check on the commute. >> we want to begin with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell tracking the latest on t weather. chuck. >> that's right. snow just barely south of t d.c. metro area but it added up. anywhere from 3 to 6 inches across st. mary's county and charles county, a few spots cn charlenty picking up three or four inches. meanwhile, if you came north of the prince william county parkway on i-95, hardly anything more than a conversational flake and today if you're traveling, today if you're flying and plane is changing in charlotte oral lee, be on the look out. temperatures are below freezing. assume that i is ice and take it easy out there this morning. a fair amount of sunshine coming our way for today. look at those ice blue there. make a fine addition to your

family. below freezing for the walk this morning. sunshine around 40 midday and into the mid 30s by 6:00 this evening. i'll give you the whole forecast in 20 minutes b for now, first four traffic and melissa. >> not sing any slow down and the rest of the beltway looks great. two things in virginia as far as road work as well. two other things. arlington eastbou 66 at roosevelt bridge, left lane getting by the work zone. arlington southbound gw parkway, left lane is getting by the work zone there. still have the lanes blocked because of downed wires from overnight. >> thank you. it's31 we're working to learn more about what caused an overnight accident on the parkway. police say two men were in a car at went off the road. one of them died. the second wasth taken t hospital. this happened just before

midnight at stanton road. the roaen re a short time ago. our team coverage begins in virginia now. >>fredericksburg saw the brunt of the storm this weekend. that's where we s nicole jacobs now. what are you seeing there? >> well, i can tell you, we are nd thedericksburg now minute we hit the line there was a distinct change over in terms of the road conditions. you'll see how ice y and sketch they are. very dangerous iould say. we're on williams street as we head into the downtown area. whatever fell last night has frozen and we're seeing that on the adways. police say the roads are not good and the really bad. are

up until midnight they had several calls for crashes and spin outs. schools are closed inar thi which is good news. hopefully that will limit the amount of traffic on roadways but if you have to go out, emphasis on have to, please be awareer it is icy. backo you. you can see nice poery snow. we're seeing lots of sidewalks here that look a lot like this. a bit snow and underneath that perhaps you can hear some ice therell as we >> i want to show you a main

thorough fare here is looking good. drers are finding decent conditions on the main road. side streets could be a different questiour at this ho. a lot of that response still happening right now. repores ofherous roads throughout parts of northern virginia as a result of the snowstorm last night. as you make your way to work and throughout theorning you want to build in extra time for your commute and being patient along the way a also be alert for potential issues including ice n patches and well treated roads. live here, news 4. >> thank you. >> 4:34 and here's our other top stories this morning. metro' yellow line will reopen after a two week shutdown. crews replaced cracked and

crumbling concrete on the bridge over the river. that's been called one of the worst in the metro system. >> a woman recovered afterwa he bitten by a police dog. she was walking her dog tuesday morning near the intersection of ol and maple streets when a k-9icer latched on to her legs. the dog has been taken out of active service as aprecaution while they investigate. >> virginia won't pick another governor until02 but already a candidate has thrown his hat into the ring.at demo and virginia attorney eeneral mark herring told the washington post plans to run. the skins fell to the giants.

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>> somebody found a baby in the crater. >> they often burn up and vaporize apparently before they even enter thert s atmosphere, but i don't know if that's true, there could be something kal-el or something coming out -- >> we'll call him clark. >> sething that came out of that meteor, we'll never know. >> prettyimpressive. >> the international space station crew is enjoying some holiday cheer of its ow >> a cargo filled with christmas goods arrived along with gif and 6,600 pounds of food. that included supplies and research gear too. it will be returned to earth in january. for aeoot ofe along the east coast this weekend, the big activity was snow shovelin everybody had to pitch in. that included the grinch.

look closely y atr screen, folks. somebody spotted a neighbor dressed as the character as the plowed the snow in north carolina. they saw several inches of snow down in that area. everybody is doing their part. >> right. >> >> i like it. i ware to know w max the dog is. that's my next question. tomorrow morning we could have school delays again tomorrow morning because of a serious refreeze threat tonight.ut more abo that and your ten day forecast just ahead. >> also ahead, john kelly president trump's chief of staff will step down in a matter of days. so leaving, the man that was being considered to replace him. a look at what may happen nex

is. president trump received a warmeception at lincoln financial field over the weekend. this was the first time he attended the army navy game as president. the big question this morning is

who will take john kelly's place. >> the man that wasd conside the front runner also said this weekend he was leaving the administraoion. susan us live from capitol hill this morning with more. good morning. >> good morning. that's right. the president was settled on nick ayers. turns out he didn't want the job. he turned the president down saying he didn't want to stay as long as the president wanted but others speculating he didn't wa the challenges that come with the white house chief of staff's job. this will be the third persone now to t over this job. so this is a longer list.t steve, his treasury secretary and also actinger attorney gen and the u.s. trade rep that is now pretty busy with china trade talks. the president tweeted last night he is right now in the process of interviewing some really great people and he should be

announcing that sometime soon. kelly was supposed to atoounce thaty. the president took the initiative and announced it himself on saturday. this rson, this n chief of staff is going to join the administration at a very turmultuous time. >> thank you. james comey spoke out during a weekend interview. this is his first public appearance before testifying before the house judiciary and oversite committee. she asked comey if she believes he is the unindicted co-conspirat co-conspirator. he claims he was directed to make hush money payments to women that said they had affairs with president trump. >> is the president of the united states right now an unindicted oncoirator?

>> i don't know. not in the formal sense that he's been named in an indictment where you can actually say that this defendant anded n others or others by pseudonym conspired t'together and t how you formally name someone as an unindicted co-conspirator, but if he's not there, he's certainly close given the indictment that the crimes were committed at his direction. >> wallaceo asked comey if he directs his hdling of the e-mail investigation. he reopened that days before voting days i 2016. he did not regret it but didn't feel good aboutow it was handled. >> today more than 200 faith leaders are expected to arrive at the u.s.-mexico border in san diego. they plan to voice support for the migrant caravan from south america. demonstrators want the u.s. to show compassion to anyone seeking refuge in the country. the event has been organized by a quakert organization t

helped migrants and refugees for more than 100 years. today fbi agentsn new york city will continue their investigation into a weekend shooting in brooklyn. on saturday, an agent was shot while performing surveillance. this happene during drug investigation. two peoplen i a car opened fire on the agents vehicle. both were arrested a few hours enlater. the is expected to be okay. >> china is issuing a warning to the united states. over the weekend, american instigators charged one of the country's top tech executives with fraud. she was in canada at the time and believed she violated trade restrictions with iran. chinese leaders told the u.s. ambassador that the u.s. will f sher grave consequences is not edrele >> howard county maryland is asking a fed in regarding the petition against the faa over noise all laints around bwi mar airport. the new air traffic controlling system causes the planes to fly

lower to save fuel which increases the noise around the surrounding neignorhoods. back july, the county filed a petition but the baltimore sun reports the agenercyid not take action. the faa is hereviewing t petition and deciding what to d next. >> this winter weather system is hitting parts of south carolina. take a look at this snow that is northwest of columbia. the hvy snow is causing downed trees, power outages and flight delays and cancellations. be sure to check with your airline before heading to the airport. american airlines issued a travel alert for its hub in charlotte, north carolina. here's a look atnow fall in texas over the weekend. the system dumped as much as 10 inch snow in that area. overnight officials discouraged traveling on roads because the snow melt started to refreeze. that's always a problem, right? ou everywhere but where i am. >> you upset about this. i feel like we were very lucky.

>> had a nice weekend. it was great but rather had a little snow. snow on sunday is way easier than snow on monday and tuesday. >> is that right? i'll take you road for it. >> people don't have to go anywhere that's why. >> we're still dealing with the effects of yesterday's snow here. find out the latest on any school delays and closings. we'll have to worry about this tomorrow morning as well. 25 ou're more than 20 or miles south of washington, that's where the snow picked up. around here we sawardly anything yesterday. temperature now 32. the north wind is continuing toa push cold into the region here so it's still snowing. ay and re traveling t you're driving south of

richmond, heads up, that's going to be a long one down to th virginia-north carolina border. backo sunshine today. current temperature, 16 degrees in winchester, virginia. so below freezing this morning. a cold start. plenty of sunshine. so a lot of melting today. if you have snow outside, here's what you need to know. tomorrow morning that will refreeze aga t asperatures will be down in the mid 20s. even low 20s where the sno fell the most intense yesterday. that's going to be a cold night. for tomorrow, a little it more in the way of an improvement after a freezing cold start.

if you have pictures of the snow, send them to me. you can also find me on instram. m happy to reshare those back out. what would it be around here without a rain chance on the weekend. friday and saturday look to be most effective. melissa, it will rain t next time around with temperatures near 50. >> all right. thank you, chucha ines county, take a look here. we had two left lanes getting by the work zone. that's not cleared. rest of the ltway isfine. no complaints on the beltway. we still have braddock road north. that's because of downed wires. this should be outf the way by about 7:00 this morning and 270 from frederick down to the spur, 68 miles per hour. going to get you there in 26

minutes. it's that time of the year when many of us put up our christmas bees. they can festive and beautiful but also cause unwanted side effects. doctors refer to the problem as christmas tree syndrome. we're talking about itchy, watery eyes, sneezing and head congestion. there's three things that you can do to cut back on that kind of trouble. limit the amount of time you have the tree set up in your home and when you do, consider running an air purifyer and many suggest shaking the tree off outside to rid it of potential se bethat will other brought into your home. you caet always g an artificial tree. that the one thing you're not going to get any kind of allergic reaction. t

and a branches are together and you have to pull them out. >> 4:55er s now two weeks to go until christmas. if you're behind on shopping, be aware, this is usually the time that people run up the most yebt. there's a tende for people to get caught up in the shopping spirit and no one knows this betterorhan maj retailers. it suggested that you stay away from bck andortar stores and keep your credit card in your wallet. 66 mlion peopleill go into debt during this holiday each 25ar and right now it's estimated that of the population i still paying off bills from last christmas. >> merry christmas to you. >> i needed some pants. >> that's why it's so hard to shop for people like you bwhause you want something, you just buy it and then i don't know what to buy >> warnings about holiday overspending come out on a big day for shopping.

you can expect to see another round. thirds typically the largest shopping day of the holiday season behind black friday and cyber monday. hi >> well, morning, the commute is about to get much less complicated for drivers heading from virginia to d.c. an update on the brie eopening in a matter of minutes. >> a jury convicted a white supremacist of murdering a woman at last year's charlottesville rally but the courts are not done with thaterson t. find out what's ahead coming up at 5:00 on news 4 today.

bust.om or either saw several inches of snow or nothing at all. road conditions and school cloe closings coming up. >> farther south, the brutal winter weather turned deadly. >> and embarrassment at home, one of w thest home games ever for the skins. the team lost much more than just game. >> well the snow moved out already and anyone in the district hoping for a snowy

monday is waking up disappointed. >> that would be chuck bell but plenty ofnow did come down in other places. >> it i 5:00 a.m. right now. the snow was enough to cancel some schools in our warea. >> tther is causing a number of school closings and delays.rt we'll s in virginia for you. now calvert county and st. mary's county schls are closed today. ti melissa has an eye on the traffic siton this morning. >> let's start with chuck bell to see what we c expect for e beginning of the work week. >> that snowstorm system for tho hern most tier of the news 4 nation ended up with quite a bit of dgow.