chilling temperatures. lauren lauren was live at the scene with us, lauren. sarah, tony, bone chilling is accurate. you can see it s frozen in front of the homes they played all the water this say row of taken to homes. five of them. we just learned the cause of the fire and there was a man inside one of them at a fireplace trying to use li lightser nrid inside the fire and he left the door open as he plead and it spread to the outdoor decks in back of home. sky fox was over the scene as you saw all those flames and a million in damage to five town homes here and ground video from the pack of back of the homes. there was a partial collapse there and fire spreading to five homes. about a million in dozen people displaced at this scene here and firefighters dealing with frigid temperatures. here s what montgomery country fire spokesman pete barringer had to say. during the course of operation there was a building collapse, structure collapse middle of the road townhouse a
system. inside a high-speed chase. we have it all beginning to end. the news at 11 a clock starts now. a weather alert not for snow but for this, freezing cold weather. you are looking at the constitution guard near the washington monument, we have ice everywhere. we have a look at our most accurate forecast. it s for extreme cold, we have a winter advisory through 12:00 tomorrow. windchills in the metro at 10 degrees below to five degrees above. this is serious stuff. you will want to limit your time outdoors. certainly to the morning hours, in fact right now it feels like it s five degrees below. one degree below as far south as fredericksburg. let s talk about the forecast. by 6:00 tomorrow morning it will feel 10 degrees below in ginsburg, 10 degrees below in martinsburg and even fredericksburg will be below zero. it still below zero in the afternoon hour. this is pretty serious. two degrees below, one below in romney. two degrees below in winchester. will talk about
virginia. news at 10 starts right now. and webegin tonight with breaking news. crews are on the scene of a townhouse fire in montgomery county. and as many as 100 firefighters battled the massive fire in the 3500 block of soft wood terrace. lauren demarco is live at the scene with the latest. lauren we understand a firefighter was injured in this. reporter: the sarah, i just got the update. two firefighters were injured and i want to you take alook right here. you can see there s still pretty heavy smoke coming out of the roof of one of these units. it as i row of five town home units. sky fox was over the scene earlier as flames could be shooting from this row of homes. home in senter is believed to be where the fire started and it s not clear exactly what caused it. the flames broke ut on the deck. that s where it started. and at this point, firefighters still trying to put out the hot spots and make sure this is completely under control before they can clear the scen
there. some places feels like negative degrees. unbelievable. that girl said it best, right, chuck bell? can t have enough layers on. keep on layering. that s the only advise for today. the wind will not be as much of an issue tomorrow, but the northwest wind, which has been driving the ever colder air into the region, that is still with us here this morning. it will be with us for the remainder of the daylight hours this afternoon. current temperatures, these are the air temperatures, not the wind chills, we re all generally above zero, with the lone exception being warrington, virginia. minus one. hats off to you, below zero this morning. most of the suburbs at 10 degrees downtown. not much of a warmup today. single numbers between now and 8:00 in the morning. then a slow rise to the upper teens to maybe as much as 20 degrees. we re in weather alert mode because of the wind chill advisory. wind chills will be running below zero for most of the morning and only recoverin
the back deck and to the deck of neighboring homes. five townhouses were touched by the flames. it was so cold outside that all the equipment froze. montgomery county fire says it was 9 degrees with a wind chill of negative 5. this fire cost about $1 million in damage and left 20 people without a place to call home this morning. we re continuing to follow breaking news this morning out of prince george s county. you see right there, this car nosedived into a sink hole which formed early this morning by a water main break. this all happened on 52nd avenue and emerson street in edmonston. the car was toe etowed away and thankfully, the driver is doing fine. derreck ward is live with another water main break in hyattsville. what are you learning out there? reporter: you can look at this scene here. route 214 near the intersection of hill road. they re dealing with a 12-inch water main break. fortunately, it s only affected one customer. not fortunately for that customer bu