fired up. >> congratulations to them. >> this is huge. >> absolutely. a big night for d.c. sports and late night. we're all a little bit blurry-eyed. good morning. hope you're having a great start to your morning so far.

i'm adam tuss. >> and i'm angie goff. >> i think we're going to be close to 70 degrees, right, lauryn? >> yeah. so hard to believe. as we continue through the holidays a lit bit of rain, no exception. we've got cool temperature, warm temperatures. we even have a little mixed precipitation on there. yeah, we're going to be talking about that in just a few minutes. as for now, we're going to be talking about the fog bringing down the visibility. if you're traveling out to get back to the start of your workweek, you're going to run into fog. but as adam said, record highs possible for today. right around 70 degrees. we're going to be colder by the new year. we're going to talk about below normal temperatures, we haven't talked about much. you can see for the satellite the rain, but not much going on. more coming up.

thank you. four people are seriously hurt in this car crash. take a look at this damage here. we're told that two of the victims are young children. it happened just after midnight on benny road and 34th street. police say this was a single-car crash. all four people were taken to the hospital. the exact cause of the crash is still under investigation this morning. >> right now at least eight people are dead as fierce storms and tornadoes swept through neighborhoods near dallas, texas. search and rescue operations have started after reports of a search for homes and they're cleaning up after an ef-2 passed through. this week a 7-year-old boy was killed in the city of holy springs, mississippi. severe storms remain in the forecast for sunday night through monday. the death toll from the four hardest hit states now stands at 22. time right now is 6:02, and

friends are expected to come together later today to remember a teenager who was stabbed to death a week ago. 17-year-old josea cho roy was killed after arranging to meet a girl in petworth. he had just met the girl and they were going to meet at the park. the girl showed up with two other people and he ended up dead. friends will show up at depaul public charter school. >> say it with me. you like that. the redskins are the nfc east champs. the skins came out on top and now the team will make their first trip to the post southbound sin season since 2012. j

jasyson pugh has more. >> reporter: the redskins took home the nfc east. what a night it was. kirk cousins put together a mag nif sajt performance. yes, he had his blunders but he made up for them in all aspects of the game. it is safe to say this is definitely his football year. >> it's the most satisfied i feel as a football player. >> he's definitely made the difference. we wouldn't be in this playoff push without him, i guarantee it. >> a decision had to be made and we decided to go with kirk because we felt like he worked from training camp on.

>> reporter: coming through huge, 129 yards receiving, two touchdowns. no, he did not make the pro bowl but he is proving to be a pro bowl caliber-tight end in this league. >> everything we've been here to get here this week, you know, it means a lot. >> reporter: then there's the defense. how about the veteran safety deangelo hall making possibility the game-changing play of that football game. the scoop and score. he and other veterans stepdown up big-time in this victim. >> awesome, man. awesome. man, just look bachlkt training camp, otas, up and downs the season, marngs we just stuck together. >> reporter: now, all year long the redskins made us believe and kind of not believe.

they didn't win back-to-back games for a long time. they couldn't put together a winning streak. they couldn't win on the road. all those things are out the win de. this is a good football team, playoff football team. it's time to start believing because, yes, they can win a first round playoff game no matter who it is they play at fedex field. well, from lincoln financial field, i'm jason pugh from sports. what can your playoff team expect this coming week? lauryn ricketts updating her forecast next. >> the

welcome back. christmas may be over, but the sales, at least not yet. >> these ooh right. "news4's" darcy spencer went to tyson's corner shows us how post holidays have more flooding to the stores r about half of consumers would shop in stores on the week after christmas. 43% say they plan to shop online. 66% say they'll be shopping or browsing for after-christmas sales and this is a great time to save money on the -- and use those gift cards that you may have gotten in your stocking. many retailers are expetending their sales into the post holiday period. they're going to be adding to their 50% discount. now, if you are planning to come out, you definitely want to give yourself some extra time because of all the crowds and all the

traffic here and definitely you want to bring your patience as well. at tyson's corner, darcy spencer, "news4." >> we were talking about we got a lot of gift cards. i want to goo use them before i forget i have them. >> you have to use them or else they go away. >> the crowds are busy. it's going be a busy week. >> let's check in with lauryn ricketts and see if today is a good day to head out the mall. >> not so much. today's going to be in the 70s. its going to be a mild day before we get into the current year. look at the temperatures now in the 50s for the most part. 52 in washington, leesburg, f d fredericksbu fredericksburg. 60s in stanton. visibility down a bit. if you're traveling out and about, you're going rub into a little fog, especially route i-81, 66, going up to 70. it is a little bad out there,

especially in baltimore where fog is taking the visibility down about a half mile. you can see right now, we don't have any rain down here, but then you head to the north. you head back toward chicago, and that's where we see some rain all along a cold front. that cold front will eventually pass through our area but not until later on today. if you're planning to get out and about. if you want to take decorations down, just know it's going to be a little breezy if you're climbing on the rooftop. it might be a great day to go shopping. if you're traveling, as i showed you well and north of the d.c. area. no flight delays if you're trying to get out but if you're stick around here, head outdoors and enjoy the nice temperatures. rain will hold off until wednesday afternoon. then as you head into really tonight, that's when we'll start to see some of those showers roll through ahead of that cold

front and then we get into monday. looking good for your monday morning, but then monday night we'll start to see some showers and even mixed precipitation, believe it or not. and we've got rain chances on tuesday as well. that forecast coming. rain continues before the cooldown and that's all coming up. >> cooldown, we're not ready for that. >> no, no. keep that43vqt away. >> all right, lauryn, thanks. we're looking at 6:13. next up we have "reporter's notebook" for you. >> yep. we're back in 15 minutes with more of the top stories. >> welcome to report"reporter's notebook" on this sunday morning. just before this started, we've got this. can we go to walter reed?

i'm just hearing about this. dave, you have hesitation on what's going on there. >> this is not dave the reporter, of course, who has no opinion. >> no, none of us have opinions. >> dank who looks to columbia and talks to his neighbors and has an interest in the entire city as you all do, we all hope it will be well developed, that there will not be a unified thing but that the campus of the old hospital and some of the green space will not be taken away and that the mixed use development will be balanced, that's all. >> has anyone seen the blueprint? >> i saw it on channel 4. >> did you. >> yeah. >> you're a smart man. how did it look? >> it looks beautiful. i think people need to understand one portion of the campus will be owned by the state department, and then the other part will be mixed use, housing, retail because as the mayor's pointed out, d.ers spent

a billion dollars outside of d.c., and so it's financially transformational. >> what's it -- go ahead. >> i'm sorry. i just wanted to say this is really the trend of what's happening in the city. you u have 66 acres in walter reed, what's happening on the southwest waterfront. we know what may happen there on the st. elizabeth campus. we talked a little bit of that with the proposed basketball facility. mixed use. that's the operative word in the city. it's tax based for the mayor if she can get this roll and moving along. it's a great hammer she can use for anyone vying for that position somewhere down the road to say, listen, we've created the tax base, we're bringing more businesses into the city, entertainment into the city where people can shop and eat. we have to see it happen. >> as you talk and i so

appreciate the advancement, i really do, but in the back of my mind and i do get -- i'm not a reporter, so i get to have an opinion on my show, but the reality is i hope the mayor, the elected officials do something that marion barry always understood. take care of the people in your city. if you don't and you run them out wrrks are they going to go? ward 9 and it's usually gateway communities they go to. you've got to figure out how fro text your seniors and also invest in young people, and you can make a city so expensive, hello, san francisco, but you can't live in it. >> right. most people can't afford. >> and in that regard, is there a future for lower income folks in the city? are they going to be squeezed out? are there plans to deal with them and have affordable

housing. >> the mayor put that at the tom of her list. affordable house is at the top of my list. we're waiting to see the fruits of those plans. you can say it and it takes a while for it to happen, but we talk about the way the city is changing, transforming. land is going to become more expensive, more hard to come by rn , and is she going to -- >> as the daughter of a teach e i saw what my mother -- my mother made very little money. we're not just talking low income. we're talk firemen, policemen teache teachers, and young people coming out of college. we already have congestion. it would be nice to have them live in a community where we can start a culture. >> i think that's always the focus t progress, the balance. >> and a positive thing, though, we're going have a new stadium in 2016 at buzzard point.

i don't know what they ar going to call it. i don't think they're going call it buzzard point anymore. >> it's not sexy, huh? >> you're goungs have that and like you said ward 8 with the practice facility, you know. oh. and i should point out somebody else that's going to be opening in 2016. the opening of the smithsonian african-american museum. >> isn't that just beautiful? hasn't that been fabulous watching that rise. >> that is -- that's supposed to be the last museum built on the mall, but 2016, everybody just can't wait for that to open. >> yeah. let me ask you since we're talking about development. over on h street in the northeast t street karr s that -- the other day adam tuss, our transportation reporter, did you see the piece he did? out walking he went faster than

the street car. what's the prediction on that. >> you like it, joe. i know you do. >> you know what it's really going to be for? bar hoppers. they don't need go fast. >> they don't need to go fachlt they don't want to get dizzy. >> still the question are we ever going to get it? is it ever going to be built? it's costing more and more and more. the planning under this thing is coming under extraordinary criticism and it's really becoming a situation wihere the city is get black eye. >> i don't know if they can work backward. >> you can't just scrub it. how do you scrub it? >> you can't. but let's think about this. we've already seen the stories about the money that folks are playing in terms of parking fines. the street car hasn't started and they're giving out tickets.

the owners are getting upset because the patrons don't have any place to park. >> you know what the plan is? to move it up into georgetown. >> how much is that going to cost? >> based on its operation. >> would bit in our lifetime? my goodness. let's talk about -- you're talk about the pepco exelon merger. what's going to happen with that? >> it's already happening. you're going have agencies and citizen groups that are going to complain, but, you know, you're going have headquarters put into d.c. you're going have money for job training. from what i understand and i wasn't a big fan of the deal, but then what i understood is they negotiated from $14 million to $16 million for the district of columbia. >> i think the district has

gotten involved in this a little bit. i think if they get deep sbeer pushing back, it's not a hard pushback. i think what the mayor has on their side is she can push the 202 job obs this. you mentioned about the difference in the monies. i think the advocates can say, wait a minute, exelon, they've lobbied against subsidies for solar and wind power. what happens once they take over. will they really be behind us. that's going to be the new wave. and if you've got a company that's -- >> they're going to do solar energy. >> how much is thank that going to cost? >> i think you have to look at alternatives. >> that's the thing. will it be good service? frankly it's been a long time since there's been huge complaints about pepco, despite how it got start, whether the

mayor was favoring one over the other for campaign help. >> when we come back we're going to go to the beach and talk 14b-mile backups on the

welcome back. if you have gone to the beach -- i was just come plank. on thanksgiving day went there and there was a 15-minute wait to get to the toll booth at the bay bridge. there's a report there could be 14-mile backups at the bay bridge in our future. what happened over there that made everyone want to get over there all of a sudden? >> it grew like topsy, there's more development. >> more recreation. >> that there's more people living here that want to get there and there's only two spans to get there. i remember as a kid, we had to

wait achlt hours and hours of waiting even then. so it's just gotten worse. the only answer is to get out the police and have them have patterns of parking. start and stop and start and stop and police blowing whistles to get people over the bridge. >> when did we put in the second span? 1990? when did the second span go in? >> i'm sure someone will write in. somewhere in the '80s, i think. >> i used to go over the bridge every week when i worked on that side of the shore. i really do think a big part of it is the development. you're having folks -- st. michael's, dick cheney, cambridge has totally reformed that area really was an impoverished area in a lot of ways. but i will say they're talk 2in

2040. really this is in term os of the governor. he's saying, listen, money zbhould toward roads, giving to the purple line, to the baltimore. i want money for roads left. 's see if he backs this up. will he put money behind this to spend money to tear down the bridge and build new ones or -- >> oh, lordy. how will we get over with that construction? >> that's where i'm going. everything is based on automobiles. it's based on cars. you know, maybe we ought to be looking at mass transit to this area. think about trying to get into that area. >> that was why we built a bridge. i remember going over on a ferry. you talk about 11-mile backups. >> i'm talking rapid transit.

>> that's true. >> the only way to get there is by car for the most part and i think there ought to be maybe a plan from here to 2040. you know, look at mass transit. trains. do -- instead of depending on automobiles it's like the europeans. you go to some of the coastlines in italy and the trains run along the beach. >> that's right. there was a train to ocean city. i didn't -- how old are you? >> i cannot tell you that. but i can tell you this. the train went to ocean city a long time ago, i believe earlier in the 20th century. i believe our viewers will send us something. at some point they lost the train and the ferry. >> i don't know how you get them out of the car when they're pack up with the kids and the dogs. that's not an easy translation. >> let's hope you can. the silver line is hoping we can

get people out of the cars and use the silver line. tysons, which is no longer tysons corner, is what channel 4 said the other day. the old segment. >> that would be scary. also the university talking about bringing your guns. >> jerry falwell is saying, we'll show them, you know, how it's going to be handled on our campus. he's gotten blowback to say, wait a minute, we don't know if we want to send some of our students there, if we want to have events here. what i thought was very interesting in his response. he said, well, most of this response is coming from northern virginia. >> liberals. >> and so he -- >> democrats. >> yes. so he's really saying on this part of the state, this is how

we do it. >> most of it is coming from there. let me tell you something. i made this statement. if the president of howard university said something similar, look, we've got a problem at howard university, g.w., we're an open campus. we talked about crime in the city, so go get your guns, get training. he would have been thrown out of the office. and then to sit and blame it on -- to make it political on people. so the question is do you have the state debate championship there? do you use the facility or find some place? you're making assumption that anybody who has a gun and gets training somehow is reasonable. you don't know who's who. >> do you think the response or lack of response you're saying may have something do with the expectations of what this person is saying? that maybe folks are looking at him and saying -- >> i think it was a zone

ohphobic statement because what he said was those muslims, if they come, and that -- let me tell you something. you offend literally hundreds of thousands of people who live in this commonwealth of virginia who are honest. >> and the worst shooting was on virginia's campus and he was not a muslim. >> if he sees there's money that gets pulled back from the university, i think he may sort of temper what you said. >> without judging it, you know, what do the students do? i went to get a poll of the students. what do they feel? do they feel like they need a weapon? >> they rush -- >> thank you. >> the classes are filled. they cheered the man. you know, the only thing he didn't do and he was smart, he didn't pull the gun out because he'd have broke the law. it's called brandishing a gun.

that's why you can't do it. it's called brandishing a gun. >> you would eventually see what do they do about this. there's some movement by him eve though they're another in the ma joilt. let's soo what they do. >> okay. we're going to be right back after this. 6:30 on a sunday morning. here's the top story we're following for you. a car crash leashes four people seriously injured including twoion chichlkt it happened on betting road and 34th street. police say it was a single car accident. police say people are dead after toeshlds ripped through texas. officials saying the full extent of the damage will not be known until the sun rises. and, yeah, the entire dmv

s celebrating this morning as the redskins clinched the nfc title. they beat the eagles last night. now a trip to the playoffs, first time in three years. congratulations to them. >> you've got to give them credit. it's 6:31 on the dot. welcome in to "news4 today." i'm angie goff. >> and i'm adam tuss. we're talking about the weather. it's december -- >> i don't think december came. if it weren't for christmas, i wouldn't know the month was here based on the weather. lauryn ricketts is here. it's crazy. >> you would have thought it because may. it didn't feel like it at all. the temperatures moved nicely around 70. if you notice the humidity on wednesday, once again you're going to notice it today. you can see a little bit of fog out there right now. there's a little bit of fog right across the national

monument. so you definitely can see some of that fog just sitting over d.c. not only our area but around the region. temperatures around the region, 52 degrees. we're going to take the temperatures up to around 70. by 9:00 a.m., we're around 60. if we're traveling, you've got the rain falling. exercise out and about, very nice, very warm, and very breezy. we do have cool temperatures on the way. i've got the seven-day forecast coming up. >> thank you, lauryn. there's a new potential threat of a shooting or bomb attack in europe. kelly cobiella has more. >> reporter: police in vienna, as striae, said the tip came from a friendly intelligence service warning of a gun or bomb attack in the european capital sometime between christmas and new year's. police say they found no evidence of a plot but they've

increased security at big events in crowded places as a precaution. >> translator: we've asked the employees of the austrian train company and transportation to inform us of any special items such as abandoned luggage, vans, or bicycles. >> capitals around europe have been on a heightened state of alert ever since. two weeks ago swiss authorities stepped up security around the united nations headquarters in geneva because of what authorities called there a specific terror threat. today's tip comes from an audio medev message. the first to be released in seven months. it's 24 minutes long. in it they threaten israel, criticizes the new salei coalition and says isis is getting stronger.

nbc news cannot verify the a authenticity but it does a pie to be from baghdadi. back to you. >> thank you. there was another police-involved shooting, this time two people were killed. the police are offering condolences to the 55-year-old woman. the officers shot her by accident. it started early saturday morning with a disturbance call. the police opened fire after a combative suspect. he was killed along with the mother of five, betty jones. the investigation continues. right now police are making progress in a fast-moving wildfire out west. december is typically not wildfire subpoena in california, but with the historical drought, thiesh been fighting battles all year long.

nbc's david mccoy has more. >> reporter: an ominous glow bringing terror to the night sky. this video shot by a dutch family visiting on holidays. embers flying past their windshield, flames in the roadway. >> i thought this was the last minutes. i had no idea what to do. we're from the netherlands. we had no experience with fires. i didn't know how bad it could be. >> reporter: theirs the last car to drive through. the others turning around facing oncoming traffic. winning 50-mile-an-hour wind gusts. the seasonal santa anas blowing through the canyons pushing toward neighborhoods on the

coast. evacuation were ordered for nearly 100 homes. >> we've had all the available fixed wing aircraft in california working. >> reporter: at daybreak helicopters continuing their aerosol attacks it's a very dynamic fire. it's going resist our kroechlt we're not out of the woods yet. >>is not typically fire season in cal but with the historic drought, fire season is now all year long. there are big decisions in virginia. overdose on heroin and opioid-related deaths. the number has been rising for the past essentially years. you can see how much it's increased and how virginia

leaders plan to deal with it. a woman in ft. washington is now planning her husband in funeral. franklin moreno dunn died in a crash on christmas day. he was hit head on by a driver going the wrong way. moreno dunn's wife said he was visiting family and was on his way home. >> we were going to spend our lives together. we wanted five kids and were going to move. >> the family started a gofundme page. you can donate to them. changes could be in store for marine corps uniforms doing away with desert camouflage uniforms is one of the proposals on the table. it comes after a survey was conducted by the marine corps uniform board. final decisions are still pending but the marines' input

has been there. they're developing lock and twist hairstyles for women. folks are dealing with flooding so massive that they had to be rescued by boat. p.j. has more now from st. louis. >> reporter: a few haircuts later, this was the scene outside his barbershop. >> i really got nervous when he was walking down manchester and the rain was waist-high. >> there have been people literally trying to drive through the floods. >> >> reporter: rescue boats were sent to more than a dozen businesses surrounded by rising floodwaters on manchester road, but not everybody felt they needed rescuing. >> i called on the phone and said, we're fierngs i'm not

worried and they came and said we've got to take you. >> the first thing i thought is, i know how to swim. they put us on the life jacket and escorted us down the road. >> a total of eight people were rescued by boat. no one was injurend and despite the dramatic scene, there were no disturbing calls it's the creek that runs back by the river tracks so all the industrial centers and warehouses and everything are flooded. >> reporter: jus a few day short of this business opening, johnson hopes there will be something left to go back to. >> hopefully it hat. made it into the building but we'll see in the next couple of days. well, new details this morning in a prince george's county double shooting. officers working the crime scene found the man and woman shot inside a carob thrift road in clinton. the call originally came in for

shots fired on nearby park road. police is not released the names of the victims in that case. the number of d.c. officers has fallen below 3,800. that's 'cording to the "washington post." the lowest in a decade. as of december 17, there were 3,796 officers. that's down from more than 3,900 a year ago. they say the hiring who retired are part of that issue. 6:40 on this sunday morning yochl know it's almost january, right? >> no. >> can you believe the weather we've been having? lauryn ricketts addressing it. when you think cyber attacks, damaging bridges probably don't come to mind. how they're wreaking havoc on

well, as we head into the knew year, we're getting closer and closer to the iowa caucuses,

it's the major indicator. >> aren't we lucky. andrea mitchell filling in for chuck todd on "meet the press." into happy holidays. >> let's get right into it. what do you think people need to be focusing on here? >> fit of all know cussing not on the horse race as we see it but the organization. who is strongest in the field. that's one of the questions we don't know. about whether donald trump's strength in the polls about people going out on a cold february night, february 1st and sitting with their neighbors and friends and standing up and saying, yes, i'm for donald trump. that's what we don't know. on the democratic side, we don't know whether hillary clinton's big lead over bernie sanders, you know, changing day to day and different polls but the lead in iowa wlrks that's going to translate. she came in third the last time

around. that i's a tough state. >> when you talk about trump, you know, he has all this momentum and the voters are showing up. when you talk about their dedication to actually going to the polls. it's difficult to caucus. if you're a first-time primary voter in iowa, there are challenges. >> i got you. >> do you see that being a big road block for him? i know he's planning a big rally. >> he can produce a large number of people at rallies, but whether he has the door-to-door iowa organization, he's shown he's a different kind of candidate. even at the state fair arriving in his helicopter and zbivi igi kids rides, that's not the way and there's new hampshire where bernie sanders is favored and it's a must-win state for him. he's done very good with online

fund-raising. he's got a big base and a lot of passion among his supporters which we have yet to see. some seem to be a little g-8ed. her support among women, support from the older women, not the younger women. >> you obviously know foreign affairs very well. i'm sure you're going get into that today. what have you kwot coming up? >> we're going to be talking to two am babassadors. that is really an outlying position. can hurt trump. wheel talk with mike mcfall and wendy sherman and then we even kbobt spike lee. chuck actually interviewed spike lee about the gun violence in chicago and "chiraq," his movie.

it's timely for all of us. >> deep conversation. looking forward it to. thank you. >> happy birthday holidayholida >> you too. >> we'll see you on "meet the press." there are growing concerns about cyber attacks. >> that's right. they can cause disruptions of government agencies. nbc's stephanie gosk has more. >> reporter: the bowman dam outside of new york city may not look like much but it unveiling troubling problems. two years ago the computer that controls the dam was hacked. >> this certainly serves as a bucket of ice water to the face. it was a chris cal clear wakeup call that cities, municipalities could be targets. >> iranian hackers were behind

the attack as first reported by "the wall street journal." they told cyber net thoorts that a group claimed responsibility. they say even though the hack of the bowman dam did not put any people at risk, there's a reason to be concerned. >> it's important because it's hard to tell whether these are test cases trying to develop tools and techniques that could work on a larger scale. >> reporter: city officials had puft in a new floodgate that can be operated remotely using the internet which means something like this dam tucked away in the new york woods could affect us from worlds away. they have made straighides, but others lag behind. the department of nerm has been

hacked 159 times. >> theed a very se ed a veadvea. they're smart and insist tent. >> reporter: they're sending the message that anything, even a small graffiti covered dam needs protection. stephanie gosk, nbc news, ryane, new york. >> we've got pay attention. it's sunday after christmas and a lot of people will be travel sloog absolutely, absolutely. we've got a lot of fog to watch as we go through the remainder of the morning. not so much but little bit of mist and fog out there. we do have that fog a around will. as i merngsed, we have record warjt. if you thought christmas was warm, it's going to be very similar in that we're going have temperatures around 70 and the

humidity. did it feel a little hue fid f mid for you on christmas? it definitely did for me. but for the cold weather lovers who want winter a little bit, frid friday and saturday, temperatures will be cooler. you head north and west and we still have those low visibilities due to the fog. we're looking at low visibilities as the fog settles close to the ground. 53 in dc. stanton still coming in at 60 degrees. we don't have any rain right here, but you can see the rain reaching up and all the way back to the midwest. so it ooh going to be a little bit on the treacherous side as you head through chicago or north. it does look like there could be a few issues there and i'll show

you my airport delays in two seconds. but if you're sticking out here around the d.c. area, it's looking nice and warm as temperatures shoot to the low 70s. so one more very mild day where we can break some records. here's a look at the airport delay map. ebb's got that green ready to go. hopefully it will stay that way. we know all too well it's number traveling along the roads, foggy. rain will hold off throughout the afternoon through here in the mid-atlantic. especially around 200 miles. but if you're headed up to the north through new england or midwest as i showed you. there could be travel delays and rain tonight for the mid-atlantic here and we'll see the rain arrive pretty quickly as we get into the rest of the day. other than that, it's not looking too bad out there. temperatures again are going to be in the low 70s. it's going to be light stuff. heavy at times. monday morning looking good. then we head into monday night,

precipitation possible. we go through tuesday. heavy rain possible as well. so a look at your seven-day forecast. 70. we fall into the 40s tonight. we stay into the 40s tomorrow. we're back into the 60s. and then here comes the temperatures, but here comes some sunshine. guys? >> we'll take it. thank you, lauryn. here are four things you need to know. four people including two kids are seriously hurt in a single car crash. it happened on bedo and 34th. officials are weight until daylight too assess the damage from a tornado. friends will gather to remember 17-year-old jose ochoa. he was established to death after agreeing to meet a girl.

this will be the skins' first trip in the preseason in three years. >> the report peyton manning is calling complete garbage.

welcome back. veteran nfl quarterback payton manage is calling performance enhancing drugs complete garbage. it's coming out in a film tonight called "the dark side." it alleges that an indianapolis drug ring supplied him with hgh after receive neck surgery. manning said in a statement the allegations are totally made up. well, it was the first of its kind in the district. a multi-faith ceremony at the

lincoln memorial saturday. krins and muslims celebrating the birth of jesus and the prophet muhammad. organizers said it was important to bring both states together. create a better world for each. >> they sang christmas carols as well as muslim songs and the "national anthem." >> you're not going to

right now on "news4 today," this is what's left of a car torn apart in an overnight wreck. what we're finding out about the children and others who were inside. devastation in the lone star state. texas tornados rip apart homes and businesses leave destruction behind. >> we like that, we like that. nfc east and clinching a spot in the playoffs. we're talking about that and what's up next. >> the entire d.c. is going like this because we were all up watching the late game. worth it. i'm adam tuss. >> and i'm angie goff.

looks like we're going to warm up our krimm snchristmas. >> we're going have deal with rain and a little humidity today, believe it or not. look at those temperatures. 68 to 73. that's going to be our daytime high today. we're going to stay on the cloudy side t humid side and the breezy side with rain moving in later on tonight number rain out there right now. just a little bit of fog. if you'rehooded out and about, know the visibility could be cut done a little bit. other than that, we're not al g looking too bad. 9:00, about 60 degrees. around 70 by this afternoon. rain to the west. we're going to time all that coming up in a just a few

minutes. >> lairn, thank you. now we want to take you do this development where four people were seriously hurt. we've been told two of the victims were young children. police tell us that it was a single-car crash and all for people were taken to the hospital. the exact cause of the accident is still under investigation this morning. >> right now eight people are dead as fierce storms and tornadoes swept through neighborhoods near dallas, texas. rescue operations have been started after damaged home reports and be birmingham, alabama, an ef-2 twister land there on sunday night. this week a 7-year-old boy was killed killed in holly springs. the death toll from the four hardest hit states now stands 2592. friends are expected to come together later today to remember

a teenager who was stabbed to death a week aechlgt 17-year-old jose ochoa was killed after arranging to meet a girl in the petworth neighborhood. police say he just met the girl and the pair agreed to meet at a park. the girl showed up two two other people and ochoa was found dead. friends will gather at his school. let's all say it today. you like that. >> you like that. >> you're going to hear that a lot. that's what kirk cousins coined as his phrase. the skins came out on top. now the team's going to make their first trip to the postseason in 2012. jason pugh breaks down the challenges heading into the playoffs now. >> reporter: lincoln financial field is empty and quiet. that's exactly how it will be come playoff time. that's because your redskins defeated the eagles and they

took home the nfc east devilgs crown. yes, they will be going to the playoffs, hosting a playoff game at fedex field. what a night it was. kirk cousins put together a magnificent performance. yes, he had his blunders, but he made up for them in all aspects of the game. 365 yards passing. four touchdowns. it is safe to say this is definitely his football year. >> this is the most satisfied i've been as a football player. you know, it's a big accomplishment. now the key is to go from here. >> words can't explain what he's meant to the team you. know, he's definitely made the difference. we wouldn't be in the playoff push without them, i guarantee you that. >> the decision had to be made. we decided to go with kirk.

he's taken on the job and run with it. we're happy with kirk. >> reporter: cousins did have help. jordan reed, the big tight end coming through. no, he did not make the pro bowel, but he is proving to be a pro bowel caliber tight end in this league. >> you know, a lot of injuries and controversy and everything we've been through, you know, to get here this week, you know. it mean as lot. >> reporter: then there's the game-changing play of the football game. the scoop and score. he and other veterans stood up big-time. >> awesome. man, he looked bad. we stuck together. >> now all year round the

redskins made us believe and not believe they'd win back-to-back games for a long time. they put together a winning streak. all of those things are out the window. this is a good football team, playoff football team. it's time to start believing because, yes, they can win a first round playoff game no matter who it is they play at fedex feechld well, from lincoln financialfield, i'm jason pugh, "news4" sports. republicans in the general assembly are expected to block governor terry mccall la's plans. he told our news partner wtop he's hoping to work behind closed doors. he's hoping to bring medicare to thousands of more people. it could come down to gop finance leaders who are concerned about high costs and poor execution. >> 6:06.

what police are blaming that lead to a brawl. >> 'tis a season to return. how local shoppers are take advantage

a crowded mall in kentucky was mean chaotic when a massive fight broke out. at least 2,000 teenagers were involved. the mall was closed early to get the teens out. there were no reported injuries and no arrests were made either. >> a little bit upset christmas is over? >> just a little bit. i love the music. >> the music is a great. >> the sales aren't over yet. >> okay. well, "news4's" darcy spencer went to tysons corner to show us

how post-holiday sales has led to you flooding to the stores. >> reporter: about half of consumers would shop in stores on the week after christmas. 43% said they plan to shop online. 66% say that they'll be shopping or browsing for after-christmas sales and that is a great time to save money on the -- and use those gift cards that you may have gotten in your zoking. many retailers are extending their sales into the post holiday season. th they're going to see deep discounts in the coming days. if you're planning to come out, you definitely want to give yourself extra time because of all the crowds an traffic here and definitely you want to bring your patience as well. at tysons corn ore, door senn spencer, "news4." >> darcy right in the thick of it right there. take look outside.

we could break another day of temperatures. lauryn telling you how to plan for new year's eve. >> sounds good. they give new perspective. how they're cracking down on

welcome back. close to 1 million drones have

been sold. >> nbc's tom costello has more on what many drone owner mass by surprised to learn. there's another big restriction on our national parks. >> reporter: there may be no better view of a national treasure, skimming the rusher and treeline, brian needle's drone camera captured a great day. spectacular waterfall, kayakers and birds. it landed him in a heap of trouble. >> it was wonderful. >> that's the shadow of a police helicopter forcing his drone down and those are the feet of two park police officers. brian was busted. fined actually. he didn't know it but knackal parks are no-fly zones. grand canyon, zion, smoky mountains. the trouble, drones are

disruptive to people and wildlife. >> that can interfere with nesting birds. we had an incident with a drone chasing bighorn sheep and actually separating the adults from the young. >> reporter: these spectacular images from yellow stone national park were also captured by it's the scenery captured by others from around the world. >> i'm here primarily for the photos. >> for this, not this. >> it just destroys the ambiance, is that it? >> it does. maybe not for the user who has the drone but for the rest of the public it can be very disturbing sniets's more than the noise. this man's drone crashed into the lake. he was fined and banned from the park for one year. the fine trs flying a drone can

range from $100 to more than a thousand, depending on whether wildlife is disturbed or the park is damaged. >> reporter: looking at the video, brian gets it. >> definitely increasing with popularity, i can see with hundreds, dozens of them out there, it would be it. >> reporter: brian paid the $70 fine and said he'll be back to the park but without his drone. tom costello, nbc news, rock creek, national park. >>ly say that's a shot you've never seen it before. >> no. it's gorges to see it regularly, but amazing from that point of view. but you're got to play by the rules. so we were talking about the d.c. trifecta and how everybody is wake up so fired up and now we have the weather report is like the little cherry on top.

>> then it could go away. one big one and then i'm done with it for the three yoos. temperatures already into the low 50s. we'll top out. your eyes aren't deceiving you. in fact, by about 9:00 we're going to be at 60 degrees and we'll take that temperature up from there. it's going to be breezy that will bump that temperature up an humidity up. by later this afternoon we'll have showers we're going to be watching but mainly they'll be to the west of the area. you know, as we continue through mump of the day, temperatures are not going to be too bad. as far as what you're look at, as we go into the rest of your

day -- max 1. let de let's do max 1. right around 70. decorations f you want to do your decorations, it's going to be breezy and nice. all right. shopping. we've got a lot of computers. hard to keep track. it's going to be cloudy but a little warm. if you're going to be traveling, it's going to be nice. new england or off to the west, that's going to see showers. you can see that mainly a lot of us are going to be dry until later on this even, we've got till about tonight. that's when we're going to see showers roll into the area. just a few light showers until we go to the early, early overnight hours. just as midnight, we stay cloudy and most of the day on monday going to be dry. temperatures are going to fall to the 70s today and 40s tonight and we stay into the 40s during the overnight. rain will start to fill back in tomorrow evening. that's when we can see a little

mixed precipitation. we're going to be in the 40s and 30s and then we get into tuesday. now all we're talking about is rain. let's show you what's going on. 70 degrees today. breezy and a little humid. temperatures falling tonight. they stay around the 40s and rain moving in. rain through the day on tuesday. rain wednesday night into thursday. thursday, that pattern starts to break. we'll finally get some sunshine back as we go into the weekend. guys? >> thank you, lauren. >> a treasure lost long ago has finally been lost and by the strangest of circumstances. >> melissa mollet has more. >> the search for the owner of the ring started years ago. it ended in tears and a letter that started it all.

>> hello. my grandmother found this ring left on a table in camden, tennessee, or huntingtown, tennessee, in the 1990s. >> the letter handwritten. >> before she died, she asked me to try to find the ring's owner. >> addressed to someone, anyone at gaithersburg high school with a love for a good memory. >> the ring is 10 karat gold from 1951. >> there were some clues like this 1951 graduation ring with initials. >> i was able to come up here to the library and do some research. for my good graces there was only one person who fit it, r.n.o. >> raymond neal owens known as shorty. they explained it to raymond

neal owen, jr. >> i cried like a baby it was so amazing. >> neal reacquainted with his father's ring. >> i didn't know it was lost. searching through old photos i found an itinerary of this trip. >> reporter: an itinerary of the 1993 trip to tennessee, the trip when that rick must have been lost. >> just having a part of him bring back a lot of good memories of all the things he taught me. >> reporter: an unexpected reunion. >> there are so many things that could have happened, paund, thrown in a drawer and forgotten about. >> reporter: a new friendship. >> it was so nice to be able to give this back. >> reporter: a memento neal never knew about that now means so much. >> reporter: i'm just so happy

to have that part of my dad that i can now carry with me for the rest of my life. >> in gaithersburg, maryland, melissa mollet, "news4." when you think about cyber attacks, damage to roads this is the best block of all. it's like candy cane lane. i know.

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welcome back to "news4 today." there are woes about cyber attacks. nbc's stephanie gosk has more on that threat. >> reporter: the bowman dam about 20 miles from new york city may not look like much, but it reveals troubling vulnerabilities in u.s. infrastructure. two years ago the computer system that controls the dam was hacked. >> this cyber attack surely serves as a bucket of ice water to the face. it was a crystal clear wakeup call that cities, municipalities, utilities could be targeted. >> reporter: they say iranian hackers were behind the attack. a hacker group linked to iran told analysts at flashpoint that an organization named sobh cyber jihad claiminged responsibility. leo taddy formerly of the cyber division in new york said even though the hack of the bowman

dam did not put people at risk, there's reason to be concerned. >> it's important because it's hard to tell whether these are test cases trying to develop tools and techniques that could work on a larger scale. >> reporter: city officials had put in a new floodgate that could be operated remotely using the internet which means something like this dam tucked away in the new york woods could be hacked from worlds away. they say some sectors like the financial industry have made strides in security but others including utility, water, could be lagging behind. since 2014 the department of energy has been hack 159 times. >> the adversaries are out there. they're smart, persistent, and constantly probing our networks. >> reporter: the city is now encrypting computers sending a message that everything, even a

small graffiti covered dam needs protecting. stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. ee were ending with a much warmer december. lauryn ricketts with how much warm weather we'll be dealing with. >> new york stepping up chattanooga. >> and

almost 7:30 on a sunday morning. here are the top stories we're following. four people are seriously hurt in a single-car crash. two of the victims are young children. it happened at benning and 34th street. the cause is under investigation. at least eight people are dead after tornados ripped through ft. worth texas. the extent of the damage won't be known until the sun comes up. the redskins beat the eagles last night sending them to the playoffs. it's their first trip in three years. congratulations to them on a game well played. >> yeah. kirk cousins in the seam, you like that kind of tone. he's like, how many of you hall deserve idiot. good morning, everybody.

we'd made it through the 7:00 hour. >> this is unbelievable. december 27th. >> i know. this is lime a slam during for summer lovers, right? >> yes, it really is. temperatures over christmas day were low. temperatures in the low 70s with the humidity, with the cloud cosh and maybe a little bit of rain, but not until later today. we have the fog right now and it's thick in some spots and visn'ts are fine in other spots. it depends where you are. i believe fog can thicken up as we continue through the morning. as you're traveling out and about, know the visibility could be cut down. temperatures right around 70 degrees. cold weather lovers in the 50s. if you're headed out later on this afternoon, temperatures

topping out around 70. but as i said, we've got rain on the way. we're teaming it out, showing you the seven day coming up. >> thank you, lauren. there's a new potential threat of a shooting or bomb attack in europe. authorities in vienna got the tip and sent it to us. nbc's kelly cobiella has more on what's being done six weeks after the paris attack. >> reporter: police in austria says it was a friendly warning. they warn of a gun or bomb attack sometime between christmas and new year's. >> translator: we have asked the employees of the austrian train company and transportation to inform us of any suspicious luggage such as bags, luggage, our bicycles.

>> it's been six weeks since 1340 were left dead in paris and they've been on heightened alertness since. they stepped up security because of what authorities there call a specific terror threat. today's threat comes from a new audio. the first said to be from gagdy in seven months. ite 24es minutes long and in it the isis leader threatens israel, threatens the new coalition and says isis is getting stronger. nbc news can not authenticate the awe then sisty but flash poibt says it appears to be from baghdadi. back to you. chicago's police department is back under a microscope this morning after another police involved shooting. this time two people were killed. they're offering condolences saying the officer shot her by

accident. now, it all start early saturday morning with a disturbance call. police say an officer opens fire after being come battsed. 19-year-old was killed. the officers involved are on routine administrative leave as the investigation into that shootsing continues. >> right now firefighters are making progress in a fast moving wildfire out west. december is typically not wildfire season in california but with the historic drought, they have been battling fires all year long. nbc's blake mccoy has details on the latest fire threatening homes in one of the most scenic parts of southern california. >> reporter: an ominous glow

shot by this visiting family. fires reaching their wind sheelsd. >> was in total shock. i didn't know what to do. i was still holding my camera. i was shake. we're from the netherlands. we have no experience with these fires and we didn't know how bad it could be. >> reporter: theirs the last car to pass before turning around. others driving into oncoming traffic to flee the flames. >> the fire break out. fuelled by extremely dry conditions and whipping 50-mile-an-hour wind gusts. the seasonal santa anas blowing through theian ons. at daybreak continues continues their aerial assault, dropping water to keep the flames from

burning homes. >> sit's very dynamic fire. we're not quite out of the woods yet. >> with the historic drought, fire season is now all year long. off to st. louis, st. louis off to st. louis, st. louis is dealing with a major

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>> lana moreno-dunn wanted to move to el salvador. it is almost january, can you almost believe that? lauren ricketts more. >> and the redskins

welcome back. the "today" show is next at 8:00. >> harry smith and sheinelle jones. >> we're on the ground in texas with the latest on the killer tornados that tore through the dallas area overnight and today this historic storm is threatening millions more across the middle of the country on this busy holiday travel day. and we e'll look back at th year in politics and what we might look forward to in 2016. plus the hover board fals. everyone who wished for it for christmas may have wished for a helmet. >> and we're going to take a fond look back at all the fun we had on weekend today when we get

started on this busy sunday morning. >> you know, sheinelle, it's all fun and games until you come up on a hover board. >> or you don't try. >> it sheinelle, your kids might have already asked for a hover board. she's only 5 and wants one. it's is scary. >> you know, i'll borrow hers. >> thanks. >> thanks, guys. we'll be watching. changes could be in on the way for the marine corps uniforms. a proposal comes after there was a survey done over the summer. fishlgs say final decisions are pending but the marines' input will be taken into account. they introduced the lock-and-twist styles for women. this weekend brought wild weather across the country.

floodinging was so massive they had to be rescued by boat. >> reporter: a few hair cuts later, this was the scene outside pope johnson's barber shonn. >> i really got nervous when i saw a man walking down the center of the street and the waters with waist hie high. >> reporter: rescue boats were sent to more than a dozen businesses surrounded by rising floodwaters on manchester road but not everyone felt they needed rescuing. >> they called on the phone and i said, they're all fine. only three people here and i'm not worried at all. and they came and said, enough, with giev tot take you. >> the first thing i told them, i know how to swim. i knew it was real when the rescue team came. they put us in the life jack and escorted us down the road. >> a total of eight people were rescued by boat. no one was injure and despied

the draw might scene there were no emergency calls but the flooding did expend to nearby areas it's deer creek and runs back so all the strl centers and warehouses andering are flooded. >> just a few day short of the one-year anniversary of the business opening johnson hopes there will be something left to go back to. >> hopefully it hasn't made it into the building but we'll see in the next couple of days. >> scary situation there. new details this morning in a prince george's county double shooting. they found a man shot inside a car on theft road. the call originally came in for shots fired. they believe one victim has driven to is area. the number of d.c. police officers has fallen below 3 shlgz 800. that's according to the "washington post." it's the lowest number in ten years. as of december 17, there were

3,786 officers. that is down from more than 3,900 a year aechlgt those who were hired and are headed for retirement are part of that. say it. one, two, three. you like that! the matchup against the geels went well into the night but the skins came out on top. now the skins will make their first trip to the postseason since 2012. jason pugh breaks down the challenges they're going to face heading into the playoffs. >> reporter: lincoln financial field is empty and quiet. that's exactly how it will be come playoff time.

that's because your redskins defeated the eagles and they took home the nfc east division crown. yes, they will be going to the playoffs, hosting a playoff game at fedex field. what a night it was. kirk cousins put together a magnificent performance. yes, he had his blunders, but he made up for them in all aspects of the game. 365 yards passing. four touchdowns. it is safe to say this is definitely his football year. >> this is the most satisfied i've been as a football player. you know, it's a big accomplishment. now the key is to go from here. >> words can't explain what he's meant to the team you. know, he's definitely made the difference. we wouldn't be in the playoff push without them, i guarantee you that. >> the decision had to be made. we decided to go with kirk. we fell like he earned it from training camp on and he's taken the job and run with it. we're happy with kirk. >> reporter: cousins did have help. jordan reed, the big tight end coming through. no, he did not make the pro

bowl, but he is proving to be a pro bowl cab ber tight end in this league. >> you know, a lot of injuries and controversy and everything we've been through, you know, to get here this week, you know. it mean as lot. >> reporter: then there's the defense. how about the veteran safety deangelo hall making possibly the game-changing play of that football game. the skoonld score. the scoop and score. he and other veterans stepped up big-time. >> awesome. man, he looked bad. we stuck together. >> now all year round the redskins made us believe and not believe they'd win back-to-back games for a long time. they couldn't put together a winning streerks they couldn't win on the road.

all of those things are out the window. this is a good football team, playoff football team. it's time to start believing because, yes, they can win a first round playoff game no matter who it is they play at fedex field. well, from lincoln financial field, i'm jason pugh, "news4" sports. we're happy to report that jason got himself a cheesesteak. check out the twitter feed. if you don't enjoy it, go across to the other. >> which do you do? >> i do both. one and then the other. >> that's funny. if you're trying to work off the holiday calories, this is the day to get out. >> that's right. temperatures will be around 70 but then we head into this week and temperatures will be around 60 but not close to record-breaking and then we'll finally drop the temperatures off into the 30s and 40s.

iepts going to be a big chill to the system. right now really mild temperatures. we're in the 50s right now. you can see more than 60 degrees on there. stanton in the shenandoah valley was coming in at 60 degrees. now they've dropped into the 50s as well. hour-by-hour forecast, don't worry. we're going to make it to the 60-degree mark by 9:00 a.m. winds will pick up out of the southwest that. will help bump up that humidity and temperature to about 70 by the time we get into the afternoon and evening. it's going to be on the warm side and the foggy side. not too bad but enough to break your concentration as you're driving out and about. if you want to take down the decoration, know it's going to be breezy. if you're shopping, doing the

brunch scene, cloudy. traveling, again, new england and out to the midwest and all the way down to texas we do have some of that rain moving through and it's heavy. so if you're traveling to those arias, especially with airports, you nay have a few delays. this is what i was talk about. no airport delays just yet. we'll keep our fingers crossed but it looks like everybody is good to go at this moment. sf you're driving, you have this here. rain here tonight especially late night around 6:00 or 7:00 here in the mid-atlantic you're going to deal with rain. there's what we're going to be watching. most of the day will be dry. maybe a few peeks of sunshine. here comes rain tonight and it's

out of here. maybe a little bit of rain or mixed precipitation by tomorrow afternoon. that's where more can come up. 70 degrees. breezy today. we drop into the 40s and stay into the 40s tomorrow. back into the 60s. rain tuesday, rain wednesday night into thursday. then the pattern breaks. we finally cool down heading into the weekend and the new year. guys? >> lauryn, thank you. right now we have four thing use need to know today including four people, including two kids who are seriously hurt in a sing single-car crash on benning and 34th street around midnight. the cause is still under investigation. at least eight people are dead after a tornado ripped through parts of texas. an investigation is under way. friends gather to remember 17-year-old jose ochoa who was

stabbed to death after arranging to meet a girl in the neighborhood. the skins clinched a win over the eagles. seven minutes away from the 8:00 hour and a veteran nfl quarterback facing a new controversy. the report peyton manning is calling

get this. pay on the manage is calling the information coming out as complete garbage. it's set to air tonight on al jazeera rah. in the movie a man secretly being taped claims manning regularly received drug under his wife's name. manning said in a statement the allegation are totally made up. it was the first of its kind in the district. christians and muslims celebrated the birth of jesus and the prophet muhammad. jesus' birth occurred on christmas and prophet muhammad's birth occurred on the 24th this

year. participants sang christmas carols and muslim songs as well as the "national anthem." a lot of people waking up this morning in a good mood but a little bit tired. >> i know that's right but how about some news of near record warmth. >> right around 70 degrees. but as we continue, the weather falls and the chill comes back in 2016 friday and saturday. break out the coat. >> do it. >> thank you very much. that's all for "news4 today." thank you for joining us. we'll be back at

good morning. monster storm. >> it's massive. >> wow! >> oh, my gosh, it's big. >> deadly tornadoes tear through the dallas area overnight, killing at least eight people, destroying homes, terrifying residents as they hunkered down for safety. >> i can't believe it. i never thought that i would live through something like this. it's like a nightmare. >> that same storm system pounding the country again today. 59 million people in its path. with the threat of more tornadoes and snowdrifts as high as ten feet, as people try to make their way home from their christmas vacations. weav we're live on the scene. towering inferno. firefighters in southern california working to get cont