into it tonight, the big storm, everybody watching our winter snowstorm. >> trying to pinpoint the bullseye of this storm, who's

going to get the heaviest storm and how it will impact you. >> the closer we get to friday the better information we have for you and brand new information. it's also still freezing out there! >> that's the immediate story right now, just how cold we are. we continue to see the wind chill s down to the single digits. take a look at the numbers. the winds still gusting at 20-25 miles an hour across the region. it is another brutal frigid night. wind chills single digit, down to 2 in martinsburg and hagerstown and means a cold day at the bus stop tomorrow. feels like 10-15 early on tomorrow. a little less wind, good-bye tomorrow morning. temperature 15 and rising to 32. could see snow showers late in the day tomorrow with a clipper system that moves through. that's not the storm. the storm we're watching friday to saturday.

right now, bringing a lot of snow across the area. guidance is changing a little bit. the uncertainty continues and one thing we continue to stress across the region. but still a major impact. the great thing about having our show at 11:00, brand new information just in and i will tell you what you can expect in your area in a couple days. i will see you later. >> thank you. muriel bowser will lay out d.c.'s plan to handle this storm and will hand out shovels to volunteers to shovel snow for their elderly and disabled neighbors. d.c. has new dump trucks and work trucks to work primarily on residential streets. mayor bowser says d.c. will be ready for the snow. >> we'll talk about what residents should do on their own property and what actually the

law allows. >> stay with us tomorrow, as we learn more about the snow plan across our region. download our nbc washington app and uploaded forecast as we get new information throughout this week. >> new tonight, we're hearing from family members of the toddlers and grandparents killed in an early morning fire in chill lu chillum, maryland. one woman lost her 2-year-old twins and parents in this fire. >> reporter: they are trying to comfort her but it is a difficult task. keep in mind she lost her twin children and also lost her parents in that fire behind me. you can see the charred rubble over there. i asked what she wants from the community. she would like people to pray for her. we talked to her uncle about the tragedy. let's see what he has to say. >> i am still down. >> reporter: tonight, vincent grieves over the death of his

beloved brother, sampson. >> it's like a dream i don't believe. >> sampson, his wife, caroline, and their 2-year-old twin grandstand children were killed in a house fire shortly after 4:00 this morning. they found all four of them in the seconds floor of home to. twins in one room and grandparents in another one. >> very nice to everybody. goes to church and he's very d godly. >> the twin's mother, elizabeth omogbo, seen in blue at a second floor window. tonight, she's at a relatively's home recovering. >> we tried to calm her down. it's not easy. >> reporter: two rifts were also able to get out of the fire behind me. now, keep in mind, they were released from the hospital. as for this family, again, they ask the community to pray for them. worth mentioning firefighters

actually walked from home to home around here reminding people to make sure smoke alarms are working properly. tonight, they tell us the smoke alarms in the house behind me were not working properly. back to you. >> thank you. train services back up and running after major disruptions on the penn line. a train hit and killed a person. it happened about 5:30. marc suspended service afterwards and amtrak service was also suspended for some time. both back up and running. no word why the person was on the tracks. a man shot in an alley in columbia heights this afternoon is in critical condition. officers tell us he was shot in the neck and ran to a nearby apartment building where someone called 911. police are looking for two suspects and one may have been

riding a basicalicycle. >> a new push to crack down on repeat offenders that police say commit the vast majority of robberies and other crimes. a neighborhood got a response it wasn't expecting to a question about crime stats? the answer came back from the justice department today. it essentially said we don't keep those statistics. the bake sale at union station last month raised thousands to pay for the cost of finding and duplicating justice department statistics that would show how many people arrested in d.c. last year were actually prosecuted for the crimes. the answer came today, in a letter to the commissioner that re reads, a search for the records located in this united states attorney's office for the district of columbia has revealed no responsive record. it goes on to say the u.s. attorney's office does not track this information. at an anc meeting in northwest

tonight, d.c. mayor muriel bowser spoke of a new anti-robbery initiative that will bring prosecutors in sooner when arrests are made in a crime spree. >> the police -- chief of police and i talked about a task force focused on robbery. that will allow us with our prosecutors and we don't bring the charges or make the cases, that's up to the u.s. attorney, we can shine a light on robbery cases particularly concerning to the residents. >> reporter: the commissioner who spearheaded the statistics said she will appeal the decision. baltimore selects company to supply police body cameras. taser international will supply 3,000 cameras, the price tag still up for negotiations built could be revealed tomorrow. tonight, we're following new

developments in michigan where the governor said he's sorry for the city poisoned from the water crisis and angry crowds are demand heg resign. >> schneider must go! >> they pumped poison into our homes and we fed to it our children. we were promised it was statafe. the state failed us. >> tonight, governor rick snyder agreed to release all e-mails the past two years. the city started getting tap water from the flint river two years ago. they said it was not dangerous right up until a pediatrician proved there were high levels of lead in kids' blood that causes brain damage. >> we will not stoppi ping work for the people of flint until every person has clean water every single day no matter what. >> today, the federal health and human services department said it would have a team on the ground in flint as early as

tomorrow. >> thank you. less than two weeks before the iowa caucuses, a potentially important endorsement tonight for republican donald trump. during a rally, sarah palin backed him for the white house and praised him for shaking up the republican party saying trump relates with the voters and doesn't hold back and that's why he's doing so well. >> trump, what he's been able to do, which is really ticking people off, which i'm glad about, he's going rogue left and right, that's why he's doing so well. >> from day one i said if i ever do this, i have to get her support. she feels it and understands it better than anybody. >> palin's endorsement to trump is considered a big blow to senator ted cruz popular with tea party and evangelical voters. today, iowa's governor said to support anybody but cruz because

he opposes -- >> a man says his client is a victim. 24-year-old elhasan was in court today surrounded by family and friends. the man from woodbridge, virginia, is charged with aiding and abetting. prosecutors said he helped a friend try to join isis and lied to the fbi about it. his attorney said it's a case of islam-phobia. he and the other man will be back in court for bond hearings within a week. tracking po tetential for mr snow moving in. local business owners struggling to stay afloat, tell the i-4 news team why credit card readers are costing them everything. what they want you to know before you swipe. a heroic move by actor jamie foxx that shaved a man-- saved

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he's not only an oscar winner now he's also a hero. jamie foxx saved a man last night. man was speeding at his home in hidden valley, california, his truck hit a drainage pipe, rolled over several times and set on fire. foxx said he heard it and ran out and he and another man broke a window and cut the seatbelt

and dragged him away from the fire. the man said at the time he didn't know who had saved him. he's charged with dui. they're devices you see and use everyday. now the news4 i-team is revealing how those credit card swiping machines are at the center of a growing number of complaints. scott mcfarland shows us how thousands of small businesses are squaring off against a huge corporation. >> latricia hardy owns the capitol hill salon in a building that's been in her family for deca decades. she wanted to give options to pay. northern leasing rents out the machines. >> they stole my credit. >> now, she says it has been a long expensive legal battle with them. >> to see something like that happen to her bothers me.

>> after two years she said she decided she wanted to cancel the contract and said her customers weren't payi ining with credit d cards. >> her lease said non-cansable but she tried to get out several times. when that didn't help her friend said it might not be valid because the serial numbers didn't match. >> i said i would stop the payments and after that i didn't hear no more from them and got this judgment from the mail. >> reporter: hardy got a letter from a court in new york telling her she lost a lawsuit from them and the problem she never knew she was being sued for the balance left on ther contract plus interest. >> it was like 7,0$7,000 someth. >> reporter: northern leasing told us she agreed to the contracts and terms that she had the right equipment when she first sign it it saying northern

leasing has been damaged by her failure to complete the payment. she's one of thousands sued for payment. 2300 lawsuits last year across the country. >> too many of them for this to be coincidental. >> reporter: new york attorney here is trying to turn the tables on the company. he doesn't represent hardy but has hundreds of other clients and suing northern leasing in three cases in federal court alleging a racketeering scheme. >> technicypically forgery, fra >> these are not my initials. >> this teacher runs a school in brooklyn and stopped payments saying the machine never even worked. >> it's not working. >> reporter: a judge ruled she has to shell out 18$1800 to the company. northern leasing says she never complained about the equipment and denied fraud and rackete

racketeering allegations and fig fighting. >> they say they're not done fighting either. >> i'm sure there are a lot of other small business owners such as miss hardy that want to be servicing their community. it's a shame when that's the backbone of this community. >> northern leasing agreed to refund million s of dollars in civil lawsuit and it says it prized it state of florida on its business practices and open dialogue with leasing. news4. >> back with new data to share with us. >> yeah. big stuff. >> getting bigger. >> he's speechless. this doesn't happen very often. >> it doesn't. we look at every single model that came out. this is the american model and predicts a top five storm, potentially number 1 as far as snowfall goes. we have to wait and see.

one computer model, not something we jump on, but it still says we are in for a major major snowstorm. we're still waiting for more models coming in later tonight. let's talk about it right now. firstoff, you know it's cold. here's what i know for sure, it's cold outside. 21 degrees, current temperature, winds out of the northwest, 13 miles an hour. with those winds, it is brutal. current temperatures, 16 in hagerstown. 19, manassas, 16 in culpeper. you add in the wind, look at these wind chill, down to 4 in gaithersburg, 7 towards the south. 8 patuxent river. extremely colds night. bring in the pets, make sure the kids are bundled up and heater working at your neighbor's house. as far as weather, nothing tonight. just cold. watching one system. this is a clipper system moving through the area tomorrow night. you can see snow in kansas city and towards st. louis. most should dry up before it

gets here. i do think we will see snow showers and flurries tomorrow night. the main system enters the coast and this is a huge key to the way the models are watching this storm. it's moving in across and closer to the rockies and brings to it the south, good morninulf of mee they pick up moisture off the atlantic. the latest european model has the bullseye to the south, roanoke, charmgtsvildharlt char richmond and the european model has it here. i think there is no problem with us saying right now just about everybody in our area will see at least a foot. some areas may see 2 feet. that is not out of the realm of possibility. 2 feet, maybe more. most if not the entire region. heaviest snow is friday night to

saturday. we could see snow coming in late friday afternoon. the timing still a little bit of question here. this is still changing and why i'm still not putting out a snowfall map. it will be tomorrow. if you want to know exactly how much i'm predicting for your area, i will put it out tomorrow when we have the data we need to produce a map. you've seen maps in other areas, they will change, trust me. once i put them out, they will change. 32 on wednesday and 34 on thursday. friday and saturday. that snow moves in friday afternoon to saturday and the latest model keeps some snow in until sunday. that's one reason why our totals continue to go up here. we are going to be watching this storm very very closely. i talked about this earlier, this storm similar to sn snowmageddon back in 2010. we got 18 inches in the district. the big difference with that one, this one coming to saturday, not nearly the impact of the last one. >> let's hope, when you're

talking about the map you're going to put out, early news or late news tomorrow? >> 4:00 tomorrow afternoon. >> good to know. thank you. coming up, hoyas come off huge with an upset on the road. >> first, here's jimmy fallon. >> thank you, doreen and jim and everyone watching from d.c. fred is here tonight and mario

caps on the road making it look easy. the worst team in the league. >> sometimes the toughest one. >> thank you. yes. it continues to be the feel good story. one starts with braden holtby who tells us he drinks the equivalent of 30 gatorade bottles on game day. he has dehydration and it will help with the dehydration. first period, caps on the brakes to t.j. and tick-tack-toe passing from the caps top line, evens things up at 1. later in the period. more bad passing from columbus, earlier, went to the locker room after a hit on the hand, had the goal, caps up, 2-1.

to obie. 28th goal of the season for him. not done. gets it out and puts it on net and makes a perfect pass set up for backstrom, his second goal of the game. caps win it 6-3. john wall courtside in college park, checking out the seventh ranks terps versus northwestern. they came to play. lumpkin grabs it and northwestern up five late. the senior for three, nails it, maryland up one! the final seconds of regulation. we've seen this before, melo, not tonight. we head to overtime. in overtime, melo making up. he had 18 points, terps up three. serving it up the freshman and

the pithal play of the game. terps survive, 52-56, 24 straight wins at home. >> georgetown visiting fifth ranked xavier for the first win since 2011. kick it up to campbell, sophomore, bang! leads and up six at the half. hoyas need a big shot, who will you give it to? smith always delivers. hoya up seven. xavier. finds jesse down low. georgetown knocks off fifth r k ranked xavier, 81-72. 13th ranked virginia welc e welcoming clemson to charlottesville. tied at 32. malcolm doing it all! knocks down the three. uva up three. later in the half. splits defenders, through the lane and right off the glass, team high, 20 points for the

senior. cavs up eight. under 20 seconds to play. isaiah wilkins, virginia down 10 points, off the bench for him. uva beats clemson, 69-62. goo you know what that -- guys, do you know what that means? everybody won

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i lifted it. >> remember, we told you about northern virginia teen lifting that pickup truck single-handedly off her father saving him from a fire. now, she's going to be on the

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