aompromise iset to be reached. dlate night attempt to reopen the governmens not have the support of the president. today it's back to the drawing board. >> today we are looking a the bills that were passed and where this debe mayo next. we're looking now at a check on your commute. >> melissa is standing by with a look at your traffic but we have lauren starting us off with our friday forecast. >> hey, girl. it's a little cold outside. temperatures arebelow freezing in a lot of spots which is interesting because the last couple of mornings it's been fairly mil out there. 37 in the district but outside of the beltway, we have 20. we head toward 7:00, the sun coming up, about 7:30. so it's chilly until then. but it's dry until then.

the a temperature going to top out once again right around 50 degrees. take aook at this. we are dry right now but a lot of moisture head up and into the mid-atlantic. that rain is moving in our area for later ontoday. so we'll time-out that rain and let you know what to expect as we head into the weekend coming up in a little bit. but let's talk about what you can expect on the roadway. >> good morning. right now atgt arl at military, brand new crash. we don't t have much other information about that one quite yet at least. in thedistrict,outhbound 295, work zone with one left lane getting that work zone and district heights here, inner loop to tnnsylvania avenue, l lane is getting by the work zone now near joint based andrews. no major slow downsecause of that. we'll take a look at 270 coming up in a minute. >> thank you. breaking news ist northd.c. this morning we're working to learn more about the message you

see here, a u-haul truck crashed into a t-mobile store. investigors on the scene have not said who was behind the have lead to may the crash. we do have a crew headed there right now. we'll let you know more as soon as we learn it. oping in prince george's county this morning, hours after a deadly double shooting, police are working to find more clues about the oo shr. this bullet riddled car was found on the b 5,900ck in clinton just a few blocks away from surratts high school. one person was shot several times in the car and laterdied. another walked to a nearby hospital, several gunshot wounds, later died as well. a source close to the investigation said the two deathsere connected but would not say how. investigators are still trying to find o where the shooting may have happened. so far, no suspect information has been released. this morning a young woman

s recovering after beingt in southeast d.c. this happened yesterday fternoon near galen and green streets. she was standing with a group of people when she was hit. police are still worki to figure out who was the intended target. neighbors say they're worried about the violence and how it could impact their community. >> you can't even walk in your community. it makes you sad as an adult, a parent. my heart is hurting. i'm just glad no one lt their life. >> police have not made any arrests in this case, but they say the woman is expected to survive. 4:03. we take a live look at the u.s. capitol this morning. they iediately started work on stopping the government shutdown, now in the4th y. the house passed two bills that would reopen the federal government but neither included fundin for a border wall which remains the cause of the gridlock. neither bill is expected to pass

the senate or be signed by president trump. present trump says he will not sign any bill that doesn't include $5 billion for a wall along the mexico border >> we have been talking a lot about the thousands of federal esrkers whose l have been left in limbo for the past couple of weeks but thi partial shutdown is also having a trickle effect across the region. he doesn't work for the government but she does rent out rooms and homes to federal workers. she doesn't get paid between a semester that was her income. because of a utwn, an intern was supposed to rent a room and they have toel canc >> she can't have a determined schedule and her internship depends on the federal government. i'm a single mom. iave an adult son on the autism spectrum. so i havel additiona challenges. >> she als renltts to tourists

but since the museums have shutdown, she worries that the tourism interest willlso disappear. >> it could delay income tax refunds. 65% of irs employees are furloughed right if it los angless into february they could recall employees to make sure that tax returns go out on time. however this is also theirst me that taxpayers will face the tax overhaul. the changes could lead to a lot of confusion and people needing extra help from the s. we'll have continuing coverage on the partial governmentsh down all morning long. coming up, a report on a likelihood of a dealed too. you can also read more about the p.ll the house passed on the nbc washington >> today speaker of the house nancy pelosi will speak a a town hall at trinity washington university in ntheast c. it will be moderated by msnbc's joy reid. you can watch it tonight at >> nearly five years after she

went missing, police are searching again. over the last few days police seched the tunnels underneath the d.c. general shelter. that's where she and her mother stayed before she vanished. police were acting on new information that the man police believe is responsible for rudd's disapprance had access to the tunnels. he was a janitor at the shelter. relisha was seen with him on surveillance video at a hotel. that'sth a m before his wife was found murdered at a different hotel. he was found dead from an apparent suicide. throughout the muyear, cty members held very jills in hopeh re will be found. one activist is proud the search continues. >> proud of them for keeping the commitment and keeping the drive alive to continue to search. iv gives me more hope. it me more incentive to

continue my efforts. >>othing was found in that search, but police say they will not give up on this this morning, a break in a cold case from more than two years ago. fairfax county police say they arrested two men in conne mion to tder of t.j. sampson. in may of 2016, sampson had jus before offered a job as a special education teacher when he was murdered in his apartment complex parking cet. polielieve he was killed because he found two men breaking into cars. one of the suspects was arrested in september but police had to keep that quite whilee they m a case against his suspected partner. the 19-year-old was already in jail for another crime. he was charged with first-degres murderrday afternoon. >> given that they are both residents of d.c. we were in close partnership with the d.c. police at all times. moreic specly, one of my detectives who f over two

bringworked tirelessly t justice to this family. >> i'm glad they're not going to be able tourt anybody else. >> both men remain in jail this morning without bond. >> iestors will be keeping an eye on wall street again today. apple announced a decline in iphone sales in china yesterday. tim cook says the company is now cutting it's sales for ast due to low demand for the phones in that company. the newsen apple stock down 10% in early trading. it's the biggest single day drop in six years. the dow also plunged more than 650 points yesterday. the s&p dropped 62 points and the nasdaq sank 202 points. some experts say the trade tensions between the u.s. and china are makingse things w for the broader global economy. >> there's widesprea that the world needed to come down on china but most experts in trade that could have been better done by a coordinated comprehensive effort to try to force china to change

it's res rather than the trade war which ist' looking like is getting out of connel tro. >> -- getting out of control. >> more on therade tensions. >> police are working around the clock to track down the killer of a 7-year-oldgirl. she was shot and killed. she was sitting in h mother's car when a man pulled up beside them and started shooting. investigators released a sketch and picture of the pick up truck. >> they're looking to identify and notify the families of 7 pedle kil in this firey crash. two big riggs and two cars crashed yesterday just outside of gainsville. official say diesel fuels sparked the massive fire. the interstate was closed in both directions causing massive delays and this other victims of the crash are still being treated for critical >> this morning a driver is

behind bars after a pretty bizarr slow speed chase. he wasd par in a small tractor-trailer on wednesday night. when police got hthere, refu refused to come out and took off. that lead police on the slow speed chase. police negotiated with him for hours and eventually had to turn to other tactics. >> about 15 or 20 police officers sitting out. about 10 or 12 cars and then just wound up and it up becoming crazy. witnesses say they had to climb in and pullouim police later found meth. he was high and charged withiv g under the influence. >> it's now 4:10. it looks like a scene out of a hitchcock classic but for some it's just another day in upper marlboro. hundreds of as a ruvultures are invading the parking lot. they're drawn by the food.

there's vultures and ferrell cats. >> the roof has 2 or 300 birds behind it. the trees behind you another 300 birds. the roof of the grocery store, there' probably another 100 birds there. >> the cat colony and the rule -- vultures are protected under law. >> it's the stuff oforror movies in my book. a cat colony and the vultures. >> i can't imagine that's good for business at all. >> that's a problem. >> 4:11 right now, new this morning comedian kevin hart is speaking out about the

controversy that cost him his oscar coaching gig. >> he talked about the reason why he initially decided against making a public apology when they resurfaced. >> when it happened, you know, my first thought is i'm going to ignore it. i'm going to ignore it. it's ten years old. this is stuff i have addressed. i've talked about this. this isn't new. i've addressed it. i've apologized for it. i'm not going to pay it anyin because if you feed into that stuff, you only add more fuel to >> hart goes on to say that no one is perct and one can only grow if one makes mistakes and explains uhy heimately decided to step down and what may happen next. you can clch the f interview here on nbc 4 at 3:00 this afternoon. coming up at the next h sf hour, wh did on hart's behalf heter seeing what happened. >> still this morning, how

a bit of star power boosts attendance at a world renowned museum. >> plus a teenage boy helped save his family during a house fire. what he was doing at the time that helped save lives. >> also rain on the way. not in our area yet but it's moving pretty quickly. we'll talk about the timing of it. when you can see t

>> kids are taught to obey their parents. >> in the bible, isn't ? >> honor. go.there you one boy's defiance saved hisro family a burning home. against his mom's orders, he binge watched the flash on netflix inste of going to bed like he was told to do. early in the morning about 1:, he heard things break.

apparently a fire started. he was able to wake up his a moth get out of the house just i time. >> i saw smoke in the hlway and i started yelling for my mom. >> if he wasn't on the tv, if he was not awake. i don't know the omoutce. >> he didn't get grounded this time. >> i think that's all right. >> you get a pass. >> wshould tell you, though, that the family did lose everything. this was a pretty big eyre. ost some pets as well. but his mother says she is happy that they are safe. >> that's the good news. health insurance concerns are growing for tho approaching retirement age. a new survey looked at more than 1,000 people in their 50s and 60s. nearly half said they're not sure whether they would be able afford their coverage once they stopped working. mo than 25% of that group had exubt about being able to afford coverage for year alone. in fact, they said they were staying in their current job

instead of changing jobs or requiring just to keep their insurance coverage. it's very possible. if you have any health questions, a place to find out more infortion is about the annual health and fitness expo. this next weekend, january 12th and 13th at the washington conventicenter. we'll have the latest in health, fitness, and screenings. it's all free. >> power couple beyonce and jay-z helped a new museum in paris take in a record number of visitors last year. >> it was all because of a music video. it showsm singing in front of the mona lisa painting andr ot famous pieces in the lourve. it's been viewed 150 million times on youtube. it helped increase the number of

visitors toor a r 10.2 million people last year. hat is the most for any museum in history. that's the power of queen b and ja jay-z. >> forget all the others. >> leonardo dicaprio -- davinci. >> it's good, though. >> i feel like i need to goack just to see the louvre in thatn t. >> there's so much. >> it takes more than one day. we're taking a look outside. lauren rickets is going to tell us about the forecast and the weeken here,lauren. >> the weekend is finally here. this has been the longest week ever. but the weekend i here. it's friday. we have someud clo to start but at least we're dry to start right now. but rain is on the way. take a look. rain chances increase this afternoon. it will probably hit the d.

d.c. metro area as it always tends to do and rain continues through at least the first part of your saturday. now, we're looking gorgeous onay su by sunday we have plenty of sunshine out there. so sunday is going tbe autiful and those temperatures are going to be a little on the mild side. current tperatures out there right now, opposite of mild. it's cold. temperatures in the 20s and 30s right now. 37 in d.c. and ianapolis 38. that's the warm spot. and they're hanging around as we head through the day. but cloud cover especially by the time we head through the afternoonment by t afternoon, the rain chances will increase. temperatures will be in the low with daytime highs today. so time now for you as promised. 4:00 a.m., nothing. cloudy conditions, as i said,

early this rning. as we go through lunchtime, this rain is starting to really get it's act together. so areas to the sou could see some rain moving in as early as lunchtime. i think by the timech it r the d.c. metro area it will be after about5:00nd then we'll continue to see periods of rains and this not going to go away qui quickly and we'll continue tose wrap around rain as we go through midday on saturday and early afternoon on saturday finally pulling out through the ening on saturday and we're looking drier. but it will be breezy tomorrow and then breezy on sunday. but temperatures will be in the mid to upper 50s. no by the time we get into your monday, temperatures stay in the mid 50s, partly cloudy skies. another chance of rain on a tuesda breezy conditions and down right windy by the time we get into thursday. more chances of rain next weekend. ght, melissa, let's talk about traffic. good morning.

>> good morning.oo nothing terrible here now. district heights inner loop at pennsylvania avenue. still have a left lane getting by that work zone. earlier problem in arlington, gle at military crash. we were warning you there, that one has disappeared from t system. so that's gone. southbound 295 work zone with theeteft laneng by and then northbound 295 after malcolx, right lane gets by the work zone there. >> it's 4:21 right now and still ahead on news 4 today, metro station concerns. why metro says changes to a d.c. law could change crime trends. law could change crime trends. >>plus, why generic

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they discovered 10% carried mutations tt revealed the risk of diseases that could be treated in childhood. researchers plan to follow these babies in the long-term to s how they do overtime. >> it's now 4:24. for the third year in a row metro ss crime is down at their stations and on their trains. >> a law could reverse that trend. >> metro says there's less crime because transit are more visible on trains, inside the stations, and patrolling outside. >> i generally do feel safe on

metro because i'm usually riding at peak times when there's lots of people. >> metro says crime in 2018 was down14% overall. theft down 19%. robberies down , and ag aggravated assault dow 3%. they were reporting suspicious ttivity and providing tipt helped close cases. >> it's employees being engaged. rit'sers being engaged and technology and a lot of it is hard work >> metro is concerned that the d.c. government appears ready to decriminalize fair evasion. this is fairevasion. riders jumping over turnstiles to avoid using a fare card. >> we can coordinate fare evasion to crime restction. al every serious crime starts with fare evasion. >> some metro riders say it's not fair. o th

>> it's not fair for everyone else that's riding metro paying every single day. >> transit police say crime on metro is down three years running now and they plan to extend that streak this year. c fing up,ting room recordings. new details about the man that watched dozens of women whilere they u inside a local mall. >> and it's a chilly start this morning, temperatures are in the 20s and 30s.ut it's cold o there. we have more coming up after is th. >> plus we have all been stuck n the doctor's office, but have you ever been forgotten about? about? hear fromhe woman t

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it's 4:29 now as we take a live look outside. friday islready here after a shortened work week for a lot of folks. it's almost time to enjoy the first weekend of 2019. some of it will be good. at least >> just like so many weekends in 2018, this one will h rain in the forecast. just can't get rid of the rain. lauren is here t d break itown for us and then we'll head over to melissa for a look at your

commute. what are we talking about here? >> a few showers there as we head into later on this afternoon through this evening, through the overnight and a goo chunk of tomorrow. but no rain to start your morning out there on this ay fr we have some cloud cover. one thing you're going to notice though when you walk outside is just how cold it is. temperatures in the mid to upper s over the last two mornings and we have topped out in the low 50s. well, we're starting this morning in the 20s and 30s. starti it off on the cloudy side. but yeah, big swath of moisture coming our way and all of that is coming into the mid-atlantic. 37 degrees in d.c. but outside of the beltway, a little colder. 35 will be our temperature by 7:00. that sun coming up at 7:27nd mperatures move around 50 degrees once again but of course we do have rain but itus will be plain rain because of the temperature. do we have a snow