streets that can barely manage heavy traffic and why we're concerned about ice tonight and tomorrow. it's still taking many of you a lot longer to get around. all that piled up snow is still creating big bottle next. >> it's been nearly a week since the blizzard hit and some major roads are still down to one lane. chris gordon is live in white oak looking into what's being done to widen some of those roads. >> reporter: we're live along new hampshire avenue. behind me you see one of the most dramatic examples of the problem, a mountain of snow protruding across two lanes into new hampshire avenue creating a choke point with only two lanes of traffic moving here, and it's not just here in white oak. it's along the entire area. for two days the morning rush hour has been filled with frustrating delays on old georgetown road. traffic moved at a crawl. highway crews had not cleared crush

curb to curb. snow piles are sticking out into the street here on all major roadways running from montgomery county into d.c. >> my experience on connecticut was that there were two fewer lanes generally because the snow was impinging on the areas where people would drive at least during rush hour. >> reporter: now, ahead on news4 at 5:00, i'll tell you how the state cleanup crews are dealing with the problem to make your rush hour tomorrow a bit easier. that's coming up on news4 at 5:00. we're live in white oak tonight. chris gordon, news4. i'm julie carey in loudoun car county where it's a plowing extravaganza at 89 schools in

hopes of getting the roads clear. only alexandria and falls church public schools plan to reopen friday. in loudoun county the school district had 90 employees atop plows and other snow moving equipment. 40 contract truck or bobcats were also at work. other staffers focused on the school buses to make sure they were cleared off and ready to roll again. but clearing the school parking lots and sidewalks is only half the battle. coming up on news4 at 5:00, once you get off school property it's hard to find a sidewalk. it seems snow days have become a snow week for many of your kids. >> we are getting a heads up of a lot of schools that are going to stay closed tomorrow. schools in fairfax, prince william, loudoun, arlington and stafford all closed tomorrow. some of the schools in fauqueir, manassas park, winchester, and fredericksburg will open but two

ours laut. >> montgomery, frequent rick and washington county schools all closed tomorrow. we're sending you breaking news alerts about the major local closings. talk about an unusual sight. look at this underground fire hydrant in northwest d.c. what's strange is it was above ground before the blizzard. the water department says something knocked it over and d.c. water is blaming it for a water main break on calvert near connecticut. this is video of crews working to fix it. officials say this is exactly what they're talking about when they ask you to shovel the snow and clear a three-foot path around fire hydrants. in d.c. road crews are in overdrive trying to widen roads. huge mountains of plowed snow still blocking lanes on nebraska avenue. people have to drive on the wrong side of the road to get around them. some sidewalks are still not clear, so a lot of you are still walking in the street. now we've got to deal with the ice. >> it was refreezing over and over and over, so it will be nice one day, melt, and then it will all freeze back over. >> this is not great.

this is bad, yeah. very slippery, so i took this with me only because i use it as a ski pole. >> and the bad news is that all the melting snow on streets and sidewalks is going to freeze up again. storm team4 meteorologist doug kammerer joins us. are we in for a repeat of last night and this morning? >> we really are. temperatures will drop below the freezing mark very quickly. most areas right now upper 30s to low 40s. take a look at the numbers. right now 39 in d.c. 39 gaithersburg. 37 up toward frederick. northern virginia into the low 40s. 43 in culpepper, around 45 in the warrenton area, over to gainesville around 43. it's on the cool side and the sun going down in an hour and a half so we will see temperatures go down once again. because of that another cold night. ice will form quickly this evening. we will have travel problems again, travel troubles again for

sure. take your time, pack your patience. we have needed a lot of it over the past few days. it looks like we will need it again for tonight. most likely for the day tomorrow and even into the weekend. but coming up, we're tracking something completely different than ice. i have got your forecast in just a few. now, to a developing story in the district where we're getting our first look at some surveillance video that shows a massive brawl on metro during the height of the morning commute. half a dozen teenagers were taken into police custody after this fight. news4's pat collins is right at gallery place station right where it all started. pat? >> reporter: six wilson high school students charged with felonious assault tonight after police say they attacked a man at the gallery place metro station, a man who was just trying to go to work. the suspects 16 to 17 years old, five boys, one girl. this is surveillance video of

the gallery place assault where police say a group of teenagers attacked a man trying to leave a red line train this morning. it shows how crowded it was. it shows how confused it was. the scene, the platform at the gallery place metro station. it was about 8:20 this morning. police say a 35-year-old man was beaten and kicked by a group of teenagers as he was just trying to go to work. police say there were about 30 teens on that red line platform. they say the man tried to step ut of the metro car and he got sucker punched. he swung back and then they say a group of teens jumped him, beat him, kicked him, left him injured on the platform, got back on the red line train, and then they rode off. the teenagers were arrested later when police stopped the train at the woodley park station. ron pavlik is the chief of the

metro transit police. >> i have seen the video. as i stated earlier it's troubling when you see this type of wolf pack mentality. the victim clearly was trying to get to his destin nition, work, whatever the case may be. >> reporter: coming up at 5:00, we have an eyewitness. wait until you hear what she has to say. pat, back to you. >> news4's pat collins. another developing story this afternoon. the world health organization says the zika virus is spreading, quote, explosively. the group now predicts there could be as many as 4 million cases of zika in the americas over the next year. the organization will meet on monday to decide if it should treat it as a global emergency. the virus is spread to people through mosquitoes and it is linked to a wave of severe birth defects in brazil. there are about 30 cases so far in the states including one reported in virginia. a historic moment for a washington institution that all

of a sudden became an emotional one. the heartfelt message for a washington journalist whose job put him in harm's way overseas. and more than $1 million worth of parking fines in d.c. during the blizzard. first at 4:00, why some of you are going t

and now your storm team4 forecast. >> we're expecting more ice during the overnight period. temperatures will be dropping down to below freezing by around 8:00, 9 clowe ok th:00 this eve.

more icy patches with road crews again doing a good job of pushing the snow as much out of the lanes, that far right-hand lane, as possible. we see a front gathering to the west. it's a conversational event for us, nothing more than some flurries. the winter weather advisory right around frostburg toward petersburg just west there. that's where 3 to 6 inches of snow blowing and drifting could pile up. you can see it there on our future weather. for us it's just flurries as we get into early tomorrow morning. doug has more on what happens next week when we see temperatures go way up. that's in a few minutes. donald trump has a commanding lead among republicans, but it's getting tighter on the democratic side. we're getting the latest numbers from the nbc/"wall street journal"/maris polls. with only four days to go until the iowa caucuses, among likely

republican voters trump has pulled ahead of ted cruz by seven points while hillary clinton is just three points ahead of bernie sanders among democrats. it's a different story in new hampshire where sanders is getting 57% to clinton's 38%. nbc's steve handelsman will have a lot more on this in the next half hour. "the washington post" today officially dedicated its brand new digs in downtown d.c. the post and its print and other media operations are now living in the one franklin square building on k street. secretary of state john kerry and mayor bowser were among the government officials who attended the ceremony today. the grand opening focused on reporter jason rezaian who only recently won release from iran after nearly 550 days in captivity. >> but just knowing the lengths you all went to to keep my story alive is truly humbling and should make us all proud to be a part of the future of "the washington post." >> rezaian got a long standing

ovation. he also greeted the secretary of state on stage who helped negotiate his release two weeks ago along with four other u.s. citizens. >> well deserved applause there. we told you about those school closings. they were changing by the minute. we just learned that prince george's county schools will be close tomorrow as well. you can add them to the list. if the snowstorm was a sunday, this is like the cherry on top. parking fines for where you left your car when the first flakes started falling. now the city is letting some of you off the hook. plus, metro is still trying hard to catch up after the blizzard. the latest plan to get things back up and running.

new at 4:00, a big break. if you got a ticket in d.c. last week, today mayor muriel bowser said the tickets you got for parking on snow emergency routes on friday will be voided, and if you have already paid your ticket, you will get a refund. the emergency went into effect at 9:30 friday morning, the first day of the blizzard. there were 2,800 citations handed out that day. each one came with a $250 fine plus towing and storage fees. people who got citations may not have known that the snow emergency was in effect that day or they may have been out running errands in preparation for the storm. well, metro is still digging out and thawing out from that blizzard and the rail and bus system still not up to speed. >> and you could be in for

another rough night and morning commute. transportation reporter adam tuss is at the metro stop at 6th and e street northwest with an update on snow recovery. >> adam, what's the general manager say being the cleanup effort right now? >> reporter: well, actually, chris, in just the last few minutes metro put out a new release saying that tomorrow morning they should be near normal service with normal rush hour headways on the rail side of things, and their bus service should be about 98% of what it normally is. but take a look, even if the service is the way that it would normally be running, you're still dealing with issues like this. if the bus pulls up over there and clearly i'm in the bus shelter, i can't just walk across all of this snow and ice easily to get into the bus. so even if service is getting back to its normal levels, there's still issues like this to deal with out here. they say on the rail side of things, yeah, we're getting back to normal rush hour service, but trains could be shorter. six-car trains instead of eight-car trains because of still what we're dealing with out here. so we still have a little ways

totion to get back to where we normally are. >> adam, a lot of people are upset they're paying peak fares but not getting peak service. >> reporter: we asked the general manager that question and the response was basically the general manager has the ability to stop fares for a day, like he did this past monday. that was more of a gesture to all riders on the system, but in order to go in and actually change how much you would pay from a fare standpoint, that would require a board approval, a whole set of different things. the peak fares are in effect not really when you're getting peak service but when there's peak demand. that's the difference there and that's the explanation metro gave to us today. >> and jack evans was just appointed to the chairman of metro's board. has he given you any indication where his priorities are going to be? >> reporter: well, i have talked to the council member and now the metro board chair a number of times, and, frankly, he's quite candid about where the metro system is right now. there are a number of things that he does not like and does

not think that the transit system is headed in the right direction with certain things. he says he wants to do a lot of housekeeping things first, get the system back to where he thinks in that respect, and then he wants to meet the general manager but he said, quite frankly, the system needs to run better. just from a financial standpoint jack is more of a numbers kind of guy. he wants to come in and clean up the financial house of metro, so there are things like that that he's going to be paying more attention to and then eventually tackle some of the bigger issues like, you know, the public face of metro and that kind of thing. so i think what you will see from council member evans and now board chair evans is that he becomes much more of a public face for the transit system, guys. >> adam tuss, thank you. >> thanks, adam. well, turning to the weather and how it's going to turn tonight, doug, how low are we talking about temperatures going? >> well, not quite as low as last night but again it doesn't really matter if we're in the teens or low to mid 20s because once we get below freezing,

that's when we start to see things go as far as the ice is concerned and we'll see that again tonight. not as much sunshine today either so the sun really helps to evaporate some of that moisture off the roadways, so we don't have that riht now. we have the melting going on, not a lot of sunshine, so we could actually see more ice in some parts of the region overnight tonight. still looking at the ice and the snow all around our area. still along the potomac, almost frozen there. 39 degrees, winds out of the south at 9 miles an hour. that's a very good direction if you want to stay above freezing. you need a southerly wind. we have that now. temperatures will not fall quite as fast as they did last might. 39 right now gaithersburg, 37 in frederick, 42 in culpepper and 41 around fredericksburg. last night i told you we'd be below freezing by 7:00. in most areas tonight untiling 9 clg, 10:00, 11:00. here is some cloud cover, too. we have some clouds, clouds also help to keep the warmer air in and that will once again allow us not to get nearly as cold.

this is all from a storm system earlier this week it looked like the storm wanted to try to move up the coast and maybe bring us some rain or snow. not going to happen at all. it's going to stay out to sea. as we told you earlier this week. but down to the south tremendous amounts of rain, even tornados possible again today into portions of south florida, upwards of 8 inches over the last couple days for some areas. just a very, very big situation for them as far as a mess down there. for us it's not rain, it's ice. we'll have that ice again tomorrow morning. 29 in gaithersburg tomorrow. 30 in d.c. 29 back towards fredericksburg. you notice the snow back here towards the allegheny front. could see some of that back towards deep creek, maybe a good ski weekend as well. actually let's just say a very good ski weekend as you're making your way out this weekend. a lot of schools are off tomorrow. pretty good idea to go tomorrow. 39 degrees. tomorrow, however, we're going to be rather windy, rather breezy. we will see windchills in the 20s all day. tomorrow will be a cold day. 42 on saturday and then we start to warm. 49 on sunday, 63 on monday.

that's not even the warmest that we get. veronica has the rest of that seven-day forecast including the possible flood threat as well coming up at 4:45. do you remember where you were when you heard the news? the moving tribute today to seven astronauts and their final mission 30 years ago today. you first saw their story here on news4. the death of a man who is linked to a defective air bag. and with so many local students not going back to school until next week, we want to know if you think schools in your area made the right decision about closing. >> it's our nbc washington flash survey. call or text the number on our screen or head over to the washington nbc facebook and twitter pages to cast your vote.

the crew of the space shuttle "challenger" was remembered today at memorials across the country and even in space. it's been 30 years since the disaster at the kennedy space center in cape canaveral, florida. after a half dozen delays leading up to it, the shuttle "challenger" was launched on an unusually cold day for central florida. >> two, one. >> the seven astronauts family and friends and plenty of others watched from the grandstands. >> and it has cleared the tower. >> but shuttle launches have

become so routine by january of 1986 that only one network carried it live for the country to watch. that is until some 70 seconds into the flight. >> "challenger" go and throttle up. >> year long investigations that followed would conclude that cold weather caused parts of the shuttle to break apart causing the explosion and leaving the nation in shock. the "challenger" seven were remembered at an emotional memorial service today at cape canaveral. >> ronald e. mcnair. gregory b. sharpess. >> reporter: it included a special tribute to "challenger's" most famous astronaut, christa mcauliffe who was supposed to be the first teacher in space. >> at a time when many people would think only of the impending launch, christa was taking care of a teacher's business. >> reporter: there was even tribute from those on nasa's latest mission.

the crew on board the international space station. >> i would like to take a moment of silence and recognize the sacrifice of all those crew members and how their spirit and their legacy lives on in our achievement in space. >> reporter: achievements that followed that tragedy 30 years ago today. >> i remember standing in the newsroom watching the launch with colleagues, and moments after seeing that image on the screen and trying to make sense of what had happened, what we'd just seen, and then immediately after that there were feelings of confusion and then disbelief, horrifying. >> just silence in the newsroom. >> just unbelievable to see it break apart like that. >> yeah. i was in class. i remember our teacher was showing it live because christa mcauliffe was on there, and that was a pretty big deal, a teacher in space, and at the time you

thought this is the beginning of all kinds of people being able to go up in these shuttles and i remember our entire classroom was just dead silent, and i remember even our teacher -- it was hard for her to come up with the words to try to comfort us and help us understand what had happened, and that was sort of when you realized, wow, like thgs go wrong up there. at that point in my life i took that for granted. >> we'll never forget that, that image seared in our memory. >> 30 years ago today. well, everyone wants to know, will one candidate's threat to stay home tonight during the presidential debate hurt or help his chances for the nomination? and storm team4 is all over a changing weather situation. temperatures about to take another big dip. what you need to know as you go into your evening. you're watching news4 at 4:00.

at the live desk we're tracking an unusual situation in new jersey and new york. thousands of people say they felt tremors and shaking this afternoon. the u.s. geological survey says it's not earthquakes but sonic booms. the sonic boom is basically a shock wave created by an aircraft that flies equal to or faster than the speed of sound. an observatory says there were multiple booms and they likely originated offshore, possibly in a military training area.

but the base in central new jersey said it wasn't them. >> we heard something, like a boom or a swooswooshing sound an the whole house was shaking. that happened twice in ten minutes and since then it happened eight times. >> we got pictures of cracks that have formed at a retirement home north of atlantic city, new jersey. police say shaking from the booms caused the damage. police and the military looking into the source of these booms. pat? >> scott mcfarlane, thank you. tonight in iowa, competing political events as we count down to the caucuses. on live tv, the republican debate minus the front-runner, donald trump. >> he is going to be holding an event nearby that may be just as heavily covered on tv. steve handelsman is live from des moines tonight with the latest. what are you hearing out there, steve? >> reporter: well, it doesn't look like donald trump is going to be here. there's speculation he could change his mind but there's no expectation that he will. so the debate itself will take

place here in des moines at this iowa event center while a couple miles away across down will be the donald trump event, and both taking place simultaneously. it will be another vivid remind they're the republican front-runner is writing his own rules. on debate day in iowa, a big question, will donald trump dropping out hurt or help him? at java joe's coffee shot in des moines, donny whitman said he's more eager to back trump. >> he's his own person. i like that because -- i mean, he isn't even spending money on his campaign. >> reporter: so you're going to caucus for him monday night whether he debates tonight or not? >> you bet, you bet. >> reporter: republican corey miller is not happy trump dropped out. >> it goes along with everything else we've seen so far. he's just not that interested in the people as much as i'd like him to be. >> reporter: claiming he was treated unfairly in the first fox debate, he rejected bill o'reilly's plea. >> you're depriving the people

to see you in a forum they need to see you in. >> no, i'm not. a lot of press will be there. we're going to help a lot of veterans. >> reporter: trump plans an event at drake university at the same time as the debate a few miles away where with trump absent ted cruz will be center stage, but the former iowa front-runner wants to debate trump tonight or separately saturday. >> it's not that he's afraid of me. he's afraid of you. >> reporter: trump has made a crafty move. >> voters get to see him just on the stage. he doesn't have to sustain -- >> reporter: in today's poll, trump has widened his lead in iowa with four days until the vote. iowans tonight could see in the debate a push by marco rubio who would be freed to attack cruz and try to take over as trump's chief challenger. from des moines, steve handelsman, news4. >> we are covering the cause

caucuses unt caucuses and the debate. >> what actually is a caucus and how is it different than casting a vote like we do here? for that matter, why is iowa so important to presidential politics? we have an explainer in you are nbc washington app right now. open it up and search caucus. more ice will be setting up throughout our area tonight. take a look at the temperatures, how quickly they will tumble this evening. 8:00 and 9:00 this evening, we're back in freezing. by 9:00 down to freezing and by tomorrow morning upper 20s to low 30s across the area. pax river, 34, just above that, but most of the area there will be some patchy ice around the area. so that's the one thing we'll have to contend with. the other two things, some morning flurries, just conversational. no accumulation expected but you will notice it, and windchills that will be in the 20s most of the day.

so your weather impact low to moderate for tomorrow. as far as temperatures go, 32 degrees for the morning rush. 37 by the afternoon. again, breezy and cold. you're really going to notice the change from 25 to 30, the windchills early part of the day, to 20 to 25 by the afternoon hours. there's another big change coming, and, boy, it's going to have us feeling a little like march around here. we'll have more on that coming up. >> first on news4, you've heard from the family of a man whose recent death is linked to a defective air bag. >> consumer reporter susan hogan uncovered more details about this investigation, and, susan, i guess there was more to that interview with the family than even what you showed us yesterday. >> absolutely. this family has so many unanswered questions right now, and the recent death of 52-year-old joel knight prompted yet another takata air bag recall just last week. 5 million more vehicles. so why are these cars still on the road?

joe knight's family have not yet wrapped around the fact that a safety air bag is the very thing that killed their loved one. >> you have known it for years that this was a problem. you didn't do anything. this could have been prevented. his death could have been prevented, and, yes, i'm very angry. >> now, tonight on news4 at 6:00, we dig deeper into whether we can expect more air bag recalls and we'll also tell you if you can check to see whether your car has one of these takata air bags. >> a lot of folks will be interested in that. >> for sure. >> thanks, susan. one minute the streets and sidewalks are fine, and the next they are sheets of ice. what you should do about those tricky spots in neighborhoods all over the area. plus, extra surveillance. why your next ride in an uber could be a little slower.

and taking a look at the ice is what we're going to be seeing as we move on through the next couple days here. yeah, ice is going to be a problem. refreeze is going to be an issue. here is future temperatures at 7:00 tonight. notice last night at this time we already had some of you in the upper teens, lower 20s. that's not the case tonight. we have cloud cover across the area, southerly wind. here is 7:00, 34 in gaithersburg, 36 in manassas. we could still see ice at that point but it's really after 10:00 we start to drop below freezing.

i don't think ice will be as big a problem tonight as it was last night. it will be just as big a problem early tomorrow morning. where is it not a problem around the area? good question. how about the ski resorts? they have been loving this lately. liberty mountain is 100% open. winter green 30 to 60 inch base. i love this stat. snowshoe has 49 trails open, almost all their trails. they have received 65 inches of snow so far this season. yeah, skiing, the thing to do over the next couple days. maybe i'll join you. the next time you take an uber car and the driver is going a little too fast, uber wants to know about that. the company is planning to start keeping a record of drivers who speed. uber says it will start using smartphones to check up on speeders. the program will use the phone's gyro meters and gps to record data about drivers and then uber will verify that information using feedback from riders. if the feed back 3456matches th

data, uber will get in touch with that driver. we're revisiting an i-4 investigation that exposed an underground piercing and tattoo shop and find out why they're still unregulated. why this week leaving the house could

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be winding down. the first step for the final demands made by the people holed up in a wildlife refuge for weeks now even though their leader is behind bars. some freezing and icy tonight and temperatures go way up next week and we may be dealing with a whole other set of problems. a lot of you are still slipping on the sidewalks or trudging through mounds of snow. this shows not only some of the worst conditions but what you can do about it. >> reporter: five days after the blizzard snow covered sidewalks dot side streets and neighborhoods. h highland avenue is no exception. >> you clear the sidewalks and then the plows come across and you have this stuff which is impossible to clear which is all ice. what can you do? >> reporter: as he drops his kids off at a friend's house, reshoveling all this snow. >> i'm going

dangerous and falling is a real probability. >> well, we did it on sunday. luckily we weren't working on sunday, so we shoveled the sidewalk and the driveway because we knew it was going to freeze. >> reporter: a few blocks over ice covered angela winters' sidewalks. >> i know part of the responsibility lies on us as well to maintain it, but it's challenging. you know, the stores are out of salt as well. >> reporter: montgomery county

residents got extra time to be able to shovel their sidewalks, and in this case it's not just snow, it's also ice. to report an unshoveled sidewalk, you can go to nbcwashington.com and search mc 311. in bethesda, mallette green, news4. today it's been nice and calm with our temperatures around 40 degrees and a little higher. tomorrow, especially this time, it's going to be breezy to windy across the area and our temperatures will be heading on down into the 30s, mid-30s. so it's a bundle up kind of day for us. instead of just the jacket, go with the coat, the scarf, the hat, the gloves, too, for the kids that will be heading outdoors once again to play with few kids heading to school. icy commute up until 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. the parking lots, those are getting better, so still moderate conditions there.

walking, yes, icy in the morning, slushy once again during the afternoon, and it is the morning where we've got those flores coming through the area. falling temperatures early. 36 to 41 but falling fast. as the winds pick up we could see gusts between 20 and 30 miles per hour. our sky cast, plenty of clouds throughout the day including the afternoon. i'm calling it partly sunny as we get into the afternoon hours. your hourly forecast here, by lunchtime, 36. so i think our high temperature really comes around 10:00, maybe 11:00 a.m., then we'll start falling off. mid-30s, 34, 35 at 5:00. breezy with higher gusts. cold conditions as we get into tomorrow evening. 28 degrees by 8:00 p.m. but with wind chills again in the teens. don't let these numbers deceive you. 40 in fredericksburg. that is earlier in the day. the weekend will be better, much better. partly sunny, 43. not as windy on saturday.

we have a lot of sunshine and then more melting on sunday as we get closer to 50 degrees. slushy conditions with those big puddles out there. if you're going running you will have to jump over the big puddles out there. as far as what to do this weekend, skiing as doug said. it's not going to be too cold for that. you have the green light and the green light to moderate light for washing the car. you have that road spray coming up. the next big change for us is monday when the temperatures get up to 60 degrees and that is monday, tuesday, wednesday higher temperatures. chance of rain, over an inch. we could see some flooding on wednesday. we'll talk more about that in depth on news4 at 5:00. i'm mark segraves in the district where the snow emergency has been lifted, but thousands of drivers continue to feel the pain. during the blizzard the district issued more than $1.3 million in parking fines to cars that were illegally parked along snow

emergency routes like here on wisconsin avenue. nearly 700 cars were towed away. well, today the mayor has announced she's going to forgive some of those fines. coming up, i'll tell you who will have to pay their tickets and who won't. a follow-up to a news4 i-team investigation. a quarter of all americans have some kind of tattoo, but if you're thinking of getting inked in d.c. right now, one official recommends crossing state lines. >> as tisha thompson shows us, there's no guarantee somebody is checking up on the artist you trust even though the government promised to start doing so years ago. >> reporter: it was inside this dark basement. >> i want that one and i want that one. >> reporter: where the news4 i-team first uncovered the problem. an underground shop run out of a house in northwest d.c. >> some minors lined up to get tattoos and body piercing.

>> that hurt so bad. >> the shop was shut down after we did the story. the city promised to crack down. d.c. council passed a law in 2012 requiring the health department to start issuing licenses specifically for body artists. that was in september, 2013, but the news4 i-team discovered more than two years later not one body artist license has been issued. >> it's just outrageous that the bureaucracy is that slow, that there is a lack of urgency. >> reporter: terry lynch is a d.c. parent who knows about the risk. when his teenage daughter got a tattoo without his knowledge. >> it's like a medical procedure. are the needles sanitized, what's the follow-up care? so you can imagine any parent's concern about the health risks. jr. under the new regulations, body artists aren't supposed to perform any procedures on anyone under 18. they should also be trained and follow other safety rules like single use needles and gloves. but no one is checking because we found every state in the

nation except for nevada and d.c. have regulations for the industry. >> it's time for the city to step up and take action and regulate it for the interests of everyone, particularly the minors and the kids. >> reporter: d.c.'s department of health director wouldn't talk to the i-team on camera about the hold up but said in a lengthy e-mail proposed rules undergo several layers of review before becoming final regulations and that currently doh is in the process of reviewing almost 1,000 comments on a third version of the rules. >> there's no excuse for it to stillñr be out there. >> council member yvette alexander who heads the committee on health and human services says these rules should have been decided in 2014. what's a real deadline for you? >> realistically i realize this has been a change in administration and there are probably hundreds of regs that they have to go through, but i can guarantee you this is one of their priorities. >> reporter: but the health department couldn't give the

i-team time line of when you will be able to walk into a licensed tattoo or piercing shop in the district. >> move on it. get it done. >> once the regulations are finalized, illegal shops could face three months jail time and a $2,500 fine. tisha thompson, news4 i-team. juke advi >> you can visit our i-team payment to see the entire response. just click on investigations. standing their ground despite calls to come clean. what the remaining few protesters say it will take for them to give it all up and end the protest that's been going on for weeks. [mother] yeah but this neighborhood,i feel like

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demonstrators are about to descend on a small town in michigan and police are gearing up to handle the crowds. the subjects of "making a murderer" were convicted nine years ago of murdering a woman there and netflix brought steven avery and brendan dassey's story to the attention of people around the country. people are fcoming from as far away as florida. >> it bothers me a lot. >> there's a misconception we all hated him and the whole community had a witch hunt against him and it's simply not

true. >> neighboring police departments are also involved in keeping demonstrators under control tomorrow. now, tomorrow night "dateline" will be digging into steven avery's conviction. that's friday night at 10:00 followed by news4 at 11:00. even though their leader is behind bars right now, some armed protesters are still occupying that wildlife refuge in oregon. and as jay gray reports, there's some new calls today telling the remaining holdouts it's time to leave. >> reporter: a handful of armed protesters remained locked down inside the national wide life refuge right now. their numbers dwindling after several surrendered overnight. >> it's time for everybody in this illegal occupation to move on. >> reporter: at least three militants were arrested when they turned themselves into at road blocks surrounding the site. there are now 11 behind bars including the group's leader,

ammon bundy, who shares this message through his attorney. please stand down. go home and hug your families. this fight is ours for now in the courts. please go home. >> reporter: ramper lavoy fin cup is being remembered by some as a hero. officials say he was armed as he jumped from a vehicle that sped away and then hit a snowbank. >> they had ample opportunity to leave the refuge peacefully and as the fbi and our partners have clearly demonstrated actions are not without consequences. >> reporter: there have been conflicting reports on line. some saying he charged officers with a gun. others saying he had his hands up. the investigation continues, and for now so does the standoff here. jay gray, nbc news. right now at 5:00, a fight

on metro in the middle of rush hour. we have the new video that shows what got half a dozen teenagers arrested, and we talked to a rider who took action on that train. and if you got a ticket in d.c. for parking on a snow emergency route, you may not have to pay it. and a lot more ice to deal with early tomorrow morning. we'll talk about the cold temperatures, the wind, more cold, and some heat moving our way. that's right. temperatures going way up. i'll show you when. if you were hoping to avoid a traffic mess in using metro, you may have run into some big problems today. check out this picture tweeted from the gallery place metro where the platform overflowed while people waited up to 30 minutes for a train. metrobus was upgraded to light service but as you can see, snow mounds still cover the curbs at some of the bus stops out there. right now metro is still not back to normal after days of cleaning up from the blizzard. trains are more crowded, buses

face detours and metro's new gm says he can't put a time table on when the system will be 100%, but he promises near normal service tomorrow. transportation reporter adam tuss had a snowy bus stop in northwest d.c. with the challenges you will still face tonight. adam? >> reporter: that's right, jim. take a look right here. say you come to the bus stop, this is what you're facing as you try to get on the bus. most people have to walk around, wait in the crosswalk, or wait in the street then to get on the bus. as metro announces that it's going to be near normal service tomorrow both on trains and buses, we're still dealing with issues like this, but metro believes it's getting there. still not entirely up to speed. >> we have to get back to normal. we are getting back to normal. >> reporter: but still not entirely normal. the jeng manageneral manager te reporters the blizzard i