutes later on 95 south in hanover county another one slid into the back of trooper. he was taken to the hospital with minor injurine. no else was hurt. >> breaking news in philadelphia. firefighters battling a 5ar ala ent fire. that means hundreds of firefighters on the scene here. chrisawrence at the live desk. >> that fire is massive and right now doctors are treating two firefighters for minor rn bu take a look at live pictures where you can see the crews on the scene there.

the fire sent dozens out there in the sub freezing es temperat this is in the overbrook area of philadelphia. not star from st. joseph's university. 50 people have been displaced bb this firause the building collapsed, fire officials had to evacuate some of the nearby buildings as well. it's so hot, so intense, they're not going inside, they have set up a shelter at a nearby noscho. word yet on what caused the fire but this is a time of the year when te start see more and more of these apartment and house fires. >> chris lawrence at the live desk. thank you. 6:51 now. a new head football coach will be introduced at howard university today. ron price will be announced in a couple of hours. before that he held several coaching positions with theoi de lions, the indianapolis colts and jacksonville jaguars. he'll take over for mike london that left howard to coach at the college of william &mary. >> let check in with chuck

bell for more on our forecast today. chuck, what are you seeing? >> weave a ver slushy and slippery start for the southern parts of thenews 4 nat early this morning. this isn't going to be a problem that lasts all day becau we'll have plenty of sunshine. by mid morning, temperatures will be above freezing. that combination means a lot of daytime melting today. but keep in mind, temperatures will drop and tomorrow morning black ice will be a serious concern. right now it's 32 in wasngton with a north wind. current temperatures are in the upper teens and wind chills down closer to 10 degreesthere. sub freezing down through fr ericksburg. below freezing across most of maryland there.

chilly today. temperatures in the 40s today. with sunshine. that's the good news. if you're traveling though, down to the south of us, if your flig flight is changing, call your air carrier tohe stay of it. tomorrow morning a hard refreeze likely just about erywhere and for more cold mornings coming but each and every day above freezing. clouds back on thursday and it wi rain on friday and saturday. not snow. sorry about that, >> you know i want the snow but i want a lot of it all at once. chopper 4 showing us the delays. earlier crashes now on the shoulder but we still have good delays there at the top of the beltway. centreville. crash on the shoulder and debris here in the middle of the roadway. southbound lee highway, gallows road.

chopper over that one a little while ago. crash on the intersection and a lot ofebris with that one as well. laurel at 197, middle ofad the blocked by a debris from an earlier crash. uthbound 29 at tech road, an accident there as well. taking a look at our travel time. 270 southbound. 39 miles per hour. top of the beltway slow because of the earlier accident chopper was showing us just 24 miles per houretween 95 and 270. inbound on 66, 43 miles per hour and northbod 95. quantico to the beltway 25 miles per hour. remember to listen to 103.5fm when you hop in your car. >> it's that time of the year when many of us already put up christmas trees. they can be festive and beautiful but can also cause unwanted side effects. doctors refer to the problem as christmas tree syndrome. we talk about itchy, watery eyes, sneezing, head congestion, there's some things that you can do to cut backn that trouble.

consider running an air purifier. many suggestion shaking the tree off outside to rid of potential mold that could be brought into your house. >> christmas is two weeks away now. if you're behind on shopping, this is usually the t timet people run up the most debt. there's a tendency for people to it caught upthe shopping spirit and nobody knows that better than major retailers. it's suggested that you stayri away from and mortar stores and keep your credit card in your wallet. 66 million people go into debt during the holidays every year. now the warnings about holiday i oversp come on a big day. >> it's called green monday. 's a term coined by ebay more than a decade ago to mark biggest sales day of the year. today's the day shoppers try to get their holiday orders in so they arrive by christmas morning. you can expect to see another round of sales offerings today.

>> yellow line reopened after a two week shutdown. that crack has been called the worst in the metro system or one of the worst. >> also back open, the arlingt memorial bridge was shutdown over the weekend so construction crews could make repairs tone of the center arch ways. that was part of an on going renovation project which will t continough 2021. >> john kelly is stepping down. the job was offered to vice president pence's current chief of staff nick ayers that turned it down. the white house is considering sveral names a replacement. >> today sentencing will begin for james fields. he's the white nationalist found guilty of murder f ramming his car intof a crowd counter protyetors last ar. one woman was killed. fields faces 20 years to life in prison. >> there's your ten day st fore certainly a chilly stretch of weather coming our wayut eve

afternoon above freezing. those that were lucky enough to get some snow, this wil not last too long but the next couple of mornings, watch for black ice. >> it's going to be tricky here. outer loop after new hamenhire , crash is gone, delays remain on the top of the beltway. oing to take you awhile to get where you're going. going abouter 25 mileshour. >> melissa, thank you. that's the news for today. >> the "today" show is next. we'll see you inut5 m for weather, traffic and local news and until then enjoy your day. >> make it a great monday everybody. you know when you're at ross and you find their favorite hero at a price that makes you the hero? yes. that's yes for less. yes! with hot holiday toys for all ages, ross is your toy destination. it feels even better when you find it for less, at ross: yes for less.

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