Temperatures. Now many barefoot and without coats. I dont know i just woke up to a bunch of smoke and thats it, man. The whole building was on fire. New york city hit with its deadliest fire in deck wades with wind fueled flames ripping through a five story Apartment Building in the bronx built back in 1916. This is the worst fire tragedy we have seen in this city in at least a quarter century. People were screaming fire, help. We knew it was trouble. 12 dead already. We may lose others as well. Among the dead a oneyearold child. Others injured were left fighting for their lives. In a department thats certainly no stranger to tragedy, were shocked by this loss. People died on various floors. Fire Officials Say their first call came in just before 7 00 p. M. Thursday and fire crews arrived with therein three minutes. Fire started on the first floor quickly spread upstairs. They started to get on the fire escape already trying to get down on their own. Thats how fast it was moving. At least 12 people were rescued. And will survive. Facing temperatures in the teens and wind chill making it feel like below zero, by around 10 00 p. M. , more than 160 firefighters had the fire under control. Feels like its too much right now. Overwhelming. People carried out of there. I just, its overwhelming. Excluding september 11th, this marks the worst new York City Fire in more than 25 years. The last was a social club blaze that killed 87 people back in 1990. Steve. Wisdom, thanks very much. Were also following developing news coming out of southeast washington, d. C. Where police are trying to identify a body found inside of a burning car. This happened last night on ridge road southeast. Witnesses say they heard gunfire shortly before the car burst into flames. Fox5s annie yu live at the scene with the latest this morning. Annie, what can you tell us . Reporter well, maureen and steve, still at this d. C. Police say they havent been able to identify the body found inside this burning car, but neighbors tell us that this is definitely leaving them on edge, very unsettled because if you look behind me this literally happened in an alley way right between a row of homes here along ridge road and g street in southeast. Now, inside the car, police found a body and its not clear whether the body is a man or a woman. We want to show you some video that we got from a fox5 viewer from last night and you can really see those huge flames just lighting up the alley near the homes there. Neighbors tell us they heard a loud blast of gunfire just after 7 30 followed by an explosion and that is when they saw the big flames engulfing the car. The viewer who sent us this video says she was here visiting her family, she was inside with her children and grandchildren when it happened. Sound like big gunshots, like four, five gunshots and then a big explosion. We all hit the floor for a moment. Then my son ventured out and it was a car in the alley exploding. Reporter but it wasnt a car that they recognized from the neighborhood . No, not at all. Reporter so, d. C. Police still investigating and theyre still working to identify the body found inside the burning car. They tell us that the vehicle was obviously very charred and its hollowed but they were able to make out the model. They believe it was an older lexus so hopefully that helps them with this investigation or anything that they can gather from the evidence surrounding the vehicle, but well bring you the very latest throughout the morning but thats it for now here from southeast. Well send it back in to you. All right. 7 04 on this friday morning. The last friday of the year and boy, what a cold one again today. This is it. This is it. Ends of 2017. Byebye. Okay. Looking to new and better. Oh, yeah. Every year. You got to, right. Whats the saying about every new day the opportunity for whatever. Throughout your life some years are better than others. I got to say youre right. Some years i look forward to the new year more than others. Exactly. All right, lets do the forecast. 2017 it will send very cold for all of us. Daytime highs today believe it or not yesterdays daytime high was only 25. Uhhuh. So the 34 were hoping for today will feel correspondingly warmer. See life is all relative. See. Its looking up already. Like if you had a really bad year then next years a little better. Its a difference. Same kind of idea. Exactly. 21 now at Reagan National, 18 dulles and bwi marshall 18 degrees. Cloudy skies to start your day. Well turn partly sunny this afternoon. We will remain quite cold for this time of year but as mentioned it will be a little warmer than yesterday and then we have a lot going on tomorrow. A little clipper bringing us a brief period of snow perhaps enough to coat the ground tomorrow morning at this hour and then a lot of cold air for the remainder of t details on that coming up but today 34 degrees and again, you know, like the turn of the new year. Yes. Always something new and exciting to look forward to in the sevenday. And we will that find out at 7 15. We will. Thanks tuck. Good morning erin. Good morning. We have improvements on crash scene 395 southbound just partially closing the offramp to gw parkway. Traffic is getting by. Just use caution. Volume so light this isnt causing any delays on 395. As we forward things along 95 still at speed dale city to the beltway. South that of point youre at speed fredericksburg into stafford. Not seeing any problems on 66 through manassas. Out in gainsville youre nice and quiet. Just a little bit of volume increasing but not enough to slow us down past sudley road into fairfax youre in great shape. Look at this wide view. Can we just enjoy this for the last friday of 2017 . I like what were seeing. The bel beltway is quiet. 210 in Fort Washington quiet. If you have an Early Morning flight to catch on the way to bwi Reagan National and dulles youre lki 95 live look at maryland 212, youre wide opened. So, really smooth sailing this morning. If you are in fact headed to work for this final friday of 2017, no normal morning congestion. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Things on metro getting back to normal after some earlier blue line problems. Back to you. Seven past the hour. A busy night for emergency crews in Montgomery County. Around 9 30 last night they responded to a serious crash on brink road in germantown after a car went into a fence. Youre looking at the photos from the scene. Two people were taken at the hospital with serious injuries. One of those victims is fighting for their life. No word on what caused that crash. Also Montgomery County fire crews were called to a two alarm fire in aspen hill last night. The fire started in the lower floor of an Apartment Building and we are told that dozens of people have been evacuated from the Apartment Building. It is along georgia avenue. Firefighters say about six to eight units were affected. Right now theres no word on any injuries. Charges pending this morning against a man accused of shooting and killing his wife in fredericksburg, virginia. Police say the man then led authorities on a high speed chase even shooting at police as they attempted to pull him over. Were told those bullets narrowly missed two officers. That chase ended on i95 where the suspects vehicle crashed into a guardrail and flipped over. Police found him with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. They say he is now in critical condition. No word on a motive. Want to take you to Prince Georges County now where a man has died after shooting along i295. He was found just before 6 30 last night on the side of the road near route 50. Investigators tell us he was shot in the upper body. Traffic was backed up in both directions. The victim has not been identified. Police are still looking for a suspect. And in the district, Metro Transit Police pardon me are investigating a stabbing at the nomagallaudet station. Authorities say somebody stabbed a man about 5 00 p. M. That person taken to the hospital. No word on his condition. Investigators still looking for a suspect an motive. An extreme danger to the community is how a judge described the teenager arrested yesterday and charged in the death of 17year jahmari sydnor. This is the third arrest in the killing. Jahmari was shot while driving in northeast d. C. Four months ago. Fox5s kristyn leon is live outside d. C. Police headquarters with the latest. Kristyn. Reporter good morning, maureen and steve. Yesterday d. C. Police announced the arrest of 18yearold James Mayfield in three separate homicide cases here. Now, keep in mind mayfield has been on the run since october so this latest arrest here is a major victory for local law enforcement. Now, mayfield is charged in the murders of like you mentioned 17yearold jahmari sydnor and that happened on august 10th 2017. 38yearold germane bowens on december 26th, 2017. And 21yearold elijah henry on december 27th 2017. Police say that same. 40 caliber pistol was used in all three shootings. Now, sydnor, the an mpd sergeant was headed to a family members wedding at the time when she was shot by the accused here. Now, as you can imagine its been a painful time for all of the families involved who have lost a loved one to the senseless acts of violence. Completely disgusted. You know, he killed my baby. He killed my innocent child. Completely disgusted. Hes a monster. He is he is a monster. And its just sad that he had the opportunity to strike yet twice again. You know, just because he had not been caught for whatever reason. Reporter i think i them. I lost. Kristen cant hear us right now but we will pick up from there. Shell stay on that story and well get you the latest details as we can. Politics in the meantime. Down in Alabama Democrat doug jones historic victory over republican roy moore now is official. Alabama Election Officials certified jones as the winner of the special Senate Election despite moores last minute lawsuit claiming voter fraud. Moores attorney called for a Fraud Investigation anew voteane irregularities during the election. That race obviously very closely watched with jones winning by about 20,000 votes. Still to come this morning new details emerging about the intense security plan about new york city and times square this weekend. And the t. S. A. On pace to squash an all time record before the year is through. Details after the break. Heres your receipt. Have a nice day thank you. Start the car start the car start the car start the car the ikea winter sale. Wooooooo get up to 50 off select items. Now through january 10th. Ikea. Z2momz zi0z y2momy yi0y well start with a live picture of our area because we feel like its an arctic wonderland this morning. Temperature 21 degrees right now and yesterday of course with wind chills right around zero, it was very, very, very cold. Some places actually do look like an arctic blast hit them. As it continues to sweep across parts of the country, how about this . This is lake erie in pennsylvania. Weather so cold that it turned the shore line into an outdoor ice palace and you can see the sheets of ice. Those are benches where you would normally sit and enjoy the nice pretty view. Wow. Its pretty. It is pretty to look at not to sit on this time of year. Benches and poles covered in ice. Wow. And it looks like the lake itself is covered with snow and ice, too. Its right along the coastline there. Yeah, absolutely. 7 15. Its very chilly. Yeah. More weather coming up. Hey, i want to give a shoutout. I got this great picture yesterday from a viewer and we love hearing from our uhhuh. And so i got this picture from raul. We were talk yesterday about the ball dropping. You look on the read it says fox5 and this his eightyearold son tommy drew this while watching the show yesterday and said hey, this is you. He said you guys were talking about new years. Here you go heres my picture of you guys talking about new years on fox5. Tommy i know youre about to head out this morning in a little bit but thank you so much for the picture. Absolutely love it. Raul thanks for sending it in. Steve your hair has never looked better. He accurately got your big mouth, too. He did. Or is that his nose. He actually got a few snowflakes out there tucker just for you. Good job. We love it. Tommy thank you very much. I love the picture and hope you guys have a happy new year. Indeed, indeed. Lets talk about our weather. It is cold weve been saying it and well keep saying it. Were going to say it again right now. In fact lets go to the cold. 21 here in washington. Lots of teens as were getting up out the door. Look at boston this morning, 3 degrees. Whew. I know what youre maureen. You know what its time for. Wee. Our tour to their north. Canada is a cold country. We dont appreciate how cold canada can be. True. From minus four in Prince George to minus 12 in gram bee canada. If you drew a circle around where all those minus 30s are, probably more people live in the block where you do than then tire region right there. That is so true. I think i read one time that 95 percent of canadians live within 100 miles of the u. S. Border. I believe it. I mean that area is no joke. Some people do it and they survive. I dont see how. Cant ever turn the cars off in the wintertime and a lot of things that you do different to survive in those temperatures. Yeah, thats not a welcoming climate, is it . All right. Were looking at cloudy skies to start your day. Well get partly sunny this afternoon. Daytime highs will be how days that. Oniata. Oniata. Never heard of it. Let me take care of a little business and get back to that. Coming through tonight bringing us a brief period of snow tomorrow morning. All right . What. Yeah, perhaps a coating, perhaps up to an inch and then thats going to reinforce the cold around here for the weekend so just real quick we got a little snow in the forecast for late tonight. This will be after midnight early tomorrow morning. Dusting to an inch. Wont be a big deal but it will be cold enough it will stick. If youre getting up early got to go to work or wherever you may be going tomorrow morning there may be a little snow around and then the extreme cold moves back in. Sunday monday, tuesday. Daytime highs in the mid20s overnight lows in the teens. It is going to be really cold around here. All right. Wind chill near zero if youre going dancing. No. Well, erin dancing in there sheets thats whats happening. Oh. Well, sleeping, sleeping. On that well turn it over to erin. [laughter] you never know what you can get tossed with, right. Were one for one now this morning. I know, right. It wasnt supposed to be but i made it weird. No, it was good. I liked it. Oh, man. 395 southbound ramp to gw parkway crash moved to the shoulder. Traffic getting lets go ahead and forward things along. 270 looking good on the south and northbound side. To and from 70 down to the beltway. Love what were seeing there. And then as we make our way out inner loop looks good and were not seeing any problems on 95 or in Southern Maryland. Youre wide opened through brandywine clinton, pretty much every area. Someone just tweeted me and said. I half asleep or is the map really that green. It is really that green. If youre headed to work this last friday 2017 youre not going to hit any traffic. I hate when i turn the to the side and i see that mic pack. Thank you erin. A concert earlier this month to raise money for victims of the mass shooting in las vegas has raised more than 700,000. The money will benefit the las vegas victims fund. So far more than 22 million has been raised for the 58 People Killed and hundreds injured during the october musikfest at a attack. The committee overseeing the fund will be to victims in march. As of Christmas Eve the thats a 15 percent increase from last years figure. T. S. A. Officials say the last week of the year is the busiest for travel ar and the final days of december could likely push that number to or over the 4,000 mark. More than 8. 7 Million People signed up for coverage next year under the obama era healthcare law. The final tally for the 39 healthcare. Gov states showed fewer. A spokesman for the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services says the slight dip is due to late cancellations. Time now is 7 19. This year may be the coldest new years eve in new york city since the 1960s but Police Officials in the big apple say one thing is for sure. Security in and around the times square area this year will be the tightest in the citys history. Foxs lauren blan blanchard is tracking new d public will and much the public will not see. Reporter tighter than ever security as they prepare more more than a Million People to ring in 201 in times square. There are no Credible Threats against new york this time. Reporter it will include more officers and explosive sniffing dogs than ever plus an unprecedented number of police snipers. Were also putting out more observation teams with sniper, counter sniper capabilities. Reporter for the first time detectives will be stationed inside every hotel along seventh avenue. In each hotel well have uniformed officers working in each hotel and well have multiple Emergency Service and Critical Response command Response Teams located throughout the ren view. Reporter the added dogs come after a failed suicide bomb attack in a tunnel near a major city bus terminal this month. And the extra snipers are in the wake of octobers mass shooting in las vegas. One challenge for police, the frigi cold predicted this year will mean bundled up hard to identify wearing bulky coats that could make it harder to identify suspicious items underneath. People are going to be wearing heavy clothing but at each checkpoint we have heavy weapons teams too. Reporter inside the secured times square trash cans will be removed bags will be banned and to get in people will have to pass by dogs, go through metal detectors and then repeat those steps. More than 120 parking garages in the times square area are also being emptied and sealed. Lauren blanchard, fox news. Lauren thanks very much. Out with the old and in with the new. Peop