look here, wind chills in the teens and single digits and we are not done with it yet. some school districts planning for late starts including fairfax county. >> let's see how long it's going to hg out. check with doug on tonight's conditions and what's waiting the rest of the week. >> re's the headline, wind chills 0 to 10 degrees early tomorrow morning. talking a roller coaster the next couple days. now it is all about those coldt eratures. 7 degrees in d.c., 9 in ocean city, 2 in hagerstown, these are the wind chills we deal with not only tonight butn the early morning hours tomorrow. so a frigid tuesday in our region before we see warmer air warmer by wednesday, and i'm talking significantly warmer, closeo double where we were today. still a little bit on the cool side, though. and then tracking the nt big storm, that wednesday night into thursday. i8 show you what that brings and

there's three other storms in the ten day forecast. in the meantime the frigid teeratures and howli winds have made it almost unbearable for people who can't get out of the cold. >> a lot of peopl cannot. mark segraves continues our team coverage. he's live at dupont circle. you've been there all day, how ? is it feeling >> reporter: it's chilly to say the least. the temperature, as doug has pointed out, is now dropping. checking it outck on the c 18 degrees. it was 20 degrees just about an houro. and, of course, that doesn't take into consideration the wind chill factor out here. >> ts is cold. this is really cold. >> reporter: it is a holiday t today and federal government is still shutdown, there are still lots of people w have to go outside. the frigid temperatures caused this road inbowie to freeze over, causing traffic problems along church road. but some of the hardest hit are our homeless neighbors. many livingn tents.

>> it was so cold last night where we were. >> reporter: the district has opened emergency shelters like this one at a reck center in southwest. melvin smith oversees the overreach programs. he wants everyon tonow you can help if you seeeo s in distress calling by calling the hypothermia hot line. >> they're always willing to go out and do welfare check and encourage someone to come in off the epstreets. >>ter: for many of the women in this shelter it was sleeping on a cot or on the street. >> we try to help each other ile we're in this predictment and hoping god hear our players and he give us a place. >> reporter: those shelters that typically close during the day are remaining open 24 hours for homeless people. if you see someone in distress that may need he, that hypothermia van, the number to call, 311. they'll send someone to the welfare of people you see on

the street. we have to report that last anght a w did die inside one of those shelters. it's unknown whether h death could be atributed to the weather or not. 31 of theday government shutdown. it is bitter cold, as you know we have higher heating bil now, possibly frozen pipes as yet another hardship for the federal workers who are about to miss a second paycheck. president trump's plan to reopen the government got a chilly reception from the democrats and both sides are on thin ice with frustrwoed ers. susan mcginnis u joi >> reporter: the latest plan will be put to the test later this week. but from the reaction we're getting now it could run into a wall. today president trump and vice president pence made an unexpected visit to lay a wreath

at the martin luther king jr. memorial. >> it's a great day. >> but i may not be for 800,000 federal workers still unpa as the government shutdown pushes into a fifth week. protestersallied today in support of furlohed workers, following president trump's weekd proposal thatil tempor protects 1 million immigrants, including dreamers, and continues his demand for $5.7 billion for a border wall. >> common sense with lots of compromise. >> reporter: senate republican leader mitch mcconnell said he e will hold a vhis week on the president's plan but it's unclear if the measure could pass the senate needing at least 7 democrats to sign on. and in the house it's dead on arrival. democrats continue their demand the government reopen for talks to resume and they still reject wall funding as part of any deal. $5 billion allocate to a wall that makes no sense. we need to enforce other ports of industry, we need to hire border patrol agents.

that's where we need to invest ourresources. >> reporter: as each side in washington blame each other, some federal workers blame both sides. >> our leaders in congress.ee they to get us back to work as federal government employees and let us do our job so we can continue to contriette to so >> reporter: as furloughed workers wait for food and wait to go back to work. now not all republicans are board with the president's plan, amnesty. calling it the president has gone on twitter to say this is not amnesty. that the dreamers will only be protected temporarily. >> thank you,san. and the president and the vice president made aurprise visit to the martin luther king jr. memorial this morning. it did not go over well with some critics of the whihouse. the appearance came after the reverendl sharpto criticized the administration for not holding an official event that would commemorate the holiday. vice president mike pence has

also been criticized for comments he o made sunday in which he invoked the i havedr m speech while he defended the president's attempts to fund e border wall. martin luther king iii responded to that this morning. >> martin luther king jr. was a bridge builder, not a wall builder. martin luther king jr. would say, love not hate will make america great. >> vice president pence did tweet about dr. king this afternoon sayingisxample still inspires us today. california senator kamala harris now officially one of the democrats running for in 2020. she is the first african-american candidate to enter the race and chose the napa coun martin luther king jr. holiday to launch the runch. >> let's claim the future fors, ourselur children and for our country.

>> hours after announcing her campaign she was in d.c. attending an unent at howard ersity, which is her alma mater. >> howard university is o of e most important aspects of my life and it is wre i first ran for my first elected office, freshman class rresentative of the student council. this is where it all began. >> nnd hional campaign headquarters will be in baltimore, not oakland where she was born or san francisco where she has sved as district attorney. seven democrats have now filed papeork or have announced presidential bids for 2020. several democrats who have not yet announced took part in high pro file events to mark the holiday. al sharpton invited joe biden to speak. biden said the racism that killed dr. king has beenbe detely reawaked in our

country in the past two years. and formeryo new york michael bloomberg spoke at the breakfast. he said he's still deciding if he's going to run for esent. at the south carolina state ho e, new jersey senator corey booker recalling dr. king's words on the need to work for change rather than waitor it. and independent senator bernie sanders was quite blunt today, he told the crowd that president trump is, quote, a racist. a day of rvice,eflection and honor, all in the name of the man who helped change the course of civil rights in this country. derrick ward shows us the tributes in d.c. today for l marther king jr. >> reporter: it's a holiday, but thisne for resting, and year for those viewing one of the big parades, not one for being warm.e >> i h it starts soon. it's cold out here.

>> reporter: on martin luther king avenuen the anacostia section of the nation's capital the mlk parade has been a fixture for years and charles viewing spot ime for most of them. >> i've been coming tora the before they make it a holiday, i was out here then. >> it came as a joyous day break. >> reporter: the temperatures weren't enough to chill the spirits of those who came. >> i am brave enough. only for my son. aged to ter: bands m play on and people marched proudly with their banners, be they young or seasoned. all across the area events and opportunities embody the feelayf the holeing a day on, not a day off. in alandria, some young people sol unertoday to help others wi food, and books. >> it was a session we learned some interesting facts about mlk i don't think everybody knew. >> reporter: back here in d.c.,

where the parade ended, service service to the community. >> part of the dream is helping someone else, reachin outo someone else. >> reporter: and for charles, on the day we remember a man taken from us in a time of turmoil, a call to reinvigorate that mean's dream which liv on. >> we as a worlz need to come together. pe>> reporter: if that h perhaps then we will have lived up to the vision he left us with. 4. the mlk memorial, derrick ward news the teenagerth i viral video at the lincoln memorial is defending himself today. >> what he said hapned before his image of a stare down. a warning for the alexandria community tonight after a suspected spike in opioid overdoses claims two lives over the holiday weekd. coming up, what officials think might be to blame. oming up next our coverage of the cold snap takes us down

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get out the fuzzy socks we are battling the cold again tonight. wind chills dipping back down near zer and doug says to settle in for a winter patteln. he'll you about the next storm in a few minutes. but the cold weather doing a number on our roads. huge potholes thatan mess up your car. >> adam tuss is lookin at one spot in particular that's being called dangerous to drivers. >> reporter: well, they are everywhere.

potholes and craters lining some of our busiest roads. >> somebody that has to step up it safe. done, make >> reporter: perhaps the worst stretch of road isn't justro a it's a bridge. look at thes memorial bridge craters have developed on the out bound lanes of theridge and drivers swerve into a lane of oncoming traffic. this is not a good situation on the bridge. you can see it is down to the rebar, the metal underneath the road surface and it's causing some of these drivers to avoid the large hole going in the opposite lane. >> somebodyas to fix it. i got on the phone and e-mail to contacts i have, and nothing happenedep orter: bill uses memorial bridge all the time. he reached out to us a news4 because he believes the bridge is now dangerous. >> cars dodge the potholes and usually it's one lane going towards virginia, andgi dodng

yourself into incoming traffic, which is not healthy. >> reporter: w reached out to the national park service multiple times via e-mail and tweeted them about the issue, but because of the government shutdown some of their operations are impacted. viewers tell us there are other roads in bad shape. canal road between key bridge and mcarthur boulevard is horrible. major chunks of road missing. carol says gw parkway from 495 to roosevelt brie also bad. no incoming traffic dangers, but still an awful daily drive. meantime, maryland road crews say they've been out on pothole patrol. v-dot expects more potholes in the coming weeks. in the district adam tuss, news4. the teenager at the center of this now infamous confrontation at the lincolnme memorial over the weekend said he did nothing to provoke

anyone. the teen is nick sandmann, he goes to a catholic high school in kentucky and he was in washington for the march for life. he says he and his classmates were verbally attacked first by a group calledhe hebrew isra israelites. you can see them in this video. that's when nativeri amen nathan phillip, a veteran, started beating his drum. he said he was there to diffuse the situation but he felt intimidated byta thements staring him down and making racist gestures. >> i intervened and things escalated from there. >> in his elanation nick sandmann said he smiled because, quote, i wanted him to know i was not going to become angry, intimidated or provoked into a larger confrontation. the high school the kidsfr game condemned their actions, apologized to phillips and said

they're considering discipline up to and including expulsion from theaschool. protest there is planned for tomorrow. it has been two yrs since happened. now there's a new battle over the controversial firing of then fbi director trjames comey. a local senator wants a law thaa s it harder to fire an fbi director. we sawhe bill a few days agand wanted to know who and what was behind it. the legislation is called the fire act. it requires thede pre to present good cause in order to fire an fbi director. it's anthony brown who. deuintroduced it. it wld not allow or require james comey to return to the job but he acknowledge it's a challenge to president who fired comey back in 2017 p >>sident trump had the authority to remove the director, but i think d he it for the wrong reasons.

i think the that president trump removed him becau director comey was unwilling to back off that was toogati close to the president. >> with democrats now controlling the u.s. house, our local cgressional delegation, all democratic has a stronger hand getting their bills on the floor. congressman brown said he expects a vote in the house but he expecting to face opposition in the republican controlled u.s. senate. in the news room, scott macfarlane, newst jet me know if i can expect to go outside and see tomorrow what i saw today, a frozen newspaper. >> his newspaper was frozen. >> in my driveway. frozen in a block. >> from the rain on sunday and the col air on monday. >> boom. >> that's what happens man. i thinkl you w see it again tomorrow we are talking about cold temperatures early tomorrow morning. below freezing everywhere. we didn't get above freezing any locations across our area. out there right now, look at the numbers, we're sitting at 21

degrees, winds out of the northwest at 16 miles per hour. that giv us a wind chill in the single digits in the city. look at the cgurent wind s. you notice here, wind gusts still 20 to about 30 miles per hour in our eastern zones but nothing to the west. that shows things are really starting to calm as far as the wind is concerned. even a 5, 10, 15 mile an hour wind is going to make things cold tonight. 1 degree below zero in gaithersburg martinsburg cing in at 1:, a cold night tonight and a cold start tomorrow morning. radar, nothing to show. interesting here, any time we get cold air,e look at clouds that develop just offshore, the reason is because of the coldai moving oifr the warmer waters create those clouds, likh lake effect snow they've seen the last couple days over

the great lakes. we will see these clouds tomorrow afternoon ahead of our next storm. that is this storm. next storm coming in on tuesday into the middle part of the country, st. louis, memphi new orleans, all rain. but for us this is going to bring in much milder air.we e talking about temperatures in the upper 40s to near 50s for most locations durinthe day on wednesday. but that means this one will be all rain again. talking about upwards of half an inch to an inchf rain, area wide and rains wednesday night into the day on mild early on thursday and then the cold air, the heaviest rain thursday morning, the cold air races in behind it and temperatures start to fall thursday. so thursday a nasty day again. 35 degreesmo for ow. breezy and cold. mixture of sun and clouds. sunshine early but then the clouds move in during the late afternoons. heads up for that. the cloudsill make things feel

cooler. 50 on wednesday. 54 on thursday, the rain will be heavy at times early on thpesday. the ttures will fall. i have 54 here but they won't last long.th temperatures will fall all day, the winds pick up, we could see winds gusting upwards of 40 or 50 miles per hour on thursday again. that leads to a breezy and cold friday. and then tracking another system sunday into the tuesday time frame. what is this storm going to do?a lot of computer models say staying offshore, but i'l be watching it for you closely in the next couple days. a littleore on that pattern. see you at 6:45. coming upt 6:30, a warning about deadly overses. julie carey finding out what's behind a ske in the las 72 hours. 31 days and no end it. si families on the verge of missing another paycheck because of the shutdown >> i have toepend on strangers

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diplomatic sources confirmed he was held in a prison in damascus after his arrest but it's been difficult to get information since then. the family is going public two years later in hopes of winning his release. a second attack against u.s. forces in syria within we a suicide bomber targeted a convey in northern syria this morning. we have the story. a reporter: the pentagon has now confirmed thonvoy of u.s. and syrian kurdish forcesn was ived in an apparent car bomb attack i syria. isis called the incident a suicide attack via it's unofficial news agency. syrian state media say thelast targeted a checkpoint in a northeastern province where the u.s. maintains a military base it comes a week after suicide led a in manjib that k number of people, including four

americans, these attacks complicate president donald trump's decisio to withdraw all troops from syria, something he announce last mont and the continued bombings underscore the pentagon's assertions that the islic state remains a threat capable of deadly attacks. nbc news london. p theroll deadline for federal workers is tomorrow. it's looking like friday will bring another paycheck filled with zeros. next at 6:30 how families are getting by with a month without pa she made a splash last year at the mch for our lives rally as a 9-year-old. now nbc news is catching up with the granddaughter of dr. martin luther king jr. we have another day of cold before things turn around a little bit. ug's ten daydo

hello, everybody. weather alert mode because of the cold. we've already had numerous delays tomorrow for area schools. d.c. 19, manassas 15. gaithersburg, wind chill, 1 belowthzero. is what you can expect tonight. winds remain gusty this evening 15 to 20 miles per hour or more. feeling like 0 t 10 degrees through the morning. that means frigid at the bus llop tomorrow. coming up w have the forecast for you, we'll talk about the next storm wednesday/thursday and the weather roller coaster that is the next ten day. right now at 6:30 police in alexandria are sounding the alarm after a spike nancy pelind opioid overdoses.

>> four people overdosed and two of them >>died. etectives are trying to find the source of the drugs and steer overdose survivors into treatment. >> reporter: an alarming pattern in axandria over t holiday weekend. four suspected opioid overdoses in just 72 hours. two women died. one call came in from this aldi grocery store when a customer was found unconscious in the bathroom. >> 30-year-ovy breathing h in the customers bathroom. advising the person is unconscious. >> reporter: health officials and police not waiting to sound the alarm. >> we created a spike alert system when weeree a cin number in a certain amount of time we enjoy there could be a public safety and healthissue. >> reporter: with this overdose spikehey're still awaiting the medical examiner's report to find out what's b tome but investigators are moving ahead to find the source whileco

aging the surviving victims to get treatment. >> we're trying to get the person who ersed into help and treatment. the focus after that is looking at if we can disrupt the illegal sale and distribution of narcotics. >> reporter: the help starts with a new initiative. detectives deliver this rovecovy device for survivors. inside a phone with numbers. >> in it is the detective's number and the treatment center number. we've been able to connect with that person 25% of time and get them r:lp. >> reporolice are hoping to get to those struggling with addiction and their loved ones. the reversal drug narcan can be picked up for free at the alexandria health depae ment. whave a developing story out of prince george's county where police say a man died at the hospital after he was

stabbed around noon inside his home on cedar lane. policeay theuspect and the victim are related and they do have the attacker in custody. today the greater d.c. diaper bank held diaper drive for coast guard families affected by the shutdown. the group says it expects to distribute more than 200,000 diapers out of its inventory but they say they weren't expecting this added demand so they're in a position they have to ask for added donations. you can contribute directly on their website. iey hope to distribute to other furloughed workethe weeks ahead. other workers are looking to put food on the tab as they go another week without a paycheck. this applies to the contract workers as well. chris gordon talked to some of those workersni and the commu groups helping them make ends meet. >>ter: this state department employee with 20 years of service in the federal government brought her 5-year-old daughter lunch at

the world central kip. >> it's a god send. >> reporte chefs for feds is opening a resource center next door toloelp fhed workers cope with their financial challenges. >> thisoc includes the l utility companies offering defederals and things like th. >> reporter: in prince george's county members of the first c baptistrch giving away 3,000gs f groceries to federal workers. it their martin luther king day of service project. >> as a long-time government employee i never thought as head bemy household i would facing a situation where i have to depend on strangers to look foror food my family. it's not right. >> reporter: the church has a program that feeds the ndy on an almost daily basis. but they tell me since the federal government shutdown began one out of every four phone calls they receive for help now coming from a federal

worker. >> no one wants to be in that kind of situation, why we're here to help our neighbors during the that me. >> reporter: kortney brought his three sons with him. >> between me and m wife we've been explaining to them what's been going on with the government andow -- it's basically a tragedy right now. you know, it's a tragedy but we're making itro h. >> reporter: furloughed federal workers getting a helping hand from members of our community. reporting from prince george's county, chris gordon news4. leesburg residents are fighting hate with the naacp is holding a unity march after someone placed 80 ku klux kla fliers on the homes of businesses doors yesterday.th is the third time these fliers have beenound in leesburg in the last couple years. s cluding one batch that passed out this same exact

weekend last year. aon the nations the memory of dr. martin luther king jr. today, a grandaughter of his that never got to actually meet him is looking to the future.ec you mayl her from last year taking the crowd by storm no the march if for our lives rally. w she is just 10 years old this year and she is poised, fashion gn te, and we think wise beyond her years. >> what did you think of the moment your grandfather had 1963 in washington? >> the speech was powerful. >> yeah. what was the power of it? >> it had structure, his words were powerful, and he said it th power. so you can actually feel it through your soul. >> do you want to follow in your grandfather's footsteps? >> well, some footsteps i do want to follow and keep on the legacy because some of them are important. but i want to make my own footsteps. >> a little rtorical connection to the family

tradition there. just ahead on nbc "nightly news," more with rolandaene king about the path she wts to create for herself. that's coming your way after news4 at 6:00. only on news4 she has lost a husband and two sons in four years. and yet, today it was wanda dudley's day to serve. >> you, know they smile at me, and i c don'te with my problems. >> coming up, why volunteering on martin luther kingay or any day is so important to wanda. >> we can learn something from her, don't you think? a new feature on facebook th lets people get more political but there is a iopresidential exce wind chills are falling again tonight. now loudounnd a

breakinews just coming in now. a local high school says it is investigating a pair of hateful acts of vandalism. over the weekend the principal at richard montgomery high school said someone spray painte a swastika on the school building. the end of last month someone there.ainted the n word the principal plans on addressing this tomorrow with the stud>ts. acebook is launching a new way for users to support a cause or movement. it's ad news f petition called community actions. users can create a tipetion, notify relevant public officials or agencies and facebook won't allow users t tag president donald trump or vice president mike pence. the company wants to focus on local movements. the goal is to get friends to hit the support button so it goes viral. there's no way to dislike a petition unless you want to

write a comment or present an opposing campaign. sk calls from tsa employees hit bwi marshall harder than just about any other airport in the country this about 10% of the workers called in absent nationwide, compared to 3% on the same date last year. theongest delay, 25 minutes at bwi. they say that 99.9% of u.s. passengers did get through security in less than 30 minutes. thousands of tsa employeesre about to miss their second paycheck because of the shutdown. hopes of a minimum wage hike were dashed in virginia's state senate today. it did have republican support but it died by a 21-19 vote. this means that virginia's minimum wage will remai $7.25. the same as mandated by federal

law. wages in d.c., maryland, and west virginia are higher. m tin luther king jr. day is a call to serve. and coming up onl on news4 you'll meet a mnther who spe today answering that call at one of the most difficult o times her life. how she's choosing joy over grief. as we get ready for another night in a dee freeze. we'll show you what other states are dealing with in the northeast. not just cold but they have ice and snow. it has been nasty across parts of the east over the last couple days. today the coldestemperatures we've seen so far this winter. 24 degrees the high temperature d.c. 18 in gaithersburg. last time we saw this over a year ag yes, more storms on the way, though. i'll show you whatach one e

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dr. martin luther king jr.'s lega has inspire people to give back and volunteer each year. and megan fitzgerald tod talked to a volunteer who has that spirit all yearlong. she helps others as she heeals from tragedies in her loan life. >> for years the upo has been helping and saving >>lives. e serve the underserved population of washington d.c. ala is the director of voluntrs here and knows firsthand the impact her ornization has on neighbo struggling to survive. >> we provide child care throu office of learning department, job placement, job training.

>> reporter: but one particular volunteer provides more than just food and resoces. >> she's gwenuine andincere. >> reporter: her name is wanda dudley and she gives hope t ople who feel like life has dealt them an unbearable hand because she felt that way once too. >> my husband passed away -- well, he was killed in 152015. andde my son dyied last year, june of 2018 from pneumonia. >> reporter: and last year her youngest son was gunned down in southeast. >> it's a trial and tribulation i go through on a daily basis. >> r orter: if you meet wand you never know about the pain she carries. >> i can't explain it, whenle peome they smile at me, i don't come wh my problems. reporter: her pain and depression disappears while

wanda is serving and helping to save the lives of others, few realize they are the one helping to save hers. know over they don't even that i pull joy from them. >> reporter: in the district i'm megan fitzgerald news4. e > in the meantime we dealing with weather that makes you want to hibernate, and feel a big old bear. misery does love company so it turns out there are lot of people out there with frigid temperatures and worse as you head up north. >> reporter: i'm justin she canner in hampton, connecticut one of the towns hit hardest by ice, more than 1,500 customers in this town still witut power, they don't have heat inside their homes. look at ts street. this is one example of the many tree limbsze fro that came crashing down,in t down power lines in the process. the mayor is warning residents to be mindful because many of

the branchs are still covered in ice. >> reporter: i'm chris in worcester, massachusetts. the high t perature todayzero. that happened at midnight. most of the day spent bel zero. so cold you can take this cup of boiling water and turn it right into ice crystals. reporting in worcester, meteorologist chris glonniger. back to you. >> that hurts to look at. >> that is kind of cool. >> i like that guy. i follow him on twitter. he gets into the weather, too. we're not going to be able to freeze our coffee, are we? >> sure. you leave it outside it'll freeze. at's for sure. you need slightly colder temperatures for that, but we're close. some areas getting down to about 5 degrees tonight, in the city ing if if low of 15. the wind beginning to calm a little bit but still seeing breezy conditions some locations

15, 20 miles per hour. rit now it is a cold night. 21 in the city. temperatures dropping down into the teens by 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, this is in the city. many of you are in the teens across the area. with the wind, look at the wind chills, 7 in d.c., 3 at dulles. 1 below zero in gaithersburg. dropped to 8 in college park. and 12 towards annapolis. it is a col night tonight and a frigid start to the day tomorrow. we're not worried about rain or snow the next storm doesn't move in for two days so we have time to us out but still some of have snow on the ground from last week's snowstorm. 4 degrees toniwt. by tomor morning, we see the wind chill get a little bit beer. 5 from frederick, 6 in, gaithersbu in d.c. because the winds subside a little bit. that's why many of e school areas have postponed or delayed school by two hours during the day tomorrow so giving the sun blamt of time to do its work.

23 in gaithsburg tomorrow afternoon. 25 in manassas. more clouds tomorrow afternoon tooo it'll feel cooler tomorrow. dangerou cold at the bus stop wind chill between zero and breezy tomorrow but not windy like today. today we saw 50 mile an hours wisds the district. i don't think we'll see that again tomo aow. 35 degrethe time you're picking up the kids and again it is going to be cold and cloudy at that time. now the nds, they're going to pick up again behind our next storm system. let's talk about this winter roller iscoaster. s what's going on right now across the country. storms making theire way from north toward the south and up the coast. e bit inland a lit it's rain, that's the next storm system on thursday moving just inland enough it's all rai areas pittsburgh and up towards buffalo and toronto seeing the snow. here comes the next one. is is for next week. what exactly is going to happen

with this one? it's about a week away buthis is the one i'm really watching becausebe there wilold air here if it forms enough along the coast we could be talking about snow next week. right now still remains to be seen. a lot of time t watch the pattern shape up. one thing for ,su the winter roller coaster is there. 35 tomorrow. up to 50 on wednesny. late r on wednesday night, into the day on thursday. all rainsd on th. upwards of an inch of rain on thursday, 54 but we see falling temperatures all day, from 54 to 28 by friday morning. friday on the cold side. same deal with saturday. sunday the clouds move in ahead storm system and we are storm watching in the weather ceer, yet another storm late next week. we've got three storms to watch over the nex ten days. >> souous like fun for y. not for us. coming up, wizards stay hot while we see another d.c. sport star for the first time in a

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>> announcer: this is the xfinity sports desk. >> right at the gates a welcome site today, alex smith at the wizard's game making his first public appearance since breaking his leg in november. our cam sashowing smith sporting a hefty cast. a bit startlinghen you fir see it. bringing his son into the locker room after the me. smith declined to comment tome a, but still great to see him out there with a smile on his face. a little shocking when you first see that right there. that is a large coburaption. as we said, good to see alex

smith. >> nice to see him upright and walking. here's hoping thatoe thing the trick. is he going to play again? >> that's the million dollar question we have to wait and see. redskins semioptimistic but i'm not adoctor. >> you don't even play one on t. >> no. >> but did stay at a -- no. the wizar c arembing up the eastern conference standings. this afternoon their firstame ba since playing last thursday 20th don and for the consecutive season washington playing on martin luther king jr. day. >> i hope we can continue to pursue his legacy to this day. let's think about that, and pray love and positivity for the rest of the year and our lives. >> bradley beal addressing the crowd on martin luther king day. he had 16 points. wizards off and running. third quarter, wizards turning defense into offense. beal with the block. here they come. kicked out to trevor ariva, he

led the way for watch with 20 points. wizards putting the finishing touches on thi one. porter jr. knocking down t tray, he had 19. wizards up by 20. they go on t win 101-87 their ivurth win in their last games. a big win on a special day not lost on this team. >> it means everything. 's martin luther king day, had to get the "w" on this day. we know whate represent and what he fought for. but it's all around it's just a great day. >> it helps remind you to appreciate life, continue to always say fight the fight no matter if it's adversity good or bad, whatever you're going through in t life,se are words i take from him. to play on a day like today, it's big. i love those shirts. lots of hoop action, the folks at capitol one arena flipping the flooror

georgetown hosting creighton. maryland hosting michiga state. we'll have those highlights and scores from the hoardwood at 11. the capitals are back to work. one fanffering to take al ex-'s spot. the cinital lg five straight games followed by a players only meiting yesterdayh another meeting this morning with their coaches. back-to-back games starting tomorrow before the all-star breaks and the caps hoping then communicat leads to correction. >> we played good hockey the last six monthsw we kno when we're not playing well. it was time to talk about it and hopefully turn it around. >> we had a chat last night. a bigger chat thisrn mog. try to keep a good and honest attitude about where we're at and where we want to get to and keep working towards it. >> we're in aat lull e want to make sure we come to work with the right mindset o

putting it awfll out there and getting better and improving. after the show i heading to my car and taking wisconsin home. be if you ask tony romo he probably already cald it. he's showing off his skills and predicting plays before it happens. >> they're going to run ts ball. kansas city has to -- >> there's a hand off to burkhead. pulls ahead and scores. >> rock has to chip, running back has to help. edelman in the middle of the field. >> pocket sealed down the middle. edelman again with a third down catch. >> it's like he knows what he'si doing or som. >> amazing. >> he's so entertaining. i love it. >> so funtc to >> i thought the network was going to stop him from doing that this year. >> it's a huge hit. i think some people found it annoying at first. >> i was loving it. >> we need him as our defensive coordinator, right? >> we're not going that far.

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