>>. good morning, everybody. d welcome to "news4 midday." >> i'm chris lawrence. >> and i'm melissa mollet. many driveways, roads sti slick. the school bus is proof. >> this is a school bus fairfax county public schools stuck in the ice. students were on a two-hour delay this morning. no word yet on how long that bu. was stuck th >> a lot of roads look like that throughout the area just untreated. adam tuss continues our coverage live in tyson's with a look at conditions there. you found some snow, adam? >> reporter: yeah, it's -- absolutely,li a. take a look. that's 123 in the tyson's area pretty t much down black top but you guys mentioned some of those sidewalks, a lot of t areas are still tricky. as the sun came u across the area today, a picture perfect

scene in some spots. trees lined with ice, but some s,roads and sidewa well, less than picture-esque. >> it's a lot, buthe main roads is good, so we canth deal wi this. >> >> reporter: he commutes all the way to greenbelt. >> they haven't touched this b much,ut what are you going to do? i guess i can bring my jet tomorrow. >> reporter: many commuters just gettog back t work in days so how are the roads? >> i think it's fine. >> reporter: she says it's not the road crews that she's concerned about, it's the other drivers on th roads. >> of course, i'm worried about everybody. >> reporter: meantime, lotslt o and sand being loaded up today at the salt domes, another day to cleanup after a powerful winter blast. we're going to get there, but there are still someplace that's need some work. now v dot has been telling

patienty to please be here in northern virginia, that they're going to get to you, but if you feel like your street has not seen a plow, you can report it to them. >> thank you, adam. hard to believe with our frigid it was out there, we do expect to see some more melting today despite the morning's really cold temperatures. >> amelia joins us n with what we can expect with the hours ahead. >>morning. take a look at current temperatures across the area. we're already beyond freezing. fauer count gaithersburg coming in at 34 degrees. i'm going to have a look coming up at 11:20 just how cold it was in your neighborhood. check it out right w. re's a live picture, a winter wonderland out there. postill some slick and

another refreeze tonight. here are future temperatures at 1:00 this afternoon. notice most of us already near 40 degrees and withley of sunshine today, we'll continue to see things melt especiay on sidewalks and side roads if there's still that icy glaz. >> we'll hitig 40 for a temperature today. just like last night the sun sets just after 5:00. after that temperatures will quickly drop to belowin fre and everything will turn to ice once again. mo snow on ursday. details on that coming up. >> thank you. we're now in day 2 of the government shutdown. there's no signs that a stalemate over the president's proposed border wall is t going break any time soon. the president is citing a new caravan tha hisded to the u.s. from honduras as a reason for the wall. in an earlyeeorning the president said, quote, a drone flying around will not stop them, only a wall will work. thearavan of about 600 people gathered in the violent city of

sanpedro. some boarded buses while others are making the journey on foot. closer look has a at the impact of the shutdown on workers and government services. reporter: shutdown day 25 and two of the country's biggest airports are this morning dealing with their own shutdowns. tsa checkpoints at houston and atlanta, closed. >> we had to come here like two hours before. >> reporter: the bottleneck leading to 90 minute lines stretching all the way to baggage claims in atlanta as more and morsa officers working without pay call in sick. >> that's ridiculous. this is 2019. you do a and you get paid for that job. >> reporter: the tsa sick rate 7.6% on monday, more than double a year ago. many screening officers struggling to make ends meet now choosing to startoong for second jobs. >> a lot of people call me to confide in meou and,now, say, hey, i don't know how i'm going to make it to work. i don't have any more gas.

>> air-traffic controllers also working without pay n handing outrotest leavelets to passengers depending their pay. >> now you're thinking about keeping airplanes separated and keeping your house paid for. >> reporter: it's not just kale os in and around the nation's airports, under intense presse for stopping food inspections, the fda has ordered hundreds of inspectors back on the job, though, they won't get paid either. same for 4,000 national weather service workers in theiddle of winter. among the 8em,000 federal oyees and 4 million government contractors now affected, and tur tng gofundme pages and community food help. >> i have two little ones, my wife who doesn't work, it's hard for single income families. >> reporter: from california to boston,an food for coast guard families working dangerous jobs with n paychecks. food banks. >> food pantry and ack rent c and a food pantry ain't a mortgage check. >> reporter: the shutdown directing the white house with

most of the staff there furloughed, there was no oneo cook for the recent college football championship clemson tigers who were invited on monday to celeenate. presidtrump decided to order in fast food, lots of it, stacks of burgers, fries and chicken nuggets that he says he personally paid for out of his own pocket. >> because there's a shutdown, as you know,e have the great clemson team with us, the national champions, so we went out and we order american fast food paid for by me. lots of hamburgers, lots of pizza. i think they'd like it better than anythg we could give. >> the president did not reveal how much all that fast food cost him. >> every little bit adds up. from government jobs to the classrooms, fairf county is holding another job fare today for furloughed workers after seeing a large turnout for the first one last week. they're looking for substitute teachers and if applicants clear

background checks, they could be in a classroom and earning a paycheck as early as next week. registration for today's event has already filled up, but given the demand they're considering hosting a third job the dinner is going to be held from 5:00 in the afternoon until 7:30 at 20 markets, whole foods in our area, the locations d.c., foggy bottom and arlington and tyson's and virginia. we're posting the complete list of locations on our nbc washington app and website. we are working for you through the shutdown shy lighting special events and giveways for federal workers. chef jose is pitching in. it'll be open daily starting tomorrow on pennsylvania avenue near the navy memorial. federal workers andheir families can get a free bite from 11:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.

we have mornfmation on the chef for feds in the nbc washington app. that's also where y can find a list of all of the resources for federal workers. just search utdown. president trump's nominee is facing the senate judiciary committee. william barr's confirmation started about 90 minutes ago and he's facing tough questions about robert mu ler's prob this is what he had to say about the president and a criminal inveoigation. >> if the president orders the attorney general to halt a criminal investigation for personal reasons, would that be prohibiter your theory? >> prohibited by what? >> by -- >> the constitution? >> the constitution. >> ild think it we -- i think it would be a breach of the president's duties to faithfully execute the law. it would be an abuse of power. >> it's just getting started. t it's going run through today and barr's hearing is expected

to continue into tomorrow. coming up, remembering a broadway legend, more on carol e'anning's life and career. >> getting new information on there

bing news, an attack at an upscale hotel complex in kenya's capital, at least two blasts and gunfire weren heard nairobi. n extremist group claimed responsibility and said its members were still fighting inside. the terror attac came three years to the day after a kenyan military base was attacked. we are learning some new disturbing details about the kidnapping of a teenage girl and the murder of her parents. the suspect fixated on the 13-year-old in wisconsin without

even knowing who she was. dan shan amen has more. >> it was so good to just hug her, you know. it felt wonderfulhat she was back. i could hug her again. >> reporter: back home with her exteed family. the 13-year-old surviving a horrifying ordeal. ssing for nearly three months after she was abducted from her family home herarents found murdered inside. >> a class c felony. >> reporter: more is being learned about the suspect, patersonld jake thomas who made his first court appearance by video. he's charged with two cnts of homicide, kidnapping and burglary. >> the prosecution t tmt you see assembled here today wts justice for james and denise closs and for jayme closs. >> reporter: paterson allegedly targeted closs after spotting her getting on a school bus.

jayme closs told authorities batterson broke into her home, shot and killed her parents. he then bound her hands and ankles, dra her to the truck of his car and drove away. paterson told arresting officers, quote, i did it. >> i've seen criminal complaints that were more damning than that that were dismissed. >> reporter: back home a community is celebrating her safe return, her family focused on providing the love and support she nds to recover. actress rose mcgowan has legal tros in our area. she pled no contest to drug charges in a loudon county courtroom yesterday. you might remember that police said cocaine was found in her wallet two years ago. p sheaid a $2,500 fine and avoided jail time. she originallyaced up to ten years behd bars. legislative committee passed the measu in richmond and it

now advances to the full senate for a vote b thl would take affect in july initially raising the minimumage to $10, then 13 next year and finally $15 in 2021. right now the minimum wag in virginia is less than half that, 7.25. over on capitol hill, a panel of republican lawmakers rebuked a veteran congressman from iowa and blocked him from serving on any house committeesv the comes after representative steve keets interview in the "ne times" in which he appeared to question how white nationalism, mawhite sup and western civilization, how that language became offensive. house republicans unanimously voted to remove him from the judiciary, agriculture and small business committees. king blasted the move claiming he was only referring t western civilization and was taken out of context. several house democra going to introduce a resolution omcondemning hisnts in a senior member of the congressional black caucus is

calling for censure resolution. sad news this morning from broadway, carol channing, died today at the age of 97. she starred in musicals such as "hello dolly" and appeared on television and in nhtclubs for a time partnering with george burning and on a national tour as well. she won tony, a golden globe and received an oscar nomination during her career. channing would have turned 98 on january 31st. >> a life well lived. doctors have been working for years on a w to help people with sickle cell disease. >> it's a genetic conditi that causes extreme chronic pain and fe-threatening strokes as well as organ damage. >> hundred thousand american are dealing with it right now including the son of an nbc colleague in north carolina. eric edwards followedheir journey toward a re. >> reporter: the mcdonald family has waited 13 years for this

doctor's visit. a bone marrow transplan for son jensen intended to cure him of sicklel disease. >> i want to see this child live without pain. >> reporter: here's the cause of the excruciating chronic pain associated with sickle cell, misshapeenedlood drelz that clog develops starving organs and tissuesf oxygen. >> sometimes the pain is so bad, it's hard to explain it. >> reporter: treatments are limited to heavy painkillers and frequent blood transfusions. ideally a bone marrow transplt would replace the patient's blood and immune system but finding an exact donor is often impossible. >> the problem is that you only have a one in four chance of finding a cybilng as a matc >> reporter: doctors at johns hopkins hospital have spent decades perfectinhn a tue using donor's who are only partial or half matches.

>> the ability to use a half match family donor means forua every stion we encounter we can find every suitabledonor. >> reporter: it volves taking the healthy cel from a donor and transferring patient. the >> the medical science is there to finally help him. t>> reporter: and you're one to do it. >> i'm thedonor, how great is that. >> reporter: it wath his mother at turned out to be the match. two surgeons worked in tandem painstakingly harvesting bone marrow from her hips. she had to give four times the amount given in a typical donation. >> let's do it. s'rerting it. >> within hours jensen's was infused th his mother's stem cell, a blessing for thecd malds. i hope for thousands of others with sickle cell disease. erica edwards, nbc news.

now doctors can't say yet that jensen is cur of his disease because it's only been four months since the transplant. it can take many months for the w cells t grow and thrive but he's home from the hospital and doing well. no longer experiencing severe pain. we are thinking of him and everybody just like him. >> i sure hope that continues. jimmy fallon is taking "the tonight show" on th road to puerto rico. th episode is an effort to celebrate the island's culture and experience as it continues to rebuild from hurricane maria. lin-manuel miranda will perform with fallon. if you're not able to stay , be sure to set the dvr for tonight. it airs right here on ner4 afews4 at 11:00. we have a winner in the snow stick challenge. meet the lucky c familying up after the break. and hear from some of the

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we are back now with o road overage of dicey conditions. >> lookt a that. here's molette green way look at the streets in prince george's county. >> reporter: it's the side streets and the sidewalks that have been the big concern today on this day after the snowstorm of 2019. as you can see,his sidewalk is pretty good butome people are going to have to walk in the streets because you get on to this part of the sidewalk where it's much more slushy and icy and you can see that road crews havereated it a little bit but as you go down here, you got more ice,ou have to take your time because the concern is that you'll fall and hurt yourself. the good thing is, in prince george's county and we're in the

highatesville area, is schools have been delayed a couple of hours to give the sun a chance to work and some of the treatment a chance to work, but be careful toughout the day as sidewalks and your neighborhoodb streets can a little tricky and of course getting on to i parking loand out also a big concern of the day. that is the latest, that's the scene from the hyattsville area. you see all the white stuff out there means snow stick challenge. we got a winner. this may be some of the best yet. >> the winners shot a pretty funny pose. the first snow stick goes to the sudal fami. >> it's sign that we have made. >>ter: the family enenlisted their dog layla to help put them over-the-top

dressing her up a a shark. so much fun and thectlly created their twitter handle for the first time ever just to be part of the challenge. >> from that to like amelia's bread ometer. >> i've updated the bred meter. i'll have that coming up for thursd into friday, but that doesn't mean you need to stock up for a iweek. just have the graphic. as we take a look at thweather headlines right now, the sunshine is back out today. it is a spectacular winter wonderland and mting happening once again out there today. i think the biggest concern on a day like this is aside from the ice you have the sunglasses with that sun glare. the glare really gets to me. as we look to tonight, another refreeze is in the forecast soe we'll seeing some ice out there again tomorrow morning but

at this point hopeful folks are getting out there and cleaning up their sidewalks so you're not dealing with that ice as you're walking around. kids are trying to get on the bus. as we take a look at your final weather headli, i'm watching later thursday into friday morning and then the weekend, other storm system impacting the area on saturday and sunday moree extended forecast coming up at 11:40, but first of all, today a high temperature around 40. our average high is around 43 degrees. a little bit below normalbe but tiful sunshine out there, maybe more cloudiness develops later this aernoon but for t most part, just a spectacular winter day especially on thesi looking out. tomorrow, very similar with the high temperature of 42 degrees, so few degrees warmer, plenty of sun onour wednesday and lots of melting going on out there tomorrow as well. that beingsaid, i still think we'll have snow around thursday into friday when we could see another storm systemmpact the area. here's what you can expect right now. the chance for rain and snow

moves in later thursday. i really think it's once the kids are home s fromool so no worries there, you want to stay tuned as we update the anything winds down extremely early friday morning when i say, early, i'm talking like 2:00, 3:00 a.m. so the morni commute should be okay if you have to get to work on friday. keeping a close eye on the timing and any potenal snow accumulation, maybe a few isolated delays out there coming up fridayorning. i'm going to have future weather walking you through this storm ugsystem plus my ts on that storm for the weekend coming up inle little bit. s walk you through future weather right now. here's thursday at 4:00 m. notice some snow showers potentially in parts of northern virginia. as we move towd abo 6:00 to 7:00 p.m., snow showers potentially in the d.c./metro area. overnight we see this transition over to mainly c rain ande to an end very early. i'll have more on this storm

system and the chances for and a wintery mix saturday and sunday coming up in 15 mutes, ys. >> oh, boy. okay. thank you. >> deep breaths. >> winter. people did go back to school and work today. the commute was h triere in d.c. and we'll have a look at theconditions. aeenager calls 9-1-1 after her father takes her cell phone. a look at how police reacd to the teca ♪ ♪ ♪ rhythm is a dancer ♪ it's a soul companion ♪ you can feel it everywhere

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announcer: you're watching "news4 midday." this morning plowing and shoveling will connue as our region digs out from this year's first winter blast. a big concern today is all of that leftover snow has refrozen. hat's a good depiction of road right there because of the cold temperatures. here's more on the tricky conditions in northwest

washington. >> reporter: we're on 34th street in northwest and we'reng se a situation where you can see just how easily things can go from good to bad. to my left ,here you're seeing 34th traffic getting by, lots of black top there. otherwise a prett oka ride. look to my right here and you see we have a of a problem. lots of ice in this roadway, some kind ofrl undeng issues causing water to spread here freeze and refreeze over and over again. cars are having a tough timf ki coming to a full stop right here. it's also tough m as youht imagine to walk on. then looking justehind me up the street here, this sidewalk here,uavirty unrecognizable,en hidden bth a blanket ofd compactehite snow. it's a tough walk for anyone young and hld whoe been making this walk throughout the morning. as you may your way around the city, around our region, you're going to find scenes a lot like athis. sidewa tough to walk,

streets are tough to drive, so be caful, give yourself more time and if possible report what you're seeing to your local d.o.t. to get some kind of action on your a street on your sidewalk. if you have a sidewalk, please shovel it. rthwest, i'm justin finch, news4. >> all right. surveillance cameras were rolling when a disgruntled motel guest took things just a little too far. >> the m plowed his car into the front office and just barely missedhe night clerk. take a look. the clerk in the cowboy hat and a car comes barreling through the parking lot and smashes into the office. look how close that came. police say scott richardson was drunk when he crashed into the hotel. creek moore says he had kicked richardson off the property a few hours earlier because he was drunk and fighting with his wife. amazingly, no one was seriously hurt. >> wow. now take a look at this

sweet ms in flagstaff, arizona. that's not mud on the ground, it is river of chocolate. a tanker truck carrying liquid chocolat krarked and overturned on the highway spillingon 40,00 ga of pure chocolate everywhere. road crews had to pump the liquid into the median so the tanker could be lifted on to a tow truck. where were you when you first heard about it on this day ten years ago. the miracle on the hudson, a high skilled u.s. airway pilot making an emergency landing on the river in manhattan after a bird struck disabled his planes. everyone o board was safely rescue. iemember this. some of the survivors are sharing their memories, here's kristen dolgren. >> flight 1549 is likely the most famous landing in history. after taking off, the jet struck a block of birds and was forced

to ditch into the hudson rive >> sully said this is your captain, brace for impact. >> iemember looking around at the other people in the aircraft andus wondering, why today, why me? >> reporte denise and laura were on board. >> we had no idea whatt felt like to die, so there was a moment where we thought are we actually alive or is this how it feels afterwards? >> reporter: ten years latere thoments still as raw as the cold january day they found themselves in the icy hudson. nearby ferries pluck og them the wings and life rafts. a flight that lasted less than five minutes that is impacted those passengers for a lifetime. today they still meet up, once t ngers, they now consider each other family. >> we've all shared experiences and comem all different background and we have one thing in common but that one thing io very int to all of us. >> you don't have to use a lot of words when you're struggling wth something,n you're

talking to one of your passengers. >> reporte when they introduce themselves, they include their seat number. >> lori crane, 90. >> while the landing doesn't define them, it did change how they see the sworld? >> it really the best thing that ever happened to me. it made me realize what's important in life. the empathy and more awareness of everything goingn one world, i appreciate everything. >> reporter: eric still carries his note that he wrote to his mother and sister as the plane went down. >> you look at that card and think what was going on in that instance. i thought myife was about to end and now it's proof of family. >> reporter: this october she married a manhihe met out with her new friend denise. >> a gentleman had walked in and denise had pointed him out and said, there's an attractive fellow and i looked and said, well, yes, it is.

>> reporter: so may thanks in part to the miracle on the hudson. >> i think so. d initely would give credit to that. >> reporter: a wing woman in every sense of the word, ten years later, it seems the miracle on the hudson isn't finished yet. >> many of the passengers and planning to get together this afternoon for a champagne toast at 3:31, the moment of impact. a maryland state trooper had quite a big night on the job during the snowstorm just as the snow was moving out sunday night, he resnnded to accident on the beltway near college park. >> while he was helping the people in that car, another one pulled up and the driver told the trooper, his passenger was in labor. all right. we'll let him happened next. >> i opened the passenger door and i could see the baby's head already coming out. i used my hands to kind of cradle the baby's head at first. i wasn'o sure what do, to be

honest, but i was trying to make sure that it was safe from any harm. >> he loo like a baby himself. he looks so young, amazing. trooper cunningham wrapped the baby boy in towel and kept him warm until the paramedicsot there. mom and baby doing just fine we're told. this n ct storytainly had our newsroom talking, a teenage girl called 9-1-1 because her dad took awayer cell phone. >> take a look at what happened whenole there in south ohioed show up to this unusual call. >> 9-1-1, where's your emergency? >> it's not the usu call to 9-1-1. >> my father took property whi is an $800 phone that doesn't belong to him. he didn't buy it. >> reporter: a 16-year-old making anl emergency c because her dad took her cell phone. >> certainlye if were busy it would have been something pushed to the back burner, we still

respon obligation to >> reporter: so the police saw a teaching opportunity. officers arrive at the house with body camerasll g, the body language of anthony robertson and his daughters loud and clear. >> i want my phone. >> i took her phone from her because she's a juvenile. i don't want her to have it. >> okay. >> i can't inspect it. >> reporter: after making sure it was just a disciplinary issue, officers give dad back up. >> i don't live here. >> guess what? everything you own belongs tohe your m and your father. having a phone's not a right. it's a okay?ge. >> it's like four cars and oh, my goodness, the policeg com up. >> reporter: robertson didn't want to talk on camera but told us by phone he wasn't about to back down when police showed up at his door. >> there's so many hidden apps and lite ways that they can hide and cover-up things they're

doing on their phones that it's ridiculous. >> reporter: the police shared the incident on facebook, wch got hundreds of likes and shares from empathetic parents. meanwhile, did dad giveon the back? >> most definitely not. >> reporter: you still have the one? >> oh, yes. i can watch her attitude, when her attitudean d, then i'll give it back to her. >> i love that. >> i love it, too. >> that's how i was parented, that's how i'm parenting my kids. i don't think so. no, no, no. >> those folded arms told you everything you needed to know, he was not budging. >> good for him. r will itain or snow later this week? >> and a local team honored for their affect vix with a night on the

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some southern californi communities ravaged by wildfires last year are bracing for a new danger. heavy rgns yesterday bringin the threat of mudslides. you'll remember most of the area was impacted by the fires. a small mudslide sent debris crashing into encino. a portion of the hollywood hills also collapsed because of the rain more storms are expected throughout the week. >> a lot of folks wondering just how much melting w can expect through the afternoon. >> i think we're going to see some significant melting today and tomorrow combined, but that being said, theaw areas that the most snow, this includes washington, montgomery county and howard counties. you'll still have snow on the ground and for the storm saturday and sunday, potentially a lot of moistur guys soe could be dealing, heads up, with some flooding issues out there later saturday into sunday. inddition to that, it was cold

this morning. check out the lows across the area. in the teens even single digits in ma nas as. 24 for a low in washington. maybe a few degrees war another refreeze out there tonight and again for your wednesday night. as w look to thursday night, some rain and snow is in the forecast. we could see some minor snowcu lation that could lead to isolated delays out there on friday. friday day, ough, is looking dry as we look to the weekend, it looks like we'll have rain movi in during the late afternoon and especially the evening hours, maybe a bit of a wintery overnight. on sunday, will likely have raii potentially as a wintery mix or even snow where we could see someti accumu. now the storm system thursday night on into friday morning on our bread meter is rightt here no worries and here's why. you can head out thursday morning no problem, you'll b able to head out friday afternoon no problem to get what you need urdone. ay night, friday morning, maybe some delays across the area. here's fure weather saturday

at 5:00 p.m. as we move toward midnight, this computer model has mainly rain impacting the area. t as storm system pulls away from the area, we have really cold air moving in so we stoort now sunday afternoon and we could see some accumulation and that couldmpact our martin luther king jr. day. here's a quick look at the 10-day. i'll have another check in a few minutes. volkswagen and ford joining forces, what the company'sn p to produce. and big unveiling from nike, self-lacingasketball shoes. get your fst look after the ir

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350 bucks i will also come d lace up your shoes. the beginning of the year is the time for diets and resolution but a nutritionist says you don't need a diet to look and feebetter. this morning on "today," she explaining you need protein, fiber and fat and showed hoda how to combine all three in a smoothie. >> i have some frozen berries. i add ice to my smoothies. i've got protein powder in there. you can do greek yogurt if you don't like protein powder. add some chia seeds. almond butter. you need a breakfast that's going to be quick and easy and you ca make this early in th morning and take this to work. >> this is almond milk and water and zoom that baby up. >> for moms out there, you can add t spinach sneak in the

nutrients. >> you can look other recipes on twitter. >> a little bit of everything in that . smooth did you catch "america's got talent" last night's show was heart pounder. >> ten former winners took the stage trying to advance to the champions finals and one of the acts is an extreme knife cthrowing teamled deadly games. take a look. i don't want to be there on an lyf night. dead games advanced to the

final. the next american's got talent airs at monday night at 8:00 right here on news4. >> i want to know what he's paying for. there's not a chance. a local youth hockey teamim spent with the caps. the players invited them to see last night's me. >> that's because the players stoodp for one of their own. jamarry stone has their story ne from capital o arena. >> the 13-year-old is welcomed at capital one arena. >> reporter: the teammates based out of anne arundel county arel specguests. >> i thought it wasretty cool. >> reporter: he was the victims of racist taunts earlier this month. players on the old york raiders, a hockey tmalled him the n-word and made monkey noises during a recent tournament. >> the fact that s it'sll that

even exists, i didn't think it was cool. >> reporter: neither did his teammates. it was horrible. it shouldn't be happe on the ice oranywhere. >> reporter: the m metrole leafs showed divine support by making antiracism shts. cap stars heard about what happened and invited the team. >> thas one thing that stood out as how his teammatesad his back and as 13-year-old kids fighting forie their s. >> it was inspiring how they all stuck together and that's great for kids, especially. >> reporter: and taly're especily thrilled to meet their favore hockeyplayers. >> you told me that ob was your favorite player, how does it a l to meet him and receive hockey stick from him? >> it's pretty good. i also his signature and i did get to meet him, so yeah. >> reporter: for the people who taunted you say at that game, what do you say to them? >> well, i guess they're pretty

angry at home right now because they didn't get to meet because of their actions. to the olded ou york radars, the coach sent the post a statement, the team and the coaching staff does note participin, support or condone intolerance or unsportsman like actions in any forms. p stories ofple lending a hand after this weekend's big storm. >> and later today, stars jane by a and lily tomlin stop the "ellen" show and play a game. >> something everyone loves but you hate. >> mashed potatoes. i love them. i don't know why i wg. wr i don't know why i said that. >> they star in the netflix comedy "grace and frankie." >> you can watch the full

here's a question, have you shoveled youridewalk t? d.c. law says you have to do it within 24 hours. >> for a seniors whon't able to, they can sign up to have volunteers do itor them. amy cho plainhe city's adopt a senior program. >> reporter: a cold snow blankets the sidewalk, warm gestures help to clear them. ni domi watkins is part of d.c.'s adopt a senior program. >> one last step and she'll be all right. >> reporter: any time it snows

more than four inches, volunteers get to work shoveling so seniors don't have to. >> this is what i like to do. i got a heart to serve. >> reporter: people like martha whitehead. >> it means a lot. i don't want to get fined for not having my snow shoveled. >> reporter: as the volunteers cleared away feet of snow, watkins says there's a reason he goeshe extra mile. >> i lost my grandparents at an early age. i thinkt's real important for any of us who have grandparents to stop what you doing to take some time and check on them and shovel the sw for em. it makes us feel really good being able to serve the community. >> reporter: and with each shoveled sidewalk, one thing is clear, these men leaving a lasting impact by putting other people first. >> i't even shoveledioto g t d here. i might invest in a snowplow,

though. >> reporter: the program says they've already got almost 1,000 tlunteers signed up, but they still need more handle all the houses. if you'd like to sign up, we posted the link in the nbc washington app just search "shovel." >> what a great program. >> really nice aprogram. >> right. amelia, what are we talking about here today and theen we >> today and tomorrow plenty of sunshine. highs around 40. some ice developing overnight tonight on in to tomorrow morning. another refreeze wednesday night into thursda morning. now thursday morning on into the mid-day hours, we'll be dry. look at your 10-day here. we'll have rain and snow showers in the dayater mainly as the sun goes down at about 5:00 p.m. on thuray. rain and snow showers overnight. we could see minor snow accumulation so i can't rule out delays there on friday. this storm system still coming into focus throughout the day on friday, we'reng loo dry. look at our temperatures. 46 for a high on friday. t so t is warm.

a lot of melting going on out there on friday, which is because there's a potential for some heavy rain in the forecast. i think more so than anything saturday, saturday night into sunday and that could lead to some flooding issues if there's still a lot of snow around the area. so some thing to keep in mind. a high on saturday of about 42 degrees. it looks like rain showers move in during the a lateernoon and evening hours on saturday. maybe a bit of a winteryix overnight and then rain on sunday potentially ending a snow, chris. >> i can't even take my eyes off that ten. that's going do it for "news4 midday." thank you for joining we. thank you for joining we. back on thee

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