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WRC News4 Today At 430 January 3, 2017

Once sworn in, ryan will administer the vote to the house members. The gop will hold a large 241 to 190 advantage in the house. Jamie raskin and brown will be sworn in today. Brown and raskin expect fights other Corporate Tax cuts, environmental regulations and the Affordable Care act. I think the president is going to help us get that message out there and well have to put very strong pressure on republican members of congress who represent tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people who depend upon these programs. Repete peel and replace is not the answer and thats obviously going to be on the table. And on the senate side, a milestone after 30 years now retired senator barbara mcculskys seat will be filled by democrat chris van mayor bowser will urge a change in the rules to allow norton to vote in the committee of the whole and that would allow norton to vote on amendments on the house floor. House rules have allowed congre congress. Head to nbc washingtons app for the latest development. Following him on twitter at mcfarlands news. It is 4 32. Developing this morning, police are swarming a neighborhood in istanbul. Theyre trying to find the suspect in that new years nightclub shooting. 39 People Killed there. The gunman escaped and hes still out there. We dont know much about him, but turkeys leaders say they are close to confwirming his identity. Right now, parts of the so h south, people in alabama and florida, people died in a single home. Tornado and flooding are blaming for the deaths in nine hours. More rain is expected. 4 33. Our time right thou. Nothing that severe around here. Four things to know about the forecast. Its part of that same system that is coming our way here. It is weakening. Thats pushing into virginia coming in from the south and west. Leading edge of that rain just past charlottesville. About to get near fredericksburg in about another 20 minutes or so, but not into the metro area until around 7 00 or 8 00 this morning. Temperatures hovering in the lower 40s. Were in the mid 40s around the Chesapeake Bay and out in the mountains, as well. And your four things to know in your metro planner for this day, well have rain likely with passing showers. Rain ending by later this afternoon. Well stay in the 40s to near 50 this afternoon. A wet tuesday. Colder light snow is possible friday morning. Looks like mainly on grassy areas. Then to be followed bay cold plunge this weekend. Details on that coming up in a few minutes. Im getting the chills thinking about the weekend. Inner loop exit ramps to braddock, those are blocked because of the crash response there. This has just cleared out of the way, so benning road in northeast has just reopened after that accident overnight. 66 and 95 both looking quite good here this morning. Something else that is cleared, this. Southbound 95 the ramp to eastbound 198. No more worries there. Back in had ten minutes. See you then. Thank you. Its 4 34. U. S. Customs and Border Agency is back running. A fourhour long outage caused very long lines yesterday. In miami, more than 30 International Flights were affected and at least two people passed out while they were waiting in line. The agency says people arriving from outside the u. S. Were being we spoke with travelers at Dulles International airport who were simply frustrated. It seems like you have passports and you have passport control, they should be able to scan, identify you and move you through and it wasnt happening. Somewhere, the process is broken. Its unclear what caused the outage, but customs does not believe the outage was malici s malicious. Right now, it is not clear how a United Airlines baggage handler ended up getting locked in the cargo hold. This had happened on an 82had minute flight sunday. Prior to an investigation by the tsa, there were concerns about whether he was truly a baggage handler. He had on a work uniform and were told the man is okay. Starting today, you can use your cell phone to pay for parking at reston town center. There are several ways to do it. One is to use the free parkrtc app on your smartphone. Shoppers can pay for parking with your app ande the car. Garages will accept payment kiosks. Some stores and restaurants will offer parking validation. The debut was delayed because of the concerns about the impact it would have on businesses. I think a lot of us felt that this is one of the good values of reston town center. It has great shops and great activities to do and free parking. Now it has the other stuff, but youve got to pay for parking. Restons parking app links users to live safe which is a service connecting shoppers to mall security. New this morning in maryland, the Frederick County Sheriffs Office is on the lookout for two people who they say stole a visa debit card. It was taken from an atm at the Woodsboro Bank and used in multiple stores in that area. If you see these two suspects, contact the Sheriffs Office. D. C. Police made a surprise find inside an do truck in the southeast. They say several atms were discovered in the back of that truck. So far, police do not know where it came from. A Security Camera Rebate Program is the is the latest to get out of the neighborhood. Advisory Community Member cathy hennerson went door to door and was telling people about the private Security Camera program. It will reimburse people up to 500 to put up the cameras. There are cameras everywhere in the city. Do you think peoples packages stop getting stolen . You put a mask on, what is a camera going to do. Cameras helped investigate this robbery and shooting. Two people shot and robbed a man on northeast 21st street. That man is okay. 4 38 just about now. We are offo many of us head back to work today for the first time this year. Tom is tracking how showers might affect your morning commute. 2017. 17 days until donald trump takes the oath of office, the preparations and the changes. Local businesses are starting to see before the inauguration. Your time rit now isgh 4 40 right now. Mae make sure you grab the good umbrellas today. The good one. The rain is just about to come into fredericksburg. Its going to get closer to the metro area by later in the morning community. For early drivers, youll encounter wet pavement. Temperatures are well above freezing. Were in the low 40s for the mountains all the way to the y bay. A few spots in the upper 30s. Reagan national is at 43 degrees. Hour by hour through the day ahead, well have temperatures hovering in the 40s most of the day. Briefly near 50 midafternoon. Rain likely later this morning, passing showers during the afternoon. Most of the rain ending by 6 00 p. M. By 10 00, just damp and chilly, maybe lingering drizzle overnight tonight. Look at big changes on the way over the next ten days. Maybe a little snow. Still have a one problem as far as crashes go right now. Inir loop to braddock road, with the crash response still on the scene there. Thats been there for some time. We talked with police. Somebody was injured, so perhaps could be taking longer because of that. 270 southbound, 70 to the spur, were looking quite good here. You are on time. Going to take you 26 minutes. Listen to wtop 103. 5 when you hop in your car. Inbound, outbound at germantown road, roads slick this morning. Hearing about a brand new crash on the beltway. Well talk about it in just a minute. It is a new year and a new congress is getting to work. The obstacle Donald Trumps cabinet picks will face before getting confirmed. Remarkable progress, the difficult recoveryand the po fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. So in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song. His sister can live stream it. While his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for the first year. Cable cant offer that. Only fios can. Welcome back at 4 45. It is a big day on capitol hill today. The 115th congress will be sworn in and the govp controls both chambers. Republicans plan to lay the foundation for dismantling president obamas policies before he even leaves office. News 4s tracey pots is here with the things they plan to tackle before Donald Trumps inauguration. They know they want to repeal it and they know theyll get some pushback from. Part of the big question for ordinary americans is how long is this going to take. In general, they dont have to worry about losing their insurance anytime soon. One of the Big Questions is how long of a delay are we talking, a year or two or longer before they implement someg and the other thing they have the confirming Donald Trumps cabinet picks. We know democrats plan to make this difficult. Are there any picks concerned about not being confirmed . Chuck schumer has informed his republican counterparts that there are eight specific trump cabinet picks that they plan to oppose, including secretary of state Rex Tillerson who there has been so much talk about his ties to the russian government and russian leader vladimir putin. Hes on that list. Ju justice, labor, education, treasury, a number of them the democrats plan to try to oppose during these hearings that start next week. Tracie, thank you. President elect trump vowed north korea will not create a Nuclear Weapon. In his tweet, trump north would not build a Nuclear Weapon capable of reaches parts of the u. S. He said china keeps taking money and wealth from the u. S. That will not help with the north Korean Nuclear issue. Hotels are starting to fill up as we inch closer to the inauguration. It is estimated 1 Million People will flood the district. Many are coming to celebrate while others plan to protest. Either way, those visitors equal big business for the district. Elliott ferguson tracks tourism trend necessary d. C. And says hotel owners were worried when room sales had a sluggish start. Usually the day after a candidate has been chosen, hotels normally see a large influx of reservations. That didnt happen this year because, quite frankly, i think everyone was taken bit surprise by the outcome. Ferguson says trumps surprise victory may be part of the reason more unofficial events havent been named yesterday. One of those members of the d. C. Council sworn in yesterday. He is return to go represent district 7. And just two years ago, muriel bousers defeated gray for his mayoral seat. The two appeared to take jabs at each other during the ceremony. Many people in our city watched. We swear or affirm that we are not making decisions just for our own ward, just for our own interests. Now, there could be a rematch between bowser and gray in 2018. The other new Council Members sworn in were atlarge member robert white and ward 8 member treyon white. City police say they will release more information today in the death of a teenage girl. They say 15yearold Charlotte Zaremba was shot by a 15yearold boy who has not yet been identified. This happened a few hou new years day in her bedroom. Police say the girl shboy shot girls mother. The boy is in critical condition. The girl attended Howard High School and the school sent a letter home to parents yesterday saying it is providing support for students. A queen ann county deputy is improving after a deadly shooting last week. Investigators say deputy ward hogan was shot in charleston. He was in a shootout with a man wod been in a physical dispute with his girlfriend. That man was shot and killed. The Department Posted a photo of hogan to facebook. He is now able to stand up with help. He is scheduled for another surgery this week which should be his last surgery for simt six to eight months. The search is on this morning for six puppies. The owner of the d. C. Pups store in manassas say someone broke into the store and took the dog. Security cameras were ripped video. Each puppy has a sale of between 800 and 1100. Just in time for the celebration, homeowners can now legally rent out a room or a house for companies sush as air b b. Homeowners can apply to get a license. That comes with restrictions. The owner has to live in the space for at least half a year and visitors can not stay for more than 30 days. Right now, there is no cost for the license, but that could change later the had year. Calling all riders. The city of alexandria wants to feature your work. Its hold ago poetry contest to coincide with National Poetry month. You have until february 1st to submit your best poem. You have to be at least 16 years old to enter and there are extra points available if you hit on the motto keep alexandria moving. Strange tradition of welcoming in the new year will continue this week. Theres always something. If you want to join in, you ha home. Lets let that sit there for a second. Im not recommending this for people who have to go into the office for work. For nearly ten years now wab group of people met up to ride the metro without wearing their pants. There you see it right there. This is from last year, i believe. This is a Family Friendly event, believe it or not. Next sunday, the group will meet outside the metro station at 3 00. I know they say its Family Friendly. I dont think im going to take my kids on metro that is there a reason for this . Just because to say welcome to the new year, its 2017. Were getting a fresh start. Aaron, do you every day. Okay. Good. I wear them every day is what im saying. And were happy about that. This is how rumors get start started. Hey, today youre going to want your pants. Its not its not knee friendly. Its not leg friendly. Its chillynd weve got some drizzle out there as we do have some rain falling. Its coming our way, getting closer. You can see on storm 4 radar, moving rapidly into virginia, just about to come into charleston. It will be into stafford, prince william, louden b, fairfax and the district over the next several hours. Here is the hour by hour. 9 00 within moderate rain showers coming through these pockets of yellow. It will continue that way through your lunch hour. During the arch, it will start to move off to the north and east by 3 00, 4 00. Well sigh it moving away and then well see lingering drizzle overnight tonight. How much rain . Maybe up to an inch of rain. Much of the region may get up to an inch of rain. Thats just about everywhere around the region. Right now, were hovering in the low 40s. Storm team 4 tenday outlook, tomorrow, sunshine back and into the mid 50s. We might get light thursday and early on friday morning, a lot of clouds around and much colder for the weekend. By the way, that snow mostly on grassy areas melting on pavement. Look at the weekend. Highs only near freezing, morning lows in the 20s. And then it gets mild again next week with maybe a little bit of rain toward the end of the week. And thats the way it looks. Lets check on traffic now. Ma his is, whats happening . A couple of problems just popped up on the beltway. Outer loop 270 is blocked by a crash and inner loop there after georgia avenue, crash on the right side, as well. Not really seeing a slowdown because of this. Well keep an eye on it because that could change quickly here. Northbound 95, nice northbound and southbound. No big worries on 95. Again, though, we have rain falling in certain areas. We have a little bit of fog here and there. That could cause a bit of a problem for folks. Here is a good example on the georgess county beltway. Back in a few minutes. Melissa, well see you then. A thats growing in our area. The new concerns about bed bugs and what a new report is revealing. Two Young Brothers in a dangerous situation. The incredible show of strengt start the car start the car the ikea winter sale. Wooooooo get up to 50 off select items. Now through january 10th. Ikea start the car start the car the ikea winter sale. Wooooooo get up to 50 off select items. Now through january 10th. Ikea welcome back. Spacex now says it knows whats went wrong during a test months ago that caused this explosion in cape canaveral. The company is making changes to tank failure. It says it could launch another rocket as early as next week. The explosion caused hundreds of millions of dollars in had damage. It destroyed a satellite and seriously damaged the launch b pad. Tech giant apple is facing a new lawsuit after the death of a little girl two yearsing ago. Parents in texas say a driver was using facetime when he hit their car and killed their 5yearold daughter. Police charged the daughter with man slaughter. This case is still pending, but now the family is urge iing app to disable the app while users are driving. It may be a good policy question whether companies can do more to prevent the misuse of their products. But judges generally dont want that kind of decision made in a courtroom. Apple will only say that it does not comment b on pending litigation. A 2yearold boy came to the rescue of his twin brother who was trapped underneath a dresser and the entire incident was caught on a nanny the video shows the two boys playing in the dresser when it falls over right on top of them. The one brother was able to push the dresser a few times. Oh, look there, right there, allowing his brother to wiggle out from underneath. Those boys are fine and the dresser is now securely fass. Enned to the wall. And you can see how these accidents happen so quickly. Theyre so lucky to be alive. Those fasteners are fairley inexpensive and obviously worth having. Your cell phone could become your wallet this year. Visa did a study that surveyed consumers on how they pay for things. 26 of people said they plan to try a mobile payment this year compared with 18 in 2016. Now, consumers say they use their phones to pay for things like parking and food. So a lot of us take work home with us, but france is trying to put an end on that practice. A new law just took effect there. It gives employees the right to in other words

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