. new at midday, two women are dead after being hit by a tour bus. a look at the dangerous history of that intersection. we weather alert with the prospect of flooding. those details in a moment. lawmakers on capitol hill have come up with a compromise to avoid a government shutdown. with the deadline tomorrow at midnight, will president trump sign it? good morning. welcome. i'm chris lawrence. we start with new iormation on that pedestrian crash in the dlik

t -- district. two women have died. this is video from shortly after the accident on pennsylvania avenue. police say the bus wasurning on to pennsylvania from 7th streetheit hit two women in ge crosswalk at the time of the crash. the picture of one of the two women. we're told this is 61 kwlrd monica carlson, t mayor of skagway alaska, just elected in october. her mother, cora adams, was the second moth who are died shives in washington state. this crash happened in the same intersection of a deadly crash about 11 years ago. two women were hit and killed a metro bus on valentine's day. metro settled a w lawsuith one of the victim's husbands for more than $2 million. that crash forced ddot to make intersection.e a left turn lane and arrow were added. a pedestrian was also seriously hurt in a crash on

middle brook road in germantown. this happened at the intersection with ridge crest drive around 8:00 last night. the oman was rushed to hospital with life-tjueatening inries. the driver was also taken to the hospal but is expected to be okay. now to aeather alert. storm team 4 tracking heavy, heavyain that is headed our way. in fact, some localities have already issued a flood watch. meteorologist sam mara theodore es tes the lat on the timing. >> remember yesay when i told you as soon as the clouds move in, that's the first sig fier that the rain is not far behind. this shows h widespread this system is. this heavy rain will be moving from the south. so we're getting the moture. we'll also get the warmth. for now, i've got top kee you e this afternoon for the entire region shaded in what we're looking at is from

one to two inches widespread. a few areas could pick up three to four inches locally. i want you to stick around. we'll talk timing on this. i'll give you a hint on the best time tod hit the r if you have holiday travel plans. back to you, chris. somara.k you, today is expected to be one of the busiest if you're planning to travel. with all the rain headed our way, it might be better to leave earlier if possible. news 4's megan mcgrath is in maryfield with how things are looking. >> reporter: right now it looks good but all of that will change. 112 million peoplid natio expected to travel this holiday on, most of them by car. that's a record. if you look behind me, this is the beltway in maryfield, virgicia. the tras quite light. as we get into the afternoon that is expected to change a we expecting to see the affic congestion start to build. now, the worst traffic in d.c., that is projected to take place

today between 1:15 and 2:15. a record number of travelers are getting out of dodge for the holiday. >> i'm expecting a horrible drive from 95 all the way down toms willrg. >> reporter: aaa projecting that one-third of americans will leave home. at's up nearly 4.5% from last year and the highestumber sinc aaa started tracking holiday travel plans. >> i am leaving today at 1:30 and i will get in the express lane and pay i whatevert takes. >> reporter: the worst travel day is today. drive times at p thek could be four times longer than usual. compcating things, mother nature, heavy rain in the forecast today and friday it's enough to prompt some people to leave the car at home instead.the train >> it's goings to be a crazy nightmare, kwla. i feel likef a loteople are coming and going from different places and thelw traffic is as bad this time of year.

that's why i decided to take the tlan. >> i think the road travel is goin to be crazy, so i'm going to do the amtrak train. >> reporter: looking live at the beltway in merrifield, virginia, ings are looking good. actually on the light side. if you can leave, now would be a od time. also, the rain has not yet started, but as we've been hearing, it's coming and will be heavy at times and that will make everything even wors >> megan, as if we needed anything else to make this holiday rush hard to bear. if you're fing internationally, drones at london's gatwick airport forced themo suspendflights. gatwick is the uk's second busiest airport. in an interview this morning an airport official blasted whoever isin f those drones calling

it irresponsible. in sussex, pleasere searching for whomever is flying them. the house is expected to vote on a dpunding bill to keep the funding going through the holidays and early next year. the senate passed a temporary spending bill last night. nbc's tracie potts following the developing story. >> reporter: the senate controlled by republicans will not pay foronald trump's border wall, not now. >> the ayes do have it. i the motio agreed to. >> reporter: instead they've agreed to keep the governmentou running t february 8th with no new money. >> so we can make sure weon't end this year the way we began it, with ather government shutdown. >> reporter: now it's up to the other side. the house is expected to get it on the president's desk brrore tomoow's deadline, but with no wall money, will he sign it?>> y understanding is he's accepted the reality of that. >> reporter: t breakthrough came after president trump backed off his demand for $5 billion for t wall.

>> this is not an immigration issue any longer. it's clearly aec nationality issue. the president is right. >> reporter: but when congress comes back in january, democrats will be in charge of the house. they say this ends any chance of building the wall. on theirannot do it own and the house and senate will not approve a wall, from reprogrammed funds or anything else. it won't happenre >> reporter:dent trump isn't giving up, tweeting one way or the other we will win on the wall. president trump tweeting about the wall this morning callingt steel slats saying he won't sign off on any legislation from democrats if they don't provide money for this wall.po tracies, nbc news, washington. we're seeing outra and backlash from some in the president's own party, upset with his decision to bring back u.s. troops from syria. >> we have won against isis.

so our r boys, ouung women, our men, they're all coming back and they're coming back now. wewon, and that's the way want it and that's the way they want it. >> u.s. officials tell nbc news this decision came quickly and, quote, right from the very top. caught republican lawmakers and military leaders off guard. the pentagon saying the campaign against isis is not over. new vid of a violent attack, police are looking for two persons of interest. they're following a would plan into the courtyard of her apartment. when she gets to the door, she puts her bag down. that's when the attacker hit her from behind to steal her bag. it happened last thursday jus 9 afte0 at night. if you know anything that could help identify the attackers, please call police. an update to a story from last anweek. a from maryland accused of coercing his 5-year-old daughter

into stealing a package. this is gary smith. hartford county authorities say they questioned him about the theft and then he disappeared. we showed you video last littlt of looking back, apparently at someone instructing her before sh grabs the package and runs away. smith apparently blamed theft on his daughter. once he's caught he'll face multiple charges including contributing to the delinquency of ano we have new information on the criminal case against harvey weinstein. allegations against the disgraced movie mogul helped disgraced movie mogul helped launched the me too

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this morning a judge denied a motion to dismiss ex-movie mogul harve weinstein's criminal case in court. three charges against him step from allegations that he raped a woman five years ago. two other chars date back to 2006. weinstein pled not guilty to the charges earlier this year. his next court date is set for march. now to a story you'll only see on news 4, p moreblems along metro's silver line extension. news 4 learned about hundreds of cracks in concrete in a rail

yard critical to the project. transportation reporter adam tusk first broke the story. >> cracking concrete along the silver line. oru've heard that before, but now even me problems have surfaced in the rail yard being built along theext phase. this rail yard will be critical to the entire silver lineeing able to operate. charles stark, the man in charge of the project detailing all of this for new 4. >> what goes through your head when you see something like that? fix e contractor needs to it. >> contractor needs to fix it. >> reporter: when it comes to the cracking in these buildings, all you have to do isome and take a look. this is the main building at this rail yard. yo c see there are cracks all over the place. it's gotten so bad that they've put the sight lines to see if the building is moving. remeeter, m will eventually take over the silver line, the project is being built by the aport authority. t met throw says more than half

of itsnels are wired for cellular and data service. that include three new sections of track that just became wireless ready. here they are the orand silver lines between lston and ross land, the three between rosalyn and metro center and the green between college park and ft. totten. they hope to gettll of wireless by mid 2020. it may soon cost you moren howard county, maryland, to have groceritiies put in a plastic b. the tax would be paid at checkout and wouldn't app to dry cleaning, newspapers or plipgss. advocates say the goal is to reduce plastic waste. area her places in our with restrictions on those bags. montgomery county has a five cent tax. koma park bans them outright. b> weight gain continues e

a growing problem for a lot of americans. the average weight for men ande women h spiked. e mds is 198 poun for women, nearly 1. since the '60s, americans have gained an average of 24 pounds. if you put off shipping holi,y packag you're facing a hard deadline today. it's the last day to send them if you wan those gifts to be under the tree in time for christmas. the big three shippers are running up for a flood of last-minute procrastinators. kerry sanders is at a huge ups facility in florida where shipping isng kicki into high gear. >> reporter: it's here, holiday shipping d-day, the final hours to get those gifts bought and in the mail in time to make it underneath the christmas tree without costing a bundle. ron hallrom dallas, texas. he says he always waits until the last minute. why? >> because i'm a procrastinator. >> reporter: he's not alone.

the national retail federation says 61% of holiday shoppers waited until these last few days. no one feels the tick tock of a looming deadline quite like 18t 24-year-old males. experts say they're classic procrastinators and the pickiest shoppers. for everytie who needs to mail gifts, don't panic. if you get to the post offic today, you can still take advantage of first class or priority mail. and at ups and fedex, it's the last day f two-day shipping. iting beyond today, not a lot of great options. even if you can still send something with the big threeip rs, every day you delay gets costlier. for the rest t of last-minute shoppers, retailers are ready for yo >> the sunday before christmas is even bigger than black friday. bigger? >> bigger. >> reporter: if you miss today's two-day shippingli de, there's always overnight. at that point there's a good

int it will cost you more to ship than it did to buy the present inside. kerry sanders, nbc news, doral, florida. >> boy, i've been there, spending 100 bucks to ship a $30 gift. is an ancestor dna test oni your w list? more of what you should consider before sending away for those results. tracking heavyrain. when the first drops start to fall when "news 4 midday" continues.

chances are y or someone you know are getting an ancestor kit for ch they've exploded in popularity. as joe fryer explains, the results can bring someorrizes. >> rr: good morning. the leading dna kits on the market worhe pretty much same. which one might be right for you may depend on what you hope to discover. no matter who you are, it'ste guaran to give you surprises. >> reporter: home populadnr,a providing valuable information about where you come from and are.ou really >> dna tests are an incredible gift because you can give someone such a personalizedpe ence about who they are. >> 23andme and its competitors are seeing a huge spike in sales this year, but how reliable are

these kits? experts say the science is solid when it comes to finding matches with relatives, but less accurate about tracing your ancestry back to a specific country. >> people have called me up or written to me and said my grandmother is crying because she believes she's 100% irish and is told her she was scandinavian or german. you should nev take it that heriously. >> reporter: on tther hand, if the tes shows you've got relatives you didn't know about, believe it. that can create its own set of issues. >> lots of surprises can be fu and exciting. some of them are unexpected, like min was. >> reporter: katherine st. clair founded a facebook to support people like herself who found out that their father or mother isn't their biological parent. >> iould change the warnings to say don't take this test thinking there's a possibility that you're goi to have unexpeed findings. take this test with t expectation that you're going to have unexpected findings. >> those surises can be

emotionally devastating, she says. in some cases af profound loss o identity. she still believes dna kits are valuable tools that sometimes provide crucial health information. she says they make great christmas gifts as long as everyone understands what they might uncover. >> once you get past the shock and the sadness and learning to adapt to your new reality, it's like you see t world clearer now because you have a stronger confidence that you know who you are now. >> reporter: both st. clair and the company who makes the kits say they hope it leads to understanding about identity and racial heritage. >> i think it's a powerful tool for h ding thosecussions and also at the end of the day -- >> reporter: as for priva concerns, the federal trade commission warned last year that ndcks happen. but 2 and the other retail companies say they do not share customer data with law enforcement or researchers without consent.

users have to go through several steps if they wish to shar th dna records with law enforcement. back to you guys. >> thank you, joe. knowledge is power. but i guess it can cut both ways. >> it really can. it can be dangerous. >> i know we're in alert mode. s i can the big change from even just a couple hours ago. those clouds have really moved in. >> yesterday i was saying, once the clouds c let's expect the round of showers. that's going to be having a major impact on those who will be hittinghe roads for the holihays. here is you're dealing with. if you are able to leave early this is what you're,ooking winds out of the northeast at 8 miles per hour and lots of clouds as far as radar goes, light showers north of us. etty quiet in the d.c. met droe area.

as i zoom out, t you see bigger story. it's letting us kwt's on its way. we're talking widespread showers. yellows denoting the heavier rainfall. we will see fluctuations as we head through the overnight hours. flood watch is for everybody at this point, pmarily the entire region. it begins this afternoon through tomorrow evening. what we're looking at is one to o inche widespread, three to four locally. for 5:00 in the evening, this is the rush home. 's going to be moving in around 4:00, 5:00. as we move to 1:00 p.m., showers still going on, even tomorrow morning. ybe more sparse and lighter. still lots of rain moving through the area into friday night. we don't see things dlie out until saturday morning. hepicked up the blue . reit is noting snowshowers alon

i-81. for now, another thing i want to put on your radar is the wind 're starting at five pipes now. 34-mile-per-ho gusts. i'm talking we could hit 40-mile-per-hour gusts ind. washington around midnight tonight. not only is it going to be wet, but also very windy. tomorrow you'rery relatively through 3:00 p.m. i would avoid the overnight hours. you want perfect weather, wait until saturday. for those of you hitting the road today, heading north, you're looking good. if you're heading south, you're running right into t storm. weather alert through the end of the week. over the weekend, plenty of sunshine. christmas looking dry, tracking the system at the end of next 're. >> thank you, somara. only on news 4, fairfax county third grader killed by county third grader killed by motorize ad

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president trump sent t this twe early this morning. in it he praised the u.s. border patrol for keeping the border type. today on capitol hill the house judiciary committee is meeting with the department of homeland security. the committee just returned from

a recess, expected to grill the cretary kerstin nielsen on border patrol procedures. she says individuals arrivingll ille from mexico without proper documentation may be sent back t mexico for the duration of their immigration proceed sings. they'll have to wait for approval to come back in the u.s. she's also answering questions about the recent death of a 7 yrd girl fromal guat jakelin maquin. she and her fedher crohe border earlier this month. she got sick a did n receive medical attention for 90 minutes and by then she wasn't breathing. paramedics airlifted her to the hospital where she died the next morning. tside the hearing, protesters tell news 4 they're demanding

justice forack jakelin. a lawsuit filed by d.c. attorneyal gen against facebook that says facebook failed to protect the data ofll ns of users. he specifically focused on the cambridge analytical scandal where a third party personality quiz took user data before the electi in 2016. >> almost half of 340,000 d.c. residents had their user information compromised. >>he lawsuit came after "the new york times" explosive report. the newspaper says facebook gave microsoft and yahoo more access to your data than previously hurt. facebook is denying that urrepo. consumer investigative team uncovered new details in the tragic death of a fairfax county 3 grader who died last may after getting stuck between a motorized partition and wall at franconia elementary school.

documen documents show the family plans to sue. consumer investigative reporter susan hogan has been following thetory from the start. she has more on the major develoents. >> he was a dear sweet little boy, the kind of kid that wanted to help, wanted to do the right thing. c >> reportearol bailey is friends with wesley's grandmother. she also spent a lot of years teaching in fairfax county schools. wesley's death left her with a lot of hquestions. could that have happened? >> reporter: now these documen obtained by news 4 are shedding more light on the tragedy. attorneys for wesley's parents sent this letter to fairfax m county lasth stating their intent to sue, not just the school district, but any employees present at the time of wesley's death. the documents claim there were two teachers and one after school program employee in the

jim the afternoonle w was killed. it's believed one of those teachers asked for wesley's help closing the motorized partition for a dance later that evening. attorneys say the county and the employees were negligent in wesley's death for a number of reasons, among them allowing wesley to attempt to o trate wall, failing to follow proper procedures, failing to properly train employees in the safe operation of the wall. >> you must have training. children are dying. >> reporter: kathy cole owns the company that makes the device called safe path. it uses motion sensors and will stop a partition from moving if someone or something get in its path. a news 4 consumer investigation found there are nearly 500 motorized partitions in schools in the d.c. region and only one of them has an additional safete device l safe path. >> i'm trying to educate the

public that there are dangers lurking out there in your school gym. you have the right to know aboo it and demand action. >> reporter: cole is calling on nationwidel district to require training for these walls. >> i'm trying to prevent a death. i'm willing to work for free with the united states nypartment of education, with franconia, withe -- >> anyone who will listen? >> anyone who will listen. >> reporter: safe path costs between $5,000 and $6,000 per wall. fairfax county has no current plans to install the devices. atory we broke earlier this year, and the attorneys included in their letter t thecounty. >> when you say you don't realize it until it happens to you. don'this happen to someone you know. it can be stopped. >> we hopet can be. fairfax county schools did revise its policies aft

wesley's death. motorized partitions are not allowed to be operated when students are in the room. only specific staff is allowed to operate that equipment and those designated employees are the only ones with access to the operating key. more bad news for mon they nicholson. mz released video of the confrontation. nicholson is apparently the man in the red sweatshirt. it sws him pushing, punching and kicking a man outside a bar in loudoun county. nicholson and a woman he was with wererrested and charged with assault and battery. nicholson will not take the field with the team when they play the titans on saturday. our coverage starts at 3:00 in the afternoon with redskins pregame report. there's a new form of cyber vellying that parent should know about it.

it's called the momo challenge. it targets kids through social media to take part inangerous activities and threatens them with violence if they don't commit theacts. nbc's tim furlong explains. >> reporter: at one point it was eating tide pods, the newest thing the momo tallenge. >>s new jersey boy upset when a classmate said he due what momo says or he'd be killed, targeting at kids and teenagers, they say you need to show photo proof that you did ie orchids told momo will kill them. a couple of i suicides other countries have been linked to momo. a school district in north jersey sent a letter t home parents about this. the cape may police department has a warning on its facebook page. dr. megan walls is a pediatric .

psychologi >> something like, there are scary things that pop up on phones and tablets. if you ever see something like that, come get me.ep >> rter: for your older kids, maybe get them to promise they'll talk to you about the momo challenge if it's tak to them. let them know this is cyber dangerous otentially and you're trusting them to let you know what's going on. >> especially as g kids older and they're teenagers, they want autonomy and deserve it as long as they can show you they're responble enough. scary stuff. former president obama isad spg holiday cheer. we'll show you how. plus we're continuing to keep an eye on the weather. large amounts of rain headed our way. it's not the holidays until...

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the caps win five straight. but last night caps fell to the arch rivals penguins 2-1. the game was neck and neck, but a lot of fans are talking about tom wilson. less than a minute in the game, he droppedve glo and it waswi on's first game against the penguins. >> i think both parties knew -- th stuff said after last season it probably had to be done sooner or ter. when we looked at each other, it was on. that's hockey. >> everyneam needs enforcer. the caps are back at home tomorrow night and taken the sabres from buffalo. ♪ and a happy new year >>herever the family is, wherever the people you love are, that's where christmas is. th's the whole thing. >> talk about a surprise sit.

smiles all around for patients at d.c.'s children's hospital. that's former president barack obama weighing a santa claus hat, showed up with a bag of gifts and plenty of cheer to go around as well. president obama speut an hour and a half with the kids, their parents and doctors and nurses. he last visited children about four years ago when he was still infi . i'm hitting the road tomorrow with my family heading to the midst and i am hoping some of that big rain as moved out by then. >> to be honest with you, it's traveling up the eastern aboard, so you will be clipped by it. for those of you heading south, say today,oul run into major issues. let's take a look at the areas under a flood watch. once this rain moves in, it's not letting up until tomorrow. that's why the national weather service has issued thishlood waor this afternoon through friday evening. this is what you're looking at. one to two inches of rain. very similar system to what saw this past weekend.

we can see three to four inches rain locally. those higher amounts really cause some issues. it's not just rain. it's also the wind. take a lookt the future gusts. i took us to 1:00 p.m., five miles per hour. we fast forward into fld morning, in32-mile-per-hour gusts. we could get as high as 40 miles pehour in some areas. it is going to be not only a wet night, but a windy night oute, thot making for the best travel conditions overnight. radar right now, pretty qet throughout much of the area. very light stuff coming down farther north out of out of im bae, anne arundel. let me show you how wide reaching the storm system . it will continue to come up from the south. we're not only going to see rain from is, but warm air coming up from the south as well. you're going to notice friday, it's pretty warm out here. temperatures into the low 60s. the rain, 5:00 p.m. tonight is

when we're expecting it to beho thro the entire region. it is going to be moderate to heavy as you're hitting the road headed home. we move to 11:00 p.m., still coming down. begins to lighten a bit tomorrow morning. that's good news. still throughout the year, seeing light showers. that's changing over to snow farther west along i-81. we're dry by saturday. if you're traveling, saturday is the best day to do itt' get a look at the forecast for today. a high of 45 degrees, cldy, chilly, with rain moving in later in the deem. your storm team 4 ten-day outlook shows the warmup i was talking about on friday. the weekend is quie as move into christmas, kwanzaa, dlie as well. thursday and friday is when we'll start to see more rain into the >>picture. talk about a surprise of a lifetime, the local student who earned a check for more than $100,000. the play that goes wrong will be visiting the city of. >> washington, d.c. >> where we will be performing

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peyton krem are part of the fun and join us in the studio. >> thanks for having us. >> this is a play about a ay. >> correct. it's basically about a troupe of actors from the cornually university drama society. it's opening night of their perfornce of the murder history, the murder at haversham manor. >>n avalanche of disaster. >> peyton, talking about things that go w nightly, this is set in the 1920s. >> it's setre in thent play. the play is in the 1920ys. >> the p they're staging is in the '20s. >> yes. >> is it entirely scripted or are they improvising at times? >> they allow us a few moments to taylor i to the cities we're in. really the whole thing is

nightly scripted. >> when you veer off script, do thead other actors know af time or are you reacting on the fly? >> i think it's a little bit o both. certain things will lap, like an audience willeact differently and that will change our reaction to it. so -- but mostlye're prett familiar with what we do. >> okay. t tos it fun to take different cities and see the different reactions to different scenes in the same performance? >> oh, yeah. for the most part, everyone has been reactingsimilarly, but with the different local squloeks we put in, it's always hear nice to >> i've got to ask u, there a ton of physical comedy in this

atperformance. cracks you up night after night? >> certain things that goon, unexpected things will happen. someone will drop a prop or a prop will fall o the stage and that will be something that will crack us up. >> what about you, peyton? >> sometimes you're just on stage wit fellow actors an something may or may not happen. and you look them in the eyes and you won't know what to do. >> scott and peyton, thank you. >> the guy are telling us, the play that goes wrong is at the kenned center through january 6. taking a break on christmas eve and christmas day. they're back right after christmas. if you're home, there's something>>o do. ome see us. >> thank you, guys. a local academic standout is waking up with her dream of going to college is a reality.

we've got the moment that young woman's life changed forever. >> ayodele ogunibe's life is about to change. there's the look, in walks the surprise and, wait for it.th ere. the nervous laughter behind that wide smile is understandable. how would you react seeing your name on a check this big, ak ch that means everything to you. >> a full tuition scholarfoip four years valued at $129,000. >> i was like, oh, my gosh, is this real. i didn't think it was real. >> it's very real. ayodele had to win this at a scholarship competition. >> i've been praying really hard. i karw myts have very high expectations for me. all i want is the best. >> today was a big first step, though she admits she had her doubts she would ever get iher >>e been working very hard and i'm just happy for this opportunity. >> while we'd like to wish her luck, after today it's obvious that ayodele doesn't need it.

torrey smit news 4. >> she's going to be hearing p "i'm sud of you" for a long time to comel th college is about an hour north of pitteurgh. to m things better, one of ar classmates also g partial scholarships to that same school. congratulations. holiday outing, an idea to keep kids busy over their winter break. >> turn down the temperature two degrees. we' ll

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yo magical time of the year? we're watching a show at six flags. fred putnam is the stunt coordinator at six flags. what's the namf the show? >> the name of the show is the naughty list.'s bout jack frost runs the coal mine at thealouth pole with the naughty children.ve two have come down to bring joy and christmas cheer everywhere. >> reporter: i love you did all this. then we have a nice finale t the show. >> absolutely. nice finale with a lot of fire. keeps the people warmike our s'more pits and everything else. it's really interactive, so the families love it. >> holiday in the park at six flags. denise stokes set all this up for us to gsee, toe people an idea that you can come out here and enjoy over the holiys.

>> yes, you can. we have outdoor activities as you see, but we also have indoor we have shows we do indoors, indoor dining. if you need to get warm, we have the s'mores roasts pits. >> i love the fire.s six flags ipen this friday, saturday and sunday and the day r christmas and into the new year, back to you. good, think that was tomorrow we are really getting into the christmas spiert with the hope of the first baptist church of glenalden. ♪ go tell it on theai mou ♪ over the hills and everywhere ♪ >> voice stars will join the choir and sing live. you can hear them right here on "news 4 today" tomorrow morning. for folks t to get out on one of the busiest holiday travel days of the year, you've only got hours before that rush

really gets bad. tomorrow how is the weather going to looking thi afternoon into the evening? >> it's going to be an issue, that's forrtain. you can take a look and see it's plaguing areas to the south. as it continues to stream in, showers will be impacting the area, prompting that flood watch that's in inhe area. cool today. we'll be very mild tomorrow. before i get to that. let's take a l at the best times to hit the road. we're relatively dry through 3:00 p.m. unless you're headed south. if you are driving down 95 south, you are going to run into ile rain. overnight hours be the worst time to hit the windy. wind gusts of 40 miles per hour. the rain will beea theest around midnight. the perfect weather will be moving in saturdaynd sunday. if you can hold off for the weekend, that's a perfect drive. but nownk that i t about it, you'll be dealing with traffic as well. the ten-day outlook, weatherou alerts t the end of the week because of the rain. flooding will be an issue. we move into the weekend,

saturday and sunday, dry, still . the top of the week, christmas ve, christmas, first day of kwanzaa, temperatures in the 40s. dry throughout the actual holidays. as we move into next weekend, a lot of us have new year's plans already in utay. watchor the showers, for another storm system that's going to be moving in around this sam time frame next we're. a lot to think about there, but i wish you guys a happy holiday. be safe on the roads. chris? >> thank you, somara. >> i'll be hitting the rd tomorrow. stay safe out there. it will be a lot of traffic. us. thanks for joining back on the air this afternoon first at 4:00. you can get news and weathers updany time with the nbc updany time with the nbc wash

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