with reaction. >> reporter: thiis the verdict the friends and family had hoped for after a crime that rocked this community. with theiron deci jurors have found that james fields had an intent to kill. it has been a verynimotional t at the courthouse. take a look at some video. this is his mother leaving the court. she declined comment. james shields faces up to life in prison. a self-described nam-nazie leom his them to charlottesv to join white nationalistsn

that union tight white rally. he sat in his dodge challenger on fourth street. watched the counter demonstrators for a moment. put the car in reverse to get more runningoom and then put on the accelerator, crashed into the crowd and injuring heather heyer and injured others. a person was thrown up against the truck. her pelvis was broken in five places. >> i could not be me ecstatic. they tried to throw out my case specifically. and i'm glad the jury saw through that. and this is the best i've been in a year and a half. >> reporter: a lot of expressions of joy at this verdict. a group of people gathered on the steps and began channelleg,

wh streets? our streets. that's the chant they were using that day when fields drove into thcr d. they've been celebrating that the white nationalists were tavingn until that fateful motel. the sentencing phase is coming up next. that will start on monday and again when we will hear from these victims. we'll hear from heather heyer's mo and many of their lives have been changed by the injuries they suffered including the woman from virginia that had both hers broken. i don't know if you can hear it now. there is some c nting down the street. some people celebrating this decision. president trump's personal fixer, meeg cohen, should get a substantial prison sentence for cheating the irs, lying to congress and trying to sway an election. but robert mueller's team in a

separate stencing memo says cohen has gone to significant lengths to help tir investigation into russian meddling in 2016. the two cou filings came just before 5:00 for a judge to consider before stencing cohen next week. >> the former fbi director james comey came out of closed door testimony with members of the house judiciary committee. he did not have mucho say about his testimony which will be released in a transcript form. but he did nameill barr. he is troubled by the president's treatment of the justice department.o >> matter what political party you're in, should you find troublinly and continue to speak out about, not become numb on attacksn the rule of law. >> a lot of news in the last

hour or so. >> jennifer? >> let's start wit micha cohen. as up, he is facing substantial prison time on eight felony charges including paying hush money to f adultm star stormy daniels on behalf of president trump. also, evading taxes. but special counsel robert mueller is no recommending additional time for like to . congre president trump went on a twitter tirade in anticipation about all of this ase was working on the attorney general. >> michaep' president tr personal lawyer, was given a substantial felony term including paying stormy daniels hush money. heha arguedt it cooperationwi special counsel mueller should spare him a lengthy

prison time. butmu ler. he laid to congress about the skyscraper meeting with people from moscow. president trump went on a twitter tirade. the president's tweets took shotst theational intelligence director james clammer and former craft j directn brennan. >> i think mr. trump is seeing more and more othe walls closing in on him which is why he is increase ily. brass. >> the russia investigation c takingter stage as democrats express concern about the president's picko be the next attorney general, william barr, who served as former ag under the first president bush. >> he was respected by republicans and democrats. >> reporter: the minority

accusing nancy pelosi. comey came out of that meeting a little while ago and he said much centered on the hillary clinton e-mailcontroversy. he said these meetings that were behind closed doors shoul tbe opthe public. he is back on capitol hill december 17 ? >> back to you. >> a whole lot of news. thank you. we may not have a winter storm to wor about this weekend. >> but section still plenty cold out there. >> some 20so low 30s. mainly clear skies. we're running about fiveeno degrees below normal. right now, otu tempe is in the 30s. >> 44 degrees but down to 31. 37 right now in the district. ta look at the temperature

trend into the weekend and early next our average high now, 39 degrees. monday into tuesday, only warming into the low 40s for a high. so this stays mainly to the south. some of us could see a storm or a wintry mix. 20-year-old diamond moore was found in the street on homes run parkway. she was found in a pretty populatedea. bordered by high re apartment buildings on one side and a recreation area on the other side. poo not believe there is a threat to the community. this is the fourth murder of the year in the city. >> two days after a relevant

estate sales executive was murdered in a home the victim was steven wilson. he was found shot to death. an 18-year-old neighbor discovered the killing. >> police are looking for clues in this area near this nome hanover, maryland. the sales representative was shot. his cell phone and laptop was stolen. >> it really hurts me. >> this woman sa-- she is so nervous, she hasked us to not face.her >> there was a sgom two kids on the phone as the home screen.

i looked up steve wilson.p i looked his facebook and i saw his family. and i compared the pictures on my android on the iphone. it was his phon tip from the public led detectives to this trailer park within walking dings. police raided this home breaking windows. >> thank you. to the community and the hanover areao give us the puzzle pieces. weould not haveotten this done in 31 hoursithout you. >> no one answered when i knocked on e trailer door. >> people who live nearby know the suspect and his family. >> i know the parents. their very nice people. they're a little leery.

>> his family says we are credibly grateful to the efforts of investigators who have tirelessly worked nonstop killed the person w steven wilson. a go fnld me page has beenet u up the more stars you see by a restaurant's name online the y bett expect your meal to be. now a similar system being used to rate public schools. >> good schools can attract people to neighborhood. bad schools can make them leave. often word of mouth or opinions are all you have to go on to decide. now a new ratingsystem a report card and stars for each of the schools. >> they make the decision about

which school or schools are best fetz for their children. >> this school got one star.n woodrow wilot four. >> for the lowest performing of schools, those schools in the bottom 5%, we will look at employees. >> they are based too much on st stores that account for 70% of the rating. the critics say it doesn't recognize factors like students whose english is their second language. it doesn't tell you how good the school is. >> it is what the officials are banking on for now and there's $11 million to help underperforming schools pre.

if you need to know more, saturday there will be dcfs to get your questions answered. the maryland state board of edn uses the star four high schools received five star ratings in montgomery . coun historically high ranking walt whitman hi school did not. in prince george's county, the academy of health sciences got five stars. up next, we go back to chuck todd as we try to digest this news about michael cohen and his assistance to robert muelr. stay tunleed

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mainly in texas and parts of north carolina and virginia could see up to 20 inches of snow. that's not in our forecast. >> all right. we'll student for that. thank you. the pace of politics continues at brake neck speed as we barrel toward the end of the year. >> a lot of legal developments to digest with the russia investigation. >> another shake-up at the white house with two new nominees and reports that the chi of staff really on the way out this time. >> aes comey testified capitol hill for two committees about to lose their subpoena power. >> and a welcome pause in the chaos. a grateful nation pauses to pay tribute to the late president george herbert walkerbu . the tributes were wonderful.

it seal hike we had a full day of news. >> chuck is the political director at nbc news and "meet the press." we're just hearing that michael con is said to have talked with president trump about meeting with the russians. >> let me lay it out. there were three court filings faye have to deal with potential prison terms, sentencing guidelines to decide how fast time should michael cohen serve, we're still just getting the memo in. >> most of its redacted. he has had contacts with theho white e even after he told the special counsel he did not. >> there are that's pardon

shopping, he is in big trouble. the government is stating without equivocation that the president as an individual ordered micha cohen to commi a crime in the payoff of the two women. pure point blank there. if he were not the the united states, he probably would be indicted as well. any other personal would be s indicted for t crime. because it is a question of whether you can indict a sittinr ident, that is not done. we've also learned more about the moscow project. trump tower in moscow. and then some very vague references.e this didn't h redactions but it might as well might have. he said if michael cohen was able toth corroborate evidence that we found with other russian contactsn including attempt to get trump and putin to meet back in september of '15 during a u.n.

general assembly week i york city, a time when the world leaders came, and then other instances of potentially creating this person reached out to michaelohen to what was described as political. if we could make this project workt will be political synergy in helping the campaign. so maybe that's another synonym ese days for collusion. it should michael cohen didn't pursue that avenue because he was pursuing another investment in russiaith another third partyrussian. and one other iortant point, it said that michael cohen not only admitted l toe to congress about what did he when it comes to nde president this russia project. but before he testified to congress, he circulated his testimony to other members of the administration.

the question is who? it a government official? inividual one, the president this, that's what we don't know. it appears that robert mueer is pursuing an aggressive obstruction of justice charge as well. the is, these memos indicate that number one, this is even moreio s than we ever thought. mueller has a lot more evidence than we know of. you now have the merican justice system essentially outlining a number of crimes th even the president was aware of. or p essentially helped direct. how coming just stands by and doesothing on this -- e're at a new level. >> i think so. >> let's go back to where we started watching your coverage. the memorialsor president george h.w. sh.

>> was that a turng point for the president? >> i guess i would hold out hope this there is an individual that tapped tappeded serve. doing something pitically unpopular in the moment. it can stinhce your legacy in the history books. we say all one term predents ar essentially by definition, that means they weren't a good president. this is not the .ca it was always the sense that managing the end of the cold war. >> we've seen that not a shot was ever fired. we didn't have the breakdowns and problems in eastern europe th we could have had. i think in hindsight people

realized, this wa a steady hand. so does the elected official hear that and say, maybe i can do that. someing politically unpop hard in the moment. >> legacy matters. >>gh alth george h.w. bush always. i don't talk about the l word. >> there's so much more weould lk to you about.'l to have wait until sunday. >> he may ask for a secondhour. >> all right. chuck todd, "meet the press." coming up at 6:00, the u.s. president asks for a bill. talkg about saving adults who talkg about saving adults who go ssmig.

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who would think you would have to head to charlotte or asheville toe see s snow. we are staying completely dry. first check out the weather headlines. this weekend's forecast,ll about the cold mperatures. the consensus is it is a long shot for us to see really any snow. if we do, it would be sunday night. in addition to that, more rain is in the forecast. it will be the wetnst year record. here's the latest on our snowan s. but it's a long shot. i don't have it down to no chance. still keeping it 10 to 30%. what i've done is put four computer models on the board. these other three are various types of computer models.

noce that the most important thing, our area, washington, is completely also notice the snow around roanoke in every compute model. this is sunday night at 8:00 p.m. and then weee morein. more of a wintry mix. so shis stormtem on our doorstep. we're talking about a difference of 20 to 30 miles. nothing at all with accumulating snowfall likely on monday. it is only 10 to 30%. and that'sreor the in red. down around the leonard town area. king george county. for most of us, a fewrries down there. if you really cross your fingers. fro on saturday for a high.

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jurors will be returning to co on monday for thent encing of james fields. >> the self-described white ndpremacist was fou guilty late this afternoon of all charges including the first-degr murder of heather heyer. julie carey is getting new reaction in charlottesville right now. she will joines l later in

this half-hour. >> meanwhile the local family is turning their tragedy intog somethpositive. >> you may remember this young woman. ashanti billing was abducted in virginia and found dead in north she is from prince george's county. >> this afternoon a major step forward for aew law for the entire country to protect missing people like ashanti. our prince george's county bureau chief talked to achaneli's parents today. felle was 19 years old a through the cracks in our system. >> markarner is talking about all people whose ages between the amber and silver alert system. last night they passed a bill close the gap. >> out of this loss of ashanti, perhaps we couldhi do som to prevent it. >> billie was abducte from a

naval base in december of 2017. her family who lived in prince george's county had to depend oh social media tp get the word out. >> their daughter is missing and they have to, on their own, post meages, walk neighborhood. >> her body went missing. a navy veteran was charged with the murder. this is to help adults between the ages of 19 and 65 who are taken against their will. today, her mom discussed the alert means for the memory of her daughter and other potential victims. >> every time we see an ashanti alert, it is like a hug from her. hey, dad, i'm okay. i'm still here and i'm still helping people like did i when i was here. >> it n needs to go to the house for approval.

meanwhile, herom tells me, she is focusing her efforts on a foundation toss offertance to families with missing loved ones. 4. ne >> working for you with a traffic alert. the memorial bridge set c tose again this weekend. starting at 9:00. ss than threeours from now, the bridge will completely be closed to cars, cyclists and pedestrians. the high of and lasting legacy of our friend jim vance has a scholarship program. today, archbishop high school in northeast d.c ueiled their new jim vance media prografo many years he personally

funded college scholarships so college seniors could attend hi orically blackuniversities. after his passing, the school got a $5 million gift to create this new program in his name. >> school fours,ye scholarship opportunities, to study might have had and journalism. >> we want to make sure that his legacy continues. >> every year, about 20 students known as vance scholars will receive full scholarships. >> what an honorohim. to be connected to his name. >> i had no idea of his involvement. >> he just did it under the radar. >> one year he asked me to f fi him. he asked me to emcee and i was told i would be awarding the jim

vance scholarship. so he kept quiet about it b it has produced a wonderful program. it is a pop hard movie that just received a bunch of golden globe nominations. >> coming up, barbara harrison tells the story behind the real african-americans in the jim crow south. and where you can experience that piece of history. >> it is a cold night. temperatures are already down to the 30s. >> we'll have the latest on that winter storm system and if it has any impact

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charlotte, people are celebrating the verdict of james fields. >> you mentioned people were marcng earlie now we understand you have some new video of that happening. >> it has been a noisy night. we heardome chanting so we went to check it out. we found some of the surving victims and their friends, celebrating this verdict against james fields. the ten guilty charges. this group too to the streets. the fateful drive int the crowd. many of the saix do you meaner demonstrators in this group tonight. they are joyful and celebrating.

>> he will nevertop us. >> we will fight in heather's memory. >> this isay the that the lord has made. and we will rejoice and be glad in it. whose street? our street. >> and as you can see, their march ended at the very spoter where hea heyer was killed. they feel like a load has been lifted. and his reaction to this ic ve there was no reaction. >> all right. thank you so much. still ahead, using the green book was the only safeway to travel if you were black in the 1930s. and the story is inspiring a movie. barbara harrison wh the history behind the film.

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the deep south. >> the book was a guideo keep the two men safe on the road. >>1938 america. you could own a car. a de soto like this one maybe. but if you were y black,'d better not travel too far without this. the green book. shown here oan interactive wall shown here. >> it was such a challenge. it was hard enough just to get from a to b. the reality was race got in the way. >> he said traveling by car as many americans were doing in the late 1930s could be dangerous, even deadly, if you werebl k. >> we have examples of people who were kled because they went to the wrong gas station. if you went to the motor cou to rest for the night. you were told you couldn't come here.

>> the green book became something of a bible for avoiding the pain and discrimination. >> the green book said i will notify cities around the country. will say here are restaurants where you know you can be treated fairly. here hotels and here gas stations. >> to experience why it was such a valuable tool for black families, they offered a ride through the jim introduce south. >> you know grandma will be thrilled to see you. >> it has an inactive dashboard of sorts to help you see whatt was like to travel when you knew you might not be able to stop for gas because you weren't welcome. d to be prepared when hotels and motels were not willing to rent r to you. >> we don't have any rooms for you. >> reporter: the green book was the brain child of a man named

victor green in new york city. >> he had seen when he went to a place to have dinner, he was told they didn't serve colored people. >> they wanted to create a where people could travel and know where to avoid the embarrassment of being turned away. got his information for the book from people who traveled often. >> he talked to pullman porters. >> the last printing of the green book was in 19. things hav changed a lot since then. >> there is no doubt in my mind that it is disappointing when you see renewed racial violence. when you see the kin searchism that we thought we put behind us. so what i hopehis museum always does is that it helps you understand the challenges that we face. >> and the lesson having that interactive car to deal with. the author of the book was on

that miss fwik the future. he wre, there will be a day when this book won't have to be blished. he s a day when money was taken everywhere, for food, gasoline, for a good night's sleep. six years after the fin publishing of the green book, the act of 1964 made it illegal to discriminate in all publi accommodations in the united states. of course, we know that it didn't happenovernight and there are still places where people do havems prob but getting into a restaurant -- >> what a powerful exhibit. >> really, really powerful. you know what's inte lsting. yorn a lot there. onlygas stations were the ones that allowed black customers to come. >> & use the restroom as well as the to buy gas.

>> i did not know that. >> she's back with morebo our weather and the snow we're not going to get. >>pe lly. as a meteorologist, when you say that, just know that thereyill be rea impressive amounts in virginia and north carolina. the forect better pan out. in all seriousness, i'm looking at many different computer models and most in agreement that we won't see anything except may be a few flurries in area sunday night. so kids, enjoy your weekend. you're probabl lely heading into school monday. but check this out. i put the watches and warnings on the map. they are winter weather alerts. and then the flo ingconcerns. also ice is in play as well.

i'm ft forwarding to sunday at noon. notice the entire area is dry but cloudy. the snow around richmond. we might see it sneak into areas of fredericksburg. tichmond g in on some heavy snow. still notice. o mo stafford county is still dry. you might be seeing a wintry mix by 4:00 a.m. if we see anything me into our area, it is already pushing out. this weekend is about the chill. tomorrow, mould skies biffle 5:00 p.m., we hit a high of 42. we're blow normal saturday and suay.

potentially some shown out there, especially around the mason dixon line. a high of only 40 out there. all in aall, low impact on the weekend. but for sunday game then the redskins sunday at 1:00 p.m. the temperatures only in the 30s to may be0 near degrees. so fedex field sunday. it is not onl going to be warm jacket weather but i would recommend the hat and gloves as well. it will be feeling like football weather. this is area. you have about a30% chance. if it even happens, it is still looking like a low to maybe moderate impact availability where saint mary's county has a

school delay monday morning. we'll continue to monday store. of course we'll have updates. >> by wednesday and thursday, warm into the mid 40s. rain is in theas for friday. a potential of heavy rain to the wettest year on record. also a bit of a warm-up with highs around 50. coming up, the newest national wasntroduced today at the ballpark. jim and doreen, the new mings and maybe goings of the trump administration. the key insider who may be on his way out. but the storyan of a w virtually brain dead and a full virtually brain dead and a full

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washington might have the best pitching rotation in the . bi the nationals' top three starters have a combined 11 all-star appearances. it isn't cheap. the only one with three pitchers earning me than $100 million but vegas thinks it is money well spent. they jumped from -1 to 12-1 after the signing. this week, the second highe in team history behind only max scherzer. >> he is ready to make d.c. his home. >> we've always loved coming re

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think we can top that. on the outside looking in for ine final wild card spot. they need a and hopefully they can do it b sweeping the giants who they already beat in week eight.we hover, it was a simpler after the 22-13.ty 5-2 rord atran peterson went for yards. of course that was a different looking team. the lockup room certainly does think so. >> we're responding in the right manner. >> we haves. four we're going to winw. get down to the season. >> i didn't run into adversity

and panic. it comes to everybody. how you handle it defines your character. >> a couple things to watch, men's hoops in action. >> all right. thank you very much. >> we close with oneast tribute to president george h.w. bush. ge mes of the secret service detail have come to the this their watchful morning, president bush's long time spokesman jimcgrath tweeted a moment at the gravesite. he included the fin messa from the protective detail using the president's secret service code name. timber wolf. >> it ended withod speed, former president george h.w. bush. you will be misd by all of us. >> and we tnk you foroining

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. breaking news tonight, prosecutors come down hard on michael cohen asking for substantial jail time despite his cooperation in the russia probe. tonight robert mueller revealing what cohen told him and what mueller told the court today about paul manafort's ripped up plea deal. major shakeups, the president's pick e new attorney general overseeing the rmussia probe. the fox news host he wants at the u.n. and word his chief oftaff may be out at any moment. judgment day, the man that drove into a ow crd protesting the white nationalist rally in charlottesville found guilty of murder. >> stocks plummet 55gain, the dow down anothe0 points capping off a wild week on wall seet. the monster winter storm sweeping the tr