right now at 6:00, some of the top officials in the obama administration are firing back after president trump explosive allegations about their former boss. >> reporter: live in wood bridge, police search for a man they say stabbed a store employee to death here at po patomic mills mall. news 4 at 6:00 starts now. a sad day in capital heights neighborhood. firefighters found a body inside the charred remains of a home. good evening, thank you for joining us. the fire started at 9:00 in the morning on crown street, and now weave learned the house did not have working smoke

who actually called ç911. >> reporter: single story wood frame house smoldering hours after the fire reported, about 9:15 when neighbors realized it was burning. >> i smelled smoke. i checked around our house to see if it was inside our house. >> reporter: it was the naeb's house next door. >> it was dark smoke, the flames, and that's when i got concerned. >> reporter: diali ining 911, someone was inside. i looked in the window. i don't know if it was a neighbor, but they were trying to call somebody inside the house. >> reporter: firefighters got inside the house, and they found the person dead inside. investigators were trying to determine what started the fire and if the fire was the cause of death. family and friends began gathering at the scene overcome by grief when they realized rescue became recovery. a woman

authorities have not identified the victim. news 4. the white house is asking congress to investigate after president trump tweeted that the previous administration wiretapped trump tower last year. trump offering no evidence of that. former white house officials and president obama's director of national intelligence say that did not happen. nbc's jennifer johnson breaks it all down for us. >> reporter: another working weekend for president trump at his florida golf course. as a fire brews in washington over tweets saturday accusing president obama of wiretapping trump tower near the end of the 2016 campaign. one said, how low has president obama gone to tap my phones. this is nixoy, watergate, bad, or sick guy. the head of national intelligence denied it happened. >> there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the

candidate, or against his campaign. >> reporter: the white house wants a congressional investigation. >> if it is, this is the greatest overreach in the greatest abuse of power that we've seen and a huge attack on democracy itself. >> reporter: former obama administration officials say the tweets divert tension away from accusations that jeff sessions and others had contact with russian officials in the campaign. one calls it a page out of trump crisis management playbook. >> that is simply to tweet or say something outrageous to distract from the scandal, and the bigger the scandal, the more outrageous the tweets. >> reporter: the intelligence committee said this is the first time they heard of it. >> i've never heard the allegation made before by anybody. i've never seen anything about that anywhere before. >> reporter: the house intelligence committee chair says that panel will invest gait the president's allegations. on monday, the president is expected to sign his revised travel ban, replacing his january 27th executive order that did not hold

court. on capitol hill, jennifer johnson, news 4. officers in prince george's county are looking for this young man. this is a picture of william leech, he's 16 years old. he was last seen near the andrews ridge apartment complex wearing pink tennis shoes. if you know where he was or know him, police call police. let's go to northern virginia now. news 4 is in wood bridge where police are looking for a man who stabbed a security guard to death, a story that's gotten so much emotional attention on our nbc washington facebook page. >> reporter: i can tell you that the burlington coat factory reopen here today at the mall one day after that employee was stabbed to death trying to stop a shoplifter. it has to be hard from the employees today dealing with the tragedy. police are trying to find this man, jamal

the security guard here at the store at 2:30 yesterday afternoon. police say they identified him through an unrelated domestic call earlier that day. now, police tell us a second loss prevention employee, or two of them, saw kingsbury shoplifting and tried to stop him as he left the store, and that's when there was a struggle. one of the employees, 44-year-old larry drumgal, was stabbed and later died. shoppers we spoke to today said they had no idea that this had even happened. >> i didn't know anything about it. i'm new to the area as well, so, not really the kind of news i like to get being new to the area, but hopefully they find who is responsible and justice will be brought to the courtrooms. >> a lot going on in the world today. we really have to be careful. no respect for human beings. that someone would be shoplifting, get caught, and just want to stab somebody. much prayer needed

>> reporter: now, we reached out to burlington coat factory for a statement, i understand we just received a statement from the company sending thoughts and prayers to the family of the employee who died, but not commenting on the criminal side of the investigation. anyone who may know where the suspect is is asked to call prince william county police. back to you. >> thank you. police in prince george's county are looking for the robbery suspect who fired at one of their officers. we brought the story to you last night as breaking news. it unfolded at 9:00. somebody called police to say he was robbed on kayak avenue in capital heights. officers spotted somebody that matched the robbery suspect's description and said that man just took off, then exchanged fire with an officer not struck. it's not clear at this point if the suspect was hit in that gunfire. if you buy metro in

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♪ in selma, alabama today, they recreated a key event in the fight for civil rights, the march on zelma, 52 years ago, credited with building momentum that eventually led to the passage of the voting rights act. activists were viciously attacked in police known as bloody sunday.

today, the reverend jesse jackson and other civil rights activists led thousands across the historic bridge. the seat community in washington state is on edge tonight after a sikh man was shot working on his car in his suburban seattle driveway friday. local authorities said the g gunman said, quote, go back to your country. the fbi is helping in this investigation. so far, no arrests. india's foreign minister identified the victim as a u.s. national of indian dissent saying he is now out of danger, and he is recovering at the hospital. there's new help for firefighters in prince george's county. studies show being a firefighter is causing ptsd at rates similar to those found in combat veterans. today, a new treatment center opened. this is first of its kind facility in north america. senator chris van holland spoke at the

afternoon. >> all of us know that every shift you take is a shift that you put your lives at risk for somebody else. >> the center offers services for anybody a member of the international association of firefighters. next on news 4, a star opera singer, a ground breaking supreme court justice, barbara harrison in studio this evening with a special bond the o of themtw s

you're watching news 4 at 6:00. a new american opera called "champion," tells the real life story of a boxer, and we have a special guest, barbara harrison, on set to talk about the hot button issues this tackles. >> well, it does, there's quite a few, homophobia, brain injuries from athletic events, a very, very interesting piece that just opened. denice graves plays the role of a mother of neil griffin, the mother, who desserted her children in the virgin islands, but her son finds his way to new york, eventually, and tracks her down. ♪ >> the opera deals with a number of current issues as we j

said, and i mentioned a few of them. >> it's got so much heart. it's very poignant. wonderful messages in it. it's something that everybody can relate to, you know? i think it's a very responsible piece, and i'm proud to bring it here. >> tomorrow, on news 4 6:00, we'll talk about it more with ruth ginsburg. >> i'm on the stage at the opera, i have a gorgeous costume, and then i'm about to open my mouth when i i remembered that my grade schoolteachers told me you are not a robin. you are a sparrow, so when we sing, you just mouth the words. >> of course, there's a lot

people who are glad she does not mouth the words these days. tomorrow at 6:00, denice joins me with ruth bader ginsburg to talk about what they have in common, and you'll get to know both a lot better after the interview tomorrow night at 6:00. >> wow. who would have thought it. incredible. thank you so much. >> two women with really big voices. >> e we look forward to seeing the piece in its entirety. thank you for spending your evening with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thanks, barbara. and now your storm team 4 forecast. so i'm starting you off with a side-by-side comparison what the cold weather did to blooming trees across the area this weekend. our high yesterday, 44. our high today? fourth. sue shared this with me on twitter. this is a tulip magnolia. this was taken march 2nd. this was was taken today. you can see what the cold has done, unfortunately, to the beaut

you can see this picture on my twitter page as well as well as others similar. now, tomorrow, we are warmer. it's another chilly start, not as cold as this morning, but you want the jackets. by the afternoon hours, we're in the mid-50s. some rain in the forecast on tuesday. some much needed rain. have the umbrella handy, though. next weekend, it's a tricky forecast. right now, it's looking a little chilly with a chance for showers saturday and sunday, but not a washout, so right now across the area, most of us already into the 30s rk, 38 in washington. 36 in winchester. clear tonight and partly sunny skies tomorrow morning. we are mostly cloudy in the midday and afternoon hours, but overall, not a bad day. by lunchtime, we're near 50. high tomorrow, 56, and we hit around pakistan in the afternoon. tomorrow evening, the cloud cover, it's not that bad. crisp and refreshing outside, but not bitterly cold like it was this morning.

the weather certainly cooperating. the weather having a low impact throughout the entire day. the commute, dry for the kids, recess, they want the light jacket out there as they exercise. really nice in the afternoon. a little on the cold side on the morning hours. jumping ahead to tuesday with future weather. 8:00 a.m., clouds in place. then as you move into the afternoon and evening hours, winds increase and rain moves through the area from west to east with a cold front. you can see 3:00 is back to the west, areas like louden, fairfax, prince william, frederick county, into the d.c. metro area at 5:00 p.m. this could slow you down on your tuesday evening. the rain is out of here very early on wednesday. at 4:00 a.m., most of the area is dry, and plenty of sunshine and blustery throughout the day. tuesday, though, not bad, warmest of the week with a high of 66. wednesday, breezy, dry, plenty of sun, a high

of sun on thursday, high in the mid-50s. looking to friday, the chance of a shower, still in the mid-50s, and next weekend, it's looking kind of chilly with a chance of showers, also, daylight saving time begins. we lose an hour of sleep as we spring forward. >> oh, but so much more sunlight. that's good, that's good! we like it. thank you. good news for the redskins' head coach and potentially season changing news for the defense. plus, scare for bradley biel. wehave the latest detail s

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we start tonight with breaking news. according to report from the "washington post," redskins linebacker, trent murphy, has a four-game suspension for violating the nfl's policy on performance enhancing drugs. here's appealing the suspension reportedly, coming off a big career, nine sacks, and rereached out to the redskins and awaiting a response. in the meantime, the redskins' front office is busy to shape the franchise for the future. jay gruden signed a two-year contract

been in contact who have not given official confirmation yet, on the heels of cousins and general manager from this weekend's combine. gruden had two years left on the five year deal, and this is the first time an owner extended a head coach since buying the team in 1999. actually, no coach has lasted more than four years under snider. now, a little more on jay gruden, hired in 2014, spent three seasons as the head coach, one playoff appearance that lost against the seahawks a couple years ago, and redskins, of course, close to the post season this year, the record with the burgundy and gold, 21-27-1. the wizards have one of the best home records in the league, but lost two of the last three games at the verizon center. they hope to get the magic back against orlando tonight. scott brooks and wizards a win in three games against the magic this year. dow

turn around the d. beal with the steal, racing ahead for two points of the gaim, and he had a stronger first half, but there's a scary moment for beal later in the quarter hitting the long jumper, but ross's foot gets in the way. he comes up limping. you see here as beal comes down, he lands on ross's foot, and turns his ankle a bit. he'd leave the game with a mild ankle sprain, but no fear, beal returns all smile, ang the heavily wrapped, back in the game, right now, it is 70-58 in the third. patriots lead semifinals facing top seeded bucknell. inside to edwards, slamming it home, 8-1 run for navy tieing the game at 50. back and forth affair, under a minute to go, up 1, kicks

mckenzie, knocking down the huge three. navy falls, and bucknel faces lehigh wednesday, and winner heads to the ncaa tournament, and at 7:00 p.m., the women go for the big ten title against purdue. tanner, final star before headed to world baseball classic for team usa, four innings of scoreless baseball, giving up just two hits, striking out three, but the nats fall 4-2 to the twins. the orioles take on the phillies, throwing a bull pen session after an injury keeping him out all spring. at the fourth, at the plate, castillo lifts it to left, a long run for perkins not making the catch. tr trumbo scores and ties the game at one. in the 7th, logan up with the bases loaded.

mound, the runner out at second. chris johnson's scores on the fielder's choice, and that's the difference in the game. the o's win 3-2. over to the ice where last night, the caps extended winning streak to 15 games. the hero in overtiming, netting the 20th goal of the season and 2-1 win over the flyers. they host the stars tomorrow before headed out on a west coast road trip. now, tonight on "sports final," kevin joins the round table, the highly sought after defenseman lands with the caps after the deadline, oh, by the way, he has the assist on backstrom's game winner with a history of going back to college at the verizon center, discussing that with carol and so much more on "sports final" after the news at 11:35. >> thank you very much. a final check

because now it looks like we're leaving frigid temperatures and up gwagain? >> warming up, highs tomorrow in the mid-50s, mid-60s tuesday, and look at the bottom numbers. after leaving freezing tonight, we stay above that. good news for the plants blooming and your favorite, the -- hopefully after this weekend, they are just fine. >> thank you. that's the news for now. thanks so much for joining us. nightly news is next, and we'll see you at 11:00. until then, good night, everybody. fios is no t 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. get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. all for $79.99 per month, for the first year with a two-year agreement. it's the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of the download speeds. plus get hbo for a year and free multi-room dvr service for two years.

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♪ on this sunday night, breaking news. the fbi director asks the justice department to publicly reject president trump's claim that barack obama ordered the tapping of his phones before the election. while trump asks congress to investigate his claim. conduct unbecoming. the marine corps rocked by allegations that some of its members shared graphic photos of dozens of female service members on a social media site. paying the price. parents billed for the time their kids spend in juvenile detention. the policy in dozens of states and counties, but some say it no longer achieves what it set out to do. and high notes. how a school music program is helping these kids find the keys to success in ways thato