Good morning and welcome to news4 midday and weather alert. Im melissa mollet. And im erika gonzalez. Take a look at the flag wipg in the wind. That is adding to how cold it feels outside. These are the temps right now. Dont expect it to get above twreezing in most places. All right. So lets bring in meteorologist sheena parveen. So when do the winds die down . Because i presume that is what is really making things feel worse . Yeah. So later on this evening well see the winds lighting up. But for now guys we are looking at the wind chill in the teens. This is improvement from earlier today. This morning we had the chills, in areas close to zero. But it is still pretty frigid as you walk out the door. Once the wind hits you makes all the difference right on your skin. So make sure you cover it up. But, yes, temperatures will be right around freezing. For daytime high we wont be winds lightning up as we go through tonight. As we go into tonight this Alberta Clipper coming in. Right now over the great lakes but should be north of the district as we go through this evening. Not looking like too much but coming up ill show you the timing straight ahead. Thank you, sheena. News4 justin finch braves the cold all morning. He got to defrost earlier. Started day outside at 4 30 in the morning. Hes back by the water. Over at National Harbor where talking to people all morning long over there. Justin, somebody had to do it, so thank you, appreciate it. Reporter my gosh, erika, melissa, what am i doing to myself torturing myself in this weather as you mentioned the air is cold. Wind is strong. Its enough to go right through you even someone wearing several upon several layers this morning. The one thing is it if you want to avoid this cold, do, get ready for a fight. A pretty picture at National Harbor, wide blue skies. Water below gently lapping towards the shore. It may look beautiful but it feels brutal. Its not alaska. Reporter the blast below freezing temps kept most drivers in their warm cars while pumping cars at this gas station. For those who dare to go up by the pump too cold to talk. When was the last time you were this cold . Last winter. I dont know. Reporter life doesnt stop on cold day. So why put off the car wash. Hes not . Are you a worried about any kind of freezing on your car . No, because ill wipe it down. Reporter wipe it off in this weather . Yeah, you have to do what you have to do. Reporter you with not cold . Yeah. Its only 25 degrees. Reporter as owner of a n road after wiping it down. I am not sure about you two, but the last thing i would ever think of doing was washing my car as a day as cold as today. When he came out of that car wash, i could feel an extra blast of cold air coming from the garage. So, again, if you are outside today, make sure that no layer goes to waste. Youll want to have all of them. Your sweaters, scarves, extra coats, hand warmers. Nothing in this temperature will go to waste. Live here in National Harbor. Im justin finch news4 back to you in the studio which i know is nice and warm hopefully right about now. Yeah. You need to come inside or get in that truck quickly. All right. Thank you, justin. Well, this cold weather is taking a toll, some of the water mains as well. Wssc says its working on breaks on rock villian livin near the metro. If you are driving through the areas, be careful because of those potential eyicy condition. Head to our nbc washington app to look at the weather conditions. I think i have been waiting all my life and now i dont know what to say. A stunning upset that stunned even him. Doug jones has become the first democrat senator in two decades. Supporters fired up. Deep red alabama went blue by a raiser thin margin. Jones beat roy moore by just 2 . The president is once again tweeting about the elections outcome. Saying he knew roy moore would not win. He tweeted the reason i originally endorsed Luther Strange is that i said roy moore will not be able to win the general election. He went on to say i roy worked hard but deck was stacked against him. Has more from alabama about this win means for congress. Reporter it was a stunning victory that repercussions from alabama to washington d. C. I am truly, truly overwhelmed. Reporter Democrat Doug Jones projected winner. First democrat to be elected to the senate from alabama in 25 years. Still have to go by the rules. Reporter but jones opponent Roy Moore Says he wont concede the race and hoping for a recount. Realize when the vote is this close, that its not over. Reporter but looks like other republicans are ready to move on. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee tweeted about moore, its best to exit with class. Continue yeah says for her it was personal accused him of groping out did make a difference and we wont be silenced anymore. Reporter President Trump and his former Campaign Manager bannon endorsed moore. On his show he tipped his cap to the democrats. Youll lose. Reporter now his old boss, donald trump is tasked with passing agenda with just a one vote majority in the senate. Chris pa lone, nbc news, montgomery, alabama. Developing this morning t at least one bullet whizzed by diners at a germantown mcdonalds but no one inside was hurt. This was the scene on Gunners Branch road at dinner time last night in germantown, chaos broke out when two men were shot in the parking lot. They say they ran into the fast food looking for help. Now police are trying to find whomever is responsible. The victims are pektsed to expe okay. Police think they knew the friends who s friends say only a monster would have killed yullian rocking ham and discarded her in the track. Police found her in the abandoned house. Police say she had been stabbed multiple times and missing since thanksgiving. Its broken. We are shallow right now. Many pieces just torn. Its a sad day. A 25,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to her killer. We have now breaking news out of minnesota. The states Lieutenant Governor named to replace al franken in the senate. What we know about the woman headed to washington. And meet the 6yearold who went on a shopping spree on amazon without the help of any regarding Al Frankens Senate seat. The government nerve minnesota just appointed Lieutenant Governor tina smith to take over frankens seat. Officially expected to run during the 2018 midterms. Franken announced his intention to resign after several women accused him of unwanted groping. Became governor there you see her on the left side of the screen. Governor there mark dayton speaking there at the podium. When she is sworn, she will be minnesota second female senator. Democrat Amy Klobuchar became the first woman state senator after winning the election a year ago. President trump controversial tweet against gillibrand is sparking a firestorm. Gave one day after gillibrand call for the president s resignation over sexual contact allegations. Heres the tweet called her a light weight and begged him for Campaign Contributions and would do anything for them. Savann savannah spoke to them. Let me be did you take the tweet to say sexual favors, is that what the president was saying . Certainly thats how i and many people read it. It was a sexist smear intended to silence me. And im not going to be silenced on this issue. Ive heard the testimony of many women, numerous accusers. I bloo eve thebelieve them and should resign. Also said the president does not resign, that he should face an ethics probe in congress. We should mention that the president has denied the allegations. For the first time we are seeing some of the antitrump Text Messages that led to fbi agents removal from the russian investigation. Nbc Pete Williams has more. Reporter emails were exchanged between fbi agent peter strok and fbi lawyer page. The two were romantically involved. Sent between august 2015 and 2016 most were exchanged before either party secured nominee. But many of them were harshly one read god trump is low some human. Wrote about trump, its clear he is capturing white poor voters who they abandoned in the quest for the almighty dollars. And sharing Hillary Clinton views. Should win. Nominated president for a major party, about dam time. After the election, when mr. Trump announced his choice for Jeff Sessions sessions for aj to which responded good god. Removed struck from the team. Ill show you live pictures from capitol hill where members of the House Judiciary Committee are grilling Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein. They are questioning him about the fbi and special impartiality. One asked them if he had any reason to fire special counsel mueller. If you were ordered to fire mr. Mueller, what would you do . I would explain previously i would follow the regulation. If there were good cause i would act. If there were no good cause i would not. And youve seen no good cause so far . No. Thank you. Rosenstein also added Inspector General continues to look into how former fbi comey handled the Hillary Clinton email scandal. Defended the Justice Department and said it was quote, more professional than ever, unquote. We are learning more details about the hours leading up to the tragic death of a betsy da teenager. Said was at a Birthday Party when Police Showed up. Apptl officers talking to him before he went missing. Hours later around 3 in the morning the teens father went to the Police Station to report him missing. Montgomery police did not take the missing persons report until nine hours later. Our news partner reports once police started searching, social media led them to the woods where they saw the body. Vet ors do not know how he died but do not spus speck foul play. A bizarre scene. You are looking at a naked man on top of a street. Driver stopped to record all the chaos that was unfolding. Get away from him. Oh, my god. You can hear one of those drivers start to yell when she realizes that something is very, very wrong here. A witness says the to take off clothes and became violent after becoming in a car crash on sully road. No word how he got on the truck, eventually gets off runs into the woods and thats where police an arrested him and took him to the hospital. He has not been identified. We want to show you some new video coming in out of highlands county, florida. Officials are working to contact parents of more than two dozen students who were on this school bus when it overturned. Florida Highway Patrol trooper says 39 students were on the bus when it was rearended by a semi truck just before 8 00 this morning. At least 6 of those students and the bus driver are injured. Two of those injuries we are told are very serious. Florida Business Owner gets a big surprise when hundreds of dollars in toys arrive at his restaurant. Turns out the toys were actually purchased by a very young shopper looking for retail therapy. Montoya explains the shopping snap few. Reporter mysterious delivers. I didnt know what to think. Reporter says he was surprised when toys started showing up at his restaurant. First it was a race set. I thought thats strange but maybe my wife is getting Christmas Shopping down and accidentally sent it to the restaurant instead of the house. Reporter but a few days later. Here is an another box. Reporter a much larger box and inside. Its a little car that you drive around in. Electric. You sit in and drive it. Reporter he looked at the account and saw the toys had price tag of almost 500 and purchases made by 6yearold grandson. Saw them on amazon and got them. Reporter he saw the toys and thought. It was cool. And he has cool lights. Reporter the grampa wasnt mad. The look on his face was price less. When he rye licensed he had been busted, basically. Because im not supposed to do that. I was so impressed holy smokes, how can you do this when you are 6 years old n steed of returning the toys, he raveled off. To teach him a lesson, hell be picking out the family to take them home. To have a merry christmas. I bet you do. Somebody got a good talking to. My son did that once. Yeah . It was only like a 50 lego set and i immediately canceled oh, no. The year end list is out. A look at what you googled most in 2017. And we are not suffering alone. On top of the cold, parts of the northeast are dealing with conditions like these. Closer look at the Winter Weather and wh again, maybe, coming up. What if more of the came from Renewable Resources . What if the electric grid could detect, fix and even prevent Power Outages . What if our grid were less vulnerable and more secure . What if all these what ifs became a reality . Well, they are. 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At least one traffic crash has caused major backup and rest of the roads are slick and just temperatures there also really cold, in the teens, this morning. So it kind of feels like that here, but minus the snow. Minus all the road problems. Looking at that our weather doesnt seem too bad now because that looks horrendous. But, yeah. Quite z receivideceiving out. The sun is shining. Wrong. The sun is not going to be warming us up. This morning a lot of wind chills close to zero and below 10 degrees. This afternoon warmest in teens and 20s. So bitter cold will continue this afternoon. Winds will continue. Its not gok to be until late tonight when the wind starts to lighten up. But weve been watching small Alberta Clipper and early this morning didnt look like it was going to impact any part of the area. Looked like far enough north. But now we have a small snow chance mainly like in Northern Maryland but at least tomorrow wont be as cold as feels like 16 with the wind. And look at the wind gusts 30 to 30 mouls, thats making it feel so much colder. Here is the wind chill. 16 degrees is what it feels like in the district. 21 in quantico. Here what will happen when we go through the afternoon. Wind chills will be staying below freezing by 4 00 p. M. And then we go through tonight and the wind starts to lighten up a bit. So wont be as cold tomorrow. Heres future weather by maybe 7, 8, 9 00. Here comes the clipper trying to dip into Northern Maryland. Not too much. Maybe about two tenths of an inch shall. It will be sticking to any roads that are untreated. But by tomorrow morning we shouldnt be worrying about t maybe the chance of some flurries north of the district. So tomorrow 42 degrees. Wont be as gusty as today. Twrie day back in the upper 30s. Weekend though we start dry with temperatures back in the 40s. Closer where they should be this time of year. Nd side. Next chance of rain later in the day on sunday. So looking pretty good so far. Closer look at your ten day forecast and rest of the week coming up. Thank you, sheena. Only a few weeks away from 2018. Incredible. This year has been full of major headlines. And this morning we are getting a look at googles top searches for the year. Take a look. Top searches in the d. C. Area included hurricane irma. Tom petty and aaron hernandez. Across the United States the top searches included hurricane irma, matt lauer and tom petty. And a lot of people asked google how to do things. Surprisingly the top things that people wanted to know how to make was slime. I arer thremember that. Also curious how to make Solar Eclipse glasses and how to watch it as well. And to make slime, its borax, food coloring. Optional. Whatever color you like. Some of you scrambling to finish Christmas Shopping. Others looking forward to celebrating second night of hanukkah. Coming up advice to help inter faith families how to navigate what might be a tricky situation. And you might have to wait longer, adam tuss explains latest problem on the youre watching news4 midday. Waiting on the platform in the cold is absolutely miserable. And some of you need to prepare to wait even longer. News4 transportation reporter adam tuss explains the important fix crews are doing to the red line and how long those delays will last. Reporter crowded on the platforms of the red line today as people have to wait for delays. Now the issue has to do with communication cable. A 40yearold cable that was discovered by metro. This is faulty cable. And what that cable actually does is pinpoint the location of trains. So you can see why this would be so important in something that metro wants to take care of. Now, what does it mean for riders . Well, specifically it means there can only be one train on each track between brooklyn, fort, and ta coma. That will show things down. Entire red line twans will rush period