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intern providers will blocd from giving some people fast ser than others. we'll go in depth on the impact you and your family will later in this hour. >> the other big decision today is from metro. the board voted not to raise fares or cut service. this w a big concern, and today's vote means the issue is off the table, at least for now. metro says it will now focus on other ways to balance the budget. fir up at 4, now to the weathe a lot of folks home with a snow day today. >> another fun day for a lot of folks and a lot of you could see more snow tomorrow. >> let's get straight to metet veronica joe on the storm team 4 r deck. s for tomorr sn was out of here quickly, 11:0 or so already moving east. e surfaces around the air yan collg road conditions got much bet we are the sunshine. temperm very quickly. that snow behind me that was great snowmaking snowbag snow.
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we have some images of that at lunce today. we came out in front of nbc 4 and had a nice snowball fight. there ar some of the snow we pick up today, 2.1 inches of snow that wa just northeast of the white house. the big winter of course down south, king george county shil area 6 inches of snow and 6. st. mary's and round ridge. radar fairly quiet but a weak syst to our west, west ot will moving h our area that will be prodg lig s around e area right around the rush. temper 32 to 39. the range now, they drop below free by 11:00. icy spots and flurries to maybe a few minor to moderate spots comi our way tomorrow morning. i'll give you a time line coming up and show you the impact. the snow is being blamed for several accidents t morning in virginia. this one in prince willm county. the winter weather is kind of wearg thin with a lot of folks. for others trudging through the snow couldn't be more fun.
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>> had enough of snow this year. i beal glad when spring gets here believe me. >> and big dad by di seems to like the snow? >> he loves it. >> i think so sick of it. i think i'm going to pack up and move to flo at my earliest opport >> a lf folks will join you. the wea is keeping virginia tate police busy. they'v 200 weather-relad accidents most involving damaged vehicles. so far no deaths. helped close to 200 disabled vehicles today. >> a lot of marylanders had a messy drive today. there several inches of snow and slush in prince coun. saw many people out early to clear off their sidewalks. the good news for drivers, many main roa in the county had pretreated and plowed by thed off to work today. > rig now, some di childr in the district just gettg home after confusion over school closings. this morning metro bus sent out a tweet saying d.c. schools were closed. and students wouldn't be able to
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get rides on metro bus. but schools were not closed in fact. opened two hours late. metro bus later sent out a tweet apologg and correcting itself. says it got the information from the d.c. mayor's office. school did go on. >>t think it's the snow that's preventing trucks from getting to overflowing trash cans in some parts of the city but that's not the case in adams morgan. tom sh joins us live to explain what's going on there. tom? pat, we know snow d ice have been a problem for all our local governments. but people who live along this alley in the district don't unde why this one has such a big trash problem. it is adams morgan neig. he walks the alley behind his house dismayed at all the tra pi up. what's w they haven't picked up the trash bef the holiday so s the saturday
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before the holida >> presidents' day. >> that's right. >> rep he and his neigs he complained for two weeks. their alley isn't impassable or danger trash trucks they say, shou get here. >> and when we write to d.c. govern they say the roads are treacherous, they can't come throug >> r and it doesn't help thh trucks routiny s up. they did today while news4 was here. a second truck showed up right after the first. they easily emptied the apart building bins. he owns several restaurants. he understands commercial trash. he doesn't understand the mess in his alley. >> these are my trash cans and we keep some of our trash inside because i rats in here. >> rep a public works spokn declined to be on came but told news4 that alley is within our tuesday/frid twice- colle cycle. crew will be back tomorrow for e friy collection. >> rep and the neighbors
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can only hope so. they say even their garages are filling up with trash. in the district tom sherwood news4. thank you, tom. a developing story in arlicounty eme crews and neighbors are waiting hear about a man taken to the hospit today after an ebola scare. crews raced to an apartment here in clarendon this morning. the patient recently visited west africa and was sho similar to by the disease. he was tak on the virginia hosp center. news4's cameras were there as emery crews were finally ableo remove theire gear. our hazmat teams' response to infect disease, they wear suits to protect themselves and then the patient. >> when we get results of the ebola test we'll get them to you as fa as we can on air and on our nbc washington app. first at 4, bond denied for a man charged in the murder of a 95-yea eric dieson is accused of
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stab dan belvin to death at the randolph village apartments a senior citizen complex in colesv where they accord court documents, dyson told investigato he stabd belvin, a retired navy office becau of unwanted sexual advances. dyson is also accused of steali victim's credit card. > r now, people can legay light up marijuana in parts of the district. a law took effect at midnight legali drug in small amount today, we're learning about a lot of new restrictions that may leave you out of the party. news4's mark segrav has what you need to know. >> i'm holing two ounces of mariju this is what's legal. this i wha you can possess. >> rep whi possession of small amounts of marijuana is legal for those 21 and over you' still limited as to where you can smoke it or even possess it. a is completely banned from university and college camp and dorms. d.c. school buildings and propy f parks or
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gove buildings. >> the only thing that's 100% clear is that the only lawful place for sure is going to be in a property that you own. >> rep and if you live in publ housing, it's still illel there. >> drinking beer in federal subsid housing is legal so, if that's legal, i can't see why someone who wants to make pot brown the federally subsid housing should be prevend from doing seems entirely unfair. >> rep because the federal sti sees pot as illega yr employer can still drug test you. can restrict use not only on the job but also off the job in the same way that turng it back to campuses. campus completely restrict use of marijuana. >> rep at 5:00, why it's unlike any college campuses will allow pot in the near future. the district mark segraves news4. >> the district isn't the only plag plais w the rules for pot are changing. why a lot of the sick in our area will soon benefit from a
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being prosecuted. the new law requires a doctor's approval. it s insp by a fairfax county team who suffers from profound seure disorders. >> no state should have law where is it affect ours children where our great virginia residents say i have to move the another sta because we can't provide t e for our children. >> e bill does not allow virginian b the cannabis oil in the commonwealth and other states prohibit the substance crossing their ord borders. despite t challenges those who suffer from epilepsy tell our david culvert it's a major step forward. coming up tonight at 5:00 on news4 a local family shares their emotional journey to get this bill passed. two carjackings just minutes apart, both in broad daylight and both ne the heart of georgetown pole ll us two people in a car approached a man sitting in his car near 26th and p streets and pointed a gun at him yesterday afternoon. that driver sped off and wasn't
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injured,j minutes later the same thing happened to a woman. she w carjacked at 31st and p streets near wisconsin avenue. park poli arrested one guy. the goert the clo is ticking fast with thousan of local jobs hanging i e balance. and it comes at a time of some fast-moving developments all over the world. he is the subject of a blockbuste oscar-winning movie. now a plane washington to give the amic sniper a huge honor. plus,sa plenty of snow today andwi see some tomorrow t
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two peoe were struck? >> yeah. they both -- they just laying there. >> okay. let's stop kwhining. let's stop whining. it's hard to understand you. >> that 911 operator is now off the job. the call was placed earlier this month from the bw parkway. the operator could be heard telling t teenaged girl to stop whining. her father was dying in the street at . rick warrick and his fiancee had been hit by a car while they were trying to fix a flat tire. anne arund fire chief said the operator should have handled t car differently. he's been the main actor in the isis horror show. a cold-blooded killer dressed in black beiic
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hostages. >> spoke in english and became known by the nickname jihadi john. today we know his real name and his hometown. he's from london. >> now th latest isis developmes tied to the fight over funding for homeland security. >> news4's steve handelsman is live on capitol hill with more on this. steve? >> pat a jim, thanks. u.s. and british intelligence have know t guy's true name for months and no doubt hoping he didn't know they knew. they tried to use the name mohammed eaz gain insight into isis. but now the name's gone public. when the left-handed killer beheaded americ journalist james foley in a video released by isis in august and in later videos, h spoke in british. >> we are a estate. >> reporte n u.s. intelligen confirms the terrorist once known as jihadi john has identified as mohammed wao ewp a lived in london. emwazi apparently beheaded at
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least five amer hostages includingca steven sotloff. >> knew he couldn't hide forever. >> rorr: oth isis fighters with westn passports have gone home bucks so far no problems in the u.s. the two men charged yesterday in new york planning pro-isis attacks ght syria. the fbi says the pair got hooked online by isis. >> they're putting out a very effectivega message through so media, through lots of platforms, saying, hey, if you can't come to syria do somethingn the u.s. >> reporte despite that threat on capitol hill, speaker john boehn i still refusing a so-called clean vote to fund the departmenthoecury. insisting ta linked to unfunding e a immigration order. a new york republican is fuhr rouse. >> isis is killing people all over the world.
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it's absolu insanity for republica we don't vote on a clean bill >> reporteo there's no plan to do that in the house. senate republicans have agreed to fully fund dhs separately and do it by the deadline of tomorrow midnight, friday/say. but than work unless the hos house goes along and roughly 200,000 workers for dhs, many who work in our area, won't get paid. i'm stevhandelsman, news4. >> thank you, steve. any snow that melted over the last day you can forget about it. take a loo at this. chopper 4 flying over some of our areas most snow-covered neighborho check out with the okccacwan looks l piled up there. >> it came down fast. >> it did. our forecast -- >> nailed it. >> exactly, and because of that we though we would have some fun today. take a look at these pictures. this is wh w did at lunchtime today.
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why d we ha to grab that shot of me? >> i think you got hit more than anybody out there. >> i truly did. we have t fl video on our nbc washonopa. i can tell you somebody fell in the snow. pat, i know you weren't working. the snow they broug you melted. let's tal tomorrow morning beu we will see i think some flurries across the area from no problem to i think moderatpr but only a handful of issues as we look at some flurries and light snow moving inr midnight to 9:00 a.m. isolated delays, just a handful. nothing ke wt we saw this morning. we're at 39 degrees. i know what you're thinking. it was warm today. we've got e warmth because we broke out sunshine. the temperatures shot um after lunchtime today. that wind out of the north at 7 miles per hour. the other thing not a tremendououf wind so we don't hav to deal with windchill temperatures. what we will see this evening a handful of icy patches on area roads as tho temperatures drop off. 32 degrees your freezing mark at around 8:00 to 9:00. and we'll stay below that freezing r thrgh the
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morning rush. so that's'm thinking with anything g showing up on radar, yon it's scanning the area right now, fairly quiet, but wea these little ripples h a williamspo t weer maryland, another through pittsburg that's e i think that we'll sta tracking as it moves eastward, giving us a chance for light snow. early tomw morning there we are at midnight. that snow around hagerstown just west of manassas then some light snow, montgomery county, howard cot 6:00 a.m. a handful of delays and really the best locations will be up here to the north. some sunshi even that comes our way i think tomorrow afternoon once again. saturday, and a sunny day for us. then sunday a chance for another little system. we'll tal mo about that in the long-range pattern coming up later in t newscast. cold late sshe for tomorrow. the temperatures, again just above the freezing mark by 2:00 to 3:00. i like the fact that we'll be steadily rising throughout the day. so just some early light snow. not talking about the kind where we're going to have to shol
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do anyt with, just a conversatl for most of the area. from 33 to 32 on saturday. there's a look at sunday right now with your 30% chance that we could see some late mix. what is that? well, thaer we go from seeing a little bit of snow to switching er to rain. 39 degrees on sunday. again, just a 30% chance and it is looking like it's going to be late in the day but another chilly satu for us. clouds on the increase. again, rain, snow at night. we'll talkut the beginning of next week. and with that march pattern is looking li aga a little later in newscast. jim, pat? >> thanks, v.j. new video out of arizona right now of some llama drama. catch this out in sun city. this story is going wild on social media. for more than a half hour police and residents were led on a meandering slow-speed chase in and out of traffic by two wily llamas. >> and several times they
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appeared b cornered only to sprint past their would-be captors sheriff's tio tried to cut the pr off with their cruisers. eventualloere lassoed. we're sti trying to figure out where those llamas came from. >> they are quick. and pretty quiet too. >> and they were sticking together. >> ah tmr >> as well they should. no pressure. he's the at the helm of one of the world's biggest companies nothhe o apple is coming to our area. we'll tell you where he'll speak to thousands. social media is buzzing about a dress that turned countless adsc nht. it's gone missing. and now the recreational pot use is g in the district, we want to know, do you think possessio small amounts should be gathugut the coun
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includingong e pers who expressed concern or connectine us to a suicide preventio chat line. now, the feature was designed with help from an expert who knows all watapns when a friend fails to reach out. >> i checked facebook and saw this post that said it's too much, i can't take it. i didn't do anything. i thought i'll call him tomorrow because th feels a little off. >> steven paul miller never got the chance. his friend died by suicide that night. facebook ss the rollout of the new tool will be complete within the next couple of months. george washington univty has announced that apple ceo tim cook will serve as its 2015 commencemt speaker. cook will speak at gw's graduatiem may. it takes place on the national mall. he'll als receive an honorary doctorate public service. the univertyedhe ceo after g.w. students nominated him. this mth apple became the
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first american company worth $700 billion. drum roll please. apple is revealing the date of its next big event. it'll be monday mashlg 9th and there's speculation it will be to launch the apple watch. the apple announcement simply states, "spring forward." the company's ceo previously said the watch will ship in april. we'll see. remember the pearl dress that pi wore to the academy award? icaht the eye of thieves. that gow stolen yesterday from a west hollywood hotel. detectiar reviewing security footage and guest logs to see f leads to any clues abouthoav snatched it. the ivory calvin klein dress featured6,0 pearls. it's rt a whopping $150,000. battered by snow in an unusual ple. how it's causing a lot of
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docto swarmed his apartment buildingarn this morning the patie had just traveled to west africa. and thousands of families are talking about this tweet this afternoon. metro bus's twitter account said d.c. puic schools were canceleut they were actually just on a two-hour delay. the d.c.ge snow, of course, yut many other ps of the country are not used to the winter weather. >> sarah dallof reports on the problem i causing for many souther ss right now. >> repor across the south, a late winter blast brought freezing sanupo ten inches of snow in some plalss. >> i wa walking last night at about 11:00. it wath beautiful snowstorm. at about 11:20 it turned into this sl and rainstorm. and we got a melted, slushy snow day. iss as yankee from the north i find this toe amusing. >> rert the storms had record totals from arkansas all the to the carolinas and
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virginiacoast. alaba, c backed up for miles on interstate 65. dozens of tractor-traile forced ten night parked on the highway. across the south, crews worked through night plowing roads and salting streets. the snow system knocked out power t hundreds of thousands of customers across the south inclunge than 200,000 in northarwht governord issued a state of emergcy of the storm. >> we're very, very pleased in the la 24 hours no one has been seriously injured and that continuee goal for the next 24 hours. >> repor i virginia, the heavynol covered cars and blanket streets downtown richmd. here in norfolk it was all hands on deck. garbage truck drivers moved to dump trucks to help hall away the snow as the storm worked its way thro the city and into the northeast. but below the mason/dixon line, it's bee a rare and welcome wintertreat. in norfolk, virginia, sarah
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dallof, ne from a system that just grazed i a lot of cancellato watching some more lig snow for tomorrow morning, ie laid the radar back do here so you can see these lit areas of snow that i'm tracking up through areas of pennsyl a one in western pennsylvania. as all this comes into our area makings way eastward chance for some light snow tomorrow morning. tempetuw enough. you're looking at the morning temps for friday, 20 dre around sandy spring, gaithersr 26 in town, 22 a stack of them, fredericksburg up to manass and, yes, snow-veroads. thereoue handful tomorro morning. those secondary roads ai we'veote on that and looking ar to early march for y as we count down to spring. a les th a week away from thar of the boston bombing trial. the juryelti process is under ri now. the pool of 1,300 people is down to 70. the final jurors are set to be chosentuesday. opening statements cod start
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wedneay dzhokharae lawyers say an impartial jury can't be found in boston. they're g tget the trial moved. he's accused of planting the bombs ne the finish line in 2013. t ppl died. hundredse hurt. toda mark 2s 2 years since the bombing at the world trade center that killed six people and inju more than a thousd. norci officials and sever families were part of a ceremony at the september 11th memorl. obrry 26th 1993 a truck bomb exploded below the trade center tower. this bombing was a precursor to 9/11. n at 4:00, the late navy s.e.a.l sniper chris kyle could be awarded the nation's highest milita honor. a texas congressman introduced a bill tohad authi the medal of honor for kyle. he served four tours as a sniper in iraq d recorded the highest number o confirmed kills in u.s. mi history. his me inspired the most
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financiucl r movie of all time. kyle retired from the navy and was sho and killed in texas two years ago. his killer was convicted this week. >ig w a plan to expand maryland charter school law is the fo a hearing in annapis govern larry hogan's bill would gi charters more say in whichtus tre and would al exempt teachers from state certification and give tax credits donations to private schools ma teachers' unions are against bill. they y takes money from public schools. some critics say the plan towers educati standards. nationals' opening day just over a month away now as the team gets set to make a run at the world ri title. it all begins spring training, of cours all the players have reporte and so is our jaso pew. >> repteeb ba and are the nationals. the team that's loaded with top
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talentm top to bottom came togetr t first day. bryce harper steven strasburg, max scherzer, jayson werth and even little werth on the diamond in florida. two divtin three years ha satisfied this organa with one bit. with l pieces in place this yea the goal is to win it all. >> we'r on the same page of trying tn world series. if you're not trying to do that, you'ron o team. i think that's what our manager already on us, like we have a chan to make it happen and this is we're going to strive for. >> repoth expectation certainlhigh. coming u later on news 4 at 5:00, we will hear from the $210 millionman, max scherzer. he'll talk about his new contract his new team. from pierre florida jason pew, news4 sports. three al jazeera journalists spent the night in detention after be arrested while flying a in paris yestea ty rreleased today, but one of touis is due
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back i next week to face charges flying a drone withou license. the incident comes as french policinath week's mysteri series of drone overflibo landmarks in paris. al jazee the news crew was shooti a sto on the mystery drones when they were detained ride a cab get a free night at a hotel. story that could have you rethinkw to get arnold town this weekend. keeping the internet fair and fast. the controversial decision here in washington that impacts everythiro computer to your smne
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it the next generation of loyalty rewards. uber is partnering with starwo hotels resorts to reward its most loyto. uecker users who are in the starwood preferred guest program can earn hotel points every time they take a ride as long as they link the t accounts. starwood hotels include the westind the scherr on the chainasas st. regis and w hotels. som people in virginia can now use a to help with certain medical conditions. news4's david culvert has more now on new law inspired by the fairf cy teenager. >> report' taken months for the collins family of
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fairfax y get to this point he at virginia's capit. in january, we first showed you jennifer collins' battle with debilita seizures. she and her mom had to split from e of the family to live ino for a year, all so she ul legally take cannabis, e eaen that'he reduce her seizure t virginia's governor says she and or families facing the figh longer have to leave home. i'm david cuertn richmond. coming up we'll take you to that tea bill signing and tell you it means for those who live here in virginia. it's been a gathering place for almo 20 years. now it's closing its doors, but not wit getting local folks a little reminder of the good times. > digging out from another round o snow. so what's next for us and how much sw we?
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just as storm team 4 preticke the snow left several incs of white stuff on the gun outsi of the natios capital and it kept a lot of students and parents home today. now m snos are set to fall. >a we're keeping an eye on your wen folks. veronic and doug have us covered ha wee going to see next. how aut it? >> barely a coating but it's always t small storms that can get you where it lays down
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just enou to make roads slick and i t that will be the situaonro morning because r temperatures wilbe below freezing for several hours from midnig into tomorrow mornin we start with your impact forecast low to moderate with a handful of delays across the area. light snnd early flurries. againstldgho the area. take a look at storm team 4 radarche area. pretty dry right now. that sn got out of here early the morni around 11:00 a.m. your sky forecast as we take you throughor morning. i think he comes up, again not much sun because we're looking at cloud cover early on. your best chance of seeing those flurriesd lig snow after midnight probab up until about 9:00 a.m. so straer overcast 8:00 a.m. frida flurries with tempetu the 20s starting out upp 20s to a high temperaur the afterno aroun32 33 degrees. there y at noontime. lunch, to 33 at 2:00 to 3:00.
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here's a look throughout the area. the hi temperatures down here th picked up the most snowfall that 5, 6 inch amountswie melting rather rapidly. frederig,per at 35 31 degreeld areas like fredeckmarynd and an even 30 for martinsburg, hagerstown high tuorw of 30 degrees l of folks just plain old tired of the winter. maybe a few of you say you want more snow, but we've got 21 more days untiling comes here. doug ka i storm team 4. >er inches of snow at the airport ofally at reagan national take l at the other airportshe we are for the re of the winter, the next 21 days as you mentioned of winter. f dulles the big spot 24.8 inches far at dulles airport. national13.4, and bwi coming in with 20.7.
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you mentioned three weeks left until spring. howev, ea during the month of march we saw over a foot ofsnow. so we're not quite done with the snow jus yet. we're no i done with this cold pattern just yet either. althoughh time we're talking act at least one day around 60, right? that's right. that's our way next week. for sda though, a chance for a bit of wintry weather, a little of snow and rain movinin area so, that's the nt s we're really going b tracking as well as that acti pattern for ne week. he ware saturday, 32 sunday,39. but of c falling through the aft and evening hours, monday,40% chance of light rain. the high 43. there'sr 60 on wednesday. so we get rain this time. naturly w days out so there a chance that could change. ways go to check back and download storm team 4 weather app, nbc washington as well. todas snoall is making it difft travelers at our airports.
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so far 40 from reagan national have bee canceled more than 100 delayed. about a dozen flights from washitoes have also been canceled about 10 at bwi marshall. many mo flights scheduled to arrive o airports have also been canceled. there han than a thousand pnes grounded around the country since the storm started. > many amtrak trains running due to the winter storm. all serve from d.c. to newpo news, virginia, canceled. it applyies t the northeast regionan 94 tallas palmettois canceled. it runs from new york cit through and down to savannarg acela and northeast regional from d.c to boston will run as normal. serve expected to return as scheduletomorrow. now to the government ruling we've a been hearing about and talking t tod involving so-call net neutrality. >> it will shape the future of the int but wes it mean for
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consurs brianoo breaks it down for us. >> rtur friend's cutest videos will now stream jt fast or as slow as that show everyone binge-wabinge wa watch o net flick. >> they respect you more when you sh strength. >> ayes have it. >> reporft seval tries the f hedt one gigabyts as good as another. and internet service providers can't give presential treatment. >> it's simply too important to be left without rules and without referee on the field. >> rertt commission's 3-2 vote reflected the sharp politicavi on thish shoe. repubcar it's the first step a government takeover that will turn the internet into a stodgy public utility using a law passed the same year willard scott w born. >> oh, you get washington d.c. bureara wlg the interne i thk that's going to stifle competit and investment. >> repor supporters say
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they're avoiding an internet with fa lanes on the superhi o willi to pay and sidewalks for those who can't afford it. >> why wod we possibly give corporo e sed it up for the rich and slow it down fo poor? >> rert a key rule bug unlikely final word on net neutrali brian mooar nbc news washito comcast, the parent come of nbcunivend nbc 4, has express support for net neutrali. now, some stories we're working rt now in our newsro an upd after a state departmeffwas accused of soliciting a minor. why he wu moved from one part of r area to another. and thi you don't see on cato v often. why the speaker of the house blew a kiss at reporter on live tv. and m wendy rieger at the live desk. a woman o killed her lover in bed will spending the rest of her life behind bars. katrina benz sentenced today to life i prison plus 20 years.
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this traveling nurse was convicte of killing her lover in a silver spring apent right after they had sex. news4'solas at the sentencindhe reactio the family. that's coming up on news 4 at 5:00. popular georgetown bar may be closing but pieces of lit live on. the rhino bar is auctioning off its decor tomorrow. they include the big rhino head over the bar sports memorabilia on the walls as well as furnitu a signs. interes bidders stopped by to take a look at the items today. this is rhino bar's last week of operation. the ow a renewing their license -- their lease, rather. the bar had been open for 18 years. she herndon high school's top shot. >> and she'll soon be competing in the regional air rifle champions. >> there she is allison maxwell is a member of herndon's navy
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junior rotc program, and she holds e individual shooting record a that school. allison she thinks the rifle is something she's always meant t do and her parents are supporv >> i shoot at my house. my mother is a saint. she lets me shoot from the dining through the kitsch sboon living room. we block everythg o so it's nice d safe. the extreme amount of focus and patiee just how you have to become perfect to get the score yonts something really appealing to me. >> check out all those medals she had on. all othe t by chanc to hear how allison explains what haen to nbcwash.c and search "air rifle." stranded in the snow and terrifiwa the end. >> at first i was angry just becauseas going to go out like tha >> an incredible story of how he
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haven't s any new cases there for 42 days. bo is where mercy hospital and the cd rescue sent rer located. those t facilieare operatearonio and volunteers from churches and charitie in northern virginia. today a giant sinkhole caused a building in florida to partiay s check t out, folks. crews we called to the scene around 8:00 this morning. thankfut building was empty at me and no one else wa hurt. it appears that a water main leak create this massive crater. leak als caused some serious erosion crews ar tryingo stabilize the buildi now so the rest of it stays intact. in suburban detroit, a man and his daughters were forced t jump from a second-y balcony to escape a fire their apartment buildg. t father dropped the girls off fist, then his cell phone video showsim jumping from the balco. e owus tirall so they're okay. unfortu, apartments were destroyed in that fire
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overnigh t first he says he noticed there wale silence, and then he says he realized he could no move. a new hampshire man is talking about being trapped und sw in his own backyard for hours. anthony miller reports what he did to survive. >> repoit all started with a little leak. >> my little one mentioned that she had a leak in her room. >> reporea mullins decided heas going to get the snow of the roof of his new hampsree re the leak in his 8-year-old daughter's room g worse. on sund he grabbed his know rake and got to work. he finished and started to head back inside when he heard a snap. >> i looked up and the snow came rushing t roof but i had no time to move. it was moving so quickly and ended up pinning me on my back. >h wife and daughters had just left so for nearly four hours he was trapped under two feet osnow. >> i w laying there and at first i was angry just because i
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wasn't to out like that. i gss wou the best way to put it. >> repor eventually he was able to wiggle enough to move his left leg and make enough room around his face so he could breathe heald for help. >> aroun 5:30 my wife came home and realized something was wrong. she thought she heard something, it sounded like a whisper. >> repohi found him and called 911. firefht able to free him an get him to the hospital. >> it was just, you know, being in theg pce at the wrong time. >> wow. took fi responders about 20 minut t dig mullins out. he was treated for exposure plus a few bumps and bruises. news4 at 5:00 starts now. jim wendy? >> pat, new at 5:00 tonight, two carjacki georgetown in a matter minutes where they're live. then lifting a mask on one of the world's most notorious terroris all n t at 5:00, we speak th t reporter who helped reveal his identity.
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developing first tonight, a twisted sex, lies, and murder s suited for "law anr" th for a local courtho >> st moments a convicted killer learned her fate -- life in prison. it's a sentence the victim's family approves of. >> i fel relieved. i felt relieved that this person will no longer be able to harm anoth soul again. >> katrina ben murdered her lovern bed in a silver spring apartmt. >> news4's pat collins was in court to a joins us live in rockvillrest spoke to the victim's family. pat? >> reji the killer did everythi c to cover up her involvement. she even went to the victim's funera it's a complicated case. it took months and nt f the prosecutors and the police to put it all together. it to ny three years to get to today. but for the samoa family, the wait wa worth it.
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the family of eric samoa came to court looking for justice and today t got what they asked for. katrina ben, the whom who murdered eric samoa sentenced to life with parole plus 20 years. >> it was like 25 bears coming off my back. when he handled down that sentenct just made our day. can't by brother back but this wil a closure for our famil >> repor had sex with him and then she shot him in the head. a whe they had his funeral, there s sitting in the second row. katrina b a traveling nurse turned killer. the victim 34-year-old eric samoa fo dead in his bed at this silver spring high-rise. a shell casing found nearby. the prosecution says ben shot eric samoa after she found out she wn'on and only. to avoid
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