news 4 begins with a storm team 4 weather >> just about 4:30 is your time. we're kicking things off this ha-hour with a liv look outside. you can't see how cold it is. but trust us, it is cold. nday morning, and we are on weather alert mode. good morning, everyone. i'm molette green. >> i'm cy smith. aaron and eun have the morning off. we're going to start with chuck one of the days when you walk tt and fro car and that's it. >> that's it. >> no kidding, cory. you're right about that. it is superduper cold outside. far and away the coldest day of the winter so far. it will probably be the coldest of the group. there's a shot of cold coming our way later in the week and the weekend. it does notook to be quite this bad. the real issue is the wind. wind willd stay aro 20 to 30

miles per hour all day long.lm gustst to 50 miles per hour yesterday. so, windchills near zero for most of the day, if you're going outo the dr. king parade today. bundle up, jog in place, if necessary, when you're on the parade route, as temperatures are in the low and mid-teens now, about up to 20 or so today. windchill is minus 7 in gaitrsburg. minus 10 in winchester. not a lot of improvement for today. aere is improvement down the road. right. there's hope on the horizon. that's good. interloop before annapolis road this is getting better. we have additional lanes open on the left side. andhe response the further to the right. not showing impact on the beltway. you can see that we t have small closure on the right side. rest of the beltway looks good. inne o loop ander loop of the beltway. southeast, closed at savannah street for the structure fire.

ee treville, northbound highway. we had police activity there that just cleared out of the way. >> thank you so much. despitete the b temperatures last night, we spotted plenty of people out and about.pl lots of p at the warf. not everyone has been listening to storm team 4. a lot of people were walking around without jackets. look at that lady there. that's really dangerous. the wind coupled with already low temperatures have the feels-like temperatures plummeting below zero. d.c. has that, activated its hypothermia alt. if youee someone that needs shelter, call 311 or 911 if there's an immediate risk. there's several shelters open around the district for people who need to get inside and warm up. we have the locations for you in the nbc washington app.

look at what happened in alexandria. that's a street sign that just toppled over. 35-mile-per-hour gusts at the time. at one point, winusts were at 50 miles per hour in our area. >> when i heard the wind whipping overnight, i knew the trees in the bac gard wereng to fall in the house. >> a lot of noise. as we deal with the frigid temperatures, other parts ofst e oast are buried under the snow. >> a weekend winter snowsto dumped several inches of snow from the midwest to the northeast. look at burlgton, vermont. snow has been falling at 1 to 2 inches per hour, since sunday. some peoplearitched the c and used the skis to get around downtown there. >> not a bad way to get around. temperatures in the areama didn it out of the single digits and the windchills were well zelow . the entire state is under an entire winter storm warning. it was a similar scene across pennsylvania. butler county is covered with

snow and ice, making driving dangerous. you can barely see the black tos unw and ice. 4 to 8 inches axp eted to fall by the end of the day. >> check this out. 14 inches fell in syracuse, new york. now they're used to it but goodness. right now, it feels li negative 3 degrees because of the temperatures and the wind. arriving parting and at syracuse hancock ir internationalrt had to be cancelled. while millions of folks across the country w struggleh the cold and the snow and all of the cleanup involved, more than 800,000 furloughed workers are marking the 31strnay of the gont shutdown. >> it's been a amongst. with no agreement on the rizon, those workers will miss another paycheck come thursday. and over the weekend, president trump made another offer to the democrats. take a look.n >>ecent weeks, we have met with large numbers of democrat lawmakers to hear the ideas and

suggestions. byor irating the priorities of rank and file democrats in our plan, we hope they will offer their enthusiastic support and i think many twill. president's offer included more money for humanitari aid and drug technology. it promised to give a million immigrants three years of protection from deportation. top democrats rjected the offer, refusing to fund a border wall. and they demanded that the president reopen the government before further negotiations on immigration. the shutdown has taken a serious toll at bwi on saturday mornerg. passengers asked to get to the airport earlier for their flights. >> for furloughed workers, an offer of help i upper marlboro.

all n youeed to show your government i.d. groceries will be supplied as last.s supplies for events all over the area, the help that's available for furloughed workers, go to the nbc washington app or to nbcwashington.com and check things out. we're working for you as long as this government is shut down. in a few wminutes,re going to have a live report from capitol hill with the latest on the struggle to reach a deal. a bit of a scare for our friends with nbc news indo town d.c. sunday morning. an electrical fire broke out. that fire started inside the eighth floor tv studio o north capitol street. en.indow had to be br overhead sprinklers put out the fire. thank goodness no one washurt. here's a look at the top stories we're following for you. outrage continues torow ove

this video showing teenagers in make america greatgain hats taunting an elder on the steps of the lincoln memorial. the teens were from a catholic high school, that released at statemen saying tit is being investigated. phillips is a vietnam veteran. someone placed racis ku klux klan fliers on the doors of homes and businesses in leesburg. it's not illegal and no specific households were targeted. some worked together to removed the flyers. a wisconsin community came together to support 13-year-old jamycloss. she's the girl that was held in captivity for 88 days after her parents were murdered. her suspected kidnapper told police he saw her a at bus stop and knew he wanted to, quote, take her. she managed to escape two weeks

ago and is staying with relatives.> >>e you ready for some football? the super bowl is set, folks. the new england patriots and the l.a. rams are heading to the big game. both teams secured their spots last night. and for the first time, the nfc and afc championship wgames. tht into overtime. this will be the patriots' fourth super bow appearance in five years. tom brady does it again. a big day right here in the country.across the the nation will take time today to remember the life and the legacy of the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. >> the tributes began yesterday. his eldest son speaking at ase ice at the national cathedral. he talked about his father's vision for america and tf importancemmunity. >> dad said, the one institution that must keep the flame of hope burning and alive, is the church. that was true in1955 when he

delivered it. that was true in 1965 when we got the vote rights act. that was true in 1968, when fair housing legislation waspassed. that is true this morning in 2019. >> dr. king delivered a sermon at the national cathedral just weeks before his assassination in 1968. a tragic accident leaves 100 people dead in mexico. we're returnto the scene of a pipeline explosion and walking

you're watching ne today. >> the death toll from friday night's pipeline elosion in mexico has risen to 79. this, as investigators continue theireearch to fig out what went wrong. so r, it's believed the pipeline has been punctured as part of a fuel theft. as people were collecting

gasoline t the line, a fireball erupted. in addition to the 79 killed, another 81 hurt her. dozens are missing and fuel theft has been an epidemic in mexico in the wake of friday's explosion. the country's president says he eill reinforce security along the pipel network. head to europe where police in irmt ireland haeland have arn and aused them of setting off a car bomb. video cameras capturing a parking the car and running away and then, as you see, the blast itlf. police believe the new i.r.a. may be responsible for planning it. we're going to head to break now with anothern check this weather. chuck? >> absolutely. road time of that hit the forecast. if you have to go to work today, put your seat heater onsizzle. that's the only way to survive the ride into work this morning. there iea milder wer in the

anel absol frigid weekend giving way to a very, veryold mondaymorning. we start in weather alert mode this morning.m storm t tracking how long the cold weather will stick around. chuck bell joins us in a few minutes with a check on your forecast. outsidings may be cold but the battle between president trump and the democrats are heating up. the president offering to give 1 million immigrants three years of deporextion, in ange for the cash for his border wall. today, democrats are saying no. andhe president is firing back on twitter this morning. >> he has accused nancy pelosi

of acting irrionally and claiming she is rejecting his offer because she's is afraid of her own party. congress isn't in session today. what happens to the president's proposal next does it have any chance of ending this shutdown? >> reporter: probably not, molette. the senate will take it up tomorrow. they'll vote.oi it is nowhere in the house. nancy pelosi says it's a nonstarter because of the $5.7 billion the president is insisting on for this borderll that's still in this deal. that's the thing she's not giving him a dollar for. this doesn't look like it's it sets up the senate to say, we voted on something to reopen the government. but so have democrats. and they'ral the same stalemate here. the new offer from the president is for the immigrants, most of them drromers, peopleht her illegally as children. some of them refugees that were under temporary status.

democrats say they don't want temporary extensions for these folks. they want a permanent way for them to stay in the united states. throwing daca in is new. this is back and forth they already had. issues that have been rejected in the new packaging. sohe accused president of not backing off of the pole numbers. we are in the same spot with 800,000 people in jeopardy of losing their second paycheck. >> day sobering thought. thank you so much. this weekend, the women's march cameo d.c. thousands rallied while pushing for a more aggresse agenda. the event wasn't without controversy. since last year's monstration, there's been some tension. marchrganizer tamika mallory

has shown leader for louis farrakhan. h made comments that many consider anti-semitic. now, regardless, it was enough for others to hold a separate march on the grounds of the u.s. capit capitol. >> w wanted to make a comfortable space. we're not in competition with the women's march. >> the group presting at t capitol says it wants to focus attention on virginia ratifying the equal rights amendment. the vir rniaatifies the e.r.a., itld meet a p prerequisite for adoption. this morning, police in lookingcounty are sti for the driver who hit and killed an elderly man friday chopper 4 flew over the scene on

arlington boulevard. police have identified a 93-year-old that was killed. he was crossing the road when he wa struck. the driver sped off in a darkco red pickup truck. the cold weather didn't prevent a community from remembering one of the two people killed in southwest d.c.i bradley sat in a car. several people huddledogether to keep warm during a vil for him. they used their cell pne flashlights instead of candles. they prayed together and let go of balloons to remember him. >> my cry is, we have a deaf ear to the shooting. we pretend we don't hear it. a phone call can be the fference between life and

death for somebody. >> alex sus washingtus washingt other person in the car. a community in mobile, i alabam honoring aolice officer that was shot. sean tuder was allegedly g ned down by a 19-year-old. the tee was identified as marco murez, has been arrested with capital er. officer tuder is the second mobile police officer killed in the line of duty since february of 2018. while much of the country is struggling with the cold and the now, parts of alabama is struggling with a tornado. >> this is wetumpka. trees were toppled and cars were ovturned. the storm hit saturday afternoon. one person was hurt and several had to be rescued from basement after being trapped. first responders continue to

search throughouomes and thr businesses. elsewhere, heavy snow and the freezing temperatures are expected to continue impacting new englandmassachusetts, connecticut and maine. they are m all inher nature's crosshairs. some will see a foot of snow. travelers hoping for a long weekend away may g stuck. much of new england remains under a winter weather advisory throughout the day. fans did everything theyo couldeep warm at sunday's frigid game between the patriotc and thehiefs. >> despite the freezing temperatures, ere's a story at kept hearts warm. a homeles chiefs fan got the opportunity of a lifetime because he performed a good deed last week. for the first timee ever, was able to witness the kansas ci chiefs host an afc title game. he scored free tkets from jeff allen who became stuck in the snow when he was head eing to a game last weekend. cochran helped pull his car out

of the snow. for his good deed, allen gave himhe tickets to game. >> i have never beeno a game, let alone sething like this. could be once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. >> aww. and of course, the patris won, 37-31. do we need to keep saying that? >> no. just pencil them into the afc championship >>me. a kid born in worcester, massachusetts, thingsorked out st about as we expected they would. >> movingon, uck.as winter h its grip on much of the country. >> if you thought it was a little warm, you were right. just a little. it peaked. our 56-degree high was at 4:00 a.m. it was down in the low 40s by earlier in the morning after that. and barely stayed above freezing after the sun went down. we've fallen to 16 at natnal

airport, far and away the cldest morning of the winter so far. foparison, this is early on. last year, theirst week of january, lows below this, five of theirst seven days. it hasn't been cold, just not th particular winter. winter advisories for the remainder of the morning.wi chills below zero now and will stay near zero all right now, most of the area between that minus 5 and minus 10range. minus 6 in martinsburg, minus 7 in gaithersburg. alm 4 above for the ndchill in fredericksburg. air temperatures in the teens. 18 in annapolis. 16 in fredericksburg,in vi. your planner for today, oh, so cold, all day long. the sun will be shining. that will not aid too much. afternoo highs will be lucky if

degrees.bove 20 the big storm that broht us this mess is moving through the mes.dian mari good riddance to it. we will be left with sunny and dry weather today, tonight and tomorrow. here's your outlook. cold day. the sunshine back up to the freezing mark. temperatures rise tuesday night into wilnesday. andbe near 50 degrees. another shot of cold later in the week. and maybe, sunday into monday a ance for snow. ou it sounds balmy when you say 50 degrees when look at the temperature right now. inner loop, mostly on the right side of the roadway, not causing a hedelay on beltway. but a response and crash on the right side. rest of the beltway looks od, including through that section. you don't have much of an issue at all. bay bridge, a reminder. winds restrictin effect for high-profile vehicles here this

morning. as we zoom into downtown, in southeast, mlk jr. avenue, sh shutdown near savannah. it is that time of year already. teens in the dmv and acro the country will receive college acceptance letters. one maryland teenager found out where she's going over the weekend and got a lo than a letter. ♪ my gotyness. univer leaders made several surprise visits to homes. some of the terrapins' marching band along with mascots surpri believe it.o couldn't >> i hope she wants to go toma land because they pulled out all the stops. >> she may have applieied to otr schooln >> better tetting the big envelope or the little envelope. >> is there a scholarship in that?

>> let's hope so. still ahead on news 4 today -- >> today is a weather alert day. as thell windc factor dips below zero in parts of our region,undle up before you head out the door on this martin luther king chliday. k will let us know when we could see things warm up.

news 4 today starts now. >> good morning, to you on this january 21st. i'm moette green. eun yang has the day off. >> i'm cory smith. aaron gilchrist has the day off, too. >> i hope they're s and bundled up. melissa is keeping an eye on the road this holiday. we're going to begin withhuck bell on this weather alert day. it is super cold out there. >> it sure is. good morning to both of you. good morning, everybody. yes, indeed. our first real shot of arctichi cold winter, it will not be our last. there are alreadyigns in the extended forecast for another shot of cold getting here about a week from now. current temperature in

washington, 15 degrees. northwest winds, averaging 15 or 20 miles per hour or higher in spots. the windchill is at 1 below zero. thehill advisory goes for the remainder of the yomorning, ev is included in the advisory. tndchills will be below zero for most of morning hours and recovered a smidg in the afternoon. it's minus 9 in hagerstown. plus 1 in annapolis. and minus one int. mary county. current temperatures, clinton, maryland, 13. 10 in washington. dog-walking forecast, today's dog name, appropriate enough, chili map may chili. we should rename him frigid. put the g coats on today. highs only in the low 20s at most.ss me good morning to you. >> good morning. i love chili's name today. how appropriate. taking a look athe