trout run. yesterday the judge ruled in favor of the church. residents say there are better uses for that land. >> boy scout retreat or girl scout retreat or some kind of retreat center like that or nature center. >> now, the latest judge ruling may be meaningless. earlier this week the council introduced new legislation that would prevent rehab facilities from historic properties. >> stay with us. we continue at 5:00 a.m. one day after the world health organization cleared west africa of the virus, a confirmed case. a woman who died earlier this month died. officials say the country's level of preparedness is high and there's no cause for concern. yesterday the world health organization warned there could be more flare-ups of the disease. aaron and eun, back to you.

storm tomorrow 4 meteorologist chuck t. bell is tracking our weather for us. like the fact we may hit 50 today. >> 50 today, no problem. 50 tomorrow, no problem. but here's where the problem comes in. i told you there were big changes coming on sunday. here's future weather on sunday. cloudy skies with the risk of a passing snow flurry or two late in the day on sunday. so that's the next big change is the cold returns sunday into monday. temperatures will be plummeting once again. windchills back down near zero by monday morning. enjoy this while we have it. temperatures out the door this morning. mostly in the 20s and 30s, but without a wind. so the 24-hour focus for you, rain for your friday night plans. it's dry and cool to start. i will rain on your friday night dinner and a movie plan. have the umbrella ready to go. at least the weekend will dry. we'll talk about the impact it has on your commute in ten minutes. melissa says 66 is still tricky in spots. >> take a look. we do have an update westbound

at glebe road. just learned that the crash is on the right shoulder and the ramp at fairfax and the ramp to get on 66 is just reopened. still have this situation eastbound at westmoreland with that ramp being blocked this morning. we do have a disabled vehicle blocking one lane. again, it's so early it's not causing any big problems for anybody this morning. this morning, 66 outside the beltway and 95 taking a live look. west of ox road, no issues. line look at prince george's county coming up. he said, look, i'm from new york. this is what we believe in new york. >> that was a very insulting statement. and if you become the nominee, who the hell knows if you can even serve in office. >> you cannot give hillary clinton a third term. >> he beats the rest of the field. see, they don't like that. they don't like that. >> decision 2016, downright nasty exchanges as they barrel

toward the iowa caucuses less than two weeks away. seven took the stage on the republican debate this th time in south carolina ale though senator cruz is leading in iowa. he had a tough night. chuck todd tweeted one thing we've learned about cruz, he seem -- >> that's not consistent conservative tichl, that's political calculation. >> ohio governor john kasich saying that anyone on that stage could beat bernie sanders and you're going to hear from senator sanders in just a little bit. there's a lot of buzz surrounding his tweets during the debate. plus, what hillary clinton has to say about the debate when tracie potts joins us at 5:30. right now a look at the nbc/wall street journal poll

that came out before the debate. trump at 33%. cruz at a distant 20%. rubio at 13%. jeb bush and chris christie are tied at 5%. another tear roar attack in somalia targeted this morning. i'm erika gonzalez at the live devg wchl're learned heavily armed fighters with al shabaab have taken an attack on peacekeepers. this began as a suicide bomb and followed by heavy fighting. we're told fieing still going on inside that base. back to you. now to that isis terror attack in indonesia. we told you seven people including five attackers died in the explosion you see there as well as the gun fight that followed in the capital yesterday. jakarta said one of the attackers was carrying an isis

flag. two had been convicted of terrorism in the attack. it's a first-of-its-kind meeting. they'll discuss opportunities for regional collaboration to prevent gun violence in this region. president obama calls it a moonshot to cure cancer. a national effort with more research and collaboration. >> i'm putting joe in charge of mission control. for the loved ones we've all lost. for the families that we can still save. let's make america the country that cures cancer once and for all. >> the vice president will be in philadelphia meeting with researchers and the school of pennsylvania's school of medicine. in just a few hours astronauts will fly out.

they're doing a spacewalk at about 8:00 this morning. it's the first ever spacewalk for a british astronaut. they're fixing a broken part and hooking up some cables. i'm megan mcgrath live at the national zoo where on saturday all eyes are going to be on the panda house. now, we've been watching him grow on those live panda cams, and last month he had his media debut. take a look at the video on that. well, come tomorrow, bei bei is going to be making his public debut. visitors will be able to go inside the began house for the first time since he was born and see the little guy in person. a lot of excitement. we're expecting a very large crowd at the national zoo on saturday as well as a long line to get inside the panda house. keep in mind 5,500 came to the zoo when sister bao bao made her debut two years ago. so we're expecting aot of folks to be here at the zoo. so if you're planning to come

and visit, keep that in mind. here are some tips for you if you actually plan to come and see bei bei. first of all the began house is open from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00. you're going to want to enter using the asia trail entrance. 7:30 in the morning, that's when they'rev2e'u7" they'rev2e'u7" a special our cosmetics line was a hit.

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welcome back. an investigation into the death of man in police custody. police say the man was cooperative but complained of chest pains after he was handcuffed. he died. police say no officers used force. there is an autopsy scheduled today to find out what caused the man's death. he'll check out the school's new building, which includes a media center, a bigger gym, and a cafeteria with a stage. that facility is part of a $29 million plan to add space and accommodate more kids. >> 5:11. time for "weather & traffic on the 1s." i'm just going to focus on the warmup part of the forecast today. >> let dees that. ite goes doing be nice and warm this afternoon before the clouds move in. the weather and your plans, no problems at all with whatever you're going to do outside this morning. it's not even really all that

cold. clouds will be rolling in. your friday evening, yes, indeed, raindrops aplenty. moderate rain at time do. plan on a wet dinner. that's when the rain began moving in. a look at the whole weekend in 10 minutes. 66 update now from miss melissa mollet. >> good morning. an update. we had molette green describe by there. she says it's cleared. taking a look, two miles south of there, just got a report, westbound leesburg pike at 50, all westbound lanes shut down because of a bad crash in that area. trying to get more information on that one. 270 north at middlebrooks, it's cleared out of the way. i'll see you in ten minutes. >> thank you, melissa. it's a disease that could have the cc issuing a travel warning as early as today,

especially for pregnant women. you saw the heroic rescue here on nbc 4 live. now hear from

we have an update on breaking news. a car slammed into a tree and was towed away. police say there are no injury. we're working to find out what cause thad crash. >> all right. fire is coming out of that door. something just exploded. something just exploded. >> first response facing danger as a prince george's apartment building goes up in flames. we're now hearing about the dramatic rescues at the adelphi apartment building from firefighters themselves.

once they saw a couple on the balcony, they immediately started a ladder rescue to the top floor. >> i grabbed him and grabbed him on the ladder. i told him if you feel comfortable, come down the ladder and i'll start with your wife. >> investigators are trying to pinpoint a cause. now they say they have not found anything suspicious. new surveillance video is bringing questionable policies or police actions to light in chicago. a white officer shot and killed 17-year-old cedrick chatman in 2013. he was shot and killed while running away from police. no weapons were found on the scene. >> this actually does not change anything in the city of chicago. they're still not being transparent. we're still not hearing details of how they're going to change. >> an independent police review said the use of deadly force was

justifiabl justifiable. chatman's family is filing a wrongful death lawsuit. a new investigation you may hear about in this weekend's democratic debate. it centers around former governor martin o'malley. they say he bought furniture from the governor's mansion at a discounted price. "the baltimore sun" say he paid $10,000 for what taxpayers paid $66,000. he's calling it a bogus political attack. >> you could be a millionaire. there are still two mi million-dollar tickets unclaimed. >> manager at wawa said she didn't say much. >> a local customer came in to verify the ticket.

a very excited lady. she didn't say a whole lot. kind of speechless as most people would be if they just won a million. >> d.c. sold two tickets worth $50,000. you have to check those tickets. >> a nurse in california was told she had won the lottery. but it turned out to be prank played by her son. workers at the health care center in pomona started celebrating the big win when they were told it was all a big joke. the nurse's son went so far as to send her a picture of what he said was the winning ticket. the owner of the scepter had bought tickets for patients at the nursing home. three winners will share $1.6 billion. the california lottery says no one has claimed their share in the state. the two other winning tickets sold in tennessee and florida. and word is there's a big red mark on the back of his head where she slammed him. >> why would you do that to your

own mother. that is mean. i have family in california. i'm still hoping to get a phone call. >> good luck with that. >> i know. right? >> 43 degrees outside our studios right now. a nice comfortable start to this friday morning. >> chuck bell, what do you think we're looking at for the forecast? >> i think you're going the like the first half of the day today and most of the second half will be already too. but unfortunately your friday night plans will be impacted by raindrops in a big, big way, so keep that in mind. here's the high resolution model that shows the clear skies. watch what happens with time. by 2:00 or 3:00, the clouds come racing in. here's 3:00 we're stopped. this is the opportunity for a little light rain, but i think really the steadier rain are in these darker greens. that rolls in here about 5:30, 6:00 tonight. so your friday night plans will be rained on for sure. keep that in mind. nothing on "storm team 4" radar for now. the sky is clear. it's already raining at hartz filed jackson airport in atlanta.

if you're changing planes today or in charlotte or raleigh, the rain is coming down heavy and in the southern panhandle of florida. that's the way our day is going to go. chilly and sunny and nice this morning. increasing clouds during the early parts of the afternoon. by 5:00, rain likely south of town, but by 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, moderate rain coming into the forecast for the metro area. so what umbrella will you need today? the big one. steady moderate rains at times. could get half an inch of rain in about a two- or three-hour period. take the big umbrella out. then for tomorrow, the rain will be over. everything will be wet first thing in the morning and the day will be done. increasing amount of sunshine and nice breeze coming into the picture. your seven-day forecast, 50s today with the rain late tonight. breezy, still near 50 tomorrow. much colder weather settles in here starting during the day on sunday and by the time we get toward monday, it's going to get really cold. the feels-like forecast, single

digits and teens feels like all the way through monday. that cold air sticks around into the middle parts of next week. we'll boil that down into the four things you need to know about the weather. that's at 5:31. here's melissa mollet. a crash. trying to get more information on that. again, problems on eastbound and westbound have cleared out of the way. you don't have to worry about that any longer here this morning. rolling road and old king road a crash there. outer loop and inner loop rolling along just fine. no worries or complaints and coming out of frederick going down 270 to the spur going ta take you 27 minutes northbound. southbound you're looking quite good. i'll see you back in a new minutes. 14 people dead in a bus

crash in japan. it was carrying about 40 people to a ski resort when it went off a mountain and crashed. a northern virginia man is behind bar this morning charged with sexual battery on a child. david schwartz is accused of assaulting an 11-year-old girl. police say the child told her mother about the abu and she immediately contacted police. swartz was a family friend. parents express their outrage over the sexual assault of basketball players last month. the teams are charged with rape and sexual assault. the coaching staff is also accused of failing to report the incident. it is 5:23. today is business as useual at a day care center in arlington. a suspicious odor forced them to evacuate yesterday. officials say it was a natural gas leak and no one was hurt.

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gatekeepers. there was a controversy with the founder because he posted something and one of his fact checkers deleted it. and he was like, dude, why are you deleting my stuff and the fact checkers did the right thing. >> i've seen weird stuff. bizarre. 5:25. debate for the lead ore the free world. an easy interview. why some say the moderators went too easy on the candidates. >> and new developments in the search for a chairman. the chairman who just dropped out. take a look outside at national harbor. it's dry out there now, but chuck says the rain will return. a closer look at when at 5:31.

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now at 5:30 the rain returned. it could impact your friday night plans. good morning to you. i'm eun yang. >> and good morning. i'm aaron gilchrist. welcome back to "news4 today." i guess we need to get some answers about this thing. >> we really do. you know who has answers? "storm team 4" meteorologist chuck t. bell. >> you know, you can't put anything past you guys, at least not after 5:00 a.m. outside it will be dry. that's the good news. here is the bad news. it h be a rainy friday night. rain likely to move in at 5:00, 6:00, 7:00. if you're going to be home late from work, take the umbrella. it will be dry till at least

3:00 or 4:00. the cold returns sunday night. there will be some flurries. today won't be a problem. we'll start out with sunshine and clouds will increase. it should make it to tupper 40s and low to mid-50s. that's how the day ended. i took the dogs out by the lincoln memorial. that's still one of the prettiest approaches coming down. >> you're right. >> i like that dress. the zipper -- >> i don't think they work. oh, they do, they do. >> don't unzip it now. >> and we sort of match. >> got the lavender going. >> taking a look at the issues. westbound, we still have all lanes blobb blocked here. 270 at montrose road, northbound, southbound, don't have any problems there. we can see some of that volume building this morning. that's totally normal for this

type of day. taking a look at prince george's county, nice and green. we don't have any slowdowns headed into town. pennsylvania avenue, everything nice and green and rolling along quite well. coming up in ten minutes we'll take a look at travel times. i'll see you at 5:41. well, there was some boos last night as candidates started to hit harder against the iowa caucuses. many felt like it was a three-man race between donald trump, ted cruz, and marco rubio. tracie potts is live on capitol hill for us. tracie, good morning to you. what impact is this going to have for voters heading to iowa? >> well, eun, one thing you have to remember about iowa, they're caucuses, not primaries. people get a lot more involved in their candidates. they want to know more than just where you were born or what the latest attack was. they want to know your position on issues. they got quite a bit of that

last night and some of the attacks too. so as we take a look at the poll numbers in iowa, donald trump admitted are driving his latest attack on ted cruz, we get some sense that things are closing in. cruz has been surging in iowa. that's what the people in iowa are taking a very close look at those issues. >> and what about social media? it always seems to light up during the debates. bernie sanders and then hillary clinton. >> of course, the democrats have to have something to do while the focus is on the republicans. we saw clinton. 2 1/2 hours on this? she said. imagine four years. bernie sanders had quite a bit to say, tweeting about donald trump. he had a message for him. he said, i have a message to donald trump. no, we're not going hate lat ins or muslims wchl're going to

stand together. >> let's talk about jeb bush. he's been struggling to gain traction. he criticized str ed trump on w ban against the mug limbs entering the u.s. >> the kurds are our strongest ail lice. they're muslim. you're not going to even allow them to come to our country? >> did he make any headway with that, tracie? >> we saw a few candidates differ with donald trump on this. their point was if you ban them even temporarily, you're certainly going to defend those very countries that we need to help fight isis. >> tracie rn, let's talk a litt bit about the moderators. there was some criticism there wasn't enough follow-up. >> the candidates ate up some of that time. look how many times they jumped in as soon as their name was mentioned in a response. the candidates would say, wait,

wait, i get my minute or minute and a half. even ben carson when his name wasn't mentioned. he said, everyone. that includes me. you can tell it's getting closer for people to vote because they were fighting to get their time in. >> tracie potts on capitol hill. thanks for your insight. the three you didn't stee during the main event. the candidate did not attack each other much. they focused on hillary clinton and they said policy on isis and guns are flawed. last night hillary clinton was on jimmy fallon. he gave her a faux presidency interview. >> how did you learn about the

position? >> fourth grade social studies. >> it wasn't all jokes. she said the republicans have a big job ahead of them. >> it can be whoever the republicans put up and try to get your folks who support you to come out. i find it exciting. >> the democratic debate a seth for this sunday night. clinton, senator sanders and former governor martin o'malley all expected to be there. it's now 5:34. it looks like there's a new race for a leader of metro. jim corcoran no longer wants to be involved. he bowed out thursday. he said he doesn't have enough time for the job. now d.c.'s jack evans a contender for the top position. how would you like 16 weeks of paid family leave? that is the proposal here in the district. the officials say the plan will cost too much money. at a council meeting, the chief financial office said a proposal

for a 1% payroll tax wouldn't bring in enough cash. if you live and work in the district, you get 16 weeks for the birth of a child, a medical condition, or if you're carryin for a sick regularive. >> the bill as it is currently structured has a lot of unknowns. >> we can do this. we can afford it. we can do it. and our residents really deserve it. >> the district will have another public hearing on the issue next month. there is a warning against pregnant women traveling to brazil and other countries and it ee all because of a months key stow born virus. 's called zika. >> symptoms are pretty mild. the symptoms go away usually within a week. >> there's novak seen for this virus but one is in the works. a maryland man is now on

trial because of a drone. thaddeus shorts planned to fly a drone into the prison with counterband. he claims his pickup truck was searched illegally. investigators say there was also a handgun. shorts is the first of three defendants to face trial. good morning, everybody. i'm erika gonzalez at the live desk. oil prices falling down below $30 a barrel. this after the stocks slipped. the dow looks like it's going to have another triple-digit fall. we're going to keep an eye on this. back to you in the studio. >> thank you. the marine corps marathon has a new design. runners gave them feedback and said they wanted to make registration easier. the 41st marine corps marathon

will be held on the 30th. chuck bell will be running the race. why they're worried about gang members recruiting students. new details to keep a church from opening a rehab center. what maryland is doing to stop it in its tracks. >> chuck bell will let us know if the kids need

listen up. drivers in arlington, you're going to see a change the next time you make a left turn. vdot is putting in new lights with yellow traffic arrows. they're already on other roads in virginia. drivers understand the flashing arrows rather than a traditional circular green and yellow lights. >> something unusual happening now. there's a hurricane in the atlantic ocean. >> a what? >> hurricane. here's what's so uncommon. there's almost never a hurricane in january. there hasn't been one since 1955. >> that is odd. "storm team 4" meteorologist chuck bell knows what's going on. what's going on, chuck? >> our average first named system of the year usually doesn't happen until july. to get one in january and the fact it hasn't happened since 1955 proves the rarity of it.

for us this morning, hey, it's not too terribly cold. there are a few spots. manassas, 25, but in others are in the upper 30s. your school day forecast, 37. recess gets an "a." it will be cloudy by the time kids come home from school so they'll need their jacket, maybe their hat. if they're going to do after school activities, take the umbrella. rain is on the way. i'll let you know who's going to get the most and when it's going to get here cing up in five minutes. melissa mollet with the traffic. good morning. >> good morning, report of a new crash. also this, rolling road and old keen mill, crash there. 270 southbound looking okay. and the top of the beltway rolling along. we'll see you in a few minutes. we're following the latest developments in flint, michigan, where the governor is calling on

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in egypt, three activists detains in downtown cairo. egyptian authorities are rounding up activists a couple of weeks before the fifth anniversary of the january 25th uprising that led to the uprising of hosni mubarak. one says they were also banned from living the country. back to you. cloudy skies. cool and dry. temperatures in the 30s. but, oh, it's going be raining on date night. a complete check of the forecast coming up squoo and right now westbound leesburg pike because of a crash and a crash on the left side of the roadway. that one popped up as well.

i'm megan mcgrath live at the national zoo where visitors are going to be able to see the baby began live at the zoo. a lot of excitement. he made his media debut last month. take a look at that event. absolutely adore aboutle. but tomorrow bei bei is going to make his public debut here at the national zoo. visitors are going to be able to go inside the panda house for the very first time since he was born and be seen in person. expect a very large crowd tomorrow as people line up to go inside the began house and take look for themselves. of course, pandas are a big deal in this town. and baby pandas, well, that just sends everybody over the top. expect large crowds. visitors came. bei bei's sister, bao bao, when she went on display, had her public debut. more than 5,500 people turned out. it is going to be crowded.

here are some tips if you plan on coming out this weekend. first the began house opens at 9:00 a.m. and will stay open until 4:00 a.m. you're going to want to use the asia trail entrance. that's the most convenient to the began house. the pandas typically have access to the outside of their exhibit area starting at 7:30 in the morning until 2:00 in the afternoon. keep in mind it's their choice. they can go in. they can go out. they also havelile areas that are off limits to the public. they can go there if they want to get away. it's up to the pandas what they're going to be doing. they're very active in the morning when it's feeding time, so that's always a good time to come out and take a look. but absolutely adorable. and bayei bei's getting bigger. 25 pounds. we can't wait to see him. unfortunate unfortunately, eun, the live cam is down so we can't get a dplims of him this morning. we'll have to wait until

saturday morning. >> if it does come back up, we'll show you bei bei and mei xiang hanging out. >> reporter: absolutely. >> traffic is going to be tough especially on connecticut avenue which is the closest entrance to the asia trail. >> there you go. it's going to be a lot of fun. 5:48. michigan's governor is asking president obama for an emergency measure in flint. they want additional aid to deal with a water crisis. too much lead ended up in the city after they switched where they got their money from to save money. the source was moved to the flint river, which was not tested. >> part of the force is already out there and will be working distributing water, water filters, and test kits, and any other assistance it asks for. >> protesters rode a bus to the

capital calling for the governor to resign. the prison where drug lord el chapo is being held is the same one he escaped from six months ago by digging an underground tunnel. now instead of 20 meters of smnlt there are 60 along with steel reinforcement. there are two guards outside joaquin's cell. in a first of its kind-meeting, the attorney general of the district of virginia will discuss gun violence and discuss regional cooperation to prevent gun violence in this region. >> this weekend president obama tasked vice president joe biden with the task of ridding cancer. he called it moonshot. >> i'm putting joe biden in

control. let's make america the country that cures cancer once and for all. >> we're seeing action on this right now. there's a space walk outside the in ter national space station a little bit later this morning. british astronaut tim peek and tim cop really will be walking later. it begins just before 8:00 this morning. very cool. tough job. the underground shops in crystal city will soon be able to help mer people with disabilities. they were not okay to an agreement with the justice department after a complaint that the corridors violated federal law because of poor accessibility on the concourse that expands a dozen blocks. in addition to improvements, handrails will be installed and

bathrooms modified. the rule requires voters in the march primary to sign a statement affirming they are republicans. you may remember gop candidate donald trump was challenging that saying it was unconstitutional and excluded voters. 5:51. students will honor martin luther king's birthday by reciting his "i have a dream" speech. they'll recite it this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. 5:51. time for "weather & traffic on the 1s." "storm team 4" meteorologist chuck bell telling us what we're going to be dealing with. >> just a correction. 5:51. it will be deteriorating. it will start off another nice and mild day, increasing clouds, temperatures in the 50s. no issues early this morning.

but by the time you're ready to go out and have dinner and a movie. rain will be likely. heaviest between 7:00 and 11:00 on average. a quarter to as much as three-quarters of an-inch. here's future weather. a high resolution model updated every hour and every hour being remarkably consistent. that's usually one of the things we look at, consistency, run to run. by 2:00, cloudy skies. there could be a little drizzle as early as 2:00, but the darker greens arrive around 5:00 or 6:00 tonight. it will come in and really slow down your friday evening around town. temperatures this morning, mostly in the 20s and 30s. 36 in washington. 28, fredericksburg, 30 in leesburg. what about your date night? temperatures, 54. cloudy. it should be dry. by 9:00, mid-40s, moderate rain moving in. by the time you wake up on your saturday morning, dry and breezy. here's the rain coming into

atlanta. it's only about 13 hours away. keep your umbrella handy if you're going out tonight for sure. friday forecast, generally a quarter to a half an-inch. maybe a half to as much as three-quarters of annism. a quick check of the seven-day forecast. 50s with the rain moving in. showers ending by about 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. tomorrow, breezy near 50. flurries, cold weather coming up on sunday. when i see you at 6:01. we'll see how far and how fast those temperatures will tumble. but it ooh going to be cold around here next week. melissa mollet, good morning on a friday. >> good morning. at leesburg pike, we're still shut down. right lane is also closed because of this nastier crash earlier this morning. take a look. we have a crash on the left side. chopper 4 is on the way to that problem. we'll show you live pictures in the next couple of minutes. rolling road and old keen mill,

we have that crash. taking a look at the top, roll ag long just fine. don't have worries there. 270 at clarksburg, southbound, fairly light. it's 5:54. a concern about gang violence in alexandria is growing after recent arrests and two high-profile murders. both victims were found dead in parks in the city. police say they're linked to the ms-13 gauge. the gang is recruiting in schools and he tells parent as what to look out for in their children. >> behavioral things, changes in attitu attitude, changes in peer groups, lack of interest in family activities. >> police say the hundreds who have been arrested since 2013 are the reason for the push to increase traffic now. the fbi has been tracking them for some time. it's mostly made up of

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district that could track down criminals. good morning, everybody. friday finally here. i'm "storm team 4" chuck bell. temperatures in the upper 40s to low 30s. it's seasonably chilly but not as cold as it was earlier in the week. we'll take a look at the extended forecast coming up. here's the next 24 hours though. 7:00 this morning, cool and dry, 37. 7:00 tonight, going out for date night, rain in the forecast. have the umbrella ready to go for your friday night plans. the weekend will start dry tomorrow. it will start out mild tomorrow as well. but there's more cold air coming. this is sunday night into monday morning. flurries possible late in the day on sunday and by the time we get to monday morning, windchills back down near the low. that is a cold one. i know someone who doesn't like cold weather. melissa mollet. >> it is me. it