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that area of low pressure just off the coast, it's going to continue to move up towards the carolinas. what does that mean for us? we'll let you know in a few minutes. 5:31. at least two people are hurt after this overnight crash in the district. this was the sceneer ear in southern avenue and pennsylvania avenue. two vehicles were involved.
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one you can see flipped on its side. we're working to learn how badly the people involved were hurt and we'll keep you posted. these are the survivors of the deadly car attack in ll charlottesvi they're celebrating the jury ai verdict agt james fieldsou jurorsnd the self-described neo-nazi d guilty of firsree murder and nine other charges. fields killed heather myer and injured many others. >> vireims honod her memory.or >> rr: august 2017, james fields rammed his car into their group of counter demonstrators, killing heather heyer. tonight in celeation of the verdict in tribute to her, they retraced the path of his car, marching to the very spot where
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heyer lost his life, where star peterson was baudly injured. >> he will never stop us, the fascists will never stop us. we will fight heather's memory till the day we die. >> reporter: james field traveled from his ohio home to paarlottesville to takert in the unite the right rallywa it after the violent clashes had died down that day that he dro his car onto fourth street. watched the counter demonstrators come into view, then put on the gas. with their guilty rdict, jurors finding fields acted with intent to kill. th rejected the defense claim that he was fearful, that it was self-defense. wednesday bowie is one of his victims. her pelvis was >> they tried to throw out my sse specifically, and i'm glad the jury through that. this is the best ive been in a year and a half. >> reporter: another survivor, marcus martin. is is martin as he was struck by fields' car, tumbling off the
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back to street, his leg broken. for him this guilty verdict means relief. >> justice is served today. my mama used to tell me, you make rdur bed out of h rocks, one day you got to lay in it. n> reporter: jurors will return to the courtroomonday to begin hearing testimony in the sentencing phase of this trial, when james field faces possibility of multiple life prison terms.ne >> details about the cases against two men once close to president trump. court edpers fil yesterday by special counsel robert team show the president's former campaign manager, paul manafort, ttified twice before a grand jury. nfut there's noormation about what that grand jury is investigating. the documents also show manafort lied when he told inv htigators the did not have contact with the trump administration this year. a different court memo today to
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prosecu recommended trump's former laer serve at least three years in prison. michael cohen pleaded guilty ldout plans to bui a trump in moscow, and violating campaign finance laws. seae documents are hvily redacted to protect the ongoing russia investigation. >> that means that there are ongoing investigations, sensitive information that the mueller team does not want toe makblic right now. >> cohen will be sentenced next week. manafort has to wait until ma h. but prosecutors could retry him. at 5:35 on this saturday, police say a 20-year-old woman was shot and killed near a popular park. this is inle ndria. they found her yesterday morning along holmes run parkway. it is disturbing crime that has neighbors uneasy. >> i believe this is one of the most horrific things. it surprised me when you said
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it. it broke my heart. >> reporter: this man asks that we not show his face, says news a young woman was murdered in his neighborhood is disturbing and unsettle. violent crime is rare in this complex which borders holmes run park. >> it's a mixed neighborhood. i couldn't even imagine something like that happening. >> reporter: very little is known abt howiamond moore came to be in this area. records connect her to a homees adin alexandria a couple of miles away. in march of 2017 the bodies of two teenagers, later determined o be murdered by the ms-13 gang, were found in a section of holmes run park in fairfax county. diamond moore's murder is the fourth homicide in alexandria ts year. ws 4 working for you. a traffic alert, if your weekend plans involve traveling over
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memorial bridge, think again. it is closed the entire weekend beginning at 9:00 p.m. last night. the bridge is closed to cars, cyclists, and pedestrians. reopen until 5:00 a.m. monday. crews are installing a tempora support structure under the middle arch as part of the years-long repair project. ant for the redskins christmas is a new stadium. it may happen if team management and lawmakers have their way. detailsahead. 's ahead, a disturbing cold case back in the spotlight this morning. the new search for clues in the muof a d.c. restaurateur who was found nine years ago. ♪
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visited a couple of locations, maybe teparties, et , on that day. >> she eventually made it home. this security camera footage shows her walkininto her artment building alone. it's the last time anybody would seher alive. when she didn't show u for work, carlos went to check on his sister. he would be the one make the gruesome discovery. she had been murdered, strangled. police interviewed people, some multtimes, but they keep coming up short. this point we still have not gotten enough information to reach the point of making an arrest in this case. >> the scariest part is no one has been able to fgure it out. imagine how good she or she is. there is someone out there that could probably do that again. there's a murder out there. >> he sayswith all t time that's passed, he feels like the case has lost steam.
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>> we think she's in a better place, but the onessuffering are here. we're the oneshehat need t healing. olice say it's an ongoing investigation. erika gonzalez, news 4. >> redskins have a game tonight. congressional republicans and the white house to bring the team back to the district. according to "the washington post" the redskins are working with officials to include a stadium provision into a major congressional spending bill. the could be a new stadium. slipping the stadium proposal could avoid a public debate over whether there are better uses for the coveted site. they fear the takeover of the house could sack the attempt to secure tstadium. we did not get a comment on the story when we reached out. we are hoping for a winter wonderland this weekend.
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then our focus turning to tomorrow. questions about the system. we're going to work through it. i believe some portions could see snow. by the time we headon intoy and tuesday we're looking a lot better as we get into monday and tuesday. of course we're talking about that snowstorm before tomorrow. that area ofu low pressure formed off the coast of texas right now. and then it's going to startmo ing north and east as we head through the day today. a good portion of theh deep so going to have heavy rain and a good portion of the deep south is going to have snow. historic snowp sible, especially for portions of south carolina and also western north carolina. just how far north can that snow line get? it's ing to be a sharp cutoff for snow in our area. we'll let you know whoould see it. that's coming up in about 5 minutes. >> all ri t. thank you much. first responders swarmed an me arlington h on the roof and on the yard. they're not there to put out a fire or investigate a crime. >> they were there to say thank
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you for your service. >> let's see how far this goes.a >> thehn family's arlington home is getting decked out for the holidays. william vaughn started the decorating over time his ten children chipping in. >> it brin closer together. >> his wife re festive mess. >> christmas stuff all around. lights and all out here. yeah. >> married to william for more than 30 years, the couple endured a lot. william's time in the army sent him to vietnam twitu, reing injured. >> he was an amazing man. amazing. absolutely amazing. >> the last time william decorated the house was 20 years ago, just before he passed away. it's been too much work for the fam do without him until now. ng so this is just in memory of him and it's bing back a lot of good memories. >> stepping up to deliver the warm memories, volunteers with
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decorate a vet.st hers wanting to honor william and family's service and sacrifice. arlington county first responders among them. >> it brings joy to my heart. we're here to sere. >> i was shocked. i am really shocked. >> at 84en s was not sure heed ever get to s her home decorated the way william did it. off cameraha her daughte to explain why all these folks showed up. it's a lot to wke in. >> t to know what's going on. they love me. a community's gratitude for a family's service to nation shown throughst chs cheer. >> it's so cool being out there m.th all of th you heard salena. she was shocked. she was like they're here for me? they love me? >> i know. that's sweet. it probably brought back so many fond and great memories.
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it did more than just the aesthetic of the house, and to raise the t spirit o season. >> yeah. and this is all about -- it's decorate a vet. it's about honoring a veteran. what's really cool is it's more than veterans. obviously he's deceased, but his family, thefi sac military families go through every day is what they're recognizing as well. that was pretty neat. >> we think of our terans and service members and we thank their families. they serve too. >> ye as somebody who is a military spouse herself. >> yes. hey, wivy. >> what's going on? >> i want to go get -- i saw it at the store. it looks lik a snow board, but it's a scooter on a snow board. slides have come such a long way since we were ds. i want to take this thing down a hill. >> snow board scooter? >> yeah. i need some powder. >> ou'reg to have to go south. >> you're going to have to go to
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north carolina. >> last week you were taing 20 inches. >> in western north carolina. we had the potential. we did. the cold air is in place, and theap thing is what'sning is we've got a blocking system that's going to suppress this and keep it to thsouth. high pressure moving off the ohio valley and into pennsylvania is going to keep this system south. however, that area of high pressure is going to start to weaken as this system starts to get closer t our area. it's going to be interesting. let me go ahead and show you's whoing on. you're going to walk outside and realize how chilly it is.0s teens and out there right now. d.c. the warm spots. that'son reagan natial at 34. you can see nothing on the widen this out, and this is the system. area of low pressure forming just off the coast of texas right now. look at the heavy rain coming through louisia at this point. dlot of heavy rain. pushing through tp south.
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what's going to happen is this area of low pressure is going to tntinue to pushward the carolinas, and then off that east coast.ho ver, it is going to push that shield of precipitation very close to our area. day we're not going to have to worry about it. we have high, thin clouds. temperatures near 40. we're going to be quiet and cold. but let me time out everythinf you. we'll start this right now. you can see 5:30, everything is south so to the south. all the rain stays south. this is midnight tonight. still nowhere close to our ar snow starts to form as pull air is pulled into north carolina. all north carolina starts to see snow. this is 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. watch how far north this moves. it gets very close to fredericksburg andouthern maryland. i think areas south of i-66 and irginia, south of route 50 in maryland have the best chance of snow showers tomorrow. that will continue to push out
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of here by monday morning. that gets so close to our area. areas to the south have about a 30% chance of seeing snow, and then just north of i-66 you can see about a 20% in the d.c. areas and points north, smaller chances. best chance for theouth. it's cloudy and cool throughout much of the day tomorrow.n' and it do look like my 10-day is starting to come up. okay. okay. guess my computeri
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thanks. it's like a smart thing. what's the weather? [cowza device] sunny, perfect chicken eating weather. how'd you get in here? [cowza device] it's time for chicken. what's the traffic like? [cowza device] rerouting you to chicken. okay. hey cowza, order pizza. [cowza device] ordering chicken. no, pizza. [cowza device] chicken. moooo okay, chicken it is. it's chick-fil-a catering season. [cowza device] now that's smart.
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an inoperable brain tumor came in with a bag full of cards. >> at the beginning of the week we only had 27,000. i'm like i'm not sure we're going to get a lot this year, so once i saw all that mail come in and once i saw that we hit 70,000, that made me feel realle excid. >> reporter: you heard him fcorrectly. tinal count is 77,000 cards.
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for each one macy's donates $2 to the make a wish foundation. luke credits the community for helping him reach his goal. they filled an entire school b with cards. >> it means a lot to me that all these people came out t come and support me an dropping off the letters. >> when he was three a make wish gave luke a trip to disney world. it cd his life. he decided to give back. >> this is one outstanding jung man with a generous heart who understands the impornce what is wish is all about. >> reporter: he sure does. w l, how about that? >> sweet. >> nice, festive morning, a vision. 29 degrees. wow. you feel it when you head outside. it's cold. we are ck with more, and a snow report coming up. >> and the ten-day forecast.
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we have to see that when we we have to see that when we continuat 6:00 a.m. the holidays make me look forward to chick-fil-a honestly. every year we have an ugly sweater party. i like the manatee. that one is cute. i love this. we cater it with chick-fil-a. the crowd pleaser. scott's always so helpful. while the food's coming out as quickly as we can,
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firstree murder. victims of he rampage took to th streets to celebrate the victory of a verdict. the virginia jury will enreco monday for the financing phase. he could spend the rest of his life in prison. two people taken to the hospital after a crash in the district. this is the scene early on southern avenue at pennsylvania avenue. two vehicles weed invo one flipped on the side. no word on the conditions of the victims. a young woman dead after being shot near a popular park in alexandria. a 20 d-year-oldamond moore was found in the street on holmes run parkway yest morning. police do not belive there's a threat to the community. this is the foth homicide of the year in alexandria. >> a lot of headlines on this saturday morning. good morning to you. i'm david culver. i m angie goff. glad you could start off your weekend with us. we want y to tellou how to plan,
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