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under way. we'll have them in a matter of minutes. >> while we wait for those results we want to get you the latest for the story that unf d unfolded on news4 at 5:00 and 6:00 tonight. >> many of you watching as prince george's county firefighters pulled people out to safety. we have team coverage as investigators work to figure out what caused the fire. we start with shomari stone and dozens of residents left out in the cold. shomari. >> reporter: good evening. dozens of those families are either with relatives, friends or housing provided by the red cross. the fire started on the fourth floor. surrounding units either have fire or water damage. many of those tenants came out here. it was cold. they had clothes on their backs and blankets and tonight, they're doing everything they can to try and find a place to sleep. look at this chopper 4 video, orange flame, thick black smoke shooting in the air as this fire rages at an apartment building

in prince george's county just south of the capitol beltway. this video shows them rescuing people on the ladder and ground and our cameras captured them reyou nighting this adorable dog with its owner. >> to my amazement, the flames were going pretty strong. >> reporter: he was on the third floor when the fire broke out. the a he and dozen officers advocated. thy turned off the licht and gas to be safe. >> unlike my neighbors that came out with just the shirt on my back, i have hyper thermal wear so i'm good but concerned for them. >> reporter: he allowed a 2 and 4-year-old to warm up in his car. tempts in the 20s and 30s makes things much worse. >> it is but i'm grateful.

i'm here, i'm safe. >> tonight, neighbors help neighbors and others rely on the red cross and relatives -- >> i have so many things there. >> reporter: while tenants decide what to do next, amani waits for warmth. >> when the trucks clear out i can head to a friend and spend the night. >> reporter: i spoke to the prince george's fire information officer tells me four condo units are destroyed and there are 10 people who got help from the red cross with temporary food or housing vouchers. as for the fire, jackie bensen will have that. i'm shomari stone, news4. >> two people were injured in the apartment where this fire started. one seriously and three firefighters also suffered minor injuries, one from smoke

inhalation and the other burns. and jackie has what they have been able to piece together as to the cause. it sounds like it could have been a lot worse. >> reporter: it could have. the exact cause is not determined. it is believed to have beep accidental and started in the kitchen area of that top floor unit. prince george's county firefighters used gavelized metal buckets to sift through the debris in the kitchen area of the apartment where the fire began. the size of the building and how many lived here meant firefighters had to get on the scene actively. >> they had to go into an aggressive stance. and we had to assume after 5:00, a lot of people would be home watching television so we had to go into an interior tact. >> reporter: there is no attic or crawl space where the fire

could have smoldered unnoticed for a while. still, containing the fire required significant resources. >> the second alarm was sounded by command in the first three minutes and brought 20 piece apparatus and firefighters from other counties. >> reporter: we learned the fire hydrant is not working and out for some time. fire officials tell us that was not the closest to this fire and did not affect operations. jackie bensen, news4. >> we're checking powerball results to see if any has mat matched all six numbers. you just got a push alert on the nbc washington app. just in case you haven't seen them, here they are. the five winning numbers are 8, 27, 34, 4, 19. the powerball number is 10.

again, 8, 27, 34, 4, 19, and the powerball is 10. a lot of folks in our area have been snatching up tickets in bun bunches. virginia lottery officials expected to sell 13 million tickets today. the director of the maryland lottery has been openly enticing out-of-state others to come buy tickets in his state. for good reason. say someone buys the winning ticket in maryland and takes the lump sum. the state of maryland would collect $81 million in taxes. that jackpot, more than 1$1.5 billion is so huge, canadians have been crossing the border to get in on the action. there are about 292 million possible combinations. officials say, you know, 86% of those had been sold. now, weknow the winning numbers. on the chance that no one matches all six again, saturday's drawing is likely to top $2 billion. jim. >> you're still here. i am still here. chris, thanks so much. we have one more night of

serious cold to get through before things warm up for the end of the week. let's turn to doug. you're still here, doug. >> i won six bucks. that's something. it is going to be another cold night tonight, already in the teens in some locations. the high temperatures today, the coldest we have seen all season long. 32 in d.c., 28, frederick, 34 in warrington. and tomorrow, numbers go 10-fenn degrees higher. and a really cold start to the day and 25 between 7:00 and 8:00. inside the beltway. temperatures back into the mid-40s. another cold one tonight. milder weather returns through most of the weekend. another arctic outbreak. the next one will be even colder than the way the weather was earlier today. we'll talk much more about that in my full forecast. >> thank you, doug.

now, to a story you saw first on the nbc washington app this afternoon. transportation reporter adam tuss learned nine metro employees were arrested for gaming the fare card system. they collected paper fare cards from customers trying to exit the system without enough money on their cards. the metro employees transferred the money on smart trip cards and sold them at a discount and pocketed the profit. >> for example one was sold for 1$100 and sold for 6$60 at a discount. >> it didn't cost the agency much money but wouldn't put a dollar figure on it. the scheme was uncovered by metro and officials say it shouldn't happen again. justice and closure, parents described their relief today after a judge found a former daycare worker guilty of child ah because. >> she knows what she did.

child abuse. >> i'm happy. >> sarah jordan could spend up to 140 years for the crime. she'll be sentenced in may. she worked at the minnieland academy in woot bridge. she encouraged to lers to fight and bite one another and tripped other children and even sprayed some with hoses. jordan actually admitted to using a hose in her testimony but denied hurting any kids and those likely suffered trauma from abuse. >> governor mcauliffe is taking credit for the turnaround in the economy and calling for more tax cuts that started today. with his push for medicaid expansion again will face an uphill climb. >> even as our economy improves and revenue increases our responsibility to be good stewards of our taxpayer dollars

this is same. >> one area we will not be in agreement with governor mcauliffe. we believe this initiative threatens critically important funding priorities. >> governor mcauliffe can expect a political fight in plans for tolls on i-66 inside the beltway and said it can ease congestion but democrats and republicans, too, fear it would be too costly for the virginia drivers. tomorrow, a judge will make an important ruling for republican voters. she'll decide if they have to sign a form affirm their party affiliation before being assi assigned a ballot. trump's against it worrying it would scare away some voters and the gop asked for this. >> the state governor defended her response to the state of the

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t. rowe price. invest with confidence. we now know the name of the driver who died in a crash on the beltway this morning, chopper 4 over the scene on the inner loop in college park, 60-year-old miguel saba of silver spring was driving a van that flipped over after colli colliding with an suv at 5:00 a.m. look at the backup. he died at the scene. no word what caused the crash. >> there was a warning from the national transportation safety board. we risk another catastrophic crash without major safety change on rail lines. am tr amtrak rolled out plans after last year's crash but others are lagging far behind. >> reporter: eight passengers died when a speeding amtrak

derailed north of philadelphia. 2014, four dead when a train derailed in the bronx. 2008, 25 dead after a metro link train blue a stop signal in california. while technology was available to prevent these accidents, none of the trains had it. >> you're going too fast. you have it at 90 miles an hour. it just took over the control of the train for me. >> reporter: we saw how positive train control works. now, eight mants after the philly crash, amtrak has finished equipmenting almost the entire northeast corridor and monitoring every train and slam on the breaks if necessary. ptc is only in place around the area of los angeles owned by freightlines that complain about the technology's cost and complexity. congress has given them more time, 2018 to get ptc up and running. nod good enough says safety

experts. >> every day ptc is not in place, we run the risk of another amtrak crash in philadelphia or bronx crash. >> reporter: in essence the technology about human error by forcing the train to abide by speed limits and stop signals. >> reporter: amtrak says it would have saved lives in philadelphia. >> we are going to move as quickly as we can to make a damn safe railroad safer. >> reporr: still no word why the train in philly was speeding but the high-tech safety fix is on a slow rollout. the american general assembly is back to work and one of the items is tougher dui l laws. introducing a bill in memory of officer le otta, killed by a suspected drunk driver in december while manning a dui

checkpoint. the law would require more cop convicted drunk drivers to use an intermission in ter lock device. >> this has been demonstrated to time and time again to actually work. >> right now, convicted drivers with blood alcohol level of .5 or higher need to use these devi devices, nearly twice the legal limit. this lowers the threshold t to .08. >> a treehouse in a capitol neighborhood has to come down but a defiant owner says it's not going anywhere. it is in the front yard of a home in archibald walk. they said they gave them a temporary permit for it and they argue it detracts from the historic area. the district will have the final

word on this. >> it is cold out there tonight, doug. >> it is cold. we will get mild the next couple of days. today is the coldest so far this season. we have two more colder than this in the 7-day forecast. i don't know why i get excited about that. something to get excited about. we haven't had much this winter. you have to give me something. right now on the cold side, 28 degrees. look at the wind chill, also at 28. what does that tell you? there is no wind tonight. a far cry from what we were dealing with last night. gaithersburg i showed you 10 minutes ago, down 19, now up to 21, 23, manassas, 24 in fredericksburg. temperatures won't go down all that much more tonight. we have a little bit more in the way of cloud cover and changing wind direction. look at this. radar shows snow to the south. that's not actually falling, our storm system back to our west.

it's trying to bring snow our way but too dry in our atmosphere. what it will do is pass by to the north of us as a warm front. behind it we will see a return flow from the south and means warmer temperatures tomorrow. we may get down to the upper teens and 25 in the city. a cold start to the day. with that return flow out of the south, we get back to the 40s. 43, gaithersburg and fredericksburg, 48. i think we see plenty of sunshine in the afternoon. a pretty nice arch. you will need the coats early but not with the sun. ski forecast. haven't shown this much at all this season. a little slushy and icy by saturday, breezy afternoon. just flurries really. sunday the best day to go skiing. here's where the cold comes back. monday, mlk day, windy and cold conditions because of the arctic blast about to move in. 47 tomorrow, 48 on friday.

friday night, if you are heading out, there may be showers late friday night. take the umbrella. not expecting much in the amount of rain but temperatures could drop to 40s. saturday, 48 early but falling temperatures during the day. look at sunday. high temperatures of 40 degrees could see flurry activity sunday as another storm system passes by. it's fairly dry, another clipper and will be a little bit drier. it has more cold air. look at the high temperature monday, only 28 degrees. the wind chill down between zero and 10 by late in the afternoon. it feels like forecast in the morning between 5 and 10. up to 10 to 15 for lunch and by evening, wind chill between zero and 10 degrees. very cold air there. sticks around tuesday and high temperatures in the 20s. next week is going to be the coldest we will see so far. >> it keeps getting progressi

progressively the coldest out. >> back half winter. >> you said february. >> bradley beal showing no rust in his return to the wizards. >> first up, jimmy fallon. >> dany devito is here and we

i haven't seen her. >> sports time. she said she'd be back unless she won the lottery. >> i guess we're doing sports.

>> oh. >> i guess you didn't get it. sorry. we were looking forward to your party. >> i was checking all my tickets. you would see me again. i would invite you to my mansion. >> the wizards won tonight. >> wizards are on a roll. they're getting healthy tonight. bradley beal, game time decision, checked in, became a game changer. missed many games due to a stress reaction. did not take long to make an impact. like he never left. first bucket since december. late in the quarter, wizards come up with the over to, passed ahead to baleal, finishes with e jam and teammates love it. 23 minutes for beal. >> third quarter, pulling away with the brakes.

weighs it in. incredible play. he's fired up. wiz up 13. they lead by one. 15 off the bench for him, wizards back on top. late in the game, wizards up 11. he throws it down, 19 points, eight assists for walt. wizards beat. georgetown, visiting st. john. a big reason why he hits the j here. and now up seven. out to cameron. straight away three, got it. career high for cameron. downhill digits. smith rivera stole the show. drives straight to the bucket. how y howes up at the break. putting finishing touches, 23

points in the second half for him, matches his career high with 23. george mason lost at home to saint joseph's 87-73 and american university dropped a home game to boston university. >> next time. >> busy night for nfl coaching news. hue jackson takes over in cleveland. dirk koetter is telling folks in tampa bay he got the bucs job. and giants will make eli manning very happy. according to multiple reports, giants will name men mcadoo the head coach and spent time under tom coughlin. offense was not the problem. eli manning lobbied for mcadoo after coughlin resigned. how's that for having your back. trying to get them in the

post-season since 2011. it's mcadoo in charge in new york. >> thanks for schlepping with

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