a senator's son, a war veteran, and decades of civil service. this morning the nation remembering our 41st president, the life and legacy of preside george h.w. bush. a live look at the white house where you can see the flag has already been lowered. happened hours after learning of former president bush's death. gois is the first of december, 2018. morning to you. i'm david culver. angie goff is off this morning. as you can imagine, the news is still coming in.we l have coverage for you as

the tributes continue to mount, and remembering the life and legacy of president george h.w. bush. first, the forecast lauryn rickets is tracking what could be a rainy day. >> we have rain out there as we head tough the day. no rain out there right now. if you need to get things early on this saturda morning, lots of events. not looking too bad. d t arery right now. we've jt clouds out there. as we continue through the day,h all this is o way. this will be moving up into our region as we head into theoo afte we are looking at showers and asre steady rain later through tonight. ar as your planner goes, 38 degrees. we'll take the temperatures down a little bit through the 7:00 a.m. hour. still dry at 7 a.m. by 9:00 a.m., we'll see the rain and drizzle and mist. and then by noon expect some showers. that will continue into the afternoon with temperatures in the upper 30s.

it's going to be a chilly rain. we'll talk about the timing of the rain in a little bit. >> lauryn, thanks. at 5:32, our top story this morning, the death of former president george h.w. bush. happening a year after the death of his wife. the bush familyec aonately george im 41 after son w. became president in 2000. we take a look back at the former president's life and legacy. >> it can rep to the nation, aggression is defeated. the war is over. >> reporter: george bush's greatest victory was the allied victory over iraq in the gulf war. it was marked by high standing ininhe political and bs arenas. born into wealth and privilege, the son of a senator, bush joined the navy and became the youngest pilot duringar wor ii winning the distinguishingyi

cross after being shot down over the pacific ocean. following the war, bush married rbara pierce, entered yale si univerty. and then he moved his family to texas where he was elected to the house of representatives but lost two bids to be a u.s. senator. he did, however, succeed in several high level appointments including director of the cia. following a failed effort at the republican nomination in 1980 he was named ronald reagan's then in 19 8 wasecively defeated michael due caucus. a faltering economy shook american faith in bush. that led to losing reelection in 1992 to democratic challenger bi clinto bush headed back to houston devoting time to his presidential library and stayini . even parachuting from an airplane on his birthdays. he saw two sons become governors and he looked on as george w.

became the 43rd president. the son would call on the father to join forces with bill clinton to raise humanitarian aid for victims of a tsunami in 2004 and in 2005 for hurricane katrina. in10 president obama honored bush with a presidential medal of freedom for a life of service to his country that spanned farly seven decades. themer president suffered heart break when barbara, his wife of 73 years passed away. he mourned with family, friends, and former esidents. nbc news. >> this morning the bush family rele a statement saying jeb, neil, marvin, doro and i e saddened t announce that after 94 remarkable years our dear dad has died. george h.w. bush was a man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for. the entire bush family is deeply grateful for 41's life and love,

for the compassion of those who have cared and prayed for dad and for the condolences of our friends and fellow citizens. president trump also reasing a statement overnight saying in part, our hearts ache with his loss and , the american people, send our prayers to the entire bush family asth we hono life and legacy of 41. president trump, as you know, has a front relationship with the bushfamily, opting not to attend barbara bush's funeral. melania trump attended in his place. trump also attacked the speechds point of lig he's set to speak before coming back to washington tonight.ei plans are made for former president bush to lie in state in a service at the national cathedral. final plans have not been announced. t se are fond memories from our own archives. that's our own jim vance. he had an opportunity to fish

edth the president. jim lov his day with the president. we'll show y that piece. it's pretty cool. a little that very day bit later this morning right here on news 4 today. we are going to have much more on the dth of former president george h.w. bush a morning long, and our nbc washington app keeping you updated, our digitng team bg you the latest of tributes from across the natit. we wo get you to other headlines this morning. two weeks before it was set to close, d.c.'s troubled providence hospital is staying openng . >> providence hospital has announced it will remain open .til further noti units will continue to transfer patients to providence hospil as usual. >> that dispatch you heard coming from first responders last night announcing an io exte for providence hospital in northeast d.c. the d.c. hospital associationsa it will stay open until april 2019. he rest of the hospital is

slated to close on december 14th. after that date the hospital says it will only take in nontrauma injuries. all newhis rning. d.c. police searching for two suspects involved in an armed robbery. now, this all happened on monday on p street in northwest by logan circle. this morning we're getting this look. police say the men approached a woman and pulled out haguns. th attacked and eventually robbed her before taking off. the woman's expected to be okay. police, they want tose catch t guys. they're offering a $10,000 award. the kansas city chiefs have parted ways with kareem hunt. that happened hours after a video surfaced showing him pushing a woman to the ground andicking her. this alleged assault happened in february inside a hotel in cleveland. tmz reportinghunt's friend told police they met a girl at the club earlier that night. they asked her to leave their a hotel rooer finding out she was 19. after that heated argument, huno

pushes of his friends, both his friend and theal girl to the ground. the chiefs say hunt was released because he was not, quote, truthful with them, an the video shows it. this morning, incriminating instagram pts from james field. he's on trial for running dn a prosecutor. fields posted the photos two months before he drove from his home in ohio to charlottesville, virginia to attend the unite the right rally lastyear. they show cars plowing intop a grou of protesters wit the caption, when i see protesters blocking. prosecutors pla to argue it is a sign that fields intended to doharm. we're also learning more about the woman killed while trying to cross old georgetown bethesda. she loved so much children so much that she came out of retirement to be a nanny. on thursday she was hit after leaving her job watching a wba.

she waking to a bus stop for the ride home to rockville. neighbors say a the no street lights where she was killed. her sisters cannot believeit. loss.are crushed by the >> somebody killed my sister. they are responsible. my sister, my young sister. >> her sister hopes tha by sharing her story this could lead to some accountabi ty. by theway, this is the 14thde perian who has been hit and killed in montgomery county this year alone. the walk and 5 k to end hiv is happening today. you may recall some bad weather at the end of october forced it to be postpone it starts and ends at freedom plaz it's not too late to register. chuck bell will be there at 8:15 to help kick off the festivities. the run begins at w9:15h the walk starting just a few minutes later. a and they've got a post race celebration that starts at 10 0

10:00. he's a viz owners who battle tested. he celebrated his successfulnt e with the people who helped him get it off the ground. stay with news 4 and nbc news all morning long for continuing coverage of the death of president george h.w. 'lbush. have more of the remembrances from overnight that are just coming in at this hour as news 4 today on this saturday as news 4 today on this saturday continues.

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audio book down loads. >> reporr: they believe they could be the busiest library in the system. have alreadyeople gone online to learn more about it. >> one of the things we're most excitedbout is our sorting machine. itn where you returour books. we've enclosed that room in glass. ourustomers can see the trip their materials take when they're returned to the library. >> reporter: you can check out the newf library yours today. the grand opening and ribbon cutting at 1:00 >> look. libraries are getting cool. that's awesome. that's a huge renovation. that place is 40,000 square feet. >> that's a big library. >> and they want it to be a place that people wl go and hang out. today it might be an indoor place. >>ially this afternoon. >> that's when it's opening. >> perfect. >> good retiming. how you? >> good. how are you? it's chilly out there. temperatures are in the 30s. we got rain on the way. we have a lot of events going on out there. yeah. it looks like we're going to have some rain.

especially in the afternoon and let's go ahead. increasing chances of rain out there today. no rain out there right now. if youeed to go out and get things done, i know it's really early. it's 5:50 on a saturday morning. throughout the morning we're looking good i'd say after about 10:00, 1:001:00, we'll start to see rain. we have a wet night ahead. again, through the morning, b then it starts to taper off as we continue through the af trnoon. currenperatures out there right now, you can see in the 30s right no 30 in gaithersburg. 34 in frederick. 36 in leesburg. the temperatures in the 30s. pretty much a stickinund there throughout the morning hours. again, we've got the rain to the south and west. we're going to keep the clouds as we continue through the morning with temperatures dropping just a little bit as we go through the 7:00 a.m. hour. nothing on radar rht now in our area. widen this out a little bit.

this isll with a warm front. that warm front is going to be lifting up through our area as we continue into the weekend. we're finally passing through the day tomorrow. n rain showers will bee increase at least this first batch, throughout the oiddle pathe morning. we've got a lot of things going on. we have the walko end hiv. chuck bell will be out there for that. shower later. watch for showers through the middle part of the morning. alalandria scottish down there, it's a passing shower possible. hopefully we can get most of it in the morning.t the parade the wharf, i'll see that tonight. that starts at 7:00 at the wharf. tommy mcfly will be at the one inalexandria. we'll just watch those boats roll up.rt unately i think we'll deal with rain. still come out and say tree lighting, it's a little wet. gaithersburg has one and i kno there's several out there as well. let's go ahead and time this out for you guys. you can see 5:30,'rnothing.

stuck in a cloud cover. here comes rain. just a little first batch of rain coming our way as we head through th middle part of the morning. then it starts to scoot out as we go to the mthdle part o afternoon. we could be dry heading into the evening. that will good, especially for the boat parades. then more rain headed our way into the late ening. ra overnight. rain showers tomorrow morning. finally ending as we the day tomorrow. and we will get some sunshine by tomorrow afternoon. temperatures tomorrow are tricky. is whatust a warm fro we say. that warm front is going to be lifting through the area. i think there's going to a big spread in temperatures. i think we can make it up to the 60s. low to mid 60s. i always say that, but we always have trouble with warm fronts getting through. 64 with daytime highs and mild conditions. monday,re tempera in the mid 50s on monday. more sunshine on tuesday. look at that. we cooled down on tuday.

we'r pretty quite next week. we have a chance for rain and snow by next we've got more news on the other we've got more news on the other side of

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good morning. thlcome to this nbc news special report. country is in morning. the loss of the 41st president, orge h.w. bush passed away overnight in houston at the age of 4ir. >> he died 8 months after barbara bush. overnight condolences and well wishes poured in from around