y29kty ysty at 6:00, pushing back isis. right now on news 4 today, the major new military move and the key warning surrounding a battleground city. and what we're finding out about a new version of a travel ban while president trump narrows down a new national security adviser. and no winner. the powerball jackpot soaring overnight. we'll tell you about the next chance you'll have to become a multimillionaire. on this sunday morning, we welcome you into news 4 today on this 19th of february. good morning to you. i'm david culver in for adam and angie

check of that forecast. if you headed out yesterday, it was a beautiful one. able to enjoy some of the afternoon. tom kierein, you think perhaps a repeat today. >> that's right, david. starting off much milder than we were yesterday morning. we're in the 50s. in addition, getting a few sprinkles of light rain to the north and west of the metro area. that's showing up on storm team 4 radar. we're getting that in montgomery as well as culpepper. all this tracking off to the south and east. a few sprinkles may make their way into northern prince george's county and the district over the next hour or so. just enough to make the pavement wet early on this sunday morning. temperatures are much milder. we're in the 50s everywhere. reagan national now at 59 degrees. annapolis now at 61. hour by hour temperatures, most of the area will be in the 50s through 10:00. jumping into the 60s by 11:00. hitting the upper 60s by this

on the way over the next ten days in just a few minutes. david? >> we'll check in with you then. developing this morning, iraq's military is preparing to move in to western mosul and take it back from isis. all this developing overnight. we know that iraq's prime minister is announcing the offensive on state television this morning. the leaflets were dropped into the area so as to urge isis members to surrender and warn the military would be moving in. the u.n. says tens of thousands of civilians in the western portion of the city may be forced to flee during that military campaign. homeland security secretary john kelly says the trump administration is working on a streamlined version of its immigration executive order. the original executive order, you'll recall, has been blocked by the courts. secretary kelly discussed the plan yesterday at a security summit. this was in germany. he promised a short phase-in period for the new order. >> in particular, to make sure that there's no one, in a

caught in the system moving from overseas toward our airports, which happened on the first release. >> president trump says we could see something on a new executive order on immigration sometime this week. and the president is working to find a new national security adviser. today he's expected to meet with at least four candidates. you're looking at them right there. lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster, former u.n. ambassador john bolton, acting national security adviser keith kellogg, and lieutenant general robert kaplan. it comes as the president was back on the campaign trail, so to speak, yesterday. nbc's chris pennsylvania loan has a look at that. >> reporter: president donald trump in florida with a campaign style rally just 30 days after taking office. back in front of friendly faces. >> i want to speak to you without the filter of the fake news. the white house is running so smoothly. >>

which he fired his national security adviser and railed against journalists online and in person. >> okay, sit down. >> reporter: the rally comes as new poll numbers show the majority of americans disapprove of the job trump is doing, but that's not how people at saturday's rally feel. >> i just think he's great, and he's helping this country. >> reporter: the president continues to label reporting he doesn't like fake news and called some news outlets enemies of the american people, sentiments not shared by some members of his own party. senator john mccain on sunday's "meet the press." >> if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free an many times adversarial press. >> reporter: as the president rallied supporters, protesters took to the streets. >> if one good thing comes out of this presidency, it's that we have come together. >> reporter: while the president is meeting with several candidates to replace ousted national security adviser michael flynn. >> let's

rolling. >> reporter: the trump train, unlike anything we've seen before. >> and later this hour, vice president mike pence will leave munich to head to brussels for meetings related to nato and the european union. the vice president tried to reassure allies that the u.s. strongly supports nato, but he also called for members to boost their defense spending, something that the president has always called for. we do want to remind you, be sure to check out "meet the press" for all the latest in politics this week. this morning chuck todd will have sunday exclusives with senator john mccain and former defense secretary leon panetta. he's also going to speak to white house chief of staff reince priebus. chuck will join us here in studio for a preview. the woman at the center of the landmark supreme court decision roe versus wade has died. she was the jane roe in the case. in 1969, she

unemployed, and pregnant for the third time. she sought an abortion in texas, but the procedure was illegal in the state except to save a woman's life. her lawsuit led to the 1973 supreme court case establishing abortion rights. she later became an outspoken critic of abortion. she was 69 years old. at 6:06, developing in the district right now, an active search for a shooter. police say a man in an older model white ford expedition shot a female special police officer in the leg. we know she's expected to be okay. police say this happened yesterday. you're looking at part of that scene. it was at an apartment complex on green street in southeast. the officer was working a special detail at the complex. and in tacoma park, maryland, police say a 2-year-old boy is in critical condition. he was hit by a car. it happened yesterday evening just before 5:00 along roanoke avenue. you're look at a map of that scene. the driver did stay on scene, according to police. there's no word

was face any charges. police are asking for help for anyone who may have seen this accident. they want to hear from you. and this is a reminder for parents to not allow children to operate vehicles. fairfax county police say david sifuentes was working on his vehicle when he asked an 8-year-old boy to start it. the sedan started to move in reverse, so sifuentes grabbed the steering wheel. he was flung to the ground. police are asking anyone with information to give fairfax county police a call. 6:07 right now. a live look outside. a beautiful start to this sunday as we look at the capital wheel there at national harbor. quickly warming up as well. we have tom tracking how fast we'll be back up in the mid-60s. yeah, it is still february. and hundreds of evacuated and streets flooded with water. we'll tell you about the devastation in calor

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california can just not get a break. just as the southern part of that state tries to dry out from one of the biggest storms in years, the northern part of the state is set to get hit by even more rain. officials say at least one person has died after flooding overtook an area northwest of sacramento on saturday. at least 200 people were evacuated because of high water. multiple roads, as you see there, shut down. emergency crews have been working around the clock so as to sandbag the areas. if you're planning to replace that old refrigerator, this might be the weekend to do it. you're going to get a tax break on some big appliances if you buy them in maryland. here's the deal. through monday, the state is offering some energy star products tax free. it includes kitchen and laundry appliances, furnaces, and

team is helping you out. they put it in the nbc washington app. good news. you still have a chance to become a multimillionaire. that's because there was no winner in last night's jackpot powerball drawing. the jackpot rises to $403 million. however, we do know that some people matched five of the numbers worth a million dollars, including in our area, in maryland to be exact. the next drawing is on wednesday. 6:12 your time now on this sunday. tom kierein, after the show yesterday, i took an hour nap and was regretting that. as soon as i went back outside, i realized how nice it was. you said there's another chance today to feel that beautiful outdoor air. >> that is right. we have another mild day under way. in fact, we're much milder now than we were yesterday morning. we're in the 50s just about everywhere. storm team 4 radar showing some scattered light rain north and west of the metro area. it is trac s

out of montgomery county into howard county. a few other sprinkles here near culpepper. all this is going to be dissipating over the next hour or so. hour by hour look here at our sky, we'll see the cloud cover lingering through late morning. then the cloud cover breaks up by 10:00. sunshine breaks out. then during the afternoon, we'll go all the sunny. that's when we'll see our temperatures really soaring. right now we are in the 50s everywhere from the mountains to the bay. 59 now at reagan national. annapolis at 61 degrees. temperatures will still be in the upper 50s by 10:00 when we get that sun breaking out. then jumping into the upper 60s by 2:00, near 70 around 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. then by 6:00 p.m., clear, mid-60s, clear and schocool by 0 tonight. storm team 4 ten-day outlook. as we get into president's day, 40s in the morning. lots of sunshine tomorrow. afternoon highs climb

the low 60s. another delightful day. not as warm as today, but still very unusually warm here for february. 41 on tuesday morning. back to work and school. clouds around. highs in the mid-50s. then morning sprinkles are likely on wednesday. sun back in the afternoon. again back up near 70. look at thursday. mid-70s, this coming thursday. still mild end of the week into next weekend. maybe morning sprinkles and showers friday and saturday. that std way is the way it look. >> i'm liking it. thank you so much. "reporters notebook" is up next. we're back in about 15 minutes with more of today's top stories. good morning. i'm pat lawson muse. it is the most generous paid family leave law in the nation. despite her reservations about it, d.c. mayor has allowed it to become law without her signature. tom, the mayor and other opponents cal

business. explain how the law will work and what the concerns are. >> in the district, the paid family law bill allows for employers of people in the city to have a payroll tax, 0.62%, on all the employees. that money will be raised -- it would allow those employees, once it goes into effect, to have up to eight weeks of paid family leave for newborn child or an adopted child, six weeks for family illnesses, and two weeks for personal illnesses, apart from my sick leave you might get. it is the most liberal law in the country. two things. one, it's too expensive for the city to run. two, the money will be raised and two-thirds of the people, 62% of the people, who will benefit are people who work in the district but live in the suburbs. federal workers will not

she says it just doesn't help. the people across the river, the law doesn't help them nearly as much because of the lower income jobs they hold. but she didn't veto it because it passed so well. she doesn't have five votes to sustain her veto. rather than going through an exercise that will fail, she's going to let it go without her signature. >> so the question is how will it be implemented? how long will it take? how much money is that going to cost? >> that's another problem. it's going to take -- if you have a child now, sorry, it doesn't work. it will take almost to 2020, they hope maybe 2019, but you know how government programs are. they're looking at 2020 before any of these benefits will be available to anyone. there are people in congress that don't like this bill. if they want to inject themselves into the city and try to stop it, but we don't know. that's farther down the road. >> all right. well, immigration was a big story

enforcement actions here in the washington area, northern virginia. of course, raids that took place around the country, causing a lot of concern for the immigrant community here. explain how the policy is being carried out now versus under president obama's administration. >> i've done a lot of stories in northern virginia in the past two weeks about this issue. it really has a lot of people, a lot of immigrants and their advocates very nervous right now. here's the difference. during the obama administration, i.c.e. brought in plenty of lawyers. the obama administration policy targeted criminal illegal immigrants. so i.c.e. agents would have a list of names, targets essentially. they would go out looking for those people. if they didn't find them, they'd come back empty handed. here's the difference with the trump administration policy. they have

if they go to, say, a particular apartment and the target they're looking for, who has a criminal background isn't there, but they discover others in that apartment are undocumented immigrants, they bring them in. that's what we saw happen a week ago in northern virginia in several operations. they call these collateral arrests. so the immigrant community is seeing the broader application of this new trump policy. we're told that some immigrants are even afraid to come out of their homes now. they're not going about their regular routine. >> every law enforcement person you talk to says people are afraid because they're going to be arrested for being illegal immigrants. they won't call 911 when there's a crime against them. they won't call 911 when there's spousal abuse. they won't call 911 when a child is missing. they will be afraid to participate and thi

>> i talked to a man this week who had been -- there's a group of men who were at a hypothermia shelter, staying there overnight. it was at a church. as soon as these men crossed the street, i.c.e. agents swooped in. i talked to one of the men who was detained and eventually let go. the i.c.e. agents show the them pictures of people they were looking for. >> the idea -- churches, shelters. but if you're camped out across the street, that's the same thing as going to the church. >> well, so many people have taken issue with these arrests. >> let's talk about the federal judge's action last week. a federal judge in alexandria granted the state of virginia preliminary injunction that blocks enforcement of the president's immigration av

ban, which is now on hold. explain how that applies in virginia. >> the nation's focus is on the case out on the west coast in the ninth circuit. this virginia case is actually farther along in the court process. a preliminary injunction has been granted. another thing that's significant is we have a judge who has written a detailed, thought-out opinion about this, some 22 pages. as you say, status quo is in place. the ban is on hold. in virginia, the preliminary injunction, though, unlike the other case, only applies to people living in virginia. the attorney general attempted to broaden it, didn't succeed. again, it is very significant right now because it's really laying some legal groundwork. basically, you know, one of the big concerns of the attorney general was the fact that this ban would hurt virginia economically, that virginia was suffering what they call re

that was one of the strong arguments they made. college students wouldn't be able to get back in, workers wouldn't be able to. >> you talked to mark herring. >> he was in arlington this week talking about the court's ruling. he said, you know -- and he's running for re-election. but he said his job as attorney general, he said, is not to challenge on public policy issues. he says we can fight those out at the ballot box, but our job was to look at this and say it was a violation of constitutional rights, the rights of people in the state not to be hampered by illegal or unconstitutional actions. so he said he's going to be quite clear he's going to spurse this. minnesota and washington state are the other two states that got the broad ban. president trump is going to have a new order come out this week, maybe as early as tomorrow. he says we can't predict what president trump is

but he said we'll just deal with it then as we have to, but we want to make sure the people in virginia can have their legal rights, whoever they are. >> all right. we've got to take a break. we'll be right back. z29kvz zstz y29kvy ysty afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me. to take advantage of this offer on a volvo s90, visit your local dealer.

y29ksy ysty staying with the topic of immigration for a moment, julie and tom. there has been a flurry of activity in richmond in the general assembly. lot of bills flying around, lot of political jousting. what can you talk about at this point? we know the session is not over. >> it goes until about the end of the month. it's wrapping up though. most of what people would call the immigration bills have already died. didn't make it to cross over. there are still a couple of bills aiming to toughen up that are still alive, one of them from state senator.

any community that would become a sanctuary city or county by making them financially liable for anything that an undocumented immigrant would do. for instance, if an undocumented immigrant caused a car accident that badly hurt somebody, the city or county would be on the hook. that's still alive. there's also another bill that would require jails to hang on to undocumented immigrants once they finish their term for several days until i.c.e. could pick them up. both those bills will likely get out of both the house and senate but will be vetoed. >> similar to president bush, who said sanctuary cities, counties, states, whatever they are, will lose federal funding under his plan if they continue to be sanctuary cities. even there, there's another legal case to be made that you cannot take money from x because people don't agree with y. we could be in court for many more months toom

search for the 7500 immigrants who were supposed to be deported. >> this plea on his part -- >> we should say he's running for governor. >> and of course he's best known, at least across the state and has even made a bit of a national reputation, for the crackdown of undocumented workers in 2007, 2008. since then, some 7,000 people have been referred to immigrations and customs enforcement. he's always wanted to know what's happened with those people. give us assurances they're deported. during the obama administration, he didn't get any traction with it. now he thinks with the trump administration, the climate is more favorable and maybe he can get some answers. he's using that clearly to draw attention. >> he likes to say that he was

in the 2007, '08 period of time, he was very aggressive on undocumented workers. that and gun control and all kinds of issues. he's trying to stay to the right of trump almost on these things. he thinks that's the ticket to winning in virginia. he believes these things, but it's also a strong path against ed gillespie. >> we saw a job action, if you will, this past week. d.c. and cities across the country staged a day without immigrants protest. here in washington, several restaurants, at least one school shut down for the day in solidarity with those protesting immigration policies. the idea was to make a statement and an economic impact. what are your thoughts? >> this was across the country. this is one of those examples of how social media is changing politics across the country. just like the women's march. it starts as an idea. someone hears about the idea, they start doing it. then it's restaurant

>> it's everybody. there's already people saying a day without women. women will just not participate in the economy. that's what they're doing here. it's not just restaurants, anywhere immigrants are, undock yumtd yu -- undocumented or otherwise. >> the other protest that we covered that cost d.c. police, some say, the resources, the ability to handle all these people coming to d.c., these are physical street protests. how have they impacted the police department? >> the good news is the federal government, through the president's budget, gives the city about $35 million a year to do some federal oriented things. nobody planned for all the demonstrations around the immigran

struggle with covering those things. they're understaffed by about 300 officers. they're aggressively hiring. they're being flexible now to send officers out to these various protests sites. the city for decades has handled protests pretty well. but they're having a lot more than they expect. >> julie, what should we look forward to as things wind down in the general assembly? >> well, the budget is always the last big issue to be tackled, but they're looking at just figuring out the second year of the two-year budget cycle. they have had to close a revenue shortfall, but they seem to be pretty successful. the final thing people will be focused on is what kind of pay raises are given to state employees. there seems to be agreement that about a 3% raise is what they want to pass on with some targeted money also going to state police

teacher pay in limbo because right now the plans that are out there competing -- and they'll go into a conference committee, give money instead to the school districts to make decisions about how they want to use that money. so they are not guaranteed the same kind of pay increases. >> this is terry mccaauliffe's last general assembly. does he have anything hopeful in this legislative session rather than toast farewell? >> i have to say, i think his most prominent act in this session is going to be vetoing a lot of legislation that he doesn't like. expanding gun rights, a lot of this anti-illegal immigrant legislation. >> got a lot of that. all right. thank you both. that's "reporters notebook." stays with us for "news 4 today" which continues right now.

at 6:30, a new phase of battle has started in iraq as the military tries to retake the western part of mosul from isis. overnight, u.s.-backed i ir forces launching a large scale operation against the extremists. d.c. police searching for the man who shot a female special police officer in the leg. police say the man was in an older model white ford expedition. the officer is expected to be okay. the powerball jackpot now $403 million after there was no jackpot winner in last night's drawing. tickets worth $1 million, which matched five of the balls, were sold in several states, including in maryland. good sunday morning. i'm david culver in for adam and

angie. starting off this morning in the 50s as we head over to storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. february 19th. >> or more like may. yesterday much of the region got up to 70 degrees. we're going to do that again today. although this morning we're starting off much milder. a lot of clouds around. they are producing a little bit of light rain. some very lying rain pulling into fairfax, howard, and northern prince george's county. all this tracking off to the south and east and dissipating over another couple hours. temperatures right now with the cloud cover are hovering in the 50s to near 60 even near the bay and downtown washington. reagan national now at 59. we'll stay in the 50s here through 10:00 then jump into the 60s by 11:00. noontime, hitting the mid and upper 60s to near 70 degrees by mid afternoon. but these sprinkles will be dissipating here shortly. have an umbrella out. some of the pavent

wet. it'll be drying out through the morning. a look at big changes on the way over the next ten days. >> tom, we'll check in with you then. coming up on 6:32. new developments in the death of kim jong-un's half brother. malaysian police are looking for four more suspects. they left the country the same day kim jong-nam was attacked and killed on monday. police are also on the lookout for several other people who may be connected to the apparent assassination. a stabbing investigation is under way this morning hours after a suspect barricaded himself inside a d.c. participant. s.w.a.t. officers were visible outside the apartment on 36th street northeast yesterday. you can see that scene. after more than five hours, police were able to get the suspect outside and make an arrest. d.c. police say the man had stabbed someone and then ran inside the apartment. >> all of the officers did a om

did everything slowly, methodically and made sure none of the citizens were injured and made sure our suspect wasn't injured as well. >> as for that stabbing victim, we're told that person is expected to be okay. there's not much left to this mcclain mansion that caught on fire. you can see there the video pretty incredible. thick black smoke, intense flames shooting into the sky. this happened around 8:00 yesterday morning on turkey run road. firefighters say people inside were able to get out safely because of smoke detectors and fire alarms going off properly. investigators still trying to figure out how exactly those flames started. and "the washington post" reporting this morning that some teachers at jefferson middle school academy are not happy with criticism from secretary of education betsy devos. this comes days after her visit to the school where protesters briefly blocked her from going inside. she praised the school at the end of her visit, but according

criticized the teachers, saying they were waiting to be told what to do. so friday night the school responded on twitter with a series of tweets. one of them saying, quote, we're about to take her to school. devos then weighing in yesterday on twitter saying the school's teachers are awesome. five middle school students facing charges for throwing this right there. that's a two by four, at president trump's motorcade. this happened friday while the motorcade was making its way past a gas station in palm beach county. police say a child confessed to throwing it and implicated four others. officials are looking at surveillance video from the gas station to get a better idea as to just what exactly happened. president trump's sons attended an invitation only ceremony in dubai yesterday. this is the first one since their father's inauguration. the golf course marks the

company's first venn chur inture arab world, but it's raising questions about how the international business could affect donald trump's administration. the republicans hoping to become virginia's next governor held their first debate. cory stewart, a one-time chair of president trump's campaign in the commonwealth, former republican national committee chair ed gillespie, distillery owner riggleman, and frank wagner. this will be a closely watched governor's race. many see it as a potential referendum on the president's first year in office. the new hard of hearing heroes project aims to add more history to the library of congress. the national court reporters foundation spearheaded this foundation. they've been recording war

they started to see a common issue among the veterans, hearing loss. so they partnered with the hearing loss association of america, where the veterans shared their personal stories. a world war ii vet says he hopes the accounts send a certain message. >> war is something you don't -- you don't play around with. >> the national court reporters foundation says around 40% of veterans come back home with some sort of hearing loss. mt. vernon is celebrating presidents' day weekend. they have a long list of events. starting this morning from 9:00 until noon, they're hosting a breakfast with who else but george washington. you can also watch character demonstrations and they'll have dancing performances as well. it continues tomorrow with a syrup tasting event and several book signings. admission will be free tomorrow. we'r a

the world. now there's evidence of one more. scientists say there's a massive hidden continent beneath the water in the southwest pacific. researchers are calling it zealandia. it's about 94% under water. new zealand and new kal done ya are its highest points, which poke above the surface. >> it's rather frustrating for us geologists with the ocean being there. if we could pull a plug on the o educations, it would be clear to everyone we have mountain chains and the big high standing continent. >> so when did this continent show up? researchers think it broke away from australia about 80 million years ago. sand beneath the sea started to form there. pretty incredible. this morning spacex, they're going to try again. they're going to try another attempt at launching an unmanned rocknt

yesterday with 13 seconds to spare. spacex said it needed to take a closer look at the positioning of an engine nozzle. taking no chances there. the falcon 9 rocket is expected to launch from the same pad where americans blasted off to the moon nearly a half century ago. the rocket has supplies for the international space station and will bring back information that could eventually help send people to mars. your time is 6:38. as we look live at union station on this sunday morning, you're looking maybe forward to a sunday jog, maybe a bike ride. we have tom updating the forecast and when to expect some showers for the workweek. and her story was hidden from history. now perhaps you've seen it on the big screen. we're going to introduce you to the hidden figures math me tigs who's now inspiring others to reach for the stars.

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ripping the media as fake news. his latest comments coming at his rally yesterday in florida, but in an exclusive interview with "meet the press," senator john mccrain ain defending the . who better to talk about it with us than chuck todd. you've got a big show coming up. you're already making news with this interview with senator john mccain. he's been an outspoken critic of the president. what do you make of his coming forward and defending the media? >> i think you're seeing a lot of politicians do that. this is not about the press and bias and all this stuff. this is sort of this next level of concern that many folks have, which is you start trying to delegitimize the entire press. you go from press criticism of individual stories to delegitimizing. that's what we've seen. when that happens in other

wondering about their democratic freedoms. we've seen it happen in turkey, russia, the philippines. where you've had weak democracies taken by authoritarian leaders. that is the echoes some are concerned about. >> likening it to a dictatorship. >> look, he was careful. he was very careful when he said he wasn't trying to say donald trump was a dictator. he was saying dictators in other countries or borderline authoritarian rulers, when you look at what's happening in turkey and russia, they're sort of on that line, that's what they do. that was where his -- look, this gets to a larger thing. john mccain expressed it very well in this interview. he's part of a core group of washington republicans who don't like that president trump wants to upset the 70-year order of

western order that sort of was put together in the face of the soviet union. this is something john mccain has been a part of, has in his mind helped build, and he is concerned that president trump wants to sort of break down that order or reorder it. he's concerned because that's exactly what vladimir putin wants. >> we're looking ahead to a national security adviser to be picked. four contender out there. who do you think is coming out on top? >> >> i think it's more likely to be one of the two military veterans there with either mcmaster. i think if it was going to be general kellogg, it would have already been made since he's acting. i would be extraordinarily surprised if it's john bolton, only because there are a lot of republicans that are big bolton fans. and bolton's foreign policy philosophy actually runs in total contrast with donald trump's. john bolton is

far as when you think about -- in many ways sort of a bush/cheney foreign policy. >> all right. chuck todd, you're coming up at 10:30. you have leon panetta as well. and reince prebus. >> you got it. >> chuck, thanks for the company this morning. catch chuck at 10:30. so one of the most popular movies up for awards this year tells the untold story of three african-american women working for nasa in the early days of the space race. >> what's the status on that computer? >> she's right behind you, mr. harrison. >> does she handle analytic geometry? >> absolutely, and she speaks. >> yes, sir, i do. >> "hidden figures" chronicles their journey to end discrimination that separated them from the rest of the team. as news 4's barbara harrison explains, the mov

the whole story. >> reporter: this one in the middle. >> okay. >> reporter: that's supposed to be katherine johnson. >> if they say so. >> reporter: 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? >> reporter: katherine johnson has a terrific sense of humor. certainly not the introvert some might imagine a mathematics genius to be. >> we know that 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 like

he didn't trust that they'd put everything in the computers. >> reporter: john glenn trusted her calculations over 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 a rit -- arithmetic? >> no problem. >> reporter: no problem because no math has ever stumped katherine johnson. he was a major catalyst for that change. her brilliant mind for math led to great strides to get to space and back. >> the fact you knew how to do it when a lot of people didn't know how to do it. >> shame on them. >> reporter: 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

work here. both have earned a place in history books and in the movies. she is one of the three women whose story was told in the popular new film "hidden figures." the other two, dorothy vaughn and mary jackson. the three were among 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 a lone survivor of those three who have come to be known as "hidden figures." her brain can still pump out those numbers. >> what's 7 times 12?

>> that brain is still working. >> i'm glad something is still working. >> i bet a lot is still working for you. you're amazing. what year were you born? >> 1918. >> 1918. that makes you how old? >> close to 100. i'm working on that. >> a great report there from barbara harrison. by the way, katherine says there are a couple things in the movie that she would like to correct. one is that she never had to run from one building to another to get to the so-called colored bathroom. as for the coffee, she made the coffee every day and she never remembers anyone refusing to drink it. some things to correct hollywood on the record with. tom kierein with us now as we look behind us here. starting out to be another nice day, another nice weekend. >> a lot of clouds around over the city. that's a live view through our video window. they have been producing a few

storm team 4 radar just to the north of washington. very light rain is tracking off to the east, now coming into northern prince george's county out of howard county. really, a lot of it is going to be quickly dissipating over the next hour or so as it tracks off to the south and east. the cloud cover that will stay with us through this morning will begin to break up. in fact, we'll see sunshine breaking out here by around 10:00 this morning. then during the afternoon, we'll be going mostly sunny as the cloud cover dissipates and pulls off to the south and east. when that happens, our temperatures will be soaring today. just a reality check. average high this time of year, 48. we're already above that. look at reagan national. it's at 59 degrees. annapolis at 61. we're in the 50s just about everywhere from the mountains to the bay and the atlantic beaches on this sunday morning. temperatures still in the 50s by 10:00. once that sun breaks out, it'll jump into the 60s this

right around 3:00 to 4:00. back down to the low 60s by 6:00 p.m. upper 50s by 10:00 p.m. under a clear sky tonight. then by dawn, during the day on presidents day, we'll have it down into the upper 40s. tomorrow, mild again but not quite as warm. up into the low 60s. lots of sunshine on presidents day. beautiful day. getting back to work and school on tuesday, near 40 in the morning. afternoon highs on tuesday under the cloud cover ought to make it into the mid-50s. warm front returns on wednesday morning, maybe a few light rain showers. sun back in the afternoon. we're going to soar back up to near 70 on wednesday afternoon. even milder on thursday. warm, up into the low to mid-70s on thursday. partly sunny. we may get some morning sprinkles on friday and again on saturday, but still unusually mild into next weekend. a bit cooler after that on that following sunday. chances of rain as we get into

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all right. so today full squad workouts for the natsagi begin at spring training. you'll know why guys like bryce harper will soon be bringing their swim trunks to work. >> reporter: amid the construction, a team gets back to work. ballpark of the palm beaches, a cool name for the nats' new massive spring training complex. >> it makes you feel good. guys are excited to come. guys are not in a hurry to leave. all this equates to, you know, being happy. >> reporter: six practice fields, an agility field, spots for

and a pool, guys ready to jump in. >> excited to be down here, excited to get going in a flu pla -- new place, great cages. a nice pool, hopefully do some cannon balls. >> reporter: position players start workouts today. they will quickly notice that here fields one and two the dimensions are the exact same, even the way they cut the corner, as nats park back in d.c. a reminder even in the spring there's no place like home. in west palm beach florida, carol maloney, news 4 sports. before you make dinner reservations for tonight, you're going to want to listen to this. the james beer foundation has rolled its list of semifinalists for this year's best restaurant awards out. the district has a few contenders in the mid-atlantic categories. it has two chefs in the running for outstanding chef, five chefs in the running for the best chef category, and could snag the best new restaur

what are we talking about here? some of the finalists include pineapple and pearls, bad saint, and fiola. final nominees will be announced next month. the winners will be selected in april. you can look at the entire list in our nbc washington app. all you have to do is search restaurant awards. at 6:57, a lot more to come on "news 4 today" on this sunday morning. we'll bring you some of the headlines from overnight, including what's happening overseas in iraq that will catch your attention. plus, an hour by hour look at that forecast. you're going to like ts one. we'hire

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that a lot of folks may just love. >> you said a keyword, may. that's what it feels like. we have temperatures already well into the 50s on this sunday morning. we have some clouds around. a little kiss of sun showing on the eastern horizon. that's a live view from our storm team 4 tower camera. a lot of clouds around. they have been producing sprinkles of light rain north of washington, but they are dissipating as they're tracking off to the east. the pavement still a little damp in montgomery county along 95 between the beltway and baltimore. temperatures are in the 50s from the mountains to the bay and the eastern shore. 56 now at reagan national. hour by hour temperatures for the rest of the morning, we'll stay in the 50s through 10:00, then by 11:00, into the 60s. hitting upper 60s to near 70 degrees by midafternoon with increasing sunshine. a look at how much longer this

>> tom, we'll see you in a few minutes. developing this morning, u.s.-backed iraqi forces have launched a large-scale operation to reclaim the rest of mosul from isis. prior to the operate, leaflets were dropped into the area to urge isis members to surrender and warn that the military was moving in. the united nations is warning that the start of this battle puts hundreds of thousands of civilians at risk. homeland security secretary john kelly says the trump administration is working on a streamlined version of its immigration executive order. the original executive order, you'll recall, has been blocked by the courts. secretary kelly discussed the plan yesterday at a security summit. this was in germany. he promised a short phase-in period for the new order. >> in particular, to make sure that there's no one, in a sense, caught in the system moving from overseas toward our airports,

>> president trump says we could see something on a new executive order on immigration sometime this week. and the president is working to find a new national security adviser. today he's expected to meet with at least four candidates. you're looking at them right there. lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster, former u.n. ambassador john bolton, acting national security adviser keith kellogg, and lieutenant general robert caslen. it comes as the president was back on the campaign trail, so to speak, yesterday. nbc's chris pollone has a look at that. >> reporter: president donald trump in florida with a campaign style rally just 30 days after taking office. back in front of friendly faces. >> i want to speak to you without the filter of the fake news. the white house is running so smoothly. >> reporter: after a week in

security adviser and railed against journalists online and in person. >> okay, sit down. >> reporter: the rally comes as new poll numbers show the majority of americans disapprove of the job trump is doing, but that's not how people at saturday's rally feel. >> i just think he's great, and he's helping this country. >> reporter: the president continues to label reporting he doesn't like fake news and called some news outlets enemies of the american people, sentiments not shared by some members of his own party. senator john mccain on sunday's "meet the press." >> if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free an many times adversarial press. >> reporter: as the president rallied supporters, protesters took to the streets. >> if one good thing comes out of this presidency, it's that we have come together. >> reporter: while the president is m

candidates to replace ousted national security adviser michael flynn. >> let's keep the trump train rolling. >> reporter: the trump train, unlike anything we've seen before. >> and later this hour, vice president mike pence will leave munich to head to brussels for meetings related to nato and the european union. the vice president tried to reassure allies that the u.s. strongly supports nato, but he also called for members to boost their defense spending, something that the president has always called for. and be sure to watch "meet the press" for all the latest. chuck todd will have exclusives with john mccain and former defense secretary leon panetta. he's also going to speak to white house chief of staff reince priebus. chuck will join us with a preview at 10:15 this morning. the woman at the center of landmark supreme court decision roe versus wade has died. norma mccorvey passed away. she was the jane roe in the case. in 1969, she was unmarried, unemployed, and pregnant for the third time. she sought an abortion in texas, but the procedure was illegal in

woman's life. her lawsuit led to the 1973 supreme court case establishing abortion rights. she later became an outspoken critic of abortion. she was 69 years old. two children and their parents had to be taken to the hospital early this morning. it happened after a carbon monoxide leak in their apartment. according to our news partners at wtop, the family lives near 51st street in northeast. firefighters say the leak came from the family's water heater. the cdc recommends having your heating system checked by a qualified technician every year. carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas that can cause flu-like symptoms, which can be deadly. developing in the district this morning, there's an active search for a shooter. police say a man in an older model white ford expedition shot a female special police officer in the leg. she's expected to be okay. police said this happened yesterday at an apartment complex on green street in southeast. you're looking at video

police say the officer was working a special detail at that complex. to tacoma park, yamaryland, where police say a 2-year-old boy is in critical condition. he was hit by a car. it happened yesterday evening just before 5:00 along roanoke avenue. the driver did stay on scene, according to police. there's no word if that driver was face any charges. police are asking for help for anyone who may have seen this accident. and this is a reminder for parents to not allow children to operate vehicles. fairfax county police say david sifuentes was working on his volkswagen sedan yesterday when he asked an 8-year-old boy to start it. the sedan started to move in reverse, so sifuentes grabbed the steering wheel. police say at some point, he was thrown and hit the ground. he died at the scene. the boy wasn't hurt, but they're asking anyone with information to call fairfax county police. 7:07, your time on this sunday morning. the sun ng

outside. it's quickly starting to warm up. we've got tom kierein tracking how fast we'll be back up in the mid-60s. then, hundreds evacuated and streets looking like this, fladed wifla flooded with water. we'll tell you about the devastation in california. y29kwy ysty

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california also creating -- look at that mess. looks like a construction zone. thousands of folks without power in parts of l.a. county after power lines crashed to the ground. road crews are trying to repair massive sink holes that opened up during the storm. at least three people died because of that wild weather. you still have a chance to become a multimillionaire. that is because there was no jackpot winner in last night's powerball drawing. that means the jackpot goes up to $403 million. however, we do know that some people matched five of the numbers, and that's worth a million bucks, including somebody in maryland. the next drawing is on wednesday. so would you believe it that it's mid-february if you looked outside right now or walked out there and felt the temperature? probably not. we have tom updating the forecast with how long this sunny and warm stretch is going to linger. then, two days left until we say good-bye to bao bao. how the national zoo is preparing r

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off to the east. we'll get increasing sunshine later today and much milder. a look at that and another warm wave on the way over the next ten days. that'll be in just a few minutes. >> tom, see you then. all right. got to take a look at this video. watch as a massive landslide cascades down this mountain in california. firefighters had a camera romming at the ti rolling at the time it happened. a chunk of mountain in san bernardino county gave way, taking down trees and covering the snow below. they say the landslide is about a thousand feet from top to bottom and is called a slide canyon. no one got hurt in that, just incredible video. the man now known as the blind sheik is has now died. officials say he was suffering from diabetes and coronary artery disease. he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for his role

bombing that killed six people and injured more than a thousand others. if you're looking to replace that old refrigerator, this might be your weekend to do it, particularly if you plan to do some shopping in maryland. it's there you'll get a tax break on some big appliances through monday. the state is offering some energy star products tax free. it includes kitchen and laundry appliances, furnaces, and boilers. our digital team put together a full list in the nbc washington app. buy or rent. if you live in the district, it turns out homeowners are doing a bit better than renters. in 2016, d.c. homeowners paid out about 19% of their income for mortgage. for renters, about 28% of their income went to pay for their apartment. this is according to zillow. as it turns out, you'll pay much more in other big cities across the country. it's 7:16. the virginia railway express could be getting some more

stops. also coming from wtop this morning, regional leaders are close to making a decision to expand vr resurface along the i-66 corridor. there is a possibility the service could extend to gainesville or haymarket. the prince william county board of supervisors trying to figure out if it makes economic sense. the move could reduce the number of cars along the already congested i-66. the national zoo's beloved giant panda bao bao leaving for china this morning. it will be her forever home. >> 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 two days. >> the main

just heartbreaking that our little girl is leaving us. >> reporter: lest llie johnson anne lane whit are almost in tears. >> when i was 3, my mom and dad bought me a stuffed panda here. >> reporter: bao bao has grown up before our eyes, from that stick of butter to her very first birthday, and the second and third. but soon bao bao will be 4. that means it's time to go. >> we know she's going to go to china and hopefully have little bao baos or little bao bao junior, little babies, and fulfill her destiny of becoming a mom. >> reporter: it's a 16-hour direct flight. bao bao will ride in a crate she's been getting used to at the zoo. no sedation, just food and her zookeeper. >> we're going to be taking 50 pounds of bamboo, we're going to be taking apples and sweet potatoes and sugar cane and all

>> reporter: no sortage of panda hats at the zoo now or love for bao bao. >> i'm going to miss her. >> reporter: at the national zoo, christian wright, news 4. >> a lot of people feeling that way. what a better weekend to go out there and say good-bye. a bitter farewell. people have nice weather to do it. >> do pandas get jet lag? >> she's flying first class, so i think she'll be just fine. >> one of those recliners. >> she'll be comfortable. >> here we've had a few passing sprinkles this morning just to the north of the metro area, just enough to make the pavement wet. we've had some spin-out actions as a result of that. but things are beginning to dry out. there's a view looking off to the east. look at chose shafts of sunlight coming down from behind that cloud cover over prince george's county. the live view from the storm team 4 tower camera on this sunday morning. elsewhere, we have a lot of clouds around in the wake of those sprinkles that are pretty much dissipating

these are all moving off to the east and will be quickly gone over the next half hour or so. the cloud cover over us now, by the time we get to 7:00 or 8:00, we'll see the cloud cover here through this hour beginning to break up a little bit north and west of us. still mostly cloudy in the metro area until about 10:00 this morning. by noontime, a clearing sky from west to east. we'll go all sunny throughout the rest of the afternoon with warming temperatures. right now it is pretty mild. we're above the average high for this time of year, which is 48. we are into the 50s. reagan national now at 56. we'll stay in the upper 50s through 10:00. once that sun breaks out, we'll jump into the 60s by the afternoon, maybe near 70 degrees midafternoon. by 6:00 p.m., back down to the mid-60s. a clear and cool

we'll be back down to the upper 50s by late this sunday evening. by dawn on presidents day, monday, we should be in the upper 40s. afternoon highs tomorrow, low 60s. a gorgeous day. a little cooler though. we'll be in the low 60s on monday. then tuesday cooler weather moves in. everybody getting back to work and school. near 40 in the morning. afternoon highs, mid-50s under the cloud cover. maybe morning sprinkles on wednesday as a warm front comes in. after that, sun back. here comes another warm wave. up near 70 on wednesday afternoon. warmest day over the next ten days may be thursday. the low to mid-70s may be common throughout the region. next weekend still looks mild. next saturday, after morning showers, up near 70. cooler weather moves in sunday. that following monday, still pretty nice. as we get into the following week, way above average temperatures. david? >> all right, tom.

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we're back at 7:24. you may be able to snag some shopping deals this presidents day weekend, but are those deep

discounts actually price cuts? nbc's joling kent found out what's actually a bargain. >> reporter: presidents day sale signs bombarding you at the mall and screens of all sizes. >> it's the final week of the presidents day sale. >> i'm a sucker for a sale sign. >> do you ever pay full price? >> rarely. >> reporter: these days it appears nothing is ever full price, so are you really getting a great deal? it feels like things are always on sale. >> at some stores, things really are always on sale. >> reporter: the consumer nonprofit group checkbook.org checked sales nationwide. they found presidents day deals don't save you money, with the kpengs of black friday. >> i think a lot of stores do this because they want to keep their customers from shopping around. the only way they can compete with really low priced competitors is to make people think they're getting a great deal, even when they're not. >> reporter: the consumer

watchdog says kohl's, macy's, and sears are the worst offenders, luring in customers by advertising special low prices that are actually the same price most of the year. sears disagreed on the findings and said it complies with advertising laws. macy's said its pricing varies for each item based on the nature and seasonality. kohl's did not respond. last year the city of los angeles sued jcpenney, sears, macy's and kohl's over what it called fake sales. on the flip side, discounts at checkbook.org tracked found walmart, costco, and target reflect genuine prices. bottom line, compare prices you see in person to other stores and don't buy full price. >> at most stores, don't get sucked in by a special offer or by a sale price because often that sale price is going to be around the next day, the next week, the next month. >> reporter: proving some discounts aren't so deep

all. jo ling kent, nbc news, washington. at 7:27 on this presidents day weekend, shaping up to be a warm day for mid-february, if you can believe the calendar. tom is looking ahead to when we can expect temperatures to start soaring higher. speaking of soaring high, we look live down in the sunshine state. you're looking at kennedy space center, where t-minus two hours from spacex's next litoff. thfe

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it's 7:30. a new phase of battle has started in iraq as the military tries to retake the western part of mosul from isis. overnight, u.s.-backed iraqi forces launching a large-scale operation against the extremists. to the district now, where police there are searching for the man who shot a female special police officer in the leg. it happened yesterday at an apartment complex on green street in southeast. you're looking at that scene. police say the man was in an older model white ford expedition. the officer is expected to be okay. the powerball jackpot is now at $403 million. it could go up from there after there was no jackpot winner in last night's drawing. tickets worth $1 million which matched five numbers were sold in several states. that includes in

welcome back in to this sunday morning edition of "news 4 today." i'm david culver in for adam and angie. we want to start you off with that forecast. for those of us who like spring-like temperatures, you're going to like this. >> yeah, the flowers are liking it too. daffodils are blooming. the temperatures are mild right now under a partially clearing sky. looking off to the west, that's the live view from our storm team 4 tower camera. what to wear today? a light jacket this morning, but you'll be comfortable in short sleeves and shorts this afternoon. you'll need the sunglasses as welt. increasing sunshine. we've had sprinkles passing north of the metro area this morning. those are now tracking off to the east. a few other sprinkles here. generally dissipating as they track off to the east. temperatures, they'll be quickly jumping out of the 50s

upper 60s by this afternoon. >> wow. shorts in february. all right. thanks, tom. at 7:32, new developments in the death of kim jong-un's half brother. malaysian police are looking for four more suspects. they left the country the same day kim jong-nam was attacked and killed on monday. police are also on the lookout for several other people who may be connected to the apparent assassination. a stabbing investigation is under way this morning hours after a suspect barricaded himself inside a d.c. apartment. s.w.a.t. officers were visible outside the apartment on 36th street northeast yesterday. you can see that scene. after more than five hours, police were able to get the suspect outside and make an arrest. d.c. police say the man had stabbed someone and r

>> all of the officers did a phenomenal job, took their time, did everything slowly, methodically and made sure none of the citizens were injured and made sure our suspect wasn't injured as well. >> as for that stabbing victim, we're told that person is expected to be okay. there's not much left to this mcclain mansion that caught on fire. you can see there the video pretty incredible. thick black smoke, intense flames shooting into the sky. this happened around 8:00 yesterday morning on turkey run road. firefighters say people inside were able to get out safely because of smoke detectors and fire alarms going off properly. investigators still trying to figure out how exactly those flames started. and "the washington post" reporting this morning that some teachers at jefferson middle school academy are not happy with criticism from secretary of education betsy devos. this comes days after her visit to the school where protesters briefly blocked her from going

she praised the school at the end of her visit, but according to the post, devos later criticized the teachers, saying they were waiting to be told what to do. so friday night the school responded on twitter with a series of tweets. one of them saying, quote, we're about to take her to school. devos then weighing in yesterday on twitter saying the school's teachers are awesome. thousands of people taking to the streets of dallas yesterday to rally in support of local immigrants and refugees. speakers spoke out against president trump's immigration orders and i.c.e. raids that have impacted latino communities. it comes two days after local businesses closed and students staged walk outs as part of demonstrations supporting a day without immigrants. five middle school students facing charges for throwing this right there. that's a two by four, at president trump's motorcade. this happened friday while the motorcade was making its way past a gas station in palm beach county.

police say a child confessed to throwing it and implicated four others. officials are looking at surveillance video from the gas station to get a better idea as to just what exactly happened. president trump's sons attended an invitation only ceremony in dubai yesterday. this is the first one since their father's inauguration. the golf course marks the company's first venture into the arab world, but it's raising questions about how the international business could affect donald trump's administration. eric and donald trump jr. now run that organization, not their father. the republicans hoping to become virginia's next governor held their first debate. this is down in charlottesville yesterday. cory stewart, a one-time chair of president trump's campaign in the commonwealth, former republican national committee chair ed gillespie, distillery owner denver riggleman, and frank wagner.

it was a mostly cordial debate. this will be a closely watched governor's race. many see it as a potential referendum on the president's first year in office. flint, michigan, has now gone for more than 1,000 days without clean and safe drinking water. the city still marred in a crisis over lead. there is a growing concern about potential health problems in children who drank that water. every single child was exposed at the most vulnerable age. half of them have high levels of lead. now teachers are noticing some differences. >> what i'm noticing more is reaction times are quicker for kids to become more explosive and angry. >> that volatility could be the first sign of what people fear will be the effects of lead exposure. the pediatrician who helped expose the water crisis says it could take years for symptoms to show. mean while, state officials say the water is

heroes project aims to add more history to the library of congress. the national court reporters foundation spearheaded the initiative. the foundation has been recording war veteran stories for 14 years. they started to see a common issue among the veterans, hearing loss. so they partnered with the hearing loss association of america. news 4 was at the bethesda office yesterday where the veterans shared their personal stories. a world war ii vet said he hopes the accounts send a certain message. >> war is something you don't -- you don't play around with. >> the national court reporters foundation says around 40% of veterans come back home with some sort of hearing loss. we're closer to the time pasx cewill attempt to launch its falcon 9 rocket. the initial launch yesterday was scrubbed with just 13 seconds to spare. spacex said it needo

closer look at the positioning of an engine nozzle, taking no chances. the falcon 9 rocket is expected to launch at 9:38 this morning. the rocket will carry supplies to the international space station. it's supposed to also bring back some information that could eventually help send people to mars. so can you name all the continents? if you thought the world had already been mapped out, the mass i ha massive discovery we're learning.

many of you have a three-day weekend because it's presidents day weekend. mt. vernon is celebrating. they have a long list of events planned. this morning from 9:00 until noon, they're hosting a breakfast with george washington. while you're there, you can also watch character demonstrations, and they have some dancing performances going on. it continues tomorrow. there will be a syrup tasting event and various book signings. according to mt.

tomorrow. so we were always taught that there are just seven continents in the world, right? now there's evidence that's questioning that, adding another continent even. scientists say there's a massive hidden continent beneath the water in the southwest pacific. researchers are calling it zealandia. it's about two-third the size of australia. they say it's about 94% under water. new zee laaland and new caledon are its highest points which poke above the surface. >> rather frustrating. if we could pull the plug on the oceans, it would be clear to everybody we have mountain chains and the big high standing continent. >> so when did this happen? well, researchers think zealandia broke away from australia about 80 million years ago. all that sand is sitting beneath the sea. okay. so you want to head outside today as we look live at union station. it's going to be a good day to do i

jog, bike ride, just to stretch your legs. tom is updating the forecast on when we can expect the temperatures to soar. then showers on the way for the workweek. plus, her story was hidden from history. now it's on the big screen. you're going to meet the "hidden figures" mathematician who's inspiring others to reach for thstars. e

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this sunday morning, but it is mild. storm team 4 radar showing dissipating light sprinkles of rain. those areas in color as they track off to the east and pull away. for your exercise forecast for today, good day to get out and get in a run, a bike ride, hiking, tennis, golf. wonderful for outdoor activities. we'll be in the 50s through 9:00. then jumping into the 60s by noontime. a lot of sun in the afternoon. up around 70 degrees. a look at another warm wave on the way and chances for rain for the week ahead. that's in squusjust if awa few . one of the popular movies up for awards this year tells the untold story of three african-american women working for nasa in the early days of the space race. >> what's the status on that computer? >> she's right behind you, mr. uh harrison. >> does she handle analytic geometry? >> absolutely, and she speaks. >> yes, sir, i do. >> "hidden figures" chronicles

discrimination that separated them from the rest of the team. as news 4's barbara harrison explains, the movie doesn't tell the whole story. >> reporter: this one in the middle. >> okay. >> reporter: that's supposed to be katherine johnson. >> if they say so. >> reporter: 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? >> reporter: katherine johnson has a terrific sense of humor. certainly not the introvert some might imagine a mathematics genius to be. >> we know that 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 like me. he didn't trust that they'd put everything in the computers. >> reporter: john glenn trusted her calculations over 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 no math has ever stumped she's a legend at nasa, where a lot has changed since her years there. he was a major catalyst for that change. her brilliant mind for math led to great strides to get to space and back. >> the fact you knew how to do

know how to do it. >> shame on them. >> reporter: 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 the three women whose story was told in the popular new film "hidden figures." the other two, dorothy vaughn and mary jackson. the three were among 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 a lone survivor of those three who have come to be know

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 bet a lot is still working for you. you're amazing. what year were you born? >> 1918. >> 1918. that makes you how old? >> close to 100. i'm working on that. >> barbara harrison reporting there. by the way, katherine says there are a couple things in the movie she'd like to correct. one is she never had to run from one building to another to get to the so-called color bathroom. as for the coffee, she made the coffee every day, and she never remembers anyone refusing to drink it. 7:49 your time now. folks are tweeting in that it was looking a little lonely up here with ann ggie and adam

tom, thank you for coming in. >> happy to do it. we've had some clouds around this morning. a few sprinkles of rain this morning. when you're away from your tv, you can always track the latest forecast with the nbc washington app. right now as we take a look outside, there is a little bit of sunshine breaking out over the dulles tollway. that's the live view from our reston camera. there are a lot of clouds around as well. those clouds will be breaking up all across the region over the next couple hours as the rain is exiting and pulling off to the east and really pretty much dissipating now as it's crossing the bay on to the eastern shore. hour by hour, the cloud cover will be breaking up by 10:00, getting that sun breaking out. then we'll stay mostly sunny as we get into the rest of the afternoon. it's going to be another unusually mild day. a lot of flowers will be blooming again today. temperatures right now well wov the average high of 48 for this time of year. reagan national now at 56. we're in the 50s all across marylanv

eastern shore. west virginia as well this morning starting off very mild. temperatures there right around 50 degrees. so upper 50s by 10:00. a partly sunny sky. warm and dry midafternoon, up near 70 degrees with lots of sunshine. then clear and mild by 6:00 p.m. by 10:00 tonight, back down into the 50s. clear and cool evening coming up. by dawn on presidents' day tomorrow, a lot of folks have the day off, great day to get out and get some exercise or a hike or maybe some golf or tennis. we'll be in the low 60s tomorrow afternoon. lots of sun. getting back to work and school on tuesday, cloud cover, near 40 in the morning. afternoon highs in the mid-50s. here comes another warm front moving in late tuesday night into wednesday morning. maybe giving us some sprinkles of rain. once that goes by, sun breaks out on wednesday afternoon, soaring again into the upper 60s to near 70 degrees. warmest day over the next ten days looks to be thursday, up near the

light rain showers, sun back in the afternoon. highs in the 60s. next weekend, saturday morning some showers, sun back in the afternoon, high around 70. then gets cool the following sunday. into the next week, still way above average temperatures. david? >> all right. this is feeling like florida weather. speaking of the sunshine state, the full squad is back, and the nats are getting to work. we're going to show you the surprising comforts of home the team is finding down sou. th did you know 90% of couples disagree on mattress firmness? th fortunately there's a bed where you both get what you want every night. enter sleep number and the ultimate sleep number event, going on now. sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. she likes the bed soft. he's more hardcore. so your sleep goes from good to great to wow!

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today full-squad workouts for the natsagi begin at spring training. we get a preview of their new florida home, and you're going to know why guys like bryce harper will soon be bringing their swim trunks to work. >> reporter: amid the construction, a team gets back to work. ballpark of the palm beaches, a cool name for the nats' new massive spring training complex. >> it makes you feel good. guys are excited to come. guys are not in a hurry to leave. all this equates to, you know, being happy. >> reporter: six practice fields, an agility field, spots for 20 pitchers in the bull pen, and a pool, guys ready to jump in. >> excited to be down here, excited to get going in a new place with some great fields and cages and great weight room finally. a little pool over there, so hopefully do some

in there a couple times. >> reporter: position players start workouts today. they will quickly notice that here fields one and two the dimensions are the exact same, even the way they cut the corner, as nats park back in d.c. a reminder even in the spring there's no place like home. in west palm beach florida, carol maloney, news 4 sports. ho 7:56 your time now on this sunday. four things to know. a carbon monoxide leak in a northeast d.c. apartment this morning sent two children and their parents to a hospital. according to our news partners at wtop, firefighters say the leak came from the family's water heater. a large-scale militaryr wayn iraq's second largestcity. u.s.-backed iraqi forces are trying to get rid of isis militants, which have a stronghold in the western half of mosul. homeland security secretary john kelly says the trump administration is working on a streamlined approach to

president trump says we could see something on a new order at some point this week. and spacex will attempt to launch its unmanned falcon 9 rocket at 9:38 this morning. it was supposed to go off yesterday, but that attempt was scrubbed, saying they needed to take a closer look at an engine nozzle. going to be nice, tom. >> yeah, launching into more spring-like weather today. up near 70 degrees this afternoon. increasing sunshine. enjoy. >> all right. soaring temperatures. we appreciate you being with us on this sunday morning. we are going to be back at 9:00. until then, have a great sunday. ♪ new year, time to get rid of stuff. simplify, declutter, unplug, purge, or even quit cold turkey.

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