getting a look from our trafficland cam, this is a look at the suitland parkway traveling from suitland making your way into town. you're looking at an issue free commute. we'll send it over to you. >> thank you, larry. >>> just about 6:1. here's what's making news now. a bail hearing is scheduled for monday for the man who bought the assault rifles used in this month's massacre in intrngdz, cal -- san bernardino, california. enrique marquez is charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists for allegedly conspiring with syed farook to plot other attacks. the attacks, though, never happened. >>> a senate panel is set to conduct a review of defense secretary ash carter's e-mails to ensure no sensitive information was compromised. this decision comes after it with us revealed that carter used a personal e-mail account during his first month on the job. he admitted to doing so and says it was a mistake. >>> boweberg dual -- bowe bergdahl will face charges of desertion and misbehavior. he disappeared in afghanistan and was held by the taliban for five years. his story is f

police are investigating a murder in suitland. somebody shot and killed nathanial powell jr. >>> major flooding where the mississippi river is expected to overflow its banks today. we just learned they closed the main highway there. >>> tonya couch, mom of ethan couch is back. she's arrived in last. in handcuffs. >> 17 hours left in 2015. you and the whole family can attend first night alexandria to celebrate. they ring in 2016 with performing arts all day. topped off by fireworks at midnight. >>> and nine hours left until kickoff of the orange bowl, oklahoma and clemson. mild weather there but cold next week. >>> all right. and take a look now northbound georgia at the beltway. have a crash at the top of the beltwaying looking so much better outer loop at new hampshire avenue. it with us nasty this morning. now it's okay. >>> all good now. all right. that does it for your the last morning show of the new year -- old year. >> have a happy new year, >>> good morning. the defendant bill cosby accused of a sexual assault more than a

that's going to be the suitland parkway and i-295. there is reports of high standing water there. be careful as you make your way into and out of the district right down by the douglas bri . bridge. powder mill road, things moving along nicely. wet roadways are go to cause some problems for you. it is going to slow things down. just pay attention and keep in mind the ponding on the roadways cause s hydroplaning and be careful on the slippery on and off ramps. >>> the bear is in the cave with him. >> can't get out because of where the bear is or too injured? >> i think the bear is on top of him. >> so dramatic. for the first time we are hearing the terrifying moments. boy scouts realized their leader was attacked by a bear. we told you how christopher came face to face with the bear in a new jersey forest last week. the scouts ran out of the cave and called 911. they then used food to lure the bear out. he managed to call 911 from inside the cave. >> 911, where is the emergency? >> split rock reservoir blue trail. >> are you bleeding?

. >>> making your way prosecute suitland in -- from suitland in to town, no issues but the wet roads having an impact for commuters, primarily in northwest dc, take it easy out there. and we do have a tu accidents -- few accidents, in the outer loop slowing commuters down, get >>> watch the doppler radar as it heads out of the dc area as you head up to work, if you're going to work, you are going to see wet roads and ponding in many places, add some extra time, just be careful. >>> 6:23, time for your money, amazon's prime service makes big gains, the retail giant added 3 million people to its subscription service, i'm one of them, bringing the total, number of total prime numbers to tens of millions, worldwide. >>> and it's a very, merry christmas for fitness tracking device maker fit bit. the company's app was the most downloaded on apple's app store christmas day. its shares jumped 4% following the strong holiday sales. >>> the faa's drone registration website officially open, must submit names and addresses to a national database for a $5 fee or face heavy fines if you already ow

alison: the police are releasing new information about a homicide in suitland. they say that 51-year-old nathaniel powell was shot in a parking lot on brooks drive yesterday. he died of his injuries today. no arrest has been made. $25,000 is up to been offered for information leading to his arrest. most one of america's beloved faces now in the center of a mug shot, bill cosby free on $1 million bail tonight, charged with sex assault in pennsylvania. this new chapter in his fall from grace comes after months of assault accusations from dozens of women. jay korff has the latest on this case and a look at what this could mean for the other cases? ay: indeed, after facing litany of assault allegations, bill cosby has been indicted for the first time. this could impact a case involving some alleged victims of cosby who are represented by a d.c.-based attorney. iconicsby, the 78-year-old comedian known for his fatherly disposition, was entered into a suburban pennsylvania courthouse yesterday to face sex assault charges. a woman accuses him of sexually assaulting her

. >>> a murder mystery in suitland tonight after a man was found shot inside the parking lo ing his apartment complex has died. he was found after 6:00 yesterday morning after a sho shooting on brooks drive. he was taken to the hospital and died today. police are still looking for a motive and suspects. >>> it's one of the most ambitious police body cam programs in this nation. by next summer, all 2800 police officer is in the nation's capitol will have them. d.c. mayor muriel bowser signed that legislation today. the law will allow the videos to be released to the public much faster, in some cases 48 hours. the camera program will cost about $5 million a year. >>> to a developing story we on the washington d.c. app, the so-called influenza teen is back in the u.s. now. mexican authorities deported tonya couch and her flight arrived in l.a. you will recall her son used affluenza in a drunk driving case in 2013. they went on the run two weeks ago as police investigated if he than violated his probation. it's still uncleavr when he wil be sent back to the u.s. >> at this point, we do not have a

they say a man was shot in a parkling lot in suitland yesterday. he died. hes with 51 years old. >>> in capitol heights prince george's police are working to find out what led to a deadly crash. an suv hit and killed ricky clayton two weeks ago. according to police the car crossed over the double yellow line there. >>> i want to show you this video. it shows an armed robbery. according to police it happened yesterday on naylor road southeast. police say the three people walked into the store and stole cash. at least one of them had a gun. >>> a family in northern virginia has been cut off from the rest of their neighborhood because of roadwork. the street's connecting their driveway in vienna are all blocked off and they've been like that for months. have to go down a muddy road to get to their house, a road that's often blocked with construction trucks and then trash trucks can't most of the time make it to their house. delivery trucks, don't even try that. >> we were accepting the fact we would suffer some inconvenience due to construction but we didn't e

. >>> pennsylvania state police have suitland a deadly officer involved shooting at a wal-mart in the poconos as justified. police say 20-year-old andrew joseph todd walked into the east stroudsburg store saturday carrying two handguns and a machete. witnesses told police todd was threatening and pointing one of the weapons at customers. officers shot and killed todd saying he refused to drop his weapons and pointed one at them. no one else in the store was hurt. >>> a texas father claims his sixth grade son's homework looks more like allow to for becoming a drug dealer. scott pick was reviewing his son caden's assignments when he came across a critical thinking exercise that follows the cocaine trade. it lists steps from the cartel's to the drug labs to how cocaine is smuggled and sold. pick confronted school officials and they told him the study sheet will be reviewed before being considered for future use. >> new this morning, new york city education officials are now denying that santa claus is banned from one public school. parents say the principal at p s1 69 in sunset park broo

suitland is live with what she has learned so far. kimberly: investigators are still looking into this and they are not calling it an arson. the neighbors said they thought it was accidental until they found the car that belonged to the woman. the hole in the driver's license's side window does not sit -- driver's side window does not fit well with them. cries for help loud enough to wake neighbors across the parking lot. >> "help me" at the top of her lungs. kimberly: david looked out the window and called 911 twice. once because of the screams and the second time because of the sparks inside the backdoor. >> trucks got here. it moved quickly. >> he and other danger assumed that it was accidental until they saw a gaping hole in car window out front. >> a lot of suspicion. fire, okay. but the car tied to it tells me something else is going on. i don't know what it is. i wish i did. kimberly: sounds like she was injured first and then the house caught fire. >> i would haven't a clue. it is rather odd. kimberly: strange and sad as they

the senior jenkins is from suitland, maryland. >> think of ourselves as the d.c. all-star team. most of us were overlooked. important to show on the national stage what we're capable of. >> the division ii title game is saturday in kansas city. that means no bus trip this time. another first. >> yes. my first flight to a game. but not too bad. >> i'm nervous but it is worth it. >> they will be fine when they get out there and we get the whistles blowing. >> what about the shepherd faithful? expect a pilgrimage this week. >> my family is coming. >> everybody is coming. >> how many is everybody? >> everybody i can think of coming. we travel well. erin: making this more exciting the game is nationally televised on world war ii. -- nationally televised on espn2. jonathan: we wish them the best of luck. a major accomplishment. autria: go rams. jonathan: no kidding. coming up next for us at "abc7 news at 5:00" -- >> i'm mike carter-conneen outside the national archives. today a couple of individuals became newest american citizens. coming up, their reaction to the pre autria: at if re

his last known address was in suitland, maryland. >> butler has indeed been busy. we have been looking for him for over three years now. we are desperate to find him. >> he has black hair and black eyes and he is facing larceny and destruction of property charges. they want him off the wall of justice and put him behind bars. if you have information on the search for butler call the arlington county police. we will see you next week with the wall of justice. have a happy and a safe holiday. i'm jennifer donelan. leon: coming up on "abc7 news at 5:00" -- a historic chip returns to baltimore inner harbor. where has it been? >> and waiting for years. for health that never came. i-team investigator chris papst exposes the problem that is affecting thousands of if you could see your cough, you'd see all the sickness you're spreading. new robitussin cf max severe soothes and delivers powerful relief of cough, sore throat, stuffy nose and fever. new robitussin cf max severe. because it's never just a cough. when emergency room doctors choose an otc pain reliever for their

. >>> a murder investigation under way in suitland. police say somebody shot and killed nathanial powell jr. yesterday. his body was found in a parking lot on brooks drive. police are offering a $25,000 reward in this case. >>> a family in northern virginia cut off from the rest of the neighborhood because of roadwork. the streets are all blocked off and have been for months. they have to go to a muddy road just to get to their road, a road by the way that's often blocked with construction trucks. trash trucks ca't always make it down. delivery trucks, they don't even try. >> we were accepting the fact we will suffer some inconvenience due to their construction but we didn't expect the situations to be like this. >> the up to of vienna telling us in a statement they ran into some issues. it was supposed to be january. now mid-march, but no guarantees. >>> a florida mom is in jail after her five children tried to cross a busy highway all by themselves. officers were called to the scene where a driver saw the kids on tuesday. the driver

westbound, bw parkway, new crash there just being reported and take a look at this other one, outbound, suitland parkway at silver hill road. sounds like a vehicle off the roadway there. two new problems here this morning. eastbound oxon hill road at livingston, emergency road work hanging around here. taking a look at 66 and 95, don't have any problems there. 270 at father hurley boulevard, no major issues. everything rolling along just fine. now, we still have this situation for much of the morning commute here in gaithersburg. muncaster mill road shut down from 8:00 to 2:00 because of the officer's funeral. >>> it is 5:25 now. a family out of its home for now after a fire in prince george's county. firefighters were called to endcut place. firefighters tweeted this video of the flames. no word on what caused this fire. >>> right now, nasa is getting ready to launch a rocket, sending three astronaut s to the international space station. 45 minutes or so, looking at the preparations from the launch site in kazakhstan. an american, russian and british astronaut all joining the crew up in space.

bureau, right now we are following detectives as they try to find a killer or killers of an innocent suitland man shot to death going to work tuesday. >> scott broom is live at the sussex square apartments on brook drive, let us know what is going on here. >> reporter: really disturbing crime here, detectives just wrapped up canvasing here at the sussex square apartments and taking a very hard second look at the victim's truck in the parking lot early tuesday morning as they try to get some lead on this disturbing murder. 51-year-old grandfather nathan powell, jr. worked 2 jobs as a heating and cooling engineer and raised 5 children, never in trouble. today, mystified detectives went door to door trying to find out who killed him early tuesday, 5:50, he approached his truck here at the sussex square apartments to go to work as usual. >> we believe mr. powell, jr. was on his way to work shortly before 6:00 a.m. when approached by a suspect or suspects and was shot and killed. >> i heard the first shot. >> neighbors said they heard 2 gunshots and are stunned that mr. powell was the target. >> n

come forward about a murder in a prince george's county neighborhood officers canvassed the streets of suitland near the area where nathaniel was shot. he was found on brooks drive on tuesday morning and he died from his wounds yesterday. there is a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. >>> tonight, a local father is hoping that a tribute he built to honor his step daughter's memory will make it into the new year. it's a hockey rink that he has opened up to other community members in the county, but as our derek ward reports, the county has concerns about the rink and its location. >> the ice is synthetic, the fun is real. for mark cohn of poolsville, this is a natural way to indulge his lifelong love of the sport and he even coaches it? i thought if i ever had a chance and if i could ever have my own rink i would have more flexibility. >> reporter: this rink isn't just about fun. there is a sochl emmeaning behind what's going on here. it is a fit waying to remember his step daughter melanie. >> a huge hockey fan. if it was a friday night we'd have pizza and puck night and that w

for our friends in suitland traveling in town, you won't find any problems et. you can see -- problems either. you can see it's virtually quiet. traveling on the beltway between oxon hill and alexandria, all lanes of traffic are open. we'll have your drive times around the metro coming up after the seven-day forecast. for now over to you. >> merry christmas from the trfic department. >>> still to come charges filed in a crash that injured comedian tracy morgan. >> we'll introduce you to a young boy working to make a difference for those who may find themselves sleeping on the streets >>> welcome back to wake up washington. sounds like santa may be rocking an umbrella and some shorts when he makes it through the dmv. >> definitely shorts. the bulk of the rain is this morning. later on today it will be easier to get around town and still gusty and warm. so we're talking about record highs. let me tell you how warm it is. our record high for baltimore today with was 65 and admit night they were 66 degrees -- at midnight they were 66 degrees. our average highs for t

bw parkway, crash cleanup. 295 northbound between suitland parkway and howard road. be alert for heavy delays there. stilled tied up at maryland 19 p. back to you. >> anchor: thank you. happening today, annapolis leaders holding an emergency meeting to try to find a temporary home for the annapolis yacht club. the historic club burned saturday. just hours before a popular parade of lights was scheduled. the club has occupied the same land for more than 120 years. club officials are vowing to rebuild. the cause of that fire remains under investigation. and closing arguments are expected today in the case of baltimore police officer william porter. the injury will decide whether porter is criminally negligent for his actions in the connection with 2 death of freddie gray, the first of 6 officers that will face trial. you can get more news, weather and traffic on good morning washington on news channel 8. hope you have a great mondays. >> it's "live! with kelly & michael." today, from the new comedy, "daddy's home," mark wahlberg. and from "star wars: the force awakens,