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we'll time it out coming up. a heated dispute between the u.s. and china appears to be cooling down. but that was until the president-elect started tweeting. after a treacherous day on the road the conditions are finally improving. but don't get used to it. good evening. thanks for joining us. i'm erika gonzalez. storm team 4 meteorologist lauren ricketts says you can expect another wet day tomorrow. she begins our team coverage from the weather center. lauren? >> it's just neverending. when it rains it pours. and that's exactly what's going to be happening as we head into tomorrow. now, i know we had a messy, messy icy morning this morning. thank goodness temperatures are finally rising. we still have some slick spots out there. let's go ahead to the map and show you 43 is our temperature right now. this is d.c. area. areas to the north and west. re

coming through carroll county, even along i-81. temperatures still in the 30s. you head south, temperatures in the 50s. but everybody going to rise overnight. in fact, by 8:00 a.m. most of us will be in the 50s. these are the problem areas where that temperature still at 32 degrees or just around there where there could be some icy spots. now, we do have some rain in the forecast tomorrow as temperatures rise and that christmas forecast. we've got that on that ten-day forecast. and that's coming up in about ten minutes. >> all right. thanks, lauren. we'll see you then. icy roads made for tough driving this morning. a fuel tanker truck slipped on 95, flipping and exploding into flames. look at this cell phone video. the man recording had pulled over near baltimore because the roads were in fact so slick. the person driving the truck died. the explosion also set off a 55-car pileup. look at all this video. some of the vehicles just crumpled up. one person died as a result of that pileup. nine other peop

there were slippery spots on some of the smaller local roads as well, and as news 4's derek ward reports they proved to be a challenge for drivers from montgomery county to fairfax. he continues our team coverage. >> reporter: a familiar sight and sound in the early hours. freezing rain wreaked havoc on all kinds of movement across our region. and for those who overcame the ice-induced inner shah, stopping became the problem. >> it's not worth coming out here. people are losing their lives out here. the roads are bad. >> reporter: this backup on the beltway in fairfax county was from a multicar crash. a man who was involved in that crash was later found dead about a mile from the scene. crews had gotten out ahead of things the night before, treating roads and bridges for some that proved helpful. >> it's been okay, pretty local. it's been a little icy with slush. >> reporter: but would also prove to be too much in some cases for even the heaviest of vehicles. this fire truck couldn't stay on the

>> a lot of bad accidents out here. fire trucks running off the roads. and i'm getting stuck. >> reporter: metro suspended all of its bus service until just after 10:30 a.m. when roads would be safer, become more passable. though getting to a bus stop would also be a challenge until around midday. timely for one area motorist who was bound for warmer climes. >> i am. i'm heading to san diego. >> reporter: not surprising that she wasn't bothered bethe weekend weather. but it wasn't just her future travel that made this a little easier to bear. in other words, this is not where she was going, it's where she'd been. >> i just got back from jamaica yesterday. so i wasn't paying much attention to the local weather. >> reporter: derrick ward, news 4. travelers in our area dealing with disruptions in their plans today. icy weather conditions causing dozens of flights to be delayed or canceled at area airports. dulles airport had to temporarily close all of its runways this morning. two runways at reagan national

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sacrifices that these folks have made. >> a lot of people that are interred here don't have any family anymore. >> it's very heartwarming. you know, they're coming out here for people that they've never met. you know, families that they don't know. >> the first time i came here was at my grandfather's funeral. >> with the holiday season that there's a lot of families that would like to come out and visit the grave site of their loved ones here, and the fact that they cannot for one reason or another, it's nice that the community and the people in general come out here to help pay their respects. >> it's just amazing to see how many people will come out to support the people that have lost their lives. >> so you die twice. once your bod qi dies and once when people stop saying your name. so we encourage everyone to put the wreath down and say the name so they still are living. >> frederick william sedgwick iii. >> the wreaths arrived via motorcade. and we put together a photo slide show of this

to take a look in our nbc washington app. bone-chilling weather. reports of a woman freezing in her car and police rushing to the scene. wait until you see what they found. i'm darcy spencer in fairfax county, where holiday shoppers are looking for those deals on this super saturday. and take a look at this beauty shot here of the christmas tree at rockefeller center. inside 30 rock. actor casey affleck gettg readyin

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ready, set, shop. this is a look at tyson's corner. still a lot of people out on the roads tonight. some people calling this saturday before christmas panic saturday, super saturday. last-minute holiday shoppers packing the area malls today. what shoppers in fairfax county are not going to see, though, are undercover officers, making sure that they stay safe. news 4's darcy spencer has that story. >> reporter: it's the last weekend before the christmas holiday, and many are heading to the malls and stores to get their shopping done. >> trying to get last-minute shopping in, yeah. >> what's it like out there? >> it's pretty crazy. a lot of the shelves are empty. >> reporter: in the retail world this is super saturday. shoppers hoping their wait will pay off with bargains and deep discounts. >> it's been pretty crazy, actually. there's a lot of people that are doing their last-minute shopping right now. so makes sense for the name. >> reporter: according to the national retail federation, most peopot

holiday shopping over the thanksgiving weekend. but the group says 90% of people still have items on their holiday lists. >> there's always a police officer around. you just may not know who he is. >> reporter: second lieutenant charles riddle heads up the christmas anti-theft team for fairfax county police. he says undercover officers are deployed at tyson's corner and tyson's galleria. >> we look for unusual shopping behavior, criminal activity, and do everything we can to try and keep the shoppers safe. >> reporter: we asked what was one thing shoppers could do to prevent themselves from becoming a victim of crime request when they're out and about. >> don't get so caught up in your list or in your cell phone that you forget to notice where you're going, the people that are around you. >> reporter: in fairfax county, darcy spencer, news 4. >> some good tips there. you know, instead of shopping some people spent their day giving gifts away. police officers

and u.s. marines spent hours today at prince george's county's annual toys for tots event. there were hundreds of gifts for local kids. police chief hank stewinski says it shows how much this community cares about our kids. >> and nobody's ordered to be here. they do it because it's an opportunity to give back. >> this event has been going on for more than a decade. chief stawinski says it's all the -- rather, all the children were incredibly appreciative and that some people waited for hours to make sure that their kids got a present. well, we have a little bit of problem areas. just a few problem areas out there. mainly north and west of town where they're seeing a little bit of patchy ice. otherwise, everybody else is starting to warm up. slowly. but we are warming up. temperatures slowly rising as we continue

through the night i should say. usually it's through the day but it's actually through the night the temperatures are rising. we will have some rain and we are going to have some wind by the time we get into tomorrow afternoon. and then our next chance of rain after that is going to be on thursday. speaking of thursday, i've got your christmas forecast coming up on that ten-day in just a few minutes. 43 is the temperature right now. we do have those clouds out there, those winds are calm, thank goodness we don't have to deal with the wind factor. but temperatures already starting to come up and they'll continue to come up during the overnight. but as i said earlier, we will have some problem spots, and mainly these problem spots are coming up here through frederick county, maryland, even just to the west along i-81. now, look at this. because some areas made it into the lower 60s. fredricksburg in the lower 60s. now the temperatures in the 50s. but the reason our temperatures are warming is because we've got a warm front that is going to lift to the north and eventually it is going to win out over that cold air. it has just taken its good old time. so again, 32 in

again, still some problem spots around there where there could be some black ice. so please, please, please be careful. plus we have a little bit of fog out there. but here in d.c., again, those temperatures are rising. in fact, we'll be in the 50s by the time you wake up tomorrow morning. by noon we could be about 60 degrees. but then we've got cold air on the way. look at this. that's that frontal system that's going to bring us some rain tomorrow. behind it, yeah, colder air. in fact, by monday we're not making it out of the 30s. now, nothing going on in the storm team 4 radar right now. we're looking good. it's going to change tomorrow morning as rain starts to move in. but i do believe we can top out right around 60. we might not make it to 62, but somewhere around that 60 degree mark. and everybody's going to hit their daytime highs before lunchtime, and then temperatures come crashing down during tomorrow afternoon. we will have some rain showers, but it looks just like a shower. not very much in terms of any rain accumulation. so again, let's take you hour by hour in terms of future temperatures. 6:00 a.m., that temperature already up to 55 degrees. then they start to drop. look at these. r

a.m. that's that frontal system moving through. by 5:00 p.m. we're all back in the 40s. back to the west in the 30s. not only that, winds are picking up tomorrow. so now we have a wind chill we're talking about. it's going to feel more like we're in the 20s and 30s by tomorrow afternoon. so big swing in temperatures. i know a lot of people are probably going to get sick of this as we go through the weekend. 6:30 tomorrow morning most of us are dry. and then we'll start to see some rain move in. but look how it's broken. less than a quarter of an inch of rain. we'll continue to see it move through during the midday. and then behind it we are looking dry. all the way through your monday morning. so in terms of your ten-day forecast we've got? sunshine. look at this. 30s on monday. we're back in the 40s through mid-week. we will have some rain on thursday. and then for your christmas eve, hanukkah beginning, we've got 40s, 50s by christmas. >> all right. thank you, lauren. police in hudson, new york desperately breaking into a frozen snow-covered car thinking that an elderly woman had been trapped in there overnight. so they get this frantic

from a passer-by. they head out there. turns out this was a really life-like mannequin. its owner works for a medical company and uses the mannequin to practice cpr. a sigh of relief for everybody that was involved in that. all right. well, don't look now. the capitals have won six straight games? can they make it seven in a row with the m

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csn studios. during a seven-game stretch at the end of november the caps lost 4 out of 6 games. they've only lost seven games all season. so what was the difference in that time period? t.j. oshie did not take the ice. since the return of the caps' talented winger washington has returned to its dominant ways. they've won six in a row. washington hosted montreal tonight. looking to push that streak to seven. not the start the caps were hoping for. late in the first lech nen with the wraparound shot beats braden holtby. montreal 1-0. second period belongs to the caps. two-man advantage. justin williams finds nicklas backstrom. we're tied up at 1. the canadiens don't take long to come back. on the odd-man rush jeff petrie deflects it past holtby. montreal back up by one. offensive chances hard to come by for washington in the third. daniel winnick has their best look but rings it off the post.

2-1. ? we didn't make it hard enough on carey. first ten minutes we had a pretty good jump and we were skating okay and then the second ten minutes we got caught in transition, trying to make plays. they were defending really well tonight. i thought they had a little more bite in their game than we did. you know, it was -- we were close enough to get a point but not good enough to win the hockey game. the redskins are once again playing in prime time on monday night against carolina. panthers star linebacker luke kuechly has missed three weeks due to a concussion but passed the protocol this thursday. he was a full practice participant in each of the last three days. kuechly is still officially listed as questionable for monday's game, but redskins offensive coordinator shawn mcvm mcveigh is preparing to face the all pro. >> he's an

and understanding and what he's able to do defending the run and the passes is impressive. he's one of the better players in the league. you can see why he commands the respect that he does. when you watch the tape you feel him as an offensive coach. really when he's not out there i think klein's done a great job stepping in. they've got a lot of depth on that defense. but they certainly are special when they've got him. i think it's a great defense overall. but luke kuechly, he's one of the best players in this league and you can see why when you just watch the tape because of the impact he has for them. the wizards have won four of their last five games. last night in the marquee match-up between brothers mar keefe and marcus morris markieff outscored marcus. but the biggest play was here when markieff blocked his twin. he says when he makes the play he can hear his mother's voice in his head. >> i know she was saying probably don't hurt my baby when i knocked him down. other than that she cool. she don't be tripping. growing up it wasn't could i

it was how we can beat everybody else. so it's just like -- that's how we've always been. >> jokes on top of jokes in that family. more wizards love spread by a new walmart employee. bradley behl using cameras to track shoppers and surprise them at the check-out. not just by bagging their gifts but actually paying for them. lucky customers at the walmart were exuberant about this surprise. >> i'm disabled, actually. so it helps us tremendously. he just saved me from having to spend the last that i had. so yeah, that will carry us to the new year. >> a time for giving and a time where families try to scramble their last together to provide for their families. it's amazing for me. and i'm happy that i'm here. i'm happy i'm able to do it. >> it always happens to other people. you see it on television or wherever. it happens to other people. you never think it's going to happen p.o.w. to you. b but it did and it's nice. wiz-clippers tomorrow. good deal by bradley biel. georgetown beat syracuse, virginia beat robert more n

hoyas have beaten the orange four out of the last five times they've played each other. erica, it's a good weekend for georgetown, good weekend for the wizards as well. >> yes, it is. chris miles-g to see you. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. the high for tomorrow 62. >> yeah. >> do not think that this is coming like the high is 4:00. the high is very early on in the day. >> yeah. most likely before noon. we're going to have some rain showers. it could end with a little bit of snow. unlikely. but i just want to go ahead and mention that. >> all right. get prepared for it. and let roomba from irobot help with your everyday messes. roomba navigates your entire home. cleaning up pet hair and debris for up to 2 hours. which means your floors are always clean.

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your thank you tour. >> i had to do it. i felt an onbligation to thank any supporters by standing in front of them while they cheer for me. let es get this over with. are there more cabinet picks yet? >> rick perry will be secretary of energy. >> was that a great choice? i saw him on "dancing with the stars." this guy has so much energy. he's just un-president-ed. now all i have to do is pick who will be president. >> um, that's you, sir. >> can i just do it three days a week like howard stern does? >> i don't think so. >> kellyanne, what will you be doing in my administration? >> oh, what i have always done. master illusionist. also, i put together a list of people who agreed to perform at your inauguration. >> so many great names here really. i love