In ashburn, abc 7 news. All right, decide for yourselves. That is it or abc 7 news at 5 00. Now at 6 00 the bitter cold. Now from the abc 7 broadcast centers, this is abc 7 news at 6 00, on your side. Snow, it is not the the dangerous cold. Folks digging out from a blizzard. In massachusetts, more than two feet of snow. More than 2000 flights delayed nationwide. People and laguardia spend the night sleeping on cots. Areas have seen delays will trying to get to by snow. T hard we start with meteorologist steve rudin. Hi, steve. Belowperatures remain average. We have a brief warmup on the way. Take a look at temperatures. Outside the belfort furniture weather center, looking at 23 degrees at reagan national. 0 at dulles Single Digits across frederick county. Only feels like five and hagerstown. Feels like 19 and fredericksburg. Per hour. Nd 45 miles our skies are clear. With the fresh snow pack, we are looking at temperatures to fall quickly. He coldest temperatures off to the north and west of the district. We have a brief warming trend on the way and then get ready. Some of the coldest weather we have seen in d. C. And 20 years. That is the sevenday outlook. Our Team Coverage continues with the d. C. Bureau chief sam ford live in northwest washington. Sam . Ark northwest d. C. Under a hypothermia alert tonight. We are outside the Martin Luther king library. Every year a city contracted man rounds up Homeless People to take them to shelters. They expect more passengers than usual because of the plunging temperatures that came with last nights storm. Break froma daytime the extreme cold which came in with last nights snowstorm. A huge tree collapsed, burying one womans car and knocking out the power to much of the neighborhood. His wife heard it. Shesaid something woke me up. Stay at a going to friends house. Got to get out to get some wifi, got to get out to a phone charger. To work. Ot going are you freezing . It is f freezin the biggest problem though was the cold. Particularly for the homeless. It is freezing cold. He is among those who stayed at the Central Mission today. It has 170 beds ready for men it except it expects to seek shelter tonight. We will continue until the beds are full. What happens at that point . Once we become full, we will try to work with the shelter hotline to see if we can find them shelter someplace out. Not a night for people to be sleeping outside. We are back in front of the Martin Luther king library. The city is under a hypothermia alert. The city normally operates about seven nighttime shelters, but because of the hypothermia alert , they have opened an additional nine shelters in the city, mainly involvingng recchurches m for anyone to get out of this cold weather. Reporting live from northwest washington, sam ford, abc 7 news. Thanks. Montgomery county reporter kevin lewis continues our live Team Coverage. He is in there would, maryland. Marine, d and crews havemaureen, been working for seven hours. In cbs had to cancel classes, granting 150,000 kids their third snow day of the new year. A bitter cold day. I am shoveling this beautiful snow. I love it. They spent the afternoon fixing the driveway. It is normally the day for garbage pickup. But due to this serious morning wreck a technician slammed into the back of a 60,000 poun s salt truck. Miraculously, no one was hurt. Here in Montgomery County everything is refreezing. Over to keepback everybody safe. Crews went over all 200 13 plow routes. A coffee break allows the drivers to refuel. Availablers are also as most of these men are on the clock for two days straight area two days straight. Looking ahead, these snow plow trucks will be on the roads until 8 00 tonight. They will have to use tomorrow to rest up. It why . Or is more snow there is more snow forecast for sunday. Im kevin lewis, abc 7 news. In arlington, crews battled the arctic chill to get the lights back on. Here is a reminder that abc 7 is your storm watch station. You can download our storm watch weather app to get the latest from our team of meteorologists. Coming up cub playing in the snow, even though she is to small to go outside she is too small to go outside. Watching and waiting on the Supreme Court for the Affordable Care act. That is up next. Maryland lawmakers will consider an emergency bill to fix problems with the state run Health Insurance exchange. It will guarantee coverage for people who thought they signed up but whose applications did not go through. The bill will be signed at the start of the legislative session next week. The Obama Administration made its case and now we wait to see whether religious groups will be required to cover earth control for their employees. This is one of several new fought battles being over the Affordable Care act. Scott thuman has details. Scott . Talking about that key provision which at any moment Justice Sotomayor your good put on hold or removed to the full court. We are three days into the laws full effect and new challenges are adding up. The size may be sunny in hawaii, but the president will soon be the skies may be sunny in hawaii, but the president will soon be returning to gloomy conditions. At white house has called on Justice Sotomayor your mayor to stopthe locking portions of the health care law. Meanwhile the house will challenge the law again next rate. Next week. Urchin yours eric cantor will schedule debates at the government should have to notify individuals if their personal information on healthcare. Gov is compromised. These battles, some claim, are counterproductive, citing the government shutdown. Congressman van hollen on news talk. Errand. A fools it would be one thing if it only hurt the people who are engaged in that fools errand. Unfortunately it hurt the country. Another complaint from 11 attorney generals, including the one from virginia. While in favor of the law, they say it is for congress to declare illegal. The president and the congress both of whom are violating this law, as do live by the law that everybody else does. That does not seem like too much to ask him up quite frankly. It turns out there is no quick and easy way to update coverage when you have significant life changes like the birth of a baby, marriage, divorce, new jobs, new income. These are changes that will be postponed. Scott thuman, abc 7 news. Thank you. Coming up, the Obama Administration wants to make it harder for mentally ill people to get guns. We will tell you about new rules that could be on the way. When we could see our next chance for winter weather. To meetedskins continue with coaching candidates. I have the very latest. And the midway of the hockey season. Abc 7 news a lot of news organizations are skeptical about her report that north korea for leader killed his uncle by fading into a pack of hungry dogs. Talk about resentment. Kim jongun had his uncle executed on charges of trees on that treason. Now china newspaper claims that the uncle was fed to a pack of hungry dogs. Story wasthat this printed weeks ago but for some reason did not pick up steam until today. Administration wants to make it harder for mentally ill people to buy guns. The new rule would make it harder to buy guns if you have mentally ill health problems. New at 6 00 eppicards are issued by the state for those receiving welfare support and other payments. The Program Vendor blocked access to the affected funds. Replacement cards were mailed out today. If you think it is cold, think about these folks in minnesota. It is so brutally cool, the governor had to cancel classes for the entire state. The wind chill makes it feel like 60. No snow day at the national zoo. The zoo was open in spite of the bad weather. The zookeepers rot the snow to the panda cub. There is a picture the zookeepers brought the snow to the panda cub. There is a p picreshe will maket on january 18. [laughter] it is really cold already. If this is not cold enough for you, come Tuesday Morning we will see the coldest temperatures we have seen in bc in 20 years in d. C. And 20 years. All. It is 23 degrees at reagan national. The wind gusts at around 45 mile per hour. To the the over temperatures in the 20s, even betweens. Radio, upper northwest d. C. , looking at 20 at this hour. Looking at 16 with a feels like temperature of six main, because of 16, to cause the winds have finally settled down. Lexington park, maryland at 22. That really cold air assault south of us. Detroits looking at seven degrees. Boston at nine degrees. They are digging out from 12 to 18 inches of snow. Look to the north. It feels like below zero. It will feel really cold early tomorrow morning. The skies are clear. I pressure overhead. The snowpack will allow our temperatures to drop quickly. High pressure overhead. Of the east coast covered with snow as we move through this january. If you think about these snow year compared to last season reagan national, we had three and a half inches. Last year only about three inches of snow. Remember 2009 . Snowmaggeddon . Are we on our way . Do not know. 20s, lower 30s. He could see a little bit of a wintry mix. A few showers. Rebound tos will above freezing, well above freezing. It is going to be cold. 16 degrees. That is it for the overnight low. Cold tuesday in the extended forecast. Intoll slowly climbed back the mid40s by the end of the week. Climb backslowly into the mid40s by the end of the week. Now the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota and dealers. [indiscernible] i have two tickets for you. Minus eight has been very secretive about the redskins coach search, but they did talk to Rich Bisaccia today. Meanwhile, jay gruden, still very hot on the redskins list. Bill belichick, despite what youre hearing, not interested in returning to coaching. Not interested in the other coaching jobs, just thaler. The ravens offensive coordinator jim caldwell meeting next week. Caldwell will meet with the lions first. Tide. Alabama turned the ball five times. Oklahoma turned those turnovers into points. 5541, boomer sooners. National champs. Booth anhe phone opportunity to get to 500 again. Let me take you back to oklahoma city. Joe johnson. The Previous Play of the night great hoops. 16 down to the okc. The final there was 9593. Our play of the day run the mba. Look at the former duke. Reverse alleyoop. Over the head dunk. Play of they, the day. Lets go to college basketball. Topranked arizona. Record performance against washington state. Washington state, seven points of the first half. It was a football score. Maybe the cougars. 20 was the fewest points six years ago. All right, lets talk about hockey. And lewis has concerns and he should. The cats are inconsistent. Adam says they were losing games closely, but who cares . Still a lost. This laser shot tied the game at one. Kobe missed a penalty shot. Turnedt over. Murphy to skinner. Bingo. Skinner had three goals in the game to be the caps. Comcastpped at the center. The terps are 10. I will be there to announce that game at comcast. It is good to stay home for a week. And the safety first. I do not want a bad reputation. Street will of wall has not set any box office records, but be Martin Scorsese film did set a record for use of the fword. To previous record belonged spike lees summer of sam. [laughter] word. E f freeze. Seven degrees tomorrow. Waking up tomorrow around 11 00, we will be in the upper 20s. A nice warm up on sunday, lower 40s. If only it could last. Feast your eyes on this. Daytime high temperatures probably after midnight on monday will tumble from the 30s into the 20s. Single digits in the district waking up Tuesday Morning. The coldest temperatures we have seen in 20 years. 18 for the high on tuesday. Back to the 40s by the end of the week. Ok. Abc world news coming up next. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org have a