right now, new details about the gunman in the colombia mall shooting, what his mother had to say about the deadly attack. plus, we are hearing from family members of one of the victims. >> tyler, we have lost a kind, positive son. >> more questions tonight as police maintain there is no connection between the shooter and the victims. good evening everyone. i'm erica gonzales. the colombia mall will reopen at 1:00 tomorrow. employees are expected to return earlier, it comes as families

struggle to understand what led a 19-year-old to open fire and kill two men. the two were shot on saturday on the mall's second level. police say 19-year-old shooter darion aguilar turned the gun on himself. police released this photo with details about the teenager. david culvert spoke to the gunman's neighbors and joins us in the studio with more. >> we're back from the home where he lived with his mother. it's there where police seized computers and documents. among that evidence his journal. some of the entries depict a depressed teenager. detectives spent much of today interviewing the families but tonight police stress there is no known congestion between aguilar and his two victims. we dug up a missing person's report. this was filed shortly after the shooting by aguilar's mother.

prince george county police took the call. they read the journal and got worried he tracked his cell phone and it led him to colombia mall which was a crime scene. the investigator turned the findings over to howard county police who is his mother spoke to reporters through the phone of a family friend. >> he's never, never had a gun before, never been interested in guns, never been interested in anything like that. i don't know what happened. i st kw what happened. i don't know what happened. i feel for those other parents, i do. >> we checked and found aguilar had no criminal history. he bought the 12 gauge shotgun legally last month and the family friend says he was just promoted as a manager at a local dunkin donuts. police say the motive behind the

killings still a mystery tonight. >> we're learning more about the victims of this tragedy. tonight, family members of 25-year-old tyler johnson are breaking their silence. darcy spencer spoke with johnson's uncle tonight. she joins us live in college park with more, darcy? >> reporter: erica, as david said, the suspect lived in this house here in college park and police are saying there does not appear to be a connection between him and the victims but the uncle of one of those victims told me tonight he finds it hard to believe that there is no connection and that this was a random crime. >> just trying, not knowing why. >> reporter: george is the uncle of tyler johnson, the 25-year-old man shot and killed by a teenager armed with a shotgun at the colombia mall. >> a parent's worst nightmare. you don't realize it until you're in the middle of it. >> reporter: johnson was working at the zumies skate shop when he

was gunned down with breanna. the two were not romantically involved. >> they were unfortunately at work, which for kids these days, is a good place to be. >> reporter: in fact, howard county police say so far, they have found no connection between the shooter, 19-year-old darion aguilar and his victims. >> that store in the.

>> reporter: that second victim breanna lived less than half a mile here from the shooter in college park but police are saying at this point they have not been able to link the two. reporting live from college park, darcy spencer, news 4. with tyler, we have lost a kind, positive son who reached out to help others in need and he made a difference. >> tyler johnson's aunt chokes up as she reads a statement written by his parents today. sidney petty painted a picture of a caring young man that helped others. after hearing of the shooting tyler's parents held out hope until the very last moment that he was safe. >> they knew he was working there at the mall and kept trying to reach him, and they couldn't reach him, so they thought that he was hiding in a concrete barrier-type place

where there was no cell phone, and that was their hope for many hours. >> petty says tyler was attending college and had a very bright future ahead of him. 21-year-old breanna was also killed in the shooting and as we mentioned, police say they have not found a connection between her and the gunman. she also worked at zumies. she was the store manager. we know she live in a shared home blocks away from where the gunman lived with his mother. we also know she had a 2-year-old son. the ceo of zummies says like you we are closely following the updates from the howard county police. they are briefings pains us. counselors have met with the store team today, the emotions are very raw and real and as co-workers and friends, we are pulling together. we are monitoring the

developments in the colombia mall shooting and as we mentioned, the mall will reopen tomorrow at 1:00. we'll have more updates on nbcwashington.com and of course, on news 4 today. that show begins at 4:26. well, prepare for a cool down this week. storm team four amelia segol is here. >> good evening. temperatures overnight will start to warm a little bit. tomorrow will hit the high temperature around the midday hours, and then arctic air makes its way into the area. temperatures will drop over 25 degrees in less than 24 hours. right now, mostly cloudy skies and a temperature of 29 degrees. 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning it's chilly but it is not bit early cold with a temperature of 33 degrees, you can see by 9:00 a.m. we're in the mid 30s. like i said, we'll hit a high temperature around the midday hours and after that, temperatures plummet.

i'll be taking you through the next arctic blast hour by hour coming up in ten minutes, erica. thanks. police say they arrested the man that may have stolen a dog from a man's northeast home. sean pay was arrested last night in connection with several robberies. police say pay may be responsible for as many as eight robberies since december. during the latest incident he took mario, a beloved cockapoo. a police tip led cops to the dog. she was reunited with her owner yesterday. pay is charged with second degree robbery. a customer's car stolen at the gas pump today in montgomery. it happened at an exxon on georgia avenue. the woman was pumping gas when a robber jumped into the poor sh and took off. the victim was not hurt. in an emotional new

interview, virginia state senator creigh deeds is speaking more what happened. deeds talked to 60 minutes in the first tv interview since the attack back in november. he says he had to bring guss home from psychiatric tick treatment because an emergency custody ordered expired before they could final a hospital to treat him. he never thought things would turn violent. >> he said come at me. i said gus i love you so much. i said don't make this worse. he kept coming at me. i mean, i was -- i was bleeding a good bit. we'll use gus, i hope torks address mental health and make sure other people don't have to suffer through this. >> deeds also expressed his love for his son saying he doesn't want gus to be remembered by those final moments. a bill to extend the length of emergency custody orders is

advancing through the state senate. president obama and his advisors tonight putting the final touches on his state of the union address. he's expected to talk about job security, immigration, health care and income inequality and the president is also expected to address how he'll push his agenda into action with or without the help of a gridlocked congress. there will be three republican responses afterwards, the official gop response, one from the tea party and another from senator ran paul. stay with us for complete coverage and analysis of the state of the union address before, during and afterthe speeches. a development in an on going court battle in texas. new information tonight from the family of a brain-dead pregnant woman. another virus outbreak on board a cruise to the cariben. things didn't go as planned today in vatican city.

what swooped in to ruin pope francis symbol for peace. in a few minutes, three redskins team up on an island. reality show? no. the pro bowl finds a way to be interesting. sean mcveigh at the round table and what rg needs to work on the most. plus, she has every honor on her basketball resume except one. all that and more coming up on sports final right after the

would you look at this, spectacular flames could be seen in canada after a natural gas pipeline explosion. this happened near winnipeg.

the fire raged for hours until crews turned off the gas and the fire just burned out. >> no idea what that is. >> the explosion is affecting the gas supply across minnesota. people there are being asked to conserve because several main pipelines to minnesota come from canada. u.s. health officials spent the day on board a royal caribbean cruise ship where a virus is spreading. passengers and crew members have fallen ill so far. the ship made an emergency stop in the u.s. virgin islands after hundreds of people on board developed symptoms. passengers say it turned into a nightmare. >> it was a terrible experience. i've been on this boat before, we had an amazing time when we were here. this time, it's just been awful. >> officials from the centers for disease control say they believe the virus is spreading throughout the shop. they believe it was likely

spread through contaminated food or water. earlier this month a similar virus spread on another royalca the family of menounos says she was disconnected from the ventilator late this morning, days after a judge ordered the hospital to do so. she had a pulmonarcoticty embolism in november. she was 20 weeks pregnant at that time. the hospital refused to take her off life support siting a texas law from bans treatment from being with held from pregnant patients. it will cost more to mail a letter. starting today first class stamps will cost 49 cents. the post office says the increase is temporary to recover from severe mail decreases since 2009. the increase is not expected to last more than two years, but

postal officials say inflation could wind up making the rate hike permanent. you can still use existing forever stamps for first class mail. a symbolic gesture of peace by pope francis didn't exactly go as planned during a prayer service, the pope called for peace in the ukraine. he then invite twod children to release two white peace doves. this is where things change. one of the doves was attacked by a passing sea gull after the release, the other atakes by a crow. they broke free but it's not clear if they are okay. believe it or not, it will be too cold or windy in chicago for school tomorrow. the city cancelled classes because of the fridcold conditi. windchills are expected to be in the negative 25 range, around that area for much of the day. similar temperature expected for tuesday. there may be more cancellations

to come. hundreds of flights have also been grounded today. then take a look at this shocking video. this is of an ice storm in iowa. the driver of this jeep apparently ignored warnings to stay off of the thin ice during a festival this weekend. it's just one of at least eight cars that fell through the ice on saturday. there were no reports of injuries, but the cars had quite a bit of damage, and how you explain that to your insurance company? >> i don't know. i would never be driving on ice. i wouldn't risk it. >> absolutely not. we're not done with our cold streak at all and the next couple days, what a doozy right? >> yeah, big changes moving in. cancellations in chicago. that cold weather is headed our way so there will be school delays and cancellations on tuesday morning and potentially wednesday morning, as well. our windchill temperatures on those mornings will be anywhere from 15 to five degrees below zero at the coldest. tomorrow it's chilly.

it's not frigid but we're still below where we would be for january and another arctic blast arrives tomorrow night. it sticks around tuesday, wednesday into early thursday morning and we'll start to see temperatures warm more on thursday and the good news by the week end, we're finally looking at temperatures typical for this time of the year, in the 40s on the satellite and radar. partly to mostly cloudy, we're dry for the most part we're going to be dry tomorrow. temperatures, well, they are in the 20s. 29 in washington. 25 and 28 right now in camp springs. where your temperature is at right now, you c expect it to be by the morning hours, maybe a couple degrees warmer. a warm front actually lifts through the area overnight, so 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning a temperature of 32 degrees. i know a lot of runners on twitter said they are happy about the temperatures tomorrow morning. they can go for the morning run and not be so cold.

now, 11:00 a.m. plenty of clouds and we'll hit the high temperature of 37 degrees. the winds pick up throughout the day tomorrow, and then the temperatures fall. by 3:00 we're in the low 30s. the evening commute is dry. look at the temperatures in the mid 20s and they continue to drop overnight. so let's walk you through these lowering temperatures. monday, tomorrow afternoon at 1:30, we're in the 20s and low 30s, washington at that point at 31 degrees, getting on into the evening hours, temperatures continue to drop. you can see frederick at 18. leesburg at 19. cole pepper at 22. look at what happens by midnight. we're in the teens across the area. single digit readings, martins burg at nine degrees, washington at 17, on tuesday morning as you're heading into work, it will be brutally cold outside. a temperature inside of the

beltway of only 12 degrees, single digits in the suburbs, not only that but breezy, as well. when you factor in the winds, it will feel from 16 below zero to one degree below zero in washington. cold again on wednesday, a high temperature of 24 degrees and storm team four will keep a close eye on the coastal storm that will have a major impact on the gulf states up through north carolina. right now it's looking like it will be a little bit too far south to impact us with anything more than some cloud cover on wednesday. and then we jump ahead to friday. not only is it friday and we're starting to think about the weekend at that point, but look at the temperature. 41 degrees, that's almost the average high. we haven't seen that in quite some time. some rain is possible on saturday, maybe a little bit of snow otherwise a high of 42 and on sunday, erica, temperatures looking to be around average. ground hog day on sunday but i'm not joking about this. right now it does look like

we'll see a temperature on sunday around 44 degrees. >> all right. thanks, amelia, we'll keep it in mind. coming up in sports, one

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well, man, finally an interesting pro bowl. >> yeah -- >> major hits in there. >> this is a really good pro bowl game if you like that stuff. i like the game not so much guys going after each other but did that today. that's what the fans want to see. let's see if it worked. the pro bowl has been criticized for not being competitive or entertaining. so the nfl decided to switch things up. no more nfc versus afc. it's team rice versus team sanders. hall of famers, rice and sanders held a fantasy football draft

this year. all three redskins players were on team sanders. always a beautiful day in hawaii. let's get to the game, second quarter, we're tied at 14. cam newton throws this one to alfred morris. the running back takes it 27 yards. morris had a good game. four receptions. let's get back to the fourth quarter. we're tied. nick finds cleveland's jordan cameron for the 12-yard touchdown and team sanders, they take a 21-14 lead. later in the game, under a minute left, alex smith driving team rice down the field, short pass here to marco murray and the cowboy's running back does the rest. gets into the end zone, and team rice down one and they are going for two. it's mike lowering his shoulders and gets into the end zone. team rice go on to defeat team sanders, your final score 22-21.

as for the other bowl, the super bowl, both teams touchdown in new jersey today, peyton manning and the broncos arrive first, not long after the seahawks waving their 12th man flag. they arrived in newark. richard sherman there to start a very entertaining super bowl week. broncos and seahawks have landed and so has dianna. she'll have you covered all week long until the big game, super bowl coverage starts tomorrow on news 4 at 5:00. all right. let's move on now, not many fans would watch a football game outdoors in the freezing cold, but a hockey game outdoors in the freezing cold, that just sounds like fun. yankees stadium, normally hosts the boys of summer. today, it was the boys of winter. first period, we're tied at one. devils on the power play. a great feed to patrick elliott who scores, the second goal of the game, the devils they go up

2-1. in the second period tied at three. here comes the rangers, a three on one and derrick and to matt who nets the second goal of the game. the rangers scored five unanswered goals, they go on to beat the devils 7-3. coming up on "sports final," they start preparations for the super bowl. plus maryland star and tearing through the record books but has one last goal she wants to accomplish as a terp. we'll have that and much more when carol maloney joins me on sports fin

so runners usually load up

on carbs but do nuts aren't use the of choice. more than 500 took part in the krispy kreme dash. runners were asked to complete a 5 k run and eat a dozen donuts in an hour or less and all for a good cause. proceeds benefitted a local pediatric hospital, but i can't imagine what that feels like running with a dozen donuts in your stomach. >> one, maybe. >> no, no. >> two or three. >> 11 more. >> uncomfortable. amelia, can you take us through a final look at weather? >> a final high of 37 around the midday hours, afternoon and everything hours, our temperatures plummet. 12 degrees for your tuesday morning, single digits in the suburbs. i think there will be school delays possibly on tuesday morning especially in the more rural areas. we could see the same thing wednesday emergency as the arctic blast hangs on strong.

a high tuesday of 18, 24 on wednesday and then our temperatures start to improve a little bit. a high on thursday of 35 -- >> that's looking good. >> and next weekend, there you go, 42 and 44, not bad there. >> not too bad but the next couple days, 12, 13, 18. >> bundle up, absolutely. >> thank you, amelia. >> that's the news tonight. "sports final" is next. we continue to following developments in the colombia shooting. tune into news 4 today starting at 4:24 in the morning for the latest. have a great night, everyone. thanks for joining us. [ superfan ] we're hitting the road to help america discover the new helper.

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