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crazy. >> we heard a couple more shots ring out from the building and i guess police fired back or something so we all got on the ground. >> reporter: for nearly two hours police searched for the gunman throughout the school and surrounded the office complex. several buildings including the neighboring oakland tribune were put on lockdown. the suspect, believed to be an asian male, was taken into custody just after noon at a nearby shopping center. the community now relieved the suspect is in custody but forced to grieve this tragic loss of life. the pastor who founded the school told the oakland tribune the shooter was a nursing student and was no longer enrolled at the university. >> now to the megamillions mystery. somebody won last friday's record-breaking jackpot. in fact, there are three winning tickets sold in maryland, kansas, and illinois. but there is some fallout from the historic drawing worth more than $600 million. as jay gray reports now the winners have yet to step
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forward. >> reporter: so far they've been as tough to find as the winning numbers. three days after the drawing and still nobody knows who the new megamillionaires might be. >> no. i wish i did. i know who it's not. >> reporter: tina lachance went back to work at the country kitchen today. she didn't have the winning ticket. but understands why one of her suddenly wealthy neighbors in red bud, illinois is keeping quiet. >> if i won that much money i wouldn't be telling everybody. you'll have more friends than you knew you ever had. >> reporter: there is no secret about the excitement in red bud. >> this has got to be the biggest thing ever. >> reporter: robert sale is giving away free t-shirts and hopes to print a special one for the winner. >> what is it going to say? >> definitely i am the winner. >> reporter: lottery officials in kansas say their winning ticket was sold in one of these 21 northeastern counties. they don't know who has it but they do have some advice. >> they need to sign the back of it and they need to seek legal counsel or financial advice prior to coming in so they'll be
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ready to talk to us. >> reporter: hoping to talk to the big winner in maryland lottery officials there visited this 7-eleven in milford mills where the winning numbers were selected. lekesha polks was there to claim her big prize. >> i checked my tickets and i won $150. >> reporter: more than most of us but nowhere near what the three winning tickets are worth. paid out in 26 annual installments each winner will take home $it 18 million before taxes. taken all at once the pretax prize is $158 million. either way, it adds up to three very lucky, very rich, and to this point very secret winners. jay gray, nbc news. coming up here on news 4 more on the story of the milford mill lottery mystery. our pat collins went in search of some answers and we'll see what he found in our second half hour. decision 2012 now, tomorrow there will be primary elections in maryland, the district, and
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in wisconsin. but here in washington, there are some races tomorrow that could be much closer than the presidential contests. in the district, five council seats are up in tuesday's primary voting. marion barry, who served four terms as mayor, is campaigning for his third consecutive term on the d.c. council from ward 8. tom sherwood is here now with more on that story. >> like him or not marion barry has had a remarkable political career and he wants it to continue. >> it's that time to get out and vote. >> reporter: at barry's headquarters inward 8 volunteers were pumping up the turnout for tuesday. >> tomorrow is election day. >> reporter: while barry was attending a committee budget hearing on the city job agency. barry, who got 77% of the vote in 2008 says he is not taking this election lightly. >> got 77% last time. >> i don't -- i just take my case to the people. the people have been very
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appreciative. >> reporter: this is the first time the primary is being held in april instead of september leaving many voters surprised. >> usually more people will be out here you would think out there trying to vote and get ready and everything. >> reporter: are you going to vote tomorrow. >> i most certainly am. >> thank you dear. appreciate it so much. >> challenger josh patterson was campaigning outside the giant monday acknowledging he is challenging the barry legend saying the reviving ward needs a fresh voice. >> people are just being awakened to that there is an election so it is going to be hard to get people out. that's why we targeted ours. we know who ours are going to be. >> reporter: counted also on the ward 8 ballot s.s. saundra seigers, natalie williams, and darnell gaston a community activist all trying to unseat the long serving famous and infamous marion barry. voters in ward 2, 4, and 7 will also choose candidates for the november general election in addition to one at large seat.
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the district's polling precincts will be open from 7:00 a.m. tuesday until 8:00 p.m. interesting race tomorrow. >> he's only lost once hasn't he? >> he ran for an at large seat when he had been arrested for the drug stuff and he lost to hilda mason. >> are there turnout predictions? >> very low. very low turnout tomorrow. >> all right. thank you, tom. presidential candidates are putting a focus on our area with the republican and democratic primaries in d.c. and maryland tomorrow. wisconsin will also hold its contest. today newt gingrich spoke to a crowd of 200 at a car dealership in frederick, maryland. gingrich bound to stay in the race all the way to the convention if necessary to make sure that conservative positions are protected in the party. >> despite six years of campaigning, $40 million of his own money, millions raised from wall street, largely from people who got our tax money as a bailout, governor romney doesn't have it locked down. and we have no obligations to back off and concede anything.
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>> according to the latest polls mitt romney is favored in all three races tomorrow. rick santorum says he is looking forward to his home state pennsylvania in three weeks. president obama made a prediction today. he said he's confident the u.s. supreme court will not overturn the health care reform law. mr. obama made the comment during a joint news conference with the presidents of mexico and the prime minister of canada. the three leaders are meeting at the white house today to talk trade and security issues but domestic issues also came up. steve handelsman joins us live from capitol hill with the details. >> reporter: thanks. good evening. i think a lot of people are going to see this as a politician talking and not a former constitutional professor in law school. but be that as it may since the high court heard three days of oral arguments in this huge health care case, this is the first in depth comment by president obama. president obama appeared with the leaders of canada and mexico but he spoke at length about the
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white hot domestic issue. does he think the u.s. supreme court will throw out his health care reform? obama care? no. >> it's constitutional. >> reporter: and the issue is not just legal, he said. >> people's lives are affected. >> reporter: kids are getting coverage now on their parents' policies. seniors now are paying less for drugs. 30 million uninsured will get coverage in 2014 but only if the president argued almost every american is made to buy coverage, the mandate. >> in the absence of an individual mandate, you cannot have a mechanism to ensure that people with preexisting conditions can actually get health care. >> reporter: last week in the u.s. supreme court conservative justices mocked that. they could be joined in a decision by moderate anthony kennedy. he sounded concerned. >> this is a step beyond what
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our cases have allowed. >> reporter: throwing out his plan said the president would be the kind of judicial activism conservatives deplore. >> an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. >> reporter: the mexican president calderone said he hopes the u.s. does achieve universal coverage. canadian prime minister harper's nation already has it. president obama weighed in today knowing that his record, his image, his re-election may depend on the supreme court decision. doreen, back to you. >> steve handelsman, thank you. people arrested for minor offenses can be subject to invasive strip searches. that ruling today from the supreme court. it was a 5-4 decision. it stems from a case involving a man in new jersey. he was wrongly arrested because of a traffic fine. he went through two embarrassing strip searches while he was in jail. while some of the justices
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considered it an invasion of privacy, others said the arrest circumstances did not matter and that strip searches in jail do not violate the constitution. metro is kicking off a new public awareness campaign about sexual harassment against riders. metro ceo richard saux joined employees at the gallery place station this afternoon to distribute flyers with information about the campaign. the flyers are headlined rub against me and i'll expose you. they contain information about reporting and tracking incidents of sexual harassment on metro subway trains and buses. the awareness posters will also be displayed. after all the nice sun today we're talking frost advisories. doug wharks's the deal? >> even a freeze warning a little further to the north. yeah, a cold night tonight with a cold front coming through during the day yesterday. some rain overnight tonight and now clear skies and really beautiful conditions but that cold air will set in tonight. 61 degrees the current temperature out there with
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plenty of sunshine. winds out of the north-northwest about ten miles an hour. winds gusting upwards of 20 miles an hour so it is going to be a cool evening as the temperatures start to drop. 57 right now in gaithersburg. 63 in manassas. 65 degrees, nice and mild down there in fredericksburg. storm 4 radar nothing to show you here not talking about any rain tonight or into the day tomorrow. next chance of rain will come during the day on wednesday and as we look toward tomorrow morning going down to about 46 by 11:00 so a cool night tonight waking up to a temperature of about 40 inside the beltway. many of you if not most of you will wake up to temperatures in the low to middle 30s. i'll explain who sees the coldest weather and where exactly the advisories are coming up in just a bit. >> oh, my. thank you, doug. some breaking news out of prince george's county. we want to share with you now a tractor-trailer overturned about 5:30 on maryland route 301. this is north of route 4 in upper marlboro. you are looking at a live picture from chop chop.
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you can see that that is certainly impacting traffic in the area. all of the northbound lanes are closed. southbound lanes are moving again. that's route 301 near route 4. northbound lanes are closed. coming up tonight a rescue went very wrong and one man's life is now in jeopardy. a local woman is accused of shooting her 83-year-old grandmother and that's just one of a series of attacks over the weekend. a monster wave swallowed a sail boat and a yacht race turned into a rescue mission miles from the finish line ♪ ♪ nbc's battle for "the voice" takes a new turn. viewers will have their say when the show goes live tonight. coming up in sports caps on the road with their eyes not .
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a new medical study is raising questions about how often women need mammograms. researchers from the harvard school of public health studied several thousand women in a breast cancer screening program. they found that 15% to 20% of patients in the study were over diagnosed meaning they were treated for conditions that would have been harmless. researchers also say routine screenings did not decree the number of women who ended up
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with late stage breast cancer. experts recommend that women talk to their doctor about their risk for breast cancer and about how often to get mammograms. the pro democracy leader in the country that used to be known as burma and now myanmar has declared victory in that country's parliamentary elections. aung san suu kyi has led the fight for democracy in myanmar for years now. she told supporters on monday that she hoped her victory marks the beginning of a new era for that country. ian williams has our report. >> reporter: it could be days before we know the official results but it's pretty clear that aung san suu kyi has been elected to parliament by a landslide. there were chaotic scenes at party headquarters monday when the woman who spent 15 of the last 23 years under house arrest arrived to give a brief speech praising the people of myanmar. >> it is not so much our triumph as the triumph of the people who have decided that they must be involved in the political
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process of this country. >> reporter: her party says it won all but one of the 44 seats up for grabs in sunday's poll. only a fraction of the total in parliament but, still, remarkable in a country that was once a by word for repression. >> we would welcome all parties who would wish to join us in the process of bringing peace and prosperity to our country. >> reporter: aung san suu kyi herself described this as the beginning of a new era and that is certainly how it feels on the streets here. back to you. >> that was ian williams reporting. the last time her party won a landslide victory during general election was back in 1990. the ruling army hunta annulled the results of the election and kept power for 21 more years. two sailors are recovering after some rough waves in the clipper round the world yacht race. footage from the past weekend shows big waves hitting one of the vessels. the coast guard rescued the sailors yesterday after a wave slammed into their yacht about 200 miles off the coast of
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california. they suffered some broken bones and sprains. two other crew members were also hurt but they were able to stay onboard. the yacht is expected to reach the finish line in oakland sometime today. they will be glad to be finished with that i bet. >> when you think about yachting is that what comes to mind right there? >> no. >> i think about it like this. >> a different kind. >> thurston howell iii comes to mind. >> exactly. so we got a big change again. >> you know what? we had a very, very warm march. i think temperatures in april should be closer to average so a little bit better as far as that is concerned. average for the month of march though right now 62 degrees. that is exactly where we were during the day today. let's take a look outside. we saw plenty of sunshine during the day. it did start off on the cool side especially when you consider we had 20 to 30-mile-per-hour winds this morning. it was cool when you stepped out the door but by around lunch time we saw those nice temperatures start to move in with temperatures in the upper
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50s to lower 60s and with plenty of sunshine that is a nice afternoon. high temperature as i mentioned 62 degrees. that's the average for this time of year. yes, a cold night is on the way. we are going to see temperatures that will be a little bit below average as most of you will be down into the 30s. now a warm march. we just talked about it. for sure. not just warm. it was the warmest march ever. you probably already knew that just by how warm it was. 46.8 degrees. that's the average for the month of march. the normal average. now here is the average for the month of march in 2012. 56.8. that is a ten-degree difference. once again the warmest march ever. i do not expect a repeat in the month of april and this does not mean we're going to see a warm summer. i think summer should be right around average if not just a little bit above average. so don't think it's going to be a hot one this year. 61 degrees the current temperature right now with plenty of sunshine. winds gusting upwards of 20 miles an hour. we'll see that wind die down a little bit this evening and once the wind dies down, temperatures are really going to start to
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fall, too. right now 63 in martinsburg. 63 winchester. 64 in fredericksburg. a nice, mild 67 in charlottesville and 60 over there toward annapolis. the 80s we saw in the month of march i don't see those returning any time soon and this is what we're dealing with tonight. a frost advisory including areas around la ray over toward winchester and leesburg. gaithersburg and montgomery county as well as howard county all under a frost advisory tonight. temperatures in the low to mid 30s for you. freeze warnings in frederick over toward hagerstown and martinsburg back toward hampshire county and west virginia. cold temperatures down to about that 30 to 32-degree range shouldn't be a hard freeze and a hard freeze is temperatures in the upper 20s but should be a freeze so you may want to cover up the plants and bring that tender vegetation inside if you can. storm 4 radar, no rain to talk about. not talking about any rain. in our region a completely different scenario though. down to the south and west look at all of this rain. an abundance of rain here. arkansas, louisiana, portions of east texas. they need to see the rain down
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there. they're seeing severe weather to go along with it. for us we're dealing with a trough of low pressure. the trough keeping in the cooler air. look at the numbers out there right now. 59 in pittsburgh. 61 in washington. 55 in new york. you say, hey, that's not bad for april. look back to the west. 91 in omaha. 88 in st. louis. 84 in memphis. in the month of march, that air was able to make its way our way. i think we'll stay with this trough of low pressure through the next couple weeks and that is going to keep us on the cooler side of things here at least with temperatures around or at least closer to where the average should be this time of year. there is the cold front that came through last night. plenty of sunshine today. we'll continue to see that sun during the day tomorrow. another spectacular afternoon on your tuesday and then wednesday we'll have another front move through that will keep the trough in there and i do think a pretty good chance for some shower activity and cloud cover even though i think temperatures will be up into the low 70s on wednesday. we are -- we do have a pretty good chance for some rain. best chance will be south of the washington, d.c. area.
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now your temperatures this evening not bad. clear skies. breezy. cool. 50 to 55 degrees and winds out of the north at 10 to 20 will feel cool once the sun goes down between say 7:00 and 9:00 tonight. that is what you can expect for temperatures. tomorrow morning clear skies and a cold start. possible frost out there. 32 to 40 degrees. tomorrow afternoon warming up nicely. mostly sunny. another great one. even better than today with lighter winds, mild temperatures, 66 to about 71 degrees. some of you well down to the south. charlottesville and fredericksburg could even get into the mid 70s tomorrow and then the next couple days. 73 on your wednesday with that 30 to 40% chance of shower activity. maybe a thunderstorm. thursday and friday we cool off a little bit but once again around the average. 60 on thursday. 63 on friday. right now the all important easter weekend. 67 on saturday. 70 on sunday. that is easter sunday. i have kept the rain out that does look like there is a chance for rain on sunday but for right
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now we're being optimistic. >> keep it on the lighter side. >> i know you're trying to maneuver things. >> see if we can do that. >> thank you, doug. coming up on the program that megamillions thing in maryland is really getting nasty. >> and the controversial police shooting outraged people in
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voters in our area will get to help decide the republican candidate for president tomorrow. both democrats and republicans will go to the polls in maryland and the district. polls showed mitt romney in the lead. five seats on the d.c. council. also at stake tomorrow. president obama says he is confident the u.s. supreme court will keep the health care law intact and not overturn it. mr. obama made the prediction during a joint news conference with the leaders of mexico and canada. they are in town to talk trade and other issues. three winning tickets for the record breaking megamillions jackpot are still unclaimed. the tickets were bought in kansas, illinois, and maryland. winners will split the $656 million prize. the winning ticket in maryland was bought in baltimore county. two teenagers and an elderly grandmother are among the five people shot to death during a violent weekend in prince george's county. >> police say they're
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investigating seven separate shootings that all happened over 72-hour period. darcy spencer has our report. >> i can testify this department hasn't slept for 72 hours. >> reporter: that's because there were five homicides in prince george's county since friday involving seven separate shooting incidents that also left four victims wounded. where are all the guns coming from? >> that is something we're looking into very heavily. actually the intel group, i've tasked them with finding out where every gun used in this county that we recover, where did it come from? >> reporter: one of the victims was 83-year-old dorothy ogden. her granddaughter 32-year-old christalina warner is accused of shooting her. the victim was found wrapped in plastic and blankets. >> i feel for the family when something like that happens so close to home. >> reporter: the spike in violence started friday night
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when police say 17-year-old brandon wiggins was killed in an apartment complex in landover. police are describing it as a gun battle right here in the parking lot of this apartment complex. police are saying this was some sort of dispute that involved drugs. county council member karen towles has introduced a bill to allow the county to track those convicted of gun crimes in an effort to cut down on the shootings. >> it's called the gun registry bill and what that bill does is say anybody convicted of a gun crime has to register with the police department for three to five years depending on the severity of the crime. >> reporter: police say they have made arrests in two of those homicides and have identified suspects in some of the other shooting incidents. in palmer park darcy spencer news 4. police say one of the killings appears to be justified. in that case a robber was shot and killed with his own gun in district heights on sunday morning. the megamillions mystery could get really messy in
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maryland. a ticket bought in baltimore county is one of three winning tickets sold around the country. today a newspaper reported on a woman who claims to have the winning ticket although she has yet to come forward. as pat collins reports that is only part of the mystery. >> reporter: the best selling paper in baltimore today could well be the new york post. it tells the story of the milford mill mcdonald's megamillion dollar mystery. it centers around this milford mills 7-eleven and a woman by the name of mimi wilson. she works at the mcdonald's up the street. "the post" says she claims to have one of those prize winning tickets. >> oh, my god i wish i was a better neighbor to her. >> reporter: that's a.g. tyler. she lived nearby ms. wilson. >> oh, my god. that is wonderful. >> reporter: this is how they tell the story. 15 workers at this mcdonald's, each chip in $5 to buy
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megamillion dollar tickets. ms. wilson then takes the money, goes down and buys all the tickets, and brings it back and puts it in the safe here at mcdonald's. friday the owner of the mcdonald's gives ms. wilson five more dollars to buy more tickets to add to the worker's pool. ms. wilson says she went to the 7-eleven, bought $5 worth of tickets, but she says she also bought a couple side bets for her self. she says her side bets, one of them was the winning ticket. the ticket she bought for the workers? losing tickets. now the owner of that mcdonald's says the report that a manager at the restaurant could be a potential winner is, quote, purely speculation. i strongly caution anyone from jumping to conclusions. at stake, $218,666,666. one-third of the largest jackpot
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of all times. at the maryland lottery headquarters, they say nothing counts until someone shows up with those lucky numbers. >> we've heard it's somebody's cousin, somebody who works up the street, the guy who mows the lawn, the lady at mcdonald's. it doesn't matter. >> reporter: until somebody comes in with the ticket. >> exactly. >> reporter: i was unable to reach ms. wilson today to talk to her about that new york post story. now in maryland you have 182 days to claim the money. you can keep your name out of the papers but you have to show up in person to get that money. in baltimore, pat collins, news 4. too many young people are now saying if i grow up instead of when i grow up. that's the concern of obama administration officials and other leaders who met to talk about youth violence today. >> what are we doing to teach conflict resolution skills in second, third, fourth, fifth, grade and not just high school.
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as soon as something goes wrong the first thing they know is to pick up a knife or gun in some minor dispute and it gets escalated to a tragedy. >> education secretary aron duncan said leaders both inside and outside of schools need to reach out to younger kids to help prevent violence and also noted increasing problems that city leaders are facing with their shrinking budgets. today's summit highlighted ways in which cities like boston, chicago, detroit, and san jose are successfully reducing crime among youth. a special prosecutor has decided that a group of citizens should be selected to determine whether any charges should be filed in connection with a deadly police involved shooting in culpepper. that shooting killed 54-year-old patricia cook. it happened back in february. julie carey has our report. >> reporter: the fatal shooting of 54-year-old patricia cook by a culpepper town police officer in early february has shocked and stirred that community. now the special prosecutor
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assigned to the case fauquier county commonwealth attorney james fisher has decided a group of citizens can best investigate and decide if charges are warranted against a police officer. he is asking the judge to impanel what's known as a special investigative grand jury. >> any death is tragic and of course we have here on its face an unarmed citizen who is killed and just that initial glimpse is horrifying. it's tragic. but again, you have to step back and view this dispassionate lane investigate exactly what happened that day as opposed to rush to judgment. >> reporter: even though the special prosecutor comes from fauquier county the special grand jurors will be culpepper residents. between seven and 11 of them will be chosen and each scrutinized by a judge to make sure they can be impartial. perhaps most important this grand jury has subpoena power to bring in witnesses and at the conclusion of its probe the group can issue an indictment. >> my goal is to bring as many people in as possible who can enlighten the jury on what
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happened that day. state police who conducted an initial investigation say cook was in her vehicle in the church parking lot when the officer began approaching and questioning her. they say when cook was asked for identification she began rolling up the window on the officer's arm trapping him. state police say she then began driving away, dragging the officer. that's when he reportedly fired his weapon, killing cook. but in the days after the incident, at least one witness told news 4's pat collins the officer's arm was never trapped. >> he had a gun, one hand on the door handle and one on his gun. >> reporter: by phone from new jersey cook's mother says she welcomes the grand jury investigation and hopes the group's work will result in charges against the officer. >> i would like justice to be done. you know, i think pat deserves justice. she didn't get it in the parking lot. >> reporter: the special grand jury is expected to begin its work in early may and make a decision about whether or not to charge the officer by late june.
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in fauquier county julie carey news 4. >> the officer involved in the shooting has not been identified. he is said to be on paid administrative leave. the d.c. taxi cab commission is warning cab drivers to watch their behavior after several reports of passengers being attacked. taxi officials say there were seven incidents in recent weeks. six of the victims were women. one was allegedly punched. another says she was dragged from a cab by her ankles but she has yet to file an official complaint. the head of the d.c. taxi cab commission says he is sending out a strong warning letter to drivers. >> what we've told them is that we will not tolerate -- zero tolerance on any treatment of passengers that either verbally or physically threatens or frightens them. >> reporter: the d.c. council is also discussing a proposal to install panic buttons in d.c.
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cabs. that legislation was introduced several months ago and is part of an overhaul of the city's cabs. coming up driving a tow truck can be really dangerous. we'll talk about the rescue that took an unexpected turn. and "the voice" is ready to go
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a developing story tonight. the chief of the general services administration has stepped down today amid reports
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of excessive spending. according to the "the washington post" martha johnson resigned and two top deputies were fired. "the post" reports organizers spent $835,000 for a gsa conference in las vegas. it was attended by only 300 people. among the spending $150,000 for hotels and air fare and $75,000 for training exercises. the white house called that spending, quote, a gross misuse of taxpayer dollars. according "the post" johnson will be replaced by former d.c. administrator dan tagerlini. a dramatic scene in norway. a tow truck driver was trying to pull a stranded tractor trailer to safety sunday when both trucks went tumbling down a cliff. the driver of the tow truck was able to jump outd just in time but the driver in the stranded truck wasn't so lucky. he survived the 200-foot fall
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but came out of it with several broken bones. lucky to be alive. the blind auditions in the battle rounds are over and tonight on "the voice" it is on to the live rounds. among the contestants performing tonight two local acts. erin willett and moses stone both from maryland. nbc's stephanie stanton joins us live in los angeles with a preview of tonight's show. hey, stephanie. >> reporter: hi, doreen. you can certainly feel the excitement starting to build here at the warner brothers lots. the live show less than two hours away. here is what you'll see tonight. 12 contestants, six from team blake. six from team christina. all of these contestants hitting the stage, singing their hearts out, all hoping to become "the voice." ♪ i've been so many places >> reporter: the chairs are done spinning. the battle rounds are over. now america gets to make its
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voice heard. >> the live shows are amazing because you feel energy that is very different than when you tape the shows. >> reporter: that energy can be pressure. i'm nervous but excited and ready to show the world what i can do. >> reporter: it is an opportunity the contestants all embrace. >> being onstage wheres i feel comfortable. it is the rest of the world that i feel like a crazy person rncht tonight singers from team blake share the spotlight. >> i have a really eerie sense of calm. this is the easy part. >> with singers from team christina. >> i'll go out and leave it all on the stage. >> reporter: viewers can expect the numbers to be stepped up a notch. >> lights, dancers, effects. basically whatever we come up with they're like we can make it work. we'll get it. >> reporter: now the singers just have to hope they get america's vote. >> everybody has a shot. and it's all about a moment. they have to create that moment on stage. >> all right. so here is how the voting goes down. america votes. they pick the top three vote getters from each team.
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they will advance. then the bottom three will come back tomorrow for a chance to sing again. at that point each judge will get to pick one person they want to move forward. the others will go home. and you might be able to see this crowd of people behind me. these are the lucky audience members for the live show of "the voice" the show under way in about an hour and a half from now and of course i know you guys will be rooting for aaron and moses. i talked to moses a short time ago. he says he is excited and very confident about tonight. >> all right. we're looking forward to it. stephanie stanton in los angeles. thank you. "the voice" airs tonight on nbc 4 starting at 8:00. join news 4's angie goff for a live web chat on nbc washington.com to talk about your thoughts on how the broadcast is going and who you are rooting for. coming up tonight a car that can fly. also in sports the title game tonight. a championship rematch for two co
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and hello everybody. i'm meteorologist doug kammerer. we're taking a look at a great day. plenty of sunshine but, yes, sneezing season continues. pollen levels have been very high across the region today. over the next couple days it's only going to get higher and on
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wednesday really high pollen levels so if you are an allergy sufferer and you know who you are it looks like medicine may be up a little bit over the next couple days because it is going to continue. until we get some rain. we will have a chance for some rain, maybe thunderstorm activity on wednesday that may knock it down a little bit but, unfortunately, doesn't look like a real good soaking rain any time soon. 61 degrees right now. winds gust upwards of 20 miles an hour. temperatures 60 in rockville. 61 in college park. leesburg 59 degrees. a very nice evening. no rain to talk about. just mentioned that. what are we going to see? a cold night tonight. 40 in washington. 32 in martinsburg. 33 in winchester. parts of the area under frost and freeze advisories. you are going to wake up to a very cold start but by tomorrow afternoon temperatures rebound quite nicely up into the mid to upper 60s. 74 charlottesville. 72 fredericksburg. 67 over there toward annapolis the latest for weather. now on to sports with sports man
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jim vance. >> go ahead. >> we're not sure how you have arranged this but dan hellie is out of town so vance has conspired somehow to live out his dream of being the sportscaster tonight. so watch out. >> seniority ought to get you something. here's the deal. dan is gone. hakem -- dan is off. hakem is gone. lindsay was -- i called and she is tied up and too busy. doug wanted it. but i big footed him. >> yeah. >> here we go. in the midst of a big push for the playoffs the caps visit the tampa bay lightning tonight. you knew that didn't you? less than a week ago things were looking really bad for this team. last tuesday they were blasted, embarrassed at home by the buffalo sabres. it was not pretty. they overtook the caps for the eighth and final playoff spot in the eastern conference but here's the deal. the sabres in the last couple games really sucked. they have lost both of them. as for the caps, they went the other way. they pulled out two wins, two
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shootout wins. thursday in boston brooks light was the hero. after blowing a 2-0 lead the caps win against montreal. with three games left washington is now two points ahead of buffalo for the final playoff spot and dig this, folks. they are just three points behind florida to potentially win the southeast division. can you believe that? >> unbelievable. >> check it out. >> we still believe that we have a chance in the division. you know, we haven't given up on that yet. so you want to make the playoffs. we still have our eye on the division. so it really becomes a simple life where you just think of the day and you don't think any further and all you think is win today. let's just try and win a hockey game today. so that's what the guys are prepared for and we know we have florida coming up but we're prepared for tonight's game. >> wouldn't thab something in the face of all the stuff they've done this year that they won the division? too cool. caps will face florida on
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thursday. it could be done. go red. college hoops now. kentucky/kansas for the national title. who didn't know that? dream matchup some people say. the two winningest programs in all of college basketball history will meet tonight in new orleans for the championship. do you know kentucky has the winningest program of all time? look right there. >> it says right there. 2,089. >> you go girl. kansas second on the list has 2,070. she knew that too. kentucky took down in state rival louisville back on saturday to advance to the national championship game. national player of the year anthony davis led the way. 18 points. 14 rebounds. and this stupidly ridiculous dunk. look at this. oh, my. kentucky looking for its eighth title but the first one since back in 1998. against ohio state. kansas led for a grand total
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3:48, came through in a crunch time to get the final. jayhawks are looking for their fourth national title. first one since 2008. that's when bill south's kansas squad took down john calipari''s memphis team. he is now the coach in kentucky. >> okay. the game in 2008 was a great basketball game. one of the more exciting games. i wish the outcome had come out a little different but, you know, they got us. bill and i have known each other. he followed me when i left he stepped into that spot at kansas. so fond memories. not particularly of that game. >> i don't think i am a better coach because we won that game. you know, we had some guys make plays and that kind of stuff but i do think the fact that since we've been there we're in the game to play in the game. we are one of the teams that have a chance. if you're in the game, then sooner or later, you know,
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things are going to fall your way and certainly we've been very fortunate, blessed to have players that are good enough to put us in the game. >> you know, there are women who can go too. the final four in denver number one seed notre dame against number one seed u-conn. notre dame down two. skyler digins for the tie. nope. won't go. but natalie novacel gets the rebound, throws it up. it's good. it's down. look here folks. going to overtime tied at 67. in o.t. u-conn down one. a two on one but digins blocks the shot. take it away from here. giguerei kicks it out to mallory. look out. this is good. ha. notre dame beats u-conn 83-75 in overtime. advancing to the national championship. they are going to play the winner now of this game. we're talking baylor and stanford. robert griffin iii watching baylor take on stanford. the second game, end of the first half. stanford picked by sims.
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sims going end to end for the finish. baylor up two. at the break. second half now. destiny williams. watch it. to britney greiner in the post. 6'8" greiner. takes the shot. part of an 11-1 run that baylor used to take back the lead. then you know what they did? never looked back. they won 59-47. they are now 39-0. and they go for the undefted season on tuesday against notre dame. i ain't supposed to be biased but i'm pulling for them. i'd love to see a perfect season wouldn't you? >> yes. >> of course you would. last night at verizon center, were you there? you hear the fans. boo. >> i missed it but that's what they tell me. anyway we hope those sounds aren't made tonight because they'll sound like boos. the wizards are there not springsteen. the host of the milwaukee bucks. trevor booker will sit out the second straight game. they both have left foot injuries. pretty weird.
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last night wizards visiting raptors in toronto. the ugliest uniforms i've ever seen on an nba court. crawford up to wall. he had 13 points, 11 assists. wizards down four at the half. we're going to the third quarter now. crawford is going to miss but john van easily there for the one-handed putback. the rookie has ten points in the game. wizards within two points. just over a minute to play. three-point game. toronto, no good. johnson there to clean up. come on, man. the wizards lose, 99-92. their record drops to 12-40 but you know what they say. >> what do they say? >> there is always next year and they're telling me we got to go because i took
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the smithsonian is celebrating jazz for the entire month of april. ♪ ♪ that jazz sing along was at the museum of american history. it kicked off the 11th annual
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jazz appreciation month celebrating with performances, tours, and work shops throughout the city. most of the events are free, too. the museum houses several jazz collections including some of duke ellington's unpublished music. ella fitzgerald's famous red dress. dizzy gillespie's trumpet among other jazz treasures. >> thousands of pages of the duke manuscripts all unpublished. coming up at 11:00 protecting women on metro. learning more about the new program to help women fight sexual harassment. also new video from atlantic city, nguyen ew jersey as a dri took to the boardwalk to escape police. also a hotel turning blue.
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saturday and sunday, right now easter weekend really looking nice. there is a chance for some rain on sunday but i left that out for now. that is some good news. hopefully we can stay dry throughout the entire weekend. again, we need to see some rain. the best chance looks like wednesday. >> all right. thank you, doug. according to the movie "back to the future" remember that? we should all be driving flying cars by about 2015. we're not there yet. but there are some folks over in europe who are getting us closer to it. check this out. it's called the personal air and land vehicle. through some recent tests it has reached 112 miles an hour on the road and in the sky. to operate it you need a pilot and driver's license. it is hoped one day it will take people over mountains, across waterways and get them out of traffic jams. they are currently looking for investors to help take them beyond the development phase.
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>> wouldn't that be wonderful? >> quite a garage you need for that. that's it for tonight. "n my dad was a union electrician. sometimes i'd tag along to a work site, carrying his lunch or tools. it was good, honest work. i went to college with the help of a union scholarship, then
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started a maryland business, creating jobs by providing financing to small companies wall street ignored. today, congress is ignoring our need for jobs. my dad the electrician taught me, if something's broken, get in there and try to fix it. i'm john delaney, and i approve this message.

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