Roads tomorrow. We start with the current temperatures 20 degrees as you mentioned, cold with the windchill of 11 5 to 15 degrees generally most neighborhoodsno but again, whats important is the air is cold enough that that when this system comes in it will be providing us with snow and i think several inches too. Because of that, we have a Winter Weather advisory everybody in the purple, areas down to the south including areas of Southern Maryland. Winter weather advisories more snow several inches expected Garrett County and allegheny off to the west. We start as snow, well get the sleet then the freezing rain. That means Road Conditions could become icy. Yes, that snow will accumulate coming down at a pretty good clip at times and that means reducing the visibility on area roads. I think our big trouble will be after 2 00, 3 00 tomorrow. The radar, quiet. The storm system getting its act together far to the south and west. You can see it here around areas of oklahoma and around areas of southern missouri where snow and areas of rain down there, but lots of moisture will be coming into this system and warm air as well. So thats why were going to see the switchover i think, all rain by midnight. Prior to that 11 00 a. M. Through 2 00 p. M. 3 00 p. M. Tomorrow real problems. Ill take you through a time line hour by hour coming up in a couple minutes, show you what your neighborhood can expect. V. J. Thanks. The forecast of snow and potential for freezing rain means roads could be slippery this weekend. Maryland highway crews will be ready with snowplows and salt too. If you have to drive saturday afternoon through sunday highway officials ask you to drive slowly very cautiously tomorrow. Also leave plenty of room between you and the car in front of you, icy roads could make it tougher for you to stop out there. You know this very time last year i was in russia covering the winter olympic games. Just checked my weather app, sochi is a good 22 degrees warmer than we are right now, so just putting it in perspective. Who would have thought that for us here . We are even colder today than in m places in alaska too. Despite our frigid temperatures life must go on. We have to get out and about, take care of things that means walking the dog, a fast walk in many cases and shopping still has to be done too. Its freezing. I cant get him to go out here quick enough. Im surprised at how many people come out with not heavy coats on, no hats, no gloves, no scarves. They just come out with anything. I even see people with shorts on. Not surprisingly plenty of room at the outdoor seating areas today. Repairs are complete and this afternoon all lanes are back open on washington boulevard in arlington here. A water main broke near buchanon street yesterday around noon. One lane closed in both directions. Right now the water is back on and crews have cleared the area. Meanwhile, the frigid temperatures still are causing problems for metro. Lets go to molette green at Lenphant Plaza today. We have incredible video thats on our nbc washington facebook page. A lot of delays right, mollett . Reporter yeah. There have been problems th the day on the system and in this cold weather, metro tells me that you can expect that problems could pop up. Theres a pepco work truck right behind me still working here. Just a short bit ago a d. C. Water crew left the scene, both working with metro crews to try to fix the powerrelated problem here at Lenphant Plaza. As it gets colder with more bad weather on the way, metro passengers seem to get more frustrated. In this bitter cold you dress in layers especially if you are waiting on a bus or a train or walking to and from school like these d. C. School students. But for metro passengers each day seems to bring the unexpected. Two cracked rails left orange and silver line trains sitting on the tracks during the height of the morning commute. And at Lenphant Plaza, a power outage from this morning shut down the ninth and d street entrance to riders. Not much not sure with the sign. Would have been a lot easier. You try to leave early, leaving even earlier and even earlier. Myself i just dont understand the whole o process. Seem like they dont design the system to be an allweather system. Its like they built it for it to be in miami versus for it to be in washington, d. C. With the climate going on. Reporter now, we can tell you that this entrance here at ninth and d reopened just before 2 00 this afternoon. Although work crews remained at the scene. Coming up tonight at 5 00 what exactly went wrong here and what passengers did about it. Im molette green, live at Lenphant Plaza, back to you. Thanks mollett. For the First Time Since a Corruption Scandal rocked virginia we heard today from Maureen Mcdonnell wife of the former governor. She spoke during her sentencing and she learned she will be heading to prison for a year and one day. News4s david culvert joins us live from richmond where former governor also spoke today. David . Reporter pate less than the 18 months that the prosecution wanted but its more than what the mcdonnell supporters were hoping for, and that was Just Community service. Instead, judge spencer looked at Maureen Mcdonnell and called her a coconspirator and ordered she spend time in prison. With two of her children by her side Maureen Mcdonnell a convicted felon and now sentenced to prison walked silently in the cold to her car. This is the maureen weve seen since the trial, saying little to nothing. But in court, before judge spencer delivered his sentence virginias former first lady spoke publicly for the first time adding that shes been eager to break her silence, barely getting through a word witht choking up maureen told the judge shes sorry for letting Johnny Williams into their lives, which ultimately led to the corruption. She referred to williams as a serpent. Im allowed who allowed the serpent into the mansion, and the venom has poisoned my marriage my family and the commonwealth that i love. Im the one who opened the door and i blame no one but myself. The former governor was also in court to support his wife giving her a kiss on the cheek twice. Remember their defense was that a broken marriage. Heres what he said outside of court. Shes a very good person and i think it was a very heart felt statement. Reporter mcdonnell also thanked the judge. I just wanted to say that i appreciate very much judge spencers mercy and leniency for my wife today. Reporter that tearful testimony from Maureen Mcdonnell went on for several minutes. The news4 iteams Scott Mcfarlane was with me in court. Ahead at 5 00 hes going to bring you some more of that revealing testimony. She goes into what shes been doing in time since the initial charges and conviction, and as we mentioned this is the first time we heard from Maureen Mcdonnell. Live david culvert, nutz 4. It forced people in several neighborhoods to get their somewhere else just before the holidays. Why do people affected by smelly water may never know what happened. Feeling the chill. The tricky operation to help people in our area despite desperate for supplies during this blast of arctic air. A government error leaving hundreds of thousands hanging in the balance. Im Erika Gonzalez and im going to tell you about the problem that could delay you. I know youve been expecting it your tax ref it looks like well never know what made the Drinking Water smell funny right before christmas in the shaw and local neighborhoods. D. C. Water just wrapped up its investigation saying it could not pinpoint the source of the petroleum odor but said its unlikely the problem will happen again. The smelly water triggered a do not drink advisory that lasted from december 17th to the 19th. People could not shower or cook with their tap water and three schools had to close. Were learning more about a woman who was killed in a hitandrun crash in virginia. Her name is adela. She was 85. Were told she was walking between her house and the Shopping Center something she did all the time when she was hit. It happened along stone road in ville last night. Investigators say snow on the shoulder may have been a factor in the crash. At this point, police dont have any description of the car that hit her. Get ready for a royal visit. Well tell you about the big trip to washington thats now just a couple of weeks away. And arctic blast grips the nations capital, but another problem is moving in on us. A live look now at National Harbor a harbor of ice, the potomac is frozen over in all of this arctic weather. Its beautiful from here. So whats next for us . Snow and ice just in time for your weekend. Veronicas coming back with more in just a few minutes. Right now we are learning about a government error that could affect when and how you file your tax returns. And it all has do with forms on the site healthcare. Gov. Consumer reporter Erika Gonzalez joins us in the studio with what happened and what you can do about it. Pat and jim, there is no denying the Affordable Care a complicated, especially when it comes to affecting your taxes. So how much in fact . Well the government has made a mistake. The white house says about 800,000 healthcare. Gov customers got wrong Tax Information from the government. To see if you were impacted logon now to the healthcare. Gov site. If youre affected youre going to get a message that pops up in your account. The errors are in the new forms called the 1095as, which are similar to w2 for health care. If youre affected youre being asked to wait until you receive a corrected form. That should happen by the first week of march. And if youve already filed, youll get special instructions from the treasury department. One more update from healthcare. Gov out today, officials announce a signup extension for uninsured people who may face the Health Care Laws tax penalties. There will be a special Enrollment Period from march 15th through marmg 30th and more on that in the coming weeks. Back to you. A growing number of people are dying from hypothermia. Thats the word this afternoon from the cdc. Hypothermia happens when the body loses heat that isser than it can produce heat. That happened to more than 13,000 people between 2003 and 2013. With a steady increase in the numbers every year. The cdc says the elderly and those with Mental Illness face the highest risk along with people who live alone and people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol. Some of the coldest people along the Chesapeake Bay are getting some help during this arctic blast. Tangier island on the lower Eastern Shore is now ice bound. The Virginia Community hasnt had Ferry Service in a week. Tomorrow a maryland icebreaker will work to free the island. A ferryboat will be towed behind. Yesterday the Virginia National guard used a black hawk helicopter to deliver fresh food and medicine. Theres no drugstore on the island. Just being outside in five minutes, this shirt is completely frozen solid. Thats how cold it is out here. Yeah thats pretty cold. We sent storm team 4 meteorologist amelia segal outside in the cold during the morning recordbreaking cold. She did a little demonstration showing us how long it takes for things to freeze. It was even cold enough to make ice cream. I was craving that watching her this morning. Werent you . When ifls out there a few minutes ago, veronica you were telling me its about 25 degrees warmer in terms of windchill than when she was out there. Exactly. It was way low this morning. We get ready for the next system warming temperatures allowing us to transition from snow to rain but not all good because that rain i think will wash a lot of chemicals off the road so that as we get into the second half of the weekend it may cause some issues. But for a period of time during the storm, i do think that roads could become treacherous, especially after 2 00 on saturday. The snow that starts out it will be accumulating very quickly, an inch per hour. Then well see the freezing rain, the sleet start to mix in with the storm and that means icy conditions by evening. So snow to ice, were talking around 4 00 5 00 p. M. On saturday where roads could just be terrible. Were at 21 degrees right now. The windchill temperature 11 degrees. Weve got sunshine. But that system its getting its act together quickly. Take a look at radar right now, not much going on here. As i open it up to show you, that great big old l, oklahoma around areas of missouri and arkansas where theres a lot of moisture thats going to start coming in with the storm system. What that means for us is the potential to get several inches of snow, to get a little bit of ice on top of that snow before we change over the r lets talk about your future weather, as i mentioned, the snow comes in from west to east and it is these arias across western maryland around cumberland and hagerstown that could see the highest amounts of snow in this system. Here it is at noontime right around d. C. Starting by 2 00 widespread snow throughout the area. The pink thats the freezing rain and there will be a little bit of sleet, too, coming into the storm system by around 1 00 2 00 i think. By 4 00 with the warmer air starting to mix into the storm system thats going to allow us to have not just snow by 5 00 and 6 00 but freezing rain mixing in. Thats whats going to make conditions on area roads not very good at all. So if you can get it done early in the day before 10 00, 11 00 a. M. Please do. By 10 00 p. M. Shgt by midnight i think its all rain for the system and it will start to head out and race out, in fact by sunday morning. 6 00a. M. 7 00 a. M. Most of the rain will be shutting off making its way east of the area. Heres a look at the snowfall amounts that were forecasting before we switched over to the freezing rain. 3 to 6 inches hagerstown frederick, leesburg, and right into d. C. As much as 3 to 6. Well be zooming in a little tighter on this map, a little later in the newscast. 1 to 3 inches annapolis, waldorf, fredericksburg a light coating across arias of extreme Southern Maryland leonardtown and the northern neck. Snow develops early, some of it heavy, 28 to 36 the temperature range. Ice will be the big issue with this storm system as we get into the evening hours. Your second half of the weekend better with that warmer air. Well have more on those totals coming up later in the newscast. Well get ready for this a busy metro station is about to shut down for the weekend. How that could impact your weekend plans even if you dont use the station. Scammers going after your money, but warning this afternoon about a nanny scam here in our area. But this ones a little different from what you might a Police Bomb Squad used a mobile row got blow up a suspicious device in los angeles. An object had a fuse attached to it on the highway. So far authorities havent said whether it contained any explosives. The incident caused big headaches for drivers. The 5 freeway was closed nearly three hours. Eight months after a detroit boy was found hiding in a basement charges have been filed against his father and stepmother. He and his wife were charged today with torture and child abuse. Both entered not guilty pleas. Prosecutors say the couple physically abused the 12yearold boy and kept him in their basement. He was deprived of food and forced to do extreme exercises as punishment. The case came to light last june when the father reported the boy had been missing for several days. He then learned during a tv interview, a national tv interview, that his son was inside the house. A tax warning today from of all people pope francis. He says men and women who give to their churches but who commit injustice elsewhere are committing a grave sin. In a sermon at his residence in the vatican, the pontiff also spoke of employers who hire workers off the books to avoid paying taxes and social security. He said if you go to mass on sunday and take communion, you should ask yourself whether you pay your workers a fair salary and make pension contributions. He also said donating to the church wont make up for those injustices. President obama will host Prince Charles and his wife camilla, at the white house next month. They will meet in the oval office march 19th. The royals fourday u. S. Visit will include a trip to George Washingtons home. It will be a repeat for charles. Clarence house tweeted this photo of the prince at 21 visiting mt. Vernon with his sister ann. Thats trisha nixon in the pink next to her, her sister julie nixon eisenhower. Prince charles has been at the u. S. 20 times since that trip. His last visit was back in 2011. This arctic blast of course is gripping much of the country and having a big impact this afternoon on people and making for some pretty memorable pictures. So when will it finally warm up . When can we shut this thing down . And whats in store for us this weekend now that several inches of snow could be falling over the next couple days . Okay, i need a better pizza. One made with only real cheese. And dough that rises naturally. With no chemical leaveners. A pizza my family will love. announcer freschetta naturally rising crust pizza. No other pizza tastes like freschetta because no other pizza is made like freschetta. And try great tasting gluten free freschetta. Ask for it at your local store. Right now at 4 30, we are staying on top of several bik stories this afternoon. First at 4, blaming herself. Former first lady Maureen Mcdonnell sentenced to one year and one day in jail for corruption charges. She told the judge today she blames no one but herself. One for the record books. Started out with recordbreaking cold but bigger concerns for the weekend. A winter storm warning issued for part of it. Weve got Team Coverage this afternoon of the wintry blast that just wont seem to end. Lets begin with storm team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson. Lay it on us v. J. I want to stress the first part of the day tomorrow saturday will be just fine. So if you can get out and get things done prior to say, 10 00, 11 00 a. M. In the morning, go ahead and do that please. On radar right now it is quiet, scanning the area. Nothing to report right now, so as we said first thing early tomorrow morning, your wakeup forecast when you get up 6 00 7 00 it is going to be dry and certainly going to be cold 7 to 12 degrees with windchill readings anywhere from around zero to about 5 degrees below zero. Heres your planner forecast for saturday. From 24 degrees at 11 00 a. M. To 35 at 11 00 p. M. As warmer air comes in, we start as snow at 11 00 a. M. Snow and freezing rain by 3 00 p. M. Mixed, thats why we could s issues on area road. Same thing around 7 00 rain freezing rain, still making itsy with that temperature just above freezing then all rain into the late evening, early part of sunday. Were updating nbc washington and our storm team 4 weather app and have a lot more snowfall amounts coming up. How the bitter cold is gripping the rest of the country. Nbcs jay gray is live in nashville. Jay, there were many record low temperatures broken all over the bay. Whats it like where you are now . Reporter yeah,s cd as it has been. Theyve broken records, jim, throughout the week here in nashville. Look it still hasnt been above freezing here since last saturday. It mark her tomorrow but before that we got another round of snow and ice to go through. Breaking the ice in nashville. Where for this Bachelorette Party in for the weekend, getting cold feet isnt just a chance. Its a sure thing. Were not worried. We have options. Were probably going to try to see if we can get out and listen to some music and hang out. If not, we have wine back at the hotel room. Reporter First Responders say staying until may be the best bet for the next couple days. If you dont have to be out, dont be out. And if you do have to be out, be prepared. Reporter though there are theres only so much you can prepare for. The brutal conditions stretching teams to their limit, including these firefighters in massachusetts, struggling to save group of horses after a barn roof collapsed under the weight of all the snow. The winter that wont go away is taking its toll on millions from the south through the northeast. The freezing rain kind of stresses me out. Reporter looking to ease some of that stress tom travelled from philadelphia to music city but his trip hit a sour note. Lefl philadelphia windchill factor minus 19 got here thinking wed be in sun and fun and not so much. Reporter because the just too much winter right now. There may be a bit of relief this weekend. Forecasters say there will be just a little bit of a warmup in many of the city that have been dealing with this arctic blast. Thats the latest on what is becoming a snowy nashville. Back to you. Beautiful brack drop jay. Thanks so much. We are tracking reports that the u. S. Could be involved in a Major Military offensive against isis as soon as april. Senior military officials tell nbc news the battle will be in iraq to retake the city of mosul. There could be some u. S. Special ops forces involved on the front lines advising roughly 20,000 Iraqi Military and kurdish forces. Americans may also be deployed on the ground calling in air strikes. President obama has said he will be willing to okay the limited use of such Ground Forces if necessary. Bundle up this weekend if you plan to ride metro. Track work is expected on all six lines and could add to your travel time. The bethesda station on the red line will be closed all together so a new escalator can be installed. Trains will pass through the station without stopping and buses will shuttle passengers between the bethesda and Medical Center station. Red line trains will run every 10 to 20 minutes. Trains on all of the other lines orange silver blue yellow and green will operate every 16 minutes. Parents, you know to be careful when hiring someone to look after your children. But the problem goes both ways. Nannies are the target of a new scam cheated out of thousands of dollars, and its happening right here in our area. A warning this afternoon from. Reporter claire lee is like most college students. The university of maryland junior has a full class load and is looking to make some money. I was very excited. Reporter she want adnanny job. She posted her Contact Information on the popular website care. Com. I have two friend who are on it. One friend is baby sitting through it right now. Reporter when lee seched a text message from a mom looking for a nanny, she jumped at the opportunity. She read us the text. Snide like to know if youre available to baby sit a 4yearold child. If interested kindly send your resume and references to my email. Reporter the job fit her schedule it was in Silver Spring and the family looked nice. At the end, theyre like we need you to do us a favor and thats where the money comes in. Reporter lee said the family wrote her a tall tale about being stuck in a hospil overseas and needing a wheelchair for her son which led her receiving a 3,000 check. I apparently was supposed to help pay like the deliverer or the manufacturer. Im, like they seem like they need help so, why not . Reporter but lee soon learned there was no family and there was no job. And the check she received was fake. But the 3,000 she wired was very real. The money was gone from her bank account before the check bounced. Lee reported her experience to the Money Transfer company and the federal trade commission. The ftc has since launched a nationwide investigation because lee is not alone. State attorneys general also mimic the warning and say scams are evolving. They are constantly trying to be something thats going to be a little bit different, something thats going to go a little more after their heart. If someone sends you money and tells you to take some or all of that money and send it somewhere else and you dont know that person its a scam. Reporter lee asked care. Com about the scam and it told news4 overpayment scams are often targeted at internet job sites including caregivers. The site said it started offering fraud detection tools. Our website, nbcwashington. Com, has a list of ways to protect consumers including caregivers looking for a job through the web. As for claire lee, it was an expensive lesson. People who fall for those internet pranks on like dating sites, they just really want to find a relationship i really wanted to find a job. Erika gonzalez news4. Jool cant catch your breath . This deep freeze can mean hid l health hazards. The one small change that could make a big difference and even keep you warmer. Paying off the company at the middle of a deadly air bag recall. It was fine after fine after fine and its for something theyre not doing. Thank you, cable for the slower internet upload speeds. For making me wait longer to share my photo albums. Thank you cable, because if we never had you. We wouldnt know the incredible difference verizon fios makes. In Customer Satisfaction studies, fios is rated 1 in Internet Speed and reliability 8 years running. Plus, fios has the fastest wifi available from any provider. For a limited time, get a fios triple play online at an amazing 79. 99 a month guaranteed for two years. Plus, a 400 bonus with a twoyear agreement hurry, deal ends february 21st. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v the u. S. Government is fining Takata Corporation 14,000 a day. Their inflators are used in air bags for ten different carmakers. An investigation is under way now to see if they were improperly sealed. The air bag inflaters are linked to six deaths. Government Officials Say the fines against takata will grow for each day they dont corporate. They have been a staple on the shelves at starbucks for more than a decade now, but starting next month the coffee chain will stop selling cds. According to a report from billboard, the decision follows a tough period for cd sales. Cd sales fell 15 last year. A starbucks representative says they will continue selling lots of music in their coffee shops but they will stop selling cds by the end of march. Youtube is about to release a new app and if you have children this apps for you. Youtube kids comes out on monday. The app plays age appropriate videos and removes distracting elements like viewer comments from your screen. It also puts you, the parent in control. The app comes with a timer that you can set and you can shut down the app after a set amount of time. For now, the app is only available on android devices. Talk about bringing a ghost story to life an american classic now on the stage here in washington. And wait until you see what it takes to get this spooky tale off and running. And storm team 4 is tracking more Winter Weather this weekend. Sfler. Thats right. Were looking at the latest information and the changeover times from snow freezing rain too, to all rain. Thats coming up. And its true. Sp right now first at 4, frozen over and more snow on the way. Get ready. A winter storm warning in effect starting tomorrow. And it could bring snow and freezing rain. Team coverage continues now with storm team 4. Veronica i guess if were getting more snow and ice, better to get it on the weekend. Exactly. If you have to drive around stressing to folks you have tonight to get out, tomorrow morning. In fact i think up until about 10 00 a. M. Or 11 00 a. M. To get things done. After that, you want to be inside because when the snow starts to fall, a lot of moisture the storm system has to work with. That snow will be coming down at a pretty good rate and it will accumulate very quickly. Well have the snowfall totals coming up in just a bit. Out there right now, it is cold and even tomorrow morning, yes, the winds have really eased up and will continue to do so as we head into your saturday morning. This is 7 00 a. M. Saturday. What it will feel like throughout the area. Still temperatures in the Single Digits from feeling like 4 in d. C. P 3 in leesburg 4 degrees in fredericksburg so still plenty cold. A lot of cold air out there. The air temperature early in the morning just at 12 degrees, so yes, whatever is left on the sides of some of the roads certainly the secondary roads could be slick. But, again, minor issues compared to what were going to see by the afternoon. And really goes downhill after 2 00 p. M. 3 00 p. M. Tomorrow with that snow piling up quickly and with the isolator. So icy, slick conditions for your afternoon, especially Late Afternoon and evening. Yes, temperatures are going to be coming up to around 33 34 35 degrees during the evening but this is where i think well have some of the bigger issues. 495, 70 270, bethesda around areas like annandale, even savage issues after 2 00 tomorrow because this is where the snow is really going to be coming down at a pretty good rate and where the visibilities will be limited. The snow could fall at a rate of an inch per hour. Icy and slick too. I81 out around areas of 66. Issues here on area road because of the snow with more on the totals what you can expect in your area lets go to meteorologist Doug Kammerer. Yeah veronica. You mentioned warming temperatures as we move on throughout the day. If this storm was cold enough meaning everything was snow we would see well over a foot across the entire region. Thats not going to happen. Weve got warm air that will be moving into the region will start as snow then change over to ice and eventually everybody changes over the all rain. So this is what were looking at right now for the snowfall forecast. E area of most confidence is back to the north and west. Area of least confidence down to the south and east. Where were going to see that mixing te place. Heres our current thinking down to the south and east looking at those numbers around a coating to an inch leonardtown, Calvert County waldorf, 3 to 6 inches including d. C. But d. C. Im thinking more around that 3inch mark right now, and back to the west looking at 6 inches plus winchester martinsburg, hagerstown those are the areas that could see the most from this. Well continue to watch this moving on through. Let me move back down to the d. C. Et area here. Quantico waldorf, bowie, 1 to 3 before the mix. If it mixes earlier youre on the one side a little later, more likely on the 2 to 3inch side. This is something well have to watch. This map will change a little bit. Certainly when the freezing rain comes in there could be some downed limbs, maybe a handful of Power Outages to deal with. Dry for the morning so youve got the green light for the morning. For the afternoon and evening, stay off because snow and ice are fwoet going to accumulate. So get out the door early for any of you die hards who do want to exercise. Your storm team sevenday forecast great day to get out on sunday then continued cold for the most part next week dry with temperatures running below average. Weve got more on the snow the ice, the sleet, the rain all coming up on news 4 at 5 00. Oh what a busy week for you guys. Now some stories were working on in our newsroom. One year later and still no answers. Why theres new life in the search for the men who stormed a local shop and gunned down a mother who worked there. Look forward to a tax refund . Some people have discovered money is missing. The reason a mistake allegedly made be decades ago. Im wendy rieger at the live desk. We have learned that the judge who sentenced Maureen Mcdonnell today is going to recommend that the former first couple serve their time in prison close to their home. Mcdonnell was sentenced to a year and a day in prison today. Judge James Spencer will recommend the federal prison in petersburg virginia but the iteam has learned the bureau of prisons cannot guarantee this is where the mcdonnells will be placed. Both the former first lady and the former governor are appealing their convictions. Coming up david culvert details the emotional testimony from Maureen Mcdonnell this morning when she was in court. We have a big show coming up at 5 00. Stick around. With a spike in new water main breaks and folks left with no heat it could be a rough weekend for both residents and repair crews in Prince Georges County. Our bureau chief, tracee wilkins, is keeping tabs on that. Reporter we have seen the major issues in Prince Georges County today. This is a water main break in bladensburg and it closed down riverdale road here. You can see where they have the traffic redirecting it through this gas station. An 8inch water main break here. Im told by workers this is their tenth break today in the county. And there were also issues in the schools. A school was so cold some parents came to pick their kids up and take them out of the school. We understand the heating system had some issues getting that school warmed up today. It was one of a number of schools that had heating issues this morning. Unlike some of the other schools the Prince Georges CountySchool System decided to close they left quinn park open. Because of the temperature, because they both were very cold and reached out to me and i came to the school to feel the temperatures myself. Reporter well hear from School Officials on what they have to say about the school staying open today. Im tracee wilkins, news4. A ghost story finds new life here in washington. The washington ballet brings Sleepy Hollow to the kennedy center. Shows only playing through the weekend. News4s eun yang tells us how production is hoping to preserve history reporter the menacing fog and spooky costumes set the stage for one of americas oldest ghost stories. But the washington ballets version of the legend of Sleepy Hollow is unlike any youve ever seen. The story offic abod icthe headless horseman comes alive through dance with original music and choreography. The companys artistic director. It can be really fun to try to encode the ballet with that sense of mystery and the unknown and still remain faithful to ballets ideals of poetry. Reporter weber spent the last year and a half working on Sleepy Hollow, which seems like little time considering the elaborate design and complicated technical aspects including puppetry for the horses. There are very dark elements san toir themes. Ghosts from the grave dancing in unison. But also beautiful and coquetteish katrina and a Community United by fiddle dancing and celebration of life. Reporter even the dancers say this ballet is stretching theiral penlts. Trying to figure out how to make his vision dom life and his choreography. Its eess awesome the way that he tries to always bring the characters to life and make them so real. You work so hard and you know everybody struggled it just feels amazing. Reporter weber s ballets come from european fairy tales and folklore. Five years ago he launched the American Experience project to bring American Literature to ballet form and tell stories that resonate with his company and his audience. Sleepy hollow, he says is his most ambitious project yet. I want to be invig rated by seeing part of their story told on stage. Its really a human story. This story is about crane is a story of someone haunted by guilt and kind of love triangle. There are some human stories unfolding. I want them to be richted by some exquisite dancing. How we can live our lives by being our best severals. Eun yang, news4 washington. So beautiful. Well its as easy as breathing and theres su a thing as doing it the wrong way. Why one small change could leave you breathing eas you know you should wear a hat, coat and gloves when you go out in cold like this. Protecting your skin isnt the only danger you face. Doug shim el reports on why you should be careful the way you breathe. Reporter it feels like youre trying to breathe underwater in this cold. Breathing tubes that help connect our upper airway to our lungs can become tight and thats when people experience symptoms associated with asthma or copd. Reporter hes been seeing a lot of patients at einstein Medical Center montgomery who get winded after walking for an extended period of time in temperatures below 20 degrees. Its more difficult for them to breathe, especially if youre walking in a direction where the wind is blowing at you. So if you can go with the flow of the wind where its at your back, its going to make it easier and a little safer for you that way. Reporter experts say if youre traditionally a mouth breather you might want to convert. If youre breathing through your nose physiologically we tend to heat up that air as we take it in through our nose and provide a little more moisture to it so the air is not as dry. Reporter but the doctor says this may be the time to use that ugly scarf. Keeping yourself covered and protected as i mentioned, keeping something over your face your nose and your mouth will make it a little more easier for you to breathe in those kinds of conditions. First at 5 00 painfully cold right now and more snow coming tomorrow. From the Chesapeake Bay to the heart of the blue ridge. Frigid air is walloping the dmv. So brace yourself. There is no relief in sight. New at 5 00, a clearer picture of when snow will start falling this weekend and how long its going to last. Im wendy rieger. After recordbreaking colds, we are looking at another storm, and i woulds not just the snow we need to worry about. Jim handly and chief meteorologist Doug Kammerer are in storm team 4s Weather Center to tell you what we need to prepare for. Overtime central here in the storm center doug. Record cold this morning, now we have a winter storm warning, not just snow. Things could be dangerous tomorrow. Yeah. Unfortunately its happening on the weekend. Thats a good thing and a bad thing. Good because it is the weekend and not everybodys on the roads. Bad thing because we all got stuff to do on the weekend. The Winter Weather advisories and the winter storm warnings. The warnings in the pink including Frederick County western Loudoun County and everybody off to the west. If youre west of the blue ridge, that you. If youre down into the purple areas, fredericksburg Southern Maryland d. C. The i95 corridor, back towards culpeper thats the Winter Weather advisory. What we are going to see is this change from mixture of rain over to ice over to rather snow to ice to rain quickly in in the d. C. Metro area then back to the west staying more snow naps what