Windchill temperatures now, coldest windchill gaithersburg, 11 below zero. Only 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour. Dulless windchill 9 below zero. Washington feels like just zero. Windchills in Prince Georges County down to 5 below zero. Subzero windchills for the next few hours. And our temperatures are down to Single Digits most locations to 10 nearby suburbs. Around the bay, mid teens. For students boarding buses later today, still be cold in the teens with the breezing kegging up mid morning with bright sunshine. Next weather and traffic on the 1s at 5 11. Hour by hour cold temperatures through the day ahead. Melissa, whats going on . All these folks on the outer loop, no problem. Looking quite good. Prince georges county everything into and out of town moving quite nicely. 66, 95 in virginia, no problems. We did get a tweet about the express lanes not being open yet. One of our followers northbound at stafford. We looked on the web site. Theyre closed right now. Should be open by this point this morning. 270 at clarksburg road that looking good as well. No major issues into or out of town. Looking quite good in a couple of minutes. Take a live look at 95. Trying to figure out the express lane situation. Im back then. Thank you, melissa. We are in a deep freeze this morning. It will be another day of crunching your heels on the ice covered sidewalks and letting that wind push you from point to point. Make sure you put on the full ensemble. That means your coat hats, gloves, scarves, double layers, everything you have. We are in dumfries now. Megan, we know youre an expert. You have one of your great hats on. People there with you to brave the cold all night. Whats this about . Reporter yeah. We have people out here participating in a contest with chickfila. They have a new branch that opened up. The first 100 people in line when they open their doors at 6 00 a a. M. They get chicken for a year. And look at all the people who have stayed the night out here. I checked on my phone a little while ago. It is only 10 degrees here in dumfries. So extremely cold. As you can see, these folks have been spending the night, sleeping in tents and chairs, including tony here. Talk about how cold its been. Well, its about 10 degrees. We have a space heater. Another space heater that failed. Plenty of propane tanks which i learned are refillable to help the environment. Chicken is part of a balanced diet. A big shoutout from my friends from college. She didnt show up. Its probably too cold for her. So talk about how people have been bonding together here in the cold and what you have been doing. Have you been able to go inside and warm up a little . Well, bathroom breaks. Then they let you go in for dinner. And then they gave you if you posted a picture online they gave you a little coupon that allowed you to stay for 15 minutes. I posted three pictures so i went in for 45 minutes and donated one. An elderly man, they were giving tickets to him so he could stay in there longer. Everybody has to come in. I think they can be as nice as they can with conditions being what they are. Worth it . Oh, of course. A buddy and i are splitting them down the middle. Thats 26 each. It takes a long time to eat 52 meals at chickfila. Thank you for joining us. Get back into your warm heated tent. Its pretty amazing. Tony came prepared. Heres some of his propane. His little heater and that sort of thing. While it is cold out here, people did know and plan ahead. Folks seem to be in good spirits. Back to you guys in the studio. All right. Megan mcgrath live out there in dumfries for us. I love chicken, but come on. Not that much. Because of todays dangerous cold, the districts cold emergency plan in effect. Warming centers to help the homeless. A cold emergency is issued when the windchill is 20 degrees or below. The cold emergency plan will remain in effect through tomorrow morning. Remember, you can get the latest cold weather alert and your forecast on your phone with the nbc washington app. It is now 5 06. We just received word from Montgomery County schools that schools are opening on time today. Montgomery county schools are opening on time. There are still a number of closings and delays. If you live in fairfax prince william, or arlington, your kids can sleep in for a little bit. Schools are opening two hours later. In Loudoun County, closed. Also closed is Frederick County virginia Clarke County and Winchester City schools. Warren county, fauquier and spotsylvania and alexandria two twohour delays. Manassas and Manassas Park delayed two hours. Maryland anne arundel and washington counties, twohours delays. Headlamp shire is closed. Hardy, Morgan Jefferson county schools opening two hours late. Watch the bottom of your screen and download the full list of School Closings and delays. Developing out of france this morning, were learning new information about a paris suburb. The two people shot are a Police Officer and street sweeper. Boat have serious injuries. After 8 00 a. M. Local time, the officers stopped to investigate a traffic accident. For more on the investigation into the mass shooting, lets go todan at the live desk. An all out manhunt for the two brothers. It is prompting concern because as the two men remain at large, who knows what they can be up to. Photos have been circulated across france and the world. Two of the three men who attacked the satirical magazine charlie hebdo. An 18yearold man turned himself in in northeastern france. The three men accused of attacking the magazine known for satirical depictions of islam and others. One of the brothers is known to french police. He has been charged with criminal association related to a terrorist enterprise. Back in 2005, he was arrested. He served some time. After he got out of jail thats when, according to authorities he left france and went to iraq to join islamist militants there. So again, this manhunt is under way in france. Right now there are high level cabinet meetings to discuss the shooting that just happened this morning. It is also a national day of mourning. At noon local time, a moment of silence observed throughout the country. Eun and aaron . Thank you richard. Experts identified the one thing you might be doing too early when securing your child in the car. One nba team is giving a new meaning to pickup basketball. How they are using a dating app to lure fans to the game. It is freezing outside right now. Its only going to get colder. Its 5 09. Negative 8 degrees here in the tinley town. Storm team 4 meteorologist thats the windchill, i should say. Tom kierein welcome back at 5 11. 10 degrees outside our studios. We are warning people again today just how unbelievably bitterly cold its going to be. Tom just tweeted the negative temperatures for windchills. Tom this is not pretty out there. Old man winter has us in his cold hands and a grip of subzero windchills. Windchills will stay below zero between now and 8 00 this morning. Winds are still blustery. Not as strong as they were later yesterday and overnight. Our temperatures are digits nearby suburbs. Near the bay, mid and upper teens. 8 00 a. M. Still 10. By noon upper teens. Still a blustery wind. Bright sunshine, though. Clouds roll in by 5 00 p. M. By then, hovering around 20 degrees. A look at how much longer this cold snap will last next weather and traffic on the 1s coming up at 5 21. How are the roads, 95 in virginia here at dale city, northbound southbound looking just fine. Inner and outer loop at st. Barnabas looking quite good. Bw parkway into and out of town, no major problems. 270 north and south, at of green. A lot of movement. 5 13 now. Your childrens car seat may be facing the wrong way. Threequarters of parents turn their car seat facing forward too early. That is not part of the updated guidelines. Rear facing should be 1 year to 20 pounds to a minimum of 2 years or until the child has grown the seat. 25 of parents were turning the seat before their childs first birthday. It is recommended to keep it until the child is 2. Reshaping the district over the next 10 years. Stay with us. You dont want to go outside just yet. It is 10 depress outside with windchills well below zero in many places. 5 14 right now. Disturbing details a florida father now in custody accused of throwing his 5yearold daughter over a bridge and into the tampa bay. Someone tried to resuscitate her but it was too late. An officer on his way home spot at a vehicle speeding past him 100 Miles Per Hour. The man got out of the car grabbed the little girl, throw her over the bridge, then get back in the car and leave. Another Police Officer was able to catch up with with that driver. He is believed to be the little girls father. Police do not know why he would do Something Like this. Thats the later today, we could learn whether d. C. Will be the choice to host the summer olympics 10 years from now. The district is up against three other american contenders. United States Olympic Committee will be meeting in denver today. Its also considering boston, san francisco, and los angeles for the bid for the united states. Members are expected to announce their decision when this meeting is over today. We dont know exactly how theyre evaluating these candidates. You might remember sports figures political leaders made this video in hopes they would help to make their case. It is fun to imagine what the olympics would mean for our area, like a new stadium, for example. But even if d. C. Is chosen today, its going to be a long time before we have an idea about whether it has a real hope for the olympic games. The international Olympic Committee will announce its finalist spring of 2016. The final winner wont be chosen until september 2017. You can make sure you have the nbc washington app. We will spend you breaking news alert as soon as that decision is announced. D. C. Street cars are still testing. There have been a few issues. Take a look. One hit a car last night. No one was hurt. You can see the damage on the cars bumper in the back. Police and vdot have not told us who they believe is at fault. This is the systems second crash in five days. A street car hit a car on h and 6th street northeast. No one was hurt in that incident either. The street cars do not appear to be damaged in either of those crashes. The system is expected to open for passengers by the end of the month. New this morning north korea is threatening war over the latest round of sanctions imposed by the u. S. In a statement from that country they said that america has never experienced a hail of bullets and shells on its own territory. The u. S. Hit the north in sanctions for its cyber attack on sony. North korea denied it carried out that attack. 500 Health Workers have been killed by the ebola virus. 800 were also affected by the virus. The epidemic continues to spread across sierra leone begin cancer and liberia. 20,000 people have been sick and killed 8,000 people. The new numbers show doctors and nurses working at Ebola Treatment Centers are among those at highest risk. Funerals and burials are still a source of disease transmission. Take a look at this 40car pileup in michigan. State Police Say People were driving too fast in whiteout conditions on u. S. 31 near grand rapids. No serious injuries reported though. At least 17 cars and multiple tractor traived in a deadly pileup on i80 in western pennsylvania. Whiteout conditions caused this crash. Plans were overwhelmed. A bus had to be brought in to take 15 people to the hospital. 30 people were injured in that wreck. It is just an awful thing. In this wintertime weather you have to have your wits about you all the time. Waeug waking up in bowie it is negative 1. I dont want to see negative anything. We are check anything with weather and traffic weather and traffic on the 1s at 5 21. It is enough to call this a weather alert day. We will have updates with this dangerously cold weather in place through much of the day ahead. The winds have diminished a bit. But we still have a big area under windchill advisories. All the counties in blue. Our windchills are now zero to 10 below zero. Winds gusting 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour. Windchills around the metro is zero in washington. Gettingers burg, 10 below. Dulles wind chill 9 below zero. Temperatures there, 7 degrees. 7 in gaithersburg. 10 in clinton. Lorton quantico 10 degrees. 12 in washington. Single digits in the shenandoah valley. Below zero out in the mountains. Thats just the air temperature. Most roads dry for the morning commute. Well be in the lope teens with bright sunshine. Youll need your sunglasses. Its only going to be in the low 20s for the afternoon commute. Keep up with a storm team 4 weather app. Tomorrow, well finally get above freezing as we get into friday afternoon. This is saturday actually for some reason i got the wrong fourday forecast. Well, ill get that fixed. It looks like it will stay cold into the weekend. Our storm team 4 the nbc 4 health and fitness fair saturday. Cold. Youll want to be inside for the nbc 4 Health Fitness fair saturday and sunday. Ill get this sevenday outlook straightened out and show that to you next update next weather on the 1s at 5 31. How about the roads melissa . 650 at Georgia Avenue in front of the post office a crash taking up one lane here this morning. Outer loop indian head highway the left lane blocked. 270 at montrose road, nice and clear. 66 heading into town, out of town, looking good. 95 in virginia here at mine road everything looking good northbound and southbound. We were getting complaints about the express lanes gates not being up. You with hear that is because of the cold weather. They are now open and running normally just in time for rush hour. Back in 10 minutes. Thank you, melissa. 5 24. Retailers in virginia are making sure they dont sell tobacco to minors. A survey shows 91 of retailers were not selling to youth under the age of 18. The Inspection Program is a federal mandate. Each state needs to record a rate of Tobacco Sales to minors of no more than 20 . The Virginia Department of Developmental Services said it has been couple pliant since the 1990s. Two leading cancer organizations, the American Association for Cancer Research and American Society of clinical herbed a statement to the fda. They are asking for proof of age requirements for sales. Well it could be another way to get you interested in sports. During last nights atlanta hawk game, fans were invited to use the popular app tinder to make love connections during the game. Apparently thats how people meet up these days. They called it swipe right night if youre both interested, it creates a match. Hawks and tinder were trending on twitter. Some people tweeted meeting their tinder matches at the game. These are complete strangers, though. Too close. Wouldnt you talk for a little while . I guess you can say it eliminates one step. Youre already at the game together. Youre at a public space. Just because youre meeting someone for the first time. Good point. The hawks made it work for them in terms of creating a buzz, right . It works for them. 10 degrees outside our studios. Coming up one metro area isnt where it used to be when it comes to educating your children. Well show you how the rankings slipped. The cold and your car. News 4 is working for you to protect you on the roads. What you need to know before warming up the car in these subfreezing temperatures. The gallery place metro station. Be sure to bundle up. Right now you are waking up to dangerous cold temperatures. Just 10 degrees outside our studios. Chino town metro in city center d. C. It feels like negative 1 degrees in the district right now. It is so cold i cant even get the grammar right. It throws everything off. Usually you cant tell from the live pictures but it looks cold. You can feel it. It is really cold. Good morning to you. Im eun yang. Lets turn to storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein to see how it may warm up today. Not much. Layer up. Youll need a hood, hat, scarves, gloves. Wear your thermal socks. Bright sunshine when the sun bounces off the snow. Temperatures Single Digits. Most of the region in western maryland. Oakland is 6 below zero. Subzero windchills through 8 00 this morning. Heres the correct fourday forecast. Afternoon highs in the low 20s. Hovering near 20 degrees tonight. Maybe a few flurries friday morning. Blustery wind tomorrow afternoon. Well get some melting of the snow. It freezes right back up on friday night. Mid teens saturday morning. Saturday sunny, cold. Temperatures in the 20s. Great weather to get inside the nbc 4 health and fitness expo. Ill be there late morning. Come on by. I would love to meet you. Saturdays 9 00 to 4 00. Sunday a great day too. Upper 30s in the afternoon. Rain on monday. Wintry mix tuesday and wednesday. Stay tuned. Weather and traffic on the 1s, neighborhood highs at 5 41. How are the roads, melissa . Seeing good volume 95 northbound in virginia through dale city. 27 as you approach city. Now just hearing again that these express lanes gates are down. This is the website keeps changing back and forth. Outer loop, end yann head highway, lots there this morning because of the earlier crash. Looking quite good at this point. 650 Georgia Avenue sundown road that intersection in front of the post office has a crash. Single vehicle crash. Theyre trying to get out of the way. That is flowing just fine. Back in 10 minutes with travel times. Well see you then. If your car is parked outside you could have trouble starting it. Here are tips from aaa. Fill up your gas tank the night before. That will reduce the chance that the water vapor will freeze and block your fuel line. Check your tire pressure. As the temperature drops, the fires deflate a little bit. Check your battery. An old battery will have trouble starting your car in the morning. Top a off your raditifreeze mix and deicing windshield solution as well. Finally, if you find your car door locks have frozen in the morning, dip your ke