Blossoms and blooms arm, but perhaps not as many as we are used to. And theres hope. Freezing temperatures seem to threaten the peak bloom, but we may see Cherry Blossoms after all. Breaking news, President Trump releasing information about his 2005 tax returns. A live look at dc tonight, quiet now, but tomorrow morning a lot more people will be venturing out on the roads after staying put today. Theres concern about the possibility of refreezing tonight, and topper shutt is here now, and topper, where do we think the refreezing will affect the roadways. Its going to be bad, especially north and west of town. We dont think the temperatures will make it above freezing tomorrow the yellow weather alert with refreezing all day. The slow commute, and almost the high impact. Almost guaranteeing that the low windchills, some will be dangerously low, and the power outages, we are concerned, winds are picking up right now, gusting over 30 miles an hour overnight and tomorrow. We are not out of the woods committeely. Be car the pavement looks wet, but its frozen. Please slow down and be careful walking also. The biggest challenge may be getting the kids to the bus stop if they have school and getting to the car and to retrieve the paper. The road temperatures about how cold it is. Frederick 27 to 28 degrees. Gaithersburg, 270 and 370, 27 and 31. And over the American Legion bridge, temperatures 21 to 22. You can imagine the neighborhood temperature is mid 20s right now, and all right, heres a look at futurecast, and this is in terms of winds, and temperatures, 24 tomorrow at 6 00 a. M. , and thats not a windchill temperature, and thats an actual temperature, and 8 00, its 24 downtown, and 9 30, only 25, and only the low 20s in haggerstown. We will come back and tell you who will make it below freezing tomorrow. You will be surprised by the low windchills tomorrow morning as we have to go up to gaithersburg, lets see if john henry has any icy patches. Reporter topper, we have seen our fair share of ice patches in montgomery county, especially here in gaithersburg, and you can take a look here on the roadway. As you were saying, its the hidden black ice patches you have to keep an eye out for, especially during the commute tomorrow, and you are kind of showing up under the lights, too, and thats where the snow melted, and then the water came on to the roadway, and then it refroze as soon as the temperatures fell tonight, and now the good news, we have not seen any wrecks or anything like that on the side streets or highways tonight, and thats certainly good news, but the big point of concern will be tomorrow morning on the roadways, and especially during rush hour as we see a lot more cars or we expect to see a lot more cars traveling throughout the dmv in comparison to today. You need to make sure to take sl when youre on the bridges and all around, and for the most part, so far we are seeing the good roadways right now at 11 00 at night in gaitheringburg. Thank you, john. And we are headed to Reagan International airport, and it was a ghost town. Air travel will slowly rebound from the storm. Flight stats reports more than 6200 canceled flights, and 4800 delayed flights today, and mostly in the midatlantic and northeast, and in big hubs like chicago, and expect fewer disruptions tomorrow as the airlines work to get back on schedule. Booed news if you get around on metro. Riders could have an easier commute tomorrow. The Transit Service said trains will operate on regular Weekday Service on all lines, and Metro Bus Service will be suspended on some routes, and some buss will take detours to avoid the neighborhood roads, and metro access buses for customers with disabilities will operate tomorr schools Just Announced they will be opening 2 hours late tomorrow for the second day in a row. Tonight theres new anger about the schools not closing today. And afterschool activities were canceled, and wusa 9s pete muntean is here with the class controversy. Reporter a message as mixed as the precipitation today. I spoke to the head of the teachers union. Half of the members live outside of the district where the roads were not good. The emails just keep coming in to the washington teachers union, many teachers saying they could not make it into work on monday. Its a waiting game each morning. It doesnt has to happen that way. Reporter Elizabeth Davis said the classes should have been called off. Many teaches live far away because they cant live in the district. Its almost imable to to navigate the roads to get into the city. Some made every effort to do so, and many could not do it. The messages to her with us. One anonymous email says at Mckinley Tech High School 44 of 59 teachers were absent. We prepared exactly right. Reporter the mayor is defending the decision to delay. She was on off script with bruce johnson. The announcement that schools would open on monday drew anger on twitter. We didnt get as much snow, and i think there was a huge forecast, and it varied in the region. Reporter for teachers it was the timing of the call. The tweet going out at 5 00 a. M. Monday. The union say the teachers typically arrive at 7 00, and they insist this time its the administration to who is tardy. Often School Closure decisions have people who are happy and people who arent, and what our job is to make sure that people open up our government and safely that whats happened today. Reporter teachers report many empty desks today. The School Principles with the final tally of how many teachers could not make it in. Pete muntean. Thank you, pete. Other districts including Fairfax County schools are also delayed for 2 hours tomorrow, and we have the entire list of School Closings on our free wusa 9 app. We are getting up early tomorrow to help you get out the door right before or after the storm i should say. Wake up washington will start with mike and january at 4 00 a. M. Tomorrow. They will get you ready with the late ones the road conditions, the cancellations, and more. We are following breaking news from the white house. In the last few hours they released information from President Trumps 2005 tax returns, and now according to the white house, the president made more than 150 million that year and paid 38 million in income taxes and to be clear, the white house did not release the tax return documents, they relead information from the documents. It happened about 30 minutes before msnbcs rachel madaw went on the air to discuss a trump document leaked to david k. Johnston. Johnston said he got the document in the mail from an anonymous source, and tonight the white house released a statement saying the media was just desperate for ratings and trump broke years of tradition during the 2016 president ial campaign by refusing to release his tax returns. We have good news for you if youre planning to see the Cherry Blossoms, theres some hope they may bloom after all. You not believe every piece of advice you hear when it comes to navigating icy roads. We will verify if they are true. Its the one thing most people can agree on when it comes to snow. Scraping your car is no fun. Tonight we will reveal a surprisingly easy solution. The markets change. At t. Rowe price. Our disciplined approach remains. Global markets may be uncertain. But you can feel confident in our investment experience around the world. Call us or your advisor. 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Thats a tricky one. Matthew stein, when disaster strikes, a comprehensive guide for emergency survival says it depends f youre in a dangerous situation where someone else could hit your car, the answer is yes, get out. Abandon your car, get to a place where youre not in any danger, but it should only happen if youre equipped to walk in the conditions and youre wearing the right clothes to deal with the cold and the dark. So that tip is a question mark. If you can, stay in your car and stay safe and warm until the help arrive the. Are 4wheel driver vehicles always the safest. According to a serious advantage when it comes to reaching the destination in the snow, but it cant help you stop your car. Dustin stack is a bridgestone auto care manager and says stopping relies on driving correctly and your tires. Driver education and safety trump any dependence you may have on your car, and we all know how dangerous overconfident drivers can be. They are all around us every day, and in other words, 4 wheel drive is an asset, not a safety net. We cannot verify the truth of that myth. The best advice we say it over and over again, we want you to believe us, dont go out if you dont have to. Our verify team is working around the clock to sort through your tips and feedback. If you see something on tv or your social media feeds, and youre like i dont know if thats right, let us know. We will try to verify it for you. Im the next few hours could seal the fate of the Cherry Blossoms. If the temperatures overnight plunge below a certain point, 90 of the blossoms will be gone for the year. Mike is at the tidal basin with the numbers game. Reporter they are famous but fragile, thrown off by the winter whiplash, now at threat of wilting away before they bloom. We are devastated. That would be sad reporter we took our top question to the National Park service asking what will happen and whats the critical temperature . 27degree cents magical number. You get to 27, and thats when we could see damage on the blossoms, especially the ones that are further along in the blooming process. Reporter a few degrees cooler at 24, and we could see brown blossoms like these and then 90 of them gone that is unprecedented. What would the place look like . We are seeing the tial basin, and it would be much more sporadic than we are used to. Reporter some blossoms will survive, and we will have something to look at. Worst case scenario, there will be blossoms and blooms around, but not as many as we are used to. Reporter one final question k anything be done, growers protecting their crops from cold snaps k these be protected as well . Theres not we can or would do and these are Natural Resources from the grand canyon. The National Wash service lets nature take its course and not interfere with the natural process. Reporter and back here live from a windy tidal basin. Topper before i let his infared thermometer. We are close to the 24degree mark. Mike, all right, we can look at this with a Glass Half Full perspective and said its only happening once every hundred years, and we can say we witnessed it. Topper is happy because we finally got the snow. The winds at night, generating low windchill, and helping the Cherry Blossoms, and it will keep the wind going around. We would be at 22 at the tial basin, and some good news there, and thats the only Silver Lining i have. Winds will gust at 30 miles an hour. First things first, we have time earlier today for obvious reasons. Heres the 3degree guarantee. Going 32 today. 39, okay, and that is within 3. We are going to go 35 tomorrow, and its midmarch, and the angle of the sun, and we are going to go with 35. The low today, dew points are falling, and the winds are gusting. And 30 miles an hour. Close to the wind criteria. Im going to throw in the low windchills, and its miserable outside. If youre at the bus stop more than 5 minutes, it will be very, very cold. Stray temperatures 18 to 29 in the morning. 6 00a. M. To 9 00 a. M. The bus stop with slick spots as well, and you factor in the winds, and its single digits. Dress with the teens and 20s tomorrow, and it will refreeze through tomorrow night, and its rinse and repeat through thursday night, and friday night is above freezing. 6 00a. M. Tomorrow, and temperatures in the 20s, and what is interesting about you folks gaithersburg and to the west, you may not make it above freezing. Service temperatures will hold in the upper 20s, thats 1 00. Clouds will roll through with snowplowers and flurries, and a couple of inches on the divide. 32 downtown and only 29 in frederick, and only 31 in bowie its a cold day. By 10 00, temperatures back in tomorrow, and the temperatures will fallower. We are concerned about that, and tonight may not be the critical night for the Cherry Blossoms. Tomorrow may be the critical night. We are talking about the blossoms not the trees. The trees are fine. The forecast of windchills, it feels like its 12 late tonight, and if youre out super late, by morning, feeling like 10, and its 5 in gaithersburg, and by noon, not much better. Windchills are 7 in winchester, and 6 00 p. M. , 16 in frederick, and a little better air, and i mean 24 for fredericksburg, thats cold for the windchill in the evening, and tomorrow night at 9 00, it will be back in the low to midteens, and again, winds with a double edged sword. Bad for the Cherry Blossoms, and 31 by 11 00, and 35 by 1 00, and flurries or snow showers are possible, and now thursday, still cold. 44, and then for st. Pattys day, 50, and thats below average by the way. E a couple of showers possible late in the day on friday, and saturday, mid50s, and showers are possible, and cooler but dry on sunday, and then monday, 55 with showers late, and tuesday a little milder, but with the threat ofmore showers, and highs near 60. All right, topper, those of you who had to go to work this morning, you know the struggle. You have to deice the car, and its not always fun it takes a lot of time. Its pretty much never fun. If you attach a camera to your ice scraper, it could be more exciting and time consuming. Kurt brooks takes it from here. My name is kurt brooks im and photo journalist here on wusa 9. I got to work last night and come home and get a good nights rest. Now the downside, its time to scrape the car. Like any good photo journalist, i put a camera on my scraper. We will see how long it takes. We will start the stopwatch and put it right here, and we will start the go scrape the car. This is pretty easy so far a little melted, a lot of stuff to go here. You always want to do the top. The temperature is up a bit. This isnt as hard as i thought it was going to be. Lets turn this around because we are full service. So how did we do . Lets take a look here. Ugh 4 minutes. Not that youre going to see that because i will have sped this up no doubt. Not too bad. But you know, i get this feeling maybe i could have done Something Like this. Now thats how you do it. Reporting from bowie, kurt brooks, wusa 9. You can get the tarps for cheap. The storm could be described easily as march madness, but enough about the snow. We have the first game of the tournament tonight. Whats up with maryland and mount st. Mary . Whats up with this . Have the terps given up basketball in favo the mountaineers of mount st. Marys university represent the ncaa tournament underway tonight with the playin games, and they are taking on new orleans. The winner of this one, yikes taking on number one seed villanova. One battle at a time it rain it was for real. 10 3pointers, including this one. Going off 23 points, and new orleans kept it close, and they were frustrated two of their own guys going at it during a timeout, and that was not any good. Plays like this, elijah long just slicing through the defenders. Mount st. Marys wins it by 1. They will face buffalo on thursday. If youre a sixth seed like the terps what else do you do in orlando . Fish. They had down time leaving a day early because of the snow, and they hit the driving range to mix in the cross training. Golf will get you strong said th one ever. Pley ay at 6 50 against xavier, and the cavaliers are also just arriving in florida a few hours ago. Wusa 9 reporter and terp for life, pete muntean is headed to cavaliers as they play the first round games of the ncaa tournament on thursday. Look for his live porert tomorrow right here on your home for march madness, wusa 9 and cbs. The Washington Capitals back at home tonight, trying to pull themselves out of the ugly skid, losing 4 in a row including three on the road in california. The Minnesota Wild in town, and not happy about it. The old ice dance here, and style points to wilson with the violent shaking. Both players ultimately going to the ice to get penalties. Hockey was played as well. They are hosting nashville on thursday. Its time for spring for everywhere in the country. I wish we had prodders, shuckersers, and sniffers, [ inhales ] all giant produce is triple checked. Farm, crate, and store. Were focusing on fresh. So you dont have to guess. My giant. Wheres the car . Utes. Are you kidding me . No, looks like he took a wrong turn. Dont worry, this guys got like a fourstar rating, were good. His name is randy. Thats like one of the most trustworthy names ordering a getaway car with an app . Are you randy . Thats me awesome surprising. Whats not surprising . How much money erin saved by switching to geico. Everybody comfortable with the air temp . I could go a little cooler. Ok. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. On capitol hill today, bright students with big ideas, and kids from our area presents their tech project to Senate Members of the association for career and technical education, and a group from Woodbridge High School showcased a project that uses a cell phone tech system to notify a patient and their care giver about notifying patients. We hope it will cure faster than medication regiments will be more adaptable for the patients so medication is taken when it needs to be, and new medications can be applied when old medications are becoming obsolete. In addition to woodbridge, students for hay market and carroll county, maryland. Nice they made it in spite of the snow. Yeah, it 7day, we are looking at refreezing overnight, and black ice above form. 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