to know a lot more about this suspect and who he talked to before the attack. in philadelphia, a brazen ambush of a police officer sitting in his cruiser and from the suspect, a confession every bit as shocking. >> he stated that he pledges his allegiance to islamic state. he follows allah and that was the reason why he was called upon to do this, when the gunman opened fire on jesse hartnett shooting point-blank, unloading the last of several shots as he retreated. hartnett returned fire even though he was hit three times. >> the bravery he demonstrated was absolutely remarkable. his will to live, undoubtedly saved his life and we are ever so thankful to god that he's here today because this could have easily been a police funeral. >> reporter: authorities say hartnett lost a lot of blood and underwent hours of surgery. his father says he'll pull

through. >> he's okay. he's a tough guy and he's a philadelphia officer. >> reporter: police say suspect edward archer used a gun stolen from an officer's home in 2013. investigators say their biggest question now is whether archer acted on his own or whether this was a coordinated act of terror. the head of the house homeland security committee mcmike call of texas says this is part of a trend. radicalized individuals targeting u.s. law enforcement. chris? >> all right. thanks, brian. federal authorities have arrested two iraqi refugees in california and texas on charges related to terrorism. they were both born in iraq and one is 23 years old and lives in sacramento and he's accused of traveling overseas to fight in syria's civil war and lied to investigators about it and the other lives in houston. he'd been in touch with the man in california asking how to join jihadists overseas. neither man is accused of actually plotting an attack here in the u.s., but republicans say

these arrests are a prime example on why the u.s. needs to toughen the screening process for refugees. another man appeared in court accused of plotting a terror attack in new york on new year's eve. emanuel lutchman planned to go to a bar and kill people ringing in the new year. he was in contact with isis operatives in syria and wanted to prove himself. lutchman's family says he's mentally ill and belongs in a psychiatric hospital. today his attorney asked for another 30 days to review the case. a former prince george's county police officer will spend the next five years in prison for what he did during a traffic stop. he was convicted of assault after holding a gun to an innocent man's head. tonight, we're hearing from the victim who says he is still waiting for an apology. our bureau chief tracee wilkins reports. >> get back in the car! get back in the car now! >> reporter: former prince george's police officer santiago

got him kicked off the police force including first-degree assault and has landed him behind bars for the next five years and he still doesn't think he did anything wrong. >> i don't know if he did get it. hopefully the five years will allow him time to reflect, but i don't know. >> reporter: william cunningham is the man who has the gun to his head. santiago testified he was conducting a traffic stop when it escalated to him holding a gun to cunningham's head. this happened in front of cunningham's buoy home as he was trying to get in the house. it was captured on cell phone video. >> the only thing i could think of was my family, my god, lord and savior jesus christ and put it the in his hands. >> i was nervous. my adrenaline was pumping and i was angry and just not thinking clearly. >> a few days after he was convicted of all charges and put in jail he told his mom how he really felt about the case. all jail calls are recorded. >> just, you know, like i told you. >> they should say sorry to me because all they want is a

payday. >> huh? >> i said if anything they should be saying sorry to me because all they want is a paycheck. >> i couldn't wrap my head around how a person admittedly on the video put his gun, his service pistol to my head several times and said that he didn't do owe me an apology. that i owed him an apology? it's unreal. >> santiago did not speak in his own defense today before his sentencing, but his mother, his sister and fiance all dead and crying on his behalf and asking the judge for leniency, specially since he's leaving a 1-year-old and 2-year-old behind. he deserves five years in prison. i'm tracee wilkins. back to you in the studio. >> another high-profile case in baltimore where we learned officer william porter will not have to testify against one of his fellow officers. his case ended in a mistrial and

doesn't get retried until june and jury selection doesn't start until monday for caesar goodson who was driving the van carrying freddie gray. a 19-year-old woman was killed crossing laurel buoy road in laurel today. news 4's meagan fitzgerald has been at the scene and has a look at how many other pedestrians have been hurt in that same area. >> reporter: residences who live around here say this is what route 197 usually looks like. >> it's busy at all times. >> there's a lot of traffic and cars back and forth. >> just after 6:00 friday morning, laurel police say one of those cars hit 19-year-old helene ngassa near morris drive. police say she wasn't in the cross walk when she was struck and the driver had the right of way. >> he's been identified as a 66-year-old man in upper marlboro and he did stay at the scene and was cooperative with our investigators. >> reporter: audrey barnes is the spokeswoman for the city. she admits the area around 197

has seen several fatalities in the past. >> i'm right around the corner within the last month or two we had a fatal 197 at 198. >> the city says over the last eight years, there have been at least three other fatalities along 197. one of them happening in the same area where ngassa was struck. they're e they're encouraging drivers and pedestrians to be aware. >> we caution people, get to a cross walk if you can. look both ways before crossing the street and drive safely. >> reporter: take a look at these figures from the national highway safety administration. these are a number of accidents along a mile stretch of route 197. they say in 2012 there were 13 accidents resulting in people getting injured. in 2013 they said there were 12 and in 2012 there were 13. as far as the accident that happened today investigators say this is still an ongoing investigation and at this point the driver has not been charged.

back to you. >> thanks, meagan. a man plotting to kidnap the first family's dog is being released from jail before his trial. police arrested scott stockard in a hotel in downtown d.c. they were acting with a tip from north dakota with a man to kidnap bo, one of the obamas' dogs. he had hundreds of rounds of ammunition and he also told police that he's the son of john f. ken ken and marilyn monroe and officers say he had mental health issues and stockard has been released into a supervision program. there's something missing from d.c. bus shelters. news 4 has learned that someone is stealing the benches. mark segraves found the problem is getting so bad ddot had to ask police for help. there are helpeds of new bus shelters across the district, equipped with new maps and electronic signs with realtime bus information and benches, but

as news 4 looked up and down 14th and 16th streets in upper northwest, we found shelter after shelter, after bus shelter with no benches. >> i see that. no place for me to sit. >> benches are held in position by four bolts easily accessible from the rear of the shelter and while scrap metal only goes for between 20 and 70 cents a pound, officials at the district department of transportation believes someone may be stealing the aluminum benches and selling them. >> a lot of elderly that has to catch the bus here and there's no place to sit especially between the rush hour period when the bus stop is crowded. >> reporter: in a written statement, ddot tells news 4 we are aware of the vandalism taking place at bus shelters and we're working with mpd as well as local scrap yards to bring attention to this illegal activity. anyone caught stealing ddot property or receiving stolen goods will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

ddot is also working to better secure the benches so they can't be stolen. >> after we informed ddot of all of the missing benches we were able to find the agency asked news 4 for our list so that they could come back and replace the benches. in the district, mark segraves, news 4. we're less than 48 hour away from kickoff. redskins, packers sunday. we have team coverage of the team's first playoff game in several years and doug's standing by with what fans need to know about the weather and jason pugh is at the park with an inside look at the game. >> reporter: players are feeling good about themselves and they're getting ready for the weekend matchup against the green bay packers and news on the injury font and head coach jay gruden announcing that corey lichten steiger will start at center for the redskins and he was placed on i.r. back in december and good news there for redskins fans. as for the rest of his football team they're pumped up to be

back in the postseason. the skints enter the playoffs on quite the roll and a four-game streak. kirk cousin, playing at a higher level than anyone expected. we were all anxious to get this game started. >> i'm excited, and i cannot wait. we've got great fans so i just can't wait to get out there and neil the energy coming from the stands. it's going to be amazing. >> we're proud to be redskins fans and you never know, we could have another home game. >> the intensity will be sky high for both sides. everybody's plan for their playoff lives and it's a one-game season for both teams and you can expect their total best and we've got to bring our total best. >> it should be a great atmosphere at fedex field on sunday. coming up later, we'll break down what the skins need to do to slow down aaron rodgers,

super bowl winning quarterback for the green bay packers. that will do it from redskins park with a look at the game day forecast and i'll send it over to chief meteorologist doug kammerer. >> a lot of people tailgating on sunday as we take on the packers and not a bad day for tailgating and it will be windy and that's about it. it will be nice and warm on sunday and that's good news, too, and by warm i'm talking about temperatures in the 60s and starting off that way anyway and the temperatures dropping through the day and windy, winds could gust upwards of 30, 40 miles per hour and a lingering shower at that time, too. so don't be surprised to see showers by 4:00 and 56 degrees and turning chilly very fast and we'll see temperatures dropping through the day and we'll talk much more about that and what you can expect for the redskins game and we have rain moving in right now and a bigger storm moving in tomorrow night. a notorious drug kingpin captured in mexico after months on the run and how police were able to close in on el chapo.

>> they call it the six-second break-in and how they get into the alarm to steal thousands of dollars in property. what you can do to keep it from happening to you. a warning from police when it comes to who you have cleaning your home. what they want you to do to keep you and your

a huge win. that's how senior u.s. drug enforcement officials are describing the arrest of the

world's most wanted drug lord, joaquin el chapo guzman captured today after a gun battle with mexican marines at a house in his home state. police got a tip on his whereabouts just a few days ago. it was in july that el chapo escaped a maximum security prison by going through a hole in his shower and linking up to an elaborate tunnel that had a motorcycle in it. the hollywood-style escape humiliated the mexican government. it's almost time for the polls to go to the actual votes and the new hampshire primary is a week later. >> meet the press moderator chuck todd is here again and you have candidate donald trump this week and you're heading out tomorrow to interview him. it was interesting. did it surprise you at all that he went after cruz this week on that birther issue? >> what it is and this is where a few weeks ago, jeb bush called him a chaos candidate and what the heck did he mean by that stuff and he knows how to create chaos opinion and he is so good

at creating a distraction. so he just found a way to disrupt cruz. it's not technically settled law, but it's accepted the idea that he was an american citizen at booth and born to an american citizen, his mother was, and most people assume that's the phrase natural born. he disrupted him on the trail. look what he did to bill clinton. we should bring up what he did with his past transgressions with women. and so total distraction for the clinton campaign and suddenly they pulled back on the idea of going after trump and he's very good at creating distractions for others and what does that do? throws off and he gets to his thing. so it's trump showing that he hasn't lost anything yet, so far, i think. >> you mentioned clinton and the former president had started to take steps on the campaign trail for hillary, but at this point,

with everything we knowout ab it, how does he play to voters? does he help her or hurt her? look, i think it depends on the memories of the clinton years were helpful to her. the details of the clinton years are not helpful to her so it just depends on who they're talking to and the different voters. i think if bill clinton becomes a distraction for her then he'll recede a bit on the campaign trail and it will come back, but i think what they learned and what they saw, they got a taste of what it's like to be jeb bush, okay? >> which shows donald trump doesn't play by some accepted rules of the trail and there was this assumption that it's all been litigated in the past. >> donald trump will relitigate it and guess what? there is a way that we talk about women who need accusations against men when it comeses to sexual assaults and things like that. i think that conversation has changed. >> it's changed a lot. >> it has changed a lot and it

is an=pñ awkward and a troubli conversation for the clintons to have and bernie sanders today, it went out there and said what the president did was totally, totally disgraceful. so having -- and it is -- you're hearing a lot of chatter and that's yet clintons decided we don't want to take trump on. >> the president and his final state of the union. what's he going to be bringing? >> it's interesting and i think they're talking about how this will be a different state of the union. there's no laundry list and no agenda that he'll get past with this congress. >> i think he wants to use this opportunity to set an agenda for the campaign and set an agenda for his potential successor. so i think in some ways, one way to view this state of the union is through the prism if he could run on a third term this is the agenda he'd be running on. guns are a big part of that conversation and he wants to make this a campaign issue and that's what you will see is him doing his best to insert himself

into the camp caign. to me it's very similar to bill clinton in 22000. he wanted to set the agenda. >> we started to see that, i'm not going$@÷ to support any democrat that doesn't support common sense gun reform. >> whatever that definition is, it has the sanders people a little concerned. >> be sure to watch "meet the press" sunday morning at 10:30. and he will have the latest on the campaign trail as well as a full interview with donald trump and it airs on nbc 4 and the nbc washington app. >> and you'll want to stay up sunday morning. the rain pulling out at that point early sunday morning and the show's at 9:00 in the morning. >> they can leave at 11:30. >> that's when the rain's stopping. >> the rain stops at 11:31. it will be amazing. watch chuck todd and do that. we will see heavy rain right on through early sunday morning and

that's for sure, but it is going to start to subside and by the afternoon for the skins game we'll be on the dry side and however, it will be rather windy and temperatures will be falling and let me show you what we'ree dealing with and it has been miserable all day, dreary and cool and temperatures of 43 and we've seen the mist and the drizzle and we have showers moving in and take a look at the numbers for the west and 43, d.c. and 36 back toward win chester and 34 in la rhea and much cooler air just to the west of the blue ridge. >> chilly, drizzle, fog, shower activity and take the umbrella and temperatures in the low 40s and east of the mountains and shower activities and we have showers down to the south and culpeper county and heavier showers into northern portions of fauquier county and right along 66 here and head's up around middleburgh and they will move through parts of fauquier county. something else we haven't seen thus far. a freezing rain advisory, morgan

county and west virginia, allegheny county in maryland because of a chance of light, freezing rain and there's not a lot of rain associated with the system and it's all kind of getting out of here and moving on through. expect showers tonight and once again, that's why you need the umbrellas. >> by 8:00, the showers are gone for the most part and we're dealing with the clouds and we could see dense fog overnight tonight and a head's up for that and tomorrow afternoon, we're dry and we have the cloud cover and the rain comes in tonight about 12:30 and it stays here and look at the heavy rain early sunday morning and this is 4:30 in the morning on sunday and so expect maybe to be woken up here by the heavy rain and by 10:00, it's almost getting out of here 11:31. it is definitely out of here and this is very important, if you are going down there. i know a lot of people are trying to tailgate the game time

at 4:40. breezy, if not windy at 3:00 and just know that. turning cooler by game time, 57 and by the end of the game, temperatures dropping 10 to 15 degrees and windchills will already be in the 40s by that time and head's up for the take the coat with you and you'll need it on the way back. upper 40s to around the low 50s and not a bad day on the saturday and a lot of cloud cover with fog early. 63 with the fog on sunday with monday, 38, and 44 on tuesday and then it gets really cold and we're talking a little snow. we'll talk about how that rain sticks around and the snow chances coming up next hour at 6:45. >> thank you, doug. a new threat of violence inside a local high school. what police are doing to keep the students safe. a warning about some online cleaning services. the crime reported across parts of our area as we reveal the steps you should take so they don't target you.

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we're counting down to the nbc 4 health and fitness expo. let's take a look. there it is at the washington convention center crews preparing for the big event this weekend. doreen gentzler is right in the middle of it all. there she is. she joins us live with a look at some of the things you can expect to see this weekend.

doreen? >> hi there, chris and wendy. the most important thing that happens at the nbc 4 health and fitness expo every year is all of the free medical screenings and information that people can get here. some of them, people who don't get to the doctor as often as they should. we couldn't do that and that wouldn't be possible without our wonderful partners and that includes providence hospital and did you know they have a sleep disorders institute? i am joined by a couple of sleep specialists and this is dr. mohammed shivly and francisco hoyer. >> i'll start with you, dr. shvley? >> we don't have enough time to do everything we need to do and sleep is one of the things we cut back on. >> good evening, doreen. >> sleep is an essential role in promoting a good health and well-being. it's interesting that a lot of people do not recognize the impact of sleep on their overall health and well-being.

sleep has been shown by many research to impact not only your mental performance and your physical performance as well as concentration and productivity. it affects the krnic illnesses and diabetes and stroke. >> dr. hoyer, sleep is important. how quickly, what can we do to get more sleep? >> there are simple things we can do to improve the quality of sleep. create a sleep and wake schedule and create a sleep routine and avoid technology in your room. for example, don't keep the television set all night long whenever you're sleeping and be careful with computers, cell phones and make sure that you avoid alcohol, and spicy food whenever you're going to bed and keep active during the show and exercise to improve the quality

of your ship. >> thank you both very much. you can learn a whole lot more and these gentlemen will be here all weekend and providence will be doing a whole lot of other medical screenings to test for your risk for stroke and a lot of other things so come down and check it out. we will be here all day tomorrow, 9:00 to 5:00 at the d.c. convention center and on sunday from 9:00 to 4:00. i'll be back with another preview of what's going on. >> see you then, doreen. >> an officer ambushed on the job by a man pledging his allegiance to isis. what we are learning about the suspect's past. going on patrol. what a community watchdog group is doing amid fears on the series of attacks on metro. >> less than 48 hours away. the redskins and the packers, and finding tickets will not be

new developments out of philadelphia tonight. a police officer is in the hospital after he was ambushed in his cruiser last night. edward archer allegedly fired 11 shots some at point-blank range hitting officer jesse hartnett. hartnett was hit three times in the arm, but he had enough energy to get out of that car and chase and shoot the suspect. today the gunman says he carried out the attack in the name of islam and he pledged his allegiance to isis. >> that confession has the fbi

and homeland security looking into the extended trips to saudi arabia and egypt and the many are talking about the officer's courageous actions and hartnett has always wanted to be a police officer and joined the coast guard out of high school and a in the philly suburb before joining the force five years ago. >> just wanted to help people, plain and simple. he always wanted to do good. >> he's capable of doing what he had to do. unfortunately, their fire hit first. >> hartnett's father says his son is in good spirits. >> a warning from police in arlington county. they're investigating a string of burglaries linked to an online cleaning company. >> david culver says there are steps you should take before you let that cleaning service in. >> you are letting somebody into your house and it's not just about taking things from them. >> it's even their privacy. >> reporter: an immigrant to the u.s., janeane garcia started

working as an employee for max i maids in the late '80s. three decades later she now owns the company. janeane tells me if a client has a problem with one of her employees they'll pick up the phone. >> the first thing they're going to do is they'll call me and what do you know about this, janeane? who was at my house. >> reporter: which makes her weir of third-party websites that connects customers to house keepers, the kind arlington county is invest gaiting. >> they're being booing services online and they're talking to the person over the phone and they're letting the person into their home. >> police aren't naming it just yet and tell me they have four victims in recent weeks and if someone else has access to clean their home, their advice, hide valuables and write down serial numbers that you have and just in case something does happen to try to track your property down. >> it's an industry that gives it a lack to get started in cleaning homes and it's a bucket wringer and a spray bottle wind exand vacuum cleaner, but what

has that person done in the past. >> they contract home service providers and he says be proactive with any company. >> the most important thing is talk to me about the person coming to my home and let me my own investigation and background. >> find out who is the company and find out who's been in business and they're screening employees and do they really train them? >> police say if you can, try to be home in the cleaning service and a second threatening message and the first message gave a timeframe and a warning that a shooting would occur at woodbridge high school and a similar message was found yesterday and police say there's no evidence the threats are credible and whoever is responsible will be punished. students said they noticed a heightened security the at the school. >> one die hard fan was willing

to do just about anything to score tickets to sunday's big game. as news 4's darcy spencer shows us at fedex field the team noticed his dedication. darcy? >> certainly did, and i'm still not quite sure how this guy was able to pull it off, but i confirmed it with the ticket office right across the way that he was able to score two free tickets to this sold-out playoff game and it all started with one of the famous questions from pat collins. >> what would you do to get a ticket to that playoff game. >> it would be butt naked. >> dante griffin didn't do that, but he came to fedex field with this poster speaking to news 4's pat collins. >> i'm dante griffin and i'm out here with my sign. i need those tickets, baby. let's go. >> believe it or not, it worked and he was escorted into the

ticket office and two free tickets to the playoff game and one of the much-talked about towels that say you like that? pat collins and i did it, i did it, baby and you you like that? >> is that for you? >> yes, it is. >> will you wear it sunday? for laverne triplet having the hometown team make it to the playoff, they wore gear to make it to the big game, and you didn't give up? >> no, no, no, die hard. >> for people like nick torres and his girlfriend it's a bit more complicated. they live in texas and flew here today just for the game and now he's buying gear he can't get back home. you're a texas, redskins fan. >> yes. how do you explain that? i don't know. i hate the cowboys with a passion. >> what do you think about

bringing you to washington for this. >> i love it. >> i'm fine with this. >> did i call pat collins to make sure he was utsch whatting the story and now he knows that dante got those tickets and he plans to take his stepson with him. i little bit of business here on sunday, some of the gates will open at 11:00 and all of the gates will be open by 2:00 and metro also making some adjustments to help people get to and from the game very easily. >> chris, back to you. >> darcy, thanks a lot. >> there will be a hundred people on the next live shot. >> who do you think will win on sunday? we asked people to weigh in on the facebook page and an overwhelming majority and three-quarters had the redskins win and we'll have more on the road ahead in sports and first, here's chris gordon with the look at what's ahead. >> thieves can break in through the automatic garage door in six seconds and ahead, i'll show you how it lives out. >> and the powerball frenzy is pushing the jackpot to the $800

million mark and it is still growing, more on tomorrow's big drawing and first here's doug. >> tracking some shower activity across the area tonight and tomorrow night, the heavy rain moves in and again, we'll talk about the skins game and a little snow next week.

over the past six months an unusual combination of numbers have hit in the maryland lottery. they're lucky for the players and not so much for the maryland lottery itself. three times late last year maryland's pick three drawing polled triple digit winners. in december the winning number was 999. a few weeks earlier, 666 and one time late last summer, 777. lottery officials say for some reason those are wildly popular numbers with players and on those three days the lottery handed out $2 million more in winnings than they actually took in in sales. of course, tomorrow night

you could become seriously wealthy quite fast. the ticket-buying frenzy has pushed the powerball jackpot past $800 million and if no one hits those numbers tomorrow, wednesday's jackpot would be more than $1 billion. the largest jackpot in u.s. history and your odds, one in 292 million. you have a better chance of getting crushed by an asteroid, becoming president of the united states or our favorite. you have a better chance of being canonized by the pope than winning this lottery, but who cares? someone's destined to win eventually. >> i go on a big, long vacation and not work anymore, for sure. >> i don't know. i would probably give a lot of it away, but i would spend a lot on different things. >> we just posted a story on our nbc washington facebook page that breaks down the science of these numbers and you can check it out during the break. setup day here at the d.c.

convention center for the nbc health and fitness expo which starts tomorrow morning and one thing that we're excited to share with people is our changing minds pavilion and changing minds is an nbc 4 project that we started about a year and a half ago to raise awareness about mental illness and treatments and diagnosis and all of that. we have a whole lot of partners who have joined us here to answer your questions and to help guide you in the wrong direction. joining me right now, qana anamoto from -- the substance abuse and mental health services administration. >> it's part of the federal government. how will you be trying to help people this week snernd. >> we are thrilled to be part of the pavilion. we'll be holding a panel tomorrow on the main stage to help people know what to do if your child may have mental health problems. we have a booth where people can

come get information about themselves and for someone else struggling with the mental illness or another problem. >> this is a location where we will have a lot of people gathered in one spot at one time to answer your questions and you can ask them quietly or ask them in a forum with a lot of experts and hope people will come and join us for that. we have the full forum schedule is online and you can check that out. jim vance and kane from 99.5 will be on a panel tomorrow at noon that i'll be moderating and they'll be talking about their own struggles to overcome mental health issues and it all begins tomorrow morning at the d.c. convention center at 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 on sunday and did i mention it was all free and take metro. we'll learn a lot and we'll have a lot of fun. wendy, chris. >> burglars targeted this home

not once, three times. how they stole thousands in equipment and fine

all it takes is a youtube video and six seconds and a burglar can do some major damage inside your home or garage. news 4's news chris gordon has learned how to keep burglars out for good. >> reporter: if you think your automatic garage door keeps thieves locked out, listen up. this adams morgan couple learned an expensive lesson with $25,000 worth of wine and bicycles were stolen between three recent burglaries here. >> the first time we had seven

bicycles park the in the garage and they took five of them. after that we replaced two. they hit us again. >> they wondered how the thieves broke in, bypassing their alarm system. brian searched the internet and discovered youtube vids showing a technique kaled the six-second break-in. >> brian also found ways to fix his automatic garage door to lock thieves out. >> it slights through the frame and you can also put a padlock on the other side and so now you can put a board and you secure it to the top of a garage and it goes over the ledge here and eliminates the gap. so it eliminates the ability for somebody to put a coat hanger

up. on the internet the other solution that's suggested is to put a zip tie around the lever to prevent that lever to be able to be pulled down easily. >> reporter: each one of these locking techniques cost less than $10 and you can do the work yourself. if you want to know more about protecting your home and garage from the six-second break-in, you can go to our nbc washington app and search break-s in. that's the latest from adams morgan. back to you. >> i wouldn't have thought of half of those tips. great work, chris. >> a fairfax man is in custody accused of threatening to blow up a gas station. he was threatening to bomb or burn the citgo on route 1 in alexandria. he made these threats to police in a series of emails and they have now seized martin's computer. the guardian angels will be patrolling metro. remember them? this comes after violent attacks including recent robberies and beatings. people are becoming afraid to use metro.

the group plans to increase presence on the system this beakend. some of the members wearing that traditional red berets and their red shirts and others will be in plain clothes. you've been telling us for a long time now the weather will go up and down, up and down. >> and it will go in the up direction and i think by early tomorrow morning it will be cool and dreary today, it's just dreary, but not cool. >> outside we're dealing with showers and drizzle and fog across the area and kind of tough out there to see the washington monument and that fog continues to build around the region and 42 degrees and notice the temperatures maybe staying showers around 7:00 and 9:00 and dropping to 41 and going back up and temperatures around the area and 39 in gaithersburg and 41 in leesburg and huntingtown coming in at 43 degrees and temperatures right around

average for this time of year. we do have drizzle around the area and that's hard to pick up the mist and drizzle and it is tough to pick up the shower activity coming right across 95 and we'll move around the waldorf area over the next few hours and more coming through loudoun county and there's more showers back to the west. if you're out and about this evening take the umbrella with you, you'll need it. here's where i don't think you'll need the umbrella and you can't rule out a couple of showers, 57 by 4:00 and 45 getting colder by 8:00 on your sunday night and 38 monday and 44 tuesday and here it comes and the potential is there for the first snow of the season and a high of 30 degrees on wednesday and it's a clipper system and it doesn't look like a lot, and we'll talk more about that in the next couple

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because of their quarterback aaron rodgers and the super bowl-winning quarterback and one of the best in the entire nfl and that's the challenge for this redskins defense and how do they slowdown aaron rodgers? he has quite the resume. a five-time pro bowler and the packers' star quarterback may not be having a banner year this season and he may not be the best in the game and putting the ball where only his receivers can get it and buying his receivers time with his ability to scramble. case in point right here. >> jay gruden knows those assets are dangerous for any defense in the nfl. >> he's a frightening guy to watch and he's explosive and makes every throw a tight window and moves around in the pocket five time. >> he's had a down year and they don't know the quarterback position. >> and the one thing he did do, and things couldn't have been that bad and now he's going in the postseason and our

confidence and our focus has got to be on the same level as him or above him. >> the story we've been following all week long is the redskins running back situation today. the coach jay gruden is not very encouraged by the progress of matt jones returning from the hip injury. alfred morris and pierre thomas is good to go and it's between jones and chris thompson who is also battling injuries. one of those two will be the odd man out and today's news it's looking more and more likely that thompson will be the one to get the call. >> it's big to me, but at the same time i don't want to go out there and hurt my team. we have pierre here and he can do all of the things with the third down bat is supposed to do. >> it is what it is and i'll battle it with my body right now and how they respond they respond, but i'm not so concerned at what position i am. i'm just trying to get my body right. >> a busy weekend of nfl football. fedex field will feel like

spring time in comparison to the minnesota and sea hawks game and that game taking place sunday before the redskins kickoff against the panthers at 1:00. temperatures at indianapolis at kickoff, negative 4 degrees. i want to send a special thanks to veronica johnson for the assist on this story. windchills expected to be negative 15 to negative 20. one of the guys battling the cold weather will be stefan diggs. the former university of marylamar maryland star. the rookie has 120 yards receiving and four scores. the weather, it will not bother diggs in his first-ever nfl playoff game. i mean, it's cold, but we get heaters and we have gloves and stuff lothat make us okay. you have to make it work. you have to take advantage. nobody likes being cold, but you have to be comfortable being uncomfortable. >> we play as a team so i look forward to the game and it will

be fun out there, so play your best ball down the stretch. >> let's go back to the redskins for a moment. chris baker is a new father. he was back at practice with his teammates after missing yesterday's session to be with his wife and his family and his newborn taughdaughter aria. take a look at this new photo, papa swaggy. you see his baby girl. >> it's been a good season for baker and he's hoping his new daughter brings this team a little luck in the playoffs despite his head coach giving him a hard time. coach gruden talked a little smack hoping that the baby looks like my wife. i wanted that, too. i call her my super bowl baby, so hopefully we'll make it to the super bowl and she should be my good luck charm. >> that would be nice. everyone is looking forward to sunday and it should be a great atmosphere at fedex field. i know the players are extremely

excited to be back in the playoffs. chris? wendy, i'll send it back to you. >> thanks for joining us. "nightly news" coming up next. >> we'll see you at 11:00. >> and this weekend at the expo. >> yes, indeed.

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