Below zero. Chopper over the scene. A maryland neighborhood evacuated as firefighters respond to a dangerous scene. And a toddler left home alone as his mother allegedly went to work. Well tell you about the 911 call that prompted a police investigation. News4 at 11 starts now. Tonight a deep freeze takes hold of our region. Cars covered in ice. Schools forced to close. And crews keeping busy repairing a water main break in northern virginia. We have Team Coverage tonight of all that out there. Doug kammerer, you said earlier that were going to be in the freezer for several days. That the story youre sticking with . Thats still the story were going with, jim. Ill tell you what. Temperatures in the freezer for sure. But not just for a couple of days. We normally see this during the winter. One or two days below freezing and maybe in the 20s. Were in this for about a week to ten more days. Its really going to be that cold. Well take you down towards union station. Notice the flag blowing
Good morning if youre just waking up. Want to get you caught up on the forecast. Storm team 4 meteorologist Amelia Siegel is here with the latest. Good morning. Everybody under a windchill advisory until 9 00 a. M. This morning. Until 9 00 a. M. , windchills will be as low as anywhere from ten to five degrees below zero. Heres the windchill temperature, how its feeling when you step out the door. It feels about four in washington. Zero in rockville and reston. Two below in manassas. Dulles right now, its feeling about seven degrees below zero. Yesterday morning, dulles hit a low temperature of two degrees below zero. The coldest its been there in 18 years. The cold Streak Continues throughout the day today. This morning, dress warm. The warmest jacket you have will be needed. And again, windchills as low as ten below through about 9 00 a. M. 7 00 a. M. , an air temperature of ten degrees. The good news, once the sun comes up, were looking at plenty of sunshine throughout the day today.
Park this summer and how you can get tickets and head of the crowd thanks to abc 7 news. Mark herring calling the states ban on gay marriage unconstitutional. Democrat saidted he will no longer defend it against federal lawsuits. Brianne carter is live with more and what it will mean for the commonwealth. Autria, it is a political shift. Attorney general mark herring just had a press Conference Announcing he is joining a lawsuit challenging the states ban on gay marriage. It is what he calls after a legal review, he called the ban unconstitutional and oppressive. Herring says he believes the freedom to marry is a fundamental right, not based on a policy preference. There are two cases in Court Challenging the commonwealths ban. Is urging courts to reverse the position of his whoecessor, ken cuccinelli, argue to maintain the ban on marriage. Commonwealth will side with the plan is to have brought this case and side with every other version you couple his right to marry is being denied s
Surprised ramin started filling his home. You have to expect problems. It should be [inaudible] that is the main of a house. We had to go to the street. A frozen pipe valve. They have been swamped with cases like this since temperatures dropped. It is too cold. Very cold. You dont get that kind of temperature. It isnt just that on pipes. It is brutal on many of us going to our daily routine. Summer cant come fast enough to the car wash. I didnt work outside in the winter with water. This is something. Is noeight hour shift fun. It is cold. You do what you have to do. He have to do what you have to do to stay warm. If youre a homeowner, what can you do to keep pipes warm . Not much. Hope for warmer temperatures. Reporting live, horace holmes. Subfreezing to butchers continue to cause problems. That is prompting School Closings and delays. Cancellations in virginia. We will bring you any updates to this list as we receive them. The federal office of Personnel Matters is preparing for lay
Store. Take a look. Investigators say the person in the white tshirt and red hat on the right of your screen is Michael Brown. The guy behind him in the black tshirt is his friend, dorian johnson. Police say brown grabbed a 49 box of cigars off the county and tried to leave the store without peaing. An employee tried to stop him, and brown shoved the man before walking out. About ten minutes later an officer spotted brown and johnson walking down the street, but the police chief says and this is important the officer did not know brown was the suspect well have much more in a live report coming up from ferguson. The officer stopped brown and johnson because they were walking down the street blocking traffic. Again, the latest from ferguson coming up at 4 30. That officer, as we just heard, has been identified as Darren Wilson, a sixyear veteran of the police department, and as we just heard, we will have more on whats happening out there a little later in the broadcast. Now it appears