love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. right now at 11:00, it's been a christmas to remember, from high temperatures to heavy rain. the roller coaster isn't over yet. good evening and merry christmas. i'm chris lawrence.

the storm has moved on but what about the heat and humidity. let's go to veronica johnson. >> a lot of moisture in the air and temperatures overall the next couple of days through the weekend will stay on the higher side, we will see some cooling. haven't rain 3:30 to 7:30 this evening. a little bit haven't around the area. very light spotty showers, that's it. most of other rainfall is up here, baltimore, gaithersburg, winchester, a third in d.c. and baltimore. had that have been snow we would have seen between 5 and 15 and as many as 20-inches of snowfall today. it just isn't cold enough. average is 44 degrees, we're way up here to 69 degrees, some 25 degrees higher than average making it feel like april in stead of december. our third warmest christmas on record. now, falling temperatures, as we go to the morning hours, 54-57 with spotty light showers.

we'll talk about what it will feel like on new year's eve coming up. >> thanks. a party on christmas eve led to a fight and then murder. new tonight, police made an arrest in this case. jackie bensen says investigators says the suspect chased the victim down before he killed him. >> reporter: a 911 call about a fight led police to the 7600 black of trail run road in the falls church area where they found the body of 23-year-old edgar armando serrano. >> we found an individual who has died with trauma to the upper body. we're currently investigating that death. >> reporter: serrano was pronounced dead at the scene. investigators learned just prior to the fight, the victim had been to a christmas eve party at a home on alger avenue and they believe 34-year-old santos

narciso osorio chased him with some type of sharp instrument. investigators suspected early on the victim and suspect knew each other. delays what caus details of what caused the fight is still unclear. any with information is asked to call the falls church police. jackie bensen, news4. a christmas day crash killed a man in washington when a man went the wrong way on the beltway. it happened this morning and maryland state police say the man was going the wrong way on the loop and slammed head on to a car and both cars were completely destroyed. paramedics lifted the other man to the hospital. it's been a bittersweet christmas for a lot of families in the south as they cope with the aftermath of deadly tornadoes. some lost homes and others, loved ones. storms brought out the best in

families and neighbors came together to donate food, toiletries and christmas gifts to the victims. >> we are a lot better because we came out with the clothes on our back like this. >> we make sure everybody is taken care of. >> the death toll has been ri rising and now the storms have killed 14 people in four states. christmas is coming to a close. ♪ >> here in d.c., cardinal donald wuerl delivered a message of compassion. catholics came from the district, maryland and virginia to celebrate christmas mass and cardinal wuerl urged them to participate in the year of mercy pope frances launched this month. >> each of us can carry away from this celebration a gift. the gift of compassion. >> the basilica also provided its annual dinner to hundreds of

people who are homeless or in need. >> a huge crowd cheered pope frances as he celebrated mass in pontiff city and prayed for holy mass around the world and urged palestinians to come to direct talks and seemed to come very close to endorsing a two-state solution. the pope also prayed the united nation s agreement would end the civil war in syria. oh, my god! >> american troops are celebr e celebrating christmas all over the world. some lucky ones were able to make it home in time for those hugs. in afghanistan and elsewhere, service members received a special christmas meal, some of them even sang carols to get themselves in this holiday spirit. more than 200,000 u.s. troops are deployed right now on just about every continent. a lot of them right now thinking about their families back home. here at home, volunteers are giving food to the people who

need it the most. chris gordon takes us inside a program that delivered hundreds of meals to the homeless and it's still growing. >> reporter: more than 200 volunteers showed up at burke community church to distribute more than 600 hot meals for the homeless. they are helping the 25th project, a nonprofit group started by jay herriott. >> reporter: why do you do it? >> i was this close from being homeless. the eviction notice was on my door and didn't have anything. we started it and it's just grown and grown. >> merry christmas. >> reporter: meals were handed out here at franklin park at 14th and k street northwest. in mcpherson square, a women's shelter in d.c. and woodbridge homeless encampment. >> if it wasn't for a lot of these people a lot of us would be starving. >> i feel blessed. i feel blessed. i appreciate everything.

my birthday was last night, christmas eve. >> reporter: i asked the bostic family why they volunteered? >> our heart goes out to other people during christmas-time to go out and spread love and make sure everyone else is happy. it brought joy to our hearts to come out and do it. >> i've been doing this all my life and i think it's nice to give back to those who don't have as much as i do. >> reporter: the 25th project has a charity event on the 25th of every month. in february they collect soup and socks to give to the homeless, trying to keep this christmas spirit alive all year long. in the district, chris gordon, news4. >> in fact, last year, soup and socks was held in 22 states and 33 cities. the 25th project is hoping to make it into a national event. there's more evidence tonight someone tried to burp down bill clinton's childhood home at hope. investigators found graffiti at the historic site and think

someone torched the place. there is smoke and water damage inside. president clinton's grandparents owned the home and he lived there until he was 4. christmas day deliveries. why fedex is making a last minute push to get those gifts under the tree. calling it a christmas miracle. a 12-year-old girl beats cancer nearly a year to the day she met with pope frances. ♪ i'm going halfway home >> soldiers injured in combat and music is helping them on the way to recovery.

a local musician is helping severely wounded veterans in our area by teaching them to play, write conservatory styles of music. it's music core and challenging them in a completely different way. ♪ i'm only halfway home. >> hugh lost a lot of things in afghanistan. ♪ i've got to journey on >> both legs, part of an arm. not his voice or his will. >> i have no idea what i would be doing right now. i have no idea where i would be if i hadn't gotten involved in music. >> he knows where he was, on foot patrol when he saw the

taliban militant who would change his life. he was the one that had the trigger for the ied and he set it off right while i was stand next to him. he remembers no sound and then floati floating. >> that was me flying through the air. then, i hit the ground and that kind of jarred me awake. >> flash forward a few months to walter reed and a man offering the marine a new mission. >> you can be in your room staring at the ceiling and be depressed or come and do music at this high level. >> 1, 2, 3. >> we work on music at a high level. we rock out at a high level. >> this -- he has music degrees from juilliard and yale. >> he tells them this ain't come b byia. but soldiers and marines are trained to do tasks thousands of times. >> these guys take an instrument and they're going through scales for hours. they're going through the same

pieces of music for hours, just to get it right. ♪ >> musiccorps recruited these individu individuals. he works with 50 vets a year but thinks 50,000 may need mus musiccorps. >> where do you want to take this program? >> we want to offer the program to more people in d.c. and california and texas and around the country so every veteran that needs it gets it. ♪ >> never get tired of hearing tim's voice. music corps tracks down those missing an arm or leg and

rehears rehearsals. it all takes money. if you're interested in helping arthur, head on and search music corps. it has all the information you need to get started. santa had unexpected competition this morning as fedex workers were delivering christmas packages on christmas day. a lot of people were irate they didn't deliver the packages and they said the weather and last minute surge in holiday shipment and even opened their offices today so customers could pick up their packages. a 12-year-old girl's cancer has gone into remission and she's thanking the pope for h p helping her so-called christmas miracle. doctors diagnosed grace with stage 4 neuroblastoma when she was 10 years old, she went through eight chemotherapy sessions and surgery and immunotherapy. she found out she was

cancer-free almost exactly a year meeting pope frances in italy. the 7th grader said after seeing the pope she knew she'd be okay. >> it was a moment of victory. i feel it's gone. the pope made the miracle happen and everybody that prayed for me in the community made it happen. >> she met the pope in the make a wish foundation but never doubted it and naming her iv pole, bob. this christmas coming from the jewish center in northwest d.c. volunteers sang carols and passed out gifts and prepared meals for the homeless and launched a blood drive attra attracting close to 1,000 people of all faiths. for a lot of people, big is definitely better. they celebrated the holiday at the national christmas tree. the tree is more than 40 feet tall sits just south of the white house on the ellipse. people have been coming by to

take pictures and enjoy some of the unseasonably warm weather. >> we like seeing the representation of different states and having something to take a walk to. >> it's fun to throw a coin and wish for a good christmas. >> well, the train goes through and you can see it every day to the first of the year from 10:00 at morning to 10:00 at night. >> looking at the crowd, t-shirt, t-shirt. >> even flip-flops. >> i know. i thought i saw a pair of shorts. just ridiculous. >> the day before christmas, not so much but then christmas, this is strange. we tied for the third warmest christmas ever on record here for d.c. now, our temperatures are going to be going down and then right back up again. more spring in december. we will get that. first, we will take a look at your travel for tomorrow and the nation, if you have a loved one traveling out, delays across the

southern state tomorrow, missouri, i-68, western maryland for tomorrow, could be heavier rain late and we still have rain in the forecast here. driving locally, we get the green light but more moderate conditions expected for i-68 west and cautionary for any getting on the plane, make sure you call ahead. we start with temperatures in the upper 50s. they will be cooling to the low and mid-50s until the end of the day and showers west and stormy conditions in missouri and southwest in oklahoma. and the nation's western sect n sections, 31, indianapolis, 18 denver and 11 in butt, thate, t where maybe not the white christmas but lower christmas. the roads will be wet and the possibility of patchy fog. here's the thing, tomorrow, a little cooler, still above the

high temperature, average high of 44 degrees and we see the temperatures take a dip and hold stead din the low 50s much of the afternoon tomorrow. we could hit our high temperature at 7:00 a.m. keep in mind if you're taking the kids to the park, take them out a little while, a much better day and hours or pockets of dry weather. 49, leesburg and waldorf, 59 degrees in d.c. and patchy fog in the morning hours. sunday, the promise of more sunshine and that really is going to be a nice day the second half of the weekend. that's when you notice the next change as we go from cold to warmth. 71 around 2:00 on sunday. here's your change. we see that sky clear out sunday morning. sunny day coming our way for sunday, second half of the weekend looking very nice. we have sunshine and dry conditions for sunday. i say, no, do not wash the car because we have more wet weather coming our way versus dry

conditions. here it is. saturday-sunday. saturday, a few showers, 57 and 73 on sunday. the early part of next week, monday-tuesday, chance of showers and mixture of rain and snow and areas of western pennsylvania and southern new york, we take a look at what awaits us as we approach, new year's eve, look at this. 54 degrees, a little cooler and there will be showers coming our way. as it gets to the late evening hours folks going out, showers gone, midnight, upper 40s and then gets a little chilly because i think there will be breeze behind that rain and the system that moves out of here. that's an early look at new year's eve. >> even what we're drop downing to isn't bad at all. this time of year, we'll take it. thanks, v.j., merry christmas as

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any other friday night the redskins would have a little extra time to get ready for their sunday afternoon game. the way this is shaping up, we're down to hours now, sebastian. >> yeah. absolutely, man. it's getting close to time. it's the holidays, time for

getting together, exchanging gi gifts, all the warm fuzzies. don't expect any of that tomorrow when the redskins and philadelphia meet tomorrow. there will be a lot of trash talk. don't forget it was the skins that eliminated eagles from contention. we have bad blood and washington taken two straight from philly. early october, skins down four late, kirk cousins leads a 90-yard drive and game winning touchdown pass to pierre garcon. skins won that 23-20 but don't expect overconfidence from jay gruden's crew. >> you can't overlook anybody. we want to go to the playoffs. there's a lot of excitement. guys are dialed up and we're very excited and ready to go. if anything, it takes away from christmas because we're ready to get to philly and get the win. >> embrace the moment. don't try to look to the

playoffs and dallas game, living this miaoment and take care of this moment and the next moment, take care of this. that's the approach i try to preach to them. >> skins an underdog tomorrow. there's always a chance. >> steph curry and the warriors hosting the cavs in an nba finals rematch. klay thompson for the triple. seven assists for curry. golden state, up six at that point. lebron james with the ball, not for long. over to. curry leading the break. you have to respect this shot from three. draymond green, green led warriors with 22 points. warriors up eight. we showed you curry's passing abili ability, making them look foolish. i think they're fired up. curry and the warriors won,

9-83. rockets in this final. jason perrine the league since 1999, his 17th season. wide open three, he hits it. terry from long distance, leonard runs the floor so well. led san antonio with 20. rockets at this one at home struggled. too much from outside. james harden had 20 points. houston 88-84, snap a seven-game winning streak of san antonio. >> it's tough being an nba rookie, especially when you're 20 years old like wizard kelly. he found out when they had him as kmccaul kin in the christmas movie. >> when they went on vacation, they forget one small thing. >> where's your mother? >> in the car.

>> what about work? >> your brothers and sisters. >> can't tell you that. >> why not? >> because you're a stranger. >> critics are calling it the funniest video since 1990. >> ah! >> this is my house. >> yesterday, he was just a kid. >> i had to defend it. >> tonight, he's a home security system. alone. >> i'm a rookie. you think i'd be here home alone? i don't think so. >> from our family to yours, happy holidays! >> great stuff. brooklyn avenue. "home alone came out five years before kelly ywas even born. >> i don't want