breaking news, an update to a story right here on news 4 yesterday. fairfax county police were searching for human remains bury the at the park. >> they have found them. julie carey is there in holmes run park where police are now holding a news conference. that should be starting here in the next couple of minutes. so julie carey will be there for us. she's gathering information, she's going to join us live a little bit later in the show. >> yesterday in our broadcast, megan mcgrath was out there on the scene and she was showing that video of what seemed to be a tent that officers had over some piece of

found. because officers have said this investigation may very well be gang related, i went ahead and shared a post, an interview from david culver on my facebook page when he interviewed the head of the northern virginia regional gang task force. because this may be gang related, i went ahead and put that up there for you. but if you'll remember, we've been following just a string of what we have seen as a lot of gang activity and bodies that have surfaced in northern virginia. believe that news conference has started we're going to go ahead and listen in. >> special agent in charge for the washington office of the fbi. special agent timothy slater. we're here at hoemsz run park today to announce late last night the fairfax county police department in coordination with other law enforcement

did discover the remains of two people. knows remains are now at the medical examiner's office for an autopsy to determine the identification of those remains. once those remains are identified, the next of kin will be notified and once that is all complete, we will then update the public and let you know other developments within the case. this event is tragic and we want the community members of fairfax county to know that we won't rest until the perpetrators of this crime are brought to justice. our gang unit received this information on a tip and they coordinated with our major crimes division and have worked tirelessly to find these victims. at this time i'd like to introduce the chief of police, colonel edward c rossler jr. to discuss other issues about regional gang problems. >> i believe the chief of police is about to speak. you're looking

mentioning it was last night that the fairfax county police department from a tip that regional gang task force had received was searching that park and they did in fact find the remains of two people. those remains have been sent off to have an autopsy. once they are identify and next of kin can be notified we'll get more information on who the individuals were. julie carey is live there and will listen in to the press conference and i think we'll have an update for her in the next several minutes. switching gears now and turning to a developing story in maryland, a poe tomorrow ak high school student killed yesterday. justin finch is live in oxen hill where this happened. >> reporter: prince george's county police have just identified the victim in this

holiday here. his school is a short walk from where we are right now, about 15 minutes and students tell us that yesterday as we were walking home from school when they heard about this shooting and this morning prince george's county are telling us they are pursuing a shooting suspect and also a motive. >> at the potomac high, a somber start, in the midst of student dropoff, an 11th grader still shaken by the death of her classmate. >> it's going to be a rough day. >> reporter: that 17-year-old boy gunned downty southview apartment complex near her school was a friend of her good friend, shot neighbors say in the area of this playground. he died a short time later. the loss for many hits close to home. >> my sister called me and she was like oh, my god there was a shooting. >> reporter: cristina recalling the frantic phone call from her younger sister thursday afternoon. her sister she says would normally wal t

but not today. >> i'm concerned. that's why i took her to school today. normally i go my own way to work. let me drop you off, even though we live right up the street. let me drop you off, you never know. >> reporter: after the gunfire, a woman weighed down by grief, the aftermath of a young life lost. >> reporter: that victim has been identified as 17-year-old jaquan holiday, gunned down here at the southview apartments, police are offering a reward for information leading to arrest in this case $25,000 and the prince george's county schools have had grief counselors and stepped up security the day after the shooting. justin finch, news 4, back into you. >> some of you were affected by the snow showers in our area this morning. there was a crash just above 270. many also had to scrape the flakes off their cars heading out to work this morning.

ricketts joins us. i thought we moved on, ma'am. >> i think everybody was in the spring category and jumping on that bandwagon but winter comes up from time to time because we're still in winter. really we're not going to see spring, the official start until march 21st or march 22nd it changes every year. i have spring like temperatures on the ten-day forecast. on the storm team 4 radar i have snow showers rolling through the area. that will be the name of the game as we continue through friday. the only concern i have coming through southern maryland out of the northwest to the south and east. if you get caught in one of these, there could be a time where you're going to see reduced visibility. so that obviously is not going to be a good thing when you're traveling out and about on this friday. we could continue to see a lot, especially with this breezy northwest wind that's picked up over the last couple of hours. chilly today and tomorrow but of course we've got your weekend forecast and i tol

show you when you can expect those on the ten-day forecast coming up in 15 minutes. >> thanks. get ready for slowdowns on metro. surge 13 starts tomorrow and runs until april 9th and impacts yellow and blue line riders. trains from the ubtington to braddock road will be single tracking and you can wait as long as 24 minutes between trains. if you use these stations, metro says to look for other ways to get around while surge 13 is in effect. >> if you don't do it now, it's going to break in the long run, i'm all for it as long as they do it right. >> you can find thpgs alternatives for the metro surge in the nbc washington app. search metro alternatives. developing this morning, president donald trump defends his attorney general, this as attorney general jeff sessions recuses himself from any investigation into the 2016 campaign.

democrats are still calling for sessions to resign. >> reporter: attorney general jeff sessions defends himself saying he should have disclosed his election season meeting with the russian ambassador, making an important distinction about the conversation. >> let me be clear. i never had meetings with russian operatives or russian intermedi intermediaries about the trump campaign. >> reporter: recused himself from any russian meddling in the 2016 campaign. sessions did not disclose his communication with the russian ambassador to the u.s. >> i did not have communications with the russians. >> reporter: in a statement president donald trump said he could have been clearer but this is a total witch hunt. >> i think this was hyped beyond reason and i think it was unfair and glad to be able to address it today.

>> reporter: democrats don't buy it callinghe new attorney janet liar. >> i don't think it has anything to do with confidence in the attorney general. it has to do with not telling the truth under oath. >> the fact that the attorney general, the top cop in our country lied under oath to the american people is grounds for him to resign. >> reporter: now we're learning that jared kushner and former national security adviser michael flynn met with the russian ambassador in trump tower last december. the white house says the meeting was just more of a 15 minute meet and greet. edward lawrence, nbc news, washington. >> there's a new e-mail scandal this time it involves vice president mike pence. the indianapolis star reports that while he was indiana's governor, pence not only used private e-mail for state business but his personal account was hacked last summer. the paper claims pence discussed sensitive security and terrorism

issues via a personal aol account. the vmt's office says pence complied with indiana mail and all government e-mails were archives. during the 2016 campaign, pence criticized hillary clinton's use of i private e-mail server while she was secretary of state. this year there's a call for a one day strike called stay day without a woman. organizers are telling supporters to wear red to show solidarity or spend money at small businesses owned by women and other minorities. women are being encouraged to take the day off from paid and unpaid labor. organizers of the women's march on washington are planning the day without a woman common stra common strags. >> in northern virginia, fairfax county police are identifying the officer who shot a man near herndon, lance guken berger

dudsa who later died. he shot his brothers and refused police orders to drop a knife he was holding at the same time smoke was coming from inside the home and another man was trapped inside. the department is supposed to release the name of an officer involved in a shooting within ten days unless there is a threat to the officer or their family. a judge recently ruled there was no threat. officer guckenberger is a 16 year veteran. used deadly force in 2005, 2010, both incidents were made public and determined to be a lawful use of force. switching gears, costco shaking things up a bit. >> finding out why you might soon have to pay a little more for your groceries. >> reporter: within the hour investigators found a body in the burned out rubble of this rockville house, a live report coming up.

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breaking news for you right now, chopper 4 right now just getting over this crash, this is 270 at 109, as you're heading into frederick county. 109 shut down in both directions and the ramp there from 270 northbound also closed right n

to get on to 109. two vehicles involved in this collision, we understand one person was taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries. collision reconstruction units there on the scene will keep you updated as things progress there. right now terrifying images of a house fire in rockville. new adm at midday, someone died the fire. megan mcgrath is live at the scene. >> reporter: good morning. this fire broke out after 10:00 last night. as you can see behind me here, it did tremendous damage. there's nothing left of this home on willow lane. the man who lives here has been unaccounted since the fire. investigators have confirmed they have found the victim buried in the debris. these pictures tweeted by the fire department show the intensity of the blaze. when rescue crews arrived the home on willow lane

engulfed. >> fire, fire, fire. it was way too engulfed in flames. >> juanita lives across the street and called 911. looking at the devastation in the light of day she worried about her neighbor because the fire was fast and his car still in the driveway. >> it was so fast, unbelievable fast. just could not believe it. >> reporter: the two story house in the sick ka more acres neighborhood, a total loss, a pile of brick debris and two chimneys remain. investigators made a discovery this morning. >> at this point we have located a body. we believe it to be the resident who lives there. but at this point no identification is being released. >> reporter: and the fire department will have to wait for the coroner to make an official identification before a name is released. for the cause of this fire

flz a lot of work to be done here, a lot to sift through before investigators can figure that out. back to you in the studio. >> thank you, megan. d.c. fire and dms say no one was hurt in a fire in northeast d.c. look at the smoke coming from the rowhouse on benning road just before 5:00 a.m. nobody was hurt. new questions about the living son of former vice president joe biden, hunter biden's estranged wife said he squandered their money on drugs and alcohol and prostitutes. yesterday we told it was revealed hunter was in a relationship with his late brother's widow. beau biden died two years ago from brain cancer. in the new york post hunter confirms he had been dating beau's widow, he separated from his wife kathleen in 2015, five months after beau's death. several letters from jackie kennedy are going onlt auction

between mrs. kennedy and a british ambassador to the u.s. they were both widowers and the letters show how their relationship blossomed but it ended suddenly whether she choose to marry a greek shipping magnate. >> we knew from his letter he asked jackie to marry him sometime before the 3rd of february, 1968 and we also know the reason that jackie kennedy rejected david's proposal was because of the shared grief and loss and tragedy that bound them together. >> the auction house expects the letters to sell between 130 and $190,000. lularoe is among the rage of women who want to be comfortable with patterns on their legs. they are facing a different type of rage, they have been hit with a federal lawsuit. according to forbes, a lawsuit claims the company er

customers in pennsylvania by charging a sales tax. pennsylvania does not charge a sales tax on clothing. the parent company of bdunk donuts and baskinrobbins will remove synthetic colors in icings and fillings and toppings and coffee flavorings. bass kin robbins will reform synthetic from ice cream and pints in grocery stores. changes are on the way for costco customers, the retail club is raising its membership fees after reporting hey lower than expected revenue. starting june 1st, membership go up $45 and executive memberships 10 bucks, it affects about 35 million cost tco-members. giving back is a big part of what we do and the series called give helps us do just that. the show partners

celebrities to spotlight charities and blair underwood visits two charities nestled in our boown backyard. one is call asap. they offer free comedy classes to veterans and the other charity is called bunker labs and they teach veterans how to start businesses. >> it's very healing to be able to express yourself and develop the -- to have this reduction in an sxiety that come. >> the thing that's most beneficial to veterans who use it, the sense of community and belonging and accelerations of things they might not have had exposure to in active duty. >> the episode airs tomorrow at noon right here on nbc 4. it was a birthday to remember for one california woman and her family. ♪ >> i love

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>> that right there is elizabeth celebrating her 100 birthday with style and moves. her grandson posted this to facebook and closing in on a million views. no one expected her to do that. >> i'm sure not, even herself probably. >> now she's an internet sensation encouraging others to celebrate life. look at her. she's holding herself up on the sliding glass door, i've got to get stability. >> when you're 100, break loose. get it. that was lauryn at the first sight of snow. >> i was, thank goodness it snowed. you said you had snow on your car? >> we did. >> river road, i know there was snow out there. some snow we'vedo been talking about that, we had stickage on the cars and on the roads. there was icy spots on some of the areas.

bridges and ramps an overpasses mainly were the slick spots and hopefully everybody made it to where they needed to savely. the threat is not over, we'll see light snow showers passing through the region, even a little rain mixed in. those winds have picked up and we'll see gusts up to 20 to 30 miles per hour and that means we've got windchills and 20s and 30s. not only today but also tomorrow. but here you go, we're back in the 60s by the time we get into next week. radar showing you a few little snow showers around waldorf. if you're on 301. be careful, some of those could create low visibilities and that's what i'm going to be concerned about as we have more snow showers floating down on that northwest wind. moving from the northwest down to the southeast. that's something we'll continue to watch, doug an amelia will watch that through the evening. current temperatures right now well above the freezing, 40 degree mark in d.c., stepping outside the

areas could have a few slick spots and some road temperatures are below freezing. everyone below freezing for the windchills. this is the feels like, 20s and 30s out there with wind gusts around the 20-mile-per-hour mark. it is going to be a little on the windy side this morning. it wasn't bad but as we continue through the afternoon, gusts up to 30 miles per hour, feeling like the 20s and 30s and tomorrow still breezy out there. i do want to show you the feels like temperature as you head home. feels like in the 20s and 30s, look at this, saturday morning, this is what it's going to feel like, teens. even though spring was here, welcome back to winter. we've got maybe spring like temperatures on the ten-day forecast. i'll show you that in a little bit. >> i'm so confused. >> so is the weather. >> we're all looking for ways to organize our lives, lauryn ricketts pay attention to the next story, organization. what's old is new again. what folks are doing now to stay

here on news 4 midday yesterday. fairfax county police were searching for human remains buried at the park. >> now they say they have found them.

hi, julie. >> reporter: hey there, the police chief and the fbi just wrapped up a news conference. i want to direct your attention to the area back in the woods there. detectives were just back there taking down red crime scene tape and that is where two sets of human remains were found. we've been reporting to you all week about the search under way back in those woods here in holmes run park. the chief says both of those individuals believed to be victims of homicide, both of those deaths tied to gang activity. now the chief says the bodies were buried about 300 yards back into the woods. this is the very same park where two bodies were unearthed in 2014 but arrests and convictions have come in connection with those cases. the bodies found in holmes run park this week mark the third and fourth murder victims found in less than two months. victims of a spate of gang violence carried out

ms-13. it was the body of sosa rivas found near the river and not far from here last month in another area in springfield, the body of a missing gaithersburg girl was also found, reyes. ten people have been arrested in connection with reyes' others and six others with the prince william county murder. the bodies have been taken to the medical examiner's office and the police saying they are determined to find the killers and put a dent in this spike of gun violence. >> we need concerned parents and community members to report to us any sign of gang activity, recruitment, different behaviors in their children. these are teenagers, young adults that are mainly involved in this and this is the youth of tomorrow that's being just eroded and we need to getem

>> now the chief did say he did not know whether the murders that led to the bodies being found here occurred in the park or whether the bodies were dumped here. the search that began this week came as a result of a tip and the chief says they need more information from the community to bring the killers to justice. julie carey, back to you in the studio. >> julie carey in alexandria for us, thank you. former president barack obama is gradually returning to the public stage. he and former first lady spent much of the last two months on vacation. nbc's andrea mitchell reports on their busy lives after the white house. >> reporter: nearly two months after leaving office, former president barack obama is planning his return to the spotlight. named this year's winner of the john f. kennedy profile in courage award. mr. obama tweeting he is humbled to be recognized and in part for his leadership on

and expanding health care, two achievements now at risk with the election of donald trump. this year's award especially significant, being presented in may on the 100th anniversary of jfk's birth. to be awarded by caroline kennedy, whom he appointed ambassador to japan and endorsement along with her late uncle ted kennedy was a pivotal moment for the democratic nomination in 2008 thursday's announcement of the honor jump starting speculation about the next phase of his public life. >> i'll be right there with you as a citizen for all my remaining days. >> reporter: this after eric holder, his former attorney general and close friend told reporters mr. obama is quote ready to roll. looking to help elect democrats throughout country. still those close to the former president are cautioning he is still months away from reentering the ic

but the 44th president has been busy. both he and michelle obama have signed record shattering book deals for their white house memoirs while details haven't officially been disclosed. industry sources say they will earn upwards of 60 million for the two books. he talks about his book on a podcast with the former staffer john faf row. >> hopefully people read it too. >> he was honest in his first book and it will be interesting to see if he is as honest and open in this memoir but i expect him to be pretty close to that. >> reporter: now out of office the former president seems to be enjoying himself. causing a stir outside a new york city starbucks, attending a broadway play with daughter malia and lighting up social media with photos from the family vacation on billionaire richard branson's private island. his influence extending beyond the united states and into europe, in france

posters are appearing on paris street corners with act vists wearing obama masks unhappy with their political choices in the presidential election. hoping to recruit america's popular former president. >> that was nbc's andrea mitchell reporting. the obamas have pledged a substantial portion of their book sales will be donated to charity. in addition to their books, the obamas plan to focus on their foundation. several big name tech companies are taking the side of a virginia transgender teen. apple and ibm and mike soft are asking the supreme court to allow gavin grim to use the boy's bathroom. he wants to use the bathroom that matches his gender. the case is scheduled to go before the high court next month but the gloucester county school board wants a delay, a

recently said she had been raped and sexually abused as a child. this came out in an interview with another actress about feminism and the women's movement. she also says she was once fired from a job for refusing to sleep with her boss. fonda is now 79 years old. a curriculum aimed at preventing rape could come to every high school in virginia. lawmakers just passed a bill that adds no means no lessons to sex ed courses. the changes call for age appropriate discussions of consent and that includes explaining what it means to agree to have sex and the rlega ramifications that go with not asking permission. schools must step in because these conversations aren't happening at home. >> i thought, you know, if the first time our students are hearing about what's appropriate is at college orientation, we'll really missed the boat and it's too late. >> fairfax county high schools

if terry mcauliffe signs the bill into law, school districts and individual students will be allowed to opt out. in news 4 your health, many of us sit at a desk while earning a paycheck but we could be earning poor health. researchers in scotland monitored office workers and mail carriers for one week. they had a bigger waist sir k couple ference and higher risk of cardiovascular disease. get up and move while you can. >> there's something you can do about stubborn allergies, there's a new drug that goes under the tongue and made for people who suffer from allergies from dust mites, which are tiny bugs commonly found in bedding and furniture and carpets and in clinical trials, the drug effectively reduced allergy symptoms like eye inflamation

low tech is making a comeback. >> more folks are getting organized without the use of their smartphone. jane wells explains. >> this is this week. >> reporter: molly craven is a 30 something marketing professional whose discovered the hottest new app for organizing her life is a notebook. >> i wanted to get more religious and ritualistic about my planning and my list making. >> reporter: everything old is new again as millennials are taking pen to paper. they call it bullet journalling, hundreds of thousands of images have been posted on instagram from simple to elaborate, there's even a how to video. >> we keep track of things. >> reporter: that's ryder carol who has led the bullet journal movement. apps like google cal enl der are great but limited. >> what i like about bullet journal, it goes into one place, it's like one tool. >> reporter: physically writing

something down makes it permanent and perhaps leads to better results, at least that's the idea. >> it does give me time to sit down and think about what's coming up and plan more effectively. however, i don't think i've been doing it long enough to really see the improvement yet. >> reporter: even sew, sales by publicly moleskine rose 12% in the u.s. last year and a bullet journal, 100-year-old german company started back when people ugsed to write. he says there's one other benefit. >> the bullet journal of the very nature, forces you to disconnect and not to be online. and that's all really powerful thing. >> reporter: however, digital apps do have one advantage, lose your device and you're info is stored in the cloud. lose your notebook and it's gone forever. >> uh-huh. let the record show, right here it is all marked up and she's had tord

>> you are a hot mess, need to draw lines through thing. >> you're ritualistic about this. >> yes, every day has 11 things and you draw a line, it's much better. >> my grandfather has forever said what you write down you don't forget so -- >> he's right. and so am i. >> such a hipster. it's pretty typical to want to dress like your best friend. >> or your co-worker. the story behind how these guys wanted to fool their teacher with their hair. might bring tears to your

this is an inspiring story of looking beyond our differences. two little boys decided they would try to trick their teacher by looking alike. >> this is our feel good friday story.

and what they did. >> stop it. >> reporter: helping his best friend jackson rosebush pass the time. as they wait for jackson's hair cut, the preschoolers are a ball of energy. >> thank you. [ screaming ] >> jackson has a particular cut in mind. >> how are you getting your hair done today? like -- >> and the transformation begins. [ laughter ] >> it's all part of the boys' master plan to trick their teacher. >> jackson is me and i'm jackson and jackson is me. >> they hope the teacher won't be able to tell them apart because they'll have the same hair cut. jackson filled his mother in on the

>> so we can trick the teacher because we'll look just alike. she won't be able to tell the difference between the two of us. it's like, okay, again, i know that made me chuckle. >> reporter: the boys completely ignore the obvious, their race. jackson's mother posted her son's plan on facebook and it took off. shared thousands of times around the world. >> i'm glad that people can see what little kids see. the boys are getting a kick out of the whole thing but it's a much deeper meaning for their families. he was adopted from the congo and although he may look different from his parents, they taught him to love everyone the same. >> it's cool to see that move on om our family into his relationships with his friends and there's an innocence that children have sma if we can get some of that back, it would be amazing. >> you know -- >> we're all like

>> i love them so much. >> so many of the comments from the moms reading the story and watching the story were posting i showed this to my son and daughter, do you think they look alike? no because he's wearing a white shirt and he's wearing a red shirt. that's it. that's what they noticed. >> isn't that beautiful? >> now the weather. >> will that be beautiful? >> it will be pretty but just be cold. are you ready for winter? it's coming back. we've got snow showers out there. we had a few out there today, hopefully you were able to -- get into where you needed to go. i know we had low visibilities, there were just very few isolated slick spots out there but most of the temperatures were above freezing so it melted on contact. we could see snow showers and passing rain showers as we go through this friday, especially on the northwest wind. my goodness, that wind is blowing out there. we're seeing wind

miles per hour, it's still going to be breezy on saturday but we'll have plenty of sunshine and dry. quiet and chilly as we get into sunday. then we warm up from there. we have a few snow showers and they are now past 301. route 4 you could have blinding snow, some of these darker purples are more heavy and rain showers mixed in as well. those will continue to move down towards eastern shore but we've got a lot of snow that can still pass through our region. it's just going to move right on through. we're not expecting any accumulations, we're expecting just some passing snow showers. and winds, my goodness, those winds gusting up to 25 miles an hour. that means we've got windchills and temperatures will top out low to mid-40s but windchills only in the 20s and 30s. that is it. so the winds pick up as we continue through the morning. we're looking at windy conditions with a feels like of 20s and 30s, same deal tomorrow, we'll be breezy with the windchills in the 20s and 30s, if you're hea

to be bitterly cold by tomorrow morning. temperatures are going to be in the teens and 20s during the overnight so again, bundle up. you don't need to tell you about it because it's chilly right now but windchills tomorrow morning in the teens. we've got more news after this and we'll let you know what to

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>> we're talking about animal control. one thing, the timing is pretty good, when i was walking my dog this woman was pretty frantic, lost her dog. still has a leash attached to it, then today i saw posters up, lost dog. what do you do if you find a stray dog somewhere or someone's missing pet? >> when animal control finds a dog, the first thing we want to do is scan for a microchip. that should have the owner's information attached to it and if it has a microchip, the shelter will hold a dog for seven days. and if we also make an attempt to contact the owner as well. if the animal does not have any type of i.d., no microchip, i.d. caller, we hold it for five days. >> so we need to call animal control if we find a stray dog or cat or anything like that? >> yes. >> what about as far as when animals go into animal control, what happens in that process of them being there?

for an amount of days and give the owner an attempt to reclax their animals. after the stray hold is up they go through medical behavior evaluation and from there up for adoption. >> they go straight into the shelter if the owner does not -- that's fantastic news. there are some shelters that actually euthanize but animal control centers that do n euthanize, that's great they send them to find a new home. there's the video, you see the dog getting scanned for a microchip. if you have it in your lart heart pick up a stray animal, go ahead and do it and always call animal control. i see a lot of deer on my way to work, a lot of them. i'm in a neighborhood going slow and they are in the front yard of people's houses. what can we do if we hit a deer and the deer is still alive but it's injured? what. >> if you come across any situation like that, call

extension 1. we're open 24/7. there's always an officer on duty, we respond to all kinds of emergency and deer hit by car deer is always a priority. >> they come out and take care of the issue however that may be. >> yes. >> as far as the time of year, is this the time of year where we run into more deer, we see more deer out there? it does seem like a lot? >> the time they are out more often or time of concern would be late october to december, that is breeding season. that's when they tend to run out into the road more often. spring time is where the mothers stash their fawns in private areas, and could be somebody's backyard so those are the times of concerns where we get a lot of concerns and people are concerned about it. >> let's say you find a raccoon on your property or possum or something like that, are you the person that people should call? >> so if the animal is outside of your property, we let them be. they are within their ab

property, under your bed, in your kitchen, in the closet, we can come out and remove the animal. >> got it. a lot of important information. there are so many deer out there and the last thing you want to do is accidentally hit one and hurt herself and deer. if i see a stray dog or cat, call animal control and you'll take it from there and they go into the shelter if nobody claims them. thanks for being here. great information. hopefully everyone will do their part and keep animals and yourself safe. nbc 4 is proud to clear the shelters all year but we highly encourage adopting a pet. we have resources on the nbc washington app and all of the animals up for adoption that come through go out to the shelter, a lot of animals available at the humane rescue alliance. thanks so much for joining me. >> thank you. >> thanks, sheena. >> we'll have a look at your

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ferrari. >> spotify is celebrating a big milestone, they have hit 50 million paid subscribers and the music streaming service is growing at an impressive rate, 1.6 million paid subscribers each month. the company was started in 2008. little piece of that. >> little sliver of that. >> let's get a final check of the weather with lauryn ricketts. >> we're continuing to see windchills in the 20s and 30s. and plus on that northwest wind you can see rain and snow showers seeing a few out there right now, if you're headed out tonight, temperatures going to be dipping into the 20s but we're going to keep that wind around and even midnight tonight, even though that temperature in the 20s, it's going to feel more like the teens out there. and we will be dry tomorrow, plenty of sunshine but still breezy. one against we're talking about windchills for the first part of the weekend in the 20s and 30s and sunday sunny skies and

to spring like temperatures, 60s monday and tuesday and wednesday with rain showers and we dip a little bit not too bad to end out the next workweek. >> that's it for news 4 midday, we're back on the air first at

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