There with the wind chills between zero and 10 degrees. A very cold night tomorrow night. That sets the stage for our next storm. Winter storm watch now posted in effect friday night into noon on saturday for areas through the north of washington including frederick county, virginia, frederick county, mayryland. Whats going to happen here, we have a chance for snow and then some ice on those roadways. Snow and ice, slick roads possible before it all changes over to rain. Well be watching this for you very, very closely. Ill have the latest for you. Well be in the storm center throughout the rest of the afternoon. Doug, there are not a lot of people Walking Around outside in northern virginia, but commuters will have to brace themselves as they make their way towards the metro. News 4s chris gordon is live in arlington. Tell us whats happening there, chris. As you see behind me, lot of people on the streets but were at the metro station so occasionally people do come up to street level and they brace getting to the cold and the occasional gusts of wind. I have this laser pointer which measures the temperature and ive just been taking it against my body. I saw 18 degrees just a minute ago. 24 degrees now and you see when the wind whips up, that wind chill factor that doug just mentioned, brutal. Also, the Virginia Department of transportation has spent the last two and a half days preparing the roads. There you go. Now youve seen the blasts of wind. The Virginia Department of transportation has spent the last 2 1 2 days preparing roads for icy conditions and possible snow. P dot trucks spraying a brian solution on 5,000 lane miles of roads in northern virginia. Tell me they finished the antiicing operation by midday which was just in time because the temperature got so cold. This truck has essentially frozen as of a couple hours ago. Theres a liquid mixture of water and salt in it and the temperatures have dropped so much that the liquid isnt going to come out of the jets at this point. This news 4 weather alert day is a challenge for even the most experienced cold weather people. We are from michigan. Were born and raised there so we wear layers. Leather, sweater, wool. So definitely layers. What about a hat . Seems you forgot a hat . I have a great hat but it was going to blow away because of the wind so i dont have a hat today. Dont forget the hat. Even if its a dumb looking one like this because you can see why. I mean, it is just brutally cold and we have these gusts of winds and ill tell you ahead at 5 00 how they combine to mak dangerous day throughout the area, this weather alert day here reporting live tonight from metro in arlington. Pat . Im going to lose my hat. Back to you. Hang on, chris. Thank you. Chris gordon. And its going to be an interesting next few days. Stay ahead of the weather no matter what it brings. Not just this weekend but all winter long. Download the nfc washington app to keep up with live interactive radar as the Winter Weather rolls in. Im Scott Mcfarland at the live desk with new developments and a story news 4 broke a short while ago. You got a push alert about this. Former Prince Georges County executive jack johnson imprisoned for a sweeping corruption scheme has been released from federal prison from custody in the medium security prison in cumberland, maryland. Exclusive footage we captured in 2010. He would plead corruption scheme and was scheduled to be released june 10, 2017, but now transferred to a Halfway House in the midatlantic region. The federal bureau of prisons tells us he ultimately will receive Services Including financial and job counseling as he prepares for total freedom. A return home in june 2017. Jack johnson who was imprisoned, his wife imprisoned too in a corruption scheme is now out of the medium security prison in cumberland. At the live desk im Scott Mcfarland. More breaking news now from charleston, south carolina. Just minutes ago jurors found dylan roof guilty of killing nine black members of a church at bible study last year. The verdict was expected. Roof had made a videotaped confession. He did not take the stand in his own defense. His lawyers say their real battle is still is ahead, to save his life by getting him sentenced to life in prison. More on that when we go live to charleston the latest now on Donald Trumps transition. The white house is criticizing the president elect for his statements about russian interference in the u. S. Elections. Spokesman josh earnest says trump should stop attacking u. S. Intelligence and start supporting the investigation into what happened. Today russian president Vladimir Putin called reports that he was involved laughable. Meanwhile, montana congressman ryan zinke is nominated to being the interior secretary. Hes a highly decorated navy s. E. A. L. Conservationists give him a poor rating because of his support of co coal, gas, oil. The metro board voted to cut hours of operation. There will be significant changes over the next two years. Metro says it needs more time for maintenance. This is a story our transportation reporter tweeted early this morning. He has more on what you need to know about the reporter well, this was certainly not an easy decision for metro Board Members or metro staff, but starting in july the number of hours that the system operates during the week is going to be slashed dramatically. In fact, eight extra hours per week. So what does it mean, trains will only run until 11 30 on the week nights. Theyll stop running at 1 00 a. M. On friday and saturday nights and on sunday the system wont even open until 8 00 in the morning. It will close at 11 00 at night. 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Security experts say they can use that to get into other accounts like online banking, especially if the passwords are the same. Time is running out to get your gifts and cards in the mail in time for the holidays. The deadlines you need to know about. And what you should have in the mail by the end of today. S alert mode. Tracking extreme cold and now a winter storm watch for part o did you know slow internet can actuly hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Comcast business. Built for business. It is bitter cold out there on this thursday afternoon. Storm team 4 is tracking the cold air and the winds that are making it feel like the Single Digits. Look at that flag blowing and whats next for us. Could be snow. Doug is updating his forecast now. Were not the only ones feeling the wrath of this early winter. Heavy lakeeffect snow is pounding michigan and other parts of the wegs. As nbcs chris klekham is reporting, it could get to 40 below. Problems sweeping across the u. S. Continue to pile up. This was the scene thursday morning along i80 in pennsylvania. A 59 vehicle pileup, the result of slick snow covered roads and highways. Truck passed, going about 60, got into the ditch and started piling up after that. Bitter cold and snow is making life miserable from coast to coast. This is brutal. Its all part of an arctic blast of Winter Weather thats pushing east causing temperatures to drop 10 to 30 degrees below average. Were in for probably a long winter at this rate. Reporter in chicago overnight wind chills dropped from 15 to 30 places and the temperatures for sundays bears game, Single Digits at kickoff. Out west heavy snow snarled traffic closed major highways. In portland, oregon, this school bus lost control and crashed into other vehicles with students on board but no one was seriously injured. Of particular concern, finding shelter for the homeless. Its cold. I feel sorry for people who are out and dont have a place to go. Reporter new yorks office of Emergency Management declared a code blue alert to focus on helping people who cant escape the cold get inside shelters. Reporter an early season cold snap proving the weather is not only frightful but downright dangerous. Chris klackam, nbc news. You sure cant stay warm without a warm coat, thats why 3500 brandnew winter coats are being handed children today. 23450us was there today when students from thompson elementary got their free coats during an event in northwest. Later today a shipment of coats will also be delivered to children at d. C. Homeless shelters. The charity has provided more than 13,000 coats for atrisk and disadvantaged youngsters over the past five years. Its great to see them. The sad thing is though that they have to come here to get new coats. It makes you feel good, but you also know theres a lot to be done. As a special treat for the children, Georgetown University head basketball coach John Thompson stopped by and read a story to the kids. Some of his players were also there to help distribute those coats. We posted a link where you can donate to the cause. The nbc washington app search kids coats donations. The temperatures have dropped way past uncomfortable and are now downright dangerous. Doug, what again time we had cold like this in december . We looked all the way back to 2010. Its been six years since weve been this cold. Temperatures right now, i mean, its one thing to talk about temperatures in the 20s. Its another to talk about wind chills in the Single Digits. Thats really what it is. Its all about this wind and as the sun goes down we even lose a little bit of that helping us to stay on the warmer side. We are in for one brutal night tonight. Plenty of sunshine. Clear skies. 23, winds out of the northwest at 30. Thats the current wind gusts right now in d. C. You mentioned those temperatures in the teens already back to the west. 18 winchester, 19 port royal. The record tonight is 10. Were going to get very close to that. Look at the wind chill. I mean, this is ridiculous. 1 in gaithersburg, 0 in hagerstown, 14 in culpeper. Incredible cold in the month of december. If this is late january, early february, okay, but december, very rare to get this cold this time of year. Nothing on the radar now, but a skies. We have the lakeeffect snows going on towards the great lakes. Back west around kansas city, a lot of cloud cover. Thats our next storm that will start to move in tomorrow night. What its going to bring is a chance of some snow first and then some ice across parts of the area, but i want to show you this computer model. This computer model very much very similar to other computer models here. Here we are at 11 00 on friday night. Heres where some snow is. May try to bring a little snow down but its not much and on saturday morning notice where the potential is for ice up by the pennsylvania border in through the panhandle of west virginia, around frederick. These are the areas under the winter storm watch right now. 7 00 a. M. May be coming close to d. C. But then its out of here by 8 00. Temperatures start to warm above freezing and then by 11 00 its mostly dry. Were not going to see much rain out of the first waves. I think they get more rain on the day on sunday. That will definitely be all rain tomorrow morning waking up tomorrow night, rather, 25 d. C. , 22 winchester, 25 in culpepper. Extremely cold night on your friday night heading out. Heres the critical part, 5 00 a. M. When the moisture is moving in. Notice the temperatures in the upper 20s. Thats why we can get some ice on the roadways in those areas. By 10 00, just about everybody above freezing so that means that were just going to be seeing rain at that time if theres anything at all. As i mentioned, were going to be drying off. Well be warming into the 50s on saturday afternoon. Thats not all. Sunday ive got a high of 63 degrees right now. So we go from 28 to 48 to 63 on sunday and then down to 31 degrees by sunday night. Sunday another big fall as far as the roller coaster temperatures go. Next week, a lot better. Lots of sunshine. Right now Christmas Eve and christmas, were now forecasting 55. We do have to watch out for a possible storm on thursday. Talk more about that at 4 45. Some say it swayed the election and it appears to be the reason behind a scary situation inside a local pizza place. Now a fake news crackdown is on. How facebook is addressing it. Plus, a holiday mystery. A soldiers sacrifice ends up in a goodwill bin. How you can help return it to if you want your cards to get there by christmas, an imminent deadline is today. Saturday is the last day to get shipments via fed ex ground delivery. If you use amazon prime you have until december 22nd to make final purchases. You can look for a complete set of deadlines. Today facebook is making good on a promise to crackdown on fake news stories. The social networking site has users. They will then be reviewed by facebook researchers. They will go through Third Party Fact checking organizations. Facebook said theyre only trying to go after the worst of the worst. Fake news is not as simple as its false. More details on exactly how this will work and an interview with a man who creates safe news tonight on nbc nightly news. You can watch it right here at 7 00. What do you do for nasa . A highly anticipated new movie called hidden figures. Instead of the 1960s it tells a story of three brilliant africanamerican women working at nasa. Each of them played a key role in launching astronaut john glenn into space. Their history making work came at a crucial time in america. Today cast members joined First Lady Michelle Obama to talk about what she calls the greatest american stories. And each of these women decided to believe in herself and step up when her needed her and more than anything else that is the Great American story that is told in this film, thats why this film is so important. They got two sag awards. Octavia was nominated for best supporting actress. It will hit select theaters Christmas Day and nationwide a couple of weeks later. Kicked out of a store in the middle of the Holiday Shopping rush. Was race a factor . How people in our area are reacting to what the store did next. Storm team 4 is in weather alert mode. The bitter blast of arctic air has arrived. Im on my way to the storm center to talk to here are 4 things to know on a busy afternoon. Now at 4 30, a former prince gorges county executive has been transferred out of prison and into a Halfway House. He was convicted of corruption charges after getting arrested in 2010. Metro moving forward with the plan to cut back. They agreed to cut Late Night Service for the next two years. You can see the new schedule on the nfc washington app. Guilty on all 33 counts. Thats the verdict for the man who admitted to shooting and killing nine people. A live report in the next 30 minutes. Storm team 4 in weather alert mode this afternoon as the cold, bitter weather and the wind grip the nations capitol. Yeah, talk about a polar plunge, thats what got us down here in the storm center with meteorologist amelia draper. If we were just talking about the temperatures, that would be bad enough. Right. But were not. Its the wind. Its brutal. We were just outside just to see how cold it was. I think my feet are still frozen. The good news, the winds die down tonight overnight. Theyre really not an issue tomorrow. Its unseasonably cold. Take a look at how cold its feeling out there when you factor in the wind gusting in anywhere from 20 to 40 miles an hour. Feeling 9 degrees in washington, 1 in gaithersburg, 12 out in culpepper. Mainly clear skies. That will continue to be the case through the evening hour. Look at the numbers on your evening planner. By 8 00 were down to 19 and its going to feel anywhere from about zero to 10 degrees. Itdr were at 18. We wake up to temperatures in the teens. Fast forward to saturday morning. Some of us here in blue, this is frederick, carole, Washington Counties under winter storm watch. This is going to run through saturday around the midday hours for the possibility of snow, but more importantly, the chance for some freezing ice that could lead to some slick roads. Ill have more on this event coming up at about 4 45, chris. Thanks. It is a jolting report. The nfc news exclusive that russian president Vladimir Putin was personally involved in an effort to interfere with our election. President elect donald trump said he admires putin is disputing the contents of that report. Steve handelsman joins us with the latest. Reporter some Trump Supporters on capitol hill fear Vladimir Putin has gotten some of what he wants. A cloud over the victory of the president elect. Donald trump today u. S. Intelligence points to Vladimir Putin personally approving the russian hack of the Democratic Party and that putin might have directed which emails would be leaked to hurt hillary clinton, not buying that. Trump tweeted, if russia was hacking, why did the white house wait so long to act . Why did they only complain after hillary lost . In fact, the administration announced russian cyb