scene with a d.c. radio reporter turned hero. just as soon as w get nearly all cleaned up from last weekend's storm, here we go again. another one is moving in.ar leons here. >> i'm pat lawson, take a look at the radar right now. rain and snow showers likely to impact tonight's evening commute and schools could be impacted tomorrow. >> all of thisthust part o story. >> our storm team 4 team coveraff kicks right now. amelia draper is in the storm center with a look at what's ahead. amelia. >> the national weather service has issued a winter weather advisory for the entire d.c. rea from fauquier county and areas to the north. i think the biggest impacts are areas north and west of the metro area. regardless, everyone in purple is under a winter weather advisory until 4:00 a.m. on friday. this is a low impact storm but

because of the timing during the evening commute and potentially slick spots in the morning we'll be all over it throughout the night and chuck is in tomorrow morning. we ale tomorrow morning see some delays, especially north and west of washington. i'll have my snow falls total map around 4:20. here's thet lat on storm team 4 radar, indicating the potential for flurries falling. the latest check, t atmosphere still a little bit dry, so over the next couple of hours as the storm system continues to move in, we'll see rai and snow nhowers out there. 5:00 p.m. snow parts of washington, frederick, loudon countys. the temperatures still mainly abovfreezing. as the sun sets we fall to right around freezing so that could lead to slick spots, especially the untreated roads. as we head into the overnight hours we continue to see rain

and snow in spots. adam tuss is out in front royal, tracking the road conditions. gat are you seein right now? anylurries where you are? >> reporter: not much right now, amelia. take a look as we can show you what's going on from the 4 by 4. we have pretty much clear pavement in front of us at this point in time. it's a good news situation right now. if you are hoping you can get out in this area srt driving around, not too bad right now. we'll continue to track it. we tnk it's going to come from this area and ride into the d.c. metro so we will stay on top of it, continue to track it. but right now, not much falling at all. nothing on the ground. as you were mentioning, a lot o, chemic lot of treatment on the road. we'll follow it for the next you knowurs and l when it starts to move in so you can bere pre for your ride home tonight. we are working for you as this winter weather movesug

th you can get alerts on the nbc washington app and storm team 4 will be tracking thete s all night to keep you up to date. so keep it locked right here for updates on news4. let's turn to a fire that left one person dead in fairfax county. >> this afternoon there are still questions abo how the fire started. >> it broke out last night in a home along shellhorn road in alexandria. >> chris gordon talked to the victim's long-time neighbor. what have you learned about this? >> reporter: pat, as you can see, thisis as close we can get. the house is gutted out. it's a shell.ee it's condemned. it's dangerous to go any clos. the neighbor one house down tells me his wife saw the fire when she was returning from work last night, she called 911. he came over here trying to the elderly man who lives alone and was inside. >> i was trying to see him,

getting in, jumping in, and pull him out. >> reporter: he says he came running when he saw smoke coming from his neighbor's home. he called him mr. b. he tried to save him, but the doors were already hot and smroed pouredthe windows. >> i had nightmare all night long. i'm still feel lik sorry about myself because i was -- if i -- if i saw the fire before maybe ten minutes later, maybe five minutes later, he could be alive. >>eporter: this video w of the fireas taken by another neighbor who lives across the street. in the 7700 block of shellhorn road. his dogs parked when the fire trucks arrived. he saw the smoke and knew the alone.side lived he called him mr. barnes. >> it was very sad. especially dieing like that in a

fire, by himself, a winter nit. it was ver sad. >> reporter: mr. barnes took care of cats, lots and lots of cats. and neighbors tell us they've been on the lookout all day for cats, but so far haveund any. that's the latest live from exandria, virginia. back to you. >> thank you, chris. new details now about the suspect in aol deadly pice involved shooting in montgomery county. we learned the man who tried to rob a bank on wayne avenue yesterday robbed another one successfully on christmas eve. poce shot and killed him yesterda after the robbery. they said he walked into the branchndemanded $20,000. an employee hit the panican butn he ran off. the shooting now under investigation and following protocol, the officer who shot

and killed him is now on paid administra>ve leave. to the president's counter punch in the battle over the shutdown. this is day 27 of the partial government shutdown. it was a little more than 12 hourago that nancy pelosi wrote to him asking him to del e state of the union address. late this afternoon, the president sent his own level canceling travel for a delegation headed overseas. we have team coverage of the far reaching im of this shutdown. beginning with tracie potts on capitol. these kind of trips are planned long in advance. we do know if speaker pelili is planning to take the trip? >> reporter: no, but we know from a statement released from her office minutesago, that there were critical military updates. the president took a trip to republicans, during

the shutdown. her deputy was more blunt about it calling the president's action petty and ridiculous. another day, another vote going nowhere to end this shutdown. >> this is unacceptable. >> please, let'so something. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi is asking predent trump to postpone his january 29th state of the union so the secret service doesn have to escort him to capitol lill unpaid. 's get a date when government is open, pay the employees. maybe he thinks it's okay to not pay't employee gs i d >> i think he'll givete the s of the union. >> reporter: the president's reaction, postponing pelosi's ip. more trouble for president trump. s lawyer, russian governmedy gi

i have no knowledge of anyy collusionny of the thousands of people who worked on the campaign. at's after suggesting otherwise on cnn. he i never said there was no collusion between campaign, or people in the campaign. >> yes, you have. >> i have not. i said the president of the united states. >> reporter: plus fmer trump lawyer, michael cohen confirms a wall street journal report p th d thousands to rig two political polls during the election. he tweets, it was at thect din of and for the sole nefit of donald trump. >> reporter: no word from the white house, or president trump on whether he'll follow u with nancy pelosi and postpone his state of union message. we'll stay on top of that. >> we will. some 70,000 federal works live in prince george's county. that's more than any otherocal county. today we talked to small business ownersho who serve workers to see how they're holding up in thetd shuown.

tracee wilkins reports. > we're just starting to see the impact. >> reporter: this small business is peddling uphill through the partial government shdown along with federal workers. >> patients are calling us and saying i can't i comethree times this week. can i come in one day this week, because of theircopays. >> reporter: it's not just money t of the worker's pockets they need but also reimbursements from the government. >> we're sting down with our accountant tomorrow to see if veterans' payments are coming through, our medicare and medicaid payments need to be processed. >> reporter: it's one of the many examples of shutdown shutting out profitse for s business. >> 70% of our workforce work outside of county. george's of that workforce, 20% of that workforce is in the federal government. this is directly impacting us. >> >> reporter: today the

president of the prince george's county chamber of commerce met with leaders to figure out how to protect them. >> we say we want to help people, help busine. we have connections again with our leadingenators who are taking on this fight. >> reporter: tracee lkins, news4. new at 4:00, prince phillip shaken but recovering from a car crash. he's 97 and was driving himself. the bbc reports he got into a crash with another vehicle and his range rover flipped. you're looking scene. bucking ham palace says the duke of edinburgh w not hurt but the bbc said he was shocked and had to be helped out of the car. he had a passenger with him. a spokesperson not confirming o the person was.>> > two big rallies are happening in the district. on friday, d.c. will host the annual march for life.

traffic andarking restrictions will be in place all around capital 1 arena. on saturday, the chwomen's mar on washington begins on freedom plaza. the shutdown forced organizers to relocate the event so the crowd may be smaller than in years past because of the forecast and the shutdown. the shutdown marches in with no end in shut. >> lots of resurants are pitching in to helphe furlo workers. there's ahe diner ready to you. google searches for the term micro dosing have tripled. we'r back in 90

back now at 4:13 with that winter weather you're taking a live look at the storm team 4 radar as t system moves east the d.c. metro area could be seeing snow in thho net or so. just ahead, amelia draper is tracking tonit's sto and the even worse conditions to follow this weekend. >> a fairf county diner and its customers are helping to workers. ughed >> megan mcgth spent the morning at 29 diner where the kindness of strangers isaking a really big difference. >> reporter: at the 29 diner in

fairfax, th're cooking up bacon and eggs and serving it with a generous helping of goodwill. >> thank you for doing this. it's nice. >> how are you? >> reporter: beginning today a farly of fou with a furloughed federal worker can eat $60 worta of foodthe diner. >> what do you like? do you like pancakes and bacon and sausage? >> ann is still going into the office but the paychecks have stopped. e and her kids have come in for breakfast. >> it is tough now that this is gone on so long. pay t's what's priority to and what can we let slip? it's just the n knowing h long it's going to go on, it's very stressful. >> i got hot chocolate and pancakes and bacon. >> reporter: the free meals have been made psible by the fairfax educaon association and several other employee unions, each donated money

creating a $3,000 budget. the owner of the diner is also accepting donations to keep the meals coming as long as needed. people are stepping up. >> i jus thought a little contribution might add a spark to someone's day. you're the best. >> reporter: an garty made a donation on her way to work. stan also put some money in the jar. >> a lot of people are just working and trying to do their job and they're not able to do that, and i'm worried what this is doing to the country. >> reporter: people havbeen quite generous. they raised several hundred dollars in just a matter of hours this morning. in fairfax megan mcgrath, news hu this partialown may mean you're getting more spam calls now because employees a two of the federal agencies charged with stopping tell marketers and blocking scammers

en't going to work. add ch luck if you want to your number to the national do not call list, s thevice is not available during the shutdown. >> that is not good news >> no, it's not. now that's irritaamng. ia, what's the latest on the storm? when's it going to start. >> we're seeing some snow where adam is, in the front royal area. as we continue over the ncot le hours we're going to see the snow moving into the entire area from west to east. i'm tracking three big weather events the one is happening right now and continues through early tomorrowmo ing. snow pushes in between now and 7:00 p.m. overall this is a pretty low impact storm but because of the timing, right around your evening commute, and just twe her weariness from the storm this weekend, wee in storm team 4 weather alert mode, some out there, especially north and west of washington, i'll point

it out on my snowfall total matc a much bigger system moves in saturday a sunday this system over the weekend is mainly a rain event. we're not going to see the snowfall pile up. but as rain moves in you can see a little bit of sno around the mason d mason dixon ne. ou's going to be a mess pl followed by dangy cold air. before we get to that cold air on monday we're sending it to adam, who's seeing some fkes falling. >> reporter: take a look outside the storm team 4 by 4 you can see we do s havee flakes dancing off the windshield here. they're actually substantial fluffy flakes and doing that thing across the roadway where they when you sayp back and for.

but so much has been put on the roads after the weekend, that ih don't see m sticking. we're at 36 degrees, that is good news also. but the concern is once the sun goes down, anything that falls uld stick to theground. it is starting to snow in the front royalaire. we're expecting it to push closer to the d.c. metro area in the next couple hours. we'll give you loo at it all evening as we're out here. as look at our snowfall totals for tonight's event. you c see the d.c. and baltimore metro area down through southerarand an inch or less. so potentially no accumulation. upper montgomery, low don, you n see o to three inches. if you're in that area i think you have ther best chance e kids to see a two hour delay tomorrow mornin here's where the snow is right now. adam is right here.

he'soing to follow the storm system as it moves closer to washington so you'll know when it's getting closer to your neighborhood. some rain and snow tonight. tomorrow check out your planner it's a quiet day weather wise, not just quiet b balmy weather wise. some slick spots are psible starting out, especially on the side roads and north andf west washington. some sunshine develops throughout the day. that helps melt the snow. as well as our high tomorrow7, you need to run your errands, we are not worried about the weather on your friday. then we get to the weekenn mostly raine forecast. and an inch of rain could lead to flooding concerns on sunday. sunday.c blast moves in that creates a flash freeze. think of mother nature waving a

wand, anything wet turns dangerously icily out there. we see the rain coming in around noontime, notice the chance for snow at the mon dixon line. the wind chill temperatures on c mondaying up. but for now, here's a peek at the stten-day fore >> looks like a winter rollercoaster. >> weather whiplash. >> more interesting than we would prefer at this point. still ahead onews 4, a reporter in the right place at the right time. >> walking bac on the trail head, i hear screaming. i hear yelling. s >> aw day scare. a woman falling into a freezcrg rock eek. we're hearing from the reporteo came to rescue her. >> a great story. pause before you post. news4 working for y a with news4 working for y a with priv acso you finally got fios, huh k yep. you wannanow what the best part about it is? gaming with less lag? nope. watching movies in 4k? nope.

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get to this. an incredible rescue it happened along rock creek park during the height of our weekend snowstorm. >> erikaonzalez spoke to th reporter who risked his life to help a woman who fell into the water. >> reporr: it's sunday afternoon in the big snowfall. you come out toea take aiful picture. you have it, a moment of serenity and then what happens. >> it turns to chaos. the height of the storm, snow is falling heavily. i'm walking down that trail head, i hear screaming, look over the railing, and there she water. e pool of >> you come down here, is she g saying anythin to you? >> she's yelling, trying to get up out of the pool, she can't. i run down here, get to the embankment, that's when she slips under the water. the moment i realize i have to go in. >> you go in after her. she is so col that she can't kick her legs or move her arms and you're pulling, in essence,

dead weight to the shore. >> grabbed her by the collar. i heave her to the show, it's soaking wet, it's snowing, we're both shivering, she stops talking. >> what happens next? 911.called >> i called 911, they said help is on the way, i said you have to get here yesterday, she's barely coycious, barel breathing. >> eventually they arrive -- >> with the helpf a b stander we lift her in the back of the ambulance. didn't know who she was. >> eventually you heard from emergency responders that she made it. >> we're so grateful to hear that. it was music to my ears. it was a happy ending to what could have been a tragic story. >> wow. >> erika gonzalez reporting there. he said he stuck around to take one extra picture that's why he was there to catch her. >> the picture saved the day.

>> the two of them did get together. coming up on news4 at 5:0we'll show you the reunion. good stuff. still to come, a drug trend on the rise. >> this is called microdosing. and a growing group of people are turning to a street druglo ing for anything but a high. we'll explain that. plushe a f and son murdered, a mother and daughter now living in fear. only on news4, the tragedy that tore one virnia familygi

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i'm adam tuss in theam stor 4 by 4 tracking snow. take a look outside as we are seeing the flakes flaw in the straussburg area heading up to winchester. you can see some of them dancing across the road there. nothing sticking to the road just yet, bute've bee telling everybody that some potential wintery weather is making its way to our area a will come to the d.c. area later tonight. amelia has a full look at the forecast. back to you, amelia. as we look at current temperatures, back where you are the temperature right around freezing. we are worried about slick spots there. as the storm moves east thete eratures have a way to fall. so i think most of us getting

homen the evening community just fine. but a winter weather advisory until 4:00 a.m. on friday for all the purple. based on the timing tonight, tomorrow morning, some delays are possible, especially north of and west of washington. especially frederick county. we then have another storm system over the weekend and look at the dangerously a cold that moves in sunday. these are the feels like temperatures. in the teens you think that's bad, check out overnight into morning. we have wind chills monday morning at 7:00 a.m., at about below zero in washington, 13 below in frederick and hagerstown. dangerous cold moving in. much more on the weekend storm system in my full forecast. between family, work, personal commitments giving

can feel impossible. >> it's why some people are drawn to a new dg trend. users say it doesn't make you high, it makes you a betterrs n of yourself. sarah wallace exploresg somethlled married, ticrodosing. >> i wanted to do so many in thgs, go so many people. it made me be the most productive version of myself. >> reporter: this man is describing what he calls a transformative experience. he asked us to hide his identity because it's illegal. >> i basically take mushrooms, psychedelic, and make them into what we call microdoses. >> reporter: this dealer says a group of people are turning to street drugs. abut theyn't looking for a high. >> you would be surprised the vast group of people using

microdosing to betteran themsels their careers. >> reporter: this client is a 9:00 to:00 professional with a well paid job in finance. he has struggled with depression and he said taking these mushrooms help him cope and give him ad lasege. >> pieces of the puzzles of the things i need to figure out make sense. my demeanor dramically improves. >> reporter: in the past three years online searches for microdosing has tripled. >> it's been a constant upward trend. people don't necessarily take it to getgh they take it to get effective. >> reporter: those who tak it? >> there are some people i deliver to that are in the musiy in, doctors, people in the finance industry, people who want to be like the movie limitless.

>> reporter: microdosing is taking a psychedelic drug, it's basically o tenth or a fraction of what would be needed to get a high. >> my thought on microdosing is that it's a bad idea. >> david nickels is a retired unc professor. one of the world's mostd respec psychedelic researchers. institutions are studying the potential of psychedelic drugs for treatment. >> they're able to do things at this point with what we've seen in the studies that other medications and treatments aren't able to do. >> reporter: one study has even gotten break through therapy designation from the food and drug administration for treatment-resistant depression. >> it looks like it can treat things. >> reporter: those studies are looking at full doses. >> there have not been any long

term sdieshere people have taking a psychedelic over a period of time. even though e doses are small, there might be changes we don't know that >> reporter: despite states like oregon and colorado fighting for legalization. psychedelic substances are illegal. >> i live in a paranoid state of mind all the time. >> i would be >>fired. eporter: if the clinical trials are effective, it's likely there would be an increased push to lower the classification of mushrooms, nod consid schedule one. >> that's fcinating stuff there. >> i wouldn't mind my musicians. >> not youor do >> not your doctor. that would be a little troubling. i don't know. we'lle h to follow that and see where that story goes. back to our storm team 4 weather alert. >> another round of snow moving into the d.c. region, the areas

that could see up to 3nches of snow tonight. pl the secondtorm days away that could be more dangerous. >> don't try this at home. i'm outside getting ready for an ice festival this weekend. i'm tommy mcfly. 're

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>> today news4 tommy mcfly checked out one of the coolest parts of saturday's ice carving. he found out it's a little bit harder than it looks. >> reporter: we've got quite an arts and craft project today. i'm outside the studio because carving ice would not work inside the studio. i'm here with melissa from the village of heleesburg, vice festival this weekend. we're going to make a penguin. yes. we like to use our power tools. i'll show you how it works and then you can g it a try. >> reporter: sounds good. >> i like to go >> through and keep following it. >> what is this tool called? >> this is burr bit. >> a burr bit? >> yep.

>> it's pretty much a big, huge drill bit on a router. and it does really big line cuts on thece. i got my bachelor's of fine arts with a concentration in sculpture. it's awesome to skull p ice. >> when your parents are like when are you going to use that?e you're likear cng. >> exactly. >> reporter: maybe you shouldn't try this at home. check it ohis weekend at the village o leesburg. thank you for making a penguin. we'll see you later. how long is this penguin going to last out here? back to you. >> i'm glad tommy gave the tool back to her. otherwise someone was going home without something. tomorrow you can find tommy, he'll be live at the washington

area fuel fun ice house, as we give the gift of heat to our neighbors in need. we'll be there tomorrow afternoon. so come check it out. nbc 4 ande telemundo 44 working for you with project innovation. our project innovation grant from now until the 15th of february, local nonprofits can apply for grants of at least $5,000. we have a total of $225,000 to grant this year. it will be share by a few different organizations based here in the washington area. for more information about the application process go to nbcwashington.com/project innovation. just ahead, a mother and daughter fearing for their life and searching for answers. >> every day i wake up, i thinking about it. >> only on news4, one family'sa desperate p for help as

police try to solve a murder mystery. front royal, winchester, martinsburg, hagerstown, frederick, as the stormuss in, i'm updating my impacts and what the kids can expect for

inter weather moving in as we take a live look here at the radar. you can see it make its march. it's inching closer and closer to d.c. our team coverage of that continues just ahead here. there have been no arrests yet in in the mysterious shooting death of a virginia father and son killed in early november. in hopes of generating s e new leads the mother and daughter left behind are speaking to julie carey about tir terrible

loss. >> reporter: you'll remember the tragedy right awa when i remind you about the victims. the father came to this country from vietnam decades ago, an immigrant success store. his named his kids america and virginia. america was found dead with him. the other half of the family, mom and daughter, got the devastating news while they were in vietnam visiting a sick relative. now with the killer or killers still at large, the women asked us to shield their faces fearful for their safety. >> every day i wake up, always thinking about it over and over inmind. i cannot sleep. i cannot eat. i don't want my daughter worry about me.

she said, mommy, don't leave me. i have only you now. >> reporter: heart breaking. coming up on news4 at 5:00, how investigators say the public can help with this case and we'll tell you more awout these hard-working victims. justst ious. >> just heartbreaking. can't imagine what they're going through. >> thi mom and daughter looking over their shoulder all the time right now, hopeful the arrest will come soon. hoping maybe the public can help. >> let's hope this story helps. let's go to the live desk. erika gonzalez on stand by there with some breaking news. what's the latest? >> so we are working a pair of breaking stories in prince george's county. let's take you first to buoy. we have live picture there is. chopper 4, two people confirmed shot, old fletcher town road, i think you're seeing the medevac opper there. these are live pictures from 4.opper

no word yet on ages or gender of the victims. at this point we have very little informati even on the circumstances surrounding this. so we're still trying to grasp thf details this. we have tracee wilkins headed to the scene now. again, these are live pictures of a breaking sto in buoy. let's go on to the second breaking stories as well. these are alsoive pictures of the breaking scene. we know an offic has been injured during a traffic stop. apparently they tried to pl somebody over on dade street and the officer was struck by a car is what we were told. shots were fired. however, it is unclear at this point if anybody was hit by gun fire. that officer we're being told was struck by a vehicle. the suspect now incustody. now we have jackie benson headed to that scene a well. stay tuned for breaking details on both of these breaking and developing, very fluid situations, going on right now. back to you guys in the studio.

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a cool scene this morning as members of the al alex on chef kin liking to the police dog there. >> they're the ones working behind the scenes and making sure everyone is good to go. lots of time for them and, you know, it was a cool moment to have them on the ice. >> knowing that people appreciate what we, do organizations like the capits appreciate what we do, so just kind of keeps us going. keep doing what we're doing. >> you have to wonder what the dog was thinkingnd first rers night is on tuesday, whe the caps play the sharks. a portion of the proceeds supports the national law enforcement memorial fund. >> cool. >> good for them. turning back to th stormy weather. what kind of night can we expect and what about the morning rush?

>> the morning rush, north and west of washington, yin could be dewith slick spots, slushy snow to contend th. t the beltaway and east of i-95 it's going to be okay. one of thereasons, temperatures. right now we're at 38 degrees. with a storm system like this and checking out the moisture among other factors in the awe e going to fall just to around freezing tonight inside of washington. and that's going to prevent snow tom stickinthe ground and there's so much salt out there that's going to help n a big way as well. check out around i-81 we are down to ng. we are going to see the temperatures fall a little bit as we head into the overnight t hours aorrow morning. that being said, right now it's good news folks are heading home with road and air temperatures above freezing. i checked road temperatures in maryland most of them above freezing. is system doesn't have a lot of moisture to work with. today we have a tenth, maybe two-tenths of moisture to work

with. and so much salt on area roads is helping melt as the snow is falling. we will see slick spots north and west of washington. and on the side ads, some slick spots in the morning. but by midday and afternoon hours, no problem. we send it to adam, who's in thu storm team 4by four. this is nothing like karma ged don. >> reporter: no. that was the worst. this is route 7 in thewi hester area where the flakes are falling. we have a good amount of chemical on the road here and the temperature are about 33 degrees. so anything that's falling really isn't sticking yet in th area. that is good news. but, of course, as the sun down and the temperatures drop a little bit, exactly what you were talking oout, we have watch out for the slick spots. the snow is falling.

we're going to continue to roll withhis into the d.c. region. we expect it's going to push into o region later tonight. also looking at the radar trend i think we have this band of snow moving through, a bit ofre a in the late evening hours and then another area f of rain and snow moving through overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. the rain and snow looks to be gone b 6:00 a.m. some of the delays aren't out of the i think if you're in arlington, alexandria, the district, you're headed into school tomorrow. southern marynd, stafford, king george's county, i would count on heading to school. as we look at recess, it'll be outdoors tomorrow. after school, no problems. our high temperature tomorrow llar 50 degrees. it's r the calm before our major weekend storm. 47 for the high.n the r and snow is over by sunshine:00 a.m., some

developing throughout the day and that means more melting snow eut there. then look to the weekend and i'm bringing out the bread meter. in no way is it stock up for a week but you probably want a o- y supply. sunday we deal with rain transitioning to an arctic blast. martin luther king jr. day it's going to be brutal with the wind. you can get out b on monda do you want to get out when 25 degrees feels like 5 in the afternoon, wind chills feeling from 10 belowo above zero. 47 tomorrow, dry relatively nice during the day. we have rainoving in later saturday, ending later on sunday. and then we have dangerously cold air later sunda into monday. >> thanks, amelia. let's get back to erika gonzalez following aatouple breaking stories. what's the latest? >> we've got those live pictures coming in from buoy. we were talking to you about two

people confirmed shot there on the scene of old fletcr town road at fletcher town road. this is chopper 4. it looks like police have a suspect in custody. it apyres it's a suspect. they have somebody in handcuffs justng away from the scene a short moment ago we could see chopper 4 peering through the trees an a scuffle or this individual was trying to get away from tlice. buy were able to get a handle on him, they have him seated on the curb. these live pictures coming in from buoy. we're not sure of the circumstances of this, but we can confirm to you two people were hshot. e tracee wilkins that's headed there to the scene now. re.y active situation one of two breaking stories that we're following at this hour.

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>> news4 talked to the local reportero who risked his life save that woman. we're going to begin with our forecast. some of you areeeg the rain that is starting to fall. >> and there's somebe flurries nd us too. for others it's goingo impact the commute home tonight. let's get right to amelia draper, she's in the storm cent a. how long o affair are we oflking? >> here's a cheche radar where i'm tracking snow in parts maryland ckcounty, even loudoun. and back around the i-81 corridor. not picking up any rain now and temperatures along i-81 right at freezing. yoee can snow moving into the fauquier andpp cul counties. potentially some rain mixing in. withnd rain snow showers in the forecast tonight until about 2:00 to 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning the national weather service issued a winter weather advisory this includes all of the counties in purple.

so most of the area. this is a low impact event but because of the timing and potential for miumr aation that's why we're in alert thmod. k some schools will be delayed tomorrow, especially north and west of washington where we'll see the biggest impacts. i'll have my latest snowfalls total map and for the weekend a bigger system moves in bringing cold and a flash freeze on sunday. i'll time that out coming up right after 5:15. i'm erika gonzalez back here at the live desk. if you are still with us, you know we've been tracking this breaking news out of buoy, two people shot in the area of old fletcher town ad, at fletcher town road. we can show you these live -- these live pictures -- there we are. that.about live pictures of chopper