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flowers line mary tyler moore's star on the hollywood walk of fame. the new reaction as the world remembers the actress who forever changed things for women on tv. we begin tonight with the white house and president trump keeping a major campaign promise. >> also one of the most controversi controversial. he signed an order to build a wall on the mexican border. pursuing a personal grievance that distracts from the day's big news. even though there's no evidence to support it, the president promised to launch a federal investigation into the charge that voter fraud cost him the popular vote. >> from the new president's policies to their impact on our area, we have team coverage this evening. we begin with steve handelsman live at the white house. >> reporter: thanks. the surprise news today that president trump will order a federal probe of the election that he won is
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attention from the expected news of the president and his wall. at the department of homeland security, president trump said his immigration crackdown will save thousands of lives, millions of jobs and billions of dollars. >> beginning today, the united states of america gets back control of its borders. >> reporter: keeping his signature campaign pledge. >> i will build a great, great on our southern border. >> reporter: it would run 1900 miles and cost an estimated $15 to $25 billion. because mexico is refusing to pay, mr. trump asked congress to. >> at this point his goal was to get the project started as quickly as possible using existing sdpundz resources. >> reporter: cheaper drones, towers and detectors would work, said john mccain, the senator from arizona. >> yes, we can secure our border, but it isn't just with, quote, building a wall. >> reporter: president trump also order criminals without papers to be deported.
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and to cut off federal funds to cities like new york that offer sanctuary to undocumented migrants. >> i have no higher duty than to protect the lives of the american people. >> reporter: but on the day the dow hit 20,000, the president again distracted from his own moves on prosperity and security, tweeting, i will be asking for a major investigation into voter fraud. using his new powers to escalate his unfounded claim that he lost the popular vote because millions of what he called illegals voted. think about it, those are among the same kind of people that president trump moved today to keep out and kick out of our country. live at the white house, steve handelsman, news 4. >> thank you. we wanted to know what local voting officials thought about mr. trump's voter fraud claims. at the bottom of the hour, we'll hear from some of them whether it's possible and why they're taking mr. trump's comments personally. >> again, that otr
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nbc news gadi schwartz went down to the u.s./mexico border to get a closer look at the barrier that's already in place. >> reporter: this fence is just part of about 700 miles of border fencing that separates the united states from mexico. this fence cost about $6.5 million a mile to build. trump wall will be considerably higher than that. >> a large portion of that is obviously not protected by a fence. but there are a lot of natural obstacles from the rugged terrain in arizona's desert to the rio grande river. some of that land is actually privately owned. mexico insists it won't pay for any wall, but white house officials say president trump will raise the issue when he meets with mexico's president next week. gadi schwartz will have more from the border after our broadcast on "nbc nightly news." president trump's executive action also threatened to strip
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don't report undocumented immigrants. the district is one of several sanctuary cities in our region. kristin wright is in northwest d.c. with some reaction. >> reporter: well, doreen, yes, we're here with protesters. what they're doing here is they're organizing. what you see is these protesters, many of them immigrants, what you see here is them mobilizing. the mayor has said d.c. is a sanctuary city but there hasn't been a clear definition about what that means. we're trying to give that definition to the administration here locally. >> reporter: immigrant communities protesting tonight in northwest d.c. demand to be heard and now. >> migration is beautiful. the idea that one can pick up and move to another country. >> reporter: earlier today d.c. mayor bowser talked about protecting the city's sanctuary status and also about the fear in the immigrant community. ur
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always that we want people, d.c. residents, to not fear calling on their government. when people fear calling the police or calling on the government for help, it makes the entire city less safe. >> reporter: meanwhile, in frederick county, maryland, a voice known for speaking out against illegal immigration believes president trump is doing the right thing. sheriff chuck den kinz says the executive order must be followed. >> we have effectively built a fence around the county. i'm okay with it. i think there's going to be minimal impact on the families. i think some families will be affected but
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life. that's an annual anti-abortion rally. news 4's mark segraves is on capitol hill. you've been talking to park service and march organizers today. what are you learn being security changes for this upcoming event? >> reporter: good evening, doreen. a big change we just learned about today because of some high-profile speakers who will be at the stage friday morning, including white house adviser kel kellyanne conway who has secret service detail. because of that, there will be fencing around the stage as well as checkpoints to get in. that means you go through a bag check if you're going to that event that starts at 12:00. that's right on the lawn at the base of the washington monument. that's really the biggest security change, because up to now, we've been told there would be no checkpoints, no fencing, people would be able to come and
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do. that's the biggest change. that's why they're telling people, if you're going to the speeches, you want to get there early. >> mark, based on the crush of people at the women's march and violence we saw at the inauguration, these folks have any concerns about this going on saturday? >> reporter: chris, i put that question to the police chief this week, to the president of the march for life, and to the national park service. while they all play down any possibility of either violence or riots like we saw on friday, disrupt the inaugural parade or the huge crowds on saturday that they saw, they're playing that down. but the president of the march for life did say people coming to this march on friday have actually been energized by what they saw on tv friday and saturday. take a listen to what she had to tell me. >> lots of pro-life group applied to be partners because
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pro-life is pro-life. they were sadly turned down. we've seen a frustration at the level of many women who have never participated in the march for life but they want their voice heard, too. >> mark, we are -- washington is getting -- is kind of worn out from all the demonstration and it is crowds. what happens to all the trash that all these groups leave behind? the signs alone are probably a lot. >> reporter: anybody who's lived in d.c. as long as we have or even if just for one year and they see the cycle of all these protests, we know they all carry signs. most signs are left behind. we saw the huge pile in front of the trump hotel, the huge piles on the mall. the park service cleans all those up. they told me after saturday's women's march, by sunday afternoon the mall was completely cleaned. they throw all those signs away. they did say, interestingly enough, one group asked to get some signs to preserve them. they also have had people calling in and saying they want to donate money to the park servic h
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>> thank you. >> some of those signs could just get repurposed for other protests and rallies. thank you so much, mark. appreciate it. you know, chopper 4 was over the scene of a deadly accident in frederick. a dump truck rear-end wanted an suv this morning at the intersection of i-70 and 270. the impact sparked a huge fire. the person driving that suv was killed. traffic slowed down right before the crash to accommodate a congressional motorcade. several buses were carrying lawmakers to a retreat in west virginia. but the motorcade itself wasn't involved in the accident. as we noted earlier, wall street passed a huge milestone this afternoon. for the first time ever, the dow jones industrial average closed above 20,000. the dow has gained 2,000 points since the presidential election. cnbc's courtney reagan says investors are giving credit to donald trump's pro-business policies. >> it rose because of hi
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and tax cuts. those are all very pro-business. that's why we've seen stocks run since that. now that he's in office and signing executive orders that appear to be follow-throughs on his intentions, that's why we continue to creep higher. >> some analysts say the rally is also partly due to positive economic data. for that they give credit to president obama's administration. we get a break from winter but turns out only for a day. storm team 4 is tracking some changes that could bring rain back to our area. what do you think, doug? >> you said rain and not snow. the snow back toward chicago not moving our way. after a day we saw today, look at the high temperatures across the area. 70 in roanoke. 60, we actually hit 61 officially at the airport today. 58 in hagerstown. 62 in elkins, west virginia. very mild for this time of year. tomorrow another mild day. we're tracking a frontal
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making its way our way. as it moves through, we will see showers overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. then the cold air, which is also back to the west, that cold air will filter in. once again, not tracking snow with this, but i am tracking the much colder air. warm overnight, a few showers towards the morning rush. talk about that. much colder into the weekend. of course, staying dry most of the next ten days. i've got your complete forecast. we'll take hour by hour for the commuter forecast. i'll see you back here in about seven minutes. ♪ who can turn the world with her smile ♪ trail blazer, legend, inspiration. those are just some of the words being used to describe television icon mary tyler moore. who passed away today at the age of 80. >> she shot to stardom in the 1960s on "the dick van dyke show" but her most iconic show came on the mary tyler moore. mary richards fought for
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pay and women's rights while working up the ranks at a television station in minneapolis. it completely changed the way women were portrayed on tv. behind the scenes, moore struggled with diabetes. she was a strong advocate for funding research. we don't know if diabetes actually contributed to her death. >> condolences poured in on social media this afternoon. many actors from the show shared their memories and women, essentially women in television, explained just how much "the mary tyler moore show" inspired them. her show was on when i was in high school, college. i wanted to be just like her. i wanted to work in a news room full of characters -- >> and here you are. >> there you go. her friends, her relationships with her friends, her apartment, everything. i remember all of it. >> you know, wendy said the same thing at the top of news 4 at 4:00. i thought it was one of the first shows to show that your -- your coworkers could be your family. she didn't go home every night to a husband and kids. her coworkers were her family. n
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fiercely pushed ahead, not always knowing if she was going in the right direction. she was -- she was quite a role model for a lot of us. well, here's a look at what's still ahead. a daring demonstration downtown has cops at the ready and people reaching for their cell phones. that story coming up. plus, you saw it as it happened, as it was breaking this morning. now the iteam goes further to find out what's behind a rise in accidents involving pedestrians and trains. it can happen in an instant as police try to find who was snatching wallets in local shopping malls. we work with you to find ways to keep your money safe.
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a few blocks from the white house greenpeace activists clied a construction crane to protest what they call the president's action against the environment. >> pat collins is standing below where police are hoping they'll come down. it's been a long day up there, pat. >> reporter: real long, doreen. it's been going on for more than 12 hours.
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there are only seven protesters and a really long sign, but it brought a good portion of downtown to a stop. the crane, 270 feet in the air. the banner, 70x35 feet. a daring demonstration by greenpeace climbers. the message in big, bold letters "resist." a protest of the environmental policies of president donald trump. it was a camera-clicking, traffic-stopping, high-wire demonstration that had people here talking. >> this is downtown d.c. >> reporter: that's april, she's from akron, ohio. she did a personal newscast for her friends back home. >> we don't see stuff like this in akron, ohio. >> reporter: so you're doing your own personal newscast. >> i am doing my own personal newscast, yes, i am. >> reporter: what doou
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>> reporter: these climbers moved in and took control of the crane in the dark hours of the morning. by the time construction workers got here, the demonstrators were busy on those banners. >> what do you make of this? >> hey, not even really sure. see crazy stuff every day. never expected to see something like this today. >> reporter: it was dark when they went up there, right? >> 4:30, 5:00. >> reporter: it started in the early morning. it has now turned into a waiting game. the climbers rolling up the banner. and there's hope that soon they'll come down on their own. . >> everyone's talking about the police going up there. if i was a cop, i'd be like, no way. i'm not scaling that to get up there. >> reporter: wait them out? >> yes. >> reporter: and the standoff continues on. the greenpeace climbers up there, the cops down here. waiting to meet them. doreen, back to you. >> let's hope they get down
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thank you, pat collins reporting. the sight at 15th and l northwest where greenpeace protesters have been hanging used to long-time home of "the washington post." after more than four decades the post moved a few blocks over to "k" street and demolition has been going on at this site since 2015. the new site will house fannie mae, around the corner from nbc 4. chopper 4 flew over two separate train crashes today. first involving an amtrak train. it crashed into a tanker truck. the incident happened just before 9:00 a.m. north of the quantico. no passengers were hurt. they did have to temporarily suspend service for a couple hours. the train itself was heading from norfolk up to new york city. also today mark tells us one person was hit and killed when a
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college park mark station. this type of accident is increasingly common in our area. according to recent investigations from our iteam. >> good evening. our review of federal administration railroad records indicate 34 people have been hit and injured or hit and killed by trains while walking near the tracks just in the past year, just in our area. that includes a 58-year-old killed in prince william county last year and a teen killed last summer in prince george's county. our recent news 4 iteam investigator showed why these incidents are so frequent. there are several areas, including one in hyattsville here where people frequently and illegally walk across the tracks as a shortcut. these are hot spots in which trains have struck and injured people several times in recent years. we captured some of these illegal crossings on camera as part of our investigation. some of the trespassers with whom we spoke said they know the danger but think they're alert and quien
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several of the incidents we reviewed included mark commuter trains on amtrak and csx tracks through maryland, some involve teenagers, one walking near college park with ear buds in her ear. >> thank you, scott. scott has detailed before, more than 100 people have been hurt or killed walking along d.c. railroad tracks between 2012 and 2015. can you see a review by the news 4 iteam and all of our past coverage in the nbc washington app. search train track dangers. president trump is talking about widespread voter fraud again. now calling for an investigation. we're digging deeper, looking for evidence and hearing what elections officials say about the claims. a maryland man was sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years for sexually assaulting a woman with mental illness. coming up i'll tell,
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y25eiy y16fy a day like this is quite a gift in january. doug, chris and i are lamenting we didn't get to spend enough time outside. >> we needed a few more hours. >> i agree with you. having to come into work at 1:00, 2:00. i did see you, doreen. i was watching you, you were about to come into the station and then you turned and went by the picnic tables. >> it's true. i sat outside doing some
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minutes. >> those last few drops of sunlight before i had to come into the building. you wanted to do it too, admit it. >> i did, but you already took up the picnic table. show you how things were going. it really was a great day today. high temperature of 6 1. so many of you got out and enjoyed it today. i saw a lot of people around the lunchtime hour enjoying it. take a look, our photographers in rock creek park. that guy has no long pants and no -- he's got shorts on, too, right there. just a perfect afternoon. the ducks loving it, too. down towards rock creek. current temperatures sitting right now at 55 degrees. still very mild. temperatures dropping through the 50s to about 49 degrees by 11:00. again, another very nice night. 55, leesburg. 54, warrenton. hagerstown hit 55. rainfall, not in the immediate area but it's just to the west
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i mean, just to the west. take a look. it's moving quickly our way, back towards west virginia. it will be here in about the next six to eight hours or so, as it moves in through. this is our cold front. you can see that cold front back to the west. these showers out ahead of that cold front. you can see the cold air wrapping in behind this system. chicago will go from rain to snow later tonight. that colder air will move on in. let's time it out for you early tomorrow morning, as we make our way through the night tonight. by 11:00, you notice the cloud cover around the area. more clouds tomorrow. notice around 5:00 a.m., the showers along i-95 to the south and east, they build back in. then they are out of here by around the 8:00 hour with the exception of southern maryland. so, this is something we'll be watching. we may see wet roadways. i-95 south, if you look back to the north and west, most of the roads will stay on the dry side. by noon, 1:00, it's all out of here, including the cloud cover. but then we see something else. notice the snow back to the west. the snow's not coming our way, but that tells you winds are
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wringing out moisture for the snow back here. that also means we're going to see much cooler air start to come in tomorrow evening. your thursday commute, 46 degrees at 8:00 a.m. with the cloud cover. 57 degrees, rather nice weather there. and then by 5:00, that's when the wind is going to really kick in. temperatures will be falling throughout the afternoon down to about 53 degrees. so, we get through most of tomorrow on a pretty good side. by tomorrow evening, it will be different. friday a high temperature of 44 degrees. rather breezy friday. windchills in the 30s during the day. now on saturday, 43. 44 on sunday. a chilly weekend but not all that bad. 39 on monday. that's the coldest day. we stay on the chilly side through the ten-day forecast. guys, the colder air trying to make its way in here after a fairly mild january. >> looks good. thank you, doug. it started out as a way to thank the new president on social media, but it quickly took on a differentt
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the white house is spurring sales of a classic book. >> it starts with a tweet from the highest office in the land, the president suggesting voter fraud and asking for a national investigation. well, that has local impacts. i'm david culver in arlington county. just ahead, you'll hear how cases of voter fraud are handled and who takes over. if you think this is dessert, wait until you see what comes next.
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now at 6:30, another busy day for president donald trump and his administration. >> the president pull filled a campaign promise to crack down on illegal immigration, signing an executive order that calls for the construction of a wall along the border with mexico. >> another action cuts or federal funds for so-called sanctuary cities that do not reprimand undocumented workers. later this week, president trump is expected to put a temporary halt on all refugees coming to the u.s. >> he demanded federal investigation into voter fraud. >> location election leaders tell news 4 there's no evidence to support that claim. northern virginia reporter
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culver joins us from arlington with more on this story. hi, david. >> hi, door even and chris. these are the two tweets you mentioned. fewer than 280 characters. in them the president making serious accusations when it comes to voter fraud, alleged voter fraud. as you mentioned, we caught up with local elections officials today. we wonder what had their take was given, after all, it is their job to protect against any fraud. we wanted to know what they make of these allegations. >> when the president of the united states says we're investigating voter fraud, that's you, that's your role, so it's personal. >> do take it personally. >> reporter: cameron is the guy tasked with making sure fairfax county voting has been efficiently and without flaws. >> we take our jobs very seriously, election adds minimum strarts, to make sure we train the people involved and the registration process and the actual election administration process. >> reporter: he
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year-round verse fictioificatio precisely to prevent voter fraud. those no longer eligible to vote, taken out of the filing cabinet. since he took the position of general registrar in 2015, he's not had a single case of voter fraud. >> if there is evidence, i certainly welcome it, if the administration wants to bring it to us. >> reporter: we asked the director in arlington county. in the time you've been working in this office, have you had several cases of voter fraud? >> we have had to my knowledge two. >> reporter: two in -- >> two in 2 2 years. >> reporter: so rare, linda even remembers the years. '97 and 2012. >> i'm not saying voter fraud doesn't exist. it does exist but on a very small scale. a scale that would potentially influence a major election, like a presidential election, obviously the answer is no.
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a case, it goes directly to each county's top prosecutor. both election officials confident that any federal investigation initiated from the highest office, however that may look, will show a secure system, free of voter fraud. you may be woerndzing, what about in d.c., in maryland? our digital team did digging there. head over to the nbc washington app and search voter fraud to see what officials have to say in those regions. back to you. >> thanks for taking us behind the scenes. now that president trump is in the white house, it's no surprise he's been dominating the conversation on social media. in good ways and bad. today the #thankyoutrump has been trending nationwide. it started as a way to thank the new president for what he's done so far, but of course twitter being twitter, you can imagine how that went. one user said, trump has done more america in the first week than the past two pren
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terms. then #dow20k and #thankyoutrump. someone blames trump for ruining a perfectly good day every morning when i wake up. some of the catchphrases from this week are pushing an old story back to the top of the charts. george orwell's "1984" is back on top. demand is so great, the publisher just ordered another 75,000 copies. a judge showed little mr. cy for a man convicted of sexually assaulting a mentally ill woman in montgomery county. megan fitzgerald has reaction from the victim's family. >> she was in her bed asleep. >> she was in bed asleep when she woke up and this man was
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top of her. >> reporter: likely anyone's worst nightmare and it happened to a 64-year-old woman in november of 2015. her brother didn't want to be identified, but says his sister was helpless. >> she's been in the public health system for most of her life, since she was dgd as having scizo affective disorder since teenager. >> reporter: they say bowersox knew she had a mental illness. >> he thought he could get away with it because of the mental condition he observed when he passed her. >> reporter: montgomery county state's attorney john mccarthy says fingerprints and dna evidence from the crime scene led investigators to bowersox, who already had a lengthy criminal history. >> he had been in the military and stloen out for a variety of what appeared to be domestic related violent acts. >> reporter: a judge didn't have any sympathy for him,
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no remorse and sentenced him to life in prison plus 20 years. it's a punishment the victim's family says they're grateful for because they don't believe she'll ever be the same again. >> this crime has made her more anxious and it's made her afraid to even go outside. it has set her back quite a ways as to her ability to handle herself in the outside world. >> reporter: reporting in montgomery county, megan fitzgerald. in montgomery county police are looking for a pair of credit cards thieves. she stole a woman's wallet while having dinner in bethesda. a man and woman lifted the wallet last tuesday at a cafe in bethesda, racking up $1700 worth of goods at a target store in rockville and other nearby stores. we're working for you with tips to keep your money safe. always carry your purse as close to your body as possible. keep it in your eyesight. carry your wallet in an inside coat
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questions tonight about the future of a new regional medical center planned for prince george's county. local officials say the state is putting the success of the hospital in jeopardy. county leaders say governor hogan is delaying some funding promised for the medical center's operating budget. the state is also considering a new cardiac center at adarondale medical center. governor hogan says he's committed to the new medical center and his budget will not interfere with its timely completion. just a few minutes away
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metro. they want to hear what you think. board members with the transit agency will be speaking around 7:00 at a forum in reston and talking about the difficult budget and safety-related issues they're facing. your opinions, your ideas, they're all welcome. the forum is at greater reston chamber of commerce. just a short walk from the metro station. meanwhile, we're seeing a whole lot of backlash over metro's plans for super bowl weekend. the system is going to shut down blue, orange and silver lines through downtown d.c. decembfeb 4th and 5th. the local restaurant association says nobody consulted them about it. the closing conflicts not only with the super bowl but also the winter's restaurant week. metro plans to do track work and fix ceiling tiles. the system says they will offer some shuttle buses to pick up the slack. it's a simple idea b
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we are so lucky in in area to have a lot of great theaters for wonderful music. not all of them are here in the city. >> one of the best is actually in howard county. not everyone knows about it, but it's been attracting some pretty big crowds from d.c. and baltimore area for decades. >> barbara harrison is here to tell us where to find it, if you don't already know that.
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>> that's right. unless you live in columbia, maryland, you might wonder, what is that place that always seems to have a lot of cars outside and people lined up to get inside. if you ask a few, they may tell you it's the food, but everyone says it's what happens after lunch and after dinner that keeps them traveling miles to get there. >> reporter: while some folks are speeding past this exit in columbia, maryland -- ♪ >> reporter: -- others are having a soul-lifting experience. eight times a week it happens here in a place called toby's. with all that you've done here, how many shows have you done in how many years? >> we've been here for 48 years. we do four or five shows a year. so, let's do the math. that math is too difficult for me. we've done hundreds and hundreds of shows. ♪
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>> reporter: right now "showboat "is on the stage and playing to soldout audiences. nothing unusual for toby, who has been teaching and producing theater since she was a little girl in the bronx, new york. >> it started when i was 5. i was in kindergarten. i was a pilgrim. i was telling all the other children, you do this, you do this, you do this. and from that time on, i always wanted to direct and to act. >> reporter: she became interested in producing shows like this after graduating from manhattan's famous high school for performing arts. she went on to columbia university where she majored in both teaching and acting and directing. she worked in harlem in a program established by eleanor roosevelt. >> i taught social studies and english through theater only to find these children blossomed and bloomed. that's been my mission statement. >> reporter: she brought that mission to mar
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she founded the columbia center for theatrical arts. in 1972. >> that school eventually spawned a group called the young columbians. >> reporter: her singing group went on to entertain at the carter white house and around the country. and then someone suggested she open a dinner theater and the crowds began to come. >> it's the best theater around. actors and actresses are wonderful. >> i really like it. >> reporter: some actors add to their wages waiting on tables as well. many of those actors have gone on to larger, more prestigious theaters and still come back to work with toby. they like what she brings here. >> and i just sob to see what theater can do for everyone, what it can do for little kids, for senior citizens, for people that don't understand english, because there's magic in theater. >> it was a lot more fun being
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toby has been at this for 48 years and she's not slowing down. her mission now is to build a bigger dinner theater. she says she already has a plan and she's ready to go with that. i think she will. >> so great. >> so wonderful to make theater accessible to so many more people. >> that's her big thing. she wants it to be accessible to everyone. putting it out there in howard county means a lot of people in that area get to go. a lot of us will be driving there as well. >> thanks for sharing that. >> you continue to open windows into the most fascinating people here in our area. >> thank you, chris. i'll bring you some more. >> thank you. beautiful day today. tomorrow, not so much. >> i had you opening windows today. i may not introduce you to great people, but -- the sun was shining, so you might have been opening up those windows. driving into town, across the area, a beautiful day. 61 degrees today. as we move on through the rest of the overnight period, really looking pretty good. 55 the current temperature. winds out of the south at 3 miles an hour.
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tonight. 51 in potomac. leesburg right now at 53 degrees. as we move through the rest of the night, we are going to start to see some rain trying to make its way in here. you can see that rain just to our west. already back towards garrett county, maryland, there's the frontal boundary. that will push through as we make the overnight hours. i expect to see some showers tomorrow morning, about 5:00, 6:00, 7:00. a little wet commute but then the cold air moves in. and i really think bit time the kids are at the bus stop, 7:00, 8:00, i think most of the rain is out of here. if you see any rain at all in your area. 46 degrees at 7:00 a.m. cloud cover remains. nice around noon. i really think by lunchtime for the kids, recess is look pretty good. by the time they get home, though, the wind will start to pick up and you'll start to feel cooler air moving in. temperatures dropping during the afternoon. they're going to continue to drop. 44 on friday. windchills in the 30s on friday
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44 degrees on sunday. 39 for a high on monday with some cloud cover, a little breezy, too. windchills around the freezing mark all day on monday. so, yeah, some cold air finally starting to move in here. it looks like we'll stay on the chilly side through the next ten days as we start off the month of february. now, what about the next couple of days. the weekend is looking a little cold, so let's go skiing. it looks great for skiing. looking great. plenty of sunshine on saturday and sunday. a little on the cold side. a little breeze y too. looking pretty good. exercise, cold on saturday. sunday might be a better day because we won't have nearly as much wind. the auto show f you're heading in there, it's cold so might as well head indoors. auto show, one of the coolest thins going on around our area. 44 on sunday. monday, is going to be the coldest day. we have not seen many days below freezing so far this january. and we've got a couple, a couple, on the ten-day forecast right there. my chances for snow, not really. sunday night into monday, there may be
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that's a little system i'm watching. that looks like most will stay offshore. we got it. thanks, doug. >> i have a feeling we're going to pay for this in march. i just got a feeling. >> i hope so. >> no, don't say it, doug. coming up in sports, kirk cousins hits the practice field at pro bowl but will he be back on the field fo ther
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a peek at the slugs for carol's story, but today they were wizards are hot, wizards aawesome. straight down the middle here. >> right, right. but everyone today is saying wizards are awesome. >> they are. >> they're not playing today, but we're talking about them. the nba all-star reserves are announced tomorrow. there's a chance that bothon wall ton and bradley beale are snubbed. a number of experts thinking at best wahle only in as a wild card. while a travesty, this may be the best news a wizards fan can ask for because that's more gas to the fire. >> beal brought out emotion that we rarely see. scored late fourth quarter, hit 30 for the game. he sealed the deal beal. then john wahle, most
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impressive, how composed, unflappable and confident he is in the game. he is the best point guard in the east. #fact. they combined for 58 points last night. together they made a strong statement. >> it's a tough season. i think we're the best backcourt in the league. we're playing healthy. we're a tough tandem to deal with. any moment i can get going, he can get going. we don't shy away from getting the guy the ball when they got it going. >> i wanted to be aggressive. i didn't want to lose, no matter what it took. whether scoring, defending, whatever it was. i wanted to win, man. i wanted this win bad. >> it takes the pressure off everybody else. your main guys go out and perform day in and day out. it's easier for our other guys to play hard, aggressive, play smart basketball. >> talking about a different wall, this wall in the verizon center. an unknown celtics player -- marcus mark
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a hole in the wall. they believe it was him after he got in a heated argument. he release a statement for apologizing for his childish and unprofessional actions. you need to send that bill to washington. remember what kirk cousins' wife told me last week during super bowl week? she said kirk was like a kid on christmas. every day he would get up all excited, check his schedule, excited to be included and wanted in the on the field festivities. now another first for cousins, pro bowl. cousins today in orlando, coming out to his first pro bowl practice, a big smile. a nice throw to panthers' greg olsen who one-hand bobbles it, catches it. intense practice. lots of folks asking for his autograph. they all ask him the same question. no, not how you like me now. question number one, are you coming back to the redskins? just shy of 5,000 passing yards last season. it is unthinkable he'll play elsewhere.
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saying to our cameras, we totally anticipate kirk coming back. then team president bruce allen on sirius/xm, kirk is our quarterback. before we get too excited, the nbc 4 exclusive news, my source says right now the two sides, quote, are not even close. just moments ago, csn's j.p. finley tracked down bruce allen at the senior bowl for the latest. >> have you started those contract talks yet? >> we will shortly. it's nothing to hurry into right now. but he knows our intent. >> and that is to have him long term or for '17? >> the goal is to get long term. >> the goal you have until -- if you want him long term -- march 1st to tag him and july 15th to work out that long-term deal. people say you tag him and that may be a problem. >> you can't keep tagging the same guy. >> it's never happened for a quarterback two years in a row. >> yeah. >> that number gets astronomical after a while. >> i wou s
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