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a break in a 4-year-old murder case. cathy lanier talks exclusively to news4 how police got their

man. >> reporter: black lives matter is blocking streets on this new year's eve. >> we're counting down to 2016 by showing you how our region and the world are celebrating the new year. off the top at 11:00, we'll take you live to times square where a million people are about to ring in the new year but security concerns are putting a damper around the world and evacuations ordered overseas. we will take you to one of the biggest events of our area. the biggest party live going on now in new york city hundreds of thousands packing times square with several thousand police officers keeping an eye. sara is there with some excited revel revelers. >> good evening, we're about an hour from midnight when the ball drops and what a crowd it is,

more than a million people all packed in tight from around the world. some started lining up as early as 11:00 in the morning, showing real dedication to what many consider a bucket list item, new year's eve in times square. while they've been waiting, performers have been performing. including carrie underwood and others. police a visible presence here tonight. 6,000 officers assigned to time square making sure everyone gets 2016 off to a fun start and safe start. i'm sarah. >> embracing were overshadows e by a threat in munich. they had to shut down the city and party goers were told to avoid big crowds. so far, they haven't found anything suspicious.

for us tonight, all about the weather and what we can expect throughout the area. it's been mild all december long. why get cold now? tomorrow, we will be cool but we're not cold by any means. 39 to start off your day, the first day of 2016. 47 by 10:00 and 47 by 1:00 and 47 by 4:00 in the afternoon. cool tomorrow. 2016 brings in the coldest air so far this season and when it comes in. >> thanks. it's a story you will see only on news4. at the last hours of 2015 tick down, the family of a d.c. store clerk who was shot to death four years ago got a call they had been waiting years to receive. jackie bensen is live at police headquarters where officers say they have cracked a cold case. >> reporter: chris, this has all been unfolding in the last few hours. d.c. police chief cathy lanier

tells me the man in custody was just 14 years old at the time of the murder. >> the armed robbery suspect in this case shot and killed him, simply because he was an employee of the store. >> reporter: 37-year-old muhammad was working hard to support his family and led him to a job at king gas convenience store at the 2100 block of martin luther king avenue in southeast washington. he was shot to death during a robbery of the store. the case remained unsolved until today. >> we had information from this community that helped us get where we are today and we had forensic evidence and those two things allowed us to finally bring closure to this family. >> he was one of five people murdered in a 48 sparms sm of violence in the district. his killer, just 14 at the time, is the work of investigators who

never gave up and citizens who refused to look the other way. >> the other message for the criminal element, if you're willing to commit a crime here, we might not get you today but we're not going to stop until we get you. >> reporter: we are told under d.c. law, the suspect, because he was 14 at the time, will be charged and processed in this case as a juvenile. live at d.c. police headquarters, jackie bensen, news4. >> new at 11:00, rescue crews are spending the final minutes in chesapeake bay searching for a boater. they got a call he fell off at sandy point state park. fire and state police and coast guard are all helping in this search. a large crowd of protesters made their way through d.c. tonight hoping to catch the attention of those heading to d.c. and they're hocalling for

justice and willing to shut down chinatown to get it. >> demonstrators with the black lives matter movement shut down chinatown. >> this is something more important than partying that people need to make sacrifices to make sure changes are made. >> reporter: they took to the streets to raise awareness about sandra bland, the woman officials say killed herself in a texas jail cell and tamir rice, shot and killed by cleveland police. moo when we have our children murdered by police, that's important to me to stand up and say that's not right. >> how can any who has any power to stop it rest at night? >> reporter: they marched up h street downtown washington ch t chanting holding signs, wanting those out and about celebrating to notice. >> the death of any human is more important than turning up or going to party or anything. >> reporter: as they made their way to u street, they shut down

intersecti intersections. police moved quickly to block roads as they marched so there wasn't much of a traffic impact. they were joined by activists and moms who lost children at the hands of police. >> i'm very angry and i'm very upset, how they killed my son and snatched his life like that. nobody is telling me anything. >> reporter: everything is back to normal here in chinatown. i should say that the protest was peaceful. no arrests were reported. signing off for the last time in 2015, darcy spencer, news4. >> happy new year to you. >> huge protest out there tonight. if you have friends or family out and about, there are a few ways for them to get a free ride home tonight. metro rides between midnight and 3:00 are free but you need a smart card to do in and out of the station. you can also call somebodyride 1-800-200-taxi and will get you

a cab ride home run der 30 bucks. watch out for surge pricing and the circulator is running later than usual. it was a bizarre scene that captured our attention for hours, fireworks going off in nearby dubai as a nearby luxury building just burned down. there is still no address at the luxury hotel and it quickly spread to dozens of floors and pieces of fiery debris dropping off in the e skies. 14 people suffered minor injuries and one man had a heart attack but officials decided to go through with dubai's world famous fireworks show as scheduled. tonight, we're getting new video of a wild scene near the beltway. are we any closer what went down between two people in separate cars. the heated control -- heated debate of gun

new year's eve in brazil and the ukraine and we're counting down now the new year, 2015, only have 45, 50 minutes left. ♪ >> one of the oldest family friendly celebrations on the east coast takes place in northern virginia. first night alex can dra is a huge event with art and food and

the festivities cap off at midnight with fireworks over the potomac. >> there are multiple reports tonight that president obama will go it alone next week and take executive action on gun control. a source inside a gun control advocacy group said the president will require more small gun sell others to be licensed and require background checks when ever a gun is sold. that would close the so-called gun show loophole. new tonight, bill cosby is tweeting for the first time in months and the backlash has been swift and hard. cosby tweeted for the first time since he was charged with sexual assault with a simple message. friends and fans, thank you. some people have been sending messages of support. most of the responses are so negative, they're not suitable for tv. cosby was charged with sexually assaulting a woman in 2004 but cosby says that encounter was consensual. possible shots fired.

tonight, we're working to learn if any is going to be charged. police took several people into custody on new hampshire avenue and silver spring this afternoon. we're told the chase between the two started in prince george's county after someone flashed a gun. the drivers ended up on montgomery where it went the wrong way down new hampshire avenue and hit several cars. >> i looked over, these two cars, i don't know if they were in the same lane or next to each other. they were definitely screaming very angrily at each other. right after i heard them scre screaming at each other i heard a noise and a little crash. >> police pulled four people out of a car in a nearby shopping center and handcuffed them. no word tonight if any was charged or if shots were actually fired. police tell us the two groups actually do know each other. i got to tell you a lot of folks watching us probably in for the night at this point but a lot of people probably thinking ahead,

this is a long holiday weekend. >> long holiday weekend and what's going to happen with 2016 we will finally get cold air. we have not seen any. december, the warmest december ever in our region. it looks like january is not going to follow suit. take a look out there right now. temperatures still on the mild side. little bit of a breeze. again, very nice and very mild this time of year. 46 degrees. winds out of the north at 9 miles an hour. the average high today is 44. at 11:00 at night, we're still above the average high. that's the kind of temperatures we've been dealing with. 39 in la ray, 46 in annapolis. tomorrow on the cooler side but not quite as cool as it gets this weekend and next week. no rain to talk about. we have not only been warm in december, we've been very wet as well. the last 10 days we had cloud cover and rain and today no rain. i don't see another chance of rain or snow in the forecast either for at least the next

seven days. we do have a lot of cloud cover moving across our region. a lot of rain down to the south. see how the clouds are moving out of canada to the u.s.? that's where the cold air is. right now, 19 degrees in minneapolis, 23 in chicago. that's the cold air that will eventually get to the east coast, even boston at 40 degrees on new year's eve. kind of amazing, 54 towards raleigh, the cold air will move in here and that's what the headlines are to expect from the new year, starting off fairly cold. arctic air of the season comes in next week. >> yes, snow, it is coming probably later this month or into february. not quite yet. not quite yet. i'm teasing you a little bit but our official forecast still calls for a fairly snowy february. tomorrow, not even cold enough for snow. a little bit above average. a little bit of breeze tomorrow and colder conditions. forecast tomorrow, 44 around

10:00 a.m. driving through the day, temperature around 46 degrees. a little chilly by tomorrow evening. sunset tomorrow night, 4:56. saturday, sunshine, sunday, sunshine, monday, sunshine. high on saturday, 45, wind ch l chills in the 30s. look at tuesday, high temperature of only 36 after a high on monday of 40. most of you monday will stay in the 30s. everybody in the 30s on tuesday. not only that, it will be rather windy, too. we're talking the coldest air in the season. temperatures in the morning in teens and 20s and wind chill in the 20s all day. yes, we are talking about the first arctic outbreak of the season moving in. it won't last long but i think that's a sign of things to come later this month and into the month of february. >> i'm trying to remember the last time i heard you talk about wind chill. we haven't done much. >> i think this will be the third time this season. that's not a lot. >> wow. and here we are.

>> i'm ready for some cold. >> a lot of people are in this area and so are the ski resorts. ski resorts certainly are. >> they need it. >> alex

it seems afront to say on new year's eve, i guess all good things come to an end. >> capitals winning for a long time, nine straight games but unfortunately it stopped tonight. the winning streak for the capitals came to an end tonight and it might have been the

schedule and injuries than the carolina hurricanes. barry decided to give braden the night off in stead of playing the goalkeeper back to back nights. nicklas backstrom was back after missing last night. capitals find themselves down a goal back from usually the distributor, how about that shot? his 11th goal of the season. he wanted one more before 2015 was over. tied. hurricanes back up a goal. riley nash gets it. feeds jeff skinner, carolina take a 3-1 lead. later on in the period, caps trying to get back in this game. carolina turns over the puck. alex ovechkin, his 21st goal this season. caps pull within one. but that's about as close as they get. and hurricanes with another empty net goal.

4-2 your final score. capitals continue their five-game road trip up to columbus this saturday night. in the nfl, redskins haven't been in this position in quite some time. playoffs are locked up. there's still one game left on the regular season. what do you do? rest your players for the post-season or just go out and play. head coach, jay gruden. >> right now, we're approaching it, they're dressed and playing. kirk is getting ready and jordan is getting ready and how i substitute during the course of the game depends how we are doing. >> we need to finish with a hot hand and that's usually the team that end up in the super bowl. they're the same team that beat us in our stadium in the center stage. we need to line up and play redskin football and see what the results are the end of the day. >> college football, clemson taking on number 4 seed,

oklahoma sooners, all tigers, especially in the second half. clemson up six, desean watson the quarterback showing off the arm. 35-yard touchdown, clemson on top, 30-17. fourth quarter, wayne gallman, he had himself a game. 150 yards on the ground, two scars. starting to put this one away. baker mayfield, an excellent season for oklahoma. not great tonight. gets intercepted here by ben boulware, one of two picks in the game for the clemson defense. they beat oklahoma 37-17. they await the winner of alabama and michigan state. alabama is thrashing

nbc's new year's eve is coming up next but first, take a look at some of the most memorable moments of 2015. >> that's a no hitter! >> the redskins -- >> new york jets!

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