right now at 4:00 we are counting down to our first snow of the season. >> you see this video? these flakes are falling in north carolina right now and the same weather system is heading this way. storm team4 working for you with a team of meteorologists tracking the storm all the way through the weekend. >> and i'm in the weather center talking with our chief meteorologist doug kammerer. >> we thought we'd get light snow. now we're talking significant snow. some areas could get four, five, 6 inches of snow. that's the kind of thing we're looking at. this storm makes its way up the coast. we're seeing it in the southern zones. it is snowing right now south of frederi fredericksburg. leonard town seeing snow. it is accumulating on the grass. this is where it's going to stay. this is not going to be moving a whole lot the next few hours. notice you can see the trend here, it's right in

but there's really no, no movement to the north here. that's going to come with our next storm system as it it moves up. that next storm system is down around new orleans. it is snowing in new orleans right now. and that storm system moves up the coast, that will enhance the snow fall. that will bring it farther to the north and the west and everybody gets in on it. and i do mean everybody. winter weather advisory in affect for areas in the purple that includes prince george's, anne arundel county. it does not include winchester, martin burg or hagerstown. you'll see some, but not a lot. maybe an inch or less in those areas for the most part. notice this. winter storm warning for saint mary's county t some locations there we are going 3 to 6 inches in those areas. i'm going to have much more on what you can expect, when the snow starts and how much you'll see in your area. you can find out -- you can get the latest on this right now on our app. download the nbc washington app today, get the latest weather

and we'll have the latest for you throughout the afternoon. amelia draper and i working on this. theodore a is with us, and we have what you can expect tomorrow. >> thanks, doug. we have the director of public works with us right now. john, how are you doing? hey, john, can you hear me? >> yes, how are you? good afternoon. >> we're doing great, thank you. tell me what's behind you. this is pretty exciting for a lot of people since this is our first snow of the season. how are we getting prepared for this? >> [ inaudible ]. as i know you guys are reporting, probably going to happen until the middle of the evening. our plows are going to begin to deploy around midnight this evening. they'll go for a 12-hour shift into the afternoon and throughout the morning we'll be deciding whether or not it makes sense to do more plows tomorrow

>> all right. jo john, we appreciate the update. we'll be checking with you frequently throughout the evening. thanks for staying with us. our team coverage will continue tomorrow morning on news4 with meteorologist chuck bell and somara theodore keeping chak of our chances. bright and early, stay with us for that. >> in the meantime let's get to some other breaking news. arizona congressman trent franks now says he's leaving congress today instead of at the end of january as he had previously announced. this as president trump gets ready to leave the white house to head south for a rally that's widely seen as an effort to build voter support for senate candidate roy moore. and one of the women who have accused moore of sexual misconduct says she has some new information. blayne alexander on capitol hill to break all this down for us this evening. blayne, what's the word? >> reporter: leon, we've heard a lot of women come forward in this me too movement that's now rocking capitol hill. and among the many voices we've heard is

of roy moore. today she spoke out again and said in the days since she's come forward, she's had to hire security and even face death threats but she's not backing down. an accuser standing her ground, beverley young nelson defending the validity of what she says is a year book signaturegnature bya senate candidate roy moore decades ago. >> i want everyone to know that i stand by my previous statement that roy moore sexually assaulted me. >> reporter: nelson who says moore groped her when she was 16 years old says the year book is proof they knew each other. moore who has denied all allegations enjoying another tweeted endorsement from president trump who is holding a rally in pensacola, florida, less than 20 miles from the alabama state border. the race neck and neck as voters decide whether to send moore to washington. where current lawmakers are facing their own surge of misconduct allegations. the latest

arizona congressman trent franks, resigning after acknowledging he talked to former female staffers about being surrogate mothers for his children. >> i'm going to let the statement speak for itself. >> reporter: this in the same week senator al franken and congressman john conyers both announced their departure. a sharp contrast to democrat ruben cuan and blake who are refusing to step down. both men denying claims of sexually harassing a staffer. but farron holt settled for $84,000. money he now plans to pay back to taxpayers. >> i want to be clear that i didn't do anything wrong, but i also don't want the taxpayers to be on the hook for this. >> reporter: now lawmakers on the hook as voters watch to see whether they will hold their colleagues accountable. and about that rally tonight in pensacola, florida, any minute now in about 30 minutes, we are expecting to see president trump leave the white house

the alabama border. leon? >> thank you, blayne. blayne alexander on capitol hill. now first at 4:00, search teams scour a stretch of i-95 looking for the remains of a woman killed eight years ago by her boyfriend. our mark segraves broke that news that the search would happen there today and tonight he's live along i-95 in stafford county. mark, you watched the search today with pamela butler's brother. that had to be nerve wracking. what was that like? >> reporter: yeah, leon, i'll tell you, we stood shoulder to shoulder on the overpass as the search teams went for more than two hours. let me give you a look from chopper4 which is up above us live right now. we're at mile marker 140 on i-95. this was actually closer to the second location that teams searched today in the median strip between the northbound and the southbound lanes that you're looking at right now. but as you said, pamela butler's brother derek butler was down here early this morning, even before search

hoping and holding out that hope that they'd find his sister's remains. the search team got started just after 10:00 this morning. derek butler was already there, hoping after more than eight years, he would finally be able to bring his sister home. >> mixed emotions, hoping that we would come up with something and be kind of be able to move past the point where we are. >> reporter: investigators targeted two locations along this stretch of i-95 in stafford, virginia. the first location, mile marker 147, where dogs searched the grassy area between the southbound lanes and the express lanes. as derek butler watched patiently from a nearby overpass. after about two hours, the search moved south, about seven miles to this location near exit 140, and derek butler followed along.

so, right now as we speak, derek butler is meeting with homicide detectives to get his own update about what happened out here during today's search. we can tell you that at one point at the first location, they did get out a shovel, they did look around, but it did not appear like they found anything conclusive. one of the things that frustrated today's search is that all of this landscape has changed dramatically since eight years ago when cruz said he actually buried pamela butler's body down here. there has been the improvement of the express lanes, irrigation ditches and the service road that was the cut through. that has since been paved over. so, they're holding out hope, but even derek butler knows it is probably unlikely that they found anything that would get them any closer to bringing his sister home. that is the very latest. erika, back to you in the station. >> hey, mark, let me ask you this. the suspected killer pled guilty

if he could lead police to the remains of pamela butler. so, if that changes and they do not find her, what happens? >> reporter: yeah, and i actually talked to derek butler about that. the plea agreement actually does not specify that they actually have to find her remains. only he has to make the best effort to lead them to the location. the prosecutors and the search team are able to determine they believe this actually is the location where her body was buried, but they're unable to actually recover it, that would more than satisfy the plea agreement. and then, yes, he would only have to serve 12 years. and i asked derek butler about that. he said he wouldn't be happy about that. he would have to live with that, but as you know, there is a second investigation for the search for cruz's first wife who was reported missing long before pamela butler. derek butler told me today he may take up that cause because he never wants to see jose

streets ever again. erika? >> such a difficult story and a delicate search underway right now. mark segraves, thank you. all right, right now at 6:00 major wildfires are out of control. this is in kpcalifornia. embers on rooftops turning entire communities to ash. the thomas fire in ventura county has already scorched over a hundred acres and the fire is still spreading. jay gray is there live to describe the panic the residents there are experiencing right now. >> first at 4:00, a new record for opresident obama. what he and looking for chicken nuggets have in common. >> the sound of renovation, a historic home. and the resident is going to be known as a curator. i'm david come very in fairfax county. i'm going to explain what the person living

this place get and what you benefit from it. >> and let's take a video live look at storm team4 radar. see that major storm to the south of us? well, that is coming our way. doug is back in just a minute with when you could see snow in your neighborhood. and hispdated snow totals u

we are back with a live look at the system that's going to bring some to all of us. how much you get depends on where you live. doug is back in just a minute with new snow totals, and he says we're getting more than we thought this morning. >> amazing how that will surprise and excite so many people. >> absolutely. >> how about this for something exciting. how about living in a home rent free, an historic home at that. a fairfax county program will allow you to become a resident curator. >> the thing here, though, is some of these houses need a lot of work. a lot of work. news4's david culver got the first look of many historic homes with a new tenant. >> reporter: so, what do you think? would you take the house rent free, live here? the only stipulation is that you'd have to renovate the place, and it needs a lot of work. this is currently property of fairfax county as you can see. it is an historic home

1937 by inmates of lorton prison because we're on the property that once was lorton. however, now it's in some pretty rough shape. it lazzant behasn't been occupi years. it served as what they believe to be the superintendent or warden equivalent of the prison. inside you can see much work to be done, interior as well. the person going to be living here is a resident curator. it is a new program here in fairfax county. this is the very first home that is going to be part of it. that individual for this home is lieutenant commander steve mccullough with the coast guard and he's going to be live hearing and rehabbing the place over the course of nine years. he has essentially five years to get much of the work done. and there is a lot to do. >> paint, floors, i mean, and the kitchen. i'm good to go, right? with the idea of accomplishing things like this myself that i know i can do, why pay somebody else to do things that i can do myself.

with the place, what next? well, that's where you benefit. those of us in the public. it becomes living history, a place that we can take in and appreciate. in lorton, i'm david culver, news4. >> the resale value is all in the kitchen and bathroom. >> you've been watching the make over shows. >> you know it. all right. news4 is working for the community to keep everybody warm as we head into this winter season. >> that's right. we're once again working with the salvation army for the share the warmth coat drive. so go through your closets at home and find what you can get rid of and drop off your coats at med star georgetown university hospital by the end of today. or you can go to any burke and herbert bank location in northern virginia through december 16th. the coats are going to be cleaned and then distributed to people in need in january. >> all right. we have some live pictures to show you of snow ala

falling. i was starting to get a little jealous of my friends in deep south texas. i can't remember the last time we saw snow in south texas, and that same system is what's coming our way, right? >> that's exactly right. this is what's happening right now. this is in california, maryland, this is saint mary's county. you see the snow coming down. it is already accumulating, especially on the grassy surfaces on the trees. the roads are fine. they're going to stay that way through most of the night tonight. but by tomorrow morning we could have problems. let's look at some video we shot a little earlier. also saint mary's county. this is towards lexington park. notice on the deck on the table on the trees, yes, starting to see the accumulating snow fall. that snow, if it's snowing where you are right now, it may not stop for the next 24 hours. you, folks, are going to see the most. if it's snowing outside your window right now, you hit the jackpot, or what's the other thing if you don't want the snow, you hit the jackpot or? or you're out of luck. or you're out of

[ laughter ] >> sol. that's exactly right. if you're a snow lover, you're loving this. if not, you're going to get a lot from southern maryland. right now cloud cover and cool temperatures right now sitting at 41 degrees. winds are calm. we're not seeing any wind chill out there. that's a good thing. 34 winchester, 39 in culpepper. the coldest air right now notice where it is, patuxent river in cambridge. that's not because we have air coming. the air is actually cooling as the snow comes down. the snow will come down. this will happen here tomorrow morning. so it may be 36, 37 when the snow starts and then as the snow comes in it actually cools the atmosphere down close to the freezing mark and that's what we'll see. look at the radar. you see the snow down to the south. down around fredericksburg, haven't seen an observation that hasn't had snow in fredericksburg. just south of the northern neck and extreme southern maryland. that's what we're talking about with the snow. erika mentioned parts of texas. it is snin

it is snowing in brownsville, texas for the third time in history. that far south, snowing over the border in mexico. could see snow in the panhandle of florida. for us we're going to continue to see it our way overnight. here's the timing. 7:00 tonight, notice leonard town, california, down towards portions of the northern neck, still snowing at 7:00. right on through midnight tonight. you still have that snow and it starts to get heavier down to the south. nothing in d.c. yet. if you're going out tonight you're okay. watch what happens tomorrow morning. 4:00 a.m. it starts moving into the metro region along 66 and 50. by 8:00 everybody is seeing the snow and that's when it starts to get the heaviest. we are looking at fairly heavy snow tomorrow morning and i think accumulating snow when most of us wake up, i'm waking up about 8:00, 8:30, going to the dentist, yes. but i think by that time there will be snow out there on the grassy surfaces, maybe on some of the roadways. you need to give yourself a little extra time. here's noon. everybody seeing t

deal through the afternoon, but it does come to an end around 4:00, 5:00, 6:00 as it winds down. where does it end last? down toward southern maryland. you get it the most. let's look at the snow fall totals. one to 3 inches. this is a wide one to 3 inches. more like one to two back to the west, upwards of 2 to 3 inside the d.c. metro area. 1 to 3 in this region. 3 to 6 plus here. i think some locations could pickup as much as 8 inches in some locations especially in parts of southern maryland and the northern neck where it's already snowing. you may get up to 8 inches. 3 to 6 inches, that's why we have the winter storm warning in those areas and we'll continue to see that for the day tomorrow. now let's show you the next ten days here, how we're going to settle up. 35 tomorrow, but falling temperatures early in the day. snow likely weather alert for sure. 39 breezy, wind chills in the 20s on sunday. nasty sunday. a high of 42 monday. look at wednesday and thursday. very cold air coming in. wednesday a high of only 30. most of you in the 20s. wind chills in the teens. all day long.

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now at 4:30 we're getting you ready for the first snow of the season. chief meteorologist doug kammerer in the storm center. this is legit snow. >> it is legit snow in our southern zones. when you look at this map, normally when you look at the radar, you see the snow it's

area. this is where it's going to stay the next 6 to 8 hours. where it's snowing fredericksburg, the northern neck, southern portions of sapt mary's county over towards salisbury, we're going to continue to see the snow and the rates could be half an inch to an inch per hour over the next couple of hours. this is going to be a dangerous situation here over the next few hours. we may need to up our totals in this area, too. take a look at the live picture in salisbury. it's been snowing there an hour. the temperature went from 41 to 33 in the last 2 1/2 hours. you can see what that means to the snow. the snow accumulating. the roads are still fine and they will stay fine through most of the evening. take a look at california, maryland. this is right along the bridge here, the patuxent. the snow continues to fall in that area. the snow on the trees will continue to be. now, we say the snow on the trees here. this is a dangerous location because we still have some leaves on trees in parts of the area. we could see some power outages

warning, charles county, calvert county, saint mary's county, parts of the northern neck. we may see a couple of branches down and power outages. that is an area to be ready for. this storm system continues to move in. the main storm, however, still back to the west. that's the one that is going to enhance the snow fall in our area and give everybody some snow. that's why we have the winter weather advisory i-95 north and westward and winter storm warning down to the south. we're gun to continue to revise the snow fall totals. we have the latest for you. we'll take you region by region. amelia joins me in a minute. >> those numbers going up. boy, we're going to be working for you round the clock as the snow begins to fall. we are doubling our coverage. we start at 6:00 a.m. with somara and chuck. update any time with the nbc washington app. erika? >> the fires are growing by the hour.

blowing. the thomas fire is the biggest of the blazes. jay gray is in ventura with the very latest. jay, people there, they have got to be in just full-blown panic mode. when i look at everything that is behind you, i mean, your heart goes out for these people that must be absolutely terrified. >> reporter: erika, it's overwhelming and it continues to be for so many people. for the 5th straight day now, southern california is burning. you can see what's doing to neighborhoods like this one. and right now there seems to be very little relief in sight. wildfires continue to ravage southern california right now. >> the thomas fire has now made its way all the way to the pacific ocean. >> reporter: the fires exploded overnight, an intense orange glow filling the sky, fire racing across the hill sides. >> we started really throwing everything in the car when i saw embers starting to hit our

nling to safety ahead of the flames. >> we are hopefully going to someplace that's safer and hopefully when we get back our house will still be here. >> reporter: hundreds of homes are gone. >> the wind will carry embers up to a mile out in front of the main body of the fire. it makes challenges for the fire fighters very difficult. coupled with the very dry conditions that we have out there. >> reporter: close to 6000 fire fighters are now along the front lines of at least six major wildfires burning north of los angeles through san diego. >> god knows whatever else is going to break out during these, what i classify as these devil winds, and the dry conditions that we have. >> it's scary because it moves pretty fast. >> reporter: race horses scattered at this training center as the smoke and flames inched closer to their stable. dozens died during the stampede. >> we got a little flare-up over here. >> reporter: as the fires continue to burn, uncontained ant

thankfully right now a bit of a break from the wind. that could continue into the evening. unfortunately, though, erika, it looks like the winds are going to pick back up again and continue to be intense at least through the weekend. back to you. >> jay, so, let me ask you a couple questions. specifically about people. number one, you have a couple hundred thousand people evacuating. do they have help from neighboring jurisdictions, other states? >> reporter: let's start with the people who evacuated. you have people sleeping in their cars. we talked to somebody who did that last night, just got in their car and stayed there, to people living with family and friends right now. there are shelters open across the strike zone. a lot of people in a lot of different places hoping they can get back in and see what's happened to their neighborhoods. as for the fire fighters, yes, they are get something help not only from around the state but also from around the country. and now we've got a federal

that's going to bring in some federal funds and that's going to help tremendously. but the end of this fight, and i think we have to stress this, erika, it's stale a ways away. >> oh, yeah, definitely. right now no end in sight. jay gray, we appreciate your time. stay safe out there in ventura county. thank you, sir. >> the area is growing evidence a woman's diet can have long-term consequence on the health of her child. a study out today finds pregnant women who drink sugary drinks may boost their kids' odds for asthma. children between the ages of 7 and 9 may be at greater risk of asthma if their mother drank a lot of sugary sweets during bra pregnancy. there is evidence it does, especially among older women. new research suggests that women who lose weight after menopause may be able to reduce their chance of developing breast cancer significantly. those who had a 5 percentage

likely to develop the disease compared to women who maintained their weight. get this, a weight loss of 15% or more, that could cut your breast cancer risk by nearly 40%. >> wow, those are some findings. okay. do you remember this summer when a lot of us went outside to see that rare eclipse? >> and remember the warnings about that? >> oh, yeah. >> turns out the warnings to wear the protective glasses, they were right on. we're going to show you just ahead what happened to one woman who didn't listen. >> the news4 consumer unit keeping your family safe on the roads. how a local family's petition to the government may open an vestigation. in

the warnings were right. the summer solar eclipse left a new york woman with permanent eye damage after using a pair of nonprotective glasses. the woman told the doctor she glanced at the sun with her naked eyes just for a few seconds. realizing as

borrowed what she thought were eclipse glasses some someone standing nearby. she looked at the sun an additional 20 seconds or so. two days later she noticed a dark spot in the center of her field of vision. an exam showed that a crescent-shaped spot was literally burned into her left retina, a mirror image of the eclipse itself. >> i just don't -- >> and it's permanent. >> i can't. >> and she said when she first went to the hospital to have it looked at they didn't believe her so they didn't take her seriously. >> oh, my god. and what looks like those glasses? i mean, did somebody just bring some 3-d ones from the theater? my goodness. >> who knew. that's why the warnings -- they were out there first. >> first at 4:00, the nasty bug that is keeping more than 150 local children home from school and that it was just in one day. >> how to make sure your family doesn't catch this thing. >> plus, can you believe it's been one year since the mgm

>> has it been good for the community? prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins joins us next with more. >> and doug and i in weather alert keeping a close eye on storm team4 radar. we are seeing snow in southern parts of maryld, thean n

things are starting to get fun around this place. a busy afternoon in the storm center. >> that's right. doug and amelia came in early because for them this is like christmas. they really nailed this forecast for you, folks. they're now saying you're going to get more than we originally thought just this morning. >> just yesterday. yesterday we were predicting snow across parts of the area, southern maryland would get the most snow. i had 2 to 4 inches in those areas latest night. one to 2 inches around the d.c. metro area. we pretty much doubled those totals to what we got today. this coue

night. >> we think the numbers are going anywhere, they're probably going up from where our totals are going. this storm system really started to come together over the last few days. and with each computer run that's coming out, it's looking more and more like people are going to be shoveling out there on saturday. >> we're already seeing that right now. i want to to show you the numbers. this is very important. because, again, if if was snowing in d.c. at 41, no big deal. where it does snow, snow as it makes its way down actually cools the atmosphere. look what is going on in cambridge and patuxent river. this is where we're seeing the snow. 32 degrees patuxent river. take a look, california, maryland, right here, and look at the snow coming down in that area. we've got that live picture, snow still coming down. you also see it sticking on the trees. it's sticking on the grassy surfaces. the roads are still fine, but at 32 degrees now we may start to see some problems over the next couple of hours. snow fall rates in this area may start to go down, may start to be around 1 inch an hour over the next c

that is something we're going to be watching here between now and 8:00, rather. the snow becoming quite heavy in those areas. give yourself plenty of extra time tonight. more snow to the stougt. you can see what's happening as the storm system moves in. we want to take you zone by zone. where you live dee pnds on who gets the most snow fall. normally, amelia, it's the north and western zones that see the most. that is not going to be the case this time. >> with this system we're going to see the most snow fall if you're east of 95. southern maryland, saint mary's charles county, calvert, around the fredericksburg area. take a look, this is our eastern zone. i'm going to zoom down so you can see where i'm talking about. leonard town, waldorf, calvert, we're talking 3 to 6 inches potentially 8 inches. around the port royal area, you'll see 3 to 6 inches. we head to the d.c. metro zone where we're going to pickup 1 to 3 inches of snow fall. as we look to our western zone, this includes frederick,

warrenton, marshal and front royal also picking up 1 to three minutes. for most of us one to 3 inches. east of 95, three to 6, 8 inches in some locations. what does that mean for charlotte? shoveling, you're going to have to be out there once or twice, more if you're in southern maryland. power outages, especially in southern maryland, doug mentioned this earlier with some of the leaves still on the trees. we're going to definitely see some power outages across the area. snowman making, though, it's great snow for packing. if you're out with the kids tomorrow, enjoy the snow. make sure to send some pictures our way. as we take a look at the road outlook, main roads have been treated. most will be just fine. but the secondary roads slick if they have not been treated. as we look to the sidewalks, well, some of us are going to need to shovel again tomorrow, doug, probably once or twice. as we look to your saturday evening, that's when things start to wind down. >> some of you in southern maryland may need to do it tonight. i want

shoveling. this is the city, the metro area, waking up to snow and it could be heavy at times. 35 degrees at that time. as the snow comes down, the temperatures do as well. down to 33 by noon, back to 35 by 4:00, the snow ends, by tomorrow night, we are below freezing or around the freezing mark. we'll be dealing with freezing and ice on the roadway. give yourself a lot of extra time. tomorrow is going to be a little bit of a mess. thank goodness it is a saturday. of course we are in weather alert mode. chuck bell and sa mar a theodore will be in tomorrow morning. sunday a very cold day. 39 degrees, wind chills in the 20s all day. we get another extremely cold spell on wednesday into thursday. so, guys, we're going to continue to keep you posted on this. we're on facebook, we're on twitter. you can get us any time. i will be here all night long working for you. >> doug, you know we have snow lovers and snow haters, snow chauvinist. no matter how much you get they're never impressed. they say this is nothing, this is nothing. >> i l

i just heard them. so, folks, how do you feel about the talk about snow? we want to hear from you. do you love it, hate it or tolerate it? go online and cast your vote on the facebook page and we'll share your results later on. a milestone in prince george's county. mgm national harbor is celebrating its one-year anniversary. during its first 12 months it's not only created jobs and new landscape for gaming, it's provided huge tax revenue for the state of maryland and the county as well. news4's tracee wilkins is live at the casino tonight. she has reaction from visitors and residents out there. hey, tracee, what are you hearing? >> reporter: hey, leon. what i'm hearing is that people are really excited about what mgm casino has been able to bring here to prince george's county. take a look at the number on your screen. nearly $600 million has been generated by mgm national harbor since it opened, and you take a look down here, you see that is a replica of mgm

it just goes to show they feel this is a pretty sweet anniversary. one year of gaming in prince george's county and -- >> i can't believe how much it's grown. yeah, pretty impressive to say the least. >> come around the beltway, you see that big building. really changed the sky line. >> scene is awesome, absolutely beautiful. >> reporter: mgm harbor is big. how big? >> the casino is larger than the lottery business. >> reporter: it reported 200 million in its third quarter, giving prince george's county an additional $32 million in tax revenue. >> we have roughly 3700 employees here. we are thrilled to death that we got to 47% of those employees from prince george's county. >> reporter: but mgm has had its share of issues. the numbers of fights, thefts and under age violations compared to that of maryland live. mgm has more visitors with some 6 million since its opening. >> with that many visitors that

might have a situation that that arises. overall we've been pleased with everything that transpired with our property. >> reporter: back out here live, you can see they've got the christmas decorations up in the atrium. i was told sometimes families like to come here and take their family photos with whatever they are doing here. this is what is going on with folks adopting to mgm being here in the community. coming up on news4 at 5:00, we take a look at plans for expansion, and also where all of that money is going in the state and in the county. reporting live i'm tracee wilkins, news4. >> what do former president obama and that guy who wanted a year supply of chicken nuggets have in common? i'm tommy mcfly with your celebrity 60. but first, sophia turner is on the cover of entertainment weekly magazine giving a first look at the x men dark phoenix upcoming movie. she plays jean gray. she also plays in "game of thrones" and said the final season, the one we've been waiting for won't be released until 2019. twitter told us t

retweeted and liked post of the last year. former president obama had the most liked post of his response to the violence in charlottesville over the summer. 4.6 million likes and counting. and then there's carter wilkerson. who? carter wilkerson, the kid who wanted a year supply of chicken nuggets from win difficulti nuggets from wendy's, and wendy's said he would need 18 million retweets. he does have the most shared post of the last year. it's pop singer lord psychic. take a look at this tweet she sent out on january 29. these old men in power have a storm coming, the likes of which they cannot comprehend. this was way before weinstein, way before matt lauer or charlie rose, way before senator franken. she did take a victory lap on twitter this week sharing the post. it definitely aged well. i'm tommy mcfly with your celebrity 60 on nbc4.

>> all right, now to a story that is only on news4. school bus confrontation between a student and an angry administrator and it all started with a bag of potato chips? we are working for you on this story, new at 5:00 doreen gentzler is here with a first look. hi, doreen. >> hi, erika. this is a pretty curious story. we started asking questions after somebody told us that a prince george's county school administrator stopped a school bus, confronted the students on board all over a piece of trash and that was just the start. chris gordon will tell us why that led to people jumping off the bus and running into a school. also new at 5:00, a follow-up to a news4 consumer investigation, families complaining about a popular vehicle suddenly stalling out on them. the government just took a big step after our report. and new concerns about the flu, it is now considered widespread in one part of our area. so, we've been talking -- we were talking about this just on monday, and here we go. it's

social media to get their flu shots. >> yeah. >> it is that time. >> there's no time to waste. >> the story was the shot was only 10% effective, wasn't it, if i recall correctly? >> that's true. but as you will also recall, it is your only protection and while it may not prevent you from getting the flu, it may lessen your symptoms. so, i'm recommending -- i'm listening to the doctors who recommend get the flu shot. >> good advice. >> we've learned to listen to warnings today. >> thanks, doreen. >> thanks, doreen. >> parents at an arlington elementary school are being warned of an illness that is affecting dozens of students today. 80 students out of 800 were out sick at mckinley elementary. yesterday 153 were out and two days ago 85 were out. a school spokesperson says that it seems like it's some kind of stomach bug that's been going around this time of year, but they can't be sure if all the illnesses are related to it. pa

children to wash their hands. and students should be kept home from school if they have vomiting or diarrhea. >> like my elementary school. in arlington, yes. >> you better get down there and help them out. >> i think they need some help. >> right now snow is moving to the region and we might need help with this. it is already coming down in parts of maryland. check out live pictures from the southern part of the state, california. >> storm team4 radar shows how massive it is. doug is back after the break with the snow totals and the timing on our first snow of the

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now at 5:00, weather alert. >> it's coming, the first snow of the season. we're in weather alert mode right now. >> we're tracking this huge east coast storm. the latest time line and how much you can expect in your neighborhood. >> many of you in advisory and winter storm warnings. we have the latest. >> school

only on news4. how a bag of potato chips led to a bizarre showdown between a high school student and an administrator. >> growing fears about the flu, the flu now considered widespread in one part of our area. >> plus, we all love those home renovation shows. we're taking you inside the first of many local historic homes getting a make over, only on news4. >> news4 begins now with storm team 4. >> are you ready for this? it's about to look a whole lot more like winter here in the nation' capital. the first snow of the season is coming in fast. a live look at the snow that's already falling, that's salisbury, maryland. southern maryland first started seeing snow a little over an hour ago. a viewer sent us this video of flakes falling in saint mary's county just a short time ago. >> this is such an unusual storm. this is already snowing in places that hardly ever see snow flakes. this is ve

beach. my friends and family in texas are freaking out. it doesn't happen. people at the alamo will always remember this, the san antonio historic landmark got some surprising snow flakes last night. >> it is a changing forecast at storm team4 has been watching closely all day, all week in fact. good evening, everyone. i'm doreen gentzler. >> and i'm erika gonzalez. jim and wendy are off. this snow is already changing a lot of people's weekend plans. >> we have team coverage this friday for you. a look at what road crews are doing to keep the roads safe. we begin our team coverage with doug kammerer and amelia draper in the storm center. how did it turn into such a big deal in such a short time? >> we were saying the ingredients were there for a big storm. they just had to come together. two days ago we were looking at a chance of light snow. yesterday we said we'd start to see accumulating snow fall in most of the area and today, yeah, it is a full fledged snowstorm in parts of the region. if it's snowing where you are right now, you are