Morning. Eastbound 7 at battlefield parkway, we still have the troubles. Branch after avenue 301, nothing bad. Travel times in ten minutes. Brace yourself for a slow travel day. Fog could be a problem. We are working for you to get you safely to where you want to go. News 4s Erika Gonzalez joins us live from arlington where traffic looks pretty steady. Good morning, erika. Reporter good morning, eun. Yes, it is steady. Starting to see a few very light sprinkles. If we pan over, zoom in into the Air Force Memorial less than an hour ago you could barely make that out. Now that fog looks like its starting to burn off. Now you can see a little bit more of the memorial, see the peaks on that. Definitely a foggy start. Give yourself extra time and check your tires. It is december 23rd, the get away day. People bolting out of town. According to aaa, 100 Million People will head out for travel this holiday week. Driving, 2. 5 Million People from our area will hit the roads. The biggest thing helping people is gas prices. Well under 2. So gas up, be safe out there and well check in with you with another update on the roads in a little while. Eun, aaron, back to you. Erika, thank you. Be sure to download the app for any travel issues. In our other headlines, a 20yearold is dead. David harris drove off the road. Today a man who shot a guest in his montgomery home is in court. That happened monday night on ridge road. Francisco trujo shot mario perez. Hes charged with first degree murder. New details, Rockville Police say they found a bullet in the woods behind Rock Terrace School on martins lane. They hope it will lead them to the pson who fired the bullets. One of the bullets hit a woman in the leg in her car. Governor Terry Mcauliffe will not send a man back to germany even if he is a politicians son. In 2010 former governor tim kane agreed to thetransfer. His predecessor, bob mcdonald, also rejected the same request. A new court ruling could impact the redskins trademark. Theyre appealing the decision to cancel the trademark because the name can offend native americans. In a separate court case the judge ruled the First Amendment protects, quote, even hurtful speech. She said the government cannot refuse to register offensive trademarks trademarks. Its not clear if it will be appealed again which could land it in the supreme court. We know of a strange site in western states. This streak of light in the night sky here. The military says it was not an aislely an, it wasnt a shooting star either. Apparently it was a Russian Rocket that was burning up in the atmosphere. Take a look here. The Russian Rocket entered the atmosphere somewhere over arizona, we believe. You can apparently see that over three states. The rocket launched on monday and the u. S. Strategic command identified it to say, okay, dont worry. They dont know where it ended up either. No. Probably burned up almost completely. Whew. Cool sight to see, for sure. Devastating news out of afghanistan hitting close to home. A family sharing their grief after the death of a local air man. Plus, a brandnew problem on 95 in virginia just as we head into Holiday Travel time. Details coming up. Dont come into my house. Dont. Dont. Okay. A little girl calls 911 in a panic. What she did that had her thinking she was in trouble with santa. This holiday, ford americas bestselling brand is giving you more. The ford holiday sales event. With 0 financing for 60 months on 2015 f150 and focus and 2016 fusion and escape. Plus 1,000 dollars Holiday Bonus cash on 2015 focus and 2016 fusion and escape. Its the best gift ever. Now during the ford holiday sales event get 0 financing for 60 months plus 1,000 dollars Holiday Bonus cash on select vehicles. See your local ford dealer. Were expecting developments this morning at hundreds of black lives matter protesters are planning a protest at one of the countrys biggest malls. The organizers may not be there after a judge ruled they have to stay away. Youre looking at protests at the mall last year after Michael Browns death. This time demonstrators want to focus attention on the Police Officers who shot and killed a blackman in minneapolis last month. A protest closer to home. The proposed pepco exelon merger, they plan to hand deliver letters of dissent. Opponents say the merger would raise rates for d. C. Residents. You can see it on metro or while youre sitting in traffic. D. C. Is getting more crowded. Now we have the numbers to back up that fact. New data from the krcensus bure ranks d. C. Third. They gained 1,000 people. A 2 raise. Good morning, everybody. Im storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. Thick fog in the Shenandoah Valley may be expanding into the metro over the next couple of hours. You want to stay weather alert. The harbor camera, you can barely make out the outline of the circle. Rain and fog this morning will slow things down a bit. Periods of moderate to briefly heavier rain during the middle of the day. That will be the worst of the travel conditions. By evening rain tapering back to occasional showers. Maybe not until after 8 00, 9 00 tonight. Most of the rain for now is down into southern maryland. Theres plenty more of that where it came from. The pockets of rain should be in the metro between 10 00 and noon. The roads will go from bad to worse. The rales, so far no problems on amtrak. The skies, call ahead for details. We did have some earlier delays this morning. Thankfully it looks like theyre mostly cleared out though we still have a single bit of tracking thats reporting between stadium and silver lines. 95 northbound at 123, take a look. New crash blocking the right side of the roadway. Eastbound 7 at battlefield parkway, still have the Police Activity in the leesburg area. Travel times, germantown to the beltway at 270 is on time. 66 in bound dont have any issues. 95 north quantico to the belt way also rolling along quite nicely. 95 going to get quite busy here as the day progresses and as folks are hitting the roads for the Holiday Travel. Guys . Thanks, melissa. Not welcome on campus, an item theyre telling students to leave at home when they return from holiday break. Also ahead, committing a crime while at the police station. What this man was trying to get away with when he was caught on camera. Good morning. Im angie goff at the live desk with this new video just in. Docking of the russian progress cargo vehicle to the International Space station was just confirmed. You are looking at video of it. Now this follows a successful moon walk. The rocket was launched on monday brought 2. 5 tons of cargo including dry cargo, water, as well as compressed oxygen. Its been a good week for space so far. Guys . Angie, thank you. The Holiday Travel season is ramping up this morning. You can encounter some pblems as you head out the door. Take a live look outside from one of our power cameras where you can barely even make out the light below. That is thick fog. Also limiting visibility on some roads around our area right now. Be careful out there. Christmas is friday, of course. Christmas eve is tomorrow. A lot of you are taking your trip home today. In fact, the numbers are expected to break records. Aaa predicts more than 100 Million People will be traveling for the holiday. Now that includes 2. 5 million in our area alone. Just over 40 of the people who live here according to aaa, 92,000 travelers will be driving or flying but they are taking wont be driving or flying, will be taking the train or something else. 130,000 of you will be up in the air. With extra low gas prices, most of you, about 2,260,000 are afternoon commute. Well keep you updated with the rain that will be affecting the day especially through the afternoon hours. Thats the way it looks here in arlington. Tom, thanks. Its now 6 17. A local family will receive the body of Staff Sergeant peter talb today at Dover Air Force base. The young father was one of six americans killed in a suicide bombing in afghanistan on monday. His father tells us he couldnt be prouder of his son. Its the first attack americans have had in quite a while. Yeah. And to have it happen to my son is i just cant get my head around it. Talbs mother and brother own a restaurant in d. C. You can see a sign and an American Flag on the window saying the restaurant will be closed while the family mourns the loss of their hero. Hes survived by his wife who is pregnant with their second child. We now know more about the other americans who died in that attack. Flags in new york will fly at half staff today in honor of nypd detective joseph lemm. Major adrianna leaves behind a wife and a boy. Staff Sergeant Louis bonacasa and Michael Cinco was from the Rio Grande Valley of texas and Chester Mcbride had been a College Football standout. Today the man accused of shooting up a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic will make a court appearance. Robert dear faces more than 100 felony charges related to that shooting last month. Three people died including a police officer. Also today Lakeisha Holloway should be in court as well. Shes the woman that Las Vegas Police say drove her car into a crowded strip of people sunday night. One woman died, dozens of other people were hurt. In news 4 your health, theres a new program to keep High School Students safe. Theyre using a concussion testing program. It lets them detect potential concussions on the sideline. That allows them to take out players early and prevent problems. A 7yearold new jersey girl called 911 afraid that she would end up on the naut ri list after she accidentally touched the elf on the shelf. Hello . Its isabella. Hi. Hi, is a bella. Dont come to my house, dont okay. Now izzy called 911 after she knocked the elf over while throwing the ball. Her mother was taking a nap when this happened. According to the popular childrens book, the christmas magic goes away from the home if the child touches the elf. Soon after calling in the emergency izzy realized her mistake. The cops showed up to make sure everything was okay there. Isabella apologized. She touched the elf on the chef and she wont call 911 again. He knows i wont do that again. Officers let izzy off with a warning. They said she can stay on the nice list. You cant touch the elf, is that how it works . No, you cant. The magic goes away. It is a disciplinary season. We had to send jingles away because it terrified my daughter. You know what i mean . It was a little creepy for her. It . Reminds me of that clown. Now we can be scared all morning. Thank you, aaron. It is now 6 20. Developing in that landslide in china, an amazing rescue. They say they pulled out a 21yearold man who was trapped for nearly three days. Take a look. You can see him on a stretcher here. The man was dehydrated and broke some bones but survived. 74 people are still missing right now. And a lucky escape for a california man after a giant boulder slammed into his truck. Look at that damage there. That boulder smashed into the side of his truck on tuesday. The force was so strong it pushed the truck into another car. A major highway north of sacramento was shut down for several hours. No one was hurt. Another lucky escape, did you see that . Falling drone almost took out an austrian skier here. This is right in the middle of a slalom event. It missed the fourtime defending champion by seconds. The drone was carrying one of the cameras that was broadcasting that race. Too close for comfort. Really is. We talked about how the drones have to be registered. You never know whats going to happen. 6 21 is our time right now. Weather alert day around here. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell telling us more on this weird, foggy, warm rainy, all that stuff. Yeah. Any time you put april into the month of december you typically get fog and rain and thats what we have coming our way today. It will impact how fast we can move around town. It may impact your flight plans as well. Stay ahead of the information with your local carriers. Outside this morning, the first thing we have to get through is the thick fog. Shenandoah valley, northern maryland, that goes to 10 00. Visibility even around the metro, below a mile. Take it easy. Use your low beams. The capital wheel shining brightly. 20 minutes ago you couldnt even see it. Our fog model updated hourly. The new thinking is the fog should ease off by 10 00, 11 00. Better visibility by later on this afternoon. As the visibility goes up, the rain starts to increase. The best thing i can tell you about the weather forecast, Christmas Day, how about 70 on christmas . The record is 72 set back in 1964. We have at least a shot of that. Its going to be a mild one today, too. Umbrella, yes. Winter coat, nah. Wont need it for a week at least. Temperatures will climb from the upper 50s and 60s to the mid and upper 60s. It comes with a significant chance for rain. Heavier rains in southern virginia only 3 or 4 hours from getting into the metro. Steadiest remain into southern maryland. Computer model updated hourly. New timing on the rain pushing out of southern maryland. More of the pockets of yellows and oranges moving in, 10 00, 11 00 this morning. Another round of heavier rain by 1 00 or 2 00. Another round after 5 00, 6 00, 7 00 this evening. Heaviest of the rain is the second part of the rain. Lowest visibilities is the first part. Seven day forecast, again, looks like april to me. 67 today. 75 record breaking degrees tomorrow. Near 70 on Christmas Day itself. The weekend, mild. Cloudy skies. Risk of showers. The coldest day out of the next 7 will be next monday. Even that is 10 degrees above average. The new rain chances coming up at 6 31. Melissa . Right now still have this problem 95 northbound at 123. Take a look. You can see the Police Response off to the right side of the roadway. We are a little slow northbound at 123. Outer loop at 66, the roadblocked. In bound, the right side is blocked there. A lot of activity in the past couple of minutes. 301 southbound at smallwood drive has all lanes being reported as blocked temporarily because of a crash. Tow there on the scene. Orange, blue, silver lines single tracking between stadium armory and the eastern market. Travel times in a couple of minutes. Thanks, melissa. George Mason University is the latest school in our area to ban hoverboards to residence halls. They sent them a letter not to bring them back after the holiday break. The university is concerned about them spontaneously catching fire. George mason is only banning them from the dorms, not the entire campus. Last week Loyola University banned them from all of the campuses in maryland. California man facing serious charges in Loudoun County for possessing those. Hes charged with possessing almost 200 pounds of marriage. Hes charged withholding 9,000. Dennison is being held without bond right now. Loudoun county sheriff said it is the second largest drug seizure this year. A man now headed to prison for shooting two teenagers outside of a high school in maryland. Brandon earl tyler pled guilty to shooting a 14yearold and a 15yearold outside of frederick high school. The shooting happened back in february. The teenagers were members of the rival gangs. Tyler will be in prison for 12 years. 6 26. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is already looking ahead to 2018. In an interview set to air next month, she told news 4s Mark Seagrave she is going to run for reelection. There could be a former matchup with former mayor vincent gray. Does that mean you have decided you will run for reelection . Absolutely. Being mayor of the district of columbia, especially now and ive been born and raised here. She says she loves local government and that is where she plans to stay. A live look outside now. Can you see the capitol wheel . Its pretty bright. You can see it there. A lot of fog at national harbor. You cant see much else. We are also tracking rain pushing into the area. All part of four things to know. His blunder had us talking earlier. Now were learning new information about the future plans for steve harvey. First, a developing story Montgomery County right now. Police investigating a body found along a popular trail in silver spring. News 4s Megan Mcgrath there news 4s Megan Mcgrath there live with w who coined the term side bread . Because theres nothing side about this bread. It may look like the moon. But its the star of the show. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. That sound. Like nails on a chalkboard. But listen to this family talking thats a different kind of sound. The sound of the weekend. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. Were tracking a developing story. Police have the body. Live. What have you learned. Reporter theyre on the scene. Theyre making the discovery. At around 11 10. No word on how he died and whether or not they suspect foul play. Certainly police are trying to piece together what happened. This is an ongoing investigation. Anyone with information about what happened or the identity of this person you are asked to call investigators with Montgomery County police. Back to you all in the studio. Today is a storm team 4 weather alert day as you may find yourself stepping outside to some heavy fog. Were seeing a number of potential trouble spots on the roads right now. Were watching a line of showers on stor