Cloudy day and 40 chance for rain moving in after 5 00 or 6 00. Be rainfall ready for this evening. Super mild today with a high near 55. What to wear. No more than a light jacket. You want to take the umbrella to play it on the safe side. Staying on the safe side of the road with Melissa Mollet who is here to help you right now. Good morning. Good morning, taking a look at 270. Northbound, this is where we have a crash in the local lanes this morning. As we wide eb out a little bit, southbound before 85. Disabled truck in the right lane. Thats slowing things right now. Chopper 4, thats not chopper 4. Were going to show you that southbound bw parkway after 410. Dont have a real problem there as far as that earlier crash that was reported just in volume headed into town this morning. Taking a look here at Prince William parkway at suddenly manor drive. Can crash has been reported. Two issues. Inbound 4 and 5, we have slowdos. Direction. Thank you, melissa. 6 02 our time right now. This morning at least 17 people are dead and hundreds of crews are certificate chlg for 17 missing people in southern california. Were seeing new video this morning from some of the hardest hit areas. Take a look at this. Many of them missing are older retirees and Young Children who didnt have the strength to stand up in the mud. All of this is just difficult to grasp. Chris lawrence at the live desk with the latest on this heartbreaking situation. Chris . Weve got new video, eun of a flash flood. The video youre about to see really shows you just how frightening all of this is. Oh, my god mom close the door. When we talk about a river of mud and debris, i mean, that shows you what it means. A surreal a gas, water, electricity have been knocked out. Among the missing are the brother and father of a 14yearold girl whose rescue made headlines around the world. Officials say right now, 1500 homes are still being threatened by these rainsoaked hills. Im Chris Lawrence at the live desk. Aaron, back to you. Chris, thank you. The video that a lot of people are sharing. A 17yearold calmly describing how she torture and murdered a 15yearold girl. In her own words, Venus Iraheta says she killed Alexandra Reyes rivas for revenge. Hours after she detailed the brutal murder, our cameras captured her returning home. She told our reporters she had runaway out of fear of the ms13 gang. We later learned she was the chief attacker in this gang killing. News 4s justin finch is live at the Fairfax County courthouse with this chilling reporter eun, good morning. Iraheta told investigators that she was angry, angry because rivas and her boyfriend had some kind of relationship and also angry because she believes that rivas lured her boyfriend to his death. Iraheta got a knife and got revenge. Looking now at still some cell phone video shown in court on monday. She was staring down rivas, just 15 years old and would die a short time later. Now, fairfax prosecutors say that iraheta was among some ten people with ties to ms13 who were involved in cade napping and attacking rivas about a year ago. News 4 also obtained video of irahetas interrogation and confession in which she shares disturbing details about rivas last moments alive. How did you kill her . With a knife. What did you do with the knife . I dont remember how many times i stabbed her in the stomach. Was it a lot . Like 13. Reporter she coldly details that brutal attack. Iraheta is now 18 years old. Shes now facing life behind bars and up to 20 more years added to that. Live in fairfax, im justin finch. News 4. Back to you. Chilling confession indeed. New video of the brazen Jewelry Store robbery we told you about earlier in the week. This video was released on sunday. It is second time the highend store has been robbed in a matter of weeks. Someone hurled a rock through the window at bensons jewel remembers on 13th and f streets northwest. The burglar smashed three display cases, grabbed jewelry and ran off. The owner says it could be the same burgl few days before christmas. This is Surveillance Video of that breakin. So far, no one has been arrested in either robbery. If you know anything about the case, youre asked to call police. Developing now, were working to learn the name of the man killed in a twocar crash on branch avenue. This happened around 8 00 last nigh. Were told a woman was driving northbound when a man coming off a nearby service road tried to turn left on to branch avenue. He was hit by the driver and later pronounced dead. The woman was taken to the hospital. Police have not released the identity of the victim. Doctors expect congressman Steve Scalise to remain in the hospital for several days as he recovers from surgery. The House Majority whip had a plan toed planned followup procedure scheduled. He was nearly killed during the congressional baseball practice shooting in alexandria last june. A bullet to the hip shattered bones and damaged internal organs. 6 07 ri its been three nights since actor james franco won a golden globe award and two of the nights have been spent answering Sexual Conduct questions on latenight shows. He was on late night with seth myers last night. The criticism started when he wore a pin to the awards show. Several women called him a hypocrite and told their own stories alleging misconduct. Franco addressed the criticism last night. I have my own side of this story. But i believe in these people that have been underrepresented getting their stories out enough that i will hold back things that i could say just because i believe in it that much. Franco did say that the stories he saw about himself are not accurate but did not get into any more specific detailde. He talked about it on Stephen Colbert as well. He won golden globe for his performance in the disaster artist. Today, George Washington middle school in alexandria will be closed again. Tuesday night a pipe broke inside the school. All that water soaked in electrical panels to the point that crews had to turn it off. The water also took out the fire alarm system. Students and teachers cant go back to class until workers get the heat and power back on and the fire marshal clears the school to reopen. Today a big milestone for the new entertainment and sports arena going up in southeast d. C. Construction crews and the mayor, Muriel Bowser will celebrate a topping out of the arena at the east campus. This signifies that the facility has reached the final construction height. The Washington Wizards will practice there and be home to the washington mystics and the nbas minor team, the capital city go go. Were helping you get fit for the new year. Its 2018. Right . Yep its here. A lot of people looking for longer than a few weeks. Molette green is riding at zenga. With more on this cardioworkout that you may be looking for. Molette, how is it going in there . Reporter on this indoor cycle and after just a few minutes, you work up a good sweat. You can melt off the holiday pounds and get fit for 2018. Look at the sweat coming off this guys face here. Yes. Zenga cycle. It promises an intense workout. But who can do this . Right . How much does it cost . Is it affordable for most of us . Well, were going to talk to the Fitness Instructor next. Shes very passionate about zengo and says its for everybody. Well find out more on news4 today. Ally, take it away. Come on until somebody falls off. The sh fall. The bike doesnt move, right . No, it doesnt move. Slick moves. A downhill performance fit for the winter games. Look at that balance. I give him a 9. 5. Hear from the virginia man behind this viral video and see the special award presentation only on news 4. Plus, cuffed at school. School Board Meeting. A teacher arrested after questioning the boss. This morning, shes telling her side of the story in an exclusive interview. Before you head out this morning, temperatures are mostly above freezing. But you probably still want that jacket. Cloudy skies tot today at the bus stop. But the rain wont be here until right around evening commute time. Not a lot of it either until tomorrow. Mild temperatures too. But the living rooms pretty blank. Its really nice when clients come in and have done some of their own research. Working with a bassett designer was really easy. Just kind of ties in very well. We love it good thursday morning. Temperatures above freezing in the area. Does not feel as cold. Still a jacket this morning. As we go through lunchtime, temperatures will already start to get near 50 degrees. That does come with a lot of cloud cover and rain chances will be increasing later today. Well look at the timing of that with chuck coming up in a bit. Melissa . Problems on a couple of routes. Inbound on 395. Details on both coming up. What are you doing . Dont can you explain . It is the video thats been all over social media. A louisiana teacher arrested as a school Board Meeting. Apparently for questioning the superintendents new contract. This morning, were hearing from that teacher. In an nbc news exclusive, she says she was panicked when she was handcuffed by a city marshall. The teaer 30,000 raise for the superintendent. She told School Board Members it was a slap in her face because teachers hadnt had a raise in years. Even though she was arrested, hargraves has no regrets. Its sad that a woman has to be forcibly, violently removed from a Board Meeting for people to start caring. Arrest records show hargraves was booked into the city jail for resisting an officer and remaining on premises. No charges are going to be filed here. The school board stands by its decision to ask her to leave that meeting. Im Chris Lawrence here at the live desk with video of an emotional candlelight vigil for a university of pennsylvania student. Blaze bernsteins body was found in a remote California Park and was just identified yesterday. The sophomore was visiting home from winter break when he went missing january 2nd. The tightknit Community Came out to light candles, pray. We havent heard details on the cause of death, but police are investigating it as a homicide. Aaron . Chris lawrence at the live desk. Thank you. 6 16 now. A room full of futuristic devices and it was darkness that stole the show at the Consumer Electronics show in vegas. For two hours, the Convention Center there lost power after a transformer blew yesterday. Can you imagine . Right. Some used their cell phones to get around. The light on the cell phones. The outage is being blamed on all the rain the city had this week. Can you imagine if you had to charge the phones then, theres no power. The chaos. Exactly. Panicki panicking. Were helping you get fit for the new year. A lot of people think about taking a cycling class, they get nervous. Theres one studio in northwest d. C. That says theres no need to fear a good workout. Molette green is riding at zengo cycling studios in cathedral commons. Molette, youre glistening by the way. Brittany is glistening as well. Im trying not to sweat my hair out. Thats important for us, too. Im a beginner. This is my first time. I didnt know about the special shoes you click in. You mentioned that on the last break. This is cool. It keeps you on the bike. Dont be intimidated by this. Lets talk to the leader of the class here at cathedral commons. Hey, ally. Hey, molette. Good morning. For folks who never heard of this, dont know anything about it, give us the icebreaker. Its a rhythmbased cycling studio. Vigorous, high intensity cardioworkout. Full body. Upper body, your legs your toes. Were talking about staying fit for 2018. So who can do this workout . Anybody. One of the biggest things that we really try to maintain here is that its all inclusive. Height, color. You can pick your own pace, modify as you want. Its a no judgment zone. You can disappear, unplug and escape. Lets talk about cost. We know that you have to invest in your health. Absolutely. We have to be realistic. From will deals . First class is always free. All new riders take the first class for free. We have several specials. You can get a five pack of class for halftime. About six times to ride for super cheap. Up to six times, youll know if youre committed. Its a community here. Its the music, the lights, the energy. Lets show them how we do it. Zengo cycle. Lets go. Its one, two, right left lets show them a little bit. It goes one two. See me . I like upper body workout that they have. At the end they do light weights forearms. Looking good. Shoutout to the guys in the back row. My kind of guys. Hiding . Thats right. Molette, well check back in with you, thanks. Do you feel invigorated . Do you feel you want to go out and conquer the world, chuck bell. We were liking her earrings. The big hoops like that. Make it a little extra. A little shine while you work out. A little glisten never killed anybody, right . We could really use the rain around here. People dont think you can have a drought in the winter time. You can. Weve had so little rain, one of the driest stretches since september 1st. Weve had onethird of the average rainfall. Last six weeks, were more than 3 inches behind in rainfall since december 1st. Only had, again, barely more than a third of our average amount of rainfall since september 10th. Thanks to capital climate for helping me dig up that stat. Theres rain in the forecast. Morning commute will be dry. On the way home later today, there could be scattered showers around to contend with. You may want to pack that traveler umbrella on the way out the door this morning. 7 00 tonight, an opportunities for light rain down towards the culpepper area. By midnight, better chance for rain. By time you get up early tomorrow morning, 6 00, 7 00, 8 00 a. M. There will be pockets of moderate rain coming through. Friday, well start out mild. In the 50s tomorrow morning. Best chance you may get rained on two, three or four times tomorrow. This first wave of moderate rain goes in and out of here probably around lunchtime tomorrow. There should be a few hours, even though its just a few. A few hours tomorrow it is really mild. But by friday evening, the rain comes back in. Your saturday will start out with raindrops and end on saturday afternoon with a cold northwest wind bringing winter time back in. So 55 today with a 40 chance for showers later on. 100 chance for rain tomorrow. Not raining every minute of the day. When its not rain, get outside and enjoy it. 65 tomorrow. Falling temperatures during the day on saturday and high temperatures back below freezing on sunday and monday. Now it is time for a kek on first 4 traffic. Getz go to melissa. Taking a look at the roads northbound 395 at edsall road. A onemile backup from the earlier crash this morning. Things to be moving okay at this point. Northbound 270, chopper 4 over this problem near falls road here this morning. That is in the local lanes on the right side of the roadway. You can see things are getting by slow northbound because of that. Northbound 295 at malcolm x, crash reported there york avenue after bladensburg. Broken down metrobus is blocking a lane. We have a crash reported at sudden lee as well. Getting paid for your pain. A new perk from metro riders delayed by the trains. The plan that could put money back in your pockets and the action being taken today. Easing traffic at one of the worst bottlenecks in the country. If you think the express lanes on 66 are bad, wait until you hear about the new expansion. Shes an alist triple threat. Oscar, emmy and tony award winner. Helen mirren will be on e youre doing great. [laugher] you look amazing. 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