Fights back. Very excellent student came out made billions and billions of dollars. His message to the author of the new book fire and fury which questions his mental stability in the white house. Americas longest serving astronaut passes away. A figure skater pushes back at the judges who she says robbed her of a spot on the u. S. Olympic team. Big changes are coming for metro riders. How it could impact how you pay to ride the rails. The news at 10 00 starts now. We begin tonight with the bitter cold weather. Man, is it cold. Today temperatures just barely got above 20 degrees and the wind chill made the air feel even more frigid. Record low temperatures in those awful and those awful wind chills are plaguing much of the u. S. Tonight. In new york city the wind chill was minus two. In boston, negative 10. Yeah, boston has had nearly two dozen days of below freezing weather. This cold is chaos at area airports. Lets take a live look outside here in d. C. If youve been outside tonight, you know it is cold. But there is some good news on the horizon. A warmup or you could call it a warmup is heading our way. Gwen, i have a feeling its going to feel just great. Its going to be welcome with opened arms by everybody. I think were all kind of like over this already. Well, we still have to deal with it for a little while longer. Temperatures acrosstheboard in our neighborhoods ranging from nine to 15 degrees, 14 in d. C. As matt pointed out were not alone. Good portion of the country getting this arctic express in place that really has been plaguing us for quite awhile now and we are all ready to see it get out of the picture and before long, hopefully it will. But in the meantime, heres a look at what were headed for for tonight. We do have winds currently sustained anywhere from seven to 12 miles an hour but they anywhere from 17 to 22, much improvement from earlier. We have wind chills ranging from one to 6 degrees below and thats what were headed for with some dangerous wind chills with a wind chill advisory five to 15 below expected. All have more details and a look at that warmup a little later for you. Lauren. Thank you, gwen. In this frigid weather the district is using its cold weather emergency plan to help prevent hypothermia especially among the homeless. This video was taken earlier today from the Kennedy Recreation Center in northwest. Its just one of more than a dozen Warming Centers across the district. The d. C. Cold weather emergency plan was activated last week. It will likely continue through the weekend. For more information or if you see someone who needs help, call 311. The cold weather taking its toll on area water pipes. Working work crews with wssc dealing with dozens of water main breaks in montgomery and Prince Georges County. Utility company urging residents in affected areas to be patient. They say crews are working as quickly as possible but they are scheduling repairs based on the number of customers affected and the impact to major roads. The cold snap forcing Howard University to delay the start of its spring semester. Classes were supposed to begin on monday but it will be pushed back a week and will now start january 16th. The University Spokesperson says the extreme cold weve been experiencing has ruptured pipes and caused Power Outages on campus. Repairs are expected to take several days and while classes wont start, university will be opened for business on monday and the Residence Halls are opened for students. Firefighters in Montgomery County say a mistake lighting a fireplace is to blame for a massive fire in olney that damaged five townhomes. This was the scene last night after the fire broke out on foxwood terrace. Investigators say someone inside a townhome used a fire in their fireplace. The fire caused a Million Dollars damage and left 20 people homeless. Still no word on what caused a house fire in northeast. The fire broke out overnight on anacostia avenue. No one was hurt in this fire. Tonight the red cross is assisting the people who live there and helping them find another place to stay. In the past week, the red cross says it has responded to 29 incidents in the d. C. Area helping 100 families totaling nearly 300 people. Developing tonight, a desperate search for a missing Prince Georges County county man and it has made all the more urgent by the cold. Police say Daniel Dehaven vanished from the beltsville costco parking lot on tuesday. Fox5s evan lambert spoke with his family and he joins us live from the Beltsville Fire Department where the family will continue search tomorrow. Reporter yeah, lauren, these are the fliers that the family has posted for daniel, danny dehaven. They will be back here in just a few hours at the beltsville volunteer Fire Department to conduct another search for him. He has dementia. Hes 65 years old. We want to show you his picture. Well get it up there on the screen for you. This is Daniel Francis dehaven. He is known by danny, as danny to Family Members and he is nonverbal. He is considered critically missing because of his dementia and the fact of these frigid temperatures. He was last seen by his family around on tuesday 11 30 in the beltsville costco parking lot. A Family Member went to get a shopping cart and then dehaven was gone. Its now been four days. This morning volunteers gathered to search for him but they didnt find him obviously. On wednesday the day after he went missing they also canvassed the area. Got a tip that he may have been spotted in Silver Spring but that did not pan out. Today we spoke with his son. Hes nonverbal. He can answer yes or no questions. But he wont be able to carry on conversations. Really kind man so hes going to be open and friendly if you call his name. As we get farther from tuesday, more exposure is really our focus. We need to get the message out there because, you know, its its going to be a collective effort to find him so at this point as much attention on this as possible is what we need. Reporter and again, anyone with free time is being asked by the family to come here to the beltsville volunteer Fire Department and volunteer their time tomorrow beginning at 11 00 for another search for danny dehaven. Anyone who spots him is asked to call Prince Georges County police. Live in beltsville, evan lambert, fox5 local news. Our other big story President Trump is taking aim at the author of the new book fire and fury. Michael wolffs book paints a harsh picture of President Trump but today the president has some harsh words of his own. Foxs rich edson has details. He was never in the oval office. Reporter President Trump is attacking author michael wolff. His book claims the president is like a child, needs instant gratification and everyone around him questions his fitness for office. Early saturday morning the president tweeted in part my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being like really smart. I went from very successful businessman to top tv star to president of the United States on my first try. I think that would qualify as not smart but genius and a very stable genius at that. A few hours later at camp david the president said wolffs claims are nonsense. We didnt have an interview and i did a quick interview with him a long time a but i dont know this man. I guess sloppy steve brought him into the white house quite a bit and it was one of those things. Thats why sloppy steve is now looking for a job. Reporter the president is at camp david for meetings with senior administrators devicing their legislative agenda and strategy. We hope 2018 will be a year of bipartisan cooperation. We believe there will be a significant number of democrats interested in helping us accomplish. Reporter President Trump is responding to reports claiming he directed white house officials to pressure attorney general Jeff Sessions against recusing himself from the russia investigation. The president said everything ive done is a hundred percent proper. At the white house, rich edson, fox news. Still ahead, a Northern Virginia gymnastics coach is under arrest. What hes accused of doing. Plus a fox5 followup tonight after a teenager is hit and killed at a busy maryland intersection. Weve learned the some time now. How state highway officials are responding. And major change is coming if you ride metro. This could impact how you pay your fare. Weve got the details as fox5 news at 10 00 continues after the break. Loudoun county gymnastics coach is facing charges of sexually assaulting a young gymnast. Ryan wen of sterling yesterday. He worked at mgva gymnastics studio in ashburn. The victim told investigators he inappropriately touched her when she was at the gym last month. The Sheriffs Office is investigating. The intersection where a Prince Georges County county teenager was struck and killed had been previously inspected for safety concerns and safety improvements had been approved more than two years ago. But work tonight has yet begin. Marlo maddox moved into this neighborhood next to 301 and chadds ford road this summer. He says he immediately noticed how dangerous this intersection was for pedestrians with no sidewalks, no crosswalks. I would just cringe just looking at someone trying to cross that intersection. So he wrote to the county and the state. He was told in an email in october that new Safety Measures were coming but a date wasnt given. Then this week maddox wrote to mdot again after hearing about the death of derek staton. Asking again if the project had been scheduled yet. Its very hard to characterize it. I mean, frustration, anger, disappointment and it would be unfair to all the parties involved to say that this tragedy could have been avoided but its clear that as of right now as we speak, that no pedestrian aids at that intersection. Today mdot engineer peter it was moved to the Design Department and he wasnt sure why the project hadnt begun yet. Maddox says there is no time to waste and hopes by speaking out publically, the intersection that worries him so much will finally be improved. As long as that continues, pedestrians are going to be at increased risk for injury or worse. And by the way we did reach out to the Maryland Department of transportation. They sent us this statement. They said in part at this location there are engineering enhancements in the design phase and we are developing a construction schedule. Heads up for metro riders now. Starting on monday, you can no longer carry a negative balance on a smart trip card. Metro is encouraging riders to sign up for auto reload through their smart trip account. That will ensure a passenger always has money on his or her card. Au whenever a card balance falls below that 10 mark. Something to keep aware of. Joining us now is gwen. Gwen we want to talk a little bit about the weather. Not only. I tired of this weather its so bitterly cold but the energy costs that were all going to be faced with in a month. Heating bills are going to be up there. A lot of people have been talking about this more than the cold today the warmup could be coming. It is coming, definitely coming. Starting with tomorrow but tomorrow just slightly relatively speaking but after that were really going to see a huge change. Great. Everybodys happy about that and welcoming it as well. Well, take a look at the temperatures and up and down the midatlantic right now. It is cold there as well because that arctic air has settled in through a great portion of the eastern United States. Its only eight in new york city four in pittsburgh, 14 in d. C. , minus three in beckley but look at the wind chills for unbelievable. Minus 19, minus 16 in boston is what it feels like and one in d. C. Here at home, yes, we are still under the gun with the arctic air mass. Nine in hagerstown, air temperature, nine in winchester, the same in gaithersburg. 12 at manassas and winds are still gusting in some areas. Some 16 up to 23 miles per hour. Not quite as strong as they were earlier but theyre still there. Take a look at the wind chill values, minus five in gaithersburg, wind chill advisory in effect tonight through sunday and very dangerous conditioning as a result of this. It only takes 30 minutes for exposed skin to freeze so you have to be very aware of this, frost bite hypothermia very real possibilities if youre in this weather and not taking care of yourself. Dont leave your pets outside. Its just as dangerous for them. Temperatures will be on the rise, yes, im happy to say we do have warmer weather coming your way back to you. We arent the only on dealing with all this cold weather. Record low temperatures are in store for parts of the northeast and the great lakes this weekend. Foxs bryan llenas fills us in on this frigid air across the u. S. Reporter an arctic blast freezing much of the northeast and the great lakes area. Some daily temperature records are threatened to be broken because of this weather and theres a wind chill advisory as well. That wind chill advisory in effect for much of the northeast region especially when youre talking about wind chills of minus nine in pittsburgh, minus two in new york and negative 10 in boston during the day on saturday. In new england, the wind chill actually expected to hit negative 25 to minus 40. The type of temperatures that can cause frost bite in about 10 minutes. Sundays low in boston could be negative four, which would be the coldest january 7th in boston history beating out negative two back in 1896. Boston is about to have 13 32degree weather which would be the fourth longest streak in bostons history. Theres also travel chaos. A possible gridlock situation at j. F. K. Airport in new york city. Passengers complaining theyve been stuck on the tarmac in their airplanes without food or water for five to 20 hours. We spoke to passengers at dulles airport. You want our luggage and i want to know where how im getting in j. F. K. They did what they could do the airport but the airline definitely did not do what it was supposed to do. Reporter take a look at this video from that Mount Washington observatory in New Hampshire. A man blowing bubbles that freeze instandly in the air. You can see him actually holding the bubbles as if they were baseballs. Mount washington New Hampshire is now tied for the second coldest place on earth saturday tied with armstrong, ontario. The temperature at the summit in Mount Washington a negative 36 degrees. That doesnt even include the wind chill. In new york city bryan llenas, fox news. Man, i love new england, love the boston area especially in the summer but right now those people every winter have to go through so much whether its a ton of snow or 4 degrees. Wonder what temperature you get a bubble to do that. Well, werent they saying it was a hundred degrees negative or Something Like that. Feels like. I saw some reports in New Hampshire. Maybe it wasnt quite that much but thats cold, really cold. Coming up tonight democrats are renewing their fight against President Trumps proposed wall. Why they say it could trigger a Government Shutdown. But first major fitness club is raising some eyebrows over its new policy about what its customers can and cannot watch on trending tonight u. S. Figure skater Ashley Wagner fighting back after she was not chosen to represent the u. S. In the winter south korea next month after finishing fourth the 26yearold ripped into the judges for the score she received. She said in part i am absolutely okay with them being strict on my rotations. Thats what i think u. S. Figure skating should demand of their judges but it needs to be acrosstheboard. I dont necessarily feel like its been that way at this event. Wagner won the bronze in the Winter Olympics in russia. A major health and fitness club has decided to ban certain types of programming, namely cable news. As fox5s cori coffin reports its raising eyebrows and getting a lot of attention on line. Reporter most gyms offer a variety of Entertainment Program from your favorite news shows to maybe your favorite lifestyle programs but one gym is entering 2018 by making the choice for you. Theyre turning off cable news networks. New year, new you is how the saying goes. At lifetime fitness, its a whole new policy. Theyre news. No more cnn fox news msnbc or c nbc. Lifetime wouldnt go on camera but told us in a statement this is based on many member requests and its keeping with the philosophy of the gym to keep out negative content. Its a decision that comes with mixed reaction. The gym being a respite away from political conversation, i think thats absolutely all right. I think thats good. I think it i think we should focus more on the commonalities in that spaces. Gym goer that appeals to me. Not a decision i would make personally for our club just because how important politics are in d. C. Reporter skyler says people schedule their workouts around their shows. If thats what motivates you hey as long as you keep it to yourself i think thats all right. Reporter the problem is some dont. We had to put signs out. People were coming in pretty frustrated so we said hey please come in and work out and work out your frustrations. Reporter but lifetime isnt the first in 2017y pulled cable news after customers got into fights. Bp;5eatathe news is reporter lifetime says