deadly form of cancer. tonight, a border battle as he threatens to close the border with mexico permanently. agentsired tear gas. >> this as the stage is setor another shutdown showdown. the president is demanding biions for his border wall. we have team coverage. ster holt is in our studio. let's begin with blayne alexander. >> that tension on the border is increasing tension on capitol hill west could see a partial government shutdown by the end of next week. one of the biggest points of contention is over the fun ng for the border wall. today, president trump threatening to close the southern border for good aft a weekend showdown. tear gas was launched.

>> they had to be used because they were being rushed by some very tough people. and here's the bottom line. nobody is coming into our country unless they come in legally. >> the clash leading to a six-hour showdown of the u.s./mexico border nearan diego. they are claiming stone cold criminals. do it by plane, bus, any way you want, but they are not coming into the usa. it comes as administration officis say the u.s is trying to broker a deal with mexico that would allow migrants seeking asylum to stay in mexico while awaiting a decision. so f mico says no deal. >> the tension at the border mirrors in washington where president trump is threatening partial government shutdown unless congress approves $5 billionor a borde wall. >> you've already heard

republicans e some hesitance about shutting the government down. in the past, they have not been able to corral the money on their side alone. >> meaning they would need on rk democrats who would be a hard set. th parties gearing up for a fightn less t two weeks away. washington. >> lester holt is here. he'll be anchoring "nightly news." >> border crisis that we've been looking at for all the frustrated mig at the border that were met with tear gas and certainly a lot of concern that t will play out differently the next time something like thas ens. i keep in mind, there are thousands who camthe caravan on the mexico side of the border. it involved several hundred people. hot of th will depend on how uickly we get this issue clarified. the current way they come to the

u.s. border. they come into the country. the president wants that to happen in mexico. he says a deal was struck. the mexicans face no such deal. folks on the road for a very long time with one set of expectations. >> had getting two sets of answers. >> president trump is in mississippi, or he's going for two different rallies. he's running for the open senate seat there. she has gotten herself tangled in some issues including comments she made about pub c hanging in a state that had more lynchings than any other. you know fullha well whaened with trent lott a found years ago. he thought segregation was okay. what do you know, whato you think about where we are? >> mississippi is still large stlay red e. a republican state. how that will work in this

racial vacuum is hard to say. there's mo there's more consciousness, racial history, theomments out lynching. that strikes a dark picture certainly for the south. in mah, mississippi. it will be a test of whether we ca embrace this history, if there is some sense of shame in this history. >> a lot of charged language being used in our discourse now. thank you. >> the reporting on nbc "nightly news" right after news4 at 6:00. to some breaking news heard around the country. thousands of employees hook for a knew job after a shake-up at

general motors. they plan to slash nearly 15bs00 nd close down five of the american manufacturing facilities. that includes tee autoa s, auto assembly plants. 300 w workersl be looking for work in ball. another facility is in ohio where go wkers werhell shocked. >> it felt like somebody kicked me in the stomach. >> gm says the shipping is focused on, it says the focus will be on other areas. we're talking abouthe record books and the weather. >> we're going to be dry the

next few days. with today's rain, we're now rainiest november on record. and the third wettest year on record. and we still have over a month to go in e 18. i thinkll be the wettest year on record. only a few very light showers showing up on storm team 4 radar. some of these to the ea. continuing to push toward areas like savage. s you ca as i widen out, most are completely dry.nl not are we drying out but clearing out as well. we'll be breezy out there. we're down to around 45 and 11:00 p.m., 43yesesdegrees. i'll let you know what you can expect hour by hour coming up. >> all right. thank you. prosecutors say it is beyond

hazing. tonight, disturbing new details after an alleged locker room assault at damascus high school. four players are charged with raping their teammates. i can tell you the courtroom was packed with the parents of the 15-year-old suspect w's are now facing life in prison. a successful high schoolam football proow overshadowed with disturbing allegations.'r we learning new details about what allegedly happened inside th locker room at damascus high school on halloween. according to documents, caleb thorpe, will smith, jean abedi and kristian lee assaulted four freshmen teammates with a broom stick. it happened while the victims

were getting ready in the locker room. police say the smallest teammates were targeted. the ones the suspects thought uldn't fight back but they did and shouted for the attacks to stop. the 15-year-old suspects appeared in court and listened as prosecutors told the judge, the victims were stomp on, laughed at and thrown to ae ground in the defendants are calling a hazing ritual. >> i am offended by the term hazing. these are crimes. >> montgomery state's attorney said his team revealed all the evidence and concluded the 15-year-old should beed cha as adults. david represents will smith. and the three others said they couldn't disagree more. >> he's never had any kind of disciplinary problem. >> reporter: that was the same

argument the defense attorneys made. they are expected backn court for a preliminary hearing as soon as friday. back to you. >> thank you. jury selection appears to be off to a slow start in the tri of the man in charlottesville. he is accused of kling heather hayier and others. fields i o fromo and had been known in high school to have a fascination withtl and aziism. histtorneys say jurors will hear evidence and he thought he had been acting in self-defense. coming up, a police force in mourning. an officer killed in the line of duty. they lay their lives down all the time. my hrt is broken.

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the rain is the moving out but the winds are moving in. the same system dumped snow in the midwest. in colorado, more than threeet fe of snow fell. in colorado, people are dealing with snow and dangerous drivings can is that in chicago, the storm grounded hundreds of flights a o'hare international airport and knocked out power to tens of thousands of people. a growing memorial in winchester for a young police officer killed in the line of duty. he was killed as his patrol car stru tree. today, julie carey spoke with his new wife who is now suddenly a widow. she told usbout edwards' love of policing.

>> reporter: first resnders paying solemn tribute as the body was returned. later, fellow officers gathered with the they have been married just two months and he considered her son his ow >> he was a good person. >> loved policing, his mother tells me. his father was an officer a i she wa law enforcement, too. >> i think there was never any doubt in his mine that was the career path that would be t perfect one for him. >> saturday night edwards was rushing to respond to calls in a big fight. he lost control of his car and hit a tree. he later died at the hospital. it is no surprise he was hurrying to help fellow ce offirs. >> he didn't have to be asked to do that. he just took the initiative. >> this police department video

captures hunter edwards being remembered. he trainedor the department s.w.a.t. team. >> any time you have a line of duty death, it creates a huge hole and it is very painful to the men and women in the department. >>ve hopebody recognizes the job they have and t danger they go through. >> to know an oicer has fallen and not with us anymore. >> already representativ of other agencies who have come to help wherever needed. the funeral is planned friday at the church of god. news4. >> it's a part of district that ots seen a of violence. one man was shot and killed. another was wounded after shots re fired along benning road in northeast.

there was talk about the victim's grandmother at the scene. >> reporter: a dispute could have led to this. the family has ideified the victim as 21-year-old randall francis. theyay he was a model. a fewinutes ago i talked to his grandmother. >> you heard he was at the school. and they came back and shot him. over there. >> repter: what do you make of something like that? >> uncalled for. >> got another young man over there who lost his life as a result of an illegal firearm. >> reporter: more sadness. more bloodsd on benning road. another man killed in broad day height this afternoo there have been a number of shootings this year and ateast three murders within walking distance of the scene today.

the commissioner says outside drug dealers are brig trouble into thene hborhood. >> people come over here and they think it is the epicenter for drug activity. they are relics. they can't come bk over here to continue their drug activity. >> reporter: and the threat of violence like this has peopleon benningantly looking over their shoulder. >> all day every today. the other day, a shooting in thf alley 19th street. i don't know what we can do. >> are you scared to live around here? >> i'm looking for a place. i have my house. if i can't come out, it is doing me no good. there are a lot of crime s.

came it is likely they will give the cops the evidence they need close this case of murder. back tyou. >> thank you. some loud blasts today. if you hear them. the glass will loosen. each explosion only lasts a f seconds. the purple lien is not part of -- it is expected to open in 2022. we've been talking about it for quite while. a wegman's grocery store and today we're learning where i will be built. they plan to call it city ridge. it wil s on the old site of the fannie mae.

along with wegman's, therebe wi a hotel and more than 600 apartments and condos. >> no one will be me e than and you doug kammerer. up next, ctroversy in the medical world. a sign says he's altered the blue printor

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the white house isll decked out for the holidays. this year's theme is american treasures. this was a gold star tree which honors troops and their . famili >> and she gets totay indoors. the wind is coming in tomorrow. >> it sounds like we're in for another change in the weather. now it isll about the wind.

still bre y onthursday. with today's rain, we're now the third wettest year on record and the rainiest november on recordd tomorrow,sday and thursday, it is blustery and it is cold. however, uniformiti, i'm watching the weekend. a chance for some raha. i d a chance for showers saturday as well as sunday.we e at 51 degrees. it is already a bit breezy with winds gusting up to 20 miles an hour. it will be breezy as cold air filters into the region. 40 degrees and at morgan wn, about 25 degrees in pittsburgh. so this will be moving in overnight and that is with us

tomorrow. wednesday and thursday. tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m., we start at 38 degrees.co that's . when you factor in the wind, we'llave windchi temperatures in the 20s. so make sure the kids are bunled up at the bus stop. we only war to a high of 46 and we head out tomorrow afternoon. so tomorrow, 25 degrees belowno al. tomorrow evening, 7:00 p.m. it is dry. we're at 39egrees at 7:00 in the evening. as we take a look at the rn outlook, we're dry tuesday, wednesday and thncsday. the c for some showers later in the day friday and some scattered showers in the forecast for saturday. again, plenty of dry time saturday and sunday. here's the foreca. on wednesday. notice, we're starting off 30 degrees with 20s in the suburbs. another cool start and then friday, the chance for rain

later in the day. ll have that complete forecast coming up. as the aborter battle intensifies. inside a sprawling government facility that helps train thousands of border patrol agents every year. students in some charles county high schools are having to wear these photo i.d.dg baes. to wear these photo i.d.dg baes. how sch

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tonight there'sn escalation in president trump's bored he battle. >> he is threatening to close the border wh san diego permanently. migrants rushed the bored he fence. agents fired tear gas at them. the president called the migrants some very tough apeop. many women and children and many hope to enter the country legally to seek asylum. >> thousands of border agents train right here in our area. >> customs officials have been preparing for border walls and unexpected incidents along the u.s./mexico border for sever

years. >> there isat a government capitol complex. inside you'll find an army of agents training on a shooting range. strange to make rescues. and aheck for illegal manmade tunnels. s it is aawling campus that more resembles a college. it is a trainingor academyhe men and women who work the front lines training 8,000 employees each year. this agent runs and it says there's no politics here they prefer to talk about the training itself. >> it is what we do.ik we to discuss it. we like to talk about it. >> this allow them to create hundreds of scenario that's can be customized from a mass shooting at a movieheater -- >> go back and sit down! >> to a diffielt roads stop preparing their posts at local

airpor at the southwest border. and there's a training border fence here. if a new wall is built they'll change howt loo but in the meanyme, the train for assaults against officers at this spot because so many happen at this fence. that's what they were doing today. training to save an injured agent. we followed it. a would be attacker fired cks. >> you have to always expect the worst. >> they focus on nonlethal force first trying to subdue theh attacker wit pepper spray to slow the attack. >> you never know what you're going to encounter or the people are thinking or what their intentions are. >> especially for border.

they often send teams into remote locations where health and back-up can be slow to arrive. >> it may be a couple days away if we run into trouble. we have to deal with situations like that. >>eing a border patrol agent is one of the most dangerous if not the most j dangerous in all of law enforcement. >> he helps oversee training re. >> you're out on the border, by yourself many times,ou're facing offenders you can't even reach. >> so much is uncertain as the white house and congress considers a new wall and considers adding a fet ofew officers. >> it never changes. >> they say they'll be ready. meaning this campus could soon be morecrowded. >> and a report says there may be a need to expand it.

>> you can watch all the i-team's recent reports and send them your tips. >> metro warns of delays because service will be cut in half with trains running abo every 16 minutes. this is all to accommodate two weeks of work on bridges. you can find the work-arounds. a new effort to secure our schools and keep your children fe. now the require to wear photo i.d. badges.

darcy spencer explains what else they are hoping to do with this technology. >> students are scanning their new photo id badges. starting today, every student in the school is required to wear one. brianna is a jr. >> good to be safe. better to be safe than sorry. >> it is part of a pilot program toro ive save in a school with 1150 students. next year every student in the district will have one. >> just looking forward to getting thefeedback. to make sure that we are doing what i am paid to do, to keep them that a safe environment. >> it will help school officials identify who is supposed to be here and who is not. >> are they close to the building? what school doel they bg to? >> officials are hoping the use the card in new ,wa for school attendance, in making sure

for during accounted an emergency that requires a school evacuation. students will be able to use the bar code here to buy food in the cafeteria and check out a book in the library. while there waso specifying threat in the program, some students point to an incident this year. someone came in and allegedly starting a fight. >> a lot of the school shootings that happen are students within the school so it does give them ss but it also does make the school secure. >> we ccked with other school districts. d.c. students have the d.c. one card which offers them access to d.c.acilities and programs. fargs and montgomery counties do not he stude ids. prince george's has some ids but not bar codes.

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an nbc investigation has uncovered somes troubling n about a potential link between certain breast implants and a rare form of cancer. fnearly h a million american women have breast implants approved by the food and drug administration. but there's evidence that some could be linked to saert type of him foama. as one woman learned after she had heremimplantsed. >> it was full of the disease. >> did you think thiould be cancer? >> never, never.

my plastic surgeon didn't bring it up to me. my obgyn never spoke to me. nobody. >> the nbc news investigation found that certain times of implicated.y be a chinese researcher is troversy in the medical field right now after announcing that he edited the dna of newborn twins. the scientists whose work has no been verified said he altered genes from embryos during fertility treatment. it is controversial and allowed in some countries and that includes the u.s. when it comes to embryos intended for pregnancy. >> scientists claim they have developed a tool that rewrites the blue print of life.

he said he altered dna under microscope editing the gentetic code. >> i know this is probably going to b the first. so if i have any problems, it may ruin the entire field. >> he said gene editing was done ring in-vitro fertilization. severalompanies took part. it was to disable a specifying gene, in this case, to disable the aids viru an american ethics expert said genediting isoth pre mature and unethical. >> we have a lot of work to do

to prove and establish thatpr t edure is actually safe. i would say that no babies should be born at this point in time following t use of this technology. the risk i is that could permanently alter dna for future genetions. but the researcher said it is indicative of and the university in china that tones lab says it violated ethics and standards and it plans to nbc news.. some called it a grid lock game changer. why commuters could one day be charged through certain parts of the city. and a november to remember has the year's rainfall makes history.

today is expected to be the biggest online shopping day eves in the there are still good deals to be had. the google homemini, $25, half off. the x-box bald field v bunl. $430. t andhe door bell echo dot. could i keep going but you can look for yourself. it isat est that shoppers will spend nearly $8 billion today. black friday was also a recorda breaking for online shopping. we spent a record $6 billion

online friday. nearly a third of that $2 billion was done on our phones. caught in the act, four local women caught up. accused of stealing about $6,000 out of the mall at tyson's. lastfriday, two women ran out of the store with bags full of merchandise. a third woman hopped in the car with a fourth woman. >>he suspect vehicle tried to make also way between vehicles that were stopped for a red light a light. >> there was a child ithe car too, not harmed though. police say detectives, some of them in plain clothes, welcome out monitorg the halls throughout the holidays. it is something we can ll

relate to. how do you fix the congestion? a new report is out with a lot of suggestions. some controversial. adam tuss has been digging through for drivers. how do we improve the transportation network so we all get time back. now, new recommendations for how we can fix it l. better marc and dmv train service and how about this? a london type congestion. >> this cuts across administrations. >> it just released the new report. it is backed by high profile. the thought, troet it as one big

group. today 50% of people live in a different district than where they work. the funding h that been approved shows this region can work together. it depds whoou talk to. he doesn't even want a car. >> everything is in the city. it is clear. once you start talking about specific ideas. >> he lives in d.c. the type of resident on drive downtown. i think it makes more sense. it at least pushes faster. news4. >> a lot of questions and ideas.

we're expected to find out more details about the report. do you think we're going to get the big one before the year is ou >> do. what he's talking about, we're within an inch of being the wettest year on record. we're now the third wette year. we picke up .4 of an inch. check it out. despite the rain, the capitol christmas tree arrived, 82 feet tall. thiseighs more thaneven tons and it will be decorated with 60,000 lights, 10,000 ornaments and they are hand made by residents. as we check storm team 4, we're mainly dry across the area.

just a few sprinkles in through parts of carro county. we're drying out. i clearing out. it's still breezy but there is a chance forai tomorrow. it grab an umbrella. thisweekend, you'll be blowing in the wind the next few days. take a picture of your outdoorl y decorations and post to it our facebook page. include the hashtag as well and doug m come to y yourd to visit. we're 51 in the district after a high today of 52. 46 in frederick and 50 degrees in coculpeper. air moving in overnight tonight. this is what we step out the door to. tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m.

30s degrees in the district. 34 in annapolis.in fe about 27 in leesburg. and it only feels like we're in the 30s. 4:00 in the afternoon. it is still a cold one out e. th 7:00, 8:00 p.m. we're still tracking blustery winds. feeling about 30 degrees in gaithersburg. it is going to be a cold and wintry day. all in eaall, theer having an impact on your day. make sure the kids have their coats at the b stop. here's a quick peek at the weekend. 50 on tuay. 62 on sunday. and a chance of rain for both days but it dsn't lookike a washout saturday or sunday.re >> w getting new information

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>> when is the last time you got a ring after youroke up? >> i got one ring after i broke up with a boy butno that' where this ring came from. it is from someone else. >> tonight's capitals game might be the most anticipated match-up of the regular season. for the first time, they're facing their former head coach barry trotz. getting a warm greeting from his former team, receiving the ring from alex ovechkin. then he went around the dressing room saying hello to former ayers and his former assistant now head coach todd irreden. invited back into the dressing team.andhe addressing t on the other side, coaching the

point bust that moment and memories not lost on trotz. >> there are great memories, the work you put in, the incredible things we did together. we can do it again, o. you can do it again. it is going to be really hard to not like you guys. it really is. f old time's sake, stay hydrated. tom one championship tea another. the redskins putting the

thanksgiving loss behind them. turningheir attention to the eagles. they allowed for a few more d neededays for practice. jordan reed, one of a bunch of players sitting out the bonus practice. he is dealing with a bruise. one guy ting full advantage of the extra work. thompson hasn't played or practiced much. help.ll be a huge he was admittedly rusty. causing three interceptis. he get a full week of practith. sog he hasn't had yet as a starter. >> we're trying to get alex ready to go. it is just good for him toet reps.he i expect improvement but it is not a lot of time to get ready game. >> he can't do anything but get

better. a week to study as the number one guy. of course, we want to play it. we have to play better around him also. looking to stay in the win column. the wizards host the houston rockets. both teams missing some fire power. dwight howard will miss his urth straigh game withea glut soreness. could this bene of the teams bradley beale plays? with he has made it known he wants out pronlt over. this aer a week of turmoi finally this year, ful of celebrations in the nfl butst o night, minnesota one of the favorites. dalvin cookcoring the first vikings touchdown of the game. do you know how they celebrate? hoist him up and do the limbo. hoist him up and do the limbo. i love that they brought the

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