erika? >> reporter: freddy rodriguez, jr., is out of the hospital and home recuperating by his dad's side and that makes him happy. he says he knows people have been concerned for him. >> what does that one say? >> we love you, freddy. we miss you. i hope you are all okay. >> reporter: 9-year-old freddy, jr., a student at brightwood in northwest reads me the cards his friends and teachers have sent us since the crash, and all he could think about his mom. >> were you scared? >> i was very worried. >> reporter: what were you worried about? >> that my mom went up with god. >> reporter: freddy's parents aren't doing well, but they did survive the crash and so did his little sister, but the baby brother his mother was carrying did not make it. freddy, jr., says he remembers being pulled from the wreck.

>> and then they laid me down on the grass and i said to myself what happened? and i got up and i was crying and then i was crying to myself because my mom, like, i thought she died. >> reporter: in spite of the emotional toll that night, fizz iksly freddy jr., just has a few scrapes and a fractured wrist. >> right there it hurts. >> reporter: he's taken on a lot, but being home with his dad are helping and reading these notes from his friends have also made him feel good. >> there we are. >> a lot of cards. this is a lot of people that love you. >> i know. >> the family needs a lot of help and we've posted a link to the go fund me page to the facebook washington page and freddy's dad tells me about the first and final moments that he had with his youngest son. that's tonight at 6:00. >> thank you, erika. well, we are getting a new look at what russia is calling long-range air strikes against isis in syria and the ministry

of defense targeting oil refining and storage facilities. russia says the strikes will cost isis more than $1 million a day in lost profits. russia ramped up the air strikes in syria after confirmation that a bomb took down the russian jetliner in egypt. also one week now since the attacks in paris. the death toll rose to 130 today as someone who was injured died. you are looking live at one of the cafes where gunmen opened fire as part of the coordinated attacks. police have now conducted nearly 800 raids since those attacks last friday evening. we are also seeing new video of the moment that raid in sa t saint-denisent ended in an explosion killing the mastermind and two others. you can see the moment of the explosion from someone's phone that was recording down the street. french officials confirm a third body was found inside the opportunity today, but they have

not identified that person. in the meantime french outlets are saying that hasna aitboulahcen did not blow herself up with a suicide vest. she was thought to have been europe's female suicide bomber. right now muslims in our area are gathering outside the white house to bring messages of peace. they say they are angry at islamic extremists using religion to carry out horrendous attacks. news 4's meagan fitzgerald talks to one woman making it her life's mission to end extremism. meagan is live where it started. >> reporter: we had an opportunity to speak to many of the muslims here tonight and they wanted to be here to show that they stand for love and peace. take a look behind me here and they just started gathering and they're praying at the moment and it started just about a couple of minutes ago and they held a sign that we, muslims, do not stand with terrorism. we do not stand with isis. we spoke with a woman earlier

today who works for the united nations. she says she's trying to stop young people from becoming radicalized. >> in the last five months, we've seen two teenagers from prince william county aligned with isis. a mean pleading guilty, to fly to syria to joint the fight. the question so many want to know is why. >> how can you bring people into the conversation when youth radicalization is an issue. star rahim is a youth representative for the united nations. she's toured college campuses around the country speaking with young muslims about their faith. she says some are struggling to understand who they are and where they fit in since the conversation about islam is often dominated by the horrific attack from isis. >> there is a lack of self identity and that's paired with a lack of understanding of faith and that's the most vulnerable breeding ground for youth

extremism. >> reporter: which is why rahim is working to reach troubled youth before isis does. >> looking at action issues in the community and how can you use your faith to inspire youth to serve in the communities. >> reporter: that initiative is expected to launch in the uk in march before it comes to america. coming up at 6:00, we'll take a look at what muslims are doing all across our area here to show that they stand for peace. back to you. >> only on 4 tonight, we've learned the man who tried to storm the cockpit of the flight from dulles international in march is now formally charged with a federal crime. >> just a minute after takeoff in the flight to dulles international, the man made a bealine from the cockpit to say he pulled at the cockpit door and screamed the plane isn't going fast enough, let me in.

>> declaring an emergency due to a passenger -- disturbance. he's restraineded. we need to return to the airport. >> footage obtained by nbc news shows passengers trying to restrain that man in the first-class section of the united airlines flight. fbi records revealed a man told investigators he suffered from panic attacks and fear of flying and said he'd had several drinks before the flight, but this wasn't his first incident. the feds say the 36-year-old tried to board a flight at reagan national earlier that same day and was removed for being noncompliant with the crew. he was seen walking back and forth nervously between the seat and the galley and asked to be let off. then the night of the dulles flight a flight attendant was concerned about the man's behavior and suggested to a gate agent he be removed, but he remained on. the passengers described that incident to nbc news in march.

>> i asked him, please, relax. you need to calm down. he didn't do that and so at that time i felt that the best decision was to -- to put him on the ground. >> that 36-year-old man now facing a federal criminal charge and interfering with the flight crew. he's scheduled to face a judge inial exandrin ray in two weeks. >> the sun is setting on what is about to be a chilly night. brace yourself, and it could be the biggest chill of the season. >> hunker down. we'll feel a big change. that comes today on sunday, but even tonight will be one of the coldest nights we've seen all season and we're talking about temperatures getting down into the 30s in the city and we've done that one time this season and the numbers are cooling down to 45 in win chester and 53 in d.c. and 49 in culpeper and the winds will start to subside and that's what made it really cool

today and the temperatures will fall and by 9:00, 10:00, notice the numbers and 47 by 9:00, 45 by 11k:00. that's in the city and some of you will be in the 30s at this point and i do expect some of you to be in the upper 20s by early tomorrow morning and they're colder on sunday and i have that forecast. the howard university dorm hit by a car is safe from more than 500 students who live there. that student driving the car could be facing charges and he was arrested shortly after the crash at bethune annex residence hall last night. police tell us he'd been drinking before the crash and no one was injured. students inside were evacuated while that building was checked out. >> a local woman has been fighting for nearly a year now and tax officials sent her notices saying she owed more than $13,000, but there was a problem. she didn't live in the district. as mark segraves reports, the tax office is reviewing its

procedures to make sure this doesn't happen again. >> reporter: elizabeth leblanc has lived in the district since 2012. she got a notice from the d.c. tax office saying she owed more than $6,000 in 2011. >> this was a mistake that will be easy to clear up. >> it took from january to july to get someone to respond to me and i had to send my taxes three times. >> she got another notice from more than $9,000 due to interest, and the d.c. tax offers acknowledged it had made a mistake and she didn't owe them anything, but the credit collectors didn't stop. >> i got a letter for $13,000. >> first of all, i apologize to her. it should not have happened. >> the d.c. tax offers is rev w reviewing its procedures. >> something slipped and we're

going through how the processes go through this kind of thing to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> despite assurances from the city that this has all been cleared up and she still worries that it will impact her credit score as she plans toy bah a home next year. coming up at 6:00, what you can do to protect yourself from having this happen to you. the district is week away from using private ambulances for some 911 call, but now we have a better idea how that program will work. d.c. fire chief tells news 4's mark segraves that private ambulances will be required to respond to a call within 10 to 12 minutes. those units will not be stationed at city firehouses. the city is still selecting a company and it will be four to six weeks before those units are in service. it will always be the first to respond and private ambulances will only be used for patients whose injuries are not

life-threatening. the man set to be retried for chandra levy's murder may try to point to gary condit. according to wtop his lawyers have requested the phone record, pictures and documents from the initial police investigation into condit. levy was having an affair with condit when she went missing in 2001 and police looked at the congressman and then ruled him out. guandique's new trial is set for march. here at the live desk we're following the update on the attack overseas in mali where at least 23 people have been killed. >> now the hostage situation is over. >> three of the attackers are dead, but crews are still negotiating a surrender with an unknown number of terrorists. >> this is all unfolding in mali's capital city at a radisson hotel about a mile from the american embassy. >> the united nations says three

staffers got out safely and six americans also escaped after gunmen breached hotel security and started shooting and taking hostages. >> police and military forces stormed the hotel and put an end to the hostage situation, but there's still an unknown number of gunmen that are holed up on one of the upper floors. a group that used to be affiliated with al qaeda is claiming responsibility for the attacks. at the live desk, i'm chris lawrence. i'm darcy spencer in northwest washington where a homeless tent city is being cleared out by the district government today. coming up, i'll tell you why officials say it has to happen right now. plus he's the man who revealed a dangerous security flaw in the heart of our nation's capital. now the man who landed that gyrocopter on capitol hill is making another statement. jim, a creative crook almost got away with stealing hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise from a local mall. we'll tell you how police

piles of merchandise stolen from a store in pentagon city mall. police tell us it was an inside job. >> and it was not by a worker for the one store, but someone who has access to just about every single store in that mall. here's our northern virginia

reporter david culver with a story you will only see on 4. >> reporter: the fashion center of pentagon city, known by most as pentagon city mall offers 170 different stores. among them, the footlocker. police say it's been the scene of a crime for some time. boxes and boxes of shoes gone missing over several nights. >> this went on for months and we've got at least four cases where he stole a number of items from the footlocker. >> this is who police are referring to, meza guevera. he's got unique knowledge of the non-working surveillance cameras. >> there is always a trail. >> police say the cameras in the garage gave them a big clue. they allegedly show meza wheeling in a large, mostly empty trash bin. nine minutes later, he's back on camera, the same bin full and covered by a blanket and it was enough for police to search his

house. inside they found dozens of store merchandise, 69 pairs of shoes in boxes, eight pairs of boots, nine women purses and even perfume. things that police say may have come from other stores. who knows what he was doing with the merchandise and from there there could be potentially additional charges. >> so here's what we know about meza guevera. he is in the arlington county detention center, but police think this may have been able to go on for so long in part because of how they say meza decided to cover his tracks. i'll share that with you ahead on news 4 at 6:00. wendy? >> david culver. former fairfax county police officer who was charged with murder in the high-profile shooting of john geer has to stay in jail. and it was denied by the judge today and the judge refused to dismiss this case and ruled that the trial not be moveded. torres shot and killed geer in 2013 while responding to a

domestic call at geer's springfield home. geer was standing at the door with his hands in plain view. he was indicted with fairfax settled with the geer family. the trial begins next month. it's disappearing as we speak. we're talking about a homeless encampment in one of the busiest parts of d.c. and a now familiar site for anyone driving in that area. news 4's darcy spencer is along rock creek parkway to show us why the encampment is being cleared out and what's next for some of the people living there. darcy? >>. >> reporter: jim, this came as no surprise and government agencies have been coming out here in the last few weeks telling people they would have to get rid of the tents and move on. they were offered services including help with finding housing, but today was the deadline and you can see most of the camp site here, but look off in the distance. you still see about a handful of

tents and those folks say they're not leaving. >>. >> d.c. workers throw out items not far from the watergate and kennedy center. >> you'll get a copy of everything. city officials have been working with residents for weeks to get them out of tents and into housing. >> i became homeless because i took to drinking, you know, and when i was drinking i lost my job and things and lost my companion, and i just went off. >> reporter: owen is 65 years old and he says he likes living here and refuses to go to a shelter where many here say there are bedbugs, thefts and violence. >> reporter: where do you go from here? back on the street. i guess live like an animal lives. >> reporter: residents were served with these infraction notices and told to leave immediately that camping is illegal. the deputy mayor says the area will be fenced off for a 90-day water project as soon as the

site is cleared. >> we are here at a camp site that has been determined to be hass douse and unsafe. >> this pregnant woman was actually happy she says the city found her housing. >> i feel really good because i'm going to school. so i couldn't do both. >> what did the city say to you? >> reporter: ken buffalo used to be homeless and now he works to get them help. >> when you've been chronically homeless like this you're in survival mode. you're not living like the rest of us. >> reporter: many of the people i spoke to here today say they will probably end up back on the streets just not in this particular location. the government says they don't plan to make any arrest and they're hoping everyone will be cooperative. jim? >> darcy spencer, thank you. we invite you to join us in the annual campaign when we provide a thanksgiving meal to local families in need. there are several ways that you can help.

monday you can drop off food and cash donations from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. down at the verizon center and wendy and i will be there along with pat lawson muse or any of the washington bank locations and adler's jewelry and saks fifth avenue until thanksgiving or you can make a donation online and we'll be working the phone banks. >> the commute could soon be faster, but it might come at a cost. tolls could be coming to a stretch of i-66. the county board endorsed a plan last night and calls for tolls on weekdays during the peak periods and in peak directions. the idea is to get traffic moving faster, but it could cost some drivers up to $300 a month. some say it's worth it and others not so sure. we all have to get to work somehow. so no matter what transportation that you have, it's going to go up anyway. >> i wouldn't want to at all. gas is already expensive enough. >> traffic will be better

because right now it's terrible. >> arlington county still has to work out some details before these i-66 tolls are set into place. nerves are on edge. some airlines aren't taking chances when it comes to suspicious activity, but one traveler says things went too far when he got pulled from a flight. >> why you? what do you think happened? >> probably my look, probably being me. >> and bring your bible and your gun. a megachurch at prince george's a megachurch at prince george's county wants you to pack heat

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and now your storm team 4 forecast. tonight one of the coldest nights we've seen so far this season, and it was kind of a chilly day. we saw temperatures in the mid-50s, but with the wind it was chilly. the sun went down about half an hour ago and a nice glow right now and the temperatures are cooling quickly and 53 degrees at the airport and much cooler in some of the suburbs and we got down to the 40s and that's where everyone will be in the next two or three hours and it will be dry and cool and the warm jacket will be needed if you're one of those people that

gets cold easily as temperatures will fall through the 40s and no rain to talk about and you have to go back toward the west to see the next storm system moving our way and iowa, parts of south dakota over a foot of snow today and that system is moving our way and it's not bringing snow and rain for us and it's just bringing the cold air and there are winter storm warnings around chicago and it could be a big snow for them and four to eight inches in the chicagoland area. first off, tonight's cold and it has nothing to do with the storm and we get cold air behind it and 29 in kull pepper and 21 in gaithersburg and herndon coming up at 32 to 33 degrees and a cold start to your saturday and then saturday afternoon high temperatures into the low to mid-50s and 53 for a high in d.c. with plenty of sunshine and that's not bad, but it will start cool and end cool. i really think between 11:00 and 3:00 it will be an okay day across our region and the impact for the weather is on the low side and sunny and quite cool,

but a much bigger impact on sunday because high temperatures of 49 degrees and the winds will be up today and even stronger than today and 20 to 30 miles per hour and that will make things fairly cold on sunday and sunday night into monday and monday, food for family and we'll be out at the verizon center and come on down, but bundle up and 45 degrees for the high temperature, but take a look, coldest air yet and the first freeze in the city and we're going to 32 in d.c. and the suburbs will be in the low 20s. coming up at 5:45, veronica has the thanksgiving day forecast. a new controversy for donald trump. a database to track muslims. what he has to say now after the interview went viral. the man who flew the gyrocopter on capitol hill wants to make a deal. >> reporter: if you wanted

now at 5:30, a plea deal for the gyrocopter pilot who used washington's no-fly zone to get attention. >> everything needs to be left on the aircraft. we will have you folks de-plane the aircraft and there are several busses just pulling up. >> a scare in the air and how this in-flight disturbance may lead to a lawsuit. donald trump's latest drama. backlash after reports that he wants to track muslims in this country.

>> how do you get them registered? >> it would be just good management you have to do good management. >> welcome back at 5:30 on a busy friday. i'm jim handly. >> i'm wendy rieger where we are working on a number of stories at this hour. first to the hotel siege in mali, islamist extremists armed with guns and they stormed the luxury total killing at least 18 people and surviving hotel guests are safe, but as ron mott is showing us, police and military forces are going room to room in that hotel so the death toll could rise. >> reporter: the hostage crisis over at the radisson hotel in mali's capital city, but the military operation is still ongoing. officials say at least two alleged gunmen are dead and a number of others are holed up in the upper floor of the hotel as police and military forcy try to negotiate their surrender. the death toll is at least 18 and there are fears that number may rise among hostages as authorities continue to assess

the situation going room to room looking for more victims. >> u.s. officials say six americans who were in the hotel are among those who were safely evacuated though it is unknown if any americans were killed. >> one of them died in the attacks. this started at 7:00 local time when a group of gunmen breached hotel security by displaying diplomatic plates and at one point asking hostages if they can recite a muslim declaration and those who could were then freed. shortly after malian police and military forces responded as did upwards of 40 french special forces members who eventually helped end today's hostage siege. ron mott, nbc news, london. president obama was briefed on this mali attack while he was in malaysia. he said he was monitoring the situation there in malaysia and it's the last stop on the president's nine-day trip overseas. during a college town hall

the president encouraged young people in that predominantly muslim nation to reject the vision of the militants who carry out acts of terror. >> you can set an example and not just to stand up to violent extremism, but to build interfaith dialogue, promote tolerance and to combine an appreciation of your own culture and traditions with the modern world. >> obama praised malaysia as a muslim nation that promotes peace and tolerance. critics are blasting presidential hopeful donald trump. [ inaudible question ] >> there should be a lot of systems. today you can do it, but right now we have to have a border. we have to have strength and we have to have a wall and we cannot let what's happening in this country. >> i would certainly implement that. >> absolutely. >> what do you think the effect of that would be? how does that work?

>> it would stop people from coming in illegally. we have to stop people from coming into our country illegally. >> it would be just good management. what you have to do is good management procedures and we can do that. >> is it important that you go to the mosque to sign these people up? different places. it's all about management. our country has no management. >> whose is that? >> mine. >> they have to be in the database? >> let me just tell you, the key is people can come to the country, but they have to come in legally. thank you very much. >> some of donald trump's closest competitors are weighing in on controversial comments and appear to be trying to distance themselves from him without taking direct aim. >> a big fan of donald trump's, but not a fan of government registries and american citizens and the text amendment for

religious liberties and i've spent the past decade defending the religious liberty of every american. >> we have a database on folks who are already here. i don't think it's a good idea to treat anybody differently. >> late this afternoon trump tweeted out that the reporter asking him questions is the one who suggested the database. he added that we need surveillance including a watch list to protect the u.s. from islamic terrorism. please leave all of your belongings on the aircraft. >> a man questioned after a possible bomb threat onboard a plane says he was targeted for the way he looks and now he wants a refund and he's considering a lawsuit. the man was one of two people detained in fort lauderdale last night and the spirit airlines flight headed to minneapolis and returned after someone was overheard possibly mentioning a bomb. nothing was found and the fbi is

now calling it a miscommunication. the man says the airline refused to let him fly even after the fbi cleared him. >> probably my look. probably being me. being somebody that have a different appearance than most of the people. there was nothing that i did wrong. >> the other man detained was later released and not charged. >> he flew his man made aircraft over the national mall and on to the u.s. capitol grounds. today he entered a guilty plea in that case, but he still hopes to avoid jail and continue what he started. he spoke to news 4's chris gordon who is live on capitol hill. chris? >> reporter: wendy, former postal worker douglas hughes landed right over there on the front lawn of the u.s. capitol in april. today he told the judge that he was depressed over his son's

suicide for two years and on medication when he finally decided he had to take action to give his own life meaning and he decided to protest against political corruption. >> gyrocopter doug hughes left the federal courthouse after entering a guilty plea, operating an aircraft without an airman's certificate when he flew his gyrocopter through restricted airspace landing at the u.s. capitol to advocate campaign finance reform. >> we're going to argue, of course, for probation which certainly seems appropriate to me, but i'm biased. >> reporter: prosecutors will ask that hughes get jail time. >> it could put you behind bars for up to ten months. >> no, it can put me in jail for up to three years. >> reporter: you want to go to jail? >> not a bit. it's not on my bucket list. >> reporter: before hughes is sentenced next april he's asked federal judge for permission to participate in a march and rally

from philadelphia to washington, d.c. >> it will include nonviolent civil disobedience patterned after the civil disobedience of the '60s. >> reporter: it's called democracy spring and protesters planning mass sit-ins. >> it's possible that there will be many arrests if congress doesn't mean our demand which is simply to end big money in politics and to make sure that this election is free and fair and gives everyone an equal voice. >> reporter: ahead we'll hear about how hughes feels about exposing weakness and security here at the capitol at a time when terrorism is on everyone's mind and that story is coming up on news 4 at 6:00. >> chris gordon, thank you. what's for dinner, how about genetically engineered salmon and a debate about whether it's safe to eat. >> first it was planes and helicopters targeted by people helicopters targeted by people with those laser pointers, but [ female announcer ] business travel isn't just about the going.

it's also about the going home. and being connected all along the way. whether you're working or recharging, do business travel on your terms. acela. take off. the e. coli outbreak linked to chipotle is now spreading. it isn't just an issue in the northwest. new cases have popped up in california, new york, ohio. we already knew about minnesota and the majority of illnesses have been in oregon and washington state. so far, 45 people have been infected and 16 had to go to the hospital. the cdc is trying to figure out

the specific food linked to the illnesses. >> not all health and food experts are con vined about the fda's historic decision on genetically modified salmon. for the first time the food and drug administration declared an animal engineered with genes from a different species as safe to eat. millions of us are eating genetically modified fruits and vegetables. the fda has been reviewing the gmo salmon for years and says there is no health risk from eating it. our tom sherwood spent time off of nbc 4 getting some ink. why he's getting a tattoo for a cause. prince george's county police are giving out cash for guns. i'm tracee wilkins. coming up on news 4, if you're a gun owner and want to get rid of your weapon, no questions asked, you don't want to miss this story. last time we had air that cold was eight months ago and exactly what will move in for this weekend? i'll show you what it will feel

like and how we rebound

we are seeing new surveillance video that in a for case at first glance appeared to be a car accident. you can see the victim's car going down utica place in springdale earlier this month. someone outside that car shot bernard parker before his car hit a tree in someone's yard. they still have no motive and no suspect. in an effort to get guns off the streets in the county, a church will be swapping gift cards for old guns tomorrow.

our prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins is live from glen arden. >> there have already been 68 homicides in prince george's county this year, surpassing last year's number total most of those homicides guns were used in those crimes, and it's part of the reason why this church and the prince george's county police are helping get the guns off the streets. >> the pastor john k. jenkins is making an unusual request. >> bring them on in. >> reporter: this is the second time the church has partnered with the prince george's county police department in the gift cards for guns program. >> people have different views about gun, but our belief is that too many tragedies are happening with guns laying around the house, kids picking them up and somebody getting angry and doing something that they later regret. >> we get the old shotguns and left in people's closets for

decades and they have been altered and used in crimes and have had the serial number drilled out. we get everything. >> reporter: the police department has collected nearly 1,000 guns and given out $150,000 in gift cards helping to pay for those cards. >> last year, first bap ditist to buy additional cards. >> the money came so fast that in the spur of the moment, we didn't want to turn people away. >> for us it's a partnership with the faith community and they offered $50 gift cards, and $100 for handguns and automatic, semiautomatic, no questions áy]vpráeujuk gun we take off th street is one less gun that we have to worry about out there. either hurting somebody or being used in a crime or even being used against us. >> this all happens tomorrow at the first baptist church from 1:00 a.m. and for more

information go to twitter and search@traceewilkins. >> we asked the pastor why would he invite folks with guns into the church and he said that was nothing new and he explains why. i'm tracee wilkins in upper marlboro. back to you in the studio. >> thank you, tracee. >> you may have noticed that our tom sherwood isn't at work tonight and he's recovering after he made a permanent change to his body. tom, kojo nnamdi and said if a major donation was made to wamu, and he got his flag tattooed on his upper arm and kojo got a flag on his upper arm and boy, that had to hurt. yes, #dcflagtattoo is trending in washington right now. >> so is sherwood gun show.

>> he may have to take those to church and turn them in. >> all right, v.j., cold and colder. >> we acclimate ourselves to the cold and just when we've done that, we start again and wait until you see the temperatures coming our way with the holiday with thanksgiving coming up. as far as this evening goes, a bit of a chill in the air, but it gets progressively colder, as i said and this is a look at early monday because i wanted to show you this because this is the pocket of the colder air yet and with wind it feels like it's 20 to 25 degrees across much of the area for monday morning and yes, it is food for friends and wake-up weather for tomorrow 29 to 39 and a big range in temperatures and there will be neighborhoods dipping down to around the freezing mark early tomorrow morning and a cold start indeed, but what i like about tomorrow is that it still is good weather with sunshine to do all of the things they need to do and getting around and walking and exercising and we have the green light for walking around and you'll need a warm

jacket for exercising and saturday will be better than sunday and you'll see what i'm talking about in just a moment. it is another change that we'll be going through on sunday with the cold front moving through for tomorrow and ahead of that front, cold to cool conditions with temperatures rising to the low 50s by around 1:00 and it's not until late in the day that i think we'll start to pick up some clouds and cloud cover will be moving into the area with high clouds and they'll start to lower from this weather system and start bridnging some snow into chicago for a couple of inches. here's a look at sunday, breezy, cold, and the front moves through early and 4:00 to 7:00 a.m. and those wind chills will feel like they're in the 30s and then as we saw as we get into early monday morning it will feel like we're in the 20s and the other thing is this weekend is dry and we're dry, in fact for days, through wednesday and the big travel day as well as thursday, thanksgiving day. as far as traveling goes, the rain right here, dallas all of the way up to minneapolis,

minnesota and things will be warming up in the nation's mid sections and more cold air will come into the pacific northwest, and keep that in mind if you plan on traveling this area and this area around wednesday and thursday. as we get up to that, there's food for families at the verizon center and all day long, pat hughes will be there and she'll have her long johns on and it will be the first freeze in the city with the suburbs dropping down to the low 20s in many locations and we'll also be dipping down to around freezing, but without the wind and that's really important. 50 degrees on tuesday, thanksgiving day right now where your turkey is, and we've got sunshine on tap and watch them move across the peelfield and w go right back up for thanksgiving day with sunshine and mild conditions. >> it was tough, i had to get him to sit still.

i'll have that coming up at 6:00. >> great. take a look. this is capitol hill looking a bit festive. this is time lapse video of the capitol christmas tree getting hoisted on the truck and it's a 74-foot spruce and it won't be decorated until after thanksgiving it is making a big impression and news 4's mollet green says she saw people moved to sing and even cry before arriving to its final destination. >> look what rolled into town on 18 wheels after miles. >> o, tannenbaum. >> reporter: not yet dressed for the glitz of the holiday season and already getting lots of attention, this is the first capitol christmas tree to come from alaska. >> i liken it to traveling with a celebrity. wherever you stop, the tree gets all of the attention and you just do whatever it needs.

>> reporter: but this tourist from maine is staking her state's claim to at least part of this tree's journey. >> no, but i did discover that the trailer is registered in maine. so something -- maine has been involved with this tree. go maine. >> the 74-foot spruce, not even at her perch in the capitol, but already making a big statement. >> when i just came and walked down capitol hill and came around the corner and saw the tree and the capitol it's like i'm really proud of our country. >> i think this makes a statement about our unity, our values, our families, our communities, and it really hit me and now i'm going to cry about it. >> reporter: once the capitol tree is in place some 4,000 decorations will go on it. the children of alaska made those ornaments, and 2,000 lights will make it glow through the holiday season.

house speaker paul ryan will light it december 2nd and it will stay that way until january 2nd. on the west lawn of the capitol, mollet green, news 4. the safety of passengers is at risk. the laser pointer danger that goes beyond blinding

i'm melissa mollet. it kind of sounds like it should be flanked by shamrocks or perhaps would be the perfect place to spot a leprechaun. in this week's edition of "meet your street" kiehl take you down one very fortunate road and dig through what used to be there and we'll talk to a prince george's county historian for the story behind its promising name. >> there is never a day that there isn't an interesting question that comes up. join us tonight on news 4 at 6:00. laser pointers are blinding more than pilots these days. in new york city the problem is spreading from planes and helicopters to the city busses. >> as mark santia reports, a driver says he was temporarily blinded by a passenger during a ride. >> it was terrifying at first, because when i saw the beam i wasn't sure, and startling because it was the middle of rush hour and onboard kenneth johnson's bus when his left eye

was zapped with the laser. it was looking into the white light and a red beam. behind the wheel, johnson was hit not by someone shining the laser inside, but rather someone inside the bus. one of his own passengers. >> i looked up at my center console and that's when i got the laser shot into my eyes, and it was a reflection from one of the passengers in the back of the bus. >> johnson stepped on the brakes and pulled over. the person with the red laser took off. >> it's a big concern for us. >> chopper 4 was recently hit with the green laser while hovering over brooklyn and this is the first time they've heard a city bus driver was singled out. >> planes and helicopters have automatic pilots and have co-pilots. >> we spoke to johnson just after we left the eye doctor and it does not appear he has any permanent damage. the 24-year vet hopes to be driving again soon. >> it's dangerous to use laser

pointers at any person operating any motor vehicles and it's dangerous and puts the public at risk. >> they're looking at bus security video to see if they can identify the man who pointed that laser. >> stay right there. news 4 at 6:00 starts right now. now at 6:00, new details on two stories developing overseas. first, al qaeda reportedly is claiming responsibility for a terror attack at a hotel in mali. terrorists with machine guns stormed in targeting foreigners. this comes one week after the attacks in paris that left 130 people dead. we begin with breaking news about that attack in mali. nbc news just confirmed with a senior state department official that been american was killed there. there are conflicting accounts on the total number of people that were killed. united nations officials count 19 civilians and one police officer. here's nbc's gabe gutierrez.

the hostage crisis is over at the radisson blu hotel in mali capital city and it is still under way. the united nations now saying that three of its staffers have been safely evacuated. officials say at least two of the gunmen are dead and an unknown number of others are holed up in the upper floor of the hotel as police and military forces try to negotiate their surrender, but it is a fluid situation, as authorities are going room to room looking for more victims. this all started at 7:00 a.m. local time when a group of gunmen apparently breached hotel security by displaying diplomatic plates on their vehicle and once inside they began collecting hostages. at one point asking people if they could recite a muslim declarati declaration, those who could were allowed to escape. >> military forces stormed the hotel eventually helping end the hostage siege and there were reports that a p