Clouds will be thickening later this afternoon. Highs today only around 28 to 30 degre degrees. Chopper 4 over the out hear loop between the toll road and 2. This is where we had report of slick spots. Nothing falling from the sky. There was a vehicle fire earlin morning, putting water on the road. Now it is icing over. A warning if youre headed out soon. Westbound 70 after 75, vehicle fire with the left lane getting by this morning. Right now the routes looking fine. Well take a look at 66 coming up. It is brutally cold out there. Today is the day to stay inside. Many of you dont have that luxury. Some people have to get to work. News 4s chuck finc gas station in alexandria where people say its a whole different kind of cold. Reporter this is more than nuisance cold. Let me tell you, its brutal out here. The kind of cold that makes even filling your tank a tough task. Trust me, if youre coming out today, youll want to put on your heavy coat. In the teens. It feels much colder. If youre lucky enough to be driving today, crank your car up, let it run outside safely for you as well. Also, once youre on the roads, also take it easy because vdot crews we know for sure will be out salting we lost justins live shot. Well try to get that signal back and get that report back to you as soon as you can. Crews from virginia, Northern Virginia pretreating the roads today too many problems when the sleet and snow start falling tomorrow. The fire that forced a Montgomery County family out of their home into the bitter cold, the blaze on Sea Island Court in Silver Spring happened about 1 00 this morning. At times the water was turning to ice. They were able to get it out. Crews had a salty area because of the water that was used as well. Weve been telling you for the last week now, it is brutally cold out there. Dangerously kwoeld. Some schools are starting late because of it. In West Virginia grant county schools are on a twohour delay for extreme cold. Elk Garden School in Mineral County is on a twohour delay today. Snow is falling and its a big problem across the country. This is a view west of syracuse. Basically blizzard conditions. The snow is creating whiteout conditions. Theres also dangerously strong winds there. The weather is having a Ripple Effect on travel. Were keeping an eye on airports around our area. At Reagan National airport, six cancellations so far. There have also been six cancellaons at dulles airport. There are no delays or cancellations at bwi marshall. If youve got to nbc washington app, set the weather section as your home page and make that your starter page in your settings, really easy. Youll need it this weekend. Six metro workers are off the job for falsifying track inspection records. This happened right before a Train Derailment near the East Falls Church metro station in july. Completely intolerable. No one was hurt in that derailment. More than two dozen metro employees are facing disciplinary action for that incident. Metro is cutting off Late Night Service for two years. We told you earlier this week metros Board Members dropped their opposition to the plan. They say its not what they want, but metro gm says it is what the system needs. The president elect told pennsylvania see you in four years. Now hes heading south on his thank you tour. He will be in orlando today. At the speeches trump is talking about the plan for his presidency. Lawmakers are looking back at the election and the reports russia played a part. They Say Something has to be done. Whether you attack us by a mig or a mouse, its an attack. It requires a president obama said in an interview on npr the u. S. Will take actions against russia. Well have live coverage of when the president holds his end dch oftheyear News Conference before the first family departs for their Family Vacation in hawaii. Theres more work ahead for the jury that convicted Charleston Church shooter dill van roof. Theyll return to Court Next Month to see if the 22yearold will be sentenced to death or receive life in prison. Roof was convicted on 33 counts yesterday. He admitted to killing nine people last year. The families of those victims and survivors were in court as the guilty verdicts were read. I knew it was going to be guilty, guilty, guilty. I wanted to do everything i had to do to make sure he gets a conviction. That woman you just heard from was one of three her son was among the nine people killed. Roof said he plans to represent himself during the sentencing phase of this trial. This morning, former prorj county jack johnson waking up in a halfway house. He was released from prison after doing time from a public corruption scandal. News 4 got exclusive video of his arrest six years ago. His wife, leslie, was also arrested for hiding evidence. In a phone conversation johnson told her to hide some of the money in her underwear while investigators wereout side the home. Johnson will spend the next seven months at a halfway house. Prosecutors dropped all charges against a hospital employee accused of sexual assault. They arent explaining why. Simon works at United Medical center southeast. He was arrested after a patient said he sexually assaulted her at the hospital. Simon denied th Attorneys Office would not comment. A survivors story. A deadly apartment explosion. A Montgomery County teen on the road to recovery. Hotel war, what it means for this luxury hotel. Saving santa, an believe there is a place where holiday magic is real. Believe there are still more amazing sights to this season. Saving santa, an believe that there are some wonderlands that are in your reach. And believe that this will be your best holiday ever. At nemacolin woodlands resort, we believe in helping you make memories that last a lifetime. 6 11 on this frigid friday morning. Were under a Winter Weather advisory. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell with more on what we can expect. The purple here around the d. C. Metro area, thats a Winter Weather tonight until 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. The blue is a winter storm watch. That goes until noon tomorrow. Thats the area that may have the best chance of seeing small accumulation, sleet, freezing rain or snow. It doesnt take much freezing rain to glaze things over. Certainly on the cold side. Most of your outdoor plans will be dry today. More of the icy mix possible tomorrow morning. For now, lets go to my colleague Lauren Ricketts outside. You dont need me out here to tell you its cold. The good news is we dont have the wind fact tore today. Still, the brutally cold air mass over us right now. Temperatures are in the teens right now. Were at 18 degrees here in d. C. , but you step outside the beltway, temperatures come up from the Single Digits and in the double ds earlier. We have a little windchill. That will relax as we continue through the day today. Certainly cold out here. Make sure youre dressing in lots of layers, although not doing much. Back to melissa, a little slickness on the roadways. Chopper 4 over this problem in Northern Virginia. This is outer loop between the toll road and 123. This is only slick because there was a car fire there overnight. The firefighters put the fire out and put water on the roadway that has now frozen, so a small patch of concern. 66 inbound is fine. 95 northbound, no worries. Nice and green this morning. 270 south from germantown to the spur, top of the beltway, outer loop looking good as well. 95 to 270, its going to take you ten a teenager who survived a deadly apartment explosion in Silver Spring hasnt given up on her dreams. It was seven months ago. 17yearold Bitseat Getaneh was staying with friends. On the first day she moved in, she went to sleep and woke up to the fire. I kept remembering the accident, my time, the nightmares. Its very hard to explain. Its very hard. Im happy because im alive. The teenager made it out alive. But the family she was staying with didnt. Her friends launched a gofundme page to help her pay for her education. We linked that on our nbc washington app. It is 6 14. You have a few more days to sign Affordable Care act. The deadline was extended by four days. Nearly 1 Million People fought to get through to Call Center Operators and logon to buy insurance by last nights midnight deadline. The new deadline for january 1st coverage is now december 19. Today john glenn, the american astronaut and senator will be honored in his home state of ohio. Thousands are expected to brave the bitter cold to view his casket. N Nbcs Jay Gray has more. Reporter good morning. Bitter cold this morning outside the ohio state capital. Still thousands expected to gather in a few hours to say one final goodbye to john glenn. He was a war hero, an astronaut, a senator, even ran for president. This was a man who was an american hero, but he always loved his home state of ohio. This is where he stayed until he passed away j 95. Again, thousands expected to gather here. And then tomorrow at a memorial for john glenn where Vice President joe biden and former president bill clinton are expected to speak. That memorial will be held a few miles away on the campus of ohio state university. Thats the latest from outside the statehouse here in columbus, ohio. Erica, eun, back to you. Breaking news from the live desk. A very busy overnight for fritz. Molette . They battled a second overnight house fire, this one happened in Fairfax County and forced this family out into the cold. Details coming in. This one in annandale on poplar street. Heavy flames came from the home just before 2 00 a. M. They believe it started in the basement of the home. No injuries, but that family cannot go back inside. Eun . Molette grown fr desk, thank you. Virginia congressman done buyer is hoping to delay mondays vote from the electoral college. Hes calling on fellow members of congress to do the same because of reports of interference in the president ial election. Buyer who is a liberal democrat says Congress Must take action to protect the integrity of our democracy. The trump hotel war continues this morning. Questions remain over whether president elect donald trump will drop lawsuits against chefs who have bailed on his hotel restaurants. Another issue is the hotel in the Historic Post Office opinion. If trump doesnt divest, hell be leasing that space from himself after inauguration day. If foreign governments want to stay there, they have a pipeline to currying favor with the president of the United States. Coming up on the today the trump hotel war thats brewing and what it means going forward. You know that feeling when you get a package at the door or dessert arrives at your table . Now were revealing how all that happens. Our susan hogan is working for you during this Holiday Shipping crunch time. Reporter fedex in alexandria, massive. Hundreds of thousands of packages that are go going to go through here. Let me show you this vast space. Look at this conveyor belt. This is just an amazing system that they have here and the most amazing thing to me is how they track it. Joining us right now is tony. Youre the spokesperson for fedex here. How do they track this . How do these packages not get lost . A 12 scans throughout our system. Each one tells us the specific place it is, whether its a city thats its in, theyre going tore delivery. Youve got airplanes. Its not a system on ground. Fedex has 650 aircraft that fly to 220 countries around the world. We are ready for our peak season. We think weve been prepared for this. Today is Free Shipping friday. Monday is supposed to be the busiest shipping day of the year. Absolutely. Looking to break our record. Its going to be one of the biggest days in fedex history. Thank you very much guys. Were here in alexandria. This is a great place to be. It kind of gets you in the spirit of christmas to see all these packages. One of those could be coming to your doorstep soon. Back to you guys. All right, susan. Showing us the inside peek of that fedex center. Well have more from her later. Looking at you and you are wearing something i had nothing ugly christmas sweaterwise in my closet, so i got my husbands. I got it for him as a joke and now he wears it and loves it. Be careful what you ask for. Now its not that funny because i have to go to Christmas Party with him. Next year youll be like, i dont know how it wound up in the trash. I dont keep ugly sweaters. National ugly christmas sweater day. We want to see your ugly sweaters if you happen to be wearing them today. Tweet us your pictures. Melissa, you have yours on. Chuck, you dont have one. Thats because youve been so busy working i would be less credible if i id be like melissa. Now, now. You are 100 credible melissa mollet. Oh, thank you. The main issue today is the cold. Any threat of any wintery precipitation, thats about 24 hours away from now. So just get your self ready for the day. The feelslike factors out there, feels like zero in gaithersburg, one above in martinsburg. Fortunately the wind is not anywhere near as strong now as it was yesterday. It will come back around to the south, but again, it will not be gusting. Yesterday, 51mileperhour gusts at national airport. Hourly temperatures with increasing clouds will inch our way back into the upper 20s, to around 30 degrees downtown. Light southerly breezes for today. After a fridge it start, stay ahead of the weather by following me on facebook and twitter. Most of the mess tomorrow will be early in the day tweefr 3 00 in the morning and 9 00, 10 00 tomorrow morning. After that, this goes back to light rain. Most of the afternoon, just an occasional shower. Not expecting a lot of rain tomorrow. A couple of dry hours on your saturday afternoon. Sunday is a different story. Rain likely from sunup to sundown. Could get more than an inch. The good news about sunday, it will be mild. Temperatures up near 60 degrees. Those temps look pretty good. Outer loop wean the toll road and 123. There was a car fire here a couple hours ago. Now water on the roadway has froze. Northbound bw parkway, that crash out of the way all lanes open. Westbound 70 vehicle fire. Northbound branch at sur rats, 66, 95 in virginia looking good. Slow spot, 95 northbound through woodbridge. Massive breach, the new impact of the yahoo security hack. A motorcyclist killed, a family taking the d. C. Police department to court. Once again, this wondrous thing called luck shines on a new day. Where will it shine today . Who will feel its embrace . No one knows for sure. But one thing is certain its arrival is as inevitable as dawn. Some little patients at Childrens NationalMedical Center got a special christmas treat. Santa claus himself paid a visit to the young patients. He video chatted while his elves showed up to deliver early presents. Santa is a busy man. Whats special about this particular santa, he knows what theyre going through. He made a recovery of his own after a heart attack this time last year on the job. I said make sure they take me out the back door so the children dont see me. Santa with his recovery. As he continues to checkup, the elves are on hand to continue to make the kids smile. The best gift ever. Leading the nation, d. C. Police take a new step in monitoring you on the street. Home destroyed. Breaking news overnight as flames erupt in Montgomery County. Were live on the scene next. Reporter certainly chilly out here this morning. Cold air in place. Winter weather advisories, winter storm watches across our area. Maybe a little snow, freezing rain and rain all co he wears his army hat, he gets awalks aroundliments. With his army shirt looking all nice. And then people just say, thank you for serving our country and im like, thats my dad. Male vo no one deserves a warmer welcome home. Thats why were hiring 10,000 members of the military community by the end of 2017. Im very proud of him. Male vo comcast. A Deadly Police shooting and a family seeking justice zbr more body cameras, how it could change the police force in our nations capital. Breaking overnight, fire fight. The cold weather has an impact on the battle to put out flames devouring a ho your time is 6 30. Good morning. Im eun yang. Im Erika Gonzalez in for erin gilchrist. Were talking cold and ice for your weekend. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell here with what you need to know. Youve got to get through the morning. It is a bone chilling start to the day. Feelslike temperatures down to zero this morning. Clouds increasing quickly. First thing you need to know about the weather, that is cold. Well stay below freezing today. Still an increasing chance for icy threats early tomorrow morning. The computer is updating its latest run now. Ill show you that at 6 51. Not a lot of precipitation tomorrow. A different story on sunday. Sunday could be super soggy with temperatures near 60 degrees. All that rain sunday might have a little bit of a refreeze issue to deal with first thing monday morning. Mollet. New problem on metro, orangeblue line delays to vienna and franconia. Outer loop between the toll road and 123, chopper 4 over this. We have icing on the roadway because of a car fire overnight. Sprayed it with water. That froze because of the low temperatures. 66 is okay. 95 northbound slow in woodbridge and a bit north of woodbridge as well. Northbound branch avenue at sur ra