breaking now at 11:00, a woman found o dead a church doorstep. >> obviously it's very concerning. >> news4 was there as police searched a nearby car for clues. tonight they need help getting answers. >> it occurred in a very public ple at a busy time in the

evening. socked in by fog. a rainy friday gives way to a foggy starto your weekend. and day seven of a government shutdown in the books witho end in sight. new information tonight about the last offer on the table. news4 at 11:00 begin with breaking news. tonight a sacred place is a crime scene. a woman found stabbed to death steps away from the front door of a >>church. etectives combed the grounds in a nearby park looking for clues. shomaritone is live for us outside st. raield catholic church in rockville. >> reporte right now montgomery county police are processing this scene behindme. keep in mind they first responded here around five hours ago at 6:00. right now they are still gathering evidence and they are processing t s scenealong with

another scene approximately two blocks away at a nearby park. we have been standing here and people have been driving by asking what happened, shocked to see that a woman was stabbed across the street at this church. a woman stabbed toea dth outside raphael catholic community church in rockville, maryland. police found the body around 6:00 friday evening. >> it occurred at a very public place at a busy time in the evening. it's very >> reporter: police say the woman's body was found near this flag pole. homicide detectigs rop off the entrance and they're looking for surveillance cameras inside and outside the church. have you identified the victim or the suspect? >> at this point we're still working. >> reporter: we know police took photos of this nearby car at the local park. they're investigating to see if it belongs to t killer. for people in this neighborhood

who are watching this who are yconcerned there's possi killer on the loose, what do you tell them? >> weould ask residents in area if they see suspicious to please call us. >> reporter: that's right, call police. d tonight we have a written statement from the arch diocese of washington saying, quote, this incidentotoes appear to be related to the parish or school. s the parishff have been speaking with police and are cooperating with the police investation. we extend our heart felt prayers to the individual's pomily. ce have not released the name of the woman stabbed to death. they are in the process of notifying her relatives. the medical examiner's office in baltimore will condu an autopsy. police are searching for the killer. we'll bring youpdates on our nbc august awashington ap we wan to turn now to the

weather. friday rain was a fitng end to the last full week of 2018. but tonightt's the f that's really having an impact out there. this is a time lapse of the apitol between 8:00 and 9:00 tonight. it just disappears. the dome was there. se wral flightse delayed getting in and out of our local airports because of the low visibility. driving around, it was thick out there. >> yes, it was. >> clay aerson is here now with a first look at our forecast. >> this fog came in ptty quickly. you definitely need the fog lights out there tonilut. >> ably. in fact, because we have the upper level as you saw from the cameras. visibility when planes try to land, on the surface there is dense fog. we're actually walking through a isoud. look atilities across the area. half a mile inleesburg. just a third of a mile in

gerstown. out to our east, visibility below a as a result we're looking at a dense advisory for practically everyone until 7:00 a.m. on saturday morning.ar w still working to find out if a teenager fighting for hisife right n will survive getting shot in the head in the districttoday. police say he was riding in an sun someone shot at it near the corners of 54th and blaine streets in northeast. >> reporter: a woman who passed by moments after the shooting told news4 o camera that the young man she saw on the ground next to this black suv appears to have been shot in the face several times. police say an officer patrolling near the 200 block of 54th treet in northeast d.c. heard gunshots about2:30 p.m. and

made the terribleiscovery. a man, an adult also in the suv is said to have a non-life threatening gunshot injury.ie d.c.'s police was asked if investigators have determined which of the victims were the target. >> it looks like both of the viims were inside of the vehicle with heavy tint. it appears like the vehicle was targeted. it would be hard to say which one of the folks inside was targeted. >> reporter: the double shooting hammond just a c happened just a couple of blocks where a 10-year-old was struck and killed by a stray bullet in july as walked to get ice cream. the district has seen a 44% increase in homicide this year. there has been an increase in the number of juvenile victims and suspects. police have provided very little suspect information, any type of description. a silver colored vehicle may have been seen leaving this

area. the family of a young man killed by a stray bullet tells news4 they are thankful for the d.c. police detectivesho made an arrest in their son's case. 22-year-old tom maet was driving home after a day of vonteering. th aspiring social worker was shot in his jeep i northeast back in october. now d.c. policeay barry marable is charged in the murder. the arrest means he can startsi fo on other victims, his father says. >> the future for us is going to be dedicated to trying to hel other victims of crime in the stem th trying to help flow of guns onto our streets. >>arraable is charged with first degree murder. we are a week into the ow

government shu and it's now expected to stretch into next year. hours after the shutdownn, be vice president mike pence made an offer toit senate min leader chuck schumer. pence said the president would agree on $2.5illion for the border wall, half of his demand. but details of that offer have been disputed by both side democrats likely won't strike a deal until after january 3rd t why take control of the house. a new reuters poll outoday shows most americans blame republicans for the shutdown. 47% of them are blaming directly. trump we're seeing more real world impacts from the shutdown. all smithsonianusms including the national zoo will have to close to the publi january 2nd if the government does not reopen by then, which now looks like all but a certainty. >> many federal employees will struggle with late paychecks.

contractors may not see one atal for the last two decades lthis woman has scrubbed toilets at the department of agricultural to put food on her table. this is the first time she'll have to go without a paycheck with bills piling up. she'd have more than enough to get by the it was just her, but she has two grandsons to feed. >> it really truly hurts me bad to look a these kids and maybe not say to them or look at these kids when tsk me, can we do this or do th baby, grandma don't have the money right now. >> ms. johns ss she wants lawmakers to do their job so she tn get back doing hers. nonprofits andrivate companies are working now to provide financial assistance for many federal workers. a vigil tonight for the california police officer killed

after stopping a drunk dri suspect. the case made national headlines in part because the suspect ied. president trump has tried to use the shooting to win the battle over fundingor his border wall. this morning police arrested the suspect in bakersfield along with five other men chargorks i police station today. the city of district heights had to call in maryland state pice help remove the police chief office. city leaders had just vot to place chief elliot gibson on paid administrative leave. when they told him, he refused to hand over his guns and leave the building. the i-team told you about an audit that found deficiencies in the police department's hiring and officer training records. will ependent counsel investigate the hiring of several district heights polic ficers. two strategic moves today helped save retail icon sears from liquidation, at least for

now. the company's chairman offered to use money from h hedge fund to buy the department store chain. sears' advisors now have a week to weigh that option. sears announced today it will close 80 more stores including a kmart in baltimore and sears locations in salisbury and charlottesville on top of 182 stores that sears has already closed after filing for bankruptcy back in october. next, the last megajackpot of 2018.ne ly 400 million bucks up for grabs tonight. we've got the numbers in the medrmillions ing. plus, securing the biggest new year's celebration in nor america, the new tool the nypd will use this new year's eve. and a father/daughter kireunion 50 years in the . how an online dna test

theoment aocal man has waited 50 years for is almost jre. >> yeaht a matter of days he's going to meet his long lost daughter. tonight he's preparing for that emotional reunion. >> we love this story. he's talking to meghan fitzgerald about the chance he took that led him to his born.t it's a story you'll only see on news4. >> that's my younger son. >> reporter: like any father ron rudy has pictures of his family on display throughout his >>house. love my kids. >> reporter: and he adores his andchildren too. this picture was taken a few months ago when his youngest

grandchild was born. >> my son-in-law, my daughter. >> reporter: if you didn't know any better, you'd think rudy's ingghter has been cre memories with the family for years. >> we just sort of kept it secret amongst >>ourselves. eporter: when rudy was in college his then girlfriend got pregnant. they weren't able to care for the baby, so the child was given up for adoption. >> so i did not tell a single soul, a single soul about her. >> reporter: but for years there was a void in his heart. so last spring he decided to t ancestry.com, thinking it was his only hope to find hisda hter. >> all of a sudden i looked, looked again. the ver first line, it said this could be your child. >> reporter: it wa her. and i said you're my daughter. >> reporter: rudy wanted to make sure his daughter patrina formed

a bond with his sons first. s>> she'sh a good daughter. she listens to me. >> reporter: in the coming days for the first time rudy will get a chance to meet his long lost daughter. it's a reunion that he says will be more like a dream come true. >> god help me, because i really love her. >> reporter: in manassas, meagan fitzgerald, news4. new yeaee just thr days away. tonight new yorkers are getting the ball and all that confetti primed for the biggest party in rth america. the nypd have been planning for months. they'll use bomb sniffing dogs, hundreds of something new this year, drones. >> we haven't done that before, buthat's going t give us a visual aid and a flexibility of being able to move the camera to a certain spot with great

rapidity through a tremendous crowd. >> the nypd tells us it's work with the fbi to make sure personal drones aren't going up over manhattan. as oftoday, both agencies say there is no credible threat against times square. >> there's a teat out there to another holiday tradition around this time of year,op aar dish to ring in the new year, ood supposed to bring you luck, could be in short supply this year. forbes is reporting that collard greens are going to be in short supplyhis season. you might notice a difference at the grocery store. the popular green represents w prosperity if eaten on year's day. >> hide a dime in them, i think. that's what my family did. it b didn'tng us much luck. >> good luck if you don't eat the dime.

speaking of luck, greens to greenbacks. tonight'sour last chance t win this year the mega millions jackp jackpot. >> tonight's drawing is the final one of 2018. the jackpot 370 million bucks. that's a cash option of about 232 million. >> not too bad. here are the numbers. 9, 10, 25, 37, 38, and the mega ball number is 21. i'm unppy to report that the mega millions shutdown is continuing. nothing. >> but you don't have to pay taxes on how about this fog? is it going to be here all night or what? >> i was thinking about that previous story about the drones for the new year's. w the weathhave outside

right now, if the fog in new york city,hey would not be able to help that situation. that's how bad it is outside. in fact, the national weather service has issued a dense fog advisory for the entire viewing area. this is the reason why. take a good look at the visibilities in miles. you're noticing a visibilitie now less than a half a mile in area.reas across the just a third of a mile in baltimore, gaithersburg, leesburg, dulles airport. it has jumped up in washington, d.c. but mt of the area is still below one mile for visibilities. a dense fog advisory until 7:00 a.m. be careful you're out there driving about and enjoying the urholiday in capital region. temperatures rather uniform in the area. not much change in temperatures from the east to thewest. rainfall today, we already know

another deluge as we continue to break the record books. almost an inch and a half of rain for annapolis. but the rain is over for the most part. we're showing fog and drizzle. that's just about it.s the rain now well out to sea. let's talk about what we do expect for the holiday weekend. for tomorrow, once sunrise comes up, the fog lifts, a nice day for tomorrow. in fact, saturday will be the est day out of the new year's weeken nice breezy conditions. we'll burn off some of that fog. clouds start to move in a little bit for the evening hours. for the weekend saturday into sunday, saturday will be sunny but ends up cloudy for your sunday. for the weekend it should be dry. with that new year's eve a preview, if you're here enjoying the fireworks, the weather for new year's eve is going to be some rain once again. rain showers across the area with temperatures in the 50s.

here's the forecast, everyone. saturday into sunday, monday, tuesday, the rain will move in tuesday. the chance for some showers, but after that it will cool off actually for new year's day and the rest of the week. wednesday, thursday and friday seasonal, highs in the 40s. saturday and sunday it wil warm up again. for the most part still going to keep that umbrella as we close out 2018. >> with more >> with more rain. >> a little more. coming up, the wizards wer without john wall tonight. when we come back, the person he'll meet with soon that should be concerning for wizas fans. it's not the holidays until...

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well it seems like everything that could go wrong thisth season fo wizards has gone wrong. heading into tonight's game at homeith icago, otto porter missing a ninth straight game.rk ff morris hurt. john wall missing with sore heel. ll missing his fourth game this month, second with a heel injury. to the second quarter, bulls by two. wi fourth quarter, wizards down nine. bradley beal two-handed slam cuts it to seven. later in th fourth, down eight, beall pulls up from three, no good but gets his own rebound. doesn't miss again. game high 34 points for bradley beal.

he's playing really well. levine getske the buct and the foul. chicago hands the wizards a third straight loss. 101-92. >> we had enough in here to win. we've got to win and we've got to do a better job of leading and making sure we do that.o got t get out the hole. nobody's going to feel sorry for us. nobody's going to feel bad for us. we've got to man up and do it. >> 8-8 sounds bette than7-9. that's what the redskins are going for sunday against the eagles. one of the players aiming to prove he deserves to keep s playing in t league is josh johnson. how well he lays could determine whether or not the team takes a chance on him next year. johnson knows every game tters. >> one thing i've learned, you don't want to put bad thingsn o

tape because this will be who you will be next year on thisr team any other team that's evaluating you. this could ultimately affect your career. my thing is to lead by example of being a veteran guy, understanding how this leagu works. i mean, the motivation for me is easy. i mean, it should be for everybody, honestly. college hoops. terps returning to action at home. they have struggled as of late.. >> i don't think i wears on our confidence. we realized tt it was or two possessions and the game could have went in somebody else'sfavor. i think it just comes fro trusting our teammates and just gaining confidence at practicec ach putting us in those posictons in pe so we can be prepared for it in the game

zbr. also the fourth ranked maryland women's team in action beating penn state 77-61. >> geor, thank you. >> at least you ended on a nice note. note. >> we needed that.

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if you had a terrible 2018, you should have been i new york city today. >> folks there in times square gathered to physically shred ceir bad memories. it'sled good riddance day.

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