Toss to eileen frigid start for back to work school; sunny cold afternoon frigid start for back to work school; sunny cold afternoon watching coastal system wed thursday some snow possible east of i95 another bitter blast friday saturday highs in the teens 40s return in the extended outlook today mostly sunny. Continued cold. Highs 2530 winds nw 510 mph tonight clear and cold. Lows 916 winds sw 5 mph to calm wednesday sunny early becoming mostly cloudy. Highs 3136 winds s 5 mph 5 xx and we are news in maryland three people now recovering after a freezing water rescue overnight. Police tell us the three were in a car that tried to cross over an icedover dropping the car into the freezing water. Rescue teams were able to safely pull the three onto a boat. They were very cold, but otherwise ok. Happening right now as julie mentioned. Were monitoring not one, not two, but three water main breaks. In alexandria. Montgomery street turned into a skating rink in old town. The good news no major traffic impact right now. But in prince georges county. Another water main break closing lanes on rhode island avenue in hyattsville. And in Montgomery County. We also have problems near New Hampshire avenue in silver spring. Route 650 is closed at oakview drive for water main repairs. Breaking overnight passengers in some of the nations Busiest Airport stuck in long lines after an outage with us customs computers. It came of course. Just as travelers returned from holiday vacations. You can see the images were getting in this morning of long lines in miami. Chicago. And new yorks jfk airport. Some of the lines were more than four hours long travelers complained t and were given wrong information by staff. The problem lasted for about two horus and has now been fixed. Officials say there is no indication the outage was maliciation now to some breaking news overseas. Clashes overnight in iran leaving at least 9 people dead according to reports by Iranian State tv the protesters were killed during an attack on a police station. As they allegedly tried to steal guns. State tv reports an 11yearold boy and a member of the Iranian Security forces are among the dead. At least 20 people have now been killed in six days of demonstrations. Caught on camera in Montgomery County a transformer bursting into flames. Take a look you can the moment captured on one familys dash camera. They were driving along centerway road in gaithersburg when the transformers blew sending fireballs flying a few hundred people lost power but luckily, nobody was hurt. Still no word on a cause. This morning an investigation is underway after a Metro Transit Police k9 vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian. It happened in brandywine, maryland monday afternoon along route 301 near chadds ford drive. Police say the man walked out into traffic and was hit. The officer involved has been placed on administrative leave. Until the investigation is complete. No word yet on whether any charges will be filed. Happening today. A sterling, virginia man is expected in federal court on terrorrelated charges. 21yearold Sean Andrew Duncan was arrested friday. At his home. He allegedly supported isis. An fbi affidavit says during the raid, he tried to destroy evidence. Court documents allege, in the months before his arrest, he appeared to be planning and researching how to conduct an attack. New this morning the College FootballNational Championship game is set. It will be alabama facing georgia in an all sec showdown. Alabama, earning their spot with a dominating win over clemson. Final score of the sugar bowl 246. And earlier in the day an instant classic in pasadena. Georgia and oklahoma in the rose bowl. Taking it to double overtime. But it was the bulldogs that would pull out the win. 5448. The title game is next monday. And get this the cheapest ticket on stub hub this morning 25hundred dollars. Coming up deep freeze. Another frigid wake up and now a chance for snow . eileen live tease the supermoon, taking over the night sky. This was shot by one of our photographers here in dc. Nasa called this one the biggest and the brightest of 2018. Yet. At 5 xx time for a check on the forecast. Toss to eileen frigid start for back to work school; sunny cold afternoon possible east of i95 another bitter blast friday saturday highs in the teens 40s return in the extended outlook today mostly sunny. Continued cold. Highs 2530 winds nw 510 mph tonight clear and cold. Lows 916 winds sw 5 mph to calm wednesday sunny early becoming mostly cloudy. Highs 3136 winds s 5 mph julie toss to break and when youod sugar is a replace one meal. Choices. Or snack a day with glucerna. Made with carbsteady. To help minimize blood sugar spikes. You can really feel it. Now with 30 less carbs and sugars. Glucerna. When my smile is bright, i feel ready to shine. Some whitening toothpastes only remove surface stains, colgate optic white high impact white is different. It has hydrogen peroxide, to whiten four shades for a visibly whiter smile. Trust your smile to colgate optic white. Montgomery county a car driving right into a frozen creek overnight crews rushing to the scene to rescue three people inside. Lets get right to our ryan hughes live on the scene. Developing now. The ntsb is joining into that new years eve plane crash in costa rica that killed 10 american passengers and two pilots. Among the dead two families. One from tampa and the other from new york. The mother from the steinberg family in new york included on her Facebook Page that she is originally from potomac maryland. And one of her three sons that died was a student at johns hopkins. Friends from both families now left heartbroken. The plane crashed moments after takeoff. Costa rican Authorities Say the pilot was experienced but winds in the area at the time of takeoff were extremely strong. New overnight a Southwest Airlines plane headed to baltimore. Forced to make a uturn midflight because of a mechanical issue. Airline Officials Say there was a problem with planes nose gear. The pilot had to circle over seattle to burn fuel before landing safely at seatac airport. Passengers were moved to a different plane to head back to bwi. Happening today minnesota senator al franken will formally resign his seat. It comes a month ater he announced he would leave office amid sexual misconduc allegations. More than half a dozen women allege he touched them improperly or made unwanted sexual advances. Franken denies the claims. Minnesota Lieutenant Governor tina smith will be sworn in to fill his seat tomorrow. This morning the miss America Pageant ha anchor and 1989 miss america winner Gretchen Carlson has been named as the head of the organization. It comes after the former ceo and several Board Members resigned over leaked emails exposing alleged crude, sexist and derogatory comments about contestants and winners. This is the first time a former contestant will lead the pageant organization. 2018 could be a good year for lottery players. No one matched all the numbers in this past fridays Mega Millions drawing. Or in saturday nights powerball drawing. And that means the jackpots have grown even higher. Tonights Mega Millions drawing now stands at 343 million. Wednesdays powerball will be worth an estimated 440 million. Now to a seven on your side consumer alert. If the post holiday blues have you dreaming of a winter getaway book your flight now there are some big deals this month. Website fare compare crunched the numbers finding the cheapest dates to fly from next week through average prices. For example you can find Cross Country flights from new york to San Francisco for just 119dollars each way. Experts say sites like hipmunk and Google Flights can help you search for the best deals. Think running a marathon on pavement is tough how about trying it on ice . Check this out. This is in northeast china. Where nearly two thousand people ran an ice marathon on a frozen river time now for weather frigid start for back to work school; sunny cold afternoon watching coastal system wed thursday some snow possible east of i95 another bitter blast friday saturday highs in the teens 40s return in the extended outlook today mostly sunny. Continued cold. Highs 2530 winds nw 510 mph tonight clear and cold. Lows 916 winds sw 5 mph to calm wednesday sunny early becoming mostly cloudy. Highs 3136 winds s 5 mph small business, internet providers promise you a lot. Lets 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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Continued cold. Highs 2530 winds nw 510 mph tonight clear and cold. Lows 916 winds sw 5 mph to calm wednesday sunny early becoming mostly cloudy. Highs 3136 winds s 5 mph 5 xx and were following breaking news from the district a pipe bursting and flooding a dc School District a pipe bursting and getting an extended winter break. Montgomery county are on a mission to help the homeless. Kendall haley and Daniel Wilson own the clothing line, faded ambition. Theyve designed sleeping bags for the homeless. They recently raised enough money for 100 sleeping bags, through crowdfunding. And theyve handed out dozens of sleeping bags in d. C. Theyre now reaching out to celebrities, asking for help. The two entrepreneurs are using the hashtag 100 sleeping bags entrepreneurs are using the hashtag 100 sleeping bags as part of their social media challenge. Their longterm goal is to help provide the homeless with opportunities. That will keep them off the streets. Right now. Police in spotsylvania county, trying to track down three thieves who broke into a gun shop, and stole a bunch of guns take a look at this Surveillance Footage of one of the men. It was taken right after breaking into high velocity arms in fredericksburg around 3 am saturday. The men smashed out a door smas made off with the guns. Good news in the district. New statistics showing a drop in crime in 2017. Today, mayor muriel bower and dc police cheif Peter Newsham will highlight the decline in a News Conference set for eleven am. Now for a look at the numbers Violent Crime is down 23 percent. While property crime is down nine percent. Numbers are down in every other category except for thefts which stayed the same as 2016. Overall crime in the district is down 14 percent from 2014. 5 xx and were following breaking news from the district a pipe bursting and flooding a dc school. And thats just the start of the problems with this this cold weather. Sam sweeney just got to the scene sam . D. C. Police want people to stop calling 911 to compain about dockless bikes. Calling 911 to compain about dockless bikes. Because its so cold that some schools in the northeast are either cancelling class today or starting late. Several School Districts in massachusetts have decided to close today. School officials are worried that the freezing cold could affect buses. Still ahead back to business. President trump returns to washington. What he plans to focus on first in 2018. And what he said about his enemies in his new years eve toast. Your traffic watch on the go. 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. Day tradition the Polar Bear Plunge hundreds braving the cold and jumping into the atlantic ocean. And this year really tested their nerve temperatures hovered around 17 degrees for the plunge there in new york. Last year. Swimmers had a 50degree day. Frigid start for back to work school; sunny cold afternoon watching coastal system wed thursday some snow possible east of i95 another bitter blast friday saturday highs in the teens 40s return in the extended outlook today mostly sunny. Continued cold. Highs 2530 winds nw 510 mph tonight clear and cold. Lows 916 winds sw 5 mph to calm wednesday sunny early becoming mostly cloudy. Highs 3136 coming up deep freeze. Millions waking up to record cold. Temperatures in the 30s as far south as tampa, florida and here in our area feeling like single digits. Millions waking up to record cold. Temperatures in the 30s as far south as tampa, florida and here in our area feeling like single digits. Ryan live tease 5 xx a car driving right into a frozen creek overnight crews rushing to the scene to rescue three people inside. Lets get right to our ryan hughes live on the scene. Now to a similar incident in indiana. A woman is rescued after driving her a woman is rescued after driving her car into a freezing pond. But get this she called 911 as her car was nearly completely under water and two minutes later her phone died. When dive teams arrived t the window. Just minutes after a diver broke the cars sunroof and freed the woman. She was taken to the hospital and at last check was in critical condition. The cold weather is creating a miserable situation for firefighters in the d. C. Metro area. Since the weekend, theyve responded to more than a dozen major fires. And the cold weather is making their job difficult. Not only are they forced to be outside in freezing temperatures. They have to make sure the water in their fire trucks doesnt freeze. At one fire, First Responders had to use flares to melt an icy ladder. At another fire, frozen hoses couldnt be rolled back up into the fire truck. So firefighters had to improvise. By using a pickup truck to carry the hoses. Seven is on your s through this bitter cold. Download the free stormwatch seven app for up to minute forecasts in your neighborhood. Breaking overnight passengers in some of the nations Busiest Airport stuck in long lines after an outage with us customs computers. It came of course. Just as travelers returned from holiday vacations. You can see the images were getting in this morning of long lines in miami. Chicago. And new yorks jfk airport. Some of the lines were more than four hours long travelers complained they missed connections and were given wrong information by staff. The problem lasted for about two horus and has now been fixed. Officials say there is no indication the outage was maliciation and were also following breaking news from the korean penninsula. South korea sending a diplomatic message to the north while you were asleep. Seoul is offering highlevel talks with rival north korea to find ways to cooperate on next months winter olympics. The message also comes just one day after north Korean Leader kim jong un, made Nuclear Threats against the they would be the first formal dialogue between the koreas since 2015. Tensions with north korea just one of the tests for President Trump in 2018. This morning the white house facing a big to do list, as Congress Prepares to return to tomorrow. Abcs megan hughes has more. Its 5 and time for a check on weather. Work school; sunny cold afternoon watching coastal system wed thursday some snow possible east of i95 another bitter blast friday saturday highs in the teens 40s return in the extended outlook today mostly sunny. Continued cold. Highs 2530 winds nw 510 mph tonight clear and cold. Lows 916 winds sw 5 mph to calm wednesday sunny early becoming mostly highs 3136 winds s 5 mph kidd oshea in the now. Mariah carey pulled it off a successful new years eve performance on rockin eve right here on abc 7. But it wasnt without a small diva moment when she asked for some tea, but couldnt find any on stage. So she said, ok, well just rough it, im going to be just like everybody else with no hot tea. Mariahs diva moment brought in huge rating for the show, with at 15. 7 Million Viewers tuning in to ring in the new year we are learning new iformation of what Carrie Underwood fell outside her house back in november. We now know the fall required 4050 stitches in her face. She told fans in a blog post yesterday that she is grateful the injuries were not much worse and cautioned fans the she may not look the same when she is ready to be on camera again. It was a year where women were heroes of the box office. The wrap reports year since 1958 where the top three movies of the year featured female leading roles. 2017s top three consisted of star wars the last jedi, beauty and the beast and wonder woman. Coming up at six were following breaking news in the district. San . Sam live nyc terror preention new small business, internet providers promise you a lot. Lets 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. We offer 35 voice features and solutions that grow with your business. Verizon, not so much. Get internet on our gigspeed network for 34. 90 more per month. Call 18005016000. For 34. 90 more per month. When my smile is bright, i feel ready to shine. Some whitening toothpastes only remove surface stains, colgate optic white high impact white is different. It has hydrogen peroxide, to whiten four shades for a visibly whiter smile. Trust your smile to colgate optic white. Now, good morning washington, on your side. Nory breaking right now, heat, no power, no answers. What do parents need to know about this middle school right now . Rescue, three people trapped in a creek overnight. Larry all of this and more because of the dangers winter weather. Johnson, this cold is absolutely brutal. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visi