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Tomorrow. But tomorrow tracking the rain, were going to be tracking that for you. Well take you hour by hour. Much colder for christmas and its i mean a lot colder. Could be 40 degrees colder or at least feel that way between tomorrow and Christmas Day. And then tracking our snow chances, theyre going to be on the increase as we move into next week. Much more on this,s your complete forecast. See you back here in a minute. Thank you, doug. You can stay a step ahead of the weather no matter where you are or what youre doing this Holiday Weekend. Open the nbc washington app to get the latest from storm team4. The rain doug is talking about is coming in for the weekend get away. Heres what to expect on the roads for the weekend. They are going to be crowded so travel during the offpeak times if you can. Aaa says the easiest days will be Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and new years eve. The i95 express lanes will be set for holiday schedule. Theyll be southbound Christmas Day theyll switch a
Right in the middle of rush hour right here on highway 4. A Police Officer seriously injured while doing his job. Just after the first Traffic Accident on highway 4 near 242, a chp officer on a motorcycle stops to help. Thats when he also became a victim. Yes, i need you to respond. It looks like there might be an officer down. Reporter chp said another car came along at 6 15 smashing right into the accident scene. The officer was seriously hurt, rushed to the hospital. We are getting the information. Im not sure what lane the officer has been in. Reporter eric olsen drove by shortly afterwards and shot this video. He describes what he saw. The chp officers motorcycle was laying down in the lane. Cars, probably four to five cars, one on its side. Reporter so far they are not reporting any arrests, and they have no identifying information on the car that hit the officer. I felt really bad. A chp officer getting hit. Weve had a lot of that lately. Thoughts and prayers for him and hope he
Tonight. Joe . Reporter ken, it happened right in the middle of rush hour right here on highway 4. A Police Officer seriously injured while doing his job. Just after the first Traffic Accident on highway 4 near 242, a chp officer on a motorcycle stops to help. Thats when he also became a victim. Yes, i need you to respond. It looks like there might be an officer down. Reporter chp said another car came along at 6 15 smashing right into the accident scene. The officer was seriously hurt, rushed to the hospital. We are getting the information. Im not sure what lane the officer has been in. Reporter eric olsen drove by shortly afterwards and shot this video. He describes what he saw. The chp officers motorcycle was laying down in the lane. Cars, probably four to five cars, one on its side. Reporter so far they are not reporting any arrests, and they have no identifying information on the car that hit the officer. I felt really bad. A chp officer getting hit. Weve had a lot of that lately.
Highway 237 and the sunnyvale golf course here and the suspect was last seen running in this area. Take a look at chopper 5 video. It shows that stolen box truck. A tv tv man called the chp redwood city to a San Francisco man called the chp redwood city to report it today. The driver drove against oncoming traffic on 237 before he crashed it near this golf course. A passerby posted this video on snapchat that shows officers with guns drawn near the side of the highway and you can see one officer running toward that box truck. We spoke to chp moments ago. Take a listen. The truck then veered over to the shoulder. It came to rest where it collided into a tree. The suspect then bailed out of the truck, hopped over a fence. Now one suspect is still at large. Reporter take a look at the inside of this stolen box truck. It appears to be mostly empty with a washer and drier in it or drier in it rather. No injuries have been reported throughout this chase or the theft, but again authorities ri