take action on gun laws while wall street shakes off a bad start to the year. we're about to get the final numbers from new york. good afternoon. we're covering all of the big stories as we come on the air today first at 4:00. >> starting with startling new revelation, a house fire brought us this gripping image of a dog protecting its owner victim, not everything that night was as it appears. >> tracee wilkins starts us off live with a big turn. >> chris, this is a story that caught the attention of people all over the world. they had their heart strings pulled when they saw the pit bull standing by its injured owner in the front yard of this landover hills home. well, now that owner who was lying on the ground is facing multiple charges for arson associated with fires here at this house and a fire that helped to destroy part of the house. now, fire investigators say that as they investigated this they

found out the 34-year-old april newell had set fire to this house several hours before the fire that actually destroyed this house. that resulted from an argument that she allegedly had according to court documents with her son. that she then went into his room and set some of his clothes on fire, starting a smaller fire within the house that was extinguished and hours later the house again goes into huge flames and the father who lives inside of the house, an elderly man who is legally blind escaped with burns and his daughter made it out of the house and was found on the front yard of the home where fire investigators tried to get care to her, but had trouble getting to her because of her pit bull precious. and the dog went on to be displaced from this family because of a ban against pit bulls in prince george's county. meanwhile, investigators were looking into what newell may have done to start the fire.

>> it's a weird turn of events. the pit bull picture of her, the dog, precious, guarding the dog's owner was seen around the world by way of social media, and i think it did capture the hearts of many. little did we know at that point when that picture was taken that the female that the dog was guarding would soon be charged with arson. >> reporter: newell is being held on $500,000 bond and there is a lot to this story. a lot of twists and turns and some very strange things that happened inside of that home according to court documents. we'll have more on that coming up on news 4 at 5:00. reporting live from landover hills, i'm tracee wilkins. back to you in the studio. all right, tracee. at the live desk there is swift reaction to what will be a multi-day rollout from reactions from president obama to tighten the nation's gun laws. the president spoke to reporters

in the oval office. he didn't detail any of the actions he plans to take, but they are all well within his right to president and don't violate the constitution. several republican presidential candidates, however, strongly disagree. >> this is a president who for seven years has abused his constitutional authority. the president has not even attempted to point to a single mass shooting. these actions he proposes would have prevented. this is not going to solve every violent crime in this country. it's not going to prevent every mass shooting and it's not going to keep every gun out of the hands of criminals. it will potentially save lives in this country. >> the president's reforms are expected to require more gun stores to become licensed in some form of expanded background checks. the president says he'll go into more detail in the coming days. at the live desk, i'm scott macfarlane.

i'm david sculver in chantilly, virginia. it is a lot quieter than it was the past weekend. the nation's gun show has wrapped up and i want to show you video from the past weekend and thousands lining up attending discussions of an executive order that could expand background checks with gun sales. >> it is a political vendetta on the president's part against the constitution and gun owners. >> they're praising the action from the president. coming up at 5:00, we'll delve deeper into this issue specifically from a virginia perspective and we'll show you how some here believe that the administration within the governor's office is following along the president's lines and what reaction is to that. that's ahead in our next hour. in chantilly, i'm david culver, news 4. >> now to storm team 4 and the chilly changes on our doorstep. >> if you thought it was cold today, just wait until tomorrow.

>> doug, you've been telling us to get ready for a week now. >> you've got that right. it's cold outside right now. the current temperature sitting at 34 degrees in the city, but the windchill is a big factor. the windchills in the teens and 20s. the high temperature today, 38 degrees in the city and well below average and the coldest temperature that we've seen since last winter and early last march and take a look at the numbers around the region. only 23 in pittsburgh and 29 right now in hagerstown and we're looking at an extremely cold night tonight, and windchills tonight could be in the single digits early tomorrow morning and we have the coldest air yet that's making its way across the area and some of us saw snow flurries earlier this morning and not cold for long and this will be a quick shot of cold air and more mild air starts to move in and that helps the rain chances go up and i have the entire forecast for you and veronica joins you in a few

minutes with an hour-by-hour forecast. we're keeping an eye on wall street to see how it can impact your accounts and stocks took a nosedive on the first trading day of the new year. the new york stock exchange, you can see the dow is down 276 points and that's a drop of more than a percent and a half. analysts say china's economy is showing new signs of weakness and that triggered the slide and there are worries about oil prices because of the tensions between saudi arabia and iran. we just learned the fire that gutted this large house in prince george's county cost at least $1.5 million in damage. the homeowner made it out okay along with his two dogs. the first floor collapsed shortly after firefighters arrived at the house on jamie's way. because there's so much debris, it could be a while before investigators pinpoint the actual cause of the fire. in our next half hour derrick ward talks to the homeowner who is very grateful despite all of the loss.

two of the busiest streets downtown are back open after a brazen shooting between two cars overnight. it all started between two cars traveling on l and 18 streets northwest fair the farragut stations. a man was shot in the arm north of columbia heights and police closed down the streets for the morning commute as they investigated. if you want to see the redskins-packers game be ready to pay for that privilege. general admission tickets sold out in just 13 minutes this morning. there are a limited number of club seats available and those go for $300 and up and we checked stubhub and found them from $140 all of the way up to $9,000. coming up in the next half hour we'll tell you how to avoid falling victim to those ticket scams and carol maloney is out at redskins park and he's changing his approach heading into sunday. first at 4:00, gone without

a trace. why police in our area are looking for an uber driver as well as a missing teenager. and the times, they are a-changing. we'll go live with transportation reporter adam tuss to talk about a new effort to make small changes that could impact how quickly you drive

cold, windy, even some flurries today. it must be winter, right? today's been the coldest day in nine months. look at this, even a few flurries, they're trying to hang on as they make their way south from charlottesville there. our front that's allowed the cold air to come in and that's

south of our area around roanoke and richmond and still clouds are holding and if you're walking the dog the temperatures drop into the low 20s by 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 and if you'll be out and those windchills will be in the teens as we drop to 25 to around 30 degrees. keep that in mind if you'll be going out this evening and while it's cold now, by the end of the week, things will go up again and what it will feel like by the end of the week in just a few. whether you walk or drive the bus, alexandria could mess with your ride home tonight. crews are trying to fix the break on duke street and wheeler avenue. duke only has one lane running in both directions and police are warning drivers to take it slow. head's up for metro riders, too. if your bus travels through that area, it may be running behind. a bethesda family is worried about a missing teen and they're hoping an uber driver can help

them find them. tajin thomas hasn't been seen since last night. they say he left carrying a duffel bag. thomas left suicidal messages before leaving his home cl is why police and his family are so concerned. it only snowed there for a few day, but it will impact us for much longer than that. we'll expect why a snowstorm more than 1,000 miles away will impact your wallet. all that and a fit of anger that backfired on live tv and has a lot of you buzzing on social

there's certainly no more doubting that winter is here and take a look at the snow in our area today. so will we see any more and how cold will it be when you step out tomorrow? doug kammerer will join us again in just a few minutes to talk about that. developing right now the death of a man who got into trouble with a medstar washington security guard or guards now deemed a homicide. the 74-year-old was a patient at the hospital when he left without being discharged. this happened back in september. he was spotted nearby and was being escorted back to the hospital when police say he began resisting security officers. he later died of blunt force injuries to his neck. the hospital hasn't said what led to the clash. no charges have been filed. we all want to get to where

we need to go faster. the transportation department is trying to retime the district's traffic lights for the first time in 30 years and trying to accommodate everyone, whether they walk,pedal. transportation reporter adam tuss is with us and why has it been so long since vdot touched these lights? >> reporter: we simply have a different city now. we have more people on bicycles and we have areas where pedestrians are way more present than they have been in the past and we're simply just not planning for the automobile all together anymore and you have to look at a more comprehensive way to do the network and now ddot to their credit has recognized that and they've gone in and they've started to retime some of the signals across the city and they have a lot of work to do, but not all of the timing matches up and what one car need a pedestrian doesn't need and it's a big task in front of them. >> there is a ton of development going on around the district and does that make it harder to retime these lights? >> of course.

you think about when a new building goes up there, there's often new infrastructure that goes in place and something like a new street and a new crosswalk and the district has thought of new ways for p/eed p/es just to get across the city and they have certain signals that they can use to go across the city and you press a button and you can stop traffic and that kind of stuff goes into play here with development and the changing travel pattern and it really doesn't just affect d.c. residents and it affects people coming in and out of the city and people from maryland and virginia. >> how long, do you think, before they wrap this up? >> well, right now the city has gone in and retimed approximately 60% of the signals in the district. think of this though, there are 1600 signals that they have to get to. so they're saying another two years and once they get on top of that and ahead of that and then it will be a lot easier to go back and retime them year after year after year after that. >> they're saying another one to

two years, but this is a big task. we should all just hope that they get it right so that they can get around faster. >> thanks, adam. developing right now in the middle east. saudi arabia says all flights to and from iran are canceled. that comes after the kingdom severed all diplomatic ties with tehran the capital of iran and the latest dispute started saturday when the saudi kingdom executed a prominent shiite cleric of the sunni-led government. the executions sparked protests in tehran and an angry crowd overran the saudi embassy there and set it on fire. you'll be feeling the chill of last week's winter storm in new mexico for some time to come. the storm killed more than 20,000 cattle, causing a dairy disaster for farmers, compounding many of the dead cows were young and the next generation of production and some of the surviving cattle suffered frost bite and others may not be able to produce milk

again. i've got to tell you a lot of people had their winter coats stuffed so far back in the closet, but doug has been telling us for a week now, get them out. >> i think it has felt colder than it actually was today, didn't it? >> most definitely and that's because of the wind and we're seeing it gusting 20 miles an hour and that's bringing out everything from the closet, the heavy coat, the gloves, the hats and the scarves and you will need them for the next 24 hours or so. take a look outside right now. even with the sunshine we have been on the cold side and yes, we did have snow flurries earlier as the front made its way through the area and the current temperature, 34 degrees and winds out of the northwest at 18 miles per hour and here are the current temperatures and 39 in hagerstown and 32 below freezing and around frederick at 30 degrees and 28 in gaithersburg and look at the windchill, 15 in hagerstown, 22 in manassas and 21 win chester and annapolis at 25 and an

incredibly cold day and as the sun goes down it will only get colder and storm team 4 radar not showing much and picking up a few snow showers around the fredericksburg region and some flurries falling for you and back toward frederick county, virginia and a few more up to howard county and northern prince george's and anne arundel county and it will not amount to much, and this is why. you can see where the air is coming from, straight out of canada and straight over the great lakes and this is something we've not seen and we've seen southwesterly winds bringing us the warm air and this is a much, much colder wind and winds coming out of the north to northwest and that will be the case for the next day or so and that's why we're going to stay on the cold side and what to expect early tomorrow morning. as i mentioned, blustery and cold and breezy early and because of that, windchills could be near ten degrees in some areas and maybe even in the single digits and a cold start to our day. >> this is what we're going for and a low of 22, d.c. and 13

gaithersburg and 15 in fredericksburg. at the bus stop tomorrow it will be frigid and highs tomorrow only freezing in some areas and 32, frederick and 33 in leesburg around 35, d.c. and once again, plenty of sunshine and that sunshine will not do that much to help out the situation. now we are going to warm very quickly after another very cold start on wednesday morning and we'll get up to 41 degrees and not a bad afternoon wednesday and we'll start to moderate, 46 on tuesday and 47 on friday with the chance for some shower activity and another storm for the weekend and veronica is back in a couple of minutes and she'll talk more about that in the seven-day forecast. >> it was a cold day in buffalo and the bills kicker had a bad play and only made it worse. and he slammed his helmet in the turf and it bounced back up and hit him in the face. the bills did win the game and his form was a lot like his kicking game and he's missed six extra points this year. locked away, but not without

controversy. we'll show you how a show on netflix is getting attention online and soon in the courts, as well. emerging the same day the redskins tickets sold out, why you could be at risk for getting fake tickets. we'll tell you how to avoid losing money and we want to know how far you think they'll go in the playoffs. during the break just call or text the number on your screen or cast your vote on the nbc washington facebook or twitter pages.

netflix and it's inspiring a nationwide campaign to take a look at one man's case. >> with us is billy bush and stephanie bower with "access hollywood." we want to give you a spoiler alert and if you are waiting to watch the end of "making a murder" you may want to turn down your sound for a minute. billy, a lot surrounding the case about a man spending time in prison it's one of the most popular stories on our facebook page. why is it so popular? >> it's a real-life documentary. it's nothing that's blown up on netflix before. "house of cards" and "orange is the new black" and they binge the heck out of them and some people like and some people don't. everybody is universally riveted by "making of a murderer."

stephanie bower and i've watched 20 minutes so far. steph bauer has watched it through twice. 20 hours of your life. >> 20 hours of my life i dedicated with this. i watched it once with one sister and the other with another sister and the day it came out and it tells the story from beginning to end of how a man was, like, they said that he raped a girl and he got let off, but then they pinned this other crime on him and i don't want to give away too much and you're sucked in. netflix released ten episodes at once and you can sign a petition now which is what they were talking about, you can sign a petition to get him pardoned. >> this is stephen avery. this is from arawach county in wisconsin and they have a salvage yard, and a working-class community and they don't fit in and you get the feeling that the law enforcement, the sheriff has been after this family for anything and that they're head

hunting him no matter what. you get a sense that this guy is innocent when it's all done and you've done it twice. >> you definitely do. the averies are popular in wisconsin for being a rough family and you really fall in love with this family. it shows the mother and the father waiting 18 years for him to get out of prison and the first time now he's back in and enough is involved now and he gets thrown in jail, too. and this case will be looked at it again and you think this leads to him. >> it reminds me of the jinx and cereal, and i think they're looking into that. if it can work for him i think it can work for stephen avery. >> what are prosecutors saying about this? >> one prosecutor that is really, really disliked on social media you'll know as soon as you watch it has come out and said they left a few things out of the documentary. i looked at the things they left out and i do find them interesting and he's trying to

save face right now and they're definitely sticking by what they convicted him of and what they convicted him of the first time. >> you're not the only one waiting to watch tonight. >> can't wait until tonight. >> thanks, billy. >> "the bachelor" is on. and "telenovela" eva longoria's new show. >> i'll watch it the third time with you, billy. >> oh, come on! >> i've had friends and family badgering me to watch it and i'm hooked. if you want to read more about "making a murderer" just open the nbc washington app and search netflix murder. >> thanks, billy. it's not the holiday guest one family had in mind and wait until you hear how this got into their family's home while they were relaxing. winter in a big way out there. these are the windchills right now for most of us. it feels like it's below freezing out there and this is just the beginning

right now at 4:30, president obama is about to roll out a series of executive actions on the nation's gun laws and they can include tighter background checks and republicans are already slamming the move. wall street taking a huge hit on the first trading day of the new year. the major stock index each fell a percent and a half or more including the dow which lost 276 points following a sign of major economic weakness in china. a strange twist in the story

that captured worldwide attention. the dog that stood guard against the person who set fire. she intentionally set fire to the house to get in the media spotlight. we're keeping an eye on developments involving the massive fire this morning that destroyed a large home in prince george's county. the fire cost $1.5 million in damage and we now learned two people lived there and their two dogs and tonight they all need somewhere to live. the fire started at 7:00 this morning. news 4's derrick ward talked to the homeowner and found out why firefighters struggled to put this fire out. >> reporter: it was clear early on that this home on jamie's way would not make it through this fire. it was miraculous that those inside when it started did. >> i just got up and there was smoke going off and went and checked and there was just flames coming from the back of the house and from the basement. >> reporter: he had to move quickly. >> the only thing i could do was get out. >> reporter: this is a remote

location and no fire hydrant nearby and to get water to that fire they had to improvise. >> a hose run nearly half a mile long to the nearest hydrant. they also brought in portable tanks of fire that could be filled by an armada of tanker trucks. >> because this area doesn't have hydrants, we did have challenges as far as getting the water to the fire. >> the only thing we had was the sprinkler system and there was nothing else. >> reporter: the scarcity of fire hydrants has been discussed and will likely be discussed more. >> and after losing everything in the home, the homeowner is remarkably calm. >> in good spirits. everything that was lost can be replaced. >> reporter: the cause of the fire is still under investigation. luckily no one was injured. in prince george's county, derrick ward, news 4. pull the gloves out and turn the heat up. you'll certainly need it this

evening if you'll be out and it's still breezy out there and still seeing winds gusting over 30 miles per hour and temperatures are starting to fall off fairly rapidly and you can see the current windchill readings there and 19 degrees and what it feels like in leesburg and generally low 20s and cold and windy and i wish i could tell you that we'll lose it by tomorrow morning and while it does ease some overnight and 12 to 22 degrees and the actual air temperature across the area will be dry tomorrow. we're not expecting any flurries as was the case this morning and while we do have another cold one coming up tomorrow, comparable to today in many ways by the end of the week, tfl temperatures will be going way up as far as traveling, exercising out and about and the one thing where the cold will hit us the most is if you'll try to get out and excersize so it's looking like an inside day for kids' recess and tomorrow we'll take you hour by hour and show you the windchill temperatures in just a few minutes.

i'm darcy spencer along glen mill road in the rockville area of montgomery county. it was at this house where animal control officers seized 66 dogs on new year's day. we are told it started when one of these dogs allegedly bit someone. animal control officers came here to the house to investigate and that's when they say the owner refused to allow them inside. that's when they got a search warrant, came back to the house and found 66 dogs. each dog was seized by animal control officers and taken to the animal services division. we are told they were different sizes and different breeds, and they were in various stages of health. each one of them had to get a health assessment. this investigation is ongoing. the owner could face potential criminal charges. coming up on news 4 at 5:00, you will hear from the woman who was allegedly bitten by one of these dogs and that launched this investigation. in rockville, darcy spencer,

news 4. it is windy and it's freezing out here in ashburn and the redskins would like to be nowhere else. january football, playoffbound, the skins preparing for their opening matchup versus the packers on sunday. burgundy and gold coming off a dreamlike regular season finale. skins, winners of four straight and five of the last six, yes, they are peaking at the right time. coach jay gruden today addressing the media. yes, it's a playoff week and the message and the approach does not change. >> the height of the game is very, very important, but if you start saying this is the biggest game of your life you don't want people to get too tense around here and i think you have to prepare where you've been preparing and approach practice and approach meetings with great focus and great attention to detail and that will have to

carry over. >> so we can expect a regular workweek with a lot of focus on how to contain packers quarterback, aaron rodgers and how healthy is the skins d. we'll have an update coming up on news 4 at 5:00, from ashburn, i'm carol maloney, news 4 sports. >> as we told you at the top of the show, tickets to sunday's game sold out in just 13 minutes. so you need to watch out for people selling fake ones. the washington redskins tell the news 4 consumer watch say they're becoming concerned about counterfeit tickets and parking passes and make sure you buy your ticket or parking pass from a reputable seller and if you get a pass from a friend make sure you you see that person received it and don't buy a ticket from off the street or from someone you don't know and on game day it's illegal to sell tickets or parking passes within a two-mile radius. all parking passes will be scanned on sunday and counterfeit or duplicate tickets will be turned away and they're not eligible for a refund under

any circumstances. a cell phone camera catches one local police officer going beyond the call of duty and having fun in the process. >> while in uniform a d.c. police officer showed up at a music video shoot on georgia avenue. this was yesterday morning. he started playing a pick-up basketball game with a hip-hop group and took part in the music video. it was great to hang out with them. he's pretty good, too. >> a lot of us use lyft to get around town and yet company's future may not necessarily mean more cars buzzing around our streets. not backing down, the armed protesters look a ers all ri.

for all those of you that said where is the cold? here it is! 19 the current windchill in martinsburg and 23 in washington and 25 in annapolis and veronica earlier said i would have the hourly forecast for the windchills tomorrow. are you ready for this? how about these numbers tomorrow morning? between 5 and 15 degrees. some of the windchills will be in the single digits early tomorrow morning so an incredibly cold start and even around noon between 15 and 20 and not getting above 30 all day. most of the day you'll have windchills in the low 20s. so again, a very cold tuesday for you and the good news is we do see a little bit of a warm-up

as we move through the end of the week and veronica has that coming up in a few minutes. >> thank you. federal aid is headed to missouri with thousands along the mississippi river still cleaning up from those deadly floods that hit last month. president obama approved nixon's request for federal funds to help with the cleanup and the national guard will oversee the flooding on the rivers blamed on 25 deaths in missouri and illinois where some roads are still closed because of high water. >> fewer cards on the road and today, general motors announced it has invested half a billion dollars in the ride hailing service lyft in order to make it happen. the self-driving era will start with lift drivers rather than individual car fires. the company will also start a rental program so lyft drivers can rent gm vehicles and as part of the deal gm will get a seat on lyft's board. >> swallowed by flames. we'll show you where in our area

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in just a few hours the city of alexandria will have its first new mayor in more than a decade. allison silverberg will be sworn into office at 7:00 at t.c. williams high school. silverberg beat bill yule.

she's spoken out against the city's rapid development which at times she said it was against the historic character of alexandria. lawmakers are back to kick off the session of the congress. and things are getting testy. they'll start by attempting again to repeal president obama's signature health care law and cut funding for planned parenthood at the same time. they tried dozens of times to repeal, but the bill has never made it all of the way to the white house until now. president obama has vowed to veto it. it's one month until primary voting starts in the race for the white house. there are two firsts, donald trump in a tv ad and bill clinton on the stump. steve handelsman is tracking the action on capitol hill starting with hillary clinton. >> hi, barbara. picking up the pace is right. this could set some kind of a record. today by bed time tonight there will have been 28 distinct candidate events, most of them in iowa.

>> with four weeks until they caucus, hillary clinton today promised iowans that she would run the economy like her husband did in the '90s. >> 2300 jobs and incomes went up for everybody, not just at the top. middle-class folks, working people, poor people. >> reporter: bill clinton made his first campaign appearance saying no candidate is better qualified than hillary. >> by knowledge, experience and temperament to do what needs to be done now. >> reporter: he was in new hampshire where bernie sanders still leads in state democratic poll. chris christie is second now in republican new hampshire polls. he called the clintons lawless. >> if you don't believe that after watching eight years of the clinton presidency that lawlessness is the part of the day you weren't watching the same presidency i was watching. >> reporter: they'll spend all week there. >> conservatives are coming together and if conservatives

unite we win. >> reporter: donald trump, without airing any commercials holes the lead in every state's polls except iowa. trump airs his first tv ad in that state tomorrow. >> he'll stop illegal immigration by building a wall on the southern border that mexico will pay for. >> reporter: in both parties and both states, a sales pitch nearing full volume. because all these candidates know that voters can change their minds, a lot of voters haven't made up their minds and these races can change and it happened big time in 2008 when at this point a month out hillary clinton had a big lead in the polls and barack obama won iowa. i'm steve handelsman, news 4. chris? >> thanks, steve. virginia's governor is planning another trip this weekend shortly after he returns from his mission to cuba. "the washington post" reports he'll be heading to iowa and the two are longtime friends and mcauliffe is chairman of her unsuccessful bid for president in 2008. some virginia republicans call him hillary chief cheerleader

and say he should be working on virginia's problems instead of ca campaigning. we're trying to get used to it. the cold just hit us hard. of course it did, it's been windy today and tomorrow is still a bit on the breezy side and even early in the day and what to wear first thing out the door and the scarves, as well, wanted to put long underwear, some of us need it and we're not going to need the umbrella tomorrow and we're not expecting any flurries as we saw this morning. for tomorrow it will be dry and 12 to 22 degrees and there will be a big range in temperatures across the yart and especially for the sheltered locations and temperatures will be closer by 12 degrees and with that wind, everyone gets windchilled in the early part of the day and because of the cold and the wind once again, breezy and cold, a bundle up kind of day and the weather will have a moderate impact on our area. it gets better by the end of the

week with moderating temperatures and better also for the kids. tomorrow will be an inside recess day because of the cold. we should be back outside with the kids wednesday and thursday. we've got sunshine and warming. higher temperatures coming our way toward the end of the workweek. i know, up and down. breezy for early 20 to 23 degrees at the start and upper 20s, closer to 30 degrees and most of tomorrow with the actual air tomorrow temperature will stay below freezing and like today when you factor that wind it will be another sub-freezing type of day for us is what it feels like. the next change comes toward the end of the week and not wednesday and toward the end of the week when we hit 40 degrees and it will be the first time we get there in more than 60 hours and we could have more flurries coming our way not wednesday and thursday morning and our rain chances go up on friday and there will be a brief chance for showers moving through and 41 for the high and there's your 46

for thursday, friday, 47 degrees going right back up. that does include the weekend, but again, just a brief shower chance coming your way and late friday. keep that in mind, if you have plans on going out and we'll talk about the plan in detail and we'll take you hour by hour and show you how much rain we'll get and coming up on news 4 at 5:00 and we have one more cold day coming our way. >> thanks, v.j. we're getting new details this afternoon about sunday's boat fire. the 36-foot cabin cruiser has been towed to marina facilities so inspectors can get a look at it. firefighters saw it docked and engulfed in flames. they had to attack the fire from the doc until the fireboat was able to get to the scene. the good thing is that didn't sink so that lessens the rickskf pollution getting into the river. jackie bensen is at medstar washington hospital where a patient's death has been ruled a

homicide. blunt force trauma to his neck after getting into a confrontation with security guards back in september. we'll get more details from jack ney ten minutes. it's a new effort to deal with a spike in homicides in prince george's county. a group of faith leaders stood with police, politicians and other community members to announce a stop the violence march to be held on martin luther king day. hear about the example the group hopes the initiative will set. that's coming up on news 4 at 5:00. we have an important rl to tell you about. macy's has recalled thousands of martha stewart's stainless steel ten-piece serving sets. the metal rivets can fall off. you should stop using it immediately and return it to macy's for a full refund. the segal family is still talking about their surprise visitor over the holidays. a 600-pound elk fell to the window well and dropped well into their basement living room last wednesday and they were

home at the time and after overcoming a little bit of shock the family called authorities in idaho who helped chase the elk back up the steps and out into the wilderness. >> we were kind of trying to shuffle it up the steps and out the front door and we barricaded our furniture on one end and we're trying to give it one path to go and it wasn't taking it. >> the drama ended with just some window and furniture damage and just a small cut on the elk. standing their ground and not giving up, the big issue at the center of a standoff between ranches and the federal government and what each side says they want from the other. >> we are just five days away from the kickoff of the 2016 health and fitness expo. we have a complete guide for everything that you'll find at the free event. just pick up the nbc washington app when you search expo.

a strong earthquake that rocked india overnight was felt in bangladesh. as you can see, it left behind major damage. eight people across the region have been killed and a hundred more were hurt mostly by falling debris. the quake measured 6.7 magnitude and hit just before dawn. so a lot of folks were still sleeping and they say that shaking was unlike anything they'd ever felt before. now back to rural oregon

where the fbi continues to watch a group of armed protesters who took over a government property. >> this is all stemming from a long-running dispute between the feds and what ranchers out west are allowed to do on public land. here's leann greg with the effort to end the standoff without anyone getting hurt. >> reporter: this is the federal wild life refuge near burn, oregon, occupied by militiamen who call themselves citizens for constitutional freedom. they set up a compound on saturday. >> our purpose, as we have shown, is to restore and defend the constitution. >> reporter: one of the group leaders, ammon bundy is the son of cliven bundy who had his own standoff with the federal government over grazing rights in nevada. at issue this time, like then, is a decades-long fight overuse of public lands in the west. >> a ranching family here in

harney county was put under duress by multiple federal agencies. >> reporter: the occupiers say they're supporting two local ranchers, dwight and stephen hammond who were sentenced to prif prison for setting land on fire. they do not speak on their behalf and plan on visiting them in prison. unsettling for local residents where the county canceled school all week out of concern for safety. >> i don't like the militia's methods. >> reporter: the occupiers say they're prepared to stay for months, even years as the fbi, local and state authorities work to resolve this standoff. leann gregg, nbc news. news 4 at 5:00 starts out in with jim and doreen. right now at 5k clo, the death of a patient at medstar hospital ruled a homicide tonight. i'm jim handly. how that patient died when security would aren't let him

leave. i'm doreen gentzler, remember the pit bull who protected its owner after a house fire? now that owner may need legal protection. hi. i'm pat collins, downtown. what would you do for a playoff ticket? don't answer that just yet. wait until you see what some others will do. that story coming up, news 4. first to that developing story at medstar center, a vertebrae in his neck was broken and now the medical examiner says the death of a patient who clashed with security guards, that death has been ruled a homicide. news 4's jackie bensen is live with us with details of the findings. >> according to the d.c. medical examiner's office, the cause of 74-year-old james mcbride's death is blunt force injuries to his neck and severe damage to his spinal cord. in late september, mr. mcbride was injured after struggling

with security guards outside the hospital on irving street northwest. a d.c. police department report say he and the guards were outside the hospital when mr. mcbride, quote, became noncompliant and a struggle ensued. mr. mcgried was taken to the ground between two officers and two utilized hand controls to restrain him. this afternoon, the hospital released a statement that said in part, as a result of our reviews, we have integrated several new initiatives including enhanced commune kagds with all care teams and security officers and we identified a unique, multidisciplinary team to respond to certain high-risk situations. in addition, it goes on to say we continue to cooperate with the investigation being conducted by the u.s. attorney's office and we are told that the two of the security officers involved in this no longer wok here. live in northwest, jackie bensen, news 4. >> a significan