tonight on "nbc ni breaking news. a new charge in the mueller investigation. president trump's former lawyer pleads guilty in a new york courtroom just a short time agot coinuing coverage of that nbc news special this morning customers are calling the fire damage to this restaurant in d.c. heart breaking. we'll haven more the community reaction and the tough conditions firefighters faced trying to p it out. good morning, everybody. a little sunshine now. don't get used it. mo clouds and rain coming up

soon. good morning.lc e to "news4 midday." i'm chris lawrence. >> and i'm erika gonzalez. cohen admits t lying about the eting in trump tower. today cohen admitted in court in new rk that he didalk to the kremlin and conversations about the deal continued, at least until the middle of 2016. you'll recall during the presidential campaign president trump reatedly said he had no deals in russia. just now on the white house lawn the president called cohen a weak person and said that he lying to get a reduced sentence. the president acknowl ged the deal has been in the works -- or had been in the works, i should say, but said he decided not to go through with it because he was focusing on running for

president. president trump made those comments before leaving for the g20 summit in argentina. >> saturday night will is a working dinner with chinese president xi jinping. the tcu will d trade. that's not only high-stakes sitdown haening this weekend. here's tracie potts with the other meeting. >> is paying attention to. >> reporter: as psident trump flies to the summit in argentina this morning, back here his former campaign chair paul manafort is trying to avoid jail time on tax fraud. >> there's no scenario where he completely walks. >> his plea deals falli apart. now the president confirms a manafort attorney gave them the inside scoop on conversations

with special counsel robert mueller. >> it's like playing the red sox but givinghe yankees your scouting report. >> reporter: there are so many ways this could quickly go into illegal territory. resident trump denied knowing in advance that a russian lawyer met his son trump towerha or wikileaks had stolen e-mails from democrats. the president tells "the new york post" pardoning manafort is not off the table but protecting robert mueller is. epublicans blocked an attempt to make firing mueller illegal. republicans arguing both sides, that the president has constitutional authority over mueller, but tha a law to protect mueller isn't needed because the president has promised not to fire him. tracie potts, nbc news, washington.

now to our we iher. s another day to bundle up. we spotted a few extra layers out in georgetown yesterday. >> much needed. while the wind is not so bad, chuck says it's the feels-like weather out there. >> the stretch of colder weather will continue another couple of i'm optimistic about the second half of the weekend. right now your thursday coming up on noone time, below 40 degrees. an average high temperature is 53. this is well below average, 39 in washington, 37 in lorton, 36 in beautif loudoun county, virginia. and the northwest wind though nowhere near as strong as it was yesterday still out there. so we still have to factor that in. wind chills are in the upper 20s to around 30 degrees. definitely feels like winter afternoon high today peaking around 45. that's still 8 c degreesder than average. and there's also a chance for

rain over t ekend. more on that coming up. we're working to learn more about an ernight shooting in southeast d.c. police say a least one person was shot on 17th street, just a blocks from anacostia high school. police are searching for two suspects l t seen in the area in a black sedan. we'll bring you the latest as it becomes available. n> now to unbelievable images out ofthwest d.c. >> we see this massive fire tearing through a restaurant in the shaw neighborhood last night. >> this rning the popul family business left completely gutt. megan mcgrath is live along 7th street. megan? >> reporter: the damage is extensive. if you look behind me here, you can see the roof is esstially gone. the second floor has been gutted. lots of damage to the first

floor of ansuma's resta here. this is a family-run institutio a lotf people here in the shaw neighborhood come here to eat. they're very saddened to see the situation. investigators are trying to figure out what caused the fire. >> it's heart breaking. >> reporter: a sad sight. charred debris litters the sidewalk. the inside ofan the rest heavily damaged. anika came here every or friday. she said the owner went out of his way to welcome his customers, making sure everyone felt at home. >> first-time people, he would introduce them to the culture by sitting down and having all the tig items they provide so you can see what you liked and depend like. he treated you like family.

>> reporter: the video shows the intensity, flames shooting out the windows. complicating matters, propane tanks up on the ro, and there was the weather. last night's high winds fanned the flames. debbie wilson lives a few doors down. >> you could see the smoke. it was just ungulfed. you could see it coming down t street. and my apartment was ungulfed will smoke and w the flamee everywhere. i've never seen anything like that in my life. >> reporter: now,wo debbie son says she had a conversation with the owner yesteay morning, so hours before the fire. she said it was her understanding that there wask some weing done up on the roof. it's unclear the cause of ge fire. investigators ang to be taking a closer look trying to figure out exactly what happened. to you guys. >> now that the fire is out, they'll be able to get in there and actually recover some of the

evidence inside. thank you,megan. opening statements are just getting under way in the murder trial oes field, accused of driving his car into a crowd of people in charlottesville. heather and others were there tt protes gathering of white nationalists. fields is a self-professed neonazi. yeerday potential jurors were warned of a robo call containing information about that deadly incident last year. >> reporter: a serial podcastet case rns to court today. they're fighting to defend the ruling that granted him a new trial. he was convicted in 2000 of rangling his ex-girl friend and burying her body in a baltimore park. the attention on the dcast led

to him being granted a new tria a serial killer who says he murdered more than 90 people may be respoible for the killing of a womannc in p george's county more than 45 years ago. county detectives spoke with samuel little last month. it was in 19 that hunters found the woman remains in laurel. detectives say little was able to identif the exact location and went on to say that he strangled her and dumped her body there. he also knew some of the unreported details about this case. >> samuelsittle a true monster. he's every woman's ultimate nightmare. >> repordr: little tolice he picked up the woman on a bus statio on new yor avenue. each said he thinks she was from massachusetts. the medical examiner saysmahe was white, about 19 years old, had reddish-blond hair.

police hope someo will come home and identify her. >> a family looking foreclosure. police are investigating a bomb threat made to old dominion university. it's an anonymous threat. as we learn more, we'll update you. >> what doctors hope to accomplish in a walmar

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china's government now demands a chinese researcher stop his work in gene editing. this comes after claims surface there was a second pregnancy. he claims that he was the first to alter the genes of twin baby girls toe resistant to the aids virus. chinese vice ministerf science and technology says his work is both illegal and morall unacceptable. he abruptly left an international conference of sciences this week after a fallout from his announcement. a fatal drug over dose is

being blamed for life expectancy dropping again in the united st tes. mon 70,000 people died from a drug overdose last year. that is up almost 10%. d.c. had the fourth highest re of overdoses in the country. suicide rates also continue to rise, but heart disease remains the leading cause of death in this country. first lady melania trump took her message about the opioid crisis to students at liberty university in virginia.e she war students about the dangers of prescription pain killers. she noted young athletes canme be addicted after being treated for injuries and she urged stuponts to suprt their family or friends who may be caught in that cycle of addiction. >> i believe in the power of all of you. if evenne of you leaves here today and talks to a friend or family member about the

potential to end this crisis, then we all suoreeded. >> rr: she said she has learned a lot of people addicted to drugs are tooed ash to ask for help. >> reporter: the u.s. navy is helping thousands of refugees fleeingify ifviolence and a elllapsing economy in vene a medical shipho treats in desperate need. >> reporter: it is a nonstop flow of humanity. every day 5,000 venezuelans flee. but now here in the caribbean sea, the united states navy has arrived. not a warship but the hospital y're "comfort for"comfort," andt

caring for these families. >> he's saying he couldn't find help for his son in venezuela. >> reporter: turns out he's not the only one who has this condition. he has a twin brother. they did the same operation on him, too. this 11-week mission is the first u.s. humanitarian effort helping venezuelan refugees. doctors seeing more than 16,500 patients in the first three f i, treating everything from lrn forbu them because i can hear in their voices that they didn't want to leave, they didn't want their homeland to be devastated and they're just looking for any help that they can get. >> reporter: almost two decades into the venezlan crisis, now american doctors providing care at sea. kerry sanders, nbc news. we are working for your health this morning. there are no cancer screening recommendations out. a new study suggests that women

with certain riskct s should start getting an annual e mammogram at e of 30. that's 15 years earlier than the recommendation from the american cancer society. this latest study is coming out of nyu. researchers considered data from more than 2 million women. they say elevated risk factors family dense breast or history of breast cancer. >> and one word is giving new meaning to retail therapy. the company is oering mental health clinics right inside their store. they can get full therapy sessions at a lower cost. the goal is to help underserved communities who may not get the care they need. we go to one clinic already open in texas. >> reporter: we know can you go to walmart for toothpaste, hair oducts and even prescriptions but therapy? there's a brand new mental health clinic now open inside

walmart, where you can walk in, call or make an appointment online to see a licensed mental health professional for things like anxiety, depression or the e resses of every day living. >>ink having it available in a setting like this provides opportunities for people to reach out andet care in a comfortable place. >> reporter: a boston-based company called beacon health option runs the clinic and is leasing space inside the walmart store. their goal is to offer services ural communities who might not get care. >> we'll have a licensed clini who isble to reach out to you, do an assessment, determine what services you might need. >> reporter: whi write you prescriptions on site, they do offer full therapy tsessions inhe clinic, charging $140 for the first assessment and $110 for each session after that, offering a sliding fee scale for people without insurance.

now the question, will people go? >> i'm always at walmart. why not? >> i think walmart is tryinto go so big, it's just kind of a little bit much. >> reporter: clinics say these clinics are a band-aid for much large are probabr problem. >> adding a single provider in texas will do nothing to address the issue of lack of access. >> reporter: still consumers say the more acce t, better for everyone. >> it doesn't matter, if walmart wants to jump in good to them. >> bringing a doctor to the people. after the break, a video you don't want to miss. a 5-year-old whose strength is unreal. >> and barber shop banter takes center stage at the kennedy center. meet the man behind the play getting ve reviews.ra

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it's safe to say the christmas season is in full swing around here, d.c. and new yor sure. >> definitely. last night we watched them light up the rockefellerr cen christmas tree during an event broadcast live right here on c nbc4. >>e, two, one! [ cheers ] this year's tree is from upstate new york. it features a newly designed 900 pound crystal star. it wasn't only new york city that became bit brighter last night. >> three, two, one! [ cheers ] >> president a mrs. trump lit the national christmas tree outside the white hous the president wished the crowd merry christmas and asked everyone to keep the victims of e recent natural disaster like those deadlyildfires we've been watching in california in their thoughts and prayers. the nationalhrtmas tree will stay lit until the first of

january. you can visit from 10 in the morning until 10 at night every day and until 11:00 on fridaysrd and sas. >> i feel like people hear that countdown and they want to say happy new year! not there yet. >> hefully n that the winds have died down, it will be a better night to go out and enjoy the tree. freezing last night. just crazy. >> so a little warmer today, that's step one. a little more sunshine. that's step two. what we need is a south wind. unfortunately that's not going to get here until we get into the weekend and it comes with a chance of more moisture, which means rain. here you go, outsideou on thursday, coming up on lunch hours. washington temperatures, if you thought it turned cold unexpe unexpect unexpectedly fast, you are correct. we are above average in temperatures for may, june, july, aaugust, september october, all warmer than average. but here in november 16 out of

the last 21 days have been colder thanaverage. for the month now we're three degrees cooler. we already set the record for rainiest november. with the s still comin out, temperatures in the mid to upper 30s. we'll drift to the low and m 30s today. there will be a chance for sprinkles and light rain tomorrow. pretty steady rain for the second half of your saturday. keeping a close eye on this area of moisture here, this is the first one we're tracking. that band of light snow couldine he mountains of west virginia in the mid to late evening hours of y.to here's future weather. not much during the daylight hours but the sun is down just before 00. clouds thicken quickly after the sun goes down. we could have a sprinkle or two up in the shenandoah valley of northern maryland.

here's 7 a.m. tomorrow morning. if you get up real rl probably not going to be raining. but by 7:00 in the morning, chances of showers. not aal t washout but you'll want to have the umbrella ready to go. higher rainfall amounts saturday. we'll talk more about the extended forecast into next week coming up. >> nothing worse than a cold rain. just chills your bones. >> are the headlights on your car doing the job they should be doing? new test results are out. for many vehicles the road right now, tha answer is no. right now, tha answer is no. >> and sales are down at dick's

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midday." >> a major change is taking a hi hit on itsot bm line. >> reporter: this morning a sports retail giant feeling the effects of its strong gun policy. ""the wall street journal reporting that sales at dick's sporting goods are down, nine months after the chain rolled out tougher restrictions on irearm purchases, the report

highlighting weak earnings from the hunting and electronics department, citing a conference call. sales reportedly fell 3 opinio the quarter. dick's said they would no longer send guns u to peoplender 21 and would end the sale of high capacityns those actions coming in the wake of one of the country's darkest days. on febary 14th, a gunman took 17 lives and served as a catalyst for change. >> if all ournm gent can do is send thoughts a prayers, then it's time for the victims

to the cat a laalyst for chang. >> reporter: when we saw these kids organizede to h their voices heard, we talked and said if these kids can be brave enough, we can be brave enough ourselves. >> reporter: the company revealing they had sold a firearm to the shooter, though not one used to the massacre. >> we folwed all therules. we did exactly what we were supposed to do, and he was able to buy a gun from us. >> reporter: a company deeply impacted by a devastating tragedy, paying arice for taking a stand. >> that was crikristen dahlgren reporting. locally a committee passed a red flag law to allowolice to remove guns from someone's possession if theerson may be in crisis. haere has to be a significant

risk someone might harm someone or themselves i order to confiscate the goon. it bans bump stocks. the redskins trying to folks on a major game coming up next week. in practice yesterday they prepared for their monday nht matchup with the eagles. the skins tell to second in thea division after loss to the cowboys. a w p monday couldut them back on top. the pressure is coupled with mounting scrutver a controversial addition to the team. by you know the redskins have acquired lineback reuben foster just days after he was released from the 49ers. ceat comes after being charged with domestic vi twice in a month. the redskins issued a statement about their decision and says they are waiting for due process. here's how some of foster's new teammates are reacting t the addition. >> people are making for him to make more mistakes.

being a human, we all make mistakes. i have high expectations from when he walked in this building. >> i don't know what happened.ot i'm n condoning any i know from what i had with him in alabama. people mak mistakes. i don't know what happened. i can't speak about that. >> head coach gruden said once the m cter isared up and he is rehabilitated, he expects him to be a asset to the redskins. >> a barber shop is a sacred spot for men. a playeb ctes the unique meeting place for african men. welcome. thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> whatort of inspired you to write this? >> a few years ago i was in a relationship with a young woman

who told me about a nongovernment plan toeach barbers about counseling and to teach them how to spot instances or conversations of a delicate na nature. >> you were born in nigeria, you lived in london, you've traveled all over the world. talk about some of them rac that you've encountered and how that shapes yr view in putting this on. >> racism is a very nuanced and problematic and locally specific issue. i've lived in united kingdom, i've lived inireland for three years, i traveled across india, pakistan ireland. >> experienced it differently? >> differently. stieps the sometimes there's malice behind it and sometimes it's ignorance and lack of knowledge. you come to this from different points in your life and engaging

it and how it plays out with our most intimate personal relationships. >> how is it different putting on this play here in washington as opposed to staging in other parts of the world? >> well, i think the place that's in london and various parts of the world but most of what it unpacks it the cosmop nature of london which is home t so many different kinds of african men. all the stuff cuts across barriers, and people a ughing and crying. it works here perfectly. >> i know in the past audience members have been invited on stage to get a trim. is that goi to happen at the kennedy center? >> yeah. there are seats on f stage audience members. they're just invited. they sit there throughout duration of t play. it's quite an evolved and sort of 360 experience. everything,ersed in the dialogue, the musicals,

transitions between the vocal andoral work done and they got to see that right up close, sat besides the actors in some scenes. >> thank you so much. he barber shop chronicles" starts tonight at the kennedy center and will run through december 1st. >> new evacuation ordersn i parts of california just weeks after the deadl wildfireys.

right now in southern california almost a dozen communities haveeady been given mandatory evacuation orders ahead of someg str rain. this is in the los angeles county area that was just hit by aeadly wildfire. now the concern,id mud . normally plant and vegetation waak up a lot of the rain, but

the fire took most of the vegetation, which increases the likelihood for mud slides. back in january, a downpour after a wildfire created a mud slide that kille 21 people in santa barbara. you will notice it the moment you step outside today. itig is dow freezing. >> this is the kind of cold that's hard to get away from. temperures are impacting people up and down the east coast. check out wh folks in buffalo are dealing with. >> winter comesea y. >> it does, man. six inches of snow fell yesterday. they're expecting even more towy. the s isn't even the worst. 35 mile-an-hour winds made it feel below freezing. you got to imaginell that snow and ice whipping up in your face. >> here, though, even t manatees in florida are dealing with the cold.

cold colder-than-usually temperatures ha the manatees swimming to warm. stay the water is usually about 72 degrees there. that is impressive. wow. >> all right. here at home 39 degrees this morning. a little better than yesterday, though, because that wind would just cut right through you. you were out in it. >> tough dlsledding yesterday. winds gusted over m 40es an hour for over a six-hour stretch yesterday. the good news is we got rid of the wind and pretty soon we'll scour the cold air out of here. could take little longer. filteringsunshine lat on today. coder than average 16 out of the last 21 days.ow right we're still holding on to 39. but t little bit of a breeze left has lowered the wind chill right down to the freezing mark. high temperatures only in the low 40s. our average is 53.

another colder-than-average day today. risk of sprinkles just about any time during the day would be most like during the middle part of the afternoon, from 10 in the morning until 3:00 in the afternoon, temperatures will be stuck in the 40s. i wish i could promise better weather for the walk for hiv. the walk was rescheduled from earlier this year because of the weather. it will be cold and cloudy in the morning. i think we can hold most of the rain chances out of the early parts of the morning. once eget you get to anoonti later, rain chances really creep up. you can find g to the web site

for more information. sunday i think we' start to clear things out a bit on sunday afternoon. a southwest wind will make that the warmest d i we've seen a while. 68 degrees on sunday. better enjoy it we go right back to ld -than-average weather for most of next week. >> there have been troubling findings from new tests on ts headli >> and getting your children tradition. a holiday we are jon

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the pastry chef at the ritz carlton pentagon city started bakingt the young a of 7 and now she's passing her knowledge on to others. we have the best way to get your kids involved in the kitchen. good morning. thank you for joining us. if you started at 7, who got you into baking? was your m a big baker or were you just kind of set apart and always had a lynn inclination this?ds >> it was definitely my mom who encouraged throughout my career. while i started to bake, it was to entertain me while my sister had a friend over. she wanted me out of the way.

my mom's an artist. this is my form oft artistry t i've gotten from her. my sister has her drawing ability but i have this. i'm really excited about it. >> you do have to be so creative to put these beautiful delicacies together. y e ritz carlton is no sha place. >> no, not at all. >> talk to me about this really funoncept you guys have coming up next weekend. it's a brgingd house decorating class for kids. you have everything there for them to yaccess have close to 500 pounds of candy, which bs greatause then you don't have it at your house for them to get into. how do they get there? what do theydo have t so take the class? >> they can visit the ritz carlton pentan city, you can call and make reservations. we're happy to tack thke them. we have 18 different varieties of candy.

every child will get a chef's hat, an apron and their own little blank canvas where they can have and be creative and do what they like. >> and make a mess in somebody else's kitchen. you're going to be there handsu onng them. is there a certain technique that you can show us that you would show ohe kids what are maybe sol best practices in putting their jigingerbread hous together? >> of course. they're so creative. for us, it's a pipg bag and just a small amount of the royal icing. just down your roof, let'ssay. can you have twizzlers as the tiles. are they going to get these that are already kind of put together and they get to put the jules o jewe it, right? >> they're all put together. they go to go to our candy display and choose whatever they want, create whatever patterns they want.

i've seen people takeootsie rolls and make an entire lincoln log house, which is azg. >> how long can they stay there hetting their little houses to the? >>lass is about two hours. it includes lunch. the chefs at the ritz carlton pentagon city makes. >> they give your kids food before they send them home alld sugap to you. fantastic. >> get it out of their system, >> for the viewers that maybe can't make it to the ritz and pentagon city, any tips you would suggest if they're assemblyase assembling this at home? >> at home put down something on theac su royal icing is made of egg whites and powdered sugar. make sure it's soft enough to be too to pipe but not stiff -- >> do you need a piping bag? could you take somhing already premade in a jar or is that too

no go? >> the jar isit ae too soft for what you want to do. the royals icing dri really hard. you can actually touch it and your candy will stay. that's the advantage of doing the royalicing. you don't need a pastry bag. cayou use a butter knife. ballam. carolyn kid can go and have a great time and you don't have to pick up the mess. thanks for putting together this really pretty spread. >> our gingerbread house didn't that.anything like ours is a fixer-upper with the roof falling off. >> you need the class, my friend. >> i do, i do. aew study is shining light on how well your car's headlights work. some still leave drivers in the

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♪ all i want for christmas is you ♪ >> wesong along to this song every time it comes o the radio in the car. "all i want for christmas is you, maria carey's iconic song.

now add two more fan, her twins. the famous m says she was teaching the twins how to suing background vols. remember big mouth billy bass, the singing wall-mounted fi from the 90s? >> well, the bass is back and now apparently works with alexa. theinging a talking fish will lip sync to alexa's voice command. you can ask it about the weather, the news and the community. but you need to connect the billy bass existing echo device. the new version will be available on amazon for about $40 and will be released on saturday. if you just got some fun cash to burn on a wall-mounted fish, well, there you go. can you find a million lights on displayn one place. the light-upva fes in loudoun county. >> it's one of the largest

lighting displays ont the e coast. we have details on the event and the charity it's benefiting this holiday season. >> reporter: check it out, pandas everywhere. you know we love pandas. one million lights. we've got everything for you to be able to enjoy. our chopper4 view really gives you the birds eye view of 1 million lights, everything you'll want to see from pandas to dinosaurs, it's all here, along witthe carnival rides d acrobats. we have artisans here. 500 years of work go into this. this is history in the making. sugar art by this fourth generation artist, who will make this for you when you come up here. whatever image, here can make that. look at these bikes here, we've got the rooster here, all of

this at light-fest. becky is here to talbout just the enormous beauty you've isought to the east coast, right? s the first time doing this here. >> this is the first time ever we have this big light festival in east coast. >> thank you for bringing . >> thank you. >> reporter: some of the proceeds going to proams for children and dwuladults with developmental disabilities.on >> it's a wrful place to come and enjoy. folks with disabilities are welcome to come and be a part of this as well. it's fabulous. >> reporter: thats the very latest from lightup fest here at one loudoun. >> with the weather warming up x in the few days it, would be a great time to get out there. >> we'll send thing back over to chuck bell for a final look at

the weather. >> all right. nothing to worry about for today. we'll see more clouds later on. staying chilly with highs only in the mid 40s. chilly again tomorrow, a lot of cloud cover tomorrow and ais of rain during the day. saturday may start out cloudy but it will end wet. hopefully the rain will beut of here sunday morning early enough where we can get a southwest wind and maybe a little sunshine sunday afternoon,pper 60s. >> thank you, sir. that's it for "news4 midday." we're back this afternoon for "first at 4." have a fantastic day. we'll see you back here tomorrow.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1! go! >> all right. if that doesn't make things official, i don't know what does. the holidays are here. welcome to "access live." i just love seeing that we were just in new york, guys. we saw them bring the tree in. saw it all kind of boxed up. yes, wed did. anhousands turned out there last night to watch the tree lights go on. s traditionce 1931. such a really pretty tree. >> t in mood. >> so good. night.at performances last >> joh legend, tony bennett, diana ross. one of the best parts, though, was watching her daughter tracy

watching h performan.