hearing the man will be okay. kristen wright did speak with family members of the victim. we're going to hear from them in ten minutes. back to you. good morning, everybody. wednesday starts the same way tuesday started, with a weather alert due to rain, fog, and what are likely to be building delays on the roads and potentially in the skies later on today. we'll keep you ahead of all of it by giving you added pushes to our apps and added postings to our social media pages. have our nbc washington app ready to go. follow me on twitter twitter, @chuckbell4. there's the capitol wheel hiding behind the thick fog. slow going this morning. maybe as much as another inch of rain in some places before the big change in the weather arrives tomorrow. but the thick fog this morning has visibility very dramatically reduced to well under be a mile. temperatures in the upper 40s to near 50. that's not the issue. rain drops and fog will slow your day down. we'll talk about when the rain comes to an end. for now, traffic with melissa. >> have a brand-new problem in prince gorges county. piscataway road. no slowdowns now. doesn't mean they won't pop up. westbound 340 after 15, still have the accident investigation. lanes blocked eastbound. trying to get more information. sounds like it could be here for a while this morning. 270 at montrose road. you can see we have the nice, foggy haze over everything. northbound austin ridge drive at mine road, we do have a brand-new crash. tom kierein is out on the road. it took me extra time to get in this morning. it's slow. >> yeah, we're seeing some pretty good fog here. we're right now on 270 in the storm team 4x4. we got off of the inner loop. we're seeing visibilities now looking forward the camera showing half a mile visibility on 270. looks like it may be a little thicker now as we're coming up to the merge. that is going to be probably thickening a bit the farther north we go. getting a few sprinkles on the windshield but the wipers only need to be on a delay from time to time. the pavement is all wet just from overnight drizzle and a few scattered sprinkles. we are going to have dense fog with us here for several more hours. that's the way it looks from the storm team 4x4. it is 5:03. developing in an nondale, a local man is fighting for his life after someone shot him last night. the shooter still on the run at this hour. the victim crawled for a distance down the service road alongside liver ril turnpike. that's where fairfax county police found him. shot several times in the stomach. police believe the shooting stemmed from an argument possibly with a woman. a maryland family is waking up without a home this morning after a fire tore through their home. this broke out in olney. firefighters montgomery county believe the fire began in the garage. ten dogs were in the home. the pets all made it out safely and no one was hurt. 5:04. opening statements could begin in baltimore. officer william porter facing manslaughter charges in the death of freddie gray. they will seat a jury of 12 people plus several alter naits this morning. gray died in april. investigators believe he suffered a deadly spinal injury inside a police van after his arrest. six baltimore officers will be tried separately in the 25-year-old's death. we expect the trial of a prince gorges county police officer to wrap up today. he faces assault and misconduct charges. he's accused of pointing his service weapon at a man in may of 2014 outside that man's home. in court yesterday a witness testified that santiago yelled, quote, p.g. county officers shoot people. the officer's attorney says he was wrong but he's not a criminal. today a demand for answers after another breach at the white house. you may remember joseph kaputo jumped the fence last thursday. this afternoon d.c. congresswoman eleanor holmes norton will discuss the incident with the director of the secret service. she's expected to ask joseph clancy how his agent sid can secure the white house without pushing people back from the fence? kaputo faces a misdemeanor charge. his attorney says last week's jump was a form of political protest. he was supposed to be on duty at the white house. instead they caught a secret service agent in an undercover online sex stink. lee robert moore won't be in court today. they delayed the hearing because of a chicken position outbreak at a detention where he's being held. decision 2016 comes to manassas today. we expect a large crowd of reporters and protesters to meet donald trump when he rallies tonight at the prince william county fairgrounds. doors open at 5:00 for the event which begins at 7:30. you can go to trump's website to get free tickets. in the day ahead, a push for 16 weeks of paid leave in the district. proponents will testify in front of d.c. council this morning. the proposed law would be the most generous family leave program in the country. it is getting push back though. some businesses say a new tax of up to 1% to pay for the plan would strain many smaller companies. right now snowstorms are breaking records in parts of the midwest. schools are starting late or closing in iowa, minnesota. cities in those states saw as much as 9 inches of snow in the last couple of days and even more is on the way today. in just a few hours, a switch will flip on the rockefeller center tree. the "today" show team will kick off the celebration to light up the 45,000 l.e.d. lights on that tree. you can enjoy music from sting, james taylor, carly rae jepsen and mary jane blige. you can see all of the action on nbc 4 or streaming live on the nbc washington app. live look outside for you this morning. usually a nice, crisp picture in the district here. this morning, fog really clouding up that camera lens. that's not the only problem you can see on the roads today. chuck bell has your commuter forecast in the next weather and traffic on the 1s. you can see who the mayor appointed to her ethics board. why this holiday, ford america's best-selling brand is giving you more. the ford holiday sales event... with 0% financing for 60 months on 2015 f-150 and focus and 2016 fusion and escape. plus 1,000 dollars holiday bonus cash on 2015 focus and 2016 fusion and escape. it's the best gift ever. now during the ford holiday sales event get 0% financing for 60 months plus 1,000 dollars holiday bonus cash on select vehicles. see your local ford dealer. we're learning more about a surprising nomination from d.c. mayor muriel bowser. in a letter bowser told the council she wants to appoint carol schwartz to a d.c. ethics board. the republican ran for mayor against bowser and david companya. we asked bowser why she told schwartz she looks for the best and brightest and she hopes the council will see the experience schwartz can bring. there is dash cam video showing water rescue gone wrong. the deputy wades out and rushing water causes the deputy to lose her footing. she fights to hold her footing. crews found the deputy two hours later clinging to a tree. the driver she went out to rescue did not survive. 5:11 is your time right now. weather and traffic on the 1s. we are in for a soggy and foggy day. >> yes, indeed. whether you're walking, driving, flying today things will take a little longer than normal. look at all of the rain now moving right into the region. if it's not raining at your house this morning, you're one of the lucky few. everyone is socked in with the fog this morning. light rain in the metro area. light rain, prince william and fairfax county. they're coming in bound so the second half of the morning will be badly impacted. thick fog, all of these numbers less than 1. visibility under a mile across much of the area. it will take you extra time today. no delays on the big board just yet for flights out of any of our local airports. the roads are going to be a mess. red lights on the roads for the morning and midday. yellow conditions for later on this evening. temperatures, upper 40s. we'll be up near 60. it will be a milder rain yesterday. sunshine coming back tomorrow. we'll give you the whole seven day forecast coming up. traffic time for melissa. good morning. take a look at this. we have this closure in frederick county. this will probably be this way for much of the morning. westbound 340 after 15. we have those westbound lanes blocked. eastbound lanes are clear and that's just fine. new problem here, 270 southbound. four mile backup heading into clarksburg. this is because of some sort of debris on the roadway. take a look at 109 old hundred. that is not a normal thing for this time of day. northbound austin ridge road at mine road also has that problem still hanging around. back in ten minutes. thank you, melissa. we continue to follow a developing story in maryland this morning where a short time ago we confirmed two people were injured in an early morning fire. why a dog may be to blame when news 4's kristen wright is on the scene. a major milestone in the pepco and exsalon merger. and outrage after high levels of radon are found montgomery county classrooms. how the school district welcome back. 5:16. a tragic scene in landover, maryland. two people are hurt after an early morning fire. here you can see the dog standing guard over one of the possible victims. news 4's kristen wright is on county. kristen, good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning to you. a man and his daughter live in this house. we just talked to the man's son. he said that his father is in the hospital now and has smoke inhalation but he's expect the to be okay. firefighters tell us the woman who lives in the house here is also at the hospital and that she, too, will recover. now we want to show you that video again. quite interesting. firefighters say they actually had trouble getting to the man who lives here right away because his dog was standing over him and apparently trying to protect him. it's a small home so this fire really burned through it. the man is in his 60s and daughter in her 30s were able to get out. the man's son said the dog is very loyal to his father and that he does like to take care of animals in the neighborhood. he got the call about the fire in the middle of the night. >> i got the call from my aunt like at 3:00 something this morning. i missed two hours sleep. i got up to use the bathroom, checked my phone. she left a long message saying my father was in the hospital, his house had burned down. >> reporter: bar heck here live damage to the home is bad. fire started in the bedroom. no cause of the fire. the fire department adding that they don't believe this family had smoke alarms in the home. back to you. ♪ ♪ two private security officers involved in a controversial death of a man in a d.c. apartment complex are off the job. that information emerging last night during that vigil for 27-year-old alonzo smith. police were called to the marbury plaza amounts after an assault. they found smith in the custody of special police officers working there. he was unconscious and not breathing. the officers performed cpr but he died a short time later at the hospital. >> my son had two black eyes, his neck broken, his shoulder appears to be broken, he had massive bruises on his neck, he had three round circle marks on his chest and he was bruised in his groin. >> d.c. police initially classified the death as a justifiable homicide which officials later said was an error. the case is now with the u.s. attorney's office. d.c. council member mary chay is working to changes solitary confinement at d.c. jails. she introduced a new bill. it increases the amount of time that an inmate stays out of his cell from one to two hours. solitary can't be used for loud talking and it requires them to provide mental health assessments for any inmate placed in solitary confinement. a big day for talks between pepco and exhe lon. pro pope nenlts feel d.c. mayor is forcing through the merger putting corporate needs above the needs of citizens. there are new limits on megagas stations montgomery county. council voted to change the zoning laws. new gas stations have to be at least 500 feet from homes, schools, parks, day care centers. "the washington post" reporting it's the third time that they've put more distance between gas retailers and surrounding neighborhoods. 5:20. news for your health, the new study shows that false/positive results for mammograms may not be quite so false. a scary thought. a false positive test may be an extremely early warning sign. cancer experts say not everyone should be alarmed about a positive result. >> the vast majority of these are quickly shown to be not of concern and that whatever increased risk there might be down the road is a very small change in their overall risk and not something they need to be especially alarmed about. >> more than half of women who have annual mammograms over the course of a decade will have a false positive result. well, december is here and tree lighting ceremonies are in full swing around the dmv. news 4's angie goff and her daughter emceed the tree lighting. they sipped hot chocolate and had santa, rudolph, and the u.s. marines. they collected toys for the toys for tots program. >> d.c. will flip the switch on the tree lighting. it kicks off on the west front lawn. the tree is set to light up around 5:30. always a stunning site. paul ryan, the newly elected speaker of the house, will take part to help the district kick off the holiday season. you take a moment driving around the city to pause and see some of the sights, it's gorgeous here. >> that drive to work at 3:00, wait a minute, i'm passing the washington monument, lincoln memorial, live in a great place. >> for sure. 5:21. chuck, go. >> i can't see the monuments out there. unfortunately today will not be the day to see much of anything outside. early this morning, thick fog has wrapped up across the region. it will be a moderate impact weather day. we're in weather alert moitd to g mode to get you ahead of the weather. rain and fog this mning. rain but mild rain drops this afternoon. a lot of delays and some potentially slow going. so be ready for that. rain today could be steady and briefly heavy at times so take the full size umbrella on your way out the door this morning. temperature though will be much milder than yesterday. in fact, we're already warmer now than we were at the higher points yesterday. upper 40s to already near 50 degrees. the fog will really slow travel down here for the morning rush. visibility well under a mile now across most of the metro area. our three major airports not reporting any delays yet. that may well be changing. stay ahead of your flight information as well. next batch of moderate rain down across southwestern virginia is about eight hours away. that puts it in here between noon and 2:00 today. i think that will be the heaviest and steadiest of rain into early afternoon before things taper off. all wet and fog. future weather through this morning, hit and miss light to briefly moderate rain showers. rain intensity picking up as we get into late morning and early afternoon. here's 1:00. the batch of moderate rain. things should start to slow down rainfall wise by 5:00, 6:00. there's the end of the rain out across parts of west virginia. for today, rain, fog, nastiness out there. all eyes already on the weekend, both saturday and sunday for your weekend look simply amazing. sunny and school with highs in the 50s. we just have to get from here to there. coming up at 5:31, we'll take another check of the radar. let you know whose hometown is getting wet the most. traffic news, breaking news, melissa mollet. >> we have a pretty big backup as you're headed southbound on to 70. right now have a little break on this map. our other map showing a five mile backup 270 southbound 12 miles per hour headed out of frederick county. live look 270 at old hundred road. it is slowing things down. try to get to the left to stay away as they should. westbound 340 after 15 there in frederick, all westbound lanes still shut down. eastbound is open. that is a bad crash from last night. outer loop after connecticut avenue, report of an accident there. it is all green here this morning on the roads. then take a look at this. all of this other green here of course is the rain that is falling. more on this on 270 coming up. developing story out of india where tens of thousands are stranded in their homes right now. take a look at this video. you can see why. major flooding shutting down the roads in the town. everything appears impassible. airports are also closed and the power is cut in many areas. this morning there's another threat of rivers overflowing their banks which means floods could get worse. we're also getting reports that now more than 180 people in india have died in floods over the last month. eun. >> thank you, angie. a hidden gun and radioactive gas the focus of two big scares at local schools and two different groups of parents are frustrated and concerned for their students' welfare. montgomery county will begin testing foray done this month. a report shows 28 schools with elevated levels of this odorless gas. parents are upset that the administration knew for three years but haven't done anything until now. >> i'm outraged and i'm personally just very disappointed that you showed up so unprepared and that you showed up so unprepared for something that is incredibly serious. >> the school administration says the high levels are the result of a mistake. they also say all schools will be in compliance with epa standards by the beginning of next year. there will be more security checks at woodrow wilson high school in the district. a student faces charges for bringing a gun to school. pictures of the gun surfaced on snap chat and students alerted teachers yesterday. security officers are stationed at the doors of the school as students have to pass through metal detectors. how the gun got through security is under investigation. 5:26 now. the syrian government is warning about turkey. a spokesperson for syria's president says turkey's government is working with islamic extremist organizations. they accused turkey of illegally smuggling weapons into iraq and syria. a spokesperson said that she believes turkey shot down the russian fighter jet recently in an act of revenge after its links with terrorist organizations were revealed. we now have the names of the four soldiers who were killed in a helicopter crash at fort hood texas. the blackhawk went down last wendy. toby childress, steven coolly, chief warrant officer 3 michael tharp and sergeant first class jason smith. the cause of that crash is still unknown. a live look outside for you this morning from union station. you can see the fog really blanketing the area right now. this is a weather alert day around here. chuck says changes coming though. four things to know about the forecast before you leave for work this morning. is another federal government shutdown on the way? the deadline looming over lawmakers this morning. and how you can meet bei bei mmm... nothing like 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tomorrow. for now though, cloudy and temperatures in the upper 40s to near 50s. not as cold as yesterday. heaviest rain is down around lindberg. two to three hours of getting in the west side of fredericksberg. that puts it in at 8:00, 9:00 in the morning. it comes into metro and will snarl the lunch hour. for now, breaking news with melissa. breaking news here on the roads, 270 southbound, a five mile backup. this is way too early for something like this here this morning. 270 south, 11 miles per hour as you're headed out of frederick into montgomery county this morning. very slow. disabled vehicle off to the right side of the roadway. no matter what it is, you'll have to allow extra time. westbound 340 after 15. this is a fatal accident. westbound lanes shut down. eastbound lanes are open here this morning. that could be there for some time. outer loop at connecticut, crash here, very slow as well. melissa, thank you. 5:32. 74-year-old man said he was tied up, threatened, had his credit cards stolen inside his own home by a woman. he didn't want to be identified because he's afraid she'll come being back. it unfolded in kensington. the suspect went by the name maria. police montgomery county say she used two accomplices to take money out of a bank account. >> if you tell the banks, the police or anybody, we'll come back and we'll kill you. >> do you think you'll ever be at ease in your house again? >> yeah, if they catch her. >> police are hoping the surveillance video will help them catch maria. new details this morning about a recent shooting at a colorado planned parenthood clinic. an ex-wife of the man charged in the killing of three people say he targeted another reproductive clinic when they were married. she told nbc news that robert dear put glue in the locks of another planned parenthood clinic when they were married. it happened about 20 years ago. she says she has no doubt the shooting in colorado springs was directed at the center. 5:33 now. congress may be on track to pass a transportation bill this week, but the deadline is looming on the 2016 budget bill. the budget needs to be in place by the end of next week to avoid a government shutdown. nbc's tracie potts joins us now live from capitol hill with the latest. tracie, good morning. >> reporter: hi, eun. good morning. you're right on the date. next friday, december 11th is the deadline. congress has known this since the last temporary extension. if they don't have a budget in place or do another temporary extension by next friday, we join the government shutdown mode again. no one wants that going into an election year around the holidays. there's some incentives to work this out. we're talking about a $1.1 trillion spending plan to keep the government running, but there's some roadblocks here. first of all, planned parenthood. this has been a fight that's been going on all fall. do you pull federal dollars out of planned parenthood because of their abortion -- because they perform abortions? there are some on capitol hill who say adamantly yes and others say yes but they don't think that would hold up the budget. the syrian refugee crisis, do you let them into this country? what about the screening process? that could be added into the process. finally obamacare after 40 plus votes the senate plans to do another one tomorrow. it probably won't hold up the budget lawmakers tell us but it will just delay things another day when they don't have a lot of time to get this done. >> tracie potts live on the hill. thank you, tracie. 5:34. the justice department may investigate another maryland's death. nine months after a taser was used on him. the 32-year-old was having a seizure back in march and lost control of his car. the charles county corporal shocked dorse multiple times after he didn't comply with orders. they filed a complaint yesterday. d.c. council unanimously approved the vote yesterday on bod ri cameras. this was the first vote. we asked how soon all d.c. police could be wearing the cameras? we're told as early as this coming march. a college student is expected to make a full recovery after a bus crash this weekend. sunday a motor coach bus carrying 50 people crashed in the richmond area. it was taking students from virginia tech and radford university back to their college campus. speed was a factor and the driver is facing reckless driving charges. new information following a raid at a pet store in chantilly. animal control officers seized 46 puppies from dreamy puppy last week. news 4 learns they set up surveillance at the store and found the animals were left alone for more than 4 hours that day. once inside they found several puppies needed immediate veterinary care. so far no criminal charges have been filed. we contacted the pet store owner but he has not yet provided a comment on these allegations. we're learning more about a surprising move from d.c. mayor muriel bowser. she wants one of her former competitors to sit on the d.c. ethics board. she wants to appoint carol schwartz. we asked why bowser chose schwartz? we're told she looks for the best and brightest. she hopes council will see the experience schwartz can bring. there is a new website for victims of a massive data breech. the office of personnel management sent out 17 million letters to federal workers. some former and current workers are still waiting to find out. opm has created a verification website. it wants you to wait a week before check so long they can finish mailing letters. 5:37. you can be part of the panda story at the national zoo. 25 instagramers will get a chance to see the latest panda cub bei bei face to face. you'll also get a behind the scenes tour with zoo keepers. >> do you really think face to face? >> yes, face to face. all you have to do is make an instavideo saying why you want to be part of the video. you can take a look at my instagram account, i reposted it. >> i don't think you want the panda right there? >> i do. i want to see him close up. he's so cute. to prove that it's really a panda, not just a stuffed animal. >> it's a bear, that's all i'm saying. >> but a very cute one. do we want to take a look at the panda cam? no, don't have it. let's move on. 5:37. weather alert day around here. that's just one reason -- this is one reason why, what you're seeing right here. a lot of you waking up to rain as well as fog. can the kids expect recess outside? chuck will let us know in the next weather and traffic on the 1s. not enough green. why placing a wreath on each grave stone at arlington national cemetery may not happen here. breaking news on 270. big backups headed southb welcome back, d.c. police need help. a brazen armed robbery. three men held up the city beats shoe store on martin luther king avenue on black friday. the masked men chased several people at gun point while they robbed the place. you can see people there with their hands up. call police if you think you know something. a holiday honor may not happen without your help. wreaths across america has been putting a fresh balsam wreath on every head stone at arlington national cemetery since 1992. this year the organization says it doesn't have the money. posted last week asking for help. as of yesterday morning the organization needed money for 8,000 more wreaths. it costs $15 to sponges sore a wreath. you can go to our nbc washington app for more information on how you can help. 5:41 is our time right now. want to get you ready for the day ahead. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is telling you what you can expect in the forecast. hey, chuck. >> good morning, guys. a picture is worth 1,000 words. this picture, you can't see hardly a thing. the capitol wheel at national harbor is actually right there. you can barely make it out because of the clouds and the fog. temperatures are in the upper 40s and low 50s. you won't need the heavy insulated raincoat but you'll need a raincoat for sure. visibility under a mile. visibility, the dense fog advisory goes until 10:00. that's an extension of the advisory from earlier this morning. rain will limit the visibility until later on this afternoon. raining all across northern virginia. the rain drops coming across the area. indoor recess, outdoor weather comes in at an f. temperatures into the upper 50s to near 60 later on today. not very much good news there. bad news if yosh' flying, driving, walking. for driving here's melissa mollet with breaking news. >> five mile backup headed out of frederick into montgomery county this morning. earlier problem with a disabled vehicle off to the right side of the roadway. doesn't matter. very slow here. 11 miles per hour as you go from county to county. westbound. >> 340, fatal crash. shutting down all westbound lanes. 66 looks good. 95 northbound looks good going back to maryland. 270 from germantown, you're in the clear. it's fine headed southbound there. top of the beltway 95 to 270, 12 minutes. listen to our friends on 103.5 fm when you hop in the car. day three on the job for metro's general manager. we're getting a closer look at how he hopes to fix several issues. what's at the top of his list next. he's known for making traffic fun. why is this dancing police officer no longer welcome? how the black lives matter movement is involved. now at 5:45, we are in for another weather alert day. take a look at all of this fog enveloping our area this morning. >> chuck bell, melissa mollet and tom kierein all standing by with a look at what all of this means to you getting to work or school today. let's start things off with chuck. >> thanks. weather alert day. steady rain, fog, potential for big delays coming in later on this morning from airlines to the roadways. what does a weather alert day mean? added pushes and postings. follow us on our storm team 4 facebook page. follow me on twitter and download the nbc 4 washington app. we'll keep you ahead of the weather all day long. big problem 270 southbound. they're headed into the district. you're going 11 miles per hour here this morning. five mile backup. also total closure on 378. tom kierein has been on the roads on 270. how are we looking? >> reporter: right now heading southbound in gaithersburg in heavy traffic now. everything is moving at speed on 270 southbound montgomery county. looking forward, you can see it improved from our last report just about a half an hour ago. we were at 1/4 mile visibility. now we've got a mile visibility as the rain is beginning to move in now right into montgomery county out of virginia. we'll have the visibility improving a bit. the roads will be getting wetter. right now they're just kind of damp here on 270. we'll have another storm team 4 update as we crack this fog and rain. back to you. today we expect the trial of a prince gorges county police officer to wrap up. he faces assault and misconduct charges. he's accused of pointing his service weapon in may of 2014 outside that man's home. in court a witness testified that santiago yelled, quote, pg county officers shoot people. the officer's attorney says santiago is wrong but he was not a criminal. he was supposed to be on duty at the white house. instead they caught him in an undercover sex sting. lee robert moore won't be in court. a judge delayed the hearing because of a chicken position outbreak at the detention where he is being held. developing in chicago, the city is looking for a new police superintendant. mayor rahm emanuel said he asked the current one to resign after the video that shows a white officer killing a black teen came out. that officer is now facing a murder charge. video sparked big protests with demonstrators calling for the superintendant to step down. a police officer who dances every december won't be doing it this year. the retired rhode island officer regularly performs for the holidays dancing while directing traffic. however, the police department canceled the show this year. a sign said blue lives matter. >> we come out there and we had signs saying blue lives matter. not that black lives don't. nothing of the kind. the city of providence said it didn't want to get involved with a dispute with activists and retired officers. he'll be dancing somewhere else this year. talk about a holiday gift. if you haven't seen this online, today we guarantee you will. and his wife priscilla say they're donating 99% of their facebook shares to charity. righpx04u they're worth more than $45 billion. that donation will take place over their lifetimes. they said they're making the gift in honor of their newborn daughter max. a live look now at new york city this morning. just a few hours the switch will flip on the rockefeller center tree. see it right there. the "today" show team will kick off the celebration to light up the 45,000 l.e.d. lights on that tree. you can enjoy music from sting, james taylor, carly rae jepsen. what a program that is. you can see all of the action on nbc 4 or streaming live on the nbc washington app. the first family is getting into the christmas spirit as well. the first lady is ready to show off christmas at the white house. michelle obama will show us the white house decorations later today. we'll get to see the decorated tree. the video showed last year's christmas tree. right now they are bracing for lots and lots of snow in the midwest. want to show you some video out of minnesota and iowa this morning. there were record snowfalls there. nine inches in some places. a lot of schools already starting late in those states. even more snow is falling with chicago getting the worst of it today. it is now 5:51. time for weather and traffic on the 1s. if you're in the kitchen making breakfast or something like that, take a look at your tv screen. not a lot of that. fog blanketing the area this morning. i'm guessing that's -- i don't know what that would be. there are some lights down there somewhere. >> chuck, do you know what's going on? >> i know we have rain and fog to deal with this morning and rain to deal with this afternoon and all anyone around here wants now is sunshine. i even have that on your seven day forecast which is about 60 seconds from now. outside today, what to expect. expect to be wet. it's a rainy start to today and there's more rain where this is coming from. rain be and fog this morning. rain and milder than yesterday even with the rain drops today we'll probably get close to 60 degrees in most neighborhoods. there's an awful lot in the way of delays and slow going early this morning. visibility in gaithersburg, fredericksberg, leesburg. eighth of a mile in washington and half mile in annapolis. rain could come down pretty steadily at times today. need the full size umbrella. no pocket umbrellas today. rain showers on storm team 4 radar. here's the next batch of moderate rain on the virginia/north carolina border. north of lynchburg. three hours away from getting on the i-95 corridor near the prince william parkway. three hours now is just before 9:00 a.m. expect deteriorating road and travel conditions over the next while as the more moderate rains move in. i-81, no break for you. rain showers there and rain on 270. melissa mollet has big delays on 270. here's your weather. here comes the moderate rain. up to about lunchtime today. after about 3:00, 4:00, that's when the rain intensity will ease up just a bit. should be back to scattered showers after 5:00 or 6:00. by 6:00 rain ending in the shenandoah valley. the end of the rain arrives in the metro between 8:00 and 9:00. temperatures in the upper 40s and 50 planning your day out hour by hour. rainy and wet all day. at least it will be milder with highs up to 60 degrees. this is it for the rain chances. back into the sunshine starting tomorrow. best of all, that sunshine will carry you into the weekend. temperatures will be on the chilly side but, hey, it's december so we can take chilly sunshine in december. coming up we'll take a look at whose hometown is getting rained on the hardest. breaking news, 270 southbound five mile backup as you're coming out of frederick headed into month gom ri county here this morning. it is very slow because of an earlier disabled vehicle. 340 in frederick after 15, all westbound lanes still blocked because of that fatal crash from earlier this morning. red line, delays in glenmont because of a delay at union station. disabled vehicle on the shoulder seeing typical slowdowns as you head northbound through woodbridge. i'll be back with an update on 270. see you then. 5:54. metro's brand-new general manager has a lot of problems to take care of. >> paul wiedefeld said he's started. he started in the first one on one tv interview before he started the job. before now he was a leader at the bwi airport and maryland transit agency. he said one thing he's working on at metro, communication. >> i think we have to do a better job explaining to people what we're up against. we are doing a lot of work every day and from a customer's perspective they just feel the impact on their ride. >> wiedefeld said his door is already wide open for suggestions. you can watch the exclusive interview on the nfc washington app. good morning, i'm landon dowdy at cnbc headquarters. quicken loans may pull out of the government program that helps us support the housing market during the financial crisis. reports say the number three u.s. mortgage lender could abandon the fha which helps first-time home buyers offering smaller downpayments. they are fighting with the fha over how it handles loans that go into default. quicken loans accounted for 6% of all fha loans in the first half of the year. 80% of those loans are made by smaller lenders who aren't banks. they could have trouble staying solvent in the fha loans. cnbc business report i'm landon dowdy. a maryland family doesn't have a home this morning after a fire tore through their house. this broke out about 5:30 in olney. firefighters montgomery county think the fire started in the garage. they say gas from a car may have fueled it. several pets including ten dogs were also in that home. the pets made it out and no one was hurt. a program to help you pay for your children's college costs is open in virginia right now. it lets you pay tuition years in advance. the program is called virginia 529. if you pay for the price of a semester now, it funds a full-time undergraduate semester in the future. the program counts for in state tuition. you can also use the money for an out of state school but there may be other costs. the current program is open from december 1st, that was yesterday, through the end of march next year. a program for preschoolers is kicking off today in washington. word expeditions workshop will help pre-k kids learn vocabulary. the program received a million dollar grant from the kennel wood park side community in northeast washington. they'll host the workshops once a month and the smithsonian castle is hosting a kickoff today. in prince gorges county. an overnight fire heavily damages a home and leaves two people hurt. this dog, however, caused problems for firefighters who were trying to help the victim. news 4's kristen wright is live at the scene with what happened. plus, if you're about to leave for work, take a look at this. this is a live picture in northwest washington. it's a weather alert day because of the heavy fog around here and all of that rain. coming up, when the fog will finally lift and when the heavy rain will arrive. that's next on "new i've smoked a lot and quit a lot, but ended up nowhere. now i use this. the nicoderm cq patch, with unique extended release technology, helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. i want this time to be my last time. that's why i choose nicoderm cq.

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