news 4 at 11:00 begins with breaking news. and good evening. that breaking news tonight, a montgomery county police cruiser strikes a pedestrian. youan see it in this chopper 4 video here. >> yes, this crash has shut dowa s of georgia avenue. the pedestrian has been rushed

to the hospita i withuries that are said to be traumatic. these are live pictures scene that you can see behind us. news 4's shomari stone is just minutes away. his live report is straight ahead. a 21-gun salute at military installations across the country in honor ofreormerdent george h.w. bush today. guns were fired at one minute intervals. >> a powerful and unprecedented tribute for george h.w. bush the largest ever 21-aircraft missing man formation flew over his presidential library and

museum in college station, texas. vice for mr.e s bush was private. the former president has now been buried. >> this evening's ceremony in texass concludes d of funeral and memorial activities in honid of our 41stent. >> nbc's gabe gutierrez has more on the final journey. >> reporter: tonight, george herbert walker bush reaching his final resting place. the president and patriot laid to rest surrounded by family. the b following a heartfelt funeral at the houston church ere he worshipped for more thanala chentury. james baker recalled the blunt way 41 let him knoll that a conversation was over. >> he would say, baker, if you're so smart, why am i president and you're not? >> b >> reporter: but most of all, he

remembered his partner of more than 60 years as a truly incredible human being. >> we rejoice, mr. president, that you are safely tucked in now, and through the ages, wh god's loving arms around you. because our glory, george, was to have had you as our president n d as such a friend. >> reporter: then,brace. ♪ amazing grace ♪ s howet the sound >> reporter: a solemn son the watched his father leave his adopted hometown for the last time. the casket weaving through the streets of houston, arriving at a special train painted to resemble air force one. a nod to the president's love of locomotives and an opportunity to say good-bye. texans lining up along the 80-mile route to his presidential library, where he's being buried onide his beloved wife barbara and daughter robin. ♪

after a week of tributes, a final farewell. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, houston. >> dignitaries and leaders showed their respect for the former president durin his state funerals here in washington and in texas. and in our c washingtonapp, we have a photo gallery of president bush being mourned by the nation he led. open our app and just search bush funeral. president donald trump is expected to announce state department spokeswoman heather nauert as the next ambassador to the united nations she would replace nikki haley if by the senate. haley announced in october she would resign at the end of the year. nauert is a former "fox and friends" anchor. she's been spokeswoman for the state departmt since april 2017. another cold night out there and storm team 4 meteorologist doug kammerer tells us the chill is going to stick around for awhile.

>>ah, he joins us now with that and just how much this wint storm may be impacting our weekend. how about it, doug? >> yeah, and it's looking lik less and less. we continue to tell you that. let's show you what's happening out the first off today. high of 45 today. the average high today around 50. so, we were well below that again. everybody here in the blues, denoting the cold air that's around the mid-atlantic states and all around our region. aing to continue to be cold tomorrow, asther cold front has moved through. so, cold tomorrow and windy tomorrow. anen, we turn our attention to this storm making its way into parts of california right now, through the south, in toward t southeast and then up towards our area, but not up fak enough to a big impact. we're going to talk much more about this, i'll show you what to erect for y weekend and who has the besthance of seeing flakes in our region. minutes. in ten min ut doug, thank you. you get amber alerts when a child is missing. silver alerts when a senior is

missing. tonight, the senate vot create a missing alert system for adults. the ashanti alert act creates a new federal system for missi and endangered adults from 18 to 64. next, the house takes up the isasure. the ltion is named for ashanti billie. she was 19 years old when she vanished from olno virginia, last year. she was too old for an amber alert, too young for a silver. after 11 days, her found in north carolina. the search for a kidnapper is on tonight in the district after an armed abduction in d.c. police tell news 4 that around i 3:30 morning, a man armed with a knife broke into aome here on west virginia avenue in northeast. that the suspect then kidnapped the couple inside, t drove them an atm and forced them to take out money.

if yecognize this man, police want to hear from you. jurors in charlottesville will soon begin d fate of the young ohio man who drove his car into a group of counter demonstrators after last year's unite the rig rally. closing arguments wrapped up this evening. the key issue before this jury, did jamesields intend to do harm when he gunned his car right into the crowd? >> reporter: this is the photo that captures james fields during the unite the right lly. prosecutors say it shows a young man filled with anger. it a wasfter those earlier violt clashes that had died down that he ran his car into a crowd of counter demonsators. said t prosecutor, quote, this case is about the defendant's conscious decion. what was his intent when he flew that charger into the crowd? thear and the manner in which

he drives it into the crowd is y weapon, the dea same as a knife or gun. prosecutors point out there was ample timeld fors to reconsider his actions as he backed hisir car up to get more running room. but in their closing arguments, fields' attorneys say the young man acted in self-defense, out of fear, telling jurors, quote, the whole weekend was tense and uncertain. and fields' attorneys reminded jurors of his sorrow after his arrest, when police told him heatherey had died, he broke into tears, saying, "i'm sorry." but the prosecutor called fields eel reaction after his arrest self-serving andreminded jurors of this meme fields posted on instagram two b monthsore charlottesville, showing a car slamming into protesters. a meme, she said, fields turned into reality. jurors will have ten charges in all to consider. fields' defense attorneys asking them not to find him guilty of anything more than involuntary manslaughter on the s mostious

charge. prosecutors are asking for first degree murder. in charlottesville, i'm julie a carey, news 4. a montgomery cicnty p cruiser struck a pedestrian tonight. >> shomari stone is o scene. what have you learned? >> reporter: well end goodg. even the southbound lanes on georgia avenue by wheaton mall are closed right now. as you can see, no cars are coming through. behind me is the scene. there was an officer in that marked montgomery county police cruiser, you can see right ere, and he was heading southbound on georgia avenue, appr bchinge ridge avenue near dawson. he hitst a pean, now, keep in mind, this officer, according to authorities, was not onem an gency call, did not have his lights on. he was just driving like police ficers normally do when they're not responding to an emergency. and if you look, let's roll some video fm chopper 4, there is not a crosswalk at this area where thi officer made contact

with the pedestrian, who, police tell me, is an adult male. it's not an elderly person or a child or a teenager, they say at this point, it just an adult male. transported to the hospital by mecs inritical condition with traumatic injuries. an accident reconstruction team is out here taking photos, trying to survey the land, as they try to determine what exently ha. of course, they will look to see if speed was a factor. again, the crosswalk situation, if that pedestrian was down or, atleast, one block, you have university drive, actually, two blocksdown, dawson is one block, and police do tell us that there are issues with pedestrians around this area of a avenue by wheaton. people getting hit by cars, there have been some fatal t accidents with last year or so. and right now, police are continuing to investigate and determine what csed this accident. police have not released the he man the officer or who, by the way, again, is in

critical condition. live here in kwhee on thwheaton shomari stone, news 4. >> shomari, thank you. when we come back tonight, a controversial plan affecting arlington parents and students. the school board acision, and you'll hear bothe siigde bs of this debate. and a man says this veo shows d.c. police humiliating him during a frisk. tonight, he struck a deal with

tonight, the man you see in this video being searched by a police officer is settling with the district.

he sued,laiming the officer's body cavity search on a public street was unjustified. >> d.c. police are not d admittg ng anything wrong. tonight, news 4's jackie bensen spoke to the man about thele sent and his key piece of evidence. >> i didn't wan anything to happen to me again, whether it was to me or somebody else. >> reporter: the cell phone video shows d.c. police officer patting down the man in the groin and buttocks area after officers stopped him and his friends. it was september 17th, 2017, codingham's 39th biehday. humiliation he was subjected to that day led him to the d.c. chapter ofhe american civil liberties union. ou i knew they help me, simply because if i felt it was wrong, they should feel it was wrong, too. >> reporter: the lawsuit acknowledges the group had a

bottle of alcohol kep out of sight of the officers, who askth if they hate any weapons. they did they did not. cottingham confirmed a bulge in his sock contained a legal amount of mari he asked if the officers wanted him to lift his shirt up to show he was not armed. that's when he was searchednd cottingham can be heard commenting on the invasive tss. >> witho video, definitely no one would have believed me. but i'm so glad i did have the video. >> reporter: cottingham received an undisclosed sum. thegey had begun the process to fire the officer. the police department issued a atement that says the officer remains employed in a position in which he does not have contact with the public while he appeals t department's decision. in northwest, jackie bensen, news 4. tonight, the arlington

county school board voted unanimously in favor of the school redistricting plan. some parents say the plan is necessary to address , overcrowdiut others believe it will uproot students unnecessarily. the approved plan changes neighborhood boundaries at eight elementary schools for about 500 students. there are more than 27,000 students in arlington county schools. th district is growing by 800 students a year, and there are schools wplh mul trailers because of the overflow of students. the board says this plan will make more room. ome parents are concerned the communities are being unfairly split up.op the right-hand corner of your license. do you see a star? ifnot, you need to update your i.d. the state is reminding pouple new i.d. standards that go into o effect in year, by 2020, you need to have an identification card teets a new standard. if you don't update your i.d.,

you won't be aple to board a ane. ife you're not a to complete an exercise test, it could mean an earlier death. spanish researchers looked at 13,000 cardiac stress tests, people who couldn't push through the treadmill test were more lioly die from cancer or heart disease. you can do thistest yourself a home, just climb four flights of stairs at a fast pace. if you can't do that without stopping, it may be worth seeing your doctor and exercising more often. and walgreens is launching a next-day delivery service foron prescrip medicines nationwide. it's part of a partnership with fedex. the drugstore chain says for $4.99, you can have prescriptios dr delivered to your doorstep as soon as the next day. walgreens already officers same-day delivery in some

markets and plans to expand that service in 2019. people t on their skates and got on the ice tonight in arlington. kids and adults skated together to celebrate hanukah. they skated to contemporary and classic songs here at pentagon row ice skating rink. that's right there in arlington. and there was a lighting ceremo ceremony. and we hear a whofo lot of good there, too. and a dog that looks pretty darn chilly. and a skating rabbi, too. >> yeah. >> so, cold enough out there to be ice skating. >> good night for that. absolutely. any times around our area, we have all the rinks and it gets so warm this time of year. we have not seen that. we saw 62 on monday, that's the st time i see anything over 50 for awhile here, at least until the end of the ten-day forecast. ou there today, only 45, definitely on the cold side. going to stay that way through the next couple of days. right now, though, we're at 41. normally, i we're 45 during the

afternoon, we cool a lot quicker. but fe've got a coldnt coming our way. so, we have clouds and winds out of the south keeping us warm. temperatures in the 30s in most locations where yesterday by w this timeve already seen some of you in the upper 20s. 36 i gaithersburg, 37 in culpepper. it is kindgf cool. goo be a cold start to the morning. on your friday, 30 degrees at the bus stop . 40 degrees at recess. picking up me we're the kids. chilly and breezy tomorrow. the wind chill is going to be a factor, because oncen, this cold front is coming on through here and it will bring through some colder air. nothing on the radar, though we have a front coming through. it will move through as a dry front. heavy snow in cleveland and buffalo and pittsburgh. but that front really starting to try out as it moves our way. it will bring in a reenforcing shot o cold air and wind gusts.

now, the big storm. in towards parts oca fornia. and it is a big storm already, guys. out there towards parts of califoia, flash flood warnings in effect for san diego. they've already received upwards of two to three inches of rain, nearly a foot of snow from this overnight tonight around the san bernardino county area. and as it moves across the country, rain in phoenix, snow in colorado, new mexico, ints partf west texas. severe weather in parts of the southeast. where it's cold enough, in southern virginia, you're talking about a monster snowstorm. 1 upwards o to 20 inches of snow in the mountains of north carolina a even places like charlotte, a lot of ice is going to be a factor. arounderichmond, could have it. what about our area? just looking at the computer models, and this is being pushed even farther t the south. so, i've been telling you all week i really think is gothg to stay sf us, well, now we're almost positive about that. could it still inch up to the noh, possibly, b we're really looking at this being south of even fredericksbu. we may not see any snow at all in our area.

t a matter of fact, one o latest computer models doesn't have snow in most of virginia no i it pushes that far south. so, at least i know this. we know what's happening. d.c. metro and north, staying dry. yes, still watching the southern zones, but even there, i think we're dry. anything would be late sunday into the day on monday. temperature-wise,till cold. 42 on friday. rather, on your saturday. but most areas in the 30s all day. very cold on sunday. and even cold intk next w before our next storm, that next storm will bring us rain and then we do actually get above 50 degrees. >> all right. thank you, doug. coming up, we've got the latest rnskins quarterback alex smith'sju inry, plus, the terps try and rise to the occasion against purdue >> sherree has all the sports

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this is the xfinity sports desk. >> well, the players got to see him totoday. a field trip out there, huh? >> yeah. some of the redskins got on a bus, the went go to see alex smith to check on him, well wishes. because on sunday, all eyes will be onhird string quarterback mark sanchez. redskins taking on the giants. but most of the talk abjuredr staralex smith. tonight, reports that the redskins qb now dealingith infection after multiple surgeries on his broken right leg. alex smith's c playingeer might be in jeopardy. teammates, though, still showing support. several of them visiting the hospital. jay gruden did not say anything more about the injury, though. the family wanting some privacy. the team respecting at. now, moving onto college hoops. 23rd ranyld md men with their first conference road

test. ght the best outing for the terps. have been looking ahead to tough sister jean and lola chicago next. but visiting purdue, trying to make it two straight big ten wins. second half, maryland turnsep th "d." bruno fernando with the block. terps heading the other way, anthonycowan for the slam. maryland up three. this was a back and forth game. later in the half, purdue down two. they go to the preseason big ten player of the year, carson edwards, draining the adgo three. boilermakers do not trail after that. final seconds, maryland down two. cowan for the game-winning three, but no. blocked. maryland does not make a field goal in the final four m4:20. they fall 62-6g movin over to the football lode. mike sley introduced as the new head coach of the maryland football team today. it's a return home for the d.c.

native. he was an assistant at maryland and also knows a thing or two about win ig, working at the top ranked alabama crimson tide the last three years under nick saban. one of the best in the ga you don't know. but when the chance to come to college park came up, it was a no brainer for locksley. >> this is the job that i got into coaching that i coveted. this job has meanthe world to from the time i got into coaching, i've obviously spent ten years of my coaching career here at maryland and i've beele abo see what this sleeping giant looks like when it's up and runnin with my threeea y under coach and the success we had. so, the opportunity and timing met a it's just been a great opportunity for me. all right, to arizona. caps and some of fans visiting the coyotes. second period, caps down 1-0. evgeny kuznetsov. jacob rana hanging around, tying twthe game at o.

later, phoenix copleyn the net for the caps, clears the puck to travis boyd, finding the birthday boy, matt niskanen. that's copley's first career nhl econdary he got the assist. this game tied at two. but in the third, andrei burakovsky, man, breaks free. he did not miss. still the thd, the caps lead, 3-2. burky giving the caps a go ahead goal they need. they trying to snap a two-gamek losing right now. a couple minutes left. >> let's do it. watch your phone. >> thank you, ♪ [doorbell] ♪ ♪

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an update from sherree's phone, caps, 4-2, it's done. >> final. >> all right, go caps. "tonight show" is next. we'll see you tomoow. ♪ [doorbell] ♪ ♪ when you have doctors working as a team for your health,

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