have been duck hunting and may have disappeared shortly after that. we do want to move it over to decision 2016. the republican race for the white house is one candidate down. george pataki announced during a primetime tv ad last night that he is suspending his campaign. pataki said he believes the country will elect the right person to be our next president. he is the former governor of the state of new york. nbc's lawrence edwards joins us with more later. in the day ahead, d.c. mayor, muriel bowser will sign the police body camera program into law. this comes after several changes to the law by the d.c. council. the amendments ensure the camera footage will be more easily available to the public. the only times the footage won't be available is in cases of sex assault, domestic violence or video inside of private homes. come spring more than 2,000 d.c. officers will be equipped with the cameras. >> 4:30 now. four things we need to know. first thing is you have to take it slow this morning, right? >> agreed.

>> not only the fog, but little deer popping out of the fog. >> look out for those guys, too, gals sometimes. chuck bell is in storm team 4 weather center. i'm sure you have deer on that list. >> oh, yeah, absolutely. no problem, dear, that's what i've got on the list. dense fog, angie gets an a plus. she knew the fog would be on there. aaron gets an f for now. sunshine will be a struggle for later on today. just as the sun moves in, the fog moves out. take your umbrella with you. looks 24r50ik 16 will get off to a cold start. dense fog advisory goes until 9:00 for all over the region this morning. thickest fog is northern maryland out to the shenandoah valley. morning fog and afternoon showers. yellow there for driving locally. 95 northbound, green lights. dry all the way to new england. air travel could have delays from atlanta to houston with showers well down to our south. keep that in mind. temperatures right now mostly in the mid to upper 40s. talk more about the moving in rain threat for later on today and talking new year's eve.

that's in ten minutes. more fog here this morning. take a live look now. 66 here as promised east of 28, you can see that haze. again, be careful. you have to use those low beams this morning. it is tough to see in some spots. i can tell you because i just drove in here this morning. 95 south at deal boulevard, we still have part of that ramp blocked because of police activity. 66 looks good, 95 don't have any problems there. little bit of a slowdown northbound through quantico. no road work happening still there. not sure what that is but i'll look into that. top of the beltway looking pretty good here. beltway at colesville, even though the roadways are green, it is still foggy all over the place. back in ten minutes. 4:32. new developments now in one of the most shared stories on our nbc washington facebook page. a call for pizza led mexican authorities to an internationally wanted man and his mother. that's the latest overnight on ethan couch. he and his mother both face charges now. later today they will board a plane from puerto vallarta to

texas. you may remember couch as the 18-year-old who used his wealth as a defense. he was on probation for killing four people in a drunk driving accident in 2013. texas officials think that he and his mother fled after video surfaced showing him near a beer pong game. you can see the video here. now if couch was drinking, it would be a violation of his probation. in the news conference police said that they're excited to have the pair in custody. >> to be honest with you, we're going to breathe a lot easier when they're back in this country and we have them locked up here in tarrant county. that's the ultimate goal. >> texas officials want a judge to move couch's case to adult court. he was 16 when that original accident happened. this would allow for a sentence of up to 120 days in jail. rescuers in china now working to pull eight miners who have been trapped for days. the beijing mine's collapse as strong as a 4.0 magnitude quake happened christmas day.

infrared cameras detected the men weak and hungry but they're alive. one has died and nine others still missing. we'll be following these developments. d.c. mayor bowser took a walk through the petworth neighborhood asking them what makes them feel unsafe. several people mentioned synthetic drugs. they said it's scary to dodge people high on the drugs who often have unpredictable behavior. they also say dark alleys in the area are a draw for illegal drugs. >> because of the users and the effects it has on the users so you have people going into alleys and having -- being very aggressive. >> the mayor says d.c. police have increased their presence in the area to try to help out with the situation. police in manassas are looking for this man, 36-year-old ben tolby. tee tekt tifs say they want to charge him with robbery and grand larceny in connection with the robbery of the t.d. bank on sudden sudly. 4:34.

two men face charges after using an app to sell stolen electronics. montgomery county police said they made the arrest by posing as interested buyers. a man reported someone broke into his car and stole $20,000 worth of high end electronics on christmas day. he recognized some of his products on the app days later and notified the police. police in northern virginia have arrested two suspects accused of a series of burglaries. kai and leah have broken into several places. they took money and other valuables. they've been linked to 20 cases so far. police say more charges could be coming. an advocacy group is working to keep an arlington family from starting the new year homeless. the diez family was told by their property manager that they are being evicted because their 10-year-old disabled son is too loud. the boy suffered brain damage when he was severely beaten by a

day care provider when he was just 18 month old. >> the older neighbor has complained. >> the apartment has offered the family a smaller unit for $400 more than what they currently pay, something the family says they cannot afford. today we expect chicago mayor rahm emmanuel to announce what he's calling a major overhaul in police use of force. it comes after a series of controversial officer-involved shootings. yesterday officer jason van dyk pleaded not guilty in the murder of 17-year-old laquan mcdonald. dash cam video shows the officer shooting the teen 16 times back in 2014. a cleveland, ohio, man says he will seek negligent homicide charges in the tamir rice case. an officer mistook his pellet gun for a real gun. the council member did not say when he will pursue the charges. activists say that they plan to

protest in the city again today over the grand jury's decision. is there such a thing as too much security when it comes to your child's school? why research says yes and how it could put students in danger. the next "glee" star is behind bars. what police say they found on his computer. 4:37 now as we face the fog this morning, it is thick out there as we take a live look outside northwest d.c. a what's

welcome back. a star from the hit tv show "glee" is behind bars this morning. police arrested mark salling on having child pornography. they arrested him in the los angeles area. he played bad boy buck on the hit tv show for six years. the army got hit with a big bill for the run away surveillance balloon. you may remember back in october when the balloon broke free. the army has received more than 300,000 in claims from a dozen people who say that their property was damaged. the unmanned balloon carries radar designed to spot airborne threats that target washington. congress recently cutting the funding of the program significantly in its recent spending bill. that was hard to forget. 6700 feet of cable was dragged across a couple states. >> a lot of damage there, right.

4:41 your time now on this wednesday morning. time for a look at weather and traffic on the 1s. >> hey, chuck. >> hey, good morning, angie and aaron. a quiet and foggy start this morning. be on the lookout first thing for some very thick fog as you guys were mentioning. low beams and low speeds for your drive around town early this morning. temperatures will gradually climb from the 40s now into the low and mid 50s later on today. 43 now in frederick, maryland, 50 in annapolis, 48 in stafford. storm team 4 radar is clear. you won't need the umbrella but take it with you because there are rain showers lingering down to the south, western carolinas and northern georgia. rain drops coming our way for later today. take your umbrella. first peek think about what you're doing new year's eve at the stroke of midnight. it will be chilly. temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s. it will be dry for the new year. dry and chilly for a while. seven day forecast. here's melissa mollet. >> good morning.

still have the fog hanging around. another live picture, 95 at dale boulevard, northbound and southbound, everything moving fine. have the nice haze that is requiring the low beams for you here this morning. again, when you're taking a look at 66 and 95, you can see you're at speed. you don't have any worries in that way at least this morning. big look at the beltway in ner loop and outer loop. 270 northbound and southbound is okay. you have the fog to contend with. i'll see you back here at 4:31. melissa, thank you. a virginia lawmaker spoke out against donald trump and now he says he's being threatened and it's not by trump. she's back. sort of. where oprah is making a re

at 4:44, new this morning,

an earthquake in southern california. is it started in a heavily populated area. near san bernardino overnight. the earthquake measured 4.4 and had several aftershocks. no one was hurt. 15 before the hour. decision 2016. as we mentioned earlier gop presidential hopeful george pataki has dropped out of the race but the rest of the presidential candidates are hitting voters so far. so far donald trump has spent very little on campaign advertising but now says that is going to change. nbc's edward lawrence joining us live from capitol hill with more on what's happening on the campaign trail. edward, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, aaron. each of the candidates want the momentum going into 2016. this week they've logged thousands of miles to reach as many voters as they can. donald trump has a new tactic and a new target. he says he's going to spend $2 million a week on campaign ads on iowa, and south carolina. some say this may be the wrong

move because he has not spent money on ads and it seems to have worked for him. he's only spent $217,000 on radio ads. a new rasmussen poll says trump and hillary clinton would be in a tossup if the election were held today. that may be why he's attacking hillary clinton through her husband, bill clinton, saying he is the sexist one. marco rubio picked up a key endorsement. congressman tre gaudy who was head of the benghazi hearings. chris christie had a campaign event yesterday said, quote, dude, show up. rubio says that he does show up for the important votes here in the senate. reporting live in washington on capitol hill, edward lawrence. back to you. >> thank you. a virginia lawmaker is getting threats from supporters of presidential candidate donald trump. david ramadan said he's received thousands of threats.

he said that the party is making a suicidal mistake. bethesda based honest tea is removing donald trump quotes from the bottle caps. they say they don't have a problem with the presidential candidate. they told angie yesterday that the quotes are changed every 18 months. the maryland company has put quotes on the bottom of its caps for years to be inspirational and thought provoking. trump's quote read if you're going to think anyway, you might as well think big. new year's preparations happening today. crews are dropping the ball in times square. you're looking at a live picture there now. 10,000 pounds that ball weighs. trust me. >> huge.

>> this head right here, also 10,000 pounds. reality. the square will be packed thursday night. not only are people making sure nothing goes wrong. new york's mayor, bill de blasio, says security is more extensive this year. not only will there be thousands of police officers there, the city is bringing out hundreds more in its new antiterror force. for those of you partying here thursday night, don't forget rides on metro will be free for a few hours. miller coors is paying metro $165,000 to cover all rides between midnight thursday night and 3:00 a.m. friday morning. that's both the trains and the buses here in the city. you do need to show a smart trip card though. >> all right. new research saying that protection at your kids' school may be over protection. researchers at virginia tech say that heightened security leads to a prison-like environment at schools. for example, they say school resource officers may function as enforcers rather than educators. the researchers also say that the security influences how students think about their

environment. >> kids don't necessarily have the developmental skills to understand that what looks like a prison is not a prison. >> according to the researchers, all this can lead to over surveillance and over discipline of students, especially minorities. in news for your health, new findings show salt may not be as bad for your heart as we now think. data out this week shows that patients will with moderate heart failure who stuck to a low sodium diet were 85% more likely to die or be hospitalized for heart disease compared to those who didn't restrict salt intake. doctors say this does not mean you should reach for the salt shaker. they say a lot more research is needed. oprah making a return to basic cable in a very personal way. >> inside every overweight woman is a woman she knows she can be. >> well, in a newly released commercial, oprah winfrey is asking people who struggle with

their weight to join weight watchers. the media mogul owns a 10% part of that company. before oprah announced her investment in weight watchers the weight loss company was struggling to compete with high tech diets and social media. >> and so you can't help but think a lot of this is -- >> yeah. >> she actually did the weight watchers program. >> yes. >> she wanted to try it before she did this sort of endorsement even though she now owns part of the company. if oprah spits on it, it turns to gold. >> right. >> never heard that before. >> only oprah. >> okay. so outside now we're dealing with a lot of fog. >> yeah. >> hoping that this is going clear up soon. how long is it going to be with us this morning? >> quite a few more hours. this is not the good time of the year to try to be in a hurry to burn the fog away. low sun angles never helped and a lot of moisture in the atmosphere. the rain did not help. skies did not clear until after the sun went down, but clear skies late last evening allowed for a lot of thick fog to

develop first thing this morning. we'll start out foggy and just as the fog lifts our next rain chance in the clouds come in. so fog in, cloudy to start. late day rain showers on the cool side today. not cold by late december standards. visibility is now only 1/8 of a mile in baltimore county. 1/2 nile the city. low beams and low speeds this morning. nothing falling out of the sky as far as rain is concerned. that will change a little later on today. showers down across alabama and georgia. most of that is going to go just down to our south. we're going to be on sort of the northern edge of any real rain chance. rain chances stand at about 40 to 50%. a little better chance the farther south you live or travel. a little bit lower chance up towards the mason dixon line. high resolution model carries the fog and cloudiness through the morning. noontime, maybe a spit or a sprinkle by noontime. little better rain chances coming in after about 3:00 or

4:00 this afternoon. here's 5:30. the ride home for one of the last days at work likely to have hit and miss light rain showers. take the umbrella and play it on the safe side. upper 40s to near 50 degrees right now. we won't see a big rise in temperatures because of all the clouds around. 56 our high today with a chance for showers this afternoon and into this evening. tomorrow should be a dry day but mostly clou. new year's eve is at 55 degrees. new year's day, 49 for a high on new year's day. wow, look at all the sun. focus on the positive, melissa, sunny, sunny, sunny all through the weekend. it will feel like january. get your winter coat ready to go. break down the timing of the rain chances a little more carefully at 6:01. >> i am actually ready for that i have to tell you. let's get into winter here now this morning. taking a look at gw parkway, live driving for you here this morning in bound there, gw parkway. i should say northbound. just after the first look at it,

a little hard to see. we have a lot of fog around town this morning. 66 at west ox road. you can see a little bit of haze there. low beams, low speeds going to be a must here this morning. 95 quantico to the beltway going to take you 17 minutes. can't ask for anything much better than that. you can see kind of the haze here even on our virtual maps. southbound you don't have any problem either. no major issues coming from the beltway down to quantico. 95 at 216, scaggsville road. i'll see you at 5:01. thanks, melissa. identity crisis. why your i.d. may not be enough to get you through airport security.

you're watching "news 4 today." 4:56 now. a busy intersection in rockville may change after the death of a 19-year-old cyclist. montgomery county police say flashing lights will go a long way to alerting drivers. that's where a car hit and killed frank towers monday night. police captain thomas didone says he's concerned about an increase in deadly crashes at that intersection. >> we average about one bicyclist losing their life and this year we've had three. that's quite disturbing. >> we watched yesterday as some

cars stopped for cyclists in the crosswalk and others didn't. it's illegal not to, by the way. captain didone said pedestrians need to look out for drivers as well. >> parking around the national mall may soon be a lot harder. about 1/3 of the 25,000 visitors arrive on tour buses. now there's a proposal to make many of the parking spots surrounding the mall tour bus only spots. another idea is to build a parking deck under the mall to hold all of those buses. both options could mean headaches for the rest of us. >> the overall trend in d.c. is it's going to be more and more difficult to drive a single occupancy vehicle. >> well, tour buses drive an extra 20 miles per day just looking for parking in the diszwriekt if you live or work in fredericksburg, the city is taking steps to make parking easier downtown. they bought a half acre space it plans to turn into a parking lot. this is according to "the freelance star." the site will add 29 spaces in

the parking lot and 13 street spaces you can use on nights and weekends. your driver's license may not be enough to board a flight in the near future. the tsa is considering enforcing a ten-year-old law surrounding so-called real i.d.s. it pushes states to issue more secure driver's licenses. travelers who don't meet the criteria would need a passport. d.c. and maryland meet the standards. virginia has been granted an extension through october. the department of homeland security says it will give 120 days notice before enforcing the law. 4:58. the latest in thrill seeking courses may soon be coming to northern virginia. they're requesting proposals for a high ropes course. the washington business journal says that the county plans to launch a trial run at south run park. that's south of fairfax county parkway in springfield. when it comes time to pack away the holidays, make sure you recycle your christmas tree. drop it off at the prince william county landfill ton

dumfries road and the ballsford road compost facility is accepting the trees. heavy fog is putting -- >> "news 4 today" starts now. a dent in your morning drive to work. turn on the low beams, folks. this is a live look on the american legion bridge. getting on the bridge right now. you can see it right there. you can't see that far ahead of you. >> a little bumpy. it is the same story here in 95 in maryland at the icc turning over that camera. dense fog advisory in effect for the entire area. chuck says it's going to take a while for all of this to burn off. good morning, everyone. i'm angie goff in for eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. we're talking about the fog for the morning. a different weather story for the evening commute. chuck bell is tracking all of that in the 24 hour forecast ahead of us. chuck. >> good morning to you guys. good morning, everybody. thick, thick, thick fog across

northern virginia, suburban maryland. inner harbor in baltimore now. quarter and a half mile visibility. low beams and low speeds this morning. temperatures, not cold by late december, early january standards. we're already above our average high. we're in the mid to upper 40s. fog moves out just in time for rain to move in. biggest impacts for rain will be across southern maryland into parts of northern virginia today. here's your 24 hour focus. thick fog. 47 this morning. cloudy and chilly at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning with temperatures once again in the mid 40s. those are, indeed, your weather headlines for the day from the fog to rain. our mild pattern is coming to an end and good news about the new year. montpelier are about all of that coming up in a few minutes. for now, trouble near quantico. >> brand-new problem. a quiet road at tacketts mill. a crash with possible