Dry air, light winds, clear skies. There will be some folks falling into the teens before sunday morning. Sunday it looks like a sunny day. Well be in the 20s and 30s in the morning. 45 by lunchtime. Still a chilly day. Something about the warmup coming. By Christmas Eve potentially 70 which would be a record breaker. Ill have the whole sevenday forecast coming up for you in a few minutes. Im looking forward to that howard. In case you didnt know, christmas less than a week away. That means shoppers are making lists, checking them twice, flooding to malls and Shopping Centers to buy presents. We reporter were in macys at tysons corner. If youre at home you might learn what santa is bringing you for christmas. What are you getting for your mom . What if shes watching . Reporter the good news is many of our lastsecond shoppers were willing to tell us what santa is putting under their tree. Why dont you tell d. C. Metro what you got your girlfriend . Are you sure . Im sure. I hope shes no
The road. It only funds dhs for one week. Things have been moving fast all night. We have Live Team Coverage on the impasse. Jackie will join us to break down what it all means for federal workers. Steve handelsman with the late night maneuvering on capitol hill. Reporter the senate okayed one week of dhs funding by voice vote. Ayes appear to have it. Reporter it avoids furloughs for 30,000 dhs workers like most at the National Cyber security center. And avoids tsa workers and coast guard, 200,000 essential dhs employees, having to work without a paycheck. But House Speaker john boehner had a bad day pushing for three weeks of funding without defunding president obamas executive order on immigration that conservatives hate. That took the power of congress away from us. Reporter and 51 House Republicans said no to the boehner plan to send a message. You cant keep bypassing the constitution and bypassing congress. Reporter president obama gathered his dhs team tonight and urged congress
Conceded a plan that would have extended it for three weeks. Republicans wanted to block obamas executive action to immigration. Is it too much to ask to get one weekend without Winter Weather . Yes yes, it is today is another alert day for freezing rain and sleet [ laughter ] when its all going to get here. I think its going to arrive either side of noon. Its going to arrive first south and west of town. Then it points north. But cold and quiet finish to the month, and its going to be a cold month the 2nd coldest february on record. The mix develops around noon on sunday, and the threat unlike saturday, is sleet. Temperatures will remain below freezing until sunday night. The daytime high, probably not above freezing. Heres futurecast, 10 00 am in the morning some snow north of frederick, but this is just sleet and freezing rain with this magenta color. A little snow north. 2 00 its mainly sleet and freezing rain through the metro area. Southern maryland youre okay. An initial burst o
Communication with the helicopter. It is now nighttime. A search by foot is underway. This is video from the Helicopter Squadron 469. Six of its members american based in california and on board a helicopter like this one now missing somewhere in the nepalese mountains. It has been documenting their work to help thousands of earthquake victims. We delivered 68000 pounds of needed supplies to the outer villages. We also plan to deliver another 140000 pounds before we leave. Scott while teams search for the chopper and it crew that made one drop and on their way to a second site, a 7. 3 magnitude earthquake sent much of kathmandu scrambling. Already ravaged by aer thal quake three weeks ago the fears were only magnified. You can see the cameras start to shake in a meeting of parliament as people ran through the street to find open areas and the tremors triggered landslides. I was really scared this time. Very big. I was very scared. Scott the good news if there any regarding the incident