delay. >> manassas city, manassas park city, spotsylvania, king george nty schools. falls churchit loudoun and en culpeper owo hours late. jefferson, berkeley, hardy, morgan county all on a two-hour delay. hampshire, grant, and mineral county are o a -hthrr delay. melissa mollet is standing by. but first chuck bell with this very cold morning. >> goodng mor temperatures have fallen into the teens. there is optism in the forecast and sunshine today and a whole lot less of a gusty wind will allowemperatures back in to freezing. as youep outside, same goal

numbers. mid teens around the city. the winds are nowher near as strong as yesterday, but even a little as the feels-like temperature is back down. so heavi coat, hat, scarves, gloves all railroad. tomorrow and thursday, you're probably going to need i here's your school day forecast. mid teens in the next hour or 34. climbing up to a closer look on into the beginning of the weekend coming up in a few more minutes. all right, melissa, what have we got? >> we're seeing northbound at i. right si blocked by the disabled vehicle, not really causing any issue there.g so we're go to take a look a oumething else coming up. centreville, eas 66, 29 centreville, crash on the left side. 95 in virginia, no issues. white's ferry shut down. high water on thepomac is the reason there. northbound 270 noise and clear.

reminder, senging tracking on the red line. sounds like we have a signal thsue outside. eun? >>k you. it is safe to say the winter blast is biting our region in more ways than one. not ohm are we dealing with colder temperatures, we're seeing major potholes cropping up across the entire area. we have some of the worst road conditions. nicole has more. goodrn g to you. l we're talking about potholes. let's take ak here on the memorial bridge. you can see just how damages the potholes can be. we're talking about drivers dipping into oncomng traffic to

avoid having what could happen to their cars. canal road between key bridge and macarthur and another viewer tweeted us about pg.w.kway from 495 to roosevelt bridge. there feeling the effects as well. here's why bill reached out to us. >> i take thisridge nearly earn morning to go to work. you see the bridge there. >> reporter: they have learned the national parks services is one of many agency affected by this. >> nicole jacobs, i know you're pots g a lot of trouble out there.

thank you. >> emergency shelters set up around the citypa to c our homeless neighbors out of the cold staying outsideor several hours in weather like this. it can causeythermia or frostbi frostbite. >> it's horrible. it was so cold last night where we weree' >> trying to help each other in this ecament. we're hoping to god he hears ow're prayers and gives us shelter. >> call 311 orr -- or 911 if there's a family emergency. the partialvernment shutdown has affected everything from the metro to marrge licenses and has now entered its second monl. democrats shut down a deal offered over the weekendy the president, but the senate may still try and take itup. while senate republicans support

it. theyould need to pass it. the president wants a deal on the border wall before the government reopens. later today d.c. mayor muriel bowser is calling on the president to end the shutdown. she'spking later at a fight bank. it's not only mayor bowser, but virginia state lawmakers are hoping to help. jeremy mcpike has but up a bill offering a 30-day stay. it would help independent contractors or employees for help with the federal government. if passed, it would be allowed to take effect imm for those who structure to make

ends meet, they hope to hear today. >> that's right. they're joining force. it's opening at 1721 pennsylvania avenue near andres world center kitchen. it provides food and other kinds of support. that kickurp groceries, diapers, pet food andget things about their phone t pil. s includes the local fa sill. we're going to be offering food and supplies. >> the center will open everyd from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. if you need help, nbc 4 is here to asiff you. you can pull up the fr nbc washingtonapp. search shutdown resources. we do have some breaking news concerning singer chris

brown. ur cory smith is at the li desk. what happened. >> "associated press" is reporting police sea chris brown has been detained in paris following a rape charge. this is not the first time. you remember back in 2015 he was put on probation after being convicted in a 2009 felony assault against his then girlfriend superstar rihanna. a woman says she wasin held a her will at his house, but chris brown's career has continued to be steady thanks to his ard and fan base. police officials say chris brown has been detained in paris

following a rape accusation. we'll continue to follow the story. >> thank you. freshman senator camela harris is the latest democrat to join the race for president in 2020. thfornia senator is the first african-american candidate to enter the rate. . her campaign will focu on reducing the high cost of linking and providing health care for all. >> let's do this together. let's claim o future for ourselves, our children, and for our country. hours after announcing her campaign yesterday, senator harris was in d.c. attending an mlk event at her al ma matter, howard univeraty. >> how university is one of the most important aspects for my life and it's wheri first ran

so thishes it all began. >> senator harris has been an tspoken critic of the president. several others have filed paperwork announce presidential bids for 2020. light now police are trying to figde out what le to a deadly stabbing. it happened yesterday in a home on car lane. authorities tell us the suspect and victim are related andshe has been arrested. it's now 6:09. a sudden spike in sus spelkded opioid overdoses has alexandria police on high alert. >> a r-30-yd in the bathroom and 's advised he's unconscious. >> detectiv are trying to find the source of the deadly drug. >> we have cree yeahed a spite alert system where when we see a

certain number in a crtain am of time, it could be an issue. our first thing is getting themt help and trnt. >> detectives are handing out what they call recovery bags it's programmed with a numberfo the dream fa sill. for a second time, a rockville high school has been vandalized with messages of hate. someone spray painted a swas the ay on a building at richard montgomery high school over the weekend.ac ording to our news partners, the swastika has been removedan they're investigating, but sadly this not the first time the school has had to deal with something like this. just la month someone spelled out the "n" word near fencing outside of the stadium. the principal plans to address stums today. the d.c. mayor murielbowser vetoed a bill that would treat

the in fact by the phen. they worry that weakening the consequences will increase those trying to ride for free. they face jail time and a criminal record. still ahead on "news4 today," a medical breakthrough infi theht against cancer. we'll tell you about a knew theme treatment. they had to go in and save a woman from a burning house. chuck? >> good morning hoe let. foo morning. it promises to be cold but dry.

e back. . it's 6:14. 16 degrees outside of our studios in northwest washington. we have several school delays scrolling at the bottom of your screen. a new and updated era begins for a school in northern virginia. this morning students will walk k o the new patrick henry through 8 school in alexandria. it's been five years in the the classrooms are larger and more modern. there is a new indoor performance space as well. we've pu a time lapse of the construction about the new school in the nbc washington app. search atrick henry." in news for yo health this morning, researchers may have found a way to tell parenting about the vaccine for their

children, they asked more than 1,100 parnts of unvaccinated students to wat s ts t s ts to t we're working for your hellm thisning. there is a new less invasive surgery option avaleable for women who have breast cancer. it's called cryo oblation therapy. doctors freeze the tumor.e it kills cells of the tumor and the dead cells are gradually reabsorbed by the body. the procedure does not have to be formed by the hospital and patients can go back to their normal life after the treatment is over. it's already available for patients in the u.s. it costs about the trd of a temperature cal vasectomy

surgery. >> we loveit when the office food comes in. a new study for disease and prevention control say a quarter of adults get f they're forom vending machines or social events at least once a week. >> we celebrate birthdays. >> we do it regurly unless you rk here at 4:00 and then it's every day. it's not really every day. >> we lio -- it's a kmum thing, team-billioning thing. >>yeah. researchers say motive motive of the food is high in sugar and sodi sodium and calories. that's what makest so good. maybe we should bring out the veggie tray. en >> li if we brought carrot sticks, we would be booed out the station. >> it would be leftovers for days.

take a look at this. a woman was trapped inside her n home new york. take a look. they were able to get her out safely, but it w not easy. we snatched her up, a shee all, and brought her out. >> the home is still coated in ice this morning and there wass nificant damage to the inside. no word yet on what started that fire.

>> it's a big surge of relatively warm air coming in. that will help the meltdown for them. right now your temperatures are starting off down in the teens. yet again, 16 now in washington. be s are not going to anywhere as near as much of a problem as they were yesterday. even a light wind here. current temperature, 9. 10 in warrenton. 17 in annapolis. with a little breeze, windchills are down close to zero inmany spots. certainly you're gong to need your coat for today. dgerous code. limit your outdoor time as best you can, but sunshinei will the mid temperatures into the noon. you'll need to put your seat heater on sizzle and don't

forget to increase your widshield washer fluid. we'll be dry and sunny today. here's futureth w through tomorrow. could have a few trops of rain as early about lunchtime tomorrow. rain becoming more likely as we get toward sundown. it cou be a little. warmer. kuwait a bit of rain. it could be quite a burst of rainju coming in time for the thursday morning commute. that is a cold front which will bring gusty winds back in thursday afternoon and temperatures back down colder than average for friday and saturday. today, 34. tomorrow up to 50, wishers coming in late in the day. 54 and hesdy rain th morning. temperatures falling into the 30shursday afternoon and staying in the 30s for highs both friday and saturday. let's go to first 4 traffic and

et the latest. >> good morning. take a look. chopp 4 showing you this picture. multi-car crash and response on scene. as we see, you can see a delay on the left side of the roway hoping that gets out of here pretty soon. upper marlboro, inbound, pennsylvania, avenue, a tow is on the gy to that out of the way. whitey fer shut down due to high water on the potomac. travel times, 270 looks okay. top of the beltway, a little anslow between 95 270. 66 inbound, 59 northbound, major issues. remember to listen when you hop incour . eun? >> melissa, thank you. still ahead on "news4 today," maintaining your key fob. tat to do keep it working to

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lock the car. >> right. chuck? >> i can't save you from that. >> no. but look. we've got this for you, chuck. you know, yu may dread the winter blast, but the penguins at the cincinnati zoo, they love it. the zoo's penguins, they waddle through the pathways every friday through monday during the winter months as long as it's cold enough for them to go out.' >> th the only ones who like this cold, chuck. >> what do they do onaal friday though? all right. your car, you can get it washed and get the salt off of it. just know more rain is coming and >soon. plus dog-watching danger. a desperate plea after her do were stolen at gunpoint. what she wants you to know about

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le just about 6:30 as we ta a live look on this tuesday morning. it's a pretty picture but it doesn't feel so pretty as we stt this short week f some of you, and check out these numbers. my goodness. temperatures in the teens, bitter cold and dangerously cold.ly >> dangeroucold. oakland has gone up to 3 degrees. it was zero a couple of hours ago. >> gmorning, everyone. i'm eun yang. >> i' molette green. aaron is sitting somewhere this morning. ye hiding? h. there's some good news. it's going to warm up, and many of the kiddos, the students out there, are going to have extra time to stayef ine they head out to their cold bus savps. >> we many delays. prns georges county will open two hoursate and allegheny

will open three hours late. in virginia, fauquier, he wier, clark, fairfax, andpr nce william county are on a two-hour delay. >> spotsylvania, alexandria, king george county schools, fredericksburg, loudoun and ulpeper will open two hours late. warren county schools opening one hour lay. >> jefferso berkeley, hardy, and morgan counties are on o a two-hour delay. hamshire, grant, and mineral county are on a three-hour delay. they're running on the bottom of your screen and in the nbc washington app. right now let's head over to chuck for the forecast. >> he'll fill us in before melissa gives us an update on your commute. how cold is it? >> it's a cold start to the morning.ea nowhere close to the record. the records are below zero this

tomb of ar. so certainly a cold start but not unprecedent or record-breaking cold. think of warm thoughts. maybe that will help. temperatures 5 winchester. 14 in clinton and 16 in st. mair city.do walking forecast, these two are mine. you can go to manerescuealliance.org and add some lazy bum to your amily. temperatures will get into the upper 20s and low 0s for today. noalking without those heavy coats on for them though. let's go to melissa mollet to on. out what's going >> b.w. parkway and southbound. chopper 4 showing you northbound and southbound because of crashes on each side of the road. look at the responses here thme. d doesn't look terrib le on th

map. bt that's going to change in the next couple of minutes. southbound definitely looks a lot worse. upper marlboro, d inboun woodyard, disabled vehle watching for some chances for rain tomorrow and thursday and before cold sunshine returns for thweekend. 10-day forecast just ahead. problems on b.w. parkway

t's now 6:45. let's take a live look outside.t

a beautiful e as the sun is getting ready to bring some heat. aittle bit. you're going to need extra layers. the cold temperatures ar going to stick around. several school districts have delayed classes so the kidsav don't to head out to the bus stop quite as early this morning. we're going to have the delays runningft the bottom your screen. you can find them in the washington nbc app. chuck will be back in a few minut to look at the teeny bit of warmup that's on the way. we're now 32 days into the government shutdown which means in just a few more days furloughed workers will once again see a pay period end without a paycheck. among the workersot getting paid, tsa employees. >>tom costello joins us live from reagan national. many have taken to calling in sick instead of woking without pay, andt's putting many airports in a tight spot. >> that's right. let's be clear.

the tsa administrator wants verybody to know they're really not sick. he knows that. they're calling in citing financial difficulties, but thee national rf tsa saws calling out had reachedn 10% sunday. 10% of the tsa work-force as erthey're going day a day after day without pay. you may ask,si why are we fo on tsa officers so much. first of all, they're the lowest compensate. the average salary about $30,000 a year and many of them admit hey literally live paycheck to paycheck. if they don't havek a paych and now it looks like two paychecks it really ptting them in a financial bind. in addition, this is where the public has the most obvious contact with them. i flew over the last few days from d.c. to l.a., l.a. to da

florida, floo d.c. and i saw so muc generosity thanking them for working when they were not gettipaid. they say that's our job, we're happy to do it. but you know they're facing dchys with many restaurants around the airport helping to feed the tsaer off food banks opening up. many offering short-term no-interest loans so they can make their bills. this becoming very acute for the tsa officers and other governmencr workers as the entire country really struggling to make ends meet. >> it's nice to see the one bright stop. tom costello live for us at reagan national airport. thank you. to catch more information next on the "today" show. don't forget, there's a new resource. >> chef joses and has opened

chefs for feds.nt the cer will be open every day from 9:00 to 5:00. keep an eye on our nbc shington app. there's plenty of resource information lifted in there to help those impacted by the shutdown. for the second time a rockville high school has been vandalized with messages of hate. meone spray painted a swas the kay on richard montgomery highh l over the weekend. according to our news partners wt, the swastika has been removed and roggeville police a areinvestigating. it's not the first time. the principal plans to address students today. d.c.'s mayor and council are expected to clash over penals for those who ride the metro bu' play. mayor murielwi bowser treat

the offense as a fine. e council may overturn that veto. they worry that weakening the penalty will only crease the number of people trying to ride for free. metro says it loses between $25 million and 50 million dollars a year. they fail under the current lay jail time, a fine, and a criminal record. a veto requires two-thirds of the counsel. people are running forcover. all the snow and ice is wreaking havoc. we're talking major potholes and craters across the area. >> you hate them too. driving along the route, many of you have to drive the memorial idge. major problems, nicole? >> yes. let's just say nody is getting anywhere fast or smoothly. let's take a look at memorial bridge here where you can see it

is a bump and a bump and a bump every few feet here. it's do to the rebar in some cases causingve d to dip over into lanes to missic tra that could happen to their carsr ano driver tweets us, feling the effects as well. viewer bill reached out to us. he had sn some drivers taking some pretty risky moves on the bridge. >> very worried for two reasons. numr one, the hell and safety aspect. cars dodged the potholes. ier'rdo -- you're dodging yours

into incoming traffic. >> he said he's reached out to contacts in his rolo deck and this type of thing and got no answer as to what was going on here. i can tell you "news4" has found out that the national parks service is onee of many agencies affected by the partial government shutdown. back to you. >> more of a trickle down effect for this shutdown as people face these problems on the roads. nicole jacobs, thank you. continuing our team coverage we turn to chuck bell for more on tis continuously ridiculous forecast. >> all right a predawn glow in our morning sky. sunday, yesterday, and today, all three days recorded temperatures below 20 degrees. this was the first time this winter on sunday thti nal airport dropped below 20 degrees.

it actually was a lot colder last january, especially the first half ofnt the right now, no need to compare it to last january. it's flat out cold. 9 degrees here. 11 in fairfax, 18 in annapolis. wnndchills are still d in the single numbers. so you'll need to layer up. plenty of sunshine with afternoon temperatures peeking in the low tempatures. that has a big impact on our forecast for tomorrow. likely to have a dry commute tomorrow. rain picks up in intensityb -time tomorrow night into the first half of thursday. there goes a colfront. so that thursday morning commute is likely to be messy. lots and lots of rain. ofld get an inch of rain o

the system. once the northwest g esby, sunny and 34. climbing. 54 thursday morning with the rain. then falling into the 30s thursday afternoon. good morning, melissa. >> good morning, mr. bell. b.w. parkway, 295 near 50, northbound ad southbound have crashes here blocking the left lanes there each direction. so we're seeing some delays there as you take a look. inbound 50 i being impacted. you can try route 1 instead and work your way around that. for washington, northbound, 210 after ft. washington road, disabled vehicle there. taking a look in virginia, fairfax, eastbound 66, fairfax, dabled vehicle. white fehr y still closed because of high water on the potomac. as for your travel times. 39 miles per hour. we're going to get you there. top of the beltway, 24 miles per

ur at this opponent. that's a little slow. 66 inbound, 95 northbound, both normal. remember to listen to you hop in your car today. >> thank you, melissa. it is 6:55. right now prince george's county ative is taking on one of the greats in tennis. francis tiafoe is facing rafael nada in the quarterfinals in tho australian n. they're getting ready for the big match in this video here. tiafoe has pulled off a few upsets already, knocking off the 5th and 20th raved ayers. rafa is ranked second in the world. the score was 2-5 in the third set. we're just hearing that nadal, rafa, just won. it wasook a david and goliath matchup about but tiafoe is 21. he gets to learn a lot with oof he best to ever play the

hegame. >> tact that he made it to the quarterfinals -- >> i'm very proud of him. >> don't forget that name. a her some things to know, whelan was arreste in moscow back in december on spicion of fispying. nbc's kr simmons will have more. singer chris brown was taken into custody. a woman filed a rape complaint against him and two others. investigators have another two days to decide whether to file charges. brown faces potential charges of aggravated rape and drug infractions. oscar nominations will be announced later today. many are expected to get several nominations. can't wait to see gaga in her dress at the oscars. you can see that livehe on

"today" show. ay to the chef will open a store aimed at helped furloughed workers. head to our nbc washington app for a list of the shutdowns. us. that does it for the "today" show is next. thanks for joining us. ha

deadly deep freeze. tens ofouillions from the sth to the northeast waking up to another day of dangerously cold weather. >> i have likenour layers o right now, but it's not really helping. >> al is tracking a new winter storm that could become the next travel nightmare. new misery, theovernment shutdown entering an unprecedented second month. airport delays growing. the tsa dealing with a record number of workers calling out sick. millions of americans facing another week of zero dollar paychecks. pressure mounting on both sides to finally reach a deal that appears nowhere in> sight. canceled, the kentucky school at the center of