clark howard, host of the clark howard show. it's so good to have you here clark. >> thank you.'s think about this. if you are a fan of wireless service today is your day, my friend. not only is google getting into it but cablevision is getting into it. it is the wild west for consumers right now. looks to me that prices will go down even further. what do you say? >> yeah, we had a great last year with rates going down, down, down. we're still in the early innings of this game. it will be so cheap to use a cell phone if i reach out there by the end of next year, you'll be able to find plans that will be $10 a month for talk, text, and a certain amount of web. gerri: what? ten dollars a month? >> ten a month. because the lead price in the market for a good robust plan is 25 a month from a company called republic wireless which gives you unlimited text, talk and data for 25 a month. they're out on the edge there. but their cheap price will seem moderate i think by next year. gerri: clark before you go any further, my friend. we talk to the people at republic wireless. david was on

clarke county. >> prince george's and howard county delayed two hours. so are anne arundel and washington county schools. montgomery tells us it is starting on time today. back to virginia. warren fauquier, response vane ya on a two-hour delay. alexandria, manassas city and park two hours. >> all these delays on the bottom of your screen and on the news 4 app and nbcwashington.com. >> right now about 100 cold and hungry people are getting the payoff for camping out all night in subfreezing temperatures. these brave men and women slept in tents outside the chick-fil-a in dumfries. the first 100 who made it through the night and the front door are getting a free chicken sandwich once a week for a year. we have much more on this winter blast. how the commuters are handling the elements later in the broadcast. >>> today marks one month since a plane crashed into multimedical homes in montgomery county. marie gemmell and her two youngest children died. they received all of these items. the restaurant owner says donations came as far as away as from hawaii and

howard county two hours later as well. new into our newsroom shenandoah starting two hours later. clarke and rick closed. >> alex app alexandria manassas city and park are delays two hours. >>> now we are making sure you can make it to work without running into any trouble with team coverage on the conditions and accidents on our roads. >>> let's begin with storm team 4 meetsteorologist tom kierein. >> many side streets lis uncleared from yesterday i took this in northwest washington. the winds will pick up noon time. frigid windchills overunited into tomorrow morning. temperatures subfreezing. teens montgomery county. mid 20s in washington and by the bay, many locations in the 20s. for this morning's commute, icy spots hovering near 20 degrees. watch out through the morning. in the afternoon, still below freezing. many of the roads will be blow dried and main roads drying out with winds gusting 30 to 40 miles per hour this afternoon. we'll have our windchills down into single digits. a look at when the winds really get strong overnight tonight at next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6:

howard county schools also. prince george's coun cha and frederick county maryland, those are closed for a scheduled planning day. >>> back in virginia, rappahannock clarke, fauquier co and page county all closed. so are winchester city. >> and schools in mineral hampshire, grant, berkeley and jefferson all closed today. watch us during the for the scroll of the closings and delays. >> and we will have frequent storm team 4 updates all day long. it's a weather al laert day. you canu can see it's very active r today rain and snow we might have a few l will time tomorrow morning. it will be cold. another chance of some snow evening. does not look like a major deal. another chance of some snow on sunday looking like flurries right now. >>> again megan mcgrath's shot here 270 at montrose that's what it's looking like from the sky. once it gets to the ground not sticking on the roads. here is amelia segal's shot the out of frederick county. you'll need the wind shield wipers perhaps to sweep off the front porch this morning. but otherwise not sticking to the roads right now. wide look at things, we're typically slow top of the beltway and inbound 395 and 95 i

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howard and anne arundel on a two hour delay. arlington and loudoun on a two hour delay as are clarke county and rappahannock. >> fredericksburg is closed. alexandria is starting two hours late. manassas and manassas park also two hours late. and falls church on a one hour delay. if you work for the federal government agencies are open but you have the option found scheduled leave or telework. check the news 4 app for the whole list. we'll be sending you breaking push alerts on any changes. we also put everything you need to know on nbcwashington.com. you can watch the bottom of your screen during the "today" show as well. >>> storm team 4 predicted we were only going to get a dusting and that's what's happened. just enough to give us a light coating across northern virginia nearby suburbs. but look at that bright white area that is where it is snowing statistic presently hard now northern neck of virginia st. mary's, southern calvert county. one bright band there in charles county. that's where they will end up with a couple of inches maybe a few isolated 13093/ors spots 3 or 4. >>> all lanes of eisenhower at van dorn shut down.

howard county. there's a bigger one coming out of the pan hane o west vi into loudoun county. that's moving into prince i and clarke and warren. farther to the south, there's another bigger area that is now coming out of culpepper county into orange and into stafford. there's one bright band of some heavy sn in southern charles county. these are going to be puttio inches of on top of what has already fallen. temperatures in the upper 20s to near 30s. it is sticking. we have a big area on the winter weather advisory. northern virginia the district and maryland as we get an additional 1 to 2 inches between now and 8:00 this morning. causing slick roads. watch out on the sidewalk and front steps. it could be slick. snow totals from yesterday afternoon to this morning. we've had about 1 to 3 inches. the metro area 3 to 4 inches farther north and west. up to 6 in the as system will be continuing to move through. we'll clear out tomorrow with the sunshine back after a sub freezing morning. >>> a look coming up next weather and traffic on the 1's 6:11 at the hour by hour when our sunshine returns and above freezing. melis

winchester, frederick county and clarke county all in virginia closed because of the impending snow headed their way. >> you can keep up with this on our mobile app, everything howardlling you is right there. >> we're going to be live with the morning updates. i'm not horribly concerned about this system, especially d.c. north and west, out toward the northern shenandoah valley, the mountains yes you'll get a little snow. this is a clipper. they move quickly. they often don't have a lot of moisture to work with. a dusting to maybe an inch in d.c. i'm thinking that would be far-reaching with 1 to 3 in the higher elevations. again those areas along and north of i-70. the system is coming out of ohio. we're seeing some echoes showing up in northern virginia. notice how they fall apart as they get closer toward the potomac river. not all of this is reaching the ground but we have had reports of flurries in frederick as far east as olney and damascus. here on i-81 west out in the mountains, down 68, parts of 522, 219, 2 ten, a little bit of -- 220, a little bit of light snow. the better chance of snow looks like later this morning as the system from ohio pushes toward t

howard examines the homes of notable civil war era figures which includes the residences of jefferson davis, robert e. lee clara barton and frederick douglass. this is about one hour. >> good evening. i'm tony clark from the carter presidential library. i'm really glad you guys are here. i have really been looking forward to this because this book, "houses of civil war america," is usually faceting. anybody i think the likes to travel, one of the things, i know i enjoyed is going to places where people lived that have been so tied tight in history. i just think of going to abraham lincoln's home and i can still, you almost walk in and some of the dark wallpaper and designs of the time it just kind of seems to take you back into the time and you can to get a sense of the people from the places they've lived. for more than two deca