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of this. we begin with tracie potts out on capitol hill. >> reporter: we're inside the rotunda. just a few minutes ago i came back from the capitol, lots of people getting ready for this speech. the mouwhite house says it will last about an hour and 15 minutes and president trump will focus on jobs and the economy. president trump sells his vision to congress tonight. >> we're going to spend a lot more money on the military. we really have to. >> reporter: funding the war on terror not only with cuts but a new approach. he tells fox news he'll demand pay back from countries we defend and rev up america's economy by tripling our 1% economic output. >> if i can get that up to 3 or maybe more, we have a whole different ball game. >> reporter: he'll ask congress to cut foreign aid and the state department. 120 former generals argue that's a bad idea. they say diplomacy works. >> we want
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places like afghanistan so we don't have another attack like 9/11. >> reporter: balancing spending without touching social security, medicare and medicaid? >> he really doesn't know how complicated it is. >> reporter: the president will focus on obamacare. republicans insist replacing it will save money. >> we have an obligation to step in front of this collapse. >> mr. president, stick to your guns. tell our colleagues in the house we're not going to repeal obamacare until we have a replacement. >> reporter: democrats are inviting muslims and immigrants affected by the president's travel ban. a new president laying out his agenda to lawmakers still trying to figure out if they can make it work. and late today we learned there could be some big news thin thi speech about immigration. the president may mention an immigration bill. w
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unsuccessfully. he may be open, according to one official, to legal status for m immigrants who have been in this country illegally but haven't committed serious crimes. more now on the cuts. many experts say putting defense before deemployiplomacy is self-defeating. >> they're the ones that track and arrest terrorists before they can come and attack us. >> 120 retired generals and admirals who oppose the cuts sent a letter to congressional leaders yesterday quoting defensive secretary james mattis back in 2013 when he ran u.s. central command. he told congress, if you don't fund the state department fully, then i need to buy more ammunition.
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the president's address to congress starts at 9:00 tonight. you can watch it right here with us on nbc 4. as the president prepares for his speech, there are protests outside the white house. several advocacy groups organized a so-called resistance address to the president. rosie o'donnell will be the headline speaker. meagan fitzgerald is out there now with a message from the demonstrators. >> reporter: there's at least dozens of protesters out here, some of them holding an umbrella in one hand, but they're also holding signs. you'll see a lot of signs that say resist, protect and rebuild. a lot of people calling for an investigation on the president. defending other care, planned parenthood. these protesters out here tell us they want to send a strong message to the white house saying they're resisting what they call a harmful and discriminatory policies they've seen over the last month. on the stae
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hard to see because a lot of folks have their signs up and their umbrellas out. but the protesters here will expected to hear from the aclu, the food and water watch, which is an environmental organization. and of course rosie o'donnell. we talked to the organizer of the event and we also talked to some protesters. take a listen. >> the first thing trump does issen put ois put out a travel ban that is un-american, unconstitutional. the courts have to stop it. he's not paying attention to the rule book that really defines what st americis american. >> we wanted to put together a number of organizations representing many different con spi stit constituencies to layout a real vision for the future. most americans believe in tolerance, diversity
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acceptance. >> reporter: rosie o'donnell has a longstanding feud with president trump dating back years. they've been back and forth with each other on twitter. no doubt about it. at around 7:00 she is expected to energize this crowd. we do have the rain around as you saw there. you need the umbrella if you're about to head out the door. just an area of some rain pushing through the metro area coming in from the north and west. that is going to continue to be with us for a couple of hours at least. this rain extends all the way into the shenandoah valley. it will maybe intensify a bit as we get into teeni ingthe evenin. still some wet roads. 65 at reagan
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tonight. right around 60 degrees. tomorrow afternoon into the evening we could get some severe storms with damaging winds. i've got new hour by hour timing for that coming up. a man is in custody chanrge in a brazen abduction in one of the district's busiest neighborhoods. tonight we're learning how social media helped investigators track the suspect down thousands of miles away. >> reporter: doreen, you need a score card to keep track of this one. you see the kidnapping happened here in d.c. the suspect is from italy but he lives in london. his arrest was in washington, the other washington. paolo, 34 years ole, from
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lives in london. he enjoys the finer things in life, nice cars, motorcycles, good food. he taracks his whole life on facebook. a short time ago he said he was having coffee in seattle. that's where he was arrested and charged in a strange kidnapping scheme here in d.c. it began on o street in georgetown. police say he kidnapped a college student and took the student to a number of banks and told the student to withdraw money using his debit card. $500, $500, then $200. three times he tried, three times the card denied. but he didn't stop there. look at this surveillance video from cartier. he tried to use the student's debit card there to buy a 6,300
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the student went to the cops. the cops used security video to identify aldorossi. with a little help from facebook, they hunt him down in seattle. he's being held in washington without bond. he has a court hearing march 2nd. in that whole encounter with the student, he got no money, nothing, not one dime. a new effort now to find the killer of seth rich. he's the man who worked for the democratic national committee and was shot and killed in the bloomingdale section of d.c. back in july. now there are new bill boards in that neighborhood asking for information. a republican lobbyist is funding the effort. he is also calling on congress to investigate a possibly russian connection to the
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days before wikileaks released stolen dnc e-mails. intelligence officials have accused russia of hacking the dnc. a good faith aithersburg te went missing has been found. angelica barahona-rivas disappeared. there was concern about her safety because her 15-year-old cousin was found murdered. barahona-rivas was found in montgomery village unharmed. more than 70 pedestrians have been injured in accidents in northern virginia. a 12-year-old boy was hit this morning as he walked to school. >> reporter: this was the scene captured by chopper 4 just two
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school. traffic had backed up in the lanes leading to the school, a bus stuck in the intersection box, another vehicle in front of it. police say the 6th grade boy was in the cross walk and had just passed the bus when a car going the opposite way hit him, throwing him onto the windshield, then to the ground. dozens of students on several buses witnessed the accident. the 7th grader got the frightening news when she arrived at school. >> i almost started crying. i was so scared. >> reporter: the victim was air lifted to a nova fairfax hospital and is expected to survive his serious injuries. >> we keep this family in our thoughts as prince william county schools. >> reporter: becca is a counselling supervisor who helped lead a critical incident team at the school today. >> we're helping them deal with seeing something that can be very traumatic to all human beings. and we want to help them process that and meet them where they are
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we use techniques like having students draw and write to express their feelings. >> reporter: as for the accident here this morning, it's counted as part of a troubling trend. pedestrian accidents were on the rise in 2016. this year pace isn't letting up. more than 70 pedestrians have already been injured in accidents in northern virginia. statewide, more than 200 have been hurt. these sisters got a strong safety message at stonewall middle today. >> i hope he gets better. >> i just hope he's okay. >> reporter: in mass nan n a construction worker has died after a trench collapse in northwest d.c. on dexter street when there was some sort of cave-in. we were told he was trapped in dirt up to his waist. crewed worked for hours to free him. it's still unclear what caused this collapse. a driver plowedin
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school marching band during a mardi gras parade today. we'll tell you what we know about the man behind the wheel and the moments before the accident. plus, a fight over funding. what prince george's county students stand to lose if the state of maryland continues to divert public money to private schools. and kirk cousins tagged by the burgundy and gold. we'll have more on what that means.
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i'm chris lawrence here at the live desk. we're keeping an eye on a tragic accident in alabama. a 73-year-old man is undergoing voluntary drug testing as he plowed his suv into a high school marching band. police say he didn't appear to be under the influence when he crashed into the mardi gras parade in gulf shores. at least a dozen students were injured and four of them are in critical condition. witnesses say the parade was just starting and it was over in a matter of seconds. >> he was like barreling through with this big vehicle. he was mowing these kids down. >> every indication is that it was just a tragic accident by an elderly man driving this vehicle into these band members. >> this comes on the heels of another accident in new orleans, also at a mardi gras parade. police say a d
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alabama. as you might imagine, security is tight as mardi gras celebrations are underway in new orleans. nbc's jay gray joins us there now with more on that. having a good time? >> reporter: hey there, jim. yeah. how can you not have a good time in the big easy? there is police presence on every corner, in between a lot of the blocks, up on the balconies, horse back patrols as well. there are a lot of people thinking at those injured in that crash, but they're still maintaining a bit of a party. here it is, the final fat tuesday, this end of the mardi gras season. hundreds of thousands packing the french quarter, bourbon street is in full swing. this will continue up until around midnight when the police come through and clear things out. then the street sweepers will clean things up. and that's when the official countdown to next mardi gras begins. i think a lot of people will need the tme
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one. they'll need a full year. you talked about that accident on saturday. it was a parade not that far from the french quarter but not in this area specifically. what i can tell you is that the driver was almost three times the legal limit when he slammed into that crowd. 28 people injured. thankfully we've learned from the hospital that all but three have been released and every one of them is expected to make a full recovery. so that's the good news here. as the party continues, the good times roll. >> be care dpful out there. two big issues for prince george's county schools. the county wants to regain control of the school calendar after the state rejected the school's request to start in august instead of after labor day. some county lawmakers want to
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funnel public school money into private schools. >> reporter: prince george's county schools have a lot of needs that may not be met according to county executive baker. if the state of maryland continues diverting public school money to subsidize private school students. >> we need more money to build a new high point high school. our schools are 40-50 years old. we need more money to expand programs that we know are working. >> reporter: county executive baker is one of the leaders of this group. they are asking maryland lawmakers to eliminate the boost program of private school vouchers. they say governor hogan's budget cuts $20 million from public schools to make available $7 million for private school subsidies. this parent went to private school but chose public school for her children. >> i feel very strongly that public schools are something that all of us hold in common, that it's something that we invest in togethe a
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and that's important to me. >> reporter: here in annapolis there have been attempts to tie maryla maryland's republican governor larry hogan to president trump. >> on this issue of favoring private schools over public schools, he's now made himself the outspoken supporter of trump in his anti-public school agenda. >> reporter: a spokesperson for governor hogan sent a message saying what critics fail to mention is that the boost program offering public scholarships to low income students was passed by the maryland general assembly with the agreement of its top democratic leaders. coming up, reporting from the news4 i-team has led to a new law in virginia aimed at keeping students safe. >> reporter: i'm adam tuss, a neighborhood goes to battle against a traffic app for sending too many cars d
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normally quiet streets. i'll explain coming. historians fire an iconic novel. the story of an american slave with deep roots to
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well, our man doug is under the weather and tom kierein is kind enough to fill in for him. i've been hearing your fort
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the rain came exactly when you said it was going to. props. >> we have so many listeners. we have updates all throughout the evening here at nbc 4. keeping you posted on this rain that's coming in for the rest of the evening. much of the evening going to be wet. it's all coming in from the west heading off to the east. we are in ohio. this one wave that's coming in is not going to be all of it. getting all wet here across northern virginia, the district and into maryland and right in town. it's mostly just some light rain moving off to the east now. as we look into the evening, some of that other rain coming in out of the ohio valley going to begin to move in. maybe a little more moderate at times, maybe briefly a heavy downpour between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. most of it is going to be tapering off by 10:00 p.m. this evening for now. look at the spring
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discovered in spring valley in northwest washington earlier this morning. absolutely beautiful there. we're seeing so many spring flowers out now and so many trees are blooming. we'll be hovering near 60 degrees for the rest of the evening aeven ing all the way into tomorrow morning. for the morning commute we ought to have the roads drying out. gets cloudy by noontime. 70 degrees, then upper 70s by mid afternoon. then it gets stormy after that. temperatures dropping back down into the low 70s. here is the new timing on storms coming in. this is as of 2:00, it does look like a line of thunderstorms just to our west. that is going to go right through the metro area looks like between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. some of the other models are showing it a little bit later. doesn't mean we're going to be completely out of the woods. we might get some a little bit into the evening hours. we ul
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winds. that's going to be the main threat from this system and most of it drying out by late in the evening hours. there is also a risk of hail from this system similar to what we got on saturday. a very low risk of maybe an isolated brief tornado. after we reach the upper 70s before the storms arrive, it will get down into the 40s by down on thursday. colder weather moves in on friday and saturday. look at the morning temperatures on saturday morning and sunday morning, near freezing or even below freezing. maybe on tuesday after that, gets chilly again. that's the way it looks. new concerns about the zika virus as local test results come back positive. why the feds are now getting involved. traffic trouble, people complaining that a popular app
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neighborhood streets into expressways. we'll tell you what some of them are demanding. >> reporter: i'm scott macfarland at the state capitol in richmond. a new law put into effect because of an i-team nvestigation
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there is a new law in virginia because of a news4 i-team investigation. it comes just a few weeks after scott macfarland revealed how one local school district allowed several teachers to slip through the cracks. >> governor mcauliffe signed that law today. >> reporter: the new law signed here at the state capitol makes a major change. school districts will be required to notify state investigators within ten days of any suspected misconduct by a teacher. under the old system, they didn't have to report suspected teacher misconduct until that teacher was convicted by a court. sometimes years later. which is what happened in fairfax county public schools according to our i-team investigation. the school district waited years before requesting licenses b
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who admitted sexual misconduct with students. in the meantime, one of those teachers managed to land a new teaching job in maryland where he later admitted sexual assaulting another student. virginia's legislature -- >> they discovered there were four teachers who actually admitted to sexual misconduct with our students whose licenses weren't revoked in a timely manner. >> reporter: that bill has passed. governor mcauliffe has just signed it into law. it will take effect in july. >> if someone's license needs to be suspended or taken away, other jurisdictions need to know that so that people aren't moving away. >> reporter: he say what is the i-team found in fairfax, the failure to remove lines frouve
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>> that will not continue. we have investigators. all of us want to make sure our children are safe. if there are teacher who may have committed an offense, we all need to know it. >> reporter: the state has just approved a budget boost for the virginia department of education to help the agency hire another full-time investigator to chase down teacher misconduct. to watch the original report that led to this new law, visit our nbc washington app and click on investigation. a man from stafford, virginia s going to prison for the rest of his life for sexually abusing a child so that he could create child porn videos. his name is michael patrick johnson. he pled guilty to rape and several other charges back in november. in court yesterday, prosecutors asked the judge to sentence johnson to three life
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to under score their request, they showed the judge one of johnson's videos that revealed the abuse of a 4-year-old child. the judge returned from recess and, in fact, sentenced johnson to three life terms. it's designed to help find shortcuts but a local community says a popular traffic app is sending a surplus of cars down their street, creating safety concerns. adam tuss has the story now from the district's palisades neighborhood in northwest. >> reporter: car after after car on manning place northwest. >> morning traffic, evening traffic. we're inundated with commuters. >> reporter: look closely and you'll see drivers looking at their phones. others fly through as they race to their destination. >> cars turn into manning like this one after the other after the other. >> reporter: these neighbors say
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they tried to make it better, everything from slow down signs to the yellow men with the flags. some of them clearly recovering from being hit. these residents now want cut-through restrictions at rush hour. leslie archer talks about the moment she knew this was more than just a traffic story. >> when my arm got hit by a mirror as i'm walking my daughter to school. a car came around -- and wasn't in the middle of the street. i was on the side. and my arm was hit and it bent in their mirror. >> reporter: the last traffic study here showed traffic recently increased from 200 cars a day to 1500 cars a day. this light at nearby sibley hospital, the traffic here backs up and ways directs you around this traffic to manning place. ways did not respond to a request for
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said previously it doesn't believe there's data to show it pu puts excessive traffic on streets. federal health officials are investigationing d.c.'s forensic lab. this comes after faulty tests showed nine pregnant women did not have the zika virus when in fact they did or in some cases possibly did. at a d.c. counsel hearing today the lab director said regulators visited this week and they have been scrutinizing operations there. the public safety committee chairman told news4 that an employee who set up the initial faulty tests is no longer employed by the city. the counscil man added he was stunned that the lab could not say for certain that it had contacted all the women who received false results.
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in license suspension or mandatory changes in lab procedures there. a new study finds that mammograms are getting better at detecting cancer but there's a draw back too. researchers say the shift from film to digital imaging has improved the technology. and while that's good news for spotting tumors early, it also means more false positives. the study found the number of women being called back for biopsies on benign tumors has also increased. coming up, visitors get 30 seconds alone in this room. but a simple mistake led to an expensive mess at the infinity mirrors exhibit. a living legend takes the stage in bethesda tonight. more
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♪ you e ♪ she's been a popeye conicon pleasing audiences for 57 years now. talking about of course the one and only dionne warwick. mark segraves talked to her today about her career, about president trump and a review of warwick that was written 50 years ago by mark's father. >> reporter: dionne warwick burst onto the music seen in 1950 and hasn't stopped since. >> 57 to be exact. >> reporter: 57 years. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: warwick is in town for two shows at the bethesda blues and jazz club. she says wh
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show, you get what you're expecting. >> i'm singing songs they've all grown to love over the years. >> reporter: warwick is candid about singing songs that are 50 years old. does it feel like some of the first times you heard them? >> no. no way. 57 years of singing these things, no, it's not the first time i've heard them, believe me. >> reporter: i appreciate the candor. do you get tired of it? >> never. >> reporter: as for her experience with president trump when she was fired from the apprentice -- >> you know what, i don't even want to talk about him. let's talk about something else. >> reporter: in 1967 warwick appeared at georgetown university. john segraves, my father was the music critic for the washington star at the time. he talked about just what a fresh sound that you were and he actually said a thrilling voice that you had.
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how nice. i'd love to read that if i could. >> reporter: warwick still performs about 150 shows a year. you can see her tonight and tomorrow. for ticket info and to watch my interview, go to the nbc washington app and search dionne. senator marco rubio wants to rename a patch of wisconsin avenue right in front of the russian embassy. he introduced a bill yesterday to change the name to boris nemstov avenue, when he was shot and killed two years ago in moscow on a bridge that is 100 yards from the kremlin. he had criticized putin's government as corrupt and increasingly authoritarian and
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simple mistake led to thousands of dollars in damage at the popu
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part of a brand new unique exhibit at the hershorn museum was damaged wus das damaged. the museum tells us somebody tripped over one of these famous pumpkin sculptures. the damageu
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and the room reopened. according to an art publication, one of the pumpkins recently sold for nearly 0 -- $800,000. an american slave who became a high row in cero in canada. >> now there's a project underway to honor him in montgomery county. >> the autobiography of josiah henson became the inspiration for "uncle tom's cabin." today the montgomery county parks system is laying the groundwork for a museum, theater and park in his honor. >> the broken crockery and plates and dishes. >> buried beneath an old kitchen floor. >> these are reproductions but
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within this space. >> more than 10,000 artifacts have been found on this property off old georgetown road in bethesda. each item helps tell the little known story of a slaive's journy to freedom. >> the good reverend is a story. >> he was a slave with many titles, abolitionist, unground railroad conductor. through his life and autobiography we have a very vibrant and vivid illustration of what life was from a perspective of one who was enslaved. ♪ born on a charles county farm in 1789, henson and his mother were traded to the owner of the montgomery county plantation.
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strength, intellect and loyalty soon had him running the plantation. deep in debt, his master scaled back operations here and let henson take all 18 of his slaves to a family farm in kentucky. henson could have escaped but didn't. he said it was a matter of honor. later he tried to buy his freedom. >> all he needed was $100 more to gain his freedom. well, price went up. >> henson and his family fled to can dad canada. he helped establish a community for freed slaves known as dawn settlement. >> we wanted hem eed them to r write and develop skills, especially woodworking skills and other skills where they could earn a living. >> and henson helped more
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in 1877 his work attracted the attention of queen victoria who invited him to england. later president hayes invited him to the white house. >> he had such a great influence on american history and we need to remember what he did. >> the montgomery parks foundation is now working to raise $7 million to build a museum, visitor and education center in his honor. >> he rose from such a lowly status to be an international actor. >> in 1983, he became the first black person honored on a postage stamp in canada.
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>> what a great story in our midst. tom is back with a check on our weather and the rain still falling out there? >> it is. and the pollen sufferers are rejoicing. the rain is washing the pollen right out of your hair and out of the air as well. i just posted the latest storm team 4 radar on twitter and facebook. you can keep up with it throughout the evening. we'll continue to post the latest on potential storms for tomorrow too. right now just getting rain showers passing through much of the region. look off to the west through ohio and west virginia. they are getting some more moderate downpours. looks like those are going to be tracking on through her by lae later this evening. we'll stay wet here until about 9:00 or 10:00 tonight. after that by 11:00, we'll be
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a little sun in the morning but quickly clouding up and getting warm by late morning all the way up near 70 degrees. by mid afternoon we'll likely have it in the upper 70s. after that we'll get a line of showers and storms. this is our local model that we use here at nbc 4. this one is showing lines of storms coming through 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, through the entire region. some of the other models are showing it may be a little bit later in the day, maybe from 5:00 p.m. to as late as 8 or 9:00 p.m. either way, getting strong storms coming through. most of the time we'll see much of this drying out by late evening on wednesday. and then a big chill moves in on thursday. the threat tomorrow, there is a small threat of a brief isolated tornado. this is going to be similar to the storms we had on saturday. but the great est threat is from
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damaging winds. may have power outages and hail as well and a very small chance of heavy rain that may cause some flooding. 50s on thursday with blustery winds. gets mild first part of next week and then another chill settles in after that. really busy day in sports. burgundy and cold keeping kirk. caps going in all in with a big trade. kevin durant in the verizon center. >> first, here's lester holt. i'll be joining you from capitol hill to preview the president's prime time speech before congress. his planned call for unity and maybe a willingness to compromise on immigration. also, why it's proving so hard to replace obamacare and the uncertainty faced by millions and a look at why more
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so they did it again. second year in a row. >> yeah. i feel this much better about it. because you know it's history. it's the first time an nfl quarterback has been tagged two years in a row. at least we know he's probably coming back for the redskins next year. what you need to know about the kirk cousins
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is it's the exclusive kind. exclusive meaning he can't negotiate with other teams. cousins will get a 20% pay raise. from 20 million last season to 24 million next year. the two sides could still work out a long-term deal. they have until july 15th. the redskins also have the right to trade him. there is no long-term security for anyone under the tag. when i wrote that on twitter, dan daily quickly reminded me that 24 million does equal security for most people. i'd take it. i like that. hey, wizards are having a party of their own at verizon center hosting the golden state warriors. sherree burruss is there. are the wizards up to the challenge? >> reporter: i hope so. there are so many golden
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fans as the wizards are going to try to get their first win since the all star break against the best team in the league, the golden state warriors. this is also a homecoming for kevin durant. he's from prince george's county. he also was coached by head coach scott brooks in oklahoma city. fans remember that durant spurned the wizards and thunder as a free agent this off season, ultimately deciding on the warriors. durant saying he just didn't want to play at home. this season the warriors have the best record in the nba. durant is the team's leading scorer, averaging over 25 points a game. just moments ago he revealed how to have success in front of a home crowd. >> just go out there and play. early on my first few years in the league i was putting too much pressure on myself because i wanted to play well at home. but i approach it like a normal game. >> you have to hope that coach
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kerr will set him out. that's a good start. they have three and four nights coming up. we're not going to concede and say they're the best team in the league. but we're going to have to play well. >> reporter: durant is not sitting out. he was actually the last guy on the court for practice. but as early as tomorrow, fans could see guard brandon jennings. the wizards reportedly going to sign him once he clears waiver. >> thanks. to hockey, the new et capitol, kevin shathenkirk. who is he? he is third amongst defensemen. he's in his 7th natural season. the caps going all in with this
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>> every year we talk about, you know, this is our year. but enough talking. i think it's time to do something. >> i don't want to put too much pressure on myself. i want to make sure i'm going what i do best and what my strengths are in my game. that's why they brought me in. they didn't bring me in to save anything. they're the best team in the nhl right now. i just have to do what i do best. >> also today big deal for the nats, first game at their new spring training stadium in west palm beach pacing the astro who is they share the facility with. tied at 3-3 with two men on. keeps the game tied. we head to the bottom of the ninth. taylor at the plate. how about a
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what a day for michael a. opens up the ballpark of the palm beachs. nats win in walk-off fashion, 4-3 the final. the nats bolstering the pubullp signing joe blatten today.
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breaking news tonight. immigration compromise. a bomb shell from the white house. president trump may be open to legal status for undocumented immigrants who have not committed serious crimes. we have late details on tonight's address to congress. they lost ryan. the president's new eye opening comments about who is to blame for the death of a navy seal in that u.s. raid gone wrong in yemen. deadly plane disaster. in a heavily populated neighborhood. incredible rescues, survivors pulled from a home. a jewelry store giants. cancer striking younger. one of the most lethal

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