members of congress, the state of our union is strong. >> president trump state of the union speech being picked art this morning. we have reaction from both sides of the aisle. virginia's top leaders remain under fire this mor wng andan accusing the state's lieutenant governor of assault is gaining new support. andin good mo everybody. don't be fooled by that sunshine we had this morning. 70% chance of rain today still in the forecast. we'll time out it's arrival coming up. "news4 midday" starts now. >>ood morning, everybody. welcome to "ne4 midday." i'm aaron gilchrist.

>> i'm erika gonzalez. we begin with the deadline tha lawmakers are facing this morning. >> congress has ten days left to pass at bill t we'll fund our government, protect our homeland and secure our very dangerous southern border. >> president trump used his state of the uon address to remind congress of the deadline. short-term spending agreement expires next friday which means the government could be st down a second time, however, the mentiont did not once the first shutdown in his speech or the workers impacted by it. >> news4 tracie potts has more on the ideas that divided and united lawmakers. >> weust reject the politics of revenge, resis attendance and retribution. >> reporter: president trump's call for democrats and republicans to work together brought mixed reaction. d> it was good to hear him say that we n to come together. >> i saw a president who read a

speech but doesn't have a deep t match-upo the words. >> reporter: p thesident took credit for thewi grong economy he hin er itsed. with a simple solution. >> simply lsput, wal work and walls save lives. i will get it built. >> reporter: that drew a sharp democratic response from georgia's stacor abrams. di over the wall could force another government shutdown next week. >> the shutdown was a stunt engineered by the president of the united states. >> reporter: the president pitched ideas democrats and republicans can agreeon, infrastructure, cheaper prescriptions, children's cancew research andhout naming it, he took a swipe at the russian o investig >> if there's going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. >> reporter: but thisroht

thunderous applaud from democrats. >> and we have more women in the workforce than er before. >> reporter: female lawmakers in white opposing a president calling for unity. the president also talked about trade ingn policy, the nuclear deals, trade deals and it. ess wars as he put he wants to get out of and he set a date, february 27th through 28th for his next meeting with north korean leader kim jong-un. tracie potts, nbc news, on washin and the address took a turn to virginia when the president mentioned governor ralph northam and statements he made about abortion. >> and then we had the case of the governor of virginia where he stated he would execute a baby after birth to defend t dignity of every person, i am king congress to pass legislation torohibit the late

term abortion of children. >> here's where that reference started. on a radio show last week governor northam i landed hot water while defending a potential virginia law. the law would allow the procedures with the approval of one doctor rather than theth the the state law currently requires. the governor said his comments were grossly taken out of context and that bill is no longerpending. governor northam faces growing pressure to resign after that racist pho fro a medical school yearbook was made public. >> the controversy srounding the commonwealth lieutenant governor is growing, vanessaty n says the lieutenant governor assaulted her at the 04 democratic national convention. she's getting support on social media with people using the hashtag i believe have necessaria. s now using the same attorney that cistine blasey ford used.

he has admitted to a one time consensual encounter with tyson but denies an assault. now we turn to the weather. put that record breaking temperature stuff out of your head for today. it is february, so come on. weather with the cooler we could also see somesome rain. chuck bell joins us now with what w can expect, hi, chuck. >> the clouds and the rain drops e running behind schedule but we haven't taken them out of the forecast all together i hope you've enjoyed the relatively sunny first part of day. clouds have already thickened across the shenandoah valley and rain drops have already reached placesesikevirginia down to human being and you get a sense here that the overall trend here is not your friend i you lik the mild and dry weather as rain chances will be going up as we get farther in to the afternoon.

most of the rain is confined to e i-81 corridor and points west of there and because of the bonus shine we've warmed up an extra few degrees here. 54 now in washington, 60 in fredericksburg but where does the influence of the colder waters 4in potomac, 48 in annapolis. as you're planning out the day today, planning on clouds coming in soon. those rain chances go up after about 3:00 or 4:00 today. showers likelybo starting 4:00 or 5:00 and continuing on into the evening hours,ayain on tomorrow morning's commute fit i think you'll like the way tomorrow will sh. more about that and the changes coming upekend in about an hour from now, the d.c. mayor will hold a press conference and we're told it'll focus on violent crime in illegal gun possession in the district two topics at the top of many concerned minds. we checked and according to online police records, the city has seen seven more homicides

rethis year com to the same time last year. if you take a look at the map the latest shooting in d.c. happened around 7:00 last night. the sceneas in the 1100 block right near the d.c./maryland line. a man was shot multiple times. we're told he's expected to be okay. no word on a suspectnr e a possible motive in thi case. now a frng story out of ouinceli wam county. bullets ripped t a home. they found bullets scattered throughout their house in ntclair. bullets hit the walls throughout the house inc in their child's warm. seven ofhem hit this home. no one was injured. police do not think the family wasge td either. they have reached out to their home owners association to beef up protection but so far has been done. >> i'm supposed to be able to protect my family, but, you know, you rely on your

neighborhood and your community to provide a little peace of mind. what happens when you reach out to them and they give you none? >> t homeowners association refused to answer questions from news4 and asked our cre to leave. it is increasing patrols in that area. a heated debate or proposed bike lanes in the dupont circle neighborhood has grown hotter. lat night during the the public clashed with city leaders and initial proposes to create the lanes near 21st industry was shut down. it was suggested to set themp on 20th street. while some argued the lanes would impact businesses in the area, other said bikers' safety should be a priority. >> more than 30,000 people die every year just going on trips in the district. if we build a protect the bike lane network in d.c., it's going that. a big cut int >> trucks that serve these businesses and these restaurants, they really do need

make deliveries. what are they going to do? just sluff it off and say they'lllearn. no, i don't think it's going to work that way. >> ultimately it is d dot who will have the final say on whether the bike lanes are te implem potholes are popping up everywhere lately and there's a reason why. >> sure. all the rain and snow tt we've had it freezes the grounds and the constant pressure from the t cars s to break apart the road surface. when it gets warm, the road will expand and it will crumble even more. >> megan mcgrath with more on all these pothole problems. hey, mer:n. >> reporyeah, it can be very rough on your car. it can be make for difficult driving. we're here onestern avenue in northwest. 've got oneothole right here, another one a little bit further up the road and then we have these ruts in theoadway

ere the asphalt has just given away and it's that freeze and thaw cycle and we haven't seen the worst of it yet. it'sf that time year and potholes are popping up all around the region. hit one and you could be shelling out big bucks for repairs. >> it flattened my tire the other day over in southeast. literally ran over the pothole and tire blew out, i had to ir drive on the to get some help. >> reporter: in the district they've seen twice the number of pothole repair calls this month than during the same time last year. why? you can blametu mother . >> a lot of it is really because of the weather. we saw heavy volumes of rain this year and that freeze/thaw cycle really impts the roads and increases the number of potholes. >> reporter: crews are rut makingairs but it's a big job and new potholesee k opening up. if you see a problem, report it.

don't assume it' on the radar. >> a lot of them are everywhe and the messing the trucks up. it's very bad on the south side up town. >> reporter: and once they find out about a pothole, most of the ojurisdictions in area say that they can typically get it fixe within 72 hours, but again, they need to know about it and when you report these things make sure you give a very specific location so they can find it. back to you. >> good advice, thank you so much. some of those out there you hit them and they'll haveou thinking like -- praying that the car is okay. so we have a pet food warning for you this morning. m you'll hear f a family who says a popular brand killed their best >friend. nd take a look at this giant sinkhole, it's closing a major road and something inside it is preventing crews from doing their job. the rescue that made this road repair a l

a scary situation for man's best friend here. a dog had to be rescued after falling into a massive in san diego last night. officials say a storm drain collapsed there that caused the large hole in the roadway. somehow the dog wondered through a barricade that was blocking the area off, crews eventually lowereadder and managed to bring the dog back to safety. pretty lucky dog there. >> i know. now to a warning that every dog owner needs to hear. >> there's a pet food recall for a popular product leaving a number of dogs very sick. ron allenha has story. >> reporter: christina sawyer theed her beloved tac family protector. >> she always loved to watch after us and make w surere okay. >> reporter: now hill blames canned dog food for her dog's death. hill's blaming a supplier error elevated levels of vitamin d, an

essential nutrients for dogs that can damage kidneys. >> when the kidneys start to fail, it can lead to der:h. >> repor taco who was 13 started eating the food in november because of a stomach problem. >> they cost us a family member. >> reporter: hill syis they're to address sawyer's concerns and are responding to other family's also demanding answers. some pet owners say it's too late. ron allen, nbc news. family and friends mourning thiv death of children killed in a crash in george's county. they released balloons last night. 5-year-old paris and her 8-year-old sister london died along with their inco 6-year-old raquelnd 14-year-old zion. we spoke to his father dereck simms. son,m not only mourning my i'm mourning five children that

lost they life in an accident, so it's god's will, god's purpose and i've neverm. questioned >> simms set up a gofundme page to help wh funeral cost. they've raised $12,000 so far. police say the kids were riding in the backseat of an suv when it ran off route 301 and crashed. the mother of the sisters driving at ylor was the time. mansurvived along with a who was in critical condition. whether it's the road itself or the driversho use it, a lot of people agree that something needs to change to make route 210 safer and more efficient. there have been more than 60 deaths there and last month three young children became the road's latest victims. county leade are sending messages to the state asking for prioritized funding for construction. tracee wilkins shows us what it means for thi highway.

>> reporter: three pcious children are gone. >> i guess this is an unimaginable pain. >> reporter: soon after that wreck, county officials vowed to make the road safer at last. >> it has becom a notorious road. maybe not so much for the road itself, but becse of decisions that people make driving on the road andring culture. >> thank you, everyo t. >> reporteay the council voted to support the message to the stateo fund improvements for 210. >> it is a graduated project and the question that we're trying to figure out is how can we speed up both the major construction work that's involved in this and then also some of the ancillary things that can help to improve things around the cor administrator. >> reporter: 210 has now bumped some of the long-standing priorities for state transportation construction and is now at the top of the list. something this council of members from across the county agreed needed to happen. today's process in the council is a important part of the step

to revamp indian head highway but it's not the end of this there are seven to eight intersection that's need to be repaired, one that's under way for eyars. e looking at an additional 30 years or more to do those other interctions and it could billion uch as half a dollars. in upper marlboro, i'm tracee wilkins, news4. some money from mgmational harbor is dedicated to help improve indian headhighway. e casino can pay up to $15 million a year depending on its profits. it's contributed half that. aamily in texas is preparing to bury the second person in the country to be killed by an e-cigarette. an exploding vape pen killed a ma in dallas. even though it's rare but the explosion certainly is not. morgan chusky has more. >> reporter: the videos viralin captur the very real danger of ecigarettes, explosions and

malfunctions leading to serious injuries and tonight, a texas man's death, 24-year-old william eric brown was sitting in his car when his esignificant a explodednd cut a major artery in his neck. his death now the second in the u.s. blamed on ecigs. whileid fatal its are rare, explosions are not. u.s. hospitals reported 2,035 injuries from vaping. the problems centered around the batteries that power the devices which the fda says can especially if the wrong charger is used. r. kellygs facore trouble. this time overseas. tours international stopped in australia may be canceled. w a lawmaker thets to ban him from performing. the singer has been in the adlines since the mute r. kelly campaignai gned momentum last year.

lifetime's documentary drew more attention to him. kelly's record label sony has dropped him. now australia has denied entry to other stars on what's called character grounds. kelly could have his visa canceled for the performance if the immigration minister quests it. hollywood's biggest night -- it is going to look lot different this year. for the first time in 30 years, the oscars will be held without official host. abc confirms this year's ceremony will instead just have the presenters host the oscars. the line-up of celebrity presenters includes tina fey, whoopi goldberg and jen lopez. a father's strength coming up we'll introduce you to a maryland narcotics officer who lost a daughter to a heroin overdose. you'll see how he's honoring her memory and helping others at the same time. and it sounds a little like science fiction, the work being done right here in our backyard to keep the world asteroid. an

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so this is something straight out of a sci-fi movie right now. local researchers are developing a missile thatd could def us against a giant asteroid. >> this reminds me of that atari game from when back when. i'm old. chris gordon is here to explain it. >> reporter: this animation shows the devastating damage that cane caused by an asteroid crashing to earth, a team l by this doctor at the johns hopkins university applied physics laboratory is building spacecraft to test whether they can hit an asteroid in spacero ng it off course enough to miss the earth. >> every now and nagain, w i'm feeling a little feisty i say that my job is to save the world. most of the time i say i work on nasa missions and this time i'm working on a dark mission that is going to move an asteroid.

>> reporter: darttands for the double asteroid redirection test. >> really like shooting dart. we're trying to just move -- nudg the asteroid out of the way. >> reporter: the appli physics lab has been launching spacecraft since 1959. they are designing andld bg the one that will be used in the d.a.r.t. mission with launch scheduled for june of 2021. reporting from laurel, chris gordon, ne >> all right. no asteroid falling from the sky today, but there. will be ra >> now i know that aaron played pong for most of his childhood. >> i mean, i remember packman. >> it's worse for me. i was already out of the schoo the time those things were dpopular. i y abba cuss, that's what i had. yesterday, ord high 74 degrees. the old record was set twice before in 1991 and also in 1890

at 70 degrees. it noongerexists. it's been replaced by 74. first day of 70 so far this year and we're just about on average, averageirst 70 for the last 30 years is around february the 10th. 100 years ago, our first average 70 wasn't until march the 7th, so global climatehange and the overall warming of the atmosphere has moved our average first 70 date up nearly a month ov last 100 years. last year our first one was february 15, 17 weot an early one in january and in 2016 we had to wait all the way into march before we had our first 70 degree day. we won't be 70 today but already quite a few spots are above 60 degrees. 61 in fredericksburg and 58 in manassas. 51 in montgomery county. high tod right around 59 degrees around town but thickening clouds a chanc for rain still remain high. i've had to move the forecast high up to 59 deees, but i

ven't had to change the rain chances because it's still very likely f us to get rain here in the afternoon and the evening. the heaviest of the rain will miss us t the north but there's more than enough moisture here. we should be expecting hours to move in in time for the evening commute. the five day forecast looks this waythen. 59 today. a chance for showers mainly in theirst part of theorning tomorrow. tomorrow afternoon will be mild and dry, mid-60s again. then falling temperature on friday afternoon. a very strong northwest wind will be near 60 at lunchtime and in the 30s by friday evening and it will stay chilly through the weekend. f0-day forecast in the next h hour. oprah winfrey is bringing together the world of hollywood and polics. her conversations with the potential presidential candidate hat is getting a lot of attention this morning. a stunning new admission from the pope. the clergy sexual abuse scandal claimingor even victim including nuns. w the abuseho

you're watching "news4 midday." >> for the first time pope francis is acknowledging sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops. it came out of ahoing article. some nuns who were impregnated byriests were forced to have abortions, something the roman catholic church considers a major sin. the scope of e sexua abuse of nuns remains unclear. many victims are reluctant to coorward but lately many have been encouraged by the me too movement. pope francis also vowed to do more to protect nuns saying that it's being dealt with o case-by-case basis. beto o'rourke is seeing as a rising political star by many on the left. he shared a littl more about his future plans during a talk with someone who has a knack for

ringing hollywood and politics together. morgan bradford reports. >> reporter: thi morning oprah winfrey doing what she does best, getting people to open up s -- polit >> there was something that was new and maybe even dangerous or different abo t the wayt we ran this campaign. >> reporter: to passion bojects. >> ht advice to me was just try not to sing. >> reporter: the media mogul sitting down with beto o'rourke tuesday night for her super soul conversation from times square event. >> we don't need walls. >> reporter: asking the democratic star about his political ambitions amid speculation he might run for 2020. ent in >> if i can play some role in helping the country to do that, by god i'm going to do it. >> by god, when are you going to know the answer? when are you going to know? have you given yourself a deadline? i'm serious about that. >> and the serious answer is

really soon. before the end of this month someone's asking for right now, but. >> you all are theanswer. >> reporter: o'rourke made national headlines when he nearly unseated republican senator ted cruz in a contentious 2018 midterm race in deep red texas. his record breaking fund-raising and grassroot support leaving some to call h the new obama. it was, of course, what the old obama that oprah first wiewned her o political power endorsing there formerdent during his 2008 campaign. since then, oprah has repeatedly shut down any speculation that she would run for office in 2020. ke turning the tables on tuesday. >> i'm sure many people would like to know the answer from yo is this something you would consider doing?

>> the reason -- the reason i respect your process is because i do firmly believe it's something you'vot to feel inside of yourself. >> absolutely. >> and you've got to come to a knowing inside yourself. >> reporter: from political campaigns to oscar campaigns, t opraking to bradley cooper about his best director snub. >> the firsthing i felt was embarrassment, actually. think about i felt embarrassed that i didn't do my part. i'll work on that. but that was the first -- >> i'm glad -- >> think about it. >> my thing is i'm at leas glad you said that because, if i were you, i would be feeling some kind of way about it. >> embarrassment. went oh, gosh, i didn't do my job. >> but youw you did? >> i do. >> reporter: after michael b. jordan about the push to include more diversity in front of the cameras and behind the scenes. >> you're constantly reminded of

the pool of talent that are underrepresented like women, people of color,lgbt. >> which means you've got to work harder every time. >> 1,000%. >>o'rourke says his final decision will depend on whether his wife and their three children support the idea of a presidential run. police arrested two d.c. government contractors in florida as they tried to board a cruise shipoaded with drugs. police say the two were planning to sell the drugs to passengers. the men discussed their plans on government issued computers. a homeland surity special ragt intercepted those emails and oiled the men. police say both men admitted to transporting drugs. theoast gua found 35,000 pounds of cocaine in ft. lauderdale. it's worth more than $460 million ther g the coard seized the cocaine from nearly two dozen ships in international waters off the coast of mexico, central and south korea. military officials say most of

the drugs c originated ombia and were headed to the u.s. f thearyland as one highest death rates for opioid overdoses in the nation averaging 30 deaths per 100,000 people. mark segraves with a maryland narcotics officer who lost a t daughter a heroin overdose and the new war he's waging on the drug problem. >> reporter: kevin simmer spent 30 years in law enforcement first in the military then in the hagerstown police department. >> it was really on the front lines of the drug wa in the trenches and chasing people down, locking them up. ht he was r: he tho making a positive difference in people's lives by locking up drug addicts. >> the more arrests, the better. more handcuffs a incarceration the better. >> reporter: then he got a look from the drug problem from a different angle when his 18-year-old daughter brooke tol him she was addicted to eioids. >> bro meant everything to him. >> reporter: brooke and her father struggled with her

addiction. >> she falls on the ground and says i'm sorry. i can't beat this. t ands is where she asked me to shoot her and put her out of her misery because she could not fight the demonsny more. she had to go get the heroin. >> reporter: brooke would go in and o of treatment facilities but nothing seemed to work. simmers became frustrated with the system that madeddicts wait for treatment. >> no other disease do people that inhumanly. >> reporter: after she had a near fatal overdose, he became so frustrated he urged prosecutors to sends his own daughter to jail. >> i'm trying to save her life. i don't think she cp h herself at this time. >> reporter: brooke would get out of jail and o rdose one more time. >> she drove to a nearby church where she played basketball as kid and she crawled in the bandseat of the car she died there from a heroin overdose. or >> reporter: b she died, brooke told her father she

wished there was a place she couliv go and and get sober. >> we were going to fulfill brprk's er. >> reporter: he spent the next several years raising awareness and donations to build brooke's house, a halfway home for women. today, hundreds gathered to see the ope of brooke's house. >> brooke prayed for that house. god answered her prayer. >> reporter: if you'd like to help, we have a link at nbc4.com, search brooke's house. mark segraves, >>news4. now in addition to addiction services, women living at brooke's house will get job training. >> and that will include learning to make chocola bs that wi sold to help fund the halfway house. coming up, sunscreen ban. a look at what sparked the extreme measure at a popular florida beach. and an update on when the morning sun will be replaced by rain clouds. stay with .

a consumer alertor you this morning. there's growing concern about a new lawea that's actually to help protect kids from identity theft. >> some parents sty in rea it is putting their kids' information at risk. susan hogan is f working you with what you can do to help keep your family safe. >> this new law allows us to freeze our child's credit, but a local mom's concern that the process to do this may actually be putting both her and her children's information at risk. >> we want to protect them. >> reporter: for ann that her cin sons credit but unlike freezing yourredit where you can do it all online, freezing a child's credit requires parents to send sensitive information like full social security numbers a birth certificates by mail to all threeredit

bureaus. >> you're just trusting that somebody trustworthy picks it and it goes through lots and lots of different hands. >> reporter: news4 contacted the credit bureau. they understand why parents would be uncomfortable sending tsese documy mail but assured us, the process is safe regardless and says she's not convinced. >> no, because i'm too scared to send it through the mail. i'm hopinghey'll find another route to say, hey, if you don't feel comfortable doing this,e then can do this and i don't know what this other this s but i'm hoping it's something that seems a bit sar. >> coming up tonight at 5:00, we take ann's concerns to an identity theft expert. we'll get his take on it and you then can decide whether it's right for you. back to you guys. key west, flochrida is taki a stand on sunscreen that hurts

coral reef. they will ban sunscreens that contain certain ingredients. researchers say two chemicals call bleaching, dna damage and death of the coral. last year hawaii became the first state to implement that same ban. turning to the weather, 54 degrees ight no a little gray out there. drops to ing for rain move into the area. what time should we have the umbrella handy? >> when your day's over later in the afternoon, you'll need an umbrella. cloudy skies are moving on in. filtered sunshine in washington for now. temperature 54 degrees, light easterly breeze. on storm team 4 radar, plenty of rain out to our west and south and it all has eyes on us. the heaviest of rain will be in pennsylvania and ohio and move

up into new yohi. and miss shower chances are moving in relatively quicklyre around we'll walk you through the temperatures here first. a very nice 63 in warrenton, but 49 in quantico, 51 inonomery county, 57 at dulles airport. future weather continues to bring this chanc forshowers. no deluge but a pretty good chance of hit and miss showers here. between 4:00 and:0those showers find their way into the heart of the metro area so it's likely wo be a evening time. rain should taper off a little bit after midnight,hen there's another small chance for a few showers tomorrow morning. we've updated the forecast on our app. you can also fd and follow me on mypa social medias. plenty of clouds tomorrow. may be a lingering drop or two for the morning commute. the clouds will thin out durg the afternoon. that should allow us to f a

fairly impressive warmup for tomorrow. rain coming in just briefly on friday about lunchtime. that is the cold front which promises significaly colder weather in time for the weekend. tomorrow we'll start off cloy and mild near 50 degrees. our average low tempe tures is 30. this is way above average for tomorrow, but friday at noontime, the beginning of the ends of our mild payern. wiorthwest winds up near 30 miles an hour friday afternoon and evening. we'll drive temperatures out of th 60s and down into the mid-20s by saturday morning. cold and dry for the weekend. watching a storm chance for next week which could at least have a chance for a rain/snow combination on tuesday morning. >> thank you, chuck. > it is a difficult decision to medicate a child. coming up, whenitins and minerals can be substituted for prescription drugsor adhd. ivanka trump reacts to a new exhibit at a d.c.

welcomeback. attention deficit hyperactivity disorder affects 8% of kids and many parents struggle with the decision to medicate their child ornot. parents have other options. dr. joua winer talks about which ones help the most. the decision to consider dly medications for kids with adhd can be a really sry one f parents. is that fear warranted? >> i think it is a hard decision for a lot of people. these are medications that if you go that direction you're lking about months or years in which your child might need these medications. it's definitely not a decision to be mlie tly. however, i do think some of the fear surrounding these medications is overblown. most kids do very well with these medications, by far the biggest problem that people will

have isas dec appetite and concerns about weight gain. sometimes there are somether things like being blunting of personality or a mood or energyb crash ornd hyperactivity when the medicine wears off, but these things occur in maybe %, 15% of people. the appetite is the really big deal. i do think it's warrant to some degree but a little overblown. >> somearents may look to alternate ways to treat adhd. can you talk abo the oneshat work the best? >> the omega 3 fatty acids. they're the only things that have been shown in what we call double blind placebo controlled studies to work. what we're talking about here are things that you have to get in you diet or you could take a supplement. most people have heard of dhaan there's another one called epa. so dha is an omega 3 involved in early brain development. epa ithe one you want to pay attention to when you're talking about treating adhd. they want to look for a product

that has roughly 1.5 to two times as much epa as dha. take roughly 800 milligrams per day of epa. and that has been shown to offer some benefits. it's not gng to work as well as medication but it is definitely worth trying. >> what are some other supplements or vitamins and minerals that a child could take that would workaybe not as eell as omega 3 and would beneficial as well. >> magnesium. clear benefits for adhd but it can helith some of that rebound hyperactivity when some kids get. magnesium has a calming effect. you're looking at taking roughly 250 milligrams of magnesium sit trait. zinc has been t tied adhd a little bit. takingil 20grams of zinc can benefit. iron can be a benefit. ybe talk to your pediatrician

or your doctor about chething sog called feratin levels. y' tndreer u consider taking an iron supplement. in general, you need to take these supplements for about three months. i would tell people take them for three months. great. see benefits, keep them going. generally these are all pretty well tolerated and fine for you. if you don't see anything after three months, at that point you can just >>stop. here are no side effects of taking them together like a magnesium with an omega 3? >> no. that's all safe. start with one, i would sta t wi omega 3s, try that and add others if you need to. if you start too many things at once, you don't know what's doing what. >> thanks as always. >> my pleasureea rhers at the university of maryland will help a deaf man hear his daughter's singing voice for the first time. >> he hasn't hearder sing since he was a little boy but cochlear implants are changing

his life. lisa robinson has the story. ♪ >> reporter: this 5-year-old loves to sing her dad 34-year-old david can't hear the sounds of v herce but he's on his way thanks to a newly activated cochlear implant. i feel it up here. >> reporter: does it hurt or it's okay? >> it feels weird. >> reporter: david was born with hearing loss. d he teachf and hard of hearing children. he reads lips but he hasn't a word since he was 5. after all these years david decided to give the cochlear implant a chance and s how it might change his life. >> i would love to be ablear to ome of her singing. i would like to hear the sounds in nature when i'm running. >> i'm just excited to him to expe tence the world wee for granted, just playing music in the car and being able to

unwind. >> this connects the same way. >> reporter: this doctor at the university of maryland medical center says with practice, david will get hearing awareness, learn words and how to understand some speech. he has to teach his brain how to work with the new technology. >> it's kind l ofe he hears click, click, click or i love you and then his brain learns to listen and knows those clicks will tn into i love you. >> reporter: david has a lot to listen out for. he and his fiancee are getting married and they have a baby on the way. >> i'm looking forward to be able to talk and picke up m sounds with her and we have a baby coming up and i would love to be able to hear the baby cry and hear different sounds. i'm really looking forward to that part. a new performance art exhibit is raising eyebrows from president trp's daughter ivanka. take a look at this interactive art piece, it's called ivanka

vacuuming. you can see a blonde woman vacuuming crumbs. the exhibit is at ctural d.c. northwest. it runs until february 17th and not everyone is hap about this look alike exhibit saying, quote, women can choose to knock each other down or build each other up. i choose the latter. it is the largest entrepreneurial program for girls in the world. the girl scout cookie program. >> after the breal one g scout who's using her rappi skillsng t

more breaking news out of virginia now. the determine attorney general just released a stateme saying that he wore black face as well at a college party in re80. is part of mark herring statements just out. in 1980, when i was a ds-year-old undergraduate in college, some fri suggested we attend a party dressed like rappers. we listened to beit. use of our ignorance and glib attitudes and because we appreciation for the experiences and perspectives of others, we dressed up and put on wigs and brown make-up. i am deeply deepl sorry for the pain that i caused with this revelation. this comes, of course, after photo of virginia governor ralph

northam'sedical school yearbook surfaced with racist pictures. nlie carey is richard. she'll have more on this. we'll switch gears now. it is almost that time of year, rl scout cookie time. >> you'll see troupes selling cookies. one girl in california isin ge creative when it comes to selling cookies. ni verye technique here. >> ♪ >> she created the remixo rapper cardi b's hit song money. the video wasven seen by cardi b. herself saying i want all the cookies. >> that's all of us, cardi. >> cookie season begins february 13th.

>> allright. we'll turn this last couplmi tes over to chuck to talk about weather today and what's coming in, >> we're still watching the rain. it's raining along much of the i-81 corridor. they should be along the i-95 corridor any time after 3:00. temperatures briefly in the upper 50s to near 60 today. a mildig overnight t into early tomorrow with clouds around. then for tomorrow maybe a quick littleassing shower in the morning but a mild afternoon, 64 degrees,he change, the return to february arrived friday afternoon. it will bery cold and for the weekend. >> chuck, thank you so much. that's it for us. thanks for joining us. we'll see you this afternoon at 4:00. we're live in five

four. three. two. one. >> oh, guess what, folks, she is engaged and hearts are breaking all over the world. jennifer lawrence, we're talking about, engaged to her boyfriend of eight months. maroney. we're so happy for her. this is "access live." here she is spotted in a massive ring. a celebration dinner in new york, apparently introduced by one of her close friends. >> uh-huh. here's what we know about him. >> tell us. >> 34 years old, he's an art gallery director. very rich. he reps