megan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, eun. the crews here are reportedly working very early. you can see the activity here as they load up with salt here to go out and hit the roadways, get in place and just standby and wait for the snow to start to come down here. we have 4,000 pieces of equipment in northern virginia ready to tackle whatever mother nature throws our way. keep in mind, folks, that when you are out and about, when all of the snow begins, you're going to want to give these plows plenty of room. 100 feet is what they are calling for as they start to spread the salt and the chemicals down on the ground. now, of course, as things really get going later on this afternoon and we start to see the heavier snow, you are advised to get off the roads altogether. give these plows room so they can do their jobs and get the streets cleared as quickly as possible. if you can stay home, do that. a lot of the school systems are closed, a lot of the governments are closed today. so that's an option for you. we have seen a lot o

aaron and eun, back to you. >> glad you got in safely. covering this morning after is she was hit by a metro bus in southeast. 43-year-old sherea smith was at w street and martin luther king jr. avenue when the bus struck her. she was in her battery powered wheelchair at the time. police are reviewing video from the bus and a nearby building in their investigation. police are still unclear as to whose fault it was. >>> a former alexandria high school teacher will spend the next year in prison a. judge sentenced stephen miarer to a year behind bars for having sex with at least two students inside tc williams high school. that's where he taught psychology and sociology. he also coached basketball there. miarer was originally sentenced to ten years in prison. nine of those years were suspended. >>> walmart recalling more than 70,000 card table and chair sets this morning after reports of fi finger injuries. take a look at the table a here. it is the mainstay five piece card table. the company says the table can unexpectedly collapse. so far

at the live desk, i'm eun yang. barbara?> eun, thanks. >>> now, two brothers in russia are in police custody for their role in two suicide bombings last month in volgograd that killed 34 people. the first happened in a train station, the second aboard a bus just a few days later. investigators say the two brothers helped the suicide attackers travel to volgograd for the attacks. they reportedly are from dagestan, which has become a center for islamic insurgency. the attacks raised questions about terror threats ahead of the sochi winter olympic games. >>> also now, local university is taking a close look at how sochi is preparing to protect the winter games. george washington university's homeland security policy institute is hosting a panel discussion on the terrorist threats against the host city and what's being done to prevent an attack. former homeland security secretary tom ridge is taking part. if you're interested, the discussions started about 30 minutes ago at the marvin center on 21st century, at george washington

good morning, everyone, i'm aaron gilchrest. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" for this monday, january 6th, 2014. it's a pretty pleasant winter day outside this morning around the d.c. area. but you need to get ready for a 40, 4-0, degree temperature drop over the next 24 hours. >> meteorologist tom kierein's here with more on the dangerous winter blast headed our way. to

. >> and i'm eun yang. this is a live look at capitol hill.s are closed, and emergency and telework employees must follow their agency's policies. >> a live look at storm team 4 radar for you, we'll show that to you in a minute as we are in the calm before the storm. just a few hours to go in our area that is set to see the heaviest snowfall in three years that could make for dangerous conditions all day long. we begin with meteorologist chuck bell to look at what we'll see and when. chuck? >>> good morning, aaron and eun. good tuesday morning, everyone. you set your alarm early and are ready to go, but now a lot of places will be closed for the day. so technically you can go back to bed, but why would you do that when you can watch our coverage for the next few hours. winter storm warnings go into effect at 7:00 and last until 11:00 this evening. here's storm team 4 radar over the last hour. nothing going on around town, but we have several more dry hours and snow-free hours ahead of us here, but the first leading edge of the snowflakes are m

. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today." we are waking up early with you this morning on this wednesday, january 22nd, 2014, to help you deal with some of the dangerous cold and snow. >> you can take time to get ready for work if you work for the federal government. federal offices are opening with a two-hour delayed arrival. you have the option for unscheduled leave or telework. your kids have another day off today. every major, and for that matter, minor school system closed because of the winter storm. we have a complete list of closings at the bottom of the screen and at nbcwashington.com. >>> looking outside over washington, d.c., it looks really pretty, but looks can be deceiving. it is bitterly cold with many snow-packed streets. chuck bell with more on what lies ahead. good morning. >> good morning, everybody. there's a whole lot of crunchy, crunchy, crunchy, crunchy as you go down the side streets as the snow that fell yesterday is blowing and drifting around and getting crunchy. temperatures, single digits and low

eun, back to you. >> megan mcgrath in ashburn. thank you. >>> 4:34. today the fate of your child's make-up snow days may be decided. the alexandria city school board will vote on the issue of whether to make up snow days tonight at 7:00. currently the alexandria school system is set to add on days through the end of the year. tonight's vote will decide whether or not to use planned professional development days which have been scheduled for several upcoming fridays. that way would not interfere with the summer break as much. you can find critical weather and traffic alerts with school closings and delays on your smartphone with our "news4 today" app. you can download that from our app store, set your alarm to aaron's voice maybe. >>> 4:35 the time now. several streets will be closed in upper marlboro to allow for final respects to be paid to fallen prince george's county police officer james "doc" brooks. sorry, this is -- right. brooks was a 20-year veteran of the force. he suffered a medical emergency while on duty a little over a week ago. he was w

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. >> i'm eun yang. we have school closes and delays. d.c. public schools will open on time. in maryland, prince george's, montgomery, howard, charles, and frederick county schools will open two hours late. as will anne arundel and washington county schools. calvert and st. mary schools are closed today. >> in virginia, fairfax, loudoun, prince william county schools. arlington county and alexandria will open two hours late. falls chur falls church city schools will open two hours late. >> in virginia, clarke, focus, frederick, king george, and warren schools are closed. the same for winchester, fredericksburg, and shenandoah county. >> in west virginia, berkeley, hampshire, jefferson, and morgan county schools are closed.

. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" for this monday, january 6th, 2014. much of the country in a deep freeze. the upper midwest feeling the coldest air in 20 years. public schools are closed today in cities including chicago and st. louis, as well as the entire state of minnesota. people are being told to stay indoors as temperatures in some places could touch 32 below zero, and that is not counting the windchills. >> i tell you, we are above freezing here in the d.c. area also this hour. but you need to get yourself ready for a dramatic drop in temperatures. in fact, we could see a 40-degree drop in the next 24 hours. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is here with what we need to get ready for. good morning. >>> good morning. you need an umbrella now. dense fog, but a lot of the fog is beginning to break up. right now temperatures around the region are 40s around the metro area. we have some rain here in montgomery, howard county, into fairfax county, down 95. prince william, down to stafford and spotsylvania. the area of light rain is going to be p

. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" for this thursday, january 9th, 2014. take a live look outside at 4:26. 32 degrees outside. still a cold start, but feeling a little better than it has the last few days. >> i will take 32 degrees. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is here with the forecast. >> it feels like spring after the last couple of harsh mornings. high clouds drifting over the region now. we'll have breaks in the cloud cover over the next couple of hours. so a little sun should break out around sunrise. right now it is cold. below freezing most locations. near the bay, near 30 degrees. eastern shore in the upper 20s. in prince george's county, in the upper 20s. mid to upper 20s fairfax county. the rest of northern virginia. right now, shenandoah valley into the mountains. those are the cold spots. down to the low 20s to upper teens in western maryland. hagerstown down to 20 degrees. we'll stay below freezing for another couple of hours. warmer weather on the way. danella, good morning. any traffic trouble? >>> so far in our area, quiet. what

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. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to this wednesday, january 8th, 2014.emperatures still hovering in the single digits around much of the region. however, there's one thing missing this morning that could make it feel a little less painful -- the wind. >> thankfully. several schools in our area are opening late because of the cold weather. here's the list. in virginia -- fairfax, stafford, frederick, and page county schools will open two hours late. the same goes for schools in fredericksburg and shenandoah county. >> in west virginia, berkeley, hampshire, jefferson, and morgan county schools will also open two hours late. we have a complete list of the closings and late openings on the bottom of your screen and on nbcwashington.com. >>> let's go to meteorologist tom kierein for a first look at the forecast. >> what's missing is certainly welcome. that wind has died down. a calm wind, but a frigid start still. temperature in mu-- temperature much of the region to single digit. reagan national, 14. they're getting breeze off the warmer waters of the potoma

. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" for this monday, january 27th, 2014. temperatures in the upper 30s and lower 40s as you see here may not seem warm, but that is warm as it's going to be because we're preparing for another deep freeze. >> one school delay. frederick county schools in virginia opening two hours late. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is here with what we need to get started. >>> get ready for weather whiplash. we're going to have a big change in our temperatures as you just

identifying system on the plains and sell them as civil use their crops south korean president park eun hye has propose resuming re unions around the lunar new year. the family separation between south korea and the bpi can a park made the remarks in a televised news conference she pledged to open a new hero for the reunification of the korean peninsula. fox said the south korean government acknowledge the deep dark eyes tell me to hinge on loans mentioning about it a korean relations in this new year message however pot said actions were more important than words. she said if the dprk shows sincerity about the new fare on station as well like a positive contribution to the peace and so the state of the korean peninsula and north east asia. referring to the political situation in the dprk. the south korean president said the country is making preparations for all possibilities before my a and b i a basketball star dennis rodman has left the ageing for the bpi came with a team of retired boss to pull players to mock the dprk of these is the size. this will be robin's fourth trip to the b

. >> i'm eun yang.to need some extra layers this morning as we deal with another round of deep freeze around the district. across the region right now, we are seeing temperatures in the single digits. but when you add in the windchill, it is going to feel like it's below freezing. >> and that means school delays and closings, first in virginia, warren, clark, frederick county schools will open two hours late today. so will schools in win chester. >> and in west virginia now, hampshire, hardy, jefferson, mineral and morgan county schools are closed. log on to nbcwashington.com for a complete list of closings and delays. >>> storm team 4 meteorologist tom kieran is here now with just how cold it's going to get today. good morning, tom. >> a lot of the schools are delaying because of dangerous windchills to 10 below zero. there are windchills around the metro near zero. these are the current temperatures. reagan national is at 19 degrees. elsewhere farther north and west, hagerstown, just 6 degrees right n

executive officer on the rich management suspect it was there from my rugby the south korean president park eun hye he is aging japanese fleet is too was trying their actions and remarks in accordance with that cost apologies to south korea did an interview with cnn on monday. talk also urged japanese leaders to have a correct understanding of history calling it the basis of japan and south korean relations. looking towards legal basis neighbors that at least geographically japan. you haven't met with prime minister shinzo up a system that is if you took talent that all historical issues are territorial disputes between sending the stock they can visit the year the bank would eventually accept the new shrine where war criminals aren't trying. knowing what the negative reaction would be from china and concise korea. what does this tell you that missed on pace to shift toward south korea more new one when i had to go with but when he tries to japan. i hope to avoid future are into relationship with japan based on current understanding of history. in fact it has been my desire to leave to my futur

. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today." it is not just the snow and ice that could be a problem this morning, but all the wind. it is blowing snow everywhere, and it's making it feel very cold this morning. >>> let's check in with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. good morning. >> good morning. and a good morning, everybody. windchill advisories are posted. they officially go until noon. but just because the windchill advisory expired at unanimous, don't think for a minute that all of a stud's going to turn balmy and nice outside -- of a sudden it's going to turn balmy and nice outside. windchills will be back above minus five. that doesn't sound like a bargain. the snow's over, though there's plenty of blowing snow around. i could see the moon, and at times the snow would blow off the awnings of other downtown buildings. you could almost get a snow swirl out there. current temperatures, single digits and low teen. current windchills, minus seven in town. minus ten in the panhandle of west virginia. almost minus ten in

. >> how much amphetamines do you put in your qualudes, kim jong eun. >> allyson, you dated rodman in the '90s. should he have spoken about kenneth bae the way he did? >> he shouldn't have spoken about anything. i love him going to north korea. i don't love him gala vanlting around the world with killers. he drinks coffee that's made from filtered snow. if dennis rodman is all i knew. americans. that is big. >> there must be some north koreans that are saying, huh, if that's an american, why don't we conquer them? >> i think that's probably the case. >> it reminds me of moammar gadhafi, you know? power corrupt. absolute power corrupt absolutely. pretty soon dennis will have his own female group of body guards. not to say -- >> he looked like he was running his own country. they looked every bit as uncomfortable as a relative of a dictator. we can't speak up or he will kill us. this trip is supposed to be about a birthday. why can't the media understand that. >> i think it's because they're jews. >> as always it's the jews. >> absolutely. >> yeah, you can see them in the background beh

our celebrity panel of judges morning anchors, eun yang, aaron gilchrist and tisch thompson and used olympic style voting. the five finalist, sea urchin hats, baby pat hat. the turkey hat, the hat for two and the well-dressed hat. and now the winners of this january 2014 pat collins' snow stick challenge, kevin and carolyn hammond! the binner, the hat for two. it was knitted by carolyn's mom. it started as one thing and then, well, it turned into something else. >> it started as a scarf? >> starred as a man's scarf. >> reporter: then it took on a life of its own? >> it did. >> now hat for two? >> yes. carolyn is very creative. >> i noticed it was long and i said to my husband, come over here and put this on. we put it on and i couldn't go very far and it became a really snugly hat. >> reporter: so why did the judges like the hat for two? >> we gave high marks for creativity because it's the only hat we saw that fit two heads. it keeps the couple together. it's homemade and the pictures are cute. >> reporter: what do you like best about it? >> keeps me close. >> reporter: to him? >> y

this was a fake story until i reached out to a number of people in china, including cnbc's own eunice euninto it from the china side. here's what's interesting about this story. it's not a question about what they're saying on one level. it's that it's in the people's daily and this is the communist party paper. when you have this in china, that means it has the government's backing. that's the significance. i must say, the company says there are a bunch of inaccuracies. the company, they didn't have any chance to talk to the reporters, they're trying to find out who the reporters are. anyway, that's a significant takeaway from this. >> i also want to mention one other thing here. that is as it relates to the other companies doing business there. i have a piece on the street.com about this right now. whether it's herbalife or others, you have to take a look now because if the government comes out and is sending a message to nuskin, you can best bet they are sending a message to all of them. >> okay. thank you for that. herb, always great to see you. thank you so much. >>> will the nasdaq

cnbc's eunice eun was with tim cook in beijing's financial district. >> reporter: after six years of negotiations, china mobile is finally selling apple iphones at its store. apple's ceo tim cook marked the occasion by visiting an apple store in beijing, handing out iphones to some lucky customers. both the 5s and 5c, those phones were actually autographed. a lot of people here still believe that apple is going to get a boost from this deal. the company has been facing some stiffer competition from cheaper smartphone rivals, but now apple is going to get access to china mobile's vast network of 760 million subscribers. >> fantastic for apple to be launching with china mobile today. we have long wanted and waited for this day to come, and i'm so happy that it's come today. today we're bringing the best smartphone to the fastest network and the largest network in the world. >> reporter: the two companies say they have received over a million orders for the phones. some analysts wonder if this new partnership is going to be the catalyst that apple needs to maintain its iconic status her

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cnbc's eunice eun joins us with some of the highlights. eunice? >> reporter: hey, guys.hat this was a watershed moment and a watershed day for apple. both companies after a very long time were finally able to work out this deal, and so now apple will have access to china mobile's 750 million subscrib subscribers. he basically told me that this is just a way for the company to build on the momentum that they have here in china. and he didn't seem very concerned about some of the low-cost hand sset makers that have been cropping up here. >> you know, for us, for apple, it's always been about making the best products. not making the most. and so we want people to have incredible -- have an incredible user experience with our products to empower them to do things they couldn't do before. this is what's important for us. if you look at last quarter, i saw these numbers just in the last few days. in the december quarter, and these are be ins coming from a third party, 57% of the mobile browsing traffic in china was on an ios device. and so i think you can see from this, regard

cnbc's eunice eun joins us live from beijing with more of that interview.etween the two companies has finally come to a close. both men did sit down with me and they had a very good rapport going. they said they were very confident and optimistic about the release of the iphone in china mobile stores which is going to happen this friday. this is what tim cook had to say -- >> it's a watershed day for apple. it's a huge announcement. i'm so honored to be doing business with chairman xi and china mobile. they have the largest network. we're incredibly impressed with them. we have deep respect for them and have had from the very first discussion that we've had together. we see this as bringing the world's best smartphone to the very largest and now the fastest network in china. >> reporter: now, this deal has been a long time coming. both companies are set to benefit. china mobile has been wanting to have a deal with the iphone because they are now rolling out new data services, 4g services and so they're hoping to really change their reputation so they don't

eun? >> thank you. >>> 6:33. a wheaton sandwich shop won't be open for business today because of the cold partially. last night a car lost control and hit ice in this subway parking lot. it slammed into the building, causing extensive damage. it happened at 6:00 at georgia avenue and university boulevard. no one was hurt. >>> on the roads this morning, hopefully you won't up in an accident like that. megan mcgrath is in ashburn now. >> reporter: we are in ashburn >>> time is 6:40. get ready when you step outside, extreme cold temperatures. this is the -- this is the thermometer on our storm team 4 weather deck. shows temperatures hovering in the teens. if you're lucky -- look like we're inching up to 11 degrees, maybe a little bit. >> how about this for an upside -- while the freezing eratures they may be helping you lose weight. according to dutch researchers, spending time in colder climates helps you burn more lories. when your body is cold, it works harder to warm up. the harder it works the more calories you