we are talking about light showers. we'll time them out and let you know when we can see sunshine, plus i have christmas eve and christmas day on that forecast. >> i didn't know turn fantasy football expert, lauryn. >> right? >> we'll check in with her on that one. > this year has been the wettest year on record. this has led to dangerous driving conditions. >> we have news 4's derrick ward joining us live from -- derek, what's the situationht r now? >> we can tell you what this water looks like. we talk about twond a half inches of rain, probably not enough to overflow a coffee mug but when you car all of the acreage in you are a area, all those impermeabl surfaces where water can't sink in, it these go somewhere. thiss the northwest branch as it goes over the old burnt mills damn white oak.

water rescues have been reported overnight into thor thi the rain has to go somewhere and this is one of the places that it goes. itlways a good practice not to drive through deep water. you never know how deep it is. sometimes the surface beneath may b compromised. ust rules of thumb to follow, leave extra space on t between cars because of stopping distances because of wet surfaces. s laury was telling you, the rain may letup, maybe some showers but that water has to go somewhere. derrick ward, now back to you. >> thank you, derrick.

10:01. a story developing, d.c. officials saying a pipe burst underneath the groundsl and serihurt a construction worker. the explosion rocked the corner of pennsylvania and 3rd street near the national gallery of art and the u.s. district courthouse. the worker is expected to survive. it's w unclearhat caused the explosion. a man is fighting for his life after a shooting in the distct. it happened yesterday evening in the 100 block of northwest near the noma metro station. the man was rushed to the hospital. no word on whohot him or why. the deadline to sign up for obamacare has come and gone a texas federal judge reported the affordable care act is no longer legal. the 55-page rung declared the key requirement to buy health insurance unconstitutional after lawmakers eliminated the

mandate's tax penalty last yearu wiit, the judge ruled the entire law is now essentially invalid. president trump talked about thr decihe first time yesterday after visiting arlington national cemetery. >> we'll sit down with the democrats if the shoreme court s. we'll sit down with the democrats and we'll get great health care. >> t ruling threatens many popular provisions like protection for preventative care screenings and young adults covered on their parents' plan until they're 26 years old. this decision won't affect those getting coverage through next year. i wa tell you about another opening at the white house. interior secretary ryan zinke i stepping down 's doing it defiantly. he blames vicious and politically motivated attacks r his resignation. despite his claims, he's facing political investigations into av his and conflicts of interest.

the president says zinke's announcement will be announced this week. new morning, this just in, new insight into theob president trump is doing and the russia probe. more than 60% of americans believe president trump isn't being truthful when it comes to the russia in'sstigation. th according to a new nbc/"wall street journal" poll. 34% believe that he is being honest and truthful. cording to the poll, 43% approve of the job he's doing disapprove.ay they 48% of those polled say they want democrats in charge in congress versus 21% who want th republicans a top. in just a few minutes, nbc political director and moderator of "meet the press" chuck todd will be here in studio to talk about all of this. also coming up on "meet the press," he'll have an interview with chuck schumer. you can watch "meet t0: press" at after news 4 today. t >> pouring rain didn't keep thousands of volunteers from honoring the sacrifice of our

veterans. they fanned out across arlington national cemetery laying wreatha at each of thetones yesterday. volunteers laid down more than 200,000 wreaths there. the wreaths across america event happened aund the country. the goal is to place a wreath on every single american veterans' grave no matter wherr final resting place is. 150 -- 10:05. you'll have to use the windshield wipers if youlan on heading out. i know there's a lot of last-minute sho to be done.eds lauryn ricketts will be done to help you plan your day and the rest of the inweek. >> theg is in town. are youating lebron? taking on the wizards at 6:00. he had a good night last

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by virtually every account, the 2002 winter olymstcs were the lympics in history of the olympic movement. the only way they could be better is if utah does it again. the winter olympics could be back in the united states in 2030. yesterday the u.s. olympic ed committee pihe salt lake city area to bid on behalf of the country for the future wier olympic games. 16 years ago. remember that, firm? >> that's right, heut togethe the budget. >> they beat out denver and reno and tahoe dropped out. >> other countries are still in the running. japan, kazakhstan. the international olympic committee will choose the 2030 host city but that won't happen until 2023. >> we have to wait a bit. >> s we have tokyo, beijing -- >> we got a lot going on.

speaking of wsports, wet toat updyou on redskins quarterback alex smith and the season-ending injury. multiple reports saying that smith has been released from thi hospital and tcomes about a week after reports said he was dealing with a serious ihaection after ng several surgeries on his leg. a return to football wasn't guaranteed. smith will focus on returning to full health. the burgundy and gold will head down south playing the jaguars. they're in third place in the division as we're weeks away from the playos. sending our best to the smith family and ale hims it's been a tough few weeks. >> it was nice to see people reach out to him after that injury. also want to talk about king james, lbj. they're taking on the wizards.

last night lebron james and lonzo ball had a triple double. that's ra. they're the first time to do that since magic johnson and kareem abdulabbar did it. today's game tips off at 6:00 tonight. >> that was early '90s or late '80s? >> definitely '80s, magic johnson andeem abdul-jabbar. >>re pre team. >> totally. let's look outside right now. it's not improving much today. we'll check in with lauryn for her full forecas t

it's not uncommon for ementary schools to invite parents and grandparents into the cafeteria for lunch. >> but in fairfax county, we have kids in a couple schools finding a different kindf lunchbuddy. police officers. julie carey looks at thism prograhat is aimed at trust growing. >> reporter: it's eas for captain matt owens to strike up a conversation with kids. he has two of his own and their hementary school a program that invited dads in to serve as why models so he thought not try in the his police district with officers. >> i thought it was a great

unity for them to see to see that we are here to help. >> the police in lunch at schools, or the pals program, was born. s is this spicy? >> reporter: the kll say it used to be when they saw police they sometimes thought -- >> something bad is going to happen. >> now they see officers as a friendly face willing to answer their questions. c >> whaor is your car? >> mine is a police car but it's just plain blue. >> reporter: and the abundant supply of stickers to handout doesn't hurt, either with officer marvin goodly, you have to rn them with good deeds. >> i would read a book to younger kids. >> you read a book to younger kids? g >> reporter: hl in coming here is simple. >> it's a good way to develop positive relationships. unfortunately, with the climate and things todaev you can n have too many positive relationships. >> reporter: these officers hope it's building a foundation for future interactions in and out of school. >> first and foremost if one ofe the children help i want them to recognize the uniform. >> the captain says when they first started visiting the kidss wendoffish, now they

arbrace the special attention. >> i think policfun in my opinion. h.>> i'm like a big fan, y >> reporter: the conversations and stickers aren't the only thing kids are after -- no one knows quite why, but they started collecting the officerss autograptoo. on their cafeteria napkins. in t mt. vernon area, i'm julie carey, news 4. >> so cute. >> bring your umbrella if you're going out for lurvelg today. >> chicken wings, it's sunday. >> you said that li you eat on sunday? >> i mean, like whatever -- mozzarella ksst >> chicken wings, beer. >> that's my sunday.

got football today and we have fantasy going on today. >> who m you the fantasy expert. how is your team doing? >> i'm killing it. i've been looking at the weather across the area and that'shy i have to figure this out. around here figuring out the ather, we've got rain showers as we continue there sunday so grab the rain gear. windbreaker tomorrow, if you still t wear thossday and wednesday sunglasses but it will be hoeezy. a fewrs out there right now. the heaviest rain is going to stay along i-95 and to the east and it won't be that heavy rain we yesterday but you can see in yellows we have pocts of moderate rain but for the most pa isolated light showers, maybe picking up another quarter inch. if you'r east of i-95 pukd pick up a half a is rotating up and out and

moving to the north. we have snow and frozen precipitationo the north. i thought it could end with wet snowflakes and that could be the case but for the most part, plain light rain. flood warnings across the area, we may have thesentil tomorro morning so you may the b dealing with flooded roadways today and tomorrow morning. temperatures are in the 40s. steady right now.at tempes will fall through the afternoon and into the evening, some areas this afteoon will be stuck in the 30s so it wilbe chill yy. expect occasional showers throug here is the rain moving out of here and you can see the rotation. e heaviest rain to the east through the chesapeake bay, annapolis, you may get flipped. a few light showers for us. keeping a chance of light showers until 6:00 and 7:00.

clearing skies and a lighter wind but the winds pick backth ugh the middle part un tomorrow a10:00, 11:00 tomorrow. not only flooding but maybe isolated icy spot as temperatures could be below freezing but we're clear and . sunny tomorr temperatures will be mild. then the 40s ontuesday, sunshine on tuesday and wednesday, upper 40s. we have a chance for rain thursday night, friday and saturday. heavy rain possible and then christmas eve and christmas day plenty of sunshine, dry with temperatures in the mid-40s. >> good for santa. >> make his way down the chimney. a big blow for affordable care act and a feisty exchange between top capitol hill leaders and the president a the white house. >> and we have new pollou numbe that we want to talk about. moderator of meet the press, chuck todd, approval rating has

come out. what did it show? e >> well,ve a small drop in the president's approval rating down to 43%. you think about the fallout from the midterms. so i think the bigge news in our poll is that the president -- the view of thet public t the president has he been honest about the russia investigation has grown to 62% saying yes and the numbers are across the board so the hard core folks with trump is down to 34%, that's who think the mueller probe should end it's lo like look, these small erosions or crhks, how m more can he take? an y frankly when throw in health care debacle if you will with this judge, with himpr sing it very excited about it and literally no other

republican in happy about it, i have roy blunt, a republican from missouri who didn't share the t' presid enthusiasm. you know, you threw on there and this is -- the president has a himsel very challenging political environment. >> i know you have chuck schumer on the show today. he had to have talked about that interesting meeting in the white house between him, nancy pelosi and the president talking about the border wall. >> and it'sng interes he was trying -- to did the same thing on health care. asically it's the preside versus everybody else. congressional republicans aren't ready to throw out obamacare today. they're tried million times, it didn't work. they don't want to shut down the government. they don't have the votes on their own for ther bor wall which basically challenged other republicans, will somebody stand up to the president and let him ntknow how to c votes was his -- and he indicated he's made his final offers to the

president, they're not budgid and he seeery comfortable that the shutdown is in the president's hands and i think because of mhatting he spesn't feel he holds that they own any sibility. >> tell us who you have on the show. >> shhl chumer, roy blunt and a schiff. lot of health care, lot of mueller and a lot of 2020. >> you want to say anything to her? >> i don't kngw. i was go get angry. >> she's leaving. >> you're going to start breaking things. >> i'm upset about this. youhenow what happens it's just him? everything gets messy. >> it stays on track, chuck. >> i will say i won't miss you and your facebook lives. >> i'm not even facebook living yo you. >> i tell you you have to do it and you still messed it eup. >> m importantly, you taught me more about social media than anybody i know.

oh, my goff. it's the bestocial media feed in washington. >> i don't know about that. >> not even a close second. >> not even the president's social media feed. >> i said not even a close second. that's right. the president is included. @ohmygoff. hurry u and follow it because it will get more fun now that you don't have to worryat about e say. party on. >> the wheels are coming off. >> angie, you'll be missed. >> i'll miss you guys. adam and i love making fun of you -- i mean love being here. >> this is what i'll miss. the love. >> chuck is on "meet the press" in 1 >>mi i.

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>> angie, you leaving us is difficult. you know me and emotions. r that reason can't be in the same studio, let alone the same state with you this wee d i've flown out to utah to be on a mountain to let my emotions drain out from here. truth be told, i'll miss you. we hadood times there. nearly five yearsing to on weekend mornings. i know we built our weekend acebook family through live, our community that filed in after that. this is our hometown. you and i are both from the northern virginia area and i don't know what has motivated you to leave. my guess is it probably has something to do with adam so i don't blame you. but ultimately i hope this next

creative capture a good one. we'll keep in touch. this is the family we' built over the years and i look forward to seeing the next step. love you, angie. >> oh, come on! . come on! he did such a good job with that. i got >>nothing. our turn. >> i have nothing that could bet that. >> flowers, something to. >> nothing that could beat that except to say that in all seriousness, for those who don't know, this is angie's last show and the amount of knowledge i've gained from you sitting next to you, iever anchored on television until i sat next to you and you made mets feel kft comfortable and gave me a confidence going forward. >> that's so sweet.e you made feel really old. like i'm a mentor or something. >> bull missed. >> and i'll miss you, too.

the reason why it took me to long to mention this because i talked to my friends isecause it was such a difficult decision. but in the end it's one irayed about a ton and a lot of conversations between family with my wonderful co-workers, my s is rful bosses and t about personal growth and going forward and seeing what else we can do, right? i want to look back at my career and my life and say i'm proud i tried everything. s> the most important thing we've become such good friends. >> we're not losing that. >> we'

this sunday all the en presidt's investigations. michael cohen sentenced to prison, and implicating president trump in illegal tabloid hush money payoffs. e >> he directed make the payments and to become involved in these matters. >> i don't think and i have to check, i don't think they paid any money to that tabloid. >> this as new invesgations emerge involving donations to mr. trump's inaugural committee and to the trumpnvestigatioorgn. we have a "wall street journal" the investigation and on the president's honesty. >> plus, obamacare struck down. a texas judge rules for republicans that the individual mandate without a tax is unconstitutional and the law must go. >> big ruling. great ruling for our country.