dark for quite some time still to come. keep your eyes open for kids on the side of the road early this morning at those early bus sto waiting points. sunshine start to finish today. temperatures near 50 by 9:00. your halloween planner for trick or treater time by 5:00 in the afternoon. are you kidding me? 70 degrees by 5:00. sun is down by 6:09. temperatures will stay in the mild 60s for trick or treating timetonight. more about how much longer we get to keep the warm weather coming up. for now let's go to melissa. you didt put your baby in a pumpkin, did you? >> maybe at one point. no this year. too big. alexandria southbound 395. s's something weird m do and i'm a weird mom. two left lanes get by newing ton, southbound two left lanes get by the paving. staying in virginia, 66 in bound fairfax county parkway o the beltway on time there. 63 miles per hour will get you there in nin minutes rightnow. that's not a problem at all.

nice and clear and nothing really in your way. inner loop nea rte 1. inner loop at pennsylvania one right lane gets by that work zone. eun? >> melissa, thank you. 4:31. breaking news right now. there has been another dea shooting in d.c. police say the shooting happened overnight near alabama avenue and east street in southeast. you're looking at video from the scene. this is the 137th deadly shooting in d. this year. just to give you some perspective, d.c. had a total of 96 deadly shootings all of last year. news 4's molette green will have a live report com ag up 5:00. new developments this morning in the fallout over the death of university of maryland football player jordan mcnair. the 19-year-old suffered later.roke and died weeks >> a toxic culture led to his death. esafter two igations the board of regents is allowing coach d.j. durn to keepis

job. he's beenrl unf blamed for the dysfunction. the athleticirtor will keep his job andoming up at 5:00 they'll have reaction from mcnair's >family. e continue to follow the latest from the deadly pittsburgh synague shooting. today there are five more funerals for the victims killed. yesterday the president along with other family members traveled to pittsburgho lay flowers at the victims' memorials. he spent time inside the synagogue yesterday. orwe'll also learn m about the officers who were injured in the deadly shooting. the latestti on their condis coming up in the next half hour. this is the first morning that n families are living side the d.c. general shelter. ur cameras were there as mayor muriel bowser chained the doors eyesterday. th final four families that lived there moved out on monday. they've been moved out into one

of the smaller shelters across the city. >> want filies who are experiencing emergencies to have a safe place to land so that they can take care of employment, take care of health, take care of training and provide a better life for their family. >> perhaps the saddest case to come outthe shelter was the disappearance of a eslicia rudd. d.c. general which was once home to 170 families will be torn down in the coming mohihs. new morning, a man was hit and killed by a tractor-trailer while changing a tire. nowirginia state police need your help tracking down the tractor-trailer. police say this happened late last night eastbound i-66 near the exit for route 522 in warren county. there is a mcdonald's near this exit. police say they could only describe thera tractorer as white in color. anyone with any information on this case is asked to call virginia state police. c> this morning a major change

ising to what's dubbed as one of the most dangerous intersections in ou area. a speed camera will be up and running at the intersection of old fort road and indian head highway. news 4's nicoleacobs will be live with more details on those speed cameras. teames whi bolger, the mob boss who became famous is now dead. today we could learn more about his death inside the hazelton federal prison in west virginia. the 89-year-old was serving a life sentence in role for 11 murders. special counsel robert mueller is looking into reports of a young woman accused of contacting them. >> news 4's tracie potts will have more on the story in a live report in a few minutes. tke a loo at this video of

dupont circle tradition here in d.c. theel 17th street high race. last night dozens of drag queens showed off their elaborate ou oits and tookff down the street. some of these are guys in dresses, not drag queens. >> some sprinted. look at that costume! while others, you know what, they were tre to strut their stuff, get the atisntion. th event is a halloween favorite celebrating the lgbtq community. two men t decided race each other from bar to bar in drag. it started a few years ag >> they went all out, the head gear with the crowns and the wings and they light up and glow, everhing. 4:35. we're just hours away from the start of trick or treat. comi up, we'll have the reminders for you and your family to keep our streets safe. plus, making your next ube de safer with the touch of a button. button. the new this isn't an election.

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youtching "news 4 today." it is 4:39 on halloween morning. ieve it?b just like that we're at the end of october and these are some nkgreat costumes t to everyone out there who has tagged nbc washington in all your social media posts. that's aar and chuckell if you didn't know being good sports. >> not necessarily a costumes but the promotion, people asked us tout on some masks and we did. >> i'm surprised. you usually no. we like to dress our pets up in costumes. ly illium not let me dress him up. >> you know who that is harry potter. >> those are angie's kids. thereyre some actua very scary numbers about pedestrians on halloween. >> children are four times more likely to beit by car on

halloween than any other day. so here are 4 things to know for a safe halloween celebration. these aren't just for the kids. rst and most obviously, watch for kids in the streets. sometimes they wear dark costumes. be careful. avoid neighborhoo short cuts. slow down. a person is twice as likely to survive being hit by a car going 25 miles per hour than 35. that's 1 miles, that's a big difference. and, fourth, drive sober. almost 1 in 5 fatal pedestrian accidents on halloween involves adriver. >> these are dnk mostly for dr tonight. we are still a couple o months away from christmas, but out at national harbor thingsst ting to look like one of the most popular holiday classics. sculptors are working with more than 2 million pounds of ice to recreate the scene from a charlie brown christmas. >> that's a classic. >> this is for the popular ice

attraction at the guy lord resort. inside things are kept at a frid 9 degrees. eun and i have both beens insi of ting. >> i don't like it. >> rough time in there. you can expect to see characters from charlie bro f andr two story ice slides. should be ready in the next couple of wee o and stayn through the holiday season. >> it's the great pumpkin charlie brown would be so fitting and then you can watch charlie brown christmas. the cute tree with a couple of ornaments. >> it's been so long. ♪ ♪ come on.gh >> all rit. 4:41 right now. chuck? >> you know what i'm talking about? >> the tree with the one on it that flops over? >> yes, thank you. >> of coue i remember. fall foliage finally starting to come into view. come into view. if you're announcer: the following will surprise you about barbara comstock: barbara comstock: "i think roe vs wade shoulde

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being held in just a matter of days? 31% of millennials say they'll definitely go to the polls and vote in the mid term election. 26% say that they'll probably vote. 23%, tncy'retain about whether or not they will. and 12% probably won't do it. d 7% will definitely not .vo almost half of millennials potn to for democrats. 29% say republicans and 21% still undecided. they were also asked what do you think is the most important problem facing the country right now? the number one answer was -- >> with the election now less than a week away, some ride share companies are making it easier for you to get to the polls. capital bike share is offering free rides on november 6th. use the code bike to vote on the capital bike share app to get the day pass and lyft is taking

50% off the rides across the country. they're giving free rides to under served communitiesith the help of some non-partisan, non-profit partners which i think i a fabulous service, give people access to vote. now to a potential plot against specialobounselt mueller. he's asking the fbi to look into reports that a woman was offered money to make sexual assault allegations against him. >> news 4'ss tracie pos on capitol hill. tracie, how did he find out about all of this?te >> rep apparently from the media, from reporters who say this woman approached h saying that she had been offered money to make sexual harassment andal sexu misconduct claims against mueller reportedly when they worked together in the '70s although the law firm where he worked in the '70s say they have no one on e file asr having worked for them. so now the fbi is checking out wh they believe, at least the reporters believe, to be some

sort of scam possibly to discredit the man in charge of the russia investigation. the special counsel's offe said the immediately referred this to the fbi. eparate from all of that, a republican lobbyist here in washington has said that some of those victims are coming forward at a news conference he's got scheduled tomorrow. >> tracie potts live u f on capitol hill. tracie, thank you. 4:47 right now. we're learning more about two fairfax county sistersdeound in new york city. their mother received a strange phone call the day before teir bodies w discovered. last weeks officers found the saudi immigrants duct taped together in the hudson river. the two were reported missing in august. their mother says someone from the saudi embassy called her and ordered the family to leave the u.s. because her daughters applied for political ylum. the nypd has sent detectives to virgininvestigate. >> are there any clues in their past life that would lend to why

they wer in new york, why they might have left virginia and anything else? >> now investigators are still not calling this homicide. we had learned that rikanna was enrolled at george mason nersity and left in the spring. 4:48. the next time you hop into an uber, the whole ride is going to be safer. dispatchers will know the make, model, license plate number of your uber but most importantly they'll know your exact location. this not only protects riders but drivers as well. >> i had a screaming, yelling customer thawas threatening me in my vehicle and, yeah, 911 could not hear b mause of the customer yelling in the background. >> now 911 can automatically dispatch officers to the vehicle's rlocation. more information on how they use the safety shield, go to the nbc washington app and search

uber 911. a group of lifelong friends who have shared everything is now sharing 1 million. the awesome 11 from arlington won the mega millions prize last week here. you see them accepting that big check. the group buys tickets every week for the mega millions. >> wow. t >> l week was their lucky week. the ticket matched the five nning numbers and only missed the megaball. their ticket was one two virginia tickets to win the million dollar prize in that historic billion dollar drawing. >> there you go for perseverance. glkeep buying it every sweek and hope for the next. >> you might hit it big with your friends. as a kid, the worst part of halleenas getting stuck with a bunch of candy that you hate to eat. >> amelia draper put this twitter poll, candy rcorn, yes no. big thumbs down for me. >> no! >> this year reese's peanut buttercup coming to the rescue. it looks like a vending chmaine. kids and adults can trade in the

candy they don't want fo reese's peanut buttercups. >> this is the machine of my dreams. ther is a huge market forthis. this is everyone's favorite, everyone meaning me. according to reese's survey, 90% of people say they have traded r wish they could have traded unwanted candy on halloween. that's only available in new york. that's too bad. i would dp almost anything in exchange for a reese's peanut buttercup. genius. marketing genius, too. >> smart. it's the halloween costume that's making many do a double i kept seeing this on instagram. beyonce takes t o iconic toni braxton look. >> i didn'ze reahat was her. >> i thought it was toni braxton. i didn't look. >> come on. >> she re-created the debut bum cover. that's beyonce on the right. >> she says phoni braxton. i didn't look at the face very

closely. even toni braxton reposted the photo, spot on rtrayal. >> and she praised toni for being a trail blazer in the business, she looked up to her. >> job well done. >> there you go. >> what are your lit ge ghosts an blintz going out as? >> i have a fortuteller and ninja. >> 13, right? >> just not -- >> i was done by 13. >> really? >> i kept doing it all the way past college. >> you can get great, can right? free candy? >> i'm not kidding. >> in vginia it's illegal to trick or treat after 13? >> it is? >> in some places. >> not all of iavirg. >> right. >> stay out ofer chuck. >> i may or may not have been doing it. >> if you have a goo costume, i'm okay with it. >> for me at 51 i'll showt up eun's door asking for something. be like, get out of here. parts kies for the early of your halloween morning. typically chilly out there. temperatures down near 50 by the

bay but you get away from the water, mosy in the 40s. get away from the city it drops into the 30s. 39 in prince william county,nc ster, poolsville, maryland. 49 degrees at national airport. planner for halloween after a chilly start this morng, it's going to be a delightfully mild afternoon. plenty of sunshe today. afternoon highs in the upper 60 and s. yes. that will feel nice. southwesterly flowpill k us very warm again for tomorrow. tomorrow though unlike today te we'll have q a bit more in the way of cloud cover by tomorrow afternoon. rain chances move in on friday. so your trick or treat planner thenor this evening, the sun goes down at 6:09. temperatures though really mild. 70 degrees at 5:00. mid 60s at 6:00 and even for kids that are out past 7 or 8:00, temperatures still 60 degrees. that is a bonus for sure. tomorrow even warmer.br

zy, warm tomorrow. high 75 degrees. but southwestinds tomorrow and increasing clouds will make it a little less beautiful of a day than today. 70% chance fortaaining as early as soon as you get up on friday morning and that rain chance could hang into the first half of your saturday morning as well ekend highs back typically into the 50s. redskins foreca for sunday coming up. melissa, i'm forecasting a redskins tn. >> ink that's absolutely right. they are going to win. absolutely. college park, inner loop of the beltway, that's the only thing left. two left lanes getting by that work zone. restf theeltway is quite good. beltsville southbound bw parkway. you can see the delays northbound and southbound through the section here this morning.e a littl bit slow. maybe allow a little extra time. 270, 70 down to the spur on time here no problems. 66 miles per hour getting through there in 27 we had some road work on 95 and

a hasall of that in virgi cleared the 66, 95 and 395. >> thank you, melissa. the wizards lost again. they wrapped up the five game win streak. tthey hope turn around quickly for the wi >> what's? >> ove. >> what's up, what's up, what's up? >>lex ovechkin hosted 80ds special nee children for a special skate. they tookor the ice f kids of all ages showing off their skills and learning some new ones too. this is the fifth year ovechkin has hosted this event. >> givin away hockey sticks, just kind of really being out there. i think it was a continued celebration of the stanley cup win, he just feels energized. >> that's nicim to see take that celebrity and make sure people are benefitting from it,

too. these days kids love to play games on the smart phones. adults, too. there's a new study that f some apps may be selling their stuff without your consent. >> consumer reporter susan hogan is working with what you need to know about your kids and your money and protect them. >> reporter: 95% of apps for kids who are five or younger actually use at least one type of advertising tactic. researchers from the university of michigan looked at 135 apps, someou which themselves as educational games. all of the free apps they checked out l used atst one type of advertising strategy, anything from pop-up video ads to banner ads or even characters to persuade children to make in app purchases. researchers say children don't know how to recognize ads like adults do. theampaign for a free childhood sent a letter to the federal trade commission asking for an investigation. in the meantime, if you have downloaded any apps for children make sure to take a close look

at them to make sure they don't ny ads that could influence them. also make sure you disablein th pp purchases on your phone beforehanding it over to them as well. back to you. still ahead o "news 4 today," details on the changes being made to one of our region's deadliest intersections to keep yousa r. plus, anger and division at the university of maryland. theseesults of t two investigations into the death of football player jordancnair e out and not everyone is happy. how students are planning to protest this week when "news 4 today" continues. stay with us.

"news 4 today" starts now. ki k things off this morning with a live look outsid a brisk but calm start to the day. not a lot of people out and about on this halloween morning. that will very likel change as nighttime approaches. >> all kinds of ghouls and g blynns, witches, all of that tough. >> good morning, everybody. i' aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. the weather appears to be playing nice this morning. what does that mean for trick or treaters? melissa mollet is standing by with a look atom thete in first 4 traffic and meteorologist chuck bell with the wonderful halloween forecast.. looking go >> looking very good. mother nature coming in as glen da the goo witch, not the wicked witch of the north.

welcome news. very pleasant day to be outside for today. we can take a peek at max 1 potentially. there's an early lean on what the weekend is looking like. saturday, a little on the showery sidey especially satur morning. by saturday afternoon things will start to dry out a bit. sunday i looking great. don't forget to set your clocks back saturday night when you go to bed before y're up on saturday morning. you'll be early or late depending how that works. i'll be back in a couple of minutes with a look at youree hall planner. how about 72 degrees for a high te perfect trick or treating weather as well. melissaou mollet,e never been the wicked witch of the north, have you? >> no, no, no. i was dorothy one year. >> wicked witch of the west. >> not on my board. >> to your north, to your north. inner loop andp outer l clear. earlier road work there in college park. that is now gone. beltsville, southbound bw parkway. left lane getting by the work