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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 detection, ben went to
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samoa's funeral. she repeatedly denied she had anything do with the murder. she td police she didn't even own a gun. then c the big break, a good samarit f this dismantled gun on beltway and gives it to the cops. it turns out to be the murder weapon. a aer a painstaking invesgapo trace the gun to this pawnshop in columbi mississippi, where records indicate it was sold to katrina ben. what a dramatic scene in that courthouod as members of the samoa family walked up and told the a t pain told the judge about the loss. more ont coming up at 6:00. wendy, bto you. >> pat collins. now to the two carjackings in the heart of georgetown. both in broad daylight yesterd news w 4 jackie bensen is live ju off wisconsin avenue. jacks? >> rep well, i can tell you th ve unusual for this neighborhood, two carjack the suspect was
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armed in broad daylight here in the residential heart of georgeto we c t you the first one happenedp at 31st and p northst thma dr was able to drive away and not be carjacked. but t suspects then drooef littlbi down p street and did manage carjack a woman at gunpot. now, pic were on the scene fairly quickly. they chased the suspects. they di manage to get one and make ayrest, but we understand that the other suspect is still believed to be at large at this time. liv georgetown jackie bense news4. back to you jim. a state department official accused soliciting a minor is now in the custody of fairfax county i officer picked up daniel rosen earlier today from the d.c. jail. he arrested earlier this week aft police tell us he had a series of online exchanges with a fairfax countdecte who posed as a minor.
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rosen ron'ria has been suspeed and he is due back in ct tomorrow. riders pushed back and it seems meo listened. faresilt be going up at least no right now. news4's chris gordon is live at the l'ehaza station to expla w metro decided against fare hike. chris >>epte well, behind me you see plenty of rush-hour passenge mo calls it passenge partners stakeho customers, and today not raising fares it acknowleh the customer is right. this is e reaction we got to the news. this mayo as a surprise to you, but metro decided today not to rais fares. >> that's good. i'm hap about that. okay! >> metro considers raising fares every tw year, but it was thinking imposing a ten-cent fair increase on buses and rail earliern its normal two-year schede it was consideri
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curtaili late-night rail and some b ice to make up for a $46 million budget shortfall. but tod metro's finance commiee decided to take the propose fare increase off the table. >a i think that's a good message ur riders. we want to hear from them. we've he from them. and they've said the fare increasd onerous at this time. >> repor passengers wondered why they pay more after the fata at the l'enphant plaza station in january and recent incidents where sparks from arcing insulation filled statis smoke, causing delay >> th need to clean up this system and use any dollars that they currently have in their budget repair all of the escalato clean all of the sidewal alleviate the smoke in the io and do a better job. >> some people just catching a hard tist actually getting back and forth to work. >> repoth fact there will be no metro fare increase? >> great. i think it's great. >> now, metro says safety is its
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number-o priority. ahead on news 4 at 6:00, we'll see if passengers agree. we'll lk t riders including one who disabled and legally blind. that's coming up on news 4 at 6:00. ji ba to you. >> chris thank you. a lot of children will be back to school tomorrow after this sno d today. but ki in the district however,d have to go to class. confusi created by social media, though, meant it was a late day for many. the met twitter account said e schools were closed a students were not -- would n be able to get rides. in reality, schools were on a two-hr del. the transit agency said it got its ior from the mayor's offic a l tweet apologized and said bus would be there to pick up the kids. doug's ihe storm center. we are n totally done wh this q yet, huh, buddy? >> we ha a little coming to want, jim. talkinab couple flurries maybe a snowhor two. that's really going to be about it. but it could be enou once
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again e us that little coatingt there on those roads. are anticipating delays? not really. let's ta look show you how this all unfolded toy. between:0a.m., we told you movingd 3:00 to 4:00 in the morng that's exactly what we saw across the area. it lasted for a few hours between00 and 11:00 is when it start piddle on out as it moved off towards the east. behindit we saw a pretty good amount o snow in some areas. up to tnorth, 2 inches, pars of loudo county, 1.2 in montgom couy, 2.1 at natiol, leonardtown coming in at 4 inches. southern ms county around 6. your headlines for today more cold on way, yep, chance of snow, ye just a little one, and then a big warm-up. i they's what everybody's waitingfor. but it's not going to be exactly great outside. we'll ta abo that coming up. a lot of frustration for drive in prince william county today. no injuries, no seous damage, but several cars slid off what was a sl blld in woodbridge. some of them wound up knocking
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ooh into each other. it's the first day marijuana is now legal in the nation's capital but smoking pot still going to be off-limits to so many adults. news4 mark segraves reports there ar places where even possession is gog b illegal far beyond federal land. >> supporters of legalization lit up today, taking advantage of the district's new law. adults 21 or older can now process o two ounces and can smoke i their homes. >> for a typical can nis user, this mig a month or two month w of cannabis so it's no a lot of cannabis. >> repowh d.c. law says it's okay for adults there's still l of restrictions. federal civilian and military employee s be prohibit smoking pot, and private employers can restrict employeswell. and thel lots of places pot is l banned. >> we'll always have kind of like green and red zones across our cit >> while marua is legal in d.c., it remains prohibited on
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college campuses and dorms, d.c. school iln and property, and all federal parks and governme buildings. >> i think it needs to change with colleges. i think ey get rl with this. if a college dormitory has a designat ret smoking area, whny of them do, i think it's okay to use marijuana in thaac >> it's unlikely universities will allo pot on campus anytime soon. >> f and foremost there's the drug-free school and communit act, which requires all institutis higher educati to maintain drug-free campus ercee federun. no one is going to want to jeopar that. >> at 6:00, why you may not be able s pot in your own home. mark sees news4. tonight, we are still workingo get new information from health officials in virginia after an ebolaca in arlinony toda the patiwa taken from an apartmepln clarendon here th morning to the virginiit center. the pso was experiencing symptomsar to those caused
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by eba had recently been to west africa. >> this morning we responded to a patient that had traveled receny an ebola-affected country rit n there's no diagnosis of ebola. it's unlikely that it is ebola, but the fire department, public health dtm and receiving hospitaave precaio >> wh w get results of the test we'll get them to you as fast as we c on air and on our nbc wash app. he h become the face of isis brutality. well, n know the real name of the man who has been nickname jihadi john. mohammedaz is the man with the british accent who brute ti executed american hostage james foley. emwaziw up in london is college educated, comes from a well-to family. at 5:30, we'll speak with "washgtt" reporter adam goldman, helped reveal the identityf this jihadi john. update on a sty yaw fist on 4, that 911 dispatcher who told the teenage girl to
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stop whining after her father was hit and killed is out of a job. an offic with anne arundel countyay t dispatcher is no long we the fire department. that girl called when her father and his fiancee were hit while they we changing a tire on the b.w. parkway earlier this month. the car that hit them did not stop an arrests have been made. a tse snow days, they're addingup. new tonight, the news4 i-team heads to the classroom to find out the impact on students taking exams. this water main break caused aspha t explode in this suburban community. but crews are already assigned to breaks that are worse than this one.
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meanwhilhe senate could vote on its own clean funding bill as early as tomorrow. its unclear how a clean senate ou fare in the house. >> and the house speaker john boehner g any hints when they asked if they'd vote on a senate measure. but he did do this -- >> goi to put it on the floor? are you going to kill it? are you going to let them vote on it? have you even had this discussi >> when we make decisions i'll let you know. >> read lips. congress has until the weekend to pass funding measure and if it does 30000 workers will be furloughed on monday. another 200,000 will be expected to work without pay. as the winter blast in our area continues, water main breaks a becoming a big big problem and crews are working around t clock to try to fix these breaks. >> princer'un bureau chief kathi wilson rode along with wss crews today. what diou find? >> i found they have en very busy, w w reportin nowre getting an inside look at exactly how busy they've been
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by seeing these breaks when they first hn to when they get into to this point and break into th ground and start to do some wor we tee week with more than 7breaks. now we a little more than 20. that means some breaks are getting repaired and others are not. here's th decide. >> quite a bit of water was coming out. >> this he starting point here. sewhe concrete has come up wre the asphalt has come up? >> see it in the asphalt down there, b is where it broke. >> righ >> he told me it wasn't three only one, but it's coming out at the weakest point of the concret >> looking for the strongest point on the water main. >> just needs repairing. >> marty windsor is an inspector with wssc. he's the first on the scene to access break. >> i can basically judge by the amount of water or how much damagit doing. >> water coming through the ground,sp has exploded here. it'baerbr but not the worst wssc has seen today, it may not be repaired
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now. >> nobody's lost any water. nobody'of water. >> soun h what he's speakin >> hold till our next available crew. >> you don't mind. >> no. >> with several dozen breaks still le t fixed. >> at least they do let you know. >> figuring out what can wait is importa now i off to the next break. >> a lot of no water call, a lot of broken main flooding going on. just ea all tay long. >> home ryavmo questio >> that's the first question we're asked, when is somebody going to come out and address this. >> this is one ofho baks that c not wait and they think t repairs should be wrappedi few hours. folks o swiout water unl they get it done. on news 46:00, how they make the decn between when they're go repair and when they're not. why ts guys got some work done today. tracee wilkins news4. wendy >> thank you, tracee.
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in alabama dozens of drivers spent t n in their cars because hnoin that southern state. driversot stranded on a stretch i-65 as traffic backed miles. parts the state buried under near l of snow. we're talking alabama. the national gua was called in to help drivers get off the road. travel still extremely treache there today. >> two plows for whole state i hear. >> thas ri. >> for all of dixie it's two plows. >> boy, did you hit this forecas >> we even lowered totals last night at 11:00, didn't look like we'd ge those 3-inch totals and we got 2.2 at the airport, 2.1 at the airport. we'll take that all day long. town south we said woulde e bull'es and you got it frederi, inches, 6 inches st. mary's, and this is a pretty picture, thoug frozen potomac. look at sn on top of the -- the ice on the potomac. pretty picture, but we're maybe for somea little differen
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38 eet now, winds out of the nor at about 6 miles per hr. we're dealing with cloud cover. we'llone see the clouds the rt night. 32 degr currently in gaithers37 fredericksburg, and 32 or rather 34 back towards winchte as as radar is concernno showing up here. donxp to see much overnigtonight. what we e watchinis a little boundary yocase coming through pennsyl, on back towardscincinnati. it's a little frontal boundary that'go a ma its way throughhe as it does, it could kick off snow shors maybe some flurrs we move on through the nighnd the early portion of tomor morning. here we a future weather 8:00 tonight, few snow showers back towards the mountains. watch whappens, though. they move our way back towards winchtnd 11:00, martinsb t they kind of break up. again, we're not going to see everyboti this. it wi b few and far between. some areas of montgomery county, mayberot district. if you do see snow again, it's not going to be very heavy, but it cou problems on those roadways early, even around 100 tomorrow morning, still poly swe to the east of i-95 as this whole
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system continues to mo off towards e east. so road condions rr morning roads, we think they' fine. isolad k spots yes, especial early especially with th refreezing overnigh second road that will be the area we still have snow in spots. wcout, that snow and ice will ref the sidewalks. the sidewalks are treacherous. they' the ice. they've t snow on top of that ice, and that makes them even more split second. give youf little bit of extra time too. high temerw on the cside, 33 in d.c. 31 gaithers 35 in frederic. our er high up to 50. not goin to come tloes klose to that tomorrow or on saturday. doelder. 32 on saturday, 16 for an overnht low then 39 on sunday wah is he comes the right direction. maybe a mix on sunday. that'soie' watch. light r on monday, 43, back to 40 o tueay with a chance for a mix. this is s that we'll watch closely,t then the next day, wednesda g mico
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opensores in and the warm air p its way up we mightet deee wouldn'th feel nice? does com with a chance soft rain and latest computer models give u the chance for thunders activity a spring like storm for wednesday before temperurmek down. but righ now, the cold air, it's here. maybe we're starting a little warmi as we head to the month o march. >> doug, thank you. we're following breaking news ri now. a fourth man is now in custody in connoni isis-related arrests nk city. this spe just detained in norfolk, virginia. we're working to get more informa f you right now. we will update coming up on news4. next on news4 -- >> we are the islamic army, an estate. >> the isis terrorist known as jihadjo identified ap live interew a reporter who shed gh on the man behind the mask. >> okfo it na
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>> pat lawson owho this ult >> this complicated topic. todayce ruling bans internet providerr allowing companies to pay f faster speeds. that means no one company is can now have control over how fast you'rabdo things like stream o download music or a podcast. new rules but putt providers in the sam category as utility companiat provide your gas or electty where customers all had equ aestoerc and when it comes to your broadbanbill, the good news is that you shouldn't see any changeat all. wendy? >> a you, pat. apple's ceo is heading here this sprg to help send some local coe students out into the world. tim cook will deliver the commence address at g.w.'s graduati. students nominated him for the honor. the ge wags is many-in may on the national mall. he'll ao be award with an honorary doctorate for his publicic joop a family's
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long medical battle ends with cheers tears today. new at 5:00 tonight, why they say they're one step closer to helping t daughter battle debilita seizures. then highway drama. a drive gs hurtling off the road. he survives and his interview is new tonight. and for months he's only been n a. tonigh ha
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estate. >> we ha seen his eyes an heard hi voice. >> and now there are new details about thsi executioner with the brith accent. >> welcome back at 5:30, everybo i'm jim handly. >> i'm wendy rieger. he has co to embody the horror of isis brutality. with now we know his name. his name is mohammed emwazi. he grew up in west london, has a college degree in computer progrmi "the wasto" s first -- was the first to report his identity and adam goldman, the reporter bro who broke this story a tracked down friends who confirmed emwazi's identity. adam, ths huge story. emwaz ds friends say from what they told you, does he fit the prof of someone who would go to syria and join isis and become th leader that he appearsbe? >> well, we're learning more about him today, andotust what we learned from the friends. it do look like he fit the
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profil he was radicalized in a west london neighborhood with other like-minded young men who initially wanted to go join al shab somalia. >> what turned him? this is man with a college degree in a nice family. that seems to be a little bit differe i thi we often think that these people come from more impoverd circumstances. >> it's not clear what turned him. the rt of line that's emerging is thatewog to go quote, unquote, on safari in tanzani 2009 and got turned back. tanzan just south of somalia e al shabab is. he says basically in his own e-mails obtained he felt persecut england and couldn'leav couldn't get a visa to o wre he had a bai said he felt capabled edd -- caged in london. hrids said he was despera he apparently managed get out of the country i january of 2012 and
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make his way to syria. you kno giv what i know about him now, i'm not so sure that st le is accurate. and he might have been radicalel before 2009. >> yeah, because iwod em it wou tlo than just bei desperate to go from being a little bit desperate and oppresse feeling as if you're t proeszed to be beheadinle a bit of swaggere on camera. what arein to do with this inforti now? what wil t authorities do with th information? >> well one of the reasons we felt li weou run the story is because james b. cohen, the fbi director, announced in septemb they knew the identity of jihadi john, and he said that publicl so we felt like it was important to disclose his identity. it was the public's interest to know that. clearly n the reaction we're seeing to the story, the public
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wanted tknow. >> do they think they're any closer tin him, capturing him? >> i ane ongoing operatio to kill this individu inu tve caref. u ow e not -- i don't think ahe hostages have been release yet so -- >> okay. adam goldman in from "the washingosa y so much. >> you're welcome. >> he'd been terrorizing drivs by posas a cop. tonighrfntpoce are closing in. officia believe the same man is behind incidents from fairfax to i-270 in montgomery county. and the need your help. northernniauhi julie y le in burke at the scen of one of those inciden julie? >well, it was an information from a shopper here at the burke center last month that gave police they needed ark licen p number that enabled to go get this search wn and what they found in the suspect'r moves them that much closer to be able to charge him with impersonating a poce
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officer. b w surprised by what i found wh i went to his neighbotoday. this 19-year-old man habe studytoe an emt. this is car at the center of the fairfax countyole investig a car that was just searched. it's a black 2008 vw passat with this emt decal on the rear windshie this swaafv shows whs fou inside, a box of ammunition, knives, a variety light bars and l.e.d. l.e.d. lights. we can' you the name of the man who was driving the car accused flashing those lights because ce't charged him yet. but in court documents investigdetail a half dozen incidents linked to the passa theda to february of last year. ime cases the driver of the passat used flashing quite and red lights as he tailgated the victis vehicle, attempting t pull them over. sometime a police siren blared. in one case, the driver and other teens sprayed silly string at pedestrians. but poli say this is no
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laughi matter. >> were very concerned pap lot of times people treat this sort of thing as a prank or feel that it's f but it's not. it's exe frightening for the peop who think they're being p over by police and certains d cause dangero driving maneuvers. >> repo: yesterday fairfax county used crime solvers to make a public plea seeking more pehoe se the car to forward. >> anybody who may have seen this ca driving erratically or usinghe ligh or siren, we hope that they will contact police. >rert b center shopperse surprised to hear that an incident involving the passat happened right here. >> i had no idea. i mean,i listen to the news all the tim and i had no idea. >> repo: neighbors tell news this 4 the young man who drive the psas recently been attendin emt school and hopes to becom a paramedic. in burke virginia julie carey, news4. funer services for the youngan kimmed by a driver downtow wi be held this weeke. family a friends of phillip snodgra will gather at a funeral home tomorrow in
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timoniu then memori svic will be saturday at chestnut grove presbytehu phoenix, marylan snodgrwo at the national federatif federal employees. he died earlier this week when police say a man fleeing a crash scene flipped his car and hit him. in court today, a judge ordered monomy un man who's charged in the murder of a 95-year-old retired navy officer. hbe ordered held without bond. eric don is accused of killing dan belvin at the senior citizen complex ehey lived in colesvil he to investigators he stabbed belvin to death for unwanted sexual advances. dyson a accused of using the victim's credit cards. righ now, a fairfax county family i celebrating a big victory the fight to help their daughter from debilitating seizures >> virginia governor terry mcauliff signed into law that bill tod allowing nonpsho cs to be used wit a doctor's permission.
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use 4's david culvert reports from richmond on today's emotial signing. >> with just one signature the ink barely dry and beth collins' eyes filled with tears, to undera this emotion, we need to understand what this fairfax mom sacrificed for her daughter who suffers from epilepsy. we first met jennifer collins last month. the family packing for richmond, hopinto persde virginia lawmakeo legalize medical marijuan specifically cannabis oil, whes carry the so-calle. jennife fighting to stop her seizure the treat tt work best, cannabioil. until toy you couldn't legally use it virginia to -- so the family to split up. jennifer and her mom moved to coloro mo of last year. but now they're back in virginia determo the law. we walked with virginia to the governoroffice. >> evyo telling us that we couldn't do it, but it's amazing we did. >> th surrounded by five other virginia families with children also suffering fr epilepsy,
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governor mfe signed >> okayis now law. the new law keeps those from using a nonpsychoactive cannabis oil fm pred as long as ty ve a doctor's approval >> 's medicine. we have ta thinking of it my bimedicine. >> the impact felt by lawmakers in thise >> it's been an emotional moment for these families, for me. >> incredible. >> but the new law stopped short of allowing families like the collinsm buying the cannabis oil and bringing it to virginia. it only allows them to use it here legally. they're l breaking laws by transrt out of another state. aheadt ho pn overcoholl in ri monday david culvert, news4. winter weather getting in the way as local high school studes for some big exams. the news4 i-team investigates if snow days had an impact on test scores. >> $210 million. does th number still blow your
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thk the bat means one thing -- baseball season and spring i right around t corner a t nats players are at spring tg getting readyor t season-opener. there's april 6th. >> stars we've come to know, bryce harper and stephen strasbur hoping to get this team ba io the playoffs. >> but there's a new star who has d.c. buzzing tonight about a world serie today japu sat down with the new $210 million piper. >> first off, the contract $210 million doeth number still blow your mind? >> yeah. i mean, it is. i mean to have ta that type of money to bayplay baseball. but when yoha the revenues this wh can happen. >> butu earned every single cent thu your hard work and the numbu'p up over the year >> thay current system is of compensating players you have
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to be e in a specific window to rea free agency and the perform i'm on the few guys able to capture t >> to h a guy like scherzer come in i just started laughg. i like where is my ring? >> wh you hear things like that t confidence that this clubhousasnd this team, how does it y feel just to be a part of that? >> well, you don't get a ring for winni off-season, you have to i it's going to be extremear to be able to go out there and accomplish that goal. you kw, there are some really good balcl out there that are goi gunning for us and we' have a big target on our b >> i did not notice this. during y t in detroit, your eyes. >> mm-hmm. >> i'm sure you get that all the time. >> all the time. one blue one brown. the ocean blue, that's right. it's t sexy one. the blue's the sexy one. >> sure. do you tt throws hitters off a little bit? >> i wish. >> no? >> the scores are in. how didt 's numerous snow da impact local students
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about the ebola scare in arlingtoun. the arlington coun hlt deparen tie take to virgosse ty are mng tested negative for ela th pie taken from an apartme cx in clarendon this mog after experiencing symptoms the pew reportedly traveli recently had been to west africa. but t tests have come back, arlingtouys that patie n beg evaluated at the virg hospital center is negativ ebola. that's gws. the sc is over. back to you. >> okay. we also had some breaking news we told you about a short while ago that a fourth man was arresdo norfolk, virgini who was suspected of headi o to syria to join isis in addition to the three men from yesterday. pete wi s tell us abo this. are they expecting anymore? >> well, it was quite clear yesteay th the authorities arresti tee people from brookn th two of them planned go to syria.
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they had bought airplane tickets but that another man had provided f a tre was a gg in court document third man was in touch with other people who he in essence raising money from. our undendg there is a persono in custody in the norfolk area who is being questiow whh was one of those people who was providimoney. no charges have been filed. right now on immigti charges. and the authorities are trying to decide whether he was actual involved whether he was just an innocent person who was talking to other folks. they hav decided whether they'llcr charges, immigrat charges. but it just shows that the investign this brooklyn case is not over and that there is a suggestion that other peoplma provided money and n they're trying to figure out what t extent of their involvemwas. >> fbi director said yesterday as we wer talking coast to coast i all 50 states we have people under surveillance now. how many people, and has this
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train ju left the station in the wee and months ahead? are the numbers just going to take off? >> if yo look at the numbers in the pastea and a half 20 american have bn stopped tryingo to syria, to either f with isis or other foreign te there's180 americans overall, the govent says, that have eithero to syria or tried to go there or have gone and come back. the fbi director said he had terroris investigations in all 50 states and authorities tell us that they have literally hundred pe in the u.s. under sla >> algh petha you so much for coming and put this into context us. >> go to see you. let's go to doug and get the forecas >> he guys. we saw t snow early this morni, au a lot of problemsn of the roadway theoo news though, we're not seeing anything out there right now and mt of the roads are improvin very quickly and did so as we saw some sunshine cominou there. look out towards the dulles toll road. looking g there.
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here's reston parkway. the roaar ice conditions outsi ri now and those will be the conditions as we move on through rest of the night. now, se snow totals so far how muc have we seen all the way thugh the month of february 24.8 inches out of dulles, 13.4 inches national and bwi cominin 20.7. dulles normallthe big winner and it o more time. will we see more snow? just consid this. last march we saw over a foot of snow at national, many other arias sa a lot more than that. we can s get snow in march and i sti think that's in the offing. no eni planner tonight, we picked ou 2 inches of snow in northwest, 38 degrees, temperat dropnto freezi by 11:00 p.m. so watch out, thwie icy patches on the roads. give yous extra time. nothingn radar. all clea back tohe west however, we're watchg little system, little of snow here, back towar cincinnati, this is a boundary that's going to try to
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break thh our region. as it does it may bring us the chance r some snow showers maybe a flurry or two. tomorrowngen 6:00 and 8:00, areas of light snow not a big concern. temperar 26 degrees. if we cou see it come down hard eu for even ten minutes it could produce a coating on some of e roadways. watch ou for that too. 32 degrees just cold between 4:00 and 6:00 in the afternoon, not -- not bad tomorrow but not exacea tomorrow forecast some sun, still cold, 30 to 35 degrees the high teur we'll stay on this cd dehe next couple days. 32 on your saturday. here we go, 39 on sunday, a chance a late mix, a storm we'll h to watch closely 43 on monday then boom, we rise to 60 degrees on wednesday. that coi a storm system that sh pass to our north and fit d it will get on the warm sid for sure, at least for one day. however ati we get to 60 this tim year you know we're talki r as well.
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guys? >> tha doug. another snow day for thousands love o'c students today and it meansno day at home and not in the classroom. >> last year parents and teaches were conce the onslaught of snow days hurt local studts. >> they d ose unschul days off would damage scores. >> as scott mcfarlanund out, those fears seem to have failed the fa check. >> pa d is usual through more diffilone. >> branty gray is preparing his class in frederick county for some of the twists and turns of the ap economics test. >> they g harder, all right, and they do it on purpose. >> test day for his students may 14th. kids who alet a 3 out of 5 on the test earn college credit f this full year of study. tt oric >> aol yea gog dnet or t. >istunt thinks her test should b much easier this year. last year's snow and snow days cost ka about a dozen days in the class before the big ap
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exam, jt like it did for tens of thousands of high school studentug our area. at any point did it get stressf >> it definitely did get stressfuwa the end just becau o how mani w taking and how they were falling on the same day. >> so concerned about scores plummetias year local schools heavily lobbied the a pshgs, e administrators, a group called t college board, to give local kids a later test date in 2014 and the college board did, offering a second alterti s of ap exams days later. buthe i-team's review found only a small fraction of local schoo actually used the later date in 2014. just 2 out of 12 in fairfax county, in prince william county, len of all high sch i maryland. most ch to race to get kids ready for that original midday date. >> they're pretty self-motivated kids. >> a our review shows despite all tse worries ap test scores in the snow day-filled winter of 2014 actually jumped in most place just loo
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passi scores are up 1% in montgome count fairfax county, prince william county png scores up 3% in fredecc and an even larger increase in loudoun. >> whenhe snow days keep comi a coming i get anxious the students get anxious. >> science teacher claudine was sured by what thi-am fou. mht attributed to those prerd lessons on video studen h at home. and she says a prshgs among the high motivated. >> whether they have 3 snow days or 15, they've learned a lot of matl learned a lot of skis. absenteeism by individual studts hurts achievement more than a those snow days because abse students fall out of step with t teachers and with their classmates. on sno days, teachers and studenremain at least on the same trac in all of that snow didn't seem to slow down ap test parpa either. in d. public schools the pernt hho senis tts last year w h nest the country.
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sco mcfarlan news4 i-team. now, we just updated the numberow days for major schl ctugutur regn. chk district by opening the nbc washingtoa and seah l"snow days." n to an unusual outbreak thais bringi sohe indnae most hiv cases. new cases it's seen in more than a decade. sin mid-decembe health offia the ven confmes and they're lin t the injection of a painkiller that includes a comnt more potent per millra oxycontin. heal ols they're tryto contain the spread of thi > want to minimize risky behiomus possible, but even folks that don't feel like they're engaging themselves in risky behaviors need to be awa o loved ones around themhaar >> it's illegal in indiana too to nd o syringes so the headent giving potal users bleach and water to ehe needles. the acog testin vehicle loses control and
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withit scary deal. >> sfg friend's house had little bit to drink was tired a snowbank. >> 33-year-old vanek is banged up d remorseful aer totaling theckwa driving on intst 93 early sunday morng the dratic crash was captured frodie angles by massdot surveice cameras. he took out a light pole and hit an exit sign before flying over the upper deck of 93 landing in thethd lanes below. >> ju glad i didn't hurt any else. you knme, i'm fine. you k broken bones, bruised up, ak whatever, but if it happe somebody else then, youno i s the cause of it tha would be something else. e isederg undethue he miha drinking butls says he has been tired from working the third shift at his j and taking on extra work shovel
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queio m right now in conio with the alleged isis conir that led to three arrts the united states jusyesterday. >> tha man has not been charge a all this comes atz we lea n t g behind mas income some grueso videos from isis. steve smn capitol hi with now. ste? mohammed emwa is his name, jim d hoping to learn more about threahe homeland. u.s. and british officials have been secretly studying this isis mon for months. how moed emwazi, born in kuw g in london, got a comt science degree, got into jihad and ended up a stone cold executionerith a british acce. when t left-handed killer behead american journalist jam foley in a video released by isis in august and in later vid h sounded british. >> an islamic
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