local lawmakers say panhandlers who beg for money have to go. panhandling is dangerous. they're proposing a bill that would ban it in the medians and on the streets in the county. panhandling would still be allowed on the sidewalks. news 4 talked to one man yesterday who said asking for handouts is his only option. wright says he's sympathetic but something needs to change. >> need help. we want them to contact our non-profit providers that are out there. >> council member wright said that at least three panhandlers have been hit and killed while standing in the medians over the last five years. "news 4 today" begins with breaking news. i think that i have been waiting all my life and now i just don't know what the hell to say. >> breaking news coming out of alabama this morning. a stunning end to the race for senate as doug jones claims

why his opponent roy moore says things are far from over. a warning for metro riders this morning. we're working for you with a heads up about the line that could see delays. >> and we are in storm team 4 weather alert mode as the wind continues to whip up this morning. what you need to know before you walk out the door. somebody on twitter said that it feels like 10 degrees right now. that's not enough degrees. >> right. i know. need more. >> start with more degrees, exactly. >> i totally agree. >> are you going to make it? i worry. you're so cold. >> chuck, it's the holiday season and i need to run errands. i have to do it today. >> you've got three kids. >> can you chauffeur me around? >> you group hug. you go around in a group hug. >> this is how you get sick this time of the year. you start getting too close to people. >> there you go. >> germs make you sick, not cold, ri

you get too close. don't cuddle up with a stranger who might be sick out there. anyway -- anywho, pretty cool wind chills. we will not be warming up too quickly, but once we do, we'll be around freezing for a daytime high. wind chills from about 4 to 10 degrees. here's your bus stop forecast for the kids heading outside blustery by 7:00 a.m. even by 8:00 a.m., wind chills from 4 to 10 degrees. actual temperatures will be around 21. that's not the number that matters, it's really the wind chill this morning. the warmest coat, gloves, hat. i would say if you can leave the kids in the car, turn the heat on until the bus shows up. that's your best option if you can do it. other than that, let's check the roads on this very cold morning. good morning, melissa. >> good morning, sheena. cold but dry. wet roads. southbound 395 at the 7th

tractor-trailer still blocking a right lane. inner loop and outer loop right near ties sons, i'll check in on that for you. taking a look elsewhere. when we look here at 66 and 95 in virginia, again, no major issues. perhaps two little work zones that have not cleared out of the way as you're going into quantico. guys? >> melissa, thank you. developing this morning, chaos outside and inside a local fast food restaurant had some customers pretty shaken up. >> bullets pierced the windows at this mcdonald's in germantown last night. no one was hurt inside. news 4's justin finch is live with an update on the men who were injured and what's happening now. justin? >> reporter: eun, good morning. police say what's so troubling about this case is just when this happened. we're talking about 6:00 on a tuesday evening as people were inside of this mcdonald's, and they were eating when all of a sudden that bullet

that front lower pane of that window there and two men who were shot ran inside. now this restaurant was then closed for hours last night. the relief here, as you said, no one else inside the restaurant was hurt. the two men were believed to have been outside, perhaps in the parking lot, when they were shot by an unknown shooter and then ran inside to escape. police do believe those men know who shot them, but in this case the shooter or shooters were able to get away and in canva canvassing for clues here, police say a plus here is that it happened in a busy area. >> this is a shopping center so many businesses have the video. investigators will be looking at that to see if it provides any fruit. >> reporter: and right now that restaurant now opening for business the morning after that shooting. this mcdonald's here is on gunner's bridge road. pretty busy area.

able to get some witness insight and they may say as things are recovered they will be talking to them, too. justin finch, news 4. back in to you. >> justin, thanks. deep red alabama went blue. for the first time in 25 years voters in alabama elected a democrat to the u.s. senate. last night at his headquarters doug jones appeared speechless at the magnitude of what his supporters pulled off. >> jones beat roy moore by 2%. moore was not only fighting jones but a wave of allegations of sexual misconduct. >> this morning the republican is not ready to admit defeat either. with more on that go live to montgomery, alabama. chris pollone is on the ground there. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, aaron and eun. we've learned to expect the unexpected in politics, but it was quite

see doug jones declare victory, come out and give his speech and then roy moore, the republican in this race, the apparent, you know, defeated republican came out and basically said, i'm not conceding. about 20,000 votes separate the two. it's about 1.5% margin at this point, but in order to start a state recount, a mandatory recounts, it would have to be within just half a percent. it doesn't look like there's any way to find ballots that would get roy moore there. obviously no concession called. he didn't concede the race but it doesn't look good for him at this point. it looks like doug jones will be the one going to the senate. both spoke to the media last night, moore sort of blaming the media for a lot of his troubles. >> campaign is we've been painted in an unfavorable and unfaithful light. >> at the end of the day this -- this

dignity and respect. >> reporter: so democrat doug jones is the apparent winner. the election results will be certified by the end of this month. if he is sworn into the senate, which we expect him to be, it will likely be in early january. he'll serve approximately two years before being up for re-election in 2020. live from montgomery, alabama, i'm chris pollone. back to you. >> chris, thank you. this is a really huge upset in one of the typically reddest states in the country. chris lawrence is at the live desk to explain what this now means for congress. what's next, chris? >> un, aaron. it's just one vote. the way the senate works, it can change anything. alabama probably won't certify the election until just after the new year. republicans are pushing to pass it by the time of christmas.

repealing obamacare. both of those are probably off the table now. the sliver margin gives more power to senators who don't follow the party line. if democrats hold their own in next year's mid term election plus split arizona and nevada, they could retake control of the senate. >> chris, thank you. president trump congratulated doug jones on a hard-foot win in alabama adding republicans will have another shot at the senate seat. jeff flake who donated to doug jones's campaign simply wrote, decency wins. >> joe biden said, thank you, alabama. he will make you proud in the senate. you can read more on what this means for the senate and the president's tax bill in the nbc washington app. 5:08, just about 5:09

the hours leading up to the tragic death of a bethesda teenager. there is body camera video showing officers talking to saperry before he went missing. the teen's father went be to the police station at 3:00 in the morning to report him missing. they did not take the missing person's report until nine hours later. our news partners at wtop report once police started searching, social media led them to the woods. they don't know how he died but they don't expect to file charges. a bizarre scene on a busy northern virginia road created rush hour mayhem. take a look at this video here. naked man jumped on the back of a flatbed truck. you can see that he starts hitting it repeatedly. this is on route 28 not far from dulles airport. driver stopped to record all of this chaos. >> get in your car. get away from him! oh, my god!

>> you can hear the driver starting to yell when she realized something was very wrong. a witness tells us the man started to take off his clothes and became violent after being involved in a car crash on sully road. no word how he managed to jump on the truck but eventually he ran off into the woods, was arrested and taken to the hospital. he has not been identified. it's now 5:10. a heads up for metro riders. you can expect delays on the red line for the rest of the week. metro is replacing an old communications cable and has to reduce the number of trains running between brook line, fort totten and tacoma. they'll replace areas between silver springs and if you want a different line, ride the green line between fort totten and

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it's now 5:15 on this storm team 4 weather alert day. you can see why. look at these temperatures. it feels colder than that, you know what i mean? the temperatures in the 20s. we have that wind chill. it goes down to the bone. it doesn't evenfe

storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell, sheena parveen will have a closer look at when this cold blast of air will finally move out. coming up in a few minutes. meantime, team coverage on this weather alert day with adam tuss. the metro riders will be standing out in the cold a little longer than usual today. >> adam, riders are dealing with some delays. not a good day for this. >> reporter: not a good day for this at all. i want to say, aaron said i had a squirrel on my head. this thing is really warm. this is kind of what you're going to have to be bundled up wearing out here today because it is brutally cold out here. what we're talking about is not only is it cold but metro riders are going to be dealing with delays because of a communication cable that was just discovered and has to be fixed. what this means is there will be limited service all throughout the entire red line. this is a 40-year-old cable that actually pinpoints the location of trains and so you can imagine how important that is in certain sections of the system.

expect today if you're coming out along the red line. there's only going to be one train on each track at a time between brooklan, at thtacoma a fort totten. through the entire red line trains will only be running every 10 minutes instead of every 8 minutes which they normally do over rush hour. then that means that this weekend there will have to be a larger repair system, larger repair plan to go and fix that cable. that is in that section. so that means larger repair work today. now let's take a look out here, see if we can find anybody cold, running for the train. it will be a brutally cold morning if you're out here trying to get onto the metro system. beware of that. we'll be monitoring the ride and let you know what you need to find back to you. >> thank you, adam. he's right. squirrel's too small. thank you, adam. if you're away from your tv, remember, you can download the

latest weather and traffic. chris lawrence here at the live desk with an incredible story coming in from indiana. a state trooper is recovering after being shot after a dui stop and then chasing the person. morgan evans pulled over the suspect tuesday night in jeffersonville. the driver was 79 years old. he shot trooper evans, grazed him in the head. the state police say the trooper returned fire, a chase developed and a backup arrived there on the scene. good thing is trooper evans is expected to be okay. police took the suspect into custody. he is now being charged with the attempted murder of a police officer. at the live desk, chris lawrence, news 4. >> chris, thank you. 5:18. news 4 your health. many parents ask is there a link between our kids' mental health and their smartphone and tablet use. people born between 1995 and

2012, they're called the so called igen. i, iphone, itablets, ipads. they don't know life without smart phones. doctors say one in five teens has an emotional, behavioral or mental health disorder. some of those teens touch their phones around 80 times a day. many psychologists say this generation is on the verge of the most severe mental health crisis in decades. others say there are plenty of benefits for smart phones and tablets. that outweighs the negative. that's the whole idea, that parents have to figure out this balancing game and what's too much and when to use it for appropriate things like homework. >> your kids' technology could make them the next filthy rich millionaire. >> i need a steve jobs in my house. it is a new game show trend sweeping the nation. it's called hq trivia. log in and it's streamed twice daily and every night. coes

if you get it right, you move on. if you get it wrong, you're knocked out. there is typically a $1,000 prize split between the winners. >> everyone is kind of -- >> now we can stare at our phones even longer. >> great. i know. no one's talking to each other but i'm talking to you, sheena. >> a lot of people are waking up heading to their phone. hopefully the nbc washington app. you can see what the wind chill is. i have it right here. 23 degrees in the district. that number doesn't matter. it's the feels like number. the wind chill, that matters when you walk outside. cover up all your exposed skin this morning. feels like 11 degrees. pretty cold as we go through the morning or very cold. bitter cold, all those words you can use today because this is the coldest air we've seen so far. it feels like 6 degrees. gaithersburg, frederick, clinton feels like 5. winchester, close to zero. hagerstown feels like 5 degrees. now we'll look as we go through

still feeling below 10 degrees for much of the area. through the afternoon, lunchtime still feeling very cold. later on today start to rebound into the mid to low 20s. maybe not as bitter cold. your commute this morning, heat on. roads are going to be dry. we're watching that clipper up to our north and west. now the track has changed a little bit. this is typical with clippers. a couple of days ago we weren't even seeing this clipper. yesterday looked like snow north of the district. now it looks like it will stay far enough north where we can see a flurry north of the district. we're taking the snow out of this evening's forecast. it will be cold though. by friday, that will be our next chance for flurries. finally the bitter cold does move away. so far we start out the weekend and it is looking pretty good. sunday, mostly dry. the rain chance not until late in the day. look at the bitter cold coming up in a few minutes. let's check the roads on this very cold mornin

what's happening northbound 123 in mcclain, we have the northbound lanes blocked because of some emergency road work. southbound is open. they're kind of directing around the northbound problem. southbound 395 seventh street, that has cleared out of the way. that broken down tractor-trailer is gone. 66 and 123 into town and out of town, no worries. inner belt line rolling along as well. it started out as a romantic honeymoon trip but quickly turned into a frightening situation. what happened during this newlywed couple's snorkeling adventure. >> fill in for the ellen degeneres show. ellen airs at 3:00 here on nbc 4 fo

you're watching "news 4 today." >> did you see that? it's not the way anyone wants their honeymoon to go.

>> her husband was the one recording the attack. >> let's hope. >> he didn't know. a professor at stevenson university is sharing an old photo on twitter and it's getting a whole lot of laughs. >> here it is. karen spencer is a maryland mother before her son samuel could speak she taught him american sign language. she never expected him to sign help when he got to meet santa claus. >> look at his hands there. >> i love this so much. look at his little face. i'm not going to throw a tantrum. i'm going to say somebody see me here? he's a crazy old man and i need somebody to come and get me. the little sign. >> maybe you need to question his mom about that. who is this guy?

near santa. 5:27. costly commute. toll fees hitting $40. you've heard the complaints about i-66. now find out whether the changes are worth the trouble. cashing in on your kids. if you have a toddler, you probably know ryan. how the parents of this 6-year-old turn what we do every day into a multi-million dollar empire. and bundle up before you go outside this morning. wind chills are down in the single numbers across most of montgomery county out through western fairfax and loudoun as well. there is a little bit of a

"news 4 today" ghins with bre -- begins with breaking news. a political earthquake and the epicenter is alabama. a democratic upset has the nation talking about what could come next. making sense of i-66. new toll lanes are driving up the price to commute. news 4 is working for you to find out whether this plan is working. and extreme cold. we're in weather alert mode. the reason it's going to be even harder to get out of bed this morning. >> i wish i had a big blanket, comforter,

>> slide right into that. >> good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. we begin with the storm team weather alert. we warned you. the 30 degree temperature is going to drop and it will feel like single digits. >> look at the flag in the middle of the screen. poor guy. team coverage, meteorologist sheena parveen and chuck bell are here with a look at why we will not see a warmup any time soon. >> cold air. the wind is making it so much worse. bundle up. cover your skin this morning. >> that's right. wind chills are down just above zero. if you're looking for any silver lining to an otherwise cloudy forecast, the wind chills are not below zero. there you have it. could be worse. temperature 2 above. feels like factor closer to 10 degrees. the feels like factor in and around the city. no matter how you slice it, that's a cold one. wind chills in the zero range for the remainder of the morning. may be a

kids at recess, don't be like that guy. don't put your tongue on the flag pole today. probably not cold enough to freeze it on there, but you shouldn't be doing that anyway. temperatures near 20 degrees. feels like 5 at 7:00 a.m. recess time, temperatures below freezing with wind chills in the teen. by the time the kids are coming back home, after school activities, temperatures will be just barely above the freezing mark. another shot of cold coming before the weekend. we'll talk more about that in a few more minutes. for now let's go over to melissa mollet. 123? >> well, in a section of it, yes, yes. >> ah. >> not exactly on chambridge road. dolly madison, roads blocked for the emergency road work in mcclain. southbound again is open. you don't have to worry too much about that area. 95 live look northbound and

into town and out of town. 270 looks okay, just a little bit slow as you're headed southbound out of the clarksburg area. i think that i have been waiting all my life and now i just don't know what the hell to say. >> a stunning upset that stunned even him. doug jones has become alabama's first democratic senator in 25 years. his supporters were fired up last night as he delivered his victory speech. >> take a look at the numbers here. deep, red alabama went blue by a razor thin margin. jones beat roy moore by 2%. the women who accused senate candidate roy moore of sexual misconduct are reacting to doug jones's victory in alabama. >> chris lawrence is live with their emotional reactions. chris? >> one of the accusers watched the election results with her friends. tina johnson said moore groped her i

whie while her mother was seeking legal advice about custody battle. listen to her. >> i'm just thrilled that, you know, that speaking out did make a difference and that we won't be silenced anymore. >> now she was one of several women to accuse moore. roy moore continues to deny all accusations of sexual misconduct. back to you. >> chris, thank you. 5:34. here's a look at our top stories now. montgomery county police combing through surveillance footage to find the person who shot two men. it happened around dinner time last night. at least one bullet hit a window. no one inside was hurt. the victims are expected to be okay. a heads up for metro riders. expect delays on the red line for the rest of the week. they're replacing a communication cable. trays will be

brookland, fort totten and tacoma station. and thousands of firefighters are still battling the massive thomas fire in california. look at these images. the fire has destroyed 236,000 acres along with hundreds of homes. 25% contained now. the winds are expected to pick up again and that could cause more flare-ups. 5:35. a monster, that is the only kind of person jody rockingham's friends believe could have killed her and discarded her like trash. d.c. police found rockingham's body in a trash can yesterday in the river terrace neighborhood. she had been missing since the day before thanksgiving. the body was discovered behind an abandoned house on 34th street northeast. police say she had been stabbed multiple times. >> it's broken. we at a shallow place right now. many pieces are torn. it's a sad day. >> detectives say the person who killed her had

a $25,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to her killer. the fairfax county board of supervisors wants the fbi to release video of the deadly shooting of a virginia man. according to "the washington post" the board sent a letter after the shooting death of bijon gazar. they shot him and killed him after a hit and run. they will not release the video until the investigation is complete. his family says he was unarmed. the civil rights division of the justice department is one of the agencies handling this case. for all of you pet owners out there, be on the lookout. it's believed that a coyote attacked and killed a dog sunday night in an nondale's bradley circle. the pet had been left outside and still could not be located hours later. after a long search the dog was found just outside of the

an animal matching the description of a coyote had been seen nearby. wildlife officials have been getting more reports of coyote sightings in the recent weeks. be extra cautious and keep a close eye on smaller pets especially. during the holiday season a lot of us are in the giving spirit, but if you were thinking of giving to a panhandler along the roads, you might not be able to do it. fred wright says this is dangerous. three people have been killed in traffic over the last five years. he is proposing a bill that would ban panhandling in the medians and on the streets throughout the county. news 4 talked to one man who says panhandling is his only option. it would still be allowed on sidewalks. along 66, the tolls vdot says they're working. vdot says commutes were faster and more reliable. tolls began on the 66 express lanes inside the beltway last week. people vi

pay. carpoolers do not. tolls peaked at more than $40. vdot says the average high is closer to $10.25. people are getting the message. start to carpool, creates a slug line, to avoid the toll joostol. 5:38. bah humbug. >> sexist 13450smear, that's wh is. >> she will not be silenced. new york senator is taking on president trump. new twitter tirade that has the white house in hot water and why this could fuel the pressure to lu

you're watching "news 4 today." well, there is one 6-year-old who already has his college fund taken care of. >> can you imagine at 6 if you had that freedom? wow. this boy has made "forbes" list of 2017 highest paid youtubers. did we mention he's 6? he made $11 million reviewing toys. >> wow. >> what do we have here? wow, it's a flying airplane! >> he is super cute. one of his videos has more than 800 million views. ryan and his p

almost every day, him playing with toys and telling other kids what he thinks about them. his parents have been recording videos of him like this one since he was 3 years old, and i bet you the kids love watching it, too, just for entertainment. >> the family's first words were, show me the money. ryan was actually number eight -- >> counting the benjamins. >> number eight on the highest paid youtubers list. >> unreal. >> getting close to number one before you know it. >> i went to journalism school. where did we go wrong? we did well. bare bottom and backup. the surprising reason for heavy traffic on a local road and the action drivers took as this scene unfolded. this germantown mcdonald's reopening the morning after gunfire disrupted dinner and two men were shot outside. i'm justin fnch andi

a chaotic commute. just when you thought you've seen it all, the scene that had drivers doing a double take. dodging bullets at mcy d's. the mad dash for help at the fast food joint and the manhunt underway. trump twitter attack and charges of sexism. the target is a u.s. senator. the response this morning. you're watching "news 4 today." we begin with that headline this morning. there are charges of sexism against the president of the united states, donald trump. >> the president launched a twitter attack on tuesday against new york democratic senator kristen gillibrand one day after she called for the president's resignation over sexual misconduct allegations. we go to news 4's tracie potts on capitol hill. good morning. >> reporter: she turned up the heat calling for that investigation calling for the president to resign and then he

as a candidate she begged him for campaign donations and would do whatever to get them. she calls that a sexist remark and so did several others here on capitol hill. listen. >> it was a sexist smear attempting to silence my voice, and i will not be silenced on this issue. neither will the women who stood up to the president yesterday and neither will the millions of women who have been marching since the women's march. >> reporter: "usa today" calling it a new low for the president. that's how they described it. the white house said this wasn't sexist at all, that the president used the same language in tweets against men and other male people who he has called out on twitter. he also said or the white house is also saying that reporter's minds were in the gutter calling it out as a possible sexist tweet. back to you. >> tracie potts on the hill.

tracie, thank you for that. savannah guthrie will speak with senator gillibrand in an exclusive live interview this morning on "today." you can watch that right after "news 4 today." 5:48. that's one of the text messages an fbi agent sent about president trump. two agents insulted president trump in text messages. they referred to the president as a quote, idiot. agents peter jacques and lisa page have been working with special counsel robert mueller. they are no longer on the case. stafford county is announcing results of a vote. there's a new garrison district supervisor. a recount of 5,000 ballots took place. the recount determined that he won by 13 votes. he beat out the democratic incumbent, laura sellers. recount in the 40th house ri

larry hogan sat down with members of the naacp about the embattled school system in prince gorges county. the governor agreed after the group sent him a letter saying the state did not have their back. they said widespread grade changing is widespread throughout the system. they don't trust the county to correct its own problems and they want state interventions. 5:49 right now. developing this morning, a fast food restaurant in germantown back open after some chaos last night. >> at least one bullet pierced the windows around the dinner time rush. two men were shot outside. >> he's live with what's going on now. a frightening situation there. >> reporter: frightening, indeed. eun, just a few minutes ago the restaurant reopened after a big scare lastni

and show you where the bullet came whizzing through. the lower middle pane that was near a child's high chair last night and soon after 6:00 or so, those two men ran inside shot. now it's believed they were shot in the parking lot area outside of this mcdonald's when someone opened fire. who and why are under investigation. the suspect or suspects who did so, they did get away. as you mention, no one else was hurt. this mcdonald's was closed for hours as police investigated looking for interviews, looking for surveillance footage. neighbors outside, they were on edge. they say this restaurant is a well-known gathering spot. >> kind of nerve racking because you have so many young children around here all the time. so the fact that they are shooting and no one really knows what's going on, it's kind of scary for the residents that live around here.

hoping to gather surveillance footage of the area from nearby shopping centers. also talk to more witnesses and they say in time they will speak with those two victims as they continue to heal from gunshot wounds in the hospital. live in germantown, justin finch, back in to you. >> thank you. a bizarre scene on a busy northern virginia road created rush hour mayhem. a naked man jumped on the back of a flatbed truck and hit it repeatedly. this happened on route 28 not far from dulles airport. drivers swerved to avoid the man and some stopped to record this chaos. >> get in. get away from him! oh, my god! >> you can hear one of those drivers yelling when she realized something was very wrong. a witness tells us the man started to take off his clothes and being violent. no word on how he managed to get on the truck. he eventually jumped off, ran into the woodsd

police, arrested and taken to the hospital. he has not been identified. >> ain't billy bob thornton but it is a bad santa. >> oh, man. >> cash and jules and guns. it's too hard to find other than the pretty clear pictures inside this house. he had a tattoo along his right jaw line. >> that makes you very identifiable. >> not that many videos out there. >> excuse me. >> what do you think the tattoo says? mother. >> trying to give santa a bad name during the holidays. >> too skinny. >> special lump of coal just for him. >> chuck, i just tweeted. how can you really dress appropriately to stay warm in this kind of weather? it's nothing you can do. >> all about the layers. limit your time outside. make sure as much exposed skin as possible is covered up f

aaron couldn't even find his banaclava. >> unbelievable. >> he needs it. this is the mistake that will cost you on a day like today. the wind is blowing out there out of the west averaging 15 but gusting near 30 miles per hour. it takes the temperature of 23 and lowers the wind chill down to 11 degrees. wind chills are in the single numbers across much of the region. temperature knew 12 in fair month, 19 in martinsburg. 7 way out west in western maryland. 23 along the i-95 corridor and fredericksburg. windy and cold. the operative word all the way through the lunch hour. the wind will ease up a little bit after the sun goes down just before 5:00 but wind chills, plan on wind chills in the teens all through the afternoon. heaviest winter coat, earmuffs, sunglasses, there will be a fair amount of sunshine. dowd

custom tailored storm team 4 forecast. now we do have a little chance of a few flurries coming in. al berth at th alberta clipper coming in. should take most of the energy and snow chance across central pennsylvania northbound into new york and new england. for us, i think we're going to be too far south of that. could get a few flurries especially up across northern maryland. there's a passing snowflake or two here this morning as well. windy and cold today. few flurries tonight. nothing to worry about. tomorrow partly to mostly cloudy. rain chance late sunday night into early monday. nowhere near as cold next week. let's go over to melissa mollet and find out how traffic is coming along.

>> 270 southbound you can still see that delay here this morning. southbound as you're approaching, kind of the clarksburg area, it is a little bit delayed. no actual issue. inner loop or outer loop of the beltway, looking fine. in mcclain, northbound 23 at lewensville, southbound is open. that's a good thing. 66, no problems into town or out of town. as far as your travel time, 270 looking good in both directions. top of the beltway, same situation there. 66 into town and 95 northbound rolling along just fine. remember to listen to wtop when you hop in your car today. aaron? >> 5:55 right now. they say going home for the holidays sometimes carries a special meaning. >> take a look at the video out of sacramento. these two kids weren't just randomly chosen. u.s. army sargeant first class shawn sullivan had a

surprise for his kids. okay. my eyes are sweating. he's back home after serving nine months in afghanistan. his daughter would not let go. would you? look at her. oh, my goodness gracious. the sacrifice that our troops make every day and their families who are waiting for them. i love these reunions, love them. thank you for your service and welcome home. my goodness gracious. you know i get a little -- local group has a hefty goal this holiday season. >> nonprofit america's adopt a soldier. the group wants to send 300,000 letters to troops over the holiday. molette green is in alexandria with how you can help with this effort. >> hey, good morning to you guys. yeah, we're at the headquarters here, busy unpacking some of the cards and letters that have come in. this sign says it all, we will make our goal. there are about 75,000

and last year they sent out 120,000. 300,000 is doable for these folks. what a difference a simple card or letter with a message like this one i'm holding, we will win u.s.a. what that could do for a soldier overseas or at a v.a. hospital. it is immeasurable. we'll talk about how you can make this goal possible coming up today in the 6:00 hour. riding metro to georgetown? the new plan that could change the way you get around. and terror near times square. an attack near the morning commute. what we just learned about the suspect and how he was radicalized years ago. bundle up if you're riding metro today. we have delays along the red line and also some wicked cold. i'm adam tuss. i'll tell you how l

way to plan ahead for the weather and the delays. >> a little fun to help you get over that holiday hump day. >> it is 6:00 a.m. right now. good morning, everybody. you are going to need to move around. >> that's right. >> shake a tail feather all morning long. >> all of that to stay warm. >> we are keeping an eye on the temperatures. look at the wind on the right side. the flag is whipping there. that's what you're going to have to worry about. the question now, how long will this biting cold weather stick around? >> meteorologist sheena parveen sticking around with some answers for us. >> good morning, guys. it is cold outside, bitter cold. you saw the temperatures just on the tv here as we go through the next several hours. our wind chills, they're actually going to be staying below 10 degrees for many areas. feels like 11 degrees in the district. feels like 1 in