sue palka is on the ellipse. i remember you with the hat on and it was windy and cold and no hat today. >> reporter: no hat and i'm glad, shawn. they're not flattering on me, especially when you have the toaccount for the wind blowing it away. a fun night down here and just a few minutes ago, we had mrs. obama read with kermit the frog, 'twas the night before christmas and can you see behind me now that santa's here. we have this party underway and there is lots to see and that surround the big 3 and, of course, the wonderful train in santa's workshop and we have this holiday season underway, shawn. >> love it, awesome night and thank you. >>> we should start's group bet on when sue is going to break out the cowboy hat? >> and she's not going to wear them today. >> i mean like this season. i'm going to say like january 12th? >> twentyth. >> i think november 22nd. >> all right. >> and i will go february 5th. >> oh, february? have somebody write that down. >> all right. >> a group gets messy in northwest and say it

we begin with sue palka at the greenbrier station in fairfax. how's it out there? >> reporter: it's traffic. we're delighted that it's a comfortable day like last night for the lighting of the christmas tree. we have chantilly high school's touch of class here. they're lending some beautiful music to get the tag of the shoppers here at the -- the attention of the shoppers here at the greenbrier shopping station. the food bang needs your donations. we're collecting and they're distributing. they have only four boxes full right now. we have a ways to go. we're getting donations there and that is traffic. i wanted to talk more -- that is terrific. i wanted to talk more about the greated in in this area. joining us is amy hendricks. tell us what you do and the surprising statistics you told me about for this area? >> sure. i'm the northern virginia kids catholic coordinator, working with a program that provides at- risk youths food after school. we're one of the wealthiest counties in the country, fairfax and louden county and still one in six childrennia in hunger. th

let's get right to sue palka in the weather center. not snow palka, got snow on the brain, too. >> that sounds good. maybe that will be my twitter name, no, just kidding. let me talk to you about the cooldown. it's 19 degrees colder now than 24 hours ago. we did hang onto the warmer temperatures until early this morning and then they've come down. we've been watching moisture down to our south. this has not amounted to a lot. it's light, patchy, mostly liquid in a couple spots. i'll show you where you see the brighter returns, that's a little sleet mixing in a little north and west of fredericksburg and spotsylvania, but that is the exception not the rule. this is actually almost over. it will be over pretty soon. check out sentinel radar. we'll put it in motion. you see a lot more rain on that picture because it's aloft and not hitting the ground. temperature 43 degrees. we'll drop as we get to these overnights and pull in temperatures in the low 30s friday night. we have another chance of flurries in the forecast before the weekend i

palka was down there. the weather seemed chilly, but the crowds didn't steam to mind. >> it was so much -- seem to mind. >> it was so much better than other years. there were a lot of people standing. there are the seats close to where the president and the guests are and there's a huge number of people standing behind and it was full to capacity today. you know what? it really is a spectacular event here in washington. it definitely helps us the holiday season and today was the 89th year for the tree lighting. this is a tradition that began in 1923 when calvin coolidge was president and walked out of the white house over to this tree. carson daly hosted the festivities this evening and big time rush was a group that performed, never heard of them, but now i know. the president briefly spoke and urged people to be generous to one another during this holiday season. >> in this season of hope let's help those who need it most, the homeless, the hungry, the sick and shut-in. in this season of plenty let's rea

back over to sue palka with a last look at the forecast. >> we thought we would check out radar. not a lot or areas are getting the rain and to southern maryland and to north-central virginia, watch this as it goes in motion. the bright colors are moving on away and some rain, sleet, and snow to the south. >> and now you have the news edge. have a fantastic friday night. back here at 10.  á

first, sue palka in fairfax at the green briar patch. >> reporter: you know what is amazing about this campaign this year, it's not that cold out. most of the time when we do it, it's cold and i end up having to wear my favorite hat that you like so much. and you thought i wouldn't ware it until january 12th. you were wrong. i wanted you to lose the bet. we're out here in green briar in fairfax county and i want to you meet six fantastic seniors from centreville high school. i will tell you why they're fantastic in a moment. introduce yourself. >> i'm brianna. >> i'm [ indiscernible ] >> i'm lexie. >> jay montrosa. >> i'm valerie and. >> i'm haley. >> and i this is why centreville high school is fantastic. tell us how much food you collected for the capital area food bang? >> our school collected over 7,000 pops of school in a matter of a week and a half -- pounds of school in a matter of a week and a half. >> that is amazing. you know how many tons? >> no. >> reporter: three 1/2 tons. that is wonderful. how many years do you think thatville's been doing this? i know that last year you

by her response, i believe it's the same that a young joe palka was give know by sue in the hills of eerie, pennsylvania, a short time ago. >> the hills. >>> tonight, maryland hostsfafla international and they're -- florida international and they're coached by isaiah thomas. >> and would be remiss without giving an opportunity to respond. sue? >> there are no hills in eerie, pennsylvania. oh, but it was a long time ago, dave, that is for sure. >>> we have to give you the five-day forecast here. we have some non-eerie like temperatures, some showers tomorrow. >> thank you, sue. >>> back here at 10. the [ female announcer ] more people are using wireless devices... in more ways than ever. and our networks are getting crowded. but if congress frees up more wireless spectrum... we can empower more people to innovate... putting momentum behind our economy. and we can reduce the deficit... with more than thirty billion dollars paid by america's wireless companies. it's simple -- more spectrum means more freedom. for everyone.

. >>> over to sue palka, one last look at the forecast. >> we're going to round out this week in fine fashion. a few clouds tomorrow afternoon, get up to 56 degrees, cooler saturday, a bit warmer sunday, next chance of rain probably late on monday. >> thank you, sue. now you have the news edge. news is always on www.myfoxdc.com. thanks for staying up late with us, as always. see you. [captioning made possible by warner bros. domestic television distribution] >> today, on "tmz" -- >> it is war between chris carr dash shan and chris humphries. >> people are saying how big a dummy this guy was. she's like bye. >> oh, good theoryive. >> i'm a thinker,

sue palka is on the way with more. sue? >> reporter: we're going to get some snow. between now and when the snow arrived, we have more rain to g. we have already set a daily record here in d.c. with almost two inches of rain at reagan national. we can get another inch in the next hour or five hours and then we're going to so a little little little bit of though into the picture. and light start with vipir. we have an area of low pressure down near the roanoke area and you can so that circulation with it and on the west side, we have snow and that is rain coming in our direction. we expect to get more heavy rain between now and 9:00. the snow will begin to mix in and change over between 9 and midnight and let's give you weather headlines here. right now, we think this forecast is going to be all about

winter weather mix hitting our area, but will this heavy rain turn to snow until let's get right to sue palka with the very latest models. a few changes you say? >> what we think is changing is the storm is moving out now and there will be little, if any, snow for the metro. you can see this storm departing. there's definitely snow across northern maryland up into pennsylvania, but it's really going to pull out here and the cold air didn't make it in in time to change a lot thatch rain over. you're going to have school -- of that rain over. you're going to have school in

also sue palkas and some of the others going to be broadcasting from some of the other locations this evening. reporter: 5:00 and 6:00. reporter: final for dix autopsy on the redskins day. reporter: we'll go with the redskins to beat the j-e-t-s, jets 24-17. reporter: never mind, julie. i gotta get you your pie. i'm going to run right in and get you a pie. reporter: he's been owing me forever. reporter: first thing she mentioned when she showed up, tony doesn't have my pie. reporter: back to you guys, we've had fun. reporter: muah! >> thank you, guys. >>> if you can't make it out to our stuff a truck locations, we do want you to know that you can still call our phone bank today as well and they have been taking your calls all morning long. mike gillespie with the capital area food bank is here. he's been busy on the phone today. how has it been this morning? how have the donations been? >> it's been great. i want to thank you guys for helping us with this and putting this out there and letting us come here to have people give us money. we've been collecting everything from $5 to $1,00

sue palka is in the weather center with the details. >> you're a good observer of the weather, laura. you get a 63-degree 10:00 night in december, there is definitely something coming. last year it was 34 degrees for the high temperature, so what a difference this december, but there are some colder changes coming and we also have a few more showers to get through tomorrow night. let's start out with a look at those temperatures. this is more typical of late october or early november during the height of our daytime heating. it is still 62 in d.c., annapolis is 65 and quantico is 66 degrees. we know some colder air is coming. it's going to take a little while, so we get the rest of this night on the warm side. it's 39 in columbus, 37 detroit. that is not bitter. this is not arctic air, but there will be a cooldown in the cards for us and it's coming in a matter of hours, although we will see this slowly descending tomorrow. no real showers at this time. want to show you what we'll be watching tomorrow as we watched the last of the hours kind of departing the area ahead of the front. t

sue palka in the weather center now with more details. >> we'll be all over the place this week, a real feel of winter rolling into town halfway through the workweek, but today so mild, 60 degrees and it's still 56 at this hour. that's well above normal for this time of year, but we'll be getting wet and then colder and in between it could get kind of interesting. first things first, look at where the rain is. it's not raining here yet, but we can see there is some rain coming. this will be a real slow process. i think tomorrow we have light showers and i'm talking maybe not even enough to measure until later in the afternoon. a big part of this story will be temperatures. let me direct you to this map where you can see the temperature is 56, but when we get you out into the bigger picture, check this out, look at the colder air. 14 degrees in amarillo, 0 in denver, 12 in lincoln, nebraska, some very cold air on the move. that's the cold air that will roll into town wednesday night and wednesday night if we still have this precipitation hanging around because we think the rain will cont