Here, they have an image theyre going release in a few minutes on their twitter page of a male dressed in dark clothing and not too much description after that but let me show you this steel door here just footsteps away from gallery place metro station. It appears the bullets from this mornings shooting may have hit the door. I saw these three dents being marked as evidence early this morning while this investigation was going on. Were in the heart of chinatown. This happened just before 8 00 this morning. A very busy part of town. And all of this, 7th and 8th street, it was all taped off this morning as police tried to gather evidence and tried to figure out what happened here. Now at the this hour, police still dont know who is responsible for this shooting. They dont know who the victim may be. They have been placing calls at area hospitals to try and find out but at this hour theyre still so many questions. Very few answers. But again, they are looking to figure all of this out. Again with the help of Surveillance Video close by. For now we chinatown, mikea turner, back to you. Thank you so much. Meantime in Prince Georges County police are looking for three guys who roughed up and robbed a victim a few blocks from the university of maryland. It happened 1 00 this morning along 34th avenue. Investigators stay armed suspects attack the victims inside of the home and then took off. And the victim was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Authorities are still trying to piece together exactly what happened. Corey lewandowski the president s former Campaign Manager is facing allegations of sexual misconduct. Singer and trump supporter joy villa filed a Sexual Assault excellent against him. He complaint against him. She claims he hit her twice on the buttocks last month at an event here in d. C. She reportedly told him to stop but he refused to do so. Getting justice at the Justice Department actually may not with all that be all that easy. According to the Washington Post the departments Inspector General says employees whove harded their harassed their coworkers arent often getting enough punishment. A spokesperson for the Deputy Attorney general said that the post that hes actually gathering a working group right now and will respond with some recommendations shortly. President trump is on vacation at his florida resort but he never takes a vacation from twitter. And president ial tweets have a way of shaping policy. Mola lenghi is at the white house with the latest from the president s twitter feed. Reporter President Trump made a wednesday morning trip to his golf club in west palm beach. This vacation hes been active on the links and twitter. Predicting the repeal of the individual mandate for obamacare will prompt republicans and democrats to come together to create a new health care plan. President trump campaigned on a promise to repeal the Affordable Care act. And i think this was an attempt to signal to his voters that he had done so. Reporter the individual mandate imposed a fine on those who do not sign up for health insurance. Without that penalty, the Congressional Budget Office projects about m by 2027. Cbs news and slate political analyst jamal bowie is skeptical about republicans and democrats coming together in the new year on a new health care plan. The republican parsy is not committed to universal insurance. Not committed to expanding coverage the way the Democratic Party is. His promises are going to ring hollow given there simply isnt a Republican Coalition that exists that wants to expand health insurance. Reporter while the president did not give a full obamacare repeal, he did get to sign a tax overhaul bill before leaving the white house for the holiday. Last night, he tweeted all signs are that business is looking really good for next year. Only to be helped further by our tax cut bill. Well be a great year for companies and jobs and stock market is poised for another year of success. [ bell dinging ] investors have driven up the stock market to record levels in 2017. Mola lenghi, cbs news, the white house. Many wall street analysts are predicting the the year next year. Even the biggest skeptics predict it will end the year with a slight gain or roughly about the same. All right, a christmas, a White Christmas at that is great in theory but when you get 53 inches in 30 hours the last thing you want is bing crosby singing about how great it is right . Schools in northwestern pennsylvania are closed for the holiday. Experts say that this is the greatest two day total in the entire state of pennsylvania. The previous record was 44 inches in morgantown, pennsylvania on march 20th and the 21st back in 1958. Man, look. We got a few showers around here. I think we saw a few when i peeked outside for a little bit. But a little dusting. Saw some flurries as i got some lunch today. Its really pleasant but now theyve seemed to have disappeared themselves. Hey good afternoon everybody. Outside right now, we can see that still some they were really hardpressed you know the air was just so dry for the flurries really, really struggled to get down. This is what were seeing outside right now. Some leftover flurries and mainly in montgomery county. You are going to find them around germantown and rockville, damascus, all the areas are still spotting them and i zoom in more and you can see right along 355 the Rockville Pike and rockville still some light snow flurries falling there. Also along silver rock. And rockland and then as we go a little bit further up north around 370 and 200, also around 270 and gaithersburg, you are still looking at some light flurries falling in those areas. Havent heard many reports of accumulation but this is what it looks like over the next few hours. By the 12 30 today. Most of it should be begin to fizzle out for us and still keep the partly cloudy skies, skies really wont clear until later on this evening. Its the clearing of the sky tonight that will help the temperatures to plunge. High temperatures today upper 20s to mid 30s. The between 27 and 35degree is going to be our high tempur and then really cold air set until tonight. Look at that settling in tonight. Look at that. Between 8 and 18 degrees but its not the air temperatures thats going to be the problem. Its the windchill with the winds up to 15 Miles Per Hour at times, it will make it feel as if its between 0 and 10 degrees. So get ready for that really bitter cold. Well track that for you along with more snow chances coming up and you can also keep you want with the latest weather and up with the latest weather in our first alert weather app. Just download the wusa9 app right now. All right Miri Marshall thank you so much. Military veteran who served in vietnam. His name is john dickson. Years later he still suffers from ptsd. This is something the veterans are no advantager to. Special excitement stranger to. Special assignment reporter Andrea Mccarren is trying to make that happen, pushing congress for funding that would pair service dogs with the veterans that need hem the northeast them the most. If you need more convincing listen to johns story. Reporter i dont feel alive. You know, nobody is around me you know its terrible. The survivor guilt alone can kill you when you think about it long enough. Reporter as a veteran, with posttraumatic stress, what would you like people to know . I need a friend. Reporter today 50 years later, your mind is still trapped in vietnam . Oh, yeah. I mean, thats that probably is the worst thing in the world. Shell be looking at me with her eyes open. How do i deal with this . I carry it all the [ bleep ]ing time. But you live with it. You get used to it. Reporter john. Did you ever think about your own life . Once in 83. When i was drinking sheave. It was so heavy. It was incredible. [ clock ticking ] i just want it all to stop. Okay . You know. How long ago are we going to let this go on . I cry almost every day just because of what i have to deal with. And like you know, we got to get the message across. Reporter you are holding the end of nigels leash, does that calm you in any way . Oh, yeah. Just a little baby. Its all we need. Its all we need. Dramatic stuff there. Ll this afternoon. A few weeks after this story aired, that man got the service dog he so desperately needed and so we wish them the very best. Well, coming up on the news at noon, it was a lifechanging discovery for a man searching to find his father. The coming up, how coming up. How his best friend became part of this heartwarming story. Well, weve certainly witnessed some huge medical advances and some sobering news about the Opioid Crisis gripping our country. Coming up, a look back at the year in your medical news. Welcome back. Now to your health alert for your afternoon hour. The flu season is starting to hit its peak. The centers for Disease Control and prevention says up to 650,000 people worldwide could die from flu complications. Doctors are especially worried because of what happened in australia. During the flu season the common h3n2 flu visas mutated making the years flu vaccine just 10 effective. That same vaccine that they used there is the exact same one that we use here. If you look at the cdc data, we dont have evidence that the virus has changed significantly. So hopefully were not going to face the same situation. 23 states are now reporting widespread flu activity, double the number from just a week earlier and thats likely to go up by the end of the year. Well, more americans suddenly have high Blood Pressure and the nations Opioid Crisis dominated health news in 2017. Meg oliver takes a look back at your year in health. Reporter President Trump declared the Opioid Crisis a national emergency. Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for people under 50 in the u. S. The American Heart Association revised its guidelines for high Blood Pressure. The new threshold is 130 over adults in the u. S. Have hypertension. A game changer in the treatment of multiple sclerosis. The fda green lighted okra bust the first drug approved to treat a severe form of ms. Just slowing down the progression if nothing else it just allows you to do the things that you are doing now longer. Reporter the fda also approved the first gene therapy for leukemia. Cart removes a patients t cells then modifies them in the lab to destroy cancer cells. This is a brand new way to treat cancer. Reporter the American Cancer Society reported a sharp rise in colorectal cancers in millennials and jean xers. I didnt think that gen xers. I didnt think that young people could get cancer. Reporter the number of people having strokes is dropping in the u. S. Except among women. Who may have difficulty spotting the warning signs including weakness. Doctors in dallas celebrated the birth of the first baby in the u. S. Born to a mother who had a uterus transplant. The boy was delivered in a scheduled csection. There was something so exciting about this because the patients are so excited. Reporter a team of doctors in the u. S. And south korea repaired a faulty gene in a human embryo for the first time. The controversial process of gene editing could help prevent thousands of genetic disorders. New National Guidelines aimed at reducing peanut allergies recommend most children start eating foods that contain peanuts when they are infants. And two major studies suggest drinking coffee, caffeinated or decaf, will help you live longer. Researchers said the antioxidants found in coffee may offer protective benefits. And thats a look at this years top health stories. Meg oliver, cbs news. Another study showed that light to moderate ki benefits. One theory is that alcohol actually may improve good cholesterol and lower inflammation as if you needed another excuse right . All right, well turning this afternoon to lifelong friends from hawaii got the shock of a lifetime when they found out theyre actually related. Alan robinson and Walter Mcfarlane net in elementary school. Walter never knew his father and alan was adopted. After unsuccessfully trying to find out about his father through social media, walter used a family dna matching website. Alans user name popped up. They announced their discovery to the rest of the family over the holiday weekend. It was a shock. It was a shock. Yeah. Definitely a shock. But then we thought about it and compared forearms and everything. Hairy arms can that did it and that did it. Oh man. What a great story. Now that initial shock certainly has set in, walter and alan say they actually have plans to travel toge enjoy retirement together. Yeah, im not sure if because we have hair on our arms that were brothers. If that links us, but you know, its certainly something out there this morning. And speaking of something out there this morning, you may have seen a few snow flakes coming down on the roads. They were trying i saw some at lunchtime. But you know the dry air out there larry really give the snow flakes a hard time. Outside right now, 31 degrees. With winds up to 12 Miles Per Hour. It feels much cooler. Feels like 22 degrees out there when factor in that windchill you factor in that windchill. Pay attention to the windchill because its going a huge factor for us especially later on tonight. First alert live doppler, theres still some scattered flurries out there. They are very light and this system is about to fizzle out. So expect this for the next hour or two. And then it will begin to dissipate. So as we look around the only area also around germantown, were still spotting some flurries around there. We have some around rockville. And theye bit further north along 270, we have some still around the germantown and gaithersburg areas. Again this will fizzle out rather quickly. This is the rest of the afternoon on futurecast. The clouds will stay with us through most of the afternoon but by 6 00 or so, they do begin to dissipate and the skies get clear and clear skies help to get the temperatures falling. So snow flurries are still possible between now and 3 00 p. M. Were not really expecting them to make their way down to the ground so it shouldnt be a huge problem. A coating has been possible in some areas. I want to turn your attention now to the other big story which is going to be the cold tonight. Look at these temperatures. 8 to 18 degrees. But lets factor in the windchill. It will feel as if its between 0 and 10 degrees. So just step outside, either late tonight or early tomorrow morning, this is what its going to feel like. As early as 7 00 this evening youll notice those coollike temperatures but tomorrow morning at 6 00 a. M. , it feels like 6 degrees in d. C. Ee gaithersburg. And feeling like 6 in la plata and feels like 3 in manassas and leesburg feels like 5 degrees. So you get it right . Teeth chattering cold is on the way. And then thursday, is just going to be a very cold day. Most areas not getting above freezing on thursday. With highs only in the 20s despite the sunshine. The next big weather story is the weekend. Snow chances as we head into 2018. So friday, theres a small chance to see some flurries pop up early. And then saturday, we have a better chance to see snow. Ill pause the clock here at 8 30 a. M. Light snow is possible throughout the first half of the day saturday. And then by later on in the evening, 8 00 or so, you notice how that begins to break up for us we still have some clouds out there as we get another arctic blast in. Early sunday morning, a leftover flurry is possible. But for the most part, the last day of 2017 will be quiet and just very cold and we start new years day with sunny skies and very cold conditions. So this is what your new years eve and new years day forecast looks li new years eve morning. Well still see temperatures that day only up to 29 degrees. And 27 the high on new years day. So well get through the weekend with temperatures in the 30s out there. 29 tomorrow. 34 degrees friday with flurries. 32 saturday barely at the freezing mark there. And then 29 sunday with a flurry. 27 degrees monday with sunny skies. Thats going to be our next cold night. Monday night look at that low temperature. Were down to 13 degrees monday night heading into tuesday morning. So thats the next big cold day to look forward to and then still in the 20s on january 2nd as many people head back to work. More news and weather when we return. Havertys furniture helps even when life isnt. T [sfx doorbell] can somebody get that . Uh uh, not me baby [sfx doorbell] homework its mommy time its daddy time i told you not to marry her. [sfx doorbell] seriously . alright. Whos next . Find year end specials now at havertys. Life looks good. All right, welcome back. Today and the second day of the second day of kwanzaa. It celebrating culture. On each of the seven nights observants light a candle recognizing seven core principle. Today black candle and furthest red candle on the left will be lit. Today its selfdetermination. For those of you still not done with the Holiday Christmas season, well, there are many big light displays around town that you can check out for at least another week or two. Zoo lights at the national zoo in northwest washington hundreds of thousands of l. E. D. Lights light up at dark and stay lit until about 9 00 at night. Theyre on each night throughout saturday night. Through saturday night. And the final encore will take place on new years night. So you can check to that out as well. Also pack the family out and head out to Bull Run Regional Park in centreville. Displays. The drive ends at a Holiday Village which has rides and refreshments. The display costs 25 per vehicle. And you can check out those lights every night through january 7th. One final look at the forecast on the other side of the break. All right, heres the seven day forecast. So with temperatures in the 30s today, really cold tonight. Although well dip to 16. It will feel like 5 degrees by 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. So get ready for that. Windchill a huge factor. And then tomorrow most places not getting above freezing. A high of only 29 degrees. We close out 2017 on a very cold note. With new years eve. 27 by new years day. Actually might cut the party short a little bit. You think . Just bundle up. Or maybe not. All right thats going to do it for us, well see you back here today at 5 00 and were always on our free wusa9 mobile app. Have a good one. [ captions by vitac 80027 previously on the young and the restless