Wright at the live desk. We now now airasia flight 8501 crashed into the java sea off the coast of asia. Overnighs fou body and debris. A second u. S. Navy ship the u. S. S. Ft. Worth will head to the search scene to help. The u. S. S. Sampson is expected to arrive later today. 40 bodies have been pulled from the water so far. 162 people were on the plane. Recovery efforts continue tomorrow. Its nighttime in indonesia right now. Divers are planning to search investigators belie its the bulk of the planes wreckage and this is where they hope to find the the black boxes. Loved ones are preparing to board charter flights to fly over the last known location of flight 8501 to pray tomorrow. The president of indonesia is meeting with the victims families soon. At the live desk. Thank you. And many of the families watched the developments unfold on live tv. And uncensored. Ne jordan reports. Reporter these images aired on Indonesian Television show the latest discoveries that are evidence of a plane crash in the java sea. The relatives of the 162 people on board watched in horror as their worst fears played out before their eyes. Airasia flight vanished after the pilot reported severe storms ahead. They have radar on the plane crash until they went into probably a very dense part of the thunderstorm. Reporter the flight from surabaya to singapore disappeared minutes after a request from the cockpit declined in altitude because of bad weather. This is the first crash for airasia. They have a good Safety Record. But we all know just because you have a good Safety Record doesnt mean youre immune to events like this. Five resources have been asked to provide resources to tsearch. The u. S. S. Sampson was sent to help locate the wreckage but may be used for Recovery Efforts now that debris reported from the rl you can see the plane in the energy slides were deployed. Jeff tells nbc news there was turbulence, bu. He didnt realize they. There were no immediate reports of anyone hurt. The plane was on its way from manila. A water main break is causing traffic problems in Northern Virginia. We want to go back to kristen at the live desk. Reporter thats right. Its described as a large water main break. Columbia park is shut down between gordon and malibu circle. Police tweeted the picture this morning. They tell us the road he unstable and buckling. Therefore traffic is being diverted. Stay away from the area if you can. Repairs, police tell us are expecteded to take at least 24 hours, a full day. We are following the situation carefully and well have updates later on. Angie . Kristen, thanks. So for a second day in many a row, we started things off with gray skies, but check it out. It looks like a little sunshine is breaking through. Amelia is in for all. If youre still noticing cloudy skies in your area se dont worry. The clouds will continue to move out. Here on storm team 4 radar tracking light rain and snow showers, especially in st. Marys county on the eastern shore. You can see most of the activity has come to an end, pushing out of the area. And with that the clouds push out as well. By 2 00 p. M. Everybody seeing sunshine. Clear skies tonight mean cold overnight lows. Temperatures right now, were in the 30s. 39 in washington. 36 in gaithersburg. 36 in culpeper. High temperatu s and low 40s. 42 for a High Temperature in washington. Tomorrow new years eve day, cooler than today. Ill let you know how much cooler coming up in the full forecast at 11 30, angie. Amelia, thanks. Right now theres a big funeral for a Charles County officer killed in a car crash. Corporal clagget serveded for years. Reporte the the funeral procession for Corporal Jamel Clagett includes Law Enforcement officers from throughout our area and as far away as canada. Chopper 4 followed the long line of patrol cars that drove in a procession at 8 00 a. M. Traveling through waldorf. Residents lined portions of the route to pay respects to the sheriff deputy who serveded the the community for ten years. A horse drawn carriage bringing the casket to the front of the church. Taken inside for the the funeral service. Corporal Jamel Clagett was 30 years old, known for his acts of kindness. On sunday morning, december 21st after working the midnight shift, he brought breakfast to the officers working in the comm unit and then drove home to king george virginia. He was killed in a single vehicle crash when his patrol car hit a tree. After the funeral service, the casket will be carried by the horsedrawn car to the cemetery nearby. Helicopters will fly over in honor of clagett. Reporting from maryland news 4. And clagett is one of 126 officers who died this year. The narmt Law EnforcementMemorial Fund came out with a new report this morning. 50 more gun deaths in 2014 than 2013 and two dozen more than last year. However, the n 40 fewer than three years ago. New at midday. D. C. Police releasing ths of two people shot and killed in the district. Just yesterday 27yearold Gregory Brown was murdered on division avenue. 50yearold killed on sherman avenue on Christmas Eve. And the district has averaged a murder a day. Neighborhood commissioners say their constituents are concerned. They dont believe the police are advocates as they used to be in terms of getting out of their cars going to the bidses asking how theyre doing. The commissioners say that you can engage with police. Officers hold a meeting every month with their Police Service area which you can look up on your phone. New this morning, it is being called an honorable decision to step down by republican leaders. Coming up the latest on congressman grimms decision to leave office. And the difference local drivers will see in gas prices later this week that has nothing to d new york republican congressman Michael Grimm will resign. Grimm pleaded guilty to tax evasion last week. A republican source says he will resign before congrs returns to washington next week. The Staten Island congressman was indicted on 20 counts on charges of filing false tax returns. He was reelected to his seat in november while under indictment. Well you have only today and tomorrow to get the current price of gas in virginia. Starting new years day its expected to go up five cents. Right now the average price of gas in virginia is 2. 18 a gallon. The new tax is going towards a 6 billion transportation funding bill in the commonwealth. Well lastminute work today for mayor vincent grey who will be leaving office in days. Plus a republican leader facing serious questions about a speaking engagement with a group of whi supremacists. Beautif sunshine angie. How long does it last . Ill let you know in the full forecast at d. C. Mayor vincent grey is staying busy in his final week in office. T right now hes in the middle of signing four bills into law. Among them is a bill that allows public funds to help build a new soccer station. Megan mcgrath is live. Reporter well, angie, bowser will be sworn in as the new mayor, but t slowed down the current mayor at all. This morning he signed four bills into law, including legislation paving the way for a new soccer stadium. Quite a few d. C. United fans were on hand as he signed the legislation and they cheered. With just days left in office mayor gray is keeping a busy bill signing. I asked mim what bill he was most proud of. Ill tell you what im especially proud of, and thats the condition of our city. At this stage. You look at our Education Programs you look at our fiscal conditions you look at economic development. You look at unemployment. All of those areas which are fundamental to the functioning of the city are doing very well at this point. Mayor grey also signed a bill furthering work on the Memorial Park for the victims of 2009 metro crash. He also signed a bill to protect incapacitateded People Living with guardians. Repomcgrath news 4. This morning one military couple l has an amazing story to tell. T was golfing where they wanted to get married. Im s about your wedding. I feel terrible. Nobody told us. But i hope the wedding went okay anyway. It did, thank you very much. It was a blessing in disguise. We went right above the 16th hole. So we were watching you golf. That must have been kind of painful. The president shot an 84 by the way. The newlyweds are both marines. They said the view was even better and the golf course they were married on said they warn everybody things could change last minute if the president showup. Today new yorks mayor and the police ult face to face as tensions remain high between them. The rift twreen the two has escalated since the ambush style killing of two new york police officers. And in recent days the mayor was booed at a police graduation. Now one union head suggested the mayors stance contributed to the officers murder. Politicians reacting to the news that the House Majority whip once addressed a group of white supremacists. Know the beliefs of the group when he spoke to them in 2002. In a statement bobby jindal says im confident he rejects racism in all forms. End quote. On twitter Northern Virginia democrat writing no politician shou herself addressing a White Supremacist Organization excepto tell them to go to hell. Fo on the questions facing the House Majority whip we are joined by carrie dann Political Writer for nbc news. Good to see you. Good morning. When Steve Scalise spoke back then he said he would go to anyone who called. Is that a good enough explanation to get him through this . Well his explanation is he as not a high ranking house member as he is now. He didnt have a lot of staff. And he says he wouk speak to anybody who invited him. W the the original founder of the organization he addressed was very well known at the time. Another thing appears to be going against scalise is there were local news reports of other organizations w were scheduled to stay at the same hotel where who got wind of what was going on and decided to stay elsewhere. Those are questions where the how did you not know . He says look i showed up where i was asked to go. I want to move forward and find out, is there going to be a Ripple Effect from this . On a broader scale. The republicans are looking to revamp their image. Is there going to be backlash . This is a headache for scalise and republicans as a whole. Thal really wanted to go into the the new congress with a clean slate. This story is taking up a lot of oxygen. Its a very negative story. House lawmakers are still on vacation. Theye not around to speak about this in person. The second thing is it seems like a lot of organizations, not the big democratic organizations, but some are saying lets take time and see what the facts are here. If it comes to light that he didnt know what the organization was all about or past statements may seem forgiving or tolerant of these groups come to light, Speaker Boehner will be under a lot of pressure to dump scalise from the leadersht now its early to tell. Some democrats saying he should give up that post. Not the last were going to hear from it. Check out first read on nbcnews. Com. After last minute changes to the law, a look at whether the changes will delay you filing your taxes. And actress Kimberly Hill is so fine. Shes from the comedy marry me. Well get this you can ring in 2015 with your kids any time. You dont have to stay up until midnight on new years eve to celebrate. Netflix created an on demand countdown with king julian. Hes from the animated movie madagascar. The threeminute countdown is available now on netflix. She tried to buy a horse with your credit card. No she didnt try, she succeeded. Well, that is a scene from the nbc comedy marry me. The show follows annie and ja longtime couple who gets engage and discovers happily ever after is harder than it looks. R. Kimberly hill is joining us with more on the show and her connection to the area. Thanks for having me. How does it feel to be back on the ea my mother is here and my. I brought the whole crew. And you enjoy it . Yeah i come home every year for christmas. That is because you grew up in virginia beach. But got a lot of acting training graduate degree here the shakespeare theater company. That is classical theater. How did you make the shift to comedy . Its completely accidental. I went out there to do onehour drama. And just by way of the citizens brigade and california found my way to comedy. Next thing i knew thats what i was auditioning for. And marry me has become one of the top comedies. Its awesome. You read comedy is hard to do when you do it with people you dont know. How is this di s experience is different because casey rode the lead of the show everybody already knew each other. Weve all worked with each other over the years and we all worked together at ucb. We started off as friends. Casey and i had just come off doing another show together before we started this one. Its like working with family. Its exactly like working with family. We spend thanksgiving together. Thats cool. Do you have any other projects coming up we need to look out for . Right now were doing this . In may drunk history. And so thats what is on the lineup for now. Well youre keeping yourself busy. Enjoy your time with your family. We are going to be looking for you Kimberly Hill. You can catch marry me on nbc on tuesdays at 9 00 p. M. Thanks. Thank you. We have a warning from police on a phone scam victimizing local residents. Plus t maryland man accused of hitting and killing a cycle list. And will the sunshine last the new year . Amelia segal is back with a look at the forecast. And a water main break that could cause major traffic problems all day were staying on top of breaking news that could affect your drive home in Northern Virginia. T a water main break has columbia pike shut down. This is in fairfax county. S where we find david culver who just arrived to the scene. David, whats it look like . Reporter yeah were out here now, angie. Its quite a mess. They asked us to take a few steps back because theyre not sure how unstable this roadway is. Take a look at what youre seeing. This is columbia pike. The pavement buckled. You can hear that a little bit. You can its been buckled like this for an hour and a half or so. Let me show you the traffic now. Theyre diverting it down blare roid and further up theyre doing the same thing on tyler street. So they have all of columbia pike shut down trying to fix what was a 16inch water main break that were told broke in the last hour and a half or so. We can show you other images we got a little bit earlier. This is the roadway now as we see it. Its supposed to stay like this for 24 hours or so. Of course the concern midday not much traffic here. But the rush hour is when the concern will be. Were also going to check in with the neighbors and see what the affect will be on them through the evening and the big rush hour commute will be the focus. Well keep you posted. For now, back to you. David, thank you for the update there. The Chicago Blackhawks are playing on new years day. Youll have to watch news 4 later to see if Doug Kammerer can escape. Hes hitting the ice. Amelia segal be be there in the the expediti game. Were going to check in on her in a moment. Tickets are more than 250 each online right now. Well also air the game live here on nbc 4. Pregame with diana begins at 11 00 a. M. On new years day. The right weather conditions are important to keep the ice at Nationals Park in good shape. Its a chilly tuesday. We shouldnt have problems today. Storm team 4 meteorologist and hockey player amelia joining us now. Its funny youre in the game. Doug will be there hanging out. Growing up in this area youve been to the range one or times. Thats right. I have seen him on the ice. Hes pretty good. It was funny trying to pull the the gear together. My brother said 1980 called and want their gear back. Its so old. I definitely will. Temperatures today, sky covered today. Its very similar to wha be look for the winter classic. With that sunshine the glare off the ice could have an impact for the players. If youre going to the game its not going to impact you, if youre still seeing clouds they continue to move out in the afternoon. Beaul blue skies in the studios in the northwest. Looking to tomorrow, new years chilly. Temperatures on the cool side. Not the case for the weekend. Rain moves in on saturday and sunday. Temperatures 39 in washington. 38 for those of you in bowie. Well continue to warm a few more degrees in the afternoon hour. Our high today will be 42. And after ha the temperatures st and its going to be very cold tomorrow morning. Temperatures in the 20s. Maybe teens in the most rural areas as you wake up tomorrow morning. But today for the most part driving the car, definitely need the sunglasses. Just chilly if youre going for the walk or jog out and about. Its a warm jacket. Keep that jacket handy. Youll need it tomorrow and january 1st as well. Fretty much through the weekend. Tomorrow its 4 degrees cooler than today. But we start off with sunshine and keep that around throughout the day. A little breezy tomorrow but well add a windchill factor to the temperature. Mid night on wednesday as youre out. Mainly clear skies. Temperatures around 30 in washington 20 in the suburbs. Bundle up in a lot of layers. Heres the official forecast. Were looking at mostly sunny skies for the the game. Temperatures for the majority of the game will be in the the upper 30s. Heres the hour by hour. Noon a temperature of 39. Puck drops at. Breezy during. So although it will read the thermometer will read 39 42. Its going to feel about 30 degrees if y. Temperature of 37. Clouds and a high of 44. For the weekend it looks like ra moeshlly showers on sunday morning linger in. But the timing, we need to. And were cold. A High Temperature of 39 degrees. Amelia thanks. On new years day a group is planning