here is the one up side. it is not going to be code. we'll start in the 40s a ka day long today. where are the drops right now? let's go over to sheena parveen and find out. >> good morning. we have the rain drops mopping in and mostly west of the district. but the roadways are wet. misty conditions out there. be careful before you head out. take your time and we have more rain moving in as we go through the day today. grab the umbrella. here is a live look at the radar right now. we have not seen the heavy rain moving in just yet. but if you look off to the west, even light rain there. that is where we have some light to moderate rainfall. more down to our south, though. so this is what we're going to be watching as we go through the day today. there you see the heavy rain. that's going to start to move in around lurch time. we have a new crash to tell you about on the beltway. >> so, again, outer loop here. hi. sorry, just kidding.

outer loop before rockville pike, crash. that one is on the right shoulder. hanes road north of lewis dale road, fire activity. all lanes blocked there in clarksburg because of that house fire. on 0 270, 66, looking good. beltway at st. barnabus, no issues there. it's 5:01. we have team coverage on this morning's rainey commute. >> news 4's molette green is making her way through the district. how is it going where you are? >> going pretty well right now. the roads are just wet outside. and we are all is calm where we are. when we were driving in, the wind was slapping you in the

little bit and i know we're going to be going up and down this morning. it's go to be windy. there are some slick spots and the poll holes that are filling up with water. that could be a little misleading. an ugly commute for you throughout the morning. we're going to be taking you there throughout the morning here in the four by four. back to you in the studio. >> molette, thank you. make sure you keep up with the storm team 4 forecast on our nbc washington app. we'll send that alert to help you get through the day. we begin this hour with some breaking news. muss 4's derrick ward is joaning us live from great fall wes more on a shooting. derrick. >> good morning. we are at the intersection or near the intersection of georgetown pike ands ross more court. this is a crime scene. take a look at video we shot just a short time ago. fairfax county mrit poli

this cruiser towed away. over the right wheel, there is a bullet hole. this stems from an incident that happened about midnight where shots were fired at one of their cruisers. they are looking for a white four door sedan, late 90s, possibly early 2000 sedan. either a mazda or toyota. it has black molding on the doors and they say a passenger window is shot out. it was last seen westbound on georgetown pike. no information, again, about a suspect or any motive behind this. police say they do believe it is a random incident, but they desperately want to find that car after one of their cruisers were shot and apparently hit early this morning. we are live here off georgetown pike. >> derrick, thank you. 5:30 03 now. we want to get to angie goff at the live desk. >> aaron, eun, take a look at this picture we just got from montgomery fire and

morning, probably about an hour and a half ago to two hours ago when they found this had house fire in the 2600 block of hanes road. when firefighters ar arrived on the scene, they say they were met with heavy fire conditions. they were able to get everything out, just putting out hot spots now. they also tell us that there was no one home at the time of the fire. but still no word on what actually caused it, what sparked it. we'll stay on top of it. aaron, back to you. >> angie, thank you. 5:04. it's the beginning of the first full week of trump's new administration. >> the the president will kick off the week with a breakfast and business meeting with business leaders. he will hold a reception with congressional leaders from both parties. a lot of eyes will be on white house press secretary sean spicer's briefing this had afternoon. >> this comes on the heels of his statement on saturday where he accused the news media of falsely reporting the number of people who attended the inauguration. he also claimed it was the biggest inauguration ever. >> this was the

to ever witness an inauguration, period. both in person and around the globe. even the "new york times" -- >> now, spicer left the briefing room without taking any questions, but sunday on "meet the press" kellyanne conway was asked about spicer's statement. she said spicer game, quote, alternative facts when he described the inauguration crowds. >> why did he do that? it undermines the credibility of the entire white house press office on day one. >> no, it doesn't. don't be so overly dramatic about it, chuck. you're saying it's a falsehood and they're giving -- sean spicer gave alternative facts to that. >> conway went on to echo spicer's claims had that it was not possible to count the crowd. >> conway went on to say president trump would not release his tax returns. that reverses months of campaign promises to do so afteren an audit was completed. her response camen

a petition with more than 200,000 signatures calling on the president to release his tax returns. president trump thanks law enforcement officials and others for their support during the celebration. he called the inaugural ceremony a safety success. before the event, he attended the swearing in of his white house staff and said together they will accomplish great things. >> with you and all of the people in this room, we are going to do some great things over the next eight years. thank you. >> 30 senior staffers were sworn in at the white house. 5:06 now. the president took to twittory react to the women's march on washington. on sunday, he tweeted, quote, watched protest yesterday but was under the impression that he just had an election. why didn't these people vote? then he took a softer tone writing, quote, peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy. even if i don't always agree, i

this morning, we're getting a look at the impact the women's march and the inauguration had on our area. on saturday, more than 1 million people used metro for the women's march. that is the second busiest day in transit agency history. metro served more than 2 million passengers from friday to sunday. general manager paul wiedefeld congratulated them on safe ridership service. d.c. based charity martha's table is asking for people to donate unused cards. they will give them to people the to take advantage of their no cost clothing or food programs. you can drop off or mail unused cards to martha's table. let's go to angie goff with some new information on deadly storms down south. hordes of peoplee

up to a trail of devastation and destruction. storms ripped across the state of georgia over the weekend. we know that 14 people died in this state alone, along with four others in mississippi as the storms swept through the south. entire homes were ruined. trees, power lines knocked to the ground. more than 20 people reported injured. president trump saying those impacted by the severe storms will get help from the government in georgia. right now, much of florida, though, is under a state of emergency bracing for powerful storms there and possible tornados. aaron. all right, angie, thank you. it's 5:08 right now. united airlines is flying again this morning. domestic flights were grounded due to a computer outage last night. the faa says that outage came down to low bandwidth. united says international flights were not affected by the ground stoppage. it took about two hours, but flights out of reagan national and around the rest of the country resumed around 9:00 lat night. two of the best quarterbacks in the nfl are about to face off

new england, tom brady and atlanta's matt ryan led their teams to a trip to the super bowl. those guys are two of the favorites to win the mvp award this year. this is only the falcons second appearance ever at the super bowl. the patriots have won it four times. the game is in houston february 5th, two weeks from now. it is going to be a high scoring game. that's what i'm expecting. my goodness gracious. >> can't wait to see it. if you didn't have the nbc washington app, today might be a good day to download it because we are in weather alert mode today. things could start drying out. is it a cold or allergies? why the winter could be to blame for how you feel. and the incredible video everybody is going to talk about at work today. the officer who plucked a woman from a burng car just in time.in

12 minutes after the hour now on this windy, rainey day. >> storm team weather alert day and you know who is going to let us know what we need to prepare for? >> sheena. >> that the. sheena parveen. >> you need an umbrella this morning. but it's going the to by so windy that i don't know if it will do you much good around lunchtime today. maybe a raincoat. that would be a good

temperatures not changing too much through the day. but lynch time, we had have steadier rain. the windshield wipers are getting a workout this morning. the heaviest rain is down to our south. heavy rain shown been the yellows and oranges will keep moving into the area. closer look at the timing on that and what you can expect for the rest of your day is all coming up. let's take a look at the roadways this morning. as they've been talking about it today, sheena and chuck, be careful. we've had a couple of crashes already. outer loop, crash on the right shoulder of the roadway. main lanes are opened. it is there and just slowing things a tad. top of the beltway, bay bridge, wind warnings, no vehicle restrictions, though, so that'

good. bottom of the beltway, all the routes into and out of prince georges county down south are okay. in clarksburg, hanes road, still have that fire activity with all lanes blocked. back here in ten minutes with a live look at 66. >> thank you, melissa. it is 5:14. developing this modern wrng san antonio's police chief calls a shooting inside a mall senseless. one person is dead and several others injured. two people tried to rob a kay jewelers store. a good xhar tin tried to stop the robbery and is was shot and skilled. another person who had a conceal carry permit shot the other suspect. >> we gotcha. >> oh, my goodness. what a dramatic scene here. you could hear the woman say please help me and words of assurance in this terrifying moment. you are watching an officer smash through the

the driver was stuck inside as flames and smoke were coming from the hood of the car. the driver said that she had just driven over a patch of ice when her car shut off and burst into flames. similar life saving scene played out in our area. >> yeah. corporal angelo piaza saw a big plume of smoke. he raced toward the crash and found a semi and a car in flames there. the truckdriver managed to jump out, but the other driver was trapped. piazza and some strangers sprang into action, grabbing fire extinguishers and getting down to work. >> another citizen used my knife to cut the driver's seat belt off and that is when we started working to get them out of the vehicle. >> i think it's great that citizens

georges county and police officers can work together. and that's what we did in that situation. >> the driver is expected to survive his injuries. officer piazza says he would like to find the people that helped him out so he can say thanks. in news 4 your health this morning, a woman's risk of dying from cervical cancer may be higher than doctors once thought. prior estimates included women who had a hysterectomy. but when researchers excluded those women, the death rates were much higher. 7% higher among african-american women than previously believed. a lot of us are coughing and sneezing this time of year. but they may actually not have a cold. often winter legislatures can be mistaken for a cold. it's more common to be

turn the heat on. >> and, of course, there's no fallen outside. >> cust mites thrive when it's more humid. so keeping the humidity in your house less than 35% can keep year-round allergies under control. >> you have to measure that ip do you remember humidity. >> is there a tool for that? >> i'm going to give you a hug. i'm glad you're back. >> and quick thank you, everybody. i lost my dad a couple of weeks ago and i went down to atlanta to deal with all that. we're talking 2,100 comments on my facebook page. that is just comments, not even likes. 2017 is officially going onward and upward from here. wish i had some optimism in the forecast, but it is not cold. there you go. >> your silver lining. got back on saturday and i haven't seen a sliver of

may get sunshine back late tomorrow, but i think most of us will have to wait until wednesday before we get a nice, sunny day around here. your monday will be lost the on clouds, rein drops and gusty winds out there, as well. fwrab the umbrella, for sure. all the roads are wet, visibilities are low. could have some airlines delays, as well. it will be a slow slog up i-95 and 270 and 66 for your drive. today planning out the day, temperatures as aaron mentioned, it's not going to be cold. we're in the mid to upper 40s now. upper 40s and low 50s for highs today. the real issue today, in addition to the rain, winds could easily gust over 40 miles per hour. a wind advisory has been issued for montgomery. if you drive a high profile eh

the wheels. highest wind gusts will be near the bay and some of them could be up near 50 miles per hour, as well. for tomorrow, we'll start out with cloudy skies. i think we'll get a little sunshine back by the end of the day tomorrow. 50s with rain today. 50s tomorrow. most of the rain early tomorrow. temperatures cooling back as we head towards thursday and friday.. we'll give you a peek at the week coming up let's go over to melissa mollet. that's a lot of ms. >> that is a lot of ms. pine trees down at bradley boulevard. we'll see if we can get our eye ow s on that, as well. 66, this is how it looks right now. have that virtual rain falling so it is a bit yucky out there in certain spots. listen to wtop 103.5 fm when you hop in your car this mn

same thing here on 95 in virginia, northbound, southbound, no major issues. an update on this problem on seven locks road, coming up. maryland's purple line rail prompt may be pushing people out of their community because affordable housing could be wiped out in langley park. this is according to a new report we expect to learn more later this morning about how this could happen. if your bicycle is your ride to work, a redown pennsylvania avenue is about to get safer. crews will be adding more rubber parking stops along the bike lanes this morning. those stops prevent drivers from making illegal u-earns across the lane. wrongly arrested. what an attorney haas tas about those taken into custody in friday's protests. surveillance video captured a man stealing more than $1 million in gold. and this morning, police in another country say they've

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the world of baseball is grieving this morning. a pitcher for the kansas city royals has died. he was killed in a car crash in the dominican republic. ventura won the world series with the royals a few years ago. he was only 25 years old. a russian parliament could decriminalize domestic violence. nearly 20% of the russians say they think it is sometimes okay to hit a spouse or child. the measure faces several votes by lawmakers and needs the approval of president vladimir putin. the chinese government says since it adopted the more than one child poly,

the change from one child to two-child policy went into effect last year. china had more than 17.8 million newborns in 2016. that is up about 1.4 million. in had 2015. china is just a big country. >> exactly. police in ecuador say they've arrested the man who stole more than $1 million worth of gold in new york last september. he was shown stealing an 86 pound bucket of gold flakes from the back of an armored truck. he will face charges in had ecuador since that country does not allow extradition. it is a weather alert day. as you head back to work, we are working with you with team coverage from the roads and our storm team 4 meteorologist. plus, wrongly arrested. how dozens of people taken

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right now, it's 5:28. weather alert day. storms and strong winds threaten to slow your ride to work. >> we are out on the roads with you bringing you a firsthand look at your commute and what to expect. plus, president trump takes action. to expect in his first full day at the white house

today, but we can help you get through it. melissa mollet will have a warning about the roads out there. but first, chuck bell is back with sheena parveen this morning. what a day to return. we needed both of you to help us get through your return. >> it's going be all clouds and all rain drops for your monday. about as ugly as a monday morning can be. it's wet and foggy outside will. a wind-driven rain is likely. wind advisory res post ed, especially from i-95 eastbound to the bay and the eastern shore. hold on tight if you have a high profile vehicle. next chance of season seeing any sunshine comes backs tomorrow afternoon. fortunately, though there's a cooling trend coming, there's no bitter cold in sight. so you winter haters, we'll get through another week of no major snow. we don't want to think abo

tonight and tomorrow, some elevations in the had north and west could get some snow on the backside. but we're looking at rain in the forecast for today. locally, the radar is fairley dry. off the to the west of the district, that's where we start to see some light shower activity. just some light rain here approaching front royal. so these areas already seeing the rain. the roads are wet right now. it's misty and the winds are increasing. but there's more rain down to our south. that will be increasing. the rain is and 47 degrees right now. 7:00 a.m., windy, showers. by 9:00 a.m., gusty conditions. let's check the roadways out there. another problem out there, melissa. >> another problem. we were talking about this. we have trees down, they're large pine trees down on wires. just got off the phone with montgomery county officials. so that section is closed

they try and get those trees out of the way. outer loop before rockville pike, still have that response on the right shoulder this morning. we're hearing that it's clear, but you can see we have that police response there. southbound 301 near 97, crash reported there. overall, beltway is not bad. new problem i'm hearing about on the toll road. we'll talk about that and the travel times, coming up. our team coverage on this morning's rainey commute continues now. >> mollett, how is it looking? >> oh, great. we are in prince georges county. we are on route 50 here. and pretty soon we'll be on the beltway. it is a rainey, windy monday morning. we had the wipers on low right now to get that mist off. road conditions are slick. you need to be careful out there and watch the road spray that's there. don't overdrive out in this.

right now. but as things pick up, you really need to be careful. we are on the commute with you throughout the morning. stay with us right here on news 4. >> thank you, mollett. 5:32 right now. and it is the first weekday at the trump white house and it's going to be a busy one. >> he will get help from 30 senior staffers who have been sworn in. tracie potts is live on capitol hill with the big items on today's agenda. >> good morning. a busy day for the president, as you node. he will meet with union leaders, congressional leaders to hash house some i think so he wants to get done. mike gets the vote that has been delayed. but that is supposed to happen the today. we are expecting that he will sign several executives order this week starting today. we are told his orders this had week will cover td

possibly immigration, although not desporting the hundreds of thousands of children who were brought here illegally. that's something they want to try to work out with congress first. tracie, we know the president told the cia that he has a running war with the media. how is that playing out with his new press secretary, his former campaign manager? >> not well. interesting over the weekend with sean spicer, the new press secretary, first refusing to answer any questions about these massive worldwide women's demonstrations. the president tweeted about it. but then he told -- he said several things that were simply not true about inauguration day and the crowds. there's been a back and forth about the crowds. plenty of either photographic evidence, metro numbers, other numbers in terms of viewership, online viewership that show there was significantly fewer people watching this inauguration. the white house is really pushing back on that. kellyanne conway, senior

facts. what the white house is offering up to counter what the media is showing. >> tracie potts, thank you. d.c. police made 230 arrests connected to inauguration daypro tests. >> at least on six officers and one other person were hurt in the clashes. d.c. police have now tracked down and arrested a protester accused of throwing rocks at officers. new video services and more arrests could be made. >> some of those 230 people who were arrested have been released. hundreds of 350e78 appeared in d.c.'s superior court over the weekend. police wore riot gear. ro testers were told to not get arrested again in d.c. a local attorney for 50 people arrested during the

arrested. mark goldstone said police took two independent objectors into custody. gold stone call tess charges an overreach. mean while, no arrests remain in connection with the women's march on saturday. more than 500,000 people participated in the rally and march. we'll have more had on the records society metro and b president trump's reaction to the events worldwide still ahead. some positive news for former first lady barbara bush and george h.w. bush. she was healthy enough to leave the hospital yesterday, but she chose to spend another night with her husband there. he is in the icu right now, but his health is improving. president obama was taken to the hospital last week with breathing problems. barbara bush was treated for bronchitis. exploding pones explained. new overnight, samsung offers information about why so many of its

and deadly storms swept through the southeast. angly goff is monitoring the latest updates. and it is a weather alert day in our area here. we are house on the roads to show you where to avoion your mod n

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11 minutes before the top of the hour. it is a weather alert day around here this morning. chuck, a lot of folks need to be thinking about the wind in addition to the rain, right? >> yeah. some of my twitter followers are mentioning that they're sitting at the red light waiting and the car is being buffeted around by gusty winds. they will increase with time. winds could gust near 50 miles per hour today. especially along the chesapeake bay. route 50 over the bay brimg, hold on tight. not a lot of rain out there yet, but don't be fooled. 100% chance you're going to get wet at some point during the day. winds will increase. northeast winds 15 to 25 miles per hour now. could be up close to 40 miles per hour later on this afternoon. so your raincoat, fob sure. don't need the heavy insulated one. but your hat and the biggest umbrella you've got the we're going to give it

possible day for a monday. temps near 50 and wind. >> that means brennen is not going out to recess the today. center puddle jumping. >> yeah, let's not. let's just not. he doesn't have to clean his pants, do you sthp. >> no. >> i'll bring them in tomorrow for you. westbound toll road ramp to 28, crash on both sides, but you can get through. 66 inbound is okay, so is 95 northbound. looking at maryland now, no problems on 270 towards the top of the beltway. listen to wtop 103.5 fm when you hop in your car today. county police look for evidence of a suspect after someone takes a shot at one of their cruisers. i'll have details coming up. plus, a major airline getting back on track this morning. why united airlines was forced to ground all of its domestic flights for hours. and tax season starts today. tips f

rush and why you may have to wait for your return this year.

right now on news 4 today, a windy start to the week. >> team coverage from storm team 4 is and out on the roads as we're working for you to prepare for your commute. new overnight, explosions explained. samsung providing answers about what caused its phones to get up in flames. plus,.marching into history. why the women's march on washington is going down in metro's record. and from pomp and circumstance, to clean up. why it could take months to change the capital back to its preinauguration look. breaking news at 5:44. in fairfax county, shorts fired in in a quiet neighborhood. someone shot at a police

on georgetown pike in great falls. >> derrick ward w joins us live from the scene with the car police say they're looking for in connection to the shooting. derrick. >> yeah, indeed. and we've got a bit more information about how all this started. this is georgetown pike. it started with a traffic stop just a bit dune the road there. i want you to take a look at some video. this is the cruiser. if you take a look, it's being taken away from here. police took it away a short time ago. it has a bullet hole over the rear wheel on the passenger side. police say around midnight, that police tried to pull over a car. as they pulled it over, the passenger got out of the car and ran. the cruiser started to follow that passenger. the cruiser turned around and started heading back towards the police cruiser. police say someone inside that car shot several times through the glass at the cruiser. they did hit it at least

the cruiser -- the car actually got away. police are looking for a white four-door sedan. it's late 90s, early 2000. it's either a toyota or a mazda. it has black molding around the doors, but the most distinctive thing police say is thes passenger window was shot out. it was last seen heading westbound on georgetown pike. police haven't released information about whether the person who got out of the car and ran is in custody or whether they have an id on the driver of that car. they are, indeed, still looking. we are live here in fairfax county, derrick ward, news 4. back to you. >> today, as the city gets back to normal after the inauguration, narcotic partial service is in clean up mode. >> the effort includes more than just trash pick up, though. crews have to remove all the structures they built for the various inauguration events. last night they started tearing down the stage from t

also today, crews will continue picking up the whooil white decking that was placed on the mall to protect the grass. >> if that hadn't been down and the rain and the feet, we would be looking at some considerably different. we're very excite heed that that seems to have done its job. >> it could take months from lafayette park near the white house to reopen. dismantling the grand stands and the viewing stand is a big job since it has concrete footings and hard wired electricity. 1 million, that's how many people used metro on saturday for the women's march. that is the second busiest day in the history of the transit agency. metro served more than 2 million passengers from friday through sunday. employees were congratulated on providing safe, reliable service this weekend. metro will get some of the extra money it needs in its next budget. each jurisdiction will give nearly $40 million or more to the transit agency and that extra money will enable metro

set up a safety commission. right now in the district, police are looking for 13-year-old sadie adams. this is her picture here. she was last season on wednesday in northwest just a few blocks away from sherman circle. she may be wearing a purple and blue coat and tan pants. anyone with information should call police. breaking news about isis just into our news room. angie goff is at the live desk with details. >> good morning. the turkish military confirming reports that 65 islamic state militants were killed in operations. and it happened yesterday, sunday. turkey launched an operation to drive the militants away from the syrian border starting around five months ago. aaron. >> angie, thank you. it's 5:48 now. incredible video coming in from california. there was massive flooding there, we know. this is a spall car being swept away here. we can't even tell if this is a road or a

what's going on? a woman was inside that car, believe it or not. she got out. she wasn't hurt. the strongest storm in years dumping rain across california right now. it's not supposed to taper off until maybe sometime tomorrow. and developing now in georgia, we know at least 18 people are dead after devastating storms there. tornados touched down across georgia, alabama and mississippi this weekend. here you can see one of those tornados on camera. this is near albany, georgia. angie goff is checking out video of the massive storm for us. she will join us at the live desk in just a few minutes. now we have not to talk about our weather. we're dealing with winds in our region and rain, too. >> sos as hard as a monday is to get out the door, today it's harder. we have the winds increasing. it was windy when we all walked in, but it's getting stronger. we have wind advisories for the area, too, ask the rain will be around, as well. this morning, it will be one of those high impact

commute. rain and wind. the rain will get heavier around lunchtime. recess will be inside today. and the evening commute, a moderate impact. we'll have showers around, skiing. don't count on it. we're looking at rain right now. but in the higher elevations, we could see snow on the back side of this rain. we'll be watching that closely, but, again, only in the higher elevations. fitness forecast, you may exercise indoors and the win will stay like this throughout the day. but lynch time, heavier rain. temperatures staying in the mid to upper 40s. radar is for the most part dry. we have misty conditions out there. roads are wet. we have showers off to the west near winchester. parts of the shennendoah valley, seeing light rain. down to the south, we have the heavier rain shownry the yellows and oranges moving up into parts of virginia, west virginia or virginia and this is all moving in our direction. so the wind advisory i mentioned, that's in the district. fairfax county, much of maryland, as well. that's

that basically tells you we could see gusts up to 45 miles per hour. so just be careful out there. wind gusts are increasing across the area. in the district, winds are gusting at 37 miles per hour. fredericksburg, 29-mile-per-hour wind gusts. so a windy day. look at future weather. here is the rain we expect. 9:00 a.m., steady rainfall developing. lunchtime, even studier and getting heavier. then we go through this evening. there is possible snow in the higher elevations, but for the rest of the area, rain for the evening commute and we could see some later on tonight. so we will be watching all that very closely for you. temperatures in the mid 40s right now. tomorrow morning, a few lingering showers. the rest of the week looking really good. let's get an update on the crash with melissa mollet. >> southbound gwb parkway after 123 and northbound 95 at 234, a crash reported in both spots. they are there on 95, vehicles on both shoulders here right now. so we

slowdown in those northbound lanes. westbound toll road, the ramp to 28, still have the crash on both sides, there. seven locks, still shut down between glennen drooi drive and rosedale drive because of some pine trees that have taken wires down this morning. inner loop near the wilson bridge, crash on the shoulder. overall, beltway is not so terrible on the inner loop and outer loop. keep an eye on things and be back in ten minutes. it is 5:52. an update on breaking news in montgomery county. >> let's go to angie goff at the live desk. >> this update coming to us out of clarksburg, maryland. one person is unaccounted for in this house fire. i believe we have a picture. take a look. this was around 3:00 a.m. in the 2600 block of hanes road in clarksburg. with when firefighters arrived, they say there was a lot a lot of heavy fire. we know the flames route

but crews updating us saying that there's still one person that is missing. and they are still trying to figure out the conditions and the details surrounding what caused this fire. >> thank you, angie. you may remember back in 2015 maryland's governor slashed tolerates as part of a tax relief effort. some worried the cheaper tools would severely hurt the state budget. the state collected about $5 million less in toll revenue last year. increased traffic kept the actual revenue loss relatively low. this morning, we are learning exactly why those samsung galaxy note 7 phones kept catching fire and exploding. engine nears say they've learned that there were two different problems with two different batteries. they say the large batteries didn't fit into the phones properly and there wasn't enough insulating material. samsung stopped selling those phones about two pose ago after the fire incidents there. the company lost consumer cofi

too. samsung says it is working to earn back customer trust. federal authorities are trying to determine whether yahoo! should have reported two massive data breaches to investors sooner. the wall street journal reports a u.s. securities and exchange commission is investigating those breaches that happened in 2013 and 2014. yahoo! is in the middle of a nearly $5 billion sale to verizon. so all of you who like to file your taxes early, listen up. today the irs will start accepting electronic and paper tax return forms. more than 153 million individual tax returns are expected this year. you will have a few extra days, too, to file your return. the deadline is tuesday, april 18th. that's because the 15th is on a saturday and the 17th is my birthday so they bumped that. it's a federal holiday. >> it is.. >> actually, it's emancipation day. it's a legal holiday in had washington so the government shutwn

prevent tax fraud may delay refunds. >> your birthday should be a federal holiday. >> i agree. today for the first time, the stock market will open under president trump. >> landon dowdy is live now with a preview of what we might expect today. the landon, good to see you. >> aaron, good to see you, too. i marked my calendar, thank you for the birthday reminder. let's check on wall street. asian and european markets are in the red today on inhe investor concerns following president trump's inaugural address. the markets were lower for the week. earnings could be front and center this week as a dozen dow stockes and a fifth of the s&p 500 index report results. we also get data on housing, durable goods and fourth quarter gdp. aaron and eun, back over to you. >> thank you, ma'am. 5:55 our time right now. and you are saving money at the gas pump again. prices are falling. they're down

around the country right now. national average, we're looking at $2.31 for a gallon of regular unleaded right now. you compare that to our area. it's a little low. the cost of an average gallon of gas in d.c., $2756. in maryland, it's averaging about $2.34. if you live in virginia, the price is pretty low, only $2718 on average. that's across the commonwealth. in west virginia, an average gallon of regular unleaded is running about $2.36. take a look at this new video we are getting a look at this morning. it turns out that a honda civic is a great place for sea lion lions to nap. who knew? >> i knew. >> this happened at a shipyard outside of seattle on saturday. it decided the sea lion to climb up on the car, took a slumber on the whole roof. the sheriff's office was called in to help get the marine mammal back to shore. sometimes you're so tired,

find the nearest place and just want to cozy up. >> maybe he needed a little sun, wanted to get closer to the sun to get that tan in. >> he looks perfectly comfortable right there. >> that was the engine starting. don't move that car. as your workweek gets started, the new trump administration is preparing to ak take action. next at 6:00, what the president a has planned for his first monday on the job. and united airlines, why it stopped flying during a weekend rush. and it is atlanta versus new england for the biggest night in football. how one player is settinger records be

right now on news 4 today, a wind advisory a krcross our are. storms soaked the roads. wet roads and rain throughout the morning. we're on the commute with you. plus, the white house gets to work. four things to know about the trump administration's agenda for its first week on the job. news 4 today starts now. it is tough to get out the door on mondays, but today you're going to have to leave yourself extra time. melissa mollet is here with warning in your

first, chuck bell is back with sheen ma parveen this morning. this is not what we like to see to start the workweek, my friend. >> not at all. it is a monday and unfortunately there's nothing but clouds and rain drops and wind and ugliness through your monday. there's a look at national airport, socked in with low clouds and low visibility. for us today, breezy and wet this morning. grab the biggest umbrella you can to try and stay dry. gusty winds could be up to 40 nearly 50-mile-per-hour gusts this the afternoon. do know that it is going to be an impactful weather day. toll, turning breezy. monday morning is all about the rain drops. here is sheena parveen tracking it on radar. yes, the rain this morning, welcome back, chuck. we missed you. the rain is going to stay in the forecast. this morning, ho