Of room. Is one safer than the other . The vernado is the safest. The vernado is not going to get hot. Next stop we skipped all the way across town. And fraegers on capitol hill where its slim pickings today. Heaters flew off the shelves yesterday and customers still coming in to heat homes or keep their pipes warm during this arctic blast. Were getting another at least 200 heaters at least tomorrow sometime, late tomorrow. But if you want to avoid traveling all over town call your local hardware shop first. So if youre on the hunt for a space heater this weekend, please remember these safety tips. Avoid plugging it in with an extension cord or a power strip. Always combustibles and never leave them unattended. So listen, millions of others along the east coast are also in for a brutally cold night. Some places could have a record setting deep freeze. Minus 35 degrees in some parts of the east. No thanks. This videos from massachusetts after the massive storm hit yesterday. Boston got more than 13 of snow plus the storm hit during high tide. And some people stranded in their homes had to be rescued. Where i grew up and the things my child hood memories are being washed away. The weather is to blame for at least 19 deaths. More than 1200 flights have been cancelled today after that massive storm. Today passengers stranded overnight. Finally reaching their destination in new york city. Night wusa 9 app get con at that point updates constant updates and alerts on your phone. New information out of Charles County tonight. A former school aid and coach has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing dozens of students. The Sheriffs Office arrested carlos bell over the summer and today he pleaded guilty to 27 counts of including assaulting children, making child porn and trying to transmit hiv to them. He worked at ben gentleman min stoddard middle school. It was one of the worst cases theyve ever seen. Ive been an officer in this county for 25 years and this is perhaps one of the most horrendous crimes ive ever seen. Carlos bell was in a position of trust for our young people and he misused that trustit most Vulnerable People in our community our children. The states attorney for Charles County says he could ultimately reach a sentence of up to 90 years in prison. Right now a federal judge in alexandria is hearing arguments in this seemingly never ending battle house of delegates. The judge is trying to decide if a race in fredrickstaff county has to be done over. I wish i could tell you that we are close to the final chapter on this election but it is hard to know for sure. Right now disenfranchise supporters of democrats joshua coal are inside asking a federal judge to throw out the old election and order a new one. Heres the problem, the virginia elections board given the wrong ballot. Some people who should have been deciding between the democrat goal and the republican bob thomas were instead given ballots for other house races and some people that should have been in other races were instead given ballots with polls and promises on them. The republican thomas won by 73 votes. So those 147 wrong ballots could have changed the outcome. Okay. Just yesterday, the elected board had to draw names out of a bowl to pick the winner in another delegates race where the boats were tide. The democrat lost. It would have been a great thing for virginia. It really would have. And that is why this is such a battle. That bowl pick gave the gop a 51 to 49 majority in the house of delegates. If the judge here decertifies the election and orders a new election then the republican majority will be down to 50 to 49. And the democrats may yet legally challenge that other race. In alexandria bruce la shan wusa 9. Bottom line the whole thing is still a big question mark. We can tell you this whoever is in control on wednesday will get to pick the speaker and the committee chairs. A tie vote might give democrats power to expand medicaid under obamacare which theyve been pushing for years. And an explosive new book sold out in multiple stores. Fire and fury inside the trump white house. The books author is defending its work despite wlous attacks against its i will tell you the one description that everyone gave. Everyone has this in common, they all say he is like a child, and what they mean by that is he has a need for immediate gratification. Its all about him. President trump tried to stop the release of the book. Hes comfortable with everything hes reported on and he has plenty of notes and recordings to back it up. In about 35 minutes John Dickerson will be live. Still ahead a little girl from Prince Georges County gets a big surprise in 2018. After her dad got back from a long deployment overseas. Plus will we see the end of chocolate in 40 years. Cant make it through the show without it. Were going to have to verify if this is true or not. Its been years. We dont have super bowl rings or playoff wins but its a privilege to play here. I felt that for all six seasons id be foolish to say i dont want to be here. And kirt cousins in the spotlight. Chatting with your husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. You want to stay free from artificial preservatives. And your debit card wants to stay on a diet. Fill your cart with Small Victories like giants natures promise brand. Great prices on over 1,300 items. Eat well for less. Only at my giant. Hi daddy i love you and i miss you and i cant wait until nya comes because shes the best. And. Hi daddy those this is a special homecoming for a little girl in Prince Georges County. Hes a Tech Sergeant in the air force. He just got back from a 6month deployment in africa. The homecoming was supposed to happen at school but there was no class today because of the weather. Alex trebek is taking a break from jeopardy following brain surgery. Surgery was performed after two days in the hospital i came home to start recovery. The prognosis is excellent and i expect to be back in the studio taping more jeopardy programs very soon. Trebek was treated for blood clots on the brain. Hes expected to make a full and complete recovery. Trebek has hostedpa what if more of the came from Renewable Resources . What if the electric grid could detect, fix and even prevent Power Outages . What if our grid were less vulnerable and more secure . Became a reality . Well, they are. At dominion energy, were completely transforming our power grid and the way we think of energy. To move from what if to whats next. Dominion energy. Z2i1zz z16fz y2i1zy y16fy a dc man built a school syria. Now to let them know theyre not forgotten. This is video from four days ago and imagine that this is your neighborhood. Its just been hit by an air strike and the First Priority is saving the children. Thats what happened to moz mustafa. Its the same place where aprils imminent attack happened this was the view from the pool on christmas day. Bombs exploding across from the soccer field. The green grass is where the school went on a field trip only a day after that chemical attack. The children holding red balloons that said i love you. Other people outside to yell at the world. Now its too dangerous for them to stay. Mozs non profit doesnt know whats going to happen but they do know assad is back. The children of war who only want to be loved and learned. Just imagine that happening on christmas day. The wisdom house relies on american donors. All 135 kids who are as young as 3 years old. Moaz and his school just dont know what to do or where theyre going to go from here. And you look at those faces and you wonder what their future will be. I know all these lost lives and future. We have a link where you can donate them as they hopefully make their border. Now wusa 9s first alert weather rated dcs most accurate forecast. I want to be honest its real easy to blow off some of these Winter Weather warnings but were going to see temperatures lower than weve seen in a long time around here. We got some pretty chilly air from these last couple of years. You had a funny comment yesterday. I said dress like its 0 out. I dont have any point of reference for that at all. Under armor. I did go for a high today of 21. I think were going to be okay. I went under guides. Guides was going 24, 25. Live look outside, its still cold. 18 right now. Dew points in the single digits. So the and thats between that number and that number but if the temperature indoor Social Security 70 which is what we like to keep it your indoor humidity is about 4. 5 . So thats why we say turn the humidifyer on. Wind chills tonight below 0. Wind chills tomorrow 10 below and 10 above. Thats where its going to get. And were still going to be below freezing on monday. We have a light wintery mix monday night. And be its not going to be a very big or wellorganized storm. Record lows to beat tonight. Weve got a chance. Record low was set back in 1904. Probably safe. Okay. Arctic blast. So stop drafts, use towels, you want to stop drafts coming into your house. Close your curtains after sun set. Turn on the humidfiers on. Look at this. Going to feel 6 below in gathisberg. 0 for downtown. By 7 00 in the morning its going to feel 4 below downtown. 10 below in gatisberg and 7 below in harrisonberg. And then by 10 00 a. M. A little better. Feels like its 2 above in fredricksberg. And then by 1 00 tomorrow lunchtime 0 in gathisb about this time. Not going to be as breezy tomorrow night but still enough of a breeze to generate wind chills. Of course you cross the divide and its just crazy cold. Wind chills there 20 to 30 degrees below 0. All right and tonight clear, breezy, frigid, wind chills below 0. Temperatures themselves 2 below to 12 above. Thats going to be our range tonight. On the day planner goes like this. Slow teens to start downtown. 16 by 11 00. Only 19 by 1 00. Sunday, its going to feel pretty good on sunday. Only 29. But ive got to tell you less wind but not bad. And then 41 on monday. A light mix possible. Well monitor that for a yellow weather alert. Wednesday pleasant near 50. 55 on thursday maybe a shower. 57 next friday with some rain and by rain. So if this forecast makes you want to drowned your sorrows. Boost indor fins and end your worries. Online articles are being shared like crazy. Foster what do you think of that . Thats not going to work. Well all be gone. Youll be gone for sure. So heres the question, is this the end of the necessary quick bunny. Our verify team is here for you. We track the headlines to an article from Business Inside cocoa plants are under devastation. We traced that story to a 2011 story conducted by a Global Research group. To get to the truth we went through this 23page study. Instead, it said the predicted changes for godson in an and the ivory coast over the decades would make it harder for the plants to grow there. Not quite the panic situation the headlines make it sound like. So you can take your milky ways out of the safe now. It also talks a whole bunch about the mars company and their investment in modifying cocoa beans to be grown in a hotter climate. And by the way recently extinct organisms that job thriller is part of the American Museum of natural history. In order for a plant to be declared extinct it has to be gone for 50 years. We would of lost all cocoa plants back in 2000. Well give this one a warm weather whammo this headline is false. Id build me a serious concrete steel vault. Im going to get me a cadillac cts. What color . Red. Oh, huge jackpots out there. You could buy all the chocolate you want with this money. Combined its more than 950 million up for grabs. Now your chances of winning arent very good. But, you know, some of you could become multimillionaires this weekend. Maybe us. Some people can expect higher cable bills in 2018. Comcast says customers have to fork over an additional 2. 2 on average. At t is hiking direct tv prices as much as 8 this month. Okay. Apple says nearly one of its devices nearly every one of apple says nearly all of its devices are vulnerable to two computer chip flaws. We told you about this yesterday and how they a access your data. The recently revealed bugs called melt down inspector can affect smartphones and computers. Apple says dont worry its working on an update. Former president barack obama is back. Well show you when hell make his first tv talk show appearance since leaving office. Plus the spotlight is on the globes this sunday. And in 2 minutes how the me too movement inspired these young women to open lake brad secondary school is the Largest School in fair fax county. Two years ago a Sexual Harassment scandal cost the girls varsity coachs job. Fair fax county Public Schools found no wrong doing by leadership. Were talking about it now because of a new federal investigation. Heres peggy fox with our special assignment report that we should warn you has some mature language. For several weeks wusa 9 special assignment unit has been looking into that twoyearold scandal and weve uncovered females that the principal may have ignored fitzpatrick loved basketball. At Lake Braddock she played all four years. In 2015 her senior year she made a complaint about her coach john gianeli. She accused him of bullying players and repeatedly making sexual comments to her and her players. He said oh, is that why your boyfriend broke up with you because you cant blow. Obviously my initial reaction was like whoe that was weird. She says the inappropriate behavior started on day one. My first practice he threw a ball at me. And it hit me in the chest and he was like lizzys double as went to double other girls on the team. And he said what are you looking for a condom . Oh, are you talking about your boyfriends penises and everyone was like ha ha ha. I just thought it was like boys will be boys. But this is a teacher. Yeah. Your coach. Your basketball coach. That coach John Gianelli was ultimately forced to resign. The official reason was improper conduct. We recently sat down with john to discuss the allegations. Do you remember doing any of that . Not at all. I have a daughter myself and i have two sons who i want to be a role model for. I would never speak that way to a young lady, a lady, anybody at any time. at this point this isnt about what he did or didnt say its about how the fair fax County School system made in may of 2015. She was so scared she brought a trusted teacher with her. I told him what i could and his Immediate Reaction was like ive known john for 20 years like this doesnt sound right, like just belittling me. Did you have the feeling mr. Clark took your concern and your accounts seriously or not . No like i my Immediate Reaction was like im going to get in trouble out of this. Lizzy did get in trouble. She was kicked off the team in the middle of a game. It happened during a Heated Exchange with her coach. Did i lash out and said dont speak to me like that. He was like this is your last night on the team and then he was like no get off my bench. It was a huge gym like was i just supposed to walk out. So he kicked you off the team in the middle of the game. The