Tuesday morning, 55 degrees now outside our studios. Yeah, not too bad. Well check in with storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein to find out what the rest of the day is going to look like. Good morning, tom. Good morning, you guys are wearing gray and so is the sky. Still rather gray with clouds passing through. Right now we are getting sprinkles near annapolis with patches of green on the radar. A few light sprinkles of rain in southeastern prince georges southeastern Charles County and northern st. Mary, thats tracking off to the east. A few sprinkles farther west of there. Southern Stafford County into northern spotslvania county. Those showers are passing well south of the metro area here tracking across southern and South Central virginia. Well stay dry for the morning commute and the roads will dry out throughout the morning. Temperatures are on the cool side. Not cold like yesterday morning. We are in the low to mid50s in the nearby suburbs. Mid50s in prince georges, low 50s in much of montgomery. And the skies are beginning to clear out down into the mid to upper 40s. Then into west virginia, shenandoah valley, we have breaks in the clouds. So for this morning, a cool morning in the 50s between now and 8 00. By noontime, into the upper 60s. A mild day midday and then the clouds quickly close in for the afternoon. A pretty good chance for passing showers for the afternoon commute down into the mid60s after it peaks near 70 degrees by early to midafternoon. And melissa is here now to look at work zones and road closures. Whats going on with that. 95 southbound the offramp to 198, we have the ramp access blocked this morning because of construction. Also, just below that, southbound after powder mill road the right lane is blocked. A lot of construction in maryland. A wider look at things, no major problems in or out of up to. We are looking quite good right now as we should be. 95 into and out of town on virginia, no problems there. And 66 at compton road is moving right along. Do want to remind you of this northwest, 15th street at columbia road is closed for a police investigation. Im back in ten minutes. Thank you, melissa. 4 33 is the time. We have breaking news, Oscar Pistorius is in a South African courtroom waiting to hear his sentence for shooting and killing his girlfriend. News4s angie goff is following the developments from the live desk. Angie . Reporter this news breaking out of south africa. Oscar pistorius is about to learn his fate any moment now. The judge started her sentencing a short time ago. The paralympian faces 15 years in jail or a fine for killing Reeva Steenkamp last year. She rejected house arrest and Community Service which was pushed by the defense. Right now it is looking like some jail time is a big possibility. Prior to that, she said she wants to find balance in her judgment. Something thats not too harsh and something not too light. Hearing now that as we take a live look, hes about to learn what is going to be his fate. Pistorius was cleared of murder and well bring you the latest as soon as we learn his sentence. Angie goff, thank you. New stories about e bbola a developing right now. Achoko amopko says he doesnt regret going to liberia to cover the crisis. That country was a second home to him. And another person treated for ebola is waking up with his family now. Emory hospital shows this man arriving at the hospital in september contracting the virus in sierra leone and treated for nearly six weeks. No other u. S. Patient has been at the hospital for more than three weeks. Right now thousands of liberian families are using new medical kits to keep their loved ones hospital while waiting to go to the hospital. So many people are infected in the clinics that they cant hold them all. The Group Doctors without borders is handing out the kits for the next month. To learn everything the Health Officials are doing to keep the virus under control, go to nbcwashington. Com and search ebola. 4 35 now. Chris christie is back in maryland. The new jersey governor is making his second trip to support gubernatorial candidate larry hogan. The two will attend a private fundraiser in potomac before making a joint appearance at the pancake house in bethesda. The governor made his first stop in bethesda last month and helped to raise more than 400,000 for hogans campaign. Virginia Governor Terry mcauliffe continues to drum up business for the commonwealth in asia. Today mcauliffe will meet with university of virginia alumni in japan and attend a meeting of the Japanese Business federation leadership. The governor then heads to china for several events through the rest of the week. This is mcauliffes second trip to asia. The commonwealth received an estimated 4 million from the asian invest. Im angie goff at the live desk with breaking news from south africa. Oscar pistorius was just sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp last year. The judge literally just handed down the sentence a minute ago. Its a third of what he could have got behind bars. Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide but cleared of murder recently. Hearing from reporters in the courtroom, you can take a look at what is going on in there. They are saying that there is absolute silence in court. No sign of reaction from pistorius family. Something they must have expected. His sister, amy, looks very distressed. Little reaction from the family. As of right now, no word of how the victims family, Reeva Steenkamps family is reacting, but he could have gotten as little as a fine. The judge saying this morning throughout her sentencing, leaving a lot of room for jail time and thats indeed what has happened here. Oscar pistorius sentenced to five years behind bars for the killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Back to you. Angie, well come back to you for more in a little bit. Putting yourself at risk every time you get behind the wheel, the massive recall affecting several car brands and why the government says you shouldnt wait to get it fixed. Plus no train to catch . The reason why metro was preparing to close one of its lines for an entire day. We are tracking the chances youll see rain in the day ahead. Our storm team has what to wear forecast with your weather and traffic on the 1s at 4 41. Have you seen the news about Barbara Comstock . First, the Washington Post reported, Barbara Comstock failed to report eightyfive thousand in income. Now, we learn, Barbara Comstock pushed a clients issues in the Virginia Legislature and didnt disclose it. Barbara comstock shepherded a trio of bills through the legislature and into law, but Barbara Comstock never officially disclosed that all the while she was being paid thousands of dollars. No wonder she hid it. Welcome back. You may want to double check if your car is affected by the air bag recall that affects 4. 5 million vehicles including honda, gm and ford. The national Highway Safety Traffic Administration says air bags can explode spraying shrapnel and metal. We have a link to all those vehicles affected on our website. To see if your vehicle is affected, head to nbcwashington. Com and search airbag. Get ready for a different train ride on veterans day. Metro is shutting down an entire line to help control huge crowds expected for a concert. Organizers say up to 800,000 people could attend the concert for valor on the national mall. Thats four times larger than the crowd on the fourth of july. In order to accommodate everybody, metro plans to shut down Blue Line Service for the entire day. So what were going to do on veterans day is replace the blue line with yellow line service. Trains will depart as yellow line trains and run over the bridge to greenbelt. The the metro says that will free up more capacity and more trains to move anybody. Anybody wanting to go to Arlington Cemetery will have to take a special shuttle. I think the main part is getting the message out far enough in advance, so there you go. Well check the forecast. Now were talking about an interesting day. Im thinking storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein has a lot to say about whether or not well have some rain and the warmer temperatures today, tom . The weather will be getting more active today, weve got a big area of low pressure passing to our north. A few sprinkles in Southern Maryland bringing a few to southern virginia. Have the umbrella handy with the possibility of showers here in the metro area during the afternoon. I need a light jacket this morning as well with temperatures on the cool sidewalking to the metro or to work. Well stay in the 50s between now through mid morning with some sunshine. Then quickly clouding up during the afternoon. Have your umbrella ready in the 60s with passing showers later this afternoon. A look at a weekend warm up at 4 51. Now melissa is dealing with work zones this morning. Work zones starting in Montgomery County. Georgia avenue northbound at randolph road, two right lanes are blocked. Should be out of the way here in the next half hour or so. Also virginia 95 southbound at route 1, only one right lane getting by at this point. This is supposed to be out of the way in a little bit. Beltway at st. Barnabas road is moving along nicely at this time. No major problems in or out of town. A live look at Prince Georges County coming up in a couple minutes. Thank you, melissa. They were at the center of a number of highprofile data breaches. Now shoppers are weighing in on whether cyber hacking will keep them away from major retailers during the holidays. First, costly problem. New numbers showing just how much of your tax dollars are being used to pay federal workers who are off the job for workers who are off the job for disciplinary reasons. Hes been called a super lobbyist, the ultimate washington insider. Ed gillespie paid millions to lobby for the Oil Companies for a Student Loan Company that overcharged taxpayers. His firm even lobbied for five foreign governments including a dictator now awaiting trial for war crimes. And then theres enron. Gillespie lobbied for them while they committed the largest corporate fraud in us history. Ed gillespie. The Million Dollar lobbyist whose never looked out for you. It is 4 45. In the Hannah Graham autopsy, we are hearing that the results will come back this week. News4 learned the location she was found is a few miles from where Jesse Matthew once lived with his mother. Matthew faces new charges from an attack that happened nine years ago. A Fairfax County grand jury indicted him on three charges including rape and attempted murder. A 26yearold woman was walking home from the Grocery Store with bags near the oxford road townhome in fairfax back in 2005. Police say she was dragged into the wooded area near a pool and assaulted. The woman ran to Diane Jenkins home for help. I remember that she had sticks and grass in her hair and some scratches. And she was confused. And she was not speaking english. Police matched the Sexual Assault through dna to the 2009 murder of Virginia Tech student morgan harrington. Matthew has not been charged in that crime. The federal government is paying hundreds of millions of dollars to workers who are off the job for disciplinary reasons. A new report in the Washington Post says over the last three years more than 57,000 federal employees were kept at home for a month or longer. Some were kept home for as long as a year while their cases were pending. The Government Accountable Office says the tab for these workers exceeded 775 million in salary alone. The comptroller general says workers should not be sidelines unless they are considered a threat to the workplace. The ceo of a French Oil Company died when his Corporate Jet crashed into a snowplow in russia. The accident happened at a moscow airport last night. Investigators say the private jet plane belonged to a total fa. The ceo died and was 63 years old. This morning friends, family and friends are mourning the death of fashion icon oscar de la renta. Hes been at the forefront of couture for decades. Former First Lady Laura Bush issued a statement saying, quote, my daughters and i have many fond memories of visits with oscar who designed our favorite clothes including jennas wedding dress. We will always remember him as the man who made women look and feel beautiful. 4 48 right now. In alexandria today, sheriffs will show off or deputies will show off a new app to help stop animal abuse. Its called ice black box. With the app you can record video of illegal animal cruelty and share it with police. They can use the video to investigate and arrest and prosecute an alleged abuser. Right now there is a 500 reward if you can help police catch someone who stole a puppy that was taken in the alexandria section of Fairfax County from the petco on richmond highway. This is a picture of the puppy. They want to talk to a teenager in connection with this theft. If you know anything about what happened, call police. And take a look at this dog who is back home with its owner in greenbelt right now. We told you about arwood last week when we said somebody stole her along with a laptop and diamond ring. After we aired the story, the tip led the opener 40 miles away and found arwin reaming the streets there. Wipe is going to be atop the summit this morning as experts get together to discuss, taste and critique virginias wine offering. The speaker is ray isle, the executive director of food and wine magazine. Governor Terry Mcauliffe says virginias wipe industry and wine tourism are key components of the States Economic growth in the years to come. And it is beautiful, you dont have to drive far to go to virginia wine country. Gorgeous setting and tasty wine. So many options. A Huge Industry for virginia, and rightly so. Lets go to tom kierein at 4 51. And we are a little warmer to kick things off this morning. No frost around. And our mere low temperatures this morning are down in the 50s. Merlot. I have to keep the trend going. This morning, storm team 4 radar is scanning the sky. Just a few sprinkles there. A few specks of green on the radar in calbert county and southeastern prince georges. We have light rain now dissipating here in the area tracking well south of the metro area for the morning commute. So the overnight showers, some of the roads are wet and will be drying out throughout the morning. Well have a partly cloudy morning by 9 00. It will be a partly sunny day with clouds coming and going between then and noontime. Then its by early afternoon some showers are moving into the shenandoah valley. Then by 5 45, 6 00, some showers in Northern Virginia coming right into the metro area. Might have a little rumble of thunder, too, so dont be surprised if you hear that. No severe storms. Then well have more showers moving through. These areas in green through the evening hours, thats going to continue through this evening. And by this time tomorrow morning, likely the pavement will be wet all around the region. Right now its down into the upper 40s to near 50 in the northern and western suburbs with the skies clearing out. South and east of the metro area, still clouds around and milder in the 50s to near 60 degrees. Theres the capitol under a clearing sky with sunshine this morning. Well rapidly warm and still be in the 50s by 8 00. By noon, the upper 60s. By 1 00 or 2 00, 70 degrees. Then by late afternoon, back down to the 60s with showers rolling on through. Those showers off and on throughout the evening are back down to the 50s by late evening. This time tomorrow morning, near 50 with showers around. Then during the day, on wednesday, well have more showers moving through. I climbed hawsbill mt. Shenandoah on saturday and took this picture. Send your pictures to me on instagram, facebook and twitter and well show beautiful fall pictures. Windy and wet with highs near 60. Still a blustery wind on thursday. Mild for the weekend. Looking great. If you want to head out to the skyline drive, youll love it with a beautiful weekend. Sunshine with highs near 70. Melissa is check on good conditions this tuesday morning. Looking good. We could see rain in some spots and that could be nasty. For the commute later in the day, were looking pretty good. 28 at frying pan road is moving right along for us this morning. 66 in and out of up to, no problems there. Same thing with 95, thats southbound construction at route 1 now out of the way just clearing a couple minutes ago. So that is gone. Right now, the beltway at Central Avenue also looking quite good right now. A wider look at things, inner loop, outer loop, no major problems in or out of town. We are looking very green at this point this morning as we should be. Taking a look at 270 now at old hundred road, quite clear right now. Remember to follow us on twitter first4traffic. And also like nbcwashington on facebook. Aaron and eun . Thank you. Well, spreading germs around your home, the item in your kitchen that could be making you and your family sick. But first, ready to spend our take your business elsewhere . The impact of a number of highprofile data breaches is having on your Holiday Shopping plans. Plus, the new phone scam in one Area Community that police want you to be listening for. It is now 4 53. [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, weve always been on the forefront of innovation. When the world called for speed. When the world called for stealth. Intelligence. Endurance. Affordability. Adaptability. And when the world asked for the future. Staying ahead in a constantly evolving world. Thats the value of performance. Northrop grumman. Thats the value of performance. Have you seen the news about Barbara Comstock . First, the Washington Post reported, Barbara Comstock failed to report eightyfive thousand in income. Now, we learn, Barbara Comstock pushed a clients issues in the Virginia Legislature and didnt disclose it. Barbara comstock shepherded a trio of bills through the legislature and into law, but Barbara Comstock never officially disclosed that all the while she was being paid thousands of dollars. No wonder she hid it. Take a look at this surveillance video. Police need your help for the man who shot this clerk in a robbery. Police say the robber had trouble getting out of the door. He thought he was locked in when the clerk told him to pull the door not push it, the robber shot the clerk. Hes expected to be okay. If you recognize the man, call alexandria police. Three members of a High School Football team are being investigated for assault. The loudoun times reports the members of the Briarwood High School varsity team are being investigated for the assault of a Junior Varsity player. The Loudoun Public School is working with the Sheriffs Office and wont comment at this time. This morning were learning new information about a 17yearold who fell from a fifth floor of a dorm at the university of mary washington. He was high on lsd when he jumped from the window according to the freelance star newspaper. The boy is not a student at the school. A search warrant shows police found the Drug Paraphernalia in the room. The teenagers condition is improving. Right now theres is a warning about scams in frederick county, maryland. The Sheriffs Office says scammers are calling you to claim they are a family member. Then say say they have been arrests and need help. In another scam, they say they are with someone you owe money to. Remember, never give out your personal information over the phone. You can also call your family to make sure any calls are real. If you think you have been scammed, call police. Reporting for the news4 iteam, a local School District is under a big legal bill. This summer the iteam reported Montgomery County School Board Members used their Government Credit cards on expensive dinners and hotel rooms. Now they discovered the county is paying 146,000 for lawyers to review all the spending. When they are finished, the lawyers will recommend policy changes to the board. The school board also voted to cut up its credit cards so they wont be used anymore. You can help the smithsonian reach its goal of raising 1. 5 billion. The board of regents announced private support for the museums. The Group Already raised a billion dollars since 2011 before making the campaign public. The smithsonian is funded by federal taxes but a lot of the programs rely on donations. Your shopping choices this Holiday Season could be affected by recent data breaches across the country. According to creditcards. Com, 45 of consumers will definitely or probably avoid a store that was affected by a security breach. High income and younger shoppers were least concerned about those data breaches. And a report also found that 48 of shoppers say they plan to pay with cash this year for a majority of their gifts. Well, d. C. Just earned a new title, top travel destination of 2015. Thats according to the International Travel guide lonely planet. The company credited free museums and monuments, restaurants and destinations like the city yard and center city d. C. George town has the best shopping in the district. D. C. Topped over cities like milan and toronto. This is a great place to come. And not nearly as expensive as milan. Stay with us, news4 today comes your way at 5 00 a. M. Planning for the future. The proposal being outlined in the day ahead to keep traffic moving in d. C. And why it could end up costing your more. But first, were tracking a system moving to d. C. The showers to the west of us are tracking this way and it means youre going to want to keep the umbrella handy in the day ahead. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is here with when the rain will arrive. A lot of ws and rs in there. Bravo. Congratulations on getting through that without sounding like elmer fudd. We have a few sprinkles that passed through over the last couple hours, so some of the roads are damp but they will be drying through the morning. More showers likely moving in
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