good news as we kick off a new work week. it is finally going to be dry >> this weekend's wet weather was nothing new around here. on saturday morning, 201 officially became the wettest year on record and we still have two weekso go folks. it may not be over yet. it's 4:30 now. >> we'll have a few dry days as we finish up the holiday

errands. lauren is in for cck bell thi morning with details. ethen we'll hav an update on your commute from wtop's jack taylor are we going to see sunshine today lauren? s> we will get some sunshine. thank goodn we'll see some sunshine out there because we're due for it after this weekend. it felt like it was raini all weekend. leave the umbrella at home today xtd the clothes at home today. not only are we going to be dry, we'll be on the mild side. we'll have plenty of sunshine. sun coming upfter 7:00. 39 degrees by 6:00 a.m. by 8:00 a.m.th temperatures i low 40s, so not too bad as you make your way out theor but who to wear on this monday, windbreai rs. n't know if people wear those anymore. but breezy as the winds start to up.k it's going to be much cooler. temperatures 50 today but low 30s and 40s tomorrow and still yreezy. but wednesday more sun and

thursday more rain. we'll time-out the rain on thursday and tk aboutour christmas and christmas eve which is coming up on our ten day recast. but right now, let's talk to jack taylor. >> good morning, water street, shocking, flooded out. u'll find it blocked for now. it's closed. route 450 is also blocked. you'll i find the ro leesburg closed. it'slosed this morning from high water. back into you. >> it's 4:32 today. a change in metro service. this time it means more options for riders instead of fewer. they'reed doubling r line service to and from shady grove.

in the past, during the morning and afternoon rush hours, trains coming out of d.c. stopped at the metro station and turoud and went back downtown. but starting today all trains will go all the way to the shady grove station. montgomery county s leaders the change would alleviate crowding and longer wait times. the new schedule begins at 10:30 this morning. we'll have more on toming t in our 5:00 hour. >> check out potomac river after all the rain. lauren will have much moren the flood warnings that are still in place. >> also this morning, all the cinsed two sanitary sewers to overflow. >> they'reha warning people live around the fort washington plant to avoidhat area. 690,000 gallons of waste water overflowed into a drainage dit

that flows into broad creek. wssc says the ovflows are not effected drinking waterey b ant people to stay away from the impacted areas. >> baltimore county police made an arrest in a hit-and-run that killed a high school graduate. investigators say on december 9th, he hit him while he was crossing a street. he was hit by a second car after he was knocked to the ground. lee driver stayed on the scene and c 911 and he later died at the hospital. the sus is in jail facing several charges. tonight officials will reveal

what they promised amazon to help lure the companys to thi area. it's now 4:35 and re's the other top stories we're following this morning. a partial governmenthutdown looms he does not have the votes ofhe republican controlled congress. tracy potts will join us live for a look at the funding bill. >> the u.s. postal service expect to deliver nearly 3 billion pieces of mail. coming up at 5:00 a.m., news s justin finch willave the shipping deadlines to make sure that your packages arrive by christmas day. >> washington came backn the 4th quarter to beat jacksonville 16-13. they're now 7- for these ason. contention.yoff they'll play the titans saturda night her on nbc 4 and you canhe hear from t players that pulled it off yesterday.

look at that celebration. that'sex ahead in the nt half hour. >> while you were sleeping, skins rival pulled off a mor upset too. eagles tied up their season record when they beat t rams in los angeles overnight. i cannot believe the eagles won this game. i cannot. >> this game came down to the final play. the eles held on strong. look at those eyes. the eagles are now half aame out of the nfc wildcard spot. >> the nutcracker is a christmas tradition for many families around the d.c. area. this year is the 15th anniversary of the washington ballet's performances and last night i had a thrill to take part in this tradition. take a look >> that's me. >> i see that and there's leon harris playing the ambassador. frequently they allow people to

have guestpearances. it's so amazing because, you know, i'm kind of a theater officianado. i can just admirerom a far. >> you're the most theatrical person that i know. >> so to take a part in just so thrilling. performances continue through next friday december 28th. there's still plenty of time to enjoy the show. >> look at you. don't ioo the part. >> you stayed in character the whole time. >> give them a twirl. >> a twirl and i dab many i eyes, look all the attention. it was amazing. >> i want to thank the artistic director, it's just so fun. really so fun. >> it's 4:37 right now. coming up, an unusual after a weekend of rain. how a maryland llama ended up needing emergency help. plus lauren is back with a look

at the week ahead. plus a wild attack inside a chipotle. why the manager that

night two of the season finale for the voice begins tonight. four sgers remain in the hunt for the show's season 15 crown. by the way, two of the finalists are just 14 and 16 years old. >> 14 and 16? my son could barely cut his own chicken. the voice starts at 8:00 tonight on nbc 4. >> why you goingo put your son out there like that. >> i know how much i love him. with ultimately aall of my bein. we will be in the community with two local voice stars.

a voice finalt last season. they'll be at the first baptist church and singing holiday songs just before chrimas. now that's something i'd like to see. >> it will be a good show. >>be temperatures wil into the low 40s as we go through about 9:00. taking them into the 50s today. we'll let wou known we could see more rain because ofhe ten t

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new video just int the newsroom showing a former manager of a chipotle being attacked by a orcor. the woman being grabbed by the neck and slammed into the food counter behind her. this happenedt a restaurant in the st. louis area. she locked herself in the office and called 91 she was fired after she complained to her boss. a spokesperson says the manager's departure was not related to this incident. the employee accused in the attack was arrested. the manager says the video is proof o a hostile work environment. >> family, friends, and the tech world are mourning the

collin croyle. they went to his apartment on a welfare check on sunday. they suspect the 34-year-old died of a drug overdose. 4:46 right now. congress has four days to reach a deal to aprevent partial government shutdown. that could effect thousands of federal worurrs in area before christmas. tracy, he said he will let the government shutdown if he doesn't get federal funding for aorder wall.ee they s to be as nervous as the democrats are. but they don't want to see that happen. nobody wants to see hundreds of thousandsf federal workers without paychecks over the holidays but they're waiting on a signal of compromise and they're not getting it. he's saying i want the money for the wall. democrats are saying you're not going to get it.

it seemso tbe a real stalemate with silenceere on a back up plan. the only thing we heard is from if government shuts down, hedemocrats. they'll reopen it when they take over the house in january. more than halfry the cou believe the president is lying when it comes to the russia investigation. what does this a meanut the president's credibility? g. people are wonder 50% of people say it gives them pause about the presidency. the number that you qted is 62%. so 6 in 10 americans are saying they think president trump is being untruthful and perhaps even more significant, nearly half said it's not just the people around the president but they think that the president himself actually did something wrong. >> tracy, thank t'you. >> i 4:47. od news for thousands of students. the u.s. dartment of education will forgive $150 million in federal student loan debt. this covers about 15,00 former

students whose for profit colleges closed before they could graduate. the loans are being forgiven under an obama era policy and that took effect after a federal judge ruled education secretary betty devos was unlawfully delaying it. she called it bad policy and wantso replace it, but it could be 2020 before a new rule takes effect. >> police say a university of maryland student's choice o how to dry his clothes caused a dorm to flood. >> oh, hno. >> hung his clothes on a sprinkler line. o the weigh the clothes caused the sprinkler pipe to burst. authorities are investigating how many units areeffected. many of the students are on winter break. >> not the best idea. rescuers i howard county had an unusual rescue thisened wit wee. crews helped the owner of this llama bring himo safety.

i didn't know there were many llamas in the area. he's cute. >> is he? yeah. people are obsessed with llamas recently. >> they me great socks. >> they're no pandas. >> i had a pair of alpaca socks once. it's very comfortable. h >> he alwaysas to go there. >> hopefully you have an extra change of socks. it was relentless and now dry conditions over the next several days. a pretty sunrise coming up at 7:20. it's great out there whnow.

to know over the next four days, today the winds will pick up. likely about 9:00 or 100. nds gusting up to 20 or 25 miles per hour throughout the day today. tomorrow still breezy and much cooler. today in the 50s. tomorrow in the 40s. wetay in the0s on wednesday with plenty of sun and rain chances return as we getyonto thursday. temperatures in the 30s and 40s across the area. 42 in d.c. we're pretty much going to stay around that 40 degree mark over the next couple o hours until the sun comes up and then the temperature will start to shoot up. we'll be in the low 50s as we afternoon.he early no rain out there today. we are dry and that system that brought us a ofhat rain, look at that, spinning right off the coast of the cape right there. you can see we are drys high pressure is building in. still some flooding issues from over the weekend. we have floodg areasrom the areas outlined in green right there. so again some road closures still out there. next chance of rain, thursday night into friday andks it l like we could have some heavy

rain once we get into friday as well. 53 for a daytime high today and again the winds pick up a little bit and over the next 12 hours we'll have plenty of sunshine. a gorgeous day out there. fairly mild with the temperatures in ths. low 50 40s for your tuesday. still breezy and cooler but by the time we into wednesday plenty of sunshine and rain chances return, thursday, friday, saturday. sunday we're dry in case you're traveling. monday, tuesday, wednesday, christmas eve and christmas day. it's going to be a beautiful drive in at least when the sun comes up. whites ferry is closed this morning due to the high water on the potomac.

piper lane is closed this morning between 28 and ad observation unfortunately here you'll need to back up the lot via the ince william parkway access. unfortunately due to the high standing water. >> thankyou. 's 4:52 and we're about to hit the peak travel period for the holiday sea later this week. both on thethoads ande air and this could be a record year. starting on thursday, aiwiines ll be adding more flights. 143,000 more seats per da that's to make room for the people expected to fly. re americans have more money to spend because of a stronger >> 112 million will be traveling this year. that is the highest travel volume for end of year travel since aaa started tracking it back in 2001. >> eeperts say dding on the weather, nework city on new year's eve may be the destination of choice for holiday traveller this year. >> new this morning, for one

chicago bears player, yesterday's winas not the best part of the day. look at this. he proposed to g hislfriend just minutes after the team clenched the nfc north title. he took a knee at the center of soldier field and popped the question and she said yes. she's like of course. hugs,, kiss applause all around. congratulations. a very sweet moment. guy. >> he's left tackle. for the bears. >> you can now catch a special pair of lebron james shoes on display at the smithsonian national museum of african american history and culture. >> these are the j lebrones equality rssnea the bold words stitched across the heels in gold letters. one of the curators of this display says it's good that athletes like lebron bring attention to socia and political issues. >> i hope people see when athletes arenged in

political actions and how we can make this a better world that their contributions are things that help facilitate national conversation. the l.a. lakers lost 110 to 128. >> reved up his motorcycle for early visits. this is the 30th year of t fairfax county police department santa ride program. >> every year officers and local school children team up to make kids smile. molette green tagged along for one of the ris. no sleigh could rev up such rock star reception. no one here is on tau nghty list. this is a thank you stop to st.

ambrose catholic schools for its big gift. next stop to the children's hospital. santa and his entourage spread holiday cheer. they sift through boxes to find the right brand new donated gifts. >> how are you sweetheart? to make sweet little ellie's day in a way only santa and mrs. claus can llsay. >> wee you in a couple of weeks, okay? >> every year that we do this, when you go in you're feeling a little sad but as soon as you start giving the gifts to them, you get a fling of joy. >> he meets santa and gets a new lego toy. >> it's making him happy and

making him feel like he's at home. >> this early christmas maybe the best kind of medicine for every one. >> it's very rewarding. and thapss what k us going. >> that santa, you have to love him. he goes around and he's very busy making toys. >> nothing beats that smile. >> rush hourhanges coming today, we'll explai what it means to your commute. >> a power outage created an ominous looking scene at some of dc.'s most iconic monuments. more on that straight

finally some relief for commuters on the red line. what that means for your commute and what it could do in the rush hour coming up. >> wall or nothing. fo days away from a partial government shutdown. lions fordent wants b a border wall or there could be a government shutdown by the end of the week. >> t clock is ticking for holiday shipping. ewe're starting th busiest week of the year for mail carriers. some tips to make sure that your holiday gifts sw up on time. the weekendain made 2018 the

wettest in the d.c. area. >> it may have been raining still last night when some of you went to jack taylor is in for melissa this morning to tell us about the mondaydrorning e. >> but we begin with storm team 4 meteorologist lauren rickets with more sunshine in the forecast. we hope we warm u a bit too. >> those temperatures will be a little above normal today. so i think we can warm for a one day special. it's going to be a beautiful morning out there. plenty of sunshine once the sun comes up at 20 minutes after 7:00 thisrning. nothing happening on the radar. haven't been able to say that all weeken but nothiappening on the radar right now. we're looking good and dry as you make your way out the door this morning. now those temperatures, still mild, our average daytime high for this time of the year, 47