Well have plenty of rain clouds. Rain moves in late tonight, likely to be raining unless youre up at 3 00 in the morning like we are. Most of the rain tomorrow will be coming to an end by about 2 00 or 3 00 in the afternoon. By 5 00 or 6 00, most areas should be rainfree and your saturday night plan will not be affected. Current temperatures, back in the upper 20s. Even some 20s along the i95 corridor. Want coand fredericksburg. Afternoon highs today in your hometown if you live in leesburg, it will be 48. 51 in washington and arlington. 46 down in beautiful settlement mairs city, maryland. Lets go over to melissa mollet. Good morning. Problems on the way. Thats going to be yord way south of compton. Just spoke with police still shut down there. One person was killed in that crash overnight. Southbound 95 at car in the ditch near the icc. Doesnt seem to be slowing things too much. No problems on 270. 7 near mcclintock all lanes blocked, had to land a medevac for a headon crash there. Thank you, melissa. 6 02. Were helping you get ready for the holiday rush. From the roads to melissa to the air. Timing is everything. Right now news4s justin finch is hitting the road early. Good morning, justin. Everything is so good. I can tell you if youre driving out today and you can leave right now, you will do yourself a big favor. Most of us cant do that. We have work and school before we hit the roads on this Business Travel day. I want to show you a look from behind what were seeing here on i95 north here. The high volume has not hit and looking toward the front, youll see a few more taillights as the traffic time starts to converge with the work and school times. Theyre forecasting more than 2 Million People will be driving this holiday in our area, traveling 50 miles or more. 93 million americans will be doing so nationwide. Aaa says thats a credit to lower gas prices. We were at the wawa in woodbridge talking to drivers there. Not many are on their way to work yet. They were on their way to work and school and we told them that at 4 00 p. M. Aaa is expecting peak gridlock on the main arteries and theyre telling us theyre already making plans to get around it. Take a listen. I thinkly probably hang out at Christmas City do, more Christmas Shopping and try to wade leave early. Its kind of crazy. Thats crazy. Thats a good plan. Leave early if you can today to beat this traffic thats coming our way. We can tell you that this starts today, this big holiday rush. It will continue over the next 11 day and will ramp up the first monday in january. Thats january 2nd, back to you in the studio. Thank you. Many of you are getting ready to pack your car up and head out of town this weekend. There you go. Our Team Coverage continues with melissa mollet. Is there a good time . Early and late. Those are the good times yochl u want to enjoy the peak times for sure if youre headed out of town. If the bottom of the beltway is really jammed. Think about 301. All major work zones and lanes will be lifted. Thats throughout vn hov, lifted this monday, the 26th and monday, january 22nd. As for the suppress lanes in virginia. Friday theyre going to close northbound at 10 00 a. M. And sunday close at midnight open northbound. Last thing, 70 is jam tight. What about b. W. Parkway or route one. Theres always some way around it. It may take extra time. Guys . Thank you. Another live look from above patrolling the roads as you prepare to make your Great Holiday escape. Here are four things you might want to do. Check your tire pressure. Make sure your car pressure and booster seats are properly seated. Tell someone where youre going. In case something goes wrong, you want people to look out you never know. Be prepared. Heres a look at gas prices. The National Average right now is 2. 27. Maryland drivers are paying on average 2. 28. Virginia coming in at 2 14 and most at 2. 54. Driving up to the terminal may be your biggest delay before you arrive to check in to security. Theyre suggesting you park in the garage which adds to the congestion. Once passengers arrive inside their trip become as little easier. Things seem to be moving smoothly. You can also take metro. That was chucks advice to avoid traffic around Reagan National airport. Were staying on top of travel iss wheel send out traffic alerts so you can plan ahead. Police in iran have confirmed a man killed in an Early Morning shootout is in it. Italys interior minister says without a shadow of a doubt the berlin market attacker was killed. Amri was stopped and asked for identity papers. Authorities say he pulled a gun and was shot and killed in the shootout. An officer was also wounded in that shootout. He spent some time in italy before the attack. The attack killed 12 people and injured 56. Five people are in custody this morning in australia with planning a Christmas Day attack. They planned a series of attacks in the city of melbourne. Police say they were watching the suspects for a long time and th developing this morning a man is facing charges for shooting and killing a 3yearold boy. This is a new mug shot of gary holmes. He surrendered to police in arkansas overnight. They say holmes was frustrated with a womans drufbing and shot into her car last weekend. A bullet hit her grandson acen king and that boy died. A report of hatebased vandalism is under investigation at Sligo Creek Elementary School in silver spring. A student told social workers kill all whites was written on the bathroom wall on wednesday. If you have any nvgs call the police. Theres a 10,000 award in this case. Frederick county has offered to pay for monitoring. This is an update to a story we told you about. The di one year of identity protection. About 1,000 students may have had their information stolen through the maryland state education department. It include students in Public Schools between november 2005 and november 2006. The district is contacting everyone affected. This could be the redskins biggest game tore the sin. They play the Chicago Bears tomorrow. This is a look at practice yesterday where two key players did not participate. Tight end jordan reed is dealing with shoulder injuries. Linebacker craven is dealing with a back injury with. We should have never put ourselves in this position but now we have to make sure we can stand up off that wall and feel more comfortable. The game i can have a big breakfast lunch brunch thing. And then if the game goes long its going to be a bale to get the kids out the door. Jesus came first. Amen to that. Go to church before the game and you can play for the redskins. There you. Game tickets might be a nice present if you still need to get something for someone. Socalled foodies. Its the mid flight incident. What happened between a passenger on a jetblue flight and the soontobe first daughter ivanka trump. First take a look. The roads are too busy just yet. That could change in a minute. A closer look where youre headed when we check back in with strand restoring ading a fathers faith. Stronger is being a typical kid. Despite a rare disorder. Stronger is seeking answers and not giving up until you find them. Because we dont just want kids to grow up. We want them to grow up stronger. With your support, we can find more answers faster. Make a gift today at childrensnational. Org givenow 6 13 right now. I want to get you caught up on the forecast. Whats going on out there, chuck . A lot of people are going to the airports or highways to go to someone elses house. For now, light snow headed to milwaukee, chicago, minneapolis, those are fairly big hubs. Look at all the big rain. If youre trying to get into san francisco, portland, seattle, that could be a bit of an issue. The flight delays today, l. A. , san francisco, seattle, and chicago. As we get into monday next week, rain showers coming into parts of the ohio valley. Also remember to call your carrier and what to we always say . Thats right. There was a crash at the beltway. Its been cleared out. Were open at ordway south of compton road. 95 south of powder mill, we have a car in a ditch and 270 before old hundred, car off the roadway on 270 as well. Top of the beltway is rolling along just fine here this morning. 66 and 95 north no worries. Remember to listen to wtop 103. 5 f. M. Problem on a libyan plane. This is out of malta. Malta airport says a that a libyan plane has landed at the mediterranean island and there appear to be two hijackers on board. The Malta Airport security says all have been dispatched to the tarmac. Earlier the Prime Minister said there was a potential hijack situation going on involving an internal libya flight that was that airport Officials Say the after friday kia airways a 323 flight has 118 passengers on board. Well have more on that as it becomes available. Thank you, derrick. Were not sure when the United Nations will vote. That is when egypt requests the delay to allow time for consultations. No new time or date is set for a vote. 6 16 now. Ivanka trump and her family waking up in hawaii after a troubling plane ride there. She was con frothed by a fellow passenger on a jetblue flight from new york. That passenger Daniel Goldstein and his husband Matthew Lasner were eventually kicked off the plane. Some say the encounter may have been planned. They also tried to downplay it on twitter but witnesses say theyre not buying he was visibly shaken, clearly agitated. If i was security, i wouldnt take a chance either. Jetblue says, quote, the decision to remove a customer from a flight is not taken lightly. If its prove thad a customer is causing conflict on an aircraft, the customer will be asked to deplane. Right now the state of maryland is waiting to see if theyll be given a federal grant. That will include a fourphase construction project along i81. Yesterday larry hogan travelled there. Its expected to cost the state 105 million. The federal grant would help pay for about 80 of that amount. 6 17. Were continuing help you kick off your christmas list. This time for the foodies. Now were talking. The first idea is cookware. Youre not feeling i christmas. I mean good luck for that. There will be a debit in your fred. Consumer reports recommend a tenpiece nonstick i dont know if i should say this. Im going to go ahead. I love you, consumer reports, but dont buy its made out of aluminum. Comes with a lifetime warranty. Even waffle makers. I this is for foodies. I am a foodie. I like to cook but i dont want you to buy me a pot for christmas. The waffle maker. Consumer reports says its tests show the recipe does make a difference when it comes to waffle makers. Pressure cooker. I have a pressure cooker. Guess what . I have pots and pans and all of that. But it could speed up the cooking time for, say, beans. Beans. This is an idea. I like this idea. Cookbooks. There you go. There are many, many great cookbooks. Tweet me youror coming up, well show you four lastminute gift ideas for teens. Sometimes all mom wants for a holiday is a hand and if you have a question for hosting experts a hand with a diamond on it . Hosting experts. Theres a hotline. Bob evans, the emily post institute, theyre teaming up to answer your questions. You can call 855formytable. Is alcohol a delivery . You dont want to cook that. No, no, no. I would chuck that thing. Sorry. I keep chucking things. I would throw that thing across the kitchen. It would go flying out the no, no, no. Im happy i got her a dust buster for christmas. Very happy. Quiet weather coming our way. Welcome news for everybody whos got to get somewhere by the end of the day. Quiet weath aerunrod here. All this smirking going on. Quiet weather indeed. Lets take a look at the weather graphics, shall we . Weve got the animation, a swoosh, absolutely. At no extra zra charge to you. Temperature now, a chilly 33 at 45. Clear skies here this morning. Plenty of sunshine at least sunshine. After lunchtime theyll get more and more filled with clouds and well be mostly cloudy by 5 00 or 6 00. Upper 40s to around planning tomorrow, Christmas Eve. An 80 it will be raining on you at 7 00 a. M. A 70 chance at noon. Only a 30 chance for rain by 5 00. Most of the rain should be out of here between 3 00 and 5 00 tomorrow afternoon. Highs tomorrow again right up around 50 degrees. You can also stay ahead of the weather, have our nbc washington app ready to go. Find me on facebook and twitter by searching for chuck bell 4. Heres future channel. Heres the clouds coming in. Maybe a chance of a quick little sprinkle. But the steadier rain chances come in here first thing tomorrow morning and, again, should be tapering off after about 4 00 or 5 00 tomorrow afternoon. Heres the way the next five days are shaping up. Rain likely, especially early tomorrow. Dry for christmas and the first day of hanukkah. Cloudy and mild tuesday with the risk of a passing shower. Now lets go over to melissa mollet. Good morning. Chopper 4 right now in the fair eastbound. No major problems on 66. Nice light volume. Southbound at powder mill still has a car into the ditch. Before this cam rarks we have a car off of the roadway. Does it seem nt seem to be slo things down too much. Orange, blue, silver lines right now. Guys . Thank you, melissa. Time is running out for those of you who still need to check off the holiday gift list. His eyes might be made out of coal but the rest of frosty the snowman is made out of metal. And have it your way, the Fast Food Restaurant trying to make up for those unwanted chrisas gifts you get this tm jeffin fact,ente hes been all over the world. But perhaps his most rewarding trip was the one he took one day to d. C. Just to play the lottery. He feels luckier here. After all, he won nearly 400,000 playing dc5. So its no wonder that he has pictures of all the nice people he met here. People like washington, lincoln. Jefferson, franklin. Christmas spirit shining east tennessee boy after he accidentally swallowed a snowman. Oh, my goodness. A 12yearold said he was messing around with the 1inch figurine when it became stuck in his throat. The problem is his parents didnt believe him at first. You know, boys. But an xray revealed a shiny snowman was indeed in adens stomach. The doctors say aden will be fine and its small enough to pass naturally and the family even plans to commemorate the whole frosty accident by making it their Christmas Card in 2017. Making memories, people. It is a question many of us face during the holidays. What do you do with the gifts that you dont want. A burger king in miami beach might have the answer for you. The burger king has a new promotion to exchange your Unwanted Gifts for a free whopper. Is that a deal . The gifts have to be unused and will be thats a good idea. Donated to charity . I thought you meant the whopper. The exchanges will be limited. Here it is again. Only in miami beach apparently for this one. And dont send me a whopper this morning. I just said that. You wont see his face on the card itself, but you can expect to see a picture of the president elect donald trump somewhere else. How metro is making up for this issue with the card. Still need to get a lastminute gift . Not a problem. Were working to help you find the perfect present. And why santa may want to bring his rain gear along with his reindeer. G im eun yang. Im aaron gilchrist. Were helping you get ready for the Holiday Weekend. How do we do that . How do we do that . We start with meteorologist chuck bell and melissa mollet. Who wants to go first. Ill go first, ill go first. We were waiting for you guys to make the call. Yes. I thought i got my hand up first just to be clear. Nice quiet start to the day. Temperatures mostly in the 20s and 30s. A cold start, so nothing to worry about. A good travel day today up and down the northeast corridor from boston to d. C. Down to carolina is nothing to worry about. Soggy weather starts ott your saturday. We should be raining tomorrow morning but we should be dried out in time for sunday afternoon. Highs today, upper 40s to right around 50 degrees. For tomorrow, rain likeliest in the morning after about 3 00, 4 00, 5 00 on Christmas Eve. If youre going out to a late it should be dry by then. Taking a look at chopper 4 over the tysons area going to be a little busy. Inner loop and outer loop looking quite good. Everything rolling along pretty nicely on the beltway, i would say. If youre leaving hopefully sometime soon. Maryland, 97. All lanes blocked there because of the medevac that had to lachbltd southbound 95 at powder mill, car into the ditch and the median. Broken down vehicle in the right lane. 66, 95, virginia, not so bad. U eun . Thank you. We have breaking news. The suspect in the berlin terror attack is dead. Anis amri was killed hours ago. He ran into a crowd and kill 12 people. Police papers as he was pulled over and he pulled out a gun. Then there was a shootout. Two officers killed him. Well have more on this on the today show. Right now breaking news in northern virginia. Derrick rose. Derrick . This is in fairfax county. Theres a suspicious Death Investigation going on. Please say they found a man dead in his home on Blarney Court last night. He was 22 years old. Police say there was trauma on his body but they didnt go into more detail on that. Stay tuned for an nbc 4 news update. Thank you, derrick. Right now, the roads are expected to be tracked with more than 2 million drivers in our area. Were going to check in with justin finch on peak gridlock to avoid. Driving up to the terminal may be your biggest delay. Theyre suggesting you airport. The holidays are almost here. You know it. Weve been talking about Christmas Eve. You still have time to grab a few more gifts. News4s Megan Mcgrath is live. Youve been seeing some shoppers since what, 5 00 this morning . Reporter yeah, ever since we got here. Not at a lot of shoppers. If you look at the store, a little deceiving. Its been a little quiet but theyve been coming in. Thats part of the strategy, beat the crowds and take advantage of the many retailers theyre offering. Were here at a kohls. Theyve been open 24 hours a day. Theyre going to stay open until 6 00 p. M. On