Thats ridiculous. Hey, last minute shoppers are getting their game face on. Getting the adrenaline pumping. Derrick ward is live at the Montgomery Mall in bethesda. Good morning, what it is looking like . Reporter tell you what. All through the malls the last minute shoppers are having a ball. Tell you what, this parking lot, the last time you came to us, it was relatively empty. Its filled up a little bit since then. People are indeed making those lastminute runs. Now, the National Retail federation says 126 Million People nationwide will do some lastminute shopping either yesterday or today. And hopefully theyre not all in front of you if youre coming out to do that. But i made a lap around the mall. Its not that busy, like an average sunday. We expect it to pick up a bit more later today. But you know the last minute who are seeing an uptick in activity today. We talked to an uber driver seeing more business than usual. Take a look. I have one more gift for my grandbaby. Yes. Report
We were in the mid 60s yesterday. Can you believe it . It was so nice yesterday except we had the rain going on and off throughout the day. Temperatures will top out in the mid 40s. Nothing going on on the radar. However, we widen this view out, a little snow shower, a disturbance across the middle portion of the United States, and its headed our way. Well talk about that coming up. All right, thank you, lauryn. Merry christmas to everybody out there. Last minute shoppers, derrick ward is not one of them, but theres plenty of us doing our lastminute shopping. Full disclosure i finished yesterday. News4 derrick ward is live this morning. Youre at montgomery mall. What do we need to know, the last minute shoppers, what do they need to know . Reporter well, the mall is here and its open. We have seen this parking lot start to fill steadily. So you know, i think you have some time to get a parking space close to one of the mall entrances. Were here as you said at Westfield Montgomery mall.
Some of this action in norfolk, later on this evening. Still breezy, rainy and cool. Sunshine returns late tomorrow. Here come the 80s by late week. And difficult weekend forecast. Yesterday we were talking about 90 . Right. I dont think so anymore. Youve got our attention, doug, thank you. He caused a day of panic across Montgomery County. Three shot, one killed outside Westfield Montgomery mall, another killed outside an aspen hill Grocery Store. And the man accused of those murders faced a judge to enter a guilty plea. Scott macfarlane has the details. Jillalio toroil entered guilty pleas. He was taken down just across the street. You may recall this footage. Police say he tried to woman and killed the Good Samaritan who was trying to help her. Tordil then drove to an aspen hills giant Grocery Store and killed the woman getting into her car in the parking lot. This happened the day after he killed his wife gladys outside a high school in Prince Georges County. Hes facing a separate
Midlate afternoon. Highs 7378 winds nw 5 tonight partly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows 5662 winds se 5 mph thursday partly sunny. Much warmer and a touch humid. Highs 8487 winds s 515 mph new steps to counter north Koreas Nuclear threats. The controversial thadd antimissile system, on the move right this minute, in response to shows of force from north korea. The us and south korea are in the progress of installing it at a Deployment Site right now. This comes as other highpowered u. S. Military assets are headed to the korean peninsula. Our question of the day are you concerned about the tense developments with north korea . Tell us at wjla dot com slash vote now. Sam sweeney is at the live desk with how the white house is responding. Larry, tensions high this morning on the korean penninsula. The uss carl vinson airfraft carrier is closing in on the area and thats not the only american warship there. Late tuesday the uss michigan. A Us Nuclear Submarine surfaced in south korea. This latest
The most wanted man in europe, 24yearold anis amri, dead. Killed after he was asked for i. D. By italian police. Officials say amri immediately pulled a gun and started firing. There is no doubt, italys interior minister told reporters, that the dead man is amri. This is what officials believe he did at the berlin christmas market. The truck on the left of your screen is a dark menace on the street awash in Holiday Lights. At 40 miles per hour, running over people and stalls in the market. German Authorities Say they found amris fingerprints inside and outside the trucks cab. Italy was familiar territory to amri. After leaving his hometown in tunisia in 2011, he spent more than three years in prison there for setting fire to a refugee center. A prison official tells nbc news amri was violent but showed no signs of religious fundamentalism. At the berlin m to business. Returning here, an emotional moment for this woman who like amri is from tunisia. There is a kind of double sadness, bu