i'm storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper. this just in. winter weather advisory extended for some areas until 4:00 a.m. on sunday. i'll let you know where you can see icy spots tomorrow morning. and this story has our newsroom buzzing

the tweet that got a local school district employee fired. an outraged family is putting up their own reward money after a man in his 70s, a vietnam veteran, is robbed in broad daylight. the freezing rain is gone, but the icy spots could still be tricky, could still be an issue overnight and even into early tomorrow morning. thanks for joining us tonight. i'm erika gonzalez. meteorologist amelia draper has your outlook for tonight and when you wake up. >> this just in from the national weather service. they're extending the winter weather vezry for all the counties pretty much in maryland that border pennsylvania until 4:00 a.m. for the potential for slick spots out there. take a look at the map out there. freezing rain advisory still in effect for northern montgomery, howard, and baltimore, will be coming down momentarily. but the areas here in purple, this includes hagerstown and

frederick. under that winter weather advisory until 4:00 a.m. if you're traveling late tonight, early tomorrow morning, especially in those areas, you want to watch for bridges and overpasses. main roads, though, i think will be just fine. and take a look at the radar. most of the area dry. a few sprinkles out there starting to push out of the area by midnight all of this activity is gone, some patchy fog in. throughout the day tomorrow we're completely dry. erika, i've taken a look at road surface temperatures in maryland. the good news, just about every monitor coming in above freezing. so again, it's the bridges and overpasses. you really want to be cautious of. notice frederick and hagerstown right around freezing. everybody else just above that freezing mark. tomorrow morning most of aus boff freezing but you can see gaithersburg. major improvements. coming up in my full forecast. breaking news. after 146 years the curtain is coming down

on earth. ringling brothers & barnum and bailey circus breaking the news late tonight. their shows will end for good by may. company executives cite a number of reasons for calling it quits. they say declining attendance, high operating costs are a factor, and the circus has been embroiled in prolonged battles with animal rights groups. you can catch the last shows here in d.c. in march. and we'll continue to follow this breaking news and bring you details as they develop. nearly 7,000 dominion virginia customers lost power after a car hit a utility pole in fairfax county. this happened around 7:30 this evening on cedar lane. most of the customers have their power back, and dominion expects everyone to have their power restored before 3:00 a.m. cedar lane between hilltop road and willowmere drive is going to be closed for several hours so that crews can repair the pole and the power line. new at 11:00, a maryland family absolutely outraged after

thrown to the ground in broad daylight. and what angered them most is that he was trying to help the very man who robbed him. darcy spencer has the story that you'll see only on news 4. >> reporter: james copps went to the cvs story wednesday afternoonfor an errand. >> when i got out of the car he's standing there against the wall and he asked if i could let him have a couple bucks. >> and what did you say? i said sure, i'll let you have some. >> reporter: this 72-year-old vietnam veteran reached for his wallet, then was taken by surprise. >> i went to open it up and he just reached up and grabbed it real quick. the wallet was thick. i guess he figured it was a good grab. >> reporter: there was a struggle as the robber tried to get away. cox was holding on to him and the wallet. >> so he hit me or pushed me real hard and i fell

asphalt, and he kept on running. >> reporter: mr. cox says he had everything in that wallet. his military i.d., his medical cards and information. not to mention $1,000 in cash he had just gotten from the bank. his family is so outraged they're adding $500 to the charles county crime solvers' $1,000 reward fund. relatives contacted news 4 to draw attention to the case. >> he's helped the country. he's done everything he can. it's just sad. >> reporter: police tell news 4 there's no surveillance camera footage but cox was able to pull the headphones off the robber during the struggle. they're checking for dna. darcy spencer, news 4. turning to the presidential transition, the inauguration is just six days away. today dozens of people gathered at the metropolitan a.m.e. church in northwest d.c. for a pro-immigration rally. ma o

they say and they see as a re-emergence of policies of exclusion, prejudice and of hateful rhetoric specifically aimed at immigrants. >> we are immigrants that are contributing to society through our work, through our education, through sweat and tears. so we're here to stay, and we're not going anywhere. >> rally organizers say they were encouraged by the number of people who came out in the rain this morning. they say they'll work to keep the church a place of acceptance in the years ahead. we reached out for a comment from the d.c. gop official. in a statement patrick mara tells news 4, "i represented ward 1, the largest population of immigrants in d.c. on the board of education, and i'm quite pro immigration. the d.c. gop certainly does not disagree with denouncing hateful rhetoric." and we've got new details tonight in a war of words playing out on twitter. the president-elect is tweeting messages aimed at congressman

john lewis. earlier the georgia democrat said donald trump was not a legitimate president. given the possibility of russia's involvement in the election. tonight the president-elect tweeted that representative lewis should "focus on the burning and crime-infested inner cities." his earlier tweets critiqued the congressman's handling of his own district and suggested he was "all talk, no action." even conservative lawmakers are challenging that last claim. nebraska republican senator ben sasse tweeted "john lewis and his talk have changed the world." representative lewis sits down with "meet the press" moderator chuck todd in the morning. that coverage starts at 10:30. a maryland school district employee has been fired because of a tweet. the woman ran frederick county school district's twitter account. earlier this month a student tweeted to the account asking that schools be closed the following day. but the student misspelled the word "tomorrow." and the woman

would you learn to spell tomorrow," end quote. the employee said she was let go yesterday afternoon and she understands why. this is quite the talk for us on facebook and you can chime in as well. anybody who's been to a sporting event knows the mascots are there to entertain. but some fans say these mascots went a little too far. a rock slide shuts down two miles of a scenic route. what it's going to take to get miles of a scenic route. what it's going to take to get afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me.

today people gathered for a civil rights march and rally in the district ahead of monday's martin luther king day holiday. civil rights leader al

organized the we shall not be moved rally. president-elect donald trump's inauguration also on the minds of the marchers. and they vow to continue fighting for criminal justice, voting rights, and equality in the new administration. mlk day will be marked by celebration and service. and here in d.c. that also means a peace walk and parade. on 4 your sunday viewpoint pat lawson talked with a pabl of local leaders about the steps president obama has taken to advance dr. luther king's dream. you can watch it sunday morning and learn more about the peace walk and parade. open the nbc washington app and search mlk walk. the mystery of the great port-a-potty cover-up on the national mall solved. we now know why workers removed the signage on the portable toilets set up for president-elect donald trump's inauguration. the labels have been taken down and blue tape now covers over the don's johns logos. today we learned the architect of capital is behind it.

the capitol grounds is restricted. up next, a shocking reunion nearly two decades in the making. two biological parents are getting to see their 18-year-old daughter for the very first time. winter weather sending cars spinning out of control and more trouble could be on the way. and get ready for a new "snl." you're looking live at 30 rock.

for anybody that's lost hope you keep hope alive.

if it happened to me it can happen to anybody. >> for that father a long-awaited reunion with his daughter this afternoon. now a young woman, maya mobley, was kidnapped as a baby in the hospital where she was born. nbc's gadi schwartz shares the bittersweet moment 18 years in the makeling. >> reporter: for 18 years he didn't even have a picture of his daughter. only this artist's rendering. his baby was stolen from a hospital hours after she was born. >> never gave up hope. always thought i'd find her. >> reporter: today a private reunion. >> first meeting was beautiful. it was wonderful. >> reporter: for so long shanara mobley, her mother praying her daughter was alive. having cake on her birthdays. making public pleas. >> i just want you to bring my child back. that's all i'm asking from you. that's all i want. >> reporter: investigators say it was a dna match that confirmed the teenager's own recent suspicions that she mig

police arefth a woman named gloria williams, who raised kamaya as her own. that newborn, now aw teenager, found living with williams in the small town of walterboro, south carolina. neighbors describe williams as well respected in the community. >> this woman has taken care of her. she has mothered her. nurlt yured her. that's all the biological mother would have done. >> reporter: now 200 miles south in jacksonville, florida kamaya's grandmother velma akin is overjoyed. >> i haven't seen her since that day she was taken from the hospital. so i've just got a big, big hug for her. that's all. just hold her a few minutes. >> reporter: akin says it was difficult to see images of the teenager at a court hearing for williams crying. >> i saw her telling her mom that she loved her. but that was the mom that she knew. >> reporter: she says she understands how confusing it must be but wants kamaya to know she's been loved and missed by her real family, who never gave up hope.

>> that's an incredible story. meanwhile, a massive rock slide closed part of a scenic drive at utah's zion national park. this happened friday. good news here is nobody was hurt. but crews are going to have to clear 200 tons of boulders and debris before they can reopen that road. icy roads sent cars skidding across the midwest today. gosh, that is so dangerous. they may be to blame for a 20-vehicle pileup near wichita, kansas. at least two people were hurt last night. and that area is expecting more freezing rain. and ice is the problem tonight in missouri as well. people there worried about losing heat and electricity if the power goes out. the ice that melted earlier today is going to freeze back up tonight. and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> and that same system impacting us here. but thankfully the ice nowhere near as bad. an update. the national weather service has also decided to extend the

northern montgomery and howard counties and up around baltimore until 4:00 a.m. so if you're in the purple or pink and you're traveling late tonight, early tomorrow morning you want to be especially cautious for some slick spots out there. again, i can't say it enough. mainly on bridges and overpasses. road temperatures in maryland for the most part all coming in above freezing. so really good news there. throughout the day it's really nice tomorrow after a cold start. as you look to monday the forecast also improving. mainly dry for martin luther king jr. day. then the upcoming workweek, we're in the 50s from tuesday pretty much right on through next weekend. wait until you see the numbers on the ten-day. right now we're at 36 degrees. tomorrow morning we'll kind of be right around 36 through about 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 a.m. potentially some patchy fog out there. isolated fog out there right now. but by 10:00 a.m. it's all about the sunshine and warming up into the 40s. upper 40s for highs tomorrow. but if you are out driving early again, you want to be cautious for some

mainly north of town. exercise, though, long sleeves you're going to be just fine. if you're hitting the slopes, looking really great tomorrow. but make sure you have the sunglasses or the goggles because of the sun glare. and then on monday again mainly dry right now. isolated showers mainly on the corridor. here's your planner. during the early morning hours we're in the mid 30s. by lunch time low 40s and afternoon highs near 50 degrees. around 47 tomorrow night. it's still dry. and we're around 40 degrees. as we look to monday a high of 41. i want to take you hour by hour throughout your day on monday. 9:00 a.m. we're right around 37. maybe an isolated shower. but with new information coming in it's looking completely dry for just about everybody. best chance of a shower would be back around the mountains. now, there is plenty much clouds in the forecast. and through the midday and afternoon hours we're kind of hanging out right around 40 degrees. definitely chilly out there. not too bad. on tuesday as we head back to work and school make

have the umbrella handy. showers are looking likely. but look at the temperatures. this is the warm-up i'm talking about. we're in the 50s. maybe a shower early on wens wednesday. otherwise it's breezy throughout the day. 56. thursday and friday mid 50s. friday for the inauguration potentially the warmest on record with a high of 55. a mix of clouds and sun, mild for this time of year. then erika, next weekend we're keeping it dry. temperatures in the nid to upper 50s. somebody asking on my twitter page, when are we going it get our first inch of snow here in the district? and it's not looking like that. at least in the ten-day forecast. go ahead, nordy. >> nordy is the minnesota wild mascot. in this skit thursday night he was supposed to hit a pinata being held by the visiting chicago blackhawks mascot. nordy, who was blindfolded, hits the mascot instead and at the announcer's urging he keeps swinging. a column in the "chicago

saying it went against the nhl's family-friendly image. the team has since apologized. the wizards have won their last ten games at the verizon center. could they extend that streak to 11? with the 76ers in town tonight. that's next in sports.

chris miles here in the csn studios. the wizards and the 76ers are two of the hottest teams in the nba. that's right. the wizards have won four of their last five including ten straight in the verizon center. philly has won five of their last six. the sixers playing without their best player joel

receiving the nba player of the month award for december 2016. second quarter 76ers guardnik stauskas puts some extra mustard on this. okafor finishing the play. wizards down by 12. john wall also has some spice in his game. completes the comeback. we had a tie at halftime. thirds quarter. the polish machine lays down the hammer. fourth quarter henderson once again a dunk. kelly ubricht laying out the punishment. wizards on top 109-93. now 11 straight home wins. first time they've done that since 1965. maryland men's basketball team looking for the season sweep of illinois. time running out in the

he's the kind of guy you want he beating the buzzer. maryland down 32-27 at the break. special night for frerkman anthony cowan. he set a new career high 19 points. junior jalen brantley also coming up big off the bench. this bucket gives maryland the one-point lead. brantley not done yet, comes up with the steal. missed 12. 62-56 the final. georgetown facing uconn. hoyas trailed by double figures in the second half until this happened. rodney pryor with the amazing one-handed alley-oop. check it out one more time. this shifted the momentum in the game. l.j. peak made several big plays including this one with less than a minute to go. hoyas win 72-69. iowa native brendar

her terps taking on the hawkeyes. joe working the offensive glass. and maryland cruising ahead, down 21-18. terps up just one. shakuri walker kimbrel. maryland wins 98-82. matt ryan had the best postseason performance of his career, and it paid off for the falcons against the seahawks. tossed three touchdowns. no interceptions. first time he's done that in a playoff game in his career. atlanta dominated seattle 36-20. advanced to the nfc championship game with a win. the new england patriots on the verge of advancing to the afc championship game. they're ahead 34-16 late in the fourth quarter over the the texans. lewisre

9 patrio . receipt skinz offensive coordinator cavanaugh has been the team's qb coach since 2015. >> that is our broadcast for tonight. a new "snl" is up next. felicity jones from "rogue one" is the host. enjoy.

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the following is a rebroadcast of donald trump's first press conference as president-elect. >> hello. hello, thank you for coming. i would like to start by answering the question,

yes, this is me live. i really a.m. on january 20th, i, donald tru p trump, will become the 41st president of the united states. two months later mike pence will become the 42nd. i'll have a little pet like all the presidents do. bill clinton had socks. barack obama had bo. i'll have paul ryan. i'm not gay, but i can't wait to give it to that man for four years. who is excited for my inauguration day? yes, thank you to those people who i definitely did notay to do that. we've got some of the biggest performers in the world lined up. hold on to your tits and bits because we've got three doors down. [ laughter ] >> also from america's got talent we've got jackie what's her face. and best of all we've got the