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right now at 11:00, we've got new developments in the crisis in the commonwealth. >> virginia's lieutenant governor fing a possible criminal investigation into allegations he sexually assaulted a woman nearly 15 years ago. a flight is rocked tonight by severe turbulence. passengers say their plane took
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a nose dive twice. a dl for a new redskins stadium now off the table in maryland. will d.c. push to seal the deal? news 4 at 11:00 starts now. we begin with a man who has been seenin exp himself over and over again, targeting women in a neighborhood in northeast d.c. >> people are fed up tonight and police want this guy in custody. news's darcy spencer joins us now live from that area. darcy, that community is just horrified. >> reporter: rtll, they nly are, jim. i spoke to one woman tonight who says she saw this man exposing himself rightn here her neighborhood. today, d.c. police releasedrv llance video. they want to get this guy behind bars. this is theeo youtube vid are callingman many the noma fposher. ce say he's exposed himself in this neighborhood around 4th in l streets in northeast d.c.
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and it's getting worse. police say he alsoed committ a lewd act. one woman who didn't want to be on camera told me she saw him in the act.fi she was hor and called police. the crimes are happening near a church and just steps from two schools. 's not far from the noma metro. >>lihat's your fs someone going around doing this? >> it definitely makes people feel uncomfortable, mes people feel unsafe. you never know whathey're going to do. >> reporter: the video shows the man walking up the sidewalk and at oneoint running away. a police report says he committed the crime at 8:00 in the morning in front of pedestrians and commuters. we spoke to one neighbor who was heading hom from a nearby dog park. >> i'm really not that concerned. it's creepy i don't have any real concern he's, you know, obviously a creep but not dangerous, you know? not worried that anything terrible is going toit happen. just not a great, you know, thing to have in the neighborhood. >> reporter: creepy indeed. d.c. police are offering a
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$1,000 cash reward for info ation that leads to th guy's arrest. back to you. >> all right. darcy thank you, darcy. breaking tonight, a federal judge voidsle paul manafort's deal. this could impact just how long the president's former campaign chairman stays in prison. leon harris is at the live desk >>th the new details tonight. leon? well, jim, today's decision puts a dent in manafort's chances of getting a reduced sentence next month. a judge say that manafor breached his cooperation agreement when he intentionally lied to investigators and a federal grand jury in the special counsel's russia probe. prosecutors said that manafort lied about several things, including his talks with an associate the fbi says has ties to russian intelgence.s authorit say discussions between manafort and konstantint kilimnik go heart of the russian investigation. >>t just raises even more seriously the possibility if not
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the actuality of conspiracy between the trump campaign a the russian government to affect the election. manafort faces up to five years in prison for illegal lobbying, but that's not usall, be he faces up to a decade behind bars on a separate tax and bank fraud case as well. doreen, back to you. >> all right. leon, thank you. coness is expected to pass a $330 billion spending plan tomorrow. president trump signaling he'll sign measure to avert another government shutdown. the bill funds nine cabinet agencies, boosts the budge for nasa, provides more cash for the irs andec r any big spending cuts. house majority leader steny hoyer, a maryland democrat, says civilian federal employees are getting a raise in this plan and lawmakers dropped efforts to extend expiring laws like the federal flood insurance program. ew tonight, explosive allegations against singer and
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songwriter ryanve adams. women accuse him of sexual and verbal abuse. w in a "rk times" report today, the women claim adams offered to help with their musical careers but then things to dark turn. the most shocking claim is from a fan. she says they had inappropriate conversations when she was just 15. in a series of tweets, adam says that specific allegation is, quote, outright false. adam's ex-wife, "this is us" star mandy moore, claims he was phycologically abusive towards her during their marriage. the actress says he belittled her musical abilities. adams says he's not a perfect man and he, quote, apologizes deeply and unreservedly. developing tonigh virginia's lieutenant governor could face a possible criminal investigation over allegations of sexual assault.. vanessa tyson says she's working to set up a meeting with prosecutors in boston about the
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allegations. she ss justin fairfax sexually assaulted her during the 2004 democratic national convention in boston. fairfax says the encounter was consensual and that his name will be cleared. the vseginia hou speaker says he's open to a general assembly-led investigation and tells "the richmond times dispatch" that there would need toti be a bipn agreement for that. the catholic diocese of arlington tonight hd relea a list of 16 priests who are crediblyccused of sexually abusing minors. "the washington post" reports at least twotsf the pri in the arlington diocese have been charged cri tnally. no bishop there said in a statement today he remains open to meeting with parishioners and hearing their stories. >> i think it's hard for anyone' whether a church or a business or any sort of organization, i mean, it's a crime, right? so it needs to have justice. >> the full list of accused priests in arlington is on our nbc washington app.
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just search "priests." an uncertain future for the washingtonedins. maryland governor larry hogan has stepped back from talks to convince the team to stay in prince george's county. so what's next? here's shomari stone wre. >> reporter: the redskins' ture looks uncertain tonight. >> we've always believed we have the best location. >> reporter: d.c.ayor muriel bowser tells us the district's proposal to ild a new redskins stadium at the rfk site is still on the table, but she says the district will not pay for it. >> the nfl team would have to build its own stadium. >> reporter: in myland, governor larry hogan pulled out of talks to build a e land is60 the federal government. now, you may remember in december governor hogan said he was trying toan negotiate ad swap. that plan dre criticism because of financial and environmental concerns. g prinrge's county council member monique anderson-walker.
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>> i just don't see how moving it to a more elite location is more. to do anything >> reporter: back in d.c., council member jack evans sayst land at rfk stadium is the best place for the team. >> the rfk site makes the most sense for lots of reasons. there isurntly a stardium. and the access is tremendous. you have metro right on site. >> reporter: the fedex lease ends in 2027. shomari stone, news 4. tonight, emotional reaction from jussie smollett, the actor o says he was beaten in a homophobic and racist attack last month. >> i'mss ed off. how can you that? like how do you not believe that? it's the truth. >> smollett told police he was assaulted by two men who put a rope arod his neck, poured liquid on him and yelled hatefur chicago police are investigating it as a possible hate crime. but after viewing hundreds of
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hours of surveillance footage, investigators haven't evidence of the assault, leading speculation he made it all up. also for action tonight because of a news 4 i-team investigation. members of congress are talking abou what scott macfarlane has been reporting about a fairfax county kidnapper soon to be released from prison. there is concern about where the man is headed next. scott macfarlane's in the newsroom with the fallout. >> the chair of a u.s. house subcommittee says sheas grave concerns about what the i-team reported on this broadcast last ni we told you scott tyree o fairfax county has been moved after serving a 16-year prison sentence. pleaded guilty to kidnapping a 13-year-old girl he lured online from her home in he held her captive at his home in leaherndon and sexually abusy her for until he was captured.
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transferred from north carolina to a halfway house to him for his ultimate full release from custody. it's a halfway house, though, that's not in fairfax county or north carolina but in pittsburgh. four miles from his victim's the u.s. bureau prisons declined to comment as to why, but the agency acknowledged inmates tend to eventually live in communities near their halfway houses. >> there's no reason that he should be our problem. as long a 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 tyree. >> whatever their criteria are, they were either misapplied in this cas or the need to be changed significantly. >> reporter: and pennsylvania's two u.s. senators havd iss this statement to the i-team, saying our offices are working together to press theureau of prisons for more information anu the rights of the victim and the victim's family were protected, and request the transfer of mr. tyree to a new facility due to the unique
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circumstances of this case. we will keep pressing for answers from the bureau of prisons as well. we can tell you scott tyree is is et for full release in early april. scott macfarlane, news 4 i-team. >> you can watch the i-team's orinal reporting on this case. just visit our nbc washington app and click on "investigations". dramatic video here shows the aftermath of severe turbulence on a tedelta flight. >> five people were hurt. the flight was so rough, it flipped a drink cart upside down h the planeded to seattle from orange county, california. the pilot diverted the flight, making an emergency landing in reno, nevada. three people had t be taken to a hospital. next we're working for your health. it's being called the biggest breakthrough since pro zach. the promising new depression treatment that works in hours stead of weeks. plus, high scores and higher charges. how to make sure your teenager
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in the late 1980s. a it nasal spray that delivers the active ingredients from the drugetamine, which was once popular club drug. today an fda advisory boardre mmended that the full fda approve s ketamin from johnson & johnson. the goal is to help patients who have not benefitted from other anti-depressants. we've got a for parents whose kids love those video games. many video game onsoles allow you to buy things directly through the system. and those charges can add up. one family learned that the hard way when they found themselves on the hook for thousands of dollars. unexpected consumernvestigative reporter leslie g f leslie gad owerom our sister station in boston has that story. >> reporter: having teen gamers can lead t big fights about screen timeow limits. >> h did he kill me? >> reporter: but in this house it was much worse than th.
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>> 13 months of multi hundred dollar charges. everybody was just floored. what happened? how did this orhappen? >> rr: liz and her husband are out $13,000 after they say their son made a series of in-game xbox purchases. they think it happened when he repeatedly pressed a button on his controller in an effort to get into gamesasr. something they claim was unintentional. >> we thought we had enabledhe block of in-game purchases. i guess it didn't work or maybe if -- maybe on one game and not on the next game that was added to the queue. there's probably a l things that we could have done differently or should have done differently. st the fact that it can happen is really scary. >> reporter: when theyet up their xbox one system, they entered a credit card number and e-mail address that they don't regularly use so they missed these mrosoft receipt e-mails detailing the purchases. dozens of them from june 2016
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throughbe nov2017. >> three $200 charges in one day. it's crazy. we had agreements with the boys, you know, whenever thereas something to buy, you know, we'd be happy to consider it if they would talk to us. we did that fairly regularly. we thought it was under control. >> reporter: also admittedly weren't checking their month credit card statements which were set up with automatic direct pay, but they eventually discovered what was happening. >> we've,, you kn ask the kids, you know, are you doing this? they said, no, i had no idea. we went to discover if first and said we think there's beend fr they removed the charges and then they did their investigation and determined that, in fact, it was our account with my son's gamer tag that was incurring the charges. >> reporter: they say the credit card fraud investigaon took months, and afterwards they tried t t fight charge with microsoft. they say microsoft customer service told them they would have to go through the online system to get the charges
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reimbursed. >> the system has a number of questions before you enter the information and the third question is, is this charge that was made within 14 days. i said, no. ll, you can't even enter your plea. >> reporter: we reached out to microsoft and asked them to take a look at the complaint. apokesperson tells us xbox offers purchase limit tools for child accounts toe avoid surpr spending in the store. parents can choose toeapprove purchase before it's made, to receive alerts after each purchase or set up an allowance to limit theumber of purchases children can make on their own. the company did not reverse any of the charges. it was a $13,000 lesson. >> that's a tough pill to swallow. want to be mad at my child, but he had no idea what he was doing. >> the xbox.com support page provides information on how to prevent unauthorized purchases by children. they rommend creating a pass
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key which is required for signing in. and they also recommend using xbox gift cards for purchases instead of attaching a credit card to your child's account. slie gaydos, news 4. >> a lot of lessons in that story. nc a tree b from this week's winter storm is believed to have killed a woman in northern virginia. melanie went to cle away her yard of broken limbs yesterday when a branch evidently broke and crashed on to her. a family member found her here on stump town road in leesburg. it's not clearow long she had been there. thankfully weather conditions have improved dramatically since st night. the ice is melted. >> yeah. >> you know, not allhe ice is melted. i mean, i got a couple reports today up in frederick county, parts of washington county where the ice is still there. it's going to take some time. tomorrow it should be gone because the temperatures get to the 50s, at least in the d.c. area. mid to a probably the
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upper 40s. didn't get a lot of sunshine up there today. sunshine up there will produce a lot of melting across the area. nice day tomorrow. great day not only tomorrow, but friday, too, before our next storm system moves in. cuent temperature at 39. winds out of the west at 3 miles an hour. 39 is chilly but look at the it skills around the region. 29 in misis. it's definitely going to be colder in the suburbs tonight and it's going to be a colder start to your thursday. however, after that, no problem. rainfall, snowfall, nothing. we h some snow earlier today eround hagerstown. just s snow shower active. stillec lake-e snow around the buffalo area. this when cold air move over the lakes. however, the cold air is starting to shift to the north and that leaves some air for us for tomorrow and friday. but then we get to saturday and first we've got a cold front. let's go back to friday and talk about that cold front coming through. here is 6:00. again, we have a beautifuln. aftern
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but the cold front starts to move through here right around 6:00, 7:00, maybe an isolated shower during the evening hours, but i think mos r of usain on the dry side. as the front moves to the south, it stalls to our south. that's when the cold air, one, starts to move in and our text storm s starts to move in as well at the same time. notice by 7:00 a.m. on saturday, we've got rain to the south, snow to the as the colder air continues to move on in here, the storm really starts to take shape. we've got snow area-wide. i do think this will be accumulating snow. let's talk about it. what to expect thursday? a great friday. early saturday mix. this is something i'm going to be watching ver closely, what kind of a mix. most likely it's rain and snow only, not even sleet or freezing rain. ain or snow or a mixture of both. everybody goes over to snow, though. that's what we're thinking right now. this cou still change. we still have to watch this very, very quickly. could shift north or south. a significant saturday snowfall.
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after a day like this. 54, sunshine, sun and clouds. a great afternoon. but howbout a fantastic friday? i don't think we've seen one since september 1 i don't even know if that was a friday, but you know what i'm talking about. it's been months since we've seen a really nice friday. 61. nice and warm cloudy skies. we will see clouds on friday. behind that system, here comes the next system moving in. 38 degrees. good chance of snow on saturday. 40% chance of shower activy on sunday. then we move into a very unsettled pattern. some of thatld cinger into monday and then tuesday and wednesday, a possible bigger storm. that one could have quite a bit in the way of snow and i as well. then we move into the end of next week where another storm systemomes through. right now that one looks like rain. quite a stormy patternere. much more winter-like pattern than what we've seen. ,enjoy tomorr enjoy friday. >> fantastic friday. >> fantastic friday. >> yes, we haveuffered through a lot of really lousy fridays. >> absolutely. 17th of to see what the september was now, though.
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-we're doing karaoke later, and you're gonna sing. -jamie, this is your hse? -i know, it's not much, but it's home. right, kids? -kids? -papa, papa! -[ laughs ] -you didn't tell me your friends were coming. eah. -this one is tiny like a child. -yeah, she is. oh, but seriously, it's good be surrounded by what matters most -- a home and auto bundle from progressive. -oh, sweetie, please, play for us. -oh, no, i couldn't. -please. -okay. [ singing in spanish ]
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this is the xfinity sports desk. this new look wizards team still tding to f their identity. even with the rosters looking different than it did the last time they played toronto. washingthe hanging in t with the third best team in the nba. wizards last game before the all-star break. looking for a win. final seconds of the first half, wizards up time winding down. trevor ariza at the buzzer. yes, he got that in. right before the clock hit 0. he had 19. in thefourth, raptors up six. wizards aren't going away. bradley beal pulling up, hitting the three. wizards within four. toronto with a caree night gets the floater to go. then the wizards turntver and here come the raptors.
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throwing i down. career high 44 points for him. raptors beat the wizards 129-120. wizards are off until next friday. down a level, patrick ewing talking to his team. georgetown visiting seton hall. whatever he said to mosley worked. first half, this just isn't right. mosley throwing a monster dunk. easily the play of the game. look at that height. >> wow. on hall, though, they get the last laugh in this one. miles powell splitting fenders. taking it for the bucket. game high 30 for them. seton hall with the big win over georgetown,. 90- second half, tied at 42. pass inside to d.j. williams. gets it to go here. a team high 21 for him. gw now up two. but the bi-- jay von best took
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over, a game high 26 points. st. louis beats washington 73-53.t george mason m beating umass in overtime. and loyola fell to american 86-84. now switching gears down in floridal rain on the trees in west palm beach, but that didn't damper t mood. nationals' pitchers and catches reporting to training. getting right to work. first official workout for pitchers and catchers is tomorrow. but bryce harper still unsigned. the question, w he have a contract by tuesday? well, the nats, they have their first full-squad workout next week and closer seanoolittle is all right confused. >> the fact that we're out here, you know, uniforms are hung up in. locke i kind of thought that was bryce the other day. see that mannequin? i thought we should have maybe dresse him up. so he's here in spirit maybe.
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