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save a woman's life. tonight she talks about it for the first time. >> metro has let news 4 in on its biggest secret. an operation meant to save your phone and ipod. >> and we what the bureau knew about the late steve jobs that very few others da. >> we begin with the death of a local paramedic, a man being remembered for his love of helping others. shomari stone has the story. >> reporter: firefighters are grieving over this tragic loss inside the fire house. you walk outside here on the front lawn, you can see unit 2306. this is josh weissman's unit. he responded on i-395 near glebe road. that's his helmet, his jacket, his boots, flowers. this is for the community when they drive by to see how this department and the community is honoring him. >> it's with a heavy heart i announce the passing of paramedic joshua weissman. >> reporter: he was one of

alexandria's finest, a dedicated paramedic, husband and friend. >> he always had a smile, he was always positive. i never heard a negative word. >> reporter: he responded to a car that went up in flames on i-395 wednesday evening. high stepped out of unit 206, slipped through a split in the road falling 20 feet to the creek below, suffering a severe head injury, the department's first line of duty death in over 100 years. rich has lived next to josh and his wife becky for five years. >> i've spoken to him about him working on the job, and i know how he just put everything into it. >> residents send him commendable letters of appreciation. >> one woman vote josh revisited her home after responding there. >> he helped to launch a training program for mass casualty incidents. >> this will be only part of his lekcy to the alexandria fire

department. >> now joshua leaves behind a wife and parents. funeral arrangements have not been announced. i'm shomari stone, news 4. >> now to an incredible act of bravery. it cost one man his life but saved the life of a woman. tonight she's speaking publicly about it for the first time, hour after two robbers were sentenced to five decades in prison. jackie bensen has this new 4 exclusive. >> if he had not did what he did, i believe it would have been me. >> reporter: security camera video entered as evidence in the trial showed what delaney middleton truly believed were the last moments of her life. it was june 17, 2010. seconds earlier the store's onner had entered. two men are seen following closely behind him. what happened next was mayhem. but a hero emerged. the store owner's 30-year-old son, none as roj be, is seen

defending his father. then when one robber shoves a gun into ms. middleton's face -- >> he ran out from behind the counter and he shoved the gunman away from me and they got to wrestling and as they were wrestling and i'm still trying to get out of store because they were in the doorway, all right, that's when i heard the shot. >> reporter: roj died of his injuries the robbers, gregory trotter and earnest payne, jr. were and handed. in the 20 months since that awful day, ms. middleton have honored the memory of roj sync. >> i'm grateful he gave me life. i have a granddaughter that's getting ready to go to her junior prom. i'm around to do that. >> reporter: the roughly 50 year sentences means the robbers will

most likely die in prison. reporting from northeast washington, jackie bensen, news 4. >> chilly out there tonight but it about to get seriously cold. doug? >> it is, jim. we is not seen a whole lot of cold air across the area. 30 in gaitersberg, washington coming in at 41 degrees, huntington at 33 and fairfax county coming in at 36 degrees. we're going to start our future weather 4-cast about noon tomorrow. we see cloud move in and moisture moves in and some of it will move in as snow. other areas will see rain. before it's all said and done, everybody will have a chance for some snof and some very cold temperatures. i'm break it all down coming up in just a minute. >> thank you, doug. the local kindergarten taken te accused of having a sexual

relationship with a student is out on bond tonight. detectives say the relationship had been going on for a year and a half and that they were tipped off by an anonymous e-mail isn't to the school. campbell is cooperating with police. >> george hughly walked out of a courtroom today after a very long day in which prosecutors displayed graphic photographs of the body of yardley love. huguely played lacrosse at the university of virginia, grew up in chevy chase. he's accused of killing his ex-girl friend in a drunken rage. the photographs displayed a lifeless body, the body of yardley love on the floor with bruises and swollen eyes. one of the first detectives to respond to the scene testified that he believed love was a victim of an act of violence. the defense claims it was an accident and that hughly did not realize how badly love was hurt. >> parents in fairfax county should be on alert as they send children off to school.

a 15-year-old girl claims man sexually assaulted her wednesday morning as she walked to the bus stop. he said she'd seen the man in the area before. it happened near fair lakes parkway and monument drive in the fair oaks area. police don't have a good description of the attacker. >> in prince georges county a task force has been formed in an attempt to lure the fbi to move to the county. it will analyze potential sites for the headquarters. the j. edgar hoover building in downtown washington is outdated. a few weeks ago fairfax county nunsed similar plans. >> the fbi released its file on the late steve jobs today. it offers an inside look at the man behind the world's mo vst valuable company. >> the investigation came when the first president bush wanted to nominate jobs to the export

council. the fbi conducted an extensive search. and while many praised his intellect, not all of it was flattering. through the more than 180 pages of documents released today, we learned jobs experimented with illegal drug, marijuana, lsd. at some point someone tried to extort $1 million at him, threatened to blow up a bomb at apple. also unveiled, steve jobs' high school gpa was a 2.65. for the many interviews or from them we see a side of jobs that may be surprising to some. one agent wrote "several individual questioned mr. jobs' honesty, stating that jobs will twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals." others described him as strong willed, stubborn, hard working and driven. mr. jobs possesses integrity as long as he gets his way.

steve jobs did go on to serve in that appointed decision and then of course took apple to extraordinary heights with the ipod, iphone and ipad. he died last october from cancer at the age of 56. jim, doreen? >> thanks, wendy. >> one of the biggest republicans events of the year is under way now at the marion wardman park hotel in d.c. c-pac runs through the weekend. gop leaders in the house and senate including john boehner and mitch mcconnell spoke today. presidential candidates mitt romney, newt gingrich, rick santorum are scheduled to speak tomorrow. >> if it's halftime in america, i'm fearful of what the final score is going to be if we let this president start the second half as a quarterback! >> virginia governor bob

mcdonald is scheduled to speak tomorrow. sarah palin is to speak on saturday. occupy d.c. has promised to protest outside the conference both tomorrow and saturday. >> a top aide to former congresswoman gabrielle giffords a they will also pay cash to americans who lost their homes. the deal does not apply to homeowners whose mortgages are held by fannie mae or freddie

mac. >> the school reopened today after the superintendent replaced the entire staff of the school. the decision followed the arrest of two teachers there, who are accused of sexually abusing students. parents say the superintendent went too far in removing all the employees. it is worth noting the superintendent of the l.a. schools is dr. john deasy, the former head of the prince georges county public schools. >> still ahead tonight, an i-team investigation. how metro is using decoys to stop thieves who are out for your electronics. >> a man led police on a chase first on the street, then on rooftops. >> and israelis are talking about an attack on iran. what they want the prime minister to think about madonna. we'll be right back. [ female announcer ] more people are using wireless devices

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cop. tonight the news4 i-team got access to the agency's secret plan to stop crime. how the metro it luring crooks into taking the bait. >> take a close look at this video. a man looks like he's passed out, a perfect target for this woman, who bends down and snatches his phone. what she doesn't realize, he's a cop surrounded by undercover officers, ready to grab her, handcuff her and take her to jail. >> we pick out strategic locations based on criminal activity and based where regular customers are being robbed. so >> reporter: this takedown went down just two days eric part of metro's decoy operation to cut down thefts of expensive electronics. >> it is something new. probably over the last year we've seen an increase in robbery of electronic devices, as devices become more popular and more user friendly, we've seen in an increase in those

robberies. >> reporter: the decoy operations happen so fast, most people don't even realize they're happening until the arrest is made. metro says it arrested more than 70 suspects since october. within of the undercover officers agreed to talk with us, only if we did not reveal his identity. >> our goal is toe remain anonymous so we can continue to have the same success with the operation we had since we began. >> reporter: in the last two weeks more than 70% of reported robberies involved an undercover officer. >> whether uyou're in d.c., or virginia, the person you're next to on the train could be a metro officer. >> metro police say electronics are easy to steal because the devices are so good at distracting you. they say you can help them with their decoy operations by protecting yourself and paying attention to what's happening

around you. >> there could be a compromise in the works for a controversial birth control measure that some people say blurs the line between church and state. the obama administration policy would force religious employers such as schools and hospitals to pay for contraception in their health care plans. republicans in congress and the catholic church say that undermines religious freedom. >> why should i be told, why should catholic institutions be told you must pay for those for somebody else? >> women who have repeated pregnancies, unwanted pregnancies, unintended pregnancies can in fact be putting their health at risk. >> the white house said today that compromise is possible. republicans are promising to repeal the measure. >> israeli fans of the singer madonna are making an unusual plea to the nation's prime minister. the group wants benjamin netanyahu to delay any plans to

attack iran until after the material girl's concert in tel aviv may 29th. there's been growing tension between israel and iran over that country's plans to develop nuclear weapons. the fans are concerned violence and unrest might force madonna to cancel her show. doug's here with a look at our weather and there's some cold sort of messy weather moving in, huh? >> you know what, this is going to be probably the -- i messed up this word last time i tried to use it, wintriest -- okay. >> is that right? >> don't push it. >> good. >> you got it out. >> it's probably going to be the weekend that has the most winter-like conditions we've seen all winter long. >> there you go. >> mrs. daniels out there in high school, not happy with me right now. this is the uptown theater in cleveland park -- is that a jedi right there? they might have "return of the

jedi." you see that guy right there? >> that's definitely a jedi. >> 47 degrees. the high temperature for the record today. actually felt much more like winter than it's felt like over the past couple of days. really the past couple of weeks and months. we have not seen much in the way of winter-like temperatures but they are on the way. i think we're going to see some snow associated with that coming up during the day on saturday. 41 degrees the temperature out there right now, not too bad around the district, winds out of the south at 3 miles an hour right now. current temperatures colder in some locations, up towards frederick, 27 degrees, 34 in n manassis. as we widen out, we are watching a storm system well off to the west kpup see this storm right here bringing rain and snow earlier toward oklahoma. but it's not just that making

its way our way. it's also much colder air from canada. the cold air all winter long has been bottled up in canada and in alaska. alaska one of the coldest winters they've seen in almost 50 years in some locations. that cold air will finally move into the very mild air that we've seen and we're in for a very cold weekend. fortunately for us, though, it's not going to last that long but it is still going to bring us some of the coldest temperatures we've seen all winter. nice today, plenty of sunshine out there on thursday. tomorrow not too bad, another nice day. we'll see sunshine early. then the cloud will move in and here comes our next storm system. look what happens friday night, into saturday morning. rain to the north and another round of possible snow on the back side of that low pressure. i do expect some accumulation, not a lot, best chance to the north and west. one thing we will all see is that guy right there, a lot of cold air. and not just cold air, we're

talking about wind chills in the teens and that could be during the afternoon on sunday. tomorrow morning mostly clear, seasonably cold, 24 to 31 degrees. as we move on through the day tomorrow, take a look at this, high temperatures, 37 to 52. not too bad, right? possible rain or snow late. that would mostly be out toward the blue ridge and points to the west. but then on saturday and sunday, high temperatures 42 on saturday, 35 on sunday but it will not feel like that. i think many areas will see wind chills in the lower 20s all day long, both saturday and sunday. then another chance for at least some mixed precipitation coming up just in time for valentine's day. >> oh, my. >> so winter may finally be trying to settle in. a little late but she didn't miss -- >> let's hope it's a brief visit. still ahead, ever wonder why zebras have stripes? scientists wanted to find out and came up with interesting results. >> in sports, an unlucky

sometimes things don't work out as you have it. >> they don't always go according to plan. unfortunately for someone like me, it happens. for the capitals, it happens more than it would like. back-to-back wins hasn't exactly been the norm this year, unless they're at home where they're 19-7-1. the capitals lost a game they should have won tonight. caps hosting winnipeg in chinatown. ovie and the capitals just 4 points ahead of the jets in the standings. caps on the power play. fires the puck off the boards

and ovie is there. how textbook is this. a pass off the boards right to ovechkin. he goes top shelf. that's his 23rd of the year. capitals up 2-1. dustin fires from center eyes and scores. bounces off carl's stick, kind of a crazy shot in the net. it was a knuckleball there. that's crazy. we stayed tied in overtime. the jets come back to win it 3-2. they should have had that one. >> all right. the story of the year in the acc, shaping up to be the miami hurricanes. why do we care? >> because. >> well, because the man responsible for making miami a contender this season, none other than former george mason head coach jim lehrenega.

big reggie brown is there to get the rebound. later on, making a run, hudson turning up the pressure on defense gets the steal. ahead to eric green for the dunk. and the kid from fairfax had 17 points in the game. brown does not miss. miami wins it 65-49. they are having a very good year. over to bender arena right across the street. american hosting the lee high mountain hawks. first half, lee high building an early lead. c.j. mccollum. this kid's the real deal. at least one nba scout on hand to check him out. he had 30. a.u. on the move. tony roblicki there to clean up the mess. lee high down by 6. roblicki attacking the block. nice hustle here.

gets the pusback. 18 points for roblicki. a.u. beats lee high 71-62. american now 16-8 on the season. >> tiger woods making his 2012 pga debut, playing at pebble beach in the pro am for the first time in a decade. isn't it nice on the code nights to see the seals out there at pebble. here's tiger first shot on the par five on the first. wow, almost jars it. four under after that birdie. the shot of the day, ken duke, his second shot on the par four 16th. and this is pure, bounces in for the eagle. duke's at 8 under, one shot behind dustin johnson. look at him celebrating. he's into it. doing a little dance, too.

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