Now. Well get started with d. C. s most accurate forecast. Take a wintery mix and cold roads and you get a slow evening commute for some of you. The weather system has moved on, but it left behind some slick spots and slippery sidewalks. Topper is out on the terrace with a first look at the forecast. Hey, top. Lesli, we have some leftover moisture and temperatures are going below freezing tonight, so were a little bit concerned. 38 downtown, but 32 in frederick, 34 in leesburg, 36 in manassas, so black ice. It appears wet, but its actually frozen. Keep that in mind going through walking the kids to the bus stop or walking to the mailbox tomorrow. Again it looks wet, but its front. Just slow down and be careful walking. Once we frozen. Just slow down and be calf walking. Once we get past 8 careful walking. Once we get past 8 00, well be okay. Any residual moisture even down into Charles County and even and Southern Maryland will be right around freezing. So thats why were a little concerned with some slick spots. We will come back and talk about the rest of the week and our january thaw. You might be surprised how high we go. This is the dont blame the messenger part of the newscast. A handful of School Systems are starting two hours late tomorrow because of icy roads and sidewalks including montgomery, adams, loudon and Fairfax County schools. Youll see the whole list at the bot am of your screen and on our website. Of course, when weather is the big story, we are all over it. The power of d. C. s most accurate forecast is available any time anywhere on the wusa9 app. The other big story were all over tonight, tracking metro and this one has two parts. Well talk about changes to your smartrip card. That will affect your commute in the morning, but first were diving into a story youve been talking about on social media all day, refunds if your train is running late. Pete muntean. Reporter for the 200,000 riders who take the red line every day, time is money, but soon too much time could mean a free ride. Tom rudin knows late trains all too well. This morning there was a half hour delay here. Reporter its a big reason ridership has gone down, but metro thinks the quality of trains and tracks are up, so much that it wants to refund your rush hour ride if youre late. The idea is being proposed to metros board. I dont see how they can afford it. Reporter this all relies on your smartrip card. Metro will take the time it takes for you to tap in and back out. If your ride is more than 15 minutes late, youll see a credit on your card. Refunds would not be given for late rides because of significant weather or planned track work. Its got better actually since safetrack. Reporter maureen long thinks metro is improving, but the agency says riders are slow comingk. One in every 10 rides late. I think it might take a little more than that, frankly, but i think their hearts in the right place. I think they should invest that money that theyll lose with the rebates or reimbursement into making the trains run on time. Reporter time is of the essence for metros board. If approved, late ride refunds could begin this month. In north bethesda, pete muntean, wusa9. Now to the other big metro story and this one could affect your commute in the morning, metro has ended its policy that lets you have a negative balance on your smartrip card. Heres how that might happen. If you had three bucks on your card, the system would let you ride. If your trip cost four bucks, the system would let you out, but then youd have a negative balance on your card. Youd have to pay it back when you refilled it. Now youll have to use exit fare machines to make up the difference, but a heads up on that. Right now they only take cash. At Dulles Airport custom travel of some shoes, some fake air jordans, to be exact, 400 pairs of them shipped in from china to an alexandria address. Even though the sneakers were fake, the price tag on them was real making the shipments worth a total of nearly 55,000 bucks. Check out this tweet from d. C. Police. Anyone misplace 9 pounds of weed over the weekend . Feel free to stop by d. C. Police headquarters. Wed be happy to chat. They did make an arrest in this case. They called up the suspect and said they found his package. When he showed up to collect it, undercover officers made their move taking him into custody. The womens march on washington is coming back on january 20th. A group called march to the polls will hold an anniversary march starting at the Lincoln Memorial ending up at the white house. Thats one of several dozen nationwide that weekend. Organizers say it will celebrate the Democratic Women who have taken Political Action in the last ye elections approach. New from bethesda tonight, a bizarre car crash, the driver of this suv somehow managed to crash his car into an Apartment Building on clarendon road. Doesnt look like much damage from the outside, but when you look inside the apartment, the driver was taken to the hospital. Nobody in the building was hurt, but they will be finding somewhere else to stay for a bit. When you see a police chief in front of a news camera, its usually bad news, not the case today in Prince Georges County. The top cop reported over the past seven years overall crime has dropped more than 50 . That is the product of good strategy. Thats the product of men and women going out on the streets of Prince Georges County day in, day out and working to prevent crime from happening in the first place. The chief says Violent Crime is also trending downfalling nearly 7 last year alone and homicide down 18 . County execut Property Values are rising and the countys economy is on the upswing. This next story takes us south to el salvador. A massive earthquake and 2,500 aftershocks rocked that country in 2001. Shortly after the u. S. Approved something called temporary protective status for salvadorans that allowed them to come to the u. S. And work legally. Today the Trump Administration announced thats over and the decision could split up a family in maryland. John henry brings us that part of the story. Reporter tps, temporary protected status, basically it allows certain foreign nationals to stay here in the state if their homeland experiences a war or natural disaster. One participant in the program . El salvador. There are 200,000 el salvadorans in the state on this status. The department of Homeland Security status for salvadorans because much of the country has recovered from that earthquake. However, that leaves a lot of families in a bind. I have my daughter, son. Reporter he bought a new house and is worried about his future. In this country you have a opportunity. In my country you dont have opportunity. Reporter its story like the cortezs making a lot of people notice in d. C. This local restauranteur put it this way. He said if salvadorans were to leave country, d. C. Wouldnt be able to function. Its bad for Economic Growth and bad for country. The mayor called salvadorans an integral part of the community. John henry, salvadorans working on permits have until september to leave or find a way to stay legally. A group that is trying to end their stay says it lets the government insure the program is available for future emergencies. She brought the golden globe crowd to its feet and triggered a round of speculation she might run for president in two years. Will she . Wont she . Depends on which socalled source close to oprah you ask. Youve talked about this all day on the wusa9 facebook page, but this bit of Clear Thinking from sue got a ton of like. Heres a radical thought she posted. If a celebrity or anyone wants to run for president , how about getting some political experience first at the local, county, state level . I dont care if someone is successful in business. Theres a big difference between running a corporation and running a country. The Trump White House says if she does run,. [ bring bring it on. The white house President Trump is absolutely planning a reelection run and said we welcome the challenge whether it be Oprah Winfrey or anybody else. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case about nooses this week. Its the case of the only man breaking virginia law displaying them in Public Places to intimidate people. Heres the question faces justices in the commonwealth. Does that law stand or was this a violation of turners right to free speech because he displayed that noose on his property . Arguments begin on wednesday. Lets bring it back to our area with a great story out of montgomery county. Two clothing designers there have created a challenge to keep Homeless People warm this winter. They set out to distribute 100 sleeping bags, but now its about to get a lot bigger thanks to a huge social media boost. Heres delia goncalves. Bat boy, im going to sing you five sleeping bags. I challenge you to find five people that are homeless and reporter its not a gimmick but a carefully thought out campaign to spread the love. We wanted to come out with something really positive and we can get a lot of people involved. So we came out with the sleeping bag challenge. That might not seem like such a big deal, but a sleeping bag is another form of shelter for a homeless person. Reporter these two travel with their sleeping bags. Thanks to a Gofundme Campaign theyve already distributed 100 to homeless in d. C. And baltimore. Its a very humbling experience and it teaches you a lot about life and it makes you appreciate the Little Things because, you know, theres people out here that are very less fortunate. Reporter their 2yearold Clothing Company designed to give back and make an impact. It stands for ever achieving dreams everyone denied and to do that, you have to have an ambition, so thats where we came up with the name. Reporter now with rapper comedian and instagram sensation fat boy sfc on board with his 4 million followers the sky is the next celebrity which i think once we do that, its going to grow. Weve got another story of help and hope to share with you. In Fairfax County neighbors are helping a family that was once homeless get a new start, cant wait to share that story. And my verify team has the definitive sciencebacked answer to this question. Does having fourwheel drive really make a difference when you hit those icy, slick spots on the road . Any slick spots tonight will be a memory tomorrow, topper finally talking about warmer days ahead with d. C. s most accurate forecast. Bring them on. Well have all that for you less than two minutes from now. 11 00 on jack and jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. All because of a burst water pipe in their house that ruined the Hardwood Floors in their kitchen. Luckily the Geico Insurance agency had helped them with Homeowners Insurance and the inside of their house was repaired and floors replaced. Jack and jill no longer have to fetch water. They now fetch sugarfree vanilla lattes with almond milk. Call geico and see how affordable Homeowners Insurance can be. Breaking news to pass along, an arrest has been made in a bizarre case in d. C. Its a fire in southeast that happened last month. Once firefighters got inside this burning apartment they found an adult man tied up. He appeared to have been beaten. He survived his injuries and now 46yearold sean parker is facing a charge of assault with intent to kill. We move to now. This is a story about neighbors helping neighbors. You may know this quote from dr. Martin luther king, jr. Everybody can be great because everybody can serve. One woman decided to serve. She saw a need. She put out a call. She helped a family that was once homeless get the things they desperately need and she helped them to know they matter. Heres debra alfarone. Reporter if youve ever doubted that angels exist, get back to me in a minute. Ive never met anyone like her that ever wanted to genuinely help, genuinely because they really care. Reporter to say helen flores and her family including 8yearold elana and 15month old anessa had fallen on hard times wouldnt begin to cover it. This is scary, mom. Im scared. I dont know what to do. This hurts. Im tired of it, mom. Reporter flores fiance lost his job. They lost their home. They slept at shelters and slept in their car. We have to stand up and give what we can. Reporter enter needle of rockville. She heard about helen and offered her ear. We both have daughters that are the same age. Reporter fast forward. Helens fiance got a job and friday the family moved into this fairfax apartment. It needed a lot. So new friend rachel posted on facebook and it blew up. Furniture, a toaster, toys. My little pony. Reporter so much to make their apartment feel like home, but also a gift thats not easy to find. I always had this thing where i felt like really unseen or unimportant. Reporter the gift of knowing were not alone even in our struggles. Its nice to be heard. Its nice to be listened to. That makes me feel like we matter. Home sweet home. Reporter in fairfax, debra alfarone, wusa9. Amazing story. If you want to help, weve got a link on helen is looking for a job doing administrative work and she wants to use her skills to help people just like rachel and her friend helped her. Whether youre navigating the roads in this ice or in snow or rain, you know you have to drive accordingly. So whats the best thing to do when your road is slick with ice . You need to kick your ride into fourwheel drive. First lets look at the wheel systems. Front and rear wheel drive work like how they sound. The power to the engine goes to those engines only. Obviously in fourwheel drive the engine will power all the wheels. Now fourwheel drive is different from all wheel drive. Thats where the car itself senses Road Conditions and figures out which tires to power to give you the best traction. Which is best on icy streets. To verify we went straight to the folks who get you out of the ditch, aaa, jiffy lube and the National Safety council. The best car to drive would be a fourwheel drive wheel drive. Front wheel drive does give you a little better control than rear wheel because the weights on top of the drive wheels, but if youre going to be out, all wheel and four wheel is the best way to go. Jiffy lube and the National Safety council agreed. So we can verify with the wheels spinning, whamo, all wheel and fourwheel drive is better in the ice and snow, but dont get overconfident. Fourwheel drive wont give you better steering traction and it wont help you stop easier either. Ice is slick. Youre going to slide if you arent driving carefully. How about we help you put some of these fake news stories on ice. Find something you think is suspect. Shout out to me on twitter or facebook or send me and the squad an email, verify wusa9. Com. We can verify nature is cool. Instead of flying in Straight Line these canada geese walked in a Straight Line across wasnt a sheet of ice. They were walking pretty slow, too, topper. Kind of cool. Just making sure. Waddle, waddle. We were just discussing that a few slick spots early tomorrow morning, but you need to have your windshield wiper fluid, okay . Salt and brine mixing up with dirt on the road picking up on the windshield. Have your shades, too. We actually have some sunshine and above average temps for the First Time Since december 24th. 3degree guarantee, were okay today, although temps did spike a bit after 6 p. M. So far the high has been 39. We went 37. Well take it. Were going 47 tomorrow for a high, which is above average. A live look outside, 38 now, dew point 37, have not seen a dew point above freezing in some time are the. Thats good news unless we get some either. Thats good news. Unless we get some drier air, we will hold above freezing in town and points south of stop temps 26 to 36, a few slick spots. Its frozen, black ice, but pleasant and above freezing on tuesday. Mostly cloudy and chilly wednesday, late shower possible, but here comes big time january thaw. Warmer thursday and friday. Were talking 50s on thursday. Were talking ending the week in the 60s, yup, in the 60s. Heres a look at futurecast, 6 a. M. Its 31 downtown, maybe a little low, but there will be a sprinkling of midand upper 20s in manassas and culpeper, thus the slick spots early on. By 9 00 were essentially above freezing except for frederick and hagerstown, 34 in la plata, 35 downtown and by lunch time 40s. 42 in cumberland. By evening its mid to upper 30s and by this time tomorrow night well go back to the mid 20s to mid30s for lows, nothing out of the ordinary and actually about ave overnight tonight partial clearing and cold, some slick spots, 26 to34, winds light southwest at 5 to 10. On the day planner its 42 at 11 00 and 46 at 1 00. Now the next three days wednesday a little cooler, 44, a late shower. Well take it. 54 thursday, milder with showers. Friday, 64 with showers. Saturday maybe a shower early, temperatures go back in the 50s but fall drastically saturday afternoon and cold again sunday and monday, low 30s. Bring out the short and the flops just day. Somebody was pulling for the bulldogs. I told you theyre looking good and a lot of these guys will be playing at the next level in a couple years and there was some next level stuff over the weekend from the ca next in sports. Comat havertys furniture. Ear Savings Event save up to one thousand dollars in bonus discounts. Plus, you can get 24 month financing with no interest. Start the new year by adding stylish pieces throughout your home. With havertys, your home can be perfect, even when life isnt. [sfx crash] hurry in and save. This sale ends january 15th at havertys. Life looks good. Now wusa9 sports with Frank Hanrahan brought to you by xfinity. Yes, we know the redskins are not in the playoffs, but there was plenty of football to be seen over the weekend and some special moments as we dole out some of the very best of those moments from the weekend. Hey, best comeback. At least we arent the Kansas City Chiefs gave away a 213 lead to tennessee and lose again in the playoffs. The chiefs could not get over that hump. Best pass from the wild cards easy. Thats easy from the chiefs titans game. This came from Marcus Mariota going down in playoff lore. Chiefs fans probably knew it was game over when that happened. Winner of the cutest contest, saints panthers and this young lady gets to retrieve the kicking tee, hands down the cutest moments of wildcard weekend. How about best fan . This guy at the jacksonville game dressed as the character ruby rod from element played, of course, by the legend chris tucker. He brought the jags luck as the jaguars beat the bills. Love him or hate him, lavar ball moves that needle. I dont know about you, but i have yet to buy any Big Baller Brand merchandise from him and in so does not help him as he got a big fat f from the Better Business bureau. Lavars response, Better Business bureau is as outdated as the yellow pages. Topper, youll love this. Some experts are calling this the greatest golf shot ever. Dustin johnson off the tee at the century in a par 4, 433 yards and he almost pulls it out. Check it out. Its rolling. Its rolling. That would have been an albatross. You need somebody to raise up the flag and he comes just within a foot. No. Is that the greatest golf shot ever. I dont know who cares about the game. Hawaii. It took eight shots to get it in from there. Well be right back. 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, save 400. Ends soon. Visit sleepnumber. Com for a store near you. Before we start, i just want to say if anyone still doesnt have fios, please stay out of the way so your lag doesnt get us all killed, ben. Whats so good about fios anyway . Uh. Whats so great about a 100 fiberoptic network that makes your gaming system actually work awesomely . Hey. Did you take out the trash . Haha, garbage boy dad, i already took out ben. Its not funny. Gaming is best on a 100 fiberoptic network. So get fios. Now, just 79. 99 per month President Trump on the road today spent some time in nashville before heading up to atlanta to the College National football championship game. He is hopping to the red states to say hi to his base again there in atlanta today for the game, stayed until about halftime and was out there on the field in pregame during the national anthem. University of alabama, university of georgia. Who will win tonight . We will see. Georgia is up by seven. 2013. We are all wins are now that well be above winners now that well be above freezing. I spent some time at ut in meteorology and i cant stand either one of the teams. What really . 47 tomorrow, slick spots earl yes, milder. Well pay the price, though, some showers possible thursday and rain and showers friday, but do we care . 64 on friday. No. We do get cold sunday, maybe a flurry, low 30s and low to mid30s next monday, but at least since december 24th were above average tomorrow. Look, this will help a whole bunch of schools get their pipes ready and fix things. We just need them back in school on time the whole day. No two hour delays. Help us out. Thats it for us tonight. The late show with Stephen Colbert is next, no there are two types of people in the world. Those who fear the future. And those who embrace it. The future is for the unafraid. All because of you captioning sponsored by cbs