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the hostage crisis is over at the radisson blu hotel in mali capital city and it is still under way. the united nations now saying that three of its staffers have been safely evacuated. officials say at least two of the gunmen are dead and an unknown number of others are holed up in the upper floor of the hotel as police and military forces try to negotiate their surrender, but it is a fluid situation, as authorities are going room to room looking for more victims. this all started at 7:00 a.m. local time when a group of gunmen apparently breached hotel security by displaying diplomatic plates on their vehicle and once inside they began collecting hostages. at one point asking people if they could recite a muslim declarati declaration, those who could were allowed to escape. >> military forces stormed the hotel eventually helping end the hostage siege and there were reports that a group affiliated
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with al qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack and so far that was unconfirmed gabe gutierrez, nbc news, london. >> it was one week ago that we came on the air and began to learn of the scope of the paris attacks in paris. >> tonight a memorial to the victims lights up the night still. tonight the death toll rose again and isis released a new propaganda video and it shows the eiffel tower collapsing and threatens more attacks in paris. meanwhile, a third body has been found in the rubble of wednesday's raid that killed the mastermind of the attack and the woman killed in that raid may not have been the one wearing a suicide vest. another victim from last friday's attacks has died and that brings the death toll now to 130 and nbc's kelly cobiella has the latest on this from paris. >> reporter: the story of what happened during that raid in saint-denis early wednesday morning has now changed. several french media reports say
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that the woman who was identified as a suicide bomber during that raid in fact did not blow herself up. this woman was identified as hasna aitboulahcen from france born in a northern suburb of paris of moroccan descent. it was reported that she had detonated some sort of suicide vest or belt during the raid, killing herself. in fact, we are now hearing from several french media outlets who are citing police sources that she was killed by an explosion set off by a third suspected terrorist inside that building. the bodies identified from the raid hasna aitboulahcen and of course, the suspected ringleader in all of this abdelhamid abaaoud, but again, now there is a third body investigators are working to identify. back to you. >> right now muslims in our area
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are gathering outside the white house for a rally against islamist extremists. they want to make it clear that islam is a peaceful religion and they condemn anyone using religion to carry out terror attacks. our meagan fitzgerald is at that rally with more on this. meagan? >> jim, many of the muslims we've had an opportunity to speak with say they're frustrated or angry because groups like isis do not value the true religion. they're waving flags and have candles in their hands and they're holding signs that say they do not believe and they do not align themselves with isis. they will continue to do this, they say, to show the world who they really are. >> it's been one week since the world watched the devastating aftermath of yet another isis attack. many muslims say for them the pain is even deeper because it's extremists killing in the name of islam. >> in a way, it's having to
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constantly defend what it means to be a muslim. >> which is why sara rahim is working with the united nations to change the perception of the religion and preventing youth to be radicalize period. >> there is a lack of understanding of faith and that's the most vulnerable breeding ground to extremism. >> we need to capture those guys and put them on trails. >> a group of muslims are sending the same message. >> the reason we have conflicts everywhere in the earth is one simple reason. the reason is we don't know each other. >> these people say they're fighting to take their religion back from isis and any other extremists who tries to hijack their faith. >> killing innocent people, hurting us and hurting the religion and that is not acceptable. >> outside of the white house, another demonstration by muslim americans sending a message and reminding the community that they, too, stand with paris. muslims around the area say
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they will continue to do these sorts of rallies, hold these sorts of vigils out here and they're going to be doing another one, we are told, tomorrow in dupont circle and there will also be a blood drive on sunday in a mosque in chantilly because they're saying we can save even more lives by people donating blood than those lives taken from paris. back to you. >> thanks, meagan. those attacks in paris and the isis video that came out this week threatening washington and new york are adding a new emotional element to the republican presidential race. tonight both benarson and donald trumping are under fire for comments they've made in the last 24 hours. "meet the press" moderator chuck todd will join us for an in-depth discussion and how that could have an impact on the race. it was a horrible crash, five people killed and 14 injured. tonight we're hearing from those inside the church van that went
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up in flanls in hyattsville earlier this month. erika gonzalez is here with reaction from a father and son who are still waiting for the rest of their family to come home from the hospital. erika? >> from the moment the truck hit their van to the first responders carrying them away, these victims remember a lot. freddy rodriguez has been home from the hospital just a couple of days and he's got a broken leg and badly burned arm. rodriguez tells me he remembers the truck that would eventually hit them zig-zagging through traffic with smoke and two wheels on fire. he would swerve the van which carried more than a dozen people headed to church, but couldn't get out of the way fast enough. screams and sirens, the impact, he says, pushed the steering wheel and dashboard into his chest and the van caught fire. freddie, jr., says first responders freed him from the wreck. >> reporter: were you scared? >> very worried. >> reporter: you were very
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worried. what were you worried about? >> that my mom that she went up with god. >> reporter: freddy's mom survived the crash. she's badly injured, still in the hospital and so is her 6-year-old daughter, but the baby boy she was set to deliver did not make it. [ speaking spanish ] >> reporter: once in the hospital rodriguez says the infant was laid on his chest for an hour before he was taken away. the first and last moments with his youngest son. the emotional pain is greater than the physical. [ speaking spanish ] >> reporter: and while he knows there is a long road to recovery ahead, he says today he's thankful to be home and thankful to the first responders who risked it all to save his family. and these families are going to need a lot of help. in fact, so many of the victims that were onboard that van were all students or many of them,
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were students and children at that same elementary school that freddy jr., attends so it was his teachers that set up the go fund me page that we were able to get a hold of and we were able to put up on the nbc washington facebook page and that is there for you to contribute. >> that is an incredibly tragic story for that man. we certainly do wish him well. thanks, erika. a man from texas has now been charged with a federal crime. he's accused of storming the cockpit of a flight from dulles international to denver that happened back in march. newly filed court records reviewed by news 4 say that man who was 36 years old tolled on a cockpit door while he yelled the plane isn't going fast enough, let me in. we're going down tp it happened just one minute after the plane took off. fbi court filings said that man admitted to having panic attacks and drinking heavily
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before the flight. the fbi said that same man was kicked off a flight from national airport earlier that same day. >> a series of important court rulings in the case of a former fairfax county police officer accused of murdering john geer. our partners at wtop radio said a judge denied adam's request for bond and refused to dismiss the case and says the trial will take place in fairfax county and he shot and killed gear while responding to a domestic call at his springfield home and they came after months of public outcry. the trial is set to begin next month. white house officials say president obama has no plans to change the parole conditions a convicted spy jonathan pollack. pollack checked in at probation, after hours after being released in north carolina. he's a former navy intelligence analyst and he served 30 years
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for selling classified secrets to israel. the terms of pollard's parole require him to remain in the u.s. for five years, but his supporters are pressing president obama to allow him to move to israel immediately. a march on washington today demanding relief from the deportation for immigrant families. on this day last year, obama announced his executive action to shield 5 million undocumented immigrants living in the u.s. illegally from deportation. one year later, protesters want a legal challenge by republican-led states resolved. it argues that the president overstep happened his powers by bypassing congress. president obama says the states have no legal basis to challenge his executive action. it's been more than eight months since we've seen temperatures as low as what we're forecasting this upcoming weekend. it's going to get cold. let's take a look and see where we are for this evening and our
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temperatures got into the 50s and it will be dry and it will be cool and a warm jacket if you're going out and by late evening we'll go down to the 40s under this clear sky that we have, but there are clear skies off to the west from this big system right here just about ready to produce snow around chicago. already its produced several inches. so for our weekend it gets chilly to downright cold and i'll show you in just a few minutes to show how some of us will not only need gloves, but a coat this upcoming weekend. a confession from the guy who flew a gyrocopter on to the capitol grounds. why she should be credited with exposing a major security weakness in washington. merchandise missing from a local mall and now someone has been arrested for that. police say it was a maintenance worker who tried to cover up his tracks. >> hassled by debt collectors because of a costly tax mistake. today a d.c.
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the events in paris and in mali are playing out on the campaign trail with national security now becoming a primary focal point in the presidential race. last night an nbc news reporter asked donald trump if he would support a government database to track muslims living in this country? his answer has prompted a firestorm.
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>> there should be a lot of systems beyond a database. we should have a lot of systems and today you can do it, but right now we have to have a border. we have to have strength. we have to have a wall and we cannot let what's happening in this country happen. >> i would certainly implement that. absolutely. >> subsequent to that statement donald trump went on twit tore say he did not suggest a database, that the reporter did. but he added that he does support surveillance and a watch list to protect america. so let's bring in "meet the press" moderator chuck todd. the antidefamation league said trump's comments are reminiscent of darker days. >> we know what they're referring to when it comes to jews in germany. look, i think we knew that paris would have an impact on the presidential race. i think there is thinking that it will hurt trump and a ben carson. the outsiders, they don't know
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as much about national security, but trump while there are some gaps there and his national security policy and he's been able to essentially turn this back into an immigration issue for him which is his comfort zone and replace the word mexican with muslim and he's essentially saying the same thing he's been saying for three months which got him to the polls. he's stoked the politics of fear and there's a chunk of the electorate, it's not a lot of republicans, but it's enough to keep him on top, and i think he's gotten stronger since the paris attacks and not weaker. ben carson, that's a different story. i think he's melted under this spotlight and it's had an impact and he's turned this into a domestic immigration issue. >> speaking of ben carson yesterday in alabama, he kind of compared syrian refugees in some ways to -- >> it was a terrible metaphor. are we going to play it? >> here's what he said. go ahead. >> you know, if there is a rabid
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dog running around your neighborhood you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you're probably going to put your children out of the way. >> is that -- is that the nail in your coffin? >> i don't know if that's a nail in his coffin. i'm not predicting that. >> look, what's really hurt him is the combination of -- look, trump does project strength, and when you have an electorate feeling vulnerable that matters. carson is not a guy who projects a lot of strength and he's got a gap when it comes to national security knowledge. at times it comes across as salad. that piece of rhetoric, what happens in some ways is trump is moving the rhetoric to the right and you can have a marco rubio who used the phrase class of civilizations which a george w. bush speechwriter said to me, that's exactly the type of
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rhetoric they spent years avo avoiding right after 9/11 and bush provided a blueprint for how do you separate islam from the terrorists and i think right now, this is what happens in the campaign season. my concern is that this is how the political world reacts to an attack in paris during an election year. god forbid something happens here. is our political system capable of -- of having a moment that's above politics when we'll need it the most. i'm sorry, looking at how we're reacting now, i think it's a legitimate concern. >> the latest nbc news survey monkey online poll suggesting a majority of americans are not in favor of allowing more migrants fleeing syria and other countries into the u.s., but the divisions seem to be pretty sharp along party lines. >> it is a little along party lines and everything we've been looking at it's misplaced concern and if you are concerned about isis operatives getting into the country, you should
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hope they apply for refugee status because that's the toughest way in. what congress is focused on is the visa waiver issue. a french national can get into this country without a visa. that's one less vetting process that you would go through. guess what? a lot of those paris attackers were french nationals. so i think that this is -- we know that fear and people are playing off of fear, but if you are concerned about this, you're focused on the wrong part of the problem. >> what have you got on sunday? >> we have leon panetta and former has of cia and we'll have a couple of other folks sort of experts in the field as well as dealing with this issue with islamophobia and talking with the muslim community and we'll try to deal with these issues. >> it's a ton to talk about. >> all right, guys. only on news 4 tonight, the d.c. tax office is apologizing to a woman after wrongly sending her unpaid bill to a collection agency. that tax bill came despite the fact that she didn't live in the
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district at the time. mark segraves tells us how to keep this costly mistake from happening to you. >> they're woefully inept in this case. every time i would call, nobody would call back and they wouldd pass me from office to office, and it would take weeks or months to get responses to emails. >> elizabeth leblanc has been battling the d.c. tax office for nearly a year after a 2011 tax bill, but in 2011, leblanc was living in virginia, and despite providing proof of that to d.c., the notices kept coming. >> i got a collection agency letter for $13,000 for taxes and fees. >> leblanc moved to d.c. in 2012. it turns out because she put her new d.c. address on her federal tax return the district assumed she owed taxes in d.c., as well. >> i'm 29 years old and my goal is to buy a house next year and a $13,000 tax collection will not look good on my credit score report.
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how will this affect my life? >> it has been cleared up and her account has been cleared. >> i have little faith in that until i see it in right writing. i just have no faith that it's actually closed out yet. >> the d.c. office of tax and revenue is now reviewing procedures to find out if this has happened to others and to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> the silver lining is we've been alerted to a possible need to correct something in our process. >> tax officials say when you fill out your tax forms you should put the address down of where you were living for that tax year and not where you are currently living. in the district, mark segraves, news 4. an unusual exchange as people head to church to drop off their guns, but one pastor says the idea is nothing new for his congregation. a car slammed into a residence hall at howard university, and i'll tell you what we learned about the guy behind the wheel. and why news 4's tom
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now your storm team 4 forecast. >> this will be a nice weekend coming our way, but you will notice the drop in temperatures especially the second half of the weekend. as far as right now, not too bad outside. we've got a clear sky and winds out of the north at 8 miles per hour rid now and 51, our current temperature, and the air has been very, very dry today and
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you might notice that when you walk across the carpet and static there popping. 29 to 39 and we'll have a wide range in temperatures early tomorrow morning and a cold start indeed and some of the lower readings right here around areas like frederick and manassas and warrenton and 30 in leesburg and culpeper also down to 29 degrees and they've been inside the beltway and not quite as low. they can see the clear sky and satellite and radar and it is looking as though the next few days will be dry and despite the fact that all of this is in the nation's midsection and you have rain in missouri and snow and a lot of it in iowa and even in chicago, snow is starting to accumulate and we'll show you images of iowa in just a few minutes and despite that when the front comes through us it will come through dry without even any rain and we will get some clouds and i'll show you in a moment. we stay in the pocket of 50s throughout the afternoon tomorrow. from cold to chilly conditions for your saturday and still the best day out of the weekend.
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in terms of when we see the next change, it's early sunday morning. the cold front comes through and we'll have an overcast sky late saturday evening and your temperatures in the 40s. early sunday morning it gets breezy and then downright chilly and then cold later in the day because the wind will just continue to pick up and could see some gusts around 20, 25 miles per hour on sunday and that will deliver those very low windchills. you can see them here and this is at 3:00 on sunday, evening. feeling more like we're in the 30s and gaithersburg and frederick and down to the south down around i-95 around south of d.c. feeling better. so for saturday all these things that you'll want to get out and do and you'll be able to do them just fine and saturday the best day out of the weekend for exercising and it's better than you have on sunday and for walking around and take a warm jacket and bright sunshine, if you're driving and you'll have to put the sunglasses on and that is just fine, right? some clouds could be rolling in on sunday.
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53 and seasonable sunshine for saturday and those windchills in the 30s and early in the day and up until the mid part of the afternoon and then monday, with that wind still left hanging on, and this is why you're going to need the gloves and it will feel like you're 20 to 25 degrees across much of the area and your travel day forecast coming up at 6:45 in just a few minutes. thanks, veronica. a maintenance manager has been accused of stealing all kinds of stuff from the pentagon city mall. then police say he tried to cover up the crime. we'll tell you how they got him. the gyrocopter pilot who landed here at the u.s. capitol exposed weaknesses in security. how does he feel about that at a time that terrorism is on
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now at 6:30, merchandise mysteriously disappearing from a local shopping mall. >> there is always a trail. >> police say it was an inside job. how the suspects tried to cover his tracks. a guiltiy plea from the gie w guy who landed his gyrocopter on the pitol lawn. why this isn't the last we'll see of him. >> it will include nonviolence. >> plus a new effort to crack down on crime while putting extra spending money in your pocket. >> and a reporter, a radio host
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and a d.c. council member all getting inked on tv. we'll tell you why they would do such a thing. >> first at 6:30, in the last 30 minutes we learned an american has been killed in that terror attack in mali. we don't know much about who it is other than the state department saying it is not a government employee. six other americans were taken hostage in the radisson blu among with hundreds of other guests and workers. the number of people who died continues to shift, but the latest worded from the united nations is that terrorists killed 20 people and three of the militants died. the unapproved a resolution calling on the world to ramp up action against it is islamic state and two of the suicide bombers who attacked the stadium in paris had their papers checked and fingerprinted while traveling through greece. let's wrap up what we know. a man who was arrested in
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belgium has now been charged with participating in terrorist attacks in connection with what happened in paris. there was also a woman killed in wednesday's raid who was fis initially identified as a suicide bomber and now we're learning she probably did not kill herself, but may have died when another bomber set off his suicide vest. at the live desk, i'm chris lawrence. >> thanks, chris. we are hearing now from the man who pulled a brazen stunt when he landed on the lawn of the u.s. capitol. >> he entered a guilty plea, but told news 4 he still has plans to make his voice heard. >> douglas hughes, and exposed weaknesses chris gordon reports. >> no one has seen anything like it, a gyrocopter flying through restricted airspace over the mall, near the white house, landing on the lawn of the u.s. capitol. former u.s. postal employee doug hughes did it to deliver a
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message, protesting the influence of big money on congress. hughes was arrested, questions were asked, why wasn't he shot down, now with terrorism on everyone's mind, i asked hughes this question. >> how do you feel about exposing this weakness in the capitol security? >> it was an unintentional benefit if you assume that it has resulted in closing that gap. >> hughes today pleaded guilty to a felony, operating an aircraft without an airman certificate. he could get up top three years when he is sentenced next april, but hughes asked the judge if he could participate in a march from philadelphia to washington the week before he's sentenced called democracy spring. >> it will be one of the largest civil disobedience. already over 600 people have pledged. >> hughes takes responsibility for flying the gyrocopter to the capital, but at this sentencing
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this coming spring he says he will not apologize. if i have to choose between saying i feel remorseful and spend the 90 days in jail and rather than saying i feel remorse. >> reporter: hughes says whether he goes to prison or has probation he will continue his fight with campaign finance reform. at the capitol, chris gordon. news 4. there is a new clue tonight in the murder of a man who lived in maryland. prince george's county police have just released this video and shows bernard parker driving in his neighborhood just a few moments before somebody shot him. parker was found in his car when it crashed on ledovo way in springdale. he died at the hospital. police do not believe that the shooter was inside his car. there's no word yet on who did it or why. police say it was an inside job, a pentagon city mall --
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maintenance manager and to steal store merchandise. >> the guy tried to cover his tracks. >> doreen, michael mesa guevera's job essentially gave him free range to all parts of mea pentagon hours, and he used that to steal dozens, upon dozens of stolen merchandise. >> his primary target according to police, the footlocker and it's more than 170 stores police say michael meza guevera may know well having worked for several years here. >> there is always a trail. >> caught by surveillance cameras, but not the ones that meza expected to be rolling. >> he thought he was getting away with cutting the power to the stores on the outside, however, surveillance cameras did catch them because they operated on a battery backup. >> police say the cameras in the garage gave them a big clue. they show meza wheeling in a
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large, mostly empty trash bin. nothing unusual, except for nine minutes later, the warrant says he's back on camera, the same bin full and covered by a blanket. it was enough to search his house in fairfax county. inside they found 69 pairs of shoes in boxes, eight pairs of boots and nine women purses and even perfume and things that police say that may have come from other stores. >> this went on for months and we've got at least four cases where he stole a number of items from the footlocker. >> meza is in the arlington county jail tonight held without bond. >> the police investigation, that's not quite over. >> who knows what he was doing with the purchase and from there, there could be potentially additional charges. >> in arlington, david culver, news 4. still ahead, a college student arrested for crashing his car into a residence hall at howard and what we're learning about the moments before this accident. do you ever wonder how it got such a weird name?
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a howard university student has been arrested after crashing his car into a campus residence hall. police say alcohol was a factor in last night's crash at bethune annex. the driver crashed through the front of the building. no students were hurt and campus police deemed the building safe for students to re-enter overnight. if you're the least bit superstitious, there is a road winding through prince george's count they you might want to wife. our melissa mollet takes us tonight to goodluck road in this edition of meet your street. >> reporter: it seems like a place that could be riddled with horseshoes. it seems like a place where
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everything great could happen. it seems like a place you might want to play the lottery. good luck road. when playing the numbers here, they should hit a little more often. that a little dose of luck should be built in. >> good luck, but for causel barnhart. >> no good luck at all. >> lawrence brady thinks he's lucky for dodging speeding tickets in a 30 miles per hour zone here. >> reporter: good luck worth stretches from ken worth avenue, and susan is with the prince george's county historical society. >> it was first called telegraph road. >> reporter: back then it extended more north than it does now, but the alignment today is very similar to when it was first laid out when it was renamed in the mid-1800s after a plot of land here. >> people, i guess, they wanted to be fortunate and so they gave it a name that sounded promising. >> reporter: but here's the
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funny part. at that time there were promising names all over the place. >> in 1878 there were at least six other good lucks that i know of in prince george's county and probably quite a few that i don't know of. >> reporter: this village of good luck. >> there was one here, was there one here. >> was at the corner of what is now 193 and good luck road. >> the small village was not much more than a post office. >> reporter: inside the good luck community center, a play on the name shamrocks and horseshoes. >> i think it's lucky. >> reporter: it may just be wishful thinking, but some folks here think the road name brings them good fortune. >> we are very lucky to have good luck. >> reporter: on good luck road. >> reporter: in prince george's county, melissa mollet, news 4. >> bright smiles on the faces of dozens of people today thanks to volunteers with the dental group. the non-profit arranged the care for 80 people in need. this is the first time this dental office has run such an event.
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>> i'm just blessed by the lord that he's made this possible for these wonderful people to help me and assist me by making my smile healthy. >> a lot of these patients haven't been to the dentist in probably many, many years. so they're definitely very appreciative of what we're doing today. >> those volunteers plan to make this free dental care day an annual event. still to come tonight, a moving tribute in the wake of the terror attacks in paris. >> a pastor at prince george's county says he's opening his church to collecting guns and we'll explain why. we'll tell you why our man tom sherwood i
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♪ ♪ ♪ it's been one week now since terrorists attacked a concert hall in paris. new video now showing a crowd gathering to listen to a piano player outside the bataclan concert hall. and to remember the lives that were lost there. here, the man is performing john lennon's "imagine." according to several reports that man was in germany when he learned of the attacks and he immediately put his piano in a trailer and made the 400-mile trip for the performance. there's been a lot of coverage on the increasing number of murders in our area.
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already in prince george's county there have been 14 more murders, tomorrow one church will work with police to get guns off the streets. our county bureau chief tracee wilkins spoke with the pastor. >> this is our effort to try to make the community safer. >> the first baptist church is partnering with the prince george's county police department in its gift cards for guns campaign and it's an opportunity to get rid of old guns in exchange of gift cards without any repercussions. >> we saw them with the serial numbers drilled off and shotguns and guns configured to be automatics. so who knows what, but we'll take them from you anonymously. we just want to get rid of them. >> we asked the pastor why he would invite weapons into the church. we've had people come and lay them on the altar and say pastor, i want to give up this gun. this is not unusual. >> reporter: the pastor john k.
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jenkins says purging oneself of a weapon goes with what's taught at the church. >> it's a reflection of a person being touched by the power and presence of god. it is a person feeling that their safety will not be in a gun. >> since 2012, the prince george's county police department has collected nearly 1,000 guns and given out $150,000 in gift cards thanks to churches helping to pay for those cards. they offer $100 for handguns and $150 for automatic and semiautomatic no questions asked. >> every gun we take off the street is one less gun that we have to worry about out there. >> this kicks off thea the first baptist church. for more details, you can go to twitter and searc search @traceewilkins. >> it would be a stretch to call our own tom sherwood a rebel
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with or without a cause, what he is is a man of his word. tonight he has a permanent, new addition to that long, tall skinny body of his. tom, wamu's kojo nnamdi and mary chase all got d.c. flags. look at him trying to man up there. tom has been saying for years that if a major donation was made to wamu he would get that tat. that donation came last month. so tom got a flag on his arm. kojo got a black flag on his forearm, and councilwoman cheh got a flag with hearts instead of stars on her foot. >> who are you calling skinny? >> he's on the phone right now. >> i missed that, i'm sorry. >> go, tom. >> nothing personal, bro. >> we think you look great. >> absolutely. >> around here, though, it's
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starting to turn cold. it's colder this weekend. >> it makes you think of christmas, right? >> it is that time of the year when the capitol christmas tree that arrives today and soon, soon, very soon, it will be erected in front of the u.s. capitol. it was cut down a month ago and shipped from alaska all of the way to washington state, now house speaker paul ryan is expected to turn those lights on december 2nd and let's talk about what's next for us and i'll take you through headline weather first and a cool, breezy evening and we have another change coming this weekend and we'll talk travel weather for wednesday and not just here, but across the nation and thanksgiving day weather, as well. >> here we are in the 40s and our temperatures aren't bad and we're not into the 30s just yet, but by early monday morning it will feel like we're in the 20s around here. we'll have wind to deal with and our temperatures drop to around freezing. that's cold! that's not just coat weather.
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it's time to break out the gloves. tomorrow is not bad and it is the best day out of the weekend and pool conditions. warrenton, weston and same thing in stafford and waldorf, 53. not too bad for a high temperature and sunday we'll see clouds early in the day and you'll see them on skycast moving through and we'll have the wind picking up and gusts to 25, 25 miles per hour and 47 degrees at 5:00 and it will feel like we're in the 30s and the weekend, though is dry and the next couple of days are dry and go ahead and wash that car as we get through wednesday, thursday and travel day across much of the east. we're expecting dry conditions meanwhile as we take a look at thanksgiving day. our temperatures bounce back to a high temperature of 60 degrees and a cold one for food, for friends starting out around freezing, but make sure you help pat hughes stay warm and she'll be in front of the verizon center and thanksgiving day, 60 degrees and it's not feeling a lot like november, but a lot of
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this is the xfinity sportsdesk brought to you by xfinity. your home for the most live sports. of course, we're going over to the csn studio with sebastian salazar. >> thanks, guys. yeah, right now the redskins average it best which is to say they're better than last year, but if washington wants to take the next step they have to start winning on the road and something that's nonexistent in the jay gruden areaa and it's 0 and 4 this year. it should be noted and those four came that are all 500 or better and carolina is better than 500 and despite that, the skins still sound confident. >> i think we're finally all on the same page and the coach has
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been preaching the same thing all season, and i think most of the team has finally bought in the way he's saying and that shows on sunday. >> we have to treat this as a different team, and we have to continue to develop and d what we do best and have the confidence that we can show up and play good on the road. >> skins, panthers and 1:00 p.m. sunday and the wizards have won back-to-back games and after washington lost three straight earlier and leading toward back at practice today. he hasn't played since november 7th thanks to a left shoulder injury. he did go 2 and 1, but it would be a great boost when they travel to face the underrated pistons tomorrow night. ncaa hoops action from earlier today. george mason and new head coach dave paulson with their second win in as many days in the charleston classic. tied at 51 and zahir, three of
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his game high 23 points, but oklahoma state responds and less than 20 to play. joe burton from the top of the key nails it. so with that shot we're headed to overtime in the extra period and george mason up by three-time winding down and marquise moore looking for cushion and he found it and mason into the charleston classic final where they'll face the winner between virginia and long beach state. elsewhere in the college game, mark sturgeon and his crew are enjoying in college park and in the epic win tuesday over georgetown, they look every bit the preseason final four pick that many had. now maryland guarding against the letdown as they welcome the winless rider. >> they're a really good team and there are no teams that we can just run over. we have a challenge every game and we have to focus come out
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and focus winning this game and focus the rest later. >> they're coming off a loss and we learned from georgetown that teams come off losses and they're focussed in, but we'll be dialled in. >> a 7:00 p.m. tip tonight. that's all of the time we've got, but jim and doreen, before we send it back to you, worth noting, brenda frees picked up her 400th career victory. the ladies could end up doing pretty big thins in college park before it is said and done. >> she's a rock star. >> rock on. >> it's a good thing they play inside, isn't it? >> that it is. coldest air of the season. it's been eight months since our temperatures have been as low as they're going this weekend in the early part of next week and the core of the cold air over sunday into monday and you can see the temperatures, low 50s on saturday and we'll stay shy of the 50-degree mark on sunday, but we have food and families on monday so come out and make sure you support pat hughes and nbc
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breaking news tonight. at the hotel hostage siege. a new terror attack leaves at least 20 dead, including an american. other americans rescued as islamic militants storm a radisson hotel packed with westerners. and new developments in the terror investigation in paris. a surprise discovery in the rubble at the final standoff. as we talk to the man who led the raid on the ringleader. the politics of fear. new backlash as donald trump said he would implement a data base to keep track of all muslims in america. are he and some other gop candidates going too far? and a spy freed 30 years after getting caught selling america's top secrets to israel. jonathan pollard walked out of prison amid a heating debate over the damage he's
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