Those stories in a moment. Well begin here in herndon in Fairfax County. Sky 9 as you can see is over the scene of a violent looking crash at the intersection of centreville road and frying pan road. A lot of police on the scene, as you can see. We arent clear why at this point. Lets get down to the ground and to our pete muntean who is leave for us. Reporter i just got this update from Fairfax County police. We now know eight people were taken to the hospital. 1 was flown by medevac here with serious injuries. Seven were taken by ground including one Fairfax CountyPolice Officer. The exact circumstances of this crash are still not clear. Heres what i can tell you from what ive seen. This crash involved two cars it appears, the first a chevy pickup truck. It looks like it was towing a utility trailer of some kind. The second is a red honda minivan, both cars seriously damaged, both about a few hundred feet apart. Police say this crash happened at ago. Police have not moved the cars since. Police are calling this so far a serious crash, but a lot of police here for your average car wreck. We now just heard that a suspect is among the hospitalized. That text just came into me from Fairfax County police. About a mile of centreville road is still closed tonight as well as frying pan road. So be mindful if you are driving in the herndon area, but again eight hospitalized here in this accident in centreville road and frying pan road including one suspect and one Fairfax CountyPolice Officer, a developing scene. Well bring you the latest as it comes into us. Thank you so much, pete. We appreciate that. Well stay on top of this story all night long as we always do. Download our wusa9 app to get breaking news updates 24 seven. Its a story that everybody is still talking about, a record breaking 53 inches of snow in erie, pennsylvania. The National Guard was called out to to dig themselves and their cars out. Some drivers who just could not stay off the roads and eventually got stuck. Well, its not the snow back here, but the cold so many of us are worried about because it is about to get dangerous. Meteorologist melissa nord is here to tell us more about what we should be doing as temperatures drop. Were worried about that more than the snow. In some of these cases by tomorrow morning and even where things stand right now, when you get your wind chill feels like temperatures dropping down to 10 degrees below 0 , frostbite can set in in 30 minutes of exposed skin outside. So it is going to be dangerous especially for those who work outside and the homeless and stray pets outside as well. This is where we stand now at reagan national, typically one of our warmer spots because it sits right on the water, but its now down to 20 degrees and actually just dropped down to 19 about three minutes ago, but the feelke down to 6. Very cold out there right now. Weve got feels like temperatures down to 0 in hagerstown. You head into the mountains and the feels like temperatures are below 0. We have wind chill advisories for the Higher Elevations where it could drop down as low as 10 below 0. So far tomorrow morning well keep the wind chill factor about where it is now. It wont get any better. Tomorrow will be a very cold day. Its breezy now. It will be breezy tomorrow morning when youre heading out the door with those feels like temperatures just barely above freezing or flirting with that 0degree mark and then for the afternoon tomorrow it stays cold. Temperatures will stay in the 20s. Weve got feels like temperatures in the teens tomorrow. Coming up im taking a look at what this arctic chill means for your weekend heading into new years whether we could see any snow showers as well. Thank you, melissa. When it gets as cold as this, more shelters and more public buildings open up in the the homeless. Remember, d. C. Has one of the highest homeless rates of any major city. If you see someone who is homeless, you can actually call and request that they get picked up and driven to a shelter. Theres a hot line. Its 2023997093. Even easier, just call 311. Of course, for all your weather updates, the photograph and to get alerts the forecast and to get alerts, download the free wusa9 app. Youll be able to track any snow moving our way 24 7. Stay with us because melissa will be back with everything you need to know as we head towards new years eve. New tonight the irs doing what they do making our lives more difficult. Turns out a lot of people who have been out there standing in line prepaying their property taxes, theyre not going to get any sort of tax break whatsoever. Heres the deal. The irs is cool with you paying your property taxes early if yo property tax bill. Youll get a tax break when you file your taxes in april, but if you havent received a property tax bill, if a new assessment hasnt happened yet, the irs says it wont help your tax bill if you prepay. Two suspects are in custody after leading Montgomery County police on a car chase through the beltway from maryland into virginia. Police were searching for someone who may have robbed a store on klopp er road in germantown. The chase went from 270 into virginia and to George Washington parkway and stopped in an arrest on the parkway near route 123. There are a lot of ways to get around d. C. Of course, you can take a train, bus, car. One option has definitely become divisive, dockless bikes. As our john henry shows us, they are attracting attention from people even the d. C. Police department is weighing in. They sent this tweet out yesterday. It asks residents not to dial 911 to report suspicious activity whenever they see people using dockless and docked bikes on the street. So you may be wondering why do they even have to tweet that . It was in response to a tweet yesterday from reporter martin osterman of local wmar affiliate. A person claimed they call 911 to report people acting suspiciously whenever they see someone behind the handlebars of one of those bikes. We talked to a supervisor in d. C. s office of unified communications. They oversee 911 in the city. The supervisor couldnt immediately tell us whether the departments ever gotten such a call. However, she didnt rule it out either. That said, everyone has an opinion on these bikes. Some people think they clutter sidewalks. Others think they improve the city. I like these bikes. They can get in the way. They can your face, but it saves a lot of gas and a lot of cars on the streets. All this talk about dockless bikes gave us a Good Opportunity to let you know how the city is handling all this. Ddot started gathering data and Public Feedback on the five public bike dock Share Companies in october. Next month they will start analyzing all that information to come up with a long term approach to regulating dockless bikes in. May we could ultimately learn bikes. In may we could ultimately learn whether the city will create Parking Zones or cap the number on the streets. There are close to 1,400 dockless bikes in the district. One dockless bike company lime bike recently claimed they recorded more than 16,000 active riders in d. C. Over a three month period of time. The fbi will not take over the case of a baltimore homicide detective killed with his own gun. Detective shawn suiter was shot in the head on a notoriously violent block in west in november. Suiter was set to testify in a federal Police Corruption case the next day. The fbi says it has no evidence to suggest suiters death was connected to that case. Baltimores police chief had asked the fbi to step in. There have been no arrests despite a 215,000 reward. Take a look at this photo. Was President Trump actually stealing a little kids hat . One of our verify favorites is on the way next. They had cold feet. He had a warm heart. See what forced a local Police Officer to spring into action. And cannabis for christmas . A new twist in the case of grandparents accused of trying to give away pot as presents, those stories and d. C. s most accurate forecast less than two minutes away. Stick with us here breaking news, still were checking back in live on the scene. I want you to look right now at this sky9 video, a huge just terrible crash there in herndon, eight people in the hospital. Our pete muntean is live there for us right the night. Pete, what have you learned at this point . Reporter this is frying pan road and centreville road in herndon and we have now learned and confirmed this is the result of a Police Pursuit that happened earlier tonight. He said eight people were taken to the hospital. One hurt was a Police Officer in this case. One person was flown away with serious injuries and one of those hurt was the suspect. The exact circumstances of all this is still not known here. We know this was a twocar crash at least, one a chevy pickup truck, looks like it was towing a utility trailer. The other car, a honda minivan, both cars seriously damaged, both still a few hundred feet apart at this hour. Police say this crash happened at 8 35 tonight, about 2 1 2 hours ago. Police have not moved the cars since, a pretty Large Police Presence still here tonight. Police have set up a mobile command unit, a lot of police here for an average car wreck, definitely not what this is. About a mile of centreville road is st if youre driving through the herndon area tonight, try and be mindful of that. In Fairfax County, pete muntean, wusa9. Thanks so much for the update. No short age of political stories for me and of my verify team to examine this for me and my verify team to examine this week. Were counting down the top five stories of the year. My team works to verify if the information you are getting is true and to verify the questions you have about why things are the way they are in the world. Its very serious even though sometimes the stories are kind of silly. Tonight the white house, the annual easter egg roll and some fake news. Controversy at the white house easter egg, right now im going to verify if it happened or not. Tia said this to us on our verified email account. She saw this pop up on her phone today, a Facebook Post with a story that said trump bullies a child at easter under the post you see monique commented saying the kid went away empty handed crying. Heres the article i found on ifyouonlynews. Com. This website looked a little sketchy and i went to its homepage. Its not the Donald Trump Fan Club site. Its a site to make the president look bad. Look at these headlines here. Trump lies. Trump attacks canada and it goes on and on and on, but theres a twist to this story. Look at this tweet from politico. A kid asked trump to sign his hat at the white house. The president signs and then tosses the hat into the crowd and theres video. Watch this. Thank you. No. Here you go, kid. From that angle, yeah, it looks like the president took the kids hat, signed it and tossed it catch it, but hold onto your hat here because weve got a second camera angle courtesy of my friend micah grimes who is a social editor at nbc nightly news. Watch with me. Im going step by step with this video. Its a wider angle. Youll see the president walk into frame and freeze it right there. The president is taking the hat. Look at the kid in the light blue shirt and long hair handing that hat to the president. The president takes it, gets a marker, signs the hat. In a second hell toss it into the air and freeze it again. See the kid with the hair and light blue shirt, came kid that handed the president the hat, hes the same kid that caught the hat, says thank you to the president and heads out on his way. So i can verify that this story is false. No one was bullied and laughed at, at least not in this moment caught on camera. Our verify team is hard at work all year round. If you have something you want verified, le to get to the bottomof it. Find us on facebook or twitter or send an email to us. While some say going above and beyond, this man says its just part of his job. Heres our marcella robertson. Reporter officer Thomas Murphy has been with the Fairfax CountyPolice Department for 10 years. Typically just drive around Answering Service calls. Reporter in those 10 years this was a first. So one morning i was actually doing the School Crossing and i noticed that some of the kids were walking to school with no socks on. Later in the afternoon when school dismissed, i was doing the same crossing again and i approached one of the teachers and i mentioned the fact that i noticed some of the kids didnt have any socks and she actually brought it to my attention that a lot of the kids in school didnt have any socks. Reporter he went back to the station and decided along with other officers sock drive. I was kind of taken back by it being a parent myself. I just couldnt imagine my kids without having socks or things like that and being the weather has changed. Its getting cold and they need these items. Reporter after the department put it on social media theyve had socks come in every day from as far as california. In just one week at least 1,000 pairs are waiting to be donated to students. Theyre going to be in shock. Im in shock. Reporter in Fairfax County, marcella robertson, wusa9. The officers are asking for socks that fit Elementary School kids. If youre interested in donating, you can crop them off at any Police Station drop them off at any Police Station in Fairfax County until january 1st. Anybody heading out first thing in the morning might need three pair of socks to keep their feet from freezing. Its going to be beyond cold. No sleeveless tomorrow, people. You need one of those furry hats all over your head as well, get ce its getting to be very cold. Already were seeing the temperatures and the feels like temperatures dropping down to single digit territory. First we got to get to your 3 degree guarantee which i did make it last last night. 33, the actual forecast high 32, off by 1. Were in the margin. Right now d. C. Is down to 20 degrees, but it feels like 6. You see that northwest wind coming in . 15 miles per hour, thats the reason were already seeing our feels like temperatures down to Single Digits right now. Whats also impressive, this is arctic air which means it drops the humidity levels or our dew points down. Right now our dew point is just 0. Thats a measure of the moisture in the atmosphere. Youre going to notice more static in your hair. Your hair might become a little staticky. Thats because the dry air is moving in. That means the humidity level in your house is dropping big time today and tonight versus where it was yesterday. All right. Heres a snapshot of your thursday. Well start off with temperature for d. C. About 6, which is where we are now. Well see feels like temperatures flirting with 0 degrees in a couple of spots. This is impressive arctic cold. 26 for the afternoon. I actually lowered that forecast high because i think were stuck with so much cold air at the surface its going to be hard to mix it out and break through even with some sunshine in the forecast for tomorrow. Well keep a very light wind tomorrow afternoon, not as breezy as where things stand now. Feels like temperature 3 00 tomorrow running around the upper teens and midteens. Looking ahead there is a chance of maybe some flurries or snow showers heading in here for saturday, doesnt look like a big deal, still watching that, though, because that is your weekend. And then for new years eve and new years day it stays cold in the 20s. You see that pink color showing up in canada . Thats the core of the cold seeping south into the eastern u. S. Well see mo shots of cold air for the next week, week and a half and then some. 18 degrees at International Falls right now, 20 in d. C. Forecast highs on thursday, 26 here and it gets colder the further north you go. I want to show you the trend over the next several days. Look at the colors on the map. We see the pink colors starting to surge south saturday into sunday. That means it gets even colder outside once again. So bitter cold, not done yet. 26 tomorrow, 34 friday and we dip back down into the 20s for your new years eve and new years day as well. So bundle up. Its going to be cold out there. Midnight temperatures on sunday night running around 20 with those feels like temperatures that are going to be breezy out there sunday night. The feels like temperatures will definitely be down near 10 degrees at that point at midnight. All right. Tonight mostly clear, very cold. Bundle up tomorrow morning. It stays today for the next seven days. It looks like nex degrees, no big snow, though. Thats what some people hoped with all this cold around. Yeah. When it gets this cold, youre thinking snow, but im thinking no. You remember that elderly couple who claims that they had 60 pounds of weed in their car and they were giving it out as christmas presents . Oh, my. New developments to this story tonight. This couple was traveling from california to vermont. They had all that weed in the back seat last week. Turns out their son lives in vermont, okay . And hes the chief Deputy States attorney in the state. All right. Now his boss says he has nothing to do with this incident. His parents were arrested as the street value for those drugs amounted to more than 300,000. Merry christmas. Diane . I am not talking about that at all. Georgetown hoyas playing butler, bulldog against bulldog, 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. Now wusa9 sports with Diane Roberts brought to you by xfinity. The hometown hoyas were in big east action against butler at capital one arena, everybody happy now, a lot of happiness. Hoyas had been up by 20 at one point, but as you know, you have to play the game. Double overtime, hoyas down, a big heave but no, not enough. Georgetown loses in double overtime. They lose a heartbreaker. Well, the burgundy and gold look to finish strong this season that will end without a playoff berth against the giants in new york. Some fans are looking ahead to next season and whether kirk cousins will be here to helm the team. If he is, at least we know which teams feel face. The 2018 owe hell face. The 2018 opponents have been released. One game sure to generate excitement will be when the Green Bay Packers come to town, the same team that knocked washington out of the playoffs in 2015. A presumably healthy Aaron Rodgers should be under center and the divisional teams for the First Time Since 2014 and an nfc game takes them to arizona against the cardinals hopefully in the coldest part of the season like now. Back to cousin, when he ran off the field sunday, many wondered if it would be his last game in the burgundy and gold. He kept the franchise tag. They could do it again, but it would cost them 34. 5 million to do it. Cousins plans to talk to fans at a radio appearance to benefit a Charity Early next month. Coach gruden said he wants kirk back and kirk should know that. Gruden said the 29yearold has made people around him better including gruden himself. I dont know about you, but sometimes team jerseys dont have enough personality, paisas pazazz pazazz. Check out these new edition unis. I like the district to it. Okay. Hey, these are tough. Who made these . They are fancy. The caps lose a heartbreaker to my wish was a clubhouse, but we call it the wish house. People visit National Parks from all over the world. Food tastes better when you dont have to cook it. He was just supposed to be my dog. I dont know why. vo were proud that, on behalf of our owners, the subaru share the love event will have donated over one hundred fifteen Million Dollars in just ten years. Get 0 financing for 63 months plus well donate 250 to charity. What if more of the came from Renewable Resources . 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