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Freezing so this morning before you head out, maybe a very warm jacket. 31 degrees is the current temperature. 30 river dale. In the district were at 32 degrees. Bull run 24 degrees. So as we go through your day today, 7 00 this morning, warm jacket, again, we could see a chance of flurries very early, but by 7 00 well also see those nice dry roads around. 29 degrees by noon. Lunchtime 46. Winds will start to increase, so it will get breezy and by 3 00 p. M. Were looking at a milder day. 53 degrees. Breezy outside so not as cold as yesterday. The good news is the roads are dry this morning. We like to see that. Lets check the roadways. We love dry roads. Very helpful for everybody. 66 here and 95, you can see really rolling just fine here this morning. No incidents there. Taking a look at 95 in maryland from 32 down to the beltway, its going to take you ten minutes. Youre on time and you dont have to wy there. Beltway looking good. Live shot here of the american he john bridge and you dont have any big problems there and 66, 95 should have been showing you 270 here. Well do a live picture of 270 coming up in just a minute. Developing this morning President Trump not backing down over his controversial immigration executive order. Late last night he fired the acting attorney general who refused to defend legal challenges against that order. It comes on top of another night of protests here in d. C. And around the country calling for an end to the ban. Former acting attorney general sally yates is not convinced the executive order is lawful and told the Justice Departments attorneys not to defend it. President trump accused her of betrayal and insubordination and fired her. This morning the Justice Department has a new acting attorney general. Dana boente, and he is likely to be in the job for only a few days now because his permanent replacement, senator Jeff Sessions could be confirmed by justin finch is live at the department of justice with a deeper look at the new acting attorney general. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Boente stepped into that spot late last night. His first order was to overrule his predecessor who questioned the legality of the President Trumps order restricting travel to the u. S. From those seven largely muslim nations. Boente is a name that some may already know having served as u. S. Attorney for the eastern virginia district. He was chosen for that post back in 2015 by president obama and he went on to make headlines for his corruption probe of former Virginia Governor whose conviction was later overturned by the u. S. Supreme court. The 62yearold has also served under republicans and democrats in his three decades with the department of justice. But his tenure as you mentioned will likely be brief serving only until Jeff Sessions steps in. Hes up soon as today and could be confirmed by the end of this week, which means should that happen in sequence that boente would only serve in that post as acting attorney general for only a matter of days, less than one week. Back in to you. All right. Justin finch live for us at the department of justice. With senator Jeff Sessions likely to been the attorney general here are a few things to know about him. Hes been a senator since 1997. Before that he served as the states attorney general. Sessions has faced accusations of racism. He was denied a federal judgeship in 1986 partly over accusations of racist remarks. Sessions denied those allegations. Coming up, well have the latest on the protests of President Trumps immigration order and the nomination hes expected to make to the Supreme Court today. In Prince Georges County, police are searching for the man who walked into a gas station in District Heights and shot and killed another man. Those are the cries from a heart broken family who showed up to that station on walters lane. Police hope surveillance cameras may have captured what happened. This is the second homicide at that gas station in a little more than a year. Police do not think that theyre connected. Five minutes after the hour. Canadian Prime Minister is among more than 1,000 people honoring the victims of a mass shooting. Youre looking at video from a growing vigil in quebec city. Six people were killed inside a mosque there the other night. They were shot while they were praying. 17 other people were hurt. We told you two people were detained in this case. Now Police Believe only one was the shooter. They charged 27yearold Alexandre Bissonnette with six counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder. He will appear in court next month. You may notice extra Police Officers in several mosques in Fairfax County. The Police Department tweeted it is standing strong with the the tweet used the hash tag engagement and building trust. Police are asking for tip if you notice suspicious activity. This 15yearold girl is missing from germantown. Theyre worried about her physical and emotional welfare. They say she could be in the district. She has black hair and brown eyes. If youve seen her call police. And we thought this next story was something parents in Fairfax County needed to know about. There has been a case of whooping cough reported in the school district. An email went out to parents at the secondary school yesterday suggesting they monitor their children for the illness. They also want to make sure all the immunizations are up to date. Its a bacterial disease that begins with cold symptoms and can be treated with antibiotics. A wild bob cat is very likely wandering the around rock creek parkway. Theres her picture. Zoo Officials Say there was a hole in the mesh fencing around her exhibit. Theyre hoping shell come back on her own. Until then, a small area of the great cats exhibit is closed. If you do see her, they say dont try to get close. Youre not to try to approach her, its less youre likely to be attacked by her. Its more likely that youre likely to spook her. Keepers say call the zoo if you see the bob cat. She will probably be fine if she doesnt make her way back to the zoo. Theres some kid out there going oh look, a new cat for our house. No, not that one. Its all fun and games until kitty gets hungry. But no danger to the public, so dont worry. These arent the type of cats that will attack apparently. So you wont have to clear off the snow today. Thats good news, but you will probably want to blast the heat. I know i did. Were back with a closer look at your commuter forecast. And getting the kids dressed, but some local moms are turning their problem into a money making solution. Alexa order me a latte, something i would never say. I would totally say that. How you can order your morning heffee from t 11 minutes after the hour right now. Developing this morning page county says one of its high schools is closed today. Theres a mechanical problem at page county high. Other schools in the county are open on a regular schedule. Were talking about the weather today and as a result of some of the snow, we see there are some School Closures but were pretty much in the clear. A few flurries maybe this morning, but otherwise were not seeing what we saw yesterday morning with the snowfall but we are still seeing the cold temperatures so that hasnt changed. Gaithersburg coming in at 28 degrees right now for the actual temperature, but it feels quite a bit colder when you factor in the wind. 32 is the temperature in the district. Frederick coming in at 30 degrees and later on today it will be breezy and that will warm us up more than where we were at yesterday. So your tuesday commute dry roads through the entire day. Thats great news. 8 00 this morning 29 dees breezy and then by 5 00 p. M. Were talking about temperatures in the low 50s. Take a look at the radar. Were dry across the area but we are watching that little area of snow on the pennsylvania maryland border. Well be watching that closely but were also watching the roads. A new crash out there. Good morning, melissa. 95 northbound right there in springfield. Im not seeing it on camera. Ill keep looking to see if the backup starts to build. A crash reported in the middle of the roadway this morning so that could slow folks down a little bit. Taking a look elsewhere here this morning you can see we still have this little bit of road work hanging around. Northbound 295 with that work zone still blocking the right lane. Thats all the construction we have to worry about thats hanging around town aside from those really longterm projects. 270 northbound and southbound were rolling along just fine here this morning and then up top when youre talking about 29, route 1, 95, everything there is looking pretty good. Well keep an situation and have an update in a couple of minutes. Your time is just about 5 13 and d. C. s mayor will defend the district with Dignity Congress gets to review the measure before it takes effect. It would allow terminally ill patients to end their own lives with a doctors help. In news for your health now, today is the last day to sign up for Health Insurance through the Affordable Care act, one of the marketplaces but a lot of people may be confused about the deadline since the future of the aca is still up in the air. Some consumers say theyre worried about signing up and being left without coverage if the law is repealed while others believe that congress has already thrown out the Affordable Care act. Pretty much everyones in agreement people who sign up for Health Insurance in 2017 and will have a contract and be able to keep and use their insurance for 2017. You have until midnight to sign up through the aca exchanges. It will start in march and last through the remainder of 2017. New research is backing up what a lot of seniors already know to be true. Staying active can help keep your brain in top shape. A new study found simple ak t activities could prevent mental decline. Most physical activity showed a benefit except for reading books. Maryland is getting its first l. L. Bean store. Theyre opening up shop at the pike and rose development. 75 people will be hired to work at the new store. I wonder how quickly theyre going to sell out of those duck boots everybodys been looking for. Its one of the biggest power struggles many parents face eveay child dressed and in the clothes they want to wear. How two local moms found a way to cut down on the drama of getting creative and getting the kids in some clothes. A lot of parents say just wear whatever you want. How many times do you tell them to get dressed and they go in there and Start Playing with their toys. A few years ago d. C. Mom, she got so frustrated when she couldnt find dresses with dinosaurs and spaceships on them, all things that her then twoyearold daughter wanted to wear. Thats when she left her teaching job and teamed up with another fellow mom to create princess awesome. They sewed their first dresses featuring cars, dinosaurs, trains, robots, traditional boy designs with a twist. They were a hit on kick starter raising 215,000. The cofounders believe the success is linked to parents just wanting more choices. Anyone whos been around t kids like all kinds of things and girls clothes dont have those subjeks on them for the most part. Theres this conversation about space that happens. Princess awesome has been praised for helping fill a gap in Kids Clothing industry. Market Research Shows many stores clothing sections are gender specific. And you see we still have the pink and the twirl and thats fine, thats cool, just give us more options. What if the girl wants to have trucks . My daughter loves trucks and has a tshirt with a truck on it and loves icht bt. But coming up well talk to two moms who are on a mission to start a Retail Revolution and they have a line not only for girls but for boys. As a parent we want to know your take. We have that conversation going on on the nbc washington facebook page. Weigh in and let us know what maybe. Thanks, angie. Starbucks customers, going to be able to order your favorite cup of coffee by using your voice. The company is teaming up with the alexa platform. The company will be able to use a starbucks reorder skill to place their usual orders and send it to a starbucks location. Select customers can also place their order by talking into their smart phone just like youre talking to a barista. That will roll out in phases through the summer. Aaron doesnt drink skinny lattes or anything like that. He just drinks coffee. Hold everything. I would totally get a grande skinny latte. You all may outlive me but ill be happy as a clam. What more can you want . So we have a we certainly did. One minute it was snowing. The next it was sunny, then it was snowing again and then they were together. All at the same time. Took some pictures yesterday. This was a picture at 2 45 yesterday afternoon looking to the northeast. And the dogs are like dad, its time to go for a walk. I said all right, you two dont know what youre talking about so off we go. Now, 15 minutes later, we are at logan circle looking northwest and i told the dogs, i said, if thats the sky youre looking at northwest of you, you should be prepared to get snowed on. I tweeted that out yesterday afternoon as well and sure enough, ten minutes after i took that picture we were standing in a little snow squall. Didnt add up to much but it was an interesting weather day yesterday. Today not as interesting. Still have a little chance for some light snow right along the maryland pennsylvania border. Thats where its going to stay today and snowfall amounts, if you get anything, just barely enough to whiten the ground. So any little chances for that wi b really about gaithersburg northbound today. Up across the northern parts of the valley, so couldnt rule out a little snow flake or two early this morning. Our computer model carries any chance for snow flakes out of here before 8 00 in the morning. Then this afternoon a mix of clouds and sunshine around, but noticeably breezier for today. As a result, a little bit of a windchill to deal with early this morning. Temperatures in the 20s and low 30s but the feels like factors are down in the teens and 20s this morning. Feels like 19 in gaithersburg and 27 in culpepper. Know youll need to layer up. Chilly here through the Morning Hours but easily get temperatures in the low 50s this afternoon. It will be quite breezy. Then for tomorrow, mostly cloudy and maybe a drop or two tomorrow. Not enough to post a percentage on there. Trending cooler as we finish out the weekend and a cold start to the weekend. Maybe a little chance of on super bowl sunday evening. More about that in the next half hour. Now lets find out how that tuesday traffic is holding up. 95 northbound here, you can see this crash during the middle lane. I wish they would get off the side of the road to protect themselves and help others as well because were starting to see a backup here as youre headed northbound with that crash in the middle of the road. 66 looks okay. Inner loop and outer loop, no big problems there on the inner loop and outer loop and right now through Prince Georges County its looking good as well. Well keep an eye on this and ill bring you an update in a couple minutes. A bus driver brutally attacked, but a passenger steps in. What he beat the attacker with that broke his back. A major announcement for the boy scouts of america. The bakery flavors you love. [ ding ]. Now available in your dunkin coffee. Sip in the happy with a medium vanilla cupcake, or new fudge brownie macchiato or latte for 1. 99 from 2 00 to 6 00 p. M. America runs on dunkin. From 2 00 to 6 00 p. M. My husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. My whole family wants to stay free from artificial preservatives. It card wants to stay on a diet. Fill your cart with giants natures promise brand. Great prices on over 800 organic and freefrom items. Eat well for less. My giant. Know you can save today for whats important tomorrow. A scary encounter for people taking the bus home in kansas city, a man attacked a female bus driver. You heard her scream for help and thats when a passenger started beating the attacker with his cane. He hit the man so hard that he broke the cane on his back. The bus driver was able to run off and call police. The attacker was arrested. The Transit Authority says they are looking for the Good Samaritan so they can replace his cane for him. Police hope that some newly released surveillance images will help track down a man who kidnapped a georgetown suntuden. He forced the student into the car and tried to make him withdraw cash and make large purchases. This happened last thursday afternoon. This all started near 34th and o street. They say this is the vehicle that the kidnapper was driving. Home this morning. Hes thankful for all the prayers and kind mess ajs he received while being treated for pneumonia. He was taken to the hospital with breathing problems. Hes 92 years old and were very happy to hear that he is home and doing well. Before he got out he was up and talking with the staff and doing the physical therapy. How soon before hes jumping out of a plane . Could happen again. Another move to make marijuana legal in our area. Who is now proposing to decriminalize pot. And the boy scouts, the new change that could impact your sons troop. And storm team 4 chuck bell is back with four things to know about your forecast. Stay with us. Good morning and welcome back to news 4 today. We geerting you up to the minute the minute youre up. Well have a look at the roads this morning and the rails too. First we want to get to chuck and sheena in the Storm Team Weather center. What do we got . All kinds of good stuff. Shes tracking snow flakes and im here to boil it all down to the four things you need to know about the weather. A chance for light snow and snow flurries metro area but northwest of the washington area. A chance of light snow showers here this morning. Southerly winds will increase this afternoon. That will help turn it into a mild stretch of weather. Well start cooling back down again tomorrow. Turning downright cold and keeping a close eye on sunday afternoon into sunday night. There could be a little rain snow combination we need to be concerning ourselves with so well be giving you the whole tenday forecast at 5 51. The other thing to know about is winds could get gusty at times. Southwest winds could gust 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour particularly in the higher elevations. As far as temperatures lets go over to sheena and find out more about the day that way. It is a cold start to the morning. Feeling below freezing through the area for really everybody and were also watching some snow flakes on the radar. Here is a look at that radar now. Weve been watching this area of snow up north along the pennsylvania maryland border and were going to keep watching it. County. Very light snow possibly falling here, but this morning dont be surprised if you see a few flurries around. We will be looking at dry conditions for the afternoon. 32 degrees in the district. Elsewhere were looking at temperatures in the upper 20s. We do have an update on the crash out there. Lets check that out with melissa. 95 north here in springfield. Take a look at this. The camera just went blurry on me here, but right now it looks like this is all on the right side of the roadway. We do finally have a response there on the scene. Got them out of the road. Do have some backups, really not as bad as it could be if that started to hang around. Central avenue, enterprise road, a warning, some malfunctioning traffic lights slowing things a bit. And then up top of the beltway here, all of those into and out of town just fine. Travel times in ten minutes. All right. Thank you. 5 30 now. Some School Delays justin lets get to angie at the live desk. We just learned that two School Districts are opening two hours late. Allegheny county schools in maryland, they are looking at a twohour delay as is in West Virginia Mineral County schools also a twohour delay. We told you a few minutes ago about Page County High School and how it is closed because theyre dealing with a mechanical issue out there. Want to mention other schools many the area, still open and the Union Educational complex is also open, just on a twohour delay. You can find all of this in our nbc washington app. Back to you. All right. Thank you. Metro is hearing from riders and employees about its plans to increase fares and cut service. The Transit System is proposing changes to make up for a 290 million budget shortfall. If approved, fares could go up as much as 25 cents per ride. President trump announces his nomination for Thomas Hardiman and neil gorsuch, both are federal Appeals Court judges. Sally yates is fired. President trump taking the action after she instructed Justice Department attorneys not to defend his controversial immigration order. Dana boente has been named the new acting attorney general. Students will protest President Trumps travel ban today. Several student groups so that many graduate students who travel abroad are impacted by the ban. They plan to rally by the schools clock tower this afternoon. 400 bilingual Elementary School students will have a new place to call home. D. C. s attorney general says immigrants families with children who attend the school are concerned about their future. The cooperation of undocumented residents of the District Of Columbia enhances public safety. A guide on immigration policies is exct to all d. C. Charter schools tomorrow. Renting out your home on airbnb and other online sites could come with new restrictions in the district. A Council Member will unveil a bill today to renting out one unit at a time. It also calls for that rental to be in the hosts permanent home. Some law machers in annapolis are trying to pave the way to make maryland the tenth jurisdiction to legalize recreational marijuana. Two different measures, one would make it legal for adults over 21 and regulate production similar to alcohol. The other would put taxes on nonmedical marijuana. Marijuana is already decriminalized in maryland. Eight states in the district have some form of legal recreational weed. Coming up on 5 34 and covering Prince Georges County, the man police say the hospital this morning. He shot himself twice trying to run away from them sunday morning. They say earlier that day he killed his bosses at blue sunday bar and grill in bowie. Sources tell us the shooting was a result of a dispute over money. People who work at that restaurant are still in disbelief. Ive been shaking all day. I couldnt sleep last night. I know a lot of other people couldnt sleep, so its hard. Police believe that he worked as a bartender at the newly opened restaurant. He is expected to survive and be charged. A man is dead, his body found inside an Apartment Building in Arlington County and now police are trying to figure out what happened. Someone called police to the apartment on 7th road south yesterday afternoon. Officers found the 57yearold dead inside. They say his death is suspicious, but theyre not giving out many more details. They interviewed at least two witnesses. Those two are said to be cooperating and there is no ea the latest decision by the boy scouts of america could create some controversy. They will allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in boys programs. The organization previously relied on the gender listed on the childs birth certificate. Ten people will begin a marathon contest to win a new car at the washington auto show. They have to keep their hands on this car until february 5th at noon. The winner will drive off in a hyundai tucson. If theres more than one person left standing at noon on the 5th the winner will be decided by a random key drawing. This is harder than it sounds. It really is. You have to stay so focused. You move your weight off the car, youre out. Both hands, right . I dont know if i could do it. Good luck. Well, if you are in the other room cooking maybe breakfast right now, take a look at the current temperatures outside. Most of out the door to 20s and 30s. If youre up north, there might be a little snow as you can see on the radar here. Well tell you how the kids might need to dress for the bus stop. Well check back in with our storm team 4 meteorologist. My son loves pink and purple and im so glad youre making something pink for my son. That sounds familiar. Our series continues on how some local moms turn their dressing dilemmas into a business. And its known as nerd prom, but one comedian is trying to get you to go to a counter welcome back. 5 39. Chuck, got a little sun in here yesterday. Like to have a little more of that today. Can you make it happen . We can. We can get more sunshine today than we saw yesterday, but its off to a bit of a cloudy start here early this morning. Clouds are thickest north and west of washington now and theres even a little bit of very light snow now coming from hagerstown just about to move into frederick and leesburg could see a few flakes here as well. Not looking for a lot of accumulation but it might be enough to briefly whiten the ground as temperatures are clearly below the freezing mark. Temperature wise, yes indeed. 20s to around 30s here at bus stop and any flurries will be confined north of the city. More in the way of sunshine. That will be nice, but it will be rather breezy at times. Could be over 30 Miles Per Hour at times. Windchills back in the teens and 20s so winter coats are in fashion for today. May want your hats and scarf as well. Going to very good later on this afternoon for the lady grade. A high near 53 degrees. Dont we on the wish that the traffic would come in as a very good. Can you make very good traffic . I wish i could do that for you. This is a little bit better. 95 north here in springfield, that crash that was on the right side is now out of the way this morning. Beltway overall no problems here on the beltway. When we look at travel times, 270 looks good. Top of the beltway rolling along just fine. 66, no problems. 95 northbound to the beltway, thats because of that picture i just showed you. That will get better pretty quickly now that that crash is gone. Thank you. Its a vacancy thats been open since the death of scalia, just a matter of hours President Trump is expected to announce his pick for the u. S. Supreme court. A look at some of the names being floated this morning. Higher prices and fewer options, the changes that could be on the way for all of you who use metro. And it is the way of the future. Why Online Grocery shopping could soon be how people fill their pantries. The bakery flavors you love. [ ding ]. Now available in your dunkin coffee. Sip in the happy with a medium vanilla cupcake, or new fudge brownie macchiato or latte for 1. 99 from 2 00 to 6 00 p. M. America runs on dunkin. 16 before the hour. Delays and extra maintenance were not enough to hamper your commute on metro now you might have to pay more for that life. A look another why metro says it needs to hike fares and cut service. Reporter oh, good morning to you. This is always a touchy topic to discuss with metro riders especially as they rush in to work this morning. I want you to take a look at a graphic of the Transit Agency proposing to help close a 290 million budget gap with this help from passengers. Fare increases on the rail service dng hours, 10 to 25 cents respectively and a hike of 25 cents on the bus. The proposal also includes service cuts on both the bus and the rail. At a packed meeting last night people poured into a hearing to give metro their feedback and that also included one very impassioned plea from a bus driver. In one week because i like the Customer Service and i like to see them get to where they want to go, because my family use the bus too. So we dont need to cut the service. Reporter metro still wants to hear from you. You can give your feedback online up until february 6th and theyre going to meet again in march to try to finalize a budget plan and then if this is approved, this will take effect in july. That is the latest live from the metro station. Back to you. Thank you. If you wan Transit Systems around the country, take a look at this list here. Metros fares are highlighted in yellow and while the systems base fare is similar to other cities, metro has the second highest max fare. Take a look. Its close to 6. San Francisco Bart system is higher at more than 7 for that max fare. In canada they are honoring the victims of a mass shooting inside a mosque. Overnight the Prime Minister visited this vigil in quebec city. More than a thousand people have gone there. They placed candles and signs to remember the six people who died. Those victims were shot during evening prayers. Were learning more about them as well. Some were fathers, one was a businessman, another a university professor. A 27yearold College Student was charged in this attack, Alexandre Bissonnette. He appeared in a hearing yesterday and will be back in court in three weeks. His peers described him as a loner with anti immigrant former president obama breaks his silence on President Trumps immigration order. He released a statement yesterday saying quote, he fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion. The former president also praised protesters who have taken to the streets in opposition of the travel bans. Is white houses Correspondence Dinner could have some competition. Comedian samantha b. Is planning a Different Party on the same night. Proceed from the dinner will go to the committee to protect journalists and will be held at the will lard hotel. All morning weave been asking your thoughts on facebook when it comes to dressing your child. Do you struggle finding dresses and shirts and other clothing that reflect your daughter or sons interests . Angie is here with more on two virginia moms on a mission to transform the clothing industry. Thats right. O i know youve felt it as well as i. Some of you will feel it this morning but think about this. Computer code, dna, chances are you have not seen a lot of those prints on childrens clothes in stores especially in the girls section. She wants to change that after struggling to find clothes to encourage her daughters fascination with science and dreams to be an astronaut. She turned her problem into a line of science, tech and sport themed clothes for boys and girls that defy gender norms. Her friend teamed up on the mission because she too felt there was a gap to be filled. I had three little boys who liked pink and purple and there was nothing out there for them. Well, the message that seems to be resonating that they have since launching two years ago, it has gone from making four to five items a day to making 40 to 50 a day. Coming up, these moms are going to share some of their best secrets and by the way, that was in her home so they basically have turned their own home out in virginia into a warehouse and they say the real secret is theyre just waking up and doing what they want and theyre so passionate about empowering children to wear what they like. And doing what they want to do every day is always a great gift. Thank you. Lets turn to sheena now. Its freezing outside. Literally. It is freezing. Im not a fan of the cold weather and it feels colder with the wind too. A very warm jacket kind of morning. Get your snuggie. Its in your car, huh . There probably is one at his desk. Temperature 32 degrees right now. Grab the warm jacket and in fact, the wind is making it feel a little bit colder. By 8 00 a. M. This morning temperatures still around freezing. Its still going to be cold. Maybe a few if youre farther north to the district. A few snow showers trying to make their way close to the area. By noon 46 degrees already. Winds increasing and those winds will be getting us into the low 50s today. So we expect it to be quite a bit milder than yesterday. Feels like temperature across the area, feels like 22 degrees. In the district about ten degrees colder than it actually is. Leesburg feels like 25 degrees. Martinsburg feels like 20 degrees and thats where we find a little bit of light snow on the radar. Right near winchester, nearing leesburg, just some flurries nearing leesburg but well be watching this closely. Its mostly around 81, but well be watching to see if any of those try to move in. At best it wont be a big deal, just maybe a few very light snow showers. Wind advisory off to the west until 5 00 p. M. Winds gusting near 45 miles an hour. Rest of the area gusting near 30. As we go through the day well be dry and tomorrow well be dry for to chance we could see a couple isolated showers in the afternoon. Today though, fitness fraforeca looking good. Make sure you dress accordingly because its not going to be as cold as yesterday. Lets check the roadways this morning. Good morning. Right now new problem here inner loop at gallows road so that is a new crash that just popped up here this morning. Taking a live look at chopper 4 right now headed to the top of the beltway showing us no big problems there on the inner loop or outer loop of the beltway. 95 north in springfield. That has finally cleared out of the way so those delays have really picked up quite quickly and you dont have any major problem there anymore. 66 inbound and 95 northbound looking pretty good at this point. Well take a live look at 270 coming up. 5 51 now. In a few hours President Trump will announce his pick to fill the Supreme Court. The seat has been left open since the death of justice scalia. Were live on capitol hill now to break down the on the president s short list at this time. Reporter there are two names of that list. Neil gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman. Hes a federal judge there. He works with Donald Trumps sister who is a judge out of philadelphia. Theyre in the same circuit court. We also know that hardiman is a staunch gun rights supporter. How about the other judge on this list, neil gorsuch . What do we know about him . He works out in colorado. Hes a federal judge there. We do know that he is anti assisted suicide from his rulings. We do not know about his abortion stance. He has not ruled on an abortion case, but many believe because of his rulings on assisted suicide hes also anti abortion. All right. Thank you. News for your health now, bullying at school can take a toll on a kids selfesteem and their grades. New study from Arizona State univer children from kindergarten through high school. Researchers found kids who were bullied were more likely to have poor grades, feel less intelligence and dislike school. Once the bullying started to subside children had fewer academic problems. Changing minds in Fairfax County now. Free Mental Health and drug abuse Screening Services are now being offered to youth for the first time. Starting tomorrow young people can walk into the Fairfax Church Community Services board at the center and receive the Services Without an appointment. The need became apparent over the past two months when the center started accepting youth referrals and dozens of young people sought help. For more information, search youth screening in the nbc washington app. We thought this was something parents in Fairfax County needed to know about. Theres been a case of whooping cough reported in the school district. An email went out to parents at Hayfield Secondary School yesterday suggesting that parents monitor thr signs of this illness. The School System also wants to make sure all immunizations are up to date. Whooping cough begins with cold symptoms and can be treated with antibiotics. Good morning. Im landon dowdy. Twitter will crack down on harassment. The company has been criticized for not doing enough to protect users from online abuse. The measures could include fixes to mute to block people and stop repeat offenders from creating new accounts. For the business report, im landon dowdy. Today walmart is changing one of its programs to get your order to your front door faster. Walmart is getting rid of its shipping pass membership program. Customers were paying a yearly fee for all shipping on all items but it could take three to five days. Now anybody can qualify for free twoday shipping if you spend 35 on the companys you seem to have less time to run errands like going to the grocery store. A new study says a quarter of americans already buy their groceries online. That number is expected to rise dramatically over the next decade. The Food Marketing institute says by 2025 americans will spend more than 100 billion on Online Grocery shopping. Now a lot of people pay for the convenience. There is a delivery fee attached to this. My issue is im worried about the kind of produce, the quality, i want to look at the tomatoes and make sure and smell, but the convenience part, time is money. Im going to have to try it. 50 years is a long time to go to work. Yesterday one man got a very special surprise from some members of the community. We see him all the time at the Friendship Post Office in northwest d. C. Coworkers and customers honored david i know him. They got him a cake and some gifts and celebrated his years hes been working for the post office for five decades. He started when he was three years old. Kind of overwhelmed with the kindness that people have shown me. I just come to work and do my job and try to try to make things smoother. He says he has no plans for retirement just yet. Hes going to keep on working as long as he can, he says. I see mr. Gaskin at the post office even during the busiest times. I went before christmas. Cool as a cucumber, nothing really affects him. Hes just a great guy. So congratulations. Its nice to know youre going to see a familiar face and hes going to do a good job for you and its also nice to say a little thank you. Yes, congratulations. Were getting you ready for ou the end of an era for a virginia mall. Stores told to shut down and pack up by today. Well show you what will take mare place. Plus, escape from a national zoo. A wild bob cat on the run right now. Why workers are not actively looking for her. Also developing, the acting attorney general fired by President Trump, the disagreement that led to her exit and more on the virginia man tapped to take her place. Right now on news 4 today, youre fired. It was President Trumps tag line when he was a reality star. Now hes saying it to one of the nations top lawyers. Why he kicked the attorney general out of her job and more on the virginia man taking over today. Plus, gunned down at a gas station, a man killed many the middle of rush hour. The warning as the search for his shooter continues. Plus, snow and sunshine. A bit of a mix for your morning forecast. Storm team 4 will let you know what to expect wherever youre heading today. Good morning, everybody. Im aaron gilchrist. And depending on where you live you could see some flurries on your way in to work but because of that, two School Districts in our area will be opening two hours late. Allegheny county schools and Mineral County schools in West Virginia. Morning. Melissa is in traffic. She is pumped, poised, primed, ready to go. Doing a little dance too apparently. Thats a lot of pressure. First our meteorologists, chuck bell and sheena telling us what we can expect with the snow. Not much though. Its not going to be like yesterday so thats good at least. A few flurries in parts of the area though. And these are conversational snow flakes that are buzzing on by. Might be enough to briefly whiten the ground especially northern Montgomery County and winchester. Those are about the only spots that are likely to even see snow flakes. South of the city where there was the big winters yesterday, two to three inches down there, thats where youll see the least amount of snow for today. Skies are mostly cloudy. Flurries mainly to the north. Dry weather from washington southbound. Later this afternoon, clearing skies and