In the mid to upper 40s, even 50 in the shenandoah valley. And though its foggy and damp this morning, we should be back to sunshine by noon and clearing skies quite breezy and temperatures back in the 30s by 6 00 tonight. Noticeably Colder Weather tomorrow and a little chance for snow early friday. And a peek at the weekend in 10 minutes. Now to melissa and check on the roads. So southbound connecticut avenue between bell pre and Pear Tree Court closed southbound. Southbound dumfries temporarily shut down. Right now Prince Georges County looking quite good at the bottom of the beltway. Same with the top of the beltway. Remember, brink at whiteman gatorsbering crash. No major problem but again fog still hanging around. Thank you. It is 6 02 right now. You cant see much because of all the fog covering the area. This is a live look in northwest washington. Not as bad as a little while ago. News 4s justin finch is live on the roads showing us what it looks like right now. Are we making progress here . Reporter progress is being made indeed. Were in the Rockville Town Center off maryland avenue. Its gradually lifting in these spots. It was a lot heavier a few minutes ago and weve the fog lift in other areas and move to other spots. The slick black top, the kind that can be easily underestimated. Drivers are taking it easy out here. Their fog lights are on. And aot that. Because we have seen this fog on one side of the street and still linger not so much on the other side. It is moving a fluid situation. So be careful as you travel this morning. Back to you guys. Live for us in rockville. And today d. C. Officials will sign a law that hopes to keep you safe. This new law punishes criminals for tampering with their ankle monitors. It has roots on an assault in astreet. A woman was brutally beaten and raped by a man who broke into her host house. He was supposed to be wearing a ankle monitor. He was never taken back to jail. The suspect in the murder of d. C. Yoga instructor had been arrested five times last year. Dwayne johnson was ordered to wear a gps monitor but never reported to pick it up. Now concerningg whos missing for more than three weeks. Now they hope the woman who turned herself in yesterday will offer answers in his disappearance. Sheesz rr accused of spending hundreds of dollars on dona had hoes credit cards. Donahoe was driving a black 2011 Chevrolet Equinox with the license plate 2 a k98553. And president obama is expected to meet with democrats to talk about the path forward as republicans try to repeal his signature legislative achievement. Republicans have already taken the first step in repealing the law with legislation introduced yesterday in the senate. Scott mcfarlenacfarlane of w expect. Reporter president obama about how to protect the Affordable Care act from repeal when the new Administration Takes over. The House Republicans join the first day of proceedings say the law needs to be repealed and replaced with an alternative. On his first day from the new u. S. Senator from maryland. We have 400,000 marylanders who have access to Affordable Care because of the Affordable Care act. You can wipe that out and tell people some time down the road youre going to replace it. Reporter also expected to take up legislation to take up the department of veteran affairs. But otherwise a bit of a Holding Pattern for the new Congress Today with just 16 days until the trump Administration Takes over. At the u. S. Senate this morning, news 4. President elect donald trump will hold his first News Conference nine days before he takeof twitter yesterday. He originally scheduled a News Conference for last month but postponed it. Meanwhile, hes taking another swipe at the Intelligence Community on twitter. He wrote quote the intelligence briefing on socalled russian hacking was delayed until friday. Very strange. A Senior Intelligence official says the briefing was always scheduled for friday and called trumps tweet disturbing and adversarial. Big developments following a terror attack in turkey. Youre looking at five suspected isis mill tnlt itants were deta today. They believe they have loo linked to the man responsible for the attack in a night club. And a uniform policy. This come s following a showing 3700 kitsz were untested state wide. Virginia governor has a new vision for criminal justice reform. Hes calling on the General Assembly to change the law over license suspension. He thinks you should only have it taken away if the offense was related to driving and wants to raise the bar on whats considered felony theft from 5 two 00 to 500. And if theres new dna evidence, he wants that person to have a Second Chance to be proven not guilty. Right now the National Park sunch service is working to figure out what made the National Monument to go dark. The park service thinks there could be an issue with the automated lighting system. Two new cookies are joining the girl scout line up. The new flavor honors an old camp fire classic, the smoer the little browny bakers version is a crunchy graham sandwich and creamy chocolate and marshmallowy filling. Sounds delicious. But thin mint will always be my favorite. I can eat the whole sleeve in two minutes. Its sad and great at the same time. And bad for new years resolutions. Next month i think is when Girl Scout Cookies go on sale. Cookies wont help you keep your new years resolutions on track but we will. What you need to know if losing weight or getting fit is your goal for 2017. And a new lawsuit brought forward by d. C. Chef. Why the case is now headed to trial. Above northwest washington where the fog is letting up just a bit. Heres a live look at how some of the roads are looking as well. Coming up. And one of the most notorious killers hospitalized. Waut were i tried hard to quit smoking. But when we brought our daughter home, killers hospitalized. Waut were that was it. Now i have nicoderm cq. The nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release its the best thing that ever happened to me. Every great why needs a great how. Breaking news now. An israeli soldier just conviced. And this has deeply divided the country of israel since march. We just learned that sergeant azario was just convicted of manslaughter. This after he was caught on camera shooting and killing a palestinian attacker who had been disarmed and on the ground wounded and unable to move. He shot the man in the head last march and he said he thought that the man may have had an explosive vest on. Prosecutors always mainn killing. There have been rally to support the soldier but the military has condemned his actions. Back to you. Thank you. 6 13 right now. Lets get you up to speed on the forecast. Meteorologist, chuck bell. Hows it looking out there, chuck . The fog is not as much of an issue around the city. But thick pockets for northern montgomery county. The good news is the fog will be pushed out and the sunshine will make a comeback. Upper 40s to low 50s around the area. Turning quite breezy this afternoon. Cloudy and cold tomorrow. Maybe as much of an inch of snow early friday morning. Have your nbc washington app ready to go and cloudy and cold, maybe flurries coming our way saturday. Perfect weekend to visit us at the news 4 health and fitness expert. Ill see you there bright and early. Brand new crash there really slowing things down quite a bit. So problem there. Taking a look at southbound connecticut avenue, tree down across the roadway. And well talk about that in a couple of minutes as well. Fairfax county parkway, pretty slow because of a problem inbound. Youre okay right there. Not great but okay. 270 south is fine. Remember to listen to wtop 103. 5 fm when you hop in your car. The same jury that convicted dylan roof will return to court to decide if he will live or die. Last month the jury found roof guilty of killing nine people at a bible study. The el supremacist will defend himself. Hes not allowed to approach witnesses or the jury. California prison Officials Say cult killer Charles Manson is alive. There are several reports that he is sick. They say privacy laws prohibit them from discussing an inmates health. Hes serving life sentences. Virginias longest serving state senator has died. Charles chuck colgan died. He was 90 years old. He represented Prince William county for 40 years and the founder of the regional airlines, colgan air. The Associated Press reports omarosa is expected to join trumps staff. She rose to prominence during season of the apprentice and one of the most prominent africanamerican supporters of trumps campaign. It looks like the obama family and future first daughter will be neighbors. Ivanka trump and her husband have just signed a home in northwest washington. Washington find properties confirmed the deal. Multiple sources told the magazine that its on tracy place and thats just around the corner from where the current first family is reported to be living after leaving the white house. Get new neighbors. They reinhinneenergize the neighborhood. Clearly ivanka over here and the obamas over here. Its unclear if theyre renting or may have purchased the home. Records show it sold and trumps lawsuit against chef could be heading to trial. The two sides are at an empass. Trump sued him when the celebrity chef backed out of an agreement to open a restaurant in his New Washington hotel. He said trumps comments about undocumented immigrants made it impossible for him to run a successful restaurant. This is your chance to start the year right and had healthy and fit. Well have screenings for everything from Kidney Disease to glau coma. And a whole lot of information about Mental Health as part of our changing Minds Campaign and the best part, it is all free, family friendly. Well be working for you. All the information about the health and fitness nbc washington app. Well be there saturday afternoon, morning. Ill be there saturday afternoon as well. Youll see us all on saturday. January 4th and already some of you may be slipping away from your resolutions. One tip is to use an acrunim. Its smart. Sstands for specific. M for measurable, a for attainable, r for realistic and t for timely. They say it will give you something to follow. So instead of five cookies, one or two instead of giving up cookies altogether. Well, there is a new device that can potentially save your life. It can stop a kitchen fire. This is called the nest protect. You attach it to your oven and turns offf the whole thing if i senses fire and smoke and has a Carbon Monoxide detecter attached. And the protector will alert you on your phone. 6 19 is our time right now. We want to get you caught up on the forecast you can expect for the day ahead. Chuck bell is here. A nice enough way to get the day started. Foggy and damp outside early this morning, although its not as much of an issue as it has been for much of the overnight. We should be back to sunshine as cold dryer air starts to move its way in. Late thursday inhto friday morning doesnt look like a lot but could be our first inch. Might be our first inch. 46 in washington. Our average High Temperature at this time of year is only 44. N50 shenandoah valley. 50 in martinsberg. And visibility not a problem in the shenandoah, or southern maryland. But there are pockets of reduced visibility. Parts of fairfax and louden as well. Back to the sunshine this afternoon. Northwest winds will pick up between 10 and 24 miles per hour. Should make it into the 50s for today. These rain drops not going to be bothering us at all for today. Future weather shows that moving on out. Clear overnight tonight. Back to the 20s by this time tomorrow morning. Staying in the 40s and drying most of the day as well. But late thursday into the predawn hours of friday morning there is a chance for snow half an inch to maybe an inch. Well keep a close eye on that and update our forecast on all of our platforms and nbc washington app. Theres your fiveday forecast. Maybe snow friday morning and maybe another chance of flurries on saturday. But the big story. The weekend will be frigid. 66 here eastbound and westbound near the beltway going to be slow. A problem westbound at nutley street as youre approaching the beltway. 66 crash in the left lane. 58 still have a crash reported northbound and southbound right now shut down. Interloop ramp 50 a brand new crash. And southbound connecticut before georgia, northbound is unaffected. And gw left lane was getting by and now its clear. If youre in the bathroom getting ready for work, you might want to check under the toilet lid. The slithering surprise one Northern Virginia home owner found. The law makers son and the punishment hes now facing. If youve been waiting to youre watching news 4 today. Right there. That was speaker of the house, paul ryan thoroughly confused by the dab. The son of the congressman did the dance move during the conerousmans swearing in photo. He tweeted he still didnt understand what this meant and that hes grounded for that little stunt. You think theres a time and place for everything. Hes just trying to be funny. He had a smack to the back of the head. And its caught on camera too. Megyn kelly is joining the nbc news family. Andrew lack made the announcement yesterday. She will host a new onehour day time program. She has been an anchor at Fox News Channel the last 12 years. Her last show on fox will be friday. And this next story is getting a lot of attention on our nbc washington app. Imagine youre getting ready for work and you encounter an anaconda in your toilet . We cant make this up. I end up on the streets naked because im leaving the building. Exactly. Moving out. This actually happened to somebody in arlington county. They called animal control which came and removed the yellow anaconda from the pipes. Tl theyre not venomous apparently so that makes it okay. But they can grow up to 13 feet long and weigh more than 100 pounds. Not clear who the snake belonged to. But they have placed the snake with it is the hottest ticket in town. A new chance it get into the africanamerican history muse. Whats hanging in the balance as president obama make as trip to the hill. The big story this morning, the for your pet, to do the best you should know more about the food you choose. With beyond, you have a Natural Pet Food that goes beyond telling ingredients to showing where they come from. Beyond assuming the source is safe. To knowing it is. Beyond asking for trust. To earning it. Because, honestly, our pets deserve it. Beyond. Natural pet food. Dense fog and slow commute. We are watching the roads before you head out. Inauguration countdown. Trumps final steps to the white house. Fixing the problems. Metro workers offering their own ideas on how to repair the safety problems. News 4 today starts now. It is a a low beams kind of morning. A live look at the conditions on the roads with dense fog starting to lift from over the region this morning. And good morning to you. Storm team 4 is back from florida. He brought the mild air but its sfwlir nice for today but it cant last long. Noticeably cooler air comes in tonight. Early this morning are areas of thick fog down through bull run and warrenten as well. Thats where the thickest of the fog is along i 95. So the four things you need to know. Anything but cold for today. Temperatures in the 50s this afternoon. Little chance for snow late thursday into early friday morning, possibly an inch of snow by the time you wake up friday. And the other thing were watching. Really cold over the weekend. Full sunday forecast comes up at 6 51. For now over to Melissa Mollett with all kinds of hit and misses. Still slow at nutly street because of a crash. And we still have the hanging around. 95 northbound for woodbridge is your slow spot there. Southbound connecticut after georgia here, before georgia tree down across the road. Southbound shut down and georgetown pike difficult run. New crash there. A little slow into gatorsberg. Trump tweeted the first News Conference will happen nine days before he takes office. He had originally scheduled a News Conference for last month but postponed. On tuesday he tweeted quote the intelligence briefing on socalled russian hacking was delayed until friday. Perhaps more time needed to bailed case. Very strange end quote. A Senior Intelligence official says the briefing was always scheduled for friday. And adversarial. A sitin of Jeff Sessions for attorney general is over this morning. They sat for hours at sessions office. The head of the naacp and five others were aretsrestearrested. Theyre questioning his views. A spokesman for the senator says many African American leaders welcome his nomination for attorney general. Only 15 days before the inauguration. Trump will give a speech in d. C. Reporter so heres what we know about president elect, Donald Trumps schedule once he arrives in d. C. , possibly by helicopter. Hell be staying at the blair house, as is tradition and then go to the tomb of the wreath laying ceremony and then vice elect pence and trump will give speeches. Friday morning trump will appear for his church services. Then a private coffee with president obama at the white house and up to capital hill to be sworn in as our next president of the united states. The one question is where will all the protesters be allowed to gather. 25 groups have requested permits from the park service and so far the president ial iugural committee has not released any space they can use but said they dont need exclusive use of the grounds around the washington monument. They will find space for these protesters somewhere. News 4. Dont forget you can find a complete run down in the nbc washington app. Search inauguration events. County. Over 100 people were killed and the police chief thinks he knows why. 26 of last years murders were drug related. 19 of those deaths were associated with marijuana. Since decriminalization, the demand has gone up in the county. And were seeing that play out in violence in Prince Georges County. Okay theyre drug dealers. I dont want them shot, killed. Police are asking the community to anonymously report drug activity to help them prevent more violence. Howard county police are trying to figure out the connection between two teens after a violent new years day shooting. 15yearold sean cliezer shot and killed her with a stolen gun. He also shot her mother and then turned the gun on himself. He died yesterday. The crieser and her went to the same school and police dont know what sparked the shooting. Metros Largest Union is taking safety into its own hands. Local 689 are hosting a Panel Discussion with transportation experts. The union says it will expose the mismanagement at metro. They have clashed over issues like falsified maintenance records. The union claim as lack of training may have been to blame. Are you still waiting to go to the museum of African American history. I know youve been. The smithsonian will begin distributing the april passes. Advance time passes for may will be available februa 1st. I have it will still be there. A search for a missing bethesda man takes a new turn. What police learned from woman who used his credit card. And power problems at the washington monument. Your time is 6377 my husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. My whole family wants to stay free from artificial preservatives. And my debit card wants to stay on a diet. Fill your cart with giants natures promise brand. Great prices on over 800 organic and freefrom items. Eat well for less. My giant. Its go time at dunkin with two wakeup wraps for 3. Enjoy two freshly made oventoasted wraps with bacon, sausage, or ham and keep on all day. America runs on dunkin. Meteorologist chuck bell. It is 6 40 on a wednesday morning. Visibilities have begun to improve dramatically. Weve been dealing with very thick fog all morning. Still pockets of fog left though. So bus stop waiters in the mid to upper 40s. It is not cold out this morning at all. We should get in the 50s as the skies clear out. Gusty northwest winds this afternoon. You want to have at the daily grade, b plus. Nothing wrong with 54 and early january. Just in time for the weekend. Lets go over to melissa. Two left lines getting by. So, getting a little bit better. Still looks nasty when youre looking at the camera. New crash near the Naval Research lab. Taking a look at travel times. Still a little slow. Had that inbound crash on 66. 270 south, typically slow as well. Be sure to listen when you hop in your car today. It may be a fighting to the finish for president obama. We have Team Coverage on the face off on capital hill. Is the Affordable Care act the day was off to a foggy start but now that fog is moving. Were tracking your a. M. Ride coming up. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet. So in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 different versions of the perfect song. His sister can live stream it. While his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder, get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for the first year. Hurry offer ends january 21st. Only from fios. Show down day. Health Care Coverage is on the line. Well focus on repealing and replacing obamacare. Keeping you safe. A new step to make sure violent offenders stay off the streets. Why did it take so long . Lights out. Problems at washingtons iconic landmark. Paying at the pump while youre digging deep in your pocket. Traffic might not be the only thing slowing you down this morning. 15 before the hour. It will be oo show down on capital hill today over the Affordable Care act. Both president obama and mike pence will head to capital hill. Pence will huddle with republicans while the president will meet with democrats and try to save it. Hally jackson live on capital hill. Good morning. Reporter hey, good morning. Kind of a show down politically here on the hill. President obama coming here to work to try signature domestic policy but around the same time you have Vice President elect mike pence talking to republicans about how to tear that exact law down. This is republicans trying to make good on their year long promise to kill the Affordable Care act. If you repeal it, what are you going to replace it with . This is a process that even the president elects aids say it will take years. Its not going to happen in a blink and this is something the democrats will fight to try and save. This is all happening on day two of the new session of new congress. Remember yesterday we were talking about the independent Ethics Office being essentially gutted. Republicans were making moves to make that happen. They came under fire. A lot of law makers getting calls and donald trump weighing in on if not the substance, then the timing of it that theyre pushing this they could be talking about health care or tax reform. That now off the table. Coming up in just a bit on the today show. Hallie, thank you. Marylands governor. Were going to fight it tooth and nail because its reckless to repeal it without presenting any kind of alternative. Holland says he will work with his colleagues to try and protect the program. President elect trump has not said anything specific about what might happen to Birth Control or Womens Health care. Here with a look at those concerns. Adam, good morning. Reporter good morning and this is the big concern for women. What is going to happen thinks like Birth Control preventative programs . Under the Affordable Care act, the Birth Control is free and other Preventative Services like maamgrams are covered at low to no cost. Theyve seen an uptick after the election about issues like this and the president elect has promised to appoint prolife judges to the supreme court. Heres what were hearing from women about all of this. We have heard from women who are concerned about losing the benefits they gained from the Affordable Care act and weve heard from a lot of women about Birth Control coverage. M ier nervous about the future of Birth Control and anything any kind of family planning. Reporter and just a reminder bothi the president and Vice President elect are expected to so be aware you could see a motorcade or two rolling through. Adam, thank you. 6 49 and d. C. Officials will close a loophole the law. Until now they were not punished for removing the monitors. This has roots on a street october 2015. A woman was brutally beat and raped. Two weeks before the rape, he was arrested on drug charges. Police found he cut off the monitor and put it in his backpack but was not sent back to jail. You cut it off, youre going to jail. You cut it off, youre going to be prosecuted. You cut it off, there will be consequences. The suspect in the murder of d. C. Yoga instructor had been arrested five times in 2016. He was ordered to wear a monitor but never reported to pick it up. Montgomery county police are working with new clues in the case of the bethesda, maryland man. Yesterday 25yearold sheriff turned herself in after Surveillance Footage showed her using her card. The question is how did she get that card . Donahoe was driving an equinox. The National Park service will be at the National Monument to figure out why the lights went out. Petco says it has nothing to do with this issue on its end. There could be an issue with the automated lighting system. This is how we started the morning off. Good news the fog is starting to clear. So could be a better drive for justin finch joins us live on the road in bethesda. Reporter weve been chasing the fog all morning. Most recently to democracy boulevard where the fog is clearly lifting. However, you will find, as we have, patchy fog as you make your way out to drive this morning. Theres also some light rainfall out here to be found in spots which means wet black tops. And keep it easy on the wheels. Keep your low beams off and keep it slow and safe. Back to you. Thank you, justin. The man of the hour who could explain to us what its looking like as the fog dissipates and what the rest of the days going to look like. Thats you. Just alittle bit ahead of the cold front. Ahead of that front, the air staginated a bit that was the reason the fog the winds are starteding to hint at coming back around and thats to get the fog to evaporate. 46 degrees in washington under a mostly cloudy sky. Dont plan on a whole lot of sunshine but it wont take long. Sunshine will be starting to make a rapid come back. 46 downtown. 54 in luray. 55 in charlotte vill. And before the cold front gets here, i think we have a couple of opportunities, a couple of hours of opportunity to be above gift degr 50 degrees. Thats a win. 56 in washington and fredr rks burg. Any of these showers across West Virginia look to be falling apart as they come east of the mountains. Well be getting back to a mostly clear sky. Northwest winds this afternoon the 20s and 30s. So about a 25degree cool down compared to this time. And dry through the day light hours and closer to midnight into the predawn hours of friday morning, a little opportunity for snow around here. Doesnt look like a lot but we could get maybe hamp an inch to an inch. Well keep a close eye on the forecast. Find me on facebook and twitter by searches for chuck bell 4. 56 today, far and away the warmest and very cold over the weekend and milder next week with more rain chances. Lets go to Melissa Mollett. Live look at 66 westbound. And still just two lanes getting by. That crash is now out of the way as youre looking pretty good on 95 northbound. Interloop, ramp to westbound 50. Northbound 2 sfloiv a crash reported there. Two, taking a look in Prince Georges County. Same thing as youre passing 301 headed inboupd on five. I have some lanes blocked both directions. So youre going to want to work your way around that. 270 live look. As justin just told us, you can see a lot of that earlier fog has lifted quite nicely. Melissa, thank you. The low gas prices wont be coming into 2017 with us. A report says this year u. S. Billions more at the pump this year. It will likely effect the economy. The key reason for the increase is a decision by the organization of the Petroleum Exporting countries to scale back oil production. They made that decision last november. The next time you take a vacation, forget about keys or the room key cards. Landon dowdy here with cnbc. Hey, there. Good morning to you both. Carnival plans to unveil new technology at the Consumer Electronics show thursday barring an idea from disney. Theyll be given trackers so the crew members can anticipate and respauntd spond to their needs and unlock your state warm. Looks like we need to take a vacation. Wouldnt that be nice, right about now . No wallet or it is coming up on 6 56. Here are four things to know. President obama heads to capital hill with the goal of saving the Affordable Care act. While Vice President elect mike pence will work to get rid of it. Today the penalty face will begin for the man who killed nine people at a bible study. A jury will decide whether life in prison over the death penalty. That was just until now they were not being punished for removing their monitors. Why theyll figure out the lights wut went out. A check of the next five days. Breezy and mild in the 50s. And cloudy and cold tomorrow. Mid30s tomorrow afternoon and maybe a chance of an inch of well have the latest when youre getting home from work and school. 66 west still slow with a couple lanes blocked. 95 maryland before the beltway. Were just hearing that gets dispatched. Could start slow downs. We appreciate you working with us. Well see you for weather, traffic and breaking news. How abut thato good morning. Rough start. A plan to gut an independent Ethics Office blows up in the face of the new republican congress. The idea tabled after a course of criticism from democrats, republicans it is the dumbest friggin thing ive ever heard. Evenhe president elect. The new priority dismantling obamacare. The president making a rare appearance on capitol hill today in a lastditch effort to save his signature law. Polar plunge. A fresh blast of arctic air set to impact tens of millions of people coast to coast. How low will it go where you are . Al has your forecast. Excessive force