66 and 95, were okay. 95 northbound here, a little slow and that is normal. Taking a look at the bottom of the beltway and the routes through Prince Georges County. Youre okay as well. 210, indian head highway, getting typically slow as youre headed inbound. Right now on metro, delays to franconia on the blue line. A chilly start but a nice warm up is on the way. What do you say and youre going to love tomorrow. Back to the sunshine today, no chance for rain and temperatures will be up in the upper 50s to low to mid60s today. Sunshine, tomorrow, with a shot at 70. Perhaps low to mid70s for some tomorrow afternoon. Enjoy it. Soak it in while you can. Lots of wind and a big drop in temperatures arrives here late saturday into sunday. Ill show you the chilly details of the weekend forecast coming up in a few more minutes. For today, nothing to worry about. About 65 in washington. Chuck, thank you. Your time is 6 02. Developing right now, neighbors are on edge after a bear attack in fredrick county maryland. A 63yearold woman suffered a broken arm, cuts to her head, and puncture wounds to both arms the Maryland Department of Natural Resources is using a tracking device to find the bear. Megan mcgrath is live in fredrick now with what officials are saying as they hunt for the bear and she will join us again live in just a few county. Closing arguments begin in a trial against a man accused of killing a 3yearold girl. Davon wallace is charged in the murder of khnijah bibb. He fired six shots at a landover apartment after a fight with somebody. Wallace did not intentionally shoot the child say his defense attorneys. A status hearing for the a man was fatally shot outside the metro station last summer. Marcus king, Christopher Proctor andre dudley have been charged in the shooting death. Look for updates in the nbc washington app. President elect donald trump has a full slate of meetings today as he works to build his white house team. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is scheduled to meet with the president elect. She is being considered as secretary of state. Trump is also expected to meet with former National Security considered Michael Flynn as National Security advisor. Mike pence will head to capitol hill today. He will attend a meeting, a conference with House Republicans this morning and meet with Speaker Paul Ryan as well as Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. Pence is expected to meet with Democratic Leaders of the house and senate. America is worth it. Our children are worth it. Give up. That was Hillary Clintons message to supporters last night in her first public appearance since conceding the election. She made the remarks at an event for the Childrens Defense Fund. Clinton was honored by the organization. Aides say her appearance was planned long before last weeks election loss. Students in Montgomery County schools will watch a video message from their superintendent. He wants the protests over the president ial election stopped. Yesterday a 15yearold donald trump supporter was beaten up at a protest. When students are threatened or injured as part of a protest it raises serious safety issues that require us to rethink the situation. Today, students at the university of maryland are expected to walk out of class in protests this afternoon. The smoke from the wildfires in the drought ravaged south is now getting blamed for crashes on the road. Causing air quality warnings across several states. Kentucky and south carolina, even parts of virginia are part of the warning zone with bans on lighting fires. As many as 30 large fires are still burning and are uncontained. A close call for a Police Officer in Los Angeles County who had his back window shot out after a traffic stop last night. This is in baldwin park in l. A. Making a traffic stop near a Fast Food Restaurant when the back window of his cruiser was shot out. Police had k9s in the area, helicopters in the sky, looking for the shooter. Thus far, they have not been able to find anybody. We can tell you that the officer is okay but a very close call. From the live desk, im Erika Gonzalez. With another honor this morning. Look at him there, after multiple nohitters and that historic 20 strikeout game, he is now also the winner of the cy young award. It is the second time he has won that in his career. Scherzer had 20 wins this year and led the National League in strikeouts. To win, he beat out two pitchers on the World Champion chicago cubs. That is how good he is. That is awesome. This is the sixth time in history that a pitcher has won there was a controversy in the american league, Justin Verlander got robbed. That is because he is from virginia. Maryland native katie la ledecky is making a big crash. Booster seat ratings, next. And breaking news continuing in my future, im twice as likely to have a stroke. Im at higher risk for depression. Im 26 more likely to develop an irregular heartbeat. I have a 65 higher chance of developing diabetes. No matter who we are, these diseases can be managed or prevented when caught early on. Because with better research, with, we will thrive. Breaking news in first 4 traffic. Again, were talking about a big problem here in great falls. Georgetown pike shut down between nicholas run drive and spring vale road because of poles and wires th all lanes blocked. Right now, news4 chopper brad freitas is over this. Tell us what it is looking at from above. Right now, crews are working to get this reopened and these wires back off the roadway. Let me pull up the shot for you. The road is blocked. 193, georgetown pike. Right now your best alternate is to get on to route 7. That is where police are redirecting you through the side back down to you. Thank you, brad. Other problems around town right now. Outer loop before kenilworth avenue. Crash blocking a right lane. 301, before the 5 police. Crash in the right lane. 66 inbound, 95 north looking typical here right now. Taking a look at 270 from germantown to the spur, youre on time and top of the beltway looking okay as wey listen car today. And as far as the weather is concerned. Well have plenty of sunshine the next couple of days. Tomorrow will be sunny and warm and no weather worries today. There are weather worries as we get into the weekend for your outdoor plans saturday. Likely to have showers saturday afternoon and evening. Sunday will be windy and way super cold. If youre going to the redskins, packers game. Gate h collecting food for families, canned good donations and dry food donations. Come out and give us a hand shake and say hello and drop off a donation, game time temperatures, that is going to be cold. In the 30s and 40s. A check of the five day forecast and more details on the weekend changes coming up in ten minutes. See you then. Chuck, thank you. It is 6 12 now. Prince georges County School officials release the student safety action plan. Theyre aiming to address training for staff members. It was organized last spring in the wake incidents. Deontay carraway is accused of sex acts with students. Today in arlington, the Police Department will be out promoting the fall pedestrian and bike call Safety Awareness safer for drivers and pedestrians, from 10 00 a. M. Until noon, officers will be on lee highway and edison street. 90 pedestrians are killed every year in traffic accidents in our area. The possibility of expanding d. C. Streetcar service is up for debate. Ddot is holding a Public Meeting today on the proposed plan that could extend service from a street to georgetown. It e millions of americans are affected by osteoperosis. There is a new concern for doctors. Doreen gentzler has more. Reporter it is a big problem. 50 million americans have it. Women are the most vulnerable. Half of all women over the age of 50 will break a bone because of osteoperosis. Men can get it too and their bones can break as well. Hip fractures have been declining but all of a sudden it levelled off. That is a problem. In terms of treatment of osteoperosis and diagnosis, we have a crisis. Find out more about this and why diagnosis and treatment are so important tonight on news4 at 5 00. 6 14 right now. Today, the expedition kazakhstan. Peggy whitson will become the first woman to command a space station twice. Katie ledecky is tearing up the world of college swimming. No surprise there. 19yearold in her freshman year at stanford right now. She set a new ncaa record over the weekend. She won the 1,000 yard race, 35 second, 35 seconds ahead of her nearest competitor. Wont be her last. She broke the records for the 500 yard and 200 yard freestyle events. Every race she has been in so far in college has resulted in a record which has to be horribly discouraging to anybody else who wants to be a swimmer in college right now. She is an incredible athlete and the nicest person ever. She just started at stanford. She has her career in front of her. All right. Go, katie. We just talk anymore. Im trying to run away. Maryland is beating the drum on this. State Highway Administration will hold the annual snow show today. The agency will show off new winter tools including new infrared pavement centers deployed throughout the state. Everybody is getting ready. Chuck bell is not getting ready for snow. Keep the snow away. You mentioned a little bit of snow you did for sundays game. Thanks for reminding me. Im still mentioning it now. A chance for shower showers, in the western mountains of West Virginia. Chance for snow showers late saturday night into early parts of the day on sunday. Youll go to the oklahoma game on sunday. Lay yup. If youre going to the redskins game, layer up as well. Have the nbc washington app downloaded and ready to go. Find me and ill keep you up to date on the forecast on the social media when were not on the air. We should be in the upper 50s to low to mid60s with sunshine for afternoon temperatures today. That will be nice. Also, tomorrow, another a plus day tomorrow. Temperatures tomorrow, up around 70 degrees. Some areas may be well above that. But here is the bowling ball of change that is coming our way. Denver went from 80 yesterday to arriving here saturday night. So there goes the warm air out, here comes the cold air in. Exactly how cold . Northwest winds over 30 miles an Hour Saturday night and sunday. Here is your weekend. Mild ahead of the rain drops, mid to upper 60s on saturday. But cold and windy on sunday. Melissa mollet has no good news in first 4 traffic this morning. It has been a tough morning in Northern Virginia. Breaking news right now. Still have georgetown pike shut down between and springvale road. Pole and wires down from a crash overnight. All lanes right now are blocked. This could be reopening here in a little bit. Well keep an eye on that. Chopper 4 over the scene, showing us the crews there on the scene on the section of georgetown pike. Outer loop before kenilworth. The crash is out of the way. This one, still hanging around and take a look at all of the red. 301 inbound before the right 66 looking good, same thing. 95 northbound, a look at 270 coming up. All right. Thank you. It is 6 18 right now. There are nearly 700 Homeless Youth in washington today. Half of them havent finished high school. More than half will go without food at least one day this month. Ill be part of a group that will help could have intent house change the facts. 18 to 24yearolds are able to take ged and job t classes. There is Mental Health care and a pantry for young people that might otherwise go hungry. When they come here, they dont have family. Theyre disconnected from family. Disconnected from school. Disconnected from church. We come and fill the space. We become their family. 100 local business and education leaders, politicians and celebrities will sleep outside in solidarity with Homeless Youth. Awareness about youth homelessness. It starts at 6 00 p. M. On Freedom Plaza tonight. So we expect a pretty big crowd for the sleep out event later. Well be there through the night and ill be onair tomorrow morning after sleeping out. I cant wait to hear about your experience. Im a little nervous to be honest with you. It will be obviously an experience ive never had before but i think one that is worthwhile for these kids, these young people. Good for you for doing it. It is a story that you will want to see before you hit the road this morning. The booster seat ratings just in overnight. It is a National Anthem fail but not one where the singer forgot the words much how the crowd at the caps game came through for the win. One week from today, youll be getting ready and preparing a thanksgiving meal. Were working for you in the community to provide food baskets for those in need. We need as many donations as we can get. Drop them off at this sundays redskins game with storm team4 Verizon Center on monday. You can donate online and through text message. Search food4families in the nbc you love allday breakfast. But you dont love that you cant get all your favorites. But now you can get more of what you love. So you can find Something Else to not love. Like hearing the sound of your own voice. softly like hearing the sound of your own voice. This scenario would make any parents heart stop. A nineyearold boy saves had i baby brother as the baby fell off the changing table. Loo the mother had turned her back for just a moment to deal with another child. That is when the 11 month old rolled over on his stomach and fell off the edge. His brother caught him just in time. This happened in south florida. The baby is okay and the mom gave the 9yearold a big hug. Maybe a Big Chocolate chip cookie is in order, too. Before you load up the kids, there is big news about child booster seats. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gives 48 out of first started rating booster seats, only a quarter of them received the top rating. This is really good news for parents. They can feel confident that when theyre shopping for a booster, the vast majority of booters theyre looking at will provide good belt fit. Look for the complete list of of the booster seats on the nbc washington app. More people year. Telework helped the General ServiceAdministration Save millions of dollars in annual lease spending and administrative costs as well. The biggest White Collar Union in the world wants mansplaining to stop. It is when a man tries to explain something to a woman but often knows more about it than the man trying to explain. Was that in the script . Union in sweden says members can talk about mansplaini in fg. More than a dozen experts liquor answer those phone calls. Are you calling right now . Listen. There is a time change in sweden. She knows so much more, i cant handle it. I cant win the arguments. Can i get what did you say . Im just a squirrel. Just a squirrel trying to get his nut. Weve been talking about division in this country especially following the election. It was a Divisive Campaign season. Last night at the Verizon Center, we saw a great show of unity. . And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air . . Apparently in the middle of the National Anthem before the capitals game. The singer carried on. The crowd joined in and helped him out. Everybody on their feet singing the star spangled banner. The caps went on to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 71 so a good night by all. Go caps. Go caleb 6 26 now. Breaking news in first 4 traffic. A big change for a Northern Virginia road. S a 60yearold woman attacked by a bear in a driveway in fredrick county. Im megan mcgrath. A live report, coming up. And we have a warm up on the way but big changes are in commuter trouble, part of a major route into work, just reopened. We have the impact on your commute. Safety surge. Dealing with delays even longer. New arrests in bb gun attacks. The university of maryland just benched a couple of Football Players. Chopper 4 is over the scene right now. Workers just cleared the scene on georgetown pike where a pole shut down part of the roadway. You can see traffic there, though. It is a problem weve been following for drivers in Northern Virginia. Keep up with melissa on first 4 traffic tweeting about this all morning. We have. Weve been talking about this all morning. This started as a big problem for the entire morning with vdot tweeting as well. We have just reopened. This is great news. We were seeing the backups. Chopper 4 over the georgetown pike here as we just said, it is now open. Georgetown pike open, was shut down between nicholas run drive and springvale road taking time to show you that. Inner loop at kenilworth avenue. Crash in the left lane. Beautiful weather comes back into fashion today. A mostly clear sky out there. A little bit of fog over washington no reduced visibility across the city. There are pockets of light fog. Keep your low beams on and speeds down just a bit. 4 things to know about the weather. Lets try this begin. Yesterday was supposed to be today, sunny and nice. Were going for