ringing out in a busy intersection in d.c. >> the scene is unfolding on eckington place, this is near florida avenue in northeast d.c. police are telling us multiple shots were fired. we know of at least o victim. news4 shomari stone is live on the scene. he has the latest this afternoon. shomari. >> reporter: i'mt eckington place northeast and q street northeast. mpd' top brace is here, you have chief newsham, detectives, and you can see this area i completely roped off as they gather evidence. we'reer hearing there several shots fired. people who live nearby told me they heard -- and then another woman said she heard -- those types of enjonoises, that's wha they're describing. there's a lot of shell casings there, and our photographer can move a little to the left, i want to show you something. right down the street there, the police chief was over in that i area and thes clothing and

what appears to be possibly a shoe at that onintersec we don't know if that belongs to the shooter. we don't know if tt belongs to the victim, who by the way is in critical condition. i want toou show one thing. heret i the gayle eccing t eck a nice new t,apartm and a woman here told me she heard what happened. >> it is definitely because i was on my way to work, and i've lived here for two or threears now and it's very quiet neighborhood, like you were we have wendy's and the area is normally very safe. >>eporter: no a block away is mckinley technologsc high ol. students telling me they were on lockdown, they're headed home.sc there's a crime investigator taking pictures of the scene. we don't know anything about a suspect.

we don't kno anything about a motive. we know there was a shooting around 3:51 so one opened fire on a group of people. we know that one person is hit. thaterson wasransported to the hospital. a male, and he is in critical police have not released his name or age. backyo tjim and wendy. >> a major commuter artery around there, too. thank you, shomari. the shooting, this one is the latest ia series of shootings across the city. >> it is a serious and frightening problem with no easy lax fixes. night it was a 12-year-old boy who was shot. >> that bas critically injured on ponds street. he was not the intended target. >> mark segraves spoke to the police chief today. he's fed up, he's frustrated, mar ma terk? >> reporter: abso. i can tell you that chief newsham has been here to visit the y who's listed in critical

condition. both he and mayor bowser today expressing their frustration a th innocent victim, a child is fighting for their life. >> we're not tolerating this kind of anyone that's going to get out of their car in a neighborhood likend that spray bullets without any care for where they're going we have to put a stop to it. >> reporter: this was the scene thursday night. another neighborhood littered with shell casings and police evidence markers, surrounded by crime tape. doze of shots fired as neighbors were having dinner. >> it's very disgusting that we have people that are willing to put other people's liv in danger, who are children, and i will be checking on our little boy today. >> reporter: caught in that furry of gun fire, an innocent 12-year-old boy. >> look at that kid in there struggling after such a serious that kid in my mind is a hero. his mom is a hero for going throughhat she had to go

through. and the people up there and responsible are absolute cowards. >> hi, boys and girls. t >> reporter:ay the mayor and acting school chance loll n wern thghborhood reading to students. the youngster is a sixth grader at kelly middle school where counselors were on hand. >> when it impacts a young person it impacts the entire community. >> witnesses say a silver carth four men sped away after the shooting. according to t police website, crime in the neighborhood is up over the crimes within just 2,00 feet of last night's shooting. >> i did speak to some people from the community, and they're horrified. so hear that number of gun shots go off sca people. it's unnecessary. >> reporter: mayor t bowserls me she's looking for more money to put more cri cameras into that neighborhood where the shooting took place last night.

chief newsham says right now he doesn't have any strong leads he ha two pleas for the community, one pray for the young boy, two if you know anything aboutho the shooters are, please call 911. that's the latest from children's hospital. >> so many neighborhoods, so many families concerned today. mark, thank you. president trump has made good on his threat ofl a natio emergency declaration. officially signing it rlier today but democrats are seizing on some of the answers he gave during a newonference in the rose garden that could potentially be used in legal challenges. erika gonzalez in the ns room working this story for us. >> so th declaration could potentially give the president access to about $8 billion for border barrier fencing. during his remarks today in the rose garden president trump said he wanted to do something sooner but admitted, quote, i was newh show are under arrest and being questioned by police.

after thi n point they ha been charged. chicago police say interrogations are ongoing. we're told the two suspects are joined by their attorney. police were able to locate them from one grainy image from a camera in that area where jussie smollett said he was assaulted near his home and his attackers hurled racist and homophobic slurs at him. in an interview with gma, he said he was confident the men in the picture were his attackers. today chicago police said, ote, while we haven't found any video documenting the alleged attack, there is also no evidence to say that this is a hoax. the alleged victim is being cooperative at this time and continues to be treated as a victim,ot a suspect. end quote. smollett says he was in shock and a lot of pain and eventually drove himself to the hospital after thatlleged incident. wendy back to you in the studio. >> thank you, erika.

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it's a cold front. ahead of the cold front we've been in the 60s, 65 degrees today. we're dealing with cloud cover, temperatures wise 62 right now, winds southwest at 14.s gu little bit higher than that and numbers around the region, well ave average, 62 d.c. 65 annapolis. the cold front is moving t through, this wind chill, back towards clevela 23. 7 in chicago. that's the colder air moving in across ouraire. llowed what would have for snow tomorrow because it would have been cold enough. snow 're going to see the make its way south. as the front moves through, you can see where the showers are to the west winchester, frederick county,rg west ia. if you're going out tonight, on't be surprised to see a couple showers along the front.

but right now all eyes on this storm. this is an impressive storm, at least it looks big out here, watching this during the day yesterday, looow far north the snow is, but now starting to go to the south. this storm was going to make its way right into ouron re that was two days ago. now however that storm is moving a little bit farther to the south by about 100 miles and thatil 100 takes the snow away from our area. showing you the future weather,w tomorrow, own towards parts of southern maryland where it looked like the swath was going to be through d.c. saturday, still snow in the fredericksburg aa but nothing to the north. let's show you my latest snowfall map rarely do i put out a map like this, when there's nothing towe talk about. ave winchester, leesburg, i don't think you'll see a flake. ao coating an inch to the

south, an inch is generous. parts of southern maryland over towards the eastern shore you have the best chance to see snow. the rest of us, not a bad da 20 degrees colder but sunshine, especially in the northern zone. cloud covered areas south and the chance for snow well to the south. we'll continue to watch that. 43 degrees on your sunday. sunday there's a chance for a shower or a ltle bit in the way of a snow shower on sunday, not a big storm there. 53 on monday. tuesday, 44 degrees. we're going to see a stormst move in, i'm going to talk about this at 5:45 here. but this is going to be aorig one way or another this is going to be a big oue. we'll tal that and the restf the o n

>> announcers4 at 5:00 begins with breaking news. i'm eka gonzalez at the live desk with breaking news coming in from aurora, illinois. we nowt know t at least one person is dead and that fourbe officers hav injured in this shooting at ari manufac plant, again in aurora, illinois. this was the scene with chopper aerials coming in from our ster station there on the ground you are seeing the police and s.w.a.t. teams go in here. we are expected to get some sort of update from police from one of the nearby hospitals. we were told that two people were transported t one hospital

and two people to another hospital. press secretary sarah sanders saying that the pensident has riefed on this. and again, the good piece of information here is that police have told us a suspect has been apprehended here.ve now these are ictures coming in from the scene from aurora, illinois. police, s.w.a.t., atf on the scene, the information we have to report to you this evening is that at least one person is dear and f officers have been injured in this shooting in aurora, illinois from the live desk i'm erika gonzalez. back to you in the studio. a high school football player who had been charged as an adult will be going to trial in juvenile court. >> it was a shocking crime. this all stems from an alleged attack inside the damascus high school locker room last fall. >> chris gordon is live at the courthouse where we just heard from the county's top

prosecutor. chris? >> reporter: wen and jim, the judge cited maryland law saying juveniles should be treated differently than adults. we saidhat the facts of this case are painful. the allegations of sexual abuse in the locker room at damascus high school five youngster charged with brooming -- using a broomstick to o violate some the members of the jv football. te the judge says will smith was just 15.5. he's basically just a kid. and sometimes children don't realize the consequences of their actions. the ultimate decision of the court, the judge says, is that a transfer o this case from adult court to juvenile court is in the best interests of the child and society. just a short time ago,e heard from both the prosecutor and defense attorney we start with state's attorney john mcc

>> this was part of the process that wenticipated. we knew that this would come to pass. again, maryland law dictates you start in adult cour but where you wind up depends upon thef rulinge judge. >> we have been commenting and arguing since this case start in the adult court that the juvenile venue was a moreat approp place for the resolution of the case. >> reporter: now, there are three other defendants in this case charged as adults.ll they haverought motions to the court that will be heard in the next 30 days or so asking for theires c to be transferred from adult court to juvenile court. montgomery county state's attorney john marthy says each case will be handled separately on their merritts. that's the latest live at the montgomery county circuit court. jim, back to you. >> chris gordon. chris thank yef.

for a recipes are probably your most prized possessions. and this w'sk a ye worth of work was stolen from a pastry chef. nicole jacobs met with her today and all she wants is somebody to bring themback. >> it's important in my world. >> reporter: sometimes it's clear that our i worldthe grand scheme of things is really small. >> lesson learned. ifi just red it was my work bag that no one would care about. >> reporter: she was wrong and wednesday afternoon she learned the hardway. >> i was here an hour and a henf tops and w back to my car and saw my window was broken and my backpack was gone. >> reporter: she's a pastry chef, all the recipes of her sweetcreations, more than 1,000 of them also gone. >> i have a problem with finding a recipe and not being able to follow it. >> like her lemon almond >> some of the books were gifts

from my dad who's since passed away. >> reporter: she's been rolling dough andcing cakes for decades. she never realized how much she relied on the books until yesterday. her luck is running out. with no surveillance cameras in the neighborhood, she can only hope her plea appeals to someone listening. >> i don't want to g i youn trouble, i just want my things back, if at all possible. please. >> reporter: nice jacobs news4. u> please give her her recipes back. on't need them. give them back to her. we have aal eagle drama unfolding in the district. libert andjustice, they may have broken up. >> what? >> it happs, what is it with this town? 14 years we've been watching on the web cam as the raised their

chicks, wtop rio is reporting that justice hasn't been seen on camera in ndays, a new man, new male bird, dubbed aaron bird -- >> aaron. >> i'm going to need the bourbon before the next commercial break. is hanging around the nest people. and liberty is sitting on an egg. at this point no onee knows wh ther is. we're not judging. >> whs the birdy daddy. >> no judgments. everyone haso to what they have to do for them. as long as you're not hurting od an aaron bird. >> a different drama unfolding at the lincoln memorial as the "handmaid's tale" is taping scenes today. >> you probably recognized the red cloaks and bonnets.

the drama is doing shots on the national mall. what a cool experience for tourists. the area remained open to the public during the taping, they were told you're going to be o camera. the new season is set to air in june. >> they g hadd weather for all those layers. >> they di >> coming up, news4 working for your money. why wegman's is slashing prices. >> new at:0 5 how a local group is working to protect a piece of virginia history. the

at 5:40 let's get you caught up with four things to know this afternoon. at least one person is dead and four officers wounded after a shting opene fire at an industrial -- excuse me, after a shooter opened fire at an strool park in aurora, illino. the suspected shooter has been captured.ou we'll bring updates. a chaotic scene unfolding ght now in the eckington section of the district, multiple shots fired oausy street. d.c. police say one shooting victim is now fighting for their life. there's no information about what led up to the shooting and we don't know who fired all the shots. president trump has officially signed his declaration of a national

emergency as heries to secure more money for border barrierg. fund the declaration could potentially give him access to $6 billion on top of the money included in the spending bill t even he con seeded he expects a legal challenge. ing we. >> wegmans is stepping in to help people aer the january shutdown, they're slashing ices for food. they willowerec prices on s prices for all of their customers. the reduction starts tomorrow and lasts until march 2nd. next on news4, meet the pom squad. >> in this week's harris' hero, how a former redskins cheer leader is giving back. >> what's in an age? whent comeso dating, turns out a lot. >> found out he was actually

older than i thought. he was actually 64 and i'm 42. >> i'm tommy mcfly with more of your most awkward dating stories coming up. after a mild d today it's turning colder overnight, some rprinkles on storm team 4 radar, we're colder ove the weekend with rain and snow

thank you very much. t we've beking about your awkward horrific dating stories. thank you, thank you for sharing them with us this week. >> they've been pouring in and we'v gotten a chuckle or two out of y em. tommy mcth stories that will make you feel a whole lot better about what your relationship status is. >> absolutely. the single folks are like i've never had that, the mried

folks glad i'm out of that. we had so many calls to our awkward dating hot line this week. we had to round out our lrking ove week with a reminder, take a good look before you agree on going out on a date. >> so i went on a date with a gentleman tt had met at a temp job i was working at, and, you know, we're bundled up on the b, noteally exposing ourselves. so i didn't pay attention to his age. when we got on the date, started talking, and i found out he was actually older than i thought. he was ai'ually 64. an42. so once he revthled , he grabbed my hand, he said, sweet heart if we had just met 30 years ago this would have worked out perfectly. i said, sweet heart, 30 oars i would have been 12. >> the dating age difference.

>> and he would have been in jail. so go for it. >> that was 22 years. that's not too bad. that can work if the younger person is mature and the older person is still full of life. >> if you're an old soul. age is just number. >> yes. then we got the call aboute guy with his elbow. >> i went with someone to very nice restaurant and he wpped out his oboe, not a euemism, and he started softwaerenading e in the dining room, leaving me sitting by myself and got kicked out by the manager. >> that's one way to do it, can me? get rid of my date for could you kick him out of the restaurant. good for the manager. g what was t thinking? >> how humiliating. >> the oboe is going with you.

>> how do you conceal an oboe i arestaurant? did he have it ahead of time? >> i don't k dw. >> maybe h it before. >> those poor people, he's out of here. how awkward. talked to the relationship editor at "the washipost," she said as long as you're feeling safe about the situation, consider leaning in to the weirdness. >> sometimes awkward situations can lead to great stories, so ask more questions aboutow our date learned to play the oboe, is he in the orchestra, nind out more about the weird thing rather tha getting out of there. >> take good notes. >> see he take requests. you get up and dance weirdly with his -- so you look like a couple. >> play free bird. >> exactly. >> i'm going to miss this stuf >> inly the date had a little

more cow bell, i guess. >> exoutly. >> thankor that. >> thank you.is th is a blast. >> what good stuff. >> thank you all for that. let's thank doug because it looks like tomorrow is not going to be as bad as we thought. >> thateminds me of anchorman and the jazz flut >> yeah, he was dancing on the tables. >> and that was his first date. >> that was myavorite scene. >> didn't that work out well fo> him? t certainly did. let's tell you what's happening out there rightnow, guys. we saw sunshine early then the clouds rolled in, and temperatures still went up. 65 the high today. tracking the cold front making its way our way, it will bring us a chance for shower activity. you ca see a couple showers on the radar right now. not a lot around the area.ti around i-81, martinsburg, to the north of frederick, a couple of showers there. as the front moves tough we may see a couple more. back to the west, that's the

storm. that's the big part of the storm making i way our way. this is interesting, guys. a difference of onlyes00 m is all the difference in the world with a storm like this one as it's moving to the south. here's the storm making its way our way. just two days ago it was looking like this area of low pressure would be right down here northern parts of north carolina, the difference of 100 miles now it's just to the north of south carolina. what does that mean for our n to the south. even south ofer frksburg. although we think we'll see snow into our southern zones. how much are we expecting? noing,leesburg, annapolis, washington. it was never going to be a bige is on the roads but nothing. we'renk tg a coating down around fredericksburg, prince frederick, but all in all guys this is not much of a storm at all. that means you're in for not a

bad weekend, amelia, although we're still watching some stuff on sunday. >> absolutely. later in the day on sunday scattered showers move into the area, a chance we're seeing a mix as well in some spots. travel this weekend not that bed, some wet roads out there, especially well southf the district tomorrow. and then the potential for some t roads area wide on our sunday afternoon and evening. but that snowman building at this point it is nonexistent. heading to the local ski resorts conditions are quite nice. we have to bring out the bread meter, where does it land, down to no worries. we're not worried about the storm atll tomorrow we start with 38 degrees, rain and snow mainly south of washington. by 5:00 p.m. everybody is looking dry, maybe late day sunshine with a temperature around 44 degrees.

onmeunday we start off with sun and a temperature of 30 degrees. we once again0 warm into thes. about 43 for a high on your sunday. by 5:00 p.m. i think we'll be tracking areas of rain,aybe a little bit of mix but low impact once again on the roa with temperatures above freezing. president's day not looking bad like doug saying it's not errible, not great, 53 for a high. chance for a rain shower early, sunshine later and breezy throughout the dayn monday. and we're watching a much bigger storm system on wednday. >> ye bigger storms are easier to forecast than the tiny ones we ha right now. so we feel confident we're going to have a wintery mess on wednesday morning. 'll be talking about that over the next couple days. saturday s aday, not bad, not washouts. not bad on president's day. tuesday looking dry, a little bit colder. but then hello to a wintery mixe e talking snow to ice to

rain on wednesday. >> a little bit of everything thanks, doug. >> thanks, doug. she saw a need in her community, did something about it. >> and now a former redskins cheerleader is helping girls in all kinds of ways. >> leon harris is hereith her story. >> she knew she wanted to create a sisterhood for school age girls in her community and she figured dance was the best way to bring them together. la tasha casey and her pom squad are this week's hars' hero. it's time for rehearsal in this beltsville studio. but look closely. these young girls are learning much more than just these dance moves. >> having self-determination, believing in yourself, peadership. >> she came with the idea for the pom squad while she w a

che cheerleader for the washington redskins. >> it inspired me to start the program. i thought all the skills i learned while i was a ghterleader needed to be t to the younger girls. >> pom stands for positive outcome memory. 600 gir the years, have danced in this program. >> i like that she encourages us when we like feel that we can't it. that she says all you need to do is practice becicse pra makes perfect. >> the squad has danced at nursing homes, parades and halftime shows for professional sporting events whenchts i go on ste i fee butterflies in my stomach. then when i start dancing it goes away. >> it's a family affair, her husband creates merchandising, and her daughter watches mama teach the chances. >> i'm proud of her. to see the number of girls that she's touched, as far as

motivating them and building the confidence in them. >> casey's inlaws nominated her a harris' hero. >> anything where i get to show what we're doing andre ce a feel like iswhat important is a blessing. >> the parents tell us they feel like casey is the real blessing in their daughters' lives. >> that's wherehey get their foundation for a lot of things in life. if you start off that way, you're just bound to do whatever you want to do. >> no doubt the a lessons the friendships these girls a making will last for the rest of their lives, and all thanks to this hero who filled a need in her community. >> sneaky how she weave in these life lessons. l sometimes you have to be. it'se hiding vegetables. >> the pom squad is going to be performing at a wizard's halftime show, we'll let you know which game on facebook. and they're also having smer

camp, it's lowosand have scholarships available. >> three cheers for casey. >> way t, casey. coming up on news4 at 5:00 tonight, a local piece of hioryprotected. >> the group working to protet th past at this african-american cemetery. what they're doing to bring this resting place some new life. then all next week, we're showing you the high stakes of ed. what's next for the drug that's infiltrating so many parts of lives in our region. weed weekight here

nothing short of amiracle. especially coming during black history month. an historic african-american cemetery wilsabe d. erika gonzalez report osa giant leap forward i preserving the past in loudon county. >> this is a huge save tha we can experience and share and learn from for years to come. >> reporter: flags mark the known spots where dozens of african-americans, many of them slaves, are buried at the cemetery in leesburg. the town has just donated the historic cemety to the loudon freedom center, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving

african-american cemeteries in the county. his cemetery dates back to the 1800s. and a lot is known about those esried here. >> the funeral hom actually buried with name wtags. soactually know where each person is buried and what their names are, and possibly who they're connected with in rms of desen den sis. so you look for depressions, perhaps places where coffins or caskets have sunken into the group, maybe the topsave deteriorated of the caskets. so they creat a pression,ll a ey, if you will, so you can read ay see thats you walkh throthe burial ground. >> despite conruction a few feet away, this cemetery is aef pe spot that will soon be open to the public. >> one of our goals is to create

a journey f toedom trail, a network trail of journeys and sights that tell the african-american experience un loudon co. >> reporter: for more information searc cemeteries in the nbc washington app. erika gonzalez news4. >> announcer: news4 at 6:00 begins with breaking news. we are following several breaking stories now at 60 live at a shooting in northeast d.c. and at the hospital where 12-year-old is recovering after oeing shot last night. we're a keeping tabs on a deadly work placeou shooting ide of chicago. one person dead there and several police officers have been injured. that's where we start with erika gonzez standing by at the live desk. what do we know at this hour? >> t scene is aurora, illinois. that w we have confirmed at least one person has died and that four oicers were injured in this shooting at a manufacturing plant.

the gunman was apprehended. these are live chopper pictures now comg into news4 there on the ground in what was -- what is a very large manufacturing plant there in aurora,noilli, about an hour west of chicago. we can tell you that there we're seeing some police tape that's around, maybe five vehicles there in the parking lot ofurhis manufag plant. we're told that at least threee people w sent to one of the area hospitals and two others were sent to a different hospital. we -- the last word that we got from police was that they were