Heres storm 4 meteorologist chuck bell with more. Hey, richard and angie. Good morning to you. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to your weekend. If youve been in town for a while, you know our pattern has really changed and weve been cold now for most of the last couple weeks with the exception of two days earlier this week. Right now, only 19 degrees in washington. Temperatures midteens to the north and west to near 20 towards culpepper. Not much of a wind out there. Windchills arent too intolerable. When the temperatures are this cold, you need to bundle up for sure. Snowflakes inbound for later on today. Well talk about that coming up. We are following breaking news right now. An accident vovg multiple vehicles is slowing traffic down at eastbound i66 at gallows road. Youre looking at a live picture there. Some traffic is getting by, but theres an investigation under way right now. Were gathering details about this incident. Well report them to you as soon as we have new information available. New this morning, an act of retaliation. An attack occurred on the military base in pakistan. It happened early this morning in the tribal region of south waziristan. The taliban says the attack was revenge for u. S. Drone strikes that killed two of their leaders. 12 militants also died in that assault. It follows a bombing at a moscow earlier in the day. 24 were killed in that blast. Also new this morning, north korea is threatening the united states. The country is promising to retaliate against the u. S. For having socalled double standards after south korea launched a rocket this week. Washington condemned north koreas rocket launch in december but not south koreas. North korea has not said how it will retaliate. U. S. Diplomats claim north korea used their test on banned missile technology. Right now, Vice President joe biden is speaking at a security conference in munich, germany. He said the u. S. Is prepared to hold talks with iran if theyre serious. It is a busy day for biden, whos also expected to meet with opposition leaders in syria. It will be the highest level meeting the u. S. Has had on the syrian conflict since it began two years ago. Today marks one year since a transgender woman was stabbed to death in northeast d. C. Mayor vincent gray will speak later today at a vigil. Jones was waiting for a bus when police say 55yearold Gary Montgomery attacked her. Investigators believe montgomery stabb ebed jones in the face. She later died from her injuries. Montgomery was charged with seconddegree murder. A Maryland Community is rallying behind a family devastated by a house fire that killed two young girls. 3yearold sophie and 6yearold ma madigan died of smoke inhalation. Four other members of the family survived. Neighbors say they heard the screams as the flames destroyed the home and trapped the two sisters inside. She wasnt screaming like words. It was just a painful scream. Absolutely devastated. A mothers worst nightmare. I just knelt down right there and prayed and said, god, have somebody get those kids out of there. Unfortunately, that didnt happen. Jack lillard was taken to the hospital. The other three were treated and released. The community has set up numerous fundraisers and clothing drives for the family. To find out how you can help, visit nbcwashington. Com. Taking metro could take a little extra time this morning. Six stations are closed. Right now, buses are replacing six stations on the orange line and blue line. Theres also single tracking on the red and orange lines. Tomorrow night only on the green and yellow lines. In about an hour, or less than an hour, we should know whether well have an early spring. Punxsutawney phil will emerge from his stump in punxsutawney, pennsylvania, just after 7 00 this morning. Youre looking at live pictures now. Early entertainment and snowflakes accompanying them. Were hearing singledigit temps. Thousands started gathering hours ago. We dipped into the Single Digits overnight. The legend has it that if phil sees his shadow, it means six more weeks of winter. If not, we should have an early spring. The last time he didnt see his shadow it was 2011. And punxsutawney fill has plenty of company. In fact, a close relative lives here in d. C. Potomac phil lives here in d. C. It wouldnt be washington if he didnt give us political insight, right . Hell emerge at 8 00 this morning at the fountain in dupont circle. Not sure if well see huge crowds for that. I know last year a lot of people turned out and had an opportunity to take a picture with i dont know, is it a rodent . I guess so. The weather has been so strange this year. Lets see if a ground hog can set things straight for us. Time right now is 6 06. This morning, a consumer alert. The company recalling bunk beds. And why police say it could be days r even weeks before a man in alabama releases a young boy hes holding hostage. Plus, a special trip to the gulf coast today for maryland state leaders outside of super bowl celebrations. And who are you rooting for in tomorrows big game . Hit a recall this morning of some bunk beds after the maker says a child could get trapped or even strangled. The World Imports bunk beds are being recalled because the metal rails are too far apart. The beds were sold in various stores between august of 2009 and february of 2012 in twin over twin and twin over futon models. The company is offering a free repair kit through its website. Are you on twitter . You might want to reset your password after hackers gained access to a quarter million of the sites users. Twitter says it shut down one attack moments after it was detect the but hackers launched another attack and may have gotten users names e, emails, and pass words for around 250,000 users. Twitter sent users an email telling them they have to create a new password. Ten minutes after 6 00. Coming up, see why some kids in bethesda may be a bit wired later this weekend. And why hosting the super bowl is a bit different for the big easy this year. Over to chuck. And weve got another chance for some snowflakes coming our way into the weekend. I wouldnt plan on picking out names for the snowman just yet. Well talk about your weekend forecast coming up. Nope, no. Sorry, love to but cant. Im sorry, shes very busy. Enjoy the rich taste of dunkin mocha lattes and coffees. Now in dark chocolate. Indulge in one today. America runs on dunkin. This morning, word from police this could go on for some time. This is a tense hostage situation in alabama where a man is holed up in a bunker with a 5yearold boy continue jimmy l shot and killed a School Bus Driver tuesday afternoon and grabbed the boy and took off. Police believe the bunker theyre in has electricity, food, and even television, meaning the siege may not end any time soon. Neighbors have been Holding Prayer Vigils for the boy all week. President obama will visit annapolis next week. He plans to address Senate Democrats during a twoday retreat. The white house is not releasing any details on what the president will discuss, but the retreats are often used to craft strategy and messaging for the party for the coming year. Governor Martin Omalley will also host the senators for dinner at his home. The mayor of los angeles is putting to rest rumors this morning he will be the president s next transportation secretary. He says he is humbled by the speculation but is firmly committed to finishing out his second term as mayor, which ends on june 30th. He has pushed for increased rail service during his time as mayor and has served as chairman of last years Democratic National convention. Current transportation secretary ray lahood announced last week he is stepping down. Today, some of the biggest names are making their way to the big easy. Former Baltimore Mayor and now governor Martin Omalley will join the current mayor Stephanie Rawlings blake at the super bowl. They plan to celebrate 160 years of close ties thanks to a man named john mcdonough. It is super bowl eve, and new orleans is buzzing with excitement. Its the tenth time the city has hosted the nfls championship game, but its the First Time SinceHurricane Katrina hit. With mardi gras, theyre looking to show the world theyre back and better than ever. Nbcs jay gray has more from the big easy. Reporter Super Bowl Weekend go ravens go niners reporter in the middle of mardi gras its a constant party. Reporter in the only town that could handle hosting both. You see the sports part. You see the bourbon street and mardi gras. It brings it all together. Reporter a difficult task in a city battered by Hurricane Katrina and stained by the bp oil spill but inwilling to break. We are proud here. Reporter legendary quarterback and a favorite son of the city, archie manning, says the big game and big easy is a tribute to dedication and sacrifice here. Its been a great story of the recovery. With a lot of help from the whole nation. Reporter a nation that is now joining in the celebration. This is fantastic. Ive never been. You couldnt ask for a better town, better people. Its been amazing. Reporter amazing. The same word many fans are using to describe the host city. Jay grey, nbc news, new orleans. Kids at one local school will get to stay up and watch the whole game without worrying about it being a school night. And that is a first grader making a shot that won the entire school the day off on monday. The headmaster at the school in bethesda made a deal that if one of the few selected kids could make that shot, theyd get to stay home on monday. A seventh and eighth grader both tried and missed. The first grader nailed it. Wow. I wish we had that here. And you can see the scouts calling him now. You were a little basketball star. I was. We put you up there. I was a threepoint shooter. I was a little guard. Thats all right. Wherever you can make it from. Well let you take the shot. All right. So whetherwise, nice to have you back this weekend. You know, we could see more snow. I was afraid you were going to miss it last week. If you blinked, you missed it. Thats how it goes. We actually had snow at the beach last weekend as well. Even on my vacation snow lovers like myself got to see a little something. This winter were not measuring snow by the inches. Were measuring it by the clippers. Just a little dusting here and a little dusting there. That pattern looks to continue. So snow lovers like myself take heart. I know it isnt going to be a lot of snow, but at least its something to remind us that its wintertime outside. Man, if you dont think it feels like winter yor, you may be fro really cold place. It is 19 degrees in washington first thing this morning. Clouds are going to be on the increase today. Any sunshine youll see this weekend will be stacked up in the early part of your saturday. By later this afternoon, clouds are back and snow chances are back. Current temperatures now. We are in the cold teens and low 20s pretty much area wide. 21 now in culpepper. Thats one of the warm spots. 19 down in st. Marys county. 14 degrees across much of the blue ridge. Heres your saturday start. Temperatures only inching their way up to about 20 degrees by 8 00 this morning. Mid20s by 10 00. Only in the upper 20s to maybe near 30 degrees by noontime today. Your hometown forecast, what is your afternoon looking like in college park, maryland . By 3 30 today, yes, indeed, a chance for more light snow. Most of the area seeing our snow chances from around 1 00 or 2 00 this afternoon through about 9 00 or 10 00 this evening. Dont expect a lot of snow. Conversational snowflakes. Temperatures back down into the upper 20s and low 30s. By midnight time frame, the snow coming to an end. Theres another clipper racing in on the heels of this one. This is the first one thats coming in during the afternoon and evening time frame for today. Feeling like oh, so winter. Winterlike all weekend. Temperatures struggling to get above the freezing mark for highs today before the clouds come right back in. Our computer model shows that most of the snow stays out to the west of the mountains. I do think that theres just enough moisture with this system to have at least a chance for a snowflake. Enough to put a coting on the ground Late Afternoon and this evening. That one pulls out today. Theres another clipper racing our way for tomorrow. The computer tends to think that most if not all of the snow stays west of the blue ridge mountains. I think just enough of that moisture will get over the mountains today and tomorrow to bring us a chance of a coating of snow. Its just one rapid fire system after another in the pattern were stuck in. Unfortunately, these are coming from canada and dont have the kind of moisture we need to end up with a lot of snow. Today, clouds coming back. Light snow likely but generally less than an inch. Temperatures today only in the low 30s. Tomorrow, much the same. Cloudy skies, temperatures a little warmer tomorrow, but still not much of a warmup in the sevenday forecast here. There you go. 34 today. Only near 40 tomorrow. Any snow we do get isnt really going to stick very long. A little break in the action on monday. Another clipper zips our way tuesday into wednesday. Another one by the end of next week, but by then i think well be warm enough that will mostly be rain drops. At least we get to see snowflakes. For those of us that would like to see something,ing well take it. We want to update you on breaking news on i66. A multiple vehicle accident on the east side is now cleared. These are live pictures. Police have not said yet if anyone was hurt, but traffic was stalled for a while. About an hour. Now all clear. Time right now, 6 21. The big venture. Bigname celebrities and big gamble that netflix is now taking on. Plus, why experts say you may be better off filing your. It appears Broadcasting Cable tv has some new competition, but its not a new channel theyre up against, its a website. Nbcs mark barger explains how netflix changes how we could watch television. Reporter not content with handling others movies is and tv shows, netflix is making its own, starting with a Political Drama house of cards. Were a swing for the fences company. We want to do great things. Reporter the netflix Ceo Reed Hastings said they took their inspiration from hbo, hoping a move to original content will grow its audience. The companys investing 100 million for 26 episodes of house of cards, luring the likes of twotime oscar winner kevin spacey. If theyre going to compete, theyre going to have to eventually start doing original content. Were not nominating ing you secretary of state. Reporter spacey plays a devious congressman in the show. The shows entire first season of 13 episodes is being released simultaneously. You wonder whether people want a more staggered season, or if they want to consume everything all in one go. Well find that out for sure. Reporter thats because netflix will do the same thing later this year with another show theyre bankrolling. Lets all say hello. Reporter brand new episodes of the cult comedy arrested development. Its an effort to beat online rivals such as amazon and hulu to the punch. Its their hope to make them competitive with cable broadcasters and providers like hbo, showtime, and fx. Reporter whether house of cards provides a Firm Foundation will be up to consumers. Mark barger, nbc news. Drivers are doing double takes at gas stations. Coming up in our next half hour, were going to look at how much gas prices are going up in our region. And the d. C. Native expecting a huge honor down in new orleans today. Plus, snow moving in, but when will we see it and just how much . Chuck bell is back with your forecast next. [ female announcer ] the magic begins when jif fresh roasts peanuts to make Peanut Butter so deliciously creamy. It can even be a game changer. Thats why choosy moms and dads choose jif. Good morning and welcome to news 4 today. Im richard jordan. And im angie goff. It is saturday, february 2nd, 2013. It is groundhog day and here is a life love look at punxsuta pennsylvania. Crowds are braving the chilly temperatures there. In less than an hour, Punxsutawney Phil will emerge. If he sees that shadow, it is six more weeks of winter. If he does not, we could see an early spring. Hes got fireworks and everything. Chuck bell has emerged this morning. Lets check in with him to get a check on our forecast. Good morning, you guys. Ive crawled out of my bunker just long enough to come to work on your saturday morning. Very cold start here, and groundhogs in and around our area this morning are likely going to be seeing their shadow because i think were going to get a little break or two of sun early this morning. Not much going on around the city as of the 6 00 a. M. Hour. Temperatures still 19 degrees. Luckily theres not much of a wind out there. Windchills arent a problem. With air temperatures in the mid to upper teens, it is a bundle up factor indeed. Not much showing up on radar for now, but there are more light snow chances coming our way. The next clipper is later this afternoon. Temperatures today will struggle to get barely above the freezing mark. Snow flurries and snow showers possible starting early this afternoon. Well talk more about your weekend planner coming up in a few. Now to a developing story this morning. The state department is warning americans to stay away from u. S. Diplomatic facilities in turkey after a deadly bombing outside a u. S. Embassy. A suicide bomber detonated a device at the front gate of the embassy yesterday. The blast killed the bomber and a Turkish Security guard. A journalist was also hurt. The white house is calling the attack an act of terror. The pakistani girl who survived an attack from the taliban has been nominated for the nobel peace price. The 15yearold was nominated for pushing for girls rights to have an education. After criticizing the taliban last october, a gunman attacked her, shooting her three times, including once in the head. She survived the attack and is facing one more surgery to place a titanium plate over the hole left in her skull. If she won, she would be the youngest peace prize recipient in the history of the award. In the day ahead now, family and friends will say their final goodbyes to a teen murdered at a d. C. Bus stop. A funeral will be held for the 18yearold in Silv