Tonight and lead us to a mild day tomorrow. The polar plunge arrives midweek. Your sevenday forecast coming up. All right, chuck. Thank you. New this morning, firefighters are trying to figure out what cause this had house fire in Prince Georges County t happened on dartmouth avenue, not far from the university of maryland. News 4s Kristen Wright is live there. Kristen . Reporter good morning. Crews are here on the scene, boarding up the windows. Let me show you. Concentrating on the upstairs left side of the home here. They have new information they can share with us. First we want to share with you video overnight of firefighters trying to put out this fire. The fire was going quite strong and was heavy when they got here. This is at about 4 30 this morning. Firefighters appeared to be concentrating on that front corner of the room i just showed you on the second floor. A lot of smoke coming from that room in the Early Morning hours. College students live in the house. Were told six were inside when the fire started. They were able to get out safely before firefighters even got here. The Fire Department tells us one of their firefighters was hurt but not badly. He has burns to his hands. Now the Fire Department also tells us that more students live in the house and, fortunately, they are away on holiday break. Again, six students inside the home at the time of this fire. Everyone got out safely. One firefighter with burns to his hands. The question now is how the fire started. That is what firefighters are trying to figure out right now. Live in college park Kristen Wright news 4. Kristen, thank you. Well continue to follow this story throughout the day. Another developing story were watching. A man was shot and killed this morning in the district around 4 00 this morning on bruce place in southeast. Well bring you more information as we get it in. They prayed he would be found alive but this morning one Virginia Community is mourning the death of a local yoga instructor. Hari simran went missing while hiking in mexico earlier this week. His body was found yesterday. He fell in a ravine and died from a head injury investigators say. Yesterday members of the Faith Community held a vigil at the sterling yoga center where he zblaut really lived his life full of the virtues of being giving and giving to anybody. We all have heavy hearts. He was a very beloved young man. Hari simran was 25 years old. He and his wife lived in leesburg and were in mexico for a yoga retreat. Video of a Daring Rescue by u. S. Park police from the district. The police used a helicopter yesterday to save an injured hiker at Shenandoah National park in virginia. Take a look. The hiker fell about 20 feet and broke his leg. This was at the summit of old rag mountain. Park rangers hiked to the summit of the mountain about 4,000 feet up. Realizing it would have taken hours to carry him down that mountain. The National Park service then called in the helicopter. Air crews lowered a rescue basket to him and hoisted him to safety. They flew him to the foot of the mountain where an ambulance was waiting to take him to the hospital. A developing story. A 7yearold girl the sole survivor in a plane crash. That wreck killed four other people. The aircraft crashed in lyon county in kentucky where police say they received a 911 call when the girl walked to a nearby house and told the residents she had been in a crash. Police say the girl walked at least a quarter of a mile to get to that home. Crews found the wreckage of what believed to be the plane. The girl was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay. Missing pieces of the airyash flight 8501. Video from the department of defense. The u. S. Is one of the number one countries helping in search for the victims and the wreckage. The plane crashed last sunday with 162 people on board. This morning, the head of indonesias search and rescue agency says theyve found parts of the airyash plane. Four large objects have been detected 90 feet deep in the java sea. The bad weather is slowing things down. Katy tur has more from indonesia. Reporter another day of rough seas and high winds, as search teams recovered more than 20 bodies pulled from the java sea along with three large pieces of plane wreckage. But six days after the plane went missing, there is still no confirmation of where the fuselage may be. Investigators had hoped to be able to spot it visually in the shallow waters. Now its up to specialized acoustic equipment to listen for pings from the black boxes. Currently we have about a threeweek window left for the pingers, for the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder. Once the weather calms down the odds go up exponen tichlt atialily. Reporter meanwhile at captain ariondas home in surabaya his wife sits by quietly, receiving condolences. How are you doing . Fine. Reporter fine . Fine. Reporter friends say shes holding on to hope that her husband is still alive. His Flight School classmates friends for 30 years. First time we cannot accept what happened but now we realize its that god has to do this. Reporter praying for the weather to clear and that the search finally yields answers. Pilots Flight School friends tell nbc news he was a Fighter Pilot before you went into commercial aviation. He leaves an 8yearold son, who still thinks his father is at work. Rockvilles Lincoln Park Community center is partnering with Burlington Coat factory to help provide warm winter coats to those in need. Drop off coats at any size in new or excellent condition until january 8th at several locations in rockville. Generic prescription drugs are supposed to gv you the same benefits at a better value. 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When we went to the drugstore to pick it up and they said that will be 398 i was like oh, no reporter a year before that drug cost about 85. And the digoxin to regulate her heart rate used to cost 5 a month. Now its three times as much. My husband had to get a second job on the weekends to help pay for the medicine. Reporter shes not alone. Nearly half of generic medications increased in price in a year some dramatically. One migraine medication spiked 700 in six months. A common antibiotic up more than 8,000 percent. Jacksons local pharmacist sees it every day. Every other week youre seeing some products wellused products jumping for no reason. Reporter after from constituents Elijah Cummings organized a meeting. Whats driving up the price, do you know . Greed. Its not all Generic Companies but other companies are buying up a company, a drug. Then they turn around and say we can make a lot of money on this drug. Reporter not true says president of the generic farm pharmaceutical organization. Youre still basically talking pennies compared to very expensive brand medicines. If a medicine has gone from 34 cent ace day to 7. 36 a day, thats a big increase for people. How does that happen . It happens sometimes because there can be drug shortages. There could be supply problems around the world. There could be a whole bunch of market forces. Ja medicine she has to take. You cant pick and choose what medicine youre going to take when it comes to the heart. Reporter with her husband working catering jobs on the weekends theyre paying the bills for now. Kate snow nbc news washington. Sony has a postholiday gift for you. How theyre making up after the hack that some say ruined their christmas. Chuck . And weve got cloudy sky sies, rain drops here in the metro. A possibility for a little icing across northern maryland. Well talk more about in the day ahead, Family Friends and officers will say a final farewell to the second officer killed in ambush in new york. Wenjian liu will be held in brooklyn. Buddhist monks will lead the procession. He and rafael ramos were sitting in their patrol car when they were shot and killed. The shooter took his own life. Bill de blasio says the funeral is about grieving not grievances. This is in response to Police Officers conduct at the funeral of ramos, when they turned their back on the mayor. The elder cuomo died of Heart Failure thursday night. He was 82 years old. New round of u. S. Sanctions are in effect against norirst action in response to cyber attack against sony targeting three north korean organizations, including the countrys Intelligence Agency and ten government leaders. Those people will not have access to the American Financial system. Theyve also been banned from entering the united states. The fbi believes north korea targeted sony over the release of the movie the interview, a comedy about the assassination of the countrys leader ken kim jong un. North korea denies any involvement in the cyber attack and has not responded to any sanctions. If you or your kids could not access your playstation on christmas day, you will receive a fiveday extension. Hackers caused a threeday outage on the playstation network. Icy surfaces for drivers in the south. Frosty Road Conditions caused several accidents in texas yesterday, temperatures at least 20 degrees below normal in the area. Its not just the south being affected by the big freeze. This video shows a 60pound fire written in a ditch after sliding off the ice. That happened in missouri. Even First Responders were caught off guard by the bad werth conditions. Over in new hampshire, more snowy conditions dozens of pileups. This video showing a 50car pileup. Thick, black snow interrupting the snow as the massive cleanup began. No one was seriously hurt. Dozens were stranded for hours in temperatures below 20 degrees. Some people in our viewing area are waking up to icy, dicey conditions. Montgomery county has just dispatched salt truck. Isolated spots are seeing a little bit of freezing. Mostly across northern maryland. Farther north and west from the d. C. Metro, your chances are higher to see at least a little sleet or freezing rain. No reports of serious accumulations anywhere. That doesnt mean there cant be few slippery spots. Northern Montgomery CountyFrederick County maryland hagerstown take it extra easy and slow this morning. Northern Montgomery County is under the advisory. Salt trucks out for isolated spots in the county. Go to nbc washington. Com for the latest on where any troubled spots are. And download our storm weather app for absolutely free. I really suspect that the Weather Service will be able to pull this weather advisory down close to the metro a little bit early. In town though its cloudy and wet and cold outside, its way above freezing. 39 degrees at National Airport right now. Not much of a wind out there. Not much of a windchill to deal with. Temperatures 34 in frederick. Thurmont at 29. Hagerstown at 31. Most of the troubled spot potential is way up here along the border. Hourly temperatures today, though it will stay cold and stay wet, we should gradually trend up into the low 40s by later this afternoon. Once the sun goes down temperatures will continue to rise. Well actually have our high today potentially at 11 00 tonight. We are watching a little bit of sleet, rain potential this morning. It becomes all rain this afternoon. Major roads will not have any trouble at all. Its really the side streets, secondary roads in the sheltered area that is have the potential of seeing some trouble. As you plan your outfit for the day today, plan on a coat hat and umbrella as it will be cold and wet all through the course of your saturday. Here it is on storm team 4 radar. Light rain. Pockets of icing there in northern Frederick County. High spots of western Loudoun County toward leavittsville, parts of the panhandle of west virginia. Anywhere you see the pink here thats where we could have some icing. Its all rain in the metro area right now. Thats where its going to stay. Warm front is coming our way. Its going to be way warmer tomorrow. Temperatures tomorrow 20 degrees warmer than this afternoon. Huge warmup, but brief, coming our way for tomorrow. Going out on your saturday night, plan on it being cold and wet. Temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s. Future Weather Forecast any opportunities for sleet will fade away by late this morning. Here kochls the scomes the leading edge by late this afternoon. Course of the evening and overnight hours. We could even ring out a couple of drops early tomorrow morning before the warmer air really wins out and it may even see a touch of sunshine tomorrow. Your sevenday then. 43 today, cold rain. 62 tomorrow. Most of those drops are early tomorrow. Well be dry and mild then turning much colder monday and really cold temperatures only at or above the freezing mark on wednesday and thursday and highs in the 20s thursday. Overnight lows Single Digits and teens by late in the week. So soak in that oneday warmup for tomorrow. All right. Chuck, thanks so much. We did just get new information. We know there are a lot of road closures across Montgomery County right now. Also getting word of a situation where someone hit some black ice. This is out in the clarksburg area and they drove off the road and ran into a house. Were working on getting you the images and latest on that. Going through a digital app you can see a handful of road closures in Montgomery County until they can be treated with the salt trucks. Well keep our eyes on that. A stabbing blocks away from the white house. What were learning about the victim. Liquor sales are big business on new years eve. Back at 9 25. You could start the new year richer if you played the d. C. Lottery lottery, and have the winning numbers. 17 27 37 40 53 and the powerball number was 35. The Ticket Holder of that 1 million ticket matched the winning numbers but not the power ball number. D. C. s fourth distillery will open this month. What could be better than drinking something that is made on your doorstep . Tom sherwood takes a look at 18 northwest washington. Reporter alcohol is big business in the district. Bars and restaurants opening everywhere. And adding to the mix are industrial places like 18 a new distill distillery having its grand opening next week. Vodka, rock creek white whiskey and well begin aging our rock creek rye whiskey and burr born bourbon whiskey and start making our gin. Reporter fourth distillery in addition to several beer breweries remaking the citys booze market adding new jobs and opportunities. Green hat gin are in a warehouse around the corner. Sandy wood is ceo and cofounder of 18. Its a nationwide trend, Craft Movement where people are interested in creating and participating in the things that they consume. So were very much a part of that. Reporter setting up expensive. And time consuming. 18 has been at it for more than a year before opening its doors next week. Why the name one eight . It refers to article i, section 8 of the constitution the provision that allowed for the establishment of a district to serve as the nations capital. Were d. C. Proud. We wanted to be part of the city. Were definitely a renaissance in this neighborhood as well as the city as a whole. Reporter in the district tom sherwood news 4. And with more jobs and cheap gas prices you could say 2014 ended on a high note. Will it carry over into this new year . The Economic Relief experts say you can look forward to. The celebration for d. C. s new mayor, Muriel Bowser continues today. What constituents say should be top priority as d. C. Enters a new chapter. Keep your umbrella handy today. Showers are in the forecast and so is 60degree weather. Meteorologist chuck bell i