55 degrees when youre going out for your friday evening and a mild s. T. A. R. T. Near 50 degrees first thing tomorrow morning. Well get more into how nice it will be. Coming up in a few more minutes. It is traffic time. Heres Melissa Mollet. Good morning. A water main break here. It could be around for a couple manufacture hours as they try to get it cleared up and out of the way. Again, westbound lanes of eisenhower avenue close at telegraph. Wheel keep you updated on that one. 95 northbound at 234 through dumfries we have a little bit of a slowdown because of the debris in the roadway. You can see here. Everything rolling along just fine. We dont have any big worries as youre looking at the shot of the beltway. Up top, 95, everything is rolling along just fine. Live look at Prince Georges County coming up. A scare at Arkansas University after an armed man drove onto campus causing a lockdown. Brad bartelt posted that he was homicidal. He had gasoline and propane with him. Police were able to take him into custody without firing any shots. Bartelt was a former student at one of ascs campuses. An assistant director in charge of the fbi Los Angeles Office said divers are looking for a computer hard drive missing from one of the homes of the suspects. Thursday was the day of searching lake see come, three miling from the shooting. It could take several days. One of the arms linked to the terror attacks was linked back to the u. S. The serial number was one that marched an american arms dealer online. Its not clear how it got badge to europe. Later, we expect a shortterm spending bill to pass through the house. Action needs to be taken today to keep the government running. The senate has already acted and once the shortterm bill is passed lawmakers need to get back to work on a longterm deal. Today a shakeup in Prince Georges County. Sources tell us that police chief mark magaw announced he is retiri retiring. As soon as today the home of maryland football may have a different name. The university of maryland back court of regents say it may be changed from byrd stadium to maryland stadium. Some say byrd had racist views. Its sentencing day for a woman who embezzled more than 380,000 from her employer and the properties she managed. Lorraine sear also faces tax evasion and wire fraud charges in the district. She pled guilty earlier this year. Court documents show she spent the cash on casinos and shopping. The sentence could include both jail time and financial penalties. New this morning more than 150 refugees from syria are in toronto. The government flew them there on a military airplane that tumbled down overnight. Justin trudeau greeted the refugees in person. The government plans to resettle 25,000 refugees over the next few months. Major change in the fight over gun control. The stating state being the first to ban it. Outbreak. They mourn the loss of one of their own. How theyre turning greefr into a positive mission. Its going been a beautiful weekend. Will it be developments in the fight over gun control. Malloy plans to sign it banning sales of guns to people on watch lists it. Ee something president obama called for in his address to the nation. Chris van hollen is urging larry hogan to take a similar action here. There is a lot of damage after a possible tornado in washington state. Its the latest weather worry after days of torrential rain. Theyve got rain, flooding. No one was hurt in yesterdays possible tornado. Students did temporarily shelter in place inside the school. Two businesses were evacuated and sustained pretty serious damage. Today the board of resubsequents will decide if byrd stadium should be renamed. In a few hours the board will take a vote and news4s molette green will have more on why there is a push to change the name. Mollet . Reporter good morning, erika. Were expecting in just a few hours the vote on the difficult and emotional issue for a lot of people connected to this university. Thats when the University Board of regents meets as you said and takes up this proposal to rename byrd stadium. This push comes from the top there. The University President , the current president wallace low citing the president racist. They recommend sending it to maryland stadium. If approved h. C. s contributions to this institution would still be recognized in one of the main libraries. This move today would go even further. Theres a plan on this campus to open up dialogue about diversity and in the words of the University President , bridge the divide on this campus. That is the latest now live from the university of maryland. Im molette green, news4. Back to you. All right, molette. Thank you very much. Coming up at 5 11, weather traffic on the 1s. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell getting us ready for the weekend. Chuck . Yes, indeed. If youre thinking about driving out this weekend, no worries. Just sunglasses. Dry on i95, 81, and 70. Air travel, no real trouble around here. Could have delays around the american hubs. Outside temperatures are in the 30s and mid40s. So your commute today on your way in, pockets of fog. Temperatures about 43 degrees on the ride in. Sunshine delays and your sunglasses. Thats all you need to worry about today. Temperatures near 65 degrees. Weekend forecast coming up in ten minutes. One of the days youre going to like more than the other. Im going to let you know coming up. Melissa, heres traffic now. Thank you. No major problems inner loop or outer loop. 95 north of dumfries we do have a report of debris in the roadway. Popping up on a couple of different systems. A warning there. 270 northbound and southbound, no erbs. Remember this in alexandria. Westbound lanes of eisenhower avenue shut down for some road repairs after water main break yesterday. Thats near telegraph road. Eastbound lanes being used for twoway traffic. They could still be here if they dont get it wrapped up in the next couple of hours as things start progressing with the morning commute. Overall looking quite good. No major problems there. Well have a live look at 270 coming up. A laser pointer leaves a man in handcuffs. Why Police Officers say it was outrage and sadness after the death of a Montgomery County offer. The 24yearold died yesterday. Police say a suspected drunk driver hit offer liotta last week on rockville pike. The police chief tom manger partly blamed them for the death. He was killed by a man arrested twice before for drunk driving. Jock mccarthy said 5 15. Today action that Montgomery County officials hope will keep other drunk drivers off the road. News4s Megan Mcgrath has more. Megan, whats happened today . Reporter well, aaron, its the Holiday Season. That means a lot of office parties and entertaining. The officers want to make sure those who have been drinking dont get behind the wheel. Im standing here. Its a reminder of just how dangerous a drunk driver can be. Heres how it works. Take a look here. You can use the bemydd app. A professional driver will come to the location, drive you in your car back to your house or wherever youre headed. Rather than calling for a taxi, you dont have to go back. Its anywhere from 14 to 19. 50 depending where you live. A 25 service for car pickup if you want someone to come and pick up your car. Liquor Stores AcrossMontgomery County are going to be handing out free 20 gift cards which will help defray the cost of the driver. They just want to make sure that nobody gets behind the wheel this Holiday Season and takes the risk because you can see the memorial behind me here, it can have deadly consequences. This program gets under way today and it will be in effect through january 1st. Back you do in the studio. All right, megan. Thank you. Starting today the Sober Ride Program starts at 10 00 tonight and runs through new years day. The organization is hold ang event to honor Law Enforcement in our area this morning. News4s transportation report reporter Melissa Mollet will emcee that event. Some were upset over relocating a mosque in fredericksburg. A meeting turned hostile. One man was repeatedly interrupting the presentation. That starts at 7 00 in the auditorium at river bend high school. We went into the community to talk with muslims who live in our area and they tell us theyre experiencing an antiislam backlash. Some children are getting bullied at school. Police officers listened to their concerns in Montgomery County last night. One woman told us shes worried about her son. He feels quite marginalized. In fact, some of the kids in the school are naming him as isis. Police also alerted the community to incident this month and a possible hate email investigation. A school chief wants more money. Last year his budget led to a pretty bitter dispute and this year hes asking for more. He proposed a 2 billion budget during his state of the School Meeting last night. He wants smaller class sizes for kindergarten through second grade, a specialized program, and raise teachers salaries. A developing story. A second man now in custody. Matthew slon ski was hit by a stray bullet. Andre dudley was arrested yesterday. Hes now charged with seconddegree murder and police had named him a person of interest. Marcus king, as you may remember, was also charged in the murder. There are no new clues in the disappearance of relisha ru rudd. Rudd disappeared in march 2014. Kahlil tatum, the man who was with her committed suicide. This happened in charlottesville. The charlottesville officer said he was in his cruiser when the man pointed the laser at his face. The officer spotted the man in the car across the street, pulled him over, and charged him. A major break in the murder of a young woman in spotsylvania county. Police now have 21yearold heather ciccones cell phone. The cell phone has critical messages and phone calls in the hours before someone killed her. Chuck bell says get out the flipflops. Very nice temperature this weekend. Well get you ready for the warmup on the way. Chuck . Yeah, you guys. Get ready for it. December . What december. Weve decided to skip it all together. Weve skipped all of winter. Temperatures getting close to 70 degrees for the next four days in a row. How unbelievable is that in december. First thing you need to know, though, on your way out the door though. Yes, theres a little bit of fog but nowhere near as much as the last couple of days. Undered my visibility in martinsburg. A little fog along the bay as well. Really its going to be river crossings by the bay. Be careful. Well be back with much warmer weather. Heres the fog forecast by 7 00 this morning. Still areas of fog around here but nowhere near as big of a deal as its been. By 9 00, 10 00, thats all gone. Well be left with sunshine to warm things up. 43 at 7 00. Well be in the 50s by 9 00. In the afternoon f you can get out of work early today, full alert to do that. A record high at National Today is 68 degrees. So there is a chance we can tie or break that record today. If you go out of town, its going to be mild and dry. Evening temperatures staying in the 50s. No more than a light wrap to keep you warm. Thats it. Highs today, 65 in frederick, maryland, 68 in fredericksburg. Cooler today, high in annapolis. Saturday, i think saturdays the pick of the litter for the weekend. Sunshine and warm. 69 tomorrow. Near 70 on sunday. The knock on 70. More clouds. Should be staying dry, but the next big change in the weather arrives as we get into sunday night and monday morning. Thats when things start to turn around a little bit later. Ill let you know how much colder it will get. Thats at 5 51. Heres Melissa Mollet. Good morning. Good morning. Looking quite good. Dont have any problems. The nice weather will be a great and the evening commute as well. You can see were flowing along very nicely. 95 north here at dumfries, still have that debris in the roadway being reported. That is very, very good for us this morning. As we zoom in here, westbound lanes shut down. The eastbound lanes are taking through to trachlk this is because of the overnight water main repairs going on there. Taking a look at inbound. You dont have any major issue there. Right now, i95. Its going to take you ten minutes. Well see you at 5 31. Starting new today, new rules. Ddot is increasing several violations. It will go way, way up. Tripling in some cases. For example, youll have to pay a thousand dollars. And if you hit a cyclist, that fine is ten times as much as it was before. This morning 120 leaders will gather to push state funding. School funding for each individual student has gone from close to 4,300 to just over 3,600 in 2016. Donald trump is not backing down, but is his plan to ban muslims hurting his polls. What new numbers are revealing about his campaign. Outrage in chicago. What protesters are called for as hundreds march for change after a man was killed by a Police Officer. Chucks four things to know about the forecast as you start yo right now, fallout on donald trump and his plan to ban muslims. And a plan that shut down offices in d. C. Hundreds of protesters after the death of a teenager. The changes theyre calling for. Good morning. Im erika gonzalez. Im aaron gilchrist. We want to get to four things you need to know about your forecast. Good morning, everybody. Friday finally here after a very mild week. It looks like were in store for an even milder weekend. What do you know about the weather . Less fog to deal with but more warmth coming not just for today but for the weekend. Perfect day to get out of work earlier. Your weekend plans are looking a great. Our december heat wave is really starting to crank up and we might be near recordhigh temperatures for each of the next four days. Weather impact today, nice and low. Fog in spots this morning but even warmer temperatures today will climb into the upper 0s. Heres those pockets of fochlgt northern maryland, shenandoah valley, and baysize. Heres your hour by hour. 40s this morning. 66 by lunchtime. 66 degrees for highs today. As i mentioned the will be the beginning of an incredible stretch of warmth. Temperatures. A chance firefighter a cold front comes by. Still staying well above average. I cranked out the numbers for the sevenday forecast, melissa. By the end of the seventh day, december might be as much as 12 degrees warmer than average. Really . Thats insane. That would crush the old record. I like that. When i come out in the morning and it feels like ah, i didnt have to run freezing cold to the car so early in the morning. Right now the weather is being very nice to the roads here in morning. 66 and 90 looking clear. One thing on 95, debris in the roadway at dumfries. Taking a look at the issue we had earlier, pushing this out for any folks. Westbound near eisenhower shut down. Eastbound being used for two lanes of traffic. Water main break thats going to last through the morning. Top of the beltway looking fine. Moving along just fine. 95 here in maryland from 32 down to the beltway is going to take you ten minutes just as it should. Travel times in ten minutes. That factory in syria now a pile of rubble. Two syrian groups blamed for it. They say the Syrian Government use thad building to make chemical weapons. Take a look. You can see orange dust in the air after the explosion and implosion. Right now in switzerland, the u. S. Embassy in switzerland is warning citizens to be extra vigilant. The country raised its terror alert while Police Search for four people who may be linked to isis. Police believe the suspects were planning an attack. A former Police Officer could soon be sentenced to more than 260 years behind bars. A jury found 29yearold daniel holtzclog guilty of sexual assault. He was charged with both rape and battery. Decision 2016. It looks like Republican Voters seem to be siding with president ial candidate donald trump on his proposed ban of muslims into the u. S. This as he gets a bigtime endorsement in new hampshire. Tracie potts with what this is doing for his cam paint tracie, good morning. Hey, aaron. Last night donald trump got his endorsement from the northeast police ben everybody lent organization. He also said the Death Penalty should apply to anyone who kills a Police Officer. Now, its his more controversial idea that is the subject of the latest nbc wall street journal poll. 50 of the americans, thats overall democrats, s, independents. They did agree. For a whole of this side pollsters point out that a large percentage, 15 remain undecided on that. Do people think donald trump is insulted . About four out of ten said yes. Hes bringing up important issues and almost a quarter said hes actually got the right approach. More people in our poll than not. 21 were favorable to muslims. Heres whats interesting. While people are split over whether or not this is a good idea. Overall his numbers continue to grow. The nbc New York Times poll, hes got 35 . Next closest, ted cruz. Tracie potts on capitol hill. Thank you, tracie. Virginia voigters will have more than a dozen to choose from. Yesterday was the deadline for president ial candidates to mitt entries. George pataki did not try to qualify. All three Democratic Candidates will also be on the ballot. For the first time today well hear from the family of a chicago teen killed by a Police Officer. You may remember the dash cam video that shows the officer firing at 17yearold Laquan Mcdonald as many as 16 times. Today mcdonalds family is expected to call for the resignation of the county states attorney. Officer Jason Van Dyke faces murder charges in the october 2014killings. Blanding pleaded guilt to shooting his friend and setting his body on fire and leaving it in an alley in june. An alert for parents after a former teacher gets indicted on child porn charges. Tommy stants