Instead of the watergate. The wind is the issue. Windchills are running between 5 and 10 below zero this morning across most of the area and points north and west. As youre going outside today, waiting for a bus tstop, no matter what youre doing, bundle up. Windchills through zero over the course of the day. The sun will be out. Highs today will be in the teens. So be like this little kitty, this is what you should wear today. Layer upon layer upon layer. You got it, put it on. Your winter parka, insulated gloves, thick socks, i dont think i left anything out. Well doublecheck. Melissa, lets hear more about the skating rink problem. Breaking news near the Kennedy Center. Rock creek parkway near virginia avenue. Take a look at this. It is an ice rink because of a nearby water main break. You can see out there, trying to treat the roads. Megan mcgrath, well get a live report in a minute. Northbound rock creek parkway. Westbound have va vairginia ave. You cannot use istreet ramp to 66 or get from whitehurst freeway to rock creek because of this. Nice flight volume. I like this. Do have a problem in gaithersburg. Going to be there in a minute or two. Well show you those pictures. 124 at cloper. Downed wires there. Melissa, thank you. 6 02. A lot of schools are closed in the area because of the weather. You can find all the closings and delays at the bottom of your screen and in the nbc washington app. Prince georges, calvert, st. Hampshire county schools are closed as well. Fairfax, falk we are, prince william, spotsylvania, warren and Frederick County schools and fredericksburg, rappahannock and culpepper county schools. Manassas city and park. Stafford county and winchester schools are closed. Montgomery, anne arundel and Fairfax County schools will open two hours late. Arlington, alexandria and Falls Church Schools will also open two hours late in virginia, as Will Jefferson county schools in west virginia. The federal government is open today. Lets go back to the breaking news melissa mentioned that could impact your commute today. Water main break in d. C. Causing a major icy mess. Heres why. Take a look at these temperatures. Any water that hits the road is going to turn into ice. News 4s Megan Mcgrath is live on 27th street to let us know which roads are blocked because of this. Thats a really busy area for commuters, megan. Reporter yeah. Its kind of one of these strange little areas where there are all kinds of Access Points to several freeways, parkways and roads. It all is in this look at all of the ice on 27th street. Were near virginia avenue here at the watergate. There was a water main break. The water has been shut off. You can see what water did come gushing out, it immediately froze on all of the roads. This is causing big issues. People coming off the whitehurst freeway, its closed up there. Cant come down 27th to get on to the rock creek parkway. Thats all closed. Northbound on the rock creek parkway, youre going to get stopped at virginia. Theyre going to detour you on virginia. If youre coming westbound on virginia, youll get stopped at 27th street. The istreet ramp to i66, thats closed. Were talking about a lot of different roadways, a lot of commuter routes all impacted by this one situation. You can see that theyve got another salt truck out here. Theyve been out all morning long trying to treat the there is accumulation of several inches of ice in some of the spots here. It is just absolutely frigidly cold. So even though theyre treating the surface of the roads, this is going to be with us for a while. Were not seeing any kind of melting going on. Not in a couple of hours that weve been here. This is going to be a problem for a while. A big commuter route for a lot of people going a lot of different places. So the advice here is just plan accordingly. Avoid the area altogether. Because theyre not going to let you go over this ice. Theyre going to detour you. This will go through rush hour. Megan, thank you. Were following breaking news out of new jersey. A blizzard may have caused a Carbon Monoxide leak at an Apartment Building killing one person and making several others very sick. A 13yearold girl died from fumes at that building last night. Three of her family members are still in Critical Condition this morning. Officials say 41 ppl 27 of them were police officers. Officials are looking to see whether Carbon Monoxide detectors in the building worked. Take a look at these dramatic images from massachusetts. Damaging storm surges, high winds and blizzard conditions. Combined to make the perfect storm. 15 to 20foot waves slammed chunks of ice and debris along those homes on the coast. Now for those of you attempting to travel in this weather. Take a look at this map from flight aware. Com. Anywhere theres red, those are flights either delayed or canceled. Thousands of people are now stuck in airports waiting out the storm. Take a look at the scene at Reagan National airport on this cold morning. Travelers are doing what they can amid the cancellations. You can see big groups of people at the next half hour with a full breakdown on the local travel impact. Stay with us for that. Several flights were diverted to Dulles International on thursday due to this major snowstorm hitting the east coast. Passengers were held on the tarmac for several hours. There was a flight from buenos aires to new york. A lot of passengers believe the flight crew could have made better decisions. The pilot wasnt making the proper decisions. The flight was delayed three hours. We were in the air for 11 and a half hours. Then hes going to fly the plane to jfk. People were scared. They said everybody would stand up if the plane took off. How things are handled is up to the individual airline. Justin finch will be live for us later in the hour. Today, amtrak is operating on a modified schedule between the district and boston. There will be fewer express and northeast regional norfolk are canceled. So is the auto train from lore done, virginia, south to florida. Amtrak urges you to call ahead to check the status of your trains if you are going anywhere today. Right . It did . What are you going to do . Get on another one. Working for if you have to face this cold weather. Some people have to go to work. Its difficult to do this with weather like this. Exposed skin can cause serious damage. Molette green is live in Dupont Circle with more on how you can protect yourself. Molette, you have everything you can wrapped up there, right . Reporter im trying to do my best. Ive been torturing myself watching the thermostat on the building behind me. It reads 11 degrees. It feels much colder than that. Then i kind of walked over and saw this sign lit up indicating that theres something warm and yummy and sugary inside that could help things out while im we ran into a few folks out here. Some of them had the on the proper gear, head to toe. I saw people who didnt have gloves or hats. There was a smart metro escalator worker over there who told me hes ready for this weather. I come prepared. I layer. Last night we were working 20, 30 minutes and going back inside. Working 20, 30 minute and back inside. And thats what you have to do. You have to have a strategy. If you have to work outside. You have to be out here, take precaution. That expose skip could really get you in trouble. Here are the sim tomts. Numbness. Blisters, color change of the skin. The smell of skin. If you have any of these symptoms, youre going to have to get treatment. In many cases you might have to see a doctor. If you have a wound, you want to keep it warm up your hands, if they get really cold, run them under Room Temperature water. That is the best bet. If you can at all, stay inside. Many of of the kids have the day off today. Thats a good thing. Thats the latest live from dupont. But the warm sign, is it still on . Its still on. Back to you guys. Looks like you need to turn around and go inside. I was going to say. Hot krispy kreme doughnuts, molette. You earned it. Thank you, molette. 6 10 right now. For the latest flight updates, snow team coverage, go to the nbc washington app. It is 6 10. Developing now, north and south korea agreed to hold normformal talks for the first time in more than ten years. Representatives will meet tuesday at a border town where a north korean soldier was recently shot while escaping to south korea. The book that on sale. Fire and fury was released overnight. People are lining up to get a copy. Readers showed up to boonger bookstores to pick up a copy. 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Im meteorologist chuck bell on another weather a letter day. We dont have to wore about snow or ice but we need to protect ourselves against the cold. Not much of a risin tempe er i promised you a peek at the weekend forecast. If you want sunny and warm weather, it will be sunny through the course of the weekend. Both saturday and sunday morning will be dangerously cold. The wind will be the real issue for tomorrow. Flatout cold by sunday morning. Chance for wintry weather on monday. In first 4 traffic, a couple of problems right now. One cleared out of the way. 124 at wires down. Thats now out of the way. A pretty big issue in northwest washington as far as closures and a water main break and a lot of ice on the roadway. Were talking about rock creek parkway near the Kennedy Center. Details coming up. Coming up, were working for you with a warning about a major security flaw affecting virtually every computer, market. Chris lawrence is here and has more on this story. It all has to do with the chip in all of these devices. These are made by Companies Like intel, amd and arm. Theyre everywhere from iphones to android tablets and even microsoft computers. Right now, investigators are looking into two potential hacks. The first is called meltdown. It only affects intel chips. This allows them to steal passwords. Reportedly some of the companies have a patch that could be coming as soon as next week. The bigger longterm concern is called specter. This hack affects chips made by all the companies and actually tricks you into giving up your private information. Theyre still working on a patch for that one. Google says the latest version and more updates are on the way. Apple is developing protections for its Safari Browser as well. Thank you, chris. Here it goes. Firefighters in new jersey say this gas station canopy was already teetering by the time they got there. Then a strong gust of wind came along and ripped it right down. There was time to cut the gas and electricity before the roof fell. Nobody was hurt there. Other city workers came in to take down the roof with a backhoe. People in some states are losing their lives because of snowrelated accidents. Massachusetts is one of the states being hit the hardest. Were live from sterling, massachusetts with the latest on the states snowfall. Good morning. Reporter good mog massachusetts. Thats Central Massachusetts for those that arent familiar. This is a scene that you will see all over different towns and cities across the area. Feet of piled high snows after the plows did all the work they could. Where we are, they got 16 inches of snow. So the big predicament that were in here in massachusetts is that after all the snow came, the temperatures are dropping pretty quickly or getting that really arctic windchill in this area. They could see negative 15 in windchills. It was imperative that they got all the snow off of the streets. For those that didnt, there is a lot of driveways that still have snow piled up, front doors are shut in from all the snow. Theyre going to have a little bit of an issue today to get the snow off. A little tougher now that its really frozen to the ground. What were dealing with now is not only all of the snow, theres nowhere for it to go, but also the temperatures will be dropping over the weekend. A pretty intense wintry mix out here in live in massachusetts, kathy arsenals. Kathy, they said massachusetts is better equipped and the people know how to handle it and get through the winter. So is this a big deal there . Reporter well, so were new englanders, we know how to handle snow. I am going to be honest with you, especially in places like boston, its tougher to have for the snow to have places to go. Definitely dont have that all down when it comes to where are we going to put the snow after its off the streets. We are good at driving in it and dealing with it. All right. So better you guys than us, then. Thank you very much. Reporter no problem. Stay warm. Where do you put the snow . They had a couple of issues with that a couple years ago. Beacon hill, theres nowhere to put it. A lot of times they push it into boston harbor. Then when the harbor freezes over they had a mound of snow in a parking lot that did not disappear until after memorial day. Thats bananas. Thats crazy. For us its really cold around here. This is my my baby girl deals with the cold. Thats it. Hiding . Just the nose. The nose knows. Its auto too cold to be outside. Thats how she spent her entire day yesterday. Curled up underneath the blanket which i graciously provided for her. Then we put on a sweater, no slow walking anywhere around town. It will be another speedy day today if youre outside. 13 the air temperature. But the feelslike factor down in washington. Still averaging 18 Miles Per Hour. Windchills at 5 to 10 degrees yesterday we spent much of the afternoon in the low to mid 20s. Today we wont get above 20 degrees. Im forecasting 21 in fredericksburg. Have your nbc washington app downloaded and zoom into your storm team 4 customtailored forecast by zip code. You can find me on twitter and instagram. My instagram, more dog and food pictures than anything else. Tomorrow morning, wakeup temperatures in the single numbers again with windchills tomorrow morning below zero. Heres your friday future windchills. Staying below zero for most of the morning hours. Layer up everybody. Frigid for the weekend. The coldest morning likely to be sunday morning. The temperatures will be able to drop quite a bit. Highs on monday back above freezing. But we may have a wintry mix to worry about on monday. Well keep a close eye on that through breaking news continues in first 4 traffic. Breaking news near the Kennedy Center. Were dealing with a water main break that has saturated the roadways there and then its turned to ice. Obvious obviously, because of the cold temps. The repairs happening northbound rock creek parkway, westbound virginia avenue. All that area, we do have closures. Drivers cannot use many of those lanes there. Also cannot use istreet. The ramp to westbound 66 or get from whitehurst parkway. Showing a live look at Montgomery Village avenue. Down to wires. Beltway, other routes into town and out of town, nice light volume. Eun . Thank you, melissa. Closing up shop. A celebrity chef is out at mgm national harbor. New details on the unexpected change and what could come next. Plus, alex trebek off the jo spking outea your husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. You want to stay free from artificial preservatives. And your debit card wants to stay on a diet. Fill your cart with Small Victories like giants natures promise brand. Eat well for less. Only at my giant. Im Chris Lawrence at the live desk following breaking news in new jersey. Want to get you to new video showing a massive fire going on right now. This one is all predicated by the weather. It started in a vacant building. But then the winds started whipping it up. Pushed the fire on to two buildings across the street. Also several cars parked on that street are burning as well. You can see the firefighters responding. Weve also learned one of the firefighters slipped on the ice and took minor injuries. Again, b the weather. Heavy winds in that area. Boy, its been a tough couple weeks for new jersey. Earlier this morning, we learned a 13th person died from that massive fire at an apartment complex there. Aaron, back to you. Chris, thank you. 6 27 now. Justin finch is live managing the airport delays after the storm. What are you seeing at Reagan National, justin . Reporter hey there, aaron, eun. For travelers and airlines, after snow forced wave after wave of flight cancellations, coming up when you must know if youre flying today and what it was like to be stranded here overnight at the airport. Im justin finch. Thats coming it is 6 30. Good morning everyone. Thanks for joining us. We have a good reason for you to stay warm in home under the covers if possible. Just watch us. Right . Always encourage that. The good reason today is because we are getting a cruel wakeup call from mother nature. Its a wea not because of the snow this time but because of the bonechilling cold. Sub zero temperatures have gripped the region. Team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is here now with what we can expect and what could come next, chuck. The wind is going to be with us for the remainder of your friday, friday night and saturday. Finally the winds will calm down a little bit getting towards sunday. But that long way from now. Between now and then, this is pretty much how its going to be. Windchills below zero this morning. Minus 10 in martinsburg. Minus 4 in washington. Minus 2