Effect tomorrow night and saturday. Now this will not become a winter storm warning. It will most likely become a Winter Weather advisory tomorrow night or possibly a premium rain advisory. Thats what were looking at in these areas. Snow and ice. Again, snow varying. And ice is the big factor. Slick roads before changing over to all rain. Not concerned about this in the d. C. Area and points to the south. Temperatures will rise quickly on your saturday. Were going to have much more on saturdays weather and the weekend. Sundays weather, interesting as well. For a completely different reason. Ill see you back here in about ten minutes. Thank you, doug. Our Team Coverage continues. Lets take a look outside. It is not just the cold, it is the wind having an impact on you guys across our region. That includes a woman in Northern Virginia who almost had a tree fall on top of her car. Chris gordon is outside the metro station. Chris . What i want to tell you is this is not a normal rush hour. People are coming out of the Ballston Metro station. Those who have to wait for a bus are huddled together in bus stops. The good news, Metro Transit Police are on the scene trying to keep the buses moving and get people into the warmth. Now the cold combined with the wind today can cause dangerous winter conditions throughout the area. Wind gusts blew through trees in arlington toppling a branch on to a truck packed across 25th street. The owner of the house, jody larkin, was inside. I assumed that it was my workman coming in. I heard a big crash, thats normally my door in the wind and he wasnt there. Finally i looked out the window and a huge branch had come down from the tree behind us. Reporter she says the tree belongs to Arlington County. Marvin valet who was working on a construction job shows us the damage to his truck. My windshield here is gone and my hood. Reporter you wind howl. Here at the pentagon outdoor skating rink, the cold weather definitely hurt business today. You get how many skaters today . So far one. A group of about 117 coming in tonight. I believe theyre from the south. So it should be interesting. Reporter vdot has been preparing roads and highways in Northern Virginia for the past 2 1 2 days spreading a brine solution in case of icy temperatures. We started early before the temperature dropped and everything started freezing which you can tell has already happened. Reporter and as you can see behind me, i mentioned the Metro Transit Police on hand trying to keep buses moving throughout this area, trying to get people into the warmth as soon as possible. Now coming up on news 4 at 6 00, how people are coping with the cold and we will hear from that one skater who went to an outdoor rink today jim, back to you. All right, chris gordon. Thank you, chris. We were joke that go that one skater is probably from russia. Now is a good time to download the nbc washington app. Hes been serving time in connection to a federal corruption probe, but former prince gorges county executive jack johnson is now out of prison. The feds tell news 4 johnson is now being held in a Halfway House. Our Scott Mcfarland and Tracee Wilkins broke this story this afternoon on our nbc 4 washington app. Lets begin with scott. Reporter jonathan pleaded guilty for corruption. He shook down contractors to score bribes and gifts, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth. His wife would go to prison as well. Jack johnson was scheduled to be released from prison june 10, 2017, from this federal prison in western maryland, one largest federal lockups in the region. The u. S. Bureau of prisons today said johnson is now at a Halfway House. The bureau of prisons calls those residential reentry programs. The federal Halfway Houses among other things are designed to help inmates get job counseling and getting their finances in order before theyre released. We know from Court Records the Prison Bureau had been treating johnson in cumberland for symptoms of parkinsons. His case captured nationwide attention. News 4 captured this exclusive video of his arrest in 2010. He will remain under supervised release after his time in the Halfway House after june 2017. U. S. Bureau of prisons, an arm of the justice department, often transfers inmates into Halfway Houses in advance of their release including other political leaders who have been in prison. Johnsons attorney, we should say, declined to comment. Back to you. Thank you, scott. Our Team Coverage continues with tracee wiin talking to lawmakers about johnsons release. Shes live at the executive Office Building in Upper Marlboro with that part of our story, tracee . Reporter the arrest of jack johnson shook prince gorges county. It impacted the county for years after it happened. County executive followed johnson in office and has spent all of the time that hes been there trying to rebuild what johnsons arrest destroyed. I can tell you that back when this all first happened the news 4 was first to report back in november of 2010 that johnson was being taken into custody. I was standing outside of his house when his wife leslie was first brought out in handcuffs. Hours later he also would be taken out and later interrogated by fbi agents about his pay to play scheme. He accepted tens of thousands of dollars from developers to build in prince gorges county. His wife, leslie, was also charged with trying to destroy evidence the day tha came to arrest johnson. 90,000 or 80,000 was found in her underwear and a check for 100,000 was found in their toilet. Johnson instructed his wife to get rid of that money in a recorded phone conversation. Up until that point johnson was considered a popular politician after serving as Prince Georges County states attorney. We spoke about his release. First of all, i am glad that he is home. Like anyone, hes paid his dues. I hope that people begin to treat him as though hes ready to move on with life. I hope people treat him as if that happened. Its over and we wish you the best. Reporter again, he is now in a Halfway House and expected to be there until this summer, but that gives him a lot more freedom to come and go and also to, again, begin to redevelop those relationships with his family. Surely folks here in the cou him throughout his stay in prison, coming up at news 4 at 6 00, we speak about the release of the former county executive. Back to you in the studio. Thank you. New tonight, a federal grand jury indicts a former Metro Transit Police officer on terrorismrelated charges. Prosecutors say Nicholas Young of fairfax tried to provide resources to isis. According to the indictment young believed an associate of his had successfully joined isis back in 2014. But when authorities questioned young he tried to deceive investigators about what his associate was doing. That associate turned out to be an fbi source. If convicted, young faces up to 60 years in prison. We have some major news from metro today. The Transit Agency will be slashing service so that it can do even more maintenance work. Metros board has unanimously voted for the serve a lot of frustrated riders are turning to social media to vent. Adam is at the metro station with what you need to know about the new hours. Adam . Reporter it is going to be a big change for a lot of people, wendy. People really venting about this. These new hours dont take effect until july, but the Ripple Effect of this decision today being felt all across the system. In the end, every board member got on board with this plan. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Reporter most significant change to the time metro operates right around the corner. Again, take a look at the reduction of hours that metro will make here. Monday through thursday closing at 11 30 at night. Friday and saturday closing at 1 00 a. M. , sunday opening at 8 00 a. M. And closing at 11 00 p. M. It will last two years. For the district cutting late night hours was an especially d two years is tough to swallow, absolutely. Its up to the district wed go back to the late night hours of 3 00 in the morning. Reporter in the end they compromised because theyll get a Progress Report that adequate maintenance is being done. On social media. Dear cinema, theater, bar, restaurant, concert, fundraiser, sports team, friends, family, i cant attend the event. Invite me in 2 years. But wmatas already in a deep maintenance hole. Itd only get closer to being irrevocable if this didnt happen now. They say this new Maintenance Plan is not like another safe track plan. Preventing that from happening again and getting ahead of the issues and get into a cycle of doing that. Thats the whole concept. Reporter metros plan to fix itself soon to hit another gear. And back here now live at Judiciary Square as you see more riders making their way tonight. Guys, how will it all work when we have a special event like a football game, baseball game, concert . Will metro make exceptions for those types of things with these new hours . Ill have that part of the story. Back to you. Adam tuss, thank you. At least six metro employees have been fired in connection with the Train Derailment and more terminations are expected. That move after metro says that it found that employees falsified inspection reports about safety of the tracks. This all came to a head when a silver line train derailed outside the station back in july. No one was seriously hurt. In although more than 2 dozen metro employees are facing some sort of disciplinary action. Metros gm called the incident completely intolerable. The Transit Agencys Largest Union says it will probably fight the action because they dont believe theyre getting the full story. A milestone for d. C. It tops the list of big cities with Police Departments that use were going to find out exactly whos got them and why others dont. Plus, facebook takes on fake news. How the social media giant plans to make sure the stories you read on their site are real. A Northern Virginia venue is facing a backlash over a pro Trump Inauguration party. The controversy over whats being called the deplorable. We continue to follow the breaking news reaction to the guilty verdict of the man accused of killing 9 people inside a ch a look now at president ial politics. Donald trump nearing the end of his thank you tour with a stop tonight in hershey, pennsylvania. Trump has two more stops after tonight, one in florida, the other in alabama. They come after the president elect questions intelligence about russian hacking and involvement in the president ial election. He also tweeted today that his move to the white house and business involvements are not complex. Trumps inauguration is now just over a month away. The day after inauguration, tens of thousands of women will be planning a demonstration in the nations capitol. Tom sherwood broke the news on have issued a permit for the womens march on washington. They plan to start at the intersection of 3rd and independence downtown and that demonstration aims to send a message to all levels of government that they are showing solidarity for rights of women, their families and their communities. Thats according to the group. Facebook is partnering with Fact Checkers now to crack down on an issue weve heard an awful lot about in months. Fake news. The social media giant is making it easier for people to report madeup stories. If enough people report a story as fake, it goes to the Fact Checkers. While it will remain even if it fails the fact check, the story will have a visual flag that says disputed. Facebook says those stories will also show up in lower news feeds. There is breaking news now from South Carolina where a jury now has convicted the man who is at the center of the Charleston Church shootings. 33 counts ranging from murder to hate crimes. Roof confessed to killing nine black worshippers at the emmanuel ame church last year. Prosecutors painted him as a white supreme cyst who hoped this killing would start a race war. During the trial the defense put up no witnesses. Instead, tried to question roofs mental state. The jurors will come back next month to hear more testimony and decide whether roof gets the Death Penalty or gets life in prison. A convoy of buses moved out of the besieged city of aleppo today. The buses are carrying civilians and rebel fighters who surrendered their last strong hold today. Its part of a new ceasefire agreement thats back on after faultering yesterday. Matt bradley reports the Syrian Government is hailing the surrender as a huge victory. Reporter the evacuation of civilians from east alepp i finally beginning. The ministry of defense said the first convoy of buses carrying some 5,000 rebel fighters and their family had left the previously rebelheld eastern aleppo neighborhood. Most of them will be taken to the relative peace of idlib, a rebelheld province in northern syria. Its not entirely clear whether those buses have actually departed yet. Theyll be accompanied by Russian Troops who are allies of the syrian regime. If youve been following this closely, you remember there had, in fact, been be a deal on tuesday to get noncombatants out of the city. That deal was delayed wednesday morning and finally scrapped. All of this as the battle for syrias largest city comes to a very violent end. Aleppos been watching more than four years of streetbystreet fighting of the government and rebel opponents. The uprising will no longer lay claim to any major urban areas. Its come at a massive human cost. Some of the worst human atrocities like rwanda. Even if the battle in aleppo is coming to an end, what happened there is unlikely to be forgotten any time soon. Back to you. Its the first of its kind in the state of maryland. This truck is going to help get drunk drivers off the road. And were continuing to track that frigid weather out there. Doug is up next with stronger is blasting without risking her bones. Stronger is less pain, new hope, more fight. Its doing everything in your power, and everything in ours. Because we dont just want kids to grow up. We want them to grow up stronger. And with your support, they will. Make a gift today at childrensnational. Org givenow there are now threats against an arlington business where donald Trump Supporters had hoped to hold a ball. The owner scuttled those plans. A move that the Trump Supporters are calling politically motivated. They are using social media to vent their anger. Julie carey gives us that story from arlington. Reporter the event is being called the deplorable. They had hoped to hold it here the day before the inauguration. Ballroom managers tell me earlier this week they were forced to turn the group away. Now they and their business are being targeted on social media and some of the phone calls theyve received this week, they tell me, are so threatening they decided to alert Arlington County police. The deplorea ball was said to be open t plans began to unravel earlier this week. He alleges the ballroom caved in to political pressure when word got out on social media they were hosting the pro trump event. The minute they did that they got a slew of comment, negativity regarding us and regarding our event and after that almost immediately after that the clarendon ballroom called and canceled our arrangement. Clarendon ballroom managers tell a much different story. They became alarmed when they discovered the deplora ball had sold 500 tickets but no contract had been signed. They told him the ball was a no go. Thats when the online attacks and phone calls began. One man tweeted, negative yelp reviews, here they come. Another deplora ball supporter took to perry scope. If people want to call and ask why they are discriminating First Amendment rights. Reporter they countered sending an email blast urging them to weigh in. A trump supporter tweeting, this venue will cancel on you if they do not agree with your political views. Cant be trusted and dont deserve your business. While a ballroom friend writes the clarendon ballroom is a class act, highly recommend. Now a Statement Released by the ballroom just a few minutes ago reiterates the position that there was never a firm deal for the deplora ball. The events of recent days have surprised, shaken and scared the clarendon ballroom family. We are extremely sad to be at the heart of the situation and truly appreciate the outpouring of support weve received. Arlington county Police Confirmed they did get a call from ballroom management but they say they do not view any of those phone threats as credible threats. Now when i join you on news 4 at 6 00, why the ball organizers say this whole flap might reporting live from arlington, im julie carey, news 4. Amelia draper and i here in the Weather Center watching whats going on with the very cold air but of course watching the next system moving into that cold air. A lot of people are talking about this online because theres the chance a high chance that some of us will be dealing with some freezing rain saturday morning. Lets talk a little bit more about whats going on. Shes going to talk about the freezing rain chances and the potential for a Winter Weather advisory which is a winter storm watch. Well talk about that in a second. The current story is just the cold. Look how cold we are. 22 degrees. Winds out of the northwest at 26 Miles Per Hour. Thats the current wind gusts out at the airport. Temperatures one thing. 16 in winchester, 19 in dulles. The record is 10. Well get close to that. 0 at martinsburg, zero at the map. You know youre talking about one cold night. Nothing on the radar currently. Were not going to see anything. Were not expecting anything over the next 24 hours. Were looking back to the west tracking the next storm system here. Its aarm front trying to make its way across the country. As it does, it will move our way. Well start off with sunshine and move into cloud cover. I want to show you here on future weather around 5 00, still seeing some sun. Here come the clouds around 11 00, we start to see some snow back well to our west. Were not expecting much in the way of snow out of this. Most of that can stay to the north. Look around 6 00 a. M. , ice and freezing rain. Hagerstown, frederick, possibly getting as far south as d. C. The best chances from baltimore to frederick right on back towards martinsburg. The whole thing lifts up to the north and east. It has prompted the National Weather service to list a winter storm watch goes into effect late friday night. With everything weve been looking at, we really think its going to hold off until saturday morning. A lot of holiday parties, heading out friday night, travels should be fine. The counties in blue, youre under the winter storm watch that could become a freezing rain advisory like doug said or Winter Weather advisory. This runs until noon saturday and includes carol, frederick, washington counties. Frederick county, virginia. Maybe snow but were really seeing a better chance for some freezing rain that would lead to some slick roads changing all over to rain by the late morning hours. Heres future temperatures. What you need to focus on, where you live, look for that 32. Were below freezing friday night. 5 00 a. M. Saturday everybody is still below freezing. Something falling from the sky its either snow or freezing rain, more likely freezing rain. Once we hit 10 00 a. M. , notice everybody at that point, just about everybody above freezing. Then by saturday at 7 00 were likely on sunday than saturday and the temperatures kind of unbelievable. It really is going from 30 on friday to 48 saturday afternoon into the 50s saturday night and then 63 is where were going right now on sunday morning. So, yeah, a bigtime weather roller coaster. Weve been talking about it all day. Rain chances on sunday. Of course, the redskins taking on the panthers at fedex. 35 degrees during the day. Very cold night at the game. Tuesday, temperature at 38 degrees. Another chance possible snow late next week just before christmas. Look at Christmas Day. Right now, right now ten days out at 55 degrees. Not bad for christmas unless you want it cold. That sounds lovely. News for your health tonight. A link between abortions and Mental Health and it may not be what youre thinking. Coming up on news 4, why as of today d. C. Police lead the nation in this category. Each and every one of these bikes is going to a child in our area for christmas. Today the Salvation Army is giving out all of these bikes and thousands of presents to families in need. Tonight on news 4, how much these families appreciate the angel ee program. Tr a man was shot and has filed a 50 million lawsuit against the department. Investigators say they spotted a motorcyclist driving erratically through northwest d. C. In the lawsuit sterlings family said he was shot unarmed. He posed no danger to anyone. The Washington Post reports that several witnesses have already testified to a grand jury. In the lawsuit sterlings family says he was shot twice, once in the neck, second time in the back. Prosecutors are investigating to see if the officer who killed sterling will face criminal charges. Now we did check with d. C. Police to get a response to this lawsuit. They told us its Department Policy not to comment on pending litigation. At the live desk im chris laurence. Back to you. In the district more d. C. Police officers are equipped with body cameras and the district is now leading the nation in big cities that use them. This program has expanded since it started more than a year ago. As news reports, they follow high profile shootings. Reporter more than 2600 d. C. Patrol officers are now equipped with body cameras. Really significant for the metropolitan Police Department to have the largest rollout of body worn cameras in the country. When we spoke to the vendor they said we had the biggest outlay of cameras. Thats double the size of the number of cameras that we have out there. The 5 Million Program began more than a year ago with a limited rollout. Today mayor Muriel Bowser joined patrol officers as they began their shift and strapped on the new cameras. Were always looking for ways to prove our legitimacy in the community and i think the rollout of these cameras does prove our legitimacy. The rollout of the cameras comes as police in d. C. And the nation come scrutiny for officer involved shooting. The most recent high profile case in d. C. , the shooting death of terrance sterling who was riding his motorcycle when an officer shot him. The one officer who was wearing a camera during that incident did not turn it on until after the shooting. Since then the mayor has ordered tighter protocols for when officers activate the cameras requiring dispatchers to remind cops to turn the cameras on. The chief of Police Ordered our officers to confirm that they had engaged their body worn cameras when they were responding to a dispatch from our call center. Reporter mayor bowser said the cameras have been successful in holding officers accountable. Oh, its going to be a big night down at the mgm casino in national harbor. Tonight the casino welcomes its first big musical act. Its going to be a show. Fourtime Grammy Award Winning Group boys to men will perform at mgm harbor. The theater holds about 3,000 people making it a more intimate venue for musical acts. When you were a kid there was nothing like waking up to Christmas Morning. The Salvation Army is making that happen for thousands of families across the area. Today it opened its new Angel Tree Distribution Center in washington in high yachtsville, rather, to thousands of bikes, toys and other presents. News 4s Kristen Wright was there for the ribbon cutting. Reporter Sonya Edwards is so grateful that her children will wake up to presents under the tree Christmas Morning thanks to the Salvation Army. Me as a single mom of four, unemployed, trying to make ends meet. This is like a miracle to my family. Reporter Salvation Army brand new bike and other gifts into sonyas van. Without them we wouldnt know christmas. Reporter families in need came to the warehouse to pick up thousands of bikes, toys, other presents. Tiffany garcialopez sees this kindness as a blessing from above. To me its a great blessing because i have a child with special needs and were a low income family. Ebony simmons was moved to tears when the Salvation Army delivered presents to her home. Joined by news 4s chris laurence. News 4 is an angel tree sponsor. She is going to be so blessed this christmas and i just im so happy. So happy. Its been a rough year for me. Five. She cant wait for Christmas Morning. My house is going to be filled with joy. Reporter more than 6,000 children in prince gorges county and d. C. Will receive angel tree gifts and about 40,000 kids across the volunteers meeting the families means a lot. We have three generations here today helping out so were excited about just giving back. Reporter sonya brought the Salvation Army a Christmas Card with her childrens Smiling Faces on it. Theyve been a tremendous help to my family. Im truly grateful. Reporter she says theres always hope and an angel watching. Kristen wright, news 4. A lot of smiles out there today. I got to go to southeast d. C. And don a goofy hat like chris, too, and meet a 4yearold who had a beaming smile on his face. Zacaro there, he got an avenger bike, seven surprise gifts for Christmas Day and a little laptop, too. His mom and him live in their own apartment. Last christmas they were in a homeless shelter. What a difference a year makes for them. Chris laurence said being at that house to deliver the gifts was the greatest Christmas Gift smiles for everybody. Hats off truly to the Salvation Army. Right. More than 14,000 gifts that theyre donating around the region. Its a new movie getting oscar buzz. And its cast is in town this week meeting with the first lady. Well have that story. And finding purpose out of loss in preventing Domestic Violence. How a high stakes for the redskins in a monday night showdown. There is drama beyond the football field. Carol maloney has more on the first game between outspoken josh norman and his old team. Another level. I think all these cameras going to be burned right now. Reporter all the cameras trained on josh norman while he focuses on one cam, cam newton and whether his former teammates will test him this week. Coach telling them no. Cam the competitor, yes, so im looking for that guy. Throw it to his side and let me show you why the redskins paid him that money. Not many corners can get a quarterback not to press on that side. So its a blessing in disguise. It helps his pocket and helped our team. Reporter redskins made him the highest paid corner in the league. Now he wants to show carolina missed. He tends to be an emotional guy. The good thing about josh is that it doesnt vary week to week. Those emotions, i think they will probably come out and show themselves. I dont know what it will be because, like i said, its the first time being in Something Like this. And, yeah, coming over here is making guys on this team better. Reporter and bring them all into his spotlight that hes happy to share. Cam, cam sandwich. Josh, yes. No surrender, no mercy. I had him in my group chat so looking forward to it. Frenemies still today but going in different directions. The redskins still have everything to play for while the panthers are in the role of spoiler. From redskins park, carol maloney, news 4 sports. A new study is raising concerns about over the counter painkillers and why doctors are worried about the longterm impacts of these today was the first meeting of the Domestic Violence task force that the governor of maryland signed into law and it was designed and named for a prince gorges county woman who was gunned down with her 2yearold daughter. Coming up youll hear from that womans sister on why she says her sisters death wont be in vein. Take a look at your wind chill forecast. Talking about dangerous wind chills tonight into tomorrow morning. As temperatures warm through saturday and even sunday, the amelia, you have a couple of busy days ahead of you. About cold to freezing rain to 60s and rain back to 30s. I mean all over the place. Like were going through the whole year. Year of weather in three days. Yeah, exactly. So were going to be under storm team 4 weather alert through saturday morning. Here are the weather headlines. Still all about the cold throughout the night tonight and tomorrow. On saturday morning we will have a mix of snow and seeing freezing rain being the concern especially north of washington. That changing to some hitandmiss showers around saturday during the midday and early afternoon hours. And i think saturday evening for most of us is going to be dry, but its looking like a soggy sunday, but get this, going to be in the 60s on sunday. So tomorrow heres your planner. 7 00 a. M. , its brutal. 17 but feeling like zero to 10. Still a little blustery out there. Throughout the day we are going to be looking at a lighter wind. Noon, 28 degrees. Plenty of clouds. Gray afternoon. 3 00 we hit our high of 30 degrees. Tomorrow evening, its dry. Good for the holiday parties. Around 28 by 8 00 p. M. Showing you now your impact on friday. The weather still has a pretty high impact on your day. Just because its so cold you want to be outside when its this cold. Keep that in mind with the kids at the bus stop. The commute, again, a concern for some more dead batteries. Im kind of scared when i walk out to my car tonight and if youre walking the dog looking at, again, a pretty quick walk out there especially in the morning. This is saturday, 7 00 a. M. You can open up our nbc washington app to see if you are under the winter storm watch, we talked about that 15 minutes ago. The pink here is freezing rain. The green is just plain rain. Temperature warms to above freezing by about 10 00 a. M. So after that rather than icy roads were looking at mainly just damp, wet roads saturday at times throughout the day. Wet roads on sunday. Sunday definitely dealing with rain. Saturday best chance is going to be during the morning s. Well. 48 on saturday. We warm to 63 degrees on sunday and then we cool back down. Look at this temperature drop from 63 to 28. Over a 30 degree temperature drop by monday morning were in the 30s. I cant believe this, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are on our ten day forecast. Where has the time gone this year . 45 on Christmas Eve day. Look at christmas, not too bad out there. Not looking like a Great Potential for a White Christmas with a high of 55, guys. Well take it. Amelia, thanks. A maryland Domestic ViolencePrevention Task force held its first meeting in annapolis today. It was named after a teacher who was shot and killed along with her 2yearold daughter just steps from their Fort Washington home. News 4s Megan Fitzgerald spoke with the teachers sister today whos determined to save lives. She basically loved anybody that she came in contact with. Reporter not a day goes by about her sister and her 2yearold daughter khloe. She was the bubbliest, happiest child that you would ever meet. Reporter in february she and her 2yearold were leaving their Fort Washington home when police say they were shot and killed by khloes father, 25yearold Deron Boswell johnson. He was angry about paying child support. Its really, really tough for us. Reporter the tremendous loss hasnt been easy for turner and her family but they found purpose in so much sorrow. Turner is part of the nashonte and khloe davis Domestic Violence task force. How we can help counties to better deal with the problem of Domestic Violence. Reporter senator c. Anthony kneel sponsored the bill that allows people to be part of the task force. Its bringing together everyone under one umbrella we can have one clearinghouse, we can know where to put state funds where it would be more helpful. Reporter the ideas the task force comes up with will be presented to the governor in may. Its too late to save nashante and baby khloe, but turner hopes what happens in this room will save the lives of others. We dont want someone else to end up with the same end results. Reporter reporting in annapolis, Megan Fitzgerald, news 4. New study is raising concerns about those overthecounter painkillers. The study found regular use of ibuprofen or acetaminophen came with hearing loss. Researchers say women who use the painkillers regularly for more than six years show a 9 to 10 higher risk of having hearing loss later in life. The study did not look at men. It did not find any increased risk for those who use aspirin. Be prone to Mental Health issues in the short term. Thats according to a university of california study that tracks hundreds of women, about 1 4 had been denied the procedure because of their facilitys rules. In the week after those women who were denied more often reported anxiety, l low selfesteem and lower Life Satisfaction but researchers say at six months they did not find any difference in Mental Health between the two groups of women. Maryland state police have a new tool to fight drunk driving. It allows them to test and process drivers on the go instead of taking them back to the station. Wbal in baltimore has a look at how it works. Reporter it is a 27,000 pound 13 foot high, 452,000 vehicle you dont want to see the inside of in person. Because these seats are intended for suspected drunk drivers. Been around for years. Now well have them on scene. Reporter during the holidays as police ramp up dui checkpoints and patrols statewide, this new truck will be deployed to help, a new way to test, verify, and arrest drunk drivers right at the scene. This will allow officers to stay on site and to do their job, which is to arrest more drunk drivers. Reporter officials call this a progressive leap forward. After all, they point out, maryland averages 160 dui deaths each year, deaths that are 100 preventible. Just this year the Maryland State Police weve had 38 troopers hit on the side of the road. An additional 20 vehicles that were unattended at the time. Mobile unit introduced to the public just before and just across the street from the 13th christopher moore. Reporter Memorial Service honoring the victims of Impaired Driving crashes like Montgomery CountyPolice Officer noah leota. Its been a year. I was burying my son last year at this same time. I dont want any other people to bury their children. A local man really, really wanted to be santa. But he almost lost that opportunity after a health scare. How doctors were able to get him back on his sleigh just in time for the holidays. 4500 protective orders issued in Northern Virginia. Still ahead the news 4 iteam gets exclusive access for oh, thats lovely. So graceful. The corkscrew spin, flawless. His signature move, the flying dutchman. Poetry in motion. And there it is, the baby bird. Breathtaking. A sumo wrestler figure skating . Surprising. Whats not surprising . How much money heather saved by switching to geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. With the polar vortex hitting our region, an effort to hip some of the youngest, more vulnerable. The Childrens Charity foundation handed out winter coats to kids in need in the d. C. Area. On hand reps from walmart to help the kids find their right size. Were told by the end of the day Childrens Charities plan to hand out 3500 coats to kids in shelters all over our region. Look at those smiles. I love their little bean any hats. Theyre just so cute. And look at this room full of toys. They are bound for children of inmates in alexandria. These are donated toys, games, the Sheriffs Department operation elf. Officials say this helps families in need and helps them connect during the holidays. Some 250 children will be benefitting from this. And a special treat from some very special children today. Santa claus paid a visit to the young patients at childrens medical hospital. And this particular santa knows what theyre going through. He made a recovery of his own just a year ago. News 4s amy cho has our story. Reporter for all the little boys and girls at childrens medical oh, youre a charm. Reporter santa claus. Merry christmas to you. Reporter is coming. Are you feeling better today . Reporter to town. Hi, william, Merry Christmas to you. His virtual presence and these physical presents were christmas cheer as only santa claus can. Its cool. Being santa is the most wonderful job in the world. I get to travel all over the place and visit girls. I dont wish this on anyone, to have to spend the holidays in the hospital. Reporter he knows the feeling all too well. Before he was rolling down this hall on a screen. Merry christmas to you all. Reporter last christmas, a heart attack on the job left him rolling down a different hospital hall on a stretcher. I said, just make sure they take me out the back door so they dont see me. The clot in his heart was in a dangerous spot known as the widow maker. Luckily his doctor was able to work christmas magic. It is special to take care of santa. I guess my personal experience being there at christmas time, i dont want anyone else to have to go through that either. Reporter now his doctor helps with checkups and his elves help with handouts. Do you want a barbie or leggos . Reporter together they all make sure santa is ready. Byebye. Good to see you again. Reporter to take the reins amy cho, news 4. News 4 begins now with storm team 4. Now at 6 00 a bitter blast of cold air across our region. People are bundled up as the temperatures fall. When you factor in the wind chill it is downright wicked cold out there. Doug, whats up . Oh, whats up . That wind is whats up, vance. Its been upwards of 40 Miles Per Hour today. During the day today, the wind chills, boy, we talked about this yesterday. It was hard to believe we could be in the Single Digits by this afternoon. Thats exactly where we are right now. Hagerstown coming in at 6 degrees, d. C. At 8 degrees for a wind chill, 7 below zero in state college. The cold air here in the east and will remain here for the next couple of days. Winds still gusting over 20, 25 miles an hour. 26 d. C. , 29 in frederick. Starting to come a little bit. Thats going to be a saving grace overnight. The wind chill all night will still be in the teens because our temperatures will also be there. The National Weather service has issued a winter storm watch in effect for our northern zone. This will not become a winter storm warning. Its not that big of a storm but this is mainly for ice in these areas to the north. For tomorrow night into saturday morning. This is something were going to be watching very, very closely. Much more on this. Ill show you what to expect. Ill break it down for you coming up in about 15 minutes. Now to a story you saw first on news 4. New reaction coming in as former prince gorges county executive jack johnson is released from prison. He pleaded guilty in a major corruption scheme that grabbed headlines. Now hes in a Halfway House where theyre preparing for his return to freedom. We have the story. Lets start with scott and the latest developments. Scott . Good evening. Jack johnson admitted shaking down contractors for big bucks, six figures. Pleaded guilty and was sed