48th fighter wing. This happened in a lowflying training exercise, and not clear what may have caused this crash. We are working to learn more about this accident. We will bring you any updates as we get them from the live desk. Im wendy rieger. Back to you. More than 1 million americans lost their Unemployment Benefits when congress let the emergency extension expire at the end of the year. Tonight, president obama is urging congress to extend the benefits n. A narrow vote, the senate voted to move ahead with the extension, but the republican republicans and the democrats are far apart on how to make it happen. And Steve Handelsman has the report. Reporter the procedural vote means that the extended Unemployment Benefits may pass the senate in a few days, but president obama said it better. We are not a people who say, you are on your own. We believe we are all in it together the, and we know there but by the grace of god go i. Reporter there was catherine hackett, mother of two servicemen, who keeps her thermostat on 58 degrees while she looks for work. The Unemployment Benefits have been essential for me to have basic necessities. The way you qualify for the program is that you work and then you are let go. And they call it a threemonth extensioning is a bandaid. There is no reason to pass unemployment legislation without creating good, high level jobs. And because the democrats want to raise the taxes instead of cutting government, it is still difficult to get to yes. Reporter 50 years after democrat president Lyndon Johnson put a war on poverty, president obama is hoping that democrats will say yes for pushing Unemployment Benefits. Most republicans are betting that the bigger issue is obama care that they charge is causing unemployment. Im Steve Handelsman, nbc news, capitol hill. And virginia lawmakers are headed back to work right now in a violent incident involving one of their own is to set the agenda for Mental Health treatment that could keep people safe in the commonwealth. And a cache of guns and bombmaking materiels found inside of the house, and what the homeowner was planning to do with all of this. Im Tracee Wilkins in Prince Georges County where officials are struggling to deal with the broken water main. The first potential death from cold weather is now under investigation in Prince Georges County. For those who had to work out soo outside in the county, frigid temperatures made it difficult. Tracy wilkins is live now in the area. This is believed to be a waet weath weatherrelated death. They are awaiting autopsy reports. You can see the water main break here in kettering and it is one of the reasons that many parents thought it was a good idea for their kids to stay home from school. Reporter it is literally freezing cold. Many parents felt that the kids should have had the day off instead of going to school today. Well, i felt the kids should have stayed home, because especially the elementary kids, they dont need to be out in the environment. Some parents completely disagreed. As long as it did not rain and perfectly dry, they could have gone to school on dry. Reporter the twohour delay allowed the officials to take care of the icing issues for instance this schidewalk was salted and ready for the school kids when they arrived. In kettering a busted water main turned this hill into a ice slope. We found out that the house across the street, the water had been bubbling at the end of the driveway and appears to be another break on this side. Reporter and prince georges officials opened up their emergency command center. We get the information the fire department, and the department of social services. And also emergency services. Reporter many felt that the water main breaks were makeing the situations more hazardous, and especially for the firefighters. We urge the firefighters to get out of their wet clothing and go inside of the van and get on warm clothes. Reporter there is a contractor on the scene helping to start repair ing ting the da. Officials say that this is a good example of u. N. One of the water main breaks they may not get to the night, because it is not gushing but a steady leak, so they will have to start to the repair the water main breaks like this tomorrow. Reporting live, im Tracee Wilkins. And doug is coming up with more detailsuthe weather forecast. I am wondering, much better tonight, because i had frozen pipe pipes at my house, but they had thawed out, do i have to worry, doug . Well, yes. If you have a sprinkler system, a lof of those busted and a lot of ice on the roadways, and take precautions tonight, and we saw the bitter blast as dull let set a record of 1 degrees and shattering the old record of 8. And 3 at bwi beating that record and national, record of 5 degrees and we were one degree shy is of that, and that record stood from 1884. So this is really recordbreaking temperatures and cold. And the good news, it is just about out of here. 18 degrees is the current number, and the windchill down to 6 degrees. And around the area, 10 in gaithersberg, and 11 in martinsburg, and 18 in manassas, and so you know that we will be colder through the night. And 1 in gaithersberg tonight, but we are not talking about the 15 to 25 below numbers that we were seeing last night as the wind winds are beginning to come. And that is good news. We have a windchill advisory in effect which does not include prince georges kocounty or fair fox, because it is all back out to the west, and i would not be surprised to see it cancel for windchills of 5 to 18 belows, but some of the threshold may be reached here. So heads up if you are in that area. And heads up, the storm radar is dry, but if we had anything coming in, it would be in the form of snow for sure, and a chance for snow, and some of you are saying, hey, where is the snow . It is cold. And so tomorrow, it is just cold. We will see a few clouds, but snshine, too, and still on the cold side and temperatures are warmer than they were to daik cold air is just about gone. We will have stay cool on thursday with just a. J. Temperatures, and friday, we will see the snow in some areas, but changing over to sleet, and then plain old rain by later on in the day. We will watch this scenario very closely, and if a little bit of more cold air stays in, we could see accumulating air, and we will watch that for you friday morning. And tomorrow, still cold with calm winds and temperatures down to 3 in the suburbs and 11 in the city. No records tonight. I am not worried about the records falling in our area. In dulles, it is going to be 4 below zero. And 38 on thursday, and you will notice the upward trend, and 40 degrees on friday with the 30 chance of the mix early in day. And saturday a good chance of rain and saturday is rainy day with a high of 54 and 52 on sunday. And sunday is looking very nice, and early next week starting off on the warm note, too, and if you are thinking of heading down to the health and fitness expo, it is a great weekend to do it, and why . Because saturday, it is going to be raining, and so you may want to hang out with us with the temperatures at 54, and then sunday, a pleasant day, but that makes traveling to the health and fitness expo easier, too, and you can spin it both ways and as always, doreen i will see you there. I love it. Thank you. I like the way you think, doug, either way, it is a a good weekend for the expo, and seems like everybody is going to School Tomorrow . Yes, a couple of the delays and you can find them on the website. Okay. Thank you, doug. And a baby who could not wait to come into the world, and quickly found out, it is a cold place. And seniors looking for tax relief to keep them off of the streets. And senator returns to the capital after a high profile tragedy. And some new developments tonight on a story you saw first on news 4. We told you yesterday about the sears store in landover that is slated to close in march, and news 4 has just learned that the company that owns the old landover mall is now making a bid to turn the property into the new home of the fbi. Prince georges county officials have submitted their own proposals for the fbi to reloca to the green belt metro center. For the boom, many real estate taxes are forcing seniors out of their homes, but today, many will not have to pay the taxes. This is my neighbors cat. Reporter at 84, annie is a activist of ward one. Her father bought this house in the 1920s, before she was born, and risking his education money. He took his tuition money, and put that on the house. And my mother was so mad at him. She didnt know what to do. Reporter and tucker still owns the home, and hopes a son inherits it, but the taxes keep going up. And not only do we have to keep it up, but then you have taxes on top of it. Poor people are on a fixed income cant afford it. If your income is fixed, it is fixed. Reporter the d. C. Council voted tax relief tuesday today to exempt real estate taxes for anybody 75 who has lived in the home 15 years and earns less than 60,000 a year, and 4,000 Senior Citizens meet that criteria. We dont want them to sell their houses. We want them to stay in our communities where they are nurturing and they enhance our diversity. Reporter the council put off a plan by jack evans to cut the property tax increases for all city owners, but the senior break won wide support. And back to sherman avenue and euclid street Delores Tucker is pleased. She says that the booming real it state means that there is to shortage of the tax money to get. They will get their tax money. They will get plenty of it. Every house that is available, it is going to be snapped right up. Reporter in the district, tom sherwood for news 4. Coming up next at 6 30, the cold temperatures cause problems for several schools in one local county. And the decision of keeping the schools open is causing a lot of heat on line. And one virginia mom fights through the bone chilling cold to deliver a baby on the side of the road. We will have her incredible story. And plus an inmatt on the run, and no match for mother nature, and how the escape came to an end as news 4 at 6 00 continues. It is so cold that i cant even speak it is that cold. I cant feel my nose. It is so cold that i cant reporter it is so cold that i cant finish the sentence. Right now at 6 30, people across the region are struggling to keep warm in the bitter cold. And talk about a chilly debut, well, we will tell you about the freezing roadside delivery for one virginia woman. First the latest on the cold weather from chief meteorologist doug kammerer, and hello again, doug. Hello, guys. It is so cold that it is 18. That is the current number, but it feels like 6 at the airport. Any exposed areas especially around the mall right now, and the wind is gusting up to 10 or 15 miles an hour, and that is going to make some problems as far as the windchill is concerned, but we have one more night of extreme cold, and then term drama, but in a good way, because the temperatures are going up, and by sunday, nice and mild. We will go from 25 degrees below average to above average. Yes, and despite the deep freeze, many schools in Montgomery County had school today, and that put some pr pressure on the leadership. We are joined by chris outside of the Church Hill School in potomac. And a handful of schools had no heat or leaking pipes or other issues but that is what led up to the criticism of the superintendent to open schools. Because of the extreme weather, more cars than usual showed up to pick up students and that blocked paths here at julius west school, and so we asked parents if they agreed with the decision to open it up on time . I think it is a fine idea. I dont know why we should have shut them down. It is just cold. They should shut them down, because it is too cold. It is cold reporter and the problems caused by the cold caused mack gruder to close, and silver hills, and daily elementary in germantown closed at noon and so did jackson elementary closed because of no power. And so how are the kids dressed . Just like that. Bundled up. Reporter and to today, some complaints with were posted on the social media about the decision to open schools. No thank you, mr. Starr, i am not keeping my kids home, because letting the kids freeze at busstops is cruel, and expect lawsuits. Thinks he is hurting us . He is going to be cyberbullied more. L. O. L. Last month he sent a letter home saying that his family had been inappropriately targeted because of a decision. Well sh, he said then and he said now he never felt threatened, but the fact is that it should be tweeting to the the superintendent in the way that our students are doing . Many of them are doing it ap e pro appropriately and very clever, but some students are going over the line, and honestly, some adults as well. Reporter the school leades s are standing by the decision saying that most of the 151,000 students had a meaningful day of instructions. That is the latest live from Montgomery County. This weather is causing problems for g. W. Hospital in d. C d. C. , and they said that the low temperatures caused the pipes to the leak on the sixth and the fourth floors and 26 patients have have been repoved frmoved their rooms while they clean up. Well, cold weather cannot stop a baby from being born. One virginia mom found it out the hard way. She delivered the newborn in a cold car while on the way to the hospital. And Kristin Wright has the first pictures and the frantic 911 ca call. Reporter in vienna, a beautiful healthy girl was born, and healthy six pounds and eight ounces and came at the cold of the morning in the intersection of nutley street in Virginia Center in a car. Listen to the frantic 911 call. She is having constructions. And yeah, yeah, her water broke, but it is is so cold out here, and i have to do this with the door open is not good reporter in fairfax, he rode five miles from home to work at the Fairfax County government center. And really not that bad. It is really cold for the first mile, but after i get going, i am really hot and sweaty underneath my coat. Reporter and his seat got cold, and he kept pedalling. It wont start, the cold froze the cranes fuel line and that means no new heating system at crunch center on tyson corner. The heat works, but not well. So they ran out to buy a stack of space heaters to keep everybody warm until we thaw out. The fuel line froze and as i mentioned before we have a little heater that we are helping them out at the fuel line to try to warm it up. Reporter and at town center, they are shopping and skating, and the cold is not a issue. I grew up in florida, so i am enjoying this a lot. It is a little bit different, and a nice change of scenery. It is extremely cold. Too cold. My eyes are watering. Reporter Kristin Wright, news 4. A plane bound for baltimore had to make an emergency landing, and wendy rieger, what happened . Well sh, the weather is caus problems at 30,000 feet. American Airline Flight had a water pipe burst in the bathroom in the middle of the flight, and nobody was injured, but some people got wet. And maintenance is trying the e decide if that plane can continue to travel. 140 passengers were on board trying to get home or somewhere. From live desk, im wendy rieger. We invite you to stay with us throughout the night for updates that you can get any time by following us on twitter or facebook. On the eve of the session in virginia, there was a rare spirit of cooperation between republicans and democrats. Ethics reform mean that gifts of 250 or more would have to be refused, and the cap would apply to family members. Both parties wants a head start following a gift scandal that has bob mcdonald at the center of a federal investigation. And state senator returns to the first day of the new session coming six weeks after a family tragedy cast a spotlight on the states Mental Health system. He was stabbed by his son at their bath county home, and then he stabbed himself. And today in richmond, a new task force went to work to try the fix the system. Reporter when Fairfax County sandra van low heard about the tragedy of the senator, she immediately felt the connection, her adult son has a mental challenge, and she is an advocate. My heart breaks, because you remember the first day, you know, when your Child Experiences a psychotic break. I can tell you that it is one of the most difficult experiences that you will ever have in your life. Reporter now she is serving on a task force created by governor bob mcdonald and charged with recommending changes to spare other virginia families from the pain experienced by the deeds family. We want to have a wholesale look at the system to see what more State Government can possibly do to make sure that we are as much as possible 100 right 100 of the time. Reporter the deadly incident at his home came a day after the senator sought an emergency Mental Health placement for his son. It was issued for austin deeds, but a bed could not be located before the order expired. The next morning, he stabbed his fath father, and then turned a shotgun on himself. He is hoping that the task force creation will make changes. We will do everything we can to make changes. And although he is not speaking publicly, he has introduced three bills and one is the time that an emergency Custody Order can be issued from a old max to a new max of six hours. And he also wants more beds available so that nobody can be turn theed away. And the governor is on a fast track for those recommendations, and he wants those to be acted on by the end of the month, and then the task force can go to more complex issues. And Companies Marketing them as products to lose weight, but the feds disagree and how they are putting the squeeze on four companies involved. And the life of a beauty queen and soap opera star whose life was cut tragically short, and what police say is the motive behind the murder. Temperatures in the teens and how cold is it . Guns, chemicals, and bombmaking materials, and we are told that all of the items seen here were found in a glenn burney m