Hit cities across the deep south. Take a look. Berming lamb, alabama where snow is stuck to the pavement. In atlanta, schools and businesses closed early. More than 100 flights were canceled because of the treacherous conditions. And in mississippi the weight of the snow weighing down the tree branches there. You note what that means. It takes down the power lines and that causes widespread outages there. But even in texas, this is as far south as you can get almost in that state. Look at this. What an unusual state. A beach correspondvered in a bl snow. Its heading this way. Lets go to doug to see who is getting hit next. Doug . That is actually where Hurricane Harvey made land fall. The hurricane and now snow down in that area. Power outages there as well. We could see some power out, too, in our areas. Down in Southern Maryland. If youre seeing snow now, these are the areas that have seen it. This is the area around california, maryland area. This is from youre watching now, man, keep me posted about what is going on in Southern Maryland. This is the lexington area, Lexington Park seeing that snow coming down. You notice it is sticking. And now i am expecting it to start sticking on the roads as the sun has gone down and temperatures continue to fall. Right now where is the snow . The same area its been. The last two hours, this is the 2hour loop. It has not moved north of this area. Nothing in waldorf. A few miles in leonard town, Lexington Park, seeing snow. The Northern Neck continuing to see it there, too. If youre in saint marys county, over towards salisbury, you folks are the bulls eye for this storm. Its going to snow for the next almost 24 hours where we are going to be waiting for the next sikds or so hours for the snow to begin in the d. C. Metro area. Thats why we have a winter storm warning to the south and advisory on i95. I95 corridor to the west, Northern Virginia, winter advisory. In the south Calvert County, charles county, parts of the Northern Neck, west more land counties as well. Heads up, were going to continue to keep you posted. You know last hour we raised tth the snow totals. I have that coming up at 6 25. Heads up and lets head outside. Vdot pretreated the roads in fairfax, Prince William and arlington counties. Cancellations coming in. King county schools canceled evening activities for tonight. Any events at Fairfax County zoolz, they have been canceled for tomorrow. Crews in maryland and d. C. Are gearing up for tomorrows weather. Conditions on the road could be slick especially on back roads. News4s Kristin Wright continues our coverage at 6 30 vdot salt dome southeast and lastminute preparations theyre making there. News4 will be working for you throughout the newscast tonight and tomorrow morning. Chuck bell and Somara Theodore will be tracking conditions when you wake up. News4 starts at 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow. And of any time of day with the nbc washington app for you. Now, new information about the search for Pamela Butlers remains. Her boyfriend confessed to her murder. That murder happened more than eight years ago, but her body has never been found. Today detectives began the search for her remains. Crews spent several hours combing the land along i95 in the median strip in stafford county. News4s Mark Segraves broke the story this week. He joins us live with an update from the butler family. Mark . Reporter yeah, good evening, doreen. I spoke to derek butler, the brother of Pamela Butler an hour ago after he was briefed by deck tichldeck detectives. They did get one or two positive hits from the search dogs. That is enough to lead them to believe Pamela Butlers remains are buried along i95. They say they do not plan to try to recover those remains. Derek butler told me this evening that makes him and his mother very disappointed. Derek butler stood on an overpass and watched for hours as a search team looked for the remains of his sister, Pamela Butler. Hoping that we would come up with something. Reporter investigators targeted two locations along this stretch of i95 in stafford, virginia. The first location mile marker 147 where dogs searched the grassy area between the southbound lanes and the express lanes. As derek butler kept a watchful eye. After about two hours, the search moved south about seven miles to this location near exit 140. Virginia state police say the search team had a very limited time frame to conduct the first part of the search along the express lanes. We specifically chose the time of between 10 00 and 12 00. That is traditionally when the express lanes are closed to transition anyway. We wanted to have minimal impact on traffic. Reporter they did get one or two positive hits from the search dogs which area along i95, but they dont plan to recover her remains. I would not be very happy with that. At that point then i would feel like i have to do something else. And what that would be at this point, i dont know. Reporter now, this is a look at the area along 95. This is mile marker 147 along the express lanes where police got those positive hits this morning from the search dogs where they believe Pamela Butlers remains are. The reason they will not go in to try to recover because they say so many improvement as far as the express lanes and the drainage area, part of the express lane has made in the past eight years. It would be far too difficult and risky to even dig there to look for her remains. And the possibility that they would actually find something, the family would then be able to bury, they say, is just too little to make it worth their while to go in there. Thats what derek butler told me earlier this ni this means that the killer of his sister will still only have to serve 12 years, but he says thats the deal that they agreed to with prosecutors. That is the very latest. Leon, back to you in the station. What a frustrating situation for that family. Thank you, mark. Now we turn to the politics of misconduct. Conyers, franken, franks, all forced to leave congress this week after allegations of Sexual Misconduct. Its been called a cultural moment with consequence. But is it . President trump is on his way to a rally right now, widely seen as an effort to convince alabama ans to vote for roy moore who is facing accusations of misconduct. Meanwhile, one of moores accusers is releasing information to back up her claims. Blayne alexander has the latest on that. Blayne. Reporter leon, we have heard so many voices coming forward with allegations, among them someone with allegations against Senate Candidate roy moore. She spoke out in the days since shes come forward, shes had to hire security. She faced death threats, but shes not backing down. An accuser standing her ground, Beverley Young nelson defending the validity of what she says is a year book signature by alabama Senate Candidate roy moore decades ago. I want everyone to know that i stand by my previous statement that roy moore sexually assaulted me. Reporter nelson who says moore groped her when she was 16 years old says the year book is proof that they knew each other and that a handwriting expert backed it up. The expert says that the inscription at the top through his signature, that was roy moore. Reporter moore, who has denied all allegations, enjoying another tweeted endorsement from President Trump, who is holding a rally in pensacola, florida, more than 20 miles from the Alabama State border. The race neck and neck as Voters Decide whether to send moore to washington where current lawmakers e surge of misconduct allegation. The latest empty seat, that of arizona congressman trent franks resigning after acknowledging he talked to former female staffers about being surrogate mothers for his children. Im going to make the statement speak for itself. Reporter this in the same week as senator al franken and congressman john conyers both announced their departures. A sharp contrast to democrat ruben cuan and blake who are refusing to step down. Both men denying claims of sexually harassing a staffer. But he settled for 84,000, money he expects to pay back to taxpayers. We are learning more about the allegations from congressman franks that drove him to resign from office. Nbc news is reporting he offered a staffer 5 million to act as surrogate for he and his wife. You know, doreen, he had initially planned to resign at the end of january. Nu today. Back to you. All right. Blayne alexander. You have to watch the developments carefully. A lot happening quickly right now. Another highlevel departure at the white house. Deputy National Security advisor dean a powell plans to leave president Trumps Administration in january. Powell came to the white house from Goldman Sachs and she played a key role advising President Trump on middle east policy. She said she only planned to serve just a year before returning to new york. Powell is one of several highlevel Staff Members to depart the white house this year. She appears to be parting on good terms. In d. C. , a mother says her children dont want to be anywhere near the old walter reed campus any more after hearing the gunshots that ended a mans life. It started as an argument, but things quickly escalated turning the old Military Hospital into a crime scene. News4s pat collins is there with a deadly dispute. Reporter doreen, this i way police tell the story. These two guys knew each other. They get into an argument. The argument leads to a fight. The fight leads to gunfire. And the gunfire leads to a case of murder. It happened in this parking lot of the old walter reed campus on georgia avenue. Police identified the murder victim as 45yearold brian andre gibson. They say he was a shuttle bus driver. In fact, they say the shooter was another shuttle bus driver and that the two men knew each other, but didnt get along. They got into a physical altercation. It was a pretty serious assault that was going on. One of them ended up producing a hand gun, shot the other, and he has been pronounced on the scene. Reporter now, these shuttle bulses are used to take construction workers from this parking lot to various job sites. As police investigated the they towed two cars from the scene. Its unclear as to what, if anything, the cars may have to do with this case of murder. Now, when all this went down, there were people outside the fence. They heard the gunshots. They started ducking for cover. She was here at a bus stop with her three children. I heard some gunshots. I told my kids immediately, run across the street. We zigzagged because we were afraid to fall down on the ground because it was an open area. Its frightening because i live right across the street and my kids are frightened to catch the bus now. Reporter now police say the shooter stayed on the scene. Hes being questioned but so far no charges have been filed in the case. Leon and doreen, back to you. Thank you, pat. As we prepare for snow, Fire Fighters in california working around the clock but theyre the flames are spreading and more people are being forced from their homes. A live report from the disaster zone coming up. Plus, a local priest reveals his dark past. What a maryland couple is now demanding years after they say he targeted them as a member of the ku klux klan. And a milestone for the Mgm National Harbor, how the casino gelped chan a winter storm warning in effect for parts of the region as snow moves in for the weekend here. Some of you could be getting an inch or two. Others, though, could see much more than that. Maybe as much as 6 inches. Doug fine tuning his forecast. Hell be joining us live in ten minutes with the updated information so keep it tuned right here. From snow in our area to the awful fires out west. The state of emergency as fires burn out of control in Southern California. Those santa ana winds are fanning the flames and they are showing no sign of letting up. There are six major wildfires burning right now. 160,000 acres burned, homes reduced to ashes and thousands of people forced to evacuate. Nbcs jay gray is in ventura, california. Whats the latest on the situation there, jay . Reporter hey, doreen, it is not good. As you described, those are the numbers. This the reality of what those flames are doing. You can see it has left this the region the same way right now. Look, 200,000 people or more have been evacuated at this point. Those evacuations are going to continue and theyre going to have more people out of their homes before its over here. The winds have died down a bit right now. Thats great news. Unfortunately they are going to pickup again as we move through the weekend and into next week. And so thats something that these Fire Fighters or close to 9,000 on the front line of these blazes will have to continue to deal with, they are frank about their assessment. Fire fighters telling us today they believe theyll be working these flames through the christmastime here. Theyve got a long fight ahead of them. This community is going to be in a tough spot for a long time. All right. Its an awful situation. Lets hope they get some breaks with the weather over the weekend. Jay gray in ventura, california. Thank and much more coverage of the fires ahead on nbc nightly news. Lester holt is anchoring from Southern California tonight at 7 00. More protests over President Trumps controversial decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. Thousands were on the streets after friday prayers in jerusalem. Israeli police were also out in force. There were some minor skirmishes. However, the clashes were more violent on the west bank and in the gaza strip where a man was killed and hundreds of protesters were injured. That according to palestinian authorities. Israeli Authorities Say soldiers were attacked with rocks and fire bombs and they were firing back at the instigators. 40 years after a couple found a cross burning on their front lawn, they say they are still waiting for justice. The man convicted of the crime is a Catholic Priest from arlington. News4s derrick ward talked to the victims who say the incident has stayed with them all these years later. Reporter philip and Barbara Butler thought they had fo into College Park Woods back in the 70s. After a few months there, they had a rude awakening. Racial hatred came calling. It was january of 1977. The butlers had just moved to this neighborhood in College Park Woods. And they were watching of all things roots on television when they got a call from the neighbor. Something was burning in the yard. I opened the door. There is a big old i said 8foot cross burning. Reporter police learned that this man, william atchison, was behind the cross burning. This picture showed him later in life. He exchanged his clan clothes for the cloth. He was ordered to pay 23,000 to the butlers. Meanwhile they gained National Attention and president reagan even visited their home. Barbara butler remembers thinking the advance call from the white house was a prank. Said he wanted to come back. I said tell him whenever hes in the neighborhood feel free to come by. Reporter atchison, the priest made his way backin area, ending up in the arch diocese in arlington. They hadnt been informed of the judgment against him. Once his past was revealed he wrote a letter of apology and paid the Court Ordered settlement. The attorneys say he owes more after all these years. We believe theres about 65,000 or more in interest owed the butlers. Reporter as for that letter of apology. If his heart was not in it he had, what, 40 years to apologize. Reporter atchison has since taken a leave of absence from his parish in the arch diocese of arlington says the future of his priesthood has yet to be decided. The butlers future . You never forget that. Well never frlgt that. Reporter derrick ward, news4. A local crime ring busted wide open. How social media helped police crack the case. A woman who stared at the Solar Eclipse suffered permanent eye damage howit despite wearing the glasses. The first snow of the season moves in tonight and tomorrow. Well, do you love it or hate snow of the season and asked how you felt about it. Take a look at the results of our online survey. Most of you say youre ready. You love it, bring it on, more than half of you. I wonder how much of that is women saying that. I just want to change my wardrobe. I want to wear different things. I want to wear muk luks. This is boot season. These are not the boots women look forward to wearing. [ laughter ] am i right, you guys . Set them straight. Ive been getting boots delivered to my house the last couple days. I know what boots youre talking about. They sit at the door for days. These are not the boots were looking forward to. But the boots will be necessary and youre talking about the boots none of us want to wear. Its going to be the big thick ones, waterproof boots. Not only are we going to be seeing snow. Some areas could see a lot of it. It could actually stick around for a twhiel and freeziwhile an be an sunday were only in the upper 30s so cold temperatures on top of the snow. Temperatures in the 30s just about everywhere. 39 degrees downtown. Winds out of the south at 9 miles per hour. We have a little bit of a wind chill. Wind chill down at 33, 34 degrees. The rest of the area down to 32 winchester, 33 patuxent river, 32 in cambridge. This is the area thats seen the snow right now. Weve already seen snow. Thats why were cooler. We have seen that snow cool off. There is it is down to the south. This is where it will stay the next few hours. Calvert county, saint marys county. You folks will continue to get snow. I talked to a few who said you got 2 inches of snow, but it is compacting and melting as if it is fairly wet snow and will continue to do so. However, you folks are in the bulls eye here. Lets take you through hour by hour. 7 00 the snow to the south. Bid midnight it does president move a whole lot. Still Southern Maryland, down around fredericksburg. Its not going to be into d. C. Until 1 00, 2 00 in the morning. Most of us get it. By 8 00 its once again the totals have only gone up especially for you folks in Southern Maryland. Amelia has more on that. Doug talked about the bulls eye. It will sit there during the evening hours. Like you saw with future weather, it doesnt move into the rest of the area until right around midnight or later. Take a look at our zmsnow fall totals. Ill walk around so you can see what to expect in your neighborhood. Southern maryland and the Northern Neck, 4 to 8 inches. Maybe more in the forecast here. This includes areas like dahlgren, mechanicsville, calvert beach, leonard town, patuxent river, clinton, maryland, youre right on the line. You can anticipate 4 inches of snow. The metro area, montgomery county, Prince Georges County, areas like bowie, west laurel, fairfax and bethesda will pickup 2 to 4 inches. In the district, i think well see a little bit less just because its warmer. About 1 to 2 inches. And then we head out to the north. Frederick, thurman t, mount airy, hagerstown. Winchester, youre going to see in fauquier, Prince William county. The areas for most will be dry. Some slick spots. Tomorrow the time you want to stay off of the roads, tomorrow evening. Crews will have gotten out, been able to treat the roads and some slick spots just around the area tomorrow evening, doug. But temperatures hour by hour throughout the day tomorrow really not moving too much. Theyre going to be hovering around freezing. Maybe a little above, especially tomorrow morning. That temperature around 35 at 8 8 00 a. M. 8 00 a. M. , this is when the heaviest snow moves into the d. C. Metro area and continues right on through noon, 1 00 being 2 00 as the temperatures come down. As the snow ends, temperatures may briefly come up before falling back down. Temperatures around the 8 00 around 32 degrees. So, ice will be a problem tomorrow night. Roadways could be an issue. Weather alert tomorrow for sure and then a cold sunday, high of 39 on sunday. Monday and tuesday, below 40s. Another storm system on tuesday moves to the north but brings in even colder air. Next wednesday and thursday, highs on wednesday for many of you wont get out of the 20s. Okay. This is going to be the real deal. Thank you, doug. Controversy after a school bus confrontation. Why an argument over a bag of potato chips could cost a top administrator his job. Their Court Records that read like a movie script about drug dealers, gang members, making pillows out of stacks of dollar bills. But now dozens of suspects are behind bars. Details on the take down just ahead. Its the merger that promised to drive down price at the grocery store, but months later, nbc news is crunching the numbers and reveals why shoppers arent seeng any significian see holiday tradition in a whole new light. Join in the joy of Christmas Town at Busch Gardens. More than anywhere else in america. Enjoy coasters and thrills. And celebrate with Holiday Shopping and shows. Bring your family to Busch Gardens and you would even say it glows. Christmas town. Where christmas shines brightest. Here we go. Snow is already falling in parts of our area. This is video from lexington, maryland, just a few hours ago. Southern maryland, folks, making for pretty pictures, but there is more on the way. Road crews out there hitting the streets in force, trying to keep everybody safe out there. News4s Kristin Wright is at the vdot salt dome where stockpiles of salt are all ready to go. Reporter a lot of salt. So, thats definitely not going to be the problem. Take a look at what ito its just a big mountain of salt. And you know, tonight there is nothing going on right now, but dont let that fool you. We just talked with the director and he says, you know, theyre ready. Theyre deploying their entire snow team. Theyre going to check in here at midnight and be on the roads by 2 00 and heres the plan. We expect to treat roads with rock salt. And after a few hours, depending on the rate of precipitation, well transition into a plowing operation. Reporter so the director told us the good thing about the snow happening right now is that its a weekend. So, they wont have to worry about traffic as much. Now, we also checked in with maryland, the department of transportation. They told us they have been pretreating their roads there and some of the warmer temperatures on the ground should help things, they tell us. And in virginia, they have been antiicing their roads for the past couple of days. In the district, Kristin Wright, news4. Well be workin f starts to fall. Get regular updates any time on our nbc washington app. And we are doubling up on our news coverage. News4 today starts at 6 00 a. M. With somara and chuck tracking conditions. We hope youll stay with us. Only on news4 tonight, a controversial confrontation between a student and School Administrator in Prince Georges County ends up with the administrator being placed on leave. As news4s chris gordon explains, this all started with a bag of potato chips. Reporter Prince Georges County schools gave me a copy of the letter sent home to parents by the principal of henry a. Wise, Junior High School here in upper marlboro. It informs them about an incident on a School Bus Route causing two delays, making some students late for first period class last friday morning. A source close to the investigation tells news4 a student threw a potato chip bag out a school bus window last friday. Mark faucet was driving behind the bus at the time. Allegedly some material was thrown out of a bus window and landed on the car of an administrator. The administrator followed the bus to the school and boarded the bus and tried to confront the individual and they reported it to the school. Reporter our source who has knowledge of the investigation says mr. Faucet boarded the bus yelling. A Security Guard got on asking faucet for identification. The student became upset, jumping out the back of the bus, running toward the school. Mr. Faucet allegedly chased her, grabbing the student by the arm. He later denied grabbing her, according to our source. He has been placed on paid leave pebdi pe pending the outcome of the investigation. We were speaking with that individual, the security professional and the school team to make sure we know exactly what occurred and that we respond appropriately. Associate School Superintendent faucet inviting him to tell his side of the story. But im informed he has no comment at this time. Reporting from Prince Georges County, chris gordon, news4. In Fairfax County, it has been a deadly week for overdose deaths. Six people overdosed and died this week. Five of those caused by opioids. The victims were between 22 and 34 years old. Police believe the problem is heroin laced with synthetic drugs which can be lethal even in small doses. They made their living with drugs and guns. Tonight striking new details are emerging on a crime ring thats linked to a half dozen homicides. The fbi and atf spent nearly a year investigating and as bureau dheef chief julie carey reports, they had help on the inside. Reporter the two young men shot to death inside this car in late july just 19 and 20 years old. Investigators say they are just some of the victims left wake of a gang known as imperial gangster bloods or igb. Six homicides and 120 shoots ings tied to the gang activities along with many home invasions. Among the 40 behind bars are two at the top. Tarvel and aeries a ka rue. After shoot ings in Northern Virginia, federal agents started their investigation last spring aided by local police. The target armed drug dealers, often buying and selling stolen weapons along with cocaine, marijuana, and heroin. Lieutenant james cox knows the dangers. He heads Fairfax Countys narcotics division. All they care about is making money and they poured large sums of cash, they have guns to protect their drugs, to protect their profits, and theyre not afraid to use them. Reporter early on, authorities found a gang member willing to cooperate if charges against him were dropped. Court records show he once put video and audio recording devices in a hotel room where a gang meeting but the suspects also provided plenty of money themselves on active social media accounts. He sent out a video of himself holding a tech 9 gun and showing off a pillow he made. It was bundled stacks of money. And carew sent out a song, i got Million Dollar dreams and federal nightmares. Tonight behind bars, hes stuck with the nightmares. One of the lower level suspects arrested in the summer hes already pleaded guilty and today he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. In alexandria, the federal court house, im julie carey, news4. Still ahead, price wars at the grocery store. Why shoppers arent seeing big savings after amazon promised to slash prices at whole foods. Plus families complain to news4s about a popular vehicle stalling. The government just took a big step after our consumer investigation. Doug . Some of us seeing snow in the sth ill show you when it moves in, how much to expect. Amelia is outside with what to tonight vdot is trying to put the brakes on stories about highway robbery on the i66 toll lane. The agency released new data saying the average round trip on the toll lanes cost 14. 50. Nearly 3 less than initial estimates when the project was pitched. So, what about those 40 estimates we saw for solo drivers . Vdot says about 39 vehicles paid 35 for their commute during peak hours, about 30,000 vehicles used the toll lanes. 10,000 vehicles got freeriders free rides rather because they were car poolers. Vdot said travel times were down compared to this time last year. Maybe its a wind chill effect. It jus its early, its early. Theyre still trying to work it out. Were following it. New developments in a news4 consumer alert involving stalling mini vans. A local family who teamed up with a Consumer Group to push for a recall is one step closer to learning whether federal regulators will open an investigation. Consumer reporter susan hogan working for you with this important update. Well, were talking specifically about the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica mini van. A few weeks ago news4 told you that 57 owners of these mini vans had launched complaints with federal regulators that their vehicles were stalling while they were driving. Since our story aired, the number of complaints has gone up 20 . Only on news4, this leesburg family described the terrifying moments when their mini van stalled with their kids in the car. The cohens complaint to investigate for stalling issues. Now we learned nhtsa officially opened a review of that petition. What this means is simply the clock is now ticking. Nhtsa has 120 days to make a decision to decide whether they will grant the petition and open up a formal investigation into the pacifica stalling issues. Now, we of course reached out to chrysler in a statement the company says it is unaware of any injuries or accidents associated with these complaints, and most of the complaints the customers were able to restart their vehicles immediately thereafter and the condition did not reoccur. To see the original story that we aired, just go to our nbc washington app and search mini vans. Of course were going to stay on top of this story unless you kn and let you know of any new developments. Thank you, susan. A fixer upper that allows you to live in a home rent free. There is one big fat catch. Im Tracee Wilkin one year since mgm harbor opened its doors. They are already planning an expansion. Were going to take a looat how thk e hey yeah . I switched to geico and got more more savings on Car Insurance . They helped with homeowners, too ok plus motorcycle, boat and rv insurance geicos got you covered like a blanket houston . You seeing this . Geico. Expect great savings and a whole lot more. There were years of bitter debates and valid concerns as the state of maryland braced for its sixth casino. The first in Prince Georges County. Now one year later mgm is not only thriving, its expanding. Our bureau chief Tracee Wilkins checks in to see if the casino is indeed a safe bet. Reporter it was predicted to be a traffic nightmare with Violent Crime spilling into the community. One year later, that doesnt seem to be the case. Grown. Gees. But, yeah, pretty impressive to say the least. You come around the beltway and see the big building. It really changes the sky line. Its beautiful, awesome. Reporter mgm harbor is big. How big . The casino business is now larger than the lottery business. Reporter it has generated 600 million in revenue, 32 million for Prince Georges County. We have less than 3700 employees here. We are thrilled to death that we got the 47 of those employees from Prince Georges County. Reporter it has impacted other maryland casinos. The state anticipated with the opening of mgm that particularly horse shoe and maryland live would lose share. And that has happened. Reporter mgm has also had its share of issues. Numbers of fights, thefts and under age violations compared to that of maryland live, but mgm has more visitors with some 6 million since its opening. With that many visitors that come visit us, obviously at times you might have a weve been extremely pleased with everything that has transpired with our properties. Reporter another casino is already planning expansion. The table Game Experience were expanding. We are adding obviously slot machines as well. We are taking it up to a second floor area. Reporter the feeling herein side Mgm National Harbor is all about celebration and it will continue throughout the night. At 10 30 they have fireworks. At national arbor, im Tracee Wilkins, news4. Fairfax county wants to hand you the keys to an historic home, yours to live in rent free. Yes, theres a catch. You need to restore it yourself. Its part of the new Resident Curator Program run by the park authority. The steps inhouse on the old lorton prison property is the first to be renovated, built by inmates back in 1937, its now going to be occupied by a Lieutenant Commander in the coast guard. Back in august when amazon acquired whole foods they said consumers would see lower prices. News4 is working for you with the reality check on promise. Our partners at nbc news compared current prices at a seattle whole foods to prices from last august and a 35,000 items for sale, they found just 269 prices were flagged as lower since the merger. A study in new jersey found prices down just about 1 . And in boston a consumer investigator surveyed three whole foods stores and found lower prices on an average of 254 items. Between 97 and 99 of the items were not cut in price. But grocery analysts say amazon is cutting prices strategically to gain a competitive advantage. And in a statement, the company told nbc news this. Quote, Whole Foods Market and amazon have a shared goal to bring the highest quality natural and organic food at affordable prices to everyone and were just getting started. And we would note that the whole foods did not have a Customer Loyalty program so amazon is working on getting that together. W l meanwhile, they are offering discounts on some items to amazon prime customers. Well, looks like the warnings were right. This summers Solar Eclipse left a new york woman with permanent eye damage after she used a pair of nonprotective glasses. The woman said she borrowed what she believed were safe eclipse glasses from someone standing nearby. Then she looked at the sun for about 20 seconds, a couple of days later she noticed a dark spot in the center of her field of vision. An eye exam showed a crescentshaped spot was literally burned into her retina. It was a mirror image of the eclipse itself. Just like when you saw the eclipse through the leaves in the trees and the shadows on the ground were an exact replica of that crescent shape. That is a terrible story. It really is. Good luck to her. And people were selling fake glasses. Remember that . Thats what you get. The big recall, all that stuff for sure. Lets talk about our weather today. Lets o lets check out its going to be moving in here tonight, tomorrow a lot to talk about. By this time tomorrow, that person right there is going to look a lot different if shes outside. That snow is going to be coming down and were going to need shovels in parts of the area. Now already seeing some snow into parts of the region. All of our southern zones were talking about from fredericksburg down to the south, parts of Southern Maryland, saint marys county. Southern Calvert County really getting hit hard. A couple inches of snow. Take a look at the radar, show you what were dealing without side. You see the radar picture. D. C. Er were on the dry side. But it is all south of fredericksburg. If youre driving i95 tonight, it will get messy around leonard town right on toward southern Calvert County. You see towards across the bay, over towards the eastern shore, also seeing snow. Weve already seen accumulated snow. Salisbury, right over towards saint marys county, leonard town has seen it now, extreme Southern Maryland getting heavy snow. Half an inch to an inch per hour. Some people 1 to 2 inches of snow and it is only going to continue in this area. Look at whats happening. Here it is right here. You notice this line. Here it is, i just put my hand right here. Its not going anywhere north of that. We actually are waiting for a secondary storm, a secondary wave to come along and move some of this moisture our way. That is actually going to pickup some of this moisture and bring it to the north. Thats what were going to see. Heres what im talking about. 7 00 tonight theres the snow. By midnight tonight still in our southern zone starting to creep up. 3 00 it is in the d. C. Metro area. Well be waking up to snow, 8 00 everybody has the snow out there. At last just about all day. Here we go at noon. Right on through 4 00, 5 00, still snowing . Par in parts of the area. Who will see it most . Those in Southern Maryland. What you need to think about tomorrow, lets go to amelia. So, doug, i have our shovel out here on the storm team4 weather deck. I think i need a new shovel. Its broken in half. Well be doing shoveling tomorrow. Those of you in ser tonight. And then twice tomorrow. So, take a look. Heres how the weather is going to impact your saturday. Again, shoveling once or twice, power outages, heads up, guys n Southern Maryland. Make sure you charge your phones and get ready for a potential power outage because the leaves are still on some of the trees so any snow really weighs down those branches and that of course can lead to power outages. But great snow for making snow men or having a snowball fight. So you can plan for some fun with the kids tomorrow. Heres your road outlook. The main road tomorrow i think are going to be just fine. Theyve been treated. Temperatures will hover just above the freezing point. As we look to secondary roads, slick if theyre not treated. I think my graphics are having a bit of an issue. The sidewalks going to need a shovel then. Were talking 4 to 8 inches in Southern Maryland. Most of us see 2 to 4 inches in our first snow fall. Do your homework. Probably going to be school on monday for sure. Exactly, amelia. In the graphich i take full responsibility for it. I apologize. Take a look at what were dealing with. Heres what to expect. 2 to 4 for most of the area. 4 to 8, maybe more, especially Southern Maryland. Thats what were looking at down there. These totals have gone up throughout the day. I dont think theyll go up more, but of course you want to stay with us. Well see you tonight at 11 00. Weather alert tomorrow, 39 for a high sunday. Wind chills in the 20s and plain cold as we head towards the middle of next week. That is a cold tenday forecast. Well be right ba. Sports cckom see holiday tradition in a whole new light. Join in the joy of Christmas Town at Busch Gardens. With over 8 million twinkling lights. More than anywhere else in america. Enjoy coasters and thrills. And celebrate with Holiday Shopping and shows. Bring your family to Busch Gardens and you would even say it glows. Christmas town. Where christmas shines brightest. This is the xfinity sports desk. The weather is going to be the big story for the weekend. We have some Virginia High School football championship games being played in hampton. Whats your thinking right now how those are going to be affected . I think the snow stays north. A lot of areas coming from all over virginia, areas like richmond under winter storm warning. I think hampton area will get the rain fort most part. They already pushed those games back. Is that the word, chris . Doesnt seem like Mother Nature is cooperating this weekend. Two Northern Virginia schools will be down in Hampton University for their state title games. Theyll be pushed back like doug just said from saturday to sunday. The high school in leesburg is set to take on high land springs and twotime defending state champ west ville will take on oscar smith. Bulldogs playing for the 6 a championship for the Third Straight year. They are led by quarterback noah kim and running back eugene asante. The dynamic duo has them undefeated perfect 140. They have nicknames for themselves apparently. He tweeted this. Calling them batman and robin. But its hard to tell which one is which. Were like a dynamic duo. Every time we step we walk up to the locker room af halftime, hes like, eugene, its you and me. We have to get this done. He takes a lot of pressure off me because the team is looking for the run game i think eugene is robin and noah is batman if i had to put my words in. Thats great to me there is unity there and theyre having fun and thats really what its about. There is a lot of seriousness to where we are right now, but this is su poedsed to pposed to be f. [cheering and applauding] the rangers are visiting capital one arena tonight and theyll have their hands full. Caps have won six of their last seven. Wednesday night they beat the black hawks 62. Over the last seven the offense has been buzzing. Caps averaging four goals a game and that span the great 8 is living up to his name. Scoring eight times, owe yeah, Alex Ovechkin leading with goals on the season. Speaking of scoring a lot. Bradley beale has 85 points in his last two games. He scorched the sun by scoring 30 points in the first 30 minutes of thursday nights win. Bill was actually cold from threepoint range, but again, the wizards got the wi skins kickoff in l. A. On sunday at 4 00. Guys, at least there is no snow out there for them. Okay. Chris it feels good to be back. Tonight, new fires exploding here in california. An army of firefighters attacking flames on the ground and from the air. Thousands fearing for their homes. And this is growing as were speaking. Yes, it is. This is going to get worse. Also the race to save hundreds of horses from the inferno. The first big snowstorm slams the deep south all the way up to new england. President trump giving another boost to roy moore despite allegations of Sexual Misconduct with teens. Tonight the new firestorm over what moore said about slavery. Caught on body cam. Police fatally shoot an unarmed father of two. Crawl towards me. Crawl towards me