when you see what's happening on our streets the day today, night after night. right now on news 4 today, a community demanding answers after another young life is taken by gunfire. we have the latest a on high school teenager and the search for a killer. plus aur treed holiday tradition is uerwayn our region. will the rain slow things wn? lauryn rickets has the storm team 4 outlook. a critical deadline looming for fks tryin to take advantage of the affordable care act. how will an ovnight federal

ruling affect those being insured? we'llreak it down. good morning. thank you for waking up with us. david culver has the morning ofoff we wan to begin wit lauryn rickets. it doesn't look like the rain is stopping. >> it's nottoing any time soon. rain through the day today and through the day tomorrow. reallyakotg its way out until later tomorrow night. let's show you what's going on. have a foggy mess. watch out for low visibilities because we are seeing low visibilities as well due to the fog. the only thing is, the only savisav saving grace, look at the temperatures. 50 degrees.d it's on the m side. we're going to continue to have mildco itions. winds northwest at 12 miles per hour northwest. we are see og a little bi ain and look, a little bit of clearing down to the south. i do believe we're going to have lulls in the precipitation as we continue through the day.

this storm system is a monster stretching all the way down to florida all the way up into pennsylvania and the new england area. severalreas of low pressure have yet to make it through. again, possible heavy rain througut the day today. we have a flood watch that evgins this morning. that's very ybody. it goes until sunday morning. heavy rain out there. we'll talk about tals. we'll talk act the timing of the heavy rain. we have some things out there this weeke minutes. lauryn, thank you. all this rainldou cot n vunteer for the wreaths being laid, but theolay tradition put on by wreaths across america will go on rain or shine. more than 90,000 people are expected to lay wreaths. >> it's going to wet and soggy. we encourage everyone to arrive

early, dress warmly. >> parking and drive agent the cemetery are not allowed. you can park athe pentagon's north and south parking lots and walk from there. hhers before deadline to sign up, a judge ruled that the affordable care act is unconstitutional. it's fallen down like a game of dieng ga, the president said. the supreme court bupheld it classifying it as a tax before. but last year they removed the tax penalty for people whot do uy health insurance. they say without the tax, there's no way the aca can be allowed to stand. the deadline to enroll online is tonight. the white house celebrated the ruling but t says affordable care act is law pending the

appeals process. a community devastated after the murder of a teenager. a 15-year-old, geraldatson was gunned down in the stairwell of his family's apartment on thursday. there's no word on who killed him or why. neighbors say words are not enough and they're demanding change. >> every time wewa talk from another homicide, we're having the faith and the belief that things are going to change. only for us to see them still remain the same. >> watson is the 13th juvenilem ered in the district this year. he police chief says the district is making progress but when something like this happens, he acknowledges it's hard foreople to believe. johnson & johnson under fire after a bomb shell report. it claims t company knew for decades that the baby powder sometills contained s amounts ofs a p asbestos. thousands of people are alleging now it caused their cancer.

n thompson has more. >> reporter: juries across the country have returned mixed verdicts on whether johnson & johnson's products caused ovarian cancer. one woman was awarded money this summer other cases have be rejected. now a bomb shell report from routers says company shows j and j knew from at least 1971 to the talc 2000s that the raw and finished powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos and failed to disclose it. >> these records make it clear that many people inse johnson & johnso knew that asbestos was in occasion. >> they said it was false and

inflammatory insisting the baby powder is safe and asb and that thousands of independent tests by regulators and the world's leading labs prove our baby powder has never contained. asbest not enough to keep the stock from plunging 10% today. and t american cancer society editing the position. no longer saying all talc products have been asbestos free since the 70s. now advising they should be free from detectable amounts of asbestos. >>n that was ann thompso reporting. filling the toy store void. see how moms and dads are working through the holidays with less places to pick up toys for the little's ones. hewe continue.n

christmas week will be special for a wounded warrior and family. they'll have fun in the peace of

the country at no charge. julie kerry finds they'll be the many families t receive that opportunity. >> it's amazing. i can't tell you how amazing this place is. rve our willing warriors is a group that helps veterans get a break from their daily gg strus. >> we are going to be able to double our capacity to bring wounde warriors and their families from walter reed where we were able to do 2 warriors, we'll now be able to do 500 warriors in 2019. it's a miracle for us. >> like all, of wounded warriors lead busy lives. add their injuries and frequent doctor visits and hospital t stays, so time at the retreat gives them a peaceful break and ahance to do things they might not otherwise do. >> when i came here, it was after just doctors appointments

and doctors appointments. and then by the way, we're going to separate you from th military for medical purposes so you have to go through appointments. when we came out here, we needed it, and we got it. we got the break we needed and the relaxation and the respite. >> reporter:shere are doz of activities the veterans can choose for their time at the >> we have horse back riding. we have art therapy. we haveassage therapy. we have visiting chefs where i would say 100% of the warriors and their families take part in that. we have special chef from the area that provided them with a world class type meal on a sunday afternoon. >> the penfed foundation helped make it possible with a $300,000 grant. >> when i first came out here, i met a young man about 22 years old. he spent over a year in the hospital he told me he was in a very dark place and wasng contempla suicide, but it was the tim out hre with his family and his

friends that realized his life stiller matt. and that was really moving to me. >> reporter: the retreat offers six-da stays to give vets and their families a temporary respite from the spital. >> that family couldvariy >> we have mom, dad, brother, sister. it could be aattle buddy. there are cases where we have a number of battle buddies because that's family for them. >> repter: in the three years the retreat has given hundreds of families a chance to relax and a new outlook on life. i'm juliekerry, news 4. >> wonderful. for more information about this see our willing warriors retreat or the penfed foundation, search "wounded warriors" in our nbc washington app. we're looking at 50 degrees. a little bit of fog a still some rain drops in the area coming down. lauryn rickets wilhave more on when the rain is out of here.

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the holiday season is game on for toy companies and now that toys "r" us has closed its doors, hundreds of stores, other retailers are scrambling to pick up the slack and lure you in. >> reporter: for toy shoppers, this time ofr is game on. but this holiday season there's a t turf war. the playing field looks different after toys "r" us 70led for bankruptcy closing more than locations. >> there was a massive land grab for toys and it happened pretty much immediately. >> magic beans in boston no longer competes with a dozen toys "r" us stores luring in shoppers through social media. the toy industry did 27 billion in business in 2017 but when there were no more games, no more toys, it was an oh boy. toys "r" us accounted for 14 % of all toy sales. now independent toy sellers and

online giants like amazon competing to win over the abandoned customer. >> keepingt local as opposed to doing everything online. >> reporter: and small retailers say it's the intimate experience that sales. we'll let you play with it. we'll play with your kids. >> toy tritory up for grabs when consumers need their most. >> reporter: katie beck, nbc news. many ofou rusnting down to christmas. etere's still time to g your presents to their destinations on time. on monday fedex. tuesday is the last day through ups's three-day service. friday is when i'm going to be there. the deadline for next-day shipping. saturday, december 22nd is the deadline for christmas delivery for priority mail express.

>> expecting to deliver more than 16 billion mai pieces this holiday season. >> next to tax season, this is the busiest period for these postrvice. yesterday along midday i was driving around the mall. it was already packed. kids aren't out of school, but it was a sampling of what t expect at any shopping area this weekend. it's crunch time. >> yeah. >> it's going to be messy. >> especially with people probably want to go -- i don't know. it's gross out there. >> tyson's offers valet parking. for some people, it's worth the mental health to not have to sit through that and paying the $ or whatever. >> just to do that. yeah. it's going to be a messyay out there. all across the region all day. >> i need to get myecations up. >> you haven't done that yet? >> i got half a bus covered.

>> half a bush is saying merry christma the other half is like we'll finish it sometime listen, this weekend if you haven't decorated yet, it is going to be atl l on the wet side. rain is going to be heavy at times. it's going to be light at times. the heaviest rain isng happe right now, and later on tonight and inbetween throughout afternoon and into the evening, early portion of the evening it's a little more light. by no stretch of imagination are we going to have dry times today. showers tomorrow throughout the day on your sunday,n and t monday and tuesday we're finally dry. but just a little on the windy side. as far as our current temperatures are across the board, mild. we're in the 50s. low 50s, upper 40s along i-95 and i-81 mperatures in the upper 30s and lower 40s. it's fairly mild out there. we're just talking about rain. everybody above freezing. we're just talking about rain ght now. but again, especially east of i-95, heavy rain out there.

we have a little bit of lull -- i shouldn't say dryness. we'll still have drizzle but not as steady rain as we get through the middle part of the morning. then more rain is moving up. we have several areas of low pressure in this monstrous it's going to continue to perpetuate rain chances around the area f the weekend. flood watch. this continues until sunday morning. as for the areasn shaded green, 1 to 2 inches of rain. temperatures today low to mid 50s. if you're along i-81, upper 40s. we could have rain that's heavy at times. let's time it out. c yo see we've got the rain that comes through. 5:, 7:00,8:00, even by early afternoon showers. we still haverain. could be heavy in spots. this is later this evening when i think we'll have another batch of heavy rain rolling through. and then it will start to become more showery through daybreak tomorrow morning.

sh ters tomorrow throughou day. temperatures mid 40s. but look at this. this is what i wanted to show you earlier. this is tomorrow afternoo this was hinting at last night that we could have cold air trapped ithe valleys and the eastern panhandle of west virginia and back toward wesrn maryland where this could change to a brief, brief period of some snow. i don't think there's going to be many issues. again, a brief period of snow a th temperatures drop. everything out by 8:00 p.m. tomorrow night. tomorrow temperatures are going to be in th 40s, mid 40s. mid 40s with showers throughout the day.he and we're back in the low 50s as we get into monday and s on tuesday. monday and tuesday blustery. wednesday will be dry. then we have rain chances yes, rain chances. look at the temperatures returninthursday, friday, and saturday. ere's a look at your traffic and the rails for this weekend. because ofreaths across america at arlington national cemetery, lots of folks headed that way for the weekend. that is a smaller station.

you want to use rosalyn or the pentagad station ins because it might be a little bit easier for your trip. on blue and yellowine this weekend, regular saturday schedule and running every 20 minutest for t sunday schedule. green, orange, and silver areal having a regular weekend schedule. on the red line running every 9 to 18

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to take his less slessons out o school. he wanted his students to show students howreative wks are going. >> i didn't know we were goings to be drills. >> reporter: in art class painting, ,buildi drilling. part of a real lifete lesson a her wanted to create. >> it goes from an idea on the table in thnd classroom how it gets into a public space. >> can i see which one is having trouble with the drill bit? >> mr. wilson always tells us wee working at a high school level and really advancing in our artwork. >> reporter: drilling in bit abit. a lesson about where art can take you. >> it's cool it's going to the mall. people will see it and be like

oh, students made this that's so cool. >> reporter: just days away from public display, the lightox d accompanying pieces get a space inside the new boston quarter mall. >> this is a great example about how we make connections in the community. >> pull it tight. >> make it beautiful. ma it amazing. make it kind of quality entertainmt for the ll. and we're still not getting paid for this. >> one, two, three. >> reporter: in arlington, news 4. that is just awesome. okay, 5:55. still 50 degrees this morning. we're waking up to a fairly mild start this saturday. but it looks like that rai is going to stick around. how it could impact your weekend holiday plans. that'soming up. plus president trump's former attorney michael cohen breaking his silence. hear what he has to say about

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as we approach the 6:00 hour, we want to look at some of our top ghstories. now police are searching for who killed a teenager in southeast d.c. 15-year-old gerald watson was gunned down in the stairwell of his family's apartment on

thursday. he is the 13th juvenile murdered in d.c. this year. the deadline to sign the affordable care act is quickly approaching. you he until 11:59 tonight. it's a day after aas tex federal judge ruled the aca is unconstitutional. the white house says it was still law pending the appeals process. and a claim that johnson & johnson knew the baby powder sometimes contained small amounts of asbestos.hn jon & johnsonls c the report one sided and false and insists i products are safe. good morning. thank you for waking up with. i'm angie goff. david culver has the weekend we off. ant to -- well, you kno who doesn't? lauryn rickets. she's actually really busy. er're waking up in wea alert mode. and this is a huge system that we're feeling the impact from. >> oh, yeah. i mean,trhisches all the

way from florida up through new england. we've got a lot of rain that's going to be pushing through our area. that's why we're weather alert. welso have a flood watch that goes into effect this morning. it depends on your location. it continues until tomorrow morning. you can see the rain across the areaight now. just some light stuff, heavier stuff toward the eastern shore. light stuff. i' seeing a breakn some of the precipitation as we go into gintral va and we may see a little bit of that. i don't think we're going to be dry by any stretch of the imagination. we'll have occasional drizzle. we have waves of rain that will coinue to pound o area today. flood watch through sunday morni morning for absolutely everybody. temperatures aroundh 50 w northeast winds at 10 miles per hour. it's mild out there if you're headed to wreaths across america. listen, bring extra, dry socks. temperatures in the low 50s. showers. it's not a steadily, heavy rain all the.

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