people in this area infected with it. and it's the story that has so many of you fired up on facebook. a plan moves forward that could make smoking in your own car illegal. so is it a health concern or an invasion of privacy? but we begin with storm team4. those sunny skies don't tell the whole story. it is brutal out there and it has everybody bundled up. >> you can see people in northwest washington, and as frigid as it is outside, that wind is only making it colder. skroop let's go to the storm center and chief meteorologist doug kammerer. don't know how much of this i can take. how about you? >> you have at least another three days of it to take, pat. that's the thing, it gets even colder as we move through the next couple days. out there today even with the sunshine, take a look at the high temperatures we've seen so far. high temperature today of only 30 degrees at the airport. 28 camp springs. only 24 in martinsburg. 22 in hagerstown but

windchills right now in the single digits to lower teens. current windchill in d.c. coming in at 14 degrees. this is the way it will be the next few days. tomorrow at least we bump back up into the mid-20s for windchills but look at saturday and sunday. single digits most likely even below zero at times early saturday morning and again early sunday morning. we rebound on sunday ahead of the next storm system. the headlines a frigid night tonight. but as cold as it is today it gets even colder or the weekend. and then tracking our next storm. it will have snow, it will have ice, it will have rain. it's got a lot with it. we'll talk about it and i'll show you what it moves in. we've got it all in a minute. all right, doug. right now at 4:00, we're waiting at the live desk for a news conference on the zika virus beginning in maryland. we'll look live at the department of health and mental hygiene in baltimore. folks will go to the podium and address the media in a few moments. our chris gordon is there, and

department will announce the first case of zika in maryland. don't know much more about what will be said but chris gordon is there, we're watching it back here too. we'll have new information in moments. new details in the case of the teacher's aide arrested for sexually abusing children and producing child pornography during school hours. >> this afternoon we're learning about a potentially 12th victim. police arrested deonte carraway last week, a former aide and volunteer at judge sylvania wood elementary school in glenarden. we are learning more about this disturbing case. >> reporter: as this investigation continues, we're told more and more victims could possibly emerge. because these victims are minors, investigators, aren't giving us much more detail about where that 12th victim was sexually abused. we

to be held. there will be a discussion about the district's policy on sexual abuse and neglect as well as background policies and volunteer policies. just 30 minutes later at 6:30 another meeting will be held at judge sylvania woods elementary school with parents, law enforcement, and school officials. of course, this all comes after police say former school volunteer deonte carraway was arrested for sexually abusing students and creating child pornography during school hours. right now investigators say there are 12 victims, the youngest is 9 years old. last night county leaders expressed their outrage and promised the community that a thorough investigation will be done. >> it breaks our hearts in prince george's county. as a parent of three, i'm particularly taking this hard, as i'm sure most parents are out there. >> reporter: now, we reported last night about a lawsuit that

family of that 9-year-old victim. they basically alleged in that lawsuit that the school principal, michelle williams, knew about possible abuse and didn't do anything about it. certainly is important to note that no additional charges have been filed at this time. we had an opportunity earlier to speak with a pastor who said he's known the suspect for years. in fact, he sang in his choir. coming up at 5:00, we'll tell you what he saw and considers a red flag. back to you. >> meagan fitzgerald. thank you. a developing story. we have learned the identities of the two sheriff's deputies killed in harford county. and there's new information about the gunman's possible motive. this is the first time we've seen pictures of the two deputies. senior deputy patrick dailey was a 30-year veteran of the horford county sheriff's department and senior deputy mark logsdon had spent 16 years on the force. dailey went into the panera bread in abingdon to investigate reports there was a wanted person inside. police say david evans pull

out a gun and without warning shot dailey in the head. evans left the restaurant and then killed logsdon in a shootout with other deputies. >> it's our belief that because he knew there was a warrant out for his arrest and what the ultimate outcome of that encounter was going to be, would have been his arrest, that is why he took the action against the police officer. we don't believe he laid in wait to ambush, but, you know, certainly the officer was targeted from the extent that he didn't want to be apprehended. >> one of those warrants was for assaulting an officer in florida. tonight there is new information about the call for help for a dying 7-month-old baby in northwest d.c. news4 has learned the child's sibling did not call 911 as police first told us. a child in the home actually called an aunt who just happens to be a d.c. firefighter. that aunt called the 911 supervisor who dispatched a medical unit to the home on

inside and no adult supervision. just moments ago we also learned the firefighter is now under administrative review. our mark segraves will have more in a live report coming up in the next half hour. and new at 4:00, we just learned that prosecutors are charging a driver in the death of montgomery county police officer noah leotta. luis reluzco is charged with manslaughter by automobile and failing to pull over for an emergency vehicle. last december officer leotta had pulled over a suspected drunk driver during ad ui patrol in rockville. leotta was out of his car when reluzco smashed into his cruiser and hit him. another busy day in the presidential rate. bernie sanders and hillary clinton will face-off tonight in their second one-on-one debate of the campaign. it comes on the heels of sanders' pivotal win in new hampshire and a new endorsement today for clinton. the political action committee of the congressional black caucus has decided

we'll have a live report from milwaukee in our next half hour. on the republican side with chris christie and carly fiorina out, it will be a smaller field of candidates at the next gop primary in south carolina. all of the remaining presidential hopefuls except for donald trump are already there drumming up support and talking to voters at a series of back-to-back town meetings. yet trump is poised for another big win. he's led every poll in south carolina in the past six months. the primary takes place february 20th. here at home it has been years of delays and setbacks, but d.c.'s troubled streetcar may soon be ready to roll. news4 transportation reporter adam tuss says both the d.c. fire department and the district's department of transportation now believe the project is ready to go. now, they haven't set a final date yet, but a source with direct knowledge of the program tells news4 it's likely just a few weeks

final review, but then street cars could be rolling along h street corridor. developing news in that standoff between the fbi and protesters at a wildlife refuge in oregon. it's over. the last four holdouts surrendered today. the rev rend franklin graham and nevada assemblywoman michelle fiori convinced it's occupiers to give up. the final surrender happened peacefully. the armed group seized the refuge early last month in a protest over federal land use policies. first at 4, it's a story that you first heard about here on news4. two metro trains coming dangerously close to each other with passengers on board. new this afternoon, what the agency is blaming for that close call.

and now, your storm team4 forecast. >> windy and cold today, and we're just getting started. our winds have been quite high throughout the area today. we've even had some winds gusting to around 30 miles per hour at times during the afternoon. but look at the current windchill readings. olney, gaithersburg feeling like 11 degrees. 17 into d.c. 24 degrees around fredericksburg and we're going to drop down into the single digits if you're going to be out late. walking the dog then, 27 degrees at 6:00. 24 by 8:00. those windchill readings by 8:00 p.m. down into the single digits. now, as far as the feel-like factor for friday, a little better. not quite as windy so we'll mov

single digit wind chills. sunday we're into the teens and then monday we'll see the temperatures come up, but it's a new system that will be moving into our area that might bring some troubles of its own. doug has more on that coming up in a few minutes. if you live in loudoun county, there could be either a tax hike or a tax cut in your future. right now the board of supervisors is contemplating one of two possible budget decisi s decisions. one proposed last night by the county administrator would keep service levels where they are but your taxes would go up between $4 and $134 depending on the rate the board chooses. the other plan would mean service cuts. in that case if you're an average homeowner, you'd get about an $18 tax cut. two metro trains in danger of colliding. now the agency has some answers after a close call under the streets of d.c. and right now we are monitoring a news conference under way in baltimore about the zika case in

our scott mcfarlane is monitoring this for you. he

you're watching news4 at 4:00. metro says human error was to blame for two trains coming face-to-face at the smithsonian station last week. >> yeah, they ended up on the same track when one train ran past a red signal and stopped just in time. transportation

tuss broke this story and he joins us live with what went wrong. >> reporter: what happened at the board meeting today is they basically discussed where the whole incident separated from itself, and what we learned is that the train operator and the rail control center were saying two different things together, yet no one caught the misinformation that was being told. the train was basically trying to turn around near the smithsonian station. when it did that, it went through a red signal and crossed onto a section of track, and only when that train operator saw another train stopped on the platform did he decide to stop the train. metro says in no uncertain terms the primary, secondary, and tertiary safety systems all involved in this system all failed. the only thing that was the silver lining in the whole thing was that the train was only going ten miles an hour and was able to slow down to a controlled stop. a scary situation. >> so, adam, you sat through that board meeting today. what kindsof

talk about to prevent this kind of thing from happening again? >> reporter: so the investigation is still ongoing, pat, but one of the things metro did immediately is in the rail operations control center which is the eyes and ears of the entire system, they can see where every train is on the system which makes you wonder why they didn't catch this one. but in this case when a train is making this sort of move, what's going to happen now is in addition to the train operator and the rail controller, there's now going to be a supervisor who looks over the shoulder basically of that person in the rail operations center and also agrees with the move that the train is making. >> you've covered metro for so many years. in your experience, is that common, to run a red signal like that? >> reporter: so between 2013 and 2015 metro has been dealing with six red signal violations, but those are just the ones on the main line. it's become such an issue that the federal transit administration actually released a scathing reporto

couple months back saying that this is a systemic problem. mind you, you are never supposed to pass a red signal unless you are explicitly given that permission by the control center, and these violations continue to happen. this one too close for comfort. these two trains ended up about 190 feet apart. that's just a couple rail car lengths, guys. >> all right. scary stuff there, adam tuss. thanks so much. >> i have to tell you, doug is going to be plenty mad at adam because did he not have his hat on, doug. he was telling us all day. >> exactly. what's my man adam doing out there? his hair did look good though. you know, it's looking okay. i'll tell you it's the wind and the cold, so, yeah you need that hat out there. take a look at the temperatures outside right now. it is freezing. 29 degrees. windchill right now at 17. even with some sunshine. that sun going down about the next hour and 20 minutes and it's going to feel a lot

23 in bgaithersburg. 21 in culpepper. a very cold afternoon. look at the wind chills. 6 the current windchill in hagerstown. 16 in manassas. 12 right now in camp springs. as i said, today we will call it brutally cold. but this weekend it gets to be dangerously cold. so as cold as it is today, we're going to go down another 10 to 15 degrees for the weekend. that's the dangerous cold we're talking about. just want you to know that. be ready for it, be prepared for it. on the radar nothing to show. could see a couple snow showers tomorrow evening into the early portion of the day on saturday. again, the cold air is in place but it gets reinforced as another little clipper system moves in across the region. that's what could produce a little bit in the way of some snow shower activity but it's really what brings in the cold air for saturday. the coldest air by far of the season. those blustery winds, winds gusting over 30 miles an hour on saturday. again, that puts our windchills below zero late saturday into

i want to show you those windchills, but first off again dangerous cold. think about the cars, think about the pipes in the house. you might want to cover those or keep the water running but these are the two important ones. check on the elderly, especially those neighbors, and bring in the pets, the pets cannot stand it when it's this cold. we're call saturday weather alert day because of the extreme cold. 24 for a high, 22 for a low. i want to show you what's going to be happening with the windchill. here is the windchill at 8:00 a.m. on saturday morning. 2 in d.c. 4 below zero back towards martinsburg. 3 in fredericksburg. you'd think we'd warm up, but that's not the case. we will actually cool in many areas. 3 below in hagerstown. this is 1:00 in the afternoon. 3 degrees in d.c. and even late in the evening hours we're back below zero. if you're going out on saturday night, just be ready. sunday morning, that's when the coldest air moves in. 5 below, d.c., near 10 below towards baltimore. that's the kind of cold air we have coming in on this valentine's day holiday weekend.

of snow. we'll talk about that and what comes after. veronica has the seven-day forecast. >> all right, doug. making it easier for you to get around the city. the new app for your smartphone that could give you a new option for traveling in the nation's capital and how it could drive the competition. plus, a valentine's date 70 y

back at the live desk, i'm scott mcfarland. maryland health officials wrapped up a press conference about the first confirmed zika case in the state. it was confirmed the person had zika through a blood test but officials say the person has fully recovered and say just because there is a confirmed case doesn't mean there's a broader danger to maryland residents. >> this disease itself, the viral disease, is a mild disease, mostly asymptomatic. the concern is about the potential transmission to pregnant women. >> maryland officials say they have sent 17 zika test kits to the cdc for analysis and so far this positive test and two negative tests have been returned. the medical director of the international olympic committee is trying to calm fears boo zika in

he says everything that can be done is being done in fight the virus and to provide safe conditions for athletes at the olympics. many athletes are expressing concerns. the centers for disease control is shipping thousands of test kits to health departments across the country so protect women can be tested. there was a hearing on capitol hill today about zika and the money needed to fight it here and abroad. dr. anthony fauci of the national institutes of health testified. just like he told news4's doreen gentzler, he said researchers are already working on a vacc e vaccine. >> all we've done already is to take that same plas mid, pull out the west nile gene, stick in the zika gene, and now you have the beginning of a zika vaccine. so it really is a testimony to having the experience of continued years of support in trying to

>> health leaders also told congress they don't believe the virus will become widespread in this country but they said steps are being take ton reduce transmission. well, the days of standing on a street corner to hail a cab may be over. the d.c. taxicab commission just announced a new app, and it's going to be available for iphones and androids as well. the app comes after years of government reforms aimed at modernizing the district's cab industry. some of the recent changes include upgrading d.c. cabs so they can accept credit cards and changing the colors to a more uniform red and gray. well, i don't have to remind you romantic debonair guys out there that it's valentine's day this weekend. look, it's going to be one to remember for a world war ii veteran from virginia and his wartime girlfriend. >> what a sweet story. two were reunited in australia after more than 70 years. norwood thomas is interest virginia beach. he was a paratrooper who met joyce mosh ris in london

before d-day. they most touch until last year. >> how are you feeling at the moment? >> a little nervous. >> are you excited by it all? >> oh, yes. >> well, you're still vertical. >> now, the irony here is that after the war, the two wrote letters. thomas asked morris to marry him, but she misunderstood that thinking he'd found someone else. she stopped writing to him. >> and that was back in the days where you didn't have cell phones and all that instant communication. someone stops writing letters and there you go, 70 years later. >> but obviously it's a case of fate. it was just meant to be. >> that is true love right there. >> good for them. >> really, really cool story. another story sparked a ton of reaction on our facebook page today. >> the great debate over what you should be able to do in your own car. is it a good move for health reasons or is it an invasion of your privacy. and these w

right through. we're in for a bitter cold night tonight. and from a brunch in love to an anti-valentine's day celebration? we have 11 great valentine's day events for

now at 4:30, parents of a prince george's county neighborhood are getting ready for a meeting with school officials about this disturbing ca

teacher's aide at judge sylvania woods elementary. >> we just learned about the first confirmed case of zika in maryland. it's not clear where that person lives but officials say the patient is fully recovered and there's no danger to his or her neighbors. so far we already know about three cases in the district and at least one in virginia. but first, how do you like this cold weather? the temperatures are dropping. the winds are whipping it up, and this is just the beginning. let's get an update from veronica johnson in the storm center. >> i don't like it one bit, pat. i really don't. >> we don't like it at all. how low is it going to go tonight? >> tonight our temperatures will drop down to about 10 to 20 degrees across the area. the wind still up enough that i think our windchill temperatures a lot of locations down into the single digits. now, this evening if you're going to be going out, we're talking about -- let me go back to that -- 20 to 25 degrees. still a little breezy

evening dropping to 8 to 12 degrees. and then here is a look at the air temps for early tomorrow morning. 17 in leesburg. falls church, fairfax, 19. columbia, 20 degrees early tomorrow morning. under a mostly clear sky, a bit less wind. so instead of windy i'm calling tomorrow breezy, but look at the windchill temperatures. still very, very low and awfully brutal. feeling like 15 to 20 degrees during the afternoon hours. we'll go from cold on saturday to even colder conditions on sunday. i've got the hourly windchill temperatures to show you what it will be like if you have plans to go out saturday and sunday night and when there could be a few icy spots on our roads. all that in a few minutes. more now on the race for the white house. it's been a busy day of campaigning, and all the republican candidates except for donald trump are meeting with voters today in south carolina. that is the site of the next gop primary. that's going to be aek

recent polls suggest trump leads in south carolina and nationally with senator ted cruz running a strong second. now to the other side, the democratic side of the race. >> just two days after the first primary of the election season, bernie sanders and hillary clinton are getting set to square off in wisconsin tonight. >> yeah. wendy wolf is live in milwaukee where there's a lot of anticipation for tonight's debate. >> reporter: good afternoon, pat and chris. the stakes could not be higher tonight. hillary clinton has got to settle her jittery supporters and bernie sanders has got to maintain his momentum. on the heels of bernie sanders' landslide victory in new hampshire, tonight is the first real showdown between the two remaining democratic candidates. the self-described democratic socialist took a victory lap with public appearances in new york and meeting with activists and msnbc anchor reverend al sharpton.

sent the signal that on the morning after a historic victory he would come to harlem and have breakfast with me. >> reporter: the vermont senator is courting the minority vote and touting his immigrant roots to broaden his appeal in upcoming diverse states like nevada and south carolina. >> i still love new hampshire and i always will. >> reporter: despite her blistering loss in the granite state, the congressional black caucus political action committee chose to endorse secretary clinton. >> she's been our partner long term. we believe she's made a difference. >> reporter: tonight's debate will be clinton's first public appearance after two days of private meetings with advisers about how to re-energize lagging support with women and young people. while the wisconsin primary is still more than a month away, tonight's location at the university of wisconsin-milwaukee will help set the stage in this battleground state in the general elec.

now, you can expect some fireworks tonight involving gun control, income inequality, and that especially crucial stat over who is more progressive. the next caucus is in nevada february 20th. live in milwaukee, i'm wendy woolfolk. pat, back to you. >> wendy, thank you. the nevada caucus will present a whole different landscape for the candidates. we've just posted an analysis on this race on the decision 2016 page on nbcwashington.com. >> reporter: david culver in northern virginia with details of a bill proposed by virginia lawmakers that would penalize adults who smoke with kids in the car. now, the bill itself, you can see, it's only about 20 lines long, but we posted this on the nbc washington facebook page and thousands of you have already

some of you for the measure, others against it. coming up on news4 at 5:00, you're going to hear from the lawmaker who proposed this bill and more of the reaction it's getting. so if you haven't sounded off on our facebook page today, we want to know what you think about that plan. that's our nbc washington flash survey question of the day. you can call or text the number on your screen or like david mentioned, you can head over to the nbc washington facebook or twitter pages. a rare opportunity marking plaq black history month in prince william county. the last remaining african-american school is opening to the public on weekends this month. the lucasville school is located on godwin drive outside manassas. the one-room school operated from 1885 to 1926 and served students in grades one through six. >> they can also learn about what education was like for

african-americans during the reconstruction aria, during jim crow where they can learn about all the different struggles that african-american faced during this time period and how they fought to overcome those struggles. >> you can check out the lucasville schoolhouse from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each weekend this month. it is a vacation a lot of folks just want to forget. now thousands of cruise ship passengers thrown around in rough waters are back on dry land and describing what happened for the first time. and caught on camera, a delivery driver, another one, tossing boxes over a gate and every second of this caught on video. why what was in one of

it's a cold one outside right now. look at the numbers across the area. these are not wind chills. these are current temperatures. 29 in d.c. 16 in pittsburgh, a lot of snow back towards the mountains over the last couple days. still good skiing back here but it will be brutally cold out there this weekend. take a look at tomorrow. i found the coldest picture i've got here. that's a cold one for sure. 20 degrees early tomorrow morning. windchill below 10 early tomorrow. 25 for our tpe

11:00. 34 by 3:00 and then we could see some snow showers late tomorrow evening. any snow that was to fall tomorrow would immediately stick on the roadways and the sidewalks so give yourself lots of extra time for tomorrow night's rush hour. we'll have much more on this and the next system moving in. veronica has the seven-day forecast in just a minute. >> thanks, doug. i don't know, when are these guys going to learn. talk about a bad delivery. >> maybe they're not going to learn. this careless u.p.s. worker carelessly tosses packages over a gate but it was what was in one of these packages. this happened in miami and surveillance videocaptured the whole thing. the delivery hahn tosses the packages over the gate, some of the contents spill out into the courtyard. one was marked fragile and it contained gun ammunition that the homeowner used for target practice. cart rims were scattered all over the pavement. >> two of the boxes were

heavy and the other had a red fragile sticker and all three of them just got chucked over the fence. >> it was unlocked. i noticed they happened to have a helper there with then and they still didn't bother to properly deliver the packages. >> well, u.p.s. says once again it's investigating. >> something tells he those delivery guys can be in a little bit of trouble. we tell you all the time about scammers trying to take your money over the phone. >> but this time it's not a trick. why a lot of you may be getting calls about free money and why it might not be a scam. and we're following big developments in a story that's been going on for weeks. the last protesters who have been holed up in a wildlife refuge have surrendered. what it took to bring this stan

it turned out to be theed a ven fur ture of a lifetime but n the way they expected. first at 4, thousands of cruise ship passengers are back on dry land and describing what happened. >> dangerously low windchill temperatures. i'll show you when we'll see our lowest readings across the area and when there could be a few icy to slick spots on area roads. it was a peaceful end to the nearly six-week-long standoff at a government wildlife refuge in oregon. the last of four of the armed protesters surrendered after being surrounded by federal agents, but the conclusion was not quick and it was not without drama. brian moore has the new developments.

>> reporter: after 41 days, the last of four armed protesters holed up in a federal wildlife refuge in oregon surrendered to authorities but not before a defiant last stand. >> come out with your hands up. >> no, we're not. you're going to have to surround us. >> the reverend franklin graham and nevada assembly woman michelle fiori convinced the occupiers to give up. >> we need to get calm here. >> because nobody's listening to us? >> i'm listening to you. >> reporter: part of a long running dispute over public use of federal lands was led by ammon bundy. he was arrested last month and his father cliven bundy locked up. >> if you're doing civil disobedience you have to stick your neck out and deal with the consequences. >> reporter: one of the oregon

in a showdown with police, and the group's supporters stood vigil today as negotiators bargained with the last holdouts. >> it wouldn't take much provocation for something to go bad. >> reporter: ultimately the last of the protesters gave up but made it clear their surrender is not the end of the fight. brian moore, nbc news. and now your storm team4 forecast. >> well, the snow team will be out tomorrow pretreating roads early because of the chance of a few snow showers that we'll have tomorrow afternoon up until midnight. so for early tomorrow morning, road conditions are dry. the kids at the bus stop, that is for tomorrow, 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. your windchills 10 to 15 with the temperature at 20. and then it's breezy for the afternoon, 3:00, 4:00 with just a mostly cloudy sky. the temperature 34 degrees. this is for tomorrow during the early part of the day and afternoon at the bus stop. let me show what you we're tracking here.

day tomorrow, so a little bit of sunshine early. we'll have clouds by lunchtime. then there's this little weak ripple that comes into the area around 3:00 to our west. by the time we get to 7:00, there you can see winchester down to la ray, a few showers will come drifting through our area. because the road surface temperatures are just so coal right now, it's not going to take long to lay down on area roads and accumulate just a little bit and could make road conditions icy not just for late tomorrow but even for early saturday morning there could be some slick or icy spots out there. something to be aware of. overall though for tomorrow, at least during the afternoon hours, early part of the day, the main impact will be the wind again and those low temperatures. wind chills in the 20s versus the teens that we've been feeling today. up to 34 degrees high temperature in d.c. 33 around waldorf. 36 degrees stafford and around quantico. 33

high temperature tomorrow. definitely cold. you can see those temperatures getting out of the 20s and into the 30s by around 1:00 tomorrow. instead of windy, it's breezy. the next change for us early saturday morning, late friday night. we'll drop to 22. teens, of course, upper teens in a lot of the suburbs with wind chills from 5 to 5 degrees below zero. that is when you're going to notice the even colder air coming across us, and by sunday early morning, with he could be looking at at least tying some of the records across the area. for dulles, minus 5 in 1979. so we're really going to feel it. if you're going out saturday night, wind chills 0 to 5 and by the time we get to sunday night, 10 to 15. feeling just a little better. quick look at your storm team seven-day forecast here, we'll go straight to that because we have a lot to talk about early part of next week. it's a new system this will be moving into the area and that system could bring not only some

icy conditions late monday night into early tuesday morning. we'll have more on the weekend which could be a weather alert for us this weekend. >> thanks, v.j. well, my dad used to tell me, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, especially if you get a random phone call saying just won some money. >> your dad most have known my dad. chances are you roblly assume it's a scam. however, consumer reporter susan hogan found something that might make you think twice. >> it all started with a call to news4 from a viewer, a former government employee asked us to check out a possible scam. we did. what we found was a windfall for thousands of area residents. >> reporter: the phone rings. >> hello. >> reporter: it's good news. >> about what? >> reporter: the caller claims bob rudd's wife is owed money from a class saks settlement. >> my first reaction was this is a scam. >> reporter: who wouldn't think tha

viewers to be aware of unsolicited calls or e-mails that claim you're a winner. the caller says she was from a company that administers claims for class action lawsuits and in bob's wife's case he was told she's owed money from underpaid overtime when she was an employee at the state department. >> i started in october of 1977. >> reporter: cheryl did work there. >> and i stayed at the state department in different offices my entire career. >> reporter: and retired 34 years later, and she did work a lot of overtime. >> sometimes we were coming in at 3:00 in the morning. >> reporter: but to be paid back after all those years, they weren't convinced. >> that's when i said i'm coming to you guys. >> we did some digging. we first contacted cheryl's former union afge local 1534 and they confirmed the lawsuit is real but was the caller the real deal. >> the amount of your check will be $154.

company, class action implementation group located in baltimore. >> so this is legit. >> 100% legitimate. >> reporter: the chief operating officer tells us close to 5,000 metro d.c. area retired and current department of state employees are owed money as a result of the settlement, but close to 20% still have not claimed their money. whatever money is still left in the cue -- >> reporter: now it was time to tell the rudd the good news. we did our homework and we found out this is legitimate. it is not a scam. >> wow. thank you. >> reporter: do you want me to tell you how much you're getting back? >> absolutely. >> reporter: $5,000. >> wow. >> oh, my gosh. >> tfantastic. we can certainly use it. >> reporter: the company tells us it does have problems convincing people that they truly are getting money back. >> we're like santa claus all year round. >> reporter: but in the end when they do come

bottom line, it's always better to be skeptical whenever anybody calls you like this out of the blue. always call the agency directly to vir faye they are who they say they are. i'm susan hogan, news4. >> wow. a windfall there. we put a link to more information from the company issuing the settlement money on our nbc washington app. you want to download that if you don't have it and when you do download it, just search retirement settlements to get all the details. if someone collapsed right next to you and they stopped breathing, what would you do? since february is american heart month, tisha thompson and the i-team show why you need to learn what an aed is now and how to use this. >> that's right, pat. every rescue team we've talked to says automated external defibrillators are remarkable

they can bring someone in sudden cardiac arrest back from the dead by simply zapping their heart with an electrical shock. montgomery county fire captain bob lindsey showed us how easy they are to use. just open the box, hit the button, and do what the machine tells you to do. >> the nice thing about these defibrillators is that they will tell you exactly what to do. >> i can't hurt the person more -- >> no. >> by not doing the right thing on this machine. >> the worst thing to do is nothing. >> we put the entire demonstration on our nbc washington app for you to watch. i promise you, it takes less than five minutes. we're also going to show you what we found when we checked out more than 100 of these machines throughout our region and how we discovered at least one in five have a serious problem fire officials say could keep someone from using the devices when they're needed most. we'll bring you that tonight on news4 at 5:00 and 6:00. tisha thompson, news4

for thousands of people it is the vacation that just wouldn't end. >> it was unbelievable. it was the cruise from hell. >> first we're hearing just how scary this cruise was from the folks on board. you're watching news4 at 4:

cruise ship cut its voyage short after running into some rough seas and exhausted passengers streamed out

called the cruise from hell. checky bedford has details. >> reporter: shouts of joy as weary passengers set foot on dry land for the first time in four days. >> basically i could bend down and kiss the ground. >> reporter: the massive anthem of the seas sailed under the bridge and into port at cape liberty around 8:30 wednesday night. >> amazing. amazing. we were first in line to get off like four hours ago. >> reporter: passengers cheering from their balconies, an end to a dream cruise that turned into a nightmare. >> i don't scare easy. that scared me. >> the boys are holding onto their beds like this and it was amazing. >> reporter: video shot by passengers show chairs flying and state room windows disappearing under 30-foot waves when the ship headed to the caribbean sailed in the storm sunday. >> everything was blowing open, everything. the closets were flying open, glasses were breaking. it was

>> reporter: elaine and freddy from the bronx have been on 30 cruises but they say they've never experienced anything like this. >> we called the coast guard. i'm a diabetic and i started getting sick. >> reporter: following calls for an investigation into the cruise line's decision to sail during the storm, royal caribbean admitted there were gaps in their planning. ntsb investigators were on scene and the coast guard inspected the shop upon arrival. right now at 5:00, the temperatures going down, the wind chills going even faster. we have windchills in the single digits. over the weekend they go below zero. plus, we're tracking another storm system. a grand jury indicted the suspected driver accused of killing a montgomery county police officer. two months later he turns himself into police. i'm adam tuss live at metro headquarters. the transit agency gets an ear full after

first at 5:00, we are learning about another young victim of a former teacher's aide in prince george's county charged with sexually abusing students during school hours. police arrested deonte carraway last week on a number of charges including making child porn. he worked at judge sylvania woods elementary school and an investigation by our scott macfarlane reveals another investigation at the school. we begin with meagan fitzgerald. meagan, what have you learned today? >> reporter: well, a school board committee meeting was set to start at 6:00 p.m. tonight where members were to discuss policy as it relates to background checks, volunteers, and sexual abuse districtwide, but that meeting has been canceled. we're told members wanted to join in the meeting at the judge sylvania woods elementary school where parents will be briefed by law enforcement officials as well as school officials. so at this pointis