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a newborn baby has been found dead in the trunk of a car. chopper 4 is over this road. police are classifying the death as a homicide. they're now interviewing relatives of the person who found that child. >> also tonight another tragic story, a baby died at a day care in virginia. now we've learned that that day care was unlicensed. parents are outraged. they had no idea. other children were inside the day care when the 3-month-old girl stopped breathing. shomari stone reports. >> reporter: people who live in this community are stunned. they look across the street and see a prince william county police cruiser parked in this driveway. inside detectives are talking to people trying to figure out how this three-month-old child died. this woman is concerned after picking up her son at had home day care.

a 3-month-old girl was found unconscious, pronounced dead this afternoon. they questioned employees when they walked two women to a police car. we tried to get answers in this quiet neighborhood. >> i'm shomari stone from news 4. can we ask you some questions about the death of that 3-month-old child? >> reporter: place say the owner operated an unlicensed day care here. at least 12 attended the day care. >> it all seemed legit. >> you get the usual packet saying they're licensed. >> reporter: we're hearing this is an unlicensed day care. did you lead people to believe that it was licensed? police say they plan on releasing more information tomorrow. the medical examiner's office is expected to do an autopsy, which could determine the exact cause of death. shomari stone, news 4.

>> outside tonight they say there's some storms coming our way. isn't that what they say, doug? >> that's what they say. you can see the washington area high and dry. look back to the west through martinsberg and down through winchester. this is a line of showers, no thunder or lightning with this. i wouldn't be surprised to hear a rumble of thunder but no reports of lightning now but we are getting report of very heavy rainfall and very strong winds. we've already seen winds today gusting to 40 miles an hour. this line could bring through 40, maybe 50 mile-an-hour winds as it moved through. just came through martinsberg, charlestown, through frederick and then through our area. this is a very long line, a cold front that will continue to make its way through. i'll show you what it brings behind for the weekend coming up. >> a gun battle broke out inside a hospital on the university of

pittsburgh campus this afternoon. tonight investigators are trying to figure out a motive. a gunman walked into the lobby of the psychiatric hospital there about 2:00 and opened fire. two people died, seven others were hurt. the shooter died after a firefight with police. >> the fbi is trying to figure out who keeps sending letters filled with white powder all over the country. three suspicious letters were found in the district today. one showed up at the epa building on constitution avenue and another in an elementary school in southwest d.c. another was opened by a chef on new york avenue. so far none of the substances has been harmful. >> extra police officers will be at high schools at flowers high school in spring veil, maryland. a student was robbed today. two students used a bee bee gun to hold up a student during gym class.

>> springfield mall was once of crown jewel of shopping in virginia but that mall will be closing for two years, part of a renovation project announced today. it's meant to attract new customers and improve the entire neighborhood. jane wattrell has our report. >> once parked parking garages are now nearly empty. >> i stopped going because of all the violence. >> reporter: over the past decade, the mall developed serious crime problems. one of the most infamous in 2007 when a man was killed in its parking lot by two members of the ms-13 game gang. that's when people started to stay away. >> there was like three different times i was there when someone was shot or stabbed so i wasn't allowed to go there anymore. >> the owner plans to start a transformation to a vibrant town

center. >> there's a lot of phases. there's residential, hotel, offices. it's a real mix use community. >> reporter: a step toward restoring the former mall to its glory. the plan now is to keep the mall's anchor stores while the interior is gutted and rebuilt. >> i'm excited. i love to shop. i love to shop so it very excited the mall is going to be renovated. >> reporter: while there's been talk of fixing up the mall for years, this time officials believe the renovations will happen because sources tell news 4 for every month this mall sits empty, its owner is losing $1 million in revenues. in springfield, jane wattrell, news 4. >> country music fans mourning the sudden death of a popular radio announcer. brian strobel was killed yesterday afternoon.

he was walking his dog when a pickup truck veered off the road. he leaves behind a wife and two sons. he was 65 years old. >> $70,000 worth of shirts ordered for the d.c. hire department are sitting in a warehouse in northeast d.c. they have never been worn and they may not be. the fire chief kenneth ellerbe says he won't distribute those shirt because they have a patch that was used by the previous fire chief. the union that represents d.c. firefighters says the shirts cost taxpayers money and they should be put to use. >> i don't want to waste anything, and i don't want to be responsible for something somebody else ordered that they know we're not going to use either. >> it's been a huge push for fire resistant stationwear and we're not backing off of that. these shirts have been paid for by the taxpayers and they should be in use. >> fire officials say they've received inquiries from the inspector general's office about those shirts and the inspector

general's office did not return our calls today. >> a big victory for virginia teachers tonight, a bill designed to make it easier to fire teachers is now on hold. the state senate voted against the bill which would have phased out tenure in the commonwealth and brought in renewable contracts instead. teachers argued against the bill. >> stop kony. unless you're been living under a rock this week, europe probably aware of the campaign in the media. there are serious questions being raised about the charity behind the film. jim is here with more. >> reporter: in just days it's been viewed almost 50 million times online. but tonight there's a new focus on the group, invisible children, that produced the film. some critics say the group isn't being forthcoming financially. they say while the group has

raised millions in support of children, not enough of that money is going to actual programs in africa. others say invisible children isn't registered with the better business bureau and charity navigator, an independent evaluation site gives the group only 2 out of 4 stars for accountability and transparency. >> they have criticized inadvice ibl children for exaggerating facts and inflating numbers and possibly for using most of their money for traveling around the world and not enough on the ground. >> we need to teach him what justice looks life, love him into the hague behind bars so he can face justice. >> invisible children responded saying it's donated more than a third to its funds in central africa. the rest goes to awareness programs, management, media development and fund-raising. invisible children claims the accountability raid raitting is a result of having o only four

members on its board of directors. until it has a fifth, the group is waiting to register with the better business bureau. the problems in uganda are complex, without a simple solution. just as with any other charity, do the dill dew diligence research before deciding if it's something you'd like to contribute to. >> the republican candidates are putting their energy now into the deep south. mitt romney was in the gulf area today. he called the proposed keystone pipeline a no-brainer. both romney and newt gingrich blame the president for an increase in gas prices. a win on tuesday is key for gingrich. he's in third place now despite taking georgia and south carolina. rick santorum hinted that gingrich should bow out. he said the reddest part of the country need as true conservative. >> you go out and deliver a

conservative victory for us on tuesday. this race will become a two-person race. >> the presidential race is still a four-man race right now. today ron paul -- his campaign told supporters he is not dropping out, despite not winning a single popular vote. >> some donors to barack obama's reelection campaign got to dine in style tonight alongside the commander in chief and the first lady. the obama campaign held its third dinner with barack obama event tonight at boundary road, a new restaurant on h street in northeast. among the guests, a nonprofit executive, a social worker, an attorney and a retired school administrator. campaign officials say they have always emphasized small donations from the masses and this is just another example of that. >> terrorism in washington. many say it was the first real terror event in this nation's capital, people shot, hostages taken. we'll look back on the eve of the anniversary.

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35 years ago you could walk

into virtually any building here in the city of washington unchecked or unchallenged. 35 years ago we were much more trusting. by on a day in march, all of that changed for a lot of people. we report on the hanafi takeover, the first act of terrorism in washington. >> 35 years ago i was lying in my own pool of blood. other colleagues had been shot, stabbed or beaten. at one point in the very beginning, 50 of us were piled on top of each other. that's what started my day 35 years ago. >> the hanafi takeover, the first act of terror in the city of washington. march 9, 1977, gunmen invade the headquarters. >> i heard him tell us whoever we prayed to, we better pray because we were going to be

dying today. he threatened to behead us and kill us. >> going down the hallway, glass shattering everywhere. >> then the islamic center. >> and we understand that demands have been relayed to the police. >> the city of washington comes to a standstill. >> what happened in downtown washington that day linked to this house uptown. the hanafi house. headquarters for leader hamas abdul kalise, purchase by him by one of his followers, basketball star kareem abdul-jabbar. in 1972 kareem wrote some things critical of the nation of islam. in 1973 some gunmen came to the hanafi house and turned it into a slaughter house. seven members of kali's family

were killed here, including four children. little babies were drown in basement wash tubs. he thought the nation of islam was behind it. now the killers were caught, they were convicted, they were sent to jail but hamas abdul kalis, he wanted more. >> you know damn well what went down. >> it was incredibly intense. the violent nature it have was something i never experienced in my entire life. >> nobody expected this. we expected violence on the streets in washington but not being taken over. >> i'm pat collins, news 4. >> tomorrow nightmarion barry talks about the moment she was shot and we'll hear more about the 40-hour hostage situation. >> the makers of coke and pepsi are changing the way they create the classic caramel color of

those beverages. they are reducing the amount of the potential cancer-causing chemical. the change was already made in california because the old fo formula would have required a warning label there. even before the change of the formula, they say would have it had consume a thousand cans a day to be at risk. >> we saw 40 mile-an-hour winds across the region. we're still seeing wins gust upward of 30 miles an hour that will bring through rain tonight and heavy showers, maybe a rumble of thunder or two but it not going to cause too many problems for you what you wake up tomorrow morning. high temperatures today got to 74 degrees. the warmest day of the year. that's the average high for this

time of year. temperatures around the region at 68 degrees with winds out of the southwest at 20 miles an hour gusting to near 30. we're going to continue to see the winds right on through the night tonight and probably in through tomorrow morning. 66 in manassis. here's the radar, nothing along the i-95 corridor but back to the west some showers down along blue ridge, winchester, charlestown, this is where we have heavier showers coming through. we could easily see 40 to 50 mile-an-hour winds with this line. right now i don't see any lightning associated with this but we may see cloud-to-cloud lightning in these storms, maybe a rumble of thunder or two but right now nothing hitting the ground. eventually over to shepardtown and down through frederick and just to the north and west of you, you folks in middletown in frederick county. that line continuing to make its way our way.

it's breaking up a little bit as it comes over the mountains. do i expect it to almost reform as it makes its way across toward our area. we will see rain tonight with that frontal boundary, warm air out ahead of it. the front will move through extreme live quickly. by tomorrow afternoon, plenty of sunshine. saturday, however, does look like it's going to be a very cool afternoon but with plenty of sunshine. still not that bad for the beginning of march. heres the future weather forecast showing what's happen being now. watch what happens around 1:30. right around the i-95 corridor, you will most likely hear this out the window as the breezes start to pick up but then by tomorrow morning, 5:00 a.m., it's all but out of here and by 9:00 i think everybody's starting to see sunshine. a pretty nice day in store for our friday. clearing skies tomorrow, breezy and cooler. we are going to see cooler air make its way in here behind this front. tomorrow afternoon, 54 to about 60 degrees. those winds still gusting 10 to

20, maybe upwards of 30 miles an hour. sunday coming in at 62 degrees and then 65 on monday and look at next week. back to near 70 by wednesday and thursday. >> good. >> yeah. >> welcome. >> it's time. >> coming up next in sports, a bu

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>> for the caps, is it too little too late? >> no. this was a huge win tonight, huge. >> one that must be fod up on. >> this time of year, you can't judge yourself on your intentions, you must judge yourself on your results. tonight against tampa bay a result that at least for the moment puts washington into the postseason. alex ovechkin and the caps had watch two straight against the lightning. lightning on the power play. teddy purcell shoots and scores. how did purcell score? the puck goes off john karlsson's skate and tampa bay is in front 2-1. lightning can't clear. marcus johanhson says thank you

very much. >> and check out the reaction from ovie. like a kid in a candy store. caps win 3-2. washington jumps into the eighth playoff spot in the eastern conference. up next, a road game against boston on saturday. >> college hoops now. there's no doubt georgetown is going dancing. but for now the hoyas are feeling the effects of march madness. against cincinnati today, the hoyas had a double-digit lead. however, the bearcats bounced georgetown in double overtime. hoyas were up by as many as 11 points in the second half but with ten seconds to go, georgetown down by 2. henry simms to otto porter and the freshman is clutch. we're going to overtime, tied at 54. final seconds of ot. hoyas trail by 2. again they step up.

simms's big time bucket. the senior ties it at 62. we're going to double overtime. here we go. 30 seconds to play. hoya's answer, henry simms. again, tied at 70. ensuing bearcats possession prks kashmir right drives. bank shot good, bearcats have the lead. last chance for georgetown now. jason clark to henry simms for the win. not the shot the hoyas wanted. it was henry's first three-point attempt of the season. still a solid game. senaty wins 72-70 and eliminates georgetown from the big east tournament. >> let's go to atlanta. mark turgeon taking on wake forest. mosley to stoegland.

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