back up. words were exchanged and a passenger in the other car pulled out a gun andvvu fired ss in the air and the driver took off. a police officer found the suspect's car and then there was a chase northbound on 395 into d.c. bless s police say the driver threw the gun out of the window. the pursuit ended at third and f street northwest. the driver and passenger jumped out of the car and tried to run away and investigators say police caught them and back out here live and they found they found the gun thrown out of the car. if you planned on coming here after work today and after picking up your kids after day care you're welcome to go in and everything is fine, but right now police are also looking for the witnesses that were here and some of them called 911 after hearing those shots fired and also police are looking for the driver who was trying to use his credit card and got into the exchange. the words exchange with the car

behind him. live in arlington, i'm shomari stone, news 4. >> stop fighting or i'll kill you. according to documents that's what antoine pitts told the victim of a home invasion. he's been levelled in prince george's county on an unrelated charge. pitts should have been under gps monitoring at the time of the attack and he apparently cut the device off. >> investigators are trying to piece together what happened and who is to blame? this happened outside the kentland community center in landover maryland today. three people were shot. tracee wilkins is live with the investigation. >> reporter: we're talking about a shootout on a playground where three people were injured and in the midst of this one of the workers from the rec center ran toward the shooting. >> when gunshots were fired at

10:30 this morning just steps away from the kentland center. she did the opposite of what most would do. >> i walked outside to make sure it wasn't anyone i knew. yeah. i mean, because at the end of the day it's part of our family, the whole community. >> reporter: she runs the after-care program here and while children don't arrive until after 2:00 p.m. it could have been one of her former students. that's what she feared. >> do you think you knew any of the victims? >> it's possible. >> reporter: police are trying to figure out what sparked the shooting and what prompted one of the gunshot victims to run two blocks. >> he was transported to the prince george's hospital center and that was the first victim that we're aware of. two more gunshot victims from the same incident showed up. police believe one of the three

is the suspect. they're still trying to figure out a motive. unfortunately, chasing groups of men away from the playground has become part of antonette's job. >> when the kids are here we go out to talk to the guys and we ask them to wait until we finish playing with the kids. >> reporter: the police are saying all of the men involved in this incident were in their early 20s. >> reporting live in kentland, i'm tracee wilkins. back to you live in the studio. >> thank you. friends of of a young woodbridge woman who was shot and killed by her boyfriend are hoping stiffer charges will soon be filed against him and they have evidence they hope will help. bureau chief julie carey joins us from fitser stadium where this vigil is going to take place. julie? >> friends and family will gather around there around second base tomorrow and that's where brittany koster played on multiple teams and all of those

friends will be here to pay tribute. they are also keeping a close eye on the ongoing investigation into her death. >> she was just, you know, a girl that everybody loves. >> that's one of many glowing descriptions friends of have 21-year-old brittany koster whether it was in adult softball league games or playing volleyball. koster was the one who lifted spirits on the team. >> always upbeat and always smiling. >> our motto is our team our family. >> reporter: her family got word something terrible had happened. koster had been shot and killed by her boyfriend at his rappahannock county home. 22-year-old derek williams is charged with involuntary manslaughter. he thought the gun was empty when he pointed it at koster and pulled the trigger. >> how she passed is -- very hard for everybody to understand. you don't ever pick up a gun and point it at anybody.

>> reporter: koster's friends say they are skeptical of the boyfriend's story. close friend samantha dodson said koster was trying to break things off and she has text messages koster shared she'd like to show to investigators. >> from the messages i've personally seen i think he put fear in her. >> the victims hope williams may face stiffer charges. >> i hope he gets charged with murder. >> reporter: right now friends are focused on a softball field vigil. >> she's the most selfless person i think i've ever met in my whole entire life, and i want everybody to know how many people that she touched, how many hearts that she touched. >> reporter: friends also say brittany koster was very excited to start a new job soon. she was also ready to wrap up her studies at george mason university. they have set up a go fund me page to help her family with expenses and you want to take a look at that. go to the nbc washington app and

click on koster. >> back to you in the studio. >> president obama has left washington to start his holiday break in hawaii, but before he left he held his final news conference in 2015 where he ran down the list of accomplishments and took tough questions on terrorism and the spending bill that he just signed. edward lawrence is live on capitol hill with the president's response. edward? >> the president hopes for more cooperation with congress here in the future. he sounded defiant, but also hoped for the future. while he made his address, he did try and brush off the title of lame duck for his last year in office. >> president barack obama praised congress for passing a $1.1 billion deal that includes tax cuts. >> i'm not wild about everything in it, but it is a budget as i insisted and invests in our military and middle class without ideological provisions

that would have weakened wall street reform. >> the motion is agreed to. >> reporter: passage to,a void the government shutdown. >> i wanted to end those kind of rattling experiences that the american people don't like. >> reporter: on the fight against terrorism. >> we're going to defeat isis. >> reporter: the president said his policies have stalled the growth of isis. >> as we keep up the pressure, our air campaign will continue to hit isil harder than ever, taking out their leaders, their commanders and their forces. >> reporter: after the deadly attack in san bernardino, mr. obama says he has adjusted security procedures based on what federal agents learned. >> we are continuing to work at every level to make sure that there's no slip between information sharing among agencies. >> the president says he won't fade away and plans to end his term pushing his long-standing goals. >> in 2016 i'll leave it all out

on the field. >> and the president's advisers say next year he'll be out on the campaign trail to try and help another democrat win the white house. incidentally, since he's going on vacation, he has a 16-day vacation, he's making one stop in about two hours to meet the families of the victims of the san bernardino attack. reporting live on capitol hill, edward lawrence, back to you, doreen. >> the friend and former neighbor of the san bernardino killers will be in court on monday. enrique marquez supplied the weapons that were used in the attack that day and that announcement comes as they ask about the visa vetting process that allowed tashfeen malik to enter the u.s. a senate committee wants to know why the department of homeland security didn't adopt a proposal in 2011 that would have allowed social media accounts to be used to vet applicants. the fbi has said there is no evidence that malik or syed farook publicly talked about jihad before entering the u.s.

a very cold evening across our region and a very cold afternoon. the later it got we saw more cloud cover and we saw more wind, too. the windchill has been a big factor. take a look at the numbers across the mid atlantic and these are not numbers that we have seen so far this season and 45 in new york and 37 in wilkes bu wilkesbury, pennsylvania. extreme, you can't use that word this time of year, but we are seeing much colder temperatures than we've seen the last few days. 38 by 6:00. 35 by 10:00 and the windchill tonight will get into the 20s and it's already there in some looks and it will be quite chilly especially when we have that breeze. even colder tomorrow. we'll see windchills in the 20s for much of the day during the day and watch out for that and a very cold day tomorrow and then we get rid of the cold and we bring right back in the record high temperatures and we're talking about record highs right around christmas and i'll see

you back here in 16 minutes. >> full military honors for a highly decorated navy s.e.a.l. tim holden was killed after a driver hit him while he was biking near his bethesda home. his family was given a special gesture during the ceremony today. news 4's meagan fitzgerald has more on the strong show of support from hundreds of cyclists in our area. >> reporter: when hundreds of cyclists come together to honor a man many have never met, it sends a message. >> we had a fallen rider, and i just want to show my support for that fallen rider. >> reporter: these riders hope captain tim holden's death reminds people of the importance of staying alert on the road. holden is a decorated navy s.e.a.l. and persian war vet. his family says he could have died in war, but instead his life ended on massachusetts avenue in bethesda. in august, he was riding his bike when montgomery county

police said a driver veered to the side of the road striking him from behind. criminal charges were never filed. he was greeted by his fellow sailors who carried the casket to its final refsting place. [ "taps" ] >> during the traditional flag folding ceremony, holden's wife and daughters each accepted a flag and tearfully said good-bye to their hero. tim's brother said their entire family hopes tim's death serves as a lesson to drivers. >> in my brother's case, you can kill someone. >> reporter: so other families don't have to experience this type of pain. >> in arlington, meagan fitzgerald, news 4. next, bernie sanders taking legal action against the democratic party and the data breach sparking controversy on the campaign trail this evening. a million dollar bank heist

and an inside job. how a trusted manager was able to pull it off and what eventually led to her downfall. i'm darcy spencer in upper marlboro. a young college student home for winter break is killed in a head-

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just file adi federal lawsuit against the democratic national committee for access to a database that holds records about potential voters. the dnc blocked the access this week after a fire wall glitch allowed sanders' campaign staff to improperly search and save information about supporters of the hillary clinton campaign. the sanders campaign is accusing the dnc of playing favorites. >> the leadership of the democratic national committee is attempting to undermine our campaign. in this case it looks like they are trying to help the clinton campaign. >> the clinton campaign that accessed proprietary information about the sanders campaign. you can be darn sure, understandably that his supporters would expect that we would take the exact same action. >> the sanders campaign has fired its national data director, but notes the dnc is responsible for security on that database. so now we bring in "meet the press" moderator chuck todd.

>> what does it mean to us? >> well, here's the thing, why is it public? it's public because someone wanted to make it public. what you have here, sanders' campaign got caught. they're right. the dnc made the error and someone said they left the front door open and they went in and they ate cookies. they trespassed and they're sitting there going whoa, whoa, we got punished and now they're trying to make lemonade out of a lemon and they're trying to get their entire establishment credential and it does go over the fact that it's the sanders campaign and knowing they shouldn't have been able to do it. >> i'm sorry, i think everybody looks silly here. it's clear someone leaked this story to embarrass the sanders campaign, and apparently they were dealing with this over the last day or so privately.

and somebody made it public and now they're mad it was made public and i think it makes everyone look silly. i'll be honest. >> how many time -- the american public will be on the phone tonight talking about this. >> we have a national security concern and income inequality and isn't that what they want to be debating and they'll sit there debating databases at the debate? >> the democrats looked out of touch by having a saturday night debate and now to be debating this rather than serious issues. >> maybe hillary clinton can do what sanders said about i don't want to hear any more about this. >> that is the running gag. is bernie sanders at all going to pass the commander in chief test. we have a rising level of national security concern. this has been a weak point for him. is sanders running to make a point and it's on the national

security issues that will tell us is he boned up more? has he gotten better? by the way, if it's about this vote a file data business. that is not a good outcome for sanders, that's for sure. >> the president is headed to san bernardino and off to a well-deserved vacation. we've seen him at the pentagon lately and the national counter terrorism center. he seems to be really stepping up to reassure people. >> he's playing cleanup and he acknowledged with a private off the record this he knows he mishandled san bernardino and paris and in channeling the public's anxiety that he didn't appreciate it. it's not the first time he's you have struggled when it comes to national security. >> he seems to be pitch perfect when it's -- when it's some issues and you look at charleston and he just nailed it and tucson and the country's concern on that, but on national

security there's always been a hesitance there a little bit and it came through and he himself admitted it and this week is about playing cleanup by saying no, no, no. here i am. we are on top of this and its hit him in the polls and the 43% job approval rating and that's his lowest in the year, why? it's how he's publicly reacted to these attacks. >> he goes on jimmy kimmel and like a personal guy you'd like to hang out at the bar with and you had a lot of people showing up -- >> he's certainly a bar stool guy. he's that guy at the end of the bar. >> you don't know if you want to go sit over there. >> he's barking at you. >> exactly. what are we expecting? he had a good week and just the turnout in mesa, arizona alone. >> every time everyone wants to predict his downfall. who is more in touch with the republican party electorate? that's the question i have for speaker ryan and we've conducted the interview, but my question

was you strongly, he strongly condemned trump on the muslim ban. a lot of other republicans did and trump's numbers have gotten better. who is more in touch with the rank and file? is it paul ryan and the leadership or donald trump? for some in the establishment they're getting nervous that trump might be in touch. >> thank you, chuck. we know you'll have the deeper look for the fight in the republican ticket this weekend as well as highlights from saturday night's democratic debate and meet the press at 10:30 here on nbc 4. >> and he die just a short distance from his home. a young man back from college for winter break killed in a head-on collision. this accident happened on route 20 to near old largo road. news 4 darcy spencer spoke to a woman who felt like he was one of her own kids.

>> reporter: the 20-year-old died in this violent head-on collision in route 202 in upper marlboro thursday night. he had just come home for the holiday break. maryland state police are investigating the crash. they say it was around 10:30 when the driver of a cadillac going south on 202 lost control, crossed the center line and struck ososany ahead-on. she knew him through her daughter. >> god called one of his angels home and he was read ed for one of his angels and he called him home. that's the only way i can accept it. >> he was a popular student studying marketing at morgan state. he was elected mr. junior class by his classmates and he was a member of the omega psi phi fraternity. they issued a statement that says in part, he had, in fact, completed nearly all of his course work toward graduation and for his life to be cut short when he was so close to

achieving that which he had worked so hard for is heart wrenching. he was driving to his parent's home which was a short distance from the crash scene. green says he was like a son to her. >> i don't have a son, and it feels like my son has passed. he has touched so many lives and i'm just hurting. we're just shocked. >> reporter: maryland state police say the driver of the cadillac was taken to the hospital, but he is expected to survive. the state's attorney's office in prince george's county will determine if any charges are filed and we still don't know what caused that driver to lose control. in upper marlboro, darcy spencer, news 4. it began with the bump of a stroller and then it turned violent. what we are learning about the moments that left a metro bus driver recovering from stab wounds. >> a fight over a new turf field in northern virginia. the new concerns about safety as parents try to keep the

and it's a cold one. we actually have some cold air across the area and i asked someone on my facebook page are you happy about the cold? the cold is great, but get rid of the wind. that wind continuing to give us windchills in the 20s and 30s. 40 degrees, look at that wind, northwest at 17 gusting over 25 miles an hour. current temperatures in the area in the 30s to the north and

west. look at the windchill down to 31 in d.c. and only 25 in martinsburg and you know it will be a chilly night. make sure you bundle up and we haven't needed the winter coats and you won't need the umbrellas at all over the next couple of days. the storm system that brought us the rain is moving out and behind it what's going on here and we have snow over the mountains of west virginia and they'll quickly fade away so i'm not worried about that at all and it will be a dry night tonight and we're not going to see flurries or anything like that, but back to the west, a couple of storm systems, but that is it. if you're traveling, there are no problems during the day tomorrow. driving locally breezy, cold and dry. 95, 81, 70 and quiet all around and if you're doing any air travel the only problem spot is the pacific northwest. so not even across most of the

country and most of the major hubs should be good. upper 30s to low 40s and 43 in washington and 44 in fredericksburg and because of that again, what to wear, the skafs and the hats and she's got the right idea and that's the only reason why i have the impact forecast low to moderate and the moderate part once again because of the wind and it will be gusting 20 to 30 miles per hour and that gives us the windchill and 27 to 32 around noon and 30 to 35 by noon in the afternoon. make sure if you have any games tomorrow, make sure they bundle up, too. you won't be wearing the quotes for lo coats for long. 60 degrees coming up on tuesday and then, well then we just talk about the warmest christmas eve ever! we'll talk about that coming up in just a minute. >> my goodness.

>> well, next, a bank manager admitting to embezzling a million dollars to feed her shopping addiction. see how the elaborate crime unraffled. >> one teen arrested and two others taken to the hospital. the illegal ingredient in holiday treats that led to a criminal investi

a different type of bank heist. a northern virginia credit union

manager admits to embezzling more than $1 million from her workplace to help feed an addiction to shopping. >> not only is she facing prison time now, but her crime led to a huge shake-up at the credit union. scott macfarlane has the story and a story you will only see on news 4. >> reporter: donna jennings didn't just work at the winchester community credit union. she was the manager in charge of accounting and reporting to the board of directors. in federal court in alexandria today jennings admitted ripping the ple off. embezzling more than $1 million between 2001 and 2014 buecause f an addiction to shopping. she also admitted creating a fictitious loan using collateral owned by one of her customers without that customer's knowledge. a loan from which she later withdrew tens of thousands to pay off her credit cards and she

acknowledged breaking credit union rules making a large loan to herself and taking out large advances. >> she has acknowledged her guilt and she wants me to convey her sense of remorse to anyone who has suffered any consequences from this and her deepest apologies. >> reporter: the winchester community federal credit union is no more. the old branch sits empty. the bank had just $13 million in holdings, froms koourts said and they said jennings's embezzlement substantially jeopardized the safety, soundness and solvency of the credit union. it has merged with the apple federal credit union. maximum prison time for donna jennings, 30 years, though she's expected to get less after pleading guilty and she's started making restitution. donna jennings is facing more than just prison time and also a $1 million fine and she'll find out her punishment when she returns for her sentencing in april. in alexandria, scott macfarlane.

>> we got new body camera i hav havedio. it shows a d.c. officer putting leg restraints on smith. chief cathy lanier told us additional restraints were put on smith because officers believed he was high on pcp. this is the second body camera video of this incident to be released this week. both videos show officers administering cpr for more than five minutes. smith's death was ruled a homicide. no one has been charged in this case. >> a metro bus driver who was stabbed this week says a dispute over an apology led to the attack. a driver told police a man bumped him with a stroller as he got on to the bus when the driver pointed it out the rider robert vossberg said he had just gotten out of jail and didn't care about going back. >> vossberg spat on the driver and then slashed the driver with a tile cutter and ran.

he was arrested nearby and the driver is going to be okay. a student in montgomery county is in trouble for bringing marijuana brownies to school. as news 4's chris gordon reports two students got sick. >> reporter: the brownies allegedly mixed with marijuana were sold for $15 each, two female students here at blair high school went to see the nurse after they each ate one. it was the morning of november 25th. this student says they're her closest friends. >> and i went to see them in the nurse's office and they were going crazy, speaking a whole other language and i said oh, my gosh, this is really serious. the two students had elevated heart rates and were taken to an area hospital. a senior, 18-year-old william case ar was arrested and now faces two felony charges, distribution of a controlled substance and distribution of a controlled substance on school property. montgomery county sent news 4 a

statement, this matter was immediately referred to police who investigated and charged the student. we've also addressed it as a disciplinary matter with the students involved. >> this is the first time he's ea even faced accusations of this nature. >> reporter: how is he and his family handling this. >> dealing with it as best they can, focusing on william and his future. >> reporter: the school resource officers assigned to their duties and they do drug and alcohol classes for the students. >> reporter: police tell me the brownies are being analyzed to determine if they contain something stronger than marijuana. reporting from montgomery blair high school, chris gordon, news 4. here's something for you if you love what whawa. a new store opened in fairfax, this popular food mart and gas station is on historic sully way in chantilly. here is a photo from the grand

opening. it looks festive. a chick-fil-a and a prim rose child care center will also be coming to that shopping center soon. >> more trouble for d.c. mayor muriel bowser and her support of the pepco-exelon merger worth $6 billion. the washington post is calling on mayor bounce towser to relea emails why she decided to support the merger after she opposed it. the chairman of the freshpac political action committee that worked on bowser's behalf was also a hired lobbyist for exelon. the post editorial writer says the relationship is legal, but in their words, unseemly. controversy over a new turf field. parents fear it's not safe for the students and what they're doing to try to stop it from being built. plus a mad dash to the mall before the holidays. we'll help you navigate the crowds out shopping, but first, here's doug. >> i haven't got my wife anything yet, guys. >> don't look at us. >> i know.

anyway, i've given her 70 degrees. she likes warmer wlv and i'm giving her 70 after a high today only in the 40s and we'll talk more about the weekend forecast coming up. any ideas at least? help?

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keep moving. denise madison's husband corey was shot and killed by min nguyen last january offer a child custody dispute, but now almost a year later madison says she is surrounded by messages of hope. >> because i know where he is. there's comfort in it, but there's immense hope, you know? and that is why we're okay because i know that this isn't the end of the story. >> a little bit later tonight denise madison shares her other source of hope. a little girl that was named after the father she'll never meet. angie goff will have her story tonight on news 4 at 11:00. >> a major milestone for britain's royal family. the future king is about to start nursery school. the news comes as are as kensington palace releases a new family photo which shows the duke and duchess outside their home in london with prince george and princess charlotte is. the princess was born in may and prince george is 2 years old now. starting in january he will

attend west acre montessori school near the royal couple's country house. prince george is third in line to the british throne. >> a fight over a new athletic field and why parents are demanding that the project be postponed. >> it's a must-have toy, but one maryland campus is banning the

the last addition to a local football field has some parents raising concerns about a possible cancer risk for their children. news 4's derek ward explains the worries about the new turf that's going in at a fairfax county school and how the school district is responding. the new field at westgate elementary school is almost complete, but it won't be finished until this is put down. it's crumb rubber, commonly added to artificial turf and forms a kind of cushion, but it's amounted to tons of worry for parent at westgate. >> it's not something i want them exposed to on a regular basis. >> it's ground up tire and based on what he's learned from a yale study and other sources on the subject it can lead to some problems. >> noxious gasses, carcinogens and taronogens and mutogens. >> they're aware of the parent's concerns and they will conduct frequent air quality tests and will share those results with the community, but they say they're planning to go ahead

with putting down the crumb rubber and the current available information has concluded that the use of synthetic turf? athletic fields remain safe with no findings, showing a link between crumb rubber and any health risks. >> they believe the science is still out on the subject. >> there's no way that i could in good conscience allow any child, and certainly my own child near that field. >> i'm going to talk to the school principal asking how long my child will be on this field and exposed to this stuff. >> reporter: that material is going down any day now. parents hope that this field of dreams doesn't turn into a nightmare for their children. derek ward, news 4. >> nbc 4 has reviewed studies and several studies concluded the material does not present sudden health risk, but added that more research is needed. no study has examined the impact of regular exposure to ground-up

tires on young children over an extended period of time. one independent toxicologist and consultant also told nbc that the process used to make tires ensures other chemicals and carcinogens stay trapped in the rubber. loyola has banned hoverboards on all of its maryland campuses. that rule goes into effect tomorrow. the school says it's due to safety concerns regarding the lithium batteries. there have been at least 12 incidents of hoverboards catching fire. last month the hoverboard caught fire while it was charging at a home in gaithersburg and it caused thousands of dollars in damages. >> even as the federal government investigates, hoverboards were sold this holiday season and consumer reports evaluated three of the devices and they range in price from $400 to $800. the ride was similar on all of them and so was the construction and the battery life, but an enneer learned the hard way that while it's easy to get the hang of this, it is?

they can quickly pick up speed. >> ouch. it went that way and i was going that way. consumer reports recommends a helmet, pads and guards while riding these hoverboards. and a walker. okay. if you are done with your christmas shopping yet, expect to wade through big crowds. tomorrow is considered to be super saturday and stores will be offering their last big deals before the holiday week if you don't mind shopping online today is the day to do that. it's free shipping friday. thousands of retailers are offering free shipping often with no minimum purchase and are guaranteeing that your gift will get to you by christmas eve. so if you trust that promise, free shipping friday, it's for you. >> yeah. >> you better get your wife

something more than 70 degrees and we're all getting that. >> what do you mean? >> okay, fine. >> don't get in any deeper than you already are. >> i'll be out there hitting the crowds with you, everybody. the temperatures the next couple of days going way up right now and we're on the down side. 40 degrees and temperatures dropping 38 by next hour and 36 degrees by 11 clock and it's not just the temperature. it's the wind and we have the windchills around, too and the actual temperatures, 36 now in gaithersburg and 39 in springs and the windchill is in the 20s in some areas and it is going to be a cold night. storm team 4 radar and everyone on the dry side and take a look at this right here around the winchester area. i doubt this is falling to the ground and i'll try to zoom in here for you. look, there's snow on the radar and you may see some flurries between barriville and over toward melville and right along 50 and this will try to make its way along the blueridge, and i

seriously doubt that. hour by hour forecast some sunshine tomorrow and also rather windy and 39 degrees by 10:00 and 42 by 1:00 and 41 by 4:00. here are the future windchills and 5:00 a.m., 18 in d.c. and by around the 2:00 hour and everybody to the north still in the between thes around 30 degrees in the city and a very cold saturday and make sure you take the coat for sure. now the next few days we'll start to warm up quickly and up to 46 with less wind and 53 on your monday and 60 degrees on tuesday and then who's coming to town? santa claus is coming to town. nice and warm, 65 degrees on your wednesday and on christmas eve going for a record high temperature of 72 and we will see cooler numbers on friday and a high temperature of around 55. a chance of showers wednesday and on thursday. >> thank you, doug. coming up in sport, two d.c. teams on top of their divisions right now. what? >> whoa! >> can the cavs hold on to their

lead tonight? first here's lester holt with a look at what's ahead on nbc "nightly news". >> hi, wendy and doreen. on this weekend before chrisas we'll tell you why the travel getaway may look a lot different than previous years. also growing concerns over a synthetic drug being sold through the mail linked to bizarre behavior and sending folks to emergency rooms and we'll look at the proposal that could keep many teens out

sgloor the washington football team got that first road win last weekend and they're going to return home to face the bills this weekend. so let's go out to the csn studios where chris miles has the latest on the burgundy and geld. hi, chris. >> love the fact that you're pulling for the first-place hometown teams. they say home is where the heart is. clearly, home is where the wins are for the skins. they are 5 and 2 at fedex this year and they play host to the bills in their final home game this weekend and the skins are locked in a three-way tie in the nfc east with the giants and eagles while buffalo is not a

dwiegz game, washington will need this win before finishing the season on the road in philadelphia and dallas. the bills love to bring pressure defense and a fact jay gruden is well aware of. >> our offense, we want the thought of blitzing them and not getting mritsed and that's the mentality that we want to have. there is a time and place for anything and we still think we can get our runs in there and i think i'll just play it by ear. >> they do a great job of mixing it up and playing great situational football and they have excellent players and it will be a good challenge for us. >> we don't want to be that team that gets the outbreak or get five or six sacks because they've got some guys who will flat-out rush the quarterback. no matter what the statistics say, we have a huge challenge. >> brandon phillips is in the district, but not yet a member of the nationals. washington has agreed to a trade for the 14-year veteran and phillips has to wave his no-trade clause for a deal to be

finalized and they are played under new nats manager dusty baker for five years in since natty and visited him today. >> five wins in a row and that was before a 15-point loss to monmouth earlier this week. they had given up 70 points in all four of their losses this season including a season-high 83 points to monmouth. head coach thompson wants the players to enjoy playing defense and has an idea on how he can get them to do that. >> it may be about punishment. [ laughter ] i don't know, you know. i think that, you know, i think that we've both harped on it individually, the notion of i have to stop my man. we have to take pride in that and coupled with that is we have to stop them. >> i mean, it happens to everybody. there will be games when you're not making shot, but the one thing you can control is defense. we want to make that a staple of ours and continue to get better. >> the caps have won four of the

last five including three in a row and they look to keep that momentum going this evening against tampa bay at 7:00 p.m. and the caps have beat them twice in the last month and they're not taking tonight's opponent lightly. >> they bring a good fire to our game and we get them into some fire in their game coming back. so every game has been pretty much a one-goal game and maybe an empty net goal and i think they're two good clubs. >> the wiz kids spent the day getting in much-needed campus and currently they're in 12th place in the east and still early in the season and the wizards are dealing with injuries and na na will host the hornets tomorrow at 7:00 on csn and randy whitman believes it will turn this season around. >> we just have to keep plugging away and try to keep our head above water. again, i think i told you guys last year when brad was out or

na na was out or the different guys that we've had out over the last couple of years and this hopefully will make us a stronger team when we get back healthy. >> as we mentioned the caps are on csn tonight and their team headed in the wrong direction and we'll have a full recap right here at 11:00. doreen and wendy, appreciate your enthusiasm for both the redskins and the caps right now. >> okay, then. thank you, chris. >> glad to be appreciated. >> let's get one more check on that cold weather we've got. >> and the windchill. >> and we have the whole windchill thing coming in. it's want tnot the cold. it's the wind. 20 to 25 at 7:00 a.m. and at noon tomorrow 27 to 32 and 4:00, 30 to about 35. not getting out of the low 30s as far as windchill is concerned. much nice or sunday, 46 degrees and it will be cold as you head out to the redskins game and they take on the bills and monday and tuesday, 53 again and

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