Bitter temperatures enough to cause one school delay. This is actually or utte tmposer west. Frank county schools in West Virginia twohour delay thisunts morning. Mornin in addition to it being frigidnd friday its also National Ugly christmas sweater day. Day that will warm our hearts,ur he, right. I love it. I gary mcgrady kicking it it off within goal bellingelli rudolph sweater. I want some singing laterginl this morning gary. Ary. Ive been enjoying wearingea a sweater on friday morning so g since this is National Ugly sweater day i figured id i figr break out my next one. My nexon can you see the whole thing . Ng its got a little bow tie,w t rudolph. I love it. And it helps to keep me warm, too. Layers is the key special after yesterday. I just showed you thersse is temperatures but you know,aturey what, okay, looks its not ass t windy, all right, and one ofndno the reason these temperatures have gotten so cold this col morning is that we have clearis skies and the tha winds have wih lightened up just a live. A liv wind speed down to the south s its nearly calm. Winchester is 3 Miles Per Hour which is basically calm and temperatures have dropped off. Dr here in town we have aop wind of about 9 Miles Per Hour. Mi. It doesnt take much wind. Win heres the wind chill factor. Below zero to zero some spotsoms in the Single Digits. Wow. Wow. Well warm up a little bit today. Were going to warm up awarmite little bit todaygo anding to wae have some Winter Weather som coming up. Lots to talk about. Ut more details on weather comingtm up in just a bit but lets getet back upstairs to you guys. Uys. Thanks gary. Lets get to the news thisth morning. Its a nightmare scenario sri being displaced from your homeyo on this freezing blustery night. Unfortunately one silverortu spring family is living inat lii this morning after their homeirh ignited overnight cause c something serious damage. Am Melanie Alnwick joins us nows live with more. Ith good morning, mel. Ni, me reporter hey, goodr hey, gd morning, guys. G yeah, forty seven is right. Rig the feelslike temperatureslsl out here 3 degrees and that really caused some trouble forle Montgomery County firefighters. Firefi they are forty seven wrapping fs up the cleanup you know when kw they start to just kind ofkind o kick all that of stuff out of sf the upper buildings. Ld the fire apparently the second floor and quicklynd f spread through the roof. You can see firefightersefhter coming up to the front door here. Good news here is that its aats family of four and nobody was w injured here. Er it appears to be two older t o children and their parents the r were table get out safely. Apparently the smoke alarmla went off around 1 oclock incck the morning and from what weha w understand from Montgomery County fire apparently thepare family tried to fight the fire themselves first so there wases a bit of a delay in c falirling firefighters here and that mayy have exacerbated some of thee heavy fire conditions. Conti when the firefighters arrivederv they also initiate add second alarm and we were told that that its because of the weather conditions. Its. It really is tough ontoon firefighters out here. They have to rotate crews aews little more quickly. Sometimes equipment freezes upei so they needed to bring inn backups and extra crews inws order to fight this fire. F the whole back of the homee ba here is a complete loss. Los it really is quite a mess mes this morning. Th fortunately as we said nobody nd occupants in the house andnts none of the firefighters butfigb certainly some very difficult vt conditions outer here. Ere. Back to you guys. U gs. Thank you melanie. You manie 4 33. We arent the only ones dealing with bitter cold weather. Much of the u. S. Dealing with w plunging temperatures withngempe some areas seeing wind chills of 20 to 30 below. Bow temperatures are expected tore e warm up in the northeast this ti weekend but will remain belowow freezing throughout much ofoughc the midwest. Happening today a nanny accused of the death avenuethe baby in prince georges countypr will that appear before ain judge thist morning. Hola remi add leahy is charged with murder and child abuse after she force fed an 18 an month old baby who died. Tape showed a nanny nappinganny before being woken up by the t crying maybe. The man accused of makingmakg online threats against highinsth Point High School in marylandyl is due back in court today. Tod. Police say 20yearold Alejandro Alvarez 20 used a twitter account to threaten thr bringing guns and explosives exs to the school last month. On hes a graduate of the school. O man accused of walking into comet pingpong with a gun g will be back in court todayrtody after being indict bide ae federal grand jury yesterday. Edgar welch is facing a maximum of 35 years in prisonrio for driving from northronort carolina to self investigate online conspiracy theoriesy theo claiming high level democrats were running a child trafficking ring in the pizzeria. Eria and we are hearing for the first time from the owner of comet pingpong. Inpong he joined megyn kelly on foxnox news last night to speak exclusively about thehe december 4th incident. Mber 4th d he says theen scary incident inn proves that fake news can havech real consequences. Pack of lies and its dangerous. What happens is this person was inspiredappens to drive acrr four state lines with anh a Assault Rifle and enter a Family Friendly re 3 oclock in the afternoon onero a sunday so you can imaginema the fear. Right. Ht. That must have been felt by these people and this is realsth conseqopuencesle and. Eq my staff was in fear. F my staff are the braveest people ive ever met. Imagine someone coming to yourgr workplace with an Assault Rifle. Rie. Hm. Talking with megyn kelly on o fox news in an exclusivexcsi report. 4 36 is our time righttiig now. Now. I want to talk weather butt t i also want to talk about theou breaking news that is gary is ga mcgradys sweater today. Ady its National Ugly sweater s today and he brought it. I what do you do, man . I like a bell. B my favorite part and the nose too. As a matter of fact i likeat this whole sweater. Its great. Tethis gre its clear skies out this ts morning. Its a good thing torn add to ad your wardrobe this morning. Obe r it may not abugly sweater but how about a better okayet because its super frigid outs this morning, really cold swith the clear skies the wind isin died off quite a bit so thatss helped in the wind chill category but it also allows ials the temperatures to get super cold. Cold its 17 here in town now but we do have temperatures in thern Single Digits out in thehe suburbs this morning. A lot of teens, too. Pittsburgh is four. Columbus is seven. Seven binghamton new york isork 8 degrees and theres still ati lot of snow flying. Fin its adding up. Up. Heres the wind chill factorto qal quickly. Feels like six but it feels i f like minus three in martinsburg, zero forr westminster. Nster. Where the wind is not blowingwi or its almost calm obviously o the wind chill is right next ist to the actual air temperature. Ru later today under what becomes c cloudy skies this afternoon s temperatures will be up intokier the upper 20s aesnd the low 30s. s heres the good news ford ne f today. I know its going to be cold c but we dont have to worry wor about wind chill factors todaytt like we did yesterday so wind si chills a little bit but not butt too terribly bad out there t with winds only about five toivt 10 Miles Per Hour. Miles per still chilly but not as bad ass yesterday. Ster back up to you guys cause we w got to get to erin for a look l at your traffic. Ou tra thats right, gary, 4 37 3 bundle up. Youre going to need the extra t layers today and if yourendf ye making your way out across the 95 corridor in virginia thisgia is the southbound side ine i Prince William county atnty Prince William parkway aarkw little heavier than usualn because theres a clearinglearin construction zone. Co give yourself a few extra ext minutes from newington too stamped hopeful that will getl h to the normal traffic patternffc in the next 15 minutes. Inut you can see the northbound side looking muchesn bseetter. B well have more traffic in a few. Back to you, holly. Ba t thanks erin. As the holiday festivities gettg under way we have a reminderr for you to celebrate safely. Afel could you you can score freeere safe rides here in our regionesg this holiday season. Ea and tributes are pouring are in for broadcasting icon craigni sager. Sa how teams and players areteam remes mbering him this morning. M and lets go ahead andad a take a live look outside as wese head to break. Yes, it is terrifically coldol outside. Outs please, please, please wear lots of layers. Its actually not going to getgg that warm today so youll needl them all day were back in just twot tw minutes. Coming up on 4 41. Back now with whats trendingn on friday morning. Rida first up, a bittersweet bitrs tribute for an nba legend last night. Ght. Before the games players andheam teams honored long time side line reporter craig sager. Ag sager passed away on tuesdayue after a long battle way rarey ra form of leukemia. A. Several teams warmed upms wearing saying are strongtr shirts. Shirts. Dwyane wade posted a very wadpot emotional video about sagerag and recently retired red sox slugger david ortiz asked fordai a moment ofd silence. Sil joe biden also expressed his condolences. Loved craig sager. Hes a true lost for lov sures absolutely. Next up facebook stepping up to battle back against fake t news. The social network said itaid will work with fact checkingg outlets to flag questionable stories. Stor before someone shares a fakere story, theyll get a warning thats accuracy has beenuracy ha disputed. Now this comes after Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg initially denied that fake news is a serious issue. Iue next up could it be a breakthroughs in antiage arguent round the corner. I hope. E co this tke the sound of one. Researchers say theyve harned in the ability to boost life spans of mice and refurbish some of the tissue. Issu although it doesnt work inork i humans it could lead to waysd ty to keep our bodies vigorous as we age. A. However they do say more have ma much need but i suppose thatsb a step in the right direction. En not Laboratory Rats so it s doesnt work for us right. Finally the touching storycr of a fiveyearold boy whoivyear died in the arms of santa has hs been very advertisement. Er love it. News station says it independently verified severalys critical details of the story. However, it agreed not to publish them for the sake of privacy. Ac this santa at the center of cen the or says he wont reveal detailset out of a promise to theo the privacy of the family and theant nurse involved. Iol i just love that story. To it warms my heart for thisms m holiday season. Metro tightening theni reigns on its employees whoseho poor work performance they say t put riders at risk. R this morning those employees are pointing the fingers at metro. We done follow breaking news out of Montgomery County this morning. An overnight of mo fire displaces dplaces several members of a family in i these frigid temperatures. Ig were going to be live withgo the latinest. Att. And as we head to break a live look outside. Utsi stay with us. It is National Ugly sweatery ea day. We have the good tuesday,tuda holly. Holly. Thats why were t celebrating. Oh, yeah. Oeah. Got to take a look at gary. Morning. S fox5 news berks it is cold outside indeed. Ee 4 46 is our time right now. Now youre looking live outside. Utde the view is calm andal and beautiful but you need thatat scarf, the gloves, the boots. Bs long johns if youre going to be out. Hns if layers, laytoers, b layers. L hot chocolate. Hot cho i do love this version, the t lady gaga tony bennett bne version. Its one of my greatest songs. S puts you in the mood. He md. Thanks for jni i holly morris. Ri and im erin como. Omo. Its National Ugly sweater day and gary mcgrady friday fri seems to be your sweater thing and i like what you have goingug on. Yeah, this is my favoriteavor part, too, and this helps tops t keep you warm. M. Its like when you have your who ugly sweater on and you know it makes noise, right. , ght. So, thats awesome. Awe i love it. Association so everybody iss going to hear me coming. Its 13 degrees for dulles. Les. Its 9 degrees right now foror culpeper. Eper winchester is 12 degrees but b theres just enough wind w its not a lot of wind. In the wind has really come downy o quite a bit but its just just enough wind out there in somet n places to take these wind chill take the wind chill factors down into the Single Digits and even below zero in a even couple of instances. Ta down south the wind is already a lightened up quite a bit and a d some locations down there theret wind is calm. S cal well talk more about thatlk m coming up in a little bit. Bit but you get the idea. Dea. Even though temperatures arepe only going to be starting off o only warming up into the upper 20s to low 30s its not going to be so windy. Theres going to be a little a e bit of a breeze out there, b five treo 10 miles an hour soouo obviously well have a bitterav of a wind chill factor today tay but not nearly like yesterday. Ty that yesterday just took youroo breath away if you had to bey if out in it for more than are t minute or so, maybe evenbe faster than that. Tha so were going to go up to about 31 for a highig temperature today. Erate to tonight into tomorrow morningomn theres a chance for witnesswits weather. Weat the Winter Weather advisory advs has been issued. Ss alt counties in purplecounti basically across 95 out 66 andnd up to the north to about interstate 70, all right, does s include d. C. Obviously andnd over towards annapolis asapol well, the light blue northernthn counties of maryland, have a van West Virginia, that is a winter storm watch. Ertorm w theres a potential for antial a little bit of a ice glazing ann dust of snow before itre switches over to rain laterater tomorrow, okay, so a lot a l coming up to talk about abo throughout the morning hours. Te right now t mhough orlets getlt right back up to erin como. Shecks up got a look at your traffic. 4 48 gary. 48 gary. The good news is once you get g in your car get that nice and a warmed up youre not going tou hit any traffic as you makerec k your way out the top of theop oe beltway. 95 to georgia flowing freely. Fy capital beltway to baltimorewashington parkwaysh quiet right now. Quiet t now. Bwi Reagan National and dulless in great shape. Hape. All good from 70 down throughn u rockville this morning. Ville th no typical congestision just yee out by the truck scales. S. Metro is gearing up for service at 5 00 that is on o time except for safe track. Well keep you updated. L keou back to you holly. Backyo thanks erin. It is 4 49 right now and we aw are following breaking newsgew from syria where just minutes mt ago actually the government suspended the evacuation of civilian and fighters from fro eastern aleppo. Aleppo. Now, officials are accusingg rebels of breaking the terms t of the deal. More than 3,000 were bust outsto of eastern aleppo on thursdayrsy but th u 50,000 are still trapped. Syrias army backed by russia rs has taken nearly all rebeleb held districts. And breaking here at homeeai a familyng of four displaced inl the freezing cold of a theirf ar home was seriously damaged in an overnight fire. Ir Melanie Alnwick joins us livesiv now from Silver Spring withg wh more and i know its still early in this yet, mel, but is i there any talk of what caused the fire maybe . Maybe reporter no, not yet. Et fire investigators are here he and theyll start their workrt k in a little bit. Justin a few moment ago, firefighters were back in i there trying to knock down a dow few more hot spots so they so th were still spraying watertill sy here. In its single digit temperatures really complicating issues toue a certain extent. Een they had to bring in a second alarm. There were more than 60 morthan firefighters here, one of the ot reasons they do that is when is the weather is so cold equipment can break downreak d firefighters need to beto be rotated more frequently, sotly,s they definitely need extra ext help in these cold col temperatures but two adultsdu and two children said to be a little older, they all were a smoke alarm did alert them alm to the fire around 1 oclock ok this morning. They tried to battle a littleite bit of it themselves before bor calling Montgomery County fireor out here so there was a littleaa bit of a delay in firefighterht response. The home extensive damage, aame, fire starting on the secondhe sc floor going through the roof very quickly but again aga fortunate no firefighters ands a no occupants were injured in inj this fire. Thisire. Live in Montgomery County, imnt Melanie Alnwick, fox5 local news. Good news indeed. G thanks mel. Ood appreciate it. Iate i 4 51 right now and the rht n first family continuing antinuin annual holiday tradition. Dition. Still ahead, what they are doing today one final time. E. And later organizers of these socalled march on washingtonhin rally strike a deal with thewi National Park service ahead of f their post inaugural protest. Tet and then lets go ahead andla take a live look outside as we a head to break right now. Ow stay with us. Were working as you head to t work, too bundle up before you head out. Were back in just two minutes. Dont go anywhere. Whe. We asked woman to smell two body washes and pick their favorite. I prefer b. B. What was a. Bath and bodyworks. And their favorite. Suave. Really . I am impressed. Three fragrances preferred over bath and body works. Coming up on 4 54 and beginning tonight youll have a safer way to get homeoming fi holiday festivities. Tivi the washington regional regiona Alcohol Program is launching lac its holiday sober rideer r initiative at 10 00 p. M. 00. M and it will provide free soberrs rides through 6 00 a. M. On6 . M. Sunday january 1st. Now, all fares up to 30 are complimentary if you are 21ary 1 years of age or older and you au can call the service by dialing 180300 taxi. Axi. Definitely want to stay safey sf for your holiday parties. Ares absolutely. Take advantage of thatge otha service. In case you didnt know ite today is nationalu ugly sweatee day. I knew i knew that name. N this is janet fernell. Shes a wonderful fox5 viewer. 5e i love your sweater. Ater. She works down at the museum. She outdone gary mcgradyne so keep it janet you can jingle moreglee bells than gary on your sweater. Lls if youre celebrating todthay,n, and we hope you rplease,le please send us your pictures. Pu all you have to do is use fox5 ugly sweater and we will w do our best to get them onn throughout the morning and janet. Janet. Keep them coming. Them coming. Janet has the most wonderful spirit about her and i love the wspholeir setup. Up oh, yeah. Well, one of the most picturesque shots is down d there at the museum on the balcony. Balcony. Its hard to beat this kodak. Kd i thought it was just uglyugi sweater day. Teray gary youre winning thehe Weather Center ugly sweater competition. I have a special traffic ugly sweater that im speci going tog change into. And i have a name based ugly christmas sweater. Er oh, yours is good, too. Hm. I could do this all day. Likes to jingle his own bells i notice. Bes i can you sing a littleit jingle bells for us. S. No. O. 8 degrees, weve gone up a a little bit of a breeze. Probably makes it feel cooler. I just want you to see how wan cold it is regionally. Egna columbus at eight. Theres snow on the groundlyn tl we dont have snow on the ground here yet, hint, hint,in , we may end up getting some. E. Pittsburgh is 4 degrees route ds now and binghamton new york isns eight so what a cold arctic a air mass. Its really should shallow and w thin. Its going to move out of here t reo ally starting tonight andigd tomorrow and its hard toard t believe but tomorrow were were going 50, 52 degrees for aees fr High Temperature and maybe upayp to 60 on sunday so its a its fleeting arctic air mass which h is good. All right, wind chill factorhilr now. It feels like zero in feelsike gaithersburg. Gahersbu it feels like 8 degrees herereeh in town. In tow the winds are not blowing atng a all like they were yesterday. Yd as a matter of fact most ofat the winds are fiveter to 7 mili per hour but when it is so is cold it just makes it feel so f much colder so much quicker. Uche later today upper 20s to low 30s. 30s it wont be as windy. In well increase the clouds. Lo it will be cloudy late todayeod but again not as miserable asabe what it was yesterday. Te even with the sunshine outh thni there yesterday it waser incredibly miserable. Ibly with a look at your traffic onio this friday morning. Y morning thank you gary. Hank yary. Love your sweater. R swear. 4 56. 95 northbound as you head outeao from fredericksburg intonto stafford 17 to the aquia harbor wide opened traffic flowing. Same story on the southboundhe o side. Earlier construction by princenr william parkway has cleared sold traffic patterns getting backtig to normal. You can still see just a little blip of yellow as youof y make your way southbound from that earlier construction. Ruion. No major delays things gettingst back to normal and northboundbo side flowing absolutely freely e as you helead up to the mixing bowl. Bowl. Once you get on the beltwayel traffic is cruising. Ing. Metro gearing up for service that the on time except forxct r safe track. We have you covered this morning. Back to you. An overnightave house firese f displacing a Montgomery County m family in the bitter cold. Ol were life at t 5 00 with thefe very5 latest. L president elect donaldesid trump continues his thank younte tours. Ur his message to supportersers ahead. Stay with us. Ith fox5 news morning coming righti back after this. Hi my guest list just tripled. My Cookie Exchange is super competitive. Mine too. I want to go really big with my appetizers. We can do it without blowing our budget. Oh yeah, this is great my family really needs to be wowed this year standing rib roast wow. Everything for the holidays. Thats my giant. So, mr. Harris, thats my giant. We have your fingerprints on the safe. A photo of you opening the safe. A post using the hashtag justrobbedthesafe switching to geico could save you a bunch of money on Car Insurance. Excellent point. Case dismissed. Geico. Because saving fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance woo because saving fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance because saving fifteen percent always a great answer. Rance morning. Orngx5 news happening right now att 5 00, firefighters battling batl the frigid temperatures to putee out an overnight house fire in i Montgomery County. Count were live with the very t v latest. Theres a live pic of thec of Washington Monument this morning. You cant see the cold outgton there but my goodness are youe u going to fee