parkway. right now the right lane is blocked for a multivehicle accident. they are make progress. delays from branch avenue. veer off on branch avenue and use as your alternate route. going around town, zooming into 95 on the northbound side and the prince william parkway. delays have this point headed up through woodbridge. a little bit in springfield but your lanes are open. back out to look at the other side of town. if you're planning to head to the beltway near arlington boulevard, you will be okay. it's slow at bradack, but you're okay from 66 to the west side of town. to the travel times on the outer loop from 95 to 270 north of town 10 minutes. 295 up to the 11th street bridge is 7 minutes right now. we will update you on the accident on the suitland parkway at 6:12. back to you, mike. >> thank you, monika. top of the hour with some of the stories happening today. metro will unvail a memorial to the workers who have die in the line of duty over the last 35 years. aer is moanmy will -- a ceremony will begin this morning. the new dietary guidelines are coming out today. created by the department of health and human services. guidelines come out every 5 years. bill gates is going to set an ambitious goal today. wiping out pole owe. he -- polio. he says the sus on the -- the u.s. is on the verge of getting rid of the disease but there's outbreaks in africa. no flairups of violence today in egypt. but protesters are out in the scare. >> here's the video of the sunrise this morning, and protesters are vowing to remain until president mubarak leaves office. >> the american government cannot ask the egyptian people to believe that a dictator who has been in power for 30 years will be the one to implement democracy. this is really a farce. i mean people could be poor, be they are intelligent. >> reporter: the protests are not limited to cairo. the democracy protests have broken out in over places as well. supporters of the democracy movement are being heard at home. this was the scene outside of the white house. the people want the white house to call for mubarak to leave office. the state department wants to make sure that americans are not caught in any violence that may flairup with the protests. >> surae chinn has that story. >> reporter: the state department has issued a voluntary departure for all americans stuck in egypt. the planned evacuations are happening right now in egypt. as a matter of fact, the first chartered flight with the americans will land on the island of cyprus at any moment now. the u.s. government wants to keep the americans as safe as possible and make sure they are not caught up in the violent clashes. the federal government says the u.s. citizens currently in egypt should leave as soon and safely as they can while obeying the government's imposed sure few. the airports and other communication are taxed right now and so is getting information through phone services. but countries sent planes to egypt yesterday to help with the evacuations o. officials will continue to fly the u.s. citizens out of the country to destinations in europe today. >> we are working closely with the egyptian government to ensure the safety of american citizens, and we have authorized a voltarian departure, and we are reaching out to the american citizens, and as i'm speaking to you at this point, thankfully we don't have any reports of any american citizens killed or injured. we want to keep it that way. >> reporter: and any family members trying to get in touch with loved ones abroad should contact the u.s. state department. mike. >> thank you surae chinn live outside of the egyptian embassy in washington this morning. right now pepco is working hard to get power back to residents without electricity. they have been in the dark since wednesday's snowstorm. we caught up with these crews working sunday night in north bethesda. they were able to get the lights lights lights and her important -- lights and more importantly the heat back on for dozens of homes. parishioners of the church destroyed by the large water main break in capitol heights found a way to hold service. they were hit with millions of gallons of water it destroyed the building, but a fellow pastor helped out and invited the congregation to his church. >> when i saw on the news what had happened to the church, my heart went out to her and the congregation. >> the only thing, actually, even to now, that has gone through my mind, i just thank god that we were not there in worship. >> pastor stratford says her church has gotten many donations and plans to move through the church to a place that does not have a water main through the parking lot. a virginia lawmaker wants to stop the commonwealth from getting any more red light cameras. the bill would stop any new cameras from being installed after july 1st. it was last june the cameras were turned back on years after they were shut off. the lawmakers says they infringe on the civil liberties. supporters like aaa say they boost safety. time for your money report. >> jessica is here to get us ready for the big show on sunday. the super bowl ads. >> that's right. get ready for the beaver moving a big branch into the road for bridgestone, and justin bieber for best buy. a lot of people watch the super bowl for the ads but this year advertisers may get more bang for your bucks 30-second ad for $3 million. there's two very popular teams in the super bowl, and the audience this year could be enormous. golden sachs is handing out big bucks to its employees. this is after they settled a fraud investigation. they have are boosting bonuses up to 40%. the c.e.o. will make $2 million a year and his top lieutenants will make 1.8 million. that's up annually. top officers will get 12.6 million dollars each in bonuses. we are all paying more for chocolate for our sweeties, and this may be just the beginning. the world will face a chocolate drought over the next few years because of the political unrest where 40% of the world's o'cocoa beans are being grown. >> give fruit on valentine's day. >> yeah, right! >> even with the weather it can be expensive. >> you're right. >> i don't like chocolate. >> you don't? >> when i say that to people -- >> i'm not a chocolate fan unless it's walnut covered in chocolate. >> i thought i was the only person who didn't like chocolate. that's cool. >> that's why we are a team. >> thank you, jessica. a story out of arlington, virginia, that has people talking this morning. a 3-year-old girl suspended from her preschool for a month because she had too many bathroom accidents. >> girl had at least eight accidents in a month, and the school says it's county policy to remove children after that many accidents. the girl is at a school that has a potty training program, and her mom wants the county's policy changed. >> we want to know what you think about this. should there be a potty training policy in schools is it right to send a 3-year-old home for accidents or is this is a bad idea? leave your comments on our facebook page. we will read comment at 6:45. what say hid in the next hour of 9 news now. >> meet the man behind the three-decades old space submission. the red skin who was the mvp of the probowl. who went home with big honors. the weather forecast is 90 seconds away. it is 6:12 on this monday morning. a chilly day today, struggling to get to the mid-30s. dry through the evening rush hour, but tonight a light wintery mix moving in right now monika satani with time-saver traffic. >> westbound suitland parkway, the accident has been cleared but we are looking live from sky 9 at another one southbound on the vw parkway on route 97 in laurel where the left lane is blocked. keep it in mind for your travel plans, southbound on the v.w. parkway. i will update this accident and other maryland roads to avoid at 6:18. mike and andrea. >> reporter: thank you, monika. as egyptians take to the street demanding the democratic reforms, people in other democratic countries are protesting as well. >> that's one of the stories making news at 6:12. dozens of turks protested yesterday and there's been similar protests in jordan. people gathered yesterday to pray for nelson mandela. he was released from the hospital on friday treated for a respiratory infection. a rescue in washington state caught on tape. a woman lost control of her suv and ended up in a creek. it took rescue workers over an hour to bring her to safety. your computer probably has more power than two spacecrafts in space. >> the voyager is sending back images for the end of the solar system. >> one man has been there since the start. >> it's this right here. >> reporter: this man loves his job. he better. he has been work on the same project at hopkins applied physics lab in laurel for 40 years. >> i was 32. >> reporter: and you're 70? >> 72 now. >> reporter: do -- did you ever image you would be work -- imagine you would be working on this project? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: the voyager spacecraft has sailed beyond jupiter and sat saturn, -- saturn, almost 3 time the farther than the sun than pluto is. >> reporter: he is measuring the solar blast of the sun at 1 million-miles aen hour. >> it turns around -- 1 million miles per hour. >> it turns around and goes back again. >> reporter: the instrument has been doing this in space for 33 years. >> i said to the engineers that we really have to rotate this, and they said, oh, you are out of your mind. >> reporter: in the last few months a remarkable find. the voyager twins have reached a spot where the solar wind dies, and they are at the very edge of the sun's influence. in a year or two, they may cross over the threshold into interstellar space. it's not as far as veager made it in the first star trek movie, but it's billion dollarses farther than -- billion miles farther than ever dreamed. >> this is what dreams are made of. >> reporter: voyager 1 should arrive in the giraffe consolation in about 40,000 years. voyager 2 is headed for sirrius in a quarter million years. >> some time in the next 14 years they are scheduled to run silent and their batteries will run down, but the spacecraft have been full of surprises, and he expects they will surprise again. >> amazing. just billions and billions you think of it. hi, there. >> reporter: hey, that was cool. >> that was very cool. >> we are cold, though. >> reporter: we will be cold today and tonight light snow, sleet, and freezing rain moving in. light is the operative word, but doesn't take much to cause problems. up north you have the winter storm watch for the pennsylvania border. the momslikeme.com bus stop forecast is a chilly one. most temperatures in the low 20s to low 30s. north, up to frederick, and howard and carroll counties, and baltimore county. we have teens and single digits there as they have had clear skies and light winds. today, look for the mostly cloudy skies. 32 at 9:00. mid-30s at noon. temperaturestemperatures will not move much at all. by 5:00, back to 33. northwest winds at 8 miles an hour. seeing the cold i'm talking about from york. down to frederick and carroll counties. down south, mid-30s. culpepper, and fredericksburg. 36. the naval station, 33. the weather watch is down there also. across the junction, checking with me this morning. windchills from the low 20s, and we are watching a major storm affecting the middle of country from oklahoma and missouri. detroit, buffalo, southern maine, 1-2 feet of snow over the next few days. it's not from this or that. it's from this area of low pressure. this spin does not look like much into arizona out of california, but the upper level energy is there, and the ingredients are coming together for them to have a major storm with blizzard conditions from illinois, and chicago may deal with blizzard conditions into tomorrow and tomorrow night. if you have travel into the midwest tomorrow, good luck. all right, the high pressure this morning, giving us the cold air and quiet day. it will retreat. by 5:00, moisture out to the west, and expanding a little bit to the 10:00 hour. overnight, we see the light snow, sleet, and freezing rain. into tomorrow morning, and noon, icy mix in southern pennsylvania, and snow along and north of i-80. for us, another surge of moisture that by tuesday night and wednesday more, changing over into rain, and the ice really confined, again along and north of i-40 and wednesday, the warm front is moving through, and temperatures will really jump up. mid-30s today. a light mix tonight into tuesday morning. rain late tuesday. 35, looking light. wednesday, rain, and 50. by thursday and friday, we are chilly again. and saturday, a chance of snow with the coastal, 32. it's 6:18, monika satani. you have information for us? >> reporter: i sure do. we will start this one with a yellow light because of two accidents to tell you about. i will step out with a live picture from sky 9 on the southbound side of the vw parkway on route 197. this is in laurel. the good news, the two-car fender bender. with left lane blocked, you can see it slowingdown on the southbound side of the v.w. parkway into laurel. we will keep you posted on this situation. the other accident i want to tell you about on the southbound side of 270. it's after route 80 in urbana. a 3-car accident, but you have delays beginning at route 80, continued southbound to 121 before the pace improves. keep that in mind for the travel plans on i-27oers -- i- 270, especially out of frederick you have colesville road, but the lanes are open. just the normal slowdown on the topside of town. to the district in georgetown, and this is what it looks like. nice and quiet on wisconsin avenue. no problems to report within the district right now. a look at your travel time. 66 inbound from 7100 to the beltway. the toll road to 674, 6 minutes, and the beltway to the toll road, 14 minutes.s. we will update both accidents at 6:24. thank you, monika. ahead in sports, an all star weekend, learn which red skin came up big in the probowl. alexander ovechkin scored a goal, but was it enough to lead his team to victory? qqq seven years ago, i had this idea. to make baby food the way moms would. happybaby strives to make the best organic baby food. in a business like ours, personal connections are so important. we use our american express open gold card to further those connections. last year we took dozens of trips using membership rewards points to meet with the farmers that grow our sweet potatoes and merchants that sell our product. we've gone from being in 5 stores to 7,500. booming is using points to make connections that grow your business. 6:23. on this monday morning, we have clouds out there but breaks also with temperatures dropping into the teens, and even colder than that on a few spots of i- 70. around here today, we will struggle with low 30s here for 9:00 in town. mid-30s for lunchtime, and low 30s by five. a light wintery mix could move around at dark. mike. >> thank you, howard. >> sports, the nfl probowl was back in hawaii, but it was played again the sunday before the super bowl. >> absolutely. it didn't make the game much better, except for the people who got to go to honolulu. >> it was a pretty good game for d'angelo hall. not much defense prove involved but there -- defense involved but he was part of the bright spot of the return for the touchdown. the nfc coughed up the ball five times. 55-41 was the final score. nhl with the all star game on sunday night. alexander ovechkin for team staal. scoring just 50 seconds in. team lindstrom won it 11-10 in the end. the wizards will try again tonight to win a road game for the first time all season long. they are taking on the dallas mavericks. tipoff is 8:30. maryland is is doing well on the road this reason. jordan williams with 15 rebounds for the terps. they won in atlanta. maryland will host duke on wednesday night. >> oh! in blacksburg, virginia tech hosted miami. jeff allen led the hokies with 18 points and 11 rebounds. virginia tech leads nc state, and visiting nc state on wednesday night. >> okay, 6:25. still to come, new developments in the racy videos shot on board of a navy aircraft carrier. those dealing with all the power problems. wait until you hear what maryland's governor is saying to pepco. >> reporter: mike, an accident from sky 9, southbound on the v.w. parkway on 197. delays beginning all the way back to 132. keep in this mind. we will update you on this and virginia roads in my next report. you're watching 9 news now. 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or click today. we do weather first every time we can around here. 6:29 on monday morning. we are glad you are with us. the love look at the u.s. capitol. guess what, the winter mix is moving in. should be at some point today. >> i'm andrea roane. >> and i'm mike hydeck. howard bernstein on the weather terrace. no mix yet? >> reporter: no it looks like the mix could be well after dark. if you're north of us, i-70 north, you could deal with the freezing rain and sleet mix through wednesday morning when the watch is up. the cold temperatures temperatures will not move up. lucky to be 31 or 34 for the high today. the drive home around 33 degrees. cold air to the north. 9 in frederick. 17 in spartansburg. andrews and annapolis in the upper 20s right now, and you will see we have had a bit of moisture to the south, but that didn't really reach the ground. to the deep south, there's rain, but the storm system out of arizona, promising to produce the massive snowstorm for the midwest. the winter storm watch extending into oklahoma, missouri, into parts of new england now. the northern counties dealing with that. a little bit of sleet sleet and freezing rain late tonight into wednesday morning, could cause problems. there i will be back to talk more about the problem in a few minutes. right now monika satani with the latest time saver traffic. >> reporter: problems in prince george's county. the live look of the v.w. parkway with an accident at route 197, as you can see here, blocking the left lane. the bad news, you delays for 3 miles headed southbound there about route 32 oned v.w. parkway to where you can see, only the right lane is getting by. maybe you want to use route 1 or i-95 as the alternate route while the police are investigating and writing up the information on the fender bender here. 270 on the southbound side, the accident have been telling you about on the shoulder. the delays are basically from route 80 down to 121 and again to route 118 in germantown. along the way, the lanes are open, but everyone is looking at the accident on the should over route 80. be aware of this. this time 66 on the inbound side. 7100 to route 123. a live look to 25. the brakes up to seminary road, but the lanes are open to the 14 14th street bridge. commuting by train? everything is on time. the next report, we will update the v.w. parkway at 6:46. mike and andrea? >> right now, 300 pepco customers are without power five days after the storm on wednesday. >> the president of pepco says it knocks out service to hundreds of thousands of people. >> it's been an emotional time for the people of stoney brook. the electricity was on for a few hours last night but then it was off again. >> i completely understand the frustration of being out of electric power for several days, but we are 100% committed to getting the job done. >> pepco said late last week it would have all customers restored by friday night. maryland governor mark o'malley has harsh words for the utility company. his letter says despite earnest promises, numerous press releases and a 6-point plan, family in the state woke up for a third morning in a row to a dark house with pepco advising that service would be restored by 11:00 p.m. tomorrow night, five days in the dark is simply not acceptable. the governor wants a state investigation into the power outages. prince william public county school students have class today. today. they were supposed to have it off for a teacher's workday, but it's been moved to thursday. students will get report cards on february 10th instead of the 7th. there's signs of normal life in cairo this morning. the subway is open, and trash collection is back underway. we may see antigovernment protests later today, though. this is what it looked like sunday in cairo's main square. thousands of people calling for the ouster of president mubarak. secretary of state hillary clinton will not say if he should go or not. >> we are only at the beginning of what is unfolding in egypt. i will not go into hypothetical and speculation, other than to say that president mubarak and his government have been an important partner to the united states. >> a statement from mubarak was read on egyptian television last night. he wants the prime minister to bring political reform. there the egyptian officials have not said exactly are where mubarak is right now. the state department in washington is make sure the american tourists in egypt are safe. right now it means getting them out of there. surae chinn is live with that start of the story this morning -- that part of the story this morning. >> reporter: good morning. the u.s. state department said all americans should get out as soon as possible and as safely as possible. the evasionuations are going on right now. -- the evacuations are going on right now. you can see the complete gridlock, traffic bumper-to- bumper into cairo international airport. ever since the violent demonstrations began days ago, the airports and other transportation have been extremely crowded and nearly impossible to get on, but countries have brought in planes to help out with the evacuations,s and officials will be flying u.s. residents out into europe. one of those, 20-year-old kyron burke will hope i will there be one of of the chartered flights. when her dad at -- with her dad at home anxiously awaiting to hear from her. >> you want her out and you want to give her a big hug and know she is safe. >> taking care of american citizens in egypt right now is our top priority. we understand the frustrations with not being able to get through. >> reporter: and kyleen's dad just heard from his daughter just yesterday with the help of contacting lawmakers and the state department, but no word on when she may be able to catch one of the charter flights. reporting live outside of the egyptian embassy, surae chinn. 9 news now. owen honors is the carrier captain who resigned after movies he made. the website got a 15-page statement from honors saying military leaders knew of the videos and never told him to stop make or showing them. honors has not spoken pubically since the videos were made public on january 1st. jessica is back watching your money. >> talking about the interest we pay on credit cards. wait until you hear about this. take out your credit card statements. you want to know what you are paying. the reason why, interest rates are hovering near record highs. the average rate is 14.72%, and if your credit is bad enough, you could pay the rate of 59.9% a.p.r. yes. a.p.r.s have climbed 20% over the past 2 years, and you know about the new credit card rules, cracking down on certain fees and require disclosures but they didn't put a cap on the interest rates. >> oh! alphaa napa will be buying massey energy. they own the mine where 9 men were killed last spring. they operate in virginia, west virginia, and kentucky. they have had two losing quarters since the explosion. the world's only ipad newspaper will be debuting this week. it's called the daily and will day lieu bah on wednesday it will cover daily news, culture, and entertainment. it will probably cost 99-cents a week, deducted automatically from the app store accounted. it appears to be a first for apple p. we will see how -- apple. we will see how that works in the future. >> we will see if the others will join in. >> very interesting. thank you. >> it's 6:39. 31 degrees on our way to a high of 35. >> a wintery mix is moving in later tonight. howard has the forecast next. >> we want to take you live for the look at the 14th street bridge into the district. you can see that traffic is starting to build. monika is next with the time saver traffic reports 7 minutes away. >> here is what you will see on channel 9 at 8:00. how i met your mother. followed by the rules of engagement. >> two and a half men, and then mike and molly. >> hawaii five-0. followed by 9 news at eleven. we will be right back. somewhere in america, there's a doctor who can peer into the future. there's a nurse who can access in an instant every patient's past. and because the whole hospital's working together, there's a family who can breathe easy, right now. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest healthcare questions. and the over 60,000 people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers. welcome back to 9 news now. here's howard. >> good morning. we are looking at wintery weather moving in tonight into the overnight and tomorrow morning. we head north of i-70 with the winter storm watch in effect late tonight through wednesday morning. you can get the extended period of sleet and freezing rain. today's momslikeme.com expended bus forecast, it's a cold one out. there the temperatures in the low 30s. carroll county, westminster, the areas are very cold. readings up there are running in the teens, and even some upper single digits. 32 by 9:00. in town, mostly cloudy skies. a northeast wind at 8, and the northeast wind with clouds and 33 at 5:00. the temperatures will not move much. the cold i'm talking about. gaithersburg, and york, pennsylvania, at 3 right now, and this has sunk down into frederick and northern baltimore county. we are hanging on to the upper 30s. mid-30s for fredericksburg. national is 31. feeling like 21 thanks to the brisk, northeast wind at 14 miles an hour. that will give us the windchill there. the dew point in the low0s. the artic air, montana, north dakota, much of montana, white and pink. well below 0. the arctic air will move south. for us, it will bring the jet stream up, and the next storm will travel from texas up to the northwest, and parts of the mid-west, missouri, to illinois, to chicago and detroit. new hampshire, and vermont, this is just coming into arkansas it will come across the south and crank a big storm over the next few days. there will likely be blizzard conditions across missouri and illinois. the travel will be disrupted big time when you consider chicago could get one foot to a foot and a half or two on the upside of the snow from the storm. that will disrupt things horribly. the high pressure pulling away. mostly cloudy through midday. overcast at 5:00. snow or mix to the west here. by 10:00, much of that is north and west of dc. overnight, snow, sleet, and freezing rain developing with the icy mix in the pink areas but they are light amounts it doesn't take much sleet or freezing rain to cause problems but the snowfall totals, a couple of tenths, and maybe the rain fall totals here or a freezing rain total of a few hundred. to the north, we have the winter storm batches there, and look at the rain coming in towards wednesday. some very warm air to the south, and i think wednesday we will push the temperatures to the 50-degree park. -- 50-degree mark. into tomorrow morning, the temperatures into the mid-30s, although tomorrow night into wednesday morning, up north, you can see the wintery mix. wednesday mild, snow possible on saturday. monika. >> we are starting with the yellow light, but i have good news. on the southbound side of 27o the accident west of 80 has cleared. a live look from sky 9 where we are talking about an accident southbound on the v.w. parkway. you can see it's in the clearing stages on the left side there. you have about a 3-mile backup as you can see from route 32 headed southbound to the accident scene. you may want to consider using route 1 or 95 as the alternate routes this morning. that's southbound on the v.w. parkway. to the beltway knot of town. delays from 95 past university boulevard to georgia avenue, and about a 15-minute ride here, over to a map now, and there's an accident. this one just recorded in brandiwine at branch avenue. we will keep you posted on that situation. over into the district a live look at 16th street at u street. nothing to report in the district. everything is looking good. the northbound side of i-95, and we have a couple of slow stretches, looking live here. the delays in the parkway to route 1 and then route 7100 into springfield with the lanes open. travel times, inbound 66. 7100 to the beltway, 21 minutes. the beltway to the toll road, 15 minutes, and the toll road 674, 7 minutes. >> we will update you at 6:58. >> thank you, 6:48 right now, monika. earlier we brought you the story about an arlington mom who was upset about the county's potty training policy. >> her 3-year-old daughter was suspended because she had more than eight potty accidents in more than one month. >> this story generated quite a comments on our facebook page. how can you hold a child accountable for an accident? most kids cannot hold their water like adults. when a child says i have to go, it's right now, at the moment they have to go. >> denise says as far as i know, it's a requirement for a child to be potty trained before entering a school. teaches don't -- teachers don't have time to run back and forth for potty business. >> school is not for training. it's hard enough, and it should not be left up to the schools. >> a lot about this in fact who will do the changing and health precautions and all sorts of issues. >> a check on the news before you go, and that's coming up next. good morning, everybody. we are four days away from the latest edition of d chighschoolsports.net play of the day. this is wes robinson with the miss, but larry savage with the putback. winning 75-61. once again we are looking for campus correspondents to shoot pep rallies, games, and the like. if you are accepted we will give you a free camera. go to wusa9.com and click on sports. have a good monday, everybody. it is 6:53, and we have clouds out there this morning. some breaks as well. 31 with lower 20s to the north. the clouds are building. mid-30s for highs. the light wintery mix tonight through tomorrow up north. monika. >> reporter: southbound on the v.w. parkway here, and route 197. >> i'm sorry, mike and andrea, over to you. >> monday, january 31st. a check of the news before you go. >> a funeral for two girls killed in a house fire. kelly and kimberly hernandez died in a fire at their home. the funeral is at st. ambrose catholic church. >> group is upset a controversial video was pulled from the portrait gallery last year and they want the head of the smithsonian to resign. today teresa chambers returns to her job as the chief of u.s. park police. she was fired 7 years ago for warning about staff shortages leading to a jump in crime. the board ruled this month she should get her job back. 6:54, and up next, monika has the delays on the southbound v.w. parkway. >> and howard has the 7-day forecast, and it's an interesting one. right now 32 in woodridge. we will be right back. seven years ago, i had this idea. to make baby food the way moms would. happybaby strives to make the best organic baby food. in a business like ours, personal connections are so important. we use our american express open gold card to further those connections. last year we took dozens of trips using membership rewards points to meet with the farmers that grow our sweet potatoes and merchants that sell our product. we've gone from being in 5 stores to 7,500. booming is using points to make connections that grow your business. hundreds more in your wallet year after year. feed me! saving you money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today. we are back at 6:58. a light wintery mix tonight. today, mostly cloudy cold, and sleet and freezing rain. a break in the afternoon tomorrow. but tomorrow night into wednesday morning, up north, there could be more icing, and then wednesday milder with rain at 50, and a another chance of snow on friday. monika. >> reporter: live from sky 9 at the v.w. parkway with morning continuing on route 197. delays beginning at route 132. 3 miles on the v.w. parkway for the delay. a quick look here. germantown down into rockville, and a last look at 6 6-delays into fairfax and then again at the beltway, a 20-minute ride. andrea. >> finally this morning, don't try this at home or any body of water nearby. the annual polar plunge into the chesapeake. >> thousands braved the chilly water on saturday, all running into the frigid water, some of them in just a speedo are. you kidding me. the governor, no word if he wore a spe, do -- speedo was there. >> and the figure skater -- >> kimi mister. >> there you go. >> was among the people taking part. >> they raise money for the special olympics. as for wall street, the future trading currently flat, and everyone is looking to egypt. we will see how that goes. "the early show" is next, and they will have the latest from cairo, and the ways to fight fatigue. >> the next newscast sat noon. i will see you then. as always get your latest news on wusa9.com. >> we will see you here tomorrow morning at 4:25. have a great day, everybody.