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behind me. now, people who live inis that very unusual. they say not much happ here. a rela the drive ont wi investigators are talking to her. officers say they must first notify the victims' relatives before they identify the three bodies. an adult woman, a high school aged boy and an adult male lived here, but we do not know exactly who was found dead inside. we're now going to hear from a neighbor. >> they're just a few houses down from us. i wonder if this could have been a bigger thing. >> reporter: now investigs
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tell me they will be here there are forensics people here who are gathering evidence. we'll continue to bring you updates as they become available. now to politics and a potentially en lexplosive order president trump. a new vetting measure he says will keep terrorists out of the country. >> steve handelsman joins us now to try to break it all down. >> of course there's also the mexican crisis. in typical trump fashion, the new president said before he got here to washington the mexican document was beating us to a pulp, embarrassing us, he said, making us look foolish in negotiations. but he said his call to mexico city today was very
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the president and the prime minister are opposites. theresa may is reserved, donald trump brash. but they say they got along today, will strengthen nato and fight isis. >> working even more closely together in order to take on and defe defe defe defeat. >> if we have a great relationship with russia and other countries and if we go after isis together, which has to be stopped, that's an evil that has to be stopped,ly consider that a good thing, not a bad thing. >> reporter: later he went to the pentagon, ordering more weapons and personnel for the u.s. military and what he calls extreme vetting, aims at barring from the u.s. terrorists from nations where radical islam thrives. >> we want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our sole
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p president pena nieto who cancelled his trip to washington over trump's border wall. president trump said he hung tough on the call. >> we have a trade deficit of $60 billion with mexico. on top of that the border is soft and weak, drugs are pouring in and i'm not going to let that happen. >> reporter: now he says he will negotiate with mexico. under him, president trump insisted the u.s. will not deal with nations any more as a country that doesn't know what it's doing. >> is that it? >> that's the end of that report. >> also, it's hard for us to say this, but it's also your last report after you'reti
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>> that is true. >> will you reconsider? >> no, i am not reconsidering. this is it. >> i have known you for most of those 33 years. you are absolutely one of the finest reporters i have ever had the honor to work with. >> thanks, doreen. >> we're not going to say good-bye quite yet because i understand you've promised to come monday. >> we'll mess around monday. >> all right. we ov've got a lot to thank you for, a lot of years a lot of miles traveled, a lot of missed time with your family. we're very happy for you and we will see you back here on monday. >> thanks, doreen. have a great weekend. >> you too. >> i crossed pathed with ste esn a lot of those trips. now to the thousands who turned out to march to the supreme court. before they marched the crowd rallied
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where vice president mike pence president to address the group. we have team coverage but we're going to start with mark segraves and a look at the message from the vice president. >> i'm deeply humbled to standud to be the first vice president of the united states to ever have the privilege to attend this historic gathering. >> anti-abortion advocates were already excited to be in washington, having just elected an anti-abortion president. but having the vice president show up at their rally in person added to what they see as a growing momentum. >> it was a powerful witness of this administration's support of life. i just think it's really important to come out and show support for this issue, especially in the wake of the so-called women's march, which seemed to exclude pro-life women. >> this president is for a reason and a purpose. there's a purpose coming thh
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this president. >> reporter: and the>> you know that a society can be judged but how we care for our most vulnerable, the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn. >> reporter: amongst the thousands of anti-abortion marchers was this young man from dallas, texas, who with the help of his father produces a video blog. what do you make of this crowd and event? >> i like the idea of it and i think it was bigger than i thought it would be. >> reporter: from here the thousands of peaceful protesters took to constitution avenue and marched to capitol hill and to the united states supreme court. from the 44th annual march for life, mark segraves
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people on both sides of the abortion debate. she's live outside the supreme court where the rally is wrapping up. >> reporter: that's right. everyone is mostly gone now. but the truth of the matter is that this is where the question of roe v wade hangs in the balance. it will be an important topic of discussion as we go forward as we have a new president who will appoint a new justice. demonstrators who marched for the march for life today made their way from the washington monument to the supreme court. we knew it when they got here, very vocal. we saw large crowds, people from all over the country, church groups, school groups, activistingsactivist activists, you name it. they arrived feeli ining empowe that mike pence spoke at the rally ea
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issue and that's abolishing abortion in our lifetime. >> i have a great heart for the unborn. i have great heart for life in general. from conception to natural death, i support life. >> every year we try to get a group from our parish in columb columbus, ohio, to come to the march. we got about 50 people in year for a bus and we drove overnight and got here about 5:00 in the morning. something we deeply believe in, life begins at conception and that the unborn have rights. we just want to strengthen numbers. >> i believe that every girl and every woman has the right and responsibility to make a choice on whether or not to continue a
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different because president trump isinow. many of the marchers we talked to today told us thre at the ma the women's march. >> the march for life got its start after the roe v wade case in 1973. the event is usually held on january 22nd but it was push ee back this year because of the inauguration. last year the march went on as planned despite the blizzard that dumped two feet of snow on the district. one minute he was walking down the street. the next, he was kidnapped. derrick ward
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neighbors still feel safe the suspect tries to rob him. that's what police say happened acked up and it's really busy around rush hour. >> reporter: the suspect was in a large gray or white vehicle. we stop he stopped the victim and asked him if he had any money. before the victim could answer, the suspected grabbed his arm and forced him into the car. two former secretaries of state live near the block where this alleged kidnapping happened. >> we've always felt pretty safe because our neighbor right there is john kerry. now that they're not there an
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different but it's alwayslt him along wisconsin avenue, stopp a. none of those purchases went through and the victim was released. the suspect is still out there. we're also learning more about a suspected serial groper in d.c. michael hilliard will not be released from jail before he goes to court next month. he's been arrested nearly 70 times, at least 20 of which were sex offenses. police tell us it's been difficult to keep him in jail. this time he's facing a felony kidnapping charge and undergoing a mental health
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some flurriesinn tonight. windchills already in the 20s in somelotions. we've had some snow showers in parts of the region. not going to amount to much as far as the snow is concerned. the bigger deal will be the cold. radar looks like we've got a lot of snow coming in across our region. but as this hits the mountains, they dry out on the east side. hagerstown, 27 the current windchill there. 16 in elkins, west virginia. for us, the colder pattern sticking around. windchills in the 20s and 30s overnight and into the day tomorrow. we're talking about a light snow chance. i'll show you when.
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an in-depth look at the n s next to the media firestorm that followed. threats to blacklist a local business. why donald trump supporters are taking aim at this small studio in leesburg. >> reporter: we'll tell youhy w
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kellyanne conway said spicer gave alternative facts about the crowd size. monday trump repeated his claim that 3-5 million people voted illegally in the november election. there is no credib e
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tuesday sean spicer believes there was widespread voter fraud. >> trump said he still supports water boarding and doesn't consider it torture. thursday mexico's president cancelled a visit to the white house over a dispute on who will pay for the border wall. meet the press moderator chuck todd joins us. that is a lot of drama and it's just the first week on the job. >> did you know we have a three-hour meet the press coming up? >> is the chaos deliberate? is there a strategy there? >> look, i'll say this. there were a lot of people that thought donald trump the candidate, he'll be different as president. if there's one lesson to take away, look, the person he was as a candidate is the person
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going to be as president. there is noha who they are is who they are. donald trump does comfortably operate in what to others would think is a chaotic atmosphere. he has been comfortable in the past having aide that may not like each other, almost as if he wants that competition around him. when it comes to a competition of ideas, i think a lot of americans would like that. but when it gets to a competition where some of sort of reinforcing things that send him off on rabbit trails like this voter fraud nonsense and this business of the crowds, that's where he steps on himself. this week there was sort of the intentional news that trump made, which as far as keeping promises and doing and showing the voters that
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that he was listening toas s normal. but then there's this other part, the vanity stuff. that's what creates this intense atmosphere. >> he signed a lot of executive orders, the one today about the extreme vetting. what caught my eye from the draft was this preference for religious minorities. it sounds like a religious litmus test for refugees. >> i don't know how constitutional they are. he did an interview with the christian broadcasting network. he didn't say it for sure but he seemed to imply that christians would be given priority, maybe they they would make exceptions for christians on this. well, in the same way that he was told the muslim ban, you can't apply a religious litmus test, you can't also apply a religious litmus test the other way.
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country by country so it doesn't matter what the religion is. >> there was also hope that donald trump's approach to the media might moderate a little bit once he became president. it's just ratcheting up more and more. what's the strategy there? >> steve bannon strategy. this comes from him. he decides to do an interview with the new york times to trash the "new york times" and the rest of the press corps. it's a strategy they want to foil. donald trump won because he had hillary clinton as a foil. the republicans are in charge. you cannot blame democrats for not being able to do things now. he needs someone else to blame. with the voter fraud, there's a fine l
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undemocratic territory. enu' just thrown democracy out the window if you're not careful. look, yell at us all you want. i'm not here for a popularity contest. but let's remember that little old constitution and that first amendment. >> i wish we had three hours to discuss this, chuck. >> heady times. >> yep. >> his guests on meet the press include virginia senator tim kaine. >> first sunday show since the
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back yard a string of armed robb in the maryland suburbs. the new evidence and why police think these cases could be connected. >> a warning for metro rider as officials announce a new rond u fios is not cable. we're wired differently. which means we can deliver internet speeds differently. welcome to 8 and a half maple street. it's half a house. and even though it only has half the headroom, half a hallway, half the closet space and a half bath, it's a full house to the wilsons. because they have fios, the only 100% fiber optic network
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nice night around our region but it's a cold night. right now at 40 degrees. winds still gusting. currently sustained winds at 13 miles per hour gusting over 20 in some locations. that's the case throughout the rest of the evening and most of the weekend. take a look at the temperatures. 34 winchester, 37 leesburg, 39 quantico. add in the wind and notice the 30s become the 20s. it's a cold night. make sure you bundle up. still tracking a couple of snow showers back here.
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more snow is likely. looks like a lot of snow coming our way, but the mountains kind of act like a barrier and a buffer. we don't see much of that, just the snow showers instead of accumulating snowfall. 11:00 tonight, windchill still in the 20s. tomorrow afternoon a little bit better. we get into the 30s. but even tomorrow is going to be a cold one. high temperatures into the low to mid 40s for the most part. but it will feel a little bit colder as you make your way out and about. a high of 44 on your sunday. 39 on
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now on monday and wednesday, tv little clipper systems, could give us some flurries if not snow showers on monday and wednesday. we'll have to see how much snow we get out of those. temperatures in the mid 40s here. we've got to watch this area right here, the end of the first week of february, could see a chance for snow. we'll talk much more about that over the next few days. that's ten days away. >> anything could happen in ten days. >> anything could happen. there's a lot more still ahead on news4 at 6:00. we've got more about that disturbing discovery in mclean and update on the breaking news that three people are found dead inside a home there. they climbed a crane to get the president's attention. now you'll hear from the people who staged this dramatic protest. >> reporter: coming up next, the national caaign targeted atmp
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we're hearing from the people who scaled a crane to stage a prweek. >> the greenpeace activists are upset about president trump's policies even though they got arrested for their stunt, they're not sorry. m meagan fitzgerald tells us way they hope to have a bigger impact years down the road. >> i came here to resist trump. >> reporter: it was a show of
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>> reporter: it was a message that was displayed in thete the greenpeace protesters aren't sure if president trump actually saw the sign, but karen says their goal is to encourage more protesters around the country, hoping a louder message will be sent in the voting booth during the midterm elections. but while the protesters were trying to send their message, other folks were a little annoyed that the protester's choice to climb a crane impacted their morning commute. others say they just don't agree with their message. >> they're certainly getting everybody's attention and causing a lot of people to be laid late for work. i'm sure they think th
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>> reporter: she says they've been planning this protest for weeks. >> this really has been in the planning for a long time, since trump was elected. >> reporter: nevertheless, the bold action resulted in all seven protesters being taken away in handcuffs. some of the charges these protesters are facing include burglary and destruction of property. they're due back in court in the district on march 1st. neighbors were shocked and scared when they heard thene
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threat to the ic. custody. the driver who hit and kled a bicyclist will not face charges. last october 81-year-old ned was riding his bike on the capital crescent trail. he was hit crossing little falls parkway. police say he was at fault. now there have been a lot of changes made to make that crossing safer. traffic is forced to one lane in each direction. they've added more signs and the speed limit has been reduced to 25 miles an hour. a tragic death earlier this week in laurel has the community there reeling. a man killed while working on a garbage truck was laid to rest today. tracee wilkins reports his death impacted people in prince george's county and beyond. >> we do the same dirty job but we love what we do. otherwise we wouldn't do it. >> reporter: people from around
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coy ustr in the country. >> i wish we could have had you for 100 more years. >> reporter: marcus was laid to rest today. culvert was killed on monday when a car crashed into the back of the garbage truck he was loading. city workers paid their respects. >> it's a tough day for all of us. >> reporter: the investigation into the cause of the accident that killed marcus is ongoing. the front end of the vehicle that struck the trash truck he was loading is unrecognizable. >> when you see a trash collector stop and put up his hand, they are
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others as supervisors -- >> it's a law 1 anour under the speed li to go aroundol >> reporter: it is a good reminder to look out for these people who take care of our communities. hundreds of residents are in danger of being evicted from a trailer park in manassas but now help may be on the way. more than 200 residents have been told they have to leave by the end of february. for years the park owner failed to fix a failing sewer system so the city agreed to buy the property and close down the park. now a nonprofit is
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to oversee the repair of the ses. that nonprofit is meeting with city leaders next week to talk about the proposal. there is a new call for action from the parents of a murder victim. the one thing they believe could have saved their daughter's life. >> reporter: police are trying to identify a possible serial armed robber. coming up, what one business is doing to try to keep employees safe. i continue to track snow showers and the cold. the cold looks like it wants to stick around for a while.
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a masked gunman is responsible for a series of robberies. investigators believe he has hit more than a dozen businesses in four counties in the last month. tonight we are learning more about what's being done to protect workers and
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darcy spencer a 7-lerch eleven gaithersburg lookilocking its d for a few theo because of a string of crimes in four maryland counties. hour urveillance video is from pharmacies and 7-elevens in montgomery, prince george's county and howard counties and the city of greenbelt. police say he's after cash. these are stores that many of us go to for medicine and other ideas every day. customers are unnerved. >> it seems safe. it's quiet. but sometimes that's not a good thing. when it's too quiet, things happen. i'm definitely moving. >> reporter: this cvs on greenbelt road was robbed twice, first on tuesday, then again early this morning. >> i can't recall in
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that this type ofer rite aid and a ning i sawnews. i mean, what are you going to do? greenbelt, darcy spencer, news4. a mother and a father went down to richmond today to push for a new law they think could have saved their daughter's life.tending the university of virginia in 2014 when she was abducted and killed in charlottesville. lawmakers are considering a bill that would take dna information from people convicted of certain misdemeanors and add it to a state
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daughter hannah pviously sexual assaulted and attempted to murder a woman in fair fashion, virginia, in 2005, and he had also abducted and murdered morgan harrington in 2009. if he had been compelled to provide a dna sample after his criminal trespass conviction, he would have been swiftly linked to the previous offenses, he would have been apprehended and dealt with by the legal system. >> matthew is serving four life sentences for killing graham and morgan harrington. as he mentioned, matthew was also convicted of the rape and attempted murder of that third woman in fairfax. next, a local business owner responds to threats of a political boycott. why she believes her studio has been unfairly targeted. and another round of metro repairs. this time it's gng tooi
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the owner of a leesburg, virginia, sewing shop is pushing back against a threat to boycott her store. it came in an e-mail accusing her business of being hostile to customers who voted for donald trump. julie carey reports now the sene having the opposite effect. >> reporter: nicole sees finch knitting and sewing as a sanctuary. >> we want anybody who wants to come and learn to knit and learn to
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a message titled are you anti-election establishment. >> we are compiling a list of businesses who are openly hostile to donald trump. yes, i did presume it as a threat. they were accusing me of tirades against the president. >> reporter: she immediately responded asking the center to explain what she based the allegation on. then as a warning she posted her e-mail as concerns on the leesburg facebook page. customers began coming in to show support, bringing flowers, cookies, posting facebook messages of encouragement. >> an overwhelming support, you know, from across the country. >> reporter: just down the street, lynn lake runs an
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she's anrumpdewrong. >> i think somebody doing that that's a little bit over the edge. >> reporter: she thinking she might know what prompted the e-mailer's accusation. on inauguration day she put up a facebook post inviting customers to come knit hats for the women's march. her personal facebook page revealed she'd attended the march herself. but she thinks her quick response has quieted the threat. >> we are a unified group of people and we aren't going to stand for that kind of bullying. this is not something you want to find at the end of a shopping trip. investigators are trying to figure out how these fires got started. several vehicles caught fire last night in a parking garage at the westfield montgomery mall. investigators think there was some sort of mechan cal issue but they're not
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11th. it's going to mean an 18-day shut down on the blue line between rosslynn and the pentagon. metro says commuters can expect slightly longer waits for yellow and green line trains as well. for 50 years he's been one of the most trusted names in american life. now tom brokaw is celebrating his 50th anniversary with nbc news. he served as nbc's white house correspondent from 1973 to 1976. and the nation's capital holds a special place in his heart. >> i loved living in the city. i loved taking my children down to all the monuments and touring on sundays, going to the eastern shore. and i have a lot of friends there. the great thing about washington
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for a family is that you can lin about, which was the political life of this country. >> nbc news will celebrate tom's remarkable career with a two-hour special report sunday night at 9:00 right here on nbc 4. >> i remember being a little kid and my dad coming home from work, plopping down in his chair and gun contr growling turn on brokaw. >> he left quite a mark in the city. so we're in for a cold fire in the fireplace kind of weekend? >> yeah. a lot of people maybe got some wood in december and said we're not going to be able to use the wood here. it's coming, though.
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we're going to beside. current temperature at 40 degrees. winds out winds still gusting to 25 miles per hour. any time that wind blows, it just feels so much colder. we're still dealing with some snow showers back here to the west. back towards martinsburg, winchester, seeing some. not going to amount to anything, but again you'll continue to see some snow showers. look at them all coming across the great lakes. really kind of amazing. for us, it's just the cold air. tomorrow 33 to
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whitetail looking good.ut this cold at the ski resorts. wisp and snowshoe getting some natural snow. 45. monday and wednesday, i think we'll see a good chance for at least some snow showers out there. not much, just some snow showers. we have a chance of a storm. next weekend into the first real full week of february. continue you. coming up in sports, john wall has the wizards climbing the eastern conference standings. >> it's one of his teammates who deserves a loof the credit. t
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the wizards have surged so far, so fast they may actually have a shot at winning the division. >> it's hard to believe that when the wizards started their season losing eight of their first 10 games that two months later washington could be a game and a half out of first place in their division. with a victory tonight in
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d have made it.e back ofugeall e he's a heck of a year. like i said, i think he's proven everybody wrong and kept everybody's mouths quiet. he's staying healthy. that's the reason why we're fighting for a top seed in the eastern conference right now. all but two caps are off for the all star weekend. ovechkin and holtby have landed in los angeles for this weekend's festivities. first up is saturday's skills competition where ovechkin will be participating in the
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separate us.y. we're having fun. everyone's having fun. that's main thing. if we continue to keep having fun, i think we'll continue to have a lot
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after the news on sunday not enome te 76 he shot on thursday on the tougher south course. the big names are back in the australia open. finals on the women's side. venus will battle her sister serena. their first meeting in a grand slam since 2009. on the men's side nidal against fedderer face each other.
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temporarily restricting entry to the u.s. from several muslim countries. amid a firestorm. what's in the plan? critical divide -- is the president about to ease sanctions on russia and putin? britain's prime minister says don't. and tonight powerful republican senators issue a warning to mr. trump. flu outbreak, now widespread in 37 states. worse than this time last year. a mean season hitting american families and schools hard. the price you pay to keep your pets happy and healthy. are you paying too much? and celebrating 50 years.kaw rks half a century at nbc news. gh

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