breaking news. this morning an early morning arrest in flida. long-time advisor to president trump, roger stone, taken into custody. we'll have new reaction from the white house. a law enforcement officer died on indiand hhighway overnight. while responding to that scene a prince george's countywafficer hit. we'll have the latest on both investigations. and we are looking at a few flurries floating across the area but we've got and a little bit of a breeze. we've got coming up. forecast and good morning on this friday. welcome to "news4 midday."

i'm cory smith. >> i'm pat lawson muse. we begin with breaking news this morning. rmer trump campaign advisor and confidant roger stone is expected to appear in court momentarily. stone was arrestedarly this morning in the special counsel's russia investation. a seven-count indictment was released when news of the arrest broke earlier. stone is charged with witness tampering, obsuction and making false all of this revolving around his connections to wikileaksnd the release of hacked e-mailse from clinton campaign back in 2016. nbc's pete williams explains the relationship. >> the documents say he, stone, through his friend tried to prod wikileaks to release more material. and when his friend was called to testify to hecongress, charges say, stone urged him to plead the fifth, invoking the name of a character from one of hee godfat movies who lies to congress. >> now, the indictment does not accuse stone of having direct contacts with wikileaks or with russian hackers.us white press secretary

sarah huckabee sanders spoke briefly with reporters about the arrest this morning. >> tots hasng to do with the president. it has nothing to do with the and beyond that i'm not going to get into the back and forth. >> have you spoken to the president about roger stone? >> i've spoken with the president a number of times. >> today, today have you spoken with him. >> i have spoken with the president. >> we'll be keeping an eye on developments from inside the courtroom. look forda s later in this newscast and on the nbc washington app. also in court this morning, president trump's former campaign chairman, paul manafort. he's facing allegations that he lied to prosecutors working for special counsel robert mueller. the judge in the case is expected to rule whether manafort violated his plea deal, which could mean a harsher senten o. manafortginally agreed to cooperate with the special counsel's office after being convicted of tax evasionnd ank fraud during a federal trial inalexandria. since then he's met withor prosecuts a dozen times and testified twice before a grand jury. but the special counsel's office said in november that he had violated hislea deal by lying in some of those interviews.

meanwhile, the senate intelligenceommittee served president trump's former lawy , michael cohen, with a subpoena.s this com one day after cohen a postponedn aearance before e house oversight committee. cohen was supposed to testify iu public on febary 7th. he abruptly postponed his appearance due to what his legal advisor calls ongoing threats ndfrom president trump his lawyer, directed at cohen's family. president trump denies any of his commen are threats. a source close to cohen told nbc news he has been ordered to testify before the senateit coe on february 12th. now to the weather on this friday morning. the rain is gone, but the cold isback. >> so is our lauryn ricketts. what can we expect nextweek? what do we need, jackets, umbrella, what? >> you're going to need a whole lot of jackets next week, a whole lot of layers as we get into the weekend. temperatures are going to go up and then way back down. today we've got the wind so it's making ithaeel colder it actually is. but you can see we've got some sunshine out there with clouds mixed in.

this is the reston area. now, we have a fewut flurries there as well just streaming across our northern tier of unties coming through montgomery county. maybe even seeings a few fla around. hagerstown was reporting a few snow showers earlier, not expectin any accumulation, just quick passing flurry moving through the area and they'reid taking a on these winds. northwesterly winds flowing pretty strongly, gusting up to about 20 miles an hour, 25 miles hour in spots. that means we have a windchill. yeah, it's pretty chilly out ere. you can see the windchill feel-like factor in the 20s and 30s right now. p that'stty much where it's going to stay throughout the day. now, do we have any more snow on the way? we do. we'll shon you w when we take a look at the weekend forecast coming up in about 20 minutes. now to a developingtory 've been following all morning in prince george's county. a law enforcement officer found dead after his car went off the road on the indian head highway.

>> and another officer from prince george's county was injured responding to the scene. egan mcgrath is at the sce now. megan, you're learning more about the officer who was killed. tell ushat you know. >> reporter: absolutely. so, first o all, to be clear, it's a little confusing here, there are two separate incidents. they both happened on this stretch of indian head highway that he see behind me here. it began with a callbout a car off a roadway. that's when prince george's county police discovered corporat patrick p.j. mann dead inside that car. foul play is not expectedn his death. now prince george's county police shut down indian head highway as they investigated corporal mann's death. that's when a police cruiser, a prince george's county police cruiser was hit by a car that failed to stop. wn toral patrick mann, k friends as p.j., sheriff's

deputy, school resource officer. he was recently featured in this video posted othe sheriff's department facebook page. those who knew corporal mann are in a state of shock and mourning. prince orge's county police were called to this stretch of ndianead highway around midnight. corporal mann was found dead in personal car which had gone off the roadway. investigators hav not released much investigation but they say his death is not from a car accident and is not bieved to be murder. as the investigation into mann's death began, princegeorge's ounty police shut down indian head highway and a car headed south slammed into a police cruiser manning the early morning detour. the prince george's county officer in that cruiser is in stable condition. the driver of the suv was also taken to the hospital. indian head highway was closed in both directions for several hours, as police investigated

both incidents. and as you can see behind me, everhing has reopen and is back to normal. corporal mann has been with the sheriff's department since 2005. back to you. >> all right, megan mcgrath, thanks, megan. for the first time in five weeks, there are signs of compromise in washington, fueling hope that the government shutdown could soon be over. tracie potts has more from capitol hill. >> the motion is not agreedto. >> reporter: after both plans to reopen government failed, the senate's t democrat and top republican met for the first time. that one meeting has changed the tone on capitol hill. >> i've never been more optimistic than i am now if we can find a way to open up the government for three >> we want to work! >> reporter: three weeks, a temporary budt to get federal workers back on the job and hi paid, wle lawmakers come up with a compromise both sides can live with on border security.

>> denyi the president 1/10 of 1% for spending on needed border security is not worthurng this many people. >> reporter: they're still at odds over payingor a border wall, but president trump says he's leaving it up to the senate. >> if ty come to a reasonable agreement, i would support it, yeah. >> reporter: what's reasonable to tpresident? no one knows. but the white house is still working on his backup plan, declaring a national emergency to use pentagon funds t the wall. >> the president has always said he has that as an option. >> reporter: still, for the first time in more than a month in ington, there's hope. >> we're getting to work here. >> there's not a person in this building virtually who doesn't want this government reopened. >> reporter: so do0, 800 federal workers, who won't be getting their second paycheck oltoday. we're democrats and republicans are working together behind the scenes to put together a multi-billion dollar package for border security, so

far witho any mon for the wall. tracie potts, nbc news, washington. sticking with the shutdown, the irump administratio coming under fire from many who say the gop is insensitive f to thancial struggles federal workers face. now the white house is trying to defend some comments made by commerce secretary wilbur ross. during an interview on cnbc, ross, a selproclaimeding abo billionaire, suggested workers should take out loans. >> there are some federal workers who are going to homeless shelters to get food. >> well, i know they are, and i understand quite why. 800,000 workers, if they never got their pay, you're talking about third of a percent on our gdp, so it's not like it's a gigantic number overall. >> as you'd expect,any democrats immediately seized on those comments and called the remarks, quote, tone deaf and out of touch. help for furloughed workers is coming from many people and many agencies.

metro may followea maryland's and give free rides to furloughed federal workers. news4's justin finch has more on the decision coming later today. >> reporter: and we should see metro take up the issue of free rides for furloughed workers in just a matter of hours. there's early word that this measure could pass. national metro board chairman jackvans and this emergency meeting is now coming a day after maryland governor larry hogan urged metro to follow his state's lead. hogan announced just yesterday that furloughed workers will see their fares waived on state transportation. so on the table right now, we fve this. free rides furloughed workers. if this is passed today, it will go into effectn monday, meaning workers will go to a metro stati with their government i.d. and will be waved in for a free ride by the station manager. this is up forga a votin this 3:00.noon at about and so this, of course, if passed would lighten a very f

heavy loa a lot of furloughed workers who are many still going to work, but also having to come up with money to pay for a ride. if they do have smart benefits, the thought of them not having them coming next week, this is really going to lighten t burden. right now major delays at laguardia airport in new york city. lie faa reported a ground stoppage forts caused by staffing issues. this comes a day after airline execs wned the partial government shutdown was pushing the aviation testimony to the tipping point. we are updating our app with resources for furloughed federal workers every day. checn the nbc washing app to finding out where you can get help and where you can give help. just search shutdown. we have yet another update on the work to fix that massive sinkhole that opened up in the district. and it's not a good one. we fir showed you this hole on wednesday. it opened at the intersection of 17thnd d streets near d.a.r.

constitutional hall. we first told you it would be next week until the issue was fixed. now wre being tol it may take a week or more to fix. that means the closures we've been seeing for days may be in place for some time. now d street is also closed between 15th and 17th. well, the parents of three o children kille indian head highway are sharing their re hearing story. a drunk driver slammed into t family's car. you can hear what helped them through this nearly unbearamee >> he thought that we don't take showers for mthat. i' like that is absurd. andnger from a family kicked off a flight over kicked off a flight over complaints about body odor.il stronger is rebuding a newborn's heart... and restoring a father's faith. it's standing tall after one surgery...

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slammed into the family's carir killing t three little children. that driver has been charged with manslaughter. >> the mexias tell darcy spencer nothing will ever relieve the pain in their hearts. >> like i said, this is an un >> reporter: the parents of the three children who died in that horrific crash on indian head highway say they're trusting a god that justice will be served. >> what p thisson has done to us is something that in hundreds of ways could have been avoided. >> even ifim it's not in jail, just a lifetime here on earth, god will give him what he deserves. >> reporter: the state's attorney announced thomas hawks has been indicted on vehicular manslaug er andalcohol-related charges. she said hawks had a blood alcohol content of 0.17, more than twice theegal limit in maryland. >> mr. hawks was driving southbound on route 210 in a

chevy silverado, while heavily intoxicated and impaired. >> reporter: juanita and alexis mejia don't remember the crash. the driver of a pickup truck allegedly trear-endedir car. their 5-year-old twins and thei 1-year-oby, isaac, died. the parents are still recovering from critical injuries. >> i have five brokenwhen i cry only from my heart, not only my heart hurts when ilsry buto my body physically. >> repter: the family had within to church and an all you can eat restaurant, never knowing it would be their last meal together. they said god and the outpouring from friends, family andven strangers is helping them get through. >> me and my husband and my whole family are overwhelmed with the amount of love and support from everyone around the world. >> their lives w se cutrt but for the time that they were

here, they knew nothing but love and joy. >> reporter: darcy spencer, news4. >> the community is p tling togeth help the mejia family. we posted a link to their go fund me in the nbc washington app, just search oxen hill crash. new this morning, the mother of a seventh grader who died from an apparentuide at school filed a lawsuit against that charter school.rm 12-year-old s denison jackson was found dead in her dorm room at seedublic charter school in southeast last year. her mother, patricia denison, bullied daughter was and she raised concerns with school leaders about it. the lawsuit said the school did not do eugh torevent the suicide. we have an update on a teen shooting that rocked a prince 's geor county neighborhood. 16-year-old edwin hernandez is charged as an adult with assault. police say he was drinking when he pointed a gun at his friend and shot him in the head. this happened o wednesday morning at hernandez' home in landover. the 15-year-old victim is in

critical conditven. igators say both teens were drinking and tertndez admitted to shooting his friend. after two days and nightsn alonee freezing cold and rain in north carolina, this little boy is now back in h mother's arms. the toddler disappeared while playing in the yard of his grandmother's home. as nbc's gabe gutierrez reports, his family never gave up hope. >> reporter: this morning a north carolina community is relief.ng a huge sigh of >> we brought casey to his family just like we said we were going to do. >> reporter: 3-year-old casey hathaway foundng alive follo an intense three-day search for y.e missing bo >> we just wanting to tell everybody that we're very thankful that you took the time o come search for casey and pray for him. p>> reporter: he had beeying outside his grandmother's home -- >> we'reoing to tak you to an nbc news special report. good day, everyone, we're

coming on the air with breaking iws. roger stone a federal court in florida at this hour having been arrested this morning in a predawn raidf hist. lauderdale home. stone has beenharged with seven counts of obstruction, making false statements and witness tampering centering on his communications with the ump campaign about wikileaks and stolen democratic e-mails. stone, who has been close to donald trump for decades, now becomes the latest trump associate to be indicted in the ongoing investigation by special counsel robert muelle nbc's kerry sanders is outside the court house in ft. lauderdale. what's been happening there? >> reporter: well, they have just concluded the presentation in front of u.s. magistrate lorena snow, who has decided th roger stone will be able to walk out today after he signs over a $250,000 signature bond, which means that in the next couple of hours we may see him walk rightut of the courthouse here and come over here, because

he is not shy from cameras. you can see all the cameras and the microphones that are set up to hear what he has to say aicut this ient here. orningme was raided this shortly before the sun came up. fbi agents with weapons and their vests on served aearch birrant, took him into custody. at this hour teams, agents, are currently at his home still going through his home looking for eviden. lester. >> and, kerry, this was not the formal arraignment, this is a very early appearance for him? >> reporter: exactly. thest qn here is -- okay. what did you say, sir? >> 45 minutes to an hour roger will be here. >>eporter:pparently roger stone will be out here before the hour to speak before the cameras. yes, this was not the formal arraignment. what they're basically trying to

determine is that he will indeed not be a flight risk. the u.s. magistrate here determined that's the case. one of the questions was, was this timed on a friday for some on? but clearly the imagine straima having him leased. there's no extra motive to make his life miserable over the weeken sitting in a federal detention center. >> let's go to our justice correspondent pete williams, who's bee following this case quite closely and has the latest from our washington newsrout. lay if you can what has happened and what is in that indictment,pete. sure. first of all, just a note about the proceeding. in federal court this is called the initial appearance. you don't enter a 'sea. basically to advise you of the charges. he'll ultimately have to come ck hereo washington, d.c., where the charges were filed. ist the mueller team says that he has committed basically two categories of crimes to congressional investigators about his efforts to contact wikileaks to find out what they may have had in terms of hacked

e-mails from the democrats and hillary clinton's campaigns, prodding them to release mo , acting through an intermediary to try to get julian assange to tell more abouthat they had and release more damaging e-mails to damage tlinton campaign. the charges also say that he was contacted by some m trump campaign to ask what wikileaks had after stone had bragged that he was in touch with assange himself. now, there'so documentation that he ever did that, that he in fact contacted assange through intermediaries. and the secon thing the special prosecutor says here, the mueller,counsel, robert is that he urged another man, a talk show host, to lieo congress when he was asked about all of this, telling him that he shou plead the fifth, invoking the name of a character from thr "godfa movie who was called before congress and falsely claims he didn't know anything and saying at one point to this termediary, if you don't lie to congress, i'll take your dog. lester. b >> there will those who

already are parsing this indictment, pete. what does it n say? we know, of course, this investigation has been about this whole issue of collusion. does it tie him to communications with th russians? >> no, it does not. here's what it doesn't say. itoesn't say that he was directly in touch with the russians. it doesn't even say that he was directly in touch wit wikileaks. but roger stone brought this on himself. nthe p the bull's-eye on his own back because early onven before robert mueller was appointed, he was bragging that he was in touchh w julian assange. he later backed off about that, but obviously ifng you're g to look at the russian attempts to meddle in the election, you're going to wa to know who was in touch with wikileaks, because mueller has already said that it was the russians who hacked into the demrats and hillary clinton's computers. and it was the russians who gave that to wiki leaks to make it public. so he brought this upon himself. what mueller says is when the heat was on him andat

invests started to ask him questions, he started lying and acouraged others to do the same. there was language in here that suggested and frankly said that a senior trump campaign official directed some of this communication, find out what they have. any clues in her that wou indicate who that senior official was, and does it rule out the esident? well, so the answer to the question is no, isn d rule anybody out. there are several references in here to a senior trump campaigni ofs, more than one person. now, we know toward the end of this whole saga, one of those senior campaignofficials, according to a person familiar with the communications, was in fact steve bannon. but we don't know specifically who all the people eferred to in this indictment as senior campaign officials are. t the picture painted by the indictment, lester, ishe when democrats said they had been hacked by the russians and whent wikileaks beg say we've got this stuff and are putting it

out, that's when the trump campaign said to roger stone, well, you're tuy who claims to be able to talk to julian assange, what else have they got? that's the picture painted from the charges today. >> we're getting a little color from inside the courtroom. let me look at notes. apparently there's a $250,000 signature bond requi,d he his hands were shackled in the court. he is going to be released. he'll be restricted to south florida, virginia and d.c. again, pete saying the case will go forward in washington. he's not allowed to change his address. he'll surrender his ssport. apparently his passport is expired. he's not able to contact witnesses, sell personal property, agree to drug testing. these are some of the conditions of his release pending this appeartoce in court y. we want to go to kristen welker right now at the white house. kristen, what reaction have we been heang from the white house? >> reporter: lester, the reaction so far from the white house andm fe president has been defiant. we got our first tweet just

moments ago. let me read ito you. the president tweeting greatesth witch hunt i history of our country. no collusion in all caps. border coyotes, drug dealers and human traffickers a treated better. then he asked this question of this video that was obtained by ocnn who alerted cnn to be there? cnn was there when roger stone was arrested. that has been the president's response so far. it is what you would expect. it is something we have heard from this president time and time again, no collusion, and ferring to the mueller investigation as a witch hunt. let me read you the more measured statement from his rn at, jay sekulow, who wrote the indictment today does not allege russian collusion by roger stone or anyone else. rather the indictmen focuses on alleged false statements mr. stone made to congress. no t in talki those close to the president's legal team, they stress that point that pete factust talking about, the that the indictment does not

draw a line between roger stone and russia. now, sarah sanders trying to distance the president from all of this saying earlier today this has nothing to do with the president and certainly nothing o with the white house. the president, though, raise some eyebrows during the campaign about this very issue, as you'll recall, he stood at a podium time and time again and said he loved the wikileaks releases and in one instance called upon rus ha tok into hillary clinton's e-mails. so all of this raising more quesons. of cours nearly a dozen former trump advisers, trump campaignf als have pleaded guilty or been indicted as a part of the mueller investigion. so this has been a growing crowd over the trump white house. all of this comes against the backdrop of the longest government shutdown in u.s. history. i can tell youhat white house officials have been huddled in their offices meeting. now, they usuly have meetings throughout the morning, but undoubtedly this has been front

and cter today. lester. >> kristen welker, thanks for that characterization of what's i want to go to chuck todd right now,oderator of "meet the press." chuck, as i noted with pete a moment ago, there's going to ot a of parsing of this indictment. it appears the white house was caught off guard. i don't think anyone was surprised roger stone was in legal jeopardy but the timing certainly seemed to su a rise. what does it all mean? >> the most important part of , i know there's a lot of focus on the process side of this indictment. but it is the beginning of robert mueller laying out the collusion argument between a wikileak russia. and in many ways, i have to admit, lester, i am now rethinking tha rudy giulia -- that surprising rudy giuliani statement about ten days ago when he clarified his denials about clusion and said the president didn't collude with anybody and he wouldn't -- he wouldn't -- he told me on sunday that he couldn't rule out others on the campaigndid. well, lo and behold, that's what

this indictment shows is someong on the cam certainly was colluding with roger stone who was colluding with wikileaks. now, none of this is able to connect directly to the russians, as pete pointed out. robert mueller has made it clear that it was russian intelligence got it to wikileaks. now he's making it clear roger stone was a conduitetween wikileaks and the trump campaign. what is not proven is that somehow trump, stone and russia all knew that all of this w here. but, the fact that that part of the case is starting to be laid out by robert mueller is significant and it shows you, it think, wheres is headed next. the other thing is we still have aple more people that mueller has never interviewed, that the assumption i they're targets. probably the biggest name on that list is donald trump jr. >> and that was in regard to the meeting -- the infamous tetmp tower g. >> correct. >> all right, chuck todd.

let me bring in chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney, nbc news analyst. chuck, what do you see here? what- is the should be the level of concern at the white house as this case begins to unfold? > sarah sanders' statement aside, they ought to be concerned. she said this is not about the president. his name is throughout this inctment. now, to chuck todd's point, there are sti pieces that are missing, but we're seeing more and more of the picture filled in. if you remember, lester, back in july when the mueller team indicted the russian intelligence officials, they left a bread crumb for us and told us that u.s. persons were volved. now we know who some of those u.s. persons were definitively. and with each hdictment, w each additional document dropped into the public domain, it gets closer and closer to senior campaign officials and perhaps,s and per is an important word

here, perhaps to the president himself. >> i'ms,curi there has been this expectation that the mueller team was prepared to issue its report and maybe wrap things up as soon as the next month or so. does this change that thinking in you >> well, in my view there is really several separe strands. for instance, there's an ongoing investigation, a very imptant one, in the southern district of new york. not technically the mueller investigtaion, but cly it had sprung in part from it. as well, theueller team could release the report and then release another report. they could rel an interim report. they could release a report and continue to invespsgate per counterintelligence matters. so whether or not they drop a report soon doesn't suggest to me that this investigation by any means is over. if anything, it seems to be continuing. the president continues to do things that suggest that there would beoo a reason to take a deep look at the counterintelligenc implications

of his conduct. so, lester, i would say report or no report it seems to me to be continuing. >> chuck rosenberg, thank you for your insight there.e again,e -- roger stone, associating of the president,pe ing in court, his initial court appearance after being arrested and arraigned. let's go to kerry sanders outside the ft. lauderdale federal courthouse who has a little bit more color and can tell us what to expect today. kerry? >> reporter: we're waiting for roger stone now to exit. joining us is the nbc producer who made her way into a very to describe a little bit of what took place in there. so, first of all, when you got, roger stone was already there. >> he was already seated.gh it was to get in that courtroom. there were a lot more spectators than we expected, the mia expected, so we were all like pushing to get in there. we got seated. he was sitting -- his hands were shackled. and he was very calm, confident.

when he had to stand up to talk to the judge, he told the judge -- explained to him what was goi tohappen. he said he cannot change his address. he must surrender his passport, which he said, your honor, my passport is expired right now. he cannot sell any personal property. he can continue to see doctor, has to agree to drug testing and bstance abuse testing. >> did they tell him that he was limited where he could travel? >> ye hi travel is restricted to only the southern region of south orida from vero beach to key west. the eastern district of virginia and d.c. >> reporter: what was he wearing as he was ie? th >> he was wearing a navy blue polo type shirt. >> reporter: the sort of clothes he might have been wearing when mornin his house thi >> apparently so. there was suit and tie or anything. >> reporter: right now, that ook place in the u.s.

magistrate's courtroom on the second floor. where dot we believe he is ri now? >> he's probably upstairs right now signing the papers that he needs to sign to go on to the next phase, which is pretrial. >> reporter: and did he leave the courtroom with the u.s. imagimagistrates or were you us out before you left and how did he exit? >> well, you know the media, we all left and he was taken out. k >> reporter: tou very much, karen. so that's karen's view from inside the courtroom. we should note for tho who are wondering, there are no cameras in federal court, no cell phones, so it takes a little time for the information to get out here. we did have a representative come out here who shouted to the crowd out here, specifically to stone ia, that roger would be down within 45 minutes to an hour. that's sort of a guesstimat the process can be quick, it can be slow, but eventually we're going to hear from roger stone today. his attorney alreadyade a statement to nbc news saying in part about this indictmeha,

saying it is ridiculous. i know we're going to hear much more from roger stone. >> all right. kerry sanders. in fact he has been vocal in the past so it would not bow a surise if he speaks when he comes outside the courtroom. o are going to come off now. we'll come back when we see roger stone if he has something to say and certainly will come back on as events warrant in this case.'m for now i lester holt, nbc news los angeles, good day. you've beenn watching nbc news special report about the initial arraignment of roger dvisor tolong-time president trump, arrested at his home in ft. lauderdale, orida, this morning. they are arraigned in feder court in ft. lauderdale facing several charges connected to the probe.r among them, obstruction, witness tampering and giving false statements about e-mails released by wikileaks. the indictment that he's facing does not allege that he conspired with russia, but stone

has been released on a $250,000 signature bond. as you heard there, his b movements ang limited, his travel limited to south florida, n,e eastern district of virginia and washingd.c., where we are expecting him to return as some point. >> yeah. throughout this whole process stone h a denied sort of collusion with wikileaks or with russia. agai we will hopefully hear from him later on today. it will be interesting to see what he can and cannoay as this proceeding moves forward. >> we'll continue to follow this story here on air and on the nbc washington app. we're going to stay in florida, though, because florida's new secretary of state has resigned after shocking photos erged showing him in black face. these pictures obtained by the local paper, he tallahassee democrat" show him at a private halloween party back in 2005 posing as a hurricane katrina victim. this is just two months after that deadly storm. at the time he county supervisor of election. he resigned hours after the photos were posted online.

whenntsked to comn the photos, he said there's nothing i can say. nbc news could not reach h for comment. a touching story now that unfolded on the side of it's going viral. a veteran saw a driver struggling on the side of the road and pulled over tohelp. as shomari stone explains, tha good samaritan had no idea the stranded person was o of his heroes. >> i've always just been a pretty happy go lucky kin of guy. >> reporter: anthony maggert has a good heart. we sat down withim in h living room in stafford, firginia. >> i think a lot o things in life are just about helping people. >> reporter: on wednesday he hopped in his car. >> i w heading on the beltway on te495. >> rep when he saw a man stranded on the side of the road with a flat tire. >> i didn't know who it was. >> reporter: he pulled over to help. >> i thought, well, nobody else isng stop. >> reporter: he was stunned to see it was retired general colin powell, the former secretary of

state. >> reporter: when i approached him, i said, you're general colin powell. he said, yes, i am. >> what was going through your mind? >> i was shocked. >> reporter: reality sat in and anthony changed the tire. >> you know, ie had some near-death experiences. >> reporter: he told powell he's arp marine veteran whose leg was amputated after fighting in afghanistan. but now it's anthony who left a huge kwaimpact. >> i'm just an average guy doing my part. >> reporter: powell shared what happened on his facebook page saying, thanks, anthony. you touched my soul and reminded me about what this country is all about and why it is so great. let' stop screaming atach other. let's just take care of each other. you made my day. how does it make you feel to hear outhat? >>eel great, but it sort of made my day too. >> reporter: and the special day has a coincidental moment. anthony and powell were heading to doctors' appointments at the same time, walter reed national

military medical center. >> in fact he was two cars behind me as we went through the gate. >> reporter: anthony says he will continue to serve otrs. >> a lotf things are about just giving of yourself, trying to help other folks out. i mean life is short. >> reporter: he is such a great guy. now, anthony maggert says that retired general colin powell offered him money after he changed the tire, but anthony would not acct it he says he just enjoys helping people. shomari stone, news4. >> wow. >> how great is that? >> you nev know wou're going to meet on the side of the road. >> do you offer to change a tire or say,po general ll, can i drive you to wherever you're going just to get a little bit more face time with such an important person >> he probably didn't think about driving. >> that is very true. how cool for him. >> an encounter distinned to happen. looking f over the weekend? we've got you covered from the schooln bethesda to the of rock at the national theater. and lauryn has your weekend weather covered including the possibility, yes, of a f

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it's cold out there, but not as cold as it's going tget, right? >> no. it's going to get -- we've got an arctic blast comg toward the end of next week. >> you say it with ae. sm >> i know. that's all i can do. >> it sounds >> happy news for a meteorologist. >> happy news is we're not going to get too much ow but we do have snow in that ten-day forecast. let's take a look ioutside. th looking down from the marine corps statue up there, iwo jima. gorgeous out there. i know a few of you guys are see some snow showers and we'll continue to see those throughout the day, at least the chance, but i'm not expecting any accumulation so don't worry about that. we do have a dry weekend in store. by sunday night you could have a few sprinkles or a light snow

shower but for the most parre oing to be dry. but we do have more snow on the way. looks like it heads our way fors y. right now those temperatures are in the 30s and low 40s. that's pretty much where they're going to stay. here's a look at the snow owers moving through maryland pretty quickly. but ain, just some flurries passing on through on those breezy northwest winds so it's going to be ptty blustery headed through the remainder of the day. winds die down after p 8:00. tonight and temperatures drop under clear skies. you can see the wind gusts right nowusting up to 25 miles an hour. you factor that in with the temperature and this is the feel-like factor so feeling like the 20s and 30s through t remainder of the day. again, 30s and 20s for the windchill. warmer onay su upper 30s on saturday, upper 40s on sunday and a chance for light snow, maybe a rain shower possible late on sunday. next change comes on tuesday. could see a few rain showers ending as snow showers as temperatures fall through the day on tuesday.

thd might l into wednesday night. confidence still low on that, so ch t's something we'll w for. otherwise we are looking at nice temperatures ase get to the end of the week and tuesday the te i'll show you where the temperature really falls coming up in just a little>>bit. despite the cold weather or maybe because of the cold weather it is already time to think head tosummer. those camps are filling up fast. help available for parents looking for the right fit for their kid. >> i want you to take him out on your boat, let him get drunk. then drop him in the ocean for the sharks. >> big-name actors like matthew mcconaughey and ann hathaway, i the news

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wanted. >> matthew mcconaughey stars as a fishing boat captain who struggles between right and wrong when his ex-wife begs for help for her andheir son. >> wtop entertainment editor jason fraley joins us live. jason, reviews are not too good for this one. what did you thi about "serenity." ? >> i'd throw this one overboard, guys. i think it will be up for razzies for the worst movie of 2019, which is crazy to think with this cast. matthewta mcconaughey as a deep sea fisherma who's approached by his ex-wife, ann hathaway asking him to kill her abusive husband, placyed by jasn clark. it starts off, i was into it for the first few minutes there. it's a stylish, neonuar. it's the husband whacking plot,

body heat, double indem tee, but pretty quickly realize there's a lot more going on than meets the eye. it builds to a giant preposterous twist. sometimes those shocking twists make you say, oh, my god, this is amazing. but this is a twist that makes you feel horribly misled and removes all stakes from everything we've been watching. it no longer matters if he does kill the husband or what the characters' actions are doing because there's this larger framing device. it's one of those twists that i think totally sinks the movie. but let's don't give up on the , directteven knight, because he made a hit a couple of years ago. it's still one of my favorite movies of the last decade, shot expirely from tom hardy's steering wheel as he driving down the road talking to people on the phone. >> you threw it overboard. the school of rock mical is w performing at national theater. what do you think about that?

>> yes.he it's last weekend you get a chance to see this. remember, the 2003 children's vi mo i think it was one of jack blk's funniest roles if not his funniest. it was adapted for broadway as a tony nominated musical back in 2015. let's say it survived the t"hamilton" hurricane tha way. andrew lloyd webber, he wrote 14 new songs for the"school of rock" musical to go along with some of the favorite songs from the movie,ike "teacher's pet," great tunes and actor david merit jaynes said no other show isng more instruments in kids' hands than this one. bring the kids and they'll probably be inspired to take up music after watching"school of rock." >> the last thing i'll ask you, a lot of great acts in town. highlights us some what to look out for? >> yes. brandy will be performing live

with thenso at kennedy center. if you ever wanted to hear "the boy i mine"ith a live orchestra, there you go. therepinners at bethesda blues and jazz. neko case is at lincoln theaterc ella nicole y winery and there's a cool aretha franklin tribute in north bethesda, guys. >> lots to choose fromks thwtop entertainment editor jason fraley, have great weekend, jason. soon the cold days of winter wille gonend summer will be back. >> not soon enough. not soon enough. but for parents this is t time now to start nailing down summer camps for their kids. news4's molette greenas more on what you need to know as well as how camps are working with furloughed parents. >> reporter: checkut the little robots, they're on the move. okay, so from robotics to sports, the montgomery county

camp fair will have everything you need to kn coming up on sunday in bethesda. and look, weut out the call to parent magazine. hey, are there deals for furloughed federal worker people impacted by this shutdown, and we brought out a little preview for you of some of the 60haamps tt are offering deals. okay, soo i want t talk to coach parker really quickly. basketball is your thing. tell me about the program. >> most parents struggle to find good basketball programs so we have done the job of making it simple and fun. >> and thenf coursedrones. who doesn't love to fly drones? in a children love to learn s.t.e.m. and flyg drones, yes. >> let's make ithappen. then we have the robots, dash and dot and the mad scientist happening over here. i just love it. club i kids, right? >> yep. we have science and technology for kids ages 4 up to 15. >> okay. and then kid museum offering a

whole lot of deals as anwell. then you've got the hands-on learning going on. >> kids learny doing it. kid museum. we do robotics, a weo have kids build their own skateboards. >> make your own -- oh, i love it all. okay, thank you so much. jackie, julie, martin with parent magazine, thank you so much for bringing everybo here. the deals are plentiful because you guy know that everybody is impacted by the shutdown. >> absolutely. come find a, great ca it's free, it's fu h weave moon bounce and face painters, so we want to see the parents there. >> all hapning on sunday. let's put up the graphic at 10:00 a.m. at the hilton there. and then of course the discounts range from 50% to paymeplans. you name it. work with these camps, they're willing to work with you. that is t latest. back in to you. >> so good to know. >> want to go back to camp.

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