Yesterday turned out to be. Cloudy skies. Everywhere is still wet from the overnight rains. And plenty of puddles outside this morning. So be on the lookout for that. These little light rain showers and wet snowflakes as well. One of my weather watchers in the panhandle of west virginia, wet snow early this morning. Send me a picture and well share it with everybody else. If youre thinking about the weekend good news it will be dry both days but it will be chilly with highs by the weekend only in the upper 30s to right around 40 degrees. What about the rest of todays forecast . Lets go over to sheena and find out more about that. You know today is going to be a bigger improvement than yesterday, chuck. Yesterday we had the rain and the wind and today were going to get away from all that. Except this morning its damp and chilly before you walk out. Make sure you grab a warm jacket. Heres a look at the feelslike temperature because we still have that breeze out there feels like 30 degrees in the district. We have 20s on the map, gaithersburg feeling like 29 as well as leesburg. Winchester feeling like 24 degrees. Your fitness forecast for today, if you will be out there exsi a. M. , wet pavement, still 37 degrees, by noon 41. And by 5 00 p. M. , temperatures right around 47 degrees. Well see some clearing, drier conditions. An update on the crash with Melissa Mollet. Brand new problem before old georgetown road. This crash on the left side of the roadway. We are going to probably see some slowdowns if this hangs around too long this morning. Still some roadwork hanging around westbound 50 after eaton place. You can see 66 and 95 not so bad. Right now 270 from 70 down to the spur, you can see we are nice and clear there. So no problems through that area. Same thing if youre headed northbound here this morning. New problem northbound 295, the ramp to the inbound 11th Street Bridge. Were going to have more information on all of this coming up. Thank you, melissa. It is 5 02 and we continue our Team Coverage of the weather impact on your morning commute the rain has stopped falling for most. But it could still be slick out there. Justin finch what are you seeing . Aaron, good morning. Some good news out here. The rain as you mentioned slacking off out here. Take a look in front of us here. We still have a bit of a sheen on the roadway here on Montrose Road right under the Woodmont Country Club here. The rain we have seen has been a light, steady rain, just enough to kind of annoy you out here. But also, give the streets this kind of slick effect here which can also be risky if youre speeding, as this car is in front of us here along the roadway here. So as you make your way to work and school this morning be mindful the rain is slacking up. It is still falling a bit. Misty, and causing the streets to get kind of slick and risky if you are not being careful. Back in to you. All right, justin, thank you. Its 5 03 right now. Turning to President Trumps first 100 days. And a live look at the capitol this morning. Capitol hill where it is sure to be a busy day. Between hearings and votes, dozens of lawmakers are expected to take a hard look at several of President Trumps cabinet picks today. Senate committees are scheduled to vote on transportation secretary nominee elaine chao, and commerce secretary nominee wilbur ross. A senate panel will also vote on senator Jeff Sessions nomination for attorney general and the Banking Committee will vote on dr. Ben carson for secretary of housing and urban development. You can also expect these cabinet nominees to be in the hot seat for nomination hearings. Congressman Mick Mulvaney is up to direct the office of management and budget, health and Human Services secretary nominee, congressman tom price will testify before the Senate Finance committee and Linda Mcmahon begins her confirmation hearing to head the Small Business administration. The working Families Party is organizing a rally in front of local u. S. Senate offices around the country. Theyre calling on lawmakers to vote no on the president s cabinet. It is the first event of what theyre calling resist trump tuesdays. Organizers say more than 30,000 people joined an emergency call last night to learn how to take action against the president. The cia has a new director this morning. I Michael Richard pompeo. Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear. Mike pompeo was sworn in last night by Vice President mike pence. The Senate Confirmed pompeos nomination after democrats forced a threeday delay. Pompeo is now the third member of the president s cabinet. A full senate vote is the last step before Rex Tillerson may become secretary of state. The nomination for the former exxonmobil ceo has passed through the senate more win relations committee. The full senate vote is expected soon. In one of his First Executive actions, President Trump ordered a federal hiring freeze. There are a few exceptions. The military, public safety, and public health. This is expected to be part of a bigger plan by the president to reduce the federal workforce. Ahead at 5 15, news 4 breaks down how this will impact local federal workers. Some breaking news about britains plan to leave the european union. Angie has the latest on the brexit case from the live desk. Britains Supreme Court says that the government must get parliamentary approval before starting that process of leaving the european union. Now this could delay Prime Minister theresa mays plan to start negotiations by the end of the month of march. Now, this gives proeu politicians hope that they will be able to soften the terms of the uks withdrawal. Now looking ahead we do know that Prime Minister may will meet with President Trump this week. Now back to you. All right, angie, thank you. 5 06. A developing story in annapolis this morning. Police calling the investigation of the citys second murder this year an active situation. Officers found a man whod been shot on madison street around 8 30 last night. He died at the hospital. Police are offering a 2,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. Last year, annapolis saw a spike in homicides requesting from one in 2015, to 10 in 2016. 5 06 now terrifying moments for an alexandria mom. A man nearly stole her car with her child inside. This happened yesterday in the Bradley Shopping Center parking lot on king street. The woman left her car running as she went to the atm. The man jumped into the car and started to drive away. Police say when he saw the child in the back seat he stopped and escaped in a waiting car. Alexandria police are now searching for that suspect. The child was not hurt. Today you can meet alexandrias new top cop. Michael brown officially started as chief yesterday. He joins the force from the national highway Traffic Safety administration. He spent most of his career working with the california Highway Patrol and later served as a state commissioner. A public welcome reception for 6 00 tonight at alexandrias city hall. The Montgomery County executive has vetoed a measure to boost minimum wage to 15 an hour by 2020. Last week the county council narrowly passed the bill in a 54 vote. County executive ike legate says he will recover if changes made. After this situation the governor of minnesota plans to go back to work today. You can see governor mark dayton there collapsing as he delivered his state of the state address last night. He also banged his led on the lectern. But he was conscious minutes later and was able to walk out of the Capitol Building on his own. The Governors Office says that dayton simply fainted after standing for 40 minutes. Former president george h. W. Bush is still in the hospital now but doctors say his condition is improving and he could be discharged later this week. The former president was released from icu yesterday. The bush family tweeted this photo and says the president and former first lady quote thank their fellow americans and friends from around the world for their prayers and good wishes. Nice to see them doing better. Smiling for that photo. Be out soon, good. All right its 5 08. We want to check our forecast now with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell and Sheena Parveen. Good morning to you. Well be right back with that forecast. Stay with us. And time to rethink mammograms. Why some say the screenings actually lead to overdiagnosis. I have my own club. Thats going to happen every time . And the oscar nod goes to who is expected to get an Academy Award nomination in just a few hours . 5 09. Stay with us. Know you can save today for whats important tomorrow. 5 12 your time now feels very january outside. And guess what . It is january. Spot on. There you go. Look at this, aaron gilchrist, sheena spar convenient, tell us more about what we can expect. Im starting to think that aaron is really not liking the weather this morning. Nothing. Hes not a fan. Its damp and chilly outside. And we even have a few sprinkles around. As far as the temperatures are concerned, theyre feeling quite a bit colder than they actually are. Heres the feelslike temperature. Mostly below freezing for everybody. So you want the warm jacket before you head out. Your commute this morning. Wet roads, 8 00 a. M. A few sprinkles around, 37 degrees. By noon were dry but still some wet roads and this afternoon we will see more clearing. On the radar, though, we have a few areas of some snow showers right around bluemont. Rest of the area, chilly start to the day. Lets take a look at the roads this morning with an update on a crash and melissa the ramp to the inbound 11th Street Bridge do have a crash with a vehicle facing the wrong way. Last report is that we didnt have any help there on the scene. So hopefully they get out there soon to help this person out. Outer loop at the end of the onramp from Rockville Pike so that crash has changed a little bit, as well. That is still blocking the left lane there, at the top of the beltway. Westbound 50 after eaten place, work zone with that right lane the only thing getting by. Taking a look at 66, Fairfax County parkway to the beltway. Youre on time at nine minutes. Listen to wtop when you hop in your car. Thank you, melissa. One of his First Executive orders President Trump ordered a major change to shrink the federal government. A federal hiring freeze is now in effect and it could have a big impact. Were live on capitol hill now to break down what this might mean for thousands of local federal workers. Well, the concern is many could feel the punch right away. Labor lead move, point to possible disruptions in Government Services and programs, or backlogs there. And they also say taxpayers could feel it a lot more, too, by having to hire more outside contractors to come in and do some of the work. Now the president , its no surprise, he said he would do this in his first 100 days in office by executive order. We should point out this does exclude the military, public safety, and public health. You should know, Job Vacancies not filled as of january 22nd cannot now be filled with this move. Now we spoke to the Washington Business Journal about the federal hiring freeze, and its impact on the workforce. It should be of great concern to all of us in greater washington, because if the president chooses to take agencies and move them to places that are a lot less expensive than here, it might not be the it would be those mid range jobs. Now in the 6 00 hour were going to expand more on moving federal jobs way outside of washington. And what that will look like in the capital city. Back to you now. All right, mollette, thank you. Two d. C. Council members want to send a message to President Trump about protecting human rights in the district. They plan to introduce the sense of of the Council Resolution today. The measure reaffirms the districts goal to protect the Civil Liberties of all district residents. A significant crowd is expected for fridays march for life and rally. It is an annual antiabortion demonstration on the national mall. The rally will start at noon with the march expected to start at about 1 00 p. M. White house aide Kellyanne Conway and other government officials are expected to speak. March organizers say conway is the highest ranking white house official to ever speak at the march. Metro plans to runxt trains for the march for life. Trains will run every eight minutes on each line between the morning and evening rush hours. That means there will be extra Service Every two to four minutes at stations in the downtown area. Metros also canceling all midday track work and encouraging participants to travel outside of the normal rush hour period. A major victory for Wounded Warriors who want to start a family. The government now says it will help injured veterans pay for in vitro fertilization. The new medical benefits were just adopted by the department of veterans affairs. One military couple who lobbied for that change in d. C. Is now celebrating. We fought for our country, but its not right for them to take our privilege away to have a family. And i think us having a family as vets is the closest we can get as a society to be normal. Veterans who want to receive fertility treatments need to contact their local v. A. For more information. Controversy is brewing over whether Breast Cancer screenings lead to overdiagnosis. A study published in the annals of medicine found a third of women diagnosed with cancer in denmark did not have malignant tumors or some had slow growing tumors that did not need immediate treatment. Guidelines in the u. S. Have not changed. Guidelines call for women to get a mammogram if they are 40 years old or older. Right now parts of the northeast are seeing significant flooding as a noreaster hits the coast. Katherine craig from our partner station in new york is live in long island for us. Good morning. Good morning to you. What a rough morning it is for the people here on long island. Were in the town called freeport and we actually had to move our news van. A couple of hundred yards back because the water is rising. Not terrible here. But if you look further down the street, the sidewalk is covered is water and then theres an area of high water right in the cars further down the street are submerged. Up to the door handles. We also want you to take a look at this video because from this noreaster, a powerful noreaster, there was wind damage in the communities of boheme yeah, the strong winds knocked down trees, a similar scene in some other communities here on long island. Meanwhile a tree fell onto a car in the town of melville. The winds caused so much damage widespread across long island nassau and suffolk counties and then theres flooding here as well. At one point the Utility Company out here pseg, they had 17,000 customers without electricity because the winds knocked down trees that fell onto power lines, at this very moment theres still 2,000 customers without electricity. And also where we are, freeport, long island, high tide doesnt hit until about 5 40 this morning so the water is only going to continue to rise. Well send it back to you eun an what a miserable situation. Live for us there on the new york city coast. Thanks, katherine. The wind and rain we had yesterday. And you can see it. We can feel it here. Even this morning. Yeah, as the storm is just now starting to work up the delaware coastline there were starting to get the cold air filtering in behind it. Windchills have been dropping below freezing and windchill wont actually freeze water so were not looking for any ice on the roads but at Higher Elevations, there are wet snowflakes. This picture just in to storm center 4. Oh, no. Up in lyndon, virginia, many, many thanks for this picture about two inches of wet snow, mainly on the grassy areas but be on the lookout there. Some of the high spots here right along the crest of the blue ridge up into the panhandle of west virginia, we are getting reports of some wet snowflakes this morning. So just use extreme caution. Here in and around the city, not much of an issue at all as its just some light raindrops. Temperatures in and around town, and at the airport 39 degrees. It will be all raindrops around the c below freezing. Northwest winds at 17 miles an hour. So breezy and cold and wet this morning. Temperatures mostly in the 30s. Now, well climb back up into the upper 40s to maybe around 50 around town today. Highs in northern maryland, only in the mid 40s. Could get as much as 53 or 54 degrees down toward stafford and fredericksburg. Misery impact, nothing more than incveniently wet and cold this morning. No worries for tomorrow. That will be the best day of the week. And the weekend looks much cooler. But staying on the dry side. If you want to send me one of those pictures of some a. M. Snowflakes my twitter handle is chuckbell4. You can find me on facebook as well. Heres your fiveday forecast. Breezy round for today with drying out later this afternoon. Nice and mild for tomorrow. Maybe a litt