Out from the hotel to the restaurant to the casino itself, all building up for the grand opening. Today we heard from officials talking about not only what the resort will mean to Prince Georges County but also the state as well. I have to tell you, mgm is doing what they said they would do. They are already delivering on the star power that this casino is expected to draw. Look who we saw today. Actress turned designer Sarah Jessica parker is here forhe opening of her boutique sjp. Its one part of the promise of major retail being a part of the resort. Mgm executives promise the casino can be onethird of what the resort would offer. They said it would be a draw. Thats exactly whats happening here. Mgms ceo and general manager talked about what the resort means for the state of maryland. This wasnt about just this is about growing gaming revenue in maryland and bringing more people to maryland to spend their time and tourist dollars here. Well bring in money from virginia and d. C. Its really a project that the state can be proud of. A lot of folks who fought to make this happen. There are also a lot of concerns from residents about what will happen here as the traffic starts to build and as folks stt excitement here tonight. Well be here following everything thats unfolding including the vip party they are going to have this evening. Stick with news 4 as we take you through everything you can expect for the day. Live reports at 5 00 and 6 00 p. M. From inside the casino. Reporting in National Harbor, im tracy wilkins, news 4. Reporter im outside National Harbor looking at the traffic perspective here. See the biggest impact because so many people will come here. Its not just roads. There are bus lines outside the casino. People waiting for buses. Hopefully theirs doesnt get stuck in the traffic. You have the belt way, 95, 210, indian head highway. A lot will be going on here in the immediate outside area of the new casino. Dont forget. There is not much public casino. The two closest metro stations arent that close. Branch avenue and king street all the way over in alexandra for their part the casino and Prince Georges County police say the plan is about movement, keeping vehicles moving. If you can coming, plan accordingly. Coming up at 4 30 chris gordon takes a look at people who are not interested in gambling. Later this hour, hear from the man who created the theater which booked an impressive list of stars to perform. Then there is the food, lots of food. Well have some of the best dining options. We have a special interactive casino section on the nbc washington app. Search mgm. I tell you the casino tonight better bring the heavy coat. You cant see from the picture how cold it is. And how cold it will get. Doug, we are wrapping it up. Winds will pick up. Wait for tomorrow. It will be brutal. This picture shows it well. Look at the numbers. These are the current wind around the midatlantic. 42 in d. C. Thats not bad. 39 in philadelphia. 22 in morgan town. 17 in pittsburgh. 12 the current wind chill in columbus. Thats the cold air moving in across the region. We are in for a brutal day. Wind chills will fall into the teens in many locations by early tomorrow. Cold all the way through the day on sunday. The weekend, coldest weekend we have seen since last winter. Rain on monday. Another round of cold. This isnt the first and last bout of cold we got. Weve got a lot more cold coming in. Just the start of winter. I have much more on this. See you in ten minutes. Im at the live desk with sad news. We learned about half an hour ago former astronaut john glenn died. He was the third u. S. Astronaut to get into space but the First American to orbit the earth back he was the last survivor of the mercury seven astronaut. He was in two wars as a pilot, and was a democratic governor from ohio. John kasich issued a statement calling glenn ohios ultimate hometown hero. He went on to say glenn never strayed from his steadfast ohio roots. Nasa tweeted calling glenn a true american hero. Meaning to the stars. John glenn died at the james Cancer Hospital in columbus at the age of 95. Back to you. That man inspired so many americans, a lot of them to go into the astronomy program. Politics now. President elect donald trump is taking a short break from interviewing potential cabinet picks today. Hes meeting with survivors osu students plowed his car into a crowd of people, got out of the car and started stabbing them. Nearly a dozen people were injured before he was shot and killed by police. Trump is expected to tap andy puzder for labor secretary. He runs hardees and carls jr. Hes a controversial pick because he opposed raising the minimum wage. Hes been fiercely critical of manyor place by the obama administration. Trump unleashed a twitter storm, this time against a union leader in indianapolis. Chuck jones criticized trump and said he exaggerated the number of jobs saved at a carrier plant there. Trump tweeted jones has done a, quote, terrible job representing workers and suggested the united Steel Workers lower dues. Today on msnbc jones said he president elect on the facts. Hillary clinton is on capitol hill now. Shes there for the unveiling of senator harry reids portrait as he gets ready to retire. Well keep an eye on the event and bring you more in the next half hour. A real life grinch caught in the act. How a neighbor helped save dozens of Holiday Gifts from a pair of suspected thieves. And the highest safety here are four things to know as we count down to the opening of the mgm National Harbor. The building rises 24 stories and has 234 guest rooms and 74 suites which include a president ial and a chairmans suite. There are 15 restaurants ranging from fast casual to f about 3,000 people. Technology is making cars safer than ever before. If you are thinking about buying a new car you may want to Pay Attention to headlight safety. Consumer reporter susan hogan has 2017s safest vehicles. Hi, susan. Hi, pat. Today the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released the highest safety ratings list for 2017 vehicles after five crash vehicles as top safety picks. This year, the safety group toughened the criteria to reflect new headlight evaluation and those vehicles that meet the new headlight criteria earned whats called a top safety pick plus rating. 38 vehicles earned the top safety pick plus award for 2017. Leading the list, toyota with nine vehicles, including the updated toyota honda and the Acura Division picked up five top safety pick plus awards and the institute says the 2017 Winners Circle includes 21 models with a standard front crash prevention system with automatic braking capabilities. You can find an entire list of the safety picks. Open up our nbc washington app and search top safety picks. All right. Thank you, susan. A man dts hunt has come to a violent end. How Police Tracked down the man and only on 4, the local woman leading the fight to change how long sex assault the Jerry Sandusky and bill cosby cases have states changing the law on sexual assault, specifically the statute of time constraint but it could die in the next few weeks. Mark seagraves is talking to people in a story you will see only on news 4. Reporter in the months and years after the sandusky and bill cosby ca. Is a statute of limitations including right here in washington, d. C. Last year in 2015, Council Members proposed legislation that would either extend or eliminate statute of limitations here. The chairman never held a hearing and until today never met with advocates for the legislation. We talked to one woman who is one of the accusers of bill cosby and lives in the area who said shes disappointed that its not about me. Its about victims that have rights and they should be heard. The bill should come out of committee. It should become law. Reporter Council MemberKenyan Mcduffie said they were too busy to hold a hearing. I dont think the fact that youre not able to get to something during a twoyear Council Period demonstrates whether you care or not care about a bill. Reporter coming up, hear more from the cosby accuser, Council Members and also disappointed there was never a hearing. Mark seagraves, news 4. Developing now in georgia, a gunman who killed a Police Officer and critically injured another is dead. He took his own life. Americas police say the body was found after a 27hour man his location. Police heard a gunshot as they surrounded the house where he was holed up. Officials say he has a lengthy criminal history. Police officers in maryland jumped into action. Howard county police say the packages were stolen last night. They called 911. Two patrol ofrs a minute. They nabbed the would be thieves in the truck full of stolen holiday packages. Tonight Howard County police will be back in the neighborhood. Doug said it will be a cold winter. Cold autumn as well. We have some of the coldest air of the season. February. Maybe march. Lets show you whats happening now. We saw sunshine finally peeking through the clouds. Mostly cloudy skies all day long. Starting to see the sun. We are starting to see the winds pick up and the wind chill starting to be a fafactor. Winds out of the west at 14. Higher gusts and wind chills now in the 30s and low 40s. Look at the current temperatures. Look at the forecast for the beltway area. 40 degrees around 5 00. Dropping down to 31. You can tell well continue to go farther as we make it to tomorrow morning. We did see a few to the east of the d. C. Metro area. Big time up towards parts of new york. Already saw one 30car pileup because of the snow to the south of buffalo. Back to michigan, that shows you the cold air rushing over the lakes and rushing our way as well. Look at these numbers. Tomorrow and into saturday. s concerned. By 8 00, winchester maybe 19. Watch what happens by 11 00. Down to 20 in gathersburg. Wind chills in the teens. Chills as we make it out on friday. Same deal for saturday. It will be a frigid day across the region. Sunday also quite cold. The winds die down a little bit on saturday and sunday. Its a little bit better. A high of 39. Well talk more about this. Lauren has the latest w t snow is possible. Well talk more about that. Thank you, doug. They are ready to roll the dice. But there is a lot more to do with the new mgm National Harbor casino other than gamble. We speak with employees about what they are looking forward to the most. Plus a look at the new technology that helped a blind couple watch hairspray live allstar cast pulling off one of nbcs most ambitious live musicals yet. It aired here on nbc 4 last night. Its nbcs fourth live musical. Comcast and nbc are making it easier for the visually impaired to enjoy life broadcasts. Last night we caught up with a couple in arlington. They were able to enjoy the musical, thanks to a special feature. Yeah reporter here at the bridges familys house its hairspray night. Is it cool . . . Reporter the singing, dancing, costumes. The bridges are catching it all. A royal blue suit. Reporter a big feat seeing neither mom nor dad can see at all. I am blind due to being blind i went blind at 17. Reporter they may not get the same experience as tyler who can see but its close. They are using video descriptive services during pauses in dialogue it is described what happened. During a show, a regular Television Show youre left wondering whats going on. Whether somebody is sneaking up on somebody, pulling out a when the average person is watching you almost take it for granted because there are things you see, process and move on. Maybe you dont even think about it. Reporter the service is something a lot of shows are adding. Entertainment can be triflized. But in order to fully participate in society, having access to entertainment is something thats absolutely critical. Reporter it can be found under the secondary audio channel available to anyone with a tv. Turn to my friend next to me, whats happening . What was that . Whats going on . What are they wearing . Reporter now they can sit back and enjoy the show. Amy cho, news 4. Do you like the music . . . This hour Hillary Clinton is in washington. Shes on capitol hill speaking at a tribute for requiring senator harry reid. These are pictures from capitol hill. Clinton is one of several lawmakers speaking at the event after the ec unveiled. It is painted by a former member of the senators staff. Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell and House Democratic leader nancy pelosi are also attending the ceremony. We are taking a closer look at the man newly tapped to take a cabinet position in the trump administration. Why some climate advocates arent happy. 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The new casino will bring much more than slot machines and gambling. Its also a resort bringing celebrity acts and world class shopping to Prince Georges County. A lot of us are in the 40s now. But doug and lauren are tracking an arctic front. Sure. We are declaring a weather alert day because of the extreme cold. First at 4 00 the house passed a stop gap spending bill to keep the federal government running beyond friday. The bill funds operations through april 28. It expedites the process for confirming some of president elect trumps choices for defense secretary including retired general james mats and sets aside money for local programs as well. It paid museum of africanamerican history and culture and it will provide funds to beef up the staff at the National Gallery of art which recently reopened the east wing. The bills future is uncertain in the senate. Now to the transition of president elect donald trump. And a staffing pick that generated a firestorm of criticism. General scott pruitt has been a hoax and some call pruitt a Climate Science denier. Steve . Hes definitely a Global Warming doubter. He Needs Senate Confirmation on capitol hill. Today democrats are vowing they will not let him, in their words, bring epa to its knees. Most republicans love donald trump putting scott pruitt at fight climate change. Trump faces a fight with democrats. Hes going to try to turn the epa into standing for every polluters ally. Reporter he supported oil companies. In a trump transition release he said the American People are tired of seeing billions of dollars drained from the economy due to unnecessary epa wage fights. Obamacare opponent tom price going to hhs, School Voucher backer betsy de vos as education secretary. Democrats charge the trump team has one mission to dismantle and under mine and destroy the agencies they are now hoping to run. Reporter meanwhile trump who claimed he saved 1100 jobs in indiana at carrier blasted a unioea 730. Chuck jones, trump tweeted, has done a terrible job. Carrier said 800 jobs were saved. 300 were set to stay in the u. S. I dont regret or change anything i said. Reporter sounding like trump who by his epa and other picks is sticking by his pledge to shake up government. Democrats pledging to keep scott pruitt from being confirmed at declare publically if they believe in Global Warming. From the hill, steve handelsman, news 4. Well, the winds started to pick up. We have a little bit of sunshine out there. Some areas to the west with a little bit more sunshine. That cold air ushering in rather quickly. It looks like the cold air is here to stay. At least through the weekend. Well look at the wind at National Harbor. A nice view of the mgm casino opening up tonight. Hopefully nobody has to wait in line to get in. Temperature 48 degrees. We are seeing a little bit of wind out there coming out of the northwest at 10 to 15 miles per hour. That will only increase as we continue through the night. Temperatures are going to drop as we continue through tonight. Temperat