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he way your hair looks. a wind advisory is in effect right now. >> blowing pretty hard out there, as a matter of fact making it feel colder than it really is. veronica what are we looking forward to tonight? >> for sure some new hair styles and winds i think from the latest information i've seen winds holding at least around 30 miles per hour through your evening and early part of the night. that's just one reason why this wind advisory continues throughout our area until midnight. once we get past that the focus is going to be on our weekend storm system. it was looking like a wintry storm, now more like a weekend storm. take a look at the wind gusts still at 36 gaithersburg d.c. 38-mile-per-hour wind gusts at pax river. your temperature is 33. the windchill more than 10 degrees below that where it feels like 20 degrees. of course the radar is quiet here nothing fall and flurries this morning but this is the storm system we're tracking right now. rain over phoenix. and that's what's headed this way for the second part of the weekend. i'll show you those big changes
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in some of our guidance coming up. >> thanks veronica. mitt romney is being praise aid cross social media tonight after his decision to step away from the 2016 presidential race. romney has been looking and sounding a lot like a candidate for the past three weeks. but in a conference call with supporters today, he insisted he could win the next election but he said he decided his party would be better served by the next generation of republican leaders. this is one of the first big shake-ups in a very long race to the nomination. jool "meet the press" moderator chuck todd has thoughts on all of this including who stands to gain. what comes to my mind first off, talking about mitt romney the next generation would be better served. >> yeah. >> if i'm not mistaken that refers in part to at least jeb bush who's only six years younger. that's not the next generation. >> no. a lot of people are interpreting that as a jab at jeb, basically saying he's not for jeb bush. there's a little rivalry between
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those two, and i think in many ways jeb bush drove this. i think romney had been looking that the in a methodical way for quite some time, then jeb bush got in and it rushed his decision and romney almost looked like he was flailing a little bit as jeb but methodical about signing up donors and staffers. i think romney finally took a step back and realized the businessman in him looked at the metrics and realized this isn't a winnable primary for him, it would be hard to win. he decided i've been through it twice, i don't need to do it again. i interpret that line as anybody but jeb. >> who do we think he has in mind then? somebody not well-known. >> well i think, look i think today it does help jeb though whether he likes it or not. i think jeb's helped in the money part of things. obviously mitt romney is having dinner with chris christie so more people are trying to say, did that help christie? it does a tiny bit. another big beneficiary is scott walker, governor of wisconsin, sort of the one anti-washington
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candidate, next generation, in his late 40s, and so he's somebody that some people think can bridge the sort of conservative activist and the establishment wing a little better than anybody else. jeb benefits the most christie a little bit, and walker quite some. >> do any of those names you mentioned matter at all to hillary clinton? >> yeah. i think hillary clinton doesn't want to face jeb bush. democrats really looking forward to mitt romney running because they love the idea that bush wasn't going to get a clean shot at sort of that establishment wing. you talk jeb bush speaks two language hillary speaks one. jeb bush from the swing state of florida, a lot of reasons why the future clinton campaign does not want to face jeb bush alone. they're nervous about him. i think today was bad day for hillary clinton. >> chuck todd thank you. mitt romney's former running mate paul ryan, is one of chuck's guests on "meet the press" this weekend. watch that here on nbc 4 sunday
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morning at 10:30. neighbors of a man whose name was added to the fbi's most wanted terrorist list say they don't believe the allegations against him. libanimo hamd was a taxi driver in nournlrthern virginia before he left the country. he's not the only member of the family making headlines. >> a really good guy, like i grew up with him. and he used to take care of me. he's not a terrorist. >> reporter: this woman grew up in this fairfax county apartment complex with liban mohamed. he was just placed on the fbi's wanted terrorist list. it's be been his younger brother who's been high-profile waging against the no fly list, a list he's on. this is him returning to northern virginia in 2011 after he'd been detained in kuwait and barred from returning to this
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country. he was eventually able to fly home after a federal lawsuit was filed. >> i can't even talk right now. >> reporter: today the latest in his continued challenge to the no fly list. his attorney believes it's no coincidence the fbi just publicly named his big brother a terrorist. >> it's ques decided to unseal a more than year-old arrest warrant the day before a hearing that could potentially curtail their authority to maintain the no fly list. >> the fbi alleges liban left in 2012 and had gone to east africa to provide so al shabab. his brother's attorney says jill let and the mohamed family dispute that. >> al shabab has killed their uncle, they've disappeared and captured cousins. so the family does not believe that this is what liban has done. >> reporter: an fbi spokesman had no comment tonight on the assertions made by the lawyer. a rule ong this latest phase of
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the challenge to the no fly list won't come for some weeks yet. julie carey, news4. a virginia woman facing terrorism-related charges will be in court on monday. heather coffman has a plea hearing scheduled in richmond. the fbi arrested her last year following a number of facebook posts she made promoteing isis. she also offered to help an undercover agent travel. we are still waiting to learn the fates of two men taken hostage by isis. he is a pilot for the jordanian air force and the deadline for him and the japanese journalist passed more than 24 hours ago. isis still has not heeded the call from jordan's government to provide proof that the hostages are alive in exchange for the release of an al qaeda prisoner that they are holding. former virginia congress mapp eric cantor making another
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move avenue one of the biggest political upsets in 2014. harvard university says the former house majority leader will spend a few days as a visiting fellow at the school's institute of politics in april. cantor has gone on to serve as vice chair of an investment bank since his stunning republican primary loss last year. time is running out for nationals baseball player jayson werth to turn himself in at a jail. werth has to report to the fairfax county jail by 7:00 tonight. he pleaded guilty yesterday to reckless driving. back in july he was pulled over on the beltway going over 100 miles an hour. he's going to serve five days in jail spread across this weekend and next. tonight we're learning new details about how a $50 million lawsuit against metro will play out. the sons of carol glover, the woman who was killed in that smoky situation on the yellow line filed the lawsuit today. news4's derrick ward is at l'enphant plaza to explain
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what's next in this case. derrick? >> reporter: well, you know immediately after that incident back on january 12th we started to get information things that had led up or become faster erfactors in that incident. one had been communications in the tunnel. the other had been exhaust fans that didn't work the way they were supposed to. now through this lawsuit, which was finaled today in federal court, we're learning even more about what happened on that day. >> all of us are at risk when metro did not follow simple commonsense safety rules. what happened on january 12th was completely foreseeable. >> reporter: attorney patrick regan says he's heard from witnesses there was smoke in the l'enphant plaza metro station days before the january 12th incident but he says that was never investigated. he also said a second train which was in the station while train 302, the one glover was on was in the tunnel should have been moved. >> why did melt row not have the train that was in the station
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back out so that the train with the smoke-filled passengers could pull into l'enphant plaza and discharge the passengers? >> reporter: the lawsuit says that metro breached its duty to operate a safe system and thus ensure the safety of though who use it. filing of the suit will allow for talking to and getting statements from those closest to the situation, first responders and metro officials among them. >> we now have subpoena power. we intend to use that subpoena power to hold metro responsible for this terrible tragedy. >> reporter: carol glover's sons say they are hurt but not vengeful. they are determined they say, to make sure no one else finds themselves in that situation. >> it's heartbreaking and devastating to show know she suffered that way and to know the other passengers suffered similarly. >> just try to find a way to make those rails a safer
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environment. >> reporter: now, the national transportation safety board investigation is still going on. and the attorney there says that actually once that report comes out or those findings are made public it may change their lawsuit somewhat. now, because of the pending lawsuit -- because of that ntsb investigation, metro cannot speak publicly on today's developments. we are live here at l'enphant plaza, derrick ward news4. >> thank you, derrick. coming up and new at 6:00 another safety issue for metro. some-its original railcars still on the tracks. we'll take you on board and find out how long these 40-year-old cars will stick around. and an emotional day in court at the sentenceing for a deadly hit-and-run crash. we'll tell you how this one case has led to some significant changes out in college park maryland. and another player with local ties ready to take the field at the super bowl. jim handly is live in arizona with that story ne
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responsible or even if there was an infraction. we will make the right decision to protect the integrity of the league. >> goodell was also very honest about the tough year the nfl is having and coming up we'll explain how a new position in the league's front office will help address player safety issues. as we continue our countdown to the super bowl we're bringing you some of the local connections. >> tonight we hear about a pretty incredible young man who got his start playing football in maryland. news4's jim handly is live in phoenix with his story. jim? >> reporter: hi or the recent and jim. you know he is the other arrington and his moment is now. kyle arrington is the pride of prince george's county playing for the patriots here sunday night. >> and this is him here scoring a touchdown right here. >> reporter: it's the room that inspires students here and there's no bigger sports fan that kyle arrington.
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he was basketball player. >> yeah he was an athlete. >> reporter: you have his jersey. >> exactly. jersey was retired this summer as a matter of fact. >> kyle arrington! >> reporter: this week he's on the world stage for more than 100 million football fans but kyle is thinking of his fans back home in prince george's county. >> ultimately i want to bring the ring back to the dmv, so that's what we're playing for. >> this is where it happened right here for islekyle arrington. if he wants something, we'll work for it or try to find a way to get it. >> reporter: he came back this summer conducted a camp and donated all this season's yellow jackets uniforms. his advice to students today? >> whatever coach hay says to to you do it. yes, sir. >> reporter: it will pay off. >> on or off the field, he's great mentor. he's not only about football. he's about developing men. >> he was the first one in the weight room and the last one to leave. just seeing the guns he has, meaning his arms biceps and
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triceps, he stared in the mirror a lot too. >> reporter: said you spent a lot of time in the weight room and always checking your progress in the mirror. >> here and there. >> reporter: part of his football fraternity now includes another marylander former redskin lavar arrington. no relsation but they are tight. who to we have here? >> uh-oh. we just mentioned this guy, didn't we. >> reporter: just talking about you. >> how you doing, sir? thank you. got to bring it home. got to bring it home. home week. family. that's family right there. >> reporter: coach hay says it all started for kyle in the classroom. he's smart and talented but the coach says he's gotten so far because he's grounded and he is humbled. tonight at 11:00 did you also
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know bill belichick grew up in maryland? that story at 11:00. and we're talking to some seattle seahawks fans. they are the ones without umbrellas. this does not faze them here tonight. back to you. >> lavar was one heck of an athlete and ball player. we are sure he would love to have been where kyle is now. never got to the super bowl. we know security will be tight out there in phoenix. the news4 i-team recently investigated a series of security scares at super bowl xlvii down in new orleans. that was the rais game that was interrupted by the blackout in the superdome. there is an interactive time line of what the i-team found on nbcwashington.com. just search "before the blackout." nbc 4 has a whole weekend of super bowl programming coming up. tomorrow morning see a special sboem edition of news4 this week and jason pugh is going to get us ready with the super bowl zone at 7:30 p.m. pregame coverage on sunday starts at noon. the seahawks and patriots kick
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off at 6:30. after the game check out an all-new episode of "the blacklist" followed by news4 at 11:00. you can keep up with us on social media. just basically keep it on channel 4 straight on through the weekend and on into next week. right? >> keep the biceps ready. >> the sunday snow we were talking about seems like less of a threat now. >> less of a threat. we still have this weekend's storm system still pretty big but it's the warm air that's going to win out. we've got some windy conditions, too, which i'm sorry to say that the wind will stay for your evening and early part of the night too. so that will have an impact on what it feels like outside of course. the windchill temperatures, they've been in the 20s here for a while but trop to the teens by 9:00. a look at your evening planner forecast 33 now, 26 by 9:00.
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we drop to 24 at 11:00. temperatures start falling off and windchill readings start heading down to the single digits which is where they'll be by tomorrow morning. in fact take a look. 10 degrees your early morning air temperature. 19 close to 20 in d.c. 17 around pax river, but the windchill readings early tomorrow morning, single digits feeling like 3 degrees around sandy spring around silver spring areas like warrenton, too, just degrees that feel-like factor. gets better by at least lunchtime, pushing into the upper teens to around 20 degrees around manassas. so feeling better throughout the day tomorrow as the wind starts to diminish. so for saturday call it breezy a little windy at times, partly sunny across the area. and then saturday night, early sunday morning where clouds will start to push into the area. keep your eye on these western zones, these western counties western maryland on over because that's where the snow will be coming in. by lunchtime, this is soon on saturday a lot of folks heading to parties early on howard
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county montgomery county, that snow a mixture of rain and snow for loudoun county down into prince william county with a bit more snow starting to take over i think as we head into the early afternoon as well as around 6:00 7:00 or so. as we get into the late eve j, temperatures will start to warm and rain will start to take over. could have a lull period where nothing takes place from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. but then it's back to rain. when we get back to tulane i think we stay there for sunday into early monday morning. what that means for us is no impacts for the morning rush. rain after 10:00 p.m. there might be a few isolated slick spots on area roads, though, from about noon to 7:00 p.m. something we'll keep a close eye on and watch out for. again, monday morning now rain throughout the area. any light coating will be here. montgomery county loudoun county northern faulkier county then those spots here hagerstown frederick, that's where there could be more than 2 inches of snow before switching over in fact maybe 3 or 4 as
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the snow could ramp up pretty quickly heading toward the pennsylvania line. there it is for monday. the high is 37. we still have cold conditions on tuesday of next week below freezing. that means that there's the possibility of more icy spots on area roads. for right now, weekend storm not so much a wintry storm. it's looking like mostly rain 40 degrees the temperature. i'm going to give you a planner forecast for your sunday show you the hours throughout the day when we've got the best chance again for seeing the rain, the snow, the switchover. that's all coming up. >> thank you, veronica. new at 6:00 president obama's plan to spend millions on what he calls precision medicine. how it could change the way we treat life-threatening diseases. for the first time we're hearing the 911 call from the day a local judge was kidnapped. i'm mark segraves. we'll have it for you coming up. sororities at the university of virginia are protesting restrictions on the campus' annual bid night it's called.
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we'll hear what the university narrator: gas prices are down helping middle class families. but now, the white house wants to impose title ii regulations on your internet meaning new government taxes and fees. every month: you'd pay more. 11 billion dollars a year in new taxes and fees. internet freedoms can be protected with the white house and congress working together, but imposing new tax increases through public utility style regulations will hurt middle class families let's protect the internet we love without
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what the very successful group known as death row records. he turned himself in today. bond has been set at $2 million. knight's lawyer says the crash was an accident and that it happened while knight was being physically assaulted. doctors are telling people who have not been vaccinated for the measles to stay away from the super bowl. nearly 100 people have been infected with the virus nationwide about seven in arizona. doctors have tracked down about a thousand people who may have been exposed in the state and have asked them to stay home from work and school for 21 days if they haven't had the vaccine. experts say the chances of getting infected at the super bowl are extremely low. the white house has propoed an initiative that basically would match your medical treatment to your dna. today, president obama announced the budget -- or announced the plan to put up $215 million for a prescription medicine
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initiative. under that plan, the director of the national institutes of health in bethesda would oversee an ambitious effort. in that effort, they would assem assemble a database of on about a million volunteers to determine how their genes, their environment, and other factors affect their response to targeted treatments. >> if we start today and seize this moment and the focus and the energy and the resources and demand there is no telling how many lives we could change. and every single one of those lives matter. >> the white house says the privacy of all the volunteers would be protected. next why a police chief is apologizing to a young woman from northern virginia about the moments after her arrest and the prost the case is sparking across the state. >>. >> reporter: metro railcars nearly 40 years old still on the rails every day. hop on board with me to find out what metro is doing to get them off the track and keep you safe.
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who was attacked by a police dog. benjamin cross told shamarry stone he was invited by the family of london colvin to attend tonight's protest. she is an army reservist and norfolk state university student attacked by a police dog sunday after she was arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. norfolk's police chief already said today that unreasonable force was used in her arrest and the officer in charge of that dog has been put on administrative leave. the protest is tonight. we'll follow developments online and we'll have the latest for you right back here for news4 at 11:00. >> chris, thank you. tears and apologies followed by words of forgiveness. it made for an emotional day in court as a maryland man was sentenced in a deadly hit-and-run case. >> prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins was in the courtroom while all that was happening. she's along route 1 in college park. tracie?
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>> reporter: the defendant was crying. the family of the victim they were crying. there were attorneys in this courtroom crying people moved when they heard the impact statement from both sides of all of this. so there's been a big change in college park. you see just how busy this intersection and this road is. they now have a fence to keep pedestrians from crossing this road illegally. the bottom line of this court case today was folks need to remember do not drink and drive. surveillance video shows liam adepo having drinks and then stumbling out of looney's pub in college park last january. just moments later he would drive his car down route 1, striking and killing 22-year-old university of maryland student cory hubbard. it was a hit-and-run. >> we hope that during his time while he's incarcerated he'll have an opportunity to assess what got him here, to address the issues that -- the alcohol issues. >> reporter: today in prince george's county court, hubbard's mother told adepo, "i forgive
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you. i want to hate you but i can't." adepo was sentenced to two years for leaving the scene of a deadly accident. he cried through his sentencing especially when he apologized to the dozens of hubbard's family members in the courtroom. they too, were emotional. he said "i'm so ashamed and sickened by what i've done." >> very emotional not just for him but to be quite honest it was emotional for all of us to witness, myself my staff. there were few dry eyes in this courtroom today. >> reporter: adepo said "no one feels as bad as i do because i know i'm the reason he's not here today." adepo then told the courtroom that since the accident he's become the father of twin girls and could not imagine losing them the way the hubbards lost their son. here hubbard's dad told adepo, "it was the beginning of the worst year of our lives" when his son was killed. >> this loss was double fold. the adepo family did embrace the hubbard family. i think there was a sense of loss on both sides, an
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acknowledgment that not only mr. hubbard's family goes home today without their loved one but their two young infant children who go home today without a father. >> reporter: this was a young man who impacted people's lives. he had nearly 50 letters written on his behalf according to the judge, showing how important he was to people. his mother told the defendant today in court to cherish being a father. the victim's father said to him being a dad is the best gift any man can receive. everyone is hoping that when he gets out of jail he will do the right thing in the future. reporting live in college park tracee wilkins, news4. >> thanks tracie. the head of the university of virginia is speaking up tonight about new restrictions placed on sorority members. tonight is what they call bid night at uva, the night which fraternities welcome new members. some sorority chapters are telling their members at uva to stay away from frat parties.
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today the university president, teresa sullivan says the school is hoping to turn around the image of a culture of sexual violence. all this comes after a widely discredited "rolling stone" article that made claims of a gang-rape involving a fraternity at the university. >> well i think that the students themselves felt singled out, and i don't like my students to feel singled out. i have great confidence in their abilities. >> aside from bid night, students also have a game to look forward to this weekend. sullivan says that may be an option for the sorority members who are forced to stay away from the fraternity houses. we've just confirmed details about the guilty verdict handed down in an unusual rape trial in fairfax county. charles dre' massey now faces decades in prison for his conviction on rape and abduction charges. he's accused of tying up his
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former fiancee with packing tape and assaulting her back in 2013. his fiancee killed herself ten day avs that attack. the testimony she gave police before she died was allowed as evidence in the trial this past week. massey now faces a 67-year sentence and a $100,000 fine. he'll get that sentence in may. -o'clock tonight, we now know exactly what a montgomery county judge said when she called 911 last year to report she'd been kidnapped. her accused kidnapper and former boyfriend was sentenced to three years in prison today. but as our mark segraves reports, that man's lawyer says he's not the only one to blame. >> he's really really drunk, kept pulling my hair and making me pull over. >> but for the judge's role in the case and frankly her false statements to the police this would have ended up differently. >> reporter: serious allegations from the attorney representing rickley joshua senning. today senning pled guilty to false imprisonment and other
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charges related to last year's abduction of judge audrey creighton that ended in a car crash which left a 13-year-old boy with a fractured skull. judge creighton was able to escape from the car before the crash and call police. >> i bailed out of the front car on 28 and i ran here to harris theater. and he took my car and started driving it. then he followed me into the harris theater parking lot and i was screaming for some people to help me. >> reporter: the lawyer says judge creighton obstructed justice. >> she lied to them. >> reporter: indicate lg the judge lied to police to cover up her romantic relationship with the suspect. >> and this is a friend of yours? >> yeah. >> okay, a boyfriend or -- >> not really. he's very drunk. >> reporter: the prosecutors don't believe the judge lied. >> we don't believe that any false statements were made. >> reporter: despite that senning's lawyer thinks judge creighton should step down.
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>> she should be brought to justice just as mr. senning has been. >> reporter: creighton, who was just re-elected to a 15-year term on the bench, declined to comment. mark segraves, news4. now at 6:00, four heroes on honored in the district. how they worked together to save woman's life and what she said to them when she got to meet them. they're reluctant to call it in vegas, but you can. who you got on sunday? patriots or the seahawks? you can vote. i'm still tracking a weekend storm and some of you could still see snow, others rain.
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the new york-based chain raised $105 million in the ipo and is now valued at more than a billion dollars. shake shack started with a hot dog stand in new york. now they have 63 restaurants including four in d.c. and one in tyson's. the late marion barry summer jobs program has been changing lives since it began back in 1979. it's one of his legacies in the city and this year it will continue. since former mayor barry's death in november city leaders say they are determined to keep that program going. kids started applying for those coveted summer jobs today. guy charged with impersonating a cop definitely picked the wrong person to pull over. he was busted by a real police officer in virginia. sean michael robertson was driving a white crown victoria
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with a spotlight attached to it when he apparently tried to pull over another car. the driver of the other car identified himself as an off-duty officer. he ended up turning himself in later day. a woman had been hit by a dump truck when some marshals saved her life. they were honored today for their efforts. she was on her way to lunch at the time when the truck hit her and pinned her. it happened in d.c. the marshals were out having lunch themselves. they say instinct kicked in. >> officer from mpd handed me a squeegee a car squeegee and we tied that up on her leg and tightened it down and were able to stop the bleeding. >> they didn't have to do it but they did, and i'm thankful and i'm grateful because of what they've done i'm still alive.
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>> she lost one of her leg bus she is optimistic that she will be able to walk again one day. would you trust a car that's been running since 1976 to get you where you need to go? well how about a metro car? coming up new at 6:00 transportation reporter adam tuss shows us the oldest railcars in our system. they're still in use every day. when that could change. also on the menu far lot of us this weekend, we'll tell you who's the so-called king of wings in northern virginia.
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i'm chris lawrence at the live desk with breaking news. we are getting video of jayson werth arrive at the fairfax county jail. talk about cutting it close, werth had until 7:00 tonight to turn himself in. again, we're getting this video on. you probably just saw this alert come through your phone. washington nationals outfielder jayson werth pleaded guilty to reckless driving. he was sentenced to five days in jail. he's going to serve that time this weekend and next weekend. that's going to give him some time to help rehabilitate his injured shoulder. again, he was stopped back in july on the beltway around mclean. he was doing over 100 miles an hour. but it's not unusual for virginia judges to give short jail terms when the speed reaches that high. jayson werth turned himself in to jail at fairfax county just before the deadline of 7:00. i'm chris lawrence at the live desk. >> thank you, chris. it will be the end of an era for metro and it could mean an
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improvement for your safety riding the rails. transportation reporter adam tuss shows us just how long some railcars have been in service and what will happen to them next. >> reporter: come along for a ride on metro railcars number 1,000 and 1,001. they are quite literally the oldest railcars on the fleet. you are on the oldest metro railcar. do you believe it? >> i believe it i don't know what year it is but i believe it. >> reporter: cars 1000 and 1,001 were built in the early '70s and rolled into service on march 27th 1976 open talladega for the metro system. with metro under the microscope for safety, there's an increased focused on getting hundreds of these senior cars off the tracks. they were involved in the deadly 2009 crash on met reese red line and after that event the national transportation safety board was highly critical of these cars calling them uncrash
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worthy. >> while you're on the train, you can feel the train is -- making a lot of noise. >> reporter: today we caught these railcars on of all places, the brand-new silver line. you can tell which series of railcar you're on by looking at the number on the top corner of the train. metro needs to keep these railcars running to handle crowds. the plan is to replace them with the brand-new 7000 series which are expected to start rolling out in the coming weeks. see our behind-the-scenes tours by searching 7000 railcars on nbcwashington.com. for some riders like emily smith, the worn-out carpet and musty smell of the old cars is enough alone to start the replacement process. >> it is. just feels, yeah old. >> reporter: so what happens to the old railcars once they're replaced? well take a good look at them now because metro tells us they're going to be torn apart and sold for scrap. along the silver line in tyson's
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corner adam tuss news4. jool we are expected to eat more than a billion chicken wings on sunday. and northern virginia's king of wings is preparing for a big day. jimmy serrieto has been voted the top wing man by northern virginia magazine for four years in a row now. he'll be serving up wings and other specials for the big game and they'll also send thousands of wings out the door. super bowl sunday the second biggest eating day of the year right behind thanksgiving. >> amazing. >> good grief. >> be careful, people. >> start cooking, right?k tagt wings makes my lips burn. >> i'm starting to get hungry. meanwhile, a lot of folks are thinking about super bowl sunday and what road conditions are going to be like. i'll show you that and look forward to the monday morning rush and road conditions. let's head on over to the weather wall if you're going to be outside this eachenings,
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maybe it's your turn to walk the dog. look at this 26 by 9:00, a clear sky now, 24 by 11:00 p.m. we'll continue to drop. and yet still that wind that we've had around the area today will continue to hang on with winds gusting just over 30 miles per hour. let's go ahead and talk about super bowl sunday. this is the way it's looking right now. from noontime until about 6:00 to 7:00 we could see some snow around portions of our area mainly well north of d.c. with rain and snow mix closer to d.c. the temperature, 37 but then the mercury is going to be heading up 38 39 degrees, maybe at 11:00 p.m. we have a dry pocket at p.m. but by 11:00 p.m. when a lot of folks will be headed home i think it's mainly rain. 38 with mainly rain as we head into the monday morning rush. so these are the areas between noon and around 6:00 7:00 p.m. that could have a little bit of light accumulation. coating of snow before switching over to rain. it's montgomery county. howard county loudoun county northern faulkier county into
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arias of culpepper and rappahannock county with more snow to the north around hagerstown and frederick. there could be 2 to 3 inches of snow before rain. we're at 35 on saturday and dry. that snow on sunday but again 40 degrees the temperature. so really with this system it's the warmth that's keeping the snow away from us. there's the rain heading out and exiting early monday morning. i think around 7:00 a.m. or 8:00 a.m. it's already making its way out of here. as far as temperatures go for the rest of the week we'll see them continue to hang out in the 30s. but for monday right now just cautionary mainly rain at the bus stop early monday morning. got a lot more we're going to be posting on our storm team 4 weather app. these graphics and of course your seven-day forecast. >> thanks veronica. jason what you got? >> some tough questions for the commissioner roger goodell. for instance he was asked could he see an instance that would result in his firing. the commissioner was put on the spot. and how close an ailing john wahl is to missing his first game in two seasons.
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>> thank you. >> let her tell the story. because it takes the attention away from all the other -- >> scandals. >> more serious can scandals in the league. >> bring them to the light in my opinion. it's been a very long year for nfl commissioner roger goodell. it all started with the ray rice scandal scandal, then came the adrian peterson situation, and now like vance said dealing with deflategate. that investigation still ongoing. with this long list of issues in the nfl, goodell addressed media for more than 48 minutes today taking fastball after fastball from reporters for most of that press conference. >> can you envision any set of circumstances which would lead you to resign or being fired as your job as commissioner? >> no i can't. i -- does that surprise you? listen it has been a tough year. it's been a tough year on me personally. it's been a year of what i would say humility and learning so we've all done a lot of soul
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searching starting with yours truly. >> the league will determine after the super bowl where marshawn lynch really fulfilled his obligation to the media this week and whether he should be fined for wearing an unlikely hat during those media sessions. goodell plans to hire a chief medical officer to oversee all league health issues. the ncaa created a similar position 2 1/2 years ago, concussions obvious lay huge issue in the nfl. the league will also consider proposals to expand instant replay including replay for penalties as well as the possibility of rotating officiating crews to provide more consistency. please make sure you are not one of the 17 people that forgot to watch the super bowl this year. kickoff is set for 6:30. patriots versus seahawks. the first team to repeat back-to-back super bowls in ten years. watch that game here on nbc 4. let's move on to the nba now. the wizards back home after a four-game road trip. tomorrow they'll host toronto
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one of the two teams in front of them in the eastern conference standings. all-star point guard john wahl did not participate in practice today. his status for tomorrow's game is in question. suffering in from migraines and a sprained right ankle. he was scheduled to see a doctor today. he hasn't missed a game all year long. last season he played in all 82 games for the wizards. mr. reliable. gortat will be in action tomorrow night but not for the all-star game snubbed from the eastern conference team, the big man averaging 12 points and 8.2 rebounds a game. now, the reserves are picked by the players and coaches. starters they get buggered by the fans. either way, he's not happy about being dissed. >> let's be honest, there's a lot of politics this league. guy has a few million followers on twitter. i have 67,000.
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i can't compete with that. i have 40 million people stand beg hind me the whole country and i'm proud of my country, what they did for me. i'll tell you now they're quite pissed over here. i'm quite sure next year i'll win the voting. >> a lot of other people ticked off too. the polish machine still having a good year his own action figure out. the first 19,000 fans at the verizon center tomorrow will get their very own gortat action figure. we took him around the newsroom with us posted a gallery of photos on our nbc washington app. a great-looking action figure. the cape and all. unbelievable. >> one problem. where's the mohawk? >> it's not here. >> hopefully the next action figure has it. >> you could paint it on. >> thanks. >> yep. the question was who do you like in the super bowl. it was what they call our flash survey of the day. and here's how it turned out. 60% of the folks around like
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on our broadcast tonight, playing defense. the nfl commissioner's first public comments about accusations of cheating before the super bowl, and the extreme measures in place tonight to keep everyone there safe. stopping the spread of measles in the same state hosting the super bowl and beyond. tonight, the family of a child who had the vaccine who caught the virus anyway. moment of truce, the decision from mitt romney today about the race for president and how this shakes up the entire race for the white house. and slippery slope. say it ain't so say the kids who love winter as cities and towns ban sledding because they just can't afford the lawsuits over it. "nightly news" begins now. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with
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