sunday morning. here's what we continue to follow for you. one of the highe ranking people in the catholic church now has no title. former archbishop of washington dore mccarrick defrocked off allegations of sexual abuse. >> as thousds of catholics get out for morning mass, parishioners are still reacting to former cardinal mccarrick being kicke out of the priesthood. our coverage of the fallout continues this morning? >> and plus new overnight a police say says investigators are looking intobi the posty that "empire" actor jussie smollett staged that racist attack on him. hear what smollett's teams saying about all of that this morning. yet another busy sunday morning for you ase continue t follow the news and the weather. thank you for being with us. i'm adam tuss. >> i'm mollette green in for meagan fitzgerald. it is a beautiful cold morning in washington. beautiful out there. if you look at the picture, nice. >> the sun is shining down. >> but there's alws a t. >> a wintry mix could be headed this way for some of us.

storm team 4 meteorologist lauryn rickets is here o tell us more about that. what do you say, lauryn? >> i do say a bit of a wintry mix could be headed for t uss afternoon and then as we get into a wednesday we could see a wintry mix, some snow and changing into a wintry mix and changing over to rain. i know a lot o people know about wednesday but let's get through today. it's a beautiful morning out there right nownd things are about to change. we could see a little light precipitation, light stuff early this mornin before noon, but really the main event is coming in later on this afternoon, and i had to add this light precip. i thought we'd be too dry and i'll show you what we mean here in a sec. mainly a rainor event us into this evening and higher elevations could see freezing rain and that's north and west of d.c. at those higher elevations north and west of d.c. we could have slick travel later tnight and into early tomorrow morning. mainly this will be a rain event later on this afternoon through tonight. that's when we'll start to see

it move. in this little piece of energy right here, it's starting to move tthe north and east. that's where we could actually see some light precipitation spreading into the area possibly in the form of slight snow flakes and ao maybe a little freezing rain, but, again, a lot of this is not falling. it's evaporating before it even hits the ground, the radar picture looks a little more ominous than it actually is. this will be moving to the east at, andl talk about then we'll also talk about all of this coming our way because it's coming our w for this afternoon and this evening. we'll start it off for you and talk about wednesday coming up in 15 minutes. >> all right, lauryn, we'ee you for that. thanks very much. the catholic church meanwhile is rocked by an explosive announcement from the vatican. >> todore mccarri a once beloved leader in the catholic church revered here in our area has been dismissed from the priesthood just a day after ava can tribunal defrocked the former cardinal, we're getting more reaction. the once powerful archbishop of washington had been an influential player for the

church. vatican officials found h guilty of soliciting sex in the confessional and for sexual crimes against adults and minors. >> both abuse and its cover-up can no longer be tolerated andt different treatment for bishops who have committed or covered up abuse in fact represents a form of clergyism that is no longer acceptable. >> mccarrick is the highest profile church figure to be relieved of priestly duties in modern times. meanwhile, reaction has been pouring in aer the vatican's bombshell announcement. >> certainly has. many catholics in our are of course, getting ready to go to church today wit that mccarrick schedule fresh on our mind and our derrick ward joins us liv from st. matthews cathedral with more and we've been talking to people who simply can't belief haulis. >> yeah, indeed. this was actually his home church here, so we talked to a

lot of folks and a lot of them don't want to go on cameras, but to me privately they did express some relief now that this has turned a corner and a bit of outrage once details of what theodore mccarrick was charged with have come forward. as you htrd from t sound, rome is now looking at how the church moved forward as is the local archdiocese, a statement they put out yesterday said that they hope that this helps us with the healing and perhaps toys some sort of comfort by disillusions and reactions from the crch. it also sparked a protest yesterday outside the vatican embassy and one person that we spoke to there was talking aboun more circumspect about this and she said that, you know, this is about howur the ch moves forward. take a listen. >> well, i feel sorry for him basically. i'm really sad that this should itve happened after a long career. not that i want any revenge or anything. i pray for him and i hope that

he makes heaven and all the rest of them, too. i think what we're here for today is justo try and get the people to see what we want is a very holy leader. and that will be thet topic the conference of bishops very soon in rome. a big thing on the agenda is how the church reactsov and forward. derrick ward, news 4, back to you. >> mccarrick's successor cardinal donald wuerl is essentially the interim archbish. wuerlry signed late last year following a grand jury report out of pennsylvania. e report claims that while serving as bishop pittsburgh in the late '80s wuerl did little to stop predator prithts. cardinals has repeatedlde nied that claim and resigned last year following the public outcry. his replacement could come any time now. >> thinking about this as they gotdy r for mass with the scandal fresh on their minds. forant to come with news for continuing coverage of this developing story and we can also

read about it in this nbc washington app. >> staying on top of a developing story out of anne arundel county. people arere ewing surveillance footage after someone was shot at arundel mills mall around 7:30 last night. a man walked into an area hospital with a gunshot wound to his torso. he is expected to be okay. poli say the incident started with an argument between two groups of people, and they say it was a targeted incident, not random. shoot verse posittiely ided that person and are searching for them. >> we have a grim update now. police need your help finding the gunman in what has turned into a fatal shooting in d.c. this was the scene aer the shooting here. it happened in an alley on harry thomas way not far from wendy's circle in northeast in broad daylight.ea 20old matthew washington was shot and taken to the hospital where he later died. authorities are offering a

$25,000 rd for anyone that provides information that leads to an arrest. >> right now the search is on for two armed men who robbed a jewelry store in montgomery county. tacoma park police t say men walked into silver spring jewelry on university bou ovard. bothe men pulled out their mons, pointed them at ploys and stole a larget of cash and jewelry, but it doesn't stop there. on their way out the robbers bumped into two other men and stole their car. police are asking anyone who has information to give them a call. >> wef have a bit shocking twist here in that alleged hate crime agast actor jussie smollett. tibodies news is rep that chicago police are looking into whether the "empire" star actually paid the two brothers who were questioned and later released without charges to stage this attack. smollett claims on j uary 29th he was attacked and beaten in downtown chicago as he walked to get food. police s they found no surveillance video of that attack but they it be to look tore it, and they also say

there's been no evidence to prove that this has been all a hoax. smollett's attorneys have released a statement saying in part that smollett sangry at reports that he could have played a role in his own attack and that n could be further from the truth. >> president trump's attorneys are gearing upit for ar legal battle after he declared a national emergency to fund the border wall.e white house says they will defend lawsuits all the way to the supreme court. the aclu and olrers havedy sued the president. nancy pelosi and several wetorneys general may be filing lawsuits as. the president is spending the weekend at his west palm beach golf club. >> and this emergency declaration will be a big topic on "meet the press" this just a0 minutes here at 10:30 right after "news 4 today." >> wold you about the drama already unfolding in the bald

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okay. lawmakers were able to avoid a government shutdown only to find themselves in a natioeml gency. >> that's right. the president declared a national emergency wssn cong spending bill didn't include the amount they wanted fo southern bothered wall. moderator of "meet the press" chuck todd joining us all of this out. they just wanted to get the wall done faster, didt have too it and now we're going towards legal challenges, aren't we. >> the fact that that answer alone will be front and center. he had three options politically. he had a political emergency in his own head, you he believed this base. he believes he cannot leave his open base. if he did he would have agreed to a compromise.

heel clearlyves his base doesn't trust them so he has to cater them and what are the three options he had? oncontinue to work withess? he decide, know, i don't want to do that. force another shutdown. his own party said don't do that, or go to the courts. you'll probably los which is ols own staff him so he's caught fighting. if he's fighting and h a foil i think politically he sees it as not a no-lose situation but a less lose situation if y will but the unintended consequences of this if the courts find this constitutional will completely change the checks and balances divide that we have. it will completely change who has the power of the purse, if you will. this slow erosion of congress' power to the executive branch, they will find out if they will rue the day that they ever handed out. >> what does this -- as this alays out in the court.

there's no being built, mind you. >> no wall being built. >> perhaps he'll just run on the 55 miles which "the washington post" put -- he is trying to will the wall int existence. if you stay enough, maybe they will buy that the wall has been built even of it'sy a few miles. >> right. >> so you have new york mayor billsi deb on the show. what does he have to say about the other bombshell that we've been talking about with amazona pull out a result of a lot of pressure from progressives? >> first of all, i think it tells you that new york city politics and northern virginia olitics are quite different, right? >> quite different. northern virginia, democrats don't have the same divide and

wah as the bureau of politics has. part of me that thinks that amazon didn't want thatst ct headache that new york city politics creates. and i do think it's the canary in the coal mine because progress i was celebrate it had and other democrats are saying at are you celebrating? you've lost tax dollars and vae and jobs so thi debate about what does the economic -- what doesmic policy look like in this country, that's bat got exposed here and what's interesting witl de blasio, counts himself as aroessive and when it comes to legislation it is. he's for this deal. he blames amazon for. it doesn't want to bla his own movement for it he wants to run for president. but the factf the matter is progressives spooked amazon and that's going to be an animating

debate in 2020. >> see how that plays out. >> it's a good one. >> that's coming up in ten minutes everyunday at 10:30 right here at "news 4 today." >> i'm go be nice and i feel like no matter what i say. >> now she's laughing. >> tell me about the depressing weather. >> it's not going to be that bad. >> t'm just trying set the mood. here l, i had to run in earlier because i was late for my and that didn't help my rib. i have a broken rib. just one, so it's not that bad. just one. i waslaying basketball. something you shouldn't do when you're5 years old. >> should play better defense. >> i play great defense. that's how i broke myib listen, we've got some winter weather on the way, especially for wednesday.th 's maybe what chuck was talking about, depressing

forecast and snow. some sl st,e freezing rain. i think the kids are going to enjoin this forecast and i think the teachers may enjoy it even more for wednesday, but let's talk about what's going to go o for the next 24 hours. sunshine out there right now. take aas look. thisind of just formed over the last hour or so and right around petersburg. a lot of this is evaporating before it hit the ground. we are looking at some snow and freezing rain and this could move to theat east. going on in our area, our atmosphere is really dry so a lot, again in, evan rates before it hits the ground. anything we do see moving into the area between now and the noon hour, early afternoon is going to be really light. really light. really main precipitation is still down here and starting to move int southwestern, virginia. all of that is advancing into our area north and east for lfte thisnoon and this evening. mainly a rain event but north and west of d.c t for counties shaded in purple, that's where you could actually e the higher elevations some freezing rain, and that's where we could have some issues. we're not weather alert because main lit higher elevations

within these counties are over 800 feet areoing to see the freezing rain. it's very few and far between. we have a very hilly terrain here in the area. current temperatures right now, freezing mark, jus along the i-81 corridor. mid tody else in th upper 30s. i expect rain overnight with some patchy ice possible, so a lot of this moves in later on tonight so we could have a little area of drizzle and light stuff between now and about 1:00, 2:00, but then a lot of this is falling after late afternoon and into the evening. falling as rain and then we -- we're not even pick up on some of the freezing rain aspect of it, but mainly a rain event for us. th as we g into tomorrow morning we'll start moving out of here and we're looking at drier conditions for tuesday. we've got rain and snow on the this is not a bed.

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nice now but an umbrella later. ater.brella between now and 11:00 and 1:00 we could have height stuff moving in. no expecting any accumulation, but later this afternoon into tonight we'll start to see rain bush in. b this will freezing rain at higher elevations north and west of d.c., but mainly this is going to be a rain event. there could beras of sleet, but i'm not expecting widespread issues tomorrow morning i knowea lot ofe have the day off tomorrow so that's good. we will have this clear out tomorrow morning throughout the

morning and then we'reatooking dry and breezy tomorrow and dry on tuesday and here comes adnesday. accumulating snow ice possible in the morning before it switches over to a mix in the afternoon and then eventually all rain. sooday some sleet mixed in with that rain, but then we're turning o attention to wednesday and then rain thursday, friday and sunday. >> we'll all over it. >> certainly people. >> of course. "meet the p thanks so much for being here with us. >> wake

> >>is sunday, national emergency. president trump makes that declaration to build a wallr afngress refuses him the money. >> we're talking about an invague of our country with drugs, with human traffickers and with all types of criminals and gangs. >> themove unites democrats. >> this declaration of an ergency is completely necessary. there's no rational reason to do this. s. and splits republic some for. >> trump's only sayings that he's enforcing the law. >> and some against. >> the realat concern t have is the president has done this himself. >> what will republicans who say they're oppose dodd wn it come down to vote. >> i'll talk to republican to