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Windchills right now in the Single Digits to lower teens. Current windchill in d. C. Coming in at 14 degrees. This is the way it will be the next few days. Tomorrow at least we bump back up into the mid20s for windchills but look at saturday and sunday. Single digits most likely even below zero at times Early Saturday Morning and again early sunday morning. We rebound on sunday ahead of the next storm system. The headlines a frigid night tonight. But as cold as it is today it gets even colder or the weekend. And then tracking our next storm. It will have snow, it will have ice, it will have rain. Its got a lot with it. Well talk about it and ill show you what it moves in. Weve got it all in a minute. All right, doug. Right now at 4 00, were waiting at the live desk for a News Conference on the zika virus beginning in maryland. Well look live at the department of health and Mental Hygiene in baltimore. Folks will go to the podium and address the media in a few moments. Our chris gordon is there, and department will announce the first case of zika in maryland. Dont know much more about what will be said but chris gordon is there, were watching it back here too. Well have new information in moments. New details in the case of the teachers aide arrested for sexually abusing children and producing child pornography during school hours. This afternoon were learning about a potentially 12th victim. Police arrested Deonte Carraway last week, a former aide and volunteer at judge sylvania Wood Elementary School in glenarden. We are learning more about this disturbing case. Reporter as this investigation continues, were told more and more victims could possibly emerge. Because these victims are minors, investigators, arent giving us much more detail about where that 12th victim was sexually abused. We to be held. There will be a discussion about the districts policy on sexual abuse and neglect as well as background policies and volunteer policies. Just 30 minutes later at 6 30 another meeting will be held at judge sylvania woods Elementary School with parents, Law Enforcement, and School Officials. Of course, this all comes after Police Say Former School Volunteer Deonte Carraway was arrested for sexually abusing students and creating child pornography during school hours. Right now investigators say there are 12 victims, the youngest is 9 years old. Last night county leaders expressed their outrage and promised the community that a thorough investigation will be done. It breaks our hearts in Prince Georges County. As a parent of three, im particularly taking this hard, as im sure most parents are out there. Reporter now, we reported last night about a lawsuit that family of that 9yearold victim. They basically alleged in that lawsuit that the school principal, michelle williams, knew about possible abuse and didnt do anything about it. Certainly is important to note that no additional charges have been filed at this time. We had an opportunity earlier to speak with a pastor who said hes known the suspect for years. In fact, he sang in his choir. Coming up at 5 00, well tell you what he saw and considers a red flag. Back to you. Meagan fitzgerald. Thank you. A developing story. We have learned the identities of the two sheriffs deputies killed in harford county. And theres new information about the gunmans possible motive. This is the first time weve seen pictures of the two deputies. Senior Deputy Patrick dailey was a 30year veteran of the horford county Sheriffs Department and Senior Deputy mark logsdon had spent 16 years on the force. Dailey went into the panera bread in abingdon to investigate reports there was a wanted person inside. Police say david evans pull out a gun and without warning shot dailey in the head. Evans left the restaurant and then killed logsdon in a shootout with other deputies. Its our belief that because he knew there was a warrant out for his arrest and what the ultimate outcome of that encounter was going to be, would have been his arrest, that is why he took the action against the Police Officer. We dont believe he laid in wait to ambush, but, you know, certainly the officer was targeted from the extent that he didnt want to be apprehended. One of those warrants was for assaulting an officer in florida. Tonight there is new information about the call for help for a dying 7monthold baby in northwest d. C. News4 has learned the childs sibling did not call 911 as police first told us. A child in the home actually called an aunt who just happens to be a d. C. Firefighter. That aunt called the 911 supervisor who dispatched a medical unit to the home on inside and no adult supervision. Just moments ago we also learned the firefighter is now under administrative review. Our Mark Segraves will have more in a live report coming up in the next half hour. And new at 4 00, we just learned that prosecutors are charging a driver in the death of Montgomery County Police Officer noah leotta. Luis reluzco is charged with manslaughter by automobile and failing to pull over for an emergency vehicle. Last december officer leotta had pulled over a suspected drunk driver during ad ui patrol in rockville. Leotta was out of his car when reluzco smashed into his cruiser and hit him. Another busy day in the president ial rate. Bernie sanders and Hillary Clinton will faceoff tonight in their second oneonone debate of the campaign. It comes on the heels of sanders pivotal win in New Hampshire and a new endorsement today for clinton. The Political Action committee of the Congressional Black Caucus has decided well have a live report from milwaukee in our next half hour. On the republican side with Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina out, it will be a smaller field of candidates at the next gop primary in South Carolina. All of the remaining president ial hopefuls except for donald trump are already there drumming up support and talking to voters at a series of backtoback town meetings. Yet trump is poised for another big win. Hes led every poll in South Carolina in the past six months. The primary takes place february 20th. Here at home it has been years of delays and setbacks, but d. C. s troubled streetcar may soon be ready to roll. News4 transportation reporter adam tuss says both the d. C. Fire department and the Districts Department of transportation now believe the project is ready to go. Now, they havent set a final date yet, but a source with direct knowledge of the program tells news4 its likely just a few weeks final review, but then street cars could be rolling along h street corridor. Developing news in that standoff between the fbi and protesters at a wildlife refuge in oregon. Its over. The last four holdouts surrendered today. The rev rend Franklin Graham and Nevada Assemblywoman Michelle Fiori convinced its occupiers to give up. The final surrender happened peacefully. The armed group seized the refuge early last month in a protest over federal land use policies. First at 4, its a story that you first heard about here on news4. Two metro trains coming dangerously close to each other with passengers on board. New this afternoon, what the agency is blaming for that close call. And now, your storm team4 forecast. Windy and cold today, and were just getting started. Our winds have been quite high throughout the area today. Weve even had some winds gusting to around 30 Miles Per Hour at times during the afternoon. But look at the current windchill readings. Olney, gaithersburg feeling like 11 degrees. 17 into d. C. 24 degrees around fredericksburg and were going to drop down into the Single Digits if youre going to be out late. Walking the dog then, 27 degrees at 6 00. 24 by 8 00. Those windchill readings by 8 00 p. M. Down into the Single Digits. Now, as far as the feellike factor for friday, a little better. Not quite as windy so well mov single digit wind chills. Sunday were into the teens and then monday well see the temperatures come up, but its a new system that will be moving into our area that might bring some troubles of its own. Doug has more on that coming up in a few minutes. If you live in loudoun county, there could be either a tax hike or a tax cut in your future. Right now the board of supervisors is contemplating one of two possible budget decisi s decisions. One proposed last night by the county administrator would keep Service Levels where they are but your taxes would go up between 4 and 134 depending on the rate the board chooses. The other plan would mean service cuts. In that case if youre an average homeowner, youd get about an 18 tax cut. Two metro trains in danger of colliding. Now the agency has some answers after a close call under the streets of d. C. And right now we are monitoring a News Conference under way in baltimore about the zika case in our Scott Mcfarlane is monitoring this for you. He youre watching news4 at 4 00. Metro says human error was to blame for two trains coming facetoface at the smithsonian station last week. Yeah, they ended up on the same track when one train ran past a red signal and stopped just in time. Transportation tuss broke this story and he joins us live with what went wrong. Reporter what happened at the Board Meeting today is they basically discussed where the whole incident separated from itself, and what we learned is that the train operator and the Rail Control Center were saying two Different Things together, yet no one caught the misinformation that was being told. The train was basically trying to turn around near the smithsonian station. When it did that, it went through a red signal and crossed onto a section of track, and only when that train operator saw another train stopped on the platform did he decide to stop the train. Metro says in no Uncertain Terms the primary, secondary, and tertiary Safety Systems all involved in this system all failed. The only thing that was the Silver Lining in the whole thing was that the train was only going ten miles an hour and was able to slow down to a controlled stop. A scary situation. So, adam, you sat through that Board Meeting today. What kindsof talk about to prevent this kind of thing from happening again . Reporter so the investigation is still ongoing, pat, but one of the things metro did immediately is in the Rail Operations Control Center which is the eyes and ears of the entire system, they can see where every train is on the system which makes you wonder why they didnt catch this one. But in this case when a train is making this sort of move, whats going to happen now is in addition to the train operator and the rail controller, theres now going to be a supervisor who looks over the shoulder basically of that person in the Rail Operations Center and also agrees with the move that the train is making. Youve covered metro for so many years. In your experience, is that common, to run a red signal like that . Reporter so between 2013 and 2015 metro has been dealing with six red signal violations, but those are just the ones on the main line. Its become such an issue that the federal Transit Administration actually released a scathing reporto couple months back saying that this is a systemic problem. Mind you, you are never supposed to pass a red signal unless you are explicitly given that permission by the control center, and these violations continue to happen. This one too close for comfort. These two trains ended up about 190 feet apart. Thats just a couple rail car lengths, guys. All right. Scary stuff there, adam tuss. Thanks so much. I have to tell you, doug is going to be plenty mad at adam because did he not have his hat on, doug. He was telling us all day. Exactly. Whats my man adam doing out there . His hair did look good though. You know, its looking okay. Ill tell you its the wind and the cold, so, yeah you need that hat out there. Take a look at the temperatures outside right now. It is freezing. 29 degrees. Windchill right now at 17. Even with some sunshine. That sun going down about the next hour and 20 minutes and its going to feel a lot 23 in bgaithersburg. 21 in culpepper. A very cold afternoon. Look at the wind chills. 6 the current windchill in hagerstown. 16 in manassas. 12 right now in camp springs. As i said, today we will call it brutally cold. But this weekend it gets to be dangerously cold. So as cold as it is today, were going to go down another 10 to 15 degrees for the weekend. Thats the dangerous cold were talking about. Just want you to know that. Be ready for it, be prepared for it. On the radar nothing to show. Could see a couple snow showers tomorrow evening into the early portion of the day on saturday. Again, the cold air is in place but it gets reinforced as another little clipper system moves in across the region. Thats what could produce a little bit in the way of some snow shower activity but its really what brings in the cold air for saturday. The coldest air by far of the season. Those blustery winds, winds gusting over 30 miles an hour on saturday. Again, that puts our windchills below zero late saturday into i want to show you those windchills, but first off again dangerous cold. Think about the cars, think about the pipes in the house. You might want to cover those or keep the water running but these are the two important ones. Check on the elderly, especially those neighbors, and bring in the pets, the pets cannot stand it when its this cold. Were call saturday weather alert day because of the extreme cold. 24 for a high, 22 for a low. I want to show you whats going to be happening with the windchill. Here is the windchill at 8 00 a. M. On saturday morning. 2 in d. C. 4 below zero back towards martinsburg. 3 in fredericksburg. Youd think wed warm up, but thats not the case. We will actually cool in many areas. 3 below in hagerstown. This is 1 00 in the afternoon. 3 degrees in d. C. And even late in the evening hours were back below zero. If youre going out on saturday night, just be ready. Sunday morning, thats when the coldest air moves in. 5 below, d. C. , near 10 below towards baltimore. Thats the kind of cold air we have coming in on this valentines day holiday weekend. Of snow. Well talk about that and what comes after. Veronica has the sevenday forecast. All right, doug. Making it easier for you to get around the city. The new app for your smartphone that could give you a new option for traveling in the Nations Capital and how it could drive the competition. Plus, a valentines date 70 y back at the live desk, im scott mcfarland. Maryland Health Officials wrapped up a press conference about the first confirmed zika case in the state. It was confirmed the person had zika through a blood test but Officials Say the person has fully recovered and say just because there is a confirmed case doesnt mean theres a broader danger to maryland residents. This disease itself, the viral disease, is a mild disease, mostly asymptomatic. The concern is about the potential transmission to pregnant women. Maryland Officials Say they have sent 17 zika test kits to the cdc for analysis and so far this positive test and two negative tests have been returned. The medical director of the International Olympic committee is trying to calm fears boo zika in he says everything that can be done is being done in fight the virus and to provide safe conditions for athletes at the olympics. Many athletes are expressing concerns. The centers for Disease Control is shipping thousands of test kits to Health Departments across the country so protect women can be tested. There was a hearing on capitol hill today about zika and the money needed to fight it here and abroad. Dr. Anthony fauci of the National Institutes of health testified. Just like he told news4s doreen gentzler, he said researchers are already working on a vacc e vaccine. All weve done already is to take that same plas mid, pull out the west nile gene, stick in the zika gene, and now you have the beginning of a zika vaccine. So it really is a testimony to having the experience of continued years of support in trying to Health Leaders also told congress they dont believe the virus will become widespread in this country but they said steps are being take ton reduce transmission. Well, the days of standing on a Street Corner to hail a cab may be over. The d. C. Taxicab Commission Just announced a new app, and its going to be available for iphones and androids as well. The app comes after years of government reforms aimed at modernizing the districts cab industry. Some o