we will keep it. >> in washington, aaron gilchrist, news4. >>> here is look at the holiday decorationshe white house now. the first lady hosted military families for the first viewing of this year's christmas display, but one little girl whose parents work in alexandria, virginia, stole the show. the first family dog, sonny, got so excited, 2-year-old ashton gardner was knocked to the ground. she didn't mind, giving sonny a little pat on the head, after the first lady helped her up that is so sweet. >>> that is all for news4 this week, as we leave you with a look at this year's capitol christmas tree. make it a good week, everybody. i'm veronica johnson. thanks for joining us. until next time, remember, be safe, be kind. as always, be happy. >>> the following is a presentation of the redskins broadcast network. ♪ >> welcome to "redskins chronicles." i'm larry michael at redskins park. each week we take a look at this team's storied legacy. today we wrap up 18

we will keep it. >> in washington, aaron gilchrist, news4. >>> here is look at the holiday decorationshe white house now. the first lady hosted military families for the first viewing of this year's christmas display, but one little girl whose parents work in alexandria, virginia, stole the show. the first family dog, sonny, got so excited, 2-year-old ashton gardner was knocked to the ground. she didn't mind, giving sonny a little pat on the head, after the first lady helped her up that is so sweet. >>> that is all for news4 this week, as we leave you with a look at this year's capitol christmas tree. make it a good week, everybody. i'm veronica johnson. thanks for joining us. until next time, remember, be safe, be kind. as always, be happy. >>> there you see it, a winter storm headed right toward the d.c. region this morning. >> the system has brought in cold, windy weather, and the metro region could soon see rain, sleet and snow. the triple threat there. >> yeah. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to news 4 today. i'm richard jordan. >> and i'm angie goff. the winter weather coming

. >> and i'm richard jordan in for aaron gilchrist. you will notice a change out there. not as cold as yesterday. more of a warm-up for the rest of the day and the weekend. >>> it's balmy compared to yesterday morning. temperatures are in the 40s starting off this morning after we got down yesterday afternoon many places near 60 degrees. right now around the region we have our temperatures generally holding steady just in the low 40s in the nearby suburbs and mid 40s to upper 40s now in prince george's county and much of montgomery county. upper 40s to near 50 in washington and parts of northern virginia including fairfax county and around the bay it's near 50 degrees this mild morning. we do have a few clouds, high clouds are drifting over. we see that nearly full moon, though. it's going to be with us through the day today. i notice a lot of traffic on the roadway this is morning, danella. i think people are getting away early. >> i-270 there is an accident. that could be what you saw for delays. eastbound braddock road, an accident shutting all the lanes down. you'll

i'm aaron gilchrist. welcome to "news 4 today" on this friday, december 6, 2013.ight now people around the world are mourning the death of former south african president nelson mandela. crowds are gathered outside his home in johannesburg. >> mandela died there yesterday at 95. he had a number of issues with his health in recent years including repeated hospitalizations with a chronic lung infection. >> mandela had been listed in serious but stable condition after entering the hospital in june before returning home to receive continued medical care. >> this morning we're working to learn more about the plans to lay him to rest. we're also learning more about the public memorials happening worldwide. >> and to honor mandela's memory here in the u.s. president obama has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff at the white house and on all public buildings through monday night, also at all u.s. embassies. much more on nelson mandela in just a moment. >>> we'll be watching the view outside go through quite a few changes today with the rain moving in. your first foreca

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morning anchor aaron gilchrist. morning weather man tom kierein and weekend anchor angie goff. they looked and took notes. they looked again and took more notes. and after some time using an olympic judging formula. they came up with five finalists. here they are in no particular order. the seal snowman. the snowman walking if snowdog. the lounging snowman. the snow family, and the sledding snowman. okay. so which one did you pick? who should get the pat collins official snowstick? the judge's decision is coming up at 6:00. i'm pat collins, news 4. >> oh, the suspense. >> we got that much snow? >> they did. just by where he is i know who won. just by seeing how much snow, i know which one it is. >> so you don't want to spill the beans. >> but it's about creativity. not necessarily mass. >> very well done. a lot of us didn't have snow. even in you had an inch to two inches of snow like we did here. the snow was so good for packing. you were able to make a big snowman. let's show you what's happening in our area today. it's not the snow. it was the cold. today was a nice day. we

aaron gilchrist emceed the event. 12 police officers -- there he is, from d.c., maryland and west virginiahonored for work and efforts to stop drinking and driving. >>> we are bracing for another winter blast. how is it looking? >> we have snow that is going to move into the area. this time, a lot of the area is going to look at plain old rain. let me go through what is going on. first, the amounts of snowfall, everywhere in the white. one to two inches of snowfall north of d.c. southern loudoun county, fauquier, la ray, two to four in the light blue, it's frederick, winchester and leesburg. these areas, i'm not expecting the snow to hang on that long. four to five pocket for hagerstown and frostburg. there it could be. the temperatures warm after the snow falls. there could be a pocket of rain for saturday night. the hourly forecast for tomorrow, snow and rain at 10:00 a.m. it's heavy or moderate rain by 6:00 or 7:00 with the temperature at 36 degrees. plain old rain there in d.c. bowie, maryland, 36 degrees. you turn over to plain old rain as well during the afternoon and evening hours.

aaron gilchrist, g. smith on twitter reporting some snow. extending eastward toward dahlgren and kent island reporting snowflakes with icy conditions setting up down to our south right now around areas south of fredericksburg, beaver dam, toward richmond virginia. as chuck said, if you have any traveling to do, be very, very cautious but really stay off the roads unless you have to be on the road. i'll be joining you with the flakes coming down. >> good job, veronica. a lot of folks will have a white sunday before this is all done. pink is an opportunity for sleet and freezing rain. here we are at 2:00 this afternoon. blue will be mostly in the form of snow. northern montgomery stays mostly snow most of the time. by 6:00 tonight most of the snow is gone. we have the mix of the sleet and freezing rain, which could persist into the evening and worse yet into your monday morning before the last pockets of cold air are scattered out of here. 7:00, 8:00 this morning, becoming all rain after that, . be ready for an ugly monday as well. seven-day f