The toll road this morning. Still have this section of the toll road shut down, westbound toll road just after Fairfax County parkway, thats where the crash happened with an overturned truck, all lanes being pushed on to fair fashion county parkway. Overall beltway looking okay. You can see no major problems on the beltway. Into town and out of town looking good. 66 here, live westbound no worries. Edgar welsh will be in sort again today. This was him in court yesterday. He was accused of firing a gun inside the pizza restaurant comet ping pong on sunday. He claims he was selfinvestigating a fake news story called pizza gate which spread online. The New York Times published a story based on a jailhouse interview with him. News 4 spoke with the rorner and Megan Mcgrath is live good morning. Reporter adam goldman is a reporter with the New York Times and he recently spoke we had gar welsh who is in jail for that shooting. He said that he came to comet ping pong to selfinvestigate something he had read online. It was a fakes news story, a hoax which falsely claimed a child sex ring was being run out of the restaurant. He sahe restaurant to do harm. Reporter adam goldman explains. His original plan was not to do what he did, he said he was just going to go up there and check it out and come back on that sunday, but something something flipped. Reporter and welsh is accused of opening fire inside comet ping pong, no one was hurt. He is due in court again today. He is facing a variety of deadly weapon. Megan, thank you. President elect donald trump is headed to Ohio State University today. He is expected to meet with the victims and First Responders involved in last months attack there. 11 people were hurt when a student drove his car into a group of pedestrians and later stabbed several other people with a butcher knife. He was shot and killed by a Campus Police officer. Meanwhile, trump was back on twitter late last night this time with harsh words for a at 5 50. The michigan ace recount is over. A federal judge lifted a ruling that forced a series of ballots. He said he must follow a decision that found that Green Party Candidate jill stein had no legal standing to request the recount. Stein is vowing to appeal the decision. Hillary clinton will return to capitol hill today, she will leader harry reid, he is retiring at the end of this session of congress. Clintons public appearances have been rare since she conceded the election to donald trump last month. Ready to roll. In just almost 18 hours, a little under 18 hours the Mgm National Harbor casino resort will open for business in Prince Georges County. Officials expect 30,000 visitors in the first 24 hours alone. A lotof to help you get ready, working to ep could you prepared for the traffic impact outside the casino. This morning we are taking you inside to show all of the billion dollar facility that has to offer. News 4s justin finch is live inside the lobby in morning. Look at all that, justin. Good morning to you. Reporter hey, there, eun, good morning. Its kind of like being an elf in santas workshop on christmas tonight. From construction crews outside to floral artists they are on the ground working here, everyone trying to make this grand opening tonight a big billion dollar impression. Now, just yesterday it became real. Marylands top lottery and gaming official signing off on Mgm National Harbors operational license, that much needed piece of paper helps make way for tonights opening. Now a few facts about Mgm National Harbor. We know that 46 ofsx . Casino employees are from Prince Georges County, square feet plus of gaming space that includes several dozen table games like poker and blackjack to more than 3,000 slot machines. If you are not a gambler no worries here, there are more than a dozen restaurants from fine dining to fast casual. Chances are you will find something here to do. If you want to play in the casino, weve got a great casino. But if you are not interested or if you are interested in other great dining, beautiful art, this is a place for you to come as well. Reporter and back live here looking at the holiday display here in the lobby here. Once you arrive here tonight or in the next few days you will see a lot of local touches, lots of local art. You can see over at that wall, those are Cherry Blossoms by a local landscape artist. Morning. Coming up all morning were taking you all around the lobby here, all around the restaurants talking to key players here about whats going on and what to expect when you arrive here. Back into you. I like that local touch putting the Cherry Blossoms incorporated into that lobby. Very nice. We will check back in a bit. Thanks. Six minutes after the hour. Paramedics had to take ten people to the hospital after a metrobus collided with a car, about us was turning on to south capitol street from malcolm x boulevard. Police say no one was seriously hurt. This morning we are working to learn whether a truck driver will face charges in a deadly crash in frederick. First 4 traffic brought you this scene as breaking news yesterday morning. 40yearold Ross Michaels died after a tractortrailer driver lost control and crashed into his car. It happened where i70 meets i 270. Maryland state police said the truck driver abruptly. Michaels was a father of two. He was headed back home after picking up a computer from his office. A local soldier is dead this morning more than three weeks after he was injured in a sue id a attack in afghanistan. Sergeant first class allan brown died on tuesday at Walter Reed National military center. He was from tack mow park. He was injured when militants attacked bag gram airfield. Fun run. Two u. S. Contractors were also killed. Today the man kicked to run d. C. Schools will try to win the approval of the d. C. Council and the public. Muriel bowser nominated Antoine Wilson to be chancellor of d. C. Public schools last week. Wilson is from california where he was superintendent of the Oakland Unified School district in california. He visited Tubman Elementary School in northwest yesterday morning, the council must approve him henderson. Today you will have a chance to with a he in on the future of the superintendent for false church schools. The school board wants parents to explain what qualifications and characteristics theyre looking for in a district leader. That meeting is at 7 00 become p. M. At Thomas JeffersonElementary School on oak street. Part of Northern Virginia still under a water warning, still ahead where you can stock up on your bottled water supply for free. Plus closer to the weekend temperatures. 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Its always pretty every year, it runs every night from 5 00 to 9 00 through january 1st except for Christmas Eve and christmas snowless tubing for the kids and adults, too. The event is free and amelia, as the zoo transforms into a Winter Wonderland so is to weather so to speak. Appropriately so. Its going to be the coldest its been since february, starting tomorrow through sunday and then a heads up, guys, next week were talking about a really serious chill, highs only in the low 30s and upper 20s, that cold a high of a7 sunshine as we head into the afternoon hours and the cold blast that we will be dealing with tomorrow mo fs in overnight tonight. Throughout the day today the weather having a low impact throughout the day. A few isolated sprinkles but for most of us dry and chilly. Recess for the kids will be outdoors but you want the winter jacket. If youre getting the Christmas Tree tonight a good night. Kids friday and saturday evening but tonight we will keep it dry and cold. Melissa, you are just getting new information on updates on the who will road. The westbound toll road after Fairfax County parkway we still have that problem with the [ inaudible ] lanes being shut down. A tow truck is on the lane. The airport access lanes are now open. If youre headed to the airport you dont have to get off and get back on. That is good n rolling along this morning, the ramp to gw parkway still shut down for the bridge inspection, we will look at 270 coming up. It is 5 13. Here are the top stories. Edgar welch is due in a d. C. Courtroom today, he is the man accused of firing a gun inside a northwest d. C. Restaurant as he selfinvestigated a fake news story referred to as pizzagate. National harbor, the casino resort official opens for business tonight at 11 00. We are hours away from the opening of the Mgm National Harbor casino. We are looking at how this could affect the national economy. Chris lawrence is back in his hometown for an in depth look at how mgm grand detroit has impacted that city. Reporter we will get our first look at the mgm grand National Harbor this morning but weve got a pretty good idea of the mgm grand detroit. We saw some of the latest slots, including one with he will en degeneres but we also good a good idea of what it means to be a local casino, starbucks has been switched out for a local coffee shop, some of the whiskey they serve is from a local distill ri, more than half of the employees that mgm grand detroit hires have to be from the city and nearly a third of business with also has to be local. This is not vegas but it is going to be something on a scale that we have not seen in our area. New developments at 5 00, police just increased the reward for a man accused of killing a cop. Together several departments are offering 50,000 for minquell lembricks arrest. State investigators say he killed officer Nicholas Smarr yesterday. Smarr was only 25 years old. Investigators salem brick in Critical Condition right now. An escaped inmate accused of stabbing a Police Officer and he is on the run right now. Investigators say Michael Williamson attacked the Service Inside a wall mat in columbia, south carolina, he is reported to reports of a shoplifter. She is expected to recover. It was a rare show of bipartisanship in the senate yesterday as lawmakers on both president joe biden. It included virginia senator tim kaine who told a story how in 2008 biden helped an 18yearold man vote for the first time. The man was struggling with cancer and was too sick to get out of the car. The fact that you took your time on that day of importance to you to shed some light and offer some joy to someone who was biden that has us here for two hours offering these tributes. You could just hear the emotion in the senators voice. Biden himself wiped away tears as the tributes continued. He represented delaware in the senate for 36 years. Meanwhile, maryland senator Barbara Mikulski reflected on her legacy on the senate floor yesterday, she is retiring after 30 years in the senate. She called for return to broadway hit. When you sing live, do you know how hard that is to sound that good . Do you . Not me, you. Erika gonzalez is here. I will not sing live. Jennifer hudson it was a hit. You just heard Jennifer Hudson, spectacular. At 8 00 last night so many people were on their phones live tweeting the tv debut of hair grande and matty balleo a texan who is a newcomer to the scene, never been on broadway, never been on tv. I think one of my favorite one was was Jennifer Hudson good . I collapsed out of pure euphoria the moment that she started singing. That was great. In my dreams i dance this well and my wigs look this good. I mean, this is all over social media last night. Really, really f you know, matty balleo the star of the show was here on news 4 midday and i got an opportunity to interview her. She is from texas and she had never auditioned before, she had never been on broadway and she was so jittery that she even thought probably not to audition and she had a fabulous life. Kprc had reporters at her talent. Her talent speaks for itself. Absolutely. Back to you guys. A fun fact about hair spray for you the creator actually lives in baltimore, the original creator. Mark seagraves spoke with john waters about his brain filed, its future and why he didnt watch the live version last night. We will hear from him coming up a little bit later in our newscast. Sometimes you cant watch your own work, its too much. Do you remember rickie lake was in the first 80s. Of course. Its changed a little bit since john waters did his original piece. Its like we cant watch our onus cast. I watch it everyq lovingly, look how good i am. No. Amelia, how about our forecast. Right now, guys, were coming in in the 30s across the area, Still Holding at 39 in washington, the suburbs obviously a little bit school cooler. You can always download our nbc washington app to get the latest forecast on your phone. Mostly cloudy skies right now, the winds for the most part calm. As we head into the afternoon hours you can see with the wind forecast it will become a little bit breezy and tomorrow blustery throughout the day. When you factor in the winds it will feel like we are in the teens and 20s for the majority of the day because of that. It is the storm team 4 weather alert day. The winds come down a little bit on saturday, a bit breezy and still going to be cold. Now, a high tomorrow 41 but its feeling much cooler, especially during the morning and the evening hours and we will have mostly to partly sunny skies tomorrow as we close out the workweek. Here is a look at the next ten days, again, tomorrow storm team 4 weather alert day but still cold on saturday with a high of 39. Saturday evening day indoors and stay warm and check our tracking winter special that will be airing at 7 30 in the evening. All of us have contributed forecast on monday and its the warmest day out of the next ten days. After that we start to track another cool down. Really arrives next wednesday with a month, 40s, but then low 30s and upper 20s next thursday and friday. So were dealing with this first arctic blast, melissa, tomorrow through sunday and then another big cooldown next week. But right now any issues on the roads . Still have this problem on the toll road, westbound after Fairfax County parkway, so the main lanes there are blocked, you will have to get off on to Fairfax County parkway. We spoke with police, tow is on the way and those airport access lanes are open. So hoping this doesnt stick around too much longer. Something new here southbound 270 as promised after 80 we have a broken down vehicle blocking the left lane, eastbound southeast southwest freeway that ramp to northbound 12th street tunnel right now the tractortrailer there is stopped at the tunnel in the right lane ramp to gw has cleared out of the way. A new flying frustration, a Major Airline cracking down on carry ons, still ahead the new rules that are sure to cause more travel trouble. A family feud for a modern news4 today. The National Transportation safety board has released a report on that Deadly School bus crash in baltimore. This happened back on november 1st. The driver the report, rather, says the driver had been in at least 12 crashes in the past five years. It also said that he had a history of seizures. He was among six People Killed when his school bus slammed into an mta bus. He worked for a Company Called affordable transportation which had a contract with the Baltimore CityPublic School system. Comment. Actress Sofia Vergara is being sued by her own embryos, she is in a legal battle with her formerz. . . Fianc . E nick lo concerning the embryos custody. The couple had planned to have kids through a surrogate and fertilize four eggs together. After two unsuccessful attempts the couple split in 2014. The vergara wants the remaining two embryos destroyed. Loeb has too ties to the state of indiana lawsuit was filed on behalf of the eggs. Lisa bloom says this may be his last resort. If the last Court Dismisses this, and im sure that Sofia Vergaras attorneys are going to ask for that as soon as possible, i dont see what remedies nick has left. He already tried in california court, that didnt go the way that he wanted, so i think his Legal Op