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trafficking. and a vietnam vet trying to buy a classic car online scammed. how you can avoid what happened to him. >> first tonight weeshgs talking about frost in may. >> believe it or not, folks, a frost advisory necessity fkt for most of us overnight tonight. for some of you, even a freeze warning. >> it's just the start of what could be a wild weather week for all of us. let's start in the storm center with our chief meteorologist. what's the word, doug? >> the word is just that, cold across our area later tonight. right now temperatures still in the 40s to low to mid 50s in the city. that does pult us way down. 65, d.c. 65 quanlt he could. 65 near winchester. temperatures today, ten degrees below average for the most part. that's where we'll be tonight. that's why we have frost advisories. you see them around frederick,
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winchester and back to the west, farther west, there is a freeze warning. now in effect. temperatures are expected to get very close to freegz. does not include the d.c. metro area. cover up the plants tonight. rain moves back in and chilly weather moves back in, too. wait until you see the forecast thursday and friday. and, of course, talking mother's day weekend as well. we've been on a lot of roller coasters. >> a disturbing crime in arlington. you ma i have seen this extremely clear video to dave a sexual assault suspect leaving the atrium konld minute yums on key boulevard. police missed him by just seconds, they say. and tonight news 4's jackie benson found out why they got there so quickly. >> first we're going to ask bem to lung, look at your screen and look at that video one more time. watch this guy's reaction as he realizes that police
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scene. >> the camera inside the glass walled atrium shows the suspect cooled, unhurried, until he sees something that unnerves him zbluchlt can see him reacting to the arlington county police officers arriving on scene. >> still he managed to make his escape, possibly through the same garage doors to which he gained entrance which is in the 1500 block of key boulevard in rock land. police believe he knocked on every door one floor sunday morning around 10:00 a.m. claiming he was a maintenance worker. ownen with person answered the door, a woman that was then sexually assaulted. they heard the souvendz a violent strug cll is why police were arriving as the suspect was leaving that building. >> we received calls from the victim's apartment. it swooz loud that they call 911 and we believe he is reacting to us ariving on the scene.
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asking you not only to take a look at that video which you can get by downloading our nbc washington app but tlos please share it on social media. they believe somebody has got to know this guy. >> live in arlington, jackie benson, news 4. >> thank you. >> tonight in prince william county, law enforcement came together at a memorial and vigil for the 17 men and women who lived or served there and have died in the line of duty. among them officer ashley gwinden who was killed in her first full day on the job. today the officer's family was one of five added to that fallen officer's memorial outside police headquarters here in the district. prince william county police officers and windon's family were there to see it today. news 4 talked to her aunt and her uncle he is ceremony, the first time the family spoke publicly about her death. >> irt was a
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so it's just her life was remembered about serving others and not just her son. >> the officer's aunt and mom plan to join hundreds of bicyclists traveling to washington this week in honor of fallen officers. >> to state the obvious, you don't want your national security adviser compromised with the russians. >> former acting attorney general sally yates said today several red flags should have stopped the trump administration from hiring former national security adviser general michael flynn. here are four things to know about her testimony on the hill today. yates says she first told the white house in january that flynn was vulnerable to russian blackmail because russia knew he misled vice president pence about flynn's meeting with the russian ambassador. but flynn wasn't asked to resign until 18 days later. by that time, yates had been fired for refusing to defend the president's travel
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less than 48 hours after the election, president obama met with then president-elect trump and warned him not to hire flynn. tonight president trump dismissed yates' testimony tweeting it's nothing but old news. >> a serial shooter shooting people from his car is a terrible reminder in d.c. police in arizona say they captured the serial killer who has been terrorizing families in phoenix. officers arrested aaron last month for one man homicide and then earlier to night charged him with another 26 felony counts. they say he ambushed men, women, and children over the course of a year and one survivor told nbc he recognized his face when police showed them photos. police say he may be responsible for up to nine deaths including a mother and her 12-year-old daughter shot while sitting in a parked car outside
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our officers did not rest. >> he got more than 3,000 tips on this case that say they will pay out the $75,000 reward for information that helped him krk this case. >> at the live decembesk, chris lawrence. >> young men and women and children sold in the dark corners of the internet. it happens right here in our communities. new tonight, news 4's darcy spencer reports on a push to educate people about the warning signs and to stop human trafficking. >> you could talking to a trafficker now. >> she knows that firsthand as a teen she was a victim of sex trafficking and now fights to help victims through her nonprofit courtney's house in the district. >> my situation, the sad part is it happens every day to ki
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we think just left home. sometimes they're running to someone we don't know. >> she was on a panel of experts at the kennedy rec center in northwest d.c. talking about the growing problem of child sex trafficking. >> you have some really awful people who prey on young people. >> d.c.'s attorney general says a child becomes a victim of sex trafficking every three minutes and more and more boys are becoming victims as well. according to d.c. police, will 818 juveniles have been reported missing in d.c. so far this year. larnlg number were traffic. >> i realize along with my colleagues that longer a young person is missing, they're vulnerable for human trafficking. >> experts say run ago way, skipping school and having cell phones they didbu
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for. >> often happening under the radar, under the lens of people thinking oh, that is a run away kid. that's just a bad kid or she wants to be out running the street. >> but they say those are often cries for help. in the district, darcy spencer, news 4. campus police at georgetown university have r. investigating the hate crime tonight. someone wrote an anti-sa mettic message in a restroom. close to a jewish meeting space on campus. both the anti-defamation league of washington and the university are condemning the vandalism. >> first she was told the results are negative. now a pregnant woman knows she contracted the zika virusant d.c. lab that did her test made a mistake. news 4 got a look inside the lab that conducted hundreds of flawed zika tests last summer. we learn three people who were
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actually did. and one of them was pregnant. dr. jennifer smith is the director of forensic sciences. she says the department's mistakes reveal a bigger problem for labs nationwide. >> sort af 20th century test for a 21st century disease. unfortunately, we need a better test. right now we don't have access to that. >> neighbors are getting a good look into what is becoming to the apple store in northwest d.c. the new tech giant showed off renderings at a meeting to night showing what the store will look like inside carnegie library. apple wants to add a sky light to the central halve the library to allow more light in. and provide a new space for free events like concerts and art exhibits. apple signed a letter of intent to lease the
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might open. >> a local military veteran victim of a big coin scam. nbc 4 responds to the man who learned a very expensive lesson. >> what us from straits you the most? >> his story about love and loss and the four things you need to know to make sure you don't get scammed too. >> and it's a busy trail where cyclists and passengers intersecretary with fast moving cars. so why did somebody hang a sign up telling drivers to ignore them? >> i'm live from the cats benp in pittsburgh. they're heading back to d.c. for a game seven. to night they scored and scored and scored some more. and i don't think the penguins fans who started leaving early were off to catch the metro. reaction from the big win and how they hand thldind of k
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tonchts night nbc 4 responds to a man whose dreams were scattered by scammers. >> he was looking for a' 55 chevy like his very first car. he found one online and the cellar asked him to pay for it using coins which he did but then he had been taken for a ride. consumer reporter explains. >> first thing first, let's explain what bit coins are. they're a digital currency can you buy and sell them using different currencies. they're stored in a digital wallet unlike bankou
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fdic. though each bit coin transaction is recorded in a public log, names of buyers and sellers are never revealed. they use transactions private and lets them buy or sell without tracing it back to them. the man you're about to meet found that out the hard way. >> he shows off the cover he bought for his dream car a few weeks ago. >> my chevy should have been here. >> what do you have? >> zero. >> he is retired, he serve 20d years in the army including two tours in vietnam. lately, he's been reflectsing on his younger days and reminiscing about his very first car. >> i worked over time and i finally got it. >> it was zero. that was your baby. >> they say y
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yourhat '55 chevy. >> yeah, a whole bunch of them. >> so you saw one for $3,000, you jump on it. >> yeah. i jumped on it. everything was just fine. >> the seller told her she got the car in a divorce settle ment and the bargain price. she said the chevy was in west virginia and would be delivered right to him after he paid using google wallet. he got an official looking invoice and instructed him to send the money through a bit coin atm. >> what is a bit coin. you had ever heard of it? >> never. but you go on the computer and look at it and it says it's in walmart. i figure it had to be ligit. >> he sent a total of $4400 to the seller and was told the car would arrive in
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>> he watched out the window all day for the return of his first love. >> each minute and hour went by, you started thinking what? >> that guy got took. >> jerome e-mailed the seller but she never responded. he also reached out to google wallet. they told him they don't use bit coins and confirmed that he had been scammed. >> what hurts you the most? >> that someone would do that. >> here are four things you need to do to prevent this from happening you to. >> be wary of too good to be true deals. make sure you know what you're dealing w if the seller only wants to communicate through e-mail, as a big red flag. scrutinize every message you receive. scammers work so hard to make the e-mails look official. check out the one jerome received. hit the google wallet logo and had a e-mail address that looked t.
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line, think twice about using bit coin. as for jerome, he said he learned an expensive and heartbreaking lesson. are you ever going to look for that ''55 chevy again? >> no. no. i want to left car alone. >> what a shame. >> that breaks your heart. >> it sure does. >> somebody doing that. so i guess we're going to have to dress warmly tomorrow. >> yeah. for a little while. so it was a little cool. starting off tomorrow morning, yeah, you'll want to have the coats on. maybe the hat. we're talking 30s here. we haven't seen this kind of -- these kind of cold temperatures in about a month. so yeah, tomorrow morning is going to be a shock to the system. again, it won't last that long. out there right now, current temperature in the city, you wouldn't think it, but we're still in the 50s. 57 degrees actually. winds out of the north at 5 miles per hour. we're going to cool even in the city. city will stay
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so no chance of a frost here much that's why no frost advisory in that area. back to the west, already down to 43 in winchester, luray. 43 in frederick. so we're cooling quickly now with plenty of clear xirz fskie the most part. we're going to continue to cool. nothing on the radar. with the clear skies, can you see it here. clear across our region. i want to show what you is happening back to the west. notice you have a ridge of high pressure and then notice the flow is north to south. that tells that you colder air is coming in and trapped around our area. look at the current numbers. 44 in pittsburgh. 43 in buffalo. we're at 57. st. louis is still near 80 degrees. so the warm air has been trapped just back to our west. we are stuck in this very cool pattern. en that is going to stick around at least for another week or so as far as being really cool around here. so the pattern continues to be locked in place. much cooler temperatures at least cooler than average. on wednesday close to 70.
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below average. more rain late week. how much? well, we'll have to wait and see how big a storm we got thursday and friday and into saturday. but right now, all eyes on the cold. >> look at the 30s. everybody i think here noefrt part will stay above freezing. but we do have that frost advisory. can you get frost at 38 degrees or below. and that's what we got here. expect to see frost on area grassy surfaces and maybe a roof top and, of course, your cars may have to get out the ice scraper here in the move may. hard to believe, i know. the ice scraper. you won't need it long. if you wake up and you don't have to go to work until 8:00, it will be melted. no problem. sun and clouds. again, 65 with sunshine. that's a pretty nice afternoon. 70 on wednesday. and then look at thursday and friday. right now i've got highs only in the 50s. we're going to have to watch this very closely. there say possible nor easter thatld
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nasty friday. that would most likely end early on saturday. most of saturday right now looks dry. mother's day also looking dry. high temperature of 70 degrees on mother's day. mother's day not looking too bad. we're dealing with cloud cover. >> thank you, doug. >> all tied up. did you see it? backs up against the wall tonight and the caps they come through. >> we head back live to pittsburgh for more on the game six win and the caps reaction to a
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you would believe that caps could force a game seven? capitals-penguins returning to the verizon center. here's how they did it. capitals facing elimination for the second straight game and for just a second time this series, the caps strike first. on the power play, it's t.j. oshie beating marc-andre fleury. the caps are up 1-0. now they score in the second period. pen penn pens with the puck. gets the puck and takes it in for the score. caps take a 2-0 lead. still plenty of fans noerveous heading into the third. but this helped. 16 seconds into the period niklas backstrom takes it himself. that is the fourth goal in the last five games. then just moments after john karlsson makes it 4-o. he nets the secondst game. caps up 5-0. penguin fans heading to the exit. pittsburgh gets some goals late. the caps win game six 5-2
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forcing a verizon center. we're live in pittsburgh, carol, i'm sure fans and players want to celebrate. but there is still work to be done. >> yeah, one more game. game seven. you won't believe what the players told me tonight, sherry about, what brought on the kind of passion and confidence on display tonight. they say it's when their backs are against the wall. >> we have nothing to lose swrechlt to give our all to force this game seven. that's something we've been telling ourselves lately to go out and have fun. >> a confident boost the last four periods. we know we have to play our best game of the series to beat them in the seventh game at home. we're excite ford that opportunity and that challenge. >> we have to be mature about. this we know that's not going to be the exact same story. they're not going to just go away. they're stanley cup
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wire going to regroup. this it was a fun one tonight swrechlt to regroup and get refocused on the start for game seven. >> game seven wednesday night at the verizon center. the game seven record at home, 3-7. guys? >> one more demon to exercise in this series. back to you. >> thank you. there is more than just play-off hockey. two of the best teams in baseball facing off. the battlest beltway at camden yards. not the best starts for nats geo-gonzalez. leadoff batter is joey ricker. he takes geo yard to start things off. tloot batters later, a trumbo jumbo gives the os a 2-o lead. two batters after that, it's tray mancini. are you sense the theme here? that's a two-run homer to but them up. six runs over six innings including those three first in a homer. but in the
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moment nationals catcher matt weeder gets a standing ovation from the crowd at camden yards. spent first eight years of his career in baltimore. his new team rallied late but the nats on the losing end of game one of the series. os win it 6-4. and wednesday's going to be busy. we have pens-caps, wizards celtics and (announcer) there's more to life than the climb. there's the view. you've gotta stop and look around a little. come, shed life's layers in asheville. let the child inside you out to play. remember who you are.
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