>> pat collins crowns a winner in the big screen snow stick challenge. but first. >> jussie smolleag took adva of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career. >>ew answers about why jussie smollett allegedly faked his own hate crime attack. >> and we start this afternoon with that big bombshell in the jussie smollett saga. > the drama star accused of delivering a phony performance that led to his arrest. >> just moments ago this was the cene in chicago, theamily of smollett left the courthouse. >> a swa of media crushed the mily as soon as they walked outside that courthouse. investigators say that smollett staged his own hate crime attack and think he did it to enhance his own career.

chicago's top cop unloaded onn smollett a press conference darlier today. >> i'm offended an angry. wendy walks us through the fast movg developments today. >> reporter: actor jussie smollett appeared before a judge for the firste,imus s thaccmeot chicago police, but also a serious crime. filing a false police report when he told authorities two men had beaten him, yelling political taunts, racial and homophobic slurs, and tying noose around his neck. >> to stage a hate crime of that nature, when he knew as a celebrity it would get a lot of attention, it's just despicable. >> reporter: detectives now believe he concocteds t bogus assault because he was is dissed with his salary on "empire." enlisting these two seen in this

rveillance video, and now are police s.witnes one of them said smollett wrote em a $3,500 check to pull off the hoax. >> we have the phone records that indicate they clearly hlked to e other quite a bit. >> reporter: the actor's legal teamin v to mount a defense. president trump lashing out, what about maga and the tens of millionseople you assaulted with your racist and dangerous comments. >> absolute justice would be an apology to this city that he smeared. admitting what he did. and then be man enough to offer what he should offer upn terms of all the resources that were put into this. >> reporter: the ultimate fall from grace for an actor now facing possible jail time. wendy wolf nbc news chicago. over the pas few weeks

there have been a lot of case.opments in this we have all of the key dates leading to smollett's arrest in the nbc washington app, just search time line for details. now we turn to an alleged case of domestic a coast guard officer fromsi er spring, maryland ordered to stay behind bars. chris gordon is outf court. tell us what it was like inside there today. >> reporte leon, it was a packed courtroom. lieutenant hasson coming in, head shaven bald, wearing a maroon prison jum suit, looking straight ahead totally serious the entire time. prosecutors say they seized his computer with a search warrant and it indicated he was doing search on the yuan bomber and a norwegian terrorist that killed 77 people and left a road map for others to follow.

the prosecutors calls christopher hasson a domestic terrorist saying his writing shows an intent to murder innocent civilians. saying he targeted democratic politicians and media personalities. >> the sheer number and force of the weapons recovered from mr. haon's residence in this case, coupled with the disturbing natur his writings appear to reflect a threat to the safety of our community. but the defense lawyer says the government made a characterization filing an inflammatory document to attract media attenti and bring pressure on the court to assure detention. hasson, theefense lawyer says, y acharged with two nonviolent of addict and misdemeanor possession of a synthetic prescription painkiller. hasson has not been charged with terrorism and denies each and

every of the government's allegations. the federal magistrate judge ruled that hasson should be detained in custody, saying the government met its burden he's a danger to the community but warning, i'm holng him 14 days in the absence of charging mr. hasson with cri tnal activit amounts to domestic terrorism. >> aheade' hear how the silver spring neighborhood where hasson lives is reacting to news that he could pose a danger to the community. that's the latest life from the u.s. courthouse in green belt. pat, back to you. >> chris go, thank you, chris. now to chopper 4 over a serious crash on the gw parkway. police say a driver went off the road and i slammedo a tree getting trapped in the vehicle. rescuers had to cut off doors to get the driver out. the driver is in serious condition. the george washington parkway i open again. turning to the forecast.

a very different story today compared to yesterday. >> a little bit, maybe. but we've got more wet weather in our future. right now warming temperatures outside aretelping to m the snow we saw yesterday. most of us hit the 50s good stuff there. >> nice. >> let's get to chief meteorologist, doug er in the storm center. how warm are we going to ouget? >>now what they say, what a difference a day makes. this time yesterday in the0s below freezing in many areas, snow, sleet, freezing rain, just a plain nasty day and you get a day like this, beautiful. 58 degrees. that's the warmest on the map here. even hagerstown coming in at 51 degrees today. we are on the warm side for sure today. we'reoing to stay a little milder the next couple days but we he things working in the next couple days. one of those, ouds, and couple showers for tomorrow. but then rai for your saturday. we'll take you hour by hour to

show how much rain moves in it's another soaker. and then hello 60s,et wento the 60s on sunday. but it comes with another issuec we'll talk more about that and the ten day forecast which still has a couple of chances of more snow. we'll see you back here i a minute. thank you, doug. breaking news now,oger stone, one of the president's most aggressive defenders in the russia investigation now playing defensef. himsel roger stone back in court this afternoon ansring to a judge for posting her picture on social media with cross-hairs in the background. in response the judge h modified the gag order in his case. j blayne alexandns us to break it down. >> reporter: we've learned that that jge has just ordered roger stone banned him from making any public statements about this case. she said he does pose a danger if he's released under conditions without any sort of

modifications. so roger stone now unable to make any sort of publicen stat about his case. this comes amid a flurry ofod activity as there are growing signs that special counsel's robert mueller's investigation is almost finished. with growing signs, special counsel rob t mueller would wrap his investigationay any now into possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. all eyes will soon shift to attorney general, william barr, who will decide, how much, if any, of that report will be made public. >> we might see arr flu of activity in the next few days or couples. of week >> keep walking. >> reporter: the president's long-time political adviser, grger stone, who was charged with lying to cons and witness taering, ordered back in court by a federal judge after stone posted an instagram picture showing that jud alongside an image of ble viola terms of rease. >> we have this man having

essentially threatened a federal judge. he's clearly an impulsive person. >> reporter: stone delcting that piure but not going media . silent this posted today. raising money for hisndefense . it comes as michael coh spends the day on capitol hill preparing for his congressional testimony next week. >> the many investigations of entities related to donald trump, his campaign organization, his inauguration committee, aho of t investigations will continue. >> reporter: and the president's team preparing their response to mueller's report to be ready when that investigation concludes. now during his confirmation hearing, barr said that he would like tochelease as s possible from mueller but suggested it might be barr's own summary that becomes publicn rather t the actual report created by mueller. pat. >> reporter: everyone will be waiting forpohat . thank you, blayne. the family of a murdered maryland tcher is fighting for

a bill named after their daughter and her unborn son. laura wallen was pregnant when detectives say her boyfriend killed her in september of 2017. laura's father, joining with lawmakers, toush for laura and reed's bill. that would allowrosecutors to file two murder charges against someoneus a of killing a woman who's at least eight weeks pregnant. opponents say that bill could jeopardize abortion laws. >> we're trying to be clear with the bill that it's nothing to do with abortion, it does not affect medical or abortive procedures. >> she would be proud. she is proud of us already. >> mark and his wife will be in annapolis to testify before a committee about this. laura's boyfriend who was thef fathere boyfriend was charged in her murder. he killed himsen jail. breaking news now, for anyone who trusts a loved one to

a care giver, a montgomery county man admits to abusing an autistic p he cared for at a group home. much of the abuse was caughtn camera. mark segraves stepped out of the circui courtro in rockville where this man is learning his sentence. >> reporter: he's facin up to seven years. he was originally charged with 14 counts of abuse and assault. this happened over the course of one not just one incident. several incidents night after night according to prosecutors who played some of the video in urt. let's look at some of that video now. you can see prosecutors say this is the care see punching in the stomach, the 22-year-old authotic man had been in the care of this nonprofit group home for seven years. now his family was in court today, pleading for mercy andg apologiz the family. it was emotional when his mother got up to testify, he himself

began when they played that videotape in the courtroom, the victim's father had to excuse himself unable to watch this video over and over again. he's facing seven years in prison. it'll be up to the judge tode de how long he has to go to jail. i spoke to a representative with the nonprofit that runs that home. they say the don't tolerate this type of abuse. but i asked them if they have a policy reviewing this videotape inside of the group homes that they n, they d not respond to that request. pat, back to you. >> a s story there, mark. thank you so much. we are in for some big changes in theweather, and just in time for the weekend. >> that's right. doug's tracking rain for tomorrow. and this is what the radar could look like on saturday. doug is back in just a bit t take us all through it hour by hour. and then snow stick first. this time around you're sending in video entries for the pat collins snow stick challenge.

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back now with a look at what the radar ckld loo like for part of our weekend. doug says some of us get more rain than others. his update two minutes away. this week we've been helping

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on his desk. >> all it took was sunshine and warmer temperatures to clear the mess outside. today is really the only day of sunshine i have until maybe sunday afterno because the clouds move back p in and the rain moves back in too. ou guys were enjoying it when you were coming in. what a difference a day makes. it was beautifulur across region today where yesterday was one nasty day.th is what's left over. chopper 4 over the american bridge. look at the snow still there. we'll continue to see that snow on the groun the day on saturday. because of the snow and because of the impending rain it does look like we have a ittle bit of a flood threat during the day on saturday. here something you don'tsee. look at that picture. this is amazing. there's no traff on the american legion bridge. 4:17. traffic at >> you know where i was going. >> knew. >> how about that, no traffic. let's ok, show you what's happening out there right now.

plenty of blue skies, a nice afternoon. temperatures today into the 50s. 58 degrees right now. winds 6 mileser hour. plenty of sunshine, it is a gorgeo afternoon. temperatures around the area, everybody in the 50s. look at this, charlottesville, 68. that warmer air trying to move ' in, but going to have a hard time getting here the rest of the dayom intorow because we have a storm system moving our way. nothing out there right now. we're high a dry. we're not going to see any refreeze tonight, that is notn. conc you can see the sunshine but you can also see -- look right heret see alls white? that's snow picking up on the satellite. you can see the snow from tig satellite there. really a cool shot there. there's the next storm system, this is the one coming in on friday. one on saturday is way out towards california right now. i want to show you how it together. here's the rain to the south.

watch it make its way our and by tomorrow, here's 1:00. most of it is to the soh. calling for about 30% chance of showers in the southern zone. but most of this activy looks to stay to the south. what happens friday night, 11:00, if you're heading out, no problem. it's all saturday.h wa how the next storm systemll s that moisture right into our region. we're looking at a wet saturday. also a cool saturdat. tempes only in the 40s with the area of rainmaking its way in here. tomorrow 30% chance of a shower, well, south. 44 with rain on saturday. really a nasty day but n as nasty as yesterday. still nasty for a weekend for sure. thenook at this, 70% chance of rain in the morning, gusts of 40 miles per hour, and 60s. the afternoon, no problem we clear out nicely but wds pick up gusts to 40 miles per hour,

temperatures climb into the 6s, going 68 for a high temperature. and temperatures are still good monday. then we have a chance of snow on wednesday. and next weekend, this is a big one, another chance for a storm. notice wter wise,we're starting to maybe turn a corner? >> trendg in the rig direction. >> keep it going. >> thanks, doug. nbc 4 and 4 telemunare working for you with a job fair in the district. we're partnering with nerional ca fairs and the university of the district of columbia. the job fair is set for this friday fm 6:00 a.m. to noon at the udc center on connecticut avenue, the student center, in northwest d.c. our molette gen is going to be there live. come out and meet her and employers and bringhe resume. speaking of new jobs, tommy mcfly is going to be hero talk about his next career

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benefits and the side effects of these products are unclear and limited.ies so far are if you're thinking about trying cbd oil on your pet, it's important that you talk with yo veterinarian about doing that first. >> pretty important. ereak today from nasty weather, and we wanted a break but it won't last long. doug and amelia will be tracking rain for your part of your weekend. check out the radar. don't worry there's a warm upcoming with this. >> we'll reveal some of the top entries in this week snow stick challenge. is was a reallyth

i'm erika gonzalez let's get you caught up with four things to know. chicago police arrested jussie smollett this morning, accusing him of staging a hate crime to his career. a short time ago a judge set his bail at $100,000.

his familywarmed as they left the courthouse in chicago. smollett isit charged felony disorderly conduct. as for his role on the hit fox show "empire," the studio says it is, quote, evaluating the situation. the local coastfi guard ofr accused of planning to kill innocent civilians aeared in court today. lieutenant christopher hasson will remain in jail for w. prosecutors call him a domestic t terrorism. in maryland,olice in prince george's county tell us they are investigating a double shooting here on annapolis road. two men shot, one in serious condition and the other in critical condition. a federal judgen washington has just muzzled roger stone. she strengthened a partial gag order in that case, he's forbidden from making public

statements about the case. 's allowed to use social media to solicit donatio to his media fund and pro claim his innocence. back to you in the studio. >> much of the snow we got yesterday has already mel sd away but trit that so many of you showed for our latest snow stick challenge remainsn line. >> in hollywood, they call it the cutting room floor. re at news4 it's the judging process. >> pat collinss ck at his post with a look at some of the creative entries we got. just when you think that stick can't get any more popular, it does. >> everybody wants the snow stick. snow, pat, leon, what snow? it was gone like that. it was like a special effect, but the snow stick challenge, that's something else. i can tell you the judges got together today. ey viewed all the entries, and

it's close real close. it was an oscar inspired snow stick challenge. dress as your favorite actor rm aractress, per your favorite line from your favorite movie. >> behind this mask there's more that flesh. ns reporter: best stick gets the official pat colnow stick. here's a sampling of some of the contenders.ia "bohrhapsody." ♪ we will, we will rock you >> "caddy chicashack". "risky business". "the sound o music". "rocky," or little rocky. and on and on and on. we got dozens aozens of entries, all kinds of pictures and videos.

picking the best one, a challenge unto its. i wouldn't know whestart. so we assembled an award winning team of judges fromurs4 n staff, anchor anyang, tracee wilkins, and consumer reporter susan hogan. they were impressedy what they saw. >> our viewers are incredible. >> thend videos pictures, loved them all. >> people really brought it this time. >> reporter: coming up at 5:00, the final four. four at 5:00, it's got a ring to it, doesn't it? pat and leon, i think doug is there too. are w going toet a chance to do this again soon? come on, doug. >> i'm notalng winter over tuned, t, pat, sta

budd >> baueware the ides of march. >> ever ready. >> may need a rain stick this weekend? this time of year this is what you see, average high temperature closer to 50, still have a lot of winter left, today very spring like, temperatures close to 60 degrees. next couple days, a little more of a roller coaster. look at the roof tops, almost all the snow gone as we look out towards american university. 58 degrees the current temperature. droppingy around 7:00 once the sun goes down, we moderate and out. :00 tonight down to 43. a chilly night but not a cold night. i do not expect much of a refreeze tonight. so that's good. nothing on radar right but all we have to do is widen out here. down to the south, here's the next storm system, this coming in during the day frid

most of this should stay well to our south. if you live in s ourthern zones, maybe around fredericksburg you might see some showe activity saturday is the day for the rain. notice m.is, 8:00 aturday morning, nothing in d.c. but some showers and maybe sleet in parts of the region e saturday. it's going to be a chilly day. here's noon, aewshowers. but watch this, afternoon, if you have afternoon plans on sunday,do, actually, i'm not excited about that. 4:00 it will be coming down here. i'm playing in a three on three basketball tournament for the national kidney foundation, extremely excited about that, but yes, i will be having the kids in tow with umbrellas for sure. let'suralk about your sy and sunday. amel we're talking about another soaker here for saturday. >> absolutely. as you're showing with future weather, the rain moving in later in the day, mostf the ra is falling in the afternoon and evening. a high temperature of only 44

degrees. then look at thedi temperature erence on sunday. a high near 70. 68 for a high tempeture on sunday. again, most of the rain is falling saturday afternoon on into the overnight hours. we're going to pick up anywhere from a half inch t around an inch of rain. that in addition to the snow, we could be sining some flo out there, saturday night. something we'll keep an eye on, especial low lying areas. on sunday as we dry out, the wind pick upnd we'll have gusts on sunday up to an hour.s despite the miles arir we'rego g to be dealing with the winds. here's the weekend planner rom saturday evening into sunday morning. 6:00 p.m. saturday, maybe you havene d plans or heading to the movies, 40 degrees at that point, at 6:00 p.m. we see our temperatures near steady or slowly warming saturday night, 41 at 10:00 p.m. so it's a cold rain for the second half of your saturday.

sunday morning it is a chilly start with showers around at 6:00 a.m. as we move towards 10:00 a.m. we look to dry out, the winds pic up, it's breezy at that point but the temperatures start to warm. we continue to warm to near 70 degrees. heading to blunch,ng a small sbrella saturday just in case. goinging spring-like conditions. want to hold off getting the car washed this weekend. a little, doug, maybe something out there on wednesday, but nice monday as far as the sunshine is concerned. >> we'll need sunshine. tomorrow cloudyot much in the way of shower activity. 100% chance of rain on sunday. sunday, 70% chance of an a.m. shower. 52 on monday, 50 on esday. a nic couple days here. chance of snow wednesday, and then this is what i'm talking about, guys. could we see the pat collins

snow stick come out the first weekend of march? we'll have to wait and see. not predicting storm now, i am predicting a much colder pattern as we head into the first week march. >> we'll celebrate the 58 and 62 in the meantime. >>let's do that. it's a first for students here in the district. the city's only computer science middle school and the learning goes beyondte . first a look at what's new on news4 at 5:00. jim and wendy are in the news room. >> coming up new, weed wee is continui. the news 47 i team figures out why mai yrijuana could cost if if you don't smoke. >> and figuring out which vehicles are best to prevent pedestrian crashes. whyoes a zebra have

stripes? >> sounds like the start of a bad joke, but scientiavs think they solved the mystery. >> we'll have the answer for that at 5:00ls the latest on the weekend weather coming. and then lateste jussie smollett drama coming out of chicago. that's right

d.c.'s first computer science middle school just opened its doors in southeast a few months ago. there's six graders learning how to build robots. >> we're going inse the digital pioneers academy. >> reporter: when the going gets >> this stuff is hard. >> reporter: that's when the sixth graders at the digital pioneer academy get going. they'rern lg to write computer code and programming these robots to finish a maize. the school says t hye to help put the students on the fast track for jobs. >> people in college just now starting tocode. since we in middle school it's going to hel usbetter. >> i used computers a lot in my life. they helped me through a lot of projects. >> reporter: and also here to help, theirte her, trey dawson. he's a senior at howard

university. waking up at 5:00 in the morning but i know in two hours i'll see my kids. no matter what type of ay it is or how it's going, i know they'll make me smile. >> reporter: the school is only open to sixth graders right now. but it'll expand in the coming years. though it's focussed on computer science, that's not all the students are learning. >> it help us get along better because we're workings a team. >> i learned that you got to do trl and error to get where you want. >> reporter: whatever challenges come their way, these middle schoolers will be geared up already. in southeast, aimee cho, news4. right now at 5:00, fallen "empire." >> smollett paid3,0 to stage this attack. >> anger after actor jussie smollett is charged with faking the attack. >> this publicity stunt was a scgo that chi didn't earn and didn't deserve.

>> why did he do it? detectives say they have t answer. a need for weed. >> all i wanted to do was continue smoking. the team with concerns about the casual use of marijuana and how it's costing all of us millions. but first, a local coast guard officer accused of stock piling weapons t carry out a massive terror attack here at home why his defense attorneys argue he shouldn't be locked away. >> announcer: news4 at 5:00 star now. hello, everybody. it was ainister plot to kill and prosecutors say he had all these weapons, even steroids, to carry it out. >> and a judge agreed that lieutenant cistopher hasson posed a danger to the community. so he will be remaining behind bars for now. >> but as news4's chris gordon shows us tonight from outside a court in green belt, prosecut ss here, have work to do

chris. >> reporter: jim and wendy, prosecutors are calling him a terrorist but have not charged him as one yet. the judge gave them no more than two weeks to bring additionaln charges iorder to backup the y allegations tade here today in court. therosecutor called 49-year-old coast guard lieutenant christopher hasson a domestic terrorist, saying his writings show an intent to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country. e government says he targeted democratic politicians and media personalities. >> the sheer number of