. >> and that's not just the only problem, v.j. flooding concerns, but also fogginess. look at the current visibilities. areas like frederick, gaithersburg, and hagerstown. visibility down to around a quarter of a mile or less. we'll continue to track widespread and dense fog through the evening hours, so that will impact the rush tonight. fog will start to lift around 1:00 a.m. and the other good news is the heavy rain pulls out. at least temperatures won't be that cold overnight tonight, veronica. >> that's right. we'll see our temperatures go up slightly into the upper 40s, low 50s. here is your heaviest rain right now. areas down through southern maryland. most of the rain will be out of here by 7:00. a few lingering showers through midnight. we'll tell you the next big change in a few minutes. >> thanks, v.j. >>> crews are cleaning storm drains in old town alexandria. old town is always prone to flooding is the melting snow and rain are big concerns to families there. they're hoping it clears out the snow mounds left over from the blizzard but all that water could

v.j. is here with more on that. >> i think we will just see rain showers tonight. take a look at the temperatures for the evening. if you're going to be going out over the next few hours, up until 9:00, maybe 10:00, i think we're just fine. here is a look at the animation for you. yes, just rain showers mainly across the area with warm pavement. 37 to 41 degrees the air temps. the pavement temperature is little higher than that. here is your tuesday morning with moderate impacts on area roads, mainly snow by early tomorrow morning. around 7:00, 8:00 a.m. roads will become slick. as we make our way through the midday hour, it will start to approach more hazardous conditions. roads will be more hazardous with several inches on roads tomorrow. >> we'll talk much more about it and we'll break down the forecast. again, a much tougher forecast even than the blizzard was. blizzard fairly easy to forecast. this one a lot tougher. we'll talk about the reasons why in a few minutes. >> all right, doug. >>> montgomery county is gearing up for snow tonight. news4 crews just sho

v.j. and i have been talking about this. veronica, it's not just the cold, it's the >> we have a wind advisory starts late tonight starting at around 3:00 a.m. and runs until 6:00 a.m. saturday. covers this area. hagerstown, winchester, leesburg to waldorf. gusts to 50-mile-per-hour possible and, unfortunately, we could have some downed power lines and small limbs across the area. comes at a bad time with the windchill readings in the teens to low 20s. by the time we get to early tomorrow morning, even sunday morning, dangerously low windchill temperatures. just brutal. we talk about people, pets, your pipes, all of it you want to treat, stay out ahead of it. we've listed a lot of tips for you on nbc washington. download the app and we'll get you through it. >> we're not just talking about weather alert today and the weekend. it goes all the way through tuesday. we'll break down those storms for you, too. there's more snow on the way in the forecast. >>> i'm derrick ward on mall. when the temperature is freezing, some people

doug and v.j. are tracking potentially strong storms on a wlp alert day. you can't deal with something, by ignoring it. but that's how some presidential candidates seem to be dealing with social security. americans work hard, and pay into it. so our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. (elephant noise) (donkey noise) hey candidates, answer the call already. >>> now at 4:30, we are in weather alert mode on this wednesday. >> the earlier rainstorm is nothing compared to what's on the way, and the winds are about to pick up in a big way. storm team4 says there could even be a tornado. >> let's get right over to veronica johnson in the storm center. >> that, of course, is a dangerous situation for this area as we continue to track two distinct !.pareas. you can see one around columbia, baltimore, and moving east and northeastward and another ready to move in. the tornado watch continues up to 11:00 p.m. for the entire viewing area or at least much of the severe thunderstorm warning, the one that was up until 4:45, that now down as that storm clu

v.j., what's the word? >> the word is the focus really on wednesday. really on wednesday, where we could see travel delays, even some river flooding. but even for tomorrow morning, there might be a few areas with some patchy fog, and maybe an icy patch or two setting up. especially north and west of d.c. so we'll be on the lookout for that, around 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 a.m. 40 degrees the temperature inside the beltway. 51 the high for tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening. i'm calling it chilly and dry. you can see the radar, how quiet and dry it is here. look at the snow coming into iowa right now. that's the next system that heads this way after more than a foot of snow north and west of iowa there is that rain. again, all about the potential of river flooding here and travel delays on wednesday. i'll have more on that coming up, the typing of it all, in just a few minutes. >> thanks, veronica. >>> tonight there is confirmation from the nation's largest police union that hackers stole documents and published them online, putting tens of thousands of polic

v.j. and his wife came up and they had just started a little they just started a little church, she comes up tears streaming down her face, she has a $58 seed in her hand. she said, we need to find a house and we're going to sow this $58 seed and ask god to give us a house. we need to buy. okay. that is fine. she comes back with this crazy statement. she said, we believe god's going to give it to us debt free. my first reaction was not for $58 bucks he is not going to give you a debt free house. i've always taught a seed needs to be proportionate to a harvest you are sowing for. >> yes. >> the holy spirit smote me and she is crying, but got this faith and i didn't have the heart, everybody in bible study, didn't have the heart to look at her and say $58 is house. house. she was so excited. here is what happens. two weeks later they find the house. they find the house. the lady that sells them the house brings the contract to them and she looks at them and said, i put something in the contr

v.j., what are we looking at the next couple days?about that storm system for midweek, not even on the map yet. not until we get to the tail end of the weekend on sunday when it makes its way into the pacific northwest. that's when we'll have a better handle on it. getting a little more certainty with the storm, if you will. lots of uncertainty right now, but i'm very certain that folks are going to love the upcoming weekend. all right. let's talk about tomorrow. temperatures start out subfreezing again, 27. between 7:00 and 8:00 a.m. at the bus stop. of course, it's going to be cold. then cool by tomorrow afternoon. we'll see some more high clouds moving in. 42 the temperature. that puts us above today. still could be a little breezy at times during the afternoon, but temperatures will be slightly higher. there you can see on our sky cast those clouds through. again, some high clouds from time to time. so a partly sunny to mostly cloudy type of day coming our way. into the 30s still at lunchtime, but 40 degrees at 5:00. then we'll st

v.j. take over the radar for me. i will take a couple things real quick and get back to you. >> this is the area of most concern. i zoomed right into it. it's just west of i-95. 17, hartwood, just west and southwest of fredericksburg. spotsylvania as well. i will zoom in tighter. one of the things we want to encourage folks is if you are somewhere safe and not in the area with the tornado warning but perhaps up north around frederick where we have that severe thunderstorm warning, if you can once the storm passes, if you can send us some video, please do, but do it safely to nbcwashington.com. right now gep down again down t south, areas of fauquier, culpeper until 5:15 that tornado warning continues. let's go to live video of our storm team4 x 4 from stafford. this is you probably already seen some of the damage, heard the reports. we've been telling you on news4 that there's been quite a bit of damage around appomattox, waverly area where tornadoes have touched down earlier today. this is really a dangerous situati

pastor v.j bulee and his wife drove four hour to my bible study. i am preaching on deuteronomy chapter 1 and verse 11. a thousand times more faith. when i got through teaching i said i'm going pray tonight a thousand full return on any seed you plant. v.j. and his wife came up and they had just started a little church four hours from dallas. they just started a little church, shcomes up tears streaming down her face, she has a $58 seedin her hand. she said, we need to find a se hou and we're going to sow this $58 seed and ask god to we need to buy. okay. that is fine. she comes back with this crazy statement. she said, we believe god's going to give it to us debt free. my first reaction was not for $58 bucks he is not going to give you a bt free house. i've always taught a seed needs to be proportionate to a harvest you are sowing for. >> yes. >> the holy spirit smote me and she is crying, but got this faith and i didn't have the heart, everybody in bible study, didn't have the heart to look at her and say $58 is not enough for a debt free house. b

well, v.j. and doug are all over it. you got to stick with them.ur storm team4 team says this is a little trickier than last time. >> but we don't think it's a snow system where folks need to stock up but we'll see the change overnight. >> that change from rain to snow but it is a developing storm system and it's a lot tougher forecast so we will be here throughout the night. we will have more next hour at 6:00 and, of course, we'll be back at 11:00 tonight continuing to hammer this one out. >> when a lot of folks go to bed tonight they will just be seeing mainly rain showers. it's early tomorrow morning. if you get up around 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 a.m., if you have to be to work early when we get the bigger change. temperatures right now are in the low to mid-40s. upper 30s a lot of locations by 11:00 p.m. still above freezing many locations early tomorrow morning. 37, 35 degrees. yes, we'll be getting some snow but the snow will be very, very slushy. you can see right now we're tracking it. storm team4 radar, some of the first showers approaching from

. >> you and v.j. have been keeping us up to date and we've been trying to give you an idea of the scope of damage being done in sussex county. we just learned that the death toll in the town of waverly, virginia, has risen to three. spokesman for the virginia department of game and inland fishery says these three people were all killed in today. right now they are trying to i.d. these folks. we know three people have been killed in louisiana and mississippi when tornadoes touched down there. dozens of others have been injured. right now the national weather service has issued a tornado warning for an area in southeastern virginia and a lot of the radar is indicating a twister in waverly. there's been a significant debris and high waters on those roads and we're told right now a lot of the roads leading in and out of that town are impassable. doug? >> yeah, definitely a tornado there. i saw some of the video down there earlier. we do have video of a very big tornado, looked like an ef-2, ef-3 in that r

even if you don't watch doug and v.j. live, the nbc washington app was warning you about every watch and warning as they were coming in during that download it to your smartphone now for breaking news and weather alerts anytime. >>> first on 4, there are big changes coming to metro to improve your safety. the transit system is stepping up police patrols in the wake of several high-profile incidents including one case caught on surveillance video where a man was assault on the red line. adam tuss is live at the gallery place station. tell us more about the changes. >> reporter: pat, we've had a couple incidents like this on the transit system recently. just couple days ago that person shot actually on a green line train, and now transit police say they are, in fact, going to be stepping up their efforts. here is what they're going to be doing. they're actually paying over $1 million to hire a private third-party contractor firm. that third party will look over metro's revenue collection operations. what that will do is fre

. >> thanks, v.j. >>> well, this next story could motivate you to fileo >> and that's because millions of americans are at risk of tax-related identity theft. consumer reporter susan hogan is here to explain how it happens. >> that's right. the federal government says more than 17.5 million people are victims of identity theft. that means millions of people are at risk of someone else using personal information to file people's tax returns and steal refunds. so if you're a victim of any data breach in recent years or had your identity stolen some other way, you want to file your return as soon as you receive your w-2 tax documents. otherwise, could you end up like that man, that d.c. resident, ronald nim and hear this when you try to file your return. >> i get an e-mail from my accountant and said this is very strange. i cannot submit your return. >> ronald says he spent the last year trying to straighten out his tax i.d. problems. tonight on preventing tax-related identity theft. plus, find out why our story has d.c. rethinking the way it handles tax i.d. theft cases. it's a story you

doug and v.j. are tracking how cold it's going to be all evening here on news4 and on the nbc washington app. >>> and as we enter the dangerous stretch of cold days and nights, the dangerously cold weather, for most of us it just means bundling up to ward off the chill, but to others extreme cold triggers allergies. yeah, there are lots of folks out there who are allergic to the cold. dr. jackie is here to explain. one of the main see is hives. >> yeah, that's right. in act, i have seen lots of kids, especially after the blizzard, they were outside playing with snow angels, and they ended up getting hives and where they got the hives is wherever the snow touched them. it looks just like an allergy. there are lots of people concerned about it and they're right, you can be allergic to the cold. >> how do you treat that? >> it depends. the first thing always is avoidance. just stay away from the cold. be careful about if you immerse yourself, meaning if you jump into the potomac river, that's going to

doug will have a look at how much your neighborhood will see. >> thanks, v.j. >>> more than $62.hat's about how much you're going to have to pay to get a free drink under starbucks new rewards program. instead of getting a single star, they will give you stars based on how much you spend. you will get two stars for every dollar, but the way it adds up, it will take more than 60 bucks to get one free coffee. starbucks says customers who only buy a single coffee or small sandwich will have to spend more but the company claims most people will earn more free items this way. >>> tonight nbc 4 begins a special preview of the smithsonian national museum of african-american history and culture. >> barbara harrison was given an exclusive look at some of the things that will make this museum so special. >> it is going to be a special place and an exciting time for all those involveit works for over a decade now. the building is ready. you may have seen it out there. and the countdown to the september opening is under way but we were able to have a special visit with some of the folks who

v.j., we're talking about not just the temperatures, but the winds. they're going to be brutal. >> the frigid air and low temperatures coming with a lot of wind, especially late tonight through saturday, but the highest winds early part of saturday when our temperatures will be at their lowest. the wind advisory for most of the area. winchester, leesburg, toward waldorf, leonardtown, pretty much everywhere where we could see hour. unfortunately, that means we could see some downed power lines across the area, maybe even some small limbs, too. of course, that does not come at a great time with such low temperatures. windchill readings now are in the low 20s across the area and they're going to drop even more. watch the button here. this is 8:00 a.m. saturday where it will feel like zero. again, weather alert day right through your weekend. it will feel like 2 at 3:00 p.m. on saturday. then as we get into late saturday night, early sunday morning, we'll drop i think below zero for quite some

thanks, v.j. >>> doug mentioned this a little bit earlier. the same system that gave us rain and some snow this morning is slamming new england. up to 10 inches of snow is expected in massachusetts. in boston the snow forced a lot of school districts to close and knocked out power to thousands of people. storm team4 says new england is getting its first serious snowfall of the season. >>> i'm melissa mollet with a look at metro for the weekend. on the red line, trains running every 9 to 20 minutes. green line every 24 minutes. other lines, let's talk about those one by one. yellow line, alert here. only run between mt. vernon square and huntington this weekend. silver line trains running every ten minutes between wheelie, reston, east, and boston only. so a little warning there. blue and orange lines, buses going to replace trains between stadium armory and cheverly. i'll see you monday morning for news4 today. >>> this is chris gordon in bethesda, and this is pumpkin. his owners put pumpkin and his sister peanut into a local pet hotel and th

. >> and because it's all v.j. and doug's fault, they will change your tires for you.ou have a nice day to do anything outdoors. >> a nice couple days. >> exactly. that's the thing. we have to get out and enjoy the next couple days because what are tracking what looks like a storm system for next week. it's not even going to come to the west coast until the tail end of the weekend. a lot of uncertainty but we'll tell you what we know now and where there is still a lot of uncertainty. let's talk about your evening first. more icy patches will be setting up, but not until late this evening. about 10:00, 11:00 or so the temperatures in some of the suburbs start to dip down into the low and mid-30s across the area. you can see our temperature at 7:00, 42 degrees. we're down to 40 degrees by 8:00. radar is dry across the area. next time we see anything showing up on storm team4 radar, the weekend where there might be a sprinkle or two around the area. 30 in d.c. 30 down 301. everywhere there could be especially the second aesh roads and the neighborhood roads, even the side

. >>> v.j. thank you. new details on a deadly police shooting in the district that investigators tell us involved a guy with a bb gun. it happened overnight near clay terrace and 53rd street, an area where they have seen a lot of officer-involved shootings. pat collins is live in northeast d.c. with details for us. pat? >> reporter: jim, it's happened again. another police-involved shooting in the clay terrace neighborhood. that makes four in less than a year. today's police involved shooting near the intersection of 53rd and clay streets northeast. it had deadly consequences. this is how police tell the story. it was around 2:00 a.m. an officer saw a man acting in a suspicious manner. as he approached the man, the man began to run. the man slipped on the pavement, and as he did, a gun popped out of his clothing. the officer told the man not to reach for the gun, but as the man reached for the gun, the officer opened fire and struck the man in the neck. the man's gun turned out to be a bb gun, but they say

v.j. will have your full forecast right after the break so please stay with us. >>> traffic is being impacted by the weather this evening. even though the bulk of the heavy rain has moved east of the area, we still have some wet weather out there and a whole lot of fog. we're seeing a stream of light around 495, northern areas, maryland 190 as well through fm couns fairfax county and montgomery county. the bulk of the rain moving east but let's look, a closer inspection if we can switch over to max two. you can see rain still around. we have reports of some roads closed. closer inspection, we'll go right down just northeast. 18 to 24 water over allder school road. some of the streams and rivers coming out of their banks. we'll continue to see this for not just the overnight but early tomorrow morning. brookville road is closed in both directions there in montgomery county. showers right now over that area. so nothing too heavy right now but those water levels will continue to come up and w

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v.j. day? stanley! wedding anniversary, wedding anniversary. of course. is it? i meant to tie a knot in something to remind me. i'd have given you a hand. by the way, janet what did you think about that fabulous dinner i cooked especially for you tonight? oh, well, it wasn't too bad, jack. maybe a little too much salt, though. too much salt? you don't know what you're... you're absolutely right. here, i'll get you another drink. thank you. hi. want a peanut? thank you, chrissy. janet, why don't you just give the sinatra tickets to me. i can scalp them for 50 bucks. scalp them? all right, all right look, i'll tell you the truth. usually, i don't like people knowing what a softhearted guy i am. but there is this little old lady who sells pencils down by the pier. only the other day she said to me... "young master," she said "my one remaining wish before i die is to see frank sinatra." and you'd give her the tickets? no, chrissy, he would sell them to her for 50 bucks. hard, janet, hard. keep your thieving mind off of those tickets, larry. i've invested a lot of cr

. >> thanks, v.j. >>> well, my dad used to tell me, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, especially if you get a random phone call saying just won some money. >> your dad most have known my dad. chances are you roblly assume it's a scam. however, consumer reporter susan hogan found something that might make you think twice. >> it all started with a call to news4 from a viewer, a former government employee asked us to check out a possible scam. we did. what we found was a windfall for thousands of area residents. >> reporter: the phone rings. >> hello. >> reporter: it's good news. >> about what? >> reporter: the caller claims bob rudd's wife is owed money from a class saks settlement. >> my first reaction was this is a scam. >> reporter: who wouldn't think tha viewers to be aware of unsolicited calls or e-mails that claim you're a winner. the caller says she was from a company that administers claims for class action lawsuits and in bob's wife's case he was told she's owed money from underpaid overtime when she was an employee at the state department. >> i started in octob

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. >> all right, v.j. thank you. >>> the names are levi coffin, ha harriet tubman and william still.ron gilchrist is hosting four special for black history month this week and here is a preview. >> reporter: there were many whose names aren't as well known but their actions are in no way less important. historian c.r. gibbs tell us how an incident known as the pearl affair gave life to a movement. morning fairly early in the month slave owners are going to get up and they won't smell any biscuits baking, won't snell any bacon frying. the hearths have been banked and they're still cold. this is the largest mass escape attempt by water in the history of the underground railroad. and more than 70 people, men, women, and children, were able to secretly sail out of the wharf in southwest and make it 150 miles down the potomac and just almost as they begin to make that left turn to freedom, their sails grow slack. the wind becalms itself and they have to pull into a place called cornfield harbor, but it was the organization that put this move together. there were people, aaron, whose job i

j.j v.j.? >> it is a little sloppy out there but nothing like i think we will be dealing with the mid part of the week. you can see the pockets of yellow and dark green. that's where there's been some moderate rain. that batch well to the north and east up around baltimore and annapolis and heading out to d.c. around areas of 495 you can see there's still a pocket of rain around 395, alexandria. we'll drill down tighter to street level. addison heights, around areas like braddock and congress heights, all moving to the east here. this rain will continue for just a while longer up until about 8:00, 9:00. that rain heads out of here from north to the southeast around areas of southern maryland andj the northern neck. our temperatures, we've seen a wide range today from the 40s to the 60s. right now we've cooled to 59 in patuxet river. it will be a mild evening, just wet for a little while longer. keep that in mind, roads are wet. watch your braking and watch your distance between you and the car

. >> all right, v.j. thanks. >>> well, the super bowl media circus is going strong. >> today a special correspondent had even the stars star struck. carol maloney live in san francisco with more. >> reporter: hey, guys. yeah, the game is three days away, and the players are so done with the media. figuratively and literally. last session today, and both teams blown away by a guest correspondent who happens to go by the name of snoop dogg. yes, the d-o-g-g, he caused quite a come motion when he showed up for the press event. players were late on account of the long lines for selfies. snoop reporting for the nfl network and brought both the serious and the fun to the podium. >> working the medium. talk to me. first of all i want to say -- ♪ cam, oh, cam, cam, dance with me ♪ there you go. >> is it st. fair to say you're getting advice from archie and eli. >> snoop, i have always enjoyed my conversations with my dad and eli. i'm very grateful to have both of those guys that have played in the nfl, still are

. >> thanks, v.j. >>> there's an effort under way on capitol hill to help travelers. claire mccaskill wants to outlaw the hidden fees some hotels are charging because they, quote, nickel and dime people to death. the ban would apply for nonoptional fees when they charge for newspapers or using gyms and swimming pools. her legislation would require hotels to include those fees in advertised rates. >>> now demand pricing is coming to the happiest place on earth. disney's new ticket pricing policy is in effect this afternoon. it means visitors will way a little less than they had been paying if they visit the parks on slow days and a little more if they visit on peak days. bucks on value days. $105 on regular days. $119 on peak days. >>> three men who were wanted for a home invasion are finally in custody, but not before they led police on a high-speed chase near detroit. now, before we show you this video, we should warn you some of it can be very intense. now, this is an aerial view from today as it was happening. they were in a stolen suv and eventually crashed into a

v.j. joins us now. a sunny afternoon. wendy and i didn't see a darn thing. an inch where you were. >> i did, up in howard county. a little burst coming right down. lake-effect snow if anything behind this morning's little system that went off coast, but it's a chance for us this weekend to take a bit of a breather before we go on alert next week with that colder pattern and these little chances that will come and one day that's got probably the best and biggest chance you will see in just a moment. take a look at the images from early this morning. this is my way, howard county there. you can see snow covered cars. about an inch. a lot of folks driving around going, whoa, wait, where did that come from? a little burst that didn't last long and then the sun was out an hour after that. enough there to lay down on area roads. the system is off the coast right now. we've got breezy conditions coming in behind it. you can see all the clearing that's taken place, so our temperatures tonight will really start to tumble and there could be a few icy patches out there