yourte and forecast. jack taylor i in for melissa this morning. >> first, lauren has more. what's your name? >> rickets. >> more on our forecast this morning. >> we're talking about clear ies thisrning. we're talking about very chilly conditions this morning as well. temperatures are in the 30s and low 40s at this moment. so again, here ind. , we dropped a degree. i expect us tdbe aro 38 degrees as we head through the 7:00 a.m. hour. temperatures are in the mid to upper 30s just in the greater washington area. as we continue over t course of the afternoon, plenty of sunshines and temperatures in the mid 40s. out the door today, wednesday you'll also need the sunglasses d then by thursday, grab that umbrella because we have rain on the wayngnd that's g to be with us for thursday night into friday. we'll time it out for you becaus a lot ofeople are traveling then but we also have a big warm up on the way asll . things are going to gettt p

mild around here. we'll talk about that coming up, but first let's talk about traffic with jack taylor. >> short sleeve weather. all right. i don't know if it can be a promise, but okay. chopper 4 over the beltway. topsideouterloop. starting to fill in pretty heavy now. there was a crash on the outerloop very quickly cleared rom the right lane on to the shoulder. leesburg, you're going to find accident activity blocking the left lane causing an early slow down. southbound d.c., 295, once again this morng, very slow. already after eastern avenue heading down to pennsylvania enue riding over the expansion joints. a big bump in the roadway and it does cause a delay. this will need to add to your time. you have been dealing with it the past 8 or 10 days. white's cerrysed due to the high water on the potomac. >> back to the breaking news we have been following for you this morning in prince george's . coun take a look at this video here.

the metro rl and amtrak station had a heavy police presence overnight and we're working to learn what happened there. >> the station opened over an hourgo as it normally would. justin, what have you learned? >>aaron, good morning. just hearing now from an amtrak spokesperson that a man was found dead in ael stai here at the new carrolton metro station hereghover unclear at this time who found him, but he was found dead i th stairwell and that's what triggered that large police response here that we saw overnight and at last check that stairwell is sllclosed. if you know this metro station we can tell you it's the gate a stairwell her connecting the station to the amtrak wing here. we saw close up on that scene some blood spatter on the ground as well as fabric caught in the base of that escalator, perhaps ripped out or cut out and you can see it's a heavy fabric like

a denim or something as well. we now know that a man was found grad overnight. above nd, that very heavy police response, including p amtrice including as well prince george's county police officers as well as their crime scene investigation t suggesting they had a very intense investigation hove night trying to peace together the events here in tha. stairw back out live, we are asking for questions trying to worwhut her or not there was something that lead to that man being found in that stairwell. perhaps some kind of medical event or otherwise. still not clears at t time but we can tell you that several cameras are nearby and likely caught what happened on those cameras. more updates as we get them. i'mustin finch news 4. >> we're following another developing story as well from chicago. two police officers were hit and

t.lled by a train overni this happened while the officera were csing a shooting suspect. obothicers were in their 30s and both leave behind young children. sso want tow you video just coming into our newsroom. thiss a view of a procession for those officers carrying their bodies from the ehospital >>re staying on top of a story that you saw first on 4. two princor 's county police officers were hurt following an accidental at a holiday party over the weekend. investigators are trying to determine what lead to the shooting. right now police officers were suspended. all of them were part of the they were off duty at the time. they were at a officer's home when a personal gun was fired. one officer wase shot in hand and another officer was hurt when the same bullet richetted and h him. it's unclear whether the officers were drinking at the >> i'm not going to be naive and assume that there wasn't but i don't have facts that hey, yes,

so and so was seen drinking. we don't have that yet, but i was a holiday party. >> the two injured officers were treated and released from the hospital on sunday. they're t expectedbe okay. >> new this morning, prince george's county police released additinformation in a deadly weekend stabbing. police arrested robert jackson here. he's accused of stabbing bryant segal to death saturday morning. they were roommates at a group jackson was arrested at the scene. police are investigating the motive. >> family and friends of a d.c. teen shot and killed in southeast are remembering him as a good person always willing to help another. thef family gerald watson held a candlelight vigilht last n and wore t-shirts bearing his face. they don't know why two people wearing masks would chase the 15-year-old into a stairwell and shoot him several times. watson's grandmother says thers shooan run, but they hide. >> whoever is responsible for

this, i forgive you. >> ed.c. pol urge anyone in the community with information about this case to come forward. >> theouncil is planning to vote on a plan that would legalize gambling on sports in d.c. the plan follows a supreme court ruling thisear that legalized sports gambling in casinos and the. internet under the bill, the in person nd online gambling would be regulated by the d.c. lottery. if approved, the law would funnel millions of estimated revenue intohe city. some council members said that money should go to the arts and education. the major yor is expected to pr the bill and will have m the gun safety bills coming up at 6:30. >> it's 6:06. happening today, president truc trump's former national security adviser will be sentenced for lying to the fbi. according to partially redacted special eased by the counsel's office yesterday, flynn lied about his

communications to the russian ambassador to the u.s. at the time. pecial kourcounsel robert muelr recommended flynn get little to no jail time because he's cooperating with the russia investigation. >> we're inching closer to a partial government shutdown. friday is the deadline and tre seems to be no progress. democrats refuse to give in to president ump'semand for a $5 billion border wall. the white house insists the president won't budge on the issue. if there's no spending agreement by the end of the week,f thousands oederal workers will be out of work and their checks delays just days before christmas. more on this issue from capitol hill in our next half hour. >> former cbs chief executive les moons will not receive a $120 milli p severancekage from the network. they fired him with cause over sexual misconduct allegations. a dozen women came forward claiming he sexually harassed oa

ted them. his client denies having any nonconsensual sex and cooperated extensively with investigators. >> metro is feeling c ifident abous ability to get you to work on time. if your rush hour trip takes ten minutes longer than schedule metro will refund the money to your smart trip card. right now it allows for 15 minus of a delay. metro refunded to riders s sinc itrted this year. your smart trip h cardas to be registered to get the refund. >> we are learning more about e march of dimes plan to relocate it's headquaters from new york city to arlington county. as part of the deal, arlington will provide a $150,000 economic development incentive grant. the county eects thatove to generate net taxes of over a million dollars over t next decade. it's a nonprofit organization that helps mothers and babies. >> coming up on 9 minutes after 6:00 now and transportation tops

the list of concerns among arlington residents when it comes to amazon moving into northern inia. >> they want to know how much of an impact the jobs will have on an already struggling with a lot of traffic. afeteria last the night in arlington to voice their concern. amazon will be d obligated to one parking spot for every six employees. but that makes some questionf some will park on residential streets. >> going to park more in our neighborhood where there's zoned parking and that's worrisome to t. >> we w to make sure that we have the capacity to get all the employees or as many possible riding transit to minimize any impact on the traffic and the ad ro

>> residents are also concerned about whether there will be enough affordable housing for everyone. >> well, wengre loo at a chilly morning out there. maybe grab some extra layers, but definitely the sunglasses.ur temper are in the upper 30s. 39 degrees right now. mid to upper 30s outside the beltway. mid 40s by this afternoon with plenty of sunshine. rain on the way and so is the warm up. we'll talk about that on the ten day forecast coming up. >> today is distribution day here at the salvation army. the angel tree kidset the toys and look whohowed

the cs have won their last five games and we get to watch them. lead us to a stanley cup, it's incredible. good news for anyone that drives i-66 or wants to avoid driving it. >> the newcomb muter lot and bus services are between the area. it's located where route 15 crosses the interstate. there's 230 parking spaces there and i supports car pooling and there's no charge for bus rides

through february. >> a major construction project is coming to union station. amtrak plans to install a new track and rebuild a platform on the lower level. amtrak will build a walk way to access the new platform. a federal grant is going to pay for this project. this will allow more people to travel through union station. 2022. t to open in >> this time next week christmas will be here. we're counting down the days. we're only a week away right now. thanks to the salvation army raangel tree pr thousands of kids will be waking up with presents under their tree >>nbc 4 is one of dozens of companies taking part in this effort. what happens next you might add? >> well, molette green is live at the salvation army warehouse with more. good mornmog. >> good ing to you. take a look at how your generosity just showed up bigit time all of these here at the warehouse. in just a matter of hours, parents will get to aome pick up these items.

this may be my favorite little bike here for a little girl heaven. isn't that awesome?lo ok at that little oneerver e for a little girl named nadia. i want to show you the bags and bags of toys ready to go today. we have some salvation army volunteers. we have a special guest, super star widece reiver, former red skin santana moss. we'll talk to him later in the show. are you ready for this day, santana? >> i'm ready. >> i want to talk to you about the 6,000 toys that will gout parents day. overall 12 now >> what i love is that if you look around at all the toys you'll see a name on every one. that means that a specific child these.ked for so these are toys that are going to specific children for specific rean and i think that's a great thing. it takes a lot of logistical work and a lot of great

volunt hrs but itpens to make a good christmas for all of these kids. >> in an hour or so they'll come here. 160 families anour will come. you have this thing down to a well oiled machine. okay. so the toys are ready. wee ready. and we're going to bring you much more later on in the hour and talk to santana mossbout his foundation and how they teamed up with this year. right? back into you guys. >> great to see santana moss in there. >> great to hear about what the salvation army is doing. >> closer to r christmas, you shipping window for packages is closing. today is the last day for amazon free shippin with no minimum purchase offer. it's available for everybody and not just prime members. if you place your order today, amazon says it will arrive by christmas. >> we're getting ready, just to make sure that everybody is

ready. >> when i turn th h way, i alwae to deal with this. >> i pull my jacket down >> i pull my dress down. >> it's behind the scenes, letting hin. >> it's a hot mess. >> lauren says i woke up like this. >> i did not wake up anything like this this morning. this took a little bi >> i was fixing to say. >> you really did wake up like this't >> no i di >> you were born in a suit. >> with his new hat that he got for christmas. aaron said he already had christma he already bought himself a hat ra he's good. current temres feeling like the christmas season as temperatures are in the 30s and 40s right now. it's on the cool side out there this morning especially compared to yesterday. so as you're waking up this g, mornhe temperature is around 40 degrees. plenty of sunshine this morning. again we do have that sun coming

up in about an hourno from a little over an hour from now. it's going to be another beautiful sunrise as it was yesterday as well. nothing showed up on the radar today.n temperaturese mid 40s. we'll have a little bit of a breeze out there. winds 5 to 15 miles per hour out of the northwest. cooler than yesterday but a lighter wind than yesterday and then tomorrow,pe ttures right around 50 degrees. it will be mild out there. lighter winds. still sun and still dry out there as we go through tda then we get into your thursday and then we start to see some rain pushing into the region, i think by thursday afternoon in l have this rain moving from the south to the north. and this encapsulates the whole east coast. if you're traveling on thursday or friday, more specifically, we can have some major travel ouble up and down the eastern seaboard.

most of this is out of here as we goday overnight into saturday morning. a few lingering showers before daybreak on aysatu another thing we'll have to worry about for thursday night into friday is flooding concerns. that could be imminent with rain rates at over an inch and a half formu action. weekend travel, if you're traveling on friday, east coast trouble all the way to the line and all the way up from maine down to florida dealing with rain situations. saturday and sunday dry in our area. here's a look at what we're expecting. 50 degrees for your wednesday. chances of rai return thursday afternoon. thursday night. friday a little wet. saturday and sunday not toobad. monday, tuesday, wednesday, of course the holiday season looking good and edry. th commute this morning, much drier than yesterday. jack taylor, how i that going? >> i'll take the dry. usually will end wellor us

here's the beltway. ia pper 4 over to geo avenue. traffic moving well early. slowing right around there d headinn toward the expansion joints at pennsylvania avenue always causes the delay. 270 southbound, delay south before just after 109. at one broken down causing the slow down. leesburg 7, eastbound at the bypass, taking away the left lane. white's ferry closed once again today due to the high water on thepotomac. running a half hour behind and 409 a little delayed. back to you. >> all right. thank you. it's 6:21 and coming up, paying to park. it's common in big cities. nowou one local cnty is considering charging you too. the details on where parking could be more expensive. tvs, iphones, video games, what do you get for the techy on what do you get for the techy on your holiday

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justin finch has a few ideas to help you out. >> pressure is on to grab the latest and greatest gadget. holiday hun for many already happening buonline. t we went old school in store to the pentagon city best buy ere the manager caught us up on what's trending. >> you can take it or leave it

at home or take it on the go. >> so many ways to work nintendo's console taylor made for, you guessed it. >> nintendo switch is going to be the way. >> the nintendo switch price tag, $299. games start around $30. now we're flipping it. say you have a grandma or grandpa really into wafacebook. it until they see this. >> in the facebook portal, it's a great gift to giv for the holidays. we start off with the regular size at $199. >> it features amazon alexa and more. you n size up at $350. as for mom and dad, she says check out the apple watch. >> talk about something simplistic to use. h you cane it as a regular watch or take advantage of the smart features. so if you're missing a call or missing a a text, it comes to you. it can also monitor your heart rate as well.

newer series 4s start around $400. warning, they're not cheap but worth it. >> it starts at $999. the 10s max is going to start at $1099 for the phone. but you're talking about great photos. led screens so the brightness being able to see and also the battery life. >> for a few monhundred dollars less and feweres featur it's a new option plus they come i colors. amazon is bringing fire to the tv market. >> it goes up to 55 for the different es. >> prices start around $350. amazon's toshiba made fire tv in cog the streaming fire stick with a few more high end perks. >> you'd be able to talk to the television. >> a lot to weigh bef the holiday. justin finch, news 4. >> but wait,here's more.

we're working for you all this week with ideas. >> tomorrow we'll tackle the smaller presents that may have slped your mind. the one you put in your stockings, aaron. >> i don't have any stockings. >> you mean those that you hang on the fireplace. >> you're getting coal. t>> ink you are. i got nothing to say to that, but i do have something to say about the weather. it's chilly out there. temperatures into the 40s. big warm

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lauren has more on the weather we can expect today. good morning. >> good morning, guys. i was justinli first, butt. maybe it's going to be a little bit on the chillier side out there those temperatures out there, i inow that went black for a second. as working on a map.

it is going to be on the cooler side toda h we doe plenty of sunshine and heavy rain arriving late weekng we're tal about friday and into saturday and then we are tracking a system as we get into your friday and saturday morning. so again, current temperatures out there in the 30s right now. so it is a little cooler. especially compared to yesterday. so as you're waking up this morning, plenty of sunshine. the temperature right around 40 degrees. we'll have, again, plenty of sunshine, but we'll talk about that warm up. we'll talk about christmas eve and christmas day. that's coming up in a few minutes, but let's fir talk t jack taylor about some traffic. jack. >> thanks. good morning. an early delay on 270 nd southb we had one broken down. very quickly moved to the shoulder out of 109. now chopper 4's the bottom end of 270 showing traffic heading toward the lane all of your lanes are open. it's not something that's going to cause a giant delay. just a lot of vole this morning. you'll find leesburg, accident

activityy,ith de left lane is closed. and virginia state authorities on scene. white's ferry is closed again this morning due to the high water on the potomac. about a half hour trbehind. 409 will also be a bit delayed because of late arriving equipment. back into you. >> jack, thank you. it is 32 we are staying on top of breaking news out of prince george's county. a spokesperson for amtrak confirms to news 4 that a man was found dead in a new carrolton station overnight. they say he was found ithe escalator that connects the station to amtrak. right now, there are several surveillance cameras that caught what happened and they're trying to get more details about the situation. we also have a new update in a risis effecting the catholi church. >> we now know that 13 priests with ties to local schools are accused of sexually abusing children. they released the names of those priests. 13 men on that list spent time nt gonzaga high school in d.c.

and georget prep in maryland. both schools apologized for trauma caused by the priests. ate of the allegations back to the 1950s. they released the list in an effort to be transparent and prevent further cases of abuse. the statement said, quote, we are deeply sor for the harm we have caused to the victims and their families. we also apologize for participating in the harm the abuse has done to our church. >> a budget increase of55 million. that's what is on the table for montgomery county schools and tonight i your chance to find out more. the proposed 2020 fiscal year budget is $2.65 billion. that's more than 2% raise over the 2019 budget. the majority of the added expenses would be for salary adjustments and the cost of larger enrollment. so where will the money come from? the school district is asking the county council to contribute $29 -- $29 million more than is required by law. you don have toeave your

home to learn more about this tonight. the virtual conversation will be held on the school district's website wnre you can weigh with questions. happening today, the d.c. council will vote on a gun safety law that would remove firearms from certain people. they're kwn as r flag laws. >> darcy spencer is live at the wilson bui in downtown d.c. now with more on this law. darcy. >> good morning, these red flag laws have already passed in several statesacross the country. it was in response to the shooting at the school in parkland, florida. it's already on the books in maryland. it looks like d.c. could go ahead and ps that later on this morning. we want to show you a graphic to give you an idea of what this would mean here in the thdistri. law would reduce access to guns by people that were coidered to be aisk to themselves or to others. people couldou petition a for what is called an extreme protection order. if it's b granted a judge, police would immediately remove

guns from that viindividual, including from their home. the subject would not be able to own or buy guns for at least ten days and possibly up to a year. this is part of a package ofbi s here in the district that would also ban bump stocks. those are theen attac that allow for rapid firg of a weapon. they were used in the shooting in las vegas. d.c. council has a huge agenda today including this package of bill another topic on the agenda, legislation stemming from a news 4 i-team investigation is all about food trucks taking over prime parking spots in the district. >> the county argues that charging the park on the street plscourages driving some what and could push p to metro which would free up traffic. it also means you can just

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ands of federal workers in our area could soon be short on their paychecks just before christmas if apending agreement is not made by friday. right now neither side is budging when it comes to the issue of the border wall. >> kristen lk joins us live from the white house. what are the odds a deal iso going made by this deadline? >> good morning to you. that's really b the $5lion question. late last night senators burning the midnight oil hoping to find a compromise but instead, only more confusion. as you said, neither side budgingn their demands with the president asking for $5 billion for his border wall. now you'll remember president trump said over and over on the campaign trail that mexico would paywaor that . democrats only willing to give trump a fraction of $ that

llion, about 1.3 and ready to lay a potential shutdown squarely at his feet. now what would that mean? well a partial shutdown after friday would effect more than a agencies. that's more than 400,000 federal workers that wouldn't get paid and another 350,000 empyees that could see their checks delayed. if the shutdown happens loan approval could be delayed. we'll have much more coming up. back to you. >> kristen, thank you. you can see her full report coming up in just a few minutes on today. >> we just n learn details about breaking news in prince george's county, a man was found dead at the new carrolton station overnight. >> justin is live with the latest on tst ination.

what do you know? >> well, a very sad update now amtrak.rom they're telling us that surveillance video has helped themiece togetherhat happened here overnight in that stairwell where a man was found dead just after midnight. we now know that they say based on that sveillance vidhat the man was going up the down escalato that he reached the top and for some reason fell backwards and struck his head and was found dead there again just after midnight. up close we saw the effected stairwell is the gate a newrwell connecting the carrolton metro to the amtrak station there. you can see some fabric ripped there at the base of the

staircase. amtrak police are now working to identify that man and find his family. back to you in the studio. >> a sad situation there. justin, thank you. >> now to a developing story from chicago where two police officers werle hit and k by a train. this happenedht late last n while the officers were chasing a shooting suspect. >> we are staying on top of a story that you saw fist on news 4. two princegeorge's county police officers were hurt following an accidental shooting at a holidarty over the weekend. investigators are trying to determine whatd exactly l to that shooting. right now, 11 prince george's unty police officers are suspended. all of them are part of the department's s.w.a.t. team.er they off duty at themetit an of when a personal gun was fired. another officer was hurt when the same bullet hit him. they are expected to be okay.

>> the d.c. council expected to pass new legislation today because of a news 4 i team n. investigat he revealed a scheme by food truck operators at a takeol permanent h of valuable curb side real estate. >> it's now that some d.c. leaders want to put ao stop it. >> here in d.c. with the federal office complexes and federal workers, food trucks do big business, but what you see behind me is not what it appears. look what happens just before lunch. a news 4 i-team investigation revealed they have an elarate plan t nab the precious parking spots every day. here on e-street they park at public meter spaces and they hold the spaces overnight. city parking officials.

today d.c. council members raise the price of t ticke or allow parking officials to tow the cars and the trucks. >> it's time for us to get in the game and make sure that we're getting the cars, ticketed, booted, and off the street. >> they are forced to do this usbecahe eenough tfood truck zones in the district. >> coming up, hear if there's any protests. just about 6:51. time for check on the forecast with storm team 4 metenrologist la>>uneteao minutele.aboutck 30et we have skies out there. it's a beautiful morning. no rain out there today or

tomorrow. but we do have rain as we g to thursday afternoon. and more rain as we head through the day on friday. then we're dry on saturday. a few lingering showers possible on saturday morning. you don't see anything happening out there right now. if you're traveling today, we have a few snow showers from the system that passed through this weekend, stillp by the new england area. that's moving up into the canadian maritime and then we have big storms over on he pacific northwest. now we also have some big, large waves there p in theific northwest. how about 40, 50 feet waves right aroun half moon bay in san francisco. oh, yeah, they have a surf competition because t national weather service has been seeing this for quite sometime. the maverick surf competition got out there and saw this last week and said hey, le's go h a surf competition and realized the waves were too big and cancelled that surf competitionr of low pressure creating the big swell and again, the

national weather service is telling people don't go near the ocean for rk of certain death. that's what they worded it as. us aund here, we're quite. temperatures in the 30s right now and we're headed into mid 40stoday. a little cooler yesterday. a little breeze out there as well. s.mperatures around 50 degr plenty of sunshine again but then an area of low pressure area.ng into our that will bring some rain for the second half of thursday and that rain is not goingo finish. we'll continue to have rain through the day onfriday. sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday all looking good of course christmas eve and christmas day looking dry and seasonal. >> how are the roads looking? go morning? >>ood morning. we'll start in gaithersburg, chopper 4 flying over 270 headed near 370. you can see the headlights, that's justvolume. thing that's going to cause too much time. the biggest delays near 109 with

a breaking down vehicle on the shoulder. we have slow downs on 7 stbound on the 15 bypass. the tow truck just got on scene. they just opened the left lane and the vehicle has been cleared. couple of hiccups with a broken downicle in the right lane and then the hov lanes northbound before washiulton ard, a crash before the right side of the roadway. once again closed. back into you. >> christmas will be here. >> one of dozens of countries that take part in this effort so what happens next? >> for that we turn to molette green live at the salvation army warehogee in prince ge's county. such a great effort to make christmas a happy one for so many kids, mouttte.

>> absy. thai tha thanks to all of your general ro -- generous donations. 0 volunteers showing up today in a matter of hours. pick up day inrince george's county and has joined the angel tree program. you're teaming up with salvation army. how cool is that? >> great. i'm supporting them so i'm definitely looking forward to the opportunity. >> that's what it's all about. major chip hall. his lovely wife back there holding a toy in her hand. major, put this all in perspective. this is what the holiday season is about.

>> it's amang because all of this happens within a six week period when we handout the names to when the toys come in and they're able to distribute them and i believe it's a tangible way that people can express how much they appreciate living in this country and having all the blessings that they have. they give to other people that have in more need. >> 12,000 toys or donations collected, all bagged up and ready to go. the ribbon cutting happens in a matter of hours. i'm a delighted to bee to mc that ceremony. aren't we ready to give these toys to the angels around the dmv? d.c. and prince george's today and the rest ofhe week out in virginia and other parts of maryland. all right. that's the latest. back in to you guys. >> it's always gre to see so many people with this effort. thank you very much. >> president trump's former national security be sentenced for lying to the

fbi. according to notes reased by the special counsel's office, michael flynn made falsets statembout his communications with the russian ambassador to the u.s. at the tin. more this coming up on today. >> we are three days away from a possibleartial government shutdown. congress and the white house have uil friday to agree on a spending bill. if they don't, thousands of fede il workers our area will be out of work. money for a border wall is the sticking point here.od the " show will have the latest on this stalemate. >> several big votes tod for the d.c. council. they'll hold a final vote on a red flag gun safetyit law. would allow family members and health professionals or police to seize guns from someone that has an immediate daer. look for updates in the nbc washington app. >> breaking news this morning, amtrak says a man died after he dll backw down an escalator at the new carrolton station. he climbed up the down escalator

and reached the top and then fell backwards. you can follow justin finch on twitter for theatest on this. we'll also post updates in the nbc washington>>app. nd we have temperatures out there in the mid 40s today. it's going to be a little breezy. 5 to 15 miles per houres sunny s tomorrow. rain moves in thursday night. rain all day on friday. lingering showers early saturday. most of the weekend dry and dry for christmas eve, christmas day. >> not bad at all. thank you smuch. >> that's the news for today. we appreciate you waking up with us. >> the "today" show inext. we'll see you in 25 minutes for weather, traffic, and local ws. until then, enjoy your day. >> picture curtesy of chopper 4 here. the sun is on

shutdown showdown. with friy's deadline looming, the fight over approving president trump's wall is looming. this morning hundredsf o thousands of americans facing therospect of no pay during the holidays. can a christmas compromise be reached? holiday headache. two big storms set to strike during the peak of christmas travel rush. al has thees l on the forecast so you can adjust your plans. war hero or war criminal? aor deced green beret charged with murder. his wife nowpe