in virginia, fairfax, manassas city, manassas park city, and grant county schools in west virginia will hll open twors late today. all maryland and d.c. schools are open today, as best we ca tell. the federal government is also open with the option of ea unscheduled lve or telework for federal employees. >> roads across virginia, maryland, and the district have all been preed for the storm. we have team coverage spread out as you start your thursday. >> our teamor of rrs working for you, showing you the conditions near your homes.e melissa mollet is here to get you around any tuble spots >> but we begin with cck bell and lauryn ricketts with a closer look at what we can expect today >> it's going to be an ugly day to be outside today, no matter where you live or travel. it's going to be slow going. for many, especially near i-81, slippery goi. it's not a reaching the ground yet, but i got a report from

welcome, maryland, in charles county, there is heavy sleet. this pink zonhere, that is likely to be mostly sleet at the onset. there could beew rain drops mixed in as well. just know the sleet and the ice threat ist i'm most concerned with for today. so it looks like not a whole lot of precipitation getting all the way to the ground yet. the farther south you li, that's where the precip is already making contact with the ground. winter weather advisory here wound the city. here's the future weather handles it. this is 7:00n the morning. eet or snow through the d.c. metro area. with time, the cold air remains tr in the shenandoah valley. eventually the cold air gets scred out of the d.c. metro area by around noontime into early this afternoon. then rain could be heavy at times. etr more on the localized impacts, go to lauryn ricketts. >> good morning. yeah, and you were just thoking about rain chances. eventually, as chuck was justu, showing we're going to see

turn everything t rain from the south and east, moving to the north and west. the shenandoah valle about the last people to see that changeover to just plain rain. in additiote to the w weather advisory and the winter storm warning, a flood watch for he areas in green. moderate to heavinfall. since we've already had a freeze in those areas, a lot of thata veon has died. we are looking at some run-off that could create some flooding conditions, especially for southern maryland. prince george's county. as we go through this morning, we'll have some heavy rain. we'll have tcing outre. i don't think the roads around the greater washington area are going to be snow covered, but they are going to be wet further north and west. you could have some snow w accumulations l as travel delays. that's something we'll really have to monitor as well. course, we have melissa to monitor everything. >> that's right. watching the roads hhis morning. 5i9d north of jopl-- 95 north on

road, some precipitation hitting that area. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway, no big problems here. zooming in a little at northwest washington, florida avenue between 9th andrg g, roads shut down there because of police activity. and laurel, southbound bw parkway before 198, two lanes getting by that work zone. >> thank you, melissa. here's a look at the storm moving through our area right now. we wanted to start in warren county, where we expect to se ost accumulation. >> news 4's justin finch is live in front royal with what he's seeing there. >> reporter: hey, aaron. watching that lightain begin to pick up a bit out here in downtown front royal. we know it's due to turn to a wintry mix and snow in just a few hours. as you can see, it's coming down. look down, though. we're no seeing a slick surface yet. we know that's due to come. we're just above freezing rerht noe in downtown front

royal. as a result, we have seen police on stand by, t circlin area, as well as salt trucks. vdot saying they have more than 2500 crew members and contractors working this storm and for the rest of the winter. we're live here in front yal, justin finch, news 4. back to you in the studio. >> justin, thank you. our team coverage continues in montgomery county. >> megan mcgrath is live for us. what areer they doing out th >> reporter: they're making quick work of loadi up these trucks with the salt that they need. take a look here. last half hour, we had a line of snowplows that actually was wrapping around the here in gaithersburg. you can see that we are now down to just a couplerucks. front-end loader there going in, loading all the trucks with the salt they need. then they're going and

deploying. we've seen a number of trucks as we made our way here staging in parkingth lots. 'll be parked along the side of the road as we wait for this wintry mix to come into the area. right now they're still in the prep mod we're not seeing any precip as of yet. the timing of this not great. it's supposed to coincide with rush hour, so people will have to take it easy out there. but they are readynd have pretreated the roads. back to you. >> megan, thank'lou. now get a live look at conditions in the district with news 4's molette green in aew minutes. it's new 4:35. the latest on breaking news from california. the death toll from those deadly wildfires is now at 58. that number could rise. officials say 1 people are still missing in the so-called camp fire in northern california. the woolse fire near los angeles has killed two peoe. those fires started one week ago today. the lawyer representing adult film star stormy daniels

is in a court battle with the president. he was arrested, michael avenatti was. he faced a felony domestic violence charge. bond,tti was released on denies the allegation, and says he's confident he will be exonerated. an update to breaking news you saw here on news 4 today. fairfax county police say jose vazquez herndez is accused of stabbing his girlfriend's son to death early yesterday morning. we're t vd thetim is 27-year-old oscar dias fuentes. and still ahead this morning, the double life of a catholic priest. a father in the church and in the home. local siblings share their family's secret with the news 4 wteam. and we'reking for you on this weather alert day, getting you ready for wet and snowy thursday. team coverage fromhe roads and the storm team weather center all morning long. stay with us.

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welcome back, everybody. i'm meteorologist lauryn ricketts. a lot of this not hitting the ground just yet. however, we are getting reports of sleet throu loudoun county and back south toward the quantico marine base.ng we are g to be watching for this wintry mix this morning, eventually changing to rain from the south and east to theorth and west. it's going to be a battle between warm and cold air across our area. which one wins out first will determine the impacts in our area. we'll break it down zone by zone, talk aboutst forecas, and when we can see sunshine. that's coming up in a little bit. >> thank u, lauryn. 4:40 right now. the country music awards kicked off with a specialribute last night. >> garth brooks opened the show by dedicating it to the victims ofhe borderline bar & grill shooting in thousand oaks,

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just about 4:45 right now on this weather alert thursday.dy get r for snow, sleet, rain. a mix of it all heading our way. more than aoo dozen local s districts are the already closed

or delayed this morning. >> all of the updates are running at the bottom of your screen. we're bringing you live team coverage from across our area as this weather moves in. everyone is waiting to see what's going toe happen. weoing to continue our team coverage with news 4's molette green. >>he's watching theoads in the district for us right now. where are you now and what do you see? >> reporter: yeah, we're right here at new york avenue and new jersey avenue in northwest d.c. just came off of 695. we see pretreated roads, obviously. everything is moving along just fine because there's no precip coming down at the moment. we can tell you the d.c. snow team went out at midnight, of urse, and started putting down the pretreatment. they're asking folks, if you can, stayome. if you can take metro instead of driving, that's probably your best option. right now everything is looking pretty good as we connue our

way down new york avenue here in the district. tat's the latest. back you. >> all right, molette, thank you. >> and of course we'll be followinghe wintry m heading into our area all morning long. now we turn t capitol hill. a very busy election season has aft a lame duck congress with long to-do list before the end of the year. looming over all of it is a pivotal spending bill. >> susan mcginni joins us from capitol hill. so they'll work to pushso throu final legislation before the season ends. could this set the stage for another government shutdown? >>. >> yeah, that's absolutely hat coulhappen. good morning. after two years of partisan bickering, this lame duck coress is still going to try to agree onhi sometng. they better because the two sides now have three weeks to come up with a spending bill or risk a partial government shutdown. here are two big issues that could interfere with that. one is the border wall. fe gop is going to ask for billions tofill this promise by president trump. democrats are showing little

sign of cooperating. they're going t want a broader immigration reform bill. the democrats want someanguage in t spending bill that will protect robert mueller's russia investigation. they fear the investigation is in danger after the new attorney general, who has been a known critic of the investigation, has now been appointed to oversee thatti exact invtion. the leadership of the republican party says they don't see any needor that legislation. they don't see the russia investigation in trouble at all. the big question nows will they come to terms on both of these issues? will the two sides agree in time a parestall government shutdown? back to you. >> susan mcginnis on the hill this morning. thank you. congress is workingn legislative protections for special council robert mueller while an i cream truck is supporting the investigation in the street. take a look at this. this is callhe guilty pleasures. you'll see it popping up all over d.c. the next few days. they'rerving up some interesting flavors, like fudge

the truth chocolate and putin's vanilla delight. the best part, the ice cream is free. it was parked at the dartment of justice yesterday. it will be parked outside of the trump hotel today and at the russian embassy tomorrow. the group move on is sponsoring this truck. well, you remember the new jersey couple that helped a homeless man raise $400,000 with a gofundme account? now all three a areused of making the whole thing up. >> wow. they all face charges, including conspiracy and theft by deception. sources say the couple turned themselves in to prosecutors yesterday. it's not clear whether bobbitt tued himself in. she and her bafriend launche gofundme page to supposedly raise money for bobbitt. they were accus of holatng

some of omeless man they were trying to help. now they're all facing possible jail time. they were all in on this to try to raise money. it really touched people's hearts. they donated all t.s mon >> got to be thoughtful about where you're donating your money, guess. all right. only on news 4, the news 4 a familys the story of still trying to come to grips with its past. >> we see how a a man led double life as a catholic priest and a father. >> reporter: a local brother a sister told us they could not reveal the truth about their family for decades, and the news 4 i-team found there could be thousands of others like them with a similar past. growing up was difficult for jim johnson. he said he always felt like an outsider when i came to his father. >> never really wanted me with him.as ithard. it was hard because i wanted that love and affection father. >> reporter: it was only years later he and his sister found out t truth from their mother.

>> it didn't dawn on me as a little kid, you know. i just thought he was church and he was here to help. >> reporter: a local priest who seemed to always be around helping the family turned out to be a much bigger part of their lives than they ever knew. >> i wanted to ask him, but i knew -- my mom told me not to ever say anything to him. >> reporter: a reserch profesith catholic university tells the i-team there's little data on how many other cases like this one could be out there. how bad does the church consider a situation of a priest being involved with a woman? >> how bad is it? it's pretty bad. first it's a violation of the oath you made to god. >> reporter: tonight on news 4 at 5:00 the siblings tell us how this all started, and find out what archdiocese had to say when we asked about what this family revealed. it's now t4:50. ti check back in on the

forecast with this weather ale morning. >> chuck and lauryn are here with team coverage on the storm that's headi our way. >> absolutely right. you can tell just based on the radar imagery wt's really happening in the atmosphere. high pressure to our north has dammed up col air into t front range of the appalachian mountains. w that cold air is trapped in the shenandoah valley. cold air is heavier than warm air, so it settles down into thl s. as a result, there's a significant chanc for some freezing rain, sleet, or snow, especially in the shenandoah valley this morning. already periods of heavy snow in charles county. our cameras around the city aren't seeing anything gth to ground yet. the air mass overhead is very, very dry. when it tries to rain andonow down iit, that will make the temperatures drop closer to the freezing mark. as a result, winter weather advisory for i-95 and the d.c. metro area. winter storm warning across here's the way future weather is handling it. an opportunity for sleet, snow,

or maybe a little freezing rain between now and about 7:00 in the morning, but watch what happens with time. that period of frozen precip lasts a lot longer in the shenandoah valley. by midmorning,he rain is starting to mix in. by noontime, mostly rain around d.c. uld still have sleet or snow. there's a prolonged chance for sleet or freezing rain in the shenandoah valley. temperatures now still well abovereing. again, as it starts to rain down into this dry air mass, that'll change i sleet and ice. different weather depending on where you live. for more on that, let's go over to lauryn. >> absolutely. our westeba zones are py going to get it more than our southeastern zones, including southern maryland. let's break it down for you in your neighborhood. let's start off in the shenandoah valley. going all the way back out into west virginia, hagerstown to winchester, front royal, where justin finch is right now, we're looking at a wintry mix this morning. not a lot hitting the ground right now, but it is coming.

freezing rain and rain later on this afternoon. this are is going to be the last to see that warm air get i. he again, 3 to 5 inches of snow and up to art q inch of ice. fredrick county, maryland, leesburg, this is where we're going to see that early wintry mix then rain lat this evening. around the greater washington area, bethesda,sarlington, t is where we're talking about snow, sleet, rain all this morning. the roads sho d just bewet, but there's going to be somen floodingat area and down through stafford and into southern maryld. mainly raiith that warm air, but heavy rain at times. not onl are we going to have this rain, we'll have winds that pick up later this afternoon. we'll have to watch for power outages as well. chuck, thank goodness we get a break as we head into the weekend. >> no kidd og. we'll wan after this.

a strong northeast wind today.we a strong nor wind tomorrow. you can always stay ahead of the weather. wnload our nbc 4 washington app for free. if you see something, say something, when it comes to the weather. tweete @chuckbell4. we'll be dry friday afternoon and friday night. dry for the weekend. dry wl into the middle of next week, up to and includinggi thanng day. cooler than average. good morning, melissa. >> good morning. lauryn ricketts just telling me we're seeing sleet falling here 270 at old hundred road. be careful, it is getting messy out there in certain all of this radar showing you where we have precipitation falling. as lauryn and chuck have been saying, some of it's hitting the ground, some of it's not. laurel, southbound bw parkway before 198, two right lanes are getting by that work zone. see a little bit of a

delay southbound there on route 1 as well. guys? >> melissa, thank you. 4:55 right now. amazon's hq2 announcement brought big numbers, from projected jobs to revenue. they even showcased futuristic designs. but much of this wil not be realized for several years. david culver met with some of eamazon's potential futur work force. >> in order to be successful -- >> reporter: we found them atar ngton tech. it's a county high school program that focuses on career and technical education, preparing students for college and beyond. >> if you're aeaer who enjoys learning by doing, this is the place where you thrive. in reporter: trevor wilcox is in his first year tea here. he says the students are well aware of amazon and what it could mean to them. >> studentsefinitely see its a potential employer, a potential place where they could do their internshi >> had y ever thought about a job there? >> yes. i would love to go into theer engig field or the i.t. field. >> a lot of people just see a bunch of opportunity when they think about it. they just think abouy oh,

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eyes on the skies and the roads this thursday morning. still one week away from thanksgiving, and the d.c. region already preparing for its first blast of wintry weather. this morning the news 4 crews are out and about, checking then road condi across the region. just about 5:00 a.m. now. good mornin everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. schools across the area are closing and issuing delays. we only have closings in virginia and west virginia. all maryland sools and d.c. schools are open as far as we know right now. is also al government open with the option of unscheduled leave or telework

for employees. you. let's run it down for clarke, fredrick, loudoun, page, prince william, winchester city, are all closed today. srkeley, jefferson, morgan, and hampshire countools are closed. >> fairfax, manassas city, manassas park and gra county schools will all start two hours erte. last night roads salted and cleared to make way for the possible of snow and ice. >> this morning news 4 has live team coverage of the weather and its impact. our team is already out on the roads. melissa mollet is standing by with a check on this commute. >> but we bin with our storm team 4 meteorologists chuck bell and laurynicketts. chuc what are we seeing? >> a lot of potential for slippery roads ec