. >> amelia draper will update us on the forecast for tomorrow ino just a nt, but first, shomari stone has more on that big fire on seventh street northwest. shomari? >>eporter: good ening. the wind gusts were not joke out here, as firefightered bat the blaze behind me at this pom ewe lar west african restaurant. very popular for howard university students. deatite this r, the firefighters did a good job of putting it out, making sure the fire did not spread to buildings that are t located next the restaurant. this fire was fierce.k take a l at this cell phone video of the fire. flames, heavy smoke shooting out of second story floor around 6:45 tonight. firefighters battled the blaze in windy conditions. they walk in the front door, tackle the flames inside. now take a look at this video, asir fighters pull hoses inside the building. they stop the fire from spreading tld theg next door. hardworking women and men putting their lives in danger to serve, otect, on a cold, windy night. >> i think the key element here was the wind. the winds were guss ng and this wind-fanned fire.e it m a b

and amelia draper took a vehicle than most of us have. >> reporter: i'm storm team 4 amelia draper checking out the fall foliage. across our area is consideredo be high. the pretty yellows, oranges and reds across the area. because of all the rain we have other this year, and the warm weather this summer into early autumn, that has caused less than spectacular foliage. any time you can get out and check out the fall colors is a great day. back to you. >> one of the best days at work so far. i would say so. aleiough i too much. they told me. >> ouch! >> a weight limit. you can't ride because you have other guys in there too. lose ight. ve been losing weight lately. >> you need a skinny pilot. >> that's right. ed.t's all i maybe a 12-year-old. we've got the cloud cover making its way and some shower activity. i'm watching this system. not just rain but snow. cold air racing we'll see areas of snow from kansas city toward chicago. even in pennlvania, we're getting some snow and rain. it gets cold and windy., tomorrot all day rain. cool, dry conditions at 45 degrees. no umbrella needed here but

. >> amelia draper is trackingrn tomorrow g's commute and what we'll be looking at this weekend. as the winds finally calm down, our rain chances across the area start to increase. now, tomorrow through the weekend, we're going to have plenty of dryti . also plan to be dealing with showers at times as well. right now, 41 degrees. beautiful sunshine out this and the wind out of west at 10pe mis hour. still breezy today but the winds continue to subside overnightto ght. they're not an issue through the weekend. check out your road cond wions. tonighre dry. tomorrow morning some spotty showers will lea to some wet roads out there. tomorrow evening, the ride home is thankfully looking dry. before we talk more about that rain'stomorrow, l enjoy the beautiful sunset that's starting to shape up righ now. this is from chopper 4 right now. check out the high clouds streaming into the aa providing a beautiful filter. sunset around 4:45. as the sunontinues to set, i think we're going to have a fabulous sunset. we'll continue to check in with chopper throughout the show. tomoow at 7:00 m., n

. >>> amelia draper is here tout talk a this rain that we are dealing with into the weekend. >> it is not a total washout, so we won't have any rain out there llnight. but w have rain moving in tomorrow mainly around the midday hours and then time during the afternoon before another batch of rain moves in. so check out yr weather headlines here. showers are moving into the area later in the day tomorrow. if you have something to do i tomorrowould get it done during the morning hours before about 10:00, maybe 11:00 a.m. ose showers wind down sunday morning likely by 8:00, but they could linger on until about 10:00 a.m. sunday is warmer and then i'm watching next weekend, we have rain this weekend, next weekend may be a little bit of snow, sleet, rain? yeah, that is all in play. but of course that is always the way. but something to keep in mind. it is the holiday season so we saul have so ma all have so many plans. right now it is 45 in washington. that is the unofficial high so far today. 43 in leesburg. plenty of clouds out there, a few showers earlier. even some peeks of sunshine. s

amelia draper just texted me and said, these clouds are hanging tough. >> yes, they are. >> but we're hoping they'll get out of he. u can see some sunshine back here. there we go. we have some sunshine back the. i d think these close will start to erode and get some sunshine. i know some areas are seeing some sunshine out there today. so still going with my forecast later on this afternoon all sunshine. sunday we will have cloud cover with usgh all thrt the day. most of monday will be dry. we have a chance of showers late on monday into early tuesday morning. but then we clear through the day on tuesday. rrent temperatures out there right now, it doesn't feel too bad. temperatures in the 30s and 40s. we have a light wind. no rain. we're dry on the radar right now. and we' headed to right around 50 degrees. which is about 10 degrees below normal. again a much lighter wind out there. we have those sunny skies by this afternoon. it will begorgeous. sun goes down at just about 10 minutes until 4:00 ghm. to so it is going to be pretty dark early out ere. as far as your weekend outlook, if

amelia draper is in the storm center tracking it all. hi, aimee ya. >> good g,even doreen and jim. i'm tracking spotty light shower m during thening and midday hours, but most, if not all ofy, your s looking dry. the rain chances increase really as we head into the weekend, especially on saturday. right few, we're coming in at 39 degrees with winds out of the east at 5 miles an hour. the clouds have moved in, and here's the latest check of storm team 4 radar. we're try in our area, but notice this moisture back to the west. especially in kentucky, down through tennessee, virginia and north carolina. this is going to push in tomorrow morning and it will uch off some spotty showers out there for the morning rush, so, wre dry overnight tonight, some wet roadsut there tomorrow morning and then we're dry again tomorrow evening. i'm going to have more on the upming of rain saturday and sunday, jim, comight around 11:15. >> all right, we'll see you then. >>> brick by brick. decorative ones vanished from a woman's front yard here, but who calls the cops for that? ght the until she c person

amelia draper is in the storm center with what's coming our way next.? amel >> it's all about the wind and the cold the next few days. right now, tcking wind gusts across the area, 20 to 30 miles an hour. winds gusting up to 28 miles an hour in martinsburg. so, we're dealing withf a bit a wind chill right now. feels like temperatures in the 30s. tomorrow morning, i is going to be breezy and becoming windy throughout the day. and that means you definitely nt to understood bel up as you head out the door. here's what you can expect at 8:00 a.m., with wind chills in the 20s and low 30s. in my full forecast, i'll let you know when the wds subside and when rain turns to the area> all right, amelia, thank you.> ew pictures tonight of two wanted men. d.c. police say theyd attac a blind man and his service dog on metro's red line this mornin the victim tells police he accidentally bumped them gettihe onto train at rhode island avenue. a woman nearby caught the incident on camera and snapped these pictures. we're told the man and his dog are okay. >>> neighbors t

. >> storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper is in the storm center with what is coming our way tomorrow. that's an ill wind out there tonight, and it getting worse, isn't it? >>absolutely,doreen. it's going to be a bitterly cold start for your wednesday, and e winds strong enough throughout the entire day tomorrow that the national weather service has issued wind advisory for all of the areas here in beige. this begint 6:00 a.m. and it's going to run until 4:00 p.m. this including the entire d.c.o me area, loudon, frederick, back aroundounties the i-81 corridor. again, for gusts up to 45 miles an hour. now, with winds that strong and how much rain we've seen, we could see some downed ttrees. andt could lead to some spotty power outages. and we'll have wind chills tomorrow afternoon in the 20s and 30s. now, right now, it's alreadyld 7 degrees, with sustained winds out of the northwest at 1n miles hour. coming up right around 11:15, i'll let you know how cold it ll feel throughout the day, and also, the outlook for rain for the rest of the week o into the weekend. .oreen? >> amelia, thank

let's sta with amelia draper. it is rough out there? >> absolutely. we werhe windy throughout day today, especially during the morning hours where we had gusts close to 50 miles an hour. some of the strongest winds today aroundep leesburgted at dulles. right now starting to see those winds come down a little bit, but it's still blustery out there. here is a live look outside from our city camera. the sunshine that you are seeing a little bit deceiving because when you step outside not only ist warm co weather, you need the gloves and scarf as well. currently 37nd degrees. out of the northwest at 14 miles per hour and gusts right now stilles near 30 mer hour. so when you factor in the winds, it's feelingbout 17 in winchester and 28 in washington, 25 in frederick. the winds do come down. they do relax a little bit overnight tonight, but it's still ait breezy out there. tomorrow on your thursday especially during the morning hours, another old start f the kids at the bus stop with temperatures feeling like they 20s.n the teens and low we start to warm up

it's been a fairly wet morning but the heaviest rain is still a >> meteorologist amelia draper is tracking system and joins us with the timing of all this and what we can expect. by the loo t of radar, it's not good, my friend. >> we're only going to be dealing with more rain. through prince george's county fairfax,reotice this aa of steady rain back around 91. some of us still dealing with showers. it was sort of a damp morning out there. it's going to stay a damp afternoon and it's going to be rainy fors the communityll of this moisture pushes into the area. i'm really starting to see widespread rain move into the area. after that we're dealing with rain until 8, 9 p.m., even a little bit later. plenty of clouds today and on the cool side with highs o my in theid 50s. >> thank you, amelia. keep those unumbrellas htndy. >>> r now the woman who confessed to the brutal killing. they allegedly took iraheta blamed her for her boyfriend's death and stabbed her. she face as maximum ofife in prison plus 20 years. >>> lawyers for the d.c. man accused of randomly stabbing a jogger to death will be

. >> amelia draper joins us with what we can expect for our weather. >> it's crisp. we have plenty ofsunshine right now. high temperatures today in the 50s. can you see we're in the lo mid 50s right now. 56 in washington, 52 in fredericks, winds really not an issue out there. we're running a few degrees below normal but upper 50s for the most part. seasonable for this time of year. tomorrow we're cooler. not on that but you'll want thea umbrelwell. 53 for roar hiyour high on frid. we're talking a half an inch an inch of rain right now. we're the sixth wettest year on record. we're going to chisel that away. tomorrow i'm going to have the i meline of that rain and how it impacts the weekend at 11:20. >> we'll see youthen. >>> we're go to a developing story in the district. moreer acc are coming forward after a priest was charged with se abu>>. justin finch has more on the case. >> reporr: this of course is going to be especially troubling for a lot of parishioners, word that father vazque is now facing a charge of second degree child sexual abuse. the archdiocese sayi

. >> amelia draper is standing by with what we need to know about what it will be like outside when we wake up tomorrow. >> it was blustery out there today and it will be downright windy. the winds strong enough that thl natieather service has issued a wind advisory for just about everybody here in beige. this will go until 4:0 in the afternoon on wednesday. with all the rage we've had, that could bring down some trees which would lead to some isolated power outages. right now it is still pretty breezy with kinds coming in out of the west at6 miles per hour. a spectacular sunset starting to shape up tolaght. night's sunset was gorgeous. hopefully we get the repeat tonigh aside from that, the weather is all that great. it is frigid out there when you factor in the winds. about 31 in washington. 26 in gaithersburg and a windchl of 27 degrees tomorrow morning. it will be bitterly cold at the busstop i'll have that in about 15 minutes. >>> to a deadly road crew >> we're told the truck veered off the highway and hit a group of inmates who wereorking on the side of the road. >> at least one

storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper took a look at the numbers. >> so far we're the sixth wettest year on record. h we'v to date this year, about 55.9 inches of rain. the rainiest year ondi recs all the way back to 1889 with 61.3. we only need about six more inches of rain for the rest of the year. which isbout 7 1/2 weeks. i can't believe that. to become the wettest yea on record. we have rain in the forecast on our ten-day on friday. and then monday and tuesday. so far this month, we've already had about two inches of rain and it is only november 6th. if that was snow, you would be shovelingt two f of snow. now, by friday, we're have an average amount for the spire month. so friday comes andke p you more rain. we don't need any more because we're on track for how much we on receive in any month of november. we'll continue to tack on to at. so a big impact. not only this month but the whole year. adam tuss said it has t led miserable commutes through the year. i reached out to our biologist who provided with us pollen and mold spore levels and she said it is one othe worst years

amelia draper will be live to talk little more about what w can expect foliagewise as we make our way in. temperaturewise, we did hit 60. 52, much cooler. just to our nor and west, pittsburgh, only 44 degrees. not much now. look what's gonng here's a big storm. look at kansas city.ig snow now. this whole storm moves our way during friday and then behind it, a lot colder saturday. then it gets even colder next week. the first real shot. arctic air to the middle of next week. the ten-day forecast in about six minutes. >> all rit. another big change coming. >>> and big changes are being mare to protect child on their way to the bus stop. >> what you will start seeing aroundontgomery county with the recent crashes. >> stay with us. >>> plus, mandatory evacuation we're keeping an eye on this rang> get ready for rain, folks. not tonight but it is good to impact your weekend. stay tuned for storms tomorrow and the colors across our region. and the fall foliage reporp coming in three minutes. > i'm erika gonzalez at the live desk. police have just released surveillance video of the suspect th

amelia draper is back in three minutes witt the forecas for the rest of the month. >>> tears and rememberay in winchester for the young police officer who respondeto a call over the weekend. hunter edwards died when his ittrol car a tree. news4 at 5:00, his new wife and mother refle on his passion for his work. >> bad new for general motors employees before the holidays. the company unveid aajor restructuring plan and it includes laying off nearly ,000 workers. they assembly plants will be wn closing two in the u.s. and one in canada. 300 jobs in baltimore at the company's power train plant. gm says t layoffs will be complete by the end of next year. >> this is cyber monday but it looks like consumers got an early jump. according to adobe analytics, w spent an annual $622 billion online on black fridayalone. nearly a third of that was done on mobile devices. but the deals are not over and today could be another record breaker. >> i just saw a laptop. >> he doesn't watch anyway. i will tell you this. if you have not done this yesterday, do this you want to sign up for alerts. at a particul

let's send thing back over to amelia draper to talk more about this gorgeous day ahead of us. >> justtastic today. check out your ten-day forecast. today the warmest by far. breezy this afternoon as clouds are on these incr a few showers tomorrow but plenty of dry time tomorrow. it still mildith highs around 70 degrees. maybe a few rumbles o thunder and heavy rain tomorrow night. breezy for the afternoon hours and cooler. we're in the mid 50s to low 60s. sunday is crisp, highs only i the 50s, plenty of sunshine. we also have daylight saving time ending early sunday so we get that extra hour of sleep, erika. >> we'll take it thank you, ma'am. that's it for "news4midday." thank you for joining us. we are back at 4:00 this afternoon. >> have i was a navy doctor, so i'm used to getting to work early. now i have a general practice, with a lot of patients who are counting on me. many of them worry about president trump taking away protections for pre-existing conditions. and women are frightened they could lose reproductive health care. it's why i'm glad i have a friend named ben. ben is a

. >> but, you'll have to wait a few more minutes and we'll have to start with amelia draper with a lookns out there right now. >> right now we're tracking rain across the aa. nerally a light rain falling right now and this is going to continue not just for theen g hours but overnight tonight and on into tomorrow morning. showers come t an end between can have and 8:00 a.m., and then after that it's mainly dry for your tuesday. cold out there and cold on wednesday. we're dealing with a bit of a breeze both tomorrow and mentioning it. ahance of a wintry mix north and west of washington and re's the rain out there. now raining everywhere. you can see as i widen out storm team 4 radar and this is going to be moving through the area overnight. here we are at 10:00 p.m. and still dealing wit rain out there. 6:00 a.m. for that morning commute. the rain pushing out of thea a by 8:00 a.m. otice just about everybody is dry. good news for kiddos at the bus stop and tomorrow morning a few peeks of sunshine. can't rule out an isolated shower or two tomorro especially during the afternoon hours and f

. >>> and amelia draper is in the stormenter with details on the impacts. and thetheach is much f than just alaska. >> impacts were felt 40 miles outside of the epicenter. t epicenter was about 7 miles north o anchorage. back here in 2011, we had a magnitude 5.8 earthquake, which is considered smalln the richter scale. the richter scalehe we grade tornadoes is exponential. as the g numbers up, the damage increases dramatically with each number. right after that major earthquakees happened,than ten minutes helater, tre was another earthquake what we call an aftershock of 5.7 even closer to chorage. now, this earthquake having a lot of impact on alaska because of its closeness to anchorage. they have aot of population in anchorage. and this is the usgs, these blue dots are all the ethquakes thin the last week in alaska. so earthquakes in alaska noton unco in fact the state has about 40,000 earthquakes a year. more than all 49 states combined. and again, so far today we' had about seven after shocks greater than a mnitude four. and alaska has six or seven 6 or

amelia draper joins us to explain. >> well, pat, her is the latest computer modem. as you heard from jay, we need those win gusts to stay below 35 miles per hour. as the parade gets under way, in new york, we're looking to have snd gu up to 29 miles per hour. no worries there. the better into u.s. is as the parade goes on, can you see 10, 11:00 a.m., noon the winds come down to 25 miles an hour. again, the balloons will be grounded if wind gusts hit 35 miles per hour. we can see the wend higher than the computer model is predicting because of the urban canyon effect. what this is, is in ti. they can increase a little bit. agai it might play a small role, i don't think it will play a huge role. more rtantly, guys with retalking a wind chill for the parade only around 3 degrees, yes. so it's going to be very comfortable when you are watching from home tomorrow morning with thef smelle thanksgiving dinner baking in your home, hopefully the balloons were last grounded in 1971. we have had injuries from these balloons, well, they look pretty and they' so fun. they injure

now storm tea 4 meteorologist amelia draper is in the storm center this afternoon. but a right, amelia, dry, cold windy day today. what's going to happen tonight? >> the good ws is right now i'm seeing the wind speeds come down. so for the evening and overnight hours, we're not really dealing with the wind. sunset today at 4:54. here is what you can expect for your evening. right now at 51 degrees. as the sun goes down, temperatures are going to fall. by 7:00 we're at 45 degrees. we are going to be complety dry out there this evening. by 9:00 p.m., we're already in the low 40s. so if you're heading out tonight, definitely want to grab the puffy coat. by 11:00 p.m., a temperature around 40 degrees. now in the suburbs, especially north and west of washington,er teures are going to fall around freezing tonight. so anything that's wet could be ice out there tomorrow morning. so you do want to keep that in mind as you start offou saturday. here is a check of storm team 4 radar, and you can see it is completely dry. im tracking a small rain chance for the weekend. thomupbo

storm team 4's amelia draper here to explain what's going on with this mix. >> just aeabreaking situationontinuing out of california. what we're tracking, take a look here. thajor wildfires. you can see them on the screen with the red dots. one up in nthern california and two down by los angeles and malibu in southern k.so, first i'm taking you to the one that's about 150 miles north of san francisco. this is the destructive camp fire. it's already burned over 100,000 acres of land, and this fire is only 25% contained. it's destroyed thousands o structures. we then head down to the hill re. this firankfully is 80% omntained and likely to be under complete controlime this week, likely by thursday, but then we have the woolsey fire. this has burned almost 100,000 acres of land as well. this fire is only about 20% contained, and it's burned 370 structures in total. what's causing these wildfires and why are they so out of control, at least both of them, the woolseynd the cam fire? this is the drought monitor, and can you see we have a huge drough issue going on in the southeastern part of th

storm team 4 tracking a change that will impact your s.weekend fo amelia draper is in the storm center with the word for . >> with the winds subsiding, rain chances increase and into your weekend. right now, we're at 40 degrees outside. winds out of the west at 9 miles peehour. we h mainly clear skies right now. skies do become cloudy overnht tonight. we stay dry tonight for the road conditions. but tomorrow morning, check it out. me wet roads are possible with some scattered showers out tmore ow evening is now looking completely dry. if you have any holiday partiesg or friday plans, at least you're not worried about the rain at this point. this is tomorroworning 7:00 a.m. notice future weather is still dr a.m. we see the chance for showers in northern virginia. notice that pink. that's a small chance fo some freezing rain. a very slight chance that materializes. wendy, i'll have more on that at 5:25. >> thanks, amelia. >>> we have more breaking news thafternoon. a police chase in prince william county that ends withhi several es involved in a crash. chopper 4 flying or t scene on dumf

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i hope so because it is less than two weeks storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper has an early thanksgiving forecast for you. >> what should we all expect if we're heading out, flying out or driving out? >> i think on travel wednesday we could be dealing with some rain, not just here but the east on halfthe united states might be dealing with a storm system. i took a look at some factors to termine exactly what the forecast could be and i want to warn you, this is a ways away.'s oing to continue to evolve. rolooked at the average high and low temperatured thanksgiving, and that's about 55 for an average high and 40 degrees for an average lo l iked at our long-range computer models, one of them american, o of them european, and i also looked at similar years past. this year aligns two years back in the future. i'm not going to tell you which one, it's t one that doug used in his winter forecast which comesay out on mo that is a great analog year, a great comparison year that gives us an ia of what we can expect. here's what i'm seeing. there is a rain cnce on trave wednesday. you want to kee

witha draper. amelia, how cold are we talking tonight? >> jim, we will s the low temperatures dip into the 20s to low 30s across the area. even with a bitezf a b at that point, you have windchill temperatures in the teens and 20s especially very early tomorrow morning. now, right nowea we've a fallen to 36 degrees with winds stained at about 14 miles per hour and gusting up to 30. so when you factor in the wind, it's feeling aboutt 27 ri now in washington, but check it out. in gaithersburg the windchill theref 20 degrees. about 19 in hagerstown. a windchill in fredericksburg around 30. so it's another cold night out there. the winds are going to continue subside a little bit overnight tonight, but it's t still breezy ore tomorrow, especially the first half of your day. this what you can expect thursday morning at:0 a.m. windchill temperatures in the teens and low 20s. feelin 23 degrees i the district tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. i will take you hour by hou y lettin know what you can expect at 5:25. also the latest on the weekend rain cha