cover agent met with hasher jallal taheb, learned o his plot and convinced him he was on board. the fbi sold theun fake and bombs. agents say this investigation is aerfect example of see somethin say something. >> it's important to point out that this investigation and arrest was a direct result of a tip from the community. another example of how important it is to contact law enforcement if you see or hear somethi suspicious. >> thankful for their good work. the other targets of the attack included the washington monument, the lincoln memorial and a local synagogue. a deadly attempted bank robbery. the suspect was killed aer he demanded sh. chopper 4 was over bb and t yesterday. the man walked into the bank, pulled out a handgun and dand $20,000. the manager hit a panic button

which alerted police. that's when the gunman ran out f the bank leaving the money behind. moments later a montgomery lice officer confronted the suspect and shot him. >> crazy thing to happen.om sounds likehing from a movie. >> i looked up and seen so many police officers coming down. >> police brought i a robot to check for explosives in the man's backpack. they say the item found in that backpack was designed to look like a bomb. developing this morning, police in huntsville, alabama are investigating a deadly shooti at an ihop. this is video from the scene late last night. investigators say a customer got into an argument with two employees about his order. he then went to his car a got a gun. the customer is suspected of shooting both workers, killing one of them. that suspect was alsot sd killed but not clear who shot m. today a judge will decide the fate of three chicago police

officers accused of lying about the killing of an unarmed black teen in an effort to protect anotherer white off who shot him. jason van dyke was convicted last october of second-degree muer in the 2014 death of mcdonald. a jge is deciding whether three other officers exaggerated the teen's athlete. van dyke will be sentenced tomorrow. we're worki to find ou more about a woman detained in an be a tempted abduction in d.c. this is a video of the suspect. the victim's dad told news4 a nanny dropped h daughter outside of their home on dunbartonst reet. the little girl was walking to front door when a woman came up from behind her and grab her.pe the s tried to drag her away. the little girl was able to cape. she ran inside. the suspect was arrested yesterday, in fact, for separate incident. good news there. he's been a staple on nbcsp

ts coverage for decades but after 40 years bob h costa left the network. >> the separation was handled smoothly and mutual agreement. youo are n doubt familiar with his coverage of the olympics. he served as host for the games 11 times on nbc starting in 1992. costas stepped aside about two years ago to pass the torchr o to the new host. since 1979st has covered baseball, football, basketball, and horse racing for nbc. >> going miss that face and his voice. >> a national children's clothing store with several local locions has filed for bankruptcy again. for the second time in less than two years gymboree filed for bankruptcy protection but it will start shutting down f operations good. in addition the company operates two other brands. it pns to close craziy eight

stores and then try to sell the janie and jack business. jumping turnstiles and taking free rides the d.c. edcouncil v to decriminalize fare evasion but the mayor has problems with their plan. find out what's ahead for the controversl bill afteria

france. take a look. renovation working blamed for this giantfire. university officials say the blaze is now under control but at lst three people suffered minor injuries. no word yet on exactly what caused the ex tosion. no the catholic church in crisis. cardinal donald wuerl offering a clarification. he admits he forgot about a 24

accusation of sexual abuse against cardinal enamel mccarrick. nd the time wuerl was the bishop much pittsburgh a forwarded the information to proper vatican oicials. last week the archdiocese in washington said wuerl's deniall referred to allegations mccarrick abused a my no, ara se case. but in his new letter wuerl said he also indicated that he was unaware of the accusations involving seminarians which was incorrec wuerl apologized for his quote lapse of memoryt and said t he did not intend to prove or i should say provide false information. a former nfl player was able to make quick work of dealing with a man caught peeping on his teenage daughter. tony beckham said he was leaving hi house in florida monday

morning when h saw 48-year-old jeffrey cassidy standing outside of his daughter's room. beckham says cassidy was heching himself and whe approached him he said cassidy was srirtled and ted to run. but he didn't a stand chance of outrunning the former detroit lions defcksive >> they were my kids, i grew up without a dad. to see a man out there belitling himself to get a fix off kids is morally wrong. >>am bec said he had a good conversation with cassidy when he caught him. yes a conversation. that might explain some bruises on his face. >> sometimes hands talk louder than mouths. silver spring man will spend more than a decade for having sex with a human trafficking victim. h the m sex with the girl in 2017. she was being trafficked by the

ms-13 street gang. evidence against him clued video and pictures he took of the sexual assault including this selfie. precutors say the gir was working at a bar near wheaton when members of ms-13 beat her because she refused to be prostituted. she later agreed to meet the man at a bar and went to a residence with >> he's the kind of person that creates the market that allowso for children like this 14-year-old girl to be trafficked. >> just an awful story. the state's attorneylso says the gang members involved in this case were arrested in november. some d.c. residents say they are too afraid to walk the streets of their own neighborhood. that w a message they gave c. mayor bowser yesterday during a crime walk throughard 6. the district had a spike in deadly shootings. t 17 days 12 homicides.

residents sayy are fed up with the crime that'ser taken their community. the city is now reviewing a proposal to add security cameras on properties where there have been multiple police calls. before mayor bser participated in that crime walk she vetoed aontroversial bill just passed by the council. it would have decriminalized fare evasion on metro. the council wants to make fare jumping a civil offense. bowser said the hill coulde a negative effect on metro's budget and would encourage lawlessness on metro. tetro opposed the bill saying loses several millions of dollars due to fare evasn. >> thousands of teachers in los angeles are not in the classroom today because they are on rike. they took to the streets yesterday to call for a new contract. the teacher's union and schoo district officials failed to

come to an agreement last week. both sides will be back at the bargaining table today. at issue, class sizes. the nber of teachers. and salaries. while teachers have been on hstrikes schoolse remain open using bare bone staff and many school leaders say they don't have enough teachers to hold formal classes son some cases they are holding mass class in gyms. > the great white way in new york city honored its ownby dimming the lights. it was for the late carol channing. she played dolly vi more than 5,000 times. carol channing was 97. >> she will never be forgotten. >> you've probably seen the ten year challenge all over your time line. several of us here at new year's 4 because we participated.

>> so it seems harmless but you uy be giving more data than u realize. >> reporter: ten year challenge 2009 to today.ring photos from >> ten yea challenge hash tag is flooding social media with millions take part, even celebrities. in it for the fun, a few laughs, or to document a transformation. >> for a lot of people this is one of their very first profile pictures. >> a decade of evolution not just in photos but the technology on which weost them. prompting tech author kate o'neal to elore a different kind of then and now comparisons. >> ten years i might have participated and now i'm looking at with it morekepticism that it's data that could be used to train facial recognition. >> reporter: her concernte on tw and in an op-ed on "wire" h detail a simple trend could have broader implications for our data.

>> for us to parn cipate i particular way there may be a reason why that's being asked of us. >> reporter: seemingly harmless games and hash tags can pack information used as training data for algorithms powering ai and facial recognition. >> that kind of thing can help make that training process epeasier. >> rter: some say her concerns are overblown but she's not against social media. >> it's areat way to keep up with friends faenl. we just have to be aware of th data that we're sharing when we do so. >> reporter: encouraging people pause before they post. the washington wizards are just hours away from an overseas match-up. they will take on the new york knicks in london. hopefully this jet lag n has worn off. they arrived in the uk a whole day late after the snow grounded their private plane earlier this

week. looks like they are still squeezing in a little bit of fun. here's bradley recreating the beatles famous abbey road cover. few hrs later knicks gave it a try. didn't do as well. tipoff is at 3:00 our time. >>izards made some time for shopping and while they may have some bigks paych it's not easy to fine clothes fit for basketball stars. >> e that'secially for george. you just can't grab a suit off the rack when you e thisguy's size. 7'7". pretty tall. >> what are your chest and legas meements? >> inside it's 39. chest is 57. i love to be comfortable. >> right. absolutely. >> all about comfort, george. >> what i don't like is blue

jeans. i can't wear blue jeans. >> sweat pants. >> sweat pants all day long >> but no jeans. >> i love that. >> he played for the washington bullet and the wizards from 95 to 98. >> chuck bell has more on the frigid cold plus a strange consequence of thenm govent shutdown won't change anybody's paycheck but you'll notice it on your phone. we'll explain later in

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hey look, it's thursday! but in this place, it's just getting out of hand! hey thursday! popularity has always been friday's thing, and if friday finds out about this whole scene, trust me there's going to be drama! so, let's just keep all of this between us, hmm? thursday. friday! what's happening here? nothing. [ screaming ] >> a series strong storms ripped up the coast of california. heavy snow caused whi out

conditions in south lake tahoe and avalanche warnings in some parts through tomorrowg. morn meantime outside of los angeles crews are working to clean up after heavy rain brought mud and other debris down the hillsides there. here we're getting ready for year-round two >> yes a smaller year-round. ar-round one was the 10 to 12 inches. this will seem like nothing. >> a walk in the park. >> still going to be cold. not the pretty fluffy snow itrea. just mostly in the form of slush falling right out of the sky. in washington. you can actually get it to snow up to about o 38 39 degrees if the atmosphere is active enough. 37 is cold enough to support snowflakes but obviously you can't get them to accumulateit muchtemperatures above freezing at the surface. here is the system. it's going t in and out of here in the blink of an eye rolling bin the time the sun goes down tonight and out ore before the sun is up

tomorrow. all cloud cover now. maybe a few thin spots across southern parts ofvirginia. notice here on future weather snow showers pentially in the shenandoah valley as early as 3:. most of th metro area waits until 6:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m. wt heavy s but slushy outside and temperatures at or above the freezing mark. most accumulation will be on grassy areas. could ber across northern maryland. we could have more stick to southeast roads. all gone early tofrrrow. ay afternoon and evening we'll be dry and start out dry saturday as well. but about lunch time on saturday, the next wave o moisture comes in. that could start as a little bit of snow but it will become all rain saturday afternoon and saturdnight. next half hour i'll show you the outlook for sunday as temperatures will be doing a big drop. fo now, winter weather advisory of the d.c. metro area.clude all it goes from sun basically

sundown to sun up to early friday. how much snow if not at that lot. an inch around the city. few isolated spots near three inches maybe up near the pennsylvania border. but, again, not going to be a big impact for us just slushy driving late tonight. there's your five day outlook. some sowers this evening. dry and relatively nice tomorrow. then snolakes changing to rain. rain ending as snow sunday and then the bottom o falls and temperatures plummet sunday elow zero bychills monday morning. ten day forecast and more about that sunday coming >> chuck thank you. immigration officials still have questions to answer for a man they almost kicked out of this >> he was about to be deported when officials learned something important. >> the man is a marine who was born in michigan. we'll take you through the ryrange sto

many of us kno someone affected by the government shunned. neighbors are helping neighbors put foohe on table to feed their families. >> several efforts are under way to help furloughed federal workers. david culvert is in stafford to explain. >> reporter: 100 fur limestone overlay di will be coming back to school, could you say. we're here at the s fford campus at the university of mary washington all day long thursday they are prepang several courses. you gate dozen professors coming together offering their talents to help with everything f m financial management to mindfulness and meditation. useful during what is stressful time. further south in fredericksburg, the's a major effort under way right now. latoya brown i helping with the regional food bank, stocking up shelves, opening up their services to help families keep food on the table.ya

laho herself is a federal worker said this is no time for pride. >> we're not here to judge anyone. come from. how much money you make. how much money you've made in the past. what candidate of a car you drive or house you live in. we're concerned about the nee right now. >> reporter: the regional food bank is hosting a food drive so if you are one of the fortunate es receiving a paycheck you can help out. reporting in stafford, rginia, davi culvert, news4. arlington public schools is inviting furloughed federal workers to apply for jobs as substituteteachers. there will be a job fair tomorrow afternoon from noon to 4:00. school officia anyone with a high school diploma or college degree is guaranteed a interview but you have to fill out an online application before you go and someou paper work need to take with you. we posted a link on the nbc washington app in the section shutdown resource from free meals tooo pet pantry we're

keeping a running list of resources to tryouo help through the shutdown. meantime you may have noticed another effect of the gornment shutdown. morre robo calls. there's nobody to warn the country about possible scams involving automated calls. the website to add your number to the do-not-call list, that's down too because of the shutdown. experts say the shutdown could give an upper hd to scammers and companies thatounely break the rules. stay with news4 and the nbc washington app for the latest thony governmen shutdown, search shutdown and you'll find stories and resources for those that are affected by it. > there areigns that another summit with north korea is in the secretary of state mike pompeo and north korea's top nuclear negotiator are expected to meet here in washington tomorrow to talk about it

the ornegotiationor flew out -- negotiate ooe oor flew out of b today. febook sayst removed hundreds of ruia-like russia-linked pages groups and accounts. company says they were part of two big disinformation operations on febook and instagram plfaforms. book had a cyber security that operated in countries in central and eastern europe and in ukraine. one networkad which more than 360 pages and accounts was link to employees at a russian state-run news site. and the people runni the accounts represented themselves as independent newsources and

posted on topics like anti-nato sentiment. the aclu says immigration officials held a u.s. marinera ve by mistake. he was born and raised in grand rapids, michigan and served in afghanista andis lawyers say he now struggles with post traumatic stress disorder. back in november he was arrested. accused of trespassing and damaging a fire alarm at a hospital. when it came time for his release from jail he was picked up by the agency said it flagged him because he told theme thats here illegally. >> just one week into the return of the vir general assembly and already several efforts to pass gun control measures have gone down in defeat. senate bills calling for universal background checks, extreme rest protective orders and requirement for all gun owners to report stolen weapons have been defeated. one bill that survived calls for

a ban on bump stocks but the federal government is outlawg those. similar bills will be broht up in the virginia house but each faceoas tough rd there as well. > meanwhile virginia lawmakers seem poised to act on a bill that cracks dow d onvers who violate rules near school buses. new legislation would hike the fine for illegally driving around a stopped bus to $300. that's a $50 increase. the fine would be $600 if you get d caughtng that while texting. legalized sports bet is coming to thedmv and may arrive in time for opening day of baseball season. or now some folks in our area are making the long trek to west virginia where s betting has been legal since september. news4 mark segraves gives us a sense of what we have to look forward >> reporter: not far from harpers ferrari, west virginia, sportsetting is in full swing. people are betryng on ething

from football and basketball to less popular sports like darts and cricket. >> football has been more popular than cricket a having started on september 1st. football has carried the day, abt 70%f our betts are on football. two-thirds on pro football. >> rorter: as for how it's going for the gamblers. they did have one very ybig, v lucky winner not too long ago. two weeks ago a man bet on all g 15 nfles and got them all right. >> turned $5 io $100,000. good work if you can get it. s as about 30,000-1 asar f says he hasn't been tt lucky but hopes jurisdictions like d.c., maryland and virginia will get sports betting up and running soon so he won't have to drive so far to place a bet. >> so much tax revenue money they wouldn't know what to do with it. >> reporter: for now you actually have to go a casino in

but virginia to place a bet like d.c. they hope to have the option of placing bet from a mobile app sometime this year. >> a lot more complicated people uld think. there's more moving parts. we're in the process of developing now and hope to have it online soon. >> reporter: as for the guy who won $100,000 on a $5 bet back was he back? >> he was back to cash his ticket. we have a consumer alert for you no south korean automaker honda and kia are recalling more than 168,000 vehicles. the iue is a fuel pipe problem that could potentially cause engine fires like this one. wo according to kia t engine's fuelipeline may haveeen damaged. kia says it is proceeding with all the recalls regardless,

owners of these affected vehicles will be notifiedy letter. well it's cold but the bitter cold won't be here for a few more days.re >> but t something else in chuck bell's forecast that could ruin your weekend plans. mo onre when you shop with us, you know how to score. but did you know you could be saving even more? with the tjx rewards credit card - every time you shop at our stores, you earn 5% back in rewards. tjx rewards credit card. an even better value every day.

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subject exploding. this drug deal are said his business is booming. >> reporter: microdosing is taking an amount of illegal psyche delic drug, stek l lsd or mushrooms. it's basicallyne tenth or a fraction of what would be needed to get a high >> my thought on microdogs is it's a badidea. >> reporter: this retired unc professor. johns hopkins, nyu and other institutions are studying the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat things from obsessive/compulsive disorder to

ptsd. >> they can do things at this point that other medications and other treatments't do. >> reporter: one study got break through therapy designation from the food and drug administratior for treatmenistant depression. >> looks like they can treat things that we don't have any treatments now. >> reporter: nichols warns the effects of taking microdoses is unknown. >> there haven't been any long term studies where somebody has taken ae psy delic daily. there might be changes in your y em, your hormone levels. >> reporter: despite states like egon and colorado fighting for legalization, psychedelices substan any amount are illegal. >> reporter: if theca cli trials are successful it's likely there will be an increased push to lower the classification of magic

mushrooms now considered a schedule i drug meaning high potential for abuse. sarawallace, news4. >> interesting. >> fascinating. >> see where that goes.ng we're g to get a last check on the big weather changes that are heade our way with chuckre

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let's get a final check oni weather. chuck >> we can do that.

today we're cloudy and cold. temperatures will stay where they are the rest of the day. in the mid-to-upper 30s. wet snow likely to move in for the end of the evening commute and maybe a slushy one to two inches or so eecially fro the d.c. area northward. for tomorrow that's a gone before the sun comes up. nice tomorrow. maybe a little snow which t changes rain saturday afternoon. rain saturday night into sunday. that rain could change to snow briefly sday afternoon as much, much colder air comes racing in .he northwest winds over 30 miles per hour sunday ternoon. will quickly cause temperatures to fall from the mid-40s down into the single numbers to around ten with subzero wind chills. that real cold only sit around a couple of days. back to typical chilly weather lat week. >> you have my attention at subzero wind chills. >> thanks, chuck. thank you. we're back on the

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