that artic air is blasting much of the country. so far the severe cold is being blamed for nine deaths in the us. even the south hasn't been spared with some states dealing with freez ing conditions. let's get right to sue palka with how it's affecting our region. we're going to be dealing with this a little bit longer and the next batch of artic air that a comes in it looks like it's going to be colder. look at all these purples and dark blues. it's 17 in apple ril oh, it is 39 in new orleans, even tampa. as we get in closer to our area we're also not he scaimg it. the lack of wind has meant that temperatures locally have gotten really cold, d.c. is down to 20. did he striet is one, cincinnati 14 and boston 17. a closer look at our temperatures and we've dropped to four degrees in manassas, seven in culpeper and 14 for qu prepare for a very cold start our wednesday morning and then maybe an interesting finish. i have to tell you that while we expect a sunny and very cold start tomorrow morning, temperatures should moderate a little bit into the 30s, but then we start watching down to our south where we believe an area of low pressure is going to start coming up the coast tomorrow and it will spread some accumulating snow south and east of d.c. on the order of a few inches and winter storm watches are up for much of delmarva. you talked about the south feeling the deep cold. we have winter storm warnings for florida all the way coastal north carolina and south carolina and into our area where we have winter storm watches out at the beaches for the possibility of four to six inches and maybe even two to three for places like salsbury and annapolis. possibility of some light snow here in d.c. a long the 95 corridor. more on that coming up in a little bit. we'll have to much what thursday morning commute that's for sure. >> new tonight, a college football player from maryland is paralyzed after he was shot at a new year's eve part. larry aaron is a sophomore at marshal university. he grew up in howard county. the shooting early yesterday while he was home from school. lindsay watts shares more details. >>reporter: i'm told larry aaron's family has lived in the colombia area for decades. they were with him at the hospital tonight. we've spoken to some close family frens who are devastated. aaron is expected to re cover from the shooting, but the star football player is now paralyzed from the waste down. the shooting happened early new year's day at a big house party here in seven in anne arrundel. according to a go fund me page set up by the family, aaron who is 19 years old was struck in the back by a stray bullet fired by an un identified party guest. it sounds like air oon was not the intended target here. police say they are still trying to boy was also shot and survived. i spoke to a family friend tonight who heard about this on the radio driving home from work and he drove straight to aaron's family's home with tiers in his eyes. he says he has known aaron since he was a child. he thought he was nfl bound and then to find out what has happened so sense leslie. this is a young man that has promise, goodwill to his family, gracious people to god's earth and this has to happen. i'm just blown away the violentance, when does it stop? this is a tweet from marshal university's football coach. it says in party send my thoughts and prayers to larry ir on and his entire family during this difficult time. aaron was a defensive lineman on the team. a little while ago one of the family members came over and he was saying that everybody is praying thatne day aaron will walk again, that is not a definitely, permanent paralysis and family is just holding onto hope. >> lindsay watts, fox5 local news. >> we now know the identity of a woman killed in the district last week. police responded to h car fire on adrian place southeast. once they put out the flames, police found a body in the car. investigators determined the victim 23 year old car rhys lewis of hyattsville had been shot several times. police are now looking for the person responsible for lewis' death. they're asking anyone with information to give them a call new video from bowie, maryland where firefighters battled a townhouse fire. firefighters tell us it spread to the upper floors before they were able to put it out. fortunately no one was hurt. in fairfax county tonight we are learning new de tails about a man accused of assaulting two loves police officers during a string of kriemtion. this vincent of adelphi. he stole a car and was hurt during the crash. tonight he is out of the hospital and in jail. the crash happened last week in herndon and center and frying pan roads a child was ejected from a minivan. the child is in critical, but stable conditions vincent is facing a host of charges. a local family is demanding answers after their son was killed during a traffic accident involving a metro trans it police officer. sixteen year old derrick stanton was krowsing crane highway when he was struck by a marked metro transit k9 unit. the officer officer gary bot like oh was off duty and on his way to work at the time of accident. maryland take it police say a preliminary investigation reveals that stanton may have walked right into oncoming traffic directly into the path of the approaching patrol car. the victim's mother says she has a hard time child that most of us look right and look left, he look right left, right left before he cross the treat. i knew what they were saying wasn't true. i knew it. authorities are urging anyone who may have witnessed the accident to call maryland take it police. montgomery county police right now are look ing for two men accused of trying to abduct an eight year old girl in a tacoma park neighborhood. the child got away. she also got a good look at one of the men. the girl told police she was outside wait waiting for her dad to take her to school when two men in a grai vinnie man approached and offered her capped did i. she ran in and told her father. police say she gave her a good description of one of the men. i thought it was very impressive of how much she could remember for the brief encounter. it's very helpful. obviously offering children candies one of the old things. you can get creative w remember my mother telling me about. the gray van the men were reportedly in had damage on both sides and may have d.c. plates. if you have any information, call police. president trump took to twitter this evening to taunt north korea leader kim jong un about the so-called nuclear butt own claims to have on his desk at all times. president trump tweeted will someone from his depleted and four star regime please tell him, i, too, have a button. mine is bigger and mowr poreful and my button works. kim said his nuclear asker nol will ensure the us will not start a war with punk yang. he offered open talks with south korea but nikki haley said those talks won't happen until they give us the nuclear weaponses program. a sterling man at the subsequenter of an isis investigation was in court today . he's facing not related to terrorism. how icy conditions in the south led to this close call caught on camera. the president is on a twitter role, just two days into the new year. jl jim lokay will break down the tweets tonight at # one:3011:30. 0. my hygienist told me to try... ...a mouthwash. so i tried crest. it does so much more than give me fresh breath. crest pro-health mouthwash provides all... ...of these benefits to help you get better dental check-ups. checkup? nailed it olay regenerist shatters the competition. hydrating skin better than prestige creams costing over $100, $200, and even $400. for skin that looks younger than it should. fact check this ad in good housekeeping. olay regenerist. ageless. man suspected of wanting to help isis made his first court appearance today. they raided sean duncan's home last friday. court documents show he's been the target of an isis investigation for nearly two years since he and his wife traveled to turkey. he's not charged with any terrorism offenses but he is accused of obstruction of justice. he was home during a raid and allegedly tried to run and get rid of a thumb drive and a memory chip. twenty-four year old irwin sanchez is facing second degree murder charges for allegedly stabbing and killing his wife list bet mendez. officers responded to a report of a domestic assault monday morning at a home in 38th place. an investigation revealed sanchez stabbed his wife during an argument. she later died at the hospital. d.c.'s mayor and police chief toured the city's crime lab today and also announced the city's 2017 crime rates were down. murders were down 14 percent from 135 to 116. robberies were down 27 percent. sexual assault cases dropped 15 percent and officers confiscated more than 2,000 illegal firearms. a police dash cam caught a scary moment for a dallas police officer. the recent cold weather caused some is i conditions. the officer was helping a driver involved in a crash. you see the other car come right in. the officer tried to get away, but slid and he thought for sure that that car was going to hit hivment the car was coming. i was trying not to fall and try to stay away from the traffic that was in my lane to the right. i ended up falling, but fortunately far enough away from that it was close. the driver was not ticketed. instead the officer sent him on his way as quickly as possible to avoid another traffic jamb. take a look the at this, this is video from ohio as the artic blast -- >> i love seeing cool stuff like thsm the artic blast continues to grip a large portion of the country. the sub freezing temperatures created ankery effect. steamies caused when cold dry air. >> the last one reminded me of london. i love natural phenomena like that. it's pretty cool. it is cold there and it is cold here, too. everything is freezing up. the picture that you showed of the nation, that's extraordinary. almost the entire nation. unbelievable. he did the same thing when he saw that picture. really high pitch. i but guys, it's so -- here's the duration of this cold snap is rough, too. the fact that it is so widespread over so much of the country we've got to really take it seriously because it does get old. it's hard to be out there and the blast that is coming, the winds that are going toic p up around here are really going to be pretty intense thursday, friday and saturday. i just saw the latest model coming in, the latest version of the american model and it's trying to bring snow just to d.c. tomorrow night. we'll eye have to watch that, too. thursday morning's commute even if it's just a little bit might be impacted by that. from 17. pittsburgh six. it's one below in columbus and one in detroit while we're at 20-degrees and in some some places 20-degrees as well. the next shot which will be closer is going to come from is going to get very intense and grabs the cold air and pulse it right back down into our region on a gusty to north, northwest wind. dangerous cold and single digit lowe's even in the district coming our way. in terms of snow for tomorrow night and into thursday morning we'll have to continue to much what the track of this storm. it does look like it's a little too far out to see to bring anything more. that could be significant for anything at the coast. definitely it's tracking more snow south and east. southern maryland you're not off the hook with this for a few inches as well. along the i95 correspond doirt looks like it could be light snow. maybe enough to coat things. maybe enough to pile up to an inch or so. we'll certainly attach numbers to this tomorrow afternoon and probably as early as tomorrow morning. really the bigger story is going to be the cold that's going to be becoming in behind the system . we'll feel as thursday so that's why i'm going to show you the wind chill . thursday morning at eight, single digit wind chills it will take a little while for the winds to get cranking. 10- degrees blow zero in cumberland on thursday night at 7:00. we take this to midnight, everybody is going to be having blow zero wind chills. this is thursday midnight. 8 a.m. friday morning, rough commute because of this brutal cold. feeling like 12-degrees in zero to 16-degrees blow zero in winchester and as cold as 68 blow zero. that's friday morning. we go through the day and the wind gets a little bit better. the friday morning wind chillies going to be really tough to take and even into the evening hours we're talking single digit wind chills and teens. the winter storm watch way up to main. don't be surprised to see a few more getting issued tomorrow. i think that st. mary's and calvert you might clipped by this as well. right at the coast, we think four to six inches is possible. you might even get a couple inches down in southern saint maries. maybe we get an inch along the i95 corridor. we still need to continue to watch this system. even a little bit of light snow can impact the commute around heemple it's a real cold day. it's cold into friday and saturday. we moderate a little bit next week. the mid 40s ought to feel fantastic and let's keep our fingers crossed that it definitely happens. apples replacement program for iphone batteries is ahead of time. customers with an iphone six can take their phones into the store and get a battery criticizing them for starting to slow down the speeds. a new battery will return it to normal speeds. taylor swift isn't semg tickets like she hoped. fans say the prices are too high. the tour has yet to sell out a single show. swift is scheduled to perform at fed ex field july 10. you dwnt get your ticket yet, tony. >> i did not. >> still ahead, meet the twins born minutes apart even though their birthdays don't exactly line up. tomorrow morning on fox5 tips on how to keep your home safe during this frigid weather. wisdom martin is talk ing with ex files create oor carter about tomorrow's season premier. plus, kevin mccarthy is one on one with a.m. knee som. all tomorrow at four:25. president trump tion big legislative priority in 2017 was tax reform. in the new year what is next on the agenda. lawmakers are heading back to work this week and they have a number of issues to deal with, including keeping the government funded. congress starts 2018 staying at a late night january 18 to fund the government or else there could be a government shutdown. we need to get the funding issue sold. we've got a lot of national security interests that need to be met. nick muscle vein in analyte house legislative affairs director will meet with the members of congress at the capital tomorrow . ryan, pelosi, mcconnell and shoe mere with a two-year budget gap expected to be a major topic. president trump is also infrastructure. the president tweeted today about immigration he has set a march deadline for lawmakers to rel some. democrat s are doing nothing for daca, just interested in politics. they'll go hard against democrats, start falling in love with republicans and their president. we are about results. a member the gop leadership laid out his vicious that's a vision as you know has to be addressed. i'm hoping we can move a freestanding bill but when you address the daca issue have to adregs illegal immigration. congress must also rebuild the private marketplace one of the best things we did was repeal the individual mandate because it undwos a lot of the stools of obamacare. now we need to go and address the things that are jacking up costs . a rm toker aid to national democratic leader chuck schumer says there could be a got opportunities to do something that is bipartisan. it means that he's got to give a little bit. i think the perfect place to start is with daca, with the immigration. he said on september 5 in a tweet we're going to solve this with heart and compassion. that window is likely to be very limited with the entire house and one-third of the senate up for reelection this year. so the president is expected to plot strategy with speaker ryan and mcconnell next week at camp david. >> a set of twins born in california will have to celebrate their birthdays on the same day. they were actually born in different yeemplets you're probably thinking the right thing. the first baby arrived about two minutes before midnight on december 31, 18 long minutes later his twin sister arrived in the world. her birthday is january 1. they were both but the hospital says mom and the babies are doing just fine. wonderful. you know for twins it's always one of those things where they want to oh they get to celebrate birthdays together but now maybe they can have one on the 31 and one on the first. you get individual parties. they're so cute. you know when they get into those teenage girls she's going to say i'm not celebrating with my sister t. i'm older than her. all of that is coming. speaking of what's coming, i've got to get you ready for not onlt cold blast, butt possibility that our thursday morning commute could feature a little light snow local limit the american model wants to put down an inch, maybe an inch and a half. that's not very much, but it's commute time and everything will stick. it could be much more significant and impactful along the delmarva and the at the beaches. beyond that it's really cold you've been warned. stay with us, jim lokay is coming up next with the final five. >> tonight on the first live final five on 2018. name a topic that the president has probably tweeted in the last four hours and that is bragging about the size of his nuclear button. is mitt romney prepared to run now that or oncoming traffic hatch is saying goodbye this is the final five. let's do this. it's time to go. if you thought maybe president trump's new year's resolution might be the tweetless, it's a good chance that was your resolution for him and not your own because we have more than a dozen tweets today from a range of topics everything from north korea, the border, patrolling

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