their voices heard. we have team coverage including on how local gun owners plan to fight the president's plans. we begin with snbs's brian mooar and he's on capitol hill. >> the president is trying to build on his legacy while at the same time staying on the right side of public opinion and the constitution. taking action, he says, congress won't. president obama announced he'll use his executive powers to tighten america's gun laws. >> it's not going to prevent every mass shooting. it's not going to keep every gun out of the hands of a criminal. it will potentially save lives in this country. >> reporter: the president didn't spell out what he'll be doing in coming days though the order is expected to include stronger background checks to keep guns away from criminals and terrorists. he promises the actions will be constitutional and supported by a majority of americans, that does not include the gop presidential candidates.

>> we don't beat the bad guys by taking away our guns. we beat the bad guys by using our guns. >> the president has not even attempted to point to a single mass shootingins because there isn't one. >> at a gun show near atlanta this dealer suggests the government ought to focus on the mentally ill. >> that, to me, is where the money needs to blow is for the people that need it. >> she doesn't oppose more checks on gun buyers. >> unfortunately, we need things in place now because people have gotten out of control. >> reporter: from president obama, a bold statement, but not the last word in the debate over guns. >> reporter: the president wants to widen the background check, but he can't expand them to all gun sales without the say so of congress. we're expected to learn more about his plans from the white house at 6:30 this evening. live in capitol hill, i'm brian mooar, news 4.

i'm david culver in northern virginia where the idea of expanding background checks on gun purchases is finding support among some. >> and presidential action. this is what we of the from a leader and if our congress and our legislature fails to act then the president should do everything within his power to keep americans safe. >> mom martina lions has spent much of her adult life pushing for this change. year after year she's joined others calling for stricter gun control measures. >> i don't want my children to have to live in fear that they'll beguned down in their school or in a movie theater or a house of worship. this is not the america that i grew up in, and it shouldn't be the america we live in today. >> the president and his administration and he's acting like a petulant dictator or a king, if you will, as opposed to a president with a knowledge and respect for the constitution. >> reporter: greg stone says he and fellow gun owners worry it will be the start of an attack on their constitutional rights. >> the biggest one i've ever

been to. >> reporter: he points to the past weekend's gun show attendance at the dallas expo. >> what happens is everybody gets nervous and starts buying up. >> thousands and thousands of transactions. >> reporter: all of which greg believes included background checks. the president's involvement, he argues, unnecessary, unconstitutional even. he also questions virginia attorney general mark herring's move late last month, blocking out of state concealed handgun carry permits for more than two dozen states. >> the virginia legislature will have things to say about this when they get back in session. >> he referenced virginia legislature. the session for the general assembly begins next week. two weeks from today, virginia's gun lobby will descend on richmond, but before all of that there will be a national discussion on gun control and that will be right here at george mason university in fairfax, and it will be a town hall with president barack obama. live in fairfax tonight, i'm david culver, news 4. >> thank you, david. now back to that standoff

near the georgetown waterfront. a man barricaded inside an office building there. shomari stone joins us live from the scene on k street in northwest d.c. shomari? >> reporter: we were the first on the scene on the 3000 block of k street northwest. moments ago, d.c. police moved us further away and we are now here on wisconsin avenue and let me move right out of the way and right down there that is where it is occurring. we are hearing that there is a man in the building relatively near where people like to go over there and go ice skating especially on a cold night like tonight. i'm hearing that the man is barricaded inside. we do not know if there are other people around him. we do not know if he is threatening to hurt other people or himself, but we do know he is barricaded and police have moved us back. moments ago i talked to people on water street northwest and they told me they planned on going ice skating and their plans are now going to have to change because they're not allowed to go over there.

keep in mind, we have not heard any shots fired and we have not heard any serious problems out here, but we do know that they've moved us back and we'll continue to bring you updates they become available and moments ago i edited something on my phone showing police moving us back to thissia irand i'll put that on twitter and the nbc washington facebook page moments from now. i'm shomari stone, news 4. a man die after a confrontation with hospital security guards a few months ago and now the medical examiner has ruled that the death of james mcbride was a homicide. the struggle happened back in september when mcbride walked out of medstar washington hospital center without being discharged. security tried to get him to return to the hospital, but they say he resisted. mcbride was 74 years old. he suffered blunt force trauma to his neck. those guards no longer work for

the hospital and so far no charges have been filed. it was a month ago that this video first went viral. a pit bull protecting its owner after she was hurt in a fire, but today here is a twist to the story. we are learning that not everything is as it appeared that night. tracee wilkins joins us live from landover hill to tell us what's going on. >> reporter: doreen, was there a lot of concern for that owner and making sure that she was okay, for her elderly father who was legally blind and narrowly escaped this house fire and also for their pet who was displaced because pit bulls are banned in prince georges county, but the entire time no one suspected that owner being charged with arson. >> it was a sweet picture. the dog standing by its injured owner and that dog being displaced because of a pit bull ban on prince georges county pulled on heartstrings everywhere. now fire investigators are questioning a lot of what

happened here and believed the dog's owner was faking her injuries. >> little did we know at that point that that picture was taking that the female that the dog was guarding would soon be charged with arson and the woman lying beneath the watchful eye of her pet is april newell and she is charged with five charges including first and second-degree felony arson. the suspect, april newel and her son have an argument. the suspect sets her son's clothes on fire in his bedroom and the son extinguishes the fire and leaves the home. the suspect's father says that his daughter then walks the house naked during the night saying she needs help to get off drugs. in the middle of the night the father wakes up to smoke and fire and gets out of the house. he says that when he leaves his daughter was already outside and tells him i didn't do nothing. newell is charged for setting her son's clothes on fire, not for the fire that destroyed the

home hours later. the cause of that fire is still under investigation. neighbors who know the family say this is a complete shock. >> we've been neighbors about eight, nine years or so, and they're good people, you know? it doesn't make sense right now. >> newell's being held on $500,000 bond. prosecutors calling her an extreme danger to this community and also her family. she is due back in court at the end of the month. reporting live in land over hills i'm tracee wilkins, back to you all in the studio. >> thanks, tracee. a man is recovering after a shooting that covered two different crime scenes in northwest d.c. police say there was a shootout between two cars -- pardon me, between 18th and l northwest this morning. moments later they found a man who had a gun shot wound in his arm. they found him near georgia and new hampshire avenues northwest. that's the petworth neighborhood.

investigators think the victim was shot at the first location. that man is expected to recover. to our weather now, break out the heavy coats and hats and it is cold out there and getting colder. some places saw a dusting of snow today. the district is activating its cold emergency plan and shelters and overnight wards are going to open up and doug is here to tell us how much colder it will get. >> much colder and we're talksing about dangerously cold temperatures as we move on through the night tonight. take a look at the winds. the winds are a big factor and it's not just cold and add the winds and look at the tau tuxet river. 37 mile-an-hour wind gusts and 36 in d.c. windchills in the teens and 19, d.c. and 17 in manassas and tomorrow morning we could be waking up to windchills in the single digits and we'll be seeing much colder air continuing to move in tomorrow

night, but the coldest air, and we'll talk about the rain chances. they'll be on the increase as we head towards the weekend. >> thanks, doug. they put burgundy and gold tickets for the playoff game on sale today and 13 minutes later they were gone. who is surprised? carol maloney is at the park right you in. carol, is this -- this is one of those situations where we might see worst to first. what do you say? >> the rags to riches story, jim. they make movies about it, why not? why not the redskins? what i do know is that they're favored for this weekend and it opened up two points and now they're a one-point favorite against the packers on sunday and for sure we know that the packers are coming in struggling. they've lost 6 out of 10 while the skins keep winning. all those questions, should the team rest the starters? it looked like the skins had the

right decision keeping momentum on their side as they head into the playoff. head coach jay gruden happy with what the team has done, but ready for the next step. >> excited about that. a lot of good things that we accomplished toward the end and finished in the fourth quarter and winning three games in a row and winning the division and big game at dallas and now it's time to focus on the next opponent and get ourselves ready to go and obviously a proven football team over there with a lot of playoff experience and we'll have to up our game and play well together. >> so the skins and the packers kick off at 4:40 p.m. on sunday and coming up later in sports you don't want to hear what kirk cousins has to say and it tells us how the team has been working and what brought them together and i can pretty much be certain that it's something redskins fans definitely want to hear. >> you know what, carol? i am -- i am remindeded of a time when john riggins bought

the offensive line's shotgun. a brand new really expensive shotgun for opening all of those holes for him. i'm thinking kirk cousin, no matter what happens on sunday. >> how about a steak dinner instead? >> whatever. he needs to buy them something and that offensive line has been giving them time. >> sharing a brain. i asked him what he's been doing for his o line because he's sacked under the regular season which has been the goal and he said it's going to be something special. no word on exactly what he's going to do. i hope it's not anything in the shotgun range and that was kind of back in the day, but we'll see. >> all right. good stuff. we'll talk to you later, carol. thank you. count down to iowa. donald trump unveils a new tv ad and continues his personal attacks against someone who isn't even running for president. >> i'm darcy spencer in rockville. we are speaking to the woman who was bitten by a dog and that led to one of the biggest seizures

of animals here in montgomery county. >> that the conditions there, once they got inside they -- they knew then that the dog his to be removed. >> i'll have the story coming up on news 4 at 6:00. armed protesters took over a federal wild life refuge out west and we'll tell you why police are not moving in right now even though the demonstrators say t

donald trump is launching the first television commercial of his republican presidential campaign with just 28 days to go now before the iowa caucuses, he's planning to saturate the airwaves. there is also a first on the democratic side. former president bill clinton is hitting the campaign trail for his wife now. steve handelsman is on capitol hill with all of the latest campaign action. >> reporter: hi, doreen. a big, big push, not counting bill clinton's, ve events and counting hillary clinton's events and most of them in iowa. with four weeks to the caucus, hillary am proissed she would

run it like hear hiz did in the '90s. >> incomes went up for everybody, want just at the top, middle class folks, working people, poor people. >> reporter: no candidate is better qualified than hillary. >> by knowledge, experience and temperament to do what needs to be done now to restore prosperity. >> reporter: he was in new hampshire where bernie sanders still leads in state democratic polling. chris christie is close to 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 rule of the day, you weren't watching the same presidency i was watching. >> reporter: ted cruz still leading in iowa gop polling will spend all week there. >> conservatives are coming together and we're uniting and if conservatives unite we win. >> reporter: donald trump without airing any commercials holds 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. in 2012 it was newt gingrich at this point in the race who had the lead on the republican side and in 2008 hillary clinton led a month out and then barack obama won in iowa. i'm steve handelsman, news 4, doreen. >> thank you, steve. there are new tensions tonight between two major middle east rivals. there are new anti-saudi protests in iran. they come one day after saudi arabia severed diplomatic relations with iran. it began on saturday when the saudis executed a prominent shiite cleric who was a harsh critic of the sunni-led saudi government. the execution sparked a protest in tehran and an angry crowd there overran the saudi embassy

and set it on fire. this crisis cast new doubt on the prospects for ending the syrian civil war. iran and saudi arabia backed different sides in that conflict. the middle east tension contributed to a steve, downhill slide in the stock market today, but the major trigger was china's slowing economy. before u.s. markets even opened this morning came news that chinese factory activity, production shrank in december. that report sparked a global sell-off and a rocky day on wall street. by the end of the trading day, the dow had recovered from the day's lowest points, but has still ended with its worst loss in two weeks. closing numbers, the dow lost 276 points. the nasdaq fell 104 points and the s&p 500 lost 31. now to oregon. it's day three of a standoff there between the feds and an

armed anti-government group. it centers around a long-standing dispute with ranchers about how the u.s. controls the land out west and residents in the small town of burns, oregon, are worried about the potential for violence. nbc's leann gregg reports. >> reporter: this is the federal wild life refuge occupied by a group of purported militia mern who call themselves citizens for constitutional freedom. they set up an armed compound here 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 stand off with the federal government last year 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 has been put under duress by our -- by multiple

federal agencies. >> reporter: the occupier says they're supporting two local ranchers, dwight and stephen hammond who were sentenced to federal prison for setting public land on fire. the hammond family says the group does not speak on their behalf and plan on reporting to prison. law enforcement is keeping its distance while trying to diffuse the occupation. the county canceled school all week out of concern for safety. >> i don't like the militia's method. the occupiers say they're prepared to stay for months and even years as the fbi, and state authorities work to resolve the standoff. leann gregg, nbc news. the church of scientology heads to court and more on their plans to transform this property and why it's getting pushback from local leaders. a family was forced to put down its beloved pet and they're not prepared for what happened next after their dog was diagnosed with cancer.

d.c. is retiming traffic signals at a furious pace, but not exactly with your car in mind. i'm adam tuss. coming up, i'll give you an

i remember some of you on my facebook said where is the cold? here it is and it is cold for sure and i'll tell you what, tonight will be one cold night.

take a look at the number, down to 31 degrees at the airport and here we are at 6:00 at night below freezing and winds out of the northwest at 17 miles per hour and that is setting the stage for a very cold night and look at the windchills at 12 in martinsburg and 17 in manassas and waking up tomorrow morning to even colder numbers and look at what's happening to the south and west and you might look over toward bluemont and rappahannock county and snow around fauquier county, too and nothing around the d.c. metro area and these are moving in a direction that could actually see a little bit of a dusting out there so head's up. let's zoom on in and let us see where the snow is falling and no-y snow and this is all light and it is looking consistent from bluemont right on down towards marshall and down towards 17. so you may see some slickening of the road and i'm not expecting much in the way of snow overnight and i'm not seeing real accumulation and i would not be surprised to see

dusting over there and the wind will help to blow it around a little bit and it shouldn't cause too many problems on roadways and notice the clouds getting out of here and the clouds dispersing except for the one area there and another one. we had chesapeake bay lake effect and the chesapeake bay effect, rather, snowfall earlier toward the bay and this is all part of the spinning that's driving this cold air down from the north. you can see it coming straight out of canada. what to expect tomorrow morning, blustery and cold for sure, breezy early and windchills near ten degrees and that's in the city and some areas could be in the single digits early tomorrow morning and know that when you step out of the door. these are the actual temperatures. 12 in frederick. 17 la plata. 19 in annapolis and waking up to some extremely cold numbers and the coldest morning we've seen yet and if you thought yesterday or today was cold at the bus stop, 33 degrees and gaithersburg for a high and 34

in la platta for a high and it is going to be a very cold day and the cold will not stick around all day long and 46 on thursday and 47 on friday and the chance of showers coming on friday and coming up at 6:45, i'll show you when a bigger storm moves in and that coming in for the weekend and i've got that for you like i said at 6:45. >> dude, when you come back at 6:45 we want to know when the real snow is coming. >> my man. thank you, doug. a maryland woman attacked during a pet adoption event and how that spiralled into an investigation with more than 60 animals seized from this home on new year's day. oh, my gosh, there's 20 or 30 of them weaving in and out of traffic and actually scary. >> panic for some people as bikers took over the beltway. we'll hear the calls for help as the drivers tried to navigate around what sometimes was a dangerous situation. >> it's something that hasn't

been done in 30 years. the major changes that could improve your commute and why some busses may get the

>> right now, more than 60 dogs have been seized from a local house. we'll tell you how an attack inside a shopping mall led to the discovery. >> one of its teeth went in on the side and kind of went in and down and ripped the skin up. the church of scientology takes its fight over a piece of

land in maryland to court. >> this is about whether or not we should make this property an historic, designated property. we'll report why some traffic lights in the district have not been retimed in decades. we'll tell you how that could have an impact on your commute. and the virginia couple is facing charges after the deaths of their beloved dogs. we have the surprising reason why. here at the live desk we're getting our first look at what president obama will announce tomorrow on gun control and the biggest surprise, concerns social security numbers. the president will direct the social security administration to disclose information about beneficiaries who are prohibited from owning a gun. in other words, if someone has a documented mental health issue their records will be looped into the background check system. that alone could affect up to 75,000 people a year. mr. obama will also mandate that every business that sells guns must be licensed and conduct

background checks. some online vendors and gun shows have been selling guns without those two provisions, but not anymore. he is also funding the fight to control firearms. the president is going to ask congress for enough money to add 200 new atf agents and investigators to enforce the existing gun laws and the administration is proposing another 500 million to increase access to mental healthcare. some of these are executive orders which means the president is bypassing congress and he's expected to make this official announcement tomorrow. at the live desk, i'm chris lawrence. thanks, chris. we've also got reporters all over the dmv covering the day's news including some bitter cold moving in for the start of the new year. doug's going to let us know now long that's going to stick around. >> we begin with a woman who was attacked by a dog. it happened at a pet adoption event at a shopping mall and now police are involved. darcy spencer joins us live with a story you will see only on

news 4. darcy? >> reporter: that dog biting case led investigators directly to a house in rockville where they seized 66 dogs and tonight we're learning that was not the first time there's been a complaint about all of the dogs in that house. this is the house on glen mill road in rockville where 66 dogs were seized on new year's day. this neighbor says six months ago he reported the home to animal control, after 20 dogs escaped. >> the woman of the house came out screaming and started collecting the dogs and i told her you have dogs running into the street. >> my finger swelled up. >> reporter: what happened after alicia kleinman may have been bitten by one of the dogs in the house. she says it happened at the petvalu adoption event in potomac. >> what did you initially think when this first happened? >> um, oh, my god!

i've never been bit by a dog before. it just happened so quick. >> reporter: kleinman says she as well as montgomery county tried to get documentation that the dog had been vaccinated b, but she says the owner would not cooperate and she had to get rabies shots. >> i had a three-day window and in those three days we tried to get documentation on the dog and no one was willing to cooperate or provide documentation on the dog. >> reporter: investigators are trying to determine the owner's connection to that adoption event held by annie's orphans at the mall. >> reporter: they're trying to figure out if the dog that bit kleinman was one of the rescue animals. >> we assumed the owner owned all of these dogs and we'll have to see were there other owners? was she housing for other people and what were the circumstances of that and we don't have all of that right now. >> reporter: i did receive an email from annie's orphans just within the last half hour. they say it is not one of their

organization's dogs. they've told that to authorities and they say there are a lot of dogs at these adoption events. back to you. >> darcy spencer, thank you. tonight we're hearing the 911 calls as these dangerous stunts unfolded on the beltway and at least 100 motorcycle and atv riders took over parts of the winner look and prince georges county a couple of days after christmas and the riders drove the wrong way and popped wheelies and brought traffic to a standstill. there are about 30 atvs and sports bikes, motor bikes on the highway blocking traffic and doing tricks on the highway and holding up traffic. one almost hit another vehicle. >> oh e oh, my gosh, there's 20 or 30 of them weaving in and out of the traffic and extremely aggressive and also scary. >> police have seen the video, but have not made any arrests yet. traffic signals in the district are being retimed at a furious pace now. the city says it has retimed 60%

of them in an effort to make traffic flow better, but not all of the sig will nals are being retimed with a car in mind. transportation reporter adam tuss is at freedom plaza now with a report on why the bus is getting priority in some cases. adam? >> that's right, jim. we certainly are getting around in a different way than we did even just a few years ago. take a look at the traffic signals here along pennsylvania avenue. they're all being retimed, but not necessarily with the car in mind. a lot of these are having the bus take the priority. what good is getting on the bus if the bus is stuck in the same traffic as everyone else? some signals in the district haven't been retimed in 30 years, and as the city works to synchronize them, busses are taking a lot of the focus of new technology. 200 signals being outfitted with technology that will allow the bus itself to change the light so that the bus can keep rolling. >> and where ridership is

typically higher like the georgia avenue, and wisconsin avenue and the part of downtown. >> radja was the traffic signal manager and he explains why overall the retiming of lights is such a critical project for the district. we are not widening our roadways anymore. we have little capacity to push the amount of traffic that we got. >> reporter: and it matters. it matters for drivers. >> i have a lot of work to do. the lights aren't -- they don't match at all. >> reporter: it matters for pedestrians. i can just say progressing over time it's been getting worse before it got better. >> reporter: signal timing matter for cyclists who want to feel safer. >> i also don't ride a lot in the rush hour. i kind of ride in the middle of the day. >> reporter: a changing city and ddot hopes the lights changing on time helps out with all commuters. now the city says it should have its whole traffic signal optimization plan done in about a year. let's hope sincerely that it makeses a difference.

jim, back to you. >> thanks, adam. a legal fight over land once used for presidential retreats. the church of scientology is demanding that it be designated an historic area. you may think that this is cheese, but to me it's bait in search of packer people.

. if tickets are any indicator washington football fans are giving a big, we like that for this whole playoff thing coming up. general admission seats sold out today in 13 minutes. >> no surprise there, but as pat collins discovered today, it may not just be redskins fans in those stands on sunday. he's live at dupont circle with details on the cheeseheads right in our midst, pat. what gives? >> reporter: there are scores of green bay fans living in our

city on the down low, but you show them a little cheese and they come out of the woodwork. it has come to my attention that in our great and diverse city there are a number of fans of the frozen tundra, cheeseheads living amongst us, not nearly as boisterous and blatant as the cowboy followers. these packer people live below the radar. so we had to use some cheese to bait the trap. >> does that mack you feel good? >> a little bit. >> we have aaron rodgers on our side. >> all right. if you're so smart, can you do the discount double-check? >> i don't know how to do the discount double-check? >> she doesn't know how to do the discount double-check. >> i am a cheesehead. >> you're from here and you're a packer fan? >> do you really think you have

a chance on sunday. >> i've got to believe. i always think we've got a chance. >> i want my cheese back. >> washington fans are common. very confident the skins will win because -- >> and he'll do what? >> score. >> reporter: because. >> kirk cousins. >> because they're a team and a group of guys who work with each other. >> now let's talk playoff tickets. what's it going to cost for me to go to that game? >> just to get in the door you have to plan to spend at least $150. that's ticket broker danny mota. he's with greatseats.com. should i wait until the very last minute to get a better deal on that playoff ticket? >> 90% of the time i say yes, in this particular case i say no. >> reporter: if you get a playoff ticket it's likely to be on a sheet of paper in black and white with a bar code. it's hardly a keepsake. how do you tell your grandchildren you went to the

big game with something like this? i don't think i was supposed to do that. jim and doreen, back to you. >> our grandchildren will just use their phones. they won't even have that much. >> they won't even know what you're talking about. >> take that thing off your head. that does not become you. you are not a cheesehead, are you? >> not at all. you'd be surprised how well these things are made because they wear them in the frozen tundra. they're actually warm. >> we're not in the frozen tundra, pat. thank you very much. you look better that way. >> thank you. >> thank you, pat. you know, it would appear that not everybody is as optimistic about the game sunday, as the folks that pat talked to. we've been asking people how far they think the redskins will go in these playoffs. take a look at our flash survey results and most people who responded think they'll be out after the first game. well, what do they know?

>> i don't know. 20% of the people like the super bowl. i like those people. >> here's mark segraves with a look at what's coming up next. is it a fight over freedom of religion or historic preservation? i'm mark segraves in frederick, maryland where it's up to the judge to decide the fate of the church of skiententology facility slated for this area. >> more heartache for the virginia family dealing with the death of a beloved dog any and why they're now

taking the frederick county council to court. it all centers around plans to build a new drug rehab at trout

run, but the council doesn't want to do that. our mark segraves reports. >> reporter: the church of scientology paid nearly $5 million to buy trout run once used by president herbert hoover as a fishing retreat, it hopes to build a drug and arcanon on the fproperty. it did qualify for the designation, last summer the frederick county council voted 6 to 1 against the designation. in court today attorneys for the church told the judge council members ignored testimony about the historic merits of the property and were instead swayed by residents who called the church of scientology a cult that they didn't want in their neighborhood. it's clear discrimination against scientology and clear discrimination against narc

anonover and over. >> the council is a legislative body that can vote as it sees fit and they're not required to approve any requests. >> the decision was based upon the historic district designation and it was a decision the council, the county council was free to approve or not approve in its discretion. >> reporter: residents who have organized against the scientology facility acknowledge some of it is against the controversy. >> that is the case for some, but truly this is about whether or not we should make this property an historic, designated property. >> after being in court there's no way which way the judge will court with this one. he asked tough questions of both sides. he said he'll render his decision within the next 30 day. in frederick, maryland, mark segraves, news 4. in virginia, stafford county

families grief after having to put a beloved pet to sleep from bad to worse. >> the labrador retriever had been suffering from cancer for month, but according to the freelance star newspaper prosecutors charged evans with animal cruelty and a court recently found him guilty. evans let the dog suffer too long. evans' attorney calls the action an abuse of power and they filed an appeal. so here we are. what was it? two weeks ago you were out there with your shorts and flip-flops. we've got a bonified winter conditions on us. >> it's about time. >> it is. >> normally we at least have one or two of these cold snaps in december and we didn't have anything like that. coming up tonight, it is going to be one real cold night, but no, i still don't have my coat. it's okay. it won't be cold that long. take a look at the current numbers and sitting at 31 degrees and look at where we are

into the 28-degree range and 25 by 11:00. it is a frigid, frigid night across our region and it gets colder when you add in the wind and 35 in gaithersburg and 30 manassas and 29 down toward camp springs. the windchill will be the big factor and take the coat, the hats and the gloves, too. if you'll be out for an extended period of time you're going to need them all because this is the coldest air so far this season. here's what we're doing and a little bit of snow here and i know, vance, it's not enough for you and not enough for me, either and right along 66. you may see some of these flakes coming on through and not just a flurry and this is a snow shower around marshall and the middleburgh area down back along 66 and warrenton and we may see a quick dusting and the windchill might help and it will want be sticking that much. starting out windchill around 15 in the city and by 4:00, temperatures around 34 so a very cold day on your tuesday and a high of 35 and 45 on wednesday

and 46 on thursday, but notice the temperatures going in the right direction and 47 on friday and then this weekend we're back to around 50 and the storm that looked like it could possibly have snow on the back side will be too warm and that one once again looks like rain. guys? >> thanks, doug. we have sports coming up and kirk cousins helped rally the burgundy and gold. >> he'll explain now exactly how and why this team is

everybody's happy about going to the playoffs. carol? >> yeah. planning for the playoffs and dreaming of super bowl. that's crazy talk, of course. most people outside of redskins park, i wouldn't say super bowl with a straight face, but the skins have what everyone wants and that is momentum. the skins, they have won four straight heading into the playoffs and five of the last six and what they don't have on the resume is a w against the team with the winning record and a win three this season against teams that finished the year above 500 and all of the things the skins have accomplished this year, this is next up on the to-do list. >> we've put a lot of demons

around here and i guess this is the last one and when the playoff game is the number one objective, but you know, some of the teams would be over 500 if we didn't beat them. so -- we just play who we'll play on the schedule and we understand the importance of this football game and how good these teams are and if you make it to the playoffs no matter who you've beaten it's a hell of a feat in my opinion and we have to get ready. all right. so kirk cousins. he's looking better and better heading into the playoffs. yesterday against cowboys, cousins broke the single season passing yard record reading into $166 are yards and led the nfl in completion percentage. cousins may not have been paying attention, but his teammates certainly work. >> jordan reed was giving me live updates as to how many more yards i needed and it was pretty special, honestly, to have teammates who were happy for

your success as much as they're happy for their own success and likewise, i felt the same way towards jordan or other guys who were out there trying to set records in different ways. so i guess that's when you feel you have a team is when guys want to see others succeed as much as they want to see themselves succeed. so it's the green bay packers coming in to face cousins and the redskins on sunday at fedex. yeah, they may have lost 6 and 10 and a 10 and 6 and four straight nfc titles before minnesota took that away this season and aaron rodgers, still one of the best qbs in the game and they have a confident head coach named mike mccarthy. >> never better the contest and i didn't think it would win and that's no different this week and it's an uncommon opponent for the team. >> i didn't know much about their defense until this morning. so i'm looking forward to the challenge and we have every intention of going into

washington and winning sunday night. you know they're thinking redskin, what the heck? for the first time since 2003 the new york giants are looking for a new head coach. tom coughlin announced he was resigning with the head coach after meeting with ownership and he spent 12 seasons as head coach in new york and he led the giants to two super bowls and recently the teams have struggled finishing at 6 and 10 in 2015, their third straight losing season. a couple of college hoop notes. they're moving up the rankings and they went from number 4 to number three after a pair of big ten wins and diamond stone, he is the freshman big ten player of the week so big congrats to him and probably one of many to come. jim and doreen? >> carol, i have a thought that if we can make aaron rodgers uncomfortable we can sure enough win this game. what do you think? >> i think green bay packers are thinking the redskin, we have to play them and this is the wrong

time to play the redskins. i think they're shaking in their boots. >> let's hope. >> let's hope. >> we'll find out sunday. thank you, carol. >> that's

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