Happy new year, right . Yeah, thanks a lot. Well, as you get back into your routine, remember you can get the power of storm team4 any time anywhere. Open up the nbc washington app on your phone. The bitter fold is keeping firefighters in our region busy tonight. Thats right. We have had a rash of house fires, many of them the result of people just trying to stay warm overnight. D. C. Fire crews battled the flames at a row house in northwest and at an Apartment Building in southeast. In virginia, firefighters were called to homes in annandale and in arlington, and in maryland there were 12 fires in Montgomery County alone this weekend. And there was a tragic end to a fire in annandale, a 94yearold world war ii veteran wasnt able to make it out in time. News4s amee cho has been talking to folks who knew him and joins us live from the neighborhood. Amee . Reporter meagan, his name was louis they called him mr. Lou. He loved to have fun and used a walker and maybe thats why he wasnt able
Out there right now, wait until the end of the week. We are talking friday and saturday, where highs in the immediate metro, High Temperatures only in the teens. 20 in chevy chase. 19 at Reagan National. Clinton, maryland, 16 degrees. Wherever you are, this is the day you have to dress in layers. Make sure you have the sunglasses. Crystal blue skies. Temperatures not going to get better, only in the middle to upperteens in the afternoon hours. Coming up in a few minutes, we talk about how long the chill will continue and a coastal storm that might impact parts of the midatlantic starting late tomorrow night into thursday. The super cold weekend ahead. More of that coming up. Adrianna back to the water main breaks some of them causing extensive delays on the roadways. The dmv have a lot of work ahead of them. Ryan hughes on the timetable to get those problems neighborhood. Water maintoback breaks have caused major traffic troubles and delays in silver spring. Fors have been out here hou
Luray is 28. Everybody remains below freezing. When you look at the wind chill factor out there we have teens at 4 00 in the afternoon and we are talking temperatures that are well lower than the average temperature for the day. The good news now the clouds and radar showing you its dry. So other than the biting cold, you dont have to worry about the snow potential tonight. Its in the 20s as you make your way out the door for the evening rush. You need to layer up. One of the big problems were dealing with because of the cold snap is the water mains breaking. Maybe some of you have been dealing with that around your house. Tom roussey is out live at just one of them in Silver Spring on New Hampshire avenue. How are you out there, man . Tom ah, im all right but man, the water mains are not. This is just one of them. There are so many throughout the d. C. Area. This one, though, wreaking some of the most havoc. This is on New Hampshire avenue in silver spr check out what it is doing to t
Area. We feel it here at this stage. We are stuck in a deep freeze. Alison abc7s tom roussey joins us from siller is spring where crews are work Silver Spring where the crews are working on a water main break. This is just part of the problem out there today, right . Tom it is. There are a lot of affects from the cold. The water main break is one of the worst. This is on New Hampshire avenue. So as you can imagine its wreaking havoc on traffic. I just got an update. Good news. They have made progress. It wont last forever but it will last through the evening rush hour. Thanks to the water main break the traffic was bad even before rush hour started. Bad. Really bad. How bad was the traffic you were in . Bad. Back like 20 minutes. That is right. 20 minutes from the beltway, which you could see less than a quarter mile away. Everything had to merge to one lane. What i dont like about it is the left lane, they think they automatically can get in without any courtesy. New hampshire avenue
Ass President Trump. From job approval and aggressive legislative approval and possible reelection bid. Fox5 goes oneonone with maryland government nor larry hogan. The news at 10 starts right now. And it is a murder that stunned d. C. Region. Tonight, fox5 has Police Interrogation video of a teenage girl confessing to ms 1 gangrelated murder in Northern Virginia. The suspect pleaded guilty to stabbing the victim to death. Korey kauffman is live with the details, korey. In the hours long interragation venus romero again eyes being involved in the killing of damaris reef questions. Before sfwribing the violent act and why she did it. You need to tell me what did you to her. I killed her. How did you kill her . With a knife. The moment she confesses to the vicious murder of Montgomery County teen de mar is alexander i said im not going to forgive you. She was 17 at the time of the january 2017 murder said to avenge the death of her boyfriend kristin sosa reves a known member of ms 13. Sh