the polar express, true arctic air is waiting in the wings. it's over alaska, 20 to 30-degrees below zero. next week, it will start to moderate and sink to the south. it will be across the plains, northern rockies by tuesday. all indications are the jet stream will dip to the south allowing this to spill into the next week. friday, 40s and saturday, temperatures not climbing out of the 30s. that's next week so you have a week to prepare. tomorrow, 49-degrees. a cool day for the temple game at a annapolis. it will be dry. 47-degrees. monday, a weak disturbance pulling through bringing rain and snow showers. philadelphia, rain in the poconos, snow showers monday morning and peaks of sunshine. the sun doesn't last long. tuesday, a cold rain arriving, 48-degrees. wednesday, lots of clouds, lingering showers 50. another round of rain and colder air friday. it will be blustery with a high of 42-degrees. this weekend compared to next week is going to feel nice. >> thank you. >> enjoy. >> i will. plenty of happy hoagie lovers and coffee drinkers in ce

here comes the cold air on thursday, the polar vortex arrives with much colder temperatures coming in during the day on thursday. we'll be near 30, predawn. then by the evening, only near 20 gr degrees during the day. winds may be gusting to 30 miles an hour during the day on thursday. then friday, well, it will be frigid, but thankfully we won't have the brutal winds, we'll be in the teens in the morning, upper 20s. we'll be in the upper 20s to near 30 degrees, cold enough for snow, maybe a little sleet, maybe a little bit of freezing rain. minor accumulations, and then it all changes to rain during the afternoon. now, the threat of the wintry mix is mainly right in the metro area, and our northern suburbs and up toward maryland and perhaps into west virginia and up into pennsylvania. it is just to our south, there is not going to be any wintry mix. then on sunday, we'll get sunshine, perhaps in the morning. we'll soar into the low 60s on sunday, rain showers come through. after that, we plummet down to the 20s by dawn on monday. i'm getting woozy just thinking about it. roller coast

lets talk about what is coming , later this week how polar vortex air coming down from santa's house at north pole will come our way by thursday and friday. it gets close, it could be colder then it will be but we will take it, 19 degrees below normal by thursday, 20 degrees below normal by friday, today, tomorrow will be a couple degrees below normal. the here's what we have for friday, wake up in the morning it will feel like four in philadelphia. some suburbs will have below zero wind chills and then head into lunchtime and 10 degrees wind chill. then we have an 18-degree wind chill later in the day and then by evening it will feel like 21 degrees. you get idea how cold it will be on friday. we will a this now you need to bundle up today even though it is not quite that cold. thirty-seven in philadelphia. twenty-four mount pocono. thirty atlantic city. thirty-four wilmington delaware. factor in the wind which isn't extreme but feels like freezing in philadelphia and other wind chills in the 20's. from there we will head up to 43 degrees today, 42 tomorrow. we have talk about how c

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here's where the brutally cold air is, the polar vortex is swinging down through here, fortunately for us it's not going to do one of these, it's crossing the shore of the hudson bay. nonetheless it will bring the brutally cold air down in the northern half of the united states. 19 in chicago, 27 in st. louis, most of the country feeling the icy grip from mother nature. it is the second shot of cold air that gets in here next week and drops the temperatures way down. as it does so this will come in first, a batch of moisture right there omaha, that is sunday night rain and snow maker that small storm system right there. we'll skip over future tracker, combination of sun and clouds. sunday morning we start out below freezing, clouds will roll in quickly which will put a lid on daytime highs, we're forecasting 36, 37 sunday. sunday night, the clouds lower and thicken. we're dry at this point, this is 7:00 p.m. during the overnight the rain moves in. it may start as snow north of the pennsylvania turnpike. it will go over to rain quickly. you can see how quickly the numbers rise, starting

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down to theing polar plunge. arctic air, slamming the midwest. meteorologist from igo johnson has everything you need to know. weatherere is this already turning deadly? autria: breaking news, the attacks this morning shattering a relative cease-fire. signs that things are getting worse. happening now, off the job, on the picket line, we will tell you what is going on right now during this hour at two of the three airports in our area. that's on the way. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] autria: it is a busy morning on this wednesday. let's hit you started with running a johnson with a check on the soon to be frigid forecast. and soon to be busy stormwatch 7 team. tomorrow, thursday -- remember thursday, remember saturday and monday as well. for tomorrow it is all because of the low wind chill readings because of the cold moving in. we could have a shower, rain shower, snow shower in the area. cautionary, not any big impact on the roads, but it

every time we get those cold blasts of air there's that word, polar vortex. what does it have to do with the cold temperatures? it's a circulation up in the atmosphere that contains a lot of cold air. it's normally near the north pole. well, it happens every year, it happens every once in a while where the circulation becomes less strong and part of that circulation allows the cold temperatures to dive southward along with a dip in the jet stream. this is what's going to be happening later this week. as we go through time into tuesday, that's when the really cold temperatures here in red and their way into the midwest and then to the northeast, mid- atlantic, as we go into our thursday. check out this temperature drop over the next several days. 50s today. 53 this afternoon. balmy in comparison to what's on the way. 46 tuesday. 45 for wednesday. again, isolated snow or rain shower possible late tomorrow. thursday and friday, temperatures down in the 20s both afternoons. not only is it going to be cold, but thursday will be a very windy day. i want to show you

>>> polar plunge arctic air is headed our way and the weekend could get snowy. >>> crash and burn. overnight wreck on roosevelt boulevard leads to a car fire and a driver in the hospital. >>> and health care deadline. if you want insurance under the affordable care act, you will have to sign up today. >> announcer: "nbc10 news" starts now. >>> 6:00 a.m. good morning, this is "nbc 10 news today." i'm tracy davidson. >> and i'm vai sikahema. the arctic air is moving into the area. we've issued a "first alert" because of the cold weather. it continues to drop. let's get right to meteorologist bill henley with the forecast. good morning, bill. >> good morning, vai. it's blowing into the area. look at the winds. the winds, 32 miles an hour. wilmington, during the archl, this closer to 40 miles an hour. this is the cold air dumping into the area. these numbers are falling down to 5 degrees for the windchill in reading. we've managed to drop out of the 20s for whirl. now that is sweeping across the area. during the day today. most areas will look like that. with temperatures in the single

so that polar vortex, that core of cold air from the poles and had you had don bay moving to the north of mape man for a couple -- 24 hours or so and that's by thursday. it gets close enough to provide us with a coldest weather we've seen since last february w we look at the wind chills for friday morning at seven am m we're in the single numbers and the poconos at zero possibly going below zero. and then during the day on friday, not a huge improve many. teens, possibly 20 in philadelphia as far as the wind chill by late in the afternoon. then we have to look at the possibility of snow. another front moves through and it will be cold enough to produce some snow showers. the best chance will be friday night into saturday morning. precipitation starts as snow. then during the overnight, it could change to some freezing rain and then finally rain. the best chance for seeing any accumulating snow would be in our northern and western suburbs and once again that would be overnight friday into saturday before that change over. we'll continues to fine tune that forecast as we get closer to th

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the polar vortex, splitting apart and when it splits, sometimes it can send cold air from psi besiberia across to thh pole and it will arrive on wednesday. the cold air down all the way through canada and arrives wednesday, thursday to the great lakes. friday to the east coast and unfortunately, these are the wind chill feels like temperatures and fargo, it will feel like negative 25 and coldest on thursday. chicago, negative windchills for three days in a row. and then it arrives on friday into areas of vermont. this will be the coldest air in new england they've seen in literally a year. negative 26 in vermont. they don't want to be skiing in that. friday in new york city, for you, tamron, 24 and a mini snowstorm and setting up the winter pattern. cold shot, little snow and cold smot. shot. >> followed by a lot of hot chocolate. thank you. >>> biggest u.s. deal with boeing who trump went on a twitter storm against last week. but how could he derail this deal involving iran? we'll take a deeper look with live reaction from tehran and china expressing serious concerns made by comments o

but it looks like the polar vortex everybody knows circulation of super cold air it comes down actually to upper level feature and drives cold air down at the surface okay. then then comes down south of the hudson bay a little bit and look at that. look at all the negative 9 degrees up there. and gilham canada, big trout lake minus 3. all that comes down and we end up with real, real cold stuff coming n real quickly temperatures today, not super cold, 44 city and gaithersburg 406789 good sunshine. cold air comes in tonight and that means we'll have snow showers outhe air coming through this evening. okay. shouldn't be a big deal. but watch out nonetheless. here's erin como with a look at traffic. >> right now it's 4:35 we have eyes on the roads this wednesday morning. traffic and calvertton looking good 95 north and south by the icc after a sear yes, sir deadly crash overnight and both lanes reopened. let's look live outside and show you what you are up against in virginia today. traffic right now moving along long fine on 95 by fairfax county parkway. northbound volume light and once y

polar vortex is slipping down and circulation of polar vortex will be right up here. southern sections of hudso air in. and it will be fleeting though. it will not stick around for very, very long. it's a pretty shallow air mass and it will be replaced by some significantly warmer air mass by the latter part of the -- for the warm air up -- down from the south up hereby the latter part of weekend. arctic express no doubt on the way though that will take temperatures into the 0s. and the 30s tomorrow's wind chill factors will be in the teens and single digits too. and what about the weekend. we warm up quickly. it's friday evening. into early saturday morning. we will go snow to sleet and possibly freezing rain and then over to all rain on saturday. 50. and by sunday, some places will be close to 60. weep be close to 60. some places may be to 60 de agrees to the south of us. i want to show you future later on this afternoon and evening arctic air will come in. 5, 6, 7:00 winds pick up and temperatures traumatically dropping late this afternoon. especially north and wes

we're calling it a piece of the polar vortex, that big dome of cold air that rotates up near the artic and a little piece of that visits by thursday and friday. it will be bitter cold. criming to jump you forward to tomorrow night about this time where wind chills will likely be in the 20s but it gets worse as we get to thursda within chill temperatures in the single digits, cumberland showing up at 6 blow zero washington feeling like 11 and that will continue all day long. i wanted to check temperatures right now, too, because it's mild in comparison to where we're going to be thursday. 34-degrees in the district, but some places are close to the freezing mark and there have been a couple of showers moving through overnight. we're going to see upper 20s to mid 30s. i also wanted to reassure you that we're seeing very little on radar right now. intact local radar not pick prognosis up on much of anything. all when we put a composite together you can see there is a little bit of very light shower activity south and east of d.c. and a little bit of lit snow north and west. an isolated ch

. >> reporter: the windy city, covered in ice today, a seven-day polar plunge, bringing its coldest air yet. 13 below. >> you say the key to working outside in this, keep moving? >> keep moving and helping everybody. in and out all day long. >> reporter: commuters braving the elements also as transit officials used fire to warm up the tracks and keep trains running. much of the nation's mid section seeing temperatures 20 to 30 degrees below normal. little rock, arkansas, hit a new record low. outside st. louis today, school buses wouldn't start. class, canceled. in denver, hometown airline frontier, still struggling after snow crippled operations this weekend. since the arctic blast began, 22 weather-related deaths have been reported across ten states. the majority of those killed on icy roads. >> today was the last day of this cold snap. by tomorrow, we are going to see temperatures that are getting close to normal. and by the latter part of the week, we're at or above normal. >> reporter: a welcome chance to thaw out, with winter's official start still two days away. improving weather

that is the core of that cold air known as the polar vortex and that cold air will sink all the way down into the southern and eastern parts of canada, near quebec and it will drive a very strong wind in here during the day on thursday bringing wind chills even in the afternoon between zero and 10 above. the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast, 40's for the next couple of days and dry. then as that system passes through thursday, wind chills near 10, a high of 24. could be a few flurries around. still very cold with clouds building late on friday at 23 degrees but it's short lived 'cause look over the weekend as warm air comes back in to flood over the region and kicks out that arctic air we'll squeeze out snow and ice early on saturday changing to rain of 42 and still some rain on sunday up to 52 degrees and then turns cold behind that again so we're starting to see this trend this winter season. the cold air is here but just doesn't link with the storms and it warms up in time for mainly rain when we get these systems that come in guys. >> okay. adam thank you. >> what's the deal is c

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air of the season and some places windchills could dip to 30 below zero. marcy gonzales is tracking the temperatures and is live in new york city. >> reporter: hey there rick, chilly here too, but nothing like they are dealing with to our west. today up to 24 states from coast-to-coast under winter weather alerts. in michigan whiteout conditions and ice coating roads on lake superior. as they get hit with the worst of this cold blast and windchills dipping to 12 below. >> one, two, three, three layers and a work shirt and clothes under it. >> and a feels like temperature tomorrow expected to drop as low as negative 30 degrees, potentially the coldest mid-december weather in 20 years. warning in this kind of extreme cold it only takes 30 minutes for frostbite to set in. it can be dangerous, we are thinking mostly in this scenario frostbite and hyperthermia, both of which are dangerous to life and limb. and more danger with the snow storm set to hit the area next week. investigators are looking into whether a snowplow caused two boys to become trapped and on

here's the cold air that i mentioned, the polar vortex, these are the current temperatures. the cold air will be dropping to the south and headed this way the time we get to the end of the work week. 20's for thursday and friday. 20 degrees in chicago right now. 41 degrees in d.c.. 52 at wilmington. the cold air will continue to make its way to the south and east. we've got high wind coming with low temperatures on thursday. all giving us the extremely low windchill readings and we will talk more about that in about 10 minutes. julie? global track seven, we have a look at what looks like an 295 and it's a mess northbound and southbound. coming from the wilson bridge and headed north, you are still at speed, but that is going to change with the work zone ahead of us. moving over to the maps quickly, we will update the ride headed south. we have two ci then another crash at pennsylvania avenue tying up the left side of the highway. heads up, look for delays out of riverdale headed southbound into northeast. sky track 7 this morning, they were above an incident earlier at kenil

first, the polar vortex allowing arctic air to surge into north america. chicago you'll see temperatures by friday, overnight lows, 6 below. 32 in nashville. only 16 in st. louis on thursday. new york city, 12 degrees on friday. with that cold air in place, keep that in mind as this low pressure makes its way across the country starting on thursday. snow from boise, salt lake, billings, bismarck. then moving into friday it spreads further east. minneapolis, omaha, chicago, detroit, cincinnati. then as we move on in to saturday, and sunday, the system makes its way to the east coast. buffalo, washington, new york city, boston all looking at snow. how much? how long? we'll have details as the week wears on. that's what's going on around the coun >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. here is a live look outside in san francisco and embarcadero starting to get a little bit more busy but mostly cloudy skies in some spots. we are getting some sunshine peeking through as well. it's 50 there, heading to 66. still this train of river -- train of moisture s

it's actually piece of polar vortex which is that dome of very cold air that sits over the polls and little piece of that will break off and bring us most cold we have seen in around ear here in six years and colder air we've had so far. we may hit 30 in next few hours but it will be going down during the day and very windy, 29 friday. those are actual air temperatures as you single digit and teen wind chills and again not here yet low to mid 30s north and west and yes keeping an eye on the possibility of some snow showers developing and as the arctic air comes in a few towards baltimore that is expanding over the last hour or so. few more showers developing south. it's possible. if you look close to here you can see maybe in a few more locations some snow showers trying it it develop maybe even in montgomery country and bottom line it will not awb lot but would not take a lot to make slick spots and that's why crews are scrambling as blast of arctic air comes through and we don't want anybody having problems tomorrow morning. check everything out and make sure there are not any prob

now, the cold air. polar vortex. it is always up there, right? the word's coming back because it started to weaken. now it is sending cold air into first siberia, then down on into canada. north america, as well. now it is going to stay in the northern tier of states but look at these temperatures over the next several days. fargo. the morning low. 14 below on chicago, wednesday, thursday, friday -- well below zero. nashville iday, you're 33. new york city by friday, the coldestir gets here at 11 degrees. and -- there is another storm stem -- >> a very pregnant "and." >> i wanted to keep in touch with savannah. and with that -- there is a storm system that's going to cause some major misery possibly for the northern tier states into the northeast by next weekend. we could be looking at another big airport problem and road could be looking at a white christmas. >> exactly! >> thank you, al. >>> let us turn now to politics and some new controversies for president-elect trump as he fills out his cabinet. this as he also opens up a new rift with the

. >>> tonight -- polar plunge. a dangerous blast of arctic air rolls in. 45 states below normal over a foot of blinding snow falling and the worst is yet to come. >> a killer's confession. what the jury heard that sent chills through the courtroom. >> out of the running. break news on the scramble for secretary of state. rudy giuliani is gone and two big names are rising. >> buyer beware, a warning about all the gift cards you are about to get and give. a billion dollars wasted last year alone. tonight how to get the most bang for your buck. >> the right stuff, our friday night inspiring america. without her, america might never have made it into space. finally, getting the attention she

literally it will be a piece of polar vortex which is always that cold air up in the north pole is going to be getting dragged down into the lower 48 and it's going to feel more like january on thursday and friday. so, bundle upen be ready for the cold. what are we talking about temperature-wise. advertised 47. how mice to get to 56 today. tomorrow, more seasonable. 45. closer to average and wednesday night bat either. do running around on two days if you don't like it gold. if you do like it cold y'l enjoy thursday, 30 for the high, friday eye temperature 2 degrees. last december, was the warmest december we ever had. it was about 11 1/2 above axe and this date last year it was 68. so 57 not bad. down to 5 now. we check local temperatures. winchester cool are spot at 41. martinsburg 47. also wanted to mention out north and west we are seeing a freezing drizzle advisory. i'll show you that in a moment. overnight we are going to see temperatures getting quite cold. 6 to 27, maybe 35 in the district and we're not expecting moisture locally. there's certainly moisture up north. lake effect

i've got my polar purple on as well. representing that colder air friday into play. when we consider the northwesterly winds the feels like temperatures tonight and tomorrow, notice how much colder it actually feels with those stronger northwesterly winds gusting up to about 25 to 30 miles per hour. so it will feel like 29 in doylestown at 5:30 p.m. by 9:00, 10:00 p.m. it will feel like 19 degrees in allentown, doylestown, 22. it will feel like 22 degrees in philly. early tomorrow morning, your day will start off very cold. feeling like 18 degrees in pottstown. 19 in doylestown. 22 in philly. right now, let's take advantage of the milder westerly winds, keeping temperatures about right now, feeling like actual temperatures because through tonight into tomorrow, there's going to be a majorly different story. guys, back to you. >>> fuelling the fire of controversy. >> we're talking about a war of words between president-elect donald trump and a labor union over saving jobs. all at "nbc 10 news today" at 5:00, we'll see how. ♪ >>> "hairspray live" next, we'll show you

, yes, the polar express coming directly from siberia bringing below temperatures and the blue is below freezing, the pink is zero. and that's going to invade millions of people along the northeast coastline so you look at the forecast lows wednesday, thursday, friday, we are talking about minus dye -- digits. this is a story that we might be able to flirt with record lows. people need to play close attention. we had the arctic air before but this one is colder and come in friday and could set the stage. be on the alert, my friend jenna. jenna: i saw you doing the gingerbread house. janice: such fail. i apologize to my kids, to everyone at home. i am terrible, terrible at these kinds of things. jenna: we need a good list of indoor activities. that's for sure. obviously that's not the easiest one as i found out from fox and friends this morning. janice: it was delicious but terrible to look at. jenna: thank you. [laughter] jon: well, former un embassador john bolton speaking out russia interfering with presidential election. coming up we will talk with national security expert about the

. >>> tonight -- polar plunge. a dangerous blast of arctic air rolls in. 45 states below normal over a foot of blinding snow falling and the worst is yet to come. >> a killer's confession. what the jury heard that sent chills through the courtroom. >> out of the running. break news on the scramble for secretary of state. rudy giuliani is gone and two big names are rising. >> buyer beware, a warning about all the gift cards you are about to get and give. a billion dollars wasted last year alone. tonight how to get the most bang for your buck. >> the right stuff, our friday night inspiring america. without her, america might never have made it into space. finally, getting the attention she deserves. "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news, world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. wintry weather is making for miserable deadly conditions in parts of the country with falling temperatures across nearly ever state. since yesterday there have been s

the polar vortex gets very close the core of this cold air highlighted in dark purple gets very close to the region just north of maine by thursday and that means we'll see the coldest temperatures we've seen since last february. how far below average? well tomorrow 1 degree. wednesday 2 degrees. thursday 19 degrees below normal and by friday, 20 degrees below the average of 45 degrees. coming up we'll talk about when temperatures fall into the teens when the wind chills turn dangerous and wintry weekend our first one this season. i'll see you later in the broadcast. >> kathy, thanks. >>> buck county family is had it with someone messing with their christmas decorations it keeps happening over and over again. someone has been stealing or ruining their displays for five years. >> but the thief has pick the wrong family to mess with. fox 29's brad sattin is live in bensalem. brad, this family's christmas spirit remains strong. >> reporter: they are better than i would be for sure as you mentioned year after year after year we want to show you the nativity scene that they have set up beh

cold air, polar vortex always up there, right? it's coming back. it started to weaken and now sending cold air 82 siberia and northern canada. it will stay in the northern tier of states. look at these temperatures over the next several days. fargo, 14 below on thursday, chicago, wednesday, thursday, friday, well below zero. nashville, 33. new york city by friday the c d coldest air gets here at 11 degrees. and there's another storm system. >> a very pregnant and. >> i wanted to keep in touch with savannah. >> a storm system will cause major misery to the northeast by next weekend. we could be looking at another big airport and road problem. >> look at the bright christmas. >> exactly. >> let us turn now to politics and new controversies for president-elect trump as he fills out his cabinet. this as he also opens up a new rift with the cia over reports russia tried to interfere with the election. kristen welker has the latest on this. good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, good morning to you. president-elect trump will meet with two contenders fo

yes, this is the polar vortex, we'll talk about how cold it gets, how fast the cold air moves in, and what comes next, it could come with some wintry precipitation. we'll tau we'll talk about that for saturday morning. you can get the latest on the washington app, download it now. get the latest alerts and latest advisories as well as forecasts on your phone. >> all right, doug. >>> next, a d.c. school employee, arrested, accused of trying to smuggle cocaine into the country. details about the crime, and the connection to florida. . a killer is sentenced to life without parole in montgomery county for killing this rockville couple. ahead, his defense attorney explains why he may have been pushed to kill his neighbors. >>> some progress on the silver line. we'll ride along with virginia senator, tim kaine, as he takes >>> a d.c. employee, arresting rita gray last wednesday on a warrant from brevard county, florida. she intentionally tried to bring five kilos into the country, street value of $500,000. gray has been placed on administrative leave. >>> a man from tennessee, who was shot

chilly air even right on down towards california. another update at 11:10 and 11:19 tonight. >> see you then, jeff. cold across the bay area, as jeff just told us, especially chilly in south bay. that means the heaters will be humming and that could prove problematic. nbc bay area is live in san jose with that new warning out tonight. lots of people are bundled up outside, but it eat inside that people are worried about. >> that is a big worry tonight jessica, that why pg & e is out with that message tonight, saying if you use alternative ways to maybe heat up your home and try to survive this weekend, you need to listen to them. >> at san jose's christmas in the park, it looks like the holiday and now it is about it feel like it. >> oh yeah. >> yeah? >> lots of blankets inside only. >> south bay residents prepare for cool down with a freeze warning. >> i'm cold right now. it's not that cold. >> yeah. >> so this weekend, you're going to be freezing? >> probably, yeah. >> temperatures this weekend feeling like single digits, forcing r

the polar vortex, it's weakened. what that means is cold air comes from siberia into canada into our northern tier of states. by mid delay week it will be brutal. look at these temperatures, 16 below for morning lows in fargo thursday, 3 below chicago, 3 above friday. and then we have a vigorous storm system making its way across the coast. look at what it does.an s by thursday, snow in billings. friday, it continues moving to the east andnd bringing snow into minneapolis, chicago, detroit, and then by saturday the eastern third of the country is blanketed with a mix of snow, freezing rain, and sleet. it's going to make for a messy travel for the holidays. >> thank you. there ise breaking news for the war in syria what could be the last stand for families trapped in aleppo as they close in on capturing a city long under siege. the fighting is fierce and there are reports of new horrors from inside aleppo as rebel forces lose their grip. nbc's kelly has late details for us. >> reporter: this is what the end looks like

you are hinting at the big changes that will come later this week when a piece of that polar vortex is going to visit us, bringing us definitely the coldest air we've seen saffron the coldest air since 2010 in december. here's a look at high temperature today's, we had a little bit of rain to start the day but then a lot of sunshine broke out this afternoon, and helped to get us up to 56 at reagan dulles, 53 b w i right there as well and as we check temperatures right now, it's not now. dc is 48. winchester, mart inside berk, 41, dulles 43, we also have our school spot lik and culpeper 36. we're going to go see clouds around tonight and tomorrow but that really cold air that shawn was referring to that piece of the polar vortex, that crosses us wednesday night and we're talking about temperatures that will be more like january on thursday and friday. 30's and 20's for high temperatures. so do your running around if you don't like it cold in the next couple days. the clouds around tomorrow, there could be an afternoon shower, maybe even a flurry and just wanted to give you a heads up we

the polar vortex it's weakened so what that means is cold air comes from siberia down into canada and into our northern tier of states, by mid to late week it is going to be brutal. look at temperatures, 16 below for morning lows in fargo thursday, 3 below chicago, 3 above in columbus, new york city, 11 above by friday, and then we've got a vigorous storm system making its way across the coast, and look at what it does. by thursday, snow in billings, friday it continues moving to the east, and bringing snow into minneapolis, chicago, detroit, and then by saturday, the eastern third of the country is blanketed with a mix of snow, freezing rain and sleet. it's going to make for a very messy travel weekend as we head toward the holidays. lester? >> all right, al, thank you. >>> there is breaking news tonight in the war in syria. what could be the last stand for families trapped in aleppo, as government forces close in on capturing a city long under siege. the fighting is fierce and there are reports of new horrors from inside aleppo, as rebel forces lose their grip. nbc's kelly cobiella

air coming up thursday, friday, is bas and polar vortex shifts southp. it's going to be bringing in cold uv st. we're talk 20s and 0s for highs on thursday an friday and on thursday the wind will be blowing 20 to 40 miles an hour out there. so, i think that feels like temperature especially on thursday is going to be brutally cold and we could be flirting with records as well. here back at home today, 45. mostly clouds. pm spotty showers. i really think most of this there won'ting a lot but most comes through after 5, maybe after 6:00. if we get a shower or two hopefully holds off until after the evening commute. 45 today, 44 tomorrow and then we're talking only 30 on thursday. ouch. 2 on friday and thursday's brutal because winds willing howling out there and then we go mix to rain. saturday morning, we're back up in the mid 50s sunday. just a quick visit of arctic air. here's caitlin roth this morning in for erin como sfwlp i suppose. but polar vortex got a little too early in the season for that. still early out there on the roads on this tuesday. luc

the core of the cold air really settles thursday into friday. friday morning the coldest day we have seen in 10 months since last february valentine's day. it will be feeling like it's much colder thursday afternoon than thursday morning as we go from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. as the winds increase. look at these wind chills. 15 thursday morning at 7:00 a.m. by noon it will feel like 12. by 4:00, it will feel like 10. and by 7:00 it will feel like 9 degrees. that's not all. it gets worse by friday. monica has been looking alt those numbers and the chance of snow. hey, monica in exactly. what's going happen those temperatures are going to be dropping overnight. thursday night and into friday morning. temperatures are going to be dropping. that wind chill is going to be at its worst as we are waking up early friday morning. be ready for this. we are talking feels like temperatures well into the single digits some areas like lancaster and reading near zero. then what we're going see our temperatures and that wind chill still remain very low even as we

cold arctic air in store. so we will check out one more rainfall total .760 an inch, much needed rainfall and in pennsylvania, at helen's house , she has mostly clear sky conditions and 43 degrees. she says it was nice to see the sun this afternoon, after sleet, fog, rain, early in the day, and we did start off with those messy conditions across across the a good portion of the delaware valley but we saw frozen precipitation change over to rain, in most areas across the delaware valley, and really kind of helping out the commute, to cut off that frozen presip chance because we have this warmer air mass building in and live neighborhood network shows us temperatures very mild, new castle county 50 degrees philadelphia at airport we are at 50 degrees, little creek, dover air force base at 48 and lumberton reporting 47 degrees storm scan three showing us quiet conditions, after that messy night last night, early start to the day though with all of the messy side but now cloud deck breaking down as well and overni

a blanket of snow and frigid air hitting chicago, causing more than 1400 flight cancellations at the city's airport. jeff flock isn't a wimp. you guys should know that since you've been with us since our launch in 2007. he and i are fox business originals. he always braving blustery winter. he is the in windy city. what are you doing at this hour? reporter: i got the wrong end of that deal, liz. there you go. i actually enjoy this. this is the dog beach in chicago. typically at this hour it is packed withing does. today, i don't know, do you see one? jason corralled this dog here. he keeps petting him so he stays you would think these temperatures, and it is going to get colder, natural gas would be on a tear today. well, the reason natural gas is not on a tear because long-range forecasts came out. if you look at intraday, down big-time. those long-range forecasts call for warmer than expected temperatures later in the month but short term take a look what we've got coming this week. it is scary if you're in the upper midwest, places like fargo, minneapolis, green bay, they're all z

that look at that cold air that is seeping in right out of the polar region of canada. our forecast overcast and brisk. with highs in the upper 30s. 29 tonight. and mostly cloudy tomorrow. high temperatures only at 39. their stuff fox eight day forecast. note sunday most of the day is dry but late we'll have snow flying. thinning out on monday may not our temperatures are only going to be in the 20s as we get into later in the week. may need that fox8 is your official school closing station. all brad. we have been warned. that is for sure. thank you aj. thank you. if you're flying to atlanta may be welcome with a high note. how high? go for it. it's early for me. an atlanta airport worker goes above and beyond his duties providing a little entertainment in hopes of brightening travelers' moods in an otherwise stressful situation j fotha griffin has worked at the atlanta airport for three years, he is in guest relations real friendly guide. he smiled that everybody. and his warmth can be felt in his voice. j welcomes passengers to hartsfield jackson airport in song. an i