Here are photos from some of the stories that happened last week.
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D.C. firefighters, specially trained by the U.S. Coast Guard, work to break up large ice sheets that formed in frigid temperatures blocking access on the waterway in an emergency.
(WTOP/Megan Cloherty)
Unseasonably warm air hit the icy bodies of water in D.C., Jan. 12, 2018, creating an ethereal cloud-like effect.
(WTOP/Carlos Prieto)
WTOP/Carlos Prieto
The Foundry Branch Trolley Trestle runs over Glover-Archbold Park in Northwest, near Georgetown University. For safety reasons, the southern end of the trail that runs beneath it has been closed for well over a year.
(WTOP/Dave Dildine)
WTOP/Dave Dildine
People walk and skate one the frozen Reflecting Pool at the National Mall, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018, in Washington. The bitter cold that followed a massive East Coast snowstorm should begin to lessen as temperatures inch up and climb past freezing next week.
( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana
In this Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018, file photo, a sadhu, or a Hindu holy man, blesses a devotee as he smokes marijuana at a transit camp on the way to Gangasagar, in Kolkata, India. Thousands of Hindu pilgrims are expected to take the annual holy dip at Gangasagar, where the Ganges River reaches the Bay of Bengal, on the auspicious Makar Sankranti festival day that falls on Jan. 14.
(AP Photo/Bikas Das, File)
AP Photo/Bikas Das, File
Philippine Coast Guard rescue boats are on standby as Filipino Roman Catholic devotees jam the Jones Bridge during a raucous procession to celebrate the feast day of the Black Nazarene Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2017 in Manila, Philippines. A massive crowd of mostly barefoot Filipino Catholics joined the annual procession of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ under tight security.
(AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
AP Photo/Bullit Marquez
A women is hoisted out with the help of a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s helicopter on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, in the Santa Ana River and near the borders of Rialto, Colton, and Riverside, Calif. Three people and a dog were rescued by a helicopter after large amounts of rain fell, trapping the group at a homeless encampment in the river.
(Stan Lim/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)