now at 11:00, a shutdown threat. avert >> breaking tonight, coness votes to keep the government running aay the president he'll declare a national emergency. >> millions of singles impacted ata massive dating app breach on the worst possible

day. a life or death fight between a jogger and a mountain llion. the mives to tell the tale of his wild wrestling match. and i'm tracking snow for your saturday. i've got a brand-new snowfall map. i just finished it. i'll have it for you ites. news 4 at 11:00 begins with breaking news. and good evening. we begin tonig with that breaking news in the district, where a young boy is in the hospital after being shot. >> police think the 12-year-old was just an innocent bystander when shots rang out in an alley near 45th and pdtreets in northeast. >> news 4's darcy spencer is at the scene right now. darcy, police describe an unbelievable number of shell casings found in that alley. >> reporter: that's right, jim. d.c. police are still here processing the scene. we counted those evidence markers. we counted up to 50 of them, so a lot of gunfire here tonight.

the police chief telling us ttts boy is the third child to be shot in the district so far and he says g thisfire has got to stop. >> over in the alley, it's unbelievable the amount of shell casis that we found over there. >> reporter: yellow evidence markers scattered in the alley, dozens of shots fired from multiple guns. a 12-year-old boy shot and critically wounded here. he was innocent bystander caught in the gunfire. to life. ing >> he was outside. it doesn't appear like he was included in the -- whatever -- whoever decided to come up here and open o fire this community. it doesn't look like this little boy was involved. it looks like he w an unintended targeted. >> reporter: a witness described a vehicle thatas seen leaving the area. police say they stopped that car and were questioning the occupants. we could see policir with t flashlights in the dark searching for evidence. they were also checking homes, making sure everyone was okay. >> there was multiple rounds that wereenired. the ev that we have so

far, it looks like there were multiple firearms usedw we don't kf this was an exchange of gun fire yet. it's too early toe'ell. so asking folks if they saw anything to let us know, give us a call. >> reporter: now, i just cheed in with d.c. police to see if there was an update in this case. they say that there is none. the little boy at lasheck was listed as critical but stable. hat thatchief tells us little boy lived right here in the neighborhood where he was shot tonight. back to you. >> all right. darcy spencer reporti from northeast. thank you, darcy. president trump will try to make his case tomorrow morningo in the garden at the white house that the crisis on the border demands a natiol emergency. >> a short time ago, the white house released details on the plan that includes $8 billion for the wall. mr. trump is also expected to sign a budget bill the house passed tonight averting a government shutdown. >> our blayne alexander looks

ahead now to the bitter legal and political fights ahead. the porter: after passing house, clearing the final hurdle on capitol hill. >> the yeas are 30 the nays are 128. >> reporter: a compromise spending bill to avert another government shutdown tomorrow now headed to president trump. it sets the stage for a new battle. the president planng to sig the bill but with executive action, a national emergency declaration to bypass congress and get more money f the border wall. democrats already considering a legal challenge. drune will not have an around the congress of the united states. >> reporter: the bill only provides for a fraction o wall money president trump wanted. some republicans firmly backing him. >> i think he has all the legal authority in the world to do thisnd i will stand behind him. >> reporter: but others in his party calli b it a tea. >> i've been very clear on my concerns about the president declaringemhis as an gency. >> reporter: the white house

says they are prepared for possible legal challenges and say with thisction the president is keeping his campaign promise to build the wall. t tonight t republican on the house armed services committee says he does not the president to take money from the military, saying that it would be detrimental to the troops. blayne alexander, nbc news, washington. re tonight, emergency rushed to free a driver who became pinned when his bus slammed in a utility pole. therash at the corner of rockville pik and cedar lane in bethesda caused long backu on th roads. look at that. chopper 4 found montgomery ununty police directing the traffic a the crash earlier tonight. we're told the driver was the only person on thatbus. tonight chicago police are knocking down multiple reports that actor jussie smollett staged his own attack in response to his character being written off the hit show "empir" leon harris joins us now from the live desk now with a dramatic twists and turns in

this saga, leon. jim, kind of hard to figure where this one's going pop schicago's top copd he has no evidence to support that the alleged attack was a hoax. those claims, though, picked up so much steam that the fox network released a statement saying that smollett was not being written off the "empire" ow. about an hour ago, nbc news confirmed the persons of intere in this case are affiliated with the actor's show. now earlier today there were new questions about how much the actor was cooperate with police ander he skipped a meeting with them. the actor's representative said that he did answer questions for police. all of this coming hours after the full interview smollett gave "good morning america." in that interview he said that he was shocked people were questioning his story. >> at first it was a thing of like listen, if i tell the truth then that's it. then it became a thing of like, oh, how can you doubt that?mo >>ett says that two men

attacked him while hurling ac homophobic andl slurs at him last month. police tracked down the persons of interest ung video and travel records and this case does go on. doreen, back to you. >> a right. leon, thank you. some bad news tonight for millions of users of a pular dating app. nf valentine's day they learned their personal imation may have been exposed. users of the app coffee meets bagel were e-mailed today thata their nes and e-mail addresses may have been exposed. the hack impacts about 6 million users who signed on before may of last year. a british technology website reports the coffee meets bagel breach is part of a larger hack involving apps, including my fitness pal and m heritage. you saw this video first on news 4 this afternoon. the taser takedown at the foot of the washington monument. turns out the man who is nowf accused o assaulting an officer is also accused of setting a fi inside a northwest d.c.

restaurant. comment ping-pong. ryan remus was charg with arson today. new tonight we're hearing from the man who filmed the takedown, a student maryland.iversity of >> police came and tried to krount him a h confront him a started resisting right away. >> in a new twist tonight, erosecutors say an hour before the fire, h posted a video on s parent youtube page alleging that the world is run by a satanic global pedophile ring. it was a repost of a so-called z piate conspiracy theorist. these theories inspired a shootiur at the rest back in 2016. remus remains in jacl. he's in court next week. new reaction tonight to amazon's bombshell decision to back out of new york city. lnews 4 has pressedal leaders on what it means for our region. sejackie b live in arlington, which is just one part of northern virginia which will

benefit from hihq2. jackie. >> hello, doreen. it's notust arlington breathing a sigh of relief that plans haven't changed. amazon's plans also include the city of alexandria. t what our conversations have been with amazonoday is that this doesn'tg change anyth for northern virginia. they intend to build out exactly the way they intended build out. >> reporter: referring to the virginia tech innovation campus planned for the potomac yard area, part of the incentives that led amazon tohoose northern virginia for an hq2 campus. we askit if the would be open for further outreach given the plans collapse in new york. >> we would entertain that conversation at the time is inni northern vir leaders and others in the d.c. area followed closely the news that amazon has pulled out of the hq2 campus location ik. new yor so too did members of the small but vocal groups opposing amazon incentives in virginia. news 4 spokee by phth boyd

walker, a member of a group called our revolution alexandria. >> it really puts the arlington county boa notice that, you know, there will be, you know -- since it can't be done in new york, more peoe will feel like can be done here in virginia to oppose the subsidies. >> reporter: the nex big step for amazon here comes on march 16th. that when the arlington county board is set to vote on what's called a performance agreement. we're told that lays out the incentives arlington will provide inxchange for the expected 25,000 jobs. live in arlington, jackie , bensws 4. >> all right. jackie, thank you. now to an incredibletory of survival. the jogger who fought off a mountain lion with his bare hands lives to tell his story, and for the first time tonig he explaining just what he did to make it out alive. nbc's dan sheneman has our story. >> reporter: travis coffman, an

avid trail runner went for a run last week west of fort collins, colorado. and after about 1/4 of a mile -- >> i ended up hearing some pine needles rustle, like a stick orbreak. >> rr: he expected a deer or a rabbit. he saw a mountain line. >> i stopped and i threw my hands up i the air a i started shouting. it just kind of kept runng and lunged at me. was going towards my face so i threw up my hands to kind of ock my face. at which point it grabbed on to my hd and wrist and from there it started to claw at my face and neck. >> reporter: after several severe scratches and puncture wounds, kauffman who is 5'10" hite about 150 pounds was able to pin ani sl andfocate it. then he had to run three miles to find help. >> i feel really fortunate that situation ended the way it did. i people like i made the right

koi decisions. >> reporter: kauffman says he will runhose trails again but only with a friend. >> a lot of friends. if that frirad is enough to go with him. >> that's right. i'd have a hard time going back there, i think. next at 11:00, the growing beverage of choice for inlot of womehe district. >> more women and young people. it's not just your grandfather's drink anymore. >> wendy rieger samples the local whisky industry and tes inside the first women-owned dis-tillery in our area. my favorite drink. snow.y other favorite, we're tracking a storm coming out of the rockies right now g that isng to dive our way, but i've changed the forecast for saturday. we'rew talking a brand-new sno map.

national harbor was feeling the love tonight. the capitalhe lit up with a beating heart. a whole lot of memories were made here tonight, at least a lot of instagram posts. >> yeah. that is pretty cool. >> it is cool. and a lot more memories were made at the national cathedral this evening. it was prom all over again, but for t grown-ups. check it out. ase redo of those high school prom maybe didn't go quite as planned. people dressed upo match styles from their senior year and there was music to match, too.nu the maybe a bit nicer than your high school gym there. >> looks like fun. >> yeah.

have you heard whisky is making a comeback? and the person lifting the glass is not your old granddad. women and younger drinkers are invigorating modern whisky industry and the district has the first distiery owned mala by th women, one of first in the country. >> reporter: in the barrel room where the bourbon like its owners is gradually becoming a big deal. >> nice. that's cool. ye>> . >> reporter: two years ago, she and her childhood friend opened this craftry distil >> you can imagine it was not over a glass of water. it was over some whisky that we came up with this idea. >> reporter: she comes from politics. she was chief of staff to former congresswoman gabby giffords. that background gave her business skills that helped with >> you got to be willing to go out there and make something happen and aocate for yourself. >> reporter: in 2016, republic restoratives happened. in a storefront on new york

avenue northeast, its shining pots distilling elixirs that will make up its four products. borough bourbon, rodham rye, chapel brandy and civic vodka. >> the majority of your capital expense goes into a product that is just -- i sits in a barrel for a few years, right? >> reporter: so the ladies put their vodka to work. vodka can be made in a week. civic doing its d >> you know, when bourbon is initially distilled, it's clear like vodka. so how does it get tohi be ts color? >> reporter: barrels. oak barrels that have been charred on thee. insid as the spirit rests, it takes on a deeper amber color. >> my name is nicole austin. >> i'm ebony major. a whisky blender. >> reporter: more women are eing their reflections in this

spirit. eleth mccaul is the master distiller. ebony majors at bullet. and home of george dickel, onene of the old tee whiskies. she credits the hit show "mad men" for getting more women into the spirit. >> you say women, men, drinking a lot o spirits and cocktails. manhattans, old fashtneds, cetera. >> as a team re, we sort of think about, would we drink it? would we order? and if we wouldn't, we're not going to put it out. >> reporter: she feels the rising tide of craft spirits will make small distillers big, just get the glass to their mouths. >> i don't want to be your specialty, buy it once a year. i'm looking to become youray everydpirit choice.

>> reporter: she's blending politics with her whisky, giving a portion oothe proceeds emily's list, which helps female candidates. rieger, news 4, washington. >> that is wild. by the way, republic restoratives is nowroening its market into california and new york, too. so if you run i mo rieger tom morning, whisper no loud noises. >> keep the lights a little dim. >> i don't know. i'm rea for a nightcap. >> right? >> that's really cool. i love that stuff. that's great. >> we're going to want to have a toasty beverage toharm up w this weekend. >> you know, it's going to be a lot -- >> bourbon by the fire. >> that sounds really good. your fire or mine? we're talking about temperatures tomorrow in the 60s and then snow on saturday. it's kind of hard to believe what we've got going on here. springlike weather tomorrow followed by more winterheeather over weekend. current temperature sitting at 47. ourverage high is 45. above average right now. t

winds out south at 9 miles an hour with some cloud cover. nice and mild. 34, frerick. we jus dropped. you saw it drop to 32 in winch chester. we're not going to go town that much more. low 30s in the city. ngi think we're go get town to about 34 degrees. another system trying to move on through. this is going to be a warm front to help bring in more warm air tomorrow. we're going to see some sunno b a lot because we're going to get the clouds from our next storm systemht moving in r back here. it's actually coming in through the rockies. making its way down across center portions of the country and eventually over towards our area. w the big key is a storm to the north. why is that the key? well, the farther north this is, the farther north our system comes. the farther south this one is, the farther south our system goes, and i think that's going he be the case farther to south. let's show you the future weather here. again, this is the european modeluthat came a little bit earlier today. 11:00 tomorrow night, no

problem. if you're heading to dinner tomorrow night, it's going to be a nice night. it's going to start to feel colder and breezy. you'll need the by saturday morning, here comes the snow. you notice frederick,ti bre, hagerstown, no know in your area at all. actually, i think this may be too far to the north now. all of this i think is going to shift down to the south. heaviest snow still down in our southern regions before it moveo on out here. what exactly do i think we're going to be seeing here? how much snow? you folks to thein north. no hagerstown, frederick, the areas hard hit by the ice. no snow foru you. may not see flakes out of this. leesburg leesburg, you may get flakes. d.c., the 1 inch area, 1 inch to 3 inches. that's way high, i think around fredericksburg and southern marysnd. guys, ts not looking like a big storm at all. the more and more i look at itk it's l less and less.

62 tomorrow, mostly cloudy. really nice day. sunday we could get showers late in the day. could be rain or snow. monday, shower activity, too, at least early in the day, but not much. th we look to tuesday and wednesday. that's the next really big system.ue showers lateay and then snow to ice on wednesday. nt ice.e signifi that's something we're really going to have to watch, but lovers onfor us snow saturday -- >> oh, well. >> all right. thank you, doug. >> coming up, day two of spring training for pitchers and catchers down in sunny florida today. we're going to catch up with the skipper davie martinez as he talks about his ace max scherzer. >> sports next.e but first h is jimmy fallon. hey, guys. kendall jenner is here for a new oogame called "food or not" oogame called "food or not" musifrom florida georgia lc in

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this is the xfinity sports desk. >> first day for workouts down in florida. you ready? you're leaving when, monday? >> yes. we'll go down on monda and be there for the full time workout

on tuesday. so good to see theuys backut there in uniform. the nationals pitchers and catche setting the tone, today the first workout of a newon se davey martinez all smiles seeing his pitchers and catchers pack on the field. the big freegent signing, corbin signed a six-year $140 million deahe bu ace returning for the nats, max scherzer, tied for first in the nl. also said a nationals record with 300 strikeouts. no slowing down for max scherzer, even if it's just the first day ofng spring tr. >> every time he's out on that mound, he's competing, you know? he showed it again. first day he's outhere. he's getting guys ouli he's calng guys out and working on different things and you watch him andch every p he's engaged. if i'm a young pitcher, you know, i'm wating him. i'm studying what he does because not every fifth day, but every day this guy puts a

uniform on, he's competing. >> i'd expect nothing less. all right. game twof the capitals' crazy six-game 12-day road trip underway right now. they're coming off a shutout loss last time out to columbus. the cap being tested against san jose, the team with the second. longest winning streak i hockey right now. kmals continuingtrhat road ip, acke on the sharks. the pic division leaders winner of six straight. and the sharks wasting no time. joe thornton finds kevin le bank ead he gives the sharks the early minutes later, capitals on the power play. alex ovechkin with the slap shot. it's blocked, but t.j. oshie there to clean up the rebound. jakob vrana's shot gets blocked. but finish with the second chance. the caps have a 2-1 lead heading into intermission. terps looking for their tenth victory in their last 11 games.

te terrapins off to a hotg start. forc turnover. stephanie jones with the layup. later, brianna frazier feeling it. finishes down low wit the nice hook shot. cornhuskers, thou, hanging around in this one until maryland rattling off a 20-point run. this three-pointer. her 72nd of the season. setting a new marylan record. terps cruise to the 89-63 victory. it's still n too late for valentine's. the caps have you covered. evgeney kuznetsov, makes my heart take flight. you're the burgundy to myold. and the wizards bradley beal, you're un-bealievable. finally, the real winners here, umbc, you'll never be our number

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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 -- kendall jenner,