. >> do not underestimate chef marjorie bradley. >> to my advantage, people assume you're not really anyone to reckon with. and i did feel like that changed pretty quickly. >> after a quiet start on top chef, she has shown that she's quick on her feet and ready for a fight. the executive chef at d.c.'s restaurants have made it to the halfway point of season 13. not only is she winning challenges, she is consistently earning praise from the judges. of like the gaimmicks and the game of it, you forget people are sitting there eating your food. so i think would i want to eat a full plate of that? >> but don't get sent home. rather than focusing on winning, she is putting her best dish forward one challenge at a time. >> finding the balance of taking a risk and you deserve to be there but not such a big risk that you will get sent home because you fall on your face. >> next up, the other top chef, restaurant wars. this is a show tradition and fan favorite in which competing team have to open a restaurant in one day. she said it is one of the toughest jobs she's ever done. >> it is so fas

meek-bradley tells us her strategy for cooking under pressure. >> reporter: do not underestimate chef marjorie meek-bradley. >> it's to my advantage when people assume you're not really anyone to reckon with, and i did feel like that changed pretty quickly though. >> reporter: after a quiet start on "top chef" meek bro-bradley shown she's quick on her feet and ready for a tight. the executive chef at ripple and smoked and stacked has made it to the halfway point of season 13. not only is she winning challenges, she's consistently earning praise from the judges. >> when you think about too much of like the gimmicks and the games of it and just -- you forget that people are sitting there eating your food. so every time i felt stuck, i would just be like would i want to sit down and eat a full plate of that? >> reporter: the chef's mantra, don't get sent home. rather than focusing on winning, she's putting her best dish forward one challenge at a time. >> it's finding the balance of taking a risk and showing that you deserve to be there, but not taking such a big risk that you're going to get sen

it was very much this intense, like, oh, my god, here we go. >> marjorie meek bradley says she can takehe heat. after all, she wanted to go on top chef for the competition, challenge and experience, not for tv stardom. every this camera-shy chef knows that is the price of admission. >> chefs are competitive by nature. kitchens are loud, hot, fast. if you're going put us altogether and make us cook competitively, there's going to be drama. >> eun yang, news 4 washington. >> whenever i watch them chop things, it makes me so nervous. i could never go that quickly. meek bradley's new restaurant, smoked and stacked, is expected to open this week. >> next week, eun yang sits down with another chef who is ready to open his restaurant in the shaw district of the neighborhood. >>> new information on the zika vi >> i'm megan mcgrath in temple hills where police are looking for the gunman who fatally shot a man in the courtyard of the south point apartments. >> we heard boom, boom, boom. >> reporter: margaret carroll heard the gunshots but she thought better of looking out the window. >> sometimes

we sat down with she have marjorie meek-bradley to talk about what it takes to stay in the game. >> when you think about too much of like the gimmicks and the games of it, and you forget that people are sitting there's thing your food p. >> meek-bradley's new restaurant smoked&stacked expected to open this spring. next week we'll hear from another local chef on the reality show. >>> and these two local chefs are killing it on the show. kind of a quiet start, but don't mess with them. i really feel we'll go far. >> and the best part about it is that win or lose, we at the time to eat all the food here in d.c. >> got to check it out. >>> it is 4:51. and check says it is raining snow outside. what does that mean, chuck? >> it mean has we have raindrops and snowflakes mixing together. we'll give it a nuisance level first thing this morning. there are slushy spots across st. mary's and southern calvert county. road temperatures are all above 32 degrees. that is excellent news from a treatment perspective. rain and snow will all be coming to an end before noontime today and by later this after

we sat down with chef marjorie meek-bradley to talk with what it takes. >> when you think about too much of like the gimmicks and the games of it, you forget that people are sitting there eating your food. >> meek-bradley's new restaurant smoked&stacked -- sounds like barbecue. >> it's pastrami. >> next week we'll hear from the other hollocal chef. >>> for the third morning in a row, we're under a storm team 4 weather alert. that white is snow falling. and that is the 4 x 4. molette green is tracking the conditions. we're starting to see a little bit of it stick out there toward the east. chuck will keep tabs on that as well as what the kids need to face at the bus stop. that's coming up at 5:41. >>> and reassigned. two firefighters who misdiagnosed a patient. >>> dramatic video of a man being rescued off the side of a mountaineer tacoma, washington. you can see the crews balancing on the side of a helicopter to get him. this happened yesterday. authorities say the 41-year-old man is homeless and was planning to set up camp on the side of the mountain. despite days without fad and food a