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Left in the dark. Right now deniozens of people a without power. The effort to get the lights back on. And the mummers are not letting the cold stop their new years tradition. The extra measures being taken to keep them safe and warm. And spreading kindness. How a local than is using buttons to send an Important Message for the new year. Good morning. This is nbc 10 news today. Im lauren mayk. And im dray clark. Were in the midst of another deep freeze. Temperatures are brutal. So definitely dress in layers whether youre going to the parade or just doing things with family. Lets get over to tammie souza. You know, this is a roller coaster weve been rising but it does not peak at 40 or 50 degrees, it is stuck in the teens and 20s. And that is the case all week. So we are still under a first alert for dangerous kofld. That is through 8 00 tomorrow morning. If you are going out this morning, if you dont have to go out, i wouldnt. ....
2018 finally here. Were working for you this morning to help you keep the new years resolutions. Aaron and eun off on this 1st of january 2018. Im david culver. Im molette green. Happy new year. We have on our fancy clothes. Just to make it look like we had a social life, at least for me. Keep the celebration going into the new year. Even though well freeze if we dont bundle up, sheena. Its cold. Cant show off the fancy things outside. Got to cover it up. You will literally freeze. Turn into a statue. Were talking about kiwindchill so dangerous that exposing the skin for 30 minutes could cause frostbite. This is dangerous cold across the area. Down to 3 degrees below zero in in manassas. 1 degree at dulles. Martinsburg feels like 0. Quantico feeling like 1 degree. 2 degrees in clinton. As you wake up, if youre stepping outside around 7 00, 8 00, 9 00, you want to bundle up. Temperatures in the mid to low teens. Its really the windchills that were worried about. Were looking at windchil ....
Scarves, gloves. At this hour, a lot of people just pull the covers up, stay in bed. All that stuff. Well be good. Before we get to that forecast, we want to look back at the final seconds of 2017. Look closely. Youll see molette standing in front of the ball drop there in times square. It was below freezing out there. Thousands, though, still showed up to watch it just over six hours ago. The clock struck 12 for the rest of the country. Heres a look at the celebrations in dallas. It was cold. That would be welcome weather right here in d. C. Right, sheena. Yes, thats right. Heres the thing, though. We have temperatures above zero. But the windchills in some areas with below zero. Were windchills across the area. This is why theres a weather alert this morning. Still frigid. Temperatures in the 20s and later on this week, we have a snow chance. Well watch the storm pass by off the shore. Dress in layers, very warm. You want to dress today and really even tomorrow, too. Right now, it fe ....
The time before that, 1985. Many are blaming our current weather pattern on something called the polar vortex. So, we sent nbc10s lauren mayk over to the Weather Center to ask glenn to help us understand what it is. Glenn schwartz all right, first of all, its nothing new. Its been around forever. Meteorologists have used the term forever. Its just something thats come into the public in just the last few years. The coldest air in the world is at the pole. And normally, you have that the jet stream up there just spinning around and around and around, keeping the coldest air on earth right up there. Sometimes, it will shift with a certain weather pattern and start coming down toward canada, or it could go to the other side of the world towards siberia. And its carrying that coldest air with it. So, as that polar vortex gets closer to us, its bringing that frigid air with it. Lauren mayk and the fact that were seeing it now, what doe ....
Died. Abs 7s Jessica Castro numerous rescue operations under way right now. The magnitude 6. 4 quake is being blamed for partially knocking down this hotel. Look at this new video we have, the Associated Press reporting that the ground floor caved in and in this video here, you can see people climbig out of the windows to get to safety. There are reportedly still people trapped inside. Its not just the only building thats seen damage. Several highrise buildings and roads have extensive damage. Look at these pictures. You can see buckled roads there. The preliminary information suggesting the quake was about six miles deep. And listen here to an American Woman who said she felt it nearly 100 miles away in the islands capital city. So, i am in taipei, on the northern side of the city. We were home in our apartment on the ....