Sleet, snow, icy mix is likely between about 3 00 in the morning and 9 00 or 10 00 tomorrow morning. Today is all about the cold. Nonetheless, very ugly way to get your friday morning started. Here is your day planner. Chills down near zero this morning. Not much of a breeze left. Only 28 to 30 degrees, so staying below freezing. Winter weather advisory for the metro area, winter storm watch in the pennsylvania border. More of the timing and results in a few more minutes. For now its traffic time. Brand new problem here, this is what we were talking about, northbound bw parkway. A second crash near 175. Not sure if the two vehicles were involved initially and ended up separating. But you could see a slowdown with the Police Response if youre heading out soon. Inner loop and outer loop of the beltway looking good this no big problems on the beltway. 95 northbound and southbound, no worries. Well take a look at 66 when im back in ten minutes. Breaking news into the newsroom. A fire in Silver Spring. Mollete green has more. This is on Sea Island Court. Take a look at that picture of the burned out house there. Flames came through the roof, roared through the second floor of the home. It was pretty icy out there. That made it tough for the firefighters battling this. Montgomery county fire and ems says the family tried to fight the flames themselves which delayed things a bit. Four people inside, two children, two adults. Fortunately they got out. Eun, back to you. 5 02. We continue our coverage out there with crews up early this morning preparing the roadways. Reporter good morning. Some crews might be resting up at this point. As you can see the salt dome door is open, lots of salt inside. They will be back on the roads today to begin, again, the anti icing process. You may have seen ice out there. In just a few hours, youll likely see vdot trucks out there to clean that up. Crews began, woulding as early as wednesday, jump starting this anti icing process, dropping the salt and brian on state roads. A wentry mix forecast for this weekend, we could see vdot trucks working late into tonight. Also when you see these trucks on the road, you may also see state police. Youre advised to keep your distance, do their jobs to keep the roads safe out there. Of course, all details you need traffic will be on our nbc4 app. Back in to you. Justin finch live at the salt dome. Thank you. Today president obama will hold his final News Conference of 2016 before he and the first family leave for their holiday trip to hawaii. In an interview on npr, the president is already addressing russian interference in the u. S. Election saying in part, quote, we need to take action and we will at a time and place of our own choosing. Donald trump meanwhile fired back at White House Press secretary josh earnest last night after he suggested the president elect stop attacking the u. S. Intelligence community and support the investigation into russian meddling. Josh earnest, i dont know if hes talking to president obama. You know, having the right press secretary is so important because he is so bad the way he delivers a message. Trumps thank you tour continues today in florida. More coming up from news 4s tracie po a he made National Headlines when he entered a d. C. Pizzeria and allegedly started shooting. A hearing is set for later this morning. Welch faces federal charge after a grand jury indicted him. He drove from North Carolina to comet pingpong to investigate a conspiracy children. He wanted to save children he thought were being held captive. Authorities arrested welch after he fired at least one shot there earlier this month. Fortunately nobody was hurt. 5 05. The family of a man shot and killed by a d. C. Police officer is suing the department for 50 milli million. Officer brian trainer shot terrence sterling in september. Authorities say he was drivinger radially and rammed into a police cruiser. The officer said he believed his life was in danger. Sterlings family says he was danger to anyone. Prosecutors are deciding whether to file any criminal charges. Police are asking help in finding 25yearold david walther. He was last seen when he left his home on drum manned avenue. Described as a his mania panic male, 54, 140 pounds. If youve got any information, please call police. In 2010 he was led away from his home in handcuffs. This morning hes waking up in a halfway house. Yesterday former Prince Georges County executive jack johnson was released from prison after doing time for a public corruption scandal. Johnson will spend the next seven months in a Baltimore Area halfway house. He pled guilty to shaking down contractors for large sums of money. News 4 captured exclusive video of his arrest six years ago. His wife lesley was also arrested for in a phone conversation, johnson advised her to hide some of the money in her underwear while investigators were outside their home. An update to a story we told you about last week. Prosecutors have dropped all charges against a hospital employee accused of sexual assault. Marcus simon works at United Medical center in southeast. He was arrested after a patient said he sexually assaulted her at the hospital. Simon denied the charges, and we asked, but the u. S. Attorney ace office didnt comment on why the charges had been dropped. This morning many of you are still trying to figure out how youll deal with the latest changes from metro. Yesterday the board unanimously voted to cut hours to make more time for maintenance. Metro rail service will stop 30 minutes earlier monday through thursday, two hours earlier friday and saturday and one hour earlier sunday. D. C. Leaders acknowledge these cuts will have an impact on the districts economy. Two years is tough to late night hours at 3 00 in the morning. Its to get ahead of the issues before they come up. Need to get into a cycle of doing that. Thats the whole concept. The changes will take effect in july. Today you can go back to that galaxy far, far away. Rogue one is officially in theaters. At the up town in cleveland park, you can see it at 9 30 morning. People stood in line sleeping overnight. This is the first ever star wars spinoff movie. Theres nothing i would want so badly to sit outside especially in these temperatures. Try to see a movie . Huhuh. Apparently this is about plans to steal the death star. A Silver Spring apartment destroyed by that explosion. Her story of recovery. Plus, annoyed by other drivers on the road . Hello, thats all of us. Still ahead, gms new push to get Driverless Cars out on the road. Another look at your temperatures on this very cold weather alert day. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is back with a look a howt zero really can be a hero. Ds get zero down, zero deposit, zero due at signing, and zero first months payment on select volkswagen models. Right now at the volkswagen sign then drive event. At t. J. Maxx, marshalls and homegoods, weve always believed the holidays should be about joy. Where days are filled with magic, not madness. Its why we have amazing prices on thoughtful gifts, everyday. Lets bring back the holidays. Nearly 60 cars involved in a pileup in west virginia. Authorities are blaming whiteout conditions for thursdays wreck. Its tough to believe. Only three people were hurt in all this mess and they only suffered minor injuries. Incredible. On my way to work this morning, cold one and on a cold day. Out this morning you can see salt trucks already driving by outside our condo building, there was already the snow shovels and a bucket of salt. Fabulous. Its all about preparedness. Thats why weve been in weather alert mode for the last couple days as we get the word out there that not only was that big blast of wind and cold arriving yesterday, but still a chance for slipperiness around here early tomorrow morning. Your outdoor planner super cold. Windchills down close to zero. Cold and dry, not much to worry saturday morning, sleet or freezing rain is not a possibility. Sunday will be a different story. Temperaturewise, were near 15 degrees now. Mid 20s by lunchtime and afternoon temperatures only in the upper 20s, around 30 degrees and a peek at the weekend. The main time of concern for your weekend is before noontime tomorrow. Sleet, snow, combination of freezing rain. Temperatures later tomorrow will be in the upper 40s to near 50. Near 60 on sunday. Melissa mollet, dont plan on much sunshine. Sunday is going to be soggy and wet. Temperature looks a little better. It makes me a little happy. Northbound bw parkway, the second crash is out of the roadway, but the response there in the southbound lane is blocking things just a little bit. Well keep an eye on that one, just a tiny bit of a delay this morning. Bottom of the beltway, these routes are fine. 66, a look at county parkway to the beltway will take about nine minutes if youre going about the speed limit. No big worries. 270 northbound and southbound through germantown, father hurley, not a problem. We have breaking news in Silver Spring this morning. Fire crews are investigating a fire at a home here on Sea Island Court. Weve been waiting to get a look from the ground. Our news 4s Megan Mcgrath is there and is our eyes on the scene. Megan . Reporter well, a family of four was forced out into the cold on this frigid night after flames swept their through home on Sea Island Court. Some of the emergency crews just starting to leave the scene as the fire is already out. But the damage, very, very extensive and certainly a very scary situation for this family. Department joins me. What do we know . We believe the family tried to fight the fire a little while before they called us. When firefighters arrived, pretty heavy conditions. They believe the fire started in the bedroom. The smoke alarm did alert the family members, and they attempted to fight the fire, delaying the alarm. Fire conditions essentially through the roof. We called for a second alarm. Brought about 75 firefighters to the scene. This was a tough fire for you all to fight, in part because of the extreme temperatures. Would plan for it but it does make things more difficult. Single digit temperatures, we obviously use water to fight the nair and it immediately turns to ice. Those conditions are pretty treacherous. Fortunately the family did get out. There were no firefighter injuries. It makes it tough. Everything about it, the gear is toh, the good thing is, everybody got out, there were no injuries. That is the good news. The smoke alarms did go off, family got out. No injuries. Megan mcgrath live in Silver Spring, thank you. 5 15. A worsening situation in syria. Mollete green. A second day of evacuations in rebelheld aleppo suspended. Syrian television blaming the rebels saying they opened fire at a cross point. Now were hearing the red cross and the World Health Organization are getting kicked out of the evacuation zone. This is a setback in the plan to get thousands out of eastern aleppo. Thousands left yesterday in a caravan of buses and ambulances. Back to you. Molette, thank you. Today the body of former will lie in repose at the capitol. Glenn died last week at the age of 95. Weve learned more about the train that came apart at the twin burke metro stakes on monday. Metro reveals the high voltage third rail was still energized when passengers had to evacuate the tracks. But the investigation into how it happened still continues. Metro fired six employees in connection with the Train Derailment near the East Falls Church station. D. C. Leads the nation in the number of Police Officers equipped with body cameras. The program expanded since it started more than a year ago. Not every officer in the district will be wearing them. A lot more Police Officers are now wearing body cameras in the nations nearly 1,000 additional Patrol Officers are equipped with the technology. That brings the total number of d. C. Officers wearing cameras to more than 2,600. The program is costing taxpayers about 5 million. Recent Police Involved shootings have raised questions about the program in d. C. The officer who shot and killed terrence sterling while sterling was on his motorcycle did not turn on his camera until after the shooting. Just about every d. C. Police Patrol Officer will be wearing a camera. Undercover and specialty units will not, nor will federal officers such as park police and u. S. Capitol police. General motors wants in on the driverless car craze. The general manager says it will begin testing fully ought ton mouse vehicles in detroit. The Company Plans to build fully autonomous year. Off to an even more frigid start today than we were yesterday. Lets check in with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. The winds have died down. Thats the good news. That is excellent news. Our High Temperature yesterday made it 40 degrees. That occurred just after midnight. Our low for the day yesterday, no big surprise, occurred at 11 59 p. M. Temperatures on the downhill slide pretty much all day yesterday. We will also be dealing with a chance for raindrops before all is said and done. First thing you need to know about the weather for today, the Weather Service has expanded the advisories to include all the washington metro area for early tomorrow morning under a Winter Weather advisory. That goes until 9 00 a. M. The winter storm watch goes until noon tomorrow. Were not expecting a lot of anything. Its just the faskt that any little amount of freezing rain in particular, especially now that everything is completely frozen soli this is the real danger zone here across parts of Northern Maryland. We could get a little glazing in and around the city. Just be very, very careful. If you can delay travel plans until after 10 00, 11 00 on saturday morning, that would be good. We know one thing. It is cold outside. Lauren ricketts has her moon boots on and on our weather deck. I had to take my gloves off so i can press my clicker. It is so chilly. They send me out here to tell me that. You know it. The good thing is maybe what you dont know is we dont have the wind factor today. Still brutally cold, still in the weather alert. Here are the air temperatures right now, coming up little by little. Well top off in the 20s today. As we go through, pretty much Single Digits in wind chills. Feels like eight degrees in d. C. Well improve well definitely improve as we get into the weekend. We have 50s, maybe 60s by the time we get into sunday, but a little blip on the radar before that. Chuck . Here is future weather for you as we get into the day tomorrow. Lets go over to max two. My computer is giving me a little trouble. Cloudy skies tonight. The main area to watch in southern maryland, that could be a brief pogt of freezing rain. That will continue through 8 00 tomorrow morning. The time frame to watch is about 2 00 to 3 00 saturday morning up to about 10 00 or 11 00 saturday morning. Most threat for accumulation will be in Northern Maryland. Here is your fiveday forecast, only near 30 today. Anything coming out of the sky late tomorrow afternoon will be rain. Temperatures close to 60 before more cold air comes early next week. Lets go over to with trouble on the parkway. Northbound 32, a crash in the right lane, a second vehicle involved near 175, thats out of the roadway. The response is in the southbound lanes. No major delay right now. 66 here and 95 looking good. Hearing in my ear about a new problem in maryland. Well talk about that. 270 down to the spur, about 28 minutes. She survived the Silver Spring explosion on her very first night in her new home, but she lost everything she owned. Her a Silicon Valley server farm. The vault to mans greatest wonders. Selfies, cat videos and winking emojis. Speaking of tech wonders, with the geico app you can get roadside assistance, digital id cards. Or even file a claim. Do that. Yeah, yeah that should work. Its not happening. Just try again. Uh, i think i found your problem. 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