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boom, boom, boom. >> are you talking about thanksgiving? >> yeah. the big meal on thanksgiving. we give thanks for one day. >> you're still caught up o halloween. i know. that's why. >> it seems like yestday, and now we're fully into the season with zoo lights and events. >> we have so much to take advantage of. c >>old weather. >> we haveic lauryn rts racking what is a weather alert day. you've been busy. >> just a little bit on the busy de outthere. i just realized my show is not in place. this is the second time i've done this this morning because i've been so busy looking at the newest information. i have a lot of people asking me about where is the weather? it's coming. e i don't thinrybody is going to see the freezing rain. that's good. since it's kind of ting its time to get to the i-95id co, our temperatures have warmed up. our friends along i-81, there's rain moving in 3:00 a.m., 4:00 a.m. it's freezing rain that's
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falling across thearea. it's all in pink. down through southernh shenand county, to hagerstown. i've heard a couple accidents down by mount jackson. if you have family in town and you'realong the i-81 corridor and they're walking out the door, tell them toait a second. have another breakfast. later this afternoon this is all going to change to rain. we're noteeing anything around the d.c. area just yet. we will start to see this move in as frozen precipitation in pockets. but mainly justain in our area. we're going to talk about the that.g on we have the winter weather advisory u we'll talk about the timing. we have heavy rain coming our cway. that'sing up in a few minutes. >> we continue to follow breaking news in prince george's this mornin a woman rushed to the hospital after her vehicle turned over o it side. it was part of a single vehicle
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accident. it happened around 2:45 this morning on annapolis road. it was engulfed in fire when they arved. the firefighter is putting out the last of the flames. a lot of smoke coming out of the car. the woman is in critical condition. s the temperatures continue to dip, homeless yelters, b trying to keep people out of the cold. >> a lot of the shelters are open. hypothermia vans will make the rounds, checking in on folks who don't have a place to stay. health officials s everyone needs to pay attention when itc s to the temperatures dropping like we're experience right now. especially when it's cold and wet. >> you see someone who appears not to have a place to be, a safe place to go, you can call the hothermia hotline. we ask you have the time, the location of the siting and be able to give a description of the person. >> you can find that information on the nbc washington app.
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hypothermia can occur when temperatures are abo 40 degrees. it can affect your a to think clearly and your movement. developing this ntrning, mery county police are trying to piece together what caused a crash that sent s people to the hospital. chopper 4 was over the scene. it happened last night in rockville around 7:00 on norback road. authorities say the drivers of a fordor focus and van collided as the van was trying to make a left turn. we know ohe driverthe focus hit a brick sign on the side of the road. four teenagers and one woman in that focus were taken to the hospital. theycaave cri injuries. the driver of the v is expected to be okay. we have an update for you o a shooting at a mall down south. new information in an officer-involved shooting in alabama. this t happened onnksgiving night. puthorities say the man once thought to have ed the trigger prompting police to respond may not be the right person. at first they said 21-year-old
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brad ford fought with an 18-yr-old and shot him. as bradford ran away, he was shot and killed. police say bradford was involved but new evidence suggests two people were part of e initial altercation. they believe at least one gunman is sti ther a mystery surrounding the death of an elderlycouple. a caretaker calling the police. the couple was found in their home yesterdhu morning. thand was 94. his wife was 85. montgomery county police are investthating this. say there's no wider threat to the community. the oer of the son -- tom marmet was killed last month. he was a social worker and the sonf roofer's union roger
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marmet. door donations will goo nonprofit and all the profits for the weekend. coming back home after the eoliday, a warning for you especially when y filling up your gas tank as you make that drive home. there's i rise scams at gas stations. they are using small skimmers hidden in the pump and stealing your credit card information. criminals can use this without evenng back to the gas station. they use it through blue tooth. that's how they get the information. texas and flori are the hot spotme police recom paying with cash or inside with your credit card or you maybe choose the pump that's closest to the clerk. >> federal health officials are closer ton tracking d the source of the e. coli outbreak in romainelettuce. the head to the fda leeting out itikely came from california. health officls are warning to
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throw all romaine lettuce away and clean any surfaces it may have touched. the fda i working to restock suppli harvested from different regions. n virginia we em seed the parade atow reston center yesterday. it was cold. families lined the str tts see the giant floats and balloons. the grash mal did a nice meet and greet with all her fans. e does e dyi with nickelode nickelodeon. >> they do it right there. >> yes. at the washington d.c. zoo, lthe zoohts display. more than 500,000 environmentally friendly l.e.d. lights ztransform theoo every year. there's attractakns to in including the ginger bread
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village at the elephant outpost. ry night s go on e through january 1st. as always, entry to the zoo is free. >> it w. ve been showing you, a lot of folks paving the way past thanksgiving into christmas. you can celebrate the season at miracle on 7th street. they're open for business. lights galore andignature drinks. sure to make a splash this season. this year they're paying tribute to a d.c. favorite, bei bei. there's a drink named santa bei bei. miracle on 7th street opened yestinday. you can more holiday fun this weekend by checking out nge nbc washin app. >> look at the decorations. >> a cool spot. we hope you got your fill of the mall and box ssres. today i about the little guy. we'll introduce you to some of the boldest folks in the busine world on one of their
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biggest days in the world. up next, a look at small
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allright. we are following a developing moory out of prince george's county. than 30 people are without a home this morning after a fire ripped through an apartment builelng in la >> all this happening on a cold morning. derrick ward live on k court where the fire happened. what's the latest on this? >> reporter: we are at court and laurel. this is a different scene than a few hours ago when t fire broke out. look at video of the sne. it was about 12:44 when the fire broke out most of the people have been put in different apartments in this complex or
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made other arrangements. a local international association of firefighters or one of the locals w here assisting these families. it's way too early to determine the cause of the fire. as you can seeer back live, it doesn't seem to be that bad. you see people on the roof there. it looike that roof was either firefighters did tt to fighhe fire or flames might have breached that roof. 32 people displaced by a fire in la authorities are still working on the cause. fortunately we understand there are no injuries. live in laurel, derrick ward, news 4. back to you. >> so e,unfortunderrick. thank you for the report. 8:41 right now. 39 degrees outside. it is a weather alert day here at news 4. we're tracking just a reminder that hypothermia can occur when emperatures are above 40 degrees. so we're going to be talking a little bit about the temperatures as well as thethain that's oway. that's next. waiting for a liver transplant..
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local store owners up for a day critical for their survival. all business saturday >> this has become important for those small businesses. i was able to get a the big day at some of the local shops in northernrg ia. >> a popup bookstore, allie kirkpatrick's dream coming true in alexandria. >> i thought 2019 was when i was going to open.
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all of a sudden six weeks l aer i ha bookstore. >> reporter: thanks to the city of alexandria's economic devepment folks old town books is t debutings small business saturday. >> a lot of people think they're on the decline, but more and more bookstores are openingye ever. >> reporter: allie sees this as more than a traditional store. >> m vision for the store is that it's a retail store but it's an event space. >> reporter: we've noticed local shops like thread leaf have also been using their physical space as a community gathering of sorts. but they're alsosing the digital space. it's a place where they can locals.with other their neighbors. >> thread leaf owner nicole mcgrew cultivating her following on instagram showcasing unique fashion. >> aot of my designers aren't on amazon and don't sell online. >> reporter: she left her
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capitol hill job and pursued pa ion. passion has local support. >> we have a really good base of shops here. it's niceo be able to know the folks that own the store. you see them all over the place. and they connect with you. >> reporter: more than 80% of areshops in old town locally owned. they hope you consider small business satury not as a way to buy cheap but by meaningful.y >> so eople love to come to the local businesses. it's a display of support for upple like me who have grown here and are going out onve a lb and ing my life savings in this project. >> reporter: an investment adding to the holid spirit. impressive to think more than 80% of the businesses in hold town are -- old town are lo wlly owned. >>t to london for the royal wedding. old town gives you a feeling of
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nostalgia. it's an experience unlike any other you're going to get at your big brand name stores. . >> and it's cool with the bookstore. the economic developme helped to give her a start and say -- heo they said let's it now. we'll do it this year. >> that is the story during the economic times. you're finding these incubators and people willing to take a risk and go out there and do it for their own passion. they find people in the community thatre going to support them. that is how the village grows. they'r g settingat example. >> i love alexandria. >> i know. 'm>> buying stuff. >> the shopping today is an issu righ >> yes. my apologies to all those small bunesses, because, yeah, a lot of them, store to tore stors not an indoor mall. not quite yet anything around the d.c. area. is coming. and the good news is we're not
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seeing it yet. that's allowed temperatures to go up. i don't think it's going to be a freezing rain issue. in the west, furends at wtop are talking about accidents on i-81. show you what's going on right now. we're going to continue to have an increase in accidents as the frzing rainfalls. freezing rain and sleet mainly west possible beforenoon. en the temperatures will come on up. and that's when it will switch ov r to plainn by lunchtime. heavy rain into the afternoon. but watch out for slick spots, bridges, driveway overpasses. be careful even if you're shopping o get out at a parking garage, especially on the top parking garages and it hasn't been treated. i saw the trucks out there today when i was coming in. hopefully they've taken care of that. we can get rain with pockets of some of thi isolated freezing stuff closer to d.c.so of that brian may be washed
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away. be careful out there. let me show you the radar. you can see it here. you can down load the nbc washington app. iis is a little bit behind i won a little bit. my time hasn't updated. this is the story. this is the currentpicture. i had to think of what was going on. from winchester martinsburg to hagerstown, we're looking at freezing rain,leet out there. these are the areas i'm actually hearing about some accidents right along 'si-81. light. and i have any friends in facebook say it's freezing in. now it's rain. i think it's switching back and forth. just use caution on this area. i think areas back offth t west and western maryland, that's where we're seeing some problems. that may hold on to the cold air longer. but if you have family that wants to travel today and say they'reeaded down i-81 down to roanoke, it's been freezing rain for an while roanoke areas since about 2:00, 3:00 a.m. they have freezing rain. maybe just wait.
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ave your friends wait and hav your family wait before they hit the road if they're headed south. eventually this is going to change to plain rain. vyit is going to be h at times. now, it hasn't reached the d.c. area yet. it's drying out as it moves east of the blue ridge mountains. all of this down there, that's going to mov right into our area. and again, it's going to be mostly rain with pockets of freezing rain around the greater d.c. area. more r freezingn and some sleet along i-81. winter weather advisor continues until noon for freezing rain and sleet. it will switch to all rain as the temperatures go up. let's show youhe future cast. you can see we have thein freezg nd sleet. this is 8:30. now watch what they hold on to the cold air in winchester all the way up to hagerstown. everybody else saying rain. it's heavy rain. that's the yellow and orange. this is 10:30. heavy rain already in the d.c. area. heavy rain will continue through the afternoon. now, everybody is playing rain.
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we've warmed up. 3:00, heavy rain. 5:30, headed to dinner, heavy rain. look at this. it gets out of here at 8:00 or 9:00. city center, treeighting ceremony rain or shine. grab that umbrella. especially if it's early. the sun goes down around 6:00 -- i'm sorry, around 5:00.o it's going wet out there. current temperatures out there right now. look how we've come up a lite bit. there could be a little diceyness toward baltimore oncs the rainthere. it will be a while. after about 10:00 it will start ead toward the i-95 corridor. the temperatures over here freezing o below. that's where they'reisunning intoes. we'll watch the temperatures in loudoun county. they should start to come up as we head to the lunch hour and then we'll te in the mid upper 40s later this afternoon. this is the i accumulation. you can see most of this confined fm win chest tore
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hagerstown.ut cumberland aalf an inch of ice accumulation possible. it will melt and we'll get the rain. an inch of rain on top of this. all that icer. gone la an inch of rain. we're talking about flooding issues. mainly because we have snow on the grounde out here to west. and we've got leaves that have kind of plugged up the drains we could have some flooding concerns. some ponding on the roads as we through late tonight. 48 in d.c. could be slick out there morning. just pretend it is going to be slick even if it's raining. if you're driving around, there could be isolated b spotsow freezing. sease just treat it like it is going to be on thck side out there this morning. if you want to decorate, get a tree today, wait until tomorrow. it's going to be nice tomorrow. it's going to be warm. mid to upper 50s tomorrow. opping, icy spots around. be careful. christmas tree lightin ceremonies, rain moving out from the westst to 57 tomorrow. nice.row is going to be
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tomorrow is going to be the nicest day in the next ten days. rain moves back in late sday night. it will be with us as we head to work on monday. tapering off by monday afternoon. breezy on monday. we're quiet w all the through the next workweek. temperatures in the 40s. nothing we can't deal with. back in the 50s by next sunday. more news on t other side of more news on t other side of he
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five minutes before 9:00, here are four things to know. it's small businabs saturday. out 83% of theonsumers say they plan to do at least some of their holiday shopping at an independent business. aro ofer's union, the ne s son was killed by random gunfire last month. the l yellowe shuts down for two weeks. repair crews are working on the track a rails over the potomac. the blue line will pick up the slack. there's so much going on this weekend. zoo lights athe smithsonian zoo to miracle on 7th streeer wh you'll likely find lauryn. you can find the fun in our nbc washington app. >> if you can get in. >> and buy her a bei i. >>. >> how is the weather? >> weather then is moving oee
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be about 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. from the west to the east. fine line. at least the end of the game should be dry. heavy rain later this afternoon. watc out for slick spots out there this morning. freezing rain along i-81 right now. there are some accidents. please be careful. temperatures mid to upper 40s. tomorrow beautiful. more rain monday morning. >> if you're headed out, be safe. be patient. >> facebook live online coming up. >> all right. that's going to do it for i think we're all back tomorrow morning. >> we'll see you .
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♪ ♪ welcome to this special edition of "inside the redskins." i'm rick doc walker. we are live at jerry world in dallas, texas. the cowboys outscored our beloved redskins. they took what we gave them. we didn't get any turnovers. they got a multitude. they beat us on the line of scrimmage at times. we were valid but in the end it wasn't enough. let's take a look at the highlights. >> happy thanksgiving, redskins nation from dallas, texas. actually, arlington, texas,

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