plus the government shutdown set to become the longest in u.s. history. >> as this drags on it will be t more difficu manage. >> as the president suggests a new way to get money for his wall.>> we are starting, of course, with our weather alert. how are you doing this friday? >> here we go. since you woke up this morning storm team 4 has bumped up amount of snow we can expect this weekend. looking at storm team 4 radar, you can see the system moving in from our west right now. >> combine that storm with the cold weather we are already dealing with and the snow is going to be stickinnd that means trouble on our roads. >> younow it. road crews are out there already spreading brine on the roads. we have team coverage for you tonight. chris gordon i live with crews already salting theoads there. we start in the weather center. >> the storm is sta to come

together. over the last 12 hours or so, every model continues to give us more and more. >> this is going to be aim moderatect event across the area. potentially even high impa g. thd news it's happening over the weekend. >> happening tomorrow, staing tomorrow. we have winter weather advisories along 270. back along parts of northern virginia, in towards fairfax county, prince george's to the north. a big impact storm down to the south. snow starting tomorrow afternoon. by afternoon i do mean around 1:00, 2:00 in the afternoon. accumulation likely but sunset. that's when i start to see things going downhill. higher snow totals are likely. much more on this we'll s you back here in 10 minutes. drivers are noticin those whit lines that show up on the pavementa before owstorm. this is why.

chopper 4 following a salt brine truck as it treated streets this afternoon. chris gordon ctinues the live team coverage. deck for ands on highway crews. >> reporter: absolutely. jim. i saw one one maryland snowplow driver carrying a pillow and blanket into his truck. that's t because onces storm starts crews arebe going to spending a lot of time clearing the roadways. >> people throughout our area are getting ready for snow. >> trying to conserve theack. i'll be shoveling a little bit. >> reporter: for the last dayde trucks l with anti-ice salt brine have been pretreing roads in the discussion trik-- district, maryland and virginia. trucks will park along major roadways tomorrowng and begin to plow once an inchr so of snow accumulates.

maryland has a new app to see where the plows are a located. >> viewers can use to track where the resources are, go to roads.maryland.gov/storm. >> reporter: in virginia plows are ready andvdot warns the trucks are big and slow. they i prefer you stay inside while it's snowing. >> if you have to go out, don't crowd them. give them as much room as you can, reduce your speeds. always have your headlight on. >> reporter: this snowplow is brought in to keep the gas station and convenience store here open for business. ifhere is a lot of snow tomorrow. >> we clear out, ar make empty for our customer. >> reporter: supermarkets are busy with people filling sheir snpping list. >> the milk and the bread and eggs, you know and we have our shovels. we already had salt, you know.

so we're ready. >> reporter: now you may have missed the web addre for that new tool that lets you trackpl sns on maryland state roadways. we are making it spler for you. we have put it in our nbc washington app. simply search marylan snowplows. that's the latest on snow preparations throughout our area. wendy, back to you. >> thank you, chris. for thee is still time weekend forecast to evolve obviously. so doug is going to be trackingl the system evening. tune in tonight at 11:00 because he'sve going to the latest update for you then. remember you can always get thel k for your neighborhood any time on our nbc washington app. the other talk of the town t of course, i crisis in washington. it's a gridlock at the highest levels. we will reach a new low this weekend when the government shutdown becomes the longt. the longest in u.s. history. i >> and if th't enough, hundreds of thousands of federal

workers did not receive a paychecktoday. >> we have team coverage for you this evening including the toll it's takg on furloughed feds here. let's begin with erika gonzalez and the latestan on the ff between president trump and congress. >> reporter: congress has wraphed up for week with no plans to come back until monday. over an hour ago we heard from president trump still weighing the option of declaring a national emergency today the controllers filed a lawsuit against the trump administration claiming workers have been, quot unlawfully deprived of pay. and growing c acernut more tsa workers calling out sick. before leaving the houseid pass two bills one which would fund the interior departmentr te ot guarantees back pay for workers. president trump saide would gn the second one, quote, when this is over. meantime, senator lindsey graham is encouraging the president to declare an emergency.

tweeting, he should do it no the president said that would be, in his words, too simple. >> it's the easy way out. but congress should do this. this is too simple. if it at some point they just can't do it, this is a 15-minute meeting. if they can't do it, i will declare a national emergency. >> rorter: the u.s. economy loses money every week the government remains closed. an estimate findspo that at thi t there's been a loss of about 3.6 billion. another two weeks like this and theyd the loss will be more than 5.7 billion. wmore thant the president wants for his wall. wendy, jim. >> erika gonzalez, tyou. virginia congressman jechwo jennifer weksman stood on the floor with the paychecks that

federal workers received.ou >> can't pay your mortgage with zero dollars, they shouldn't have to sell offin belo or return christmas presents to make ends meet. >> for many workers missing a paycheck it's causing them to make difficult choices. >> reporter: it's payday for martin jill. yet they've got nothing is to show i f >> it's a scary time where we're going at the end of three weeks now. >> reporter: on day 21 this couple is doing what it can to hold it together. sacrificing everything from trips to ice cream to therapy sessions for their 9-year-old son with special needs. >> when you're a family that lives paycheck-to-paycheck, that gets difficult fast. >> reporter: can't afford to go without is od. with their fridge and cub board going bare, these employees have

been seeking help at the last place they would. >> we never thought we'd get to >> reporter: more than 70,000 people work for the government in fairfax county. >> if they're being negatively impacted, they just let us know and we'll waive our normal income requirements. >> reporter: that's a huge help for this family. but martin admits it comes with a sense of guilt. she said that reaction is normal but they shouldn't be feeling ashamed. >> there's no shame, except for what's happening with the shutdown. >> reporter: knowing where their next meal is coming from, has at least lifted that burden. with no end in sight they're urging other familien their position to make the call if they have to. >> your needot is invalidated because other people need as well. >> corey smith, news4.

some are employed by nasa, others the faa, they're scientists and mathematicians out of work tonight and applying for a new job, substitute teacher. we're ato fairfax show us the demand for these opportunities. >> reporter: with the federal government closed, tonight local government employees working overtime, checking in some 200 federal wkers looking for a paycheck. >> this is great, fantastic,he outreach that we've received. it's really nice. >> reporter: a mom to a fairfax county student lives in fairfax station, she's alo gst and works for cpc. >> the chance to use our talents instead of sitting at home cleaning. >> has that been frustrating? >> it has been, yes. >> i thoughtf i can't make money doing the thing i do, i'm going to make money doingth the

ing i used to do. >> reporter: it's been more than a decade since she was a third grade teacher. furloughed, tonight she's hoping to get back into the classroom. >> it's a test to myself to see if i can still do it. >> we as a school division always have a netu for substi teachers. >> reporter: fairfax county says it's a win for the workers and the school system. expertise cated and in areas, and can contribute to our instructional process while serving as a substitute teacher. >> at my table is someone from nasait's really ol. we have someone from faa. >> hannah a step closer to getting approved and could once again be gng a paycheck, aven if the government doesn't reopen. week from today you could be in a classroom, that exciti exciting? >> yes, i'm very exteted. >> rep that is a real possibility that by this time

next week, manyho of those cleared their background checks will be in a classroomsu titute teaching. here's how popular thiisevent was, ration for 200 spots filled in less than a day. they set another event, and that filled in a few hours, 175 spots there. they're thinking about a third event. >> incredible. what's better than real life experience? these folks have so much to offer students. this is great to see. we invite you to stay with us on air and t online f latest in the shutdown. in our nbc washington app you n take a look at what utility companies are and are not doing elp federal workers. of course, doug anda ameli are bumping up their snow totals for the weekend. >> they are. some of us are happy about it. we're in weather alert mode. still ahead, how much snow to y expect iour neighborhood. we'll take you zone by zone for impactiled look at the

the four things financial experts say you should consider as we appach tax season. susan hogan will tell you about that and we are countingn d to our health and fitness expo for this weekend. >> it's goingge to be up next, doreen gentzler takess inside the mamovan and takess inside the mamovan and the technology hel

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fitness expo. here's a live look as crews are putting touchfinal touches on tt convention . >> nbc 4 and tell memundo 44 te up to bring youhe latest, and it's all free. who doesn't like that. >> yes. doreen gentzler is down at the convention center where the events kickff tomorrow. we hope you have your act together better than we. >> reporter: have you seen this giant pink mammovan? they can do every kind of ma' mw gram, including 3d. gw is a big presence at our expo. some of the other things you can have done here, be screened for

kidney disease, have your blood pressure checked, be screened for diabetes, your a1c blood sugar checked. and they'll have doctors and medical professionals here who are ready and able to talk to you if you have a question about your own healthve >> we will host of other activities here. we'll have kidney screengs. we'll also have stroke awareness to understand sort of the symptoms of potential roke. we also have a small area here where we'll have cooking demonstrations, we'll have our r service dogs h tomorrow which we're excited about. everyone loves though. >> exactly. and then we'll have our sports medicine doctors here doing consultations. and we have ot f and ankle exams. we have a lot of things going on. >> reporter: we know you'll be busy. thanks. we're busy on the d.c. convention center floor right now. everyone is getting their ohibits set up.

this will be set urnight and we're ready to open the doors tomorrow and sunday at 9:00 a.m. we hope that you will join us. i recommend people try to arrive early because it will get crowded as the day goes on. want to remind you, don't let a little snow stop you from comino here. take metro. the green and yellow line comes right to the convention center. sohat's simple. the red line, gallery place is just a short wal from the convention center. we hope we'll see everybody starting at 9:00 tomorrow morning. also coming u in this newscast, tommy mcfly checks out the spartan course. i just sawo him it. >> it sounds tough. no excuses, you don't have to get cold when you take the metro. >> you don't have to go outside. >> that's right. we'll see you a little bit later on, thanks doreen. let'so back outside and

look at the forecast, doug and amelia a in the stormenter to see what kind of totals we're talking about here. >> this time tomorrow most of us will have snow on the that right? >> yes. we think this time tomorrow, around sunset, that's when the roads could go downhill. >> and the most snow is going to accumulate overnight into early sunday morning. we'll see snow likely throughou the day onsunday, but i think for the most part sunday morning it's going to be winter wonderland out there. >> right now, looking at clear skies around the d.c. metro area. here's the storm. nothing over our region right now, it's all back to e west. you can see the storm here, a lot of snowou around the st. area. getting in here, i think area wide, by around 2:00. it could benowing earlier, i think noon and in the west maybe by 10:00 a.m. more snow in here by. 10:00 p tomorrow night.

hat's when the snow is the heaviest. into sunday, notice the heaviest snow, fredericksburg, parts of maryland. that's why we've upped the snow ton those areas. i want to show you winter storm warnings in effect. the pink, southern maryland, winter weather advisory from d.c. to the metron reg and north. how much snow are we going to get? n this is theest map we came up with today. raising thes totrom last night. 2 to 4 from frederick. and 4 to 7 from frederick into montgomery county and south. we think 4 to i a good total area wide. a little more down to the south and west. for what you're going to see in your area. we'll take you zone by zone.ha amelia has >> with our four zone forecast. we start in the d.c. metro area. we think in washington the amount is going to be a little bit lower at about 3 to 5 inches. same thing for bethesda and up

through gai wersburgre amounts generally range from 3 to 6 inches. this goes up through columbia as well. down to cam springs, alexandria, burkes, fairfax, youan anticipate 4 to 7 inches of snow. thouern zone, stafford, king george counties, 5 to7 ches of snow. i wouldn't be surprised to see isolated higher amounts, especially if the storm performs to the fullest. we think the highest amounts a going to come in south of washington. just like our storm system we had in november. here's our western zone. look at the range from 2 to 5 inches in frederick. down to about 4 to i louden. culpepper and orange. so frederick, 2 to 5 inche now. hagerstown picking up 2 to 5 inches. t then we she numbers go

up as we head farther to the south. martinsburg and nchester, 3 to 7. and cumberland seeing about 4 t 7 inches of snow. so again, the snow movesow in tomo from west to east, mainly between noon and 4:00 p.m. we think the roads are going to be the mt treacherous out there tomorrow night into early and delays likely on monday. >> yeah, delays are likely if we get that much snow. temperatures around fr, zing tomorrto the day on sunday. monday and tuesday still on the cold side. and then guess what, tracking yet another storm could be a winterke storm next w as well. it's theek d, we got to have a storm. >> yeah. you predicted this. january. it can't be calm and sunny. not on a weekend in washington. >> thank you, doug. coming upme our consu unit working to protect

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well, ap new year is here and 2019 bringing more changes to the tax law. >> the tax cuts and jobs act was the biggest overhaul of the erican tax system in 30 years. consumer reporter susan hogan working for you with the changes that are going to impact you. susan? >> reporter: many o new tax rules are expected to benefit taxpayers but how much your taxes go downn 19 depends on a number of things. splitting up i2019 big changes to alimony deductnns. the per receiving alimony no longer has to report the payments as part ofir the taxable income. meaning the person paying it now has to report it and pay the taxes on it, too. something that's going away,he penalty for americans without health coverage. prior to 2019re if you uninsured you had to pay the penalty. get ready to save more for

retirement this year.mo thet you can contribute to your 401(k) or similar requirement plans went up from 18,500 to 19,000 oneore thing financial experts say you should think about in the new year and that is adjusting the with holdings to put more money in your pocket today. >> financial theory is you would not want to be giving the government an interest free ouloan. so take more money now, do something with that money, preerbli investing it or putting it in your ira account. and you get advantages of compound interest over time. >> reporter: one more big change relates back to theas 2018 when you start preparing your federal returns in the coming weeks, you'll see a big change in the0 form. that's because the irs has

created a shorter simpler form, it's half the size of the last version. great news about that. >> thank you, susan. our meteorologists are working to track the snow for this weekend. you can see it moving in on the r. coming up next we'll take a closer look at the school systems that could be affected come monday. >> i'm tracee wilkins, coming up on news4 video you'll seey onl on 4, showing the shootout with the suspect and the police. a remarkable story of surviv survival, you heard th survival, you heard th wisconsine t choosing my car insurance was the easiest decision ever.

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welcome back. now at 5:30 a weather alert. a major system heading our way right now. >> this is going to bring all of us some snow. this is kansas city right now. it issnowing. that's your weekend. this is a live picture and this is the same system heading our way, doug. >> and there's a big game happening there tomorrow. chiefs and colts. >> that storm will be long gone. it'll be over aa during the day tomorrow. coming through st. louis and cincinnati into our r tomorrow afternoon. most likely just after the noon hour into the d.c. mro area by 10:00 tomorrow night really

coming down across theon re this is going to produce 4 to 7 inches of snow area wide. a little less possible downtown. but area wide 4 to 7 inch what you can expect in your area and what kind o impact it's going to have on your weekend and monday morning. we have some breaking news right now. this is live from edge water,nd maryight here. boats on fire, folks, from chopper a this i scene, wendy, you're family with he familiar with here. south river. >> right. edgewater, maryland is two rivers south of annapolis. this looks like clearly tse boats are at dock. this is the time of year if you're a boat owner you know your boat has been put away. this one does not hav the rink wrap on it that so many of you put on your boats. theyhr do gogh the winter with a lot of fuel on board. so there's plenty for this fire

to consume. though theke even other boats are close by, they are able to manage the fire enough it doesn't look like it's jumpin to other boats just yet. you can see the firefighters are there wit a l of suppression. boats with the fiber glass, or that cld be a wood boat, you add the fuel to it they're going to burn. this is on the south river in edgewater happening right now. we'll keep you posted. now to the governmen just hours away from an unbelievable record. the longest ever. congress is out for the weekend an president trump is showing no signs of backing down from his baorder wall demands. erika gonzalez is live with what this means for federal workers. >> reporter: adding salt to an open wound of not getting paid hundreds of thousands of federal workers did get aay paycheck t for zero dollars. with many living paycheck-to-paycheck they are ing force today make difficult

decisions. tomorrow morning the capital ar food bank is working to make groceries availableo those in need. they'll host five pop ups at giants, from 9:00 to noon. you neede to t your federal id or cttracting id. again, 9:00 to noon. lawmakers in the house did pass a measure tuantee back pay for furloughed employees. president trump saild he w sign that bill, adding, quote, when it's over. he says while he believes he has the right to do so he's notin decl a national emergency because in his words, quote, it's the easy wayout, end quote. it seems like we'll have to wait at least monday when congress returns. we'll have to see. wendy. we have some new video. it was obtained by news4. it shows the planning and executio of tha shootout with

prince george's county police at the police station. michael ford was sentenced to nearly 200 yean in pri yesterday for firing at police. his brothers were also sentenced fo their part in all of this. prince george's county detective jacai colson was mistaken as the gunman because he was in plain clothes that day, and he was sh and killed by another officer. yesterday in court colson's parents said that officer should have been charged along with the ford brothers. bureau reports.cee wilkins >> everything i own in this car except electronics, elijah you have first dips on it. >> reporter: this is michael ford's will moments before he opens fir a on police station. his brother malik directs him toward the police station. > the station around the corner. >> reporter: ford begins firing and challenging officers to come out in what he s was an attempt at suicide by cop. but ford also fires at a passin

car. he then shoots at a passing ambulance. none of those civilians are injured. now officer jacai colson is on the scene and exchanges fire with ford. his brothers begin to cry when michael is shot and hits the ground. ford is on the ground as police approach. 30 secondslater, there are additional shots. officer taylor kraus shooting at detective colson, killing him with one shot. his parents told him he was shot at mistake during the shootout. the family claims colson was holding his badge and saying he was police when he was shot. in courtye erday, mrs. colson says i do not for the life of me understand why officer taylor krause killed my son. i have come to the realization

that jacaias murdered because he was black. the colsons have a civ suit filed against the prince george's county department and also officer taylor krause. he was not found criminally responsible for the death of jacai colson. in palmer park i'mracee wilkins. news4. let's take you back live, chopper 4 over some breaking news. at least one boat as you can here.ully engulfed we are getting this look from the scene in this is in edgewater. >> it's on white marsh creek, t on the mayo peninsula there in edgewater, which is sou of annapolis. it is confined to one boat. firefighters are there battling the blaze as we said earlier. we don't what caused it, b the boat between the fuel and the fiber glass or the wood gives flames a lot to

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our 26th health and fitness expo kicks off tomorrow. >> we're expecting a lot of you. one of the draws is the spartan course. >> thisooks tough. doreen gentzler is down there to tell us about it. it gives you a rkout, i'm guessing? >> reporter: that's what i hear, jim andd wendy, from a g source. you'll get to see it yourself. there are smany different

fitness opportunities here at the expo this weekend for people on of a ages and fitness levels but tommy mcfly got to check out one of the more challenging ones. reporter: i'm on the far side of the expo and one of the toughestparts, the spartan race. you brought it here to the expo? >> yeah. we wanted to get people off their couches and involve ay healifestyle and see what spar toan is about. >> reporter: this is not for your beginner? >> it can be. it's an interesting look what spartan can be when you go on fullcourse. we give you a little bit of everything. we feel the majority of peopleut could come and do this whether they've actually fully worked out in the life, or worked out once. >> i have a go pro so you can watch my giew. ve me the go.

>> ready, set, go. >> reporter: it's a bear crawl? >> yeah, braear cr rl underneat. eporter: what is this? >> it's our invert. you want to go up like this, get it. there you go. up and over. >> reporter: all right. i psychedel m out. >> the 7 foot wall. jump up andal over it. most there. you got it. and finish it wit a rope climb. >>eporter: the bell? >> ous. there go. finish strong. finish strong. >> reporter: right. >> there you go. >> alway sprint to the finish line. i challenge you to do better than my time this weekend when you come out for free at the health and fitness expo.

doreen back to you. >> reporter: tommy, what a oh, no. i knew this would happen. when the pressure is on. this is more my speed. >> there you go >> reporter: some of the things available. the redskins wl be here, d.c. united, we have tennis, pickle ball. all kinds of fitness classes going on both days, dance glasses, yoga classes. it looked more graceful when michelle obama did it, didn't it? >> no. you had it going like 30 revolutions. >> reporter: anyway, what want say is we open the doors tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. and we'll be here sunday as well. i hope a lot o d people comen and try out some of these opportunities. you can try this and -- >> la-hoop. >> i'd rather try this than tom tommy. >> yeah. i don't know if he's covered i

splinters. >> i'm loving hanging on my couch right now, especially wn it's snowing. i will be ripped off for a hula-hoop. >> reporter: i don't know as many people as agile as tommy mcfly. we have more coming up. more previews from the expo at 6:00. >> we'll see you then and all weekend long. doreen thank you so much. >> keep gyrating out there. next and new at 5:00. a dangerous human trafficking ring. what helped her get back on her feet. plus the mistake that could cost the d.c. lottery $100,000. a story'l ysee only on news4. and the storm impacts -- and finally we c hit --an

e> let's t you back up to chopper 4, this livereaking ne we've been following. the fire department said the call came in just after 6:00, one boat on fire,s you can see there. no injuries reported. they are using foam units and a fire boat to put it out. fire investigators havbeen called to the scene. but this is routine in fires like this. this is a marina on white marsh creek in edgewater. wning the lottery is a dream. but hundreds of people who didn't win a still getting cash from the d.c.lottery. onlyne on 4, mark segraves has the story of how did that happen? >> reporter: the d.c. lottery sells thousands t ofkets every

day. generating millions in revenue for the city and millions in winnings for somef the lucky players. but last month the l d.c.tery mistakenly paid out to hundreds of losers after officials announced the wrong winning numbers. it happened in the d.c. 2, d.c. 3, d.c. 4 and d.c. 5 games. in all, 773 tickets were incorrectly announced as winning numbers for a total of more than $127,000 in possible winnin. so far, 435 of those tickets have been redeemed. and the d.c. lottery has paid out more than $77,000 to people holdinginhose l tickets. d.c. lottery officials decided to pay out both the actual winning numbers as well as thes numb announced by mistake. the error impacts ticketsemold on dr 12th. a spokesperson for the d.c. lottery tells news 4 the mistake was human error by d.c. lotteryt f. in a statement a spokesperson

writes, new software was installed to our draw system by our vendor to ensure this error cannot reoccur. d.c. lottery has reviewed and updated procedures as needed. if you have december drawing, you have time still to cash them in. mark segraves. >> owning up to their mistake. hopefully itomes in handy for a lot of folks in need right now. let's get the word on the weather. are we in for it as well? it seems it's earlier and maybe heavie not heavier? >> you can say no. >> we have a snowstorm coming in e've been saying around the 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, but yes, jim when youalk about heavier -- >> he can be wrong. >> we're looking at more as far

as snowfall totals. heaviestnow comes in tomorrow night, right around this time i think it starts tocu late. there's the storm right now. you see it's a big storm, snowing from denver to st. louis. kansas city, st. louis under winter storm warnings.ho we're under warnings as well here down to our south. at:00 a.m. notice snow making way.way our and by noon starting to get to the i-95 corridor, but 2:00 everywhere and by 7:00 seeing the steady snow make its way in here. right through 10:00, 11, 12:00 overnight. yesterday i was worried about the sunday night portion of the storm. thinking it would stay soh. but now it's moving further to the north and that's why theav totalsbeen raised. and we are expecting snow throughout the day on sunday,

most of it will be on the lighter side. area wide for the most part, generally 4 to aut 7 inches on the high side. around 4 inches in d.c., going 3 to 5 downtown, a little bit less well to the north, a little bit more to the south and west. but amelia this iso going a moderate impact of a storm, and it looks like it's going to be impacting us biggest time will be tomorrow night into early sunday morning. >> so if you want to run errands drivingweekend and hate in the snow, get them done domorrow morning you're fine. this is the r impact throughout the day tomorrow. tomorrow morning we're all in green. as wehe move into afternoon hours, especially the late afternoon hours we start to see slick spots develop. and tomorrow night, this is when snow is the heaviest, wee tracking at that point likely widespread slick spots across the area, especially if the roads are less travellednd

haven't been treated. if you have dinner out on saturday night, i wld make it dinner in. get a pizza or something, be prepar hunkered down at home saturday night. church out there on sunday? ill some snow. generally light but still some slick roads out there. you may want to consider home from church on sunday, especially if you do not like dealing with. sn monday, the d.c. metro area looking okay. but south and west, gonna be some slick spots out there. we could see some school delay and maybe isolated school closures. but i think metro area and the north are okay. where are we on our bread meter? i've upped it to go and grab a loaf. that's forour sunday. check it out, the chance for an inch or more of snow 100%. the chance for 3 inches or more still very high at 70%. that being said, the chance for 8 inches or more, extremely low,

extremely unlikely for most of us, doug. that coming in less than 20%. again, snowing especially on your saturday night into early sunday. we think there are going to be some days out thereonday morning. and next weekend? >> i know. quite amazing. like we talk about in our winter forecast. we talked about the latter portion of january being cold and stormy. that's what we have here. we have the storm here. and then we go into cool weather monday and tuesday. and then another storm just in time for next weekend. and then there's another after that. yes, we get stormy. take a look at e cold temperatures through the next ten days. so winter is here. it looksike it's going to stick around. that's why i wore myme "f thrones" cuff links because winter is coming. >> thank you, dood. one. a teaching legend is being honored this evening in alexandr alexandria. lehs has been teaching m

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time tomorrow, we shouldll be seeing snow. goodin i'm wendy rieger. >> i'm leon harris. whether you want it or not. storm team 4 outew with totals this afternoon. winter storm warnings and watches out. >> president trump says he will sign a bill that gives federal

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