roads this morning but we'll start with chuck bell with another cold morning. >> a lot o spots down below freezing again on your friday morning. sos you're getting your day going, don't forget to put your winter coat on. 28 now at manassas. it's 37 degrees in washington. your planner for today, plenty of sunshine. not much of a warm up, though, most of the day will be spend with temperature in the 30s. our actual high tempeture arou 43 degrees, but you need to layer up and get the seat heaters fired up rnddy to go. >> we're having trouble with melissa'smicrophone, we'll head back to her in a minute to get more on the commutgh now, 4:00 a.m., two developing stories this morning. ay no, police officers threat was found after an inveigation into a bomb threat that was called int cnn late last ght. the caller said there were five bombs planted in the time warner

building. aution evacuated as a pr and some live broadcts were interrupted. police searched the building and did not find anything. th same building was partially evacuated in october when a pipe bomb was delivered there. >> in the district, a man was seriously wounded in a double shooting late last night in southeast. just before 9:00, aufofficers w called. police have not identified the victim >> also, a man has life threatening injuries after being hit by a montgomery county police ofcer. >> the pedestrian was taken to the hospital. that is less than a mile away om the wheaton metro station and they say the pedestrian was not in therosswalk athe time of the crash. police say the officer was not hesponding to the call the

person wasit. j georgia avenue was shutdown for hours last night. it's back open this morning. >> a man is settling with the police department. we should warn you, some may find this video disturbing. he sued d.c. police claiming the officer's body cavity search on a public street was unjusticed. d.c. police are not admitting to doing anything wrong. officers s qpped tostion him and his friends as they were out in front of a home in southwest d.c. the humiliation h t feltt day lead him to the aclu. that orgimization helped file a lawsuit. it acknowledges the group had a bottle of alcohol that they kept out of sight of the officers. when the officer aed himf he had weapons, that'shen the frisk happened. he says it was the video evidence that really helped his

case. >> without the vide no one would have believed me, but i'm so glad that i did have the o. vide >> he received an undisclosed amount of money in that le settnt. in september the police department started the process to fire the officer. anwhile he remains employed in a position where he does not have contact with the public while he appeals the department's decision. happening now, d.c. police are working to track down a kidnapper aer an armed abduction. d.c. police tells news 4 around knife man armed with a broke into a home on west herginia avenue northeast. the suspect kidnapped the couple inside, drove them to an atm and forced them to take out money. if you recognize the man in this picture, police want to hear from you. >> today in charlottesville,

jurors will beginin deliber the case of a man accused of driving his car into a group of counter protestors lastyear. james alex fields junior was one of the white nationalists protesting the removal of the statue of confederate general robert e. lee in august. he rammed his car into the crowd killing heather hyer and injuring many others. if cvicted heould face life in prison. >> 4 minutes after 4:00. today special counsel robert mueller iso expected file two sentencing memos in the russia investigation. on may detail why he a cooperation agreement with paul manafort. he was found guilty of tax and bankraud in virginia. the second docwent may sho us how michael cohen cooperated with the investigation. cohen was president trump's lersonal attorney. he p guilty to finance operations and lying to congress about arumpower project in

moscow. that project was eventually dropped. president trump is expected to announce his reacement for the next u.s. ambassador. she would replace nikki haley if confirmed by thesenate. she has been a spokesman for the stepartment since april of 2017. she announced in october that e would re-sign at the end of the year. >> president george h.w. bush is now in his final resting place. yesterday one last heart felt fairwe farewell for the former president. they gathered at the houston church where he worshipped for half a century f a funeral. >> we rejoice, mr. president, that you are safely tucked in now and through the ages with

god' loving arms around you because our glory, george, wasa to had you as our president and as such a friend. >> after the ceremony the casket was takenin by t to his presidential library in college station, texas. thousands of mourners lined the 70 mile route to wave their final good-byes. he's now buriede along s his wife barbara and daughter, robin. our coverage of his legacy and state funerals here in texas ant wash continues on our nbc washington app. we have a photo gallery of george hw. bush being mourned by the nation he. le just search bush funeral. >> we have an update to a story that you saw first on news 4. he ordered shirts from a jos a. bank. there was something extra in the box. a couple of pages indicate a

connection to maryland physicians care. the organization isig inveing what happened and will update us when it has more information. the documents included patients home addresses, date of birth, i.d. numbers and medical history. >> it's crazy to think if it happened here, did this happen multiple times or are oth ople getting packages like this, which is just scary. >> he turned the documents over to montgomery county police for safekeyling. >> marand wants you to be ready for the new real i.d. standards coming to the state. congress passed the measure to ecurity identification standards in 2015. maryland has a 2020 deadline to be real i.d. compliant. if your i.d. has a star in the right hand corner then you already have the update. those without real i.d. won't be able to board a plane or certain federal facilities after the 2020 deadline. >> your time is 4:07. jordan mcnair's family says they fully support thes man thaow leading the university of

maryland football program. he was introduced as the new head coach yesterday. 19-year-old jordan mcnair died after suffering a heat stroke during summer practice. his death lead to the firing of the former head football coach. he says he understands the family's heartache because his son was shot and kille in howard county last year. >> our relationship goes back a long way. our kids went to schoolto ther. we have both tragically lost our kids. >> he almost brought me to tears. his humility, his caring for students, we will begin to heal. >> he served as an assistant d beh at maryl he has plans to recruit. local coaches tell us they're excited about t prospect. >> kevin hart will no longer host the 2019 academy awards. he announced his decision on twitter lght he wrote he didn't want to be a distraction on a night that should be s celebrated by many

amazing, talented artists. he came under fire for old homophobic tweets and jokes on social media. hart told audiences his biggest fear was his son coming out as gay. the academy has notnd res to heart's departure from the show. say?at do you i want you to be my vp. >> the movie viceeads the golden globe nominations with six nods. it's a bio pic of dick chaney's life. here are the other nominees in that category. >> crazy rich asians, the favorite, greenbook, mary poppins rerns, and vice. >> vice just beat out lad gaga and bradleyop co's revival of a star is born for the most

nomination. lady ga and cooper both received acting nominations too. the ninees forest television drama series are the americans, bodyard, homecoming, killing eve, and pose. haven't seen any of those. >> you have lot to catch up on. >> the golden globes will be handed out on january 6th right here on nbc 4. and later we'll learn who is up for a grammy.no nations for the best in music will be out at 8:30. >> this happens ery awards season. a list of things we need to do to watch the movies and television shows. i've seen crazy rich asians. >> just to see christian bale, who wasbatman -- >> christian bale is batman b i can'ieve you did that early on a friday morning. michael keon is batman. >> he looks just like dic dick chaney. it's uncanny. he is batman. still ahead, a medication

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>> the latest repairs have withbeen on the yellow lgee brid. >> adam tuss gives us an up close look at the repairs. >> climbing up on to the yellow line bridge over the potomac and

what we found wasn't pretty. >> so that one is already stripped. cracking concrete about everywheren this has bee described as one of the worst stretchesf crack in the metro system and it's right above the >>potomac. ou have one and it's not just going to fail, you start t seeing theck moving. >> so let me show you what the real reason is for the shutdown here. you see these concrete pads that hold the actual rails in place? look what's happening to them. literall crumbling. they had to rip out m soy of these and jackhammer them and pour new concrete to make sure that the rails are in good shape. >> metrhi says t will all be ready to dareopen mony morning. on t yellow line bridge, adam tuss, news 4. 4:15 right now. news for your help this morning, a new study says if you're not

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search ibuprofen. that's scary. take a look at this, berlin zoo released video of a 6 day old polar bear. how cute is this? snuggled up with his mom. oh my goodness. that's so cute. the cub can be seen stretching roand movingd in his mom's arms. a chance to bond. so cute. well, the new edition is a happy occasion after it's famous polar bear newt died in 2011. >> it's so cute. f yeah, this one would only eat yourger off. >> you guys are. >> you just wait until it growsa up, bear is going to swallow you whole. i think they're adorable. >> good for them. >> yes. >>rf won opportunity to bond. >> we are still --

>> polar bear weather. >> yes. >> cold is here to stay for quite awhile. it's going to be a chilly day toda no doubt about that and the cold weather is really going to be sticking around for quite awhile as temperatures are going to be colder than average, not just for today but for the next several days, so be readyor that. this morning, skies are mostly clear. current temperature now, a very chilly 37 in washington. only a light breeze out of the south. leesburg in frederick maryland. still 40 by the bay there and down in maryland this morning. sun's not u until 7:13 and down at just about a quarter to five this tevening. big jump today. only going to get into the low 40s across most of the area.

the big winter storm, we have been watching it for days and days and days. doing everything we can to try to drop farther north. the weather pattern is not favorable here. watc how the sto evolves through the day today. this is now 5:00 saturday morning. notice how it stays way to our south. there i enough col air in place where there will be significant snows across parts of the southern palachian. this is going saturday night into sunday morning. more likely to get an ih of snow in charlotte than here. that's hth far s this storm is going. it could throw maybe as much as an inch ofnow potentially as ar north fredericksburg or culpepperbaut that's py way outside where it's going to end up. we'll keep a close eye on it. that one inch snow chance a little farther to the north but as of now, this is more of a

miss than a hit. >> good morning to you. taking a look at the beltway, inner loop,ourloop, no problems on the beltway. do have this southbound 395 there on the 14th street bridge. right side blocked by a disabled vehicle that might cause a little slow down if it doesn't get out of the way. annandale this morning. we have all lanes shutdown un westbo this is aroowned poll f a crash that happened late last night. so a warning for y there and taking a look at270. you're going 71 miles per hour. northbound270, nothing in your way there. >> thank you. it's 4:20 right now and the holidays can be expensive, but there are ways toeep yourself from overspending. >> still ahead, we're working for you detailing thericks to keeping yourself on budget and be sure to check out ellen tod 3:00 right here on nbc 4 and stick around for news 4 at

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>> a lifeook outside for you. we made it to friday folks. >> still cold out there today but for the first time in awhile, we won't be dealing witw rain as head into the weekend. that's good news. i'll take that for a friday.rn good g, everyone. >> as we head into the weekend. >> we're going to start early. >> chuck is here with more on the forecast. chuck, what do you have for us? >> cold. another cold day today.

temperatures running about 5 to 7 degrees colder than average. wind chills this morning, not much o a breeze but what little breeze there is has the wind chill down near or below freezing across much of the area. so you'll need your warm coat today. dogalking forecast time, an 8-year-o little dog available for the humane rescue. he is prepared to come home there's your dog walking forecast. sun is up at 7:13 this morning. so dark between now and then and cold too. plenty of sunshine today but it will stay on the chillier side. there's still a chance that someone in the news 4 nation will see snoefr the weekend. i'll let you know who, when, and wher good morning. >> i know those kids are listening. thank you. westboundbraddock road. lanes shutdown there because of a downed poll. this is a crash from overnit. police a directing you