4 00, certainly chilly, temperatures dont move very much. We kind of hold steady throughout. We are more cautionary here and as we make our way through the day more and more rain will start falling. Could be on the order of one quarter of one inch per hour. We could get up to an inch in some locations. Thna interstate 81. Even just around woodstock for the higher spots. You can see on the green, the radar just Getting Started and moving again. 9 00 a. M. , 10 00 a. M. , likely to be falling across the area with temperatures only getting into the mid40s. Julie getting busy on the roads as more people are on the 66 to go northbound on 28, this is where we have the crash on the right side of the road area police are on the scene pushing everybody to the left in order to get by. Northbound 95 in virginia, slow going through woodbridge, leaving dale city as you travel past Potomac Mills up to the beltway. Urbana, authorities are checking for a crash in seeing the delays the latest crash reported. Back in the next 10 minutes to update your ride out of brandywine. Autria a Terror Threat against the Los Angeles Metro system. Fbi Officials Say that they have received an anonymous phone call that came from the country, threatening an attack on a subway station today. Officials say the threat was very specific are not sure if its credible. Usual today. Breaking overnight in our area, to shootings in Prince Georges County. One man was taken to the hospital in critical condition. 15 minutes later, more shots fired about one hour away on curtis drive in temple hills. Another man was found with gunshot wounds and was taken to the hospital, where he died. Police are still trying to figure out a suspect or a motive connected. Larry Muriel Bowser will be facing the president elect as she heads to new york this morning for an 11 a. M. Meeting with trump tower at trump tower. Trump calling the district and innercity where crime is rampant. We will hear those comments coming up. Morning on good morning washington. The president elect will one of them thursday in des moines, another one friday in grand rapids. Autria people who own businesses near, pizza and d. C. Are concerned about a bizarre incident there. A man was arrested sunday after walking into the pizzeria with an Assault Rifle and firing shots, claiming to investigate a conspiracy. The Hillary Clinton has ties to a sex trafficking operation there. Real consequences. They are very committed to their businesses, the city, they want to work with us to make sure that Something Like this doesnt happen again. Autria no one was injured when the shot was fired. Peter newsom met with concerned Business Owners on the same block. The Police Department is increasing patrols there. Larry d. C. Council held their first vote on a bill for paid if it passes it will be the most generous of its kind in the country. The bill would allow for up to eight weeks of paid leave to care for a sick relative. Todays meeting begins at 10 a. M. Autria the countdown is on, we are two days away from the grand opening of the new mgm casino, where sam sweeney has already been inside and joins us with more on his sneak peek. Sam . Sam spent a billion dollars to grab your attention. To call it visually stimulating is an understatement. This facility is being marketed as an Entertainment Complex. There is a 3000 foot theater inside, highend shopping and a number of restaurants inspired by celebrity chefs. This is opening just two years after a similar property in Atlantic City ended in disaster. You may remember the revel casino, also marketed as an Entertainment Complex rather just two years after opening and remaining closed today after filing for two bankruptcies. Yesterday i sat down with the new general manager and asked why this tenure was different and what lessons were learned from revel. Our company has a lot more experience than what revel has. We studied this market long and hard, doing surveys and market research, with a executives. You know, we are confident that this casino is going to be the number one casino on the east coast. Not just in this area, but the entire east coast. Sam they expect 20,000 to 25,000 to pour in your on the average day, including event days. Coming up, we will take you inside the traffic command center, where we will be live in a little more than half an hour. Larry sam, thank you. Check out the Photo Gallery from inside the casino and check out the reports all week that you with what you can expect from traffic and security in the area before it opens up thursday night. Bryce harper in the Washington Nationals apparently at odds over a new contract. Coming up, the recordsetting veronica if it was unclear, this is the site of the enbrel you will need today. That side. We are expecting some heavy rain later today and by the end of the day when it ends, 11 00, we could see more than an inch across the area. You will really want to be prepared. At the bus stop the kids can get by with the rain jacket and showers developing to the south. Right now. Temperatures are in the 30s in a few spots. Temperatures are not going to budge much out of the mid40s until later today. You can see the moisture streaming in, but its going to take a while for the air to saturate. For the moisture to start falling. I see that happening in the next hour. You folks in fredericksburg, even run woodstock, there is a possibility that you may hear a little bit of sleet coming at the onset. But road temperatures are just fine. Culpeper, down south in washington, you should be just fine. Topping out today at 44 degrees with the biggest impact coming later today, which is why it is a weather alert impact from stormwatch 7. Look at that, 38, 39 on friday and saturday, its going to be cold, julie. Out there, but dry pavement this morning, and a big difference that a day makes compared to yesterday. Two separate accidents reported on the left side of the highway, so heads up headed south. Sky track 7 are on the capital beltway coming in from Silver Spring and headed towards old georgetown road. Earlier this morning look like a crash and whatever was there had cleared. Back to the map, updating the ride in maryland waldorf from cedarville to a crash before randy wine road. The ramp to go northbound on 28, the accident activity is now confined to the shoulder. I want to go really big with my appetizers. We can do it without blowing our budget. Oh yeah, this is great my family really needs to be wowed this year standing rib roast wow. Everything for the holidays. Thats my giant. A Holiday Celebration in eastern North Carolina turns violent overnight. Two people were shot at a christmas parade. Spectators heard five shots to seven shots and ran from the scene. One person received serious injuries. Were not lifethreatening. The parade was shut down early. One person has been arrested. Larry . Larry crews are getting ready to resume searching the warehouse in oakland, california, where fired at lower killed at least 36 people. The purpose was to shore up the building so the Recovery Efforts could continue. The search was temporarily suspended yesterday morning because the building was to unstable. Meanwhile, an outpouring of support for victims of the tragedy, three of them were from from outside the country. I live near the warehouse. Its just really desperately tragic. Larry the building did not have a permit for residences or performances and the landlord has a history of owning properties with building violations. A criminal investigation is now underway. Autria nude developments this morning in the Rolling Stone defamation case. The magazine is challenging the verdict. In november the jurors found that it did defame a university of virginia administrator in its botched story about a gang rape on the campus. The Rolling Stone attorneys filed a motion monday asking for a judge to overrule the verdict because they say there is no evidence that the magazine acted with actual malice. The Protection Agency identifying the source of the oily sheen on the river of the potomac, having mostly dissipated, coming from a power plant. Defined as lubricating oil. Booms remain in place to protect drinking water. Intake from that little oil. Autria the bright lights in paris are being dimmed by pollution, so to clear the air license plates will be allowed on the road. 145 checkpoints will be set up on the city to stop any odd numbers they get through. Public transportation will be free all day and the goal is to cut emissions in half and cut down on pollution. Larry its official, under armour has landed his first ever professional league uniform deal with major league baseball. The mlb will get uniforms from them in 2020. The financial termof autria speaking of deals, get a load of this one. Bryce harper is asking the nationals for 400 million over 10 years. Yes, thats a four. Good luck with that, it appears they arent interested. The team is apparently walking and with the team is asking for. That would be their first 400 million contract. His current contract is up in 2018. Played five seasons in the big leagues and is considered one of the best players in the games and it looks like they may have to start preparing for a team without harper. Larry almost hard to say with a straight face. Autria 400 million . I would take 4 million. Larry exactly, there you go. The stormwatch 7 team is tracking things on the radar and you can as well on your phone. Eileen thats right, all you have to do is go to your app store and just search for stormwatch 7. Weather app here. You will be able to track weather conditions throughout the day. What i would be like about this is that you can see all of our storm watch weather tweets. The big and going to need today is of course going to be the radar. Here it is, look at all of this green. Moving in our direction, zooming and closer to us at home. The purple to the west, those are Winter Weather advisorys in effect. Fredericksburg, stafford, culpeper. The area so dry that it will take a bit of time to overcome this. The morning commute will not be as heavily impacted by the wet weather as the evening rush. Lets toss it over to Veronica Johnson to let you know how exactly the wet weather is going to impact your drive. Veronica we updated those graphics this morning, so make sure you jump on the after by lunchtime and throughout the afternoon, we have higher impacts on area roads. Travel is likely to be slow starting at about 1 00, 2 00 this afternoon. Just Getting Started here with showers moving in and fredericksburg with a bit of moisture. Rain falling down south, 95, anything around culpeper or heavier coming down, a little bit of sleet and the higher elevations. Of above 1500 feet, Winter Weather advisory. Going from satisfactory to more unsatisfactory throughout the day. Hey, this is your report card. She gave me permission to say that. Look at that. 7 00 a. M. Today, we are not bad, we are in the green your, but more cautionary conditions at 10 a. M. , you can see the rain coming down heavier moving in during the afternoon hours at 3 00. Theres that heavy rain again, a great big red circle. Going up a bit at 7 00 with some of the heaviest rain coming in ahead of the weather front and we start to take the showers winding down at around 9 00. And then lately we drop into the 40s. Wait until you see the very cold air that is moving in on all of us by the end of the week. Recess, just to let you know. [laughter] seems like the maps were spot on. Hits question mark know, im a broadcaster. [laughter] julie before you reach brandywine road, authorities had a crash with major tieups pushing north out of waldorf. The struggle is real, folks, for those headed to the split. Before you reach before you reach route 80, delays pushing south towards with major tieups headed towards the beltway. At 38 minute commute by 7 30. Eastbound on 66 the crash headed northbound has cleared. Thats the traffic watch. In the next 10 minutes we will keep a closer eye on your ride. Autria a mistrial in the case of a South Carolina officer charged with murder. What did defense lawyers argue you are watching good morning washington, on your side. You are watching good morning washington, on your side. Larry 6 24, how about celebrating christmas on ice . Good morning washington is giving away tickets to Gaylord National bus display. Call right now and be the seventh caller to win. If you dont win now, dont worry, we have another special giveaway coming up later the hour. 7035 287334. Larry the decision from a came after several days of dramatic deliberations, leaving the jury deadlocked. Autria we have the details in todays gma first look. The mistrial in this racially divisive case means that this former North CharlestonPolice Officer will wake up in his own bed this morning, but still under house arrest and wearing a gps device on his ankle. There is no forgiveness. As the black foreman of this nearly allwhite jury was telling the judge, they just couldnt agree on the decision. Two of the women on the jury cried. In a statement this morning, the prosecutor said that we will try him again. I dont care, its not over. Yall hear me . Its not over. Coming up at 7 a. M. , Dan Amber Danny germs dan abrams and sunny austin way and you could spend the next few days reading through Bank Statements to refinance your home. Or you could push that button. Get the bank, get the paperwork, go completely online. I really did save hundreds of dollars on my Car Insurance with geico. I should take a closer look at geico. Geico has a long history of great savings and great service. Over seventyfive years. Wait. Seventyfive years . That is great. Uh, yeah i have an early day tomorrow so. Wait. Almost there. Goodnight, bruce. Gotta tune the a. humming take a closer look at geico. Great savings. And a whole lot more. You are watching good morning washington, on your side. Larry a weather alert from stormwatch 7 as we get ready for a chilly, raw, and rainy day. You have seen a lot of fog right there. Over virginia, that is a live picture from southwest virginia. Southwest d. C. , a little sleet today. Its so, get ready. Im larry smith. Autria and i mantra godfrey. Lets start this half Veronica Johnson, tracking what you need to know veronica increasingly more wet today need to know. Today. You can get by with an umbrella without having to hold on to it tonight. Heading out the door in a nice warm rain jacket, we are not going to see any sunshine today. Rain will continue throughout the day, probably not ending until maybe 9 00, 11 00 or so area the rain right now, just Getting Started, pulling up into the area, south of interstate 95, stafford is now wet, fredericksburg, too. South of born to see the showers moving in the blue and the pink the you are seeing could be sleep mixing in with the rain. Not the highest of elevations, but not a factor, a look at your rain timeline, the moderate threat of rain through the area, the best chance, the heaviest rain will be between 1 00 and 7 00, especially in that 3 00 to 7 00 time. The rain will continue through the evening hours before ending. Look, 43 to 44, temperatures Holding Steady throughout the day. Not going to budge much, tomorrow, 55. When i return in a couple of minutes we will have a look at the extended forecast taking us to a cold and windy weekend. Julie problems on the rails this morning. The latest reports coming in from the vre twitter feed reports that the fredericksburg line has struck a vehicle northbrook. Th a a two hour delay at least. Metro will honor those tickets for you. Suzanne kennedy is working on the story and will be with you shortly. Fredericksburg trains coming out of fredericksburg, expect at least a two hour delay. Northbound at 301 four brandywine, that is when we had the earlier crash at cedarville look pushing north. Two separate incidents southbound on 270 on the left from 210 towards 295, authorities tell me they are checking for a crash, checking the local and through lanes. As you can see, the local lanes of definitely stopped, headed towards the inner loop and the wilson bridge. Autria . Autria , pingpong a northwest set to reopen today after man went in with a rifle claiming he was there to free children involving every clinton. John gonzalez is more with the pizza gate conspiracy. John , pingpong is dark at this hour here in northwest d. C. , but it is scheduled to reopen at 5 00 tonight, even though there is that ongoing fbi investigation. Take a look at all the love and support this pizzeria is getting. A number of flowers and signs out here in front of the business. Inside of this restaurant is being held without bond this morning. Edgar welch faced a d. C. Judge yesterday after an intense standoff with police on sunday. Police say that they found two guns at the scene and a third inside his car. Well, welch says that he was investigating what has been dubbed pizza gate. An online conspiracy. Involving Hillary Clintons wells told investigators that he believed a series that an illicit ring was being run out of the comet pingpong here. The owner, condemning publicly yesterday what he calls fake online news. No one was injured, but welch has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, possession of an unregistered firearm, and destruction of property. , calling for everyone to come here on friday. They are asking everyone to eat and tip well. Larry breaking overnight, a new jersey state trooper killed in a crash driving southbound on a highway in millville when the car crashed across the median and hit it headon. The trooper was taken by medevac to the hospital, wheree autria the u. S. Army, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the pearl harbor attacks. A ceremony was held in hawaii last night to honor those killed 75 years ago. I can do light vigil will be held tonight at the world war ii memorial here in d. C. To mark the anniversary. The names of the 2403 men and women killed in the attack will be read. Later today at a special mass. Appointed by pope francis in october. Todays mass is set for 2 00. The societies of arlington, home to 200,000 catholics throughout northern virginia. Paul ryan will be flipping this pitch on the capital christmas tree. This years tree is an 80 foot spruce that came all of the way from idaho. This morning on the rails. Autria of the re train hitting autr breaking news right now. Suzanne kennedy will be back with us shortly to update you on this, the vre fredericksburg line. Unfortunately a train has struck a vehicle north of rook. The re is suggesting a two hour delay. Its possible there could be more cancellations as well because of the incident, saying that metro will honor your ticket. Suzanne kennedy will be back with a shortly with more details on exactly what happened on the beltway, trying to make her way across the wilson bridge, this is where we got the crash on the inner loop trying to make your way on those local lanes to the left. Still a tough ride out of waldorf. Cedarville road headed towards brandywine, where we had a crash southbound on 270 along route 80 and the left side. Look for delays headed south. Back in the next 10 minutes with another update on the roads and rails. In your forecast, thank goodness we are starting off with dry pavement . Bronco yes, for the later part of the morning rush, it will be wet. Talking about the Colonial Beach areas, already seeing the rain. Theres a line in Southern Maryland right now, advancing north fairly quickly right now, you are going to get that rain out of stafford for the next couple of minutes. Same thing around haymarket, north and east, before long 60 wanted to show you this snapshot above freezing here, its the high spots that were looking at this morning. Temperatures on into the 40s today, look at the heavier rain coming in. Yellow and dark rain today, by 1 00 until about 4 00, 5 00, it is just going to be pouring across the area, so pretty nasty for the rush heading home. Rain getting out of your by noon today out, a quick look at that stormwatch forecast weekend, under 40 degrees still on saturday, windchill in the teens, 20 degrees, it will be the coldest air of the season coming down from canada. Hello winter, guys. Autria coming up, and abc 7 exclusive. Larry good morning one to be the first and ec to see star wars rogue one . Dont go anywhere. First, whats going on, sam . Sam kid, i am in the command center, the nerve center for all traffic at the national harbour. Coming up, im going to tell you what possibly two of the most powerful computers in prince my guest list just tripled. Mine too. I want to go really big with my appetizers. We can do it without blowing our budget. Oh yeah, this is great my family really needs to be wowed this year standing rib roast wow. Everything for the holidays. Now, good morning washington, on your side. We begin with a breaking news alert. Suzanne we have reports from the bre twitter feed that are fredericksburg line train will be held up because the train has struck a vehicle north of iraq. Reports have come out and they are saying that there is at least a two hour delay with possible cancellations on the line. Metro will again honor those tickets, but we do have reports that a train has struck a vehicle on the tracks northbrook. Suzanne kennedy is heading to stafford with a full report. That is our traffic watch, back over to you guys. In just two days. Autria 20,000 people are expected to go in and out each day, creating more traffic in the area. Sam sweeney takes is live inside of the National Harbor traffic command center. Sam . Sam this is a massive undertaking, they have been planning for it or years. Take a look at the left side of the screen, possibly the most important screen in the building. All of these cameras are looking traffic during special events. Thousands of people coming in. These two computers here can control any traffic light in all of Prince Georges County. If they need something to be green longer to get things moving, thats what they will do to get things moving. We already know we have a traffic problem in our area. I want to bring in the man in charge of all of this. You have been working on this for years. You describe it as a contact sport and say you will be living to reassure everyone that yes, there are Traffic Congestion issues in this area perennially, but with respect to this opening , as you say, i referred to it as a contact sport. We will be actively engaged. For the most part, Prince Georges CountyPolice Officers will be in the intersections and each one will be figured out. We want them to behave in a certain way. We will make it flow i not be motion at the posted speed limit, but as long as traffic continues to move without congestion, we will continue to avoid back up on the major highways. As you look to our partners in virginia, maryland, all the associated members of this particular community here working in concert with one another to make certain that we respect the communities that exist here, the residents who have lived here for 30 or 40 their expectations. Sam 10 million has been spent. This is the nerve center. Real quick, whats going to happen right here . Mgm, gaylord, the just ask, you have an operation here, this is an Operations Command center. Absolutely. A lot has been invested in the infrastructure and intellectual capital. Signal is asian and signage have been improved. Working in concert with each other to make sure that we have motion, to keep traffic flowing into the mgm and into the National Harbor area and along the bigger roots the fee the residential communities to the south. Sam you for being with us. There are now more than 21,000 Parking Spaces here, open at 10 30 on thursday night. Larry so interesting. Gallery and stay with abc seven all we for reports on what you can expect from traffic and security in the area before it all opened up thursday night. Autria . Autria it is a matter of hours. Muriel bowser will be facetoface with the president elect. The mayor, saying that she asked to discuss how the two could Work Together to continue washington, d. C. Deposit growth. She was an outspoken critic of the president elect during the camp trump hotel in pennsylvania avenue. He has been critical of the district, labeling it an inner were walking down the street can be unsafe. It is important that we all focus on how we heal after a fairly divisive election. I think the president elect has expressed a desire to do that. They will be meeting today at 11 a. M. In new york city. Metro, underground Wireless Service for the blue, silver, and orange line. The onemile stretch is the first section of tunnels with any service at all. Before went down, metro and its partners had just 49 miles of the system to go. Lets see whats coming up on good morning america. A Terror Threat in los that came in trying to investigate, they are taking it seriously and it is all coming up. Autria see you soon, george. Happening today, a good morning washington shopping spree. We will be at the toys r us in kingstown. Joined by the redskins cheerleaders, u. S. Marines, and hopefully you. Come on out this morning to join a childs holiday brighter right from your living room. Order online and have it shipped to us. The caps finally getting in on their winning ways at home. On the move trying to hit it all. Market saying that he will take care of this. The second goal of the night right there, winning 32, a great finish. Look at that, i was there to experience it all last night. What a game. One of the stadium announcers for the game let us go behind the scenes in the booth. Seeing with a magic happened. I asked how he picked his red rocking slate. Listen to this. Are you a fan of the hip hop . In more. Keeping them pumped up. Lots of player requests . Yes, we try to react to what the fans are reacting to. In case you were wondering, tom wilson is apparently not only the enforcer, but the guy in the team who created the playlist that they use for warmups. They offered you a job, right . That was very sweet of him to let me come hang out last night. With the turtle talk. My gosh, i got like 9000 steps in last night. They keep you moving. All right. Quickly today, trying to get out of the rain, trying to get somewhere hopefully that will be dry. Wow, the afternoon and evening rush, you can see them getting into the red, late, between 3 p. M. And 6 p. M. High impact for the area, its alert day for stormwatch 7. We will be keeping you updated throughout the day. Stay tuned to whats going on but jumping on the new are at work. From noon until 3 00, right now we are just seeing showers moving into the area. Moving quickly, too. Interstate 95, approaching 66, that pocket in manassas, montclair, showers by late morning and it is going to be wet. Highs today, 40 to 44 degrees. It is one of those rare days where the temperature barely moves. The forecast for tomorrow going up to 50 degrees, looking dry over the weekend. Cold and windy. Decorations going up on wednesday, try to do that if it is a dry day. Julie what we are talking about right now, not necessarily the roads, but on the rails. And cancellations because of a train that struck a vehicle northbrook. Expect delays of up to two hours, if not longer. Sky track 7 is above the scene. This is apparently the vehicle that was struck by the train. We are not sure what caused the accident or how it happened. Metro will honor those tickets. Suzanne kennedy is headed to stafford now and will be back with us later in the show with an update more details into what caused the crash. Right now we are learning that there are no injuries, but more details once they become available when suzanne arrives at the scene. Autria, back over to you. Autria 6 54 right now, this is your chance, star wars lovers. Listen up. You could be one of the first fans to watch the new movie, 7035287334 the new movie, star wars rogue one. Call the number on your screen, time, dont worry, we will give away two more tickets and the 7 00 a. M. Our when we make the switch over to news channel 8. Kidd think about how cool it will be to post on facebook days before everyone else that you saw it first. Just got out of rogue. Exactly. Angelina jolie and brad pitt have reached a custody Agreement Regarding the six children. According to papers at visitation rights. As part of the agreement, brad pitt has to go to therapy and submit random drug and alcohol tests. Number two, the entire family will also attend counseling sessions. Some sources are telling entertainment tonight that the agreement is voluntary and only temporary. A lot of these temporary agreements. Nothing final, yet, guys. Lady gaga, revealing to a group of homeless lgbts in new york posttraumatic stress disorder. She didnt go into detail on the history of it, but according to page six she explained to the teens that she has found a way to deal with her Mental Illness to meditation. Tomorrow morning, right here on good morning washington, dont miss our oneonone interview with actress emma stone. Tomorrow is the countdown to her new movie, lala land. Out this friday. Interview to you, along with all the details about the movie. Join us tomorrow with emma stone, right here on good morning washington. Now, time for your 60 second express. At train has struck a vehicle. Its dark right now in northwest d. C. , but things are scheduled to reopen at 5 00 tonight. The North Carolina man who allegedly fired an Assault Rifle , out on bond this morning. Could Work Together to continue the washington, d. C. Growth. We reached out to the president elect and asked him to sit down and talk about washington, d. C. Big, beautiful, you cant miss it. More than 1 billion were spent here to grab your attention. This casino is going to be the number one casino on the east coast. We are still a few weeks away from the official start of winter. But it is already looking like winter in wisconsi at t. J. Maxx, marshalls and homegoods, weve always believed the holidays should be about joy. Where days are filled with magic, not madness. Its why we have amazing prices on thoughtful gifts, everyday. Lets bring back the holidays. . . . . . . . . . . All the care your family needs. Good morning, america. Breaking overnight, Terror Threat. 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