let's get to amelia draper in the storm center to break it to us gently. >>orm we're dealing with rain and snow, changing to all snow. and the cold air moves in wednesday and sticks around thursday and even friday as well. the national weather service has issued a winter weather advisory for just about everybody, all the counties here inle pu that includes the entire d.c. metro area. this begins around noon and expires around midnight. it bins earli for the counties to the north and later for counties to the south. download our app and get the exact timing if for your county. you can expect a mix of rain and snow moving in mid-morning nganging to all snow in the late afternoon to eve hours. we'll pick up 1 to 3 inches. and bause of the timing, right around evening commute, it's t goingbe slick and slushy.

theorning mmute, no problem. slick spots looking likely tuesday evening. i'm going to have more on how theks system l to impact schools jt after 5:15. and storm team 4 is working for you as this winter weather mos in from thenow to wind chills below zero, we are tracking it all on our nbc waington app. just search storm team 4. it's over fornow. today marked the first day back for hundreds of thousands of federal employees and contractors here at home and across the country. but the pastive weeks have been damaging to our economy. to the tune of billions of s. doll and it'll be a while before everything gets back tono al. scott macfarlane joins us from the news room with the latest. >> todayard the start of getting back into a routine for hundreds of thousands furloughed since december. check out this tweet from the

official u.s.epartment of agriculture account. saying they're really, nine times, happy to be back at work. while people are happy to be back on the job, some economic effects are becoming permanent. the nonpartisan congressional budget office said the economy took an $11 billion hit over the past five weeks. 3 bilon they say is not recoverable. and now in three weeks trying to reach a deal or declaring another shutdown or the president declaring a national emergency. >> we don't want another government shutdown. we want a deal that border security. it seems so simple. we need it, ntwe're in agree there's a problem, so fix it. ar sanders said the best way to get the fix is legislatively. meanwhile, museums and parks will be opening on a rolling basis and back pay for the workers should be o this week.

>> government workers are happy toack on the job but for many it's going to take a while to recover. tracee wilkins continues our team coverage this evening. sheom talked to federal workers today. tracee? >> reporter: we're here of nasa.t as can you see things are up and running there. today was really about these employees who have been away from work for more than a month to catch up on e-mails, the meetings, talk with supervisors about what they can expect and tryingo tt back to business as usual. >> happy to be back! >> reporter: some federal government employees at the u. census burea are celebrating their first day back after the shutdown. others are trying to figure things out after more than a month away >> a lot of people trying to remember what on earth they were doing a month ago. that's pretty much it. wn >> reporter: wn d.c. >> it's a good feeling, but it's like startin >> reporter: some employees of the national endowment for

humaniti r are stillling over the loss of pay even with a paycheck on the way. >> i washe telling what i went through to fill out unemployment forms and it was very confusing to do that and i had to fill out a 15-page, you know, appeal. it was just really hard to get throug. i ended up getting a tsp loan so i was covered. now i have to figure out how to pay everything back. >> it wa demoralizing. we believe in our agency's ndssion and the importance of our work a it's hard to retain ndthat belief when these of things happen. >> reporter: then there's the looming fear that it could all happenn. ag >> it was stressful. seems like it's going to come again. >> reporter: any concerns about the 15th? >> oh, yeah, sure, concerns. not like -- i don't know that i have that muchnfluence over it, so i'm not going to worry about it too much. just see what happens. >> reporter: now i talked with plenty of empeyees who told what they're doing is paying a

bunch of attention to what's going on with the presid wt's tweets aching the news coverage to see if, in fact, they'll be able to avoid another th.tdown on the 15 i'm tracee wilkins, back to you in the studio. >> so many challenges with reentry. all of the tourist th attractions i district are slowly reopening after the shutdown. tomoow all smithsonian museums and the national zoo will reopen on their rular schedule. however the ren wick gallery stays closed until saturday. the national museum of art reopens tomorrow. no opening dates for the national archives or the white house visitor'ce er. stay with news4 as federal workers head back to work. we'll have new reaction and a deeper look at the impact of the shutdown all evening. a man i accused in a crash

that killed three young children, critically injured their parents, he appeared in court today. thomas hawks is facing multiple ch remains in custody on an $80,000 bond. prosecutors say hawks had been driving while heavily intoxicated last month when his vehicle collided with another on route 210. that crash killed 5-year-old twins and their 1-year-old other. if convicted hawks is facing up to 36 years in prison. this evening we are learning some new information about a deadly shooting in e district. three people gunned down, saturday night along fort davis place in southeast. pat collins has been talking to people in that area and he now joins us live. pat? >> reporter: wendy, when killers kill, generally they run as fast as they can from the scene. but not this time. this is where it happened.

th 1500 block ofutort davis plheast. one block long. no outlet. onway in, one way out. a lot of seniors live here. a lot of retireees live here. it's a quiet street. so quiet you can hear the birds in the air. it was anything but quiet here saturday night. see these circles on the pavement? gsthey represent shell cas two cars, a gray car parked here, a black car pulls up alongside. gun fire, shot after shot after shot after shot. how did it sound? >> pow, pow,pow, pow, pow, like hat. >> reporter: aftthat? >> it was just quiet. >> reporter: when the smoke clears, two guys in the front

seat of the gray car, they're dead. owa little bit further d the street, a man is found dead near thecurb. now get this, that black car, that getaway car, moves down ths street but a little bit and comes to a stop. a guy gets out of the bck car, comes back to the body of the man in the street pats him down, goes through hisck poets, then the guy gets into the black car and off it goes. what does something like this do to a neighborhood? >> itraumatized the kids around here. that's the main thing. feel as though the streets notd safe aroere for nobody. which is true. >> reporter: now it'snclear as to what, if anything, was takena from the deads pockets. police are still looking for three suspects in this case. jim, back to you. >> pat collins. pat, thank you. a female student at the

university of maryland woke up in her dorm room early yesterday to find a man crawling into bed with her. news4 mark segraves spoke with students tay about their fears after this frightening invasion of privacy. >> it's kind s ofry coming home to like that when we just move in. i can't believehat happened. that's awful. >> reporter: for these freshman at the university of maryland learning that one of their classmates was assaulted in her dorm room is unsettling. considering this t j their first few weeks of college life. >> this is my first semester here, actually. so it was kind of scary to hear thatas definitely shocking. i hope nothing like that happens to me. >> reporter: according to the university of maryland police it happened here inside elkton hall. a coed dormitory. about 6:30 sunday morning a female studentas sleeping when an unknown man let himself into her dorm room and got in bed with her andrt s to touch her. police say the woman started to

scream and the suspect ran away. they say her dorm room was not locked. >> it's a wake up call to make sure my door is locke and i have my key on me. and if it happens, scream and tell him t get out. >> reporter: this student got a call from her parents whoo a got the text alert from campus police. >> they were freaked out, too. >> reporter: what did your parents say? >> to l at night and keep assafe possible. >> reporter: according to police before he ran off he said something to the victim about og legend, a refence to powerful strain of marijuana. elon hall w in the news last year after mold problems forced many students to move out. on campus at the university of maryland, mark segraves. late this afternoon campus poli sent out a second alert that the individual in the elkton hall has been identified. they tell us there's no threat tono campus news4 has reached out to the

university and the campus police forfi clation on this, and they have not returned our calls or an arrest on a different sex assault yesterday at the university. patrick lock of washington is accused of putting his arm around a female student and rcing her to touch him inappropriately. that student was walking along field housedrive, she ran to safety, lock is charged with unlaul touching. dozens of local employers me together earlier today to talk about strategies to support the district's sonomy. thisart of a new program launched by the mayor,uriel bowser's office, called employer enganlment 100. it's focusgd on support and keeping d.c. based businesses together and engaged. s shed the shutdown demonstrated how important iis to have this initiative. >> the last 35 days of shutdown have indeed been difficult for us. we have demonstrated the resilience of our economy.

and we should all feel challenged to keep making our economy more resilient. >> the mayor says the best way to keepci the 's economy from hitting a breaking point is to tragic more private sector employers to the distri. we'r just getting started here on news4 at 5:00.ro tonight gwing concerns for pedestrians in alexandria after several recent cases of pedestrians beinedhit and kill. >> adam tuss is taking a closer look at this dangerous intersection. >> you can now have them as pets in d.c. and fairfax county but you want a hedgehog.ir a f demonstrated a preschool and swim club how a community is coming together to fix this. >> it's more than a building. >> it's more than a building. it's --

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some serious winter weather is headed our way and it could seriously impact your commute tomorrow. we're tracking huge temperature drop and snow. storm team 4 meorologist, amelia draper has the timing. and we'll tell you why this one is so very tricky. keeping you safe while crossing the street. it has bome a focal point for pedestrian safety organizations in alexandria. just last night a car hit and killed a man oneminary road just feet from his apartment. news4 transportation reporter adam tuss with growing concerns for pedestrians in the city. >> reporter: seminary road, the traffic moves fast, the pedestrians often have to hustle to get across. and last night the road proved deadly. >> that t did it happen?here >> right here. >> reporter: 53-year-old yosuf holser lived nearby his apartment just steps away. his family in new york city

tells use was a dedicated government employeehi and t than hard on his 90-plus-year-old parents. we talked to hisho neighbors w said they didn't know too much about him but they heard the rens lastight and they aren't surprised this could happen here. >> even if there are signs, crosswalks and everything else, pe are not alwaysofbservant the rules. >> reporter: one of the first things you notice aboutemary road, crosswalk or not, is just how wide it is. five lanes of traffic on the eastbound sound, three in th opposite direction, eight total. it takes a long time to get across t road. >> tragedy, sadness. >> reporter: mike doyle is cofounder of the group alexandria families for safe streets. he said seminary road is a known problehe do you thinkity is doing enough? >> they are trying. in my bias opinion, i'm a csh survivor, is it fast enough, no.

another gentleman was epkilled. >>ter: police say it happened about 7:30 last night as he made his way across minary road. the exact details of what happened still under investigation but the car that hit him didtay on the scene. in alexandria, adam tuss, news4. part of 17t street still shutdown near the white house because of that sink hole. this is near dar constitution hall. we're told crews working to repair a sewer line damaged by the collapse. theyofficials telling us hope to have everything reopened later this week. if you use the d.c. circulator you won't have to pay starting now through next nth. the change was plannede befor the shutdown began. mayor bowser said it's partf her fare shot progra th circulator buses are used to supplement metro rail and metro bus. they run six routes,ra ong

roughly every ten minutes. and a reminder the d.c. streetcar in northeast d.c. is always free to use. a well, health warning if you own one of those little hedgogs or you're pining for one. the cdc says you cet salmonella from the little creatures. it says 11 people in eight -- there he goes. ere. he doesn't want to hear this. in eight states have gotten salmonella from these animals just since last october. not in our area. by the way, just so you know, the symptoms are similar to the flu. fairfax county ruled thi month that people can own them as pets. hedgehogs aretill illegal to own in d.c. >> that's what i thought. not that i was trying to get one or two. >> you know you want one. b that's kind of creepy to look at. some people say adorable. i know a girl that wants one,

she's 11 and won't let up. mom says no. t so weather is about to -- >> turn on us again. >> yes, we'll see conditions deteriorate throughout the day tomorrow. t'll have rain and snow showers moving in aroun morning and midday hours and as temperatures cool we'll see that changing over to all rain -- my mic is on. maybe i canake a battery from one of you guys. >> i'll wk with you and we'll sort it out on the way. go to that radar! >> there we go. >> fairfaxoo county s are going to be closing two hours early tomorrow -- >> she's taking t battery out. go amelia. wow. >> you can't hear me. >> we t don't need hear you. good me. >> if somebody from the control room can bring a battery for jim i'll tell you about your weather. tomorrow rain and snow showers moving in during the morning and midday hours changing over to

all snow later on in the day into tomorrow evening. so it's impacting that evening commute. i thinkhat's a good call for fairfax county schools to close two hours early. we'll see 1 to 3 inches ofsnow. i'll have the snowfall totals map in about 15 minutes. delays likely, and maybe even a fe more cancellations. not only are we dealing with snow on the ground but wind chills wednesday anywhere from ten below zero to 15 above. and brutally cold. as we look to thursday, school impacted potential not because of anything falling from the sky but because theiroldest of the season is moved in, with wind chills anywhere from ten below to ten above. and tomorrow we see conditions deter rate throughout the day. 8:00, i am seeing with a high resolution computer model there could be a little bit o light

ow out there north of washington. so maybe some delays or closures tomorrow, especially in counties like frederick, ldoun and montgomery. chuck is going to have the latest on that. 9:30, you can see the rain and snow mixture developing. by lunchtime wege track rain and snow pretty much everywhere. along and west of i-95 mainly snow. to t east of i-95 mainly rain out there. the day wears on and the temperatures cool, any rain changes to all snow. this is when we're going to see the most still snowing at 10:00 p.m. dealing with slick roads tomorrow night. school day tomorrow at th bus stop, for the kids north of washington, montgomery, low din, frederick. i can't rule out a few isolated slick spots. so again, it's going to be messy

out there for sure tomorrow night. we track dangerously coldir dnesday and thursday and friday maybe even another shot at some snow out there. so wit all of this weather, the wintery mix tomorrow and the cold air wednesday and thursday, we wl be in storm team 4 weather alert mode. i have the snowfall total map coming ip less than 10 minutes. thanks for the battery, jim. >> all righ head to cvs -- >> you changed that faster than ma of the technical directors. >> yeah. do it t times a y. usually the sag awards give us a good indication of who's going to win at the oscars, but last night some cur f balls and sosh great refg ones. all bets are off now. are your old electronics oo taking up in your collecting dust? we're working

last night marked a big night for entertainments. it was the 25th screen actors guild awards. for some this could be a eview ofhings to come a few weeks from now at the academy awards. >> we saw plenty of actors taking the stage who already have taken awards. but also a couple surprises.

>> black panther. >> black panther taking home the sag equivalent of best picture. this is aor first a super hero flick. and star chadwick boseman talked about theth significance o movie. >> to the young, gifted and black, we all know what it's like to be told that there is not a place for y to be featured. we knew that we had something special that we wanted to give the world. bat we could full human beings in the roles that we were playing. >> and some other big wins glen close earning best female actor whil rami malik earned best male actor for "bohemian rhapsody." th of them won goldenob gl. >> great movies. on the tv side, a marvelous evening for mrs. maizele taking on best ensemble. and nbc's "this is us" earning

best ensembleor a drama series. oneurise was patricia w arquette said she thought they called another nomilse. it had a lifetime achievement award for alan alda. >> it's great to see his achievement of work. >> we grew up with him. from mash, all the things he was younger.e was that's our union, sag, so it wa to see voting for people. and they often talked about the unity needed i hollywood. which is good to hear. >> their peer support more than anything. when you get to the gym, where do you keep your purse? coming up over and over again, thievere shattering windowsd snatching purses. we'll tell you where when we come back. a dangerous and whacky road

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4 tracking nasty weather on the way. >> looking at live radar showing what's to come at this time we learned that fairfax county public schools are closing two hoursarly tomorrow because of that. let's get over to amelia draper. tell us what's coming. >> there's a chance for light snow orry win mix tomorrow north of washington as early as 5:00 a.m. but most o us see rain and snow develop around the mid-morning and midday hours ann roadtions deter rate throughout the day, especially the evening commute tomorrom that's what ost concerned about tomorrow. here's your snowfall total map, 2 to 4 inches possible. st of the area only seeing a coating to two inches. just about evebody though i under a winter weather advisory. i'm going to have much more on this rain and snow mixture could impact schools not only tomorrow but the res of the work week. back to the fallout from the government shutdown. most federal workers finally

back on the job today. >> thoseho work at the smithsonian will be returning tomorrow. a lot of people will be getting their back pay, some will not. new, aimee cho talked to some of those workers who keep the public safe. hi, aimee. >> reporter: we're talking custodians, security offirs, th people who keep these museums running. as they head back to work tomorrow they tell me their worries are far from over. you can hearhe pri in her voice as she talked about her career keeping people season. >> i'm a season officer. >> reporter: she works in security at the smithsonian. she said lashe's to head back to work tomorrow. but while her paychecks for five weeks, her bills did not. >> friday is mortgage day. gain't bringing nothing in, how am ing to pay it? i'm going through a lot. you know what i mean? >> reporter: what she knows, she

desperately needs medicine for hie blood pressnd clos roll. but she can't afford it and i h supp running out. >> it's not fair, but life is not fair. it's all in h you respond to it. >> reporter: though she heads back to work at the museum tomorrow, there's no telling if the government will shutdown again. it's why she said she's looking for another job. >> i just do not wan to be in this situation again because of the federal government. if you don't put things in perspective, legislation and stuff like that, i don't want to be a part of it. >> reporter: we l posted at of resources for federal workers and contracto in the nbc washington app. just search shutdown. aimee cho, tha you. even with the employees and contractors back on the payroll, it's a while before the economy can recover. the congressional budget office looked into the coste from past five weeks, $11 billion, that's the hit theai cbo our

economy took. that includes $3 billion, which it says is permanently gone from the gdp. they said federal workers felt the biggest brunt but so did private workers, of which they said they will never recoupe it. a fire rippedhrough a rockville day care center. darcy spencer tells us some people in the commu have lost a home away from home. >> reporter: the classroome at ly georgetown hill ear school in rockville would typically be filled with children playing and learning. but as you can see everything here has been lost. the art supplies and bins, cubbies where kids would hang their coats all damagedn a fire sunday night. >> yeah, it's more than a building. it's like part a heart of what we do. >> reporter: peter comwell

became emotional as he talked about the loss. he's the ceo. >> aot of stuff was lost and will need to be replace but the most important elmosts are here, our people. >> reporter: linda has been here for 36 years. she was a dector. >> what's going through your mind? >> how strong we are. we made it through 9/11, through the sniper we'll make it throug th >> reporter: teachers and staff showed up t care for the little ones. taylor teaches at the school. >> i haven't been here as long some of the other teachers but it has a lot of memories for me. >> reporter: the firroke out in the office area of the building and spread quickly. damage is estimated at the school is connected to the woodly garden swim club. we could see damage to the office area, trophies on a

shelf. emily told mehere are swim team photos inside dating back decads. deca >> it's a lot of tradition and i hope all of that is still intact and encased in our kitchen areal of our swim team trophies i think are in the front office. i hope everythin isalready. >> reporter: the executive director says georgetown hill will come back bigger and better. in rockville,er darcy spe news4. when we come right back. we're continuin t tock that winter storm that schools and businesses need to keep an eye ontonight. this snow coming up in milwaukee part of the same exact system we'll be in weather alert tomorrow and ednesday too. >> i feel like we're in it, in our own way. plus get a load of this, a driver ring through massachusetts with a man clinging to the hood of his suv. we'll show you h

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of five people in louisiana on saturday is now under arrest in virginia. police say dakota theriot killed his parents, h a womwas believed to be dating and two others. thesuspect's fathe survived long enough to tell authorities who shot him. >> he was ableie to give ag declarati declaration. only enough information to know

tit was his son t committed this act. >> his grand mother lives in richmond county, virginia and alerted authorities when she feared he was headed herway. she got a hotel room. virginiae police mad the arrest outside her home. this is not a stunt act. it'sd man clinging to the hoo of an suv following a road rage incident in massachusetts. today the driver is and the man on the hood faced a judge. our sister station in boston tells us, both men are presenting different versions of what started this. >> reporter: two men appear in the c trtroom for the sameime since they were on the same highway. and this is what happened. exclusively ained by nbc0 bostonhows a wild r roadage filled ride down the

massike friday. an altercation that police say startedith a sideswipe and ended with both men facing charges. ll he was looking to do was exchange information. >> reporter: the attorney for 65-year-old rskhard kambrowi said the other driver woun't et out of the suv and instead started to drive, leaving his client no cho ge but toet on the hood. but the attorney for the driver, 37-year-old mark fitzgerald said it's his clit who was acting in self-defense. >> mr. fitzgerald, reasonably decided i need to get away from this man. >> reporter: he said what the video doesn't show is kambrowskg reacnto his client's car and grabbing a water bottle to smash the windshield. >> he was in fear, he had been attacked. >> reporter: kambrowlii had ttle to say to that as heeft the courthouse on his own recognizance. fitzgerald is free on $500 bail

after facing a number of charges, including assault with nedangerous weapon and leaving the s of property damage. damage his attorney said he wasn't aware of. >> could he have acted differently or should he have acted the way he did, you can have questions about t that, there was no intent here. safe toay by now they have exchanged information. >> i thinkno they how can i reach you? >> exactly. >> do yoanhave an ins card? >> oh, my goodness. moving on, 33 years ago today is a day few of us will forget that's when the spa shuttle challenger exploded lesn than twoes after lift off. crowds packed florida to watch the lift off. all seven astronautsdi. it was the world's worst space disaster

problems with the rocket boosters were blamed for the explosion. >> never forget that. next, a story you need to b seeore you drive to the jim tomorrow morning. >> i'm in loudon county where thieves have been targeting cars in a parking lot taking what's inside. we're working for your money tonight, where to go to recycle all of your old outdatedec onics and make a little cash while you're at it. >> and here's future weather. tomorrow at 6:00 p.m., notice most of the area dealing with some snow and the brighter blues maybe some heavier snow out there. this is going to lead to slick road conditions, i'll have more on how this impacts schools and

i'm scott macfarlane at the live desk. a series of breaking news items

coming in, including the justice department that the robert mueller investigation of russian ierference in the 2016 presidential elections is nearing its close. that revelation from the man in the middle of your screen, matt whitaker who says, quote, i'm comfortable that the decisions made will be reviewed and mr. mueller will deliver hisep finalort and it's close to being completed. close to being completed. the first confirmation from the federal government that that's so. michael cohen meanwhile is now rescheduled to appear before congress. confirmed to appear behind closedrs d with the house intelligence committee february 8th, a week from friday. that will be behind closed doors, not for public view. chael cohen was in the rami malik robert mueller investigation. one more oitem, stathe union is back on. february 5th, one weeklater, the house speaker has invited the president to the house chamber.

at the live desk i'm scott icfarlane. >> your daily routine includes a trip to the gym, you need to be awareecausen loudon county the sheriff is trying to track down teves breaking windows of vehicles to steales valua inside. j julie carey tells us the thieves appear to tartht people i early morning workouts. >> reporter: you don't have to look hard to see where the thieves smashed the windows. look at the broken glass in the parking lot. they made off with five purses and a wallet here. a similar seen at loudon cross fit gym. the teacher was teaching a class when his window was smashed out. >> it looked like they lifte the passenger seat and grabbed the first bag closest to them. luckily that was just a lunch bag. >> reporter: the pictures show

the damage on some of the other vehicles, mostly passenger side windows shattered. as ash burn ville the news spread. >> bold and aggressive. >>eporter: she's in no need of being a victim because of the safety practices shefollows. >> i take my purse and keys in with me and put it in a locker they provide. >> reporter: tloudon county sheriff remint's worth the extra time. >> make sure you secure what you have in the car, put it in the trunk, don't make it visible to people thaan might to steal it. >> reporter: even though the break-ins took place close to the building, there was no cameras to capture this thieves. now nay're hoping to hear from anyone that mht have seen suspicious activity. did you get a new phone, t tablet ove holidays. >> don't let your old tablet sit

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reset. you don't want any bank account information, family pictures or browsing history in the hands of someone you don't know. >> if you would like to find an eco atm near you, we have links on your nbcngton app. bring it up and search sell electronics. if you missed some of that, amelia will be happy to do that. >> she'll clean it out for you, company reset it for you, whatever that thing is. >> m w trickld be call the fix hot line. >> there you go. t real brains in the building. >> yes. how cold are we going to be tomorrow and wednesday. >> the cold air doesn't really move in ittomorrow. oves in on wednesday. so wednesday we're dealing with windpe chill ttures in the single digits and teens. thuriray colder moves in, talking about wind chills on thursday anywhere from about 10 below zero to 1 above. tomorrow is about the rain, snow going to y mix we'r

be dealing with. so it's going to be your first weather headline.ng trache wintery mix during the morning hours, changing to all snow tomorrow between about 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. we could see a bit of a wintery mix develop north of washington as early as 5:00 a.m. but think most of us don't see anything until 9:00, 10:00 a.m. so getting to work shouldn't be an issue, it's getting home. talking about minor snow accumulation, 1 to 3 inches and starting to stick as the sun goes down just after 5:00 p.m. as jim was saying bitterly cold out there wednesday. that a sticksund thursday and friday as well. we are dry tonight, no worries, clouds increase, 38 degrees right now. we'll stay in the 30s until about midnight. after that we see the temperatur i fallingo the 20s in the suburbs and bottom out in washington around 3 degrees forw. so a chance for snow and a bit of a mix north of washington. i think i here washington and

areas to the south are going to be completely dry sth of i-66. as we move toward about0, 9 10:00 a.m. everyone sees rain and snow developing.t we're 39 degrees at lunchtime. we're above freezing, that does not support snow. we have a temperature around 40 degreesround 4:00 p. 5:00 p.m., the sun sets and our temperatures quickly fallelow freezing. so we start to see slushy roads developing out there. 7:00 we'rat 32 degrees. at the bus stop tomorrow morning it is dryt. for m by recess this is when we start to see the rain and snow moving in. i would not be surprised for early dismisels. ma even a few cancellations tomorrow north of washington, depending on howarly the system exactly moves into the area. you want to wake w uph chuck tomorrow morning starting at 4:00. for smissal, it's snow and slush out there, i think we'll see aot of afterschool

activities cancelled on tuesday. >> slick tomorrow of us it's not going to be the case but some isolated slick spots possible north of washington buty we're rea dealing with slick roads tomorrow night. school could be impacted wednesday and maybe another shot at some know out there on friday. here's your storm team 4 four day forecast. wednesday high of 35 feels like 15 degrees with stron winds out there. we have a mix of clouds of sunshine, breezy and cold on thursday, going to feel like 5 f degrees in thrnoon hours. we'llwe be in storm team her alert mode wednesday and thursday as well. a chance for snow showers on friday, looks like a low impact event. right now, wendy and jim, looks like the weekend is dry, upper 30s on saturday and mid 40s on sunday. >> if we survive. >> that's like flip flop weather after we get through this.

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a collective shiver runs across the country this evening in antipation of temperatures we haven't seen in decades. a snowstorm pounding parts of the midwest tonight, but a polar vortex brings dangerously cold temperatures from the north pole. dan shenman has our story. >> reporter: arctic cold moving into the united states bringing with itemperatures n seen in at least two decades. in chicago, heavy snow this morning gave residents a taste of what's to come. everybo here in chicago just commutes in the winter time it can be tricky. we all know that ruggle. >> reporter: tricky and dangerous. the expected cold temperatures areng stagge by midweek the high in chicago is forecast to be wellelow zero, with wind chills as low as 55 below across much of the region. >> while the snow may be ending, the cold is just starting.

>> reporter: so cold lake zechigan is fn over along the shoreline. the worst is yet to come. doctors are warning peoe to be careful. >> i've seen people get frostbe within ten minutes of being outside on their ears. >> reporter: the arctic blast caused by and extremely c air mass pushing down from the north pole. icy conditions making road travel treacherous. while the deep south i bracing for cold weather. as atlanta prepares for super bowl liii. and all of that cold and some of that snow is coming our way, folks. laye lawye leon harris. we'll be talking about that right now. amelia walking us through the worst of our weather this week. the business of reopening the government. a new date set for the state of

the union address, federal workers finally getting back to work but waiting for the first paycheck of 2019. a triple murder, just part of the violence overhehe weekend indistrict. what we are learning about the search for the three suspects. this might be the first time in ouristory we were grateful for rush hour traffic. >> exactly. th wsands of federalkers in our area streaming back to work time for the first time this year. many returning workers met with people holding signs to welcome them back on the job. after 35 days without a paycheck, the level of relief hard to >>overstate. lawmakers have less than three weeks to come up with a deal that will head off another shutdown. blayne alexander is tracking the effort to fd common ground. is that possible, blayne? >> reporter: that is certainly the million dollar question. we've got 18 days to figure