Sunday will not be as cold. Sunday will be a better day, but clouds increase sunday night and lead to freezing rain monday. Weve already issued a yellow alert for the morning commute. That could be a mess. Well come back and give you a time frame on that. Now we know ever since this snowy icy mess got going earlier this week, its been rough on the road. Aaa says theyve helped out nearly 17,000 stranded drivers in d. C. , maryland and virginia. Its not just the roads that are frustrating so many people. Reporter im surae chinn in reston, people still dealing with ice covered roads and sidewalk. Steve huff can cover only so much ground. He takes advantage of afternoon sun to clear residential roads in vienna that have been ice packed for days. Now hes seeing more of a slushy ice mixture on pavement. I think the weather came in fast, hard, heavy and it was cold and during rush hour at the same time. For the most part i think were getting everything cleaned up. I have the worst driveway in the whole neighborhood. Reporter mark rosia is just now getting to his driveway. He admits he waited too long. I was just hoping it would kind of take care of itself, but its been so cold its not going away. Reporter students from South Lake High School are familiar with the dangerous sidewalks. Its kind of frustrating they didnt remove the snow. They only removed on the road. Its kind of frustrating they dont think about the students walking. Reporter but people in Fairfax County are not legally obligated to clear their walks, although theyre urged to do so and some homeowners associations may require it. In Fairfax County surae chinn, wusa9. Tonight were hearing from two Prince Georges CountyPolice Officers who had to practically run for their lives when a dump truck rammed their cruisers. This is wednesday afternoon at woodmore town Shopping Mall in glenarden. The officers just stepped out of their cars when driver gene Thomas Brandon jr. Stepped up to them and accused them of killing his brother. The officers tried to explain they didnt know what he was talking about. Said youre holding up traffic, sir. Have a nice day. He said were about to have a nice day. Knife knew something wrong. You just had i knew something was wrong. I just had a feeling. I looked at bragg and said hes going to hit our cars or hit us and we need to get out of here. That officer was absolutely right. In fact, the truck practically smooshed the cars completely. Theyve charged the man with attempted murder of those officers. The police chief mark magaw says brandon had a history of Mental Illness and had not been taking his medication. A student in Prince Georges County may soon face charges. The unnamed minor threatened to hurt other students at Charles Flowers High School and posted threats on a social media website. He was questioned but not arrested. One parent told us the threat involve shooting and stabbing other students. The second highest ranking bishop in maryland is in police custody. Late tonight she turned herself into Baltimore Police after being charged in a deadly hit and run. Reporter im scott broom in baltimore where episcopal Bishop Heather cook is now facing up to 10 years in prison for allegedly drinking, driving, texting, then killing a cyclist in a hit and run. Baltimores new states attorney Marilyn Mosley ticked off the charges today, felony, neglect manslaughter by vehicle, dui resulting in homicide, leaving the scene, texting resulting in death. Speechless right off the bat. Reporter cyclists are stunned. Its tragic to begin with, but the fact that texting while driving and drunk driving, it just makes it worse. This is the equivalent of a pedestrian being run over on the sidewalk. Reporter family of tom palermo released a heartbreaking statement calling his death senseless. In Baltimore Scott broom, wusa9. The Episcopal Diocese of maryland released a Statement Today saying its deeply heartbroken for the palermo family. A judge has not set bail for cook meaning she will at least spend the weekend behind bars. New info tonight on jesse matthew, the suspect in the uva student Hannah Graham murder, he was in fairfax today in court where his father made a surprise visit. His father nodded to his son in court and after the hearing visited him at Fairfax County detention center. The judge rejected matthews attorneys request for a gag order. The Commonwealth Attorney ray morrogh argued against that order. The victim is desirous of having privacy and i respect that and i promised her to do my best to do that as anybody would, but yeah, i think that the judge in my opinion hit it on the head that people need to know whats going on and that were professionals and were also experienced and i have confidence in opposing counsel as well that well all abide by the rules. The judge did grant the Defense Attorneys request to hire a dna expert. Court documents show a dna link with matthew from a fingernail scraping when the alleged victim fought off her attacker. A new hurdle today in the redskins name controversy, the Justice Department is joining the field. The department set up plans to defend the law the redskin are trying to fight. The notice does not take stance over whether the teams trademark name and logo should be canceled. The dlg will defend the statute which influenced the rulings that bars companies from registering certain trademarks. It has to do with the ruling from last summer. The redskins have filed suit to fight that ruling. Today were hearing from the redskins new gm for the first time. Dave owens sat down with Scott Mccloughlan early this afternoon. Hes got a background, but hes a nice guy. I think hes the right plan for the job. Only time will tell. Lets hope he gets that time. Scot mccloughlan renowed in league circles for knowing how to spot talent building the rosters of the 49ers and seahawks, say no more. Washington needed someone withly talent, so the marriage with his talent, so the marriage between the two was inevitable, the team making it official today introducing mccloughlan to the media. He han his own scouting consulting firm. He had offers from other teams, but i sat down with him this afternoon and asked him why come to washington where theres always so much drama . I like the pressure tell you the truth. Reporter youre going to get it. Thats okay. I got the same thing in san fran. I was 34 running draft and free agency. I kind of thrive on it. I like the challenge. Its not easy. Im not a savior. Ive been lucky enough to be around some World Championship organizations and be around some really good people i learned a lot from. This guy knows his business. Hes got baggage, but hes battling through it. Its interesting because hes had a lot of alcohol issues. Hes had some challenges. What did he tell you about that . He said hes a better person now, not ashamed of what happened, but he said again he is ready to take on the pressure of this job. Like you said, time will tell. Thank you. President obama today unveiling a plan to make a Community College education more accessible by making reporter im Andrea Mccarren at the white house. President obama today unveiled a proposal that could impact as many as 9 Million Students nationwide. Today im announcing an ambitious new plan to bring down the cost of community clem cost in america. I want to bring it college cost in america. I want to bring it down to zero. Reporter president obama previewed a key element of his upcoming state of the union address. Because opening the doors of Higher Education is an american issue, not a democrat or republican issue. That is like wonderful. Reporter in suburban washington we found Jasmine Patterson enrolling at montgomery county. To not have to take out student loan and to get a free degree, like what more can you ask for . Reporter Labor Department statistics reveal people with a twoyear degree earn about 20,000 more a year than though with just a high school diploma. Im in debt at least seven thousand five hundred dollars now. So 7,500 now, so this would help a lot. Reporter at the white house Andrea Mccarren, wusa9 the. The search is on for a terror suspect in france. Well have the latest on the terrifying drama that unfolded today. It acts like a cat except this vacuum clean up messes instead of making them. Well show you some other top tech things that could help you around the house after the break on wusa9 and your only local news at 7 00. as the Largest ConsumerElectronics Show winds down, we wanted to show you some of the latest technology with the kitchen. Some cool new tech for your appliances. Reporter from washers to ovens i found some really cool innovations happening here. Were already used to robotic vacuums that can clean an entire floor, but this new vacuum from samsung has a special ability. You can point using a laser to get it to go clean up a mess. Now with samsungs new active wash we can actually go ahead and presoak or pretreat directly above our washers in this bin, can go ahead and start the water and i can again pretreat, presoak and when im ready, i can go ahead and dump it into my wash. One of the latest features in refrigerators, slam proof doors. Reporter saves on fridge magnets falling. This is another innovative refrigerator that lg has to offer, a new door in door feature, gives customers access to everyday things reducing cold air loss from the main part of the refrigerator up to 47 and then theres access to the refrigerator and all your other food. Reporter check out the latest in oven technology, an oven that can open one big door, one small door. Why is this . So you can have rotisserie chicken here and a pizza down here cooking at two different temperatures and heres the best part. A lot of these innovations are coming to a store near you this year. In Las Vegas Steve zagman at ces. No price yet on that fancy washing machine, but if youre hoping to get the vacuum that chases a laser like a cat, pony up, 1,300 buck. An encouraging jobs report in 2014, but there was one sore spot for december coming up. Average temperature today 42, below average tonight, Single Digits in some of the suburbs, 9 in sterling, leesburg, 8 in haymarket, 13 in bethesda. Well come back and talk about how long the arctic air lasts hiiiii. Hi. Sorry, were closed. What . I need help with my deposit. The bank has rules. Its really quick. I cant hear you. I promise, im gonna be really quick. I dont under. I cant hear you through the glass. Ill. Be. Quick youll be quick. Thats what you just said . Yes. Im sorry, i cant hear you. Were closed. You know what . Okay, thats. Hey. Sir . I just. Okay. [ male announcer ] its time to bank human again. Thats why td bank has the longest hours and even stays open an extra ten minutes for when you run late. Td bank. Americas most convenient bank. Wusa9 news is sponsored in part by health mart pharmacy. If you are just getting home, look at the headlines were following, two brothers wanted in that deadly massacre at a paris newspaper have been killed in a shootout with french s. W. A. T. Teams. Said and Cherif Kouachi had been holed up in a printing plant north of paris. Police shot and killed other terrorists who took hostages inside a kosher mark in paris. He killed four market in paris. He killed four hostages when he first took the store. Right now police are searching for that accomplice believed to be his girl friend. President obama spoke about this terror attack today at his stop in knoxville. In the streets of paris the world has seen once again what terrorists stand for. They have nothing to offer but hatred and human suffering. We stand for freedom and hope and the dignithuman beings. The president of france said the Terror Threat is not done yet. In an address to the nation he called on french citizens to remain vigilant. New details in the death of a 5yearold girl thrown over a florida bridge by her own dad. Police believe Phoebe Jonchuck was alive when she was tossed into the tampa bay. Detectives say they have proof but did not go into details. Hours before her death her dad claimed he was god and asked his lawyer to read the bible in swedish. Hes now charged with murder. The ayes or 266, the nays 153 with one voting present. The bill is passed. The house paved the way for the Keystone Xl Oil pipeline even though the white house is threatening a veto. The 7 billion project would carry oil from canada to the gulf coast refinery. The senate has a test vote monday with a nearly identical bill. Earlier today in nebraska a judge tossed out a lawsuit challenging the pipelines route. That was part of the reason the white house was threatening a veto. In 2014 gears added more workers since any employers added more workers since any year since 1989. In december alone companies hired 252,000 people dropping the jobless rate to 5. 6 , the lowest level since the start of the great recession. However, thats not translating into bigger paychecks because the average hourly rate rose a penny in the past two months barely keeping up with inflation. Always watching always tracking, wusa9 first alert weather. So it was practically a heatwave out there today, top, 35 degrees. It did. Its because it was not below freezing. Right. It wasnt windy, full sun. 42 is the average high. It was 42. 27 is the average low. 26 is the low. Thats an average day in january. Tomorrow not so much, arctic air come back tomorrow night. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, temperatures falling quickly, not so much as national as is usually the case, down to 34, dew points Single Digits, relative humidity 34 , winds north, northwest at 9. They will being with breezy and it will have a little become breezy and it will have a little impact on the wind chill. Feel like 16 in martinsburg and 12 in hagerstown. So fresh arctic air moves in tonight, wind chills by morning 5 below to 5 above. That is not necessary for an advisory, but its cold. Remember that if you take a walk or bike road tomorrow. Cold and dry this weekend, sunday probably a bit better. Then the critical times on monday 4 a. M. To noon with the freezing rain, so a messy morning commute and a yellow alert. Futurecast 10 00 tonight already 19 in gaithersburg, 21 in leesburg and manassas. Single digits Early Morning and back up to 10 in gaithersburg, 11 in leesburg, 12 in manassas, 13 in la plata. These are not wind chills. By 1 00 tomorrow, upper teens and low 20s in full sun. Winds will subside tomorrow afternoon. So while it will be very cold, it will not be windy. By 6 00 were in the teens again in the suburbs, but low 20s in d. C. 8 00 midteens gaithersburg, manassas, culpeper upper teens headed for the low to midteens again tomorrow. Futurecast, widen this out a bit. Sunday at 9 30 clouds in place and temps right around the freezing mark and by 6 30 in the morning monday you see the magenta there. That is freezing rain. This is not a snowstorm, nor a classic ice storm, but that said were still very concerned about the morning commute on monday, thus weve issued a yellow alert. Not concerned about snow, just a freezing rain event. So tonight clear, breezy, very cold, late wind chills 0 to 10 above, temps themselves bottoming out 8 to 18 above. Day planner 16 at 9 00, 19 at 1 00 downtown temps with full sun. Seasonably cold sunday, but pretty good day, upper 30s. Clouds come in late. Yellow alert monday for the morning, freezing rain, should make it back up to 40. It will be a struggle. I think well see warm air win out. Dry tuesday, maybe a snow shower wednesday or thursday and dry and cold next friday. Tail wags and puppy dog eyes, you just cant resist these cute pups rescued from a meat farm. A chance to adopt them is coming up very soon ne 23 dogs rescued from a meat farm in south korea have had their shots and a good bath to go with it. Now many of them are leaving the Animal Welfare league of alexandria headed to other shelters in d. C. , arlington, Fairfax County, Loudoun County and manassas. Theyll be put up for adoption in the coming days and weeks. Humane Society International took the dogs from a farmer in south korea who decided to get out of the dog meat trade. He now plans to grow blueberries. Much more palatable. Were back at some big news to get to tohnigt. Heres what were following on e. T. Bill cosby heckled. Was he cracking jokes about the scandal . Well tell you what the comedian said to a woman in the audience and who left in cuffs. We were really surprised. Plus, before sundays Golden Globes the nominees are already in party mode. See, this is what happens. Half a glass of champagne. When you have a glass of champagne. When you dont win you feel like biggest loser. Also tonighh, talking to a couple from the new reality special my husbands not gay. Im attracted to my wife. Im definitely attracted to men, too. I dont think of myself as gay. Well hes going to finally say i love you, and instead he said im attracted to men. This is a dangerous show. And then the tool man and his wife are back together. Oh, yeah. Its a Home Improvement reunion. Have we met before . Youre so handsome. What h