when he was assaulted and at least one suspect had to b te taken to the hospital by ambulance. this is what we know. d.c. inspectors from the u.s. po postal service responded to a parking lot off of north capitol street in washington was just after 4:00 a and spokesman for the postal service did confirm that a letter carrier was robbed and assaulted, but not clear what was taken and it is not clear where the letter carrier's van is, because it is not here at the scene. short time ago we spoke to a neighbor who arrived home after work shortly after it happened. >> i just got home from work. >> they robbed the postman. >> you have to watch your surroundings. >> reporter: and he was just doing his job. >> i am hurt by that. i am. >> reporter: how now as we mentioned the postal carrier was taken to the hospital by ambulance and information on the condition is not available at

this time, but we are told that the u.s. postal inspector supervisor is headed to the scene to provide was more information. live in northeast washington, jackie bensen, news4. >> thank you, jackie. that comes three months after a letter carrier was shot and killed on the job in prince george's county. 28-year-old tyson barnett was shot on his route on reed street in the fairmount heights area, and that murder is still unsolved. another chance of snow coming our way tomorrow morning and big puffy flakes gave a fresh coat to the frees and the grass, but it did not stick to the morning roads, but, doug, tomorrow, the storm could have a bigger impact on the commute than what we saw this morning? >> yes, doreen. because of the timing of this, it is going to start overnight when the sun is down and start with colder temperatures and look at what we have seen. there is the storm that we have seen in some location, and that has picked up good amount of snow, and prince williams county, and some areas picking

up two to three inches around springfield and at the airport. and close to 2 to 3 inches of snow where dulles picked up half an inch, and some snow showers now, and snow flurries south of the waldorf and leonardtown a a area, and we have a winter advisory for the area, and southern maryland, and gaithersburg to fredericksburg and manassas, and does not include martinsburg and winchester or i-81, but it does include the metro area. i will show you the latest numbers coming in now sh, and i will tell you what to expect tomorrow morning. thank you, doug. the latest on the controversial bill in arizona. that bill would allow businesses to refuse service to gay and lesbian customers based on religious grounds. some very big corporations are now among the groups opposing that bill. steve handelsman is on capitol hill with more and the growing pressure on the governor. steve? >> well, the governor was in

washington with the other governors, but now headed to arizona with what she called input, and a lot of it is negativ negative. >> three top aids say that governor jan brewer of arizona will veto the ball to allow businesses in her state to refuse to serve gays, because the aides say that brewer worried about the corporate backlash. and she implied that on cnn. >> certainly, i'm pro business, and that is what is turning our economy around and that is i appreciate the input, and the other side as well. >> and apple supports opposing the bill. and the next super bowl is in phoenix, and the game's local committee said to veto the bill, and so do american airlines and petsmart. >> and the associates and the communities and the customers deserve equal respect. this bill undermines it, and goes against it. >> reporter: in arizona business owners agree. >> do we have separate drinking

fountains, too? >> they say it protects the business owners against bay marriages. >> and we have seen countless florists and bakers and photographers who have been sued and lost the cases because the government says that they have to help celebrate the same sex ceremonies. >> reporter: but republicans jeff flake and john mccain want the bill killed. and attorney general eric holder says it is going to violate equal rights. >> everybody is equal to equal opportunity. >> reporter: and so all eyes are on jan brewer. she has the weekend to decide, but she tells us that she is leaning toward a veto. steve handelsman, news4. and states attorneys generals do not have to ban laws that ban bills based solely on sexual orientation, and virginia

is one that has chosen not to defend the gay marriage ban in court. and president obama wants the government to pull out all of the troops in afghanistan by the end of this year. afghan president hamid karzai has refused to sign an agreement with the u.s. that agreement would help to keep some americans on the ground longer for training and suppo support, but since there is no agreement, the president has asked for an orderly contingent against withdrawal. >> and now a story that you first saw on 4, a husband and wife have been wh passing hundreds of thousands of chips at a local casino. and police are searching for two suspects and the scheme may not be limited to one casino. >> reporter: the couples were caught on surveillance video at the live casino in anne arundel

county with bogus chips. at least $100,000 of chips were used in one night. police have charged one couple with multiple felony counts of theft. they say that the husband and the wife paid $12,000 for $150,000 worth of counterfeit chips and then tried to get rid of the chips by throwing them in the lake at the northern virginia home. they say they were able to recover a lot of the counterfeit chips and more than $100,000 worth float iing right here on this lake. this second couple, also from northern virginia, is suspected of taking chips from the charlestown casino in virginia to alter them to look like $100 chips. >> they believe that the couple obtained the $1 chips and altered them to appear to be $100 chips at the maryland live casino. >> while the chips looked real, they were bigger than authentic

chips and as to how the chips with were altered, the police won't provide the specifics. >> there was paint and decals involved. >> reporter: the other two s suspects are also suspected of passing the fake chips at the charlestown casino. mark segraves, news4. we have a new poll on the mood of the d.c. voters, and all of this as we head to the democratic primary for d.c. mayor april 1st. that poll was conducted by nbc4 and amur radio and marist college. the results show that among the registered democrats in the city, 70% believe that the district is generally headed in the right direction, and only about 20 to 24% say that the city is on the wrong track. tonight at 11:00, we will have the full poll result in the race for mayor, but that is going to include incumbent vincent gray

and the challengers. we are still preparing the results, but tom sherwood is here with more on the polling. tom, can we assume that if most people are voting, this is going to bode well for the mayor? >> well, people should know that this election is coming up fast, and in three weeks we start early voting for the april 1st, and too late to register for the primary. secondly, the poll tonight, sorry to tell you that the details will be released tonight about what that means in terms of the people thinking that we are on the right track. we can't do it now, but i give you a hint that while people are generally satisfied with the direction of the city and what is go g ing to happen, there ar serious fitfalls for -- pitfalls for mayor gray and who is going to win this primary. there is a broad look of the people at the city, and the registered parties and everybody involved and i can't wait to be

back at 11:00 with the results. >> well, neither can we, so hurry back, tom. >> is that a good enough tease? >> well, i can't get better than that, tom. >> tom sherwood, thank you. >> and d.c. candidate for mayor tommy wells is calling on the city's fire chief and deputy mayor to resign coming 24 hours after the hearing of a failed response to a man having a heart attack the outside of a d.c. station. medric mills later died and now dispatchers and firemen are facing discipline in that case. and there was a letter sent to mayor gray urging that the deputy and marshall should resign, but we reached out to the mayor, and he said it is a political stunt, and. and now a pedophile is

reaching out to a judge for leniency. we have more on this from district court with pat collins. >> jim, eric toth is a notorious child pornographer, but he wants to be a rm faer or dog trainer. >> reporter: eric toth is a self-professed child pornographer, and in the letter to sentencing judge, toth says when he gets out of jail, he wants to find a house in the country, and tend a large organic garden and train seeing-eye dogs. but it could be some time before eric toth becomes a farmer or dog trainer. you see the prosecutor plans to go into court and ask that eric toth be sentenced to 30 years in this child pornography case. eric toth, he is hoping for something less. eric toth was a third grade

teacher at the prestigious beauvoir school on the campus of the national cathedral, and he took pornographic picture s of child in a classroom there and pornographic videos of kids in a bathroom using a camera disguised as an air freshener. eric toth went on the run. he changed his appearance. he faked a suicide. he lived in homeless shelters, and he was the first child pornographer placed on the fbi's ten most wanted list. eventually, he was captured last year in managua, nicaragua, and came back to washington where he has plead guilty to a series of child pornography charges. in the letter to the judge comes this apology. to my victims, to all of the children and the family trust i betrayed, andlives i turned upside down, i can only

reiterate and reaffirm both my guilt and remorse. now, sentencing in this case is set for march 11th. live in district court, pat collins, news4. we are getting new developments every hour out of ukraine where the situation is incredibly unstable, and why some local marines are now in kiev. >> i'm julie carey in fairfax county where the verdict is in, in a deadly road rage case, and you could call it a split decision. and victim of a horribl

tonight, federal officials jack lew is working in kiev with marine s th marines that have been taken there. protesters who took over the government are policing the independence square and the country's former president is still on the run. in nigeria tonight, mass murder and 58 students were killed when islamic students kill cann e-- killed students

locked in a dormitory. they are the same militants who attacked in northern nigeria and killed 58 people in that incident. they are fighting against western education, and they want to impose shariah law in that count country. a verdict in fairfax county of a deadly road rage case, and the case is a disappointment to both the victim and the defendant. julie carey is joining us live from the courthouse with the latest than. >> well, the jury staked out the middle ground with the verdict finding lee cena guilty of assault, but knot both assault and battery. the former religious educator at st. leo the catholic church refused comment after the verdict, and so did the family of william o'brien who died as a result of the rage road attack. >> reporter: the jurors decided that what happened between the

two was an assault, but not an assault and battery. it cost the 63-year-old o'brien his life. the trouble between the two men last april 16th began as they drove down picket road, and cena says that o'brien was constantly honking at him, and this surveillance video on the washington post website shows what happened next. cena followed o'brien into the mall parking lot saying that he wanted to yell at him, and the scuffle was brief with both men landing a punch. they broke it up. but then o'brien called 911 saying that his head was going to explode and he h died ten days later. and they said that cena's decision to go after o'brien made him guilty of assault and battery. he is going to confront him, and look fo looking for the fight. but the attorney for him said that her client was only acting in self-defense and wanted to vent, and o'brien gave the first

p punch. the attorney says that it is a tragedy, but not a crime. the jury said they believed that when cena did confront him, there was an assault and put him in bodily harm, and they say that cena was not guilty of assault and battery, and now lee cena will return to the courthouse tomorrow morning and as a the sentencing begins, the jury could recommend a year in jail, and reporting are from fairfax kocounty, julie carey. >> thank you. doug is here with the forecast and i have to ask you this morning when the flakes were bigger and falling heavier, and were you the least little bit nervous? >> me? no way. why? >> i was. >> i will tell you and the reason i wasn't is because even though some of the areas got two to three inches of snow, we were

thinking up to an inch, and the reason i was not worried is because the roads had not been an issue. if they were, we would have had big problems this morning, but they were not, and so the extra inch or two that some areas got, no problem at all, and tomorrow morning, however, more worried about the storm, and even an inch will cause some problems on the roadways and 36 degrees down to the northwest and 6 miles per hour, and doreen, if you are worried, call me. i have a number and i pick up at home. no problem. and 33 in gaithersburg and 33 in manassas and 34 in huntington, and some areas at or below the freezing mark, and so we are going to see the change overnight tonight, and we are going to get colder than we were last night, and because of that, anything that falls will stick into the roads and pesespeciall the secondary roads and still light snowshowers down to the south, and out of the woods as far as the woods are concerned and enveloping the story, we can show you the secondary round of snow showers, and look at what

happens here, 6:00, notice here in fairfax county, the area, and over to the reagan international airport which got 2.8 inches, and fairfax and springfield, and dulles with .6 inches and a little bit of snowband set up outside of d.c. including the airports. and future weather showing you what is happening tonight with the clouds on the increase, and it is going to be a cold night, and watch out with the refreezing overnight, and then by 5:00 a.m., notice the snow coming down, and annapolis, and d.c. and manassas and culpepper, and this is the time to see it accumulating quickly here, and by 10:00, starting to see the last of the snow moving on through the region, but it is enough half inch to an inch to make room on the roads, and you will see the sunshine to end the day, but it is going to be cold. and now through gaithersburg, and through southern maryland

for the potential for the accumulating snow between 1:00 a.m., and noon. and how much do you see in your area? 1 to 2 and because of the storm, a and the timing and the colder air, this is is going to have an impact, and waldorf and annapolis, and leesburg, and this is the aer rea that we bele has the biggest impact here, and around the west of petersburg, and frostburg and maybe 1 to 2, to maybe hagerstown, and winchester, and luray and you will get less to the blue ridge. and fairfax, krou will get it, too. and now as far as the temperatures go for the next couple of days, 34 tomorrow, and 40 thursday, and 28 on friday, and cold friday afternoon and another system breaks snow saturday and then rain on saturday with a high of 48. and then an interesting snow system which is one to watch, and this is rain and snow, and this is one that is looking to be bigger. >> next at 6:30, marijuana,

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quite a rough landing for two parachuters training at the virginia naval station. the wind took them into an a auxiliary landing field, and neither man was injured, but it took firefighters over an hour to cut them down. >> tonight the university of maryland says it will lengthen the free credit monitoring from one year to five years. this is more than 300,000 people fell victim to a security breach at the university. today is the first day ha the hundreds of the thousands of people could sign up for the free service, but because of the

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with a $70 co-pay, he does not use them the often, and so he was unaware that he returned from the pharmacy with all of these extras. he said they call them periodically if they want the prescription prescriptions refelled and if the people don't answer two or three times, they will automatically fill the prescriptions. >> reporter: it is called automatic refill, and you don't have to automatically call, we will call your prescriber when you run out, and all of the major chains do it, including cvs. >> they begin to build up medicines and don't know why. >> reporter: this pharmacist worked for cvs for 30 years, and he says each store has a 40% ready used for treatment of

chronic disease. you can cancel your prescription any time. but regardless, you need to be aware if you are on the auto list, and if you are, tell them to take you off. >> these are great for people who are forgetful or for something like diabetes or high blood pressure medicine, but autorefills can lock you in and meaning that you cannot get medicine while you are traveling, because the pharmacy may have already charged your insurance for prescriptions that you have not yet obtained. and when is this snow event going to happen, doug? >> 3:00. >> a.m.? >> yes. and then to 4:00 or 5:00 and then on the moderate side, and then accumulation on the roadways and the temperatures in the eamo