this morning. >> wtop on stand by with a check on our commute. >> couth get a inch to an inch and a half of rain today. all just padding the record that we have already long ago set. theirport should be having no trouble breaking their record today but weather alert for you, flood watches are posted again for today. it's going to be all rain. nowhere near cold temperatures. near0s this afternoon. rain on all corrs of our viewing area here early this morning. you'll need your umbrella now and need it later on in the morning. you'll need it for lunchtime and the afternoon and the way home as well. the rain should start to taper off after about 5:00 or 6:00 this aernoon and the later

you'll be going out for your friday night, the more likely it will be dry. temperatures up close to 60 degrees thisoo afte let's get a look at tds r now. >> on the inner loop of the beltway, the truck is nea rockville pike and this is going to take a couple of hours perhaps. most of the rush hour. jackknife truck went through the guard rail. half of it on the beltway and half of i off the beltway and the left side is pretty blocked f. traffic once again because of the shutdown and holiday delays are between. puddles increasing in coverage u rloop of the beltway. more where that came from. hydroplaning potential is there again. there's a spinout. everything has been moved to the left shoulder. we'll keep you posted.

it's 5:02 now and armed robbery, first degree assault and use of a f in the commission of a felony. those are some of the charges facing ad.c. firefighter this mornin after a dispute in the sale of shoes. he met up with someone that he connected with through an app and wanted to buy a pair of designer shoes that were for sale. things went wrong. really wrong. it happened last thursday around noon. police say moore met with thell se at georgia avenue a the victim was apparently selling a pair of shoes valued at $700. the two began o arguir that sale and police say moore revealed a gun and tooit off wh the shoes. the seller took a photo of the car as he was driving away. >> moore has been a firefighter in d.c. for four years now. the department says he's now on leave pending the outcome of ant ination. this morning news 4 is working for you with tips on how to keep

yourself safe when selling things toan srs you meet online. never invite someone you don't know into your home and if you're meeting them in public, call your local police station ansk a if there's a police exchange zone. those are set up so peopleknan if officers are close by. >> developing in europe, investigators are searching for two people that robbed a church just outside of vienna, when police arrived they found five monks tied up. the thieves a took money valuables from everybody inside the church. one suffered a serious head injury. police say the aack was not terror lated. >> take a look here at the pictures. you can see the explosions caused the neon skyline to be a neon blue. no one was hurt. >> today is the 7th day of the

partial government shutdown. congress adjourned yesterday without a plan to fund the me gove. >> nearly 800,000 federal workers don't know when they'll get their best paycheck. nicole jacobs live there with how this couldhe impact zoo and other smithsonian facilities, nicole. >> what are the big questionshi during whole shutdown talk has been when or if the of it will start to go beyond the federal workers. well, we are starting to see that now and the smithsonian museum and the national zoo had to make a very difficult secision to close if the shutdown g beyond january 1st and by all indications, that is exactll what w happen as congress adjourned yesterday and isn't eected to convene until january 3rd. so tourists in town after the new yoprg to take in any of the smithsonian museums or the national zoo will be out of

luck. the shutdown is now entering day 7 and federalre workers growing more and more anxious because their livelihoods areakt and for those working without pay, when they'll get their next paycheck is questionable. as for themisonian museum, they have been using funding from p yviousrs in order to stay open since the shutdown started. well, we're now being told they can no longer sustain thato they're having to make the decision to close. as for the care of the animals, we're told workers will still have to report but without pay. back to you. >> outside of the national zoo, thanks. 5:05 and we n know thee of a little boy that died in custody. he grew up in a remote part of guatemala. he was healthy when he and his fatht for the united states. the child passed a health

examine when tsag picked him up at the border on december 18th but a guard b noticed the was coughing and his eyes were glossy. he died from the flubout 14 hours later. >> happening today, homeland security secretary will head to the southern border to follow ut death of the second child in u.s. custody. she is expected to visit el paso today. she developed aeries of measures including in new medical screening. she's urging migrants not to put their children at risk byin ng them across the border illegally. >> fairfax county polic are working to figure out whether a series of burglaries is connected. >> the majority of the victims are of asian and middle eastern decent. justin is live with more on whee and whe thieves are hitting, justin. >> well, erica, this haseen a

problem now for about two months. fairfax county police have been working this case and so far their investigation counts at least 13 homes that have been hit so far. teamingw police are with law enforcement trying to get a grip on these burglaries here. they have seends common thr here and the victims tend to be of asian and middle eastern descent. it's unclear if thas i by design but they're asking neighbors to keep an eye out for suspicious cars, houses, and activity. >> been here for about a year and haven't heard of anything like this going on.

t a lot of concerns from neighbors liket man that's also concerned about his family andis small children. also police are still looking for tips in this case and tips that lead to an arrest are higible for a c reward. >> the tour bus driver charged with killing the women may have been di hiding his face as he walked outside the courthouse in d.c. a yest court documents say surveillance video shows james switching the cell between his hands at the exact moment that the bus struck the women. they were in the crosswalk. james pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter. video from twitter shows a shirtless man walking down thew hi the person that posted the clip says this happened in the northbound lanes of 3 t 5 just

after king street. the man was taken into custody and to a hospital for a mental evaluation. >> 5:09 and the child sex abuse scandal in the catholic church is prompting d.c. anda virgi to consider changing the law. it would require clergy to report chi abuse. in most states teachers and doctors have to report abuse but religiousre leaders a often exempt. they're talking to faith based groups about changes to so-called mandatory report la. in virginia, the washington post reports a similar proposalor ma be limited. it could exempt priests that learn aboutbuse during the catholic sacrament of confession. they say it's been a policy for more tn 20 years. >> the oldest synagogue in the district will move to a newti lo for a third time. in a couple of weeks crews will

the building to 3rd and g to 3rd and f. you can expect ito open in 2021. >> how does the mcdonald's metro system sound to you? they're considering selling naming rights to everything. the rail lines, the buses, ther g lot, the entire system. i metro sayst's looking for a t consultant figure out how ch moneyorporate sponsorships could raise. they have raised and rejected the idea at severaln timese past. meanwhile, good news if you're planning on taking metro horom your new year's eve party. it will stay open late until 2:00 a.m. on new year's day it will run on a sunday trains will be running from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. and meo buses will be on a reduced schedule. >> 11 after the hour right now. till ahead, how to give your

home ah upgrade. >> plus a potentially ground breaking new treatment for people living with anxiety and depresthon. a look a new method that doesn't involveedication or therapy. >> it's wet outside this morning and unfortunately for your new year's eve celebration, it's also going twebe rain likely as we ring in 2019. i'll give you a look at the whole>>

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15, a promising treatment for patients struggling with anxie and depression. this treatment is for people that don't respond to medications or tradition therapy. doctors place a device against the patients head. that device deliversof a series magnetic pulses to stimulate parts of the brain that usually has decreased activity during pr sion. >> i was engaging in my life again. not only am i more positive, i have a lotore energy. >> it's very encouraging when we see patients telling us how they are improved. >> patients may need to have several 20 minute sessions every week. mild to moderate side eff could include headaches and scalp discomfort where the device is placed. additional proof that the cost of medical care in the united states is rapidly increasing. data shows the average visit to the doctor in the united stat now costs nearly $500. the price of a hospital stay topp more than $22,000 in

16. experts say these findings are additional proof that the u.s. exceeds every other count in total health care costs. starting january 1, hospitals will be required to post online the price of the medical services they provide. out with the old, in with the new might be a good deal for you. they're offering pretty good prices too. according to consumer reports, the best deals, those will be on the 2018 model. some even have a discount. experts say it's important to compare offers due to pricing and incentives that each one may dfer. >> howounty residents hope that a new initiative will protect homesus andesses from flooding. >> you may recall it was hit by two major floods in less than two years time. several feet ofng rus water destroyed homes and businesses.

howard county's new initiative includes infrastructureor retention.50 $1,000 for grants for private flooditigation projects. one of the most important aspects is a new alert system. >> i am directing our office of emergency management to develop a comprehensive plan to bolster the county emergency public alert system with new technology to enhance cabilities during extreme weather conditions. >> county officials say they will also approxima looking at ways to improve lower main street without demolishing the historic buildings there. the next phase will be introduced early next year. >> a right. 5:17 is your time this morning. i was coming in. it w already misting. heavy drops already in the area? >> it's coming down in buckets already and it's going to be an ugly stao a friday. but it is friday. no matter how ugly the weather

is. >> this is true. >> still bette than a good-looking monday, that's for sure. >> isn't that the truth, erica? >> snow lovers it will be rain as temperatures are running way above average today. some 15 to 20 degrees above average. flood watches are posted all along the i-95 corridor. be on the lookut for high standing water across the area earlier today. especially before the sun comes up. look at the rainfalst fore for your friday, between now and midnight tonight, most of the d.c. metro area is going to get an inch or more of rain. slightly lower rainfall amounts, ill a rainy day but less rain total out to our northern and western parts of the viewing area. get yourt forecast from the nbc washington app and it also has push alerts for any severe weather information that comes out like that flood watch. raining on all corners of area this morning and this

moisture extends all the way down to the gulf coast. heavy rain moving into atlanta and heavy rain across western north carolina. periods of heavy rain beten now and 9:00 in the morning. likely to get another burst of rain around noontime. the last potential comes off between 3:00 and 5:00 this afternoon. there after, that's the cold front going byr afthat, things finally start to dry out. so the longer you wait to go out, the drier i will be. the latest update on our forecast modelas skies clearing out before midnight tonight. boy, wouldn't tt be nice? i'm optimistic that you'll like the first half of the weekend most. partly sunny, breezy tomorrow. temperatures in the low to mid 50s. colder and a chance for a few drops after the sun goes down o sunday. that leaves us with wew year's each and wet new year's

day. >> it is only one lane goingby. it's going to be here awhile and deep water now in the outerloop of the lty between georgia avenue and connecticut avenue. aparentally just seconds ago another spin out. somebody hit tha puddle apparently. so eyes out for this, this will be ame recurring t as we go throughout the rush hour. the list of road closures just about nil. the lower lying roads, the roads that usually flood. be on grd for that as the rain continues. that is where we stand right noo back over you. >> dave, thank you very much. it's 5:20 and still ahead,memart technology, there's dozens of tech upgrades you can make to your home right now. >> and we are giving you a crash course in them and remember to

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iday. widespread rain for much of the day today. i'm optimistic that a big chunk of the weekend will be dry. more rainefore 2018 comes to an end. we'll show you storm team 4 radar in a second. >> plus 13 hes struck i a rash of burglaries who the thieves are targeting and when they are stri ong. >> it we the biggest store in the country. now sears may only have hours left. details on the deadline that details on the deadline that could mean the end of tha

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>> let's get toel chuckl before we get to dave f morning commute and how the rain is impacting that. good morning. >> big impact o yourriday morning drive around town this morning because the rain is coming down in buckets out there. flood watchesor posted the area today. mild with temperatures near 60 today and the rain comes toen aend thisevening. the latest forecasts are hinting that the rain may be turning off as early potentially as 6:00 or 7:00 this evening. right now it's all rain all the time. there's the highlighted areas for where the flood watches that goes through late this evening d it is a mild one. we're there already. afternoon temperatures hover

near 60 deees. getting a little bit more optimistic that your friday evening may not be as soaking wet as your friday morning. time to dry out. in the meantime, it is slow going inbound on 395 across the 14th street idge. disabled in the left lanes getting byo e right. big truck wreck on the beltway in montgomery county. in a single file to the right. heading east on i-95. thatill be a recurring theme today. deep water along the right side. one vehicle drive hit it. spun out. no delays y b certainly weren't slowing down this morning as you head out and about. virginia major 66 included. puddle potential is the but with no incidents inside and outside of t beltway. back to you. >> thank you. it's 5:31 now. we're following a developing

story out of new york city. video.look at this a transformer exploded in queens and sparked a major fire thatd coul seen in several parts of the city. laardia airport was forced to stop last night. the fire turned the city sky one so a neon blue and it startled a lot of people. >> what is that? >> whoa. it was real quick, within like a cond. and then i was scared. i'm not going to lie. i was running down thestairs. everyone is trying to figure out what's going on. no one knows what to say to each other so there's more panic. >> nobody w hurt during all of this. cilities switched to generator power after a brief black out. >> today is day 7 of the partial government shutdown and there's really no end in sight. >> nearly 800,000 federal workers are not the only ones that willeel the effects of what's going on on capitol hill. you may not also be able t go into any of the smithsonian museums includingl the natio

zoo over the next week. >> nicole jacobs is live at the y.o with more on what this means for everyb nicole, good morning. >> good morning to you, aaron and erica. previous years funding has run sonian museummi and the national zoo and because of that, the doors and gates will have to close because of the shutdown. they have been using that money over the last seven days to sustain and to stay open butol we're they're no longer ai that.ve to do so the difficult decision and announcement was made yesterday cat the doors and gate will remainlosed as long as there's no comprise on capitol hill by january 1st and with congress not meeting again until january 3rd, we're a looking just that. so tourists hoping to take in the museum and their favorite zoo animals in the new year are out of luck. ow as for those zoo animals and the care ofthem, i can tell you the workers here are now among the hundreds of thousands across the country working without pay.

>> nicol jacobs, thank you. >> coming up at 5:45, ott mcfarland is on capitol hill with the latest on the budge stalemate. but 5:35 is a look at your time righnow. arrested on arms robbery charges. met somebody through a pho app last week to buy a pair of designer shoes. there was some sort of a dispute er the price of those shoes and officers say moore pulled out a gun and forced the victim out of his car. the seller snapped the picture of the license plate a that lead him to moore. he's on leave pending the results of theinvestigation. >> the tour bus driver charged with hitting two tourists near the national mall may have been distracted while he was driving. surveillance video shows him switching his cell phone between hands at t exactoment the bus hit the women. monica and her mother were killed. james pleaded not guilty to

involuntary manslaughter. >>n man has bee charged with filming a teenage girl as she undressed inside a forever 21 dressi room at fair oaks mall. she found the recording device in the top corner of the room on christmas ev police caught him in a nearby store and arrested him.nd they f a bluetooth transmitter in his possession. police saythhere could be victims that were fild while undressing in fitting rooms. >> the clock istickingticking. today is the final day for sears to come up with a survival plan. they could be forced to liquidate if a rescue bid doesn't come in by thef end the day. they offered a $4.6 billion t propos buy the company out of chapter 11 bankruptcy however it not bee formally submitted and financing has not been secured. sears also owns k-mart and employees 68,000 people. they file for bankruptcy in october.

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he is 33 years old. he is 10 years t oldern the next oldest all-star game captain. the all-star game set f january 26th in san jose. >> he'sonsidered senior at 33. >> at 33. >> ovechkin makes the short list forale athlete of the year. >> but no surprise here, the king of basketball was the winner onceagain. the announcement came hours before james's 156 game playing streak ended lt night. the laker was forced to stay out of a match up after henjured his groin in a christmas day game. he is expected to miss several games as herecovered. james beat out mookie bettseor honor. >> kansas city chief'sac quarte and triple crown winner justify rounded out the top five. >> just the horse. >> just the horse. >> that's my favorite. >> lebron jam beat a horse, or is a better athlete than --

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a picture of the radar over the last couplef hou here. pretty busy all night long. another inch of rain before this afternoon is done. the full forecast with storm team 4 meteorologist coming up.

>> richard overton died hsterday in texas at the age of 112. was in his 30s when he volunteered for the my. he once said his secret to long life was smoking cigars and whiskey. we appreciate his service. and definitely a good example there in some ways. obviously he lived 112 years. >> absolutely. >> now to the partial shutdown of the federal government. hundreds of thousands of federal workers don't know when they'll be paid. >> today is the 7th day of the . shutdo scott mcfarland is live on capitol hill. any progress fromongress to reopen the government? >> there's no progress. good morning. it's really a metaphor for how unclear things are for this government shutdown. it will move into a next week for our local federal workers concerned about their paychecks,

the onuncertainty willnue too. this debate over the shutdown and over $5 bilon for a border wall played out on social media. congress has closed down for the weekend. the president has been tweeting including one tweet in which hs democrats don't want a wall.r they also retweeted something that president obama posted in 2011 s america should get serious about illegal immigration. the locales conan was also posting saying president trump's temper tantrum caused the furlough of00,000 federal workers. the national treasury employees union based here in d.c., they sent a letter to the administration asking for keckpay to be expedited for federal w saying our local workers are, quote, having grave concerns about their finances. >> scott, thank you. >> ahead at 6:00, we'll cck in with nicole jacobs at a look at

how that shutdown could impact the smithsonian institution facilities. >> two brutal sex assault cines northwest d.c. police need help identifying a center ofay be at the both of the attacks. the suspect was armed with a knife when he forced the victim out of her home and assaulted her. that crime happened back on july 15th. police just released this video of ape possiblect leaving the scene. you can see him running down the street there. inveigators say the s man is the person in the video that you see here. police say the suspect approached a woman on longfellow street and assaulteder in a ally. this is video of him leaving the attackf the if you have information, d.c. police want to hear from you 12 m before the top of the hour and fairfax county police are working to figure out whher several burglaries in homes of northern virginia are connecd. >> the majority of the victims are of asian or middle eastern

decent. justin is live with more on when and where these thieves are hitting. justin? >>airfax countyolice say these burglaries are taking place in the early afternoon ana evenin so far, they count at least 13 homes have been hit. you see they span fairfax, gre falls, vienna as well as mcclain. similar cases in the loudou a coun manassa areas as well. neighbors are beirg to be on alert. keep an eye out for suspicious activity, cars, noises as well. the stolen items include personal items and no surprise, elics as well. they're also looking into whether or not the victims have largely been of asi and middle eastern decent were perhaps delivery. >> our detectives are following up on a number of leads. i don't have any specific information to suggest thatne ans being targeted but we would note the similarities

today in our cases. >> so a lot of angles to lookn into this investigation. we can tell you that cash rewards are being offer for tips that lead to an arrest. these burglaries ban back in mid october and here we are during to holidays and doubt they're looking for a lot of the ifts and preacceptabilitisents this time of tar. >> justin, thank you. >> we have an update to a burglary case w have been following for you. the founder of a d.c. pla house that was burglarized on christmas day says the show mt go on. they took cash and credit cards. workers found the damage the y.xt she was devastated when she saw the damage. >> when i camen and saw the box office pretty much, i'd say wrecked, but everything was pulledutnd the crowbar was used to open the cabinet and the

refrigerator door kedo that? >> a go fund me page has been set up to help the play house repair the damage and install the security system. as for the january show, theater workers say they'll make it happen. >> hopefully they'll see better days ahead. >> yeah. >> turning to the weather now. >> i wish we could have a better day ahead, but it's going to be pretty awful, right? other would 2018 end a way than it's been doing. rain and not just a little. a lot of rai for today. the latest forecast model updates are in. ature weather in second and i'm a little bit more optimistic that your friday evening plans may not be completely washed out. between now and then it's going to be an ugly rainy friday morning andafternoon. 44 now at national airport. that's quite a bit mder than yesterday. temperatures as you're going out the door this morning are 10 to 20 degrees warmer than we were yesterday mornin so it's not going to be a cold

rain but it is going to be a cin. there y see the stretch of moisture that goesll way from really i-95 all the way down to the gulf coast. so it's not going to end any time too terribly soon. raining everywhere this morning and here's the updated forecast now. first wave of moderate rain moving out. the nex wave of moderate rain moves in between 8:00 and 9:00 this morning. another shot o potentially moderate rain around lunchtime. i think thetheaviest rain o day, though, will come between about 2:00 this afternoon and 00 or 6:00 this afternoon. there's 2:00. modete rain everywhere. but by 4:00, notice the heavier rain starting to get pushed farther and farther to the east and south. by 6:00, linring rain drops and showers but not long after that, thingsohould start dry out. that would be an improving weather picture for sure. there's you ten day outlook. rain today through at least 4:00 or 5:00. dry weather through saturday and a chance for rain late sunday

and another pretty solid chance for moderate rain around here. new year's eve into new year's day.l 2019 wome in on a mild an rainy note before we get colder and drier late next week. gomorning, dave. >> good morning. we have puddles. we have ponding. luckily we don have any closures right now. no flood related closures but something teep in mind as you're headed out the door this morning as you usually travel through the lower lying spots. 14th street bridge, one in th left lane. jackknifed tractor-trailer on the belt way. cner loop near rockville pike. clean uptinues to block the left side. traffic slowly getting to the right beyond old georgetown road. voat was also blocking the right lanes. me is still low and volume

is still light. watching out for thehydroplanes potentially. that's the very latest in traffic plans. eric and aaron, back to you. >> scary stuff. a ansformer explosion outside of an ihop sent people for their lives. diners ran out leaving their food. it knocked out power to a large port of the city. no one was hurt but the restaurant was damaged. when the rain moves out this weekend, how does a walk in the park sound? well, montgomery county you have 421 options. the planning board chair visited all of them. he kacapped off his yearlong to yesterday. he was joined for 419. he says he's impressed by the condition of the parks. only a hand full of maintenance issues. >> this weekend is youran last to see the redskins in

action. the team that once looked like it had a playoff potential will host the eagles on sunday for their fal game. players are still practicing hard even though a win won't get them any more games but it wil eliminate the eagles that are the defending super bowl champions. josh johnson will start at we don't have to remind you. skins lost three quarterbacks t injuries. kick off sunday at a4:25 fedex field. >> good morning. mcdonald's making a b big on breakfast again. consumers cheerednd their sales got a big boost but that's also lead to unintended nsequences as more customers are skipping morning visits to get their mechanicfin or mcgrid and going in the evening. it's tesng new items only available during breakfast hours such as coffee cake and muffin

tops as well as $1 sandwich deals. with your cn morning business and breakfast report, i'm frank holland. back to yyou. see the problem is the -- >> you know what i'm thinking? >> the coffee cake turns into a muffin top. nobody wants that one. >> listen, the spanxs can't hold in anymor o we'r yolo 24/7 these days. cabot do it. >> holidays almost >> it's 5:56 right now. still ahead, sponsoring metro. it's an idea that's been passed on before but is now being given a second look. >> why possible corporate sponsorships are back on the table. plus one of our areas biggest newsf stories 2018. a look at the new plan from leaders in that area to prevent it from happening again. t 5:56 is yoe. stay with us. look. it's over.

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rough to see some weather. >> wtop is standing by with a check on our commute ts morning. it's a little bit busyom in s places. we begin with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. he's answering the question, how >>ch rain are we going to get, chuck? probably for most of the area around an inch of rain. could be less in the valley. probably half an inch there. close to an inch around most o the city but you get down into southern maryland and the eastern shore, could be 2 inches of rain. weather alert f you todor the possibility of localized flooding. definitely mild. temperatures getting close to 60 degrees today so the mild air comes super loaded with moisturelo there's the watch. pretty much down along the corridor down into parts of central virginia. rain everywhere this morning. heaviest rron culpeper county. hat's headed in over the next little bit tempur