a judge sentenced him to 30 days in a halfway house, 18 months suspended and two year probation. he'll have to do 400 community service hours, and take a $5,000 fine. pat collins has more at the courthouse. >> reporter: wendy, the prosecutor wanted jail. the defense attorney wanted probation. the judge said, halfway. gilbert arenas leaving superior court, heading home tonight. but if the prosecutor had his way, the wizards star would have been locked up. the judge said he thought arenas did take responsibility for his actions, that he thought arenas was remorseful, that he thought arenas was a decent man capable of great generosity. this sentence came after arenas stood before the judge and said i'm sorry this all happed. every day i wake up and wish it didn't.

i thought by lying i could protect my family, my teammates. i would rather keep friends and teammates than lose everything else. i'm sorry i hurt mr. crittenton's family, the city of washington. what we did was stupid and irresponsible. i'm sorry, again, i put everybody through this. after the sentence we heard from laura govan, arenas' girlfriend. >> we're excited and happy. >> reporter: as arenas walked into court for sentencing today, a little girl tugged at his jacket and asked for an autograph. he took a pen from his lawyer and signed her book bag. this all got started last december when arenas and teammate javaris crittenton got into an argument over a gambling debt. arenas threatened to shoot crittenton in the face and burn his car. arenas brought four guns to the

wizards locker room at the verizon center. he placed the guns on the chair in front of crittenton's locker with a note that said pick one. as it turned out, crittenton had a gun of his own. the guns were not loaded. no shots fired. arenas claimed this was a misguided practical joke. but the prosecutor wasn't laughing. in january, arenas brought the court where he entered a guilty plea to one felony count of carrying a pistol without a license. after the criminal case became public, arenas was suspended by the nba. all images of the wizards franchise player removed from the verizon center. >> arenas come up court. >> reporter: he was making about $147,000 a game. with the suspension he forfeits more than $7 million of his salary. for his part, javaris crittenton pled guilty to a misdemeanor gun

charge and received one year unsupervised probation. but the prosecutor claimed arenas was not worthy of probation because he attempted to cover up the crime. and because he did not appear to be fully sorry for what he did. but the judge didn't buy that argument. again, the sentence for gilbert arenas, 30 days in a halfway house, 18 months suspended, two years probation, 400 hours of community service, no basketball camp, and a $5,000 fine to go to the victims assistance fund. wendy, back to you. >> pat collins. thanks, pat. dan hellie now with more on how the wizards are reacting to the news of today's sentencing. dan? >> as far as what this means for gilbert, the basketball player, that remains to be seen. the wizards said if he wants to play basketball, he'll be doing it in d.c.

the organization released this statement a short time ago, we believe today's sentencing of gilbert arenas can help bring closure to the unfortunate situation that played out over the last three months. gilbert admitted his mistakes and will now pay his debt to our community. we are confident that he has learned something significant from the experience and we now look forward to moving on and focusing on building this team into coa contender that our fan deserve. there are a lot of differing opinions on what happened to gilbert arenas today. one member of the media who might be closer than others is washington post columnist mike wise. after the sentencing, hakem dermish caught up with him to get his take on the outcome. >> reporter: i think gilbert arenas polarized the district like nobody else last year, and especially last few months. and i don't know if this is going to be as polarizing, people felt he should have gotten jail time, and other people didn't.

but the bottom line is it is over and done with and it is probably got to be the saddest chapter in his life. and whether or not he stays in this town, he can't say right now. it is a real tough one. >> coming up in sports, more with mike wise and tnt analyst david aldridge as well as wizards head coach flip saunders. curious to see what he has to say. >> dan hellie. stay with news 4 for continuing coverage of the arenas sentencing. coming up in our next half hour, we'll hear what fans are saying about what happened today. news from marlboro now. three teens seriously injured in a bad car crash this afternoon. darcy spencer is in upper marlboro now with more on this. darcy? >> reporter: the speed limit through here is about 25 miles per hour. i'm told the teens may have been going double that, 50 miles per hour. the car came through here, hit a curb, went airborne and landed right here on this tree behind me.

the car was just removed from the scene a few minutes ago. prince georges county fire officials say there were three teens in that honda accord. one of the male victims suffered life threatening injuries. he was flown to an area trauma center. there were to other teens in the car, a male and female. both injured as well but less seriously. they were taken to area hospitals. this crash happened here about 3:00 this afternoon on lords landing road in upper marlboro. authorities say it took about 30 minutes to extricate the victims out of the car. >> if the tree wasn't there, probably would have went in the house and the house could have caught on fire or something. it was a blessing that they're still alive. >> reporter: and an officer here on scene told me today it is the first day of spring break here in prince georges county and he's warning teens to slow it down. reporting live from upper marlboro, darcy spencer, news 4. the full results of the iraqi parliamentary elections were released today and they

show that former prime minister ayad allawi winning 91 seats, edging out the current prime minister nouri al maliki whose party won 89 seats. al maliki says he plans to challenge those results. president obama today announced that he has reached an agreement with his russian counterpart. both leaders have agreed to make deep cuts in their atomic arsenals. the deal decreases the possibility of nuclear war. it also demonstrates a higher level of cooperation between the two nations. steve handelsman on capitol hill now with more on this. >> reporter: good evening. this treaty needs to be ratified by the u.s. senate. that takes a two-thirds vote. so far senate skeptics seem to be satisfied. >> we turned the words into action. >> reporter: trumpeting his new strategic arms reduction treaty starts at the white house. president obama said he finalized it on the phone this morning with russian president medvedev who he had seen in

septber, showing they can work together. >> we made progress that is clear and concrete. we demonstrated the importance of american leadership and american partnership on behalf of our own security and the world's. >> reporter: the treaty limits each nation's nuclear warheads to 1515. that's two-thirds fewer than what they had under the last treaty in 1991. launchers are limited to 700 land based missiles, long range bombers and submarines equipped with nuclear arms. >> the cold war is behind us. and the massive nuclear arsenals that both of our countries maintained as part of deterrence no longer have to be so big. >> reporter: republicans say what's left has to be top notch. >> if you draw down the number of weapons and weapon delivery systems, nuclear warheads and systems that deliver them, under this treaty, which will be done, then it is even more imperative that what you have left works.

>> reporter: the new treaty would still allow u.s. missile defense, like theush era plan to build radars and intercepter missiles in eastern europe, to stop any future nuclear missile launched by iran. keeping that option open for a possible american missile defense system in the future could win key republican votes when this new start treaty comes up here for ratification. live from the hill, i'm steve handelsman, news 4. there is a rescue operation under way off the coast of north korea now. a south korean naval ship is sinking there. there are a lot of questions about what caused that ship to sink and the tense wars around the disputed border area. news reports indicate 58 sailors from the ship had been rescued. but 40thers are still missing. the incident began just a few hours after north korea's military threatened what it called unpredictable strikes against the u.s. and south

korea. however, there is no indication that north korea caused that ship to sink. a senior u.s. national security official told nbc news that the south koreans have said it is unlikely that north korea was involved. but intelligence officials are still trying to sort out exactly what happened there. the weekend is now upon us. it is a little damp and cloudy out there. but, again, the weekend is upon us, veronica. we have something to cheer about. >> that we do. we'll have some sunshine this weekend, got to get through a little bit of a dip and that's where the temperatures are going too. tonight we'll be one of the coldest nights in nearly a month. the kind of cold, in fact, that may have you asking others in your household can weurn on the heat, please? we're going to drop below freezing tonight as skies clear. 25 to 30. that's the range for early tomorrow morning. there is the sunshine. your fast forecast, cold overnight, and still even chilly by day. during the afternoon, the afternoon coming up this weekend, then pretty nice

warmup. we have got that to look forward to. we'll look at the seven-day forecast. >> coming up tonight, 11 people killed today when a truck hit a van carrying a group of people going to a wedding. >> we'll hear from the virginia congressman whose brother had a propane gas line severed at his house leading to speculation that this was retaliation for his health care vote. sarah palin and jn mccain together again. we'll continue coverage of our top story, the sentencing of wizards star gilbert arenas.

senator john mccain is back on the campaign trail with his old running mate sarah plirn. th they took the stage in tucson, arizona. leanne gregg has our report. >> reporter: john mccain and sarah palin back together again for the first time since losing the presidential race in 2008.

>> the maverick back to the united states senate. >> reporter: mccain launched palin's national political career two years ago when he picked her, a relative unknown outside alaska, to be his running mate. now palin is returning the favor. in arizona, to lend her newly established star power in mccain's toughest re-election battle ever. >> we need you. we need you now more than ever. and i would be honored. i would be deeply honored if you would give me the opportunity to continue to serve. >> mccain, a four-term senator is spinning off a primary challenge from former congressman and conservative talk show host j.d. hayworth. >> arizona conservatives view john mccain as someone who campaigns in arizona as a conservative, and returns to washington to that mantle of maverick and legislates either moderately or in some cases takes up the liberal banner. >> reporter: that's where palin, a favorite of the

anti-government conservatives, hopes to help, by telling arizona voters he's one of us, and he's not afraid to stand up against washington insider. >> i'm from alaska. we watch the way the fish run and see that only dead fish go with the flow. he's never been one to do that. >> reporter: at the same time, palin's launching her own campaign against democrats and what she calls obama care. >> fidel castro likes obama care but we don't like obama care. doesn't that kind of tell you something? >> reporter: once again, front and center, this time palin and mccain hopinging to sway voters. leanne gregg, nbc news. >> palin will be headlining a fund-raiser tonight in suen to and a rally in saturday on phoenix. ten members of a family on their way to a wedding were killed today in a truck crash in kentucky. it happened on interstate 65 in

mumfordville, 75 miles south of louisville. authorities say a tractor trailer crossed the median and hit a van head on. the truck then went on and ran into a rock wall and burst into flames. ten people in that van were killed. the driver in the truck also was killed. the van belonged to a mennonite church carrying a family to a wedding in iowa. police say two children in the van survived. the vatican is aggressively defending pope benedict against reports he did not take action against a priest who was accused of abusing as many as 200 boys. the case involves reverend lawrence murphy. he allegedly molested as many as 200 young boys at a school for the deaf in wisconsin from the 1950s to the 1970 a new york times article says pope benedict was then a cardinal and failed to respond to letters from the archbishops asking him for guidance in this case. today, the vatican responded to the allegations in a full page

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four surfers were rescued after getting caught a riptide off the coast of oregon. it happened yesterday. it happened near a state park called the devil's punch bowl. coast guard helicopters plucked the surfers from the water, took them to a nearby rock and from there they were lifted to dry land. none of the injuries were said to be serious. it was the third case of surfers in trouble in that area in just 24 hours. the coast guard says what seems to be ideal conditions can be deceiving and that the surfers

can be placed in great danger. let's turn from the devil's punch bowl to the cherry blossom festival. how is it going to kick off, veronica? >> it is going to kick off really nice. i'm glad that the big kickoff and the start date is tomorrow and not on sunday because it is going to turn back to some wet weather coming up on sunday. get out if you do want to head downthere. saturday is the day. lots going around d.c. this weekend. we have that detailed forecast here. as far as today, there are folks, the rain didn't stop. this is near the po poemic near mesa neck park today. we were flip-flopped today. high temperature, 56 degrees. that was at 1:20 this morning. low temperature at 11:48 here this afternoon. our last freeze, february 27th, 31 degrees. looking back through the weather records, only two years with just one day of subfreezing lows

for march. 73 and 45. with this being our first and probably own subfreezing temperature, we have to go back to '73 since we had a month like that. a little breezy out there with winds out of the northwest, blowing at 18 miles per hour now. our temperature change compared to yesterday, we were in the 70s, nice and mild. 25 to 30 degree drop over the last 24 hours. we're not going to have to wait too long to see highs back in the 70s. for now, cold, 47 and dropping. el wins, west virginia, 44 degrees. it is west there. we're seeing some clearing skies. around pittsburgh, pennsylvania, down through wheeling, west virginia, and lexington, kentucky, already, skies are completely clear. you got to look way down to the for right-hand portion of your screen around south of sullivans there to see the last showers moving out. did squeeze out 2 rain.

wind light at 3 miles per hour. at 7 mile per hour wind there, woodstock, virginia, the temperature is 47. just over a quarter of an inch of rain in woodstock. there is our system well off the coast. here is our new system for half the weekend. high pressure, that's going to bring the fair skies, the clear skies to the ear. it will continue to move east. throughout the day on saturday we'll have lots of sunshine around the area. it will quickly be making its way off the coast by saturday night. next storm system you see it bear around the four corners area, it will quickly be making its way off to the east. here is a look at the temperatures, chicago, doing a little better than yesterday at 40 degrees. 43 degrees in salt lake city. this whole area across the northern plains -- across the northern tier states should say from salt lake city to denver, through iowa, and illinois, over to virginia will be dropping below freezing tonight. cold as skies clear. next 48 hours, there is your

clear skies. early tomorrow morning, sunshine, winds set well high pressure over us. saturday, late, off the coast. here is those high clouds already moving in. the first drops of rain from the western system comes in during the afternoon. this is 8:00 p.m., the best chance of rain and then probably sunday night. and throughout the day on monday. it will be move up the coast. some wind too on monday with wet weather around. below freezing here close it that raleigh, north carolina, and to the areas west. we'll see temperatures fall here through the evening, back down to the mid-30s as we clear out. by morning, sunshine, 7:01. 25 and 30 degrees. your high temperature tomorrow, chilly and feels more like early march, between 47 and 51 degrees. it is a split weekend for us. the best day out of the weekend is saturday. monday, up to 60. wet. and a bit breezy too. sunshine is back on tuesday with breezy conditions. the high 58 degrees and there,

as promised highs back up to around 70 the end of next week. coming up in a little bit, i'll tell you about the weekend events going on around you. we'll tell you what some of t the fans are saying about the sentencing of gilbert arenas. a car crashing through a store today in alexandria. >> we'll tell you about a dog that saved a woman lost for two

we're back now with our top story for this half hour. wizards guard gilbert arenas sentenced today for his role in a locker room dispute at the verizon center, a dispute involving guns. >> the judge sentenced arenas to 30 days in a halfway house, 18 months suspended and two years probation. he also has to complete 400 hours of community service and

pay a $5,000 fine. that sentence is drawing strong reaction from fans. john schriffen has more on that part of our story. >> that's unacceptable. in d.c. we already have problems with guns in d.c. he's a role model. he don't do his time. >> reporter: wizards fans and out of towners glued to the tv at clyde's to learn gilbert arenas' fate, 30 days in a halfway house, two years probation and a fine. for some, that just isn't good enough. >> he should get the same punishment as anyone else who brings guns into the city or the district would get. i don't think you should get any preferential treatment for being rich, famous or an athlete in the city. >> i think if he was a regular guy on the street, he wouldn't have -- he would have gotten more. i don't know if that's what he deserves, but i think he should have gotten more. he's a star, he shouldn't be awarded only 30 days. >> it is kind of stupid. i don't think it is a crime. it is a crime of stupidity.

>> he's been suspended by the nba indefinitely. some feel after he serves his time, he should be back on the nba court. >> i feel like jail time isn't reasonable. i do feel like he should pay some type of consequence of some sort. not sure if house arrest or anything like that, but he should have some time to think about his actions. >> everybody makes mistakes. he keeps doing it, i might have a problem with being a fan for him. >> after he did his time, i would welcome him back. he's a great age plthlete, grea player. >> reporter: his poster was quickly taken down and replaced soon after the story emerged in january. fans on tstreet say they want hm back in a wizards uniform. onlyime will tell if team management feels the same way. john schriffen, news 4. stay with news 4 for

continuing coverage of arenas' sentencing. dan will be back with reaction from the wizards themselves. the final piece of health care legislation was sent to president obama today. house speaker nancy pelosi signed the budget reconciliation bill. that measure includes packages of so-called fixes for the health care bill that the president signed earlier this week. the bill is said to include improved be ed benefits for sen and low income families. the president is expected to sign the measure early next week. >> a democratic congressman in virginia today denounced growing incidents of violence and vandalism that he erupted in the wake of the contentious health care debate in congress. virginia congressman said that political violence could spiral out of control. >> reporter: welcome to the politics hour. on the politics hour friday,

virginia democrat tom perielo denounced violence that touched his family. >> it was a scary week for my family. >> reporter: after his vote for the obama health care reform, a blogger listed what he thought was the congressman's private address. someone soon after cut the propane gas line to the home. it was the home of his brother bo. >> he's got four small kids at home and came home between coach and teaching to check on the house because the address had been posted to find it, you know, propane gas covering the back of his house. and it is very scary. >> reporter: democratic congressman praised governor bob mcdono for reacting quickly. >> i actually really want to thank and commend the attorney general of my state, bob mcdonald the governor, for not hesitating for a second to come out and say any form of intimidation or threat is wrong. >> reporter: friday, there were reports that bricks were thrown into the republican party office in albemarle county.

>> i think we are at a point where things could spiral out of control. >> reporter: on the radio show, he said he had heard horrible telephone threats to other elected officials. >> i'm going to kill your children if you vote this way on a bill, naming the children saying i know where they go to school, i know where they live, i'll burn your house to the ground. what we need here is for everyone around the country to take a deep breath on both sides, condemn all violence. >> reporter: tom sherwood, news 4, washington. donna edwards who appeared as a guest on the politics program also condemned the violence. she called on national republican leaders to speak out more strongly against political lawlessness. >> reporter: a car drove into a store today in alexandria. this was the bradley shopping center on king street this morning. a woman driving a 1999 toyota camry lost control and ended up gettin well into the foot solution store. no one was injured.

witnesses say this is the second time in the last two weeks they had an accident like this happen there. police are still trying to figure out what caused the woman to drive into the storefront. a csx train derailed this morning morning ar the howard county, baltimore county line. no injuries there either. the train was on its way to philadelphia, carrying palace ticks and aluminum, went offer the tracks it went. no hazardous material leaked. the cause of the derailment is being investigated. coming up, a dog in fairfax county being credited with saving a woman who was lost in a park. we're going to meet a guy called the oldest working man in the uk. coming up in sports, more reaction on the gilbert arenas situation, including head coach flip saunders and another wild night in the ncaa tournament.

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welcome back. heading out this evening, bundle up. it will be cold, really. we'll drop down below freeze tonight. here is a look at what's been going on over the past couple of urs. 12:30 this afternoon, we had clouds across the area. some of the last rain was making its way across southern maryland, southeast down around williamsburg, lynchburg and roanoke. the sky is clearing across western portions of our area. it is really late, after midnight, after midnight, temperatures will really start dropping 25 to 30. that's the range for early tomorrow morning. sunshine throughout the day, should take us up to 50 degrees. 48 in upper marlboro. st. mary's, 47 degrees. should be delightful weather. down by the washington monument, 15th street and independence avenue, it is the kite festival. have you ever been to this? you have loads of fun. it start at 10:00 a.m. 35 degrees. then 50 by the afternoon, the time that it wraps up. the weekend is split.

the wet weather for sunday, the sunshine saturday. the wet weather goes right into the beginning of next week too. we get a chance to warm up back to 70 by the end of next week. jim? >> it has been an especially satisfying week for fairfax county police officer and his canine partner. they are life savers. they saved a woman who was missing, suffering from hypothermia. it started on monday when rangers found an abandoned vehic vehicle. they began searching the trails of the park and late wednesday night the dog located the woman. julie carey has our report. this is one loveable face. unless the person looking back is a suspect who just got sniffed out. and the aptly named schnoz found some bad guys lately. but this week, he saved a life. the harness is the first signal he and pete are about to get

busy. >> once he sees the harness come out, he knows we're going to work. typically what we would do is present them with some article he collected at the scene. let him get a smell of it. >> reporter: that's what happened wednesday night at the park, rangers found an abandoned car near this restroom and for two days had searched for its owner. they tracked down her family, got an article of clothing, and schnoz went to work. >> worked down a trail head about 100 yards and he took off into the wood line. >> reporter: it wasn't long before schnoz found what he was looking for, the mentally disabled 53-year-old missing woman. >> she was at the base of a tree, covered in leaves, with the temperatures and her condition when we saw her, i don't know if she would have made it another night or two out there. >> reporter: not all of his work, though, is done in the deep woods. a few weeks ago he tracked the scent from a carjacked taxi to the suspect's front door. there is a payoff for schnoz when he completes a search.

he gets to i.d. the person found by doing this and then gets a treat. he and his sister cody are the only two bloodhounds on the team. the department added bloodhounds in 2003. schnoz is a second generation. >> great asset. they proved this over and over again how valuable they are as part of our overall canine unit. >> reporter: especially on the days he get his van or like this week, makes the rescue. >> it is a fantastic feeling. it is great to take their innate ability to hunt animals and turn it into hunting humans and locating people and hopefully saving some lives and catching some badmen. it is the most rewarding feeling you can achieve in this line of business. >> reporter: julie carey, news 4, annandale. >> scnoz has a sister. they pent much of the last year

training and they're expected to have a productive police career in front of them. >> some phenomenal ncaa tournament games last night. we'll look at those highlights and wizards head coach flip saunders weighs in on the gilbert arenas situation. news 4 a6:00 continues.

sentencing, maybe they can get around the settling down and get around to some basketball. >> i don't think it will happen anytime soon but they can start. gilbert arenas isn't going to jail. he'll get 30 days in a halfway house and two years probation. arenas also has to serve 400 hours of community service and pay a $5,000 fine. this on the heels of prosecutors requesting the judge give arenas three months in jail. arenas' lawyer obviously convinced the judge that the recommended jail sentence was too severe. it seems as though arenas, when he returns to an nba court, it will be in a wizards uniform. the team is in charlotte tonight where flip saunders had this reaction to arenas' sentence in >> didn't need jail time. that's what he does. i think in the conversation i

had with him, he's aware he did something serious that would be some type of consequence. >> i know that man is probably tired of answering questions about that. question is what is next for gilbert now and do the wizards build their entire franchise around him after he was the one to force them to strip it to the bone. that's the question we posed to a pair of writers covering arenas for a long, long time. here is mike wise and david aldridge. >> i believe they are genuine in theidesire to bring him back, which shocks me. they look at it as he' an asset, he's clearly still the best player they have until things change, maybe this off season. i think what they're saying is if someone wants to make a trade for this guy, we're not going to cut him or buy him out or try to void his contract. we're going to keep this player who has some ability and if you want him, you have to come get

him. >> you tell gilbert arenas you're not interested in having him back and then if that contract does not get voided, you're stuck with gilbert arenas, a player that who knows down deep you didn't want him. i think you have to make the best of a bad situation. and if not build around him, try to move him or otherwise keep him here and mak him pay for what he's created. >> loud down there bit courthouse. let it be noted there are obviously numerous people who think gilbert arenas got off lightly but he has lost between $25 million and $35 million in salary and endorsements this season alone. college basketball now. sweet 16 continues tonight with four games. couple of cinderellas trying to sneak into the elite eight. northern iowa has to get by michigan state.

and st. mary's plays baylor. if last night was any indication, one of those teams will win. the hottest team in the land took down another number one seed. this time, butler, extending the nation's longest winning streak to 23 games by absolutely shocking syracuse. what happened to the big east. jimmy boeheim not happy with their play in this one. the bulldogs came out blazing in the first half, leading by nine. butler pushing it up court. sheldon mack to shawn van zandt, open in the corner, hits the three. butler takes a 12-point lead, their largest of the game. second half, syracuse fights back. how about this? wes johnson throwing it down. the orange would eventually grab their first lead of the game on the next possession. the bulldogs, though, too much down the stretch. matt howard kicks it to willie beasley and too easy for beasley. gets the shooters roll. 58-54. ten seconds to go. trying for the miracle, but

scoop jardine turns it over. his pocket picked clean. butler advances, downing syracuse 63-59. up next for butler, his kansas state. salt lake city we go, and the we region, xavier and kansas state this was literally a nail biter last night. two overtime games and the end of the first overtime, state leading by three. musketeers trying to force a second overtime. that's 40 feet away. dennis clement off the mark. so we're going to double overtime. in the second, extra session, 35 seconds to go. clement gives it to jacob pullen right here. and pullen pulls up from the top of the key. that's good. kansas state wins a thriller over xavier, 101-96 in double overtime.

coach says thank goodness. now to the adopted team for basketball fans in our area. west virginia, the last big east team standing. mountaineers overcame a rough beginning and the loss of their starting point guard to beat washington and move on to the elite eight. lorenzo romer, washington's head coach, taking his frustrations out. looking like bobby knight there. gary williams, west virginia, tied at 27. the turnover, overton takes it in for the layup. washington led 29-27 at the break. darryl brian, kevin jones, the freshman, doing damage here. and eubanks doing damage as well, coming up. watch this play by devin eubanks. you know it is going well for west virginia when a pass should have been picked off ends up going for a dunk. west virginia wins it 69-56. and just listen to how important this game was for fans in that state. >> they piped in to all the

factories and all the mines and everything the play by play because otherwise guys were trying to get off the shift because they wanted to watch the game. they piped it in. it is piped in everywhere in the state of west virginia. everybody in west virginia is listening to the game or watching the game. that's how much it means to our state. >> how cool is that, though? >> that's pretty cool. when everybody loves you. >> that's pretty neat. and coal mines all over west virginia, listening to that game. this is now officially the best regular season in capitals history with eight games left. they have already set the franchise record with 109 points in a season. unfortunately they set the record in a shootout loss to carolina, unable to make the comeback as they have so many times before. they're going for win number 50 last night. second period, down 2-0 off the face-off. he gets his 35th tally of the

season, the capitals cut that deficit to one. we move on to the third period. still down by a goal. here come the caps. jason with a puck along the boards, passes to the rook john carlson. carlson sticks it in there. the first goal of his nhl career and he's jacked. this goes to overtime and the shootout. the young goalie getting set to go. chad laroche skating in. here. the capitals have to answer. to green, not a lot of success in shootouts, 0 for 5 in his career. capitals fall 3-2. impressive with eight games to go to already have your best season ever locked up in terms of the regular season. >> thank you. coming up on our broadcast, we'll introduce you to a guy who is 95 and he ne

welcome back, veronica johnson here. we have been talking about it for the last couple of days. the chilly afternoon days that we're going to have this weekend. first we have to travel through some cold to get there. we're in the 40s now, mid and upper 40s across the area. we're going to drop tonight down to the 30s, mid and upper 30s by 11:00 p.m. and midnight with clear skies across the area. we're going to start out between 25 and 30 degrees early tomorrow morning. sun is up at 7:01. cold stuff, and then up to 50 degrees by the afternoon. what else is going on tomorrow besides the cherry blossoms? during the evening it is earth

hour at 8:30 p.m. flip a switch and for one hour turn it off in support of an action toward climate change. that's 8:30 tomorrow evening. that will be happening around the world. sunday, rain will move into the area. 70% chance now and 30% chance that we'll see rain continue through monday. then some wind and finally get back up to about 70 degrees by the end of next week. back to you. >> and we have a quick programming note for you early risers. starting monday news 4 today will begin at 4:30 in the morning every week day. so tune in for joe krebs, eun ya yang for 4:30 in the morning. could showers be polluting the water we use every day? we'll tell you about a bizarre grocery store attack at the meat counter. we'll have new reaction to the gilbert arenas sentencing including a look at how one local community activist who supported the nba star feels about him now about not getting any jail time.

cyd prior, 95 years old now, the oldest working person in the united kingdom as far as i know. prior works as a greeter at a hardware store on the outskirts of london. says he's been working since he was 14 years old. jobs in the past included sales manager and a grocer. he was also a soldier in the british army back during world war ii. he started in his current job nearly 20 years ago. >> when i was 76 and first started the job, the manager took me on, solely because he had a special -- he wanted done and couldn't get the youngsters to do it. they found it boring. >> cyd prior says the thought of full time retirement never even crossed his mind. look at him. he's spry, isn't he? >> he's great. >> cut back on the hours now. works only one day a week. and i'm sure