the governor of virginia says he is not the person in the controversial yearbook photo, but he does admit to darkening his skin at a different college party. we'l break down what turned out to be aar biz press conference. >> and our team of cours on the ground in richmond caught up with the man who is next in line to lead the commonwealth, but even on a day whenwd crowere chanting for a new governor, he remains one of the few politicians not correctly telling northam to step down. >> and what a tragedy out of prince george's county, five a horrific d after crash. this morning we are learning more about just what happened. plenty going on this sunday morning including the super bowl. it is super bowl sunday. and we're also looking forward to a little bit of a warm-up in the weather. and if you've been with us since 6:00 in the morning, thanksor sticking it out. i'm adam tutuss. >> and i'm meagan fitzgerald. that sums it up. so let's head to lauryn. >> tying a nice little ribbon on that. >> that was perfect. >> let's go home.

>> is that's it, done. we do have a warm-up coming. we also have some rain chances coming our y. ande also have a wintry mix possible. i have it on the 10 day forecast. so somethingor everybody on this 10 day forecast. but a beautiful view out there ght now. ah, we have the cloud cover in some portions of our area, but we don't have the wind out there. let's take a look at the current temperatures. so we have come up dramacally the last hour. we had bn in the 20s and 30s. so we're warming up rather quickly. after lunchtime, the teeratures will soar into the low to mid 50s. and the temperatures are in the upper 20s this frederick county, but prettmuch everybody in the mid to upper 30s right now. so we have the super bowl pa ly, it wilk good for that if you are prepping for that, exercise, comfortable out there. and brunch, chilly, but dry. we'll talk about the next chance of rain and how hot beal gewe'l

that is it on the 10 day forecast. and toay that it has been ralph ll chew ufetumultuous twr rtham is an understatement. he apologized for the picture and now a whirl wind for the calls of his resignation. >> and david culver is livey wih the v latest. you've been there since yesterday morning covering this press conference. bu what strikes me is that governor northam has been in 2007.ics since and it was a hotly contested gubernatorial race. so how ist that we're just now finding out about this picture? >> reporter: having made several phone calls to folks who are close with the governor, and who have known him for a long time, that is the question that they are asking themselves. how did this not surface before. and it was brought up in yesterday's 45 minute the word that adam used a bizarre, that is quite appropriate here,

bizarre press conference. and he addressed it in a strange way. he said that you'd have to ask those whose job it is to do background research on campaigns, to look in and see t what informatire may be that could cause a problem for that person to be elected. in or it is not clear why this didn't come up. but interesting though, theth governor i press conference yesterday did say that he knows through sondhand who is responsible for putting that photo forward. and heays that individual has an agenda. he did not go into detail beyond that. meantime there have been several folks of course leadership, you have senate leaders on the democratic side and of course ngthe republican side calor the resignation, but you also had residents o vginia who say that they want their vote back. folks roo stood in executive mansion yesterday before that press conference and after that press conference sentially saying the press conference did nothing to sway them its way and they want governor ralph northam to step down. take a listen. >> a black man stands behind

you. step back, step away so that he can step forward. resign today. give us at least that. governor northam should step up, rather than step down. the ultimateeasure of a m is not where he stands during times of comfort and convenience, but at times of challenge and controversy. and it is a challenge for gorsuch hac governor northam, but it is a time of leadership. >> reporter: two very different sides on this issue. an sayingt young w that the governor should step away, and allow lieutenant governor justin fairfax to step into that position. and that gentleman there dr. shannon saying that he believes that the governor should stay through this, he considers this to be a distraction and he wants folks to focus on the policies of the governor which he considers to be positive ones. >> all right. david doing an awesome job reporting live for us at the executive mansion.

thank you. and of course catch all the developments on the northam controversy and see more of that news conference on our nbc washington app, just searc northam. of course keep it here for "meet the press" at 10:30 this morning, cck todd and his panel will talk about all the developments in richmond yesterday and political fallout from governor northam's decision to remain in office. of course that starts at 10:30 right here on nbc 4. >> and it is super bowl sunday, guys. we're just hours away from tonight's mch-up between the los angeles rams, fingers cros ed, and the nland patriots. >> tom brady. >> always there. >> so muchtoing on t you almost forget about it. thousands of fans have been enjoying the festivities all week long in atlanta including jay gray who has now moved on to burgers. i'll take mine medium well, ease. we wentthrough becausbacon, ome have people running to the

supermarket? who is going to the store? >> reporter: we have lot of help, a loty of people v interested in making sure that we keep this grill going. look, we did start the morning with breakfast. we're kind of transitioning to a brunch/type of thing here. butmp it istant to stay full because once we get to the game, we won't take a break. we'll watch the game. so we'll keep cooking things up here. it has been cooking in atlanta over the last week. as many as a million people pouring through the city to be a part of the experience re. you have the nfl experiee inside, you have nfl live outside with concert,ra inive games in both places. it has been quite a show here. it will be the spoight show a bit later this evening. super bowl liii, the rams and thepa iots, it is experience versus the up and newcomers. and it should bew great s once it takes place, once it kicks things off around 6:30

eastern time. we had some rain this morning, a few showers pass thinugh. no dramatic. but rain passing throu c. it will study for most of the day. the nfl had wanted to keep the roof on th mercedes-benz adium open, but i would bet now with the rain we saw this morning, the clouds that will linger that the won't be willing to take a chance, that they will leave it closed. itill just make it louder for the 80,000 or so inside. should be a great time. and i know you've been working all morning, you have super bowl be , plans, thought? or maybe just make the trip here, i can keep cooking. >>o i was aboutask, you have the burgers now, so what is next? next?s is the place to eaks cog >> yeah, it will be much late her, but yeah, we'll probably thro some steaks on. >> love it. >> enjoy yourself. make sure you put the sauce on.

and it has been more than seven months since the devastating shooting athe "capital gazette" newspaper and now a maryland senator has filed a billjuo nam 28 freedom of the press day to honor the victims there. the day would memr are memorialize the five killed and also honor all marylands. journali the house of delegates is working on a similar version of the bill as well. and some t folks in district braved the cold and wore their swimsuits for aat g cause. they participated in the polar plunge. you might recognize one of the faces. the guy in th red shorts, that is so he marry stone doing the. belly fl it is the polar bear plunge in southeast. all the proceeds go to the special olympics. and not sure i'd w t to jump in the water with the temperatures the way it is,ut we are going to warm up a little

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now to the latest in a tragedy in prince george's county. five children killed after a violent car crash in bowie. and now their families are ving to copeith this sudden and devastating loss. state police say dominique taylor was driving her car packed with kids along crain highway yesterday morning. she is the mother of two of the leungest victims. she suddenly off the road, struck several trees and then spun across a snow covered field. five kids were thrown out of the car. they range in age from as young as 5 to 15 years old. >> every collisione have where

we lose life is a tragedy. simple as that. and when children are involved, it is more o a tragedy. >> taylor and one other alt survived the crash. police say that the children were not properly restrained inside that car. re. the adults meanwhile in montgomery county, police say someone akwalking along a stumbled upon a dead body. a man was found lying in the woods off trailway drive yesterday afternoon. akthis is near bernard frank in the aspen hill area. officers are trying to figure out howhat person died. they think the body has been there since before the recent snowfall. and protests erupt in carac caracas, venezuela. demonstrators are demanding nicolas maduro thresign. protests were ledy self-proclaimed enter primary president juan guaido who the

u.s. is backing. maduro t attacked trump administration and called for an early election for the national assembly. meantime tragedy in brazil, the death toll now stands at 12 after a dam breaks. this is unbelievable video yore about to see here. this happened on january 25th and you can see righthere securi cameras catch position the moment that the dam burst releasing a flood of waste.nd amazing footage here. you can see the dam give way, all that dirt barreling down the hill. authorities say more than 200 people are still missing. and they explain that some bodies maynd never be found the tons of mud that swept through the area. the recovery mission could take more t a month. a funeral was held to honor one of the first female navy pilots captain rosemary mariner.

you're looking at an aerial tribucontribute to honorin m. she served in the navy for 24 years, she was the first woman to ever command an operational air squadron and one of the otfirst to p a tactical jet aircraft. she died a couple weeks ago after a long battle with ovaan cancer. 10:14. one little boy learned the hard way what not to do with fireworks. take a look at this, this boy appears to drop two lit fireworks into a manhole in china. that is a problem. the sewerer cov ee ee eer cover. the boy escap without getting hurt. that explosion was the result of methane gascover blows off. e boy escaped without getting hurt. that explosion was the result of methane gas cover blows off. the boy escaped without getting hurt. that exp methane gas in the sewer. >> why would he do that. families are demandisw s after inmates in a new york jail say they went days

without heat during the week of freezing temperatures. protesters rallied outside the rday ity in brooklyn yes key ha demanding power be resolved. more than 1,000 inmates are housed inside. they claim they have gone without heat and electricity for days during last week's single digit temperatures. g theernment is blaming a power outage that they say will be fixed by tomorrow. ai well, it cey got off to a chilly start around here, but warming up quickly as you take a look national ca cathedr cathedral. how warm will it get and what o does the resthe week look like? lauryn has a look at your full forecast when we come back. alexa, play weekend mix.

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welcome ba a. we hours away now to kickoff, 6:30. i'm excitemented. >> you should be. and the puppy bowl. he and there is a kit in-bowl and thenuper bowl. >> a lot of bowls. >> when you have three kids, the puppy bowl will trump the super bowl. >> yea h and we'lle a mix of sun and clouds out there today. temperatures are rising. we'll be topping out into the -- wash?that the car >> that is the car wash.

that is why the license plate saysar wash in ca you need to get your car washed today. we've had a lot of salt out there, so ge that solt osalt of. and today we'll have a few spnkles late monday, but the better chance of rain comes late wednesday. so four things you need to kn a, sunny and mild over the day today. and warming tomorrow. warming even more than that tuesday. and by wednesday, we will have rain, but i looks like for the second half of the day. temperatures on wednesday fall only in the 40'rs. and making it to the 40s takes slow g it is a slow go, we're in the 30s right now, but we'll take it over who ase head into the lurch hour and through the afternoon on our way to the low to mid-50s. again, we'll be dry out there today. mild a conditionsrage temperature for this time of year is in the low to mid-40s. and tonight as you make your way home possibly from the super, that is where we'll be. partly cloudy, may have a lile fo after midnight.

but otherhan that, we're not looking -- it wi be a long super bowl party. you've never been to one of my super bowl rties. listen, we're dry today, a few showers late monday as i said, and then tuesday looking good, more rain coming in late wednday and then through t day thursday. but nothing out there right now. jay doesn't think that they will open up the dome down there at rcedes-benz, i think a lot of that rain will be out in the early afternoon setp ng us for dry conditions for the super bowl. but again, they are develomed. by the time we get tednesday, most of the day dry, back in the 40s, but some rain will continue through most of the day on thursday. a few showers lingering into friday, but look at these temperatures, despite the rain, warm front lifting through the area. so even though we're on wednesday, we have 50s on thursday, back in the 60s possibly on friday. back in forcomes the weekend and then a rain/snow mix the following monday and

tuesday. winter is not done yet. >> so partially heating up. and of course so is our politics. time yesterday, it seemed all but certain that virginia governor would be stepping down. >> but then ralph northam hecided not to step down. he says thaas not in the racist picture. chuck todd here to talk to us live about all of this. what is your take? >> well, he made things worse saturday. i mean that is the bottom line. 10 or 2 years ago, i think he might have been able to apologize his way out of but the big picture is democrats have zero tolerance now. they have condemned donald trump on his behavior towards win and is motives when it comes to race. so democrats, if they don't want to look like hypocrites t need have zero tolerance when policing themselves. and i think with ralph northam,

i understand where it is coming from, and i have to say, i took -- there is something he said yesterday that sort of really irked me when he tri t to clait he came from a time and era referring to 1984 that somehow that was -- somehow it was -- many people were ignorant of that. but he was the son of a judge and a schoolteacher, number one. that same year the first prominent african-american to run for president was happening, at the time jesse jackson. and the following year the state of virginia elected doug wilder as the first african-american eutenant governor in that state's history. so it just came across as disingenuo disingenuous. if it was 1964, maybe. but this is 1984. >> noto mention the fact that he also said that he did paint his face blackme in the year but for a different incident. >> and by t way a congressman whole be on the show pointed out

that governnortham added that i hard to get it off as if he ahead experience. so this really -- you could tell that is what really came across asoffensive. >> makes you wonder if he is trying to get ahead of maybe another photofa sng. who knows. but real quick, we're two weeks away from a potential government shutdown. president trump saying that he will declare a natynal emergeo get that funding for his wall. and then we have the state of the union spatch. an we expect? >> well, i think that the national emergency is something that the president will continue dangle. it could be overly divisive. so my guess is that he ratchets it back a little bit because i think they want to sound like he is reaching across the aisle. but obviously nobody wants the shutdown. i think the national emergency is the only way that he could somehow declare not- that an opportunity for victory in the

future which is what he m be looking for rather than trying to come up with aompromise. >> always happy to see the show and can't wait for today. and you can see "meet the press" every sunday at 10:30 just a couple minutes away.

welcome back. a check on the weather.

>> not bad out there today. temperatures low to mid-50s. mid to upper 50s tomorrow. low 60s on tuesday. just looking good. we do have a chance of a few sprinkles late monday night mainly west. better chance of the rain for erybody late wednesday. we dip a little bit on wednesday, but then back in the 50s and 60s thursda andiday. maybe a wintry mix next next monday and tuesday. >> done with that. let's go to spring. thanks so much for joining us. "meet the press" is coming up next. >> wake up with us monda this is not a bed. it's a revolution in sleep. the sleep number 360 smart bed is on sale now, from $899, during the ultimate sleep number event. it senses your movement, and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable.

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this sunday northam digs in. virginia governor ralph northam refuses to tresign. person i was is not the man i am today. >> after denying he i in this photo from his medical school yearbook page. >> this is not my picture. i was not in that costume either aslack face or as kkk. and it's not me. >> with the democrats universallyng denoun northam, how can they get him to leave? i'll talk to two leaders of tng coressional black caucus. plus, democrats divided on the best way to defeatresident trump. on one side progressives like elizabeth warren. >> let's bely re clear,