the low beams this morning. that's right. our team is working for you to get you on your way this morning. we're going to check in with melissa mollet with the road conditions. first, the man of the hour, chuck bell who's here to tell us about some places. it's really thick out there. >> i win. man of the hour. good news. be ready, everybody. slow travel. the fog will slow things down this morning. dense fog advisory goes until 9:00. it's widespread and it's very thick in places so use extra caution. by afternoon the fog will be gone but just as the fog moves out, the rain moves in. keep that in mind for later today. have your up blael hambrella ha. keep your low beams on. 24 hour focus then, thick fog this morning. light rain at 7:00 tonight. that's why you'll have your umbrellas ready to go. then a cloudy and chilly start to the day tomorrow. let you know when the rain will move in and when it will move out. that's coming up with your travel forecast. speaking of travel, miss melissa

mollet. you'll be lady of the hour. >> i definitely get lady of the hour this morning. taking a look at this problem, 66 westbound at the plains, still have the tractor-trailer crash. right now when you're taking a big look at 66 you can see it's really not affecting things. if we really zoomed in we could see some slowdowns. not affecting too many folks right now this morning. quantico to the beltway, going to take you 18 minutes just as it should. no problems there. 95 right now this morning. southbound also looking quite good. another problem outer loop at pennsylvania but that's off to the right side of the roadway. travel times in ten minutes. rescuers in china now working to pull eight miners who have been trapped for days. the beijing mines collapse as strong as a 4.0 magnitude quake happened christmas day. infrared cameras detected the men weak and hungry but they're alive. 11 of their fellow miners have already been rescued but sadly one person has died and there were still many more missing. we're going to be keeping an eye

on the rescue efforts. back to you. > . >> reporter: good morning, i'm molette green outside of d.c. police headquarters. a game change ber for city police. by spring team you will see mpd police officers outfitted with body cameras. some 2800 of them. in just a matter of hours d.c. mayor muriel bowser is expected to sign off on a sweeping legislation funding the program at a cost of about $5.1 million. now the city has tested out the cameras using about 400 officers as part of a pilot program. for supporters, this is about accountability, transparency, and safety and it gives the public full access to footage through the city's open records law. now initially d.c.'s mayor did not want this to be so open. she wanted to keep most of the footage private, but now only

video showing incidents of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking will be shielded from the general public. that's going to happen. the signing is later this morning. we'll have all the very latest developments for you today. back to you. 6:03 your time right now. also today changes for chicago police. mayor rahm emmanuel plans to announce what he's calling a major overhaul in police use of force. among the reforms, plans to give every officer on street duty a taser and provide training by june. the city's interim police superintendant supports the recommendation. a maryland community is mourning today after the death of a physically disabled man. more than 100 people gathered last night to remember douglas reyes. reyes was stabbed and killed while sitting on a bench in an elementary playground in seabrook. police have arrested alex jones. >> my son is diagnosed with

multiple mental disabilities and even if someone had provoked him, he has never defended himself. >> police say that jones confronted reyes, then pulled out a knife and stabbed him. a man is now facing charges for a sex assault in saint mary's county. the sheriff's office there says deputies arrested donald leo parks yesterday. they say he forced a woman into the woods in lexington park earlier this month and then raped her. deputies charged parks with second and third degree sex offense as well as assault. authorities are looking for the person who owns the boat you see right here. they found it in -- it was full of water yesterday morning on the virginia side of the potomac right across from fort washington. maryland natural resources police say they think someone was using it for a duck hunt. the washington post says search teams found a life jacket floating in the water nearby. developing today, ethan couch and his mother will be extradited back to texas. couch is the teenager who some say got off easy.

went and used his wealth in the defense of a deadly drunk driving crash. if he was drinking, that would violate his probation for the 2013 crash. federal authorities say they tracked couch and his mom down in mexico when they used his cell phone to order a pizza. 6:05. we turn to decision 2016 now. former new york governor george pataki is bowing out of the race for president. he posted this tweet yesterday. he also announced during a primetime tv ad last night that he is suspending his campaign for president. virginia lawmaker david ramadan said he is being threatened. the republican said he's received thousands of threats on social media. now this comes after he called donald trump a moron during an interview on cnn on monday. ramadan slammed trump for his

comments on requiring republican voters to claim their party affiliation. now with one man out of the republican race, donald trump is taking aim at his democratic competition yet again. trump slammed bill clinton at a rally last night hoping to turn voters away from hillary clinton. campaign experts say mr. clinton's past indiscretions are fair game. trump seemed to suggest he won't back down. edward lawrence has more on that joompt capital cameras could be coming to the d.c. grounds. right now filming cannot happen beyond union station. norton said this will boost the district's economy. loudoun county could have more to say in local transportation decisions. next year the general assembly

will consider a bill giving the county a second voting member on the northern virginia transportation commission. this is why it matters to you. the commission is responsible for deciding what projects will get money from new tolls on interstate 66. right now fairfax county is best represented with five voting members. let's give you another live look outside this morning where the fog is hitting several parts of our area. this is what it looks like right now at the u.s. capitol, but what will it be like when you head out the door? chuck bell is back with the travel impact. 6:07. also learning about a startling crime out of northern virginia. one man is under arrest for abduction. and wait until you hear police say who he held at gun point and why. if you know anyone in the l.a. area this morning, you can bet they had a rough night getting some sleep. the latest on the dozens of after shocks still hitting so cal this morning.

new this morning. reports out of southern california. everybody is okay after a quake measured 4.4 and it hit san bernardino overnight. thousands of people felt it, thousands of after shocks. so far reports say no one was hurt. arlington police say a man held a computer technician against his will. joseph mondello is the suspect. police arrested mondello and charged him with abduction. 6:11. weather and traffic on the 1s. if you have traveling to do today, get ready for a little more rain. >> kind of a carbon copy of yesterday. now we've added the fog factor, right, chuck? >> that's right. skies cleared out a little after sun down. that allowed things to cool off and it allowed quite the thick

deck of fog. that's what we're dealing with this morning. visibility down half mile from gaithersburg to leesburg. quarter mile visibility near culpepper. yellow light for morning fog and risk of showers. i-95 north to new england. no problems. rain delays changing planes in atlanta or houston. rain chances hold off. 2:00 today, all dry. here come the rain showers between 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. nothing all that heavy. it will slow things down just a bit. temperatures in the 50s today. a look at new year's day and the weekend coming up in ten minutes. melissa, new trouble on the beltway. brand new problem inner loop at branch avenue. brand-new crash happened here a couple of minutes ago. as far as travel times elsewhere, 66 looking good. 95 northbound from quantico to the beltway don't have any problems there. 270 southbound also looking good here. top of the beltway outer loop from 95 to 270 going to take you

nine minutes as it should. fog all over the place. be careful. use the low beams this morning. take a look outside now at reagan national airport this morning. we haven't heard of any cancellations or delays because of fog here, but the weather in other areas could keep you grounded. it's hard enough getting evicted but because of your disabled son? the arlington family who said their landlord did just that. and a warning from a college that knows all too well about student security. why virginia tech is telling schools their safety measures are actually harming kids.

we want to take you to florida now and show you live pictures to a press conference we've been listening to there. on i-95. the reason that we're bringing you here is that apparently there was a very bad collision just after midnight involving multiple vehicles and as a result of that we now have multiple fatalities. at least five people dead. police saying there was a wrong-way driver that wound up sideswiping one vehicle and that caused multiple other collisions. we'll bring you more information

when we get it. at the live desk i'm erica gonzalez. >> erica, thank you. 6:17. fog continues to blanket our area. you might want to give yourself some extra time to get to work this morning. here's what things look like outside the news 4 studios right now. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell and melissa mollet keeping a close eye on conditions. both of them hard at work. we'll have weather and traffic on the 1s. right now we do want to take a live look at reagan national airport to see how things are looking out there. a little bit of fog still in the air. not really lifting just yet. take a look at the flights nationally. this is a much different sight than what we saw yesterday. not many delays to report which means good news if you are planning on flying out today. right now we are tracking about ten cancellations. those are at dull let international airport and reagan national this morning. dwy is not reporting any programs. you can get the latest flight delays at any time through the nbc washington app. all you have to do is search the

word flight. >> since we got here we started to see that there were problems with the noise that my son makes. >> an arlington family says it could end up homeless because of their disabled son. the diaz family was told by their property manager that they're being evicted because their 10-year-old son is too loud. the boy suffered brain damage when he was severely beaten by a day care provider when he was just 18 months old. >> we even gave them a letter from our son's pediatrician stating the problems that he has. >> the diaz family spoke to us through a translator. a tenant advocate group is working with a family advocate. they've offered the family a smaller un flit for $400 more than they currently pay, something the family says it can't afford. a new report says that the owner of marijuana edibles is taking orders again less than a week after he was arrested. owner nicholas cunningham says what he is doing, he says it's

legal. according to d.c., he started a cush gods app where he is taking pot orders. it allows customers to make a $10 donation to pot brownies and gummies. it has a delivery car that replaces the three cars that were seized, these three cars that were seized by police earlier. a leak is causing concerns to prince williams county. they say dominion opossum point power plant leaked toxic pot ash into the creek. they don't believe private drinking wells were contaminated. developing news out of oklahoma now. the search for a country singer will resume today. heavy rain is complicating the effort. they're looking for 29-year-old craig strickland. he went duck hunting with a friend. they found his friend's body on monday and started a search for

strickland. he's the lead singer for back road anthem. one of the men accused of killing a pastor's wife faces another set of murder charges. you might remember the story of amanda blackburn's murder. 18-year-old larry taylor went on an eight day rampage of violence before killing blackburn and her unborn baby in their home in indianapolis. prosecutors filed murder charges earlier this week in the deadly shooting of a 26-year-old man back in november. new research saying that protection at your kids' schools may be over protection. researchers at virginia tech say that heightened security leads to a prison like environment at the schools. for example, they say school resource officers may function as enforcers rather than educators. the researchers also say the security influences help students think about their environment. >> sometimes with security guards, going through metal detectors, armed guards, that leads to this idea of fear.

>> well, according to the researchers, all this can lead to over surveillance and over discipline of students, especially minorities. a new mexico couple was stranded inside their car for 20 hours after it was covered by dangerous snowdrifts. the couple was out delivering papers, newspapers when their car drifted into a ditch. look at this. can you believe this? they ended up stuck in this blinding snow saturday night. that area of new mexico saw wind gusts of up to 67 miles per hour that night. that would qualify as a blizzard, i believe. the couple called 911 but dangerous weather conditions kept first responders from reaching them. time now for your weather and traffic on the 1s. the word of the morning, fog. take a look here though. one of our crews is out on 495 east now and it's not too bad. >> not looking too bad. chuck bell is standing by. not only does he have the

forecast for today, but he's looking ahead to the weekend. hey, chuck. >> angie, aaron, quiet start to the day. fog has definitely slowed things down this morning. low beams and low speeds. live look from the tower. 500 to 700 feet from the tower. that indicates how thick that fog is. only a couple of hundred feet of visibility at most. at national airport, five miles. annapol annapolis, 3/4 of a mile. northern montgomery county, loudoun county, quarter mile visibility towards culpeper. take it easy. here's the fog forecast model. 9:00 a.m., visibility is improving just a bit. the real change and improvement in visibility comes as we get closer and closer to the lunch hour. don't expect to see much sunshine. as the fog moves out, the rain chaps move back in. foggy and 45 now. will be near 47 with the dense fog by 7:00 a.m. fog he is easing up a bit from 10:00, 11:00.

mid afternoon mid 50s. phi showers moving in as early as 2:00 or 3:00 this afternoon. better chances for light rain move in after 5:00. light rain, 6:00 to 8:00. 8:00 to 11:00, just a couple of showers left. won't be cold. temperatures in the upper 40s and 50s. tomorrow another day with a lot of clouds around, especially early on. new year's eve we'll get more and more sunshine. sun is down at 5:00 tomorrow. as you're plan being out your new year's eve, temperatures back in the low 40s as we get towards midnight and ring in our 2016. boy, once we get a new year, new month, new weather pattern altogether, sunshine comes back on new year's day and then that carries us on into the weekend. full sunshine saturday and sunday. it is going to feel a little bit more like winter. we've only been below freezing twice in the month of december. we'll get that knocked out in the first weekend of the new year. 24 hour focus coming up at 6:31. here's melissa.

still problem at inner loop at branch avenue. does not seem to be slowing things. looking at the beltway, nice in greensville. we have that fog all over the place. just a warning. still have this situation outside of quantico. aquia road to thacketts. that crash had entrancements. taking some time to get out of the way. 66 and 95 don't have any problems roadway wise. 270 at clarksburg road, nice fog kind of just hanging in the air there this morning. beltway at kenl worth avenue just fine. i'll see you back here in ten minutes. winter flooding in missouri wreaking havoc on people and their homes. neighbors are trying to sand bag the houses that aren't already underwater. people being rescued from their rooftops even. flood waters are threatening to close major highways. and if you can wrap your mind around this one, another eight

feet of water still expected to spill into that area. back to you. 6:25 now. learning some new details about an alaskan plane crash. the pilot that crashed into a downtown building was not authorized to fly that aircraft. doug demerritt crashed that plane. the civil air patrol does volunteer search and rescue missions. he joined in 2010. no one was hurt. seaworld is continuing the practice at its facility in san diego. the lawsuit filed tuesday says the california commission's ruling was outside of its authority. back in october the commission endorsed a $100 million expansion of the tanks at seaworld to hold orcas but looped in a ban on breeding. an outcry after major traffic fines in d.c. the d.c. council and mayor muriel bowser are responding.

d dot is proposing increases on several tickets including one that would cost $1,000. the agency's plan does not require approval from anyone. it already says the changes are about revenue. in an interview yesterday mayor bowser said she didn't sign off on the change and they're not likely to happen. the d.c. council scheduled a hearing about the fines for next week. so is eating a more healthy diet on your new year's resolution list, aaron? >> no, but not to say that you -- actually, you should be careful. some people are taking the obsession for healthy eating a little too far. it has a name called orthorexia. it's used to describe a fixation on extreme healthy eating. one woman says after years of digestive issues she went too far in looking for the perfect diet. at one point she said all she ate was green vegetables and her new diet made her sick. >> it's hard on everyone around

me because we couldn't just go to a restaurant and enjoy the night and go out from there. it was like, can jordan eat anything here? probably not. doctors say those suffering with this disease can be treated with nutritional therapy. eating a well balanced meal is the best way to go. as we get ready for new year's, new york is really preparing. a live look. you're looking at what times square looks like right now. it's going to be a whole nother story come thursday night. new york's mayor bill de blasio said security is heavier than before. the city is bringing out hundreds more from its new anti-terror force. also at times square today, they are checking out that new year's ball. this thing weighs 10,000 pounds. they are dropping it today to test just to make sure that it works on thursday night. the square will be packed thursday, not only are people

showing up to make sure nothing goes wrong. you can see right there they already tested out the confetti joompt if you are just heading out the door this morning, you want to grab a warm coat. look at current temperatures and chuck says we are going to start 2016 cold. just how low the temperatures will go at 6:31. if you thought finding parking at the mall was hard now, you just wait. the changes that could soon make finding a spot even worse

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back to a story we got word of only a few minutes ago. in turkey, two isis militants have been arrested. the pair was allegedly planning a new year's attack. police have not released the name or the gender of those individuals, but we do know that they were able to recover two suicide vests. at the live desk, i'm erica gonzalez. and you better be ready for some thick fog this morning. that's definitely one of the 4 things you need to know about the weather. dense fog advisory goes until 9:00 a.m. it's going to be a real struggle to see any sunshine today. more sunshine coming our way in

the new year also. also pack your umbrella after 3:00 or 4:00 p.m. 2016 is getting off to a cold start. fog impact, advisory goes until 9:00 a.m. widespread and dense in pockets. by later today the fog will be lifting just in time for the rain drops to start moving back into the picture. biggest impact on the rain today will be from washington metro area southbound from fredericksburg into southern maryland. new year's eve forecast coming up. seven day at 6:51. are you ready for actual cold weather? >> actual cold weather and sunshine. >> it will be nice. >> i love the combo. i'm looking forward to it. >> you and me both. >> having some fog as chuck was saying, 66 at the virginia visitor's center. other spots have a little bit hanging around. we'll show you that. aquia road and tacketts mill road have police directing

traffic around. taking a big look at the beltway. overall looking pretty good. the one problem, inner loop at branch avenue, still have that crash. travel times in ten minutes. aaron? melissa, thank you. 6:33. people living in d.c.'s pet worth area say they need help deeg with the area's synthetic drug problem. d.c. mayor muriel bowser listened as she walked through the neighborhood. neighbors say it's scary to dodge people who are high on drugs who often have unpredictable behavior. they're also saying that dark alleys in that area are a draw for illegal drugs. d.c. police say they're increasing patrols in the area trying to help out. crime statistics from police in that neighborhood show violent crime has risen with 855 incidents this year compared to 811 last year. other crime like burglary, theft, those things have dropped. now to decision 2016. >> so i'm going to be doing big

ads in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina and they're going to be very substantial. i think they're very well done. >> gop presidential hopeful george pataki has dropped out of the race. the rest are hitting voters hard this week. so far donald trump has spent very little on campaign ads but now says that's going to change. nbc's edward lawrence joins us. hi, edward. >> reporter: hi, angie. donald trump has a new tactic. he's going to spend $2 million a week on the ads. others think that might be the wrong move. up until now he hasn't spent any and he's getting all the attention. he's spent 216,000. change of tactic is risky for him according to the experts. reporting live, edward lawrence. back to you, ang dwi. >> thank you so much. a new york city police detective was killed on patrol in afghanistan.

a funeral will be held for joseph lemm today. a 15 year veteran of the department. he was on patrol north of kabul when a suicide bomber drove a motorcycle into that convoy and blew himself up. the taliban has claimed responsibility for that attack. also killed in that attack the son of a local restaurant owner bub and pops is back open for business today. it closed last week after the owner's son was killed in afghanistan. air force officer peter taub was one of six u.s. service members killed. a sign hangs in front of that restaurant in honor saying, quote, might his be the last death. police in manassas are looking for a suspected bank robber. we have this picture for you. take a look if you can. 36-year-old ben talby. they want to charge him with robbery and grand larceny in connection with a robbery at t.d. bank off sudley avenue. he may be driving a silver 2009

toyota camry. police in northern virginia arrested two suspects accused of burglary of asian restaurants. they're accused of breaking into businesses in several counties. police say they took money and other valuables. they've been linked to 20 cases so far. police say that more charges could be coming. if you live or work in the fredericksburg area, the city is actually taking some steps to make parking downtown easier. fredericksburg bought a new half acre space it plans to turn into a parking lot. this is according to "the freelance star." site will add 29 spaces and 13 spaces you can use on nights and weekends. parking around the national mall may soon be a little closer. now there's a proposal to make many of the parking spots surrounding the mall tour bus only spots. another idea is to bull build a

parking deck under the mall. both could mean headaches for all of us. >> the overall trend in d.c. is it will be more and more difficult to drive a single occupancy vehicle skbl tour buses drive an extra 20 miles a day looking for parking in the district. >> president obama is making his appearance on jerry seinfeld shown today. they look alike in that picture. seinfeld and the president will drive around the white house grounds. i guess he is a resident, too. and apparently they never even leave the grounds. >> aaron. >> of course not. >> they'll be driving a '63 corvette sting ray split corvette coupe. >> don't let chuck bell hear about that. he might be there in a minute. so moving onto the fog covering our area. >> yeah, we've been tracking this all morning for you.

here's a look at what you're seeing right now. this picture is on the bw parkway, the left side of your screen, as well as a live look above at the district on the right. there's something in there. a lot of fog in that pick stur. chuck has more on all of this

the army got hit by a big bill for surveillance for a run away balloon. the "baltimore sun" reports the army has received more than $300,000 in claims from a dozen people who say their property was damaged. 6:41 right now. the d.c. school lottery is open. the website just went live this morning. you have until february 1st to apply to send your kids to a charter school, selective high school or one of the handful of other programs. the deadline for

pre-kindergarten through eighth grade is february 1st. dealing with thick fog. the dense fog advisory for all of the news 4 nation this morning, that goes until 9:00 a.m. the thickest of the fog is in the northern and western suburbs out towards the shenandoah valley. low beams and low speeds. weather in your plans, the fog may slow you down a little bit for this morning. by later this afternoon when the fog goes out, rain chances start to increase. your evening plans as well. the next big change in the weather arrives just in time for new year's eve. it will be chilly and dry as we strike in the new year. how cold it will be the first weekend in 2016? seven day forecast in a few minutes. brand new problem, 66 in bound at fairfax drive seeing a bit of a slowdown. a crash on the right side of the roadway. you can see that we are a tad slow there as you're headed in bound. travel times west of virginia, 66 in bound from fairfax county parkway. 95 north quantico to the

beltway. 270 south top of the beltway from 95 over to 270 as good as you can get this time of the day. pretty light volume in general. see you in a few. 6:43. we continue to follow the latest developments in the case of a so-called affluenza teen captured in mexico. what we're learning about his return today when we check in live with gabe gutierrez. and a scathing report just out this morning from "the new york times." who it says was spying on benjamin netanyahu on a recent visit to the u.s.

developing news right now. the so-called affluenza teen are expected to be back in the states today. they tracked their call for a pizza. viewers are watching the story on our page. gabe gutierrez has the story. good to see you, my friend. >> reporter: angie, good morning. ethan couch and his mother are expected to return to texas as early as today. investigators are looking into whether they may have had help during their time on the run. they say the pair may have thrown what was described as a going away party of sorts before they went missing. the district attorney here says ethan couch may only face a few months in jail when he returns to the u.s. due to texas law, even if his

case is transferred from juvenile court to adult court, a judge can only sentence him to 120 days in jail. now as for his mother, tanya couch, she faces a charge of aiding and abetting a felon and she could face two to ten years in prison. the associated press citing mexican authorities say that it was a call to order pizza that may have helped authorities track down the pair. we'll have much more on the developing story coming up on "today." dave gutierrez, nbc news, fort worth, texas. we're now able to bring you live ariel shots over i-95 in florida where there was a major collision. this happened just after midnight. a woman in a pickup truck going the wrong way down 95 slammed into one vehicle. that caused several other collisions. in all we are told that five people are dead.

you've got all northbound lanes there shut down. again, this is ariel shots of i-95 in florida for a wrong way driver caused major collision and have killed five people in all. back to you. i'm molette green live outside d.c. police headquarters. you see the police cars behind me? officers in the city are just hours away from getting full funding to wear body cameras. now just before noontime mayor muriel bowser is set to sign off on the sweeping change in city policing outfitting some 2800 officers with poddy cbody camer cost of $5.1 million. this is one of the nation's most innovative and transparent programs. that's partly because most of the camera footage will be available to the public through the city's open records law. now when this initially came up the mayor did not want to make this so open to the public.

here's what will be kept out of sight. any footage that shows video of incidents of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking. these cameras benefit both the public and of course officers in the city. you'll see all of the officers, 2800 of them, outfitted by the spring. back to you. >> molette, thank you. 6:49. new equipment for police in chicago. it's part of what mayor rahm emmanuel is calling a major overhaul in police use of force. among the reforms he will announce plans to give every officer on street duty a taser and to provide them with training by june. the interim superintendant supports the recommendations. >> 6:49. a physically disabled man killed in prince gorges county is being remembered. more than 100 people gathered to remember douglas reyes. reyes was stabbed while sitting on a bench on monday in pribs gorges county. police have arrested alex jones.

reyes's brother says he was physically disabled and couldn't defend himself. i know if i wasn't at work he would still be alive and it would be me here and not him. >> police say that jones confronted reyes, then pulled out a knife and stabbed him. jones's mother says her son has mental problems but had no problems with the law. detectives say they have solved a sex assault case in st. mary's county, maryland. according to the sheriff's office donald leo parks raped a woman in a park earlier this months. he forced a woman into the woods and threatened her. they arrested him yesterday and charged him. now to the banks of the potomac river, police are looking for the person who owns this boat. they foubld it filled in virginia right across from fort washington. the washington post says search teams found a life jacket floating in the river nearby. they think the person who was inside may have been duck

hunting. >> 10 minutes away. the u.s. capitol could get ready for a closeup. eleanor holmes norton says she'll pitch a bill to allow filming on capitol grounds. right now filming cannot happen beyond union station. norton says the bill will boost the district's economy. >> 6:51. our time right now. we want to turn right to meteorologist chuck bell. >> he's over our live feed. >> not very stable. like me. >> you're giving everybody a headache who's watching us on facebook. >> i think he paused it. >> i was fiddling -- >> can you go back to your weather center. >> outside this morning, everybody, be ready. the fog snuck in on little cat feet while you were sleeping last night, and as a result it may slow things down for your early morning plans. the day will go from foggy this morning to cloudy this afternoon to rainy potentially by this evening. temperatures on the cool side but not cold by winter standards. right now lowest visibilities

are in northern maryland and through parts of the shenandoah valley. pockets of fog have visibility down under a mile in many, many neighborhoods. that's the way it looks from the tower from nebraska avenue. only dimly visible. national harbor not too bad. right near national airport and national harbor. a lot of suburbs are thicker. no rain on radar just yet. rain chances moving in later on today. showers could slow air travel from atlanta, houston. if you are flying south, that will come in our direction. best rain chances coming from washington southbound towards fredericksburg. high resolution computer model. trying to hint at a little drizzle. not too worried but there is light rain. 2:00, 3:00 light rain chances in. rainfall amounts 1/10 of an inch or less. not a big deal.

already in the 40s going to the 50s. there will be a chance for showers moving in at 3:00, 4:00. take the umbrella with you. here's the seven day forecast. look at that. it's like it's a whole new world starting in 2016. sunshine will come back and more winter like temperatures come along with it. here's melissa mollet. >> no, we haven't seen that guy. show you the light volume southbound, northbound okay. again, we have this fog all over the place here this morning. 66 east at fairfax drive, had that crash there earlier. looks like that is now clearing out of the way as far as backups. near quantico. aquia road and tackets roads. does not seem to be slowing things right now. stuff, traffic here this morning. you know what, it's my monday. taking a look top of the beltway, don't have any problems there. right now headed into town, live camera, you can see looking pretty good as well. nice light volume.

we love that. melissa, thank you. 6:54. new details. a cleveland, ohio, city council member says he will seek negligent homicide charges in the case of tamir rice. the 12-year-old was shot and killed by a police officer who mistook his pellet gun for a real gun. he didn't say when he planned to pursue charges. the grand jury decided not to press charges. activists say they plan to protest in the city again today over that grand jury's decision. new report in the wall street journal said the u.s. spied on israel, specifically prime minister benjamin netanyahu had his communications targeted and taken by intelligence agents according to this report. this happened as the nuclear deal with iran was going on. this worked as netanyahu was working to increase mistrust with the countries involved. it came after president obama promised no to the spy on allies two years ago. good morning, i'm landon dowdy at cnbc headquarters. toyota is expected to announce a

new initiative at the consumer electronics show in las vegas next week. they'll say know found a way for cars to collect real time information to data centers about road conditions. it will use to improve mapping to self-driving vehicles. the technology will be available in 2020. onboard cameras and gps devices will give a better understanding of road signs, markings and layouts. with your cnbc business report, i'm landon dowdy. some parents are complaining after they discovered the toy plane they bought for their kids chance an islamic prayer. this video is out of washington state. you can hear the toy saying the prayer instead of the airplane noises that it is supposed to make. the company that makes that plane is now blaming the mistake on a factory in china. we're looking at 6:55 right now. here are 4 things to know. authorities are now looking for whoever owns this boat. they found it full of water in

virginia and they think whoever was inside may have been duck hunting. chicago's mayor will announce what he is calling a major overhaul in police use of force today. the changes include more training and some new equipment. ethan couch and his mother will be extradited back to texas from mexico this afternoon. federal authorities tracked them down in puerto vallarta. both ever now facing charges. in a few hours d.c. mayor muriel bowser will sign the police body camera into law. we're waking up to a foggy commute. >> that's right. lots of fog this morning. new year's day is looking a whole lot different though. temperatures in the 40s and it will be sunny. there's your seven day forecast. pack your up brem la for later on today. the fog will give way to rain drops. new year's eve, dry. near 40 degrees. we bring in 2016 and nice, sunny, albeit cold weekend ead. we've been driving around for you all morning this morning kind of showing you where we have trouble spots.

right now all the travel times look great. as far as fog, 270 at montrose road can see a little bit of fog there as well lasting out of the southbound lanes. taillights, no problems as far as volume goes. 66 in bound at fairfax drive, that seems to have wrapped up. the rest of 66 outside of the beltway still a bit foggy as well. guys. >> sounds good. thank you. that is the broadcast this morning. thanks for waking up with us. the "today" show is up next. we'll have more news, weather, and traffic as well at 7:25. >> make it a great wednesday, everybody.

good morning. historic and dangerous. widespread flooding across the midwest. evacuations ordered in parts of missouri. a state of emergency now in effect and the national guard called in. we're there live. breaking overnight. a second new year's eve terror plot foiled in as many days in europe. two suspectsinked to isis arrested. while here at home new york city officials vow security will be more extensive than ever for the world's largest celebration. facing justice, the so-called affluenza teen and his mother expected to be brought back from mexico as early as today as we learn more about the phone call that led to their capture. this morning why some fear the 18-year-old who got probation for a drunk driving crash that killed four people