returning to the school they know. we'll tell you where they're heading instead. we also have breaking news out of prince george's county where a car crashed into a home overnight. much more on that from the live desk in just a second. first, it is 6:00 a.m. good morning, everybody. >> welcome to news 4 today. you can leave that winter coat at home today for a second day in a row. i don't know if you even need a light jacket but keep it close by. >> reality, right? >> our team is here for the full forecast for you and a look at the roads. >> but first we check in with sheena and chuck bell. good morning. >> good morning to everyone in the news 4 nation this morning. sheena is outside at bethesda enjoying this mild start to the day and i'm here to let you know that it's not going to last. outdoor planner, nothing to worry about for this morning or afternoon or evening. heavy wet snow likely tomorrow ant

over, windy and cold, temperatures way below freezing on friday morning it will indeed mean it could be very icy. so a couple of very tricky mornings coming our way. winter storm watches are issued for northern maryland, frederick county, virginia. i fully expect a winter weather advisory that will include all of the d.c. metro area will be issued later today. a low to moderate impact on your thursday morning commute is to be expected an a couple of inches of know is a real possibility. i'll give you the exact amounts that we're forecasting, but right now let's go out to sheena who's enjoying this nice start to a wednesday. >> yes, it is a beautiful start to this wednesday and yes, i am live in bethesda, and a lot of people already starting to come and grab their train and you know, the light jacket is typically what we're seeing this morning.

very mild for this time of the year compared to what's considered normal and we are close to 10 degrees warmer than we were yesterday morning. temperatures mostly running in the upper 50s to around 60 degrees currently, but as we go through the day today another unseasonably warm day yesterday. we smashed that record with a record high temperature of 73 degrees. today we'll be in the mid to upper 60s. your planner for today showing dry conditions. unseasonably warm temperatures. you don't have to worry about the umbrella today. late tonight we start to see some precipitation move in and that changes to snow in the morning. more details on that. let's check the roadways with melissa mollet. >> taking a look at chopper 4, we do have an issue on the left side of the roadway. it is slowing things just a bit. it looks like there may have been a tow truck on the scene. you can see those backups building. northbound 95 after 17, that is

of about one otwo miles are quickly dissolving so that is good. 66 and the rest of 95, no major issues there. and northbound/southbound here on 270 is okay as well. it is 6:03 and developing right now for the second night in a row, with senate democrats are pulling an all nighter. here's a live look at the senate floor. democrats have been making speeches all night voicing their opposition to their colleague senator jeff sessions who has been nominated for attorney general but it's what happened to elizabeth warren that has people talking this morning. >> you're likely to see it onli online. senator warren has been silenced for the rest of the debate on senator jeff sessions. this all started last night when warren was speaking against sessions' confirmation including the letter written by coretta

ago. this letter opposed sessions' confirmation for a federal judgeship at that time. mcconnell stepped in and warned that warren broke the rules of the floor. something that warren took issue with. >> mr. president i am surprised that the words of coretta scott king are not suitable for debate in the united states senate. i ask leave of the senate to continue my remarks. >> well, senators rebuked warren's push to overturn the ruling but that did not stop her. she later took to facebook live to finish the reading of king's letter and last check, in the last six hours or so it has already gotten three and a half million views. thank you. so the rule that senator mcconnell says that senator warren broke was rule 19. it is a

another senator. she will not be allowed to speak for the rest of the debate on jeff sessions' nomination for attorney general. we should note that a spokesman for leader mcconnell says warren was warned several times. democratics though called it selective enforcement of that rule. and just as contentious as the senate is, social media exploding about news about senator warren, the ha#let liz speak is trending right now. she posted a facebook life video reading mrs. king's note outside. it got 3.5 million views but republicans say that warren violated a very clear rule. senator mcconnell saying extreme democratic obstruction has made confirming nominees the slowest since george washington. developing right now, devastation down south. take a look at this damage from

this is in mississippi. this is a flea market just flattened. people went there for 35 years and now it is gone. in louisiana people were literally running away. at least 20 people were hurt and 10,000 people lost power. they could be in the dark for days now. we'll get new information about how bad this was later this morning and we'll go live to new orleans where they're cleaning up right now. >> and we also want to get to some breaking news here in prince george's county. angie? >> new video to share with you. that's in to the live desk. this comes to us out of capital heights. you can see that red car rammed into the side of the house here. video of the scene you saw the investigators on the ground. this is on addison road near dunbar oaks. still no sign of the driver and we're still waiting to get

whether the people who live in that house are okay. we are going to bring you more as we get it. but for now, back to you. thank you. 6:07 and today elementary students forced to leave a bedbug infested school are heading back to class. >> savoy elementary students will be bussed to a new temporary school in southeast washington. justin is live outside of the new school with a look at what's planned today. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. their first day back to school in two days and given the distance between savoy and their new school ferebee hope here, d.c. public schools will bus their students to and from both campuses for as long as needed. that first bus to leave this morning just before 8:00 in the morning. taking you now to video here, this all comes after school officials found the school did have a bedbug and rodent infestation. savoy dad showed us what he believes to be bedbug bites on her daughter's arm.

classrooms and throwing out soft items where bedbugs could hide. savoy must still clear health department impression and the hope is they will return to the old school by the end of the month. back out live again, that first bus due to leave savoy at 7:50 and arrive here. seven buses will leave here this morning and staggered dismissal will begin at 3:00 for pickup at savoy. there are three pickup times and a full bus schedule is on our news 4 app. back in to you. thank you. housing needs will be the focus for the stay of fairfax's new mayor. the department of elections reporting david meyer won the special election with 42% of the vote. that special election was held yesterday. he beat out two other council members. he plans to focus on establishing a citizen's commission to come up with recommendation for local housing needs. the previous mayor will

the city's former mayor was arrested in a sex for drugs bust. he was arrested last year after police say he tried to trade meth for sex with an undercover detective. he resigned shortly after that arrest. we are one year away from the 2018 winter olympics in south korea. this time around there will be events you've never seen before at the games. the four new sports are snow boarding big air, mass start and speed skating, curling mixed doubles and a nation's team event for alpine skiing. ice dancing will return. the american team features a brother and sister ready to make a name for themselves. >> 2014 was our first olympics and we've improved so much since then so we're looking to be the best in the world. >> we're lucky to be doing

together as a family it's been a lot of great experiences and we're on the right track. >> a lot of great american ice skaters to look out for for sure. one team that may not be at these games is team russia. in december the ioc extended doping sanctions against russia until further notice and started disciplinary procedures against 28 athletes. why this hockey fan from half way around the world will take to the ice with the caps. >> plus, team coverage of this wild weather we're having this week. >> winter storm watches already posted for northern maryland. meanwhile, outside this morning temperatures are in the 50s and 60s. when we come back we'll let you know how much snow and how long it will last. stay with us. >> too much care for your child? a

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welcome back. i'm melissa mollet with your first 4 traffic and travel times across the area, take ago look at maryland. 270 looks just fine. top of the beltway is starting to get slow. that's totally normal for this time of day. 66 rolling along quite nicely. remember to listen to wtop when you hop in your car this morning and right now we head out to sheena. >> reporter: i'm here in bethesda and i will tell you temperatures this morning are running around 10 degrees warmer than yesterday morning and of course yesterday we smashed that record high. we hit 73 degrees in the

this morning temperatures are mostly in the upper 50s to near 60 degrees. what you need to wear though. we're not talking about a heavy coat, not today. we are still going to be unseasonably warm. leave the winter gear at home, but tomorrow that is a different story completely. if you like the weather today you're probably not going to like tomorrow. snow moving in and temperatures dropping well below normal for this time of year, about the upper 30s for a high. so yes, a big change is underway. chuck will have a closer look at the snow in the forecast and i'll talk more about those temperatures straight ahead. thank you. 6:15 now and thousands of people don't have power this morning. today there's going to be a major cleanup effort from a devastating storm. >> tornados touched down in louisiana. the weather channel is live in new orleans for us this morning. what are you seeing? >> reporter: see ago lot of destruction here. about seven tornados. one of them hit this area in new orleans east about a two mile

as you can see the destruction here. one of 250 homes severely damaged in this area. this is the front door right here. if you come over here you can see where aball wall once stood. this is where the light switches were. i want to show you right over here, this is how powerful these winds were. blew this roof off and also the shingles right off of here. currently right now here in new orleans there are about 950 people without power. they at one time had 9,000 people without power. the governor has declared this a state of emergency here in louisiana, so you have national guard out here in this area making sure to keep everything safe out here. and the really -- the real heart break of this area is that during contrakatrina in 2005, af people had come back here after rebuilding only to have something like this happen. so really it's terrible to see the devastation here. back to you. >>

thank you. 17 after the hour. news for your health, a maryland family urging people to get vaccinated for the flu after losing their daughter. 17-year-old kayla lynnton was not vaccinated. this comes as a new cdc report shows the number of states with wide outbreaks of flu has risen to 40. so far 15 flu associated deaths with children under the age of 18. that's a 67% increase compared to last year. how would you feel if another woman breast-fed your child? this happened to one north carolina woman and she wants charges brought against the daycare worker. >> as a mother, knowing that you put my son to your breast, it's just -- it's a big violation. and it's abuse to me and it's assault. >> the daycare worker says she was concerned that the three month old was constipated and offered to help. the mom said ,

breast-fed the infant anyway. that night the baby started vomiting and had to be taken to the emergency room. doctors ran several tests and determined that he is lactose intolerant. the worker was fired and police are looking into the incident. a sad update to a story that we covered last month. >> elijah young lost his battle with stage 4 brain cancer yesterday according to this post on elijah's fight facebook page. you may remember that we told you that he serves as an honorary prince george's county police officer last month. his mother said that he'd always wanted to be a police officer. very sad. >> well, today, this woman is going to show off her skills for the washington capitals. look at that. she is a hockey wizard and when the caps saw how good she was they invited her here for e

ice for practice and then tomorrow she will drop the ceremonial puck at the game against detroit. hockey is for everyone month. the team said it was a great time to invite her here. even if you can't ice skate it's always fun to watch. >> she gets to see d.c. when she comes to visit. she's going to practice with the women's junior league. >> she's coming tomorrow? >> she gets to go see snow too in addition to being a hockey fan, she gets to be a snow fan just like me. outside the weather will not have a big impact on your day today so that is the good news. super mild again staying dry, all through the daylight hours for today. problems begin as we get into tomorrow. tomorrow is when things are going to start to slide back down to the problematic range. tomorrow morning, heavy wet snow during the morning commute.

for tomorrow. there could be a slushy one to as much as three inches just at the height of the thursday morning commute. then we turn our attention to friday morning. could have a serious refreezing issue. there won't be any snow after about sundown tomorrow, but all that moisture on the roads, temperatures dropping back down into the low 20s. a black ice issue will be a real concern on friday morning's commute. so enjoy the easy ride in and back today. winter storm watch is already posted in northern maryland. no advisories as of yet here in the d.c. metro area. that's likely to change as snowfall amounts, probably an inch or less in the southern suburbs, one to two inches right around ton but maybe as much as two to five inches, hagerstown, frederick, those are the areas with the bilgeggest problems fo today though. let's go to sheena parveen who is sitting outside in the mild s

>> reporter: good morning. i am live in bethesda and i will tell you you don't need a heavy winter code this morning. temperatures running in the upper 50s to around 60 degrees so it is not incredibly cold by any means. we'll still be unseasonably warm so before you step outside just remember if you do have a coat make sure you have the short sleeves undernooeteathunderneat. about 20 degrees above normal for this time of the year. your commute forecast looking good. around lunchtime we're dry and we're not going to see that huge cooldown until we go into early tomorrow morning and that is going to come with that snow. let's take a look about that. >> it is going to be right back to mild weather around here. saturday back to the mid and upper 50s. sunday easily back up into the mid-60s once again. the only real potential impact on your weekend might be a little chance for rain late in the

outside this weekend will be dry. now let's go over to melissa mollet who's dealing with a dry commute this morning. >> right now it's not so bad. chopper 4 over the top of the beltway as you're heading through the bethesda area this morning. inner loop and outer loop, not looking so bad. westbound benning road now has the left lane blocked there. earlier situation in front of children's hospital where we had those closures. that has since gone. so we don't have to worry about that anymore. rest of the beltway you can see looking good here this morning. no major issues here. the outer loop just after 50 and before bw, a tiny slowdown there. that crash is on the left shoulder. 66 and 95, no major worries. also looking good here. bottom of the beltway in to prince george's county. >> all right. thank you. long commutes and even longer work days. it's easy to get overwhelmed by life. >> but did you know you can try to find some peace on your phone? well, we'll show you the

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is stressed out and doesn't have a lot of time to meditate. there are specialty sessions for travelers who take trains like the metro. some are as short as three minutes. >> another is called insight timer. this has more than three thousand guided meditations, music tracks and courses for you. >> and head space. the "today" show says this is the most popular meditation apps. >> and while most of these apps are free you do have to unlock longer meditations that you have to pay for. >> when is the last time you stopped at the body shop? the future of the store may be in limbo. >> plus, a plane crash and a survival story. find out what the pilot did before calling 911. he tells his story only to news 4. >> and we're talking about another mild day today. yesterday we shattered that old record. weot

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right now take a look at these current temperatures. we will be seeing snow by this time tomorrow. >> snuntudents on the move. a new routine for students in a bedbug run school. it is 6:30 right now. we we're going from record breaking warm temperatures to snow. >> you're going to start to feel the change starting today. we have team coverage chuck is in the weather center but we start with sheena parveen. we're having weather roller coasters. >> yes, we are. we're talking about another unseasonably warm day. yesterday we smash add record high temperature. we got into the

today we're starting way above normal and this morning we're close to ten degrees warmer than we were yesterday. look at your planner. as we go through the day we'll be back in the mid to upper 60s. expect it to be dry but tomorrow some big changes underway. today we go way above normal and tomorrow way below normal and we have snow in the forecast. for a closer look at that let's go over to chuck. >> yes, storm team 4 radar shows the cold front just off to our north and west. a surge of very warm air continues to be the weather that we'll enjoy for today, but there's already winter storm watches posted for maryland and virginia. i do expect some form of winter weather advisory will be issued for the washington metro area to include the thursday morning commute. commute time temperatures will be above freezing, but a couple of slushy wet inches of snow are a certain possibility, so low to moderate impacts expected f

more about exactly how much snow to expect and more importantly when we can get rid of it all. for right now let's go over to melissa mollet. >> chopper 4 just got over this situation. this is a crash here, you can see the response on scene and right now it looks like that entrance to the ramp is blocked so a bit of a backup there. westbound benning road after 295, left lane there still blocked. beltway overall looking good. top of the beltway, these routes into and out of town are just fine and 270 at montrose, northbound/southbound looking pretty typical right now. democrats are in the middle of another hour's long speaking session. they've been speaking throughout the night speaking their opposition to jeff sessions' nomination as attorney general. the senate is expected to vote later on today. the federal appeals court

will rule on president trump's immigration executive order. justice department lawyers argued that we need to have a balance in immigration policies that guard against terrorists who want to do harm to americans. while attorneys for the states of washington and minnesota said it's the court's responsibility to make sure the president doesn't overstep his authority. >> and people have strong opinions on all sides of the issue. we want to know what you think. so far the majority of people who responded to our survey say that they oppose the travel ban. >> moments after being honored for her community service a woman was killed by a suspected drunk driver. this is a story we first told you about yesterday morning. it was carol lynn ellis. a friend says she was a sweet soul who spent her time helping young people get through

36-year-old david phillip jones is now charged with second degree murder. d.c. police say he's been arrested for dui twice in the last five years. well, you remember the story about that plane crash and the pilot who survived. well, he walked away after crashing that plane into a tree in fort washington on monday. >> the story you'll only see on news 4. 64-year-old spoke with our prince george's county bureau chief and he says he doesn't remember everything but he knows what he was thinking when that plane went down. >> took off, i hadn't climbed out very far, and the engine just stopped. there's not much time to think. it happens very fast. so really you're just focusing on a couple of important points like where am i going to land, how am i going to get there. >> he has some minor injuries, nothing serious though and he's already thinking about getting back into the sky. the first call that he made before

>> priorities though. >> he's good though. he's all right. we all know that traffic around here is pretty rough especially in the mornings. >> a new lane just opened on route 28 in loudoun county and is it helping commuters? that's the question. >> erika joins us live with more on what business owners are saying this morning. >> reporter: hi, aaron, eun, good morning. so it is an additional lane that's open southbound. it is part of route 28. we'll get to the bigger picture in just a second. so this is one small change that's part of a bigger picture, but for some people it's still not enough yet for them to feel a real impact. the attempt at relieving some traffic congestion in northern virginia on route 28 is specifically a new fourth lane southbound between sterling boulevard and the dulles toll road. the northern virginia transportationay

$100 million is being dedicated to this corridor alone. we just spoke with a gas station owner, and she says that since construction started in this area, drivers cannot exit to her business and she says she's lost 50% of normal traffic flow. this improvement has little affect on her, she says and she's hoping that her business will still be around when the larger improvements and the larger impacts can really be felt. >> i don't think a fourth lane is going to change because it's construction all the time and the traffic is slow all the time. right now it's not bad but around 9:00 in the morning it's a mess. if you want to go somewhere you need to go two hours earlier. >> reporter: so remaining portions of the southbound lanes and a fourth lane northbound will be open for you to be able to use this summer. life in sterling, virginia, back to you. >> thank you. bedbugs at

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welcome back. it's 6:40 this morning. we're coupinting down to the 20 olympics. >> pyeongchang is about 100 miles outside of the capital of seoul. four new sports will debut at these olympic games and we'll be keeping our eye on elana meyers as she and

for gold. >> i felt like vancouver was the first time i figured out the olympics and how to approach them and how to deal with it mentally, so i think this is going to be a great way to end my career. >> lottery tickets for the opening ceremony and sporting events will launch tomorrow on the olympics official website. we put that link up in the nbc washington app. >> developing right now, more than ten thousand people are in the dark at this hour. many of them don't even have a place to call home. >> they were right many the path of devastating tornados in louisiana. homes were just ripped apart. emergency crews say it is still dangerous because of gas leaks and downed power lines right now. one of the worst hit areas was no, si new orleans especially east new orleans. a woman also lost her home in hurricane katrina. >> it's overwhelming and to think of the work that has to be done to rebuild a second time,

>> many homes were turned into piles of trash and debris. the work to clean all that mess up is happening today and everyone who lost power, they may not get it back until after this coming weekend. >> good morning. i'm live in bethesda, and i will tell you, i already took the jacket off. i don't need it and you won't need it this afternoon either. another unseasonably warm day coming up. i'll show you how warm it will get, plus chuck will show you details on the snow coming tomorrow. you heard it right. that's next. >> plus, right now chopper 4 showing us a big backup in montgomery county. two problems in the district and travel times coming up. >> reporter: after two days of cancelled classes students are resuming school today after bedbugs a

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police are concerned. >> we begin with developments happening on capitol hill. an all night talkathon continues on the senate floor. >> it continues over jeff sessions for attorney general but the story trending this morning is the rare rebuke of senator elizabeth warren. angie has details. >> good morning. after being silenced senator elizabeth warren did finish what she wanted to say on the floor. she finished it on facebook live. take a look. the video already nearly 3.5 million views, it shows her finishing a decades old letter by coretta scott king opposing jeff sessions for a federal judge job. warren was reading that letter on the floor when senate majority leader ruled her speech broke senate rule number 9 which bars impugning another senator. >> mr. president i am surprised that the words

king are not suitable for debate in the united states senate. i ask leave of the senate to continue my remarks. >> the #let liz speak has been trending all morning long and the cover sheet of king's letter is being shared widely online. back to you. >> thank you. so what is this rule? rule 19, it is a rarely used rule that bars impugning another senator. what this means now is that warren will not be allowed to speak for the rest of the debate on senator sessions' nomination for attorney general. a spokesman for mitch mcconnell says warren was warned several times. democrats are calling it selective enforcement of that rule. and this weekend an appeals court ruling will come down on president trump's immigration executive order. >> we turn to peter alexander who's live at the white house this morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you. this morning we're awaiting word from ae

appeals court whether the ban is going to go forward. lawyer if for the justice department and for the states of both washington and minnesota challenged the ban defending their arguments in what was a telephone hearing with judges on this nooir ninth circuit. the state lawyers were held to account for why the action was out of the normal national securities of the presidency. a decision could come as early as today. president trump has already said if necessary that he will prevail in the supreme court. he says it's simply common sense. back to you. >> all right. more from peter coming up on the "today" show. thank you. it's 6:48. they were forced out of school because of bedbugs and rodents and now some students are headed back to class. >> they will be at a new school building for now though.

explain what's next for savoy elementary school students. >> reporter: good morning. savoy students will adjust to their new digs here starting today. they will be bussed from savoy in the mornings to ferebee hope for the morning schooling and then back from ferebee to savoy in the afternoon and that will be the routine for the next few weeks. we just saw workers positioning a sign for savoy students just above the main entrance here and while those students have been away, crews have been at work sanitizing savoy's classrooms and hauling out rugs and blankets. this all after they were found to have a bedbug and rodent infestati infestation. the health department will grant final approval to restart those classes and school officials hope to have savoy students back in their home school by the end of the month. back live, perhaps you can see that sign is still getting into place over there. buses will start

savoy about 7:50 this morning to drop off students here at ferebee. we do know they'll leave at 3:00 for a dismissal over at savoy. we have a full bus schedule on our news 4 app. check that out. back in to you. >> thank you. we're learning more details in the search for this missing teen mother and her baby. fairfax county police say the 16-year-old and her five month old son aiden have been missing for three weeks. detectives think they might be with the baby's father. police released this picture of him. they say he has gang ties. this is the picture of lizzie. detectives spent yesterday talking to people at her apartment complex in springfield and passing out flyers. one more look now at the mother and the baby. call police if you know where they might be. a very scary wakeup call here. take a look at what happened in capitol heights overnight.

this house. this happened on addison road and dunbar oaks drive. we're waiting for a call back to find out how this happened and whether anyone was hurt. it was a story that put the city of fairfax in the national spotlight for all the wrong reasons. the former mayor was arrested in a sex for drugs bust. today he's in court. richard scott silverthorne was arrested when he tried to trade meth for sex to an undercover detective. he resigned shortly after that arrest. >> the department of elections is reporting that david meyer won the special election with 42% of the vote. meyers says he plans to focus on establishing a citizen's commission to come up with recommendations for local housing needs. >> all right. if you're about to head out to start your commute you want to check in with first 4 traffic. >> good morning. so taking a look at a brand new problem we just found here.

boulevard there at dennis avenue. we just have the right side of the roadway getting by. southbound is unaffected by this and the earlier problem on northbound new hampshire avenue ramp to the inner loop, that has cleared out of the way. 93 north with the right side of the roadway blocked. 66 is just fine, inbound 95, no worries there. eastbound at the 9th street tunnel, a crash there on the right side. still have that left lane blocked on 295. when you saw the beltway there, overall nothing terrible right now. new crash there, bottom of the beltway, those routes in and out of town are okay. 270 northbound/southbound looking good. a little slow top of the beltway. 66 inbound. it's okay and 95 northbound looking not so bad right now. o

we are dealing with a quick change in the weather patterns around here. and four things you need to know about the forecast and another run at record high temperatures today. the record is 68, not sure we're going to get all the way there, but we'll easily be within a few degrees of that. heavy wet snow comes by about this time tomorrow morning. in fact, it could start between 3:00 and 4:00 in the morning and friday morning even though it won't be snowing a lot of moisture on the roads and temperatures near 20s. so have your storm team 4 nbc washington app fired up and ready to go. find us and like us on all our social media pages and platforms. weather impacts nothing to worry about today. with the snow coming during the heart of the commute a slushy one to three inches will make a problematic commute tomorrow and the opportunity for a major refreeze on friday morning will mean a black ice threat. so low to moderate impacts from

generally an inch or less down to our south. 1 to 2 across most of the city. as much as 5 inches up in northern maryland. what about today? let's go out to see na out heen bethese that. >> reporter: i don't need my jacket anymore and you won't need it this afternoon either. temperatures are currently sitting around 60 degrees. some areas in the upper 50s this morning but either way, it is a mild start of the day and unseasonably warm again. about 20 degrees or more above normal. the high is 45. we'll be in the 60s. as you go through the morning you don't need the heavy coat. the short sleeves though you will and those warmer clothes you'll want them but not the jacket or the starcarf or glove. the temperature trend way above

normal and that is when that snow moves in. of course we'll be tracking that throughout the morning hours but let's take a look at that then-day. >> yes, indeed. you'll need to set your alarms a little early tomorrow. the commute is slow. news 4 today starts at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow morning so we can help get you ready. as you get ready to plan out your weekend you'll say cold? what cold? temperatures back up into the 50s and 60s by saturday and sunday but tomorrow morning's commute will be a mess. >> good morning. i'm kate rogers at cnbc headquarters. the body shop may be on the auction block. loreal has been struggling with a decline in sales. it bought the body shop in 2006 as it looked for more demand for natural cosmetics. i'm kate rogers. it is now 6:56.

before you head out the door this morning. the senate will vote on jeff sessions' nomination for attorney general today. it comes after democrats spoke out against sessions in another late night speaking session. stay tuned for the "today" show for the latest. >> 20 people are recovering and thousands in louisiana don't have electricity right now. deaf stating tornados ripped down power lines and tore apart homes. gabe gutierrez will have the latest on the "today" show. >> savoy students are being bussed to their new temporary school at the ferebee hope campus. be sure to follow justin finch on twitter. >> and we are exactly one year away from the 2018 winter olympics in pyeongchang, south korea. coming up next, a live report from south korea and a look at the athletes to watch for. >> near records again today for warmth but we're in weather alert mode for tomorrow. a

morning commute means we'll be on early. news 4 today starts at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow. >> going to be a busy day. northbound university right now, one lane getting by. you can see on the right side there at dennis after because of that problem. another big delay, 395 inbound and so we get the right side of the roadway blocked for that. >> all right. thank you. that is the broadcast this morning. thanks for waking up with us. >> we'll be back in 25 minutes. until then enjoy your day. >> make it a great wednesday, everybody.

good good mor, breaking overnight, w tornados in the south hours a string of twisters tears through louisiana. >> oh, my gosh, look at that. >> neighborhoods in new orleans destroyed katrina devastated once again. >> to think the work that has to be done to rebuild a second time, it's a lot. >> we're there live, while the northeast braces for a record whip lash. a major snow storm. elizabeth warren punished by republicans a she used a letter from martinut