Trying to elevate things to another level as we do every day on good day dc. Today its flat out freezing up there. Need to warm it up a level. And send blankets asap. Thursday december 28th, 2017. If you have any goals you set at the beginning of the year you best to get them done. Four days. Hurry up. Also ahead this morning the mad dash to pre pay next years property tax before those new tax laws kick in and as if its not already confusing enough, the irs may have just added some extra drama. Well tell you why coming up in a live report. Try to sort it all out. Very confusing. Good luck. It is confusing. I dont even really understand all the different rules. I dont think irss does either to be honest with you. First we got to talk about the weather were in store for the coldest december day. Really a decade when the ball drops in times square for details tuck, tell us to bundle up and stay in and watch the ball drop on tv this year. Distracted by the g. J giles band in my ear. Freeze frame. I noticed at the end of the 8 00 oclock hour when you put up the extended forecast it looked to meet overnight low on new years eve might be a little bit warmer than it was previously d we bump that up a little . Steve, maybe a doctor or two but the wind chills will still feel like zero so its not, you know very small consolation. Im looking for any positivity here. I thought it was around 19 and now i see 23. We have none in the weather center. Never mind. Im just kidding. Ill start with this. That live shot absolutely beautiful out there. Sunny and gorgeous. Arctic High Pressure can deliver absolutely beautiful days. What it will not be is warm at any point today. As that arctic chill settles in and overnight lows back in the teens with wind chill have been hanging out near zero for most the overnight hours. Up to 18 steve. 2 degrees warmer than it was a few hours ago. 14 in gaithersburg. Lets see. Still 11 in hagerstown. 18 quantico. 19 leonardtown it is bitter c cold. No doubt about it you mix in winds out of the north and north and west feels like four right who now here in the city 1 degree up in hagerstown and two dulles you get the sense how cold it is. Make sure that you are properly dressed if youll be outside for any period of time today. Because its just not going warm up. Our daytime highs forecast to only be in the mid to upper 20s. It will be beautiful looking day. Arctic High Pressure building will deliver a nice afternoon if youre looking out the window but again cold today. Cold tonight. We will rebound back into the 30s tomorrow with maybe a little period of snow around here early saturday. But then the overall theme as we get into the Holiday Weekend into the new year, the cold and it will continue later today. Those are not forecast low temperatures for tonight. Those are forecast high temperatures for later today. Just 22 in 28 here in the city. 24 in leonardtown. So again take cold seriously it will be cold for the next several days. All right. All righty. Tada back to you guys. Tucker just talk about this. Were not the only ones dealing with arkansas tick outbreak. Bitter cold temperatures have taken hold of most of the Northern United States and old man winter sticking around for the foreseeable future. Wind chill warnings were posted for dozen states yesterday with feels like temperature dipping well below zero. International falls the self proclaimed ice box of the nation plunged to 37 degrees below zero yesterday. Wind chill advisories or warnings are in effect for much of new england northern pennsylvania and new york. And then theres this. Check this out. Erie pennsylvania made headlines for its own winter wallop earlier this week now new time lapsed video shows the 5 feet of snow piling up. The situation there is so bad that the National Guard was even called in to help them dig out. Thats pretty called in to deal with snow thats rough. I cant imagine that. Lower right part of the screen you saw that snow starting to build up there. But then you also saw them clear it out in hurry, too. Exactly. On that same note sue palka her parents live in erie she posted a picture on her twitter account. Wow. 30 something inches of snow they helped clear them out. Good news for them. Can you imagine what the store shelves must have look like right before that hit. The no bread and milk for two years. Wild night on the roads in Fairfax County. Police chase ending in violent crash. Multiple vehicles involved. Multiple people taken to the hospital. Including seven passengers in a van. Annie yu live on the scene in herndon with more how this all started and more importantly how it ended. Annie . Reporter hey, maureen g morning everybody. Pretty wild crazy night for Fairfax County police. The suspect led them on a pursuit and then finally crashed the vehicle right here at this intersection at fr centreville road and herndon, virginia. We can tell you this morning the suspect is in the hospital in custody. He is in serious condition facing serious charges as well. But police say this morning that they have not identified him. Now this video is from last night. It all started around 8 00 oclock. They say that the suspect knock on the door of a home on autumn drive which isnt too far from here a child answered the door. He assaulted the child and then fled in a stolen car. He then crashed into a man nearby driving a pickup truck. He assaulted that man and carjacked his pickup truck and drove off. Officers responding to the child assault spotted him on the road and after a sioux pursuit the suspect crashed into a van carrying seven people near centreville road at this intersection they finally arrested him. Hes in the hospital facing charges. Police do not know the motive as far as the relationship between the suspect and the child and this home on autumn drive. Him and we dont know the condition of the child. Heres the very latest from Fairfax County police. This is muddle fee tee facetted investigation. We have several scenes, crime scenes, um, the crash is quiet, um, a bad crash. And we have called out mull pell resources our command bus is on scene. And, um, as we piece things together and find out motive for the initial call, what led to this pursuit, what led to the crash, we have all the investigative units on scene to piece that altogether. Reporter now one of the seven passengers in the van is still at the hospital were told that this person has serious injuries. An officer was also injured during all of this. And Fairfax County police says the officer is expected to be just fine. So that is good news. Thats the very latest here from herndon, virginia, annie yu fox5 local news. Annie thank you very much. No glove, n annie toughing it out in the cold this morning as the investigation into the amtrak crash in Washington State continues this morning we are hearing Horror Stories from some passengers in the moments after the derailment a lot of confusion. A lot of folks worried about their Co Passengers because investigators released some of the chilling 911 audio from passengers on board. Take a listen. This is 911. Im on the train from tacoma. We just crash. Were probably going need medical aid for lot of people. Were on amtrak train accident. Number of people called 911 obviously whimpering in pain bleeding from head injuries, days dazed by the crash. The accident left three people dead, many more injured. The train speeding 80 miles an hour in a 30 miles an hour zone on a curve when it crashed. Ntsb do know for certain that technology that slows a speeding train was not in use at the time. 9 08 right now. Lets check the morning briefing. First up a new twist in that Alabama Senate special election. Republican roy moore has now filed a lawsuit in an effort to keep the state from certifying democratic doug jones as the winner. The suit was filed yesterday just about 14 hours before a state canvassing Board Meeting that would have officially sealed jones victory. Moores attorney calling for Fraud Investigation in new vote saying he believes there were irregular will thes during the election. Alabama secretary of state says he has no plans to delay the meeting and has seen no evidence of voter fraud. Jones won the elections by about 20,000 votes. Next up, with just days in 2017, President Trump and is delivering a art cord on his cos the commander in chief is still in florida where hes spending time for the holidays but hes been fairly outspoken these first fuse days about his administrations achievements and his own president ial performance. We want to give these people for the great job they. President trump spending his fi a West Palm Beach firehouse. Praising the work of firefighters and paramedics and his own administration. We have more legislation passed including the record was harry truman long time ago and we broke that record. The president touting his administrations work over the past year including rolling back government regulations and cutting taxes while claiming credit for the stock market hitting record highs. Plus the president tweets this week bolstering of past year achieve manies including an 83 increase in arrest of ms13 gang members and associates. A dramatic drop in isis fighters since Inauguration Day from 35,000 to 1,000. And optimistic forecast for 2018 saying the gops recently passed tax cut bill will result in more jobs. President trumps twitter report card coming as his predecessor president obama in an interview with prince harry took aim at the mentioning him by name. One of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They can be just cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases. Now according to gov track website that tracks those in congress President Trump signed nearly 100 laws so far while the president says that number breaks previous records, gov track shows its actually the fewest for a president at this stage in more than 60 years. Homeowners literally line up to pay their property taxes. The irs says pump your brakes. Coming up next fox5s kristyn leon has what you need to know. Later on the president is lived in d. C. For almost a year now is the new york native inuring his hometown. Well have more thon debate as well. 11 past the hour now. Z2i1zz z16fz y2i1zy y16fy i was wondering if an electric toothbrush really cleans better than a manual. And my hygienist says it does but theyre not all the same. Who knew . I had no idea. So she said, look for one thats shaped like a dental tool with a round brush head. Go pro with oralb. Oralbs rounded brush head surrounds each tooth to gently remove more plaque. And unlike sonicare, oralb is the only electric toothbrush brand accepted by the American Dental Association for its effectiveness and safety. My mouth feels so clean. Ill only use an oralb. Oralb. Brush like a pro. Okay. The return counter at the Department Store is not the only place with a big line this week. In many places homeowners are lining up, too, to pre pay their property taxes. Thats before t new tax laws kick in but the irs now says, whoa, not so fast. For details what you need to know fox5s Kristyn Lee Ron trying to break it down for us. Im all ears because like a lot of people out there im con confused. Reporter right, maureen it is a very confusing topic i heard erin mention earlier theism rs it sounds like theyre trying to get a handle of everything as well a lot to break down here this morning. But the important thing here to keep in mind is that the cap going in to 2018 starting january 1st will now be set at 10,000. So to truly break this down, that means if youre a d. C. Homeowner, and you pay, lets say, 40,000 in property taxes, you can only fully deduct 10,000 of that going forward. So you mentioned a lot of people are rushing, waiting in line, seeing what that means for their property taxes. And essentially theyre trying to pay their 2017 and 2018 taxes before this all goes into payment up front to do so. But many people say that this is well worth it in the end. In fairfax alone were told that they processed roughly 2500 prepayments so far. Now, however the irs says these prepayments may be tax deductible under certain circumstances. So keep that in mind here. They posted a notice on their website im going to receipt that ride now. So we can all fully understand. They say and i quote, a full deduction here depends on whether the taxpayer makes the payment this year and whether the property taxes are assessed before 2018. So, again, a lot of questions here. A lot of people in this case officials recommend that people before you go and wait in line see whether or not your qualified or not to go and speak with attacks professional in this case. So thats the very latest here from the treasury department. Ill zen it back to you in studio. Thats lot. A lot going on make sure you talk to the people that aren thats why i have an accountant. 9 16 is the time. Were laughing our way into 2018. Comedian Tommy Davidson will join us live in the loft a little bit later. Thats right. First though why the fbi wont take over the investigation into that baltimore decks death. Plus apple possibly regretting coming clean about your phones battery life. The tech giant facing eight class act lawsuits. And later solving your supermarket dilemma with some science. Why knew stud says you shouldnt switch to the shorter check outline. We have a check on what else is making headlines neck. Hey, guys. Where are the cookies for the. Bake sale . Bake. Bake sale . Need to bake in a hurry . Use new country crock buttery sticks with sunflower oil. Theres no softening required. So baking is delicious and easy. Ooh, cookies ah, ah, ah laughter we just moved in about four months ago, but the living rooms pretty blank. We did a lot of research online. We just need to have a designer put it all together. Mmm hmm. So, its really nice when clients come in and have. Done some of their own research. What do you think about these chairs and that table . Working with a bassett designer was really easy. Us being young professionals, were so busy. Theres no way we couldve designed it ourselves. No. We love it its 20 minutes past the hour now on this thursday morning. Erin has a check of on the stories making headlines this morning. At 9 20 this morning first up the afghan president condemning a tack on Muslim Cultural Center in kabul. At least 40 people were killed and 30 others wounded. It happened shiite dominated neighborhood. Officials say an unknown number of suicide attackers first set off an explosion outside the building, then detonated bombs in the basement. People were gathered to commemorate the soviet invasion of afghanistan. No group immediately claimed responsibility for that attack. Well the power is back on in disneyland anaheim, california after major outage yesterday forced guests to get off rides and leave the park. Officials say a transformer problem caused the outage in toon town and fantasy land around 12 rides were affected but luckily no one was hurt. Baltimore police say the fbi has turned down their request to take over the Death Investigation of detective sean suiter. Last month, police say suiter was fatally shot in the head by his own gun after getting into a confrontation with a suspicious man hed approached in vacant lot. Questions emerged after it was revealed that suiter was due to testify the next day before a federal grand jury about a group of indicted officers. Fbi says theres no evidence to suggest detective suits death was directly connected to the federal corruption invest investigation. And thats why Baltimore Police should remain the lead on the case. Apple now facing eight class action lawsuits over slowing down older i phones. The lawsuit accuses the company of not telling customers it slowed down the devices performance and thats because of a weak battery. The suit claims customers were encouraged to buy a new iphone instead of just replacing the battery. Finally, stay put. Lesson in patience. Thats the message from new study when it comes to switching lines at the gross row store. Experts say m shorter line doesnt save time. Researchers are calling the you were to move last place a version. They say people are four times as likely to drop out of a line when no one behind them and twice as likely to switch to another line. People who switched lines wait average of 10 longer and those who switch lines twice waited almost 70 longer than if they just stayed put. Ill tell you, yesterday, im pretty sure that people behind me wanted to switch lines because my bottle of wine wouldnt scan and that was one thing i was not going without. That was you . That was me. Im just kidding. I finished my check out and went to Customer Service because i felt bad. See. Team player. Oh, erin. Holding up that line. All right. Taking down the holiday decorations can be pretty depressing, right, but our next guest says theres way to keep the holiday spirit and some of those decorations up all year long. Well show you how coming up. Frigid end to 2017. Tucker barnes is coming back with a check of the Holiday Weekend forecast and if we could see some snow for the end of the year. Steve . Changing lanes athe Grocery Store like changing lanes during the rush hour. The president may be new york native but d. C. Is home now. In theory. Coming up later why hes now accused of ignoring the nations capitol. Bono under fire for calling todays music too girly what he said about a near death experience recording u2s new album. Ringing in the new year with former snl star, yeah, that guy Finesse Mitchell will join us live here in the loft with a sneak peek at his show coming up at the d. C. Improv and then, i cant wait for this. We are getting some work wisdom, some workout wisdom. Some wisdom at work. Yes, that is right. Were bringing in a personal trainer to the stars to show us how they start the new year on the right foot and we are putting wisdom to the test. Oh, its going to be good. Well be right back. You ready, wis . I see you studying. Heres your receipt. Have a nice day thank you. Start the car start the car start the car st