hats, this would be the kind of day where you'd say hold on to your hats. it takes a lot to blow off the bean is that hipsters wear. >> you bet. hats and hair pieces, just if case. >> wow. >> not for you or me necessarily. i wouldn't buy a gray wig. temperatures are going to be on the mild side briefly today before colder air comes back into the play for later tonight and tomorrow. but yeah, the weather front itself is still back to the west. you'll know when it comes by because the wind will turn around to the west northwest and increase dramatically. could have winds over 30 miles per hour later on in the day. they could be ready for that. the last of the raindrops drifting across parts of southern maryland. out they go. then a briefly mild period of weather. in the mid to upper 40s. nowhere near as cold as the last couple of mornings. what do you need to know? puddles around. rain is clearing. a gusty wind this afternoon and temperatures near 60 degrees

don't get used to it. check of the weekend forecast coming up. >> thank you, chuck. we're following a developing story where a violent night left one woman dead. we tracked four shootings in four hours. when you look at this map, you see it was spread out across the district. five people were shot in four different locations. here's what we know about the fatal shooting in d.c. around 7:00, a witness heard a hail of gunfire from an alley. the woman was found dead on the doorstep of her ant building. now we've learned she had just moved in after getting a new job. we're following breaking news in baltimore where a massive manhunt is under way for a man who shot a detective in the head. the detective has been on the force in baltimore for 18 years. he's on life support right now. the shooting happened last night about a mile from the inner harbor. baltimore's police chief says the detective was investigating a recent murder. he

the scene, started talking to him and the man pulled a gun and shot him. >> this cold. callous killer who shot a baltimore police detective in the head, that detective was just doing his job on behalf of this city. that's what he's been doing for 18 years. >> officers in tactical gear have been searching homes. governor larry hogan released a statement promising this man would be found and prosecuted to the fullest ex tint of the law. four new women accused roy moore of making inappropriate advances butt republican senate candidate remains defiant. he took on mitch mcconnell on twitter writing, bring it on. mcconnell called on moore to drop out of the race. dan scheneman has the latest. >> alabama senate candidate, roy moore,

auburn hours after his allies went on the offensive trying to discredit allegations by a woman who said moore assaulted her when she was 16. moore's attorney tried to poke holes in the story. >> as it turns out, in 1999, ms. nelson filed a divorce action against her then husband, mr. harris. guess who that case was before? it was filed in etowah county and the joy was signed roy moore. >> they wanted a handwriting expert -- nelson says was signed by moore. >> everything was written by judge moore or by somebody else. that's not an allegation, it's a question? >> they've accused moore of inappropriate sexual conduct. the "washington post" first reported that homoore, in his 3, made

>> he rallied his supporters on tuesday night. >> why do you think i'm being harassed by media and by people pushing fort allegations in the last 28 days of this election? >> leading republicans insist roy moore needs to leave the race. >> if he cares about the people and the values then faithfulness to those people, he needs to step aside. it's that simple. >> they've pulled resources from alabama. dan scheneman, nbc news. today, president trump is headed to capitol hill. he's going to rally house republicans before they vote on a tax package. that vote is expected to happen this afternoon. senate republicans are still working on their own tax plan. president trump said he wants it before christmas. they did it again. the washington nationals just won the

second straight year. take a look. this is the moment scherzer found out he won the award for best pitcher in the national league. by winning three cy youngs, scherzer joins elite company. although they didn't win the world sires, he says this award is still pretty sweet. >> it's not that it's the first goal you set out to do. you want to win the world series. unfortunately, we came up short in that. this is a heck of a consolation prize. >> scherzer had a 16-6 record with a 2.51 e.r.a. to top it out, he and his wife are expecting their first child. the baby is due next week, chuck. if you didn't win the world series, these are some nice ways to sort of celebrate. >> what was his name. lucky strike. call him lucky for short. >> don't do that to him. >>

if you don't -- nonetheless, i couldn't come up with new material. temperatures, not that cold. it will be a mild day today. temperatures flirting with 60 degrees in some spots later on today. like fredericksburg and stafford. what about the weekend? that forecast is minutes away. it's the moment america is talking about. what president trump did during an address to the nation that has people in his own party poking a little fun at him. it's one thing you don't get when you shop online. customer service. why a lot of big chain stores hope willet you g

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any work of art sold at auction. it was da vinci's last painting left in private hands. only recently discovered last night at christy's auction. an unidentified buyer. president trump's one moment has gone viral. the president got thirsty after his long thip rip to asia. >> 17,000 jobs. they don't have water. that's okay. >> a reporter motioned to the side of the table to tell them the bottle of water was there. then in a strange move. he picks up the fiji bottle with both hands. there he goes. chugging it. about five minutes later. it happens again. you remember back on the campaign trail when mr. trump ridiculed marco rubio for having to take

called him a choker. he tweeted similar, but needs work on his form. has to be done in a one single motion and eyes should never leave the camera. but not bad for his first time. as you can imagine, social media had a field day with it. the means and side by sides were endless and naturally, someone was clever enough to put a name to it. watergate. someone else updated the wikipedia page to say fiji water is the double handed thirst quencher of donald trump. pretty cool. all week we've been showing you how retailers are trying to lure you back into the stores this holiday season. customer service could be the key. that's why major retailers have changed the way they staff their stores. consumer reporter susan hogan explains how they impact your shopping trip. >> what do some small businesses have that big box retailers don't, t s

customers and a lot of retail experts say the big retailers really can learn a lot from the small businesses. major retailers have realized they get what they pay for. recently we're seeing big box businesses have bumped up employee pay. because paying minimum wage isn't cutting it. you want to hire associates want to make a difference when it comes to customer service. >> you want a consumer locking in. also there fort first time. it doesn't help those stores that are large big box environments really capture the consumer attention. >> case in point, walmart usually hires thousands of seasonal employees. not this year. instead, it's offering extra hours to existing staff. at the end of the day, what we really want from retailers is good customer service. analysts predict by next year, more than 60% of all companies out there are really going to change their business models to really focus on customer servic

thank you, susan. this year, you can expect to pay a little more for those two turtledoves and three french hens. a part of the christmas price index. financial experts listed the cost of the gifts listed in the christmas carol, the 12 days of christmas. all those gifts would cost more than $34,000. a couple hundred bucks more than last christmas. one partridge in a pear tree word $209. this year it's up to 220. chuck, i am told that due to the rising cost of dairy, the 8 maids a milking have raised their rates as well. >> they're going to pay for that. >> we're still waiting to hear from the pipers, the dancing ladies and the rest of the -- >> the eight maids to milk. you have to buy the whole cow, right? >> no. but to hire eight maids to milk it at

rings on their five hands. >> changes to come our way, weatherwise, you're going to have a gusty wind, relatively mild day. temperatures well up into the 50s today with the sunshine coming back. it will turn very cold quickly. tomorrow will be chilly and another very windy stretch of weather coming our way for the weekend. get ready to have the hat tied down for the next couple of days. 48 now here in washington. still a wind out of the southwest averaging only ten miles per hour. the wind is back out to our west. ahead of the front, a round of rain showers came through late last night. once that front comes by, the wind will switch from the west, northwest with a blustery afternoon. winds near 30 miles per hour at times. radar this morning, last of the drops moving through.

not much in the way of a rain threat going forward. as the front itself comes by, relatively little moisture with it. it will be a shift in the wind. temperatures in the upper 40s in midtown. mid-40s in the western suburbs. low 40s in the shenandoah valley. as you try to get your day started, it's thursday. clouds around early today. but the clouds should clear out as the wind sets up shop. temperatures for highs today, mid up toer 50s. might even be near 60 towards fredericksburg. the highs will happen around 1:00 in the afternoon. by 4:00 temperatures dropping into the upper 40s and low 50s. it will be rather cold if you're out on the town. you might event -- date night on a thursday for you, know you need to layer up. windchills below freezing. by 8:00 or 9:00 this evening. then for highs today, there you have them. upper 50s around downtown. by the time you get around to tomorrow morning, cold once

with a little bit of a remaining breeze, windchills tomorrow upper 20s to around 30 degrees. that's a cold start on a friday morning. friday afternoon, not bad. back up to the upper 40s to around 50. the winds tomorrow, northwest, 15 to 25 miles per hour. then the wind finally lays down for your friday evening plans. there's a high chance for rain but it's probably not until after the sun goes down for most of us on the i-95 corridor. it should be gone before sunday morning. it will be very, very breezy this weekend. southwest winds mean temperatures in the low 60s before the rain on saturday. and a really strong west, northwest wind means temperatures will be falling during the day on sunday. but at least the weekend will start and end dry. sheena is here and we have the ten-day forecast assuring me that's 20

thank you very much, chuck. america's most famous mass killer in the hospital. tmz reports that charles manson, 83-year-old inmate has been in the house. he's not improving. he was rushed to the hospital early and this year for severe intestinal bleeding. back in the 1960s manson ordered members of his cult to carry out several brutal murders in los angeles. disturbing new developments in the deadly shooting rampage in northern california. they found his wife's body in the floorboards of their home. they believe her murder started the killing spree on tuesday. he was out on bond after being charged with stabbing a neighbor a day before the shooting. he shot 14 people, five of them died. he was killed in a shootout with police. they think his motive was kill as many people as he could. a man described as a dangerous psychopath is in

driver. escaped from a psychiatric ward in hawaii. by wednesday morning, he made it to stockton, california where he hailed a cab. >> well, in shock. because i had a psychopath loose in my cab with me. i feel blessed and i'm alive. who knows what could have happened? >> he was acquitted of a murder in 1979 by reason of insanity. the cabbie says she's grateful to be alive and thankful she recognized him and called the police. he was arrested without any further incident. it is the one place you wouldn't think cyber criminals would hit. our kids' schools. a hacking is on the rise across the country and the information being held ransom. why this picture has the secretary of the treasury, steve mnuchin in the middle of another controversy. it's 4:20.

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the man accused of killing a loudoun county mom with his food truck. he's accused of involuntary manslaughter. dane ran a stop sign and crashed into the vehicle in september. the judge wants him to stay in jail until he goes to trial in march. cyber criminals are targeting schools. they're threatening to hold personal information for ransom. stephanie gosk looks at what school officials are doing about it. >> reporter: columbia falls, montana, sits at

glacier national park. quiet and safe. that's how they felt until they started getting text messages. >> the threats are about killing charn and graphic ways they were going to kill the children. >> the school district's computers were hacked by a group calling itself the dark overlord. >> law enforcement officials began negotiating with the cyber criminals over their demands. but they grew increasingly alarmed because they realized that the school security cameras had been hacked and the group was watched. authorities realized the criminals were after a ransom in exchange for not releasing students' social security numbers, addresses and phone numbers. >> the thing that i -- >> some kid or some child to this point that child could be emotionally damaged for the rest of their lives. >> cyber criminals are constantly combing the internet for

schools can be easy targets. >> these organized crimes have realized the mere threat to harm children or their credited record gets a response. people are willing to pay. >> after a rash of attacks from iowa to texas to georgia, the fbi is asking school districts across the country to make sure cyber security is a priority. >> it needs to be a budget item every year. at the end of the day, they are pre-protecting the country's most asset and resource, that's our children. >> in columbia falls, after meeting with families and working with the fbi, the district decided not to -- that was followed by more threatening tax. >> does it continue to feel just like a power play? to just show you how helpless you and your community are to them? >> absolutely. it's about power. >> her daughter is in kindergarten. >> why us? why is this happening to us? >> ces

everything, doesn't it? >> oh, yeah. >> cyber criminals prove again they will target anyone and anywhere, even a place like this. >> turns out we may be vulnerable even in the places we think are the safest. it is now 4:26. i'm heading over to the live desk. "news4 today" continues right now with aaron and eun. now on "news4 today," she had just gotten a new job and moved into a new apartment. what we're learning about the district's latest murder victim after a rash of overnight shootings. >> aaa released the forecast for thanksgiving. how many areas you may want to avoid. >> a health scare for kids. why they had to have a series of tests. >> not my panda. >> i wish you could see her. >>

quick. >> like her child. >> it really is. right. >> big enough and mean enough to eat you. >> no, never. >> it's a bear. bear do bear things. >> what do bears do in the woods. >> eat bamboo. >> you never know. you're not there. >> right. >> time for weather. >> let's do that. >> let's take a check of the weather, sheena. >> not too cold this morning. showers moved through overnight. could have some wet roads. the rain that did move through was fairly light. even though it's gone, we're still left with the cloud cover right now. temperaturewise, it is not nearly as cold this morning as it was yesterday morning. we're in the 40s. 48 degrees washington. 46 gaithersburg and leesburg. 45 dulles. 47 in quantico. this afternoon, we'll be in the upper 50

morning, low 40s to start out. once the sun comes up. closer to 50 degrees. we're also looking at the winds. windy conditions closer to lunchtime. the winds starting to increase. just close to 30 miles an hour. we'll look at what the frn looks like. of course, a check on the important weekend. let's check the roads right now. good morning, melissa. taking a look at the roads. pretty good. no big problems on the beltway. inner loop, outer loop. largo road at white house, the downed wires were there. for a couple of hours overnight, after a crash last night, they just got cleared out of the way. that is really great news for anybody headed that way. up top here, you can see westbound university between pine i branch and the beltway. hanging around all week. guys. >> melissa, thank you. we're following breaking news right now. baltimore homicide detective clinging to

shot. >> chris lawrence at the live desk with the latest. chris, what's going on here? >> he's on life support, guys. doctors are trying to treat the injury to his brain. the baltimore police department isn't identifying the detective as of yet. we know the shooter is still out there on the run. as we show the scene, here's what we know. police say the detective was investigating a recent homicide wednesday night when he saw a suspicious person. the detective started talking to him. the man pulled a gun and shot him in the head. there's now a $64,000 reward being offered for information leading to that arrest. meanwhile, we have also learned the detective has a wife and two kids. they're said to be praying for a miracle. a lot of other folks are too. back to you. >> chris lawrence, thank you. we're also following a developing story in the district. a violent night in d.c. that left one woman dead. there were four shootings in four hours. take a look at the map here. the shootings were spread out all over the city.

locations. here's what we know about the only deadly shooting. this happened on just street northeast. before 7:00 last night. a witness reported a hail of gunfire in an alley behind a building. the woman was found dead on the doorstep of her apartment building. we learned that she just moved into that building after getting a new job. d.c. police have not released any suspect information. megan mcgrath will have a live report at 5:00 a.m. people in a temple hills neighborhood are hurting as they mourn the loss of an elderly woman bhowho was a pillar in th community. she died after being trapped inside a burning home yesterday. the flames sent some neighbors running to help the neighbor and her son get out. the fire was too intense. >> i definitely heard the lady in the house yelling for help. the front door was open, but the heat was too much. i tried the side door, kicked