that family slept, trapping ten of them inside. >> i heard the kids crying. my daughter heard them. they said, help, help! couldn't save them. couldn't save them. >> two children and their mother remain in the hospital this afternoon. a third child has been released. let's get to darcy spencer. >> reporter: this is a difficult story for everyone involved, from the fire investigators to of course the family, to neighbors, and even those of us here covering this with the loss of six children. this is the house here. you can see the charred out debris left behind. investigators spent the entire day today with that very difficult process of locating the six children who died inside that home. now their focus, finding the cause of the fire. they are looking at the possibility of a space heater being involved.

one neighbor who tried to help. >> i heard the kids crying. my daughter heard them. they said, help, help! you know, couldn't save them. couldn't save them. >> reporter: robert spencer lives across the street from where six children died in an early morning fire. he wanted to help, but the flames, the smoke, the heat were too intense. >> i'm not nothing because i didn't save nobody. i felt helpless. >> reporter: the children who died range in age from 9 months to 11 years old. three of their siblings and mom survived. >> to know they were woke and they were screaming and nobody could get to them, it's hard. >> reporter: the fire broke out on springwood avenue just after mid night. the mom katy malone was home with her nine children. the dad was at work. malone was able the get

her 8 kwoe-year-old daughter re two of her brothers who are four and five years old. >> i looked at the house last night at 1:00 something in the morning and was amazed at the flames coming from it. >> reporter: friends say some of the kids went to this charter school around the corner where an open house has been cancelled. the family attended the nearby lutheran church. >> they bonded together, stick together, loved one another, communicate with one another. deal with the people in the neighborhood. lovely family. >> reporter: i asked the fire chief whether the mom and those two children who remain in the hospital in critical condition are expected to survive. he simply said to me, we need to pray. coming up, some words from the mayor of popular on this very difficult day in her city.

the mother of these children worked for long time maryland congressman elijah cummings. >> we are a small very diverse office of 21 people. we are like a family. we have made it clear that my office is going to do everything in our power to embrace them in this very very difficult time. >> cummings says malone was with him for 11 years. we're also following some breaking news involving the fbi's investigation into hillary clinton's e-mail server. the doj is launching a review into possible misconduct by the fbi. the probe includes a review of fbi director james comey's news conference last jeweuly.

implications of this when pete williams joins us in the next ten minutes. also new this afternoon, a special tribute within the past hour for vice president joe biden. late this afternoon president obama surprising him by awarding him the medal of freedom. that is the highest civilian honor. mr. obama praised the vice president for his extraordinary career in public service, saying it's nowhere near finished. that surprise honor came after the outgoing vice president sat down with nbc's andrea mitchell. they spoke about a range of issues including president-elect trump. >> one of the big issues is he said drain the swamp. >> i don't think he's done enough. he may sink in the swamp. this is a place where the public is going to decide whether or not that the failure to divest, the failure to meet what were considered to be the basic ethical standards of

>> biden told andrea mitchell that he hopes to continue his cancer moonshot work with the new administration. and the tradition continued today with another busy day on capitol hill. three of president-elect's cabinet nominees are being grilled by members of the senate. today confirmation hearings for ja james mattis, mike pompeo and ben carson. this afternoon the senate voted to approve a waiver that will allow mattis to serve despite the fact that it has been fewer than seven years since he left the marines. both the inauguration and the women's march the next day are expected to draw hundreds of thousands to the capital. but only one event is getting federal protection. >> today the director of d.c.'s homeland security said he's asked the federal government to include the women's march in their security plan, but the request was re

for that march on saturday. >> my request went to the secret service. with that it went all the way up to the secretary and did not get included. >> even though the march will if on without the help of federal partners, the cost of the march will be split between a federal grant and fees paid by the march organizers. metro's safe track maintenance is going to take a break for the inauguration, but there are some new dates that have been announced for more work. you can expect it all to last through june. adam tuss live with what's coming down the track. >> reporter: you know, having a break from safe track this month has been nice. there has been midday work and late night work. the work picks back up in february.

with safe track, there's been a dizzying array of maintenance and delays. >> tracks going ten miles an hour. the air was cut out too. >> reporter: the work is coming back. starting february 11th, there will be a two-week shutdown on the blue line between roslyn and the pentagon. >> it's looking at the overall conditions. >> reporter: metro general manager detailed some of the work today. he always expected safe track would last through june, but in some cases crews are going to be going back through sections that have already seen work. >> something that we've done differently, i think, is when we find things, we deal with them. we're not pushing them off. as we've gotten out there and find more things, we are dealing with them now. >> reporter: blue

orange, green, will also see more work coming. >> i may just start thinking about going ahead and just driving to work. >> reporter: new work and new headaches on the horizon. but metro leaders say all of this has made a difference and that the system is in better shape. metro says two weeks prior to each new surge that's coming, they will provide information for how to best get around. a change is coming to some metro stations. they're getting rid of those flashing red lights at the edge of the platform. crews will replace them with the new white l.e.d.s. metro says the white lights will help brighten some of the darker stations. jay gruden now looking to replace his two top assistants. offensive coordinator shawn mcvay named head coach of the l.a. rams this afternoon. he becomes the youngest head coach innf

weeks. mcvay rose very quickly up the redskins ranks, coming to the organization as an assistant tight ends coach seven years ago. he has been the redskins offensive coordinator for the last three seasons. the redskins will begin a search for a new offensive coordinator immediately. the team is also looking for a new defensive coordinator after the firing of joe barry. well, it's the middle of january and right now at 5:09 we're still near 70 degrees out there. our high today at reagan was about 72. dulles hit 70 degrees. record high temperatures there. it's still pretty nice throughout the evening hours. 63 degrees by 7:00 p.m. perfect for walking the dog or going for an evening jog. by 11:00 p.m. a few clouds out there and ar

tomorrow still not too bad. as we look to the weekend, a wintery mix on saturday and then maybe some rain at times on sunday and monday. with that wintery mix on saturday, it is going to be a storm team 4 weather alert day. we are looking at slick roads. still the potential for slick roads. more on the weather over the long weekend coming up. a man convicted of jumping the white house fence avoids a lengthy prison sentence. >> why the judge allowed it despite his concerns and why the man says he jumped that fence in the first place. >> reporter: ahead we'll hear from the mother of the young suspect charged in the double murder at wheaton mall. she tells us his side of the story. >> reporter: members of a church are looking for a new place to worship after a fire broke out this afternoon.

>> reporter: i spoke to the suspect's family today. they say they have proof that he had nothing to do with the double murder at the mall in wheatontiver wheaton on tuesday. yet, tonight angelo jackson is in jail. he's an 11th grade student at richard montgomery high school in rockville. he faces the possibility of being sentenced to life in prison if he's convicted in the double murder that occurred tuesday afternoon at westfield wheaton mall. >> this is mistaken identity.

that's gang stuff. i know where my son was at. i have proof where my son was at at the time. he was not at wheaton mall at all. >> reporter: this picture i'm showing you is your son? >> that's my son. >> reporter: today jackson's brother and a group of friends came to court to support him. his public defender says he maintains his innocence. the charging document says investigators interviewed a number of witnesses to the assault and also learned that the assaults were captured on the mall's security video system. police have identified the victims. montgomery county state's attorney john mccarthy. >> whether or not this is gang related, i am not telling thaw that is the case.

but obviously anything where there's an allegation or suspicion that it's gang related is something that we take tremendously seriously zblmplgts . >> reporter: how police connected jackson to this double murder. and i'll hear from his brother and share it with you, talking about angelo's prior run-ins with the law. this afternoon a fire destroyed a church in prince george's county. it was intense. the flames shot out of the windows of the new mt. olive church. >> reporter: seeing his now burned church for the zirfirst time. a fire broke out in the basement, then spread to the first floor. firefighters still unsure what caused it. >> i don't even know. i'm just surprised and hurt.

give god thanks, because this can be replaced. if a life is lost, that could not be replaced. >> reporter: several neighbors say they saw those flames this afternoon. >> they kicked the doors in. flames started busting all out. >> there was something really bad happening here, but the police were all over. >> reporter: the building may be burned but the pastor's spirits still high. >> this just become a set back but we still go forward. >> reporter: the pastor tells me part of that moving forward includes rebuilding the church, but in the meantime they'll have to look for a new place where they can worship. the u.s. military apologized today for a raid in afghanistan that killed dozens of civilians. u.s. troops were on a nighttime mission in november. the military says members of the taliban who were hiding among the civilians started firing on

american jets launched air strikes, killing two taliban members, but also killing 33 civilians. temperatures were above average today, but don't get used to it. storm team 4 is tracking changes for the weekend. ♪ a local band putting down the mike after 45 years of performances.

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with the wintery mix in the forecast on saturday, it is going to be a storm team 4 weather alert day. i want to show you what we know right now about the storm. i want to let you know it's an evolving storm. we're going to continue to update the forecast. but we're going to see snow and sleet moving in some time during the morning hours on saturday. this storm is all about the duration, the length of time, not the amounts. we're not talking about a lot of ice. it's going to be happening throughout the day on saturday on to

and that's going to cause travel nightmares across the area especially because it's a long holiday weekend. we will see slick roads, especially on saturday. then showers potentially on sunday and monday. we could still see some areas of freezing rain mixes in on martin luther king, jr. day. right now it's hard to believe that we're talking about a wintery mix. look at the temperatures here in your neighborhood. 66 in gaithersburg. 72 in annapolis and 69 here in the district. tomorrow morning it's still not bad out there. it's dry. maybe an isolated shower, about 10% chance then our temperatures slowly fall throughout the day. by the afternoon hours we're in the 40s but we have increasing sunshine. heading out on your friday night, it's still dry at that point. here's what you can expect saturday. if you're in the blue area, this is the d.c.

see a dusting to around two inches of snow and sleet, changing over to some freezing rain mainly around the midday hours. down in southern maryland, fredericksburg and the northern neck, areas of freezing rain at first, likely changing to just plain rain as your temperatures are largely just supporting rain. this includes parts of fauquier county and around the i-81 corridor. we're really focused on freezing rain here. if you're going out to deep creek for the long weekend, keep that in mind. it's icy and wet out there. the ski and snowboard forecast is on my facebook and twitter pages. you can head there and check that out. martin luther king, jr. parade on monday. traveling this weekend, it's a great weekend to download the nbc

34 on saturday for a high. low 40s on sunday and monday. it's nice and dry on tuesday. that's when we're heading back to work and school. 55. maybe some rain on wednesday. next friday we're still in the low 60s. >> sounds great, especially during the inauguration. we're back now with more detailins on the new inspector general review into the fbi's investigation surrounding hillary clinton's e-mail server during her time as secretary of state. >> that review is going to partly look into whether james comey followed protocol. >> is this specifically going after comey, or is it going to be a little bit broader? >> well, it will review certainly the actions of the fbi director. i think that's really the center of

the news conference he had in july in which he said we're not going to prosecute her but her conduct was careless. and then october 20th he said additional e-mails had been found on the laptop of anthony weiner that were pertinent. and then just a short time later saying they didn't find anything significant. he will not look at the investigative or prosecutorial decisions here. this was about really how the public aspects of this investigation were handled. >> and the i.g.'s office make recommendations, but what role will the next attorney general play? >> whether to accept the recommendations. inspectors general are independent from the cabinet members they advise and give reports to. so presumably this report wll

if it's jeff sessions, he'll have to decide what to do about the recommendations. the recommendations could range from this wasn't a good idea, to somebody ought to be disciplined, new protocols ought to be written. that kind of thing. it's not unusual for an inspector general of the justice department to ask these questions about whether protocols were followed. it is unusual to ask them about the director of the fbi. >> because of the timing, do you usually ask these questions when an administration is about to change over? >> no. that's unusual as well. of course the inspector general himself is a political appointee. unlike cabinet members, they don't all walk off the job on inauguration day. if a president wants to remove any inspector general, the president has to write a letter to congress saying i'm going to do this, here's my reasons and you have to give them 30 days. sentencing day for that

fence. it force add lod a lockdown tha involved the first family. >> reporter: a group of thieves arrested after police say they hit nine homes. i'm david culver in fairfax county. we're going to tell you how police were able to track them down and what they did inside the homes that went well beyond burglary.

northern virginia reporter david culver joins us live. you spoke with one of the victims. what are they telling you? >> reporter: as you can imagine, she's still uneasy about being inside her home despite the suspects being in jail. but she did stop by here today.

district station. she was here to pick up some of her stolen goods. >> this is the camera they were caught on. i don't think they were expecting to see a camera there. >> reporter: this is not how candy envisioned starting the new year. her home trashed by thieves. >> my business was shut down for two full weeks while i dealt with all of this. i had to run out and buy an emergency computer. >> reporter: they also took family heirlooms, precious jewelry. >> my tv was shot with a bb. monitor was shot with a bb. the drawers were emptied all over the floor. they even took a box of brand new business cards and threw them all over. >> it all happened as candy's home cameras rolled. the three suspects casually walking towards what is her grandson's bedroom. remember, the family is not home at the time. but look in their

so it appears. >> the scariest thing was that somebody could get into our home and get access to our 10-year-old grandson who lives with us. >> reporter: turns out they were holding bb guns. >> we've linked a number of them to some of these suspects. >> reporter: they believe the group hit several homes, nine, maybe even more. >> it could be linked to these suspects or linked to someone else. >> reporter: investigators tracked them down after they hit this horse ause and tripped the alarm. >> i was terrified. i made my husband walk the whole house with me. >> reporter: police recovered several of her stolen items. candy did not think she would get those stolen items back. she's incredibly grateful to police. coming up, i want

for this angle of the story. we stop by one of the suspect's homes. you're going to hear what happened when we showed up at the front door. a judge has spared a white house fence jumper from prison. 24-year-old joseph caputo will face probation for a wild underand dhaent occurred on thanksgiving on 2015. it triggered a lockdown for the first family. only on news4, caputo explained way he d why he did it. >> no prison, three years probation and he is now banned from the district of columbia. a judge issued that sentence despite saying he's concerned it would send a bad message to other would be fence jumpers. he was draped in an american flag when he scape

in court today his lawyers and family said it was a political protest, that he was carrying a rewritten u.s. constitution for which he hoped to gain attention. >> he composed a rewritten constitution which included some term limits for political office and some changes for the educational system, just things that a conscientious young man might want to see changed in the future. >> prosecutors agreed he should be spared prison. the judge complied. we asked joe what he was thinking that day. >> i had my own intentions. i'll talk about them later on. the main point was the binder. it seeks to restore the constitution to its original intentions and enhance it based on the social parameters of our day. >> theio

since approved changes to the white house fence to make it more difficult to climb, including a taller base and spikes at the top. in 2014 a texas man made it over the fence and into the white house itself through an unlocked front door. loudoun county police have found the cement truck driver who sideswiped a school bus full of kids and then took off. 50 students were on board the bus. two of them had to be rush toed the hospital with minor injuries. this afternoon the sheriff's office announced they have found the driver but they haven't said whether they're going to charge him yet. we have heard about the medicinal effects of marijuana. >> now doctors are trying to sort out the fact from the fiction.

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it was a wild way for him to celebrate his birthday. he's a local hockey coach who works

children. he's rollerblading 60 kilometers for his birthday. his journey gave him plenty of time to tell us what has inspired him. >> the reason i'm doing it is, is for these people that skate and what it does for them and how it transforms their life. the biggest thing i get out of coaching is watching the players come in, not know how to skate, not how to play hockey and just transform. you feel a part of something that they get beat up everywhere else they go. that's why i do it. if you have a purpose, something like this, that's what you think about. why are you out here? why are you doing this? that's what gets you through it. the most difficult part of the route is probably down here in calvert county where

roller coaster. it's like someone picked up the road and shook it. it's a bunch of little hills which is okay on a bike or running, but it's a little difficult rollerblading. for all of the people that have contributed, it's going to be a way to pay them back and to show them that i appreciate all they've done. after years on the streets, some homeless vets now have a place to call home. see how what's happening in this first of its kind building is changing lives. >> i like it here. i like it here. i finally found a home. and after 45 years, a local band gets rea fordy

donald trump covered a lot of topics during his first news conference as president-elect. he made some statements that aren't true regarding jobs, tax returns and obamacare, according to our partners at fact check.org. >> i will be the greatest jobs producer that god ever created. >> president-elect donald trump promising to put americans to work, saying 96 million are looking for jobs. >> 96 million really wanting a job and they can't get. you know that story, the real number. that's the real number. >> he used this figure before. that's 96 million people wh

>> factcheck.org says 96 million is not accurate. why? it includes americans not in the labor force, including retirees, students and others who don't want jobs. >> it includes stay-at-home moms and dads. the 96 figure is way inflated. >> mr. trump also promised to repeal and replace the affordable care act, saying heed be doing the democrats a favor. when talking about what he calls obamacare failures, factcheck says he got some statistics wrong, like the cost of premiums. >> some states have over 100% increase. >> he's wrong about some states plural. there's one state, arizona, where the premium increase on the obamacare exchanges was 116%. the average across the board is 25%. and that's before subsidies, because the government provides subsidies to help people purchase these plans on the

>> you have deductibles that are so high that after people go broke paying their premiums, which are going through the roof, the healthcare can't even be used by them because the deductibles are so high. >> 77% of those who purchased obamacare policies can do so for less than $100 a month because of the exchange subsidies. >> the president-elect's tax returns still a hot topic. >> the only one that cares about my tax returns are the reporters. >> factcheck.org refers to a survey this week that shows that's not the case. it found 60% of americans believe he should release his returns. >> he also said you learn very little from the returns. >> but factcheck says the documents contain a lot of valuable information. >> things like how much money he contributes to charities, what

kind of business associates he has and what kind of income that is generating. there's plenty to be learned from his tax returns. today a man from alexandria pleaded guilty to voter fraud for trying to file bogus voter registration forms. a judge sentenced him to 500 hours of community service. he's already spent about 90 days in jail. the commonwealth attorney says the chances those phony applications could have led to actual fraud is minimal. that's because he made up the names on the forms. the registrar discovered between 10 and 100 fake forms. she rejected them and then notified the authorities. we're checking in with a local entrepreneur who won today's next big thing contest. crista woods beat out hundreds to win this contest.

her invention, the glove sticks. it's a unique deodorizer. he product sold out in eight minutes on qvc. >> i wanted to win, but i wanted to win for everybody else. i want to inspire other people to truly find themselves and their passion for what they're supposed to be doing. >> since winning the next big thing on the today show, sales of glove sticks have quadrupled. she says her inspiration came from her three athletic kids and their stinky sports gear. a lot of us enjoy going to clubs and hearing local musicians. but molife on the road is rough the money isn't that good. one local singer is breaking up the band. we sat down with d.c.'s o

of their better sweet good-bye. >> it's time for me to grow up and it's not as easy as it was the first time. >> in 1978, russ beaker was serving in the u.s. navy. david goodfriend was unemployed. the two rented out a bank statement apartment for $100 a month. >> we just started learning songs. >> before long, they were writing their own songs and playing shows. they formed their first band, going going gone and reported the first song they wrote together "trouble." they were living their dream, playing clubs and opening for national bands like little feat and johnny winter. >> when you're

lot of fun, but you don't want the night to end. now it's a completely different thing. come the middle of the second set, i'm thinking, after 90 minutes i could be home. >> more than 40 years and several bands later, doing three shows a night has become too much for beaker, who recently had a health scare. >> i had open heart surgery two years ago. my chest ached the next day. i'm a little tired. i'm usually for a gig i'm either coming from work and going to the show or do the show and i'm super fortunate very rarely will i have that day off and i have to go to work the next day. it's a grind. >> beaker and goodfriend never made enough money as musicians to support themselves. they have to work day jobs. >> a couple of

gave his good friend the bad news. ♪ >> i think it's run its course for me. >> while beaker has had enough of the late nights, goodfriend has no plans to give upper forming. >> it's the hardest on him. he's the front man. i think he's the best front man in town. >> so that means the end of the band. >> i'll never find somebody -- i mean, we are just so connected. >> saturday night beaker and goodfriend will take the stage for one last show together. >> we have a lot of friends who are probably going to show up and sitting in. we're going to knock the house down one more time. >> it will be a nice way for me to go out. >> going going gone will play that last show saturday night at jv's in falls church.

>> wow. they really got to live the dream, to have a band. >> so fun. >> when they go, a little piece of d.c. is going to go with him. >> it will. you're here to pick us up now. we had a wonderful day. >> how warm is it still out there? >> i see people running outside in shorts and t-shirts. so nice. dulles, baltimore, both tying or breaking records today. here in d.c. we made it up to 72 degrees. look at these temperatures. i can't wait to get out of here. temperatures in the upper 60s right now. if you didn't get outside this afternoon, hopefully you get outside after the 6:00 news. amelia is going to have more on

temperatures for a second. it was so nice out there today. we even have a few peeks of sunshine. temperatures fall into the 50s. by midnight we're still in the mid 50s. that's still ten degrees above our average daytime high temperature. it looks like that temperature will drop after midnight tonight and through the day on friday. why? we've got a frontal system headed our way. we could see a few isolated light showers out of it ov overnight tonight. what else is coming our way, look at that cold air. yeah, a big difference. that cold air is slowly going to seep into our area through the day on friday. so we're going to hit our daytime high tomorrow after midnight. it's going to be in the 50s. temperatures are going to drop. tomorrow morning, still fairly mild. when you head home, it's going

and late tomorrow night, definitely cooler as temperatures fall into the 30s late friday night. saturday we run into problems. once that frontal system passes through, it's going to stall to the south. area of low pressure is going to ride along it and give us a wintery mix. it's coming saturday morning. it's duration versus amounts. doesn't look like it's going to be all that heavy, but it's going to last throughout the day. slick roads. we're thinking d.c. north all the way out to hagerstown. a dusting to about 2 inches of snow, and then it will change over to sleet. the blue ridge mountains mainly looking at ice. then we'll have to watch southern maryland. we are seeing some changes with that. amelia will have more for you at 11:00. right now it mainly looks like rain.

look like the best conditions for that.

the fight to find housing for the homeless is an ongoing battle here and around the country. >> the district and federal government today dedicated a new apartment building that sets aside 60 units for homeless veterans. >> it's a new chance for those who have given so much.

>> reporter: roz stewart spend four years in the army and 21 years as a healthcare worker for family problems left her homeless. she's been in her new apartment less than a week. >> i like it here. i like it here. i finally found a home. right here is okay. it's a start once again. i know that. i really do. >> reporter: she's in the new construction building on north capitol street with 124 small units, 60 set aside for homeless veterans like her. d.c. federal and private company officials gathered to dedicate the new building today. it will include social services right here on the site. >> this is a model development. we're in the shadow of the capitol building itself. we want to send a clear message that housing for people who were formerly homeless could be

attractive and beautiful and have the services that are ne needed. >> reporter: the modern lawn di servi laundry services, the building offers a chance for a stable life. >> i can breathe again. i can take a bath every day. >> more veterans deserve a place to call home. >> absolutely. as of today, the district says it has found housing for about 1800 veterans in the last two years. develop right now at 6:00, the head of the fbi is surnd un review for the timing of the announcement that some hillary clinton supporters say swayed the election. a tragic house fire killed six youngsters and it's hitting close to home for a local congressman. plus, the white house surprise that brought outgoing vice president joe biden to tears this afternoon. news4 at 6:00 ss

this last presidential campaign of 2016 was littered with conflict and with controversy. >> there is more tonight. fbi director james comey is now under investigation for the way he handled hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server. he criticized her when he cleared of her criminality last summer, then he reopened and closed the investigation within days of the election. steve handelsman joins us now with the latest. >> donald trump, remember, praised comey for criticizing clinton, said it took guts. but it might have violated justice department policy that says especially in the closing days of myany election campaign one should do nothing to help or hurt any candidate. now there will be an investigation. democrats have been charging that fbi director james comey might have cost hillary clinton the election, giving the win to