was because you had that ladder there and they were bringing people safely down and the firefighters were inside with external hard lines not only putting water on the fire from the inside and also trying to get to some of the folks on the stairway and get them to safety. that is want the preferred way that they like to attack a fire, but in this case it's what they had to do and again, if you're just joining us, we're trying to put this in some perspective and this is all happening in a four-story apartment building in adelphi and a mile south of the beltway. right now they have hoses and equipment stretched out across new hampshire avenue. so these backups in traffic will be going back to the beltway right now and they're putting water on the fire and most of it looked to be out and we saw some firefighters out there on the top floor, but you can still peek through this and you can see some units in the back pushing back toward the back

there and still smoldering and still flames on the top. again, a room with an attic and mark saying that basically if this fire had started on a lower floor it could have been much more dangerous because you would have naturally had multiple floors on fire at the same time and in this case it was a top floor and it was burping very intensely for quite some time, but they were able to get up there and start putting flames on it and that crew that got the ladder on there started walking the people safely down the ladder. >> chris, we watched the firefighters trying to rescue people down the ladder. it was pretty precarious going there for a moment. can you bring us up to speed on what mark was bringing us on. >> no injuries and this is very early and a lot of the people are being seen by paramedics for the first time in the last few minutes and amelia segal made a

good point about the wind, 10 or 15 miles an hour and that may have been one reason why you didn't see a tremendous amount of water being sprayed in that area because that is not the way they like to get folks out of a building. they would much rather walk them out the front door than have to bring them down a ladder especially a ladder that's been extended that far, but in this case you had a lot of residents who were out on their balconies waiting to be rescued and the prince george's fire department together with montt good morningry county was age to get that ladder out in different positions. >> chris, as far as we know, everybody is out of that building? >> mark brady said there were still some people on a stairwell that were not able to get out of the balcony or get out through the hallway, but by the fact that he knew they were on the stairwell that means firefighters were in contact

with them and that there were firefighters with them and i would imagine we're ten or 15 minutes out from that and i would think at this point with the way the fire has been being comboed down that the firefighters were able to get those out to the ground. >> i can imagine that there must be on the scene or certainly on the way people from the red cross and other helpful agencies because there are a lot of folks that don't have a place to stay tonight, huh? >> vance, you saw the way that fire was burning and the fact that it was burning on the roof you have to imagine good chunks of the roof were compromised and you wouldn't think that that building is in any way safe to go back to and amelia mentioning the bitter cold temperatures and it will be a, and of course find all these folks somewhere to live because you're not only talking about the people who were home when all of this happened, but the people who were at work or on their way home from work who are just

coming home and hearing about this for the first time and hearing that they're not going to be able to go back to their homes tonight. >> this is affecting traffic in the area. this is new hampshire avenue in adelphi. so this was -- with this amount of fire and emergency response it's got to be causing some issues in that whole area. >> oh, yeah. >> look at the time we're talking about and all of this is happening in the last hour and this is the heart of rush hour and new hampshire avenue is a major artery to get folks in and out of that area. this is right around the prince george's and montgomery county line. so we know from mark brady that they've got hose lines and equipment stretched out across new hampshire avenue and he was saying that the backups are probably going to go back to the beltway so definitely, if you're just hearing about there and this is somewhere that you might have to be driving through or you've got a family member that has to go that way, it may be time to give them a call and tell them to try to find a

detour around it. >> for folks who know about that area, that fire, as i understand it is near metrorock road and it is a major thoroughfare and on a normal rush hour, it's heavily, heavily trafficked and there will certainly be an awful lot of problems for folks trying to get around because they are probably going to be there for quite some time. we see now an awful lot of smoke coming out of that building, but those firefighters have to go in and make sure that everything is out of there. you see flashlights now, but what appear to be flash beams inside as we can assume firefighters are in there right now trying to figure out what else needs to be done in that building and i think we see it's all -- is that a firefighter right there? it looks like a hot spot and i imagine they're trying to put out hot spots and probable also worried about what will collapse possibly above and below them.

so it's a bit of a tricky situation right now, i would think. chris, i know that this is a smoky situation now, but just about 15 minutes ago the flames were raging and we were all watching this rescue happen on live television. maybe if we can pull that video and talk a little bit about what we watched transpiring with this pretty precarious ladder situation and it looked like two people and maybe a young person or older person coming down this ladder, right? >> just take a look at that, doreen. when you see that ladder, how far it stretches up to that, i believe, it's probably the third floor there and the angle at which it's sitting. that gives you an idea of what they had to go through and you can see right there, we were watching these embers and pieces of flaming debris falling off that top floor even as they were

bringing people down this ladder. the unit in question, wherever this fire originated in that one apartment it looks like, you couldn't even see that it was an apartment there. it was just a sea of red and yellow flames there completely consumed and now as we go back live there is a team of firefighters in there and as vance said with their flashlights, still putting some water on there, but we knew from mark brady that they were going to be on the scene now to try to get investigators in there who would start to examine some of the debris and try to figure out exactly where this fire started and maybe more importantly, how it started. >> thank you, chris. >> wonderful work covering this for us and we are going stay on top of this story for the rest of an evening, and certainly firefighters there will be able to figure that out. one more time, photographtraffi

hampshire avenue has stopped because there are hoses all across the road and it happened near meserat road and maybe a half a mile south of the beltway and it will be a tenuous and tricky situation, as you can see. the cars are not moving very quickly at all. and again, we'll stay on top of this and bring you more developments as this story warrants. as you can see the fire is now out. also tonight, nine metro employees have been fired. they were arrested and charged about stealing from the agency. >> they're accused of creating an elaborate scheme using fare cards and smart trip cards. transportation reporter adam tuss broke the story and he's at metro headquarters with a look at how much money the agency lost because of all of this. adam? >> reporter: that's right, doreen. this was a planned theft over a prolonged period of time. in the grand scheme of thing, metro says it was a relatively low amount the minute e e y of

that was lost. >> stealing from their employer. >> these appear to be employees who were -- who made a bad decision. >> seven station managers and two custodians profiting from stealing from the metro system. it was a small amount that was lost and here's how it worked. the employee his been collecting paper fare cards and allowing the riders to exit the system for free and they would transfer the balance of the smart trip cards and sell it at a discounted price. >> i'm aware of one case, for example, where there was $100 on the smart trip card and it was being resold for $60 at a discount. >> reporter: if a rider gets off the train and doesn't have enough fare loaded on to the fare card to pay the exit price they're directed to an exit fare machine to load the directed fare and then they can exit. the station managers and custodians were turning a blind.

the seven station managers were retaining the cards and then going to a vending machine, trading several of them in all at once and loading them on to a smart trip card. the scheme was all caught internally and this kind of activity shouldn't happen again and they were not only arrested and charged, but they were fired and for an agency who was trying to clean up its image this certainly doesn't help. we have 13,000 employees and i defy you to find an organization with 13,000 employees where you don't have occasional issues like this. >> reporter: guys, this was happening in d.c., maryland and virginia. coincidentally metro is now starting to phase out the use of those paper fare cards. doreen, back to you. >> adam tuss, thank you. new surveillance video just released shows prince george's county police officers being dragged during a traffic stop. today the driver of that car was found guilty of fleeing and eluding police.

officers found him sleeping in his car at a gas station in 2013. he sped off when they tried to arrest him for a probation violation. one officer suffered a broken elbow and the other two had minor scrapes and bruises. an arrest now in two separate murders that police say involved gang violence. the two victims were found in popular parks in alexandria, virginia. we're hearing from people who live nearby. pat collins at police he headquarters with more on this. >> reporter: how bad is the gang violence in alexandria? suspects and two of the city's four murders last year ms-13. it's called the pit. a popular playground in the beverly hills section of alexandria. it was back on november 9th the body of jose perez found here. it was a case of murder. he had been nearly decapitated. today that case closed. the suspect said to have ties to

the ms-13 gang and in beverly hills today, this is what people are saying. >> it's a relief? >> absolutely. i was worried just walking down there. so many kids play over in that park and you always want them to feel safe. >> is there a sense of relief now? >> yeah, but the problems are still here. >> reporter: today police closed two murders that happened in two of the city's parks late last year. police say the two cases are unrelated and the suspects in each case are said to have ties to ms-13. in the beverly park case three people in custody, an adult male, a teenage boy and a 16-year-old girl. the second case involved a stabbing death of 22-year-old eduardo almendarez.

he was found dead and an 18-year-old is charged with that and he's from ms-13. the police are doing what they can to tamp down the violence. >> we are hoping that today will allude the fear that we've taken them off the street, but there's still work to be done. >> reporter: now police say the murder victims were not in a gang. police say in both cases the suspects and the victims were not here legally. live in alexandria, pat collins, news 4. it has been a cold day today. as a matter of fact, the coldest day we have seen so far this season and the high temperature today only 32 degrees and we didn't even reach freezing. take a look at the numbers and these are the high temperatures today and baltimore only at 28. 27 in martinsburg and 32 down towards the culpeper area and

extremely cold day and the wind made it so much colder and we had windchills in the teens all day and they're still there. windchill of 17 over toward gaithersburg and urbana and 14 art martinsburg and shepherdstown and a very cold night tonight, too, and it will continue to be a cold night. waking up tomorrow morning and you know you will be on the cold side and a milder weather will return before another arctic blast moves in and this one next week will be even colder. i've got the forecast coming up. >> thanks, doug. lots of reaction tonight to president obama's final state of the union address last night. the speech ended with a message of optimism about the years ahead, but the president also took the opportunity to take a shot at republican critics such as donald trump. >> all of the talk of american economic decline is political hot air. >> so evolved the rhetoric about the enemies getting stronger and

america getting weaker. let me tell you something. the united states of america is the most powerful nation on earth. period. >> as he did -- south carolina's governor, nikki haley delivered the republican response and some of her criticism was aimed within her own party at donald trump, for example, steve handelsman has our report. >> reporter: the republican front-runner was targeted after the state of the union by south carolina governor nikki haley chosen by party insiders to give the republican response. >> during anxious times it could be tempting to follow the call of the angriest voices. >> reporter: haley confirmed she includes donald trump who she calls a friend. >> what i would say to donald trump, don't take it personally and this is something we learned in south carolina that i'm passing long. >> reporter: trump retaliated on msnbc. >> i'm leading in all of the polls and people agree with me. i'm very strong on illegal

immigration. she's weak on illegal immigration. >> reporter: president obama last night slammed trump and most republicans. >> anyone claiming that america's economy is in decline is peddling fiction. >> reporter: trump fired back with statistics. >> the median income for people is lower now than it was when barack obama took office. you look at the african-american, they're doing worse than they've ever done and we have an african-american president. >> reporter: there's drama in the democrat race. hillary clinton has lost her big lead in iowa polls. >> no, i'm not nervous at all. i'm excited about where we are. >> reporter: bernie sanders says that despite losing his big lead in new hampshire polls. >> yes, we have the energy. we have the funding to take this to the convention. >> reporter: more intensity on both sides in the race to succeed president obama. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, capitol hill. as the comments about angry voices resonate on a political level, there is a deep-seated

fear about whoovpat's happening their neighborhood. tracee wilkins is live with more on how officials are trying to get them back into class. tracee? >> reporter: we spoke with some hispanic activists who say they support president obama, but disagree on how he's dealing with immigration right now with these raids. although we have had two confirmed in the area, folks are scared to death and scared to move and scared to go to school and because of that officials are working to get these kids back in the classroom. >> parents are afraid to go to the bus stop. we heard of parents pulling their kids out of school. >> reporter: in recent weeks the fear of immigration and custom enforcement raid. at casa de maryland they're seeing people who are afraid to go anywhere. >> they don't know whether or not their kid is going to go to school at 7:00, 8:00 in the

morning and they won't be there to pick them up. >> reporter: this mother of two who did not want to be identified as living in the u.s. illegally. she tells us through a translator that she's also living in fear. >> i'm really afraid that if i go to the store or if i go to drop off my kids to school that something might happen to me. >> the prince george's county has seen a drop in attendance from hispanic students prompting a statement. >> we've asked the federal government and the homeland security to hold off on doing these raids because all it's doing is frightening people. >> the reality is that our students are impacted socially, academically, emotionally. >> within the school system officials are working to get children back in school. >> in some schools we've had advisers, counselors calling the students to ensure that they are comforted and that they are aware that, you know, we want

them. >> they hope the government w l will -- i'm asking president obama to put his hand on his heart and to think about the immigrants that live here. >> casa de maryland has a 24-hour hot line with people on the other end of the phone to give advice and information to parents and families who are concerned about their safety or about their status here in this country or maybe the folks who are in the middle of having immigration officers at their front door. they have all kinds of assistance and help. the number to call is 240-491-5783. this is a difficult problem that the country is trying to figure out how to deal with, but the county executive made it clear that prince george's county police will not be participating. reporting live in upper marlboro, i'm tracee wilkins, live in upper marlboro. >> thanks, tracee. finding parking is tough and it is tough just about anywhere in d.c. news 4 has learned that the city has leased a dozen prime parking

spaces. they've been leased to a private valet company at the new city center in northwest d.c. tom sherwood has our report. >> reporter: finding off-street parking in downtown can be tough. people search and they're glad to pay for an open spot. city transportation officials say 25% of downtown traffic is people driving around looking for an open meter, but here at the upscale block of the new building at city center, a contracted valet service that charges up to $30 and it agreed to take over a dozen street spaces to run its valet operation and it's not just a few hours at night like most valet operations. no parking for the public any day of the week almost any time of the day. >> this is a little unusual in the fact that it does have a daytime component whereas most valet services are in the evening. >> reporter: the valet company has proper permits and pays thousands of dollars to reserve

the on-street spaces and many city center businesses use the service, but the city couldn't tell news 4 the total amount the city receives for taking the spaces out of public use. jack evans told news 4 he wants a better explanation. >> i'll have to look into that, it's strange that the city would allow a building to take up the spots. >> if you try to park on the street here, a valet chases you away. tom sherwood, news 4. taking another live look at the scene of the apartment fire in adelphi, maryland. the flames are out, but firefighters and emergency crews will be on the scene for probably quite a few more hours and we hope to have a live report from

staying on top of breaking news today. an apartment fire in adelphi, maryland, shomari stone just arrived on the scene and he's ready with a live report. shomari? >> reporter: good evening. i'm mere at metsarat road and rigs road. traffic moving at a snail's pace leading up to where this fire started. it is cold out here and feels around 20 degrees and the air is dry. firefighters are battling this thing. they did and they have put it out, but then again, they continue to search for hot spots.

the first call came around 5:20 and this was confined to one apartment believed to be on the fourth floor. it was a huge blaze burning for approximately 30 minutes and firefighters rescued some folks and they're still trying to determine the number of people that they rescued and took care of. the concern right now is the cold weather. you have people that are displaced and the last thing you want to do is have them out in the cold and in terms of process of covering this thing, the streets are so shut down with all of the different firefighters with the trucks that we immediately pulled over to bring you this live shot because we want to bring our viewers straight to the scene and we're out here live and traffic is backed up all of the way down riggs road and just take a look at that leading to the intersection in metsarat road and that will take you down to where the fire is located and again, the concern tonight is the cold air as the temperature continues to dip and meteorologist amelia told you about that and this is exactly what she's talking about.

so the concern right now is to make sure that everyone is taken care of out here. the red cross has been called and generally speaking, they give temporary food and housing vouchers for people and we'll continue to bring you updates and give you the latest on the nbc washington app. live in a delphi, shomari stone. >> that's the first real look at the traffic situation out there and it is. >> clearly, it is. doug. these are tough conditions for the firefighters and for the people kicked out of their homes. >> we had wind gusts gusting 20 to 30 miles per hour and that at least helps and it's want a good situation and we have the temperature below freezing and as temperatures today barely made it to freezing and you'll see a lot of ice around the area and windchill around 24 and yes, it is going to be a tough one

for firefighters as they continue on the program out there. 21 in gaithersburg and 21 in manassas and 30 in fredericksburg and 25 back toward the martinsburg area and temperatures will fall more tonight and not a whole lot more. we're watching the storm system and it's not around us now and it's just off to the west. here it comes and notice it has snow associated with it and we're not going to see the snow and what it will mean it's passed to the north and the warm front and behind it, we'll see it out of the south southwest and that will bring temperatures back up during the day tomorrow and a cold night tonight and down to 25 in the city and places like gaithersburg to the clarksburg area and front royal around 19 degrees and back to the south around fredericksburg and stafford. a cold start to the did i, but with those southerly winds we'll start to see temperatures in the 40s and back to the north and west and back toward the hagerstown area and back to 43 in the shepherdstown area and a chilly day tomorrow and tomorrow afternoon not nearly as cold and

you'll start off the day like this. you'll start off the day wearing the coats, gloves, scarves, hats and they may not come home from school and it will not be nearly as cold as it were earlier in the day. temperatures tomorrow, 47, 48 on friday and friday night, if you're heading out to dinner, maybe a good idea to take the umbrella. we're expecting a few showers and most on the light side and 40s, but if you're headed to dinner good idea to take the umbrella with you and another front moves through and that cools us for sunday, most areas sunday in the mid to upper 30s maybe around 40 in d.c. and yes, we could see scattered flurry activity and snow flurries and we'll talk much more about that we'll talk much more about that and the next arctic intrusion

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>> i didn't believe it until i saw the number in my bank account. i was, wow! okay. >> a woman who used to work at a day care center in virginia could be sentenced for up to 40 years in prison for abusing the children in her care. >> we sent the breaking news alert to your phone when sarah jordan was found guilty this afternoon. >> news 4's meagan fitzgerald has more on how jordan's own testimony could have impacted the verdict. meagan? >> doreen, meagan took the swns stand and denied allegations against her including the fact that she used a waterhouse to spray children in the face. two of the supervisors took the stand and they were questioned about school policy and the statement they made didn't match up with jordan's. for the last three days, the prince william county judge heard testimony from several witnesses including parents like blake buckner who say their toddler was abused by their teacher sarah jordan back in

2013. >> the teacher was making him the class bully, pretty much. >> reporter: buckner says jordan would encourage toddlers to fight and bite each other in their classroom at minnieland academy in woodbridge. witnesses testified in court that over several months jordan physically abused students as young as 16 months. she saw jordan tripping kids and spraying them in the face with the water hose. jordan admitted to using a hose, but denied hurting children with the water. in court today, two of jordan's former supervisors testifying that using a hose with children especially toddlers was against school policy and that all teachers were informed. the prosecution then questioned sdwro jordan who said she was never told about the policy. did you hear the procedures of using a hose? >> jordan said, quote, yes, that was never talked to me about. >> five therapists who worked with five of the children shortly after the allegations

testified that they likely suffered from some type of trauma. buckner said his son was one of them. >> really hurt. reminded me of the pain that i went through when i first found out. >> today the judge found jordan guilt of abusing children and it's a verdict buckner says he sees as justis and closure. >> she knows what she did. she knows what she did so i'm just happy and i'm glad. >> now a judge revoked jordan's bond and sentencing for may 6th. we are told that parents of the children will be there and they asked the judge to sentence her to the maximum of 41 years in prison. thanks, meagan. a prince george's county man shot and injured an intruder today. it happened on brinkley road in temple hills just before 2:00 this morning. the family dog alerted the homeowner to a noise at the front door. the suspect had already pried open the storm door. the wife called 911 while the husband grabbed his gun and shot

through the front door. the suspect was hit in the leg. he is said to be okay and police plan to file charges soon. police are looking for a suspect after a carjacking near old town alexandria and this happened near the safeway there. police tell us the suspect robbed a woman, took her keys and then stole her car. no weapon was shown and the victim was not injured. the plight of commuters bridging democrats and republicans together in richmond right you in. the 2016 session opened today with lawmakers determined to block vdot's plan to begin charging tolls on i-66. bureau chief julie carey joins us live from richmond with more on the proposed bills. julie? >> reporter: i heard a new buzz phrase today when i started talking to northern virginia lawmakers. they're talking about commuter fairness and it applies both to the plan for tolling on i-66 and

those hefty hot lane violations that some drivers are facing. >> he's brand new to the virginia general assembly, but he's very familiar with the i-95 commute driving every day from woodbridge to alexandria. he knows the pain commuters face and he's heard complaints about hefty toll violation fines. he said one of his bills would restore commuter fairness to those who made hov lane mistakes. >> you won't get fees on top of it before you receive the noteis. >> they want the $10 fee assessed when it is inactive for six months and it's the idea of adding hot lane tolling to i-66 inside the beltway that's become a real target. >> this is a sandbag move on the people in northern virginia. >> delegate bob marshall got an earful on plans to add tolling

in 20 taken and to create lanes on i-66 inside the beltway. marshall hopes to block both. >> we paid for the hov lane and we paid for it again and again, and you should not give it away to a private company. >> the democrat shares the opposition to 66 tolling. >> my theory is if you'll have tolls, that's fine, but it's got to be for new capacity, new lanes and especially inside the beltway. let's face it. you can make it 12 lanes outside the beltway and you will have all of the same bottlenecks. peterson has another transportation oriented bill and he wants to ditch the car tax once and for all and replace the revenue with a 5 cent tax on gas. >> in the state of the commonwealth he's about to give him 30 minutes and he will credit with the i-66 tolling plan to give them new options and an aide in his office calls the criticism soft political rhetoric. back to you in the studio. julie carey in richmond, thank

you, julie. the recent death of a montgomery police officer could lead to a change in, did ui laws in maryland. he us introoed a new bill in memory of officer noah leotta. he was killed by a suspected drunk driver in december. he was manning a dui checkpoint at the time. the measure would require an ignition interlock device are for any driver of.08 or greater. chris gordon has more on the issues that lawmakers are hoping to tackle this year. it's on our website at nbcwashington.com. coming up, some neighbors quite upset about a tree house they say is ruining their quality of life. plus how technology is being used to try and solve some cold cases across virginia, but first, here is doug. i'm watching a storm system bringing some snow back toward the ohio area and back toward cleveland and that system moving our way and the snow is not what it's going to bring for

the owner of a controversial tree house in capitol hill says he has no plans to take it down. the castle-like tree house went up in august on archibald walk. according to the capitol hill corner blog, district officials gave the homeowner a temporary permit for the structure, but neighbors say the house detracts from the historic fabric of the walkway in the neighborhood. the district's transportation department will have the final word on this. authorities are hoping that new facial models will help them solve several cold cases in virginia. the state's medical examiner unveiled facial recreations of eight people who were found dead and never identified. all of the cases are from central virginia, three of them from stafford county. the remains were found between 1990 and 1998. forensic anthropologists and

artists from the fbi constructed the models. okay. did you get your tickets yet? >> uh-huh. >> good. coming up, we'll tell you what financial experts say that you can do to create your own

i'm chris lawrence at the live desk with some new information on that breaking news that we have been following and bringing you all afternoon. we just learned two people are being treated for minor burns. one firefighter has a leg injury. this is all related to this massive fire at an apartment

complex. the presidential park condominium on new hampshire avenue in a delphi. you can see in the last 90 minutes how intense that fire was burning on the top floor there. firefighters stretched out the ladder and had to evacuate several people down that ladder out of the apartment building and a lot of those residents had come to the balcony, firefighters went to the building to get to people who were huddled on a stairwell and got them out safely and had been methodically working their way through the building trying to put that blaze out. we want to take you also out to a first 4 traffic look. this is new hampshire avenue south of the beltway near rigs road, piney branch and you can see the backups there. there's no access. that is an area you want to avoid going home tonight. doreen? >> chris lawrence, thank you.

>> so do you have your ticket yet? just a few more hours before that big hpowerball drawing. >> it's tonight. >> the winning ticket has already been bought, but anyway, the jackpot is $1.5 billion. that's incredible, isn't it? ? it's likely to go even more before it is drawn tonight. unfortunately, your odds oficxé% winning do not grow. they are still at one in 292 million, but for a billion and a half, what the heck? i'll buy a ticket. that's like flipping a coin 28 times. >> we can dream, though, can't we? >> oh, absolutely. that's the only joy that any of us will get out of there. >> david culver is in herndon. you talked to a financial expert and he says we ought to be thinking about creating our own jackpot without playing the lottery. we'll tell you what that's

about. >> doreen and vance, exactly. i'll get to that expert opinion in just a moment, but first, got to get to the thrill of playing and the dream, really a big dream of winning big. a dream that was realized not too long ago by the folks here at alvin market and deli. >> picture proof of big winnings, $3 million made out to glenda salgado. this was march 2014. >> and i always hoped, wished and dreamed and thought about what i would do with the money and then when it actually happened to me, i said what am i going to do? >> it also means the store she bought the ticket from got a check, too. it just so happens she owns the store. >> as an owner you get ten grand if someone wins in your store. >> it hasn't slowed her down. still runs her store serving up papusas and serving it up. >> george mason finance professor says be careful over spending too much on lotto tickets. you could put that money

elsewhere, he says. >> suppose you have someone who spends $10 a week. that's $500 a year. so over ten years that's $5,000. if it's invested, maybe it turns into $6,000. >> a few zeros off from that dream jackpot, but it's a payout, he says, you can at least plan for. >> and this money adds up over time and the success feeds on itself. >> as for glenda, how is she feeling after winning big? >> more hours, more work, but less stress. >> and her shop's become a magnet for others hoping to destress a bit. >> i need to rub off of her luck. she's a lucky person. >> i'm, like, okay. >> reporter: some folks call this the lucky corridor in herndon. a few years before glenda won, two blocks away at a giant, $107

million winning ticket was sold. not afraid to admit it and not ashamed, vance and doreen. i did shake her hand a few times before i bought my hopefully winning lotto ticket. >> i told you the winner has already been bought. >> how many tickets do you have? >> one. just one. >> you know, my chances are winning with the one are the same as you if you go to the store now and -- >> i don't think so. >> i'm sure that's how the math works. >> it's pretty close to how the math works. >> you're just wasting your money. >> it's pretty close. >> you're in the pool and i heard you're resisting offers. >> no. >> won't it be nice when we all walk out and he's the only one left? >> that would be very nice. >> we'll be laughing all of the way. >> did you buy it in that store? >> i did not. if i knew herndon where i grew up was the lucky triangle. i would have been there. >> you need to get reacquainted with your best friend glenda out

there. >> glenda and i go back this far. i'll tell you what. let's show you what's happening as far as the weather is concerned. temperatures have not reached the freezing mark in most areas. we did hit 32 at the airport and temperatures dropping the next few hours and not by much. we're down to 25 by 11:00 and it will be a cold night tonight and i don't expect it to be quite as frigid as it was last night and 23 in gaithersburg and nothing on the radar until you get back to the west. we have a storm system and it looks like the snow is trying to move our way, right? the system will move our way and it will move right over us and behind it we get nice and mild. take a look at this. ski forecast and i haven't seen this much this season and slushy and breezy in the afternoon becoming icy on saturday and suspected a pretty nice day and even nice snow showers and martin luther king day, that will be a tough one, windy and cold as arctic air moves back in.

48 on saturday, 40 on sunday and arctic air really moves in and high temperatures monday and tuesday, even colder than today. >> with that money it will be warm. we have sports coming up. >> a big deal coming on the mend. boy, do we need him. he's banged up.

they're banged up, haven't they? >> they've been extremely injured all season. the good news, bradley biel is active for tonight's game against milwaukee. >> if the there was started today the wizards would be watching with the rest of us. this season hasn't gone according to plan mainly because of injuries. not once this season has the entire team been healthy or the majority of that team and that's the reason why the wizards have completely fallen off this season. as we said, bill is active tonight and this was a good sign this morning and he was participating at a shoot around and, how much he'll play tonight we'll have to wait and see. meanwhile, his teammate john wall playing despite an mri scheduled for tomorrow on his knee with the team starting to

get healthy and just two games over 500. they believe the postseason is still within reach. >> playoffs don't start until may. so we have plenty of time to move up and the east is such a toss-up each and every night and there's no for sure set team. >> right now, we'd say no just by our record and when healthy and playing at a high level and i would like our chances against anybody. >> two games away and we were way better and that's stuff that you have to put behind you and our main focus is trying to win and it's behind you. >> tonight's game starts at 7:00 on comcast sportsnet. the capitals host vancouver and be sure to get there early because the organization will honor alex ovechkin from becoming a member of the 500 gold club before the puck drops. >> as for the team they own the best record in hockey, but the

caps are getting it done regardless of who is on the ice and some major injuries for this team hasn't slowed them down, though one bit. >> we're thriving and that's a good thing. it really comes from leadership and the leadership doesn't allow for excuses and that to me is the biggest thing that they talk about and i don't think we've mentioned the guys were out. >> and it's pretty special and absolutely huge, huge, huge that the guys are playing as well as they have. >> they're at the verizon center and going for the fifth consecutive victory, the capitals are. >> hugh jackson has been hired as the browns' next head coach and he was being courted by the new york giants and they're still looking for head coaches and the redskins don't have that problem. their biggest concern this off season, signing quarterback kirk

cousins. this season cousins earned just over $700,000 in base salary. if you're curious as to what he can make going forward. here are three quarterbacks, matthew stafford, alex smith and jay cutler. between the three of them they've been to the playoffs six times and three of those appearances belong to alex smith and if you look at the numbers and what they'll be paid for the 20 2016. i need to get matthew stafford's agent $22.5 million. it was $18.5 million and the long-term deal seems to be logical for the skins and cousins and don't be surprised if it's in the rage of 15 to 18 million a year. jay cutler is making 16 million this season. >> and he's been in the playoffs once. >> pay the man, shirley. give him some money and bring him back because he keeps getting better and better and better. >> with a full off season who knows how good he can be?

>> i'll bet he still has a lottery ticket, though? >> why wouldn't he? >> that's our broadcast. nightly news coming up next. >> hope to see you for news 4 at 11:00. have a good evening.

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