zirjs right now at 6:00 another deadly report of a metro incident. the chief is firing back that criticism of the city's communication systems. >> 18 people forced out by fire and smoke. coming up on news 4 where firefighters think this blaze started at this green belt condo. >> and the skies are clear right now, but a new system could dump up to four inches of snow. amelia is tracking when and where. tonight we're getting new reaction to reports that communication issues slowed the response to metro's deadly incident attala font plaza.

i'm chris lawrence. the district is pushing back against metro's claims that firefighters had trouble talking to each other during the rescue attempt. news 4's derek ward is live in southwest with the mayor's response and, derek, the blame game continues. >> well you know there's going to be a lot of that going back and forth until we hear from the ntsb. they're going to be the ones that have the final say. this is all part of a mosaic of information that's coming out. you know this little unassuming piece of infrastructure here actually figured prominently into the early minutes of that whole incident, and we are learning this because of the information that is now coming out in this latest report. it comes from d.c.'s homeland skusht and emergency management agency. now, take a look at some video that we shot earlier. firefighters got here and saw two people that were self-rescuing themselves off of

a train. two of the rescues weren't made from here. this was all early on into that. as we hear from mayor bowser that the latest report looked at that early incident and whether the radios were working correctly in the tunnel and whether they could be n bac and forth machining firefighters. now, we've talked with her today. she talked about some of these things happening. some of the things that have brought up in this report already being addressed. let's hear from the mayor. >> we have -- had a protocol of inspecting the tunnels and the communication signals on a monthly basis. that's how we determined that there was a problem in lafont plaza days before this very unfortunate incident. since then i've called on a weekly inspection of the tunnels and actually by day's end we would have inspected all d.c. metro stations. >> and, you know early on there was some talk that perhaps some encryption issues among d.c.

firefighters radio frequencies and those used by metro may have delayed the communications or made them more difficult. now as we hear from the mayor earlier, she did say that perhaps there was some equipment there in the tunnel that may have had something to do with that. again, this is all part of the mosaic of information that is coming out. it will be up to the national transportation safety board to bring it all together in a final report which we are still waiting for. we are live in southwest actually over the tunnel where all of this stuff happened. eric ward news 4. back to you. >> a lot of questions still to be answered and people are demanding to get answers to those questions. winter storm watch is now in effect and you can expect freezing temperatures if you head out tonight. although it's not rainy or snowing, that's all going to change tomorrow night. meteorologist amelia shows us when this storm gets here. >> well chris, this winter storm watch is in effect for counties north and west of the d.c. metro. this is not going to begin until tomorrow night, and it's actually going to run through sunday evening. all of the counties here in blue western allowden western

montgomery northern howard frederick county are included in this winter storm watch. rain and snow arrive tomorrow evening. the storm system today mainly rain. temperatures weren't cold enough. colder temperatures with this storm system and we're going to continue to track it. it arrives at 5:00 p.m. temperatures you can see well above freezing but they will drop below freezing. i'll have more on the timing chris, and the snowfall amounts you could expect coming up in ten minutes. >> thanks amelia. 18 people will have to find a new place to stay after smoke flames forced them out of their homes. a two-alarm fire broke out in green belt and will et green shows us, a case of hoarding may have fueled the flames. >> fire forced six families to run out of the chelsea wood condominiums on green belt road with little more than the clothes on their backs. >> we had this loud beaningang on the door. we opened the door and it was just smoke coming out. everybody just grabbed a coat, and we ran out. >> reporter: the two-alarm blaze

broke out just before 5:00 a.m. when many of the residents in this three story building were sleeping. >> we woke up because we were smelling smoke. no one was seriously injured. >> the injured resident described as a man in his 80s climbed out of the window to safety. prince george's firefighters say the fire started in his terrace level condo where possible hoarding conditions existed and made it tricky to knock down the flames. that's fuel for the fire. it grew rapidly and extended up to the upper floors. >> we just thank god that we're out. life is more important than

property. we're just over a week away from super bowl sunday and deflate-gate just won't go a today new england's coach said the patriots didn't do anything wrong in last week's afc championship game. jason pugh at the life desk with more on bill belichick's evolving explanation. >> reporter: the reason why deflate-gate is such a hot topic, it's mainly because people want to know if the integrity of the sport has been questioned. a few days ago patriots head coach bill belichick addressed the media. today much of the same but this time around belichick did go into detail about how he feels the team did everything it could

do to follow in nfl rules. >> at no time was there any intent whatsoever to gain an advantage. quite the opposite. we feel like we followed the rules of the game to the letter in our preparations. sfwlo don't forget nbc 4 is your super bowl station. our coverage kicks off next week. jim handily live in arizona with all the news and events leading up to the big game. then the seahawks and patriots take the field on fe. the fbi and a bomb squad are searching two planes that landed in atlanta. two airlines received bomb

threats, and they were credible enough for norad to get a military jet to escort the plane. the passengers and crew were evacuated from the delta and southwest airlines flights. no one was hurt. the delta flight was coming in from portland. the southwest flight from milwaukee. developing tonight. new images show the apparent execution of an isis hostage. the video released today shows journalist holding a photo of what's believed to be the decapitated body of another man. they demanded a $200 million ransom. the deadline pass odd friday. president obama issued a statement this afternoon calling the death a brutal murder. next at 6:00 heavy rain brings flooding in lowden county shutting down a road. amelia will tell us when the rain turns to snow and there they are. gop heavy hitters gathering in iowa for a possible preview of

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>> you are looking at a live picture from des moines. today iowa voters heard from a mix of politicians who all have their on the gop nomination. new jersey nblg governor chris christie took the stage with potential rivals like former texas governor rick perry. that's him right there, and former pennsylvania senator rick santorum. former florida governor jeb bush

in 2012 nominee mitt romney both skipped this forum. coffee donuts and even a second chance. sugar shack opened today in alexandria, and as news 4 darcy spencer discovered customers, they're not the only ones reaping the benefits. >> i'm darcy spencer in alexandria. they are standing outside waiting in line just to get inside. it's a grand opening of a donut shop. we haven't seen anything like this since krispy kreme. >> inside it's standing room only at the small shop called the sugar shack. trays and trays of hand crafted donuts for every taste. yolanda atkins is one of the decorators. >> you want to make sure you get a nice coating on it. dip and sprinkle. >> this size donuts. >> the kitchen staff roll the dough and cut it into what will become those circles of decadent sweetness. >> how many calories or is that a secret? >> that's a secret. >> they're made with love.

we'll just say that. >> this is the maple bacon donut. it's the hot item right now. i've got to be a little adventurous and take a bite and see how it is. >> it's pretty fwood. the shop has partnered with together we bake giving jobs to women like lquisha davis who is looking for a second chance. >> dealing with the wrong people. getting into legal trouble. this job has actually given me another chance to live better. he plans to add a speak easy. yes, donuts and drinks. >> should be a lot of fun. >> it's about fun and happiness and walking away with a sugar high. that one bite is 425 calories. >> you don't want to know how many calories in the donuts.

so looking ahead cold tonight with the real stuff coming tomorrow. >> we'll have rain and snow arriving tomorrow night. then that's going to continue throughout the day on monday. monday night and maybe even last into tuesday. now, this storm system the snow totals they were off. you had either month snow or half of an inch of snow. this one i'm tracking sunday night into monday. it will be colder and we will have accumulating snow. wintry weather late sunday through at least monday night. we could also see some sw lingering during the day on tuesday. delays are likely on monday and potentially on tuesday as well. thursday and friday we are dealing with some rain snow in the forecast. temperatures right now in the upper 30s and low 40s. 43 in washington. most locations do get below freezing tonight. there could be some isolated icy spots from the rain earlier today. a little breezy at times overnight tonight. now, tomorrow limited sunshine. potentially to kick off the day. overall it's a cloudy day.

by 7:00 p.m. this is when rain and snow start to arrive for those of you in the winter storm watch. 6:00 p.m. here are the numbers. these are temperatures. the green is rain. the penguin is rain and snow. the blue is snow. washington still above freezing but temperatures will drop to below freezing as we track this system all the way out in the dakotas in nebraska. this is what's going to be bringing us rain and snow on monday. notice 7:00 a.m. that commute will be slow go. likely delays potentially cancellations. we continue to track namely the snow throughout the day on monday. monday night and then maybe even tuesday morning. i'll be post this on my facebook and twitter pages. d.c. metro, about one to three inches. southern maryland to northern. rain maybe just one inch. two to five inches for those of

you in the winter storm watch. this includes frederick, western montgomery western lowden counties, and all the way back far western areas, far western maryland the higher elevations in west virginia could see over five inches. temperatures with the storm system like i said are going to be colder. monday a high of 37 in washington. temperatures though in the suburbs will be below freezing. 40% chance of snow on tuesday. chris, we could see another inch or so monday night into tuesday. a high of 33. then after that our next chance of rain

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so the guy who you can't squeeze three words out of all of a sudden he won't shut up. >> he was very talkative today. as much as i've heard him talk in probably i don't know nine ten years. >> his career. >> yeah. >> despite the superl featuring two great teams and being eight days away no one cares about football. instead we're talking footballs. the nfl held an investigation to deflate-gate, and now we're learning the patriots held their own investigation. here's what bill belichick had

to say. >> i think the talk about the amount of time that i've put into this relative to the other important challenge in front of us, i'm not a scientist, i'm not an expert in footballs, i'm not an expert in football measurements. i'm just telling you what i know. i would not say that i'm mona lisa of the football world, as she was in the car expertise. >> that's so silly. so we learned that bill belichick is not a scientist for is he an expert on football measurements and that he apparently has seen the movie "my cousin vinnie." we did not learn how long it takes to cook a grit though. unfortunately, that's what we got zoosh that's the next scandal. >> let's move on to college basketball. it's been a pretty good week for the georgetown. on monday they knocked off the number four team in the country,

villanova. today a great win on the road at marquette. milwaukee, a crazy crowd to match an even crazier game. let's pass a hat. this pass gets over to duane wilson. the freshman knocking down a huge three-pointer. that even the sce at 79. georgetown not trying to go to overtime. they pass it inside to the big fellow. josh smith is fouled on the play. he went to the line and paid two huge free-throws. georgetown up by two. the golden eagles not going away though. matt oh man, what a shot there. just a two-pointer, though. his foot was on the line. we're headed to overtime tied 81-81. in o.t. carleen wroe to wilson. freshman had himself a game. 26 points. marquette is up two. later in overtime georgetown back on top. one, trey campbell says make it four. 14 points for him. georgetown they beat marquette

95-85 in o.t. things looking up for g.w. the colonials undefeated at home this season. hosting duca wr ne. this three ball is good. it's 9-7 before the colonials went on a tear. the break. to paul engineering enson. nice little reverse layup there. to 20-9. g.w. lead. still in the first half here. the dukes turn the ball over. kevin larson for the lay-in. had he a fwam high 20 points, and the second half g.w. did not let their foot off the gas. joe mcdonald gets it from savage. he had 16. g.w. with a blow-out win. 74-59 they take it. >> a lot of people am -- we were playing bcu tuesday on national tv and we all watched them last night. i told them it won't mean as much unless we win today.

you know? we want to stay undefeated. now, you know, tuesday will be more special. >> we have one more college score for you. catholic defeated merchant marines 68-67 today. also in the nba, the wizards, they're in action tonight. late start. 10:00 out in portland. >> is a geelz. 32 assists at the babying.d the team's barry alvarezes player. ovechkin took time at the all-star break to let it be known backstrom and the capitals got snubbed in columbus.

>> he said he is not here. that's kind of -- he deserved to be here, and i think lesser guys on my team deserved to be here. colby and green. >> ovechkin participated in a few events tonight. one of them the fastest shot. i have a feeling he is going to win that one. his shot is powerful. >> it's powerful. slooth thanks a lot. that's it for us. amelia again, keeping an eye on when and where that storm system arrives tomorrow. we'll see you again for news 4 at 11:00. ha.

on this saturday night, after further review the patriots coach holds a surprise news conference about the footballs and how he thinks they ended up underinflated in that big game. winter blast. snow slick roads and canceled flights as a storm barrels up the east coast and another is on the way. hostage killed. isis militants behead another hostage. and tonight the terror group is out with new demands. they're off, the stars of the gop begin their race to the white house. and another familiar face could be in the running. and one for the road as a new generation takes a shine to an american classic.