details about a law enforcement officer who earn? izes in undercover work. now he's accused of having inappropriate contact with a child just hours after appearing on news 4 yesterday. >> we're on the scene of a police-involved shooting in washington. what we're learning about the confrontation that led to shots being fired in a residential neighborhood. >> a solemn memorial as the remains of six american airmen return to u.s. soil. >> if you have travel plans for christmas or expecting someone to arrive tonight be prepared to wait. >> between people getting off work, folks going away for the holiday and the rain, it is slow going right now. >> here is a live look at i-95 north of woodbridge. this could be bumper to bump or a good day and we have been seeing solid cars since 2:00 this afternoon. not quite as bad as 270 in montgomery counted and this is expected to be about as bad trafficwise for the rest of the week. >> here's good news. take a look.

that's the$1.69 at the gas stat. and the average for the entire region is now below $2 a gallon and let's see if there's good news coming from the weather department, amelia segal and doug kammerer are both starting us off. hi, doug. >> good news if you wanted a break in the rain and good news if you wanted 07-degree temperatures because that's what we've got across the region and that's what we're seeing with very warm air. let's show you first off the radar and one thing you notedis here, we're seeing the rain moving on through and we have very heavy rain just to the north of d.c. and a little break right now, right around the washington, d.c., metro area and not a whole lot going on here and we haven't seen some flooded roadways out here. so that's good news and we are going to see some of the water begin to subside, but look at the rain down to the south of kullpepper and that is all moving to the north and east and it will move back in here as we

move through the evening. amelia segal has her umbrella all of the time. amelia, we're watching the rain, but that's not the only area we're watching. >> we have another period of rain and the higher likelihood of rain from friday on into saturday, as well. right now outside it's balmy, it's mild and the winds not an issue, but overnight tonight as we continue to dry out the rains will increase. we could be dealing with strong, gusty winds and a moderate threat of that and a low to moderate risk of some heavier downpours moving through the area. here's future weather showing you this rain. it's not an all-day rain by any means. notice here we are at 9:30 moving through the metro area with the brighter colors. that's heavy rain that accoucou reduce visibility and by 3:30, doug, we're looking at dry conditions and mild temperatures. record warmth in the forecast for tomorrow and that's not the only record we're talking about,

right? >> no, we have two records in the next four-day period and we'll talk more about that coming up in a couple of minutes. a veteran tobacco investigator busted in an undercover sting outside a local mall. the officer had inappropriate sexual contact with a 14-year-old and wanted to meet with him last night. just hours before his arrest he was talking to news 4's scott macfarlane about a high-profile case we reported on. scott, quite a story. >> reporter: the manassas park man was known for his undercover stings including the cigarette bust i talked to him about yesterday for a story that aired here on news 4 at 6:00 last night. just an hour later he was the one in handcuffs. this was paul carey on the job investigating illegal tobacco trafficking in virginia. carey has been a veteran agent with the north virginia cigarette tax board. fairfax county police say carey was fooleded by their undercover sting last night. they say a detective pretending to be a 14-year-old boy arranged

to meet up with carey near the lord and taylor at fair oaks mall. police say carey was trying to, quote, solicit the boy. carey had already had inappropriate sexual contact with the boy one week ago. police say carey is a law enforcement agent. >>. >> obviously, it puts him in a position of authority and we wanted to notify the community of the incident and of course, like i said, any victims that may have come in contact with mr.care t carey to please give call. he was featured in several news 4 reports on tobacco smuggling including one just yesterday. he's appeared before the state legislature to testify about tobacco issues. police say carey was unable to post bond last night after his arrest. no answer at his home in prince william county today. carey is the second law enforcement agent accused of

misconduct with a child. a detective, david abbott killed himself moments before police could charge him with inappropriate contact with an underaged person. a deeper review shows a sharp increase of child exploitation cases under investigation in our region up 70%. federal investigations by the fbi and local tank forces in just one year. back to you. they served with distinction to be the best and greater than themselves. >> u.s. troops saluted the six service troops who were killed in a taliban attack this week and troops paid their respects in front of six empty pairs of boots. on monday a suicide bomber drove his motorcycle into nato patrol and set off his explosives and made that the deadliest day for troops in afghanistan in re than two years. >> today the remains of those service members arrived at dover air force base for a dignified

transfer. peter taub is one of the six service members. his mother and brother live in our area and run a restaurant in dupont circle. other victims include technical sergeant joseph lemm. adrianna vorderbruggen who fought against don't ask don't tell. staff sergeant michael cinco, and chester mcbride and louis michelle boncasa is from new york and this was supposed to be his last tour of duty. >> we mentioned that air force major adrianna vorderbruggen fought don't ask don't tell the military policy and she's the first openly gay female officer to be killed in the line of duty. vorderbruggen became one of the first active service members to be married in the same-sex ceremony. a retired commander remembers vorderbruggen as a fighter who once served in the shadows. >> her death in some way signifies that women and

lesbians and gays are truly equal and that we do have the same risk out there. >> vorderbruggen's wife released a statement that said in part, she has always been my hero, never more so than now. she also leaves behind a young son. here at home we're watching a developing story in prince george's county where police started shooting in a quiet residential neighborhood in fort washington. this afternoon officers confronted a suspect in a car and that person is now in custody. news 4's derrick ward is live to explain what happened here. derrick? >> reporter: well, we're starting to piece this all together. we're here in the 13,000 block of clarion court in fort washington and prince george's county. police have left the scene and we want to show you some video and take a look, and we believe this is the car that's involved in all of this at the start of it and it was at 2:00 p.m. when someone called police to report a suspicious vehicle and a person in it. a red nissan altima with 30-day

tags. according to the police account as police approached an individual got out of that car and police noticed he was armed a shot was fired at least one or two and i'd like to speak to a neighbor and she heard two, maybe three shots fired and no one was hit and the suspect ran off and a search started with k-9s and other units in the area. we are told that the suspect was found hiding in a ravine and taken into custody. so far they haven't released the name of the suspect or whether or not the person had any connection of the homes in the neighborhood. they do get a lot of solicitors in the neighborhood and certainly no one like this. no one was injured and the officer involve side on routine administrative leave. >> thank you. >> a conservative group is suing fairfax county school board over a new non-discrimination policy and the liberty council claims the board violated virginia law

by adding sexual orientation and gender identity to its nondiscrimination policy over the last year and the vote sparked protests. supporters of the changes say the updated policy protects votes who identify as lgbt. ted cruz is getting support from donald trump for a controversial political cartoon in the washington post. it depicts cruz's daughters as dancing monkes. one of them is 7 years old and the other is 4 and trump calls the cartoon nasty. marco rubio also came to cruz's defense. the paper took the cartoon down and the editor apologized. coming up in ten minutes we'll hear from ted cruz and look into the growing feud between trump and hillary clinton. >> late today, president obama tweeted his support to the nba and the national basketball association and its involvement in a new campaign to end gun violence. several players are featured in

a new public service announcement directed by spike lee. >> i heard about a shooting involving a 3-year-old girl over the summer. my daughter riley is that age. >> there was a point when i felt i was going to die. >> it aired during nbc coverage on christmas day. the campaign focuses heavily on the fact that 88 americans die every day as a result of gun violence. it calls for people to join the movement with th the #endgunviolence. we're following developments right now in the black lives matter protest that has moved from the mall of america to the minneapolis airport. the impact demonstrator his on shopping and traffic just two days before christmas. >> also, we just got the preliminary report on a plane crash that killed three men from montgomery county and what he said about the moments after takeoff. traffic on i-95 and when you can expect things to get a can expect things to get a

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and we've seen the rain just about all day across the region. some of the rain has been on the heavy side and the heaviest rain is moving up in toward cecil county, maryland, to the philadelphia region and there's more down to the south around the fredericksburg area and that, too, will make its way in to the region over the next couple of hours. >> we're looking at the radar with the traffic going on and 270 is better than it was, but 95 not good all of the way toward baltimore and look at the red around the beltway and both around bethesda right on down south and 95 south looking like a mess down here, too and we'll continue to watch out for that, as well. >> much more in the way of rain and even storms tomorrow. i'll break it down for you and take you hour by hour. >> thank you, doug. rough weather in parts of the country leading to delays and aaa says get this, 100 million

of us are expected to travel between now and the first of the year. nbc's sara dallof tells us how the holiday rush is going on the road and in the air. >> reporter: christmas lights and taillights. a holiday tradition as one in three americans hit the road this holiday season. >> we're seeing more than 100 million people will be traveling overall and that's the first time it's hit that record. 91 million of those are going by car. >> gasoline is at $2.37 cheaper than we were a year ago j for those traveling by air are also needing to pack a lot of patience. rough weather is causing flight cancellations and hundreds of delays. >> we're supposed to leave at one and it's 1:30, but you know laguardia. in line throughout the nation's airports. the theme of the day is hurry up and wait. we got here and they're supposed to arrive at 10:00 and we've

been waiting ever since. >> the good news about air travel. airfares for the top 40 domestic routes are 6% lower this holiday season and averaging $144 round trip. >> lower airfares and gas prices are adding up to the big savings as americans head home for the holiday. sara dallof, nbc news, new york. >> and explosive air bags are being blamed for another death in the united states and t national traffic safety administration say he was killed by the air bag. 23 millionaire bag inflators have bekilled in the u.s. zachary blumenstein of chevy chase was arrested outside a car in townsend saturday night and police say blumenstein resisted

arrest when officers tried to detain him and they're still investigating whether the use of force was appropriate. >> protests that started in america's biggest shopping mall and attempted to shut down the airport appear to be over. >> the black lives matter demonstrations started at the mall of america which was quickly shut down and from there the protesters took a train to the minneapolis st. paul airport where two terminals were closed as people block the road outside and five arrests were made there. protesters want minneapolis police shooting a video killing jamal clark. >> donald trump now has a 21-point lead over senator ted cruz. cruz was in the spotlight and hillary clinton is scoring an even bigger lead over democrats. nbc's edward lawrence reports on the heated campaign trail. >> senator ted cruz blasts the

washington post for what he calls a tasteless attack. the newspaper ran an editorial cartoon showing cruz as an organ grinder. >> folks want to attack me, i signed up for that, that's fine. >> the editor says he usually looks at all of the cartoons, but didn't look at this one. he added in a statement it's generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it, but the cartoonist didn't back down, tweeting ted cruz has put his children in a political ad. don't start screaming when the editorial cartoonists draw them, as well. >> cruz says "the washington post" did the right thing, pulling the cartoon off its web page. >> it's not complicated. don't make fun of a 5-year-old girl and 7-year-old girl. >> it's an unwritten rule not to go after the children of candidates and gop strategists say the 2016 race for the white house has no playbook. >> when the dust settles out of this presidential race, i think the rules of presidential

campaigns will forever change. >> the jabs keep coming between donald trump and hillary clinton. >> i thought she quit. >> i thought she gave up. >> clinton calls trump's tone hateful. >> his bigotry, his blufter and bullying have become his campaign and he has to keep sort of upping the stakes. >> despite all of the back and forth a new cnn poll says trump's numbers keep climbing. >> historically, this week slows down for campaigns because of christmas, not this year. >> edward lawrence, nbc news, washington. >> gun rights advocates are sounding off about changes to handgun permit laws in virginia. new at 6:00, tonight why governor mcauliffe is enforcing current law. >> i'm mark segraves at d.c. superior court with something you don't see every day, a defendant charged with selling drugs leaves a courthouse and

>> for parts of the south it's not snow or ice, but tornadoes or flooding that could impact holiday plans. the severe thunderstorms killed one person in arkansas when a tree fell on a home in little rock. in mobile, alabama, streets are under water and they're dealing with the same problem in georgia where a flood watch is posted through friday and more than four inches of rain could fall by the end of the week. >> it makes you wonder how much -- >> and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> it makes you wonder how much snow we would have if it was 30 degrees out. >> doug, all this rain. if it were snow here no doubt we'd have a white christmas. >> how white? >> that's exactly what you said to me earlier. what if this was snow? >> well, in the past hour at the national airport, we've received close to an inch of rain and you put all of that rain together to over an inch and a half and that

would be 15 inches of snow if we were talking about snow and normally this time of year we're talking about? snow. it's not snow. it's heavy rainfall coming in across our region. 63 degrees and winds out of the south at 9 miles an hour and this would be a white christmas for sure and the last white christmas that we have was in 2009 when the snow fell and remember the blizzard just a couple of days before christmas and we had seven inches on the ground christmas day. 63, gaithersburg and 65 in fredericksburg and that beeping that you hear is the flood warning. we have one down toward the creek down toward fairfax county earlier through 8:00 tonight and that shows you just how much rain we've seen and last-minute shopping and you have the frustration going on. rain and fog 63 degrees this evening and take the umbrella tomorrow. take the umbrella again and we'll only see a few showers and downpours and storms tomorrow. most of the day it looks dry and

very warm with a high of 75. here's what's happening around the region and here's the heavy rainmaking its way up toward the north and that last beep was from northern anne arundel county and down to the south we have more heavy rain that will come through the region so we're not done just yet. you mentioned the storms back to the west and we have tornadoes, numerous tornadoes back to the west and there's been a lot of damage into places like arkansas, mississippi and portions of tennessee. very rare for this to happen ndk it happens in the month of december to get the strong storms and stronger storms around the raleigh area, and we have severe weather. for us, we're watching the next band of heavy rain that will be making its way through here in about the next hour or so and as it does, we will see things deteriorate on the roadways once again and take your time. right now the heaviest rain down toward fredericksburg around the culpeper region. so the rain tonight will be on the heavy side and we will need it as we'll be out and about

this evening. here's 7:00 and we still have the rain. by 10:00, we're just talking about lighter showers moving through and then we'll get a bit of a break and look at tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. and notice this line of storms right through the district. if they form like this we could see strong winds, maybe 40, 50 mile-an hour winds and it will be a quick storm and out of here by noon and we'll be on to the warm temperatures and not just warm, but record-breaking heat. 75 tomorrow and 69 on saturday. another record-breaking day on sunday and we get right back to 75 degrees and more of a forecast that looked more like may across our region. we'll talk more about the record warmth coming up at 6:45. >> boy, oh, boy. >> one man doesn't just sell edible marijuana. he calls himself kush god and advertises when and where he's going to sell it.

>> police say he broke the law, but he told us outside the courthouse today and it's perfectly illegal and he plans to do it again. >> also coming up at 6:30, com motion for last-minute shoppers motion for last-minute shoppers in fairfax county and how a

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>> now at 6:30, a man arrested for selling edible marijuana on

the streets of d.c., why he says he didn't break the law and he'll be back out there tomorrow. >> an armed robbery in the middle of a busy shopping day. >> that's just the world that we live in now. you have to be more careful. >> one employee tris to fight back and ends up being shot. >> a 12-year-old girl facing serious charges of threatening her classmates. >> what her mother says led her to act out. >> first at 6:30, a man busted for openly selling marijuana on the streets of d.c. out of luxury cars. he says he doesn't believe he broke the law. >> the so-called kush god made a bold promise to reporters when he walked out of court. mark segraves tells us what he had to say. >> reporter: i've been covering police and the courts for a lot of years in this town and i don't recall ever seeing anything like this, a defendant going before a judge facing multiple drug charges and then moments later walking out of this courthouse and proclaiming he'll be at it again tomorrow.

>> we understand the police have to do their job so it's just a miscommunication with what's going on, but we will continue and we'll be back at it tomorrow. while it's legal to smoke pot in d.c. and it is legal to give away marijuana, it is not legal to sell it. nicholas cunningham who calls himself and his business kush gods thought he found a way around the law by give away marijuana-laced brownies and good morningies. >> the way that he describes it it sounds like there is a difference and we are confident that the intent of these two folks was to sell marijuana. >> even advocates for legalizing the sale of pot aren't sure the kush god was operating within the law. >> i sympathize with them and i hope they're not locked up and jail and i don't think someone should go to jail for what they were doing and what we need are new laws that allow them to

regulate marijuana. >> reporter: police conducted a two-month undercover operation in which cunningham sold police not only edibles laced with pot, but also bags with marijuana. >> i'm done. i don't want to talk anymore. >> despite being arrested, cunningham says he has no plans to stop. >> i know what i'm doing is very leg legal. i feel it is great for the city. >> kush gods plan to be back out on the street tomorrow distributing marijuana and another angle to the story and one of the things that came out in court documents today that much of the gummies and the pot brownies that police confiscated did not test positive for thc, and now on social media you'll find a lot of the kush gods customers were complaining they feel ripped off. chris, back to you. >> boy, oh, boy, mark i don't know where to start with that one. thank you very much. the governor of virginia has new rules on concealed weapons.

>> terry mcauliffe was enforcing laws that the assembly put in place. mark herring announced that virginia would no longer recognize concealed handguns because their laws are more lenient than virginia's. we have disqualify irs before we have a concealed permit in virginia. india indiana, we don't have a disqualifier for people with a mental health treatment. undocumented workers and we have a disqualifier for that. domestic abusers, and stalkers. all you're trying to do and you come to the commonwealth of virginia and you need to abide by our laws. >> governor mcauliffe updated wtop radio on plans to express the 95 express lanes and he says work will get under way next year and bring the hot lanes from 395 all of the way to the d.c. line. mcauliffe is simply making good on his campaign promise to improve traffic on northern virginia. hundreds of new jobs are headed to virginia.

harris teeter plans to open a new distribution center. it will create 400 jobs. to help the county with the project, governor mcauliffe approved a $625,000 grant. a worker stopped to stop a robbery and the gunman is still on the run. it was inside a computer shop on beacon hill road. meagan fitzgerald tells us how this is changing the way some people shop. >> reporter: when you're a last-minute shopper, finding the perfect gift is top of mind. >> just last-minute stocking stuffers. >> reporter: for many on richmond highway, staying safe isser mo of their focus. >> i did a lot more internet shopping and stayed out of the malls and things like that. >> reporter: the concern for folks like katherine neil is being in a situation like the one that happened across the street on beacon hill road at 11:30 wednesday morning. >> the man entered the business and he displayed a handgun and

took an item and one employee confronted him. >> tawny wright is the spokeswoman for the fairfax county police department. she says the employee was shot after confronting the suspect who then took off toward richmond highway where many shoppers say this is the reason why they're always aware. >> you're more careful now. we are told the employee was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay. fairfax county police are asking anyone with information about this case to contact their department. reporting in fairfax county, meagan fitzgerald, news 4. family and friends said their final good-byes to a morgan state university student killed in a head-on collision in prince george's county. 20-year-old ososanya died on route 202 in upper marlboro. friends raised money for his funeral through a gofundme page and they describe him as charismatic and kind and say he was a gifted photographer. we're learning new details about what happened in the seconds before a plane crashed

and killed three men from montgomery county and the plane went down earlier this month in pennsylvania and a preliminary report found the pilot turned around shortly after takeoff and tried to land the plane. that suggests he knew something was wrong, but a full investigation could take up to a year. the three men onboard were all from rockville. >> it lit up the sky and social media on the west coast last night. a fireball shooting across the sky that turned out to be space debris. you might be surprised just how often this kind of thing happens. >> j a middle school parent thinks her daughter may have threatened other students over social media. >> she wasn't thinking like an adult. we all make mistakes. >> how police track down the threats. >> i'm tracking rain outside the region and big storms down to the south and tornadoes back to the west. i'll show you that all means to your christmas eve and christmas holiday coming up in just a minute.

>> the police chief in montgomery county says today's tribute to a fallen officer will save more lives in the future. the red cross and police department partnered on a blood drive in memory of officer noah leotta earlier this month. a suspected drunk driver hit the officer. the chief says as soon as they named the blood drive in honor of officer leotta all of the time slots filled up. >> he always thought about others before thinking of

himself, and that is such a great trait for any person to have, but certainly as a police officer. >> the chief tells news 4 he's working with the state's attorney to implement a court watch program to go after repeat drunk drivers. >> we are one step closer to learning if pepco and exelon will be able to merge creating the largest electric utility. it closed today. 9,000 letters of support were submitted. the d.c. public service commission has to approve the merger and a ruling is expected early next year. talk about an early merry christmas for blooelteatles fan. beginning tonight you will be able to stream their music and the announcement was posted on the website. until now, they were not available on streaming services, but tonight, 17 beatles albums and some of the greatest hits compilations will all be available. you'll be able to find the songs

on most streaming outlets. only on news 4 tonight, a school resource officer discovers online threats at a local middle school and why emojis on instagram were enough to get a young girl charged with a felony. a local

a local mother says bullying caused her daughter to post threatening messages on instagram. one was a hate list naming several middle school students. here's northern virginia bureau reporter david culver with a story you will see only on news 4. >> as a mom, i don't know what to tell you. i mean, it's hard because we've never been in this situation like this. >> reporter: that's the choked-up voice of a middle school parent both frustrated with her daughter's impulse to vent on social media. >> she wasn't thinking like an adult and we all make mistakes

and unfortunately it's her. >> reporter: and saddened by what she believes sparked it, bullying. >> it wasn't just one way. it was a group of boys bothering her. >> reporter: in a warrant we polled, fairfax middle schooler threatened her peers with death or bodily injury using a made-up account. >> reporter: fairfax police started investigating several instagram posts and in the comment section of one of them it read watch out, i'm coming followed by a gun, a knife and a bomb emoji. the post said the attacks were planned for last tuesday and the resource officer got word of it on monday and within hours tracked down the source. police seized a list of items from their home including a cell phone and its contacts. log-in information and other social media accounts. in a statement fairfax public county schools tells us in part, quote, unfortunately, these kinds of anonymous threats can be concerns and disruptive even when they are not credible. we asked parents to speak with

their children regarding the serious consequences that can result from the inappropriate use of social media. >> it was just too much and she couldn't handle that anymore. >> reporter: she does not think her daughter would fulfill those threats and she was only acting out as a victim. she does face a serious felony charge. in fairfax, i'm david culver, news 4. >> mystery solved. that fireball spotted streaking across the sky over three states last night was not santa making a test run. military officials say it was debris from a russian rocket re-entering the atmosphere. people from arizona, nevada and california reported seeing the fireball last night and posted pictures and videos to social media. there are some 16,000 objects in near-earth orbit right now and experts say things like this burn up every day. a kid with a penchant for pie was able to put a smile on the faces of local officers simply by sending this card to

the police department. it reads police, you get into bad stuff a lot. i know. so when bad stuff happens think of pie, also think of unicorns, rainbows, oh, and pie. police tweeted this picture of the card out today saying they love getting cards from all kinds of children, but this one takes the cake. get it, pie? takes the cake. >> was that your joke was that written in there or was it yours? >> call me out on it, though! >> is that working for you thinking of pie and unicorns as you deliver our forecast? >> somebody put it in the system. >> the 100% ours and this was a tough one. if you'd asked me back in june, what do you think christmas is like? i wouldn't say 75 degrees and that's exactly what we'll be getting and we've had rain all day today and the last two hours we've seen almost an inch and a half of rain in some parts of the area and we've seen some flooding on the roadways. so give yourself a lot of extra time and we're not quite done

with the rain just yet. 63 degrees and look at the temperatures. they don't go anywhere and 62 with showers and that rain will continue and here's the rain right now as storm team 4 radar and most of this on the light to moderate side and moderate rain and toward frederick and leesburg. along i-95 and once again seeing that heavy rain and this, the heaviest rain will move right along just along 95 and south. so waldorf, along 301, upper marlboro you'll get in on the heavy rain in the next one to two hours and more rain down to the south and the d.c. metro area, watch out for ponding on those area roads and back to the west. it is a mess. we're seeing tornados and a lot of damage and we'll see a lot of video tonight and we'll have that video coming up tonight at 11:00 and a mess as far as storms are concerned and a severe weather outbreak happening there and it's all because of this sudden push of air making its way out of the gulf of mexico and that's also

why we're so warm and we'll have thunderstorms here around 9:00, 10:00 is where they come in. 70 degrees around 10:00. we could see a line of storms develop and these could have heavy rain and heavy winds and it's not going to last long and by around 3:00, temperatures around 75 degrees at that time and tomorrow night we're looking rather warm. next few days, 57. that is a record. the record, 65 and we'll shatter that no problem and 68 degrees on friday and some areas could be near 70 and i do think this will be a top five warmest christmas of all time. 60% chance of showers during the day so keep the umbrella handy and not an all-day, and same deal on saturday and 69 degrees and then we move to sunday, another record high of 75 on sunday and we cool on monday down to 49 degrees and then right back up and 57 on tuesday and another storm moves our way and brings us back to 606

degrees on wednesday and still an incredibly warm forecast for this time of year. >> just not right, is it? >> but i've got to tell you, if doug had called 70 degrees back in june that would have been an impressive forecast. >> i'm working on it. >> thanks. >> coming up in sports, one eagles player guarantees they can beat the redskins and plus desean jackson sits out practice and what are his prospects to face off against his former team and here's lester holt with a look at what's ahead on nbc yoet nightly news". >> our team is in position in the danger zone, an area of the country's midsection under a strong tornado threat right now. we'll tell you about the three words hillary clinton has for donald trump in response to his controversial remarks about her and the story of a new orleans businessman tired of complaining about crime that finally put his money where his mouth is wit

this is the xfinity sportsdesk brought to you by xfinity, your home for the most live sports. >> the biggest relief will be when we win on saturday. >> are you guaranteeing a win? >> yeah. what am i supposed to say? do i think i'm going to lose or something? no. >> when he puts it like that --

>> it sounds lame. >> a lame way of trash talking saying it's the most wonderful time of year and we're not really talking about the holidays and it is the playoffs and we have the eagles and the redskins matchup nearly two full nfl seasons after desean jackson was let go by the eagles and he gets a chance for the ultimate revenge ending on his former field. >> and djacks is down playing it mostly. jackson sitting out practice today still bothered by knee and foot injuries and he should be good to go for saturday. let's be honest, it's a duh statement, obviously right? he is not going to miss this matchup. >> he did miss the first one in week four and this one? no way, especially with what's at stake. earlier today, jackson sounding like he does have few thoughts on his former team. >> it was a part of history and something just happened as far as my career and where i'm at

now and i look at it as something that happened and i'm happy to be here in washington and i'm not looking back. >> not looking back, but looking forward right after the podium. djacks asked about the banged up secondary, and he said, quote, i couldn't care less who is covering me. whoever it is, good luck to them. that's a little bit of a stronger statement. >> jay gruden setting the tone leading up to the crucial matchup and he said the balance, and it led to a huge turnaround and what does coach feel is his biggest strength? gruden with the surprise answer for csn's chick hernandez this afternoon. >> what is it right now that you feel you're doing the best at right now? >> these interviews. [ laughter ] i'm killing them. i don't know, chick. i come to work every day and try to do the best i can and it helps having a good group of people around you and that's the best thing i want them to do is

make sure you surround yourself with good people and the players are passionate about the game and give yourself a fighting chance and it's fun to come to work every day. >> it seems like it's fun to come to work every day. >> the coach has a sense of humor. you have something to say. >> i'll wait until after. >> okay. >> elsewhere in the nfc east and the g-men will be without odell beckham, jr. and his suspension has been upheld and beckham issuing an apology saying sportsmanship and respecting the game is as important as running routes and catching the football. i dropped the ball on sportsmanship on saturday. he gets it. some good news, john warming up just a few minutes ago and he will play tonight against the grizzlies while playing with a sprain and a bruised rip and the wizards definitely need him while they only had nine players

available against the kings and injury situation so bad csn's colornalyst and former bullet phil shinear is listed out with a sore back. >> fourth-ranked terps getting ready for the holidays. let's just say they should stick to hoops. ♪ down to the village with a broomstick in his hand ♪ ♪ frosty the snowman ♪ ♪ dumb, da, dumb, dumb ♪ >> thumpety thump, thump. [ laughter ] >> no, he was -- oh! >> look at frosty go. try getting that out of your head tonight and the bad version, at that. >> thanks for putting that in our heads. >> we have to do those types of things. >> all right. good stuff. thank you, carol. >> all right. that's going it do it for us.

"nightly news" is coming up next. we hope to see you at news 4 at 11:00. have a good evening. it's the holidays, which means a house full of people,

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breaking news tonight. a major tornado outbreak slamming several states. tornados on the ground and reports of homes demolished as the national weather service declared a rare, particularly dangerous situation. tens of millions in harm's way. chaos at the airport as black lives matter protesters shut down the road blocking holiday travelers trying tmake their flights. firing back. the three words hillary clinton has for donald trump after the choice words he unleashed against her. and light show. in a neighborhood where christmas decorations are serious business. homeowners giving clark grizwald himself a run for his money. "nightly news" begins right now.