And maryland. So this is not everybody. Its only part of the area that were going to put the weather alert out for. Its mostly after noon today. We expect snowfall, on the lighter side. But expect lower visibility. Most of the treated roads should be staying west. Its going to move out very quickly. Its a clipper system that will start developing once its closer to the amt. Current temperatures below freezing. 30 degrees washington. Its 22 in gaithersburg. 27 in clinton. 23 winchester. Warm coat this morning for the kids at the bus stop. By 8 00 a. M. , 31 degrees. There you see it. 3 00 p. M. , we should be having snow falling in the d. C. Metro area and in maryland. Well take a closer look at the timing of it and again, who can expect it coming up. Lets check the roads. Theyre dry right now, melissa. They are dry. Taking a look at waldorf, northbound 301 near 5 there, the traffic is getting on the right shoulder right now. We do have some closures there because of that crash and a tow truck getting things out of the way. Inner loop and outer loop of the beltway, no problems there. When we take a look at 270 from 70 down to the spur, going to take you 26 minutes. On time there as you head southbound. As you head out of town up to 70, sometimes this morning, looking good here. Right now, at 66 and 95, no major complaints. Guys . Thank you, melissa. It is 5 02, were following a developing story in Charles County this morning. Sheriffs deputies are searching for a gunman at a shooting in waldorf. A man was killed at holly avenue at spruce street last night. Chopper 4 was over the scene as they collected evidence. The gunman took off in a darkcolored sedan. Take a look at this scene at 5 02. This will take some time to repair. Look at the damage. A car caused this outside a d. C. Warner thear. Van parked in front of the theater rolled and crashed into the stairs. One woman was hurt but is expected to be okay. Heartbreak in Southern California where wildfires continue to rage out of control. These flames are just incredible to see. 32yearold cory iverson was killed while fighting one of the largest fires recorded in the state. Fellow firefighters lined an overpass as his body was taken to the coroners office. Those who knew him say theyre devastated. This is a tragic event. Its a reminder of the inherent dangers we face in california with wildfires and the risk we take in the fire service. Iverson leaves behind his pregnant wife and a 2yearold daughter. New details about that d. C. School aide charged with voyeurism. The 23yearold worked at the st. Collet a charter school. Court documents say a video was posted diaper of a 13yearold girl who has multiple disabilities and the cognitive ability much an 11monthold. She made the video to document her stressful day and she told police she felt remorse after watching the video later that day. The graduation scandal that rocked a d. C. High school will be discussed today. An investigation revealed dozens of students graduated last june when they shouldnt have. Aimee cho tells us how educators and district officials plan to prevent this from happening again. This is a big issue. Reporter a lot of things to tackle. It made headlines last spring, getting every senior into ch college for the first time in history. But some say many students shouldnt have graduated at all. Many missed three months of classes. Didnt perform community that investigation found only about a third of them actually deserved to graduate. For comparison in the previous two years, only half of the seniors graduated ballou. Another teacher said they felt pressure from the School System to pass the students along and graduate them anyway. One teacher says a School Official asked her to change a students grade from an f to a d so he could pass. Weve seen a great deal of fallout from this. The principal will be assigned. Mayor Muriel Bowser calling for an investigation. Yesterday the naacp put out a statement saying that the problems arent just limited to ballou. They claim its the same situation at many schools. They say its not fair to target ballou in this investigation. After the hearing, they looked into parents, students and teachers to get a better sense of what happened at the school. We can stay here and continue to monitor the situation. Eun, aaron. Aimee cho for us downtown d. C. Thanks. Its scrambling to get the tax plan passed. The president wants to sign the bill by christmas. But republicans may not have the votes. News 4s Meagan Fitzgerald is in the newsroom with more on why the tax plan is hanging by a thread at this point. Aaron and eun. What a difference a day makes. It looks like President Trump was on track to make good on his Campaign Promise to cut taxes and put more money in your pocket. The tax cut plan would be his first legislative win of the year. But thats in real jeopardy this morning. Here are the issues. Florida senator marco rubio threatened to vote no unless the bill gives American Families a bigger tax credit for children. Utah senator mike lee is undecided and tennessee senator bob corker doesnt support the plan. They can afford to lose two votes. But they think rubio will come around. A i think senator rubio will be there. Republicans are concerned about mississippi senator thad cochran who missed votes because of his health and of course, arizona senator john mccain who could also miss votes because hes still in the hospital. Eun . Meagan, thank you. A major shutdown is about to happen on metros red line in weekend. Metro needs to replace thousands of feet of cable. Megan mcgrath is live with a look at why this defect is similar to the one that caused a deadly crash. Megan . Reporter good morning, guys. Regularly scheduled repair work has been canceled so that this Emergency Repair work can happen this weekend. That means a shutdown of a portion of the red line between Silver Spring and rhode island avenue. People want to be aware of that. These stations completely shut down this weekend. Theyre reporting that the problem found is similar to the isue crash that killed nine people. Metro says that there is a slight chance that a train could electronically disappear from the tracking system that communicates the location of trains. So the decision was made to shut down the stretch of the red line so that the repairs can be made quickly. It involves thousands of feet of cable. Now take a look at the stations affected. These are the stations that are going to be closed this weekend. Brookland, fort totten and tako takoma. Theyll be closed beginning saturday morning and will remain closed through the weekend. The hope is to get the repairs done quickly and can reopen in time for rush hour on monday morning. Well have to wait and see how it plays out. Now in terms of how people can get around, metro will be running shuttle bus Bridge Service between the affected stations. Certainly something people want to keep in mind. Back to you. Megan, thank you. 5 08 now. The latest member to exit the quietly. Omarosa Manigault Newman sat down with Abcs Nightline to discuss this. She was the only africanamerican woman in the senior staff of the white house. She said shes troubled by President Trumps handling of the violence in charlottesville. And we all were shocked and repulsed by what we saw. Yet the president said there were fine people in the crowd and bad folks on either side. Does that concern you . Well, absolutely. Sources say omarosa was pushed out by chief of staff john kelly and had to be escorted off white house grounds. She says thats not true. She also said theres other issues she had with the white house but she cannot go into detail until her job officially ends next month. Ive seen this only once before. What did he say . Fans of stara darth vader . I dont know. Have to see the movie. The last jedi in the theaters for showings all over the country today. People overseas came out in droves to see the early screenings in cities like mumbai and bolivia. Some of the scenes were shot there. Expect to see a lot of fans dressed as movie characters out and about today. Going to be part of the magic. This is the last film that Carrie Fisher will be in. She died earlier this year. If you dont have tickets, youre out of luck. People will be dressed up. It will be quite the spectacle. If youre just joining us this morning, were in weather alert mode because snow is moving in, chuck. Dont push the panic button yet, eun. Theres plenty of time to panic later. There is a Winter Weather advisory from 1 00 p. M. Until 7 00 p. M. Its been issued by the National Weather service. The highligh c suburban maryland counties. The best chances are farther north and east, baltimore to the jersey shore. Take a look at the rest of the weekend coming right up. Another Hollywood Alister accused of Sexual Misconduct. The dist im Meagan Fitzgerald at the live desk. D. C. Water is reporting a water outage on newton street northeast. This is between 22nd street and 24th street. Its impacting about 40 homes. Restoration is happening right now. But were told this could take between six to eight hours to be repaired. Aaron . Meagan, thank you. 5 14 right now. New Sexual Misconduct allegations against actor Dustin Hoffman. One involves a minor. Three women talked to variety magazine. One says the twotime oscar winner exposed himself to her in 1980 when she was 16 years old. Two others say hoffman sexually assaulted them while working on a movie in the 80s. Nbc news not independently confirmed the claims. Hoffmans lawyer denies the accusations. If you need Health Insurance for next year, today is the last day to sign up under the Affordable Care act. If you live in maryland, the deadline i the Baltimore Sun reports that marylands deadline was extended to help procrastinators. There has been a push to end the current program. As of right now, it remains in place. 2, 1, 0. Weft liftoff. Never gets old. Never gets old. Another one of these spectacular takeoffs today. Spacex is scheduled to launch a falcon 9 rock from cape canaver canaveral. The rocket looking at it. They need a lot of stuff up there to live. Live. And work. And do research. Right. And help us explore our universe. Get a better understanding of who we are as human beings. A universe beyond ours. Space is the final frontier. Youre such a nerd. And those are the voyages possible alien listen. Were talking about the asteroid named am i saying that ooh mahwah mahwah. Its somebody saw this a month bg a telescope. They saw this over the Hawaiian Island of maui. Astronomers only saw it after it sped by apparently. This had an unusual shape. More like a cigar than an astroid. A lot of people are wondering exactly what it is. Any time we see something that is really outside of the range of observations of what weve seen in the past, its not unnatural to speculate that Something Like artificial. Im going with owe mu a. You can hear more coming up later on the today show. Apparently theres an ashtray asteroid also. Of course. Maybe dr. Evil is inside. All right. The potential for snow, which causes a little panic around the area. Each a little bit. Erybody. Good. Thank you, sheena. Youre welcome, eun. You will see flakes following us. Be careful on the roads. Thats all. Temperatures this morning are below freezing for everybody. The weather alert, though. Thats going to be mainly for the d. C. Metro and maryland. After about noon today, thats when the snow is going to start. And the roads will be wet. Visibility briefly low once that snow starts falling. Temperature as you walk outside, 30 degrees in d. C. 27 manassas. 27 in clinton. 22 in gaithersburg. 25 leesburg. It cold this morning. Only in the 30s for a high. Today once the snow moves in, its going to drop the temperatures. Were dry locally. You see snow around the great lakes. Thats part of the weather system that will be getting there. Again, future weather in a second. Its going to show up out of nowhere. Winter weather advisory. You see around the d. C. Area and maryland, up towards philadelphia and new york, thats the only area we expect snow. Heres future weather. We go towards noon area of snow, once its closer to the atlantic, it will pull in moisture up to philadelphia and new york. Notice how Northern Virginia gives a low chance much seeing any of this. Here. Then we go into your saturday morning. Were nice and dry but cold again. Snowfall not amounting to much. Maybe half an inch to an inch through the d. C. Metro and maryland after noontime today. But if you are driving just a heads up, most of the roads like i mentioned should be on the wet side. If youre closer to baltimore, youll see the duration a little longer. As we go through your friday for your commute, dry this morning, flurries developing around lunchtime and by the afternoon, temperatures dropping to freezing when the snow starts to get here. At least it will be leaving quickly. We like that. Take a look at your weekend forecast. Back in the 40s. Monday in the 50s as well as tuesday. Looking pretty good with the temperatures. Lets see how the roads are looking this morning. Hopefully not bad, melissa. Good morning. Not too bad here. We had a problem, 95 northbound near route 1. We had a disabled vehicle that cleared out of the way. That is now gone. Thats good. Brandy wine, 301 northbound at getting by to the right of the krafrnlt crash. 70 to 71 owe youre nice and clear. 95 looking quite good right now also. Its 5 20. Heres a christmas conspiracy for you. A new theory believes soiantas reindeer are all female. The theory started circulating apparently earlier this week when a woman tweeted her support for female reindeer. She says male reindeer lose their antlers in the winter, but female reindeer keep theirs until calves are born. If theres Scientific Evidence to back it up, it must be right. Ive never wondered whether they were mar want to get the job done. They must be female, right . Christmas came early for two sisters in iowa. They asked for their dad to come home. Matthew has been in the navy for eight years. He was at sea for eight months. There was a large present arrived at their home. The girls unwrapped it and their father popped out of the box. Oh, my goodness. How cute is that . Matthew says this was his last deployment and now home for good. Is there anything better . He plans to study at the university of iowa soon. Had to wait for the girls to let go, though. Oh, my goodness. Awesome. Welcome home. Something a lot of us do. You hit the drive through for dinner. Try not to tell the kids. It can have an impact from them. The new warning from Health Officials this morning. Tune in later today for the Ellen Degeneres show. Today. It airs here at 3 00 followed by children who frequently eat fast food may be at risk for Heart Disease and diabetes. They examined the diets of 9 and 10yearolds. The survey shows regular fast food eaters consume more calories and fewer vitamins from children who ate home cooked meals. Regular fast food eaters have higher bad body fat composition as well. Howard university is honoring a nurse who dedicated her life to helping the smallest among us. Meet kneeneonatal nurse devi white. During the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, howard as many as 32 border babies in a single unit. So many from the community always pitched in. We had to buy clothes for them. We had to buy toys for them. It continues this saturday at Howard University hospitals 25th annual child and family celebration for atrisk kids. Its evolved into the border babies prevention program. Nurses do so much work. They are the Unsung Heroes of our community. Really. Especially the neonatal units. Babies are hanging by a thread. They do so much. Unexpected fire hero. Flames erupt. The one person who jumped into action each before firefighters showed up on the scene. Movies with the stars. A wizard at work. The magical moment for local kids dealing with some hard times. Weve got a Storm Team Weather alert. A chance for light snow coming our that impressive looking right now. As a clipper needs to get closer to the ocean before it has enough moisture. If it adds up to more than an fire tragedy. Breaking news overnight. New evacuations in plus, mourning a firefighter killed on the frontlines. Tax reform trouble. A race to beat the clock. Republicans hammered out a plan but not everyone in their own party is on board. Hitting the slopes. The 1yearold showoff. Turns out you dont have to go skiing to see a little snow today. Nobody likes to all right. 5 30 is your time right now. Good morning everybody. Im Aaron Gilchrist im eun yang. Youre waking up to a weather alert day. The news team is working for you with everything you need to know to get ready. Lets begin with the forecast for snow chuck bell and Sheena Parveen. You got explaining to do. What . Not enough snow fort 1yearold to go snowboarding. It will be out there. Little chance for snow. Not everyone will get snow. The how you view snow. The lucky few who get it, probably only half an inch to an inch. Its the timing and the reason the Weather Service put up a Winter Weather advisory is for the timing more than the amount. The most likely, 2 00 to 4 00 or 5 00. Mainly along the corridor from washington up to baltimore and out to the Eastern Shore. Theres the advisory. Maryland counties, the district and arlington. Thats the main spot to get an half an inch to an inch of snow. Well be keeping