could be a slick commute. gorning, everybody. 4:00 a.m. on this wednesday january 16th i'm aaron gill gist. >> we have a few delays t tell you about in virginia. louden, fafax, prince william, stafford and cull pepper county schools are all on a two-hour delay. >> schools there open two hsrs late well, all of delays are running at the bottom of your ocreen right now. >> a find them in the nbc washington app. now let's check your weather and traffic. melissa. >> we begin with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell to see how the forecast is shaping up. off to a cd startagain, chuck. >> you got that right, chuck. most of the suburbsn are d below 20 degrees this morning. so, if it looks wet, i promise i you, it frozen solid. 14 now in gaithersburg, 15 in shan tilly this morning.

manassa down to 11. temperatures are in the mid to upper 20s, s butll cold enough for ice. your wakeup weather this morng, be readyor a real cold start when you get out the door early, but we'll have enough sunshine to get temperatures above freezing before noon today. ternoon highs up close to 40 degrees again. another big meltwn comin our way later in the afternoon. someone with two kids under w three knot a meltdown is about, let's go tomelissa. >> meltdown stays on the ground. r 's on the ground for eight ten minutes depends how i react. ally southbound parkway the ramp to inbound 50 crash blocking t right sid right now. bethes sa 270. northbound 295 between malcolm x single lse gy that work zone. live look beltway at connecticut enue, main roads look pretty good. you can still have the black ice

and the slick spots. >> thanks so much. meltdowns continue after 2, too. it's 4:02. there haven't been any new snowfall since the weekend but you wouldn't know it looking at the streets in the area. our crews found a ushy mess taking up several blocks in maryland. cars were still sliding all over this stretch in montgomery county. it's been keeping at least one tow truck driver very busy. >> i see three or four cars lined up the road hitting guardrails. it's been nasty. everybody, please be careful. >> tt's a lot of work. he's sitting in the snow. >> busy time of year for him. >> they parked on the street in this area and they think they'll get around the ride share rather than dig their cars out from the snow. also warning to risk -- not wanting to risk losing that parking spot.

that's what happened to me. nally dug out my priu-s. news 4 has youn covered the air and on your phone. latest weather forecast and traffic conditions with your free nbc washington p. 16 days into the new year and already d.c. police are investigating 12 homicides, the latest happened yesterday afternoon in broad daight. 22-year-old williams was killed on north capitol street near the new york avenue playground. mpd camera captured pictures of the suspect. this incident comes after someone opened fire in the lobby of an apartment building in northeast o saturday three men were hit there. one died. leaders say this rise in violence isunacceptable. >> this is a war zone. we haves citiz in the nation's capitol living in what appears toare a zone. >> now, in an effort to reduce crime, the mayor sayspahe police

dertment is building up its force to 4,00 officers, many whom will be visible on foot, bikes and >>segues. e continue to follow a developing story out of africao night. the state department has confirmed an american is one of 14 people who died in a hotel terror attack. the gunmen were caught onse curity camera as they ran into the h in nairobi yesterday. officials say the attack began with a suicide bomber in the hotel lobby. the american killed is jason ind ler, businessman who had been working in nairobi for several years. overnight, kenya's president nounced that all terror suspects in the attack had been killed. ther terro group al shabab has claimed responsibility for the attack. this is the same ghat attacked a nairobi shopping center about five years ago. the longest government shutdown in our history has now entered day 26. no one onl capitol hr the white house seems any closer to reaching a deal to get 800,000

federal employe back to work. >> the president is expected to invite a bipartisan group of lawmakers to the white house today. this comes one day after a group of house democrats skipped a shutdown meeting. many called it the president's attempt to g around house speaker nancy pelosi. democrats are standing united agnst funding for the border wall. the gop vows to reject any deal that does not f include mon the wall. thousands of families are caught yn the middle of all this, wondering when till go back to work and get a paycheck. the irs is recalling 46,000 furloughed employees to handle tax returns anday to out refunds. they will continue to go unid. yesterday federal judge rejected a lawsuit from the union representing the irs. the judge declined to force the vernment to pay t recalled employees. the federal emergency management agency is also worried about the impact the shutdown will have on its response to nat disasters. less than a fourth of fema employees are working right now. fema's union president said people could die waiting forse

help becf this shutdown. >> it would take our agency approximately a week to two weeks to call us all back in. so if a disaster happened today, it would be a week or tw >> another major concern is the nearly 6,500ug furd union employees themselves still without a paycheck. we're told some are thinking about cashing in their 401(k)s. others, like the union psident mself, are filing for unemployment. union leaders say ty asked congress to consider legislation to lessen penalties. now 406, the board ofor dire of the metropolitan airport authority will discuss the shutdowns continued pact on our nation's airports. we told you about the tsa sick lls forced some airports to close entire terminals. other airports, peopl are waiting up to 90 minutes in line because of short staffing. the sickate at the tsa is now ter 7%. thousands of sa agents are still working despite the fact

they're not getting paid. many decided to leave the agency and find other jobs. toy, maryland senators will meet with federal contractors. they'red expec announce legislation that would secure back pay for impacted workers when the government opens. the meeting will be at 2:00 p.m. today, celebrity chef jose andres will ope an emergency kitchen to feed furloughed federal workers for free. the #dine in to thgo. is located on pennsylvania avenue near the navy memorial in northwest d.c. and o will ben from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. everyday. there's a gofundme if you would like to help feed furloughed workers through this particular kitchen. stay with new 4 f all the developments during the shutdown. coming up,el we'll you how much money federal workers are losing in wages. also hpening on capitol hill, house democrats plan to unveil the raise the wage

>> this act could do more than double the federal minimum wage. right now that minimumage is 7.25 an hour. many small business owners fear they can't afford to pay employees that much money and stay in business. lawmakers are als getti ready for another day of questioning for the president's nominee to be attorney general.s on y, on the hill, nominee william barr made it clear he pwilltect the mueller investigation. barr said he would not be n bullie even by the president. he said he would quit if president trump oered him to fire mueller. barr previouslyd ser under president george h.-w bush's administration. he would be sworn in some time next month in >approved. iowa congressman steve king says he is sticking around despite growing calls for him to resign, even from within his own rock party. amid an uproa over comments widely considered racist, house

minority leader kevin mccarthy stripped king of h committee memberships. king w questionedhy white supremacy is considered offensive in an interview with the new york times. yesterday the house voted nearly unanimously on a resolution rejecting whi nationalism. the only no vote was from a democrat who said the resolution wasn't strong enough and wants king to be censured. today in annapoli the maryland governor hogan will sworn in for a second term. he will be introduced today by former florida governor jeb bush who knowsbout blazing new political trails. he was the first republican governor ever to winel re-tion in florida. chris gordon will cover today's inauguration ceremony. follow him on enitter. fter the hour now, still ahead on news 4 today. >> dramatic video shows a child's car seat falling out of a car with a child still buckled inside. look at that. what happened?

after the break. wow. that is some scary video right it is another frigid start to the day today. we're tracking several chances for some wintry weather. you can always get the latest on ngr nbc wasn app and i'll tweet out some of the details as well on twitter. see you in a flash with the five-day forecast.

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now lawmakers scheduled a vote of no confidence for the prime minister. it is one step toward removing may from office. the so-called brexits set to begin in march. everything is back to normal this morning after southwest airlines experienced a computer network outage at bwi marshall airport that caused some flight delays and lon lines at the southwest ticket counters. the problem forced the airline to ground this is video of those planes sitting on the tarmac. no other airlines were impacted by this computer is ne. bac to our coverage of the partial government shutdown. a new report underscores the nd profimpact this shutdown is having on the state of maryland. 172,000 federal employees and government contractors are not getting paid. the workers are losing ll$778 n in wages every two weeks. the maryland comptroller's office calculates the lost wages led to a loss o nearly $60 million in state and local

income tax revenue every two weeks. the food and drug administration is recalling employees to make sure the food everyone eats is safe. the inspectors will be working without pay while they examine foode facilities to m sure they're free from things like salmonella and e. coli. the fda commissioner sai the inspections will be done on high risk foods, cheese, dairy andme produce. there are about 5,000 food inspectors at the fda, about 700 of them will return to news 4 is working for you th all of the developments during the government shutdown. gethe up--minute information on the nbc washington app. in news for your health this morning a rese team at georgia tech is testing a long-actingep contrve patch. this is what that patch looks like. researchers say the patch would be pressed on to an arm or leg and would provide amonth's worth of birth control. no doctor visit would be needed either.se chers have been testing the patch on animals. it still needs to be tested on humans.

it's now 4:15. now to a harrowing story out of minnesota. look at the right hand part of your screen. that is a toddler in a car seao toppled out of a moving car eet monday s afternoon. do you see it. right there, thankfully that 2-year-old landed u right. the driver just behind the car was able to stop you saw in time and rescue that toddler. police say she was strapped into the child seat properly but the seat was not fastened into the car seat. >> >>whoa. the little girl was not hurt. >> tha is amazing. >> let me tell you, trying to get a car seat ftened into your car, you need an engineering degree. that's why firefighters arene trto do it properly. any of the fire houses will do it for you. >> you never lost kid. >> i have not lost a kid. you have to get in with your knees. >> just do it. it. have to do >> muscle your way into it. >> you put the kid in there, you shak that seat toake sure

it's in there tight. >> how do you know this? >> i've done thi before. >> i don't think you're supposed to shake it with the baby in the seat. >> no, before you put the by in, right. he knows that. jefferson is all right. >> my nieces and nephews they ar all good. >> i will stop this car. it's a good reminder, go to any local fire station, they're all trained to do it and h py to give you a helping hand because -- though i never tried it myself, i heard many a parent tell me it's a difficult thing to get accomplished. reason number 413 glad i don't have mads. e i lost count there somewhere. 27 degrees. that's at national airport. you get away from the citynd is a way colder start this morning. most of the surbs are in the mid teens on a wednesday morning. 18 in leesburg, 27 in fredryick, nd. if it looks like it is wet, assume that it is frozen up

solid this morning. sun is not up until 7:25. there will be more than enough sunshine and temperatures cse to 40egrees today. so another day very effective for the meltdown. for tomorrow, we'll start out cold and dry, not quite this cold and then tomorrow clouds thicken up and there will be a chance for some rain showers and it will be a lot colder tomorrow, only mid to upper 30s for highs. so some of that could be a little rain/snow mix especially after the sun goes down tomorrow. still watching this big pile of moisture out across thecoest t. that still has eyes on us for the weekend. walk you through future weather. again, today nothing t worry about. this is 5:00 tomorrow morning. stilll dry. but by 5:00 tomorrow afternoon, could be a little rain, could be some wet snow flakes mixing in. this system doesn't have a lot of moisture to work with, but the ground is cold. so any snow that ces down aluld get a little slushy in the shenandoahy and northern

maryland after sunset tomorrow. that should be ending before the sun is up on friday morneng. friday afternoon, friday night and the first part of saturday lookedy. but by saturday afternoon, once again, could be some rain.er teures should be right around 40 degrees in the washington area, but agai our northern parts of the viewing area here up near the pennsylvania border saturday afternoon into evening. could have a little wet snow. temperatures are likely to hold steady or rise a little bit saturday night into early sunday.mo of sunday will be rain, but the arctic front gets here about noon onsunday, so that rain could end with a little period of snow. and what i would best call a flash freeze. temperatures will plummet from near 50 degreesn sunday around noontime down to near 10 degrees morning.y that is a serious drop, near 40 degree drop in temperatures from ton sunday to time we get up on monday morning.

we'll be in weather alert mode forou because that will be dangerous. wind chills, melissa, could be down very close to zero by monday morning. in fact, most of the suburbs are likely to have below zero wind chills by monday morning. a big change coming.en so y the relatively mild weather for today. and make sure between now and the end of the day on friday you get as much of that snow and stuff cleared away from your sidewalks becse if it's still there on sunday, that will turn into a skating rink. let's hear from melissa moolette. >> good morning. don't have any issues on 66. main roads look pretty good but can still have that blackan ice those slick spots we've been talking about this morning. myidewalk this morning w shovelled, treated it still had were le patches that pretty yucky. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway nice and clear, don't ha any road work the next couple days because of these temperatur. in northwest, pennsylvania avenue, constitution avenue,

dark traffic lights there. treat that as a four-way stop just to be safe. can be a little yucky there if you're not going to stop at that dark traffic light. i don't know what i'm talking about right now. sorry, my system has crashed. i'm trying to get it to move for you. 66 and 95 not bad here this morning. again, the look pretty good. 270 northbound and southbound is okay as well. >> melissa, thank you. i know what you meant. i did. >> the wheels wasn't working. it's also 4:20 in the morning. >> had no clue what you were trying to sa >> i understood. watch the black ice the patches on the sidewalk. still ahead on news 4 today, netflix is raising its prices. >> aress allison janeny plays games. >> taste it and give a clue. >> how far away.

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bere. so still going t icy. good morning, everybody, i'm eun yang. >> i'm aon gilchrist. >> we have a few delays to tell you about. >> these skooms are on a two-hour delay. >> the list continues. >> we'll let you know if anytr more dts announce delays or closures or if they change. they'll run at the bottom of your screen all morning long and in the nbc washington app. t> let's head over to chuck and melissa now get your wednesday started. most schools and offices opening on time today. it's going to be little more crowded on the roads than it has been this week. melissa will filn us in o that. chuck, how about the forecast? well, absolutely way below freezing this morning all across the region m andh like yesterday morning, parts of northern virginia, northern ntgomery country are real cold this morning, down to 11 in manassas. mid teens