school coach terrell carlos lock. wood was placed o leave yesterday. students learned the news as they were -- a source close to the investigation tells me it involves inappropriate conversations in the form of textesges exchanged between coach lockwood and the student.o we with some students here as school letout. >> he's a great coach, a great father figure, a great mentor. >> what do you think of the fact he's been placed onleave? >> he's innocent until proven guilty in my eyes. >> i don't like it. i don't think he'd really do something like that. it doesn't sound likeim really.

>> reporter: a paren we spoke expresses a different point of view. >> i'm not surprised because i have heard something about tha before. >> reporter: again, the conduct being investigated involves alleged inappropriate contact between coach lock. wood and a female student. no criminal chaes have been filed. we have not heard from anyone that criminal charges are even being considered. the news 4 i-team tells us that lockwood does not have a maryland teachers certificate, that based on their check with e maryland department of education. lockwood has been with the school system since 2005. he has been here at duval since 2011. that's the latest from duval high school. wendy, back to you. >> i know that's got toe stressing for a lot of parents to hear. chris gordon, thank you. a woman has died as a result of that winter system that brought ice to parts of our

region. we're told she'd been clearing fallen branches in leesburg when a tree limb collapsed on top ofe her. 4's pat collins talked with the victim's neighbors. he's just down the street at lucketts corner. pat? >> reporter: lucketts corner, stumptown road. it's colder her get rain, lucketts corner, it gets ice. that's what happened yesterday, an ice storm. an ice storm with deadly consequences. a woman cleaning up fallen branches from an ice storm. fallen branches in her own yard. becomes a victim of that storm when she's struck and killed by a falling tree limb. >> cleaning up and all, it's a shame. you just don't know -- i guess

the good lord said it was her time. >> teporter: it happened as home on stumptown road near lucketts corner. police identified the victim as 52-year-old melanie re. ey say she was discovered in the yard by a family member around 8:30 lt night. he called 911 for help. police say ms. rose died in the hospital around 5:00 a.m. this morning. frank fitchet iser one of neighbor. >> she was just a pillar in the community. >> reporter: and then for herdio this way? >> like, i say, very sad. just goe to tell you that wait until the storm's over before you gout and do your yard cleanup because you never know what's going tohappen. >> reporter: this is what we don't know. when was ms. rose hit by that falling limb and how long was she lying there in the yard before she was discovered and

that 911 call for help was made. wendy, jim, back to you. >> all right, pat collins, thank you. we don't have any ice or rain y, but we do have some big changes headed our way for the weekend. >> that's right. we're tracking some snow on the way, folks. let's get rig to the storm center, and doug, it's looking like a bulls eye is right on washington. >> it really is right now. that's the w it looks for saturday out there. but before that we had a couple of really nice days. today wasn't bad at all in most of the area. however, look at the temperatures, 38 or 37 degrees in hagertown. a little bit in the way of some snow shower activity. up to north some colder temperatures. but the cold air not moving our a. look at the snow up towardsen westernylvania and central pa, a lot of snow falling today and windy conditions too. wind chill right here 50 degrees. but that's not coming our way.

great weather the next two days and then tracking e system for saturday. temperatures fall, and yes we get accumulating snowfall.tc ng the next winter storms, not just saturday. we've got another one on sunday. right now not a big one, but the next big one tuesday into wednesday. much more on all this in about 15 mi >> thank you, doug. and you can stay ahead of this weekend's storm. just download the free nbc washingtonpp to get alerts right to your phone. the catholic dioceses of arlington, i has joined others around the country today releasing a list of more than a dozen priests who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors. according to "the washington post" at least two have been criminally charged. all have been either removed from public ministry or they have died. in a statement from the bishop of arlington, he apologized to victims and survivors saying he's been inspired by their resolve where, ande is open to meeting with them and hearing their stories.

you can find the full list of those accused pests in arlington in our nbc washington app. now to the latestffts on the -- trying effort to avoid another governmentn. shutd a final bill still in the works, and there could be a wreh over contractors. and while people familiar with the president's thinking say he's likely to sign a bipartisan deal president trump g a less than firm commitment today. erika gonzalez in the newsroom with details for us. >> reporter:well, jim, no one has actually seen the bill because lawmakers are still wring it up. president trump says when he gets it he'll be lookinsfor surprir as he calls them, land mines. and one of those sticking points as yenoned could be back pay for hundreds of thousands of federal contractors affiliad by t 35-day shutdown. democrats and some republicans want to ilude it. but a top republican negotiator says the president won't sign-off on it, in part because gotten ors have never back pay from previous shutdowns. there's also the money,

$1.4 billion for fencing is significantly less than the president's nearly $6 billion demand. today he signaled he may want to avoid a repeat. >> we're going to ache a look at it when it comes. i don't want t see a shutdown. a shutdown would be a terrible thing. with a wallwa the to be stingy, but we have options that mosteople don't really understand. >> reporter: the president did notn expand what those options include. jim, back to you in tueo. >> erika, thank you. >> and we invite you to keep it re for all the latest with the efforts to avoid another shutdown. ahead in our next half-hour we're going to check in wit nior political editor mark murray. , new at 5:e family of that d.c. jogger who was killed in that alarming awful attack is calling out the district in response to news the suspect is not competent to stand trial at the moment. wendy martinez stabbed to death logan circle last september while she was on a run. a judge ordered the suspect

anthony craord to underdepot a competency evaluation and he was found incompetency at this point. martinez's famil released a statement that decision deepens their sense of loss and say they want to work with the city and challenges leaders to do better and make the city greater and safer. for the first time since she accused virginia'sen liet governor of sex assault warb we re hearing from professor vanessa tyson. tonight her attorney is urging the virginia general assembly o takeaction, to start an investigation. supporters of the lieutenantgo rnor are calling for a path that guarantees fairness. our northern virginia bureau chief has today's developments. >> reporter: professor vanessa tyson speaking at a statyord univervent entitled betrawl and courage in the age of me t.

she never directly mentioned th, allegati that justin fairfax sexually assaued her en2004 in her hotel roim. >> sometes you have to lead by example. no matter how hard it is. >> reporter: tyson is one of two women who stepped rward lt week accusing the lieutenant governor of sex assault when he was in his 20s. it prompted mostle eed leaders to quickly call for hir resignation. but fairfax is fighting back. he denies the allegations saying the inkounlters were consensual. >> i know justin fairfax personally. i'm not here toknowha ttal hke other person deserves, some sort of fair process to deal with these allegations. >> reporter: that's prince williams county's naacp president. william bailee along with many others in the african-american community were outraged when talk of impeachment arose.

hard and that k was dropped. >> at least prince william and the ncp feel we need not and we should not rush to a sonviction as opposed to what's determined whatoing on here, what really occurred. >> reporter: but getting agreement on a fair process do that so far elusive. the suffolk countrocutor tells the boston globe she'd open a case if tyson made a criminal complaint.tt tyson'sney says she does not plan to do that. they sent this letter to virginia lawmakers again urging em to oversee a probe. carry, news 4. now the search is on for as al flasher in the district. this is surveillance video a man the police are looking of f. officers say he exposed himself to someone on monday on elm street near 4th in northeast. ran off, and then police say he did the same thing last weekn l street near abbeyacpl

when we come right back we're going to tell you about a crime alert on capitol hill. thieves targeting your tires. >> news 4's megan fitzgerald shows us the four things to do to protect your car. plus dating app dangers. what to know befe you go on that first date with somebody you met online. nbc's m lester holtting with students in the district. >> people and kids in particular need to be armed. they need to be armed with critical thinking skills. >>ow he's h

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national debate. a third party investigation finds there is nof evidence o any racist or offensive behavior by they kentuck catholic school students. the video shows the teenager facing a native-american elder, the boys were condemned after the video went viral. buton the investiga obviously supports their account that they didn't start the incident and didn't behave inappropriately. d.c. police are working to catch some crooks who are stealing the wheels right off of peoples pked cars. e victims are waking up to find their cars ocinder blocks with all four-wheels gone. some neighborhoods hit more than once. news 4's megan fitzgerald talks to residents who are tired of these thefts. >> this is what some neighbors are waking up to on capitol hill, all four of the their tires gone. nothing leftse but t lug nuts that are scattered across the

street. it's happening in neighborhoods around the city. >> just recently i'v a lot of crime. >> reporter: but neighbors in the capitol hill community feel thr being targeted. >> two neighbors had tires or actually whole wheel stolen off their cars. >> reporter: it happened twice unone night on clar's block. just after midnight the thieves stole all four of these tires leaving the owner's suburban laying on the ground. >> very unsettled. angry. >> reporter: philip lives a mile away and his suburban was targeted twice in one month. police released this surveillancero video fit latest crime on early sunday rning. the thieves pull up in this pickup truck, hop out and within minutes all four tires are gone. he and his wif wokep to this. >> the first time it happened was the snowstorm we had.nd >> reporter: as you can see the snow wasn't enough to stop

the criminals from stealing his wheels and causing more than $6,000 in damage. >> police say here's what you can do, park in a well lit area, have a visible and audible device to alert and hopefully scareff thieves and put a theft deterrent on your car to warn thieves that your vehicle is protected. police say these are just a few tips neighbors should keep in mind to avoid being target. >> we d have wheel locks on our cars. i never understood why. now i understand. >> when it comes to fake news teenagers are often the worst offenders simply because ty share stuff whether it's real or not. they don't know. now nbc news and the institute have teamed up to create media wise. and lesterng holt in wasn today to help unveil it. e northwest filled with students

who admit they have been duped by fakne . >> it's embarrassing sometimes. like you post something and someone says, like this is fake and you're like, oh, my god. >> as a journalist we ask those questions every day. >> reporter: nbc's lester holt came to wilson to tell the students about a new teaching tool. mediawise. it's a free program easily downloaded teaching students how to fact check stories so the don't keep spreading fake news. >> there is so much information ,ying at th flying at all of us from the moment we get up in the morning, turn on our phones and turn it off at night, a lot of voices telling you what to thin what's trending, what's true, what's not zplr the program developed bynt the p institute, a non-profit focused on excellence in journalism. it's using this mediawise program to fulfill ahi mission. re teenagers most of them in struggling communities by the year 2020, t next election

year, aime when fake news will be coming in fast and furious. >> tse are skills we'll be using hopefully forever. >> the danger is if you don't roarn fact fiction you tend to accept whatever confirms your world view, that narrows your world around you. so for all of us to bein functi members of this society and this democracy we need to come hard with the information. >> reporter:ediawise isn't just protecting them from russian bots and other sinister sources. it's ao teaching them what's advertising, what's real so they can be better consumers all around. >> like their tackatizes, like the key words search lik te wre from. so it's paid content or what the source is. >> reporter: and once these students become armed with these tools to fight fake news, it's hope they ll be spreading that around. you can find out more about this program on the nbc washingto

app. just search mediawise. >> we are just bombarded with stuff out there. >> a lot of times we don't e kn if -ecially a really cool picture and you're like oh, my tha, let me sha i learned a lot from this. all these little tools from your phone and stuff to check if a picture is not real. >> important lessons. when we come back, it's something many of us are guilty of, talking or texting behind the wheel. >> but now distracted driving buld come with a huge price. the newl that's being considered in one of our local states. plus all eyes on the white house tonight as that shutdown looms. table up the deal on t now and what president trump is saying about it tonight. and we're talking about snod th after 60. yeah, that snow comg onin

and all eyes on the weeket' and w coming at us. >> so you're a tennis guy. so friday get your buddy and say, hey, we're going to playay outside t it's going to be beautiful. sunday say hey, buddy i'm not going tot be m you because it's snowing outside. >> is that saturday? >> did i say sunday? sunday's okay. 61.ay is the day saturday is snow.

sunday right now looking okay. a the weekend i think kind of half and half weekend. let's take a look and show you what we' dealing with right now. it's beautiful. winds gusting to almost 20 to 30 miles an hour. you can see a few white caps out the on the potomac. 48 degrees and wind out of the northwest at 15 miles an hour. that wind chillom in d.c.g in at 43. noti to the nor look at these temperatures. ens to the north. we're ev seeing some snow in our northern areas today. nothing around our region but let's go ahead and widen out. biime winter weather in pennsylvania, really right around the border here. emtsburg, maryland, and pennsylvania right there south they've been getting snow on and offoday. the current temperature in pittsburgh, 15. normally our colfrr air moves in the west, but that's not

happening. for us, we've got a cplef pret nic dayuthere let's talk about tomorrow. high temperatures in the 50s. 6 saturday in ths. that's with the frontal boundary get on reason why we'll the warm side. you can see the front right there, friday at 6:00. again, friday is warm. it you're going out to dinner no problem. some shower activitt likely but lot. i don't even think you'll need the umbrellas on friday night. 11:00 friday night instorm is through down to the south, b another front forms along the front, the cold air moves in and now you wake up saturday morning. some rain to the south, some snow to the north and by late in e afternoon as the cold air continues to move in, everybody for the most part changes over to snow. maybe the exception down towards southern maryland, we'll watch that. but snow and it's going to come down p good here during the afternoon on saturday. depending on the exact track. right now the bulls eye for this. and you can see where the darker purples are. the bulls e right through

virginia, d.c. and annapolis. d.c., thepo perfect at least on this model for some snowfall coming up for the weekend.re what to expect a great thursday and friday. early saturday mix but changing over to snow for just about everyone and yes we ar predicting some accumulating snowfall. what are we expecting for tomorrow? no problem. temperatures aroundre 54 and for the kids out there at the bus stop. a little cool at the bus, st but not a bad day at all. dropping through the day on saturday down to 38. 8% of accumulating snowfall. a high temperature of 40. most of sunday is lookingry monday just on the chilly side, and then watching a storm, and i can'even say one storm here, auys. there could b couple next week. so many different factors playin b in, we've got cold air in place, and wee do h storm in, we could see a mix of snow, a also some ice. all eyes right now on the next

couple of days and your weekend. >> thank you, doug. coming up, an i-team investigation leading to new calls for action. what membersref congress now saying after seeing our story about a convicted kidnapper being freed. and they've reached a deal to avert a shutdown, but will the president sign it? we're tackling the big questions looming ove washington this evening. a thousands of dollars in charges rackedp on a video game system that might be in your house. coming up tonight at 11:00, the stly lessons some parents learned and what you need to

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aook now at some of our top stories on this wednesday. duval high school football coach coach taylor carlos lockwood is on leave accused of inappropriate interaction with a female student. a news 4 source says it involvet inapprop conversations on text messages between coach lockwood and that student. at least one person in our area has died inonnection with that nasty winter system that passed through our area yesterday. a woman out in leesburg got hit by a falli picked up other branches that had fallen in her yard yesterday. we're told aou family member her later in the evening and she passed away this morning. and we are fast approaching e friday deadline to avoid hother government shutdown. lawmakers doe another bipartisan agreement on border security funding, but tyey've

to finalize it. so will he sign the eventual bill, thats the big question tonight. lawmakers on both sides are wondering. >> eo the latestort does include money for fencing, but it'sha significantly less the president had demanded for what he's calling a wall. >> joining us now is nbc's senior political editor mark murray. so we're just over 48 hours away now from this funding deadline, and at this point there's been no bill on the floor in either the house or senate. now we're hearing about an effort involvingatontractors. up with this? >> yeah, and so, jim, there are a couple o different basically routes. and the contractor went a separa legislati on having back pay, but the overall legislation to have the go frnment fullyded and to kind of revolve all of this bordernfct, to me count be in the optimistic count that the president end up signing this. no one and he admitted this today, wants to see another government shutdown.

and so theres movement where everyone can kind of declare a victory and some deat in this legislation. as you mentioned there is less money forbirder fencing than the president ended up wanting, but he end up getting moreorder security money in the form of chnology, boots on it ground, et cetera. and of course the president says maybe hs goingo try other ways to get his border wall in the future. >> yeah, and h $23 billion to build that. where is he coming up with that fig, and what is his claim the wall is already being built, and fencing, wall, the semantics? >> wendy, all great questions, yes. so iot of ways this is the semaics. but thefencing, the best way to characterize this is that the fencing money endspav in h g the wall from sea to shining sea. and that kind of goes bacat to

ou were talking about when it comes to the 23 or $25 billion. itas just about aear ago when the democrats were willing to give the president all $25 billion in return for daca recipients, those so-called drears ended up getting protected as well as other idmigration wins for democrats. the presidentt want that deal at all, and we ended up getting into thisf stand because he wants a border wall for his people. to get to the bigger partf your question, this whole semantic debate over with a fencing or wall or border security, the ball has become a metaphor for something more. and that is the press goals, what he wants to be able to do. when the democrats say a wall is immoral, they supported fencing in the past. what they're objecting to is tha or for overall the president's objective and priorities when the comes to the immigrationdebate. lo that explains a t.>> a nd national emergency, right? >> there is. and of course the danger for ree president n, and he's been

warned by his fellow republican lawmakers is that can get tied up in the court for months if not you end up having people say that is illegal, a national emergency rhelly at present you look at the situation on the border compared to other nationalmergencies he could actually end up declaring. so that would come upomith kind of risks, but the president given he's onlyng g to end up in $1.4 billion in border er fencing or bar he's going to go back to his voters and say hey, i still want on this other issue. >> nbc's mark murray and for all the latest from the team on the hill, the team at the white house on nbc nightly new starting at 7:00. thanks, mark. more fallout tonht and more calls for action because of a news 4 i-team investigation. >> members of congress are talking about what scott mcfarland reported last. nig a fairfax county kidnapper will

soon be released from ison. >> there is concern now where the man is headed next. >> the chair of ase u.s. h subcommittee says she has grave concerns about what we found. on this broadcast last night we told you of scott tiry who's finishing a 16-year prison sentence. scott tiry pleaded guilty to kidnapping a 13-year-old girl he'd lured online from her home pittsburgh. he held her captive at his home and sexually apuds her for ds until she was captured. the news 4 i-team learned the u.s. bureau of prisons transferred tiry from a prison in north carolina to a halfway house to prepare him for ultimate full release from custody. it's not in fairfax county or 4rth carolina, but in pittsburgh,iles from his victim's family's home. the u.s. bureau of prisons declined to comment as to why, but the agency acknowledged t inmated to eventually live in communities near their halfway hous. >> there's no reason that he should be our problem, and as

long as he's here he's going to be our problem because it's terrifying. you know, it's an emotional abuse. >> reporter: members of congress tell the news 4 i-team this is unacceptable for scott tiry. >> whatever their criteria are they were either misapplied in this case or they need to be changed y.significan >> reporter: and pennsylvania's two u.s. senators have issued this statement to the i-team, saying, que, ourffices are working together to press the bureau of prisons for informationnd make sure the victim's right and thehts of the victim's family are protected. we will keep seeking swars from the bureau of prisons as well and keep you updated. in the meantime scott tiry scheduled from his full releasey from cus in early april. >> great work. scott, thank you. and you can watch the i-team's original reporting on this case. just visit our nbc washington app and click on investigations.

we havete an upor you on the kidnapping and the sexual assault of a lifeguard that occurred at a condo pool in aldruabout 2 1/2 years ago. jessie was charged this week with several felonies including rape. the victim told police a man raped her at gunpoint o south picket street on labor day weekend in 2016. and the pair did not know each other. we're working to uncover new details tonight into a bus crash here in prince george's county this morning. the driver had to be carefully pulled from thi mangled bus. this is branch avenue enclinton. that driver was the only person onboard at the time. the bus crashed through the median and into that crassy aa there. several other cars were involved but no one else was injured. still no word on cause. funeral services held today for john jenkins. his family, his friends

gathering at theri hilton me chapel in woodbridge earlier today. he passed away earlier this month after a long, long illness. he served on the board representing the district since 1982, and we're told he will be buried in his home state of alabama. mr. jenkins was 79 years old. next on news 4 at 5:00, financial trouble rocking a virginia university. the studeris wor they won't get their diplomas. >> it's the one thing we can all agree on, traffic here is the worst. coming up a new study revealing just how we stack up and how many minutes you're losing on your commute. and as we look to the next couple of ds thankfully we're not worried about any snow impacting your commute to and from work on thursday and friday with temperatures well above normal. not the case for teekend. temperatures fall, and doug and i are tracking snow in the teforecast. updas to wha updas to wha t

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>> it may sound extreme for some but for others it could give a sense of calm. what do you do to make sure thio smoothly but also safely? >> i think it's important to meet in a location wherefeou comfortable. you want to drive around looking for parking in a place that's dark and you don't know your way around. >> reporter: maybeake an uber or lyft there so you can arrive and leave directly and safely. and during that date do gut checks. >> if you're feeling uncomfortable, listen to that feeling in your body, and if you want to get up from that table or bar, say you know what i feel this date needs to end. >> reporter: overall she encourages online daters to be open, saying most online are good people looking for good people. smarts. there are things apps and algorithms can't tell you about your date yet. >> doug just asked me, he said have you ever been on a date and

you've gone to tla 's room and escaped? and i said i'm too polite. but i had a girlfriend who climbed the bathroom- and she told me and i was like what? it's tough out there. i couldn't get through a bathroomth window a point. >> it's good, though, the adve to always hear the voice. >> people say a lot through their voices. and if they ask what are you wearing, you've got a b comek for that. >> i'm wearing repellent. >> that work. >> if youave any funny, cringe worthy or awkward date stories to have you climbedut a bathroom wi window? we want to hear about it. call our hot line, leave us a message and we're going to reveal some of the best tales later this week on our nbc washington app. >> i used to wait on the other side of the window because they would alwits do that me.

i'm like not so fast. all right, doug. >> yeah, married 15 years now. >> it's a jungle out you would die if you were out there now. >> i am so glad. social media these days, no thank lyou. >>'s get right to the weather and show you what's happening because i knowo we'reeing i my time. >> snow on saturday, not soad on sunday. right now, guy, we've got some clouds around the area. not aot it's been a pretty nice day with some sunshine. 48 deg des right now,pping through the 40s to the 30s, so cool, chilly and cold this evening. so that's the way it's supposed as we move on through the rest of the night notice temperatures to the north mucholder. these are the wind chills, 27 right thou. so we still have some wind, a lot colder to the north. and just to the north even some

snow today around the hagertown area. nog through our region but notice to the north we are lookingt g time winter weather. buffalo right now under a snow squall warning. heavy snow in and around the buffalo area.ll wind c in the teens. here's the good news. look at which direction this is g. see how it's moving a little to the north. that's great for us. that means some nice weatherto rrow and friday for us. then as we make our way into the owekend, amelia, colder temperatures come and so does the snow. >> yesterday it looked like we were going to be dealing with two winter storm systems. today it's looking a bit different, but we still have that snow in the forecast on saturday. not so much on sunday. here's what you can expect right now on saturday. it looks like we're gng to have a mixture of rain and snow move into the area. you're waking up saturday and somethine looks to falling outside your window based on the forecast right now. as wou head throu the day

it's one of those daysat where tempes actually cool from the 40s into the 30s and as that happens any rain o changesr to all snow. looking like a winter wonderland right now. generally we think we'll pick ut 4 inches of snow on saturday. but you'll want to stay tuned. we were tracking two winter stndms this weekend, now it only looks like one. this forecast is still developing. we'll have much more tonight on doug. at 11:00 with it does look like those roads are going to pea impacted out there. here's future weather. 8:00 a.m., rain to the south, snow to the north. maybe even some moderate to heavy snow falling in the afternoon hour obsvation it wind down on your saturday evening as snow. and here's sunday at lunchtime. there's some rain, and it stays mainly south of fredericksburg. travel does look likege're goo have issues out there on saturday. as doug pointed out earlier,

though, thi is the perfect kind of sneto build a snowman, have a owball fight. and hey, do you have a four-wheelberive? i woulkiing or snow boarding this weekend, but i'm not. i'm heading up to my parent's house. >> you've got some hills out there. >> maybe i'll put out my snow board. >> amelia and her mom go snowhe boarding all time. i'm not a snow boarder. tried it. hit my head. beautiful weather the next two days. here comes the storm on saturday, and again just a few shower chances on sunday. then we look towards tuesday and wednesday. dry on monday. how much cold air is in place. what i i think is going to happen here, think we're goi to see a storm system move into the cold, start as snow, go to ice. could be prolonged icing out of th and goo rain wednesday. a lot of time between now and then. right now looking atwo things. friday looking good, saturday looking good. snow, i'll take it. >> aright, we will.

doug, thank you. let's take a minute to forget abouthe cold of winter and turn our attention to the boys of summer. spring training has become for the nats. eturning d catchers rur today. as for bryce harper, s news on where he's going to bes ing. and coming up tonight on news at 6:00, nats players share their candid thoughts on big name players who still don't have teams. hey, a local college on the verge of closing. >> that's right. coming up next the financial trouble at the center of it, and trouble at the center of it, and

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in 1619 the first africans in the english colonies arrived in virginia. a federal commission tasked with commemorating 400 years of african-american history is in washington tonight. members of commission spent last night at the museum of the bible for a reception and private tour. um afternoon they held a q&a at the national muf african-american history and culture. the commission will travel the country this year sell bratdinc he achievements of african descendants. a university is set to close. argosy university is closing its doors after a judge says it

failfoopay its outstanding debts. there's more than one university including one here in arliepton. >>ter: students are worried that the university will close before they get a chance to get their diplomas. one of california based argosy universities, students pay about $14,000 a year in. tuition many pursuing graduate degrees. but alarmpend after a january 19th letter from the western association of schools andhi colleges provides accreditation to argosy. due to questions abouton mil in student loans not being disbursed from the school int student tuition accounts. it the letter goes to state argosy could face termination of its accredation within a year.

notes the university's 6% average graduation rate is lower than most non-profit and for prit institutions of higher esarning. a sprson has not yet returned news 4's e-mails and phonealls. jackie benson, news 4. >> lawmakers trying to avoid land minesn a deal to keep the government open. about to ey may be step on one. good evening. >> some negotiators are pushing hard to get back payorederal contra contractors. will it blow just 54 hour tuesday the ea uadlineh.p he d aitl hig wh schooloa foh ng leave accused of sen inappropriate text messages to a female student. why he's not facing any charges. and the woman cleaning up after that icy tueay killed in a tragic accident. neighbors talk to us tonight about the woman killed by a branch.tree we begin with the effort to

reach a deal to prent another government shutdown friday night. >> and while we're hearing a lot of optimism president trump will sign the deal reached by congressional negotiators, we're also learning of a potential wrinkle. federal workers got their back pay after tferaonto d n d ttwo dn paychecks like everybody else. democrats and some republicans are pushing for a provision that provides those contractors with at least some back pay with what was lost. and president trump is pushing back tonight. >> here to explain why some republicans oppose back pay for the thousands of federal contractors in our area. >> reporte pointing to precedent. essentially saying during past shutdowns federal have not been given back pay. so whichever way this shakes out there's only a tig window to do it because of course it has to get throu