Youve got your coat on. But it must feel nice out there, huh . Reporter it does. It feels nice definitely for this time of year. Were expecting it to get warm later. Weve done a study about the ideal temperatures for running. 49 51 degrees for Long Distance runs. This is a 5k run with a valentines day theme. A lot of people still want to be out there. They say this is actually ideal for them. Once you get going, its just off you go. You remember what we were doing five years ago today . I think snow ma geddon. Where is the snow . We need the snow. Thats the fun part of winter. Reporter oh indeed it is for some people. Flashback five years, this very day we were digging out of about 11 inches of snow. Two storms hit that day and that was indeed snow ma get done. A total of 32 inches of snow that february five years ago. This year looking at record warm temperatures and ideal time for this race which is already under way. Youre going to encounter street closures in arlington, but only for a couple hours. Its going to be warmer later tonight. Makes everything okay. We are live in arlington. Derrick ward news 4. Enjoy it derrick, thanks. A Prince Georges County man is behind bars for allegedly killing his neighbor. Rudolph phelps is accused of killing 51yearold karen siegman. Officer found her body while doing a welfare check on her on friday. People who live there are shocked. So a Pleasant Place to live for so long. Im kind of frightened to be here. The thing is shes with god now. Shes in peace. Phelps is now charged with first a developing story right now. The United Arab Emirates is joining jordan in the fight against isis. The uae sent a squad rant of f16 fighters to jordan to take part in air strikes against the militant g. Jordan stupd up air strikes after isis released a video showing a captured jordanian pilot being burned to death in a cage. The war s f at home. The family of a captured american aid worker remains hopeful. The white house says theres still no evidence to support the claims that Kayla Mueller was killed. Theres skepticism over claims that Kayla Mueller was killed in a Jordanian Air strikes. U. S. Officials say theyve her parents say this news leaves us concerned, yet were still hopeful kayla is alive. In a statement to her captors, they said we have sent you a private message and ask that you respond to us privately adding you told us that you treated kayla as your guest. As your guest, her safety and wellbeing remains your responsibility. Im sure that the family is reeling for answers and the community as well. Muell was kidnapped in august 2013. According to the aid Group Doctors without borders, she had just left one of its hospitals in syria and was headed to a bus station in aleppo to travel back to turkey when she was captured. Her College Professor remembers her. She was not naive. She was a fully informed scholar and activist and walked in and let me say it with eyes wide open. I am in solidarity with the syrian people. Reporte mueller is passionate about helping victims of syrias civil war telling her hometown newspaper for as long z i live i will not let this suffering be normal. Her compassion has deeply touched this community which is why today so many are praying for kayla. And that was joe fryer reporting. Virginia is considering expanding its offender dna database. State lawmakers are considering three bills that would require offenders with certain miss meade norse zu submit a dna sample. The county sheriff supports the legislation saying quote n the Hannah Graham case, if jesse meyer is found virginia became the first state to establish a dna data back in 1989. New york became the first state to expand its data bank to include all misdemeanors in 2012. Two cos ins are in jail after police say they went on a twoweek shooting spree. Austin kerr and his 18yearold cousin christopher face ag string of vandalism and gun charges. The Stafford CountySheriffs Office says last month they randomly shot at eight homes. Tips helped track them to a hotel in north Stafford County yesterday. In the week ahead, Virginia GovernorTerry Mcauliffe is expected to make a Major Economic development announcement. This w tomorrow at 8 00 a. M. At Inova Fairfax hospital. The proposed bell time changes could be voted on at tuesdays evening, letting High School Students start later in the day. The son of the late marion barry is expected in court on friday. Christopher barry is charged with simple assault, threats and other charges over an angry outburst at a bank in chinatown. Hes running to fill his fathers ward 8 seat. You may have to pay to send your kids to full day kindergarten in Loudoun County public school. The school board asked Virginia State lawmakers for the authority to charge a fee. Right now the county offers part time kindergarten. Loudown is one of the counties that doesnt require full day kindergarten. Right now the power is back on at Pentagon City mall and doors open at 11 00 a. M. Dominion virginia crews restored the power overnight. The outage forced people to leave the mall creating a real traffic mess. Dominion says there was an equipment malfunction under ground that caused the outage. Bruce jenners deadly crash. The olympian and reality tv star involved in a Chain Reaction accident. What police are looking into that could explain what he was doing behind the wheel before that accident. Nice and comfy. A good way to describe how the day is shaping up. Dont get too used to it. Chuck bell timing out when an arctic blast will settle back in. Dont give up yet. Dont let those new years facing legal trouble days before she was found unconscious in a bathtub in her atlanta home. Nbc news confirms there was a warrant issued for the 21yearold late last month for failing to appear in court for driving with expired tags. The warrant has since been dismissed. The only daughter of Whitney Houston and bobby brown was found face down and not breathing in a bathtub nine days ago. Shes been in a medically induced coma ever since. Right now the l. A. County Sheriffs Department is trying to obtain a search warrant to determine if bruce jenner was textth just before this deadly multivehicle crash. One woman died in yesterdays accident. Jenner was driving one of four vehicles involved. The former olympian was not hurt. Police say jenner was being followed by papai before the crash but not being chased. They also say jenner passed a sobriety test. Im storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. We have clouds to contend with fi thing this morning. Theyre not going to stand in the way of a bigtime warmup today. 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Reporte 42yearold angela can come up with any number of reasons why she doesnt work out every day. Its really hard. There are so many other things competing for your time. Theres always Something Else you could be doing. Reporte angelas excuses probably sound familiar e specially this time of year when many people resolve to lose weight and or exercise more. After a few weeks of trying people tend to give up. In fact one study found that just 8 of people who make resolutions succeed. I think one good thing that happens is people set goals that are way too lofty. Im going to go on a diet im going to lose ten pounds a month, im going to exercise every day. Its very very difficult to achieve those. Reporter janet is a clinical psychologist and life coach in fairfax county. She says good habits dont happen overnight. They take time to develop. According to a study out of england, the average time was 66 days. But for some it took more than eight months. People dont like change. We are creatures of habit and were used to doing what we do. Making any change takes a very long time and with any kind of glitch or stress in your life its very easy to go back to the old way of doing things. Reporter but she says there are keys to making habits stick. Most importantly make gradual changes. As you change habits gradually, you can really incorporate them and feel like theyre part of you. As you do it gradually and slowly you can add things more and more and they become automatic. Repor f example, it may be unrealistic to go to the gym every day if you havent been going at all. Maybe start with just three times a week. If you dont accomplish that goal she says dont beat yourself up. Focus on the positives. So instead of focusing oh i didnt exercise three times this week i did exercise twice this week. Thats better than the week before. Reporter she also says be specific and organized. Mark goals on your calendar so you cannot only make a schedule but track your progress. Angela says to kickstart her exercise habit, she and her friends started a running streak. The idea is starting on thanksgiving day and ending on new years day you commit to running at least a mile every day. Reporter angela says it taught her not to make excuses for skipping her workouts. It teaches you to reboot your own assumptions of what you can do. Reporte right now new england is bracing for yet another major snowstorm. Taking a live look at rochester, new york where more than a foot of snow could fall today. Hard to see through the camera shot there. Take a look at this new video that we just got into the newsroom of the snow falling in albany. Right now parts of new england are under a winter storm warning, chuck saying the snow is going to get more intense later today. The snow is expected to fall through tomorrow night. Its true. It started snowing and it will keep on snowing. What did you say earlier . The snowman in worcester, mass will last until april . Thats right. They had 33 inches of snow right after the super bowl and its continued to snow there. I was born in worcester. Another 12 to 15 inches of snow between now and tuesday. This is what they expect . They live in new england, everybody. For us five years ago today was snow ma get done. Derrick ward was talking about it. Not for us this time around. Weve had a hard time getting snow in washington this winter only a couple of inches so far. Keep hope alive snow lovers. Cold air is coming back later in the week. First ingredient to making snow first thing weve got to have is the cold air. Starting on friday and saturday it will be cold s the view outside. Planes coming down river today. If youre going out, the planes coming right over your head on their way down. Great pictures on my twitter account. This is from greg in Calvert County a beautiful sunrise. A little duck out there for a morning swim. Yesterday morning was the big winner for sunrise and sunset pictures. Jim got this one over the occoquan river. You can send your pictures im on twitter chuck bell. For now a mild day for a nice change. Temperatures today likely to be the mildest weve been in more than a month. If we make it to 60 degrees today, it will be our warmest day in january since we reached 67 back on january 4th. Right now its chilly outside. 40 degrees with a light southwest wind averaging only three miles per hour. Temperatures are a couple degrees warmer than yesterday. Check out fredricksburg. Youre 19 degrees warmer now than you were yesterday morning at this same tim youre already up into the 50s. Upper 40s in st. Marys county. Mid 30s towards Frederick County and the panhandle of wch wch. With so much warm air so close by im confident in the warmup today. Your hometown forecast in mcclaine virginia near 60 degrees. Clouds back tonight, temperatures in the 40s on your way to work and school. Showers likely off and on especially tomorrow afternoon. Still relatively mild tomorrows temperatures in the 50s as well. Planning out your sunday afternoon, delightfully mild. Those are the best words to describe today. A mix of clouds and sunshine. Temperatures in the upper 50s to 60 degrees for much if not all of the afternoon. Winter storm warnings across new york and new england. Thats part of anti cog weather story for them. If we were cold enough wed be calling it an Alberta Clipper and looking at a little snow chance. Its still technically an Alberta Clipper, but not cold enough to snow. Just a couple light rain showers tomorrow. 8 00 this morning, temperatures are rising as the clouds retreat farther and farther up to the north. Clouds come right back in on us overnight tonight, wakeup temperatures tomorrow morning generally the low 40s. Pretty mild by february standards. 59 today. Cloudy skies and raindrops to contend with on your monday. Not as much of an impact on the morning commute as the afternoon. Then breezy and cooler weather returns tuesday, wednesday. Arctic air on friday. Friday 13th and valentines day bitter cold and windy. Soak in the warmth today. Get ready to snuggle. The grammys come on tonight. What experts say could hurt one stars chances of winning and the newcomer proving to be tough competition. Im nbcs mark murray. Im carrie dan. We learned quite a few things about the emerging 2016 president ial contest. The first thing we learned, both Chris Christie rand paul had pretty rough weeks. Thats right. It started with their answers and then walkbacks to questions about vaccinations given the recent outbreak of measles. We also saw a big speech jeb bush delivered where he clearly has his eyes on a general election audience more than a primary one. What was significant about the speech he embraced much of the language and the playbook that his brother george w. Bush n his successful bid for president in 2000. Hillary clinton looks more like a white house recumbent running for reelection than your traditional president ial candidate. Shes brought in obamas key personnel and White House Communications direc tonight musics best and brightest will be honored at the 57th annual grammy awards. The top award may come down to a superstar versus a newcomer. Nbcs mike wilbur has more on the top predictions. Its a faceoff between grammy veteran beyonce. Drunk in love reporter and newcomer sam smith. Stay with me reporter its too close to call for album of the year. Billboards joe leavy thinks beyonces album release on itunes may hurt her chance for winning. It sold great but the songs didnt get promoted to radio in the same way. Sam smith is such a big story, new artist were excited about his success. Hes nochl nated in all four major categories. Look for him to edge out iggy azalea for best new artist. Hes perfect he doesnt think sam will win the highly anticipated record of the year. Its between cia and taylor swift. Taylor swift is the easy choice. Cia is smart choice. Reporter while at the nbc experience store joe told us he doesnt think taylor will be taking home many statues. Reporter her single shake it off is nominated because it came out during the grammy eligibility period. The rest of the songs which have dominated the billboard charts came out after the grammy eligibility period for this year and so they will be nominated next year. Reporter all eye also certainly be on the performances madonna, Ariana Grande lady gaga and tony bennett will hit the stage. The grammy tradition of mixing the old and the young will be upheld with tony bennett and lady gaga. Thats a performance im looking forward to. Reporter mike wilbur nbc news. A tragic story in georgia where police say a man tried to kill his entire family. Why police are calling it the worst crime scene that theyve seen in years. Communication problems still a major concern after metros deadly underground eme tell you why training is coming into question. Chuck is tracking spring like temperatures for today, but not so fast. Later on hes timing taking a look at our top stories this morning, the power is back on at Pentagon City mall. The outage forced people to leave the mall creating a traffic mess. The cruel cold winter is giving us another break to the tune of near 60degree weather. Right now looking at temperatures starting to climb. Chuck bell has his eyes on the radar and is already see