stereotypes and sççícliches. back to you. darcy spencer?,x live for u outside the embassy. >> there's a lot of coverage on many news networks. >> including cnn where don lemon and anderson cooper had very strong reactions. listen as anderson cooper got emotional on the air. >> let me be clear tonight. the people of haiti have been through more, they've been through more, they've withstood more rkt they fought back against more injustice than our president ever has. >> today marks eight years since a devastating earthquake hit haiti. you might other, anderson cooper spent a lot of time in haiti covering that earthquake. you'll see the video here. don lemon opened his show calling president trump t4jz "racist." he went on to say the comments made by the commander in chief were "disgusting." >> stay with us all morning, and

white house adviser steve bannon is set to testify before the house intelligence committee next week. this is part of the investigation into russian meddling in our election. sources say it will happen next tuesday. bannon ran the trump campaign in the final months and served as the top adviser until getting fired last august. lass week the new book "fire and fury" quoted bannon from during the 2016, calling his comments treasonness. news 4's tracie potts will be live to break down what we may hear in that testimony. chris lawrence has the latest on the deadly mudslides in california. what's going on now? >> aaron and eun, rescue crews are hoping for a miracle as they search for survivors of the deadly mudslides. frank frankly, that search is more desperate by the hour.

at least 17 people, some as young as 3 years old, to as old as 89 have been killed. more than 40 others are still missing. one woman says she had to be carried out of her home by firefighters when the mud started to pour in. >> i had no idea what a flash flood was until i saw this torrid raging river coming down with cars and rocks. >> yes. it's not just liquid. you're talking about a massive amount of debris coming with that mud. it has destroyed at least 65 homes, damaged between four and 500 others. we should mention, authorities say some of those on the missing list, they may simply be out of town or not able to get in touch with their family and friends. we're certainly, certainly hoping for the very best. aaron, back to you. >> chris, thank you. it's 4:32 now. now to a developing story. for the second night in a row, someone was killed on a stretch of branch avenue near temple

6:00 last night. the woman died at the hospital. police say the driver of the suv stayed on the scene. we now know the name of the man killed on wednesday night on branch avenue, just a couple of blocks away. another vehicle near st. barnabas road. new this morning, we're getting a first look at the suspect in the double stabbing at central high school in prince george's county. 19-year-old edwin martinez is in jail and charged with two counts of attempted murder. two counts of assault and a weapons charge. police tell us the stabbing stemmed from an argument between the suspect and victims over a female student. the victims are both in stable condition at a hospital with g injuries. the deadly smoke incident in le en fant plaza was three years ago today. care glover was killed and others sickened by smoke

the station. the victims' families press on. the other remaining cases are scheduled for march. if there is a trial, it could begin late next year. a prince george's county school ceo, kevin maxwell, will appear before the house delegation in annapolis today. algtss allegations of grade changing is the focus. an audit of the system found staff changed grades after quarterly cutoff dates and received little oversight from the district. the county has been asked to submit a plan for improvement. 4:34 now. students can return to george washington middle school in alexandria. the school was shut down for three days because of a burst water pipe. that pipe soaked an electrical grid and cut off power, water and the fire alarm system. but after some of the repairs, the school says the fire marshal has given them the okay to bring kids back into the

4:35 right now. let get another check on weather and traffic. >> we'll have a look -- >> good morning. >> melissa is going to tell us about the commute in a second. >> yes. >> first, we'll check in with sheena and chuck because warm right now but a big change on the way. >> something is out of kilter when it's above 60 degrees before the sun is up in january. >> i like it. >> of course you do. >> i liked it too. i know melissa likes it and eun. >> this is a welcome change. >> i did a long walk with the dogs yesterday. >> it is going to be short-lived. this type of weather won't last very long. we have rain on the radar. this is going to be an issue for the morning commute. we have rain moving through. we've already seen rain overnight. the roads are already pretty wet. around the beltway, we have a good amount of light steady rain falling. clinton seeing heavy rain moving over the beltway. as we look farther south up from fredericksburg this morning, all along 95, tha

continuing to see that pretty steady rainfall. like chuck mentioned, temperatures are around 60 degrees and the sun isn't even up. we're looking at the low 60s through the area. believe it or not. bus stop for the kids. they'll need the rain coat, the rain boots this morning. expect the rain to continue through the afternoon. maybe a few breaks by 3:00 p.m. more rain later tonight. the timing of that coming you. melissa mollet is here with a problem in gaithersburg, melissa. >> this could be a big issue for folks that take 28 into work and school. right now, 28 at schiff lee square, lanes are blocked both ways because of a pole and wires down from overnight. a warning for you. we spoke with montgomery county police. they're telling us a couple minutes ago that pepco is on the way. hopefully they get there quickly and get this out of the way before it kicks in. inner loop and outer loop looking okay. all of the screen showing you where it's raining around town. do see a little bit of red on the outer loop afr

we'll look at that and see if anything is happening there. railroad gate malfunctioning in waldorf. no train there this morning. aaron? >> melissa, thank you. a hospital patient not able to verbally communicate and tossed on the streets. what a maryland hospital is saying about the video that now has some people calling for an investigation. fridays are payday for a lot of people. but this morning, there is a new warning about your paycheck. what you need to pay close attention to to make sure you're getting the right amount. it brings a different meaning to beating someone in a debate. what governor terry mcauliffe of

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g! aw, you bet i am! the egg white grill. so you can bring on the day. welcome back. a university of maryland hospital is calling a breakdown a failure. >> this video of a young woman wandering near the baltimore emergency room sparked this response. she was escorted out of the hospital and left at a bus stop in nothing but a hospital gown and socks. one woman says she saw this patient in the e.r. and saw a disturbing exchange with hospital staff. >> she was sitting on the ground like the hospital floor and they were telling her to get up. talking to her nasty. like get up, get off the floor li

>> she says she could tell the woman was disoriented and not able to verbally communicate. a family friend says the woman suffers from schizophrenia and on the autism spectrum. the hospital is taking the matter very seriously and conducting a thorough review of what happened and how to respond. lawmakers in maryland are working quickly to push a paid sick leave bill into law. yesterday the house voted in favor of overriding governor hogan's veto of the bill. 15 or more employees to provide five days of paide1 sick leave. if the senate votes to override the veto, that bill becomes law in 30 days. the senate could take the vote as early as today. it's 4:41. if you are walking to work or metro this morning, don't forget the umbrella. sheena, my hair is

>> mine is a little frizzy this morning, eun. it depends what kind of hair type you have. don't forget the umbrellaçó or e rain boots or rain coat. the roadsxd are wet from rain overnight. coming up, we'll talk about how long you can expect this to last, plus big weekend changes. eun just said my hair is a mess too. apparently, it happens to all of us. all hair types. it's not the story of a 63-year-old freshman you probably think it is. meet the woman studying at the same campus that sold her ancestors. >> i am living the dream and the answered prayers

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the week. if you didn't see the radar earlier, here it is. we have quite a bit of rain moving down the beltway, down 95. if you're driving, keep in mind, you have to give yourself extra time on the roads and a little slower out there and grab the umbrella. more details on how long this will last with chuck coming up. pí÷ thank you, sheena. developing right now, in just a few days, former white house adviser steve bannon is set to testify on capitol hill. >> nbc news learned that he will testify before the house intelligence committee on the russia investigation. here's what could come from the testify as tracie potts live on capitol hill.$x tracie, good morning. >> good morning. that's supposed to happen on tuesday. we've learned that bannon has hired a lawyer, not for the larger russia investigation but just to help him through this particular house intelligence hearing appearance next tuesday. bannon, of course, has recently drawn fire for his comments in the book "fire and fury" that he backed off of. now, he will

oath before this committee, asked about what was going on inside the trump white house, inside the trump campaign and personal knowledge of connections with russia or russian officials. >> tracie, people are outraged over the president's comments on haiti and other african countries. can we expect to hear from more lawmakers today? both weighed in yesterday. >> democrats, republicans, a lot of people saying this was completely inappropriate. haiti's ambassador says it was based on a stereotype. the president using an expletive to describe immigrants from countries like haiti, from african nations, from el salvador $eh salvador. saying that instead, we would be better off trying to get people in european countries, places like norway. there was a firestorm of response from this.çó the white house defense is that the president was supporting merit-based immigration and that it was not as many have said, a

racially charged comment. >> tracie potts on the hill for us this morning. thank you. >> chris lawrence traveled to haiti, covered the earthquake there eight years ago while working for cnn. what's your sense of the communities there from your time covering the earthquake? >> boy, where to start. you learn a lot about a people when you see them at their worst, not their best. certainly their worst. this was a gigantic punch that just devastated the country. we got down there within 24 hours of that earthquake happening. i can't even describe to you the smell that these families lived with, not just for days, for weeks with their family members buried in these homes and these bodies that were rotting.

completely devastated and collapsed. it could have been very ugly. it almost -- i almost want to say it should have been very ugly. but what i saw was a people who were incredibly resilient, incredibly caring. i watched people with their bare hands, i watched them bleed from their knuckles and their hands digging through that rubble to try to help the first responders get to anyone who was there. i watched the haitian doctors treating these children. you know, under the worst possible circumstances. so i just have to say, my view of the haitian people was these incredibly hard working, compassionate, diligent people who, boy, just suffered one of the most horrendous calamities cameut

helping each other through this. >> it's understandable how when we saw anderson cooper and yourself when you're talking about a people who suffered so much and lived to talk about it and said they would move forward and carry on. >> i can't speak to don's comments. but i can tell you, i was down there with anderson literally within 24 hours that of earthquake hitting and was down there for weeks with him. i mean, you can't live like that and be among the haitian people for that long and see what saw and experience what he experienced without it being personal, without -- you can't just take that comment and sort of be this journalist and i'm going to look at this very straight and narrow. it touches you. i can see where that comment touched him, maybe hurt him a little bit. >> it did hit him. chris, thanks so much. >>

you may want to start checking your paycheck carefully next month. the irs rolled out new tax rate guidelines yesterday. it was for companies trying to figure out how much to withhold from your paycheck. the treasury secretary says you should start seeing changes no later than february 15th. next month the irs will provide an online calculator so you can figure out whether you're being paid the right amount. residents of the east end mobile home park will be able to stay in their homes. this is a story we've been following for months. the city of manassas says the noncatholic profit for housing was able to purchase the part. they couldn't afford to fix a leaky system becoming a public health issue. the residents were afraid they would have to move out. catholic charities stepping in to help them out. former chef, 63 years old, going back to school at georgetown university. >> she's a

of former men who were sold at slaves. her journey started last year when georgetown apologized for selling slaves to raise money for the university. she learned her great, great grandparents were among the slaves sold. the school then offered her and other descendants special admission status. she decided to go in honor of her great great grandparents. >> little girls grow up think about being princesses. my grandmother always told me i was a queen and she new her grandmother, maryellen queen. i couldn't do this or be here without feeling them. >> she has a little more time before she has to declare a major, but she's leaning towards studying history. >> the magnitude of what's happening, hard to wr

everything to honor her ancestors. incredible. >> expect she'll learn more about her family this time. want to say congratulations to clarksburg high school for a pretty successful ted talk event. i was able to participate in the ted x news event yesterday. i think we have videos. it's in upper montgomery county. there were several speakers around the future is loaded. spoke about working hard and sharing your successes. a shoutout to matthew -- for pulling off a great ted talk event at the school yesterday. >> look at you. >> the twitter picture about the weather. >> you sure did. i'm not making this up. it was your tweet. >> i think somebody else tagged you and i shared. >> anyway, it was a really cool event. montgomery county police chief was a speaker, former secretary surgeon general of the navy. a lot of great folks sharing a lot of informative and inspiring comments yesterday with the students.

>> i talked a lot. >> we try wrapping him up around here, good luck with that. >> we've got big changes coming our way weatherwise. you will notice the difference for sure. you can't notice this change. you may be unable to feel anything. four things to know about the next couple of days. spring showers today. in the 60s with rain. tomorrow, the winter wind returns bitter cold sunday and staying cold all the way through. if you've got monday off for dr. king holiday, it's going to be cold then. remember to bring your pets indoors. not all pets necessarily look like indoor pets. it's cold sensitive. >> :l stole that from my friend in oklahoma. this is what they do in oklahoma. they bring the horses in just in case. >> it's real?ñi >> it could be real. i don't know. here's what i know is real. the temperature in tulsa yesterday dropped 35 degrees in

be ready. that kind of shocking change will be arriving here tomorrow. the change line arrives here about the time the sun comes up tomorrow. ahead of it, it's all about the warm and the rain today. raining across all corners of the capitol beltway now. it will be raining off and on in spits and starts throughout the remainder of the day today. but then the temperatures plummet. today's high temperature, 67 degrees. you'll like that. tomorrow, how about 39. that will be at about 6:00 a.m. we'll be below freezing before mid afternoon with windchills in the teens tomorrow night dropping into the teens and low 20s. so super cold weather coming back in really soon. melissa mollet, how are things coming on a friday morning? >> not bad overall. we have a couple of problems. this one in gaithersburg, chuck, could cause issues for folks this morning. this is 28 at schiffely square. all lanes blocd.

it out of the way. the green you're seeing, the rain falling going to cause a problem for folks as well. 355 in frederick, at the mond monocacy river bridge, we thought it would last until february. 270 at clarksburg road, same area, just a bit south, you can see the fog we're dealing with around town as well. aaron? >> melissa, thank you. breaking news just coming in about a homicide investigation under way in thanks for coming! under way in congratulations! my first customer! the egg white grill. so you can bring on the day.

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virginia governor terry mcauliffe is on his way out of office and many belieei he's looking at running for president. when asked by chris matthews how he'd react to president trump possibly trying to intimidate him during debates, mcauliffe said he'd punch him in the face. he jokingly said -- ralph northam will be sworn into office tomorrow. a local youth leader and the son of a mega church pastor in prince william county is sentenced to five months in jail. >> jason baird is convicted of exposing himself to and touching an underage girl. she told jurors it happened from 2014 to 2015 multiple times. we spoke to a jur

he misused his position as a youth pastor. but his lack of any prior record was a factor in his sentence. here at the live desk, we're following breaking news in charles county where detectives are asking for your help to solve a homicide. take a look at your screen. detectives say a woman's body was found last night near smallwood drive in waldorf. the only sort of identification are very distinct tattoos. one is an angel, the other a design. the angel is on her left shoulder blade, the design on her inner right wrist. if you think you know who this is or anything about her murder, police are asking you to call right away. at the live desk, chris lawrence, you're watching "news4 today." right now own "news4 today," outrage after

the president accused of using an expletive about immigrants. it's a story you'll be hearing about all day today. a look at a student accused of stabbing classmates. the caps will be unhappy. >> fans too. the caps winning ways crushed. the trouble on the ice that shattered their success. it is 5:00 a.m. good morning. i'm aaron gilchrist. i'm eun yang. you want to leave yourself extra time if you're heading out on the roads. we're seeing rain. you know what that does to our traffic. it's going to slow everybody down this morning. >> melissa mollet will let us know about trouble spots this morning. first let's check the forecast with meteorologist chuck bell and sheena parveen. >> the weather pendulum has taken a big swing to one side today. >> it's going to come back full force today. >> i don't like these temperatures, chuck. we're around 60 degrees this morning. but we're going to be 30 degrees colder going through the weekend. get ready for that. r