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he amazon ceo's explosive tell-all blog, accusing a tabloid of trying to blackmail him with nudeplphotos. , frustrated and humiliated. what one man thought wou be a simple bank transaction has him in complete shock tonight. it's a story you will only see on news 4. but first, breaking news on the crisis in the commonwealth. after several ds of silence, three key groups of virginia democrats are weighing in o the allegations against three members of their own party. at tonight, the virginia congressional deln is doubling down on their calls for governor northam to resign and not holding back. issuing this statement tonight saying, ote, like other virginians, we have been evastated by these horrible developments. there's no question that virginians' faith in their governmentnd leaders has understandably been deeply shaken. our northern virginia bureau chief julie carey has new

developments from richmond tonight. >> reporter:toe're hearing ght from an important voice here at the capitol, the legislative black caucus. they were one of the first groups to call g forernor ralph northam to resign, but in a statement just is ted, they say are reserving judgement and awaiting more before deciding whether the attorney general and lieutenant governor should do the same. just 15 minutes ago, democrats riding high as their candidates swept statewide office.hr now all join together in an unfortunate fraternity of trouble. governor ralph northam and attorney general mark herring add militanting to using blackface one time as young men. eutenant governor justin fairfax accused by a college professor of a sexual assaul some 15 years ago. a charge he flatly denies. w today, this lieutenant governor fairfaxy mobbed b cameras as he arrived at the capitol. confirmi he took a call today from governor ra>>h northam. have, yeah. >> reporter: both men battling their own co troversies. e care, guys. >> reporter: northam also called attorney general mark herring,

who like the governor is mostly staying out of sight after wednesday's disclosure that one time as a 19-year-old he appeared insslackface, dreing up as a rapper. lawmaker a republica also besieged by cameras, senate majority leader was managing editor of the yeaook called the bomb that contained racist images and slurs. >> anything to say about the yearbook, sir? commentter: refusing t to news 4's aaron gilchrist, but he quickly issued a writtay statementg he did not appear in any of the photos, writing, the use of blackface is abhorrent and i can dem it wmakers tonight no doubt wondering if they will make it to the end of the weekw tomor without any new disclosures. in richmond, i'm julie carey,ne 4. >> now, to read the full statement from the black caucus and the senate majority leader, st go to our nbc washington app and search "black caucus." new tonight, amazon's ceo jeff bezos is accusing "the

national enquirer" ofrying to blackmail him with scandalous photos of him and his girlfriend, that's unless he dropped his investigation into the parent company of the bbloid ami. in ag post, bezos published an e-mail exchange in which the company threatened to publish those intimate photos. the investigation began after "the enquilir" ped text messages revealing bezos' extramaritalair. nbc has reached out to both parties. a spokesperson for a.m.i. declined to comment. an amazon spokesperson confirmed the authenticity of that blog post. t breaking news now o passing of a congressional icon. former michiganongressman john dingell has died tonight. he was 92 years oldnd battling prostate cancer. me democrat was the longest-servingbers of congress, representing the same districtor more than 59 years. he was dubbed "big john" for his imposing 6'3" frame and

sometimes intimidati personalit congressman dingell took over the house seat held by his dadn back 1955 and his wife debbie has been in his seat since he retired in 2014. a foggy drizzly night tonight in some parts of the region. we notice a lot of fog outside the studios in northwest d.c. tonight. big changes are coming, though, just in time for our weekend. >> it's thick out there right now.ea storm 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer explains what's in store for your mfriday, ande importantly, saturday/sunday, heug. >> yeah,ey thing here, guys, you're going to wake up bad.hink, hey it's not too but tomorrow afternoon is going to feel a lot different. you mentioned the fog, locations picking up less than 1/4 mile of visibility out there. heads up. courtesy of the warmer air trying to move in. you can see some heavier showers back to the west. it looks r like itlly wants to come in our way. most of these, though, will die yby the time t get here. the big thing is going to be the

temperature. look where we are. currently back up to 50, up a degree from last hour. 67 in that warmer air is trying to slide in across our region. look behind it, into the 40s behind this and even colder to the west. by tomorrow afternoon we'll be in the 20s and 30 for the wind chill. i'll tell you what that means for your weekend and i'm getting theatest information on our monday/tuesday winter storm. we'll have more on tt, including some school delays or closures to talk about, too. coming l you about that up. >> oh, my. all right. thank you, doug. deny.estion then that's what happened to one maryland man when he tried to take money out of his own checking account at a tdank locations in bethesda. when the teller said he didn't believe him, he took out his phone and started reporting. news 4's shomari stone has the story you'll see only on news 4. >> reporter: td bank prides itself on being america's most convenient bank. everythim you'd expect f a bank. but this man says he never

expected to be questioned extensively when he tried to withdraw $1,000 from his checking account. he says he was shocked and pushed record on h cell phone. >> wet j have to verify -- >> so you asked me where i'm you asked me what i'm doing here. we're in an affluent neighborhood and you're asking me how did somebody from baltimore come to here. >> reporter: he walked intotd t ank located on the 8000 block of wisconsin avenue in bez if da, maryland, two weeks ago about 9:30 in the morning. his attorney told me dounlap lives in baltimore and wor near bethesda. he gave his driver's license, date of birth and confirmed his address. thler continued to question him. >> you asked me if i'm from d.c. >> it doesn't seem to add up. >> my story doesn't add up. so i can't do a withdrawal because my story doesn't add up. >> reporter: the teller says he

has to verify dunlap. he replies. >> i think you're playing with me. you're playing with you're putting me through the ringer, you're giving me a hard time. >> reporter: the teller td bank declined to talk on camera. a ssekesman rel a written statement that included, quote, unfortunately, a td storet employee was able to verify mr. dunlap's identity because there were inconsistencies in the investigation information provided.ustome we regret that he did not have a positive experience, which is what we strive to provide. we have made a severempts to speak with mr. dunlap to understand and address his concerns. we take this matter seriously and are continuing to review it. >> reporter: matin dunlap was able to talk about camera tonight. his attorney says they will contact td bank next week. in bethesda, shomari stone, news 4. neighbors call it the highway of death because of dangerous track record, more

than 60 people died in accidents along indian head highway over an11-year span. 134 crashes resulted in severe injuries. the most recent tragedy, the deaths of three childre hit by a suspected drunk driver on their way home from church. tonight news 4's jackie bensen tagged along with police as they conducted dui patrols on this dangerous stretch of roadway. jackie? >> reporte well, jim, we are wearing our safety vests because we are standing out here next to one of the most dangerous highways in prince george's county. >> good evening, ma'am, i'mri wh thee george's county police. just letting you know we're doing a sobrietyhaheckpoint. you been drinking tonight? >> no. >> reporter: prince george's county police officers with the help of maryland state police set up a controlled lane on route 210 -- they were looking for impaired drivers. >> trying to prevent these

incidents happening earlier thi year, a family of five injured, three children un trtunately lostir lives and their parents were critically injured. this is very important to our adnistration, our chiefnd county executive. r >>eporter: 5-year-old twins and their brother were killed in truck,man in a pickup police suspected he had been drinking, rear ended the family's car on route 210 in oxon hill. the officers working out here tonight have alrdy made one arrest for drunkie driving. ja bensen, news 4. >> jackie, thank you. the president's recent calls for unity and bipartisanship appear to be shortliveds ahouse democrats fle their new subpoena power. >> and ramp up investigations into the administration. acting attorney matthewhitaker expected to testify on capitol hill tomorrow. this comes as he issued a stunning ultimatum today, saying he wouldn't show up unless democrats dropped a subpoena

threat. so far that hearing is still on. also today, the house intelligence committee is ramping up a sweeping investigation ieno the press ties to russia and his finances. and the house ways and means committee is beginning the process of obtaining the tesident's tax returns. andre is also an president'sn on the immigration policy and the recent family separation crisis at the border. the psident calling democrats, quote, nuts, end quote. news 4 is working for you in the community. it's black history month, and tonight news 4 hostedan a of black female journalists who cover the white house. the wom included pbs "newshouams"hal sin door and nbc's kristen welker and our megan fitzgerald moderated the panel. they discussed their journey to white house, the importance of getting it right and their respecial for each other. >> we all admire each other'srk o much. and learn from each other and

grow from each other.ea that's a thing, and i just want folks to know that. >> you can find o h to celebrate black history month in d.c. on our nbc washington app. so, will tom brady be headed to the white house to celebra the patriots' super bowl win? >> hey, tom, do you have plans onr oing to the white house a celebration? >> next question. i mean, god. >> noncommittal here. you can tell brady not exactte inrested in politics right now. he has shown suppoid for the prent in the past. wearing maga hats. but he notably did not visit the white house after the team won in 2017. some other patriots players have already sld they w skip a white house celebration. some sad news today in the baseball world and in our area. hall-of-famer and former nationals gm frank robinson passed away at the age of 83. >>as robinson a trailblazer in

the sport of baseball, and tonight another spo paying tribute. the capitals honoring frank robinson before their game tonight with the teams and fans holding a moment of since. >> robinson was a hall of fame player and went on to becomefi e t african-american manager in major league baseball. history dating back to 1975. he also was the nats' first manager when they came to d.c. miss a by players, owners a whole lot of fans tonight. a true pioneer. good news for a local federal contractor who dtn't ge much-needed back pay. >> i'm leo harris. we told you about this smithsonian chef who wasn't sure how he was going to get pay and pay his bills but now he won't have to worry about that thanks to the kindness of a celebrity. i'll tel you about it coming up next. plus, one of the country's largest bigks is having issues today. were you affected? why some c customers just't get to their money. and winter on the way back. doug'sex coming up with more

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not, though. and that includes a man from our area who cooks for a federal facility. >> tonight there isom good news for pablo lazaro and his family and our leon harri joins us now in the studio to explain what happened after pablo shared s story here. >> yeah, good news, and we're happy to share it ourselves here now, last month pablo lazaro told us he loves cooking as the smithsonian, but as a federal subcontractor he received no money f the time the government was shut down. he feared the missedwo paycheck d lend him to losing his house. >> what could happen to your family if the shutdown continue >> i can lose my house. >> y could lose your home? >> so last week an envelope arrived at pao's house and contained a check for $3,000 and it came from financial planner and author suze orman. now, she says she wanted to help because she's been where pablo r is. n told nbc news this, quote,

i'll never forget when i lived on streets for three months in my old beat up van. there was no one to turn to for help. i'll never forget. but the generosity didn't stop anere, folks. a sr raised 5,8$5,800 for t lazaro family through a gofundme page. pablo sent nbc news a statement onanking everyone whoed saying that money is, quote, lifesaving. doesn't take much to convince us of that. great to see. >> for suze orman and others to follow. >> just wish we could have done more for the others. >> leon, thanks so much. >> you got it. hey, if you tried to use a wells fargo atm or go online with them today, you were no doubt shaking your head. wells fargo all-day meltdown still, sti isn't resolved. a widespread outages impacting bank operations coast to coast. some customer can't get cash out. others can't log into their accounts online or on their cell phones. wells fargo apologized several

lmes on twitter today. theest around 9:20 tonig. the bank blames a power shutdown at one of its facilities. last friday, wells fargo's services were down for five hour. the national park service has started its restoration of the jefferson memorial. crews are working to fix the roof, repair the stone and clean the marble. the memorial will remain open during repairs but the east side is going to remain closed. the $9 million project will take a littleore than a year. >> it does need a bath. >> we really couldn't see that very well tonight, though, in the fog. >> no. >> it's so warm, too. >> you can see it out there, the warmer air is actually producing some of the fog we've got out there. take a look a this. a minute ago, i was looking at this shot. this is our camera from national harbor. and you take a look, i was able to see the wheel a minute ago. so that's cleared out just a little bit there. >> look at that. >> barely see down out toward

the north, rather, up towardsri thee. 50 degrees. winds out of the south now at 6 miles per hou that southerly component to the wind continues to bring in some of those warmer temperatureov a we on out. as we move on through the next couple of hours here, the visibility should comen up. it's d to about 1/4 mile in december, 1/4 mile in culpeper. there is actually a dense fog advisory in this area but it ludoes not i d.c. there is really dense fog. annapolis, though, has gonep a little bit. current temperatures, 48 in manassas, 50 in culpeper, 49 in fredericksburg and 52 in charlottesvire. the warmeir to the south trying to make its way this way. no raineaut we areng with a little drizzle at times from time to time around our a ta. here front. you can see what's happening. some big time shower activity going on, butost of this will just slide right on by. wen e not going to see much the way of rain out of this. syst most of that rain should really dry out over the mountains here over the next couple of hours,

but the big deal for us is the temperatures. look at buffalo. 58 degrees in buffalo right now. well above where we are. temperatures wil o risernight tonight. then we get to the cold air. wind chil, 5 bel zero in chicago. 30 below zero back towards the dakotas. not going to see a repeat of the arctic outbreak we saw a week ago,re but we going to get much colder tomorrow. 56 at the start. a warm start becoming rather windy and much colder tomorrow afternoon. we'll take you hour by hour and show you how to deal with it. as you wake up and step out the front door tomorrow morning, no problem. in the 50s, 60s in some areas. i don't think it's going to be too warm whene get to 1:00. notice the 30s already moving in. still okayn d.c through lunch i think we're okay in d.c. then the cold air really races through here. look what happens for dinnertime. 33 in d.c. that comes with winds gusting 20 to 30 miles an hour at the time. so watch out for that.

definitely going to feel on the colder side. 39 on your saturday. a cold day. wind chills all day. a wintery mix on monday, but it's really monday night into tuesday. tuesday got a high of 39 here. i think what we're going to see on tuesday is a mixture of snow over to ice over to rain. that is a nasty mix and happens during the morning rush. i think we could see some school sdelays, maybe someool closures on tuesday. that would be the best chance for that if you're the kid and want to get out of school or if you're montgomery county and already got to add on to the end of the school year alrbedy use we've already been out so much. next wednesday and thursday, drying out and temperatures lookin pretty good. our average high now is 45. oe'll be about there next week. >> not ready have that really cold weather come back. >> i'm not either, but at least it's sunny for the weekend. >> okay. thank> you, doug. coming up, the caps comero ugh late and the bird returns to d.c. returns to d.c. >> [phone ringing] remember the way we used to do things? hey man... like connect with friends? dig it! or get in shape?

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opportunity. -to-back n't won ba games in almost a month. heading into tonight's game, coloradovalanche riding one of the longest losing streaks in hockey right now so a prime opportunity for the caps. former capital phillip grubauer back in d.c. for the first te with t avalanche and getting a nice ovation for the fans. second period tied at 1-1. alex ovechkin with the sho on the power play. theuck dancing on the crease here. yevgeny kuznetsov tre to put it home. kuze just making sure. bad news for kuznetsov in the third. takes a high hit in the third. allling to the ice. cole gets the penty. kuze checked for a cecussion. thers bun guy who did not want to let this one go. tom wilson wailing on ian cole. getting back for his teammate. then tom bloodies his knucklen fight, sending a message, don't mess wh kuznetsov.

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hing. >> originally we expected him back at the beginning of next season and we had gd pieces in place and a solid core nucleus. now that he's going to miss part of next season and we don't know exactl how much of n season, r what we'reeconsi doing and we changed our plans. we wanted to give ourselves some financial flexibility moving forward. we wand to add some young players that we can continue to develop and look at, and at the same time, we wanted to remain competitive. >> allwe right. , as we told you earliead some s news in the sports world. hall-of-famer frank robinson passing away today at 83. the halof-famer was a two-time world series champion. the only player to win the mvp in both the american and leagues. robinson, a trailblazer, the first african-american manager, and was also the first manager when baseball returned to the district with the nationals. frank robinson died after battling bone cancer and heatill be g missed. the robinson family is asking aat instead of flowers, if you

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