on a tourist spot visited by millions, police are still working to track down the shmter. f fixer to behind bars. campaign financecrime. "news 4 today" starts right now. it is 4:00 a.m. good evrning, ybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. thank you for joining us this morning. no snow chances. two school systems dealing with snow.as s are closed in spotsylvania and king george county on a two-hour delay. >> for everybody else, we're tracking what you need to know for your wednesday. melissa mollet has her eyes on the ecommute. >>egin with chuck bell and the cold forecast. are we going to see a warmup? >> well, eun,e will s a bit of a warmup. don't plan on balmy 70 degree

weather. this morning it is a cold start. unlike yesterday, today is an enormous range from 43 isaint. mary's county. arlington 23. 19 in warrington and the same in stanton. enty of sunshine. there will be an increase in cloudiness. we will be 100% dry today and 0% ry tomorrow. unfortunately, as we get towards friday and the weekend the rain chances are going up and fast. today's high tempature, melissa mollet, 45 degrees. how's the traffic coming along? >> i have a couple of problems, chuck. action hihe,er road, all lanes blocked there because of a crash investigation. trying to get some more information on that one. mcclain, outer loop ranch outer loop blocked by a

tractor-trailer. arlington in bound 66 at thero evelt bridge, left lane getting by the work zone there. aaron? >> melissa, thank you. developing montgomery county is morning. for the second time in less than a month, holiday shoppers at westfield wheaton mall had to deal with violence. >> a man was stabbed outside of the dfw store. the i person still on the run. the victim is in the hospital. police urge everyone to think safety first. a new twist now in the case of a man who kidnapped a d.c. couple at knife point after breaking into their home. >> the suspect is responsible for a string of burglaries. dante watson has been arrested for breaking into theseomes in the northeast for the past two

week d.c. police captured him on this home security camera. he jumped a fence and broke into a home on morse stree sunday night. two roommates were home at the time. >> turned around and there h was. kind of walked up slowly, didn't really say anything. pulled out a screwdriver. my roommate stood up and took out $5 from his wallet, handed it to him, please leee, you on camera. >> police believe he is the same man who kidnapped a couple at knife point from their west virginiavenue last week he made them drive to an atm and take out cash. he was caught on surveillance camera at this convenience store. 4:03.'r we learning about new allegations of sexual abuse by this catholic priest. two additional victims accused m of inappropriately touching them at the shrine of sacred

heart between 2016 and2017. three other girls accused vasquez of the same thing. he wl appear in court today on the new charges. the archdiocese will remove him from ministry when the first allegations came out in october. the man cvicted of driving s car into a crowd of counter protestors will spend his life behind bars. yesterday they recommended life 419 years. the life sentence is the penalty for heather hier's death. yesterdaynd victims their families said the sentence sends a strong message. >> maxim sentence reflects the severity and the atrocity of that crime. >> hate does not win today. these are our streets and you can't bring hate here and get away with it. >> these are terrorists.

al qaeda used him as a weapon and he used a car as a weapon. >> the judge will formally sentence fields in >>march. breaking news in france following the latest on a deadly attack. chris lawrence at the live desk with the latest. >> eun, the associated press has said they've are looking for the attacker. one man opened fire on the people near the christmas market. he shot 14 people and three of them have died. nbc news received an update on the victims and we're told one of them is from thailand. no children were among the victims. police were able to shoot and wound a man but he hopped into a taxi and the french secretary of state says they may have gone over the borde into germany.

just to give you a sense of how scary that must have been, age ma at a mcdonald's says he was sheltering in place with 80 including children. the threat of a government shutdown just days before christmas still hangs over thousands of government workers in our area. what should have been a closed door discussion, it ended into a shouting match. the president said he would shut down the governmentf he doe not get $5 billion for government security. >> you do not have the votes in the house. >> nancy, i do. >> we need border security. >> i will shut down the government if i don't get my way. >> i am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck. i will be the one to shut it down.oi i'm not blame you for it. the last time you shut it down, work.dn't i am going to shut it down for

border security. >> you shodn't shut it down. >> last night house minority leader nancy posi told democrats, quote, it's like a manhood tng for him. senate republicans reacted quickly. mitch mcconnell warne a shutdown would be a mistake. lawmakers need to work out their differences by december 21st to avoid a partial government shutdown. today president trump's exlawyer michael cohen will be sentenced in nhmatan. cohen pled guilty in august to an array of campaign finance and tax evasion crimes. he claims president trump directed him to pay off t women who said they had affairs with him including adult film star stormy daniels. prosecutors want cohen to s lve st four years in prison. president trump's former national security advisor michael flynn will be sentenced next week. ynn is asking for probation. he pledo guilty lying to the fbi about his contact with russians.

yesterday flynn's lawyers filed a memo asking the judge to consider flynn's cperation with special counsel robert mueller. last week mueller's team recommended no jail time because of his cooperation. or the second time in a row time named a group of people. time named the group the guardians. there are four different covers honoring journalists who were targeted for the war. i.rst cover is jamal khasho another cover honors two reuters reporters in myanmar. a third cover features a journalistd threate with prosecution after reporting on the philippine president and finally the fourth cover honors capital gazette staff. you may recall they p out a newspaper hours after a mass shooting in their newsroom kill five of the colleagues.

news 4'shr gordon spoke to the staff of the gazette as thed rece another hon another yet at the university of maryland. >> it's great honor. it's a terrible thing to win a great honor of any kind at such a cost. >> the university of maryland is honoringhe five capital gazette victims with this memorial. it's a seminar room. one of the victims went to the university and covered sports. he had a courtside sea in his honor at last night's game. nine minutes after the hour. you're looking at a 15-year-old hanging on the back of an x2 bus. the driver recording the said traffic was moving about 40 miles an hour on the benning road. adam tuss talks to the teen's mother. she sa she's not mad at her son and did the same kind of thing as a kid.

metro calls the stunt reckless an t saysy're investigating. 40 miles p hour? if he fell off he would have died. >> no question about it. it's fun video to watch in a way but that is insane. my goodness. coming up, how billions of dollars will be used to improve education in maryla'l. tell you where the governor plans to get the money. plus, a familiar tv host says good-bye. see her tearful announcement next. it is going to be a fairly nice day to be outside and i'm optimistic about tomorrow. the rain chances are backin jus ime for your friday and your saturday. any hope forwa

you'rhing "news 4 today." 4:14 rig now. check your freezer. the jimmy dean company is recalling29,000 pounds of frozen pork andoultry links. everal people found metal pieces they were packaged in august and they have a use by date of january 31st, 2019. terrifying moments after a gunman killed several people at a catholic cathedral. >> the gunman opened fire and later killed himself. he walked in and shot randoy people who were praying. so far the gunman has not been identifido. a st that lasted for hours in houston ended when the suspt turned the gun on himself. a s.w.a.t. team tried toerve a warrant on daniel trevino who's

accud of violating a protective order yesterday. a sheriff's deputy and two officers were hit. they are eected to survive. after hours of negotiating with the suspect, officers found h dead inside the home. t chief financial officer of aneajor chise tech company is out of jail.as meng w arrested in canada and could be brought to the u.s. to face fraud hecharges. r arrest has added to tensions between the u.s. and china while the two countries continue trade negotiations. it's 4:15 now. it was a conntious hearing on capitol hill between the google ceo and house republicans. hey wanted to know if the search engine is politically biased from conservatives. >> it is in our interests to make sure we reflect what is happening out there in the best subjective manner possible.

>> the ceo says it is not possible for employees to manipulate the search results. democrats pushed back calling it a conspiracy. last month maryland voters pushed back for c gino cash to en for funding education. the bill will allocate $2 billion to fix and build schools. govern hogan sai the new schools will meet the 21st century needs. some parents are excited aut this amount. >> you tonight wanto see your child and then they're pulled and wind up getting si. >> the principal said she is not entirely sold on thegovernor's new plan. the state is having a hard time keeping teachers because of low pay. >> big changes are coming to the fourth hour of the "today" show. >>rd kathie lee gif announced

she will be leavingex year. >> it's all so hard because the reason iyed longer than a year because i love everybody here so much. >> kathie lee made the announcement yesterday morning.e co-host said her life changed for then better w gifford joined the show in 2008. kathie lee said she will focus more on film, musk and b projects. her last day will be april 7th of next year which she said was their 11th anniversary. >> she's such a force on that show. it will be interesting to see what happens after that. >> she's 65. you'reed to retire. >> 100%. >> regis used to 'my, not retiring, i'm just moving on. >> right. she makes movies. she has other projects she wants to work on. they remind me of that song "for good" from that mical "wicked" sorry. that's just what i thought of. >> that's a lovely thought. >> that's what comes to my fmin.

only i knew what that song was. >> i'll play it for you during i commeral break, chuck. >> ridiculous. >> another cold start. just because it's not a cold as yesterday, doesn't mean it isn't plenty cold enough current temperature, 32 in washington. even less of a bree in the morning than there was yesterday. yesterday they had a 5 mile per hour breeze. yesteriny the has gone calm across the area. low wind speeds, big range of temperatures. if you're near the water or the bay, temperatures are well above the freezing mark. if you're well away, it's been bombs away on the temperatures yet again in many spots. 18 inss ma. 27 in front royal. 29 montgomery county and 32 freezing cold degrees at national airport. hit the road forecast, dry pavement starts to finish today. temperatures below freezing for most of us but more than enough sunshine to bring afternoon

high upnto the low to mid 40s. light winds out of the west today. our quiet weather is in place for a while yet. here you can see on satellite and radar, a few ext clouds rolling in today. not rain makers but it will dim out the sunshine. future weather through noon, bright and sunny. it will be a little bit on the cloudy side. there's a stray flurry or two late tonight into the pre-dawn hours. by 6:00 a.m. tomorrow skies are clearing out once again. tomorr looks like a nice day. plenty of sunshine. temperatures getting oh, so 5 close to degrees. don't expect it to last though ridayse as we get into afternoon and friday night the rain will come back in a big, big way. sunny and mid 40s today. upper 40s coming up for tomorrow. here's thatfi -day forecast. yikes. an 80% chance for rai friday afternoon and evening. rain about 1/4 to half an inch

on friday evening. maybe a full inch or more of rain coming up. i'm doing the best i can to get a little dryin out. rain chances still lingering. >> thank you, chuck. taking a loo here in oxon hill, we had all lanes blocked because of a crashve igation. that has just cleared out of the way. we don't have to worry about that one anymore. new problem, arlington south between 23rd and 39 they're sort of paralleling 395. lalos areed there because of a water main break. right now not causing any big impact. if they don't get this cleared up, it could be aem proor the morning commute. looks like they may not get it cleared until 3:00 p.m. we'll look into that one. oute loop branch gw parkway, a broken down tractor-trailer. eun? >> melissa, thank you. the countdown h begun to a we

gman's being opened. you might not see it when it's. do we'll explain the project next on "news 4 today." 6 this is charlie not coughing because he took delsym 12-hour. and this is charlie stilnot coughing while trying his hardest not to wake zeus. delsym 12-hour. nothing lasts longer for powerful cough relief.

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community in upper northwest d.c. the center piece of the neighborhood will be the district's very first wegman's grocery store. >> mark sea ggraves takes us on tour of city ridge. >> reporter: at the center of it all, d.c.'sirst wegmaner groc store. >> the historic fanny maeil bung will stay where it is. thma wegns is going to be right underneath. >> eight new buildings will go sround the original building. when i completed city ridge will boast 687 residential units, 162,000 square feet of office space, 153,000e squ feet of retail space and more than 1500 underground parking spaces.f one othe concerns neighbors have had is how will all of the delivery trucks get to wegmans? well, the develops have a plan.

they're going to build an underground tunnel off of on top of that tunnel will be a sloping hill that has a cafe built into it. wegmans is expected to open in 2022. mark seagraves. k underground grocery store? i want tow what restaurants are going in. >> it will be interesting. right here behind us. >> 4:25. the nats are looking for a few good men andunomen to for president, but you have to meet certain requirements, of course. right now you can apply to compete at next rar'sing presidents. you have to be 18 years old and stand between 5'7"nd 6'6". applicants must have a high school diploma and you have to th able to run in a 50 pound costume. head is top heavy here. we posted a link of the application at nbc app. >> if only i were technicaler. i missed the cutoff.

>> you found a goodjob, eun. this will work out for you, i promise. >> i'm gratefu for that. thank you, aaron, for the encouragemt. still ahead on "news 4 today," days away from a shutdown and president trump appears to be poised to let it happen. time.lus, a race against west people lost inside a virginia mine and now search crews are mounting a massive rescue effort. good morning, everybody. dog walking forecast time. cute little duchess sitting on santa's lap. she's looking for a forever home. home. not a bad day to spend

a great dishwasher needs a great detergent. so ge appliances tested finish on over 5000 dishes proving dish after sparking dish that it's not just clean,ed it's finish switch to finish quantum. recommended by ge appliances. "news 4 today" starts now. >> developingovernight, chaos in a french christmas market. ans gunman ope fire killing three and wounding seven others. this morning the latest on the manhunt underway to find the person who pulled the trigger. one thing i tannk we agree on is we shouldn't shut

down the government over a dispute and you want to shut it down. you're talking about it. >> the last time, chuck, you . shut it do >> no, no, no. >> drawing the budget battle nes. an oval office negotiation turned into a shouting match between the president and top democrats allhile the clock quickly ticked towards another partial government shutdo. good morning, everyone, on what is already a very busy wednesday. i'm eun yang. i'm aaron gilchrist. 4:30 right now. we want to kick things off wheh a on your forecast and your commute. with a mollet standing by a check on your roads. >> we start with chuck bell. decemberlly cold for a morning. nowhere near as cold as it was for most places yesterday morning. n four things yd to know about the next couple of days. a freezing cold start for most here this morning. no rain today. chillyry and staying through tomorrow as well but by friday afternoon on into saturday our rain chances are u near 100%. this morning though under mostly clear skies, 32n