>> announcer: news 4 today stts no it is 4:30. and you're going to grab the extra layer as you greed this morning and get used to it. you'll need the watter coat, and all the other stuff for the next few days. it might get a little rough around good morning, everybody i'm aaron gill christ. >> and i'm eun yang. the snow chances are sticking around. the cold temperatures. talking about that snow. chuck bell will giv us a closer look at the forectnd check in with jack taylor for a look at the roads. chuck, give us the news. tell it to me straight. >> you seem as though you're disappointed and wead 27 days in a row warmer than average. how much more can i deliver for you? ?at's th exactly. but it will be turning much colder today. it's as warm n i as will be all day. so when you go outside, oh, it's not that cold, don't you worry. this norwest wind willrive ever colder air into the region pretty much hour by hour as we

go through the course of the day today. so, kee that in mind. and i couldn't rule out a passing snow shower or snow flurry today. conversational flas flyin by and what will be a very strong northwest wind. we're in the mid to upper 40s around town now. but that again is as warm as we'll be. winds will increase by later on in the afternoon. winds wilbe gusting between 20 and 30 miles per hour. that will make it feel much colder. so temperatures will be in the 30s by the time you come home from work this afternoon and wind chills into the 20s. cold air is here to stay. update on the weekend snow chances comingup. >> thank you, sir. good news is you have temperatures above freezing our water main breaks on university boulevardeastbound, east of connecticut avenue between lexington and st. paul only one right lane getting by. they're hoping to have the roadway o completelyn by noon today. if this is a normal path of travel, be ware.

95 northbound there's a work zone. right lane is blocked, not causing a slow down at all. majordelays. hagerstown east on i-70 eastbound before you get to south mountain. there was a crash. the left lan is now getting by, but they're saying the rightde will remain blocked for some time. by thet lane is getti crash and it's very heavy and very slow early already. aaron, eun, back to you. ♪ demands for change outside htof the white house overns critics of the president called for the government shutdown tod en some of these protesters were federal workers who haven't been paid since the shutdown began or are working without a paycheck. we are 19 days into this partial government shutdown. today congressional leadersill return to the white house to try again to fin >> but striking a deal seems unlikely still in the in the president'she address to nation last night, he held strong to his pledge to get

funding for a borderwall. he declared a, quote, crisis at the southern border. theceresident refer u.s. residents killed by people who entered the country illegally, including the murder of a teen om gaithersburg. >> in maryland, ms-13 gang members who arrived in the s united statesunaccompanied minors were arrested and charged st year after viciously stabbing and beating a -y 16ear-old girl. >> y alexandra ray disappeared in 2017. she was found weeks later in springfield, virginia. severa ms-13 gang members had been convicted in that murder. it's not clear if t any ofse members charged were undocumented. or> the president will travel to ther tomorrow. coming up in 15 minutes, we'll talk with tracie potts about the democratic t response to president right now. we know many of you are struggling without a paycheck and we're making sure ynow all the ways you can find help.

fair fax countyublic schools are holding a hiring event for furloughed employees friday afternoon in falls church. we have more informationbout that in the nbc washington app. students in the county will be able to receive school lunches regardless ofyhether t can pay. unpaid balances will beri allow the shutdown. several other school districts proposed freeor lunches students. stay with news 4 on air and in our nbc washington app for the very latest developments on the coming up in the next hour, we'll have more y tips to helpou during the 4:34 now. today the leaders you elected to maryland and rginia's general assemblies head back to work to start new sessions. maryland, a lot of talk about passing a $15 minimum wage statewide. prince gege's county is pushing for new tax credits including new grocery stores

building new in so-called food desert in virginia, they wa want to crease a teacher pay hike. there will be a bit of a battle over the governor's income tax reform. republic rs say it willse taxes on the middle class. news 4 has you covered at both capitols today. annapolis and in richmond. look for updates in the washington app and on air beginning at news 4 at 4 this afternoon. look at other top stories this morning.a northern virgi democrats will hang on to a seat in the virginia state senate. voters in parts ofloudon chose jennifer boysko after a special election. she defeated gop candidate jill may by a margin of 70 to 30%. boysko will replace jennifer

wexton. they have released this sketchf a man suspected of groping two girls on saturday. tried to touch tore sister but was fought off and fled the scene. pore working to get his picture out to the public as possibly. police say a man was stabbed 47 times inside his apartment in northwest d.c. on sunday. vongell lugo was brutally attacked. he was openly gay and police say the staing was crime of passion. detectives lat arrested navy medic colinotter and charged him forer murd prince georges county police are working to identify a man found dead in a backyard. his body was found by an officer outside his mother's home. po mce say the had trauma to his upper body but have not yet said hed he he does not appear to have any connection to the officer or his mother. happening today in new york, a bankruptcy court is giving

sears another chance to save the company. the court is giving sears chairman until 4:00 p.m. today to revise his bid to save what used to be america's largest retailer. the company says it has d accepd l that could keep more than 400 stores open and save more than 50,000 jobs, however that deal requires lampert to deposit 400 million. they filed for bankruptcy protection back in october. it is 4:37 now. a second grader from virginia had a national audience for her art work on tuesday. >> it was the google doodle. sara gomez lane w the national google doodle contest her drawing of dinosaur turned into animation on the home page. she will receive $50,000sp to d on technology and sara will receive $30,000 towardco a ege scholarship.

>> why did you decide to draw dinosaurs. >> because that is what inspires me. >> she made a drawing to enter the 2018 doodle for google contest. and out of 182,000 kids, she won. >> awesome. h's ou can still find sa doodle if you go to google's home page. she dreams of being a pailentologyist. making our whole area proud. >> very nice. it's 4:38 right now. still ahead this morning, a new solution to fight package stealing but you'll have to let a stranger inside your garage. we'll tell you how this new program work c. ing a closer look at a new law aimed at making your kids safer at sool.ch

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rain cloud only over your head? well, this homeown perbarobly felt a little like that main day when a water break shot gallons of water right at their door. look at that. perfect aim. check out this video. it was in parkville, marylandmo up in bal county. the pressure was so intense it broke several windows of the home >> wow. >> see now it's getting too much. that's water damage. becaus this was on private property, the department of public works told our partners it was the homeowner's responsibility to get it shut off. ngw? how are they g to get that shut off? they eventually did.ot it's n clear how much damage meantime.d in the i would be so mad. water damage just ruins everything. >> yeah, boy. that's rough. changes to prosct stude in the classroom, a new law requires tougher background checks when hingteachers. >> it's a result of a news 4 iteam investigation. scott mcfarlane has more. >> new laws passed by d.c.

council makes many changes, including a new requirement for d.c. schools. they have to do betterck ound checks before hiring teachers, checking with all prior employers over the past 20 years and requires them to tello future ers if a former teacher in d.c. engaged i sexual misconduct. this comes on the heels of a news 4 iteamnvestigation showed region wide several teachers have slipped through the cracks, admitting or being accused of engaging in sex misconduct but finding new aching jobs in other local school districts. including a prominent case in d.c. where a charter schoolteacher ended up in prison for sex misconduct with a former student. the changes ordered by d.c. council and approved by the mayor's office. >> we want to make sure that adul also know that if something happens, they're going to be caught. and that we're going t know about it and we're going to report them to >> reporter: more about what is changing and the other laws passed recently because of our investigation tonight on news 4

beginning at 5. for now, scott mack d,farl news 4 iteam. good morning, everybody, i'm chuck bell. your s fool day forecast kids on a wednesday here temperatures aren't really all that cold this morning, but you'll nee to take an insulated windbreaker with you today because gusty winds and falling temperatures will be feared r this afternoon. so, a winter windbreaker, hats with tie downs and you know the rules, kids under 50 pounds, rocks in the pockets. f ten dayecast and updaten snow c oha

>> announcer: you're watchingne 4 today. 4:45 now. today is the 19th day of the governutnt wn. and still, lawmakers are at an

impasse with the chous. in a primetime address, president trump told the nation ther growing security crisis along the southern border. >> the president made the case to build a wall. news 4s tracie pos live on capitol hill now with reaction. good mornin >> reportey, good morning. good morning, everyone. a wall that he now calls a stee' barrier and ts significant that's something that democrats have supported before and as he put it asked for i theyan come to some agreement on some sort of barrier on parts of the border. alled ather or not it's wall, if democrats are willing to fund it. then we could get to someof sor resolution to end this shutdown. the president calls a humanitarian crisis what's happening at the border and he's focussed on immigrants committing crimes in this country, drugs comingnto this country, some of that not supported by the numbers. on the oth hand, democrats they considerat crisis right here, 800,000

government workersay who not get paid two days from now. they will hold a news conference ter this morning talking to some of those workers. >> obviously te know democratic response was given by the leadership in congress last night to the president's address. talktl a l bit about what they had to say. >> sure. so the democrats, the really dn't say a lot that was new and neither did president trump for that matter. nancy pelosi, the new house speaker and minority leader chuck schumer on the senate side both made the argument that the focus here needs to be on the people who aren't getting paid. the focus needs to be on americans and on the they made the point that the shutdown and the border security issue needs to be separate. in other words, fund the partsen of the gover that are not involved in this shutdown and then deal with the negotiations later. >> all right, tracie potts on the hill for us. thank you. the shutdown has started to affect some surprising places,t includin beer taps at your

local bar. >> breweries can't release new beers until this shutdown ends. news 4 cory smith explains. >> reporter:n breweriesc. are starting to feel the hit from the government shutdown. that includes atlas brew works here behind me. it's not just that fewer people are coming in to enjoy an adult beverage, that is happening, but it's also that the federal agency that regulates the wholesale side of the operation here is not open. >> justin cox ishe founder of atlas brew works. he traded federal employment for the beer world and thought government shutdowns were behind him, but he was wrong. they've got a new brew that can't be sold in cans until the alcohol and tobacco tax and trade bureau approves the label. that agency is shut down. the process usually takes twoo three weeks and prolonged delay could disrupt the strict schedule the brew master has to follow to create that perfect taste. co is hoping a solution is on the horizon. >> i think the parties involved need to solve the problem. the government shutdown is really starting to proliferate

much larger than just through federal employees and hitting down points of the economy and us as amall business, we're trying to make beer and sell our beer and prode for our employees and our families and unable to do so once the government opens. >> t beer has a shelf life of four months. approval got tomorrow, the process of getting the label printed and put onhe ka takes six to eight weeks. that impacts all the brews he has comg down the line. cory smith, news 4. >> and stay with news 4 to download the nbc washington app. you'll find a comprehensive coverage of the government shutdown. si one of pnt trump's biggest supporters in virginia county said he is not running for lereion. cory stewart is moving to the sidelines. he made the announcement tuesday during his state of the county address. stewart has been a lightning rod for controversy starting in 2007 when he pushed for one of the toughest crackdow on

undocumented immigrants in the nation. he says that crackdown was on -- was one of his greatest complishments. stewart is an international trade lawyer and says he may leave office befor his term is over if the right opportunity es ar like working at the white house. >> there's a couple of positions that are open, that are vacant, where i know i couo aood job, implement the president's policies in a loyal way. >> stewart went on to say if the president cannot get funding for the border wall now, then it will never happen. it's getting harder to be a republican in northern virginia but i the political pendulum swings back, he may run for office again.ow it's 4:50. new developments in the trial of actress rose mcgouwen. she will plead no contest to reduced drugcharge. she will avoid jail time and pay a pine asart of her plea agreement. cocainenas found i her wallet on a plane at dull es

international airport in 2017. you may recall she claimed the drug was planted in retaliation for her accusing movie moegle harvey weinstein of sexual assault. now to a story you saw first on ns 4, the district is suing the local gym chain the washington sports club. d.c.'s attorney general accthes gym of deceptive cancellation and billing practices. he says the gym i and owner town sports international told customers that they could cancel their memberships at any time for freeho ver, according to the lawsuit, the gym actually requires a six-week written cancellation notice and it chargesancellation fees. >> verbally misleading consumers. consumers would ask, hey, what's the cancellation policy and the folks at the washington sports pub would say there is no requirement, just cancel at any time at no cost. when, in fact, as i indicated there is a 45-day written requirement to cancel and fees

and penalties could b attached to those. >> washington sports club and its owner are also accused of violating the terms of 2016 settlement for similar violations. we have reached out again to town sports inrnational holdings for comment and we are waiting to hear back. today d.c. may is headed to las vegas. she is set to speak at the world'sst large technology show. the consume electronics show opened yesterday. a few of the big talkers at this year's show, artificial intelligence. robots that walk and talk and there pretty t human like for my taste. there are more than 400,000 products on display, including many security products for your home. the mayor will take part in a panel that will focus on innovation in some strange new video from alaska this morning. god zilla, i mean a moose. different video. a moose wandered i hospital lobby. >> whoa. >> look how big that thing is. >> that moose is gigantic. >> just snacking.

>> most moose are. >> yeah. >> just snacking on some plants. >> just hanging out inside the hospital? did he hav a papcut? >> employees could only watch as thishappened, of course. one woman saysnly in alaska. >> that's right >> it's fitting. the only reason the moose made it inside was because of the ngtomatic doors b stuck open because of the cold. the moose was only inside for about ten minutes before he b meanderedk out into the cold, no big deal. fix that door >> likes those fresh plants no doubt. >> feeling more like alaya ev minute. >> a little nugget of alaska may be coming our way over the next couple days. >> no thank you. >> what? come on a shot of significantly colder air. we're not talking about record low temperatures. that's the good news. bu w itl be cold enough this weekend i think to support an increasing chance snow. this morning, though, it's going to be all about the preparation mode. it's really not that cold this morning. northwest winds, though, that's the beginning of the end of we mild ave been enjoying.

mid to upper 40s around town, little cler in the shenandoah valley. again, these are already above average high temperatures for today's date. temperatures will go ever downward during the day. dog-walking forecast this little guy or girl named flurry. that's a perfect name for the storm that's coming up this weekend, so add flurry to home. notice these temperatures, 45 now, 42 aton 37 at 6:00. you get the idea. northwest winds are going tor drive col and colder air into the region during the day today. it will be cold and windy tomorrow. cold and not windy on friday. future weather also we'll see a little increase in clouds late morning into the afternoon as that cold air aloft starts to rve in. so i couldn'e out a passing snow shower or two this afternoon, but no accumulations of snow are expected for today. st conversational flakes. again, temperatures are as high now as they'll be allday. tomorrow, windy and colder with temperatures in the 30s all day and there is a chance now

saturday evening into saturday night for snow around here. igw much snow? well, saturday into sunday is the best time to accumulate it. here is the way i see it. ds of an inch or more, 80%. odds of four inches or more, od/50. of eight inches or more, only 10%. but it's still five days from happening. so be ready for that. we'll focus all our aention on that weekend snow chance and the cold that will linger through most of next week. good morning, jack taylor. >> good morning, chuck. 'll start with that water main break on university boulevard going eastbound bically east of connecticut avenue. you have one right lane getting by at scene. hoping to have the roadway completely open by noon today. also some major delays this morning if you're headed out of hagerstown on i-70 going eastbound. unfortunately headed toward south mountain only the left lane is getting by this crash. 395 in the northbound direction a sght delayn the springfield interchange headed

upo sville road. you see the traffic moving away from us very light in vowhme, h is good. this is not causing a delay. by the time you hit the road, you should find all lanes open. back to you. >> jack, thank you. azon has announced a new service that will safely deliver yourpackages in addition to key for home and key for car services, it now introduces key for garages. >> this is expected to debut early this year. ple garage service is an alternative for p who may not be comfortable with inside home delivery. amazon says it still a safe way to keep your packages from thieves. you don't have to worry about installing a camera or someone setting off your housela either. you will need an amazon prime subscription to use this service. still ahead on news 4 today, encouraging news about fiamerics t against cancer. >> death rates are falling but notor all ofus. we'll tell you who remains at risk. plus, it could have been the day d.c. council approved online sports betting, but that measure was pulled moments before

yesterday's vote. we'll tell you why when news 4 today continues.

>> announcer: news 4 today starts now. we begin this wednesday morning with a live the u.s. capitol. national addresses last night by president trump andhe democratic leadership did little to instill confidence that an end tohe on going government shutdown is in sight.

both sides stuck to their arguments and neither appeared ready to back down. just another day if paradise, folks. just about 5:00 a.m. good morning, everybody, i'm aaronl g kris. >> i'm eun yang. we have thet latpacts in the shutdown now in its 19th day. >> we will check on the forecast and the commute this morning. chuck bell and jack taylor. >> i have goo news and not so good news depending on how you view increasing chance for some snow over the weekend. gos news is i really not all that frigid outside this morning. temperatures are in the mid t upper 40s around the city, but it will be turning colder as the day goes aleg. wind will increase. the wind chills will deuease as o through the day and there's even a chance of a passing snow shower or two today. the streamers of snow coming off the great lakes. some of those