More shelters and public buildings open up in an effort to help the homeless. Remember that d. C. Has one of the highest homeless rates of any major city. When you see someone who is openlyless out there in the cold you can call and request they be picked up and driven to a shelter call 311 or the number on your screen. Right now the weather outside if you didnt get the memo has been cold for some time. We were talking about the teens earlier but we are seeing a little bit of a warm up for the most part. Feels like 10 degrees better than what it felt like this morning. Good morning everybody. Slowly improving but still very cold. Actually feels like 14. Weve upped a little bit more. 23 degrees outside and sunshine out there but its still very chilly. Cold air in place that will stick around. Those winds out of the northwest at 8 Miles Per Hour help to carry that heat away from your body continuing to feel cold out there. Andrews feels like 12 de in rockville and 20 in fairfax one of the warmer spots out there so to speak. Highs today 24 to 29 degrees cold and mostly sunny. The wind chills will make it feel like teens throughout the day outside right now. Lets take you through the next two hours tracking temperatures feeling like by 3 00 p. M. 16 degrees and by 6 this evening feels like 15 degrees as the winds die down temperatures pretty cold. A very cold night also on tap for us. A few clouds as a disturbance approaches the area and chilly with lows between 15 and 22 degrees partly cloudy and a stray flurry as that system approaches the area. The better time for snow over the weekend late friday night into saturday morning and saturday afternoon continuing to track that for you coming up a part of what tops the weather headlines. Flurries friday and snow chances on saturday. Stay informed with the very latest weather downlohe wusa 9 app right now. Ellen thank you so much. Many homeowners are lining up this week to pay their property taxes early in fairfax, arlington, Montgomery County as well as the district. The irs says some 2018 taxes paid before december 31 can be deducted on this years return. Jane crawford is at the Government Center in fairfax. Want to pay my taxes early. I can do some of it now but i really wish i didnt have to. And massachusetts. Come here and prepay can i do it with a credit card . Tax payers remind up by the thousands to repay their property taxes. We are not the only ones who think this is probably a good deal. His wife susan braved the long lines in Fairfax County, virginia hoping to deduct early. If you can afford them pay them and we can afford it so we are paying them. Cr after christmas have been more than ten times what the suburban washington d. C. Office normally sees. I have so its unprecedented. In 2015 more than 44 million tax returns nationwide took advantage of the state and local tax deduction. And in 19 states and the district of columbia the average deduction was over the 10,000 cap. It will certainly have an effect. But tax expert andrew says the irs has clifford that estimated propertyclifford that estimated taxes have not been enforced since 2014. So its unclear to hope you may not get challenged but if you do you have to be prepared for the ramifications. That was Jane Crawford reporting. The warning from th mean that some homeowners are risking a possible tax audit. The irs will challenge and allow deductions if the home wasnt assessed by the end of the year. The Alabama Senate election is supposed to be certified later today but the one who lost is challenging in court. Republican roy moore claims there were irregularities and calls for a Fraud Investigation as well as a new election. Multiple women accused moore of inappropriate sexual behavior against teenagers. Doug jones won by 20,000 votes. The secret Service Knows who hacked more than 100 d. C. Police surveillance cameras right before the inauguration and Court Documents obtained by cnn the secret service says they tracked down the people from romania. They say they used a malicious computer code to lock up the cameras and try to export money from the district. Those cameras were down for four days in january a week at this point its still unclear whether those two suspects have been arrested or will be arrested in romania. Isis has claimed responsibility for an attack in kabul this morning that killed 40 people and there were three separate bombs and a suicide bomber targeted a cultural center. Afghanistan called the attacks a cry against humanity. President trump is back at his golf club in palm beach today. On wednesday he made his first public appearance during his florida holiday vacation. We have the latest from the white house. We want to give these people credit for the great job they do so thank you all very much. President trump visited firefighters in West Palm Beach wednesday afternoon thanking them for their service and paused to pat himself on the back. Our country is a big, big beautiful ship that we are turning around. We have signed more legislation than anybody and broke the record of harry truman. The cbs news announced the 90 bills into law since he took office that number is hundreds fewer than the 700 pieces of legislation that one bill tracking website counts signed by president kennedy during the same period. President bill clinton signed more than 200 bills into law during the same time and took to twitter taking credit for an 83 increase in arrest for members of the ms13 gang and reducing isis fighters from 35,000 to 1,000 since he took office. Fresh off his tax victory he plans to hold a strategy success at camp david the first weekend in january. Spokesman for Mitch Mcconnell and House Speaker paul ryan confirmed they will attend. The president is hoping to notch more legislative achievements leading up to the election and ranging from immigration to the budget. Cbs new the white county is looking at a possible lawsuit against the company that manufactures prescription opioid drugs. A spokesperson for county executive baker says they hired a law firm to explore the idea. Opioid overdoses killed more than 60 people in the county in the First Six Months of 2017. Tens of thousands of local College Football fans are braving the cold in annapolis today for the military bowl at 1 30 this afternoon. The navy is considered the home team with the game in their own back yard but this year the stands may be evenly split because they will be taking on the cavaliers from uva a few hours south of us. We dont know the dates yet bullet we do know the teams the redskins will be playing in the regular season. Washington will take on green bay who knocked us out of the play offs a couple years ago. They will face three Division Rivals in home and away games and four afc south teams for the First Time Since 2014. Its cannot stop talking about when a Fairfax CountyPolice Officer noticed something strange while he was working a cross walk and decided to do something about it. Some this afternoon are calling him a hero. He says he was just doing his job. Marsella robertson has his story. Officer Thomas Murphy has been with the Fairfax CountyPolice Department for ten years. I typically just drive around answering calls for service. In those ten years this was a first. One morning i was in a School Crossing and noticed some kids were walking to school with socks on so later in the afternoon i was doing the same crossing again and approached one of the teachers and mentioned the facts that i noticed kids didnt have socks and she actually brought it to my attention that a lot of the kids didnt have socks. He went back to the station and decided along with other officers to i was taken back by it and couldnt imagine my kids without any socks being the weather has changed and its getting cold and they need these items. After the department put it on social media theyve had socks come in every day from as far as california. In just wanning at least 1,000 pairs are waiting to be donated to students. They are going to be in shock. Im in shock. In Fairfax County marsella robertson wusa 9. A good heart warming story for the holidays. Dont let those sunny skies fool you. Deep freeze this weekend and Miri Marshall has the full forecast coming up in five minutes. Who doesnt like pulling a prank every once in a while . Next why one stunt is getting mixed reaction on social media and a this reaction this afternoon d. C. Dallas bike has stations around you can rent and drop off at other locations. In dallas theyre called lime bikes and as Bradley Blackburn shows us they can be used as decorations for pranks. Take a look. On vanderbilt avenue its a christmas mystery in bright neon green. I was like oh my gosh i cant believe someone did that. At the hill house down the block. This is so funny. Someone left a present. One, three, five, six, seven. Eight, ten, 11, 13, 14. A lot of them. A lovely bright green bike. Christmas morning they walked out their front door and found more than a dozen lime bikes on the lawn. Its like mom come here you got to see this. Oh my , yes bikes. Apparently 2017 answered to toilet paper, bike that can be rented by the half hour planted in their yard. Ready for someone to take them for a spin. Come get them. Right away they had a suspect their neighbor and family friend. A very good guess and then they were able to quickly decipher it. So we tracked him down but he denied, denied, denied. Yeah inope, nope. Love the hails. I just thought that was part of their whole festive spirit. He did say hes a fan of lime bikes. You can pick them up anywhere and drop them off anywhere. How great is that . Sometimes they are all out. The hails lawn shows up on the app. Oh my gosh. Thats crazy. Theres so many. Whoa, that is a lot of bikes. But by this evening they re lime bike picked them up. The company wasnt laughing saying it is morally wrong and an attack on the overall Transportation System in dallas. A good joke. The hails are still smiling and wont forget the year everyone got bikes for christmas. Better than toilet papering. Its probably one of the biggest surprises weve received. Certainly one of the oddest. Im going to wake up with 1,000 bikes in my yard. Looks like it worked out. Lets check out funny videos of snow storms and how folks out there dealt with the snow like this guy who actually decided to pretend all of the snow outside of his back yard was a pool and decided to dive in there. Looks like it got too cold for him because he ran back into the hot tub to get his temperature back up a bit. Good stuff there. Check out this guy cho decided towho decided to stay bundled up and he got a friend to hook on skis and went for it. Im not sure if this is legal friends so dont try this at home but it does look like a lot of fun. Of course with the dog videos watching even the big dogs try to bound their way through several feet of snow. Some of the hardest hit cities hit by lake effect snow saw almost five feet of snow in just one week. Man it was brutal out there. Much of the country remains in the deep freeze as millions endure some of the coldest temperatures in years that weve seen. Today the wind chill of ten degrees below zero is expected in minneapolis and five below in boston. The bitter cold is expected to last through new years. Josh reports. Theres cold and then theres northern minnesota cold. It feels like your skin is going to be on fire. In a small town of cotton temperatures drop to 41 below zero. I was kind of hoping my vehicle wouldnt start so i could stay the plows are out and layers are on in dozens of states. In erie, pennsylvania the big dig continues after more than 60inches of snow fell this week. When a state of emergency is this severe strangers become friends. All right . We just saw them stuck in the snow bank and looked like they needhelp so we thought why not. Whether you are digging out or just having fun like this pennsylvania man who turned a street into a ski slope doctors cautioned to look out for warning signs about your health. Make sure you are being aware if you start to develop numbness, redness, swelling that you need to warm up. Warm up and settle in when the ball drops in times square on new years eve they may drop to Single Digits. Cbs new, new york. Now wusa 9 first alert weather rated d. C. s most accurate forecast. Yeah not exactly Single Digits in the district. El Single Digits so we can certainly understand what its like none the less. We can. Its still cold and we should not under state what we are dealing with. This is what it feels like outside. Some areas feels like 20s out there when you look at places such as fairfax it feels like 20 still feels like 14 in d. C. And just a cold day on tap with highs only in the mid to upper 20s, 23 in gaithersburg today and 27 in the d. C. Area. Then tonight another cold one on tap. Temperatures 15 to 22 degrees partly cloudy and a weak disturbance passing through the area may produce flurries. Partly cloudy and very cold with the winds out of the northwest around 5 Miles Per Hour. That cold air not going anywhere its here to stay 34 degrees tomorrow and flurries possible and then light snow on saturday with the high right around the 32degree mark. So if you are going to be traveling for new years new years plans heading northeast you see temperatures at around 24 in new york city. There will be snow on the way and as you move across the midwest cloudy with snow temperatures in the 30s and even 20s and teens. For the south it is cold but not as cold as they are having there. You will find showers in portland and seattle with temperatures in the 50s, 60s in california with plenty of sunshine. All right another dip in the jet stream. Some cold air diving our way the setup to keep temperatures at or below freezing for a good stretch of days. That means around the clock we are not going to get above freezing. Deep freeze on the way part of topping the weather headlines. Flurries on friday. Light snow saturday between 2 and 3 00 p. M. These are the best hours. Doesnt mean you cant see anything outside of them but those are prime. Higher amounts out maryland and virginia. Below freezing for at least four days in a row and counting as we get that blast of arctic air in once again. Friday at 6 00 a. M. It looks cloudy and could see flurries at this point. The better time to get snow going is going to be later friday night into saturday morning. This is at 4 00 a. M. , light snow showing up here and then 8 30 a. M. Still light snow out there. As you can see this wiggles to the north the snow line very easily. By 5 30 00 p. M. Still snow north and west of d. C. Around the district it is cloudy at that point wouldnt rule out flurries popping up but we coach do begin to see the snow dissipate. Cloudy around d. C. And still snow showers around the hagerstown area. How much are we talking here . An inch or less and we dont expect a lot of snow slightly more towards the oakland area at least two inches or so of snow. Heres your count down to 2017, bitter cold sticking around. Temperatures ne degrees. We are up to 26 degrees on new years day with plenty of sunshine. Seven day forecast all the way into 2018 well be watching out for a coastal system on wednesday welcome back. Dedicated runners will get out really in just about anything these days and if you are trying to be one of those runners especially for the new year you want to make sure you are prepared for the brutal conditions outside. It all starts really with the first layer you put on. The worst thing you can have is cotton up against your skin because as you get to sweat in your work out retaining another thing thats important is covering your skin. My ears are cold and have to have the right running beanie and also have to have too much on and sweat ends up turning to ice. Speaking of ice runners should be familiar with the path they are going to be taking just like drivers and certain types of pavement like bricks can be slicker than others all right everybody 27 trees today. 34 tomorrow with flurries. Light snow saturday one inch or less possible. Uh oh. And we get into a stretch of seeing temperatures day and night st look at that sunday, monday, tuesday, saturday all of those days at or below freezing. I always think about that song saturday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday. That does it for us friends. We are back at havertys furniture helps even when life isnt. T [sfx doorbell] can somebody get that . Uh uh, not me baby [sfx doorbell] homework its mommy time its daddy time i told you not to marry her. [sfx doorbell] seriously . alright. Whos next . Find year end specials now at havertys. Life looks good. Previously on the young and the restless