body. he kidnapped her in september, her body was found two weeks later behind a church in north carolina. co-workers say brown harassed billie almost every day at a sub shop where she worked. her parents were angry he was even allowed on the base. >> how could you have someone who was homeless, sleeping in the laundromat perhaps, how is that possible? where is security at? the roaming security. something has to be done. that's not secure. >> ashanti graduated from henry wise high school in upper marlboro in 2016. your time is 4:30. president trump is in china for the chienl dfinal day, chris la >> right now he is in beijing. later today, he's heading to vietnam. there is a state dinner at the great hall of the people starting in about an hour from now. this is his last event in china. while you were sleeping, president trump spoke twice. once after meeting china's premiere and once

event. the u.s. trade event with china, he says it is not fair. >> it just doesn't work for our great american companies, and it doesn't work for our great american workers. it is just not sustainable. >> the united states does have a multibillion dollar trade deficit with china. the president doesn't blame china but past u.s. administrations who let the u.s. deficit occur. >> chris lawrence at the live desk. it is 4:31 right now. vice president mike pence said evil descended on a small town where a gunman opened fire inside a church. nine children were among the 26 killed there. police say that devin kelley walked into the sutherland springs church and started shooting. investigators believe kelley had a dispute with his in-laws who attended that church. he offered

>> no attack or act of violence will break our spirit or diminish the faith of the american people. we're with you. the american people are with you. >> members of the church say that kelley and his children attended their annual fall festival, five days before that shooting rampage. apple says it has reached out to the fbi and offered to help unlock kelley's phone. but the bureau says it has other ways of accessing that information. it was a shooting that left congress shaken and people who live in an alexandria neighborhood upset as well. a gunman opened fire at a congressional baseball practice earlier this year. they risked their lives to save others will be honored. scalise will be at that ceremony today. >> today the woman caught on camera throwing urine on a metrobus driver

opal brown pled guilty, tested positive for pcp following her arrest in august. >> today the new rules will kick in that will make it tougher to travel to cuba from the united states. the rules are designed to steer money away from cuba's military, intelligence and security services. this the only a partial rollback of policy changes made under president obama that were designed to push warmer ties between the two countries. also today dozens of rallies are planned to pass a d.r.e.a.m. act. the legislation would protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation. president trump has said he will let the obama era program expire in march without congressional action. democrats want lenl lags passed by the end of the year. >> this is another sign that christmas is around the corner. crews will be cutting down the

eventually go on the sleigh at the u.s. capitol. it's a spruce. the actual lighting takes place in early december as it usually does. >> still a while away. has to journey across the country, set it up. decorate it. the whole shebang. >> be fun to see when it's up. >> another check on your weather and traffic right now. >> another look at your forecast with chuck and sheena in a second. first, melissa and breaking news. >> breaking news in traffic. this is because of a shooting that happened overnight. we're talking about northwest. three different closures in the same area. so georgia avenue right now shut down between longfellow and jefferson. illinois between kennedy and jefferson. 9th near kennedy street as well. justin finch is on the scene for us. we'll get a live report in a bit. northbound connecticut after chevy chase. left lane getting by the water main repairs. taking a look at 66 as you head in

fairfax county parkway to the belt wachlt you are on time. going to take you about nine minutes. good morning mr. bell. pretty cold out there today. >> chilly this morning. we're going to save the word cold for later. we got to -- if we use the word cold for 40 degrees, whoops, there's the back of sheena's head. she's prettinterpre -- >> we're waiting on cloud cover to move out. eventually clear skies to move in. that will take a while. today, that's probably not going to happen until the sun goes down. won't do us much good. there's the leading edge of the arctic air which will drop temperatures by saturday morning. we might be within a couple of degrees of tying record low temperatures on saturday. this current record will be reasonably close. a chance for missed drizzle, sprinkles. that's about it. mostly from washington southbound. i could rule out the stray drop or

maryland. on the whole, the clouds are thicker and rain chances higher southbound. for more about how cool the temperatures are, over to sheena. >> here i am, chuck. the temperatures this morning are still chilly enough where you need a warm jacket. by this weekend going into your weekend, it's going to be really cold out there. we're talking freeze watch. i'll show you who is under a freeze watch in a second. 46 degrees washington. 45 lorton. leesburg 40 in gaithersburg. here's the freeze watch. this is for late friday night into saturday morning. temperatures at or below freezing. all these counties shaded in blue. it includes the district. if you have any sensitive vegetation or plants that you don't want damaged, cover them, bring them inside by friday during the day. we'll take a closer look at how cold it will be. we'll look at the numbers in a bit. >> thank you, sheena. yesterday morning he violently attacked a woman walking to

first look at him. who police want you to be vigilant for. if you have a son or daughter in college, we don't have to tell you, it's expensive. how one woman managed to pay for her education. it could work for your kids too. there are a lot of things that could cause an emergency landing. but an affair? the discovery that forced his ndfe to la

the tsa is under fire for failing to test weapons. >> homeland security audit teams conducted undercover tests for checkpoints across the country. officers failed to detect test weapons at disturbingly high rates. >> they failed to detect 95% of the weapons. members of congress grilled the new tsa chief yesterday. >> we need to do more to confront the growing threats aimed at the aviation sector. >> certainly, additional investment would make travelers, whether the americans visiting the country safer. >> the agency says it wants more money to roll out new cat scan type of screeners to better check carry-on bags for weapons. talking about turbulence in the air. a flight was forced to land af

husband was cheating and caused a commotion. the woman unlocked her husband's phone while he was sleeping. put his finger on the home button. she found obvious evidence that he was cheating and woke him up. we'll say. she started smacking the you know what out of him is what happened. she had already been drinking. she loudly confronted her husband. >> apparently the flight crew had to try to calm the woman down and they couldn't do that. they had to make an emergency landing. the couple and the child. the child was on the flaen with them. they had to be escorted off the plane. i'm not judging her. if i were in a similar situation. i'm not going to say i wouldn't cause a commotion. >> this is a valuable life lesson for the kids. don't cheat. >> there you go. it might be more of the commotion if it were me. i'm just saying. >> federal agents might have been shooting at you. >> does she have to forfeit her

>> a lot. >> he's going to forfeit 50% of everything he's got. >> there you go. >> all right. >> having a good laugh about that story back here in the weather and traffic center. we're focused on getting your commute day started as well. temperatures on the chilly side this morning. maybe a couple of drizzle drops around today. the real story is the killer freeze coming up. sheena has the ten-day forecast straight ahead. life is about to get easier for drivers in our area.

breaking news at 4:44. someone was shot and killed on a busy part of georgia avenue in d.c. right now police are looking for a man with tattoos on his face. >> this is a live picture of the

shot around midnight on georgia avenue at kennedy street northwest. we're working to learn the condition of the second victim. this is the second shooting in that block this week. several streets in the area are closed right now. continue to follow us for updates. good morning once again everybody. thursday off to a chilly start. but by comparison. it's warmer now than it's going to be saturday afternoon with the sun out. so michigan, maryland will be cold game on saturday. >> my kids have to play sports too. go terps and all, but -- >> good luck, mom. 4:45 now. president trump and chinese president ping were in -- >> they were discussing trade yesterday. >> edward

>> the american and chinese companies spent $250 billion or made deals for $250 billion worth of agreements. the president from china came out and said his economy going forward would be more open and transparent. still, former ambassador from mexico to china tweeted out this morning saying that he says china or beijing is a master at reselling the same agreement. he questions that a little bit. still, going forward china will be more open. >> edward, were there any agreements how to deal with north korea. that was a big topic of discussion. >> the president brought it up during that meeting. >> he's talking about it. >> the president of china was more defensive about this one. however, he did say that china would stick to the u.n. resolution and sanctions that would pass against north korea. the president -- president trump would like to see china further cut off economic ties, but, again, the p

only going as far to say they would stick to the sanctions that are in place. >> edward lawrence live for us on capitol hill. edward, thank you. carl icahn, a former adviser to president trump and billionaire investor has been subpoenaed. this is on renewable fuel policy. his company is cooperating and providing documents. he stepped down in august. in a separate matter, the judge in the case against paul manafort and rick gates issued a gag order yesterday. the campaign officials are facing charges in the special counsel russia investigation. last week the judge rebuked manafort's attorney for her statements to the press. she said lawyers should, in her words, do the talking in the courtroom and not on the courthouse steps. more than 24 hours after polls close, four delegate races still too close to call. they could go to recount. if the gop keeps the seats, it would have a

the chamber. updating the vote count in the nbc washington app. search election results. right now the search is on for the man accused of attacking a woman as she walked to work in prince william county. this happened yesterday morning. this is a sketch from police. the victim says a man jumped out from behind a bush along walnut street in woodbridge. she says the man grabbed her and ripped her shirt. but she managed to get away and call police. told the victim, while shaken up, was not physically hurt. >> today crews will break ground on the new world war i memorial. it will be at the corner of 14th street and pennsylvania avenue northwest. the ceremony begins at 11:00 this morning. a lot of top military brass will be there for the ceremony. the shovels used for the groundbreaking will be for a battlefield in a -- during the war. a local medal of honor recipient is opening up

the day -- nearly killed him in afghanistan. before joining the army, he grew up in montgomery county and graduated from the university of maryland. he just wrote a book called 8 seconds of courage and openly talks about every detail of the attack. i recently sat down with him and he talked about now difficult it was for him. >> and the pain and the self-doubts and the survivors' guilt, it was really tough for me. i was on the brink of figuring out ways to end it all. through the support of my friends, my family, my comrades, i was able to get myself out. >> remains an extremely difficult thing for flo to talk about. tonight on news 4 at 6:00, he's going to talk more about the attack, what it was like to stare death in the face more than once really and what life was like for him after coming home. there's a transition period that's difficult and we see his fiance next to him there.

recovery and -- >> when you think about any serviceman who comes back after service but what he experienced firsthand. talk about bravery and courage, if anything, captain flo is the person to write that book. >> it's a wonderful read. really well-written, incredible stories. >> you say he's a good guy. >> he's a cool guy. >> i don't drink beer but we're going to have a beer. >> i'm crashing that party. >> i'm sure that will be good. >> we're cold outside this morning. wait until the weekend. we've been talking about it. we've been talking about spring is coming. we're looking at freezing cold temperatures going into saturday morning. we're not just using that word freeze loosely. we're talking about temperatures in the 20s. cloudy, chilly. few sprinkles today. so you'll still want the warm jacket this morning. we have a weather alert. friday night into saturday morning, widespread freeze coming across the area for most of our

sensitive plants and vegetation, you don't want them to get damaged. bring them inside if you can. if not, cover them up. i would do that on friday. 46 degrees in washington. 42 dulles. 43 clinton. 39 degrees winchester. 45 lorton. 43 in manassas. your bus stop forecast for the kids, warm jacket. 43 by 7:00 a.m. 8:00, clouds around. few sprinkles possible. 45 by the afternoon. chance of a sprinkle. temperatures around the low 50s. here's a look at the radar right now and satellite. you see we have quite a bit of cloud cover. a few sprinkles trying to make their way into the district. maybe fauquier county as well. towards fredericksburg. this is where the rain is and it's going to stay. it's going to stay to the south. the northern edge of it could provide us with a few sprinkles for today. now a look at the freeze watch. this is for saturday morning. freezing temperatures expected again. cover the sensitive plants. don't forget to bring your pets inside. it's way too cold out for them. don't forget, speaking of

cold, starting today. doug kammerer will have your winter weather outlook. we're talking about snowfall totals. he'll have what we can expect. that's later this afternoon. here's future feels-like. going through friday. it will be cold and winld i. this is friday afternoon. temperatures feeling like the 30s. friday will be a cold day leading to a colder weekend start. windchills feeling like the teens as we go into saturday morning. so look at that. actual temperature saturday morning will be in the 20s. it will feel like the teens. that's why we have a weather alert. that's the widespread freeze i was telling you about. by saturday afternoon, 42 degrees. not as windy as friday. it pretty cold weekend. we're looking at temperatures over the next ten days below normal for this time of the year. going through the next several days, we'll be staying in the 40s and 50s. normal highs in the low

for once, we'll be below normal. you want the warm coat going all the way into next weekend believe it or not. each morning will be cold enough for a puffy jacket. we'll have more details on the cold coming straight ahead. breaking news right now in first 4 traffic. take a look at this in northwest. this is where justin finch is. all three of these are still in place. georgia avenue, still closed between longfellow and jefferson for those couple blocks there. illinois between kennedy there and jefferson. then 9th near kennedy and northwest because of the police activity. they're telling justin on the scene, this could last until 8:00 a.m. northbound 95 ramp to dale city, right side blocked by a crash. the beltway coming up. they are the secrets that could save you monday when i it comes to paying for your kids' college education. how one woman managed to pay her tuition without taking out any ls.

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5:00 a.m. breaking news now. another deadly shooting on a d.c. street, not the first -- a break in the case. a homeless man arrested accused of killing a culinary student. questions about how he managed to make it to a military base. a protest brings parents together to a packed school board meeting. why a new budget plan will impact their children's future. >> counting down to christmas. what to know about the tree that will soon be set up on capitol hill. >> it is 5:00 a.m. good morning everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. thanks for joining us on this early thursday morning and we're talking about christmas. the temperatures are creeping up in that direction, i'll tell you right now. christmas eve, the whole team working for you today. >> we'll get a check on the forecast.