Effect tomorrow night and saturday. Now this will not become a winter storm warning. It will most likely become a Winter Weather advisory tomorrow night or possibly a premium rain advisory. Thats what were looking at in these areas. Snow and ice. Again, snow varying. And ice is the big factor. Slick roads before changing over to all rain. Not concerned about this in the d. C. Area and points to the south. Temperatures will rise quickly on your saturday. Were going to have much more on saturdays weather and the weekend. Sundays weather, interesting as well. For a completely different reason. Ill see you back here in about ten minutes. Thank you, doug. Our Team Coverage continues. Lets take a look outside. It is not just the cold, it is the wind having an impact on you guys across our region. That includes a woman in Northern Virginia who almost had a tree fall on top of her car. Chris gordon is outside the metro station. Chris . What i want to tell you is this is not a normal rush hour. People are coming out of the Ballston Metro station. Those who have to wait for a bus are huddled together in bus stops. The good news, Metro Transit Police are on the scene trying to keep the buses moving and get people into the warmth. Now the cold combined with the wind today can cause dangerous winter conditions throughout the area. Wind gusts blew through trees in arlington toppling a branch on to a truck packed across 25th street. The owner of the house, jody larkin, was inside. I assumed that it was my workman coming in. I heard a big crash, thats normally my door in the wind and he wasnt there. Finally i looked out the window and a huge branch had come down from the tree behind us. Reporter she says the tree belongs to Arlington County. Marvin valet who was working on a construction job shows us the damage to his truck. My windshield here is gone and my hood. Reporter you wind howl. Here at the pentagon outdoor skating rink, the cold weather definitely hurt business today. You get how many skaters today . So far one. A group of about 117 coming in tonight. I believe theyre from the south. So it should be interesting. Reporter vdot has been preparing roads and highways in Northern Virginia for the past 2 1 2 days spreading a brine solution in case of icy temperatures. We started early before the temperature dropped and everything started freezing which you can tell has already happened. Reporter and as you can see behind me, i mentioned the Metro Transit Police on hand trying to keep buses moving throughout this area, trying to get people into the warmth as soon as possible. Now coming up on news 4 at 6 00, how people are coping with the cold and we will hear from that one skater who went to an outdoor rink today jim, back to you. All right, chris gordon. Thank you, chris. We were joke that go that one skater is probably from russia. Now is a good time to download the nbc washington app. Hes been serving time in connection to a federal corruption probe, but former prince gorges county executive jack johnson is now out of prison. The feds tell news 4 johnson is now being held in a Halfway House. Our Scott Mcfarland and Tracee Wilkins broke this story this afternoon on our nbc 4 washington app. Lets begin with scott. Reporter jonathan pleaded guilty for corruption. He shook down contractors to score bribes and gifts, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth. His wife would go to prison as well. Jack johnson was scheduled to be released from prison june 10, 2017, from this federal prison in western maryland, one largest federal lockups in the region. The u. S. Bureau of prisons today said johnson is now at a Halfway House. The bureau of prisons calls those residential reentry programs. The federal Halfway Houses among other things are designed to help inmates get job counseling and getting their finances in order before theyre released. We know from Court Records the Prison Bureau had been treating johnson in cumberland for symptoms of parkinsons. His case captured nationwide attention. News 4 captured this exclusive video of his arrest in 2010. He will remain under supervised release after his time in the Halfway House after june 2017. U. S. Bureau of prisons, an arm of the justice department, often transfers inmates into Halfway Houses in advance of their release including other political leaders who have been in prison. Johnsons attorney, we should say, declined to comment. Back to you. Thank you, scott. Our Team Coverage continues with tracee wiin talking to lawmakers about johnsons release. Shes live at the executive Office Building in Upper Marlboro with that part of our story, tracee . Reporter the arrest of jack johnson shook prince gorges county. It impacted the county for years after it happened. County executive followed johnson in office and has spent all of the time that hes been there trying to rebuild what johnsons arrest destroyed. I can tell you that back when this all first happened the news 4 was first to report back in november of 2010 that johnson was being taken into custody. I was standing outside of his house when his wife leslie was first brought out in handcuffs. Hours later he also would be taken out and later interrogated by fbi agents about his pay to play scheme. He accepted tens of thousands of dollars from developers to build in prince gorges county. His wife, leslie, was also charged with trying to destroy evidence the day tha came to arrest johnson. 90,000 or 80,000 was found in her underwear and a check for 100,000 was found in their toilet. Johnson instructed his wife to get rid of that money in a recorded phone conversation. Up until that point johnson was considered a popular politician after serving as Prince Georges County states attorney. We spoke about his release. First of all, i am glad that he is home. Like anyone, hes paid his dues. I hope that people begin to treat him as though hes ready to move on with life. I hope people treat him as if that happened. Its over and we wish you the best. Reporter again, he is now in a Halfway House and expected to be there until this summer, but that gives him a lot more freedom to come and go and also to, again, begin to redevelop those relationships with his family. Surely folks here in the cou him throughout his stay in prison, coming up at news 4 at 6 00, we speak about the release of the former county executive. Back to you in the studio. Thank you. New tonight, a federal grand jury indicts a former Metro Transit Police officer on terrorismrelated charges. Prosecutors say Nicholas Young of fairfax tried to provide resources to isis. According to the indictment young believed an associate of his had successfully joined isis back in 2014. But when authorities questioned young he tried to deceive investigators about what his associate was doing. That associate turned out to be an fbi source. If convicted, young faces up to 60 years in prison. We have some major news from metro today. The Transit Agency will be slashing service so that it can do even more maintenance work. Metros board has unanimously voted for the serve a lot of frustrated riders are turning to social media to vent. Adam is at the metro station with what you need to know about the new hours. Adam . Reporter it is going to be a big change for a lot of people, wendy. People really venting about this. These new hours dont take effect until july, but the Ripple Effect of this decision today being felt all across the system. In the end, every board member got on board with this plan. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Reporter most significant change to the time metro operates right around the corner. Again, take a look at the reduction of hours that metro will make here. Monday through thursday closing at 11 30 at night. Friday and saturday closing at 1 00 a. M. , sunday opening at 8 00 a. M. And closing at 11 00 p. M. It will last two years. For the district cutting late night hours was an especially d two years is tough to swallow, absolutely. Its up to the district wed go back to the late night hours of 3 00 in the morning. Reporter in the end they compromised because theyll get a Progress Report that adequate maintenance is being done. On social media. Dear cinema, theater, bar, restaurant, concert, fundraiser, sports team, friends, family, i cant attend the event. Invite me in 2 years. But wmatas already in a deep maintenance hole. Itd only get closer to being irrevocable if this didnt happen now. They say this new Maintenance Plan is not like another safe track plan. Preventing that from happening again and getting ahead of the issues and get into a cycle of doing that. Thats the whole concept. Reporter metros plan to fix itself soon to hit another gear. And back here now live at Judiciary Square as you see more riders making their way tonight. Guys, how will it all work when we have a special event like a football game, baseball game, concert . Will metro make exceptions for those types of things with these new hours . Ill have that part of the story. Back to you. Adam tuss, thank you. At least six metro employees have been fired in connection with the Train Derailment and more terminations are expected. That move after metro says that it found that employees falsified inspection reports about safety of the tracks. This all came to a head when a silver line train derailed outside the station back in july. No one was seriously hurt. In although more than 2 dozen metro employees are facing some sort of disciplinary action. Metros gm called the incident completely intolerable. The Transit Agencys Largest Union says it will probably fight the action because they dont believe theyre getting the full story. A milestone for d. C. It tops the list of big cities with Police Departments that use were going to find out exactly whos got them and why others dont. Plus, facebook takes on fake news. How the social media giant plans to make sure the stories you read on their site are real. A Northern Virginia venue is facing a backlash over a pro Trump Inauguration party. The controversy over whats being called the deplorable. We continue to follow the breaking news reaction to the guilty verdict of the man accused of killing 9 people inside a ch a look now at president ial politics. Donald trump nearing the end of his thank you tour with a stop tonight in hershey, pennsylvania. Trump has two more stops after tonight, one in florida, the other in alabama. They come after the president elect questions intelligence about russian hacking and involvement in the president ial election. He also tweeted today that his move to the white house and business involvements are not complex. Trumps inauguration is now just over a month away. The day after inauguration, tens of thousands of women will be planning a demonstration in the nations capitol. Tom sherwood broke the news on have issued a permit for the womens march on washington. They plan to start at the intersection of 3rd and independence downtown and that demonstration aims to send a message to all levels of government that they are showing solidarity for rights of women, their families and their communities. Thats according to the group. Facebook is partnering with Fact Checkers now to crack down on an issue weve heard an awful lot about in months. Fake news. The social media giant is making it easier for people to report madeup stories. If enough people report a story as fake, it goes to the Fact Checkers. While it will remain even if it fails the fact check, the story will have a visual flag that says disputed. Facebook says those stories will also show up in lower news feeds. There is breaking news now from South Carolina where a jury now has convicted the man who is at the center of the Charleston Church shootings. 33 counts ranging from murder to hate crimes. Roof confessed to killing nine black worshippers at the emmanuel ame church last year. Prosecutors painted him as a white supreme cyst who hoped this killing would start a race war. During the trial the defense put up no witnesses. Instead, tried to question roofs mental state. The jurors will come back next month to hear more testimony and decide whether roof gets the Death Penalty or gets life in prison. A convoy of buses moved out of the besieged city of aleppo today. The buses are carrying civilians and rebel fighters who surrendered their last strong hold today. Its part of a new ceasefire agreement thats back on after faultering yesterday. Matt bradley reports the Syrian Government is hailing the surrender as a huge victory. Reporter the evacuation of civilians from east alepp i finally beginning. The ministry of defense said the first convoy of buses carrying some 5,000 rebel fighters and their family had left the previously rebelheld eastern aleppo neighborhood. Most of them will be taken to the relative peace of idlib, a rebelheld province in northern syria. Its not entirely clear whether those buses have actually departed yet. Theyll be accompanied by Russian Troops who are allies of the syrian regime. If youve been following this closely, you remember there had, in fact, been be a deal on tuesday to get noncombatants out of the city. That deal was delayed wednesday morning and finally scrapped. All of this as the battle for syrias largest city comes to a very violent end. Aleppos been watching more than four years of streetbystreet fighting of the government and rebel opponents. The uprising will no longer lay claim to any major urban areas. Its come at a massive human cost. Some of the worst human atrocities like rwanda. Even if the battle in aleppo is coming to an end, what happened there is unlikely to be forgotten any time soon. Back to you. Its the first of its kind in the state of maryland. This truck is going to help get drunk drivers off the road. And were continuing to track that frigid weather out there. Doug is up next with stronger is blasting without risking her bones. Stronger is less pain, new hope, more fight. Its doing everything in your power, and everything in ours. Because we dont just want kids to grow up. We want them to grow up stronger. And with your support, they will. Make a gift today at childrensnational. Org givenow there are now threats against an arlington business where donald Trump Supporters had hoped to hold a ball. The owner scuttled those plans. A move that the Trump Supporters are calling politically motivated. They are using social media to vent their anger. Julie carey gives us that story from arlington. Reporter the event is being called the deplorable. They had hoped to hold it here the day before the inauguration. Ballroom managers tell me earlier this week they were forced to turn the group away. Now they and their business are being targeted on social media and some of the phone calls theyve received this week, they tell me, are so threatening they decided to alert Arlington County police. The deplorea ball was said to be open t plans began to unravel earlier this week. He alleges the ballroom caved in to political pressure when word got out on social media they were hosting the pro trump event. The minute they did that they got a slew of comment, negativity regarding us and regarding our event and after that almost immediately after that the clarendon ballroom called and canceled our arrangement. Clarendon ballroom managers tell a much different story. They became alarmed when they discovered the deplora ball had sold 500 tickets but no contract had been signed. They told him the ball was a no go. Thats when the online attacks and phone calls began. One man tweeted, negative yelp reviews, here they come. Another deplora ball supporter took to perry scope. If people want to call and ask why they are discriminating First Amendment rights. Reporter they countered sending an email blast urging them to weigh in. A trump supporter tweeting, this venue will cancel on you if they do not agree with your political views. Cant be trusted and dont deserve your business. While a ballroom friend writes the clarendon ballroom is a class act, highly recommend. Now a Statement Released by the ballroom just a few minutes ago reiterates the position that there was never a firm deal for the deplora ball. The events of recent days have surprised, shaken and scared the clarendon ballroom family. We are extremely sad to be at the heart of the situation and truly appreciate the outpouring of support weve received. Arlington county Police Confirmed they did get a call from ballroom management but they say they do not view any of those phone threats as credible threats. Now when i join you on news 4 at 6 00, why the ball organizers say this whole flap might reporting live from arlington, im julie carey, news 4. Amelia draper and i here in the Weather Center watching whats going on with the very cold air but of course watching the next system moving into that cold air. A lot of people are talking about this online because theres the chance a high chance that some of us will be dealing with some freezing rain saturday morning. Lets talk a little bit more about whats going on. Shes going to talk about th