right now at 00, dangerously cold air putting us in weather alert mode. the feels-like temperatures flirting with the single digits. a wind advisory in effect, gusts reaching 50ou miles per the strong winds taking out street signs. this is the scene in dalexandri. resident trump's plan to end the shutdown and fund border security is running into a wall with aemocrats. >> a northern virginia community hit by hate. racist flyers found on there da befo the mlk holiday. news4 begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. >>aking you live outside our studios here in northwest d.c., theind gusts are n longer hitting 50 miles per hour. but they are driving down the

feels-like temperatures. as you can see out there, the flag still flapping really strong this evening. it is chilly out there. bone-chillg weather. and it's only going to get colder. good evening, everybody. and thanks for joining us. i'm egonzales. the numbers are jarring, if you take a look behind me. feelg like 15 degrees in washington. 20 in annapolis. leesburg, 11. and by this evening, we could be feeling like 2 degrees. stor team 4 meteorologist sam ara. cities are activatingpl emergen s. >> yeah, we are looking at some cold weather, the coldest we have seen this winter season. to think this morning we were at 56 degrees. so we're dropping, and we're dropping fast. let's go ead and take aook right now at where we're at and what it feels like inside the beltway. we'reee 29 de cre current feel-like temperature at 15 deges. winds sustained out of the northwest at 22 miles per hour.

so that's notgu even ths. that's just what the winds are normally coming out of the northwest at. let's talk about these future wimu chills. ho colder is it going to get and when? i'm taking you just to about two hours from now, looking at feel-like temperatures closer to the singligits. very possible. as we head towards midnight, below zero. and look out to some of our outer suburbs, where we're seeing numbers down like minus 11 in gaithersburg. minus 15 will be the feels-like temperature in frederick county, maryland. a brutal monday, as well, with temperures feeling like the single digits throughout the day. i want you to stay tuned. here's why. we're not just talking adut this whill. i'll let you know when the winds are going to calm down, how long is the cold going to last, and could there be any ice issues hanight? all t and more. erika, back to you. >> thank you. team coverage on this arctic blast. most of you stayed good idea there. but some did venture outside.

news4's darcy spencer cght up with a few brave souls out on the national mall. >> repter: we're here dow at the national mall. i can tell you, not a lot of people are around. and the people who arere here completely bundled up. and that is a great ideael you definity don't want to come out if you're not prepared. we see peopl with their heavy coats on, their gloves on, their hats on b and theiroots. that's the only way, rely, to be able to be out here in this bitter, potentially dangerous cold. we also saw the flags flying here at the a monument ao think about the tourism. we saw a double decker b basically empty. we caught up with some tourists, one froe, new hampsh the other from nicaragua. >> i was not prepared at all when we left our apartment. but now we have to go to marshals -- >> this has been the worst cold i've ever been! >> that's right. >> reporter: that says it all. and whatth do yok of this

weather? >> it's cold. it's all right. >> reporter: you're from new hampshire. >> yeah. >> reporter: this is a normal sunday. >> well, we're just missing out on some snow today, so, yeah. >> reporter: i've got layers on, two coats on, my gloves. of course, you want to wear lonf johnsou have to come out in this bitter cold, protect your hands and, of cot.se, wear a but the best idea, stay inside if you can. along the national mall, darcy ewspencer,. >> good advance there. i don't know anybody that's going to want to be on that double-decker bus right now. and take a look at these images we've gotten in from alexandria. winds took down street signs. you can see here on duke street anand holland this is what it looked like a couple of hours ago. crews were able to clean up the mess. there were 35-mile-an-hour gusts at the time. good news in d.c., winds whipping around dupont circle. folks dealing withe elements outside. a little while ago, we saw the n trust blank clock showing 28 degrees.

but it has gotten colder, that is for sure. and by dnight, we could be facing subzero wind chills as somara mentioned. we'r going to check back in, in about ten minutes. stay with us for that. the cold front moving through has produced snow in parts of the midwest and the national weather service issued storm warningsr adviser res for all or part of 15 states from the southeast to the northeast. more than 8 inches of snow has fallen in some locations around pittsburgh. in syracuse, new york, blowing and drifting snow has made it really difficult to get around. the city received about 14 inches of snow tdre. in the new york city area, a snow, rain, sleet and some areas in northern new trsey have seen more snowhan other places. all right. it is day g0 of theernment shutdown. and there is no end in sight. hoe democratsaying president trump's offer of temporary protection for daca recipients

is a nonstarter. and mr. trump not budging on his demand for $5.7 billion for a border wall. both sides staying in their corners, as the longest shutdown in u.s. history looms on. >> what the president proposed yesterday, increasing borde security, looking at tps, looking at the dreamers, i'll e that as a starting point, but you've got to start by opening the government. >> whatas the president done is say absolutely our first and most important obligation is to secure the border. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnel says he'll bring t president's proposal before the senate for a vote, but it's unlikelyn to passe house, and democrats want permanent protection for daca recipients, and they say wall funding is unnecessary. the nationalhe cal,

martin luther king iii spoke about the importance of community. the civil rights icon delivered a sermon just weeks before his assassination in 1968. a bit of a scare for our friends with nbc news in downtown d.c. this morning. an electrical fire broke out there. the fire started inside the eighth floor of the tv studio on rerth capital . a window had to be broken to release some of the smoke in there. overhead sprinklers put out the fire, so that's good news. and also nobody was hurt. even better. amazon's arrival is a game-changer in northern virginia. we know that. today neighbors sounded off on the role the newua hearters could play in their everyday lives. . kkk flyers in a local community on the day before the mlk holiday. police say there not much they can do. why that cld soon change.

northern virginia residents got a chance to ask questions about how amazon's new h q2 will impact their lives. big turnout today at the charles houston rec center for this amazon town hall. elected officials from alexandria and arlington taking questions on a number of topics. they addressed concerns about how the move will affect housing and transportation. leaders saying they'll hold amazon accountable to make sure thwill be a good partner

in the community. >> we are t the onest need to lead the way to make these co orations, whether it's amazon, or anybody else, that comes to our neighboood and support our communities to be good partners.ma >>n says it will hire 25,000 employees to work at i crystal city headquarters. hiring begins this year. your teenager will hopefully be receiving theire accepta letters in the next few months from colleges and universities. one marylan teen got more than just a letter today. ♪ >> she's like, what is this? university leaders made several surprise visits to homes. this one was in prince george's county, along with the montscow surprising audrey, who couldn'e belit. congratulations to her. very, very cool. so we continue to follow talking ybody has been

about today and tomorrow, for that matter. the bitter blast. these are liveictures from the fountain there. the camera just a second ago kind of bobbing oute. th it is windy and frigid. somara is standing by with an update. signs of hate. folks here aren't happybout a

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>> the town of leesburg hit by hate today. somebody claiming to member of the ku klux klan placing racist flyers outside businesses and it's happened before. nos news4's derrick ward reports, there are stiffer penalties h toefully prevent this from happening in the future. >> reporter: the town of bu le, virginia, full of homage to the past. py here. got plenty of friends of all races and i enjoy being with them. >> o a cold sunday morning, merchants on king street found bags of birdir seed on t doorstep. but someone was trying to sow the seeds of discontent. these flys grammatically challenged and packed with racist propaganda that barely even risesthe level of pseudo science. >> i knew i had to find everyone i could on the street around here and throw them away. it's sad. >> reporter: they slam martin luther king jr., serena willms, and kiss band members

and promote a kkk website. ff>> i don't need that s around here. not at this time. >> reporter: sadly, this has happenedefore in leesburg. there was a community meeting that expressed a lot of outrage. ilice say they can't stop it's protected by the first amendment. the most a person can get is a littering charge loudoun county and naacp wants to change that. they'll be working with the attorney general and others on the crafting of hate crime ordinances that would make leaf letting like this have consequences. michelle thomas said that would be better thanarching. the leaflets seem to showndp arouhe time of the mlk holiday observance every year, a time some celebrate on main street. we should live together as humans and americans. >> reporter: in leesburg, derrick ward, news4. all right. guys, we are in weather alert. if you went out this morning for church or brunch andhen you came out of that same building, you noticed a very big difference >> exactly.

and it happened just like that. >> 56 degrees was our maxan tem. we're going down to the teens tonight. >> wow. >> plummeting. i actually, like, picture -- you remember "the day after tomorrow," when you walked outside and there was that insttaneous freeze? that's what i'm thinking was going to happen when i walk to my car tonight. case.e close enough. >> walk quickly. >> yes, temperatures arepi dr and so much so the national weather service has issued a few advisories. let's take a look. bringing you up to speed, at least 40 minutes left on the windadvisory. we have seen winds gusti0 upwards of miles per hour inside the district, in fact, at catholic university. i think 51 miles per hour was a. read so that means we've got damaging -- we've got damaging winds that could cause some trees to come down which already have, some signs have come down and could be an issue for high-profile vehicles. think about that if you're hitting the road let's also talk about the wind chill advisory. so we get the wind, that impacts ithe temperatures and meas going to be brutally cold. wind chill advisory begins at

10:00 p.m. tonight. and it sticks with us until 11:00 a.m. -- i'm sorry, that tomorrow.y 11:00 a.m. so what we can expect from that is the chance for a hypothermia and frostbite. it's a major possibility for exposed skin. so you definitely want to layer up if y're headed outside, and don't forget to bring the pets in tonight. now, let's talk wind gusts. like i said, we saw 50-plus miles per hou t we're on tl end of that bell curve there. ht33-mile-an-hour winds r now. so it's improving a bit, but this is still gusty enough to bring those feel-like temperatur into the teensnd single digits. 15 degrees iwhat it feels like right now in washington, d.c. feeling like the single digits up in montgomery county. at dulles airport there, 11 degrees is what it feels like and in manassas. here's what it feels like in the overnight hours. we're just going to continue this descent, and as you can ee, by midnight, in the single digits and this is just inside the beltway. outside, much colder. as we head towar 4:00 a.m.,

looking at minus 1 degrees. by just before day break, be minus 4 degrees is what it's going to feel like. like i said, inside the beltway. so for those of you living i areas like frederick, maryland, you could see that feels-like teeserature at 15 deg below zero tomorrow morning. if you are stepping outside tomorrow morning or tonight, layer up. i know we have the lunar eclipse. it's going to reach us around 12:12:00 a.m. if you're going outside, make it dhort. temperatures aro 16 degrees, but that feels-like into the single digits. planning o your dr. martin luther king jr. day, waking up and walking the dog, dan rously costill. if you're headed to the tidal basin, it's going to be blustery. temperatures in the low 20s. and ft will begid by dinnertime, as well. so we're actually cold through your monday. here's what you can expect just really summarizing all of this. we do remainty g tonight, 5 to 15 degrees below zero is what it

feels like. and let's keep an eye out for some icy spots. the winds have worked in our favo really drying us out. but we could see a few spots icing. your storm team 4 ten-day outlook shows some hope on then horizo but the caveat is rain. >> wow. okay. ten-day.lot in that somara, thank you. please stay warm out there, guys. still ahead, the capitals blown away in the windy city. what the team is doing m toake what the team is doing m toake sure they stop the

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this is the xfinity sports desk. >> sherry burr is here to talk a little caps hockey. things not going so well. >> no, no. >> i mean, and that's putting it lightly. >> yeah, there is something wrongith the capitals. they had an opportunity to snap their four-game losing streak against the blackhawks, the worst team in hockey. today's game not resulting in a win, causing the team to hold a players' only meeting after the game. but first, alex ovechkin and the caps try to do everything to shake this slump. but not a goo start for the caps. first period, theyn turt over,

brandon sod, grabs it, pushing it up ice, leaving his way through the ca ' defense, shoots and scores. sod gets the blackhawks on the board early, up 1-0. later in the period, it's 2-0, chicago. g caet some life from an unlucky source. brooks orpik, 18th o scoref the year. and in the second, blackhawks keep up the pressure. chicago's fouh goal of the game. caps hoping for a spark and got it fro their defense after orlav makes it. caps within a goal, but chicago danswered. ano did washington. matt nice kinin. the caps back within a goal and canother turnover for thes and the blackhawks captain takes advantage.

jonath jonath jonathan taiz.th drop to 8-5. >> we're not following through with what we tked about. and the execution isn't there, i don't think. it's not like we changed everything up and don't know what we're doing. it's all on us, really. we haven't beenrt great stag a lot of these games. feels like we're, you know, down first shift. tmething we harp on, and you know, we've goto go out there and execute it. it's on us to do that. >> prince george's county native spending his birthday wn the be you can think. the 21-year-old playing his best tennis at the australian open in the fourth und. tiafo taking on dmitryoff. tiafo slicing one down the line, won first two sets of the match. and the f in therth set, in the near court with match point.

some nice back and forth the two. tiafoe with the strong rehand. francis tiafoe into the quarter finals for the first time in his career. what a birthday gift for the 21-year-old. >> oh, my phone was blowing up. i couldarely use it. yeah, just -- what you dream about.y i told coach and my agent that, you know there's no reason why i can'tgs do these th and i didn't think it was going to happen right away, but this is unbelievable. >>e that energy. maurice joseph hosting duquesne. colonial trailed 20-2 to start this but fight gw with the first lead of the game and we head to overtime. in o.t., frankie saysfrelax. ankie hughes, that is, hits a

big three to put duquesne up five. they go on. gw's third loss in the last four games. >> 40-minute mentality that we're locked in to disrupt and go dominate and take what's ours. >> we're fired up. brenda frsen, ninth ranked maryland coming off a loss to michigan state, hosting penn state today. check out the nittany lions. paige hs a free throo put them up five. then the terps end the quarter on an 8-0 run. next, kyla charles shreds the defense with two of her 19 points. and in the fourth quarter, it's the freshman sharp-shooter taylor meisel with three of her game-high 23 points. maryland bounces back with a 79-67 win. and right now down in new orleans, the nfc championship game jt wrapping up. the rams kicking a field goal to

beat the saints in overtime. 26-23. former redskins' offensive di cotor, now rams' head coach, sean mcvay, heading to the super bowl. i can tell you, i've covered games at th super dome in new orleans. and that is the hardest place to play. so what the rams did, pretty spectacular. >> all right. thank youo much. and congratulations to them. thank you for joining us. "nbc nightly news" is next, and we will seeou again for news4 at 11:00. good night.

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