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WRC News4 At 4 December 6, 2016

Back to the west and also areas of snow mixing in in portions of West Virginia and the i81 corridor. Coming up in ten minutes, Lauren Ricketts will show you where the latest Winter Weather advisory is and im tracking the coldest weather of the season. Well talk about that. Lauren is back in ten minutes. Ill see you back in 15. Thanks, doug. Lots of news today on the president ial transition. Involving president elect donald trump. He sold all of his stocks back in june. Thats according to a trump aide who talked to the Washington Post. The aide didnt provide any of the stock sale. Mr. Trump is set to make his nomination for defense secretary official appearing with retired james mattis tonight. Trump promises to cancel planes. Trump also met with d. C. Mayor mural bowser. She went up to new york and joined a growing number of local and National Leaders passing through trump tower. The mayor spoke with the incoming president about some issues she considers important to d. C. Reporter d. C. Mayor oneonone with donald trump. Mayor bowser said while she had her chief of staff and chief adviser in the room, donald trump came in all alone. The two talked for 40 minutes. Mayor bowser says she talked about things she wanted him to know about d. C. And the residents and they are not a federal agency. He says they did talk about metro funding, about infrastructure and a wide range of topics. Sometimes people have misconceptions about d. C. , is any more from the federal government than any other state. And we act like a state. We function like a state. I wanted to make sure he understood washington, d. C. As the unique entity that it is in the system. Reporter in addition to meeting with president elect trump, mayor bowser will also meet with former new york city mayor mike bloomberg. At trump tower, news 4. The president elect announced big move that could mr. Trump reiterated his plan to cancel the contract for new air force one president ial planes. I think its ridiculous. I think boeing is doing a little bit of a number. We want boeing to make a lot of money, but not that much money. Trump tweeted that the cost of the new air force one fleet is about 4 billion. The cost of the contract is 3 billion. And costs are expected to climb. In a statement boeing said, its currently under contract for 170 million and wants to deliver the best planes for the president at the best value for taxpayers. Trump is now on his way to North Carolina, another stop on his thankyou tour. The latest on that and his major cabinet decisions in our next half hour. Im Megan Fitzgerald in getting ready to reopen in the next few hours. A gunman walked in, firing shots. Luckily, no one was hurt. Take a look down here. Youll see theres a very visible presence of police officers. Npd tells us they have increased patrol in the area making sure nothing suspicious is happening. Also, take a look down here. Ever since that gunman walked in here, a flood of support has been coming in. Neighbors stopping by to show to show that hate will not overpower this community. Well, this afternoon students at Watkinsville High School in Montgomery County bringing home warning letters. A woman was at the bus stop and a man walked up to her and told her to shut up and put a bag over her head. She screamed, ran away. When she got to told staff and they called police. This happened in the cider Mill Apartments and police are stepped up patrol in that area. Were following up on a shooting in maryland. We know the name of the man killed. Investigators dont think it was a random crime and anyone with information is being asked to call crimestoppers. Theyre offering 25,000 reward. The reward is growing for staffer. A gop lobbyist is adding another 5,000 to solve the murder of seth rich, make tgt biggest reward ever offered in a d. C. Homicide case. Jack burkeman is now putting up 105,000. Police are offering another 25,000. He says solving this murder is more important than partisanship. Rich was killed in the bloomingdale neighborhood in northwest in july. A possible robbery. A sheriff is finally incident and shooting of former nfl player. And you only have to miss a little bit of sleep to feel the just press clean and let roomba from irobot help with your everyday messes. Roomba navigates your entire home. Cleaning up pet hair and debris for up to 2 hours. Better. Together. I really did save hundreds of dollars on my Car Insurance with geico. I should take a closer look at geico. Geico has a long history of great savings and great service. Over seventyfive years. Wait. Seventyfive years . That is great. Speaking of great, check out these hot riffs. You like smash mouth . Uh, yeah i have an early day tomorrow so. Wait. Almost there. Goodnight, bruce. Gotta tune the a. Take a closer look at geico. Great savings. Well, we continue to see this rain move throughout area. Storm team 4 weather alert. Were seeing pockets of moderate rain as well. Of course, thats going to make it for a messy ride home. This rain going to stay with it. Its not moving out until after 9 00, moving the same way it came in from the southwest to we already have some low visibilities out there because of the rain. Also well add on some more fog as we enter the overnight. Look at this pocket of moderate rain. That continues to push up through the region. Mainly even a little snowflake and wintry mix towards the west. Thats where we find a Winter Weather advisory in higher elevations. Now, were dealing with this today. Another Winter Weather alert day doug will be talking about that in eight minutes. Snow alert, thank you. A 75yearold woman was drunk when she drove into two troopers but shes not the only one they arrested. The accident happened last night in waldorf on crain highway. Ruth runyon hit an empty patrol car and officers were inside. They werent injured but the tow truck driver who showed up to haul her away was also arrested for drunk driving. A developing story. The man who police say shot and killed a former nfl player is now behind bars. Police initially let Ronald Gasser go after the shooting death of joe mcknight last week in new orleans. Today the sheriff defended his decision, saying this was never what we had were two adult males engaged in unacceptable behavior and this thing went to a point that, unfortunately, led to incredibly tragic consequences. Gasser is now charged with manslaughter. He told detectives mcknight cut him off and that irritatedhi that horrible fire out in california is only getting worse. The Warehouse Manager says he was in a hotel when it happened. His angry defense. Were live in hollywood with what people are saying about the grammy nominations. Just a reminder, make sure you downloaded or nbc washington app. Youll get weather alerts on nasty days like this. Dougs next update a few minutes if you run over somebody, its usually because you were driving too fast or you didnt stop for someone in the crosswalk. Always be alert. President at Mcdill Air Force base in tampa, florida, right now delivering his last major speech on National Security as commander in chief. In his speech the president is defending his military record and his approach to counterterrorism over the past eight years. The president says u. S. Led coalition the coalition has hit isis with with more than significant losses on isis forces. Also right now, there is extra security at metro stations in los angeles. The city was on high alert after a threat of an imminent attack against the citys commuter rail. Senior Law Enforcement officials told nbc news the threat came from a man using a pay phone in an overseas western country. The mayor rode the train this morning to ensure riders it was safe. In oakland today, the manager of the warehouse that we emotional, sometimes angry, apology. 36 people were killed over the weekend. Nbcs jennifer joins us with todays new developments. Whats the latest were learning about the investigation and the victims in this case . Reporter well, its been a long day so far. Behind me theyre shoring up the corner of this building they have not been able to get into. Where this structure is not safe for them to go into. They say they dont expect to find any more human remains but they want to sift through everything and make sure theyre not missing anything, especially if that corner has anything to do with the cause of the fire, which they still have not released. Jen, this morning the Warehouse Manager was on the today show. Before i ask you this question, lets just listen to a little bit of what he had to say. I dont even want i dont i dont want to talk about profiting. This was profit, the loss of mass life . Im only here to say one thing, that im incredibly sorry. And everything that i did was to make this a stronger, more beautifully community and to bring people together. It got contentious at times. Has he said anything else since that interview . Reporter no. He left immediately after that little combative with the today show interviewers, but what we got from that is that he decided three years ago to rent this warehouse and make it sort of an artist collective with no intention of anyone living there. But the way with things go with rent being high, you have a little artist space, and some people say they lived there between sleeping there or sleeping on the street and apartment, youll stay there with your friends and live there. Thats what was happening there. The difference between life and death in that building was a wall of flames impenetrable once it went up. Some lived, some died. A very sad story here in oakland. Indeed. Horrifying. Look, it is a weather alert day. All you got to do is look how much rain are we going to get from this, doug . I think well see an inch. Well continue to see more rain over the next couple of hours. The heaviest rain right now. It will lighten up. Well show you Storm Team Radar 4 showing you where that rain is, making its way through over the past few hours. We continue to see that now. Notice all the yellow there. That is the moderate rain. You see little areas of orange in there as well. That is some moderate rain that as this has been in motion for the last few hours. Montgomery county getting hit hard, parts of the beltway getting hit hard. Prince georges county getting hit hard. Bethesda, river road, along the beltway, along the American Legion bridge and heads up along 270. This area going to get hit hard over the next hour or so. The wider view, taking us back to the west, notice all of this back here. Continues to go. We have a camera out this way. This is along i68, next to the frostburg area. I believe that is ice on the tree tops there. Can you actually see it falling. We did see snow falling there earlier. This storm under an ice storm warning. We do have Winter Weather advisories. An ice storm warning to the west. Nothing around d. C. Or any part of our area. The blue ridge, parts of the blue ridge and parts of West Virginia. Heres the ice storm war around the frostburg area and winter storm warning around Garrett County. If youre traveling to the west, its brutal back there. This is mostly for higher elevations, above 1500 feet. Thats something well continue to watch. As we move through the rest of the evening, notice by 8 00 its almost all out of here. This is what we told you yesterday. The rush would be a problem, but take a look. A couple showers coming in around 10 00, 11 00 tonight. Theyll be cold showers. Around 7 00 a. M. Could be overnight fog. Well look more into that. As we make our way through the day, well clear and we should see sunshine. Tomorrow, not a bad afternoon. Pretty nice afternoon, as a matter of fact. Right now it is just dismal out there. Look at the clouds, the fog. 42. Winds out of the north at 14 miles an hour, puts our windshield at 36 degrees. Notice the current temperatures. These arent the windchills. These are temperatures. 36 in gaithersburg. 43 in will continue through the next three to four hours. Now, tomorrow, a little better. 40 degrees at 7 00 a. M. With fog. 46 by noon. Clearing skies and some sunshine during the afternoon. Again, not bad on your wednesday. Then we get to thursday. Thursday is something else. Well watch another front move through on thursday. Temperature around 47 degrees. Could be an isolated rain or snow shower late in the day on thursday. 39 on friday. Your weather alert day on friday. 38 on saturday. Its time. Weve got some real cold air. Lauryn ricketts working on the forecast with rain moving out and fog developing. Shell have the latest coming up in a few minutes. Thanks for that smile, lauryn. We know youre working hard. We are also live on capitol hill with another unexpected move from the president elect. How the new mgm casino could affect your drive even if you have no plans to check it out. But first, beyoe cleaning up, nine grammy nominations. Come with us toollywood next welcome back. We ton see this rain heavy throughout the region. Very moderate. I just got off the phone, i was on wtop, bob who does traffic on the 8s spinouts, especially on exit ramps with rain coming down. Its heavy through Baltimore Beltway, up 695. Travel through this area, it is going to be a little bit of a mess. Take your time. As we continue through the evening, that rain continues until just as we get into about 8 00, 9 00. Now, we had a little bit of a wintry mix, especially headed out toward western maryland. Higher elevations, up to about,000 feet. Those areas. Not close to the district, but west of i81. Exactly where we thought it would be. A little bit of snow. But most everybody here in the area turning to rain. Were seeing it just move to the north and east as we continue through the evening commute. Good news is, once this gets out of here, we start drying out overnight. Unfortunately, well be left with a little fog. Heres that Winter Weather advisory. Goes until midnight. Can you see for some of the high elevations around the blue Ridge Mountains and also going out st winter storm warnings out there in allegheny county, Garrett County you have some ice storm warnings. Winter weather advisory until midnight for these regions. If your travels take you out here later tonight, be careful. Noticing closer to the district, we do not have anything here in our area. The wet snow and sleet for those areas. Just rain for us. Well continue to take a look at the rain and fog and time it out for you in a few minutes. The roads are wet, traffic is starting to pick up. Now theres new word, doing this could double your risk of crashing. And the reason donald trump says he has an issue with the well, he said it was one of his biggest assets during the may use his business experience in the white house. He tweeted today that he would cancel the order for new air force one jumbo jet. Its a move to force federal contractors to charge less. Steve handelsman joins us with the latest. Reporter hi. Its also a trump move to convince voters hes really going to change washington. If an airline goes to buy a 747 from boeing, the cost is about 400 million. The president elect is saying a donald trump surprised cameras on the surprise issue. The cost of two new air force one to replace the only 747 used today by president obama and his backup. The pentagon confirms boeing will bill at least 4 billion. I think its ridiculous. I think boeing is doing a little but of a number. We want boeing to make a lot of reporter cancel order, trump tweeted. He promised to deliver the best planes at the best value. Just today the Washington Post reported the pentagon hid a study revealing 25 billion in waste. Trump is warning contractors. This government is not going to be taken as a sucker. Theyre going to find good deals and thats how he plans on running the government. Reporter trump plans to crack down on Foreign Trade deals warning he would slap tar o new york trump was back at the camera. This is masa of softbank from japan. And hes just agreed to invest reporter details are unclear, but trump is taking credit. Details very unclear. Do the math. Thats about 1 million a job. Tonight trump goes on stop number two of his thankyou tour. Hell be in North Carolina where the president elect seems certain to brag that hes already saving u. S. Jobs and bringing some back to this country. Im steve handelsman, news4. Thank you, steve. A group of on women both calling for an Electoral College overhaul. Conyers led a session with several colleagues on capitol hill. They talked about proposals to eliminate the Electoral College where the National Popular votes elects the president. Hillary clinton has a popular vote lead, more than 2. 5 million, over donald trump. Incoming maryland congressman first popular vote bill in the state of maryland. Here in the district the d. C. Council gave preliminary approval to paid family leave bill, granting up to eight weeks of leave for child care, six weeks for immediate family care and two weeks for individual care. The 250 Million Program will be supported by a payroll tax on city businesses. Opponents of the bill complain that twothirds of the workers who will benefit live in the suburbs a income taxes. Once its normally approved, the bill is expected to take effect in 2020. Continuing to track the rain across the region. Well start getting lighter rain in portion of the d. C. Metro area. You see the yellow on storm team 4 radar making its way into Montgomery County up i95. You can stop it and notice up thats where the heavier rain then picks up around fret ricks burg area. The heaviest rain along 270 up there along i95, towards laurel, up in those areas. Bethesda, washington, notice the lighter green. Heavier rain through d. C. Right now and lighter rain making its way across our region. Well continue to see that off and on this evening. As

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