not still dealing with some of the effects of that weather. in alexandria, george washington middle school is closed. last night a pipe burst in the electrical room and the fire marshall said it's just not safe for kids to be in the school until they get that resolved. all activities in the school and on school grounds are closed. loudoun county courthouse had a pipe burst yesterday. chuck, i've got to tell you, as i read through all of this, i'm glad i'm not in there, in the storm center today, i'm liking my digs just fine. >> then your invitation to come back is withdrawn. how about that? >> until the next bad weather event. >> a little on the chilly side this morning but finally, yes, a couple of days to rest, relax, recoup perfect rate and hopefully get some needed rainfall.

some stretch time. one of our driest winters on record. this morning, plenty cold in some of the sheltered areas. 22 at dulles airport. getting closer to the city, temperatures more in the upper 20s and low 30s. typically chilly. it is, after all, still early january. nothing to complain about like it has been. that's more like it. there's even milder air coming our way. we should be near 60 degrees on friday but that also does come with a rain chance. if you like the cold, it will be back on sunday. we'll show you the whole ten day forecast coming up. thank you, chuck. following several breaking news stories this morning. first, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the trump administration from ending daca. the program protects children who were brought to this country illegally by their parents. blocks them from being deported. they're known as d.r.e.a.m.ers. the ruling requires the department of homeland security to resume accepting renewal applications for people who are already protected under daca.

from the white house. this morning the threat of a tsunami is over for people in puerto rico and other islands in the caribbean. a magnitude 7.6 earthquake hit the cayman islands last night. thankfully no reports of damage. more breaking news. the devastating mudslides in southern california have left 13 people dead, more than two dozen injured. the property damage is massive. it took rescuers six hours yesterday to dig out this 14-year-old girl. take a look at that. imagine how thankful her family has to be this morning. she wasn't seriously injured. she was even able to walk. another rescue effort brought one man to tears. >> we heard a little baby cry g crying. we dug down and found a little baby. we got it out, got the

of its mouth. i'm hoping it's okay. they took it right to the hospital. >> we can understand his emotion. the couple does not know if the baby survived. all of this comes after five inches of rain fell in the burn area of the thomas fire. developing this morning, a tragic end to the search for a missing father. prince gorges county police say someone out for a walk found daniel dehaven last night. he disappeared from the costco. he had dementia. he was found dead in a wooded area of dorsey road near bwi marshall. he may have been picked up around route 1 and dropped off in anne arundel county. they do not expect foul play. right now police are asking for your help in a similar case in d.c. del mar mosley is 81

missing. he was last seen yesterday on 24th street northeast in the woodbridge neighborhood -- woodridge neighborhood. he was wearing a black and white plaid shirt, light blue jeans, black hat and a brown suede jacket. del mar is in the early stages of dementia. he may be in need of medication. if you see him, please call the d.c. police. it is a video a lot of us will never forget. a sunny day practicing for an annual baseball game but today the congressman at the center of that republican baseball shooting will take another step in his recovery. a gunman shot congressman steve scalise last june during that practice in alexandrea. scalise underwent surgery for part of his continuing recovery. he returned to work last september to a thundering appe

he says he plans to stay involved in work but has not said when he will return to capitol hill. today lawmakers get back to work in both maryland and virginia. in virginia governor terry mcauliffe will give his father well address before governor gets sworn in. and in maryland, some lawmakers have outlined a proposal to create an individual health care mandate at the state level. federal lawmakers got rid of it in the republican tax bill. also on the agenda, democrats are pushing to override governor larry hogan's veto on paid sick leave. and the number of licenses to grow medical marijuana. news 4 is working for you with team coverage. julie ken

will have more for you. happening today, if you have ever wanted to run for president, here's your chance. washington nationals are looking for candidates to suit up for the new season. today is the deadline to apply online if you want to be one of the racing presidents, but here's the thing, you have to be at least 5'7" and no taller than 6'6". you have to be able to attend 40% of the home games and be able to run from center field to first base. we'll link you to the application in our nbc washington app. the thing is, chuck, you can't just run that distance, you have to do it in the suit which adds a layer of complexity. >> can i just say, chris, i would love to tryout for one of those things. >> i know. >> i don't know how i can make that many percentage of the home games. >> 40 percent is tough. >> some of those night games you come straight from there to here with the big president's hat on. >> if you wore the suit, we would

tell you. >> i'm sure we would. all right. so a little chilly outside early this morning. 20s and 30s for most, but we are talking all about the milder air and return of rain chances before the weekend even gets here. stay with us. and we're learning more about those historic high-level talks between north and south korea. what one side is now asking for. it's a great way to teach your kids the value of money, but you're going to want to hear this before you consider giving them a raise. idw much the average k rakes

you're watching "news 4 today." another one of the reasons where they're doing the annual soft take of animals. ow! ow! >> news reporter got a rough assignment at a zoo in the u.k. the leemers were a bit distracting. they jumped on his shoulder and bit his happened. that's before it got out of hand. the reporter says no lemurs were hurt. nice of him to consider the lemurs. at that point, i'm not thinking about the lemurs. >> i thought they were the slow movers, the slothy kind of thing. >> only when we slow down the video. look, how much do you give your

mine is -- yeah, i give about a dollar. >> i don't give anything for allowance. you need money, go wash the neighbor's car. >> i know. i know. you go out there and do your chores. the average kid takes home close to 9 bucks a week, which in case you're counting, works out to about $450 a year. >> i don't have kids, but you as a dad would know that $450 a year is the cheapest part of having a kid. >> there's a lot more than that. >> a bargain right there. >> yeah, that doesn't even count the extra cash they're getting for birthdays, holidays, grandparents. >> here's $20, go get this. >> we shoveled neighbor's driveways, mowed lawns, all of that stuff. the site says giving kids an allowance is an opportunity to teach them how to spend and save. people formed a lot of their financial

>> i was cheap then, i'm cheap now. >> good habit. you'll probably see a lot of new colors. p pantone's color of the year is ultraviolet. intriguing nuance that's filled with emotion, and then there's caliente from benjamin moore. >> spanish. >> strong and radiant. a color that has a hardness for vitality. >> sounds more like an erectile dysfunction drug. >> that would be lunesta blue. >> red. paint your wall red. >> all right. well, with that said, the color of today is gray. the sky color. that's all i've got.

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spent most of the time talking about the winter olympics. north korea will send a team to the games. they also agreed to military talks and to reduce text after north korea's latest missile test. today south korea's president praised president trump and said new sanctions and pressure from the u.s. may have sparked these talks. a monumental fall from grace this morning. steve bannon is once again out of a job. he's stepping down from breitbart news. it comes days after he criticized the president and the first family in an explosive new book, "fire and fury." a source tells nbc news bannon had to either give up being involved in politics or breitbart. he chose politics. president trump also reportedly pressured rebecca mercer to choose between the two of them. this thick black smoke could be seen for miles. it was caused by a fire at a metal

it took hours and dozens of firefighters to get that fire under control. kind of a strange way to start the new year, breaking into a chipotle to grab a snack. it was more than just a little weird for the manager who discovered someone eating in his empty restaurant. news 4's ty collins with a closer look at the bizarre break in. >> police releasing this picture of a man you might know for shredded beef bandit. he ate $60 worth of shredded beef at chipotle. >> he's pretty smart. >> and pretty hungry. >> obviously pretty hungry. >> the capital one arena. new year's day. make that new year's morning. 3:00 a.m. new year's morning, police say a man breaks into chipotle here,

and where's the beef? >> in town you never know what goes on down here. >> reporter: he gets a full tray of barbacoa. sits down at the counter and starts eating. >> he's lucky. >> reporter: 4:00 a.m., more shredded beef. >> i wouldn't go to that extent to get beef but maybe he was really hungry. >> reporter: 5:00 a.m., still choug down. 6:00 a.m. the manager comes to open chipotle. he sees the guy in there eating and says, hey, buddy, we're closed. that shredded beef bandit goes to mcdonald's next door and then disappears before you can say two all beef pattys, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun. >> it's a commercial, not a crime.

so good you break in if they're not open. >> reporter: in chinatown, pat collins, news 4. i think we just saw the beginnings of chipotle's new ad strategy there, chuck. >> yeah. pat going old school on the big mac menu. >> i haven't been able to rattle that off since i was about ten years old so kudos to pat. >> haven't had the need to. >> no. no. hey, as we head out the door this morning, it's going to be nice for folks not to have to be scraping ice off their glass. >> it's january. you're still going to need your winter coat. >> yeah. >> but there's no scraping along the windshield, none of that digging the car out and all of that bitter cold air that was locked in place where the better part of a 2 1/2 week stretch is officially out of here. temperatures made it up to 50 degrees. our first above average day since christmas eve. it has been a long stretch very cold weather. 34 now

get outside the beltway and away from the heat island and the waters, it gets colder. 27 in fredericksburg, 28 in leesburg, 20 in rockville. out across central virginia. a cold start this morning, but typically cold. not that industrial strength cold that we've been dealing with. if you're going to be out at the bus stop today, you can leave your umbrella home. not much from 20ed to 40s. you may have all of the winter clothes around. really the medium coat and a scarf. >> i think that will just about cover it. not much of a need for a pair of sunglasses. doesn't look like a lot of clouds, but the clouds will thicken up as we go through the course of the day.

until late thursday afternoon. then you may need it up until the first part of the weekend. future weather, skies going mostly cloudy between now and 5:00 in the afternoon. could have some patchy fog around late tonight into early tomorrow morning as the warmer, more moist air tries to run up over the very cold ground. there's going to be a lot of ground sweat, wet pavement even though we aren't going to have much in the way of rain drops. there's your planner then. 4 today lots of clouds, typically chilly. highs in the 40s. we'll take a look at the whole ten day forecast coming up. all this week we are working for you to dig your way out of debt and keep it that way. coming up, some tips on improving your credit score. and ahead in our next half hour, a teacher slapped with handcuffs at a school board eting. meth

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now that the holidays are over, a lot of you are starting to get a fresh look at your credit card bills. according to wallet hub, 29% of people say they over spent during the holiday season. overall, 62% of people plan to spend less this year than last. so, are you digging out of debt? join the millions of people trying to do the same thing. because they're deep in the hole, the more your credit score can suffer. this morning, consumer reporter susan hogan is working for you to improve your score by 20 points. >> okay. so the average credit score is around 679, this is according to wallet hub. a lot of people have some room for improvement and you could actually save a lot of money as a result. first, what is your credit score? you can get it for a small fee from the credit bureaus or you can ask your bank. sometimes they will offer it to you for free. knowing what your score is really gives you an

sense of your starting point and enables you to track your progress over time. the best way to improve your credit is to maintain an open credit card account that is in good standing. that means the card will then report positive information to the major credit bureaus each month. if you don't have a credit standing necessary to qualify for a normal credit card, apply for what's called a secured credit card. this is really a great tool for rebuilding damaged credit. don't get close to your credit limit. credit scoring models look at how close you are to being maxed out. keep your balances low. one other thing that will improve your credit score, only apply for the credit you need. if you apply for a lot of credit cards over a short period of time, it may appear to lenders that your financial circumstances have changed for the negative. back to you. "news 4 today" starts now. now on "news 4 t

to a tragic end. what we're learning about the death of a prince george's county man who had dementia. >> looked over and the trees are coming down. >> chaos continues to sweep across california after a powerful overnight storm. the latest on the search and rescue efforts after the most recent rain and mudslides. and call it the race to the white house, kind of. how you can get a gig as one of the nats racing presidents. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. that's a tough job to do. can you imagine? >> heavy. >> run really fast. >> it always looks uncomfortable but fun. >> in a minute. >> you'd be so good at it. >> i've raced one of those presidents. >> did you win? i hope so. >> barely. barely. >> sometimes they knock you down. knock you down. >> dirty runners. >> politics is a dirty sport. >> this is the truth. >> chuck bell.

folks for the first day in a while we're not in weather alert mode, which is a nice thing. does not mean we're not still dealing with the effects of a weather. >> to the george washington middle school is closed because of a pipe burst in the electrical room. all activities in the room or school grounds are canceled today. also, the loudoun county court complex will open on time after it was evacuated yesterday because of a pipe that burst. now let's turn to storm team 4. what do you have, guys? >> just a little bit of typically cold weather. it is still january after all. the real bitter stretch is long gone now. so first thing you need to know about the weather, ah, that's more like it. just a little chilly out there. nothing really all that crazy. some milder days are ahead. we might be near 60 degrees on friday, but it will be rainy. we need the rain.

winters on record so the chances for as much as an inch of rain between thursday night and saturday morning is very, very good news. the cold weather for cold weather lovers comes back on sunday. right now to get your wednesday morning started, we're mostly in the 20s to around 30 degrees out there as you're planning out your day today. a lot of clouds around. probably won't need the sunglasses. you also will, melissa, not need the umbrella or windshield wipers. >> we're working back to where we need to be. thank you for that, chuck. inner loop and the beltway is getting by there. rest of the beltway is looking quite good. we can see inner loop and outer loop is nice and green this morning. you have one thing happening here in alexandria area, north quaker lane between trinity and janneys lane. we'll take a look at 270 and 66

coming up. 4:29 now. following several breaking news stories. first, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the president from starting daca. they're known as d.r.e.a.m.ers. the ruling requires the department of homeland security to resume accepting renewal applications from people who are already protected under daca. there was no immediate reaction from the white house. this morning the threat of a tsunami is over for people from puerto rico and the caribbean islands. a 7.6 earthquake hit the coast of hon ndur russ and the cayman islands. no reports of damage. chaos is sweeping across southern california. more than five inches of rain fell in the burn area of the so-called thomas fire. a massive runoff sent mud and debris slamming into homes on

tuesday. m monticeto was the hardest hit area. we're tracking the latest news on this. >> aaron and eun, at least 13 people have been killed, dozens of others are injured at the massive mudslides you were just showing. we're about to show you a rescue by the u.s. coast guard. take a look at this. tuesday in santa barbara, you can see a mother and her newborn baby off to one of the crew members. there's a family of five in there including two other young children. there was another rescue we saw that brought one man to tears. >> we heard a little baby. we dug down and found a little baby. we got it out, got the mud out of its mouth. i hope it's okay. they tookit