And 302, 10 to 15 minutes behind. 95 in maryland bw parkway in and out of town looking good. Outbound past 322 looking a little slow. Im not seeing anything happening there, but for some reason were a little slow there. Perhaps a little icy or something and people are just slowing down. Prince georges county overall looking good. 66 here and 95 getting that normal 6 00 a. M. Slowdown here through dale city headed north. Otherwise in general not much happening right now. Just very very cold. Well keep our fingers crossed. Montgomery county schools opening two hours late this morning. Bus drivers across the district are going to need that time to the buses going. Megan mcgrath live at the shady grove bus depot in rockville with a look at what is being done to make sure your kids arent left in the colds. Reporter i checked the temperature just a little while ago, it is bitterly cold here. Just 3 yees. Degrees. And this can cause real problems for cars and buses. You look behind me here you can see the lights are on at the buses this morning. And everything is in good shape. They actually have a team they call them the bus team and they came in at 4 30 this morning. They turned on the buses, turned on the hooters. Making sure that everything is up and running and ready to go before the start of the school day today. Now, Montgomery County has gone with a two hour delay like Many School Districts did just to w their people a little have a time to get out there, check over the buses, take a look at the schools, make sure they have heat make sure they dont have broken pip e ready to go. So far so good. Well be keeping an eye on it of course and bringing you an update. But the kids have a little bit longer on sleep in and Montgomery County an extra two hours about and these folks behind me, they will keep up with their work making sure everything is ready to go. Now, on a side note, i want to thank everybodo participated and voted on our mcgrath hat contest that we did yesterday. They picked their favorite hat of mine. And the one that i should wear today. This is the winner. It has been nicknamed the squirrel and it got the most votes. And im happy that this one because its definity my warmest hat. Yeah i have a feeling the viewers were looking out for they know youre in the elements all the time. You look good in all of them. Going to get a lot of use out of that one. Thank you, megan. A lot of schools are closed. Fairfax, loudoun, prince william, Stafford Spotsylvania all closed. Fauquier manassas mans park king george closed as well. Delays in virginia arlington, alexandria City Falls ChurchCulpeper County page county Clarke County warren and Frederick County virginia schools all delayed two hours. In maryland Montgomery County, Prince Georges County, frederick, charles and calvert counties all delayed two hours. Washington county st. Marys anne arundel, Howard County schools also on a two hour delay. Allegheny county schools are now closed about. In West Virginia, berkeley jefferson, grant, hardy, hamp hire shire, mineral and morgan all closed. Entire list at the bottom of your screen and in the nbc washington app. That they are mmrmometer is almost teasing us. It looks close to zero. Coming up amelia segal will join us live from the weather deck to demonstrate just loss cold it is. 6 05. 5 degrees outside. Right now pairfairfax police need your help finding the driver in a deadly hit and run. Someone found a woman lie ngts middle of braddock road in centreville. Police say she had been hit by a car while trying to cross the street. The incident happened in front of a normally busy Shopping Center. But because of all the cold weather, most people werent out. Police are still working to put together a description of the car involved. New this morning, a new report says metro knew the Radio Network in suby tunnels did not work properly but never told the fire department. Thats according to the washington post. Metros communication aware the radio system was not reliable but did not reray laylay the information to fire officials. Today we should learn whether virginias former first lady will go to prison. Maureen mcdonnell will be sentenced by the same judge who sentenced her husband governor bob mcdonnell. Prosecutors want maureen to todo 18 months for taking lavish gifts. Defense lawyers are calling for Community Service saying the public humiliation of the trial was punishment enough. Northern Virginia Bureau reporter david culver will be in the courtroom today. Well break the news with a push alert through the nbc washington app as soon as the sentencing happens. Today youll get a chance to weigh in on udc plan to close its Downtown Community college campus. About 2500 students would be affected by that plan. Those students will be moved to the main campus in van ness. Udc Officials Say that decision was made because of rising rent at the north capitol street location. Todays hearing is at 3 00 p. M. He at the downtown campus on north capitol street. Breaking news that could impact your commute. Getting a lot of information from metro right now. Just hearing in my ear here that orange line no service between West Falls Church and ballston. Orange and silver single tracking through East Falls Church. Major delays here this morning because of a cracked rail. This cold weather making a mess for metro. Going to have more information in a couple of minutes. Outside is not the place you want to be this morning. As we deal with the coldest temperatures of the season. These are record breaking lows. Here is a live look at some school buses trying to get ready for the day ahead. Tom is tracking when the bitterly cold winds will fin. Also ahead check your spices. The item being pulled from store shelves baud it could trigger a dangerous allergic reaction. Plus making it harder to get around. The work that will leave a busy metro station offlimits. Orange and silver line major delays. Youll want to consider alternative options. No service between West Falls Church and ballston because of a cracked lane. Going to be a mess. As for the road travel times looking good. 66 east, 95 north, no problems. 270 south okay and outer loop 95 to 270 also looking pretty good. Ill be pushing out the problems on metro all morning long. You really just have to layer up this morning if you have to venture outside because were dealing with this brutal cold and those windchills that are just way out of sorts before it will make walking to catch the metro a painful experience. Tom kierein looks at when the winds will finally die donewn. Tom, tell us relief is in sight. Yes, relief is in sight by sunday. But between now and then well have rough weather. There is steam all around the have a clear sky and temperatures are Single Digits. Well stay this way through 8 00. Still a bit breezy with winds gusting around 20 miles per hour. And then winds will diminish. Temperatures climbing into the upper teens. We wont have the subzero windchills later this afternoon. Coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6 21 a look at our saturday snow time and totals. You may soon be able to drive a little faster on maryland highways. State Senate Passed a bill that would raise the speed limit to 70 miles per hour. A similar bill is pending in the house of delegates. The vote marks a milestone for the bill which died in the Senate Committee last year. Opponents say increasing the speed limit is dangerous because it would cause some drivers to push to 80 miles an hour. This weekend no matter what metro line you take, you will wait a bit longer. There is track work on all six lines. Red line bethesda station will be closed for escalator repair. Red line trains will run 10 to 20 minutes. That thermometer doesnt tell the whole story. This is a look at our weather deck. Single digits out there. But apparently the windchill making it feel much colder. Coming up, storm team 4 meteorologis segal will join us to demonstrate just how cold it is. Plus news cookie lovers dont want to hear. Not enough boxes of thin mints. Call down. Well tell you about the impact that shortage is having on narrator gas prices are down helping middle class families. But now, the white house wants to impose title ii regulations on your internet meaning new government taxes and fees. Every month youd pay more. 11 billion dollars a year in new taxes and fees. Internet freedoms can be protected with the white house and Congress Working together, but imposing new tax increases through public utility style regulations will hurt middle class families lets protect the internet we love without regressive taxes and fees. No to title ii. We keep getting updates. Orange and silver lines, metro saying now they are single tracking through East Falls Church. Nothing is now canceled this morning. Or not happening. But were talking major delays continuing here this morning. It will take quite a long time to get where youre going. Allow a lot of extra time. Of course were waking up to record cold this morning as we deal with below zero windchills. Youre look at a live picture from crystal city. This mean as brutal trip to the metro station or bus stop this morning. Conditions are also ideal for frostbite, so make sure you dress accordingly. And as you are getting ready to take on the elements amelia segal is live on the weather deck now to show us just how dangerous it can be. Youve been out there, you showed us the frozen tshirt, youve made ice cream. What else is going on out there . So first before i do my next experiment tom mentioned this earlier in the show, you can see the wind right now is picking up. At times its calm and then the wind will pick up gusting up to 20 miles an hour. And its because of that that it is producing some dangerous windchills outside. Im bundled up im taking break indoors. So what well do this time i have water as hot as it will get. Of course ive been standing out here waiting to do the experiment. So it has chilled. Ill pour it in the country and then ill throw it. As i do so we have evaporation, condensation. So if it works we should see it changing in to snow. Cold water is too dense, but warm water, you have more surface area. Ready . Did you see that . Shouagain . Lets do it one more time. So again, water as hot as you can get it and youll throw it and the vapor condenses and you see some snow back there in the distance. Now, frostbite is possible in some areas this morning in about 30 minutes. So you want to take the cold seriously. Of course tom will have more on the cold coming up in a little bit. Guys adding ib suggest to injury well be getting snow tomorrow as well. Coming up, ill be doing more cold weather experiments. I think i might try the ice cream one more time. No complaints here. She mentioned the threat of frostbite. You need to remember that that can really set in within just a couple of minutes. Most often on your fingers toeses ear chin. And you may not realize that tough. So here are the stages. First your skin has this sort of prickly feeling to it and then the numbness will set in. After that your skin can turn red, white maybe grayish in color. And then it starts to get hard. You might experience clumsiness because of maus muscle stiffness. Sometimes blisters app you want to wear warm waterproof hats gloves and a coat. Were proof boots if you can. And drink lots of water. You want it stay hydrated. Best way to avoid frostbite is to avoid staying outside for long periods of time. Take a look at car loses control and almost crushes a police officer. S officer was helping another motorist who was stranded when it tapped on saturday happened on saturday. The force of the crash threw the officer into a ditch. Say hes recovering from a hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. The bitter cold will soon give way to some more winter weather. I know youre about to cry. When you could see more snow this your neighborhood with toms forecast at 6 21. Members of the British Royal family are coming right here to washington were learning this now, charles and camilla will be in d. C. Next month, they will be here march 17th through the 19th. The trip is to commemorate the 1550th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War and they have already got a few stops planned. They will be going to mount vernon lincolns cottage they will be visiting with veterans. After the d. C. Trip they will be going to louisville, kentucky for a health symposium. So as soon as we get more details, well be letting you know and posting it on nbcwashington. Com. Today Fairfax County police could release more details about a man shot and killed by one o20. John gear was in a standoff when records show gear had his hands up and was unarmed at the time of the shooting. 6 22 and 5 degrees in northwest washington. New this morning, check your cabinets. Hundreds of products are being pulled from store shelves after traces of peanuts were found in them. The fda is warning people with allergies to avoid cumin and products that contain cumin. Others are ground chilly oig powder cinnamon and most indian spices. Already were talking about the brutal cold and now there is more snow on the way. Im having a hard time wrapping my around around all the kod weather. February giving us a sucker punch tomorrow with snow now cold. And weve had a new record low for february 209th. Not this cold in 119 years. 6 degrees this washington a new record low. The old record was 8. These are not windchills. Temperatures are down low Single Digits all around the region. Windchills around 5 to 15 below. So walking into work bus stop metro, frigid chills. The afternoon commute walking back home in the mid teens. Winter storm watch all the counties in blue including frederick, western loudoun, northern fauquier West Virginia for snow, sleet and icing. The timing on the arrival there is right around noontime on saturday. Then it gets in to the metro area, rest of Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland during the rest of the afternoon on saturday. It continues as snow pink zone thats a zone of sleet and freezing rain. Changes over to that after 6 00 p. M. On saturday. Then rain begins to move in late saturday night. That may stay as freezing rain until around midnight and then rain after that leaving in its wake the amounts of know 2 to 4 inches. Lighter amounts Southern Maryland eastern shore. Farther north and west 4 to 7 inches of snow and sleet. And thats for northern Montgomery County loudoun, Shenandoah Valley and out into the mountains. And after we get through saturday well have maybe lingering rain on sunday morning and a break briefly into the mid40s on sunday. Cold into next week. Highs staying below freezing monday and tuesday. Should stay dry through the end of the week. Breaking news, were talking about the orange and silver lines on metro. Single tracking through East Falls Church still at this point this morning. No more busing, but major delays because of the single tracking and a broken rail. Vre, frederickburg train 300 and 302 now very delayed. 40 minutes on 300, 35 on 302. New york avenue inbound at north capitol, a water main break making the road quite icy. Overall no major problems on the beltway. 66 looking good as well. It is 6 25. 5 degrees. You might want to sit down for this one. There is a national thin mint shortage. Dont worry, you can still get your hands on your favorite girl scout cookies. The shortage does not affect us here. You can find your neighborhood cookie booth on our nbc washington app. Just search cookies. Listen the shortage doesnt affect the dwratdgrr washington air, but wouldnt be start stockpiling now . They freeze well. Good point. Possessboston area family is extremely thankful of a their firefighters rescued hair dogs from a pretty icy situation. Little dogs too. Lola and thunder jumped a 5 foot fence yesterday. And they ended up in a frozen marsh. Lola was a little scared as she tried to fight off her rescuers at first. They eventually managed to get lola and thunder back to shore safely. Im so relieved. I dont know how im ever going to thank them. Im so thankful. These dogs are my world. The owner says that 5foot fence is usually tall enough to keep them in the yard but snow banks next to the fence actually helped them to get a little higher. Firefighters do such dangerous and important work. A painfully cold start to the morning. This is a live look at national harbor. Hour by hour windchills youll be dealing with throughout the day. And were not the only ones dealing with the frigid weather. The impact the arctic air is having on people across the country morning. Also ahead, getting out of hand. Parents sounding off about a violent breaking news on metro. Orange and silver lines single tracking still through East Falls Church. Major delays continue. This is because of one perhaps two cracked rails that theyre dealing with this morning. Take your alternate if you can. Here is our other problem in the city new york avenue inbound at north capitol, we ha a nice sheen on the road here from an earlier water main break. That will make the road quite slick. This shows some of the water now freezing and a bit dangerous there. Wide look at things overall looking pretty typical. Inner loop and outer loop no major problems. 66 inbound, a little slow inside the beltway for some reason. Not seeing anything happening there. But i can see the red on the map. 66 and 95 moving tloonk pretty well. More on these metro delays coming up in a couple of minutes. The other big story right how, the extremely cold temperatures outside. Just ab