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 which is just about an hour and

a half. we may have peaks of sunshine before the rain moves in here. let's talk traffic with melissa. >> let's talk traffic. still have the situation. blue line delays rightnow. this is because of single tracking between federal center southwest and the smithsonian. the issue is the problem ouroide. a trackem outside this morning. that's going to be a little slow for folks.r chop over the top of the beltway, inner loop and outer loop looki good b we do have a brand new problem in district heights on the beltway. inner loop after pennsylvania avenue crash there in the right lane. we'll send chopper that way her in just a second. havegton, northbound 395 the left side blocked by an accident that just cleared out of the way, aaron. >> thank you. it's no6:01 a smashed out store front will greet customers at a t-mobile store today after a u-haul truck smashed through the front door not far from new york avenue and south dakota avenue in northeast.

chris lawrence is in the neighborhood now outside of the store with the latest on this. chris. >> right now, aaecn, dves are looking over some of the footage from the security cameras to try to piece together who did this. it was pretty brazen. let me letak you a look inside. looking at this, just a good thing that no manager or employee was working because this u-haul truck literally just plowed right through the back o the store. completely smashed through the back wall. you could see the medal and glass and the interior wall and the store part of it. i want to giveetou ar idea of how this happened. police think at this point, the thief stole a u-haul truck. you could see it backed right into the store to gain access. smashed through the or. they apparently grabbed as many cell phones, accessories as they could and just took off leaving

the u-haul behind. that was eventuallytowed out of here and as we come back here ouve. i want to show up there, you can see one of the cameras right above there. we're at the south dakota crossing at south dakota and new york avenue. this is where you have the lowe's and costco, so you have a lot of cameras. there is foot computage of what happened here and right now police are looking at that to try to piece together who may have done this. >> it's 6:. developing in prince george's county this morning, hours after a deadly double icshooting, p are still working to find more clues about the shooter. this bullet-riddled car was found on t 5,900 block of surks, ar surratts village drive. one person was shot several times in that car and later another walked to a nearby hospital with several gunshot wounds and also died.

a source close to the investigation told news 4 that the two deaths are connected but would not say how. investigators are still trying to find out where the shooting may have happened. so far no information has been released. this morning a young woman is recovering after being shot inoutheast d. this happened yesterday afternoon near the interception of galen and green streets. she was standing with a group of people whenhe washit. police are still working to o figuut who was the intended target. neighbors are worried about the violence and how it could impact their community. >> can't even walk in your community. it makes you sad as an adult, as a parent. my heart is hurting. i'm just glad that no o l. t their life >> police have not made any arrests in this case but they isay the woman expected to

survive. >> less than 24 hours ago, the 116th congress was called into ssion andmmediately began work on ending the partial government shutdown now in it's 14th day. last night the house now controlled by democrats passed two bills that would reopen the federal government but neither included funding for a border mall which s the cause of the gridlock. >> neither bill is expected to pass the senatr be signed by the president. congressional leaders will head back to diskusds othcuss other . president trump says he will not sign any bill that doesn't ainclude money for wall along the border. we have been talking about the federal workers whose lives have been left i limbo the past couple of weeks, but this is also having a trickle down effect across the region. she doesn't wk for the government, but she does rent out rooms in her home to federal workers. she doesn't get paid between semesters so this is her extra income we're talking about.

because of a shutdown, an intern that was supposed to rent a rm y have to cancel. >> she cannot have a. schedu her internship depends on the federal government. i'm a single mom. i have an adult son on the autism spectrum, so i have additional challenges. >> she also rents t tourists but since museums have closed, she is worried that tourism interest will also disappear. >> a prolged government shutdown could delay billions of dollars in income tax funds. 65% of employees are furloughed right now. if a shutdown lasts into february, the irs could recall employees to make sure that tax returns go out on time. however, this is also the first year that taxpayers will face president trump'sax overhaul. those changes could lead to a lot of confusion and people needin extra irs help. well, continuing coverage on the partial government shutdown all morning coming up. we'll have a live report from capitol hill on the likelihood

of a deal today. you can also read more on the bill the house passed on the nbc washington p. >> today speaker of the house nancy pelosi will speak at a town hal at trinity washington university at northeast d.c. that will be moderated by msnbc's joy reid. you can watch it tonight at 10:00 p.m. >> time is 6:07. nervous investors will be peeking at wall street today. tim cook says the company isow cutting it's sales forecast due to low demand for the phones in that countr the news that apple's stock isg tankore than 10% in early trading in it's biggest single day drop in six years. the dow also plunged more thans 650 poi yesterday. the s&p dropped 62 points and the nasdaq sk 202 points. some experts say the trade tensions between the u.s. and china are making things worse

for the broader global economy. >> there's widespread agreement thathe world neede to come down on china but most experts in trade feel that could have been better done by a coordinated comprehensive effort to try to force china to change it's rules rather than this trade war which is looking like it's getting out of control. >> coming up later on the "tod" show, more on the trade tensions and the impact on wall street. right now, investigators i houston are working around the clock to track down the killer of a 7-year-old girl. jasmine barns was shot and killed on sunday morning. she was sitting in her's moth car when a man pulled up beside rtthem and s shooting. investigators released a sketch as well as an enhanced video o the suspect's pick up truck hoping to find that killer. florida highway patrol is looking to identify 7 people killed in this fiery crash. they crashed just outside of gainsville. officials say diesel fuel

sparked the fire. the interstate was closed in both directions csing massi delays. this morning, several other vicks of the crash are still being treated for critical injuries. this morning, a driver is behind bars after a pretty strange slow speed chase. he was parked in a small tractor-trailersdn wed nit. when temperaturdeputies arrived off. neighbors say the officers negotiated with him for hours and eventually had to turn to othertactics. >> three smoke bombs and then after the smoke bombs wentsh to the f bang and then they had officers g withs pointed through the front of the truck, and he still wouldn't come out. >> witnesses say they had to climb in and pull him out. lice later found meth. he was high andit charged driving under the influence. >> nearly five years after she

went missing police are searching again for relish relisha rudd. police searched the tunnels beneath the soon to be demolished d.c. generalr. shel that's where they stayed before she vanished. police are asking on new heinformation that man police believe is responsible for rudd's disappearance had access to the tunnels. he was a janitor at the elter. relisha was s with him on surveillance video at a hotel about a month before

i talked about this. this isn't new. i addressed it. i'm not going to pay it any mind. if you feed into that stuff, you only add more fuel to the fire. >> right. >> heoes on to say that no one is perfect and one can only grow if one makes mistakes. he then explains why he ultimately decided tn step d and what may happen next. you can watch the full interview right here on nbc 4 at 3:00 this afternoon and then coming up in our next half hour, we'll show you what ellen says she did on hartbehalf after what happened. >> 6:12 is your time right now. stil ahead, h a bit of star power boosted attendance at a world renowned museum. >> plus a teenage boy helped save his family during house fire. what he was doing at the time that helped save lives. >> and if you are ion't heade out the door this morning. grab the umbrella and the rain gear for this afternoon and

evening. you'll need it at least through tomorrow morning and then we really warm up as we get into sunday and wait until you see those temperaturng. not feeli

welcome back. one guy' defiance saved his family from a burning house. against his mother's orders he binge watched the flash instead of going to bed. early in the morning around 1:00 a.m. he heard something break. a fire started in an usoved power strip. he was able to wake his mother up and get them both out of the house just in time. >> i saw smoke in my hallway and then i saw thefire.

i started yelling for my mom. she was asleep at the time. >> if he wasn't on the tv, if ne was awake, i don't know the outcome. didn't get grounded this time. >> just this time. >> we should note that the family lost everything. they lost some pets as well. his mother is happy they are safe. >> conces are growing for those reaching retirement age. more than 1,000 people in their 50s and 60s. s nearly hald they're not sure if they would be able to afford their coverage once they stopped working. more than 25% of the group has doubt about being able to afford coverage next year al ie. on five people said they were staying in their current jobs instead of cnging jobs or retiring just to keep their insurance coverage. a good place to find out more information is about the annual nbc 4eah and fitness expo at

the washington convention center. we'll have the latest in health, fitness, trition, screenings, some cooking demos, all kinds of experts to answer all of your questions. >> you bring your yoga pants or ouwhatever it is workout in. >> all right. power couple beyonce and jay-z helped the louvre museum in paris hitbe record n of visitors last year. >> it was all because of a music video. watch this. it shows the power couple singing in front of the mon mona lisa and other famous art pieces. the video has been viewed nearl5 million times on youtube. the louvre says the video helped increase the number of visitors to 10.2 million people last year. that's the most for any museum

in history. >> we don't know how many of them actually saw any art though. >> they were just tryg to recreate the music. bu there's a lot to see in there in case you're wondering. >> very true. >> getting ready for the weekend. >> not a lot of sunshine to see out there today. >> no. it's cloudy.n rain the way. broken record. wind is picki up. it's going to be breezy. if you're thinking about taking the decoratyns down, sun will be the day to do it. we're not going to be wet but wel be on the breezy side. light rains out there today and northwest winds we head into the weekend. northwest winds 10 to 20 miles per hour. so saturday andunday are going to be on the breezy side. saturday a little bit more than nsunday. you ee the cloud cover out there right now. good news, no rain. but rain is all of this moisture is going to be moving into the mid-atlantic as we head throughft thenoon and eaching and it will stick

with us through the overnight through the day tomorrow. you' notice how chilly it is. over the next 12 hours you're conditions.cloudy maybe a few pops of sun but that's going to be the exception and not the rule this morning. as we head through the afternoon an evenin we'll start to see the rain pushing south after lunchtime a the start of that evening commute starts to push into d.c. after 6:00 or 7:00, pushing into the baltimore area. so again, our friends in fredericksburg and southern maryland, you'll see some rain and after 5:00 or 6:00, that will push north into the d. d.c. armetro . we'll have rain overnight and it could be heavy at times but periods of rain through tomorrow morning. not gettingf out here until tomorrow afternoon. early afternoon as we get some tap around rain. i'm going keep that chance at least through torrow

afternoon. we're talking from a quarter of an inch to half an o inch rain. it's breezy on saturday and on sunday. sunday will be gorgeous though. temperaturese upper 50s. upper 50s on monday. moreht chances of l showers on tuesday. windy on wednesday, but look at these temperatures. t too bad. definitely above normal for this time of the year. alright, metro, that's what we're talking about with melissa. >> good morning. still have lays on metro. orange blue line delays. single tracking between federal center and smithsonian because of a problem outside this morning. inner loop, chopper 4. n andtle bit of a slow d that has now cleared out of the way. so the beltway overall looks really good. nice, clear, easy commute for you here ts morning if you're going to work or school. 270 southbound also looking great top of the beltway as you just saw.

no issues there. 66, 95 in virginia. thing in your way. nice and green here on this friday. remember to listen to wtop 103.5 fm when you hop in your car >> thank you. still ahead on news 4 today, metro safety concerns why metro says a recent decinne rime could come to an end with a change of a d.c. law. >> plus why genetic testing on your newborn could be a good thing.

doctors say the information was not discovered through the medicaistory of the family, only the genetic testing. in that's resting. well, for the third year in a row, metrri says is down at their stations and on their trains. >> but they areoncerned that e changes to a d.c. law could reverse that trend. chris gordon explains why. >> metro says there is less crime because transit police officers are more visible on trains, inside the stations, and patrolling idou >> i generally do feel safe on ridingecause i'm usually at peak times when there's lots of people. >> metro says crime in 2018 was

down 14% overall. theft down 19%. robberies down 6%. and aggravatedow assaults 3%. metro transit police chiefit cr metro riders for their assistance reporting suspicious activity and providing tips that lp close cases. >> it's employees being engaged. it's riders bng engaged. it's technology and a lot of it is hard work by the mennd women. >> metro says it is concerned that the d.c. governmentpprs ready to decriminalize fare evasion. >>his is fare evasion. riders jumping over turnstiles to avoid using a fare card. >> we can clearly core late fare evasion tenforcem to crime reduction. almost every serious crime we take action on started with a fare evasion. >> some say it's not fair to them. >> i think they should pay. it's not fair for everyone else that's riding metro paying every single day. >>ic transit p say crime on metro is down 3 years running

now and they plan to extend that streak this year. chris gordon, news 4. 6:26 now. coming up fitting room recordings. new details about the man police say watched dozens of women while they undressed inside ama local . and those temperatures are a little on the cool side as you walk out the door this morning but as you walk out the door, grab the umbrella. we have rain for the second half of your friday. we'll talk about the timing on that and talk about a big warm upcoming our way, c next. plus we have been stuck waiting in doctors offices be hre butave you ever been forgotn? hear from a woman that says she was and how she escap after beedin

a u-haul truck slammed into

a store ernight in what appears to be an attempted robbery. this is in the same shopping sente center as costco. that u-haul truck was abandoned before police arrived. we're still working to find out how much was stolen out of the store. chris lawrence is there and we'll check in with him coming up in a few minutes. >> first a look at our friday let's check in with lauren for theorecast and we'll talk to melissa about the commute. good morning, ladies. g. good morn a dry morning out there. melissa likes that a d so i. this afternoon on the wet side. we do have the clouds out there. walk out this morning you'll notice how cold it is. temperndures 20s a 30s. the last couple of mornings we started in the mid to upper 30s. definitely on the cloudy side but rain once again on the way. this rain will be moving into the mid-atlantic and into the d.c. area as we head into the afternoon and it's going to stick with us for a little

ywhile. so makr way out the door this morning. grab the umbrella.ee definitely the winter gear. i had my hat, my gloves,y scarf on today. that is the exception, not the . ru temperatures in the 30s. warming up to around 50 degrees. we're justalking about plain ole rain. it's coming our way. let's time-outom ourte with melissa. >> good morning. brand new problem here on the beltway. chopper 4 just came upon it. inner loop before 450. it's on its left side here partially up this morning. no word on any injuries. this just rppened. soht now, people just getting by two lanes to the right. we'llet some mor information on this one. you can see the outer loop also effected by that response here. so inner loop before 4450 is where this problem is. you can see a little bit of a delay on the map. the rest of the beltwa nice and light. no other issues anywhere. 66-95, same situation. more live pictures.

inner loop there at 450 coming up. >> today begins day 14 of the partial govt shutdown. president trump is calling all wngressional leaders back to the white house tk on a deal to reopen the government. >> a deal is unlily unless democrats and the president can agree to a compromise on funding for the bordewall. as the shutdown drags on, a major power shift is happening in congress. for the first time in eight years democrats control the house ofepsentatives and nancy pelosi has retaken the leadership. e of the first acts was to pass two bills that will reopen the government but they have no chance of passing the republican controlled senate. proof that democrats say the shutdown isn't their fault. we're trying to come to an agreement on which we can all agree, but holding 800,000 people hostage, holding the people's government hostage is not what they expect. >> coming up, wll have a live

report from the white house on the mood going into today's meeting between leaders and the president. >> new this morning, the trump administrati wants to sen more troops to the border to string a type of barbed or razor wire. the wire will go on top of the existingde bor fencing. the border wall president trump wants is a cause of the major debate in congress. the president refused to approve any spending bill that doesn't includ money for awall. >> it's now 6:33. the d.c. congresswoman ande mayr pushing forward with making the district the 51st state. they'll have a press conference today. they presented a prostatehood bill yesterday and received a record number of -sponsors for the bill. that would ensure that d.c. would be equal to the other 50 states but federal areas the u.s. capitol and federal

monuments would remain under federal jurisdiction. >> we're learning more about the shooting death of a young marine at the barracks in southeast washington. marine guard fired his weapon hitting lance corporal reilly t kuznia earlysday morning. he was rushed to a hospital and then died. the marine thair his weapon is on administrative duty pending the deathni adration. he was from minnesota and his decorations include the global war on terrorism and national dense service medals. >> a disturbing case at area malls. police say a man secretly recorded at least 60 women ines drng rooms and they're concerned there could be more victims out there. >> megan is liveith moren this. good morning. >> well, good morning, guys. police say that he used a tiny ttle camera. the size of a button that wire leslie transmitt to his cell phone and then he watched and recorded women as they hanged their clothes in fitting rooms

at locationsithin fair oaks mall and other shopping areas in our region take a look at this video here. this will give you an ideaf st how small this camera is. about a half an inch wide. so very, very tiny. hard to spot. arrested in this case is the 39-year-old. some may know him as a bar tender in alexandria. last year he was profiled in the crier. police say he would wait in a dressing room stall. wait for women to enter the stall next to him whe he installed the camera. investigators say he watched and made recordings from mid december until christmas eve. theeight ofhe shopping center. now christmas eve, that's when an alert teenage spotted the tiny camera and told a store employee. police say that there are at least dozens of victims. >> this young lady on christmas eve saw something that didn't seem right and took the right step. >> to date we have over 60

ctims that weave inventoried and our fear is that there are more. >> so police are looking througn more t 100 videos which they have confiscated trying to figure out how many victims there actually are. now if you want to take a look at a list of sheres where this allegedly happened as well as dates where recordings were made, we have that information on the nbc washington app. back to you. >> megan, thank you. >> it's 6:36. one of hollywoos biggest nights is coming up this weekend. >> the golden globes are almost here a thisyear's host, sandra oh and sandy sandandy rg kicked out the red carpet. other fan favorites like black panther and if beal stree talk are nominated for best drama. >> all the fun is sunday nig he on nbc 4. >> at least i saw black panther. >> this is tr g. yo one under your belt.

>> a lot more to go. >> it's 6:37. coming up,pening up about the cars. why ellen is defending kevin hart after his ttter controversy. >> first a doctor's appointment accident. one pregnant woman won't forget why her wait to be seen ended with her locked inside of the office. >> and we'll check in with melissa for this aler a tractor-trailer overturned shutting down part of the inner loop of the beltway. you're looking at live

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>> right now, first 4 traffic alert, take a look at this. chopper 4 over this problem, inner loop before 450 shutdown. cted.loop also im a tractor-trailer on its side. massive back up both rection. full details on that coming up. >> more on the rain chances, a dry morning commuteut it's going to be a wet evening commute. rain moving in once again. we'll talk about the timing of the rain chances in your neighborhood. that's coming up after this. police say a u-haul

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>> 6:44 right nows you sta your friday. a first four traffic alert on the beltway. live pictures from chopper 4. a tractor-trailer overturned on the inner loop. you can see it on your screen. >> a stretch of the inner loop is wn. melissa is tracking all of this for us. we're going to check in again with her in a few minutes. >> other breaking news coming out of northhist d.c. morning. police trying to figure out what was going on when a u-haul truck smashed through a store front. now the clean up begins as police search for clues. >> chris lawrence is live at that store off of new york avenue ith thelatest. chris, what can you tell us? >> well, oweun, right detectives are looking at the footage from security cameras to piece together who this. i can tell you just looking at the damage, it's a good thing no

manager or employee was working late last night. this truck just took out the complete back wa. you can see the glass, the medal, the debris all over the place. file cabinets, desk, completely destroyed. it even collapsed part of the interior wall that leads to the store on the other side. at this i point,ant to show you the video from earlier when that u-hall truck was here. basically it backed into the store. the police at this point think the thieves stole the truck and used it as a battering ram to destroy the back half of the store. get into the t-mobile and grab asany cell phones and accessories as they could and then take off. they left the u-haul behind. it's been towed out of here now. you'll see that camera right there.he this is atakota crossing complex. you have the costco, the lowes,

big hugehopping center. you have cameras like tha over the place. so there's video of what happened here. right now police are trying to look at thato see if they can piece together exactly who did this. chris lawrence, news 4. >> thank you, chris. it now 6:46. we're in day 14 of a partial governmentshutdown. president trump invited congressional leaders to the white houseg.or a meet thousands of federal workers are hoping they can workout a deal to get them back to work. >> mean while, for the first time in his presidency trump is dealing with a dived congress. democrats control the house and nancy pelosi has retaken the speakership. >> kristen jorns us with on the mood heading into today's meeting. >> good morning. this is a highke s day here as you say, day 14 of the partial governmentdeatsfficiall control of the house on thursday

passing legislation to reop the government overnight but with no new funding for the president's border wall, had he is already vowing to veto it. vice president mike pence saying we will have no deal w wall and the new house speaker nancy pelosi saying tt the president needs to take yes for an answer and open up the government. so youan see both sides have dug in. but it's not just the democrats. the first cracks are beginning to show in the republican party. that meeting is going to get underway. comingight here to th white house in the situation room and another attempt to try to hash out a deal and this continuing drama, a jarring contrast to the day ofelrations that we all witnessed on capitol hill on thursday as pelosi too back the gavel. still the only woman in the unitedtates to be house speaker. mr. trump making a surprise appearance in the briefing room. not answering any questions, but

congratulating pelosi. t guys, bayou. >> kristen, we'll see more from her on the "today" show in a feu mites. thanks. >> thanks. >> we'on havenuing coverage of the partial government shutdown throughout the day here on news 4. >> there's still free deals and discounts happening around town for fedal workers. check out the nbc washington app by searching freebies government nutdowns. >> this video showing the aftermath of a deadly fire in kabul afghanistan. it started at a gas station and spread to a nearby apartment building. ght now three people are dead and more than two dozen others are injured here. officials are still looking for a cau of that fire. >> developing in prince george's county this morning, police are still working to find out who is responsible for two people being shot to dth in clinton. officers found a red jaguar on the 900 block ofsurratts

village drive. one person was found shot dead in the car. another person that was connenn ted to the case was able to walk to a nearby hospital but also died. investigators don know whether e shooting happened where the car was found or whether that was just where the driver stopped after possibly running from gunfire. >> a woman is recovering after being sho southeast d.c. this happened yesterday intersection.r the police say she was standing with group of people when she was hit. they're still working to figure out who was the intended target. so far, police have not made any case.s in this they say the woman is expected to survive. >> nearly five years after went missing police are searching again for relisha d. they searched the tunnels underneath the soon to be demolished d.c. general shelter. that's where she and her mother stayed before she vanished.

police were acting on new information that thean they believe to be responsible for her disappearance had access to the tunnels. he was a janitor at the shelter. she was seen with him on surveillance video at a prince george's county hotel. that was a month before his wife was found murdered in another hotel. he was fnd dead days later from an apparent suicide. nothing was found in the search but police will not give up on this case. >> it's now 6:50. we check back in tracking thato first traffic alert. what's going on. >> major mess in prince george's cokty. take a lt this. the beltway, inner loop shutdown afore 0. traor-trailer on its side. a fuel spill as well. so inner loop is closed. outer loop is also impacted. right now m a threee back up in both directions and that's going to get worse and it's gog to getorse very quickly. if you're headed out this way any time soon, you'll want to take your favorite alternate route here this morning.

as you look at the map, you can see the purple showing the full closure. that's closed the rest of the beltway looks nice and light so we don't have any other m coplanltcomplaints the beltway goes. as far as your travel times on 270, 66, 95, 95 in maryland and the rest of prince george unty, that all looks good. hill crest heights northboavd branch ue, the left side blocked by a crash. here are the travel times. ay bit slow there at the top of the beltway, rloup and 66 and 95 in virginia both looking quite good. remember to listen to wtop 103.5 ndfm fwol ulobeltway. >> good morning, w well, have an update on the rain. it's coming. we have more rain for this afternoon and into this evening. that's going t lead you into the first part of your saturday

at least moving out i was tomorrow afternoon and then we'll be dry saturday night, sunday, monday, small chance of a few showers as we get into your tuesday. not a lot going on on r thear right now. we do have cloud cover and chilly conditionshe butain coming, yeah, moving right into the mid-atlantic as weo intohe afternoon and evening. if you walk outside, a shock to the system, especially given the recent morning temperatures iere we have beenthe mid to upper 40s. 20s and 30s out there. it's o the chilly side and over the next several hours we're looking at the temperatures to move rig around 50 degrees but plenty of clouds, maybe a peek of sunshine early. rain moving into the southern suburbs by lunchtime and d.c. metro by 5:00. 50 degrees will be the high today with increasing cloud cover. we're dry cut herees the rain and fredericksburg, southern maryland, youould see a few rain showers after one or two and then that will continue to advance toward the beltway,

up toward baltimore, after about 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 and then rain later on owtonight. e're going to continue to have periods of rain overnight. periods of rain for your saturday morning and then we'll keep rain chances at least through the middle part of the afternoon. a lot of us will be dry. rain chances will decrease but i'll keep them through the middle part of the afternoon. your weekend, temperatures in the low 50s on saturday. it's going to be a beautiful sunday. temperatures above normal this weekend so we're just talking about the rain but if you're headed to maybe ski slopes, just know it's going to slushy out there. really feeling like spring. decorations ke the down, sunday is the day to do it. we'll be dry, a little bit breezy out there but we'll have rain on saturday and sunday looking better but we will see some breezy conditions all through the weekend. ten-day forecast comg up in just seconds. guys. >> thank you, lauren. 15 of the best football players ever have bn selected as finalists for this year's

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