news 4 at 11:00 starts now. aeg we tonight with a warning for those in neighborhoods with large trees and power lines. >> ice is causing many of them to come crashingin down. montgomery county today,

sudeillance footage capture man almost crushed by a falling tree. >> and the risk isn't over et. ice-coated trees and wires becoming even more dangerous as the wind picks up overnight. if you've been hoping that winter was almost over, well, you're going to be very disappointed. good evening, everye. i'm doree gentzler. >> i'm jim adlai. folks, we've got a lot more in store. tonight, storm team 4 is tracking three, three potential storms it is too soon to say for sure, but there's a chance of snow, ice and rain on saturday, and a thin on sunday. >> and then next week, a third round of wintery weather may make a much bigger impact. but first there is a real danger tonight fromhe ice. today's storm brought down trees and power lines, hitting the >>ryland suburbs especially hard. e're working for you tonight with team coverage. beginning with news 4's jackie bensen live for us tonight on the dangerous in icy damascus. jackie? >> reporter: well, it is just

the strangest situation here. the trmometer on the news van says 33egrees. it's raining. but take a look at this. and i'm going to have photographer beth brown zoom in really, really close. take a look at this tree. it looks like it's some type of tulip tree. you can actually see every single branch on this tre is encased in a thick coating of ice, even the little, un unfoely, the little buds that are ready to come out. i hope the tree's going to be okay. this is the type of situation that has caused a lot of problems in the damasca tonight.e this hecurity video shows the homeowner who had gone outside to move a vehicle in his driveway just narrowingly missing being struck by big ice-laden tree limbs as they came crashing down. he did not want to talk t about but told news 4 he knows being hit by that much tree has the potential for serious and even life-threatening injury.

damascus residents find a crunchy coating of ice on almost every surface. the weight of frozen water dused some limbs to snap, bringing power linn with them. a number of people had tree limbs fall on their cars in the iveway. >> it's upsetting, you know? ieezing rain, sleet, this. >> reporter: the conditions left hundreds of customers, individual homes and businesses in the dark, some in the dama mus areaht not have electricity again until late wednesday. and we're told still about 300 customers in montgomery county without powert this point. take a look at this. check this out. hear that crunchiness? i mean, if you're down south of ire and there is nothing your yard, this is kind of amazing. the roads are just wet, but every surface that's not as warm as the road has this crunc ice it. we understand, doug kammerer, we could be looking at some more of

this. >> possibly this weekend, actually, jackie. the big concern is the wind with the fact that we the icy trees out there. we're not going to see the change all that much tonight. the rain continuing across much of theairy, however, starting to move out now. you can see on the wider picture he s we areing the back edge of this moving on through. as it does, the winds will start to pick up between 20 and 30 miles an hour. but tomorrow morning, those nds could really start to get up there. temperature wise, we're all above freezing, even as jackie said,heut because is so much ice in those areas, also back into west virginia, ourar viewers t west virginia, a ton of ice here, too. the wind could be a major issue tomorrow. we could have more trees down. windy tomorrowith trees town is definitely a possibility after the rain's come to an end. watcng the next winter storms. you heard it at the top of the show. i'm watching three winter storms overs next ten days. >> all right. doug, we'll see you in just a

bit. make sure you and your family are ready fve wha the weather brings. when you wake up tomorrow morning,on tur"news 4 today." meteorologist chuck bell and the entire news 4 team are worki for you starting at 4:00 a.m. doreen? there are some new developm cts in thesis in the commonwealth. attorneys for dr. vanessa tyson areing the virginia legislature to conduct a, quote, thorough, fair and expeditious investigation into her allegations that the ate's lieutenant governor sexually assaulted her years ago. >> meantime tonight, tyson is speaking publicly for the first time since her allegations against justin fairfax came to light. >> sometimes you have to lead by example. no matter how hard it is. >> leon harris joins us from the live desk with what s had to say tonight. leon? >> doreen, it was dr. vanessa tyson didn't specifically address her allegations agautst lant governor justin fairfax, and the

questions that were posed at tonight's event at stanford university had been screened in advance, hower, dr. tyson did get emotional at times talking about her struges as a survivor. >> that none of us are desupposable and ispensable. fact, we should be valued for our uniquenesses as human business. that's what i'd like to see in the world. >> now, this event was something of a coincidence. she is a professor and advocate for sexual assault victims and booked to speak on this panel months ago, it turns out. the focus was couragen t age of the me too movement. tyson says in ai2004,ax forced her to perform a sex act in his hotel room at tde cratic nationalve cn.ntonio ual. tns >> o topic of credibility, it deeply, deeply concerns me, least when women come forward deliberatenow, this

attempt to try to undermine someone's credibility. >> another woman, meredith watson, says lieutenant governor fairfax raped her. he denies those allegations as well and insists that he will not resig fromis position. discussions of impeachme bnty ow. it's been some 11 days since that photo ofig ae in blackface surfaced from governor ralph northam's medical schoola ok on this page, setting ff a firestorm of chaos in richmond. you can find all of the latest developments in the nbc washington app. we'll keep you posted there. doreen, back you to. >> all rigyo. leon, than tonight, president trump may be sending signals he will sign that bipartisan bill to avoid friday's deadline for a partial government shutdown. now this bill doesn't even inude 1/4 of the more than $5.5 billion he's asking for the wall. the president tweeted tonight saying that there will be $23 billion for borde security. he adds that regardless of the wall money, it is being built.

e president hinted today he may take executive action to make it happen. a woman's nightmare begins with a kind offer fro a stranger who she later learned is a registered sexffder. the man bought the woman a shot at clyde's in chevy chase. police say he also dropped a roofy into the drink. then phillip cantor allegedly carried the victim to his nearby apartment and raped her. ctives say surveillance video shows the woman pushing cantor away. montgomery county police want this to be a reminder to everyone t always be vigilant. >> i have a daughter who is 24, and whenever she goes out, i always tell her not to leave any drinks, and she doesn't. >> cantor is being held without bond on rape and assault charges. it was a crime filled witht ure against a child. a local man abducted a 13-year-ol girl and held her

captive. now that kidnapper is about to be freed, but it's where he'sed heext that has so many concerned. and what scott macfarlane and the news 4 i-team found is triggering calls for someone to step in. >> reporter: cold, n snowy year's day in 2002 might feel like a lifetime ago, but it doesn'tror the motf alicia. >> alicia's been through physical abuse. she's been through emotional abuse. >> reporter: that say scott tyrers drove several h from fairfax county to pittsburgh r-th the sole purpose of kidnapping 13-yd alicia, whom he lured online. he brought her to herndon and held her hostage where he sexually abused her. it triggered a national manhunt. >> we've all been through the xiety and emotional abuse in our family. >> the feds captured tyree four days later and prosecuted him and sent him to the federal prison in north carolina. 17 years later, tyree looks mump

different and theews 4 i-team learned he's weeks away from being released to the public. he's finishing his sentence in a halfway house. it isn't in north carolina or fairfax county, it's in this building in pittsburgh. >> he's out of prison. now we are in prison. >> reporter: just four minutes m from where they still lives. the feds placed tyree here and are prepari it to release him into this community. >> there's no reason that he should be our oblem. and as long as he's here, he's going to be our problem becaine it's terri >> reporter: it's the u.s. bureau of prisons that decided where to place scott tyree. they provided the i-team an agency document showing five things they consider when placing an inmate. the nature of the offense. and also the history of the offender. the agedy decliur request for comment about his close proximity to the family. >> whose bright idea was it that they thought he shouldo back

to live in the community where his victims live and where the crime occurred? >> repter: camille cooper is with the national association to protect children. >> this is going to retraumatize them? >> ilready is retraumatizing them. >> reporter: the u.s. attorney in pittsburgh who prosecuted tyree told us federal prisoners are kmaerl released i community in which they were prosecuted. the feds said they even e-mailed notification about tyree's release to the family, but the family says they never received it. they learned this news from the i-team. after the i. team alerted members of congress about this, a member of theus u. oversight committee formally asked the bureau of prisons to explain its decisio and over records about scott tyree. the letter cites grave caycerns and placing tyree four miles from the home of alicia's parents is a particularly egregious oversight. >> this is someone who abducted and tortured a young woman almost todeath. you don't put that type of offender anywhere near the victim. >> i am that 13-year-old girl

who wasured by an internet predator. >> reporter: if alicia's name sounds familiar, there is a reason. after her rescue, she became a safety advocate, lobbying successfully in nearly a doz states for stricter laws and better funding for pice to pursue child predators. >> there are so many young girls whose stories will never be heard. >> it's always going to be with us and we should be able to live our lives. we're not the perpetrator. >> reporter: but it's now her family that's feeling vy much in danger. scot macfarlane, news 4. i-te >> now, the i-team tried reaching out to scott tyree at his halfw house but received no response. he is scheduled to be granted his full release in april. to read more about the case or send the i-team any tips, visit our nbc washington app. next on news, the terps treat a local family to a very ecial night out. >> it's a chance to forget about hospital beds and chemo treatments and focus on cheering for their son's favorite team.

>> it feels so great to bnghere and ha great time. we feel very lucky. today's system moving out. take a loo at this. you know, rain, sleet, snow. saturday.

tonight, the terps hosted families fighting one of life's

most difficult battles, childhood cancer. >> the team pked the game because purdue supports the boilermakers showed a superfan named tyler trent. >> shomari stone introduces us to ail local f using this special night to celebrate a milestone in their son's treatment. >> reporter: a special night for the brigs family at university of maryland's xfinity center. excited, you so know, to be able to take a little breath out and celebrate somethin that we've been thankful for. all right. let's go find some food. >> reporter: ryan and christie celebrate their son 4-year-old garrett's health. >> the burgerasket with french fries. >> reporter: he had a brain tumor when he was 18 months old. he's now in remissio >> we've been waiting for this moment for a long time. after his surgery about a yearo ag we've had four or fi mris showing a clean bill of >>healt eporter: maryland basketball partnered with alex's lemonade

stanio a natl fund-raiser for child cancer patients. >> weos wanted to some of our local childhood cancer heros andal alex's lemonade, we were happy to be able to tie it all together. >> reporter: for parents who once worried their son might not survive, now he pops m & ms, cheers for his favorite team and shares tonigh his night with his parents and sister. >> it feels so great to be here and having a great time. >> such a beautiful family.w arrett looks forward to starting kindergarten soon and he says he will continue to cheer for the terps. shomari stone, news 4. >> tyler had a big night there, didn't he? >> he did. great for his whole family to get to enjoy that time together. you said it. well, workers at a convenience store in new jersey had quite the mess to clean up. check it out after a woman wet aisl by aisle sweeping items just off the shelves.

you can seeet customers comy shocked as she approaches the register, flinging packs of gumo candy the then she ditches a vitamin waner d a can of pringles, walks out d just takes off. police still haven't found her. >> i've seen unusual stuff at the grocery store.an >> you don't to be in line behind her. >> never anything like that. >> uh-u having a moment. doug, you're not bringing us much good news tonight, are you? thursday is going to be good, right? >> friday is 61 degrees. what more can i do, everybody? it has been gloomy. that's the big thing. extremely dreary. >> nonstop. >> it has been nonstopnd nonstop cold rain. for some of you well to the north, it's been a lot of ice. it really did cause a lot of problems up towards the damascus area, over into parts of frederick county as well. w still dealing with the shower activity. take a look at the rain.

storm teamar 4 r still coming into the area. up around frederick it does say that's a little bit of a mix there. i think mostlyai that is except for some of the higher elevations up there, but that's really about it. this rain is all moving out. t in behins as i mentioned, the wind is going to be a factor here's the whole storm. this is a very big storm. look where this goes. all the way up from new england, all the w downowards the south. severe weather. even tornado warnings downn rts of georgia and severe thunderstorms in parts of the carolinas. this whole stem moves out a behind it we get on the cold side. today it's already been cold. we're actually going be warmer tomorrow than we were today, but the wind is going to be a factor. current temperatures all above freezing. the exception is winchester. when the wind comes in, that's where i think we could hav some problems. rain moving out. wet roads tomorrow morning. there won't e anythingfalling, but still the roads are going to be very wet from all the rain we ve seen. take some time out there getting

to work tomorrow. dry tomorrow but windy. winds cut gust 30 to 40 miles an ihour. with t to the north and the saturated ground everywhere, we could have more trees down across our region tomorrow. that's sething i want you to think about and keep a heads up for. school day forecast. athe bus stop, chilly, 36 degrees there. rather breezy, too. winds igusting, as mentioned, up to 30, 40 miles an hour. wind chills in the 20 3s ands all day, up to a high of 47. at least we have some sunshine. mixture of clouds as well but at least some sun. 54 on thursday. thursday looks great. here's the good news, everybody, thursday and fritiy bel, even with plenty of cloud cover on friday, 61. then the cold airoves in and we see another storm system come in on saturday. let's take a look at saturday. this is saturday morning here at 9:00.m. this is the european model, which the european by far has been the best as far as models go a couple of days out. rain, mix, snow.

stch what happens during the day. mow coming in around the d.c. area. this is accumulating snow on the european model before it actually warms and changes back over to a bit of a mix. on sunday we've got a similar scenario that plays out. another chance for a wintery mix. what exactly are we going to see? away.a couple of days we'll continue to refine this forecast. the one i'm really watching, the bigg storm is overhere, tuesday and wednesday. once again, how much cold air is in place? how much of this storm system goes to our west? how much of it goes to our south? so many questions, but the thing is right now were tracking the potential for three storms over the next ten days. really, out of the next ten days, we've got four stormy days. io of which, hey, what do you know,lude the week. >> i'm hearing you and doreen are on call for saturday and sunday. >> he is maybe all right. coming up, you saw them, the terps making a big statement at home tonight. >> sports next. but first, here is jimmy fallon. hey, guys. tonight.d is here

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this is the xfinity sports desk. all right. sherree, not the way the caps wanted to starthe off road stretch. b no, but this is get the loss out of the wayause a 12-day road trip is going to be strenuous for the capitals. the first of the six-game stretch awaye.rom h game two of a back-to-back in columbus. tonight the fourth and final t meeting weanse two clubs in the regular season. evgeney kuznetsov and the caps ping to kick the road trip off with a win. get it there? first period, scoreless. hereumomes colbus with the backhand off the post. where did the puck go? shot off the post and holtby somehow pinning h it to back. 29 saves for holtby. in the second period, though, blue jackets on the attack again. anthony du claire thinking about passing. keeps it. fires and scores. heuts it right through holtby's legs for the goal. laat's givesum colbus a 1-0 lead. r, blue jackets up 2-0.

caps with the empty net, extra attacker. plenty of traffic in front of sergei -- under a minute to play more chances for the caps, continuing to stand on his head. 20 savesn 20 shots from him. caps get shut out to start the road trip 3-0, the final. now let's head to college hoops. 24 ranked maryland hosting 12th ranked purdue. former termez wells getting the crowd rdy. skip ahead second half, jaylon smith throwing down the alley-oop. terms take their first ead. fromthere, it was the bruno fernandohow. pass inside to the big man. slams it over a couple of purdue defenders. the sophomore with the aggressive slam getting the xfinity center going crazy. bruno obviouslyn flexing him. terps up seven. later in the game, fernando puts the icing on thee. c this time a two-handed

fernando with 12 points, 12 rebounds. pulls up the upsetver purdue, 70-56 the final. >> i flipped the film in from the fst game and it made my stomach hurt because how young we were and how we were playing and how far we've we get better every game. >> it just helps us build on our confidence. fo the young just for them to see that webl are ae to compete against anybody, you know, and to have a game like that on our home court for our fans to see that and experience that, it was great to see. >> all rightwe , the good news just keeps coming for maryland. nick t crossook his time but finally choosing to play football at maryland. the safety, the top recruit in thestate, was considering florida state and penn st e but has decided to stay at home. f lookinward to seeing some familiar faces in the crowd. >> mom said that people from my church, you know, they're going to pull up in a big van andome

down to support. it's definitely going to be fun to be able to continue to grow the relationships that i've fostered since i was a little ki and just to be able to continue to, you know, have them support and everything like that. that's really, you know, comforting to be able to have that around. >> nick was saying he's so excited to finally get to play on the college level because, you know, you grow up watching these guys on saturdays. he's finally going to get to suit up ande one of those kids on espn on a college football saturday. >> a lot of fans here. >> large cheering section. 30 minutes downro the . >> a cheering section and they'll all have advice for him, eo. >> i'm shey ll. >> allwi

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barbie has transformed aot over the years. broadening the definition of beauty her newooks could help fight the stigma surrounding physical challenges. in june barbie will debut a doll with a removable prosthetic leg and another that comes with a wheelchair. barbie's dream house will even come with ach wher ramp. >> nice to see. >> very progressive of them. >> yeah. all right. a lpl of p waking up to what out there tomorrow, doug? >> i said they were dealing with wet roads. i still think we're going to roadways.s on the most everybody should be okay. the rain is out of here. next couple of days dry. tomorrow the wind is the big deal. thursday and friday looking good. look at the stretch below average temperatures and a chance for a mix on saturday and sunday. tuesday and wednesday are going to be tracking all of it for

you. the average high is now 45 degrees. yeah, i don't think we're anywhere near there for the next ten days. >> we hate the wintery mix. >> we do. >> it's the worst. >> it's the worst for us, too.

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[ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- will forte,