>> i'm eun yang.e more reasonamperatures may be around the corner. but right now, dangerously cold temperatures are impacting the region and local school districts are taking action >> let's start in virginia. shenandoah, frederick, winchester,arren and clarke county schools are closed today. in west virginia, hampshire, hardy, mineral and morgan county hools are also closed. we turn to delays, now. in maryland,y allegounty schools will open two hours late. in virginia, prince william, manassas, loudon, fauquier county schools will open two hours late, too. culpeper, manassas park city, and rappahannock county schools. berkeley, jefferson and grant county schools on a two-hour delay. we have that iormation at the bottom of your screen and in the nbc washington ap >> jack taylor is in for melissa, keeping an eye on the roads. let'sit start chuck bell and the forecast, though. >> the list of delays and

closures may be increasing with time over the next couple of rours. snowd the d.c. metro area, mostly around 1 to 2 o inche snow. the roads are all below freezing th morning. temperatures are mostly in the teens. everything that comes down will stick and accumulate startg right away. no reason to wait below freezing. the weather will improved.ver the week there's a little alberta clipper here. it will be funneling that snow chance in here for the remainder of the day. the steadier snow moves in around 8:00 or 9:00 this morning. ynter advis for the northern half of the area. 18 inax faiounty and 19 in prince george's county. total snow, enough to white the ground. and maybe a couple of spots with 2 inches around town. 2 to 3 closer to the northern maryland and the top of the ixenandoah valley.

could get sncs or more in the mountains of west virginia. jack, good morning. >> thanks, chuck. potomac, our closure remains. the structure fire on chapel road, theater has frozen to the roadway. river and chapel road iced over. salt and sand trucks are on-scene but it wl take a little bit before that can be open. democracy boulevard is your alternate. issue in the northeast. inbound on new york avenue, before you get to 4th street and penn street, we have a crash with the left lane gting by. the red line is building quickly as you ride in. better news on the rails. metro, no longer single tracking on t blue and yellow line from a switch problem at national airport. but delays, unfortunately, remain. hopefuy they will ease quickly. back to you. >> jack, thank you. we have breaking news in montgomery county. dozens of firefigh trs have been

he scene of this house fire ur potomac for now. >> megan mcgrath has the latest on what happened here. megan? >> reporter: well, yeah. we have seen most of the crewse lehe scene here, the fire crews. this fire has been knocked out. it's notven smoldering at this point. but the big i question here what caused it. this is an intse blaze that happened just after midnight. ok at the video here. we're told that investigators will be returning to the scene. they will go through the house and try to figure out to see what happens through the fire. there's a large home of the structure. much of the roof is asne. a tough fire tofight. not with the firefighters arriving on the scene, they were told by a neigh that nobody was inside. this is not an occupied dwelling at the time. but no injuries, which is the good news here.

challenging for tbe fire crews use of the extreme cold. they had to run hthe lines all e way, from riverro . over 1,600 feet of hose line laid down here in the area. of course, as that was happening, the water was going everywhere, here on chapel road, as well asiver road. we have very icy conditions, both of the roads are closed. even river road, dowhe way, is closed. that'soing to be an issue for rush hour this morning. this is one of a series of firev that we he seen in the dmv in the last 24 hours. one of those fires was caused by an electrical problem involving a space heater. we do not know the cause of this particular blaze. but we've seen an active fire cycle here in the last 24 hours. we're awaiting word, hoping m hear f investigators in a few hours, what they think started this fire. back to you. >> megan mcgrath, le fors in

potomac. thank you, megan. we're getting a bird's-eye view of another fir clarksburg on brick haven way. ore e working to get details on this. but fire officials say the home may have caught fire because of an electrical isire. the spread to the home's siding. everyone inside at the time made it out safely. nody was hurt. ra> we've spent the majority of this week with temres well below freezing. local leaders fear the cold weather is not only dangerous to your health but damaging to our roads. >> highways and back roads have k en treated for ice all w long. and no doubt, you've been struck behind the trucks laying down lt nd brine to keep the roads manageable. the effectiveness of treatments is determined by how cind it is. accoto the maryland department of transportation state highway association, rock salt is less effective below 20 degrees. the brine and water is an ice melter until the theer hits 6 degrees below zero. >> we going to justin finch now. where ru r you and how are the

roads looking? >> reporter: we're on 270 southbound. and the roads so r, so good. wide-open spaces. no slick spots so fa and there's plow trucks. there's some research about the science of keeping the streets clear in the event of snow and ings like that. maryland d.o.t. and the state highway administration finding that rock salt is less effective bew 20 degrees. they also find that brine mixture, the salt/water combo, is effective until six degrees below zero. and you have magnesium chloride, a super melter i this situation. they find it's effective in temperatures all the way to 26 degrees belo zero. that's used a lot over in northern and western maryland as we look out this morning, back live on 270. as you can e, it is looking clear. a lot of questions now about that snow coming our way in just a matter of hours or, perhaps, woner. and what thatl do to the

roads. these crews are out here and waiting for this snow to come. back inside t you. >> justin finch in gaithersburg for us justin, thank you. while this latest winter blast haseft us very cold, it has relatively good -- it's good around here compared to otherou parts of thery. our 8 degrees was nothing compared illinois.in chicago, in chicago, they had to suspend mail delivery. the area will thaw out in the next few days. temperatures will climb as much as 80 degrees in some parts. >> did you see the guy on the bike? that's just nuts. >> i saw children out there. that could create proble p for bursties, crumbling roads. c td will linger a little longer in new jersey. take a look at this video of the great falls of the passaic river.

parts of the falls are frozen solid this morning. it's 10 degrees there. they will remain frozen for a little longer. jumping to the hudver in kingston, new york, it's ice as far as the eye can see. that's u.s. coast guard ship cutting the ice.n you nd more coverage here and across the country by checking out the nbc washington app. there, you will find the updated forecasts. a d.c. teacher is out of the classroom, after allegedly choking a student. jarvis massenburg teaches language arts. was charged with second-degree child cruelty. he is expected to make his first court appearance today. surveillance video shows the incint with the student. the principal sent a letter home to parents saying massenburg will remain on leave during thenvestigation. the news 4 eye team found that massenburg has been with the d.c. public schools since 2004. also in court today, former

trump adviser, roger stone. earlier this week, the 66-year-old pled not guilty to seven counts, including lying to cong.ss and witness tampering stone is the sixth trump ci assoate to be charged in connection with robert mueller's investigation into russian meddling into the 2016 election. prosecutors announced yesthaday that thed seized hard drives, apple icloud accounts, e-mail accounts and financial records from stone's home. the evidence can be discussed at today's status hearing. stone has insisted he has done nothing wrong. it's two weeks until another possible government shutdown. and president trump is slamming a group negotiating a deal on border security. democrats leased their starting points yesterday. th includes more money tha white house requested for customs and border proteion. it has less money than requested for i.c.e. and there's no mention of money for a border wall. >> there's no wall, it doesn't work. if they don't have a wall, i don't want to waste my time

reading what they have. >> there's not going to be wall money in the legislation. >> the president said would wait to see if congress can come up with an agreemente the february 15th deadline, before he decides to declare a national emergency at the southern border. the president is praisg border patrol agents for making the largest fentanyl bust in or hi federal authorities seized 254 pounds of that dangerous drug. it was discovered inside a secret compartment in a truck trying to come through a border checkpoint in arizona over the weend. fentanyl is a synthetic opioid 100-times more powerfu heroin. it was responsible for 30,000 overdose deaths in 2017. metro riders say they will find somewherelse to park after a rash of break-ins over the 7th avenue station. there was broken glass all over. a dozen cars were broken into on wednesday. metro has stepped up patrols ats its parking crime has dropped since 2017.

but riders we spoke to say they have learned to be cautious. >> i don't leave any valuable in my car. so, if somebody breaks in, theya will be ointed. >> there's nothing in my car, but cat stuff. they won't have much luck breaking into my truck. >> metro police say they do have a lead in this case but so far no arrests. the maker of oxycontin may have been going to extremes protect profits. >> a court filg shows the company planned to become an end-to-end pain bprovider, selling both opioids and drugs to treat opioid addiction. in an e-mail, the former ceo wrote, quote, we have to hammer on the abusers. they are the culprit and the anoblem. the coplanned to fight back with the emotional message from mothers with teenagers that overdosed. debbie's son, danny, started abusing oxycontin in high school

and then turned to heroin. >> that abuse openedp a monster inside of him that we haven't been able to quiet. the visceral anger i feel toward that company overtakes me. >> purdue is facing a lawsuit filed by the state of massachusetts. thsuit alleges the company deceptively sold oxycontin and downplayed its dangers. as we head to break, another school closing to tell you about. fairfax county schools will be closed. they were on a two-hour delay. but fairfax is now closed. it's something nearly everyone can donate. we're dogging about blood. we have the details on ther cross' calls for help. we're getting you readye fo super bowl. >> super bowl weekend is here. sunday looks super, indeed, with sunshine aend temperatures abov 50 degrhes. we're in teens this morning. we're in teens this morning. and watching for a chanceor f

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you're watching news 4 today. >> welcome back. it's 6:15. we're more than 48 hours away from kickoff at super bowl liii in atlanta. >> jay gray has been covering the hype all week he joins us live with more on what the fans are doing thebe ds re kickoff. hi, jay. >> reporter: hey, good morning, eun. good morning, aaron. last hour, we talked, the utpassing didn't work o for me. i'm not givingi'up. going to make sure there's no kids once this nfl exp opens up that cannot beat me in these games. i'm getting old. tens of thousands expected in here today. more than 0,000 before the

experience is all over. i'm winded, guys. i don't know if i'm going toug make it ththe weekend. back to you. >> the fact you made it that far, jay, i give it to you. >> it says a lot.. >> y thank you so much. >> thank you. thank you. jay gray live in atlanta for the super bowl. we're at 22 degrees outside our studios. that's not too shabby, compared to what some people are dealing with. >> yay? thank you? >> it's a small yay. it could be worse. we have been below freezing abt 48 hours in a row. chicago was below zero for 52-consecutive hours. they just got above zero late yesterday. that's the fourth-longest stretch of below zero weather in chicago weather history. for us, it is a cold morning. teens to around 20 now and snow on the way.e round is frozen solid and the temperatures are below

isfreezing. thlume of moisture coming right at us. a chances for snow starting now. and continuing through most of the daylight hours today. nothing very heav but the fact it will all stick from start-to-finish, is a a reasot of the school districts are throwing in the towel. the winter weather advisory, the shaded counties, will see 2 to o inch snow. but the farther north you go, those areas could get 2 to 3 inches of snow. temperature-wise, 15 in gaithersbu gaithersburg. it's cold. here's our forecast,whnough to en the ground. and potentially, i could see a possibility for many spots to t get close two inches in and around the city. northern montgomery county to the pennsylvania line, it could be a prolific snow producer.

here it is again. pay no attention to the green. everything that falls will be snow. notice if you drew a line from route anywhere south of that line, snowfall amounts will be less today. but the northern half of the area could get annd ex period of light snow that could add up to two to three inches. it will sticko the roads, too. it wirequire you to be careful. daytime high,tang in the 20s. everything that is snow and everything that lands on the ground, stks, start-to-finish. temperatures are in the 20s tonight. they will rise into the low 40s. a noticeable improvement begins during the day tomorrow. we start off cloudy but we endu ith sunshine later tomorrow. super bowl sunday looks sumer, with temperatures in the low 50s. and milder weather comes in for the early parts of next week. monday, mostly y,su 56. tuesday, i think we have a solid

chance to get into the 60s on tuesday. it will come with a little chance for rain. off ier rain chances hold until wednesday or thursday next week. it's all about the cold for today. you can find ande follow on social media. and you can get a picture of the snow, send it to you. seat heaters on high tlhere. a l kitty litter in the trunk. it helps to get you a little tra traction and keep that windshield washer reserve on the full sides n begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. >> that storm team 4 weatherti alert is in effect this morning, as we brace for another day ofco bitter . how much more can we take?

the temperatures won't rise above freezing again today. there is better news for weekend. finally, some warm weather. first, we need to fill you in on a few school delays and closures. >> a lot of updates in the last hour to tell you about. in virginia, shenandoah, frederick, winchester,warren, clarke, fairfax, loudon, those districts are closed today. in west virginia, hampshire, hardy, mineral and morgan county schools arelosed today. we turn to delays now. in maryland, public schools will open two hours late. in virginia, princia wi manassas, and fauquier county schools will open two hours late, a pwell. manassk city, arlington city and rappahannock schools on a two-hour delay. we have that information on the bottom of your screen and you can find it in the nbc washington app. > wtop's jack taylor in for

melissa this morning. we'll talk to him about warnings oad before we check in with justin and breaking news with megan. chuck bell will start us off with a look at the forecast. >> winter weather advisory for all of the d.c. metro area for the daylight hours today. four thingsow to today, snow. up to two inches potentially around the d.c. metro area. two t three inches in northern maryland. tomorrow, nowhere near as cold. and much milder weather for sunday and monday. snow all about the chance. it will be all snow, start-to-finish. temperatures are in the teens and low 20s. we'll not get to 30egrees today. with ground temperatures that cold, it will all stick. it won't be a crazy blizzard. ut light to moderate snow at times, throughout the daylight hours today, could add up. here's future fatheweather. all-snow for the northern half of the area. snow chances andil amounts be

lower the further south you trncel. thisdes all of the d.c. metro area. enough tohiten the ground, two inches. two to three in the north and west. and potentially six inches or more in the mountains.ee goodnd to go skiing. jack taylor how are the roads holding up? >> we have atu str fire in pa toe tomic and iced over, wes falls. chapel road remains closed. mostf the structure fire has been put out. river road, again, reopened west ofro falls . topside of the beltway outer loop, we have a crash that is reported before georgia avenue. quick delay back toward new hampshire avenue. rtheast, before 4th street, accident activity has now cleared. all lanes are now open. back to the breaking news in

montgomery county that jack just mentioned. here's a view from the ground now.fi dozens of firrs battle the house fire in potomac fire officials say this home is on chapel road, off of river. ro neighbors tell fire officials they don't think anyone was inside the home. no word on what started this fire. our megan mcgrath will be on the scene in about 15 minutes. firefighters have responded to a rashl la of fires in th 24 hours. this is video of a home in herndon. three people were inside the home. they were okay. a ere's another big fire on falls church jusw hours later. eight people had to be rescued from balconies. all of them are okay. about 50 people are now without a home. no word on what caused those house fires. one case appears to have started from a space heater. igators say a space heat had been left running, causing an electrical fire in

germantown. it is important to give space heaters space. >> this is video from a fire in glen burnie. one man was killed. this morning, a woman and a child are in critical condition. no word on the cause of that fire. the polar vortex that is being felt, not just in our area, but around the country. more than 230 million americans are facing extreme, sometimes record cold, as the polar vortex continues.o. look at chic below zero yesterday. people who went outside had to cover nearly every inch of skin. lake michigan and the chicago river are fren. the weather is being blamed for nine deaths nationwide. now, let's get an update on our area, wtih j finch, live on the roads in fairfax county. what are you seeing out there? >> reporter: good morning.

looking at 66 eastbound in the oakton area here. we're seeing another smooth commut we know we have the snow coming on a very coldday. that concern, what do we do about the roads and how do we keep them ear? now, we know more about the science of doing so and about when tos use which mixtud which is best for certain situations here. the maryland o.t. and state highway administration is saying that rock salt is less effective below 20 degrees. rns outer/brine mixture is effective until the thermometer is 6 degrees below czero. pretd there. but the megamelter in all of this is msiagumchloride. it is effective all the way down zero. that gets a lot northern and western maryland. we look at the roadway, now school isd in fairfaxtha t coun

here on chapel road. a little after midnight, it caught on fire and was fully engulfed when the fire department arrived on-scene. the neighbors wereble to inform the fire department there was no one inside the home. it was an unoccupied home and no cars in the. driveway no injuries here but a lot of damage. fwe've seen a very activire cycle here in the last 24 hour this is one of several fires we've seen across the dmv. one of wch was started, an electrical fire associated with a space heater we still don't know the cause of this fire. buthe certainly,re going to be checking into that as soon as the sun comes up. should mention that river radio h road has reopened. was closed f a while. >> megan mcgrath, live for us m thning. chopper 4 over the scene of another fire a few minutes ago. a tohome on ick haven way in

clarksburg caught fire overnight. an electric issue was to blame for thisn ire. everyonee homemade it out safely. new overnight, president trump telling "the new york times" the negotiation by border time. is a waste of >> this comes after he met with the top intelligence leaders at the white house. peter alexander is there with the eplatest. >>ter: it was a wide-ranging interview with "the times." the president, as you know, dismissing the border wall talks currently underay incongress. he called it a waste of time. he blasted house speaker nancy pelosi, saying she's hurting our country very badly. speaker pelosi specifically there would be no money in for the deal for the president's wall. they have two weeks left to get that mr. trump says he has set the table for what he's going to do,

suggesting plans to declare a national emergency to getll his built. he is trying to smooth over the apparent rift between him andhi top intelligence officials, after tweeting they should go back to school after contradicting him on a series of foreign policy flash points. the president said the intell chiefs' testimony was mischaracterized bya.he me we'll have more on that coming up. >> peter, thank you again. peter's full report coming up on "today." by now, every furloughed federal worker shouldave their ck pay. the office of management and budget say a lot of people worked around the clock to process the payroll in recor. ti everyone recd 35 days the goverent was shut down. yesterday was a regular payday for members of the coast guard. next week, it will be a regular payday fer federal workers. the clock is ticking f bipartisan lawmakers to come up

with a plan to avoid another shutdown. president trump insists any plan build a ude funding to wall along the u.s./mexico border. and house speaker p there will be no funding for a while. a d.c. teacher is out of thm classrfter allegedly choking a student. massenburg t langua language arts. he was arrested and charged with second-degree child icruelty. hes expected to make his first court appearance today. surveillance video apparently shows the incident with the student. the principalent a letter home to parents saying massenburg will remain on leave during the he news 4 i-team found tha massenburg has been with d.c. public schools since 2004. >> happening thiweekend, in atlanta, the biggest football game of the year comes with one of the biggest parties of the year. officials are expecting more than 1 million people to invade atlanta ahead of super bowl liii on sunday. that means big surity concerns. >> jay gray has been in atlanta

all week. he joins us live with more. .esting out his football skil jay, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we have run of the nfl experience right now. it's not open yet. we're getting a little advance training before all of the kids show up. i'll g afraid i'mng to get blitzed by them, though. this is part of what i the big show in atlanta. thousands of people show up here, without a ticket to the big game. they spend time here.ns of thousands expected here today. before it's said and done, more than 100,000 will likely come through the nfl experience. i know we're running out of time. oh. it was close, guys. it's as close as i've been all day. >> you have a little more time. keep practicing, >> watch out for the kids, too. jay gray, live in atlanta for us for the super bowl. and we're much closer to the

start of puppy bowl 15 on sunday. the puppy bowl on animal planet. if you want to get into the spirit, there's a viewing party at wag and drew in iaalexan from 2:00 to 5:00. a halftime show will be performed by cats at the game. >> and maybe that sloth willac come b from last year. >> who know s what kind ofs anime on the show. we want to check back in with chuck and let you know that the snow he's warning about is starting to fall. chopper 41 on patrol when it started to fall a few minutes ago. another update, too. jefferson county, west virginia schoow closed. >> that's a great picture. live from chopper 4, flying over the area. you can see the snowflakes getting caught in t lightning. snow is starting to reach its way all the way to the ground. t will start as snow and stay snow, all day. four things you need to know about the forecast.st of the d.c. metro area, a

coating to maybe one or as much as two inc in a few spots. temperatures will have been below fezing for 48 hours. the roads are frozen up. everything will stick to pavement immediately. be careful. roads could turn slippery. we will have better weather for your entire weekend. right now, though, with light snow flurries, it is 22 in washington. teens across maryland and virginia and west virginia. a col start to the day. forecast high, only in the mid to upper 20s. a chance you're goi to get snow, 80%. the only people that may not get snow, will be towhed south, fredericksburg and southern maryland. around most of the metro area, oat the ground as much as 2 inches. all of the latest hoformation, delays and closures, on the nbc washington app. if you get aicture of t snow, send it to me on twitter. look at this little push of

moisture here, through the ohio valley. it's aimed right at us. we're in for a stretch of eight or ten hours of light snow. it won't snow that hard. but eight or ten hours can easily add up to 1 or 2 inches. wintll weather advisory for a of the metro area. snowfall amounts, by 10:00 a.m., half an inch to an inch. over an inch of snow around the area. our official forecast map, a coating to as much as 2 inches for the metro area. 2 do 3 across northern maryland and the mountains of west virginia. there's your ten-day outlook. milder weather in the 40s tomorrow and 50s for super bowl sunday. monday also looks good. fairfax county, kids, not just a three-day weekend, but a four-day weekend because schools were closed on monday f a work day. boy, those kids are getting lucky. 63 on tuesory. a win all of us. let's go to jack taylor now.

>> no matter what you say, i'm not going back to school. the crash on georgia avenue, everything is moved over to the shoulder. we're slow around 95, headed toward this crash. we have inbound activity on new york avenue. watch out if you are headed towards the crash be 9th street. a bus involved, the right lane is closed. a live look at 270 in germantown. your only bit of a slowdown is past 118. everybody headed away from us, just briefly delayed. your lanes arepen tohe lane divide. snow is coming. prepare for it if you're headed out now. back toyo 6:55 now. we're working for youreah this morning. alarming newof the number one killer of americans. ea nearly half of all american adults have disease. most are diagnosed with high

blood pressure. that's partly because t guidelines for high blood pressure have changed. look at this. now, any reading higher than on0/80 isdered high.0/ was the oldth reshold. a healthy blood pressure is any reading lower than 120/80. sleep is importantor a healthy heart. adults should aim for at least seven hours a night. later on new 4 at 5:00, a few tips for a better night's sleep. believe it or not, they could be on your cell phone. doreen gentzlerngs wor for you and will show you the best apps that can help you sleep longer and better. here's 4 things to know. former trump adviser, roger stone, is expected in federal court in the district. earlier this week, the 66-year-old pled not guilty to seven counteds, including lying to congress and witness

tampering. stone is the sixth treump associate to be charged in the mueller investigatn. prosecutors announced they had ized hard drives, apple icloud accounts, e-mail accounts andna ncial records from stone's home. the evidence could be discussed at today's status hearing. stone has insisted he has done nothing wrong. the man convicted in the d.c. mansion murders is being sentenced today. prosecutor will ask for four life sentences without the possibility patrrole. montgomeryounty firefighters are putting out hot spots after this fire in potomac. officials don't believe anyone was in the home. no word on what caused that fire. the bitter cold continues this morning. make sure you'reuned up before leaving the house. a number of schools are delayed or closed. alexandria city public schools till open two hours late today. the complete lt the bottom of your screen and in the nbc washington app.

>> all right. a lot of weather this whole week. thanks for sticking with us. >> we appreciate it. >> "today" shone is . we'll be

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all eyes on atlanta. >> so excited! >> the super bowl host city gearing up for the biggest game of the year, security tight. the patriots and rams putting in final preparation while maroon 5 lookso headff the controversy swirling around the half-time >>performance. 'm not in the right profession if i can't handle a littlers contro >> this morning al and craig are live in atlanta with the super ldze, super bowl pep rally. record . >> i've been here all my lifes noth cold as this. >> that brutal stretch of freezing weather claims at least 12 lives and shatters records in more than 160 places. bu h