delegation visits d.c. and here's a live look at chicago as we come on the air this afternoon. dangersly cold air in the windy city. wind chills makkeg the feels emperature there down to 45 degrees below 0. it's colder in chica right now than it is anywhere else in the country. >> and buckle up. bundle up because it's going ao brutal night here. the harsh winter blast putting off in a winterer >> and it's frigid and record setting in some parts of the country. sadly seven people have died. >> thousands of flights have been canceled, d thanks to the wind flights that have made it into the local airports have been a lilt rough. >> more o that in just a minute. but we're going to start with team coverage of your forecast. hey, guys. >> when you say coldest in

generation that is for parts of the midwest, for parts of icago. many people who have lived there have never, ever experienced. th for us it's more like 2014. five years ago we had somilhing very s to this with wind chills between 10 and 15 below 0. >> and especially tomorrow morning the schools could be impacted. so we could see wind chills as low as 15 below 0. >> look where we are. 9 degrees in d.c. right now. 9 degrees there is the wind ill. 24 below in cleveland. 141 below 0 in chicago. just the credible cold moving our way. you saw the arctic front with the clouds and snow that came through very, very quickly. we're seeing winds as wellhi this system. we have a wind advisory in effect through the day today. wind gusts up to 38 miles an hour in washington. up to 52 and right now comingn 32 in fredericks. so you know that makes it feel a

whole lot colder out there. that's why we inve a chill advisory. we're expecting wind chills 15 below 0 to 0 across our region. that isst fte threat. we'll talk about how long this cold air sticks around a when you can pull out the shorts in the forecast. >> you're playing with our emotions right now. it's in the ten day. i'll be back here in about ten minutes. if you have entr flown reagan national airport you know the wi s there can just whip over the potomac and that makes for some wobbly landings there. live in arlington, and look over your microphone i can actually hearri the wind blowint now. pretty gusty out there, huh? >> reporter: it is incredibly gusty out here.

but doug mentioned people wearing shorts. as we were in reagan national airport you can tell a lot those people are coming in from south florida today and points that were much warmer. they essentially turned the baggage claim area io a changing room of sorts. they were opening up their suitcases to add more layers to prepare for this brutal cold. and it's not just the temperatures. as you mentioned it's the wind, too. they were bundled up, not aery pleasant situation as you wait for that next train. we were out here spending a few hours checking out the point and the approach for some of the aircraft as they were coming in. the strong gusts causing them to wobble a good amount. they could barely stay straight as they would go and touch down here at reaganational airport. some of those planes coming in from points further west, like minneapolis. they were dealing with wind chills that topped negative 50. we caught up with some of those ssengers. wh was it like just stepping

out of that air up ithere? almost t'ay it's so tt airport this n thatextreme, but ys heard fel are going to get a taste o that coming our way. you can tell from the folks their faces as you're walking around reagan national where they're headed. those with a smile on their face, they were going to south florida and places a lot warmer than here. >> i'll bet. that's a good indicator. good deal. thanks, david. >> well, it's so cold the cold emergency plan is now active in the district until friday. and the city has activated a hypothermia alert. news 4 molette green explains what that means and your part in it. >> reporter: the warming centers are going to be open day and in

the evening hours so folks can get in out of this dangerously cold weather. and if you see someone who needs transportation to one of those places you can dial 311.ou if see someone in distress call 911 to get them help right away. that is the veryes l from northwest d.c. in downtown where people are dealing with this. arctic bla back over to you. >> thank you. ll, students likely don't mind this winter blast too much. for many it means fors them l time in the classroom. but there's always a price to pay later in the school year when that happens. erika gonlez in the newsroom now with how inclement weather is stacking up. >> reporter: the kids would rather not think about that right now, but the days are going quickly. montgomery public schools has already reached its limit of t emergency closure days. a spokesperson tells me june 14th is now the summer dismissal

date. anymore snow days and thingsff like s development days may be turned into regularl sch days. dcpf had its first snow. and with that june 14th also becomes a half day now with dismissal afternoon, that's for dcpf. prince george's county public schools has three snow days buil into its calendar. so far one has been used tacking one day on the end of the school year, june 12th. in fairfax county publi schools those days are longer instead og adore to the end of the year. so the kids are just going to keep building the snowmans and will deal with the end of the school year when it gets here. and we are always working for you even when we aren't on the air. the nbc washington app gives you

24-hour access to the forecast for your neighborhood. open the app andearch forecast. we'll also send you ales s when schoe delayed or closed. we're following a couple of breaking stories of somerama involving a chinese trade delegation visiting d.c. today. two incidents involving a hem.rcade with secret service that a protester jumped in front of their motorcade and brackedic. that person was arrested. secret service says one of its officers were injured but not struck by a vehicle. and -- look at this. this was the scene earlier today. prngesters rushi the same motorcade outside the willard motel in northwest d.c. aew bloomberg n photographer shared this video with us. you can see a pair of protesters tried to charge the same chinese delegation. secret s dvice knockedn at least one woman but no one

appeared to be injured here. bloomberg said the protesrs accused the chinese delegation of trying to relocate. more breaking news now in the alexandria area of fairfax. coun a construction worker was killed in an accident at a construction site on genal washington drive. police say the man was pinned betwee an i-beam and a bucket truck.ue reorkers had to stabilize the truck before reaching the victim. he was pronounced dead at the scene. a milestone, one of our region's top cops is stepping down. montgomerys major of county announcing he's going to be retiring in april. he's been wearing a badge for more than four deces. later serving as that county's chief for six years. he came across the river to be chief in montgomery for the lt

15 years. he tells our pat collins he has no regrets about h life in law enforcement. >> what i've really missed, you know, being a 20 years is being out on the road, being dispatched to calls. being a'vop y got a front row seat to the greatest show on earth. and i joyed being a police officer and i t enjoyedt kind of work. >> major tells us he will not bg settack into retirement. he'll be leading the major city chief's association as it expands its legislative agenda. >> ticktock. just 17 days now to prevent another government shutdown. as the clock races to the february 15th deadline, a ro bipartisan of lawmakers met for the first time today to reach a common ground on bord security. is it looking like they can make a deal? >> rorter: that meeting today lasted a little more than an hour. we kind of g geral statements from everybody, but

certainly no new amendments and no movement of the needle there. what clear is nobody on capitol hill wants to see a shutdown. but the bigan question is they agree on something that the president will cpprove? itol hill lawmakers are down to business and on the clock. they have until february 15th to reach a border wall deal or risk facing ather shutdown. >> it's important to keep the government open, but it's also important to meet our responsibilities to secure the border. >> reporter: it's all up to a bipartisan group of 17 lawmakers trying to find common ground on the very issue that led to the longest shutdown in history. the group hoping to iron out a deal to satisfy both congress t and presimp. some democrats sounding more open to the idea of a border barrier. >> what i hope to do is talk about the things that will help secure t border in the most cost-effective way. >> reporter: and president trump holdg firm. warning members today they are just wasting their time if the talks d't include a wall or physical barrier. >> it wouldl be help the

president was onboard in trying to reach a successful conclusion to this debate. >> reporter: today from the congresswoman leading negotiations on behalf of mocrats -- >> we must do everything we can to preventnenother ssary and destructive government shutdown. >> reporter: the president also considering executive action to fund the wall without congress. as for another shutdown, the white househe insisting president does not want one but not ruling it out. leavin the fate of 800,000 federal workers once again upn the air. and remember democrats do hold a one person majority, so if it comes down to it they can pass something out of the committee along the party lines. >> new at 4:00, maryland governor hogan by the way, is only the second republican to be re-elected governor in maryland's history. he's asking tti democ

majority in the house there to join him in giving targeted tax breaks to retirees gduates with crippling student small businesses that create jobs and provide incentives for paid presearental leave. >>et's do the right thing and give some of this money back to the people who have worked so h hard top make it happen. >> governor hogan's tax rief planould cost the state about $500 million. democratic leaders say their first i priorit to balance the state budget. a consumer alert, check your freezer. >> recalling tens of thousands of chicken nuggets. aez deep f settling in across the country now. here's a liver look o chicago where it feels like it's 45 degrees below0. how close they are to a record there and what families are doing to stay warm. we're going to have to stay

warm here. look at the winhi. 9 in d.c., 6 below 0, and 25 below in pit wburgh. thoseds still

a live look outside right now at 15. you can see this flag outside of our studio here in northwest getting whipped around a wind chill advisory kicks in

for alof us. doug i back in a few minutes with what that means for your morning. >> just be glad we're not in chicago right now as we speak. we are glad. here's a live look at one of the streets in chicago. you see a little traffic there. i see a few people but there aren't very many on the street. >> there's two out there. at's it. nbc's wendy wolf is ipchicago where there's a chance they're going to break the record low of 27 degrees below 0. >> reporter: it's being called a once in a generation freeze as frigid air makes its way across the country. in iowa white out o conditions the roadways and tperatures colder than parts of antarctica. the u.s.os ptal service forced to suspe deliveries in 11 states because of safety. >> within a matter of minutes

you can develop o frostbi your clothes and skin. >> reporter: in chicago. >> it's freezing, terrible, terrible. >> repor r: a potential to break an all-time coldest temperature on record. negative 27 set more than three decades ago. and an overnight push to make sure residents have warmth and supplies. >> we know that some will not go to shelters, but we're bringing shelter to them. >> reporter: amtric offering very limited service. and aording to flight aware.com as of noon thousands of delays and cancellations. more than half of those at chicago's o'hare and midwayts airp snow pushing to parts of pennsylvania and eastward. much of the country bracing for the potential of sever days in winter's frozen grip. it's going to get worse fore it get better with accumulating snow predicted for tomorrow. but warmer temperatures in the forecast for the weekend.s 30 and 40s. in chicago, nbc news.

>> she doesn't look very happy. we doubtanyone's happy right now except the meteorologists, right? >> you know, s's younger tha me obviously an intern of mine so younger for sure, and sheas never, ever experienced cold like this. and a lot of pele, they say within a generation that's a 25-year gap. there's a lot of pulation that has never seen temperatures this cold in a chicago area. not quite like that here. >> well, it's going to get just like it did five years ago here. so for us thisoes come every five to six years we do get cold like this uh-uh cross our region where wind chills are below 0. this is 2014, january 7th of 2014. yeah, you're taking the coats, you're taking t blankets with you. this was a very cold day. we look back to see how many

schools were closed. you guys know we had four sehools closed in d.c. it wasn't becauf the cold. it was because of the pes that burst because of the cold. and we could see that again. even two schools closed i montgomery county because of burst pipes. a very cold day for sure in 2014, and that's what we're expecting tomorrow morning. it does look like some of them are going to delay or close tomorrow vupt as a result of a frigid air coming in. wind at 26 miles per hour, but we've got gusts to 40 miles per hour making it feel even colder. these are the wind chills with the sustained winds, as i mentioned 25 miles an hour. 4 below in martinsberg. you add in these wind gusts close to 40 miles per hour. th includes d.c.'s wind chill rglow 0.

30 in fredericks and we have a wind advisory that continues -- there y go, arlington count apublic schools a tr delay. the wind is going to die down tomorrow morning, you're still going to have wind chill tomorrow morning but i think a two hour delay really helps. again, you are going to see some more delays i think and maybe even some closures. lasted about 20 minutes or so, o some of that on the heavier side especially north of d.c. that's the front. oncet came through, temperatures dropped quickly. 10 degree temperature drop in just a couple of minutes. cleveland at 24 below 0. buffalo at 23. blizzard warnings up around the buffalo area. some incredible cold. winter advisory in effect from 9:00 tonight until 10:00 a.m. for everyone around the region.

the wind chills tonight from 5 below 0 to 17.nd chills well below 0 after the sun goes down. here's 11:00 tonight about the same. possibly upwards of 8 below i d.c., 18. and 7:00 a.m. the sun justng staro come up here and we've got kids going to be walking to school in 13 below, and it does get a little better, 2. at least we're ave the 0 mark in the d.c. met area. 46 on saturday, 56 on sunday. super bowl sunday looking good. the weekend much milder. t, guys, i've got 60 in the forecast. i'm out of time, i've got to go but it's going to be cold. >> thank you, doug. growing sport f empire actor jussie smollett.

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when it comes to your health planning could help you out if that happens again. the last shutdown a lot of furloughed workers cut back on medicaoons they need save money, but that can have some serious consequences. working for you with advice on saving on your meds. >> reporter: when asked if ere's ever a safe way to skip a medications howard university's college of med kn dr. mark johnson offers simple and strong words. >> absolutely not. you see that in diabetes and hi blood pressure peek cut back on their insulin and tn they have blood sugar crisis. or people cut back on the blood pressure medicine and they end up having a stroke or a heart attack. >> reporter: he understands what could drive such a hard decision. money running low as the bills run ever higher. critical reasons, he says, why u should not skip your meds. because the stress of a and fears of another one could add stress to the>> i can't imae

le who sleep, people whose blood pr csurenges. with that type of stress. >> reporter: though ifs your m are expensive and you need help saving mhe recommends reaching out to your physician. >> sometimes what we can do is look at the medications that the patients are taking and seef there's something we can substitute that is of a lesser cost. >> reporter: there are other resources, too, you can check out today web sites such as and pparx.org could link you to programs that could diount your meds based on your unique leads. the doctor underscores even on furlough no one should take a ir gamal on t health. >> this is life or death decision when you decide to skip medications or rational medicine for some people. >> it is crucial, and no one knows how the dice is going to

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t> now 4:30 a weather alert for dangerous low temperatures. >> the wind chills outside going to make bone chilling temperatures feel even worse. so if you're out today you felt the winds pick up there. >> we sure did. let's get our first alert from meteorologists. you heard another delay? >> fairfax county public schools now hasr two h delay tomorrow. an a two hour delay in arlington county as well as fairfax county public schools. >> and i think that's going to be the right call to m we becauswere looking o wind chill temperatures tomorrow and how quickly one can get frostbite. hat can happen in about 30 minutes. here wind chills, though, in thl midwest, minne feeling about 33 degrees below 0.

thankfully that extre cold not headed our way. but 33 degrees below 0 leads to frostbe in about 5 to 10 minutes. and this scale is based off on ult. you have to think when the kids are out there, you really don't want to take any chances. that's why we think tomorrow morning delaying the schools is goingo be a good idea. again, we're right in this range. it will lead to frostbite in about 30 minutes. make sure the kids are bundled up. while we talk about this extreme cold and how it relates to the big picture, what we're seeing is less cold overall. but when we see these cold snaps they're really intense and don't last very long. but overall when we look at the erature trend the lowest temperature each year is going up now bybout 6 degrees. we're still getting the cold snaps, they're very intense, but they're not lting as lonn duration and overall we're

seeing less cold. >> a dramatic scene outside of the willard intercontinental hotel this afternoon. a bloomberg photographer shared this video with us. a pair of protesters rushed members ofhe chinese trade delegation. and this isn't the only incident today involving these protesters. cory smith has the very latest for us. cory? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, pat. not the only incident that happened. the first one here at the willard intercontinental. you had a delegationf chithese tra cainese trade negotiators when they were practiy rushed by protesters. you can see that chinese delegate walk out of the hotel a and then of a sudden chaos. a handful of protesters are rushing. ultimately surrounded by members of the secret service and other law enforcement agents. a woman iultimately thrown t the ground.

he's hurried off to the car and on his way. the second one happening right outside the white house. we're reporting that a protester stepped in front of that same delegate's motorcade trying to t protest trying to disrupt it. he was ultimately detained by secret service. we're told one secret service member was injured but not. severely we spoke to a bloomberg reporter who says all this chaos today r hadlly nothing to do with trade negotiations. have a listen. re>> chinese used to seeing protests when they go overseas.e there are chin exiles out there, and we saw some of that boil over today. but clearlyhe negotiation, those protests had very little to do with the actual negotiations themselves. >> reporter: now, again, as member of the secret service was injured but believed to be

severe. that's what we know. we'll send it t back you in the studio. now let's turn to ary s that's dominating social media and rocking hollywood. the alleged racially motivated attack on empire star jussie smollett. ere's a lot of misinformation out there swirling around this story. now, let's go through the facts as we kno them at this point. smollett who is openly gay tells chicago police two masked men yelled racial and slurs on him, doused him with some kind of chemical and put noose around his neck. today they confirmed there is surveillance video of smollett at the subway restaurant he went to, but they haven't found video of t attack itself and haven't entified any suspects. smollett right now is out of the hospital and we understand he's

doing okay. the lgbtq community, celebrities, ordinary folks, lots of folks are stepping up and giving him their support. saying? your listeners >> our listeners are sending their heartfelt condolences tom they want a full and thorough investigation, no stone unturned. their very happy to know the fbi is on the case. and they're also concerned not only the fact that a homophobic slur was used during the attack but aacl slur, called the n' word during the attack. earlier we had steve harvey, he weighed in and had this advice for him and others. >> however you want to handle it, we down with you. athis is not call for violence or anything, so don't misunderstand. i just don't have all the words everybody else gets. we down with you, soldier.

iust want you to know that. >> you said something very key, you don't know the motivation of this attack. but so many ofoo us could at that and say that could have been me. it could happen to me at any time. so the fbi didn't exactly say this was a hate crime, but they did race and sexual orientation based attacks have jumped from 17% in the last year in the u.s. and that's a topic that's front and center. what do your listeners say about that >> our listeners are well aware this stat has beee.on the incl and they're quick to mention, you know, these numbers don't reflect all the cases. there are situations where peoplenre driving d the street and a person yells a racial epithet out the window. that's not reported. they take it very seriously and they think it's another opportunity we have a national conversation about race ande tolerance hn america. >> we will see where this conversation goes from here.

thes, thingnfortunately, it takes a celebrity sometimes to get involved in a case like this to make the entire country stand up and pay attention to it. pat, over to you. new concerns today over your privacy on facebook. what the company announced today about its secret deal with certain customers. and a northern virginia lawmaker forced to take down her social media accounts because of threats. she's defended legislation toat loosen term abortion rules. our bureau chief explain. and a live look outside as we brace for arctic air. we brace for arctic air. doug andamelia are back whato t

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right now here's a live look at the cit of chicago -- the chilly city of chicago. families there dealing with some of the coldest temperatures in the country.ng winds pus the wind chill ow 0.to 45 degrees b we're going to get a taste of this polar plunger ourselves over the next 36 hours. doug and amelia will be back soon to explain all that to us. apple is pulling an a from its opera ing systemt says facebook was using to collect data on unsuspecting users. the tech log tech crunch says facebook claims peoplead to give permission for the app to

be installed but apple says users didn't realize how much data the app w collecting. it's just the latest blemish on faceok's bad record with user security. >> speak of tech things at this point, the robot revolution coming to your backyard. f theks who run the roomba robot, they're now rolling out tara that features state-of-the-art macking and straight line navigation. en ssts found a protein in femaleit mos critical to the process of producing vital eggs. wh they manipulated that protein the mosquito's embryos

did not survive. now a controversy spinning out of control on social media. plus take a look at feels like temperatures out there right now. no relief from the cold yet, and the winds making it worse. amelia? and pat, by tomorrow morning it going to be dangerously cold out there. check it out. here's the feels like temperatures at 7:00 a.m. especially north and west of ilshington. we have wind chills anywhere from about 15 degrees below 0 to around 0. what can you expt throughout ec

if you are justoining us at 4:45 let's get you caught up with the four things need to know. we are in weather alert mode.

a bitterly cold day is going to turn into a bitterly cold n ghtonit ndwill chisre aoi gng to dip beligowht 0 for much of our area. > and here's a live look at the conditions in the windy city, the feels like temperature there about 45 below 0. and they're on pace to break the all-time record forold. the polar vortex that's gripping much of the country is being called a once ieraion freeze. a worker died this afternoon at a fairfax county construction site. police say the worker somehow was trapped between at buc truck and an i-beam. he was pronounced dead at the scene. negotiations a now under way on a border security funding compromise that would prevent another government shutdown when temporary funding runs out. that is on february 15th. a bipartisan conference committee met for the first time today, but they did not get into specific proposals. 17 panel is made up of

lawmakers from the house and the senate. there are nine democrats and eight republicans. pat and leon, back over to you. there's a serious battle being waged in richmond over a northern virginiala aker's efforts to loosen restrictions on third trimester abortions. >> testimony on monday to a house committee has gone viral in conservative circles. it's prompted her now to take down her social media feed. >> this controversy which erupted again today on the house floor. >> reporter: it was a minuteng video with much longer testimony. a republica delegate pushing with this question, could an abortion be done even when a woman is dilating ready to g e birth. >> i'm asking if your bill allows that? my bill would allow that, yes. >> reporter: anti-abortion

activists seized on the answer puttinup a video that went viral claiming she wanted to leg legalize abortion to the point of birth. and today an unprecedented moment on the housefloor, the speaker leaving to make a floor speech, promising to fight against abortion rights. >> b thisl will allow a mother who's showing physical signs of nlabor to get abortion. we are really one small step from new york. >> reporter: the democrat's leader firing back accusing republicans of deliberately mischaracterizing the bill. >> what transpired yesterday was wrong, and it's really beneath this body and unacceptable. >> reporter: under virginia law third trimester abortio are already allowed in virginia, but they require consuthation with e doctors who determine the woman could die or that her health would be substantially or

irremedially paired. virginia's governor a doctor himself, explaining late term abortions are only done in rare and very difficult situations. >> this is why, julie, that legislators most of whom are men, by the way, shouldn't be telling a woman what she should and shouldn't beh doing w her body. >> reporter: her bill failing t for this session to get out of committee. to the weather. another delay to report. montgomery county schools tomorrow. >> we'll continue to see two hour delay. love that for a number of reasons. one, it lets me sleep in a little bit. looking at the kids out there as thestop, it really is going to be brutally cold. so two hours really does help out a lot. get the sun s,rt to warm things up a bit. not going to help all that much. winds not going to be nearly as

a problem as they are toniu t. nt to see real cold, here's st. paul minnesota. look at theigiver there. that is frozen over. just amazing wind chill up in parts of minnesota last night. 66 below 0. that's just incredible as car as the will is concerned. now, for us current temperatures sitting at right now in the d.c. area, now down to 25. wind chill at 5 degrees. dropping to 16 by 11:00 tonightl wind cin the single digits or even below 0. 5 in dulles, 8 in college park. we do have the sunshine, but you step in the shadows, in between buildings, it gets so much colder out there.he 's the arctic front right here and it came through very quickl you saw some quick snow showers

that came through. and it continue tuesday move on. something else it's bringi, wind advisory in effect until 6:00 tonight. we've had winds gustingupwards of 50 miles per hour all this afternoon. the good wews is theds will start to subside, but amelia, with this very cold air even a little wind blows right through you and those win chills continue to go down. >> yeah, absolutely when it's this cd even a light wind produces a brutal wind chill. and tomorrow morning we are w using thed dangerously cold out there. here are wind chills throughout the day tomorrow and this is mainly in the suburbs. yowant to a few degrees right here in the city where it's always a bit warme6: a.m. feeling about 5 degrees below 0. a juster sun rise feeling about 10 degrees. below even by lunchtime only feeling about 5 degrees below 0 out there.

emwind chillratures throughout the day tomorrow only in the single digits and generally low teens and that's spite plent aof sunshine. so what exactly is the wind chill? the wind chill is what the air temperature actually feels like to the hum skin out there. so your car not registering the wind chill at all. so what happens is when we have a bit of wind out there, it blows away that layer of warmth around your body and it makes the body temperare cool faster. and especially for young kids outathere. why i think that two hour delay from our school system will be a great cool tomorrow morning. think about blowing on a hot bowl of soup to cool it off w you think about wind chill temperature. in spotsly cold especially north and west of washington. the district down throughan southern mar kind of right on that borderline there. we still have feels like temperatures anywhere from about 5 degrees below 0 to about 10 degrees above 0.

dismissal feeling like single digits and teens out there.ay and then hello to the 60s. >> yeah, i mean heo, just amazing that temperatures by next week will feel 70 degrees warmer than what they'll feel like, just incredible. right now this is what we're expecting tomorrow. 26 degrees for our high. wind chills in the single digits. 32 on your friday. 30% of snow showers though not a lot. 36 on saturday, 56 on sunday.n 66 tuesday. some really nice weather for you folks having a super bowl party. if you're doing anything on sunday, hey, the weather is looking great for that. 66 on tuesday. a couple of chances of rain on monday. and another chance on wednesday and thursday. but that still brings in nice warm temperatures. we do get cold agaan. her bout of cold air moves next week. news 4 is working for y in the community with word of

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>> it was a troubling report, hundreds of d.c. teachers working without a valid license. >> but tonight, progress. whats the n 4 i-team just uncovered. >> and we all love our pets but keeping themos healthy can a bundle. our consumer reporting is going to show you how to save on pet medication. and this bitter cold is canceling flights, halting the mail and stopping beer taps. oh, no. now you'v got our attention. we'll explain that and what that means coming up at t the hour a we'll sndee

super bowl liiiust four days away. but the i excitemen dampened a bit for some because of that blown call from the championship game. we could not be more excited to be here in atlanta. >> reporter: it is a state full of super bowlhe week, commissioner's state of the league address. >> there's never been a better time to be part of the nfl. >> reporter: evidence of that,e higher telion ratings and higher stadium crowds this season. and the league says rule changes have resulted in player concussions dropping by 29%. >> super bowl liii mchup is a

fitting conclusion to this amazing season. >> reporter: buts a the league looks forward to this weekend's big game -- >> it was b aad call. >> rorter: many can't help but look back. this blown call in th nfc champion game cos s theaints a trip to the super bowl sparking anger. blindfolded referee voodoo doll, bill boards lined roadways in atlanta. fans have even filedit a law over the mitts steak outraged. >> i'd like to bring up the nfc championship game. >> reporter: stretching all the way to theloor of the united states senate. >> and i would say the nfl hassa sibility to the millions of fans across the country to ensure thentegrity of the game and to answer these questions and perhaps a fewrs ot >> reporter: goodell answered questions about the call publly for the firime today.

>> but i understand the importance of it to this tanchise and to the nfl. it's a playhat should be orlled. >> repr: the league's competition committee is expected to take up the issue ring the off-season. yeah, and you know the saints head coach shawn paten a part of that nfl rulmi cee should be very interesting discussion. news 4 at 5:00 starts now. right now at 5:00, a bitte blast. >> the polar vortex plunging the nation and d.c. into a dangerous deep freeze. >> you can feel it in your lungs. >> chicago 52 below 0. >> detroit 32 degrees below 0 and theresemperatures coming our way. >> we'll show you just how long they stick around. ff a sle outside the willard hotel. >> new details on the trade delegation drama. and we're working for your

money. >> we want our dog to be healthy, but it costs aot more to keep them >>healthy. consumer reporter susan hoganr protecting y pet and your pocketbook. we have a storm team 4 weather alert. as you can imagine team coverage tonight as we track this polar plunge. >> yeah, bundle up, brace yourselves, folks. that blast of cold air is barrelling our way. >> in chicago they say the hawk is out, but that city is feeling the teeth o this polar vortex. the wind chel temps in the negative 40 >> meanwhile in st. paul, nneapolis, you betcha, it's cold. as for our area, the folks are out andbout. a bundled up and brutal night on the way. fairfax, arlington, and montgomery county schools are already on a o-hour delay tomorrow. >> and we are still dealing with a some strong gusts out there.