>> i can be anybody. >> the unthinkable molly brown brought an oscar nomination. >> nothing is going to get me down. >> but as her career soared, her personal life suffered. a high profile marriage brought two children but it ended in a bitter divorce, the first of three marriages. when movie roles diminished in the '70s, reynolds took her talent to the stage. for debbie reynolds, her home on stage and screen made her one of the most versatile performers. >> this morning, carrie sister's half sister tweeted this, some of the magic people have left the tribe. for the moment i'm inconsolable. >> people laid flowers and took pictures honoring the legend. >> and her son releasing a statement saying that quote she missed her daughter and wanted

she died from a stroke. she had a stroke after dealing with some of the stress from her daughter's death and trying to make funeral arpths. right now it's 4 sln 31. montgomery police want to speak to a woman seen using a missing man's credit card. john don hugh disappeared and this woman has been caught using his credit card. police say she charged $700 >> we would luike her to come guard and speak with detectives. >> the contract credit card has been used and john is not here. we don't know what the link is and we need to find john. >> police are also looking for donna ho ieex knox's. sharon that pittman is 13 years old,

christmas. she was last seen in northeast washington. wearing a red sweater, a green and blue koot and pink boot slippers at the time. police consider her a critical missing person. if you know where she is, call d.c. youth and family services or police. new details this morning in the res view of a 71-year-old woman and her great granddaughter who went missing on christmas eve. barbara briely is in serious condition after being stuck in the woods for several days. last night investigators towed her car from the woods. she was found unconscious 50 yards from the car. the 5-year-old is okay. police believe that earlier in the week the great grandmother turned down a private road and ran over a tree, got stuck there. she and the 5-year-old spent several days in the woods. >> apple juice boxes, some apples and other items. itp

drinking several things. >> the two were driving from new jersey to north carolina. they were last seen on saturday. virginia state police eventually found them in the done woody area outside richmond. it is 4:33 right now. a weather alert day. this is the first time we've seen wintry weather in some parts of the area. >> aside from the freezing rain incident on saturday. >> don't forget that one. >> this one more picking up snow on the radar versus freezing rain and i think a lot of us can agree, if we have to deal with the winter weather, i would rather be driving in a little bit of snow. this is where i'm tracking the wintry mix, the northern loudon county and then snow? parts of frederic and washington county and north of baltimore as well. 5:00 a.m. we're seeing

maryland and sports around i-81. notice for most of us, all of prince george's, montgomery, fairfax, prince william, the district, arlington, rain only. but we're tracking showers until 8:00, 9:00 a.m. and then in the afternoon the winds pick up and then it's all about the blustery condition later today and throughout the day tomorrow. right now at 40 degrees and i think the showers are going to be over by 8:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m. good news if people are heading into work as the commute gets under way. pretty quiet right now? >> for now, yes. the map we're peering at is watching the rain roll through the area, especially the north and the west. potential for disaster. right now volumes stay very very loith with this holiday week. so where we normally find our hot spots, top side of the

especially with the on-ramps, off-ramps, bridges and overpasses are the hot spots. erica, back to you. jack, thank you. court documents are helping to piece together what happened to d.c. yoga instructor tricia mccallie. one thing that remains a mystery is how she came in contact with her murderer. she left her home to head to a par party. in the next 24 hours johnson was seen in two areas of northwest d.c. on security cameras. the grim testimony yesterday was a lot for her loved ones to bear. >> if there's a possibility that guy gets released again, i can't live with it. >> johnson had been ordered to wear a gps monitoring ankle

never dead. flag lowered to half-staff to honor sergeant first class brandon brown. s he was just last month and died this month while being treat at the walter reid medical center. this morning we also know two soldiers on an apache helicopter died when it crashed in texas yesterday. the texas army national guard says the helicopter broke apart in the air. we're told it was a routine flight. the soldiers were the only people on board the aircraft. the texas army national guard says both of their bodies were recovered from the galveston bay. >> different views, we have to have peace. but we're going to see what happens after january 20th, right? i think you're going to be very

>> that is president-elect donald trump at his florida estate last night with don king at his side. what you heard was trump speaking about the israeli palestinian conflict. the surprise appearance comes hours after john kerry harshly criticized the settlements on the west bank. kerry continued to call on israelis and palestinians to negotiate a peace plan. the president-elect said kerry's comments set us back and that we have to have peace. as early as today the united states could retaliate against russia. senior u.s. officials told nbc news they're planning to slap russia with economic sanctions. this is a direct response to the reports that russian hackers interfered with the election earlier this year. the sanctions could happen today, tomorrow. the 0 boom ma administration has publicly accused the russian government of directlye

russ russia's government claims it was not rofd. metro riders be ware, car windows smashed outside a busy station. new surveillance of the people police are looking for. jonbenet ramsey's brother back in the spotlight. details on the multimillion dollar lawsuit. the ride to work will be much harder than usual for some of you.

you are running out of time to get your hands on one of the most famous sandwiches in the world. new york's carnegie deli closes its doors for good tomorrow. it's been more packed than usual as fans and food dies order the last sandwiches there. it's been open since 1937. >> have you ever had one of those sandwiches? >> i don't think i have. we are looking at a chilly morning and some folks are seeing snow today. >> a little snow up around frederick and hagerstown and north of baltimore. but the great news in washington, montgomery, fairfax and prince george's co

temperatures not cool enough here to support anything other than rain. we'll have showers around for the mourning hours. lunchtime we're dry and cloudy, and in the afternoon the winds increakreecrease as the clouds . a high today of 51. here's your wind forecast. we're under a storm team 34 weather alert with the wintry mix north of town. it's windy this afternoon and tomorrow. and when you factor in the winds tomorrow. it will feel like we're in the 20s and 30s. i'll take a look at the holiday weekend in a moment. right now over to jack taylor. >> amelia, good morning. in virginia we'll start with the quiet roadways on 95, 395, everything coming in on 66 headed toward the beltway, just wet. nothing on the road. please don't overdrive the conditions if you're headed out. in the frederick area, northwest of

be careful. be very cautious as you head out. right now we're incident free. extra traffic is leading to more expensive tolls. still ahead, an easy way you can cut the cost of your commute. >> banned from an airline, what one man did on a flight to dulles that has him flagged for the rest of his

he called me, we had a very very good talk about generally about things. he was in hawaii. and we had a very very nice call. >> an aboutface from president-elect trump after more tough talk on twitter. >> he spoke to reporters outside of his mar-a-lago estate last night about they

after a pretty harsh remark onli online. edward lawrence joins us with more. >> here we go again. first we get the tweet from donald trump saying that the transition is not going smoothly and then all of the sudden there's a known caphone call an donald trump saying it's going smoothly. the spokesman says there's mutual respect between the new administration and the current administration. donald trump saying that the staffs are getting along were well except for a few minor comments from president obama. another headline coming out is the thousands of jobs that sprint is keeping here in the u.s. what do we know here? >> this is a little smoke and mirrors. there's 5,000 jobs that sprunt is bringing to the united states next year. this was announced several weeks ago as part of the $50,000 jobs that sprint is bringing to the united states over a period of time. this is smoke and mirrors where donald trump is trying to mak

headlines again for jobs already announced. but the ceo says that they're coming here because of trump's administration. former democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton is named the most admired woman for the 15th year in a row. her 21st time overall. michelle obama came in second. prince george's county, more than four dozen cars and trucks had windows smashed out at the green belt metro station. metro police think the damage happened between 4:00 and 4:45 yesterday morning before the station opened. they're looking for these people you see in these surveillance images. no reports of stolen items, just the costly damage. montgomery police are asking for help to find a missing woman. kayla so sleen clark was last seen in rockville last night. clark's caretakers are

they say she could be in emotional or physical trouble. police in virginia are searching for a possible serial armed robber. police say the same man may have robbed five 7-eleven stores and one dunkin' donuts. the latest robbery was yesterday. in each case the suspect stole money and cigarettes. there's a cash reward for information that leads to the arrest. the suspect is likely between 18 and 24 years of age and driving a chrysler 300. this man, 27-year-old karl da pew we of fredericksburg is being held in joil without bond, accused of shooting two teens yesterday. somebody called 911 after hearing shots fired. deputies said they found the teen boys with multiple gunshot wounds. they were able to tell deputies where the find the accused

even a possible motive. the murder of jonbenet ramsey in the headlines. burke ramsey is suing cbs and others for $750 million. he says his reputation was ruined by a television series claiming he killed his sister. the child was found dead in the basement of the colorado home in 1986. he's also suing a forensic pathologist from that series saying he bludgeoned her. a man has been banned from using united airlines for the rest of his life. air marshals had to cuff and restrain martin seaver during a flight on christmas eve. it happen of he allegedly assaulted a flight attendant when the attend dent took alcohol from him. his lawyer says his client was drunk at the time, pleaded

guilty to a misdemeanor charge yesterday. the beltway in northern virginia has seen an increase in traffic recently. that means higher tolls for the express lanes. the highest tolls are between 7 and 8 in the morning and 5 and 6 at night. if you travel outside those times you could say 3 3w% to 60%. the drivers don't care about the price of the toll and the promise of a speedy commute is worth the money. a cleaning company is removing all of the mold free of charge. a davis family has lived in their home for two years and in that time the family has experienced a lot of upper respiratory issues. they're also expecting their second baby and it would have cost them $2,000 to remove the mold. but dan dur bas said he couldn't take the money from the family. thanks to dan, they the enter the new year in a clean safe home. >>

are now and talk about the forecast wet, one way or the other, right? >> yeah. most of us thankfully only seeing rain showers this morning. but if you're traveling keep that in mind. add a little extra time if you're heading into work this morning. some of us are seeing snow this morning. notice the white there up around frederick, hagerstown, north of baltimore. we're continuing to see light snow being reported out of those locations and where you're seeing the bright colors on storm team 4 radar, that's not heavy rain, that's melting snow actually falling. we're seeing a little bit of big heavy wet snowflakes or sleet and raindrops. because of this wintry mix up around the may john dixon line we're under a storm team 4 weather alert for the morning hours. take a closer look here. frederick seeing light snow there. if you're traveling along 70

morning, dealing with a little bit of snow, maybe some sleet and rain as well. and frederick, the only location right now that's coming in right at freezing, 32. notice everybody else on this map is above freezing and that is great news as we just took a look at road temperatures in maryland. temperatures around freeze in hagerstown and frederick. most of us just wet roads and by lunchtime we're dry, by the afternoon we have sunshine. but it will be windy later today and wind yo tomorrow. but looking ahead to the weekend, new year's eve, we'll be in the mid-40s to 30s and dry. bundle up if you're out to ring in the new year. redskin games on sunday, chance of shower as the game is winding up. take a look at your ten-day forecast. i'll have another look at this at 5:21. breezy and dry on saturday, clouds on sunday and maybe some

hours. jack, any reports coming in about road conditions up in frederick? >> yes, unfortunately right now, as you said between hagerstown and frederick, temperatures are down. we've got precipitation on the roadway and some callers headed down by the rest area, a vehicle did tip over, on its side along the right side. i-70 out of hagerstown, our first wrinkle of the morning. here's 395 north, headlights are headed north toward landmark. so far the traffic is light. back to you. a high-tech warning caught on camera. how a car alerted its driver before a crash. plus, new year, new budget. it's a chance to get your finances on track. we've got four easy pay to start

2017 off right. >> we won't to bring you updates on the death of debbie reynolds. the hollywood

look at technology in action here. and it's likely that it saved the lives of a family inside this tesla model x in the netherlands. a dash cam captured the moment that auto pilot radar predicted a crash in front of the car moments before the collision. >> the driver said that tesla reacted before he even had time to think or process what was going on. tesla had come under fire earlier this year if you might remember when a driver in florida using

taka takata's defective air bags could cost the auto supplier a billion dollars. that cthey are close to a deal that could have the company pleading guilty to misconduct and playing a $1 billion fine. takata declined to kmebt to cnbc. defective air bags have been linked to 11 deaths and dozens of injuries in the u.s. as you work on your new year's resolutions, 2017 can be the year you really get your finances on track. consumer reporter susan hogan has four financial resolutions that can help you. >> i get it. it's easier said that done. the best thing to do is to make your resolutions easily attainable. that way you won't get frustrated. here are four financial reboots to

year. first and foremost, pull your credit report. it's free on annualcreditreport.com. one in four people have an error on it that could affect your score. pay your bills right after you get your paycheck. taking care of your monthly obligations before allowing yourself to indulge on stuff is a helpful budgets strategy. it gives you a better sense of what you can truly afford. repay 20% of your credit card debt. the best way to do this is to sign up for a credit card that offers a 0% balance transfer and put together a well-crafted repayment plan. it can help you save hundreds of dollars while also getting out of debt sooner. max out our 401(k) constructitr. think of it like this, it's less money you will be taxed on and owe at tax time. bottom line, it really comes down to will poer

you don't like the feeling of drowning in debt, only you can take charge of this and do something about it. we have a lot more great ideas for you on the nbc washington app. search financial reboot. and preparations are being done to ensure a safe and fun new year's eve celebration in times square. later today the annual confetti test will be done before 3,000 pounds of confetti drops down. and new york city leaders will hold a press conference this morning to discuss safety plans. nearly a million people are expected to flock to times square on saturday. if you plan to ring in 2017, the metro rail, all rides after midnight will be free. so here's the catch. you still have to scan your smart trip card but you're not going to be charged for

midnight. stay with us, news4 today continues right now at 5:00 a.m. right now on news 4 today, a storm team 4 weather alert. cold temperatures and rain combining for an icy commute for parts of the region. plus, saying good-bye to another hollywood star. den by reynolds passes away just hours after her daughter's death. and a new clue in the search for a missing man when a woman is caught on camera using his credit card. the plea for help from his family. it is 5:00. good morning. i'm aaron gill crest. >> amelia draper is in for chuck bell. red graphics means weather alert for us. >> here's why. take a look at the winter weather advisory. all of the counties in purple,