ay. but that's looking like less and not more. cold enough to get a snow flake but not cold enough to get anything to accumulate. your forecast for today then, your hit the road forecast, near freezing this morning. afternn highstoday, low maybe mid 40s for a lucky few but melissa, the sun will be shining. >> i do like that. i have to admit. take a look here above the beltway. in to town, out of town, no issues in the way. so that's good. still hanging around in the district, southbound 395. right side is still blocked by that disa edvehicle. not causing much of an issue but it will if they don't get itof t the way, of course. annandale all westbound lanes are closed. earlr crash took down a poll

and wires. inner loop anduter loop at the beltway looking pretty good here. going to take you6 minutes. nothing in your way there. >> thank you. it's 5:01 d andeloping this morning, georgia avenue is back open after ay montgomery cou police officer hit a pedestrian. >> justin finch is live along with more of what happened. >> first more about that pedestrian that was struck. we only know he was a man critically injured and rushed to the hospital shortly after the accident here. we'll show you roughly the spot ere the crash occurred here. see the orange markersn e roadway? that's about the spot where the montgomery county police cruiser came to a spot after that pedestrian involve accident st night. i want to take you to video. now this is georgia avenue between dawson and blu ridge avenue going southbound here. if you know the area, lots ofnd homes businesses nearby. so this is also very much

heavily travelled. then las night, just before 9:30, an officer was behind the whl of a marked police cruiser when he struck that man who was crossing the road. >> around 9:27, in the evening, one of our marked police cruisers traveling southbound on georgia avenue came in contact with a pedestrian in the roadway. the pedestria. was stru he pedestrian was then transported to a local hospital with life threatening injuries. >> and as you heard, that man was very seriously injured. again, georgia avenue now reopened. s identit released yet of that officer or that man that was hurt. as you have seen and heard for several weeks, several months now, lots of pedestrian involved crashesicith vs along georgia avenue. in this case, as you can see here, this pestrian was not using a crosswalk. police noting just above and below this crash site at georgia and dawson avenues there are

crosswalks and perhaps, in this case, it could have spared that man those injuries. again, this is stillnder investigation at this time. we'll bring you the latest as we get weit. e live here in wheaton, i'm justin finch, news 4. back to you. >> justin, thank you. >> it's 5:03. we're fol two developing stories this morning. first in new york city, police officers say no threat was found after an investigation into amb bohreat that was called into cnn late las ghni the caller said there we five bombs planted in the tim warner building. police searched the building and did not find anything. the same building was partially pipeated in october when a bomb was delivered there. >> just before 9:00, officers wereo called tthe intersection of martinuther king jr. and malcolm x avenues. two people have been shot thereh

polie not identified the victims. >> traffic on the memorial bridge is being shutdown inma er of hours. >> another part of the on going rehabilitation project means the bridge is a no go for everybody this weekend. megan is there live with more on what the shutdown means and how it's happenin megan. >> yeah, well this is certainly going to effect a lot of people eling between d.c. and virginia for the weekend. it's a very heavily used bridge. if you take a loo over my shoulder, you can see the heavy equipment that's been on the bridge for soktime. the w has been on going for quite awhile but a little different this weekend. they're going to actually have to shut everything sodown. he memorial bridge will completely shutdown both cars d pedestrians over the weekend. take a look at the specifics here. the shutdown starts at 9:00 tonight and will contie until at least 5:00 a.m. on monday. so they hope to have everything back open byrush h on monday. now the crews are going to be

installing a temporary support structure under the middle arch of the bridge. they're also going to remove steel from theenter of the bridge. this is part of an overhaul, the memorial bridge,he work not expected to be completed until 2021. now tia mem bridge of course is in pretty bad shape. the work has been o f going sometime but it needed an overhaul and that's going to mean some issues for commuters as they have to periodically shut it down from time to time. they're trying to minimize the impact by doing the shutdown over the weekend, but still, still a very popular, heavily used bridge, so it's going to effect people over theaneekend again, not just cars. we're talking about pedestrians, cyclists, anyone, all of it. the sidewalks, all of it will be closed. it's going to have an impact, but the hope here is that theil workbe completed over the weekend, or at least this section of it and then they'll be able to reopen by rush hour monday. back to you guys. >> a right.

thank you. >> happening now in d.c., police are working to track down a kidnapper after an armed abducti abduction. d.c. police tell news 4 that around 3:30 thursday morning, a man armed with a knife broke into a home on west virginia avenue in northeast. lice say the suspect then kidnapped the couple inside, drove them to an m and forced them to take out money. if you recognize the man in thi, pictolice want to hear from you. >> today in charlottesville, jurors will begin deliberating the case of the man accused of driving his car into a group of counter protestor at a unite the right rally last year. investigators say jameslex fields jr. was one of t white nationalists protesting the removal of the statue of confederate general robert e. lee in august o 2017. fields allegedly rammed his car into the crowd killing heather and injuring many others. if convicted of the most serious arge, he could face life in

prison. >> 5:07 now and today special counsel robert mueller is expected to file two sentencing memos in the russia investigation. one may detail why he cancelled a cooperation agreement with paulma nafort. he was found guilty of tax and bank fraud inia virgin. the second document may show us michael cohen cooperated with the investigation. cohen was president trump's personal attorney. he pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and lyi to congress about a trump tower project in moscow. that project was eventually dropped. and president trump is expected to announceis replacement for the united nations ambassador position. state department spokesperson heather nauert would replacekk haley. she is a former fox and friends anchor and has been spokeswoman for the state department since april of 2017. haley announced in october that she would re-sign at the end of the years this the end of an emotional

week for the country. this morning,eo presidente h.w. bush is now in his final resting place. >> yesterday in texas, a final fa rewell for our 41st president. bush was honored with a 21 gun salute. his family and friends gather at a houston church for a funeral. long time colleagueds and fri reflected on his legacy. >> we rejoice, mr. president, that you are safely tucked in nownd throu the ages, with god's loving arms around you because our glory,, geor was to have had you as our presidt, and as such a friend. >> after the ceremony, theet caas taken by train to theid prtial library in college station, texas. thousands of mourners lined the 70 mile route to pay their final respects. he was buried along side his wife barbara and daughter,

robin. >> our coverage continues on our nbc washington app. we have ahoto gallery of george h.w. bush being mourned by the nation he lead. just search bush funeral. >> an update to a story you saw first on news 4. he ordered shirts from jos. bank. when his package arrived, it contains medical records. the organization is investigating what happened and will update us when it has more information. oregon says the documents included patients home addresses, states of birth, i.d. numbers and medical history. >> crazy to think if itpe hd here, like did this happen multiple times or are other people gettinge packages l this, which is just scary. >> oregon turned the documents over to montgomery county police for safekeeping. >> if you live in maryland, pull out your wallet, check the top right handne cof your dr

driver's license. do you see a star there? if not you need to update your i.d. by 2020, you need to have an identification card that meets the real i.d. standards that congress pasd more than a decade ago. if you don't update your i.d., you won't be allowed on military bases and won't be able to board a plane. >> jordan mcnair's family saysly they f support the man that's now leading thef universityryland football program. mike locksley was introduceds the new head coach yesterday. jordan mcnair died after suffering a heat stroke during summerpr tice. his death lead to the firing of the former head football coach. locksley says he understands family's heartache because his son was shot and killed in howard county last year. back a elationship goe long way. our kids went to school together. we have both justgi tlly 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 coach at maryland. he has plans to recruit in the dmv. local coaches t tell usy're excited about that prospect and he says thiss his dream job. so maryland community welcoming him with open arms >> kevin hart will no longer host the 2019 academy awards. he tweeted that decision last night. had he wrote he didn't want to be a distraction on a night that should be celebrated by so many amazing talented artists. soon after the announcement that would host the oscars, he came underor fire old homophobic tweoks and that resurfaced on social media. he joked his biggest fear was his son coming out as gay. the academy has not responded to heart's departure from the show. >> what do you say? i want you to be my vp.

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heavy rain movingnto alabama and toward georgia. could be significant flight delays for dallas ft. worth and on into atlanta and birmingham. watch what happens, farthe to orth there's more cold air in place. this could be quite a wallop of a snowstorm for the western and north carolinan tauntains. some places could get a foot or more of snow. if it moves a little farther north, some of that snow chance could get farther north but all ofike most if not the action will stay well south of the d.c. area. we'll have plenty of time to watch it though so stay with us and we'll keep the forecast updatedn there at a times but most of the weekend, especially the first half of it looks nice and dry and cold.

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for first time in awhile, we'll be dealing with rain as we head into the weekend. >> that's the good news. >> chuck bell is here with more on your storm team 4 forecast fore melissa shows us how the friday morning commute is shaping up. what are we dealing with here today? nd>> it's cold dry. those are the two operative words for today. skies mostly to partly. clou one or two loads of snow flakes flying in a little bit of a breeze out here. you can see a snow flake. they'll be completelyaught off guard. i haven't seen anything around

the citytwust yet. t it to me. temperatures are below freezing across morh ofern virginia now. warrenton, manassas, even montgomery county, 34 degrees. loatiness we have this morning will be disappearing. a bright and sunny afterno but chilly. highs only in the low 40s.ti colder for tomorrow and an update on the sunday snow chance a few more minutes away. >> good morning. a brand new problem on t beltway, bethesda outer loop. not seeing a slow down quite yet but that just popped up. h we'll see that develops over the next couple of minutes. for washington, sohbound, indiana head highway, crash reported there. hat oner details on quite yet. remember we have mub brad dock road shutdown. l lanes blocked there westbound because of a downed poll, a crash overnight is what caused that. so police areou directing around that to get you back on

to braddock road. >> thank you. it's5:31. developing this morning, a man has life threatening injuries after getting hit by a montgomery county police cruiser. >> justin finch i live along georgia avenue with more details on the crash. justin,hat can you tell us? >> well, more details coming in about this crash so far. first, about that pedestrian adult man that's now facing life threatening injuries as a result of this accident here. for that cruiser that was involved,t turns out the officer was not going to an emergency call, so there were no sire flashing lights when the cruiser was passing here alongue georgia av i'll step out of view here just to show you where the cruiser came to a stop, right there on georgia avenue. near southbound lanes. e orange markers in the road roughly where the cruiser came to a stop and where montgomery county police beganin their stigation last night.

georgia avenue southbound here closed for hours in the area of dawson and blue ridge avenues. both sides here,orthbound and southbound. this accident happened closeo 9:30 last night when that man georgiack here crossing avenue. there was no crosswalk in the area where he was struck. he was t rushedthe hospital with those life threatening injuries and is now still being cared for at this hoth. investigation again closing down georgia avenue southbound here for hours. now at this hour, no other details about the officer or that man who was struck here last night. again, police pointing out here that he was not crossing in an rea where there was a crosswalk. the interesting thing here to note, though, is that at georgia avenue and dawson avenue and blue ridge avenue, there are s crosswal if that pedestrians decembepedestrian had been crossing in that area, he mayave been spared these

injuries. not only should they walk only in the crosswalk areas butoo drivers must slow down and pay attention to the road. i'm justinnc news 4. >> justin, thank you. developing here in the district, a man was seriously wounded in a double shooting late last night in southeast. just before 9:00, officers were called to rse intion of martin luther king jr. and avenue.x two people were shot. police have not identified the victim. >> there are amber alerts for missing children and silver alerts for missing seniors. >> last night the senate voted to create an alert system for ssing adults. the ashanti alert act creates a new system to share information about people between the ages of 18 and 64.ld it w use tv and radio broadcasts to share information ic.h the pu next the house takes up this bill. the legislation is named for ashanti billing. she was 19 years old when she

vanished last year. she was too old for an amber alert and too young for a silver alert. after 11 days, her body was found in north carolina. >> it's n 34. the arlington school board voted unanimously in f tor of superintendent school redistricting plan. some say it's necessary to address overcrowding. >> others say it will uproot students. chris lawrence with more on this ory. how do parents feel about this? >> they are heated. we have been covering this story for months. bottom line, hundreds of kids owill be moving a new school. arlington county is opening one new elementary school next year. the new plan changes the ighborhood boundary at 8 schools. it effects about 5 to 600 students. keep in mind there's roughly 27,000 students in arlington public schools. the district is growing by about 800 students a year. now the board says this plan creates more why se parents argue their community is being

unfairly split up. >> he spent more than 40% of his life at patrick henry. now he'seing torn apart from all of his iends. >> that man talking about his son. the muscles plan takes effect in september and the county is not done. about a dozen schools could see their boundaries change in thex ound of adjustments year after next. >> thank you so much. it's now 5:35. here's the other top stories today. a 90-year-old former school principal has beerrested for allegedly raping two girls decades ag russell isaac is crged with multiple koun multiple counts of rape a. sex offens according to the police the sexual assaults happened in the 1960s. they werize sack'ss student in queen ann's county. there could be more victims.

>> jurors will beginli berating the case of a man accud of drivi his car into unitep of protestors at a the right rally last year. he was one of the white protesting.s he rammed his car into the crowd. >> police didn't find anything after a bombhreat was called into cns new york offices last night. the caller said there were five bombsn the building. it was evacuated as a precaution. obat same building was partially evacuated in o when a pipe bomb was divered there. >> the end to an emotional week for the bus family. president george h.w. bush now in his final resting place. yesterday, one last heart felt fairwell to the former president. his family and friends gathered at the houston church where he worshipped for more than a half

a cistury for final funeral. >> the casket was taken by train to his presidential library in college station texas. thousands of mourner lined the 70 mile poute toay their respects. he was buried along side his wife bbara and daughter, robin. ed in thew. bush enli navy months after the attack on pearl harbor. as we continue to remember the war hero this week, we also remember t attack that happened 77go years today. this afternoon at 12:53, those that died in the attack will be honored at the world war ii memorial here inwashington. as part of the ceremony, 20 world war ii veteransnd pearl harbor survivors will place wreaths at the freedom wall. 2,400 americans were killed in that attack. your time is 5:37. your time is 5:37. much more news,

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it's a race against time for 5 missing u.s. marines. two of the 7 have been rescued but one has sce died. the crash happened while theai raft were refuelling during a training mission. 5:46 and today a major deadline in the robert mueller russia investigatldn. >> we cearn more about what president trump's former personal attorney and formema campaign cha have been telling federal investigators. blayne alexander is live with the important documents the special counsel is expected to le. good morning. >> good morning to you. all eyes are certainly going to be on the three expected filings. they should give us some insight into what degree some of the people that werence closest to president trump have now bee cooperating or not coopera tng wihe special counsel. let's start with paul manafort. he was t president's campaign chairman back during the 2016 campaign. within recent days, mueller's

team said they wanted to scrap the plea deal with manafort because he was lying to investigators. now we expectom that of these documents will be redacted or there will be charge sections that will ed bla out, but somewhere in there, we're expecting to get insight into his alleged behavior and this plea deal has now gone down the drain. the other person involved is michael cohen. that's the president's one time attorney, his fixer, the that said he would take a bullet for president trump. well, he has made it c veryar that he's cooperating for special counsel robert mueller. spoken with him and had conversations with them for hours. those filings should also give insight into what was discussed during the conversations and to what degrees he has told anything to the investigators. a and weo know on top of that since president trump submitted his written answers to mueller some 2.5 weeks wago, we k that mueller's team and president trump's attorneys resumed theirv

sations. this is the first time that they have acknowledged that, according to two sources, since the answers were submitted, guys. >> blayne alexander on the hill for thank you. >> happening today, house republicans will interview former fbi director james comey in a closesession. it is the final interview before democrats take over in the new ye. mey initially wanted to testify in public because he thought republicans would selectively leak details from the interview. he struck a dealourom the judiciary committee and he'll be allowed to talk about the questions and a transcript will be released. they're expected to question mey about decisions the fbi made during the 2016 presidenti >> you're going to keep hearing about the battle to raise the inimum wage for restaurant workers in the district. it now has a new twist. this all centersun a initiative 77. it would require employees or ployers to pay tipped workers.

d.c. voters approved it in june and then the d.c. council repealed it before it cou ever ke effect. ow the original supporters introduced referendum 8. they'll be able to repeal the repeal. gathering enough signatures would all the first phase to go into effect and require a special election next year and possibly cause even more confusion. >> it's not good for business to have this instability and there is enormous uncertainty. yes, it might cause a special election and yes there might be some uncertainty but in that type, tipped workers will see they could get potentially an o increase $4.50, or $6 an hour from the current and sky the isn't falling. >> by the way, another complication here, all 25,000 signatures must be collected by next wednesday. we'll keep you

>> it's 5:50. happening tonight, the work on the memorial bridge this weekend means you might need to find another way across the pomac. megan is on the d.c. side of the bridge with more. this is going to effect commuters this morning as well. is that right? >> no, you'll bhi okay morning. traffic is moving across the memorial bridge. this closure isn't going tpp until tonight but it's going to have an impact on people traveling between d.c. and virgini over the weekend. take a look at the specifics here. memorial bridge, it wil completely shutdown starting at 9:00 toght. will remain closed, so completely closed until 5:00 a.m. on mony morning. so the entire weekend. crews are going to be installing temporary support structures underneath the mide arch. they're going to remove steel from the center span. it's part of an overall of the bridge. the work won't bticompleted un 2021. so this bridge in need of a

major overhaul. it's in the process of happening but there's going to be some inconvenience. the bridge s completelytdown for the entirety of the weekend, so people are going to have to find a work around. back to you. >> thanks for that info. it's going to be -- >> i don't go anywhere near that place. >> it's going to be a problem. >> it cause a lot of traffic back ups. >> there's many ways to get across the river and through ths wood to grandma's house. m >> that was preferred way. but not anymore. >> all right. weekend forecast time. we have been tracking ainr storm all week long. esnow lovers h been trying to figure out how to get this thing to come closer to us.f it's more a miss than a hit. partly cloudy, mostly clear sky overhead. 36 degrees and light wind out of the west averaging only 5 miles per hour. it will remain a bit of ahw not breeze this afternoon. sunny and cold today. afternoon high 48 here's the storm we have been watching. it's officially in the desert

southwest. a lot of moisture along the southern branch o the jet stream. the problem is we can get the two jet streams to work inn combinato bring us a winter storm. most of the action will stayow well to the south. let me show you how future weather handles this storm. could have significant flight delays today in and out of dallas and houston. the heavy rn heads for atlanta on saturday afternoon and as the moisture ends up in the colder air here, there will be a significant snow n acrossth central and western parts of north carolina. that will come up int the commonwealth as well. blac blacksburg could get 6 to 8 inches of snow. but notice the snow never really gets north of the richmond area so we'll be high and dry here. might be able to get some snow but even that is not a guarantee. chilly.w, sunny and there's the 10-day forecast. our snow chances are for the southern parts ofa our are on sunday afternoon and then cold d dry most of next week.

good morning, melissa. >> good morning, chuck. waand new problem, chopper 4 is headed this this is outer loop after old or town road. we have two lanes blocked and you can see the delay here on the map. so we' show you right at 6:00 what's going on there. woodidge, northbound 95, after prince william parkway, the b right lanecked by a crash still hanging around. same situation here. annandale. we had all lanes blocked with that downed poll because of a crash overnight. that's cleared out of the that's a good update. fort washington, southbound near old d highway fort road, do have a crash there and in the district, inbound new york avenue after south dakota and northeast, left lane blocked by a crash. more on this problem on the beltway coming up. >> thank u, melissa. >> this morning, thousands of students are shocked and upset after learning their college is shuttidown. they're closing 70 campuses today because it lostac editation. students were notified two days

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oxford a will returno d.c. to help release prisoners that need jobs and housing services. >> good morning, i'm frank holland at cnbc more good news for people hitting the roads this holiday season. aaa sayna the nat average for gas is $2.45 a gallon. a new low for 2018. it's down0 more than cents since memorial day. aaa predicts gasce p will fluctuate throughout the rest of the month and could fall another 5 cents. experts say as long as oil prices stay under $60 u'rrel, see more gas prices. with your cnbc morning businessm report, frank holland. >> thank you. if you like holiday lights, get ready to see yards parked in an entirely different way. >> mollett green is le to show us two very special light installations making a stop in our area this season. good morning. u.>> good morning to i'm standing on one of them right now. checkt out. it changes color. it is a new interactive lig

ar installation. one of two down here at the yard. we're going to talkbo more a it on news 4 today in the 6:00 hour. we can have a lot of funth ughout the morning on this one. >> very cool. still ahead on news 4 today, how you can get through the holidays without going into debt. >> plus, under construction we'realking about the yellow line. news 4 transportatorn repter adam tuss o taking us to the work site to see what's being done. news 4 today will be right back. albeght, everyone. santa wilrig, but i just got to say,

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>> not much of a breeze. so that'so ot going a problem. dry today. dry tomorrow. that snow chance on sunday i getting slimmer and slimmer all the time. maybe a couple of flurries outside here early this morning and so far i haven't seen a single report of any of those snow flakes reaching the ground. 37 in loudoun county. 39 in annapolis and 38 in

arlington. planner then for today, plan on sunshine and plan on afternoon temperatures only in upper 30s and low 40s. so it will be a nice dayo be outside. just need to keep the pace up. keep that body heat agenerated right. i'll trust you on that and do that. chopper 4 old georgetown road, this crash was blocking two lanes this mornin it justot over to the right shoulder. so take a look. you can see some delays headed inbound there, outer loop after old georgetown. we still have that blocked by a crash. inbound new york after south dakota and northeast, left lane is blocked there. >> >> georgia avenue is back open after