oh, look at that! >> hail. high winds. a fast hitting winter storm striking the northeast. snowfall rates will increase through the morning kaucausing chaos for millions. multiple deaths reported from protests. right now the fbi and cia are urgently trying to track down whoever leaked vital u.s. intelligence as the wiki leaks founder accuses the cia of devastating incompetence. >> the cia intelligence lost control all of of its e

>> now finding out who did it. the house speaker rolls unfortunaup his sleeves to sell a plan. wind rocks one girl off her feet. blown in by fierce deadly winds from the midwest. winter weather advisory has already been declared for the region which could be slammed up to 6 inches of snow. nbc meteorologist bill karins is tracking the storm for us. bill, where is this storm right now? >> pennsylvania has taken the brunt of it and the timing for the morning commute over the top of the busy corridor from philadelphia to new york and portions of new england. not talking about a blockbuster historic storm but the timing is just bad. here is the track of the storm. as

afternoon cape cod gets hit. the other story behind it is more significant how cold it's going to be. saturday morning windchill roanoke 15 and d.c. 10 and chicago 10 and boston negative 4 in new england. sunday morning to atlanta the windchill is going to be 38 degrees. we are setting things up minisnowstorm today and cold this weekend and another snowstorm, possibly a big one, up the east coast on tuesday. details on that coming up. >> thanks, bill. violent protests broke out in south korea today after the country's park gun hay removed from power. police say two protests died but gave no other details. others were injured and carried away in stretchers. park was impeached in a

accused of bribery and leaking government secrets. the first time south korea has impeached any electly democratic president. in statement, senator john mccain reaffirmed the united states commitment to work with south korea against escalating nuclear and missile threats from its northern neighbor. julian assange doubling down on its accusation on the cia. he says the agency is playing catch-up after his organization published nearly 9,000 documents what may be one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in modern history. andrea mitchell has more. >> reporter: fugitive julian assange the founder of wikileaks saying the cia breach is far more devastating than the agency knows or

agency lost control all of its entire cyber weapons arsenal. this is a historic act of devastating incompetence. >> reporter: warning he has a lot more to release. saying he got the stolen documents from a former government contractor working for the cia. >> that material being spread around contractors and former american computer hackers for hire. >> reporter: the fbi and cia working on an urgent mission. a former cia director says tracing a digital trail to track down the culprit. >> there are tools so that we can then be able to pinpoint who might have been responsible. if i was the individual involved, i'd worry a great deal about the fact that ultimately they are going to be found out. >> reporter: the cia relies on dozens of contracting firms

its cyber operations plus help from the national security agency and british intelligence partners. in fact, u.s. officials tell nbc news the majority of the cyberforce are contractors who undergo less grueling background checks than government employees. >> you do take a chance with contractors. there are people who are not working in the inside. they may or may not have the same loyalty to the mission of that organization. >> reporter: now the cia underpressure and again under fire from the president. >> he believes that the systems that the cia are outdated and need to be updated. >> reporter: assange is taunting the cia that he'll help tech companies fix the holes in their software. >> we have decided to work with them to give them some exclusive access to the additional technical details we have. >> our thanks to andrea mitchell for that report. we are halfway through trump's first 100 days and fight over health care is permeating washington.

accelerated votes are removing their plan to repeal and replace obamacare steps closer to passage and millions wondering what will happen to their coverage house speaker hall ryan went for the power point. >> reporter: after two days long debates on changes that could affect millions of americans, the republican replacement for obamacare moves two steps closer to reality. >> this is the once in a lifetime opportunity. this is the closest we will ever get to repealing' replacing obamacare. >> reporter: the determined house speaker underscoring the urgency armed with charts, aimed at an audience of skeptics inside his own power point with the president perhaps watching tweeting at the same time despite what you hear in the press health care is coming along great and we are talking to many groups and it will end in a beautiful picture. that picture looks grim for now, as opposition ds

care is not coming along great? >> i think anybody who is in washington for a few days or longer recognizes that any major piece of legislation takes a lot of explanation. >> reporter: the white house insists this bill will pass, but some reluctant republicans are wondering why the rush? >> we have got lots of time to get this right and i'd rather get it right than get it fast. >> reporter: lin >> like mom used to say you rush and you make mistakes. >> reporter: 15 million americans could lose coverage under the next decade under this haert plan. n health care plan. now on life support.ealth care . now on life support. >>ff

the brunt of the opioid crisis and despite president trump's campai campaign. now to a new development in the disturbing marines nude photo scandal. business insider reports that hundreds of naked photos of female service members from every military branch have been posted to an image sharing message board since at least last may. this is a huge expansion in the scope of the scandal. earlier reported that dozens of women photos were posted to a facebook page called marines united. some of them condone sexual assault and rape. investigators are considering charging with felonies. the leader of the marine core plans to brief congress on the scandal next week. a chaotic scene in germany after a man attacked sev

plane passengers with an ax. police rushed to help injured passengers after the attack. people had to be evacuated from the dusselldorph train station. they say the man acted alone and appeared to have mental health issues. hold on to your pets and kid. it is windy out there. this 4-year-old madison garden tries to open the door and look what happens. holding on for dear life and not letting go. no need to worry. she is fine. her mother said she was even laughing about it afterwards. these kids, she is probably, bill, again, look at that ride. >> do you see the grip on her and she didn't let go of the phone in her other hand! >>

hurt on that. francis, talk about what is happening into next week. a significant storm with a lot of impact. storm forms over florida as we go into monday and monday night a lot of atlantic moisture out ahead of this that could easily be pulled up into the storm. that is not going to be a problem. plenty of moisture. we all know how much cold air we are talking about this weekend that is over areas of the northeast. and so as we get the two combinations. we get the ocean moisture and warm moisture temperatures and cold air over land and have a pretty significant nor'easter. the only thing to determine who is getting the heavy snow and all depends how close to the coast that storm ends up being. that is the weather story of the day so here is a look at your temperatures for the day. francis, snow, cold. i would love to talk about

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now at 4:26, a deadly crash takes the life of one person and sends a baby to the hospital. the new information just coming in and what it could mean for your morning commute. >> redskins fans, fired up after the firing of the team's gm. how they plan to show their support as we learn more about the allegations behind his departure. >> and from the 70s to snow. the weather does an about face and it's not changing for a while. all right. let's start with that weather whiplash. take a look at your screen here. you can see storm team 4 radar showing that line of storms in

the roads from one of our crew. it's raining -- not in that picture but we think it's raining somewhere. >> somewhere. >> first, good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. >> who knows where it's actually raining. our meteorologists are going to help us navigate this friday. lauren and chuck, you know, i thought we were done with this ridiculous nonsense. >> not even close. >> it will feel like winter. the temperature is going to drop. we've got a little snow on the radar this morning. >> and finally a weekend cold enough to do snow skiing, but all the snow is already gone from all the resorts except for that new snow that's coming in here. storm team 4 radar, not a whole lot of rain or snow in the d.c. metro just yet, but winter weather advisories up across southern parts of pennsylvania. that line of mostly rain drops for the d.c. metro, but plenty of wet snow flakes

that will be drifting down into the metro during the morning commute. have your winter gear ready to go, your rain gear ready to go. it's as warm now as it's going to be all day long. our high for the day, occurred at 12:01 a.m. and it's going to be a downhill lied from here on out. for that part of the forecast let's go over to lauren. >> those temperatures were still mild when chuck and i were coming to work but temperatures are going to fall and a little cold enough to support some snow as you can see on the radar out there right now. 50 degrees here in washington so that's about as good as it's going to be. as you head off to the west, temperatures into the low 40s. out in western maryland they actually have a winter weather advisory, temperatures are at that freezing mark. no winter weather advisory for us. we do not believe here around the d.c. area it's going to be a big impact. however, if you go up i-81 there could be a little dusting on some cars, maybe on the grass. we made it to 74 degrees yesterd

showers work their way in with some rain moving in as well. winds are picking up through the morning and boy is it going to get blustery this afternoon and it's going to stay that way through the weekend. we'll have more on your weekend forecast and continuing to track the snow coming up in just a few minutes. but right now let's get a check on traffic. >> right now just a couple of work zones to talk about. again, not seeing any rain here in the area around the beltway at least. so taking a look, outer loop at old georgetown road, work zone blocking that left lane so that may hang around a little while longer here this morning. northbound georgia avenue at randolph road this is that long standing zone. right lane is getting by so that is good. taking a look in virginia, northbound 110, left lane getting by. the bridge work this morning, a live look at king street, no problems there. it's 4:29 and we continue our team coverage of the weather alert day with justin finch. >> justin is checking out the

winter makes a return. where are you exactly? >> reporter: right now we're on i-270 heading north towards clarksburg. the good news is we have not seen much rain so far or many problems here out on the road. expecting that changeover to happen later in the morning commute, perhaps around 6:00 a.m. or so you might see a changeover to some kind of precipitation. however, the time might be now to get going on the roads if you are going somewhere this morning. back in to you. >> thanks. and the cold weather could mean the end for the cherry blossom trees. a closer look at what's going to happen there in just a minute. remember the latest weather is only as far away as your phone or tablet. download the nbc washington app for up to the minute forecasts. one american is dead and the child has life threatening injuring after a crash in maryland. take a look at the