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her name and saw her face for t first time. >> four days later, there is an internatiol outpouring of grief at the confirmation of kayla mueller's death. her parent received a video this weeke from isis that offered proof. the time and cause of her death are still unclear but one of the senato who worked hard behind th scenes for her release co not contain his emotion today. our steve handelsman on capil hill now with more on this story. steve? >> reportha one of kayla's home state senators john mccain. he was furio on the senate floor todaa choking up. back home in arizona, the muellers touch with isis, trying to get their loved one free, get her back home. the u.s. milita last summer staged a raid on an isis site where kayla apparently had be held bul oue strands of her hair reportedly. nothing worked to get her free. kayla mus famy got the news over weend in an e-mail with a photo of her body.
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analysis confirmed kayla had died. her aunts spoke for the family in arizona. >> kayla has touched the heart of the wor. the rlgrwi us. the world mourns with us. >> report: kayla mueller was only 24 when she went to syria to help the victims of that civil war. she was captured by isis. her family kept that secret from the public but president obama knew and got regular briefings. "no matter how long it takes the unitedt will find and bring to justice the terrorists who are responsibleor kayla's captivity and death." >> i want to express the deepest condolento kayla's parents, marsha ana mueller. >> reporte there's outrage on capitol hil where the president wts congre to formally aho his war against isis that has now killed four americans. >> i think it just strengthens our resolve and i hope it strengtheniniol resolve. >> repor after isis burned
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alive jordanian pilot last week and that arab nation stepped its air strikes, isis on friday claimed kayla was killed by a jordanian bomb. the whitese denied that today bu said if kayla did die that way it's her captors' fault. >> isil regardless of her cause of death, is responsible for it. this, after all, is the organizatihas holding her against her will. >> reportld r 18 months, kayla felt for her family writing, "i have suffered knowing hoch suffering i have put you all through. i will never ask you to forgive me as i do not deserve forgivene kayla mue a worker the latest u. victim of isis. despite ts latest outrage, many lawmakers here and both political parties are leery, wary of a wide-open authoriza and demandingatde oma spell out in detail how he plans to do away with isis and how long it might take. steve handelsman, news4 capitol hill. >> stev thank you. ashton carter is expected to be confirmed as the next
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secretary den this week. carter testified at confirmation hearings on the hill last week. the senate cld vote on this as early as tomorrow, but we're told it will probably happen thursday. lawmakern both sides of the aisle ha said they expect carter to confirmed. he will replace chuck hagel, who resigned decbe upsca.cl. wendy rieg live desk with more. >> vance, we just learned this is being investigated as a homicide a weava crew on the way to the scene but here's what we k the this investigation is centered at t donovan hotel in northwest c. that's on 14th street, pretty much on thomas circle just about. police saey called to the hotel just after 11:00 this morning whe found a man dead. they at saying where he was found or how he was possibly killed. we wi bri you updates as we get them. and you can also check on nbcwashingn.fhe latest. at t li desk, i'm wendy rieger. back tyou.
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>> thank you wendy. tonighjettw is charged wi murder in the death of uva student hannah graham. prosecutoels her parents were consulted on matthew's indictmentan whi the grahams me closer to justice the morgan harrington case remainsn. david culvt joins us live from charlottese explain where both cases could go from here. david? >> repo: doreen, for folks who have o nbc washington app, you've be getting all day the alerts and updates when it comes to this case. hannah gra abduction and death now a step closer to the judicial process. will come here to albemarle county. when it comes to morgan harringtos case, tonight there is still no named murder suspect. the emotional journey to this point stretches back five months to the day hannah graham vanished f the downtown mall. >> the albemarle county police departmentas completed our investigatin disappearae and death of hannah gr. >> reportt po investigas over. they're searching for hannah
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ending in tragedy, the discovery of her body on this abandoned property october. soon jesse matthew will face first-dege muer and abduction charges, but we've also told you about the alleged link betwn matthew and morgan harringto death. in 2009 harrington was abducted and killed near the uva grounds. no suspect, no justice for her parents, and today the prosecutor added -- >> there are no pending charges against tt with respect to morgan harrington. >> report the link is there, where the charges? we asked scott goodman. for severea he was part of albemarle prosecution team. >> that's a more difficult case than hannah graham because with hannah gr you have jesse matthew d gm together on camera the night miss grahdisappeared. with morgan harrington, to our knowledgeer evidence that places jesse matthew together wh morgan harrington on the night she disappeared. >> report matthew faces three life sentences in a third case out of fairfax county, an alleged ra a attempted murder. for graham death, prosecutors are likew seeking a max of
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life in prison. they stre th won't be pushing f the death penalty. >> he is not charged with capital m. >> this qualifies as a capital case, but the prosecutor has the last call, and for whatever reason sh decide not to go forward wi the death pelt >> reporttot deputies up in fairfaxo confirm to me that matthew is still behind bars at thad detention in northern ni his attorney, whose office is across the street wouldn't comment bd saying he will representew the new charges. te expected to face a judge via video uplink sometime next week. meantime,h comes to jill harringt put a call in to her toda she and her husband are trusting in the judicial process. live in charlottesville tonight, i'm david culvert news4. thanks david. a developing story in fairfax county whe officials are waiting f t results to confirm whr a resident there has the measles. the healt department is not releasin details about the patient. be know the person is in
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what they call self-isolation at home. health os compiling a list of places that person recently visited in case the results come back positivf measles. we ould th results by tomorrow. a at a home in anne arundel cki two members a family along with a neighbor tried to help. investigats believe fire started in bedroom of this home on hilltop road wen westbrook park. it happened around 3:00 this morning. lettitia sinnah, her husband and son got out, but she went back inside to try to save her oldest son. a neighbo christopher rickman, also tried to rescue the son and mother and di make it. 13 people have died already this yearn maryland from fires, mo than half of them children. the fir marshal says all families sd an escape
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plan in case of fire. find out what to tell your kids in our nbc washington app. just search "fire safety." a victory today for parents and students who are fighting for later school opening times in montgomy county. some say it isn't enough. our chris gordon reports from rockville >> rorteoa of education start high schools a middle schools 20 minutes later is not enough for some parents. they want schos, which now begin at 7:25 a.m., to delay start times until 8:30. >> the american academy of pediatrioms scho start times no earlier than 8:30 so they missed the target by 45 minutes. they didn't fix the proem. >> this i only the beginning. this issue is not going away. absolutely not. we have boa elections coming up in 2016, we have a new superintet coming on board. this is on going to galvanize parents researchers in this area. >> repte sbo realized there's no perfect solution. toush ba t start of high
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schools to8:30 would cost $21 million mostly in school bus and trart costs. the board was looking for a less expensive alternative and the 20-minute delayed school start cost pracl nothing. the elected student member of the board tells me why she voted for it. >> i feel the pain of only having five six hours of sleep every night, and i think this 20-minute shift, it sound like a little bit -- sounds not so much like a solution, but it really is, and we'll see the effects of th next year. >> reportme parents are grateful rids are getting any extra sleep time. >> i wish they would have an extra hou sleep but right now the 20uts ll help. >> reporth to poed any change in school start times saying it will impact after-sc activities, sports and stude jobs. the idea of having y highc kids go to sleep earlier. not one pe mentioned it. so so much for personal responsibi >> repte new school bell times will begin in this coming
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september montme chioo and middle schools starting 20 minutes later. elementar schools will begin their schay ten minutes later. that's the latest live at the montgomeryouard of education. chris gordon news4. >> thanks, chris. new tonight d.c. mayor muriel bowr prisi to attack t city's unemployment problem. the city spends $100 million a year on b training. but it can't really tell how many people actually get jobs. tom sherwo reports how bowser plans to change that. >> there he is! >> reporte mayor bowser travelled a job training site in southeast washington. it targets people in their 20s for technical support jobs. one of those students is 22-year-o tia jacobs, who last worked at a fast food outlet. >> i know the ups and downs of getting a an how hard it is. i had jobs in security, jobs in doing hair, shampoos. i've been all -- i did everythingut dealing with
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animals. >> rer ma bowser, who autographob posters, said the city can't account for results ofnd$100 million a year with private vendors for job training. >> it's not that we're not investingb training. it's just that not all of it is successf we have to ae where all of the money is going. too frequently in this space we're funding programs that do more for e vendors than they do for the participants. >> reportent in the city varies widely from under 3% in wealthy ward 3 to as much as 17% in the poorest area of ward 8. mayor bowser also announced she'd expand the city's summer jobs progm to young people as old as 24 and raise the pay from $7.25 an hour to $8.25. >> how we will expand our middle class andt starts with jobs. and thiss so -- you can clap for that. that's good. jobs are good. >> report t district, tom sherw news4.
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coming up new at 6:00 a news4 i-team investigation exposes pros a local agency. how ouet could change the way you buy beer. the battle over marriage rights is n over in alabama. we'll tel you what's next for the counties there that refuse to dispense marriage licenses for same-sex couples. >> reporte trooper makes a traffic sp on the beltway. while he's doing that, someone hits his car. it happena weekend. it happent . same troop one wo in the forecast and that is c
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here now the story of terrell flowers jon >> came all the way up side the vehicle. >> reptehi maryland state trooper terrell flowers jackson. he's 26 years old but getting from 25 to 26 has been somewhat of a challenge. you see, twice in less than a year the trooper's car was hit as he was making a traffic stop on the beltway. it happened just last weekend on 495 near n hre avenue. sideswipehe blink of an eye by a hit-and-run driver. it was all caught on the dashcam. whoa. i td y it happened fast. let's slo it down and see it again. what does your wife say about your job? >> my wife, she knows it's my true passi and supports me but knows it's also a dangerous job. >> reporte b wait, this is
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the seconme it's happened to him. on the beltway back in june, another trf stop, another crash. this time it was a tractor-trr. the truck stayed on the scene. it had to. it cracked up down the road. two times. feeling lucky? >> not feeling lucky, sir. feeling blessed. but i hope it's the last time as well. >> repor maryland you're supposed shift over lane if you can wh you pass a cop making a traffic stop. you're supposed to slow down so you can ps safely. it's the law. and violations of the move-over law can get expensive. fines started a $110 and go up to $750, and there are some points involved too. live in montgomery county pat collins, 4. >> glad he's okay. thank you, pat. jury deliberations will resume tomro morning in the
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d.c. poli whistle-blower trial. news4 shot this video of officer hilton burton leaving d.c. superior u about an hour ago when thest day of deliberat ended. burton claims he was demoted two ranks after contradicting poli chief c lon issue of police escorts for celebritie lanier claims hef demoted due to poor performance. the fist academically trained b architect is about to receive a stamp dedicated in his honor. thursday the u.s. postal service will dedicate a stamp of robert robinson taylor. taylor was the first -- believed to be the first african-american graduate of m.i.t. and he supvit design and constructif the tuskegee instituten alabama. valley jarrett, the president -- presidentma senior adviser and taylor's great granddaughter will helpunveil that stamp on thursday. ug her a look at
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our weather. bad in some places but not for most of us. >> temperatures rose above freezing faiy quickly so we didn't have that problem all day. above frng will be hard to come by in the next seven days, of the next seven, three will not get bof that freezing mark, high tempest 20s, windchills the single digits. right now it's nice and warm compared that. we're at 38 degrees, but that wind out of the north at 14 miles per t a few clouds. noti wt w is doing. anytime wee that kind of wind, we e talking about cooler numbers and the windchill down to 26 in gaithersburg 27 baltimore right now in annapolis, and 28 back towards manassas. what do we see? we're not seeing any rain or snow storm tm rar clear. it will st way as we make our way through the night tonight. no anf snow tomorrow. thuy, little bit of a chance an i'll shee you why. here's the right now. we have one system to our south that pushed to the south. that's the o that brought us
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the snow, th rain the freezing rain, the sleet. many of you woke up this morning and had to scrape off the ice in that car. here's th next system. you can se it's a real bowling ball of a system, a real compact system. it'soi tt some energy out of canada, move to the east more snow up towards boston. for us it's going to gives us a chance fo s snow but it's really goi to give us the cold air. not tomorr though. tomorrow'sh ahead of the storm and anytime that happens we get a little bit milder. 43 degrees in d.c., 45 in frederickg43 in leesburg and 41 in gaithersburg. a much better afternoon tomorrow with some sunshine. i think yr weesy is looking t yes, a li bb normal but not bad. here are the temperatures or rather the windchills on thursday. we start off around noon. windchill 33, 26 back to the west in martinsburg. by the evening, that's when everythi stso happen. look at the windchills by 5:00. 19 in d.c., 12 in martinsburg, 16 in manassas. open up t rings, mike, i want
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to hear her say whooo! around 11:00, 6 in d.c. zero in martinsbu >> i'm speechless, doug. >> look what happens here, doreen. >> whooo! >> 3 in gaithersburg 4 in d.c. talking act some frigid air. you weren' supposed to open vance's mike. can hear m too. >> you guys are crazy. >> we're going to be crazy friday morning because we've got some cold air moving in. >> thanks, doug. >> i'm not done. >> you're not? >> no. because a noon we're still around 14. that's for lunchtime when we're going out to lunch together. yeah, it will be cold. tomorrow,pr your impact foreca on the low side, sun and clouds, a much better day. take a lo at the next couple of days. 43 on your wednesday, 40 on thursday a slight chance of snow. better ch of snow on saturdaybut, look, 28 friday, 21 sunday, 28 on monday. now it'su >> how dkn it's not vance makihe sound effect sfs. >> gd en >> and lunch op your dime too.
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the widow of american sniper chris kylel o of the fist witnessoey in the trial aga his accused killer. she's ex t take the stand after opening statements begin tomorrow. former marine eddie ray routh is accuse of shooting kyle and friend chad littlefield. they were trying to help him at a texas shooting range. the judge will allow cameras into the cotro for opening statements a federal judge may have to force some counties in alabama to issue marriage licenses to
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same-sex up at least t countyies in that state are sti refusing to issue licenses. a ruling by the u.s. supreme court yes cleared the way for gay maren alabama. a federal judge has scheduled a hearing i mobile for thursday to decide whether to order local fishes to issue same-sex marriage licenses. by overwhelming majorities, virginia'us and senate have passed medical marijuana legislatio both versns would allow cannabis l to treat epilepsy in the commonwealth. 15-year-oenr collins from fairfax and her mother helped convince lawmakerso pass th. e ll pas the house 98-0 today. a similar bill passed in the senate 37-1 last week. differencn ls will have to worked out. governor terry mcauffe has expressedup in the past for medical marijuana. >> next, police cracking down on local drivers. how your behavior behind the
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wheel could make you a tge >> reportit called throwback ur and gives students ce to break the winter doldrums by wearing costumes oe past. one parent says things we too far at thi high school when a student ca costumed as a slave. she escaped the hands of a registeredexder e lobby of her apartment building.
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he had a white shirt on with red stains on it as if that were blood. ? a battle between free speech and good tte aft a local high schotu dressed up as a slave. what we're learning about the man charged with attacking a woman on her doorstep in virginia morning. and a major change one lawmaker wa for training first responders on metro. we get a new look inside that training center. back to the breaking news in thomas circle in downtown d.c. kristin wg is on the scene of a homicid a hotel. kristin? >> report we know one man is dead and also know police are investigath a homicide,oro sources. police one of their larger units here parked right outside the donovan, helping in their investiga. we presume officers are inside
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the hotel right now. we don't see any of them outside of the hotel. i did walk into the lobby. it looks like business as inside. hotel guests are checking in. they're checki out. they're ha drinks. i did approach one of the employeeskeo speak to a manager. the manag has no comment about the apparent homicide that happened inse t hotel. one man is dead. we know he is an adult. we do not know how he was killed. we do not know much about him at all, but right now police are inside the hotel conductingt eo is a homicide investigation. more for you as we get it. a first update on how much it could ctme cnty to get out of the liquor business. >> comes after tisha thompson and the news4 i team exposed problems inside the county's departmen liquor control.
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now a new report from the county's ce of legislative oversight mean big changes in how you buy your beer. >> reporteve trop of alcohol in t county must be purchased this warehouse. hans reamer wants to change that. >> the ror shows it doesn't have to this way in montgomerun there for us to reform how we handle liquor control in the county to protect public health yete people the choices th they want. >> report:arfi differen options for deregulati a sales. we posted the report on our investigaagn nbcwashinom the choic rro complet eliminating the agency to moving towards a system morke virginia's. >> virginia is a good model. in virginia the state runs the liquor stores. that's the a stores. but the state does not sell beer and wine to restaurants or stores so t isn't a warehousei delivery trucks owned by the state delivering
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beer and wine. >> reporten erth news4 i-team caught live theorymen drinking beer while deliverinho and allegatioom owners they were in cases on the black market. last month the inspector general found sigcaity problems inside the county owned warehouse including broken security cameras and unattended doors which have sin been fixed. but it led rimer to say he no longer ha faith in the managementm. >> i do not the fact, for example, they wornt checking to the inventy the trucks when it comes to the warehouse, it's just inexcusable. >> report says even though some of these options could potentilynae 100 jobs and lose $20 million to $30 million in revenue, the money coue mad up by charging pte distributors for the privilege of selling the county's alo when we asked for
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county spokesman pointed us to the chief administrave officer'sia resnse in the repo stating, "in our opinion, local liquor control has served montgomery county well. we have lower alcohol consumpti a higher revenue for public purposes than other jurisdict ct eouor stores on every cornerback. he then lists multiple problems he has wihe report including his belief to make up in the $30 million revenue loss for the county wo invve increasing fees and co-s to county licensing and imposing a piggyback tax. potential tax, the alleged thefts, the drinking and the future of the entire department of liquor control will now be considered a new ad hoc committee created by rhymer in the wake of our investigation. the first meeting starts february 27th. tisha tho n i-team. if yoha a tip for the i team to investigate call us or
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e-mail us. a man that works as an apartment concierge in arlington is being adhere row tonight, ct with stopping an attack on a woman just outside t lobby of an apartment building thi morning. it happened along the busy clarendonle just as people -t as people were leaving fo work. the woman was waiting for an uber ride when a man grabbed and dragged her. jim? >> the concierge held that guy until the police arrived. jerome ki i the man's name. he was arrested. it got him locked up now. news4 has learned that he is a registereexod. the question, was it free expressionr viion of the dress code? that is the question in loudoun county after a student wore a slave costume to school.
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northern ineachf julie ceaut costume fr an angry parent and took her questions to school officials. >> repor s t slave costume an african-american student wo at heritage high school'sthrowback thursday last week. the shirtad slashes and bloodstai lettering that read "property heritage high," and he was dropping cotton balls in his wake. this mom was outraged when her daughter cao and told her about it. she didn't want her face shown, worried t cbe repercussorhi. >> i was livid. i couldn't believe what i was hearing in 2015. my question was, what did the school adminirarso about this? she said he wore that all day mom. >> repteinor were concerned mute they saw the stude through the door. >> they said, look, you're pushing tous here. that is a tasteless costume. it is not disruptive per se. now, if abo comes to us during the day with strong
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objectid ss this is disruptiveen the costume comes off. >> reporti flyer for spirit we reminds students that any costumes may not violate t dress code. the spokesman says the slave costume didn't. administrarsedhehad to protect the student's free speech rights. >> there's a very fine line here between fr speech and good taste. as we know free speech is not always tasteful speech. >> report: erag senior says many students were taken aback by the costume. >> coming to school dressed like that i just thought it was really inappropriate for throwbackrs >> reporte the heritage high mom tells me she plans to send a letter of complaint to strors at the high soo to the superintet. she fes opening the door to the slave costume could lead to more troublesome costumes in the future. in loudoucounty julie carey, news4. i'm adam tuss inside metro's emergency ni facility. we're simulating a smoke and fire on t tracks. we'll giv y an inside look coming up. we he a very cold winter, at least january last year six
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desk. we're heari from the president for the fi time tonight on his reaction to the death of kayla mue the buzz feed says his immediate reaction te of her death was heartbreak. he also adseu. policy of t paying ransom for hard forhe families of those hostages to accept. he said, "it's as tough as anything do having the conversatth parents who understany b any means necessary for their children to be safe. we will do everything we can short of providing an incentive for future americans to be caught." theri pointed out that an operat w launched to try to rescue kayla and several other hostages but special ops missed theby couple of days. at the li desk, i'm wendy rieger. >> thank wendy. some video just in to news4 a fight at a d.c. school caught on camera. happened sty at rossen high schooin northwest. you can s ser girls attacking aer student by punching a pulling her hair. d.c. publ school officials
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confirm at least one staff member is seen on the video there, bu he did not break up the fight. is that staff member did report to fight to a school resource officer w eventually stepped in. school oic say teachers are not required to break up fights, ono th to the schoo resource officer. nobody serus hurt in that battle. nohaesil filed. those stuwedisciplined. maryland lawmakers are considering a new bill that would makeru dealers responsiblr deaths of people whooverdose on heroin. the billas introduced today. it would athrow state's attorney to trace the heroin that caused the overdose and charge the dealer with homicide. dealers code up to 30 years in if convicted. about 550 people died from heroin use in the state last year. news4 cameras got an up-close look at how first respondersrar disasters on metro. new tonig'l you why one lawmara training now is not good enough.
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tonight senator bab brar mccull see wants all first respond tra for deadly situation undergrou at metro. right now the training is not mandatory whatou i i sn we sent transportn erda tuss in t to get a fisthand look. >> reporte they smoke and fire inside a metro tunnel. this is ju a test at metro's emergency training facility in
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landover b it's all too familiar to t scene that played o about a month ago l'enpha plaza. this is wt it's like inside the actuan. youanar s a couple feet in front of you when it's filled with smoke. come down to the ground. this is wt pele were doing to get air. >> the biggest take-away is this tunnel provides real-life situations >> rorr: metro chief of police. while this training is not mandatoryll first respondera police officers get regur training. >> they all go through 40 hours of rail safety training. part of that is coming here as well. >> rorr: issues you might not think about the tracks and circuits and the third rail all to scale here. there's a lot in the way you would simp have to remember to step over. there's also training to help the disabled get off a train with these specialty carts that can carry passengers. so this is just another example of what it would be like in a real-worl experience, an environme. weavall this smoke, right on
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the edge of a walkway. got to be careful when you near these situations. as metro puts it when an emergencyi the police and fire crews have to be in the left seat and the right seat get theb done nap's why this training critical. in landover, adam tuss,ews the city of frederick, maryland,l be getting a handful of police office ty had hoped becs a claire cal error. they lost a federal grant because o a mistake in their applicatior that money. the acting chief says they accidentay inflated the number of calls to police for gunshots and assaults involving firearms. that federal money would have helped pay f several new officers. tonig aggressive drivers in loudoun coua being targeted police. a special two-week enforcement blitz is effect along routes 50 and 15. police are looking for tailgating speeding, reckless
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driving a impaired driving. >> these two roads tend to get the most citizen complaints. when we get these complaints we are very responsive to the citizens serve, then we design h we're going to conduct o fic enforcement where we're going to go and how we're goio >> the loudoun county sheriff's departmen working with state police on enforcement. doug's back to give us more details on just how awfully cold it's going get in the next few days. >> that's really going to be the story here. we're not talking about snow, although wveo snow chances wi tld but it's just cold. that's what we're going tb seeing seethth ne couple days. next 24 hours not too bad. your evening planner, sun went down abou40 we are seeing those numbers that will continue to drop, 38 right now down to 34 degrees by 9:00, 32 by 11:00. as we make our way through the rest of the evening, temperaturil pow but not too quickly. 36 in manassas 34 in camp spring, 36 in annapolis. still a little bit of moisture
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in the a from the storm we had earlier th morning and that's helping toee temperatures up just a little bit. we're not lka frigid night tonight. nonow rain on the radar. what we will see is that cold air. now it's been cold, across portions o e northern pa of the country. the grealas, cold in the northeasve cold around our area, the mi air, though, just down to the south. everybodgoo get a lot colder, though, by thursday into friday. thiis fri we're coldd we've g arctic air in here. but the real, real arctic air really moves in during the day on sunday. and everybo feels it even all the way down toward florida, down towar florida they're already tal act potential historic numbers for them as far as cold temperatures go. 40 degrees on your thursday. again, a 30% chance of a flurry maybe a sshower. that's it. but what really happens is that cold aireh this system. 28 far hi on friday. but look at the temperatures, 28 on friday but the windchill down close to zero. on sunday, i think we're well
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coming up on all-star weekend, wvel test coming up f the wizards. >> yeah. a good one. they've hatho blowouts against kind of "eh" teams. now it's a good one. the rids have yet to beat the raptors this season. tomorrow they'll have to win without bradley beal, whose toe is still infa he'll have to' anoth doctor for it. john wahl set to play but in the event he sits out, the all-star skills challenge. he's been dealing with
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headaches. tode ld us he resprained his ankle last night so he's not going to ice in the challenge. he says the reason is really rest. he's still playing in the actual all-star . he w vote in as a starter. he says he's nervous but he knows it means a lot. >> it's great. it's an honor. it shows a lot of hard work and dedicati that paying off for me and honor i share with my teammates coaching staff and the city of d.c. all the toh times i've been through, eveinki of paying off. >> he continues to add things to his game. he's become a better thinking point guar the mental part of his game is taking hug strides. and that's been encouraging. >> so the capitals heading out on a road trip in california. the league's annual dad's trip. the players' dads travel th the team for a three-game road swing. for barry trotz, who came up with the tradition 14 years ago he's really excited about this year's tri >> i want to see what every
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player's going to be like when they are in their 40s and 50s, because they are- the more i said, you , f going to -- yoow i'll be way different dad i'm exactly li my dad. and if tbr says i'm nothing like my dad, he'll be exactly li his dad. down the list. they're all going to be just like th da >> such a great tradition. guys get to go to practice with their sons, to meetings, out to dinner, tve the plane. it's a reallod experience for them. we'll haveh coming up next week. to co hoops georgetown looking t turn things arnold. hoyas, whvet 3 of the last 4 games visiting seton hall today. fif ranked maryland women in action tot hosting number 18 rutgers. tonight 9:00. terps are a perfect 12-0 in the big ten. maryland on a 15-game winning streak. their most recent victory by 12
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points ov then number 19 nebraska on sunday. all right back to the verizon center, unfortuna. today was amed basketbalchallenge. those with no basketball skills should jusic reporting on it. >> nebraska losing to maryland 59-47. diana doreen, and doug. we're going to split this up. going to kene all the way. >> dg a doreen, i apologize in advance for diana ruining this. >> pleas i've been practicing. i'm ready to go. ♪ >> swish. ah! >> i'm tweethtowhoba you are at this contest right now. all i hav d make one to beat diana so here we go.
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>> come on, pew! finish! >> did she make a shot? she made ot >> we have it on the record. >> it's 2-1. that's al it was. >> you weepinus though? >> i'm sorry. >> we didn't get a say in -- >> no we didn't. i kept telling everyone, i was all state for three years in new jerse he was k obviously the girls in new jeey terrible but he goes you're really bad. i'll work it. >> you mad one. >> thank you. >> bottom ne jason's got game. >> he does. >> out to play with me one tim that is >> sounds like a challenge. >> i'm just saying. >> by the way, i appreciate coach trotz because there does come for all-us that day when you go along and you realize oh my god, i am just like my old man. >> yeah. >> the last thing i ever wanted to do in my life. actually it's not so bad, though. diana, woronga, ay?
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