Record low temperatures are part of the reason why our First Alert Weather Team declared this a red alert day. Im jan jeffcoat, topper is live in the weather summer with more. The good news with the winds are dying down. Lets start with the record lows as derek mentioned. The record low at dulles was one, that was a new low of the record at baltimore was 3. It got down to 2 below in hagerstown, 1 below in damascus and when you jump the divide, kind of a crazy number, oakland, 15 below this morning for a low. Okay, now, temperatures, the arctic blast, the record high and low was 18. We hit 21, we did not hit that, the record lows tonight are safe. Its zero downtown and 4 below at dulles. That appears to be more than safe. 17 downtown, 12 this bethesda, 13 in fairfax, 15 in springfield and 14 this college park. Well come back and let you know whether the arctic air begins to lift out and if snow moves in just before that happens. Were already starting to get tlas for some School Systems for tomorrow, fairfax and Stafford County schools are on a 2hour delay. Of course, you can see the full list at the bottom of your screen and well you more delays as we hear about them and an degreea and mike are going to have full lists starting tomorrow morning at 4 30. The cold is putting a lot of pressure on our power grid. Thats the thing that provides the power to our area. The movement of the juice on the grid and last night, it issued an emergency call for all of us to start conserving. The bitter cold has been a double whammy for the electricity grid operator that supplies power to 13 states, including maryland, d. C. And virginia. About 61 million people. There has been a disruption in fuel supplies, and a huge increase in demand. Tjm says you should put off running electric appliances, not just your hair drier but major appliances, of course, like your dishwasher, washing machine, your electric drier. May also be a good idea to close off rooms that you are not using and you can close down the vents in them, both the returns up towards the ceiling, and the floor vents. Last Energy Saving tip, open up the blinds or the curtains, if you have southfacing windows and the sun will help heat up your home. This is a good idea all the time. It is not ruling out the possibility for the first time in a decade of rolling brownouts or blackouts, which would leave a whole lot of us inside in the bracing cold. In bethesda, bruce leshan, wusa 9. What do you do if the power goes out. My strategy this morning, is stay in bed. If you were to get up the Consumer Energy says dress to stay warm, you know, put on the layers. If you do get cold, take a warm shower because your water tank ought to stay warm for a few hours. Unplug major appliances so when the power comes back on, you do what you can do avoid a power surge. A lot of frozen pipes today, including two at reagan airport. First a water main break flooded the floors near the baggage carousels of the luggage was not affected, neither were passengers. The crews still in place whether a second pipe wrote and flooded yet another area in the baggage claim area. Out at Montgomery County where broken pipes flooded a nursing home. Leaking pipes are also a problem at gw hospital. 33 patients were moved to different rooms. If you are worried about your pipes, you can leave the Cabinet Doors under your sink open so air from the rest of the room will keep the room warm. Also leaving the water dropping from your faucets just a little bit. Partially yins slate yins late pipes near your window. Im scott broom in wheaton, the wsse is reporting at least 38 water main breaks in the maryland suburbs with more to come because of the arctic cold snap. What hurts the most, fingers, toes or ears . Toes. Right now i take the toes. Here on the job, a crew of six battling ice and brutal cold. Meanwhile, motorists are trying to navigate the sheet of muddy ice in the middle of the boulevard. Freezes all our tools, the water does and makes it difficult to use anything. Reporter Jeff Upchurch is a contractor brought in to get the job done. Cold up here. No wind, its nice and warm down there. Water temperature lags behind air temperature and water temperature is what causes the breaks. So while were seeing a spike today, well still be alerted for the next 24 hours. Its not an easy thing to do staying out in this weather and dig down into frozen ground. We really commend them for it. Reporter at 13 degrees this wheaton, scott broom, wusa 9. A cracked rail causing problems on the metro red line this morning at the brook line station and left trains single tracking in both directions. And the cold left 500 amtrak passengers stranded on three different trains in Northern Illinois overnight. Those trains were success in snow drifts, believe it or not and rescue crews couldnt get to them. Passengers arrived in chicago this morning but they had nothing but praise for the train crews. They make a spare meal for us, an extra meal, they found food, and we were warm and that was the most important thing. The crew was awesome. I just feel like somebody could have maybe figured out that this is really bad weather, we should maybe check the tracks before the train tries to come lu or something. Come through or something. Several trains were canceled after those issued overnight. The Virginia Department of transportation had to delay opening the h. O. V. Lanes along interstate 395 and 95 this afternoon. Crews to 4 to manually had to manually open the gates since the cold was taking a toll on motors. Another 6,000 flights were delayed today and thats leaving passengers stranded all officer the country. There is one guy who was stuck at Reagan National today, though, who seemed to put it all in perspective. Overall, how would you rate this experience here . Ill say between not fun and i like not to ever do it again. It happens. No one can do much about it, so ill live. Its okay. I like that. I will live. Right. Between not fun and never want to see it again. Fortunately for him, Reagan National not on the list of the worst airports to be stranded. But you dont have to go very far to find the place at the top of the new list, that would be Dulles International airport right up the road. New yorks la fwarda comes in second, followed by atlanta, philly and bostons logan. People that took part were asked to falker in the airports cleanliness and food. I cant believe chicago was not on there. We call it camp ohare for a reason. Delays on metro, red light cameras, jay walkers, what bugs you more about your commute . You can tell wusa9. Com and let us know your commuter pet peeve. We will investigate and get you answers to what drives you crazy about the commute here in d. C. , maryland and virginia. It is awfully tough to be a firefighter on any day but especially hard on days like this one and late this afternoon firefighters had to battle this car fire. It happened at search corners and Seven Corners and was shot by one of our photo journalists on his iphone. No injuries. Check this video out of minnesota, we highlighted for you as a car loses control. Right on an overpass and hurdling off the side of the embankment. Believe it not, the or not, the driver walked away from that. Sign of progress or another recipe for gridlock . A look ahead at the latest push to extend unemployment for more than a million americans. New info about what appears new information tonight on a deadly road rage shooting out on i81. Police are investigating whether it was the same person responsible for a second shooting. Early saturday, a man got in a pickup with another driver from florida. He shot and killed the man north of the state line in pennsylvania and police are looking into the possibility the very same shooter may have opened fire on another driver a few hours earlier in the same area. Fortunately that driver was not hurt. And the Sheriffs Office thinks a new clue could help crack a cold case. Investigators have been frying to identify the trying to identify the remains of a man wrapped in a blanket in per sell sellville since 1988. The person was shot and killed and if this picture jars your memory in any way, police would love to hear from you. The senate has voted to resume a debate on whether to extend Unemployment Benefits to nearly a million people. Theres literally no excuse to pass Unemployment Insurance legislation without also finding ways to create good, stable, highpaying jobs and also trying to find the money to pay for it. Best choice, pass it, no strings attached, get it done, get it done quickly. Second best choice, finding a reasonable pay for. Speaker john boehner says if Unemployment Insurance is not paid for with cuts elsewhere, its dead on arrival. Today the d. C. Council voted on a measure that would eliminate property taxes for some of the citys older residents. It would exempt residents who lived in town for at least 15 years, at least 75 years old. It passed unanimously but may under go more changes. The state department of parks and recreation sent 54,000 to send 30 workers to a conference in houston. Records showed the employees stayed for five days, even though it was a fiveday conference. Weve got some good news tonight for the rescuers and the rescuees on the stranded cruise ship in track antarctica in antarctica. The ice breaker was able to break the ship free. Temperatures in antarctica actually warmer than the teep freeze in much of the east and midwest tonight. Ice was visible along the Potomac River today. Look at that, you can see it. Good thing its not a major water way for any sort of commercial traffic. On the actual roads, aaa says call sites between 6 and 9 a. M. Increased 50 . Most of the calls had to do with dead batteries and cars that wouldnt start. One family had to call 911 along nuttily street this morning, thats because a woman had to pull over to give birth to her baby girl. This ice princess came into the world before 6 app right near the vena metro station. She weighed in at 6 pounds and 8 ounces and were told the little girl and mommy are doing all right. It was a good thing she was inside the warm car. Good thing the heat was working in that car. A little rough out there. I think allow ten minutes tomorrow to start your car and get it warm. You want to eliminate drafts. If you have a drafty door, i put towels on the back. I was up in connecticut visiting some family members, and i went in the powder room, there was snow on the interior of the window sill nchtz no how does this happen . Because this house was 85 years old. I was like, are you worried about the pipes breaking . Lets take a live look outside High Temperature 21 today, right now its 17. The dooupts dew points are very the dew points are very low. Right now we think generally Single Digits tonight in the burbs for the lows. Cold. Downtown, 6 today with the low, just missed a record by 1 degree, 5, set back in 1884. Dulles, new record low of 1, baltimore new record low of 3. Tonight the record appears to be safe, its zero downtown and 4 at dulles, i think thats safe. White oak 10, 14 in arlington, 17 downtown, 15 in old town. Even 12 over in bowie and 15 in annapolis. Factor in the winds, theres a little wind chill going on, not much. 6 right now downtown. 2 below at gaithersburg and 5 in may nas. Still plenty cold out there, dont get my wrong. Winds diminish tonight but no wind chill tomorrow. And temperatures finally above freezing by thursday afternoon. So for tonight, clear skies, very cold. Winds diminish. 5 to 15. Winds westerly at about 5 to 10. So these are downtown temps, teens to start, which means some Single Digits still in the burbs, mid20s by 9 a. M. , almost 30 by 1 p. M. , that sounds warm, doesnt it . Still tracking this nuisance mix on friday morning, 44 in the afternoon. We may have just enough residual cold air friday morning to have snow and sleet in the morning. Weekend, 50s. Low 50s on saturday, rain and showers. Mainly showers end on sunday. 56. More rain on monday, 49. More rain on monday, 49. Maybe a flurry i wish i was made of money. I wish you were too. Chances are, youre not made of money. So dont overpay for motorcycle insurance. Geico motorcycle. See how much you could save. Back now with a look at the blizzard swimming into upstate new york. More than 300 members of a new york army and Air National Guard were mobilized to help deal with the freezing temps there. More than 130 miles of the new york through way were closed because of the blizzard conditions. How cold is it you might ask . Cold enough to freeze a bubble or an egg that youve seen reporters do. It was so cold in kentucky that an escaped convict actually turned himself back in. 42yearold robert vick escaped from a facility in lexington but bhi last night he was but last night he was back into a hotel and asked the clerk to call the cops, its too cold, i got to get back in prison. Over on the wusa 9 facebook page, we ask you to fill in the blanks. Its so cold, an escaped prisoner wanted to go back to prison. Paul sesame grass went back underground. Vivian writes starbucks was serving coffee on a stick. It was so cold that carol said i actually enjoyed my hot flashes. And pat rounds it out with its so cold, im enjoying it. It is just not that cold. Join the conversation on the wusa 9 facebook page. Up next, the day after meeting the media, the National Zoos baby panda is making headlines yet again. Overmany discounts to thine customers [old english accent] safe driver, multicar, paid in full a most fulsome bounty indeed, lord jamie. Thou cometh and we thy saveth what are you doing . We doth offer so many discounts, we have some to spare. Oh, you have any of those homeowners discounts . Here we go. Thank you. He took my shield, my lady. These are troubling times in the kingdom. More discounts than we knoweth what to do with. Now thats progressive. Bow bow weighs 17. 4 pounds and measures 52 centimeters from head to tail. Shes also wider in the middle with her belly measuring 63 centimeters. Thats all normal in the world of panda stats. 20 years after the Nancy Kerrigan attack, my partner rob is in new york with Tonya Harding today. Nancy, it was not an easy interview for me, but more so for tonya. Why . Why . Ou had the oppoo talk to nancy, what would you say to her today . Tonya rewatching the attack video and reliving the incident that led her to consider suicide. Did you think about how you would do it . Yeah. How were you going to do it . Plus her familys struggle to survive today. Is it tough for you to find a job. Crazy new Kim Kardashian video. Back up back up why does she cause such a mob scene everywhere she goes . Maybe joan rivers knows. What kind of advice do you give the fans of can kim . Get in the frontit rowup to6 people if you want to see her [ bleep ]. Tvs 600pound woman and her new years resolution to drop the weight. I really hate being this size. Once proud and wearing bikinis, now in danger of eating herself to death. If i tell my dad, im okay with that. Nothing weird about this. Kirstie alley, kelly preston, rob, all in bed in monkey suits . The slumber party, the pillow fight, the sex k. Tal who was your man, Kirstie Alley . Sasquatch. Now entertainment tonight, the worldwide leain entertainment news. The opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympics are one month from tonight, but right now e. T. Has new insight into the Tonya HardingNancy Kerrigan scandal that rocked the olympics 20 years ago this week. Rob marciano has the story in a bonechilling times square. Its warm here. Dont rub it in, nancy. It is 10 degrees in new york city. E