. Reporter its finally a reality after nearly 4 years and 1. 4 billion, the Mgm National Harbor is lives. An exclusive vip party kicked off the evening where 5000 very special guests got to come in first. To come back and see this in our own backyard is amazing. Reporter from proud locals. Whats better . Vegas or this . Brite, this. Or like kristof. I think people will realize this is more than a casino. Its like a resort shopping destination. I dont think people will understand until they come. Reporter to celebrities like Sarah Jessica parker who was so popular we could only see the back of her head. Everyone realized just how special tonight was. Absolutely beautiful. Lots of light, lots of grammar, lots of fun, lots of gambling and beautiful people. Glam, the fame and the potential for fortune. The possibilities inside are endless and so are the rewards for prince georges county. Hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue and 2000 new jobs. I dont think anything in the history of dc has ever been as grand coming to our area. Reporter the spotlight is on prince georges county. It feels like prom. R place is open 24 seven and my shift ends as soon as this live shot is over, ive got a little cash burning a hole in my pocket. Im going to head to the casino. Be careful. Remember, the house always wins. We are taking a live look at the Mgm National Harbor from sky 9 and you see all the lights around there . Thats cars. Cars that have been spilling hey joins us with all that traffic. Reporter a casino of 1. 4 billion and everybody came. That is the challenge they are dealing with an oxon hill. People were lined up on the sidewalk in the cold waiting for hours for the opening and you can still see the traffic lined up. Folks have finally been wet inside at the end of a very long journey for a lot of people trying to get in tonight. Because there is no metro stop of clothes, the preferred method to get here for folks was by car and if you drove you saw some of those challenges here tonight. They werent particularly bad on the beltway. These side roads just arent built for the volume. Prince georges county police were out in force turning of the signals, doing their own thing to work cars through the intersection and around in 9 00 when the vip event ended. They were circling looking for someone to stop. Some people we talked to were frustrated but most folks were just happy to be part of this. I think its bad parking but other than that a greatlooking casino. This is a bunch of crap. Really . Regular folks cant even get in. Im loving loving it. Go skins reporter you can hear excitement out here. The hope is that the problems at here are a onetime event. Rhythmic you mentioned, the casino will be open aroundthe clock so we wont have this 11 pm traffic jam to be part of the action in the future. Live in prince georges county, wusa 9. And of course to keep you up to date with the uptothe if you are headed out that way, you better buckle up. Chief meteorologist topper shut is tracking conditions topper shut shutt is tracking conditions. We briefly go in the 50s on monday and then back in the upper 40s on tuesday but the real thing were talking about 6 am tomorrow morning, when chills in the teens. Manasseh 16 degrees. And it will feel like 14 degrees or 15 degrees. Downtown, 29 degrees when chill. Dress for these numbers, not the actual temperatures and by tomorrow evening, temperatures still feel like they are in the 20s south of la plata. Will come back and take you ahead to next week with another john glenn is being remembered as a true american hero. The former astronaut and u. S. Senate are died at the age of 95. Glenn was the last surviving member of the original mercury 7 and the First American to orbit the earth. President obama called him an icon and a friend. President elect trump shared these words during a visit to his home state of ohio. To me he was a Great American hero, american hero. I met him on two separate occasions. I always liked him. At the age of 77, glenn returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle discovery. Nasa has created a tribute page dedicated to his life in the air and space museum in washington tweeted his legacy of friendship and discovery will live in our client in our halls forever. Reaction to his death. Reporter people i talked to described his death as a major loss. They say he inspired them to aim high and achieve goals of their own. America has lost a man whose accomplishments were literally out of this world. John glenn seemingly did it all. Part of the reason why visitors at the smithsonian air and space museum are sad to see him go. We lost somebody who is very precious. Of my boyhood heroes. Reporter one of his triumphs, rotating the earth. He served as a pilot in world war ii and korea. He was the perfect hero. Reporter he even represented ohio as a senator for more than two decades. Former ohio congressman dennis reporter a former nasa deputy administrator and mother virginia resident worked on john glenns 1984 president ial campaign. We have the about every political line for the right stuff. Reporter she credited glenn with her first job out of college, helping her meet her husband and recommending her to president obama for her post with nasa. Went to get to know him, he was just calm, thoughtful. He cared about his principles more than wanting to be president. Reporter in the end, john glenn was simply what so many strive to be. They made my generation dream. Reporter an inspiration to the country and the world. The air and space museum says he will likely have displays at the memorial tomorrow. Trump transition. President elect trump held another thank you valley. This one in des moines, iowa. He will come to the stage terry branstad, his pick for ambassador to china. Mr. Trump picked on china for not playing by the rules. You have the massive theft of intellectual property. Putting unfair taxes on our companies. Not helping with the menace of and the at will devaluation of their currency and product dumping. Other than that, they been wonderful, right . Earlier today, the trump Team Announced fast food ceo Andrew Webster is the president elects choice to be secretary of labor. He has been a critic of raises in the minimum wage. Combat what she calls fake news. She called it a danger and a threat to democracy. Her president ial campaign was a constant target of fake news websites. Clinton made those remarks on capitol hill where she took part in a tribute to minority leader harry reid. Hundreds are making special plans tomorrow to show their support for a dc pizza restaurant. It was the target of those vicious fake news unfounded rumors about the Clinton Family a North Carolina man named edgar welch says those stories encouraged him to go to investigate with an assault rifle. He is in custody for firing shots inside the restaurant. No one was hurt. Caught on camera, a brutal attack in northeast dc. Here is the video from surveillance. It shows three men kicking and punching their victim card, his passport, and then they climb into a car and leave. It all happened november 26 on morrison street near union market. The tip that leads police to the attackers is worth 10,000. The second Georgia Police officer shot yesterday responding to a domestic disturbance call has died and the search for the shooter is over. Officer jodi smith died from his injuries this afternoon. Officer Nicholas Smarr died yesterday shortly after the attack. The gunman, minq a home where he was hiding. Police say it appears he shot himself as officers arrived. Now to a terrible highway pileup. Three people died and 11 others were hurt in the cars and trucks collided on a pretty slick stretch of i96. You can see its a little snow a there. Police say at least 40 cars got caught up in the Chain Reaction nightmare. Several highway crashes were reported about 60 miles east in one driver is lucky to be alive after his truck ran off a bridge in norfolk and nosedived nosedived 75 feet onto some rock on i to 64. Paramedics rushed the driver i 264 when paramedics rushed to the driver. He was charged with driving too fast for conditions. Are you looking for the hottest toy this season . Police say two men in Howard County were caught red handed with a van full of stolen items yesterday. They apparently snagged those packages off of home owner porches and tell one neighbor called the police. Those officers we delivered the community but delivering packages . Thats a new one. After Howard CountyPolice Arrested two men for stealing 77 packages, office 51 from porches in columbia, there was only one thing left to do. Why not complete the transaction and complete the deliveries . Reporter this put a new spin on Good Police Work or maybe good customer service. Either way, deliveries were greeted by happy customers. Ive really appreciated it. Package. I saw online that they were on my front porch so i checked like five times. Reporter she says she was counting on these to be Christmas Gifts for friends and family. I was tracking them and then i thought i was going to have to repurchase everything. Reporter others didnt even have time to notice. I just found out right now. To talk about next day delivery. Police are faster than most postal carriers, right . Apparently. Reporter they didnt just return a few packages. They returned the holiday spirit. I think everybody is pretty excited about this. The fact that we were able to stop a couple of grinches from winning the holidays. Reporter in Howard County, wusa 9. The Zac Brown Band will host an allday festival to support the Recovery Efforts in gatlinburg, tennessee. Two teams teenagers are charged with starting the wildfires buildings in the area. 14 people lost their lives. The telethon style concert takes place on saturday, december 17. The city plans to reopen gatlinburg to the public tomorrow. Actor Judge Reinhold was arrested today at love field in dallas. The star of movies like fast times at ridgemont high and Beverly Hills cop 2 was booked confronted tsa agents. The actors lawyer told the Dallas Morning News that reinhold cleared security but his bag raised an alarm and that reinhold resisted when he was taken aside for a patdown. Contract workers at dallas and reagan airports plan to walk off their jobs this month. They voted to authorize that walkout today but they did not set a specific date or duration. The 400 workers include wheelchair attendants and baggage handlers who work for a company that contracts directly with the airlines. They are dein 15 an hour. The Dc Convention and Sports Authority has okayed a plan to let apple open a store inside the Historic Carnegie Library at mount vernon square. The terms of the lease or still under the works but it could include afterschool programs for dc youth. That plan still needs to go through the National CapitalPlanning Commission and the Historic Preservation review board. Have you gotten your hatchimal yet . Animals will go on sale at its stores sunday morning. They cost 60. You can only get two per person and target says you should probably call your local store ahead of time and that people should start lining up 4 to 5 hours before the store is open at 8 am. Even if you do that, there is still no guarantee you will get one. I dont know. We will come back to this. This story is definitely not on a childs wish list but its called a happy hour playset. Its a bar for the toddlers complete with neon sign and plastic beer bottles. You are winning parent of the year with this. Disgruntled bay bowtie wearing bartender not included. This has been all over the internet today but again, one of our most read stories is not a real point. This is not real. It was created by a comedian on i feel like we need to say that. Over and over again. Because of the landscape these days. Im not going to get you a hatchimal. Im okay with that. Plus it takes like two hours for the thing to hatch. Not going to happen. 30 guarantee. Here is the deal. I thought we would have more sunshine in the afternoon. So i went 50 degrees for the high. Thankfully, 48 degrees. 19 in a row which is pretty good were going to go 41 degrees for a high tomorrow but dont dress for the 40s, dress for the 20s and 30s. 45 degrees right now. Dew point in the low teens. Very dry, arctic air mass. Wins at the northwest gusting to 25 miles per hour. The bus stop time tomorrow, 43 to 26 degrees but the wind chills will be in the teams. Again, hopefully you laid the scarves out and the glenn sanphy jacket for the kids. Chill is all day. Even downtown. Windchill in the 20s on friday night. Calls for the army navy game. Temperatures in the 30s falling to the 20s before the game is over. Thats a 3 00 start. You can watch it right here on wusa 9. 6 am, 31 degrees downtown, 20 degrees in the suburbs. By 9 00, we are mid30 downtown but still around freezing north and west. By 1 00, inability and 39 degrees in fairfax. State championship football tomorrow night. Temperatures genuinely generally in the 20s and 30s. This is what i want you to focus on. Temperatures in the morning. Itll feel like 17 degrees in by 7 00, still in the teens and 20s and even by noon we have not out of the 20s. Thats what you want to dress for tomorrow. Its going to look bright and inviting when you get up and cold all day. 1 00 sunshine and about 40 degrees. Saturday very cold. Not much wind. Called for the army navy game. Clouds sunday but not a bad day actually. Midforties. That is almost average. Warmer on monday with some showers and then a little cooler on tuesday. A little colder on wednesday. Maybe some snow or rain showers wednesday and another arctic outbreak next thursday and friday. Okay. Thanks so much. The High Schoolers are getting their sports on. Just a few times a year, do High School Sports really take over . Thats one tonight is one of those nights. We had to annapolis for the . . . . . . . . Afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. Now, wusa 9 game on sports with Diane Roberts brought to that was the matchup tonight for the maryland 38 championship. Reigning champ damascus met up 3a championship. Reigning champ damascus met up with them for the 2014 title name. The swarming hornets looking to become repeat champs. Six minutes left in the first, Markus Vinson runs for his 42nd touchdown of the year. Damascus up seven 2 zero. Right after a fumble recovery, quarterback making his first ever start. Tosses over the top to the tight end. 140. Franklin would put up 12 points but they couldnt get any more. Damascus holds on for the 1412 win. Their ninth title in program history. The game was one of the ugliest games i have ever seen. It was full of mistakes on our part but there is a lot of end. It just shows how good the program is. We just breathed. Its just our tradition. As long as we have our traditions, its going to get better and better every year. Congratulations to those guys. Lets switch to pro basketball. The wizards have been struggling affecting attendance and the scoreboard. Not many people were able to see the problem. John wall coming off a 52 1st half was washing was awful for washington. Down double digits to denver so bad that the crowd booed the home team. 2nd half, they turned around. Bradley beal had himself a day. One of his four threepointers leading to a teamhigh 26 points. Wall was not able to duplicate yesterdays halfcentury magid halfcentury magic. Peters. All turpin teams in this one derivatives in this one. Later, the terps in transition. Hooper had 16 maryland roles. 100 1 49. My question is, can they be stopped . We say that every year. They are phenomenal. Did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. Tonight, a salute to the president and ceo of our parent Lifetime Achievement award from the washington business journal. Congratulations. Before we go, lets take a quick shot because the Mgm National Harbor has reached capacity and the doors are closed. That is according to National Harbor travel and then we also see here there is a massive backup on the Woodrow Wilson bridge from virginia into the National Harbor. We knew this was going to be a complicated night. With all of the peop he gets a lot of compliments. He wears his army hat, walks around with his army shirt looking all nice. And then people just say, . Thank you for serving our country . And im like, thats my dad. Male vo no one deserves a warmer welcome home. Thats why were hiring 10,000 members of the military community by the end of 2017. Captioning sponsored by cbs its time for the late shows top albums of 2016. Number 25, car seat headrest, teens of denial. A strong showing from the indierockers. Number 24, kanye west, the life of pablo, an experimental masterpiece. Number 23, frank ocean, blonde. A dreamy abstract record. And the album karen and i used to listen to before we broke up. Here are the top things about karen in 2016. Number 25, her smile. Number 24, the way her hair smelled. Number 23, the way shield throw her head back when she laughed. If karen would give me another chaps, these are the top things