Inches around their metro region. We told you we could see windchills in the 20s. 29 degrees, 20 hagerstown, 11 in state college. It gets colder than that tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning were talking about windchills anywhere from about 515 degrees across the area. Right now were at 40 degrees. As we move into the overnight hours, if youre heading out tonight, its still breezy overnight. Were around 33 tomorrow morning, waking up to a temperature of 326. So many people running in the rock n roll marathon. They werent training for temperatures that feel like the 20s. The Cherry Blossoms will also see damage this weekend. Were thinking 10, 20, maybe little bit more of the blooms will likely die off. All of the focus on tuesday. We think school delays, highly likely School Closures as well. A major noreaster moving up forecast in about 15 minutes. This cold weather is coming at a very bad time for our citys famous Cherry Blossoms so close to the peak bloom. Many of them could take a hit from the brutal cold thats coming. Later this hour well have more on what could happen to the trees and the tourists who pump money into our region. Download the nbc washington app and turn on weather alerts to get all the latest updates on our wintery weather. There are 93 u. S. Attorney positions at the justice department. Half of them are holdovers from e president Obamas Administration. Today Jeff Sessions abruptly ordered all 46 of them to resign. U. S. Attorneys are appointed by the president. Some income administrations do ask all the u. S. Attorneys to leave. Some do not. Dana boente is acting as acting u. S. Attorney general. Today the white house is celebrating the new jobs report for february, but theyre also on the defensive about fired National Security advisor nis d Michael Flynn and his lobbying for the turkish government. Reporter mike flynn still plaguing this Administration Even on a day like today when they got a very good jobs report. President trump is taking credit for todays numbers. I talked to the president prior to this. He said to quote him very clear mr ly. They may have been phony in the past but its very real now. Reporter 235,000 jobs created in february. Were now seeing employers willing to invest in employees that may not have all the hard and soft skills they would like. Making sure that people who want a job find a job. Reporter foods report good news amid ongoing controversy about fired National Security advisor mike flynn. Just this week flynn registered as a foreign agent, lobbying for the turkish government during the election. Reports indicate the Transition Team was aware. He retroactivity filed the forms. But we advised him to do what the legal and plroper thing was. Reporter the Administration Still amending its revisi defen travel ban. I dont think this is the best approach for National Security policy. Reporter plus, the white house is struggling to explain the allegation that president obama tapped trump tower phones and find whoever leaked classified cia documents. This looks very bad for the intelligence community. Reporter 50 days in office. With more americans working and challenges mounting. Is the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence committee. He made his second trip in three days to cia headquarters. Warner went to langley to review material related to russian interference in the president ial election. Senator warner has said his role in this investigation will be probably the most important thing hes done in his public life. Now to the sudden death of the Russian Ambassador to the united nations. He collapsed in his office in new york last month. An autopsy was performed right away. But the medical Examiners Office said the death required further study. Authorities refused to release the test results today, citing diplomatic protocol. Hundreds of native americans rallying in the streets of d. C. Today to protest the construction of pipelines. The standing r engineers to the white house. They stopped along the way putting up a tepee outside of the Trump International hotel. The Standing Rock sioux have been fighting the Dakota Access pipeline for year es. They say it runs over sacred ground and threatens their water. The tribe has filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop construction. Quick action by a Prince Georges CountyPolice Officer likely saved a family of six including a newborn baby. Their home engulfed in flames overnight. Tonight theyll have to find somewhere else to stay but theyre all safe. Darcy spencer is at the scene along symposium way in clinton. Darcy . Reporter that fire destroyed the house. This is where that family was fast asleep early this morning. Take a look at the house right next door. Look at that damage. The residents tell me they knew something was wrong when their house began to heat up. Take a look at the sidingn this home on symposium way in clinton. The heat from the raging fire next door so intense, residents woke up when their house literally began to melt. My bedroom got extremely hot. I thought maybe my heat was turned up too high. But it wasnt my heat. It was the heat from the fire. Reporter but they were even more concerned for their neighbors. This cell phone video shows their home was consumed by fire. Cassandra cox was among the six in the home. The youngest, her 3 week old grandson. It was 1 00 in the morning. Its been really hard. Weir ju were just trying to get through. Reporter cox says the family wouldnt not have made it out if it werent for the corporate on patrol at the moose lodge right behind their heome when the saw the flames and ran to help. I pounded on the door yelling with no response. Rt thought there could be people home. So he grabbed his baton and broke in. Upon smashing this glass out i think that finally woke up the homeowners. I said, police, your house is on fire. Reporter the family raced through the house which was filling with smoke on the inside. Flames were spreading on the outside. There were no injuries. The family is grateful for this officers actions. I really do believe if he didnt knock as hard as he did, we wouldnt be here. It feels good. Kwu to get six people out safely and alive, its a good feeling. Reporter that family is staying with some neighbors tonight. I should also mention the officers involved in this call say they have rescued people in fires before. Theyre right back on duty here tonight. Were happy about the ending. Thank you. Now to d. C. Where police are once again looking i daytime shooting. The latest case happened just over the bridge along pennsylvania aefr ivenue in southeast. A man was shot about 11 00 this morning. The man is in Critical Condition and no one has been arrested. Now new concerns over a rise in hate crimes in the district. Bias motivated crimes jumped from 66 in 2015 to 107 in 2016. Increases in crimes based on ethnicity and national origin, religion, gender identity and expression and sexual orientation. What could be behind this trend and the efforts to stop it. Reporter inside the historic synagogue, mayor bowser told a group of Community Leaders that while the number of hate crimes has gone up, thats not a reflection of who d. C. Is. Everyone feels welc we are a place of tolerance and respect, a place where every resident has a pathway to opportunity. Reporter the mayor and chief were candid with the group, telling them the number of bias motivated crimes went up from 66 in 2015 to 107 last year. As for which groups being targeted the most, crimes based on the victims ethnicity went up 300 . Crimes based on religion, up 260 . Victims who were attacked because of their gender identity saw an increase of 90 . Race was the only category to see a decrease. Bowser urged residents to call 911 for police as well as other Government Support for hate crime victims. Call 911 and the knowledgeable operators will know how to get your assistance. Reporter acting chief newsham said the majority o were aimed at the jewish community. As for the types of hate crimes seeing an increase with regards to simple assaults we had an increase of 19. With regards to threats and stalking we had an increase of 11. And with regards to destruction of property, we had an increase of ten. Reporter newsham tells news4 of the 107 hate crimes last year, police made arrests in 36 cases. In the district, mark segraves, news4. They served our country, but now nude photos of women in the armed forces showing up online without their permission. New reaction from the top about how they plan to stop it. Reporter the mother of a 7yearold daughter with autism thanks the Montgomery CountyPolice Officer who found her after she wanld ewandered away. Stronger is blasting without risking her bones. Its training her good cells. To fight the bad guys. Stronger is less pain. New hope. More fight. Its doing everything in your power. And everything in ours. Stronger, is changing even faster than they do. Because we dont just want your kids to grow up. We want them to grow up stronger. So many emotional ups and downs for a maryland mother whose special needs daughter ran away over the weekend. But it ended today on a high note with a reunion. Chris gordon was there when she met the man who saved her daughters life. Reporter this is what she wanted to do all week, thank the Police Officer who found her missing u since monday. Reporter 7yearold sahara went missing last saturday. The little girl with autism got away from her babysitter and left her germantown home without a coat on a cold day. There was a massive search. Montgomery county Police Officer jonathon pruziner followed a hunch. Officer pruziner knew from his Specialized Police training that children with autism have a dangerous attraction to water. So he immediately focused his search on this lake and found the little girl lying in a ditch filled with about a half inch of water. Got lucky. You know, thats all i can say. Ill go check that out. And went up, followed the pipe and there she was. Really happy it turned out the way it did. Reporter officer lauri reyes supervises the Critical Incident training given to all Montgomery County police. First th underestimating an individual with autism. We also talk about kind of going above and beyond in the search just like he did, getting out of your car, going to bodies of water. Reporter saharas mom says theres also a lesson here for parents of children with autism. It will save your childs life if they know they can approach an officer and theyll be okay. Really felt good. Thats why cops suit up in the morning, is for calls like this. Reporter reporting from Montgomery County, chris gordon news4. Right now police are continuing to investigate an incident at the teniallytown met troeati metro station that ended with pepper spray. A metro answer it officer tried to stop someone who did not pay the fare. There was some kind of confrontation and the officer pepper sprayed the suspect. Police arrested the suspect, charged that person with assault on a Police Officer. No Service Disruption on the line. We now know a fox that bit an elderly woman and attacked a house cat in great falls on tuesday had rabies. Officials want to remind you if you are bitten or scratched by an animal wash the wound with soap and water and get medical attention. Fairfax county wants you to report animal bites, sick animals and injured animals to animal control. Things may get worse before they get better. That caution from a marines spokesperson on the investigation into the nude photos of female Service Members posted online. One active duty and former marine say their pictures appeared online without their permission. Lawyers say there may be hundreds of these postings. The navy is investigating. Were told that defense secretary jim mattis will hold meetsinings a Prince Georges County took classified information home from work. He worked at the national gee j Geospatial Intelligence agency. He pleaded guilty back in september. The first jobs report under President Trump is now out and its full of surprises. 235,000 jobs added in february. More than expected. And the Unemployment Rate dropped slightly to 4. 7 . Tom costello looks behind those numbers at firms that cant find the workers they need. Reporter good afternoon from avon, massachusetts. We are at a Manufacturing Center here called accu rounds. They make precision tools. They cant find enough skilled workers to do this kind of a job. Its not a Computer Science degree they need. They need skilled vocational workerma of high school who have computer skills but want to do this kind of skilled manufacturing job. How do people find jobs in a competitive market and what kind of skills do they need . Well talk about that coming up on nbc nightly news. Her voice made a generation laugh even if she wasnt trying to be funny. Now her hilarious story is back in the spotlight. How you can see it in our area and youll hear from the star whos hitting all the wrong notes on purpose. Also doug is coming back to tell us about the brutal cold coming in just in time for the yesterday when doug and amelia were talk about this deep freeze and snow and all that, werent you hoping they were wrong . It seemed very abstract to me, like it was just something you hear about on television. This is something that i would have loved to have made up in february. Okay. You know what i mean . I wish that happened in february and not today. Exactly right. So far this month we have seen 80 degrees. We saw 74 degrees yesterday. So how are we going back to the deep freeze . It is a massive pattern change were see right now. This pattern looks like it wants to stick around for quite some time here. Means a lot of snow into early next week and some very cold air right now. Take a with across our area. It even looks cold out there after weve seen some snow showers across our region. Windchills now in the 20s just about everywhere. That tells you it is going to be a very cold night tonight. Current temperatures down to 34 in gaithersburg, 33 in hagerstown. Were seeing 35 miles an hour gusts at the airport. That makes it feel even colder. If youre going to be out tonight in the city you get between those buildings and that wind goes a little bit faster. Its going to be one cold night. Please prepare yourself for it. Also, bring the pets in. Now were still tracking some snow showers. Weve got a couple more in towards frederick county, right around harpers ferry. This is a pretty good little snow shower coming through chs it will move down through northern st. Marys in through southern portions of calvert county. Its not going to amount to anything. It will be pretty, though, for about 1015 minutes. Tomorrow 36 degrees, windy and just cold, windchills in the 20s. If youre running ning the roc roll marathon weve got windchills between 515 degrees. That cold air sets the stage for what we have on tuesday. Weve got a couple of storm systems moving in. Remember that storm system we said may bring us some snow on sunday . That actually moves way down here towards jacksonville. On monday weve got another storm to the west of our area. These storms come together. The Energy Transfers offer th t coast and we get a noreaster. You get snow to the north and west of the storm, rain down to the south and east. Where is that rain snow south, is it farther to the west . Most computer models have it just east of d. C. Which means d. C. Could be all snow. That could change. This could come back to the west a little bit. Thats the big difference here. Major noreaster developing. This will be a high impact event for everyone in our area. Were still tracking the exact path. Because of that rain snow line in play for sure, this is a monday night tuesday event. All models now have snow and all models now have significant snow in the d. C. Metro area and really for everybody. Snow covered roads as we will be on the cold side. This can and will change a little bit. That rain snow line will continue to move until we get to monday and tuesday and figure out exactly where this is. Heres one thing were pretty confident in. Schools will be open on monday, but most likely closed on tuesday and maybe delayed or closed on wednesday. Thats the kind of big storm days. Remember, spring forward one Hour Saturday night. 35 tuesday, 31 wednesday. Wow. Doug, this sounds serious. It could be, guys. Trust me, well be watching it for you. Well get an update at 11 00. Thank you. Still ahead, her husband is a prominent attorney who brought in more than a Million Dollars a year. Why was she allegedly on welfare . How this mother of four is accused of cheating the system. Reporter these freezing cold temperatures could have an unprecedented effect on the Cherry Blossoms. Will they hit peak bloom . Well tell you what the nationa leave it to the pros . I am a pro. I made this lawn from seed pride, and less water than youd think. To those whod say the grass is greener on the other side. I politely disagree. Smart seed. Guaranteed to grow with 30 less water. Reclaim your turf. Now at 6 30 an arlington mom jailed for welfare fraud after taking more than 100,000 from public assistance when her husband was making more than a million bucks a year. Where hes gone