the center of the rotunda. later this morning, the former president will be carried here to the national cathedral. former and current heads of state will gather for his funeral and to honor the man who gave decades of his life to public service. it is 4:00 a.m. now. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> since the death ofeorge h.w. bush, the country has been united in grief and done its best to hon a man who meant so much to so many. yesterday the bush family thanked tha thanked those that came to the rotunda to pay respects. george h. bush talked t reporters. >> we have seen days of powerful images but none more powerful than this one. bob dole being helped to h feet to salute george bush for the final time. dole will be among those attending the funeral today. we have team coverage. >> justin finch and megan fitzgerald will join us live

from the capitol and national cathedral to walk u through the preparations under way for today's funeral. we want to begin with a check on your fast and commute. >> let's g to chuck bell for a look at our forecast today. good morning.d >> grning, aaron. good morning, everybody. on a very cold and winter like day here in the nation's capital, we have a lot of clouds overhead. 're going to be able to see snow flurries and showers during the course of the day. current ttlperatures are m at or above freezing. we're not looking for a major winter storm. nonetheless, there are owflakes flyingcross parts of northern virginia. they're coming generally eastbound towards the d.c. metrr . no winter weather advisories for the immediate area. there is i wanter weather advisory for stanton and harrisonburg towards southwestern virginia. current teeratures, just above freezing. 29 in montgomery county. forecastayigh tround 40 degrees. certainly cold enough to keep those flurries flying. but just warm enough to keep much of accumulation threats at

a minimum. keeping a very close eye on that sunday, monday time frame still. more about that in the five day forecast. for now, let's go to melissa fof thst 4 traffic. >> because of today's funeral for president george h.w. sh, we have a lane closure. wisconsin avenue betweense massacs avenue and lowell street. that will be closed for much of the day because of the procession coming into national cathedral. forestville, inner loop of the beltway after pennsylvania avenue, work zone blocking t rightlane. and work zone blocking the rights lane at allentown road. going to have more on 270 and 9d in maryland virginia am coming up. >> tha>> you. after a lifetime of public service, the day has arrived. in a matter of hours, the public and world leaders will gather to say their final good-byes to former president george h.w. bush. bush was a veter family

man. he serve ld d as a congressman,d of the cia and even a u.n. ambassador all this before ndepping into the vice-presidencyhe oval office. president trump declared today a national day of mrning and closed the federal government. >> the funeral begins at 11:00 this morningnd at 10:00 a.m., president bush's body will be taken to the national cathedra from now until 7:00 a.m., more people are expected to visit the capitol t payrespects. we begin our team coverage with news 4's justin finch live l tside of the natio cathedral this morning. justin? >>ea aaron, a hours before the funeral seeing advance security here around the washington national cathedral. several streets in this area now closed ahead of the service. i want to show you aew lots down from where we are, you can see police and closures in place. when we entered closer to wisconsin avenue this icrning. d.c. p keeping a very visible presence, working with secret service and other law

enforcement partners to guarantee a seamless sequence of events today. if you work, live, or travel in this area, you will likely see congestion until the early afternoon. this funeral beginning at 11:00 a.m. this morning at theon na cathedral and it will follow an episcopal traditione learned with hymns including "for all the sats" and "holy god we praise thy name." all of the hymns, readings an scri scriptures hand picked by the bush family. a eulogy will be g given byrge h. bush and a crowd o presidents past and present including president trump and milania trump. also in attendance is the obamas,de clintons and pre carter, all among the guest that's are included to number some 3,0 people in th audience today. among them, world heads of statl ing german chancellor

angela merkel and prince charles of england. the service wil conclude with a 21 gun salute. we're live in northwest, justi finch, news 4. >> thank you. also among those at the rvice, president trump. he met with the family at blair house across from the white house. after the meeting, former first lady laura bush toured the white house with milania trump. the trumps were not the only people to pay respects to the bush family. megan fitzgerald picks up our team coverage from capitol hill. megan? >> good morning, aaron. there has been a steady stream of people h coming oute all throughout the night and into the ely morning hours. now take -- keep in mind there tre two different lines. the one thaou're looking at here, a couple hundred people standing in line. thbut then on the oer side, there is an even longer line. these folks tell mehey've been waiting for about 2 1/2 hours. of course, you know, these lin have been forming since the gates opened at 7:30 on monday.

people coming in from all across the country. some people extending their vacation in town to try to pay their respects t our41st president. the reason for beiere are deeply personal. everybody has a different connection, a different reason. take a listen to what this one woman told us. >> i just felt a sense of warmth and just privilege to just to be out here. i just thought itas anonor for me to come and pay hommage to a great man, a man of integrity. >> now the public viewing ends at 7:00 a.m. andnt then presi bush's casket will proceed up to the national cathedral. back to you. >> meg fitzgerald, thankou. enchts followi following day's funeral, mucasket will be taken to andrews. it will return bush's body

to texas tonight. mr. bush will lie in repose at his home church in houston. funeral services will be held there tomorrow. he will then b buried at his presidential library at texas a&m university. he'll be laid to wrest next to his wife and their daughter who died as a child. reminder, ftoday'seral service begins at 11:00 a.m. nbc 4 will carryt t service live. you can watch it right here or in the nbc washington app. also developing this morning, roberer mue says michael flynn should not serve any jail time. t mueller'm faced a deadline last night to file a recommended sentence.s mueller s flynn has been extremely cooperative. flynn met with muel 1r's team9 times. hen pleaded guilty december of 2017 to lying to the fbi. he admitted he did have conversation with russian ambassador kislyak in the weeks before president trump tookof

ce. flynn secretary xped to be sentenced -- expect expected to be sentenced in two weeks. >> we're hearing from a person that helped a woman that was sexually assaulted. she was walking home from the metro station early monday morning in temple tills whe dark colored car that you see here in thispiurveillance ure pulled up alongside her on curtis drive. she says she was hel at g point, forced inside of the car and sexually assaulted by two men. the woman was then forced out of the car in southeast.c. a resident heard her knock on his door. >> they took everything fm heher i had to get her shoes, clothes, jacket, everything. i didn't think anything of it. you see somebody that needs he, you just doit. you don't second judge, you help that person, especially a female knocking on your door. >> police released this image captured by a bank atm i camera

southeast d.c. showing one of the suspects using the victim's debit card. >>his morning's d.c. police chief blames the city's soaring rder rate on illegal guns in the wrong hands. there are 152 murdershis year. that up is 40% from 2017. many of those cases remain unsolved and many of the victims are young men. d.c. police chief believes there arehree reasons why young people are carrying illegal firearms. >> one is they will say it's for protection. i think, two, they carry it y'cause it's glamorous and everything that t seeing out there in the world. >> in the gamri. >>t. and then the last one is l aack of consequences. >> the chief says these four men are murder suspects still on the run. police need community help to fi them and other suspects. enchts t the mayor's signature kog put an end to gas powered leaf

blowers. >> they already put in a measure ay ban them. council members the problem with leaf blowerss the noise they make. the ban would stop people from using and selling them in. d.c electric leaf blowers are allowed because they make less noise andlu create less pon. >> the essence of the bill is to deal with noise. they're muchnoisier. es of a biproduct, we'll alsoii bbeetter environment. because those particular machines throw a lot of pollution. >> if adted, the ban would not go into effect until 2022. no matter what happens, the federal government will still be able to use gas powered leaf blowers on its properties. there's a lot of federal profit in d.c.il so itbe interesting to see how that works out. >> but the murder rate is up 40 we're talking about leaf blowers. >> yeah. >>ll ahead, a major recall

that may impact your pet's health. >> plus, newai det about that on field accident that left q skinsuarterback colt mccoy roth a bken bone. why he may have a shot at returning to the game in season. chuck? good morning, everybody. four things you need to know about the next couple days. going to be watching for snow odurries off and on throughout the day. staying very cold on into the weekend. more about that sunday monday nter storm chance comiwing

this morning we'reeovering funeral of president george h.w. bush. this is a live look outside the capitol. since monday, thousands of people have had the chance to come here and pay respects. re you can see here from the video, people still lined up this morning but the rotunda will clo at 7:00 this morning. president bush will be taken to the national cathedral at 10:00.

the service begins at 11: and u can watch it live right here on news 4 today. it's 4:15. the skins thought they saw history repeat itself monday night when quarterback who is a backac quarte colt mccoy went down with a broken leg. >> that injury is not as bad as the team first thought. this happened at the end of the first quarter on monday night's loss to the eagles. ht oy did break his r fibula. doctors said he could be ready to play in two or three weeks to finish out the regular season. jay gruden said getting mccoyhe back on t feel this year is wishful thinking. right now the team's oquy terback is mark sanchez who e signed with th team the day after alex smith was lost for the season. a consumer alert for you this morning. jbs tollson is recalling millions of pounds of raweceef productsse of possible sa salmonella contamination. it is sold or kroger and gourmet

beef. so far nearly 250 people have fallen sick in 26 states. wetiave more infor on this recall in the nbcwashington app. search beef.er ano important recall could put your dog's health at risk. the fda says several popular brands of dog food are being recalled because they may have toxic amounts of vitamin d. some of the brands testedad 70 times the safe level of vitamin d. too much vitamin d can cause health problems, even death. symptoms include vomiting, a loss of appetxce andsive weight loss. can you find the full list of the recalled products inhe nbc washington app. we all wish we could sleep more especially on t schedule. but a new global study says too much of it could lead to heart s prob people who slept more than 6 to 8 hours a day had had an increased risk of heart attack, stroke, and death. but experts say this does not

mean too much sle causes cardiovascular disease.d the study was y researchers in canada and china. the idea that i could ever possiblyepet too much s is so laughable. like even six hours. when is the last time we slept a straight six hours. >> i can do it on the weekend. another eagle is flying high again soon thanked to a sheriff's deputy. >> the sergeant knows about helping eagles. this guy is t 13th eagle rescued by mccall during his 11 ars at the stafford county sheriff's office.he as found sick on saturday. sergeant mig caccall captured i took it to a center foeta rehabion. >> beautiful. >> let the eagle soar. like he's never soared before. >> you are going to sing? >> that's -- for those that are not aware, yeah.

that was john ashcroft singing. >> a wonderful song. >> it sure is. >> rocky coast t golden shore. >> yes! >> never mind. >> break out the harmonica and play along with you. it will be a cold day to be outside toda and this cold pattern as we were mentioning to you on monday, remember monday whe i said that will be the last mildfo day for thseeable future? i meant it. today is not warm at all. and the warmup in sight at all. there is national airport here this morning under a partly to mostly cloudy sky. 35 at the airport which is usually one of our warmer locations. light winth out of the nst at 7. so wind chills are in the upper 20s in downtown. get awayrom the water though and most areas are below freezing. 29 now inga hersburg, 28 in frederic, maryland, warrenton, virginia, 32. prince george's county at 30 degrees. headed outside today to watch any of the procession going to or away from thecathedral, it

will be cloudy and cold. temperatures between 9:00 a.m. and noon will be mostly in the mid to upper 30s. an c there is ance for a snow flurry or two today. so it will be ay rather gnd wintry looking day outside. no big storm coming our way.in you can certa tell there is more than enough flurry activity and light know showers afoss parts the central west virginia and southwestern virginia to keep this in the forecast. it's already flurrying across a large section of north central virginia. if you get any pictures of the snowflakes, please send them to me. if i'm on twitter with you, future weather handles it. skiesemaining cloudy today. those flurries continuing to make slow but steady progress towards the d.c. area. flurries are likely here late morning into t middle part of the afternoon. your five-day forecast, staying cloudy and cold for tomorrow. sunshine but still cold friday and saturday. onday at sunday into storm chance is still there. as of now, melissa, it looks like this will be less, not

more, for us k but we'ping a close eye on it. >> i know you r thank yare. thank you, chuck. because of the funeral today, we have a lot of road closures. they'll be rolling throughout the morning. right now wisconsin avenue shut down between massachusetts and lowet theree national cathedral. we also have east capitol between second and first and first between cstitution and independence as he continues to lie in state. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway, everything is loosng good thi morning. no problems. 270 from frederic to thespur, 66 miles per hour. going take you 27 minutes. no worries there along me270. ituation as you're heading northbound. 66, 95,lso rolling along pretty nicely. guys? >> thank you, melissa. still ahead this morning, a parking space in one small town caused a big controversy. and b sure to catch "ellen" today at 3:00. she is joined by natalie portman. the show is right here on nbc 4. stick around for news 4 at 40. we'll be:0 r

there is linternatio outrage after a norwegian soccer superstar was asked a q many say was shockingly sexist while receiving a historic award on monday. she won the award for best soccer player in the world. then fro the host she was asked a question that stunned the audience. she was asked do you twirk. she responded with a firm no. the hostze apolo and blamed his poor english for wt he said was a bad joke.

>> i didn't consider it a sexual harassment. i think this a fantastic day for woman's football? general. >> she says what she wants people to remember ishe not controversial question but the message in her speech that young in s should believe themselves. this award has been given to renaldo and me ii. ththe first woman to receive the prestigious award and so the fact that that was overshadowed by this dumb question seemed pretty insulting. i think she handled it well. >> elevatehe message again. there is a battle over parkg in the town of vienna, virginia. >> the issue deals with taking away ang single par space so that more bikes have places to park. transportation reporters found o out, the small town has a big opinion on the matter. >> church street in vienna. it has charm. >> we have brick sidewalks.d we have per lighting. >> reporter: i has character. c. has traf lots of traffic heading to the

shops here. it alsobo has controversy taking away a single street parking space to put in a bike rack. >> every parking space matters on church street. and as much as we want people to bike and to walk and that cuts down on traffic, you know, people drive. >> douglasoble is a vienna town council member who believes taking away a parking space for bike parking is justified. we t's a question of how do serve the most number of people? >> reporter: while one car takes up one space maybe with onetwr people inside, using that same parking space for bikes allows a dozen or so cyclists to co come to the new. location >> don't want to take the park is space? >> no. >> and, of course, cyclists say they need more resources. >> we need to be able to park our bikes. >> so locating the extra bike parking is put on hold until the town tries t o figure how many wheels they can accommodate. in vienna,s new 4.

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right now at 4:29, a final farewell to a former president. here is a live look insidehe capitol rotunda. president george h.w. bush's body is s lying inte. >> there are only a few hours left for the public to pay tribute ead of the funeral today. we have team coverage outside the citol and at th national cathedral this morning. it is 4:30 right now. good morning, everybody. m aaron gilchrist. >> the entire nation is watching

washington this morning. thousands have paid tribute to the 41st commander in chief including his family. they thanked the crowds who came out and former president george w. bush stopped to talk to p people and tootographers with babies. >> the most touching moments is this one. former senat b bob doleng helped out of a wheelchair to salute the casket of a former commander in chief. we have much more coverage ahead this morning. >> such a powerful i willama i . chuc forecasting some flurries today. check, what are you talking about here? >> yeah, well i good new you won't have to shovel it. it will be just conrsational snowflakes flying by in the breeze. it may be enough early this morning to briefly whiten the ground across parts of norther virginia, warren county, out towards northern fauquier county. temperatures are below freezing. with he could see a little whitening of the grass. that's about it. as that comes closer to the cityus it's a