Yeah, cold weather. Wisdom, maureen, good morning. Maureen, great advice. Extra layers this morning. It feels like Single Digits here in d. C. Even feels like below zero in a few of our suburbs. Well go through those. Well let you know how long the cold lasts coming up. Hey, erin. Right now roads are quiet but i cant stress enough, mike, it is cold out there. You need the boots, the layers, the scarves, the gloves. Whew. Backback to you guys. If youre just getting up were following a developing story from afghanistan. At least 35 people are dead after an attack on a news agency in kabul. 56 more people have been wounded. Local media reporting that the blast happened early this morning at the office of afghan voice news agency. Officials say a suicide bomber was likely behind the attack. Afghan journalism groups condemn the bombing. Recent reports show a surge in attacks against reporters in afghanistan. Former u. S. Senate candidate from alabama roy moore is taking his case to court. Moore wants to block the state of alabama if officially declaring doug jones as the winner of the u. S. Senate race. About 14 hours before a state meeting to certify jones. Jones defeated moore by 20,000 votes in the substitute suit mos attorney said there should be a Fraud Investigation and a new election. Our big story involves a police chase in Fairfax County that ended in a violent crash. Multiple people were taken to the hospital. Several vehicles were involved including a van carrying seven people. Fox5s annie yu live on the scene in herndon this morning with the story. Annie. Reporter wisdom and maureen, its quiet out here now but last night around 8 oclock, this intersection behind me, which is centreville road and frying pan road, it was quite a scene with multiple vehicles and Police Vehicles surrounding the area. A lot of people saw this. A lot of you wondering what happened. We have video from last night. This happened just after 8 oclock. Police say the suspect initially knocked on the door of a home on autumn drive which is not too far from here. Were told that door. The suspect assaulted that child. He then fled in a stolen vehicle and then crashed into a man driving a pickup truck, assaulted that guy and then carjacked the pickup truck. He then led police on a short pursuit. Officers responding to the initial child assault call spotted him and eventually the suspect crashed into a van right here at this intersection that was carrying seven people and finally they arrested him and he is in the hospital this morning facing multiple charges. Police still have no information this morning about the condition of the child and the circumstances surrounding that incident. Take a listen. This is a multifacted investigation. We have several scenes, crime scenes. The crash is quite a bad crash. And we have called out multiple resources. Our command bus is on scene and as we piece things together and find for the initial call, what led to this pursuit, what led to the crash, we have all the investigative units on scene to peace that all together. Reporter again, this suspect is in custody. Hes facing multiple charges. As for the passengers in the van, were told one of the seven was airlifted to a hospital. That person remains in serious condition. And an officer was also injured but were told the officer is expected to be okay. Thats the very latest here from herndon, virginia, annie yu, fox5 local news. 5 04 is the time. Were following a developing story which started in upper Montgomery County and ended in virginia. Two suspects are in custody after a police chase and a crash brought rush hour a screeching halt. Started 5 30 wednesdays afternoon with a robbery call in germantown. The owner of a pizza shop said two suspects pulled a gun and robbed him. Then they took off. The owner told someone to call the police. He then gave chase and so d state 270 ending with a crash in mclean, virginia. No one was hurt. The owner says chasing the suspects, though, was purely instinct. I dont know if something just kicked in me like follow them, you know, because they tried to come harm my business, my employees and i take everybody that works here as family. After making it all the way into virginia, officers were able to get the suspects car to crash along the gw parkway near route 123 in mclean. Police tell us amazingly no one was hurt during the chase or the resulting crash. 5 05 is the time right now. New this morning, virginia congressman h. Morgan griffith has proposed legislation that would require the district to pay a larger share of its medicaid cost. It would undo part of the revitalization cost. D. C. Officials say this change however could cost the city at least a half a billion dollars a year. 5 05 on this thursday morning and, okay, we got to talk about it. Not the roads just yet. No. Well talk about the weather because thats really the news. Yeah, if you got one of those new fancy cars where you can start it before you get in the car. Oh, i know. I wish i had that this morning. Thats the best thing in the world today. I dont. I had to, you know, drive a little faster than normal to get the engine to warm up. Drive a little faster, too. You definitely want to get that car warm today because temperatures this morning brutally cold across the region. Teens for our current air temperatures. Youll see in it just a second but feels like Single Digits. Satellite and radar, not much happening, which is good. Just some clouds coming across. Well see a little bit of that this morning. More sunshine this afternoon. The story is the cold. 16 right now in washington. Its 13 though in manassas, 13 for dulles as well. Winchester is at 10 as is cumberland and westminster. Baltimore 13. Leonardtown 18. Fredericksburg, good morning, 16 degrees. Not terrible wind but enough that when you factor it in, feels like one, now just 1 degree is what it feels like here in d. C. Negative one or gaithersburg. Martinsburg negative three. 11 for hagerstown. Zero at dulles. Manassas three. Moral of the story. Bundle it up as you head out the door this morning, extra layers absolutely needed. Were not going to warm it up too much this afternoon, well below our seasonal average. Only 28 degrees for a daytime high and its deceptively sunny later this afternoon but very cold. Thats a check of the forecast. Erin is back now with traffic. How does it look, erin . Roads are quiet but we have a metro alert. Blue line delays to Largo Town Center. Disabled train at franconiaspringfield. If youre taking the blue line watch for minor delays. Cruising at speed outer loop and inner loop side of things. Well see if we can forward our maps. Aside from that blue line delay we arent seeing any big problems on the roads anywhere right now. 66 eastbound Fairfax County parkway to the beltway we are at speed. Looking great past the vienna metro station. Same story as you make your way to the beltway. Conditions on 95. Love what were seeing on the roads. Very light volume. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Back to you. Coming up on fox5 news morning, president obama and prince harry discuss the internet and the upcoming Royal Wedding. And an explosion at a supermarket in russias second largest city is being investigated as a terrorist attack. Heading to break, a live look across the d. C. Region. 5 08 is the time, 15 degrees the temperature. It all starts with a wish. The final days of wish list are here. Hurry in and sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down and a complimentary first months payment. Welcome back to oh, goodness. So cold my mouth doesnt even work. Welcome back to fox5 news morning. Thats what im trying to say. Today is thursday, december 28th. Time is 5 09. Please bundle up in layers before you head out. The High Temperature is only expected to be in the mid20s today. And right now in d. C. The wind is making it feel like 1 degree. No joke. 1 degree. Mike is back in about six minutes with more on how long this arctic blast is going to last. All right. Lets talk news right now. As we turn to the latest on the explosion in russias second largest city. President Vladimir Putin is confirming wednesdays attack was a terrorist attack. At least 13 people were injured when a device containing 200 grams of explosives and shrapnel went off at a petersburg. Authorities are looking for the suspect behind that explosion as no one has claimed responsibility for the blast. The snow keeps on piling up across parts of the north this morning as folks from erie pennsylvania continue to dig out from a storm that that dumped more than 65inches on the city. The snowflakes come below zero wind chills. Forecasters are warning of hypothermia and frost bite as arctic air centers in over the central u. S. And starts spreading east. In new york city all passengers have been safely rescued from a ferry that got stuck yesterday. Evacuation began last night. Now, more than 120 people were on board. The ferry got stuck after hitting a sand bar off the coast of new york city and wouldnt bump until high tide came in. Last month more than a hundred passengers were rescued from a ferry that got stuck off lower manhattan. In alabama officials are trying to piece together how a 17yearold was left bruised bloodied and swollen during an encounter with police. According to reports, Police Officers in troy approached Ulysses Wilkerson while he was officers say they chased him down before a struggle ensued. Well, this morning wilkersons family is demanding answers as they claim he was handcuffed then beaten. Officers insist they found a gun on wilkerson. The investigation is ongoing. Well, it was a surprise radio for radio listeners in the uk on wednesday. Instead of hearing one of the bbcs normal hosts it was prince harrys voice as part of a guest hosting gig. The spot included interviews with some big names including former president barack obama. Mr. Obama is makinged had lines for seeming to critique President Trump without mentioning him by name. One of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They can be just cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases. The question of whether the formal first couple who have a friendly relationship with the prince will get a invite to the big Royal Wedding in may. Prince harryay together. Coming up on fox5 news morning, men get ready. Male Birth Control is about to come on the market. And the Israeli Government honors President Trump with a train station. Were going to break right now. Lets take a live look outside. 15 degrees. Man its cold out there. 5 12 is the time. Were back after this. Whoa the mercedesbenz winter event is back and you wont want to stop for anything else. [ barks ] ho lease the gla 250 for 349 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. Filed a lawsuit yesterday about 14 hours before a state meeting to certify jones. Jones defeated moore by 20,000 votes. In the suit his attorney argues there should be a Fraud Investigation and eventually a new 911 what are you reporting . We have been on an amtrak accident. Were south of tacoma north of olympia. Tons of pu people are hurt. That was one of the dozens of 911 calls from passengers and witnesses after an amtrak train derailed in Washington State earlier this month. The high speed amtrak train was going 78 miles an hour in a 30 miles an hour zone when it derailed. Three people were killed. A hundred more others injured. If being a millionaire is one of your new years resolutions you now have twice the chance at jackpots worth more than 300 million. The Mega Millions and powerball have a combined jackpot adding up to more than 643 million. Remember, theres only two drawings left in 2017. The next Mega Millions drawing is scheduled for 11 00 p. M. On friday. Now, you can buy a lot of heaters with that money. You can buy a lot of. Blankets. Heated garages, driveways, startup cars. Buy a ticket to someplace warm. Buy an island. You can buy an island. There you. Oh thats warm all the time. Mike thomas. Buy a house in california. You can buy a house in florida. You can get out of here when we have this kind of arctic chill settling in. Thats what everybody will want to do today. Look, the arctic kind of invasion has begun here in terms of the brutally cold air and as one of our coldest mornings in december in recent memory. 16 degrees in washington. Actual air temperature detroit negative one. Chicago two. Minneapolis three. Canada we love you, but youre sharing a little bit too much of this cold air this morning. Negative 25 big trout lake. Negative 35 degrees in churchill. Thats cold enough that when you spit it will freeze before your spit hits the grounds. Youll hear a little pop. Wind chills feels like Single Digits across most of the region. Feels like one here in d. C. , negative one for gaithersburg. Martinsburg negative three. Hagerstown 11 anyo warmer spots we got problems out there. Feels like 6 degrees at fredericksburg. Heres some of the extreme wind chills ive seen so far today. Winter green virginia, thats where ski resort is, negative 17 degrees. Their peak kind of cold wind chill this morning. Increment West Virginia negative 14. Middletown maryland off to the north Frederick County negative seven and gaithersburg locally has been as low as negative 5 degrees in terms of wind chills this morning so some extreme weather. Wind chill advisories north and west until 8 oclock. Wind chill values between negative five and negative 20s are possible as they are get off to work, most schools are still closed for the holiday week here. 3 degrees is what it will feel like by 8 oclock in d. C. We roll into your afternoon hours it will feel like 11 i lunchtime, 12 at quantico. Later in the afternoon finally well get out of the teens and into the 20s right around 4, 5 oclock. But then as we work our way through the evening hou tonight temperatures fall once again and were back to teens. I dont think were Single Digits tomorrow morning but at least teens by tomorrow morning. Satellite and radar showing not much going on. We dont expect any snow today. High pressure dominating the weather pattern bring in all this cold air. Highs later on this afternoon 20s here locally in d. C. You have to get pretty far to the south before you start hitting the 30s once again. There you go. 28 degrees here in washington. 27 for quantico. Fredericksburg 27 for you. Winchester maybe only 22 degrees this afternoon. Better tomorrow i suppose. Up to 35 degrees. Few more clouds around. Maybe some light snow showers around on saturday. Could leave a dusting or two, best chance of that would be up towards the marylandpennsylvania border. We end 2017 cold at 28 degrees once again and then we start 2018 brutally cold. Only 26 degrees would be one of our coldest new years in several decades here. All right, thats weather. Erin, back to you for traffic. How does it look out there. We have some breaking news. We have a crash involving several vehicles and injuries. This is the outer loop before river road. One lane blocked but you can see that slowdn. Right now its only about a five minute delay as you approach river road. Just use caution there. You can see its turning into a parking lot past that serious scene. Now aside from that as you take metro this morning we do have blue line delays. A disabled train at franconiaspringfield. Delays to Largo Town Center. Allow for extra time on the blue line. Taking a look at the rest of your ride, were in very nice shape as you make your way out 395. No problems bottom side of the beltway and things on 95 from fredericksburg all the way into stafford cruising at speed through dale city as well. As you make your way out on 295, youre in great shape. No problems on 50 inbound. Speeds are looking good. Well keep you updated as you make your way out this morning but 95 southbound coming down from 198, looking great. If you have an early flight on the way to bwi Reagan National and dulles youre quiet. Just that big injury crash outer loop by river road. Back to you. 5 19 is the time right now. Lets take a look at the stories youre engaging with the most this morning on social media with our realtime news tracker. First up President Trump will now value train station named after him. Israels transportation a plan to dig a rail way tunnel under jerusalems olde city. Trains are expected to pass near sights hole to Jews Christians and muslims before ending at the western wall. The western wall station will be named for trump. A new report says the department of justice has covered up years of suckets. Sexual misconduct. The number of incidents increased during the past five years. The report mentions a top u. S. Marshall accused of sleeping with nine women in his office an Senior Lawyer who groped two women but received promotions and bonuses. Birth control for men may be on the horizon in the new year. Researchers are set to test a hormone gel in 2018. But so far researchers found a male contraceptive shot was 96 percent effective but that study was stopped earlier than expected because of complaints from men about mood swings muscle cramps and other effects. Detailed of the first genetically engineered super horse. Born in 2019 is that designed to be faster and stronger than any horse that youve ever seen. Thats cheating. Okay. Finally a classic comeback. The new rose ann teaser is out and by the looks of it not much has changed in the connor household. The teaser was released on christmas day. Whats old is new again apparently. Yeah. Everybody is making a comeback. Are those the two what are the older sisters name. I wish i could tell you. Ive never seen one second of the show. Really . Not one second. One of might have favorite lines. What is it. Are you new . Okay. Coming up apparently im new this morning. The return counter at the Department Store is not the only place with the big line this week. And the fcc just made it easier for all of us to charge our wireless devices. Heading to break, live look across the d. C. Region it is 5 21 and 15 degrees. Time right now is 5 23. Ups is bracing for gift returns. The shipping company says record breaking e commerce shopping volume this Holiday Season could lead to a surge in returns for the shipping company. On wednesday, ups said it recorded more than 1 million returns every day in december leading up to christmas and the Company Expects that pace to continue. On january 3rd, which is also known as National Returns day, ups expects consumers to ship as many as 1. 4 million packages back to retailers, up 8 percent from a year ago. So, turns out you can now charge your cell phone from across the room. The fcc has approved a new device that can charge devices up to 15 feet from the charging station. Its called what up. Works on phones tablets keyboards ear buds across a range of manufacturers the next month at the Consumer Electronics show. Kids they want to ring in the new year. Netflix will help parents get kids to bed on new years eve early. The streaming service is offering its new years eve count down featuring characters from nine different shows celebrating the last 10 seconds of the year. Parents can find them by searching for new years eve countdown or just countdown. 5 25. You stay up you and your daughter stay up to watch new years eve. She goes to sleep. I try. Im 11 52 im like oh really . I dont even try. You dont do the church thing either. I got to no, i go to bed cause i got to be here. Midnight mass. Midnight mass is right here at fox5. 3 oclock in the morning. You are so right. Especially this year. We are both working on the first. Lets talk about the cold. Ill see you guys here, too, 2018 well bring it in together. 16 degrees, thats the news outside this feels like one with a wind of 15 miles an hour and while thats not that strong, it will cut right through you when temperatures are this low, so be aware of that. Satellite and radar pretty quiet otherwise except for some cloud cover. Wish we had more cloud cover because the clouds actually help keep things a little warmer on mornings like this. More sunshine comes your way this afternoon. 21 degrees by 10 oclock. By 1 oclock, 25. 27 degrees by 4 oclock. Well call it 28 degrees for daytime high deceptively sunny later on this afternoon because it will be very cold and the occasional breeze will feel brutal. Thats a check of the forecast. Over to erin for traffic. Right now at 5 26, we do have a new crash i want to tell you about. We have this big injury crash on the outer loop. This is right before river road and it is involving several cars as well as injuries. Were starting to see about a five minute backup on the outer loop side of things because of that. Now, aside from that one, you can see that delay starting to build on the outer loop, again, six minutes from the 270 spur to the legion bridge as well. Through the trees you can kind ofee street. A crash is blocking the left lane so as you head toward the beltway from fairfax youll hit a slowdown there as well. We also have blue line delays because of a disabled train at franconiaspringfield. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Back to you. Coming up on fox5 news morning, a new study says theres no benefit to changing checkout lines in the Grocery Store. And we continue to follow the latest in a terror attack in the afghan capitol of kabul. Were going to break with a live look outside across the d. C. Region right now at 5 27. 15 degrees is the temperature. Bundle up if youre heading outside. Its serious. Back in a moment. Z2momz zi0z y2momy yi0y start the car start the car the ikea winter sale. Wooooooo get up to 50 off select items. Now through january 10th. Ikea. Start the car start the car the ikea winter sale. Wooooooo get up to 50 off select items. Now through january 10th. Ikea. Today on fox5 news morning, russia investigation. The Trump Administration makes a strategic move to attack the credibility of former National Security adviser michael flynn. The rush to pay. Homeowners are lining up to prepay their property taxes before the new year and the new tax laws kick in. And cold weather alert. A blast of arctic air combined with seasonal winds makes it deathly cold across most of the eastern united states. Fox5 news morning starts right now. This is fox5 news morning. Good morning to you. And thank you for join, us. Today is thursday, december 28th. All right. Erin como is right there talking about roads and mike thomas talking about cold weather. Hey, guys, were wrapping up 2017 but this is one of the coldest days certainly one of the coldest december days in awhile. We got single digit wind chills out there. 2018 may start with the coldest day of the year as well. We got details on your new years forecast coming um. Hey erin. Im holding a hot cup of coffee. Unfortunately serious injury crash involving several vehicles. Outer loop by river road. Were going to get you around that slowdown. Well get details on that in just a few but lets start you this morning in afghanistan. Developing news there. At least 35 people are dead after an attack on a news agency in the capitol of kabul. 20 more people were wounded. Local media reports that the blast happened early this morning at the office of afghan voice news agency. Officials say a suicide bomber was likely behind the attack. Afghan journalism groups condemn the bombing. Recent reports show a surge in attacks against reporters in afghanistan. Former u. S. Senate candidate roy moore from alabama is taking his case to court. Moore wants to block the state of alabama from officially declaring Democrat Doug Jones as the win ertz of the u. S. Senate racially he filed a lawsuit yesterday about 14 hours to certify jones. Jones defeated moore by 20,000 votes and in the suit, moores attorney said there should be a Fraud Investigation and eventually a new election. Were heading to Fairfax County now with continuing coverage of a police chase which ended in a violent crash in herndon. Multiple cars involved including a van carrying seven people and multiple people were taken to the hospital. Annie yu is li live on the scene in herndon with the very latest on this story. Reporter good morning, wisdom and maureen. This major information behind me at centreville road and frying pan road, it was tied up, closed down for to traffic for the police investigation. It is now opened this morning. It opened just a few hours ago. But the incident itself started at 8 oclock last night and we have some video from the scene. Police say it initially started at a home on autumn drive not too far from here. A young child answered the door once the suspect knocked. He assaulted the child and then he fled in a stolen vehicle. He then crashed into a man nearby, driving a pickup truck, assaulted that man and carjacked the pickup truck. Now, officers responding to the child assault call spotted the suspect and after a pursuit, the suspect crashed into a van carrying seven people near this intersection on centreville road. Officers finally arrested him. He is in the hospital this morning facing multiple charges and this Morning Police say they still have no information behind a motive behind the child assault as well as the condition of that child. Take a listen. This is a multifacted investigation. We have several scenes, crime scenes. The crash is quite a a bad crash and we have called out multiple resources. Our command bus is on scene and, you know, as we piece things together and find out motive for the initial call, what led to this pursuit, what led to the crash, we have all the investigative units o together. Reporter now, we hope to learn more about the suspect and exactly what happened last night. Meantime we can tell you that an officer was also injured but he is expected to be okay. Also, the seven passengers in the van, all of them are expected to be okay except for one person who was airlifted to a hospital last night and that person remains in the hospital this morning with very serious injuries. Thats the very latest here from herndon, virginia, annie yu, fox5 local news. Time right now is 5 34. Investigators have released chilling 911 audio from passengers on the amtrak train that derailed last week in Washington State. The accident left three people dead and a lot of others injured. The train was speeding 80 miles an hour in a 30 miles an hour zone when it crashed. This is 911. What are you reporting. Im on the train im not train from tacoma. We just crashed. Were probably going to need some medical aid for a lot of people. The National Transportation and safety board know for certain that the technology that automatically slows a speeding train was not in use. 5 34 is the time right now. According to the washington post, President Trumps legal team wants to cast doubt on Michael Flynns credibility. This new strategic would paint the former National Security adviser as liar who is trying to save himself. The strategy is expected to be university of delaware against flynn if he accuses the president or his aides of wrongdoing. President trump recently had a sympathetic posture toward flynn once calling him a wonderful man. 5 35. Lets get right to it. Mike thomas and a check of our very cold forecast. Yeah, extremely cold out there this morning, thats your big headline for the day. No snow expected. Should be quiet but when my map starts out purple you know thats trouble because that means temperatures in the teens around the region. 16 here in washington, 11 in gaithersburg as well as martinsburg. Winchester, good morning, 10 for it. Even fredericksburg down south, 16 degrees for you as well as leonardtown and quantico, 18 in annapolis, 13 in baltimore. You factor in some wind it feels like Single Digits for most of the region, one here in d. C. , three in quantico, eight in fredericksburg, zero at dulles. Feels like negative one in gaithersburg. Winchester negative 5 degrees. Extra layers as you head out the door. You certainly need them. Satellite and radar shows that after a few morning clouds we should be barack to some sunshine by the afternoon turning mostly sunny throughout the course of the day today. Only 28 degrees for a daytime high today. Very cold. One of the coldest days in december in recent memory. Temps rebound a bit but well below normal at 35 degrees. Erin is back with those roadways. It looks busy. Thats right, mike. Unfortunately 5 36 thursday morning we have an injury crash involving several cars. This is the outer loop side of the beltway out by river road. Right lane, right shoulder blocked. You can see flash, lights. Delays of about five minutes go back toward the spur so give yourself extra time look at the delay on the outer loop from the 270 spur to the legion bridge nine minutes, a red zone. You can see that delay. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. We also have a blue line delay and a 66 eastbound crash at nutley. Back to you. Coming up on fox5 news morning, the epa is ordered to reexamine lead levels in the nations public water supply. Does it really pay to change checkout lines at the Grocery Store . All right. Were going to break. Live look outside across the region. 5 37 is the time, 15 is the temperature. Fox5 news morning back in a moment. Nt. Welcome back to fox5 news morning. Today is thursday, december 28th. The time right now is 5 40. Protect yourself if youre going outside. Bundle up in layers. The High Temperature only expected to be in the mid20s today. Right now the winds are making it feel like Single Digits out there. Mike thomas back in about four minutes with how long this arctic blast will last. All right, making news this morning, the epa soliciting help from the states to determine a acceptable amount of lead in drinking water. The current federal limit is 15 parts per billion. Mchigan Governor Rick Snyder wants that down to 10 parts per billion. Now the issue gained National Attention after unsafe levels of lead were found in flint, michigans lead is a neurotoxin which can developmentally affect children damage organs and the brain and can even cause death. Plenty of blood tests may help diagnose Breast Cancer up to a year earlier than current tests. Researchers say they have found a dna indicator that can detect the fatal variety of Breast Cancer before mammograms. This is not nearly effective as diagnosing nonfatal Breast Cancer. A new study says switching lines at the Grocery Store doesnt save time. It looks at last place aversion. It says people are four times as likely to drop out of line when no one is behind them and twice as likely to switch to another line. So people who switch lines waited about 10 percent longer and those who switched lines twice waited almost 70 percent longer than if they just stayed put. They got commitment issues. You see at costco. You know what happens with me. What . I just put the stuff down and leave. Its either go right up and if the line is too long im going home. Sometimes you have to make a decision like that. American airlines forced to apologize after accusing two nba players of stealing. Gallup poll places former president barack obama on top of a popularity contest. 5 42 its cold out there. 15 degrees. Back after this. Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . See zero in a whole new way. 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Another, what, half a week. About that, yeah. Thats true. All right. Its cold outside. Brutally so. It will be deceptively sunny later on today. Youll look out your window and be hey, it cant be that bad but highs only going to be in the 20s later on this afternoon. Outside right now teens and it feels like Single Digits. Light snow possible by the time we get to saturday. That doesnt look like a huge deal. Maybe a coating for some spots especially up towards the marylandpennsylvania border. But what that will do, the system that brings us that snow is reinforced the cold just in time for the new years and were going to be looking at temperatures very similar to what we have out there this morning for new years eve and new years day. Reagan national 33 yesterday dulles 31, bwi 31. Well below normal and were not even going to make these numbers later on today. Were expecting all these areas to be in the 20s. It was cold yesterday morning and were 16 degrees colder than what we were yesterday morning across a wide kind of swath of the region. 18 degrees colder in quantico, fredericksburg is 12 degrees colder and that means, yes, temperatures waking up this morning in the teens, nearing Single Digits in a few spots. s here in d. C. Manassas 13, winchester 10, dulles 13 as well. So, the story is cold. Its not overly windy today but you dont need much wind at all to get those values down when its that cold out and a 15 miles an hour wind will do it. It feels like one here in d. C. Feels like negative one in gaithersburg. Zero at dulles. Winchester negative two, although just a few minutes ago they were at negative five. Martinsburg feels like negative three for you. Feels like three at quantico. Seven for fredericksburg, leonardtown one of the warmer spots and that warmer spot is only feeling like 16 degrees. Some of the coldest wind chills so far weve seen this morning. Winter green, virginia, big ski resort there feeling like negative 17. Anchorman West Virginia middle 14. Middletown maryland negative seven. Locally gaithersburg at one time got down to negative five as did again winchester there out to the west. Wind chill advisories out to the west posted until 8 oclock this morning. So, just be aware of that for those of that you live west. Wind chills at times could approach up top negative 20 degrees. Feeling like Single Digits through the 9 oclock hour. By the lunchtime hour feeling like 20s by the time we get to the afternoon. So things a little better. Weather conditions are quiet here. Thats good news. Should stay that way through the day. More sunshine this afternoon but only making it to 28 degrees. Up to the 30s tomorrow, 35 degrees for your day on friday. 35 on saturday as well with again some light snow showers. We will start the new year brutally cold. 26 degrees for new years day. And if were able to do that, that would be the coldest i think the seventh coldest new years day on record here in d. C. If we stay at 26 degrees. All right, thats a check of your weather forecast. Erin como is back with traffic. Unfortunately busy morning at 5 48. Take a look at this parking lot behind me by bradley boulevard. Several injuries and vehicles. Outer loop by river road. Again, because of that were seeing big delays. Youre parked back onto the spur and onto the outer loop as well. Delays on 270 southbound go back to democracy boulevard. Delays on the outer loop go back to old Georgetown Drive time isnt terrible but again, youre parked for about 10 minutes there. As we take a look at the map you can see average speeds 14 Miles Per Hour again back to old georgetown road on the beltway. On the outer loop and again democracy boulevard and 270 southbound. As we forward things along blue line delays. We had an earlier train malfunction at franconiaspringfield. Delays to Largo Town Center on the blue line. Earlier crash at nutley cleared. Traffic picking up there. Thats your traffic. Back to you guys. Time right now 5 49. The trailer used by fema to house disaster victims are apparently a massive money pit. The federal government typically spends up to 150,000 a piece on the trailers that at it leases to disaster victims. It auctions them off for pennies on the dollar after 18 months of use or any sign of minor damage. Fema briefly halted trailer sales following Hurricane Harvey but resumed in november and since then at least 115 units have been sold for cheap. 5 49. The fbi has turned down a request by Police Department to take over the Death Investigation of d. C. Native and detective sean suiter. Last month police say suitor was fatally shot in the head with his own gun after getting in into a confrontation with a suspicious man in a lot. Suitor was due to testify yesterday before a federal grand jury about a group of indicted officers. Some wondered if there was a possible connection between his death and the pending testimony. So far no one has been arrested for the detectives death. Retired police chief terry dupree has been hired as the interim police chief for the city of charlottesvilles Police Department. The move comes after charlottesvilles previous chief al thomas announced december 18 he had retired Effective Immediately following a scathing review on how the city dealt with the violent White Nationalist rally. Did you preis set to take officers on january 2nd. A North Carolina sams club facing a lawsuit after one of its former transgender employees says she was wrongfully fired for repeatedlyom harassment. Charlene voss says she was called it and thing by coworkers. In the federal lawsuit voss asked the court to order sams club to train employees in a way that prevents future harassment of transgender workers. Time is 5 51. Taking a look at the stories you are engaging with the most this morning on social media with our realtime news tracker. Federal prosecutors in new york requested Jared Kushners company show a Kushner Company spokeswoman said that the firm is cooperating in the review of what it called a routine transaction. More issues in the sky. A tennis star was forced to turn back to l. A. After her flight started losing fuel on its way to australia. Qantas Airlines Says the issue was a fault with the weather radar system. The university of minnesota is in after its Cultural College handed out a memo warning some students and staff to avoid using decorations music and food specific to any one religion at campus holiday parties. The request included christmas trees, menorahs and images of santa claus. Trending in sports the nba had a very Merry Christmas this year after receiving a 20 percent rating spike on christmas day. Ratings filled in after the struggling nfl canceled its final sunday night football broadcast rather than to compete with new years eve. You have lebron james and kevin durant so thats money right there. And finally, this doesnt come as a surprise according to gallups poll barack obama and Hillary Clinton have been voted the most admired man and woman in the united states. Obama had been given the title every year since he was elected while clinton was named the most admired woman for the 16th year in a row. Time right now is 5 52. Disneyland which calls itself the happiest place on earth was hit with a major power outage yesterday during one of the parks the year. The outage disrupted a number of park attractions for hours leaving some passengers reportedly stranded for at least 20 minutes on several popular rides. We were in the small world and all the lights go off. What do you feel about the idea of a power failure kind of affecting your day. Its disappointing. Some park visitors voiced complaints and asked for refunds on social media. At the time of the outage the park was reportedly packed at near capacity for the day. Beyonces sister solange knowlesing did diagnosed with a disorder saying shes been dealing with the issue for the past five months. Solange was supposed to perform at the afro punk festival in johannesburg new years eve. Crews in times square getting one of the most iconic new years eve symbols ready for prime time. 2000 waterford crystals have en which will drop right at midnight as it strikes on the east coast. This years design celebrates the gift of serenity with each one of the triangular crystals cut in a pattern resembling butterflies. Each crystal is built to withstand high winds rain and temperature fluctuations. Time to say hello to our facebook fan of the day. Good morning gina hobart and happy birthday. We hear youre turning 40 years old today. Gina is also celebrating a 15 year wedding anniversary. Thats her husband rick in the picture on the left and their son austin in the middle. Gina says they snapped this pic at the eagles game on christmas day. Congratulations on the anniversary and the birthday. And the eagles making the playoffs. Well were a little salty about that, i know but i guess good you know, f the super bowl has got to someone it might as well be in our division, right. No. No . Okay. Never mind. I take that back. Arctic high in control today and thats what youre feeling as you step outside. If you happen to have to go outside this morning. If not make a fire, stay inside, sit by it. Highs today only in the 20s. I skipped ahead to the new year but this is generally correct. Were doing 20s today as well as well as new years day. This weekend we have an area of low pressure, clipper system moving off to our north bringing a l a little bit of snw shower activity to our region. Not expected to be a huge deal. Maybe a coating in a spot or two. Cold air will get reinforced. If youre making new years plans, expect it to be cold especially new years eve into new years day. Today is cold as well. 28 degrees. It feels like Single Digits out there this morning. Numbers are currently updating. Tucker will have the latest in a few more minutes. As we head into tomorrow we get a little better at 35. 35 as well on saturday with again a couple of light snow showers around. We clear it out for new years eve, only 28 degrees and the first day of 2018 might end up, well see how winter but that the could end up being the coldest day of 2018 with a high of only 26 degrees. Thats a check of the forecast. Erin is back with traffic. 5 55. We have a handful of problems. Outer loop before river road we have a crash. Its involving several cars as well as injuries this morning. So, were seeing a huge backup. Right shoulder still blocked. Emergency vehicles g getting to that scene its about a 10 minute delay. Parked traffic from the 270 spur to the legion bridge. Also backing up on the 270 spur past democracy boulevard, the hook of the 270 spur seeing heavy delays on the outer loop and 270 southbound side of things. Now aside from that one we have two metro issues. This is a new one. Yellow line earlier train malfunction at pentagon delays to mount vernon square. Blue line earlier train malfunction. Delays to Largo Town Center. 50 westbound still at speed looking nice. For the most part we have lighter volume than usual but we are battling metro delays and that crash on the outer loop by river road. Street cleared. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Well be right back. Keep it to fox5. 6 oclock hour coming right up. It all starts with a wish. The final days of wish list are here. Hurry in and sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down and a complimentary first months payment. This is fox5 news morning. Fairfax county police in virginia investigating a crash that hospital. Were live this morning with the new details that came out overnight. Also we get a never before seen look at a hideout house. That was supposedly used by ms13 gang members in maryland. Live look outside on this thursday, december 28th. Ooh, it is bitter cold outside. Bundle up when youre heading out. Weather, traffic coming up on the 5s. Details at 6 05. Lets dive right new into the news. A police chase in Fairfax County. Multiple vehicles involved. Multiple people taken to the hospital. One of those vehicles was a van carrying seven people. Annie yu live on the scene in herndon now with the details. Annie. Reporter maureen and steve, it was definitely a violent crash. It has involved multiple scenes but what i can tell you this morning is that centreville road and frying pan road where this crash ended right behind me is now reopened after several hours. We also have video from last night. It started around 8 oclock. Police say that the suspect initially knocked on the door of a h