here's a look at what's happening right now. the white and gray you see on storm team 4 radar is snow. the system is expected to stick around through the afternoon. and good morning. welcome to news 4 md"news4 midday"," i'm barbara harrison. a love likeive look ak thet the snow. a few school closings this morning and one school system decided to close early. anne arundel county schools will close two hours early today. crews were out all morning salting the roads and getting ready for whatever falls later

today. it storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein begins coverage from the weather center. >> right on top, barbara. the storm team 4 timing forecast is works out. we a snow falling in our western and northern suburbs. a live view from the storm team 4 reston live camera and parkway. the reston parkway you see flakes coming down and visibility getting obscured now. looks like visibility down a half mile or so as snow quickly comes down and it has just been moving in over the last few minutes. you can see this batch of snow increased in this area this area in the gray and white is all snow. the green is where it's coming down on maybe a few rain drops here in prince george's county charges county but now snowing in western fairfax, across montgomery count into frederick county. white area, coming down harder along braddock mountain and off to our west out near leesburg which is where chuck bell joins

us live. sticking to any of the roads now, chuck? >> reporter: good morning, tom. we have seen snow out here ever since we passed dulles airport about 25 or 30 minutes ago and it's light to at times briefly moderate snow out here. the snowflakes are small to medium in size just yet and the ground in leesburg starting to take on a little hint of that first coating of white. some of the snow on the side of the roads was here from before but you can totally tell that there are fresh snowflakes starting to add up on the especially. you can tell the treated surfaces and main roads certainly not having troubles yet but the sidewalks and side streets and the staircases are all going to be icing over first. you'll need to be extra careful on your way out and about for the rest of the afternoon. looks like we could solidly get an inch to maybe two inches of snow out here in loudoun county. we'll keep you posted. drive around the city of leesburg. if you see us give us a friendly wave.

back to you, tom. >> chuck, looks great out there, and as we were saying, too that many of the roads have been pre-treated and a little above freezing. so it is melting on roadways. >> thank you. stay on top of the snow and rain with our storm team weather app and we'll send you a breaking flus alert ob our nbc washington app if thery any critical closings due to the weather today. newly mayor-elect hoge been be swornbeen -- hogan will be sworn in in a little while today. everybody getting ready out there? >> reporter: hi barbara. the weather is-of-hashas held beautifully. it has been surrounded in plastic yesterday but the weather's holding up. the governor-elect telling me he plans to just wear a suitcoat not an overcoat.

a catholic high school is singing and feels blessed to made to an inauguration day. he was encouraged to restore optimism and hope and to take maryland in another direction. inauguration day began at st. mary's church in annapolis. top legislative leaders attended. there were prayers, reverends and a rabbi riching governor-elect larry hogan courage, strength and the wisdom to move maryland forward. i asked the governor-elect what we can expect to learn about his priorities in his inaugural address. >> today i'll lay out a broad vision for the future and a positive hopeful message for the state and tomorrow we'll roll out the details of exactly what we're lanplanning to do whip the budget and legislative priorities over the next few weeks. >> reporter: where the money will be spent? >> you'll see every detail of the budget tomorrow at noon.

>> reporter: and governor elect larry hogan is emerging from government house where he spent his last night there last night. saying he got a very good night's sleep. they are now going towards the state house where at just before noon he will be sworn in in the maryland senate chamber, along with lieutenant governor boyd rutherford and then the governor hogan and his family will come outside here to lawyers mall and around 12:23030 take the oath of office publicly and deliver the inaugural address, and we will be back in about a half hour to give you the schedule of events the update and hear more from what the governor-elect had to say this morning. that's it. live from an indianapolis chris gordon news 4. >> thank you, chris. and right now d.c. mayor muriel bowser and school chancellor kaiaew programs to help male students who are black or

latino here in the district hoping to boost these students individually and also reduce "racial disparities" for the students. the district says 43% of its students are males of color. today getting a briefing on metro's underground emergency. there will be two news conferences following that congressional hearing. on capitol hill lawmakers from our region meet with investigators from the ntsb and metro in a closed-door meeting, briefed on the tunnel emergency near the lefante metro station. a messy commute in falls church this morning. work is under way to repair a water main break. a look how to avoid that area today, plus vice president biden talking this morning about the shooting outside his delaware home. and we'll keep you up to date on the weather out there. snow arriving to the north and

west now. stay tuned for frequent updates throughout the hour. we'll be right back.

at live desk in police custody, marion c. barry turned himself in over an angeli

outburst any other a local bank. i know i have a great responsibility i am committed to rise up and carry the torch in my father's legacy. barry is a candidate in the special election to fill his father's term. he faces charges of making a threat and destruction of property. eun yang at the live desk back to you. >> thank you. right now avoid east broad street near fairfax street in falls church because of a water main break there. take a look. we received new video of fairfax water crews in our newsroom a few minutes ago. repairs and the road closure are expected to last into the evening, we're hearing now. the secret service is responding to new reports about the shooting near vice president biden's home in delaware. the incident happened saturday night. "the washington post" was first to report and nbc news confirmed it did not captures any images of the gunmen.

the shot was not aimed at the house. a spokesman was with matt lauer this morning. >> matt what they've established is someone going by at a fairly high rate of speed shot four shots, probably in the air. >> the secret service says all security measures were fully functioning at the biden home in delaware over the weekend. the doctor shot inside a leading boston hospital by a gunman who then killed himself has now died. dr. michael davidson was a leading cardiovascular surgeon at brigham and women's hospital. police say the gunman went to the doctor's office to talk to him just before 11:00 a.m. they got into a fight and that's when shots were fired. the sister of the suspected gunman told the "boston herald" davidson operated on their mother who had died in november. right now fire investigators are back at that mansion that burned to the

ground near annapolis. the next step in finding six missing family members. it has been and still is a hard time for many. >> plus how republicans are reacting this morning to the president's state of the union speech. snow now falling just north and west of the metro area. a look at when it's going to end, as well as a maybe bigger storm coming up over the weekend. we'll look at that coming up at 11:30. that's a live picture now showing that snow b to untreated sur

i'msterster tom storm team 4 meteort tom kierein. the reston parkway, snow falling there and radar showing this batch of snow across northern virginia into maryland the brighter white area coming down a little harder northern montgomery county western howard and frederick county a couple batches here in western fairfax around reston and dulles up to leesburg and farther south and west of there, too. the shenandoah valley getting that snow as well. barbara? >> thank you, tom. new today, investigators are trying to figure out what start add house fire that sent two people to the hospital. the fire broke out just before 4:00 at a home on 40th street not far from glebe road in

arlington. when firefighters arrived on the scene they saw fire on the second floor and smoke coming from the roof. firefighters rescued two from the balcony who suffered from smoke inhalation. waiting on the word of four children and their grand parents missing since a fire tore through their mansion where they're believed to be inside. nbc 4 richard jordan is standing by live near where the 16,000 square foot mansion once stood. what are you hearing now, richard? >> reporter: barbara, this is the first time investigators, the searchers, are able to go through that rubble to see if there are any victims that may have been inside the home at the time the fire started. it had been unsafe up until now. the medical examiner is down at the site, access has been restricted to the property, bu no confirmation of a discovery yet. the damage from above appears extensive, but it's the human

toll that has yet to be determined. atf agents working with roughly 20 anne arundel county workers, six people unaccounted for after a massive fire burned a mansion to the ground. don powell an executive is missing, along with his wife and four grandchildren. firefighters can't say for certain whether the blaze took their live but their friends and neighbors are leaving messagesen condolence at the property's main gate where signs of holiday celebrations are now the backdrop for a makeshift memorial. relatives also providing investigators with information to help in the search. >> there's some areas where they've given us indication where is occupants my have been located at the time of the fire as we're able to make entry safely those are going to be the areas we're obviously most concerned with the areas we're going to try to get to first. again, our priority is the

search for the occupants. >> reporter: a crane and other heavy machinery will help searchers sift through the charred rubble but no one is prepared for the tragic outcome that may be discovered. now, investigators are monitoring weather conditions but say they don't expect the weather will be a factor. they plan to push through whatever conditions might come their way until they can get some answers. reporting live this morning, in annapolis, richard jordan news 4. >> thanks. to a developing story in yemen. to news 4's eun yang. >> believing the u.s. em sbaes yemen is not in any danger and shiite rebel doss not pose a threat to americans. this despite continued violence and unternty in the capital of sanaa. today rebels captured a military base a day after taking over the palace reportedly holding the president in his home. there are no plans to evacuate

the embassy. 100 marines are standing guard. we'll watch for developments and bring you updates. at live desk eun yang. >> thank you, eun. and right now president obama is on a plane to boys. i'd ha pushing the proposals laid out in his state of the union last night.ess than an hour ago. he plans to meet the wife of a pastor currently in prison in iran and tour a lab there. the president spoke from everything from foreign policy to jobs in his address. tracie potts has the story. >> the shadow of crisis has passed and the state of the union is strong. >> reporter: president obama's state of the union took on everything from climate change to cuba immigration and isis. >> we will continue to hunt down terrorists. >> reporter: and he previewed what's coming in his budget in two weeks. free community college, paid sick leave, a push to raise the minimum wage. policies he says will help the middle class. >> and these policies will

continue to work as long as politics don't get in the way. >> let's set our sights higher than single oil pipeline. >> reporter: his push for higher taxes for the wealthy isn't likely to go far. republicans in charge here would rather cut spending. >> and balance the budget with meanful reforms, not higher taxes, like the president has proposed. >> i kind of think a rose colored glasses speech frankly. >> and i was disappointed a lot of his proposals were expensive new entitlements. >> reporter: some republicans actually liked the president's ideas. >> the president presented some great aspirational goals. the question is how are we going to get there? the devil's in the details. >> work with the president. let's find the winds here and see what we can deliver. >> reporter: it's a new game plan for a divided congress. ts, nbc news, washington. and right now you can talk to white house leaders about what the president said last night. the public engagement director tweeted this picture earlier

today for big block of cheese day, it's called. something andrew jackson held more than 175 years ago. to take part in this and ask a question with #askthewh pon twitter. w-h on twitter. and here the senior political editor joining us with more. that's nice. people get to tweet in questions? >> not wearing the cheeseheads. surprised. >> got to expect something like that. well an interesting theme. i guess they used to serve cheese to people at the white house who would stop by to talk about what the president has said. let's move on though. interesting things that happened last night. first of all, let's have a listen to what the speaker of the house had to say afterwards. >> the veto threats and fantasy land proposals from the white house will not distract the people's house from the people's

priorities. >> fantasy land he calmed itled it. not surprising? >> predictable. democrats praising it republicans dismissing and criticizing. that's almost the totality of the big measures the president talked about. free tuition for community college. the paid sick and maternity leave were more aspiration for the next president's campaign to take up the mantle. we've seen in this era of divided government the big stuff isn't going to happen. the small stuff is so hard to accomplish. given those reality, president obama was setting his sights for 2016 and beyond. >> the president had funny moments last night. let's listen to one of them. >> i have no more campaigns to run. [ applause ] my only agenda -- i know because i won both of them. [ cheers and applause ]

>> oh so any other great moments like that? >> saying on twitter, burn. you know again that kind of comes, some republicans think there was president obama being cocky. on the other hand democrats saying look republicans were rude mockingly applaud that line he has no more campaigns left forcing president obama to say i beat you guys twice. so a little bit of back and forth, but sometimes the spontaneous moments are the ones we're talking about more than the once scripted and planned on for weeks and weeks and weeks. >> yeah. always expect aspirational things from the president. they say -- they're the big things. the big picture. what we expected. >> sometimes you have small laundry list type of things that can be accomplished in a bipartisan way. president obama set his sights big in ways he knows the republican congress won't pass it. >> talk again tomorrow. for the rest of the nbc news political team check out "first

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right now snow is falling to our north and west. this is the weishite and gray you see, that's snow out there. storm team 4 watching it ought and meteorologist tom kierein is here with what to expect the arrest of date. starting to come down a little harder? t. is and seeing snow in the district. a live view behind us. a few snowflakes and behind me the latest rather day. you see the area in the gray and white is snow. a weth weather ay lert day. look at this. almost a whiteout at reston. that's reston's live camera overlooking dulles toll road and reston parkway where viz sabltsibility

is down to about a quarter mile there. snow coming down hard. see it coming in from the west. the area of snow increased in area and it ex-tends from southern pennsylvania across frederick, carroll, montgomery counties. brighter white, come down harder where reston is, just to the west of leesburg moderate snow there as well as northern prince william county much of fairfax count around coming into washington. the area in green, it may be just a little bit of white rain there. also some snow farther west along 66 out in northern culpepper, shenandoah valley and panhandle of west virginia and a little rain in this area in green, along 95 for the beltway south down to fredericksburg and in southern maryland. feps stemperatures now critical near freezing. it is sticking to any untreated surface where the snow is coming down. look at reagan national. 39 degrees. that's dropping as thethrough. the road impacts, moderate. could have slush on some roads.

so things could get slick by later this afternoon. winter weather advisories and maryland and west virginia until 6:00 p.m. this develops and continues to poov moving in during the afternoon. the heaviest tween 3:00between 3:00 and 4:00. maybe a few breaks in the clouds over overnight. an inch at the most a little farther north and west out in leesburg and could get two maybe three inches as this quickly moves through and ends by later this afternoon. future temperatures by mid-afternoon, maybe a little bit above freezing. we may get a little melting as we get the snow stopping by mid to late afternoon. then dropping back down to deep low freezing by early this evening. this photo just sent in by our

own david culver in great falls, virginia. it's beginning to stick on untreated surfaces there. lucy in leesburg posted this from they are backyard. grass covered in snow. dog getting ready to have fun in the snow. showing on instagram of the snow that comes through. patchy ice tomorrow morning. 40s in the afternoon thursday. get melting tomorrow. increasing clouds friday pap more pote entnt storm on saturday with snow coming through on saturday moving in looks like maybe beginning from friday night into saturday with perhaps, heavy snow with a significant accumulation and icing possible south and east during the day on saturday. sun back sunday. may get a little more snow on monday. and then cold next week with highs only 30s. barbara? >> okay tom. storm team 4 meteorologist chb chuck bell is keeping a close eye on the roads driving around

in leesburg. how's it looking out there? still coming down? >> reporter: good morning, barbara. roads here in leesburg are in very good the, loudoun county the city of leesburg and local shops out here putting chemical down. there's no snow sticking on the roadway. sidewalks, depends if anyone's put it out. this bank on my right here the capital one bank here on east market street you can tell they've salted sidewalks and the snow is not sticking much there. the grass is totally starting to turn over to white. we've had about a quarter inch of snow maybe one-third inch so far, but we do have light to moderate steady snow now. snowing 35 or 40 minutes here in leesburg and will continue throughout the remainder of the afternoon. running errands today, leave extra time. drive slow. roads are in good shape for now because they've been treated. any steadier snow they could lighten up and the get snowier at times. back to you.

use caution out there. and keeping an eye on the roads from the first 4 traffic center. joining us with the latest. >> good morning, barbara. take a look here. seeing pretty good accumulation. this is 270 at old hunter road. all of these folks hopefully heading slowly southbound here. tom was just looking at this picture with me in here a second ago and about an inch perhaps here headed out of frederick. 270 mantra south heading to the spur see it. doesn't look like it's coming down. somebody tweeted me it really is in rockville there. take a look at this. the toll road at sully road here. 28 completely white here for us this morning. a little hard to see. pictures now kristen write tweeting from clarksburg maryland and david cull from great falls, michigan. showing you how roads are morning. as far as travel travel time everything looking good and on time. take it slow. the thing to do especially for the evening commute. barbara? >> thanks. and right now hundreds of people are gathering at the

maryland state house for governor larry hogan's inauguration. a live look. the swearing-in sarp mownceremony happening in less than 30 minutes. good morning. >> hi. i have more in a moment. bad news the background from the 229th army maryland national guard. the governor elect gave an indication what he may be saying in his inaugural speech at a church service this morning. at that service a leading senate democrat warned hogan he may need help because he's a republican governor working way legislature that has a large democratic majority. and as the governor-elect emerged from the church service he said that's the tone he wants to set. >> we need all the help we can get and going to work as closely as we can with everybody. it's going to be a team effort and we need the prayers and we

need the sport. >> did you sleep well last night? >> i slept pretty well. i haven't slept in a long time. last night i actually got good night the sleep. we slept in the house last night. >> reporter: he's talking about the governor's mansion, when was vacated last night and now governor hogan tomorrow will unveil his bchudget and spending priorities watched closely by local communities, prince george's and montgomery counties which have put a priority on state spending more education and transportation. they want to know the future of the purple line and in prince george's county will there be state funding for a hospital? that's the latest live in annapolis. chris gordon news 4. >> thank you, chris. the storm team 4 radar, what you're looking at now. you can see all the white out there is snow. flakes are falling in d.c. now. an update in a few minutes. plus a closer look at what budget cuts the irs, what it

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mastectomy for center patients. talk to your doctor about all the treatments to make an informed decision. mental strategies losing weight? what a psychiatrist says are the keys to success if you're dieting. plus a winter weather advisory until 6:00 this evening. tom kierein is back with a look what you can expect when this afternoons s

i'm storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. live view from our traffic camera and live camera there in reston. you can see visibility about a half mile. snow come downing. last time we showed the camera only 20 minutes ago, nothing was on the ground. now you can see it is covering all the grassy areas, but those treated roadways are just wet right now. there's the storm team 4 radar. see this batch of snow quickly moving through northern virginia and the areas across maryland where all you see is white and gray. all snow. continuing another couple of hours leaving about an inch or coating. a couple inches farther west. barbara? you're important, and special, believe me it's crew. it's true. no one in the world is exactly like you. >> first lady michelle obama reading to kids just a few minutes ago about health habits. she hosted kids from the d.c.

area at the white house reading the book called "oh, the things you can do that are good for you ". the book was written in honor of dr. seuss and family favorites like cat in the hat on hand to encourage kids to eat healthy. well if you're like most people one of your new year's resolutions is take better care of your health and lose weight but that's often easier said than done. dr. joshua weiner joins us this morning with weight-loss advice. i asked about this. he said he would tell us his secrets. we're happy to you have talk about that. >> sure. >> help a lot of us out. we all know exercise and diet are the keys to losing weight. what everybody says. i wondered any mental tricks we can use, techniques to do it psychologically? get ourselves under control? >> if people take one message from this this is what i want it do be. a couple things. one, you've got to realizes slow down when you eat because itic tas about 20 minutes for your brain to get the signal from your stomach that you're full.

so slow down. drink more water. eat more slowly. that's number one. but as far as little tricks psychologically, the big one here. again, the 20-minute rule. i say to people i could write a diet book called "the diet rule." take a plate of food you think is reasonable in serving size. make sure it's healthy, eat it. wait 20 minutes and see if you're still hungry. still hungry? eat more. if during the day you're feeling a craving for something you know you shouldn't eat, wait 20 minutes before up try it because we know that cravings for things regardless of what it is last about 20 minutes and then they start to diminish. so that piece of chocolate cake might seem irresistible if you were to act on it right way. if you wait 20 minutes, do something else distract yourself in some way, chances are you'll resist it if you wait. i think that ideally, depends

what you've eaten during the day, what the snack is. if -- you've got to realize, again what you're eating for. right? eating because you're upset or bored or eating because you had a rough day or legitimately hungry and have good reason to be hungry? if you are really hungry and have good reason to be hungry make a healthy choice. why i think you have to make sure your house does not contain things that are too tempting and things you shouldn't eat. don't have bad food that you know isn't good to eat in your house. it's way too easy to give in to that temptation. you want to have good healthy choices around you. >> nothing around you to reward yourself for being good at din jer. >> i don't think you should. if you have a goal to lose weight you know? got to do what you've got to do you and i talked many times off the air about the potential good of a dietary cleanse? what do you think about that? >> i can't claim to be an expert on all of them.

some are like starvation liquid diets a few days but one cleanse i myself have done family friends and patients have done called "clean." the name of the book written by alejandro younger. a doctor who came up with a month-long cleanse doing juicing and smoothies as well as eating whole food about this is unbelievable the impact it can have on some people. help with -- it really was one of the most exciting things i ever did for my health and had patients actually one patient who was in his 30s, iron man triathlete on a number of medicines for stomach issues. after the cleanse, able dpo go off all medications. >> i'm going to buy the book. >> for sure. >> thanks. >> all right. time 11:50. coming up budget cuts at the irs and why identity thieves could take advantage. we're not only keeping an eye on today's weather but looking ahead to the possibility of snow for the weekend, too. stay with us.

tax season is under way. the irs is warning its customer service may be worse than ever and we're the ones suffering the consequences. peter alexander explains. >> reporter: sheila is already fed up with the irs. the victim of tax refund fraud twice, she spent years trying to get her money back and identity restored. >> frustrating, scary.

grag vat aggravating and time consuming. i was constantly on the phone here at work at home. >> reporter: frustrations like hers will likely get worse this year. in an alarming e-mail warned five straight years of budget cuts will leave more americans at risk because new taxpayer protections against identity theft will be delayed. the irs predicts it will only be able to answer half of the 100 million calls it expects from taxpayers this year. those who do get through could wait 30 minutes or more to talk to a real person. the agency insists fewer staff members means fewers audits that could cost the government at least $2 billion in revenue. and tax refunds for paper filers could be delayed. >> skeptics suggest that you're just raising alarm bells because you don't want further budget cuts because it may not go well? >> we've had budget cuts five years in a row, sooner or later a good american record. we're doing our best. >> who can help us figure this

out? we can. >> reporter: tax fern firms may capitalize. people who received health insurance subsidies will need to fill out extra forms. what's a taxpayer to do? go online to irs.gov for free add rice and to avoid becoming a tax fraud victim file sooner than later. >> crooks try to beat you to the punch. the secret simply file ahead of them. >> reporter: before scam artists steal your identity and your refund. peter alexander, nbc news, washington and attention walmart shoppers. you can now pick up your tax refund in cash at any walmart the program is calmled walmart direct to cash. sets you back about $7. you have to file taxes with a participating tax preparer and check that option. following several developing stories for new a few minutes. maryland governor-elect marion hogan sworn into office. a live look from the maryland

state house in annapolis. watch ewing using the nbc washington app. chris gordon is there and sleel reports this afternoon beginning on news 4 at 4:00. this afternoon, federal investigators will brief congressional lawmakers in our region about metro's underground emergency. both lawmakers and the ntsb will hold separate nfs conferences tonight around 6:30. stay with us for updates. the area is under a winter weather advisory until six tonight. snow falling in the northern and western parts of our area for over an hour now. a look at grace falls, a few minutes ago. look for live updates throughout the afternoon on nbc 4. also we'll send you breaking weather alerts to your phone with the nbc washington app. time now for a final check on the forecast. tom is here? >> coming down hard here. a few of downtown. >> big flakes. >> another view. this is the reston camera view.

showing it all morning angd now you can see all of the grassy area coated with snow. visibility may be under a half mile. snowing at a rate of about an inch and hour there. all that area you see in the white and gray that is snow. it is continuing to track from the southwest heading northeast. quickly moving through northern virginia. the district and maryland over the next couple of hours. farther south, the green area a little bit of light rain in southern maryland parts of the northern. a coating around the washington metro area and nearby suburbs. one to two inches farther west and farther north maybe two to three inches farther north near the pennsylvania border. frederick to hagerstown and martins begg. tomorrow morning a freezing. watch out. patchy ice and delays tomorrow morning. tune in to "news4 today" tomorrow morning starting very early. let you know about school delays or closings and another big storm coming in more potent friday night into saturday. stay tuned for that. the latest updates during the

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>> daniel: nicole, stop ignoring me and call me. we need to talk about

last night. man... [knock on door] well, finally... what the hell-- sorry, um... >> jennifer: bad morning? >> daniel: no, no, no, no. >> jennifer: should i come back? >> daniel: no, it's fine. please, come on in. >> jennifer: are you sure? >> daniel: yes, sorry. >> jennifer: that's okay, um-- thank you for agreeing to talk to me, i-- >> daniel: yeah, no worries, um, so, uh, what's going on? >> jennifer: jj's going through a really rough time and i think you're the only one who can help him. >> daphne: i think those are the most beautiful words in the english language. "class cancelled." >> paige: i guess. >> daphne: you know, whenever you look like you might throw up