To request the recount. Meanwhile, the president elects cabinet is coming together with a wrestling mogul, a state attorney general, and a retired general, the the latest to come on board. Donald trump plans to nominate Linda Mcmahon to run the Small Business administration. She cofounded the World Wrestling entertainment, the wwe. The president elect also chose retired general john kelly for Homeland Security secretary. To our weather now. If it feels cold out there, well, it is. Its already below freezing outside for some of us tonight. Doug, you are saying in a couple of days this is going to feel good . Yeah, we are going to be hoping for the freezing mark. If it feels like 32 on friday or saturday, it may not be all that bad because i think we are going to feel like the 20s on two areas. In the city still hitting at 41 degrees. You see 27 back twoorlds elkins west virginia. Many areas in the suburbs below that freezing mark. It was cool today buy still quite nice. The cold air bac
That clears the way for the facility to open its doors tonight. All morning long we will have live reports from inside the Mgm National Harbor and be sure to check out the nbc washington app to see the months of work it took to get to todays opening. 39 degrees outside our studios on this thursday morning, a chilly start. Lets check in with Amelia Draper for a look at the forecast. Good morning. Chilly and cloudy right now, we could have a sprinkles around until 7 00, 8 washington. Overall the weather having a pretty low impact on your day today. Cloudy skies through the midmorning hours, a ever that we will have increasing sunshine. By 9 00 a. M. We are in the low 40s and by 11 00 a. M. We are in the mid 40s. You want the warm jacket today but overall pretty quiet day weatherwise. The weather having a low impact on your day. Most stay dry, maybe some sprinkles this morning, increasing sunshine as we head into the afternoon hours. Not a bad afternoon for this coming up in ten minutes i
The toll road this morning. Still have this section of the toll road shut down, westbound toll road just after Fairfax County parkway, thats where the crash happened with an overturned truck, all lanes being pushed on to fair fashion county parkway. Overall beltway looking okay. You can see no major problems on the beltway. Into town and out of town looking good. 66 here, live westbound no worries. Edgar welsh will be in sort again today. This was him in court yesterday. He was accused of firing a gun inside the pizza restaurant comet ping pong on sunday. He claims he was selfinvestigating a fake news story called pizza gate which spread online. The New York Times published a story based on a jailhouse interview with him. News 4 spoke with the rorner and Megan Mcgrath is live good morning. Reporter adam goldman is a reporter with the New York Times and he recently spoke we had gar welsh who is in jail for that shooting. He said that he came to comet ping pong to selfinvestigate somethi
Melissa, a problem youve been tracking all morning long, issues with the who will road. Chopper 4 just got over the scene, this is westbound dulles toll road, the main lanes are shut down because of that overturned box truck and those airport lanes are getting by just fine. This is at Fairfax County parkway. Right now you have to get off at Fairfax County parkway and then back on. You have just routing around this problem here this morning to make your way around it, its stavridis. Michigans recount is over. A judge lifted the order that forced a recount. Jill stein is vowing to appear the decision. Edgar welch will be back in the courtroom today. He is accused of firing a gun inside the comet ping pong restaurant on sunday. Welch claims he was self investigating a fake news story. The made up story claims the restaurant was involved in a child sex ring linked clinton campaign. Now the New York Times has published a story based on a jailhouse interview with welch. Megan mcgrath is live
Approaching the 880 split. Lets go to breaking news. Right now several crews from Fire Agencies are battling a fire near the bridge. They say the fire is burning a large building right near the waterfront. We have a news crew near the bridge, a fire, we will have a live report coming up. We are following a fire in sonoma county. A body was found in a car near sonoma university. The Sheriffs Office said they learned the car was linked to a man wanted for questioning by santa rosa police. They say the trunk was unlocked and the body was locked in a blanket. Sheriffs are treating this as is suspicious. A man jumped into the water to flee police. He has been missing since december 24 when he stopped him on suspicion of drunk driving. Last night they had a report of a body and the investigation into his identity and cause of death will start today. A shooting death of one man happened last night on crest avenue. Neighbors said they heard about 30 rounds which sounded like an automatic assau