news 4 today starts now. right now on news 4 today, an officer-involved shooting and a gunman on the run. dangerous chase and the hunt for the man responsible. here to stay, the new deal for redskins head coach jay gruden and the new edition coming. and feeling the freeze. oh, it's cold out there. hang in there. storm team 4 is tracking our next wild ride on the thermometer. ups and downs, roller coaster ride of the temperatures. hope you're having a good start to your sunday morning. >> i'm angie. and that is the truth, 24 degrees right now. >> yeah, little bit chilly. >> it was a lot chilly coming in. >> definitely a lot

let's check in with amelia draper who is here to tell us about that. >> another cool day overall yesterday, high 44, similar to today. however, the winds today, not going to be an issue. it'll feel warmer. look at the morning planner. clear skies. the sun is starting to come up. 8:00 a.m., we're still around 26 degrees, but again with that lighter wind, it'll feel much better outside as you're heading out and about. by lunchtime, only in the upper 30s. here's the thing, we're completely dry from start to finish. dry roads, monday as well, but i am tracking some much needed rain in the forecast on tuesday. i'm going to have that timing coming up in about ten minutes, adam. >> thank you very much. we are staying on top of the developing story out of capital heights this morning, prince george's county police say a man is on the run after robbing someone, then exchanging gunfire with an officer. here's what we know so far. just before 9:00 last night,

fight. when they got there, a man told them he had been robbed. officers spotted a guy who matched the description of the robbery suspect. they started to chase him and during that chase, shots were fired. the officer was not hurt. not clear if the man was hit. call police if you have any information about the case. search in northern virginia police say that a security guard was stabbed to death at potomac in wood bridge. the guard's name was larry. he was 44 years old. one of two employees. another employee was not hurt. police say this is the suspect. take a good look at your screen. they are still trying to track himdown. if you have any information on this case, please call police. two maryland teenagers are being remembered today after losing their lives in a car crash. friends and family held this vigil for dez monday cook and collin last night. both were 17 and

west lake high school. they were killed on friday afternoon. their car hit a small pole on smallwood drive which is not far from the school. the father had this plea. >> guys, please, i'm asking you, let this be a lesson, i want you guys to know that tomorrow is not promised. let the grudges go. love each other. like there's never tomorrow. >> third teenager has serious injuries. police are investigating the crash. we have an update on a story that has one of the most prestigious neighborhoods on edge. on friday night, a woman says she was blindfolded, tied up. and assaulted in her own home by a burglar not caught. it happened on california street in the neighborhood. you can see from this map that's just within blocks of the homes of ivanka trump and the

police do not have a description. so they really need your help in this case. >> the martin luther king jr. memorial library closed for renovation. not expected to reopen for 2020. for years, it's served homeless residents as well. yesterday advocates rallied outside the library calling for better services for the homeless and those who live in poverty. washington post reports that library officials are working with the d.c. department of human services to offer the homeless alternatives while that library is closed. president trump's tweets claiming that former president obama is still causing a political fire storm. the president offered no evidence and as of this morning, the white house has not responded to questions about what led to the accusation. white house staff, they've been circulating a story from the conservative outlet breitbart referencing unconfirmed reports describing requests for surveillance. it led to lind

addressing this week at a town hall. >> i would be very worried if in fact the obama administration was able to obtain a warrant lawfulfully about trump campaign activity with foreign governments. so, it is my job as united states senator to get to the bottom of this. i promise you i will. >> well, spokesperson for former president obama called the allegations false. senior u.s. official telling nbc news president trump apparently did not consult the people inside the government before he sent out those tweets. people supporting the president marched for him yesterday. they gathered at the washington monument for the march for trump event. now in north carolina, supporters urged state legislators to work with the white house. some of those rallies featured counterprotesters. four people were arrested in washington state when clashes between supporters and protesters got a little bit

rough. and president trump explodes tweets that's sure to be a topic on "meet the press." chuck todd will have an exclusive interview with chuck schumer. he'll speak with marco rubio and former director of national intelligence james clapper. maryland governor larry hogan wants to change the redistricting process. according to to the -- excuse me dell marvin now.com website, hogan is rallying support for a bill that would set up an independent, non-partisan committee to hand that will project. democrats opposed the plan because lawmakers dominated state politics. redistricting reform is one of hogan's primary goals as he gears up for the 2018 governor's race. well it's 6:06, good morning, a beautiful sunrise to start off our sunday. no doubt about it. you know what, you're going to need the hat and gloves again this morning. but a big change, it's coming up. and a

we'll be in the 60s. burgundy and gold making a big move. the new addition coming to the redskins sideline.

welcome back. redskins head coach jay gruden going to be sticking around a little bit longer. >> espn reporting that the skins signed him to a two-year contract extension. that means he's under contract until 2020. pretty significant move for the organization. it marks the first time redskins owner dan snyder has extended the contract for a head coach since he bought the team in 1999. gruden has gone 17-14-1 over the last two years with an nfc east title in 2015. little bit more. it's been a pretty good offseasons for kirk cousins. >> you could say that. the redskins placed an us

he'll make about $24 million. >> not too shabby. >> not bad. and now his wife, they're expecting a baby together. how cute. julie cousins posted this picture on instagram yesterday of their dog, bentley, holding up a sign reading mom and dad are getting me a human. the baby is expected in september. so that's football season too, right? that's going to be every weekend. perfectly timed. and good news the $24 million, that'll last for about a year here in washington. >> that's just for the parking, right? here's something we haven't seen much of this winter, snow. people in cincinnati, ohio, woke up to light accumulations of it yesterday morning. and even though it wasn't much, it did cause problems for drivers out there. even caused authorities to temporarily close several major roads and highways. >> oh. sound of howling dogs filling anchorage, alaska, for the i

>> about 2,000 dogs belonging to 72 mushers are getting ready for the big race. they left the download area yesterday. every two minutes for an 11 mile course. the ceremonial start is a family-friendly event designed in part. spectators can meet the dogs. the official start of the race is tomorrow. and don't they see that this is the most strenuous -- i mean, something along those lines about the kind of endurance, you know, right up there. >> those dogs are tough. i was in alaska and i met someone up there, so cool. >> and they're there for -- they have longevity. is. no snow around here, amelia, but it is cold. >> yeah, we're in the teens and 20s right now. and by this afternoon, we'll have high us in the low to mid-40s. we're running about five to ten degrees below normal today, but plenty of sunshine and lighter winds than yesterday. all in all, not that bad. take a look at where we're starting now the your

gaithersburg at 16. leesburg at 21. sunshine today from start to finish, and you'll see that here on your hourly planner. by noon, upper 30s, high today of 43. we'll hit that right around 3:00, 4:00 p.m. then cold again tonight with low temperatures around 30 degrees. for the most part, the weather having a low impact on your day today. liberty, white tail, unfortunately closed for the season. if you want to get outdoor exercise in, i would highly recommend layers, gloves if you're going for the run this morning. just heading out and about today, puffy coat, you'll be fine. too soon for yard work. the last freeze toward the end of the month. and i've actually retweeted a picture on my twitter page showing the difference of tree that is already flowered from before this cold weather set in to now and it's not very good. so this is going to be a problem with this kind of early spring we're seeing and now the cool temperatures, but we are warmer tomorrow, mid-50s if highs. increase in clouds throughout the

completely dry. on tuesday though, i'm going to track some rain, chance for isolated showers during the midday and early afternoon hours. but it's really during the late afternoon and evening hours, so heading home from work on tuesday, when we'll be tracking rain as a cold front moves through the area. before that front moves through. we warm into the mid, upper 60s, maybe some lingering showers very early on wednesday before 7:00 a.m. aside from that, increasing sun and it is going to be windy with a high around 61. thursday, mid-50s, and then you guys see -- listen next weekend, not only daylight savings time begin, we have plenty of chances for much-needed rain across the area. >> it was an hour already? >> i know. >> my goodness. >> all right. thanks amelia. >> bummer. coming up next for you. >> we're back in 15 minutes of more of the morning's top stories. good morning, i'm pat lawson, this is reporter's

leads to a state emergency declaration by the governor of maryland. 50 million in new nunding over five years to help the state of maryland with presengs recovery and enforcement efforts. we are joined this morning and scott, let me start with you. the money will help cut through the red tape. why has it been so tough for states and localities to cut through the red tape to coordinate efforts to tack this will problem? >> let's be clear, this is a crisis in maryland, but it's not a unique crisis to maryland. other states throughout the country are feeling the same thing. the exponential growth in heroin and ownership yoid-related deaths in maryland, mind boggling. it's more than doubled in the past few years. it's a crisis. getting people access to the overdose reversal drug. giving people access to drug therapy is easier said than done. it makes money, it takes manpower out there doing outreach to people. citizens of maryland, and the

simply don't have the money or the manpower to do that. they're asking for all the help they can get. you talked about new legislation. the governor is pushing forward. that's a help. feds are intervening as well. it's hard to mistake that they have prosecuted people for distribution of these drugs. prosecuted in other states where they're incurring them into maryland. this is a crisis, but it's not just a maryland crisis. >> so if we can just talk about a couple of the things the governor has proposed and we don't know whether they'll get through general assembly. one would limit the number of opioid pills you can get. another classification of felony? >> there's several proposals for heroin. fighting the heroin crisis, fighting the opioid crisis in the maryland state legislature. several with around the country, this is a universal crisis right now. it's hard to see which ones are going to pass and

that this is something that state delegates, state senators in maryland and other states do want to have on their record to campaign on. they want to show their constituents of trying something on this. the constituencies and all corners of the state are feeling. >> and with deaths having doubled in the state of maryland in the past year and tripled nationwide, are general assemblies and legislatures going to be inclined to do something? >> there's a mandate. 120 deaths of this sort nationwide each day. so there is a mandate for them to take some action, difficult part is developing a coalition, two parties that are warned with each other. one footnote, in 2015, in the u.s. congress, one of the more steal mated congresses, they passed an antiheroin bill 94-1 in the senate. there's clearly a mandate for action. >> one other big story you've covered this past week. virginia's crackdown on teachers

this conduct with students. a new law will now speed up the process of getting those teachers out of classrooms in virginia and help kem keep them out of classrooms in other states. the change in the law follows a news 4 i-team investigation. [ applause ] >> your report prompted the change in the law. tell us what you found. >> it was unacceptable, not just the viewers, but clearly to state legislators in virginia. we found four teachers in fairfax county who admitted sexual misconduct with their students, but for whom the fairfax county public schools failed to end in the paperwork to get their teacher licensed pulled. at least one of those four to get another job in maryland where he sexual assaulted another student. it was oversight. it was a mistake. state legislators said we can't have this happening again. governor signed new legislation which required any school district that suspects a teacher of any t

within ten days they can investigate and make sure all the licenses are pulled when they need to be pulled. under the old law, districts had years to notify the state before flagging them about a potentially bad situation. >> and were you able to ascertain why it took so long? >> they were very unclear with their answers in fairfax county, we tried to get them front of the camera, we did, still had a lack of clarity as to how such an enormous mistake could be made. >> all right. well good work, scott. adam, you've been working on metro and president of metro's largest union accuses the general manager of bullying workers. that charge was made in a letter sent by the transit union local president. and it has to do with metro's demands for overtime. adam, explain for us what's going on and why things got so nasty between the general manager and the union. >> the first thing everybody needs to understand, metro and the largest union are

now. right there, you have some friction right off the bat. the second thing people should understand is that since that derailment last summer at east falls church, remember, we saw nearly half of metro's track inspection team fired or face some sort of disciplinary action. the union has really been pushing back against metro saying you're basically on a witch hunt. you're just looking for people to cut and go from there. so metro and it's largest union have been at odds. this is kind of an inside baseball thing where metro is trying to limit certain rules, including fatigue where workers can only work so many hours in a given week, but the union has gotten to the point where people have said the union has semiinstructed members to turn down any voluntary overtime out there so that could potentially have an impact on riders, if that happens. and so metro's chief is hearing that the union is doing this, and there's this back and forth going on right now. not a

>> nowhere close to an agreement. >> not at this point. a lot of people say that a lot of the financial troubles, if you really start digging into the details to go with pension and benefits and those kinds of things and the salaries that some of these workers are making, everyone should be afforded the ability to make a good salary, but if you start digging into some of the details what about some people make at metro to the station manager, drive a bus, operate train, they can get up in the six figures. >> and that's a political issue now, republicans in congress pointed to that. pointed to the individual salaries of union members at metro as part of their argument for why they want to cut federal funds to metro. that becomes more than just an issue for the transit system, big political issue over funding for metro which of course is a major thing. >> all right. we've got to take a break. we'll be right back. stay with us. y29kwy ysty

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now. there are big changes coming to the 395 corridor to be specific express lane. virginia has now approved to extend want wlaen from etle road all the way to d.c. line. we all travel that at some point in time, right? >> yes. >> all right. so how big a deal is this? >> it's huge. and when you look at it from the perspective that northern virginia is now pushing all of it's chips basically on the table and saying express lanes are the way we're going to go forward and that you can pay to get around traffic and really they're the only locality in the region that's doing that, it's really big because think about it, 95, the beltway, now 395, 66, inside and outside the beltway. you are going to have the option to now pay to get around traffic in the coming years on all of those corridors. corridors which are insanely crowded for anyone who drives them. and so, you are promised a speedy trip of at least 55 miles an hour even during rush hour.

that sounds enticing, right, but the tolls, there's no cap. they can go as high as they want, and the idea there is that if they keep going up, you'll price people out of the lanes, but keep the lanes flowing. it's called congestion flowing. this is what northern virginia is banking on. also a car pool, you can use them for free. it gives them an incentive to think about car pooling in northern virginia. >> what's the timeline. >> so they're going to start construction this summer. the good news about this particular project is that much like the 95 express lanes, the infrastructure's already there. they basically have to change two lanes to three and put up tolling systems. it'll take about a year. i don't think they have the exact timing. this is another big change for how we get around the region. and for anyone whose thinking about, you know, the government's just going to find a way to get us to work easier, it is not coming down to that anymore. it's coming down to you find a way to live where you work, and you walk or

get around congestion. >> i'd love to see what example this sets for maryland. maryland's governor campaigned on and made very clear he wants to lay more asphalt down. he wants to widen roads. more lanes and increase the volume of cars, and not just in the metropolitan area, he's promised to do that on the state road that gets you to the eastern shore, your vacation getaway where the political base is. neigh wider. this is kwied a contrast to what northern virginia is doing, trying to make things in their words, smarter. >> politically, is there an impact here? >> sure. >> if you live and you commute primarily through in and through northern virginia, it looks like if you want to move faster, you're going to have to pay. and you're already paying. >> exactly. but again, remember, if you want it free, you start a car pool. so there's the incentive for you, but absolutely. if you know anything about the back story of just the 395 section that went through alexandria and arlington, they were originally part of the

395 express lane project. all of that was posed to be done at once. they stepped in and said, we don't need it, we don't the president. they did this years ago and now backtrack and saying okay, put it through right now. they thought the existing system was working fine. >> yeah, all right. we'll be looking forward to that. >> yeah. >> of course one of the ways that many of us get around the region, northern virginia and d.c. and maryland is by using the ways app. i used it. it's safe -- >> i have here on my phone. >> but it has the opposite naskt one neighborhood where residents near the hospital are blaming this app for turning their quiet little street into a very busy and dangerous now thoroughfare. we understand this all started with a stoplight. >> that's combat community will tell you. the community in northwest, since the new stoplight went in, not necessarily the fault. i'm not sure

technology has evolved. what it does is gets you around congestion. well, the light went in, there was more congestion. the ways are trying to get you around the congestion, it sent you down this particular road, manning place. well this group says they used to see about 200 cars a day on their street. now they're seeing 1,500 cars. >> that would be a night mar for me. >> here's where it gets tricky. is that way's fault? not really. it's doing what it's supposed to do. does the city have a responsibility to now step and make that road safer if that many cars are coming down that street? ddot has a study to see if that's the case and by the way, we've heard from many people who say the same thing has happened to their roads or their alleyway or their cut through that this is happening to a lot of people. this is a story that kind of continues to develop. >> they're not alone. just one footnote, little bit apples and orngs from what adam described. the engineers are driving

behind the wheel. they would say their research shows all those device we have married ourselves too are a bit distracting. and they're dangerous as well. >> well, they are distracting because you've got to watch them or listen to them in order to continue navigating through traffic. >> that's right. >> but have they helped? think about what from ways does. ways distributes traffic. it's not creating congestion. it's helping our traffic. this is a real kind of funny, you know, situation that we're in right now and as technology develops. zbluns this in the case of the northwest neighborhood that's been going on for years. what are ddot and ways saying and can they do anything? >> ddot says it can't specifically say that they are creating the problem. it has a study going on, on this street to see if something like a rush hour restriction should go into place where you can't turn into that road. because on this particular street, there are no sidewalks. that means yo

either on a very narrow grassy area in front of the houses or in the street. this woman says she got clipped bay car and that's when the light bulb went off. now it's a safety concern. and so you have to look at that. >> one final thing, beach drive. >> it is not extended. it's still a three year project. this first segment all the way down to rock creek parkway which is a huge cut through for so many people. they have to do some more work on the hiker biker trail right there which is going to extend the project for two months into august. so you get to deal with that a little bit longer. >> not anymore. >> can't right now. >> got to change your ways. >> change the ways, no pun intended. >> totally intended, but thank you. >> scott and adam, thank you gentlemen. and thank you. that's reporter's notebook. news 4 today continues.

time right now, 6:30 on this sunday morning here are the top stories we're following for you. prince george's county police serging for the man who exchanged gunfire with an officer. this happened on kayak avenue before 9:00 last night. the officer was not hurt. unclear if the suspect was hit. also a search in northern virginia, this man, prince william county police say they want to find him. he is accused of shoplifting and then fatally stabbing a security guard who confronted him. happened yesterday afternoon at the mall in wood bridge. the redskins have extended the contract of head coach jay gruden. the contract now runs until 2020. news 4 today starts now. 6:30 on shh this sunday

>> it is definitely football weather. i'm doing this allot. 24 degrees. we have our storm team 4 meteorologist. tracking warm-ups on the way. >> yeah, warmer tomorrow, but today another chilly day, 24 degrees right now, but a beautiful sunrise out there, just posted it on the facebook and twitter pages. by 10:00 a.m., we'll be around freezing and by noon, we'll be in the upper 30s. now we will have a lighter wind today than we did yesterday. so it's going to feel warmer during the afternoon hours. however, i want to point this out to you, the u.s. drought monitor has placed most of the d.c. metro area out into prince william and southern counties and a severe drought now, and the rest of the area under a moderate drought. we need about six to nine inches of rain in a month's time to relieve the drought conditions. i am tracking some rain in the

inches, but the timing coming up. >> please, no. president trump is spending the weekend at his mar-a-lago estate in florida. fourth time he's spent time there since taking office, but the impact is being felt well beyond the walls of the so-called winter white house. gabe gutierrez has the details. >> reporter: he used to be flying high, not anymore. >> we're basically going broke. >> reporter: with president trump at his mar-a-lago resort, the company southern helicopters is once again grounded. >> we were not expecting him to come down almost every weekend. >> reporter: the secret service restricting flights at the entire airport. >> on a typical weekend that president trump is in town, all this will be shut down? >> correct. >> reporter: jonathan miller says the cost per weekend is $30,000 of lost business. >> i don't know that my business can sustain heavy losses like that. >> reporter: local tax payers are also getting

million so far for extra security. >> we've written a letter to the federal government asking for the reimbursement for the overtime for the sheriff ands impacts, but as of today, we haven't heard back. >> reporter: as a candidate, mr. trump said he'd rarely leave the white house and vacations costing tax payers millions, but since his inauguration, president trump will have spent four of the last five weekends at mar-a-lago. of course, travels not unusual for the commander in chief at this point in his first term, president obama was taking his third weekend getaway. went to chicago, two to camp david. while the trump administration won't disclose the price tag, conservative non-partisan estimates it's almost $3 million so far in secret service and air force one costs alone. >> they should either change his travel habits or perhaps find other ways to save money for the tax payerer in white house operation. >> reporter: but on glitzy worth

marley says president trump's visits are good for business. >> i think there's a lot more people interested in coming to the avenue. >> reporter: the white house calls them working weekends. >> there's not rest, it's all work. >> reporter: but leaving some here without much work to do. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, palm beach, florida. for those of you waking up in southeast d.c. could soon see safer neighborhoods. d.c.'s department of transportation held it's third and final public workshop last night for it's far southeast livability study. ddot discussed plans with people who live in the ward seven neighborhood and the ward eight neighborhood. they plan to call for more bus stops, and safety improvements around schools and community centers. well so many of us rely on metro to get where we're going and we trust it to be a safe journey. according to to the washington post, the metro has been operating without it's own safety oversight commission for more th

of $15 million in annual federal grants. what's needed to get that cash flowing again? the three jurisdictions around here which metro serves, virginia, maryland, d.c., need to pass bills calling for a creation of the nine panel safety commission. federal transit administration has been acting as the safety agency since october 2015. we have a quick update to the search for a missing 14-year-old girl. police say that they found her. they found her right before 10eing. he was is in in tulsa, oklahoma. police have not said how she got there. they say she's in good health. she disappeared on tuesday. from the section of the county. police say a woman may have been drunk when she hit and killed a man from d.c. yesterday morning. that crash happened on tollsville road near even if ton street. donald morgan jr. was in the crosswalk, but

out of her car after she hit him then drove away. police were able to track her down with the help of the witnesses. charges have not been filed. we are waiting on police to release the name of an 18-year-old killed in a call crash on friday. happened just before midnight on st. peters church road. the 18-year-old lost control of the car at a curve in the road. he then hit a tree. he was the only person in the car. police will release his name once the family has been notified. the cause of that crash still under investigation. right now d.c. police need your help in finding a missing teenager. please take a look at your screen if you can. this is 15-year-old kha-ronn taylor. he's been missing since friday night and last seen in southeast. he's 6'2", wearing a black coat with red zipper. light colored jeans and black sneakers. d.c. police say you can dial 911 if you know where he is. time now 6:36, cross the country, gun violence is a staggering problem. police turn to the top

lab in maryland. nbc's pete williams got rare access inside. >> reporter: from the streets of chicago they come pouring in, fragments of the rounds of ammunition recovered from crime scenes in the city where 4,300 people were shot last year with 762 murders. sometimes the only hard evidence of this spent bullet case found at the scene. chicago sends in 1,000 a month. checking them for valuable clues as the job of the atf laboratory in maryland. chicago has also been atf's number one customer. nearly 6,000 in 2015. atf says 60% come from 14 other states illegally trafficked into the city. guns found at crime scenes can be sent here and test fired. into a tank of water or at a firing range. the is goal is to recover the cartridge case ejected when a gun ire

fingerprints from the firing pen and the back of the firing chambers. series of ridges and grooves. the cartridge cases are digitally scanned and checked against atfs data base of millions of others collected from crime scenes looking for potential matches. >> these parallel lines here, they go all the way down. >> reporter: and they seem to match. >> they do. >> reporter: they verify if there's a match that tells police that the cartridge case was fired from the same gun used to commit another crime of valuable investigative leads. and if a criminal files or grinds off a gun's serial number making it invisible, atf has ways to make it appear again, sharp and clear. >> our work here is getting criminals off the street. we're identifying a number of shootings that have taken police with the same firearm. >> reporter: looking for clues on a tiny piece of evidence that police say can help fight an epidemic of gun

beltsville, maryland. two women, two children dead and six other people hurt after a home in the suburbs of mexico city, take a look here, it exploded. this is what's left after the blast. the red cross says the explosion was due to a gas leak. many people in the particular suburb make a living by selling fireworks. it's not clear if fireworks were in this home. the blast took place from the fire works market which blew up in december. well, it was a remarkable rescue for crews in canada. they were able to find and dig out a skier who was buried by an avalanche on a mountain in british columbia. that is my worst nightmare. he was with a partner when the avalanche hit. his partner was partialed buried but was able to help dig out the victim. rescue crews carried him off the mountain with a long line lift using a cable attached to a helicopter. the victim is in serious condition. it is freezing this morning, but a wa

what a beautiful sunrise. >> yeah. >> amelia draper is here tracking how to plan for the monday morning commute. and the king of the jungle. top cat the the national zoo. outrun almost anything, but not this. brave doctor who's not afraid to give this c

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y29phy y16fy and we're looking at a cold, but clear start on your sunday morning. take a look at this gorgeous sunrise from our city camera. today, we're in the 40s once again, but i am tracking warmer air moving in along with it, some much-needed rain. i'm going to have the latest timing with future weather coming up just minutes away, guys. well, russian connections. new wiretapping accusations and a big week ahead for president trump. >> absolutely. we have a lot to g

let's bring in the moderator of "meet the press," chuck todd, he joins us every sunday. everyone is saying prove it it. and we don't have proof yet. do you think he comes up with this or do you think he hits? >> looks like he shoots from the hip. there is a grain of truth of connectivity of where he's going here. and that law enforcement officials there has been speculation that law enforcement officials did seek a warrant to do some surveillance possibly on a computer that was -- or is server that was showing unusual activity between a russian man and the trump organization. but it does seem as if his tweets were noent distract, meant to -- whatever it is, i think he's actually though made it harder on himself. i think he's bringing now more attention to this russia situation and making it harder for republicans on capitol hill who have been saying, we want to let senate intelligence handle this, i think you're going to see -- and we'll see, i'll be

this morning. i think there's going to be growing movement among republicans to say you know what, there needs to be a special prosecutor. there needs to be something bigger here. we have to figure this out. >> legally wiretap trump -- >> which means -- let's say -- okay, wiretap anyway. so you have to have first of all, to wiretap an individual -- you have to go to a court, you have to prove the possibility of some sort of crime was either being committed or could be committed. on these wiretaps that he's talking about. that he may be referencing, this is actually -- surveil a foreign entity technically in this case, the russian government, or a russian entity. and so, you have to prove it in a court. and you have to -- and it's usually comes from the fbi. now president obama's denial was, the white house didn't order anything. this could have likely came or with an askof

now the fbi was at the same time investigating hillary clinton. so, you know, it is -- this feels like donald trump trying to sort of distract and dilute and make it different. >> so much for the good relationship or the nice peaceful handover of power between -- >> sixth guy. >> between the former president and the current president. all this comes after he really -- i think a lot of people would agree made it a different kind of more presidential speech to congress at the beginning of the week. >> change his tone. a lot of people have been begging him. don't change your policy right now, try changing your tone first before thinking you have to change your point of view. and he gave the exact same speech substantively that he's been given for weeks, but he sanded off the edges, right? he rounded things out and people were willing to give him a listen. and it's good to know that seems like a month ago. he's just wasting, it's all wasted. >> speak of changes, thanks for the mug. >> mugs up in here. >> we'regi

this is a grounder mug. more coffee. good pack. it's like "meet the press." more in the same hour. how about that? >> five gallons in this one mug. >> you wouldn't know. we pack it all in. we have a special three-hour show, and we're going to do in one hour. >> you make it happen. and you have on the show -- >> marco rubio, chuck schumer, james clapper. >> all right chuck, reminder, see "meet the press" every sunday at 10:30. thanks for stopping by. see you in a bit. imagine being so close to a lion that you could stroke his mane, and look deeply into his giant teeth? >> that's as close as i'd to want go to that scenario. luke the alpha male at the national zoo recently had a trip to the dentist. news 4's wendy reiger introduces us to the doctor who makes the king of the jungle say ah. >> reporter: luke was in fine form recently as he

big cat house at the national zoo. luke is clearly the king of his castle. but the big guy wasn't looking so royal when we found him, congressed out on an operating table earlier. his massive paws kept warm by colorful mitt tens. >> the root is up here. >> reporter: this is the veterinarian dentist doing a regular chuck-up to make sure his teeth are healthy. >> since they're wild animals and you can't lift their lips. >> reporter: no, you have to knock them out which is luke has a team of medical technicians and keeping this 400 pound wild carnivore peacefully asleep. doctor hall is a veterinarian dentist who specializes in exotic animals. he's so rare, he's in demand at zoos around the country and at sanctuaries around the world. he's been in the mouth of some fierce beasts. >> i've workedon

grizzly bears, brown bears. pretty much every cat. polar bears on my bucket list. >> reporter: wild animals need dental work because an unhealthy mouth can make an animal sick. also, alpha males, like luke, can have a bad tooth, be in pain, and they instinctively hide it because pain is a sign of weakness and can get them killed in the ahwild. luke is quite special. he came to the national zoo when he was a year old. >> luke was brought into our facility from a facility in south africa which means his specific genetic line was not represented in north america at all. >> reporter: that gave breeders a fresh gene pool to expand the lion population in this country. luke proved to be a rock star. >> he's been an outstanding breeding animal for us. he's produced five litters, four of which all survived. you know, it's been -- he's had

>> reporter: luke is now 11 slowing down a bit, although he can live into his 20s. staring into the business end of a lion, one has renewed respect for this king of beast. especially when dr. hall tells you this. >> you could extract every tooth in their mouth, the power of their pop your head like a grape if they wanted to. >> reporter: fortunately luke can still bite your head off. he left the exam with teeth intact and mouth cleaned up and ready to, you know. >> wendy reiger reporting there. dr. hall provide z his services for free and veterinarians without borders who provides free health care around the world and local animal training. got to be brave to do that, get up close like that. it's a good thing the animal is sedated. >> he looked so comfortable. him and his socks. >> lay off the sweet fwhobs more

>> and people say how did you become a meteorologist, okay, there are many. how many say i clean lion's teethes? >> exotic animal's mouths. >> that's a conversation starter at a party. >> absolutely. well conversation today is about the cold. >> yeah, we're in the teens and 20s right now. but we will have highs today in the low to mid-40s. so we are running a few degrees below normal, but all in all, pretty nice, crisp, refreshing day, winds not an issue today. and we are warmer tomorrow. have the umbrella on tuesday, later in the day with some rain around. and then i'm tracking the weekend forecast. not this weekend, but next weekend as well. kind of all over the place, a little bit tricky, but remember, daylight saving time begins next weekend so we lose that hour of sleep on sunday. we're in the teens and 20s still. 21 in leesburg, beautiful sunshine out there. and by noon, we'll be in the upper 30s, high taefd 43. similar to yesterday. tonight it's cold again, not as bad as it is right now, but definitely feeling the chill. 36 degrees ar

the evening. so weather having a low impact on the day today. nice day to go skiing at roundtop. outdoor exercise definitely chilly out there. audiotape few warm layers. out and about on sunday, sunglasses as well. and then still too soon for yard work. don't be fooled by the mild air we've had. warmest on record. last freeze is towards the end of the month. and this kind of full spring is leading to issues across the area for trees that are already blooming. the cold temperatures kind of causing those to bloonl to just freeze and kind of look limp and almost dead-like. and we look at tuesday, i want to show you future weather, 8:00 a.m., cloudy, but dry. maybe an isolated shower around during the day, but it's really towards the late afternoon and early evening hours when we start to track rain showers across the area. the cold front before that front moves through, mid to upper 60s for highs on tuesday. and then windy on wednesday with a high temperature around

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i got 800 messages and phone alerts saying i was a sneaking level liar. i didn't know what to do, so my lawyer said, run, jeffy, run! and i started running and running. >> that was snl last night making fun of attorney general jeff sessions. sessions of played by kate mckinnon and a parody of forest grump. the fake attorney general eating a box of cla

including meetings with the russia's ambassador, vladimir putin apparently made a stop too. >> sure. >> yeah, and she was a guest host and has a fun little monologue and there's a cute little skit they did on that. >> yeah. >> go back and take a look at it. we do have much more ahead on news 4 today. that includes an hour by hour look at your forecast. it's a cold one out there. you're going to want to bundle up, 24 degrees as the sun comes

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news 4 today starts now. right now on news 4 today, officer-involved shooting and a gunman on the run. dangerous chase and the hunt for the man whose responsible. >> major redskins move, the new deal for head coach jay gruden and the new edition coming to the sidelines. and we are feeling the freeze this morning off to a bitter cold start, but hang in there, storm team 4 is tracking the next wild ride on the thermometer. slapping in the wind there. the flag. >> that's right. >> union station, it is cold. 23 degrees is the start on this sunday morning. hope you're having a good one. >> and there's a chill out there early. we have storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper here wi

wanting to go out and hit the slopes. >> yeah, unfortunately white tail and liberty had to close about how warm in february, roundtop is still open. you're looking for something to do today, perfect day for some late season skiing and snow boarding. make sure that you have the goggles with the sunglasses in them because of the sun glare. look at temperatures though right now, kind of shocking. especially after we've been rather spoiled i guess throughout the month of february, we've been just so warm, but right now, rockville at 18, college park at 19, resten coming in at 20. beautiful sunshine though, kind of deceiving. and will stay sunny throughout the day today guys with the high of 43. rain in the forecast for the workweek, coming up at 7:18. >> thank you very much. we are staying on top of a developing story this morning out of capital heights. prince george's county police say a man is on the run after robbing someone along kayak avenue, then exchanging gunfire with an officer. here's what we know so far. police say just before 9:00 last night, they respd

when they got there, a man told them he had been robbed. officers spotted a guy who matched the description of the robbery suspect. they started to chase him, and during that chase, shots were fired. the officer was not hurt, not clear if the man was hit. call police if you have any information about this case. search in northern virginia, prince william county police say a security guard was stabbed to death at the mall in wood bridge by a shoplifter. the guard's name was larry trimable and he was 44 years old. he was one of two employees who confronted the shoplifter. this is the suspect that they are trying to track down. if you have information, please call police. two teenagers are remembered after losing their lives in a car crash. friends and family held this vigil for desmond cook and colin last night. both were 17 and students at west lake high school in waldorf. their car hit

smallwood drive which is not far from the school. the father has this plea. >> let the grudge goes. love each other. like there's never tomorrow. >> a third teenager in the car with them had serious injuries. police are still investigating that crash. we do have an update to the story that has one of the districts most prestigious neighborhoods on edge. on friday night, a woman says she was blindfolded, tied, and assaulted in her own home by a burglar who has not been caught. the attack happened northwest in the neighborhood. you can see from this map that that is just within blocks of the homes of ivanka trump and the obamas. and due to how the attack happened, police don't have a description. so they really need your help in this case. martin luther king jr.

closed for renovations. not expected to reopen until 2020. now for years, that library has served a large number of homeless residents. yesterday, advocates for the homeless rallied outside the library, calling for better services for the homeless and for those who live in poverty. the washington post reports that library officials are working with the d.c. department of human services to offer the homeless alternatives while that library is closed. president trump's tweets claiming that former president obama tapped his phones is still causing a political fire storm. the president offered no evidence and as of this morning, the white house has not responded to questions about what led to the accusations. white house staff had been circulating a story from the conservative outlet breitbart news referencing reports describing fbi requests for fights and surveillance. it all led to south carolina senator lindsey graham addressing the tweets at a town hall. >> i would be very worried if in fact the obama

was able to obtain a warrant lawfulfully about the trump campaign activity with foreign governments. so, it's my job as united states senator to get to the bottom of this. i promise y'all that. >> a spokesperson for former president obama has called the allegations false. senior u.s. official telling nbc news president trump apparently did not consult with people inside the government. people supporting the president marched for him in rallies in d.c. and across the nation yesterday. they gathered at the washington monument for the march for trump event. meanwhile in north carolina, supporters urged state legislators to work with the white house. some featured counterprotesters. four people were arrested in washington state when clashes between supporters and protesters got a little bit rough. and president trump explosive tweets are likely to be a big part of the meet the press. chuck todd will have an

senator marco rubio and former director of national intelligence, james clapper, chuck will join us coming up in the 10:00 hour this morning. maryland governor larry hogan wants to change the redistricting process according to the website. hogan is rallying support for a bill that would set up an independent nonpartisan committee to hand that will process. democrats opposed a plan because they have dominated state politics. it is one of hogan's primary goals as he gears up for the 2018 governor's race. well, no doubt about it. you are going to need the hat, gloves this morning if you want to try to stay warm. but a big change is on the way. amelia is tracking how we'll be back in the mid-60s. good. burgundy and gold make a good move. jay gruden and the new addition coming to the redskins sidelines. 's 7:06. it

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welcome back, jay gruden will be sticking around a while longer. espn reporting that the skins signed him to a two-year contract extension. that mean he's locked up until 2020. this is a significant move for the organization. it marks the first time that redskins owner dan snyder has extended the contract for a head coach since i had bought the team in 1999. i didn't know that. gruden 17-14-1 be an nfc east title in 2015. it's been a good offseason for skins quarterback kirk cousins as well. >> that's right. placed an exclusive franchise tag on him, meaning he's going to make about $24 million. >> not too shabby. >> not bad. and get this, his wife is expecting a baby. so both of them are expecting a baby. look who announced it. of tir

sign reading mom and dad are getting me a human. the baby is expected in september. good to know. >> don't tell the dog that, you know what happens when the baby comes. >> the dog goes lower and lower, we both have dogs. we know that for sure. here is something we haven't seen much of this winter, snow. people in cincinnati, ohio, woke up to light accumulations of it yet morning. and even though it wasn't much, it does cause problems for drivers. even caused authorities to close several major roads and highways. a lot of cold weather out there. we've dropped a degree in the last hour. amelia is updating her forecast with how you can plan for the week ahead. and from slavery to freedom. slave's remarkable journey and the grong effort forwi

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a cold start on your sunday morning, 23 degrees right now and by 10:00 a.m. will be around freezing at 32, but a lighter wind today than yesterday. plenty of sunshine by noon though, only in the upper 30s. and highs today in the low to mid-40s. so what does this mean for the cherry blossoms? plus what to expect as you get the kids ready coming up at about 18 after. crews battled a

fire in jamaica queens, new york overnight. look at the images. officials say it's not life-threatening. he was an american slave. he became a hero in canada, the autobiography of josiah henstone became an inspiration. >> and news 4 pat lawson news reports, there's now a new project under way to honor his legacy in montgomery county. >> you have some egg shells, there were bones found. the bro ka and crockery here and plates and dishes. >> reporter: broken dishes, egg shels, antique iron, buried beneath an old kitchen floor. >> these are reproductions, but they demonstrate what was found within this space. >> reporter: more than 10,000

road in bethesda. each item on earth helps tell the story of a slave's remarkable journey to freedom. >> this is like our best kept secret almost. >> reporter: he was a slave with many titles, abolitionist, author, preacher, underground railroad conductor. >> through his life and particularly the autobiography that he writes dictating what he experienced growing up here, we have a very vibrant and vivid illustration of what life was from a perspective of one who was enslaved. >> reporter: born on a farm in 1789, henson and his mother were traded to the owner of this montgomery town plantation, strength, intellect, loyalty, soon had him running the plantation. >> gains the favor of his

master. >> reporter: 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 was a matter of honor. later, he trited to buy his freedom. >> it was agreed upon that all he needed was $100 more in order to gain his freedom. price went up. >> reporter: henson and family fled to canada. free, he worked in the town in ontario and helped establish a school and a community for free slaves. known as the dawn settlement. >> he wanted them to read and write and wanted them to develop skills. and especially the wood working skills and other skills where they actually can earn a living. >> reporter: and henson helped more than 100 other slaves escape. in 1877, his work attracted the attention of qu

invited him to england. later, president rutherford b. hayes invited him to the white house. >> he had such a great influence on american history and we need to remember what he did. >> reporter: the parks foundation is now working to raise $7 million to build a museum, visitor and education center in josiah henson's honor. >> he rose from such a lowly status to be an international actor. he's an american hero. and so we want to tell the american side of the story. >> and that was pat lawson news reporting. now 1983, he was the first black person honored on a postage stamp in canada. back here they hope to complete an open museum by 2020. to learn more about the josiah henson project and how you can help or make it, head over to our nbc washington app and search henson museum. >> very cool. you hear that? howling

anchorage, alaska, for the iditarod sled dog race. 2,000 belongs belonging to 72 mushers are getting read kbri for the big race. they left the downtown area yesterday. every two minutes for an 11-mile course on city trails and streets. the ceremoniy start is very fan-friendly. a lot of people show up. it's designed in part to allow spectators for a chance to do a meet and greet with the dogs. the officials sta start of the is tomorrow. you've been pull bade dog race. >> we were in alaska and they pulled us on a sled. it was amazing. they're really nice dogs too. but they want to run. they want to run in the snow. that's great. no snow for the dogs around here. >> no snow in our forecast. we're looking at one of the least snowiest winters in the area, and the warmest february on record not only in war, but

look at the commuter forecast for the next few days. today, tomorrow, fine, completely dry roads. on tuesday, there is rain in the forecast. so especially for the evening commute, it could be a slow go, heads up there. your planner for today though, not bad, it's crisp, but it's sunny, the winds lighter today than yesterday by lunchtime, we're in the upper 30s, by 4:00 p.m., we hit 43 and during the evening hours, it's cold again. 36 degrees around 7:00, 8:00, and tomorrow morning, we'll start off the day with temperatures right around 30. bloom watch is on. this is the current state that the cherry blossoms are in. this is stage two of five before they hit peak bloom. and by the national park service forecast to be some time between march 14 and the 17th. one of the earliest, if not the earliest on record. what about for your plans? bloomed, hopefully protected them with the sheet overnight and you need to do so again tonight on into tomorrow morning.

back up for the rest of the workweek. here's a look at the school day forecast tomorrow for the kids at the bus stop. around 33. but you probably want a jacket or at least long sleeve, we're at 50 degrees. and pick up warmer than today. 56, but we will have becoming mostly cloudy throughout the day tomorrow. on tuesday, 66, potentially even a little bit warmer with some rain likely later in the day, especially in the late afternoon and evening hours, then windy on wednesday, but we keep it dry during the day. highs around 60. 50s on thursday, and then friday on into next weekend, guys. computer model kind of all over the place, but there is the chance for rain at times, pretty much each day. and also daylight savings time begins. this time next weekend. so be an hour more tired. >> i can't believe we're going to lose the hour already. i feel like we just went back. at least the sunshine will be sticking around longer in the day. >> for a little bit, yes. although we'll need the umbrella. hey, we wanted to take

our colleagues. >> this is wonderful. community affairs vice president donna weston were given silver circle awards last night. the awards are presented by the national academy of television arts and sciences. significant contributions within the broadcast industry for 25 years or more. and, wow, i mean, a lot of our colleagues there showing support. and this is just endless be the contributions that these women have made. not only within our industry, but also in the community. >> two of the nicest people you'll ever meet as well. coming up, it's one of the most popular apps drivers use to get around, but complaints from local neighbors who say their streets are suddenly becoming a whole lot more croed. stick wdar

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well it's designed to help you find shortcuts, but people in a d.c. neighborhood say a popular traffic app is sending a surplus of cars down their road and that's creating safety concerns. >> reporter: car after car after car after car after car on manning place northwest. >> morning traffic, evening traffic, we're inundated with commuters. >> reporter: you'll see drivers looking at their phones. others fly through as they race to their destination. >> cars turn into manning like thi

eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13 -- >> reporter: and these neighbors say it's become a safety concern. they tried to make it better, everything from slowdown signs to the yellow men. they're here. some of them clearly recovering from being hit. these residents want cut through restrictions. leslie archer talked 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. i have a backpack on one arm, her hand in the other, and a car came around. and i was on this -- i wasn't in the middle of the street, i was on the side and my arm was hit and it bended their mirror. >> reporter: the last traffic study here shows traffic recently increased from about 200 cars a day to now 1500 cars a day. the culprit may not be ways specifically, but this light at the nearby hospital which recently went in. the traffic here now backs up and ways directs you around this traffic. >> turn left

northwest. >> reporter: to manning place. where this community -- >> turn left on northwest. >> reporter: the concern now, trying to prevent a more tragic story. now we reached out to waze and it's not the app's fault. with or without, drivers look for alternatives to major thorough fairs, if traffic is pushing to a smaller road because it simply has nowhere to go, solutions like stop signs, speed bumps, and school zones can be utilized. 7:26, good morning. the sun is out. don't threat fool you though, amelia is closely watching freezing temperatures, 23 degrees on her screen right now and see that weather is going to return. police turn to the top atf crime lab in the country. we're going to take a rare look

y29phy y16fy time now, 7:29 on this sunday morning. prince george's county police searching for the man who exchanged gunfire with an officer. this happened along kayak avenue before 9:00 last night. the officer not hurt. it's unclear if the suspect was hit. also search in northern virginia for this man, jha mel carlos kingsbury. he's accused of shoplifting and then fatally stabbing a security guard. it happened yesterday afternoon at a mall in woodbridge. redskins extended a contract of jay

news 4 today starts now. all right. the sun is up. it's sunday morning, time to get up. face the day. hope you're having a good one. >> and it looks like what we dealt with yesterday when we were dealing with the cold and a little bit of that wind, it's breezy. >> it's a repeat. >> amelia draper here to tell us more about the sunday forecast. >> hey good morning, and good morning to you. happy sunday, sun-filled day from start to finish, but we are going to be on the cool side once again. highs five to ten below normal. still holding at 23 degrees. and we'll have a lighter wind then today overall, it'll feel warmer, especially during the afternoon hours. by noon, only in the upper 30s. completely dry today and tomorrow as well. but here's the thing, at this point, we need the rain. the u.s. drought monitor putting most of the d.c. metro area dow

in a severe drought. this means we need six to nine inches of rain over a month's time to make up for this. rain on tuesday, timing coming up. >> thank you. president trump is spending the weekend at his mar-a-lago estate in florida. it's the fourth time he's spent there since taking office, but the impact of the visits is being felt well beyond the walls of the winter white house, gabe gutierrez has the details. >> reporter: he used to be flying high. not anymore. >> we're basically going broke. >> reporter: with president trump at his mar-a-lago resort, the company, southern helicopters, once again grounded. >> we were not expecting him to come down almost every weekend. >> reporter: the secret service restricting flights. >> on a typical weekend that sprump in town, this will be shut down. >> correct. ep

in lost business. >> i don't know that my business can sustain heavy losses like that. >> reporter: local tax payer rs are also getting hit. palm beach county paying $1.7 million so far for extra security. >> we've written a letter to the federal government asking for the reimbursement for the overtime for the sheriff and the impacts, but as of today, we haven't heard back. >> reporter: as a candidate, mr. trump said he'd rarely leave the house and blasted president obama for vacations costing tax payers millions. but since his inauguration, president trump will have spent four the last five weekends at mar-a-lago. of course travels not unusual for the commander in chief at this point in his first term, president obama was taking his third weekend getaway, one to chicago, two to camp david. while the trump administration won't disclose the exact price tag, a conservative nonpartisan budget watchdog estimates it's almost $3 million so far in secret service and air force one costs alone. >> should either change his

other ways to save money for the tax payer and white house operations. >> reporter: but on glitzy worth avenue with it's luxury shops and upscale customers, marley says president trump's visits are good for business. >> i think there's a lot more people interested in coming to the avenue. >> reporter: the white house calls them working weekends. >> there's not west at the southern white house, it's all work. >> reporter: but leaving some here without much work to do. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, palm beach, florida. for those of you waking up in southeast d.c. could soon see safer neighborhoods. d.c.'s department of transportation held it's third and final public workshop last night for it's far southeast livability study. they discussed the plan to people who live in the ward seven neighborhood and the ward eight neighborhood. they plan to call for more bus stops, safety improvements around schools and community centers. well many of you rely on metro to get where you're going and trust it to be a safe

washington post, metro's been operating without it's own safety oversight commission for more than a year and a half. that's resulted in a loss of $15 million in annual federal grants. so what's needed to get that cash flowing again? well the three jurisdictions, virginia, maryland, d.c., they all need to pass identical bills calling for the creation of a nine-panel safety commission. the federal transit administration has been acting as metro's safety agency since october 2015. well we have a quick update to that search for a missing 14-year-old fairfax county girl. police found her, who you see right here, right here, we showed her picture all week long. last night they found her in tulsa, oklahoma. police have not said though how she got there. they do say that she is in good health. she is from the francona area, disappeared on tuesday from the al zand ya section of the county. well police say woman

killed a man from d.c. yesterday morning. that happening yesterday morning in downtown silver spring. donald morgan jr. was in the crosswalk. witnesses say the driver, janet brown, got out of her car after she hit him. then she drove away. montgomery county police were able to track her down with the help of witnesses. charges have not been filed yet. we are waiting on police to release the name of an 18-year-old killed in a crash on friday. it happened just before midnight on st. peters church road. the 18-year-old lost control of his car at a curve in the road. then hit a tree. he was the only person in the car. police will release his name once the family has been notified. now the cause of that crash is still under investigation. right now police need your help in finding a missing teenager. police take a look at your screen if you can. this is kha-ronn taylor. he's been missing since friday night. he was last seen on congo street in southeast d.c. taylor is 6'2", was wearing a black coat with a red

sneakers. d.c. police say you can dial 911 if you know where he is. gun violence has become a staggering problem for many cities, and when answers are limited, police turn to the top atf -- >> reporter: fragments -- >> reporter: from the streets of chicago they come pouring in. fragments of the rounds of ammunition recovered from crime scenes in the city where 4,300 people were shot last year with 76 it murders. sometimes the only hard evidence is a spent bullet case found at the scene. chicago sends in 1,000 a month. checking them for valuable clues is the job of the atf national laboratory in maryland. chicago has also been atf's number one customer for tracing crime scene guns. nearly 6,000 in 2015. atf says 60% come from 14 other states illegally trafficked into the city.

be sent here at test-fired. gunshot into a tank of water or at a firing range. gunshot the goal is to recover the cartridge case erect jekted. every gun leaves distinctive marks, ballistic fingerprints from the firing pen, the cartridge ejector, and a series of ridges and grooves. the cases are digitally scanned and checked against atf's data base of millions of others collected from crime scenes looking for potential matches. >> parallel lines here. they go all the way down. >> reporter: and they seem to match from top to bottom. >> yes, they do. >> reporter: examiners use microskops to verify the match. that tells police that the cartridge case recovered at the crime scene was fired from the same gun used to commit another crime of valuable investigative lead. and if a criminal files or grinds off a gun's serial number making it invisible, atf has ways to make it appear again, sharp and

the off the street. we're identifying a number of shootings that have taken place with the same firearm. >> reporter: looking for clues on a tiny piece of evidence that police say can help fight an epidemic of gun violence. pete williams, nbc news, beltsville, maryland. 7:28. it's freezing out here this morning, but a warm-up is on the way. we are tracking how you can plan for the monday morning commute. and i love this story, he's the king of the jungle and the top cat at the national zoo. he can outrun almost anything, except the dentist. meet the brave doctor whose not afraid to gi

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many people in this particular suburb, they make a living by making and selling fireworks. it's still not can clear if fireworks were in the home, but we know that the blast took place about two miles from the fireworks market which blew up in december. 7:41, it was a remarkable rescue for crews in canada. they were able to find and dig out a skier who was buried by an avalanche on a mountain in british columbia. he was with a partner when that avalanche hit. partner was partially buried but able to free himself and help dig out the victim. rescue crews carried him off the mountain with a long line lift. using a cable, attached to a helicopter. the victim is in serious condition. all right. well security can be one of the most frustrating parts about flying, but new changes at tsa is putting in place have some concerned that the searchers are fios is not cable. we're wired differently. maybe that's why we've been ranked highest in customer satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. and now you can love fios too.

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this weekend is the coldest weekend our area has experienced insurgency early january. look at early temperatures only in the teens and low 20s. highs today in the low to mid-40s. i am tracking warmer air moving in. when we'll be close to 70 degrees coming up in the full forecast. >> take that, thank you very much. since 9/11 we have seen massive security transformations at airports across the country. even right here at reagan national, but now the tsa is taking more action

those pat downs more comprehensive. steve patterson tells us how a new policy will impact your next flight. >> reporter: air travelers may start feeling a difference in airport security lines. tsa tightening rules on passenger patdowns. previously transportation security officials used several types of patdowns, usually after a person sets off the metal detector alarm. now the options have been replaced with a universal procedure. >> from an operation's perspective, it's a little bit easier because everybody just has to learn one procedure, one technique, and they don't have to make a judgment call as to which one to use. >> reporter: in a statement, tsa says the new procedure does not involve any different areas of the body than were screened in the previous standard patdown procedure. the tsa patdowns will still be done by an officer of the same gender and it may still include inspection of sensitive areas such as breasts, groin, and buttocks. >> this is now anything that's going to benefit security, a

tall does it is turn the check point into a police i have indecency. >> reporter: travelers had mixed reactions. >> if it helps prevent something, you know, it's a good thing. >> if they do it the way that where that'd be a little invasive. >> reporter: it follows a 2015 homeland security study. tsa officers failed to detect smuggled weapons, 95% failure rate. new procedure for an old problem, the balance in keeping americans safe in a post-9/11 world. >> more interesting at the airports for sure. well imagine being so close to a lion you could stroke his main, feel his breathing, and look deeply into his giant teeth. >> yeah. stuffed animal, i'd be fine with it. luke the alpha male at the national zoo is very real. and recently had a trip to the dentist. news 4's wendy

us to the doctor that makes the king of the jungle say ah. >> reporter: luke was in fine form recently as he roamed the big cat house at the national zoo. luke is clearly the king of his castle. but the big guy wasn't looking so royal when we found him congressed out earlier. his massive paws kept warm by colorful mitt tens. >> the root of this is tooth is about up here. >> reporter: this is veterinarian dentist barron hall doing a regular check-up on luke to make sure his teeth are healthy. >> since they're wild animals and you can't just go and lift their lips -- >> reporter: no, you have to knock them out. keeping this 400 pound wild carnivore peacefully asleep. doctor hall is a veterinarian dentist in vienna, virginia, who specializes in exotic

zoos around the country and at sanctuaries around the world. he's been in the mouth of some fierce beasts. >> i've worked on black bears. grizzly bears, brown bears. pretty much every cat. one i haven't done, polar bear is on my bucket list. >> reporter: wild animals need dental work it can make an animal sick. alpha males can have a bad tooth, be in pain, and instinctively hide it because pain is a sign of weakness and can get them killed in the wild. luke is quite special. he came to the national zoo when he was a year old. >> luke was brought into our facility from a facility in south africa. which means his specific genetic line was not represented in north america at all. >> reporter: that gave breeders a fresh gene pool to expand the lion population in this country. luke proved to be a rock

breeding animal for us. he's produced five litters, four of which have all survived. you know, it's been -- he's had a great run. >> reporter: luke is now 11 slowing down a bit, although he can live into his 20s. staring into the business end of a lion, one has renewed respect for this king of beast. especially when dr. hall tells you this. >> you could extract every tooth in their mouth. the power of their muscles will pop their head like a grape if they wante ed ted to. >> reporter: fortunately luke can bite your head off. teeth intact. and a mouth cleaned up and ready to, you know. >> mufasa. dr. hall provides his services to the zoo for free. he's also a member of veterinarians without board chers provides free health care in animals in sanctuaries around the world and

training. such good stories. >> i know. >> another good one. >> exactly. that's what we got tricked by. >> that's kwhat term is being called. we've been so warm, we start to see the flowers blooming, trees starting to produce a bit of leaf kind of and flowers out there, but now that we've been cold these last few days, having major impacts out there. take a look at your weather headlines. we are going to be warmer for tomorrow. some rain in the forecast on tuesday, and then next weekend, looking kind of tricky, we could either be near 70 or we could kind of keep it really chilly right now. i'm trending towards a bit warmer than normal with some rain chances in the forecast. because why at this point break the trend? today the exception, not the rule with how the weather has been. 43 degrees for a high. sunny skies throughout, and it will be chilly, but it was pretty breezy yesterday. the entire day, that's not going to be the case today.

boarding, some late season skiing at roundtop still open, out there exercise, probably a little bit too cool for the bike today, to want go for the run or the jog, layers and maybe a thin layer of gloves and you'll be fine. heading out and about, warm jacket and sunglasses and again, it is still too soon for getting out in the garden our last freeze around the end of march. as we look to tomorrow. heading back to work and school. at the bus stop, it's a cold one. jacket weather. 33, but we have plenty of sunshine early in the day. clouds increase throughout the day, but overall, we're warmer with a high of 56. we will be cloudy for the afternoon hours and mostly cloudy here on tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. with future weather. maybe a few isolated showers around during the day, but it's really during the late afternoon and the evening hours when we track rain showers moving through the area from west to east, this is a cold front. and maybe a lingering shower early wednesday morning before 7:00 a.m. but the

increasing sunshine and windy as well. high of 61. mid-50s on thursday, and then we start to look toward next weekend. the chance of showers friday through the weekend, even beyond, and also guys, daylight savings time, i can't say it enough, begins sunday. >> i can't believe it. >> i know. meet so many nice people like this. this is my best good friend, kellyanne. she ain't got no legs. why ain't got no legs, kellyanne? >> snl is like a box of chocolates and plenty to pick from. the cast taking aim at attorney general jeff sessions.

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i got 800 messages and phone alerts saying i was a sneaky level liar. i didn't know what to do, so my lawyer said run, jeffrey, run. and i started running and running. >> so that was snl last night making fun of attorney general jeff sessions. sessions was played by kate mckinnon in forest gump. and getting visits from people like stopping off there including we talked about russia's ambassador and vladimir putin. >> certainly vladimi

big milestone happening as we speak at the national zoo. >> that's right, zoo officials say that the cutie who you see here is starting to wean from his mother. he is 18 months oold. which is typically when the separation process does happen. we saw that with baobao. they grow up so fast. and now we're going to have to separate these two. can we handle it? he is the zoo's only panda cub after he left for china last month. >> yeah, good. time now 7:56, four things you need to know. prince george's county police searching for the man who exchanged fun gunfire with an officer. this happened along kayak avenue and capital heights before 9:00 last night. the officer was not hurt. not clear if the suspect was hit. there is also a search for this man, jha mel carlos kingsbury. he's accused of fatally stabbing a security guard. happened yesterday afternoon at the

missing teenager. khron-taylor has been miss pg. any information, contact police. and the washington redskins have extended the contract of head coach jay gruden. his contract now runs until 2020 and we know that kirk cousins and his wife, expecting a baby. made the announcement on instagram. >> not a good day to do the yard work. okay, we'll stay inside. it is going to be a chilly day, highs in the low to mid-40s. >> all right, that'll do it for news 4 today, thank you so much for joining us. >> we will be right back here at 9:00 with more weather and news and preview of "meet the pss." have rea

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