>> i'm eun no snow chances today but there are two school systems still dealing with e after effects of the snow. classes have been canceled in spotsylvania county because not enough snow has melted and schoolsre on a delay in prince gorges county. >> we begin with storm team 4 me aorologist chuck bell a look at the chilly forecast, chuck. >> it is going to be a cold start to your december morning. no doubt. sun's not upntil7:17. it's going to be a cold start. to ty of sunshine coming up the early parts of the afternoon. extra cloud cover. staying dry the next couple of days. probably dry until about lunchtime on friday. we will be turning milder.

upper teens across prince william county. low 30s and upper 20s. there's yourlanner for today. plenty of sunshine for the first part. then a little bit more cloud cover later on today. no need for thela umbr sun is down at 4:47 this afternoon. highs in your toho, 41 in leesburg, 40 in culpepper and 40 degrees in gaithersburg let's go to melissa mollet. >> pretty smoothly. we are seeing a slowdown at the top of the ltway. >> outer loop at 202 in the service roadway, that crash on the right side. delays not a major impact. manassas park, crash in the northbound lanes shut down. and arlingto reminder here, south arlington ridge road, that

parallels 395. the section between 23rd and 395 we have shut down because of a water main break. supposed to be out of the way by about 3:00 p.m. live report on that coming it is 6:02. developing montgomery county this morning, for the stiond in less than a month, holiday shoppers at westfield's wheaton mall had to deal with violence. >> a man was stabbed outside of w shoes. last month someone crashed into the front of the dick's sporting goods after a shooting in the parking lot. yesterday's stabbing was not random say the police. however, with so many people out holiday uopping, policee everyone to think safety first. an arrest in the case of a man who kidnapped a d.c. couple at knife point after breheing into home. they say he's responsible for a string of burglaries. dante watson w arrested for breaking into all of the homes

here. in the past two weeks. they caught him on this home security camera. he jumped a fence and brokeomnto a h sunday night. two roommates were home at the time. >> turned around and there he was. kind of walked up and pulled out a screwdriver. my roommate stood up, took o from his wallet, handed it to him. previous, you're on camera. >> police believe he's the same man thatidnapped a couple at knife point last week. he wasaught on surveillance camera at this convenience store. >> new this morning, we'rebo learning new allegations of sexual abuse against a d.c. catholic priest. father vasquez was re-arrested yesterda two additional victims accused him of inappropriately touching them at the shrine of sacred

heart church between 2016 and 2017. three other girls also accused vasquez of the same thing. vasquez will appear in courty toda on the new charges. the archdiocese removed him from ministry when the first allegations surfaced in october. the man convicted of his car into counter protestors pe a white nationalist party is likely to snd the rest of his life behind bars. last year he rammedis car into a crowd of counter protestors. the life sentence is the penalty for heather hier's death and the added years are for the penalty of injuring others. >> getting the maximum stence showing the severity and atrocity of that crime. >> hate does not win. these are our streets and you can't bring hate here and get

away with ait. >> the terrorists. al qaedased planes as a weapon and he used a car as a weapon. >> the judge will formally sentence fields in march. 6:05. today virginia lawmakers will propose a plan that will saves commut lot of money on the dulles toll road. news 4's justin finch h more on how ending an airline tax break will save you money.he >> reporter:olls on the dulles toll road are technical. they say hold on. the money is already there in a tax break now for united airline. in their bill they're proposing ending that tax break which they sa will generate $4 million a year. the tolls are currently going towardthat. they say when you think about it, united is the dominant carrier at dulles and what would

happen is over time as the line expands and more passengers go over, united gains millions of dollars in reven and customers with dull les overall. they're expanding the metroe silver l and business for dulles on drivers, put that on united. they will be at the airport todayin ral for more support of their bill effective january 1. the tolls at the main plaza are set to rise by $1.25 and the off ramp by 50 >>cents. justin, thank you. developing in france, we're following the latest on the deadly attack near aopar christmas market in strasburg. chris lawrence at the live desk. >> strasburg police have updated us. eeltiple people have injured, some of themdead.

we're working to finalize how many. police have gone back and cefor. pore looking for a shooter. he may have escaped across the border to germany. they're reporting the suspects a man named sharik shaquai. bc news also working to independently confirm his name. the a.p. is reporting police seched the attacker's apartment yesterday morning and it had to do with a previous attempted murder investigation. of course, that search was conductedust hours before the deadly shooting near the christmas market. back to you. >> chris, thank you. 6:07 right now. the threa of a government shutdown hangs oves hundr of workers. the shouting match endeden with

prestrump saying he would proudly shut down the government if he doesn't get $5 billion for bo security. >> the fact is you do not have the votes in the house. >> nancy, i do. we need border security. >> we'll find out. >> nancy. >> 20 times you have called for i whut down the government if i don't get my wall. >> i am proud to shut down then governor border security, chuck. i will be the one to shut it down. i'm not going to blame you for it. the lime you shut it down, it didn't work. i will take tane of shutting it down. >> we don't need a shutdown >> okay. >> last night house minity eader nancy pelosi told fellow democrats, quote, it's like a nsnhood thing for him. senate republi voted quickly. majority leader mitch mcconnell warned a shutdown would be a mistake. they need to work out their differences by december 21st. today president trump's ex-lawer michael cohen will be sentenced in manhattan.

he pled guilty in august to an array of campaign finance and tax evasion crimes. dehe claims the pre directed him to pay off two women who said they had affairs with him, including adult film star stormy daniels. precutors want him to serve at least four years in prison. it's 6:09. for the secondear in a row "time magazine's" person of the year is a group of people. time named the journalistshe guardians. the first cover feature murdered washington post wslumnist jamal khashoggi. another cover s two reporters in prison in myanmar. a third cover features a journalist threatened withos ution after reporting on the philippine president and finally the fourth cover honors the capital gazette staff in annapolis. >> they put out a newspaper

hours after a shooting killed t five ofir colleagues. news 4's chris gordon spoke to theff s of the gazette as they received another honor at the ry university of nd yesterday. >> you know, it's a great honor. it's ao terrible thing t win such a great honor at such a cost. >> there's aeminar room in their honor. one of the victims wt to the university and covered sports. he had a courtside seat dedicated in his honor at last ght's basketball game. a dangerous stunt caught on camera. you are looking at ad 15-year- kid hanging onto the back of a bus right here in the district. this is a metro bus, the x2. the driverays traffic was moving about 40 miles an hour over the benning road bridge in northeast d.c. our transportion reporter adam tuss talked to the teen's mother.

she said she's notad at h son and she did the same kind of thing as a kid. they call the rtuntkless and they say they are investigating. at the very least we know this was really dangerous. u> coming up, how billions of dollars will besed to improve education in maryland. we'll tell you where the governor plans to get the money. plus, familiar tv host says good-bye. thie lee gifford announces she's leaving the "today" show. we'll see her tearful good-bye next. if you are going out walking and jogging, it is cold. temperatures mostly below freezing but we'll have a fair amount of sunshine. if you're e'tdoors, warm up to the mid 30s. what about our next chance for rain? how much and when? up.'s coming >> reporter: looking for something to do for the whole family? check this out. this started as a dirt garden and transformed into a fantastic holiday train display at brook holiday train display at brook side rden.ga this holiday, no matter who's on your list,

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you're watching "news 4 today." >> welcome back. 6:15. there is plenty of holiday fun happenin across our area. >> this morning news 4'solette grees live in wheaton. she is happening out athe brookside garden holiday display. it's a pretty massive display, molett >> reporter: it really is quite a sight to see. started as a dirt garden andan sformed into this with amalie from thomas the train series. there she is. 41 people, 1100 hours of work.

historical features. i want to bring in jeff matulitte to talk aut how this came to be and the historical he buildings, t cider barrel, the red door store, right, jeff? >> weed start in 2005 coming re. this is our 14th year and we've every year incorporated something different. we have kensington station over here. next to the cider barrel store, red door store. the little tavern. all local features.we try to add something new. >> just a wonderful thing for theda holi. >> it really is. we have people com in and tell us that this is a part of their holiday tradition. and so we have lots of people. we're opening a lot of times. we're openot every day b daytime and evenings

. >> does it blow your mind every year when you see it come and added on to. >> my favorite thing is when the kids come in and they're like,w oh, people enjoy our railroads. k>> reporter: i didn'tw i would be blown away by this. you know? i am. this is so cool. to talk about the detail. we'll talkbout that later on in the hour and then show you the georgetown trolly line. at's all part of this whole holiday display. so stay tuned. we've got much more coming up. >> where is she? ere's emily? she's about to go around there. back in to you guys. >> asome ther molette green for us. we'll talk to you later. thank you. 6:17 right now. last month maryland voters overwhelmingly approved a measure requiring casino cash be added tong for education. wvernor larry hogan introduced a plan showire that money will be used. the bill would allocate $2 billion to fix or build new

schools. governor hogans s it will meet their needs. >> the projects are needed in all schools. y >> don't want to send your child to school and they're cold and they wind up getting sick. >> theth president prince gorges county educator's association says she's not entirely sold on the governor's plan she says 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. >> kathie lee gifford announced year.ill be leaving next >> it's all so hard because the reason i stayed longer than a year is because love everybody here so much. >> gifford made t announcement yesterday morning. her co-host hoda kotb said her life changed when gifford joined in 2008. she will focus on film, music, woks. her last dayl be april 7th of next year. >> i can't believe it's been 11 years. time really does fly by. >> we need that tissue box on a string that comes

that would be awesome to have. >> i didn't know you were a cryer. ometimes you're crying, sometimes you're nflleing. there's more than one use for a tissue. >> i would like the chocolate chip cookiery deli. >> that is a bridge too far. >> it's a chilly start on your n wednesday mo nose may be running a little bit. not much of a wind to contend th this morning so that is good news. winds now are only at about 3 miles per hour. not even enough of a breeze for a wind chill here in d.c.cu ent temperature, 34 degrees. upper teens and in culpepper county. certaiy a lot colder there. milder in the chesapeake bay. we'll call it seasonably cold, but it is a big range of temperatures today. so yourd hit the r forecast, get ready, seat heaters on at

least medium today. no open windows and ice scrapers especially out across northern virginia where there's more like to be somefrost. your forecast then once you get going, temperatures below freezing in most areas this morning. up into the low 40s. 41 in leesburg, frederick. 43 in waldorf and la plata. they will help to dim out the sunshine for a bit. no rain to worry about. 8 clock and midnight, that won't get into thed.c. metro area. the rest of it will be cloudy through the overnight hours. rhen for tomorrow, another day with a f amount of sunshine. 45 and up to 48. milder air but it comes with an awful lot of moisture. rainfall, a quarter toalf an inch p. and then on saturday potentially

another full inch ofain or more. that would be more than enough lace fors in the first the rainiest year on record in d.c. only a little over half an inch. i'll show you the whole tenay for the next half hour. >> chopper 4 right now found this problem here. disabled vehicle right side of the roadway. outer loop near colesville road. some delays as you come around the bend here. on the inner loop, not bad. outer loop. should be clearing out of th way. hyattsville, southbound b.w. parkway. have an accident. arlington south, arlingt ridge road between 23rd and 395, that road parallels a395. lot of people use it to get on the 395. lanes are blocked. could be until 3:00 p.m. before that. expect a live report on that one. coming up. eun? >> melissa, thank you. a countdown has begun to a

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back.elcome about 6:25 now. construction has begun on a new community in upper northwest d.c. theenter piece of the neighborhood will be the district's very first wegman's grocery store. can't wait. >> going to be huge. literally, the stores are. news 4's mark seagraves takes us on a tour of city ridge. >> reporter: cy ridge will take the place of iefa mae. the historic building has been here since the late 1950s. it's gng to stay right where it is. the wegman's is actually going to go right eiunderneath. t new buildings will go up around the original building. when it's completed city ridge will boast 687 residential units, 162,000 square feet of office space, 153,000 square feet of retail space and more than 1300 underground parking spaces. one of the concerns neighbors have had is how will all of the

de tvery trucks get wegman's? well, the developers have a plan. they're going to build an yound ground tunnel right off ofon wiscn avenue. on top of that tunnel for delivery trucks will be a sloping hill that has a cafe built into it which overlooks theublic park. wegman's is expected to open in 2022. in the district, mark segraves, news 4. y days a from a government shutdown and president trump appears poised to letn it hap if he doesn't get funding for the borderwall. still ahead, we are looking what needs to happen to keep thousands of government employees on the job. > and time for the dog walking forecast. duchess sitting on nta's lap would be a fine present at your house. girl.a 12-year-ol low energy. perfect lap dog for the holidays. dog walking forecast, sunny but cold. cloudy and temperatures falng back ilint

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manhunt to find the person who pulled the trigger. one thing think wean agree on is we shouldn't shut down the government over a dispute and you want tohut it down. you keep talking about it. >> the last time, chuck, you shut it down. >> no, no, no. >> drawing the budget battle lines. oval officeotiation turns into a shouting match between the president and top democraal while the clock is ticking towards another partial government shutdown. good morning, everyone. on what is a busy wednesday i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. r 6:ht now. i want to kick things off on the forecast and a commute this morning. melissa mollet is standing by. storm team 4 meteorologist chu bell a a very cold morning. >> below freezing for most of the suburbs this morning. still waiting onunrise unt 7:17 this morning.n afternclouds. it will stay dry until tomorrow. the bad news isee thend rain chances are higher than ever. in the mid to upper 20s.

low 30s closer to the city. mid 30s next to the chesapeake bay. ey'll need their scarf and coat. sunglasses for the first half of the day. i think the sun will be dimmed out later on in the afternoon. bus stop temperatures near freezing. outdoor temperatures near the 40s. for december, sunny, not too cold, not too windy. we'll give that an a plus. melissa mollet, what have you got in first 4 traffic? >> chopper 4, bw parkway, ramp to in bound 50. crash is gone but we have the delays happening around. warning for allow a little extra time. outer loop at 202, looks like that has finally cleared out of the way. it was on the right side of the roadway slowing things just a bit. new problem. left lane now bloed by a crash. see what's happening from above.

arlington south, ridge road between 23rd and 395, lane shut down still. nearoa beuhler right side blocked by a crash, alexandria, turnt beauregard, accident there as well. eun? >> melissa,hank you. 6:32. there are now nine days to go until the u.s. government will partially shut down. lawmakers and the president can prevent it but onl if they have a budget compromise. >> president trump iilling to let it happen if he isn't given money. >> yes, if we don't g what we want one way or the other whether it's through you, ohrough military, through anything you want call, i will shut down the government. >> fair enough. we disagree. >> i am proud. >> we disagree. i am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck. >> the president is asking for $5 billion to fund construction of his border wall

democrats nancy pelosi and chuck schumer say they already have resolutions which will pass the house and senate but the president says he won't signe unlessets the funding he wants. our coverage of the budget battle conti fes in a minutes. we're looking at what happens next. 6:33 now.ec for thed time in less than a month, holiday shoppers at westfield wheaton mall had to deal with violence. >> darcy spencer is live with more on the story. darcy? >> reporter: well, good yorning. may remember last month there was a shooting on mall property. yesterday afternoon there was a stabbing just as the mall was filled with holiday shoppers. this is video from ned afternoon in front of the dsw shoe store. the man who was stabbed is expected to survive. the week of thanksgiving a man was shot in the parking lot after some sort of dispute

inside the mall spilled outsidey montgo county police have put out some safety tips for shoppers to keep in mind. we want to show you those. stay alert. be aware of your surroundings. park in well-lit areas. park as close to your car or the store as possible. we know this is a very busy time of year. a lot of the parking lots and garages are if you can try to abide by those rules and stay in well-lit areas and park close to the mall. the suspect is still o the loose this morning. back to you. >> darcy, thank you. we ang also stan top of a developing story from the french city of strasbawg. >> chrisnce is at the live desk with the latest from officials. what are you learning? >> reporter: eun, they just clarified what happened. he retracted a previou statement to saying two people are killed and right now the death toll is ree. the suspect may have crossed the

border into germany. he was shot and wounded. he was known as a terror suspect. strasburg is home to the european parliament. the a.p. isha reporting they searched the allege attacker's apartment yesterds morning hoefore the attack but to do with a had previous attempted murder investigation. aaron. >> chris lawrence at the live desk. thank you. 6:35 now. here's aook at our other top stories thi morning. jurors have recommended james field jr. be sentenced to life in prison plus 419 years. he's the white nationalist that drove his car into a crowd of protestors during a unite the right rally. heather hier was killed. people in the aspen hill

area of montgomer county are waking up in their homes this morning. residents had to leave yesterday following a natural gas line rupture. washington gas isur still u what caused that leak. the laurel city planning commission voted a recommendation to turn the tasting diner into a medical marijuana dispensary. many wted it become part of maryla maryland's community. today rescuers are in a race against time to find thre people trapped in a mine in west virginia. >> they've been down there for about three days now. police say four people wen into that mine near clear creek this weekend to look for copper wire. one man safely emerged monday night and told rescuers where to find others. the problem is oxygen levels are

too low. sti ahead this morning, america's opioid addiction problem by the numbers. to nd would you sell acces your mailbox to help the u.s. postal service? it's now being delivered as a suggestion. also ahead, molette green >> reporter: and the trolly comes through. that's right, aaron. the trolly comes through. af modele glen echo carrousel. check it out. part of the massive holiday part of the massive holiday train display here at brook

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by ending tax breaks for a major airline. that t to begin with ongoing budget battle between democrats and president trump. >> nbc's peter alexander is at the white house with how all of this is playing out? >> reporter: good morning to you from here at the white house this morning. the latest after that unprecedented display of drama and disagreement inside the oval office with cameras rolling. president trump a democrats nancy pelosi and chuck schumer clhing over the president's demand for $5 billion to build a border wall. theresi even saying he'd be proud to shut down the government if he doesn't get his way. this morning we're goingo fact check the president's misstatements about that wall and tell you what nancy pelosi is privately saying about president trump when we see him this morning coming up on "today." president trump's former attorney michael cohen will be back in court today. he will be sentenced on campaign finance and tax evasion crimes. cohen said the president told him oo pay two women who claimed they had affairs with him. cohen also admitted to lying to

congress on the president' behalf. also appearing in court today, maria nabu she's accused of acting as a russian agent in the d.c. area. she's charged with conspiracy and failing to report as a russian agent. sh is expected to change her plea to guilty. ight 3 before the hour now. tolls on the dulles toll road are scheduled to increase more than a dolla in january. >> lawmakers will propose a plan that could put the increase o hold. news 4's justin finch explains. >> the tolls on thel dulles t road are set to go up on january 1st but virginia delegates say hold on, the money is already there in a tax break now existing for united airlines. in their bill they're proposing ending that tax break which thel say would generate $4 million a year in revenue that could be used to help pay for the metro's silver line expansion which the tolls now

currently go towards. t noy say when you think about it, united is the dominant caier at dulles and what would happenves that or time as that line expands and before passengers gover, united gains millions of dollars in revenue and customers go to dulles. they say they'll expand the metro silver linend instead of putting it on drivers, put it od un and have them cover the gap by ending that jet fuel tax they will be at the airport today rallying for more support of their bill effective january 1. the tolls at the main plaza are set to rise by $1.25 and the off ra by 50 cents. on the dulles toll roads, i'm justin finch, news 4. new this morning, virginia governor ralph northam wants to give teachers a 5%oo pay

next year. he wants to increase funding for k-12 funding and grow the state. northam says pay in virgitha is laggin national average and making it harder to recruit and retain quality teachers. it will have to pass the general assembly to take fect. northam will introduce the full detailed plan next week. 6:49. let's turn to chuck bell and get forecast. the not as cold as yesterday but still rough out there. >> not exactly short sleeve weather yet but it's not as bitter cold as yesterday morning. finall a little bit of color coming into the eastern skies here. sunrise, only0 minutes away. if you think it's turned unusually cold unusually quickly, you are correct. 27 out of the last 33 days have been colder than average. a realut -- one of the things i've passed the early parts of november. november ended up more than 3 degrees colr than average.

now the first 11 days of this month, 2.2 degrees colder tha average. yes, indeed. it feels like winter outside this morning. 20 infaulkier county. your pla for today, fair amount of sshine early. i do think there will be an increase in clouds later on in the afternoon. temperatures today should have no trouble getting up into the low and mid 40s athoss most of area. that's not too bad. satellite picture shows a lot more clouds down to our south and more importantly clouds out to the west. those are the ones that will dim out t sunshine. bright and sunny through noontime. notice during the middle and later parts of the afternoon the clouds will come ongh thr here. there will be a chance of a flurry or two in far and western maryland, up into the mountains of west virginia late on into the e hours. again, that's never going to make it here into the d.c. ular. rule out a little flurry at the top end of i-81.

tomorrow, sunshine to ouart. will gradually increase as we get into friday. y the time we get to the weekend, full cloud cover and rain chances. tomorrow morning won't be ass cold this morning either. there's your ten day forecast, 45 today, 48 tomorrow. fray afternoonooks like it could be very rainy. rain likely beginni here about 1:00, 2:00. rainfall amounts near half an inch onfriday. saturday, milder with temp0atures in the uppers but a lot more rain. could get a solid win inch of rain. map to two inches of rain with the next event. second half of the weekend, sunday, probably going to be cloudy with showers around in the morning. some of the computer forecast modelsre hinting we might be able to dry out later on on sunday afternoon. that's still nig a high confidence in the forecast there. then another shot of coer, dryer air rolls in here for the middle parts of next week. melissa mollet, friday night

dinner and movie, saturday at the playground not going to happen unless you are a fan of standing in the rain. >> no, i'll give you all of my kids. you can take o them in the rain and go into the puddles and go into your house. outer loop at central avenue, we have the crash the left side of the roadway. chopper 4 showing us the lays. it's about a 4 mile backup. they start near andrews air force this morning. the rest of the beltway looking pret typical. bethesda, before cedar lane. brand you new. 23 and 395 this water main break here this morning. we have a full closure there right now. that is expected to be reopened completely by about 3:00 this afternoon. taking a look now at some travel times. 66 inbounds, fairfax county parkway to th beltway, 38 miles

per hour 95 from quantico to the beltway, 33 miles per hour. southbound 27 and earlier crash there, 19 miles per hour. th will take you 28 minutes. remember to listen to wtop when you hop in your car today. >> thank you. 6:53 right now. there plenty of holiday fun happening all over our region. >> this mornings 4's molette green is live montgomery county. she is a the the garden of lights atrook sid gardens where there is a huge display in front and center. really is beautiful there. >> reporter: absolutely anntastic. id to let you guys know that the magnificent holiday lights display over brook side gardens celebrating theolidays is up. chopper 4 flew over the scene. we he the view for you. i don't know how many lights but tons of lights and tons of man

hours. it will be up through the new year. right here, jeff patterson, wave, jeff, he hired the people and does the display and did it year after year. you check that out and you come every day during the weekday, pay $25, fill up a car full oeople and see the lights. during the weekends you come and pay $30, fill up the car with as many as that. jeff matulla is the guy, the show chairman who helped put alf this together and emily is the lead train operator right here. there she is from the thomas the train series. we all remember that. jeff, talk about the incredible work that goes into and the passion that goes into making this happen as you see some of the historical sites of maryland. >>so yes. we have about 41 members that

heir d up and volunteered time. we have about 11,050 hours. >> yeah, we have theider barrel, kensington avenue. august out of the silver spring area. they're all local s.landma >> reporter: you do something different every year, uright? yoome up with a different idea? w yeah, do a different design every year. this is our 14th year here. i'd like to mention the great cooperation we have with the staff at brookside garden. >> absolutely. shell before g in we run out of time to piggyback off of why this is so great for the holidays. >> it's wonderfully festive for one thing and the other thing is if you want them toe get som education over their break and you don't want them to know it, bring them here, they're going to get botany and history.

celebrating its 50th year nextye . lots of fun things. go on their facebook page at montgome park and tell your story about visiting the garden. that is the nlatest. ba to you. we're going to t enjoyse trains more. thank you. 6:46. four things to know. at least three people are dead after a shooting at a popular france.as market in strassrg, nbc's richard engel will have the developments on the massive manhunt on the suspect nt on today. jurorsed indic that he be sentenced to i lifetime prison. the judge will decide the final sentence in march. president trp's forme ttorney michael cohenill be packam ignba finance and tax evasion crimes. cohen said the president told him to pay off two w claimed they had affairs with him. cohen also admitted to lying to

congress on the "today" show, former u.n. ambassador. and there's your five day forecast. sunshine, mid 40s today. sunshine tomorrow. mid to upper 40s. just in time for the weekend. no surprise. more rain chances on the weekend. >> yuck chopper 4 right now over the outer loop of central four mile backup starting at andrs. >> thank you. that is the news four today" >> the "tohow is next. y.'ll be back in 25 minutes. enjoy your da >> make it a great wedne

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