social security administration to disclose which of its beneficiaries can't own a gun, for example, if someone has a documented mental health issue, their record would be looped into the background check system. he's also asking congress for the money to hire 200 new atf investigators to better enforce existing gun laws and these new provisions. house speaker paul ryan says the president is subverting congress and one republican even threatened to restrict the justice department's access to federal funds if the new rules go through. you can watch the president's remarks live right here on news 4 midday at 11:40 and we'll stream the address on tablet or smartphone with the nbc washington app. market watchers unnerved now, waiting to see how u.s. stocks open. we know that the chinese stocks, they bounced back after a trading was halted and stocks plummeted on opening day, 7% yesterday. the global markets including

wall street started 2016 on a poor note. this following the weak manufacturing data that came out. the dollar slipping against the yen and the euro. aaron, hoping for a better open today. back to you. >> 4:31. time for weather check and traffic as well on the 1s now. chuck bell, it is cold, chuck. >> no. >> painfully, just, so cold. >> aaron, you're speechless? now, that is a first. outside this morning, know this on your four things to know, single digit chills on the way out the door. the strong north wind easing up with time by later on this afternoon. and the cold pattern shows signs of relaxing in the coming days. talking about playoffs this sunday, might be a playoff game in the rain. seven-day forecast, 4:51. right now, actual air temperatures are down in the midteens across much of the area. so if you're headed out for a dog walk or jog here this morning, heavy jacket required.

temperatures hover in the teens between now and about 8:00 this morning. rise into the mid-20s. by later this morning, enough, just barely above the freezing mark for high temperatures later on this afternoon. again, we'll start talking about the weekend, school day forecast in ten minutes. melissa mollet with first 4 traffic. >> take a picture of my temperature gauge on the car this morning, 14 degrees. i thought this is way different than it's been. i-95, no problems, two crashes we had overnight 95 southbound through that area, had those cleared out of the way. don't worry about those anymore this morning. big look at the beltway, inner loop, outer loop looking okay. i think these little specks of red are bad info there. don't worry about that. everything else being reported as just fine here this morning. 395 southbound there at seminary, two left lanes, only thing getting by road work until 8:00 this morning. and one more piece of road work, 66 westbound at sycamore, that right lane getting by the work zone there. up top of the beltway, no major problem with all the routes into

and out of town. so cold i can't even talk. >> thank you, melissa. 4:33 now. we're working to find out more about a deadly crash on i-95 in virginia. it happened around 8:30 last night in the southbound lanes near exit 169 in the springfield area. state police say one person was hit by a vehicle. we still don't know why that person was outside of their own car or whether there were any injuries. there is new emergency effort to boost safety in the district. news 4's tom sherwood says the d.c. council weighs legislation to fund security cameras for private businesses. mayor muriel bowser criticizing the council for not acting fast enough on a bill that she introduced last september. some council members argue she hasn't given them enough proof her bill will work. >> i'm not going to engage in finger pointing. i'm going to continue to work hard. >> if it passes, the plan would give small business owners grants to install security cameras. a vote on the rest of the bill, which includes money for adding

police officers, won't happen until later this month. an update on a controversial plan in d.c.'s glover park neighborhood. some have been fighting to keep a moratorium on liquor licenses in place. a group of neighbors is rallying to keep a recently reopened nightclub from selling liquor and building private adult entertainment rooms. a man who barricaded himself inside an office building in georgetown will now undergo a mental evaluation. k street near the water front is open this morning after a barricade situation lasted more than seven hours. police say the man was going through a crisis. they didn't say if he was carrying a weapon. eventually he surrendered. some new details this morning about another barricade, this time at a home in chevy chase. alan johnson is in custody facing assault charges. d.c. police say he threatened his wife and brother-in-law with two guns at a home on 32nd street. he was apparently upset about the care of his mother. johnson barricaded himself inside that home sunday night. he surrendered to police after

an hour long standoff. johnson will appear in court on thursday. now to that developing story in oregon where a group of protesters is occupying a federal building. the armed group is holed up in the mall here at national wildlife refuge in princeton, oregon. the group's leader ammon bundy says they won't leave until the government meets their demands and that means freeing a father and son in federal prison for lighting fires on federal land. they want the government to give up control of the national wildlife refuge. local sheriff told the group to leave. the fbi says it wants a peaceful end to the standoff. now to decision 2016. four weeks until the opening of the 2016 primary season. today people in iowa and new hampshire will start to see some new political ads. >> donald trump calls it radical islamic terrorism. that's why he's calling for a temporary shutdown of muslims entering the united states.

>> republican candidate donald trump's ad that was released yesterday will begin airing in key states today. trump plans to ramp up spending to about $2 million per week ahead of the iowa caucuses. coming up, tracie potts will have more on the foreign border that appears in the commercial. today, virginia governor terry mcauliffe is expect fod sign a trade agreement between the port of virginia and cuba's port. the governor is in cuba now expanding relations between the state and the island nation. he says opening up new trade opportunities will benefit the state's economy. yesterday mcauliffe announced a new educational exchange between virginia commonwealth university and the university of havana. 4:36. the new acting education secretary is visiting a montgomery county public school today. john king will stop by joanne leleck elementary and tour classes and read with students. this is king's first school visit since taking on his new role. he was most recently new york state education commissioner.

#toocoldtuesday. here's why. look at the windchill temperatures. definitely want to bundle the kids up for the bus stop this morning. will they need the hat and gloves this afternoon? the answer to that in your next weather and traffic on the 1s. new information for the case that melted a lot of your hearts. who we learned intentionally set a fire that left one dog guarding his unconscious owner. and a developing story we're keeping an eye on in china. more than a dozen people are dead after a bus fire. angie goff gathering the latest from the live desk and we'll

we have got some dramatic video out of china. this after a deadly bus fire which we just learned is believed to be arson. take a look at this. it is a fireball. wow. and we also just learned the death count just went up, 17 people are dead, dozens more injured, police saying they are now looking for a 33-year-old man in connection with that attack. also hearing that this has happened often around the area of beijing and they blame mentally unstable people or those with a personal vendetta. more as we get it. aaron? >> angie, thank you. 4:40 now. metro transit police need your help identifying several persons of interest in an assault. want to show you some pictures here. the agency sent us there are six

people police would like to speak to. the attack happened about two weeks ago on a red line train near the noma gallaudet station. it happened at the height of rush hour. it is now time for weather and traffic on the 1s at 4:41. and i thought maybe we could ease into this kind of weather, but, no, boom, just like that. single digits. chuck bell. >> ease into it? we had a whole month of december to ease into it, eun. man, oh, man, shock to the system for sure. temperatures now as we get ready to send the kids out to the bus stop, temperatures mid to upper teens. windchills down near zero this morning. layer the kiddos up, even the kids who say i don't need to wear my coat, put the coat on them and zip it up tight. temperatures barely above the freezing mark for later on this afternoon. you need everything you can layer on there, like the movie christmas story, the kid who can't put his arms down because of the coat. love that movie.

seven-day forecast in ten minutes. >> yeah, he looks like this with the hat and everything when he's heading out. 66 fairfax county parkway to the beltway, no problem there. eight minutes into town, eight minutes out of town. listen to our friends on wtop 103.5 fm when you hit your car this morning. it is going to be a cold one for you. 66 west, sycamore, that right lane getting by. that work zone. 270 northbound and southbound, no problems this morning. big look at the beltway, looking at travel times, no major issues there. we'll take another look at that road work on 395, that will be sticking around. back in ten minutes. >> thank you. they say timing is everything. well, now it is even more true if you drive through the district. the changes recently made to traffic lights that you might notice on your drive to work today. >> everything happens for a reason. that is exactly what is behind a

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now to decision 2016. >> immigration by building a wall on our southern border that mexico will pay for. >> we will make america great again! >> today, people in iowa and new hampshire will start to see that new political ad. there are four weeks until the iowa caw cucuses. donald trump says from here on out he'll spend $2 million a week on ads. this ad reinforces some of his very controversial proposals. tracie potts is live on capitol hill now with more on the details. good morning. >> the problem with the ad, good morning, eun. here is the problem. part of the video where you see people flooding over the border, it is not the u.s./mexico border. it is the moroccan border between africa and europe shot two years ago.

and aired on an italian network. now, asked about it, they asked the trump campaign why that video was used, if they were aware. in a statement, they said they were 1,000% aware and the point was to show americans what would happen if our border is not closed. this ad is part of donald trump's effort to get more support leading up to new hampshire. he's also attacking hillary clinton and now bill clinton on the campaign trail for his wife, for first time, solo. his focus is new hampshire. he was at a manchester restaurant over the weekend. and it looked like the clinton campaign, both the former president, and former secretary of state, and everyone else had made a deliberate decision not to reply to attacks by donald trump. >> tracie potts live on capitol hill for us, thank you. as for the other candidates, jeb bush will spend the day in new hampshire meeting with a small town chamber of commerce.

marco rubio will be in iowa holding a town hall. and the other gop candidates at a new hampshire forum on addiction. 4:47 your time now. a deadly confrontation between a patient and a security guard at medstar washington hospital center now considered a homicide. a medical examiner says security guards killed 74-year-old james mcbride when he left the hospital last september. medstar had not discharged him at the time. the officers lost their jobs but no charges filed. the hospital released a statement that says in part, we conducted a series of analyses to gain a complete understanding of the situation. and as a result, we have integrated several new initiatives including enhanced communication and training with all care teams and security officers. a dog bite in potomac leads police to several cases of animal abuse. news 4 learned montgomery county police rescued 66 dogs from a house in rockville on new year's day. police say they found several cases of animal cruelty as well as county code violations.

they raided the house after a woman was bitten at a potomac adoption event. >> a dog bite, but at least it led to, you know, the animal control being made aware. >> she told us she's being treated for rabies now. the organization that hosted the event where she was bitten says the dog was not one of theirs. a fight between the church of scientology and the frederick county council is now in the hands of a maryland judge. the church wants to use trout run as a drug rehabilitation facility. the county voted against rezoning the area as historic, something needed for the project to move forward. the church sued for discrimination. the judge's decision is expected in the next 30 days. this morning for the first time we are hearing 911 calls when more than 100 motorcyclists took over the beltway. this happened two days after christmas. at least 100 motorcycles and atv riders hit parts of the inner loop bringing traffic to a stand

still. >> about 30 atvs, bikes, motorbikes on the highway blocking traffic, doing tricks in the highway. >> oh, my gosh. 20 or 30 of them, weaving in and out of traffic, extremely aggressive and actually scary. >> maryland state police say they have seen the video, but in arrests have been made. few things could be as annoying as getting stuck in an endless number of red light. traffic here can be frustrating as you probably already know and of course timing is everything. 60% of traffic signals have been retimed in the district so far as part of a new project. it is a difficult art form, they say, to try to manage all the traffic and pedestrians and cyclists across the city. some haven't been retimed in three decades. >> we are not widening our roadways anymore. so, you know, we have little capacity to push the amount of traffic that we got. >> there are more than 1600 traffic signals in d.c. 200 signals will have new technology that allows buses to

change the lights so they can keep moving. a trolley station under dupont circle will be open to the public for first time in two decades. the nonprofit arts organization who takes up part of that space is lacking for artists to do something creative with hundreds of thousands of plastic balls. you can be part of project reball, a design competition that will feature the balls in the newly opened station. you can head to the nbc washington app and we'll add all the information you need to know about this competition there. the station is going to open in april. if i'm not mistaken, are these balls at the building museum. >> looks like a beach, remember, you went in there and it was like sand and -- >> i was going to say no way did he go in. >> lots of kids went in, though. kids of all ages are saying to themselves, what happened to summer and winter.

this is the differential between yesterday and today. the 24 hour temperature change, we are 17 degrees colder now than the same time yesterday morning. that is a significant drop in temperatures, closer to 20 degrees colder now than yesterday across east west virginia. cold is the operative word. bitter cold here early this morning. north winds continue here through about lunch time before easing up a little bit, so the windchills woep s won't be as ma factor later. national harbor, see the ripples on the water. current windchills are at zero in washington. single digit chills across much of the area. here is what you need to see for the most pornographic i think is what it feels like temperatures, how it improves. feels like temperature, the windchills will be back into the low and midteens by 10:00 this morning. windchills back into the upper 20s to near 30 by 4:00, 5:00

today. that's also pretty close to the air temperature for later on today. so that's the thing that you're going to notice is the wind will be dying down with time. hourly temperatures, teens through 7:00 or 8:00 this morning, low 20s by 9:00. up to the freezing mark for most areas today. about 35 for a high on the national mall. 35 in manassas. 31 in gaithersburg. most places staying at or above the freezing mark. the weather and your plans today will impact your plans for this morning. but it is all about the bundle up early this morning. blustery and cold through lunch time. by evening, still cold, but the wind will be easing up and a lot of times once you take the wind out of the equation, not that all bad of a problem. tomorrow morning, cold again, teens and 20s, without the wind. the windchills will not be as extreme tomorrow morning as they are today. teens and 20s and near morning time, up to 40 by the afternoon. staying dry the next couple of days. rain chances sneak back just as we finish out the weekend going

into the weekend. first look at your seven day forecast. coldest of it today and tonight, chilly tomorrow. milder thursday and friday. back to the upper 40s. risk of a shower friday afternoon and unfortunately sunday, 4:00 and 7:00, playoff game time out at fedex field, a chance for rain drops. keep you posted en that. we'll take another look at how cold it is outside. here is traffic with melissa. right now, again, still have this road work, another warning here, sticking around until 8:00 in the morning. 395 southbound that helps. but it will be sticking around until 8:00 a.m. only two left lanes getting by that road work. taking a look at 95, quantico to the beltway, 17 minutes. that's nice and on time if you're headed southbound, earlier crash from yesterday that went into earlier this morning as far as the investigation goes. they have both cleared out of the way on 95. beltway branch avenue, a map for you, showing glendale boulevard. road work there, emergency road

work blocking one lane here this morning. top of the beltway looking pretty good here. no problems into town or out of town. live picture of you there at branch avenue in a couple of minutes. new details in the case of the affluenza teen. who is speaking out for the first time since ethan couch went on the run. a major development in the scandal

if you are just joining us, look at your screen. these are the current windchills this morning. you see the 1s out there. you can see d.c. is sitting at a big fat zero too. what does the rest of the day hold for you? it was zero a little bit ago. chuck will fill us in in a few minutes. the family of a youth pastor who died in a deadly crash caused by the man known as the affluenza teen is speaking out for first time. ethan couch argued that he could not distinguish right from wrong because of his privileged upbringing. brian jennings was one of four people who was killed in the drunk driving crash back in 2013. couch has been sentenced to ten years of probation, jennings' mother says the situation is devastating and she wants justice to be served. >> i just feel like it is time for ethan to face -- face the punishment that, you know, that he should be charged. >> the 18-year-old couch is

expected to be deported from mexico in the next two weeks. he was arrested there along with his mother last week. coming up in our next hour, we'll hear from his attorney on why he deserves some compassion, he says. today a top fifa official will find out whether he will be punished more for alleged corruption. we're talking about secretary-general jerome baalke. the frenchman was banned from all soccer activity for 90 days. he was implicated in a scheme to profit from the sale of world cup tickets. but denied the allegations. it was a month ago that this video first went viral. a pit bull protecting its owner after she was hurt in a fire. now, though, a twist in that story. the woman in the video is now charged with setting an earlier fire in the same house. she is 34-year-old april newell. neighbors say this is a complete shock. >> about 8, 9 years or so and good people, you know. just doesn't make sense right

now. >> the fire that newell is charged with setting was not reported. fire marshals found evidence of the fire during the investigation into this fire where the pit bull was found. you can have your say on a controversial plan to raise traffic fines in d.c. the penalties for 20 traffic offenses will increase under this proposal, some significantly. one example, drivers caught going 25 miles per hour over the speed limit could be fined $1,000. this is part of the mayor's initiative to eliminate traffic related deaths. critics believe it is about generating revenue. a public hearing will be held at the wilson building on friday. parents entering their child into the district school lottery can expect changes this year. our news partner wtop reports that pre-k students who applied to their in boundary school are guaranteed a spot. also new this year, more options for older students including the empowering male high school, roosevelt high school also offering a spanish dual language program, and parents of all

students grades 9 through 12 have applied to the lottery by february 1st. now at 5:00, it is day two of freezing cold windchills. but this morning even worse than yesterday. look at the numbers here. >> let's get to storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell with what you need to know if you're heading out the door. how much do we have to bundle up today? >> everything you got, put it on today. not only do we have cold temperatures, but real issues, we have a very strong north wind. the bundle up factor is at its highest level for today. less wind for later on today. and worried about rain drops on our playoff game this sunday. weekend forecast at 5:21. impact the weather will have on your day today, breezy and cold, layer up, everybody. will affect things early this morning because of the chill. air temperatures are down in the midteens now. when you factor in the wind, windchills are down into the single digits to near zero. it will be a very cold day to be outside today. the wind