Thankyou tour tonight. The president elect will hold a rally in North Carolina just about an hour from now. These are are live pictures from the final preparations at that rally. Earlier today he made news about a tweet with canceling the order for new versions of air force one. Steve handelsman is tracking it all from capitol hill. Reporter the president elect is clearly making two points. Warning federal contractors, boeing is number two on a guy going to be running the federal government here in washington. Also reminding voters that he said hed clean up washington, change the way things are done here, and hes already started. If youre an airline, you want to buy a 747, boeing sells them for 400 million. President elect says a 500 markup for the air force one version is ridiculous. Donald trump surprised camera one to replace the old 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 bit of a number. We want boeing to make a lot of money, but not that much money. Reporter cancel order, trump tweeted. Boeing promised to deliver the best planes for the president at the best value for the american taxpayer. But just today the washington pos in waste. Trump is warning contractors. This government is not going to be taken as a sucker. If theyre going to find good deals and thats how he plans on running the government. Reporter trump vows to crack down on Foreign Trade deals, warning hed slap tariffs on goods from china and mexico, so jobs stay in the u. S. Convincing mike pence. Im for us putting everything on the table in negotiations. Reporter not tariff, say china could tax our products. We think the real solution here is comprehensive across the board tax reform, which is what well be hitting the ground running on. Reporter in new york, trump was back at the camera. This is masa of softbank from japan. Hes just agreed to invest 50 billion in the United States and 50,000 jobs. Reporter details are unclear, but trump is taking credit. To crunch those numbers, thats 50,000 jobs theres a lot of questions to answer. The president elect is in North Carolina on his thankyou tour. Hes certain to take credit and say hes already bringing jobs back to this country. Im steve handelsman, news4. Thank you. The 20 0 election marked only the second time in modern history that candidate won the popular vote but lost the election. Now some democrats are calling they say the Current System is outdated. We won National Popular vote for president. We want to get rid of the creeky and op sew lets Electoral College system the way its being practiced today. Hillary clinton leads donald trump in the popular vote by more than 2. 5 million votes. That margin was much slimmer back in the year 2000. George w. Bush won the Electoral College but the democratic can dashgts al gore, won the vote by about 500,000 votes. The vast majority of voters in the district did not vote for president elect. Today d. C. Mayor bowser traveled to new york to speak facetoface with mr. Trump. She says she brought up the issues that matter most to the People Living here. News4s Mark Segraves has details on that meeting. Reporter while mayor bowser gave few details about the specifics of the conversation she had with the across to the incoming president. I wanted to make very clear to him who we are, what our values are, what were about. And i welcomed him to the city. Reporter mayor bowser says shes glad she asked for the meeting with the next president and says she came away impressed by president elect trumps interest in d. C. He listened very intently. And he clearly is working very hard on the transition. Real regular kind of office. On the minds of the people in washington. Reporter mayor bowser says shes aware d. C. Is a district that voted overwhelmingly for hillary clinton. Im confident he heard our concerns and about the fear and anxiety that residents of the district have. And he was willing to hear and listen to those concerns. Reporter while bowser had tough words for mr. Trump during the campaign, she says her job now is to work with the federal the city he, to take care of the city and protect our values, but to also make sure that we can have a working relationship with our federal partners. Reporter mayor bowser didnt stop with her meeting here at trump tower. She also went a few blocks away to meet with former new york city mayor Mike Bloomberg at his Bloomberg Network headquarters. Mayor bowser said she wanted to talk to mayor bloomberg about one of the same topics she talked to donald trump about, reporting from new york city outside trump tower, Mark Segraves, news4. A popular d. C. Pizza restaurant is back open for the first time tonight since a gunman stormed in there over the weekend. News4s Megan Fitzgerald just got new reaction from the owner and shes outside comet ping pong with that. Reporter the owner has been through a lot the last couple of days and even over the past couple of weeks as he told us he had been receiving these threats was very candid. He said he was overwhelmed with emotion and was very grateful to the support hes seen across the area here and even around the world. But it wasnt just the owner of the pizza shop. We also talked to businesses along this stretch of connecticut avenue who say theyre very grateful for the support as well. It hasnt exactly been business as usual along this stretch of connecticut avenue. Paying close attention to the area. Its a reminder that just two days ago a gunman walked into comet ping pong and open fire inside. Good afternoon. How can i help you . Reporter but business goes on, nonetheless, for some shops. Showing support, being thankful for who we are. Reporter michael is the weve unfortunately been getting calls, very confrontational, very threatening. Reporter but for the last few days hes also surprised at the overwhelming show of support. Someone called in yesterday and they called us a beacon of light in the darkness. Its like you take its such a great thing to say. Reporter and down the street at comet ping pong. I was in the neighborhood, soy thought, well, they deserve a Little Community help. By for a slice of pizza. Others have laid flowers and taped handwritten notes outside to show they care. On friday, neighbors say they plan on flooding comet ping pong with business as a way of showing that love can drive out hate. Id like to say weve been completely overwhelmed and incredibly, incredibly touched by the support of our community here in washington and around the world. Reporter now, the creator of that Facebook Post that is asking people in the community to flood comet ping pong on friday tells us that so far over 1,000 people have rsvpd to arrive. Megan fitzgerald, thanks. Prince georges county council is taking some steps to safeguard its vehicles. They want to look at how those vehicles are issued and all of this after Council Member mel franklin crashed his countyissued car last month. He was arrested for dui. Today franklin was back on the job and some groups are calling on the council to hold him more accountable. Tracee wilkins has our report. . . Reporter Prince Georges CountyCouncil Chair davis played a little r b. He says the best is yet to come performance. This comes as one Citizen Group is calling for council to take action against one of its own. There needs to be accountable. Continue to keep all of us in our prayers. Reporter thats all the former Council Chair said in what was his first public appearance since his duchlt i arrest. He was arrested on november 21st after he crashed his countyissued vehicle into the back of another couples car, totaling their vehicle. According to the police report, franklin then fled the scene. They say he was found hiding in breathalyzer. This was his third time crashing a countyissued vehicle. In 2012 he crashed another vehicle due to distracted driving. They enacted emergency legislation with a citizen review board. This group will take a look at all of the issues that are there and have the ability to make recommendations up to that do include the possibility of home vehicles. Reporter executive director of progressive prince georges, 14,000 member Citizen Group is calling for much more. If hes not to step down, then the Council Members themselves as colleagues should do something that holds them accountable. Reporter this citizens board is expected to review the policies and pass over their suggestions for the county council this summer. Reporting live in marlboro, tracy will can kinz. Thank you. New at 6 00, what the Transit Agency has up its sleeves to keep those cars on track longer. Plus everything i did was to make this a stronger, more beautiful community. A Heated Exchange on live tv fuels new questions about whos responsible for a deadly warehouse fire. We have breaking news out of Fairfax County. Police are responding to the scene of a shooting in annandale. They have just tweeted out that four people were hurt and have been taken to a hospital. Were making phone calls to get more details about this. News4 is headed to the scene. Well stay on top of this story throughout the night and bring you any new developments here on the air and in the nbc washington app. I only want to talk i dont want to talk about it. I dont want to talk about me. I dont want to talk about profiting. This was profit . The loss of mass life . Like, im a father. I laid my three children profit . This is not profit. This is loss. This is a mass grave. The man who turned an empty warehouse into an artist colony is speaking out for the first time. That warehouse burned down killing at least 36 people over the weekend. News4s Jennifer Bjorklund is live in oakland, california, with the latest from there and some of the stories of what jennifer . Reporter good evening. Yes, the building is 85 , 90 clear now they say. They sifted through most of the debris there and they expect to be finished by midnight. They will not stop until everyones accounted for. Heartbreaking stories of loss coming out of memorials for the 36 confirmed dead here at the ghost ship, which is now a gutted hull. As flames chewed the warehouse late friday, people trapped reporter she says the fire broke out next to her room. I wish i could give a reason why im alive and so many people arent but i cant. Reporter the warehouse leased to Derick Almena three years ago was never meant to be a living space. He said it was meant to be a safe haven for them. If we made changes . I would like to say we made possibly could afford to do. Reporter a musician who was playing there that night stepped outside for a cigarette and watched as the fire exploded in front of him, his friends trapped inside. I just watched the exit and waited to see if my friends would come out. And nobody did. Reporter the building was cited multiple times, twice in the last month for clutter and graffiti. While crews dont expect to find any more victims remains now, sure. Were going to continue the process until absolutely every piece of debris is removed from this building. Every area has been searched. Reporter looking for answers in the ashes, as missing are identified and families wait for news, they dont want to hear. That news has come for most of the family but the work just begins for the coroner as they remains. Jennifer bjorklund, live in oakland. Thank you. Right now Montgomery County police have a plea out for Publics Health as they search for the man seen in this surveillance video. They say he carjacked a woman after robbing a gas station in Silver Spring. Its not his first offense. Pat collins is covering Montgomery County for us tonight. Whats going on . Reporter well, hes got a gun and hes getting bolder and bolder. Police want to get before someone gets hurt when you watch this, youll understand why. What youre about to witness is a carjacking. The man carrying the black plastic bag is a suspect. Victim, a woman in the front seat of this car at the shell, Silver Spring gas station. The man forces her out of the can car but he lets her keep her bag and cell phone. Another customer tries to intervene. The customer backs off. Then the suspect drives off in the stolen car. Forgetting the pump nozzle is still in the tank. Once he stops to fix that, he finally makes his escape. Now, the suspect in the carjacking is a man linked to a series of four gas station robberies in Silver Spring. Each time the gunman makes the same demand. But the carjacking is something new. For police, most concerning. This is the fourth robbery of a gas station hes been linked to and in a robbery hes escalated his level of violence. Now hes carjacking victims out in the parking lot. Youre worried this could get even more violent . Correct. Reporter the carjacking came after the Armed Robbery of the cigarettes, theres the money, theres the clerk after hes ordered to the floor. Jake was here that night. He came to the aid of his coworker. Does it make you a little nervous doing this job now . Yes, because youll be suspicious of customers that might do something to you. Reporter have to be careful . Yeah. Reporter now, that stolen car, a 2008 black ion is still and the suspect here still at large. Back to you. Pat collins, thanks. A little over 48 hours from now the mgm casino at National Harbor will open its doors and controlling all that traffic is not going to be easy. Whats happening behind the scenes to make sure everything is running smoothly and safely. Traffic not running smoothly at all across the area today because of all the rain weve seen. But its been a cold rain. Not anything like the cold were in for next. . . . . . . . . Look at that there you go. Its beginning to look a lot like christmas at u. S. Capitol. House Speaker Paul Ryan flipped the switch at the annual Tree Lighting about an hour ago. This tree comes from fayette National Forest in idaho. Its an 80foot engelman spruce decorated with handmade orangements for citizens across that state. A small crowd was on hand for trees ive seen. We cannot say the same about the weather we had today. Really nasty out there. This is the kind of day that i dont think anybody enjoys a day like this. Cold, nasty, just and i think a lot of people are wondering, doug, what this what would have happened if this was snow. First off, let me answer vances question first. Today. They loved it today. Number two, if this was snow, we would be talking about over a foot of snow. That would have been a nice snowstorm. You remember my winter forecast, i said nothing over a foot this year. We remember. Thats why this one was not snow. Okay, lets take a look and show you whats happening right now. Storm team 4 radar tracking the rain. I almost said tracking the snow. Tracking the rain. The heaviest rain has moved out of the metro d. C. Area. Can you see the yellows and orang p south. We have some light rain now. Its steady rain still in the d. C. Area. Notice the back edge, getting ready to get out of here. Down to the south, though we are looking at some heaviest rain. South of st. Marys county, down towards st. Georges island, across towards westmoreland county. Hello to our friends down there. As we make our way out over the next couple of hours, you see the back edge slowly moving the heaviest rain is now out of the region and will continue to move out. Total rainfall today, 0. 9 of an inch in d. C. Nearly an inch in quantico. Over an inch in fredericksburg. Threequarters of an inch towards west chester. Much needed rainfall. The. It was a cold rain. Temperatures today only in the 40s and 30s back to the west. We still have some showers. Heres 11 00. This is what im talkin overnight tonight into tomorrow morning, not a bad day. Well clear out. Well see some sunshine during the afternoon. That will be quite nice. But temperatures back up to around the low 50s. At least in the d. C. Area. Right now, were at 43 degrees. Winds out of the east at 14 miles an hour. Its breezy. That adds to it, that northeasterly wind keeping the cool air in here. 41, gaithersburg. 36 in port royal. I think these numbers will stay right around where they are right now. Maybe actually rise toward the morning. 40 in the morning for d. C. 52 by 3 00. Not a bad day on your wednesday. But on thursday we see another change. That change comes with yet another cold front. Temperatures of 47 on thursday. We may see a shower maybe mixed with snow on thursday afternoon. But its not a big deal. What is a big deal is the cold. 39 degrees on next week we get even colder. Yeah, even colder. Some of you might not make it out of the 20s. My extended forecast coming up. Thank you. A bizarre scene on a busy highway. An alleged shoplifter surrendering to police in the middle of the freeway. Well show you how this started with a scary situation at a busy mall. Three years after a policeinvolved shooting in a local area, well tell you how leaders are trying to build questions over whether the system is safe enough for riders. Today we go behind the scenes to see how metro is upgrading its rail cars, replacing old cars with new ones and promising riders to get rid of trains that now at 6 30, a behind the scenes look at how metro is planning to speed up repairs on its rail cars and hopefully improve safety. Were in greenville with that story. Reporter metro says most of the delays that people experience are because of some of the really old rail cars. This right here is one of the facilities where they bring some of those trains to be fixed. People are just tired of it. Metros general manager, though, says he understands that and that metro is work