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just -- so brutally. so brutally. >> davis was a first-year second grade teacher at bradberry who worked inside the school for many years. as a teacher's aide. she was a parent and student favorite. >> hee xi was always a nice teacher, nice individual she always looked out for the little children out here and make sure everything was fine. she was lovable to the children. >> all a's and b's in her class, where at another school he was at, he was really struggling. miss davis was awesome. she really, really helped him to improve a lot. >> she clinged to those kids like those are hers. i mean -- >> back at the scene of this morning's double murder in fort washington. >> it's devastating. who could have done it? >> davis's life-long pastor and family and friends rushed to her home to offer comfort to family who looked on in disbelief. >> whoever it is needs to be
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caught and penalized. >> coming up, the parents are trying to figure out how to have a very difficult conversation with their children about the loss of their teacher. they did have counselors available for the students and staff and also students here today and they will continue to do that throughout the week or as long as necessary. reporting live in capital heights, tracee wilkins, news4. >> why would anyone want to kill a woman and her young daughter? this is is a question that police and the community are still trying to answer. they were found in the 1300 block of palmer road in fort washington. news4's pat collins continues our team coverage to explain where the investigation is going next. >> wendy, someone pointed a gun at a 2-year-old girl and shot and killed her as she sat in her mom's car. we begin our story with words from the state's attorney. >> this is the worst day of any
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of us can imagine. we are absolutely and profoundly grief-stricken. >> the victims, 26-year-old neshante davis and her 2-year-old little girl, chloe nicole davis-green. the scene, the pinewood hill condominiums on palmer road, in fort washington. miss davis' chevy car was parked in the space in front of her house. it was about 7:00 a.m. she was on her way to work. a witness said he heard some yelling and then a shot. yelling and another shot, yelling and a shot. he said that went on for three or four times and stopped. miss davis' body found on the pavement next to her car. the witness says miss davis had dark tinting on her car windows and it took some time before they realized there was another victim. her 2-year-old girl in a child seat in the back of that car. investigators worked the scene for hours looking for leads.
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looking for evidence. looking for clues. so vile was this double murder case, that the county's chief prosecutor, and acting police chief came here to make sure nothing was overlooked. >> the notion that someone would be bold enough to take the life of a child, take the life of a young woman, and think that they would not be consequences, simply unacceptable in prince george's county. >> according to court records, late last year, neshante davis was involved in a paternity and child support action involving the father of her little girl. it's unclear as to whether this has anything to do with what happened here today. now the chief says they have some viable leads, but so far, no arrests. coming up at 6:00, a pledge from the prosecutor. jim, back to you. >> pat collins, thank you. police are trying to figure out if weather played a factor
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in a crash that killed a woman on a busy maryland highway. officers found denise cook inside her car flipped over on the side of route 50 near veterans highway in landover. this was yesterday afternoon. cook died at the hospital. investigators tell us there was light to moderate rain falling at the time. and in montgomery county, police say a driver had a medical emergency before slamming into a parked car and then both of them going into a garage. this along sunflower drive in the aspen hill area. we're told it happened when there were a number of children walking home from school in that area. rescue crews took the driver and a woman in the car to the hospital. no one else was hurt. a flood watch has been issued for parts of maryland. >> and now we're preparing for a weather alert day tomorrow. veronica. >> the flood watch starts wednesday afternoon. but rolls through thursday, because as we see water levels of streams and rivers come up, it's likely to stay up through thursday, maybe even early part
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of friday. all of this as we deal with more melting snow and higher temperatures coming our way. with a whole lot of rain. do think we may see some middle to moderate travel delays for the early-morning rush. we're going to be dealing with fog early tomorrow morning and the showers will start developing. by the afternoon rush, more moderate delays on area roads. so get ready to deal with that around the hours of 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 tomorrow afternoon. here's a look at the flood watch for wednesday afternoon through thursday. cecil county, hartford county, jefferson county. the areas with the higher snow pack on the ground. the system moves out of the midwest and heads this way starting early tomorrow. our heaviest rain comes after about lunch time tomorrow. so because of all the rain we're going to get and the risk of river flooding with the fog, the rain, the wind, it is a weather alert day for storm team 4. in a couple of minutes i'll time it out for you and show you when the heaviest comes through.
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we'll also look ahead to what we're going to get next. which is some more winter and you know that means some more snow. >> oh dear. first we got to get rid of the snow that's already there. and as veronica mentionth, that could cause major flooding in our areas. chris gordon is live at the fire rescue station in great falls. chris? >> well wendy, swift water rescuers are ready. but they don't want to run into you tomorrow. they said that flooded roadways are dangerous. sometimes deadly. now we begin our story tonight, revisiting washington harbor in georgetown, an area hit hard by flooding just a few years ago. melting ice floats in the potomac river in front of washington harbor in georgetown. in april of 2011, the rising potomac filled tony and joe's seafood restaurant with ten feet of water. the damage was devastating.
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today, they positioned all of the outdoor furniture at the restaurant within the perimeter of the floodwall that can surround washington harbor. the restaurant is waiting for the property manager's decision. whether the floodwalls will be pulled up for protection. >> cranes come out and then the cranes are pulling up the walls coming from the ground and pull it up all the way to the top. >> up the potomac at great falls, virginia, the swift water rescue team is getting prepared in case of flooding. >> we drive around to make sure see how the roads look and what the possibilities are of flooding. >> this is walker road in great falls, where flooding is measured in feet, not in inches. this is an area that will be monitored for flooding closely tomorrow. by the local swift water rescue team. >> if you're driving around, turn around, go home. don't try to get your car through it. >> or what? >> or you're going to put yourself in danger and then we're going to have to come and
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help you and get you out. and put ourselves in danger. it's our job, but the best thing to do is to avoid it. >> ahead, how is montgomery county and the old town alexandria waterfront preparing for the possibility of flooding tomorrow? that part of the story coming up on news4 at 6:00. jim, back to you. >> well now that all that snow is melting, fairfax county is looking back on the storm to see what they did well and not so well. they're planning a snow-zilla summit at the next board of supervisors meeting come october. that's march. today board members said they thought v-dot did a generally good job removing the snow, considering how much we got. but one council member says there needs to be a better strategy of where to put all the snow. >> i did see the schools clearing sidewalks around the schools. and they had nowhere to put the snow. but to put it back on the road. so v-dot came and plowed the
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road again. we were right back to where we started. >> supervisors want to address inconsistent plow patterns, where some neighborhoods received several passes and others got one or none. hi, i'm so thrilled i'm coming to new hampshire after winning iowa! >> now in new hampshire we're going to astound the world again. >> what a victory last night. the men and women of iowa sent notice across this country. that this election is not going to be decided by the media. >> we will go on to easily beat hillary or bernie or whoever the hell they throw up there. >> gop upset and a democratic race that at one point was too close to call. caucus night in iowa. really shook things up. narrowed the field and now the remaining candidates for president are setting their sights on the nation's first
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primary. chris lawrence is here with more on the race. >> the opening delivered a definitive victory to ted cruz and a razor-thin win for hillary clinton no time to rest, now it's on to new hampshire, where on february 9th, voters will cast their ballots in the nation's first primary. on the republican side, donald trump is a wide lead in the new hampshire polling, but last night's win by ted cruz and strong showing by marco rubio who finished just behind trump in third could shake things up. on the democratic side, hillary won new hampshire in 2008, but polls this time show her trailing bernie sanders by an average of 18 points. sanders is from nearby vermont and experts don't expect iowa's results to change the race much in new hampshire. but the candidates will have one more chance to sway voters before the primary. democrats will square off thursday at the university of new hampshire. and the republicans will debate saturday in manchester. so who's logging the miles
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required to make it to new hampshire? you can check out our tracker on nbcwashington.com, just search new hampshire. a 13-year-old abducted and murdered, a pair of virginia tech students stand accused. now we're learning how that girl was killed. bill cosby was back in court. a live report on the damning testimony against cosby, one of his accusers. after coming to 33 super bowls, is it possible to learn any more about the legend joe theismann? coming up, the answer -- yes.
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or anywhere else in the united states. >> right now comedian bill cosby is in court, attorneys for cosby are trying to have the sexual assault charges against him thrown out. in court today, we heard from the former prosecutor who declined to charge cosby. ten years ago. nbc's chris pollone live outside
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the courthouse in norristown, pennsylvania, with what happened today. chris? >> yeah, jim, this hearing started around 9:30 this morning. and it continues even at this hour. we're waiting to see when this hearing adjourns. the judge earlier today said he anticipated it would actually drag into a second day. and he anticipated making a decision as soon as the hearing was over. but since it's going so late this afternoon, people are trying to read the tea leaves of whether they're trying to finish today to present it from going into a second day. we'll have to see. as you mentioned, cosby's attorneys were in court today, arguing that the case against him, the sexual assault case against him, should be thrown out. their reasoning? they say that the former district attorney here in montgomery county, bruce castor, made a promise that cosby would not be criminally prosecuted if he testified in a civil trial relating to the same incident in 2004. castor has been on the stand all
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day. has clarified his position. he says there was no formal agreement with cosby's attorneys, from the prosecutor's office. what what he said was that back in 2005, when he reviewed this case, it happened then between cosby and one of his associates, a former worker at temple university, that he had come to know. he said when he reviewed the case in the allegations, she was making of sexual assault against cosby. he had problems with her credibility. the fact that he said her story changed a few times when she was interviewed by different police agencies. the fact that he found that her story would not be necessarily bought by a jury. so he decided at that time, not to prosecute cosby. he says that it is his belief that by deciding not to prosecute cosby way back then, that that stands today and that cosby should not be criminally prosecuted. we'll keep an eye on it for you, chris pollone, news4.
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we're following breaking news about a serious crash on i-270, it's a mess at this hour. take a look at a picture tweeted out by montgomery county fire and ems. they say four cars are involved in this wreck on the northbound side of i-270, near i-370, two people were trapped, had to be pulled from the cars, everyone is expected to recover. but the traffic won't likely be recovering any time soon. going to show awe live look at the situation near montrose road. and your car -- you can see the cars here in the northbound lanes are, just jammed and we're right in the middle of the evening rush. we checked google maps when we checked it showed that traffic is backed up all the way across the american legion bridge. so it is quite a mess. more bad news for the embattled air bag manufacturer
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takata. news4's consumer reporter susan hogan joins us with the outcome of a new quality and safety report released today. >> the report is another black eye for takata. a panel of former u.s. transportation officials commissioned by takata said the manufacturer must make significant improvements to address quality problems, this comes in the wake of record-setting recalls. now the panel found takata has no program in place to detect quality problems once its air bags are installed in cars and trucks. the report also faults the company for allowing products to move through the design process with unresolved problems. takata's defective air bags are blamed on ten deaths worldwide. now takata says it reviewed the panel's recommendations and intends do act on them immediately. back to you. all right, susan, thanks. moving ahead in the virginia general assembly. both chambers now have approved it. the tebow bill allows
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home-schooled students to participate in public school sports. it's named for former nfl and florida gator quarterback tim tebow who was home-schooled down in florida and allowed to play for his local high school team. a similar measure passed last year but was veetsed by virginia governor terry mcauliffe. who said it created a double standard for é:vnzstudent-athle. well super bowl 50 bringing in legends from super bowl's past out in san francisco. >> hey guys, yeah, joe theismann, 33 years he's been coming to super bowl week. his first super bowl xvii he won a ring with the redskins. this morning we were discussing the magnitude of super bowl l and he shared with us some hopes, dreams, regrets, some stuff we've never heard from him before as the memories came flooding back. >> i would not take my helmet out of my locker until i could palm it.
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because i would lick my fingers, i would do everything i could. i would palm it, spin it once, put it on my head. as we walked out of the locker room we had the redskins logo and i would hit it for good luck. i never said a word when i hit the logo. the 1 years i played for the washington redskins until the night of my injury. i hit that logo and i said these words -- tonight your life is going to change, joe. and i didn't realize how prophetic it was. >> are there any regrets you didn't win more? >> i look back and wish i had applied myself more instead of sort of saying hey, look, i'm at the top of the mountain. i've made it i'm a super bowl champion. you know, i was living somewhat on the past instead of looking forward to the future. and i've tried to use that as an example in my life and to other people's lives. whenever you have accomplished is great but don't let that be the only accomplishment. keep pressing forward. i like to refer to it as a ladder of life.
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and your ladder should never have a top rung? >> are you worried about paying the price later? >> i'm paying now. i have post-concussion lawsuit. i'm part of the lawsuit. sometimes when i get up i lose my balance a little bit. memory issues. if somebody said knowing the way you are today, knowing the things that might happen tu going forward, would you put on a uniform again? in a heartbeat. >> joey t. told us he has a book coming out sometime this year. so stay tuned for that. coming up on news4 at 6:00, we're going to have details on how joey t. sees himself in cam newton. stay tuned for that. guys? >> lucky number 7. good to see that old footage. see you at 6:00. trying to beat the congestion? with a gondola? tens of thousands of dollars being used to study that possibility right here.
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i'm adam tuft#t5u i'll tell you what's being proposed, coming up. smoke pot at your home. not outside. that's the message from the d.c. government. but the public ban on marijuana is only temporary. and we're getting ready for a stormy day tomorrow. the timing of this rain is in the full forecast. heading your way, next.
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paris is alive. >> we don't know what punxsutawney phil saw today. >> we're trying to -- >> he did not see his shadow. it meanings we're going to see spring come along. >> we're done with winter. >> in our extended forecast, we are going to see a little bit of a we have the snow word mixed in with rain. lauren will have more on that coming up. i'm focusing on the iffers thing to deal with, the potential for some river flooding around our area. not tonight, though, it's going to stay drier. temperatures well above freezing. >> when you look at temperatures for early tomorrow morning. the numbers, 39, 45 in d.c. >> we're forecasting not only record warmth, but record high lows, those overnight temperatures, way warm. all of this, all the blobs that you see on the map here, is fog for early tomorrow morning. it develops after midnight.
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it's going to be widespread across the area and rather dense, up until 9:00, 10:00 a.m. light showers developing for your morning rush. a lot of fog we're going to have to deal with. very warm air. the warm air around kentucky, tennessee, southern illinois. the warm front comes over us and the temperatures will continue to rise, 36 degrees inside the beltway. 63 the high temperature with stormy conditions tomorrow. why do we say stormy? there could be some rumbles of thunder and high wind coming through with this system during the mid part of the day. so grab the big umbrella, first thing out the door. and the kids, give them a rain jacket. because getting off the bus, it's going to be absolutely sloppy. here's what i mean. 7:00 a.m. scattered showers, not too bad. but watch what happens as the day unfolds. noon, there's your yellow, your orange, the heavier rain, the thunderstorms coming through. from noon, 1:00 until about 4:00 or 5:00 as the system heads
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east, by 7:00, rain is out of here. still clouds, but look at the rain we're talking about picking up. centre inner from a half to an inch of rain throughout the sbin area. keep in mind there's still a lot of snow pack on the ground up to the northeast areas, up through here, leesburg, hagerstown, a lot of snow still sitting at about one to two inches of liquid still held up in the snow. for seneca creek, dawsonville, frederick, maryland. and edward's ferry, we could see flooding. even with the rain ending, the rivers could continue to rise. few thunderstorms with the high winds, yes. a storm team 4-day forecast. 50 on thursday, much cooler and a cold pattern again on the other side of the weekend. lauren has more on that coming up in a few minutes. well now at 5:00, she snuck out of her home and she never made it back. new details revealed about how the virginia teenager was murdered on the day she
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disappeared. imagine having your car stolen, but you still got parking tickets in the mail? find out why one driver says that's the least of h
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if you run over somebody, it's usually because you were driving too fast or you didn't look before you turned or you didn't stop for someone in the crosswalk. always be alert. pedestrians don't come with airbags. new details have emerged about the murder of that virginia teenager. i'm wendy rieger. >> and i'm jim handly. it was an emotional day for the mother of the 13-year-old girl, chris lawrence is here with the latest developments for us.
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>> tammy weeks broke down as she talked about her daughter. she was carrying one of nicole's stuffed toys and described how her daughter loved that animal. weeks spoke about nicole's love of dancing. she said her daughter was bullied and had some health problems, but didn't let those challenges impact how she treated others. >> nicole an accessory before the fact.
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which carries 20 years to life in prison. jim? >> all right, chris, thank you. a morgan state student from our area was stabbed to death in a fight following a basketball game. 20-year-old gerald williams was from bowie. police tell us he was stabbed last night at an in-student housing complex less than a mile from the baltimore campus. the fight involved as many as 20 people. and it allegedly began after morgan state's men's basketball team beat rival coppin state. in prince george's county this evening, local religious lead remembers putting pressure on gun manufacturers and distributors to help prevent gun violence. the group rallied outside the realco gun shop in district heights, concerned about the number of guns sold by that company that are later used in crimes. >> the gun manufacturers, the gun distributors, are pontius pilate in this play. washing their hands, saying it's
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none of their business, they're selling a product to local stores. the product is being used to harm and to kill our sisters and brothers. the people making the guns, the people who are distributing the guns across this country do not care. >> the group is calling on local and federal official who is purchase 40% of the county's firearms to push manufacturers to take more responsibility. a former white house supervisor admits she broke the law and stole from the government. now she's facing prison time. our scott mcfarland in the news4 i-team broke the story. she was under federal investigation and admitted the crime in court. >> andrea turk supervised a dozen employees, running the white house switchboard operation. she even approved their time sheets until she was fired and the white house learned she was doctoring those timesheets. and pocketing government money. >> andrea turk walked quickly out of the courthouse today and hopped in her car.
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when we tried it ask her for comments. inside the courthouse she told the judge she was guilty of theft from the government. she admitted falgs fiing time sheets while serving as time sheet manager. giving more than $10,000 in bogus overtime pay to one of her staffers and accepting nearly half the money in return from the staffer. sometimes in cash, sometimes by wire transfer when she learned they used the same bank. during so over the course of a year, turk began work as director of white house switchboard operations in 2009. supervising 15 employees and she did so until she was fired. >> andrea turk could face up to ten years in prison. but prosecutors told the court today they'll recommend a lighter sentence of less than six months. the white house in a statement to news4 said when we became aware of the facts described in the complaint we took appropriate personnel actions, including terminating the employee and referred the matter to the department of justice. andrea turk's sentencing scheduled for april 20th,
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federal court in d.c. > . >> adam tusk set off a firestorm when he asked you on twitter from there are better ways to spend money than a gondola. now adam is taking a closer look at that idea. >> certainly one of the more beautiful sights in our area, the key bridge in the potomac. can you imagine a gondola type system running from that side of the river in rossland over here to georgetown? some say it would be a whole new transportation network and real dollars, your dollars are being used to study it. transforming the potomac and key bridge area from this -- to this. a gondola type network running rapidly like a ski lift almost shuttling people from side to side. >> cool, yeah. >> do you think it's cool? >> i think it's really neat.
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>> molly weaver lives in d.c. but has reasons to get to rossland faster. >> i have a doctor over there. that would make it really convenient. >> so far the district in arlington putting in $35,000 each just to study whether or not this is a good idea. $70,000 in public money spent to study what some consider a longshot. >> i'm skeptical. i believe my whole board is skeptical. but we want to keep an open mind. >> libby garvey is chair of the arlington county board. if she's skeptical, why did arlington agree to fund the study. >> in the long run, it will cost us less to do the study, make the decision and be done. >> others like the ceo of the georgetown improvement district say they don't a think of this as a novelty it could be a legitimate transit system that replaces need for a metro stop. >> there's no wait time. there's a car every eight to 12 seconds to take you. you walk up, there's a car waiting for you, you get on and you're on the other side of the river from the metro station in
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about three and a half minutes. >> he said overall, $70,000 of public funds is inexpensive to determine if this is a good idea or not. the whole study is expected to take about a year. but how many people would actually use that type of system? wait until you hear the numbers being projected, that's next at 6:00. back to you. all right, adam. thanks. d.c. towed and ticketed a lot of you during our blizzard, but some neighborhoods had more cars towed compared to others, we'll show you where drivers were targeted. and a frederick girl murdered and left in the woods, a case that's haunted investigators for two decades, it may be solved. we're going to find out where they m
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. the d.c. council voted it keep a ban on public marijuana use. >> the council is still wrestling with when and where you can smoke pot across the district. >> in the district, use of marijuana is limited to home growing and home use by adults over 21. mayor muriel bowser and the council passed a law banning public use in clubs or other sites. >> this is on the report all of those in favor. >> now the council is struggling with various proposals on ways to end that ban. and allow limited marijuana use in public. >> a lot of confusion around
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that. which is never a good way to legislate. >> marijuana advocates say the council suggest the ban on marijuana outside the home. >> to be fair we're not simply talking about clubs, we're talking about any private event. such as renting out a venue for religious events or a personal party or a wedding. >> a majority of the council appears to be ready to broaden the law. but wants to avoid interference by congress. which has limited city actions on marijuana regulation. >> i think we're still in limboland a bit, tom. because the reality is that congress is still put a handcuffs on us and our ability to tax and regulate the way we should. >> in a compromise, the council passed a proposal to create a task force to study how to proceed. the ban on public use remains. >> i think the wise course is to make sure that we can work out all the details and do this in the best interests of the district of columbia. >> task force will report back in four months.
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members will be appointed by the mayor, the council and d.c. attorney general karl racine. in the district, tom sherwood, news4. a new report claims that women were sexually assaulted by college football players and the controversy is over what the school did next. a woman's vehicle was stolen from her silver spring parking space over two months ago. about you she says she knows the suspect is nearby because she keeps getting parking tickets. coming up at 5:00, the mistake she made that's taking a toll on her safety and credit. we're tracking some showers and storms. on the storm team 4 radar for tomorrow. calm tonight, but big changes tomorrow. we're going to time it out and let you know what to expect wi i do everything on the internet. but it's kind of slow. my friends said i should get fios because it's the fastest, but i thought it would be too expensive. (husband) who's that, jenny? no, kate. turns out they have a deal that cost me even less than my slow service. and it's 100 megs. i just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds.
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to keep it strong. (elephant noise) (donkey noise) hey candidates, answer the call already. her banks, but after nearly two months, the situation is still ongoing. and what makes it worse? she's now getting tickets for her stolen car. which as we explain, isn't far from where it was taken. >> i don't know -- >> two months ago, kerry says she parked her car where she usually does. >> right outside of her silver spring apartment building just off of georgia avenue. when she walked outside on december 4th, it was gone. >> i packed all my car, all my
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important things were in the car. >> she filed a police rart for her 2010 kia. which looks similar to this one. days later she started receiving red light violations and parking tickets from areas not far from where the car was stolen. >> every week since then i've gotten one to two tickets in the mail. >> the d.c. department of motor vehicles says she can mail the police report in along with the tickets and she won't be responsible for the violations. but she says that's the least of her concern. >> it's not only just my car is gone, but also my whole -- personal life that was on that computer. >> montgomery county police say they're actively investigating and working with mpd to locate the car. in the meantime, gallaher said she won't be leaving personal information in her vehicle again. >> now all i can do is just call my insurance, do everything that i need to do to cancel things. >> reporting in silver spring, megan fitzgerald, news4. we've had a couple of days
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of some nice weather to help melt some of this snow. but bad weather is returning. >> there's some pay-back, huh, lauren? >> we had a really nice day out there, guys, but yes, we got a lot of rain on the way. at least it's not snow. thank goodness. because it would be a lot of snow if we would have seen it across the area. we do have snow in the seven-day forecast. i'm going to show you that coming up. first let's show you what's going on out there right now. one thing i do want to mention, especially for the parents out there, in loudoun county, i know there was another two-hour delay, it's above freezing tonight. for most of our area. so i don't believe there's going to be any delays tomorrow. however, there could be some delays on the roadways, because we have a weather alert day at storm team 4. we're going to get a lot of rain. there could be some flooding around tomorrow. we want you to be aware of that. we want you to be aware it's going to be dry starting thursday, friday, saturday and into sunday so get the car washed. clouds increasing now ahead of the next system. here it is, crawling across the midwest. not looking too impressive right
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now. but you can see a lot of that snow back towards iowa. where they had the caucus, not affecting that too much and rain moving into our area. if you're planning ahead, what should i wear tomorrow, i want to say you're going to wear the rain jacket as we've been talking about all day. umbrella and boots. but it might want to be the light rain jacket, temperatures will in the low to mid 60s tomorrow believe it or not. the impact forecast going to be fairly high, we'll have fog in the morning. rain and wind. we have a risk of some river flooding as well. and i do believe by the potomac it could be by thursday that we could have some river flooding. tomorrow morning you're going to head into some rain. then by the time we get into the afternoon, that's when the heavy rain is going to be probably between 1:00 and 5:00. that's going to be our big change. after about 5:00 we'll start to see the rivers rise, the creeks rise, with all the snow melt. kind of funneling in there. so we're going to have to watch for that flooding event. as we get into the afternoon and evening. everything should be out of here by about 7:00, 8:00 tomorrow night. we're watching that some
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thunderstorms possibly developing anywhere from charlottesville all the way to southern maryland. gusts up to 40 miles per hour possible. so we've got high winds, rain, we've got flooding. we've got it all, the flood watch going up towards the mason-dixon line weks afternoon through thursday afternoon. once we get into thursday, looking a lot better. temperatures will fall throughout the day on thursday. look at that they'll fall into the 50s and into the 40s. and the weekend not looking too bad. we'll have a chance for the rain/snow mix into early next week. minimal impact at this point, but we'll continue to watch it. well, we're getting a good first look at new numbers from last month's blizzard. >> during that snow emergency, the district issued hundreds of thousands of dollars in parking fines. and towed hundreds of vehicles. >> news4's mark segraves has been looking into the data and found much of the towing happened in one part of the city. >> he's live in the northwest.
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what's the story, you're only going to see on news4. mark? >> that's right. you know the district has more than 100 roads like here on connecticut avenue that are designated as snow emergency routes. when the mayor declared an emergency it meant you had to get your cars off. what we found was that the vast majority of the tickets that were issued, the first day and throughout the storm, were issued here. in northwest. the snow emergency in the district was in effect for five and a half days. more than 5,000 cars were ticketed for parking in snow emergency routes. 690 of those cars were towed away. despite the fact that more than 100 roads across the city are designated as snow emergency routes, data provided by the mayor office for the first day of the storm show the vast majority of the cars towed were in upper northwest neighborhoods. >> 194 cars were towed in northwest. compared to 27 cars toed in
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northeast. six cars in southeast, and only four cars in southwest. a closer look at the numbers reveal exactly where those cars were towed from. 39 cars were towed off of wisconsin avenue northwest. 26 cars off of ninth street. 20 cars from757n connecticut av. another 20 cars off of h street northeast. and 19 cars off of u street. d.c. councilmen mary chase says the numbers released by the mayor's office today are cause for concern. >> now that you've armed me with that information i'm going to ask them did you deploy people in the same fashion all across the district? >> as for where the cars that were towed were from, the majority were owned by district residents. 97 of the cars towed had d.c. tags, compared to 62 cars with maryland tags. 50 with virginia tags and a handful of cars from 12 other states. now i just got off the phone with the mayor's office, they
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explain that the reason 80% of all the tickets issued during the snow emergency were issued in northwest washington, is because most of the offenders were on the longer roads. they say wisconsin avenue and connecticut avenue and georgia avenue. we have one more number from the mayor's office today. remember d.c. was the first school district to go back to school on that first day, attendance was 70%. coming up at 6:00, we'll tell you the process and how many businesses got tickets for not shoveling their sidewalks. jim, back to you. >> mark segraves in the thick of the rush hour, back to you. big swings in temperatures creating problems for students in loudoun county. schools there opened two hours late today. because of slippery conditions on the roads still. those conditions were responsible for a six-car crash here that closed part of the loudoun county parkway this morning. parents tell us they appreciate the delays, because you can't put a price on safety. it has been 20, nearly 20 years since 15-year-old stacy
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hovmaster went missing in frederick county, maryland. police eventually found her b y body. but they have never found her killer. the cold case warmed back up a few days ago when police arrested and charged a man in connection with her murder. as nick munson explains, they had to go halfway across the country to find him. >> not far from the train tracks on east south street in frederick, is where the body of 15-year-old stacy hoffmaster was found in december of 1996. she was strangled and left under a thick blanket in the woods near i-70. and her killer was never found. but now, police believe they've got their man. >> it's one of those cases that weighs on you career when you work something like this. so we're very pleased to see this thing come to a clees klose yur. >> 52-year-old lloyd harris was arrested on thursday in kansas city, missouri, police say he lived near where they found stacy's body and was familiar
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with the girl. it's been 20 years since stacy's body was found in a wooded area. ever since it's been the case that frederick police just couldn't crack. in november of 2014, the detective kevin forest took over the investigation. and started from scratch in his search for leads. >> he's worked this case since november of 2014. re-enter viewing witnesses, reinterviewing past detectives, looking at evidence, reports and putting it back together. >> police say the case was worked on consistently over the years. it goes to show it's never too late to make a breakthrough. >> those investigations don't get put aside or suspended or become as your typical cold case homicide. where it basically goes in a drawer and is forgot about. when a detective retires, his cold cases are passed to a new detective. in hopes that a new perspective, new set of eyes, new evaluation of information and evidence inside that case can lead to some break in the case. >> star athletes accused, coming up an investigation at baylor university is getting new
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baylor university is in the spotlight after a scathing report on espn. >> that report says that the school failed to help several women sexually assaulted by a baylor football player. steven adams talked to students about the findings. >> it kind of disappoints me and hurts me to be a student who loves baylor so much to be seen
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women that i have known not receive the full support that they need from baylor. >> baylor senior kate mcguire says two of her friends didn't get the help they needed when they faced sexual assaults. >> athletics here at baylor brings in the big money for baylor. and that tends to be the priority instead of the actual issues here on campus. >> it's a point echoed in espn's investigation that claims campus police academic services, the title nine office and the health center dropped the ball at some point while looking into allegations that a baylor football player raped or violated a handful of women that player is now serving 20 years in prison. kcen legal analyst argued it's not right for people to argue. >> i think it's dangerous to think that we have investigators saying they won't file cases, based only on one witness's
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testimony. sometimes that's all you have. and it's not the victim's fault. >> while baylor didn't respond directly to any of espn's claims, the university says it has taken many steps to help combat sexual assault on campus. and baylor says students' safety is a priority. >> i've never felt unsafe here, i guess. but i've never experienced anything, either. >> but kate says it's different for people who have been victims and feel like the university isn't standing behind them. >> of course there's always going to be scars. i'm there to support my friends completely. but i just feel like our university, that's supposed to be here for all of us, would actually be there to support our friends as well. now at 6:00, rain on our radar. a look at the impact it could have on all of us tomorrow and what people are already doing to prepare for possible flooding. they didn't win iowa, but some of the presidential hopefuls are riding some momentum. as they set their sights on the
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next big hurdle. we begin with a story that koenl be described as awful. a shooting, a double murder that happened this morning in fort washington, maryland. >> tonight that crust that many of us built over time as protection against the all too often reported demonstrations of human depravity. that crust has been shattered to wonder how could anyone for any reason shoot and kill a 2-year-old baby girl. and then shoot and kill the child's mother? we have team coverage on this, we begin with pat collins at the scene now. pat? >> jim, what could possibly bring someone to shoot and kill a little 2-year-old girl? it's a vile case of murder, a case that has veteran cops here shaking their heads in sorrow. >> my prayer goes out to the family of the victims of this crime that frankly

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