news 4 today starts now. >> welcome back at 4:30. it's friday morning. we begin with a live look outside right now. you'lld f some unseasonably warm temperatures when you head ou your door this morning. we're hearing about snow in the forecast. could w thether play spoiler to weekend plans? it's the way it's been all winter. we have okay days. ,d, bo by friday, the rain starts coming. the snow starts coming. >> that's how shdo.

>> winteran be fickle. it's 4:30 on a friday morning. let's get right to the man we want to hear chuck bell is the man we want to hear from. >> what are you about to say? >> i read what was there. we're goi to talk about the chuck about the forecast and melissa a little later. >> there has to be a ron burgundy momentthere. i have to put question marks in the script and see if aaron reads it that way. we have clouds around here early. it is not cold.n temperatures the 40s and 50s. one area of rainyness, heading eastbou eastbound. we're in a drying trend. temperatures near 50 degrees. 49 in gaithersburg and manass. 47 inwashington. 50 in baltimore. 52 in la ray. very mild for a february morning. it will be a mildfo daysure. off and on chance for a drop

early today. and most of the midday hou will be dry, breezy. southwest winds around 15 miles per hour.t wow. in the 60s for most areas briefly for today. that's certainly welcome news, for sure. future weather, though, carriesf a chanc a sprinkle or two in the course of the day. nothing majory. to afternoon highs in the 60s. but tomorrow, we're tracking a little chance for wet snow, melissa. more about the timing of all that comingup. >> thank you, chuck. looking at the roads. for washington, the outer llop l lanes. and right lane is blocked by a crash. we had everything temporarily stopped. itig just the lane and not causing the delay.nd northb rockville pike diverted here at cedar lane. everybody is being pushed out of e way. this is a crash that happened during yesterday's evening commute. took down wires and is a mess here. they're trying to get that fixed before the c mornimute kicks into gear.

reston, fox mill road between lawyers and steeplechase. we're following a developing story in the district right now. a 12-year-old remains in the hospital after being shot in northeast. >> the boy was an innocent bystander who was just in the wrong place when the gunfire started. this happened late last night in anll near 45th and ponds street. they found an unbelievable number of shell cases. along with theng ca they found the boy critically wounded. we don't know his name o why he would have been in that area. witnesses told pice a vehicle was driving away from the scene. officers searched late into the. ni but right now, we don't have information on potential suspects. l developine last night, a bus driver had to be freed after a crash left him pinned to his seat. this hapned at the corner of rockville pike and cedar lane in

bethesda. the driverit a utility pole. he was the only person on the bus. ine what is s to be a welcome sight for government workers, president trump is going to sign a bipartisan spending bill today. paychecks will continue and nothing will be closed. but the deal has not been welcomed with open arms by the trump administration. this deal includes $1.4 billion toesuild 55 m of fencing. language of nclude a concrete wall and falls short of the $5.7 billion the president requested. the president isec ed to declare a national emergency at the border. this would allowim to bypass congress and find mondaying on his own. the idea sparked outcry from democrnaic leadership. y pelosi promised to fight it. and other democrats suggested drafting legislation to prev ft himm doing it. the ia has more support among republicans, but the gop seems

wary of supporting the idea. >> i've been clear my concerns of the president declaringing this as an emergen. >> nbc new learned t president will take funds from various federal departments and abouil $3 bon will come from the department of defense. the u.s. government has opped its practice of force feeding immigrantee deta two men are going on hunger strike in an el paso detention center. tc.e. has stopped force feeding them againir will following an order by a district justice. if the men's health deteriorates, the practice may be resumed. he ordered it stopped based on first amendment rights. immigrants have used it as a way to prott conditions they face while seeking asylum. here's a look atur other top stories. the man taken down by a taser at the foot of the washington

monument, after allegly assaulting a police officer, is also accused of setting a fire insi comet ping-pong. ryan remus was charged with arson on thursday. an hour before the fire,sa poli he posted a video on his parents' youtube page. in it, he said the world is run by aatanic ped pedophile ring. the theories inspired a shooting in a restaurant in 2016. this morning, police are looking for the person who opened fire inside a d.c. business, kling one person. we first brought you the story as breaking news yesterday morning. the fst sots were fired around 6:00 inside trojan temporary labor in northeast. 32-year-old david anthony died. another man, the business owner, was shot but survived. a final vote on metro rail hours will take place in two weeks. the metro board was s posed to vote on whether it would continue shortened hours to make repairs or go back to a normal

schedule. d.c. leadership wants to resume normal operations. but metro says the pairs are necessary. speed cameras may be coming to virginia. new legislation that has just passed i the commonwealth is headed to ralph northam's desk. they would be limited to work zones. violo ors could be fined up t $125. today, john dingell will be buried in arlington cemetery. he is the longest serving member of congress whoie last week after a battle with cancer. political leaders hored his life yesterday at d.c.'s holy trinity church. former president bill clinton, house majority ader, steny hoyer, and former speaker of the house, john ehner, all delivered remarks. dingell, a democrat, represented the state of michigan for 59 years. a bit of an awkward start to an international conference this

week. it's being held in warsaw, poland. a polish representativ introduced him as vice president mike pompeo. >> vice president me pompeo. i'm sorry. of course. >> mike pompeo is the secretary of state, farther down the table, from the vice president. ook it in dent pence stride. he patted the polish speaker on the back andgh had a l later on. >> what are you going to do in that siloation? >> so in names. >> i'm worried that somebody job. lose his we're hearing from a man who survived an ordeal that my of may not have. >> he was out for a jog when he was attacked by a mountain lion. travis kaufmann had his hands to

fight wback. out for a run in the colorado town he lives. he heard a rustling behindhe hi. turned and that's when a young mountain lion s ung out ready to attack him. he did everything right. he pinned the lion to the ground and was able to cov m theth and nose, suffocating it and eventually killed it. >> one of my big fears t througho whole thing was another cat. i was just very concerned that mom going to come out of nowhere. that fight would be over pretty quickly. >> wow. after killing the mountain lion, ee miles had to run t for help. he said, hade been listening to music he never would have heard the cat coming his way. the fact he was prepared for it suhelped him ive. imagin you >> i absolutely would have been done. >> just suffocated him. >> to have the presence of mind to fight back.r >> you me.

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you're watching news 4 today. >> the threat of a shutdown appears to be over. congress passed a spending that president trump appears poised to sign. >> that's good news. if you think that mea break from the political bickering, guess again. >> today, president trump ispe ed to announce a national emergency so he can get funding for a border wall. tracie potts is joining us live now.oe how this national emergency work? and what are democrats saying about it?

>> reporter: democrats are saying it may not b legal. they may go to court. licans think this is not a good idea. that the president will undermine congress' authority. and adit's a precedent for the presidency. e bottom line , the president wants to add to the money he got in this budget deal. it wasn't nearly what he wanted. by using the emergency, h will pull funds from the pentagon and fpullunds from the treasury nt depart to try to get $8 billion to begin the process of building that wall. >> tracie potts, live for us thmorning. tracie, thank you. today will be william barr's first day as attorney general again. he was swornrrn yesterday. ill oversee robert mueller's investigation, which is rumored to be wrapping up soon. and barr will decide much of the report is sent to congress. during his confirmation, he was in favor transparency, but he did not admit to turng over

mueller's full report. wee're learning details abo president trump and the turmoil with the days and weeks following the firing of james comey in 2017. mcca b has written ak about the director. mccabe discusses the book and describes meeting president trump in the oval office just hours after comey's firing. >> how i long was after that that you decided to start the obstruction and justice and nc counterintelli investigations involving the president? >> i think the next day i met with the team investigating the edssia cases. and i ahe team to go back and conduct an assessment. >> in march, one day before mccabe was scheduled to retire, he was fired by then-attorney the justice department accused mccabe of misleading

investigators during an internal probe. president trump has said in a tweet, he calledccabe disgraced and pretended to be a, quote, poor, little angel. and he called mccabe a for james comey. last year, the average refund was just over $2,100. this year, it's about $1,900. you can blame changes in the tax law for the lower refund. withholding will mean people get less money or owe this morning, we're hearing from passengers on the delta flight that hit turbulence so hard, it hado make an emergency landing. five people were hurt on this plane. it happened on wednesday. was a flight from orange county, california, to seattle. pilots were forced to land in

reno. virginia'seces old kin dm dominion law may be overturned. if governor ralph noram signs it, schools would be allowed to start two weeks before labor day. it would require labor day to be a four-day weekend. the law would go into effect this maryland governor larry hogan and his wife tested out a new electric car to highlight his environmental priorities. the pair got to kick the tires and check under the hood of a 2019 hyundai fuel cell vehicle. the governor is rolling out a bill that would he p clean up vironment. big news from amazon today, weeks after it announced it selected new york city as one of twoui locations to a new headquarters, it pulled out of the deal there.

>> what does that mean for northern virginia? julie carey took a look. >> reporter: arlin aon governme business leaders took a look. there was momentary anxietyhen the news about amazon in new york hit social media. at is until they heard from amazon officials. >> i spoked to the folks of amazon. and they reiterate their commitment that this does not change plans for arlington or virginia. >> reporter: the proposal calls for amazon to gradually grow up to 25,000 jobs here with the possibility of climbing as high as 38,000 someday. with samson backing out of the new york location, will arlington be pushing a bigger piece of the pie? >> at this time, i not interested in absorbing a speculative new number of jobs. i think that they've diskucusse with our community makes sense

lir our community. >> reporter: in ton, i'm julie carey, news 4 today. storm team 4cheteorologist k bell joins us. pretty mild out there right now. >> no complaining from me at all. temperatures are at average highs. a breeze to contend wi. most of the rain has pulled out. there's a chance for d rainps before the day is done. by and large, i think we have a lot of hours of dryer wea and temperatures going warmer than average, as we get into middle rts of the afternoon. 47 degrees in washington. there's that wind out of the south. th a hint of a chill in the air this morning. clouds, that first littleurst of sprinkles moving through here a couple hours ago. that's left. stly dry weatheracross the region at this point in time. there's a weather front out here across parts of ohio and

pennsylvania. that's the leading edge of much colder air over the weekend. as f as rain chances, i'll walk you through future weather. the next chance coming into the mountains of west rginia. and the rain chances into the evening hours are probably only arou% to 40%. not a guarantee. just a possibility of a few drops as theront comes through. might be able to wring out a little rain here or there. as you get up on saturday morning, it will be full cloud cover, much, much coteer. being in the 60s today, we'll be in the 30s tomorrow morning. but you can see here on our forecast model, it keeps bringing that chance for any amount of snow farther and farther down to the washington area we might get enough snow to county the ground on ahe city. mayb slushy inch or so, for fredericksburg and northern neck and southern maryland. that pulls out. we're dryo saturday night i early sunday. then, sunday afternoon, the clouds come by later in the day, a chance

for light rain, that may have wet snow on the top end of it. not really a big chance for precip in the form of snow. ghs in the 30s to around 40 on saturday and sunday. not too bad for president's day on and we get in the middle part of next week, tuesday night into wednesday morning, that's he bull's eye time to keep a close eye on. we could have several inches of snow before it changes to rain during the day wednesdaha >> you, check. those kids are looking forward to it, i'm sure. >> northbound rockville pike diverted at cedar lane. a crashover night. we've been telling you about this one involving a bus caused this problem. took down wires and a traffic signal. they are working to get this out of theef waye the morning commute kicks into gear. no major delay because it so early. ft. washington, outer loop local lanes. the right lane is blocked by

that accident, seeing a little slowdown. northbound 270 at montgomery village. that's reopened. and in reston, fox mill roader between laroad and steeplechase drive. lane bcked with wires until 6:00 a.m. this morning. everyone celebrates valentine's day different ways. some go to dinner. some give chocolates. if you are a panda, you celebrated by sitting on your brand-new cushion. that's what pandas do. he lives in japan and has fathered 15 cubs. to celebrate, the zoo keepers gave him a new cushion. he deserves it. with the message, we love you. you may have spotted the chair, it was given to him two years ago. the hope was to make him more comfortable. >> i'll bet. 15 kids.

he may not be done yet. >> some zoos celebrated valentine's day with presents and others marked the occasion with a different party in el paso. the zoo ran a promotion called quit bugging me. >> it allowedeople to name cockroaches. they were then fed to meerkats. that is meerks eatingroaches. the entire thing was streamed on the zoo's facebook page. i wonder many people watched. it's over. you can look now. >> i knew when you started reading, i knew i wouldn't look d stomach at thi hour. can we go back to the panda on the cushion? c ing up on news 4 today, diet soda and your heart. a there' warning for women on the sugary drinks that could affect your health. and dramatic video showing a school bus fire in baltimore. ho w the studente able to get out safely. stay with us. reynold's kitchens™ has eliminated plastic wrap

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news 4 today starts now. >> another government shutdown has been averted. eyes are on the white house. president trump plans to sign a bipartisan bill that provides less funding for a border wall than he wanted. what he plans to do to makthe up shortfall. good morning, everyone. >> it is friday, february 15th, 2019. it's a busy friday. t lissa mollet has the lat your commute.

we begin with chuck bell and a look at your forecast. pretty mild start to the day so far, chuck. >> absolutely. 40 to near 50 degrees on a morning. easy going on the temperatures for you this morning. we have a lot of clouds over the city of washington. clearer skies out towards the shenandoah valley. and a couple of rain drops that aaron and eun had to drive through. they get to come in much later than i do. they had tdrive through the rain this morning. future weather has a chance for a sprinkle early today. a big warm-up. 60s today. low to mid 60 after 3:00, 4:00, a chance for showers and rain come in here, especially for your friday plans.g as the cold front comes through, it's likel to wring out a rain shower or two on your friday evening. the temperatures, 40s and 50s to

get your afternoon started here today. a balmy 64 degrees. 30deegrees c than that when you wake up on your saturday morning. we have more on the when and the where in a few. > looking at the roads. a new problem on 270 in boyds. this isth sund, before father hurley boulevard. the left side is blocked crash there. we're not seeing much of a delay. it's okay. i wanted to warn you. rockville pike diverted ctar lane. this is a bus crash from yesterday. they are wking toeopen the northbound lanes that are closed right now because of a pole and wiredown. it doesn't look bad. it will be somems prob ft. washington, outer loop, local lanes on the woodrow wilson bridge. right lane blocked by a crash there. g.w. parkway southbound. police