Around here. Im definitely cold. Its freezing. I have on about seven layers right now. Reporter seven layers . It doesnt look like it, but i have on so many layers right now. Reporter does it work . It works for my body. For hands and feet, toe warmers and hand warpers. I say the wind is the real killer. As long as its not windy, youre all right. Reporter you hate to see this, but a lot of folks we spoke to are really dreading the weekend. Its supposed to be colder, windier and might even see some snow. Yeah. Thanks. You can keep up with the weather 24 hours a day with our wusa9 mobile app. Make this your go to app for all your news needs. It was a wild scene, a shootout between an Armed Robbery suspect and police in the u street area overnight. When it was done, police found that suspect shot to death, but they say it is likely the suspect killed himself. Debra alfarone joins us live from where the man was found shot dead at Caroline Street and 15th street in northwest. How do police know all this . Reporter they say preliminary information tells them that. So we asked them more questions. Youll hear those answers in a moment, but first i want to set the scene. This is a bustling U Street Corridor and even on a really cold night like last night there are lots of people around here, people we spoke to who live on this very street saying theyre actually surprised more people werent hurt. It was just before midnight thursday when police say a man with a gun tried to rob someone on riggs place a few blocks off the bustling U Street Corridor. About 10 minutes later we had the report of a second Armed Robbery in the 1400 block of swan street northwest. Reporter the assistant chief says they think it was the same suspect. An officer tried to stop him. The suspect ran. There was an exchange of gunfire. Reporter bullets flying on a busy street. The crime scene then stretched a few blocks to Caroline Street. A traffic stop im thinking, stolen car, whatever, Something Like that. I had no idea there was a dead body involved. The preliminary investigation indicates that the suspect turned the weapon on himself and he is dead. Reporter thats the timeline of events. We had questions. What is the preliminary information . Its information that we have from witnesses. Reporter where was the gunfire exchanged because were talking about a couple of blocks . That kind of detail we dont have right now. As you know, we have investigators up there still talking to eyewitnesses. Reporter was the suspect hit by Police Bullets . We wont know that until an autopsy is performed. Reporter how many officers fired . No. We dont have that information now exactly how many officers fired. Reporter one person who wants to know is christian anderson. He lives smack in the middle of the crime scene. Im just shocked about the whole incident as a whole. So thats shocking and im just glad that nobody else was injured or killed. Reporter police say theres a strong possibility that this robbery was tied to other recent robberies in this area. Police havent idd that suspect yet and say if you were in this area, u street, 15th street, carroll line, riggs, swan, any of those streets last night and saw any of this, theyd certainly like to hear from you. Weve got new surveillance pictures in another robbery. Two masked men accused of holding up a mcdonalds on Jefferson Davis highway in crystal city. Arlington police say they stormed that restaurant at about 4 40. They say the crooks acted as a lookout at the front door while a gunman jumped over the counter and demanded the cash from the safe. There were just a handful of employees at this time and just one customer. The customer who didnt want to show her face called 911 and spoke with us about the whole ordeal. I tried to remember what they had on so i could give a description. I just tried to sit there and just watch what was going on. It was scary. And heres who police are looking for. Two black males, one about 5 3, 125 pounds, the other about 5 8, 190 pounds. Luckily no one was hurt. Lots of new revelations today in that deadly smoke crisis in the metro tunnel. Newly released 911 calls show confusion and delay and weve just learned a smoke alarm was sounded before the train even left the station. Bruce leshan was at a congressional hearing today and joins us live from metro. Reporter yeah, one of the witnesses actually started crying as he recounted trying to save carol glover as she suffocated in that smoke filled train. Frustrated members of Congress Want to know what it is going to take to fix all these prob in a photo i believe to be the last i took before giving cpr to ms. Glover, sorry. Reporter Jonathan Rogers voice broke as he recounted the terror of being trapped underground while his fellow metro passengers collapse around him. Other passengers are laying on the ground at 3 39 p. M. Reporter newly released 911 calls show just how hard it was for the trapped passengers to get help. We need everybody to come together to help us. Okay. This is d. C. Police, sir. You are in arlington. Reporter one caller is passed off to arlington. Mold on, sir. Are you hold on, sir. Are you on the metro . Yes. Oak. Give me one second. Okay. Give me one second. Im going to transfer you to the metro police department, okay . Reporter and then passed off again. D. C. Operators were still confused when someone else called. Are you still in d. C. . Were outside Lenfant Plaza in the tunnel. How is it possible after 14 years and hundreds of millions . I assure you, mr. Mills, its in the hundreds. Reporter we also have just learned from the ntsb that there was a smoke alarm sounding right next to the arcing wires in the tunnel, sounding long minutes before the train even left the station and entered the tunnel and metros control center allowed the train to head into the smoke with hundreds of passengers on board. To what extent are those alarms apparent in the control center and how do they react when they see a smoke alarm in front of a train . Reporter metros board chair is calling for an outside audit of metros control center. I think it will deserve an outside look to give us the advice about what we have. Reporter the ntsb is also investigating whether it took the citys 911 call center far too long to turn around the calls for help. We can only respond once we get the notification, which we did. Reporter now this issue of the smoke alarm could be really important. It should have been sounding out at metros control center in landover. So did someone fail to notice or fail to respond . Were still waiting for answers on that. Bruce leshan, wusa9. Prosecutors have offered a plea deal to Marion Christopher barry over an incident last month at a bank in d. C. s chinatown. Barry was arrested for allegedly threatening a bank tell are and destroying a tell are and destroying a surveillance camera. Under the plea deal prosecutors would drop a charge of simple assault if barry pleaded guilty to destruction of property and threats. The offer expires march 6th. Trial is set for may 20th. Barry is running for his late fathers d. C. Council seat. A new trial date has been set for Jesse Matthew in Fairfax County. Matthew is charged with sexually assaulting and trying to kill a woman in 2005. His trial was scheduled next month but Defense Attorneys asked for more time. So the new date is now june 8th. Matthew faces a separate trial in Albemarle County on charges that he murdered uva student Hannah Graham last year. Matthew remains in custody in Fairfax County. Right now a woman who escaped from a hospital after being arrested is back in police custody. Prince William County police took Theresa Brown into custody without incident at Dumfries Plaza shopping center. She was arrested at 1 00 for failing to appear and violating probation charges. Once she was in custody brown claims she was in pain and was taken to Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center near i 95 in woodbridge. Thats where she made her escape around 4 00 this morning. Brown was also arrested back in september accused of biting a 13monthold boy at the Goddard School in woodbridge where she taught. We are just Getting Started on wusa9 news at 5 00. Crews are responding to marylands decaying bridges after a wusa9 report. Scott broom brings us the story coming up at 5 30. Plus topper is back after the break with more on tonights bitter temperatures and tomorrows snow showers. A Prince Georges County woman now has an answer on what caused this 7foot sinkhole in her backyard. Right after the break students trapped on this run away bus. We thought our cable internet was fast. But, our uploads are half the speed of our downloads so our internet is really halffast. So halffast. Someone did a halffast job posting our vacation pics. When i post my slow jams, im a little half fast totally half fast stop living with half fast internet. Only verizon fios comes with speedmatch uploads as fast as downloads. And the fastest wifi available from any provider. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v some students in minnesota had a School Bus Ride this week theyll never forget. As marley hall explains, 11 kid were trapped for nearly 15 minutes on a Runaway School Bus after their driver suffered a medical emergency. Reporter 11 students are lucky to be alive. The children ranging in age from 6 to 14 were on their way home from school in isle, minnesota, wednesday when their driver suffered a medical emergency and lost control of the bus. A sheriffs deputy saw the bus weaving and tried to intervene. Her dashcam recorded the scary ride. She first saw the vehicle cross, weave within its lane a little bit and that time she thought something is not right. Then she turned her lights on trying to stop it. Then the weaving became more pronounced. Reporter the bus was traveling at about 40 Miles Per Hour. At one point it swerved into a ditch, almost tipped over, then somehow made it back onto the road. The deputy tried to warn oncoming traffic. Getting around the bus into the opposite lane to alert vehicles that were ahead of the bus that there was some problem, you know, on the roadway there to get them to get out of the way. Reporter one driver on the road backed into a driveway to avoid a headon crash. A state trooper eventually used stop sticks to get the bus to stop in a ditch. The terrifying ride went on for about 5 miles and lasted 14 minutes. Kids on the bus used their cell phones to call 911 and their parents during the ordeal. The 68yearold bus driver was rushed to the hospital. None of the kids on the bus were hurt. Marley hall, cbs news, new york. There is no word on that bus drivers condition tonight. These people need your help to bring home 12yearold tylia gillis last seen thursday on barn a bee street south east. Shes about 5 7, 120pound wearing a peach hoodie, burgundy sweat pants and a lime green spider coat. If you know where she could be, please call d. C. Police. The only station with weather alert days, wusa9 first alert weather. Just checked out some new data, think im going dusting to 3 inches with this frontal boundary. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, quiet now, temperature 29, dew point below 0. You want to add moisture into your house. Winds out of the west at 8. Heres the wind chill temperature, 5 00 feels like its 17 in gaithersburg, feel like 21 downtown and feels like 22 in manassas. As cold as it will be tonight, tonight is the warmest of the next three nights. Just cold tonight, light winds, snow showers tomorrow, also bumped the times back a hair. So 4 p. M. To 9 p. M. A dusting now to 3 inches and thundershower snow is possible. This is a very dynamic situation. Winds behind the front 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour will drive wind chills 10 to 20 degrees below 0 by sunday morning. In fact, wind chills now by 8 00 tomorrow if youre going out with your sweetheart temperatures feel like Single Digits north and west of town, 11 in manassas, 16 downtown. By 11 00 if youre out late, feels like 2 below at andrews, 6 below in gaithersburg, 3 below in leesburg. The winds pick up and the temps tumble, 15 below wind chill in gaithersburg sunday morning, 14 below in frederick and hagerstown. Jump the divide, feels like its 27 below in oakland and 29 below in davis, west virginia. With wind chills like this you have to worry about frostbite, but you have to be out over half an hour to have any real problems. That said cover up your face, the whole bit. The blue is indicating the snow. 5 00 30 we should see pretty good snow showers across most of the metro area. If you look carefully, you can see a different shade of blue through the d. C. baltimore area. Thats going to be a heavy band of snow showers. It is very dynamic. By midnight tomorrow, midnight sunday, most of the snow showers will be across the bay. Well be having clearing skies and plummeting temps again. Tonight partly cloudy, very cold, a few clouds by dawn, lows 14 to 22. Yup, thats the warmest night of the next three. By morning a lot of clouds, no snow showers in the morning, 14 to 34 but still cold. By afternoon here come the snow showers, a dusting to 2 inches, 3 inches north and west of town, temperatures 35 to 40 but plummeting behind the arctic front. Day planner, 20s to start, 30 by 9 00, 35 by 11 00, clouds rolling in and 37, mostly cloudy by 1 00 but dry. Sunday behind the system 18 degrees, 207 monday and that is with full sun. Next seven days president s day cold, tuesday, wednesday that storm keeps taking a further east and southerly track which keeps it colder but also takes away the moisture. Maybe a little light snow tuesday into wednesday. Behind that system more arctic air, highs in the teens next thursday and friday. We have a major positive update of a 6yearold little boy who was severely injured in a sledding accident last month. He nearly died when he slid right into a passing car near his home in mclean. Now were getting the first look of benston schone at the hospital. Surae chinn joins us live in mclean. This is great news. Reporter its great news. Benston is breathing on his own, his eyes open for the first time this past week and the blog russian machine never breaks has been in close contact with the family and has been giving us all these great updates. Just yesterday he spoke and laughed for the first time. Its all caught on video. His uncle calls it a miracle. Hey, b man, john wall in the radio booth at Verizon Center. Reporter mom shows little benston a video produced by the capitals Ice Hockey Team made just for the 6yearold boy. He watches intently. Then when caps announcer wes johnson speaks. Now its our turn to cheer for you reporter benston cracks a smile. Were counting on you, buddy. Reporter thats not all. A huge smile when he sees and hears caps players wishing him well. Then more reaction. Isnt that cool . Reporter a sledding accident near benstons home put the 6yearold in a coma. Prayers have been spreading on social media ever since caps blog russian machine never breaks founded in frederick, maryland, picked up the story with prayforbman. People pulling for the little boy have come from all over the world. Hes now at the Rehabilitation CenterGetting Better each day. Yesterday the boys uncle tested ian olan, cofounder of the blog, the latest astounding home video. My first reaction was i started tearing up immediately because youre right. About a week and a half ago, two weeks i wasnt necessarily that optimistic about what was going to happen. Hey, b man, can you say thanks, caps . Thanks, caps. Yeah. Reporter the family has said because of the outpouring of support and people such as ian olan and wes johnson who have taken on the personal journey to pray for b man and the strength of this little boy is why benston is doing so well. Just keep on fighting. Were all rooting for you, buddy. Thank you, everybody. Yes. Good job. Reporter pretty amazing, right . You know, ian hasnt even met benston yet. He says he cant wait. He says hes the little brother he never had. By the way, im right in front of a red ribbon. This is benstons neighborhood all lined with red ribbons here. Community members have placed that there and Family Members recently came through to get some stuff from their home and were so emotional by seeing the signs of love here, but pretty spectacular. Dont you think . What a miracle. Such great news. Thank you. Prince georges county inspectors believe abandoned and collapsed septic systems may be the cause of those dangerous sinkholes that have opened up in the backyards of homes in oxon hill, maryland. Inspectors responded this week after wusa9 documented a dangerous 7foot deep hole that had developed in the backyard of 77yearold lucy webner. This is the 1300 block of statwood avenue. The widowed world war ii refugee was told to call in a geotechnical engineer saying that her yard is unsafe until the hole is repaired, but now the county has sent a social worker to assist mrs. Webner to solve the problem. Keeping your mind smarm as you get older could start with the methods youre taking sharp as you get older could start with the meds youre taking right now, very important story tonight at 11 00. But first a man walking his dog stumble onto what may be human remains. Plus an important right now investigators are trying to determine what appears to be human remains. A man walking his dog discovered human bones in the Manchester Lakes area of Fairfax County. The medical examiner will try to figure out how long the bones have been there and who they belong to. In tonights consumer alert wall street had a good day. The markets closed modestly higher. The dow crossed over the 18,000 mark up nearly 47 points and the nasdaq add 36 points. Weve got a call for action heads up on a very important recall. The Consumer ProductSafety Commission is calling back about 4. 6 million of these disposable kiddie fire extinguishers. Theyve got a faulty valve and can cause it to not fully work for you during a fire emergency. You want to make sure its always working. The cpsc says stop using it, contact the company for a replacement. If youve got a Consumer Complaint or want to volunteer, go to our website www. Wusa9. Com and click on the call for action link. Fuel leaks, ignition switches and faulty air bags were just three safety issues that led to a Record Number of vehicle recalls in 2014. Nhtsa says automakers issued 803 recalls on almost 64 million vehicles last year, more than double the old record a decade ago. General motors had the most recalls at 84. And gm wants to give its rival tesla a run for its money. The automaker announced its plans to build an electric car with a 200mile range. The chevy bolt, not to be confused with the volt, will be manufactured in michigan and priced at about 37,000. Tesla says it will also debut a vehicle with a similar mileage range. Costco and American Express may be consciously uncoupling. The two companies have failed to reach an agreement to extend an exclusive deal that allows members to use a credit card at the whole sale retailer in the u. S. This costco deal accounts for about 8 of spending on American Express cards worldwide. The current contract expires in march of 2016. Still ahead a car slams into the side of a local giant grocery store. Plus a missing child from michigan may be somewhere in maryland. Her mothers plea coming up. Reporter and urgent bridge inspections underway this afternoon and tonight in maryland after an accident at 1 bridge tuesday and the crumbling concrete i found at another bridge after that. Im scott broom in maryla were following up now on what highway bridge inspectors in maryland have been up to today. They were ordered to make safety checks on at least 27 structurally deficient bridges after a chunk of concrete fell from a beltway bridge and hit a car tuesday and after our reporter scott broom found more problems elsewhere. Scott joins us now live from arbutus, maryland, after shadowing an inspector today. What did that inspector find, scott . Reporter sadly, its probably true you wont be surprised by what i documented this inspector looking at today. It didnt look good and the question is will it result in an accelerated repairs schedule for some of these bridges . Its the 12th bridge the inspector has surveyed in the last 24 hours, part of an urgent review of 28 bridges ordered by marylands transportation secretary after concrete fell from a capital beltway bridge onto a sedan tuesday night and after i found blocks of falling concrete lying just inches from a busy lawn on southbound branch avenue lane on southbound branch avenueto have fallen from the piers and beams from the bridge above. Todays inspection in arbutus, maryland, found more of the same. In this case the blocks of concrete had fallen near where pedestrians might walk. Above the inspector documented what appeared to be more crumbling concrete and repairs that included jacking up this major interstate highway bridge with blocks of wood. Paneling has been put in place to keep chunks of the road above to keep from falling on cars should it come loose. Sadly this is typical for the condition of bridges designated by state officials as structurally deficient. Road salting in Winter Weather can accelerate the crumbling. The agency is concerned about safety as concrete chips fall away, but the spokesman dave buck said after tuesdays incident that does not mean these bridges are on the verge of collapse. The concrete for the most part is superficial and its the outside part and while its a very important part of it and obviously one that when Something Like this happens can affect traffic, its very infrequent. It does not happen often. Reporter the good news so far is that inspectors in this round of urgent inspections have not found anything urgent enough to require an Emergency Repair or road closure. So thats at least partially good news. All of these structurally deficient bridges are in the pipeline for repair, but that pipeline is about 10 years long. Also want to report that maryland has about 3 of its state maintained bridges on that structurally deficient list. Thats actually pretty good compared to a lot of states, but after a tough winter, as you can see, the concrete crumbles and it does occasionally come crashing down. D. C. Police say two people were taken to the hospital after their car crashed into the wall of a giant grocery store. That photo you just saw courtesy of wtop. The crash happened before noon at the giants in the 4300 block of connecticut avenue in northwest. The injuries appear to be nonlife threatening and the accident is under investigation. Each month wusa9 works with the National Center for missing and exploited children to feature a missing child in hopes maybe you can help them home. Here is the story of one child. This is tavia bentley. She was 11 years old when she went missing from detroit, michigan, in february of 2012. Reporter maureen heads supervises the missing Childrens Division at the National Center for missing and exploited children. Its believed she could be with Family Members that might be assisting in hiding her out. Some of those Family Members are in the maryland area. Reporter tavi avenues mother katrina is in tavias mother katrina is in michigan and wants her daughterton that she loves her. We want you to come back home. Your birthday is coming in april and i would really like to spend that with you, so please contact me, please. Reporter tavia was classified as an endangered run away, but authorities believe her family is involved making it a parental or family abduction. To say the child is with another parent or Family Member doesnt lessen the potential risk to the child. Reporter tavia bentley is African American, 5 1 and weighs 105 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes. Her ears are pierced and she has a birthmark on her right wrist. Anyone with information that may help locate her can call 911 or 1800the lost, the hotline for the National Center for missing and exploited children. If tavia were located tomorrow, her mother says it would be joyous. You can always come home. Ill never stop looking for you. The Center Receives tens of thousands of reports of missing children each year. So please help us spread the word and bring kids like tavia home by sharing our bring them home missing children photos on our wusa9 facebook page. Out of frederick county, some sad news, a student took his own life last night. There are no classes today or monday because of president s day, but grief counselors will be at the high school tuesday. The fbi is investigating the murders of the three Muslim College students in chapel hill. Suspect craig hicks had at least 12 guns and a large cache of ammunition. The families are calling it a hate crime. Police say it could be a parking dispute argument. Oregon governor has resigned. John kitzhabaner cenound he will step down wednesday amid allegations his fiancee used their relationship to obtain private consulting work. One month ago he was sworn into his record fourth term in office. He appears to be the first Oregon Governor to face an attorney general investigation. When Lieutenant Governor kate brown takes over next week, she will become the first openly bisexual governor in u. S. History. Have we got one amazing dog story for you. This is about sissy and last week her owner nancy was admitted to a hospital in cedar rapids, iowa, but sissy missed her human pal so much that she went searching for her. She made a 20 block trek to the hospital, a place she had never been before. She walked right in and started searching the halls for nancy and all of this was caught on surveillance video. Eventually the miniature schnauzer was reunited with the person she was looking for. I was surprised to see her. She was all wiggling and excited and i said sarah, did you smuggle this dog in . She said no, she brought herself in here, mom. All next week is amazing dog week here on wusa9. So do you have an amazing dog . We sure would love to hear from you and we might just put your pooch on tv. Look at that lineup of just cute dogs. Email us amazingdogsusat amazingdogs usatamazingdogs wusa9. Com. Big snow showers possible tomorrow. Behind that tremendous winds. Check out the wind gust tracker. 10 00 tomorrow winds are gusting to 43 Miles Per Hour in gaithersburg and 38 downtown. Well come back, talk about what that does to wind chills saturday night and sunday morning. Trending now some controversy over president obamas buzz feed video and some lets go trending right now. President obama is trying to fit in with the young crowd, jan. Heres the video he made with buzz feed to encourage folks to sign up for healthcare. Gov by this sunday. [ music ] deadline for signing up for Health Insurance is february february not like any other wednesday. Thats not man. Wednesday. February 15th. Some are criticizing obama for acting less than president ial. Others say its a good way for him to reach out to younger americans. Right now he needs younger americans to sign up for healthcare. Gov. Theyre counting on them. Everybody is trying to reach out to younger americans. Tomorrow is valentines day, a lonely saturday for some single people. But it doesnt have to be because we have some valentines day alternatives. Thats right. Mr. Are plenty of apps there are plenty of apps and services now to make singles feel a little less single on valentines day. A lot of young adults are using apps like tinder and hinge based on your preferences and then theres the in visible boy friend. For just 25 a month a fake boyfriend or girl friend will send you 100 Text Messages, 10 voicemails and even a postcard. You even get to make up a story how you met. That is, if you can get past the whole fake thing. The company says they help people avoid the societal stigma of being single by giving them credible social proof that theyre in a relationship. You can say hey, mom, im texting someone, but if thats not really your thing, celebrate gallentines day tonight made popular by the show parks and recreation for women who celebrate their friendship. Galentines day. If you want to learn more about the dating apps or want an invisible boy friend, check out our wusa9 app. You mean to tell me i would pay 25 to be annoyed and get 100 Text Messages . Some people want them. Its interesting because on that site you can also be that fake boyfriend or girl friend and send those fake Text Messages and postcards, too. No thank you. Coming up in sports its a big weekend for the local female volleyball players who will serve it up and hope to attract college recruiters, too. Up next find out how two separate i know grandmas house isnt the most exciting, but its only for a few hours. Look what ive got. When you get verizon fios, you get beautiful hd picture quality, super fast internet, and americas most reliable network. 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Getting regular checkups are important because you may never know if your latter needs special attention until its too heart need special attention until its too late. Andrea roane introduces us to a local trainer who had a serious condition which nearly killed him. Reporter a Strong Family along with a sound mind and body are very important to brian stevens. Not just living, but quality of living. Reporter the personal trainer from bowie, maryland, dedicated his whole life to physical fitness, but one day his body just gave out on him. I was going through a warm up with my client. Were just Walking Around the track and i noticed i couldnt go around the track. Reporter he kept stopping because he was short of breath. I took a couple steps, felt like i ran up a hill. Reporter brian had a condition called sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease that affects many different organs, but it affected his heart. He received a pacemaker in 2005. After this pacemaker it was time for another one because they only last maybe five years. Reporter things took a turn for the worst. He was referred to Inova Fairfax hospital where they realized his heart was much weaker than once thought. He needed a transplant. They didnt think i was going to live much longer to be able to get a transplant. So they told us about vad. Reporter ventricular assist device helps pump blood from the heart to the body. Usually most people get one, but i got two. Thats how weak my heart was. Reporter after 11 months brian received his transplant and hes never felt better. He praises the experts for saving his life, but he says its the power of positivity thanadar huge difference. Thats the most that made a huge difference. Thats the most important thing, especially when you have positive people around you. It took a rare procedure to put both devices into brians heart. His condition is not known. This wednesday, february 18th, we will feature inova doctors live throughout the day. They will give heart hetips and discuss the latest life saving technologies. Always watching always tracking wusa9 first alert weather. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, pretty benign but cold, quiet, 29 downtown, dew point below 0, relative humidity 25 . That is some kind of a dry air mass. You want to put moisture into your house this time of year, cold tonight, light wind and snow showers tomorrow 4 p. M. To 9 p. M. , a dynamic situation, a dusting to 3 inches. Thunder snow is possible. Its going to be wild about four or five hours. Then behind it winds will gust 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. That will drive wind chills sunday morning to 10 to 20 degrees below 0. In fact, heres a look at our wind chill forecast. 8 00 saturday probably out with your sweetheart. Well, feels like its 16 downtown, but north of town it feels like Single Digits. Look what happens. By 11 00 now it feels like below 0 in leesburg and gaithersburg and by morning on sunday just 7 00 feels like its 10 below downtown d. C. , 15 below in gaithersburg and 14 below in frederick and 15 below in hagerstown. Dangerous wind chills sunday morning. Theyll relax a bit by 10 00 still looking at wind chills 3 below to 13 below. Thats pretty serious wind chills for us. Now lets talk about the snow, okay . Well advance this. By 6 00 well have snow across most of the metro area and it will be a burst of snow and a very intense situation like a summer cold front that develops strong thunderstorms. Well see very intense snow showers. 7 30 snow across the board from fredericksburg to d. C. Into baltimore tapering off by noon 30 from west to east. Day planner, no worries in the morning except cold, 29 by 9 00, 35 by 11 00, 37 with clouds by 1 p. M. Sunday yellow alert for wind chills down to 20 below, only 18 for a high, still cold monday, 27 for a high. Next seven days tuesday, wednesday, still in the ballpark. The models are tracking it further south and east almost to the point where it stays all the way south of us. Were still in the ballpark for light snow tuesday and wednesday and behind that system wednesday boom, another shot of cold air. Were in the teens for highs thursday and friday. Were talking about student athletes obtaining a scholarship today and thats not always easy, but this weekend the district is home to an event thats unique in its size. As Diane Roberts reports, its helping pave the way to college for local girls. Reporter Erica Pritchard loves art and science and might study them in college. She hopes volleyball will get her there. My academics are good, but i really think that my volleyball is what drives me to get a scholarship. Reporter the 10th grader from Middletown High School in frederick is one of the best volleyball players in the nation. She and her teammates are preparing to play one of the n one of the top three volleyball tournaments in the country. Upwards of 150 scouts and coaches from all over will be watching her at the capitol hill classic in d. C. This weekend. Im real excited. Reporter husband and wife team bonnie and Barry Goldberg started the threeday event nine years ago. My wife and i are amazed at where its come to. Reporter the tournament has grown from 100 to 900 teams. Not just for the elite no. 1 player in the country. Theres a lot of division 3 schools here looking for Good Students that can play volleyball and play a role on the team. Reporter barry and his wife may have started the tournament, but barry is also a beneficiary. He found many of his players at the capitol hill classic including top scorer kelly mccaden. Kelly played in the tournament four years. Thats where American University volleyball coach Barry Goldberg first saw that now senior. She knows the tourneys value for high school girls. I would say College Coaches notice the little things, too. You could be the best player, but if youre not a good teammate, it shows. Reporter besides the potential scholarships and fun to be had, barry and bonnie want to grow the sport of volleyball in this football, baseball, basketball world. In the district Diane Roberts, wusa9 sports. Thank you very much, d. Kelly, you saw her in the story, is going to play volleyball professionally overseas after graduation. Again there will be about 900 teams on 100 corporates at the Convention Center all weekend, great stuff. Coming up at 6 20 a huge weekend for local College Basketball teams as well, one in particular, some calling it a must win saturday. Well have that in about 20 minutes. Good thing theyre playing inside tomorrow. Coming up at 6 00 new details in the tasing death of a woman with Mental Illness at the hands of Fairfax County sheriffs deputies. But first a preview of the 60 minutes story that a late bob simon was working before he died in a terrible crash on wednesday. Please join us tomorrow at noon for our black History Month presentation of the journey, 450 years of the African American experience. The documentary tells the little known story about the founding of st. Augustine, florida, and the role of free blacks who came to the some questions cant wait until morning. So im one of many nurses at cigna with answers anytime, day or night. Im lauren and ive got your back. 60 minutes correspondent bob simon was working on an important story about ebola when he died wednesday nature. It will air on sundays broadcast and just this past week president obama announced all the nearly 2,800 u. S. Troops in liberia will leave by the end of april. Despite the declining number of cases liberia is still hoping to start a Clinical Trial of the drug zmapp. Reporter before any kind of trial of the drug could begin supplies of zmapp ran out. Now more than a year after the outbreak hit just enough is being produced for a small Clinical Trial in liberia that could start as soon a next week. If west african lives are to be saved, salvation may welcome from western kentucky from these nondescript greenhouses in owensboro. Their product . A plant usually more associated with destroying lives than with saving them, tobacco. This is where the science has turned into a product where zmapp is manufactured in row after row of this odd looking variety of tobacco. Can i smoke it . Can i clue it . I wouldnt recommend that. Reporter but its different . Its very different. Reporter hugh hayden is the president of Kentucky Bioprocessing which was recently bought by cigarette giant reynolds american. When you saito back owe to most people today say tobacco to most people today, it sucks cancer, emphysema, heart failure, death. Tobacco is known in our culture as a killer. Theres clearly a bit of irony there, but again there are good things that can be done with it and thats our objective here. Wow. You can watch bob simons report this sunday on 60 minutes at 7 00 here on channel 9. Thanks for watching wusa9 news at 5 00. Wusa9 news at 6 00 starts right now. We had to issue a yellow alert for saturday afternoon and sunday, big time snow showers saturday afternoon. Well talk about how much will fall, what visibility will do and behind the system we could have winds to 50 miles an hour. Reporter a Congressional Committee releases audio of the 911 calls in metros deadly smoke crisis. The calls reveal delays and confusion. If you think its cold now, you have not seen a thing yet. We are in for snow showers and some even Colder Weather tomorrow. Bundle up and thank you for joining us. Im lesli foster. Im derek mcginty. Lets not waste any time. Chief meteorologist topper shutt is here with a look at just how low it will go. Wind chills well below 0 , 10 to 20 below 0 by sunday morning, but before that weve got snow showers to talk about. Theyll be intense. Afternoon and evening snow showers tomorrow. You could even hear the rumble of thunder. That means its a really dynamic atmosphere, a dusting to maybe 3 inches still possible, slick roads, time frame about 4 p. M. To 9 p. M. We wake up sunday morning, wind chills 10 to 20 degrees below 0 and the winds could gust 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. Were under a high wind watch for the entire metro area. In fact, for late tomorrow night and sunday morning gusts 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. On our wind gust tracker by 7 00 tomorrow were looking at winds almost 40 miles an hour in la plata. This is a forecast, a snapshot in time, if you will. 44 mileperhour wind gusts in leesburg possible at 7 00 tomorrow. Look at all the 40s popping up, 45 mileperhour wind gust down toward the northern neck. By 10 p. M. Tomorrow winds 40 to 45 Miles Per Hour for gusts and sustained probably 20 to 40 miles an hour. Dont be surprised if we see some scattered Power Outages tomorrow. Bring in the small chairs. Wind 44 downtown, 45 in la plata 8 a. M. Well come back, track the snow showers hour by hour and have an update on next weeks possible snow. You just heard from topper