There. Brad is up in the air over 95 in virginia. Brad, what are you seeing there . This traffic headed southbound on 95 is starting to build. I know it doesnt look like much right now but were down here a lot and this is not typical volume on the southbound right side of the screen as you head south through quantico and all the way down into fredericksburg, starting to see that volume build. We will keep an eye on this all day and the coming days. Back down to the thank you. We continue our Team Coverage of thanksgiving travel rush with news 4 justin fitch. Live in bood woodbridge with the low gas prices and how you want to take advantage of them. Justin, good morning. Aaron, eun, good morning. So far the roads were clear on 95 south until we got to the woodbridge area and we did see some congestion in the area. I want to tell you, too, Many Americans are traveling by car million americans, more than a million from the d. C. Area. As you mentioned perhaps bolstered by the lower gas prices averaging some six cents lower than thanksgiving last year. I want to show you some of the people weve seen at the pumps here so far. Mostly workers, some cars coming in, coming out that look to be commercial rather personal family cars. We can tell you on the roads this holiday you will be seeing more state and local police. Well have more on that coming at justin fitch in woodbridge for us thank you. 6 02. New this morning were learning that while you were inside enjoying that thanksgiving dinner, someone may be outside trying to steal your car. The National Crime bureau released new numbers. Car thefts nationwide are up year to year. Last year 1600 cars were stolen on thanksgiving. Black friday is also becoming a big day for car stealing across the country. Stores, thieves stole 2200 cars last black friday. 6 03. Breaking news in northeast d. C. Mollette green is live for us. What can you tell us . Aaron, good morning. We just got here. The situation is very fluid. As you can see behind me, there is a Large Police Presence and we have some new information that we have from the scene. Sources telling me that a woman with burn injuries is at the hospital fightingti holbrooke street northeast. Im standing on neil here. Police have blocked off this entire section for this investigation. No confirmation from d. C. Police as to how this happened or what exactly happened and what we are dealing with. Were staying here on the scene and well continue to dig for information and as soon as we get it well bring it right to you in a live report. A woman suffering critical burn of their investigation. Back to you. All right. Mollette, we will check back with you, thank you. Were following a developing story in Montgomery County this morning. Police have identified the two People Killed in fourcar crash last night in gaithersburg. 27yearold steven diaz and 67yearold george carey are the men who died. This happened just before 8 00 last night on airpark road. Police say diaz was headed east when he crossed into the westbound lanes and hit two other cars including the one driven by carey. A fourth vehicle involved. This morning a maryland state trooper is recovering after a driver smashed into his car on 495. This is the second time a driver has hit a trooper on the by the way. On sunday Christopher Howard since january 15 maryland state troopers have been hit while working on the by the way. This man is facing five for the terrible School Bus Crash in tennessee. Johnthony walker was behind the wheel of the bus when it flipped and hit a tree yesterday. Youre looking at new video of the crash from overnight. More than 20 children were hurt in the crash and at least five children have died. 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 go out to them, thoughts and our prayers, and we are doing this for them. We now know an ntsb go team from d. C. Is on its way to investigate today. Investigators say they are looking at speed very, very strongly as a factor in this crash. The man accused of killing a veteran Police Officer in texas says he wants to apologize to that officers family. 31yearold otis mckane with was taken into custody monday afternoon in san antonio. You see in the video here. He told reporters that he was upset with the court system and benjamin marconi. The detective was shot as he sat in his cruiser after making a traffic stop on sunday. Vice president elect mike pence heads to new york to rejoin the Transition Team as president elect donald trump promises a cabinet of, quote, patriots. His Team Released a video yesterday where he outlined his agenda for his first 100 days. As part of this plan ive asked my Transition Team to develop a list of executive actions we can take on day one to restore our laws and bring the video was created and drbtsds by the president elects Transition Team and it was not an event open to the press. Trump is denying hes using the powers of his future office to benefit his business. As trump hires his team, one of the Big Questions now is will a huge wave of trump staffers move into the washington, d. C. , area . Our web team looked at the data and spoke to experts. To read the story and find out what impact a trump promised federal hiring freeze could d. C. Seven minutes after the hour now. In virginia senator tim kaine is back to work in the senate. He returned after losing his bid for vice president. Kaine says he is still surprised by the election 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, but ive lost at other things in life. You know, just not an energy on the same issues he had before, particularly military issues. Metros latest track surge will wrap up today on the red line and riders will get a short break over the thanksgiving holiday. But on monday, metro crews will start work on state track surge number 11 along the orange and silver lines. That will mean 24 days of single tracking between East Falls Church and west falls church. Do these railcars and train operators have a problem communicating with one another . Ill explain what that means coming up. It is one of the most popular stories on the nbc washington app right now. The major plan for a new bridge to cross the potomac and how soon it could become a reality. Plus you will feels the blast of cold as you step out the door. 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That lakeeffect snow machine kicked into overdrive this week dumping feet of snow on that there with drifts reaching up to the roofs. Snow is blanketing cars and making driving very difficult. The area is bracing for more snow before the week is over. El nino my heart goes out to them. Chuck bell, could you imagine if that was the scene here . That was the scene here back in january. Remember . Im trying to the to. Oh, come on now. Yeah. Weve never had that kind of snow around here at thanksgiving. That big of a snow event for us about march. But not in november. Our biggest november snowstorm on record, november 11th. Veterans day of 1987 when we had 11. 5 inches of snow. Thats a lot. But nothing compared to upstate new york. What about your travel day today. Sunshine early on. A couple extra clouds later. Temperatures in the 40s today. If youre traveling getting out to the airports today unsettled weather from minneapolis to st. Louis and kansas city and dallas for today. Those rain chances move into the midwest for tomorrow and eventually move into our areas thanksgiving. So, a little bit of a sogginess around here for thanksgiving but no heavy rain and no washout. Look at all the weather in the middle of the country. I will be posting the weather on our travel media platform. Give me a like or follow me online. To Melissa Mollet. Good morning. Chopper 4 over this problem. Take chapel road instead because of the tree and wires down. New crash outer loop a getting by. Another northbound, bw parkway at 197 a crash reported there. Inner and outer loop looking good on the by the way with the exception of the brand new problem. Right now it is not impacting things too much this morning. 270 south is okay top of the by the way right now okay. Not going to be okay for long there on the outer loop. 66 inbound, 95 north all right as well. Listen to 103. 5 when you hop your car. Thank you. Across the metro system but theyre cause something confusion for some train operators. News 4 transportation reporter adam tuss tells us what the issue is. Reporter this is one of metros brand new 7,000 series railcars. Theyre supposed to be state of the art. The problem is, they might be too state of the art. You see, train operators have been getting some commands that theyre not familiar with and a metro source tells me that a command was given repeatedly operator didnt know what it meant he relayed it to Central Control and Central Control did not know what that command meant. So, theres a little bit of unfamiliarity with these railcars, even though theyre out on the tracks all across the system. They sent us a statement saying since the 7 ks entered service weve developed additional troubleshooting techniques that are specific to the 7 ks. Those Lessons Learned have developed into a new training module. Still a source says some operators are rolling down the on the 7,000 series train, adam tuss, news 4. One of the personal connections between maryland and virginia is getting an upgrade. Maryland Transportation Authority board approved a plan to replace the harry nice bring between Charles County in maryland. The bridge will have four lanes of traffic and a pedestrian path and it will cost 765 million and should be completed by 2023. Maggianos thees Friendship Heights is apologizing for hosting a White Nationalist group. Members from the National Policy institute had dinner there on friday. Maggianos says it was unaware of what the organization stood for until protesters gathered outside. The restaurant donated its earnings that night to the d. C. Antidefamation league. The same group was criticized for saying heil trump the National Policy was criticized. During a conference on saturday. Comments were meant to be exuberant and ironic. Opioid addiction is a Public Health emergency in virginia according to state Health Officials who are working to fight the problem. The state now allows anyone to buy the drug naloxone without a prescription. The drug reverses the effects of an opioid overdose. A local woman says she wishes this was available when her brother overdosed. This issue is especially important to me because in 2 years old at the time, passed away from a heroin overdose and im the one that came home and found him. Last year, 801 people died from heroin and Prescription Drug overdoses in 2012 that number was 541. More news for your health this morning, the allergens lurking in your kids schools may make asthma symptoms worse. Researchers from boston in the northeast. The allergen levels for rats, cockroaches and does mites were low or undetectable. Mouse allergens were common and associated with lower lung function and increased asthma symptoms. You will have to pay a little more to get that cup of starbucks. The Coffee Company has raised the prices on some cold beverages and bakery items. The hike is anywhere between 10 to 30 cents. Some starbucks lovers are complaining about the increase on twitterof Consumer ProductSafety Commission will have its annual thanksgiving cooking safety demonstration. The fire demos will include turkey fryers, stove topps and ovens. The Commission Says theres an average of 1300 kitchen fires on thanksgiving day every year. The demonstration will happen at the National Product testing an evaluation center. We want to thank you for helpings us raise nearly 42,000 to feed local families this thanksgiving. Pretty impressive. Boxes of food outside the Verizon Center. News 4s Pat Lawson Muse says its the most shes ever seen in years of collecting these donations. John wahl of the wizards and rapper wale were among those who donated. There is still time to help out. You can head to the nbc washington app or nbcwashington. Com to see how you can still donate. So thankful for your support. Its time to check in with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. Im goino absolutely right. Isabelle the crazy attack dog of mine we were down yesterday and had both bags full of our donations yesterday. We gave some of our thanksgiving day favorites, some of our favorites soups and sauces and gravy and stuffing mixes and the like. Hopefully somebody will enjoy those. Beautiful morning outside. Nice clear sky, a little Early Morning glow to our eastern horizon. Were still waiting on the sunrise which comes up before it will be in the low to mid 30s for the next couple hours. Afternoon temperatures mid to upper 40s today. Plenty of sunshine. So there will be no weather related problems around our area. That little bit of a breeze, though, has temperatures which temperatures are around 30 but windchills now are in the mid to upper 20s across much of the area. Culpepper and lorray have windchills down in the teens this morning. Northwest winds will be a bit of an issue today but nowhere near as strong as they were chicago, omaha, kansas city, st. Louis, down towards dallas ft. Worth all could have some weather related slowdowns. Fortunately theres no big winter storm plowing across the country for thanksgiving. Heres your flight delays. I will put this on my social media pain as well. Chuck bell 4 on twitter or facebook. Seattle, dallas, st. Louis, and minneapolis might have the slow downs. Tomorrow maybe a little bigger impact in houston, memphis, chicago and detroit. Travel on thanksgiving, its a lot easier to do. Maybe well see delays in boston. The worst flying weather on thanksgiving day itself will be in the Pacific Northwest and some of that unsettled weather moves towards San Francisco and detroit as we get towards friday. Ill have your black friday forecast here at home coming up in a couple more minutes. Your fiveday outlook, 49 and breezy, 51 tomorrow with clouds, couple light rain showers during the day on thanksgiving itself but it wont be a washout and then friday and saturday, back to dry just about average. Lets go over to Melissa Mollet and see if traffic is average on a tuesday morning. I have a problem here. They keep turning the camera on me. Watching outer loopcoalsville. Were sending chopper 4 that way to show you whats going on. The delays building top of the by the way for my morning commuters. Inner and outer loop otherwise actually looking pretty good. Northbound bw parkway at 197 a northbound 95 at 644 a crash on the right shoulder. Starting to see also those southbound delays there on 95 through quantico. These are folks headed out of town. We do not have a problem through that area. Leave early or late, at off peak times if you can. Bottom of the by the way at Prince Georges County looking typical. 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