But cold. Sunday is a little better. Not quite as cold with the morning and the freezing rain that will be possible on monday. And that may affect the commutes and then the snow chances on wednesday and thursday of next week. Well explain which of the two would be a little more of a threat. Well the weather was not your friend if you arrive at metro this morning besides the brutal weight and freezing cold. Several passengers were out there even longer pause they had cracked rails and broken down trains. Investigative reporter russ ptacek said some commuters stood around for an hour or more. Reporter well theres another disabled train and a delay on the blue line over the evening rush hour, meaning that with this mornings delays, that every line on metro was affected at one point or another with the delays today. Take a look at these pictures from the air at the station, which is where passengers say they were stranded as long as an hour outside of this mornings bitter cold. The delay would start on the red line when disabled trains blocked rails, then later cracked rails, locked trains on the orange, silver, green, and yellow. We were kind of stuck in between stations for a while. It took me like an hour to get from Columbia Heights to here. Reporter metro blames it on intense change in temperature and older trains just not holding up. Metro says new equipment actually analyzes the rails and is looking for weaknesses before problems occur. They say that new trains coming in to the system will help to prevent this from happening again. At metro center im Investigative Reporter russ ptacek wusa9. In the meantime some bad weather and bad decisions about local schools this week spot a twitter war. It went worldwide as peggy fox reports, with fairfax closing schools today that some students were claiming victory. Reporter fairfax has a two hour delay tomorrow, but it closed today because of the fridged temperatures. But some students are taking credit because they went on twitter and they complained about tuesdays decision. I do feel like we won, but i dont feel like winning is getting schools closed. I feel like its having us heard. Twitter gave them a huge megaphone this week to blast officials for keeping schools open in tuesdays snowstorms. Hashtag trended worldwide. Students tweeted their pictures of wrecks and even painted a poem. They faced accidents, traffic, and on twitter they were born. The hashtag was reborn. Reporter today with no new flakes, fairfax canceled school because of the fridged temps. When you take a look at what happened this morning when you have a twohour delay and then you go ahead to make anadjustment that surely its an inconvenience and what happened the other day. Reporter so did the kids win today . No. If they want to call it that, they can call it that, but at the end of the day if thats a win, you bet. They won. Reporter the Fairfax School superintendent concurs. They could declare a win if they would like as im fine with that, you know, maybe someone could win in this, right . And if it is our students, more power to them, thats all good. Reporter peggy fox wusa9. Well, its back to class tomorrow as we said earlier in Fairfax County schools that they are wanting a twohour delay. There are some new information tonight about the man charged with abducting Hannah Graham who might face murder charges in the near future. Which is straight from the public defender representing Jesse Matthews and his fairfax sex assault case. They said that there will be much more serious charges coming in. And with the bodies of graham and Morgan Herrington were found. Where the judge ruled against allowing cameras inside that courtroom for the trial on their alleged 2005 sex assault, which is scheduled for march. There is a lot of speculation as to how they would impact cameras with the evidences, but not much if any. And that in fact theres a lot of the people that think that cameras would fool everybodys behavior. And i think that is what 30 years of their experience has shown. Reporter our Debra Alfarone called the Commonwealth Attorney and they said it is not their practice to comment on cases they are working on. Frederick county officials are looking in to the mauling death of this 87yearold man as they said that their familys pit bull is to blame. Im scott broom in frederick county, maryland where co workers of a beloved truck driver and animal lover are completely stunned. After he was mauled to death by his own family pit bull. They would climb and sleep with them at night. And he loves the dogs. It was an 84pound pit bull as he and his sons fiance were taking down the Christmas Decorations at home about 2 30 yesterday. Mauling the victims head, neck, arms. The dog was a 4yearold male who was adopted from the rescue organization by smith and his son in may. Oh, he loved animals. They said that the dog would get nothing, but love. And he is such a kindhearted individual. Who would show you that there. They were put down as they are still looking in to what could have possibly triggered the attack. In frederick, maryland, scott broom, wusa9. The officials would have no history of complaints about the dog. And the bitter cold did not stop several people from coming to operate several demonstrations in Fairfax County headquarters as they would call themselves justice for gear, the man who was shot by the Fairfax CountyPolice Officer as they had to fight in court and to wait 17 months before they released the officers name and the details on what happened that day. The eightyear veteran Police Officer shot and killed john geer when he was called to the springfield home on the domestic issues. They waited an hour while geer was bleeding to death before entering his home. Clearly somebody seemed to have made a mistake and we want to hold our Public Servants accountable. Demonstrators are asking for an independent review board to look in to this case to have oversight on the police department. Well tonight the Prince Georges County police chief says it is by the grace of god that two of his officers werent killed yesterday when a dump truck rammed the officers cruisers. They released the surveillance video, which looks crazy. Look at this truck. It doesnt just go in to the car, it goes over them. Z that is at the glenn arden Shopping Mall in the woodmore town center. The two officers were right nearby. Seconds before that dump truck hits the first cruiser they barely make it out in between those two cars. So again it is by gods grace that these officers survived. Police say this was no accident as they charged gene thomas with attempted murder of the two officers. They said that brandon has a history of Mental Illness and was apparently off off off his meds. Former fbi director Robert Mueller suggested that there was not enough evidence to charge anyone as they saw video tape evidence of ray rice hitting his fiance inside the elevator. And they said that the league should have done more to investigate the incident prior to issuing their original two game suspension of rice. And breaking news in dcs bid for the 2024 summer olympics. They announced boston won the u. S. Bigs for the game. Which means dc out again. Boston will now compete with either rome, hamburg, berlin, germany and possibly a city from france and hungary. Metro is named the temporary leader to take over when gms richard retires next week. Hes the Current Assistant general manager for the bus services as he has been with the Transit Company since 1998. 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All you need to do is log on to the app, which are some shelter cats in oakland, california. Look, wherever you put your finger, thats where the laser would go and the cats, they absolutely love. It it is so sweet. And the other realm when you would interact with them. And you talk to them. And you can play with the laser, which is just amazing. Reporter it is just getting started. Reporting in las vegas, this is knoll knoll. It starts at 200 and the pet cube puts you back about 200. Im meteorologist topper shutt. Here are the numbers today. High temperature 24 at national. The average low is 29. So when the high is less than the average low you know that things are pretty cold. Record you might remember that at 73. Sit back in 2008. Record low of zero. It cant get colder. Well come back and talk about the possibility of the snow showers overnight and the arctic air reloading for the weekend. 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They stepped up admitting that the Company Officials waited three years before telling the feds about all the complaints that honda will need to pay 70 million. Thats the biggest penalty that the Safety Administration has ever given to an automaker. 2014 was a rough year for honda and several other automakers, especially General Motors when it comes to recalls. The Company Recalled about 30 million cars last year. Gms ceo met with the media today in detroit to discuss the road ahead. Mary barra says she is cautiously optimistic about the new year. What we demonstrated was that we were going to, you know, dot right thing for the customers, safe challenges head to do the right thing for the customers, safe challenges head on. To do the right thing even when it is hard. Reporter despite all the vehicles they sold more vehicles in 2014 than they did the year before. The new republicanlead congress has been on the job for two days and they are taking on bills that they know the white house will veto. Its heading to the full senate after clearing a Key Committee vote and the house could pass their pipeline bill as early as tomorrow. Today representatives focused on another big with their veto threat, which is changing the president s healthcare law. The state of connecticut is forcing a teenager to undergo chemo therapy. The 17yearold cassandra has lymphoma with a high survival rate if treated with chemo therapy. However cassandra and her mom wanted to try alternative treatments that do not use chemo because she calls it poison. They took their case to the supreme court, but lost today. The judge ruled that cassandra is not mature enough to make her own decision, citing the fact she ran away last month after agreeing to undergo treatment. Always watching, always tracking. Wusa9s first alert weather. All right, it was down right fridged out there today, but apparently these characters, they just didnt care. We spotted them going for a nice canoe ride out on the potomac, which im surprised it is still flowing. Because it is really cold. And youre tracking more flurries, top . Yes. You dont want to capsize, ill tell you that. You wouldnt make it. You would not make it. But we are track flurries with a snow shower tomorrow morning. Another cold front will sweep through. Well get a break for tomorrows temps and then more arctic air tomorrow night. Lets take a live look outside. Look at that were still sitting at 24. Dew points are still below zero. Thats pretty dry air mass as we talked about this yesterday. If youre having trouble, you know, breathing around the house. Put out pans of water, especially by the bedside water. Itll help you a little bit. Here is the radar passing a couple of hours what little bit of snow popping up in detroit and cleveland call the way down to cincinnati where the bulk of this will be appealing to the north and east of us. However as you get those southwest winds all night, its enough of a lift in the atmosphere. So we will say a flurry or a snow shower is possible tonight. Now in terms of the bus stoop temperatures bus stop temperatures its pretty cold. Not much in terms of the windchills. No Single Digits tomorrow. Above 32 for many of us tomorrow and maybe not so much for gaithersburg north and west, but a lot of us will make it from 35. But cold again on saturday with a very bright day. Another very cold day with highs once again in the 20s. Okay the future cast, well start with tomorrow morning at 6 00 a. M. With a lot of clouds and notice that you wont see a lot of the blue flex here. But that there will be a couple flurries of the snow showers. By 9 00 were back in the upper 20s in the burbs. By 1 00 that they might be 35 in dc. But gaithersburg and frederick and hagerstown, youre probably not going to make it above freezing, which would make it your fourth day in a row. Then by 6 00 tomorrow, temps are starting to fall pretty quickly. If you have plans to go out tomorrow night to address for about five below to about five above as there will be a windchill tomorrow night by 11 30, already in the teens. Gaithersburg, leesburg, manassas, culpeper down to 23 downtown. And so for tonight mostly cloudy, breezy, very cold with a flurry or a snow shower that will be possible late. Low temperatures are at 16 and 22 and winds are southwest at 10 to 15. The day planner. 26 at 7 00. 29 at 9 00. With some clouds. And then 32 by 11 00 and i think that downtown you wont make it in to the mid30s with the sunshine by 1 00 p. M. So you could walk to lunch, probably the best day of the week so far. And now on saturday, a deep freeze. 25 with the sunshine. Not as cold on sunday, although not much of a bargain temperature with them in the 30s. The next seven days. Monday were still tracking the possibility of the morning freezing rain, which should kick to all rain in the afternoon as we will keep tuesday dry and cold and on wednesday some snow showers are possible late. And thursday a chance for some snow with the temperatures holding in the mid30s. Thanks, top. This local teacher gets an aplus. The prestigious award she won today and her advice for helping students grow. Youre watching wusa9 in hey, i lost my debit card. Do you guys do instant replacement . snap what just happened . Check your wallet. No. No way. Your debit card should arrive in 710 business days. Its time to bank human again. Get debit cards on the spot, and no monthly fee checking with just a 100 minimum balance at td bank. Americas most convenient bank. They have dubbed that the oscars of teaching. Yes, today the dc educator was surprised that it was an educator award. The winner for this year of the award is ms michelle johnson. [ applause ] the talented staff that i work with, they are all wonderful and im learning every day. My students, you are so smart. She