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the day without a woman continues as women across america take the day off, keep their wallets shut and wear red to show their economic strength. >> it's all part of international women's day but not every woman is supporting these demonstrations. schools in alexander and prince george's county were closed today. and that caught some parents off guard. >> my daughter is losing a day of education and i'm a woman and yet i have to take my daughter to school with me. i didn't get the chance to take the day off. why should they. we begin with meagan fitzgerald downtown. hi, meagan. >> reporter: hundreds of protesters demonstrated across the district today starting as early as 11:00 this morning. the latest protest was outside the department of labor which is just behind us here. that demonstration concluded just moments ago.
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>> what do we want? >> equal pay. >> when do we want it? >> now. >> we need to come together as women and support those who don't have the opportunity to take the time to be out here with their sisters and don't have equal pay and don't have access to family leave. >> reporter: from outside the doors of the department of labor -- to freedom plaza. >> women literally are the backbone of this entire country, this entire world. without women we wouldn't be here. i need to be here in solidarity. >> reporter: one thing was clear, the men and women below protesting say they want to live in a world where women are equal to men. >> i wanted to come out to support all the women that need equal pay. >> reporter: so with signs in hand, protesters made it to lafayette square hoping president trump to hear their pride. >> i just see too many people that want to divide instead of get together. >> reporter: this man didn't want us to use his name but says he thinks protesters are exacerbating the issues women say
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>> i'm not so sure it exists at the level they would like us to believe that 2 does. i don't see it. i've been in the workforce almost 50 years. >> reporter: but other male p - protesters see things differently. >> i felt i had to be here to be in solidarity with them. >> reporter: change doesn't happen overnight but they hope the protests get them one step closer to the changes they want to see. >> an opportunity for people to go out and realize they need a vote, they need to run, to encourage women to do more than yell about it. to do something about it. >> reporter: organizers say they will be taking the concerns of their respective to the halls of congress. today we asked female lawmakers on capitol hill which women's rights issue matters most to them. you could see their responses in the nbc washington app. just open
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women's rights. first lady melania trump hosted a luncheon to host international women's day. ivanka was among the women attending. the first lady's office traditionally works with the state department to celebrate the achievements of women around the world on international women's day. last year michelle obama spoke about the one-year anniversary of her let girls learn fini initiative. there have been new developments today at president trump 's explosive accusation that former president barack obama tapped his phone last year. mr. obama's called the accusations simply false and mr. trump has provide d no evidence. he has asked the house and senate intelligence committees to look into it and today members of both judiciary committees sent letters to james comey asking for copies of any warrant applications and court orders related to wiretaps of president trump, the trump campaign, or trump tower. james com
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justice department officials to publicly reject mr. trump's claim. now to the battle over health care reform. the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare is coming under fire from all angles. all this as president trump starts an aggressive push to sell the plan. bla blayne alexander is tracking the action on capitol hill. hi, blayne. >> reporter: republicans do agree that they need to repeal obamacare. after all, many of them have been running on that promise for the past seven years now. it seems now that's about the only thing they can agree on. today on capitol hill it's republicans versus republicans. >> i don't think it could pass today. >> reporter: the majority party struggling to reach a majority on the new health care plan. house loadership is praising the bill. >> this is monumental, exciting conservative reform that fixing these problems. >> reporter: conservative republicans slamming it as
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obamacare-lite. >> we're not in agreement on replacement. >> reporter: today two house committees debate and amend the health care act -- >> this is something that will give needed flexibility to our states. >> reporter: other republicans question whether the bill will survive a vote. >> in the senate i've already seen four or five senators have already come out against the bill. >> reporter: this as the white house mounts a full-court press. the president meeting with governors and hitting the road to push the plan. >> we're going to be aggressively going after -- talking about the solution we have for health care. >> reporter: two big unknowns. how many will be covered and what will it cost. >> everything that we have been led to believe about how this -- yes, this will drive costs down. >> reporter: lack of specifics already an attack point for democrats. >> this is a bad joke. no wonder you've been hiding this dog in a cave with an around guard until monday night. >> reporter: a plan now out in the open and under fire from both sides.
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confirmed that this weekend president trump will be hitting the road to push the health care plan. one of the very first stops will be kentucky perhaps not by chance that is the home state of senator rand paul, one of the strongest opponents to this health care plan. chris, back to you. >> thank you, blayne. focusing on the issue of immigration and the trump administration's policy on immigrants is striking fear in the latino community here in our area. >> well, there's tremendous anxiety among the latino community particularly in the state of maryland, and it's caused by the rhetoric coming out of the white house. >> in prince george's county that fear leaves a lot of people avoiding important services. tracee wilkins has more on that. >> reporter: empty play area and an empty medical examination table. the prince george's county community office charged with providing government services for hispanic and latino residents is empty.
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was it really busy when you first opened? >> yes. the line was out the door. >> reporter: and now this? >> yes. >> reporter: since president donald trump took office documented on undocumented families who used the langley park multiservices center have stopped coming. >> the community is very anxious and nervous about the uncertainty of the new administration. >> reporter: the center is a portal for the hispanic community. >> we offer help with family law cases, domestic violence issues, landlo landlord/tenant. >> distinguishing themselves from the harmful parts of the federal administration. >> reporter: meanwhile an uptick in the number of latinos who come to the nonprofit for help. >> despite the county's best efforts people just don't feel safe going into those facilities because they are still government. they're local governm a
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government. >> reporter: a sanctuary county and the center a safe space. it is the hope of both organizations the community will trust these processes. >> we are not asking legal status of any of our clients who walk in the door. if you're documented, undocumented, we're not interested in that. >> reporter: county officials say they want to see this lobby full again. they hope that residents will take advantage of the services that they're offering here. they operate 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. monday through friday with special help for domestic violence through a support group on thursdays. in langley park, i'm trace yes wilkins, news 4. we're coming to the end of the day. we saw high winds and really high temperatures. doug, i have a feeling this isn't going to ststick around f long. the winds will stay up over the next couple of days and really a windy pattern here setting up. take a look outside right now. the wind was blowing upwards
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still seeing wind gusts but not all that bad. temperatures at 65 degrees. high temperatures today. 67 d.c. 68 richmond. 61 back to our west in charleston, west virginia. we've got the warm air here and it's not going anywhere anytime soon. so nice again tomorrow. temperatures back into the 60s, but the cold air moves in on friday and it moves in big time. we'll talk about that. enough for rain changing to snow early on friday. i'll mention that as well. take a look at a frigid, frigid weekend. much more on that forecast. i'll see you back here at 6:25. >> okay, thank you, doug. tonight d.c. leaders say they're studying ways to make i-295 flow better. wel well, that's music to the people who live near there. transportation reporter adam tuss has more. >> reporter: d.c. is a city of construction. we know that.
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now start iing to become a nuisance to people who live here? some say absolutely. >> it's like a roller coaster. >> it's a deep vibration. you can hear the weight. you can hear the weight. >> reporter: in a city where construction is everywhere, you expect construction trucks. but for some the constant rumbling and grumbling has become too much. >> there's a crack here. >> reporter: delores has lived in northeast right off d.c. 295 for 20 years. she says only in the last year or so all of the new construction and the equipment coming through has made her house pay the price. do you think this is caused by all the vibration? >> oh, yes, yeah, because, look, i had this plastered once before and then with the motion it's constantly moving. constantly. this house when i go to sleep i feel like somebody is rocng
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that's how bad it is. >> reporter: delores is not alone. >> they're rumbling our homes, shaking, vibrating. >> reporter: marcia also lives on lane place. she says cracks are showing up outside her house. she's tried to tell the city about the issue but they've told her there isn't much they can do. marcia disagrees. >> they can be rerouted, reduce the speed limit, put up drive safely signs. >> reporter: they're aware of the concerns and try to find solutions like checking the pavement quality to see if it can help with noise issues. in northeast, adam tuss, news 4. ♪ >> that's one of my pieces i'm working on. >> reporter: is that how you remember it? >> yes, i think so. >> reporter: this is mary kim, and that is her violin. it was stolen in a robbery, and this is the d
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back. i'm pat collins. i'll have the story coming up. also ahead, new video showing the dramatic effort to track down a burglary suspect minutes before climbing into the ceiling of a local movie theater. no surprise the federal government is the biggest employer in our region, but now there's a plan that could send thousands of jobs well outside the nation's capital.
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a driver's license helped carjackings and armed robberies. he took some real detective work to return a pricey instrument to one of the victims. news 4's pat collins is it at the montgomery county police headquarters with that part of the story. hey, pat. >> reporter: hey, chris. a violin worth thousands of dollars taken in a carjacking, pawned for just $200. tonight it's in the hands of its rightful owner. this is mary kim playing the violin. mary is studying to get a degree in music. the violin was made in france and cost $6,000. that's just the violin. the bow, $700. montgomery county police found it in a pawnshop and brought it
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she thought it was a goner. did you ever think you would see this violin again? >> i didn't think i would. >> reporter: did you think it was gone? did you think your car was gone? >> yes. >> reporter: and your chance to practice music might have been gone for a while? >> yeah. >> reporter: mary was in the parking lot of the rockville barnes & noble when she was carjacked. >> he said drop the keys. >> reporter: the man took mary's lexus car and in the car was her violin. in fact, when this happened she was on her way to a music lesson. the man charged in the case 27 ye 27-year-old motorcycle ail rothenberg. police say he used the stolen car to rob a 7-eleven and then a gas station in howard county. then they say he wrecked the lexus driving away from that robbery and
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vehicle to continue his getaway. now you might say that rothenberg arrested himself. you see in the stolen lexus car he left behind he left behind his driver's license. back to you. >> kind of a big boo-boo. >> dead giveaway. >> thank you, pat collins, reporting. i'm glad she got her violin back. new details on a story we told you about on news 4 midday. fairfax county police released new pictures after suspected purse thief. they say last month he snatched a 69-year-old woman's purse. the purse had a very special rosary tucked inside. police felt so badly about the loss of the rosary officer ma matthew pleva delivered her a new one to replace it. >> it struck a cord t. reminded me of my grandmother's and i remember them going to church with their
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like that. it stuck with me. >> the woman and the officer met again today. she doesn't want to reveal her name. she wants to keep the spotlight on the officer. if you know anything about the purse thief, give police a call. tonight our first look at some new video that shows what led up to the bizarre barricade scene inside a local movie theater. we're learning a lot more details on the suspect's past. scott macfarlane with the latest. this began with a dramatic effort to stop a serial burglary thief named sherrod weaver. officers confronted him. police say he threw a stolen tv at one of the officers and then ran into the nearby beltway plaza mall. that's when he went into the movie theater, climbed some scaffolding behind a screen and barricaded himself in the ceiling for several hours just before he surrendered. he is facing a
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charges. before that his name came up as a defendant in 38 other court cases in maryland. most involved traffic violations but at least seven were criminal cases. some involving burglary charges. he's being held on $100,000 bond for yesterday's incident. we'll have more as he's in court late they are month. back to you. >> thanks for that, scott. some good news if you frequent the u street metro station, new escalators. the bad news, well, it's going to take a while. metro will close the 13th street entrance for about six months until they finish the work. until then, there's only going to be one entrance on 10th street right near the african-american civil war memorial. the project is going to start next month as part of the transit authority's $150 million project to replace more than 100 escalators around the city. right now there's a big traffic mess on i-270 because of a police chase that just ended. chopper 4 was just over the scene near route
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clarksburg. state police say they were going after a car in the northbound lanes of 270. that car reportedly hit several others before police finally stopped the car and have the driver in custody. right now sounds like one person was injured near where the chase ended. they're considered priceless pieces of presidential history. experts have no idea where they are. who could have them and what the i-team learned it will take to get them back. what goes up must come down. doug's tracking a dramatic drop in our temperature and what about those weekend snow hances?
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we couldn't ask for a nicer day in march than we had today. >> i could ask for seven of them. >> you can't ask for it but we got one on march 1st. at 80 degrees. we have seen some amazing weather. yesterday 71 degrees before we saw a chance for some shower activity. today 67. you really didn't even have to ask for such nice weather. i just dropped my calendar. it's been so nice out there. but just like dropping the calendar those temperatures will be dropping, too. a pretty nice shot looking nice this evening. if you have any plans this evening, maybe time to eat outdoors tonight. 65 degrees right now. temperatures dropping through the 60s down into the 50s by around 11:00. 56 degrees by 11:00.
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night. and that's going to be the case right on through early tomorrow and into tomorrow afternoon. a great time period for us. 59 degrees in gaithersburg. 6 we have seen rather windy conditions. winds gusting right the now 20 to 30 mes per hour. 30 miles an hour back to martinsburg, 21 in camp springs and the winds are starting to die. as they do we'll cool tonight and temperatures will drop into the 40s for most of you to around 50 degrees in the city. no rain to speak of. we saw some showers earlier today. and there were some gusty showers, too. winds gusting 40 miles an hour or more along southern maryland, to the potomac and the chesapeake. that system has moved out and in behind it, well, look at this, almost nothing back here for about the next day or so and that's very good news for our thursday. temperatures 65 in st. louis. 67 in nashville. the cold airway up to minneapolis. but it's going to be making its way our way tomorrow. it'll start moving our
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tomorrow. 69 degrees for a high it temperature. breezy and warm, a very nice afternoon, very much like today. not quite as much wind. winds gust 15 to 25 miles an hour so breezy but not nearly as windy. the next couple of days, look at this, friday, 48 degrees. that's to start the day but temperatures will be coming down on friday and not just that, i want to show you what will be happening here. we'll actually see some rain changing to snow possible on friday and some areas mostly to the north he especially you fol well to the north up by the pennsylvania border. saturday temperature of 38 degrees. nice and breezy there. 39 on your sunday. spring forward on sunday. we're going to see snow chance sunday, almost nothing. remember, we've been talking about a chaps of snow sunday. that storm now has a better chance of snowing in raleigh, north carolina, than for us to see snow. amazing how far south the cold air goes. that sets the stage for our next storm. not monday. mp
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degrees and right now tuesday looks like the day that we're going to be watching. snow looking possible. cold air in place and still a lot of time to watch the storm just like the one on sunday. this is going to change. does it stay further south, does it hit us directly? a lot of time to figure it out. there's a couple chances of snow out there in the next ten days. look how cold we are in the 30s in the middle of next week and back into the 50s by the end of next week. we have some scold temperatures, guys, and this has a lot to do, the cherry blossoms, that's why we pushed them back a couple of days. okay, we've got it. thank you, doug. social media lit up by darkness. hear what actually caused the statue of liberty to go dark. coming up on news 4, a day without women meant a day without school for thousands of kids in our area. we'll get reaction. plus, we'll tell you more about a fiery exchange on capitol hill and the proposal that could move thousands of federalobs out of j
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reclaim your turf. international women's day took on a whole new meaning this year. >> women across the country took the day off work in a protest named a day without a woman. it was organized by those who set up the women's march on washington after donald trump's inaug
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but not every woman is in support of this. >> schools in alexandria and prince george's county were closed. it caught some parents off guard. mark segraves has the story. >> reporter: public schools in alexandria city closed today. public schools in prince george's county also closed today. in both cases school officials say they made the decision to cancel classes because so many teachers and staff had requested the day off. >> we understand that whenever we close schools it's always an impact on our families. >> reporter: kyle johnson and his mom decided to wear red in support of a day without women. >> i don't but i think it's because of his age. maybe if i had a younger child i might be concerned. >> reporter: by michelle haney whose daughter goes to prince george's county schools isn't happy that now her daughter has to go to work with her. >> i just think the whole thing is stupid. i mean, we already did the march and all that other stuff. why another day for this? >> reporter: one of the concerns rs
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about closing school for a day without women is that many of the kids who go to these public schools depend on schools for their meals. in alexandria some of the schools did open to provide breakfast and lunch for students. any numbers on how many kids actually came in for breakfast today or lun much? >> i don't have exact numbers right now but even if it's one, two, three, four, that, to me, is enough. it means we served students that maybe would not have otherwise had food for the day. >> reporter: as for whether the students will have to make up the day off at the end of the year -- >> it's being treated as a teacher work day and that means that it's just a day for students when schools are closed but teachers are expected to work or they're expected to take leave and submit leave for the day. >> reporter: virginia delegate bob marshall has sent a letter to the state's attorney general asking him to determine if the alexandria school superintendent acted properly in closing schools and whether the
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to deny leave to the request from teachers n. alexandria, mark segraves, news 4. well, we asked for your opinions about all of this in our nbc washington flash survey. the question was, how do you feel about a day without a woman protest? most of you say you support it but couldn't join in. there is still time to weigh in in our poll. head to the nbc washington facebook page. we're learning more about what caused the lights to go out at the statue of liberty. social media went nuts with speculation when folks noticed the only lights work iing for ly liberty last night were in the crown and torch. some people thought it might be a political statement to mark today's day without a woman. well, no. the national park service says the outage was just caused by human error. in fact, they say there are going to be more outages in the coming weeks but these are going to be planned. new at 6:00, a push in the
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leave the d.c. area. >> yeah, utah representative chaf its introduced the resolution today saying it would allow the federal government to be more representative of the people. >> but the move could have devastating impacts on our area. it led to some testy exchanges. >> nothing opposed to having the economic development and growth in washington, d.c., but i do believe conceptually and in my heart if you want a government that's reflective of the people they need to be closer to the people. >> this is astonishing that we're going to play games with the capital of the united states to make points back home because some constituents wonder why you fly to washington, the nation's capital. most i know understand why we come here. it's the capital. >> we want to bring in tom sherr woods. he was quick to point out this would not force federal agencies to leave.
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expensive to move them out of the area. >> this comes up every few years. some members want to disperse all over the country. this is the seat of government for a reason. the constitution says there must be a seat of government. and all the federal agencies are here. they deal with the white house. they deal with the congress. they deal with each other. they deal with the state department. this is the seat of government. there's a reason for that. delegate norton from the district today called this a laughable idea. i have to say if this were to come true i would urge everybody to buy airline stocks and hotel stocks because all those people dispersed around the country would have to fly back here to meet with congress. again, it's come up many, many times over the years. i think ronald reagan wanted to do some of that. it just doesn't work. >> give us an idea, tom. even if this happened on a limited basis, what kind of impact could this have on our economy here? >> i don't think people quite realize that 85% of the
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workers work somewhere else around the country, the state department, all over the place. >> national parks. >> so if somehow or another the capital seat of government was dispersed, yes it would hurt our economy. there's a strong private economy here. yes, of course, it would. one member of congress, i have to say, why can't we put the agriculture department out in oklahoma? there are no cows in the district. i'm thinking maybe we'll get him a cow to put down on the national mall and things will be all good. >> yeah, yeah. i would think this could have impacts on the number of kids in our schools -- >> oh, everything. >> the price of housing in our area. >> all of that may happen, but the fact this is going to happen not likely. it goes -- harry bird from west virginia took all the fbi fingerprinting jobs and put them in west virginia. a lot of this happens in piecemeal. it's everywhere not just in the district or the suburbs of washington. if you're going to move the
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we'll see that happen. >> not practical. >> thank you, tom. >> get that cow. >> maybe it could be at your place. the son of senator tim kaine from virginia spent three nights in jail after being arrested at a political protest in minnesota. he was not charged with a crime. he was among six people arrested saturday after protesters disrupted a rally inside the state capitol in st. paul that rally was hosted by president trump supporters. kaine was released from jail yesterday. senator kaine and his wife released a statement saying their children fully understand the responsibility to peacefully express their political concerns. a former maryland state delegate was in court today facing a federal indictment. michael vaughn is accused of bribery, conspiracy, and wire fraud. the indictment says he took more than $10,000 in exchange for supporting two bills regarding sunday liquor sales in prince george's county. he's also charged with stealing
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own campaign. vaughn resigned on the first day of the legislative session and he has not commented on the indictment. i'm scott macfarlane on the road in fiphiladelphia. coming up an i team investigation tracking an unexpected black market. a black market of stolen presidential pardons. plus, it's always one of the hottest tickets in town. new details just released about this year's white house easter egg roll. and temperatures today hit the upper 60s. 67 degrees downtown. 67 at quantico. 66 in leesburg. a warm day today. one more warm one tomorrow. but then the bottom drops out.
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construction of the new express lanes won't start until this summer, but starting tonight you will get booted out
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crews start some preliminary work. the current hov lanes will be closed overnight from 8:00 until 4:00 in the morning and will be back open. the 95 express lanes will be extended for eight miles north on 395 all the way to the d.c. border. some breaking news from the white house tonight. nbc news has just confirmed that former utah governor huntsman will be the next ambassador to russia. a source close to huntsman said he was offered and has accepted the ambassadorship. he served as ambassador to singapore and china. he was an outspoken critic of president trump during last year's campaign. now to the sigh of relief you could hear across washington today. the white house easter egg roll is on.
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monday, april 17th. tickets are free throw and will be available through an online lottery. white house officials say details on how to enter will be released later this month. this will be the first easter egg roll for president trump and his family, and they say they x expect to start some new traditioning. pieces of history are missing. dozens of valuable presidential papers go from the white house to the black market. the news 4 i-team finds out what it could take to get them back. cold weather just around the corner for us again. now we know how
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white house history on the black market. the news 4 i-team reveals dozens of historic presidential documents vanished. >> the thieves were crafty and to discover the stolen relics investigators might have to be even smarter. >> reporter: it's a power that can be found only inside the nation's most powerful building. with the swipe of a pen a u.s. president can pardon a federal prisoner. president obama pardoned more than 60 convicts just three days before leaving office formally clearing their names and erasing the crimes from their record. but before the era of television, telephones, and twitter more than a century ago, pardons were signed, sealed, and delivered by hand. and they're the property of the u.s. government. many are kept at the national archives in d.c. >> it's obscure, it's unique.
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a thief will be attracted to it. >> reporter: thieves have stolen historic presidential pardons by the dozens. our review of national archives records shows at least 50 pardons first issued in the 19th century are missing. including this one. a pardon by president john tyler at 1841 of a u.s. postal worker who stole mail. the thief is an unknown man but the document is priceless because it has a president's signature says archives investigator. do people try to sell these things on ebay? >> they sell them not only on ebay. sometimes you'll find them in antique stores. >> reporter: a large number of the presidential pardons went missing here, fiphiladelphia, stolen from the highly secure facility of the national archives. how so? it was an inside job by a long time employee in this downtown gome
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to the kingdom and has access. >> reporter: bob whitman cracked the case. >> here you have a trusted government employee. >> reporter: aubitz pled guilty and went to prison. many vanished. he is now free from prison but he has seemingly vanished from view, too. we tracked him to this small rowhouse in philadelphia. no one answered the door when we came to hear his side of the story. in 2011 it wasn't employees but advivisiting researchers who pocketed presidential papers from the maryland historical society in baltimore. truly pocketed them. specially designed code to steal abraham lincoln's signature before security caught them in the act. they both went to prison.
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>> reporter: those who buy these parchments not only must evade the fbi but historians like a louisiana scholar who spotted a pardon on sale on line a few years ago and reported it to the feds. >> to be purchasing documents off the internet you really have to make sure you're buying it from a reputable, i would say dealer. >> reporter: the i-team found the 50 missing pardons were issued from james madison through andrew jackson to polk, johnson and grant. they become more valuable and more difficult to continue peddling. >> criminals are excellent criminals but they're terrible businessmen. they don't realize the real art in an art theft is not stealing it's the selling. that's how they get caught. >> reporter: in our nbc washington app a list of the dozens of missing presidential records andar
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still pursuing and a rare glimpse of what a handwritten, hand-signed presidential pardon of the 1800s really looks like. we can show you the ones that haven't disappeared. >> that's pretty amazing. >> if you think you've found a great deal on something like this you'd better check it out. >> if you see a pardon for sale, run the other way. >> we'll call the i-team. thanks, scott. well, the peak bloom date for the cherry blossoms has changed again. it's projected for march 19th. colder temperatures pushed the peak dates back a little bit. i pity the people trying to make plane reservations. >> i feel for the forecasters. in this kind of winter that has to be a really tough job to say that will be exactly on this
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>> i was very surprised when they said next week because we knew there would be some cold air the first two weeks of march. >> i'm here, give me a call. >> i have nothing to do with that and no idea what they do down there, trust me. a look down there, a very nice shot. i love this shot from one of our tower cams. you can see the cathedral off in the bottom right. temperatures at 65 degrees, winds at 12 miles an hour today. a ton of them all winter long. we did see a cold weekend. still quite nice. riverdale coming in around 65. 61 degrees in centreville and 60 degrees right now over towards leesburg.
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the moment and next time we see any rain it will be changing to snow in some areas. it's not in our region right now. it's still well back to the north and west. i'll show that you in a second. first off tomorrow 46 degrees and sunny. 63 degrees at noon, very nice. 69 by 3:00. nice and warm. it's going to be windy again tomorrow. not quite as windy as today but still quite windy. 61 degrees by 7:00 a.m. still a very mild time. now your thursday outlook at the bus stop, a nice morning. everything's in green here. car wash, perfect time to do it tomorrow. the line was too long for me so i kept going. maybe tomorrow. and then gardening not yet. cold is coming. that's why i have you in the red there. even if you're going to be thinking about your car wash at home, that's why i did not do it myself because your hose will freeze and possibly crack this weekend, just to let you know. see that? >> planning ahead. >> thank you. so let somebody else do it. 48 degrees on your friday. take a look at friday. friday we're going to start off with rain or snow and here it is for y
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6:00 a.m., notice that rain/snow line to our north and west. d.c. mostly rain here. i think it may mix with some snow but watch this. it moves down and then back across towards the north. so most of us to the south aren't going to see much at all. friday morning to the north could be tricky and not worried about any problems on the roadways. it's something we'll continue to watch a. very cold weekend saturday and sunday. highs only in the 30s and cold midweek, too. yes he, a chance of snow on tuesday. we'll be watching that one very closely for you. >> after tomorrow not a six in the forecast. >> live it up while you can. coming up in sports, the redskins' gm is on the way out. >> and so is one of the team's best receivers. why his next destination shouldn't come as a suprise. crar
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big goings-on with the redskins, not on the field, though. >> that question where is scot mccloughan keeps going and now it's free agency officially starting tomorrow. we have some news. we reached out to our sources, scot mccloughan and the red skins are close to parting ways. the redskins general manager hasn't been able to speak out because he is still a team employee. his agent, though, expected to meet soon with team officials. mccloughan was hired in january of 2015 right after the burgundy and gold posted a 4-12 record. at 9-7 skins made the playoffs his first year as gm. last year they narrowly missed out on the
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according to this source who spends a lot of time at redskins park mccloughan's history with alcohol addiction has nothing to do with his absence, and the quote this person told me bruce needs a yes man. bruce as in the team president bruce allen. so that is the latest from redskins park. we reached out to the redskins for comment and the team spokesperson said we are focusing on free agency. get ready to say good-bye to pierre garcon, speaking of free agents. accord iing to multiple reports garcon is expected to sign with the 49ers and will make $16 million in his first year. garcon the reliable and as you see very tough receiver spent the last five years with the redskins. he will be reunited with offensive coordinator kyle shanahan. now the head coach in san francisco. in shanahan's final season as redskins offensive coordinator garcon led the nfl in receiving. as for who wi
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thank you vernon davis for some good news today. the d.c. native was a free agent. not anymore. re-signed for three years, $15 million. davis made a huge impact for the team last season on the field and in the locker room his best statistical year with 4 4 catches, 583 yards. did he give the redskins a hometown discount? he doesn't even know because for him staying here he tells me on our phone interview wasn't about the money. evidenced by the way his phone blew up. >> let me tell you from 6:00 a.m. all the way to now i have maybe 110 text messages. my agent and i talked about it, and he just want ed it to be fair. at the end of the day it's not really about the mon y because, to me, if you love something and you love this place where you're at, then you do it from your heart. you do it because you're having fun, you're enjoying it and you're in love with it. >> hometown is
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elsewhere in the infonfc east multiple reports today tony romo is out in dallas. the cowboys will release the 14-year vet tomorrow. romo is the franchise all-time leader in passing yards and touchdowns. so 36-year-old has only appeared in five games over the last two seasons due to injury and performance. romo was set to make over $24 million this season. the texans and broncos are reportedly interested in the qb. now dusty baker and the nats paying a spring training visit to the cardinals this afternoon. not a good day for strass. bottom one cards up 1-0. adams lines this one into right field. wheeling around from third, the throw not in time. an rbi single. the cardinals take the 2-0 lead. patrick wisdom at the dish. wisdom, it falls in -- >> he got the ball. >> brings in another run, ug
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fourth, just two innings, six runs allowed and one strikeout for strasburg. the nats lose, 9-3. big ten tournament in d.c. a scary moment for one team h d heading here as they're attempt to go take off during high winds the university of michigan's plane slid off the runway. luckily no injuries, guys. th> hopefully ♪ ♪
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