Thats Gas Infrastructure there, thats natural gas. They dont take any chances. Briefly they got people out of their apartments ander abouts back in but they may have lost some of their gas service to some of the buildings here now. Theres a complex that consists of low rise and mid rise. Theres Gas Company Crew here waiting to make some permanent repairs to this. Doesnt look like its a safety issue now. A little bit of damage but much ado about warmth on a morning like this. Were live. Back to you. Today there will be a memorial for a High School Student killed in a car accident. We brought you this story first yesterday as breaking news. The accident happened on franconiaspringfield parkway when the driver lost control of his car and slammed into several trees. 18yearold laween aqua wi was a senior at Lake Braddock secondary school. His passenger was not hurt seriously in the crash. The memorial will be held tonight at 8 00 p. M. In the schools parking lot. Even though school is out for the break, grief counselors will be available to students on monday. Breaking news. There were no survivors on the small plane that crashed in bakersfield. The ntsb is expected to arrive today to begin their investigation. A mayday call came from the aircraft around 4 30 saturday afternoon. Shortly after the call the plane was reported missing from radar. It was found several hours later. Were learning more about the txfinofferduty officer inv shooting of a suspect. He had just gotten off work when the suspect came up and pointed a toy gun at him. He asked for the officers wallet. The officer said he thought that that gun was real. It looked like a black revolver when he announced the robbery and thats when the officer shot him. In decision 2016 the final debate of 2015 is in books. Terrorism da pa breach and fighting the republican were all big topics. Nbcs Chris Pollone on who made the biggest waves during last nights debate. Reporter a day after a data breach controversy led to a war of words between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton campaign, both sides moved quickly to stifle the bad blood. A Software Glitch gave his team access. Its not the kind of campaign i run. If i find anybody else involved in this, they will also be fired. This is over clintons views. Clinton chose not to hammer sanders in this debate. I think we should move on. I dont think the American People are all interested in this. I think theyre more interested in what we have to say about all the big issues. What issues . Weeks after the San Bernardino and paris attack, terrorism, gun control, and National Security dominated much of the discussion. With the democrats taking aim at republicans as much as each other. We must work more closely with muslimamerican communities. We must work with them, not demonize them as the republicans have been doing. They have a wide mar yin in the poll. Former Maryland GovernorMartin Omalley went on the offensive slamming them both. It might give him in life. Senator sanders voted to giving in immunity to gun standards. Secretary clinton changes her opinion every now and then. Theres still a lot to be decided between now and november. Chris pollone, nbc news. Con ald trump held a christmasthemed rally in iowa and tackled Foreign Policy and said as president he would look forward to working with russian president vat vlad mir putin. He feels good about me. I feel frankly good about him. I think with can do thinking with russia that are to our advantage. Not to our advantage. Its a mutual advantage. I have people, theyre jealous as hell. Trump took shots at the democratic debate. He called Hillary Clinton a snake and Bernie Sanders a communist. Coming up on meet the press chuck todd will have an exclusive interview and also with speaker paul ryan. All that coming up at 10 30 after news4 today. 9 06 now. Heres a look at some stories coming up in the week ahead. Lastminute Holiday Shipping has kicked into high gear. Have you taken care of all of it. . Tomorrows the biggest day for packages. More than 0 million packages will be delivered tomorrow alone. You still have until december 23rd to send express mail for christmas but if you do, youre pretty late on that one. This wednesday a blood drive is plant for fallen officer noah liotta. The drive is being held. Its being sponsored by the american red cross. It is open to the public but donors are encouraged to preregister. Today is the final redskins home game. Theyre facing the Buffalo Bills at 1 00 p. M. If the skins win, it will be their first back to back victory this season. Desean said hes expected to play. What police say is behind gun fire and concern even though things are safe back at the mall. Hes been out on probation for kill four people in a drunk driving crash. 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Welcome back at 9 09. Police are looking for a teenager on the run. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez report os whine the teen may have decided to run. Reporter today investigator ran down more leads in their search for ethan couch. Federal Authorities Say the 18yearold is on the run after he failed to meet with his probation officer. His mother also missing. Its our number one priority for our task force. Known as the affluenza teen couch was sentenced to ten yea s s probation. Were going to need some ambulances. The crash killed four people and injured nine. During sentencing, an unusual defense. Hiss attorney argued the teen did not understand the consequences of his actions due to his affluent upbringing. I dont think theres been any accountable. His son lieu was was injured in the crash. He said hes not surprised couch has gone missing. I think he was never never taught that actions have cons kwens other than the easiest way out. So why would couch run . A spokesperson for the Tarrant County protection have interviewed witnesses a that party captured on cell phone video who claim couch was there. Alcohol use would violate his probation, although couch is not seen drirmging in the video. I think thats the trig, what forced him to run. I think they ran because that video was release and the fear he would now finally be locked up. In 2013 couch talked about his drug use during a deposition for a civil suit brought by Crash Victims for the families. Now if caught he could face up to ten years in prison. If his mother found he helped evade arrest she could also do that. New hope for patients with chronic pay pan cree eye it is. It saves one mans life that and coming up, 70s for christmas . Yes, thats right. Youre going t the search still on for a Holiday Shopping shooter. This was not an active shooter or terrorism situation. They will be in court for bail hearing. Enrique marquez will be in court. They say he and farook may have been plotting attacks back in may of 2011. Meanwhile they have been removing things from the couples homes. They found an arsenal of ammunition and bombs inside that home. Well, in news4 your hecht this morning a devastating diagnosis left a maryland family thinking painkillers were the only hope for their son. About a new treatment for disease that can often leave patients with diabetes and cancer. News4s Doreen Gentzler shows us how it works. It with us like a sharp jabbing pain in my flank area and just tried to ignore it. Reporter and that pain didnt go away and jesse holliman, just 15 years old at the time, had trouble figuring out what could be wrong until an mri revealed a diagnosis rare for kids his age. Chronic pan korr pancreaticitis. A severe inflammation of the organ that helps us digest food and regulate blood sugar. A long term that theres no good outcome for living with that disease. When the pancreas stops working as it should, producing insulin like it should regulating our blood sugar can make patients diabetic. It can also lead to cancer. They say if i waited another year or so, i would have had cancer and there would have been nothing for them to do. They say the treatment for pan cree a tie it is is also risky. They become literally addicted to narcotics. He would go to school on meds. He would be spaced out during school but physically being there. Reporter looking for another solution jesse and his family turned to specialists at Georgetown University hospital who were in the process of rolling out a new treatment for pan cree tie it is so knew they were still building the lab to make the treatment possible. Everything fell into place at the right time. Reporter heres how it works. The surgeon removes pancreas and in a lab doctors harvest the insulin regulating cells called eye let cells. Then they put them back into the patients liver where they would continue to function like they would have in the pancreas to control blood live. They remain completely free after the surgery. Reporter some have to take insulin. That includes jesse who has to take enzymes to digest. Otherwise he says hes getting back to living life normally again without all those painkillers he needed before. Before i was always spaced out, i couldnt really focus on anything because of all the pain medication. Now that im off of that stuff, i can do stuff again. Hes back to playing trumpet in the band and looking forward to a trip to tokyo with his dad and a japanese trip with his spring something he and his family didnt think would have been possible six months possible. Im looking for a time when hes back to normal completely. Doreen gentzler reporting there. Well, check this out. Buffalo has finally gotten its first snowfall of the year. The city set a record this year for longest time without any snow. Now, during an average season, buffalo would have more than 20 inches of snow by now. And ive got to say, im happy thats not happening here, although i could be alone. Some folks want a White Christmas. A lot of people want a White Christmas. My on the other hand, im happy to have the flipflops out. Better chance of having a white valentines day than a White Christmas. And weve had that. Its certainly cold enough. Its dry. Clear sky. Overlooking the city, just gorgeous sunshine. Pouring down, lighting up the monuments on this sunday morning. Beautiful picture there. Live view from the storm team four city camera. This morning temperatures getting above freezing. Theres a view of reston town center. By the way, gorges with the holiday lights. Many of the displays around the area now in some of the state parks as well, of course, the wonderful display there at the Mormon Temple in kensington is a great spot to go. Zoo lights as well. Temperatures are hovering in the near 30s. Around the bay, upper 30s. Shenandoah valley and the mountains still above freezing. Still in the 20s above West Virginia. Storm team 4 radar not showing any snow. No rain. Its all dry. Driving up and down the atlantic seaboard. Down to new england, florida, no travel problems in and out of the midwest. The only snow we have really is a little bit around Salt Lake City and parts of the mountains in colorado. Northern arizona. Northern new mexico. And also the cascades down all the way into california. Theyre loving getting that moisture there in california. And for us today, a great shopping weather. By the way, my sweater size is a mens medium. Well be into the mid to upper 40s by mid afternoon. Lots of sunshine with a very light believe up like todays blustery wind. I took this photo in rural northern Montgomery County yesterday afternoon getting a little bit of exercise. A great day for game at fedex field today. This one matters. Its buffalo at washington. 1 00 kickoff. Mid40s by then. A few high clouds coming in. By the time youre heading back home, it will be in the mid40s. If youre going out, it will be hovering. Just clouds coming in. Not as cold tomorrow morning waiter for the bus. Upper 30. Monday between 8 00 and 9 00, clouds close in. Ought to be in the low 40s by then. That afternoon heise on monday. The mid 50s, a lot of clouds around. Near 60 on tuesday. Maybe a light shower. Greater chance of rain moving on wednesday. Might get aninch of rain on wednesday with temperatures in the mid 60s and milder on Christmas Eve day. Thursday, the low 70s. Most of the daying look dry and Christmas Day will get some sunshine near 60. Then next saturday, looks like it will main rain again with highs in the 50s. Back to you. Thanks very much, tom. After that massive fire, were going to let you know how the fire is impacting future plans for that club. Its 21. A striking development has taken place in the republican president ial race that trump continues to dominate. That development the field has moved to the right on immigration. Just think about it. In early 2013 after losing the last contest, a report advocate thad they champion the forum. Heres the situation. Marco rubio coauthored an immigration bill now says he cant support a pathway to citizen ship until the borders are secured first. And jeb bush is now fully against it and hammering rubio for his gang of eight bill. Donald trump, he continues to say all undocumented immigrants have to go. Gotoquote that rnc report if hispanicamericans. They will not Pay Attention to our next sentence. A man was shot to death. They say the man tried to attack two officers. The victim was in the e. R. After being arrested for attempting to attack two other officers earlier in the day. The Sheriffs Department is reviewing any surveillance or cell phone video from the hospital. A California Police officer could Face Criminal Charges after a deadly controversial shooting. Now, the man officer patrick shot on saturday died. It showed the officer shooting 26yearold Andrew Thomas after he tried to climb out of a car following a crash. Now, that officer said he was surprised by the victim jumping out of the carnd didnt realize he had shot him. The officer could face Involuntary Manslaughter charges. The investigation into the fire at the yacht club continue this morning. Officials still dont know what caused the blaze back on december 12th. So far there are no plans to delay an 18 million expansion and the employees are still being taken care of through the holidays. The club says theyll be paid for a minimum of 30 days. 9 26. Coming up this morning, a flight scare after the report of a threat on a plane. What investigators say they found inside a bathroom on board. And still going to be cold today. Toms forecast includes rain to start the week. Well tell you what you need to know coming up. And the number of Bank Robberies always seems go up in december. Now the news4 iteam digging into why thats a spike and what you need to know on your next 9 29 on a sunday morning. A couple of stories were following. With a spike in robberies around the holidays, what you may be doing to make yourself a target. Time now for a check on your forecast. Yeah, lets check in with storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. Hes so brave he went out to the storm team 4 weather deck on the line. Reporter its a tough assignment, ill tell you. It feels nice. Even though low sun angle its bright and intense and you can feel the warmth of the sun. A little bit of a breeze. For today, dress like me. Youll need a puffy coat. Youll need your sunglasses and gloves as weve got cold temperatures staying with us this morning. Right now were hovering a little more than 30s. Getting above freezing now in the Shenandoah Valleys out in the valley, too. Direct accordingly for the afternoon and have your storm team 4 app ready. The nbc watch app when youre out and running around when youre doing shopping today. Looks like a great weather for that. Rain moving in. When that will arrive that. Will be coming up this half hour. Thanks, tom. Now to a developing story. A midair scare after a suspected bomb was found on board an air France Flight headed to paris. The suspected bomb was found in the bathroom. Investigators are still trying to determine if it contains any explosive materials. The plan or the plane rather was forced to land in kenyas coastal city of mombasa. All 459 passengers and 14 crew members were safely evacuated. Many say they thought there was simply a technical problem. The plane just went down slowly, slowly, slowly, so we just realized something was wrong, but the personnel of air france was gr