Manassas. Highs in the low to mid20s. Most of the outlying areas, 28 for a high today. Colder air coming and its a little better chance for snow on your saturday. That and a look at the new years eve forecast coming up in a few minutes. For now, traffic time. Lets go to mr. Stallworth. Good morning, chuck. Good morning folks. On the beltway, through montgomery county. This is the outer loop before river road. The crash is blocking two left lanes. Just before old georgetown road off the southbound 270 spur. Northbound New Hampshire avenue near the beltway, a crash along the right side. Well take you to virginia. Pretty much so far as you leave fredericksburg towards the springfield interchange on to i395. Thats the latest from the traffic center. Im Rob Stallworth. Aaron, susan, back to you. Back to the Team Coverage on the bitter cold temperatures outside. D. C. Activated its cold em aimee cho is live in northwest with more on that what means and how you all can stay warm today. Reporter good morning, guys. I got my scarf and my gloves. I hope youre proud. You are a tough crowd. You want to dress like this. Were bracing for the worse on this bitterly cold morning. It allowed for extra shelters to be open at community of Christ Church in northwest where were standing. This will be in effect until tuesday. This happens any time the temperatures dip below 16 degrees. Its important to check on each other, your neighbors, your family and d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser talked about how especially tough the cold is fosh the homeless. We want everybody to get inside. It can be dangerously cold outside. We want everybody to lou help, dial 311. Reporter i have also tweeted out a link to how to find the emergency shelters at aimee cho 4. Guys, back to you. Aimee, thank you. You might want to keep in mind your car can show effects of cold weather. Aaa recommends an emergency kit with jumper cables, antifreeze, small shovel, ice scraper and important to have a phone charger in your car. Even if you make it through the wintry weather, this is only the start of the season. With cold, the impact can be cumulative. Simply because you survive the first arctic air doesnt mean youll survive the next. Now, for those who like to warm up the car before you get in, remember to be careful. In maryland and d. C. , cars are only allowed to idle for up to five minutes. You could be hit with a fine of 1,000 if youre caught. Virginias idling law applies to commercial or public vehicles and the police will tell you not to leave it idling anyway. Thats when people like to steal cars. For sure. Here is a silver lining. At least were not digging out of the winter weather. The airport in erie, pennsylvania, just reopened after five feet of snow. It came down in less than 48 hours. Crews have been working nonstop to clear the runways this christmas day. This area is used to seeing a lot of snow but its seeing more snow than in an entire winter. To put things in perspective, the cold isnt so bad compared to the midwest. People in chicago and minnesota reported temperatures 35 to 40 degrees below skbleer owe. Thats before the windchill. In those conditions, frostbite can set in, in less than 30 minutes. Now to breaking news that has been developing overnight. Eight people in the hospital after a police chase results in you can see the damage here in this chopper 4 video. Adam tuss is live for us near the scene of that crash in herndon. Adam what, do we know so far . Reporter take a look at the aftermath of this crash, susan. This is right here on cent centreville road right at frying pan road here. This was a serious crash. This is where it came to a head. Take a look at the crash video again. Take a walk with me through this incident. A man goes up to a door in herndon, gets into an assault with a child. Flees in a stolen vehicle. Hits a pickup truck, gets into an altercation with the person in that pickup truck. Steals that pickup truck and leads police on a chase here to centreville road where that crash happened. Here at this intersection, he hit a car with seven people inside, a van. That caused a serious accident here. The man then got out of the car that was stolen and fled on foot and two Police Officers chased after him. He gets into a fight with those Police Officers. Then finally, hes arrested one of the Police Officers suffered minor injuries in that incident. But this is something that played out over multiple locations here last night. It started in the 7 00 hour and the crash happened here on centreville road in the 8 00 hour. Police trying to put the pieces together and they want to know why the initial altercation happened with the child in the house and why this man was doing that. Good news, if theres any, this road is back open. It had been closed for some time, guys, back to you. Adam, we know there was a juvenile had to be flown to the hospital because of this crash. What do we know about this . Reporter unfortunately. Were told the child has serious injuries. That was one of the people in the van hit here along the road. If you saw the video from the crash, this was a high impact collision. What were told is that person has serious injuries right now. Well have to followup on that. Back to you. Thank you so much, adam. Live for us. We turn to a dangerous chase in germantown. When afnan shafiq heard his pizza restaurant was being robbed, one of the employees called him and told him the store was being robbed. Shafiq lives across the street and rushed across the street as the two thieves were leaving. So he got in the car and followed them. I dont know. My instinct got to me, just follow them. We started here, ended up through clarksburg, got on 270 southbound. Shafiq says hes still in shock, but he believes that Police Caught the thieves. Police make a third arrest in the murder of a 17yearold girl who was the d d. C. Police officer. 18yearold James Mayfield faces a first degree murder charge in the death of sydnor. You may remember the young woman was shot and killed by a stray bullet driving down saratoga avenue in northeast back in august. Two other young men are already charged in her killing. She was a Woodrow Wilson graduate and died days before she was due to start classes at florida a m university. 6 08. Were following breaking news out of new york city this morning. Lets get to Chris Lawrence at the live desk. More than 2 dozen people are okay after getting stranded for hours on a frigid night in new york. A ferry got stuck on a sandbar. Passengers say they were jolted out of their jolts. Commuters had to evacuate into these small boats. They had to use sticks to ke stuck. The commuters, they didnt get back to brooklyn until six hours after they set sail. Aaron, back to you. Chris, thank you. Roy moore has filed a lawsuit to stop todays certification of Democrat Doug Jones as the winner of alabamas u. S. Senate race. Moores attorney argued there needs to be a Fraud Investigation and a new election. Alabamas secretary of state says he sees no evidence of fraud and jones will still be certified today. Jones defeated moore by 20,000 votes. Its the first time a democrat has won that seat in decades. The current Powerball Jackpot is at 384 million. There was no winner last night. But you still have time to buy a ticket for tomorrows Mega Millions jackpot. Take a look at the d. C. Lottery store inside Union Station yesterday. The Mega Millions jackpot 306 million. Got to play to win, right . Absolutely. Then th didnt happen, though. Dozens of people in washington thought they had the winning ticket. Officials had to tell you it was a computer glitch that seemed to create these Winning Tickets. This is a line outside the lottery headquarters on wednesday. One Ticket Holder said he had 10,000 worth of tickets. Maybe an exaggeration. You think maybe they give them a free ticket or a consolation prize. They told them to hold on to the ticket or file a claim. No guarantee they would get any money. Theyre trying to figure out something by tomorrow as to what they can do about this. As long as they didnt spend the money before they had it. 6 10 the time. Were in weather alert mode again, chuck. Yes, indeed. Aaron. The bitter cold wind set upshot in the overnight hours. Its driven wind shils to 0 and close to it in some places. The wind will afternoon, but the cold is likely to persist through most of the tenday forecast which ill share with you in the next half hour. They say its the happiest place on earth. Not for certain guests at prices of the season on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort, your sleep number setting. Does your bed do that . Right now our queen c4 mattress is only 1199. Plus 24 month financing. Ends monday. Visit sleepnumber. Com for a store near you. If youre just joining us, were in weather alert mode again. Take a look at the temperatures. What it feels like right now. 0 in manassas. Sorry, folks. Negative 2. Where is that . Martinsburg. Its making for a dangerously cold morning. Not much of a warmup in sight. Were going to check in meteorologist chuck bell in a few minutes. 6 15 just about. A man accused of plotting a court today. Everett aaron jameson, theyre requesting he stay in jail until his trial. The 26yearold is accused of being an isis sympathizer and plotting a terror attack at san franciscos pier 39. His family says hes a former marine who was depressed over losing custody of his children. With new years eve approaching, security in big cities is being stepped up. The federal government increased its focus on las vegas this year. Also the massacre that took place a few months back. The department of Homeland Security bumped up the rating. The sheriff of las vegas insists there are no threats and that the extra security is a precautionary measure. Wednesday was a normal day at disneyland until the power went out leaving families stuck on rides and many more standing in long lines. Employees had to escort some guest guests off the rides. Park Officials Say the outage affected about a dozen apparently, there was a problem with a transformer. No one was hurt and power was restored later on in the afternoon. Well, this morning, a dog is being praised for protecting his family from a coyote. Were not talking about a big scary shepard. There he is there. Paco, the chihuahua. So cute. Hes 18 years old with no teeth. A large coyote came into the backyard in pasco county, florida. Paco wasnt having any of that, though. Go get em. The owner came to the rescue. I dont know if he scared the coyote. But definitely shocked him. Little surprised. Chihuahuas bark is worse than their bite most of the time. Do you have any resolutions . For people looking to find love in 2018, theyre likely going to start their mission soon. Match. Com predicts sunday, january 7th, t datings busiest day of the year. The website calls it dating sunday of course. Match expects a 42 spike in new singles signing up that day. Peak season spans from december 26th through valentines day each year. It sees about 5 million new photos uploaded and more than 50 million messages sent. The updates contribute to about a million dates. More than 2. 5 million messages were sent on dating sunday alone earlier this year. The most successful dating sunday cities, portland and raleigh top the list. Thats where they have the most successful. They stay together. I guess. Good luck, folks. 6 17 now. Hopefully your kids are sleeping. This one is for the parents. Netflix helping to trick your children on new years eve. The Company Launched a set of on demand countdowns for new years eve. Basically, you can fool the kids into thinking theyre ringing in the new year well before midnight. All the countdowns feature favorite childrens character. The countdowns are available now. Pretty clever idea. I think its a great idea. Absolutely. Sparkling grape juice and all that stuff. It will be fun. I did it all the time. You did . Move the clock ahead three hours. Absolutely. I remember when i was babysitting, i would do too. Time to go. We struggled to stay up until midnig midnight. The whole thing goes at midnight and its done. You dont have to stay out until 4 00 in the morning on a crazy dance floor or something. That would be a bad idea, right . It is a cold start to the day. Be ready for not just a cold day or a cold weekend, but what is likely to be a tenday to twoweek stretch around here. Feelslike temperatures in the neighborhoods we dont really care for too much around here. Down near 0 this morning. 0 the windcll manassas. Plus 6 in fredericksburg. Minus 2 in martinsburg. Layer up. Extra jogging in place and get your blood flowing before you step outside into the bitter cold. Windchills staying near zero between now and 9 00, 10 00 in the morning. The wind eases up a little bit. But it will stay sunny and cold. 28 for a high. Most of the wind problems in the first part of the day. Wind isnt much of an issue for tomorrow. Temperatures will recover a bit back into the low and mid30s tomorrow. But the trend is not your friend as we get into saturday, sunday, new years eve, monday, new years day. The downward spiral continues before a rebound in temperatures mid next week ahead of a polar plunge late next week. Use your nbc washington app to stay ahead of the forecast. Youll have to find and follow me on social media. Sunny, cold, 28 today. Low to mid30s for tomorrow. Polar jet is down to our south. Theres a ripple up in the this little clipper going to race through here as we get into the day on saturday. A period of light snow likely during the day on saturday. Doesnt look like more than an inch. Well have to watch it carefully. Stay ahead of the forecast with us on that. 28 today, 36 tomorrow. Light snow off and on on saturday. New years eve, breezy and coal. Windchills into the single numbers ringing in 2018. 24 for the eye high on new years day. For now, its time for traffic. Lets go to Rob Stallworth who will be wearing a hat when he leaves work today. Yes, i will, chuck. The crash in montgomery county. After bradley boulevard. Its clear and to the right shoulder. Theres still delays on the outer loop as you pass old georgetown road headed towards the American Legion bridge. Otherwise, in the district, westbound constitution avenue still the work zone blocking the right lane between 14th and 17th. Thats the latest from traffic center. Im Rob Stallworth. Back to you. Rob, thank you. 6 21 now. She walked away from her car for a minute when someone else hopped in and took off. Problem is, her baby was inside. What the crook did with the infant a few moments later. Join us later today for the Ellen Degeneres show. Ellen air two officers put their lives on the line to save people from a burning c come on, come on. This happened in milwaukee the night after christmas. The officers saw a car careen into a utility pole and catch fire. Just as they got to the vehicle it flipped over. One of the officers pulled the victim away from the burning vehicle. They went back over to the car to save a second person. They found a third victim near that accident. Paramedics were able to rush all three of them to a local hospital and were still waiting to get word of their conditions. Boy, will you look at that video. You can see how quickly they were thinking. Really putting their own lives on the line to get the people out of the car. Chris lawrence at the live desk. Thank you. The time is 6 24. Sounds like a plot for a made for tv movie. But it involves a real officer in bush kill township, pennsylvania. With a 14yearold boy. Her husband, a Police Officer, found out and tried to cover up the crime. The woman is accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband, the Police Officer, after he blackmailed her to cover up the crime. Now, the Police Officer has pled guilty to criminal coercion. The wife is awaiting trial. A st. Louis mother is thanking the people who protected her baby after a carjacking. It happened on christmas day. She left her 6monthold son in a running car as she made sure she locked the door to her home. Thats when someone took off with her car and the baby. The baby was dropped off on april strangers porch about two miles away. I dont know if they understand they protected him at moment. They took him inside their home and held him. The car was abandoned and he was later arrested. Were in weather for the cold that waits for you on the other side of the front door, you need to make extra efforts to protect people, pets and pipes. This will be for the next coming up on 6 30. Good morning everybody. Ip arraron gilchrist. Im susan hogan in for eun yang. Once youve been outside, you can see why were in weather alert mode. Lets start with meteorologist chuck bell and the brutal windchill were up against today. Thats right. You can tell by aimees picture, you need warm clothes. Air temperatures in the low to mid teens. 12 in gaithersburg, 16 washington, 18 annapolis. 15 warrenton. 10 in winchester. When you add in the northwest wind, averaging 10 to 15 miles per hour, that drops windchills close to zero. Extra layers needed this morning. Your pets, limit their time husky or burmese mountain dog. The ones with the thin coats do. So do people. Temperatures this afternoon will stay in the mid to upper 20s. Its going to be ready, set shiver for new years. The weekend forecast, snow chances on saturday. Sunday, new years eve, bitter cold and colder still, 2018 will get off to a bitter cold start. Ill show you the tenday forecast which is colder still towards the end of next week. For now, lets go to Rob Stallworth at wtop. Good morning, chuck. Good morning folks. Before you head out the door, you should know a couple of things. On the beltway in maryland. The earlier crash on the outer loop near river road is gone and all lanes reopened. The district has the chopper shot you can see is taking a look over the beltway, getting the report of a crash on the beltway near 210. In virginia, eastbound 56 is a good ride between hay market and rosalyn as you travel towards the capitol beltway. No problem on northbound i95 or i395 between fredericksburg and the 14th street bridge. Thats the latest from the wtop traffic center. Im Rob Stallworth. Aaron, susan, back to you. Back to Team Coverage on the bitter cold temperatures. You heard chuck say it. The temperatures are sticking around. Great. The cold emergency plan is in effect through tuesday. Aimee cho is bundled up for us this morning. Aimee, i was going to ask how youre feeling but i think we kind of know. Its miserable. Reporter yeah. You guys, how did you guess . Its not great. I have been warmer. I can see my breath. Cant feel my face. All things considered, its a way to deal with the cold is staying prepared. Thats the name of the game. Especially if you want to keep your house safe. Plumbers say if the temperatures drop below 20, which is what were seeing here, you want to make sure to take steps to keep your pipes from freezing and bursting. One way to do that is to keep warm water dripping through your pipes during the day. It allows the heat to circulate through the pipes. Keep your thermostat set at a steady temperature and do not leave any doors open. If theres any kind of wind or breeze or anything thats coming in, youre losing a lot of heat out that door. Reporter now, you also want to keep your car prepared ahead of time and put an emergency kit in there and good items to include are a jumper cable, antifreeze, shovel and ice scraper, first aid kit and of course, phone chargers. During the cold times, its very important to check on the homeless and the elderly and anyone else who might be vulnerable. If you see someone who seems to be in need of help, youre asked to please call 311. Guys, back to you. Thanks, aimee. Go back into the car and stay warm now. Were always working for you on these weather alert days. You can find all the information you need to protect your home and car on the nbc washington app. Thats also where youll find the latest forecast 24 hours a day. At the live desk, we have breaking news. Isis is the Islamic State now claiming responsibility for a terrorist attack in kabul, afghanistan. It happened at a Cultural Center this morning. People were gathered to hear an event when a suicide bomber apparently snuck into the event, exploded his suicide device and several other attackers exploded other devices as well before storming into the center. At least 40 people have been killed, some of them women and children. Again, the Islamic State claiming responsibility for this mornings attack. Chris, thank you. 6 33 our other top stories, a suspect facing a long list of charges in fairfax county. Police say he assaulted a juvenilto into a van full of people and assaulted two officers. The man was arrested after the crash in herndon. Eight people were injured here, including a Police Officer. After a pizza joint is robbed in germantown, the owner jumped into action. Afnan shafiq got a call that his restaurant was being robbed. He then chased them while calling police. Officers were able to capture the two suspects. Roy moore filed a lawsuit to stop the certification of doug jones as the winner of alabamas senate race. Alabama secretary of state says he sees no evidence of fraud and jones will still be certified today. D. C. Water trying to find ways to lower customers bills by getting into the invention business. A team of researchers works to find ways to solve problems and createew tested and used. The utility is now going the extra mile to try to market and sell those technologies and services to other Water Systems and to private customers eventually. D. C. Water actually has about a dozen patents. What we are doing at d. C. Water is aggressive. Hasnt generated much revenue kbret but the future is significant. Weve created our own intellectual property for new technologies that weve helped invent. Most public agencies do that and dont think about it. One of the probable ducts theyre selling is something they have to get rid of anyway. Theyre using a steam treatment system that turns human waste into a high quality soil. Its a Christmas Eve tweet thats going viral. Taylor burkhalter tweeted pictures of his parents with the caption, ive learned more about love w rearrange the living room so she can make snow angels. There she is. Happy as can be. Yeah. Its the way that keeps a marriage going, i guess. That face is awesome. Shes great. 29 instagram followers. Probably 29,000 now. Shes from shreveport, louisiana. They dont get a lot of snow down there. You have to come up with creative ways to get into the winter spirit, right . And they did. Keeping their love alive. Its 6 36 right now. The flu season is officially here. In some areas its running rampant. What you can do to protect your families from getting sick. An airline forced her to give up a seat for a congresswoman who says it has to do with her race. But the living rooms pretty blank. Its really nice when clients come in and have done some of their own research. Working with a bassett designer was really easy. Just kind of ties in very well. We love it in news for your health. Need another reason to work out . Its good for your heart and your brain. The American Academy of neurology recommends exercise for those with mild cognitive impairment. The new guideline didnt advise any dietary changes or medication. Has the flu made its way into your home or office . The centers for Disease Control says the flu is widespread in several states, including virginia and maryland. As Erika Gonzalez tells us, this strain of the flu is hitting more people earlier than weve seen in past years. The peak season for influenza is upon us. It goes from december to february. Its already on the rise. In fact, in maryland and virginia, the cdc calls it the cdc breaks down flu levels into five categories. No activity, sporadic, local, thats where d. C. Is, regional and widespread. Maryland and virginia are among 23 states reporting widespread flu. I havent had the flu forever. So my daughter tells me im too old. Is the shot helping keep the flu at bay . Dr. Donald chorus, specialist in infectious diseases. We still highly recommend that everyone get influenza vaccine. I received the vaccine several weeks ago and then developed flulike complaints myself. Theres already been more than 7,000 confirmed cases of the flu across the u. S. Double the amount this time last year. The cdc recommends everyone over the age of six months get a flu shot, especially the elderly and children. From being under the weather to being so over the weather, chuck yes, indeed. Snap of cold is coming our way. Mother nature is playing it easy there. Cold weather for sure now. But theres more cold to come. Wait until you see a check of the forecast. Saturday and sunday both chilly. Were tracking an increasing chance of snow on your saturday. Thats coming up. Sounds good, chuck. Breaking news staying on top of breaking news in fairfax county. Eight people are recovering. You can the see the damage in this video. Adam tuss is in herndon near the scene of that crash. Reporter hey, susan. This was a bizarre crime scene that unfolded over multiple locations. Take a look. Glass and debris still here in middle of centreville road at frying pan road. Look at that crash video again. You can see how intense the impact of that initial crash was at the final scene. This unfolded over multiple locations. Started as door, got into an altercation with a child. Stole a car, went to a nearby shopping center, got into another crash. Stole a pickup truck and then led police on a chase here to this location at centerville road and frying pan road and got into that serious wreck. Several people were in a van that the man hit. The man got out of the truck and ran from police and got into a fight with police. Listen to what police had to say about that. He fought the officers, one officer sustained injuries as a result of attempting to arrest him. That officer was also taken to the hospital. All seven passengers of the van were taken to the hospital. One was flown, the person ejected. The suspect is now at the hospital being treated himself. Hes facing multiple charges as a result of the the incident tonight. Reporter so this is where the whole thing came to an end here. Different locations. That man now in the hospital and is expected to be charged with multiple counts as you heard the officer say there, guys. Adam, i want to ask you about the kid assaulted. What do we know about the connection between the suspect and the child . Reporter thats something thats still unclear this morning, aaron. Fairfax county police have to figure that out, what the initial response was. Why that man was knocking up at that house. That clearly touched off this whole incident which led to the crash here. Unfortunately, that one person, that child in the van that was hit here, is in serious condition this morning. All right. Adam tuss, live in herndon. Thank you. 6 47. Now to the daring chase in germantown. This time it was the store owner who was in pursuit when afnan shafiq heard his pizza shop was robbed at gunpoint. This started at 5 00 last night at the tasty 5 pizza. One of shafiqs e him and told him the store was being robbed. Shafiq lives across the street. He rushed to the store as the thieves were leaving. So he followed them. I dont know. Instinct got to me. Follow them. We started here and going through clarksburg, got on to 270 southbound. Shafiq says hes still in shock but relieved that police were able to catch the thieves. Police make a third arrest in the murder of a 17yearold girl who was the daughter of a d. C. Police officer. 18yearold James Mayfield faces a first degree murder charge in the death of jamahri sydnor. You may remember she was shot and killed by a stray bullet while driving down saratoga avenue in northeast back in august. Two other young men are already charged in her killing. Sydnor was a Woodrow WilsonHigh School Graduate and she had died days before she was due to start class at florida a m university. Were following breaking news out of Chris Lawrence is live at the live desk for us. Chris . Guys, something exploded in a supermarket in st. Petersburg. President putin calling it an act of terror. N an improvised explosive device went off at the grocery store. It exploded in a locker where they store customers bags. They had half a pound of tnt. Police say it was rigged with shrapnel to cause more damage. This happening a few days after russia credited a tip from the cia for thwarting another terror attack in st. Petersburg. Roy moore has filed a lawsuit to stop the certification of Democrat Doug Jones as the winner of alabamas u. S. Senate race. His Attorney Says there needs to be a Fraud Investigation and a new election. T jones will be he defeated moore by 20,000 votes. It was the first time a democrat won that seat in decades. A texas congresswoman who was given someone elses first class seat says she believes her race is playing a part in the controversy here. The congresswoman is she a jackson lee. A woman claims her seat was given to lee. The system shows the teacher canceled her flight. They claim the airline deliberately erased her ticket to accommodate a member of congress. She feels she was an easy target because shes black. She says race did not play a role saying she didnt know who had been given her seat when she originally complained. United gave simon a 500 travel voucher and coach seat on the same flight. The current Powerball Jackpot at 384 million. There was no winner last ticket for tomorrows Mega Millions jackpot. Look at the excitement at the d. C. Lottery store inside Union Station yesterday. Right now the jackpot at 306 million. Somebody is waiting to be i would love that. Wouldnt we all. From lotto fever to fewer os at this. Dozens of people lined up outside headquarters thinking they had Winning Tickets. When they went to claim the fortunes, officials told them a computer glitch created all the Winning Tickets so nobody actually won. The lottery told people to hold on to the tickets or file a claim while they figure out what to do. Hopefully, it will be figured out by tomorrow. Id be really upset about that. Honestly, i would be too. I told you earlier my mom thought she won 10 million on a scratch ticket but never scratched offrt 6 51. We turn back to the weather alert today. Weve been warning you about the cold temperatures. They are here to stay through the rest of the year and into the start of 2018. Aimee cho has been outside for us in northwest d. C. This morning. Aimee, are you staying warm . Thats a stupid question. Reporter hey guys. Yes, i am staying warm thanks to your advice, i have my gloves, my headband, my scarf. Im rocking the snowman thing right now. But it is that cold out here. D. C. Is pretty much hunkering down and bracing for the worst. Theyve activated the cold emergency alert. That allows for extra shelters to be open, like the one were in front of, the community of Christ Church in northwest. It really is so important to tap in on the homeless. Anybody else who might be vulnerable. Because of the elderly or your pets. D. C. Wants you to call 311 if you see someone who needs help. Muriel bowser about the neighbors need to check on neighbors. Not only for people on the streets but neighbors who may be in their homes without heat, who may be turning on stoves to stay warm. We just want to remind everybody. During the winter months, we see more fires because of those types of things. Ive also tweeted out a link to find the emergency shelters. Guys, back to you. Thanks so much, aimee. Stay warm out there. Its miserable. This year is going to end the same way it began. With a snap of cold. Last year the coldest weekend was the first weekend of january. So then after that, things got milder. This will be the second warmest year on record. Were talking warm facts to keep you warmer. It airnt warm out there this morning. This year, going to be the second warmest year on record. Records go back to 1871 in with an average of 60 degrees or higher. 1991, 2012, 15, 16 17. Climb change is real. It has different effects. The extra cold snaps during the winter time are part of climate change. We have a howling northwest wind. Its keeping windchills into the single numbers this morning. Air temperatures, mostly in the low to mid teens. Factor in that northwest wind, though and windchills now 4 above in frederick. 6 above in fredericksburg. 0 the current windchill in Prince William and montgomery counties. Highs only in the low to mid20s. Its going to be a cold one for sure. The planner then for the rest of the day, just really an ugly day to be outside. The holiday weekend, of course, the race to new years, saturday. Were tracking a sunday, windy and cold. New years day will be bitter. If youre headed out to rinne ring in the midnight hour, plan on windchills in the single numbers again. Theres another shot of significant cold arriving here late next week. Next friday, saturday, sunday might be colder than this one. Lets go to Rob Stallworth on a seat heater kind of morning. With all the cold talk, it makes me want to hibernate. Chopper 4 over the Woodrow Wilson bridge. Looking smooth. Nice sunshine trying to come up there. Looking pretty good. Otherwise, on the outer loop, through prince georges county, this is near 450 annapolis road. The crash was along the left side of the roadway. If youre traveling northbound on 395 in virginia, the hov lanes near seminary road, we have a crash reported along the right side. Thats the latest from the traffic center. Rob stallworth, back to you. Good morning, im landon dowdy at cnbc hid quarters. Recommended post to your feed. Testing to see it earlier this month. It will suggest posts for you. Algorithm selected the section called recommended for you. Its clearly labeled. So you dont confuse it. Its 6 56 now. Here are four things to know. A suspect facing a long list of charges in fairfax county. He assaulted a juvenile, stole two vehicles, led police on a chase, crashed into a van full of people and assaulted two officers. Eight people were injured. Look for updates in the nbc washington app. Roy moore filed a lawsuit to stop the certification of Democrat Doug Jones today as the winner of alabamas u. S. Senate race. Moores attorney argues there needs to be a Fraud Investigation and new election. More details on the today so. More than 2 dozen people are okay after a nightmare commute in new york city. This ferry was carrying 27 people last night when it was stuck on a sandbar. We bundle up before you head outside. D. C. Activated the cold emergency plan. It will be in effect through tuesday morning. A list of shelters and warming sites on our nbts washington app. That is the broadcast this morning. The today show is up next. Well be back in 25 minutes with weather and traffic and local news. Make it a great thursday everybody. Hows it going down there . Thats good. Lica misses you. Im over it though. laughter thats fine. I miss her more than you anyway. Hey, my window is closing. Yeah thats okay. Alright miles. I love you. phone hangs up yeah i love you too. Good morning. Brutal. That punishing cold blanketing much of the country is now spreading. More than 200 million americans waking up to below freezing temperatures this morning, and the worst is yet to come. Breaking overnight. Deadly blasts rock kabul. A Suicide Attack targeting a Cultural Center in afghans capital leaves dozens killed and even more hurt. Isis is now claiming responsibility. Were live with the latest. Not so fast. A new warning for homeowners thinking about paying property taxes now before that tax law takes effect. Why the irs say