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WRC News4 At 4 January 13, 2017

You notice just back to the west we are seeing some moisture starting to make its way in towards west virginia. Heres the bulk of the moisture. You make a beeline come into the south of d. C. , south and west of the area first. There is a Winter Weather advisory for just about the entire region. Were going to get a wintery mix here out of this. Some snow, some sleet and even some freezing rain. Look at the numbers here. The current temperature is 54 degrees. Were at 44 in hagerstown. Even State College is at 36. Thats all well above freezing. Thats why we think this is going to be a light to moderate event. Especially hearing how road crews are already out today pretreating the roads. Thankfully the brine is out there. Take a look at the roads tomorrow. So many people are asking what are travel conditions going to be like . We really going to be fine. Some slick spots on secondary roads. In the mountains, if youre going skiing, icy out that way. Bridges and over passes are where you want to be the most cautious tomorrow. Just a week before his inauguration, the president elect went on another tweet storm this morning as nbcs Edward Lawrence reports. Donald trump is sounding off on everything from russia to a new Justice Department review of the clinton email case. Fbi director james comey went to capitol hill for a classified talk about russian hacking. All i can tell you is the fbi director has no credibility. Comeys focus, russian hacking to influence the election. But a new investigation will examine whether he tilted a close race by publicly commenting on Hillary Clintons emails. Demo they wanted and have new questions about calls Incoming National security advisor Michael Flynn made to russias ambassador the same day sanctions were announced. We really need to have one president at a time. I certainly hope no one on the trump team was trying to under cut what president obama was doing. In a flurry of tweets, the president elect says he will have his own people author a full report on hacking within 90 days. Mr. Trump also renewed his vow that obamacare will be repealed. The house today moved one step closer to gutting the Affordable Care act. We have to step in before things get worse. This is nothing short of a rescue mission. Congress will now start hearings to write new healthcare laws so the president can sign them in the first 100 days. The secretary of Homeland Security says special precautions will be taken so the swearing in ceremony wont be disrupted. This all comes as president obama gets ready to say farewell in just a weeks time. Lester holt spoke exclusively with the president in a interview for dateline tonight. Barack obama started his campaign for the white house nine years ago on the basis of hope. As he comes to the end of his presidency, does he have any left . You know, he does. He says he has a lot of hope left. That was really the idea of this hour. We wanted an intimate conversation. I met him at Andrews Air Force base on tuesday and flew to chicago with him and spoke to him ahead of his farewell speech. We kind of started the conversation about that moment in grant park in chicago, the ago. He was talking about hope and the crowd was chanting back at him. The crowd was chanting, yes, we can. He says, yes, we did. And he will tick off a list of accomplishments and he says the country is in a better place today than when he took over. His amazingly optimistic. He admits he was shocked by the election of donald trump. He knows that some of his initiatives will be rolled back, but he feels that look, he says, i showed some things that were possible on the environment, on healthcare and some other things. To that extent, he feels good about what they accomplished. He mentioned that he hasnt done quite enough, didnt do enough to promote his own programs. Did he talk about that . He did. He says, you know, i was busy with the office of the presidency. He says, i wish that maybe i could have spend more time kind of building up the grassroots that were a par propelled donald trump to victory. I said, you know, were you personally wounded by the surprise results that donald trump was elected. He says, yes, he was. Thank you so much. We can catch the entire dateline special the reality of hope tonight at 10 00. Chopper 4 was on the scene in Prince Georges County this afternoon. A High School Student is in the hospital right now after getting shot just steps from the school. This is video of the student arriving at that hospital after the shooting. Doctors tell us he is expected to be okay. Reportedly the shooting started after people got into a fight in an apartment near the school annex. One of those bullets reportedly hit the building. Tracee wilkins is live in forestville talking to students. Reporter there are a lot of people here trying to figure out this is the annex here right behind me. Its a building that is separate from the Main Building of the school, sits behind the school. This is the parking lot where the shooting happened. Police tell us this is one of the areas where a bullet ricochetted off the back of this car. They collected at least five shell casings from this parking lot. One student shot. This all happened just after noon when there was a report of a student shot here. Now, according to what weve been told by Prince Georges County police, a group of students left the school, came out into the parking lot, got into an argument. One student takes out a gun, shoots the other student. That student is then dragged back towards the school. Also, in the midst of all of this there was one bullet that pierced a window of a music classroom at the annex. Luckily no other students were injured. Ran away through the apartment complex. Prince georges county police still looking for this student. We talked with students who were here at the school when it all unfolded. We were walking down the annex. We heard the shot and so we just ran up here. Reporter how many shots did you hear . I only heard one. I was scared. I was running. This is a serious occasion. I mean, someone brought a gun to school. Lives could be lost. Reporter this is a performing arts school with high achieving students. They dont understand how Something Like this could happen here. Coming up on news4 at 5 00, the chaos that parents felt when they found out about this shooting, not knowing which student was involved. Reporting live, tracee wilkins. As we track Winter Weather moving in, what you can do right now to make sure your home stays warm and safe. Money back and major punishments. The latest on that takata air bag Safety Investigation whenwe afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The north and the south are mine. All seems beautiful to me. The announcement is a result of a joint criminal investigation into takatas faulty air bags which are responsible for 16 deaths world wide and more than 100 making that announcement this afternoon and Holding Nothing back. In an indictment just unsealed today against three takata executives, it says they schemed to defraud their customers by manipulating testing of its air bags. Takata new its air bag inflaters were exploding during testing but wanted to put profit over safety. We want them to know if they sell products designed to help consumers, they have to put safety ahead of profits. Those who cheat will be held accountab accountable. Takatas 1 billion settlement will be for restitution. Another car manufacturer announces a recall of more than 500,000 vehicles bags. Reporter coming up here, this popular spot, a very popular trail, it turned crime scene twice in one week. Im going to tell you what one of the suspects was carrying. Weve got that Winter Weather alert across our area. Rex tillerson put exxons interests before americas. Lerson sided with putin. With billions in russian oil deals. He opposed us sanctions on russia. For war crimes forced to pay hundreds of millions for toxic pollution. Putting profits ahead of our kids health. Tell your senators to reject rex tillerson. And protect american interests not corporate interests. A spot on the georgetown waterfront, once again, a crime scene for the second time in one week. Park police are investigating two separate Armed Robbery cases. David culver joins us to explain what happened there. Reporter i want to set the scene for you while its still light outside. This is the capital crescent trail. A very popular area. Youve got runners and joggers already out there. Up here youve got the old aq aquaduct bridge. Whats most striking about these armed robberies is that one of the suspects was using a machine gun. Its that perfect spot for a bike ride, a jog or just a midday stroll. The paved trail runs along the potomac. It connects to the trail. Its a commuter route. Theres a lot of fun stuff to do doing that. Reporter that feeling not likely to return until detectives find whos behind two bold robberies. One of the weapons was described as a machine gun and the other one is a handgun. Reporter the second incident, this past wednesday, middle of the afternoon, still light outside. This time, two suspects. Its two men, both armed again with a machine gun and a handgun. Reporter we did notice detectives were back out here today. They were focused in on the potomac boat club. Not clear if those cameras actually caught anything. The investigation, still ongoing. Just before noon, chopper 4 was over the scene of an accident whein burke where an s crashed into a building. There were folks inside the came through. Were told there were several injuries. The cause of that crash is still under investigation. The slick weather headed our way could make driving a little tricky out there. Earlier this afternoon chopper 4 spotted four maryland road crews spreading a salt solution along i270. These pictures are from bethesda. The Maryland Department of transportation says its pretreating roads and bridges before the winter storm expected tomorrow morning. However, officials are also urging you to drive and make smart decisions about your travel. Stay off the roads when conditions are particularly snowy or icy. A lot of that just comes down to timing, listening to the forecast and knowing when its going to go out. Whats the timeline . This moves in overnight tonight. Most likely in about the next 612 hours. Maybe even after 11 00 tonight we start to see some moisture moving in across our region. Right now we still have the temperatures into the low 50s. 54 degrees still the current temperature there. 46 by 7 00. Dropping into the 30s by around 11 00. Thats still 38. Hard to get frozen precip at 38 degrees. We have that Winter Weather advisory for everybody across our area, the exception fredericksburg and down towards extreme southern maryland. Your temperatures should stay above freezing. You may see sleet, but not too many effects on the roads. We may start off with light snow and then transform over, but this is mainly a sleet event. The difference between sleet and freezing rain, sleet will bounce off of your car, bounce off the road. You will be able to get traction on the roadways. Freezing rain is just a sheet of ice. You wont be able to get traction on that. Sleet better than freezing rain. You folks to deal with it a little bit longer. Back to the west, starting to see the moisture moving our way. You can see a lot of rain back towards kentucky. Look at parts of the west virginia. Sleet and snow developing here. But with temperatures this warm, its going to be really hard to have any problems on the roadways, at least during the early part of the storm. The cold air is not racing on in here even as the storm system is trying to do that. The clouds are here. By 11 00 tonight, notice heres our computer model with snow on the northern side. Maybe just some rain showers down to the south. By 5 00 a. M. This is interesting, this has almost all snow d. C. To fredericksburg. Im not really buying this. Again, i think this is mostly a sleet event, maybe snow at the onset. Thats why we have the winder weather advisory because i snow, maybe some freezing rain for you folks back to the mountains. You see the warmer temperatures coming up. Thats why its just plain rain by late tomorrow afternoon. Sleet to an ice rain mix during the afternoon. Mainly rain down to the south and a little bit of ice. This is the area back to the west where we could have the bulk of the ice, sleet, possibly into freezing rain. I want to show you tomorrow mornings temperatures, dropping to the 30s. We are below freezing in many areas. But those road temperatures may stay above freezing. Not a huge event but still a weather alert for sure. Temperatures bounce back to 45 degrees on sunday. Another chance of some rain, maybe some sleet mixed in on monday. Then look how warm we are next week. Inauguration day, 61 degrees. Tracking the flu. Could it be worse this year than last . Om and the young girl whos being hailed as a hero. Her act of brav did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. Flu cases are climbing across the country. 21 states now have widespread flu activity. The cdc says most states are in new england, the mid atlantic and the northwest. More than 15,000 cases of the flu have been diagnosed so far and three children have died. This years vaccine appears to be a good match for the circulating virus. Doctors say theres still time to get vaccinated. An 8yearold girl is being hailed a hero after she saved two of her brothers from a raging house fire in baltimore. The 4 and 5yearold boys along with their mother are still in the hospital still in critical condition. Sadly, six other siblings died in the fire on Springwood Avenue early yesterday morning. Neighbors are still in shock about what happened. But theyre amazed at the poise and bravery of this little girl. She came here to do her job on earth and her job was to save a life. My heart right now, it crumbles every time im talking about it. It keep crumbling because i could try to do more. My daughter said, dad, you couldnt do no more because there was too much fire. The little girls mother maryland congressman elijah cummings. After talking to witnesses and sifting through the evidence, investigators in baltimore are getting close to pinning down the cause of the fire. They think a space heater may be to blame. Reporter charred remains now reduced to so much rubble. This house is beyond saving. Fire Officials Say the first equipment got here within three minutes of the alarm going in. But that wasnt enough time to save the six children who died here. We talked to marylands fire marshal. He says that just goes to illustrate how important time is in a case like this, how important it is to have a plan of escape. Practice and plan. When that smoke alarm goes off, you have a very short window of time to get you and your family up and out of your house. I think thats the most extremely important thing. Later on news4, more about what you can do to keep yourself safe as the Investigation Continues into just what c this fire. Its only getting colder as the suns sets over washington. Whens our next chance for temperatures in the 60s. Amelia draper has the answer ahead. And an inside look at how the air force is getting ready for the inauguration next week. Plus, the story that had everybody buzzing on social media today. The Vice President elect goes to the store, a local grocery store. Yeah. When your wife says go around 38 degrees at that point. This is the system were tracking on storm team 4 radar, this moisture moving from west to east slowly into our area. Again, were not talking about a lot of snow and sleet. If youre traveling, be careful out there, especially on bridges, overpasses and secondary roads. The main roads should be just fine. Little to no snow, sleets the main concern, especially here in the d. C. Metro area. We slowly start to dry out saturday night. Sunday looking mainly dry. More coming up in my full forecast. Make sure you follow nbc washington on facebook for all of the latest weather updates. Also download the nbc washington app to get up to date weather forecasts and breaking weather news. Even the future Vice President needs ice cream every once in a while. The Washington Post caught mike pence shopping last night at his local safeway in chevy chase. He was going for two tubs of turkey hill ice cream. Not sure which flavor. He later tweeted, i can when mrs. Pence asks me to pick up ice cream, i pick up ice cream. Even the Vice President has a honey do list. I feel him. When the wife says go, youre out the door. The air force will play a big role in next weeks inauguration ceremonies. Today, we talked to airmen getting ready at joint base andrews. Reporter from the honor guard reporter to the band. Security. More than a thousand airmen will be involved in next weeks inauguration. Deirdre kimbro, this will be her first time inaugural parade and she cant wait. Its about our democracy. Its how we do things. Its how we celebrate. I really am excited about that. I believe in that. Im excited about it. Reporter Master Sergeant jay hel, the heltze is excited too. Theres the new commander in chief, right there in person as youre walking by rendering honors for the first time as the new commander. To see them in person and to be part of this historic event, its all really exciting. Reporter federal and local Law Enforcement will take the lead on security. But the us air force will be standing by with resources should the need arise. Resources like helicopters, specially trained dogs, even a bomb disposal we have a disrupter device that is able to disrupt the device and render it safe should we have the need to do so. Reporter some asp

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