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guys? >> melissa, thank you. spring ridge middle l school is closed today. there's a break in the water line at the school and crews will spend the day fixing and sanitizing the water. st couy hea department has been called in to help with that process. >> route 1 is closed after an ambula and several other cars crashed. you can see police packed the northbound lanes at kit kat road. seven people includi the ambula driver were taken to the hospital. the fire chief tweeted a thank you to everyone who prayed for them. he also said they're all recovering right now. f y caught by one of eight new traffic cameras in the districtd ended midnight. those new cameras were set up in november and include two stop sign cameras and six speed cameras. you'll be slapped with a $50 fine if you blow through a stop sign. speeding fines range from $50 to $300 depending on how fast you're going. we're posting camera locations
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on the nbc facebook page so you can see exactly where the new cameras are set up. >> people will be curious where those locations are. >> the weather. meteorologist tom kierein tracking this rain, snow and sleet. who is seeing what? we have a wide variety of weather all happening simultaneously right in washington. we are getting just so east, moderate to heavy rain. this pocket here of yellow and orange and red is in charles count kry. this pink zone is where we're getting a little bit of freezing rain, sleet mixing in. interstate 66 and where it gets off to front royal a little bit maybe of some sleet, very light. along 81 towards wincheste litt sleet mixing in with perhaps a little wet snow. and then this is wet snow from southeast of martinsburg and
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across the maryland line into washington county and north central and central frederick county. just some wet snowflakes coming do above freezing n ds melting on the alling for grassy areas. there may be a light accumulation on grassy areas, frederick, washington, panhandle of west vir two hovering near 4. your drive time forecast for today, well, rain and maybe a little bit of sleet north and west. mostly rain. so a wet commute through the morning and then during the afternoon only in the upper 30s to near 40 with another round of showers coming through during the afternoon. rain by them. up next, weather and traffic on the 1s. the hour by hour breakdown. melissa, how are the roads? pr moe'll be talking about the for sure. megan mcgrath will be tweeting. so will i. southbou 123 and spout run from a sinkhole f. you're on g.w.
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parkway they'll push you off 123. work your way over it to the spout run if you're trying to get down to the airport. taking a look here other spots in virginia 66, 95 looking good. no problems there. george's county moving right along, no construction in the way at this point this morning. that is good as we take a look at these wet roads. this i of fos as you head out. you at least need an umbrella. >> melissa, thank you. it's now 4. . 33. an a university of maryland stus after a classmate was sooul lysexually d just off campus at an apartment on knox road when she was followed into a room by a man. she says he he put his hand over her mouth and told h the student bit him and then he began slap iping and groping he.
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sent to students. those we talked to say the university does a good job trying to prevent sey inform usy well. we get e-mail alerts multil am times a day about what's happening. >> there's also a new sexual assault workshop that all students are required to take, i'm pretty sure. >> at have reported being groped near campus since september. police do not believe they are connected. the university of virginia is takin stop sex assaults. they announced a donation to fund training for bystander intervention. the university is also planning to hire more trauma counselors. all these changes in response to a rolling stone article suggesting that a culture of rape existed at uva. president obama is calling for the government to spend hundreds of millions of dollars today on improving trust in
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police in son. he proposed a $263 million spending plan earmarked for new training for officers as well as body cameras for 50,000 of them. he also announced a task force on 21st century policing to be headed by philadelphia police commissioner and former d.c. chief charles ramsay. he did not ask for the government to stop problems that provide military style equipment to police departments. communities in our area will be talking abo fergus. students and professors will discuss the impact of the michael brown/darren wilson c e case. they are holding a meeting at 4:45. there will be another town hall with the protesters who have been defensemen on straighting in our area this week happening at 8:00 p.m. tonight. a new proposal to bring a soccer stadium to southwest
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washington. at first the city planned to acquire land by trading the reeves center on u street northwest. mayor elect bowser said they believe they can make more m ce. under the new deal the district will pay as much as $150 million to buy the land. d.c. united would then pay about the same amount to build it. >> 4:36 right now. the figh getting a new push today. president obama heading to the ational institutes of health doctors there just published results from a trial of a new ebola vaccine. they are promising those results. the president is congratulating the team working on that vaccine. he'll push congress to act quickly on his emergency funding request to fight ebola in the u.s. and in west africa. the president's visit comes as the world health organization says the ebola epidemic is getting better. the number of cases is slowing in liberia. the spread is stable in new guinea but liberia is out of
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control in sierra leone. they ha > breaking news. dozens of quarry workers in kenya killed in an isis attack. owe figurs say they a.mmbushed workers while . the non-muslims were singled out and either shot or beheaded. at least 36 people died in the attack. eun? thn is under way into the largest child safety seat recall. what you need to know to keep your child safe. today is giving tuesday. how you can give back to your co a wintry mix is here. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is tracking your hour-by-hour changes. time is
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welcome back. gr graco's handling of a recall is under investigation. they are looking into the timeliness of reporting the problem. earlier 6 mil defective car seats. the problem involved buckles on child and infant car seats sticking in the latched position. that can create a potential life threatening risk during an emergency. they could face up to $35 million in civil penalties. today is giving tuesday. the global day is dedicated to giving back and you can help by donating to your favorite charity anytime today. d.c. gives more is hosting a
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happy hour for local charities k str northwest at 6:00, the army historical foundation is raising money to build a national museum of the u.s. army. all giving tuesday donations to the college of southern maryland will go towards scholarships. crowd rides partnering with hundreds of charito show the wos philanthropic impact on this giving tuesday. you can check out the one on t ever who donates will get a brick in the tower with their picture and the cause that they donated to. all the individual bricks will stack up to create the tower. you can help build a virtual tower by using the giving tower app. >> i think it's great after black friday and cyber monday we pause and say, wait a minute, i know we're consuming and consuming, but let's give back. that's what the holidays are oppo 4:41. time for weather and traffic on a liv look outside. all kinds of rain and snow and
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sleet depending on where you are. st >> i said we're going to have this roller coaster weatheer70. now the roller coaster, we are down into the 30s this morning and the storm team 4 radar showin rain arod washington, south and east. moderate showers. north and west where you see the little pink zones, sleet mixing in, freezing rain, northern fauquiers war county, front royal and east of winchester to loudoun county. northwestern part of loudoun into a little wet snow west virginia and then across the mayryland border into soutk county where temperatures right now are melting on roadways and we have this winter weather advisory in effect, all these counties in lavender through 1:00 tomorrow morning. most of this will be over by later today as we'll have the temperatures holding steady through the day in just the upper 30s.
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might get a break from the rain, midday. then a little shot of more rain coming in during the afternoon. a look at a wet weekend come up at 4:51. melissa, what's going on with the sinkhole? g.w. parkway soud bld bet 123 and spout run. this is a live picture from the scene. megan mcgrath will be up . yo alternate 123 to old dominion and work back over to spout run and the parkway that way. going to be nasty here. otherwise looking quite good as lk at the beltway. 95 and maryland, b.w. parkway, also n pictures inen minutes. melissa, you thank you. speaking of the roads, how a big development project in downtown d.c. could affect your drive on the third street tunnel. then a news 4 i-team investigation, gift cards stolen in
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welcome back at 4:46. storm team radar here. you see all the changin colors, the green is rain, purple is sleet, a little bit of purple there and, yes, snow in northern maryland. tom kierein will tell you what you can expect in your weather and traffic on the 1s at 4:51. kill four people before taking his own life? s accused of police will b shooting four people at three different locations in morgantown monday. he was found dead in had his truck last night after a day police say he knew all four victims and one had had filed domestic abuse charges against him. the domestic violence policies of e country will get a close look from lawmakers. a senate committee will examine how pro sports handles violence among their players. top executives for the envelonf,
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and mlb. you could say he ignited a national conversation about domestic violence in support. you can hear what ray rice has to say about the night he punched and his hope to one day play football again. >> i took full responsibility for everything that i did. the only thing i can hope for and wish for is a second chance. >> rice is again eligible to be signed by an nfl team. you can see his entire interview with matt lauer on the "today" show. vikings running back adrian peterson will face a hearing toda acuizatiocusations for hitting his suon. >> police are searching for the person who shot two teenagers in
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northwest d.c. mid at 11:00 a.m. story since then a 16 and 17-year-old were heading to dunbar high school when a man opened fire at 6th and n streets. one teen was shot in the bac th. both are expected to be okay. >> two men who attacked a group of college women in the district. surveillance video caught the atta 2:4 in the morning on november 8, two men ran up on the three exchange students. this happened in the noma neighborhood, north of massachusetts. they are trying to get into their building. the men pushed the women around and then take off. they are students from mexico who thought they were safe here. >> we are coming from mexico and think we are so safe. were not hurt during the robbery. the women were walking home from the noma gallaudet metro
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station. the synagogue in georgetown is looking for a new rabbi. a rabbi is accused of videotaping women. he is living in a home owned by the synagogue so he will be required to move. two universities where he taught have started investigations as well. guilty to the claims. today the frederick county l tell you how they're keeping drugs away from children. deputies recently confiscated heroin, cocaine, marijuana and cash during a huge drug bust a.m. a press conference will happen where the sheriff will discuss the exact amount of g the streets.vented f history will be made in charles county today. troy b the fir african-american to serve in that post in the agency's 350-year history. he unseated rex coffey in a
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primary and did not face an opponent in november. he will take charge of the department of more than 600 police and corrections off empl. the charles county sheriff's office is one of the oldest law enforcement agencies in the nation. new developments in the corruption charges against maureen mcdonnell. the judge affirmed several verdicts against her and her husband, former governor bob mcdonnell . a request for a new trial was denied during yesterday's hearing. prosecutors say the mcdonnells illegally tried to help dietary supplement maker in exchange for thousands of dollars in gifts. they were convicted in september and will be sentenced next month. their case prompted the creation of a new ethics panel which yesterday recommended a $250 cap on gifts given to havevirginia lawmaks t could be approved in certain circumstances. m votg on grants that would benefit
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family members. righ employees are under investigation. they're accused of stealing gift cards out of the mail. the i-team object tand a federal search warrant that says a worker admitted to stealing $2,000 in cards. she also claimed her co-workers stole more than $9,000 worth of cards. this investigation started when a manager found a razor blade and hundreds of opened letters and envelopes. so far no charges filed. 4:51. a grand jury will decide whether to prosecute the man accused of killing carolyn cross, from the department of corrections. she was found dead in alexaa t ago. detectives say 29-year-old dewitt killed her. he was waiting for her in the apartment building. he said he was hearing voices at the time cross was killed. coming up on 4:52 if you in you will vote for a new councilmember.
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they seat over following longtime member marion barry's death last week. a special election to fill the april 28.two years on the ward 4 seat is vacant since bowser was elected mayor a big story today is weather. it's changing so r , break it d. >> it's like a ride at a theme park. we're calling this the w cor up and down we go. thanks to brittany johnson who runs our social media. what are we going to talk about tor coaster e. yesterday we were up near 70. there's a little bit of some sleet and some freezing rain now in loudoun county, northern fauquier, further west warren, clark county, and down through the central l shenan a cold rai around the metro area. it's raining in parts of charles
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county, northern st. mary's where that orange and yellow is. north anf there, this gray zone, this is little wet snow in northern loudoun and southeastern panhandlef west virginia, southern washington and frederick county, maryland, that's all tracking off to the north and east. and as we go forward through the rest of the e pink zone here, a little bit of the sleet will taper off for a while. just cloudy. and then by the end of the day e l afternoon hours and into the evening, another shot of showers coming on andn that will be exiting by late this evening and then finally we'll dry out. and it's going to be rather chilly tomorrow. this is the zone of the winter weather advisory in effect through 1:00 tomorrow morning including the shenandoah valley, panhandle of central may maryland. buwe upper 30s and then by 8:00 to 9:00 upper 30s
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and the rain may be tapering off by then. and the rest of the day we'll have our temperatures hovering in the upper 30s by noontime and during the afternoon another chance of showers coming through. upper 30s -- upper 30s tomorrow morning and then upper 50s tomorrow afternoon. d then back down to the upper 40s on thursday. a shower friday night. right now the weekend is looking wet. a le sun may come ig out. highs of 50s. now melissa here looking at that sinkhole and other pro > going to be an issue g.w. parkway southbound 123 to spout run. megan mcgrath, 123 to old dominion to work your way over to spout run and g.w. parkway. 270 and old hundred road. 66 at gallows also moving right along. taking a look in virginia if you're hopping on 95 out of stafford county, you're completely fine. we do have a little bit of
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construction headed southbound there just after dale city. that will be out of the way soon. moving along as well, megan mcgrath live for us from that scene on g.w. parkway. the wife and sons of the leader of isis have been arrested. this news out of lebanon. they have been detained. the can country's defense ministry confirming this to nbc. limited details. as for the leader, he's been rarely s from. a video that reportedly shows or you can hear audn jihad to erupt all over the world. that's the latest from the live desk. eun, over to you. thank you, angie. 4:55. a donation to the smith sesonia.
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welcome back. later today d.c. transportation officials want to hear your thoughts on connecting e fed highway administration along with vdot is considering all modes of transportation for this project. they'll discuss the potential environmental impact.
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it begins at the carnegie libry mt. vernon square on k street. one of your favorite tv shows is coming it to washington. "the wonder years" memorabilia is headingmithsonian. cast members will be on hand. among the items being donated from the emmy award winning show include the trademark new york jets jacket that savage war as main character kevin arnold. >> maybe there will be a singalong. ♪ what would you do >> it's beginning to look a lot like christmas on capitol hill. house speaker john boehner will light the tree at 5:00. this year's tree is a massive white spruce from the chippewa national forest. the tree will be decorated with e b peop across minnesota. apparently this tree is more than 80 feet tall. stunning to see.
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can we go back to the singing of later.nder stay with us. we continue now at 5:00 a.m. breaking news right now, a sinkhole has the section of the g.w. parkway closed. we're live on the scene to show you how to get around the mess. >> snow, all here. tom kierein will let us know what to expect so you know what to wear today. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm etues dece 2, 2014. let's take a live look outside right now as we talk about some rain in our forecast. >> storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein with what you need to know. we've had the rain falling since last night. the heaviest rains are south and o area. north and west, as i was predicting yesterday, we are g freezing rain in the pink zone from just to the

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