>>it's 4:29. it's early. it's friday. ieahink we're for the weekend. >> whatever it brings. >> can you tell from the live lookt is goingo be a frigid friday. you probably can't tell. it is trusme. we walked outside to get into the building and it was cold. >> we put the temperature on the screen. tell.n >> 29 degrees out there. it feels colder thanhat. if you bundle up, make sure you have t extra layers because you need them today. >> the cold weather comes as we prepare for another blast of wintry weather. many of the roads in our area have been pretreated ahead of tomorroget we want to check in with chuck for a look at the forecast. get us ready. >> you have all day today to get done whatever you need to get done. any snow chances don't alive until noontime tomorrow. and our snow chances remain

very, very high. i was hoping that we could move up in theefinite category. but for the time, it is just very likely. 70%, ha80%e that everybody gets an inch. your best chances of seeing a accumulating snow is for spots here. there's a better likelihood at more snow i st. mary's county, than in hagerstown, maryland. remember the first snow we had on november 15th, more snow south of town, this may be much like that. an 80% chance that we get an inch or more. 4 inches ormore, at 40%. and most of that is focused south and west of the d.c. metro area. nothing starts happening until bunch time tomorrow. temperatures in the 20s, windchills in theteens. and your forecast, sunny, breezy

and cold for today. we'll show you a closer inspection of the snowfall totals across the d.c. area coming up.s now, le go over to first 4 traffic. >> nothing falling from the sky here. wood brid woodbridge. we had the fire investigation and cleanup that's cheared out ofway. no problem northbound, southbound on route 1 or 95 at thint. looking at 66, fairfax county parkway to the beway, miles per hour. 8 ng to get you there in minutes this morning. no big issue there. a little road work. and upper marlboro, inner loop, with a left lane blocked. >> thank you. 4:32. it is day 21 of the government shutdown. it will be the day so many of your friends, neighbors, family members really feel the shutdown's effect. thousands of workers will not be paid avtoday. some't been allowed to work since before christmas.

>> others have been workingen ts re time but won't be paid today, either. frustrated furloughed workers tooko the streets yesterday protest. among them werema inist, treasury employees and contractors who haven't worked in three weeks. they gathered outside of the afl-cio headquarters and marched to thethhite house. rallying cry, no paycheck, no peace. workers sd they are feeling doesn't lookuse it like republicans and democrats will make a deal anytime soon. while that wasng happe here at home,re pdent trump took his fight for a border wall to the front les. he visited south texas yesterday and met with border patrol agents. he held a press conference with family members of people killed by undocumented miimgrants. the s presides if he doesn't receive the funding from congress, he will declare a national emergency. >> with workers in our areast ggling to make ends meet, we're working with you to make sure you know where to get wehe. an report that the capital

area food bank is having five free pop-up food markets. look at the locations on your screen. on saturday, produce and er nohable items will be distributed to employees at select giant stores. >> we plan to hold the markets til the end ofhe shutdown and until federal workers get the next pay chex. we'll starte with the f locations this weekend. and w depends on the needll be able to better target where we post the poarup foodts during the duration of the shutdown. >> the markets will be opened from 9:00 in the morning until noon. al you have to do is bring your federal or federal contractor i.d. a jab fair ob fair schedule today is at capacity. e district is having another hiring event in falls church. it is for substitute teacher positions. there's forms you need to fill out beforeou show up and things you need to bring with

you. for a list of everything you need, g over to the nbc washington app. the associated press reporting that a military official says u.s. troops have started the process of f withdrawinm syria. that official declined to discuss further details. we'll update you as we learn more. officials are investigating a hoax e-mail that threatened warren county public schools. the warren cshnty iff's office says the e-mail was sent yesterday by a resident in frederick coty,virginia. we're told that the hoax e-mail stated, there's bom at our school. coficials say all of the public schools in warrety were searched and determined to be safe. no word on if the sender has but the warren county sheriff's ofce wants to hear from anyone who may know about this. humane rescue alliance needs ur help finding a man who may be involved in an animalruelty case. the humane rescue alliance received wor about an amman

danned dog on 62nd street. surveillance video hows a man hitting a dog, possibly with an. the dog was found with severeri in to all four legs. >> she's a mixed breed dog. she is approximately 35 to 40 pounds. she's red andwhite. we have shared her image widely because we feel like somebody ze may recog her and may know where she previously lived. >> you can be eligible forf reward you have information about the dog or the man who left her. here's a look at our other top stories. the wisconsin teen that went missing in october after her pan nts were murdered, has b found alive. jamye closs was found about an hour from her home. they have a suspect in custody now. a news conference is scheduled for later this morning. three brothers will spend decades in prison for their toles in the police department

ambush that lef a local officer dead. video of the shoot-out. elijah and malik ford recorded their brother, michael, opening mire on prince george's county police. ael called it attempt ofy suicide b cop. yesterday, he received a 195-year sentence. his brothers received 20 and 12 ars. the archdiocese of washington confirms that donald wuerl knew of sexual misconduct allegati against theodore mccarrick in 20 the archdiocese told nbc news that wuerl's denials of knowing allegations about mccarrick only refer to claims of sexual abuse of a minor and not the claims of a former priest. it goes on to say the statements were not meant to be imprecise. washington-lee high school has a new name. b the schoord voted to change the name to washington-liberty last night. some parents asked to be renamed

washington-loving, to honor the couple that challenged the ban against interracial marriage. but the board voted 2-3 against that time. an infant rescue caught on camera. who came to the aid ofhis baby found alone and barefoot on a highway pass. what would you do if you found $10,000 on metro? it happened to a man on the new york subway.

a wisconsin bus driver is being credited with saving a baby she sawun walking a outside, alone and barefoot. look at this video released by the bus company. irina ivic saw the bab on a freeway overpass, wearing a onesie and a diape in freezing temperates last month. she stopped the bus and ran over to the child. she carried the baby safely

inside her bus. a passenger wrapped a coat around the little boy. police say the mother had left the baby outse. i mean, it's just so alarming to see that littleaby, really just in that diaper, barefoot, walking around this overpass. thank goodness the woman spotted him and had the goodness to stop. >> jumped off of thatus and ran across the street. a lot of questions why the mother left t baby outside. they returned the boy to his fath's. >> theood people in this world. a new york city woman who lost a bag with $10,000 on the saa subway is reunited with her cash. you have $10,000 cash and you brought it on the subway? >> there was a good snaamaritan who helped. the young woman w headed out of the country, when she left the envelope with money in her purse on the train. dhow do you that? >> i would be clutching it. >> this retiree found it and took it to the police station.

the woman said she was relved toet her money back and gave mall ood samaritan a trophy as a thank you. >> i wish you would give me trophy. pulling that out of her forehead. >> oh >> lovely gesture. i'm sure he was fine. >> too far. too far, aaron. aaron, you're going to get a participation award for today. your weekend recast, everybody. you're going to start out dry tomorrow but high chances for snow saturday afternoon into sunday. snowfall amounts may vary greatly. we'll sho you the

you're watching news 4 today. >> fears come true for roughly 800,000 federal workers that aren't getting paid. the government shutdown is now b its 21st day and there doesn't seem t an end in sight. >> growing pressure from workers and labor unions has not moved the needle in t standoff. tracie potts has more on the president's visit to the border to drum up support for his wall. good mor:ing. >> reporhe president went down to texas to try to use the border as a backdrop for support for this wall that democrats refuse to build. now, he's looking at a national emergency declaration, possibly within days, to get that money to go around congress and get that money from the pentagon. in d.c., the president said there is still room for compromise with democrats. but he may consider this declaration within days. last night on fox, he saido thee is backing off. there's no compromise here

because we need to build the wall. it's not clear where he's going with that. in texas, he was at the border,w he talkedh border agents and he tried to make the case that the focus here should be on crime. an it should be on the levels of immigration, the levels of immigrants coming in this country. however, democrats here, we've seen this around the country with demonstrations, are focusing on the people affected because they're caught up in the shutdown in this showdown over the border wall. >> tracie, is there any sign that republican lawmakers will break with president trumpde in to reopen the government? >> reporter: well, some are. we've seen it on the house side. eight voted with democrats on these bills to reopen the government. but the keyere is the senate, which isn't even considering it. but we are seeing a handful of republicans saying, yes, we need to do something to break the gridlock and reopen the government and get these folks work.o and you have folks like lindsey

grah graham, who is aligning himself with the president saying thi national emergency declaration may be the only way out. >> tracie potts on the hill thi morning. thank you. d.c. has been footing the bill for federal pk cleanu here. but in pennsylvania, volunteers are pitching in. that ends today. the national park service in all icking up trash open parks. bathroom cleanup will also resume today, as well as roa repairs. the money from fees collected at sed tonationwide will be pay cleanup crews. imagine walking through neighborhood park to found several, old, warno, warn-out ts one man i responsible for dumping tires. a special unit called the dumpe bust is responsible for tracking down the culprit. >> reporter: police say one man is resnsible for dumping more than se1,000 u tires in parks across thedistrict. at this one site alone in ft. dupont park, police removed

hundreds of tires. s thepect was identified by a environmental crimes unit as the dump busters, who use hidden video cameras to catch illegal dumpers. the dump busters have caughtn more t 130 suspects. the police chief says police have an arrest warrant for this man for duthe tires in this neighborhood. >> it's disrespectful. to dump tiresdith no reg for the environment or the impact it has on the people who live herer we going to do the best we can to make sure this guy is heldresponsible. >> reporter: the tire shops thae weaid to haul off the tires, may face charges, as well. breaking news at 4:48 a police officer in davis, california, has been shot and killed.pe thected shooter has been found dead from a self-inflicted

gunshot wound. the shooting happened when the officer was responding to a crash scene. theas officer w identified as natalie corona. she was 22 years old. new video this morning, lice are giving us a better look at the man they say was secretly recording up a woman's skirt outside of the museum.c. olice released this video from in front of the building where the newspaper pages are every day. someone saw the suspect put his phone under the victim's skirt. this was this past saturda afternoon. when the person confronted the man, he ran away. this rning, there's new concerns that maryland's purple line project maye behind schedule. organizers of the project met yesterday with an update on construction. that meeting came hours after "the washington post" reported that the project is a year behind schedule. a late 2022 opening is still possible but according to "the post," the light rail may not

open until 2024, if construction continues at its current pace. the purple line will connect bethesda with new carrollton. people are grabbing ie grocer >> because going to the store will be a bigger challenge. areas of the dmv may be worse than others. in,virgin vdot is not taking chances. it is making sure the roads are treated before any serious snowfall. >> we have a high confidence level that something is going to materialize. with the other storms, maybe we get ing, maybe we don't. we have a high confidence it's going to happen. we're going to go ahead and brine. >> despite the shutdown, roads will be treated and plowed. the park service is taking care of them. chuck, you've been telling e usn though the forecast is, as you refine it, the threat becomes less severe, there's a need to be prepared. >> absolutely. we can take blockbuster blizzard off of the table.

that was never looking all that likely. sometimes these little nuisance events can cause trouble. thanully this one is coming on the weekend. it's a mostly snow event. not much of freezing rain or sleet or icing event. that helps things o quite a bit. it is a freezing cold start this morning. it's going to stay breezy but dry through the remainder of your friday. saturday snow looks more and more likely. i think there's at least a 75% chance that everybody gets at least an inch. there will be places that get more than others. and i think the big winner, so to spea who gets the most snow, may be washington southbound towardrgfredericks and richmond. friday morning, it's all about the cold. windchillsre in the teens as you step out the door this morning. and temperatures are above freezing but not by much maybe briefly into the upper 30s today. at least it will be sunny. th w storm we'reching is coming out in two pieces now. the first piece, which isno

bringing to missouri and arkansas, that is the one that is most likely going to deliver just about everybody, a 1-3 inch snowfall amount, starting mid to late tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow night. the second piece of energy, chances are, could deliver a couple more inches downghn these highd counties.th weather service will issue an advisory but it's not close enough to start of it. the european model is hinting at 2 to inches all week long. the american model is showing more differentiation. 1 to 3 for most. but look at the favored amounts down t our south. there's some likelihood here at higher snow amounts. the nam model had n ust to nothing yesterday, and now the most aggressive with snow totals. ere's a lot of things to be worked out. melissa, everything gs going

noon tomorrow. and the most likely places of a second wave of snow is the city on sunday. >> thank you, chuck. everybody will be looking up to the sky to see what's going to small. fafax eastbound, 66, 123. have the work zone hanging around. eft lanes are getting by. interloop and outer loop of the beltway, earlier work zones are out of the way. top of the beltway, everything nto town, out of town, no worries. 29, 95, route1, everything there looks good if you're headed to dwi,oue fine. through prince george's county, no problems there, either. everything is nice a green. ♪ >> oh, boy. ♪ mommy shark >> sorry in advance because now you will have this song stuck in your head all day. if you have kids, you probably can't get it out of your head,

either. there's no denying that "baby shark" is a big hit and going down in music history on the billboard chart. imagine. the song swam its way into number 32 on the top 100 list. billboard said it wasea sd nearly 21 million times just this past week. it's been viewed more than 2.1 illion times on youtube since the version was posted in 2016. >> to put it in perspective iow big it to make the top 40, jimi hendrix only made the list one time. "baby shark" is there now. you don't have a toddler. why donow this song? >> it's the culture. >> okay. >> mommy shark. >> i don't know what just happened. 4:54 now. happening tonight on nbc sports washington, nba fans are getting a preview of how in-game sports betting will look tonight. nbcports washington is airing an alternate game broadcast for

tonight's wizards/bucks game. the game will look something like this with stats and bettinl linesg the side of the frame here. the group that os the wizards is sponsoring the look and they hope it will lead to betting through the broadcast. the game starts at 7:00. a big match-up on the court in college park when the terps host the hoosiers. maryland has won two on the road andeeopes to kp the winning going in front of the home crowd. >> we want to lock in and playg our . play how we know how to play and how we practice. co bhes -- coach hasn doing a great job, you know, making sure we're ready. sti instilling that trust we need. >> maryland beat indiana to win the championship in 2002. i don't know if you remember that. this weekend, federal employees can pick up two free tickets for saturday's women's game against michigan at 4:30 or monday night for the men's game. have your government i.d. at t

terrapin ticket office at gate "a." brenda frees, she just won her 500th game. maryland is on fire all around. >> it's a good thing. nice to see, right? obviously, forn alum. if you're looking for free fun for the whole family, join w have the perfect event for you. are talking about our annual nbc 4 telemundo 44 health & fitness expo. joint us the washington convention neceer at 00 a.m. saturday. tons of activities. workout classes, cooking demonstration, health screenings, of course, for you. all of it is freom g up in the next hour, molette green will give us an inside preview inside the convention center. >> excellent. >> set up and ready to cgo. e down and see us. if you're among the federalb workers notng paid today, you want to stick around. we're showing you what you should doow to stay ahead of the bills. a miracle recovery.

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news 4 today starts now. >> watchingnd waiting. snow is in the forecast this weekend. orning --ion this when is it coming? and how much can we expect to see?

everyone is wondering. good morning, everyone i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. it is 5: a.m. now. the storm doesn't look as bad as it did earlier this week. that hasn't stopped people from preparing, including the road crews. the roads are being treated. despite the government shutdown, nthere's a p in place to have the roads treated and plowed. >> melissand is sg by with a check on the commute. but we need to get tl chuck bel to find out more about the snow. >> all right. it is a cold and breezy friday morning. there is nothing that's going to fall out of the sky on your fridav. you just all day today and the first part of tomorrow to prepare forome snow four things you need to know about the next couple of days, sunny and cold today. snow moves in rotomorrow,d lunch time or shortly thereafter. there's a chance for a wave of snow on sunday. today's forecast, cold and breezy. teideratures will reach the to upper 30s. currently, windchills are in the teens. youl