governor ralph northam is not going anywhere as plans t impeach the lieutenant governor move to the back burner. t urgent plea tonight about using seat belts after a crash over the weekend. we're in weatherrt a mode again tonight. another round of snow and rain heed our way. >> this could make for a miserable morning tomorrow, folks. a lot like what w saw today, mostly rain around d.c. look here, you see herewa this u street earlier this afternoon, the umbrellas out there, the streets wet and >>ndshld wipers getting a work out. this is howard county. some people here got enough snow to shovel. and freezing rain that makes sidewalks dangerous. doug andli a start us off. keeping an eye on the rain/snow line overnight. >> we think the line tonightth

will be f north than it was during the morning hours this this morning. we're hearing loudon county now a two hour delay for tomorrhi. we we could see more delays in parts of the area. >> rg especially north and west of washington where temperatures are going to be below or atfr zing. >> that's what we have right now, most of the area from d. south o 66, south of route 50 you're not seeing anything, much in the way of rain. it's a light. but we are seeing snow, sleet, freezi rain. hagerstown reported snow last hour. frederick reported some light rain in that area winchester reporting light rain and snow. back to the west,oi moreure making its way here. you can see a lot of rain moving in. the rain moves in, the cold untemperatures stick a and it gets cold erat night. 31 right now baltimore, 32 gaithersburg, 32 leesburg. where we'rebove freezing to

the south, no worries. it's all in this area. thiss the areawe're concerned about. that's why the national weather the winter extende weather advisory to include all of loudon county and montgomery county. also a winter storm warning now, this i for ice in parts of the blue ridge along skyline drive. we'll continue to watchs this we move through the night tonight but tomorrow morning it's going tbe nasty no matter where you live. down d.c.outhward it's just a plain cold rain. see you in 15. top congressional negotiators met at the capital this afternoon to try to find a way around the impasse that has led border security talks. the clock isck tiing. lawmakers have to come up with a plan before friday or theou government shutdown again. blayne alexander is tracking the bllks. ne, this is -- we're over this already. here we go again. >> rorter: perfect way to put it. everybody is over this, doreen. nobody wants to a see second

government shutdown. not democrats, not republicans, not the white house. but again, nobody, the white house n ruling out the ssibility. now president trump for his part headed to el paso, texas tonight a border city where he is hoping to use hisirst political rally of 2019 to strengthen his case for the wall. on capitol hill, a last ditch effort to revive border security talks that have all but flat lined. top negotiators working to avoid .nother shutdown frid now a new issue, democrats demanding a limit to the nber beds inti immigrant deten centers. >> the debate over beds is not really a debate over beds. it's how we handle amnesty applications. >> reporter: it would force i.c.e. to priorityize arresting violent criminals over those who overstay their visas. >> that means wherc law

enent arrests somebody in this country illegally, i.ct. wo be able to pick them up. >> repntter: presirump punting blame to the demo aats. >> the people that kidnap people. the democrats want them to come into our society. i don't think so. >> reporter: the president signaling he may go around congress altogether and declare a national emergency to build his border wall. tonight working to strengthen e his case ispaso, texas, a city he falsely touted as having lower crime due to the borr nce. >> el paso, texas is one of the safest cities in our country. >> reporter: in reality crime was going down before the fence was built and went back up aer construction. politically president trump is not in a friendly territory tonight when he heads to el paso, this is a county he lost back in 2016 by more tn 40 points. now today the county passed a resolution saying that only reluctantly welcome

tonight, pointing to what they ca lies he told about the community. back to you. >> thank you, blayne. blayne alexander reporting live for us this evening. sensing another government shutdown on the horizon. localovernments and transit systems are planning ahead. s scott macfarlane joins us from the news room. this is not the thing we want to get good at. >> the metro board of directors meets thursday. we'll s ifhey consider an emergency policy to let federal workeride the rails and buses free. that would be similar to what they approved last month. in the meantime montgomery county is expected to pass a resolution tomorro allowing federal workers to ride free on buses during the shutdowns. they said the shutdown impacts tens of thousands of people in the county. >> this is definitely not a good time for montgomery county to have to address, you know, this particular challenge.

>> a vote to make tha free ride resolution official is expected tomorrow afternoon in rockvi we'll keep you posted on metro and their board of directors on thursday. in thes nom, scott macfarlane news4. >> scott, thank you. now to the crisis in virginia. some african-american oeaders spok today in support of governor ralph northam. >> this comes as northam end to the week out of the public eye. this weekend he told gayle king of cbs this morning that he is not going to resign. >> taken seriously if you stay in office. >> the man you're looking at and talking to right now is not who i was in m early 20s. i have learned, i admit to my mistakes. d i'm going to improve my life and do better. >> northern virginia bureau chief julie carey in richmond again for us tonight. >> julie also tracking the latest on the lieutenant

governor, talks to impeach him seem to be slowing down. but there's now news about some of his staff?>> eporter: yeah. let me start with the plan to start possible impeachment proceedings. that tonight has been tabled. and that just brought a sharply worded response from an attorney for one of the accusers. she said they were disappointed byhisvelopment. they wanted to see a full public airing of thexual assault allegations against the lieutenant governor. nd justin fairfax facing other challenges as you mentioned. two thirds of his sixerson staff has resigned. but sigll the topic of conversation here today is that whole notion of an investigation. the lieutenant governor says wants one, many lawmakers say they want one, the trouble is nobody knows w could do it. lieutenant governor justin fairfax back to work just two days after a second woman accused him of sex assault, both incidents reportedly taking

place when fairfax was in his 20s. the lieutenant governor strongly denied both allegatns and says the encounters were con sex shl. >> we have called for an independent investigation. >> reporter: on friday, delegate patrick hope announced plans to begin impeachment. but afterio discu with colleagues over the weekend, he's tabled the idea. >> i do believe these that's why i took the step i did. the lieutenant governor has also asked f an investigation so i felt like this was the best pathway. but unfortunately it's probably not the best pathway right now. >> reporter: but delegate hope said he's determined to find another way to launch an investigation in the commonwealki. >> i'm tal to my colleagues and i'll continue to talk to my colleagues until we find a pathway to have that investoration. >> rr: republican house speaker kirk cox warning about turning to impeinhment, some never before used in virginia. >> impeachment is unprecedented so approaching that needs to be

deliberate and thoughtful. h >> reporter: governor ra northam now offering his thoughts about what he's learned after the disclosure of the racist pho on his yearbook page. >> this is an opportunity, i believe, to make awareness of this issue. to really have a frank dialogue and discussion about race and equity in this epcountry. >>ter: these african-american leaders some of whom met with the governor urging to give h a second chance. >> i looked in the governor's eyesie and i b he is sorry for what has happened. i believe he is the rig pson to guide virginia and bring us through this troubling time in history. >> reporter: now even though the governor has been havin meetings with african-american leaders and resurcing with a couple of interviews, still no sign of a public schedule for him. back to you now in the studio. >> thank you, julie.

julie carey reporng from richmond. our coverage of the crisis in theomnwealth continues on news4. make sure you have the nbc washington app to get the latest alerts as news develops. one of the first muslim women ever to be elected to congress is apologizing foren comm of anti-semitism. congresswoman iihan os a democrat from minnesota. she ignited a controversy last night when she suggested republican support for israel ia e of campaign donations. her comments were denounced by republicans and fellowts democ including house speaker nancy pelosi. this afternoon she apologized. tonight the redskins say they are still gathering information about the arrest of head coach jay gruden's son ja

jack. loudon county deputies arrested 5 saturday 2 morning. they charged him with being drunk in public. deputies say gruden got in a confrontation with another the redskins said they will not comment on this until they have more details. the last government shutdown put a huge strain on air tral anlight delays created an urgency to put a stop to it. >> ahead at 6:00, the airline industry sounding an alarm. >> reporter: prince george's county political want to know why a vehicle went off the road and into the woods. this accident killed threend peoplenjured another one. police say nobody was wearing a seat belt. we're covering another round of winter weather our way. loudoun

for the second time this year in prince george's county the victims of a deadly car crash were not wearing seat belts. two of the women killed in this weekens crash leave young children behind. >> tracee wilkinss expla why officers want this sad situation to be a warning to everyone o ts in a car. >> reporter: family and friends are examining this crash scene after a deadly single car crash killed three friends, injuring a fourth. 25-year-old brenda mer low, mother of a young son was killed. so was 23-year-old gratia sanchez crui sanchez cruz, she leaves three

young children behind. we spoke to h mother. >> she's upset because of this tragedy. she didn't expect these three young lives to end the way they did. she doesn't enjoy what caused the accident but she's just heart >>broken. eporter: police aren't saying who was behind the wheel of the car when the accident happened on sunday but her roommates tell us it was her car. they knew something was wrong.as >> she missing and after that we just heard from some of the family members like the car over. ipped >> reporter: the vehicle left th road early sunday morning, crashing into an apartme building sign, flipping over and landing on the roof in nearby woods. police say no one in the vehicle was wearing seat belts. >> buckle up. seat belts save lives. they really do. >> if they probably would have had their seat belts, you never know. they probably would have jent

n the hospital. you can recover from that. bt when someone's dead, you can't -- you canng them back. >> reporter: as prince george's county police continue their ion, they're saying there was a third person killed in this accident but they're not releasing that young man's name until his family is notified.i' tracee wilkins news4. one prince george's county road in maryland, route 210 is notorious for deadly crashes. tonight at 7:00, the state highway administration will unveil a new safety program, nextgen 210. they're also expected to reveal which zip codes rack up the most citation on indian highway. a proposal passed the prince george'sounty delegation for more cameras. new federal charges for a man accused of the shooting in

the pittsburgh synagogue. robert bows pleaded not guilty to the shooting. prosecutors filed9 new charges against him today including hate crime violations. bowers has requested a trial by jury. seattle is known for its rain but people are still digging out from a weekendow orm that left with a foot of snow, and more today. crashesll over the area. schools closed. but folks did get out and enjoy the snow boarding down the reets, including a local meteorologist. i talked to my son a while ago he said it's a the-day project digging his car out. they don't h >> and they don't use any salt on the roads. >> why don't they use salt on the roads? >> because they're trying to otect the salmon, my son told me.

the salt gets w into theer streams out there and ruins the salmon. there you go. now you know. >> evenn our area salt is not a good thing in our area but w have to use it to be able to get by. for them, it's their snowest february ever and we're twos wein. tonight we saw a couple inches of snow in parts of the area. now it's a mix of wintery mess. still a little bit of light rain winds you on of the east at 12 miles per hour. we have a wind chill now in the 20s to say it's nasty is an understatement. 32 in gaithersburg. we're above freezing d.c. southward, we won't see much in the way of prlems. but below freezing, 31 baltimore, 32 gaithersburg, martinsburg, winchester, these are the areashe we'll have issues. no rain down i-95 southward. still wet however you' not

seeing new rain. you see the rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain going on in our northern zones. we'll continue tot watch t the rest of the night. around mount airy still dealing with snow, sleet, rain mixs what i'm hearing in that area there. the radar says all snow, imiis a of that. later on today, we're going to see more moisture. another storm moves in, sticksn ar all of this is going to stick around, but the rest f of us will s the action too. around 10:00 tonight, all to the north.mo ly the same scenario we're dealing with right now. but overnight, colder aires m in again from the north. colder air pushes down. and look terrain/snow line, all the way down to e fairfax county, down to the district, winchester, hagerstown, frederick, through early tomorrow morning major issues

here. through 8:00 all rain around the d.c. metro area but still dealing with some areas of ice, this would most likely be freezing rain, it's the worst thing we couldget. sleet, that bounces, that one you can get traction on. but freezing rain is a sheet of ice in parts of thar , so watch out for that. by noon everybody is just plain and then we're in for a lot of rain. road conditions, d.c. southward, i'm not expecting delays here because i think it's going to be okay down to the south. however, notice loudon county and montgomery county, you have some ice but even the northern parts of the county, slick areas here. around bethesda, i'm not predicting any issues but up around clarksburg that's why we could have issue. hagerstown, winchester, that's where we already have issues and all right announcing delays.

rain tomorrow, 48 on wednesday, 53 on thurday. more rain on fray. m out of time, i'll send it back to you. >> that's enough for now. thank you we'll see you later. almost out of time to avoid a government shutdown here. four dayso go. tonight maryland's governor is slamming both president trump and democrats on that. still to come, larry hogan pitcho find and sticker shock, refunds are smaller than expected. susan hogan is working for y outo

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have you done your income taxes yet? if not within you may be in f a big surprise thanks to the changes in the tax de. >> we've seen complaints popping up on social media on this from peoplemaho ny see a refund and now find out they owe the irs. susan hogan is working for you with what you need to know about these changes. >> according to the soirs, refus ar this filing season have dropped more than the average refund last year was just over $2,000. this yearvehege is coming in to about $1,865. t we want to expert to find out why. >> people are saying what happened to my tax cut? i thought i was supposed to pay less. >>ay is a certified public accountant in arlington. he said there are two main reasons people may not see a big refund check this year. >> the long and short is they weren't having enough withheld. >> if you didn't change your

withholdings a year ago, chanc are t irs started taking out er taxes, meaning yourfe take home pay went up, even if you didn't even notice it. the other reason you may see a smaller refund, a cap in the detuks for state and local taxes, also known as salt. it now limit to $10,000. >> in high tax states, even ound here, around arlington county, you have people paying 10, 12, 15 plus thousand dollars on real estate tax along, you're limited to 10,000 only for the reeste tax but the state income tax also. >> while it's too late to make changes for the 2018 taxes, there are some ways to make sure you don't get hith w a big tax bill come next year. >> look at 2018 nuers, i they have a balance due potentially they need to have more tax withheld from their paychecks in 2019. maxout on o 4 1k to the

extent you can take it out of current cash flow and not miss it. if you have pretax flexible spending accounts for medical purposes, pretax health savings counts, minimize your income and maximize your deductions. >> it's important to rstember ecause you're getting a smaller refund this year, doesn't necessarily mean you're paying more taxes. everyone has their own unique set of ccumstances and your tax preparer should be able to answer anyueions you have and get you on track for 2019. back to you. years of declines in teen smoking may have hit a plateau and some blame the rising popularity of the e-cigarettes. >> how the state of maryland hopeso get teens t stop using both. >> reporter: don't call it a strike, call it aay of action i'm adam tuss at reagan national airport one group of flight attendants say they may not show up for work if there's

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we're back at 6:30 with a check of storm team 4 radar. we're getting a break from the in right now but we're far from done with it. >> expt more problems with the commute tomorrow thmorning. big question is who's going to get rain and who gets snow or ice. >> doug is back in the storm center with more on this. >> still seeing the rain, sleete ng rain around the area now. we'll continue to see it throughout the eveni hours especially north of washington

that's also the area we have the lower temperatures, 32 in gaithersburg, 32 in leesburg. this is the area we have the winter weather advisory. where we have the warmer weather, no visory. however, loudon county, howard county, fauquier, e arybody nort west we will see issues in these areas overnight. it goes to snow in parts of the region and then back to freezing rain and mix and sleet. we'll take you zone by zone in 15 minutes. as we cross 6:30 right now we areurning our attention to the border battle in texas. >> preside trump and former congressman beto o'rourke are holding competing rallies tonight. presidentrump won the state of texas in 2016ut lost el paso

to hillary clinton by 40 points and during his state of the ion address last week he falsely cited el paso as a place where building a wall deterred crime. >> now betoe o'rourke was there, and now he's considering a run for the democratic nomination. he's holng a rally to, in his words, tell the true story about the border. >> flight attendants say they're concerned with a shutdown loomin >> adam tuss is at reagan national airport where the flight attendants union says it could cause problems. >> we are not going to come to work in an unsafe system. mo reporter:ons running high at reagan national airport. >> this is serious stuff fla re people in america. >> reporter: the group leading the charge here, the association of flight attendants, they're

concerned that another shutdown could push the air travel system to a breaking point. you might remember the day the recent shutdown ended flights were halted for a brief time because of air traffic controller towers that weren'ty fu staffed and tsa agents also began calling in sick in higher numbers. >> this is exactly what we were warning of. we were less safe and less secure during this government shutdownf >> reporter: a deal isn't reached they're not fully calling for a strike but rather a day of action this saturday at airports across the country. many still reeling from the last wn. >> we're not going to see any back pay. >>she's from alexandria, she works at the national gallery of art as a contractor, still hasn't been paid since the last shutdown and she said she with the flight attendant association. >> you can't go look for a job. all 800,000 government people are looking for a job. >> reporter: so for now, unrurtainty andration as we head through the week.

>> we stand with the flight atteants and we will be out there on february 16th if, god forbid, congress and the president don't actually get to a deal. >> reporter: now obviously airports across the country are going to be mitoring this situation, decide if they need to react if there is a government shutdown. at reagan national airport, ada, tunews4. now for some straight talk on preventing the nex shutdown from maryland governor larry hogan in new op-ed for cnn, hogan blasted both sides. president trump he wrote, let's been honest neither mexico nor chuck or nancy are going to pay forit. to nancy pelosi and chuck schumer he wrote given your past support for border security funding your current outrage seems disingenuous at best. o

nd call the president about the crisis at the border. he ended by telling both sides they need to put politics aside and compromise. tomorrowou may notice lower water pressure if you live in lower prince george's county they'll be conducting an exercise beginning at 8:00 a.m. and you may notice discolored water. we want to sou a map of the places that will be affected. they're all shaded in green. areas around clinton and brandywine. two men sentenced today for a shooting in the parking lot of montgomery mall in bethesda last march. police say it started with an argument. derrick ward just got out of the courtroom. >> reporter: running and shoong in a mall garage on aig friday last march. thisideo shows four men.

>> this is a case where reckless disregard was at utmost. they shot at two lepe >> graves and montalvo pleaded guilty last month. w graves will ser 20 years and montalvo montalvo 15 prosecutors say the two had stalked their tarts in the days and hours up to the shootings. they texted pictures o handguns and enlisted oers to track down their prey until they confronted them in the garage and opened fire. >> this iso hardlieve that only a couple of cars were dented by blets or penetrated by bullets and that nobody was hurt. >> reporter: the judge said the reckless nature of the crime made it necessary f themo do the time they were given. while defense attorneys and the dge don't seem to be clear on

what started the beef amonge thour men, after sentencing today, while the motivations may be murky, the costs are clear. derrick ward news4. maryland lawmakers trying to take cigarettes and vape pens out of the hands ofteenagers. making sure you know what you're putting in your body, so changes to the rules when it comes to the promises you see vitamin supplements. amelia and doug tracking erother wild weath day

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alzheimer's diabetes and cancer. they're working on a new rapid response tool to warn consumers potentially harmful ingredients in supplements. they're also looking at ways to test supplement safety. right nowo there are real standards or testing for supplements. we're getting a sneak peek o at the restion completed at george washington's mount vernon estate. they spent two years researching and remelling the front parl parlor. now they're convinced it loo exactly the same way it did when the washingtons' hosted important dignitaries and politicians. no smoking until you're old enough to drink. >> more states are moving in that rection. we'll tell you about the latest effort in maryland coming up next. here's a look at the impactt out theorrow morning. our biggest concern for slick spots, north and west washington for the counties in

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of justin fairfax's political action committee have resigned eder the sexual assault allegations filgainst him. but a state delegate is impeach oceedings and is working on another wayo launch an investigation. lieutenant governor fairfax strongly denies the allegations made against him. prince george's county police have a message after another deadly crash this weekend kills three people, seat belts save lives. two young mothers and a third man diedn thiscrash, police say none of them were wearing seat belts. pretty soo the smoking age could be the same as the drinking age in maland. >> there's a new law being debated which would raise the smoking age to 21. >> darcy spencer reports thisme as tobacco use among young people is on the rise. >> reporter: according to new numbers released by the cdc, about 4.9 h middle school ah school students are using

tobacco products in 2018. that's up from 3.6 million in 2017. this increase is driven by a surge in e-cigarette use. delegate darryl barnes heads the legislative black caucus. the group is behind the bill that would raise the age to buy tobaccoroducts in many maryland from 18 to 21. >> i feel confident but it's going to be a heavy lift. it's something we're all rallying behind to say we want to be one of the seven states to raise tobacco usage to the age of r:. >> reporte the u.s. surgeon general calls e-cigarette use an ypidemic among young people and it's o getting worse. laura hale is with the american heart association. >> to go to the bathroom to use the products, as well as sneaking it in class.te >> repor a coalition of supporters plans to lobby lawmakers to pass the gislation this year. hale says it's backed by young

people who haveeen their classmates struggle. >> their peers who are becoming cted to these products and just can't quit no matter how much they want to.or >> repr: supporters say it's failed in years passed when there wa oppositiorom the tobacco industry and stores that sell cigarettes and vape pens. the coalitions hoping the is it statistics wist b support for the bill. reminder that nbc 4 and telemundo 44 are working for you. hocal nonprofits have until friday february 1 to apply for grants of $5,000. we have a total of $225,000 to grant this year. it's going to be shared by few different organizations here in the washington area. to get more information about the process, go to nbcwashington.com/project innovation. back to our weather mess. let's check in with doug and

amelia, they're tracking conditions from storm center 4. >> it doesn't get sasurier. thishe weather that as a meteorologist, it's one, hard to forecast, and two,tee i do. if it's going to be snow and be cold, snowatr than 34 and rain or sleet or freezing rain. >> right. >> not good. >> snow is one thing you can deal with that if you have to. butce is a different story. that's the biggest concern tomorrow morning n wth andt of town. >> look at what we're dealing, we have a mix, pretty much everything you can think of here, rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain, it's all falling. not mh in d.c. or down to the south but still dealing with wet roadways in those areas. now up around areas like frederick, hagerstown, this is going back and forth,snow, rain, back over to sleet. that's the case as we move through the rest of the night tonight and into the day tomorrow as well. i'm having an issue db i goton e

clicker. throw me that one. boom. now we're ready to go. see how that happens. big storm back toward the west, that sto is movin in and that that's going to bring us the rain we'll continue to seenight day tomorrow. lookov at heer temperatures,th2 degrees n of d.c. 32 in college park, gaithersburg, around the leesburg area. dulls right now at 35.po ts to the south should stay above freezing so we're not worried about those areas. areas we're worried about are north and west. the school bus forecast could be a tough one for the morning, wintery mix and rain, andld thea co rain all day, even the places north and west tomorrowe should cha over to rain during the afternoon. but tomorrow mning is going to the key. >> absolutely. that's why we're in weather

de potentially into the afternoon to evening hours. you're dealing with rain and mix for the morning commute andte ially just heavy rain for the evening commute. starting in the.c. metro zone, a chance for rain, chance for pocket of snow, sleet, rain, freezing rain tomorrow morning, that changes to plain rain at 9:00 or 10:00 a.m. and the biggest area for concern for wintery mix is montgomery county, gaithersburg and northern prince william counties. and again, it'sainy throughout the day tomorrow. a cold, damp, dreary day. back to our western zones, frederick, loudon, culpepper, through orange. wee talking about rain, snow, and ice until 10:00 a.m. in our westernzone, especially frederick county in maryland we could see up to 2 inches of snowfall overnight and on top of that we see freez,g ra

ffe hundredths of an inch of ice, and that's why we're concerned about slick spots in the western zone. widespread concerns for slick roads in the mountain zone as we track ice out there tomorrow morning into the midday hours. we don't see the change over from a wintery mix until about 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon. mountain zones, ice is the biggest concern with slick spots likely. then we heaown to southern maryland, stafford, king geo te an fredericksburg area. it's all rain here, around an inch, that could lead to isolated flooding issues. at least we dry out on wednesday and thursday, doug, but more rain and maybe a wintery mix as we look td.the week >> you mentioned the rain tomorrow,t's an all day rain event tomorrow, so take the umbrellas with you. by wednesday it's out of here. we'reust deali with the wind, winds gustingle 20, 30

per hour wednesday. thursday looking good, 56 degrees. 56 on friday with not nearly as much cold rain as tearlier. but ushers in a chance for a wintery mix saturday and sunday. the bigst storm we're tracking could be a week from now, next tuesday. that looks interesting too. >> that's something to look forward to. >> thank you for that. >> this is the worst kind of weather. cold rain. >> here we go. coming up still waiting on bryce harper to sign somewhere. another d.c. sports star has an idea of his plan. sports coming up next. here's leste hold with a look ahead at nbc "nightly news." >> we'll be a talkingbout the tax surprise. of people the numbers aren't adding up like they used to. we have important information you should know. >> polar bears attacking people, entering buildings andg terrorizinsland communities.

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this is the xfinity sports desk. he one thing is for sure, skins have a pension for making news off the field in waives that drive us crazy around hire. >> t redskins should probably stay away from thet bars 1 loudon in ashburn. back in september safayy mon nickelson was charged with y.sault and batt this weekend jay gruden's son getting in trouble with the law there. 22-year-old jack gruden wae aarrested and charged after multiple arguments. the redskins say they're looking into the incidentl and wt comment until more details emerge. the caps finish off a six game home stand tonight before embarking on a grueling road

trip. picture leaving for your family vacation, drive to orlando, 8:00 a.m. on the beltway, mini vans running out of gas,s k are crying and the is broken. >> that bad? >> it'stough. the caps hosting the king looking for a 4-1-1 finish to their home stand. tonight's game is huge. they fly to columbus after the game to face the blue jackets, just two points behind them in ine division,nd they're well aware how big th is tonight. >> we've done a good job on the home stand so far, but we've got to finish it off. o crunch ing down time. it's the super important time of year. obviously i tight asis every year. so we'll keep going forward. >> it's a luxury to play at home, nice toave the kroucrowd behind you but getting to the point in the season wherevery

game means so much and no excuses whether you' home or aware. joe ward telling folks at the university of prince east side ward island where he played, he's retiring from hockey. he played four seasons with the caps. the 38-year-old played for the sharks the last three seasons he's callingt a career. good luck to joel ward. a tough stretch ahead for maryland tear pins they have three straight top five matchups, face purdue, then michigan and iowa. tomorrow's show down will be tough. the boil makers one of the hottest teams in e country iving won eight straight. >> purdue playing as well as anybody. they improv as much as anybody. we talked about ourle team trying to be most improved.

we're getting there too. >> for us just maturing, a ton of freshmen we have, knowing what plays to make, not to make. for them they're on a nice win streak and for us it's important to get one at home to protect home court. and finally, interesting story here the nats report to spring training this wednesday. bryce harper you know remains signed. the giants reportedly jumping into the mix. and steve kerr urgin bryce to come into the bayea ar in d.c. the caps tom wilson shedding light on his plans via social media. >> i know a couple of us got unfollowed the other day so i don't knowngf that's writi on the wall. he's bn a leadern this city for a long time, and i know he kind of jumped ship with the vegas band wagon where he's fun,

i'm sure he's going to make the best decision for him and family and his future. >> what do you think? harper unfollowing some caps players. is that a sign? >> not good. >> we're looking for any sign, right? >> not sure exactly where he'll be. a lot of teams begng for his service. is that a petty move to unfollow on twitter? >> yes, it is. >> it takes time to do that. >> he has plenty of time right now. >> that's htrue. plenty of time right now. >> but they're therd b brethren. they should be listening to each other, talking. >> you would think, but no, the unfollow. let me find tom in my followers, it takes time. not a good sign for us, however. that.ain, i'm okay with i'm all right with that. we don't need $400 million contracts. >> what he said. >> i love the guy. >> bottom line is any place but

philly.. that's no philly. >> that's it for us for

night, states of emergency. two major winter storms targeting both ends of the countr seattle buried under a year's worth of snowfall ina day, and another big snowmaker taking aim for minneapolis and chicago, toew york and boston. al roker is here. the measles outbreak now growing to at least ten states, blamed orents not vaccinating their children. as it spreads some kids old enough and going around their parents to get the vaccinations themselves. tonight's face-off on the border. president trump in beto o'rourke's backyard. their dueling rallies just miles apart as talks break down in washington days from another shutdown. growing concerns over the diminishing tax returns after the gop's tax overhaul last