you'll run into road closures because of the cohen funeral today. monday rose road between montrose parkway and east jefferson street will be open to local traffic only. the slow lane of both east and westbound will be closed. that begins at 7:00 a.m. and lasts until early in the afternoon. the processions at the cemetery begin around 12:30. 4:30 now. a man responsible for ramming his car in charlottesville will appear in court today. >> prosecutors say james fields jr. was behind the wheel of this car when he drove into the crowd in august. heather hier died because of that crash. he's charged with that and nine other felonies. a former massage envy therapist is expected to plead guilty in court. he's charged with improperly touching two women at the location in northwest d.c.

he's also being investigated in cases in bowie and georgetown. one of the d.c. cases has sparked a legal case against massage envy. one of the alleged victim is suing the company for $25 million. pbs talk show hose tavis smiley is the latest to be suspended over allegations of misconduct. after an independent investigation into more than one complaint, the network has now hired an outside law firm to investigate smiley. this comes just weeks after charlie rose. pbs didn't specify the nature of the allegations but said "the inquiry uncovered multiple credible allegations of conduct that's inconsistent with the values and standards of pbs." smiley has been with that network since 2004. he posted on facebook last night that he was shocked by the announcement and says he never acted inappropriately toward any co-worker throughout his entire career. this morning, arizona senator john mccain is back in the hospital as he continues to battle brain

megan mccain is worried. she is a co-host on "the view." yesterday on the show, former vice president joe biden sat down with her and spoke to her not as a clinician but as a father and friend. >> one of the things that gave beau courage, my word was john. your dad, you may remember when you were a little kid, your dad took care of might have beau. beau talked about your dad's courage. not about illness but about his courage. >> mccain has the same type of cancer that killed biden's son two years ago. the arizona senator is being treated at walter reed. >> beautiful moment to set aside politics and talk to somebody who needs their hand-held. >> former vice president joe biden, always talks about beau. it is 4:32 right now. later today, the future of just

internet service could be decided by the federal government. >> the federal communications commission is set for a final vote on internet regulation. let's go back to megan mcgrath with details. megan, what can we expect? a lot of people are confused about this. >> we're going to break it down for you. as you said, later today they will be voting to reveal most of the net neutrality rules. your internet provider could give preferential treatment to certain content and charge you more for basic service. the rules approved in 2015 were intended to keep the internet open and fair. they bar internet providers from >> i don't think it's the end of the world immediately but it opens the door to a lot of things we may not want to deal with. they can't go to somebody else for better service if they don't

party lines.ected to pass 3-2 i'm meagan fitzgerald, back to you. >> meagan, thanks so much. it's an exciting day for fans of the wawa convenience store chain. the district is getting its first wawa location. it opens at 9:00 this morning. the new store is located downtown along 19th street at l street northwest. couldn't have put it in a busier spot, harder to get to. >> all the walking traffic. all the people who will stop by to get a cup of coffee. >> wawa plans to open up, close to ten locations. they will be literally everywhere. >> i didn't grow up around wawas so i'm not as familiar with the hoopla. but you know who is? sheena parveen. >> worked with them in richmond. you get the gas but they were the stores with the milkshakes and the

>> hoagies. >> you cannot argue against wawa. in philly, wawa was the thing. i'm from florida, they recently got a wawa in florida. my dad is like, wow, i love wawa. everyone's eyes will be open to it if you're not used to it. anyone who grew up with a wawa, they go crazy over it. >> doing weather or traffic first? >> i think weather. let's roll the dice here and see who does what first. it's cold outside. not talking about the windchills near zero like yesterday morning. we're talking about in the 20s. everyone feels below freezing. another thing we're watching, snowflakes. we're watching it closely because for northern maryland this morning, we could have slick spots from the snow that moved through last night. take a look as it moves through yesterday evening. mostly north of d.c. northern marylan

the snow is falling. we could have slick spots this morning. be very careful as you drive up there. temperatures are feeling like freezing or below. mostly the mid to upper 20s for the area when you factor in the wind. the wakeup weather is going to be breezy again today. we'll be closer to the upper 30s by 9:00 a.m. not as cold as yesterday. wait until you see the weekend forecast. i think you'll like it. let's check the roads with melissa mollet. good morning. >> good morning. taking a look at the roads, again, in rockville, we have reopened there on 355, rockville pike near deers mill road. this is the scene much a fatal pedestrian crash from overnight. live look through the area. we did have a blockage here with police and fire on the scene. again, that has reopened. inner and outer loops of the beltway, looking fine. no big worries at all right now. as you look north here, 355, remember, still shut down at the monday ak si

bridge. >> melissa, thank you. a disturbing caves voyeurism that parents want to hear about. how a suspect used social media to expose a student at an area school. the uber breach that affected tens of millions of drivers. what we're learning when it comes to the personal information linked to your account. a video people are still sharing on our pages. what we know about the naked man who brought area traffic to a standstill on a

the man who attacked drivers, stripped naked and rode a flatbed truck remains hospitalized. he faces a long list of charges. police say his rampage started after a crash on route 28 near dulles airport just before rush hour. officers are trying to figure out if flores was nrt under the influence of drugs or alcohol or if he had experience in medical emergencies before he stripped down in fairfax county. >> he was taken to the hospital. >> yes. didn't i say that? >> just a clarification. a heartwarming post. >> that gestur

messages of hate. >> merry christmas. >> whoa. >> that is moment christian's girlfriend and her family handed him the keys to his very first car. after they posted it online, the response was something they did not expect. he's black and his girlfriend white. there's been racist backlash and death threats, they had to disable comments from the post. >> i mean, many people were saying that i was destroying myelin yaj. we were shocked. >> a lot of people are racist. i just don't get it. >> christian is 17 years old and a high school senior who is involved in a lot of activities. >> it took his family months to raise the money for this car. the age that we live in, people are just nuts. ignore that crap. be happy, celebrate your love. celebrate the car. move on with life. ignore stupid people. >> thank y

well said. 4:42 right now. don't freak out. >> when you say that, all of a sudden i start freaking out. >> may be some snow. >> it's like a trigger warning. don't look. we do have a few flakes in parts of northern maryland. closer to the pennsylvania line. before you head out, you need the warm coat and the gloves. even the sunglasses. another cold one. just not as brutal as yesterday. we'll take a look at the forecast coming up next. within a few days, the tax overhaul could be signed into law. what it means for your family and wallet when we go live to capitol hill. it's the announcement with the redskins name that left everybody feeling the same way. in disbelief. wh you should knatow

well, friday is almost here. at least we can end out the week with temperatures not as cold as yesterday. the feels-like temperature is a factor. still have the breeze around. everyone is at or below freezing. still the warm coat. going into tomorrow, we're going to be a little colder. coming up, we'll talk more about that and the weekend forecast. i think you'll like the temperatures moving into your saturday and sunday straight ahead. i'm meagan fitzgerald at the live desk following breaking news. doctors without borders says at least 6700 muslims were killed between august and september. that's an average of about 223 deaths per day during that time span. you may recall just a few weeks ago, pope francis met with a declaration of them

myanmar. they kornt rule out the crime of genocide against the muslims. >> meagan fitzgerald at the live desk. thank you. president trump is making a final push for the gop controlled congress to finalize a tax reform bill before year's end. >> the democrats are pushing for a delayed vote. for more on this, news 4's tracie potts is live on capitol hill. tracie, good morning. >> good morning. they want to wait until doug jones shows up from alabama, which would be the end of the month. republicans have no incentive to do that because the vote is tight and john mccain is out. he's in the hospital. not clear if he'll be back in time for the vote. five things to know about the compromises in this tax plan. the top rate for the wealthiest americans drops to 37%. corporate taxes, big businesses, that drops in a major way. but not quite as much as republicans wanted. it's at 21%. me

home mortgage interest, that stays. they split the difference up to $750,000. also, state and local taxes, a big one for people and in states where they're expensive. that stays. up to $10,000. but the obamacare mandate to buy insurance, that goes away. this is on a fast track. they're trying to get house and senate approval by wednesday. tracie, there are a lot of people, regular folks watching this debate and trying to understand what this is all about. how did you boil this down? what does it mean for everyday people? >> it's complicated. you can't just say this group benefits, this group doesn't. it kind of depends on your personal situation. there are tax rates that stay. but they have limits. so that depend on your income, your assets. people who are sick, cancer treatment, have major medical expenses, they're not going to benefit. they will no longer be able to deduct the medical expense. student loan interest and others

there are a lot of middle class families that won't benefit. if you itemize, it depends what you itemize and at what rate. it's a hard question to answer, aaron. >> tracie potts on the hill this morning. thank you. 4:48 now. the recount will continue for virginia's 40th districts. the district includes parts of fairfax and prince pill yam counties. after the first day of recounting, he was still holding on to his lead over tanner. hugo currently leads by just more than 100 votes. if the certified results hold, republicans would narrowly keep their majority in the house 51-49. today the fairfax county school board is set to lay out an implementation plan to change the name of jeb stuart high school. it must be completed by no later than the 2019 school year. the next steps to

as much as $900,000. we're trying to find out more about a disturbing case of voyeurism involving a child. d.c. police say it happened earlier this month at a school on independence avenue in southeast near the d.c. armory. police have charged 23-year-old of temple hill. she took video of a partially undressed child in a bathroom and shared it on snapchat. we've reached out for more information, exactly where it happened. we'll report back to you with more information. we have new video of a possible hate crime inside the lbgt group in washington. this person has note been caught. the incident happened tuesday just before 2:00 in the afternoon. casa ruby wrote on his facebook page, "the

must stop". the transit agency is adding or changing bus service to 35 routes around the dmv to improve on-time performance. here's examples. the metrobus is launching a new service to the wharf in d.c. and add more trips to the pentagon transit center in virginia and modified road around the rail station. this starts on this sunday. head to the nbc washington app for more information on the new routes. one little baby decided she couldn't wait. the 911 call taker in d.c. did everything she could over the phone to make sure she was delivered safely. it was november 5th. andre smither called d.c. 911 to report that his wife was in labor. >> look at her. >> and that the baby could arrive at any moment. on the other end of the phone was the woman who calmed him down and told him what to do over the phone. after a few minutes there, the

baby was born. listen to this phone call. >> sir, can you look to see if you see any part of baby? i need you to keep checking. >> i see the baby. >> you see the head? >> can you imagine if you were in that situation? >> i would be stretched out on the floor. >> you would have been passed out. call an ambulance. >> desiree was able to meet the baby this week. you can see right here. baby is doing swell. dad is happy. everybody is happy and healthy. >> give me that baby. >> she's beautiful. i'm telling you, those dispatchers, working hard making sure the baby was delivered safely. the redskins are not changing their name. not changing their name. at least not right now. >> a lot of people were getting ready to buy redskins ee owe washington redhawks gear. this was part of a hoax making it seem like the washington redskins

name to become the washington redhawks. it was eventually revealed the fake website was created by a group of native american advocates, to quote help us all imagine how easy and powerful changing the mascot could be. the redskins have a statement reading "this morning the redskins organization was made about fraudulent websites about our team name" they went on to say it will remain the redskins for the future. the owner says he has no plans in the near future or far future to change the team's name. >> could anyone have bought the redhawks stuff? you need to get your money back now. but it's cold out this morning. >> you know what, it didn't seem as cold. i guess because the wind wasn't blowing. >> this morning it wasn't? >> you okay? >> okay. >> did you go outside,

when it's single digits, all of a sudden 25 feels great. >> you're getting used to the cold, eun. maybe not so much. as we go through the morning hours today, we're not looking at windchills below 10 degrees. we're not even looking at windchills in the teens for most of the area. we're not as brutally cold this morning. we have slick spots possible in northern maryland. we had snow move through yesterday evening briefly. we could be seeing slippery spots. i want to make mention of that. it's going to be breezy this afternoon and still chilly. so far your weekend looks good. temperatures start to rebound back into the 40s. we'll be mostly dry. currently, 28 degrees in washington. feels like 23 dulles. 28 gaithersburg. 31 quantico. 26 in clinton. i still think you need a warm coat this morning. all the snow last night, maybe be careful on the roads this morning as well. look at it again. as we went through

evening between 7:00 and 9:00 p.m., got a few brief snow showers. now a few spots that could be seeing flakes near hagerstown. martinsburg. winchester. we'll be watching it closely. if you are exercising, jacket by 7:00 a.m. temperatures mid-30s. by noon, 40 degrees. by the afternoon, temperatures will quickly be dropping once the sunsets again. colder tomorrow. dry today, then into your friday. highs only in the upper 30s. we have another small weather system passing near the area. we could see flurries going into your friday. temperatures, though, will start to kind of get back into the 40s. back near normal going into the weekend. getting pretty seasonable for your sunday. next week, look at that. we have 40s and 50s in the forecast. that's going to feel nice. let's check the roads this morning. hopefully, mostly dry, melissa. >> nice and dry. i do appreciate that for the early morning commute. rockville pike. deers mill road, that's all clear from the

as you look at 270 from frederick down to -- we're on time once you get togate burglary and rockville. nice situation outbound this 66 live look at 23. no problems there. eun? >> thank you, melissa. >> it's not the type of away car you expect to see. what a group of thieves is using to keep you from putting your guard up. we're working for shows of you who still have to cross off

welcome back at 4:58. the search is on for three men who police believe are responsible for at least seven burglaries in the past two weeks. >> in one case they use a church van as their get away vehicle. surveillance video captured the men pulling up in the stolen church van on h street northwest. this happened last tuesday. they broke in the front glass door. then they took off. it belongs to youngs memorial church of christ in southeast d.c. >> our prayers are that the person will have some remorse about what they have done. >> the church van has been recovered. but the suspects are still out there. good news for anyone who uses

an internal investigation found hackers did not steal credit card or bank account or social security numbers. hackers did take names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers of 57 million drivers and riders last year. uber paid the hackers $100,000 to delete the data. so christmas is 11 days away now. >> 11 days? >> 11 days. the clock is ticking for anybody buying stuff to give other people. but retailers, retail insiders say that those who missed black friday may find even bigger bargains in the days ahead. right now is the time to get plugged in on a new laptop apparently and today is actually the day to go to work on tools and hardware. you plan on getting video games tomorrow? that's the best option. jewelry will be on sale the rest of the month. the sooner you buy the better. shippers are stretched pretty thin right now. >> 11 days. i mean, that's

>> you look out for that. >> yes. >> stay with us. "news4 today" continues at 5:00 a.m. breaking news. a popular roadway shut down because of an accident. we're looking to see if it impacts your commute to work. >> two words you've probably never heard. net neutrality. who it could dramatically change your online experience. hawks or hoax? didn't happen. >> i'm telling you, unless it comes from dan snyder's mouth, you don't believe it. >> i'm not believing it. he has up and down he's not going to change the name. we do want to get a look at our forecast first. 36 degrees right now. >> not bad. it's still cold out. you're still going to walk outside. if you're standing outside for a longe,