>> reporter: good evening. while the president was trying to show off his long-standing and close relationship with israel's prime minister, she he facing tough questions today about the resignation of his national security adviser, about ties to russia, and about new calls for an independent investigation. >> i think it's very, very unfair what's happened to general flynn. >> reporter: president trump defending the national security adviser he asked to resign, but not addressing "the new york times" report that the fbi tracked phone calls between trump campaign aides and russian intelligence, while russia was being investigated for trying to influence the election. instead the president today attacked the media and leaks from inside his administration. >> and the documents and papers that were illegally -- i stress that -- illegally leaked. it's criminal action, criminal act. >> reporter: classified information, he calls it, being given out like candy. >> the question of leaks, you

here, but there are far bigger fish to fry. >> reporter: like russia's influence during the leakedz. general flynn's connections to russia, and why the president waited weeks to act after being notified flynn could be subject to blackmail. while vice president pence was left in the dark. top democrats are demanding a full timeline from the white house, and they want attorney general jeff sessions off the case. >> if this trail leads to the oval office, the person investigating that trail should not be the same person who helped put president trump there. >> reporter: intelligence and other congressional panels are investigating, but democrats worry the republican-led committees won't dig deep enough. and that's why they want this independent investigation, and interestingly, today, wendy, senate democrats were calling on the trump administration to hold on to the paperwork, so to speak, any documents, or records, phone logs, transcripts that might help out in that investigation. wendy? ll

more now on why some democrats and watchdog groups say attorney general sessions should recuse himself from any investigation that involves the white house. like michael flynn, sessions was an early and an influential adviser to mr. trump's presidential campaign. as attorney general, sessions oversees the fbi, and the agency is investigating some members of trump's campaign for alleged ties to russia. critics argue that ethics rules at the department of justice should disqualify sessions from overseeing this investigation. >> so doj rules are very clear that if you were part of a political campaign, which jeff sessions was, he was a member of the campaign, you can in no way participate in investigating or prosecuting anything in that campaign, that organization. sessions, so far, has refused. >> sessions was the first sitting senator to enforce trump, and he also served as a campaign surrogate for him. la

talked with the russian ambassador at the center of the mike flynn controversy. it was a few days after the inauguration. and barbara harrison spoke with the ambassador about accusations that russia interfered in the presidential election. the ambassador said there is no truth to the allegations. >> it's a product of internal political battles within the united states. very unfortunate. i think we all stand to benefit in returning to more normalcy not only in relations but also in thinking about each other. >> again, the ambassador was speaking in general about the mettling allegations, not his phone call with mike flynn back in december. also, there are new developments in president trump's cabinet. andy puzder has withdrawn himself from consideration to lead the labor department. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle voiced concerns about the fast-food executive's stance on the minimum wage, his employment of an undocumented housp

and a domestic violence scandal. his ex-wife accused him of abuse while on oprah back in 1990. puzder denied the allegations. his ex-wife later recanted her story. signs of a possible shift in the u.s. approach to peace in the middle east as the israeli prime minister arrived for his first official visit with president trump. it has long been the u.s. view that a two-state solution provides the best path toward peace. at a joint news conference today, both leaders appeared willing to explore other options. >> as far as settlements, i'd like to see you hold back on settlements for a little bit. i thought for a while the two-state looked like it may be the easier of the two, but honestly if israel and the palestinians are happy, i'm happy with the one they like the best. >> first the palestinians must recognize the jewish state. sec

israel must retain the overriding security control over the entire area west of the jordan river. >> that visit comes as the associated press reports that cia director mike pompeo met secretly last night with palestinian president mahmoud abbas. the white house has refused to comment on that report. new fears tonight that some i.c.e. arrests staged near a church might keep latinos from coming in from the cold. witnesses are sharing their stories about what happened last week. >> reporter: oscar ramirez said what happened near rising hope mission church came as a complete surprise. as he and several other men left church and crossed the street, i.c.e. agents pulled up. >> they put up against the wall and a lot of

start coming in. at least i count 12 of them. >> reporter: this is the wall where the men were ordered to stand. a green card holder, agents quickly cleared him, but he and two other witnesses say a half dozen other latino men were arrested and taken away in two vans that later pulled up. how many people do you believe seeing taken into custody? >> at least seven. six or seven. it surprised me. i think it surprised a lot of people seeing it actually happen. >> reporter: thurman brewster saw what happened. he has sympathy for some of the men. but others -- >> i have mixed feelings. it's like i said, one of the guys, one of the police officers said he had a robbery charge over in d.c. well, if you're wanted, you're want wanted. >> reporter: rising hope's pastor now worries fear of being targeted near a church could keep some people out in the cold.

that they stayed here in the hypothermia shelters. so they were waiting for them to cross the street and then jump on them. >> reporter: and this immigration lawyer has another concern. >> the fact that the i.c.e. agents are coming not just for specific people they're looking for, but are willing to just pick up any other latino men who happen to be walking around. >> reporter: i.c.e. officials have a different version of events. they say only two men were arrest arrested across the street from the church. and a spokesperson said the sensitive location policy was followed, to avoid arrests at places of worship, schools, and medical facilities. she emphasized the arrest took place across the street, not on church property. and as i reported earlier this week, the trump administration executive order broadens the definition of who i.c.e. can go after. during the obama administration, it was specific targets, undocumented people who had criminal records. now,

without a criminal record can even be picked up. back to you now in the studio. major security upgrades are planned for the u.s. capitol complex, above the ground and beneath it. the news4 i-team broke that story in our nbc app and has the story that you'll see only on news4. >> reporter: congressional sources tell us they're making plans for enhanced security outside the buildings here. amid increasing concerns potential threats have to be kept farther away from entrances and the many members, staffers, and visitors here. >> gotta go! >> reporter: nearly a year ago, a man pulled a gun inside the capital visitor's center and was shot by police, triggering a major lockdown, and sending tourists racing for safety. and nearly two years ago, a man crashed a gyro copter on the west front of the capital. they've since been working to

enhance the security outside the complex to keep threats from ever approaching the inside. >> as sergeant-at-arms, i'm responsible for -- >> reporter: and the house sergeant-at-arms suggested changes were looming at a recent hearing. >> they will enhance the secuty coverage of the capital while maintaining the openness of the grounds. >> reporter: reinforcements of some of the exterior windows, an underground alarm system, an invisible fence around the perimeter of the building to detect threats, including at night. and better lighting outside the building at night, particularly on the supreme court side of the complex. and adding more uniformed officers and k-9s outside the entrance of the capitol and the the house and senate buildings and also better checking of workers who park in the garage. increasing security outside the capital is a balancing act. this is a public space for visitors and tourists from all across the country. the house sergeant-at-arms says he will do nothing to adversely

complex. congress has to set aside money for the enhancements and could do so as early as this spring. at the capitol, scott macfarlane, news4. the mother of a 15-year-old murder victim told news4 she wanted her daughter's killers found. and tonight fairfax county police say they have done that. ten suspects are identified. you're looking at four of them. these are the adults. the other six are juveniles. that includes a teenager who returns home after she was missing for a month. david culver joins us now from police headquarters. >> reporter: 24 hours ago, police were giving an urgent message, hoping to find 17-year-old venus iraheta. now tonight, they know where she is. just a few buildings from where we are in the juvenile detention center, behind bars. before police took her into custody, we had a chance to talk with her. at the

our eyes and camera, we thought this was a happy outcome. a missing teen, believed to be in danger, home safely. >> i love you, mama. >> reporter: the 17-year-old disappeared on january 15th. it was the day after a teen and her baby vanished, and a month after alexandra reyes left home. venus told me she was with friends. i asked her if she was with some of the missing girls. >> no. >> you didn't see them? >> no. >> reporter: the teen and baby returned home safely saturday, the same day police found the body of alexandra. the 15-year-old's mother heartbroken yesterday. she was a sweet person, trusting in people. venus tells me she left in part out of fear, following the suspected murder of her boyfriend in prince william county. >> were you scared that might extend to you, that somebody might do something?

that's why i left. >> reporter: but now police tell us, she's connected to alexandra's death. >> she's in custody. we're looking at the extent of her involvement, but i can't give you details of that. >> before she knew her daughter was a suspect, she expressed pain for alexandra's mom. [ speaking spanish ] i'm sorry for that mother whose daughter was found dead, she told me emotionally. police tell us those ten suspects are charged with gang participation and abduction, but they warned more charges could be coming. we're live tonight in fairfax. i'm david culver, news4. bullets flying here in petworth, neighbors say it's not the first time they've had to go through something like this. the story coming up. d.c. has become a flash point for protests ever since president trump took office.

local police. and say bye-bye to bao bao, our favorite panda is just days away from moving to china. we'll tell you about the complicated task of getting her out of the zoo and on to a plane. and we saw a frontal boundary move through, that means higher winds during the afternoon and windchills that are already in the 20s. i'll show

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one person is recovering tonight after a brazen daytime shooting in the district. it happened a block away from georgia avenue, the petworth neighborhood. pat collins at the scene where people say it's not the first time they've seen violent crime in that neighborhood. >> reporter: broad daylight bullets flying through the air have a way of unsettling the neighborhood. welcome now to the 800 block of crittenden street. shoes in the sky. when you see shoes wrapped around wires above, many times it's a sign of trouble nearby. and indeed on crittenden street this morning, trouble. broad daylight bullets, at least a dozen gun shots that turned a whole block into a crime scene. one man shot and

stray bullets pierced through cars parked on the street. victoria evans was one of the victims of that. >> all i know is a bullet hole is in my car. that's awful. >> reporter: i w >> i was sitting in my room. i was reading. and i heard, like six rounds, like a gunshot about six times. >> reporter: that's candace young, her car was hit too. she says gunfire on crittenden street is not all that unusual. >> so you've had four shooting incidents in about two or three months, in this block alone? what's going on here? >> we don't know. we don't know. >> scary? >> it's kinda disconcerting, but you just can't walk around being scared, you would never come out your house. >> reporter: police spent hours collecting evidence and looking for clues here. so far, no motive, no

in petworth, pat collins, news4. it's now easier for maryland to take legal action against the white house. today the general assembly passed a resolution that clears the way for maryland's attorney general, brian frosh, to sue the trump administration without getting permission from the governor first. and the governor can't veto this. democrats who approved the bill say they're worried about the potential repeal of the affordable care act. republicans say the move violates the constitution. now in d.c., there's been a dramatic increase in the number of protests here since president trump took office almost a month ago. >> those protests are putting more strain, we're told, on the d.c. police department. tom's been looking into all this and is here with us now. goodness knows d.c. police department has all kinds of experience in handling crowds and protests. why is it any different now? >> everyone planned for the inaugural, but not for all the immigration protests. and secondly, the police staffing is down by several hundred

thirdly, all this extra activity comes to the police, even as the city has now 100,000 more residents than it had a decade ago. >> so is this going to cost more? who is paying for this? >> the good news, with the inauguration and federal issues, the city gets a budget of about $35 million a year to handle things like that. they can ask for more funds for the federal stuff. but there's a lot going on and they just don't have enough people and enough time. i talked to interim police chief peter newsome and they're trying to speed up hiring more officers, trying to spread the money around, restaff people around the city. he thinks they're doing a really good job, but it's a much tougher assignment than it was just a couple years ago. >> from what i hear, we have an awful lot of officers retiring, don't we? >> that's the reason of the shortage. more people retire. a lot of people are getting old, jim. >> no! it a lot more people are retiring than they are hiring. and it'sar

train them. and the city's adjusted some things to get more officers, but it's a tough battle they have to keep fighting for. chief newsome is the interim police chief and he says they're doing a lot to get officers back on the street faster, but qualified to do the job. >> but just for citizens who are concerned and things do get vilent violent, they bring in reinforcements? >> yes, they do. they're being much more flexible now when they have to respond to something, they're better at responding. they're much busier. well, a pioneer in the race to space. meet the woman who inspired the oscar-nominated film "hidden figures" as she reveals the one thing in the movie that's only for show. ahead, it's not just restaurants that will close or offer limited service tomorrow on the day without immigrants. ahead, we'll show you a d.c. public school that is closing, so that it's

we have spring just a couple days away. not literally, but it's going to feel like it. we just had to get through how many more days of bluster? >> just one, really. it's only tomorrow, and even by friday i think we'll be on the milder side there. outside right now, a really nice sho

still a very nice shot of dusk across our region. take a look. you can see venus off to the west and the moon will be rising off towards the east. and actually right now, the international space station, going right over head. you might be able to check that out too. right now, looking pretty good. temperature wise, it's cold. 43 degrees, and the winds are gusting 20 to 40 miles per hour. the numbers dropping through the 30s. the windchills will be in the 20s. we're already there. look at the numbers. down into the low 30s. 37 at gaithersburg, 42 in fredericksburg. but you add in the winds and look at the numbers, 22 in w winchester, 36, d.c. a much colder day this is started at. we hit 50 earlier today and the numbers came down quickly. the front boundary brought in showers and sprinkles this afternoon. now a

snow making its way down across the parts of pennsylvania, around seven springs, into areas of western pennsylvania, into ski resorts in west virginia. they'll pick up some snow. under a winter weather advisory back here, but not for us. temperatures wise, 36 d.c. windchills, 28 hagerstown, 18 in pittsburgh. that's the colder air that will continue to move on in here. the cold is now entrenched across the mid atlantic, up to the northeast. it's not going to stick around, though, very long. the next big change is right on through the weekend. the troth moves out and here comes a nice ridge of high pressure. the jet stream moving way up close to canada before moving in. that means most of the entire nation will be on the warm size. 70s across the center portion of the country. we'll be in the 60s over the next couple days. warmer area returns, back in the 60s and staying mild right through the middle of next week. but tomorrow, the cold day. sun and clouds, y

high temperatures around 39 degrees, windchills tht 20s all day. we get to 50 on friday. so a little bit better. if you're heading out friday night, maybe you have a dinner date, looking good there. this weekend, though, looking great. no matter what you want to do. saturday, sunday, monday, presidents day weekend. we'll have a closer look at that at about 6:45, but looking mild next week. >> we like it. thank you, doug. coming up, the symbolic protests set for tomorrow as restaurants here and across the country take a stand against president trump's tough talk on immigration. >> reporter: friends and family gathered to remember a man struck and killed in this upper marlboro parking lot as police are sorting through the details of that death investigation. and a roadside tribute torn down. tonight we'll tell you why it was removed and why some

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tomorrow a symbolic protest to show the country what a day without immigrants might be like. some local restaurants are closing and at least one d.c. school is participating. >> and all of this is in response to the president's immigration policy. news4's chris gordon is in northwest d.c. with more on how this could impact businesses. >> reporter: guys, this is one of

restaurants that will close tomorrow here in the district as well as virginia and maryland. the owner estimates it's going to cost tens of thousands of dollars, and it's not just restaurants that are closing. there's no school for these students tomorrow. the lamb charter school in d.c. is closing, to allow its 80 teachers and staff to participate in the day without immigrants. >> we don't have enough staff. we have, like, maybe four classroom and the rest of the kids, we don't have enough manpower to handle that. so we decide to close tomorrow. >> reporter: the goal of the day without immigrants is not only to protest the immigration policies of president trump, but also to demonstrate how important immigrants are in our daily lives. bus boys and poets is closing all six of its locations. its 600 employees are being allowed to use a vacation day to participate in the day without immigrants. brenda pauma is from

and has worked for bus boys and poets since it opened 12 years ago. >> they separate fily. and families should not be separate. because it's going to damage a lot of families. >> reporter: even the owner of bus boys and poets is participating in day without immigrants. >> as an immigrant myself, i could not stand on the sideline and watch the rest of my staff not being here. i wanted to make sure that we are in solidarity with them. >> reporter: boundary stone public house in the bloomingdale's section of the district is not closing, but its owners are giving the kitchen and wait staff the day off. >> so we've decided to give them a paid day off and we will be in the kitchen cooking. >> reporter: the restaurant association of metropolitan washington sent us a statement tonight, saying that 23% of restaurant workers are foreign-born. they say immigrants play an important part in the restaurant industry. that's the latest live in

to you. so we've asked what you think about the day without immigrants closures. it's our nbc washington flash survey today. so far, most of those who responded support it. you can weigh in on the nbc washington facebook page. new at 6:00, a roadside memorial for a baby boy who was killed in loudoun county has been taken down. these pictures show the now empty street corner on riverside park way in lansdowne. the memorial went up shortly after a horrific crash last august. 5-month-old tristan schultz was being pushed in his stroller by his mother, when they were hit in a crosswalk. his mother survived. the neighborhood homeowners association partially removed the memorial last month after some neighbors complained, they voted to remove the entire memorial this week. the association sent a letter to the schultz family encouraging them to contact

memorial permit on nearby land. a mother tonight wants answers in the death of her son, he was killed monday when a man ran him over intentionally in a, paing lot in upper marlboro. police are investigating to determine whether it was a case of self-defense. a vigil for the victim is about to get under way. that's where tracee wilkins joins us now. >> reporter: jim, if you look behind me, right there in front of the papa john's, those are the friends and family of nathaniel mckinnon, after this young man was purply struosely and killed. the police are still working to put together the moving parts in the investigation. all of this is happening as the mother of this young man told me today she wants to press her own charges. >> i'm pressing charges for what he did to me. >> reporter: she says she wants the man who killed her son, nathaniel mckinnon, arrested for sa

parks-jones said that after a man intentionally ran over her son in an upper marlboro parking lot, he then attacked her as she tried to go to her son's lifeless body. >> i go to him and i said, what did you do to my baby? and he proceeds to fight me with his fists. >> reporter: it unfolded on monday in the 5000 block of brown station road. the driver of the range rover that ran over her son has not been named by police. police say the driver intentionally ran over mckinnon. the question is, was it self-defense? an ak-47 was retrieved near mckibon's body. >> they should arrest him and he should be incarcerated today. >> reporter: again, a candle light vigil about to get under way. mckinnon's body was there just across the way from that pizza place for hours on monday as police investigated this. news4 has learned that the night before he was struck, there was

some other person and the two kids of the man who was behind the wheel of that vehicle. police are investigating any possible connections. there's a belief that mckinnon may have been there. the ak-47 that was found on the scene was retrieved. i'm tracee wilkins, back to you in the studio. >> thank you, tracee. some changes on metro, some of the transit agency's least reliable railcars were put into retirement this morning at the greenbelt metro rail yard. the 4000 series cars are plagued with problems, resulting in train delays that we love so much. metro is also continuing to get rid of its 1000 series cars, the oldest in the metro system. if you're a driver, you see it every single day, triple-a calls it risky behavior. talking about texting and driving. running red lights,

it appears drivers between the ages of 19 and 24 are the worst offenders. market research firm told triple-a millenials text at nearly twice the rate of other drivers. that has serious consequences. the number of traffic deaths jumped by the highest percentage in 50 years. her story was once missing from the history books. now it's portrayed on the big screen. we're going to meet the mathematician who broke barriers at nasa and why she's surprised by all the attention. soon bao bao leaves the national zoo for china. today on news4 at 6:00, we talk to zoo visitors about bao bao's final days here in washington. right now, taking a look at snow making its way our way. that won't get here, but what will, the most colder air. we're track

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it. we were hoping to get another glimpse of bao bao. she's leaving for her new home in china next week. and it takes a lot of work and planning to transport a panda overseas. news4's kristen wright has more on this complicated task. >> reporter: bao bao has never left home. not once. but now the time has come and some just aren't ready. >> come back to washington, d.c. >> reporter: but the giant panda has to go. she's leaving the national zoo for her new home in china in six days. >> the main emotion right now is just heartbreaking, that our little girl is leaving us. >> reporter: lesley johnson and ann lane-witt are almost in tears. >> i have been a panda fan since ling ling and shin shin were here, and my mom and dad bought me a stuffed panda

>> reporter: bao bao has green up here, from the stick of butter, to the first birthday, the second and the third. soon she'll be 4 and that's time to go. >> we know she'll go to china and have little bao baos or bao bao jrs, whatever you want to call them and fulfill her destiny destiny of becoming a mom and adding to the population of pandas. >> reporter: bao bao will arrive in a crate that she's been getting used to at the zoo. no sedation. just food and her zoo keeper. we'll take 50 pounds of bamboo, apples, sweet potatoes and sugar cane and all that stuff. >> reporter: no shortage of panda hats at the zoo now or love for bao bao. >> i'm going to miss her. >> we just said in juunison, no sedation? we would want to be on a 16-hour

bao to check them out during the break. there's also a lot of reaction on social media about the departure of the panda. one person wrote she can't believe it's just a few days away now. another said, we're so fortunate to have had such a wonderful icon to share. >> we are. up next, her brilliant mind played a big role in an historic space mission, inspired a new generation to reach for the stars. we'll meet the woman who inspired the film "hidden figures," as she shows

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harrison. >> does she handle analytic geometry? >> absolutely. and she speaks. >> yes, sir, i do. >> that's a scene from a wonderful movie, it's called "hidden figures." it features the untold story of three african american women working for nasa in the early days of the space program back in the 50s and 60s. it chronicles their plight to end the discrimination that separated them from the rest of the team and kept them from moving up in their jobs. barbara harrison is here now with more on one of the women featured in that film. barbara? >> one of the women who proves herself to be really a human computer is katherine johnson. she's a quiet hero in this film who proves that her manual math calculations were more reliable than the computers in the early days. >> this one in the me.

johnson. >> if they say so. >> well, that's what they say. and we've all gone to the movies to see your story. does that surprise you? it does? >> yes. very much. >> reporter: you don't know that you're an international sensation? >> for what reason? >> reporter: because of what you did. >> did i rob a bank. [ laughter ] >> reporter: katherine johnson has a terrific sense of humor. certain not the introvert some might imagine a mathematics genius to be. we all know you did some incredible things when you worked at nasa. john glenn could not take a trip without you saying it was okay. >> yeah, he was -- he was like me. he didn't trust they'd put everything in the computers. >> reporter: john glenn trusted her telemetry

those from computers that were relatively new at the time. he knew her equations done by hand had worked for some very high stakes missions. how did she feel about so much weight riding on her arithmetic? >> no problem. >> reporter: no problem, because math has never stumped katherine johnson. she's a legend now at nasa where a lot has changed since her 33 years there. and she was a major catalyst for that change. her brilliant mind for math led to great strides in the race to get to space and back. >> the fact that you knew how to do it when a lot of people didn't know how to do it. >> shame on. [ laughter ] >> reporter: yes, shame on them. she says she was just doing her job, but her part in putting america out front, in the pioneering days of the space race, and for her part in bringing her race from the back of the bus when they rode to work here, both have earned a place in history books and in the movies. she is one of

whose story was told in the popular new film "hidden figures." the other two dorothy vaughn and mary jackson. the three were young the first female african americans to work for nasa, where job assignments in the segregated computers division at langley research center were far beneath the heights they would eventually climb. through excellence in what they did, and their perseverance in achieving equality, the movie gives us only a glimpse of katherine johnson's life away from nasa. raising three daughters as a single mother, a new husband, who she still shares her life with today. at 98 now, katherine johnson is the lone survivor of the three who have come to be known as "hidden figures." her brain can still pump out those numbers. >> what's 7 times 12? >> 84. >> that brain is still working. >> i'm glad something is still working. >> i think aot

working for you. you're amazing. what year were you born? >> 1918. >> 1918. that makes you how old? >> caller: close to a hundred. i'm working on that. >> what an amazing lady. i had a wonderful time with her. she would like to still be working to land humans on mars. she said mars is so much further than the moon that figuring out the trajectory would take more space than her manual calculations than she could fit on a blackboard, but she has no doubt that she could do it. and incidentally she told me about a couple of things in the movie that she would correct. one is that she never had to run from one building to another to get to the colored bathroom, and as for the coffee, she made the coffee every day herself, and she said she never remembers anyone refusing to drink it because her hands it touched

does tell us about what they went through. >> she is an extraordinary woman and i love her comment when you asked her a question and she said "no problem." >> and i asked her a lot more math questions than just that one. >> she's sharp. >> she said, are you having a problem? >> she's an extraordinary woman. barbara, thank you. let's turn to the weather now. what are your figures for the coming week? >> they're cold and then they get warm. and that's what it's been. we've been on that roller coaster here. kind of the battle of the seasons here during winter. it's supposed to be winter, but we've seen a lot more spring lately than winter, and that's what we have in the upcoming forecast. out there right now, a very cold night for sure. temperatures dropping through the 40s into the 30s. windchills and they're another thing, already in the 20s in some areas. winds out of the northwest at 13 miles per hour. winds gusting over 30

to cool things down. 38 in potomac. windchills in the 20s, but again, that's the way they'll be all night long right through tomorrow morning. rain or snow, not in our immediate area, but back to the west, we are seeing some making its way around this area of low pressure, through the great lakes, through cleveland, through pittsburgh, and it will try to make its way towards our area. i don't think it will get here. once it crosses the blue ridge, things tend to dry, so i'm not worried about flurry here. but west of the blue ridge, hagerstown, you may see a couple flurries. next couple days, tomorrow is the cold day, 30 degrees, but it will feel like teens and 20s. blustery around noon. 39 around 3:00, and then dropping to 35 degrees by 7:00. so cold for sure. if you're heading out this weekend, skiing, they'll be able to make snow the next couple days and then nice conditions for actual skiing during the weekend

but still really nice. golf, yeah, you can get a tee time for the weekend. saturday, 64, sunday, 65. and even even close most of next week. i'm doug kammerer, but you knew that. i thought i was doing the web for a second. >> that's okay. we gotcha. we got sports coming up. tough road for maryland starts tonight and a coaching legend in the area saying goodbye to the game.

this is the xfinity sports desk. >> michael wilbon is going to be so happy. why am i saying that, right? >> yeah. >> wilbon went to northwestern and he's always talking about that school. and i think they have a chance of getting into the tournament for the first time in about a hundred or so years since will don graduated. >> we're saying ever. >> but -- >> but they may not because they will play maryland tonight. and the way the terps have been playing, i'm thinking northwestern might want to stay home tonight. >> northwestern could lose tonight and still have a good chance. they only have six losses on the year. a tough week for maryland and that's the team we're concentrating on. last year, the maryland men's basketball team, 22-4. 22-4 record and they were ranked second in the country. this year, they're 21-4 and they're

we got to give "the post" credit for reminding us of that. terps say, no, nothing can be taken for granted. a tough road tonight at northwestern. yes, i said tough and northwestern in the same sentence. maryland is not looking ahead to 11th ranked wisconsin and a nationally televised game on sunday, because tonight's opponent just beat wisconsin. the wildcats, one of the best teams in school history, 19-6 now, after that upset of the badgers, they're close to sec e securing their first ncaa tournament. coach doesn't have to tell us that overlooking tonight's game is a big no-no. >> they know. been following basketball their whole lives. this team is focused on one game and so wisconsin -- or northwestern's coming off a huge win. best team they've had maybe er

our guys know what lie ahead, and we gotta be ready to go. wizards hit the road ahead of the all-star break, heading to indy to face the pacers. the time of years that makes coaches nervous when vacation is on the brain. top four seed? that's a question that were asking last week. today it's can they contend for number one in the east? wizards have been playing excellent basketball, winning 14 of the last 16. they're the third seed. cavs are on top, they just lost kevin love, opening the door for lebron james getting the throne. >> that should be our goal. it's possible. sometimes comes into the season, that's not your main objective, to be the top seed, but when you have an opportunity in front of you, why not go for it? >> we want to keep playing well, and obviously if that happens, we will move up, but it's not -- i'm not worried about other teams and standings right now,

basketball left. march, we have a lot of games, a lot of road games, april is not going to be any easier. but we just want to focus on what we do every day and let the process take place. >> time now for the kirk cousins daily deal update. there's actual news tonight, february 15th is the first day teams can use that franchise tag. there's that two-week window that closes march 1st, a lot of speculation the redskins will use the tag to keep him. handicappers give redskins best chance of all the teams with 50/50 odds, then san francisco next closest destination at 7-1. the redskins waited until march 1st to tag cousins last year. and legendary good counsel high school head coach bob malloy announcing his retirement today. his 405 career wins are the most in maryland state history, guiding his team to 12

at three other high schools. got his start in the '60s as an assistant under legendary coach morgan wooten. >> he's had a

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