year in the mid 40s. yes, we get into the 20s, but normally for a couple of days. not for numerous days in a row. we have a lot more coming. frigid weather continues. tracking the storm for thursday, continuing to get more information and just got another computer model that just came in. we re going to talk about that in just a second. and coldest air yet moves in. one thing for sure about this system, it s the cold air, the coldest by far, we will be well, well below 0 by the time you go to sleep thursday night and wake up friday morning. all right. doug, thanks for the warning. well, you bundled up your kids so tightly for the bus stop you could hardly see their faces. and as students get back into the swing of school this week, some are poking fun at that bone chilling weather out there. the richer montgomery high school is tweeting 500 below 0. news4 s meagan fitzgerald live in fairfax county where it is so cold, some of the buses won t work. reporter: wendy, t
area. we feel it here at this stage. we are stuck in a deep freeze. alison: abc7 s tom roussey joins us from siller is spring where crews are work silver spring where the crews are working on a water main break. this is just part of the problem out there today, right? tom: it is. there are a lot of affects from the cold. the water main break is one of the worst. this is on new hampshire avenue. so as you can imagine it s wreaking havoc on traffic. i just got an update. good news. they have made progress. it won t last forever but it will last through the evening rush hour. thanks to the water main break the traffic was bad even before rush hour started. bad. really bad. how bad was the traffic you were in? bad. back like 20 minutes. that is right. 20 minutes from the beltway, which you could see less than a quarter mile away. everything had to merge to one lane. what i don t like about it is the left lane, they think they automatically can get in without any court
if it was 25 today, it could be 40 degrees colder than that or at least feel 40 degrees colder by friday morning. that s the kind of cold air we re talking about. doug, thank you. it s hard to keep the chill from getting into the house right now. you probably needed an extra layer at work, too. it s the same at some local schools. check out this retweet from our scott macfarlane. it shows 48 degrees inside a montgomery county classroom today. but for another school district, the trouble started even before the bell rang. news4 s meagan fitzgerald is in fairfax county. meagan, what was the issue with the buses? reporter: well, fairfax county officials tell us the problem is the school buses have been sitting outside in the freezing cold weather like they are behind me here for the last two weeks while students were on winter break. so, this morning when they started them up, some of them didn t turnover. others broke down later. but this is just one of several issues we sa
possibility of snow to some areas. sue palka is standing by with the latest. reporter: those are two big stories, guess which one is bigger. at this moment it s the cold because look how much of the country is covered in this birth cold air and the next round will be even colder that s going to be coming in the friday , saturday timeframe. we start feeling it friday. a.m. ril oh, 15, 26 for dallas. it s only three in cincinnati. 2- degrees in detroit. boston, 16, d.c. at 21, but also i wanted to show you that we have a couple other spots here in the region that have dropped even colder, manassas is 5-degrees right now, quul pepper nine degrees, the winds have gotten lighter and the temperatures bitter cold and they re going to continue to remain in the teens with some areas obviously heading for the single digits. let s talk about what s next because this time tomorrow night starting to come up the coast. it s a big deal. it looks like it s going to get quite intense even th
airport. this time it was a flooded terminal. take a look at this. the new york port authority is launching an investigation after a pipe broke sunday, flooded one of the terminals. they had to shut off the power. this mess adds to the weather-related chaos. they re still dealing with the delays when they had to close the airport. we just checked with flight aware. the airport seeing delays of 30 minutes. if you re flying in and out of jfk, check your airlines today. eun, back to you. looks like a big mess. chris, thank you. howard university has postponed classes for more than a week because of problems created by this long stretch of cold weather. the cold caused steam pipes to burst, filling two classroom buildings and the annex with moisture. ceiling tiles had out in order to prevent mold. it also caused problems for the boiler system. though some buildings don t have consistent heat. the most comfortable setting that our students will have right now is in their hom