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we'll actuall see some white stuff around here. >> salt trucksng get ready for tomorrow's inclement weather. we'realking about a wintry mix moving in between 6 a 10 a.m. i'm talking about potential for
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freezing rain and snow. however, back around the i-81 corridor and further back to the west, the national weather aservice as issued winter storm watch for thursdayincluding haerstow hagerstown, winch and that could include some ice and winter weather. you'll see snow at first, transitioning to sleep and maybe freezing rain. in thed.c. metro area and south, it could begin as rain but we're talking about a wintry mix. today's high is the calm before the storm. this system is going to be pushing up into the area, overnight tonight arriving the morning. with a bit of a breeze, it's feeling like temperatures are in the 30s. i'm going to walk you through s torm hour by hour coming up at 11:00 with future weather. >> we go to our other big story
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that everybody's talking about. amaz's arrival in the crystal city area of arlington. now we know a little bit m and the area that aman will take over will be renamed national landing. these are renderings of what the area may eventually look like. chris, how isoi that area to handle tens of thousands of new workers and their families? >> reporter: that's the milliio dollar que isn't it? well, arlington, alexandria and the area are going to spend hureds of millions on newtu infrastr to make sure they don't get stuck in gridlock. they promise to add a second entrance to the potomac yard entrance. >> this is one of the few major metropolitan areas that has
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transportation that's just unreliable. >> th people will end up riding metro again whether they want to or not. >> but c they're nfident commutelers will put that money to good use. >> if you recall when they first visited here,ng the first t they did was they got on metro. it was front center on their mind and front center on ours. >> they say the rail line helped to seal the dealut they're placing their hopes on the company. >> a company like amazon may invest themselves. >> amazon is known to be generous to employees. >> it will behe in self-interest if it's going to inefit everybody in the area the long run. >> amazon only plans to hire about a few thousand workers ans
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then thous after that. so there is time to make changes. >> we have much more on amazon's arrival throughout the hour. >> newly elected members of congress are getting the lay. la this week before they're sworn in next week, but their first order of business is to choose party leadership for the house and the senate today. tracee potts has more of what's going on on capitol hill. >> more than 100 new members of congress are in washington this week. >> it's very exciting obviously. >> some like mitt romney taking on the new acting attorney general. >> that's an interesting question. i'll get to talk to you about that but not yet. >> new york's alexandriaor
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ocasi ocasio-cortez. >> america voted in record numbers to deliver an nambiguous message. they wantedchange. >> tonight republicans have one common goal. >> make sure we win the majority back. >> but first congress faces a december deadline to force a partial government shutdown. one ofhe things they're talking about, money for the president's border wall. >> in an almost unprecedented move, first lady melania trump through a spokesperson is now yalling for the firing of a top national securitaide. multiple srces say mrs. trp was infuriated by deputy
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national security adviser mira ricardel, after she interfered with her trip to africa.hi and of staff john kelly has clashed with the first ladies and theirst lady's team in the white house. the white house says so much discord can be .damagi >> you don't want the staff at the white house preoccupied with infighting, you want them helping the president to make those tough decisions and implement them. >> reporter: the first lady's spokesperson calls the relationship with kelly's staff very confident. >> police say there was a fight last night and hernandez is dating t victim's mother. police are working to learn what
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the two were fighting about. >> we learning more about two trouble incidents involving ha . someone has left kkk flyers in at least fiv washington counties in the last few days. >> we learn hate crimes are up for the third year in a row. the fbi said hate crimes went u7 more than 7,000 were reported. the in five targeted people because of their race, one in five becau >> in prince george's county, they say someone scattered kkk flyers around.
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one found the flier in his bird seed. they cannot believe someone would leave something like that in their neighborhood. >> i saw it came from kkk and i didn't evenfead the rest it. >> i'm a howard university graduate. i'm kind of would come to my neighborhood. all of us get along. >> community members organiz no hate unity vigil for en6:00. larcement officials are investigating all of the cases that have surfaced. >> now to the suspectedhite nationalist arrested in d.c. jesse clark is charged with having several illegalgu ns, magazines and an a.r.-rifle conversion kit. robert bowers is accused of killing 11 people last month because they were jewish. in a social media post clark said they deserved it.
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>> the wildfires raging across california have now claimed least 50 lives. firefighters say they're making progress but with unprecedented destruction, theres still a search for missing people, with tens of thousands under threat. we get the very latest from migumi el. >> reporter: fear is sprding quickly, as is the smoke. new evacuations orderhi in ts subdivision. only mijts to -- minutes to get >> see, it's right there. >> reporter: this video was shot by a woman during the woolsey fire. the l.a. sheriff's department reposting a warng to follow
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evacuation orders immediately. theills above malibu are still 150ning, the blaze covering square miles, bigger than the city of denver. but crews are making progress, allowing residents in some areas to return. this is what michelle owens is coming home to. >> it's to me like an apocalypse. >> across the state9,ome 000 structures, mostly homes, been lost. the smoke plume from california reaching all the way across the country to new england and near the flames, new questions are being raised about toxic smoke. the woolsey fire burning the area by the site of a nuclear meltdown 60 years ago. state officials say the fumes likely pose no health risk, but residents are demanding independenteah and safety tests. the devastation heaviest in thes mountains e sacram
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to. the town of paradise obliterated fire.e camp 50 are dead. many more are unaccounted for. families still cling to hope. >> i went toif 11ferent shelters looking fhim. >> reporter: amanda'sather was missing for four days, feared dead until now. >> it's okay, sweetie. >> reporter: one family's incredible reunion amid so much loss. >> a lot to take in, isn't it? investigators haven't been able to figure out yet what caused the fire, but power companies in both northern and southern lifornia say their utility likes were experiencing issues when the fir broke out. >> well, what seems to be a made-for-tv movie is playing out in a new york courtroom. >> trial for mexican drug lord el chapo is making headlines one day in. details on the jurors dismissed and what ee isls
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right now florida election workers are try finish recounting hundreds of thousands of ballots for the senate and governor races. the recount must be finished tomorrow by 3 p.m. but election officials beach county, florida said the old machines are overheatinow
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g down the process. the vote will determine who goes to the senate. the raceor redon desantis and andrew gillum. chapo is al of el under way in a heavily secured courtroom in brooklyn. two jurors had to be replaced, one of them telling the judge she was suffering from anxiety. >> reporter: a crush of media surrounding el chapo's wifeda o one. the former beauty queen pushing her way into the courthouse, where he she got an affectionate wave from her husband joaquin guzman, the ruthless killer wearing a suiin court for the first time. the trial expected to last for a month or more got started but
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slowly. concern the long arm of el nd his violent cartel reputed $14 billion fortune could put their lives atrisk. in opening statements, prosecutors said the king pin controlled his own private army and had a personal arsenal that included a diamond encrusted handgun and gold-plated ak-47. his sit men, so-called sicarios, carved out a vast empire smuggling drugs to new york, chicago and los angeles. his defense team argued t re is another side to this story, an uglier side, alleging american law enforcement officials can br coupt. the witnesses for the prosecution will be killers, thieves, drug dealers. >> it's just an opening. al>> reporter: after the t ended for the day, el chapo's
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attorney had little to add. >> i can't comment on the i'm trying to follow all the rules, if i can. >> reporter: while guzman's wife was surrounded again by cameras, stopping just a moment for a selfie, as well as a photo with a fan. >> thank you. >> reporter: security at the courthouse has been incredibly tight withyultiple secur sweeps for anyone going inside. law enforcement has bn tight lipped about where el chapo is being held. one possibility is he's being held at the courthouse to limit the tim he spends on new york city streets. >> the prince is shown in a family portrait. ♪ how long has this been going
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on ♪ you've been creeping on me >> tnsho gave i his all on nbc's "the voice." it wasn'tthenough, gh. last night the local singer was knocked out of the le playoff. now only 13 singers remain. we have been watching funsho all season and know what an cr ible journey he had.s >> he' from atlanta. he's really grown as an artist even though he didn't advance, he thanked all of the fans and judges for support. "the voice" is back next week right here on nbc4. >> let's keep talking about amazon, shall we? despite the perceivedpositives, not everybody is loving the idea of amazon and thousands of its workers coming into northern
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virginia. insarolyn, some of ctcerned abouent and real estate. >> repter: a drive through the del ray neighborhood and you can appreciate what's so attractive to youngfamilies, a walkable community close to d.c. without all theonstion yet. >> people do think we're going to see an instant impact, but i think it's going tor be ove many years. >> jen walker has been selling homes here for over two decades. she said overnight potential buyers changed their mind from passing on t home to buying it. >> saw the amazon announcement and they said we're going to get priced out if we don'to this now. >> it's what this man w fearsl happen to low-inco families. >> folks up the street here, for example, the developers have been eyeing that area for a really long time and they've en able to hold them off but, honestly, i think the pressure g is going to higher.
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>> reporter: he's a member of o america. nova novasaysno.com. is the fight officially over? >> absolutely not. they're coming here but we hopefully have a say in how much money goes tothem. >> virginia is spending much lesshehan thought. >> i'm happy to say it's smaller for this but we're stillin g away taxpayer money to one of the largest corporations on the planet and run byne of the richest men on the planet. >> we can talk about this for and guess what? we will be. an argument on the basketball court turns into an unusual suspension. >> the drama that unlded in the locker
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detrimental to the team. when you play a a really high level and you're competitive, things happen. every team i've ever been on, things have happened. by the way, i kicked m.j.'s [ bleep ]. >> okay, coach kerr. they quickly bounced back w gras find about $120,000 for missing that one game. one game. t moren a hundred grand. an eventual return to the ice for capitals winger tom wilson. he was suspended for the first 16 games but didn't miss a beat when he finally turned the ice last night ainst minnesota. >> he scores his first goal and first penalty at the same time. >> welcome back!
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>> wilson's return was with a fight. >> to go along with the ice on the rink, we are talking a wintry mix around these parts mid november and we're getting our early doses wintertime. recordre not setting any based on how early this is moving in. is it unusual? yes. unahea unheard of? no. we track a wtry mix. i don't want to you lose this point here, some heavy rain impacting the area tomorrow as we look aheadks to thving, it is looking dry and good travel weather wedneay before thanksgiving. here are the impacts tomorrow. the areas here in red are going to be feeheng the h impacts. you can see especially around i-81, back through the panhandle of west virginia, this is where a winter storm watch been issued. even some parts of western
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loudoun county, upper montgomery counselee wi county will deal with sleet, most of prince william county, this is only event. still dry by cloudy and dryro the area at 5 a.m. 6 a.m. wre noticin a mix of rain and snow. the pink is rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain. and rain down in the extreme parts of southern maryland in the green. montgomery, northern prince george'scounty, maybe somep sln the district and southern maryland seeing just rain. midday hours, i-95 a areas east just dealing with rain. north and west we're continuing
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to trackhat wintrymix. for the most part i think road surfacepe ttures north and west are mainly at or above freezing so for the most part just wet ads, especially if they're been treated. 3 p.m., though, it' mainly just rain everywhere. 5:00 your thursday evening, we're just tracking rain across the region. that comes to an end overnight. i'm going to have much thursday coming up
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20 years later new details of the affair between bill lewinsky.d monica we're getting our first look at ame's newdocuseries, "the clinton affair." >> i don't talk about this very often and i still feel uncomfortable talking about it. >> reporter: monica lewinsky is getting candid like never before. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. >> i looked into the open doorway and bill happened to be standing there and he motioned me in. i don't think my heart had ever beat as fast. unbeknownst to me, i was on the
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pre edge of the rabbit hole. it's not as if it didn't register with me that he was the president. obviously it did. i think it meant more to me that someone that other people desired d.ired >> reporter: she was betrayedy someone she thought was her friend, linda tripp. the fbi interrogated lewinsky for hours. >> there was a point for me somewhere in the first several hours where i would be hysterically trying and then i would shut down. in the shutdown period i remember looking out the window and thinking that the only way to fix this was to kill myself, was to jump out the window. and i just -- i felt terrible.
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i was scared and i just -- i was mortified and afraid of what this was going to do to my family and, you know, i still was in love with bill at the time so i just -- i felt really responsible. >> i kept hoping that he wouldn't dareross the line into perjury period. >> reporter: ame also spoke with ken starr who led the investigation and paula jones whose allegations of sexual harassme clinton denies. >> bill clinton harassed me and said let's keep this between rs ouves. >> 20 years have passed since e affair that gripped the country. this morning it's back in the sp spotlight and more fascinating than ever. >> the former president's has no office.
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>> cheers and jeers as amazon makests wayo what's being called national landing. >> reporter: as they turn their attention toetting up new headquarters here, leon harris is looking at the situation. >> reporter: amazon infused $30 billion into seattle and transformed the city's downtown into a bustling center. they subsidized extra bus routes in the city but traffic is said to have gotten worse there.gh the educated techies make up 15% of downtown seattle workers. the majority are young and single workers. it's helped push housing prices through the roof there.
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>> amazon's been adding so many jobs, the local market hasn't been able to add a similar amount of rental units or houses to keep up with that demand. i have triendst have bought starter homes in seattle,wo bedrooms, more than $3 million. so lucky for them they both work at amazon so they can affordit. i think if amazon had to do it again, they would make bigger and faster investments in housing and development. they have been upgrading w neighborhoodre they're building housing to get people to their jobs closer ander fa >> reporter: seattle struggled to address its homelessness crisis. despite the criticism, amazon is a major player around the world. their warehouses have more square footage than 700 madison
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sqre gardens and can hold more water than 10,000 olympic pools. >>hank you, leon. we'll have more throughout the hour on amazon's arrival, including an in-depth
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amazon impacts our lives in ways yourobably don't even realize. susan hogan has the many faces in amazon. >> reporter: morn onno, night. amazon is part of our lives every waking moment. so when you thinkf amazon, what's the first thing that comes to your mind? >> hassle free when you shop there. >> ship everything right to your house. >> reporter: if i told you all
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of these companies right here were just a traction of what amazon owns or jeff bezos is invest in or owns, what do you think of that? >> dmidanything tith uber? >> no. >> twitter? >> no. >> i didn't know about living social. >> didn't know aboutairbnb. >> wine.com? >>up. and zappos. "the washington post." the list goes on and on and on. the amazon billion dollar empire touches so much of our lives, to how we get o our grocery, to how we they indirectly connect us to companies like twitter and a startup thatr raised ove $900 miion to cure cancer. is it too much? >> i don't s that a a
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negative. all these other ones i have high opinions of so i feel like, yeah, they belong together. > reporter: one other thing recently acquired by bezos, the top spot of the richest americs. bill gates held that spot previously. i of -- $160 billion up from a ago. on't know even know what to do when i hear numbers like that. talking abouttomorrow, everybody is so focused around worried about the rds in the morning. >> i think it's all about the timing where we're going to see delays, maybe even cancellations. our temperaturesre going to stay for the most part at or above freezing throughout this event. we'realking about wet roads versus slick roads.
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here's some of the weather questions about tomorrow. is it going to rain? yes. 100% chance. not only are we going to see some rain but maybe even pockets of heavier rain that could lead to isolated floodinsu . that be said, we're also going to have a wintry m north and west of washington, montgomery, frederick, faulkner and the panhandle of west virginia. our mountain and will deal with the wintry mix the most. are we going to s snow on area roads? most of us are not. s maybeshy snow on area roads but temperatures are going to largely be a freezing at the surface where it's going to prevent snow sticking on the roads. all that being said, timing is a turn concern. this is bween 6 and 10 a.m. if the school districts delay, we e the wintry mix coming in, it's still coming dn as a
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wintry mix in some locations. alr the most part it seems like the fedovernment and just generally heading to work inside of the beltway down in southern maryland not going to be an issue. tempatures around 40 degrees. today is a cold day, a dry day but with a bit of the breeze. torrow is a storm team 4 weather alert day. by the midday a early ternoon hours, just about all of us are dealing with plain rain but potential for pockets of heavier rain out there. temperatures tomorro t warming in upper 30s on friday. somein showers couldr till around 6 a.m. we'll send you to break
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there is so much to see, to eat and to do at mgm national harbor. this morning we are joined by the executive chef of a brand new restaurant. chef beau williams joins us and chef. shannon as we this is so exciting. you guys are the new kid on the block over at mgm and you're serving up really safety stuff. tell us about when you guys game to mgm. >> we came on board on the 24th. helped open the project two years ago. this new conarpt came nd.
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it's a multi-coast italian fare. we do b aad range of dishes. one of the dishes today will be -- our specialty was meatballs. >> you're going to besalking through the quintessential dish on any italianmenu, how to make a good meat ball. talk me throughs what so special maybe and perhaps what is different about your meatball. >> what's different about our meatball. we use porkef and most of the staples here are garlic, onions, bread crumbs, chives, parsley chili flakes >> is that milk? >> it is milk. >> and lots of ricotta. >> what does the ricotta do? >> it keeps everything moist and tender and add flavor >> and the bread crumbs and the
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milk help to bind? >> yes. >> got it, got it, got it. >> we have one meatball here. and three of those get served for our dish. >> is this an appetizer? how would you serve this? >> this is an r,appetiine ounce portion. and it gets more eese, our grilled bread and basil. >> ricotta in a pipe bag like that i is all need and a little evoo on top of ilthat. i take a little nibble out of that, thank you, chef shannon. tell us where you guys are located. >> woor le're located right in of the conservatory, right in the middle of the hotel. some come and join. come and see us.
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what do you think? >> it is so good. it's not like the taste the ricotta in the meatball but i can see what it does to iit. would eat this by itself with a half a loaf of bread and a whole lot of ricotta. this is fantastic. what else can people find on your menu, what you're thinking of when you want to go out for a nice meal? >> the majorit of our menu is based on our artis dnal pasta. we range from chicken parm to salad. >> so a little bit of everything. t yes. nk you very much.
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over at mgm national harbor. you guys reques ca and visit th and enjoy some of these tasty meatballs. thanksgiving is right around the corner. we're hopingel you'll us with our annual food and families food drive. at capital one arena, come and join us or make a donation. $20 buys a turkey and side dishes for aamily in need. first a sneak peek of today's "ellen" show. >> did you pick the numbers yourself? >> i did not pick them. >> you just asked them. >> it's always been myt, thou if i'm meant to win it, i'm going to win it. >> america's multi-millionaire -- i should say billionaire. she's talking about winning that
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one of the great gifts i got was my mom and dad. s wasn't the t first time he wanted to public lip honor r. a mother's day message last year, he paid a big tribute to her writing "i won the lottery with my mom. thanks for litngally everyt mom." >> my parents loved me unconditionally. >> reporter: you might say he did even better winning the lottery, having a brave mother who might have made different choices. some of the details vary from one account to another. >> my mom had me when she was 17 years old. she was a high school student inning a kein ning a -- in albuquerque, new mexico. >> reporter: as the story goes, she and her boyfriend were married briefly and then divorced. >> my dad is my real dad, not my biological dad. he a cub immigrant.
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>> a cuban immigrantle who the castro regime at 16, got to florida and won a florida at the university of new mexico in albuquerque. he was there to study engineering. bezos,ho adopted jeff, took his father's name new mexico holds some pretty important memories for jeff bezos. it didn't make the short list, however, as a possible city for amazon's second headquarters. >> reporter: where is the int n intuition on you second headquarters? >> reporter: dallas is where t bezos family settled. bezos says his houstonch elementary sool is where he first got interested in computers. >> yes, i was a very good student. >> reporter: by high school, hia ly moved to florida. miami was also on the list of 20 possible sites for the second
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dqazon heauarters hp. bezos was head of his class there. new jersey made the list, too. newark, just down the road. and from princeton jeff bezos heed to new york where worked on wall street at several engineering firms. he met his wife mckenzie, a younnc pon graduate. he and mckenzie choseo settle in seattl but seattle, washington is where they moved to test out hisew e-commer idea for a giant book store online. >> you have som ohing in washington. what about another washington area? >> that's right. in seattle we call this the other washington.te >> reporr: and jeff bezos
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already has an important presen in this city. he owns "the washington post," of course. >> i believe that it is an essentialom cnent of our democracy. >> reporter: and if that's not enough of a reason for a guy who knows somethingakboutg a good investment to choose washington, how about this -- with both of his offices in place called washington, on paper he can always count on a predictable bottom line. barbara harrison,ne 4, washington. >> makes sense. time for ainal check on the forecast. >> how are we looking today? when do we see a differenc tomorrow? >> i want to show you the latest timing on tomorrow. aintry mix moves in between 6 and 10 a.m. m are going to be above freezing. but especially in the metro area down through southern maryland just w roads. it gets tricker even upper
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montgomery county. here we are at 11 a.m. where we're starting to see just rain across the area. notice the bright colors of yellow, maybeockets ofore moderate to heavy rain out there. tomorrow n,aftern most of us, it's just rain. tomorrow evening everyon dealing with rain, unless you're in the panhandle of west virginia. this is out of here b about 6 a.m. friday morning and then after that we're looking dry for the weekend, melissa. >> thank you, amelia. that is it for "news4 midday." thank you for joining >> get news and weather updates with our ppnbc washington have a great day, everybody.
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oh, l at that sight! the holiday season officially upon us with the crystal star mounted on the rockefeller cress tree! it has to be put up with a crane. it has to because it weighs something like 900 pounds, guys. 3 million crystals on it. n ite feet wide, huge. it's a behemoth. guys, welcome to "access live." look at this. beautiful. the holiday, doesn't it feel go

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