you're wondering. aaron back to work this morning for ourt first newscgether of 2019. >> how you feeling? >> it's early, you know? it is. >> trying to get back on schedule after a few days off. it's hard. you know that. >> i was out of the country. it's thursday you said, right? >> melissa knows this. lauryn knows this. >> i know i'm here. >> we're all trying to get back thinghe swing of >> what did you say, lauryn? >> i said, i know i'm here. i have no idea what d aynow. i. i don't know what time it is. >> we're going to talk to elissa about the roads in a second. first, lauryn, i'm sure there's some graphic that tells you what day it is built into this forecast. >> i need to put them on there so i have a reminder. i do know it's raining today no tter what day it is, especially if you're south and east of d.c. if you're in d.c., le'reking at just cloudy conditions. i think we're going to goainly rain free here inside the beltway and points to the north and west. lot of rain rolling in from the deep south. passing just south of the area

right now and just south of d.c. again, you can see the beltway right the t. tht rain down through southern maryland, going through st. mary's county and out to the eastern shore. if you're making your way out of southern maryland, probably going to head int some light rain showers and low visibility. otherwise, this morning it's fairly mild. 46 degrees, above our average daytime high for the afterno in this early january.ur temper will be above normal today and into the weekend. rain chances won't end. we'll talk about that on the ten-day forecast coming up. let's talk traffic with melissa mollet. >> good morning. now that i'm sure it's thursday, i feel much better about everehing. >> youelcome. >> i got to tell you, i waser wonding too. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway here, no major problems. everything is nice and green on this thursday morning. 95, quantico to the beltway, 66 miles per hour. that's going to take you 17

bonutes. as you're headed od, everything looks good. vahe district, southbound 295 at pennsa avenue, rough, uneven payment slowing traffic just a bit through there. and prince george's county,an in head highway, branch avenue, pennsylvania avenue, everything lookingd. g aaron? >> melissa, thank you. it's 4:32 now. today brings bothhe opening day of the 116th congress and the 13th day ofal par government shutdown. this congress is making history as most racially diverse and most female group of representatives ever elected to the house. first order i of businessthe house will be to vote on a bill to reopen the government, but it is a longt. s >> so during a meeting with lawmakers yesterday, president trump made it clear that he's not signing anything unless it includes $5 billion for a border wall. speaker designate nancy pelosi told "today's" savannah guthrie gambling resident is

with people's livelihoods. >> it' the president saying i will hold six agencies of government hostage to my campaign promise that i was going to a bui wall and that mexico was going to pay for it. that is so ridiculous. mexico is not paying for it. >> you can watch more of the exclusive interview with pelosi on the "today" show later this morning. coming up, news 4's tracie potts will have more on the efforts to reopen the government sooner rather than later. in th meantime, federal workers can get free food for theirets during the shutdown. the humane rescue alliance is offering federal workers access to pet pantry. >> it's meant to help in emergency situations and just really hope that people who are in that situation right now through the shutdown are welcome to stop by our adoptn center. >> i think this is the agency that's here in d.c. any pet owner who wishes to receive food for their animal

through the pet pantry has to complete an enrollment form the first time they come to picp food. proof of d.c. residency is the only requirement. as trash piles upti on the naonal mall because of the federal trashle colctors being furloughed, d.c. public works is stepping in. our ceras captured them on the job picking up garbage last night. news 4 is following every development in the government shutdown. keep it here for continuing coverage on air and in the nbc washington app. 4:34 now. developing this morning, a man has been arrested forhe firing shot that hit an innocent bystander in the head.e d.c. pol say william rice fired at a group of people he was t arguing withsday afternoon near 1st and kennedy streets northwest. a man walking into a restaurant was shot in the head.po news 4 with friends and family who say he's still in the hospital with life-threatening injuries. an arres has als been made in the murder of a former high school football plar. rundell fletcher is charged with

the death. detectives say the t were fighting. johnson's death was one of four murders during the last weekend of the year ior prince 's county. despite a surge in violence at the end of december, the county was safer last year than the year before. homicides fell 25% between 2017 and 2018. violent cri dropped 11%. prince george's county polic c sayrime overall fell nearly 10%. 4:35 here's a look at our other top stories. mystery continues to surround e death of a u.s. marine. lance corporal riley kuznia was shot to death tuesday morning at the marine corpsin barrack southeast washington. officials confirm the gunshot was not self-inflicted, but they won't say exactly how it happened. you can hear from his dad in our next half hour. a 14-year-old girl is charged with making threats of mass violence against three prince george'sounty schools. police say the teen admitted to writing e-mails threatening the

cischools. offis say she did not have the ability to carry out those threats. and 60 companies raised the prices on nearly 300 drugs in the first two days of this new year. a price tracking firm says most prescriptions went up more than 6%. the highly addictive drug oxycontin went up more than 9%, arly three times the rate of inflation. caps fans, it looks like w alex ovechkinl not be playing in this year's all-star game. the star haso decided sit out this year's game in sanay jose. hes he wants to take full advantffe of the week to rest and make a push to repeat as a stanley cup champion. >> long year last year. we want to do the same exact thing like last year. i like to benv ived. i like to be inin those kd of games, you know, with all the best players out there, but i think my body needs a little

rest. >> he knows his own self the best. nile the great eight may be in this year's game,ther caps will. >> that game set for january 26th. >> we'll definitely miss ovi. 4:37 now. coming up, she's a member of the mystics a and washington wizards coach. but now how much she'll be getting paid it in the national spotlight. but first, that wild video of an over the counter chaos inside a mcdonald's. what angered this customer before this attack.

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>> so you've probably seen this video on social media. an argumen over a straw led to this encounter at a mcdonald's in florida. the customer in the video here is now charged with battery for attacking the woman behind the counter. apparently he questioned why there were no straws athe drink station. we're told the employee informed sim that it's against the law to have the str out, but he could request one. after the t had words, the customer lunged at the female employee, tried to grab her shirt. she says she was simply defending herself and she won, in case you couldn't tell. you saw he lunged at her over the counter. moved kwquickly and had her by the shirt. >> and she wailed on him. >> the funny thing is they took her away and he's still atanding thering for a straw. okay. i have a lot of questions. a next story i bit of a strange one. a reminder to lock all of your

doors at>> night. you might want to hide your dog as well. take a this is benton. he's 120 pounds and lives in waukesha, wisconsin. i know you're going to call me and say i said it wrong. >> it works for me. >> anyway, on new year's eve, a stranger crawled into benton'sn bed aell asleep with him. the owner described what happened afterhe and her roommate woke up and found the stranger. >> i woke up and saw somebod laying in the dog's bed with him. i couldn't see his face. i could only see the top of his head. i went into the kitchen, she sbbed a knife, and we called 911. >>ne waukesha. iw i said it wrong. turns out the stranger is a 24-year-old man who lives two doors down. he appareny apologized several times after he woke up. maybe he just needed a little company. >> he was drunk. what are you talking about? >> maybe he was feeling sadnd lonely. >> he was 12 shades of drunk and

thought that was his girlfriend. >> do you see that bed? i mean, that's big enough for me, really. >> the dog was like, okay. >> whatever. wow. okay. >> 4:42 now. >> definitely new year's morning. there's only one thing for that. ,listor january 3rd, there's lots of things that these temperatures could be, and these temperatures are pretty warm out there right now, comparatively speaking. low to mid-40s this morning. topping out around 50. weouave rain to show y coming up after this. plus, he you been keeping up with the kardashians? >> no. >> we're going to tell you about kimnd nye's latest baby announcement. >> oh. >> i know yore excited, aaron. u'

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er> today is day 13 of the partial gent shutdown. a power shift is coming to capitol hill. democrats will take over the house later this morning. >> but that doesn't mean hundreds of thousands of federal workers are any closer to being paid. news 4's tracie potts is live ot capitol hill more on when we can expect the government to reopen. >> hey, aaron and eun. democrats coming into power in the house today say they can do that today. they've got a couple of votes planned, but those budget votes are going nowhere because the senate won't even take a look ae it becaut doesn't include money for the wall. so back to square one. m ating at the white house wasn't fruitful at all. there was no agreement. they're getting back together on friday, but at this point,oth des seem to be digging in. ehe president tweeting overnight that there can no border security without that wall.

>> and tracie, later t morning, nancy pelosi is expected to be re-elected as the speaker of the house. ngw will this leadership change impact how t get done in congress now? >> well, besides the shutdown, they've got an agenda. they have power to investigate, to protect robt mueller's job with a vote there. they want to look at president trump's tax returns. things a laundry list of the democrats want to try to get done now that they'll bear in of the investigative committees to do some of those things, not to mention trekki protectiamacare. >> tracie, thank you. it's 4:46 now. virginia republican dave brat only has a few hours left in congress. now we know where he's heading next, liberty university. he'll become the dean of the business school asca that evange university. brat was an economic professor at randolp con college before he defeated eric canr in a 2014 republican primary. he lost his richmond area sea

last year. secretary of state mike pompeo wants more answers from russom. pompeo isnding that russia clarify the espionage charge auainst american whelan. he's been held in a moscow jail, accused of spying. u.s. embassy officials say ambassador john huntsman visited whelan yesterday. officials also say when spent years in the marine corps but i was discharg 2008 for bad conduct. the family of a silver spring woman murdered just before herng day says they now have justice. she wasled back in 2017. her fiance, anthony strong, called police and told them he killed her inside the home they shared. yesterday he was sentenced to life. strong pled guilty last october to slashing, smothering, and strangling his fiance. her family hopes this serves as

a cautionary tale. >> in her memory, we would like to remind you to pay attention to all women your life who could potentially become victims of domestic violence. >> the judge suspended all but 45 years of strong's term. if he serves the full term, he could be in his o90s by the tim he's released. this morning five dogs rescued from a fire on chrisevas are doing much better. the fire broke out at the middletown valley beagles kennel. it killed more than a dozen dogs and other animals. the dogs that were saved had sere burns and smoke inhalation. they were treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. it's the onltreatment of irts ki -- its kind offered in maryland. an update on a raccoon that atta a dog in gaithersburg last week. it tested positive f rabies. the dog fought back, killing the

animal control tested the animal thd now confirm that it had rabies. e dog involved did have all of its vaccines and will be okay. one of the wizards' assistant coaches only makes $10,000. we'reng t about christy she plays for the mystics. she took the chance, joining the staff following others' footsteptr because oft nba rules, her salary is capped at $10,000. other assistant coaches in the nba make close to aillion dollars. the wizards team owner tweeted this in response to the story. iteads in part, league rules never contemplated having a wnba player ant an assis coach. we're glad to be first and the rules need to change. if the owner is saying the rules need to change, someone has to change the rules. >> but this is a wnba ru an nba rule? >> no, i think it's an nba rule,

but they never thought tre would wnba players also working together in this way. oh, iis a wnba rule. >> you and i are allowed to have other jobs. i don't know. > but the wnba and nba are working together. that's like saying you're going to work for telemundo. >> yeah, all right. let's keep talking about basketball. john wall may be out for the season, but that didn't stop the wizards from winning big at their first game of 2019. we like to hear that. they crushed the atlanta hawks 114-98, earning their second straight win. after tee games at home, the tteam will head south take on the miami heat. the wizards have struggled on the road this season, but thingsinthings could change now that starter otto porters back in the lineup. >> we like to see a winning d.c. team. >> yeah, we do. after the redskins. >> i was going to say. >> had to go there.

>> okay. well, not feeling like football weather out there. >> not at all. a little nicer. lauryn is like, let's move it. >> let's do it. we have cloud c rain to the south and east. if you're joining us from southern maryland, king george, northern neck, eastern shore, you're seeing rain showers. you' getting rain right now, just light stuff. looks like it's going to stay to the sth and east of the district. we're dry for most of our a ta wi exception of areas south and east. it's going to become breezy later this afternoon. winds will be up to about 10 to 20 miles an hour. they'll pick up after about 9:00 and stick with us until about 5:00 p.m. clouds and rain showers through the day tomorrow. raig tomorrow. then that rain will last into saturday morning. then we'll get clearing ses. sunday looks absolutely gorgeous. look at this rain right now. it's all along stalled frontal system. so again, not everybody getting some rai this i mainly confined south of

the beltway. again, for our friends in southern maryland, coming through st. mary's county, even portions of southern dharcharle county, and toward king george, that's whe're seeing a few rain showers. that will e probably about 9: 9:00, 10:00 this morning. temperatures are not that bad. 're fairly mild out there. temperatures will stick in the mid-40s for the morning, head to around 50 this afternoon.he here's rain, pushes well to the south as that area of low pressure b norfolk moves off to sea. we're still cloudy as we head through the day. we'ro cloudy i thursday night. fridaytaing off dry, ending wet. rain will move in after 5:00. could be hvy at timesomorrow night. if you have plans, grab that umbrella. even saturday morning will have showers around bouore they move during the middle part of the morning. temperatures tomorrow around 50 degrees. that rain moving in late in the evening, sticking around through

early on saturday. could become breezytu on ay. we have a chance of rain on tuesday. no chances of snow because look athese temperatures. well above normal. all right. looking? traffic good morning, melissa mollet. >> good morning, miss ricketts. in bethesda, oer loop 270, brand in crash with the left side blocked. tiny bit of a slowdown as you're coming around the curve headed towards river road. rest of the beltway is looking okay. 95 in virginia near fairfax county parkway, northbound/southbound, everything is looking good there this morning. no big complaints. diin the rict, southbound 295 at pennsylvania avenue, ugh, uneven pavement because of that joint expansion project. some traffic slow through there. and these routes into town, out of town, bw parkway, 95, everything looking nice and green. >> melissa, thank you. 4:53 now. more americans are moving itho district. this is according to a new study

looking at where peopl relocating in the country. d.c. was ranked as one of the top ten inbound states of last year, according to united van lines. other top destinations included vermont, oregon, and idaho. more residents moved out of new jersey than any other state. several southern states like north and south carolina experienced high levels of people moving in as well. researchers say theea top rsons for moving south include job change and retirement. virginia beach is getting a big upgrade thanks to star pharrell williams. the singer is backing a major new entertainment venue for hiso ho. the dome project will include an outdoor music area, surf park, office space, and housing. it's a $328 million come plengst -- complex that would take up two square blocks. there are som new healthy options available at chipotle. the mexic food cha is serving a new collection of lifestyle bowls geared toward popular diets. there are four new salads to

choose from. you have -- this is exclusively available through chipotle's website or mobile app. you can choose fro paleo, keto, whole 30, and double protein. i'd try that. . >> sure, why not? >> just pile on the walk mow lee. all right. going vegetarian is another diet gaining popularity. >> it has several health benefits, but you might also need to take steps to make sure you're getting all the necessary nutrients you need in yourns di. coer report says for a balanced vegetarian or vegan diet, make sure you're getting enough protein, calcium, iron, and vitamin 2. veggie friendly foods like tofu, chickpeas, and high-protein grains include those nutrients. >> plant sources of calcium include almonds, bok choy, as

well as tofu. >> if you're planning on making the switch t veggie or vegan in the new year, it's not a bad idea toheck with youealth care provider before you do. make sure your body can handle it. well, it's hard to keep up with kardashian baby news lately. now another baby will be joining hollywood's royal family. >> that's exciting. e! news reports kim and kanye west will havenother child. chicago west was born nearly a year ago. her older siblings aresaint, a boy, and north, a girl. >> now we're left to wonder what baby number four's name will be. the couple is not confirming the reports, but e! news says the new baby is due in may. >> they'll call it mmm. >> they will not. let's see. north, saint, chicago. >> west. still ahead on news 4 da

stopping local speeders in their tracks. >> the criminal charges that may now be filed in some areas and .or some drivers icpleus, a n tag. we're talking about prescription drugs. the costor many medications is going up. details when news 4 today continues.

good morning, everyone. i' eun yang. >> and i'm aaron gilchrist. it is 5:00 a.m. now. a historic day on capitolill. democrat leader nancy pelosi expected to once again become speaker of the house. >> the last time a previous speakeof the house was re-elected to the position was in 1955. the new house will hit the grou running too. a plan to end the government shutdown is expected to be voted on. s have all that covered t morning. first, though, we want to begin with a check on the forecast and the commute. melissa mollet is standing by. let's start with storm team 4's lauryn ricketts in forchuck, telling us about a little rain t moving through area. >> we have some rain down to the south. staying east of d.c., south and east of the beltway. not to say we couldn't see a few sprinkles try to move north as here,ystem moves out of but again, most of this is staying south. a loturf moi with this system as a stalled frontal system is creating rain showers and an