i. now at 11:00, get your tickets ready. the powerball drawing just getting under way, your winning number in just minutes. a former court commissioner accused of soliciting a minor for sex. we just got a response from his

lawyer. bold robberies in the district tonight, what mayor bowser is trying to do to cut down on crime. he was an officer of the court but tonight he's the one free on bond accused of solic soliciting a minor for sex. >> police tell us 30-year-old daniel reed now a former maryland court commissioner thought he was talking to a minor online and it was actually an undercover detective. jackie is where read was arrested. >> reporter: i spoke with read's attorney tonight and he maintain his client's innocence and said there were no ill intentions in his communications. 30-year-old daniel read is the second maryland commissioner charged with a crime in recent weeks. no one answered the door at read's germantown home tonight. police say read had been talking online with a montgomery county police detective posing as

15-year-old boy and read indicated he wanted to have sex with him. court documents said read arranged to meet him at an mcdonald's on december 3rd but when read showed up he was met by detectives. a spokeswoman showed read worked as commissioner from march of 2013 until shortly after his arrest. they are the first point of contact in the judicial system for someone who's been arrested. they set bond amounts or want to get a restraining order. av his arrest he was give an 50,0$50,000 bond and released u his next court appearance. >> reporter: in december another court commissioner was arrested for taking an upskirt photo of a woman who walked into his office f. that case was moved to prince george's county due to conflict of interest. live in germantown, jackie bensen, news4. we get new developments tonight in the case of sandra

bland. the texas state trooper who arrested her has been charged with perjury and fired from his job. he said bryant swung her elbows and kicked his shin and said he took her out of his car to conduct a safe investigation. the jury did not buy that and on the video tape, he said i will light you up with a stun gun. >> she could not come up with the bail bond and three days later she was found with a garbage bag against her neck. the charge against the former trooper is a misdemeanor and could face a year in jail and 4,0$4,000 fine. get your tickets out and get ready to read them and weep. the powerball drawing is in the books now. a half billion dollars, billion dollars is up for grabs. that's right. tonight's jackpot is this sixth

largest in u.s. lottery history. the cash value lump sum a little over 300 million. let's get to it. here are the numbers. 42, 2, 63, 62, 11, and the powerball is 17. we're working to get those numbers on our nbc washington app for you right now so you can check again. >> you always want to double-check. >> how about it, doug, did you win or can you stick around for the forecast tonight. >> how about you? >> no, i didn't. >> i have my tickets in a safe deposit bokt. i know i've won and not checking them at least a week, was told by my lawyers. a long story. we have cold nurlmbers out ther once again but not nearly as cold as the past couple of nights. above freezing for a change. 21 in frederick up 2 degrees from last hour, down to 19, 23, 22 in culpeper.

yes, we will see another cold night tonight. at the bus stop, 25 degrees, another cold start. tomorrow afternoon we get to around the 40 to 42 degree mark. we'll talk about the next chances of a pretty big storm moving in for the weekend that could include your sunday and pretty big game. >> that's right. four people are hurt after one crash led to another on the in ter loop of the beltway. firefighters were blocking a lane from one crash of connecticut and georgia avenues when another car slammed into a fire truck. that car flipped over. its driver suffered the worst of the injuries and is in serious condition tonight. traffic was backed up all the way into virginia. tonight, there are new procedures in place for dc fire ems after a man died while waiting for an ambulance. gloria jackson called 911 on sunday. her husband was having a heart attack. firefighters responded within minutes but they went to the

wrong location. help arrived finally 20 minutes later and her husband was taken to the hospital where he died. as for the firefighters -- >> their supervisor will make a recommendation if he thinks discipline is warranted. if we have holes in our system, we're supposed to not only punish the person but do we need to take time to see if our processes are correct. >> from now on firefighters and paramedics have to repeat the address of each call to the dispatcher when they get to the scene. until now they simply responded they'd arrived. the chief calls this an unfortunate case of human error. >> metro says things will be back to normal on the green line after two cars filled with riders got separated in the tunnel during this morning's rush. it happened as the train pulled into the navy station. no one was hurt and passengers got put on another train and caused a ripple in the commute.

some said they were stuck for 40 minutes. metro apologized and said this was very unusual and still trying to figure out how it happened. lawyers for a police officer charged in freddie gray's death will go to a maryland appeals court tomorrow to try to prevent their client from testifying against a fellow officer. a baltimore judge ruled he must take the stand in the trial of the officer. he was driving the van in which gray broke his neck last year. the first trial resulted in a hung jury. public safety her top priority says mayor bowser. we see video of the kind of crime the mayor wants to crack down on. >> reporter: that's right. they're searching for the group you are about to see in the surveillance video where they walked in and got away with an

undisclosed amount of cash. it captured the four armed people walking in with their faces covered this past saturday. they pointed guns, demanded the cash and got away. now, tonight, d.c. mayor muriel bowser talked about robberies in d.c. at sibley hospital and outlined her crime reduction plan. earlier this year, the mayor and cathy lanier announced a plan to combat the increase in store robberies like you saw in the video. business owners are worried. >> concern about walking down the street, you never know who will walk up behind you and rob you. >> always number one on our agenda, public safety in general. >> reporter: the mayor says most robberies are done over and over again by the same small group of people. she says locking up repeat offenders should be a priority.

in this latest robbery on the video they're offering rewards up to 10,0$10,000 for informati that leads to an arrest and conviction in this case. you can also call the department anonymo anonymously. live here in northeast d.c., i'm shomari stone, news4. >> thank you, shomari. we want to get you those powerball numbers again. we had a problem with our graphic. here they are. that first number is 77, followed by 2, 63, 62, 11 and the powerball number again, 17. developing tonight, the u.s. is still trying to figure out exactly what kind of bomb naerk naenaerk -- north korea tested and a if it was a hydrogen bomb more powerful than anything but the

u.s. saysz6p it was not. so far, no signs of higher radiation levels. experts say even if it wasn't an h bomb test, it's a reminder north korea is a nuclear power and sign of what they're trying to do. all the republican presidential candidates are in nevada. this is live in las vegas. the democratic candidates. hilary clinton, bernie sanders and martin o'malley will take part in a forum. it comes as the o'malley campaign got bad news from ohio state election officials saying he missed the deadline to qualify as a write-in candidate. he was seeking to run as write-in after the failed to get enough signatures to get on the ballot. for just the eighth time in his presidency, president obama is getting ready to veto after

the house voted to repeal the obamacare. it is the 67th time they have taken such a vote. the first time it will make to it the white house after special rules protecting it from a democratic filibuster in the sen senate. it defunds planned parenthood but he will veto the measure. tracking overseas that will affect our market. china's market went down so quickly they had to shut it down almost 15 minutes afterwards. it triggered a fail-safe. the market closed, reopened, dropped again and forced the officials to shut it down again. that pain could be felt here in the u.s. when markets open thursday morning. at the live desk, chris lawrence. next at 11:00, it's not her

first rodeo, a young woman holds up six jewelry stores in five states, the fbi hoping somebody recognizes her before she strikes again. attention wal-mart shoppers, there may be a thief among you dressed as a store employee. we'll tell you what stores he's hitting up in maryland and virginia. millions of americans facing new threats from mother nature, el nino triggering a whole new set of problems on the west coast. i'm melissa with your first 4 traffic. two-lanes blocked for road [mother] yeah but this neighborhood,i feel like it's got a lot of what we were kinda talking about.

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tonight, fairfax tells us this man used a pretty convin convincing disguise to steal from wal-mart. he walked into the shopping center december 15th wearing a wal-mart desk and told the cashier she was needed in the office and took control of the register and even checked out a customer and got away in silver honda. they believe he may have stolen from other wal-marts in the area and maryland. a young woman is responsible for a crime spree across the united states and doing nothing to hide her identity. she is robbing jewelry store after jewelry store across the south. her mo is pretty simple. walks in and pulls a gun from her handbag and force the workers in the back and ties them up and cleans it out with

gloves but no mask. >> it's very unusual to be that bold and keep getting away with it. >> the fbi and police have been trying to catch her since april. they think she communicates with at least one accomplice and may be trying to sell the jewelry in big cities after she steals it. a tractor-trailer may survive after taking out the guardrail on the bridge and the trailer could be seen beneath the waves. rescue crews say the driver spent nearly an hour in the 50 degree water before getting pulled out and still don't know why he crashed. all of the water fueled by el nino. soaking rains coming down for the second straight night. 19 million people have crossed the california coast face flash flo

flooding. for many, it is too much rain too soon. communities recently scorched by wildfires are facing rivers of mud now. in the mountain, a whiteout is expected with up to 2 feet of snow. 911 call centers are swamped with taking on heavy bodies of calls for rescue and even a tornado warning in san diego county today. nothing for years and then they get so much all at once. >> that's what happens with el nino s. in january is the month they start. you saw that today and have seen it a lot over the past couple of weeks. they will continue to get ham r hammered in california, storm after storm lining up in the pacific. they really need the rain and mountain snow but unfortunately it's coming very very quickly, a little too quickly for the areas to handle. heads-up for them. for us, nothing like that. a little roller coaster for us and we're going up the roller coaster the next couple of days,

slow climb and hit the chain and start going up inch by inch. the next couple of days we start doing loop-de-loops and turns. not now. 37 degrees, much warmer than we've been the last couple of nights. nobody in the teens. that was not the case last night. down around 15, 16, 17 degrees. 23 in winchester, 31 in frederick and 37 in patuxent river. it won't result in rainy weather from the clouds. clouds are coming in from two different directions, back from the west, high level clouds. notice the clouds forming south to east. a southerly component off the ocean. that brings us cloud cover along the i-95 corridor and mountains east tomorrow. there could be a shower into portions of southern maryland. back to the west, the next storm system. this is friday's storm getting

its act together and will move on through giving us showers until late friday night. cold but not as frigid, 27 d.c., 19, culpeper and into in leesburg. 42 in geathersberg high and 42 in washington. more sunshine to the west of the mountains. i think we will see some of that but most see cloud cover during the day. sun and clouds. 42 on thursday and 45 on friday. friday night, if you are heading out, take the umbrella. not the big umbrella. i think you will be fine with the smaller umbrella. most rain on the light side. some of the rain is heavy at times and saturday starting overnight. most looking good. high temperature of 53 degrees, a great day to come out to the nbc4 health & fitness expo. we'll be down there friday, saturday and sunday.

i'll be there saturday. rain in the morning and talking about the rain ending most likely in the hours and 54 in the afternoon at 2:00 and much colder as you exit the stadium. make sure you take your coat. you may feel mild early but it gets very cold and next week, high of 34 wednesday and slight chance of snow. slight is the key word there. >> all the fans will be feeling so warm after that victory, it won't matter. >> right. and we all just won the power bowl. coming up, "king james" and the cavs hold court in washington. here's jimmy fallon. >> hi, guys, billy joel is my guest tonig

cousins and company sounded pretty confident. >> they should be confident. green bay a very beatable team. i like their chances this weekend. kirk cousins versus aaron rodgers. one guy has a championship and the other has plenty to prove. cousins making his eighth start this weekend but based on the results this season you would probably have him outperforming rodgers. despite this being the game of his football life, cousins doesn't plan to change too much.

>> i try to continue to prepare and develop and regardless of the result, still prepare the same way the next week regardless what happened previously. keep trying to grow and learn and if i do that, good things will happen. >> i didn't have much of a doubt. people have to understand a quarterback will throw interceptions from time-to-time and it's a tough position to play. kirk did a good job not letting the interceptions get to him and he bounced back and been as good as any quarterback in the league because of the faith we had in him and his ability to improve. to the basketball court. the cavaliers paying a visit to cleveland. 20 points and 12 assists for john wall tonight. third quarter, lebron would come on strong. he did just that. this, that's a rim rocker right there. 34 points for the kings. cavs, they're up by 14 points. for the wizards, they did fight

back in this game. they missed the last 19 conte contests, making his presence felt tonight. nice move here. seven points off the bench, wizards within four. cavaliers are the best team in the eastern conference for a reason. kyrie irving, cavaliers beat wizards, final score, 121 to 115. a little college basketball, maryland hosting rutgers and took longer for terps to put away the flags than scarlet knights. maryland up one, buries the three-pointer and he had 15 points. later on in the half, terps lead it by 12. the senior, jake, getting in on the action. game high 18 for him. you know things are going your way, check out the big fellow, the freshman, outstanding the last few ballgames, puts back his own miss. jaylen brantley. watch this shot here, loses the

ball, gets it and maryland cruises past rutgers, 88-63. elsewhere, g.w. visiting st. louis. the losers of five straight coming in tonight. second half, colonials lead it by five. their big man, kevin larson. less than 30 seconds to go. mike crawford buries the corner three and that puts st. louis up one. they didn't look back from there. one last chance at tying this, can't get that to fall. st. louis, they upset g.w., 65-62. george mason the patriots hosting st. bonaventure. we have to show you this jam here. check out denzel greg, the bain baseline drive. how do you do that? >> accurate. >> impressive. they beat mason 27-58.

they beat mason 27-58. great night for college

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today is three kings day. did you know that? latino families throughout our region came to celebrate their faith, heritage and community. d.c. hosted an event in northwest to provide gifts for children. it's celebrated every year on january 6th, a celebration of the three wise men who visited the baby jesus after his birth.

we asked you this question all day long and thought it would be a no-brainer. while there are some things more important than money is a super bowl one of them? 13% said, yes, a win would be better than the powerball. >> who are those people? ♪

♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- billy joel, j.k. simmons,