Spring Ridge Middle School in Saint Marys County is closed today. In the day ahead, d. C. Police chief will speak with neighbors in the hill east neighborhood. Thats the area east of capitol hill. People living there have dealt with home invasion, rape, several street robberies and a murder in the last two weeks. Tonights meeting begins at 7 00 at friendship chamberlain Charter School in southeast. Not far from the hill east neighborhood, police say they arrested several people responsible for a series of robberies. Last week there were six robberies in an hour in the navy yard and capitol hill areas. Police say small groups of three to five people are committing multiple robberies a night. The chief says robberies are one of the Biggest Challenges the district is facing right now. She went on to say police made arrests in two major cases in the last four days. Right now, there are flood advisories across the gulf coast. Remnants of Hurricane Patricia are punishing the shoreline. Strong winds battered beaches in florida, a tornado touched down in new orleans. Crews rescued 20 children from their School Bus Stuck on a flooded bridge near baton rouge. In texas, three days of rain from two different systems are creating problems. Flash flooding derailed a train south of dallas and sent rescuers looking for the drivers of submerged cars. Weather and traffic now. Starting with chuck bell. What you need to know about the weather for today, off to a cold and dry start this morning. Rain moves in mid to late afternoon. Might be as late as 5 00 or 6 00. Youll want to have your umbrella ready to go. Weather alert day coming your way tomorrow. So tomorrow promises to be a fairly high impact day, potentially 1 to 2 inches of rain. Still dry. Storm team 4 radar shows rain drops south of charlottesville and central virginia. Those drops are steadily moving in our direction. Mostly mid to upper 30s west of i95 this morning. Mid40s downtown and near 50 by the bay. Highs today, not a bad day. Chilly, though, with the clouds and rain showers steadily moving in. Highs today should make it in the mid to upper 50s. Then for tomorrow, weather alert day, heavy rain coming our way, it will be a mild one. More of that coming up in ten minutes. More construction on the roads with melissa. More construction. This road work here alternating closures that will stick around for another hour or so at this point. This is that ongoing project there. Thats a Little Something to look at here this morning. Taking a look here top of the beltway, no problems. Everything here into and out of town, no major issues up top or major road work to think of there on 95 in maryland. Right now 66 headed into the beltway, nine minutes from Fairfax County parkway. Listen to our friends on wtop. Inner loop 50, crash still not on camera, we know it is there. Back in ten minutes. Angie here at the live desk with new video in from pakistan following the deadly earthquake. Rescuers are struggling to help survivors. We learned so far 311 people died after the magnitude 7. 5 quake hit yesterday. Now, most of the death s were where thousands of homes were damaged. Dozen dozens of others in afghanistan reported as well. The army is using choppers to bring in supplies to victims. They say it has been very, very tough, very difficult to get to many of them. Were going to keep an eye on the situation. It is 4 34 now. Metro is close to choosing a new leader. Multile sources tell news 4 transportation reporter adam huff the agency is down to two finalists. They say we could be days away from an announcement here. Metro has not had a permanent general manager for nearly a year now. Im feeling pretty good right now. Pamela rhone should be feeling pretty good. She is one of two metro employees who helped subdue an Armed Robbery suspect. This newly released Surveillance Video shows him on the platform. This morning official recognition for her role in the metro takedown. Transit police chief ron pavlik awarded her with a certificate of valor. Rhone says the suspect got on the anacostia station and quickly started arguing with other passengers when she and a colleague confronted him, he admitted to having a gun. Thats when rhone called Transit Police and her coworker held the suspect down. I just did what i thought that i would have wanted somebody to do for me if i was in that situation. Police say the suspect is 20yearold rondez tibbs from southeast washington. They say he robbed a man at gunpoint before he got on that train at anacostia. Happening today, the trial against a mother, prosecutors say abandoned her baby girl begins. Sandra mcclary left her baby in the car seat on druid hill avenue in pasadena back in july. Police say mcclary tried to blame the babys father. Shes charged with child neglect and reckless endangerment. A driver accused of hitting a man three times with his car is now charged with attempted murder. Montgomery county police say 25yearold Bryan Jackson followed a man who he saw with his exgirlfriend on sunday. The man got out of his car to find out why he was being followed. Police say jackson rammed him, backed over him, and then hit him a third time. The victim is expected to be okay. It is now 4 36. Several new polls have donald trump and ben carson in a tight race heading into tomorrows Republican Debate in colorado. At the same time, jeb bushs campaign is struggling to gain ground. On the democratic side, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are focusing a lot of attention on winning iowa where the first caucus kill be held. Tracie potts is breaking down how each of the candidates is trying to get ahead. Well check in with her in ten minutes. A push for d. C. State hood on the National Mall today. Volunteers will be there to try to connect signatures to petition the federal government. It is part of the state hood or else campaign. Vincent orange row trintroduce this past july. Phil mendel son will hold a public hearing. We expect members of the Public Safety committee to discuss this afternoon. A separate subcommittee approved the report. Among the recommendations creating a Community Review panel. Also, adding an independent Police Auditor position. That person would report directly to the board of supervisors and would provide oversight in cases of police use of force. All right, lets take another look at the current temperatures here. A lot of you waking up in the 40s, 30s too. How long will the Cool Temperatures stick around. Chuck bell is back with that and the bus stop forecast in the next weather and traffic on the 1s. Use of too much force or doing its job. The video of a School Resource officer that will have a lot of people talk ing at work this morning. And if you thought using your fingerprint was a cool way to sign into things, wait until you see this. How you can one day use your eye at the atm instead of a welcome back. A School Resource officer in South Carolina banned from working in any school after tossing a student across the classroom floor. You see in this cell phone video the officer pushes the chair over after the student was asked to stand up and didnt. He then throws her on to the floor. Ben fields is being investigated by police and the school district. This happened yesterday at Spring Valley high school. There is a new layer this morning in the discuss over the future of final exams in montgomery county. A recent survey shows teachers do not want to get rid of them. They say the cumulative nature of the tests are unique challenge that students need to master. Earlier this year the school board voted to scrap them. It was concerned about overtesting students and losing instructional time. The board president told the Washington Post the board will consider the survey results when it takes a final vote next month. 4 41 your time now. Check on weather and traffic on the 1s. Chuck bell telling us what kind of day we should be expect. Umbrellas ready. At the ready for later today. If you cant find it this morning, you know, i think i left it at the office or at school, you may be okay. As long as you get in to where you think it is, youll make it just fine. Later today, youll need it for sure. If you cant find it today, buy a new one. Youll need one tomorrow as 1 to 2 inches of rain are coming our way. Could be fairly high impact weather day tomorrow. For now, a quiet and cold start. 36 manassas. 45 in arlington. 48 degrees in fauquier county. What to wear . Have your warm jacket, umbrella and long pants on already on your way out the door this morning. Temperatures will rise from the mid to upper 30s now into the mid and upper 50s, only a c today for recess. Here is a check of the bumper on the beltway. A little bumper on the beltway. Not seeing it on camera, we know it is there. Inner loop, a crash there, saw fire trucks driving by a short time ago. So watch out for that if youre headed out. Prince georges county, no problems here, pretty green and moving there Prince Georges County to 70. Same thing, dont have any major problems there. Had earlier road work there on 370 as you approach 270. Thats out of the way. Dont worry about that. 95 quantico to the beltway, 17 minutes, cant do much better right now. No major issues on 95 and virginia. See you in ten minutes. New details in the deaths of two teenagers in Prince William county. Parents say it may have you sitting down for a talk with your own kids. Setting the record straight. Why Howard County schools insist their classrooms are safe. Your time is 4 43. This morning, School Officials in Prince William county are asking parents to look for signs that your child may need help. Four Prince William county teenagers died over the weekend in three separate events. This morning were learning two of those teens died of stab wounds. The medical examiner says 17yearold indya davis took her own life. The teens were found dead inside a minivan after being reported missing by their families. We have kids, you know, you always worry about them and just dont want to have any kids, so very sad. Yeah. Davis attended osborne Pike High School and ferringer was at garfield high school, both in Prince William county. It is 4 46. Republican president ial candidates are in a tight battle heading into tomorrows gop debate. The polls have donald trump and ben carson neck and neck. Nbcs tracie potts joins us live. Good morning. Wasnt long ago that trump had all of the attention on knocking jeb bush and now focusing on ben carson. Because carson has a 14point lead in the latest Monmouth University poll and thats the third poll that actually gives carson the lead in iowa in just the last week or so. What about trump . How is he reacting to the new numbers . Trump says, look, these are small polls, the Des Moines Register poll, the Monmouth University poll, he says theyre small polls and theyre just in iowa right now. Clearly hes got an iowa problem when it comes to ben carson. Ben carson said hes not going to go negative. What has he been doing to help him gain ground here . Well, hes really been connecting with conservatives. That seems to be a really strong base for him, while one of his Campaign Officers said that he, you know, his faith, his ideals, really seem to make a big connection there in iowa. Hes been doing a lot of events with evangelicals and seems to be making a difference in the numbers. Absolutely. Jeb bush now trying to Gain Momentum here because his numbers are down. Jeb bush, hes taking another look at things. Hes slashing his staff by 40 . Hes making a smaller headquarters at this point. Hes trying to reduce his expenses, travel expenses, things like that. He also is refocusing his campaign, were told, on National Security and trying to fix washington. Tracie potts live on capitol hill for us, thank you. Sure. 4 48 your time now. And Hillary Clinton is expected to get a big endorsement from new york city mayor bill de blas blasio. A source tells the Associated Press that backing is to come this december before a president ial forum in iowa. De blasio managed clintons Senate Campaign in 2000, but initially refuse ed to endorse her saying he needed to hear more details about her policies. In a few hours, clintons top opponent Bernie Sanders will be live on the today show. See that interview coming up right after news 4 today. Today, president obama heads back to his hometown to join the nations top police officers. The president will speak at the International Association of chiefs of police in chicago today. Police across america want universal background checks for anyone trying to buy a gun. They say the check will help keep guns from people who shouldnt carry them. Police chief say they hope the public will push lawmakers for legislation that will reduce gun violence. Today, the countrys top intelligence officials will be in one place for the cia Second Annual public conference. Director john brennan will deliver the keynote address this morning. The conference is happening on gws campus inside the auditorium. Panels begin at 9 00 a. M. Police across all Law Enforcement agencies should use body cameras the same way . They reviewed 59 agencies across the commonwealth and found that only 3 of them require officers to tell the public when theyre recording. The group says agencys rules should be uniform on how long a department can store data and the consequences for officers who break the rules. More than 150 Baltimore Police officers are wearing body cameras today. This is part of a trial that started on monday. The Deputy Police commissioner said the Department Officials hope the cameras boost public confidence, provide additional evidence, and reduce the number of citizen complaints. This program is part of our efforts, the Police Departments efforts, the citys efforts, to push transparency forward and progressive leading Law Enforcement agencies throughout the country. The Police Department says the force plans to give every officer a body camera within the next two years. Today well find out which have virginia cools just received accreditation. Terry mccauliff will make the announcement this afternoon. Patrick henry became fully accredited this school year and the last two years the school boosted its performance by 20 in english, math, science and history. Howard county Public Schools are working to fix a mold problem at several buildings. Some posted pictures of mold and wet Ceiling Tiles online and brute brought up can concerns that little is being done. The district says they brought in an expert to get rid of a moisture problem and put ing in a new hvac system at the middle school and reparg pluiring plum leaks. They have hired a contractor to do more indoor testing. A chill in the air, weather and traffic on the 1s. Chuck is here to tell us more about what we can expect today. A cold start early this morning. Im supposed to stand in front of that running over things in the studio. Im thinking youre not going over there. Not without a stick. Cloudy skies await you. Halo around the almost full moon on my way in. There is the Kennedy Center for the performing arts by the potomac. A cold start early this morning as well. Temperatures in town are in the mid40s of the light wind for now also out of the north averaging 3 Miles Per Hour. Things will change later today and into tomorrow. Right now, though, mid30s in the shenandoah valley. 40 in stafford and fredericksburg. Today wont be a big weather impact, but tomorrow, wednesday, is going to be a weather alert day for moderate to high impact, lots of rain, breezy, it will be on the mild side, but what does the weather alert day mean, more frequent updates on air, online, and push alerts through our nbc washington app. Download that today. It will be good to have it for today, have the radar in the palm of your hand, track the rain drops like we do on their way up this spine of the appalachian. Rain drops likely to move into the metro area around the time the sun is going down tonight. Already raining in southwestern virginia. Here is future weather then through the course of the day. Light showers, darker green near charlotte. Thats the leading edge of the light to moderate rain showers as that comes in here. Here we are at lunch time today. Cloudy skies and maybe a little drizzle around town. Steadier light rain to our south and west. After 3 00 or 4 00, those darker greens moving right into the metro area. As a result, have the umbrella ready for later on. Temperatures will recover from 30s and 40s now up to the mid50s for later today and then through the course of the day tomorrow, 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow, moderate rain, man a rumble or two of thunder. And rainfall amounts may end up being in the 1 to 2 inch range. Heavy rain possible tomorrow, can 7 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. Quick check of the sevenday forecast, 50s, rain moving in today. Near 70 with wind and rain tomorrow. Low 70s thursday. Drying out and cooling down for friday on into the weekend. Falling back on the clocks, thats this weekend, can you believe it is time to fall back already . I cannot believe that. Talking about it last weekend with somebody. I cannot believe it is upon us now again. Taking a look now, little bit of a slowdown here, georgia avenue, coalsville road, not seeing a report of construction, i would venture a guess there probably is something happening there because we do have that slowdown there. Taking a big look at the beltway, inner loop and outer loop, nice and green for us this morning. 66 rolling alon just fine. Maybe better than fine. Eastbound, 74 Miles Per Hour. 95 north at 66 Miles Per Hour here. Dont have any major problems there. 270 at old hundred road rolling along nicely. Top of the beltway, main routes into and out of town looking quite good. See you back here at 5 01. Why some schools in Northern Virginia could soon be teaming up with churches. And the next time the captain flips on that no smoking sign, hes not just talking about tobacco cigarettes. What the feds just banned on your next 17 just to go round trip on i66. The vote happening today that could impact your commute and your wallet. Looking live now at current temperatures. How about that . 36 in manassas. 36 in gaithersburg. One word that comes to mind, brrr, chuck is putting together your hometown forecast and will let us know how warm will it get where you live in just a few minutes. Three minute s before the top of the hour. Multiple teenagers are facing rape charges in virginia. Police in williamsburg say a 15yearold or 16yearold boy took a teen girl into a park months ago and three others attacked her. All four of those suspects are under age. A 20yearold is accused of videotaping the whole thing. This happened back in june. Police say it took months to investigate. You would go from one suspect to another, find out some different facts and have to go back and confirm those things. The 20yearold is expected to turn himself in this week. Two of the teenagers were charged with rape. Police charged all five suspects with child pornography. If youre planning on getting on a plane soon, leave your ecigarettes at home. The department of transportation is banning battery operated smoking devices from checked baggage. Since 2009, there were 26 cases of ecigarettes exploding. Some of which happened in checked luggage. Ecigarettes will be allowed on carryones. It goes into effect within the next two weeks. There could be more support on the way for students in parts of Northern Virginia. School administrators met with faith leaders last night in the Herndon Reston area. They hope the new partnership will give students a better chance at success. To try and put together this to invite the schools and the church and faith communities together to see what we might be able to do. A program they eventually mirror a partnership between Flores United Methodist Church and hutchinson school. Using your debit card at an atm could soon be a thing of the past. Citigroup is Testing Technology that would allow you to withdraw money by scanning your eyeball. The company is also testing an automated teller machine and smartphone codes instead of pins. Bank of america is said to be testing its own cardless atms. Youve seen these in movies, retinal scans and what not. I remember that was the avengers movie, where the bad guy goes and pulls somebodys youre thinking of someone stealing your eyeball. Got to consider every possibility. Stay with us, news 4 today continues at 5 00 a. M. News 4 today begins with breaking news. That breaking news, congress and the White House Strike a deal avoiding a federal government shutdown. The details just coming into the newsroom. Also right now, it is cold for sure. But it is about to get wet too. It is 5 00 a. M. Now. Good morning, everybody. Im aaron gilchrist. Im eun yang. Straight to chuck bell and look at whether or not youll see rain in your hometown. Good morning. Good morning. Okay either cold or wet. Nobody likes to be both cold and wet. A chilly one later on today with the rain showers moving in. But it is flat out cold this morning, a lot of 30s on the map, likely to be wet by sundown tonight and heavy rain makes it tomorrow a weather alert day here at nbc 4. More frequent updates coming. There is the radar this morning. Rain already in southwestern and c