the gallery metro station. happened during the morning rush but investigators have evidence that could help close the case quickly. officers in maryland jail prince george county i'll tell you what happened and why those officers are being heralded as heroes. and we have snowflakes in the district. i'll let you know how long they'll be sticking around. news4 midday starts now. >> good morning and welcome to news4 midday. i'm aaron gilchrist. we begin this morning with the weather of course. threat of snow has passed for ma

cold air is sticking around. meteorologist martin theodore has been tracking this morning for potential. i know i saw snowflakes as i was getting up to come in here. >> yeah, we are seeing some flurries come down in the district. we have a little stubborn spin in the atmosphere and that's what is keeping this threat for snow in our area. so still seeing some light in frederick. northern portions of montgomery county. but as we head throughout the day we'll see some clearing so might get some sunshine before all said and done. temperatures will top off in the low 30s as we head throughout the day. the winds out of the northwest and breezy this afternoon. i'll walk you through exactly how cold it's going to feel this evening, all the way through your new year's coming up in a

investigating a homicide found a man shot to death in suv, an officer around 9:30 last night when he found the man. right now no word on why he was killed. d.c. are also investigating a homicide this morning. police say a man was shot just before 3:00 p.m. on bryant street northeast. died on the scene near 18th street and loomis park. police have not released the man's name or possible motive. also police investigating a shooting near the gallery place metro station. bullet holes were gist covered in ha building but don't know if any one was shot. police say they have surlt surveillance of the

>> police say one of the victims had to be taken to the hospital. police are taking officers in that neighborhood as investigation continues. a group of correctional officers will tell you they were just doing their jobs. but for the rest of us their actions make them heros. news4 explains what they did that gave them a special honor. >> reporter: every day correction officers report to work to keep people safe and every day remind people to be safe. but if you weeks ago it was a prisoner that needed to be saved. >> we had a detainee who hung himself. and we cut him down. >> reporter: several officers sprung into action performing cpr saving the man's life. this morning those officers being recognized for what they did. they said they would have done it for any one. >> regardless of his charges, what he's

protect and promote. >> everyone is treated the same here. so all of us try our best to do everything we can to make sure everybody is safe. >> reporter: they are not sure the prisoner knows if they saved him. but they say that's not the point. >> trying to do what i'm doing. >> we don't need no thanks, as long as we saved his life, that's what matters. >> reporter: the importance of cpr officers say everyone should have it. at the department of corrections, aimee cho news4. >> maybe how far ridden in the new metro railcars, this he are sleek and comfortable, but some homeowners say it's loud and heavy. it's such an issue metro is digging into what the problem is. >> reporter: the transit agency admits some trains are increasing vie brakes levels above metro standards. a woman in

neighborhood says the shaking cracked her floors, separated her drywall and knocked puktsdis off her wall. they weigh more than their older cars. >> came through one day and one of these fell. >> reporter: is it every day? >> every day. >> reporter: in recent letter metro said none of the increased vibration levels are enough to cause any structural damage. well, with new year's eve around the corner, you might want to plan about how to get around, and the good news is metro will stay open late to ring in the new year. our transportation add automatic tuss letting you know what you need to know. hey adam. >> reporter: hey, aaron, three extra hours of metro rail service coming up for new year's eve. it's happening on sunday and metro usually close sz alt 11:00 p.m. but this year they are open to:

until 2018, and metro riders making their plans for celebrating safely. >> absolutely. first thing i think about whenever i go out for new year's, yeah, is where we are going and how we are going to get there and back, yeah. >> reporter: in recent years miller coors has sponsored late night rail service so it was actually a free trip for riders after midnight. but that isn't happening this year. that means you'll have to pay to catch a ride on metro. rider mel any heart says she's thankful that the late night service is being extended. >> i think it's great. you know, provides people an opportunity without having to drive and to be safe catching a metro. >> reporter: so again here's what you need to know. metro will be open until 2:00 a.m. in the morning new year's eve, and no track word, and customers will have to pay. security is going to be keeping an eye in on everything, and even hop

morning, the last train times vary by station, so be sure to check the last train time that leaves the station. now last year over 13,000 riders took trips for the late night rail service on metro system. so certainly a lot of people rely on this option and they'll again have it this year. back to you. >> good to know. adam tuss live for us. thank you. get ready to buy the lotto tickets. this night 210 million with the cash option. then mega millions also growing at $306 million. that drawing will happen on friday night. good luck to you. whether you have a new iphone or older one like this, you know apple is leader in the smart phone business. coming up, we'll tell you why some consider their latest product a flop. and the rush to pay taxes, might sound funny, but people are worried about taxes

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drawing for a closely watched virginia house of delegates race is delayed. state election officials were scheduled to draw names from a bowl today after a ruling last week declared

democrat sigh minds. and we are following another close virginia house race. democrat joshua coal lost to thomas by 73 votes in stafford district. news partners report that coal will not contest the election results. instead coal says he will continue to support a federal lawsuit seek ago all new election because some voters in that district received the wrong ballots. well, as the year winds down, many americans are wondering how they need to prepare for the changes in the new tax code. news4 everett lawrence explains what you need to do now if you want to save money on last year's taxes. >> reporter: president trump says he's on a working vacation in florida as he travels back and forth to international golf course during the day. we have not seen much of him

since christmas. but he's kept his presence on twitter promoting tax cut saying this will be a great year for companies and jobs. >> share prices incorporations are going to go up. now i've heard numerous pun ditz say that will be good for everyone because everyone owns stock. well, in fact half of most people don't own stocks. >> reporter: they say it will help the rich and investing in lower amount of kids. >> a low income kids education will pay you back seven or eight fold later in life. >> reporter: still accountants said we should be prepared for the tax changes but time is running out. >> it's ridiculous, tax season started month early. usually in december taking it easy. >> reporter: new tax law only allows $10,000 in property taxes. prepay right now means you can still deduct a larger amount on

other recommendation, charities. many charitable donations will be removed after january 1st. tax prepayers say you might want to make an extra donation of money or item before january if you want to write it off your taxes. edward lawrence, nbc news washington. >> now the new gop tax law goes into effect on monday and it will effect property taxes. montgomery county allows homeowners to prepay taxes before the new law. now it caps deductions at $10,000. take a look at this picture from wtop, shows a line of people trying to prepare yesterday, prepay i should say in fairfax county, d.c. and howard countys also giving that option. today funeral services for a son killed in mexico. her 11-year-old son daniel

in last week's bus crash in mexico. they were headed to the mayan ruins when the bus krashds and flipped over. it is in falls church. and her husband and older son were also injured in the crash. >> two thieves tried to get one over on the wrong person by selling fake mac pro laptops. the plan went south when they tried to sell to under cop. it happened at the springfield mall. ts plainclothes officer noticed the laptops didn't look authentic and set up a meeting to buy one. that's when police arrested 27-year-old and 30-year-old chris continue of missouri. they found several fake laptops inside their car. a lot of you got a new appliance for holidays. a huge jump in sales this holiday season. but anticipapl

mark. this for the slump. >> reporter: on the heels of the holiday shopping season apple may have slump. stocks closing 2.5 down on thursday, luke warm response should be the company's crown jewel, the iphone x. when announcing the flagship device. >> it's the biggest leap forward than the original iphone. >> reporter: cook heaped praise but lowering first quarter sales forecast. it has denied request for comment. but say potential cause of waning interest $999 price tag, sticker shock. >> would you rather pay $1,000 for a phone or a laptop? i'm just comparing. >> reporter: some seeking out cheaper older models like the 7 and 8 saying the tech advances don't justify

>> sometimes the price tag is kind of out run what we are getting. >> reporter: the problem may also go deeper than the high price. with some point go to apple fatigue. some unimpressed with the new screen size, loss of head phone jack's and facial recognition technology. but analysts caution just because apple is lowering projections that doesn't mean the iphone x sales aren't strong. past years shows slow downs following christmas, and on pace to become the world's first trillion dollar company. even after apple admitted to slowing down as they age, now face ago lawsuit, the company says they were only trying to improve customer experiences and protect the phones and protecting shut downs and aging overtime. apple said they slowed down phones to make room for iphone x, a model selling

millions. >> sheinelle jones reporting there. this weeks's cold weather could have you consider pulling out a space heater. we have important information on heating your home in the next hour. plus snow, snow,snow,

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never seen this, and temperatures dropping across the northeast. more on this wintery blast. >> reporter: overnight power restored in cleveland after left 40,000 people in the dark for hours in the cold. as arctic blast sweeps from new england to seattle. big chill. in utah an officer a hero after saving an 8-year-old boy after chasing his dog through the ice. >> i started pounding on the ice and once i saw his face pulled his head above the water and called out to the paramedics letting them know i'm coming in, i've got him. >> reporter: meanwhile all this snow shocked the

much it's in sane. >> reporter: he says his boss told him to stay home but he's been working all day trying to clear the snow. >> i woke up with and trying to clear. >> reporter: 63 inches and the county calling snow emergency. more than 6,000 flights delayed. >> i probably won't be able to get home for a couple of days. >> i desperately want a salad. >> reporter: desperation on the roads. >> i wouldn't go out in this stick. >> reporter: though some people did in whout out conditions p others hopped on a sled or tried to dig out their cars. >> it's a little ridiculous but i keep pecking away at it. >> reporter: at chicago temperatures plummeted to minus 3, despite the windy city reputation. >> we were shocked by the

>> yeah, it's cold. >> reporter: so cold you could see steam off the chicago river. but wherever you are in the u.s. it's bound to be icy end to 2017. and it's not over yet. the forecast calls for more snow, a few inches, in the coming days. that's could put eerie close to another record. 100 of snow which is what they have for the entire year.

pektsi expecting improving temperatures. but cool off as the northwest wind starts to move in harnd 4:00 p.m. so the wind chills will start to ref things up feeling like the teens. and into the weekend i want to help you plan your new year's eve, saturday we do have a snow chance, earlier half of the day, temperatures in low 30s on saturday. sundy similar set up. upper 20s. very cold out there. that wind chill making it feel like the teens. and we've been keeping eye on system on monday but not looking promising, so mostly sunny conditions for new year's eve. but expecting low 20s. spend some time with 10-day

as we head into today low to 30s. tomorrow upper 20s. as we head to friday, we have chance for flurries in the evening. temperatures on friday will below to mid-60s. then we head into the weekend. your saturday, temperatures in the low 30s. and this is what i'm talking about as far as snow chance really towards the beginning half of the day. by the weekend, though, i'm sorry by sundae we'll start to see the snow chance taper off there. mostly sunny conditions. a little breezy at times. it's hard to believe 36 degrees is the highest we have on the board. we have some really cold air getting ready to move in, aaron. >> it's hard to look at that graphic. just so low. all right. thank you. a prince and a president, prince harry sits down with former president obama with a radio interview. people around the world tuned in for. and the security scare that had a

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frustrated chrissy teigen with her husband john legend. she was tweeting a security scare. here's what happened. the flight was about four hours in a trip to technolookyo and w forced to return to los angeles. because of a customer's flight arrangement. teigen tweeted the passengers got on the wrong flight. they would research it. >> bumped out of her first class seat and gave it to a texas congressman. flying from houston to d.c. and told the houston chronicle gave her seat to represent tive jackson lee. showed the system canceled her trip after a flight

she complained and they gave her $500 travel voucher and coach seat on the same flight. says they automatically upgraded lee shlgs not because a member of congress, says they didn't ask for anything ordinary. says the airline has not apologized for what happened. >> first interview since leaving the white house in january, barack obama sat down with prince harry. met during the games in canada with conversation taking a turn away from politics. >> dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. they can just be codifferent biases. >> while he didn't mention president trump usage, he

say people in government has to be more careful when using platforms like twitter. also described what was going through his mind at the exact moment he left thes white house. he says that he was happy to see he and his family hadn't fundamentally changed. >> we haven't fundamentally changed. i think was a satisfying feeling. that was mixed with all the work that was still undone and concerns about how the country moves forward. >> since we learned about that interview, people have speculated about whether the obamas would be attending his wedding in may. when asked they would be guests, prince harry says he doesn't want to ruin the surprise. >> as we are talking about social media, the library of congress says it's going to stop archiving every public tweet next year. since 2010 the library of congress has been archiving every single public tweet dating back to 2006. starting january first it will only archive tweets on selective basis it says. br

gather and preserve pa record of knowledge and creativity for the american people. well, a smoke detector did its job and saved a maryland women's life. we first reported this yesterday. 89-year-old was home alone when a fire roared through her house. detector went off in enough time for her to escape. but as nbc jeff rosen reports the detector is one of several tools that can protect your family in a fire. >> reporter: i'm going door to door. hi there. jeff rosen from nbc news spot checking. you were sitting here thinking you had a working smoke alarm and you didn't. >> it's scary. >> reporter: dangerous threat. in fact 3 out of every 5 people killed in a house fire didn't have a working smoke alarm. and during the holidays you could be in greater risk. from fast moving christmas tree fires like this one, to fires caused by space heaters. so

to find out the orlando fire department out enforce, and we are teaming up checking homes for safety risks. hi. jeff rosen from the "today" show. how are you? >> good. >> reporter: we are here with the fire department checking people's smoke alarms to make sure you are safe. can we come? >> sure. >> reporter: right away the problem. >> first thing we'll do is push the button to test the audio portion. so this detector doesn't work. >> reporter: so the one in your bedroom isn't working. what's that like to see? >> that's upsetting that's the first place we'll hear it if it's going to go off. >> reporter: but we are not just finding problems, firefighters are fixing them, installing brand new alarms for free. >> i'm glad we came. >> i'm glad you guys came too. >> reporter: next door we meet peggy, her detectors not working either. >> i don't do ladders anymore because a

those. >> right. and i always forget when someone is here to get them to check it for me. >> reporter: that's why we are here for you today. >> good. >> reporter: but then an even bigger problem. >> so here we are in the kitchen swi a source of a lot of residential fires. you should have a smoke detector in the kitchen. >> reporter: no smoke detector. the fire department installing two new one's. we check house after house and finding problems in nearly all of them. there is no battery in here. >> i probably used it for something else. >> reporter: but the biggest one, he thinks it works fine because when he tests it it beeps. >> when your alarm goes off it tells me two things. it works. >> reporter: but he says what it doesn't

>> your manufacture was 2002. about 15 years ago. we like to change them out every ten years. >> reporter: why? >> dust starts blocking. >> reporter: and you wouldn't know it. no problem. he says there is an easy way to test the censor. the candle test. light a candle and blow it out. place your alarm right over the smoke. and it should go off. >> it's not going off. >> that would tell me that censor probably hazardous built up. >> i have no idea. >> reporter: this blows your mind a little. >> yeah, i put a battery in and it started chirping. >> reporter: we helped. sounding the alarm so your family stays safe. >> thank you so much. that was jeff rosen reporting. in new battery alarm smoke detector must be a ten year model. hard wired smoke alarms are not affected by that. college football players put competition a side for the day to visit d.c. most

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welcome back. tomorrow the military bowl in annapolis will have double the local flavor as november and uva square off. here in washington d.c. it shifted from that to something else. they shared a special museum trip. we were there and saw it through their eyes. >> i'm daniel. >> i'm joe reeves. we are excited to take a look at the african-american museum, we are here for the military bowl. but this is exciting. let's take a look. >> we are in the football room. >> what are your thoughts? >> this is monumental place for african-american history. this is needed place for us to celebrate our accomplishments. >> daniel, how does it feel to be here? >> it feels great to be here. i learned a little bit about history of america. hist o

everything that's made in this country is what it is with sports and among other things, being in this sport room, specifically football, it's important to learn about and see at has shaped what i do into what it is today. >> it's big for us to come together and witness something like this museum. i think it will bring us together that we know exactly what everybody has been through. >> my parents, my grandparents, some of the coaches, their granld parents, they walk through the museum and say, i know this is part of this. >> extra bonus getting to play in the bowl game and getting to experience this. >> yes. definitely. it's actually been my high point here. >> to be able to celebrate our country, and everything about it, this is great. i mean, we go to the banquets and play the game, that's all fun. but this is way more important than that. >> all right. good to hear from them. shout out to jordan

son was in that. looking great. in uniform. graduating this year. >> yeah. let's talk about the weather. where are we, 30 degrees? has the weather changed all morning? >> i know. and it feels so much colder. we had the snow stubborn and wasn't leaving. but starting to die down now. really beginning to dissipate, losing the spin. let's take a look at the radar. i know it looks like a lot going on but this is light stuff falling. it has reached the district at this point. we are seeing some flurries i just looked out the window. but you can see the evolution of it as i have it looping here starting to die down. and we are expecting it to it be out of here by the afternoon. now as we head through the afternoon, we'll get some clearing in here. but before then, still pretty cloudy. temperatures 30 degree mark. what does it feel like? feels like 18 degrees in the distri district right now. sorry, feels like 20 degrees in

afternoon it's going to feel like the teens, feeling like 12 degrees in montgomery county by this afternoon. because that's because we have a wind kicking up as we head later in the day. temperatures trend over the next couple of days really in the teens and 20s, just very bone chilling weather here. by tomorrow feeling like 19 degrees. friday feel like the upper 20s. so really no relief. i want you to bundle up and stay as warm as you can. planning your day out today, i think the warmest we'll be is actually just around this time frame between now and 2:00 p.m. because once that breeze kicks in, we'll get that wind from the northwest and temperatures will be in the 20s this afternoon. but like i said a little bit of clearing and sun, that should help our morale. speaking of helping our morale, new year's eve right around the corner, turning up the heat. temperatures 22 degrees. by ts time you are united nations coulding down and going into 2018 s i can't believe i'm sayingt

2018, i want you to dress warmly. if you are taking the kids to see fireworks, it's going to be down right cold and feel much colder than the actual numbers you'll see on your phones. here's a look at your outlook. 35 degrees today. tomorrow upper 20s. so not really headed out of the 20s for your thursday. by friday we do have that chance for some pm flurries, not too sold on that just yet. i think saturday will be our greatest chance at some snowfall. temperatures on saturday in the low 30s. aaron. >> all right. thank you. appreciate it. elon musk he's known for out of the world ideas. here's the latest prose hemi

tesla made venture into rugged terrain in the coming years. the company's ceo elon musk wants to make an electric pickup truck. he says he's had the core design for years now, but one thing at a time. he says tesla must produce the cross over which could launch in 2019. as 2018 quickly approaches we are starting to take a look back at 2017. a year with violence. news4 takes a look back at the year that

sware. >> reporter: it has been a year of change, challenges, conflict, and incredible loss. >> everyone are running and screaming and crying. >> reporter: 22 killed at a concert in manchester, new england, 58 gunned down during a slaughter in las vegas. 8 people rundown by a self proclaimed terrorist along a new york city bike path. nearly 300 ambushed inside an egyptian mosque. 26 burdened inside a small town texas church. >> what can you do? not much but pray and cry and hope. >> reporter: hope, and hard work is what carried houston through historic flooding. >> take whatever we can take and get out of here. >> reporter: millions left homeless by mother nature. wildfires in southern califo

a 7.7 earthquake in mexico city. and puerto rico still struggling from the hurricanes. >> this is not going to happen overnight. >> reporter: political storm. >> zero chaos. this is a fine tune machine. >> reporter: continues to wage in washington. >> i'm a historian. i've studied a lot of presidents and have never seen anything like this. >> reporter: an administration dealing with a special investigation. michael flynn admitting he lied to the fbi while issues like north korea, health care, tax reform, and immigration, are often over shadowed by online slight and rants, partisan ranger and personal attacks from both sides of the aisle. >> anger and resentment are underpinning our

conversation. >> reporter: that anger spilling over. republican congressman and staffers an attacked while practicing for a charity baseball game. divided protests across the country fights over confederate status, marching turning violent, and deadly in charlottesville. the lights of hollywood have never been brighter shining now on allegations of sexual misconduct, media and congressman caught up in the ugly glare from decades of abuse, giving voice to victims sharing their pain and anger, many online, use you go the hashtag me too on seshl media. questions of equality and racial profiling from police spilled on to the playing field nl athletes standing up by taking a knee. still there have been signs of unity this year. congressman steve scalise back on capitol hill. >> you have no idea how great this feels back to be

>> reporter: millions pausing together. >> most amazing thing i've ever scene. >> reporter: to watch the shadow of the moon race from coast to coast during the great american eclipse. 2017 has been a whirlwind, some might even say a circus, after 146 years, the greatest show on earth, ringing brothers lowered its curtain. now as the moon rises, many hope it will bring with us a new sense of optimism and unity. jay gray, nbc news. >> now, since jay ended with time square there, we thought we would tell you a little bit about this celebration there. the famous water field triangles will be installed on the new year's eve ball today. that ball is covered with more than 2600 crystal triangles. and we have broken it into four groups. these groups represent kindness,

imagination. and as we wined down 2017, a lot of you might be thinking about your new year's eve resolution. a poll found losing weight and saving money is no longer the favorites, apparently. the number one resolution for next year, simply being a better person. coming up, have the special relationship between a father and son sparked the idea for a comic book who is a hero inspiring others.

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an injured bald eagle is on the road to recovery after being rescued on christmas eve. posted this on facebook. you see lieutenant jeff, he's also a falconer, called to come rescue the eagle on sunday after someone found her on the side of the road. took them to the owl rescue in germantown. it has a broken wing. but two months to heal. it's kind of cool seeing him hold a bald eagle. katie men deck ee, athlete of the year, took home five gold meadows and silver at this year's world championship. la deck ee is the first washington star to eastern the woman's award. and today

male athlete of the year, helped lead the houston astros to the first title. first mvp trophy in more than two decades. it's a big night for two local brothers, they will be on the trivia game show the wall. the brothers will try to win $12 million. prince malcolm is segue police officers in d.c., he's in the sweater you see. chris mall con is a college professor, he's in the jacket. they will have to use smarts and gun, you'll see how they do right here at nbc news4 at 8:00. >> a little boy was born with a lot of things working against him. but to his dad he's a hero and deserves to take the rightful place along the likes of super man. we have the story here. >> good job, buddy. >> reporter: to his dad, 7-year-old ally, has always been a super

born with down syndrome and life threatening heart defects, ally had to fight to survive from the very beginning. >> it was pretty touch and go as far as if he was going to make it it. >> reporter: but he did make it and his dad chip rees wanted to share something with him. >> clearly you love comics. >> yeah, piles more. >> reporter: but in all of the comics chip couldn't find a character who had challenges like ali. so he wrote his own book featuring a young hero with down syndrome of course named ali. >> i think it's important for people to see characters like themselves. because they feel like if that person can do something awesome, i can be awesome too. >> reporter: this is a real adventure. a publisher asked him to turn it into ha full novel. sold out and get ac second run. >> i think wiit shows there is

>> reporter: he can't talk but still a good communicator. >> how do you say love? >> reporter: and he's thrilled seeing himself in the comic. >> don't worry, dad, i'm going to be real strong some day, just like you. >> reporter: you are doing something really special. >> for me it was just kind of that natural extension of my love for my child. >> reporter: two heros, father and son, whose love for each other is the greats super power of all. ellis, nbc news, wichita, kansas. >> what an awesome dad. you can see it right there, boy. all right. let's take a look at the last look at the forecast. what do you think? >> i think we'll see improving conditions. but i'll tell you something it's going to be down right cold. temperatures right now feeling like 22 degrees. barely show the actual temperatures because this is what matters to us walking outside. 17 degrees it feels like right now. 20 is what it f

leesburg. a few things to remember today. we did get some snow this morning, but within the next two hours wrap up. improving conditions throughout your wednesday. i want you to dress in layers. multiple layers. and it is going to get a little breezy this evening. so it may feel even colder as we head through the afternoon. even though we are getting peeks of sunshine. storm team4 ten day outlook. before we get to new year's eve weekend we have to get through this cold. 28 tomorrow. mostly sunny for thursday. friday chance of snow that we have to watch closely on lighter end friday night. temperatures in twrie day mid-30s. then we head into the new year's eve time frame. saturday the first laugh of the d half of the day snow clans but really cold. >> thank you. that is it for news4 midday. we appreciate you joining us. we are back here this afternoon first at 4. you can get updates any time with t

have a great day everybody. we'll see you back here tomorrow morning.

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