As far as temperatures go right now, benning at 33 degrees. Areas right in d. C. There at 37. High atsville at 32 degrees. Aspen hill in Montgomery County, coming in currently at 34 degrees. Windchill ratings are low throughout the area. Reading between 26 and 30 degrees. So bundle up if you will be going out. As far as where that storm system is that were expecting, two areas of low pressure coming together. One producing light snow around areas of southern minnesota, the other producing rain around arkansas. The two will bring snow into the area starting about 2 00, 3 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. Not bad today. 36 to 41 degrees, seasonable. Well talk more about the storm, give you a detailed timeline when the snow will move in. Right now, first 4 traffic. Not bad out there for your early friday morning commute. Things are looking great on the beltway. Were dealing with a problem in maryland right now. Water main break, 355 southbound at cedar avenue. Luckily, not causing a serious backup. Toward the beltway, 109 high at as town. Also great at father hurley boulevard. Aaron, erika. This is a crucial day in the effort to keep the country from going off the fiscal cliff. President obama meets with congressional leaders this afternoon. White house is denying reports to send a scaled back plan to congress. A deal at this point would probably extend bush era tax cuts for most americans and raise taxes on the countrys top earners. It could also include an extension of longterm unemployment benefits, spending cuts would also be postponed. House Speaker John Boehner will be at the meeting today. The house will convene for a rare sunday evening session. House majority leader eric cantor says the house could be in session until january 2nd, the day before the new congress is sworn in. Boehner, meanwhile, maintains that its up to the senate to act first. Millions of americans may watch the ball drop new years eve in times square, but a group of democrats is organizing its own ball drop on capitol hill. Theyll launch their countdown today. Their ball represents republicans dropping the ball on middle class families should lawmakers fail to reach a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff. New this morning, irans state television is reporting the countrys navy started Training Drills in the strait of hormuz. That area sees 20 of the oil pass through it. The state tv report says that the programs include more ships, submarines and jet fighters. Theyve warned other ships to stay away from the site until after the new year. Melissa mollet joins us from the live desk with more. Good morning, melissa. Good morning. The search is on for 23 pakistani policemen who appear to have been kidnapped by the taliban. They went missing thursday. Two northwest posts were two policemen were also killed at that time. Melissa mollet, news 4. Thank you so much. The army general who helped force Saddam Hussein out of kuwait died. Norman schwarzkopf died of complication frs pneumonia. Stormin norman execute theed the first gulf war. A friend of his said schwarzkopf was in love with america and was possessed by a sense of duty. I think america suffered a tremendous loss with the loss of a great patriot. Schwarzkopf retired from the army in 1991 and led a quiet life in tampa. He was 78 years old. Former president george h. W. Bush released a statement remembering the former general. He said general schwarzkopf epitomized the duty, Service Country creed that defended our freedom. He was a good and decent man and a dear friend. The 41st president remains in the hospital but appears to still be fighting. A spokesperson for the bush family says the former president will probably be in the hospital for a while. But that he would advise people to get this, put the harps back in the closet hes telling everybody. The 88yearold has been in a houston hospital since november 23rd. His condition worsened when he suffered complications from bronchitis. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton will return to work soon. She had to slow down because of a stomach virus and a concussion she sustained after fainting. She had to cancel an overseas trip as well as testimony before congress about the attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi. 4 35. The man accused of walking into Sandy Hook School with a two by four will be in court. That incident happened last week in Christopher Johnson wrote highpowered rifle on that board. Police say he made general statement about school safety. No one was hurt. Johnson, now charged with disorderly conduct. Later this morning, two of the three men accused of brutally beating a capitol hill man this summer will be in court. Tommy branch and sonny cued i attacked and robbed maslin. He was in a coma for nearly two months. Branch and his accomplice are due in court. The third suspect, michael moore, waived his right to a hearing. Today is the first day of the gun show in chantilly. Protesters plan to be out in full force. The code pink, the social advocacy group, is prepared to protest outside. The group interrupted the nra News Conference last week if you you remember this. They want stricter regulations when it comes to buying guns. The rules on gun shows are very loose. The feeling is, this is not a sane way to protect you and me and our kids. Despite the protests, gun stores have seen a huge increase in sales because many fear stricter regulations in light of the Newtown School shooting. Were just Getting Started on news4 today. Its happened again. Police begin a second search for the person who pushed someone off a new york city subway platform. The 12 and 13yearolds facing charges in a brazen crime in northern virginia. More Winter Weather rolling in for the weekend. The all right. Grab the skis, the snowboard, its time to hit the slopes again. The winter storm and cold temperatures helping ski resorts to open this weekend. White tail resort in pennsylvania opens for the season this morning. For now, theyll have four slopes operating, two other nearby resort, round top and liberty, open tomorrow. Wisp in western maryland is open with eight runs available. Im ready. Were ready to see snow. Are you a snow person, a ski person . Im not a ski person. Im from texas. Why would i be a ski person . How on earth would that be possible . No, im not. As a matter of fact, my mother came in from texas and will be with me for a couple of weeks. Im hoping shell see snow. V. J. , possible . She wont have to go far. I know you live nearby. Lets talk about that snowfall event coming up. It will be cold enough for snow across the area by early tomorrow morning. You can see where temperatures are there morning. At 34 degrees. Gaithersburg, 38. Watch what happens to the forecast. We rise to a high of 41 degrees. Clouds on the increase. By 3 00 a. M. , snow will start falling. So between 2 00 and 3 00 a. M. , its snowfall for us. Should be ending by the afternoon tomorrow with the best chance of accumulation, erika, areas around manassas, d. C. , southeastern maryland, around st. Marys, mostly rain picking up about a half inch of rain, in fact. Heres ha to expect. The snow develops between 1 00 and 3 00 a. M. , mixes and changes to rain south of d. C. Should wraup up by afternoon. Well look at the fourday forecast in a couple of minutes. Right now, mike cremedas. Two right lanes shut down, no serious backup there. Southbound 355 at cedar avenue. Traffic getting by the water main break. Delayfree in that area and construction on the eastbound dulles toll road at route 7. Traffic is getting by to the left. No serious delays on the dulles toll road as a result. Thank you, mike. The time is 4 42. Still to come, extreme weather. How a winter storm sent another hard hit for the jersey shore. A metro train was stopped at 30 families are looking for temporary shelter after a fire in Prince Georges County wednesday night. Were hearing the 91 calls for help as people watched the fire race through that building. Im down the street. But i can see it from here. Theres smoke everywhere. Do you know what floor the fire is on in. It looks like it started on the first floor. Its on to the third floor now. Yes. You see a window on fire, right . Yeah. Its a big window. Its burning the roof. Winnow on fire on the first floor. Now its going all the way up the roof. Its like on the roof now. Investigators say a malfunctioning furnace caused the fire in green belt. No one was injured, but the fire caused around 250,000 worth of damage. 15 before the hour now. A scary and chaotic scene as several teenagers carjack a virginia couple. That couple was held at begun point outside their home in manassas, this was wednesday night. The young suspects took the couples minivan and drove it to manassas mall and to a nearby mcnald. A 13yearold girl was behind the wheel. When they tried to get away, they left the van in drive sending it into a pillar. Theyre being charged as juveniles. The youngest is just 12 years old. Rescuers had to pull a man out of a hole inside a building in northwest washington. He was working in a building in the 3200 block of hyatt place when he fell into a hole yesterday morning. It took about 20 minutes to get him out. He was taken to the hospital. His injuries were not lifethreatening. This morning, police in new york city are searching for the woman who pushed a man in front of an oncoming train killing him. The woman was mumbling to herself and pacing on the platform before she shoved the man on to the tracks. So far it does not appear the victim and suspect knew each other. Police have not released a motive. This is the second time this month someone has been shoved on to the train tracks and killed in new york city. Scientists plan to get a better look into the mind of the sandy hook shooter. Researchers will study the dna of 20yearold adam lanza. Some say the findings could pinpoint mutations associated with aggressive and violent behavior. Others fear it could draw false conclusions on the genetic causes of mental illness. Lanza is accused of killing 27 people in newtown, connecticut earlier this month before turning his gun on himself. Police have not revealed a motive. Today, people in webster, new york, begin saying farewell. Theyre saying final goodbyes to the two firefighters killed in an ambush on christmas eve. Wakes are scheduled for today and tomorrow for Mike Chiapperini and thomas two others were wounded. Funerals are set for sunday. We could be on the brink of a labor dispute that could cost the economy billions of dollars. Thousands of dock workers nationwide are threatening to go on strike on sunday if they fail to reach a deal with shipping companies. Contract talks broke down earlier this month. The 15 ports involved in the dispute move more than 100 million tons of goods each year. The economy could lose billions of dollars if theyre shut down for even a few days. How about good news on a friday, right . For dog owners in Montgomery County, you no longer need to pay a fee to use the dog parks soon. It will stop collecting a 40 a year permit fee next year. The fee was first imposed two years ago to make up for budget cuts. But it appears to have driven people away from the parks. The county says it will now look for new ways to come up with that money. 4 48 right now. Our area is getting ready for another round of nasty Winter Weather. Some places are still cleaning up from earlier storms. This is tacoma park. This left 1700 pepco customers without power. The electricity has since been restored. In silver spring, the wind is to blame for this. A tree smashed into a home. Luckily, no one was hurt. But the house is not in livable condition. Fallen trees were a problem in northern virginia. This was the scene on georgetown pike. A tree blocked traffic for a short time while police helped clear the road. It was the same situation on burke station road in fairfax. This tree blocked the road yesterday morning as well. Neighbors say this is a more common occurrence. Every time the wind blows, one of these big old trees comes down and this particular spot seems to be a bad one. This is the second tree thats come down here in the last year. One neighbor said the teresa parentally have good timing crashing just after rush hour ends to avoid a huge traffic backup. Mother nature isnt letting up on the jersey shore homes ravaged on superstorm sandy. Snow that blanketed much of the northeast turned to rain along the coast. That, combined with powerful wind and high tide, caused flooding throughout seaside park, new jersey. Most bay front homes took on water by late yesterday morning. Firefighters had to go door to door to make sure that homeowners were okay. The snow blowers are out in full force across the northeast this morning. Residents are cleaning up after the winter get him first major storm dumped up to 18 inches in the region. Areas like buffalo, new york, and burlington, vermont, which are used to major winter storms, havent seen this much snow since the 2012 winter season. Travel is also still treacherous in many areas as roads are still snow covered. Flight delays, all of that going on right now. I tell you, lets turn to veronica johnson. Not even a little bit. This guy is not a snow lover, not a dusting, not an inch, not flurries that are pretty. I dont like it at all. Youll be inside saturday . Ill be as much out of it as i possibly can. Is it going to get that bad . Its really not going to be a major storm for us. But it will be in new england. It will be a noreaster for new england. For them, of course, that means more coastal flooding with high winds and snowfall. Right now, around here, your temperatures hit 38 degrees. Weve got a partly sunny or partly cloudy sky. Partly cloudy sky out there. Breaks in the cloud cover. Your wind at 12 Miles Per Hour producing a windchill at 30 degrees right now. So bundle up. Were going to start by taking a look at the radar. It is dry over us. Its dry back in to much of the ohio valley. Weve got snow coming through minnesota and into wisconsin. Even areas of northern illinois. Thats part of our system that will be coming together. The other part of it down here producing rainfall around louisiana and arkansas. The two moving eastward producing, again, that storm for us on saturday. As far as your day part forecast for today, 9 00 a. M. , cold conditions, 35 degrees your temperature. By noontime today, not bad. 41. Seasonable conditions for us. Then were going to be cooling quickly, dropping to the 30s by 7 00 p. M. A high today of 41 to 44 degrees with increasing high clouds for today. Heres the two areas of low pressure i spoke of all coming together. Snow will be starting about 3 00 a. M. Or so and moving across the area. Everywhere in the white is the snow. 8 00 a. M. , it covers much of the area, rain thats the green down south. Thats going to be across areas of southeastern maryland. By the time we get to 2 00, 3 00 in the afternoon, that storm gone with the exception of western maryland where it will continue early part of the day on sunday. Were cold, dropping way below freezing. Most locations around here. That means that roads are likely to be icy and slick. Then weve got breezy conditions for sunday. 1 to 3 inches of snowfall in the blue. Thats all the way to the north, d. C. Snow to rain around d. C. And rain down to the south talking, again, about 1 to 3 inches coming up. A look at your fourday forecast for sunday. We are dry. New years eve right now, quiet with another storm on tuesday. Mike . Thank you very much, veronica. Looking goodenow on the beltway. Traffic is getting by the water main break to the right and worryfree on the inner loop as you make the trip from Montgomery County to Prince Georges County. Here we are at connecticut avenue. No serious backups there. Also looking great at a good luck road. Nine minutes at 55 Miles Per Hour i95 to route 50. Aaron, erika . Thank you mike. Another metro work. Single track between green belt and college park. Sunday night, metro will be open an extra hour. Fans can get home from the redskins game. Red line train sunday night, single track between Friendship Heights and medical center. Good morning everybody. The time right now is 4 54. Coming up, the most annoying words of 2012. Weve got a few of them for you. We promise not to use them too much. Plus, this special finishing touch added to new years celebrations at times square. Also ahead, the lawsuit claiming you may not get all the bang for the buck with two of fords newest rescue me come on, baby this morning, family, friends and music fans are mourning the loss of legendary r b singer fon tell abbas. Shes best known for this hit, rescue me. She fought for years to be recognized as one of the writers of this song. She had a heart attack and died wednesday night. Her daughter says that she lit up a room whenever she walked in, whether she was performing or not. New years eve is just a few days away. New york city is putting the final touches on the festivity with a special tribute. The iconic new years ball in times square has been installed with 288 New Waterford crystal triangles, including in the crystal a special triangle engraved with the name dick clark. Clark passed away this past april. For more than 40 years on new years eve, clark counted down the new year with countless celebrities. His wife was on hand for the tribute. In singapore, people are getting ready for the new year by floating 20,000 spheres down the singapore river. Each one represents a wish. Organizers say the floating display aims to connect people through a collective expression of their dreams. Thats beautiful. The spheres will be lit in different colors on new years eve and be part of a fireworks display as well. Delays on the metro happen. But heres a new reason why some riders were late for dinner. A woman went into labor on the red line. She didnt give birth on the train. Metro stopped the train to wait for an ambulance. Medics got there in time and got her to gw hospital just in time to deliver her baby. Whew. Close call. Stay with us. News4 today continues right now at 5 00 a. M. Weve got fairly clear skies. But we are in for major weather changes in the next 24 hours. Signs of hope for a new deal with just four days until we hit the fiscal cliff. Good morning everybody. Im aaron gilchrist. Im eric go erika gonzalez. Its the last friday of the year, mr. Gilchrist. Yes, it is. We could be talking rain and snow by tomorrow morning at this time. Lets take a live look outside. Looks to be nice. Theres v. J. Hi guys. Happy friday. Happy friday to you. Skies look pretty good
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