Driving in those areas. Otherwise temperatures are mild, in the upper 40s and low 50s right now. Youre focused on the next 24 hours. A lot of clouds. Mid to upper 40s. As you get set to go out, temperatures will be in the mid40s. A cold breeze settles in for tomorrow. Its going to start feeling like winter for a change. Sevenday forecast coming up. For now, traffic time with miss Melissa Mollet. Breaking news. Take a leer here at the top of the beltway, we have a twomile backup. The initial one is this. Two left lanes blocked for roadwork thats going to very likely stick around for the next hour. The issue after that here, take a look at we sort of zoom in here this morning. Outer loop at New Hampshire. 66 and 95 dont have any major problems. 66 or 95, everything rolling along just fine. More on top of the beltway coming up. St. Louis braces for new floodwaters. Nearly 13 feet above flood stage, it could happen at any time and it would be the worst flooding on record. Crews pumped water out and they tried to shore up levies there as hundreds are ordered out close to the merrimack river. Erika, well be watching these latest developments all throughout the morning. Thanks, molette. Police tell us one person was shot but the victims injuries are not lifethreatening. Investigators are looking for a hyundai sports car seen near the shooting scene. Prince georges county Police Offering a 25,000 reward for a murder case. They say Nathanial Powell jr. Was shot in a parking lot on brooks drive in suitland yesterday. He died. He was 51 years old. Developing right now, the man who played americas favorite tv dad bill cosby out of jail charged with Sexual Assault. Cosby posted a 1 million bond yesterday. Hes accused of Sexual Misconduct by dozens of women, but this is the first time hes actually been charged with a crime. This case involves a former Temple University employee who cosby invited to his home in philadelphia back in 2004. Coming up in a few minutes, nbcs Edward Lawrence will join us with more on whats next for cosby. This morning d. C. Police want your help to find this man. They say melvin dehart latny is wanted in a sex abuse case. The attack and robbery happened on eighth street in the southeast last month. Police say latny is also wanted in two other robberies. Today members of our community will gather to remember the young lives lost in the district. The northeast performing arts group will host a candlelight ceremony. Canned ll be lit for each of the young people under 25 who have been killed in the district. The group says its been holing the event for the past 25 years hoping that each year will be the last. Right now lets show you a live look at times square this morning. Actually lets take you back to new zealand. Look at this. Beautiful shots. Fireworks going off there. Right now we can tell you. Preparations are under way in the city. You can expect to see, of course, more police on the streets in new york. Nbcs Chris Pollone has more. Well check in with him later this hour. In just a few hours the ball will drop in times square, david. It sure will. In other parts of the world they have been called off. Long guns, radiation detectors, bombsniffing dogs, theyre going to join hundreds of thousands. Nearly 6,000 Police Officers will be on the job. The nypd expect 1 Million People in the city. Were not expecting huge numbers of folks to celebrate in the capitol, but the authorities still see it as a potential target. In belgium Authorities Say they ave stopped a major terror plot. Theyve called off festivities altogether. Here at home were counting down to the new year. Before watching fireworks, you a can attend during the day. The event rings in during the day with performing arts. News4s Megan Mcgrath joins us live to let us know everything thats happening there. Its a beautiful shot behind you there, megan. It really is. Were here along king street. You can see how everything is just beautifully lit here, just the perfect backdrop for a new years eve celebration. And, really, there is something for everyplace, every member of the family regardless of age. The first nights festivities, that get under way in a matter of hours. Youve seen video from previous years but its always a terrific time. This is an alcoholfree event with music, art, dance and other performances for the entire family. Tickets are 30 for adults. If youre a fitness person, those events involve workouts you can participate in. There are 100 performances that are going to happen throughout the course of the day here in old town right on up until midnight. Venues are all around town. Hotels, museum, and public buildings will host events. Theyre all within walking distance of each other, and, of course, it all ends at midnight with a big fireworks display. Lets take a look at the specifics. The fireworks will happen at the foot of king street at midnight and theres a lot of information on our website. Nbcwashington. Com. You can get all the specifics on the performances and the specific venues as well. Back to you all in the stew owe. All right. M Megan Mcgrath at old town. Thanks, megan. Dont forget ridet after midnight arent going to cost you a thing. Theyre open until 3 00 tomorrow morning. For more on what to know for the holiday like the impact on parking and transportation, check out the nbc washington app. All right. 6 07 right now is your time. Look outside this morning. A lovely shot. The roads still a little wet in some spots but the rain and fog is gone for now. Chuck bell is back at 6 11 with a look at your travel forecast. If your new years eve plans involve heading out of town. People post a lot of things on facebook, but driving drunk, the man police say did just that and how they were eventually able to track him down. And a district staple getting ready to close its doors. Whos saying goodbye how about a case of oversharing. A drunk driver got himself arrested. Dustin rittgers posted himself online in the act. One of his friends saw it on facebook and called police. They used the video to identify his suv and found him still on the road. Dash cam video shows officers taking him into custody. Thats the video right there. Thats not the first time hes been arrested for drug drivinging. Storm team 4 met chuck bell with how well be starting 2016. Yes, indeedy. Well be starting on a relatively cold note. Its not that cold this morning. Itd led to patchy fog. Zero visibility in luray. Three quarters of a mile in culpeper. Weather will not have much of an impact on any of your plans today. The clouds and fog will lift this morning. Breezy but dry this afternoon. Windchills back in the 30s this evening. As youre going out for your new years eve plans, youll wand to layer up in a bit. Green lights for even. I got the green light. Red lights, thats Melissa Mollet department. Here she is. Red lights. Breaking news. Take a look here. Top of the beltway as youre approaching, a twomile backup because of emergency roadwork. Should be wrapped up in the next 20 minutes or so and hopefully loosen up just a little bit all of the problems. 270 we had a report of an earlier crash there. Looks like were getting around okay there. Germantown to the spur, 270, no major problems. Again, top of the belt wii to 235 is going to take you 30 minutes. 56 looks okay, 95 in virginia looks just fine. Remember to listen to our friends on wtop 103. 5 f. M. Your time right now, 6 13. Brandnew developments in the extradition of ethan couch and his mom. Which one of them is back in the u. S. And which one is still fighting extradition. A major headsup for Virginia College students. What you must do today to qualify for a tax ded back in the u. S. With her socalled affluenza teen. Youre looking at tonya couch in handcuffs. She was deported. Her son was moved to a larger detention city in mexico city after his lawyers convinced the judge to delay his return to the states. Cameras caught a glimpse of his transport van taking him there. The 18yearold and his mother were arrested monday in a resort town reportedly taking off to avoid a possible parole violation stemming from a 2013 deadly drunk driving crash. Get ready to ring in the new year with cold temperatures. How cold will it get. Chuck bell walks us through the weekend. A computer technician accusing a local lobbyist for threatening to kill him for not fixing his computer. Mondellos wife says it never happened. What hes alleged is such a lie. Its so fabricated its just beyond me. We told him to get out and we wanted dell to send us another computer. Mondello runs his own lobbying firm in south arlington. His wife says the gun was fake and he never pointed it at anyone. Hell be back in march to face gun charges. New details on a woman charged with driving into a crowd. Lakeis Lakeisha Holloway is charged with killing one and injured 35. They say she had marijuana in her system. They say that information wont affect her charges which include murder and felony hitandrun. A 24yearold california man is facing federal charges for his connection to the deadly San Bernardino massacre. Prosecutors say Enrique Marquez bought the guns used in the december 2. Shooting that killed 14 people heefs also accused of conspiring with shooter syed farook to carry out other attacks in 2011 and 2012 that did not happen. Mar kiz faces 50 years in prison if he is convicted. Starting tomorrow, a concealed carry permit in texas will double as an open carry permit. That means someone can carry a gun out in the open in the lone star state. Nearly a million texans have a concealed handgun permit. Under the new law no additional paperwork or requirement is needed for open carry. They must be over 21 and have a clean criminal, Mental Health record. Texas joins 44 other states that allow people to openly carry their handguns. Vdot wants to hear from you in the new year. Theyre holding an information session on the proposed hot lanes on 395. The toll lanes could go on 395 north into arlington. This was proposed by the Mcauliffe Administration early this year. Construction is slated to begin in 2017. The information session is happening monday, january 25th. Its going to be at 7 00 in the afternoon at the fair lington community center. Scams. We have warned you about them all trout 2015 about the way crooks try to steal your money. Scams cost nearly 1 million this year. Number one scam reported, tax scams. The bbb compiled its list of the top scams of 2015. Marcy rolf of brookville, maryland, explains the phone calls she received, somebody impersonating the irs. They say the tax scam is the most reported of 2015. I sew i answered the phone and it was a prerecorded message. This is the irs. To avoid further legal action, call this number immediately. The caller i. D. Is often spoofed to appear to be from the Government Agency or police. Remember, the irs will never call you to collect taxes. The second most popular scam will involve a phony debt collector, somebody calls you and you have this unpaid debt and if you dont pay it right away, they can throw you in jail. Again, all these phony scams. So this weekend youre going to have another chance to become a multimillionaire. No one was a winner in last nights 301 million drawing. The jackpot expected to reach 334 million bucks on saturday. How about that to start the new year. That would be a nice paycheck. That would be nice. Hope you start off a lucky individual with that lottery ticket. 6 21 is the time now. I want to get your weather headlines. We start with weather traffic on the 1s with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. Thanks, erika. David, good morning, everybody. Go remember to stay safe, stay sober, or have somebody else do the driving for you. Partly cloudy sky over washington. There is some thick fog out across parts of Northern Virginia from Prince William toward cull piper, paige and culpeper. Your weather headlines for today, new yearing new pattern coming up. Cool dry breezes coming later on this afternoon and after weeks of cloudy weather are you ready for some sunshine . I know i am. Well get a little sunshine today but more anded more coming with the next couple of days. Hourly temperatures, not a big rise. Well squeak our way into the low to mid 50s with a little bit of sunshine. This is what i saw last night on my walk around the national mall. Willow trees with green leaves back on them again around the washington monument. Doesnt look or feel like winter now. That will be changing. At least the feel of it will. Going out tonight on new years eve. Temperatures will feel a lot colder than weve been the last couple of nights. I barely needed a like jacket. Temperatures and feel like faj tors will be in the upper 30s. Actually air temperatures low 40s around town. Any rain chances, no, not for us. Closest rain chances are around tidewater, virginia. Thats where theyre going to same we dont have to worry about that around here. Well get more and more sunshine as we get later on into the day. New years eve planner or day planner for tomorrow, more sunshine coming your way and the weekend looks pretty good too. Temperatures on saturday with the sunshine will be in the mid40s and then sunday, mostly sunny in the upper 40s. The next big change and a much cooler weather pattern shows up next week. Ill show you the forecast coming up at 6 k4r7b 1. Heres Melissa Mollet. Bragging news at the top of the beltway, again, we have this crew car driving for you this morning. Outer loop as you approach New Hampshire avenue, sounds like the repairs have been done there. Still have two left lanes blocked. This morning you can see some of that red extending there as well this morning. Pretty nasty. Inner loop and outer loop otherwise looking quite good. You cant see other problems there. 66 wi dont have any problems. 95 is rolling along just fine. 270, we had a report of a crash in the southbound lanes, slowing things. Does not look to be the case and southbound right side blocked there because of an overturned vehicle. More at the top of the beltway coming up. The search for a missing Country Singer enters the fourth day. Back road anthem Craig Strickland left for a duck hunting trip with his friend. They found stricklands friends body tuesday. The dog they took with them they found alive. The weekend ends storm killed three people. A family in north virginia has been cut off from the rest of their neighborhood because of roadworks. The street connecting the krukow familys driveway has been blocked all month. They have to go down a muddy road to get to their house. Often blocked with construction. Trash trucks cant make it and delivery trucks, they barely make the attempt. We accepted the fact we will suffer some inconvenience due to the construction but we didnt expect the situation to be like this. They tell nez 4 that contractors ran into some unexpected issues and the deadline was pushed to early january. Now its looking like midmarch. Still no guarantees. In news for your health, a new study says 40 vitamin three d says it could reduce the risk of muscular sclerosis. The low dose showed no change in tcells. The movie concussion is causing a lot of attention to this brain form. Doctors are taking a new approach for dealing with many of these common head injuries. Theyre now saying the best thing for anybody after they suffer a concussion is rest. Dont rush into tivgtss. You need rest. Doctors stress if you dont rest properly and your brain gets repeatedly trauma tiedsed then the damage could become permanent. Today is the deadline to get a tax break as part of a College Savings plan in virginia. The virginia 529 program lets you start paying your childs College Tuition years in advance. Todays the last day to apply and get a deduction on you 2015 tacks up to 4,000. The ymca will close after 40 years. It has sold the billing to a developer. Some of the program and staffers will moving to the ymca on w street in the northwest. Theres no word if another ymca will be built in dupont. Lets give you another live look outside this morning. If youre working today like us, you shouldnt see the clouds and fog that weve seen in the past few mornings. Chuck bell is back with that and the four things you need to know about the forecast in the next weather traffic on the 1s. After years of accusations, this morning bill cosby is facing charges for assault. So what happens next in the case against him, and can prosecutors win . And how donald trump is causing a rift between the gop in virginia, this as decision 2016 inches closer. vo some call it giving back. We call it share the love. During our share the love event, get a new subaru, and well donate 250 to those in need. Bringing our total donations to over sixtyfive million dollars. And bringing love where its needed most. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Molette green at the live desk. New details in from belgium in the arrest of a tenth suspect in the paris terror attack. That suspect we told you just a short while ago identified as a Belgium National facing murder charges this morning after he was taken into custody during a raid of his home. Weve learned about seven house search this morning and separately prosecutors Just Announced that they took six people into custody suspected of plotting a new years eve attack. Erika, david . They were supposed to be out of their home by the end of today but an arlington landlord wanted them gone as because because their son is too loud had a change of heart at least for now. Lets get right now to chuck bell with the weather and for four things you need to know. Good morn, chuck. Good morning, david. The last day of 2015 will be a relatively mild one with a lot of clouds around. The rainy day is coming to an end. The clouds will be slow to scatter out but well get sunshine before the day is done. Northwesterly winds. Fog will slow down traffic. Clearing skies with the return of a north breeze later on today. Heading out early this morni