this was this past saturda afternoon. when the person confronted the man, he ran away. >>> this rning, there's new concerns that maryland's purple line project maye behind schedule. organizers of the project met yesterday with an update on construction. that meeting came hours after "the washington post" reported that the project is a year behind schedule. a late 2022 opening is still possible but according to "the post," the light rail may not open until 2024, if construction continues at its current pace. the purple line will connect bethesda with new carrollton. >>> people are grabbing ie grocer >> because going to the store will be a bigger challenge. areas of the dmv may be worse than others. in,virgin vdot is not taking chances. it is making sure the roads are treated before any serious snowfall. >> we have a high confidence level that something is going to materialize. with the other storms, maybe we get ing, maybe we don't. we have a high confidence it's going to happen. we're going to go ahead and brine. >> despi

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highs in the upper 30s for thursday, friday and saturda saturday night into sunday morning, an increasing chance of accumulating snow. not aig b blizzard, jack taylor. >> nice to see a little bit of snow. nice weekend dthing. 't have to deal with traffic. if you're moving in virginia, loudon county, 15 betweenle burg and point of rocks. there is a diversion due to a crash that happened in the 8:00 hour, that have the road open by 6:30 or 7:00 this morning. we'll look at the woodrow wilson idge. no worries to speak of this morning. you'll find 66, riding east out of centreville, tall way to rosyln, without issue or delays this morning. we have a new crash in upper marlboro. sounds like 301 near leeland road. authorities should be on scene. >> thank you, jack. >>> still ahead, news 4 your health in fighting the flu. what you need t know about the flu shot and mist. >>> mahershala alip will s by the "ellen" show and show off his dance moves.s >> t is for you, brother. oh. ♪ over hink it's 1982 all again. >> he talks about why he shortened his real me. >>ou can watch the interview at 3:00. th

you pick up most of it saturda night and maybe an additional inch org two dure day on sunday, this is the area we think is most likely to have the delays monday morning, maybe even a f school cancellations. check out the difference north south. frederick, 2 to 5 and leesburg, 4 to 7. and also forecasting right now for culpepper 4 to7. in the mountain zone, the amounts higher for some of you. we're forecasting 5 to 8 inches of snow falling.os again, of this is going to be falling saturday night. and then some minor additional accumulation on sunday, especiallyuring the first half of the day. 4 to 7 in winchester and mb land. hagerstown, some of the low 2amounts at about to 5. >> we've been talking about the ski eyresorts. ave been not been good as far as skiing the last couple weeks. but we think the next few weeks it'll be better. liberty opening today, whi tail opening more trails. i'll be heading out skiing satuay, taking the kids up tomorrow early before the snow starts ande back h for a 4:00 basketball game. sunday we'll be down there at the convention center. we have the health a

i'll be in saturda night updating the forecast. doug will be in sunday morning updating the forecast. but at this point, high likelihood, 100% chance we're dealing with snow. but a low to moderate impact event. the forecast still evolving so we'll still be taking it. but maybe some school delays south of washington monday. >> absolutely. we could see a couple delays out there. saturday and sunday the snow ends. monday it's gone and the cold air sticking around through next week average high 43, we're below average the next 10 days. this is a pattern change. i think we'll stay on oe cold si things be we'll have a better chance of winter storms at the end o january into february. >> betting on big snow, though? keeping us tune >> thank you,g. dou he's hoping. >>> next, the push to ease the pain of the shutdown for thousands of federal workers. >> they're struggling to know when it's gng to end and struggling to deal with the here and now. >> coming up what prince george's county is doing toelp with everything from school lunches to u

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then we dry o saturda afternoon through sunday. man, a lot of rain riding along this stalled frontal system. that frontal system, again, to the southf us. so areas south and east of the c. metro area seeing those light rain showers. we're talking about st. mary's county, even portions of calvert county. it was in southern charles county, but this is all pushing to the south. king geor, you'll probabl be the last to dry our. temper not that bad when you head outside this morning. our average daytime high for this time of year, 44 degrees. we're above that right now in a lot of areas. temperatures are headed to around 50es degoday. it will be a little on the breezy side. breezy.y but northwest winds at 10 to 20 miles an hour. maybe a few peeks of sunshine late b definitely more clouds than sunshine out there. tomorrow we're at 51 degrees. rainn moving late through the evening. i'd say after about 5:00 p.m. here goes that rain.e we hhe cloud cover out there. mo'll have cloud cover to start tomorrow ing. then another little system make

louis, cincin, buffalo as we move into saturda with an icy mix there and heavy rain along the coast. then sunday the system pulls out. return flow of air brings in cold air. what starts as rain will end as snow. is what we're looking at as far as ak couple dagaccumulation as we get into thenortheast, he is where the numbers start to pile up. for boston and n york, the storm track turns. generay 18 inches from bing to bangor. talking three to nine inches snorth of and west of appala. saturd, look for airport delays, major ones in st. louis, indian, pittsh for snow. we're looking at atlanta and memphi new ors f in. and then i-70, kansas city to balt mover big problems.ay su boston, new york, washd.c., snow along i-80, i-90 and i-95. big problems as far asnd rain snoi. we'll fine-tune the forecast as we get into the day today and lots ofrt moving al, thank you. >>> in the meantime this is day 27 of thest lon government shutdown i u.s. history. all signs point to the p and democra being further away, not closer to a deal that ended. address, will it happe orth not? we've got two reports

thursday, friday,y and saturda we will be warming to around 50 deees. so about five to ten degrees above normal for this time of year. withnday it's a breezy day wall-to-wall sunshine in the forecast right now, and balmy for january. 55 for a high on sunday. we will keep it dry next monday, ndesday, wednesday, thursday, and no snow in the forecast. >>> we are ready to gaze into our crystal balls and look ahead to the year in politics, the economy, medicine and more. there is never a shortage of headlines in washington and 2019 will be no exception. that's where we begin with nbc's chuck todd and kristen welker happy new year. >> happy new year. >> so the politics new year i think we are going to be talking abt 2020, the russia investigation and the divided government. what doou want to talk about first? >> those are the two. i woulsay this. it they sort of go hand in hand, right, which is as the mueller probe continues to get closer to th president, as house democrats with their new strengthened majority in the house decide to hold it more accountable,