christmas, but special dldls today c save you time and money. >> more layers of scandal unfolds forhe president after his formerttorney pleads guilty. major doubts about claims he was acting on his own. >> some record setti rain could be hitting in just a few hours. >> it might not feel like record breaking weather when the showers hit later today but it's expected to push our yearly rain total to a new record. we begin with chuck bell. with all the rain we've had, chuck,se might well break a record. we might as well. >> i'm with you. no doubt about it. if we suffered all of theany months with all of this rain around here, let's go ahead and break the record. i think that will be not a problem. we're a half an inch away from the all time yearly rainfall record and we have at least half

an inch coming our way. some places probably 1 to 2 inches of rain between the times itrts this afternoon and the time it ends this evening. enjoy the last few rain free hours of your friday. 41 degrees in annapolis. your planner for today will bed clrom start to finish. if you'll see any sun at all today it will be just as the sun comes up and that happens at 7:17 this morning. >> so there's a little window of sunshine today. fort washington outer loop after st. barnabas road. two right lanes getting by a crash investigation there. that's been going on for a cole of hours. should be out of the way pretty soon. terloop after allentown road.

firth sterling in southeast. ng byzone with one get there and gaithersburg southbound, 270 near 370, two right lanes getting by that work zone. >> it's 4:02 this morng. a d.c. neighborhood is shocked andft saddened a 15-year-old was shot and killed. >> police are searching for the gunman that targeted the high school student. two masked men chased the teeni a stairwell at the apartments on knox place southeast. they shot him multiple times. some nesidents heards 4 they heard up to 16 shots fired. others told us the area is dangerous. >> driving through here is very, very scary. that's all ian say. this area is known to be violent. season. is the holiday it's supposed to be a celebratory time and we're out here with a young kid and a family that's devastated. >> police are reewing

surveillance video from the area. >> nearly a dozen bombea t in our area are believed to be apart of a nationwide hoax. oneas sento university of maryland yesterday along with schools, government and businesses. they have been targeted from moast-to-coast. received an e-mail claiming a bomb waslaed in the building and were warned the only way tprevent an explosion was to pay ransom in >> we heard a fire alarm go off in the building. we heard it was an emergency. everybody in the building started walking outside.0 after about 1 minutes the period cos came and after that we heard that it was a bomb threat. >> now the respoe to the threats have tied up first responders and snarled traffic. the fbi says it's working with local police to find the sender. >> aother puter safety on the line to save her baby in iarthern virg

he was pushing her stroller across an inteection when a dump truck hit her during the morning rush. this happened justefore9:30. police say it was because of the woman the baby was unharmed. they say she was able to move the stroller away from the crash when it appeared she was going to be hit. witnesses rushed to the scene to help the victim. >> she was talking and she was conscious. miraculously the baby was fine. >> the mother was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. she is expected to be okay d theriver of the truck remained on scene. it's not clear whether any charges will be filed. >> providence hospital in northeast d.c. will close sevel of its departments today. any department that does not support the emergency care cent will beclosed. the emergency department and services that do support it will stay open through the end of april. the hospital will continue to

provide services at its nursing and rehab center s you ca more of this story on the nbc washington app. >> 5 minutes after the hour and today is free shipping day. >> on this shopping holiday many retailers offer free shipping with no minimum order and guaranteed delivery by christmas day.nt that's impor because with christmas ten days away, shipping deadlines could be a problem. today is the lastay to use regular ground shipping to get your packages by the holiday. we have more shippingeaines in the nbc wasngton app. >> it's now 4:05 the push to expand metro's operating hours contue. c. leaders push for trains to run until 3:00 a.m. friday and , saturday nigh but they say devoting extra time to maintenance is leading to fewer issues. >> the position of the district right now is to restore the

hours as they were two years ago. >> but we're not going to do at at the expense of keeping the system safe. >> by the end of the brd meeting, both sides agrd to study ways to keep maintenance up in the system and bring back longer hours. >> last week an employee reported feeling a static electric shock when he pushed a tton on a elevator. on wednesday night the same employee reporte feeling it while moving a food warmer. this comes sixs month after a young girl suffered an electric shock when shen touched outdoor hd rail at mgm national harbor. >> we have an update on the christmas market attack in frce. a man killed in a shoot out with police has been identified as the mai suspect in this attack. three people were killed and 13 others were hurt in the rampage.

police had been searching for him since tuesday night's attack. isis hasimed the suspect as one of its own but there is no indication that the group directed his actions. the christmas market is expected to reopen today. >> a kille pleaded guilty to another murder. samuel little entered a guilty plea in texas for strangling a woman in 1994. he received an additional life he was already serving out life sentences for strangling three women in the los angeles area in the late 80s. he admitted to dozens of other murders over a span of 40ye s. that includes in maryland in 1972. a hunter found awoman's remains off route 197 and bw parkway. he confessed to killing more than 90 people. authorities have been able to tie him to 36 cases. a 30-year-old woman accused of being a rsian agent pleads

guilty to conspiracy. she remains in jail without she is expected back in court in february for sentencing. she f fes up te years in prison and deportation. yesterday the formermerican university grad student pled guilty in federal court here in d.c. as part of the plea dea she agreed to cooperate with investigators. she admitted trying to infiltrate the nra in order to push moscow's agenda. >> 8 minutes after the hour and more trouble for president trump. nbc news confirmed he knew much more about hush money payments to women than he originally said in augustf 2015, candidate trump was in the room when his lawyeren michael c and the national enquirer's publisher discussed ways to quash the story from the women. cohen was sentenced this week in relation to the payments. the president maintains he did

nothing wrong. >> iade a mistake because what he did was all unrelated to fe exce the two campaign finance charges that are not hocriminal anddn't have been on there. .hat they put that on to embarrass they put those two charges on to embarrass me. >> the report places the president in the middle of a conspiracy to commit campaign finance fraud. >> it's now 4:09. the end of an era. as could be the time we hear the sounds of thousands of motorcycle engines roar through th district. >> when bikers come to the nation's capitol to honor military veterans. they said costs for the popular demonstration skyrocketed reaching $200,00 last year. he expects 2019 to be the last,

big demonstration. >> our support and sponsorships have been able to sustain us, but as the cost grew, our sponsorships didn't >> a spokesperson for the pentagon says the department of defense is f prepare the ride in 2019. but after that, they say they'll ask each of their 90 chapters to organize regnal rides instead. sad to not have the for that holiday. >> can you imagine paying a texts tax? california state regulators a proposing a surcharge for text messag. it would go toward supporting programs to makehone services avaible for lower income residents. the california utility commission is expected to make a decision in january. swipe.lpture it's vanished from a d.c. neighborhood. now the victim has a picture of what went down.

>> this package thief was not epared toork this hard to steal somebody else's tv. see more of thisic rous theft next on news 4 today. >> come on. where is he going to p? >> looks like he broke it in the process. 's not doing anybody any good. if they were smart, they wouldn't be criminals. clouds are moving in. rain clouds will not be far behind and i have nothing b thcharlie not coughing because he took delsym 12-hour.

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t d.c. region will not see a new apple company here. they decided to build in austin, texas instead. it will build a new $1 billion caus in the lone star state. they were potentially bringing it to norernvirginia, which of course landed amazon. >> waths across america has been doing this to honor

veterans every year since 1992. this is video ofolunteers assembling the wreathsis earlie th week in maine. there will be several road closures around this morning as tractor-trailers carrying the wreaths pull in. tomorrow volunteers will begin placing them at the foot of every grave starting at 8:00 a.m. >> history in hyattsvie. is ity's new police chief in place she is the first woman and first african american in their history. she is a decades long police officer withtrong tieo the community. she most recently served as hyattsville interim police chie >> what i find most heartwarming about my position here in hyattsville is when i meet little girls and they want to high five me andhey, you're our chief, how cool.

the chief is a girl. they g really excited and it reminds me of why i'm he. >> she began her career 27 years ago as a prince police officer stationed in hyattsville. >> for decades this piece of art was a staple in a neighborhood and now it's gone. he returned to his home last sainrday to f his sculpture called the double l taken off it's base. itas about 6 feet tall and weighed 50 pounds. he believes it was no random act and said whoev stole it knew what they were doing. >> that's part of the beauty is that you c walk around and enjoy it. not just me but palple that around the neighborhood.

he said the thieves will melt it down and sell it for scrap medal. the scpture was only one of three in the world. >> we have to show you this video. this happened about two weeks ago but it's a reminder to keep a close watch on your holiday delivery m >> because nter how big or small, it could be stolen. at least there's an attempt. someone saw a huge flat screen tv sitting on the front porch and wanted it. >> that person clearly had l a of trouble getting it to the car though. after everything, stumbling, fumbling -- >> how has no one seen him yet and call police? he did fit some of the tv in the ba of the car. >> this is ridiculous. >> he drove away with it. >> i bet you it's broken. >> i hope it's broken. look. it's not going to work. he's just -- what in the world.

>> sometimes you do want to strangle people. >> butld the box cave potentially have only been there five minutes. it probably wasn't out there for three days waiting for people to come by, you know. >> and it's harn to p it exactly. people have lives and work and everythingelse. >> it' tricky. >> eric and i are lucky. he leaves for work at 8:30 in the morning and i'm home by 11:00. it's a relatively small window of opportunity itthere. 's the worst. >> let's talk about the weather. it's partly to mostly cloudy -- >> get off my lawn. >> it's a fairly cloudy start to the day. we might be able to see a sliver of sunshine first thing this morning but it's going to be a mostly clo day and it's going to rain by the time the sun goes down this evesng and i going to rain pretty much all weekend. right now, 39 in washingto but

29 in dulles airport. 34 in leesburg. 35 in mtgomery county. 35 prince george's county. so a big range of temperatures here thisorning butothing on radar too close just yet. here's your planner en. 30s and 40s this morning. temperatures will rise up to near 50 degre today as the steadier rain moves in later into the afternoon and evening time frame. every dry hour is a bonus around here b already been issued through sun down this evening through most of your saturday. there's tons of moisture down to the south. here's the way future weather brings the rainn in. by 1:00, maybe a few showers. not a whole lot of staeddy rain until around the time the sun goes down which is 4:47 today. at 5:00, steady rain to the south and west and it's probably going to be pockets of moderate rain hereyuring your fri evening. more's early pre-dawn hours on saturday ing. could be quite a bit of rain. rain could be half an inch to an

inch or more in localized spots and with the ground not only frozened but partially it's not going to be able to absorb much rainfall. that's the reason the flood watches are in place. all clouds off and on through saturday. saturday night showery. more steady rain late saturday night through early sunday and then showers linger through your sunday plans as well. here's your five d forecast. 100% chance for rain later today. 10 chance for rain and showers tomorrow and an 80% chance for rain through much of your sunday. the rain should stop about the time the sun goes down on sunday and of course it will be sunny on monday. >> of course. right when we go back to work. southbound 270 near 370, that

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