By with four things we need to know. All right, chuck. Four things you need to know after another a great day yesterday. Wow, what a difference today. 20 to 30 degrees colder for your time outside later today than yesterday. In addition to that, not anything in the way of substantial sunshine. Either raindrops will be moving in probably for most of us before the sun goes down. It looks like 2015 will end on a mild note but Colder Weather will arrive just in time for the new year. For now, though, again, Severe Weather in the deep south. Snow and messy wintry weather as you get up toward the midwest. There are Winter Weather advisories for southern pennsylvania and freezing rain advisories for far western maryland. Thats for late this evening into the overnight hours. Rain most likely after 12 00 to 3k in the south. Aflievg the metro area between 3 00 and 6 00 today. Well talk about how much rain in a few minutes. Now over to kim mccormick. We still have that crash. A single right lane gets you through. Best alternative is to hop off and take it to bwi if thats where youre headed or head to baltimore. The rest of the area, nice and quiet this early morning. No significant issues. That is good news. Wherever you happen to be going, dont worry. You can get out of the house. Way tonight remiennd vre riders youre at full service as well as m. A. R. C. Thank you, kim. A key player for the Washington Nationals facing a scandal this morning. An investigative report by al jazeera claims that Ryan Zimmerman reportedly used drugs. They came from indiana. Ryan has unequivocally stated these allegations are false. We are confident that the Major League Baseballs investigation will show that the reports are unfounded, unquote. Also cited that al jazeera report, they claim Peyton Manning used drugs while recovering from a neck injury in 2011. He, too, denies using performanceenhancing drugs and its disgusting. Its a joke. Its a friggin joke. They cited a man name chardly sly who claimed to be a pharmacist. He later denied the report saying he made up the story. Manage says he will likely sue over the allegations. 4 33. Decision 2016. Donald trump is calling the Republican Party stupid. The president ial hopeful sent out tweets over the weekend that they requiring them to fill out an allegiance. Trump tweeted that rekwiermtd pushes out independent voters. Nbcs moore will have more. A d. C. Teenager is being remembered. They walked from his home to depaul Public Charter School where the 17yearold went to school. He was one of the good ones. He was a student that of all things you would think this would never happen to. Police say ochoa was stabbed to death. They found him stabbed about a week ago. Police are looking for a man who robbed a supermarket in virginia. This happened in Falls Church Just before saturday night. Police say the suspect pulled out a gun and demanded money from an employee who closed the stoor at the time. He got away with 20,000 but investigators have not confirmed that exact amount. A developing story this morning out of chicago. My mama just opened the door and they shot and killed my mama. Outrage from two families who say Police Officers first shot and then asked questions. Two people died as Police Responded to a domestic issue over the weekend. This morning mayor rahm emanuel is calling for a review of howl responders to it. They say the 19yearold was having a Mental Health condition. He was combative when they approached. He was shot and killed. 55yearold betty jones lived downstairs. She was accidentally killed by the gun fire. Theyre investigating the police dmts after the deadly shooting of a teenage er last year. A man is in the hospital this morning. His mother dead after a tragic accident in anne arundel county. This happened where the Baltimore Beltway and bw merge. He lost control of his car and slid into a bus. His mother miriam was in the car with him and she died at the scene. No one on the bus was hurt. New details this morning over a massive mall fight in kentucky. Police say anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000 teenagers were involved saturday night. No injuries and no arrests were made either, but the mall is considering stricter policies to stop this from happening again. Well, if you are thinking of inviting someone to go see star wars, chances are they already saw it. It reach 1 billion. It did that in 12 days. The fastest to reach that. Thats incredible. Jurassic world was the most recent. It hit a billion in days but that included china. This doesnt open there until two weeks. This broke the box office on Christmas Day. 45 million. Did you see it . Not yet. Spectacular. And i havent seen any of the other ones. You were able to pick it up like that. You need to see one or two. Nah. Ill take your word for it. Chuck is changing his hourbyhour forecast. Heres one way to have fewer cars on the roadways. Leaders in one european country are cutting down on the pollution and commute. Developing right now, massive flooding in northern new england. The high rome is dealing with pollution in one kind of way. Its pretty unique. Only cars with evennumbered license numbers are allowed on the roadway. Oddnumbered get their day tomorrow. Smog levels made worse by a lack of rain there. They told residents not to turn their thermostats higher than 64 degrees. Right now hundreds of flood warnings remain as weeks of rain wreak havoc on northern new england. The water is damaging and destroying buildings and forces hundreds from homes. Near manchester, a 200yearold pub was almost completely washed away. Rescue crews used boats to evacuate neighborhoods. 4 41. We check in with chuck bell. It looks cool and breezy. We got awfully spoiled yesterday. 70 degrees. Weve had 13 days 60 degrees or warmer this month. That is crazy warm. But were not that warm now. Back into the mid to upper 40s. Mid to upper 40s here early this morning. Notice temperatures trending ever downward with time during the day so buy bithe time you get to 4 00 or 5 00 this afternoon, upper 30s and low 40s with rain moving in. Well talk about how much rain is expected and how its going to impact your plans drivabliin locally or leashing town. Heres kim mccormick. We have a crash north of route 100. A single right lane does get you through. You can use i95 to 195. Of course, you can use that to get into baltimore or you can detour and take that to 170 if you are going to bwi. Now, if youre traveling on the beltway this morning you will find that things are moving along quite nicely for you in prince georges county. This is the beltway north of kenilworth avenue. If youre traveling 66, youre running along at posted speeds. Once you get in your car this morning, dont forget, tune in to wtop 103. 5 f. M. The president ial candidates are not slowing down. Theyre going speed into the new year. The now we want to take you to the latest in 2016. Diop ald trump is now taking on former Hillary Clinton as well as former president bill clinton while trying to take on ted cruz. Good morning, edward. Five weeks away from the caucuses. Right now donald trump is in a virtual dead heat in the latest polls in iowa. Hes grabbing headlines and trying to get his voters to come out to caucus. They can really see his support during the rallies. Over the weekend trump went over hillary again, this time over her husband. He said bill clinton had a p penchant for sexism. Thats exactly what hillary said of trump. Now, all of this comes as trump is rising in the polls. Trying to fejd off senator ted cruz. Political experts say the real challenge will be able to see if trump can get his supporters to come out to caucus. Reporting live on capitol hill, edward lawrence. Back to you. Thats a big question, edward, thanks. A big story across the maryland border. Police say an inmate is skated last night. Theyre looking for waylon hanl hanlon. They say hanlon climbed a fence and disappeared into the woods. This happened sunday afternoon on v and second streets wchlre told one man was conscious when emts rushed him to the hospital. Theres still no word on the second victim. They say he took off in a sports call. A man facing dui charges after hitting a car and sending four people to the hospital. Freddie herndon crashed on benning road. Police arrested him at the scene. A man, a woman, a twonld children were taken to the hospital with two injuries. A suspect on the run for a Christmas Day shooting is captured in prince georges county. 37yearold Rafael Herrera was allegedly shot. She recently asked for a divorce. Police say the woman was shot in the arm as well as the neck and she is expected to be oklahoma. Herrera was captured and arrested on saturday. Right now charges are pending. A food fight is brewing this morning. A resident chef and guy fieri is being sued by his longterm business partner. Steve gruber said the food guru plans to ditch the chain garlic nicks. Today bostons Health Inspector will eat at a chipotle. He said hell eat there as a show of confidence. Inspectors point to a sick employee, not the food, as the likely cause. The outbreak is not linked to multiple cases of e. Coli also connected to the food chain. Right now firefighters in Southern California are wanting to weather as they finish battling a mavis wild fooifrmt this is in ventura. Over the weekend changing winds forced dozens of people to evacuate their homes pretty quickly. Once the winds calmed down, they were able to get that fire 75 contains. Now officials are worried any rainfall can trigger landslides right underneath their homes. Republicans in the General Assembly are expected to block Governor Terry mcauliffes plans. He told our news partner wtop hell try to work a deal out behind closed doors. Governor mcauliffe said it could come down to oneonone meetings for people concerned with high costs and poor execution. The size of the d. C. Police force is at a tellyear low. Thats according to the washington post. Its fallen to below 3,800. Thats below 3,900 a year ago. They say retiermd during the 89 hiring are part of the issue. An astronaut tim peek started the call by saying, hello, is this planet earth but she thought it was a joke and hung up. He said id like to apologize to the lady i called by mistake. Just the wrong number. Theyre still smiling this morning after a big win this weekend. They beat the Philadelphia Eagles on saturday night to become the nfc division champs. Up next, the first trip to the playoffs since 2012. The fans couldnt wait. They showed up at 2 20 in the morning on saturday at redskins park in ashburn. Oh, man. Its awesome. There was a up the of people there. A great experience. We were all riding high. To see our supporters come out like that. Hundreds and hundreds. The redskins will likely play the Seattle Seahawks in their first playoff game. Good luck, guys. Yeah. In annapolis the navy is playing at home. The midshipmen is taking on the panthers. Both teams finished second in their conferences. re looking at video from the last time they played two years ago. Before it starts, if military bowl parade is happening at 11 00 a. M. The tailgating starts at 9 00 a. M. Big shoutout to jordan pittman whos a son of one of our colleagues, tony and his wife michelle. Weve got to Say Something ni nice. If youre headed out, you may want to pack the poncho. The rain will be moving as the rain is coming to an end. But your weather and the plans, it going to impact. Doing things around town before noon. Cloudy, breezy, and chilly. No big weather issues. Noon to 6 00 p. M. Showers moving in primarily from the south before it reaches Frederick Maryland and after 6 00 rain becoming steady. Evening plans will be much more impacts. Driving. Driving north in pennsylvania, new york, chances for wintry weather there and if youre flying, bigger delays out to the south and west. Heres where you have real truchblt cincinnati, chicago, st. Louis. Dlarks new orleans, memphis, this is Severe Weather with thunderstorms and 60s in memphis and that snow from Oklahoma City westbound. Flying in and out of chicago today, already wintry weather there. Here comes the rain chances. Cloudy skies through all this morning. Afternoon time, here comes the real better chances for rain lifting into the area. By 6 00 everybody should have raindrops around. What to expect . A cloudy and chilly day with temperatures falling throughout the course of the day. For today, rain moochk in. Temperatures falling. Tomorrow, most of the rain, front half of the day and most of the rain chances on wednesday are on the second half of the day. Thursday, new years eve, thats the next big change. Finally, believe it or not, sunshine coming back for new years eve. New years day if youre one of the many revelers rngs it should be dry and chilly. At 6 01, well give you your 2024inchhour focus. Heres kick mihm core mick. Thanks. If you eriehooded to either baltimore or the airport you definitely want to think about taking an alternate route. Now, if youre traveling across the bay bridge, whether youre coming home for the holiday or have some time off, be careful. There are Wind Warnings posted at the bay bridge. If youre driving a high side vehicle, you need too be very careful. South of the occoquan, youre moving quite well. There are no reports of problems so far. Thank you, kim. 4 54. Christmas is over but the Holiday Shopping season sure isnt. Why walls across the country are expected to be just as packed this week. And hundreds of thousand os who are expected to get some big changes are on the way for radio control aircraft enthusiasts. It has temporarily ground thousands of radio controlled flyers. Rc controllers cannot fly their aircraft within 30 miles of Reagan National airport. That means theyre grounded from manassas and southern baltimore even at designated r. C. Fields. Some Say Technology is outpacing regulation. The government along with everybody else is trying to figure out how were going to integrate that into society. Well, the faa is upgrading it. A lot of talk about the patriots and the new york jets. The patriots took their third loss of the season in overtime and some people are saying they just gave the game away. The new england team won the overtime coin flip but chose to kick the ball to new york who scored and won. Some are calling it the belichick scandal for patriots coach bill belichick. Well dwroirjts have , you do an entrance fee the next time you enter the national park. They decided the money was no longer costeffective. Well, Holiday Shopping is not over. A lot of you plan to take advantage of some post christmas deals. The National Retail federation says 66 say theyll shop this week. 47 say theyll go the store. Another 43 say theyll shop online. Dont forget. Its not too soon to take down your christmas tree. I know some who have. If you bought a real one it could be dry and turn into a fire hazard. We showed you how quickly it can burn up. The National Fire council says you should recycle it. The proposed change comes after a survey was conducted over the summer bety marine corps uniform board. Final decisions are still pending but the marines input will be taken into account. Earlier this month they recognized lock and twisthairstyles for women in the marine corps. Right now texas is dealinging with devastation. Toerjds hit outside of dallas leaving a trail of destruction. Good morning, everyone. Im angie goff. Eun has the day off. And im aaron gilchrist. It is 5 00 a. M. We want to get you up to speed. We want to check in with chuck bell and breaking it down over the next 24 hours. Good morning, angie and eun eun. Aaron. Cloudy skies have returned. Breezy and chilly on your way out the door and rain. Cog your way for later, so grab your umbrella. There are Winter Weather advisories. Your next 24 hours shape up this way. Cloudy, breezy, chilly. 47 this morning. Rain likely by 7 00 tonight in the low 50s and a steady rain. Look farther down into the weekend in a few more minutes. For