last dance. in a rare inrview, talk show host ellen degeneres says she's considering ending herugely popular daytime television show. it is 6:00 a.m good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. before weetstarted, we want to let you know that spotsylvaniaounty schoolsre on a two-hour delay. they were hit hardeay the snow ier in the week. >> melissa mollet is keeping an eye on trafficdi contions for us. >> we begin with meteorologist chuck bell. >> good morning. it's a relatively pleasant start to arsday morning here in the nation's capital. skies will be pary suno at times mostly sunny today. best of all,t's not as cold this morning compared to the last few days. today, no rain to wor about. ave the umbrella at home. rain returns tomorrow.

the weekend is v lookingy wet indeed. right now it's 34 in loudoun county. i howard county. 31 in fredericksburg. 30 at national airport. these numbers are 5 to 15 degrees warmer than yesterday morning. we'll take that. so seat heaters on low this morning. probably no need for the ice scrapers or the windshield wipers today. that's welcome news. dry pavement start to finish, mid-30s this morning. low 40s for the ride home later on in the afternoon. school day forecast and a closer look at the weekend in a few. for now, l's go to melissa mollet. >> good morning, chuck. right now chopper 4 on the way 50 before west ox road. re.rand new crash t one also 28 at wallny road. fredericksburg,17oute 1 at a head-on collision. in springfield, northbound 39te edsall, disabled vehicle near the entrance to the press lanes. taking a look outer loop before

university boulevard, still some delays in thehi new ham avenue camera there. oop at ttsville, inner landover road, left side blocked by a work zone. >> melissa, thank you. today metro leaders are set to square off on an issue that im octs how thousan people in our area get around, how late the rail system staysopen. >> d.c. leaders want to go back to the old hours. news 4's justin fins live at the navy yard station in southeast. so justin, we know that's where a lot of riders get stuck following the nats games because the games go >> reporter: that's right. they're tired of paying for uber and lyft and taxis to go home. of course, these longer hours for metro could be a game changer for metro's ridership. these are reasons why we could see metro's board vot today to extend those hours. so here's what we're talking about. extending hours during the week by a half hour from 11:30 p.m. to midnight. weekends, closing at 3:00 a.m., several hou longer.

as you mentioned, the hours were set to revert anyway as cheduled until the met contract. due to repairs, metro may consider extending those condense hours for a bit longer. very familiahours and welcoming to long-time metro riders. if the board votes in favor of extending these hours today,e could see those new hours roll back out by julyf2019. of course, that's huge for local sports fans, concert goers, those going out who workso and o to restaurants and bars. however, metro may see this 'rfferently. th relying on those condensed hours to work on track repairs. hours,they extend those they could end up expanding their repair window as well. perhap some wins and losses to consider as they vote today ino just a few. we're live outside the navy yard station, justin finch, news 4. >> justinou thank coming up on four minutes after the hour. meanwhile, a closer look at new

proble metro's silver line. it's a story we've been foll fing. chopperw over the tracks to get a bird's eye view of the problem areas. we first reported about concrete sflaws along theonds phase of this project. now we've learned hundreds of concrete roul ties also be faulty. "the washington post" reports the tiles could be out of alignment at key crossover points. project leaders say these kinds pof problems do c up, and they are addressing the issue. iey say everything is still on track to open 2020. a montgomery county family is thankful their child is back home and safe after hours of panic. police say the child is on the autism spectrum and possibly nverbal. a montgomery county school bus picked up the student yesterday afternoon at rockville high school. tudent was supposed to get off in silver spring. instead, thehild was discovered on the bus at the inner harbor in baltimore. hool officials are still trying to figure out how this happened, but they say montgomery county schools do bus

inome students from baltimore city. whennt the rockville stuid not get off at the right stop, the bus continued on to baltimore. this morning, d.c. police are searching for a man they say kidnapped and raped a woman at this is 29-year-old mark blue. police say he and nick savoie a kidnappedoman near the naler road metro station in prince er this county ear month. they drove around for 45 minutes and sexually assaulted her before forcingf her oute car in d.c. savoie turned himself into police onsday. mark blue is still on the run. we areatollowing thet in a federal civil lawsuit filed against the prince george's county police department. >> 13 officers accuse department leadership of discrimination and retaliatio the officer say there is ri dination between white and blac officers, unfair discipline, and terminations. former and current officers say the racial divide within the police department makes it difficult f them to be effective. they're calling for new leadership saying the problems

that have existed have becomemu worse under the new chief. we spoke to officers as well as a newly elected county executive about ts lawsuit. >> we have so much racial divide within the police department that we can't be effective and effi>>ent. appreciate their advocacy, and i'll take a look at it and take whatever action we believe is necessary. >> prince george's countye p say they can't comment because of the pending litigation. the department is also being investigated by the u. justice department on similar claims. happening today, hyattsville's police department will swear in its new police chief. she's the city's fire fem and first african-american to head the department. she previously served as a police captain. it's now 6:06. it look like voters will not get another chance to weigh in on t how muchped workers are paid in d.c. a judge ruled the city's board of elections failed to properly

.otify the public of a hearing last mon at that meeting, the board approved language for a proposed referendum and started collecting signatureavor of another vote on initiative 77. you may remember voters approved that initiative, which raised the minimum wage for tipped b worker councilmembers later overruled. >> pple of d.c. are being punished again. the voters of d.c. are having their voices and their signatures suppressed again because of an error that was out urof control. >> ramirez says she and other supporters will continue fighting to increase the tipped minimum wage in. d five more cases of adenovirus have been reported at the university of maryland. 35 students are now sick. yesterday we told you that the school plans to combat this problem by disinfecting all residence halls over the winr eak. last month a student died after complications from the virus. the cen drs forease control says adenovirus can cause ol

anything from symptoms to more serious complications. o learn more about those symptoms and the c go to our nbc washington app. 6:08 right now. some breaking news. >> new york firefighters are battling a raging fire in queens. chris lawrence is at the live aksk with more. >> i want to you straight to some live pictures. take a look at this. firefficials say at least 11 people, including six firefighters, have some minor injuries. officials say a strip mall in queens went up in flames aboutni 2:00 this m and engulfed several businesses. 25 fire departments h responded to this fire. we're talking more than 160 firefighters thereth o scene. the fire has been so intense, it even sent some residents nearby with their pets out into the cold. the firefighters told them the smoke was so intense, it was almost suffocating. a lot of those residents were being kept at a nearby wendy's restaurant.

we're keeping an eye on this. we'll upda you as soon as we learn more. >> all right, chris. thank you. now to an update on the ma unt for a terror suspect in france. s're learning new information about the suspecteoter who opened fire at a world famous christmas market. police say cherif chekatt is a career criminal born in france. he has 27 convictions for theft and violence. police say he became radicalized in priso and was on a terrorist watch list before tuesday's attack. three people have n that's new this morning. nine others were hurt when he opened fire in the strasbourg christmaske m investigators say chekatt was inspired by isis, but they don't know whether the group directed this attack. today, accused russian agent maria butin a is expected to plead guilty in a d.c. federal courtroom. you're looking at a sketch from a previous time in court. butina is accused of infiltrating conservative group in ordo bolster russian interest in u.s.olics. butina came to the u.s. in 2016 on a student visa.de

pre donald trump's former lawyer and fixer michael cohen will serve three years in prison. the senten was handed down yesterday in new york. cohen told the jud he had a blind loyally to trump, and that loyalty led him to cover up the president's, quote dirty deeds. the crimes include the illegal payment of hush money to women, lying to congress about the presiden with russia, and failing to report millions ofrs dol in income. cohen will begin his sentence in march. congresswoman nancy pelosi is poised to be elected hpeaker of tse for a second time after striking a deal to limit how long she'll serve. the california democrat says if heected speaker, sl step down after two terms. the statement satisfied her opponents and paved t way for her to be elected speaker next month. it's 6:10 now. ellen degeneres is showing a different side of herself in an interview with "the new york times." thk show host and comedienne says she has consistently thought of leaving

her show because in a way she feels boxed in creatively. ellen says, quote, i wanted to e.show all of the talk show is me, but i'm also playing a character of a you can t talk-show host. ere's a tiny, tiny bit of difference. elle season releasing aew stand-up special on netflix lled "relatable." she focuses on how her celebrity kes her less relatable than she used to be. well, the early alarm might be hurting your child's performance in the classroom. some new practices are helping kids in our area by lettinghem stay in bed. good morning, everybody. 's almost friday. that means it's time to start thinking about the weekend. here's what you need to know w about thekend. it's going to rain on saturday morning, and there will be zero amountf sunshine for saturday and sunday. i'll let you know how much sunshine we'll see today coming right up.

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6:15 right now. an experimentroves what teachers, parents, and some teenagers already know. starting school later is good for students. two seatt high schools pushed back the start of class by 55 minutes. students in both schools reported sleeping longer an being less tired in class. the grades also went up and attendance improved at one of those schools. over the last few years, some di hricts in our areae moved their start times too. fairfax county high schoolers begin class 10 or 20 minutes later than they used to. in the city of manassas, the bell rings 50 minutes later. an arlington teacher found a way to takees hisn out of the classroom and put it on

display attohe new b quarter mall. >> jeff wilson wanted his middle school art studentso experience how creative ideas are wansformed intoks of art for all to see. our molett greenoins us now. i love when you focus on the tts. itches you so much more than just painting and sculpture. >> that's exactly what does. that's why i love it too. what a joy it was to be able to spend af little bit time in the classroom, watching these young artngts puthe finishing touches on their creations. take a look here. >> i didn't know we were going to be usingdrills. >> reporter: in art class, painting, building,ll dg. part of a real life lesson kenmore middle schoolteacher t want create. >> it goes from ann ideae table in the classroom and how it gets into a public space. t> mr. wilson always tells us we're working a high school

level, and it says that we're really advancing in our artwork. >> reporter: drilling in bit by bit, a lesson about where art oon take you. >> it's really that it's going into the mall because people from all over are going to go to tts mall some point and see it and be like, oh, students made this? that's so cool. >> reporter: just days away froc pu display, the light box and accompanying pieces get a spaceid i the new boston quarter mall. >> this is a great example about how we make connections in the community. >> you got to pull it tight. >> make it beautiful. make it amazing make it entertainment for the mall. and we're still not getting paid for this. >> he seemed okay with it though. >> he was. >> that is hilarious. >> he just needed to make that point. and the whole idea of this was to show tse students how your oreative ideas go from the

classroom on a showcase like this. it's going to be on display at the bostonl quarter m for several weeks. >> nice. >> what a great teacher too. >> oh, yeah. >> thank you, molette. >> what are you doing tomorrow? >> we're back in another school. there's a pta mom who wanted to do something reay unique with national inclusion week. so we're going to see how these students, 60 of them, supposed to be on tv tomorrow morning. we'll make it happen. >> it's an early start. thank you, molette. chuck bell is here to tell us about the forecast. 40 degrees, not too shabby. >> sun's not even up yet. we're already above 40 degrees. that's a win, i think. compared to two mornings ago, stanton, virginia, was below zero. this is a big step up from there. temperatures, no one below 20hi degrees morning. most areas are at or above freezing. that's a nice change for sure. not much of a breeze out there. julo a couples around this morning. we'll have a mix of clouds and

sunshine for your day. right now it's 35 in falls church, 35 in poolsville. 32 in winchester. so dog walking forecast for today, cute little jimi here with a stuffed anima f availabl adoption at the humane rescue alliance. going to be a nice daynd to s some quality day outside with pooch. temperatures mid-30s this omorning. low mid-40s at noontime. right around 40 degrees at 6:00 this evening as well. so that's not too bad by december standards. highs today, 49 in manassas and washington. 50 degrees in culpepper. 50 for a highn fredericksburg today. there is the leading edge of the moisture which will be impacting us in a bi b way for friday afternoon into the weekend. future weather brings extra cloud cover in later on in the day today. tat least you'll be abl see the sunshine for most of the afternoon. by tomorrow morning, if we're going to get any sun at it'll be just as it comes up over the eastern horizon tomorrow. but clouds will quickly

overspread our skies. by 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon, rain moving into the area quickly. could have some pretty moderate rain around here late friday night into the early parts of saturday morning. the rain will taper back to showers, which will continue off and on through allf your saturday. keep that in mind. so today not too bad. h rainow, cloudy w moving in. rain likely through the day saturday. though it won't be raining hard, lingering showers throughout your sunday afternoon plans as well. now, let's see if the traffic department can deliver some goo news on thursday. >> maybe not. fairfax right now, chopper 4 over westbound 50 before west ox road. theight side is blocked. this is a multicar crash. didn't look like anything serious but still causing real dela westbound 50 before west ok. thank you, chopper 4. centerville, northbound 28 at braddock road, a brand new crash there. no real details quite yet.

17, ricksburg, route 1 at accident there as well this morning. that was a head-on collision. outer loop befor university boulevard, we're still slow here at the top of the beltway. that's an earli accident at's out of the way, but you can see those delays still hanging around right now. travel times in maryland, 270 looks good. top of the beltway slow. inner loop is okay. 66 inbound looks okay. remember to listen to wtop 103.5 fm when you hop in your car. i> the skin care business is a multibillion dollandustry. treating your skin is much me than just looking good. more on the benefits of these anti-ageingex products and this band is really on the road. see dave matthews band performing new music on ellen this afternoon before they take the stage at the capital one arena tonight. see it at 3:00 here on nbc 4. then stay tuned for news 4 at 4:00. hey, batter, batter, batter, batter.

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6:30 your time right now. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. we want to get you started with a checkec on your ft and commute. melissa mollet is standing by with a look at the roads. >> let's start withm storm 4 meteorologist chuck bell and see how the numrs are shaking out. >> the numbers are favorable for this morning. not anywhere near as cold as we've been in recent mornings. we'll take that as a win. a it's mid-40sng the chesapeake bay. right at 40 degrees in arlington ouunty. most of the ying suburbs are in the low to mid-30s. a few spots have dropped below 30 degrees. winchester, 28 degrees. plan on low to mid-30s to get the day started. enough sunshine today to bring temperatures way up into the 40s. actually, above average weather for today. that will be nice. 47 the forecast high in fredrick, maryland. 50 degrees in fredericksrg,

rginia. all we need now is an easy commute on a thursday morning. let's go to melissa mollet to find out if that's going to happen. >> not so much. take a look in centerville, northbound 28 a braddock road. this is a multicar crash and ae la police response. just getting by on the right side of the. roadw we're talking about four to five miles of backup right now. hopefully they get this out of that left side pretty quickly and get people moving o e again. westbound 50 at west ox road, that's where chopper just was. that crashs cleared, but we still have delays hanging around. beltway looking pretty normal. still slow outer loop as you approach georgia because ofn earlier accident. through prince george's county, inbound 214 miles per hour. 6:31 now. discrimination cla put the prince george's county police department at the center of a federal lawsuit. >> 13 officers are speaking u by saying the divide in the department is affecting the community theyve s

news 4's megan mcgrath ith live details now. >> rep 13 current and former prince george's county police officers are involved in this lawsuit. it's a federal civil lawsuit. we spoke to some of tho officers earlier this week. they say that female officers and officers of color face discrimination from the epartment's leadershi discrimination in the form of e wtween black and te trsfan officers, as well as unfair termination. ey are callinge for cha in leadership. >> this complaint startedith the community. what i mean by that is that we witnessed some officers doing things t the community and then we spokeout. >> reporter: and it is the policy of the police department not to comment on pending litigation. county executive sayshe has

not read the lawsuit yet, but she's going to be looking into it and that she takes allegations of discrimination very seriously. back to you. >> megan mcgrath live for us in prince george's county. thank you. this morning, a montgomery county tamily isnkful their child is back home and safe. a school bus picked up the child, who's on the autism spectrum and possibl nonverbal, at rockville high school yeerday afternoon. the student was supposed to get off in silver spring. instead, the child was discovered on the bus at the inner harbor in baltimore. school officials are trying to figure out how this happened. they say montgomery cnty schools does bus in students from baltimore city. they suspect when thest rockvil ent did not get off the bus at the right stop, the bus continued on to baltimore. your time is now 6:33. here are the other top stories we're following for you this morning. a big change for commuters in the tysons area. the jones branch road bridge, or scott's crossing road bridge, as it will be known, iill open

the next week over the beltway. this will be an important b connectiween two secks of tysons that were previously divided by the beltway. eventually,edestrian connections, bike lanes, and a transit system are expected to be added. accused russian agent maria butina expected to plead guilty in aro d.c. federal cou today. she's accused of infiltrating conservative groupsike the national rifle association in order to bolster russian interest in u.s. politics. she came to the u.s. in 2016 on a student visa. california congresswoman nancy pelosippears to be poised to be elected house speaker for the second time limit triking a deal to how long she'll serve. she says if elected, she will step dn after two terms. that was enough for a small group of opposing democrats. pelosi was speaker from 2006 tod 2010, a she has been the minority leader ever since. we are following some breaking news right now.rk new irefighters are battling a raging fire in

queens. chris lawrence is traing this story from the live desk. chris, what's happening? >> 11 people, including 6 firefighters, have minor injuries. officials say a strip mall in queens went up in flames about 2:00 this morning and engulfed several businesses. 25 f edepartments, more than 160 firefighters responded to this fire. lookt this. the smoke and the fire was so intense, it was. suffocati it forced a lot of nearby residents and their pets out into thed. c listen to one person explain what she experienced. >> i felt the building shake and started to smell smoke. gran in to get my husband. webbed our cat and coats and just ran outside. >> boy, you can see how scary that was. no word yet on what may have sparked the fire. t we'll keep o of this for you. >> chris, thanks so much. it was a somber night in paris. you are looking at the moment the eiffel tower went dark to remember the victims of

tuesday's deadly attack in strasbourg. this morning the death toll has risen. three people are now dead. a fourth person who was wounded is brain dead. e attack happeneear the city's popular and crowded christmas market. ed this morning, the manhunt for the suspe shooter continues. officialinav officials identified the suspect as 29-year-old cherif chekatt. they say he has 27 convictions for theft and police say he became an islamic extremist in prison and was on a terrorist watch list. police believe chekatt was inspiredsi by to carry out tuesday's attack, but there's no evidence he was directed by the group. still ahead this morning, on strike. today unitedirlines flight attendants at a major american airport are walking off the job. >> what their demands are and how this may impact the country's air travel industry. news 4 today will be rimht back. youris 6:36. stay with us.

do you hear that? those aren't winds. that is a ton of rock and lava blasting out of a guatemalac volcano b in november. a group of hikers was nearby when the eruption began. one of thehi hikers said ts was, quote, one of the craziest life.ences of his you don't run away. you have to get f evidencest you saw something this amazing so you can share with everyone. >> probably aelfie floating around out there too. >> exactly. it's 40. united airlines flight attendants are expected to hold a strike this morning at chicago o'hare airport. >> the demonstration will be one of 16 across the globe. flight attendants areicketing because of staff cuts by united. the airline is expected to eliminate one flight attendant on most international flights. union officials expect a large

turnout at today's protest, although the airline does not apect big customert. imp now here's your cnbc morning business record. >> good morning. i'm frank hland atnbc headquarters. amazon's aiming to open its checkout free go stores in the lobbies of office buildings. square any opened a 450 foot store inside one of its offices in seattle yesterday to omote a smaller version of its retail technology for lobbie thmusshnalho aits, ondser quiccekla sandwich or salad. last week reports said amazon was in talks with a few airports to open go stores inside of termals. with you cnbc morning business report, i'm frank holland. let's turn to meteorologist chuck bell now, who's washing s car, apparently. >> apparently. either that or was yours. let's just start with mine. >> will you wash mine? >> you could get it washed today, eun. no prbelem. it wilry today. just know this, be able to put it in the garage tomorrow

afternoon because it'ng to be rainy over the weekend. how much rain we should expect, coming right up.li a, good morning. >> good morning. first 4 traffic alert in centerville. northbound 28 at braddock road. take a look at this. is slammed. five-mile backup now impacting 66. full isdetails on ix-car crash coming up.

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♪ ♪ right now, first 4 traic alert. centerville, take a look at this. chopper 4 showing us the problem northbound 28 at braddock road. six-car crash. thiss afive-mile backup right now. take a look at the delays. also impacting 66. brad, how is this developing? >> well, they've got about three of the six cars out right now.y the delay is incredible on northbound 28. let me show you something as we lo on 66. the inbound side is singleto fi xit on route 28. it's causing right at 29 centacville a hugep for folks trying to get over to the right. there may be people missing some nights here at dulles this morning. >> all right. brad, thank you. it's 6:45.

so how late should metro rail provide service? that's the question thaetro and district leaders will try to answer today. theests may impact thousands of people. the district wants to force thee system to staylater on the weekend. >> this morning, metro says not so fast. news 4's justin finch is live with details on theebate that's only just beginning. >> reporter: when late games go even later at natsark, you can almost hear thehi kas of taxis as they take fans home. by summer, theav yard metro could be where all those fans go. that's if the metro board votes today to extend those hours. they're looking at midnight closing time for weekdays, 3:00 a.m. for weekends. thesem hours may s familiar to long-time metro riders because those were the hours just a few years ago. they're set to be phased back in by the summer of 2019. a vote today means we could se

thours phased back in by july of next year. metro has been saying to pump the brakes or they may call to extend these condensed hours a bit longer to give them moree time to mrepairs to metro service lines. however, they're saying if metro does phase in those longer hours, it could mean longer repair periods as well for these trains and tracks. we're live here outside navy metro, justin finch, news 4. developing this morning, d.c. police are looking for a man wanted in connection to al bru crime. two men are accused of kidnapping a woman near the naler road metro station earlier this month. onee suspect has already arrested. another remains on the run. this is 29-year-old mark blue. police say he and nick savoie forced the woman into their car at gunpoint they drove around for 45 minutes

and sexually assaulted her before forcing her out of the car in d.c. this home secury video shows the victim stumbling from the alley where she'd been dumped without her clothes in southeast. she knocked on a neighbor's dope, who hel her call police. shouts and taunts awaited former trump attorney michaelco n yesterday as he stepped out of a new york ci courtroom. the judge presiding over this case td cohen he had, quote, lost his moral compass somewhere downhe line. he then sentenced cohen to three years in prison and fined him $50,000. d response, cohen t the judge his, quote, blind loyalty to trump led him to cover up his he said he tried to fix his mistakes by cooperating with the vestigation. cohen admitted to lying to congress about plans to build a trump tower in russia and imranging hush money payments to women who c to have had affairs with donald trump.

6:49. just abo we're hearing reports that the boy scouts of america may file for chapter b 11kruptcy. >> chris lawrence is at the live desk with more on this. >> yeah, eun, aaron, we got a look at a letterhey sent out. according to "the wall street journal," they are considering piling for bankruptcy, mostly because memberss declining and their legal costs areti esca related to some of those lawsuits over how theni ortion handled allegations of sexual abuse. they released a statement acknowledging that legal costs are related to those lawsuits. the statement says in part, we have a social and moral responsibility to fairly co vensatetims who suffered abuse during their time in scouting, and we also have an obligation to carry out our mission to s youth, families, and local communities through our the organization says it's working with experts to ensure that t scouts programs are able to continue, quote, uninterrupted. back to you. >> all right. thank you, chris.

it's now 6:49. let's check in with melissa mollet and your first 4 traffic >> this is centerville, northbound 28 near braddock road. take a look. chopper 4 showing you the left side is blocked. this is a six-vehicle crash. northbound dealing with a five-mile backup at this point. also impacting 66. for that, let's go to brad. tell me how things are looking now. >> that's right. well, the northbound side of 28 where the crash is has the delays out of manassas extensive. like i was sayingheefore, t single file right lane on 66 as we look inn9 centerville, look at this. they're all trying to get over to the right, so it's causing a huge delay coming in from the bull run area. >> a right. toll road might be your friend here today. taking a look inner loop and outer loop, no major issues. slow in normal spots. travel times here in maryland.

270, 32 miles per hour southbound. outer loop, 20 miles per hour. as we look in virginia here this morning, 66 inbound, 57 miles per hour. fairfax county parkway to theng beltway go take you ten minutes. 95 north quantico to the beltway, 32 remember to listen to wtop 103.5 fm when you hop in your car. chuck? >> all right. thank you melissa. skies areartly cloudy over d.c. here early this morning. today will be the 11th day in a row with the triple zero in the rain budget -- bucket at nation airport. now earlier ihad the week, but 11 days in a row with 0.0 precipitation, that's the longest stretch at national airportince a year ago, september of 2017 into october of that was a 21-day stretch. it has been a rare findn this

2018 rainfall year to have a tretch of dry weather t long. we're 25 inches above average in rainfall for the year. right now it is dry. it is 40 degrees outside i washington. still mostly in the low to mid-30s across the suburbs. just enough sunshine to get temperatures into the mid and at least you'll be able to see the sun today. that may not be the case tomorrow. rain and cloud cover well down to our south for now. we'll eventually arrive here later on in the day. enjoy the sunshine while we have it. wie bil as rlainecome rolls in here during the early par of tomorrow afternoon. rain could be moderate to briefly heavy at times friday evening into the very early parts of saturda saturday afternoon, the rain will taper back to showers, but there will no sunshine at all on saturday. there will be no sunshine at ala on s probably going to get about an thch of rain out of this next system. 'll move us into first place for the rainiest year on aecord.

right. chuck, thank you. it is 6:53 right now. arlington county teas taking his lesson from the classroom to a public display at the new boston quarter mall. >> jeff wilson wantedis kenmore middle school art students to see how creativeid s are transformed into works of art for all tone see. 4's molette green is in the newsroom with more on thisspeci. >> it's so special. it was just a joy for us to be able to spend some time in the classroom watching these young artists adding the finishing ir creation. take a look. >> reporter: in art class, painting, building, drilling, part of a real lifeesson kenmore middle school art teacher jeffwom wilson wanted t create. >> how it goes from a idea on the table in the classroom and how it gets into a public space> r. wilson always tells us

we're working at a high school level, and it say we're really advancing in our artwork. >> reporter: drilling in, bit by bit, a lesson about where art can take you. >>oit's really cool it's into the mall because people from like all over are going to go to this mall at some point and see it and be like, oh, st that's so cool. >> reporter: just days away from publicdisplay, the light box and accompanying pieces get a space inside the new boston quarter mall. >> wells this a great example about how we make connections in the community. >> y t goto pull it tight. >> make it beautiful. make it asmazing. entertainment for the mall. and we're still not getting paid for this. >> sometimes it works out that way. you don't get paid for it. so the whole point was to show them how to take your ia and transform it into something you can showcase. p

the kenmore arces are on display now at the new mall for several weeks. so check it out if you can throughout theso holiday s >> so fabulous to see art in focus in the classroom le that. >> molette, thanks. it's6:55. know.re forthinur things d.c. leaders will push metroch ge its late night hours on weekends. they want the railtem to stay open until 3:00 a.m. like it used to. adam tuss will be a today' meeting. he'll tweet out breaking news. be sure to follow him on twitter. accused russian agent maria xpected to plead guilty in federal court in d.c. today. she's accused of infiltrating conservative groups in order to bolster russian interest in u.s. politi look for updates on this story in our app. "the washington pos reports the rail piles on metro ilver line may be out of alignment at key crossover points. the project leaders say these kinds of problems do crop up, and they are addressing the issue. they say everything is still on track to openn 2020.

this morning, d.c. police are searching for this man. idlice say mark blue and another manpped a woman at guoint in princegeorge's county earlier this month. she was sexually assaulted before being forcede out of car in the district. the second suspect has already been arrested. and the five-day forecast. dry weather thursday, high near 49 degrees. clouds thicken up very quickly tomorrow. rain friday afternoon and night. ra tapering to showers but lingering all day thrgh saturday. occasional mist and drizzle lingers through your sunday. sorry about that. >> thank you so much. n king a look right now at our biggest probleme roads, this is centerville northbound 28 nearby braddock road. we're talking about a five-mile backup, asix-car collision here this morning. 66 also being impact. might be day to take your favorite alternate route. >> good adve. >> yuck.

>> melissa, thank you. >> rough going. that is the news for today. we appreciate you waking up with us. >> the "today" show is next. 5we'll be back in minutes with a look at your weather, traffic, and any local news. til then, enjoy your day. >> make it a great thursday, everybody. it's not the holidays until...

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cody beverly. eaking overnight. good morning. breaking overnight. miracle mine rescue. three people brought to safety after spending four days trapped in an abandoned coal mine in west virginia. >> it was terrible. >> this morning, what they are saying about their agonizing ordeal. pressure intensifies. president trump feeling the heat after hiss former lawyer sentenced to three years in prison. telling the judge he covered up for the president. >> mr. president, did michael cohen cover up your dirty deeds? >> so what's f next the president and the investigation? we are live at the wdlte house. >>y collision. a high-speed train slams into another train overnight and crashes into a busy