>> announcer: news 4 begins now. >> good evening, everybody. we've got some rain on the radar, folks. just in time for a commute. you will be seeing some snow out there tomorrow morning. >> road crews are standing by right now in southern maryland.

v-dot says more than 300 trucks will be ready at midnight. and the d.c. snow team activates at 2:00 a.m. all in time for our rain-snow mix. >> time for our rain experts tonight double teaming it for us. it sounds like this is all about the timing. >> yeah, all about the timing. the cold air movers in overnight, the rain moves in overnight and that could affect the early morning rush. but, again, this is not going to be a huge deal for most areas. >> right. it's all about the timing. we're going to take a look at the temperatures and, more importantly, the road temperatures. >> that has everything to do with how warm we've been the last couple of days. here's the rain moving on in. and, again, it is all rain right now. down towards southern maryland, calvert county, nothing north and west of i-95. if you live in mont gom ri county, loudoun county, you may

not see anything at all from this. the closer you are at 95, you'll have a better chance farther south and east. here's all the moisture moving up from the south. those two will meet over our region and produce at least some snow over the next say, 6, 7 hours. but that's going to be about it. temperatures, 43 right now. even if it was to fall as snow, the temperatures so warm, it wouldn't be able to stick. >> we focus on a pocket of. >> southern maryland. take a look, pax area, we'll drop another five degrees by early morning, but still well above freezing.

that's why we're saying moderate between 6 and 8:00 a.m., really it's 9:00 a.m., but the sweet spot is between 1:00 a.m. and about 7:00 a.m. is where most of this activity will occur. >> most roads should be fine. we'll show you who we think has the best chance to see some acc accumlax. again, everybody, south and east of i-95, winter weather advisory. >> all right, thavnnks, you guy. new video shows a frightening scene playing out, the store owner forced into the back at knife point. his safe emptied out. >> the store hasn't opened since. tonight, police want you to get a good look at these guys. >> reporter: this video will make you angry. this man just working in the store. a woman who works nearby said he was so frightened, he believed that the robbers knew his routine.

>> even without sound, the brutality and the terror of the victim comes through loud and clear in this video provided by fairfax county police. the owner was alone inside sophia jewelers monday just after 10:00 a.m. as he was setting up his display cases, two men entered the store. despite temperatures in the 50s, both were wearing sweatshirts with the hoods pulled up. they pretended to browse the jewelry. and then, one man put a large knife. they dragged the terrified wo worker into a back room. he tried to close the door of the safe but failed. one robber held a knife to the man's throat while the other started scooping things out of the safe. even after one ran out with the valuables, the store owner continued to struggle with the other robber who slammed him on the ground. anyone who recognizes a man in

that video is asked to call fairfax county police. >> the democratic presidential field down to two tonight. hillary clinton and bernie sanders went win tonight in a heated debate moderated by msnbc. chris lawrence is in the news room. hi, chris. >> reporter: they should have called this the progressive debate, as much as each candidate hates that word. >> i believe that public colleges and university should be tuition-free. how do we pay for that? it's an expensive proposition. we pay for it by a tax on wall street speculation. >> i also believe in affordable college. but i don't believe in free college. because every expert i have talked to says, look, how will you ever control the cost? >> they also squared off over a true, single payer health care system. something president obama couldn't get even with democrat

controlling both houses of congress. mrs. clinton wants to tweak obamacare while senator sanders is pushing for medicare for everyone. >> i don't accept the belief that the united states of america and our government can't stand up to the ripoffs of the pharmaceutical industry which charge us, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. >> i don't want us to start over again. i think that would be a great mistake. to once again plunge our country into a contentious debate about whether we should have and what kind of system we should have for health care. >> clinton says sanders' ideas just don't add up while he accused her of being part of the establishment in this election year. >> thank you, chris. republicans who want to vote in the march 1st presidential primary in virginia will not have to sign a loyalty pledge affirming that they are republicans. the state board accepted the

gop's request to resibdcind loyy pledge. donald trump supporters went to court to block the requirements, saying it would discourage first time voters. >> the zika virus has landed in the district. tonight, d.c.'s department of health is confirming its first three cases of the virus. all of them involve people who contracted zika from foreign countries. one of the three patients was pregnant at the time. the department of health had this reminder. it is important for residents to rebel that there is no immediate threat to their health and well being if they have not traveled to the known affected areas. however, we must all be cautious when traveling internationally. the zika virus is primarily spread through mosquito bites. it has been linked to birth defects in brazil. >> emotional and tense momts

today in a prince george's county courtroom. brothers of suspected killer johnson spoke to the judge not to voice support but disappointment and dismay. the judge then ordered johnson held without bond for the murder of his daughter, chlowe and mother, deshante davis. anger is building only line. outside court, one of johnson's brothers got into it with someone over an instantgram post. >> someone showed up to say good-bye to a 13-year-old girl who was stabbed to death last weekend. so many showed up, they spilled out into the parking lot of the funeral home and over to an office building next door. nicole's body was found in north carolina saturday. prosecutors say virginia tech students plotted together to kill level. they say the pair bought cleaning supplies and a shovel before stabbing her and putting her body in the back of a lexus.

keefers was denied bail today. >> for the first time, we're hearing from the man in charge of a loftus school district. tonight, he spoke to mark s seagraves and he joins us now with the story. mark? >> reporter: hey, good evening. if all goes as planned, jack smith will take over montgomery county schools next summer. until then, he'll keep his current job, the interim superintendent for state schools in maryland. a lot of people think that that position will serve the county well. but the job before that in calvert county that caught some concern. jack smith was introduced tonight after the county school board voted unanimously to name smith as their pick to lead the school system. he says he'll spend the next five months learning.

>> i will come here to join meetings, to listen, to talk to members of the staff and community and the board and just get to know if i can possibly get to know about mont gom ri county public schools. >> when smith takes over, he'll inherit the interim goals and need to improve graduation rates. >> that's something that you can act on pretty quickly in terms of identifying students who are at risk of not graduating and then going out and finding them and bringing them back to you and making sure they get all the support that they need to graduate. >> an online petition signed by just over a thousand people urged maryland governor larry hogan not to name smith the permanent state superintendent: critics pointed to smith's contract with calvert county public schools saying it was too lucrative at a time when teachers received no raises.

smith's salary in his new job has yet to be ne gauchuated and promise ed es a transparent pro. >> my contract, as soon as it becomes official, will be on the web site of this school system. >> now, you will recall joshua star, the previous superintendent resigned a year ago. and then the first candidate that the board got actually pulled out abruptly and then they had to go through the process of finding a new candidate all over again. so a lot of the board members are very happy to have this process behind them and be able to start moving forward. recording live in bethesda, news 4. >> fairfax county schools critical step tonight. it's far from the final word. the school board voted to approve $2.6 billion budget. it includes raises for all employees.

the county board of supervisors if needed after years of cuts. >> i'm tracking the latest on storm team four radar right now. the shower activity making its way to the north and west. it will be into the d.c. and metro area for the next 1-2 hours. who has the best chance to see some accumulating snowfall and what the next form may bring. also, tonight, two local chefs make it to restaurant wars on top chef. one of them talks about how she stands the heat in a crowded kitchen. >> plus, the table at a local charity event.

tonight, two local chefs are fighting for the coveted title top chef on bravo. the show reached the half way mark tonig. they found themselves in restaurant wars. and, tonight, mi bradly tells her strategies for cooking under pressure to make the cut. >> do not underestimate. >> i imagine people just assume that you're not really anyone to reckon with. and i did feel like that chaked pretty quickly, though. >> reporter: after a quiet start on top chef, she's shown that she's quick on her feet and ready for a fight. soon-to-open has made it to the half way point of season 13. not only is she winning challenges, she's consistently earning praise from the judges. >> when you think about too much

of, like, the gimmicks and the games of it and just you forget that people are sitting there eating your food. so everybody time i felt stuck, i just thought would i sit sdoun and eat a full plate of that. >> reporter: reter than focusing on winning, she's putting her best dish forward one challenge at a time. >> it's taking a risk and showing that you deserve to be there, but not taking such a big risk that you're going to be acceptability home. >> next up for bradly and the other top chefs, restaurant wars. this is a show tradition and fan favorite in which competing teams have to open a restaurant in one day. she says it's one of the toughest jobs she's ever done. >> it's just so fast. you don't have time to make a mistake. you don't have time to think about anything hardly. you get up at god knows what time in the morning, get up, go, go, go, go to bed, don't sleep, get up the next morning. it was very much this intense,

like, oh my god, here we go. >> she says she can take the heat. after all, she wanted to go on top chef to challenge and experience, not for tv stardom. but even this camera-shy chef knows that is the price of admission. >> i'm just competitive by nature. kitchens are loud and hot and fast. if you're going to put us all together and make us coop competitively, there's going to be drama. let's be real. >> that's a workout in the kitchen. the new restaurant, smoked and stacked is expected to open this spring. next week on getting ready to open his restaurant. >> two dozen d.c. superior court judges got to test their cooking skills tonight. chefs from rest rant 701, nopa and rasika did the judging at superior courthouse. last year's champ, judge frederick sullivan competed again this year, but didn't take home the crown.

tonight's event benefitted two local charities with a clothing drive. the superior court's chief judge says it's important for judges to connect with the community. >> we see people in and out of court every cay. day. and we know that people need clothing returning from prison to go out and get jobs and things like that. so a couple of judges came up with this idea. >> if you want to see a list of the judges who won and what they've prepared, open our app and search top judge. >> that's a cool idea. >> we've got our own top chef down at the courthouse. so it sounds like we might want to get up early tomorrow morning if we've got to commute through this mess? >> if you live north and west of i-95, sleep-in, don't even set the alarm -- no, i'm just kidding. you're not going to get anything north and west. soit and east of 95, you've got some issues, potentially, early tomorrow morning.

take a look outside right now. 43 degrees. so snow was to start falling now, it would not be sticking on the roadways. but notice our wind out of the northwest at 16 miles per hour. that's starting to bring in that colder air. i'll show you that in just a second. martinsburg, 43. d.c., over towards annapolis. now, what we're going to continue to watch for is that colder air to move on in. and all of this rain will eventually change over to snow. you can see where the rain is around annapolis right now. down towards leonardtown and the fredericks burg area, around king george. all of this moving up to the north and east. but you notice, i-95, south and eastward. to the west, martinsburg, winchester, lurae, you will probably not see anything at all from this storm system. maybe just a few snow shoi you ares to the west. you can see what's happening. here's the very mild air out in front of them. also, very wet and rainy conditions. here comes the cold air. you can see it in the form of snow.

these two will meet over our region and it will change other to snow by around the 1:00, 2 cloek hour. here's future weather taking you in by about 12:30. over towards ae annapolis, nothing arnold d.c. this is the latest model, by the way. 1:30, you start to see it pushing in across our region. look at the snow by early tomorrow morning. around 6:00 a.m. right through d.c., south and eastward. you may see some snow showers, but, again, you'll wake um. you won't notice much of a difference. south and east, however. i think you have a better chance. even by 8 cloek, this could be an issue. especially along 301, maybe 895. but along 301, maybe route 4. so, again, south and east of 95, give yourself time tomorrow morning. that's where the winter weather advisory is. down towards waldorf, and chaurmsz county. st. mary's county until 10:00

a.m. it won't last until 10:00 a.m. it will actually last through about 7 orr 8:00 a.m. but this is what we're expecting. light coating, possible. mostly on the grassy surfaces arnold d.c. up to an inch, annapolis, waldorf, fredericksburg. this is a very tough system to forecast. again, this moves to the west just about 15, 20 miles, and we get an inch in d.c. but i koent think that's going to be the case. i think we will be dealing with most of this down to the south and east of i-95. but here comes the other one. 45 degrees on saturday, 50 on sunday. a great weekend. but then more cold air moves in. 44 on monday. we start to see a chance of a shower and then it changes over to some snow, i think, on tuesday. and i do think we have a good chance now of seeing some accumulating snowfall coming up on tuesday. this is going to be a big one? no. but there's a chance that we could seed our yards covered in snow again. >> again. >> thank you, doug. i'm glad you're back.

i'm glad you're back. >> coming up, the capitols

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bad times do not last long for the capitols. tonight, finally back at full strength. and by full strength, i mean alex ovechkin played. hoping his first three-game losing streak of the season. suspended a game for skipping all-star weekend. you see the capitols rocking the warm-ups on military

aappreciation night. first period, caps find themselves down a goal. >> he's got 13 points in his last 12 games, the capitols out to a 2-1 lead. third period, tied at two. gets to backstrom. he sees alex ovechkin, how about that, his 29th goal this season. caps win this game, your final score, 3-2. moving onto football now for a moment. all the hoopla in if media

surface will mean absolutely nothing in three days. today, she caught up with a pair of motivated playing in superbowl 50. >> reporter: two former red skins will be on the world stage this weekend. they were team mates in d.c. especially on opposite sides of the field on sunday. in his fourth year with the panters, he's said that being cut by the redskins was the best thing that ever happened to him. it still fuels him today. >> i started way back and definitely had the redskins marked off on my calendar. >> reporter: but, first, the biggest game of his career, says he's feeling no pressure because he's ultra-prepared. meantime, clean up buss is living the dream playing for his boyhood team but impressed by the strive of his former franchise.

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