Trying to restore the situation. Plus a 92yearold war veteran dead after his house caught fire this morning. And tonight we hear from his family. And President Trump returns to washington facing a new crisis overseas in the new year. Well, where else do we begin tonight but with the cold blast of arctic air still gripping all of us in this new year . If you can believe it, doug said its going to get even worse in the tenday forecast. So lets get right to him in the storm center with more on tomorrow morning. Its going to get worse before it gets better. Kind of hard to believe, leon. I think we may get above freezing on wednesday, but then we come crashing back down, and boy, it gets even colder. Right now its just frigid. The big deal, its still the wind. The wind. Take a look at the flag blowing out there in the wind. Weve got winds that are gusting over 20 Miles Per Hour at this hour. Take a look at the current wind gusts. 22 Miles Per Hour in d. C. , 18 every once in a while the gusts get higher many of the other locations. What does that mean . The wind chill is still such a huge factor. Look at these numbers. Were down below zero in gaithersburg. 5 below zero in martinsburg. It feels like 2 degrees in d. C. Some incredibly cold numbers across our region. Frigid weather continues. Tracking our storm for thursday. Some new thoughts on that. Were getting some latest computer models in right now. And then the coldest air yet moves in. It gets a lot colder than it is right now. Hard to believe. Ive that forecast for you in about ten minutes. All right. Well see you in just a the bit. In the meantime, an underground transformer caught tire in Montgomery County tonight, knocked out power and thousands of people. A viewer captured this fireball from their car. News 4s Darcy Spencer live in Montgomery Village now with more on the effort to get everybodys power turned back on in this dark and frigid temperature situation. Darcy. Reporter power was out in this neighborhood from about 5 00 this afternoon until 8 00 this evening. It looks like pepco has been able to get everyone back on. You can see the beautiful holiday lights in the house behind me. But . Residents are telling me this really disrupted their holiday plans. This video posted on twitter shows the explosion. That fireball left thousands of people without power for several hours in Montgomery County. No power meant no heat on one of the coldest nights of the season. Josie mccaauliffe was inside wi her dogs rocky and zina. We all snuggle together under blankets and everything. So we stayed warm. It was kind of nice having this. A twodog night. Yeah, we had a threedog night. Theres one more. Reporter this driving video shows a Montgomery Village neighborhood. Homes with no lights. Christmas decorations gone dark. It happened when many are home for new years day. Gene zep says the canceled her holiday dinner. You were without power for how long . At 5 00 i put in my lasagna for my new years eve dinner and at 5 20 the lights went out. Reporter pepco worked quickly to restore the power. 5700 customers lost their lights for about three hours. Residents thankful it didnt last longer and made the best of a cold and dark situation. What did you do during the hours when the power was out . We lit lots of candles and had lots of as my husband called zen time. We just sort of sat and talked and fixated on what it would be like to have hot lasagnlasagna. Reporter im thinking a lot about hot lasagna right now. It sounds pretty good. They also wanted to watch the Football Game tonight. Fortunately, they got their power back in time for the kickoff. So it all worked out tonight, leon. Back to you. Thank you, darcy. Its nice that they can laugh about it. But i know what they w through tonight. But not such a positive outcome elsewhere. A 94yearold world war ii veteran died in a fire at his home this morning. Fairfax county firefighters fought the flames in the bitter cold, and new tonight, we are hearing from the victims family. Heres news 4s jackie bensen. Reporter family members say louis spessard and his wife built in th as their dream home. If we go to the bob evans in springfield, this all knew who uncle lou was. They all made sure he got his extra rolls and his coffee cup was filled. Because they liked uncle lou. Reporter john walker is talking about his great uncle. He treasures this photo of Lewis Spessard seen here with his first wife hazel around the time he served in the military where he learned aw skill that would make him a sought after repai they would go to the Fine Department stores, pick up things, people would bring things to their home. They were very well known in the Annandale Community and in northern virginia. Reporter Lewis Spessard was found dead in the house on columbia road after fire swept tlou the house around 4 00 a. M. Fire Officials Say mr. Spessard who useded a walker became trapped and unable to escape. A woman who rents a room says she escaped the Burning House as smoke detectors began sounding. Mr. Spessard remarried several years ago. Hes seen here in a photo with his second wife who had been at one point employed as his caregiver. John walker his he had a wide circle of people who cared about him. He was just a very, very sweet man. He had a wonderful disposition. He was very rarely without a smile or a laugh or a kind word. Reporter the cause of the fire remains under investigation. In news 4. Thank you, jackie. Three children are without a mother tonight in prince georges county. Officers found lizbet mendez stabbed inside a home on 38th place this morning. She later died at the hospital. Her uncle tells our sister station telemundo, washington that officers arrested her boyfriend in this case. Brentwoods mayor lives just down the street from the victim, and she says Domestic Violence is an important issue within the latino community. I dont know if its a cultural thing, but we dont tend to talk about this until its so late. Mendez had moved to the u. S. From guatemala. Detectives have not released any information about the man they arrested in this case. They say that other people were in the home at the time of the stabbing. We are working more working rather to learn more bay man killed today in prince georges county. A Metro Transit Police canine vehicle ran into him on train highway at around noon. Northbound lanes of crane highway were closed down for hours while Maryland State Police investigated. News 4 has learned maryland legislators are considering a review of all School Crossings statewide because of growing concerns that kids arent safe enough when they walk to school. The number of pedestrian accidents in maryland jumped between 2012 and 2016, including a string of incidents near schools. And one of them a crash in 2012 near Silicon Valley high in germantown was a deadly one. Delegate eric luedke wants the state Highway Administration to undertake an Engineering Survey of all state roads and then ask counties to do the same on their local streets. You go to almost any elementary, middle, high school, public or private, in my district and youll see what you see behind me, busy roads, no sidewalks, no bike paths no, safe routes. Hell propose this legislation when lawmakers reconvene in annapolis later this month, and well be watching to see what happens there. National news now. President trump and First Lady Melania Trump returned to washington this evening with their son barron. Their first family sfent the holidays at their florida resort in maralago. The president returns with a number of domestic and foreign issues on his plate. One of those issues mr. Trump has been monitoring is the deadly uprising in iran. We have learned tonight that the violent protests that have been taking place in the country took a deadly turn when demonstrators shot and kld a police officer. This happened in the city some 200 miles south of irans capital tehran. This the first report of an officer being gunned down. Protests now going into their fifth day. 13 people have been killed. These protests started last week over Economic Issues and government corruption. Anytime you have thousands of people risking their lives against a state that is prepared to use, quote, an iron fist, thats impressive. President trump blasted irans leadership over the issues. Iranian government shut down a messaging app and instagram, which protesters had been using to communicate amongst themselves. Tomorrow senator al frankens resignation officially takes effect. He stepped down after a string of Sexual Misconduct allegations. Wednesday the woman replacing him will be sworn in. Minnesota Lieutenant Governor tina smiths appointment will increase the already Record Number of women in the senate to 22. Smith says that she has fundamental differences with President Trump and is vowing to hit the ground running when she gets there. Alabama senatorelect doug jones is also going to be sworn in on wednesday. He won his special election last month. His opponent, roy moore, still has yet to concede this race. But alabama stied the results last week. Jones is a democrat replacing a republican appointed after Jeff Sessions became attorney general. But the gop will still mold a majority in the senate, so that margin has narrowed. Storm a northetomorrow a noa man will face a federal judge. The fbi says he searched for ways to find isis. Fbi arrested shawn Andrew Duncan last friday at his home and we caught video of fbi agents taking boxes from his house. Duncan searched the internet for things like body armor and isis attacks. The fbi says he tried to destroy a memory chip and a thumb drive when agents arrived at his home to confiscate it. Hes now charged with attempting to obstruct a terrorism investigation. Coming up next here at 11 00, 10 americans killed in a plane crash. They were on vacation in costa rica and now were learning one family had ties to maryland. Plus recreation. Not medicine. The first day of Legal Marijuana sales in california. The business not ely everywhere in the golden state. 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. With a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. Weve learned some new details about some of the 12 People Killed in a plane crash in costa rica. 10 of those victims were americans, including a family of five from new york. Irene steinberg was from potomac, maryland and she and her husband and her three boys all died in that crash. Her son zachary attended Johns Hopkins university in baltimore. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez now with more on the investigation into the crash. Oh, my like i can just see all the smoke. Everybodys screaming and yelling. Reporter near costa ricas Pacific Coast an eyewitness describes the horrifying scene after a singleengine plane crashed in the woods. 12 People Killed, including 10 americans and two local crew members. It all of a sudden beared to the left and nose dived right in front of us. Reporter tonight in suburban new york friends and family are mourning the loss of bruce and Irene Steinberg and their three sons, matthew, william, and zachary. Inconceivable that a whole family should meet with such a disaster. They were a lovely family. Reporter also among the dead mitchell and leslie weiss from near tampa, florida along with their two xharnlchildren. The charter plane belonged to nature air which did not respond to comment. Flights crashed into a river. Authorities say this aircraft had been inspected a month ago but strong winds had dlied its landing earlier on sunday. The californiabased travel company that organized the trip says its extremely heartbroken over this horrific loss of life and that its working with local investigators to find out exactly what caused this unimaginable tragedy. Gabe gutierrez, nbc news. In california the new year means legal retail sales of recreational marijuana. And in new places where pot shops have actually opened business was steady today. The mayor of berkeley attended a Ribbon Cutting for one store early this morning. Others from san diego to sacramento also opened up their doors. But the new shops do come with some strict rules. No selling to anyone under the age of 21. And its only sold in sealed childresistant packaging. And shops must close by 10 00 p. M. Were going to make sure these are not located near parks or schools or churches, things of that kind. These new stores are not up and running everywhere, though. Only 100 state licenses have been issued so far. And the states two largest cities, los angeles and san francisco, did not authorize the shops there in time to get those licenses in and in place by the first of the year. We cant blame you if you didnt bundle up to go outside and see it. So just in case you missed the big show in the sky tonight, here it is, courtesy of news 4. Because were working for you. The second of three supermoons out tonight. These moons appear bigger and brighter than other full moons because theyre full when theyre closest to the earth and their orbits. And if you missed tonights dont worry the next ones going to be here january 31st and that one is going to be actually even better because its going to feature a lunar eclipse. Thatll be cool. And i guarantee it will be warmer. It will be warmer in january . Im rolling the d than we were last night. This ones called the wolf moon. Yeah. Whats the next one is going to be cooled . Ive got to see what its going to be called. But its going to be a blue moon because its the second full moon in a month. Anytime you get two full moons in a month the second ones a blue moon. You have to drink an orange i got you. Outside were looking at some clear skies. And man, it is just cold. Its been a broken record for the last couple of days. Weve got winds still gusting up to 20 Miles Per Hour. Look at the numbers. 16 with a northwest wind of 14 Miles Per Hour. Thats why weve got this wind chill that is down close to zero right now. The actual numbers, these are real numbers. Current temperature 10 degrees in winchester, 12 in manassas, 15 in huntingtown, but you add in the wind and thats the wind chill you get 5 below zero right now in frederick, 2 below zero in manassas. 1 below i and its going to stay that way. Thats one other reason were not seeing any rain or snow. Weve been very dry. Just a little snow during the day on saturday. The next one makes its way our way too but its just off the coast. Clear skies here. The area of high pressures so expansive the cold air so far down to the south the jet streams going down you can actually see it. Look at that jetstream moving right off the coast of florida here. Extremely cold air wall all the way down the gulf coast. Look at everybody in blue. These are all wind chill advisories from canada all the way down toward southern florida. Right around the fort myers area. Areas there under a wind chill advisory. Same thing with areas like houston. Snow, they can see more snow around the charleston area than us. For us its the cold. Look where the low temperatures go. Wind chills by early tomorrow morning about where they are right now. Below zero in many areas. Stepping out the front door for the kids at the bus stop, for you at the bus stop or for you heading in layers, layers, layers, try not to have any exposed skin because it is that cold. 28 is what im going for in the afternoon. Sun and sunny and cold. The wind chill may not get above 18, 19 degrees. Still a cold day. 35 on wednesday. We get above freezing right now. Thats the way it looks. Were not going to stay there long. We go right back to below freezing on thursday. 27, windy and cold. Chance of snow on thursday. But this storm, lets take a look at it. Weve talked about the jetstream dipping all the way down to the south. That allows the storm to stay out to sea. Some of the models have tried to bring it back but i think its just far enough out to sea, this storm that will become a monster of a storm, we will not see much of this. The big thing it does is it reinforces the cold and brings in even colder air. Look at the High Temperature on friday. 19 degrees. Look at the overnight low friday night into saturday. Five degrees. The wind chill in the city i and 10 below zero. He wouldnt be surprised if we saw some areas below 10 below. Some extreme cold coming in. If you thought it was cold out there tonight, its going to get a lot colder as we head toward the weekend. Next week more cold coming in. Were going to feel balmy. Its insane. Still ahead, could it be the best college Football Game of all time . All time . Your daughter wants to stay organic. Your husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. You want to stay free from artificial preservatives. And your debit card wants to stay on a diet. 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The idea to spruce things up and to come up with a definitive national champion. Instead the semifinal games have only been semiinteresting. Only one of the previous six semifinal games was close, and the average margin of victory was 23 points. But rose bowl 2018 by any other name would not be as sweet. This was special. To pasadena, california. A beautiful setting for one of the best college Football Games ever. Im not kidding. Georgia had scored 24 unanswered points. Leons favorite, the Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield trying to lead them back. Mayfield looking, scrambles, fires to dimitri flowers for the touchdown. 11yard score. And now were tied at 38. Is somebody booing . Georgia down a touchdown. How about a direct snap to nick chubb . Breaks it outside. He finds the end zone. Twoyard touchdown. Yay. Ties this game at 45. We head to overtime. After the teams exchanged field goals, sooners going for another. Wait a minute, georgia with the block, Lorenzo Carter skies aboston line, gets his hand on it. Huge play for the bulldogs. You can tell by the chest bump. Any score wins it for georgia. Why not do what works . Snap to michel. Already with three tchtds on the day. How about a fourth . Fourth td of the game. Georgia wins a wild one in Double Overtime. First Double Overtime in the rose bowl. 5448. They advance to the national championship. All right. Now, georgia is waiting on the winner of the sugar bowl going on right now in new orleans. I told you the semifinal game is decided. Right now alabama leads clemson 246. The rose bowl was special. Thats in the third quarter. To redskin park, teams cleaning out their locker before o i for the redskins that unknown is the offseason. Kirk cousins not in the locker room while the media was allowed in. There may be a few questions for him. Le be back . We dont know. Veteran safety Deangelo Hall the 34yearold has been with the redskins since 2008. Hes most likely heading elsewhere next season unless he decides to retire. Certainly an emotional day for Deangelo Hall. But maybe more so for his wife. My wife, she might cry. Are you going to cry . Im like hell, no, im not going to cry. You know. This has been a fun journey. Ive enjoyed every minute of it. Ive tried to this last couple weeks, somebody asked me why are you on the scout team playing receiver . Im like im just enjoying the moment. Hasnt been hard for me, though, because at some point you kind of you know, you know. You know when you know. I dont know yet but im feeling like im get good time doing it. Thats why hes a pro. Because hes working on the practice zwoogd whatever it takes. And Doreen Gentzler somewhere is doing the wam because georgia won. That was maybe the best college Football Game ever. Thats the way the universe is supposed to work, dave. Were going to freeze our butts off under a wolf moon. Thats it . And many times over again. Temperature tomorrow 28. 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