Thanks for starting your sunday off with us. Well start with a live look outside on december 1, 017. You can almost see how crisp and cool and clear and freezing cold it is outside. Were going to start off with dar gar in the Weather Center this morning keeping an eye on what really has been brutal cold here you. Covered it all, tom, well take it back here then, thank you very much, gary, thanks for seeing you. Very, very cold. You have more . I have to cover two minutes. So ill take my share here. Listen, heres whats going on out there now. Lets just say its going to be an arctic new years eve. This arctic air started last night trickling in and dew points dropping and arctic air is here and it will get colder and colder and windier and windier out there and that will make it feel oh, so cold. And wind chill advisory in place for Northern Virginia and central virgina western virginia and all the way up to mary pennsylvania. And part of this out west is in place. It runs from 9 p. M. T
Announcer now abc7 news at 4 00. On your side. Jonathan well, that was some finish to that game. Happy new year. Thank you for being with us this afternoon. Nancy off the top, a bone chilling start to 2018. We have had another day of bitter cold to make it painly really to be outside painful really to be outside. But the temperatures are about to take another plunge. Say it aint so. Get the latest from meteorologist josh knight. Josh it doesnt seem possible but the temperatures for some of us are around the Single Digits. 10 in gaithersburg. 5 to winchester. How do we get there . Temperatures around 20degree mark but there is a 15mileperhour wind in d. C. 13 in leesburg. 17 Miles Per Hour in manassas. That makes a big difference. So it takes the tempat digits. We had cloud cover. This is good news. We have a cool thing going on tonight. We will talk more about that coming up. We are not the only ones. 10 for d. C. We get to pittsburgh it will feel like negative 9 and minus 15 in chicag
Details about the man who is the suspect. He was arrested a short time after the attack according to police. Yes, there were several other people in the house and investigators are talking to them now. The Domestic Violence issue, it doesnt discriminate. Reporter the brentwood mayor was stunned that the year began with a murder in a county where Domestic Violence attacks are viewed by authorities as an epidemic but the mayor of this 50 Latino Community said few latino women break a code of silence even when family troubles could be deadly. They try to manage it themselves with family and friends but there is no place where they can go to get help. There are agencies but they are so small and the community is so large so it is hard to keep up with that. Co reporter prince georges the Police Department and many other agencies here provide bilingual support to people, but there is no indication in this case that the victim reached out for help of any kind. Live in brentwood, scott broom,
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
In maryland more than a dozen fires, but no serious injuries. In virginia, two new years day fires, one of them with a tragic ending. Flames raced through this home in annandale, trapping a 94yearold man inside. And tonight we are learning more about the victim from neighbors who captured images of the aftermath. News4s amee cho was at the scene on columbia road with reaction. Amee . Reporter leon, everyone on this street who knew that man says he was sweet and caring. His name was louis, but people called him mr. Lou. Neighbors tell us he used a walker and that may be why he was trapped. There is someone inside. Mr. Lou. Mr. Lou reporter as firefighters battled the flames, one neighbor stood anxiously outside waiting for news of her close friend mr. Lou. Very would later learn he didnt make it. He is inside, inside the house. I saw call, scream. I mean, anybody can grab him. Mr. Lou is small. They can grab him. Reporter she shared these pictures of mr. Lous life, 94yearold World War I