30s and low 40s. Thats not too cold. By noon, temperature near 50. Thats when the northwest wind sets up shop. Temperatures back into the 30s as early as 5 00 this evening. Windchills back into the teens by early this evening. Be ready for a big drop in temperatures. Have your nbc washington app downloaded and ready to go with your custom tailored, storm team 4 forecast. You can follow me on social media and forecast for you on instagram. The cold weather is going to be here for a couple of days and snow chances as well. More about that part of the forecast coming up. For now, over to melissa. Good morning, chuck. Taking a look at whats going on around town. Silver spring, chopper 4 over this columbia pike after New Hampshire avenue. Right side of the roadway is closed off here right now. This was a pedestrian accident this morning. Police telling us that the right side should be locked for some time as they get that out of the way. One person being of there. 66, 95, overall looking typical. 270 southbound before 370. Center of the road still blocked by that crash. Aaron . Lets continue our Team Coverage. Justin finch joins us live. Hes live at a gas station now with a look at how you can care for your car in in cold weather. We have to be prepared for all kinds of things, justin. Reporter thats right, eunment prepared for anything. A few moment ago, i spoke to several drivers fueling up at this wawa asking them if they have cold weather preps or plans. The answer almost always surprisingly was no. So here now are some tips for things to bring in your car with this cold weather now coming or way. First, your ice scraper here. Ice can form very quickly. Also, antifreeze, to take the edge off of your engines th fluid in place, too. Make sure the washer fluid you have in your car now does not have water in it so it does not freeze on your blades there. Also a shovel. You never know when you may have to dig yourself out of snow or help out somebody else. We did find one man who had a good winter plan. Take a listen to him now. With any weather, got to keep up with up keep. At least with the salt and the snow. Worry about the undercarriage and things like that. Reporter even yeah, the salt is one thing to worry about too as we drive around here. Eating up your car from the underneath part. Also, too, want to point out that many people were getting their cars maintained year round, which also helps. As david put it, he was saying that it takes a lot more energy and effort for us to stay warm in cold weather. Imagine what your car is going through. Were live here, justin finch. Thank you for the good tips. If you want to find out more Winter Weather tips, head to the nbc washington app. Youll find the updated forecast information youll need during this cold snap. Its 6 04. A wrongway crash left one person dead and another critically injured in maryland. This is footage from chopper 4. Maryland state police say the car and truck you see there collided head on around 9 30 last night. This is the outer loocht beltway in landover, not far from fedex field. Police are trying to figure out why one of the cars was going in the wrong direction. Followup dates in the nbc washington app. We now know that funeral arrangements for the deputy state fire marshal killed on i270. Sander cohen will be laid to rest thursday morning at a synagogue in rockville. You may remember he helped special agent carlos wolff. Cohen was also a volunteer firefighter in rockville. This morning, for the second time in two months, new york city is recovering from a terror attack. The 22yearold man from bangladesh is accused of detonating a suicide bomb. Chris lawrence in the newsroom with new information on this developing story. Chris . Aaron, were getting a better look at the device that exploded in the incidents. Its the first attempted suicide bombing on u. S. Soil. Listen to surveillance video. Akayed ullah had a device strapped to his body which he debt nad nated a little after 7 00 in the morning. Three people were injured, including ullah, himself p hes in the hospital in serious condition. The device is based on a pipe bomb. It was affixed to his person with a zip ties. It was a big explosion. The impact pushed everybody around. Ullah is an ex triggs and investigators say he learned how to maybe the explosive device through online instruction. Ullah told police he carried out the attack in the name of isis. Investigators say theres no evidence he had direct contact with the terror group. His family released a statement saying theyre heartbroken over the violence. Eun . Snimt chris lawrence, thank you. The maryland woman badly injured in the Las Vegas Mass Shooting will spend the holidays at home with her family. Tina frost left an inpatient rehabilitation hop and will now spend time at home. She continues therapy as an outpatient. She was shot in the head in the shooting and lost her right eye. Vo to the polls to pick their next senator. This is a race the entire country is watching closely. Theyve gone on National Television arguing their case after avoiding 40 years its type, folks, that we say no more last night republican roy moore and doug jones both held last Minute Campaign events. Moore was with steve bannon and jones was with charles barkley. Roy moore has been accused of acting inappropriately and dating teenage girls. Former president brac and former President Joe Biden reported robo calls for jones. This evening, jewish people around the u. S. And the world had light the first candle on the menorah. It will and fried foods. It celebrates the reked dedication of the concert. There will be a concert to light the National Menorah on a list. Students and Police Officers will give santa a big hand to help out some sick kids. Mow le green live in the community. At the Fairfax CountyPolice Station in an al daily. Theyre collecting toys for a great cause. Shes gathered good friends this morning too, molette. Oh, my goodness. This is so much fun. Were backing up. Today is pack up day. Packing up all of these toys, bikes and cool little gifts for children in air a i cant hospitals. This is near a 30year tradition. Santa, the elf, the reindeer. People from spring hill elementary. Were going to talk to santas biggest helper about this season of giving coming up next on news4 today. Stay with us. Were live in the community. Merry christmas everyone. All hands on deck. Thanks, molette. The man flu. Were going to talk about that too. Is is it a myth or reality . The debate in almost every household settled. Relying on strangers. Fire devours a family home. The unexpected heroes to emerge after the flames wept out. I want want to know if a man did the man flu study. Its cold and breezy. But a wait until you see what happened. Ait until yousee what happens well, well. A weather alert as we go through late today and especially early tomorrow. Its 47 degrees right now. Feels like 37. Look at today. If yourexe half of the day will be the most comfortable. Later on, well see the windchills down into the teens. Pretty quickly. Well take a look at the morning forecast coming up. Good morning, melissa. Still have this problem in silver spring. Chopper 4 after New Hampshire avenue. Right side of the roadway blocked. A pedestrian was struck a short time ago. Southbound 270. Still very, very slow. Center of the road. Main lanes still blocked by that crash there. Outer loop, have a car off the road. All right. Melissa. Thank you. Its 6 13 now. This morning celebrity chef mario batali is admitting to the Sexual Misconduct allegations against him. Yesterday he announced he was stepping away from his restaurant empire and the chew after four women came forward. They accused him of inappropriate contact. Much of the behavior described does in fact match with ways i have he overawe the final steak dinner of the obama administration. Someone to record her inside a campus bathroom friday evening. The student tells police she saw a cell phone over the restroom stall. She yelled at the person to leave. Anyone with information is asked to contact police. We are now learning more about the hours before the death of bethesda teenager. 17yearold navid sepehri was found dead in the woods near the Bannockburn School in bethesda sunday night. He attended a party on elgin lane on saturday night. Police were called there to break up the party because of underage drinking. News 4s pat collins learned that spe perrys friends wanted him to call an uber home. But he refused. He left the party on his own. That was the last time his friends saw him. Now a community is in mourning and other parents are concerned for their childrens safety. Know about it and think about their own families and children. Sepehri was a senior at walt whitman high school. Friends and classmates put flowers in the area where he was found to honor him. Its 6 15 right now. One of the biggest concerts of the Holiday Season brought people out to the capital one arena last night. Camilla performing her hit song havana. Shes one of the celebrities for the hot 99. 5 iheart radio jingle ball. On the lineup, fallout boy, kesha and logic as well. Every year concert gives back during the Holiday Season. The official charity was the Ryan Seacrest foundation which helps sick children. Thats a good point to know. People want to know. One dollar from every foundation. Every day were closer and closer to santa packing up the bags, putting them on the sleigh and visiting kids all over the world. Fairfax county Police Officers want to make sure sick kids also get a visit from the big guy on christmas. Molette green live in the community at the fairfax Police Station in annandale. Theyre collecting toys for a really good cause, molette . Reporter a very good cause. I want to show you the scope of the toys. My kids love these guys. We have so many toys here and going to a good cause as you said aaron. Children in the hospital. Area hospitals will receive these donations this week. Fairfax county police, been doing this for nearly 30 years. Weve got the biggest helper for santa doing this project, leading the charge here. Chuck rinehart. Tell me how impressive this is. Its pretty impressive. T a not only to last through christmas and the new year, but also receive toys on Christmas Day as well as this week. The toys we give to hospitals actually last through about june. Very fortunate that they last through june and they give them to kids during their birthdays and any time they go in for an operation, not feeling great about whats about to happen. The toys will be delivered santas sleigh. Theyll receive these today and then youll take them to the hospitals tomorrow. About half of them to fairfax hospitals and the other half to georgetown on thursday. Thats what its all about. The giving spirit here in Fairfax County in annandale. Some of the helpers from the spring hill elementary school. The kids came out early. Mrs. Claus and santa is here. There he is. All of this to help children in need. Children who are in the hospital and recovering. Thats the latest live from an dan back to you inside. One of the best parts to see, see people come together. Brings out the best in people. Molette, thank you. See you in a bit. The weather does not bring out the best in some people. Im just saying. You want to see angry people tomorrow . Tonight. Tonight. Its not angry like this the only thing you can do with your face when its that cold. You know, i have no empathy for people who complain about it being cold in the winter. If its cold on the fourth of july, all right. You have a good point. Stop making so much sense, chuck bell. A little snow so youre ready and prepared. Chances anyway for snowflakes. Doesnt look like any accumulation yet. Were keeping a close eye on it. It is weather alert mode comes the camera. Right over to there. How about that . We meant it that way. Right now its mostly cloudy sky overhead. 42 degrees the current temperature. Winds are still out of the south this morning. Thats the reason that its not cold yet. Those winds will be out of the northwest and gusting over 30 Miles Per Hour at times later on in the afternoon. Be ready for that. Temperatures, upper 30s, low o 40s to get your day started. Youll look like this guy. He doesnt look happy at all. Hes in the cold with the wind going. Tie flying off in the air. Windy weather today. Temperature near 50 for a high today. Thats at lunchtime. Temperatures will fall quickly in the afternoon. By 5 00, temperature down to 41 in washington. 34 gaithersburg. 32 in martinsburg, west virginia. Thats at 5 00. Just dress warmly now or at least have that heavy winter coat. Later on in the day, it will be cold quickly. By 6 00 in the evening, windchills back in the teens and thats nothing. By the time we get up tomorrow morning, windchills down near zero. Its going to be real cold tomorrow morning and stay cold pretty much throughout the rest of the day. Use your storm team 4 weather app on the nbc washington app. Stay ahead of your weather that way. Find me on social media. Your next couple of days, a little chance for snow. Another chance for snow on friday. So far, the d. C. Metro area wont get much there. Needless to say, melissa, were on it. Well check in with her in a minute. A shooting on the platform. The manhunt and the impact on riders now. A reminder to tune in later today for Ellen Degeneres show. Ellen airs at 3 00 followed by news 4 at 4 00. Tay with us i cannot thank everybody enough. The family says it has enough donations to fill two grarjs. The fire fireplace. Such a wonderful to see people step up like that. I want to help. Theyre alone during this difficult time. So you know people like to make fun of guys when we get sick. About how we act. Who does . How you act . Yes. Like babies . Its not an overreaction. Its not. Its not an overreaction. Youre going to die when you have the sniffles. You cant move your arms. You cant get out of bed. It was too much on friday. It was overwhelming. The new report from the guardian. Actually the guardian was reporting from a british medical journal that says men may experience more severe flu symptoms than women do. In their heads . Thats with where it is sometimes. Mens hormones can dampen the immune system and female system. Youre better programmed to handle illness than we are. Theres scientific proof that says you cant handle it. Thats the end of the world. Every time you get a sniffle. I see. Call my mother. Thats the ohm tionly time i stl call her. I dont know what to take. All right. 6 25. Im getting phone calls from my children. The boys, i know. Lord. 6 25 right now. Bullied at school. Compassion for a boy brought to tears. This morning, we have his first reaction to the outpouring of support. Reporter a shooting on a metro platform. But metro has an eye in the sky trying to track the suspects. Im adam tuss. Ill tell you about other Police Efforts to make sure youre safe when riding. It is cold and breezy this morning. But were watching that arctic air make its way. Also a snow chance into the next couple of days. Ill show you how cold 6 28 right now. 42 warm degrees. Warm . Thats right. The cold is you have no idea, boy. Good morning everybody. Im aaron gilchrist. Im eun yang. This is the kind of cold, i dont know how to bundle up to protect myself from the windchill. Around your head. By the end of the day, the bone chilling cold. Sheena parveen begins our weather alert coverage. A preview of things to come. Sheena. Remember that sdmeen christmas story where the little boy has the scarf around his face, cant put his arms down. Thats probably what a lot of you want o do with your kids tomorrow morning. Keep in mind, they might not be able to get back up if they fall down. Tomorrow morning in the teens in some areas. Feeling like Single Digits. Its not as cold right now. It still feels like the 30s. 37 degrees in washington. 33 in leesburg. Heres what it looks like today. Well be topping out early afternoon. Closer to the mid to upper 40s. Then look at this. Overnight, we drop off quickly. Heres whats going topp we go into tomorrow morning. Our actual temperatures will be around 20 degrees. Areas, look at the windchills, feeling like Single Digits in the morning. So yes, you do want to cover all that exposed skin especially if youre standing outside for a while. Thats why we have a weather alert. This is the coldest air so far. Were watching snow chances in the forecast the well look at that coming up. Lets look at the roads on this chilly tuesday morning, melissa. Good morning, sheena. Southbound columbia pike after New Hampshire avenue. Chopper 4 still over this. Pans over to the right, you can see its a twomile backup headed southbound on 29 in silver spring. This is a pedestrian crash. Somebody was transported from the scene a couple of minutes ago. Southbound 270 into gaithersburg. Still slow from the earlier crash on the beltway. Inner loop near allentown road. We have a crash and outer loop before the mixing bowl. Springfield, left lane blocked by a disabled vehicle hearing about a new problem on 66. Well talk about that in a minute. Eun . Melissa, thank you. As the temperatures start to drastically drop, it could make for some slick roads if a wintry mix also thats a bad combination. V dot crews preparing the roads. Make your drive to work safer. Reduce more speed and use your headlights. Today the eyes of the nation will be on alabama as voters choose their next senator. Last night, republican roy moore and Democrat Doug Jones held last Minute Campaign events. Moore has been accused of acting incompetent appropriately with teenage girls. He denies all the allegations. The polls in alabama open at 7 00 a. M. Were staying on top of the wildfires burning across southern california. These games are lighting up the skies across ventura county. Its now the fifth largest wildfire in that states history. Thomas fire has engulfed more than 230,0 its only 20 contained. Officials there say it could take weeks or possibly months to fully extinguish the fire. Its a terrible situation there. All the way around. Boy. 6 32 our time now. 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