Secondary and residential roads and see for yourself. You can see the slushy mix and some potholes or even water puddles, icy puddles. You move to the residential area and it is very spotty. That made for some dangerous conditions. Try to drive safe in the snow. Reporter some drivers did not make it very far this morning after a scary episode in the snow. Several people were taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. A driver lost control, slamming into oncoming traffic causing a fourcar pileup on Fairfax County parkway at Sunrise Valley drive in reston. I skated a couple times, but besides that most of the roads are pretty plowed. Reporter along route 7 in Loudoun County a few drivers ended up in ditches. The neighborhoods are very, very scary. Theyre very i slide all over the place. Main roads are great. The back roads are still a little slippery. Ive got my little baby girl in the back, so im trying to go slow of. Reporter plow Truck Drivers began the day at a bone chilling 13 degrees in whipping winds. The roads were pretty bad this morning. Reporter in neighborhoods in herndon people are digging out. Were shoveling our way out in our little Winter Wonderland here. Were enjoying it. Reporter one thing you may not think about in your own residential neighborhood, manhole covers. Loudoun county Authorities Say beware because some snowplow drivers are taking them out as they clean your streets. I hit a manhole and it cracked my oil pan. Reporter jorge diaz has been working since 3 00 yesterday afternoon until the manhole accident. It was a pickup truck that hit it. Then i hit that. Were expecting another storm on sunday, so got to have it up and running by sunday. Very cold and very windy right now. What can you do . Well cope. Reporter the concern tonight is that these puddles, these slushy areas will freeze over overnight into the weekend. Vdot will work on these areas and clearing the roads in the secondary residential roads overnight. Back to you. The only good news, no morning rush on saturday. Meantime the hov lanes on i 95 in virginia had to be shut down this morning, things too slick early on. A handful of crashes made a mess before the crews could treat the roads. In maryland a pickup truck with a plow on front lost control and you see how it ended up in aspen hill this morning upside down, nobody hurt. It came to rest in somebodys front yard 50 feet off the road. Look at the picture of the storm from nasa, so large that at one point it covered about 1 3 of the u. S. Thats about 100 Million People in 22 states in the path of the storm. In new york a dashboard camera was rolling when this driver lost control on the long island expressway, whoa. That road was actually closed for several hours overnight to try and avoid anyone getting stranded on the road. In parts of massachusetts people woke up to nearly 2 feet of snow. The blizzard brought concerns about high tides along the coast. Thankfully all those storm walls held up. From michigan on to maine once the snow was done the temperature dropped like a stone. In minnesota the mercury fell down to 40 degrees below 0 and if this isnt already cold enough for you, get ready for more of a big chill next week. First alert meteorologist erica grow is in for topper and has the details on that. We are in for some serious cold around here. When we head back to work and school next week, it will be bone chilling, as if today wasnt bad enough. I wanted to start off with a couple snowfall totals that were surprising to me and to topper and howard. We got a little more than expected in dunkirk, maryland, 4. 1 inches, about 4 inches in st. Charles, maryland. We expected that Southern Maryland would pick up no more than about 1 inch, but you did end up with more than that. You can see that in upper Loudoun County in a stripe through to northern Montgomery County and southern frederick county, thats an area that picked up at least 5 inches of snow. In general we had expected 2 to 4 in those locations. So it looks like temperatures will be dipping with that fresh snow cover overnight tonight. Were already down in the teens in a couple spots. Ill have more on that coming up in the first alert sevenday forecast when we finally start to get milder. When temps hit teens or Single Digits, its not only dangerous to your health but puts your home straight in the crosshairs. Debra alfarone has two simple things you can do and should do this weekend to save yourself heartache and thousands of dollars worth of damage. Reporter its not just the money or inconvenience, if anyone who has ever had any damage to their home can tell you, it is the heartache of having something happen to your home. We invited an expert to share some tips. The first is how to avoid having your pipes burst. Im here with billy simon from russ insurance. Youre going to tell us how to winterize a home. No. 1 thing we need to do . Letting water run on your faucets is the no. 1 thing people overlook doing. If you let it run like that overnight, you should be okay. Reporter every sink . Id do every sink. Reporter what about pipes outside . Pipes outside, hoses, drain your hoses. Turn your spigot all the way off. You dont have to cut the main water cutoff to the spigot off, not on the inside of the house but on the outside, turn it off. Take the hose off and train it of excess water when its not already frozen. Now anything is backlogged. Any vendor you call for anything it will take forever to get them here. So everybody is busy. Reporter its not just you. Its everyone on your block and in the next neighborhood. And its airlines and Carpet Cleaning and Water Remediation and mold remediation and plumbers, electricians. No one is moving very quickly. Reporter and as what happens when you have a live shot with a lot of kids playing with snow, weve got them all around us, but you want to make sure certainly that the house is safe, right, guys . Yes. Reporter to recap you want to have the water dripping from all of your faucets. When we come back, you know what were going to do, guys . What . Reporter i love this. Its a great audience. Were going to show you exactly what else you need to do and we have two tips that have to do with whats up on the top, guys . The roof. Back to you. I love your audience. As someone who has dealt with a busted pipe before inside the house, i can relate to all those tips, very valuable information. At 5 30 well speak with aaa about making sure your car is ready for the deep freeze. Right now crews are trying to figure out what sparked a fair at the Fairfax County strip mall, sky9 out over the scene in the last hour or so. A whole bunch of equipment is there. It was a two alarm fire in a Shopping Center along arlington boulevard across from lowmans plaza. Were not sure how much that will cost to rebuild, nobody hurt. It all turned out to be a hoax, but investigators from georgia to bowie, maryland, remember in an uproar this week after a were in an uproar that week after a series of tweets offered a blow by blow account of the rape and murder of an of the rape of an unconscious young woman. Reporter in the sometimes terrifying wild west of the wild web it sounded all too possible. Early new years morning a man with a handle little juan tweeted out a photo of a passed out young woman and said somebody put something in her drink, me and my brother about to rape this b. It continued. Her pulse not even beating no more. Stop telling me to call the police. I look like snitching . Somebody else jumped in. I changed her clothes and shes sleeping peacefully now and it got worse. I got that b in my trunk right now. Ha ha ha. Call the cops. Tell them she only has 10 minutes of oxygen left. In alarm several people who knew the tweeters contacted the bowie police hoping they could rescue the woman. So, of course, we took that very seriously. Reporter investigators quickly figured out it was a couple of teens from nearby high schools and when they confronted them, they determined there was no girl, no rape, no murder. They had thought it would be a funny thing to cut and paste a photo from another website, put it on their twitter accounts and make these highly inappropriate comments about them. Reporter the next day someone deleted the twitter account and the police chief says the teens appeared remorseful, but the chief says merely posting a vicious joke does not constitute a crime. Sat down, counseled them about the inappropriateness of the actions, talked to their parents about it. So hopefully there will be a life lesson involved. Reporter it could well haunt them for life, while the account is gone the tweets have been captured and live on on the internet. Bruce leshan, wusa9. Oh, my. Bowie police chief is hoping this incident may spark serious conversations between kids and their parents about whats appropriate behavior on social media. Today the Obama Administration responded to a Supreme Court justices decision to block a key component of the Affordable Care act. As Danielle Nottingham reports, Justice Sonia sotomayor granted a Catholic Group a stay after they argued providing Birth Control is against their religious beliefs. Reporter the Justice Department said Supreme CourtJustice Sonia sotomayor should stop blocking the new healthcare law provision that requires some religious organizations to provide insurance that includes Birth Control. Solicitor general Donald Verilli filed papers friday morning that say nothing in the law will make the Little Sisters of the poor pay for Birth Control for their employees making their complaint baseless. When religious groups first objected, the Obama Administration offered a compromise allowing nonprofit faithbased groups to pass on the responsibility of providing contraceptive coverage to the insurance companies. The lawyer representing the Little Sisters says even signing the government form violates their beliefs. The piece of paper is essentially a permission slip, but its a permission slip that has coercive effect on the receiver. The receiver is then required by law to do something Little Sisters say we cant do and we shouldnt force someone else to do. Reporter its not clear when Justice Sotomayor will make a decision, but the Supreme Court has agreed to hear two other cases challenging the contraceptive mandate in march. Danielle nottingham, cbs news, washington. Plans are in the work to enact emergency legislation to fix problems with marylands health exchange. Senate president mike miller says lawmakers might consider allowing additional time for people to enroll in healthcare plans without being penalized. An emergency measure could be taken up when the General Assembly convenes next week. A new Mental Health task force gets to work in virginia tuesday. Governor mcdonnell has appointed 37 people to that task force including Mental Health workers, hospital administrators and Law Enforcement authorities. The project was created after the death of the son of state senator creigh deeds. Gus deeds stabbed his dad repeatedly before killing himself. According to the Richmond Times dispatch, gun sales were up 11 in the old dominion last year. That dramatic increase brought sales to an all time high. The paper says sales were particularly brisk early in the year with transactions for the first four months up, get this, 116 . The white house making a new push to keep guns out of the hands of people with Mental Health issues. This time the changes are executive actions that do not require congressional approval. The latest measures are aimed at strengthening federal background checks for gun buyers. The white house announced those changes while president obama was vacationing in hawaii. The family of a 13yearold girl declared brain dead in california will be allowed to move the teen. A judge ruled that jahi mcmaths mother can remove the girl from the hospital so long as she assumes responsibility for the move. The hospital says it does not want to be held accountable if jahi goes into cardiac arrest. Shes been on a ventilator nearly a month after complications following a tonsil lecture. A coroner a tonsillectomy. A coroners report says the car that paul walker was riding in when it crashed was going over 100 miles an hour. Walker and his friend roger rodis were both killed november 30th in that crash when rodis lost control of the car. A lengthy agenda waits lawmakers as they head back to capitol hill. First some local lawmakers ready to take matters into their own hands. They say congress dropped it would be much better if congress did the right thing and got together, broke the impasse and passed it increasing the federal minimum wage, but thats not happening and so the states have begun to act. Today several members of the Montgomery County delegation to the maryland statehouse threw their support behind a push to raise the minimum wage in maryland. The General Assembly plans to take up a bill in the upcoming session that would make the minimum wage 10. 10 an hour by 2016. More than a dozen other states have raised their minimum wages as of january 1st. Today president obama announced he plans to hold an event at the white house tuesday, his goal . Pushing the congress to restore Unemployment Benefits for the 1. 3 million americans who lost them last weekend. Thats just one of a lot of things on a long list of items on the congressional agenda for the coming year. That list is the topic of this weekends face the nation. Bob schieffer is here now to talk about that. Surely the congress has a long list of things to do, but how much influence will the president really have on whats on that list . Well, they cant get much worse, i guess. You cant say theyre going to have a worse year than last year, which as far as i can tell is probably the least productive session of congress that i can recall and ive been here now going on 46 years. So the list of things to do is as long as my arm starting with the president apparently wants the first thing out of the box to be to deal with this unemployment insurance. I think thats going to be a top of priority for democrats, but there are also a lot of other things out there. What are they going to do about Immigration Reform . What about reducing the deficit . What is going to be the fate of obamacare . What about the National Security agency . Is Edward Snowden a hero as some people say or is he somebody that ought to be behind bars . Eventually washington has to deal with all those things. So were going to talk to harry reid. He almost never comes on the sunday show, so my sense of it is hes got something he wants to talk about. Well find out what that is. Its interesting the speaker of the house does seem interested on moving forward on thing. You mentioned Immigration Reform. We saw the budget deal go through. Is there a different spirit this session . Well, there might be. I want to believe that there is. I dont want to be overboard on this, but i think were going to see more this year. I think for one thing i think seeing john boehner come out as he did when he decided to take on those tea party people, hes got some problems within his own caucus and thats kind of reflect active of the Republican Party in general. Reflective of the Republican Party in general. Its almost now like were developing into having three parties, the democrats, republicans and tea party and how boehner can bring those together i think in some ways that mitch mcconnell, republican leader in the senate has the same kind of problem. Thats going to be the interesting thing to watch here over these next two or three months especially. Id like to think that maybe theyre going to get something done, but well find out. Bob schieffer, majority leader reid, face the nation sunday, were looking forward to watching that. Thank you, bob. Former virginia first lady ann holton has been named to governor elect Terry Mcauliffes cabinet as the new education secretary. She is the a long time child advocate and former juvenile and Domestic Relations Court judge. Helping you plan your day, wusa9 first alert weather. If you dont like cold weather, this is not your time of year. Absolutely not. Were going to see temperatures plummet tonight as if it wasnt cold enough and then a brief reprieve before the temperatures get really cold again next week. Lets start off with a look at the michael and son weather cam. We have snow on our shot now from Reagan National airport and a distant view of the monument there. Its 23 degrees now with the dew point of 1. Its brutally cold with winds out of the north, northwest at 7 Miles Per Hour. In our weather headlines it will be bitterly cold overnight tonight, at least the wind chills diminishing because the wind speeds arent going to be as strong. We will still have wind chills in the 0s and teens as we head through the