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at giant, it's the little things that make mealtime easy, leaving more time for those closest to you, during the holidays. now at 11:00, video you'll only see on news 4. >> we got o it just in time to see that vehicle sideswipe tother vehicle while trying evade police. >> what we're learns about this place chase on 66 during rush hour tonight. take the romaine off your
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thanksgiving menus. news 4 was there at local storei started remong it from shelves amid warnings about e. coli. and almost two weeks after the deadliest wildfire in cali rnia historystarted, a new risk for an area that's trying to recover. news 4 at 11:00 starts now. and new 4 at 11:00 begins tonight with team coverage of the big stories affecting your ealiday week. >> from travel ter and a warning about what not to eat. we also have exclusive video from chopper 4 ofigh speed chase and crash that happened during the peak ofhasgiving getaway traffic on i-66. >> we have new information tonight from virginia state a poliut exactly what happened here between centervill and manassas. but we want to start tonight with warnings from the centers for disease control about two utbreaks that could ruin your thanksgiving meal. >> yeah, the newest warning is
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the most serious. today, the centers for disease control said we should all stop eating l romainetuce from anywhere, until further notice. because of an e. coli outbreak that's made 32ic people in 11 states. this comes on the heels of earlier ws about salmonella in raw turkey. that outbreak has made 164 people sick and killed one in 35 states this year. news 4'sen jackien is live with what you need to know about all this. jackie? >> reporter: well, doreen, the thing about this is, information is spreading through social media and the news median d not everyone has heard about it yet. >> every romaine known to man. >> at rodman's discount store in northwest d.c., roy rodman, the ner himself, pulled romijn romijn lettu from the selves within minutes of receiving a
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tweet from the cen rs for disease control. >> i hate some last night. he reporter: but this mr and daughter say they saw plenty of it in a big chain supermarket and almost bought some. >> no, we put it back in there and we're done. an i did have some at home. >> reporter: food scientist dr. taylor wallace says the reason for the extraordinary caution is the potenal for great harm. >> this e. coli is different from other forms because it produces a toxin. and this toxin, basically, e roemds away at your intestinal lining and can yet intoour blood stream. >>eporter: wallace says si scientific advances have sped up warning the public. >> ten years ago, it took hundreds of people beforehee realized tre was a problem. >> reporter: this comes a week after a widespread warning about salmonella inturkey. 164 people got sick in 35 states eaer the last y and at least one person died. all of it has many shaking their
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heads. >> it's scary, because you can't eat anything now. >> reporter: now, as evidence of the seriousness of this, what the cdc recommends is that if you have romaine on the shelf or in your vegetable bin at home, you remove it, you throw it away and then clean that area with hot, soapy water or bleach in hot water to make sureit's all gone. live in northwest, jackie bensen, news 4. >> wow, ae i guess careful at restaurants, as well. thank you, jackie. a high speed chase during the very peak of thanksgiving traffic.ri i'm leon h at the live desk. you've got to take a look at this video here. chopper showing virginia stace police officers trying to navigate tough the trafficut there to catch this driver. they're going after a man who was found weaving in beten rs on i-66, and he refused to pull over. evtually, he slams into a car, spins around and then he runs off the road and into a sign near manassas.
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chopper 4's brad frthas was e in the sky, watching it go down. >> the vehicle up there on the pun out into th median there and was taken into custody. you can see him, centerf the screen, being escorted to one of the police vehicles. >> state police say this driver hree other t vehicles during this chase. and it's lucky that no one else s hurt when you consider this was the busiest day on the road this year. e roads were absolutely packed. all of this happening around 6:30, right in the middle of the evening rush hour. virginia state police say this startled because that driver was speeding and weaving in and out of traffic, but still no word on the charges he's going to be facing. we'll keep you posted. jim and doreen, back to you. >> incredible footage there. leon, thank you. well, that just added to utat was already a mess on the major routes of the district tonight. look at this. >> yeah, between commuters sticn wo today and folks getting a jumpstart on the holiday,
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these roads turnedar intong lots, jam-packed today. lnd they will be again tomorrow. so, too, w the skies. >> news 4's shomari stone spoke to some a travellers about this tonight. he's at reagan national airport. how is it looking there tonight, shomari? >> reporter: rht now, you guys, it is relatively calm here at reagan national. a sharpha contrast to is expected tomorrow on the busiest travel day for a travel. now, the weather is really nice, though snow, no rain, no hail, which can contribute to the flights taking off on time. hopefully tomorrow. but as you all stated, some people a haveeady started traveling for the thanksgivingn holiday w let's take a look. >> there's a lot of stop and go traffic. >> reporter: ken judge is sanction to get home toew york for thanksgiving, except there's a problem. traffic. >> we know thi is onef the biggest travel days of the year, so, we're pretty ready to sit in traffic. >> reporter: take a look at this chopper 4 veo of the beltway.
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tonight, the eve of thanksgiving eve, the absolute worst time to be on theuter loop. thanksgivi travelers and commuters don't mix. >> it's bumper to bumper. >> reporter: aaa says more than 54 million people are expected to travel 50 miles or more this holiday. traveln tiles i congested d cits li. are expected to quadruple. wednesday is the worst day on i-95 north, 270 north and u.s. 50 east. >> i got to be rdy to stay awake at the wheel and don't be too distracted because more accidents just make it worse. >> reporter: yes, that's right. that's some good vice. now, also, tomorrow, make sure you check your flights before you come out to thet. airp live here at reagan national, shomi stone, news >> shomari, thank you. tomorrow and sunday are expected to be the busiest for those of u planning to fly to yourth ksgiving destinations. aaa expec nearly100,000 people from the dmv will head to the airport. amtrak tells this is the
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busiest time of year for them, too. and you're likely to see the biggest crowd at train stations tomorrow and sunday. you plan ggesting, if to ride the rails, get there at least - at least a half hour early. now, to w thether we'll see tomorrow and on into the weekend. and we've got cold to tedeal do. but , could be worse. no snow, no hail, just like shomari was saying. >> yeah, exactly we're not dealing with something we dealt with a couple years ago where traffic really was snarled by weather, including snow, just a couple ofears ago, we had snow on the wednesday before thanksgivingth nothing like. but it is all about the cold. not today. high around 56 degrees. that f the average high today. so, not bad out there today, with some sunshine. it was rather windy. winds gusting 30 to 40 miles p hour. 52 in leesburg, 57 down to freder'tksburg. we det that high tomorrow. and look what's happening as we make our waymonto the day ow. if you're traveling tomorrow, i-95, no problems. snow shoanrs into new en
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back along areas of i-70. that's not a real big picture if you are traveling, but the big deal is going to be the cold. well are talking the coldest thanksgiving in years, maybe the cold eest november 22 endr at dulles airport. i'll update you just how cold we'll get in a >> thank you, doug. we are learning more tonight about a university of maryland freshman who died from an illness associated with adenovirus. the student's father told "the baltimorsun" his daughter got sick earlier in the semester and she eventually got pneumoaya. he she'd been taking medication for krohn's disease, sothing that weakened her immune system. adenovirus isau the common of the cold, but some strains are morero dan. the university says itas fiv other reported cases of the virus on campus. a woman who admits to using a racial slur on video has
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retired from her job at the prince george's county school system. >> did you just call her husband the n-word? >> yeah, i did. >> in front of my children? >> this video is from last week. in a walmart parking lot. and it went viral. outrage grew after people lea learnlear raarned the woman was a l in ft. washington. news 4 learned that employee d retire today after calls for her to be fired. >> the school dits ticket that supports 90% children of coer, andon't have a place for employees who do not celebrate and value that. >> reporter: she says she's working withhe labor unions now to provide bias training for all school system employees. that former librarian is expected to receive her fl state benefits. president trump went to florida tonight. >> before he left, he took questions from reporters and
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made news on several fronts. now know special counsel robert mueller has the tt president'sen answers to questions about russianin electn rference. the president says he wrote them himself. his attedneys deliv them to mueller's team this afternoon. >> meantime, he new york times" reports president trump told the white house couel in the spring he wanted the justice department to prosecutecl hilla ton and former fbi director james comey. the counsel, at the dtime, mcgahn, told the president he had no authority to do it and could face impeachment if he tried. >> and the is growingbacklash to the president's response to the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. today, he openly questioned the cia's conclusion that khashoggi's murder was ordered by crown prince mohammed bin lman. >> they have nothing definitive, and the fact, is maybe he did, maybe he didn't. if we abandon saudi arabia, it would be a terrible mistake.
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>> the president also defended his daught, ivanka's use of private e-mails to send messages about government business last year. r todaublican leaders of the house and senate oversight committees requeste more formation from the white house about what was sent and whether it included o any sensiti classified information. when we come right back o news 4 a 11:00 tonight, the new threat for paradise,ornia. now covered in ash, with potentially heavy rain on the way.>> e'll show you where volunteers served up some warm thanksgiving meals today to people in need. and the cams have plenty to be thankful for this eyear. whou can find them posting with the stanley cup andbeheir friends. we're coming right back.
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new video tonight from chopper 4. more than 100 firefighters responding tonight to a staurant fire here in gaithersburg. it's peruvian restaurant off frederick avenue. the flames here went through tho roof a point, raising the fire to two alarms. some roads in the area had to be closed, but no one was hurt. doreen? there are flood warnings in parts of california tonight that will last into friday. the rain,ew creating a threat after the deadly camp fire in northerncalifornia. mudslides. chris sanchez reports now from our sister station in the y area. >> reporter: already hard for these crews tohr siftgh the soot and ash. add the rain to it, and it's going to make for aery muddy mess. we caught up with the rescue, search and rcue team out of
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riverside, they were here with dogs just a few moments ago. they're going site by site and making w markings oft they find so that the other crews don't duplicate their efforts and they can keep moving irward. theres a risk of landsides, a a the soo the ash from the fire creates a water repellent layer, leaving that rainfall with nowhere to go, and a rainfall, again, makes the very difficult work of looking for victims even harder. >> we have very, very fine ash in many of the areas that we're searching.o you add water that, and now we're in a situation where we have kind of a muddy mixture. i think that may make the process of searching for remains,y especiahose almost completely consumed by fire more difficult. >> reporter: evera without the , working in this kind of debris field is dangerous work. a mountain view canine cut a paw, h to get stitches, then that canine was cleared to go back towork. in paradise, chris sanchez, nbc bay area news. well, this is the time of year when several organizations
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here work so hard to provide als for people in nd. catholic charities are among those providing thanksgiving dinners. they made sure more than people would get a full holiday feast tonight here in chinatown at t pepco edison place gallery. >> i love the fact that we can help each other. some of us have more, some of us have less. those that have less need those that have more to help them. there are nderful, generous things happening all over the area, all week long. and you can still donatonline to o food for friends, if you'd like. we'd appreciateit. food for families. >> yep. >> thank you. o, we got some super cold -- you can feel it getting colder out there tonight. >> yeah, you know, records for dulles airport go back to the mid '60s when theas airport first out there could be the coldest november 22nd ever out
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there towards dulles airport. we're talking about thanksgiving, going to be cold for sure. temperature s going to be in th teens to the low 20s. right now, looking at a chill nighross our region. temperatures falling, currently into the 30 in most locations. still 44 in the city. winds out of the west, 7 miles an whour. clouds out there, but sees mostly clear skies. 36 in winchester. culpepper, 32 degrees. 33 in manassas. warrenton is at 30. 37 over towards gaithersburg. no rain to talk about. we're going to stay dry. the next best chance of r doesn't come until saturday. so, that's not an issue. can you take a look at theew wi here. we have some clouds coming in, but you notice, no real big storhe systems an. the biggest storm was up towards parts of new england. that one's oe, of th giving upwards six inches of snow norf and west the boston area. but i don't think you'll have many tomorrow. this system comin across the great lakes bringing lake effect
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snows, that's going to be the case and that front is what's going to be making its way our way during the day tomorrow.d the c air, just up to the north, and i move really cold air. this is going to race down across the east and we're talking about the coldestvi thanks possibly ever in places like new york and up towards boston, up to parts of new england. for , one of our coldest ever, probably five, maybe top ten. we're talking really cold numbers here. we go all the wayack to the 1880s. here's the feels like area onure around the wednesday at 11:00, around this time. wind chill, around 21 in martinsburg, in d.c that's on the cold side, sure. look what happens thursday morning. 7:00 a.m., 15. 15. one good news is, we have to work, at least most of us, so, you think, 12 noon, it will be warmer, right? ah -- 19 -- >> no! >> 19, and every time i look at this computer model, it gets colder, so, we're in for a very thanksgiving
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just know that. you'll have to bundle up. tomorrow, a little better. sun and cloud us, on the chilly side. cooler than today, a little bit less wind. sun early. high right around 50 degrees. temperature on thanksgivi, 33. a little bit more about this. coldest in years, absolutely. wind chills i the teensnd 20s all day long. dry for holiday travel. the only exception will be on saturday. i do think saturday we have a half inch to an inch of rain coming on saturday. watch the morning. could be cold enough air that may see freezing rain. but then into the 50s on sunday.y and on sunday, for traveling, really looks nice. and i think sunday could be the best day out of the next ten. rain again on monday and then cold, as we make our way into the middle of next week, as ll. remember, the average temperature is 56. i've gotten there twice. every other day is way below that. >> okay. we're in for real cold. thank you, omdoug. ing up, john wall and the wizards block out the drama in an amazing comeback. >> sports next, but first, here's jimmy fallon. >> hey, guys, we'reng pla
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oh, hello. at giant, it's the little things that make entertaining easy, leaving more time for those closest to you, during the holidays. this is the xfinity sports desk. >> you know it's something when cary sahe, yeah, wizards actually won. it was a nice comeback. >> it was. i wanl to channel some snoop dogg, because tomorrow, snoop dogg was honored with a star on the walk of fame. so,t's talk about doreen's favorite rapper. so much drama in the dmv, it's kind of hard being wizards nager ernie -- grunfeld, that
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is. >> i see where you're going there. >> reports o infighting, outbursts, trade talk, a lot of negative energy surrounding the rds right now, so probably won't be sharing any cornucopias come thanksgiving. but john wall and the wizards trying shake all that off against the clippers at home. wiz down 24, guoi, at one pnt. but here they come. wall knocks down the triple. wizards come back on and rout. bradley beal. going toe take it to the hoop and one. both wall and bea available for trades, according to espn's adrian woj now ski. how about that? wall, a game-high 30 points, eight dimes. and then later on, huge rebound by otto porter. finds marquee morris, to jeff green. >> , yeah. >>w. >> green had 20 points off the bench. the wizards rerace the clippers 24-point lead, they lead 125-118. here's wall, addressing the drama surrounding his squad. h
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>> all thert and effort and drama on the organization, this team, to hear certain things like being traded, i try to stay focud, focus on getting ready to have my new son,rying to turn this organization around, this franchise around and win some games. all you can do iso out and compete. that's one thing i've did since game one- to hear those things, it's funny, frustrating at the same time, but i've been through worse than that. to the redskins. w this ist awaits them on thanksgiving day. a date in dallas. now, w one guyho has had success over there,ck quarter colt mccoy. his only win as a starter for the skins came at jerry world in 2014. and with al f smith doneor the season and the cowboys just one ga behind washington in thevi sion, they'll need that same spark from colt, wy is, the way, from texas.ur sday's arguably the most season, t game of the and the team is well away of what's at stake. >> eit's a h game, let's be honest. so, i think we'll -- i thi
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we'll be all right. we just got to go outthere, i got to be calm and get playmakers the ball and, you know, hopefully we'll put our best foot forward out there. >> the time i now for us to really kind of come together d and you know, just put that extra effort in towards the stretch of this season and, for this is when it really gets fun. these last eight, you know, that's whenng ts really start to decideoi where you'reng to be and what position that you're fortunately for us, we're in a good position, so, we contro -- we control our destiny.gu , with you a the wizards struggles, we want to end on a good note. s e capitin the community today, surprising students. tom wilson, nicas backstrom, braden holtby hooking up kids with laptops a tablets. part of the so kids can foundation started by former cap mikegr een. look at this, this girl might
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never let his hand go. isn't that a cute scene? so nice to see that. always good. and o a caps note, brooks orpik underwent surgery, going to miss four to six weeks. >> he will be missed. >> and we've got more caps ming up. >> we do. >> all right. than
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here's a summertime flashback for you. our favorite stanley cup winnerc are to posing with their championship trophy. >> yeah, no kegstaims this around, and yet somehow the caps are still making the win a bit sweeter. >> yeah, take a look. the players joined by a pups in calendar for a good cause. some of them photographed with their ownfour-legged friends.
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others with dogs up for adoption. >> good for them. these canine calendars are just 20 bucks and you can find them on sale at home games and the kettler iceplex. all proceeds go -- oh, look! >> i want those dogs. little puppies. fair.at's not even >> too cute. >> too cute. >> they people aren't talking about how giant's >> too cute. >> they nature's promise turkey is free from antibiotics. they're not talking, because they're eating. oh, hello. at giant, it's the little things that make mealtime easy,
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leaving more time for those closest to you, during the holidays.
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[ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- michael strahan,

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