Were here and the health say there are food involved. They have past inspections and put everything in place and they plan to reopen here tomorrow morning. Reporting live in southwest washington, im sam ford, abc7 news. Good news out there. So now we have a bitter chill. Larry we could set records for how cold it will be. Lets begin with bill kelly in the weather center. Bill we are watching the cold weather moving in the air. This is reagan. The record for the record in 1999. The records are in jeopardy tonight. Now we have the temperatures that are widespread in teens. The winds are 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. This is knocking the numbers down. In another hour or two the numbers continue to drop to sub zero territory. This is 19 degrees but the wind chills are down. Sidebyside at Dulles Airport this morning. Look at the video. This is a mess. Thousands of passengers tried to reach destinations after the weather diverted them from j. F. K. In new york. How does it look now . The nightmar
Reporter yes, thats right. I have his gloves on. And doug said it. Even if youre bundled up the way i am, it still goes right through you. Were by the clarenden metro station. When people get off they are moving quickly because it is dangerously cold. Im the one going to freeds out here. They told me it was going to be below 10 tonight. How am i going to survive out here . Reporter kevin waters said he might sleep on the street in arlington tonight. He told us nearby shelters were full. We called and they said theyd look for kevin because they never turn people away. The lady brought me two blankets, small blankets right here. Its hard, you know what i mean . It is real hard out here. Reporter wind chills are near 0 and falling dangerously. Im really from up north, boston, and this feels like boston. This feels like boston, yeah, its that cold. Yeah, this is boston cold. Reporter deborah greenfield positive this is just too cold for arlington. Because its just to the bone. It cuts thro
Deep freeze . Gwen i have been looking forward to maybe 30s some time soon. You know, at this point, 30s would be extremely welcomed. But not happening right now. At least not over the weekend. Lauren actually well get colder tomorrow then we were today and im talking dangerous cold. That arctic air once again giving up another reenforcely shot and making itself straight at home across our area. So no relief on the extreme cold is what we have as we move into this weekend. Right now, take a look at the number, its currently 17 degrees in the nations capitol but feels like its only four. Gusty winds once again producing very significant windchills and its the windchills that will continue to be dangerous once we get into the next 24, 48 hours. Our highs today, well, barely making it to 20 at reagan national, 19 in dulles, 19 at bwi, i want to remind you with the cold weather, we should really have been into the low 40s. No such break. Elsewhere in our neighborhoods, frederick. Ten at we
Capitol hill continues. Marys center and its clinic in mt. Pleasant have been part of the community for decades. Most of its 30,000 patients dont have private health insurance. Half of them are enrolled in medicaid, so the federal government reim burrses marys center for the care. But that money has been frozen by the government shutdown. Many of our clients already have been told not to come back to work. They work in restaurants, they work in delis, so the food path is coming through the city is not there for them. So theyre going to be losing their jobs. Many of those patients are uninsured. Reporter the clinic is often filled with parents seeking medical care for their children. Many people who have children here, they really need this kind of place. Theyre really into the community and they want to make sure that everybody that comes here feels like a part of it. Reporter if the nearly 600,000 due from the federal government is not received by october 18th the clinic staff wont ge
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