Wind gusts 32 Miles Per Hour in the district. 28 degrees leesburg. 38mileperhour wind gusts in camp springs but keep in mind the winds are going to get higher as we go through the day today. Gusts near 60mileperhour possible this afternoon. This is damage to trees and power lines like weve already been seeing. Crystal clear skies out here. I can see the moon bright and clear so its going to be a dry day, but other than that, the wind going to be the main concern which is we have a weather alert day speaking of the wind and the wind causing some driving problems this morning. Taking a look right now at a couple of problems around town. Lots of downed trees, lots of downed wires. We have the full list for you. Were tweeting constantly from first 4 traffic. Well have a live report in just a minute. Downed wires with all lanes blocked. As we look up here top of the beltway, some of our main roads are just fine. Most ofur northbound blocked and southbound now open. All right. Thank you. Its 5 02 and those Power Outages are causing very real dangers out on the roads. Check out this video from arlington. High winds took out a power line there sparking a fire. We have Storm Team Coverage for you this morning. If youre waking up on Northern Virginia and can see us on tv youre one of the lucky ones because power was knocked out to thousands there especially in Fairfax County. Were live in mcclain with a look at why there are so many outages in that area. Whats going on . Reporter good morning to you. There is a v dot crew here on the scene. We are waiting on a Dominion Virginia Power crew to get here to address the power, to shut it off safely so that the v dot crew can address the pole. Down. There are some branches hanging on top or laying on top of the branches there. There is the light right there, you can see there is nothing happening and this whole stretch of road here at great falls and hunting avenue, great falls street and hunting avenue shut down. We are in a residential neighborhood. No power in this area. Im not sure how many people are impacted by this particular tree and power line problem here in this part of town, were still working on that information for you. Were live here this morning in mcclain. Back to you. Thank you, mollet. And a lot of people in the dark. Thats right. Heres the breakdown for you. Dominion customers, 17,600 in Northern Virginia without power. Novec customers a little more than 4,000 out there. Pepco not that many. You can see a little more than 1,000 and over in maryland, first energy a similar number, about 1,500 in the dark. Bge 571 outages. Now back to you. Adding to the danger of the high winds that are knocking down trees on to roads and yards. Take a look at this scene here. It is going to take a while to clean up this mess in germantown where part of a tree crashed on to a car. Look at the damage. Justin finch is staying on top of the issues. Well check in with him in just about ten minutes. One of the most helpful things to have is the washington app. Well give you the latest things happening on the roads and the latest forecast so you can stay ahead. We are dealing with wind right now. Snow though again is the problem in multiple states. New york is under a winter storm supposed to fall there. And boston, more snow, two feet. Theyre dealing with blizzard conditions and schools are closed again. Emergency officials asked people to clear off fire hydrants in case of a fire. Lets go back to an gie at the live desk. Right now in Northern California officials saying there is no more water overflowing that emergency spillway so that is good. This is at one of the nations biggest dams but still, the number asked to evacuate this area is growing. At least 130,000 people in downstream areas have been told to leave. Saying the dam could fail at any time. The National Guard is on stand by to help. It is the first time in this dams 50year history that Something Like this has happened. The sheriff will hold another News Conference this morning to update everyone on the curre all right. Thank you. Now to President Trumps first 100 days where today he will meet with canadian Prime Minister. Theyre expected to discuss common interests like jobs, Economic Growth and trade, but theyre also expected to talk about things they disagree on like immigration and refugee policies. President trump is taking credit for what he calls a crackdown on illegal criminals. This is in response to a number of immigration and Customs Enforcement raids across the country. After reports of possible ice arrests in alexandria, a Democratic State senator says some immigrants are afraid to go to church and school. Over the weekend members of casa went door to door to make sure immigrants knew their rights. The first one is you dont have to open the door when the police or ice officers come to your house. You dont have to open the door. You dont have to sign up anything. You can remain silent. Ice say it is majority of those arrested in raids across convictions. The president is facing one of his first Big International tests this morning after north koreas latest Missile Launch. Edward lawrence will have the latest on the Trump Administrations reaction. Thats in our next half hour. The search is underway to find this missing teenager from d. C. Take a look at this picture. This is 14yearold Miguel Escobar and hes been missing since wednesday. Miguel was last seen on holobrook terrace wearing a black sweater, khaki pants and red and black shoes. Well post picture on our facebook so you can share it there. Safe track is back. Its the first weekday commuters will have to deal with no Blue Line Service until february 28. It will be shut down between the rosland and pentagon stations. Yellow line rush plus trains franconia, springfield and green belt. Those will also run between Mount Vernon Square and huntington. You will have to wait about 8 minutes to catch a green line train. Adele just made grammy history. She took home the three top awards last night. Album, record and song of the year. But what makes that an even bigger deal, this is the second time shes done this. No other artist has done this twice and shes all of 27. During her acceptance shes that old. She thanked beyonce more than once for being an inspiration to her. My idol is queen b and i adore you and i am you move my soul every single day and you have done for nearly 17 years. Adele talking to i mean, its just too much. Its too much greatness r so adele, tribute to George Michael is what everyones talking about because she had to stop the song after a technical issue and she apologized over and over again in the only adele way. Beyonce also performed two songs and her daughter blue ivy just adorable as always. Did you see her prince tribute, her outfit . No. Oh, my gosh, youve got to check oit out. Lets check a check on the wild weather weve ear seeing this morning. A lot of tired people at work this morning. Or people showing up late because it knocks the power out of the alarm clock. Fortunately your smart phone should be at least charged enough to get the alarm to work, but powerful winds are going to be a real issue not just for this morning but all the way into the afternoon hours as well. When i see you in a few more minutes ill also Start Talking most importantly about the weekend. Back in a few more minutes with a check on that. A large limb comes crashing down in Montgomery County in the wake of those high winds overnight. A love report coming up next. And breaking news just coming in from the district this morning. A seth investigation underway. What were learning about where the bodyas wfo e one more. Cant wait to see what it is. giggling now dont worry, hes totally gonna grow into it. And soon its gonna be college and books and fees and housing oh, the miracle of life [narrator] tame the tuition monster with the gift of virginia529, perfect for any occasion. Visit virginia529. Com. Weather alert day around here because of the wind. About what we can expect. We have to hold on to our hats. Hold on to your hats. Your hair is going to get messed up. 35 and these winds are going to be increasing as we go through the day today. As far as your commute this morning were going to be dry, well be dry around lunchtime and for the evening commute, but keep in mind the wind, you might even feel it as youre steering trying to jerk your car a little bit. Temperatures in the upper 40s by this afternoon. But winds gusting near 40 miles an hour. Lets check the roadways. Wind is giving me a headache this morning. Downed trees, downed limbs, everything being tweeted. We can only cover a portion of it here. In northwest, just spoke with police. Wyoming avenue, we do have a downed tree here this morning so wanted to let you know about that one. All lanes blocked there with wires of chain bridge road, that wire still down and a couple more problems in Northern Virginia. Much more coming up. Montgomery county is one of the places where debris is causing big problems this morning. Justin finch joining us live from germantown with more on that. Reporter aaron, good morning. Big debris and big problems right here on the 19,300 block here. This large limb appear to have snapped off from this tree. You can see the break right there. Itlso dragged down a second large limb just behind it right there, also struck a second tree about four Parking Spaces back. As a result it has blocked the entrances of two town homes throughout here. Also collapsed on to two vehicles, a pickup truck and a toyota sedan. Fire crews will be out here to clear the main roadway out here but you can see the sheer largeness and damage this limb has c the front door of 19351. The people in that home should be able to get out through the back. Possibly later on through the front door here. The relief out here as we are seeing that power is on it appears, everyone does have that, but as a result we have two homes right here that have compromised entrances this morning. These whipping winds are continuing out here and there are several other large trees out here and there is high concern this could happen again, not so largely but more limbs could break as well. You will see that throughout the morning. Back in to you. Thank you. 5 15 right now. We want to see how the storm is impacting your neighborhoods this morning as well. Take a picture or video. You can tweet it to us, make sure to include the location and do it safely. All right. Its now 5 15. Angie is at the live desk following a shooting. This was a surrounding the situation, but we know this happened around 10 30 last night. Investigators and forensics teams on the scene right here right near the Ferebee Hope Recreation Center in southeast d. C. As i mentioned an investigation still underway and we continue to follow up. And we will bring you more information shortly. Stay with news 4. Back to you. A towson basketball player was injured in a drive by shooting this weekend. He was shot outside of his home in philadelphia saturday. Thats according to the school. Davis was in philadelphia for a game. In a statement Towson University said david stayed in the city overnight for the dedication of the birth of his son. He was treated at the hospital and released. It is unclear when davis will return to court. Nearly three months after a boating incident crews have reco fisherman. The boat sank in november but today his body washed ashore 63 miles away on the virginia shoreline. Thats according to Natural Resources police. He was on a boat with three other fishermen when it went under. Only one man survived. If you have kids, their safety in the car is very important. We know that. A new study says when children or teens are killed on the road it is often linked to alcohol. Researchers looked at 85,000 deadly crashes where someone 21 or younger died. They say half involved a driver that had some alcohol in their system. In just under a third the driver was legally drunk. Almost half of young people who died were passengers in those cars. Well, chances are you probably know someone who has been misdiagnose moesed by a doctor. The institute of medicine says it happens millions of times every year. Now a doctor has created diagnostic process accurate. The app allows doctors to put in every piece of information about a patient to come up with a specific answer. 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We have been dealing with crazy amounts of wind around here for the last id say 12 to 18 hours or so. Peak gusts so far 65 Miles Per Hour. Dulles airport 58 Miles Per Hour and bwi marshall, a 50mileperhour gust. High wind warnings. Thats this bright orange shading. That continues all the way through 6 00 this evening so we could still see more gusts up in that 60mileperhour range. So weather impacts then for this morning problematic indeed. Dangerous winds out there. If you see any po treat them as though they are a live wire and stay away. Avoid downed power lines at all. By this evening just inconveniently breezy and by tomorrow, plenty of sunshine and temperatures back up to near average but the weekend preview if youre wondering about that, both saturday and sunday look dry. Saturday back into the upper 50s. Could be in the 60s by sunday. Like we always say, a picture is worth a thousand words and heres your picture for today. Hold on to those hats and hairpieces today. The issue will be those power house winds which will be with us for the remainder of the day. Work and school week forecast, 40s and windy today. 50s tomorrow. Slight chance for a quick little shower early on wednesday. Most of that wednesday rain chance will be southbound toward Southern Maryland in fredericksburg and drying out for thursday and friday. Sheena is back in a few more minutes talking about how long these winds will be with us. For now it is time for melissa mollet, good morning to you. So right now, were live great falls street south of chain bridge road. Theyre working on those downed wires right now but a section of that roadway is shut down. Southbound 123 before burke center parkway, a large branch blocking the right lane right now. A come other issues including one in Upper Marlboro coming up. All right. Bye bye baobao. We are paying it forward this week. This is our random acts of kindness week. We want to hear the ways that youve spread kindness in your communities. Even writing a thank you note or buying somebody lunch. You can share your stories on the nbc washington facebook page. You can see what melissa and sheena did. They were out with a special group of teachers. And kindness is contagious. You do for me, i do for you, you do for other people. I know you want to know about this. Time is running out to see bao bao. Eight more days before bao bao leaves the international zoo. Eight days. She will move thousands of miles away to her new home in china. Friends of the national zoo kicked off the first of several farewell parties. One on saturday for the not so little panda anymore. Grown. Three and a half and she has to go for a Conservation Program in china. Well, bao baos going back to become part of the breeding pool to make sure that we have enough pandas can thrive in the future. Theres so few pandas left that every single panda is important and her genes will be represented down for hopefully hundreds of years. Its a good reason. She may be a mommy herself some day. You can join in some of the festivities by watching the panda cam online. Her keepers give her a treat twice a day. 10 00 a. M. And 1 30. So if you check out panda cam you can see all the cuteness. Well, it is the homework assignment that has a lot of parents upset. The question on second graders assignment they say is unacceptable. And safe at home, the family of a missing teen and her infant son relieved this morning after the pair went missing for nearly a month. And it is a weather alert day. Im sure you know why. You heard the winds overnight just howling and theyre still like that now. Expect them to be near those are damaging winds. Well talk about that and ill show you wha thet good morning, everyone. Im eun yang. And im aaron gilchrist. Coming up on 5 30 right now. If you have small children might i suggest a rope today because the wind you just got to hold on. Whatever you need to now we know why he doesnt have kids. You see people with a harness they put kids in sometimes . Im just saying, hold on tight. A leash. Whatever it is. Or the rocks in the pockets always works. Its windy is my point. A tiedown, anything to see cure the children. Thats what this is all about. It is a crazy amount of wind were dealing with and number one thing, watch out. Dont ever touch a downed power line. We have downed trees, downed power lines out there and i was saying earlier its a good thing a lot of the trees dont have leaves because then they would be more of a fan