pnchts. the motions tributes at the colombia mall. >> a northern virginia woman returns home to a big surprise, the object she says fell out of the sky and into her dining room. and warmer weather today, but amelia is tracking a winter storm. >> i'm christ lawrence, the

entire region has been warm today, warming up to 50 degrees. there's a winter storm watch set to take effect. amelia siegel is here with you. >> the good news, this winter storm watch does not begin until tomorrow evening, so for tonight and tomorrow, one more period of kind of quiet, comfortable weather. here's your evening planner for tonight, most areas are dry, those of you in southern maryland and the northern neck do have a chance of a shower, but everywhere else will be dry, and for the first weekend in february, pretty comfortable, with temperatures around 40 degrees for the remainder of the evening hours. i am tracking some light rain down in southern virginia and this could impact the northern neck and southern maryland during the evening and overnight hours, but this is our next weathermaker, it arrives overnight tomorrow night and continues throughout the day on monday. this system is all about the rain and snow. right now we're looking at more snow to the north of washington, more rain to the south of washington. i'll be back in just over ten

minutes with who's under a winter storm watch from this system and more on the timing. >> too good to be true. today marks one week since that deadly shooting at the columbia mall. 19-year-old dariian aguilar opened fire there. friends of the two victims organized a special tribute. news4's derek ward has more. >> reporter: at exactly 11:15 in the morning, the time of the shootings one week ago, a moment of silence around the fountain and throughout the mall in colombia, where one week ago three young lives converged in a way no one could have expected or wanted. it's changed the way many see this place, and even changed the faces of mall patrons. but changings reached beyond the -- the shooter appeared to be a normal 20-something, not

outwardly violent or disturbed. >> kind of changed the way i perceive being out in public. >> the plywood that announces the store's closure, becomes a place of remembrance. it's that scene that brought these folks here to the shores of centennial lake. this is a memorial as well and no less heart felt than elsewhere in the community. many of those who showed up riding these long boards is cathartic, malcolm was a fond acquaintance of deion. >> we just got to go skating, i got to get this out. >> kyle was the one that would always come to my store, to look at gauges, to make me laugh. >> the death highlights how the mall is central to this community, kind of a modern day town square. >> if it could happen someplace

like colombia, i sincerely believe it could happen anywhere. >> i've been at the mall, skitting up there for about four hours at a time. i just want to get the word across that we need to move on in a positive way. >> reporter: in columbia, maryland, derick ward, news4. it's about to get a bit more expensive to drive in the district. cameras will ticket speeders, red light runners and driver who is block the box at an intersection. they'll also take pictures of those who don't stop for pedestrians in a crosswalk. it's all part of a program called d.c. street safe and fines range from $50 to $300. we have a list of where the cameras are located on nbc washington.com, just search for speed cameras. and the search is on tonight for a driver who ran over a pedestrian in the northeast and kept right on going a metro

transit police officer called for an ambulance around 6:00 this morning after the officer watched the car hit the victim. officers from d.c. and prince george's county chased the driver but lost him. investigators say the man was driving a blue or green saturn. a major traffic alert in arlington, colombia pipe will be shut down all weekend between south queen street and south on street. crews are finishing demolition of the old bridge over the pike. this doesn't affect washington boulevard lists, but columbia pike will be closed the next two weeks for that demolition to continue. new campaign finance reports have just been released in the district and they show the mayor has raised more than $6 billion for hbillion

-- $6 billion in eincluding counsel member tommy wells, but he's refusing to take corporate donations. the democratic primary is april 1, but early voting begins in just about six weeks. tonight former chicago mayor richard daly is in the hospital. daly's spokeswoman says he is in the icu after he got sick on a flight last night. daly felt disoriented when the plane landed in chicago. the former mayor will undergo tests a and his exact condition ask not known. he was the mayor of chicago for two decades before leaving office in 2011. new jersey governor chris christie is responding tonight to new accusation he knew more about that -- christie e-mailed supporters today saying those claims are not truchlt and he attacked the "new york times" and a former appointee making

those allegations. meanwhile federal prosecutors met privately with state lawmakers on friday. they reportedly asked the legislators not to take any steps that might interfere with their criminal probe. governor christie's office is under investigation for closing lanes on the george washington bridge last september. that was after the ft. lee may your refused to endorse him in christie's re-election campaign if the governor is implicated, he must step down. >> i think the governor has to consider resigning. >> it's a bad day for new jersey, a bad day for government and a bad day for moving the state ahead. >> christie's office issued a statement denying his knowledge of the plan to close that bridge. >> coming up, a woman returns home to find a gaping hole in her ceiling. the piece of metal she says fell out of the sky and into her dining.

>> new criticism for the mayor of atlanta after hundreds were stranded on highways and forced to abandon their cars. how he's defending his travel during the crisis. and how long some contestants have been c

the mayor of atlanta is taking some heat tonight over a tv appearance he did at the

height of this week's massive traffic jam. the security detail used emergencies lanes to by pass traffic so he could do an interview with the weather channel which is based in atlanta. the mayor's spokesperson defended that interview. two inches of snow and ice shut down the city on tuesday, some people had to spend the night in their cars parked on the side of highways, others slept in stores and restaurants. >> the olympic games in sochi are one week away now. some members of the usa are starting to arrive there. the u.s. bobsled team were the first to arrive there. other athletes from other countries are starting to arrive. the game's opening ceries are this friday. and you can stay with nbc and news4 for all your olympic coverage. our own jim hand lrly is in soc.

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a northern virginia woman is looking for answers tonight after an object fell out of the sky and through her house. news4's darcy spencer spoke to the owner about where she thinks this metal object game from.

darcy, what does this thing look like? >> reporter: chris, this is exactly the piece, it's about 5 inches long, and it's pretty heavy in your hand. it feels like it's a couple of pounds. the woman believe this is piece fell out of the sky from an airplane, she was not inside her home when it happened but it went right through this little awning and straight down into her dining room. >> it blew the drywall, the sides all around it there were pieces of plaster and drywall all around here. >> reporter: this piece of metal game through thein leave agaping hole in her dining room ceiling. sheives in the dulles airport flight path. >> i think it's unbelievable. you wouldn't expect something like that to happen to you. the movie donny darko where something. -- >> it happened friday morning, between 8:15 and 9:15, when she had taken her daughter to

school. when he got home, her home alarm started. >> he's here, i thought maybe was a pipe from the gas pipe. but when i had the gas company come out, they identified it as likely a piece of an aircraft. >> baker says she's concerned what would have happened if the part had landed on someone, instead of her house. >> if it had been a little this way, or a little that way, it could have hit the children at the elementary school. it could have fall on wright on them. that's scary for me too. >> she's thankful no one was hurt. >> strange, freak occurrence, hopefully aircraft parts don't fall twice in the same spot. >> reporter: we have been in touch with the faa and helped to get her in touch with them. they do plan to send someone out here to the house and continue an investigation, they're going to try to figure out what happened here, they're going to take this into evidence and try

to confirm that it did in fact come from a plane, and if that did happen, why? reporting live from herndon. darcy spencer. just five people standing in the toyota hands on contest. for the last two days, contestants had to keep one part of their body on a 2014 toyota taughts. whoever is the last man or woman standing wins the car. the contest ends tomorrow at noon, and if more than one person is left, they just have to do a random drawing to determine the winner. i could maybe hold on to the remote control laying on the couch for that long, but that's about it. >> and to think that you put that much effort into it and it comes down to a random drawing. >> please go to facebook to see

all the tv shows and things that i like. but it's great to be here, everybody's made me feel just so much at home. >> we're so lucky to have you and we're happy to have you here. >> you could have come with better news, a better welcoming gift like the 50s are going to last for weeks now. >> we were talking bit, we're finally getting some warm weather around here, at least it's going to last for a couple of days then we're back to cooler temperatures and not only that but two weather systems. high temperatures tomorrow will be in the mid 50s, and then we're looking at rain to arrive tomorrow night, and then this system on monday, it's all about location, location, location. areas north of washington, it's looking like a snow event for you. areas to the south, it's looking more like a rain event. and then tuesday night into wednesday, another wintry mix is likely. this is looking more like a rain eve event, but there's also the threat of some freezing rain with that event tuesday night on into wednesday. a winter storm watch will go

into effect in the counties here in blue. this includes montgomery, loud on and frank counties, rain arrives tomorrow evening around 11:00 p.m. that transitions to snow for some of us, mainly those of you in the watch, early on monday. now the watch has been issued because up to five inches of snow is possible. does this mean if you're in the watch you're getting five inches of snow? no, but right now we're thinking that this would be the most snow there. and again, more snow north and more rain to the south. weather impact force monday, that commute will be slow, you're dealing with rain or snow. schools are likely in the watch, not in the watch, it's kind of dicey right now. the side roads could still be a little bit slick, but at that point, this event has already come to an end. temperatures right now are in the 40s.

it's not a frigid start. here we hit 11:00 p.m. tomorrow evening on your sunday. how snow is favoring northern and western maryland, where we're seeing rain in portions of maryland and the d.c. metro area. it comes to an end by 4:00, and then we notice our temperatures remaining in the 30s. a high on monday of 38, 39, tuesday a high of 39 degrees, and then we're looking at more rain likely on wednesday. coming up in sports, under the bright lights of new york t hoyas end their l my dad has atrial fibrillation, or afib. he has the most common kind... ...it's not caused by a heart valve problem. dad, it says your afib puts you at 5 times greater risk of a stroke. that's why i take my warfarin every day. but it looks like maybe we should ask your doctor about pradaxa. in a clinical trial, pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate mesylate)...

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former red skins coach may be on the move. >> he is on the move. we see this a lot this time of year with the super bowl right around the corner tomorrow. a lot of coaches going to different games. former red skins coach shanahan

has landed back on his feet in cleveland. shanahan's offense didn't have much success this condition, averaging 20 points a game, that left them 23rd in the league. before teaming up with his dad, mike, he was the offensive coordinator in houston for one year. he interviewed with miami and baltimore before getting that job in cleveland. let's move on to superbowl xlvii now, we're a little over 48 hours away from kickoff between the boroncos and seahawks. the denver broncos had the top ranked offense in the nfl, the seahawks the best ranked defense. >> their ability to play together and communicate, that shows up just on the game film alone. so, you know, i certainly know that will be, that will carry over when you actually get to play against them, that you're playing against a smart,

athletic defense. >> these are the two best teams in the nhl and the best quarterback in maybe nfl history and it's going to be a tremendous challenge for both sides, a and that's what makes the game so big, that's what makes the game so fun, it's going to be great for fans, great for the nfl, you do have the best teams and some of the best players in the world going after each other and at the end of the day, somebody has to win, somebody has to lose. >> this week i've changed my pick about 37 times, but i'm going to go with the seahawks for tomorrow. you guys want to make your final picks now? >> i predict the weather is not going to be an issue. that's the most i can do. >> i'm going to go seahawks, 24 -- 20. >> i'll take the sea hawks, too. college basketball, georgetown, they needed this game against michigan state to keep their season alive, and the hoyas, they sure did play like it. down the stretch, it was georgetown that made the huge plays to get the w. what better way to end a five-game losing skid than a

team that's -- mark kell starts. garry harris is not stopping. he had 20 points. hoya still up by 5:00. a little over a minute left, georgetown up two, stark misses the shot. there for the tip. huge play for trolic. georgetown lead is 4, final seconds. defense coming u up big, eight points off the bench for him. they beat michigan state, georgetown does 64-60. down in blacksburg, maryland, visiting virginia tech, first half, terps down. he adds 16 points, terps up 8 at halftime. in the second half, the holt hand for va tech. he had a game high 21 points,

and tech was within five, but terps start to pour it on. des wells gets the steal, and wells would finish strong. he had 19 points coming off the bench today. terps up by 14. then maryland broke this game open. ducked over everybody there, terps, they won it 80 to 60. george washington visiting dayton, colonials, three injured starters in this game. first half, flyers up big, pierre, sinks the three ball. the second half t colonials trying to come back. that's isaiah armwood with the flush. he had 19 points, 13 rebounds. seventh double-double of the season. final minutes, dayton pulling away, devon oliver, george washington, they fall 75-65.

paul hewitt, george mason, visiting ninth ranked, st. louis is down three. rob low, big man knocking down the three-pointer. we're tied at 68 and headed to overtime. in ot, george mason trailing by three. low, continuing to show off the range here. the senior, another three-pointer. st. louis holds on to victory, they beat george washington, 87-81. so seattle, seattle. and weather? >> thanks, everybody, good >> thathe pain started upd the back of my head

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did he know and when did he know questions continue to swirl around new jersey governor chris christie following new allegations surrounding the george washington bridge scandal. show me the money, is the super bowl really turning out to be the half billion dollar boon that was predicted? safe to drink? new concerns about the water in west virginia even though officials insist that danger from a chemical spill has long passed. ice dams, the trouble