what this move means to the people of this neighborhood who are desperate for good news. >> two men were sentenced today to decades behind bars for a shooting of a disabled veteran. coming up, i'll tell you one of the surprising things one of the suspects said in court. we begin tonight withic braing news. new reaction just coming in from former virginia governor bob mcdonnell. the u.s. spouk has just announced it will hear his appeal on public corruption convictions. in a statement mcdonnell says he is grateful for the supreme court's decision and he maintained his innocence. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams broke the story and tells us the justices were sympathetic to one of mcdonnell's arguments. >> they say the government vastly overreached in prosecuting him, that the way the law was explained to the jury was wrong. >> reporter: mcdonnell and his wife maureen was found guilty of accepting more than $175,000

worth of gifts and favors from a virginia businessman. defense lawyers argue that mcdonnell dealt with the businessman at the center of the case of the way any politician would. mcdonnell and his wife are both free on appeal. our other big story, get a load of the look behind us. this is a live look at conditions right now, but it's what's coming next that could be a real shock to the system. let's go to veronica in storm center 4. what's the bad word, v.j.? >> well, for this evening, plans going out and it's a sloppy evening. in fact, some roads already nasty and if we are going to be stepping out over the next few hours we're going to need, get this, the big umbrella. the big size umbrella for steady rain. moderate to heavy and we've been tracking it for the last couple of hours and storm team 4 and you can see the pockets and the orange and the reds starting to show up and that's moderate rain moving right up i-95 toward quantico and toward areas like

waldorf in the next few minutes and from middleburgh to leesburg, more on the moderate rain and we'll have a better chance on that as we get into 8:00, 9:00 hour and all of this rain continues to overspread the area. a sloppy evening for us and what i like are the temperatures and 48 degrees between 7:00 and 9:00 and 45 between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m. and then it gets progressively colder and the type of weather we're looking at monday morning is dangerous and it's extreme for this area. the windchills, very low. we'll have that coming up. all right. thanks, veronica. 11 million people and that's how many watched the republican debate and tonight it appears that donald trump may be poised to win all of the early primaries and it comes an election year where virginia is shaping up to be an important battleground state. >> just a few weeks ago, donald trump winning all or most of the primaries and winning in the

nomination seemed impossible to a lot of republican insiders, but not any more. >> so we have to get out. we've got to win. >> donald trump campaigned in i wach where he's tight in the polls with ted cruz. >> i'll be here so much in the next two weeks you'll be sick of me. >> trump who has surged to a double-digit lead in the wall street journal poll figures he's got the nomination if he wins the lead ahh contest. >> the fact is i think we can come in first in iowa and then it's off to the races. ted cruz campaigned in iowa. >> in last night's debate trump scored when cruz accused him of having new york values. >> i think most people know exactly what new york values are. >> trump emotional evoked 9/11. >> when the world trade center came down i saw something that no place on earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than new york and

everybody in the world watched and everybody in the world loved new york and loved new yorkers, and i have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement that ted made. >> he'd hit a nerve. here's "the new york daily news," hillary tweeted just this once, trump is right. in new hampshire, marco rubio attacked cruz. >> time and again he has shown that he will change his positions out of political calculation. >> targeting the chief challenger while chasing the front-runner. a lot of voters are still deciding and trump opponents are still dreaming of cruz winning iowa, rubio winning new hampshire and the trump train being derailed. i'm steve handelsman, news 4. >> thank you. there's more to talk about including the upcoming democratic presidential debate this weekend, "meet the press" moderator will join us in a few minutes with his insights. virginia voters started casting absentee ballots in person and also requesting them

by mail. our bureau chief, julie carey joins us from fairfax county where the early numbers indicate big interest in the march 1st primary. >> reporter: well, voters in this battle ground state know there will always be a spotlight on virginia. so across the commonwealth today, hundreds of people seized the opportunity to cast their in-person absentee ballots in the presidential primary. the very first chance came today, but we found some gop voters grumbling at the polls about something new this year, the so-called loyalty oath. >> so you are here to vote absentee? >> yes. >> it was just a trickle of voters, motivated voters who wasted no time in casting in-person absentee ballots. >> i'm a rabid hillary supporters. the numbers suggest it could be a big primary season and candidates on both sides and to date in fairfax county, nearly 250 million more mail-in ballots

were requested. >> it means more activity and we're planning for a significant turnout between absentee and in-person voting on march 1st. >> there is something very different for gop voters and this statement of affiliation, a so-called loyalty oath must be signed to get a republican ballot. the gop voters we met don't like it. >> it puts me in a box and i don't like that, you know. it's forcing me into a box. >> i find it irrelevant because on election day it's a secret ballot, you can vote for whoever want to that day so the ballot of a leenlance is meaningless. >> it included college students on break soon headed into campus and we met two first first-time voters and the same candidate won their vote. >> bernie sanders and i just agree with his social issues and like how he stands. i voted for bernie sanders. feel the bern.

his policies is what i support. >> bernie sanders and young voters and it's a storyline you'll be interested to follow as the primaries, and for a look at the many reasons that can be used to cast an absentee ballot, open our nbc washington app and search absentee. >> thank you. police had his photo. they knew his name and had plenty of surveillance video where they say he preyed on women. today a man suspected in five separate attacks is in custody and d.c.'s top cop is using the case as an example for solving other crimes. news 4's chris gordon is in police headquarters with details on that. chris? >> doreen, police have been looking for melvin latney of southeast washington for weeks now. during that time, allegedly he kept committing crimes and terrorizing neighborhoods across

the city. >> police say this case shows just how important surveillance video is in tracking down crime suspects based on tips from the public. investigators posted video showing 25-year-old melvin latney in stores and at a metro station. they had his picture, but they couldn't find him and latney's crime spree of five sexual assaults and robberies began november 24th when he walked out of a halfway house. his most recent attack happened on december 31st. >> those crimes which included attacks on five women in which he raped -- attempted to sexually assault and rob those women in various different areas around the city. >> reporter: news 4 profiled latney's first in a serious of attacks when he knocked down a woman, groped her and stole her bag on eighth street in southeast washington on november 24th. the video showing suspect melvin

latney led to a tip and his arrest yesterday. now chief cathy lanier is asking you to look at two other videos showing robberies january 12th at a cvs on 40th street northeast and at a dunkin' donuts store on 19th street northwest. >> if anybody recognizes the person in that video, we are looking to identify him, as well. >> chief lanier says the videos of melvin latney that led to his arrest should reassure the neighborhoods where he attacked and robbed women. >> regardless of where an attack like this happens, people in the community are scared and rightfully so. that's why it is so important for us to really get those images as quickly as we can and get them out and get the public's participation to help us. >> police say you can remain anonymous when calling them with information about a suspect in the crime. that's the latest live with metropolitan police headquarters. >> thank you, chris. >> bomb threats called into several d.c. buildings.

>> and they did cause enough concern to prompt a school to close early and police say they got calls this morning threatening two schools and d.c. police headquarters and officials did not specify which schools were targeted and in a first of its kind, and the attorneys general from the district maryland and virginia partnering up to prevent gun violence and they plan to share their strategies and their criminal information. >> who are dealing guns and who are committing crimes are doing it across the borders and they're not limiting themselves to just committing crimes in their home jurisdiction and they're committing crimes where they find the opportunity. >> preventing gun violence is b exist. the crash happened overnight during a training mission off the northern coast off the island of oahu in hawaii.

it carried a crew of six and there are 12 missing marines now. witnesses onshore saw a huge fireball in the sky right after the crash. searchers spotted a debris field in the water about two miles off the coast as well as an empty life raft. rough seas are complicated that rescue operation. two men will spend most of their adult lives in prison after they were sentenced in prince george's county today for their role in the violent armed robbery of a veteran with disabilities. as darcy spencer reports, one of the suspects was captured after a report that was aired here on news 4. >> raqim solomon shown in this rap video took part in a robbery and shooting in blatensburg that left 66-year-old disabled vietnam veteran roger whitfield temporarily paralyzed. >> i'm happy to be among the land of the living. >> reporter: solomon showed remorse and he turned to whitfield and said i apologize

to the victim. i apologize to his wife. hopeful one day you'll find forgiveness. >> and i just say god bless him. >> reporter: whitfield was selling designer coats and boots out of his car around the holidays to make christmas money to buy gifts for his 13 grandkids. prosecutors say raqim solomon who goes by the nickname killa took part in the robbery and ordered alvarez. >> he said bust him anyway and heed turned around and shot him. alvarez, the triggean, was sentenced to 35 years. solomon initially on the run was captured after news 4 aired the music video and a viewer called in a tip, leading police to his arrest. >> i'm thanking the state's attorneys office for a job well done. blatensburg police department that started it all going and

nbc 4, of course, you and jacqui who followed my husband's story. >> solomon's other bro was sentenced to 18 months in jail for allegedly using wipes to clean the fingerprints out of that stolen car. in upper marlboro, darcy spencer, news 4. the dramatic scene played out on live tv this week, but tonight there's new concern for local firefighters about the response. >> a major economic blow as walmart backs out of a plan to build stores in d.c. we'll hear what former mayor vincent gray is saying about this setback in an area that is desperate for development. signs remembering peter taub. we're outside his family's restaurant. tonight for the first time his mother is remembering that terrible day. >> i was working in the back office and he just came tearing to the back and said, mom, pete was killed. was killed. coming up a

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quite a story on wall street today. stocks slid as the price of crude oil fell to its lowest level since 2003. it is the worst first two weeks of the year wall street has ever seen. alarm over a slowdown in china has caused uncertainty, as well. the dow was down over 400 points at the close today. some economic news in the district has local leaders furious. they are blasting walmart for

today's decision to back out of opening two stores. one of them at the capital gateway complex in northeast and the other at the skyland town center in southeast. as mark segraves reports, both communities were counting on the jobs in the retail options that those stores would have brought to the area. >> i was in that meeting in las vegas where it was put to walmart in very clear terms, if you don't build a skyline, you cannot build anywhere else in the district of columbia. >> former mayor vincent gray was also in those negotiations. >> i believe the mayor and you should get the media and go down to bentonville, arkansas, and say to those people down there this is an absolute outrage. you need to understand how devastating this is and you need to turn around this decision. >> muriel boirs was just as upset to go back on its promise to open two stores on neighborhoods that desperately need jobs and retail. >> i'm blood mad about it. >> council member vincent orange

wants the district to consider taking walmart to court. >> i think we should use every available avenue to want to enforce that agreement or there should be consequences and i'm hoping that our attorney general and that this government really comes down hard on them. >> reporter: and the attorney general seems to agree. in a statement carl raceine said the office was attorney general is reviewing the situation and exploring all available options. they are just as disappointed. >> so what happens now? nothing? we get anything? nothing that's going to, you know, a shopping center or something? how are we going to get to the store? . >> the republican presidential candidates are back on the campaign trail. >> some of them nursing bruises after last night's debate in

south carolina. >> meet the press moderator chuck todd and let's start with ted cruz and the controversy where he was born seems like it's never going away. >> it is a distraction, but i thought he pushed it pretty well on trump and he said apparently when my polls go up you steam care about this and this only becomes an issue, ultimately secretary of state or county clerk and then all of a sudden you might have to see the courts get involved and the fact of the matter there's, as cruz says trump is doing this for other reasons. >> it didn't damage barack obama much. >> here's someone who was born in the united states and he was born in 150 states. >> if his name is on the ballot in new york right now, his new york attitude blew up on him a little bit. >> i think that depends. i think it depends on your perspective on this. the cruz campaign may not be hurt by this in iowa, you know? there are plenty of people who

believe, you know, that new york values is code for socially liberal. and socially liberal values don't play well with evangeli l evangelicals and a big chunk of the electorate in iowa. so, yes, is it code language, perhaps and things like that. it's interesting, and the cruz campaign, you know who brought this up first? donald trump and he did in 1999 in an interview with tim russert. some values may not play well in iowa and he was referring to his positions on a borgbortion and and things like that. the cruz campaign didn't say that last night and trump, that was the best moment he's had in any debate. >> we count on you to enlighten us about the historical factors. >> it is. it is. >> this did bait did do a clarifying thing to me and there are three people fighting for this nomination. it's trump, cruz, and rubio has a lot of life in him and they feel like they're fading and fading fast. >> the democrats debate on

sunday and they have the buried time slot. >> sunday night, as we know, big night for television. >> and the holiday weekend. >> not easy for nbc to give up a sunday night and it's the last debate against iowa and for some reason you want to talk about the dnc decided not to allow a debate and the week before iowa in the state of iowa. that said it's a real race. hillary clinton is very nervous and they're searching for a way to try to knock sanders and they haven't found a silver bullet yet. >> so i think sunday night will be surprisingly combative. >> interesting. >> we'll look for that on sunday night. >> tune in. by the way, hillary clinton, bernie sanders and marco rubio and that's my sunday lineup for "meet the press". >> and amal clooney. >> now i got your attention. now i got your attention! >> not just ours, but she is

terrific. >> very impressive. >> a very interesting person. >> we'll see you at sunday morning. chuck, thanks. a local airman killed in afghanistan and his family is talking to news 4 about his mission and how they want him to be remembered. a chain reaction crash leaves a woman dead and the police say the man shouldn't have been behind the wheel, but he's not facing charges yet.

you'll want to grab the golf-size umbrella and the jumbo umbrella if you'll be stepping out this evening and it will be wet and fairly sloppy, too. at least we're not going to have wind or low temperatures and here is your rain intensity forecast from 6:00 to 9:00, there will be pockets of rain showing up and some heavy rain from 9:00 p.m. until past midnight. the rain should be ending in the morning. that's where the moderate rain is right now and currently most of it is east of i-95 and as we zoom in we'll see areas of calvert beach, as well and up to the north, around annapolis right now and sliding right up 301 and sunderland in the next few minutes. it's sloppy on some roads out there and you can see going all of the way down to the south.

this is going to last for a while with rain still down in areas of north carolina from the areas of low pressure. so this evening for the early part we still have a green light and by the time we get to 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 more moderate rain and an area for ponding and by early tomorrow morning, saturday morning the rain, it's over. the rain, it will start picking up and then it will allow the roads to really start to dry off as far as the mountains, we're expecting about a half to three-quarters down to most of our area. it is closer to the maryland-pennsylvania border. this is midnight again, moderate rain starts to roll out. we'll even start clearing, i think, once the rain ends at 3:00, 4:00 a.m. and clearing quickly by 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. the high 50 around waldorf and la platta and up toward areas like ellicott city and columbia.

please get outdoors and do a little something tomorrow because the cold that follows after that will be creating some issues. now for sunday, our highs in the 30s and there are some flurries possible and with no accumulation. i'm not worried about that and even a good weekend, too. we have the green light for the most part at the ski resorts and we'll take a look at the trails and the base coming up and we're caution aero-monday and that's a weather alert day and tuesday as well with windchill readings between zero and ten degrees and it gets worse after that and a detailed look monday and i'll take you hour by hour and show you how the very cold air will be sticking around. next, the mother of a local airman killed in afghanistan sits down for her first interview. >> pete was an emotional guy. >> what she wants people to remember about her son. >> a d.c. man is charged with killing a 6-month-old baby inside of this hyattsville apartment complex.

i'm tracee wilkins and the latest on the this disturbing investigation. a new weapon in the war on drugs. the cost is life and death. >> how law enforcement plans to make sure your kids check out this new exhibit. and the national zoo's little star goes on public display. what you need to know befor

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six service members killed in a suicide bombing in afghanistan last month and tonight his mother and brother are talking about that devastating loss for the first time. >> as news 4's meagan fitzgerald joins us, the family is using the dupont circle restaurant as a welcome distraction from the pain of grief. >> a free sandwich today. >> arlene and her son jonathan town. own bob and pop's. it's a family-owned restaurant with an emphasis on family. >> that's pete, christina and penelope. >> pete is arlene's youngest son. >> i was sailed he was a really sweet little baby and a very sweet little boy. >> and jonathan's only brother. he was also 30-year-old staff sergeant peter taub a disciplined and respected airman with a passion to protect his country, but his family says he was also quite the jokester. >> one of the things he loved was to be in his suit and he

said, mom, i would just put my leg up on the desk like that and everybody would see these bright color polka dot socks. >> reporter: pete deployed to afghanistan on october 11th and arlene says she'll never forget their last conversation. >> we were on skype probably for about a half hour. >> days later on december 21st, life instantly changed. >> i was working in the back office and he came tearing to the back and said mom, pete was killed. >> all i can remember was standing up and screaming. >> pete was one of six american troops killed in bagram, afghanistan, after being killed by a suicide bomber. >> everything stops. it feels surreal. it's hard to breathe. >> his awards are many, from the purple heart to the combat action medal. staff sergeant peter taub died with honor, but his family says nothing can mask their pain.

>> i have to tell you, at the counter, most of the time i have a veneer on. >> being at the counter and here at work keeps them going. yes, every day is a struggle, but they know i piece of pete is always with them and it's here and his kind spirit lives on. >> hi, peter. >> meagan fitzgerald, news 4. a new york plan has pled guilty with interfering with a flight crew after an outburst on a flight to denver. david diaz stormed the cockpit on that united flight last march. passengers tackled him as diaz screamed jihad and said there was something in the belly of the plane. the flight returned to dulles and nothing was found. diaz faces 20 years in prison when he is sentenced in april. a driver with a previous dui charge who was involved in a deadly crash in largo is now out on bond. juan sanchez was driving with a

suspended license yesterday and he was taken to jail after the crash. officer his a warrant out for his arrest after he failed to attend a hearing on a previous dui charge. police are investigating and charges haven't been filed yet. a woman was killed in yesterday's crash. a troubling statistic in prince george's county. five babies reportedly killed by their mothers' boyfriends and the most recent happened in landover. tracee wilkins joins us live with more on that murder suspect's violent past. tracee? >> reporter: these are terrible stories. it doesn't get easier. every time it happens there's a lot of frustration there. that's how the state's attorney is feeling at this moment and this is something that she has taken under her wing, trying to empower mothers to make the right decision and to make sure that violent men do not have access to innocent babies. >> we as parents have got to do a better job of being careful

about who we bring around our children. >> reporter: 23-year-old karem bryant of southeast d.c. is charged with the murder of his girlfriend's 6-month-old baby girl. police were called to the hyattsville apartment on january 6th. the baby died from injuries consistent with shaken baby syndrome. >> the infant deceased by injuries of blunt force trauma to her head and chest and was ruled a homicide. >> he is facing second-degree child abuse charges. the 6-month-old girl was a twin and her mother and some family members were home at the time. >> mariah deserved to be safe in her house. this was not an accidental killing. she's a defenseless baby like the other babies involved in these cases. >> reporter: five babies have died in the past two years in prince george's county at the hands of their mother's boyfriends. in some cases the instants were left alone with the men. >> i'm a single mother. i understand. there are resources available

for parents who need them. >> he has two armed robbery charges in d.c. also brooks has made empowering mothers to be more responsible part of her mission in office. >> we are now partnering with the government to start a whole public information campaign around, do you know who has custody of your children or who are in the presence of your children? >> we knocked on the family's door through the door. they said they had no comment. as i mentioned mariah is a twin. we are told the department of social services is looking into whether it is a safe environment for her to remain in that home. reporting live in landover, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. back to you in the studio. a fast response comes with controversy. ape look at the changes made to the 911 call system made in prince george's county. >> the big reveal as powerball winners come forward at least the tennessee one, but you may be interested to know what they plan to do with their new

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as the flames broke out, three fire trucks from montgomery county were dispatched to the scene in adelphi on wednesday. the new prince george's county 911 communication system sent them there because they were the closest to the scene. montgomery county firefighters don't typically cover this area in prince george's county. the deputy chief of the volunteer station in prince george's county doubts if this new system is the best way to dispatch service. when we asked the prince george's county 911 center about this a spokesperson said it would send the close of the resources to help cut response time. the first baltimore police officer tried in the death of freddie gray was just one vote away from being acquitted on the most serious charge. sources familiar with the

deliberations tell "the baltimore sun" only one juror wanted to convict william porter of involuntary manslaughter. sources say the jury was two vote away of finding porter guilty of misconduct in office. a mistrial was declared last month after the jury deadlocked on all four charges. the trial is scheduled for june. new fallout from the news 4 i-team report next week. the d.c. council plans to hold a formal hearing to review the financial management of the d.c. public school's athletic department. three days ago. the i-team reported an internal audit showed gross negligence and how the department handled its money between 2011 and 2015. $32,000 in cash found in bags locked in an office cabinet. more than $300,000 raised at sporting events, deposited weeks or even months late and thousands of dollars that should have gone to a student activity

fund was spent instead on cateringt a hospitality suite for adults. the audit puts the blame on a former athletic director who resigned last fall, but the report does not name her. the tennessee couple who won one-third of the biggest lottery jackpot in history. they've claimed their prize tonight. you may have seen them on the "today" show this morning. they called the program's producers and agreed to do the show before they even had their ticket verified. a few hours later they were back home and tennessee lottery officials confirmed their ticket is a winner. john and lisa robinson chose the lump sum so they're banking $328 million, that's after taxes, but they say they do not plan to quit their jobs. they plan to pay off all their bills, but do not feel as if their worries are over. >> no. actually more stress comes with that ticket. >> really? >> yes, it does. >> john robinson is a warehouse

supervisor. his wife works in a dermatology office. winning tickets were also sold in florida and california. those winners have got come forward. >> would your first call would be to the "today" show. hey, you have half a billion dollar, that's what you do, you know? >> my goodness. we'll see about those jobs. >> yeah. coming up next, all eyes on bei bei at the national zoo as the panda cub prepares for its public debut this weekend. just ahead on news 4 at 6:00. how local law enforcement is targeting your kids in hopes of keeping them from

new video just released of a brazen robbery in the district. two men rushed into the t-mobile store on pennsylvania southeast. one of them pointed a gun at the people inside and stuffed cash from the registers in their pockets. they grabbed stacks of phones and off they went. they took off in a car that was parked out front. no injuries. local law enforcement teaming up with the nation's drug enforcement administration. they're trying to stop the rapid rise in drug overdose deaths in northern virginia. as bureau reporter david culver shows us, their first focus is to reach out to your kids. >> this is the first time that we are not in a big museum. >> tucked away into this leesburg office space, an exhibit aimed to save lives. >> where we can really get to the people and say what can we do? >> susan fox leading the first of many tour groups expected here over the next several months. >> we are showing people that start life just like anyone else. >> she begins with the narrative

of these individuals all impacted in some way by drugs. >> by the time you leave you will see how each one of them has had drugs affect their lives in one way or the other. >> it goes into what happens with you, your family and the destruction that it causes. >> a former dea agent himself, sheriff mike chapman has been pushing for this exhibit for years. >> what you're seeing now is an increase in the suburbs. >> it's filtering from the inner city to the rural communities and we see the consequences. >> carl colder is the dea special agent in charge of our region. >> for years, we thought that the consequence was going to jail, being incarcerated, but now the cost is life and death. >> you're not going to find any animated faces here. the exhibit uses real world impact, real lives lost. it even allows visitors to come over here and use a screen like this to leave notes of

remembrance. >> if anybody ever saw how these elicit drugs are made i honestly don't think they would take it when they look at the acetate and the the illicit drugs. >> and then putting it into your body. >> it's poison. absolutely all poison. in leesburg, david culver, news 4. counting down the hours until bei bei makes his public debut tomorrow at the national zoo. the panta house opens at 9:00 in the morning. get in line. bei bei is 5 months old and weighs 25 pounds and he's gotten bigger since his media debut last month. he weighed 17.5 pounds and now he's up to 25. if you're planning on hitting the zoo tomorrow expect long lines outside the panda habitat and the zoo will allow a few dozen people in at a time to avoid the overcrowding, but two years ago, more than 5,000 people went to the public debut of bei bei's big sister bao bao.

>> cute! cute! >> we can't get enough of him. bei bei. he's not going to want to go outside much in the days ahead, is he? >> tomorrow will be fine, but after that, no. inside, but so cute. what a destressor to just look at bei bei. yes, this evening we're talking about rain. temperatures, though, not bad and that's what i like that even as we go through the day tomorrow we'll see some of the highest temperatures. >> and areas between 9:00 and midnight and moderate rain moving on through and it wraps up around 2:00 a.m. and here it is right now with the storm team tracker and it's just on the back door right now. some of the moderate rain heading to the north and east and same over to quantico and there's a pocket of the heavy rain headed up toward annapolis and toward 50 there in the next few minutes, but mainly east of 301 now and mainly east of i-95. the pockets of moderate and

heavy rain. it will continue to overspread the area, though because it goes down toward raleigh and north carolina and areas down the south there with the area of low pressure. for tomorrow, though, we've got sunshine on tap for the early part of the day and then it gets breezy. high temperature of 50 to 51 degrees much like today, but with more sunshine and the only thing is you'll want to stay in the sunshine and you get in the shaded areas and it will be cool by the time we get to 7:00, 45 windchills in the 30s. so as soon as the sun sets you will notice it for tomorrow night if you have plans to go out, but still saturday the weather will have a low impact on our area. sunshine, breezy conditions. more like low to moderate for sunday and then we start slipping away and kids have a long weekend and maybe you want to go skiing and winter green and the 14 to 24-inch base right now, right on down to wisp and snowshoe because of the cold air. the ski resorts will be liking this. for monday, the parade for

martin luther king, jr., the temperatures we rise to 20 degrees by lunchtime and 24 by 2:00. sunshine, yes, but it will feel 5 to 10 degrees and tuesday morning, these are the early windchill values. 0 to 5 and 5 below up to the north. it doesn't get better, folks. we won't improve until wednesday of next week. weather alert days are for monday and tuesday of next week. >> break out the fur-lined tights. >> for the parade. thanks, v.j. >> coming up in sports. bradley biel and

the wizards have a little bit of a streak going right now. can they continue winning? that's the question. chris miles joins us from the csn studios with more on tonight's big game. hi, chris. >> hi, ladies. dear een a doreen and wendy, they've also won three in a row, but they like to continue their ascension up the eastern conference ranks tonight against indiana. back in november the wizards took a double digit loss to the pacers and that was before john wall earned the eastern conference player of the month honors and the key for the wizards tonight, stop paul george. in that loss back in november

the pacers star scored 40 points against washington. >> they really shot it well. it was a game that sometimes you have to take your hat off. c.j. miles and paul george really lit us up from the three-point line and we've got to do a better job of that, obviously and take those type of plays away. >> as for the caps, the spotlight was on yevgeny following a 2-1 performance in washington's 4-1 win and flying slightly under the radar. he earned his 28th win of the season and tops in the nhl and moved into the second place to the kaps all-time wins list and the last two starts and they could tie jose theodore's record saturday in buffalo. i enjoy winning. i enjoy trying to get the best chance we can to win and that's

what my goal is every day. every day it's a different thing and it's a different loss and you adapt accordingly. like the wizards, george washington is in the midwest for a conference game against the dayton flyers. tip-off is at 7:00. the term were in the midwest and their trip did not go as plan d planned. michigan snapped the nine-game winning streak with a three-point game wednesday night. they only scored two points and a loss and there will be a difficult task for the point guard and the entire team to bounce back in the noon tip-off against ohio state on saturday and the terps have lost to the buckeyes two years in a row. >> right now the execution has to get better and the half-court offense has to get better and the defense has to get better and hopefully that will show tomorrow. >> every game we come out with a must-win and after a loss it's definitely a must-win. we talk about that and we need to get this game and the track

record at ohio state has aren't been good and we're hoping to turn that around. >> they've won six of the last seven and the next two games might be the biggest test of the season and georgetown will play sixth ranked villanova and seventh ranked xavier they were the last team to beat villanova. rebeating the feat won't be easy and it's a need to polish up the ncaa resume. >> i don't think that that adds anything. with a game like this this conference play, i don't think as a coach, sometimes you have to go looking for things to pump your team up and add incentives and i don't think we're added for this game and it's a big game and georgetown, villanova and so we're ready. >> arbitration is just starting and the nationals have settled with their big-time players and the deadline was 1:00 p.m. today for players and teams to exchange salary figures and

anthony rendone have both agreed to terms with the nats avoiding the process. straussburg agreed to the deal with 10 million. strasbourg struggled with injuries last season and came out strong in august and september posting a 1.91 e.r.a. the birds dished out cash to keep their up ask coming start. their baseman manny machado agreed to a five-year $1 million deal. the 23-year-old reached career highs and home runs, rbi runs scored and stolen bases. both the nats and the os handling business. tonight the wizards will look to do the same on the court. tip-off for their game against the pacers just moments away at the top of the hour. as always, you can catch the live broadcast on csn starting at 7:00. doreen, wendy, i hope you enjoy tonight's game. >> we tune in and we want to

keep that streak going. thank you, chris. thank you for joining us. nbc "nightly news" is coming up next. >> and doreen will be seeing you at 11:00.

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