small mud flows in california. >> but what does that storm mean for us? rain, snow, heavy ice? we will talk about the approaching storm for sunday and how it could mess with monday. >> the befores and afters are impressive and could you believe those catchy diet ads? new"news4 at 4" starts right no. >> "news4 at 4" starts right now. >> i'm barbara harrison in for jim handly. >> and i'm pat larson muse. we have new information of what to expect for the sunday storm? >> let's get to amelia segal and what is coming our way? >> well, barbara starting sunday evening the rain will be moving into the area during the overnight hours into monday morning where we will see a period of mix. that includes the potential for ice before it turns over to all

snow for the majority of the day on monday. coming up in a little bit, i will have much more on the storm, and before we get to monday morning, we will have the weekend to enjoy, and i will have the forecast, pat. >> thank you, amelia, and the first wave of the powerful storm is hammering much of southern california, and we are seeing flooded roads and mud slides in the same communities that dealt with wildfires recently, and today's storm has knocked out power to 14,000 people and caused a bunch of accidents. we will go live to one area in california where they have evac waited 1,000 homes and expecting 7 inches of rain. it is one of the scariest crimes in our area, a teenaged girl ambush and attacked, and now we are getting the first look at two men police want to question. this is surveillance where a girl was walking home, and jumped near georgia avenue and ninth street, and the investiga

investigators say that the men who robbed her tried to sexually assault her, but she was able to escape. right now the d.c. police are trying to solve the killings of two teenagers that took place just hours apart. a 17-year-old boy was stabbed on halley terrace in the bellevue area and a 19-year-old woman was shot on j-street in kenworth and her name is takia dickerson and she was discovered on a sidewalk. but three hours earlier jonathon adams was stabbed. derrick is digging up more e details of the incidents, and we will have more at 5:00. with those two murders we are learning a troubling trend. d.c. has seen a 75% spike in homicides this year when compared to the first two months of last year. 21 people have been killed in 2014. today, d.c. police chief cathy lanier told an oversight council that two factors are driving the

trend, and the first is the turf related gang war murders and the second is more troubling to the chief. >> domestic violence is once again a big problem for us. we have had success in drive down domestic violence for two years in a row, but for the last two years, we are seeing an increase, and so an increase in domestic homicide. >> and the police chief says they are close to making an arrest in at least two of the murders. coming up at 5:00, we will have more on the spike of crimes that are on the rise in d.c. and three people are facing charges in a vandalism spree that has damaged more than 100 cars in fairfax county. ashley mcpherson is and travis noeks and trayvon tibbs turned themselves in. they said they wept through a centerville area firing a bb gun, and the police are looking for two more teens in the

vandalism. and a teen is giving up her crown after elbowing a police officer at a homecoming dance and also cited with having marijuana. and she said that she resigned because her recent events have devalued her role. >> and former aides are showing that they were kenned about president clinton's ability to of haul health care. the white house released over 4,000 pages of documents today. they included memos from staffers about hillary clinton's image at the time. she is the leading candidate for the white house and her potential run for the president has heightened interest in the files. the streetcars are now energized by 750 volts of electricity. ddot has announced they have

switched on the overhead lines that power the streetcars. they will stay energized as the crews are testing the cars on h street and northeast. and ddot is warning people to stay at least ten feet away from the live wires and don't try to touch those poles. >> this afternoon, representatives of gm are in town, and they are showing off their plans for the casino set to be built at national harbor, but not everybody is thrilled with the planned development. some residents want to make sure that his for the cal sites are being preserved. prince georges bureau chief tracee wilkins has the story. >> this is the new cite with the gm harbor casino is to be built. but right now, many people are hoping to take their approval petitions to the stakeholders.

today, they laid out the presentation for the multimillion dollar casino in hopes of getting the okay, and there were concerns of dealing with the historic sites that are right near the casino location. >> we are trying to protect the historic site from like i said, from all of the noise and impacts that will be caused by the new development, because it is quite massive, a and it is pretty large. >> and there are more planning board meetings coming up surrounding the mgm proposal and they have zoning concerns that need to be addressed as well. coming up on "news4 at 5:00," i will look at some other concerns. i'm tracee wilkins, news4. keeping calm, and reports that the british spies hacked into the webcams of millions of yahoo! users and collected pictures. and plus a man with his dogs out on a canoe in manassas

shares his frightening helicopter rescue. >> and to dday, it is the mustt-see video, president obama and vice president joe biden

you are watching "news4 at 4." a woman who came to d.c. to work as a none plead guilty today to manslaughter in the death of her newborn son. 26-year-old sosefina amoa moved here last fall to help with the sisters of d.c. but in the process she gave fwoirt a baby and she suffocated him when he started to cry in her room. smee going to be be sentenced in may, and she is likely to face a

sentence of 4 to 10 years. and we now know what caused that apartme menment build ing fairfax. they say a cigarette was not disposed of properly. it is in springfield that flames broke out late last night and five people had to go to the hospital, and most of the tenants are displaced, because of the damage. an 80-year-old man was r rescued over the ice-covered lake is telling his story to news4 tonight in hopes of making others near deadly mistake and after bill went out on lake manassas sunday to save his dogs. he broke through the ice himself, and had to be rescued by a helicopter. his body temperature had dropped to 80 degrees. he walked out of the icu the next day and the nex day, blackwell said that he is grateful for the rescuers, but he hopes that by telling his story, he can can help someone

else from the same danger. >> never go on a large body of water such as a lake in wintertime. freezing conditions. ub der a-- under any circumstan without a life jacket. >> coming up, you will hear from blackwell's son who watched help le lessly from the shore. and he shouted good-byes to the family before he lost consciousness. right now the white house is hosting a film festival, and we will take you there live. plus, it is a facial hair transplant craze. and you can't blame the hipsters for this. and why the men are flocking in droves to get a beard tra transplant.

while some categories appear a lock, this this could be one of the most unpredictable academy awards when it comes to best picture. "12 years a slave" and "gravity" and "american household" are all viable contender, and it could be a tossup between the best actress of jennifer lawrence and june squib who is also nominated for "nebraska" would be the

oldest acting award winner if she takes home the statute. >> -- takes home the statue. and now president obama is showing some films made by kids. in the east room, one made by a first grader made in silver spring. and kristen welker is going to tell us how it came about. how did it, kristen? >> well, this is a big event before the oscars, and this came about because it combines two things that the administration has within focused on education and nutrition. and this is aimed for connected to aimed to get high speed internet installed in all classrooms across the country. and so the white house asked students for short films to detail how technology has plaedd a role in the education. they got 2,500 submissions, and of those the white house narrowed it down to the 16 best

submissions. and so that is what they are going to be celebrating, those submission, and they are going to be watching and screening today the students here at the white house, and certainly an exciting day, and the president is go g ing to announce that hes secured $4 million for the connected program totalling a billion dollars, and this is important, because 30% of the u.s. classrooms have high speed internet and compared to south korea where 100% of the classrooms have high speed classrooms. i will give you an example of where some of them can be screening, and one is called, pat, "through the lenses of a tiger" and it is presented by two seniors who at the end woodrow wilson high school here in washington, d.c., a and in their submission, they talked about the ways that technology has enabled them to learn and grow. another technician is called "stay curious, technology in the classroom" submitted by a

17-year-old from cypress, california, and her submission focuses on technology and how it can foster e creative ti in the classroom. that is a sense of what they will be seeing this afternoon. no best pictures here by the way. they are going to celebrate all of the films equally. >> all right. with we give them all oscars. kristen welker at the white house. >> thanks. >> looks like sunshine out there right now, but it is cold here in the washington area, isn't i? >> yes, the coldest day so far in the month. we are ending february, and it is the coldest day of the month unfortunately, but, you know, when it was breezy outside yesterday at least the winds were not an issue today. and as we head into the evening hours, the temperatures are going to be dropping quickly once the sun goes down. sunset time, and good news now at 6:00. and the temperatures across the area in the upper 20s. 29 in washington, and 30 degrees over in reston, and 28 degrees

right now for those of you in bowie. and here is the evening planner for places like silver spring, maryland. at 8:00, we are down to the cold 23 degrees, and low 20s by 10:00 p.m., and so you are heading out for this friday night, you will get the jacket, and we are not talking about rain or snow tonight. no rain or snow in the forecast either. this is the saturday high temperatures, and 43 for the high in washington, and however, it is almost 10 degrees below where we should be this time of the year. and 42 in gaithersburg, and 40 for a high tomorrow with partly cloudy skies in the morning, and partly to mostly cloudy skies tomorrow afternoon. the entire weekend is dry and not just tomorrow with the partly sunny skies, but saturday, most of the day is dry. but cloudy and not too bad. a high on sunday of 54 degrees and they will arrive late in the

afternoon and the evening hours, and that is going to be the winter storm that we are tracking. look at it. here it is. and this is the weathermaker sunday night into monday, and already starting to bring impressive rain into parts of california. now, here's the first call for the snow forecast for mainly during the day on monday, and this storm is mainly going to be gone or should be gone by monday evening, and most of the d.c. m metro area is a good part through southern maryland, and most of northern virginia seeing three inches and maybe more, and frederick county and loudoun county, and northern loudoun county, and montgomery county seeing six inches or more. and not just that, but this is going to start out as rain and change over to a wintry mix that includes the the potential for ice, and then change to snow. those numbers also have some ice mixed within them. and a high on monday of 32, but by the afternoon, temperatures on monday will only be in the

20s. tuesday a high temperature of 27, and nowly be talking much more about the storm coming up in a little bit, barbara and pat. >> okay. thank you. i will see you in a little bit. you are about to see one of the best selfies of the year so far. a tourist visiting indonesia in january and got the bright idea to shoot himself feeding local monkeys, but that is not the selfie he is talking about. then all of the monkeys appeared and grabbed the camera to run off into the woods, and it kept recording and the tourist got his video back, and it has racked up hundreds of thousands of views online. a yahoo! webcam sky iing sa that british spying has recorded thousands of images off of the yahoo! video chat. >> and it gives running for the office a whole new meaning as we

vice president biden and the president are helping the first lady celebrate the fourth anniversary of her let's move campaign. mrs. obama encourages everyone to be more physically active and eat healthier options. here is what gets the president and the vice president moving.

>> mr. president, are you ready to move? >> absolutely. let's do this thing. let's move. ♪ >> man, you are hard to keep up with. >> after a good workout, got to break up. >> all right. >> otherwise, we are in trouble with jill and michelle. >> same time next week? >> all right. same time next week. >> i want to know how they got

the dogs not to follow them. that was great when they both followed them. >> and we know that the first lady had them at the white house doing it anyway, right? >> yes. it seems to be working. and everybody is working good. and you see them everywhere you go these days, and thick bushy beards worn by men, and the trend has turned from the tv to the mainstream. and now we have an explanation of why some men who can't grow them are seeking facial hair transplants. >> reporter: from the "duck d e dynasty" clan to the hip sters in brooklyn beards are growing in popularity, and so are the facial hair transplants. >> i think that the guys are pressured to look another way, bearded and manly, i guess. >> reporter: downtown, the this doctor specializes in the procedure. >> well, there are a variety of young men who come for the procedure, but there are young men, and hipsters and metro

sexuals and people who are clued in to having a cool look. >> reporter: it is a pricey look costing $7,000 depending upon how much hair you transplant. >> i think that it is silly. why would you get an implant that is so expensive just for a beard? i mean, you could use the money on other things. >> reporter: this is how it works. the hair is usually taken from the back of the head, and sometimes the chest if balding is a concern, and then it is implanted on the bare section of the face, and patients are put under local anesthesia. >> we take the hairs from the back and transplant it to the delicate areas where we want the beard to grow. >> reporter: and virtually painless and scarless, and the surgeons are cashing in on the new trend. and dr. halas quoting that most of the clients are coming from the trendier neighborhoods. >> it is one of the things that where if you have got it, you got it. and if you don't, you should be okay without one.

>> all right. >> what do you think? you like them? >> i think that on some men they look good, and on some men they should be shaved. >> on alert for mud slides. >> right now, california is getting drenched in a powerful rain and snowstorm and we will take you there live

good afternoon, everyone. i'm barbara harrison. >> and i'm pat lawson muse. >> new details in about the death of richard seymour hoffman. >> the toxicology report said he died of heroin and cocaine and

they said it was accident al. they said he was found with a needle in his arm, and samples of heroin were found from 50 packets inside of his apartment. he said last year he had sought treatment for a heroin problem after 23 years of sobriety. from the live desk, chris lawrence. >> in southern california, people are bracing for the dangerous mud slides and flooding. e mandatory evacuations remain for homes and two foothills east of los angeles. >> we have jill in one of the communities where they could get several inches of rain. jennifer? >> well, pat and barbara, it is has been quite a morning, and, in fact, that i have suspended mail service, because that is how serious it is. the rainfall is great news for the california's drought, but the fact that it is coming at

the same tinl is not good news for homeowners where just last month these hills were on fire. >> muddy water is flowing, but the big stuff is still staying together on the hills above these homes. >> i am hoping around the house and into the street. >> reporter: meanwhile downstream the runoff in the l.a. river was too much for two people and their dogs. los angeles fire came in with a swift water rescue team. >> that dog is well behaved. >> reporter: and the preparations for this largest rain event have been on all wee week. >> it started the exact day that the fire ended in our town, and the planning for this particular day started immediately, and it has continued nonstop all of the way through until today. >> and the more water that comes, the more convinced that homeowners are that they need to get out and comply with the mandatory evacuations. >> we implore you to get the belongings together, and get out. >> we have put some stuff near the glass to keep it so if it breaks, it won't go anywhere, and do some last-minute things

before we head out. >> it looks like smoke. >> and a reminder of how close fire danger is even if in a rainstorm. a boulder roll iing off of the hill exposed roots that are smoldering exposing a hot spot from fires a month ago. they won't be safe until floods pass. they will have to replant some trees to put down roots to protect the hillsides. we have seen the hillsides saturated during a storm, and then weeks later without a warning give way under clear blue skies. i'm jennifer bjorklund in esuzu, california. and today, russia says that

there is only a security move to take over the airport, but secretary of state john kerry urged the russians not to take any further actions that could inflame tensions. today, the u.n. security council is taking a actions against the ukrainian president viktor yanukovich was speaking from russia today. the future is uncertain at this time. officials say that the leader of the terror group in afghanistan has been cementing local ties there, and he is bringing in small numbers of experienced militants to bring the in a new trained group. and there have been mishaps in two middle eastern provinces. and a british agency is a a accused of spying on yahoo! users.

they say that they used systems used by the agency that use them, a a them, and they say they kept the intimate images whether the citizens were considered intelligent level or not. if it is found guilty, it is a new level of misuse. >> and today, kerry kennedy said she took a pill that she mistook for a different medication, and then slammed into a truck. they argue that she took the wrong medication, but she should have stopped driving when she discovered that she was impaired. she was acquitted of the charge. and now john dingle is going to vacate the seat at 90 years

old. and now she says she is going to take over the seat now that her husband is stepping down. first elected in 1955. more students may havek access to the technology in the coming years. arlington just released the 2015 proposal and it includes fund ing for proproviding tablets to every second through fifth grader. the new budget also includes a 2% cost of living increase for empl employee, but it also cuts 75 positions. a surprise honor for a fairfax county teacher today. elizabeth gelinas could not believe it when they called her name. she is the recipient for the national award for excellence at haysville high school. she was presented with the

millken national award. and one of the students said she was like a second mother to her. >> i never thought i would be a teacher, and i have never been happier in my life. i have never worked harder in a career, but i have never been happier. >> she is great. and she is always ghifing us something, and this is a great way to give something back. >> she has been teaching since to 07 and she was a finalist for the fairfax county public school teacher of the year in 2013. mcdonalds with plans for a brand new burger up next. i'm liz crenshaw, and should you file a insurance claim if your vehicle is damaged by potholes? that is the question coming up on "news4 at 4." and tonight, many of the temperatures will be dipping into the teens.

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journal," mcdonald's has 10 million pounds of leftover wings to unload. wings which did not sell the first time around. and the golden arches are looking to expand a pilot program to let people better customize their burgers. mcdonald's started to test build your own burger concept at one of the california locations last year, and the company's top brand and strategy officer says it is a huge crowd driver bringing in different type of clientele, and in addition to the traditional menu, customers could also use a tablet to select the bun, and the patty they want and the cheese they like, and the toppings. >> well with, should you file an insurance claim if your car is damaged by potholes? who exactly was affected by the umd data breach? do you need to refrigerate peanut butter, and so it is friday, so we will "ask liz." >> quite a few great questions

and the first is about the pesky potholes that we have been dealing with out there on the roads. should you file a claim with your insurance company if your car is damaged p by a pothole? >> well, we did check with mid-atlantic on this one, and depending upon the damage and the deductible, you may not want to file the claim, because filing a claim could raise your rates, and if you only need a simple wheel alignment, it is not worth the potential increase to the rate. and aaa says to file with the city or the state government, and they will evaluate the pothole cases, case by case. >> and now let's talk about the data breach affecting 300,000 university of maryland faculty and staff and students, and what about applicants of the school that didn't go there? >> well, an easy way to think about this, if you held a college i.d. card between 1998 and now, you were affect ed be

the breach. so if you were a staff member, faculty, student, holding a umd i.d. card in that time, you should protect yourself with the university of maryland's free credit monitoring, but if you are a parent of a former student or fall 2014 applicant or a student at another campus, you are not affected by the breach at all. and last question, liz. it comes from jason in northwest washington. he says do you need to refridge ray rate peanut butter, and why does natural say it has to be refrigerated and the skippy or the jif says you don't have to. >> well, the american peanut council filled us in on this. peanut products require stirring, and then refrigerated will prevent it from needing to be stirred again, and it has a stabilizer like a stabilize vegetable oil which will prevent the oils from separating. so leaving out natural peanut

butter is not bad for you, but it means that you are going to have to re-stir it every time, but it holds it together if that is the way you like it. >> well, that answerses the question, because i thought that maybe it was natural and didn't have a preservative in it. >> no, don't worry about it. >> okay. take it out of the refrigerator. >> if you have a "ask liz" question, and you can go to nbc washington washington.com/ask can liz. and what else can you do the protect yourself from the data breach, and are car seats really needing to be replaced? we will look at at that tonight. and now, can you really believe the before and

amelia and i have been out all day, and river hills baptist school where the kids are great. >> yes, and i was at bailey elementary school for the arts and the sign sciences, and it is so great to hear the young kids and to hear what they are doing. pat had a great time as well. so for all of the kids at pat's school, and my school, shout out

to you. and now it is the chilliest day of the month, and hard to believe that march starts tomorrow. the temperatures are in the 20s, and headed out tonight, and you are not headed for the rain or t the snow, and in the upper 20s, and the lows tonight will be in the ens, and low temperature in washington around 20 degres,s and starting off your saturday, it is going to be another cold start, but it is going to be dry throughout the day tomorrow. the winds are not going to be an issue, and 10:00, we are around 30 degrees, and we will hit the high temperature at 43 around 3:00 and 6:00 tomorrow evening, it is chilly and dry and still clouds around. and sunday, during the day, it is mild, and relatively speaking with a high of 54. and this is when the rain moves in, and rain sunday night. monday morning, notice the pink right here over washington. this is some ice moving through the area, and period of sleet, and before we see all snow, and we will see the snowcross the

area by the mid to the late morning hours on monday, and that snow is going to continue into the late afternoon hours, and we are going to see the snow to stick to pile up, and a good chance that the area receives 6 to 12 inches of snow. that is the likely amount that we will be dealing with. and a low chance that we won't get any of the snow right now, and right now, storm team 4 thinking about 3 to 6 inches, and after that, and after the storm on monday, it is cold. once again, tuesday is a high temperature of 27 degrees, and wednesday is a high temperature of 34, and this is the average high, 54 degrees, and we will continue with updates, pat and barbara. >> today's japan's agricultural minister said that rock fish

caught off of the coast is showing radioactive level s ts are above legal limits. this is the first time this has been defected at these levels. and this fire has been going near lackawanna, and they have been using 2 million gallons of water a day to try to put out the flames. and officials say it may take another month to knock down the fire. >> this coming monday, former olympian oscar pistorius will go on trial with the death of his girlfriend. he is charged with murder and accused of killing her after the fight. tonight, the "dateline" team will go in depth with it. >> four shots at close range from a 9 millimeter barrier.

and behind the pistol was reeva steenkamp shot dead by her boyfriend oscar pistorius, and it is the only story that you thought you knew. >> oscar did not sleep well. he was restless all of the time. >> and the journalist said he observed in private that oscar was always afraid. >> one day he said, by the way, there was a noise in the house, and i thought it was an intruder and i came down with my gun. >> and the reporter who covered the story from the start. there is no doubt that he killed her, but what was his intention? >> and attorney of south african prosecuting authority in an exclusive interview with dateline previewed cautious ly the prosecution's case against oscar, and you will hear about the remarkable strategy that the

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to expect in your area, and which have a snowfall total map in a moment, and what you can expect monday morning. the same storm system coming our way monday is causing all kinds of trouble monday. doreen gentzler is live at the desk with more. >> and indeed, doreen. it is a powerful system bringing snow to rain in california. it is causing flooding and road closures and mud slides so far. in this video from los angeles, two people and two dogs had to be rescued from a rushing river. at a least 14,000 people are without power in california. there were also lots of accidents in the rain. the rain is welcomed since most of the state is in a terrible drought right now, but so much rain in such a short amount of time has been too much for the dry ground the handle. from the live desk, i'm doreen