In the extended forecast. We have a possibility of the School Closures and delays. You can be the first to know when a school makes a change. Go to wjla. Com text to sign up. Nancy the firefighters had to use road flares to thaw out the ladders. This is in northwest d. C. And a person had to be rescued from neighboring house at risk but nobody was hurt. A different fire, though, in southeast d. C. Take a look. The firefighters had to fold the frozen hoses to clean them up after a fire. The hoses normally would be rolled back up to the fire truck that laid them down. At the time tom roussey shot the video it was only 13 degrees. Jonathan in anne arundel. Annandale. The cause is under investigation. Nancy devastating house fire that is caught on video in capital heights. Look here. Flames shooting from the roof. Bursting windows as well. Abc7 cameras on the scene as soon as firefighters arrive on the home. And we are told three dogs inside were killed. A fourth managed to escape. The people who live inside the house were not hurt. A young mother was stabbed to death in brentwood, maryland. The mayor says it highlights growing Domestic Violence problem. Police consider called around 8 30 this morning and they arrested a man. The mayor lopez lives in that neighborhood who says that people dont always ask for help and may not feel comfortable going to the police. There is progress tonight to tell you about cleaning up deplorable conditions in Domestic Violence shelter. Last month we showed you the startling images from inside the family crisis center. Tonight, maryland done to improve conditions there. And what i some women who rely on the shelter for safety are afraid. Two weeks ago the group of Domestic Violence victims told us about the terrible Living Conditions and the shelter where they sought safety. They showed us photos and they got action. We have heat. We have food that we know is not molded and spoiled. So, yeah, its good. The women whose identity and the location we are protecting have been placed in a hotel. The shelter is getting a makeover and the women will go back to the shelter this friday. That raises new concern. My biggest thing now is in addition to the improvements at the shelter the number one priority is to find the women permanent housing instead of space in the shelter. In brentwood, brad bell, abc7 news. Nancy a new industry to three states. Legalized marijuana. The california residents got a chance to buy pot without a prescription. Similar laws took effect in main and massachusetts. It wont be available in the Retail Stores in the states for months. The new laws, though, states highlight the growing divide between the red and the blue states nationwide for the new laws on the books. We have a look at outside the capital with what is changing and where. About a year ago as you know we had an election. 2 states are driving new law for everything on the legalized marijuana to guns and voting. They are passing different laws. Among the blue states the insurers must pay for the contraception. There are stricter gun laws. They are not to affect in law enforcement. They will get the eight weeks of the paid leave. Look at the red states. They all have new voter i. D. Laws. They are allowing them to forgo the gun firing range. Dropping the taxes for military retirees. There is nothing a lot of the policy action at the federal level for the past few. Blue states and the red states are doubling down. The states are deciding new laws in the new year. So the conventional wisdom that the laws are passed, that is changing. It appears that the divide between the red and the blue is widingenning wipe that tear off your eye. A big change. What drivers need to know before returning to work. Violence in the street of iran. New pictures showing the growing protest outraged spread coming up at before we start, i just want to say if anyone still doesnt have fios, please stay out of the way so your lag doesnt get us all killed, ben. Whats so good about fios anyway . Uh. Whats so great about a 100 fiberoptic network that makes your gaming system actually work awesomely . Hey. Did you take out the trash . Haha, garbage boy dad, i already took out ben. Its not funny. Gaming is best on a 100 fiberoptic network. So get fios. Now, just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. Announcer youre watching abc7 news at 6 00. On your side. Nancy two workers were hurt after a gas main caught fire in boston. It sent flames roaring out of the ground there. Three nearby Apartment Buildings were evacuated as a precaution. Workers were treatmented for first and seconddegree burns. Jonathan some people are allowed back inside a new york city Apartment Building after a fire that killed 12 people. In the meantime the community has stepped up to help those who lost everything. So much clothing and food donated a local church ran out of the space to hold all the stuff. A woman says nothing will replace the sister and three nieces two died in the fire. What are we going to do . Im tired of crying. I got no more kids. No more. Investigators do say that the fire was started by a 3yearold boy playing with a kitchen stove and first floor apartment. The family escaped but left the prop door open that caused it to front door open that caused it to spread up the nancy it shows how the protesters are growing in iran. A group of people protest the current regime. They smash out windows on a fire truck and they were driving away with it overnight. That is at we learn death toll in the protest has grown to 13 people in five days. That include one man opening fire on the Police Officers with what is called a hunting rifle. They are most widespread in a decade. And President Trump hailing them as a sign he wants the regime to change. Jonathan coming up next at 6 00, talk about close call. The deputy that came within inches. Nancy first, how a passenger ended up facing criminal charges after the car she was riding in your daughter wants to stay organic. Your husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. And your debit card wants to stay on a diet. Fill your cart with Small Victories like giants natures promise brand. Great prices on over 1,300 items. Eat well for less. Only at my giant. Before we start, i just want to say if anyone still doesnt have fios, please stay out of the way so your lag doesnt get us all killed, ben. Whats so good about fios anyway . Uh. Whats so great about a 100 fiberoptic network that makes your gaming system actually work awesomely . Hey. Did you take out the trash . Haha, garbage boy dad, i already took out ben. Its not funny. Gaming is best on a 100 fiberoptic network. So get fios. Now, just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. Jonathan a pedestrian is dead after being hit by a k9 vehicle. It happened in brandywine, maryland, this afternoon. Shut down 301 north near chadsford drive. Police are not sure if criminal charges will be filed in a man was killed after the car rolled over several times and hit a tree that shut down the northbound lanes on the g. W. Parkway for four hours this morning. Firefighters freed the driver but he did die at the hospital. His name has not been released. Nancy a woman facing criminal charges for a crash in suitland even though she was not the driver. The police was fighting with her boyfriend who was driving when she jerked the wheel to send the car to a jersey barrier. The driver was injured and his girlfriend charged with assault. Jonathan abc7 Traffic Alert watch for you as you return to the normal commute. Road crews shifted the traffic in the Construction Zone on route 27, near the pentagon. So now the traffic is headed into rosslyn over 110. You have to keep right on the route. So traffic from the h. O. V. Lane has a short space to merge. For the past few months the traffic had to keep right in the area so now you have to switch it up. Crime alert in Spotsylvania County where thieves managed to get away stolen guns. A thief caught on camera after breaking into high velocity arms off route 17. Police say the men smashed out a door, smashed open cabinets and made off with weapons. Jonathan with the temperatures stuck in the dangerous and the deadly territory for the area, there is a growing effort to make sure people who are homeless have a way to keep warm. Annalysa gayle joining us with childhood friends behind a social media challenge all focused on sleeping bags. Annalysa . Annalysa that is right. Two young men from Montgomery County will use the social media to call on the celebrities to help them with a challenge to help the homelessness in the frigid temperatures. This is 19 degrees. They have selected fun for a hundred sleeping those who are experiencing homelessness. They want to see more people doing the same. They are calling for the celebrities to hand out the sleeping bags they already purchased through the fundraiser which started only three weeks ago. They already exceeded the money they needed. Here is what they had to say about why they are doing this. I feel like because they dont have that. They dont have anything. For to us provide a sleeping bag as shelter, i feel like it means the world to them. Coming up tonight on newschannel8 at 10 00 and abc7 news at 11 00, see how the young men already helped dozens in the d. M. V. They distribute 40 sleeping bags. We will have more on that. Annalysa gayle, abc7 news. On ice covered roads in texas. Officer helping a car that spun out. He sees another car headed for him. He slips when he tries to run. That car missed him by inches. This is a reminder to slow down especially talking how slippery the roads are. This is a bubble that froze solid. Look at it go. Nancy beautiful. Jonathan frozen solid. Nancy you can see that it is coming into place. Bill that is incredible. Jonathan if it does it to your bubble what does it do to your cheeks . Nancy makes them rosy. You cant do that here, can you . Its not that cold . Bill no. We are talking about the take the bubbles and do that. Its a right mixture. It has to do with the sugars and stuff. But there is a wind chill warning posted in part of the country. Not here. That is beyond the wind chill advisory. That is when its just stupid. Jonathan beyond the pale of its not even reasonable. Bill Mother Nature is being unreasonable. That is right. Let me show you what is happening in our area. Beyond cold. Not that but 22 in d. C. That is measured at reagan national. 16 in manassas. Chantilly is 18. The wind chill factors are lower than that. Down to minus 3 in winchester. Hagerstown is zero. We had 6 for the wind chill in gaithersburg and leesburg. Other than that its quiet. I want to show you around the country. Cold air. Under stated. Spilling in the polar air that is spilling in the country and affecting everybody. All the way to the gulfw orleans. It feels like 31 in houston. If you get to the other side of the rockies on the Southern Side its 73 in phoenix. That is nice for those guys. 63 in vegas. Feels lake 19 in bismarck, north dakota. Here is what we have going on around the country. Everywhere you see a color shade is a Winter Weather advisory. The light shade of blue. Wind chill advisory in effect from montana to the section of florida. Then the purple shade is a hard freeze warning. Here is this shade of grade. That is a wind chill warning in effect to push to part of illinois and indiana. If you take montana to florida, we are talking about nearly 2,000 miles. Linear miles of some kind of the Winter Weather advisory, warning. Its not just the isolated spots. We dont have it in our region other than the blue ridge with the wind chill advisory. That doesnt mean it is not it is beyond cold for us. Wind chills in the single digits. We dont have the widespread minus zeros in the region. The High Pressure in place. Super moon is out. If you layer up, check it out. It came up of the 4 59 tonight. 313 is the overnight forecast range. Tomorrow is below freezing again. 26 degrees or so by 2 00 in the afternoon. There is a lot of sunshine. You want the sunglasses with you tomorrow. But it will be cold. We warm to potentially 33 on wednesday. The next weather maker outside the cold is wednesday night in to thursday. That one we watch close. We could have snowshowers thursday morning. Right now the bulk if not all of it looks east. Boy as the system shifts, it could be different for us. Then we are working another cooldown. Beyond the sevenday forecast. Brief return to normal by monda we are talking two weeks and maybe longer with the temperatures below average. Jonathan for the record, 7 degrees is not a cooldown. That is uncool. Bill very uncool. Nancy scientific way to refer it to. Enough to toss it out and start over. Robert trash bags. Jonathan couch. Robert time to pack it up. Locker room cleanup today and it could be the last time they see the lockers. We will t robert all right. So many questions with the redskins team. Who is gone and who stays . Jay korff will be back next year but will kirk cousins still be his quarterback . We still dont know that. What we do know is the defense made strides. There are younger guys making names for themselves. Swearinger says we have something to look forward to for the defense. We have a lot of time to express it on the defensive side of the ball. Sky is the limit for the defense. First year to learn it for me. Robert this might be it for longtime redskins deangelo hall. After the loss to the giants he tweeted what seemed to be a farewell to the game. He was drafted in 2004 by the falcons. In the sweet he thanked everyone who supported him throughout the journey. What does he want his legacy to be . Great athlete. Great competitor, feisty at times but a team guy. Probably not a great corner be awe great football player. Guy who knew how to play football and tried to play it the right way to the best of his ability. Jonathan he has a way with words. Robert he did. He said it. Quick look at the forecast. The warmest day is wednesday we will nudge up and then by next monday we will go to 40. Nancy make it one for week. That point. World news tonight c small business, internet providers promise you a lot. See who delivers more. Comcast business offers fast gigspeeds across our network. Verizon doesnt. We offer more complete reliability with up to 8 hours of 4g Wireless Network backup. Verizon, no way. 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When will the bitter cold end . Ginger zee standing by. Vacation horror. A passenger plane nose diving just after takeoff. Ten americans among the dead in the fiery crash. Tonight, details about the families onboard and the investigation into what went wrong. Deadly police ambush. A suspect unloading more than 100 rounds, killing one deputy an