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WRC News4 Today At 5 November 22, 2016

By that work zone. Zm by the way looking okay and 95 in maryland. We are working for you as the thanksgiving travel rush begins. Team coverage of the roads with our traffic experts, you saw Melissa Mollet there and jack taylor. And we have you covered from up with chopper 4 bringing you pictures of the delays. Nearly 15 million will be traveling this week, the highest number in nine years according to aaa. More than 1 million most of us will be driving to our destinations. Aaa anticipates 43 Million People on the roads through the thanksgiving holiday. Heres some tips to make sure your trip is as stressfree as possible. Get on the road before noon. If youre flying, get to the airport at least two hours, two and a half hours, before your flight. If you need to leave your car at the airport, book your parking spot now so youre all set when you arrive. Take advantage of those low gas prices were seeing right now by become long. And coming up, news 4s justin fitch will introduce us to a who has traveling with kids down to a science. Developing in Montgomery County, police have identified the two People Killed in a four car crash in gaithersburg. 27yearold steven diaz and 67yearold george careyp this happened before 8 00 last night on airpark road. Police say diaz was headed east when he crossed into the westbound lane and hit two o cars including one driven by carey. A fourth vehicle was also involved here. Police reopened the roadway a few hours ago. Angie goff at the live desk. We got new video in from the tragic scene in chattanooga where a fatal bus crash killed five children. Take a look. We just got this footage from the scene. This is out of tennessee. The nighttime video. You can see that bus there, by a tree after hitting a mailbox. We know that an ntsb team from washington, d. C. , is there on the ground and they are helping with this investigation. All of the victims were elementary students. 20 others were hurt. We cant even begin to imagine how much worse it is for the families, the friends and loved ones of the victims. All of our hearts two out to them, our thoughts and our prayers. A bus accident with multiple injuries of children is every Public Safety professionals wo behind the wheel, 24yearold jonathan walker, now facing five counts of vehicular homicide. Among other charges police saying that speed in their words, quote, was a very, very strong factor in this crash. They believe that. Police saying also more charges could come. Eun . Angie goff at the live desk, thank you. It is 5 03. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will news 4s molette green is live to tell us about the mayors choice. Good morning. Good morning to you. We expect to hear from the mayor in just a matter of hours this morning. It wont be official. Keep in mind shes going to roll him out but its not official until the d. C. Council confirms her nomination. Antwan wilson for his part has already submitted his resignation to the Oakland Unified School district and you should know hes also worked in he is credited with success in raising test scores. Of course, that is a key component in this pick, since the city is smack dab in the middle of a huge challenge, trying to raise those test scores among the minority and poor children in the city. Kaia henderson left the job in the middle of a big experiment as well, focusing on young black Antwan Wilson for his part is no stranger to controversy. Critics in oakland argue that he helped Charter Schools forge ahead at the expense of the public schools. So thats the latest live here from northwest d. C. , we should hear from the mayor in just a few hours. Back to you. Mollette green, thank you. New this morning, secretary of education john king is calling for the end of Corporal Punishment for students. The practice is several states. The practice of paddling. He released a letter asking state leaders to replace Corporal Punishment with less punitive more supportive disciplinary practices. He said more than 11,000 students including a disproportionate of black and disabled students were subjected to paddling or similar punishment in the 2013 2014 school year. As part of this plan, ive asked my Transition Team to actions we can take on day one to restore our laws and bring back our jobs. Its about time. That is a new video released by president elect donald trump outlining his agenda for his first 100 days in office. He lists a number of executive actions he plans to implement on day one, including withdrawing from the transpacific partnership. A trade agreement that president obama has championed. This video was created and distributed by the president elects Transition Team. This was the press. Senior adviser Kellyanne Conway also told reporters trump would hold a press conference, quote, soon. 5 06. Vandals have targeted the home of a vietnam veteran and donald trump supporter. Now Montgomery County Police Need Help tracking down who is responsible. Someone spray painted a swastika on the front door of thomas roszkowskis home in Silver Spring over the weekend. He told police that hes also had eggs thrown at his house and an American Flag stolen and a Police Believe all the incidents are related. New details out of san antonio this morning. The man accused of killing a veteran Police Officer as you see here is now in custody. 31yearold otis mckane was arrested monday afternoon. He told reporters he was upset with the court system and took it out on detective benjamin marconi. The detective was shot as he sat in his cruiser after making a traffic stop. Marconi is one of two officers killed in the last few days. Three other officers were shot and the National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund says more officers have been shot and killed this year than during any full year since 2011. Ambush attacks are also at the highest levels since 1995. Maryland lawmakers are considering a new law to reduce speed limits near Montgomery County schools. The new speed limit would be 15 miles per hour. News 4 obtained county records showing at least seven students are hit near Montgomery County schools every year. A public hearing on the proposal rockville. Opioid addiction is a Public Health emergency in virginia according it state Health Officials working to fight this problem. The state is now allowing anyone to buy the drug without a prescription. The drug reverses the effects of an opioid overdose. Last year, 801 people died from heroin and Prescription Drug overdoses. In 2011 that number was 541. Today president obama will award 21 president ial medals of freedom. This is our nations h civilian honor. It is awarded to those who have made significant contributions to the countrys security or national interests. Todays recipients include ellen degeneres, with bill and melinda gates, Kareem Abdul Jabbaar and michael jordan, diana and snl creator Lorne Michaels will be honored. A full list of the recipients on our nbc washington app. Another chilly day outside as we head into the holiday week. Will it feel as bitter as it did storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is back with the answers coming up. The cost of coffee going up. Which of your favorite starbucks drinks are getting a little price hike. And aaron, were on the road this morning approaching, and coming up were speaking with a mom of three who has a fool proof system to travel with and get thirtysix month, nointerest financing. Black friday specials, while supplies last. Friday, three hours only. With havertys, your home can be perfect, even when life isnt. Dont miss our black friday specials at havertys. Wenjing,. Prince gorngs fire owe fireplace ashes in a home in upper marlboro. The home off landover road was damaged yesterday morning. The family inside was able to escape safely. Firefighters have been dealing with brush fires because we had a windy few days here. We were he hoping things will be better today. Its still tinderbox dry outside. I gave this advice yesterday and today, smokers, thats what ashtrays are for. Put your butts out in the ashtrays. Dont flick it out of the windows. Its a way of pollution as well. Outside what little breeze we have has windchills back down in the teens and 20s for most areas, so youll need your winter coat here this morning. Hourly temperatures will gradually climb into the mid and upper 40s today. Staying on the cool side but not as windy as yesterday. Travel weather for around here not too bad of an issue. Chance for showers later in the day tomorrow, probably well after sun down. Thursday itself looks like it could be a little on showersry side. Any flight days, heres your seattle, detroit, st. Louis, minneapolis, most likely to be impacted on the busier day. Houston, memphis, chicago, detroit, thanksgiving day, seattle, portland and boston. Those are the airports i think most likely to be impacted by the weather. I will put it in our fiveday forecast which i will show you in ten minutes. Time to hear from Melissa Mollet. What do you got. Good morning. Chopper 4 up this morning to show us whats going on around town. We will have triple team traffic for you all morning to see kind of where these spots are going chopper four has the Christmas Lights on. He does. Always very, very festive out there. Clifton road and wolf run shoals road blocked with wires down. Likely through the morning. Your alternate take chapel road instead to get in and out of town there. Right now top of the by the way and all of those routes into town and out of town are fine. Keeping a close eye here on 95 the northbound lanes throughout the day as we think today is really going to be the getaway day instead of tomorrow. Beech avenue the road work, left lane getting by, 395 has cleared. Thank you. As melissa alluded to, right now we are getting you ready for the thanksgiving travel rush. The roads are fairly quiet right now, but that will change over the next 24 hours. Many of you will be traveling with your families this week and that includes children. News 4s justin fitch joins us live with more on a mom who says she has traveling with kids down to a science. Im listening, justin. Science indeed. This mom of three and her husband have three kids under age 6. She says for holiday road travel you dont just need to have your patience ready but you also need to prep. Planning a road trip with kids this holiday, dont leave until you get this tried and true advice from this arlington mom of three. I have a roll of paper towels. Thats crucial. An extra change of clothes for all your kids. But leave before the sun comes michele and her husband carefully pack their van, sometimes days in advance. Always extra mindful of the precious cargo. Three kids under age 6 in those back seats. We also break up the trip so that its about every three or four hours were stopping. We just got back from a trip, so thats why the air mattress is still in there. Reporter the familys next trip is to dallas. Their longest yet. Her system, she says, will work. From when our first was 5 w a half years. Reporter now she and her family are staying home for this thanksgiving, which is surprising given that more americans are choosing to travel this holiday and also choosing to drive to their locations. As you heard their next stop is going to be dallas, some 16 hours and she says they will be ready. Aaron, eun, back to you. God bless them. 16 hours on the road with three children under 6. Saying my prayers. State troopers will be working overtime to keep your families safe. There will be an extra troopers Patrolling State roadways all week focusing on catching drunk drivers. Driving under the influence led to this crash involving a maryland state trooper on the by the way on sunday. The trooper was in this car when Christopher Howard slammed into it. Howard was charged with dui. The trooper is expected to be okay. This is the second time this month a driver has hi trooper have been hit while working on 495. Back to work for virginia senator tim kaine. He returned to the senate after losing his bid for the vice presidency while running for hillary clinton. He says he is still surprise by the results. We won virginia so handily and we won the popular vote. Well probably win the popular vote by more than 2 million. To win the popular vote and virginia and lose, that almost seems mathematically impossible life. Just not an election until now. Senator kaine says he will focus his energy on the same issues he had before, particularly military issues. Some controversy over a mural made to honor the military. The mural in Virginia Beach shows jets and navy ships after 9 11. The Howard Johnson hotel started painting over it. You can see half the mural is gone painted white. People criticized that decision online. The hotels have the mural restored. Such a shame to lose that already, though. Wow. Among mo than 100 people who became citizens here in our area, one person received a special honor. Retired Army Captain Florent groberg was honored by an outstanding american at the ceremony in alexandria, virginia. He received the medal of honor for his actions fighting in citizens was to cherish the honor of being an american citizen. I got to spend time with his last week. Just an incredible guy in general but absolutely a patriot. You can tell every time he opens his mouth how much he loves this country. New this morning, two maryland swimmers came out on top of this years golden goggles award. The Award Ceremony is hosted by usa swimming. Baltimore native Michael Phelps snagged three awards including male swimmer of the year and bethesdas ka named female swimmer of the year. Deserved every time. A lot is what katie does outside of the pool. Such a great person. Contributes her time. The first thing she did when she came back was visit childrens hospitals. We want to thank you for helping us raise nearly 42,000 to feed local families this thanksgiving. On monday we collected 100 large boxes worth of food outside the Verizon Center. You see it here. Pat lawson muse says its the doing this. John wall from the wizards and rapper wale were among those who donated. Still time for you to help. Head to nbcwashington. Com or download the nbc washington app. And you can find ways there to make a monetary donation. Warms the heart to see all that food. Isnt that amazing. A lot of happy families. Thanks for your support for sure. Chuck bell, im not so sure about this weather. I know its cold. It is, thanksgiving weather though. It i degrees at thanksgiving. I made our donation from our household down to food for families yesterday. Eric did all the shopping, i did the hoofing of the heavy bags down to the Verizon Center with the dogs to make the donation. Saw Pat Lawson Muse down there and a great time and other people giving great donations. Thank you, everybody. Temperature right now 31 degrees. We will be in the cold 30s with windchills in the 20s this morning. Plenty of sunshine today. It will be on the cool side, for tomorrow, getting a little bit milder, not quite as cold in the morning. Nowhere near as much of a breeze to deal with tomorrow as youre planning to break away tomorrow. At least there wont be any big storms up and down the east coast. So that is welcomed news. Couldnt rule out a few showers after about 8 00 or 9 00 tomorrow night. The northwesterly breeze will keep us on the chilly side for today. Heres the unsettled weather in the middle of the country. If youre leaving town and flying out towards minneapolis or st. Louis, kansas city, down towards d have some weatherrelated flight showdowns in those mid western hubs. No real impact on any of the northeastern corridor. Already starting to plan out what youre going to do on your black friday shopping day. Yes, indeed. Clip the coupons out now so you have a plan of where to go and when to be there. Near 40 degrees for Early Morning shoppers and really for Early Morning this time of the year, thats actually relatively mild. Friday afternoon temperatures will be in the mid 50s. So thats pretty good. And the weekend on the whole, here. Mid 50s on saturday and mid 50s again coming up on sunday. So that is welcome news. You can always stay ahead of the weather by having our nbc washington app, find me on facebook and twitter search for chuck bell 4 and i will have all the information you need about your Holiday Travel plans and the like. Four things you need to know about the weather well boil it down to that in the next ten minutes. For now the inner loop, aim picking up a sense of traffic. Trouble on the inner loop. You are right. Do i rea t just after the ritchie marlboro road. Behind the green screen and kind of creepy. Traffic signals are dark so a warning for you. Clifton and wolf run shools road all lanes blocked. Take chapel road instead. Northbound on old georgetown cleared out of the way there at beech avenue. On Metro Silver Line delays to largo town center. Aaron . Thank you. Deer danger. Face on the roads especially this time of day. Still ahead, how virginia is making changes to make your ride safer. First if youre shopping starbucks you will need more cash for your coffee. Youre watching news 4 today. Welcome back. 5 25. You will have to pay a little more to get the cup of starbucks. The Coffee Company has raised the prices on som

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