with a semi-automatic rifle and tried to get into the classrooms but could not. >> this incident, as tragic and as bad as it is, could have been so much worse if it wasn't for the quick thinking and staff at our elementary school. >> the man shot into the building and hurt one student. in all four people died and ten were hurt. the shooter was shot and killed by police. 4:30 right now. some breaking news in the science world this morning. >> chris lawrence is at the live desk with the new break through that could help fight diseases. what's this about? >> guys, this is fascinating. for the first time ever scientists have tried editing a gene inside a man's body. it's a big deal. it could permanently change a person's dna to try to cure a disease. scientists did a procedure on a man who has hunter's syndrome. it's a genetic

causes enlarged organs. during the procedure the scientists cut open the dna, inserted a gene and stitched the dna back up all through an iv. this should essentially delete the disease from the man's system. doctors say it's going to take a few months to learn if that editing is successful. it's fascinating. >> chris, thank you. we're following some breaking news as well. the u.s. embassy in zimbabwe has closed after it appears the military in that country has taken control of the government. the embassy tweeted that it sent staff home and is monitoring the situation in the capital of harari. you're looking at live pictures from the city. they seized control of the state broadcasting station and announced it has the president in custody. now the military insist this is is not a coup and the president and his family were taken into custody for their own safety. the army says it's been forced to step in to calm political tensions. >

visit, china is sending a special envoy to north korea. right now there are no details about the envoy's itinerary or meetings. the associated press says they are not directly connected to china's efforts to convince north korea to end the nuclear weapons program. president trump has repeatedly called on china to use its influence to pressure the north to end the program. we're learning at least one alabama resident has received a robe bow call from someone posing as a washington post reporter. the caller is looking for women willing to make damaging remarks about senate candidate roy moore for cash. last night he made the first public appearance since the latest of five women came forward accusing him of pursuing them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s. >> obviously i've made a few people mad. i'm the only one that can unite democrats and republicans because i seem to be opp

both. >> now moore spoke at the god save america conference at a church in alabama. he claimed republicans and democrats are working together to get him to drop out of the race. many republicans on capitol hill say they would rather have a democrat than him. retiring senator jeff flake said if he were in alabama he would, quote, run to the polling place to vote for the democrat. rose mcgowan is free on bond in virginia. the actress turned herself in yesterday on a month old arrest warrant for felony drug possession. she was in town for the women's march after president trump's inauguration. something she left behind on that flight tested positive for narcotics. now it's unclear why it took nearly nine months for the warrant to come to light, but it did just after mcgowan publicly accused film producer harvey weinstein of rape. 4:33 now. inova fairfax hospital is working to reschedule 100

elective surgeries. sand like particles were found on sterilized equipment. a hospital official says the particles appear to have come from the sterilization process itself. surgical equipment from other inova facilities will be used for surgery scheduled for today. this time next week many of you may be hitting the roads or the airports or the train stations for your thanksgiving destination. >> yes. before you leave, we are giving you a heads up on how you can avoid some of those travel headaches. news 4 transportation reporter adam tuss has what you can do to be prepared. he's on the road this morning. adam? >> reporter: how about leave now, aaron? that's probably the best thing anyone can do, but the reality of the situation is even though thanksgiving is a week away, people are already starting to think about what their plans are going to be, especially as you're on the road. 45 million americans expected to travel, but when is the best time to leave by car? google maps actually crunched some numbers and found out some things. take a look at this full screen

here. we can show you what they're talking about. the best day to leave, thanksgiving at 6:00 in the morning. that will work. a lot of people are probably not traveling that day. the worst day to leave wednesday the day before thanksgiving at 3:00 p.m. the best day to come back, sunday early in the morning at 6:00. or the worst day to return, saturday at 4:00 in the afternoon where you could get stuck in some traffic. listen, on the airlines side of things, this is a little bit of a different story. something that we necessarily haven't heard over the previous years. every day you wait from now until thanksgiving to book, aaa is saying that airline faires ae going up by $10 a day. if you were to book three days from now, it would be an extra 30 bucks. that's something to consider when you're booking your holiday travel but, yeah, it's going to be a busy week coming up. we'll have it covered for you from the roads to the rails to the airlines. it's going to be fun getting

pack to you. >> i bought my mom's plane ticket. i know what you mean. adam tuss, thank you. now if you're hitting the road for thanksgiving, you don't have to worry about the kids stressing you out. you kind of do. traffic is what's causing parents the most stress on the roads, not the kids. keeping the kids entertained in the car ranked lower than traffic, packing, and the cost as the top stressors on family road trips. that does make sense. it does get expensive, especially if you're flying. that is the one -- many things. i'm very grateful that i have a lot of family in our area so people come to me. the cleanup, that's not pretty. >> different story. >> no. >> i think everybody in the car together is a little stressful, too. >> yeah. >> depends how big the family is, but yes. single child, probably not so much. >> probably not as much. >> melissa, they have -- >> yes. >> we have a whole team. >> there you go. >> your big

>> when i was a kid we had a station wagon with the seat in the back. >> is that where you sat? >> only until i threw up. >> i hope people are enjoying their breakfast this morning, chuck. thank you for that. >> i'm here to help. temperature wise if you're about to step outside after you eat your breakfast, we are in the 20s in gaithersburg. it is colder this morning than it was yesterday morning. 27 degrees there. winchester, la ray, martinsburg, all in the 20s. manassas, 26. 32 in clinton. warm jacket this morning. look at our suburbs. as we go through the morning staying around freezing. finally getting above freezing by about 8:00 a.m. and then by lunchtime temperatures getting towards 50. rain in the forecast before the week is over. let's check your commute on this wednesday. hopefully not too bad, melissa. >> not so bad right now. a couple of things happening.

270 northbound and southbound, both looking quite good. we have an update here. want to make sure i'm not missing anything. no, looks good. 270 looking good northbound and southbound. gaithersburg as you're heading into rockville, water main break. we don't have any big problems there. everything is rolling along fine and we'll take a look at 95 in virginia coming up. >> aaron? >> melissa, we're looking at your instagram post. we cannot handle her cuteness. >> discovering selfie mode and your tongue. >> yeah, i let her -- >> i'm taking her. she said i can. >> you can have her for a week. >> 4:38 right now. >> major changes are on the way to the calendar in not one but two area school districts. who is getting a longer summer break and who could be back in class before labor day? newet

behind the wheel of a food truck and this crash. and a search continues this morning for a patient who escaped from a mental health

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nevada. he was indicted for extorsion and wire tapping last year. dane told investigators his brakes failed and he was unable to stop before slamming into erin kaplan's station wagon. the crash happened last month on evergreen mills road. he's facing several charges including involuntary manslaughter. a massive multi-state manhunt for a man described as a violent psycho path has shifted to california. >> it comes as new details have emerged about his well-planned escape. please say randall psycho walked away from a hawaii mental health hospital. he got into a chartered plane headed towards san jose. he was rummaging through a backpack that he did not have when he left the hospital. they say cyto was allowed to rome the grounds but had to check in. >> it's not a custodial environment. it's not a prion

periods of time regardsless. >> cyto was acquitted by reason of insanity in the 1979 gruesome murder of a woman in hawaii. it is not known whether he is still in california, but police say he has family there. sexual harassment on the hill. what congress is now doing to keep it from happening there just as several political veterans step forward and share their experiences. it's news some grocery shoppers in our area have been hoping for. who could soon see a wegmans in their neighborhood. >> i love a wegmans. that's one of the best grocery stores. temperatures are cold this morning. look at the numbers, at or below freezing for much of the area. temperatures close to freeding. coming up we'll take aook at l

chuck will show you the timing of some rain. sheena, thank you. 14 before the hour now. president trump is back at the white house this morning after a 12-day trip to asia. >> we could hear from him as early as today. noesi 4's tracie potts is live on the hill. tracie, the president has been hinting about a major talk about trade. when he arrived at andrews last night he said people are going to see the biggest numbers that they've seen i

hint of the type of trade deal that he wants to talk about, but there's a lot more he's going to have to talk about, especially if this is a news conference. he'll be peppered with questions. roy moore, everyone waiting to see how the president weighs in on this. the sexual misconduct allegations that moore denies. the national party is pulling the support. so are lots of republicans here on capitol hill. also, russia. jeff sessions, his attorney general, testifying differently than he did before but saying he's not changing his story on whether or not he knew about any russian contacts. there's a lot that's been happening since he's been gone. >> we'll see tracie potts live on capitol hill for us. tracie, thank you. a congresswoman says over the past decade $15 million has been dolled out to alleged victims of sexual

members of congress. >> all of it funded by you, the taxpayers. the congresswoman did not say which members of congress have been accused of sexual misconduct, but two female lawmakers said at least two sitting male lawmakers, one republican and one democrat, are currently under review. one of them accused of exposing himself to a female staffer. we learned yesterday that complaints on the hill require a 30-day cooling off period before women can file suit. >> the requirement to sign a nondisclosure agreement which is a muzzle on the victim. the victim has to stay in that office for three months and continue to be in a very uncomfortable situation. >> 1500 former hill staffers have signed a letter saying they want to see reform for what they say are, quote, inadequate sexual harassment policies in congress. new mandatory sex harassment training is expected in the senate and house in the comi

democrat joshua cole has filed a lawsuit over the ballot counting controversy in stafford county. stafford county's electoral board did not count 55 absentee ballots found at the post office the morning after the election. cole is suing. he has not said if he will demand a recount. they'll hold a press conference later this morning with cole's attorney about that suit. we have an update now in the debate over where to put medical marijuana dispensaries in prince gorges county. maryland is allowing 14 medical marijuana dispensaries in the county equaling two per legislative district. members near connect church voiced serious concerns with the county's strict zoning laws. those with preapproved dispensary licenses cannot find

the county put mandatory distances from schools, recreation centers and day care centers. community members made their case to the county council. >> this is appalling. >> the patients are your neighbors, your church members, your family. >> after hearing from the public, the council decided to keep its distances as they are and while they couldn't add churches to the protected list, they did add summer camps. covering month gomt -- montgomery county, a man found a gruesome discovery. he found remains. the autopsy will give the cause of death. students will have a longer summer break. they approved the school calendar yesterday. the first day of classes will be after labor day ti

kids will be in class until june 13th. they will still have time off for rosh hashanah and yom kippur. they will still have a spring break. fairfax county school board is considering a calendar that would require students to be back in class before labor day. it would have students return to class on august 28th and be in school until june 13th. the plan would provide students with a full week for spring break in april. they'll vote on the calendar next month. you can find both call lone ders in the nbc washington app. i'm chris lawrence here at the live desk with some breaking news. i just tweeted that nasa has scrubbed a launch of a new weather satellite for the second day in a row. here it is on the launch pad. it was an all go up until about ten minutes ago and then they suddenly detected some upper

had to scrub the launch. it has been rescheduled for tomorrow. it's important to get up there. it could drastically improve the accuracy of weather forecasts. i'm chris lawrence, back to you guys. >> chris, thank you. >> it will happen. >> it will get there. 24 more hours and up it goes. >> you don't want to launch the rocket unless there's optimum conditions. >> couple hundred million bucks. >> it's chilly. how many settings on your seat heater, eun? >> i wish there were ten. >> i would leave it -- >> on ten all the time? >> yes, especially now until march. >> mine has three, it's between a one and a two. for 38 degrees right now with a

to 34 here in washington. as you take a look at the local temperatures, you need to subtract three or four degrees off of what you see here for the wind chill this morning. mostly in the 20s and 30s. only places along 40 degrees along the chesapeake bay. this area of moisture comes our way for the late evening hours up into the very early parts of tomorrow morning. nothing on radar yet. here's future weather. by noontime, more clouds in southern maryland. clouds will eventually lower and thicken. but the best chances for any actual rain come between 9:00 tonight and 3:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. not long after the day starts tomorrow the rain will be gone and the sun will come back but it will be a gusty wind coming up tomorrow. afternoon temperatures today upper 40s to around 50 degrees in most neighborhoods. again, dry through the daylight hours today. chance for a few drops very early tomorrow. then chilly weather returns for friday and a rain chance on the second halfof

day of the week up to 59 degrees. mild weather saturday but that comes with rain chance. 60% chance for rain p.m. on saturday lingering into very early sunday. thanksgiving week will be a chilly one. >> good morning, chuck bell. take a look at a couple of pieces of road work hanging around. outbound key bridge between georgetown and roslyn, do have the left lane getting by that work zone. southbound 355 after shady grove, left lane getting by. taking a look at 95 in virginia, quantico from the beltway, you're on time. you guys were talking about some video i posted of barrett. last night i said, honey, look how pretty you are. she's looking at herself and she said, oh, wait, i have a tongue. this is so cool. this is what we do in the evenings at home. >> you know how i feel about barrett. i commented right away, cannot handle the cuteness, this one. >> she's so sweet and

kids. >> i love this moment. the first few years of discovery for little kids is just amazing. >> yes. when she starts talking everything sounds so cute. >> give me that baby. >> until she doesn't stop talking. that's what kids do. five minutes before the hour right now. if you do the grocery shopping for your family, you might want to hear this. where the next wegmans is slated for our area. >> they could be the hotel rooms of the future. rolling out smart rooms controlled by something a lot of you have at home. >> and the video that has a lot of people talking. the

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news 4's annual food 4 families campaign is underway. we need your help. your donations provide thanksgiving food baskets to thousands of families, veterans and elderly in our family. go to nbcwashington.com. search for food 4 families and click on the donation link. really appreciate your support already. well, wegmans has made it official. a new store is planned for alexandria. the grocery chain will open in the hoffman town center in the carlisle neighborhood. this one will be a little different according to washington business journal. it will be much smaller than your typical wegmans and it will be located on the second floor of the center. that's a first for wegmans. construction is expected to begin in early 2019. having a wegmans at all in the neighborhood is probably a

the big ones can be overwhelming. >> really? >> they're so much. >> we don't have a wegmans in d.c. technology has changed the way we live our lives, that's for sure. >> we can talk on our phones, our cars, even our hotel rooms pretty soon apparently. >> the gym is located on level 6 at the north side of the pool. >> you're listening to the future of travel. news 4 got an inside peek at what is being called the hotel room of the future. marriott is working on technology that personalizes the stay for guests. there are voice commands in the room, personalized artwork and even tech savvy toilets and showers. the company says it won't cost the guests anything because they are saving money in the long run. >> i can shut this whole room down. shut the curtains, block out the sunlight, keep all of that out of the room and save all of that energy. >> now hilton hotels also says it's making significant changes using technology including ro

features that can be controlled through your smart phones. some of these rooms should be available as early as next year. "news 4 today" starts now. when i get there they're shooting through the windows. >> it was like they were shooting, emptying a magazine, popping in another one. >> right now on "news 4 today," students saved during a deadly shooting rampage. what teachers did right that police say saved lives. new details in a disturbing case of school sex assault. a tip from a child that could have prevented months of abuse. obviously i've made a few people mad. >> plus, roy moore makes a public appearance. what he's saying about the allegations against him and the calls for him to step aside. and breaking and entering through a dlief window. video of the fast food thief police want you to see. >> oh, my goodness. >> trying to get a