right now at 11:00, a public hearing for the embattled liquor board. >> one man is talking about the corruption case. and in

a racially charged and hate-filled piece of mail. >> why would somebody send something so nasty and vile and hateful. >> and developing right now, a medical incident for a freshman congressman. >> the 64-year-old lawmaker was taken from the capitol on a stretcher. news 4 at 11:00 starts now. good evening, a local liquor board rocked by scandal met for the first time tonight since that controversy erupted. >> tracy wilkins broke the story on the corruption, and now somebody new is presiding over the board for the hearing. >> reporter: jackie? >> jim, this was the first public hearing since the scandal

members of the prince george's county liquor board met to hear testimony about violations on a complaint on a drinking establishment. the vice chair presided over the hearing as the board still reels over the target of an fbi corruption probe that involves bribery allegations over sunday's liquor sales licenses. >> going forward we will continue to be forthright for the citizens here and the board for the prince george's county. >> reporter: michael vaughn submitted his letter of resignation citing health reasons. >> he is prepared to pay the price. >> reporter: vaughn set on

according to the warrant, the committee who voted yes on a 20-member bill on sunday liquor sales, pled guilty to bribery charges, vaughn has not been charged or named in the investigation. yesterday, the maryland u.s. attorney unsealed the arrest of former prince george's county member will campos who pled guilty to accepting bribes that he funneled through nonprofit organizations and in return, gave grants to county business members. and we expect to hear more on this. jackie, thank you. to a developing story involving a freshman lawmaker, tonight, a congressman from florida is being evaluated by doctors as he collapsed at the capitol. the 64-year-old chief of staff says that rutherford

to be conscious and alert. he was just sworn in this month, representing parts of the jacksonville area, and is a republican. some potential problems tonight for donald trump's secretary of state nominee. two key republican senators are concerned about how tough rex tillerson will be on russia, and say he has not won them over. >> now senator, i think it's important that when sanctions are posed they by design are going to half american business. >> reporter: some grilled him over the company's record of opposing sanctions against the nation. and democrats pressed him on climate change. republicans marco rubio and lindsey graham say they need to hear more before they support his nomination. earlier donald trump fired back on unverified reports that russia had something on him. and tonight, the ili

assured the president-elect he doesn't think the leaks came from the intelligence community, which mr. trump suggested earlier. >> which would be a tremendous blot on their record if they in fact did that. a tremendous blot, because a thing like that should never have been written, or had or been released. >> and james clapper spoke with trump tonight releasing a statement saying the private security document is not a product of the intel community. at the live desk, i should say at the inauguration desk, i'm chris lawrence. and we had some showers in the area tonight, here is some weather video from thomas circle. you can see folks, we're prepared. they had umbrellas out, they didn't get a lot, about a tenth of an in or less, really not enough to make a dent out there. but shrs

area, take a look here at storm team area, still tracking the showers, but the widespread weather pushing up into new jersey and new england. still showing light showers, parts of montgomery county, around gaithersburg, clarks burg, and traveling in between washington and baltimore dealing with light rain right now. for most of us we're dry and will be overnight tonight. and dry for many of us through the morning hours. only a small chance of isolated showers tomorrow morning, there could be patchy fog out there from the rain showers this evening. notice the temperatures. 50s, guys, so we're not worried about any ice tomorrow morning, wait until you see how warm it will be during the afternoon, and then after that, a wintry mix. we'll have updates coming up about 11:18. >> why not, a crash in northeast washington ends with a car wrapped around this pole. taa

pulled out of the wreck. d.c. police say the person was unresponsive. another person was also injured in this crash happening in the new york avenue bridge area just east of florida avenue. so i opened it, thinking what is this about? and -- just complete shock. >> tonight, a loudoun county mother of three is sharing what she calls a cruel case of racism. her family was hit by hate. northern virginia reporter david culver has the story all new at 11:00. >> dear n word. >> reporter: you're about to hear the clean version of what karen washington found inside her mail box tuesday, a handwritten letter inked with sexual allegations, racism and hate. >> please stay in your city where all the blacks live, because i don't

n word, living in my white neighborhood. >> reporter: first reading this at her kitchen counter, her emotions went from shock to anger to fear. >> and trying to figure out what is my next step. and am i safe, is there somebody watching my home? okay, so you need to write here your title. and your summary for your reading for today. >> reporter: this wife and mother of three has called loudoun county home for 18 years. never any issues. she could not think of any enemies and wondered who would have sent this and why. >> it was truly a stay on your side of the tracks type of message. >> reporter: the actual letter is now with the loudoun county sheriff's office. they're investigating it. the county supervisor for karen's district is appalled. >> the personal nature of this was particularly upsetting. my heart goes out to that family, but i also know we're all enraged about it. and it's not who we are in loudoun

fear replaced by determination. >> my husband and i talked about it. and we thought the most important thing to note is that we're not going to be intimidated. >> reporter: and since posting the letter to facebook she has been flooded with loving messages of support. in loudoun county, david culver, news 4. new at 11:00, the fifth victim of the shooting attack inside the ft. lauderdale airport has now been identified. her name, mary louise anteville, 69 years old. broward county released the names of all victims, until now released only by family. six others were also hurt in last week's attack. a $2 million federal grant will help virginia eliminate its back log of untested sexual assault kits. the state has been working to test about 2,000 back log kits. the grant money will be used to hire more staff to process the evidence. d

be made to make sure all the kits are tested. the state plans to provide more support services to survivors and provide more training to law enforcement. and a maddening warning for more than 20 people in alexandria. she woke up to find this, their car windows smashed in the parking garage, located between king street and braddock road. >> in a community like this, you would think somebody had heard something. >> we have a little baby, he was going to school, he was really scared. what happened, mommy. >> there was not much stolen from the vehicles but there was a whole lot of glass to clean up. police were investigating and advising people to always lock their doors. and an employee with a major beef with his boss, find out why that employee went after

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breaking news now on the deadly mall stabbing in montgomery county. tonight, police have arrested angelo lamont jackson, who is 17 years old and from montgomery village. police say when a

inside wheaton mall, yesterday, police described it as complete confusion. >> when i saw the police officer, they had every section of this mall locked down. >> i don't think we can be protected from random acts of violence and hate. we just need to be ready when they come up. >> police identified one of the victims as angel gomez, so far no arrests in this case. a drone captures video of seattle's space needle, wound up crashing into the iconic landmark. this happened last month as the city prepared the new year's eve fireworks. people working up there were not hurt. this is the third time a drone has been recovered from the space needle. an employee attacked his boss with a meat cleaver. he was a temporary worker at a restaurant in florida only on the job for two days. the owners say they hired him through an agency

they hired him for a permanent position, police say he got upset when they asked for complete paperwork. nobody was seriously hurt. and we have been paying tribute to jim vance today. yesterday he celebrated his 75th birthday, we could not all give him the well wishes in person because he deservedly took the day off. >> trying to sneak out of all of this. so we use the time to go around the news room so folks here could say happy birthday and share some of their memories. take a look. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> vance, if there is one word that describes you, cool. the world could come to an end and vance is right there, keeping his cool. >> the one gift that i would get vance for his birthday would be a personal assistant. >> vance, one thing to describe you, swag, work, life, you make it all look good. >> all right, vance, if there is one thing i could get you f

your birthday, it would be a harley trip. >> there is one word to describe vance, one-of-a-kind, love you vance. >> and when vance and george michael lost it, still brings a smile to my face. >> hold on, hold on -- >> happy 75th. >> my one word to describe jim vance is lucky. because every day all of these years, you get to be jim vance and we all know that has got to be interesting. happy birthday. >> so one of my favorite moments with vance is when i realized that you could teach an old cool dog new tricks. >> jim, i think the one word that describes you is, you can't be imitated.

you're the one and only jim vance. >> vance if i had one word to describe you, it would be rock, as in solid. i guess that is two words, though. >> what would i get him? something corvette-related. >> my favorite vance moment? the time i took him to his very first hockey game. we had a blast. >> i'm getting that -- i'll be back! >> happy birthday, vance. love you. >> vance, not a week goes by that a viewer does not come up to me to ask me to tell you how great they think you are. today, it's my chance, happy birthday to an unparalleled news man. >> my most memorable moment was my first one, when you put your hand on my shoulder and said hey, brother, i'm glad you're here. >> i would like to pick a hat out for vance. >> my favorite vance moment is a hard question for me to answer, i've been sitting right next to the guy for27

28 now. they're all of my favorite moments. >> so many moments, and what do you give the guy who has everything, which he does? >> i don't know, the clip with the model and the wobbly shoes, he sat out here at 6:00 and laughed ridiculously while that was on. >> you know he is probably doing the snap chat filters. >> there you go. or reading some of the hundreds of happy birthday messages. >> so many out there. >> got the whole thing posted on our facebook page if you want to see it again. wow, a huge warmup? >> 65, how does that sound? not bad. enjoy it tomorrow because we actually fall throughout the day on friday temperature-wise. we start off in the 50s, finish in the 30s, by sat we're tracking a wintry mix. here are the headlines, might, spring-like, transition to friday for the cooler weather for the long holiday weekend.

weather alert. the wintry mix in a moment. first temperatures across the area, mid-40s to around 50, 50 right now in the district. tomorrow morning it's already pretty nice out there. 53 degrees, we're warming up quickly around lunchtime. if we get more sunshine during the afternoon i think that temperature could even be a little bit warmer. tomorrow evening, still nice, around 59 degrees, so the weather having a pretty low impact on your thursday. that is probably what we want to hear, a middle part of the week looking for the weekend. for the commute, dry both days, looking great, spring-like out there. have your lunch outdoors. it will be really, really nice, i can't say that enough. if you want a run or a bicycle ride in tomorrow it will be t-shirt weather out there. road conditions on friday, still fine, saturday, dealing with slick roads, and on sunday, i still think we'll have isolated slick spots around. on friday, 55 for a

thing, we actually see the temperatures falling throughout the day, 50s happen during the morning hours, 40s by the afternoon, 30s by the evening hours. on saturday again, storm team 4 weather alert day. here is the latest, looks like there will be morning snow showers and sleet around, sleet changing to freezing rain, areas of freezing rain and maybe even plain rain around during the afternoon hours. snow, sleet, it's not looking like a lot. maybe around an inch or less, i'm more focused on that threat of freezing rain. snow is one thing, ice is always another thing. she will have the latest and lauren and i will be here during the afternoon hours. sunday, high temperature of 39 degrees, dry most of the day. by the evening and overnight hours on sunday a chance of rain and maybe freezing rain moving back into the area. so that means the chance of rain around early on m

martin luther king jr. holiday. dry, though, i think for the mid-day and afternoon hours. and then 50s and 60s. >> all over the map. >> i know. >> coming up, he did it, alex ovechkin reaches the milestone in just seconds. plus, a bad night for the izardsw as ceo of exxonmobile... rex tillerson put exxon's interests before america's i'm not here to represent the us government's interest.

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this is the xfinity sports desk. >> out of the gate, he did it in seconds. >> yeah, alex ovechkin reaching

he was just that one point shy of reaching a thousand, heading into tonight's game against the penguins. the fans who went to see it, i hope they were in their seats, because the great a didn't make everybody wait too long. and like we said, against the penguins, wanted to get this one out of the way, ovechkin brings the puck down, fires and scores and gets a career point just 35 seconds into the game. the fans there at the verizon center giving him that well deserved standing ovation. caps up 1-0, now the great a didn't wait for a thousand, why wait for 1001. caps up at the power play, the career goal number 546, career point 1,001, capitals win it,

and the wizards and celtics don't get along, they were called out for being dirty. and a bad night for the wizards would lead to a tough loss. csn reporting john wall would have an x-ray on his left wrist, that would be negative. but fittingly boxer floyd mayweather was courtside for this one. isaiah thomas misses a shot, flies in, gets the rebound, the bucket and guard getting it done, celtics up one. later, wizards battle back, porter jr. knocking down the tray. wizards take the one-point lead, but boston's 5'9" guard just too much. thomas stepping up and just straining the three here. 38 points here for him, celtics win, 117-108. after the game, john wall not having it.

into it. like we said not much love between the wizard and celtics. now, down the level george washington and richmond takes oó usgw. they had a tough time, figuring him out gets this dunk, you have a team high 17 points for udub. unfortunately, bcu had no problem with gw, justin tillman throwing down the alley-oop. check that out. 20 points for him, bcu beat gw 85-55. a couple of other scores for you, the american eagles, with 76-66, and third ranked maryland women's basketball they survive a scare on the road against penn state, 89-83, so exciting night. the fight

you will see a sea of pink hats, flooding capitol hill and it does not mean what you may think this time. these hats have kitten ears and will be worn the day after the inauguration. it's part of the women's march on washington. organizers tell us pink represents the women's rights, and it's also a reference to donald trump's comments on a leaked tape where he talked about grabbing women's parts. others who couldn't make the march sheriff's departmeipped l. >> these hats have come from

over, belgium, australia, canada, japan. >> well, they are expecting a pretty large crowd for the women's march on the saturday after the inauguration. about 1800 bus parking permits have been issued for that day. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. so we're offering incredibly fast 150 meg internet, hurry, freddy, you're gonna miss it! coming. i can't believe he is doing this.

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[ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- first lady michelle obama, stevie wonder,