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t doug kammerer are in storm team 4's weather center to tell you what we need to prepare for. >> overtime central here in the storm center doug. record cold this morning, now we have a winter storm warning, not just snow. things could be dangerous tomorrow. >> yeah. unfortunately it's happening on the weekend. that's a good thing and a bad thing. good because it is the weekend and not everybody's on the roads. bad thing because we all got stuff to do on the weekend. the winter weather advisories and the winter storm warnings. the warnings in the pink including frederick county western loudoun county and everybody off to the west. if you're west of the blue ridge, that you. if you're down into the purple areas, fredericksburg southern maryland d.c. the i-95 corridor, back towards culpeper that's the winter weather advisory. what we are going to see is this change from mixture of rain over to ice over to -- rather snow to ice to rain quickly in in the d.c. metro area then back to the west staying more snow nap's what we're worried about, snow
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sleet, and freezing rain accumulating snow and i do think it will accumulate fairly quick as well. some locations could pick up almost a tenth of an inch of ice and that's another concern. so as we move through the next 24 hours, we're going to see a big change here. nothing on the radar now, but look at this. the cold air is all the way down towards atlanta. atlanta right now is reporting snowfall and that storm system is moving our way. i'll break down the timing and show you who gets what and when in my full forecast. >> all right. thanks doug. the walk so get inside one metro station got even longer for scores of riders in this biting cold this morning. news4's molette green is live with an update on the problems at the l'enphant plaza station. mollett? good evening. this entrance is back open but i just confirmed with pepco that their crews are still here working with other utilities on this all-day-long power problem. a power outage at the l'enphant plaza station after water leaked into a large electrical vault.
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just one of the many challenges for rail passengers who were turned away from the ninth and d streets entrance. and a the commute got off to a slow start during the morning rush. two cracked rails at east falls church station left orange and simp line trains sitting on the tracks. passengers say each day it gets colder with it comes the unexpected. >> myself i just don't understand the whole metro process. seem like they don't design the system to be an all-weathe. >> reporter: in these extreme conditions metro says passengers should be prepared for anything to pop up on the rail and bus line. coming up tonight at 6:00 what to expect on metro tonight and over the weekend with the coming bad weather. i'm molette green live at the l'enphant plaza station. back to you. these frigid temperatures
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make it challenging for firefighters to do their job. montgomery county fire rescue tweeted this picture. they've been dealing with frozen equipment in these cy temperatures. jeremiah wright's t same area she walked all the time. tonight we're learning more about the victim of a deadly hit-and-run as police search for the driver. she died crossing the street here near a fairfax county shopping center last night. news4's pat collins spoke with a relative of the victim. he's live with the crash happened. pat? >> reporter: police have put up an electronic billboard at the scene looking for tips. a full-court press tonight by fairfax police looking for the driver in this deadly hit-and-run. the victim was 85 years old, didn't need glasses, didn't use a cane. he was in good health. she liked to walk from her home
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across the street to the shopping center over there. >> she liked freedom. she liked to walk every day for giant store, looking for somebody or talking to friends. >> reporter: last night on her walk run down and killed. it happened around 6:30 on stone road in centreville. the driver of the crowd kept on going. marisol and her twin sons live in the same house as adela. they're related by marriage. she believes that driver had just stopped, things would have been different. it's your belief that if the perp who hit her in the car had stopped and called 911, she may have survived this right? >> survived. that's right. sol it's a cold person that no help for her. >> reporter: coward.
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>> coward. >> reporter: police have been working the case since last night. they're looking for clues and information. >> we're looking for anyone who might have information and they could call us and let us know. >> reporter: a campaign by the family to find the driver. isle have more at 6:00. live in fairfax, pat collins, news4. now to a developing story from montgomery county. two men are charged with murder after an alleged drug deal. damian lee and delton brown were just charged in the murder of d.c. resident wei wu. he was found slumped over the wheel of his car in silver spring two weeks ago. police say he met the two suspects in order to sell them drugs. wu was killed during that transaction and the suspects allegedly split the drugs afterwards. a tearful maureen mcdonnell apologizing and asking a federal judge today for leniency. virginia's former first lady
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sentenced today to one year and a day in prison. but she'll say free through her appeal. a jury convicted bob mcdonnell on corruption charges last year. david culvert was in the courtroom. he's live outside the courthouse to explain how the sentence was seched. david? >> reporter: jim, compared to the former governor's sentencing last month, the mood in the federal courtroom today was far less tense. at times durin some of the court recesses i noticed bob and maureen were up out of their seats, smiling, hugging some of their supporters but that all changed when it was maureen's turn to address the judge, and she couldn't keep it together. head down seemingly exhausted from crying maureen mcdonnell sat stoic as judge spencer delivered his sentence less than the 18 months prosecutors pushed for, but more than the community service maureen's defense team wanted. the news4 i-team's scott mcfarlane sat through the former first lady's tearful plea and
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apology. inside the courtroom there was uncertainty all morning about whether maureen mcdonnell would speak and when she did, that courtroom was captivated. she said "i want to apologize to the people of the commonwealth. i started a chain of events that brought embarrassment on us all. my marriage is broken. my family is hurting. my reputation is shattered." all the while she was fighting back tears, and in the front row of the courtroom the former governor bob mcdonnell sat with his arm around one of his sons. >> reporter: before maureen spoke, eight character witnesses testified on her behalf including one of the couple's daughters, trying to paint a picture of a good person at times dprelszed and overwhelmed and filled with anxiety. >> to call her a very simple person who was happiest when she was sitting at home with sweat pants. maureen returned to her silence outside of court. her attorneys did speak. >> she finally had her opportunity to explain how she has felt through the last two
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years, this ordeal and to apologize to everyone she's hurt. >> reporter: a former governor who's appealed his own two-year prison sentence seemed grateful. >> i just want to say i appreciate very much judge spencer's mercy and leniency for my wife today as he granted to me. >> reporter: but perhaps the most powerful words in court today came from judge spencer, what he told maureen mcdonnell that left that courtroom silent. that's ahead at 6:00. live in richmond tonight, david culvert, news4. >> see you then david. the federal judge says he will recommend bob and maureen mcdonnell serve their prison sentences in federal prison in close proximity to home. by but a u.s. bureau of prison official tells the i-team there is no guarantee they can accommodate that. the official tells us a number of factors impact designation to a federal prison including the
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level of security and population management. we may never know what caused that petroleum smell in d.c.'s water system last year. d.c. water wrapped up its investigation. officials did not find any petroleumd c tam napt in the water. you may recall residents in shaw and logan circle were told not to drink their water for a couple days in mid-december. d.c. water says they tested multiple samples at about 140 locations, didn't find any source for that strange smell. they say the water is safe and will continue to monitor the affected neighborhoods. looks like some customer who is may need a carenal in the northwest d.c. neighborhood may be out of luck now. take a look at the damage left to these two car 2 go vehicles parked on brandywine near wilson high. police are looking into what led up to this apparent crash. four days after that fiery train derailment in west virginia people are finally being allowed back into their homes. more than 200 people had been living in hotels after that csx
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train burst into flames and derailed on monday. it was carrying 3 million gallons of crude oil. federal investigators are still trying to figure out why the train derailed. one person was injured. an update to a news4 i-team investigation. a three-hour hearing wrapped up this afternoon on a lawsuit aiming to stop csx from renovating its 100-year-old tunnel along virginia avenue in southeast d.c. a judge will now issue an opinion on it. hoemt owners living next to the construction zone cite a long list of wanting to stop the renovation including growing concern about has malts traveling through the city. construction on the tunnel is scheduled to begin as soon as 30 days. new at 5:00 some people have discovered money is missing from tax refunds. erika gonzalez will tell you why. air bags linked to at least six deaths worldwide. the new action the government is taking to punish the manufacturer. tmi. lawmakers get cheeky in the most
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unusual way.
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tax refunds coming up short.
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that's the reason for lawsuit filed this week. >> erika gonzalez says this reason dates back deca >> i was, like i don't get this. kind of baffled, kind of puzzled. why are you ta fm me. >> reporter: carolyn grant has lived in d.c. all her life and like millions of americans she looks forward to a tax refund. >> wow, i can't wait to get this money so i can do a little more. >> reporter: but last year after receiving her tax refund graham noticed she was shortchanged. the refund she received from the district of columbia was short $244. >> wait a minute. where is my money? so then that made me go back and look at my account and notice that the $244 was also taken from my federal. >> reporter: a total of $488 was withheld. money she planned on using toward her daughter's high school prom and graduation. not until after the money disappeared did graham get a letter from the social security
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administration. but it referred to her father's social security number. >> i said wait a minute. this is my dad's, so why am i owing anybody money? my dad been dead for 41 years. >> reporter: it was back then when graham was just a little girl her mother applied for survivor benefits on graham's behalf and managed them until she was 18. her last benefits check, 1982 but that letter from the administration told her she had been overpaid. graham is one of three d.c. residents part of a class action lawsuit accusing the social security administration and treasury department of illegally withholding tax refunds to offset social security overpayments without first notifying taxpayers. dan jarco is the lead lawyer in the . he says the government has not shared any records dating back 20 or 30 years ago that indicate people were overpaid. >> we're going to be demanding the government provide proof to
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justify its claims that these debts are owed and that proper notice has been given. >> reporter: he says the number of people with the same problem as graham is expected to grow nationwide. >> based on statements made by the social security administration we think it's possible there may be as many as 400,000 people across the country who have suffered the same kind of harm aspeople who are listed in our lawsuits complain. >> reporter: as for graham she's determined to help make sure it doesn't happen again. >> you're going to give me my money. up with way or another you're going to give me my money back. >> reporter: we got on the phone, talked to the department of justice today, and asked for a response to this lawsuit. and since it was just filed it told us there is nothing it can say at this point. in carolyn graham's case she told us she didn't have money for a lawyer snap's why she went to legal aid of d.c. it's where residents needing legal advice can get the help they need. >> erika, thank you. virginia restaurant workers may soon need to undergo food
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allergy training. a measure requiring food allergy awareness and safety training passed both chambers of the sate legislature. it's now headed to the governor's desk. a 14-year-old girl from vienna helped prompt this bill. she has her own food allergies and wanted to raise awareness about the dangers of restaurants inadvertently, including ingredients that could make people sick. a member of canada's parliament entertained his colleagues as he explained his brief absence. >> pat martin says he took a break during a vote because his underpants were too tight. another member of parliament challenged martin's vote after he excused himself yesterday. when the deputy speaker asked martin to explain why he had to leave he said it all started with a department store sale. >> men's underwear on for half price and i bought a bunch that was clearly too small for me. i find it difficult to sit for
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any length of time mr. speaker. so i apologize if it was necessary for me to leave my seat briefly, but i did not mean to forfeit m >> he brought the house down. the challenge to martin's vote was ultimately dismissed. and boston can't take anymore, but this weekend yet another dangerous mix of snow and ice is expected to hit that beleaguered region. the city remains buried after four blizzards in the past three weeks dumped about 7 1/2 feet of snow. it has crippled boston's mass transit, caused major damage to homes, and that region's economy. meantime the snow is not falling in southern colorado and that's creating problems for filmmaker quentin tarantino who's shooting a film there, "the hateful eight." it stars samuel l. jackson and channing tatum. it's set in a blizzard after the civil war, but telluride, where they're filming, hasn't had snow in a month. so tarantino is forced to shoot
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all the indoor scenes waiting for nature to come through. he may get a break this weekend when the forecast calls for heavy snow and high winds. he is insisting he will not fake it with computer-generated imagery. >> good for him. a live picture from our weather deck. no winds right now, but, boy, were they whipping this morning to some unbelievable windchills out there, doug kammerer. >> yeah. we saw those windchills 15 20 below early this morning. quite brutal. the wind has died down that's good news, but we're still cold. that cold air will -- [ phone ringing ] >> hello! >> hello? >> what i'm going to do is hand you my microphone. >> veronica's is working.
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yours isn't. >> is mine working now? >> we're ordering up pizza. >> it's working now. hello, everybody. this is the problem with switching mikes all the time. take a look right now, 21 degrees. that's the current temperature. notice t windchill also at 21 degrees. we're not dealing with the wind. the windchill is okay. nothing to talk about, no rain no snow out there on the radar picture. as we look down to the south and east we are looking at snow down around the atlanta area. once again, that snow is making its way our way. yes, snow in atlanta. they could see 1 to 3 inches in parts of their region parts of georgia under a winter storm warning, same as us. no snow around 10:00 a.m. you can get some things done early in the morning hours but here comes the snow back to the west. this is where we'll start back towards cumberland romney shenandoah valley. by 1:00 just about everybody in our area seeing the snow and it's going to be coming down fairly heavily. with these cold temperatures lit stick immediately to the roadways. i think things are going to go downhill in a hurry as far as the roads are concerned. the snow's going to last in the a through about
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5:00 then we'll start to mix with the ice and the rain down to the south. so the snow to the north then ice and rain and this is where things really get tricky. then we move the just all rain tomorrow night. that should help the roads just a little bit. and that rain continues to come in. we could see a lot of rain maybe up to an inch of rain out of this storm too. so as i mentioned before if this was all snow it would be well over foot but that won't be the case with this storm. winter storm warnings in the pink winter weather advisories the purple including the d.c. metro area and here's why. we're thinking right now down to the south, coating, maybe 2 inches 1 to 3 inches quantico fredericksburg waldorf, even in the d.c. downtown area and that northwest d.c., parts of leesburg gaithersburg down towards warrenton, maybe 3 to 6 in this area 3 closer into d.c. 6 closer to the north and west. then 6 inches plus if this comes into shape, could be 6 inches plus places like martinsburg and over towards hagerstown. we have a big storm in here for tomorrow and it's going to continue right on through
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tomorrow afternoon. sunday the rain will get done early and it will be all rain. it will be done early and most of the day sunday is not bad, high of 44. gets breezy but that's all. cold air returns sunday night into monday with a high of only 28. all of next week is on the cold side. 32 tuesday, 30 on thursday. there you go. a new setback for the president's health care law. why it could foul up taxes for a million americans. when it gets this cold frostbite is a real concern. how it happened to one little girl even though her mother did everything right. and when winter gives you ice, make ice cream.
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scotland yard is desperately seeking three british girl who is may be on their way to isis territory in syria. they're classmates close friends at a school in london. their families reported them missing after they disappear on tuesday. airport surveillance camera shows them boarding a flight to turkey. the teens may not realize once they come under isis control the choice on whether to stay in syria may lo no longer be their own. wait before you file your 2014 tax return. >> that's the message for hundreds of thousands of people who have health care with the federal government. the white house says about 800,000 healthcare.gov customers
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got erroneous tax information. a senior administration official says they will receive updated forms in the coming weeks and they also say that 95% of those impacted have not yet filed their taxes. you can find out if you are one of those by logging into your online account. there is new fallout over the potential hazard facing millions of drivers behind the wheel. the u.s. government says it's going to start fining air bag maker takata 14,000 bucks for every day it refuses to fully cooperate with this investigation. even though individual automakers have issued recalls, takata has resisted demands to do its own recall on these driver-side air bags. forceful explosions of these air bags have been blamed on six deaths -- blamed to have caused six deaths worldwide. iced over and isolation. why the national guard was called in today to the chesapeake bay. >> reporter: it's so cold inside
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of one prince george's county school students are walking around inside with their coats and hamiltons on.
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right now at 5:30 another blast of wintry weather. just in time for your weekend. this record-breaking cold gives way to another storm, not just the snow there is ice on the back end of this one. it just gets better and better folks. i'm here in the weather sent we are doug. is this our last plast blast? >> i think it's the coldest and i think that we're done with the teens, i think we're done with the windchills below zero for the year. that's a good thing. no not the last blast. another one coming next week not quite as cold though. out there right now it has been
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on the cold side. tomorrow morning, temperatures between 7 and 12 in the morning. cold and dry to start. if you have errands to run tomorrow morning, your kids have an early basketball game, no problem, but again, the rain, the snow the ice all moves in right around that 11:00 hour. we have winter weather advisories in effect along i 95 faulkier county culpeper county all along the east. winter storm warnings in the west snow and ice. what to expect during the day tomorrow. as i mentioned get out early if you want to get out, get back inside by around 11:00 because the snow starts between noon and 5:00. it will start around noon and go until about 5:00. it will be heavy at times. where we'll see the collating snow. it starts mixing with ice. if it's freezing rain then we're dealing with a lot more problems than if it was just sleet, then changing to all rain overnight. this is going to have a major impact on the roadways across the area. veronica johnson is outside right now. v.j., that's what we've been talking about all day. >> that's right.
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exactly it pap lot of salt down on area roads, probably on your patios and sidewalks too. one thing we'll see with the storm system, the warmer air coming in and that may wash the salt away. the other thing lit do is provide the area with freezing rain stleet first, freezing rain and icy conditions. snow starts around 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. freezing rain by 2:00 to 3:00 then late afternoon, evening that ice could accumulate. i think after midnight all rain across the area. dry kwns for the morning, slick for the afternoon, especially after 2:00. areas to focus on shaded in red. beltway, 270, 81 western maryland 68 where there could be quite a bit of snow out there. >> saturday not the best day to get things done. sunday not looking like a bad day, may be one of the warmest days we've seen in quite some time.
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much more in just a bit. thanks to the bitter cold we are seeing an awful lot of these arnold our region broken water mains. this one is in prince george's county. where the number of ruptured pipes has skyrocketed in recent days. tracee wilkins is live in bladensburg with a look at who's affected the most by all of this and for how long. >> reporter: these calls have doubled for wsc. they have been dealing with broken pipe after broken pipe also some leaking water issues. take a look behind me and see they are quickly progressing to get this pipe taken care of but it is an ongoing issue. this will be their 25th time digging into the ground. and finding a broken pipe today alone. >> since saturday over 5,000 calls into our emergency call center regarding breaks and leaks. >> reporter: with frigid temperatures breaking pipes all over the area.
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>> taking a shower and the water cut off. >> reporter: residences and businesses suffering the most. >> liquor stores out, we need water. >> reporter: this particular break on riverdale road near veterans parkway in bladensburg shut down a major commuter route. traffic was diverted through a gas station. now that the eight-inch break has been located here the work is expected to move quickly. but a few hundred residents will temporarily lose water throughout the night. >> people need hot water. >> reporter: and monday could mean even more pipe breaks with a rapid increase in temperatures expected. >> we are anticipating that there will be another uptick. >> reporter: wss contraction is not expecting it to be a great day on monday or tuesday after we go fru from these extreme cold temperatures to warming up a bit. they are asking folks to go to their website and check out tips that they have for you to make sure that you're doing what you're supposed to do inside of your home to try and prevent pipes from breaking in your house and also to give you instructions for what to do when you have issues like this one in
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your neighborhood. tracee wilkins, news4. new information about what led to this fire we told you about yesterday. we now know the 80-year-old man who lived here was just trying to stay warm. the home is in temple hills. a fire spokesman tells us his furnace ran out of heating oil, so he tried to start a fire in his fireplace using gasoline. the man suffered serious injuries and was airlifted to a local burn center. well tonight, the wizards get back to basketball after sunday's all-star break. that was when john wall and lebron james were teammates. but tonight they are back to being rivals again, both chasing the same thing. jason pew is live at the verizon center with more. hey, jason. >> hey, wendy. tonight is the unofficial start to the nba, the second half of the nba season. big matchup for the wizards. they're hosting four-time league mvp lebron james and the cavaliers. these two teams neck and neck in the eastern conference
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standings, a very important game for the wizards tonight. the they have struggled before the all-star break. they've lost six of their last ten games. cavaliers, meanwhile, they're playing like one of the better teams in the entire league. neither squad, though worry about who's the favorite tonight. they're just concerned about winning down the stretch. >> rounding third base going into the final stretch of the season. understand how important every game is for us, every step for postseason. >> right there. trying not to fall as much as possible. we got to find in that time to get a long winning streak six, seven games. everyone else has had e except for us. i think the time is right. we just have to be focused and come in and be locked in every game. >> reporter: tipoff between the wizards and cavaliers is set for 8:00. you can watch the game on comcast sportsnet.
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later on at news4 at 6:00 we'll hear from diana russini at the nfl combine and caught up with stephon diggs. the redskins showing interest in diggs. we'll tell you all about it in just a bit. from the verizon center i'm jason pew, news4 sports. thank you, jason. >> new at 5:00 a reward increasing in a mysterious murder. >> why prince william county police tell us they're still stumped.
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if you've driven out 66 or taken a trip through fairfax, you've seen the name wheelie avenue. >> did you know the town was once right there? and what about backlick road? what in the world is that? what is that name for, back? first at 4's traffic melissa mollet hits the history books in this edition of "meet your street." >> this is dr. wheelie on a sign ovechkin the town of wheelie. >> kind of a jokester. >> looks like it. >> he was having fun. >> looks like it. >> turns out max wiehle was a physician in philadelphia. at age 35 he move todd
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washington. >> he had a home in downtown d.c. and decided to build a small town that would be sort of a rural retreat out here in farquhar virginia. >> but we had more questions about dr. max wiehle so we came here to the reston museum to find out more about him. >> that's the old town of wiehle. >> in 1886 dr. wiehle bought 3,000 acres. >> $3 an acre is what he paid. >> don't we wish, right? he hired a german planner to help lay out his town along the railroad. first he built the wiehle town hall that was late err distillery and church and also built a hotel, his own home and eight others. there were bigger plans for thousands to live here. >> he was quite a dreamer, we think. >> reporter: but he died in 1901 before he saw his vision turn to reality the town of wiehle was a bit closer to where reston parkway now runs. >> kind of ironic that we have this history here of a planned
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community in the late 19th century and then robert e. simon came down in 1961 and created his own town much larger than the town of wiehle was, but, you know sort of an ideal place to live. >> reporter: as robert e. simon built reston temporary road popped up for construction traffic, the original road is now a path but it was so often used temporary road was realigned and became quite permanent. >> the temporary permanent road. exactly. >> reporter: now to backlick road which conjures up some stranger visions perhaps. the area was once filled with hog and dairy farms. according to the west springfield village civi those farmers would drag huge salt licks along the route to entice cattle and move them from pastures back to their farms. hence the eventual name back lick. in annandale, virginia melissa mollet news4. what i know about wiehle avenue it runs right behind my
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old house. tomorrow it will be snow covered and most of the roads will be snow covered. this is why. the temperatures still well below freezing. 21 in d.c., 17 huntingtown.
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some relief this evening for residents of tangier and the smith islands in the chesapeake bay. the coast guard arrived earlier today dropping off food medicine and other supplies. that is one of their ice cutters. grocery store on tangier island is not just closed but depleted. most residents use a ferry to stock up on supplies from the mainland. but with much of that water frozen over they have been cut off for about a week. to a live look now at the waterfront at the national harbor. the wheel was turning throughout the day, and last night too. not a place i'd want to be unless that was enclosed. >> isn't it enclosed? >> it is. >> doug? sit enclosed? >> it's enclosed. yeah.
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>> doug knows everything. >> they sit quite a few people there. it's amazing. you need to head on down there. >> let's go right now. >> tomorrow might be a little bit of an issue. tomorrow is going to be a very tough day. it's not going to be too bad until about noon. so you have the morning hours to get going as you make your way out and about. let's look and show you what we're dealing with right now. some nice conditions if you like it cold. believe it or not, more and more of you are saying yes, bring on more cold air. not me. 21 degrees the current number dropping to about 18 by 7:00 14 by around 11:00 tonight. storm team 4 radar is clear. lit stay that way. as i mentioned, right on through early tomorrow morning. let's time this out for you. a little wider vantage point here. here's pittsburgh snowing at 8:00 a.m. washington we're all clear. so once again get some things done in the morning. the snow quickly moves in between around 10:00 and noon around the d.c. metro area and it's all snow. state college all the way down to the north carolina line. but watch what happens here after 12:00. you start to see the ice pick up around the richmond area and the
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rain start to pick up too. even by 5:00 we will be seeing a mix in and around the d.c. metro area and that will limit our snowfall total. this is something that we're watching. then it's a mixture of snow, ice, and rain moving through the rest of the night tomorrow night. the winter weather advisories in the purple including montgomery countyloudoun, eastern faulkier county and everybody to the east. back too the west a winter storm warning for more snow and a better chance of seeing ice there. here's what we're thinking. again, will this map change a little bit? everybody always asks that. yeah it will probably change a little bit between now and tomorrow morning once we start. a coating to an inch down to the south, 1 to 3 inches along i-95 here and 3 to 6 i-95 north and west including parts of d.c. but mostly montgomery county parts of fairfax county if you're closer to i-95 you'll be closer to that 3-inch mark. further west 6 inch mark. and 6 inches plus back to the west if we can get enough moisture back there. that's where the cold air will
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be. this is skycast 4. 8:00, no problems through the early morning. around noon see the snow start to build around our area. here comes the snow around 1:00 snowing pretty good. 5:00 still snow around the d.c. metro area but starting to see things switch to ice and rain. then it's just plain rain falling on that snow as it makes its way through the area. a lot of locations still have a couple of inches of snow. that will pile up even more tomorrow early. 33 for a high tomorrow 44 on sunday. rain early, but then out of here by the afternoon. a nice afternoon, i think. then it gets cold again, high of 28 on monday high around freezing on tuesday. guys? the number of flu cases is decreasing nationwide but the centers for disease control ss season's outbreak has been deadlier for children. the cdc says there have been at least 86 pediatric deaths from the flu compared with 50 this time a year ago. flu cases remain widespread in 30 states and that includes
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maryland and virginia. one year after a young mother gunned down inside the store where she was working and her killers are still on the loose. >> glenda marisol nemanja covic romero left behind a baby girl less than a year old, and tonight her family is hoping you'll remember something that will need lede to an arrest. news4's derrick ward has details. >> reporter: it happens quickly. a surveillance camera inside the jewelry and grocery captures the gunmen dressed in black, faces covered, rushing into the store. in seconds they're gone. in those fleeting moments out of the camera's view she is shot dead behind the count wrer she works. another woman is wounded. >> everything happened in the span of about nine seconds. >> reporter: a lot has changed in the year since that happened. the store's under new management. they've still got some of the same merchandise, but what hasn't changed is that this murder is still unsolved. it was prince william county's first homicide of 2014. it was both tragic and puzzling. when the gunmen burst in, the cash register was open.
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it was almost closing time and the victim was apparently counting out the day's receipts but police say nothing was taken. they canvassed the area talked to witnesses, leads popped up and didn't pan out. still investigators say it's out there, that piece of information that could close this case information that may not even seem consequential. they still want it. >> you'd be surprised what people know that they don't think that they know. and that's what we're looking for. >> reporter: the washington field aufls of the fbi has joined with prince william county police. the reward for information has climbed to $21,000. a year later the victim's family is looking for answers to why a kind mother of a young child is dead. now all they have is the memory of a loved one who's long since buried leaving her young child to be raised by her grandfather. prince william county police say they have no motive and aren't ruling anything out. it's one of the movies up for an oscar on sunday. and a local man who took part in the civil rights march in selma and now he's auctioning off items from that historic time. news4's zachary kiesch explains
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why one artifact could be worth as much as a home. >> reporter: the 50th anniversary of selma and the movie that brought it to life has renewed conversation by many about the relationship between president lyndon b. johnson and dr. martin luther king. >> there was a working relationship between dr. king and the president, and it was one of i need you and you need me. >> reporter: stony cooks, a college student in indiana at the ti jumped in a car with three quite classmates and headed south in march of 1965 to join the movement. >> we were lucky we made it. >> reporter: along the way, he and his wife saved mementos and throughout the years they were given more gifts like this letter written from president johnson to mlk's widow, greta scott king, the day after king was assassinated he brought in a collection of stuff, a flash drive with pictures and said take a look at this and let me know what you
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think. >> reporter: enter quinn's auction house. feeling the momentum of the anniversary and the movie, the couple decided to sell the letter and other items that might shed new light on the relationship between the two men who helped shape our country's history. >> an estimate of $120,000 to $180,000 is certainly appropriate. >> who are other people who have similar junk in their garages or basement? >> reporter: junk? probably not to most. in the movie, cook says he'll wait to see it. reporting in northern virginia zachary kiesch news4. a 6-year-old girl bedridden with some pretty serious frostbite. >> moms and dads won't want to miss thi
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d.c. is gearing up tonight for a visit from the british royalty prince c and camilla will be here on march 17th 18th and 19th. they'll visit the white house as
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well as lincoln's cottage and the armed forces retirement home in northwest d.c. charles and camilla will also tour mt. vernon and the national archives. after that they'll spend a day in louisville horse country, kentucky before they head back to england. we geerting a new look at just how dangerous this arctic weather can be. even if you think you're doing everything you can to protect yourself and your children. >> nbc's ben jing ras shows us how quickly frostbite sets in for a little girl up in new york. >> reporter: sitting among h wet-well stuffed animals, olivia smiles and laughs eve tlun the pain. >> it was like a bubble but like on my leg. >> reporter: at 6 years old, she's describing frostbite. those blisters and burns are right now covered by bandages but this is what her little legs looked like monday just before her mom rushed her to the hospital. >> it wasn't what i thought frostbite looked like. i thought it would be purple and black. i thought you would have had to
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be outside longer. she was well-dressed. >> i was very scared and it was painful because i looked at it. >> reporter: to kwlaif was outside playing and she's only outside for about 30 minute but what happened was snow got inside her boots. it was contact between that wet snow and her skin that made that frostbite develop quicker and why she ended up in the burn unit. >> it's a burn injury can be either hot or cold. and the same type of damages that occur from the heat also occur when the tissues are froze within the frostbite. >> reporter: dr. francis winski is part of olivia's care team at westchester medical center. they've watched at the frost brit progressed and now it's at the point where she needs surgery to remove dead tissue. >> when you listen to the weathermen, they say it's gog bitterly cold out there, you have to listen to them e it can happen. kit happen before you even realize it. >> reporter: let's take friday, for example. the temperatures at 5 degrees and winds reaching 30 miles per hour the real feel would be
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minus 19. within 30 minutes just like olivia exposed skin could be vulnerable to frostbite. a lesson learned for this mom but try telling that to little olivia who may be down but she's not out. just a little more careful. still going to go out and play in the snow right? in valhalla brinn gingras, news4 new york. a winter storm warning in effect for storm. snow sleet, freezing rain all coming our way after more bitterly cold temperatures. the judge in the mcdonnell corruption trial calls the defense strategy puzzling and bizarre as he hands down a prison sentence for the former virginia first lady. and the white house press secretary says he feels sorry for former new york mayor rudy giuliani. first tonight, the perfect ending to our week of winter weather. >> and yet another round coming our way in just a matter of hours. doug we know it's going to start with snow but then what?
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>> yeah and that's the big question jim, is when is this going to change from snow over to ice over to rain and then when does it finally move out? we know the snow moves in during the day tomorrow and that's why we have the w in effect for i-95 including all of southern maryland back to the west including faulkier county culpeper county all of montgomery county and parts of loudoun county. to the west, it is a winter storm warning so, grir down in waldorf, leonardtown, a annapolis, this will be snow to quickly back to ice, back to the west mostly snow. snow sleet, freezing rain we're watching for with accumulating snow and we think it will accumulate fairly fast maybe a tenth of an inch of ice especially in those warning areas. what are we going to be seeing? nothing right now. that storm system with the cold air in place is bringing snow all the way down towards atlanta. that's something they don't see very much. that whole system moves our way, so does the warm air. and that's why this storm is going to be a tough

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