Will be cold on friday and saturday. We showed you these pictures a few minutes ago. Snow in South Carolina that will soon be here. The snow there not finished yet. I am in summerville South Carolina outside of charleston and this is a lot of what we see and the snow is coming down covering roadways. Im outside a Shopping Mall off highway 17 near walmart and its coming up in here. To show you a little bit of what it looks like and how high its coming up. We are checking and its right around an inch and they are expecting to have close to 8 inches by the end of the day. On a highway near charleston icy conditions caused vehicles to overturn. In georgia the governor declared a state of emergency through friday and it snowed in tallahassee, florida first time in 28 years. The storm comes as much of the country remains in the grips of a bitter cold snap. In oklahoma, a water main broken set water 40 feet in the air but because of the freezing temperatures it follows in nearby trees. Breaking news and the desperate search in freezing temperatures again tonight for a missing man with dementia in Prince Georges County. Daniel dehaven was seen on Surveillance Video yesterday morning at the cosco in beltsville and police fear he may have been out all night in the bitter cold. Priscilla chan out live at the cosco and were hoping for encouraging news. Reporter nothing so far yet. You see the Police Command post in the vehicles behind me. A massive search overnight turned up no sign of him and no sign of him yet so far today either. Scores of Police Officers fanned out in search of him from the cosco parking lot afternoon starting about an hour ago. Daniel dehaven is 65 years old and 59 and 175 pounds with brown eyes and saltandpepper hair. He is the brother of a Montgomery County firefighter. Not only does he struggle with dementia but his family says hes nonverbal. He may not even be able to tell anyone hes lost and alone and needs help. Police urge everyone in the area to check their backyards and neighborhood and walking trails. They want to find Daniel Dehaven before he spends another cold night out in this. As you see along baltimore avenue there are plenty of restaurants and residences and shops. There is a possibility he is inside one of those places that people dont realize hes not a paying customer. He could be very quiet and just sitting in there. We are concerned hes wandering ask any residents or Business Owners in the area to be on the lookout for him. We have reached the worst Case Scenario and we are trying our best to find him. The snow is coming in the different temperatures are not on our side. Reporter police are checking and rechecking stores and restaurants along route 1 and pulling surveillance tape that they can find from those stores and restaurants. They have used the helicopter with the heatseeking camera to check for signs of life in the woods, but nothing so far and they are running out of time. They do not think he would wander very far. If you have any idea where he might be, where Daniel Dehaven might be, please call the police. Live in beltsville, wusa9. Lets hope we find him soon. The cold weather can put you in extremely dangerous situations like falling into icy waters. Victims can suffer from hypothermia and cold shd freezing water can lead to death. We caught up with some First Responders to learn what they are doing to keep people safe during the deepfreeze. It super cold out at 25 degrees where im standing in North Potomac and thats below freezing. Its the kind of weather where people take chances walking or skating on frozen waterways. Reporter can you imagine falling on a sheet of ice like this . Its so scary and you never know. Reporter dont says it happens often. Every year you hear a story of someone that went through the ice. Reporter like these guys here, Montgomery County firefighters rescuing people from icy waters. Hypothermia sets in and when that person is above the ice shelf they can hang on any more. Reporter the workers a special equipment and gear to keep them safe like dry suits and special gloves. When you are out of the water, the temperature in cold reporter they train in the woods and show us how it works. There are two teams, those who do the actual rescue and others right here waiting on the sidelines to help colleagues if they had trouble. First responders say the ice in our area does not freeze like it does further north and no way to tell if its safe. Part of the problem is the edges of the ice may seem solid and you may think things are okay but as you walk out the i can get weaker. Firefighters say take their advice. It doesnt pay to go out on the ice. Reporter listen again. Dont step on the ice. Reporter reporting in Montgomery County, wusa9. If you are in a situation where you see someone fallen nice, dont try to help them right away because you could put yourself at risk. Stop and call 911 and get First Responders on the way and then try to find Something Like a rope the water to help. And dont forget we have upto theminute Weather Information on our wusa9 app and before you go to bed tonight a great resource for the nasty weather. And we will i half an hour earlier tomorrow morning with everything you need to know before you go to work or school. Please use hashtag wusa9 weather to share weather pictures and we will put them on tv. Point is blasting his former ally steve bannon. It has to do with things he is quoted as saying in a book about the prompt administration. Its called fire and fury in the white house and according to the author he uses the words treasonous and unpatriotic to describe a meeting last year a trump tower between top Campaign Officials and a russian lawyer. He also suggests the president s son donald lawyer through his fathers office. Sarah sanders says the president is furious and disgusted at what you call Steve Bannons false claims. The president is raising the prospect of nuclear war with north korea. In one of his latest tweets, President Trump posted he has a Nuclear Button too and bragged its larger than kim jonguns. North and south korea have a new way to communicate. A hotline in the Demilitarized Zone was restored for the first time in two years. The u. S. As opposed to any talks unless pyongyang abandons its nuclear program. Says hes open to allowing north korean athletes to compete in the upcoming Winter Olympics in south korea. A look at the other stories we are working on. You know its cold when there are icebreakers on the chesapeake a. And scramble to keep some of the ice locked fishing fleet from sinking. Protecting your pipes, action you can take now that can save thousands in water damage. And President Trump gets ready for his so called fake news awards and the 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. Fill your cart with Small Victories like giants natures promise brand. Great prices on over 1,300 items. Eat well for less. Only at my giant. Point looking to infuse the white house with a little of his pageantry. The president tweeted he will be crowning a fake news champion. The post reads i will be announcing the most dishonest and corrupt media awards of the year on monday at 5 00. Subjects to cover is dishonesty and bad reporting in various categories from the fake news media. Stay tuned. And as strange as it sounds the president and ceo of the museum said good may come out dont pay that much attention to it and its one mans opinion or one parties opinion and secondly what is he saying that he doesnt like it but can we learn from that . On our wusa9 Facebook Page said trump is turning out to be a great president and the media cant stand it. Towards writes the press should ignore him when he does stuff like this which is ridiculous and beneath the office of the president and so is he. Dont let your thoughts go ignored. Share your opinions with us on our wusa9 Facebook Page. The flu season ramping up in tonight a push to get more nursing home workers vaccinated. Topper is back with the latest on tomorrows anticipated snow that could have a big impact on your morning commute. A busted pipe can lead to a nightmare water situation. Tone of the most pristine and beautiful parts of the world. But Barbara Comstock just voted to put it up for sale. Why . 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Stephanie ramirez in alexandria with more. Reporter we may be on tv but not impervious to any of the extreme weather damage. I have no heat or hot water at home and our colleague michael had to deal with his house flooding because a pipe burst. My photographer would go on camera but sent us a video. This bathroom is flooded. Reporter im in alexandria with a plumbing technician to talk about how to protect your pipes at home. These belong to max who is investigating a pipe that was letting out water and its frozen. I can see ice here. Reporter he defrosted the ice clod with a blowtorch. Its really winterizing and thats the biggest thing that will freeze. Reporter once the water drains outside faucet will be completely dry and no water and no way to freeze. Insulation and i recommend fiberglass insulation with the high r rating. The pipe insulation doesnt work as well. Reporter he said noodles are like pipe insulation. Its a good idea to open these up. If you have a space heater put it in front. Reporter the drip is another method some have suggested but if your sink is prone to freezing thats not enough water for it to actually keep it from freezing. I would recommend leaving a steady stream. Reporter one of the most important things to do is seal up your home from the cold. Anything that will seal the cracks around it. Reporter stephanie ramirez, wusa9. Regardless of the temperatures people in dc have to get where they are going and we caught up with people on a dangerously cold morning. You look cold and how are you staying warm . I have coffee and keeping active. You have multiple layers on . Just layers a my work shirt and my other pants for this. You have multiple pairs of pants and you have earmuffs and your hood. Are you feeling pretty toasty . Yes. So layers is the case. You forgot your boots today . It seemed like it was okay so i grabbed my shoes and then after when i came outside i said i need to wear different shoes but i didnt want to go home again. These kids in tallahassee are doing something they havent done before. They are making snow angels. People in the northern part of the state saw light snow and freezing rain leading to mayhem and in our area shows a little bit of snow can do the same thing. Kids remember that the rest of their lives. If we were kids and there was no we would feel differently. You feel like a kid all the time. A couple things i want to emphasize. Its a fluffy snow when you can sweep it away and it will break your back if you shovel it. But its so cold and it will stay around for a long time. A live look outside and clouds are thickening. Pretty cold. Up to 33 now. We have been above freezing a couple of times at national but dulles not above freezing since december 26. Dew points, dry air mass and humidity 27 . Inside 4 . It will take a while for this atmosphere to get saturated to allow snow to fall. It will snow above us for some hours but wont be until after midnight when it hits the ground. A goodlooking storm and farther to the west models are still emphatic it will take a more northeasterly track away from us. A quick shot of snow most likely tonight. I want to emphasize this. The line of snow in the metro falls overnight. By 7 00 or 8 00 in the morning probably done in the metro. 1 to 2 inches by don. Bus stop 16 to 26. If you are at the bus stop at 8 00 the snow is over. Slippery roads continue. It will and later in Southern Maryland and blowing and drifting snow thursday, thursday night and friday in the wake of the storm. Talked about this yesterday and tweeted out the storm may have a central pressure not far off of sandy. Almost a winter hurricane, if you will. Here is the american model with more snow in the immediate metro area and a couple of inches in the european model for their off to the east, although you concentrate on the coastline they are similar. A pretty sharp gradient between bands of snow 4 inches to 2 inches and thats the case in the situation where the storm gives us a glancing blow. Its a shame that its a glancing blow. You dont get storms that develop off the florida coast too often. Leesburg and inch. Downtown, bethesda 1 to 2 inches. 2 to 4 inches in anne arundel county, saint marys county, Prince Georges County and 4 to 8 in the Northern Neck and for the beaches. Blizzard warnings have been posted. Teacher cast and the rpm model is the least aggressive. 10 00 cloudy and 20s. 6 00 a. M. Snow across most of the metro area from i95 to the east. Not very wellorganized. I think its the least aggressive model and not thinking snow will be east of leesburg. In any event i agree everything clearing up by 8 00 or 9 00 the immediate metro area and lingering longer at the shore. Temperatures 20s to start and snow, snow ending and then only 27 by 1 00 and winds increasing. Yellow weather alert friday and saturday. 20 friday, 19 saturday, and those numbers may be high. Next seven days, 32 sunday, and all the pain of the cold air and warms up and rains on monday. Temps fall tuesday and a rain or snow shower and since the cold next wednesday. One more question for you. People were talking about the fact that was warmer in anchorage, alaska yesterday been here or parts of florida and is that still going on and why is it happening . The jet stream dips down in the east coast like a rubber band and has to go up somewhere else. It goes up in alaska and 43 in anchorage today and we made it to 33. Southern part of alaska. You can get uptotheminute Weather Information on our wusa9 app and its a great resource when the weather is nasty we are not. And wake up washington starts half an hour earlier tomorrow beginning at 4 00 a. M. And we have everything you need to know before you go out the door to work or school and use the hashtag wusa9 whether to share your snow pics and we might use them on the air. After a break congress is returning to work. Vice president mike pence were into new senators. Jones of alabama and tina smith of minnesota horrible democrats. The republican majority in the Senate Narrows to a 5149 split. Leaders from both sides of the aisle talked about working together in the new year. First on the agenda is a spending bill. They face a ja to avoid a government shutdown. A twist in the protests in iran. Tens of thousands of pro government demonstrators poured into the streets and many were forced to attend. Antigovernment rallies rage on a dozens of cities. Since last thursday the protest started and arise over food prices and other Economic Issues and at least 21 have been killed and more than 400 arrested. If you think you are braving the cold. The people deal with the toughest elements as a rush to say parts from sinking. The powerball drawing is tonight. Is luck on your side . We let you know the odds of you actually winning. In tonights consumer alert back with more on the effects of the deep the bills. U. S. Households consumed 143 billion cubic feet of gas just on new years day with extreme low temperatures causing electric prices are up and heating fuel the highest price in months and new York Resident seen the highest bills in two years. If your resolution is to eat healthy, pizza hut doesnt make it easy. They are slashing its prices in half and the deal is only good if you order carry out or delivery from the mobile app or the chains website at pizza hut. Com. Its available through monday. Then there is mcdonalds. They have deals for 28 tina bringing back a discounted menu thursday. Its a one, two, three deal. One dollar cheeseburger, 2 mcafee drinks and a happy meal for 3. This replaces the pollard the Popular Community is closing its doors and i saw it as i pulled in the driveway after more than 84 years of business the florist and Garden Center is going to close its locations but no worries. The kensington location will deliver to all dc zip codes. And for your dc customers get 20 off instore locations from kensington locations and they sent out a letter to customers saying its a result of the increase in rent from the owner and inability to come to an agreement. The news at 5 30 starts right now. A yellow weather alert in effect right now. The Winter Weather advisory out for the entire dc metro area and tomorrow it could turn to snow during the morning commute. We talk about that on the weather terrace. The snow some snow south of town the air is so dry you wont reach the ground. This is reaching the ground from piedmont, North Carolina through the foothills and to the coast. What does it mean . Winter weather advisories covering the metro area but one reason these are in effect as far as frederick and gaithersburg is not the amount of snow but the timing. It will be overnight ending by 7 00. Just in time for the morning commute. Those are winter storm warnings in white and the orange which you dont see often are blizzard warnings to the east all the way to the coast. About the blizzard warnings, thats about visibility and not how much snowfall. Visibility under a quarter of a mile and that will be the case tonight and tomorrow. Lets wideness out and blizzard warnings from maine and in new jersey, delmarva and in North Carolina. Wi s