we're looking at theills at were passed and where the debate may go next. >> a look at f your firstr traffic but we begin with lauren rickets and your friday forecast. temperatures in and out of the 20s and into the 30s but we're 'rdry. also cloudy out there as well. you can see the cloud cover across the area and then you can see the rain just to the south. oh, yeah. strong storms moving outf atlanta right now. at least heavy rainfall coming out of that area.

it will happen later on this afternoon throughout the evening. maybe a few peaks of sunshine this morning. fo time-out the rain for you because i do bel some of the commuting could be on the wet side. erespecially l on this evening but let's talk about traffic. it's dry this morning. >> it's dry right now. i'll give you credit for that. 66 inbound, noroems here. looking okay. southbound has been a tiny slow down right now. a little bit of a delay there.

through that area we're not seeing anydelay. >> 95 in maryland. 32 on the beltway. >> thank you. it's 5:02 now. breaking newsc. in this mornin a u-haul smashed through the doors just hours chris lawrence is at the t-mobile store at northeast d.c. with the latest on all of this. chris, what happened? >> yeah, pretty bren and pretty cut and dry. i want to s away and let you take a look. this is wherehe t-haul just plowed through the wall of this t-mobile store. a good thing none of the managers were working late. this could have been worse than it was.

you can g seess, metal and everything. now i want to get you to some video. you can see the u-haul. what looks to he happened is one or more people stole this u-haul and just used it as a battering ram to literally plow through the wall. you can see it backed right into the store and at which point they grabbed as many cell phone and accessory as they could and took off and left the u-haul behind. the police have moved to u-haul out now as we come back here live. the police were here up until about 20 minutes ago. they have now left t scene. you have the costco here. lots of surveillanceer c in the area. they'll be looking to see if

they can get any evidence as to who me pulled this off. chris lawrence, news 4. >> do you see anybody coming to board up that store front or is it going to s open with no anything?otection or >> not at this point. there was a police officer here, probably, literatel upntil about 10 minutes ago. i would imagine probably when the sun comes up you'll probably have -- t-mobile will probably have somody here to come close up the store but they were processing evidence here and here on the scene until about 10 or 15 minutes ago. >> okay. thanks. >> 5:04. developing this morning, hours of a deay double shooting, police are still working to find more clues about the shooter. the car was found on the 5900 block of surratts village drive. one person w shot several times in that car and later died. another walked to a nearby hospital with several gunshot

wounds and also died. a source close to the investigation told news 4 the two deaths connected but would not say how. investigators are still trying to find out where the shooting may havehappened. so far, no suspect information has been released. >> t morning a young woman is recovering after being shot in southeast d.c. this happened yesterday afternoon neagalen street. she was standing withro a of people when she was hit. police are still working to figure out who was the intended target. neighbors say they're worried about the violence and how it could impact their kmuptcoy. >> you can't walk in your community. it makes you sad as an adult and a parent. my heart is hurting. i'm just glad that no one lost their life. >> police have not made any arrests in this case but they say the woman is expected to survive chl survive. >> a live look at the u.s. capital this morning.

congress was called into session and began work on ending the partialovernment shutdown. lastight the house passed two bills that would reopen the federal government. but neither agree on the border wall. either bill is expected to be signed by president trump. kday they'll head bac to talk about other pgs -- opeons. president will not sign any bill that doesn't include funding for a wall alo the border. >> this partial shutdown is also having a trickle down effect across our region. he done work for the government but she does rent out rooms in her home t federal workers. the single mother doesn't get paid between sesters so this is her extra income we're talking about here and because of a shutdown, anntern that was supposed to rent a room may have to cancel. she can't really have a

determined schedule federal government is shutdown and her internship depends on the feder government. >> i'm a single mom. i have an adult son on t autism spectrum so i have additional challenges. >> she also rentso tourists but since h museumsave closed, she's worried that tourism disappear.ill also >> it's 5:07 now. prolonged government shutdowns could illayons of dollars in income tax refunds. about 65% of irs employees are furloughed right now. if the shutdown lasts until february the irs could make sure that tax retur go out on time. changes could lead to a lot of confusion and people needing extra irs help. coverage on the partial government shutdown all morninga coming up o live report from capitol hill of the likelihood ef a deal today. also read m about the deal

the house passed on the nbc washington app. >> today tpeaker of house nancy pelosi will speak at a town hall at trinity washington university in northeast d.c. you can watch it tonight at 10:00 p.m. >> new details this morning in a startling case of a man secretly recording 60 women and they fear he could have recordedmore. megan is live at fair oaks mal in fairfax where this all happened. megan? >> good morning. police say that he v used ay small camera that transmitted wire leslie to his cell phone and that he watched and recorded women as they tried on clothing at fair oaks mall and other locations. now take a look at this video here. this is the camera that was alleged used in this case

less than half an inch wide. so we're talking very, very small. very difficult to spot. now arrested in this case. the 39-year-old. some may know him as a bar tender in alexandria. police say he would wait in a dressing room stall, wait for women to enlter tter the stalls to him where he installed the camera. he watched and made railroadings from mid december until christmas eve to the height of the holiday shopping season. that's when a alert teenager spotted the camera and told a store employee. >> to date we have over 60 victims tt we have inventories and our fear is there are more. >> now police are looking through more than 100 video trying to figure outnow many woere recorded in this.

they also seized thumb drives and other equipment fromis home. now, for an exact list of locations and times thahese recordings were made, you can go a our nbc washington app. we have of that information right there. back to you. >> megan mcgraff, live for us this morning in fairfax, thank you.e >> pol are searching again for relisharudd. they searched the tunnels under the soon to be demolished dc. shelter. that's where she and her mother stayed befhe vanished. police were acting on new information that the man police believe was f responsible her disappearance had access to the tunnels. he was a janitor athe shelter. relisha was seen with him on surveillance video at a prince george's county tel. that was a month before his wife was found murdered in another hotel. he was found dead days lfrer an apparent suicide.

throughout the years, community members held vigils in hopes that relisha would be found. one community activist tells us he'shlad the sea continues. or proud of the metropolitan police department keeping the commitment, keeping the drive alive to continue to look for relisha rudd and search for he it gives me more hope and more incentive to continue my efforts. nothing was found in the search but police say they will not give up on this case. this morning, news of a eak in a cold case dating back more than two years. fairfa county policeay they arrested two men in the murder of 24-year-old t.j. sampson. in may of 2016, sampson was murdered in the parking lot of his apartment complex in the alexandria section of the county. police think he wasle k because he caught two men breaking into cars. one of the suspects was arrested september. yesterday, 19-year-old hawkins was also chargedith first-degree murder.

both men are in jail this morning without bond also new morning, comedian kevin hart is breaking his silence speaking out about the controversy that cost him his oscar hosting gear. >> in an interview today on ellen, hart talked aut the tweets and why he decided gainst making a public apology when they resurfaced. >> when it happened, my first thought is i'm going tognore it. i'm going to ignore it because it's ten years old.is s stuff i have addressed. i talked about this. this state's exhibit new. i've addreed it. i have apologized for it. i'm not going to pay it any mine because if you feed into that fuel tou only add more the fire. >> right. >> hart goes on to say that no onects per and one can only grow if one makes mistakes. he then discussed why he decided to step down and what could happen next. coming up next half hour what

ellen did on hart's behalf after what happened. >> how a bit of star power boosted attendance at a world renowned museum. >> plus a teenage boy helped save his family during a houser fi. what he was doing at the time that helped save lives. wlauren. >> a have rain on the way but no rain out there for that morning commute, but it is chilly. those temperatures are upper 30s right now. heading to a rightund 50 degrees once again today. we'll time-out the rain cnences in youhborhood, that's coming up after this. look. it's over.

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>> all right guys, listen. just know it's going to be dry butater on this afternoon, that's when it's going to be wet because we do have those showers moving in l on this afternoon. for saturday now we have rain showers at least for the morning into the midday. sunday andonday lookinggood. now monday night into early tuesday, we could have a few light showers and hilisten, is mainly rain. wait until i show you temperatures on the 10-day

forecast. sun coming up at 7:30. temperatures into the mid 30s and we'll move our t way into 40s through the middle part of the day. maybe a few peeks of sun. we're dry through your morning commute. no to worry about there. here we go. and perio of rain will continue overnight and through tomorrow morning and as the system pulls up and pushes to the eastern seaboard, wrap around showers are possible through at least thear

afternoon. so we're going to tack on more for 2018. breezy tomorrow.zy br on sunday. gorgeous with temperatures in the upper 50s. we have chances of rain. a small chance on a tuesday. breezy on tuesday and down right windy by wednesday. >> good morning, how is the traffic and roads looking? >> good morning. looking good but a new probl on metr we'll have that all pripted up for you in a couple of minutes. 95 virginia, southbound, going 49 miles per hour as you're leaving quantico this morning. no problems northbound or southbou here still have that

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there was a mess at a t-mobile store after a truck crashed inside it overnight. we'll take you live for more o what happened there. >> 5:30 right now. the first weekend of 201 will look a lot like so many in 2018. it's going to be ewet. >> m rain. >> storm team 4 meteorologist

lauren rickets is here with our forecast. melissa, are you doing okay. >> i am. trying to get ahold of this metro situation here. but you're interrupting me. >> i'm sorry. >> can you let a woman work. >> we'll let you t tk abouthat in a second. lauren, why don't you go first. >> i'll be quick, >>melissa. ll right. everybody wants to hear about the rain showers. aaron, you're working with me tomorrow morning, so we getbo t ut rain all day tomorrow morning too. get excited, everybody.pl ty of clouds out there right now but yes rain is on theanay it's coming up from the deep south and that's going to be go ing into our area as we into the afternoon and evening. temperatures out there right now, chilly and we're in th 20s and 30s. light wind out there but plenty of cloud cover. waking up this morning, those temperatures will slip a little bit before the sun comes up in which is about 2 hours from now and we'll head through the 30s timing out tha rain to see if we have any dry days coming up.

but let'stalk about t metro situation. >> i was trying to make a graphic and i wasike i have to do this. orange/blue line delays ts morning, single tracking between federal center and smithsonian. inis is because of the problem i was menti earlier. 66-95, no major issues right now. taking a look at 270 northbound and southbound. arlington, though, southbound before the roosevelt bridge, watch out. oversized vehicles seemed to have been stuck there and still have this situation hanging around. the distrt heights, inner loop near pennsylvania avenue, the left lane getting by the work ne but overall beltway volume is nice and light this morning. >> tha you. back no the breaking news in northeast d.c. this morning where a u-haul truck smashed through a store front. noen t with wasre by the time that police showed up. now the clean up begins aspo ce begin to search for clues. >> chris lawrence is live at the store off ofen new york . chris, what is going on there.

>> well, hey, it wasretty brazen, guys. i can only say, good thing a manager or nobody was working late overnight. take a look at this behind me. this truck just plowed through the back wall of the t-mobile store, even some of the drywall llapsed. you got glass, medal and debris just about everywhere on the sidewalk. i want to give you a different perspective to sho how this happened. >> you can see the thieves backed it into the store. punched through the wall. they got out andbb g as many cell phones and accessories as they could and took off. police say the u-haul was stolen. the good thing is, there's a camera right up there. there's a lot ofamas in

this. we're in the south dakota crossing right off of south nd dakota after a new york avenue. so big shopping center. this is where you have the costco and we and other stores. there's surveillance cameras all taking ad police are look at the footage to see if they can get a better idea of who mayave pulled this off. chris lawrence, news 4. >> chris, thank you. 5:34 now and today begins day 14 of the partial government shutdown. president trump calling congressional leaders back to th white house toorkout a deal to reopen the government. >> a deal by the end of the day is unlikely unless democrats and the president can agree to ami comp on funding for a border wall. as the shutdown drags on, a major power shift has happened for the first time in 8 years. democrats control the house of representatives and nancy pelosi has retaken the leadership. was tothe first acts pass two bills that will reopen the government, but they have no ance of passing the

republican-controlled senate. proof thathe shutdown is not their fault. >> trying to come to an o agreemen which we can all agree. but holding 800,000 peopl hostage, holding the people's government hostage is not what they expected. >> coming up, we'll hearne from w local members of congress that are already doliealing wit angry constituents over the shutdown. >> the trump administration wants to send more troops to the border to string atre. 160 miles of wire will go on top of the existing border fencing. in approved, the addition of troops could extend the military's current deploy at the border until the end of septem cr. it is ase of major debate in congress. the president refusedopprove any spending bill that doesn't include money for a wall. >> is 35. we're learning more in the shooting death of a young marine at the barracks in southeast

d.c. marine officials say a marine guard fired h weapon hitting lance corporal reilly kuznia early tuesday morning. he was rushed to the hospita but died. the marine that fired his weapon is now on administrative dut pending the death administration. the 20-year-old kuznia w from minnesota and global war on terrorism service medal and national defense service medal. >> your time now is 5:36. police are trying to find out what lead to a double shooting in clinton last night. one peon was found shotn a car on surratts village drive. th died. no word on what could have started tr shooting any other possible suspects. >> nearly fooive years after sh when missing, searches continue for relisha police searched the tunnelshe underneath t d.c. general shelter. police were acting on new information that the man police

believe is responsible for rudd's disappearanc had access to the tunnels as a janitor there. earch g was found in the but police say they will not give up on this case. >> fairfax county police arrested two men in a cold in may of 2016, he was murdered in an apartment complex parking lot. police believe he was killed because he found two men breaking into cars. authorities arrested them without bonds. >> prosecutors dropped domesticc violencerges against ruben foster. he was arrested following an incident with anex-girlfriend. he was playing for the san francisco 49ers at the time ands they ed him after the arrest. few days later the team signed foster and now prosecutors say there is novidence to move forward. however, the nfl says it is cident.review the

foster is still on the commissioners exempt list and could still beor suspended the start of next season. up> one of hollywood's biggest nights is comin this weekend. >> the golden globes are almost 's bestnoring this ye in tv and movies. this year's hosts kicked out thy red carpetesterday there in los angele films like vice and a star is born lead the nominations for motion pictures. other fan favorites like black panther, if beal street could talk, they're nominated for best drama. >> you can catch the fun at 8:00 right here on nbc 4:00. >> it is 5:38 right now. coming up, opening up about the oscars. why ellen is defending kevin hart. >> still ahead, fitting room recordings. details ahaut the man police say watched dozens of women while they undressed inside a local mall. stay wh us. yourit t

you don't know what perfection is unless there's been imevrfection. >> hart breaking his silence about the controversial tweetshat wound up costing him his chance to host the academy awards this year. in an interview airing today here onbc 4 he sits down with ellen and talks about why he decided again apologizing right away and why he hopes to learn from this ex arience. >> ho learned that his dream of hosting the show may note over quite y and he may have ellen to thank for that. >> i called thecamy today because i really want you to host the oscars. i was so excited when i heard that they asked you. i thought it was an amazing thing. i knew how important it was. so i called them. what are your thoughts? and they were like we want him to host. >> ellen described the people that called b for hart removed as a small group that

made a lot of noise. and he is the one that stepped down on his own. >> right. the academy didn't fire him. he decided to take some of the attention away from himnd leave it on the artists tha will be honored. a lot of people thought an old tweet from a comedian. >> you can catch ellen at 3:00 on news 4. it is a cloudy and chilly start out there this morning, but rain on the way. so grall the s umbrella, the winter gear, and maybe the sunglasses. few pops of sunshine. temperatures starting this morning in the 30s warming around 50. we'll talk about the rain chances and detailed weekend forecast coming up. >> plus a doctor's appointment accide. one pregnant woman won't soon forget how her long wait to be seen endedith her locked de the office. si

they're going to the white use today to try to workout a deal with the president. >> tracie potts is live on capitol hill for us. any chance this standoff could come to an end today? >> it'ssi pe but consider what's happening today. the same crew, democrats,s

republicn capitol hill, president trump sitting down with the same issue. both sides digging in. neither side bending at least so far on money for this wall. it's unclear if this meeting can government pen the today or even where this negotiation begins. but they're givingt another try. so we'll continue to watch that meeting starting in a few hours at the white house. last night, democrats said they tried to reopen the government. they passed a couple of bills that would reopen the 8 departments that have nothing to do with the wall and the one that does, homeland security, wi get 30 days of temporary funding. but republicans aren't giving that a second look. there won't be a vote on it in the senate and today's meeting is the best chance to see some effort, some forward movement on trying to reopen the government and hoelp those 800,000 people that are outf a paycheck. >> tracy, thank you. >> our new local members of

ngress haven't been on the job 24 hours but they're already dealing with angry constituents. david trone represents maryland's 6th district and he's already received calls from frustrated workers. jennif jennifer wexton says everyone needs to focus on reopening the government >> i'd like to see everyone calm down and retreat to their corners, get some funding passed and have a chance to hav a full and frank discussion with the governmentreopen. >> a lawmaker this morning represents the most diverse congress our nationas ever seen. the diversity includes more than 100 female members, the most ever. and we now have our first two native american women members of congress. and the first palestinian-american woman to serve in the house. d.c. congresswoman norton and the mayor are pushing forward in making the district

thest state. she received a record number of co-sponsors f the ll. it would ensure that d.c. would be equal to the other s0tes but federal areas like the u.s. capital and federal monuments would remain under federal jurisdiction. ea >> today we'll more about efforts to make route 210 safer. prince george's county executive and the county c policeef will speak to the media about last week's terrible crash thathr killed tee young siblings. she is set to roll out the department's efforts to reduce traffic incidents on the dangerous roadway. keep an eye on the nbc washington app for updates. >> a disturbing case a area mall. police sayn mant secretly recorded at least 60 women in dressing rooms and n they're concerned there could be more victims out there. >> megan is live in fairfax with more. megan.

>> well, good morning. police say that he used a very small camera that transmitted wire leslie to his cell phone and then he watched and rorded women as they tried on clothes at fair oaks mall andther locations. now take a look at this video here. this is the camera allegedly used and you can see here just how small it is. less than half an inch. very tough to spot here. now arrested in this case, the 39-year-old, some may know him as a bar tender in alexandria. he was profiled in the old town crier. he would wait in a dressing room stall and wait for women to enter the stall next to him where he installed the camera. he watched and made recordings until christmas eve. that's when they spotted the camera and told a store employee. now there a at least 60 victims and the fair oaks

central manager. he said they have been talking to retailers in the wake of this and that everyone is on the look out for t tiny devices. >> a lot of turnover. there's a lot of people that we work with and thousands of employees at the mall.ki education, w with them. making sure that they're connected with the policede rtment. >> and police are looking at more than 100 videosrying to figure out if there are other victims out there. now on our website and on our app, tonbc washi app, we have a list of locations and times that w recordingse made in case you feel that you perhaps were a victim in all of this. you can go and all of that information is on our apput certainly police will be spending quite a bit of time looking for the victims tryingig toure out just how many victims here are inthis. back to you. >> megan, thanks. >> this morning a familys dog alive thanks to the help of first responders in arlington. firefighters rescued him from a

north garfield street yesterday morning. to helpave him oxyge clear the smoke from his lungs. firefighters found smoke througho a the building fire in the basement. three apartments were damaged. officials are still looking for the cause of the fire. >> it's 5:51, our time right now. lauren i here, about 10 degrees colder than this time yesterday. >> it's clly out there. hi the winter jacket on, the hat, the gloves, everything le at. temperatures will be about where they were yesterday. we hit 51 yesterday. g we'rting to be close to that. upper 40s to right around 50. but we g rain on the way and it's going to be another gloomy and dreary day out there. we have cloudreover out t early this morning. sun coming up at 7:27. we have rain at least -- at leasthrough the first part of your saturday. now sunday, we have plans this weekend. sunday looking gorgeous. take the decorations down, get out and about, sundays the day to do it. but you can see nothing happening on the radar right now

but all of this moisture isnt headed right our direction. so again, we will see some of that rain heading into the mid-atlantic as we head into the afternoon and evening. now temperatures right now, a little on the chilly side but as i said,ng we're g to warm up. so you're walking out the door this morning, colder than the last two mornings in the 20s and 30s. the next several hours, temperatures warming to around 50 degrees. by this afternoon, rain to the south and after the evening commute -- after 5:00, after the start of t evening commute, we'll start to see that rain move in. so your weekend tlook, it's going to be slushy due to the rain today and tomorrow. now decoratio down, better day on sunday. tercise, we have above normal temperatures outre for exercise. so let me time-out the rain for you. oudy conditions out there. we'll be dry this morning, but rain starts to move in,

especially to our southern suburbs through the early ternoon. after 4:00 or 5:00 here in the d.c. metr area. we'll continue with periods of rain through the overnight and athrough tomorrow morni least. but as this system pushes to the north, we'll start to get the ap around rain and we'll continue to have some showers as we head in through the part of your saturday. drying out by saturday afternoon. mperatures in the low 50s on saturday. mid 50s on sunday. absolutely gorgeous. temperatures will be above normal this wkend but we will be on the breezy side. small chance of rain comes ontu day. melissa, how are the roads looking? good morning. >> roads okay. a couple of little problems here and ther still have the situation on the rails, getting a little bit better as well. orange blue line delays. single tracking right now outside of a track issue of the plaza. silver line no longer impacted according t metro. chopper 4 right now, this is near powder m road. that looks good northbound and

southbound. lington, northbound 395 near arlington ridge road. a left side is b acked by accident. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway nice and light at this point. taking a look at 270. your travel times. top of the beltway. everything is on time there. 66 inbound and 95 northbound in virginia. no m copllts there eithe -- no either. now that we're officially ov with the holidays, another big day is coming up for singles. i'm notalking about valentine's day. it's called dating sunday. do you know about this? it traditionally falls on the nday after newyear. experts say it's the busiest dating app day of the year. they say finding love is a popular new year's resolution. everyone is getting online because they set their new year's resolution. it's 2018 a they're intending to meet someone this year. >> there you go. about 50 to 85% more singles log

on to find love this time of the year. weathe is getting colder. >> you need somebody for some cuddling or something. you start realizing i'm a year older than i was last year, and i'm still by myself. >> have hope. >> i've been there. >> a mom to be visit to her obgyn is anything but routine. >> the staff forgot about her and left her there. this happened in florida. after a two hour wait she was finally given a gown and a doctor told her he'd be right back. he never came back and when she peaked out of the exam room she found the entire officedarked, clocked, everybody was gone. >> how could you forget somebody and you're running a professional business and, you know, you're sign says all about women but you left me behind. >> richardson called police and with the help of someone in the next door office was abl to get out. the clinic is investigating. >> unacceptable. good morning, i frank holland at cnbc headquaters. finding your next j may depend

on location. wallet hub is out with a list of the best cities t find new employment. they compare more than 180 u.s. cities and they found scottsdale, aumzona isr one with the highest median annual income. there's a town right in your backyard, columbia, maryland is second, followed by orlando, san francisco and colorado springs. washington comes in 8th on that list. thank you, frank. still ahead on new 4 today, did a son's netflix binge keep an entire family alwee? l tell you why they say yes. >> plus breaking news live in northeas d.c. where u-haul has crashed into a store. we'll have the latest onhat happened and the clean up efforts when news 4 today continues.

congress is back on the job but a compromise is yet to be reached. a late night attempthe by house to reopen the government doesn't have the support of the president. it's back to the drawing board. yourmorning and welcome to friday. >> fast approaching 6:00 a.m. and today we'll have a look at

the bills that were passed and where the debate mayonext. we begin with a check on the forecast and the commute. >> melissa is standing by with your first four traffic but first lauren has your friday fo >> we have been in the mid to upper 30s. it's a good-looking day out there. we don't have rain, we don't have snow yet. no snow in the forecast. but we do have rain in thet from -- forecast. you can see the cloud cover across the area. this is what is o coming way. another round of rain coming our way. from latest on this afternoon through tonight and through the first part of tomorrow unfortunately. the first part is tomorrow. 38 degrees when you head outside. a light wind. cloudy skies. atemperatures will tip little bit before the sun comes up