it. and we're working for your health. two weeks before thanksgi warning about a bacteria outbreak and turkeys. news 4 begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. i'll take a look at the radar, if you are headed outdoors tonight, you may want to rethink your plans or at least what you're going to wear. >> let's get straight to the storm center where doug and amelia are tracking tonight's weather activity. ten of the lastav6 fridayse had some form of rain. this i gettingincredible. >> it really is just amazing. the fridays that we've seen, we've seen so much rain every friday leading up to the weekend, and every time we've seen a the rain we've seuch cooler weekend, and it really is because of the cold coming in for this weekend. >> this is going to be theke coldest w so far this season. we're talking about 20s and 30s out there sunday morning. >> and we have a freeze warning in effect for areas that ve not yet seen the growing season come to an end. let's show you the rain out

there right now coming down heavily in parts of the area. the heaviest rain starting to moveway up towards baltimore. this is the heaviest line right here. even around mtgomery county, loudoun county we're seeing the rain. a little bit in the way ofm respite froe heavier rain, but still more rain to come. as we widen out, you can see the heaviest rain moving to the north. here's the rain that we still see over the next couple of hours moving through the region, and then, again, behind this, guys, we just get cold, a freeze warning in efft tomorrow sught, not tonight. tomorrow night intay morning, and that includes areas along and east of i-95, southe maryland. you're not in it to the west because you noe longer h worry about a freeze. the growing season is over, but your numbers are in the upper 20s. we're talking really cold air. that's just a taste of things to come. we get even colder midweek. >> we break the pattern and it gets worse. >> yeah. storm team 4 is working for you even when they're off the

air. the hour-by-hour forecast is on the nbc wasngton app ytime, anywhere. download it on your phone or tablet for free. breaking right now, more than 100,000 homes threatened by fast-moving flames in northern and southern california. you're looking liv at the woolsley firers c southern california. we've learned five people have died in an area called paradise in northern california. ey were found inside torched vehicles. farther southear los angeles flames are threatening homes spreading to >> that area of southern california is already dealing with unbelievable lord. just yes a dozen people died in america's latest mass shootingow and their families lives are being threatened too. now to explain just how close this is, the buildin that was being used as an information center for victims' families, it's not a fire evacuation headquarters. jennifer bjorkland has the

latest. >> borderline b and grill, normally a place of music and dancing, now an active crime scene where 12 innocent people lost their lives. the community of thousand oaks, california, is grievin and trying to cope with unimaginable sorrow as we learn more about some of the victims. >> he used to love to go down to the adrderline. he a lot of friends down there. >> mark lost his son wednesday night. the 27-year-old navy veteran who survived the shooting in las vegas last yea could not escape the gunfire at the borderline. his father blames the shooter's ram pain on gun culture. vilify this ing to kid because he's got parents that are -- he's got parents that are grieving, too, and i feelmorry for t as well. >> still a mystery i what led up to the shooting and why ar this horrific ong, ain m killing spree. >> lived here ane with his

mom. he wouldn't come out that much, and when i did see him drive by, i'd wave at him. he did not wave back. >> the community mourns another senseless act of violence, nbc news, thousand oaks, california. we're following breaking news back here i ourarea. an arrest this afternoon in connection withth crime scene police say had been altered to look like a murder south sui >> a woman is in custody accused of killing her mother and her sister. let's head to fairfax county police headquarters andavid culver with the break in this case. >> reporter: lat today police briefing us on this arrest. they picked up megan hargan about three and a half hours from where we are just over the border in west virginia. detectives at this hour are interviewing her trying to understand why this woman allegedly shot and killed her own mom and sister.

>> fairfax county police detectives in west virginia questioning megan hargan. tonight the 35-year-old charged with two counts of first degree on july 14th, 2017, 23-year-old helen hargan and her mother, 63-year-old pamela hargan wed found d in their home. >> police initially believing it was a murder-suicide. it looked as though helen hargan shot and killed her mother pamela inside their home and then turned the gun on herself, a narrative that did not seem right to neighbors. >> cannot believe it. 's just unreal to me. >> reporter: police started questioning it, too, and quickly uncovered a familyin drama lving money, a dispute that turned deadly. >> megan hargan attempted fraudulent money transfershe fr mother's account on the day of the murders as well as the day before. >> >> reporter: shortly after the murders, search warrants filed suggested the crime scene may have been altered or staged.

>> and made to appear to be a murder suicide. >> police are not ruling out that more charges could come down: they're adding this y still a vctive case. coming up on news 4 at five i'm going to walk you through how police were able to track down the suspected avkiller. >> culver. >> thank you david. air force one is touching down in france, president trump meeting with world of a celebration to mark 100 years since the end of world war i. on his way out of town he stopped and talked with reporters and he had a lot to say about immigration and his controversial choice to put an unconfirmed candidate in charge of the justice department. blayne alexander tracking it all. can't end the week without a little more controversy? >> reporter: it's been a very, very busy week and promises to get busier next week. matt whitaker is the person you're talking abouteast

on a temporary basis. president trump explained why he put him in this position, but insisted it has nothing to do fith the russia investigation. president trump tly denying allegations that he chose matt whitaker for acting attorney general as a way to undermine special counsel robert man. he is a very respected man in the law enforcement community. >> the president in the same breath praising,ut thenng n.stance between himself and >> i didn't speak to matt whitakerbout it. i don't know matt whitaker. >> but just last month in a phone interview on fox news. >> i can tell you matt whitaker is a great guy. i mean, i know matt whitaker. >> whitaker facing fierce calls from democrats to recuse himself. >> i'm very worried. >> this after st comments from whitaker criticizing the russia investigation and this suggestion made a cable news pundit to cut mueller's budget.

>> his investigation grindsalo st a halt. >> i see different people at different timesoing on shows, am i supposed to say, oh, now he's never qualifiedo serve in government? >> president trump also talking immigration signing a proclamation toluimit a seekers. >> people can come in, but they have to come in through the ports of entry. >> and putting a positive spin on a new c appealsrt decision that blocks his administration from ending daca protection for undocumented immigrants brought here as children. >> finally, we've been waiting for that. >> the president saying he wants to see it go before the supreme court. ord back to that new asylum heindeg. we know nsiow that the aclu has already filed a lawsuit to chal nnge that order that would limit asylum seekers writing to the president we will see you in court. >> blayne alexander reporting live f us. comi up, michelle obama gets candid. >> her take on president trump

and she's opening up about life in the white house and how she used ivf to conceive. >>nd we're working for your health this evening with a thanksgiving treat. why you'll nee to check your turkey before you take it to the table. and working for your the morning about a new way scammers are robbing people of their money and their goodwill. and of course we'ree trackig ain across our area right now. still some moderate to heavy rain across parts of the area for the next couple of hours, even bigger news and one reason why there's a weathal t, not why there's a weathal t, not just the rain, is the t'

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we're in weather alert as we track yes, another rainy friday. it's going to be the coldest weekend so far this season. how to plan the rest of your night, doug will beack in three minutes. a consumer alert tonight about te of most popular payment apps. >> a new scam is targeting venmo users and paypal users are getting e-mails that may raise a few red flags. >> consumer reporter susan hogan working for you to help protect your money this evening. >> reporter: leon, there are two very important warnings that you alleed to hear. let's start with that paypal e-mail. here's what it looks like. you that t line tells you need to take action by january 27th in order to carry paypal balance. there's a link in the e-mail

that asks you to confirm your identity, which should raise a red flag, but this is a legitimate e-mail. paypal says it's asking users to confirm their identities in order to comply with government regulations. if you n't, you'll still be able to use your paypal account with your bank or credit card but won't be abl a to carry balance. while this particular e-mail is really from paypal, hackers are ou ely to copy it and send one with a malicious link instead. so if you are receiving an e-il asking you to confirm your identity, don't click on any links. open your web browser and type in paypal.com and log in.he you should see a message tider your alerts asking you to confirm your id. now to that warning for venmo users. we've learned a new scam is making the rounds where a stranger will ask to borrow your phone for whatever reason. while you're not looking, they're going to open the app and sy.d themselves mo there's an easy way to protect yourself.

open the settings in the venmo app and then turn on touch i.d. and then pin. you will have to enter your pin every time you send money, but at least you will be protected and of urse if you do l a stranger use your phone, keep an yay on what they're doing. is is reall important for college kids. the college kids are the ones who are borrowing their phones left and right with their friends. u never know. >> uh-huh. seen it many times. thanks, susan. we are just weeks away now from the biggest turkey time of the year, and tonight there's a new warning linked to tur keys.h centers for disease control said one person has died, more than 100 have gotten sick if a salmonella outbreakd lin to raw turkey. it's important to make sure your thanksgiving bird is well >>don they won't be celebrating any mor holidays after this one. the store is on a new list oft stores thae closing. theet rler will close 200

stores by the end of this year. the bethesda store is among those closing in february. if you bieve we are not the only ones out there, you can meet a lot of like-minded peopls in baltimore. >> alien-con kicks off today. it's a threeon day l convention aimed at seeking clarity on extra ter rest yawls. if you'r into that, get ready to dive into some alien theories.s ticket areuc around 60 b, and you don't have to bring your tinfoil hat. you can leave that at home. >> i lover s trek the next generation. >> you do? >> i still watch all those shs. >> same here. the original but not so much the new one. dougcan we get a little clarity on why we continue to have this rainy friday thing? >> somebody's against us. i don't know who it is. >> tt's your conspiracy? >> fridays are just going to give you rain.

it really is amazing how many fridays we've seen rain. not just rain, we've had quite a few fridays with over a half an inch to an inch of uprain, a of them over two inches of rain. it has been nasty on fridays and here we go again. g we'v the rain across the area. now notice how it's a little bit more scattered. there are some drier areas currently seeingte that mode rain around frederick and leesburg, southern maryland. some breaks along i-95 but still on the wet side. you can see a vittle widerw here. the heaviest of the rain came through about 3:00. now it's uphe towards philadelphia area bringing them heav rachinfall. here's the back edge. we're not totally done until we clear the front. that front has to come through. we could see a couple of more showers. how about what's going on to the north. look at this, guys. the first real snow of the season for places like albany, new york, around buffalo. numbers of four to seven inches. we're talking lake effect snow overplhe next c of days for those areas.

how about what we're dealing with right now? that's nasty friday night for sure. 52 degrees, winds out of the north at eight miles an hour. i told you yesterday we'd be in 50s in the asty, but a north and west much cooler. already 39 and rain in winchester. 41 towards martinsburg. that's just some nasty weather. 54 down towards cambridge and the patuxent river. much cooler and dreary back to the north and west tonight. going to be a bad one, and tomorrow a high of only 45. city.s in the breezy and cold and yeah, folks it is puffy coat time morrow. not just the coat, though, probably the hat. if you're a runner thinking about getting out there tomorrow morning, i want to show you what we're dealing with. here's the windchill at 11:00 a.m. 37 the windchill in d.c., 28 martinsburg, 29 in leesburg. that's really cold air. it's going to tick around for most of the weekend. because of that cold air tomorrownight, the winds begin

to relax, and this is a freeze warning i effect for tomorrow night. this includes areas olong and eai-95, and all of southern maryland, the northern neck over towards the eastern shore. a very cold night for sure. you're not in thewarning, that just means you've already seen a freeze nd the growing season is done for you, but you folks will get into the 20sac towards that area. how about the next cup o oupl days, 45 tomorrow, 47 on sunday after thatmo freeze. 38 oay. that's when the storm team 4 winter outlook comes out on monday, and then another oig brings in y that even colder weather. wow. i'm g erizalez here at the live desk with breaking news. the entire city of malib ordered to evacuate because of this growing fire here in sohern california. is is the woolsey fire we have been talking so much about,

especially over t 2 last hours. this fire has grown so rapidly, and it's consuming everything in its path. there is a state of emergency that has been declared and tens of thousands of homes are in its path. numerous celebrities who live in that area, people like kim kardashian, have reported leaving their again, new this afternoon we are hearing that the entire city of malibu has been ordered to evacuate because of thisou dang fire in the ventura and los angeles county areas. stay with us. m erika gonzalez a the live desk, back over to you guys in the studio. >> that is horrifying, thank you. and sti ahead, a panda exclusive. >> we get up close and personal with one of the national zoo's most famous residents, taking you inside the exa room for something the rest of us never get to see. a news 4 exclusive, a high end depretment sto ripped off

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we're going to make you jy.lous to the zoo gave her exclusive behind the scenes access during a special procedure. check it out. >> hey, handsome. >> for a 275-pound giant panda, tian tian is an agreeable patient. >> that's a good boy. >> he fathered thr cubs born at the national zoo. at 21 he's considered an older bear, and veterinaria have to perform routine checkups to make sure he stays health >> y might equate him to a human who was entering their retirement phase of life, so they're not very old, but they certainlyre entering senior citizen period of their life. >> the zoo invited us to observe tian tian getting his annual cardiac ultrasound. this was the first time head

visitors for this particular procedure, so i was instructed not to speak in case i straartl him. >> being able to evaluate the heart function in an awake animal makes it a more natural situation so we can get better information that way. >> hiseepers put him in a training chute and fed him honey water to get himo s still while dr. rosenthal recorded images of his heart. they've formed a special bond. >> it's a matter o every day interacting with the pandas, training with them, creating that trust and as you can see, it pays off. >> tian tian actually likes the attention. usually people focus on may shong and her pregnancies or potential pregnancies. thompson says tian tian i a sweetheart who makes even the tough jobs fun. >> he's the best. he is a very laidback panda.

he is willing to participate and do whater you ask him to. he's ideal for training. >> 275 pounds, andot all you to do is give him honey water. >> that justakes his day. he was loving that. >> it calmedim down. >> he's a bit of a camera hog. he likes things out there in the public life. >> something about a panda that just makes them likehathat. >> looks like fun. for many people, barack obama and michelle obama's romance. >> the former first lady wants people to know it hasn't always been easy. >> tracking storms rightw, marking another fall night filled with dark skies and rain. we're in weather alert. plus, new details about the murder o a young woman jogging in broad daylight, what policeec say the susphad in his system wn he was arrested.he

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going toe out and about. weather alert not just for the rain but for the cold. the cold mxtes in and it's the coldest so far this season. we'll be back in just a couple of minutes with more. airport newsor 4 trantion reporter adam tuss is tweeting the traffic is gridlocked and predicts it will be tied up for hours. tuss says the rain combining with road construction and the metro station closing is causing the trouble. the situation not expected to get muchetter over the weekend. the crystal city station also closed f track work. that means no trains between braddock road and pentagon city. e metro is offering free shuttles for the length of the closure but expect reduced service on the other segment of the blue and yellow line. new information out of d.c. urt today about the deadly stabbing of a jogger. >> a judge ordered the defendanh y crawford held without bail. he stabbed wendy martinez to death in september.

>> martinez was out jogging near 11th and p. mark segraves has the new developments from the scene of the crime. >> reporter: yeah, you can see a makeshift memorial still marks the spohere wendy martinez was killed. evidence showed the entire attack onl en td.ook today in court the suspect became so agitated during the hearing rocking back and forth and muttering during the proceedings that u.s. marshals told himal to down his behavior. at one point the judge actually paused the procedure to have his attorney calm him down. >> wendy martinez's family has been consoling themselves since that mid-september day when policeay anthony crawford stabbed the young woman to death on a busy street near logan circle as sor was out an evening run. >> on september 18th, 2018, our lives were forever changed. our grief has no limits, and nothing can make us whole againn or the senseless violence

perpetrated against a pure victim. >> reporter: martinez's family sat in the courtroom for two days of testimony. a homicide detective with the d.c. department testied that crawford and martinez's dna was found on the murder weapon and we suspect's yel sweater. police say anthony crawford is theuspect seen in this surveillance video. during the two days ofpr eedings, crawford could be seen moving his lips as if to be talking to himlf and shaking his head. according to police, crawford has a history of mental illness drug abuse. also revealed in court, evidence that 20 nutes before the stabbing crawford was inside a nearby giant food store in the aisle where the exact same brand and size knife found at the murder scene are sold. the e found the knife a suspect's sweater just a few feet from where martinez was inabbed. martinez was pla her wedding in the days before her murder. she was bied in her wedding

dress. >> we're going to be working all together family and friends, all the community to keep wendy's life shining bright before and even brighter than ever. reporter: now the prosecutor called what happened on this street corner a brutal ambush, and she also revealed that the suspect was arrested he tested positive for cocaine. in tdistrict, mark segraves news 4. >> thank you, mark. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg isack on the job. court officials say the 85-year-old is out of the hospital now. she was admitted yesterday aftea ng three ribs during a fall in her office wednesday night. giburg has had other health ailments in the past including another fall in 12 and two bouts with cancer. the justice did some work from home today, and there's no word on when she will actually be heading back to the court. ormer first lady michelle obama's highly anticipated memoir comes out nest y, but we're already getting a nseak peek at what's inside.

erika gonzalez js now with some of the more surprising admissions from the former first lady. while this books deeply personal and political for mrs. obama, through excerpts obtained bywa "the ington post" and the associated press, the forr first lady writes about her time in the white house and her shock at becoming the first black first lady. mrs. obama also shares thoughts donald trump saying she thought he was just grand standing when he announced his run for office, adding that she feels he endangered her family with the whole birther conspiracy writing, quote, it was dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wing nuts. what if somebody with an unstable mind loaded aun and drove to washington. what if that person went looking for ourgirls? donald trump with his loud and reckless innuendos wasutting family's safety at risk, and for this i'd never forgive him she says. we said this memoir was also very personal. mrs. obama shares for the first time that she had trouble

getting pregnant and even miscarriage and says both daughters, sasha and malia were conceived through ivf. "becoming" will be released next tuesday and aouple of days after that she'll be on the ellen show. we'll all l beking forward to seeing that. >> you will not be the only one, i bet. that's surprising she's being that candid. >> it's the first time she's been so about life inside the white house. >>oing toell a lot of books. right now the vote counting dantinues from tus midterm elections. >> three states have a handful of elections with razor thin margins. f today theight has become about whether all the votes should be counted. and one of o m areast expensive department stores ripped off by one of their own. 4e news i-team exclusive 4e news i-team exclusive

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the head of securityt one of our area's most expensive stores is facing prison time fop g off the place. only on 4 tonight scott

macfarlane explains scheme works and how he got caught. >> good afternoon, prosecutors have asked a d.c. judge to send alexander gallino to prison for about a year. he ple guilty to a stolen property chargeg he l worked as head of security and a supervisor of special opera he used special access to the store's computers to create hundreds of bogus store returns and pobt tcket the cash, at lea $130,000 worth committing the crise even though it was job to keep an eye on the employees. the store caught on and set up special surveillance cameras and key stroke devices to monitor his computer use. they say he h an elaborate scheme searching for sales made by former employees and using those saleso create the phony a returnsuming that would make him more difficult to catch. again, a ged.c. j will decide his fate likely sometime this afternoon. back to you.

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if y're just joiningus, we're back now with four things to know for your friday night. >>erika is in the newsroom to get you all caught up. >> right n we're tracking storms for the evening commute. let's take aooat our storm team 4 radar after a dreary and drizzly day. we now have widespread heavy rain coming down across our region, a cold, wet, and nasty start to the weekend. doug and amelia are back in three minutes with our forecast. president trump and tt fi lady just arrived in france for celebrations to mark the end of world war i a century ago. before he left, the president signed a proclamation to limit asylum seekers. the aclu says the president cannot override the law on his own. they've already filed a legal challenge. we now know the identities of all 12 vict the thousand oaks bar shootings, one of which was a survivo of th route 91 shooting in las vegas last year. most of these victims were i

their early to mid-20s. the first victim was a bouncer at the front or. as for the gunman, we don't know anything about the marine corps veteran's moti. in northern california at least five people are dead found in a vehicle, torched vehicleke trying to escape. in southern california more fast moving fires. it's a lot to keep track of today. jay gray was there yesterday in thousand oaks, and now he's joiningen us for another devastating the area. jay. >> reporter: yeah, erika, it's overwhelming here. swirl.d continues to the fire popping up hot spots across the fire zone right now. it's leaving homes like this one you see, in fact, entire communities in ruins right now. look at that, that's flames hundreds of feet high. >> reporter: an onge glow across the golden state overnight.

at least three major wdfires exploding out of control pushed byanta ana nds, gusting at times over 60 miles an hour. fireghters rushing in as tens of thousands wer forced out of their homes. >> the fire was all around me, and it was kind of frightening. i couldn't -- i couldn't see anything except the smoke and fire. >> reporter: ny. >> oh, my goi can't even see it's sook >> reporter: barely escaping the flames. >> father, please help us. >> reporter: about 180 miles northeast of san francisco. >> chaos, totals. ch >> reporter: the town of paradise is for the most part lost. >> a considerable portion of the town was stroyed. >> reporter: sunrise reveals the extent of the damage and provides a clear pictureac of y what strike teams are

dealing with here. raging flames swirl, firenados. right now mother nature clearly in control as fire swallows huge chunks of the state with the massiv infernos still growing. >> reporter: yeah, and so are the fir crews fighting the flames. more than 7,000 firefighters already on the ground. they're working around the clock. more are on the way. >> unbelievable. >> it is heartbreaking. thank you so much, jay. meanwhile, here at hom we have the opposite problem here as we're in weather alertin because of >> doug and amelia, we're talking rain, and is there also a windchill we need to look out for? >> that's the big deal. that's why we're in weather alert mohe. it's combination of the two. part of it is because of the rain we've f got the next couple of hours, but the second part is the cold. >> we're talking about dwindchills throughout t tomorrow only in the 30s, and

we're not just cold this weekend. the cold sticks around next week as well. n >> it gets e colder next week. let's take a look and show you what's happening, the storm team 4 radar showing the rain across theec area. it'sing a little more scattered. there is some breaks out there here and there, around montgomery county, fairfax county. this is the back edge, as we widen out i'll show you whaal we'reng about. here's the back edge of the steadiest rain. tok at this line from philadelphia dowards the delmarva. heavy rain in that region. we saw that come through around 3:00 today,nd already close to a half an inch of rain in the back to the west is the front. this has to pass through before theha showere is really over. this will move through tonight, and we'll see off and on scattered showers. for the high school football games going on tonit, yeah guys, another rainy night across the area. t the umbrella and the coat. it's more showers varieties, and it's not the entir the fields are definitely going to be on the wet side. cold, it'sal with the

just nasty around 9:00, a chance of a shower. this is richard montgomery high school against quince orchard, a big rivalry there up towards that area. rather chilly and breezy by 10:00 tonight. get ready, make sure you' dressed for it. look at these numbers. look at ocean city. they're t aboget hit with the heaviest rain. virginia beach at 66. 37 in state college, 44 in pittsburgh. that's the cold air we see coming in ernight tonight and into the day tomorrow, and boy does it get cold this weekend and next weekah >> this is definitely the weekend you pull out the puffy coat. you locate the gloves, the hat if you haven't done doeadcng wi throughout the day tomorrow and sunday is just cold, starting out withemperatures in the 20s and 30s. early sunday morning not only do you want the puffy coat but the gloves as well. the fall jacket is going tbe justfine. by tuesday we're tracking more rain, so you'll need the umbrella and that brings in colder air for wednesday and thursday. this is tomorrow morning.

isis is what greets us at 8:00 a.m. s when you factor in the temperature and the winds, feeling abo 35 in washington, 28 degrees in leesburg. as we move towards the lunchtime hour, continuing to track the 0sill, feels-like temperatures in the 20s and across the area. tomorrow afternoon we're really no improving. we continue to have windchills in the 30s, and that continues into the early evening hours before tempetures plummet turday night into sunday morning. the areas here in purple are under a freeze warning. g everybody'ng to be cold, but these areas are still considered to be in their growing season. so that's why you want to bring in any sensitive plants and at this point keep them inside for the winter months. here are some signs that the cold is coming. ndchills in the 30s out there tomorrow. as we look to sunday morning, we're talking about a widespread freeze across the area, so everybody likely below freezing. high temperatures this running about 15 to 20 degrees below normal overall, so very cold weekend, and then a heads-up. windchills in the teens to near

30 degrees on wednesday, doug, so i don't know, maybe you sit inside tonight, a movie, a danish. help me out here. >> i got you. i got danishs because the danish festival is going on e danish bizarre happening tomorrow. that's going to be tomorrow, that's at st. elizabeth's church in rockville between 11 and three. phenomenal. let's go back to what everybody does not want to see, and that's the cold. 45 degrees tomorrow, 47 on your sunday. the winter outlook coming u o during the d monday. don't forget, we're going to have that for you all day long.a my winterer forecast coming up at four, five, and 6:00.o how much snowou see in your area? i've got that forecast. winter arriving way early wednesday high of only 41 degrees. that's the h averageh temperature in january, my friends. yeah, very cold air making its way in here next wednesday and thursday. if we do not see the freeze su everywhere onay, you're going to get it next wednesday and thursday.

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inferno. plus, matching pets with vets. >> having him in my life completely changed everything for me. >> the program that'inbringing wag tails and smiling faces to local homes. good evening, first up at five tonight, rain coming down hard in many of our neighborhoods, the same system that is lighting up our sky here tonight is bringing snow to parts of the northeast. >> that's right, and we have our meteorologist tracking the system's impact here and what's going to happen next. doug and ameliamelia, what do y got? >> we've got it for a couple oft hours, an it gets out of here. we're also there because of the really cold air coming in tomorrow >> it's going to be the coldest weekend so far this season. we're talking about windchills tomorrow only in the 30s. >> it's going to be kind of brutal out there your saturday, even with some sunshine. take a look out there right now. we've got the cloud cover. we've got the rain, that rain coming down at a pretty good clip. g

notice, we'ten a lot of scattered areas of rain now. it's not rain everywhere. thevi ht of the rain we saw earlier today is now out of here, and this is actually thec edge of what will be most of the rain. we've got another little area back to the west. th is t actual front that's going to come through and give aus chan us a chance for more showers. watch here, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 now right up towards the philadelphia area, a line ofvy very hain in that region. but we're starting to see the s backside we'll start drying out this evening. that's good, and then the cold air moves in tomorrow. we've got a freeze warning in effect for tomorrow night into early sundaor morning everybody along and east of i-95 including d.c., arlington county, all of southern maryland, part, of the northern neck. a very cold one tomorrow, very cold tomorrow night and even colder next week. the ten-day forecast, the cold ten-day for iast coming upn minutes. here we go. we'll see you in a bit. thank you. baking right now at