he was doing all the right things. e words tonight from the fath either of a man who was killed while simply walking down the street. he had so much to give and wanted to give more then he just left people and was ding. news 4 at 11:00 begins with

breaking news. there's a verdict tonight in the so-called "american sniper" trial. within the last hour eddie ray routh was found guilty of the murders of "american sniper" author and former navy s.e.a.l. chris kyle and a friend. closing arguments were held in the case this afternoon. routh had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. with the state not seeking the death penalty the verdict means routh will get an automatic life se> nor on on a deadly pedestrian accident news 4's chris gordon talked with him this evening and joins us with what he had to say. >> r court documents say the driver was on drugs, prescrip pain killers and possibly pcp, which is illegal and disorienting. and toni driver's in the d.c. jail being held without bond. police say the suv driver was fleeing an accident after

hitting two cars a block away on h street he took down a traffic pole smashed into a mar well wall and flipped hitting two pedests killing 27-year-old phillip snodgrass. hello, this is chris gordon from news 4. tonight i spoke by phone to in baltimore, maryland he was very compassionate, loving young man that had tremendo promise. very very very many friends. philip snodgrass was assistant general counsel here at the national federation of federal employees, negotiin contracts and repres feder workers in legal proceedings. he was so tragic and so unexpect and frankly devastg to staff here and to so many federal employees he's helped across the country. philip snodgrass was on his way to georgetown law center where he was attending night classes. court papers charge 33-year-old

james chandler of silver spring with second-degree murder driving 60 to 65 in a 25-mile- zone. an officer asked chandler if he smoked pcp. he said yes. chandler said he doesn't rememb the accident. the family of philip snodgrass will never forget their loss. >> he was one of these people who was doing all the right things. and this bad thing happened to him. >> repor mr. snodgrass tells me he has seen stories like this on the news but never understood the depth of tragedy until it hit home. doreen and jim, back to you. >> chris gordon thank you. new video tonight of the man known as the black hat bandits. the fbi says they robbed seven banks in northern virginia and maryland since january 2nd. this video shows the men holding up the essex bank in arnold maryland. investigs say the men are growing more violent and brazen holding a gun to the head of a custom at one bank in

virginia. reward for the arrest and convicti of the men has also been raised to $30,000. police are trying to figure out who killed a 95-year-old man. a navy veteran who was a reside in a senior living complex in montgomery county. the propert manager found the man dead in his apartment at the randolph village complex in colesvil yesterday. he's been identified as daniel lauren bellvin. so far police will only say that belvin had suffered trauma to his upper body. police say they have leads but so far nobody's been arrested. dangerous and distur day on the roads in virginia for virginia state troopers bad crashes in a 12-hour span have two troopers injured and other members on the force shaken shomari stone shares what we can all do to help prevscenes >> as the commander, it scares me. you don't hear those words often from virginia state troopers but first

sergeant steven mennendorf dot hold back after two troopers were hit in traffic stops over the past 12 hours. >> to hear the call come out over the radio that a trooper or any law s been struck petrifies me. >> r the first crash happened aroun 3:30 this morng in prince william county. trooper ira dallam sr. was parked on the left shoulder of i-95. sudden investigators say a speedi drive lost control of his suv and crashed into trooper dallam's patro car. the second accident happened around 2:00 this afternoon in fairfax count on i-66. take a look at 26-year-old trooper campbell's patrol car, mangled metal. he pulled someone over stood next to the driver's car when another road and the crash was so strong you look right here the air bag was deployed the trooper had no idea what was occurring. tonig sergeant mennendo say he's been releas from the hospital with skrip skraips and bruises. we can all help prevent

accidents like these bile toing the move over law. >> slow down and move overe nt lane over to help law enforcem fir and rescue and anyone rendering assistance that has a flashing red, blue or amber light the ability to work safely on the side of the roadway. making roadways safer for everyone. in fairfax county i'm shomari stone, news 4. officials at the washington suburb sanitary commission say that since the recent cold snap they've d reports of more than 200 water m breaks. as of tonight, 51 of those breaks are still waiting repair. both in prince george and montgome counties. wssc wants people to report the breaks but they warn that the respon time might be a bit slower than usual. they say normal response times are two to four hours. the cold might be to blame for a big sinkhole over in arlingto 34th street has been shut

down between 33rd and kensington streets. crs are making repairs there. there is no timeframe right now on when that road will reopen. we're in for another cold night across our area and now doug says he's tracking some snow that could affect us. doug? guys mentioned the cold. it's really quite amazing. the last 11 out of 12 days we've been below 20 degrees when we wake up in the morning. i don't think we'll get quite that cold tonight. but still a very cold night. 25 currently as we only made our way to 30 during the day today. 17 currently in bowie, 19 manassas 1 in gaithersburg, temper will drop another few degrees, but we're not talkint that extremely frigid weather last night where dulles was at 4 below zero. this is what we will be talking about, chance of snow coming in during the day on thursday. not tomorrow but thursday. i'll break it down for you, show you when it moves in and how mu you can get in your area the latest data coming in right

now. > details on that awful train/trk collision in southe california. police are now holding the truck driver on suspicion of felony hit and run. the guy apparently abandoned the truck on the tracks in oxnard califo where a metrolink commut train slammed into it this mornin 30 people were injured including four who are said to still be in critical condition. it is not clear why the truck driver had been on the tracks in first place. an update now to a story we first told you about in 2013. a northern virg man helped convict a baseball coach who molest him decades ago. jackie bn reports that inspir him to begin an effort to change how virginia streets and labels sex offenders. >> repor a year and a half after he watched his former t-ball coach run from our cameras outside the prince william county courthouse rob, who prefers that we not u name waits to see if terry mcauliffe will sign into law

what's kno as robbie's rule. that's what he was called when the man who was then a trusted coach and family friend came into his bedroom a 2013 after finally finding the coura to confront his molester he had an idea to create a supplement to the sex offend registry to include those convicted of certain older crime. it met with protests by groups supporting the rights of exoffends who called it repunish the goal is just to consolide this information th exists. it's public information but just put in an unusable format. all we're trying to do is make it usable and user friendly. after countless hours of lobbying and grass roots organizing rob waits to see if the bill will become virgin law. i can tell you i feel very free after i've come forward. i'd love for other people to feel that. but when they do come forward, they might be able to save another person from going through what they did. >> repor rob says he's met a

number of people who have been inspir by his story to confro similar child abuse issues that happen to them. jackie bensen news 4. a bit of a ruckus this morng at a prince george meeting of the liquor board. apparent some members tried to get rid of the chairman. >> as far as i know i received nothing from the governor indicati that he has removed . >> that was chairman franklin jackson explaining some of what apparent had happened earlier in the meeting. sources tell prince george county bureau chief that commis caldwell claimed that the governor put him in charge and so he asked the chairm to step down. the chairman refused. no members of the board could be reached for comment in time for our broadcast. > the latest offer to prevent a partial government shutdown and to keep hundreds of thousands of homeland security employs on the payroll still

stands. republican leader mitch mcconnell said he'll allow a vote on dhs funding withot they want to block on immigrat employees m have to work without pay. the senate will take a second vote on immigration. > govt workers fueling up their personal car on taxpayer money. the news 4 i-team exposes the problem a whas being done to stop it. the dramatic scene as a home is obliterated in a natural gas. tonight 66 west and the 7

incredible video tonight of a home disintegrating in seconds in stafford, new jersey. the home exploded as crews were trying to find a gas leak. 15 people were hurt and two are in critical condition. the blast ao destroyed a neighboring hd damaged others. 300 homes still don't have gas tonight whic means no heat in this brutal cold. crews are stl trying to find the cause of the explosion. there are big construction plans surrouinthd street tund work on that begins tonight. the open air section of the tubl tunl co katie over and buildings will be built on top. if you're in that area, you might want to prepare for some

significant changes. the district's department of transportatio warns that the project will cause delays. they're fueling up you're paying the tab. tonight the news 4 i-team is exposing gome workers illegally swiping government credit cards to buy gasoline for themselves. the i-team's scott macfarlane shows how a growing number of employees are pulling it off and the federal agents trying to catch them doing it. >> reporterwe caht up with terrell mccray as he left the d.c. courthouse. but he didn't want to talk. shielding his face and hustling back towards the doors. i'm scott with channel 4. when we trio out his recent arre and the case that landed him in court this is the response we got. can you tell us anything about these gasoline thefts. mccray is a staff assistant at the d.c. fire department. who investigators say illegally used his federally issued purchase card to buy more than

$2600 in gasoline for his own personal use just since august. at several gas stations in northwest d.c. including th bp station on rhode island avenue. some of the gas, according to court records mccray used in his personal jaguar and some of the gas he's accused of selling to other people for 50 cents on the dollar. and terrell mccray isn't the only person arrested for this. lanier white is another. you're watching video obtained by the i-team. it shows white illegally filling someone else car with a government gas card he'd taken from the ft. monroe military base. white was convict of conspiracy to more than a quarter of a million dollars in taxpayer funded gas along with an associate and is currently spending ti in a federal prison. >> theye er the country. they're wher the government needs automobiles and transportatt get places. >> reporter: the acting inspecting general which

oversees a massive fleet. tens of thousands of government cars. >> sometis it's just somebody that decides they're not getting paid enough they want to get a bonus by using the government credit card. >> reporter: the news 4 i-team reveals gome workers have stolen more than $2.4 million in taxpayer funded gasoline since 2010, more than 260 different gas theft cases. though these fleet cars require workers to enter their odometer readings anta numbers to prevent theft, it shows that employees ca and have falsified that informati. >> generally we don't catch them on the first time. >> reporteris agent of the inspector general's office and his team have nabbed several government g thieves. his team goes undercover doing surveillance gas stations at which suspected government crooks frequently fill their tanks. he reviews a confidential database whi reveals each time

they swipe their card. >> it may be a weak excuse but one of the excuses people get all the time when they misuse a fleet card i pulled it out and didn't reiz until after it was done because it's right next to my regular once. >> reportery can see how different it looks from your typical credit card. mccray his corporate proceedings ar ongoing. he's charged with fraud and the fire department has put him on paid leave. prosecutorsays pleaded not guilty. eliminating g theft could be impossible for the feds. we asked how many of these cards are distrite and the answer is 590,000. scott macfarlane. terrell mccray isn't the only d.c. fire worker accused of using a government card to steal gas. details on the ce the $11,000 she's taken at

nbcwashingtoco clickn "investigations." doug's here with more about our weather. well, are weo break any records tonight? >> no. >> excellent news. >> that's a good thing. really amazing, 4 below zero is where we were early this morning. it won't get close to that tonight. but still the cold side. take a look right now, yeah, cold for sure. we saw cloud cover earlier now starting to see clearing skies. that will allow temperatures to fall absent but a little bit of wind too. 25 degrees bringing our windchill down to 17. current numbers 18 in manassas 14 in frederick, 14 in martinsburg numbers will fall a little bit gh but we're not talking another night where most of the area to the west of d.c. was around zero. that won't be the case, but still quite cold when you get up in the morning. radar all clear. it will stay that way for the next 24 hours. one storm syst moved off.

we saw snow showers with it down around southern maryland, salisbury a ocean city. we have so much cold air across the eastern part of the country that this next storm is going to be a big time winter storm for areas like dallas, right over towards portions of arkansas mississippi, alabama atlanta under a winter storm warning and the winter storm watches go all the way to the coast around the virginia beh area. this storm should stay just to the south so most of the moisture wi t to the south too. but let's go ahead and track that with fure weather. here we are 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, not much going on in our area. but we're watching this snow off to the east. some areas of alabama could pick up to 3 to 6 inches of snow. that would be a historic storm down there. watch as it starts to move our direction. i do think we'll see snow early thursday morning. here we are at 6:00 a.m. the bulk of the snow down to the south and east. zoom in here a little bit. here's d.c., here's

fredericksb by 6:00 a.m. notice where the snow is. d.c. over towards leesburg and wind dpp whe t most of the area that sees the accumulating snow will stay down to the south, but even 8:00 still seeing snow showers and the heaviest snow just down to the south. how much snow in maybe 1 to 2 inches. not a big deal but it's coming early thursy morning. with these cold temperature, it will stick to the roadways. even a trace to an inch around the d.c. metro area could mean problems. but 1 or 2 inches fredericksb mve around culpepper. tom kierein h the latest for you tomorrow morning if you are planning on waking up in five hours. 39 on wednesday, 32 thursday. we stay cold through saturday but at least we start to get a little more mild, back into the 40s maybe even 50 on monday with some rain. >> those fours and possibly

fives. >> yeah. >>a dsn matter at that point. just bng up the temps. thanks. we've sports coming up. did you see the terps tit? ♪ insight is knowing you made the right decision from the start.

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the senior des wells came in his feet barely touching the ground. he was flying high. wells finds mchale. and melo trimbell at the buzzer terps leading by 11 at the break. second ha wisconsin has cut it to three. des wells says uh-uh. monster dunk. a game high 26 for wells. check out his face too. oh yeah, the crowd loves it. fierce. frank co-minski, frank the tank, they call him. he can't be stopped. badgers cut it down to three. but here's the key play with the clock winding down. trying to get the ball to wells but he's covered trimbell improvises. at the most critical time in the game, 16 points for the freshman.

59-53 an storming is the icing on the cake. mark turgeon may be even cracking a smile in that madness. the head coach pretty happy. >> we are what we are. we figure out a way to win. we compete when we have to. and i'll take close wins as long as we keep winning that's really all matters. we're really becoming pretty gritty and tough. we'll be really prepared for everything at lies ahead because of everything we've been through. >> a few regular season games though they host michigan. wizards and warriors. this is steph curry. look at his sick ball handling moves. then hittin the long three. sessions looking like a nobody. warriors up three at the half. john wall's turn. wall, he's got a few moves, too. he can pull up for the j, knocks it down 16 points 11 assists

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