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leaders take action here and the house passed a bill that basically blocks thousands of syrian and iraqi refugees from coming into this country. nbc's keir simmons has the latest now from paris. >> reporter: abdelhamid abaaoud is now believed to have been killed in those raids yesterday. he was 29 years old and he is described as the mastermind, 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 and two people were killed and 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
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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 this plot from there. instead, it now appeared that he had managed to make his way right to the capital city of france and himself orchestrate those attacks. abdel mohamed abaaoud they believe was killed in those raids and another attack on paris foiled. back to you. >> we have some audio now from that raid yesterday. french tv channel tf-1 obtained the sound from a neighbor. you can hear gun fire in the background and at the moment french police confronted abaaoud's 27-year-old cousin. her name is hasna aitboulahcen. just seconds later she set off her explosive vest.
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[ gunshots ] >> these are among the first pictures of the suicide bomber. belgian media outlets say she posted this photograph on social media in august and daily mail.com published two more photos. one shows aitboulahcen in a bubble bath and the other is a selfie taken with two friends. >> we're also seeing the first chilling video of one of the paris attacks. surveillance cameras captured the moment the first bullets were fired at a cafe last friday. this video from dailymail.com shows a woman rushing into the cafe after being shot in the wrist. she takes cover behind the bar as a man bursts in and dives to the floor. his two friend his been shot and a terrorist calmly aims at a woman cowering on the ground near a window.
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she said later she heard three click, but the gunman had run out of ammunition. >> security, certainly top of our mind in this area. some schools have canceled field trips to the nation's capital after isis threat end to target the city and local police and federal officials say they are taking steps to keep the city safe. >> chris gordon spoke with a top leader at the washington field office and he joins us now with more on the security changes and the message for people here in light of the violence. >> jim, d.c.'s mayor and police chief face a unique challenge. crime is on the rise in the city and this week on monday they apparently received a terrorist threat. in that video purportedly from isis targeting the nation's capital, but d.c. is not in this alone. they have plenty of friends. >> reporter: 45 local and federal law enforcement agencies participate in the joint terrorism task force.
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they were already on a severe threaten viernment and a high level of readiness before the paris attacks and the purported isis threat against d.c. >> we know that groups like isil and others have called for attacks against the united states and we know that our city and others are high-profile target. >> reporter: d.c. police chief kathy linear tells pete williams of nbc news stepped-up police activity began friday with the paris bombing. >> the addition of the isis video reenforces what we're already doing. >> d.c. mayor muriel bowser today met with a group of high school students on a field trip from ohio to thank them for not canceling their trip to the nation's capital like some others have. the fbi says no one should avoid d.c. out of fear. >> i'd want to reassure everyone. >> we again, do not have any specific, credible threat, information pertaining to our area here in washington, d.c. or
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anywhere else in the united states at this time. >> even with those assurances, the fbi is urging the public to remain vigilant and alert. that's the latest from the u.s. capital. doreen, back to you. >> chris gordon, thank you. >> we are getting late word from the fbi director james comey on whether isis poses a threat to the united states and this comes after house republicans slow down a plan to bring thousands of syrian refugees to the state. he is live on capitol hill with the very latest. steve? >> doreen, thanks. the fbi director was reassuring saying the bureau's picked up no indication at all that anything like paris is brewing now in america. the issue is how to keep it that way. house democrats house a democrats say they're worried about terrorists getting into the u.s. as tourists. they had to act urgently today to keep out the refugees.
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>> the bill is passed. >> reporter: 47 house democrats voted to pause the president's syrian refugee program, but mostly it was republicans. >> wait a minute! not so fast! find out who these people are! >> reporter: each applicant gets screened in the obama plan. >> 18 to 24 months. that's how thorough it is. >> reporter: speaker doesn't buy that. >> we know there are gaps in the program and we have to keep the country safe. >> reporter: millions of tourists visit the u.s., he says, 10,000 refugees are not a threat. >> that's not what our law enforcement thinks and that's not what anyone who looks at this problem thinks and they're already under much more scrutiny. >> reporter: senate democrats propose some visitors get tougher screening. >> citizens of 38 nations like france and belgium who don't gnida ne need a visa. they had been to isis territory. >> anyone who traveled to syria
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or iraq in the last five years cannot travel to the united states using the visa waiver program. period. >> reporter: the fbi director issued an update. >> we are not aware of any credible threat here of a par paris-type attack, and we have not seen no connection at all between the paris attackers and the united states. >> jie but there's no agreement about what to do to keep isis out. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, capitol hill. those attacks have ignited against muslims. some are reaching out to explain what they describe as the real message of their religion which is peace. >> our coverage continues now with meagan fitzgerald and she's in northern virginia. >> reporter: kahn is the imam or leader of the mubarak mosque in chantilly. >> just the flyers that we use to distribute. >> reporter: he says muslims have an obligation to spread the
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true meaning of their faith especially after isis continues to paint a fictitious message of the religion by terrorizing innocent people. >> islam is not terrorism. >> reporter: kahn says these flyers help to explain what the teachings are about. >> they unfortunately take lives and they really mar the name of islam. >> in light of the paris attacks last week, it is sponsoring a blood drive, hoping to save more lives than isis took away. >> it forces them to try and represent islam and give a counter narrative against isis. >> we are told the blood drive is set for sunday at 10:00 a.m. all of the way to 2:00. it will be here and kahn says it's open to the entire community. in fact, doreen, he's hopeful that people of all religious backgrounds will be here. >> meagan fitzgerald, thank you. developing tonight, we just learned a man who was shot by a d.c. police officer has died. the confrontation happened on
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dix street northeast near the wood sorn senior rec center. the man approached a female officer with a large hunting knife and another weapon, and the officer pulled her gun and shot the man in the chest. he died at the hospital, but has not been identified yet. the athletic director for d.c. public schools is on paid leads about the managing of money. news 4 shows stephanie evans was on administrative leads and questions were raised about how evans managed district money. there was no threat or any money missing. evans did not return a request for comment and they kaled it a personnel matter and would not elaborate. >> robbers move in as the case is looked into as well as others are in the area. a violent crash claims the
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life of two. it happened over there on racetrack road. the story coming up. the former subway pitchman sentenced and speaking publicly for the first time since his arrest. what jared told the judge just before he was alled off to prison. >> and we're just about done with the rain across the area tonight and plenty of sunshine in the next couple of days, but temperatures going down. i'll show you the numbers in my forecast.
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a crash so violent it caused flames that scorched trees nearby. tonight we know that the jeep hit an atv on a dark road in maryland. both people on the atv died. it's one of two deadly accidents today in buoy. our pat collins right now is along racetrack road where neighbors are still talking about what they heard, pat? >> reporter: jim, a father of five and a mother of two killed in a violent atv crash. >> ricardo heard the explosion and i wasn't, like, saying -- oh, that's nothing to me and i heard it again and i thought what could this be? i looked outside the window and i was, like, wow. >> chester saw the fire. >> it was about that high. >> reporter: a violent crash on
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racetrack road claims the life of a man and woman on an atv. he was 44, the father of five. she was in her 30s, mother of two, both killed after their atv crashed head-on into an suv. >> what brings you here today? >> reporter: he was a part of our family. >> reporter: so you came here? >> just to see it. >> reporter: at the scene today friends of the victims walked around the scorched earth looking for something to remember them by. >> he would do anything for anybody. >> reporter: and then for him to die this way? >> it's what he did. >> reporter: he liked to ride atvs? >> he used to ride all of the time. he and my brother would ride all of the time. >> reporter: it's against the law to ride an atv in a public road. here is from john nessky.
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>> it's a trajly for all involved and something that could have been avoided. >> the driver of the suv wasn't injured in the crash. jim, back to you. >> pat collins, thanks, pat. less than five miles away yet another person was killed when two cars collided on route 197 in buoy. it happened between old laurel buoy roads. police have not identified the victim there. we are told two other people were also injured in that accident. a former teacher in maryland will be heading to prison for having sex with a student. a judge sentenced andre brown to ten years today. he was convicted of sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl. brown worked at the school as a special education teacher and coached the football team. he will also have to register as a sex offender for life. former subway pitchman and confessed child molester jared fogle will spend more than a
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decade in prison. fogle spoke in court today his first time speaking publicly since he was arrested. >> jay gray reports on what he had to say and the judge's harsh reaction. >> reporter: jared fogle remained silent as he walked through a crowd of media outside the federal courthouse this morning, saving his words for sentencing inside. the former subway pitchman and 38-year-old father of two pled guilty to possessing and distributing child pornography and traveling across state lines to have sex with minors. he sobbed openly as he told judge pratt not a day will go by that i won't think about what i did. >> psyche sight rifts say he suffers from mild pedophilia. he traded a horrible food addiction to a horrible sex addiction. requesting that the judge sentence him to five years in prison while prosecutors capped their request for 12 1/2 years.
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pratt ignored that recommendation, sentencing him to more than 15 years in prison, 13 witho probation. while no sentence will bring back the innocence of the victims, pratt rejected his plea for a five-year sentence. fogle was taken into custody and will be assigned to a prison in lyttelton, colorado which includes a program for sex offenders. jay gray, nbc news. next week marks one year since former d.c. mayor marion barry died. on monday a commission will reveal its recommendations on a way to honor the former mayor. our tom sherwood spoke with his widow cora masters barry. he served four terms as mayor and spent 16 years on the city council. >> as time goes on people are focusing more and more on what
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he did for the city and for people and less of what he did to himself. the schools, streets, stuff like that. >> reporter: okay. >> and these are things that are coming in from the community. >> reporter: marion barry is buried in the congressional cemetery on capitol hill. cora barry says an appropriate headstone is still being designed. inside the dramatic takedown as terrorists held people hostage in a paris theater last week. tonight, an exclusive firsthand account from the man who led the police raids going in there. >> a new era as metro's new general manager is officially sworn in. we'll take a look at the first we'll take a look at the first issue he plans to
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and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> we saw clouds, we saw rain and fog and we saw some sunshine and that brought out a bit of a rainbow. take a look at this. this was earlier this evening and a beautiful shot. you can see the fog there and the clouds up top and the rainbow in the distance and even clearing skies and we have seen that throughout the rest of the evening and i have a ton of pictures on my facebook page and that is amazing video and still dealing with some areas of fog
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and not too much and visibility over a mile and no big deal and temperatures around 64 degrees and it's on the calm side and that's allowed fog to form in parts of the region. 64 in leesburg and 63 in fredericksburg and 62 over toward annapolis. i want to say hello to kids at westbrook elementary school and i want to say hello to all of them who probably got rained on earlier this afternoon. 6:22 in the evening and we do have showers coming through montgomery and just to the east of front royal and arousand rap county and most continues to move off to the east and as it does so, it will clear out tonight and temperatures will be cooler, and average high temperatures around 57 and we'll be below that number. high temperature, 53 gaithersburg and 55 in culpeper.
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we'll have plenty of sunshine and it will be cool and a little bit on the breezy side so you'll need the jacket, but it's not gong to be a cold day. the outdoor planner, sunshine, cool and breezy and we don't go up very much during the day tomorrow as cooler air will filter on in and that will leave it much cooler as we head into the weekend and your impact forecast and your weather will have a low impact on your day and once again, it will be breezy and cool with sunshine around the area. saturday, more sunshine, but cooler temperatures. we start off with 37 in the city and that would only be the second time this season we've been below 40 in the city and that's hard to believe, 37 on saturday morning and temperatures on sunday, even colder and we'll have temperatures around 48 for the high and we have rather windy conditions and it will feel colder than that and high temperatures and windchills will be in the upper 30s, and the low in the city of 32, the first
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freeze in the city coming up on monday morning. everybody else will be in the 20s. we'll talk about 6:45, and we'll talk about how cold i expect you to be on that monday morning and once again, i've got that for you coming up at 6:45. >> thank you, doug. >> more than 2,000 d.c. police officers could be wearing body cameras by next march. news 4's tom sherwood found a d.c. council committee took a key step toward approving a program and it was tougher than what what was first proposed by muriel bowser. >> the ferguson police shooting, the first of several national incidents prompting cause from police body cameras. >> our goal is to transcend any ferguson kind of situation. >> the d.c. council judiciary committee voted for d.c.'s 2,000 patrol officers to wear body cams both for the public's protection and police themselves. >> we want to reduce the false complaints against our officers who risk their lives on a daily
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basis and we're fostering better community-police relations. >> reporter: it's expected to go before the full council by year's end. it would ensure camera footage would be more easily available to the public than mayor bowser first proposed. >> this is drastically better than the bill that was submitted eight months ago. we've had groups like the aclu, the fraternal order of police and the national reporters committee all at the table. >> the bill, one of the broadest in the nation still protects privacy in cases like domestic violence and sexual abuse. the mayor's office supports the revised bill. >> there was a lot of back and forth and we're happy about it that we've been able to balance the goals of transparency and accountability. >> the city is ordering thousands of new cameras and training officers. the cameras could be on the streets of washington by next spring. in the district, tom sherwood, news 4. i'm carol maloney at the
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live desk. bryce harper has been named nlmvp. it was a unanimous vote for harper. the first major award for a baseball player in this city since 1925. he becomes the youngest winner of an mvp of all time. we'll hear from him coming up in sports and just moments ago, bryce harper named the nl mvp. here's what's coming up next. next at 6:30, metro's new leader thrown right into the spotlight. not only does he have to deal with the troubled transit agency, but he has to deal with potential terrorist threats. i'm adam tuss at metro headquarters and i'll let you know what paul wiedefeld said ahead. it will be
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murder more than 30 years ago. >> new details about the troubles of a missing college student who has caused a campus shutdown for weeks. >> please come home and show yourself. >> a car towed from private property even though it was legally parked. >> i noticed my car was damaged. >> what the owner said he found when he got it back and what he's doing to try to stop it from happening to you. >> first at 6:30, an ominous warning from the french prime minister. he said tonight the country faces a long and permanent threat. >> that comes as new details emerge about the bomb threat in germany that cancelled a soccer match there. chris lawrence tracking details now and he's at our live desk. >> a newspaper in hanover is offering frightening details today about why german officials canceled the soccer match against the netherlands. they're citing a terrorist
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report, terrorists were planning to detonate three bombs at an arena and two more at a train station and bus stop. they were supposed to smuggle the bombs into a stadium into an ambulance or with one of the terrorists who had a ticket. officials didn't get all of this information until two to three hours before the match. these revelations come on the same day we learned the man who masterminded the paris attacks was killed on wednesday north of paris. abdelhamid abaaoud was spotted on monday. they questioned his ability to move freely in europe. we're getting the first look at the female, hasna aitboulahcen. aitboulahcen reportedly drank alcohol and rarely, if ever, attended mosque. >> thanks, chris.
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a man who assaulted a bus driver pled not guilty in court pd. he surrendered to metrotransity police yesterday. news 4 had this video of that assault and it happened earlier this month on florida avenue and police say west admitted he was angry when he punched the driver in the face. >> he's due back in court next month. >> there have, in fact been more than 70 assaults on metro bus drivers this year. >> three men were shot and one died in a shooting in a condo in fairfax county. >> it happened last night on audubon avenue and police believe the three victims got into that argument in that condo and then they pulled out guns and started shooting. neighbors say they heard a lot of gun fire. >> we thought, usually, people are just playing around and it's not really somebody shooting and we heard them back-to-back and i counted at least eight. >> he said he heard at least 15.
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>> two of the victims were found at the scene and the third one drove himself to a hospital and the two injured men are expected to survive and police say charges are pending. >> today in annapolis and proposed changes to laurel hospital, and bureau chief tracee wilkins was there for the heated exchange. at today's briefing before the maryland health committee. for the first time state officials heard why laurel hospital is closing and got to ask questions. >> we would have never wrote it for the new hospital if laurel was not on the table. let's make that clear. [ applause ] i ask people not to do that. >> managers for prince george's hospital system, the university of maryland medical system and prince george's government officials defended closing the hospital. >> this is about building a regional medical center with the health infrastructure around it to improve the health of the
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people of prince george's county. >> closing laurel will help financially prepare for the opening of the $6 million medical center. >> we were losing $18 million, and $50,000 a day from the hospital and that's what led to the board's decision. >> reporter: some took a bus from laure toll annapolis to make it clear that they want their full-service hospital to stay. >> as they close laurel regional the next closest hospital is just too far away. >> reporter: joslyn who is on the health committee and represents laurel questions if the residents in northern prince george's are losing their hospital because dimensions mismanaged the rest of the health care system. >> not once has dim ejz come in front of us including the prince george's county delegation and said that laurel was in trouble. >> reporter: it is expected that legislation will be introduced this session requiring hospitals to prove their pace for closing a facility just like they had to
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prove their case for opening one. in annapolis, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. a man spent decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit and now we have details about the city's multimillion dollar settlement and new information that helped clear his name. a college campus in maryland closed. for a father's emotional message to his son as police try to track him down. that now finally starting to move out and i'll show you what's moving in next for your weekend coming up in a minute.
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for two men they believe robbed six 7-eleven stores at knife point and gun point over two weeks in august and september. donald gates sat in prison for prison years for a crime he didn't commit. tonight he learned that he'll get more than $600,000 for each of those long years. gates settled with the district today for $16.6 million. he's 58 years old now. he was released six years ago and given just $75 and a bus ticket. in 1981 gates was wrongly convicted of raining and murdering a student at georgetown university. muriel bowser said the payment was the right thing to do. >> in some cases, you know, the city and we work with federal prosecutors and it's just that in some cases we're responsible even if it happened at the
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prosecution's level. >> gates was released when dna evidence exonerated him. prosecutors eventually acknowledged they used a discredited fbi analyst and a paid informant as witnesses during this trial. >> tonight we're hearing from the father of a missing college student who prompted the closure of a college campus. >> jacob said their son took a gun from their home over the weekend and then disappeared. they held a vigil at the synagogue in pennsylvania. jacob got into trouble for waving an unloaded antique gun. last week he was kicked out of his fraternity and he resigned from his position from student government. >> he's made so few mistakes in his knows how to deal with that the same one feels when he lets himself down. he's considered a threat to the washington college campus.
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the school announced yesterday that it will be closed through next week. classes will resume on the monday after thanksgiving. a dramatic scene after a school bus was stolen near pittsburgh. that bus drove straight through the front of a vitamin store. it happened about 3:00 in the morning and it left merchandise scattered and glass everywhere. whoever was driving that bus then ran away. police are still trying to find him. >> still ahead, we go inside the takedown as police move away from the terrorists at the bataclan theater in paris. see the exclusive interview with the captain of that team next. >> this is the first thing that went through the door?
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a crowded concert hall and hundreds of civilians trapped and terroristes armed to the teeth. today we're hearing from the leader of the french police commando team that was first through the door at the bataclan theater on friday in paris. he spoke to nbc's lester holt in an exclusive interview. >> this is the first thing that went through the door. >> exactly. >> it's pretty obvious what happened. >> as soon as we opened the door, one of the terrorists shot between 25 to 40 rounds of ak-47 bullets. >> these are the holes? >> exactly.
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we have a guy in the middle of the group got hit in the hand so i fell down. >> one of your officers was hit? >> yeah. we could not take care of him. we just go. >> you can't afford to pause. >> no. we can't afford to pause. >> were you able to see the hostages? >> the first thing we saw the guys shooting and a lot of 20 hostage between the shooter and us. >> there is a lot more in that interview. you can watch it all on nbc "nightly news" with lester holt right after this broadcast. >> security is on the minds of d.c. metro riders in the wake of those terror attacks in paris. that is one of the priorities for paul wiedefeld was officially sworn in today. our transportation reporter adam tuss is live to tell us what the new gm plans to do right away to try to ease concerns. adam? >> doreen, he certainly knows that this is top of mind for a lot of metro riders, but this is where his background comes into play. he's the former head of bwi
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marshall airport and he knows about security from an aviation standpoint and he's the former head of the mare layland transi administration. >> metro's new leader doesn't even officially start until november 30th and he's fielding questions about isis and terrorist threats. >> this is not anything new to the agency or to the law enforcement or the security people. you know, this is not something that because of this video all of of a sudden they woke up and said oh, my gosh, we have to deal with this. >> he's been given special clearance so he has access to sensitive information and he knows from his background in aviation that there are a lot of things the public will never see that are being done to keep us safe. [ applause ] >> reporter: on to the specifics of his new contracts he'll be paid almost $400,000 a year for arguably the most highly criticized position in the region. >> will he be bringing his own
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staff in and letting go of the much of old metro. >> you know how i'm going to run the organization and people will understand that and either they can perform to that level or they can't and we'll adjust as we go. >> wiedefeld was low key and levelheaded when asked about the fare increase, with service the way it is now. >> i don't think this is the time to ask for more money when we're not performing to the levels that they expect. >> his top priority, security and finances. >> on a personal note, he's from the baltimore area so he says he'll move here eventually, but not right away. he plans to move to the east side of the red line somewhere near union station, guys? >> adam, you spent some time with the new gm today and he's taken on a roll that most people would want to walk away from. does it seem like he's feeling confident?
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>> i think, doreen, the thing to say about him is he's done this before. >> we mentioned he ran bwi marshall airport and from the head of the transit administration and he seemed completely comfortable in a room full of reporters and seemed to have a plan as far as what he wanted to do. he also seemed down to earth and talked about his family, priorities and where he wants to see the transit agency go. >> okay. adam tuss, thank you. so think about this after all those months, nine of them planning, stressing and preparing for the day your baby will be born. here she comes, but you're not in the hospital, there's none in sight and only a convenience store and the workers there. >> these days the general store is delivering much more than just pizzas. >> look at that face. look at that.
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>> it was like 6:00 in the morning when we left, and i made my mom stop. >> i think i pretty much knew i wasn't going to make it and she was kind of freaking out and i was, like, i just need to go to the bathroom. >> with the help of employees, shannon blackwell and tania smith, she safely brought her baby girl mia into this world right inside the store. >> i entered the bag room and seen her laying on the floor with the baby crowning. that's when i realized that well, there's going to be a baby born. >> we've been in business for 45 years and this is the first baby ever. >> after spending a few days at the hospital and ensuring that the documentation improved her moments it was time for her to reunite with the women who were there for her first breath. >> not the ideal location to welcome a newborn, but shannon says she was happy to help bring
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her into the world. >> under that toilet stall, that's why. that's where she was. she was getting ready to go to the bathroom and that's when she realized there was a baby coming. >> a clean bill of mom and baby and a story to tell for a lifetime. >> you just never know. >> you have to keep them johns clean. you never know. >> she should have named that baby casey, you know? >> after all of that, at least. >> so apparently, vance and i, both of us were in the building and we totally missed this beautiful rainbow that everybody was out taking pictures of this afternoon. >> did you see it? >> did i see it? >> no. did i see it? i was on every camera that we had here. it was absolutely gorgeous, it really was. it was a site to behold, i'll run all of the way around the newsroom.
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we saw it outside of our studios and many of you sent pictures and you can find some of those on my twitter page and phenomenal pick theures afen o phenomenal pictures and the clouds that came in and we saw double rainbows earlier. right now, we're dealing with fog, 64 degrees. temperatures still on the mild side and we are really mild out there. 62 at 7:00 and 69 at 7:00 and we will start to cool as we start to clear out overnight. 63 still in gaithersburg and temperatures still in the 60s and this tells you, we have not seen the front come through just yet. we're still tracking a few light showers and i do mean very light. you can see a couple of sprinkles around fairfax and manassas.sprinkles for the mostt and the whole system is pushing off towards the east and the front right about here and back to the west, we are seeing cooler numbers and we are seeing
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breezy conditions and that's going to be the case tomorrow, cooler and breezy. starting off at 49 degrees and look at the sunshine and it will be cool and breezy with the high temperature around 54 degree, but not bad. as a matter of fact, your friday looking pretty good and want bad at all and much colder for the weekend and 53 on saturday and 48 on sunday, 45 on monday. monday morning going for a low of 32 in the city and that puts most of you in the 20s and we're talk the first freeze in the city and right now we're looking pretty good for particulary day next week. >> thanks, doug. a little chilly out there. we have sports coming up. >> you heard about bryce? i did. was that not cool or what? we'l
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bryce harper. if you watch bryce harper this season then you witnessed history and the first player since 1925 and even more impressive, he's the youngest unan mouse winner ever. >> that's pretty clear. the announcement made little more than 30 minutes ago and harper was misty eyed and he led the national league in on-base slugging percentage and runs scored and the home run title with second and only serve other players have topped their numbers and they have names like ruth, bonds, and mantle. harper was with his family tonight. >> this is colton. this is my nephew, actually, and this is harper. these two little people right here. everybody's excited and everybody's happy. deaf fitly trying not to get, mobile. you see my family over here and
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to be able to enjoy that with them and being able to know that the hard work they put in when i was younger all of the way through. i love my team very much, and i love the city of d.c., and i'm grateful to bring the trophy to them. >> we love bryce harper. congrats and let's do it again next year. the carolina panthers will require all of the redskins' focus and for those outside of the park it's hard to ignore that the playoffs are within striking distance. >> playoffs, each if they don't win this weekend, right now they're in a tie for second in the nfc east and just a half game behind the giants and you can say things are wide open. it's been a while since the skins have been in this position and they are responding. >> the guys are knowing that we
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have a shot to make in the playoffs. each game means a lot now and it's a little different and they've played since 2012 and that's a pleasant upgrade. >> at that time of the year and right now we have to gel and put together a few wins in a row and put our season in our own hands. >> can't wait for sunday and may the force be with you today. this afternoon, george mason facing ole miss and his name is shivan thompson and doing work down low and 12 points in the first half, and second half, more from thompson along the baseline and plans it home. and thompson, double-double, and 19 boards and with under 30 seconds to play and just a three-point game, thompson comes up with this huge block! getting it done on d-2 and
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breaking news tonight from paris as the terror attack ring leader is confirmed dead. our exclusive interview with the masked s.w.a.t. commando who led the heroic raid on the concert hall, what he calls hell on earth. hundreds of hostages cowered on the floor in fear. police facing down a ferocious assault by the attackers. only a bullet-riddled ield between them. richard engel inside the massive also tonight, intelligence failure. the ring leader hiding in plain sight under their noses and europe's first female suicide bomber. new video in her final moments before blowing herself up as police closed in. >> at home, how safe are we? what the fbi director is now saying is his biggest fear. "nightly news" begins right now.
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