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WRC News4 Today November 17, 2014

Have an umbrella handy. Showers through 8 00. Hovering near 40. Between 8 00 and 9 00, mid40s with steadier rain moving in by then. What to wear today, dress like this young man. Rain boots, umbrella, rain coat and also s we will va that chill in the air. Look at the hour by hour wet forecast for the day ahead. Now a couple of traffic signals. Tom, thats right. River road at Western Avenue, that traffic signal is out. And were getting word willard avenue at river road is out due to a power outage in the area. Treat both as a fourway stop and use caution there. In kensington, water main break between decatur and lawrence blocking the left lane there. Wet roads. Use caution and go slowe back to you, aaron and eun. Alexis, thank. Today an fbi agent accused of using drugs being kept as evidence heads to court for a hearing. The revelations prompted the fbi to call for the release of more than two dozen d. Matthew lowry is accused of taking drugs stored in a lab in court cases for those suspects. Lowry was found in september slumped over the wheel of his vehicle with drug evidence bags in t car. His Attorney Says the allegations are overblown. Looking for a gunman who started shoot anything a neighborhood and kille 19yearold Christopher Weaver was killed. The other victim is 15. He is expected to be okay. One neighbor told us he was rush to go help the wounded teenager and bullets we i live down the street since 85. Ive never see i hope they catch them and prosecute them to the fullest extent. Prosecutors have made no arrest. They do not believe this is a random incident. A southwest with Airlines Flight from dulles forced to make an emergency landing. Flight 632 on its way to las vegas yesterday when it had to land in salt lake city. Were told a passenger was behavingeer r. University of va is calling a fastmoving virus. It is affecting mostly freshman students. All of them became sick in the last two days. The university is handing out garrett raid and antiflu kits to help stop the spread of the sickness from spreading. Officers were on their way to a shooting in d. C. When they the got into a crash. It happened on alabama a avenue southeast, five minutes away from the crime scene. No word yet on the a massive brand. New ground is breaking ground. News 4s Megan Mcgrath is live where the new building will be built. Good morning to you, megan. Well, good morning, eun. The renaissance in Tysons Corner continues. A lot of new development in recent years. Of course the opening of the silver line. Now the areas Tallest Office Building is coming to tysons. Capiones new building. It is designed by a local firm. It is 470 feet tall. So it will be eclipsed only by the washington monument, which is 555 feet tall. Its adjacent to the silver line. It can be seen prominently from the beltway. The governor will be here later this morning for the Ground Breaking which gets under way at 10 30. Live in Tysons Corner, my began mcgrath, news 4. We now know when pope francis wi the the u. S. He Just Announced he will be he. Philadelphia will be one of his stops. Thats a huge event that aaron . Angie, thank you. Expanded screenings. The latest group added to a list to help stop the potential spread of the ebola virus. Keep your umbrella handy. Were tracking when the rain will move out with your hourbyhour forecast at 5 11. First, though, the price of keeping food on your familys dinner use chase freedom at amazon. Com and get 5 cash back this quarter. So you can find the perfect gift for everyone. Including you. Activate your 5 cash back at chase. Com freedom chase. So you can. A growing number of Young Children with becoming sick after drinking highly caffeine ated energy drinks. 40 of poison calls involve kids under the age of 6. Experts say they have too much caffeine for a childs body to handle. If you think it costs a lot to feed your family, youre right. A new report from diets in review. Com found huge variations in how much groceries cost in different states. Virginia tops the list with the most expensive groe country. A cart of chicken, apples, potatoes and milk will cost you 27. It is less than 10 in idaho. It costs 14 in d. C. And maryland. Go to virginia for the cheap gas prices but the groceries are higher. Sometim virginia because i live in d. C. I feel its cheaper too. Maybe it depen on the store you go to. Heavy clouds overhead. Were dealing with a lot of rain this morning. Form team 4in has your weather and traffic on the 1s. Light rain. Only a tenth to a quarter inch since it sta its going to be with us here for the entire day into this evening. Right now a chill in the air. Upper 30s to near 40 around most of the region. Mid40s by the chesapeake bay. Gray sky over washington. Not enough rain to reduce visibility. But just light rain through 8 00 with a chill in the air and near 40 degrees. Then by noon time, upper 40s. The rain could be getting heavier. Moderate to brief downpours into the middle of the afternoon. Might get into the mid50s around 2 00, 3 00. By 5 00 p. M. , back to the low 50s. Then most of the rain should be tapering and ending this evening. Then turning much colder tonight. A look at the timing on the rain ending and what areas we will see it drying out first and turning colder first next weather and traffic on the 1s at 5 21. Alexis in for melissa checking on early problems. The beltway is looking good. Watch your speed as you travel in maryland or virginia. Ponding on the roadways. Taking a look at bridges. American legion bridge, more volume. No incidents there. 395, 14th street bridge, again, seeing wet roads. Watch your speed as you travel into the district. Youll find ponding on the roadways but no delays there. Woodrow wilson, maryland to virginia, no delays reported there. We have those Power Outages causing malfunctioning traffic n bethesda. River at Western Avenue is dark. Alexis, thank you. Call it a chocolate lovers nigh why you could soon have a tougher time finding your. Oh, no we are helping you make it to work on time as the d. C. Region deals with morning showers. Helping to track conditions you can expect on the roads this morning. At shell, we believe the world needs a broader mix of energies, which is why we are supplying natural gas, to generate cleaner electricity, that has around 50 fewer co2 emissions than coal. And why with our partner in brazil, we are producing a biofuel made from renewable sugarcane to fuel cars. Lets broaden the Worlds Energy mix, lets go. Impornews a lot lately. En in the for chicken that hasnt crossed an ocean, ok for perdue. Were the First Company to have the usda verify that our chickens are raised in the usa. To bring your family a freshtasting chicken. Perdue. We believe in a better chicken. Welcome back at 5 15. The rain is coming down across our region. Look at storm team 4 radar. The the rain is making a soggy commute this morning. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is on the road in the storm team 4 x 4 to tell you what you can expect. How is it going out there, chuck . Reporter good morning, eun and aaron. Good morning, everybody. Monday off to a oh, so very monday morning like start for sure. Its already raining outside. A balmy 42 degrees with light rain coming down. The inner look of the beltway in beautiful prince georges county, landover exit, 202, its indeed a wet roadway first thing this morning. Definitely going to want to slow down a smidgeon. Theres a whole lot more rain where this is going to come from. Do expect to need the umbrellas and the windshield wipers for your monday. Temperatures arent going to budge more. In the 40s with the rain showers all day. It looks and feels like a monday of a home loss by the redskins. Wouldnt you guys agree . Chuck, rain impacting the roadway. Also impacting the runways. We are dealing with a handful of delays. Some cancellations at area airports, including Reagan National as well as Dulles International in virginia. Youre going to want to call ahead to your airlines before you head to the airport to take your flight or if you are expecting someone to come in. We will tweet a link using our handle nbcwashington on twitter for more information. Back to you, aaron. A developing story in college park. A university of maryland student is okay after she says a man tried to attack her. Police are still searching for the the suspect. A student says she was getting out of her car when a man came up behind her with a knife. The man put the knife to her throat and tried to drag her away. She fought him away. People we talked to said they are taking extra precautions when they go out at night. You try to talk to somebody on the phone or have a pepper spray. I dont usually like walking alone at night even though i am. My place is right there. This is the third similar case at the university in the last month. There is no indication that the cases are connected. A developing story. Doctors treating a New Carrollton medical student. Dr. Martin salia was diagnosed a week ago. He arrived at the omaha, nebraska biocontainment unit saturd. A cluster of new ebola cases have been confirmed in mali. The centers for Disease Control while there are direct flights from mali to the u. S. , 15 to 20 people take connecting flights every day. An outbreak of norovirus hit a princess cruise ship for the second t the Crown Princess was on a monthlong cruise to hawaii and tahiti. It dock indeed california yesterday. Passengers say the crew members were wiping down the entire ship. They had staff serving us instead of us touching the handle on our own. Well learn more of montgomerys countys they will address minimum wage, how fines can increase. One family is planning to rebuild after a fire took their home. This happened on jeanine lane in fort washington. It damaged the back of a twostory home. Somebody may have been working on a vintage car when the fire started. The the home owner is keeping a positive attitude. Rebuild. Go to church and thank god for our lives. We were able to get our wallets and passports out so thats a. There were also fires in Capital Heights and district heights. One of those homes may be a a total loss. Take a look at this fire in california. A roof on fire at a church in san jose. Nobody was inside at the time. The church was built in 1919. It didnt have a sprinkler system. It burned through the heavy dry timber pretty quickly. The priest hopes to rebuild but he is not sure if that will happen. A travesty. That is what rg3 is calling the latest defeat at the hands of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The redskins like their chances against the 18 bucs. Rg3 says everything has. Right now we have no players. Were not playing that w. Im not playing that. The line is not playing way. The receivers are not pl that way. Our defense is not playi way. Special teams is not pla that way. And we all know th thousands of people were trapped by a few inches in atlanta. They are holding a twoday snow drill thisk to make sure they are ready when the weather turns bad for that area. They created this last year to come up with plans to put in place to make sure people didnt get stuck like last year. How is your mama . She doesnt leave the house. Snow in atlanta . Dont even open the door. Call and make se im okay. All right. 5 21. Thankfully no snow here. We are dealing with a lot of rain this morning. 43 degrees outside our studios. Pretty cold too. What do we have in store today . Punk keep up the rain on the storm team 4 app. Right rain overnight. It is all advancing southwest, heading northeast. Steady, heavier rain in southern west virginia, southwestern virginia, upper part of the shenandoah valley. In the Higher Elevations its beginning to move in there. Getting closer to the metro area, right now light rain across northern virginia, maryland, district, eastern shore. This will be with us through the morning commute. Steadier rain west and southwest is this area in orange is the heavier rain that will be moving in between 9 00 this morning until 1 00, 2 00 this afternoon. By then, though, we could have a lot of it beginning to taper off to our west. And then changing over to snow out here in west virginia, many locations may just be getting some snow showers. But enough there for a wintry scene. Here we will be clearing out in the metro area, maryland, evening hours and overnight. The winds will increase. Temperatures will plummet. How much rain will we get . All the areas in blue could get an inch, inch and a half. Areas in green, ha right now chill in the air. Were just in the upper 30s to 40 degrees. Well stay this way another couple of hours. Reach mid50s midafternoon. Much colder tomorrow. Blustery wind. Highs in the low 30s. Mid30s wednesday. Mid 40s thursday, friday, into the weekend. Sunday evening could get some rain. Next weather and traffic on the 1s at 5 31. Now a look at road conditions. Alexis davies in for melissa. Good morning, tom. Good morning, everybody. We have wet conditions so watch your speed in virginia and maryland. Route 50 at 202, looking good. Headlights coming at you are the westbound lanes there. Elsewhere in virginia, 66, increased volume. No major delays there. A 270 southbound, looking good with no major delays. Malfunctioning traffic lights have been repaired. Aaron and eun, back to you. The immediate aftermath of the malaysian crash in july. It appears to show the wreckage on fire shortly after the plane came down. You can see people from a nearby village gathered at the site. It was flying from amsterdam to kuala lumpur when it was shot down. Everybody on board was killed. Right now waiting for results from that spacecraft that landed on a speeding comet. They will release the findings sometimes today. It landed on the comet more than 300 million miles away on wednesday. The batteries have since died. Th hoping it will peek out of the shadows long enough to the solar panels can recharge them. Heavy rain help to go slow down the lava flow out of hawaii. They are at the concerned about the air quality since it is burning through trees and grass. It is not threatening any property right now but it is near a buddhist cemetery thats already been affected by the lava. If youre an Old School Video game aficionado, you might remember the e. D. For atari. It was the worst game ever made. A city in new mexico made 37,000 off 800 copies of the game found in a local landfill. Experts believe they were buried there in the 1980s. It wasnt that bad. A filmmaker creating a a movie about the game and its sudden disappearance was obviously interested in this dig and this find. I remember atari. I do too. My parents would never let me get an atari. The first nintendo. You may need to sit down for this next story. We may be running out of we are eating more than whats produced. I could be responsible for that. You said we. By we you mean i, right . Guilty as charged. The chocolate makers say if we dont do something now we can expect a huge global deficit by the year 2020. That gives me how many years to start stockpile something you will see an even greater shortage im telling you now. Well be all right. No, we wont. Target of another cyber attack. What hackers made off with when they broke into the state department. Must have features in our cars today creating dangerous distractions. Storm team 4 is helping you to make it to work on. Storm team 4 x 4. A line of showers set up for a slow commute this morning. Your weather and looking at the stories making headlines right now at 5 30, university of maryland students are being told to walk in groups after the third student attale it is now official. Overnight we learned pope francis will make its first trip to the u. S. In september of last year. And work to build the tallest building in our region begins today with cap tap ones new office tower in Tysons Corner. Much more throughout the morning. First, good morning to you. Im eun yang. Im aaron gilchrist. You can see on storm team 4 radar waking up to a lot of rain this morning. Youll need an umbrella to get to work and most likely need to get home too. Lets go to tom kierein to get you up to speed with this forecast. Mostly light rain. A live view from the city camera. Not reducing visibilities much. Its just light enough to make everything. The leaves are wet and slippery on the side streets and sidewalks. Theres heavier, steadier rain in charlottesville. West of there in central and southwestern west virginia. As a result, you will want your rain boots, umbrella and maybe some gloves this morning. Well have it rather chilly over the next couple of hours. Right now it is hovering near 40 degrees much of the region. And then later today, well crime into the upper 40s. Reaching low to mid 50s by 2 00, 3 00. Showers all the way through the daylight hours. Through this evening, much of the rain will taper off. From west to east by 8 00, upper 40s. Clearing out. Near 40 by 11 00. This time tomorrow. Sunny. In the upper 20s. Next weather and traffic on the 1s, neighborhood highs around the region. A wide range. Alexis, whats going on on the road. Check your speed. Youll fine ponding from the overnight rain. Right now we have delays. 66 eastbound, route 50. No reports of incidents in the area. Pretty minor delays. Give yourself extra time. Penn south 505 a nine minute delay. In maryland, 301 running at 55 Miles Per Hour as you approach the beltway. A live look at 210. Aaron eun, back to you. An act of pure evil. That is what presi calling the execution kassig. The former army ranger turned humanitarian was murdered over the weekend by isis. 4 a video of t posted onl tracie potts joins us with reaction from capitol hill. Reporter good morning. This morning the u. S. Has now authenticated that video that shows the beheading of american peter kassig. He converted to islam. We know his family issued a statement saying they are heartbroken but they are very proud of the work he was doing. The 26yearold was an army ranger, former army ranger who had taken over a humanitarian aid mission in syria. In fact, he was delivering supplies when he was captured last year. His parents have heard from him sporadically. They heard an audio recording. They got a letter a month ago saying he loved them no matter what happened. This sparked debate in washington about whether or not we should be going after isis more aggres

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