Areas. Low visibility briefly with roads mainly wet. Temperatures will start to drop at the time of the snowfall. Those treated roads should be mostly fine. Temperatures right now, though, we have a lot of 20s on the map as you step outside. You want the warm coat. The Winter Weather advisories up for the district and also maryland. Take a look at future weather going through time. Lunchtime, not too much happening. 3 00 p. M. , look at that. Snowfall around d. C. All the way up to new york. Well take a closer look at what to expect where you live straight ahead. As far as your friday morning commute, how is it looking melissa . Looking pretty good. Bw parkway at the beltway, headlights are out of the loop. Everything rolling along fine this morning. Inbound 66. The ramp to the outer loop again. Right side blocked by a disabled vehicle. Right now, 66 looking pretty good here. All things considered. Northbound 301 at cedarville, the left side blocked by a crash and waldorf, 301 inbound at 5. Traffic getting by to right shoulder block bid a disabled vehicle. 95 in maryland all rolling along just fine. Eun . Thank you, melissa. The time is 6 02. A major shutdown is about to happen on the metro red line this weekend. It needs to replace thousands of feet of cable. Were joined live from the takoma station looking at why the defect is similar to one that caused a deadly crash. Megan, good morning. Reporter good morning, guys. Similarities and they just want to make sure they do everything that they can to make sure that people on this line are safe. Thats why the emergency repairs are happening this weekend. What that means is a closure on the red line between Silver Spring and rhode island avenue. The Washington Post reporting that the problem that has been found is similar to the issue since the 2009 train collision that killed nine people. Metro says that slight chance that a train could electronically disappear from a tracking system that communicates the locations of trains. Thats the situation that happened in 2009. Now, the decision, therefore, has been made to shut down this stretch of the red line so that the repairs can be made quickly. Look at the stations that are incompetent packeted here. We have station that is are going to close. Brookland fort totten and takoma. Hopefully reopening by monday. We spoke to a commuter arks rider, shes okay with the closures as long as it makes things safer. Safe for everyones life. Make sure they get where theyre going, getting to. Okay. Reporter the repairs can be completed by the start of rush hour on monday morning. Were going to have toee metro through this affected area, they are going to be running shuttle buses. Back to you guys. Megan mcgrath live in takoma. Thanks, megan. Were following a developing story in charles county. Deputies are searching for a gunman in a deadly shooting. A man was killed on holly avenue at spruce street last night. Chopper 4 was over the scene as investigators collected evidence. The gunman took off in a darkcolored sedan. More than a fixer upper here. Look at the damage a car did outside the warner theater. A dapt of public works van that was parked in front of the theater rolled and crashed into the stairs there. We know that one woman was hurt. She should be okay. We have breaking news on the wildfires burning out west. Meagan fitzgerald at the live desk with new evacuation orders. Meagan . Just coming into the newsroom, as you said, mandatory evacuation orders are being issued in san county near the los padres forest. This adds to the thousands who have been forced to flee their homes. Meanwhile, firefighters are desperately trying to battle this unrelenting thomas fire which continues to rage in Southern California. Fire officials are saying 238,000 acres along with hundreds of homes have already burned. The fire is still only 30 contained. Its been burning for 11 days and expected to continue. Theres continued heartbreak in Southern California where these wildfires continue to rage out of control. A san diego firefighter was killed trying to fight the thomas fire. That fire is among the largest ever recorded in the state. Yesterday engineer cory iversons body was taken in a procession to the co he was killed in the line of duty. His fellow firefighters lined a freeway overpass and stood on top of vehicles to salute him. Those who knew iverson say theyre devastated. This is a tragic event. It is a reminder of the inherent dangers that we face here in california with wildfires. The risk you take in the fire service. Iverson leaves behind a pregnant wife and a 2yearold daught daughter. He was 32 years old. A woman facing murder charges after police say she admitted to shaking her newborn daughter and throwing her on a bed. The 2monthold little girl died three days later. She called 911 in february and said her daughter was unresponsive. The baby apparently died from blunt force injuries. Investigators say she confessed to abusing the baby. She was arrested yesterday. New and disturbing details about the d. C. School aide charged with voyeurism. The school in greater washington. She posted a video on snapchat on december 1st. Court documents say the video shows aides trying to change the diaper of a 13yearold girl who has multiple disabilities and acog any tiff level of an 11monthold. She shade she made the video to document her stressful day and titled it want to go home. She also felt remorse after watching the video late theyre day. The d. C. Council will hold a public hearing on the graduation scandal that rocked Ballou High School. Educators, parents and students will be able to voice concerns about what happened. An investigation revealed dozens of students graduated last june when they shouldnt have. Mayor bowser launched an investigation into the allegations. 7 minutes after the hour right now. The gop is scrambling to knock down enough republican votes to pass the massive tax plan before christmas. Senator marco rubio is the bill gives American Families a bigger child tax credit. Utah senator mike lee is undecided and senator bob corker from tennessee does not support the plan. Republicans can only afford to lose two votes. Its now 6 08. News 4 is the only news station in town to talk to meryl streep. 94. 7 fresh fms tommy mcfly caught up with her. Steven spielberg there at the World Premiere of the post. Its about the Washington Posts decision to publish the pentagon papers and the Unlikely Partnership between publisher and editor. I was grateful to be able to try to portray her. But i also felt, whats the word, humbled because she really was an extraordinary person. Might as well give her an oscar movies shes nominated much shes that amazing. Well have more about the upcoming movie later on news 4. Tommy interviewed oprah. He was t he interviewed the man who leaked the papers. The time is 6 09. Omarosa breaking her silence. The onetime white house insider reveals why she resigned. Sexual assault scandal, why his widow calls it a hightech lynching. We have a Storm Team Weather alert for you. Theres a chance for light snow today. Not everyone is going to get to see it. Just mainly from basically the washington area, points north and good morning. Im chuck bell. A chaps for snow this afternoon. What about your weekend . Its friday. Tgif every. It will be dry most of the weekend and on the milder side. Back into the 40s at least. That will be a little nicer. Were watching out for a chance of snow this afternoon. Sheena will detail more coming up. Brand new problem on first 4 traffic. Southbound connecticut avenue, new crash. More on this and the rest of whats happening around town coming up. Melissa, thank you. 6 13 now. Despite calls for relief, tolls for solo drivers keep going up on i66. Yesterdays commute hit a new record since those express lanes opened up two weeks ago. Our news partner wtop said tolls topped out at 44 just before 8 30 yesterday morning. The previous record at 44. The spike yesterday was because of extra traffic caused by bridge backups and an accident. Area leaders demanded action to lower the tolls. Transportation Officials Say if you dont want to pay, then carpool with someone else. Th more people trying to find ways to avoid the tolls. The case of road rage ended up in a walgreens parking lot. This happened in missouri as a woman was on her way home from work. She noticed someone following her. She pulled into a parking lot. He blocked her in and started kicking her suv. When she got out of her vehicle and tried to record him, he tackled her. Look at this. Oh, my goodness. He tried to hit her as he drove off apparently. Police identified a suspect here. They have not made an arrest yet. The man accused of ramming his car into a charlottesville crowd and killing a woman will be charged with first degree murder. Prosecutors say james fields jr. Killed heather highier and injured several others. Given how vie vent the august clashes became, police didnt want to take chances yesterda officers in tactical geear at te courthouse and shoppers overhead. Fields faces 40 years in prison if convicted. Let them go today the trial of six people accused of rioting on president trumps Inauguration Day is set to go to the jury. Theyre the first of more than 200 people facing charges. You may remember these scenes that played out in downtown d. C. In january. Because many of the protesters were wearing masks, the Defense Attorneys argue its hard to prove their clients are the ones causing the damage. Each faces decades in prison if convicted on all charges. The latest member to exit the Trump Administration isnt going quietly. Omarosa Manigault Newman sat down to explain why she resigned. She was the only africanamerican woman in the senior staff of the white house. One thing she said during the interview was that shes troubled by president trumps handling of the violence in charlottesville. And we all were shocked and rye pulsed by what we saw. Yet the president said there were fine people in that crowd and bad folks on either side does that concern you . Absolutely. Sources say omarosa was purnd out by chief of staff john kelly and had to be escorted off white house grounds. She says thats not true. Omarosa says there are other issues she had with the white house, but she wont go into detail until her job officially ends next month. Howard University Hospital is honoring the a woman who dedicated her life to the smallest. She has spent 35 years taking care of the smallest babies delivered at the hospital. She says during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, howard housed as many as 32 border babies in a single unit. So many from the community pitched in to help out. We had them, we had to buy toys for them. That tradition of help continues this saturday at howard University Hospitals 25th annual child and family celebration for atrisk kids. The program has evolved into the border babies prevention program. We know the nurses are the behind the scenes heroes who do so much of that tough work. Theyre the ones that, when youre in pain, you call a nurse. They dont get as much credit. Hats off to all the nurses. There is a new push in Prince William county to sign people up in the pulse point app. This is a Service Proven to save lives. The app links a network of people who know cpr and alerts them when there is an emergency nearby. Often the ordinary citizens arrive on scene before the paramedics. Pulse point is already used in the district. Prince georges county and other local communities to find out how to register for they would love to have somebody know cpr in an emergency. Buffalo, new york, is still being blasted. Is this like a wednesday. Any other day, buffalo. A problem for the Buffalo Bills football team. The bills play in an open air stadium. Before the fans and people can come in, the snow has to come out. They started this on wednesday. These are dedicated fans. They really are. They continue to shovel. Continued yesterday each when the snow was still falling. Theyre probably shoveling their own seats. They want to go to the game. I want to know. Theres probably a reason why. Why does that stadium not have a retractible roof . They know its going to snow. Its like a snow machine there. It comes from the great lakes and it doesnt stop. This is not the only Cold Weather Team with open air stadium. Its also a part of whaty do there. In buffalo . Shoveling snow. You volunteer to come and do that. I suppose. Maybe its a tradition. Holiday tradition to shovel the snow out of the bills stadium. No shovelable snow. We would rather not. But we have a little bit of snow in the forecast going into today. Not everybody, okay . Its not going to be a lot of snow. The d. C. Metro area and maryland, thats who is going to be under a weather alert today. The snow mostly after lunchtime in through the early afternoon. Drops in the visibility. Will briefly be low in spots. That will extend into new york. Locally nice and dry. That system as it gets closer wont look like much. Once it gets closer to the atlantic. Now we do have a Winter Weather advisory. Its not for everybody. Were not mentioning much of anything it starts after the door, a lot of spots in the 20s. Everyone is at or below freezing. Dulles 27. Clinton right now 30 degrees. The forecast for the snow, noon to 4 00 p. M. , the general time frame for any accumulation. About a half an inch to an inch through the d. C. Metro and maryland as you get closer to philadelphia and new jersey. Future weather, we go through lunchtime, still not too much happening. Temperatures, though, around freezing. Then quickly we see the snow developing, mainly around the district and north and east of that. Then it quickly moves away. This is one of those nuisance clippertype systems. If youre walking the dog, watch out for that. Find out how to adopt pete. By noon again, flurries developing. By 4 00 p. M. , you might be walking the dog in the snow, especially in maryland. Big improvements on the weekend. Back in the 40s. By monday, 54 degrees. Then rain moving in on tuesday. Ok forecast. This morning on the roads, how is it looking, melissa . A couple of slow spots this morning. Take a look, sheena. Chopper 4 over the outer loop ramp. You have the vehicle on the right side of the roadway. Looks like a pretty good backup there. Outer loop to southbound connecticut. That stretches back on to the beltway this morning getting real delays. The roads not so pretty right now. Taking a look elsewhere, near the service road for 301. One right lane is blocked this morning. Doesnt show much of a slowdown on the map right now. Inbound 66. The ramp to the outer loop. Right side blocked by a disabled vehicle. Beltway looks okay here right now. Travel times, 270 looks all right. So does the top of the beltway. Inner loop and outer loop. Looking in virginia, 66 and 95. Quantico to the beltway, on time as well. Listen to wtop 103. 5 fm in your car today. Thank you, melissa. Scandal, the new membe hollywood elite accused. The new investigation that involves Dustin Hoffman and a minor. Graduation scandal. High School Seniors a no show at schools. Still allowed to walk. New action being taken at a local school today. You never know what Hillary Clinton might say on ellen today. Shell be the guest at 3 0 stick0. A new allegations of Sexual Misconduct against actor Dustin Hoffman and one of them 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. Two others say he sexually while they were working on a movie. The claims are not confirmed. Hoffmans lawyer denied the accusations. Two powerful africanamerican men in media facing Sexual Misconduct allegations. Russell simmons and pbs talk show host tavis smiley are publicly firing back. In the l. A. Times and new york times, nine more women accused the men of vulgar language, assault and rape. The he stepped back from running his empire after two others accused him of rape. Simmons is going to share evidence of his innocence. Tavis smiley is aggressively defending himself in a facebook video. The question is whether or not there is too much now blurring of the lines. We dont want to find the real offenders, the aggressive rapists are blurring into these other guys. Pbs has hired an outside law a media frenzy. Thats what the wife of a kentucky lawmaker says led to her husbands death. Republican state representative dan johnson committed suicide on wednesday after a bombshell report about accusations about sex assault accusations. His wife said this never should have happened. I feel confident that had it not been for that article and the medias frenzy created from it, that my husband would be alive right now. Stay with nbc4 and the today show with much more on that interview. Flames erupt, the one person who jumped into action even before firefighters showed up on the scene. Reporter demanding action after a graduation scandal. Dons ozef it feels good to be back. Good morning everyone. Welcome to your friday. Im eun yang. Im aaron gilchrist. Were waking up to a weather alert this morning. News4 today steteam working o everything you need to know. The first 4 traffic. We begin with the forecast for that snow. Chuck and sheena, theyre working on this. Its still a few hours out, right . Not until after lunchtime. But the good news is, its not for everybody today. Absolutely right. Not looking for a lot of snow. Snow lovers, really just want it so bad, know that not today. Not today. Not going to add up to too much. Maybe an inch of snow. Thats about all were following here. The timing of it is the reason were a little concerned. Noon to 6 00. Just in that preevening commute rush hour time frame is when we might get the snow at the heaviest. Its half an inch to an inch. Heaviest for a brief period of time. Well keep a close eye on this. The Winter Weather advisory is mainly for the maryland side of the potomac. It includes the district and arlington. This is mostly a maryland threat more so than a virginia thr