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program. what it means for thousands of people trying to escape from isis? today we spoke to the assistant director of the fbi washington field office. this is chris gordon. we asked him what the feds are doing to protect d.c. from terrori terrorists. and i'm tracking the rain and fog, still kind of nasty out there for some of us. the rest of us, i'll show you what comes next in the forecast. now to some breaking news out of northeast washington. one person is in critical condition right now after being shot by police. officers are on the scene right now on dicks street near division avenue. the shooting happened at 2:00 this afternoon and news 4's jackie bensen will have more coming up. there are new fears this afternoon that a major intelligence breakdown may be to blame for those attacks.
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the suspected ringleader is believed to be in syria, but somehow he was able to travel across europe even though he was a wanted man. there are reports that abdelhamid abaaoud was spotted in greece on monday and by yesterday he was in that apartment north of paris that was raided by police. prosecutors are confirming now that abaaoud was killed in that raid. his body was so badly mangled it had to be identified based on skin samples. tonight we are also hearing a dramatic exchange between the french police and that female suicide bomber just moments before she detonated her vest. let's listen. [ speaking foreign language ] [ shots fired ] >> that woman has been identified as hasna aitboulahcen. police believe she was the
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cousin of abaaoud. take a look at this that was obtained by "the daily mail".com, and it shows a paris cafe sprayed with bullets. you can see one person ducking for cover and at one point the attackers walks up to the cafe, but his gun jams and he quickly walks away. >> a three-month extension on a nationwide state of emergency that will give police limitless power to conduct searches and raids. here in washington, two suspicious package reports today are just the latest incident putting law enforcement and security officials on high alert. news 4's chris gordon is live at the capital after speaking with the fbi today. chris? >> reporter: well, i spoke with the assistant director, the fbi's washington field office. we have put in the request on monday, but he told me that they had to wait until today to speak with me because it took that amount of time to sort out the
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information of the paris bombing last monday. the fbi briefed the 45 local and law enforcement partners which worked together to protect washington. today the secret service investigated a suspicious package discovered near the white house. later, the 14th street bridge was closed in both directions for a time when another object was found. i asked paul abate, the assistant director of the washington field office what to make of this activity. >> there is a heightened level of concern, i think, following the attacks that we saw overseas, but we really deal with stuff like that every day. that's been going on for a long time. it's stuff that's not always visible to the public, but i want to reassure everyone that we're always hunting stuff like that down. we're always reacting and looking to prevent things from happening here. >> reporter: all new at 5k clo, you have undoubtedly seen that
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video on the news purportedly from isis threatening other targets including washington, d.c. i asked the assistant director of the washington field office of the fbi if they consider that a credible threat. his answer ahead on news 4 at 5:00. that's the latest from the u.s. capitol, back to you. >> chris gordon. thank you, chris. isis has released video that shows a threat to new york city. it is just another piece of highly produced propaganda. it shows isis fighters and clips of times square and new york taxi cabs. the nypd also says there is no current or specific threat to new york right now. and just another example of our heightened anxiety and traffic is back to normal after the bomb squad determined that the suspicious package there is not a threat. this was the top story for most of the afternoon as this bridge was closed for about an hour, but again, the bomb squad
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checked it out and it was not a problem. they think this package just fell off of a truck. our coverage of news 4 is just getting started and we'll keep bringing you information, and we'll go to capitol hill to get reaction on the vote on syrian refugees. turning to storm team 4 now, the rain is still falling in part of our area and that is having an impact this afternoon. doug kammerer is here and how much longer will it take the fog to lift? >> we're looking at the fog right now and it's making its way through the region. this is the city cam and normally you can see downtown and right now you have trouble making out the train making its way across the bridge and look out toward reston. we're still on the mild side with rain. we're starts to see, and we've got the fog and we have seen sunshine and west of the
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mountains it's nothing, but blue skies and they've seen temperatures climb to 70 degrees back into places like win chester and la rhea. the rest of us are still going with the fog and shower activity and you can see the showers coming on through i-95 right now and if it's not around anacostia, you will get the rain 16 to 20 minutes and we'll need the umbrellas right on through. >> this whole system will continue on pull on out and we'll talk about the cooler numbers coming up in just a few minutes. i'm pat collins in buoy, and the scorched earth over there marks the spot where it happened. he was 44. he had five children. she was in her 30s. she had two children. they're both dead today after an atv accident on racetrack road. it happened around midnight. the atv and an suv in a head-on collision. they say it was an explosion. >> a fire and the flames
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reaching up to the treetop. one of the victims in the atv got ejected and thrown into the woods. the firefighters had to use an infrared device to find the body. today friends of the victims as they visited the scene. coming up at 5:00, we will hear from the feds and we'll hear from police, and i'll have the details coming up. remember the local woman who went on the metro track and started doing yoga? well, she was charged, well now those charges could be dropped and her name is phoenix harris and she was charged with trespassing after surveillance video showed her performing yoga on the track at westfalls church while being photographed by someone. those charges could be dropped if she completes ten hours of community service by next march. getting on metro tracks is illegal and it can also be deadly because that third rail is electrified. police clash with protesters. tension rising over the shooting death of an unarmed black man
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small umbrella and jacket and at least our temperatures, those aren't too bad. in the 60s and we're wet. right now around the beltway and even inside the beltway. we have some rain that continues to make its way from southwest to northeast around bethesda and around north bethesda and wheaton and rosemary hill and up to white oak area and the other thing we're dealing with are low visibility because the fog has set in. from now until 7 dlok p.m. and that visibility is under a mile and we'll see improving conditions and spotty fog after about 7:00 p.m. and really start to improve after 10:00 to 11:00 p.m., that's when our temperatures will start dropping quickly. doug has more on that coming up. >> more protests are expected tonight in minneapolis where some members of the community are still upset about the police shooting of an unarmed black man over the weekend. last night protesters hurled rocks and bricks at police officers outside of headquarters. we are told several officers
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were injured and several squad cars were damaged. officers used pepper spray to disperse the crowd. jamal clark was shot by police and there have been protests ever since. his sister says they want justice. >> violence begets violence. any of those things are not getting our message across. period. >> police say clark was a suspect in an assault and that he was interfering with paramedics who were trying to treat the victim. a bone of contention is whether he was handcuffed when he was shot. >> right now townsend university's president says he's working to meet student's demands over racial concerns. timothy chandler signed a list of 13 demands submitted by two dozen protesters and this acc d according to the baltimore sun. they include more tenured staff of color, and a no-tolerance
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lawmakers in the house have voted to halt a program that would accept syrian refugees. it would create a background check for any refugee who spent time in syria and iraq after march 1, 2011. president obama has threatened to veto it. also, we'll detail the new steps the vatican is taking to protect the pope after those attacks in paris. metro made it official today swearing in a new leader. paul wedfield, is the former head of bwi marshall airport and the maryland transit administration. adam tuss was there for the swearing in today and adam, what is the first thing that wiedefeld says he needs to do. >> he'll do a top to bottom review of top metro staff to see who goes. as is often the case with a lot of new administrations and people come in and they like to
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bring in their own people and the fact that wiedefeld has a transportation background. he says it will be face-to-face with top metro staff and make it happen. >> did he say anything about that? >> well, right now he says he just can't see raising fares and people paying more money for the service that they're getting. he's very aware of what's been going on here. he's a baltimore guy and knows the intricacies of the metro system. he's ridden it so he knows about the complaints about the system right now and he says he just can't see raising the fares at this point in time with this level of service. >> we know he's not from here. does he plan to move to d.c.? >> so eventually he says he will move to d.c. and right now he's in the townsend area and he's got a 16-year-old daughter who is a junior and he can't up and move her at this point and eventually he will move the family and he has a four-year
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contract and plans to be on the east side of the red line probably somewhere around noma. he'll get an apartment so he can go to union station and move back and forth. we can say that one thing paul wiedefeld can do is we look to blame metro for a lot of things and the rain is still out here. >> adam tuss. thank you, adam. now your storm team 4 forecast. >> and i want to show you what's going on outside right now. we have the fog drifting in across the area and dense fog in parts of the region and we're still at one mile or so visibility and driving will be okay and you need to slow yourself down and temperatures at 64 degrees and we have calm winds and do we have the camera back out to the west and this is what we're dealing with and again, we have the fog and 64 degrees right now and we have the rain that's continuing to make its way right on through the i-95 corridor and towards
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around the stafford area and seeing that rain will do a zoom here right on through the d.c. metro area. and you can see the heavier rain and this is on the light to moderate side and right on through bethesda and springfield and franconia. in and around d.c. and we'll take you tomas massachusetts avenue and right along connecticut and over toward 16th and parts of the northeast, as well and also seeing the rain and if you're not seeing it just yet you have more rain coming and look at the clearing behind this, and we've got the sun going on back to the west of the mountains and winchester coming in right now at 70 degrees. we have some very warm air with sunshine back to the west, but it's not going to stay warm. temperatures, 53 degrees in gaithersburg and 51 back toward win chester and these will be the highs tomorrow and it will be significantly cooler tomorrow and it will be cooler tomorrow and you'll need the jacket when you step out the front door.
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sunshine, cool and breezy, and around 49 in the city and we're only rising to 55 degrees and temperatures not moving all that much tomorrow as cooler air starts to move on in and because of that, and breezy, as i mentioned and as you step out the front door on saturday and sunday, and saturday still the jacket and 53 degrees and saturday not a bad day as long as we have the sunshine, and i think we do. saturday's okay. >> high temperature of only 48 degree, but with the wind, the windchills could be in the 30s as time. a high of only 45 degrees and a low on monday morning at 32 and that will be the first freeze in the city and veronica has more on how long the cold will last into next week. a stafford woman thought she'd found the love of her life on a dating site, and instead he turned out to be a scam artist using her to ship thousands of
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dollars in stolen goods. consumer reporter erika gonzalez with this scam alert. >> we would call every day. we would email every day. >> reporter: melissa stone of virginia thought she may have found a potential match on a dating site and they spent a few months and plans of meeting face-to-face. >> stone's romeo wasn't who she thought he was. he told her he was traveling to africa and would be there a while. soon came a request to money and stone wired it to him and then a request to forward packages. >> it was then coming in his name and then in my name and i would open the packages at his request and i would take pictures to send to him, and then i would repackage it into another box. >> and send it off to africa. the boxes filled with things, big things. >> like a 70-inch screen tv, which i defnied and computers ad
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cell phones. >> this went on for an entire year. >> stone said it wasn't until the police showed up asking questions when she learned she was the middleman for an illegal operation. she said her man used a stolen credit card for all those purchases. >> i had lost it. i was overwhelmed with it. the smooth talker always had an excuse, and he had her trust. >> when he would say when this is all said and done in this journey and i come back from africa we'll sit back and laugh at this. i'm not laughing. >> a u.s. postal inspector called her a victim. >> the postal service is seeing a lot of this illegal activity. scammers buy pricey goods with stolen credit cards and find someone else to send the items out of the country. these are packages they confiscated in other reshipping schemes. >> if we catch this guy he's looking at identity theft, possibly aggravated identity theft, mail fraud, possibly wire fraud. >> unlike stone, many victims
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never meet their love interest. >> it is scary. >> as soon as stone stopped sending the package e the communication with her man stopped, too. it would be the first and last time stone says she'll go looking for love. >> my family members said go on a dating site, you might find true love and this is what i got. erika gonzalez, news 4. our coverage of the attacks in paris will continue. the vatican now taking new steps to protect the pope. we'll show you the new security measures in place. a tribute to his wife and a defiant message for isis. it is a powerful facebook post and we will show it to you coming up.
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we are now getting concrete answers to questions behind the terror cell in paris. there are seven known attackers and all of them now dead. a suspected eighth attacker is still on the run. the ringleader abdelhamid abaaoud is confirmed killed in yesterday's raid in that apartment in suburban paris. there are more suspects out there who may have been involved in the attacks. salah abdeslam is believed to have rented the vehicles used in the attacks. investigators say he slipped from france into belgium before an arrest warrant was issued.
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he's the brother of one of the dead attackers and this, for the first time is the picture that we're seeing of the woman who detonated a suicide bomb during that apartment raid. local media said hasna aitboulahcen posted this picture of herself on social media in june. >> a warning from the state department to the vatican, st. peter's basilica could be a terror target. security is quite ramped up. milan's cathedral and la scala is also on the list with along with churches, synagogues and hotels. warnings to americans traveling abroad, terrorist it is may mimic the methods that were recently used in paris. >> new video from paris shows victims ducking for cover. why one
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right now at 4:30, the fbi briefs 45 local and federal law enforcement partners as they work to protect washington from isis. news 4's chris gordon spoke to a local agent about the isis threat and whether they think they are credible. his interview is coming up at the top of the hour. >> fairfax county police don't believe the public is in danger after a triple shooting. officers are looking into the possibility that last night's shooting started with an argument. they say the three men shot inside this condo on audubon
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place knew each other. one man died and two others are hospitalized and no one's been charged. some mixed news today for d.c. mayor muriel bowser as she's completing her first year in office and a new washington post poll says 60% of the residents think she's doing a good job. that is soft. some two-thirds only somewhat approve of her performance and 17% in the polls say they strongly approve of her time in office. in her first year, browser has faced a dramatic increase in homicide and that makes residents feel less safe. for the first time we are hearing from the father of a missing student who prompted the closure of washington college on maryland's eastern shore. jacob marberger's parents say their son took a gun from their home over the weekend and then disappeared and last night they took part in a vigil at the family's synagogue in pennsylvania. he got into trouble for waving an unloaded antique gun around
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his fraternity when he was drunk and last week he was kicked out of the fraternity and he resigned his position in student government. >> he's made so few mistakes in his life, i don't think he knows how to deal with that, the shame one feels when one lets themselves down. >> dr. marberger urged his son to come home saying it's all the family wants. the washington college campus meanwhile will stay closed through the thanksgiving holiday. and now your storm team 4 forecast. the rain is moving out of here and we have an absolutely gorgeous sky now especially to the west and some of you may be seeing this in the distance. take a look at that. the rainbow and the far righthand portion of the screen as the fog rolls out of here skies are clearing and that's one beautiful shot and we'll be putting it on nbcwashington.com,
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as well. make sure you follow us and download it. temperatures will start tumbling. we're in the 60s right now. some areas that have had the sunshine and upper 60s. we drop by 60 degrees at 11:00 and that's where we see the change as we continue to clear out and the wind will pick up this evening, as well. breezy for early tomorrow morning and temperatures will be in the 40s and calling it cool. there is say look at the rain and we've got a lot more on the change that's next for us and how low the temperatures will be in this upcoming weekend. back to paris and the mastermind of the attacks is dead. >> what this means as french officials continue to fight isis. >> reporter: abdel hamid abaaou was believed killed in those raids. he is described as the
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mastermind and the lynchpin, whatever word you use, he is the man that french authorities believe was behind the attack in paris. the massacre that killed 129 people. yesterday they raided that third-floor apartment. two people were killed. a woman and a man. they were not able to identify the man because his body was so badly damaged by the fire fight so they had to use fingerprint identification to establish that it is, they believe, abaaoud. it is a very, very important development. not least because the french believe that that terror cell was planning another attack in paris and at the same time they will be stunned that he had managed to make his way here to the center of europe, prior to that, intelligence services believe that he was with isis in syria and that he perhaps planned that from there and it now appears that he had managed to make his way right to this capital city of france and himself orchestrate those
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attacks. abdulmohamed abaaoud killed in those raids and another attack in paris foiled. back to you. >> we are now hearing some of the dramatic accounts of the raid following those attacks in paris and nbc nightly news anchor lester holt. spoke to the captain of the french commando unit that spoke to the concert hall. >> they get taken down and i fell down because, and one of your officers in the middle of the group. so we kind of still go and there was another group to take care of the wounded officer. >> you can't afford to pause. >> lester holt will share more on his interview with the commando raid leader on nightly news and that starts at 7:00 this evening. there are more chilling images. we have more on the surveillance
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video that emerged today showing a gunman opening fire outside of a paris restaurant and people diving for cover. the footage was obtained by dailymail.com and as you're about to see one terrorist tried to kill a woman at point-blank range, but she escaped. nbc's bill neely reports. >> reporter: it was one of their first targets and just after 9:30 when cctv cameras inside the restaurant caught the moments the first bullets were fired. the woman from dailymail.com shows a woman bursting through the door and she's been shot in the wrist and she hide says behind a bar comforted by a waitress and a man rushes in and his two friends have been shot and the first sight of a terrorist in a t-shirt calmly shooting. he turns and sees another target. he takes aim at the head of a woman, but she says later, his gun jammed, three clicks. he was out of ammunition, but bullets are still shattering the glass. there was more than one shooter.
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as the killing continues outside those inside pekiñ from their hiding place and one by one escape to the cellar. it all took less than a minute. >> remarkably, no one inside this restaurant died, though five people were killed here on the street before the gunmen drove off to murder dozens more. >> inside the restaurant some tables are still set. outside, the flowers and the question why? here in paris the prime minister is asking what if? what if terrorists get their hands on chemical and biological weapons? that is, he says, is always a risk. police are still questioning eight people they arrested during that assault on the apartment in saint-denis. two of them were shot and injured. more raids in belgium today, the crackdown on isis and its supporters across europe is gathering pace. back to you. >> a new attack ad directed on
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right now on my twitter page. you can go to my twitter page and just a beautiful shot and you see the fog along the potomac and the blue skies off in the distance. i mean, that is just spectacular. take a look at this shot and this is from the tower cam looking off toward the east and this is toward the northeast and that is one of the radio towers here and one of the television towers and there is the rainbow and let's pan back toward the west because look at the clearing back here toward the west and watch this sunset. you can watch the fog getting out of here and still fog in the distance and then you see the sun and this is spectacular, national harbor, still seeing the rain and the fog and the rain is still here and you can see the rain moving on out of here and as it does, once again, we are seeing spectacular evening conditions and the sun going down in about the next ten minutes and veronica is back with the weekend forecast. starting tomorrow you'll be hearing radio ads that advocate a name change for the redskins.
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the change the mascot campaign. it will be running ads on wtop radio and also on the flagship station for the carolina panthers. the ad references california's new law and prohibits the wordz redskins as a mascot for public schools. redskins owner dan snyder says the name honors native americans and some of it support its use. losing a parent is tough. a former star nfl quarterback is dealing with the loss of both parents who died less than an hour apart yesterday. doug flutie tweeted today that his ailing father passed away after suffering a heart attack and then his mother also suffereded a heart attack and died. flutie said, quote, they say you can die of a broken heart and i believe it. he's a heisman trophy winner who now workses for nbc sports network as an analyst. former subway pitchman jared fogle is headed to prison for child porn charges. we'll tell you what happened when he spoke in court.
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syrians trying to escape from isis. steve handelsman is live on capitol hill. steve? >> wendy, thanks. here on the hill today senate democrats said a bigger potential problem is terrorists coming into the u.s. as tourist. that's a problem, and they had to act urgently today to block refugees. >> the yeas are 289 and the nays are -- >> mostly it was republicans. >> wait a minute! not so fast! find out who these people are. >> each applicant gets screened in the obama plan. >> 18 to 24 months. that's how thorough it is. >> but speaker paul ryan charged gaps in the program. >> that is why we want to make sure that our law enforcement puts in place the standards that are necessary to guarantee that we do not have isis infiltration into our refugee population so that we can keep this country safe. >> reporter: president obama vowed a veto.
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millions of tourists visit the u.s. he said, 10,000 refugees are not a threat. >> that's not what our law enforcement thinks. that's not what anybody who has looked at this problem thinks. they are already under much more scrutiny. >> reporter: with isis vowing in a video to attack new york, senate democrats propose, some visitors get tougher screening. citizens of 38 nations like france and belgium who don't need a visa to visit the u.s. now would need one. if like the paris attack ringleader, anyone who traveled to syria or iraq in the last five years cannot travel to the united states using the visa waiver program, period. >> but there is no agreement about what to do to keep isis terrorists out of the u.s. late this afternoon here in washington there was a reassuring assessment by fbi director comey who said after the investigation who said there are no credible threats found by the fbi of a paris-type attack
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here in the u.s. and no connection between the paris isis attackers in the united states. i'm steve handelsman, news 4. >> thanks, steve. strong words today from the mayor of roanoke in the wake of the attacks and mayor bowers wants the u.s. to suspend the relocation of syrian refugees. in a statement released today bower said all relocations should be stopped until the atrocities committed by the islamic state ends. japanese and japanese-americans during world war ii as a historical precedence. the virginia governor said there will be no change in the state rerefugee policy. >> chimpanzees will no longer be used for research in bethesda. animal welfare groups are welcoming that decision. it decided two years ago that the chimp program was coming to an end, but it kept 50 animals on standby just in case they still were needed for a public
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health emergency. those remaining primates will now be sent to a federal sanctuary. the nih says with so many advances in science chimp research no longer makes sense. and now, your storm team 4 forecast. >> well, you can certainly sense our weather changing right now. just a few minutes ago we had a beautiful rainbow we showed you, but now the sun is setting and still everything from a clearing sky to some showers that are hanging on and a little bit of a breeze that will be kicking in before long and it's all changing and we're giving you the green light now for road conditions for the evening rush and with the road ending and the skies clearing, it's a green light, too, as the wind starts to pick up and road services starts to clear out and for the friday morning rush, we are in the clear early on and we'll have to brake out the sunglasses again. >> the last of the showers, you can see it right here and areas east of i-95 and making its way
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through prince george's county and right up 197 and again, moving out of here. the visibility is also improving and we are now up to a mile visibility at reagan national airport and also improving up by 95 and now at bwi. so the weather tomorrow will have a low impact on our area with breezy conditions and we're back to sunshine. you will notice that drop in temperature. we're not going to be in the low to mid 60s tomorrow and they got into the the upper 60s and tomorrow, you'll need a warm jacket and we may take up a few afternoon clouds. by 8:00 it starts getting chilly. 47, the temperature, we'll start clearing out again and that will make for a cold start to early saturday and right now it is a nice day out of the weekend and feasible conditions as we rise into the low 50s for sunday, some clouds and there's another weather system that will be moving in through our area allowing our temperatures to drop and just upper 40s for
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highs and you'll want to feel like you want to stay out on the sunshine as much as possible and it will be a little windchill early monday morning and we'll show you the windchills coming up on news 4 at 5:00 and we'll give you a sneak peek with travel weather and what wednesday is looking like. that's all coming up. more heartbreaking stories emerging in the wake of those attacks in paris including a grieving husband's powerful message to isis. >> the video from the bbc has been shared millions of times on facebook. here's part of it. >> on friday night you stole away the life of an exceptional being. the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hatred. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
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>> i do not know who you are, and i don't want to know. you are dead souls. if this god for whom you kill so blindly has made us in his ilage and every bullet in the body of my wife will have been a wunt in his heart. to respond to hate with anger would be to give in to the same ignorance that has made you what you are. you want me to be afraid? that i should look into the eyes of my fellow citizens with distrust, after nights and days of waiting. she was just as beautiful as she was when she left on friday evening, as beautiful as when i fell madly in love with her more than 12 years ago.
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>> and that is just part of that letter he read to the bbc news in paris. go to nbc washington's page to read more about all of the victims killed in these attacks. i'm meagan fitzgerald outside of the mubarak mosque in chantilly virginia. many members here say the attacks in paris are leading to a negative and dangerous stereotypes of muslims. rezwan khan is the imam of the mosque. khan says islam is a peaceful religion that teaches love, kindness and forgiveness and because isis carries out ruthless attacks over the guise of islam, some people believe all muslims are the same. >> unfortunately the people who react in the way that causes islamophobia are people who are generally ignorant of islam in the first place and a lot of the times the people who are victimized have nothing to do with the terrorist groups even
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remotely. >> a look at how peaceful muslims say they've been negatively impacted by the attacks in paris. did jared trade his food addiction for a sex addiction? the surprising comments made today. the company we've done several stories on over recent month asks it comes after an arlington man says that his car was legally parked and permit was displayed and yet it was towed. not only that, he also has a bill of more than $1200 in repairs. we'll explain coming up on news 4 at 5:
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he survived two tours of duty as a marine in iraq and afghanistan before becoming a police officer, but last night two men ambushed officer ri cardo gal vez killing him as he sat in his car. it happened in the parking lot of the downey, california, police department where he worked. the men drove off into the los angeles area. so far several people have been detained, but police have made no arrests. investigators don't know if galvez was targeted for personal reasons or because of his profession. he was 29 years old. a stiff sentence for former subway spokesman jared fogle. a judge sentenced him to more than 15 years in prison for trading child pornography and having sex with underaged prostitutes. fogle was immediately taken away in hand cuffs.
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as nbc's jay gray reports, before the sentence he told the judge he regrets the actions that destroyed his actions that destroyed his career and his life. >> reporter: saving his words for sentencing inside. the former subway pitchman and 38-year-old father of two pled guilty to possessing or distributing child pornography and traveling across state lines to engage in sex with minors. his voice cracking he sobbed openly as he told judge tania walton prep, not a day will go by when i don't think of what i did. psychologists testifying on his behalf quote, mild pedophilia. he traded a horrible food addiction to a horrible sex addiction. requesting him, the judge sentenced him to five years in prison, while prosecutors capped their request at 12 1/2 years. pratt ignored that recommendation, sentencing him
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to more to 15 years in prison and mandatory probation for the rest of his life. while no sentence will bring back the innocence or relief the pain of fogle's victims, he properly rejected his plea for a five-year sentence. he will likely be assigned to the federal prison in lyttelton, colorado, which includes a unit and specialized program for sex offenders. jay gray, nbc news. news 4 at 5k clo, begins with breaking news. and that breaking news, a police-involved shooting. >> this pdz in thappened in the northeast d.c. and the man had a knife. >> what do we know so far, jackie. >> you mentioned that the rain may have played a role in how little information we have about this, was there no one out on the street at the time. i'll tell you what d.c. police told us.
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we're in northeast, just off east capital street. about 1:55 this afternoon and this is from d.c. police, they say a man armed with a hunting knife came up on an officer who was in the block while she was on patrol. the officer fearing for her life drew her service weapon and shot the man, hitting him in the chest. police say that the officer calleded for backup and d.c. fire and ems arrived and took the man to a local hospital. we do not know his condition at that time and that information has not been made available to us, but again, as i said at the top there are very few people up here at the time because of the rain and we only have right now, the information from police. no one else out here has been able to provide us with information about exactly what happened here. live in northeast washington, jackie bensen, news 4. we have the latest now on the terror attacks in paris and the war on isis. >> there are now questions tonight about how the suspected mastermind with no ties to isis managed to travel throughout
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