post-christmas shopping & travel today - cold sticking around for a while - still monitoring snow chances heading into the last weekend of 2017 today: partly to mostly cloudy. highs: 36-41 winds: nw 5-10 mph tonight: mostly cloudy. flurries possible. lows: 25-31 winds: n 5-10 mph wednesday: am clouds, pm sun. colder and breezy. highs: 27-34 winds: nw 10-15 g 20 mph breaking overnight. alexandria -- gutted by a massive fire. firefighters had their work cut out for them christmas night.. john gonzalez is live this morning - john we understand some of that fire is still burning? new overnight. a rough landing at boston's logan a jetblue plane - skidding off the taxi-way moments after touching down. sam sweeney is at the live desk with the details..sam. passengers on jetbl f georgia got quite the scare last night. during it's landing in boston - the plane skidded off the taxiway, fishtailed and ended up facing the opposite direction. earlier in the day -- a snow storm temporarily shut down runways at logan. the good news - no one was hurt.. but still passengers onboard were a bit shaken up. one by one the passengers were helped off the plane by firefighters and bused to the terminal. yesterday's snow caused several flight delays.. but this morning -- airport operations are back to normal. developing now.. a man is in custody after allegedly crashing into a horse and buggy in st. mary's county, maryland. it happened around 5:30 last night on thompson corner road near mechanicsville. the horse was killed. a person in the to a hospital with serious injuries. the incident was initially reported as a hit and run. when an abc-seven crew arrived at the scene hours later, police were arresting a man. they say he returned to the scene. two loudoun county sheriff's deputies who were shot on christmas eve are recovering this morning. the incident happened on hollow mountain place in sterling. they were responding to a domestic dispute between a man and his 19-year-old daughter. authorities say when the deputies tried to arrest the man, he pulled out a gun and shot them. the deputies are expected to survive. the suspect, 39-year-old douglas johnson, was arrested, and is being held without bond. he's charged with two counts of attempted capital murder. he's expected in court tomorrow. the first family -- wishing everyone a sharing what makes them happy, this time of year: seeing families volunteering in their communities. president trump -- also tweeted not long ago... that it's back to work tomorrow, while at mar-a-lago. also getting into the christmas spirit... fairfax county police. they radioed in a call just about the time santa was making the rounds in the wee-hours of christmas. we posted the entire clip online... you can access that on the w-j-l-a abc 7 news app... available on google play and the app store. it's 5 xxx and coming up on good morning washington. kids in hurricane ravaged puerto rico -- getting a much needed visit from santa. plus - a smelly gift - that has caught the attention of the secret service. at 5:xx time for a before we start, i just want to say if anyone still doesn't have fios, please stay out of the way so your lag doesn't get us all killed, ben. what's so good about fios anyway? 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cheryl.. with snow falling from seattle to maine -- it was a white christmas for country and this weather danger isn't over yet. parts of the midwest remain under wind chill warnings and advisories while some areas in western new york could be buried under up to 4 feet of snow when this is all said and done. abc's elizabeth hur is in new york with the latest. now to a consumer alert. be back at the stores - returning holiday gifts. cheryl connor is live in falls church with more on what's turning into a post-ol as for christmas celebrations the vatican city - packed for mass, led by pope francis. abc 7's nathan baca-- with the message the catholic leader... had for the world. here's a heart-warming two men in hawaii who've been best friends for decades recently found out they're actually biological brothers. alan robinson and walter macfarlane have been best friends for 60 years. walter never knew his father, and alan was adopted. walter searched for answers for years through the internet and social media with no luck. that's until ancestry-dot-com. turns out - the men shared the same birth mother. the two revealed the discovery to friends and family at party on saturday. walter and alan say they plan to travel and enjoy retirement together. this has to rank up there among cutest christmas videos we've seen. in china -- penguins sported santa costumes at a polar theme park. the penguins wandered around "mini snow town". it's 5: and time for a check on weather. - dry & cold for post-christmas shopping & travel today - cold sticking around for a while - still monitoring snow chances heading into the last weekend of 2017 today: partly to mostly cloudy. highs: 36-41 winds: nw 5-10 mph tonight: mostly cloudy. flurries possible. lows: 25-31 winds: n 5-10 mph wednesday: am clouds, pm sun. colder and breezy. highs: 27-34 winds: nw 10-15 g 20 mph one of the hottest gifts for those who love to cook is the gifts for those who crock-pot pressure cooker combo called the instant pot.' but does it really live up to the hype? 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