Out the display, its at the intersection of ridge road and marlboro drive. The lights are on from 7 00 to 10 00 during the week and 6 00 to 11 00 friday through sunday. He will turn the lights off january 1. That is route 27 if youre not familiar with the roads. Good morning. Thank you for watching wusa9 at 5 00 a. M. Im andrea roane. Happy Christmas Eve. Hard to believe its here. Hope youre done. Yesterday. I was done yesterday. Finally. The stores are benefiting. Thanksgiving was so late, were staying open 24 hours a lot of them. Some folks did the overnight shopping thing. Said it was pretty good. Some of the best deals might be today. People dont even think about what christmas is really about. Its strictly about shopping. You going to mass this evening . Yes, 5 30. Bundle up. Wind chills will be in the 20s. Hello. A much colder Christmas Eve than it was on monday. Some spots more than 30 degrees colder. Heres a look at your forecast day planner. Well start with some sunshine. A few more clouds midday. This afternoon some passing rain and snow showers. Down to 40 by 5 00 in d. C. With 30s north and west and again wind chills by then in the 20s and 30s. That river of moisture which gave us all the rain yesterday and even on sunday, that is now east of us and slowly pulling away. Behind it the cold is moving in. Weve got temps down in the low 20s. Even teens in the mountains. Its now down to 28 in gaithersburg, 35 fredericksburg. Easton, our warm spot at 39. Locally it is 40 over towards salisbury and even up to our north and west. Frederick now down to freezing. When you factor in the winds, this is going to be one of the keys because well have winds gusting to 25 miles an hour, current wind chills 20s to mid 30s. It will feel like its in the 30s just about all day long. Lets go over to monika samtani, timesaver traffic. A lot of folks off for the holidays so hopefully that will keep the issues to a minimum. I think it is exactly that. Its all green behind me. I think your hvy traffic is going to be in the parking lots for the lastminute shopping. I did mine yesterday and, yes, the parking lots were very, very full. But luckily everyone was being super nice yesterday. I loved it. Trains are on an s schedule on vre. Marc is on an s schedule on the penn and brunswick lines. No camden trains. Were in great shape, example coming in from the west and sterling on the dulles toll road. No problems on 66 from gainesville or the beltway through tysons cone. Well take a live look outside and heres what it looks like on the beltway in college park. No problems, very light volumes on the north side of town. Lets go back to the maps. This time checking out the beltway and 270 and 95 to the beltway. Everything looks good between college park and silver spring. Youre going to be in good shape right now. Well end with a live look here on the American Legion bridge. Andrea, mike . Thank you, monika. 5 02. A oneday extension for millions of americans who still need Health Care Coverage and theyre trying to get it through obama care. Thanks to large volumes on the Governments Health care website, you now have until midnight tonight to sign up for coverage. Delia goncalves is in our newsroom with more details on i guess a Christmas Gift from the obama administration. Reporter an early Christmas Gift. And it is very good news for folks living in the 36 states using the federal website healthcare. Gov but for most folks living in the 14 states with their own staterun exchanges, your deadline has come and gone and that includes residents right here in the district of columbia. D. C. Health links, the local website here, had its own surge of activity yesterday, but Health Officials acknowledge the process still has problems and delays so they will still work with folks to get them enrolled in order to be covered by the new year. The administration said yesterday the website was equipped to handle up to 800,000 visitors in one day but more than one million americans logged on yesterday. That means problems. Hundreds of folks forced to leave emails essentially waiting in line when the website was busy. Im currently unemployed. My cobra insurance has run out. I have never been in this situation before. Im totally at their mercy to contact me at their whim whenever. Meanwhile, you know, health care in jeopardy. Despite the website problems, dismight the messaging problems, despite all that its working. The rollout and the ideas behind the fact that the federal government could manage appropriately onesixth of the economy is proving itself erroneous. Reporter lets take a look at our other local municipalities. Maryland has a local staterun website. However, they have extended that deadline as well. And virginians are using the federal website healthcare. Gov. So this deadline, their new deadline tonight at midnight. If you missed the deadline, you still have until march to sign up for insurance. Again if you live in maryland, you have until friday to sign up for insurance. But who needs it most . And why does the Affordable Care act need them desperately . Ill let you know coming up at 5 30. Andrea, mike, back to you. Delia, thank you. An investigation is under way into a serious late night accident in camp springs, maryland. Firefigh aterspond lice rushed to the scene on allentown road near joint base andrews. All four victims were in one vehicle. Its believed one of them was ejected when the suv ran off the road and into a pole. Fire crews at the scene report two of the victims have life threatening injuries. The other two are seriously injured but are expected to recover. Police reopened the road shortly before 3 00 this morning. Three Frederick County sheriffs deputies want a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit against them regarding the death of ethan saylor. Hes the 26yearold with down syndrome who died last january. As officers tried to remove him from a frederick movie theater. The motion their attorneys just filed contends that saylor contributed to his own death by refusing to leave after not paying for his seat and then resisting arrest. Saylor died of asphyxiation and a fractured larynx as offduty deputies moonlighted as Security Guards and tried to get him to leave the theater. A Virginia Judge has removed governor Bob Mcdonnell as the defendant in a lawsuit challenging the commonwealths ban on samesex marriage. But he says the case can continue against the state registrar of vital records in a stanton Circuit Court clerk. Two couples have challenged virginias ban on gay marriage claiming it violates the equal protection and due process clauses of the u. S. Constitution. It is 5 06. Time for the latest your money report. Jess is off. We have the numbers though. The rally on wall street appears to be spreading. This morning tokyos nikkei Exchange Closed at a sixyear high. Most other exchanges finished their day in positive territory as well and early signs from europe also look good. Checking the numbers here at home, another record breaking day. The dow picked up 73 points finishing at 16294. The s p 500 is up 9. The nasdaq will start the day today up by 44. U. S. Markets will close early today and will not be open again until thursday, closed for christmas of course. Target says the Justice Department is investigating the massive Security Breach now that involves 40 million of its shoppers. The retailer says it is also teaming up with the secret service in its own investigation. Last week target announced that hackers got into their Computer System and had access to shoppers credit and debit card information. Everyone who shopped at the store it is november 27 and december 15 needs to pay extra attention to their accounts. Several customers have already filed lawsuits against target seeking millions in damages. Well, santa is firing up his sleigh to start his worldwide deliveries tonight and one website wanted to find out how much the service is worth. The researchers factored in the time he spends investigating who is nice and naughty, managing the workshops and delivering all the presents and it determined that st. Nick should get 137,795 a year. Wow. Its hard work. President obama is enjoying sunshine and blue skies not like d. C. With our up and down winter weather. Well have more on that coming up. Plus, the quick thinking of bystanders. A group of skiers who got caught in an avalanche. Ahead in sports theres signs redskins executives wont take long to decide whether to keep Mike Shanahan on as head coach. 5 so on this Tuesday Morning 5 10 on this Tuesday Morning. Much colder. This afternoon maybe a passing rain or snow shower. Were looking at a windy day, too. Gusts in the 20 mile an hour range. Your highs are range in the mid 30s in our Northern Counties up toward i70, frederick, hagerstown to the mid40s d. C. South. About 44 for a high today. Back in a few minutes. Well look at the sevenday forecast. Right now monika and timesaver traffic. The beltway north of town here at New Hampshire avenue looks great. Volumes are light and i dont think that thats going to be a problem this morning. Traffic is moving well on the north side of town. In fact, all around the beltway. Back to you guys. 5 11. Heres whats new this morning. Rescuers are digging through the rubble in the city of manasorta, egypt after a car bomb ripped through the center. The countrys government accused the Muslim Brotherhood of orchestrating the attack. Quick action by skiers helped three caught in an avalanche. Skiers used their poles to find a child buried in the snow and pulled him out and also freed the two trapped adults. None suffered serious injuries. The president and his Family Spending the Christmas Holiday in hawaii. He played a round of golf. This is his home state. And the president enrolled or at least his staff did enrolled in health care through the d. C. s market place website. The signup was symbolic because of course he gets health care from the military but they say it worked. His swing sort of looks like mine. And youre a beginner. Is that great. We have a chance of a brief rain or snow shower later today. But sun is in the sevenday 5 15 on this tuesday, Christmas Eve morning. Howard is showing us the weather temperature. What is it, 40 degrees difference . About 30. Dont make it worse than it is. Thats a lot. It is a lot. Mid60s yesterday. It was the freshishly warm 70s saturday and sunday. Heres a look at your day planner. By the afternoon well climb into the low to mid40s range. We have an upper air disturbance. Rain and snow showers here early to mid afternoon. This evening well clear out and get even colder tonight. 34 by 7 00 after hitting a high of 44. 9 00 down to 31. Well be in the middle 20s in town by tomorrow morning, christmas morning. Closer to 20s and some upper teens in the outer suburbs. Were watching the flow of moisture from yesterday. Now just moving off shore. Still a couple of showers right on the coastal areas. This is what were going to watch for the the amp. You see the snow showers for the afternoon. You see the snow showers approaching the appalachians, that will be enough energy i think to squeeze out a few snow showers later on. This is how much colder it is than yesterday morning. 32 degrees colder in gaithersburg and culpeper. Only 19 colder in annapolis. Arethe bay kept them colder yesterday. Theyre 37 now. Its 28 in gaithersburg. Its 30 in hagerstown. Its 35 in fredricksburg. And that doesnt even factor in the winds. Outside on our michael son weather camera, looking good. A couple more days work and i think all the scaffolding will be gone from the washington monument. 36, feeling like 29 with a north, northwesterly wind at 9 at the moment. However, those winds at times will gust in the 25 mile an hour range. The core of the cold is up at international falls. Theyve actually warmed from 32 below a couple of hours ago. Now 25 below. So theyre only 61 degrees colder than we are. Boy, that can be a lot worse than we are now. Chicago is at minus 2 and were watching the arctic air there. The thing about the arctic air, its not going to last. This storm moving pretty quickly from west to east across the country will tend to kick the cold air east pretty quickly. So well get our shot of cold air tomorrow as temperatures stay in the 30s. And then back in the 40s by thursday. Again were watching the snow showers in ohio and moving toward pennsylvania this morning. Hit the mountains here later this morning through midday. And as we get into the afternoon, watch how were going to spit out a few rain and snow showers across the region by mid afternoon. That will be about it. For us, well, were looking chilly today, blustery, 44. If you have major traveling to do today, 95 corridor looks so much better than it did yesterday. Should be all right. 44 in town with the afternoon rain and snow showers. 25 tonight. Closer to 20, if not upper teens and the winds will be much lighter tomorrow. Highs holding in the mid30s. Chilly on thursday. Back to 43. Much closer to the seasonal average of 45. Friday 43 and milder, comfortable this weekend. Heres monika stepping in with another look at timesaver traffic. Shes using our Free Download ipad app. I am. Its our new traffic feature. Look at that. And its free and easy to use. You get street level real time traffic information. Ive been checking out the roads here. You can see its all green all around the beltway and as i zoom in, i want to show you an accident right here in falls church and this icon indicates where it is. Its on idlewood north of route 7 at burrows lane where the lanes are blocked and if you click on that icon, it should give you the information that you need to know about whats happening in that area. So if youre heading out the door and you missed my traffic report, its a great way to find out whats going o. Lets take a live look and show you what it looks like in springfield on the northbound side of i95. Things are looking great. No issues to report as you come up from dale city right to springfield on to 395 and the 14th street bridge. Were going to go to another live picture and this time were taking a look at the beltway at st. Barnabas road coming in from Southern Maryland youre going to be okay and a quick look at a graphic. Just want to let you know that vre is on an s schedule and marc, penn and brunswick also on an s schedule. Coming up on 5 20, Mike Shanahan talks about his chances when it comes to returning his red as redskins coach next year. Plus, former caps coach Bruce Boudreau brings his new game to Verizon Center. Question of the morning time. 60 of people have slept with what in their bed . Is it a, the tv remote, b, a book, or c, an xbox controller . Sue mcdraw says i believe its a, remote but it would be great if it was b for books. Being able to read is a wonderful gift. Wel 5 22. Much colder this morning. Bundle up seriously. Were like 30 degrees colder than yesterday. Some upper 20s already to mid 30s. As we go through 9 00, sunshine this morning. Upper air system approaches the mountains midday with some snow showers. Increases a few clouds for us. 43 at noon. That will be close to the high because in the afternoon as this upper air system comes across with the colder air aloft, well squeeze out some rain and snow showers here. Tie today about 44. Good morning, everybody. Im kristen berset. The Washington Capitals m. O. Has been start strong, save late. Last night they welcomed the streaking Anaheim Ducks as well as their former coach and couldnt hold on to a twogoal lead. Bruce boudreau making his first appearance at the Verizon Center since november 2011. A 30foot wrist shot scores and the ducks take the lead. Plenty of time left. To alex ovechkin. Ov fires, it hits the cross bar but didnt go in. The heartbreaker for the caps. They fall to their former coach 32 the final. Now we already know the nhls winner classic in 2015 will be held somewhere in d. C. Whether fed ex, nats park which means the Washington Capitals are playing host. Rumors tonight say their opponent could be the philadelphia flyers, the rivalry thats heated up because of this, that infamous goalie fight. Its been an interesting year between the two. Well see what comes of it. The jury still out on whether Mike Shanahan will be back next season but a decision could come as early as next monday, the day after their final game of the season in new york often referred to as black monday. When asked about it yesterday afternoon, shanahan said he expects a decision, wheratev it is, to be made quickly. Im sure it will but youll have to ask dan to make sure. Im looking forward to building this Football Team but like i said, its a situation ill get a chance to sit down with dan and well go from there. That will do it for your morning sports. Redskins are practicing today. Well have full coverage from ashburn coming up this evening. Im kristen berset. Have a great tuesday. If you tried to sign up for insurance yesterday on obamacare and you forgot, most of you still have a oneday extension so thats good. That is good. Plus, this morning nasa astronauts head out on to a space walk hoping to finish repairs to an important system on the International Space station. 5 24. How is traffic . Is it light . Its very light, andrea. Here for example on 270 at father hurley boulevard, no problems at all. Volumes are extremely light down to the point where the lanes divide. Same story on route 355 through the rockville area. Well have more news, weather and traffic coming up in about three [ female announcer ] if you love n