Photos of the week: Jan. 27-Feb. 3.

Here’s your look at highlights from the week in photos. Scroll through to see if you’ve missed any.

Organizers said they expect the numbers from the 2018 Polar Plunge to match those from last year, which saw 10,000 people brave the cold waters. (WTOP/Kathy Stewart)
For the 22nd year, Maryland State police held its Polar Bear Plunge to benefit Special Olympics Maryland and its athletes. (WTOP/Kathy Stewart)
The fire likely started on balcony and spread vertically to the attic or roof. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue)
The fire in a Rockville apartment complex likely started on balcony and spread vertically to the attic or roof. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue)
Dozens gathered for the seventh-annual Potomac Phil Groundhog Day celebration in Dupont Circle. (WTOP/John Domen)
Dozens gathered for the seventh-annual Potomac Phil Groundhog Day celebration in Dupont Circle. (WTOP/John Domen)
This photo provided by Rep. Jeff Denham shows the damage to the front of a train after crashing into a garbage truck in Crozet, Va., on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. The Amtrak passenger train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck south of Charlottesville, Va. No lawmakers were believed injured. (Jeff Denham via AP)
Floodwaters rise from the river Seine in Paris on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018, with the Eiffel Tower in the background. Rivers were swollen by France’s heaviest rains in 50 years. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
People hold torches during a march to mark the 165th anniversary of the birth of Cuba’s national independence hero Jose Marti and to pay tribute to late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
Supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga arrive by bus, as they gather in advance of a mock swearing-in ceremony of Odinga at Uhuru Park in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. Protesters consider the divisive 2017 election rigged for President Uhuru Kenyatta. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A supermoon, undergoes an eclipse as it sets beyond gas refineries, at sunrise in St. Charles Parish, La., Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. It’s the first time in 35 years a blue moon has synced up with a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse, or blood moon because of its red hue. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Mourners carry the coffin of a relative who died in a deadly attack a day earlier in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018. A suicide bomber detonated an explosive in an ambulance in the capital. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
A relative of a victim cries after a deadly suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday Jan. 27, 2018. Authorities said the suicide bomber in an ambulance in the capital was claimed by the Taliban. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
In this photo provided by SOS MEDITERRANEE, a rescuer reaches for the hand of a man under a dinghy boat during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018. The United Nations International Organization for Migration says 6,624 people crossed the Mediterranean in January — about two-thirds of them to Italy — about a 10-percent increase from a year earlier. About 250 people died in the crossing in January, six fewer than a year ago. (Laurin Schmid/SOS MEDITERRANEE via AP)
Randall Margraves, left, father of three victims of Larry Nassar, background right, lunges at Nassar in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. The incident came during the third and final sentencing hearing for Nassar on sexual abuse charges. The charges in this case focus on his work with Twistars, an elite Michigan gymnastics club. (Cory Morse/The Grand Rapids Press via AP)
An honor guard soldier walks along the Kremlin wall, coated in snow, as his colleage stands in his station at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
A pro-Turkey Syrian fighter waves on Bursayah hill, which separates the Kurdish-held enclave of Afrin from the Turkey-controlled town of Azaz, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018. Turkish troops and allied Syrian fighters captured the strategic hill in northwestern Syria after intense fighting on Sunday as their offensive to root out Kurdish fighters enters its second week, according to Turkish officials. (AP Photo)
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Organizers said they expect the numbers from the 2018 Polar Plunge to match those from last year, which saw 10,000 people brave the cold waters. (WTOP/Kathy Stewart)
The fire likely started on balcony and spread vertically to the attic or roof. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue)
Dozens gathered for the seventh-annual Potomac Phil Groundhog Day celebration in Dupont Circle. (WTOP/John Domen)

The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.

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