president trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall. >> day two of the partial government shutdown is under way no clear end in sight. >> let's work together. let's be bipartisan. >> the halls of congress are empty as hundreds of thousands of federalt workers w in limbo. with just two days before christmas, many wonder how long will it last. news 4 is working for you. a live look this sunday morning at the white house.fe it's a dnt view this christmas for president donald trump. trading the south florida palm trees for the d.c. chill. he's spending the holiday at the white house as theovernment remains shut down this morning.

welcome and more as we you in on this sunday morning, december 23, 2018. good morning, i'm david cull -- culver in for adam tuss. >> and i'm president trump is holding out for funding of his controversial border wall. democrats say they won't grant it under any circumstance. thousands of workers in our area and throughout the country won't be paid until after this is renblved. as s geoff bennett reports, it's high drama with al-world impact. >> reporter: president trump holed up at the white house as the partial government shutdown drags on with in no deal in sight. the stalemate hinging on trump's $5 billion demand for his siroature campaignse -- a southern bwader . one he repeatedly said mexico

would pay for. the president who just days ago said he'd be proud to shut down the govlernment order border security said it could last a while with democrats dug in. >>ed have never s a border wall. >> reporter: mr. tru summoned top aides and allies to talk strategy. th president later appeared to soften his stance. in a tweet suggesting he might accept funding ining for a stee barrier instead of one made of concrete. a senior administratn official told nbc the president is willin to negotiate on the type of barrier so long as democrats agree to one as part f any deal. nearly a dozen departments and agencies have run out of funding. roughly 25% of the federal government gone dark. that means 380,000 government employees are furloughed or forced to take unpaid leave until the shutdown ends. another $420,000 deemed

essential employees are expected to work without pay, tha includes tsa agents who are on the job during one of the year's busiest travel weekends ahead of the holidays. they'll be paid rhettetroactive once the government reopens. geoff bennett at the white house. >> tourists town for t holidays can't visit some sites because of the shut down and thatncludes the national christmas tree on the ellipse. federal workers affted by part of the government going dark will be able to get a free lunch everyday of the ashutdown it's thanks to celebrity chef jose andres. yesterday beefsteak in tenleytown handed out free burgers. andres said each of his d.c. restaurants will give out free u sandwichesntil people get paid again. "meet the press" moderator

chuck todd will be with usith ch more on this government shutdown. catch "meet the press" later this morning. a lot happened you want to get caught up on. that will be at 10:30 on news 4 today. at 6:04, i want to switch gears and bring us overo lauryn ri ricketts. >> that's right. we only have a couple days left to get i gifts. hope you're caught up. >> one more to buy. >> i'my pre much finished. i think i have one more, too, but i'll be like, it's in the mail. it will be a beautiful day if you need to get last minu shopping done. clear skies right now, sun coming up in about 1:15. 38 degrees right now. not as breezy out there today and as we continue through the 7:00 a.m. hour wll drop a

head into the low 40s but no rain. we'r looking good out there right now. a few rain showers, we'll show you those on futurecast coming up. but looking beautiful for christmas. we'll dive into that forecast and let you kw when we can expect more rain comin up. guys? >> we'll check in with you then. eadeveloping, adly tsunami has killed at least 222 people in indonesia. this happened at the capital of jakarta where n the sunda strait that connects the java sea near he indian ocean. ossible as sayit's volcano triggered an undersea landslide. a community isevtated after a gunman killed a young father steps from his home in northeast d.c. donald louis was holding his newborn son in his handshile he was shot on west virginia

avenue earlier this week. last night, family and friendse gathered tember they believe he was targeted and want justice. at 6:30, darcy spencerill have re from the emotional vigil. at 6:06, e redskins playoff hopes dwindling thanks to a loss against the titans. >> oh, my goodness. the team fought hard, they just couldn't get it done on t road. sherrie burruss has more from tennessee. >> reporter: the redskins hit a bad note in music city, losing 25-16 to the tennessee titans. redskins tryg to spread while adriar peterson passing, ericdickerson moving into seventh on the all-time rushing list, al surpassing1,000 yards this season on what we're calling th. dr 17 plays, 93 yards. that drive ending like this -- josh johnson to michael ydflo. d

seven-yard touchdown. redskins take a 10-6 lead. but in the fourth quarter, tennessee back up, blaine gabbard hits michael pruitt witt four and a halo play. titans up 19-16. josh johnson aki the sns driving. under a minute and a half to go but johnson makes his first big mistake of the game, intercepted by kevin buyard. >> i wish victim that opportunity to dohat again but right now i can learn from it and we can move on to philadelphia. >> that's my frustration. we played a hell of a game. we fought to the end, offense, e, we fought. we just didn't make the plays we needed to do. >> this stings. e way these guys came out and played, their physical style of football game and left a couple -- i feelefike wet some plays on the fhald we could made. >> i feel we were the better team. and weust didn't do enough,

you know? sol that hurts. it stings more when you know that you were better. >> the playoffop even slimmer for the redskins who now look to tend season with a win against the eagles. sherrie s,burrus news 4 sports. it was still a huge night fo d.c.sports. the wizards shined on the court and won in triple ertime. they beat the suns 149-146. guard bradley vea also earned his first career triple-double. day they're back on the road and play the indiana pacers. >> ahigh-scoring game. 6:08. let's give you a live look outside at the u.s. capitol. lauryn ricketts says bundi ibun on your way out to church foryou're like molette,

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ng you're g to have company out there today if you have to cross off last-minute items on your christmas list. today the expected to be one of the top-ten busiest shopping days of the year according to an annual survey by shopper track. they predict the day after christmas and the saturdaystfter chs will also be busy. first responders in prince george's county played santa. >> police headquarters in palmer park filled with piles and pil of toys yesterday. this is the annual toys for tots give away. 13,000 childrenet santa all thanks to generous donations from localirst responders, volunteers and the community. organizers and officers got higz from the jolly old man mself. >> he makes it happen so personnel and people who volunteer, the officers, a lot of officers come in on theirff

days and he makes sure that everybody is in the right place at the right time so all these kids can get rewarded. >> i lovesa a's whole look there. >> yeah. >> in all, the department gave out about 45,000 toys. that's amazing. >> that's probably one of the last day santa can have a break because it will be 48 hours ahead. lauryn ricketts tracking his weather. >> need good weather for sleigh. at>> it will be g weather. i wrote that up that i do every morning. yesterday, talking about how it will be nice and clear for s santride. for us, we may have a few rain showers but tomorrow nightok g good and it's beautiful right now, the sun coming up at 7:23 on this sunday morning but, again, it's a gorgeous morning overlooking oun na capital right now. it's co, though.

we're 38 inul d.c., buts at 29 so a lot of areas are starting in the 20s. we're going to drop in d.c. we'll drop a few degrees through e 7:00 a.m. hour and head back up. plenty of sunshine as you make your way ou if doothe door. we have no rain out ere. quiet travel weather. we're looking good. maybe the pacific northwest getting rain and snow. as far as what we're looking at, travel, quiet weather, shopping, no weather concerns, as you mako your way church services this morning or throughout the day it will be beautiful. degrees will be our day time high. we have a few showersater tonight but not until today. we are dry until then but here comes the clouds. here comes rain showers after 8:00. they'll be gone b 3:00 a.m. and we wake up to a beautiful christmas eve morning tomorrow with temperatures tomorrow low

to mid-40s so another cold blast coming our way of chilly air.e and h we go. christmas eve, christmas day temperatures will be in the low tomid-40s. it will be breezy tomorrow but the wind will settl down as we get into your christmas day. christmas day beautiful, low 40s, sunshine, our next chance of rain tonight will be on friday. yo a chance from snow showers sunday night into monday. snowe'll talk about that >> that's right. "rorters notebook" coming up. in good mo i'm pat lawson muse. new details and a lawsuit involving the tragic death of nine-year-old boy who got stuck between a p motorizedtition and a wall at franconia elementary school. it's a story you saw only on news 4. parents plan to sue the fairfax county school distrt after discovering there were other adults in the room. i-team investigativean reporter consumer reporter susan

hogan are here with us. you learned new details after you filed a public recordsre est. tell us what you learned. >> we filed it weeks ago and justhe received this week. inside there were some stunning details that describe what exactly happened the das w that wesley died. there's also a letter from attorneys and their inten to sue fairfax county and all employees in the gym at the . particular ti the documents claim at that time there were actually two teachers and o afterschool employee a one of those teachers -- which was redact sod ed so we't d hav name -- sought wesley and asked themo move the motorized partitioner, use the key to open it up which was just like, according to the attorneys and we spoke with them as well, they were stunn by that. number one, there should be no children operating these motorize partitions according

to tm sohey said why ask wesley to help them with moving were artition when the two teachers and an afterschool employdu? there weres in the room. so they're suing them in terms of negligence is what they're saying. basically allows wesley to attempt to p close ttition in the first place, failing to follow proper procedures and failing to properly train employees. g is there any indication or explanationen for asking the child instead of asking the adult? >> no, and that'she big question is why ask a little b to help move a motorized partition which is extremely heavy. the force of it opening and/or closing is so incredibly strong. and what they were doing, which we just learned, there was aha dance evening so they were

looking to close the ptition to break up the gym in order to have the dance so that's what the lawyers were saying is why asking a an eight-year-old boy. >> obviously there were procedures that were not t followt should have been followed here. there will be changes. tell us what the schools apl ning to do in the wake of this. >> right after wesley's death fairfax county public schools put in policies in place, one of which is wherever the partition is open or closed -- and this goes for all of the schools -- no children can be in the gym or wherever the partitions are perform only specific teachers or employees are allowed to use the motoriz partitions and then also only a few people, adults, can have the key to move the partition to close them or open them. >> one other question. we have sensors o our garages that prevent them from closing if we're standing in the way. why don't the schools have these

sensors for these partitions? >> great question. that's the question a lot of people are asking and a couple people we'vein rviewed, a former teacher was asking, wesley's parents are asking, the lawyers are asking because these sensors do exist. there are sensors that you can put on these partitions that cost between $5,000 and $6,000 aliece per and they do as you're closing the partition if child were to run through it or get near, it will stop so these exist but we found in our investigation only one school in the d.c. area, the whole region has one of these. the lawyers pointed out in their lawsuit that fairfax county has audget of $2.8 billion so why don't they have the money to pun hese safety mechanisms. >> that's a question we'll have

to wait to get an answer to. the news 4 i-team found a squatting scam is spread bug city officials think what the i-team found may mean changing the law.ing but city officials think what the i-team found may mean changing the law. scott, tell us how the food truck scam >> of all the things we've seen this is possibly the most knucklehead. in southwest d.c., parking spaces are as rare and as prized as they are in other high-impact parts of the city where there's a lot ofederal workers and people want to park their cars but in southwest d.c. there's a lot ofederal lunch eaters. the federal work force wants lunch so what some trucks have done is taken public parking ter spaces and made them their own. years.ng on them for two trucks arrive for lunch each day, sell their lunch to the federal work force, then at 2:00 the truck operators move junk cars into the place of their trunks to save their spot all night.

then they bring their foodruck ck, replace the car many and save their place for lunch servings. they've done thisay after day and the people who live and work there are frustrated. we investigatede this, thought this would be an easy fix. e showcase it had problem, the dpw for tows the trucks. but d.c. trucks don't permit them to tow cars at a meter.d t dpw for tows the trucks. but d.c. trucks don't permitrs them to tow t a meter. they're changing the law that would allow them to break up a parking scheme. >> so ahey're parking meters and paying? >> they may be paying, they may not be. some days they may pay the meter, some day they may take a chance but even if they get a ticket, even if you get aicket 15 times at that same parks space it's $30 each time which is recouped by selling two lunches in the first five minutes you're operating. >> so they'reth taking u

spaces. what are they doing to the lunch business crowd and t businesses? >> well, they're serving the federal work force whichants od truck food at their doorstep so there are customers who are quite pleased thisme scs going on but they're crippling both the businesses, the brick-and-mortar restaurants nearby which paid the rent assuming there would be no food trucksut front. they're also damaging the food truck lottery. d.c. has a famed 10 food truck zone system where you have designat areasor food trucks who do business. these pirates of parking spaces are setting up -- withinight they're almost 100 food truck zones. >> we'rexpecting the counsel to pass new legislation when? >> they have passed it. ne mayords to sign it or allow it to go through. that should happen f a weekm today. >> we'll take a break and be right back. st with us.

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facebook has been under fire on capitol hill. now d.c.'s attorney general charges facebook failed to protect the data of millions of users. he spoke specifically on the cambridge analytica scandal where a third party personality quiz collected user data before 2016. racine says half of all d.c. residents were affected by that. news of this lawsuit obviously comes amidst the avalanche of charges that facebook is facing but how significant is this d.c. lawsuit? >> pretty significant because it's the first one and it really was one of those things where the ag is saying what facebook is doing is going after o personinformation, our data, but allowing the thirdti p to somehow get by our -- if we

chked off like w wanted privacy data and all of that, we don't want them to have our data, you can check that box, somehow they're cir amventing th this is for certain companies that they've basically given car blanche to so the ags office is stepping in and saying absolutely not. scott and i were talking about this earlier. with facebook it's one of those things where we as users know when w log on we're throwing our information out there. you know, it's- we know things get shared. uttingind of -- we're ourselves out there but what the ag is saying and why they're getting a o lot bad press this week is the fact that, you know, the fact that they're allowing these companies to circumvent our privacy policies and retrieve our data and use it without our knowledge. the lawsuit in d.c., is it the beginning of something big? >> yeah. days from now the complexion of congress changesdr

atically. it goes from republican rule in the house to democratic majority in the athouse. the s majority changes inside but nothing changes politically for facebook. no matter who is in control, the's increase scrutiny for them. it's one unifying political fact ofxi ourence is that both parties are concerned about social media platforms and privacy. i believe when the new congress takes effect january 3, hearings will be seduled soon after. >> racine is asking facebook to change privacy practices and pay restitution. what do we do? >> i think, you know, until it happens i think it's buyer beware or user beware as we were saying. you've -- a i've seen lot of people on facebook yesterday or on twitter saying i'm out, i'm done. so people are leaving facebook. it'sre -- as we also saying, too, it's free and you get what you pay for. if you're putting your stuff out there, if you don't want this, if you're angry about what you're hearing, get yourself off

facebook. >> it's a goodo time remind parents they can control their kids' apps and make sure you can supervise which apps your children download. >> right. if you ann pg to get or give a car for christmas, the insurance institute for highway safety has tunveiled its safety picks for 2019 and there's a lot to choose from buu san, you got to go and see what they -- what it takes to put one of the tests together and it was amazing, wasn't it? >> it was o of t coolest shoots i've been on. we went down to ruckersville which is where their headquarters are where they do testing. you go down this long, long driveway and then out of nowhere is this huge building and it's their test so we got to test vehicles for anti-lock braking, for cks, just watching the cars do all of this and it's not the autonomous but these are the safety

features that take over for you if you'redistracted and we got to see a crash test in action and i've been reporting on this for over 25 years, we've been looking at this crash da and crash video but never i have been able to be in there watching. it's remarkable. >> you discovered wt researchers are looking for in the aftermath of a crash? >> for sure. the truck they were testing the day we we there was the nissan titan pickup. at 40 miles an hour, the truck is way, way down on this long, long hallway and it comes up and crashes in a barrier. you would think that it was on g 80 miles an hour based the noise you hear, the debris field it created sos soon as e crash was over the researchers got right over there and they were-ooking they don't care how bad and banged up the truck was. c thld care less. it was all smushed in, the tire was over here, there were pieces everywhere. what they care about is what's inside the cockpit area.

how bad was that the outside they could care less about because that you can repair orou just call it a total. they want to see how safe we are in t ca did the dashboard come intohhe cras dummy? did the crash dummy's air bag do what it was supposed to do. >> did the people inside survive? >> exactly. that's what they care about. >> you have to tell us about the picks. ty >> 57 cars got the top safety pick, which is remarkable. that's basicallyaying manufacturers are getting smarter, our cars are getting safer. the top subaru -- which is not surprising, subaru always cam out onop with its top safety picks, it's always been there -- but theyad seven top safety pick this is year. two minivans, the pacifica and honda odyssey came out on top. >> scott, i don't want a car for christmas, some federal workers just want it to be working. >> it was a crazy day.

you started the day in the morning with the president being far from clear with what his intentions were theontinuing resoluti resolution. thiss day by day and i thinkederal workers accustomed to this uncertainty all that said, some number of federal workers during the shutdown have to go to work, they just don't get their paychecks,it's deferred pay. i think the misconception, especially outside of our area, is shutdowns mean no federal workers go to work. it's far from the a large portion have to go to the office. they just do so without the financial certainty they deserve. >> thank you, scott and susan. that's reporters notebook.at i'm lawson muse. news 4 today continues. sr.

>> president trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall. day two ofhe partial government shutdown is under way sight. clear end in >> let's work together, let's be bipartisan. >> the halls of congress are empty as hundreds of thousands of federal workers waitim in with just two days before christmas, many wonr how long will it last. news 4 is working for you. with good sunday mning to u. behind us right here, a live picture of the white house wher presidump is spending the holiday. he was supposed to spend christmas in floridaha but was before part of the government shut down. >> right now, thousands of fe iral worke our area don't know when they will be able to return to work and many deemed essential are working for free. yesterday proved to be ut unul as the senate adjourned until after christmas without a resolution. the stalemate hinges president trump's $5 billion demand for his signature

campaign promise. of course, that southernorr wall. the president refuses to sign a deal that does not fund it and democrats who will control the house soon say they will notun r any circumstance pay for the wall. >> we arrived at this momcat bee president trump has been on a destructive two-week tempea rum. >> they've refused to meet president trump halfway.n >> yet a tweet, president trump signaled the shutdown could last a while but later appeared to soften his stance tweeting in part he may accept funding for a steel barrier instadd of one me out of concrete. as always, we are working for you with c continuingerage of this partial government shutdown. we'll keep you up to datee with latest in our nbc washington app and on nbcwashington.com. we welcome you in, december .23, 20 i'm david culver in for adam tuss. >> and i'm molette green. how are youeeling two days before the big day? >> i'm feeling great. i think having thanksgiving so

early gave us another week to prepare. >> you still have to go shopping, though. >> one more thing that just came to mind. >> so we want to have good weather for those last-minute shoppers, folks still keeping focuse on theoliday season and staying in the spirit. lauryn ricketts one o. th >> i have one more present to do. i know david -- i don't think he went shopping. i think most of amazon did that for him. right? >> it's fine. >> that's how i did it, too. butf both are closing in on that shipping date because christmas obvusly twoays away and we are looking at a beautiful sight out there. not only on christmas but also right now. clear skies, temperatures in the 30s, the sun coming up at 7:24 so it's a gorgeous morning oth e and we'll continue to have a beautiful day. 27 degrees in winchester, 26 in gaithersberg.

-- gaithersburg. plenty of clouds s tort, plenty to end and rain showers as well. we'll talk about that in a few minute guys? >> got a little bit of grinch on the redskins today out there. just check that - oh,. david their playoff hopes are slimmer after a tough loss ine. tennesse the team fell to the titans 25-16. the game was close until the titans scored that touchdown in the fourth quarter. on top of that. throws ack josh johnson an interception with a minute and a half to go. just one more game left his season for the burgundy an goechl gold. next weekend they're back at homest aga the eagles. a mother trying to get justice after her only s shot and killed outside h home. someone shot him while he had

his newborn son in his hands. s darcncer has the emotional plea from family members who instead of celebrating the holidays are planning a funeral. >> i lost my only son, my baby. it's crazy. and it hurts so bad. >> reporter: shadonna lewis' son was d gunnedn while he was holding his newborn o a by -- son in a baby carrier. >> he didn't dese.e this >> reporter: donald louis walked out of his apartme just before midnight tuesday when two people in masks opened fire. he and the baby fell down the steps, somehow the baby wasn't hurt. the family believes lewis was targeted? >> do you have justice now since that?id do you have it? are you happy? >> reporter: family and friends ga to remember lewis, was the father of two young children. >> everybody parents, everybody cousins, everybody sisters and

brothers but as soon as somebody looks at somebody wrong they're ready to fight and shoot somebody. senseless. we need to be trying to lift everybody up, help each other not trying to tear everybody down. >> reporter: lewis' father spoke athe candlelight vigil. >> i sold drugs, used drugs for years. i finally get my life toget sr anebody murders my son. that really hurt me. >> reporter: this mom is dealing with the murder not only of her son but also her sister she was killed in her apartment in june, police have warrant for her boyfriend's arrest. >> get my son's kille and my sister. and we're all right. >> reporter: his familynd friends are trying to get through the holidays. they plan to have his funeral on thursday. in northeast, darcy spencer, news 4. london's gatwick airport back open after drones flying nearby created a holiday

nightmare for travelers there. the two people arrested in connection too the drone which is forced the airport to suspend flights earlier this week have been released with no charges this morning. more than a thousand flights had to be canceled or diverted. the two could face up to five years in prison. now, gatwi is the uk's second-busiest airport and schedules are slowlyeturning ck to normal. but, again, those two people arrested released. >> quite a mess for those >travelers. let's give you a live look outside, perhaps you're traveling today ead of christmas. we're also tracking temperatures as you get ready to start your h day. storm team 4 holiday forecast with lauryn richts ris coming up. plus, a setback for the silver line. adam

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problems along metro's troubled silver line extension. news 4 has learned aboutds hundf cracks in concrete in a rail yard critical to the project. ad tuss has the story you'll only see on 4. >> reporter: cracking concrete along the silver line e non more problems have surfaced in the rail yard being built along the next phase and this rail yard will be critical to thentire silver line being able to operate. charles stark, the man in chae of the project, detailing this for news 4. what goes through your head when you see that?on >> theactor needs to fix it. >> reporter: all you have to do is come here and ake alook. this is the main building at this rail yard and there areac all over the place. it's gotten so bad, they've put sight lines here to see if the building is actually moving. if anything shakes here, that sight line will go off.

remember, whileil metro w take over the silver line eventually, th project is being built by the airport's authority. it's been anoth wild week in washington. >> joining us to break this down and helpreexplain w we go from here. moderator of "meet the tress" chucd joining us. let's start with what's on top of mind for a lotlkf a partial government shutdown that affects hundreds of thousands, many of whom are in our area. we've seen this back and forth etween the president and democrats. it seems the border wall is what this hinges on. is there going to be compromise here? who you go? >> it isn't clear where we go. i think at this point is myes is we wait for the democrats to take over the house on juary 3 ando now i guess the first order of business for them will be sweing in and trying to reopen the government. you know, they've gavelled it out, they're supposed to come back the 27th. but one of the things congress

has done is they've made it easier to shut down the me gove. they've piecemealed it so much that they've taken away as much of the political pain as they can. so the troops are getting paid already. fense is already funded. they do this and in some ways little mini shuturaging these wns that we have. but i would be shocked. unless the president caves next week i would be shocked. >> and continue to 2019. >>f no sign him caving? >> well, you're in for a udime, ere in for a dollar. there's no way out for him. so you might as well wait until the democrats g there and start all over. if you cave in the middle, what was the point? hi he's stuck. >> all of coming in the same week we're hearing about the resignation. another resignation, defense

secretary jim mattis announcing he retiring. >> i think this is the bigger ory. >> yes. >> we do shutdowns all the time. that's common. i think this is -- >> this has real impact. >> this is the first time where senate republicans -- you're seeing senate republicans as group saw jim mattis as the guardrail. he's gone. they're rattled. th barely held it in. you throw t it on of this, the stock market's gyrations that are directly related to the president's temperbo tantrum fed policy and then trade policy and all this other stuff. the level of patience far group of republicans i think is waning and at some point i think the president is going regret sort

of this island he's carving up for himself. >> we talk about the president's base being unwaiverg but you mentioned the stock market. when we see that go, could that chip away? >> if you look at our last nbc/"wall street journal" poll,o you see erosion. somebody put it -- it was -- they dn't want tout their name on it but it was a ro-trump senator who said it comes -- it's like erode a little bit more of the beach, a erod little bit more of the beach and this person said and the mueller tidal wave hasn't come in yet. how much beach will be left when mueller hits? that was his point. th's what the -- the president is creating problems with members of his party and the mueller report hasn't even hit yet. >> who do you have on the show thislk about >> republican senator from pennsylvania pat toomey. democratic senator d k durbi from illinois. we'll see what they have to sach >> you can c chuck todd after news 4 today starting at 10:30. chuck, we appreciate it, thanks.

>> thank you. >> thanks, chuck. uryn. >> molette, how are you? >> you used that four-letter word snow into the forecast. is anything like that going to happen? >> maybe a few snow showers next week end so that will be something we have to watch. >> thank goodness. >> unfortunately, you have go to pennsylvania to find snow showers and that will be overnight tonight and tomorrow morning but everybody will be dry with no snow. >> i can't t even remember last time we had snow on the ground. it must have been 2009. >> conversational snow. i lik that. >> it wasn't 2015 because it was like 70 degrees on christmas. >> i did the last five years and it's like 2013 we were in the 30s but pretty much every year after that have leading up t thisyear, temperatures were well above normal. remember it was like 71 degrees a couple years ago?

>> i remember that ch. >> iin of like. >> it see, i like cold. you can like it, throough, it's all . but it's not looking all that bad today. traveling won't b badither up and down the east coast. let's show you what's going on right now. our live capitol camera. we have clear skies out there right now but it's a beautiful morning. sun coming up at 7: a.m. not a lot of rain in the forecast. we have p.m. showers tonight afte 8:00 p.m. and we'll continue to have showers into the middle part o the overnight and we're dry monday, tuesday, s thursday, cloincrease and we could have a few showers late on thursday. but tn mostlyn friday we'll have our next chance of rain. current temperature acro the area, 38 in washington, 34 in frederick and leesrg right now.

nothing happening on the radar. widening out this view a little. everyone throughout the united states quiet. a few light showers through missouri and headed into georgia but for the most part we are looking good across the u.s. your weekend activities for today, travel, quiet weather, last-minute shopping, no weather concerns. maybe finding parking spots but otherwise no weather concerns. any church services it will be beautiful morning. temperatures in the mid to upper 40s for dayme highs today. clouds increasing throughout the afternoon. showers possible after 80 p.m. so here we go. we're clear. and herees c the rain after some clouds move in throughout the afternoon. after 8:00 maybe a few light showers. they're gone by 3:00 a.m. and wu waketo a beautiful morning. on christmas eve morning we'll have sunshine. one thing abouttomorrow, it will be colder and breezy

throughout your christmas eve. winds gusting to 25 miles an hour throughout the day. they'll stay with us through the day, settleer down a 7:00 p.m. tonight. temperatures in the low 40s for your christmas eve. feel hose winds it wil like the 30s. but no concerns on christmas. we'll climb o0 of the 2s on christmas morning and head to 40 degrees by christmas afternoon. so looking good on your monday, tuesday,ednesday even looking beautiful. we take temperatures back into the mid to upper 40s. thursday we'll have a few more clouds buiing into the area. that will set the scene for rain showers on friday and look at this temperature. just talking about rain showers through the day on friday. by saturday, we're still right around 60 degrees. sunday still looking b good then we've got those chances of some snow showers we get into your new year's eve/new year's day. a little too early to tell but we have it on the

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>> you haven't crossed everyone off your list, liz mclaughlin shows you s ideas.-minute gift it's dow to the wire and almost half of americans are still scrambling for gifts. >> according to google shopping data we have, % o people wait until to last minute to buy their gifts so i'm part of that >> give back to the environment we cofriendly gifts such as bees wrap sustainable food storage. for the kids on your list, give the gift of learning with toys aat teach suchthe harry potter coding kit. or you can build game accessories for anyone tthe nin

switch c >> y snap a here? ing wheel together for a game you're drivingaround. >> tech u accessories areful gift like a new phone or laptop. >> things like web cam cers which are great for privacy, extra long charging cables which are al persona favorite of mine. >> reporter: while it may be tempting, exrts say to skip the gift card wrack. >> d't get therdtuck gift ca, it's impersonal. it mouns i don't know y at all. >> reporter: instead, tickets to a concert may be more meaningful than a material gift and you can get it quickly online as late as christmas morning. liz mclaughlin, nbc news. >> google, add aftershave to my shopping list. google, remind me to clean these sheets later. >> okay, i'll remind you. in case you missed it, kevin mcalester from the classic holiday hit home alo is back.

he's grown up still living at home in a new google ad, but this time he has google home to keep him company. remember when he used a michael jordan cutout to fool the burglars. this time he enlisted another nba champ, kevin durant. pretty cool. ♪ how long has this been going on ♪ ♪ >> voice contestants on nbc's "the voice." wht could forge them? they were dynamicth on "e voice" and a few days ago the local stars teamed up with one of best choirs at first baptist church for our a holiday sing-along. >> you were there to check it out. this is sure to get you ready

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s the ite house government remains shut down this morning. on this december 23, 2018, we thank you for waking up. i'm david culvern for adam tuss. >> i'm molette green. thank you for joining us. we are 31 hours into a partial government shutdown president trump and congressremain at an impasse, democrats say they won't grant it under any rcumstan circumstance. thousands of workers in our area won't be paid until this is resolved. as geoff bennettreports, it's high drama with real world impact. resident trump holed up at the white house as the partial government shutdown drags on with no deal in sight. the stalemate hinging on trump's $5 billion demand for his signature campaign promise -- a sout border wall.

on heepeatedly said mexico would pay fo the preside who said he would be proud to shutown the government over border security. >> i will be the one to shut it down, w i't blame you for it. >> reporter: he signalledai it could for a while. summoned top aides and allies to the white house to talk strategy. e president appeared t soften his stance. in a tweet suggesting he might accept funding for a steel barrier instead of one made of concrete. a senior administration official told nbc the psidents willing to negotiate on the tape of barrier so long as democrats agree one. roughly 25% of the federal government has gone dark. that means 380,000 government employees are furloughed or forced to take unpaid leave until the shutdown ends.

at 420,000 are w expected tok without pay, including tsaag ts. they'll be paidly retroacti once the government reopens. i'm geoff bennett at the white house. tourists in town for the holidays can'tisit some sites because of the shutdown and that ional christmas tree on the ellipse. the lights have been turned off. the tree is right across the street, right across from the white house. >> molette, federal workers affected by part of the government going dark will be able to get a free lunch everyday it's shut down. all of this thanks to chef jose andres. beefsteak in tenleytown handed out burgers yesterday. he tweeted out each of his d.c. restaurants will give out free sandwiches until workers get paid again. if you want to get in on, that st sho your government i.d.

"meet the press"er mor chuck todd will have much more on this later in the hour. but at -- lauryn ricketts standing by with the forecast. >> we are talking about temperures there the 2s to 40 degrees but it's a beautiful un morning, that coming up in about 20 minutes from now, 7:24. we are looking at pristine coitions out there. as far as traveling goes, not a lot of rain. all across the united states it's looking good. couldn't ask for a better travel day. temperatures 38 in d.c., winds at 10 miles an hour. we're going to have win at five to 10 miles an hour throughout the day. we did have breezy conditions yesterday, it won't be as bad out there thrgh the day today. so as we're talking about the weekend activities, we're

talking about travel, quiet weather, shopping, no travel concerns and church services looking beautiful for that. we'll tk about your christmas eve, christmas day.ve could now on new year's eve and new year's day. we'll talk about that in 15 minutes. >> we'll check in with you then. >> developing this morning, a deadly tsunami has killed at least 222 people in indonesia. this hit the capital of jakarta around the isthe sundra strait.s scientisay it's psible a volcano eruption caused the undersea landslide.> gunman killed a young father steps from his home in northeast d donald lewis was holding his newborn son in his hands when he was shot on west virginia

avenue. family and friends gathered to remember him, they believe lewis was targeted and want justic at 30, darcy spencer will have more from the emoonaligil coming up at 7:30. that's right. but at 7:06, the redskins playoff hopes dwindling thanks to a tgh loss against the titans. >> it was tough. the team fought hard but couldn't get it done. sherrie burruss has more in tennessee. >> the redskins lost 25-16 to the tennesse thai taitanstitans. adrian peterson passed eric dickerson moving into seventh on the all te rushing list and surpassing 1,000 yds on what we're calling the drive. 17 play, 93 yards. that drive ending like this. josh johon to michael floyd, seve yard touchdown. johnson 6 for 6 on the drive.

redskins take a 10-6 lead. in the forth enarter, tssee back up, blaine gabbard hits michael pruitt for go ahead touchdown with fou and a half to play. titans up 19-16. osh johnson and the ski driving. under a minute and a half to go but johnson makes his first big mistake of the game, intcepted by kevin buyard. >> i wish i could have that opportunity too that again but i have to learn frome it and can move on to philadelphia. >> that's any frustration. we played a hell of a fought to the end, offense, defense, we fought, we just didn't make the plaee wed to do to get over that hump. >> this stings. the way these guysplayed, o physical style of fooall game, i feel like we left plays we could have made. >> i feel like we were the better team and we didn't do.

enou so that hurts. ite stings m when you know that you were better. >> the playof hopes slimmer for the redskins who now look to end the season with a win against the eagles. from nashville, sherrie burruss, news 4, sports. a huge night in sports when it comes to the wizards. they shined in court,on in triple overtime beating the phoenix sign 149-146. brley beal also earned his first triple double. congratulations to him. ntoday they're o the road playing the indiana pacers. 7:08 is your time on this ay su a live look outside, the sun makt making its way up. lauryn ricketts telling us how to prepare for sunday services and looking ahead to christmas eve and christmas day forecast. >> can't wait for her to get back with a

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it will be crowded as you hit the malls and cross offhe last items on your christmas list. today is expected to be one of the top ten busiest shopping o daysf the year. shopper track preafcts the day r christmas and the saturday after christmas will be busy as well. nice the are usually are time of year you. >> any. >> well, not in the parking lot. >> was going to say, that's a dangerous spot. >> don't take their sparking space. >> no. no, jufs tst try to uber there something. nd first ress in prince george's county played san tnchts thsanta. >> it was all f annual toys for tots give away. 13,000 children picked out met santa thanks to generous

donations coming from the local first responders, volunteers and the community. organizers and the officers got high prize from thatolly old elf himself. >> he makes it happen. so personnel and people who of volunteer, thecers, a lot of officers come in on their days off and he makes sure that everybody is in the right place at the right te so kids can get rewarded. >> when you talk about all these ki, in all the department gave out about 45,000 toys. >> 7:12 is your time on this sunday as we take you outside. the sunday forecast with lauryn rickettss is on the other side of this break. plus, the story behind a facebook post and these newspapers when news 4 today continues. for you, it's always leap over look.

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forecast in five minutes. >> lauryn, thanks. this next story thanks to our producer. hampton university excited about one of their incoming students, 2014 little league world series breakout start mo'ne davis signed her letter of intent to play softball for hampton in the fall. >> that is so awesome. o> she was the first girl throw a shutout in the little league world series. she was named 2014te assoc press female athlete of the year. a my daughters have her book. she wrote book. the school says she plans to study journasm. hmm. >> is that the real hu or -- >> hampton university is not the real hu. howard university. but our producer sam went to hampton so there's a little rivalry. moving on, it was a simple facebook post to get a big surprise for a local young woman with cerebral palsy this christmas. it turned into more than a mother could ask for.

news 4's corey smith explains how total strangers came through to deliver the news. >> this is a story about a girl and her newspaper. lace millner loves the sight, sound and feel of having the morning paper in her hand. she gets it from her dad, according to mom. >> she wouldit here inhe morning and he would go through the page. >> reporter: lacey is 22 and suffers from cerebral palsy and tepilepsy. ongh days, the newspaper is like medicine. >> you give her a paper, it's a pick me up. >> reporter: she's not keen on the front page or the comics section, it's the ads she loves. >> i have to get there first or it will be tak apart. i, with the holidays approaching, theresa millner knows what's at the top of lacey's wish list but she wanted to do something special for her daughter. >> i had a friend say it would be cool if you could getair. >> reporter: that led to a facebook post which led to the

unexpected. >> i thought it would be my friends or relatives in other states. this is the b of papers so far. >> reporter: the newspapers came in from all over. >> california, anchorage, north carolina, south carolina, pennsylvania. st says merry christmas from long w island, york. i don't know who they are. >> reporter: all the ads lacey could want. where to put them. ? that was easy, where newspapers normally go. >> she might be overwhelmed to have that many papers at her disposal but she'll love it. irvegs i for mo . >> reporter: for mom, it makes this christmas unforgettable. >> there's still a lot of good people. >> reporter: and during this holiday season, that is truly good news. corey smith, news 4. >> beautiful story. just love it. >> very cool. lauryn ricketts with us on this sunday morning and look at e -- it's shaping to be a nice one, too. >> it will be beautifu

i'm so excited. >> i can tell. >> we can't contain youhis morning. >>it pretty outside, we have iful sunrise, no travel concerns looking through christmas eve and christmasday. >> and tn we have maybe some snow? >> towards the end ofhis year but we'll watch. that i was looking at new updates right now. we may have to take it out. let me talk to you about that when i get to the ten-day forecast. let's talk about the beautiful sunrise. the sun u comingin five minutes but you can see the sky is gorgeous over d.c. right on this sunday morning. w four things to know. today do have a little lig rain. it will be gone during the middle part of the ovilnight.

that drag a cold front through the area so christmas eve and christmas day mperatures will be lower so another little cold shot of air coming our way so breezy conditions on christmas eve and the wind settles down for christmas day. we'll have sunshine throughout the day today. beautiful, prett much all throughout the united states. not a lot going on across the united states. icin in northern california and through pacorthwest but that's about it. as far as temperatures are concerned, we're in the 20s and 30s. cooler outside the beltway into the shenandoah valley. mid to upper 40s for daytime highs today so sunshine to start, clouds in the afternoon anho light rainrs later tonight but, again, light rain showers so all sun -- i don't know what i was trying to write there. s-8. i have no idea what that means. as far as what d we'reng throughout the afternoon, more clouds and after 8:00 p.m. the rain is movg in. we'll take it out for you.

7:00 looking good. here comes clo cover. as we get into 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, herett s showers. just light stuff. gone in the middle part of the overnidt. then a c shot of air comes your way for our christmas eve and christmas day. 'll have gusts up to 25 miles an hour so with those temperatures a little cooler, it will feel chilly out there but the winds settle down into your christmas morning, so not looking too bad for that. so chrisas eve and christmas day, breezy on christmas eve, low 40s. and christmas day, gorgeous, temperatures only around 40 degrees. upper 40s on wednesday. thursday we cloud up. friday we have chances of rain throughout the day. just rain. temperatures in the mid-50s. 60n saturday and we have a chance for rain/snow. the models keep flipping back and forth on this. looked at the newestupdate and they don't have that much rain/snow so we may have t that out but that will be somethingou're y

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withstand the cold, just stand beneath the lights. row houses dripping with decorations, each its own ornament hanging on the 700th block. >> to see these little ones and theirfaces. >> reporter: darlene and bob are the elves behind it. ittarted when bob strung lights between a few neighbors' houses in 1991. turns out the spirit was contagious. >> i like decorating at christmas, whether all these people show up or not, doesn't matter. i'd still doit. >> reporter: from hub cap christmas trees tonflatable dreidels to festive flamingos, eyes of a ages gaz in wonder. >> it feels like christmas so we call i the miracle on 34th street. >> it makes you feel jolly a happy. >> seeing these lights turn on is total christmas cheer. >> reporter: a gift to the community but one for those who live here. >> just to see those smiles and know you made somebody happyor a few minutes is worth it.

>> reporter: catie beck, nbc news. >> merry christmas! lookt that image right there. a live l this morning in the nation's capital. lauryn ricketts is tracking the tempatures on this christmas eve. two days to get to get those gifts, david. >> we're getting on it, molette. this lunch monitor is still going well into her 90s. you'll hear why she is so dedicated when news 4 today inntues on this sunday hey, batter, batter, batter, batter. [ crowd cheers ] like everyone, i lead a busy life. but i know the importance of having time to do what you love.

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>> and thousands of federal workers in our area don't flow when they will be able ton ret to work, many deemed essential are working for free. yesterday proved to be unt untruthful as the senate adjourned until after christmas without a resolution. the stalemate hinges on president trump's $5 billion demand for his signature campaipromise, that southern border wall. sign asident refuses t deal that does not fund it and democrats who will control the house soo say they winot, under any circumstance, pay for the wall. >> we arrived at this moment because president trump has been on a destructiveektwo- temper tantrum. >> they've refused to meet president trump halfway. >> yet in a tweet, president trump signaled the shutdown could last a while but then appeared to soften hisce stan, tweeting he may accept money for a steel barrier instead of one made out of concrete. we are working for you with continuing coverage of this partial shutdown. it's a big deal around here.

a lot of you are impacted or know someone who is. you can find the up-to-the-minute information on our nbc washingtonp. good morning, i'm david culver in for adam tuss. >> and'm molette > leeet'n.sgr . you need to bundle up and lauryn is talking about snowot but any time soon. >> you're right, molette. i wh we could have snow hrowers as we get into your christmas eve andtmas day. it will come close. u will have rain showers tonight but if nt snow showers you have to go through central pennsylvania. sun is up, it's a beautiful morning. sun came up 7:24 absolutely wonderful out there, a little cold but not too bad.es temperatre climbing out of the 20s and 30s. at reagan national parenairport degrees. mid to upper 40s by later this afternoon but no rain, gorgeous

conditions out there if you're traveling and looking good across the united states. we are dry, looking like a good travel day out there. we'll talk about whether it's looking like a good christmas day in just a few minutes. >> playoff hopes slimmer after a tough loss in tennessee. yesterday the team fell to the titans 25-16. the game was close until the titans scored a touchdown inhe fourth quarter. on top of that, quarterback josh johnson throws an interception with a minute and a half to go. just one more game left eason for the burgundy and gold. they're back at home against the eagles. w s love thisry here. the school district, where she works, calls her the christmas gift that keeps on giving, flo conklin has been a lunchroom hostess at ever green elementary since the eesburg school opened. but as julie carey found out,

flos still hard at work into her '90s. >> reporter: from the time flo conklin steps in the cafeteria door, she is on the move. on goes the apron, out goes a spray bottle clean the tables and once the kids arrive there's more to do. and heres the amazing part. on christmas daylo turns 96. >> i said why is everybody making such a big deal out of i guess i don't really think out it. home,t come to work and go come to work and go home. >> reporter: flo first went to work in the 40s, leaving her pennsylvania home for a a job the pentagon. once married, she staid home to raise her two kids. then a jolt to her life plan. in 1995, her husband passed away. >> i said i've got to get ajob. i was broke and i didn't know where or what at 73ears old, what do you do? >> reporter: a friend suggested

a job with loudoun county public schools as a stess. the kids flo is a grandmotherly figure. these girls see her in the cafeteria and at sunday school where she teaches ree-year-olds. >> she will help us out when we're little. >> she like my grandee a esttle bit. that's what m me really happy about her. >> reporter: to the ever green mills staff, flo is an inspiration. >> she's such a motivation to everybody here on staff. r orter: flo is here everyday from 10:00 to 1:30 in the afternoon and when she gets home? well, there's more to do. >> i'm always movingaround. i paint a little bit. irochet a little bit. i read a little bit. >> reporter: that painting? some is on christmas ornaments, sketching detailed birds perched on pines and flo insts there's no real secret to her energetic longevity. >> i don't sit still very long. ter of fact, i have trouble getting up when i sit still.

>> reporter: when school opened last fa flo didn't think twice about returning as she approached t. >> i j came back. nobody asked me and nobody called mehe >> reporter:as a lifetime appointment here so she can keep coming bk as often as she wants. >> reporter: how long will that be? >> i tell everybody until i drop. >> reporksr: from the l of it, flo, it won't be any time soon. flo u can probably guess, doesn't do much complaining. she says she's too busy but she does admit -- and this is sothing my dad agrees with -- sharing a birthday with christmas or close withs it not ideal because you have to then get the combo gifts. th a is a christmas birthday present. >> but it's been a blessing you would say? at's true. that is true. >> she is a doll. i love it. >> the key has to be to keep going. >> that's what my mother says. my mother 183.

she says you just have to move and she's sharp as a whip like flo. let's look outside on this sunday morning. we are trackinre tempera as you get ready to start your day. the storm team 4 fecast with lauryn ricketts is up in just a moment >> i hope m for saying her age. a setback on the silver line. ouep transportationter adam ouep transportationter adam tuss breaking it down when news this is your wake-up call. ouep transportationter adam tuss breaking it down when news if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, month after month,

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we are learning about more problems on metro'sroled silver line extension. >> hundreds of crack of conete in aail yard that is critical to this project. adam tuss has thetory you'll see only on 4. >> reporter: cracking concreteo al the silver line. you h rd thatbefore, but now more problems haveurfaced in the rail yard being builtal g the next phase.

and this raid yard will be critical to the entire silver line being able to operate. charles stark, the man in charge of theproject, detailing all of this for news 4. what goes through your head when you see something like that? >> contractor needs to fix it. >> reporter: when it comes to the cracking in these buildings, just come here to take a look. this is the main building atra e yard. there are cracks all over the place. it's gotten so bad in some spots that the put these sight lines near see if the building is moving. if anything shakes here, that sight line wil go off. the project is being built by the airport authority, though metro will eventually take over the silver line. another live look at this sunday morning. plenty of sun out there. you can see it starting to shine. ho layers will you need as you head

fwo2018 was a turbulent yea >> and nbc's jay gray takes a riok back at many headline-making s of the year. >> didt expect that reaction but that's okay.la hter ] >> reporter: it's been a year of the unexpected, unpredictable

and, in some cases, unbearable. wind. water and flames cut a devastating path across the i country 2018. mudslides and fires out west, the camp blaze town of paradise, dozens were killed in the deadliest wildfire in california history. > extreme isn't the right adjective to use anymore, it's an understatement because fire is so explosive in california. >> aolcanic explosion on hawaii's big island fuelled rivers of lava that flowed for months. in missouri, summer storms sank a duck boat, 17 tourists drowned in the accident. deadly hurricas rippe across the southeast. >> this is something we have not seen before. >> reporter: florenceng stal, carolinas.he michael surging to a category four storm, the strongest hurricane ever to hit the nh

dle. a storm of controversy continued to build in washington, fromt presidenump's meetings with north korean president kim jong-un and russian leader vladimir putin to tatdees with long-standing u.s. allies. another ally, saudi arabia, and itwn prince accused of ordering t murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. president trump accused ofli turning a eye. while the political fight at the was over congress, democratic party grabbing control of the house, republicans holding on to that majority in the senate on a history of making night that saw more than 100 won, a record number, win congressional seats. along the border, strict immigration enforcement separated families before the white house under mounting pressure reversed the policy. >> the testimony you're about to give -- >> reporter: there was anho emotional down of supreme court justice brett kavanaugh, the administration celebrated his eventual confirmation and what the white house called other important wins, including a restructured nafta trade deal,

a strong market economy and unemployment neabersing 50-year lows. washington did set aside its partisan bickering briefly to sayrt a hea felt and emotional good-bye to former president george h.w. bush. the worldhe cheered t olympic spirit and competition in south korea, but the biggest sports victory of the year came far from the playing field. trapped in a cave for more than a week with floodwaters rising, 12 players and the coach of a youth soccer team in thailan pulled to safety. kids were pulled into the streets of tnation's capital and cities across the untry, mourning friends lost and demanding change. victims to beor the change that we need to see. >> reporter: as gunfire again ripped through schools across the country. 17 killed in parkland, florida, a murdered a high school in santa fe, texas. shots rang out on more than two dozen campuses.

and inside the tree of life synagogue is in pittsburgh where 11 worshippers were killed, 12 were gunned down during college night at the borderline bar and grill in thousand oaks, california, and five people were shot and killed working at a community newspaper annapolis, maryland. >> they loved us and we love lthem. we'reike a tight family in ther ere. >> reporter: a family refusing to be cast as victims. the me too movement saw a once-beloved superstar convicted of sexual assault, while an actress took on a new historic role. american meghan markle marrying prince harry. the couple announcing five months later the duchess is expecting as the world looks to the expectations of a new year. y gray, nbc news. >> i don't think we can -- we can't fit much more in. >> i think meghan markve should een the baby in this same year as that would have made it like

tops. o we'll pass that along kensington palace and let them know your thoughts on. >> that i love it. hi, guys. >> hey! how are y'all? >> good weather for the last couple days? >> thank goodness. i alwaysau get scared b as much as i want snow on christmas,t sometimes takes us have to be here. not snow so that's good. >> take the res of the morning off, lauryn. >> i was trying to do thatye erday. it's a beautiful morning, the , lookme up 30 minutes ago at the reflection off the potomac, we have leaves on thes tr a beautiful sunday morning if you need to getter rapids done.

now, again, we're not as breezy today as we were yesterday. we had strong winds yesterday. lighter winds today. we do have a few rain showers tonight. that might catch people be surprise. between about 8 p.m. and 2:00 a.m., that's when we could have light rain showers movingh. thro we're looking gorgeous, gorgeous for christmas so, again, here we go. a small chance of s raine rain showers today. monday, tuesday, wednesday, even thursday looking dry. thursday night we may have a few showers and then friday we'll have rain throughout the current temperatures out there right now a little chilly. mperatures in the 20s and 30s but nothing showing up on the radar. in fact travel loo good across the united states. here in washington, reagan national airport, 38 degrees, 28 annapolis,re, 36 in 26 inmanassas. some light passing showers after about 8:00 p.m. here comes the cloud cover into

the afternoon and look at that. a few light showers, most of us ll be sleeping. we're back toreezy conditions through your christmas eve, that will be the main story for tomorrow. winds kicking up to about 25mi s an hour so, again, with temperatures only in the low 40o daytime highs tomorrow it will feel like the 30s through much of the 'sday. thhe only caveat. otherwise beautiful. christmas day, gorgeous. a lighter wind on cistmas day, temperatures only around 40 degrees. as we head into wednesday,at tempes come back up, more clouds on thursday. we could have rain showers late thursday night but we are expecting rain throughout the day on friday so if you're traveling on friday to get away for the next holiday weekend, new year's eve/new year's day, we have a lot of rainat coming day. saturday looks good but look at the temperature, 60 degrees. we haverain/snow chance, though that chance is shrinking

for monday and tuesday. latest guidance not showing much on that so i'll continue to look at thathroughout the morning and i may change that for later in the show today.