Temperatures will struggle mightily to stay mostly in the low to mid 30s which is pretty much where we are so what you see is what you get. It will be a cold one with flurries ending this morning. Turning breezy and a little bit sunny. By 5 00, temperatures back down into the mid 20s. For folks looking at the holiday weekend, lets go over to samara. Good morning. Some of us already thinking about the holiday. Lets go ahead and get a look. I had a special graphic made for you guys but heres what you need to know about today. Temperatures in the mid 30s. By this weekend so much colder as we head into new years. Were expecting by the time were counting down the clock into 2018 for temperatures to b. Make sure you turn up the heat and wear tons of layers. Samara, thanks so much. Lets go to Rob Stallworth and check first 4 traffic. Rob . Good morning to you guys. Good morning, folks. If youre traveling at this point in maryland, i95 and the baltimore washington running well. No problems on the beltway itself. In virginia, southbound route 1 after huntington avenue, we still have the crash along the right side of the roadway. Stay left in order to get by. Northbound on 395 near gleeb road, we do have the broken down along the right side of the roadway. Aaron, susan, back to you. Head outside. Our Team Coverage of this weather alert day continues. News 4 transportation reporter adam tuss is on the roads right now. Adam, how are things looking and where are you . We are on 340 in the frederick area, susan. Right now things are not bad out here. Lets not kid ourselves. This is not turning into any sort of major event. We didnt think it was going to have a huge impact and it really isnt having much of an impact at all this morning. Thats good news if youre about to get up, get out, go do whatever you need to do. Maybe you have the day off. Dont worry about anything at this point. What we are dealing with is a cold out here. If theres anything that falls, it is going to stick to the road. The road crews have been out in anticipation. They had issued a commuter alert for this morning. Road crews were prepared. Again, we have been up the 270 corridor around point of rock headed around brunswick. We havent got much if anything out here at all. Just, again, if you do see anything falling this morning, a little bit of extra time and patience. For right now we should be in good shape this morning, guys. Back to you. Adam, thanks so much. As always you can track when the Winter Weather will arrive in your neighborhood this morning in our nbc washington app. 6 03. Tracking some breaking news out of prince gorges county where police are investigating a homicide in largo. Police say they found a man shot to death inside an suv you see here on your screen. An officer was patrolling the area when he found the man around 9 00 or 10 00 in the capitol lane area. Were working to find out who the victim is and whether detectives have been able well let you know when we learn more. Police investigating an Early Morning shooting. Police say a man was shot just before 3 00 on bryant street in northeast. 18th street in loomis park. We are told the man is in critical condition. Theyre looking for an africanamerican man wearing a black hat and all black clothing. Look for updates in the stories in the nbc washington app. Police officers have been busy across our region this morning. They have. Chris lawrence is at the live desk with details on an investigation in college park. Hey, chris. Yeah, guys. Prince gorges county police are still on the scene of an Armed Robbery near the university of maryland. This happened overnight just off campus on 36th avenue. Officers went looking for the suspects but now think they left the area. The students are still on winter break although obviously some of them stay in college park over the holiday. Police are keeping officers in the neighborhood as the investigation continues. Baco desk. Thank you. 6 05 right now. A mom in prince gorges county says she was just trying to protect her family when she went to confront a peeping tom. She says the man appeared several times outside of her langley park apartment on christmas night. The last time she and her husband took action. I have girls in my house and i have people i have to protect in my house so i went outside with my knife and i told him not to move and if he did move, i would hurt him. She helped her husband detain the man until police arrived, but as it turns out they didnt have enough information to arrest the guy at that moment. The mom says she told her neighbors to look at for anything suspicious. Patrol officers in the area are also on guard. We first told you about the bus crash in mexico last week that left several members of one local family dead. Today at 12 30 services will be held for anna bejar and her church. They were on a cruise vacation and made a stop in mexico headed towards the mayan ruins when the tour bus crashed and flipped over. Her husband and oldest son david were injured there. Total of 12 People Killed there. Decision 2017. A drawing in a closely watched virginia race is delayed. State Election Officials were scheduled to literally draw names from a bowl today after a ruling last week declared the race between democrats Shelly Simons and republican delegates david jantz siy want a tie. They believe she beat jantzy in the 24th district race in newport news. If simons wins it will split the house of delegates 5050. Were following another close house race. Joshua cole lost by 73 votes. Our News Partners at cole will not contest the election results. Cole will continue to go on. Today we will learn who Associated Press male athlete of the year is. Female athlete of the year is one of our local swimmers. Favorite around here, bethesdas Katie Ledecky got that honor yesterday. She finished ahead of Serena Williams. Ledecky took home five gold medals and a silver medal at the world championships. Last year she finished second to u. S. A. Gymnastic star simone biles. Ledecky is the First Washington woman to win the award. She knows this means shes in the company of a lot of incredible women over the years, since 1931. She is an incredible woman for sure. A flight frustration youll be hearing about all promise you that. A plane forced to turn around when a passenger realizes they were on the wrong plane . Hear from the celebrity who live tweeted this disastrous journey just ahead. Plus, it sounds like an emergency, but its actually the start of one couples engagement story. Youll want to stick around for this one, folks. Its still ahead. Im storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. Weather alert this morning. Winter weather advisory for the northern sides of our viewing area up towards frederick, maryland, and montgomery county. The big issue is the persistence of the cold. Now that the cold is here, before we start, i just want to say if anyone still doesnt have fios, please stay out of the way so your lag doesnt get us all killed, ben. Whats so good about fios anyway . Uh. Whats so great about a 100 fiberoptic network that makes your gaming system actually work awesomely . Hey. Did you take out the trash . Haha, garbage boy dad, i already took out ben. Its not funny. Gaming is best on a 100 fiberoptic network. So get fios. Now, just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. Winter weather advisory in effect until of our counties north of the district. Picking up some flurries. Not too impressive. Not expecting major accumulation. Slick spots. Take your time on the roads. If you plan on running any errands, the good news is all of that is out by 8, 9 00. 10 00 a. M. , upper 20s. Lots of cloud coverage. It is going to be cold. Make sure you bundle up if you are going to be out and about. The good news is you dont have to contend with any snowfall for the remainder of your day. Team coverage on this weather day. Adam tuss is out on the roads driving for us as you can see here checking conditions as thousands head back to work after the holiday. We will also check in with wtops Rob Stallworth for any delays that may be popping up on your route because of the weather. Learning more about the death of a young prince gorges county girl shot days before christmas. Police say a young Family Member accidentally shot the 11yearold on Phillips Road in aquasco. No word on whether or when any charges might be filed. Adults were home. Theres a stabbing inside union station. This happened yesterday afternoon. Stabbed over and over again. Somewhere have been no arrests. Police xi a shooting started with a fight. Authorities called to the galleria around 7 00 p. M. Last night. At least two people were injured and sent to the hospital. So far four people in custody in connection with that shooting. The fight happened inside the mall and then led to the shooting outside in a restaurant parking lot. This investigation remains ongoing this morning. Two people tried to take advantage of shoppers looking for a holiday deal selling fake macbook pro laptops. Tried selling one to an undercover cop. The plain clothes officer noticed the laptop didnt look authentic and set up a meeting to buy one. Thats when Police Arrested these two right there. 37yearold kaliante houston of georgia and 30yearold Kristen Edmonds of missouri. They found several fake laptops as well as drugs inside of their car. A d. C. Woman says United Airlines bumped her out of her first class seat and gave it to a texas congresswoman. Jean marie simon said this happened on a flight from houston to ragan national. Th she said they gave it to simon lee. Simon canceled her trip after a flight delay. Simon said she did not cancel the trip. She complained and united gave her a 500 travel voucher and a seat in coach. It automatically upgraded jackson lee and not b she released a statement saying she didnt ask for anything exceptional or that the airline has not apologized for what happened. 6 15 right now. How would you feel after spending hours, four hours to be exact, on a plane only to be sent right back to the terminal . Well, that is what happened to passengers of a flight bound for tokyo last night. News 4s Chris Lawrence is in the newsroom where hes breaking it all down. Chris, we also know that there were a couple of celebrities on board and one who was tweeting during the entire time. Tweeting, thats an understatement. Thats right. She documented it blow by blow. She had a field day with this one. Passengers on the all Nippon Airways flight were only in the air four hours before a passenger mixup forced that plane to come back to los angeles. The airline confirmed the flight and informed the pilot of the mistake. According to the Airlines Security procedure, the plane had to return to the airport. A lot of people were unhappy with the mixup. Model kristie teigen was on the plane with her husband, john legend. She took to twitter for this. Thank you for taking me on this vacation. Welcome to los angeles. Dinner was so good. Yeah, she got raman. You can see one of christies tweets when she asked why the whole flight gets punished for one persons mistake. She tweeted updates where she said she was given a nice bowl of ramen while she was waiting. They put her in a lounge to prevent the outspoken star from speaking out. Since then i just looked at her twitter feed. They took off in the last hour to one thing she brought up that i think is a great idea. Im not sure why we didnt just go to tokyo, land, and then send the other person back. She thought that would have been a, you know, little bit better way to do it without inconveniencing hundreds of people. Again, this a got me there in an hour. If it went, they finally make it in. Im sure once she makes it to her massive lavish hotel suite shell be fine soaking in that super size tub. Thats right. Chris, thank you. Yes, sir. I dont feel too bad. I dont either to be honest. Big night for two local brothers. Thats right. They are going to be on the trivia game show called the wall tonight. The prince gorges county brothers will try to win 12 million. Prince malcolm is the officer in d. C. Hes the one in the sweater. Chris malcolm is a college professor. They will have to use their smarts and guts to win the money. Find out how they do tonight at 8 00 on nbc 4. Were you hoping for a peaceful holiday spent inside away from the rest of the world . We all know that is not that easy. That is, unless you live in vales, austria. Cut off during the holiday apparently. A Christmas Eve landslide blocked the entrances to that town. 1 50 people were stuck there. Crews used bulldozers to clear an alternate roadway. Should be back open by today. That ruined my idea of peace and quiet. Little too much there. The worst kind of snowed in. Exactly. Chuck bell yes. Are we talking about snow . Were talking about it. Not even out towards friend rick, theder weather alert mode to give you the heads up. Winter weather advisory goes until 10 00. Montgomery, frederick, terrell, baltimore counties in maryland. Not everyone is going to see snowflakes here. Most of the snow is just out here from winchester to martinsburg, pretty much going west to east. Pointed more towards the Baltimore Beltway than the washington beltway. Traveling the top end of 270, route 7, or the far western end of i66 here. Dont be shocked to see some snowflak snowflakes. If you see light snow, slow down. Any snow that does fall will stick. Heres future weather. Light snow here early but by 7 00, 8 00, 9 00 in the morning things are going to improve very rapidly. We should get back to sunshine by thely afternoon. The trick is with the return of sunshine also comes a gusty northwesterly wind and reinforcing shot. It will keep temperaturorarerat 10 degrees colder. Temperatures uniformly in the upper 20s to around 30 degrees. This is by 5 00 in the afternoon. Temperatures will be drifting back into the 20s and then tomorrow high temperatures only. 30 chance of light snow. Todays high 35. Tomorrows high only 28 degrees. Back to 36 on friday with a little chance of some light snow and snow flurries late friday night and early saturday morning. I dont see an inch of snow coming out of that chance either. New years eve on sunday high of only 29 degrees as we ring in 2018. Temperatures will be around 20 with wind chills down near 10. So your new years eve plans lets go over to wtop now for a check on traffic. Definitely keep those long johns on. No problems on the capitol beltway in maryland or virginia. Alexandria, southbound route 1 after huntington avenue, we still have the crash blocking the right lane, right side of the roadway, stay left in order to get by. I95 looks pretty good as you continue on to i395 near glebe road, still a broken down. 6 21. Journalism, english, biology, theyre the College Majors we choose from. Now one school is adding mj when we leave. All about pot next. Still ahead, Emergency Action to save you cash. A change to the way you your property taxes. Who it impacts and how you can take advantage. Dont forget to set the daf. You can catch ellen weekdays at 3 00 on nbc youre watching news 4 today. Welcome back. 6 24. The library of congress will no longer archive every tweet. Since 2010 the library of congress has been archiving starting january 1st it will only archive tweets on a very selective basis, apparently. The library did not say how many tweets it has in its collection right now but in 2013 it said it had already amassed 170 billion tweets. I dont know if we want history to remember everything thats been tweeted. No kidding, right . Wow. Call this a sign of the times maybe. Theres some College Students who are actually majoring in marijuana. As more states legalize the drugs, a growing number of College Students are turning to the new major to help them prepare for a career in cannabis. Northern Michigan College is offering the field of study. They call it medicinal plant chemistry. Legal issues prevent them from handling weed. They learn everything from gas to liquid chromatography to theres a whole lot ahead. We havent done the research to learn the benefits and negative sides to marijuana. No word on if any other universities are thinking of picking up the medicinal plant chemistry major. The school has warned slackers. This is this word we cant even pronounce so, yes. It sounds like a joke when you think about it. Exactly. It sounds legit. Honestly, it does. 6 26 now. Thats your story, youre stick to go it. Seeking higher education. Lets get a look at the current temperatures. 32 degrees. My goodness, it feels so much colder than that out here. Im going to have a look at your feellike temperatures in a moment and chuck is going to help us plan out the day. But first an emergency or a way to pop the question . The creative way one local news 4 today starts now. Good morning, everybody. Im aaron gilchrist. Im susan hogan. Eun yang has the morning off. If youre heading back to work this morning, you want to bundle up. Storm team 4 weather alert. Check out the freezing temperatures combined with flurries. We have Team Coverage on the roads and that forecast. Lets start outside with storm team 4 meteorologist samara theodore. How does it feel out there. Youre bundled up. Im guessing its pretty cold nkts i have on two coats this morning. Its down right chilly. Every layer counts. How does it feel . Feellike temperatures 24 degrees. Feels like the teens farther north and west. A lot of us waking up to this cold weather. It doesnt seem like theres much hope. Take a look at the temperatures over the next couple of days. 19 degrees on thursday. As we head into the new year it will be feeling like the teens as well. Youll want to stay warm all the way through. Make sure youre bundling up a holiday. Thank you. Layered up. Come on in here where its warmer. Temperatures generally around the freezing mark. Cold enough to support a little snow. The bulk of the light snow is near winchester, virginia. It will pass north of downtown leesbu leesburg. Thats the only place that might see enough snow to coat the ground just briefly. Thats where the Winter Weather advisory remains until 11 00 a. M. This morning. Future weather here, though it has a bead on the little snow chance early, it has a pretty good likelihood of all of that coming to an end before 9 30, 10 00 this morning. Light snow around here in the morning. Breezy and cold afternoon. Staying sunny and cold tomorrow. Another little chance for some light snow late friday into the first part of saturday. Ill give you the whole ten day forecast coming up in a few more minutes. For now, it is traffic time. Here is mr. Rob stallworth. Thanks, chuck. Good morning, folks. Hope everything is l virginia and maryland, no big issues. The inner loop after connecticut avenue, we have a broken down reported along the right side. In alexandria southbound route 1 after huntington avenue, still with a crash there blocking the right lane. I95 still a good ride but on i395 still with a broken down along the right side near glebe road. Aaron, susan, back to you. Rob, thank you. 6 32. Team coverage on this weather alert day. Transportation reporter adam tuss is out on the roads checking out conditions as thousands of you head back to work after the holidays. He will have a live report coming up at 6 45. Right now a look at our other top stories this morning. Prince gorges county police are investigating a homicide in largo. Police say they found a man shot to death inside the suv you see on the screen. An officer was patrolling the area when he found the man around 9 00, the victim is and whether detectives have been able to determine why he was killed. This morning the families of three People Killed in a fiery crash in la plata are looking for answers. It happened early yesterday morning. 28yearold eric moss lost control of his car, swerved off rosehill road and into a tree. You can see the tree burst into flames. Moss was killed along with two other people who police have yet to identify. This morning there is added pressure on north korea to stop testing ballistic missiles. The u. S. Treasury department issued tough sanctions on tuesday against two key north korean officials. Both are heavily involved in kim jonguns ballistic weapons program. The new sanctions block them from engaging in any transactions with america. We have new details on a family tragedy in restin. Were hearing the dispatch calls from the triple shooting that left two people dead. The victims daughter called 911 on friday to report the crime. Listen to some of the call once l caller says a 10yearold male outside. Caller is still upstairs with her boyfriend. Shots fired. Advising shots fired. Radio conversations between officers also reveal shots were fired after officers arrived on the scene. Police found three people shot in a second floor room of that home on black fur court in restin. Scott and his wife buckley died. The accused gunman is 17 years old. Hes in the hospital with life threatening injuries. Hes expected to be charged but his name has not been released at this point. One of the victims said the couple recently became concerned that their daughters boy friend was a neonazi. We have an update to a story we brought you as breaking news yesterday morning. Prince gorges county police say a homeowner shot and killed a man who was outside of his ham in flago parkway in hyattsville. Police do not believe the homeowner knew the man he shot. Theyre reviewing Surveillance Video to see if the deadly shooting is caught on camera. They say the shooting appears to be justified. 6 35 right now. The new gop tax law goes into effect on monday. It will affect property taxes. Montgomery county is allowing homeowners to prepay their 2018 property taxes before the new year. That law caps deductions for state, local, real estate taxes at 10,000. The hope is that some taxpayers will be able to deduct more by paying in advance. Montgomery county is not the only place letting people prepay their taxes. Take a look at this picture from wtop. It shows a long line of people prepaying yesterday in fairfax county. D. C. And Howard County are giving people the prepay option. Is your social media feed filled with engagement photos . Its a popular time of year to pop the question. It sure is. A maryland couple has quite the story to tell. Check this out. The captain with the Rockville Volunteer Fire Department enlisted his squad to help him propose to his longtime girlfriend. You see it over on the corner of the screen. Captain robert james who popped the question to kathleen at the rockville county square. He gets the fire engine to turn on the lights, sirens, the whole nine yards. People looking, thinking something is wrong. Then he pops out of the back of the fire truck, full dress uniform there. That is so cute. The Department Shared this video for all of us to see on their Facebook Page and good news is, of course, she said yes. Under pressure you have to say yes, right . Right. Congratulations to those guys. What a great little story that is. Still ahead, struck in the streets. She works to protect your children. Now a crossing guard is in the fight for her life after being hit by a car. Where it hatched and who police are looking four. Plus, are you making the new years eve plans . Y oollars to y i try hard to get a great shape. This i can do, easily. Benefiber® healthy shape is a clear, tastefree, 100 natural daily fiber. Thats clinically proven to help me feel fuller longer. Benefiber® healthy shape. Youre watching news 4 today. 6 40 right now. One woman puts herself in harms way to protect children every day. She does. Now a west education campus crossing guard is recovering from serious injuries after a hit and run. One week ago today someone hit Juwan Thompson on Georgia Avenue in the brightwood section of northwest d. C. As was first reported tuesday, police are still looking for that driver. According to the police report, the driver who hit juwan slowed down, then kept going. Police say they are looking for a blue car, possibly a honda. Tiffany johnson, a mother and west Education School employee, is outraged that this could happen to someone who works to protect our children. We as a west community are just heart broken that someone children every day was injured and that no one has come forward. Juwan is now at home recovering from a broken neck and pelvis. While police dont have any suspects, they were able to take in a piece of the cars bumper that fell off for analysis. Anyone with information is asked to call the police. Four ohio teenagers are now facing charges for allegedly throwing a sand bag off an overpass. The person who was hit by that sand bag died on friday. I was driving my car and i went underneath the road. I dont know what happened. My friend, i dont know what happened. Hes not moving. That is the frantic 911 call made by the person driving the car that 22yearold marquise byrd was riding in. As you can hear in that call, byrd was seriously hurt when the sand bag crashed through the windshield last week. He died a few days later. Four boys facing murder charges are 13 and in october another group of teenagers allegedly killed a man by throwing rocks off an overpass on a portion of that same highway that runs through michigan. Good morning. If youre just joining us, let me bring you up to speed. Weve got a Winter Weather advisory until 11 00 a. M. This morning. Not much in the way of snow. However, if you live in areas like loudoun, frederick, montgomery, Howard County, ill have a look at your new years forecast coming up. Stick around. Tracking a crash for you. Actually, a car fire northbound through the 3rd street tunnel as you head towards the district so please use caution if youre traveling there. Well have more for you very shortly coming up soon. Live from the traffic center. Rob stallworth, back to you. Plus, a peeping tom on the prowl. A mother of five daughters stepped in to stop him herself. Alw hes w youre watching news 4 today. 15 before the hour. Were in storm team 4 weather alert mode today because some of you may encounter a little snow on your way to work. Thats right. We are under a Winter Weather advisory because of the potential for snow and cold temperatures. We have Team Coverage of this weather alert day. News 4 transportation reporter adam tuss is on the roads for us right now. Adam, how are things looking for you and where are you time . Reporter we are just outside of frederick, downtown frederick and Frederick County. Take a look at the roads out here right now. No major issues. Weve been telling you about really the cold being the Biggest Issue out here this morning, and thats what were dealing with. But honestly, weve been driving around all morning and only have seen a few flurries. This is a spotty band of snow coming through and nothing sticking to the roads or accumulating to any degree where you need to be careful about it. Winter weather advisory is up for a couple of more hours. Well have to see if anything else decides that its going to fall. The road temperatures we should say are cold enough that anything that does fall will stick. Road crews are out here in anticipation just in case they need to put down some chemical or salt. For the most part, cold pavement as you head out on this wednesday. Give yourself a little bit of extra time if you see anything start falling from the sky. Guys, back to you. Adam, thanks so much. As always, you can track when w in your neighborhood this morning in our nbc washington app. Following some breaking news now. Prince gorges county police are investigating a homicide in largo. Police say they found a man shot to death inside the suv you see on your screen here. An officer was patrolling that area when he found the man around 9 00 or 10 00 last night. This was in the capital lane, capital port area. Were working to find out who the victim is and whether detectives were able to determine why he was killed. D. C. Police investigating an Early Morning shooting. Police say a man was shot just before 3 00 this morning on bryant street northeast. Near 18th street in loomis park. We are told the man is in critical condition. Look for updates on these stories and the nbc washington app. Police have been busy across our region this morning. Chris lawrence is live with an investigation in college park. Good morning, chris. Susan, aaron, this is going on now. Prince gorges county police still on the scene of an Armed Robbery near the university of mary campus on 36th avenue near metzarat road. Officers went looking for the suspect but now think they left the area. The students are on winter break although some do stay in college park over the holiday. Police are watching the neighborhood as the investigation continues. Well bring you any updates as we get them. Back to you. Thanks, chris. We first told you about the bus crash in mexico last week that left several members of one local family dead. Today at 12 30 services will be held for anna bejar and her 11yearold son daniel bejar at the temple in falls church. The family was on a cruise vacation and made a stop in mexico. They were headed to the mayan ruins when their tour bus crashed and then flipped over. Annas husband and their older son david were also injured. A total of 12 people were killed in that crash. A mom in prince gorges county says she was just trying to protect her family went to confront a peeping tom. Yeah. She says that man appeared several times outside her lang bely park apartment on christmas night. The last time she and her husband jumped into action. I have girls in my house and i have people i have to protect in my house so i went outside with my knife and i told them not to move, if he did move i would hurt him. She helped her husband detain the man until police arrived, but it turns out they didnt have enough information to arrest the guy at that moment. The mother says she told her neighbors now to look out for anything suspicious. Patrol officers in the area. Covering decision 2017. A drawing in a closely watched race is delayed again. They had scheduled to literally draw names from a bowl today. Thats after a ruling last week declared the race between democrat Shelly Simons and dave jantzy a tie. The lawyers for simons want the court to reconsider that the 94th district race in the newport news area. If simons wins it will split the house 5050. Were following another close house race. Joshua cole lost to thomas by 73 votes in the stafford district. Our News Partners in the wtop district say he will not contest. He will continue to support a federal lawsuit seeking an all new election because some voters in that district received the wrong ballot. Ten minutes before the top of the hour. Today well learn who is to be named the male athlete of the year. The associated female athlete of the year is one of our Favorite Local swimmers. Bethesdas Katie Ledecky received the honor yesterday. She finished ahead of tennis star Serena Williams after another dominating year in the pool. She took home five gold medals and a silver medal in the world championship. Shes the First Washington star ever to win the womens award sports editors, news directors from all over the country get together and vote. She came out on top. She should. She is an amazing girl. Lets check the morning commute for you now. Wtops Rob Stallworth in with a look at things. Hey, rob. Aaron, we have a lot of stuff going on especially in the district. Northbound in the 3rd street tunnel a car fire near massachusetts avenue. No access from the eastbound to westbound tunnel. Eastbound on i66 near nutley we have a broken down tractortrailer. The beltway is a good ride in maryland and virginia but watch for the outer loop with some broken downs along the right side. Thats the latest from the traffic center. Susan, aaron, back to you. Thanks so much. Lets go over to chuck with our weather. Storm team 4 weather alert for you this morning to give you the friendly heads up that there could be a little very light snow in the north side of the dc metro. The top end of 270 up towards frederick, maryland, is the best likely spot to see maybe a coating of snow. 32 now in washington with a northeast wind at 9 miles per hour. The wind chill is back into the mid 20s this morning. Its a cold start to the day. No doubt about that. It will stay cold all throughout the remainder of the day. Keep in mind youll need your heaviest winter gear here. Not just for this morning but the remainder of the day. Temperatures will struggle mightily to get anywhere near. My computer seems to have locked up. Ill walk you through it. Radar showing a couple of very light sprinkles of snow up across parts of northern loudoun county, up towards winchester, virginia. That will remain the case before we start to see a little bit of improving weather picture later on in the day. Current temperatures again around 30 degrees early this morning. Thats not going to change much either. Cloudy now. The good news is we will get a little sunshine back later on in the day today. That will help a little bit. That will stay windy and cold with temperatures only getting to the mid 30s. The highlighted counties, northern parts of maryland primarily. New years eve is coming up. Closer look at the new years eve forecast, lets get over to samara. Good morning. You have a few fest tif the forecast i made for you not christmas day, instead, new years. Here we go. Temperatures as we head through the weekend are going to be of course on the cold side. Around 30 degrees on saturday. Thats our greatest snow chance saturday. As we head through sunday, temperatures in the upper 20s. Now the wind chill will be in the teens on n were counting down into the 2018 new year temperatures will be around the 20 degree mark. Very cold if youre going to do any Outdoor Activities like fireworks. Make sure youre dressed warmly. By monday, tracking a system. I think were going to stay mostly sunny on your monday. Boy, will it be frigid with temperatures down to the low 20s. Chuck . Thanks, samara. Heres your entire ten day forecast. High temperature briefly near 35 around lunchtime. Back in the mid 20s by later on in the evening. High only 28 tomorrow. Back into the low 30s for friday and saturday. A little snow chance late friday into early saturday. Does not look like an inch of snow at this point in time. Well watch it carefully. Temperatures around 20 degrees as we say hello to 2018. The first week of the new year programs to be considerably cold with highs below dowdy at cnbc headquarters. Tesla ceo elon musk says hes dying to build an electric truck. He promises tesla will build the truck soon after building the model y crossover vehicle which reports say could launch in 2019. Cnbc News Business report, im landon dowdy. Landon, thank you. 6 55. New details on metros plan for new years eve. Metro will stay open late on new years eve, but the system will close an hour earlier than it has in previous years. No corporate sponsor this year paying for the late night hours so youll have to pay foryour own ride on metro this year. Metro will close at 2 00 a. M. On new years day. And at 6 55, here are 4 things to know. Prince gorges county police are investigating a homicide in largo. Police say they found a man shot to death inside an suv around 9 00 or 10 00 last the victim is. 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