Murder trial is beginsing. Hes accused of killing his wife in their georgetown home 2. 5 years ago. He told police his 91yearold wife fell. The medical examiner says she was beaten and strangled. Muths lawyers claimed he was not competent to stand trial. The judge disagreed. Muth wont even be at the trial. He has often refused to eat and is in the hospital weighing just 92 pounds now. He will appear by virginia conference. 4 31. The redskins coaching search ma moves to the second week with a long list of candidates. This morning new york giants deafive coordinator perry fuel will help to ashburn for the interview. Hes been with the giants for four years and was defensive coordinator to the Buffalo Bills before that. His interview comes a day after the redskins met with Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator jim caldwell. So far hes the only name on the list with past head coaching experience. 4 31 the time. Weather traffic on the 1s, every ten minutes. Well check in with storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. The big story is the huge drop in temperature. Thats going to be arriving later today. Right now, well above freezing. Weve got scattered rain crass maryland, virginia, 95, nearby suburb in Montgomery County, fairfax, down 95 toward fredericksburg. A few other scattered, light rain showers in the shenandoah valley. Temperatures are mild compare Tennessee Valley what well be seeing. In the comparatively to what well be seeing. In areas, mid to upper 30s. Heres how things are looking. The weather story today, well have the rain changing to maybe a little snow. Thats going to be perhaps by around 9 00, 10 00 as the cold air does surge in. It will quickly end, and well have a clearing sky during the afternoon and overnight tonight. Things will clear out. Well get a few clouds developing back by midweek this coming week. The cold plunge, that is the big story. Temperatures by 4 00 this afternoon will be into the low to mid 30s. 20s on the shenandoah valley. Then look at 8 00 this evening, it will be down into the low 20s. Our nearby suburbs and farther west, down into the teens. Then by midnight, down into the low teens. By this time tomorrow, the Single Digits with gusty winds. Windchills to 20 below zero. Lets check our traffic now on this monday morning with danella. Good morning. Good morning. Not seeing accidents for you guys to look out for. I am seeing weather things like tom mentioned. We are seeing fog. If youre traveling along route 50 in maryland, no accidents from the bay bridge to the beltway. You see here as you make your connection past 301, route 3 pretty foggy out. Heads up. Again, no reports of accidents in the area. And as tom said, light rain. If youre traveling i270 at falls road, southbound earlier this morning there was an accident. Its clear. Your lanes are open south and northbound. Are you starting to see the rain come down a bit. Heads up. Give yourself extra time. Back to you. All right. Thank you. It is now 4 47. We have more. Reporter a 13yearold california girl declared braindead is you in with her mother this morning. The family is now with her mother this morning. The family is not saying where they are. The girls uncle tweeted, jahi is free, after jahi mcmanagement left oakland by private ambulance. The move comes after a public and emotional fight between the family and hospital since before christmas. Hospital officials argued that jahis declared brain death following a tonsillectomy means theres no chance for a recovery. The family believes that she could wake up. A judge allowed the girls mother to take her out of that hospital if she agreed to take full responsibility for her daughter. Thats the latest from the live desk. Back to you. Thank you. Coming up on 4 35. Today you can tell the Montgomery County school board when you think classes should start each morning. Joshua starr wants to move the start time back 50 minutes and move middle School Start Times up ten minutes. Elementary schools would start at the same time but end 30 minutes later. You can offer your thoughts at a Forum Tonight at Seneca Valley High School in germantown. The forum starts at 7 00. There will be another forum next month. We are learning more about a fire that destroyed a Historic School in virginia. This is some cell phone video showing the building engulfed in flames. Since we brought you the breaking news yesterday morning, weve Learned School leaders is canceled classes all week at Colonial Beach elementary school. Thats in westmoreland county, virginia. The school was condemned after the 2011 earthquake. It was being used for storage. Students used temporary trailers and the gym on the school property. The winter blast setting in for millions of people this morning. The areas getting hit with the worst of the freezing cold weather now is the midwest. This is indianapolis. It is so cold now that it is illegal to be on the roads until noon today. The temperature there is only supposed to get t ten degrees below zero. The windchill right now is about 28 below zero. The frigid weather may already be impacting your travel plans. At Reagan National airport, 30 flights were canceled. We checked flightaware. Com. Another 18 canceled at dulles and 15 at bwi marshall. That means a lot of sights like this at airport today. More than 3,000 flights were canceled today. Another 2,000 have already been scrapped nationwide. Jetblue says it will waive change and cancelation fees for customers who traveled between last friday and today. This morning, people in chicago are daleying with heavy snow and subzero dealing with heavy snow and subzero temperatures. We have more from chicago, the latest on things there. Man, im so sorry. Reporter no use apologizing, aaron. At least we can hop inside the car in between the live shots. Really, people here in chicago have not seen this type of cold in decades. Not since the 1980s. Officials are warning that these conditions are not only dangerous, they could potentially be deadly. They are taking steps to keep people inside, including canceling Public Schools here. Minnesotas doing the same. The first time minnesotas done it in more than a decade. They are also urging people to stay off the roads. Stay inside whenever possible. To look out for your neighbors. People who may have trouble in this weather staying warm or keeping up on grocery shopping. Theyre doing outreach programs for the homeless, trying to make sure everybody has some shelter where they can go to escape the brutal element. Really, frostbites can happen in a frostbite can happen in a matter of minutes. Theyre saying be sure to wear layers, a hat. Stock up your car with essential in case theres a problem and it takes rescuers a little while to get to you. Now the temperatures alone are brutal. Negative numbers now. The windchill in the midwest and the northeast is where it will get you. Its going to drop temperatures anywhere from 20 to 30 degrees more. Just making it really quite unbearable outside. So for now, the real only solution is to just stay inside, take a sick day, cuddle up with your kids, and you know, stay outside, out of the elements until things warm up. Thats expected to be later this week. Back to you. All right. Negative 29 in chicago now. Thank you. Get back in the truck, please. Yeah. Were exactly a month away from the start of the Winter Olympics in sochi. Not everyone is ready to celebrate y. Some say russia is still vulnerable to a terrorist strike. Also ahead, ready to begin a new era. The big steps forward that metro is taking today as it tries to improve its system. You may notice rain as you head out the door this morning. It is the dramatic drop in temperatures were going to see the next 24 hours that you will need to get ready for. The big change ahead with your weather traffic on the 1s. Welcome back. Today metro welcomes a new era of rail cars. The first of the 7 0 series will be unveiled at the greenbelt station. The 7000 series will replace the oldest cars in the fleet and bring a more modern feel. Theyre made of steal to better handle an impact, has lcd and l. E. D. Displays with information for riders, and theres no more carpet. Metro has ordered 528 cars at a cost of just over a billion dollars. Youll see them on the tracks later this year. In the day ahead, d. C. Taxicab drivers can apply for a waiver to use older cars and vans. Drivers can apply for up to a help me out three year, three months well get the numbers right on that one. The drivers would need to obtain an auto inspection, meet various certificatifications, and pay a 50 processing fee. Starting this year the taken Cab Commission can remove car models from service that are from 1997 and earlier. All replacement cars are required to be painted in that new red and gray color scheme. Havent seen any yet, have you . I have. Ive been in one. Now that i see it up close, i like the color scheme. Cool. Meteorologist tom kierein taking a live look at Reagan National airport. Whats going on . Light fog there. We had denser fog a couple hours ago. A lot of the fog is beginning to dissipate. Were getting rain now. Showing scattered rain showers across maryland, virginia, into the district, our nearby suburbs of maryland and virginia, pass ing showers for another couple of hours. 40s in the metro area. 50s at the bay, near 60 in the eastern shore. Down into the mid 30s. All above freezing north and west. Western panhandle. Well will have the fog with us hour by hour in the morning hours. Still 40s by the morning hours, light rain. It might end as snow showers around 9 00, 10 00 tomorrow. Now down to the 30s midafternoon, northwest winds gusting to 30 Miles Per Hour. Big cold plunge after. That ill have the latest coming up in ten minutes. Now, danella, hows traffic . Good morning, tom. Still quiet. Light volume. Dealing with fog and some rain. Well take a closer look at gw parkway. The community here nice and clear. No accidents to warn you about if thats your commute. To i66 also clear. Not seeing delays. Inside of the beltway, foggy here. Not bad at all. This is as you pass East Falls Church metro station in both directions, east and westbound 66 inside the beltway clear. Taking the beltway, your commutes coming up in ten minutes. Aaron and eun . Thank you. Its a threeyear extension d. C. Taxicab drivers can apply for with the waiver. Ahead, an incredible discovery. How this photo of a man taken here in the district helped end the search for a missing man hundreds of miles away. Ahead, Dennis Rodman raising eyebrows again as he heads back to north korea this morning. Who hes bringing with him for his latest trip. At the live desk, nba hall of famer, Dennis Rodman, is back in north korea this morning on a mission that he is calling basketball diplomacy. Rodman brought with him a team of former nba players for an exhibition game this week on kim jonguns birthday. Among the 12 stars with him, vin baker and cliff robinson. The flamboyant rodman says he wants to show the world that north korea isnt so bad. U. S. Officials have criticized his efforts, especially not talking about the countrys human rights record described as among the worlds worst. The senate is back in session. It could make history on its first day of work. Senators voting on whether to confirm janet yellen as head of the federal reserve. If that happens, she would become the first woman ever to lead the fed. She would succeed ben bernanke. His term ends at the end of this month. You will want it Pay Attention to what happens in the senate today if youve been out of work for several months. Senators will hold a test vote on a bill to extend longterm unemployment benefits. It would extend benefits for three months and find ways to pay for that later. The measure may have a hard time passing in the house, though, even if the Senate Approves it. This morning, investigators trying to determine what caused a fire that critically injured one person in virginia. This is cell phone video. Investigators say home oxygen tank may have helped spread the fire. It broke out yesterday morning at a building on south green greenbri greenbriar. People were rescued from their balconies. Officials trying to figure out what started a fire on the private grounds of a school in fairfax county. You see smoke coming from the garage at the medeira school in mclean. The fire did not reach any of the school buildings. Prince georges county police need your help tracking down the man who robbed a liquor store. Look at surveillance photos here. This was taken saturday night at a liquor store along old silver hill rad in suitland. Police say he walked up, pulled a gun, and demanded cash from the register. As he left, he fired one shot. Nobody of hurt. This morning, ntsb investigators are headed from washington to colorado after a fiery plane crash killed one person and left two others badly hurt. This was in aspen. Witnesses say the private plane went off the runway, flipped, then burst into flames. The plane started in mexico and stopped in tucson before trying to land in aspen. The three pilots on board had to abort at least one landing because of strong winds. It is not clear if weather caused that crash. The Winter Olympics in sochi now one month away. There are still concerns this morning about security in the run up to the olympic games. Sochi itself is a virtual fortre fortress. The russian government said it will be the safest host city in olympic history. Critics say the focus on the resort town has left other parts of the cub vulnerable to attack. That includes the transportation hub that was hit by two suicide bomber last week killing at least 34. Just a little fog and rain in spot. And not even that cold this morning. Lets focus on the now, tom. It would be nice if we could keep it like this. Its going to drop maybe 40 degrees between now and this time tomorrow morning. Did you say 40 . I did. 40 degrees. Looking at radar, we are getting rain. Areas in green moving southwest to northeast. Scattered rain shower around the metro area and points west. And this area of rain is going to continue to track off to the north and east here. So keeping our roadways wet, we have a little patchy fog. Thats beginning to break up. Temperatures in the 40s around the metro area. Look at pax river. Its 61 degrees. Easton, 61 degrees. Off to the west, above freezing. In the mid 30s where they had all the freezing rain, up to a quarter inch of icing up in parts of frederick county, panhandle of west virginia, and washington county. Now that is melting. Shenandoah valley, most locations there around 40 degrees. And chuck bells joining us on the storm team 4 weather deck. And well have him coming up here shortly. But we do have windchill impacts here by 8 00 this evening. We are going to have our windchills in the teens. And then we will have windchills to minus 10 to minus 30 degrees by 8 00 tomorrow morning with winds gusting maybe 25 to 30 miles an hour. Then our windchills on tuesday evening are going to be back to around maybe 10 degrees to around 0. By wednesday morning, our windchills are going to be better. We will have windchills zero to 30 below zero. Windchill warning out in the shenandoah valley. All this area in pink. Windchill advisory all the area in blue. Thats coming up later today. Here are future windchills as of 5 30 this afternoon. Windchills not too bad. But its when we have the temperatures continuing to plunge overnight. Look at our windchills. By 10 00 this evening, theyll be subzero windchill. It will feel like three degrees in washington. By 1 00 a. M. Tomorrow, the windchill down to 10 to 15 below zero. As we tray to get off to work and School Tomorrow morning, windchills, yes, 10 to 15 below zero to as much as 20 below zero out in the mountains. And this is going to be the big story for the next 24 hours. 40s through 8 00 with rain. Might have snow showers late morning. Then down into the 30s t afternoon as the winds pick up. Get gusting to around 30 Miles Per Hour during the afternoon. Then its tonight when well really notice the big change. Temperatures down to the low teens with gust of wind, 40 Miles Per Hour by midnight. Temperatures in the Single Digits tomorrow morning. Afternoon highs only in the teens. Windy and cold with sunshine on wednesday. But at least it will be a bit warmer. Then warming up again by the end of the week. Might get rain friday and saturday. Highs low to mid 50s. Tremendous change. Now lets check on our rad conditions. Fog around, right, danella . Thats right. I am still seeing fog in our area. First well head down to Charles County making the commute therement not seeing reports of accidents. If youre waking up hitting the roadway and traveling from Charles County towarrige county lanes are open. The fog on the beltway. Traveling the outer loop or inner loop at college park, no accidents. It is foggy. As you loop around to the wilson bridge the fog lighten up a bit. Still seeing it linger a little as you make the commute in both directions across the wilson bridge. Not seeing accidents or delays to warn you about. Now from the wilson bridge heading up to the American Legion bridge, are you seeing a little rain come down, light rain here. Again, no accident, no delays. Im back in ten minutes. Well check the rails then. Over it you. See you then. Thank you. It is already hard to wake up on monday, especia ftake it easier. Why this day is the most depressing day of the year. First, how this picture of a man in the district helped solve a missing persons case hundreds of miles away. And another big day ahead for the National Zoos newest panda. The milestone well be witnessing in the despite rising gas prices in the past several weeks, the average price of gas this year could be slightly less than last year. Aaa report Higher Crude Oil prices caused rising prices at the pump. The agency says the average price of gas could go down this year as refineries expand production. The agency also says it helps that there are more fuelefficient cars. Right now the average price of regular is 3. 61 in the district. Up three cents from last week. In maryland, 3. 46. Up one cent. In virginia, 3. 24. Up two cents. In west virginia, 3. 38, up one cent. Were starting to hear criticism of virginia governorelect terry mccauliffes choice of reappointment of William Hazel as health and Human Services secretary. Hazel did not object it new abortion restrictions while serving in governor mcdonnells cabinet. Some environmental groups are angry he chose molly joseph ward as Natural Resources secretary. They say he could have chosen a candidate with more ties to the green movement. Several donation websites this morning are asking help to Fund Research efforts or search efforts, rather, for a missing a. U. Grad student. 35yearold adele t gazalla lives in logan circle. He went missing off the coast of dubai. The nigerian native was diving and never came back above the surface. Search crews from the United Arab Emirates have been searching for days. His brother tells the Washington Post the state Department Says it cannot help because gazalla is not a u. S. Citizen. This morning a new york affect is back together thanks to a photo taken in washington. An Associated Press photographer snapped this photo near the Capitol Building of a homeless man lying near a steam grate to stay warm. It is 20yearold Nicholas Simmons whose family in upstate new york reported him missing last week. They saw the photo in yesterdays usa today and came to washington to pick him up. No word on why he was in washington or how he traveled here. Theatergoer here in d. C. Were certainly in the giving mad this holiday season. Fords theater says its audiences donated more than 77,000 during a performance of a Christmas Carol in november and december. Donations are being given to the Covenant House washington. The Organization Provides housing and services to homeless youth. This is the fifth year the theater has reported a Washington Area charity with a fundraising effort. Later this morning, nbc 4 is getting an upclose and personal look at d. C. s favorite new panda cub. Take a look at this photo of the giant panda cub getting her first taste of winter last week. Zookeepers put snow in a big bowl and watched her dig in. Today the zoo is giving nbc 4 a backstage pass, letting us meets her before she make her public debut on january 28th. Well share it with you today on news4 midday and on nbcwashington. Com. Cant wait i wish i could hold her. I do. Give her a little cuddle. I know what you say i know. Its dangerous, right. Stay with us. News4 today continues right now at 5 00 a. M. People crass parts of the country told to stay indoors as dangerous temperature tighten their grip on the nation. A situation that will be playing out in the region in the next 24 hours. We also have a School Closure now. Loudoun county Public Schools are closed today. Good morning, everyone, im aaron gilchrest. Im eun yang. Welcome to news4 today for this monday, january 6th, 2014. Its a pretty pleasant winter day outside this morning around the d. C. Area. But you need to get ready for a 40, 40, degree temperature drop over the next 24 hours. Meteorologist tom kiereins here with more on the dangerous winter blast headed our way. To