. >> adam, if you're looking to hear holiday cheer, news 4's aimee cho knows just the place for you. >> if you've flipped through the stations out and about you've heard christmas songs. what exactly does it take to we decided to pay a visit to washington's christmas station to find out. >> 97.1, merry christmas, happy holidays. it's sabrina conte. >> if you're searching for holiday spirit you need look no further than sabrina conte. >> one of my favorites. "santa baby." 97.1. >> conte is one of the voices bringing the spirit of santa to d.c. >> you are the station that everyone comes to to feel warm and fuzzy, that's a big responsibilityut have. >> every year since 2001, it's been the only radio station in d.c. to keep christmas carols on around the clock. all that cheer takes careful calculation. >> lots of research and many years of uploading those holiday songs into the system. then every year kind of keeping on track of what's new. what's happening? what can i do for you? >> another big part of the job? taking requests. >> one song i would like you to play for me. >> sure. for y

. >> aimee cho. >> thanks so much. bye-bye. >> it is nice just to know if you want a christmas song you just put that station on and you're good to go. for a long time. >> so happy. >> i was there last year, big red button to start. bam, i got to hit the red button and away they went. >> so you ed is not frightful and the fire is delightful. you need it this morning. it's cold. here is a look at our esh sky. agents fiery in the eastern sky. live view overlooking capitol hill. some clouds passing over right now. a little sun through the high clouds through the morning hours but no rain here despite the cloud cover. it's cold right now. upper 20s near 30 degrees, suburbs, rural areas in town anywhere on storm team 4 radar except way south and west. going forward in time. 10:00, 11:00, this area in the green, that is light rain coming across virginia into the metro area by 10:00 tonight. pink zone a little bit of sleet, some higher elevations off to the north and west. then by midnight we'll have that light rain coming th

in cheverly, aimee cho, news 4. >>> news 4 at 6:00 starts now. >> first at 6:00 tonight, you might want to brace yourself, folks, some big changes in our weather. coming oef the next several days. dangerous cold tightening its zbr grip on our area. >> it's part of the same system that dumped snow in parts of michigan and created whiteout co tonight, team coverage of the extreme cold and steps crews are taking tonight. let's start with doug tracking this polar vortex that's moving in overnight. hi, doug. >> yeah, hey, doreen. the polar vortex making its way down here. what is the polar vortex? well, what maps when you talk about it, let's take a look at the max 1 if we can, guys, show you what's happening here, because that cold air making its way right on down from the arctic and that arctic air going to be putting us down into single-digit windchills as we move on through the day tomorrow. now take a look, up toward the polar regions, once we get there, the polar vortex is simply that. a vortex up by the poles. we're going to continue to see that moving in toward our region. what happe