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. now at 6:00, crisis in the commonwealth. virginia governor ralph northam appearing in public for the first time since scandalbroke. he's doubling down on his vow to stay in office, but can he move past this? >> don'tome out here and give us a bunch of lip service. the state of virginia is two different places for

african-americans and white people. >> winds sweeping through the region tonight bringing cold temperatures and a storm s to blow through tomorrow. >> "news4 at 6" starts now. >> better brace yourself. winter is back. good evening. i'm leon harris. after a f w days ofm weather, we're now dealing with seriously cold air today. now, tomorrow something else is moving in. storm team meteorologist somara theodore is standing by to give us a look at the timing of that. >> yes, we are looking at a oi system that's to be pushing through the area as we head through tomorrow night. but tonight, we've got to deal with the cold first. right now, 34 degrees. the good news is winds are calming tonight. it will take a little bit of the bite out of it. temperatures falling into the 20s overnight especially neutral zone inside the beltway. rural areas temperatures in the teens tonight. li i said, the winds are calm.

that shoulee make things better. as we head into tomorrow, we are going to be talking about a system that could bring some snow as well as freezing rain and that's goi to be impacting not only your sunday nig but possibly monday's commute. for now, leon, back to you. >> thanks, somara. embattled virginia governor ralph north appears in public today for the first time since last saturday. opis morning he attended the funeral of state t lukas doull about four an hours west of schmond. wife by his side. the officer wasin killed d a shoot-out while serving a warrant this week. >> northam ignored calls this week to resign after rist photos from his yearbook. new today h told "the washington post" it's been a "horrific week for virginia," recognizing a lot of people across virginia have been hurt.

he did address yes changed his story. first northam photo admitting the man in black fa was hi today he says he walked that back becauseife overreacted. i had to do it over, he says, i would step back t ande a deep breath. >> the position we took is he had to goee that's my position but i'm a realist. he april the going nowhere. we need to something concrete out of northam besides lip service where he shows up and i'm going to be better. let's see some policies. >> many of virginia's african-american leaders called on northam to resignncluding e former president of the loudoun county naacp. no he is shifting his position a bit. >> phillip thompson tling

"news4 today" he and other leaders will be watching carefully to see if the governor's promise to address issues of race brings real change to ale common. the governor detailed some of his plans in that interview with the "post" tay which focused on racial equality. he says that he want to plement sensitivity training both in his government agencies and in schools across virginia. he also wanto address issues of inequality like health care, housing and transportation. the governor also addressed the scandal surrounding his lieutenanttiovernor j fairfax. fairfax is denying two sexual assault allegations. governor northam tells "the washingt post" "these allegations are horrific, need to be taken very seriously." lieutenant fairfax has suggested and called for an investigation. "i strongly support ththat." lieutenant governor is refusing to resign. last night virginia delegatek patrope of arlington county announced his plans to iroduce ars of impeachment against

fairfax if he doesn't resig by monday. chris pallone has more on the drama playing out tonight in richmond >> reporter: one week ago, justin fairfax appeared to be poised to become thern next go after the current leader apologized for this picture which appeared on his medical school yearbook page. now ralph northam is still in the governor's mansion and fampl is facing threats of impeachment. >> on monday, i intend to introduce articles of impeachment on lieutenantve gornor justin fairfax >> reporter: fairfax is now facing sexual assault accusations from two women, the latest from meredith watson who says he raped her in 2000 when they were students at duke university. to bolster her claim, her attorneys released what they say ar messages with her friends including an e-mail in whi watson wrote justin raped me in college. last week dr. vanessa tyson accused fairfax of assaulting her in 2004 at the democratic national convention in boston.

fairfax was defiantfriday. >> do you support an investigation into the allegations against you, sir? >> we have our say. i'm confident in the truth >> reporter: later in a statemen he denied the newest allegation saying i have never forced myself on anyone he ever and insisted it's part of a vicious and coordinated smear campaign. but democrats from the virginia capital to congress are calling for him to step today. >> it's time for him to resign >> reporter: as heuddledith advisers saturday, northam made his public appearance since announcing he will not resign attending a funeral for a virginia state trooper i killed the line of duty last week. he did not speak publicly. chris pallone, nbc news. >>ni northern vir bureau chief julie care ril will have the latests on the crin the commonwealth coming up on news4 11:00 >> new at 6:00, a hale of gunfire in the district and a child caut in the crossfire.

a woman says she was drivingon alabama avenue last night when she saw people running and heard gunshots and the child karted screaming. we donw the the extent of the child's injuries at this point. police tell us theirunfire detection system registered 11 gunshots. cold weather and smoke and flames makin for a tough fire fight in northern virginia. the common item ooze many of us have in our homes that isamo bl for this scone. d another candidate throws her hat into thedeing for pre and another expected to come tomorrow. and we're watching the temperatures go down as the sun disappears for the night. here's your buick sir. actually, that's my buick.

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england's prince philip is giving up driving at the age of 97. the palace says he i voluntarily surrendering his driver's license less than ath t afte monarch slammed into a car injuring two women. he later apologized f that saying he was daz sun.y the days later, he was seen driving agai w that timithout wearing a seat belt. coming up next, a fal fire in alexandria today. you can see the black smokell ing out of the roof of this structure. the cold and the wind outside fanning these flames. plus somara theodore is back to plus somara theodore is back to tell us what we can expect you still stressed about buying our first house, sweetie?

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you're watchin "nehe4 at 6." is a desperate certainly for a fairfax county man under way rightsi now m for over a week. police are just putng outhis surveillance video. this shows brandon white getting into a four-door sedan on the night he disappeared. thispl apartment c is on monticello drive. fairfax county police are urging the owner of the carr people inside to get in touch with them. today family members and the community organized a search passing out flyers and talked with people driving by. more details about his disappearance and poohs of this car in our nbc washington

facebook make. shareencourage you to that and help out if you can. the combination of cold weather and intense smoke and flames making for a tough fight in alexandria this morning. in e floors of a town home flames. firefighters were not able to save one person stuck inside that ebuilding. fire department says this likely started with an unattended candle. news4's derrick ward with more from residents 0 who watched the scary scene unfold. >> my god. that's crazy. so much rsmoke. orter: it was the intense flames and billowing smoke that first alerted nghbors to t fire. >> yeah, there were actually several calls that cam in from people in the neighborhood >> reporter: just after 9:00 a.m. when firefighters got to the scene on arell court in short order. the fire was alrea showing on all three floors. >> our unit w aggressivelyt interior, began extinguishing the fire and unfortunately cated a victim on the second

floor. >> reporter: the house is an end unit. there's only one contiguous neighbor. the heat caused s e damage to the interior of that home but firefighters kept the flames from spreading. this morning'srigid temperatures added another layer of difficulty to fighting this fire. the possibility of freezing water anotheracr. >> the conditions that our firefighters met when they got here were in the extreme nature. the body fluids, the sweat when they come outside is instantaneously dropping their body temperature >> reporter: stilt fire was put down quickly, but the tragedy couldn't be avoided. investigate ares are working to dee the victim's cause of death. derrick ward, news4. >> freezing rain can cause all sorts of problems. but this week in western michigan it created an unusual icy phenomenon, something called

ghost ands. the freezing rain coasted apples rotting on the trees there ande d a solid icy shell around the apples, then the trees got pruned and that caused the apples to fall off. with a few, the mush of the rotted apple slipped out left behind this ice casing which is what they call a ghost apple. here no freezing rain, but chilly temperatures for sure. a few folks braved those temperatures out there and ran n well, almost just their skiv vis. this is a run in dc today called cupis undierun. next week is valentine's day. thurm started in i 2010n hopes of raising money to find a rare genetic disorde that causes tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body. people run ins und because people affected can't cover their tumors so they stripped down in solidarity kurpd k

cupid-like. at the might off his arrow sonight or tomorrow. >> temperatuoing down to the teens again. it's going to be a bitterly cold night. the one good thing is, the winds are calming so like i said earlier, that will kind you have take the sting off the edge. it's going to be pretty cold. current temperatures outside already down to t 20s for some. in fact, if you're in the 20s right now, are the ones who will be in th tee tonight. some of our rural areas i wouldn't be surprised if we got down to single digits, but for the most part, looking at 20s throughout, even in the beltway. and then as we head to the overnight hours looking at an ernight low around3 degrees in washington, d.c. the winds are growing calm. mostly clear evening out ther tomorrow morning in fact, waking unto a good amount of sunshine befo t the clouds start increase. once we start to see those ouds building, we know that

system is approaching and we arr in some wintry weather. let's get to that. you need to know your sunday plans are safe before sunset. okay. hehat you need to know. wintry mix. it's going to start tomorrow night. we could seeight snow along with it just north of d.c. that's gng to change to rain on monday. but we'll see it change to a wintry mix again monday night into the tuesday. i let's tim out on the futurecast. pushing ahead, take a look what we're lking at tomorro night. a good portion of the area may start as a aight snow you'll see that quickly change over to more of a mix monday morning, and you can see during the morning commute how this model in particular is changing the metro area into just rain and pushing that rain, snow line farther north. o be married ant to this too much. see how close it is? it could be a pretty close tomorrow night.

we could see more of the wintry mix in our area monday morning impactin mthe commute. day night, here we would go again. snow north of the district and a wintry mix closer to the bellway before that changes to rai again onour tuesday. how will this impact you? as i id, your sunday you don't have to worry about it before sunset. the monday morningte delays are possible. as we could be seeing that prolonged wintry weather move into early monday morning and then that will change over to rain and for theonday dinner plans, that rain changes back to a wintrymix. your storm team 4 ten-day outlook spending time withwet, l go weather alert. sunday night into monday and monday night into the tuesday, keep that in mind. temperatures overall in the 30s and 40s. if you're wondering are we going to get warm weather we got earlier this week back, 50s. we'll s the 50s by wednesday once this is out of here. going to be breezy on wednesday. en friday, we're tracking a

system that could bring a good dousing of rain by the weekend. we're back 5 to the and 40s before our next chance for wintry weather starting around the same time. it looks like we're on a cycle here. >> starting to get used to this, unfortunatel >> it's nter. >> okay. well, the wizards as you may know made a hug trade this week. players mir newest his mark right away. we'll look back at bobby portis's night last night and look ahead tonigs his team set to face an live from the starlite lounge. ♪ one plus one equals too little too late ♪ ♪ a sock-a-bam-boom ♪ who's in the room? ♪ love is dangerous ♪ but driving safe means you pay less ♪ switch and save ♪ ♪ yes, ma'am excusee, miss. ♪ does this heart belong to you? ♪ ♪ould you like it anyway?

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this is the xfinity sportsdesk. >> how awkward would i be to see your ex-just days after breaking up? that's what's happening tonight when the wizards and bulls face off. the meeting of the exes. new power forward bobby was upset he was traded by chicago, the on nba team he'sfo played he's making the early case to prove he won the breakup. he was a man on his mission.rt the fh year player out of arkansas came off the bench started perfect 5 of 5 from the field. he's the first wizards to

30 in his team deb since antawn jamison back in 2004 and became the first player in nba history with back to back 3 po games for different teams within a season. after the win, he said he was just happy to belaying ball. >> it was fun, man. i love playing the game of i basketball. ve giving my all. i play with a ton of passion court.me i sp on the i wanted to go out and play e> it was unbelievable. he cam out with so much energy, he was locked in from the get-go. th how -- that's hisap oach to the game and we definitely needed it. we fed off that. energy and we need that to move forward. >> as mentioned tonight the bale of thexes as the wizards in chicagotoaking on otorter junior and the bulls. washington drafted porter out of coorgetown traded for portis. porterred 18 in his bulls

debut last night. tonigh maybe a different story facing an old teammate. john wohl gave his thoughts on porter last night. >> just wish the best. drafting him number three, having a great three. doing what he had to do and trying to figure out. i texted him after he got traded and congratulated hill foryt evng he's he gave to the organization and the city. that's all a guy can ask for that they learn as much as they can while i'm here and injured. i wish him luck in chicago. >> speaking of georgetown, college hoops patrick ewing and the hoyas hosting butler this afternoon. back and forth, hoyas down seven first half. mcclung in the lane. hits the floater. butler up by six at the half. early second, bulldog extend the lead. shaun mcrmt, corner pocket. butler's up by ten.

here come the hoyas. keunder five, p hit the brakes. defender still falling right now. we go to the final minute. mcclung with the layup.s need two points. can' hit. butler with the board. they would close it out. mcclung leaves everyone with 21 points but georgetown falls 73-1234506 that's a heartbreaker. georgetown playi a lot better than folks expected. >> patrickewg, baby. it's time for the ultimate sleep number event on the

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tonight, new defiance by virginia governor. ralph northam will stay on and promote whate calls racial equity and the lieutenant governor faces calls for him to step down ove t.ccusations of sexual assa a state of emergency in seattle and beyond as a major snow aorm hits region that rarely gets snow. he stole hundreds of thousan from his clients and now this disbarred lawyer is m wanted for turder of his own mother. was this m killing by an fbi agent a tragic mistake or negligence. the latest case calling for greater transparency in the fbi. and the big announcement from buckingham palace rtoday as one membe of the royal family reaches a