Route 1. We are heading north in the laurel area. Traffic is moving well, but as that temperature dips, you know, this roadway could potentially freeze. Lets now show you behind us and there are some potential problem areas when you dont have, you know, some of the roads that are treated. But when i look at side roads, they have not been treated and that could be a problem for some folks in the neighborhood. Lets come back on me, my photographer brooks merry weather. I will continue to show you updates or excuse me, video of whats going on out here as it becomes available. Back to you. Go show and brooks. Thank you both. You can keep track of weather conditions no matter where you are. Get the power of storm team4 right on your phone. You can just open up our nbc washington app. We now know what happened to the teenager found dead sunday in bethesda. The medical examiner says navid sepehris death was an accident. The walt whit man high after he didnt come home from a saturday night party. Officials say the teen died from alcohol poisoning, drowning, and hypothermia. It is tough for any parent to watch their child go through surgery. A Prince Georges County father has watched his 11yearold go through multiple surgeries in just a few weeks. And its all because of a tragic accident at a friends house. A purple heart recipient accidentally pulled the trigger while he was babysitting the boy last week. Now his father is talking about the toll the incident has taken on his family and his friend. He spoke only to news4s tracee wilkins. Reporter 11yearold [ inaudible ] spending time at the home of his neighbor. His dads good friend in suitland. My son and him, they do just about everything together. Reporter thats why mark herring was so surprised by the call he received from that friend on december 5th. My good buddy, my neighbor actually picked up the phone and shot caleb and, um, im taking him to the hospital. Reporter outside Childrens National medical center, mark talked about how his 33yearold friend and purple heart recipient quickly jumped into action. He just did everything he could possibly do from a military mind frame and got him to got him to andrews. Reporter that was the beginning of numerous heart, lung and neurosurgeries and multiple hospitals. And now at childrens. Caleb is doing better and ready to work on healing the relationship with the man he loves. The family friend who accidentally shot him. They had a little chat, you know, talked about the injury, talked about where to go from here on. My son and him is so close that, you know, my son cried. He cried. For me, the most important thing was getting both of them together and working on their relationship. Reporter with lung surgery, heart surgery, to hospitals, this has been an expensive road to recovery for caleb. If youre interested in helping his family, you can go to nbc washington and click help caleb. In northwest, im tracee wilkins, news4. Police in Prince Georges County say they havent seen a robbery like this in a long time. Two men approached two armored truck employees who were loading money into an atm in beltsville. They grabbed a large amount of cash and took off running. Darcy spencer has more on who police are looking for tonight. Im a little nervous, i mean, because i found out they had rifles. Reporter at first debbie didnt realize what she was seeing right outside her office window. Suspects who had just pulled off an armored car heist, parked their get away van in front of her. She grabbed her phone and took a picture. I was sitting right here and i saw them go by right here. Reporter looking out your window . One came and then the other one came. Reporter at least two armed suspects robbed the armored car on route 1 in beltsville. The guards were loading the atm at the time. Sources say the robbers got away with thousands of dollars. This is obviously a brazen robbery in the middle of the day. This business was open for business. We have not seen a case like this in a long time. Reporter the robbers drove right across the street and parked the van next to the office building. Multiple witnesses tell me the men got into another car that was parked on the street behind the building and got away, at least for now. We have a phenomenal closure rate. These guys are out there, were confident in our ability to catch them. Its best for them to turn themselves in. Reporter debbies car worker saw them carry something to a car on the hill. I didnt see money. I saw a black something, a coat, covering whatever they had. Reporter they pulled off the heist at 10 30 in the morning. Police tell me this crime was not only brazen, it was well planned, well orchestr. Prince georges county police are working with the fbi on this investigation. Right now they are reviewing Surveillance Video from the bank. They say they are confident they are going to make an arrest in this case. In beltsville, darcy spencer, news4. If you live near the Piedmont Golf Community in haymarket, make sure you lock your car and take it off the street if that is at all possible. Police are investigating a string of car breakins that happened around thanksgiving. A suspect stole a gun from an Unmarked Police cruiser. This is a Surveillance Video of the two guys police are looking for. Its not super clear, but if you can see it, its great. If you have any information give Virginia State police a call. This is far from the first time a weapon has been stolen from a police vehicle. News4 iteam investigation found that more than 350 firearms have been lost or stolen from l since 2011. In one of those cases an ar15, Assault Rifle was taken from Rockville Police, and the suspect was seen with the weapon near a school in kensington. You can watch the iteams report on the nbc washington app by searching stolen police guns. The d. C. Council is demanding answers. Its holding a public hearing today on the graduation scandal surrounding ballou high school. An investigation by npr and wamu radio found 57 students were on track to graduate last april. But 160 kids got diplomas in june and half of the graduates missed more than three months of school. News4s derrick ward is live for us outside the Wilson Building where the hearing continues at this hour. Did it get heated, derrick . Reporter well, you know, it did get heated, but it was more passionate than heated. People are stunned by the accusations and allegations, what came out in the report. It couldn for ballou. This is the first time, again, a school has graduated its entire senior class. Every person who graduated applied to college. Again, questions about that graduation, students meeting the requirements came up. Today the city council weighed in. The report says ballou high schools 100 Graduation Rate for 2017 including students who had too many absences to graduate and werent prepared for life beyond high school. The Education Committee chair says that the council is looking at this and its not just about ballou. Ballou High Schools Community did not create their present day dilemma. It operates in an inherited Public Education system steeped in segregation in the District Of Columbia and the entire country. Reporter students, teachers and parents were among those testifying and they worry all of the progress ballou has made over the last couple of years could be canceled out by a bad perception and bad doesnt mean they missed 50 days of school. Maybe they missed a first period. Maybe they took care of a younger sibling and missed the last period. Thats some of the inaccuracies and not true telling behind it. Reporter the schools chancellor said he takes this matter personally. Are we doing enough to respond to the needs of students on the threshold of drop out and failure, particularly those who are chronically absent or carrying multiple failing grades . All of these questions and especially the last touch on the question that matters the most to me. Are we giving our students what they need to succeed . Reporter there are investigations going on into this and possible changes in the way absences are counted in the d. C. Public School System. At ballou and other schools as well. And you know, we talked to some ballou parents. They say it is a doublesided coin. On the one hand it is good this problem is being addressed if it is indeed an needs to be addressed. Its sad ballou is targeted here because they are always overcoming perceptions. Another thing students are stung by is their principal was removed over this. They say that she was the binding factor, something that made the ballou student body a family. We are live at the d. C. Council headquarters, the Wilson Building. Derrick ward, news4, back to you. Derrick, thank you. New developments on the gop tax plan after concerns there would not be enough votes to pass the measure. Today there is more optimism that the measure will pass. A vote is expected early next week. The house and the senate are set to release their joint bill within the hour. This after lawmakers amended the bill to increase the Child Tax Credit refund to 1,400. Senator marco rubio pushed for the increase yesterday. Today we also learned that two ailing senators, john mccain and thad cochran, are expected to be back next week to cast their votes. A housekeeper convicted of ste virginia family face 20 years in prison. But a jury had other plans. Ahead at 5 00, the Second Chance she was given that has the victims of her crime seeing red. You probably dont recognize those flags, but some residents in this vienna neighborhood did and were alarmed to see them flying here. Coming up, why they want the flags taken down and what the man who owns them has to say. And a virginia congressman the latest to be accused of Sexual Misconduct while in office. We are getting our first look at just how fast a fire ripped through a building in the heart of georgetown this morning. Firefighters were on scene for hours at the building on wisconsin avenue just north of adams street. You can see the flames ripping through that second and the third floors there. D. C. Fire says the flames were contained to that one building. One of the firefighters, we understand, had some minor injuries. Concern tonight from some vienna, virginia residents about a flag flying in their neighborhood. This flag has been associated with the altright movement. But the owner tells Northern Virginia bureau chief julie carey thats not why hes flying it. Reporter chances are good, most americans couldnt name these flag or explain what they stand for. This is the anarco capitalism flag and this green flag, its the flag concern. Are you familiar with kazakhstan . Reporter thats the flag owner and the kak flag represents the fictional country of kakistan. Some see it as an adaptation of the war and was used in charlottesville in the demonstrations. It is playing on the fact people in the modern day, they are very obsessed about race, and i am more interested in egalitarianism, race equality. Reporter the neighbor who called about the flag sees it differently. She didnt want to be identified, but she said the flag is offensive, even hurtful in her diverse town home community. My concern is there is somebody that ascribes to those beliefs in our neighborhood. We really we dont really agree with that and we want everybody to feel welcome and we dont want to perpetuate hate. Reporter a few neighbors have responded by yards. Rice invites them to come knock on his door and talk to him instead about his political philosophy and what he thinks the flags convey. Peace, nonviolence. If you went ahead and researched the capitalist flag, then you would have come across the nonaggression principle. Reporter an hoa board member tells me shes not happy about the flags either but the rules here dont prohibit them. In vienna, julie carey, news4. Doug is back with us to talk about this weather that we are seeing tonight and how long this extinction around, whether we see this for the weekend. I think by tomorrow 10 00 a. M. , its all gone. What we have out there right now is whats it. It has fallen. The graupel we saw earlier, the graupel was what was bouncing. It was not sleet, but graupel. A little bit different. Look it up. Out there right now, what are we dealing with . Nothing. We dont have any rain, snow graupel, nothing around our region. It is to the north and east here. Take a look at the wider picture and you see where the storm is between washington and new york city making its way to philadelphia and new york. As a matter of fact, we have live pictures up in the new york area now. Driving on some of those roads, yeah, they are really under the gun. This is the situation, from around baltimore and towards new york city. If youre driving i95 north, you really want to watch out there because it is going to be a mess from this storm. It is not a big storm, but because temperatures were so cold, even a half inch or dusting creates a problem on some roadways. Still seeing some outside now. We are going to continue to watch, notice the weather advisory has been canceled for our entire region exceptions of eastern shore. If you are heading out 50 [ inaudible ], still seeing some snow in that region right now. But it is awesome moving out. And we are starting to clear as well. Just in time for the sun to go down, right . Temperature wise right now 29 degrees, winds outs of the north, 6 miles per hour. We have a little bit of matter what. Because of that, because we have temperatures in the 20s, anything that fell today is going to freeze tonight. Now, the sun was helping a little bit earlier, maybe along some of the roadways, but i expect to see a lot more ice overnight tonight into the day tomorrow. Early tomorrow so if youre traveling tonight, youre going to be out and about, date night, heading to a movie, really watch out for the sidewalks. I think thats going to be the big issue tonight. The wider picture, i just want to show you this. We have clouds. Look where our air is coming from. Its still coming down across the midatlantic into the northeast. Thats a colder pattern. Were going to stay on the cooler side of things. Eventually were going to start to break out of that. Tomorrow chilly, 46 degrees. Wind chills in the 30s all day. Late day sprinkle on sunday 49. Now were starting to break out of that. 54 degrees on monday, 60 degrees on tuesday. So, were moving in the right direction. Most everybody in the 50s, but im going 60 downtown. Plenty of cloud cover there. Thats actually another system that comes through. Its a dry system. Could see a shower, but thats about it. What was that, scott . 48 degrees on your wednesday. Were a little on the breezy side. Thursday a chance of showers. 46 degrees there. Then we start to move into a different pattern. Friday and saturday no problem, but then we get to Christmas Eve and christmas day. This is a pattern ive been watching for the last week or so and it does look like we are going to be in a very interesting pattern here. Will it be rain, will it be snow . Right now i think if i was to show you what would happen today, it would be a mixture of ice and that is not something we want around the christmas holiday. Were going to be tracking it closely for you the next couple days. Right now im actually looking forward to 54 degrees on monday with sunshine. That should be nice. Tuesday 60 degrees, were going to be doing some holiday lights out there, zoo lights. Well be out there for zoo lights during the day on tuesday. Tune in then. Thats always fun. We hope theres no graupel. You know, i had to google this as you suggested. Its a german word. Graupel. Soft hail and pellets as you described earlier. Right. Go ahead. You learn something new every day. I thought it was a food. Snow coming down. Not falafel. Super cool water comes down. It comes down i just thought you liked saying it. Its graupel. My dad said, doug, we had that for breakfast. Scrap l. A little corn meal, water. Thanks, doug, so much, buddy. A scathing report from a grand jury investigating the hazing thats led to charges against two dozen students at penn state. Why parents say the university should share the blame for their sons death. And if youre like me and youve yet to start your holiday gift buying, youre not alone. Susan hogan has a more fallout on capitol hill tonight over allegations of Sexual Misconduct. This time a former legislative aide has come forward and identified a virginia congressman as the man she says destroyed her career. During a press conference today, m. Reese ever son said congressman bobby scott touched her inappropriately back in 2013 and she claims he flirted with her constantly. Ever son, who is also an attorney, says after she terminated. I was black balled, or blacklisted, whatever the appropriate term is. I was prevented from moving forward in my career because i attempted to run from a situation that was sexually inappropriate where i had been propositioned to have a sexual relationship with my boss that i did not want. Congressman scott immediately released a statement denying the allegations. Meanwhile, another lawmaker is facing increased scrutiny. Today the House Ethics Committee says its opened an investigation looking into Sexual Harassment claims against congressman ruben kuehne. At least two women have accused the nevada democrat of unwanted sexual advances. Save the date. We now know when prince hair and i Meghan Markle will tie the knot. As nbcs Lucie Kavanagh reports, we should all mark our calendars for may 19th. Set for what looks to be the Royal Wedding of next year. Kensington palace a uns nothing prince harry and Meghan Markle will marry on may 19 in the historic 15th century Saint Georges chappell at windsor castle. He newmarkknew markle was the o the first time they met. Early whier this week it was revealed they will spend their first christmas as an engaged couple with the queen and other members of the Britain Royal family at the royal estates. Now harry and ms. Markle