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 weapons recovered and t disturbing

nature of his writings appear to reflect a significant threat to our community. >> reporter: but the defense laer says the governmentade a his treon you can characterizati characterization. filing a document to bring media attention and bringe press on the court to assure detention. hasson, the defense lawye is charged with two nonviolent offenses, possession of a firearm by a addict and possession of a mismeanorain killer. he's not been charged with terrorism and denies each of the allegations. the judge ruled that hasson should be detained in custody saying the governmt met its burden proving he's a danger to the community but warning, caveat, i'm holding him 14 days in the absence of charging mr. hasson with criminal activity that amounts tome ic terrorism. in the silver spring

neighborhood he lives, most people say they don't know him but they'reisturbed by the news accounts they're hearing about him. scared. >> reporter: why? >> i know it's dangerous and nothing happen around heiv. i here for 30 years, and nothing happen before, you know, like that. >> reporter: hasson's lawyer said he is not a danger to the community, he has no criminal record. he has 28 years of service with the coast grd and he's a good husband and father and should be returned tois famil while awaiting trial. that's the latest live at the u.s. courthouse in greenbelt. chris gordon news4. now to breaking news. just moments ago, actor jussie smollett ponied up b $100,000l and was released from jail. ested this morning, accused of staging his own hate crime. this was the scene this afternoonn outside his hearing chicago. the media swarming his family.

nsika gonzalez js with the latest twist in this saga. >> thee head of chicago police department called it shameful.e why would jusollett make this up? superintendent eddie johnson says the "empire" star was unhappy with his salary. chicago pd said his story about be beati beatinravelled at the last hour. two brothers initially taken in for questioning and doved suspects blue the lid off this thing. the pair, one of whom is afailated with the "empire"ow told detectivesid smollett pa them $3,500 for the attack. this is his mug shot from today. th actor turning himself in this morning. he's charged with felony disorderly conduct as we heard moments ago from jim, the ball was set at $100,000, he was

released. his attorney releasing a statement, quote, like any other citizen mr. smollett enjoys the presumption of innocence. as fore his rol in "empire," fox released a statement saying, quote, it is evaluating the situation. here's superintendent johnson on the intervw a couple weeks ago. >> to insinuate and stage a hate crime of thatate when he knew as a celebrity it would get a lot of attention is despicable. it makes you wonder what's going through someone's mind to do something like that. >> the superintendent says there is real concern now for victims of hate crimes and skepticism they might face as a result of this. again, smollett has just been released from police custody. jim and y, back to you. over the past few weeks there have been lot of developments in the story line. we have all the key dates leading to smollett's arres n o th washington app.

search time line for the details. we had higher temperatures but they still couldn't melt all the snow. look at chopper 4 flying over rockville this afternoon whell you can see a lot of snow. >> still looks like a winter wonder land but we know it'sot going to last much longer. >> iha think all snow is out of her on saturday. that comes with rain as well. it gets rid of the snow but could add a flood component for the weekend. today, beautiful. plenty of sunshine, after the rain and freezing rainnd sle we saw yesterday. 60 degrees today. just amazing the between yesterday and today. 49 hagerstown right now. 55roundrichmond. nice weather today. but look at this, clouds move in tomorrow, evenhance of showers in some areas. rain for saturday for everybody and a lot of rain, too, up to an inch in some areas. and hello to the 60s on sunday sunday not just about the warm weather, something else coming along with that

we'll talk about it and the complete forecast including a couple chances for snow. see you back here at:2 >> all right. doug kammerer. doug, thank you. following breaking news in prince george's county. chopper 4 up within the last hour over a double shooting here. this is along annapolis road in lanham, not far from veterans parkway. you can see officers closed off the parking lot to an international market there. police tells both victims are adults, one of them is critically wounded. morein details as they como news4. nearly 200 leaders of the catholic church are gathered for a summit on clergy sexual abuse. at the start of the gathering, the pope told bishopso listen to those seeking justice. he also calle the abuse a scourge and said victims expecta concreteions in addition to teaching church leaders how to

prevent andnvestigate these instances, this is an effort to rebuild creditability. church here at home, abuse survivors and actists gathered in northwest washington. they're demanding more transparency from catholic church leaders and harsher penalties. cory smith has more on the changes theyeking. >> reporter: the 8-year-old you see in this picture is a victim and survivor. she's all grown up now and not afraid to talk about the sexual abus she faced. >> i felt abandoned. >> reporter: members of the survivors network of those abused by police gathered, discussing the recent defrocking of theodore mccarrick. >> this is something to calm downr the angry catholics something new? >> reporter: this means more

transparency, harsher punisrent fo clergy who cover it up. nearly 200 leaders r are ine for the summit. most of, if not all of them are men. for liz, that's a part of the problem. >> more women in church leadership might mean a different structure of church, it would be possibly more collaborative. >> reporter: that push for more females is among the five thesis for change. >>la a of healing that's inclusive regardless of gender, race, sexual or yen indication. >> reporter: she has faith that happen. ann does not. >> unless the pope says you must do this, nothing isoing to change. anger and frustration tonight forhoands of activists, most of them women, who thought thisld we the

year the equal rights amendment would win approval in virginia. but a last ditch effortoet a y.to failed ul j ie cauarbuey is in richmond tonight to cture the emotional moment >> reporter: shouts of anger directed at the house floor, continuing in the halls of the general assembly. >> i am disgusted by this. absolutelydi usted. >> reporter: those shouts coming from a woman who spent 23 years servg in their force. daphne portis believes passage of the equal rights amendment is long over due. ree fai to get a vote left her in tears. >> i really thought they were goin to pass this thing. i thought with all my heart. this is america. >> era. >> reporter: this was the scene on the oning day when hopes were high this would be the year virginia would approve the equal

rights amendment. e.r.a. activists lobbied lawmakers daily. in the senate it won bipartisan approv approval. y democrats made a last ditch effort seeking a rule change that wouldringt straight to the floor for a vote. >> if you say you value women, that you support women, what i say is, prove it. >> reporter: but gop leaders warn the e could lead to unintended consequences. >> the question here is, shall we go forward with an amendment that so radicallyor i an entire segment of the female population, that is born girls. >> reporter: on a 50/50 vote the bid to get the vote to the floor failed. a activists already planning their next move. in richmond, i'm julie carey

news4. a reversal ofne for for the woman who mimicked virginia's seal, exposing her o breaside the capitol earlier this week and was sent to jail earlier this month, michelle sutherland was released today, the judge said he did not know the charge stemmed from a political protest when he ordered sutherland to be jailed tuesday. pedestrian safety on the roads. >> some of the most popular suvs put to the test. susan hogan reveals the surprising results. weed week continues with a look at how marijuana could be costerg you, whe you smoke or not. it's the news we've all been waiting for. the tommy show, it's coming back. >> we're talking with tommy and

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don't get a third chance. that's a federalud j told roger stone stone as she modified his gag order in the case related to the special counsel probe. stone is now barred from making any public statements about his case. this came after stone posted an image of the judge on instagram and put cross-hairs next to her head. stone apologized for wha he called his own stupidity. he's facing multiple charges, including lyi to congress. keeping you safe on the road tonight, whether you're drivi or walking, new test results released today show which vehicles rate best for preventing pedestrian crashes. our consumer s reporteran hogan is working for you with the results tonight. >> thensurance intaut for highway safety tested 11 differen small suvs to see how their automatic braking systems detect and brake for people in the road.

researchers tested three different scenarios an adult entering the road from the right. a child darting out froehind two parked cars and an adult walking in the lane near the edge of the road. he bmw x 1 earned no credit in theratings, hitting the dummy in all of the tests.th e my the mitsubishi outlander, reduced its speed. the other nine models earned advanced ratings. the sensors to test for pedestrian are standard in models. >> new vehicles and tstems they sa outlander has scored good and superior in other crash tests. bmw didn't respond to our

request on the x 1.u can see how the vehicles rated in our nbc washington app, search pedestrian crashes. >> susan, thanks so much. this summer the capital one arena is set to get big upgrades. you're going to notice, regardless of where you sit if you're on the floor or the nose bleeds. that includes new double sided curved monitors, and new concessions. the big ticket item, a sky ring display. 9,000 feet of continuous video around the roof line, the largest and first of its kind for an indoor american arena. work begins when the caps andrd wi wrap up their season and should be done by the fall. after years of one of the top radio shows in the area, the

show was cancelled last year. but fans will be happy that tommy and kelly return on monday. this is dciting. you'ng a radio show without the typical -- you're not going to be airwaves. how are you getting on the >>r? hank goodness for the internet. we have built anva appable on app store and google play, you can stream us from the app. it's as sime as that. no radio tower needed and we'll do it live at 7:00 a.m. >> if we miss it? >> i replays all day long. it's all available on our app. >> morning drive headed in, you can blue tooth i to your car o. ra >> smart cars is what they're calling it. super easy to do, family friendly as always. we're excited to on the airwaves again. >> the format is going to be like interviews and stuff, and

you have a big heavy hitter in the beginning? >> you're going to get music you love, play can't be klynd have as much as what our tommy show family expects on the app. but also monday chef jose andres is joiningisus. s after he's on the oscars and we have a sneak peek about what hisskar situation is going to be like. >> great. >> you never imagine to be at the oscars, this is my second yearw. in a last year i brought a puerto rico flag with me to prove they matter. so again me going, i'm presenting a movie -- it's a very bigll th quite frankly. >> he wouldn't say which movie or category, becau it's a secret.

it's a big deal. but we have wendy rieger on our show the first week. what did you think about going into kelly's basement to do the show. >> i loved it. we had such a great conversation. it was really cool. and iike it because it feels like we're going back to gorillo raack in the day. next thing you know you'll do it on a ship in the ocean. >> on the potomac one day, who knows. >> it was great. i'm so happy you guys are doing this. an't wait to listen to you and listen to you talking to me. thank you very much. download the app. >> tell us the app. >> the tommy show app. it's on the i tunes stor that's wendy signing our door. we have all our guests do that. >> it's very cool. >> you're welcome any time. jim, too. >> wendy does love her voice, i must say. >> i love hearing my voice. >> mmy, hook me up in seven seconds is all it took, it's on

phone, so easy to do whether you have apple or android. >> you a know how to do this. >> i think we need smart cars, though. we have stupid cars. >> i'm so happy for you guys. >> thank you. all these week we've been working for you to help i clear the clutter in your life. and tomorrow, it's goingmy to b turn at 6:00 a.m. turns out i had one of the messier desks in the news4 news room, maybe the measureiet,sio tried the konmari method. until i tried it, i had no idea all there things that cluttering my work space. ties that i amdonating. suits, a ping-pong paddle and stuff moving in the bottom drawer. tune in tomorrow night at 11:00 for the preview.

and 6:00 a.m.or the unveiling. >> another caps tie. can't p with this. i keep a ping-pongt paddle at my desk this i have to keep. this -- i think this was wendy's. this belongs on wendy's desk. this is this does not count as my garbage here. or clutter. >> i think that was a play you went to like four yrs ago. >> i just went to it in october. >> regifted it. >>ed lot of your stuff e up on my desk. >> and under my desk. ngwe're g to share the tips i earned tomorrow and we'll sho you whether this method -- i keep walking to my desk thinking it's some island -- >> we're givingf toursit. groups, buses are pulling up to look at it. >> tune in. it was a lot of fun.

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>> i don't want people to think that it's okay for everybody to do it and it's completely, you know, unharmful because that's not true. >> reporter: matt paris eventually got clean. as a counselor he's now helping others who might follow his same journey. >> it wears off and you want more. and the constant smoking you build a tolerance to it. >> it stops working. >> exactly. >> reporter: learning thatca al marijuana smoking doesn't always remain otcasual. macfarlane news4 i-team. >> if you or someone you know is looking for help with any type ofstance abuse, we have resources on our nbc washington, just look under investigations. wendy? foodies want to make next tuesday, because the african american museum is hosting a special event with jerome grant, what those dishes can teach you about african-american traditions. it start at 6:45 on tuesday and

costs $40. news4 is celebrating o diverse community all month long. right now our black historyep month ron is getting started at the prince george's county's african american museum and cultural center. that's where molette green is live to give you a preview of >> reporter: good evening to you. we're about 30 minutes away from getting started here at this coautiful museum in prince george's ty. let me emphasize this museum is in prince george's county, in brentwood, maryland right off island, avenue we don't want folks to sleep on the beautiful art work on displa and they rotate different artists in and out here. but tonight we're happy to join up with the museum for the working for the community awards. i wa to bring i the brand new executive director, monica

montgomery of t i want you to put in perspective, this is black history month and so mu is going on right now in the community, culture, what is the relevance of black history month today? >> black history month is a celeation, it's an affirmation, and a reckoning. black history is american history. here at prince george's county museum, we're a home for black excellence. there's so many peopleyighting tohat are making history and we honor that legacy, we honor legacies of joy as a form of resistance, as ll as what we 'been through, slavery, segregation a beyond. all of that is relevant it'll never go out of season. >> reporter: so happy to be here tonight. the awards we're focussing on s.t.e.m. the awards are going to brilliant minds we'll have more about that on news4 in the later shows. that's the latest. and we have our black history

month program coming up this weekend. jim, you have moren that? >> we'll have it saturday and sunday morning. that is so exciting down there. thanks a lot molette. a proposal for n tolls that has drivers worried.xt >> adam tuss goes up in chopper 4 to show us where the lanes could end up and what it couldean for your commute. plus our official high temperature today, 60 f degrees. for the next two day we'll run below normal. normal now 49. then our tempes sore on sunday. however i'm

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college basketballs biggest start. and it's led to a more painful day for the world's biggest sports brand. did you see it, zion williamson sprained his knee when his nike sneaker blew out less than a minute into the game. nike shares fell 2% today. the sneaker giant released a statement this afternoon saying it is woreng to fig out how it happened. zionexpected to be the top pick in theba draft this june. no two zebras have the same striped but regardless of how

their coats zig or zag, they have a purpose.ch resears in the uk say it may be a deternt for something much smaller, horse flies. they said from far ay the flies just bump into the zebras so they tested by putting the zebra cover gs on horses. the scientists think the black and waste con interferes with the fly's vision. >> it's a repellant. who knew. >> yes. there we go. w makes yt to put that on when you're outside in fly country. we have more to come on news4 at 5:00. you've heard the movie lines and seen the photos. now we're getting closer to our snow business show bus ess winner. >> next on news4 pat collins revealing his four finalists for his famous snow stick.

i'm adam tuss up in chopper 4 to give you a look at this, the 270 and beltway split may know it well. now the

more toll lanould be coming to major roads like i-270 and the maryland beltway. >> it's a boldposal from pro leaders p and therenty of concern about how it would work. >> adam tuss in chopper 4 to explainorit. >> rr: in chopper 4 to talk about what is an ngly controversial issue in our area and around maryland. the proposal to add new capacity to 270 and the beltway. governor hogan has proposed adding any number of lanes he along 270. but now according to the latest reports they're talking about specifically express lanes or hot lane, the hot lanes like the

ones you have in virginia. the concern is how are you goi to add those lanes without coming into this area. thetate of maryland said they continue to look for ways to make this whole project work in the existing capacity and as we swing it over from 270 down to e beltway, you can see that there really isn't atonover here.o operate with over so there's been a lot of pushback but the latest configuration here iso e basically hot lanes or express lanes that wouldon ghe beltway and 270. and drivers are split on the issue. >> i don't like it. >> not at all? >> not even a little bit. i don't care if it's 25 cents. i don't like it. >> you want that luxury but it can getexpensive. >> reporter: looking at the split from 270 tthe beltway and how we make sure we can increase the capacity andtr the fic flow here, all of this is still an environmental stage right no no word for when any

begin.uction could there are a number of public hearings on the topic, we don't know how it all gets paid for. stay tuned. >> of course, if u're flying over the rush hour, you don't have to pay a dime. >> but the helicopters are expensi xpensiv >> they ar >> a little bit. wendy and i were talking about daylight saving time is coming up othe 10th. > and at that time the sun goes down after7:00. >> isn't that great. it's a game changer. >> it's absolutely a game changer. people notice right now. those are the signs of spring, it is. today felt like spring.he 60 degrees high temperature acrossur area. here's a look across the south and east. looking towards au, american university. 59 degrees. notice not a lot of snow left,e at least on rooftops there. 59 right now. dropping to about 50 degrees by

7:00, 43 by 11:00.oo a night but not overly cold. temperatures remain above not worried about a refreeze. we're not tooorried about ice tomorrow morning. 53 in gaithersburg, 55 in manassas. tempatures drop fairly quickly because of the snow cover we do still ha out there but wie've got clouds and warmer air moving in so that keeps us from getting too cold tonight. no raint today. here's the rain, looks like a lot of rain moving our way. it is. but not tomorrow. it's not too far but we have high pressure to the north and s that k the rain just to the south. let me show yowhat i'm talking about. just to the north friday. but the next storm saturday that brings the rain in here. 8:00 a.m., maybe sleet in our northern zones. most of us dry through noon and

then hello rain, a lot of rain, too. weerki t about a big change saturdayndday to chgengo . t >>a high of 44 degrees. sunday we ever near 70 degrees with the high temperature of 68. now as we look to the weekend rain -- the most rain is going to fall saturday night if you have dinner plans out, going to see a movie, plan for rain out there on your saturday night. like doug was saying we could see a half inch to around an inch ofrain with that much rain in addition to the snow from yesterday, some flooding is going to be possible out there saturday night, especially in low lying areas on sunday i think early morning hours showers on sunday. but then the winds pick up with gusts up to 40 miles per hour. saturday at 6:00 it's a cold rain with temperatures around 40 degrees. 10:00 p.m. on saturday it's still raining. but we have slowlyarming temperatures saturday into sunday.

6:00 a.m. on sunday showers outr by 10:00 a.m. i think it's dry, it's breezy, starting to warm up, about 50 degrees.av the weatherg an impact on the weekend. heading to brunch on saturday, mbing the smalllla just in case. skiing spring-like conditions from the rn on saturday to the warm temperatures on sunday. it'll be okay. you might want to f it in because it is nearing the end of the season. ld off on getting the car washed with rain in the forecast on saturday. as we look to the work week maybe tracking something wednesday. >> that's right. watch out this weekend, i'll be down there at capital one arena, three on three basketball tournament before the wizards game. we're playing for the kidney foundation. shomari stone is on my team. he's got game. we putogether an nbc team every year. 68 on sunday. 70% chance of a.m. rain. windy. 52 on yourmonday. 50 on tuesday. here's thatnc cof snow on

wednesday. small chance, not a big storm there. bigger storm fits the pattern next weekend. not this weekend n butt weekend. next weekend. that would be the first weekend of march. now i can get out of the way. >> doug, thank you. the senrm could have contender, but it wasn't. we have plenty of creative entries - i want to say entrees. it's dinner time -- for our latest snow stick challenge. >> what a -- i tell you we had impressive number of great ones. >> you guys have been fun and e kroo yaive. >> the theme recreate your favori movie moment in the snow. the judges have weighed in. >> pat collins back on his perch where things look more clear today than they did before. what do you got for us, pat?in what are the four? >> reporter: i'll tell you, wendy, we had dozens of entrees into our snow stick challenge. this time we had a snow stick

challenge. firs we had a tie, then we had another tie. thes ju well, they had to have a vote-off. >> one, two, three. show me the number. >> reporter: this time it was close. real close. >> this is hard. >>eporter: they watched a voted. >> three way tie. >> reporter: and watched and voted. >> a tie -- >> are we tied again? >> reporter: and watched again and voted again. we have a winner. >> reporter: it was an oscar inspired snow stick challenge and the entries so good it had our judges conducting a vote off. >> even the judges couldn't w decide because loved them so much. >> reporter: the rules, dress as your favorite actor or actress. perform your fceorite from your favorite movie. >> i am your far:er.

>> reporest pick gets an official pat collins snow stick. thege j all award-winning members of our news 4 team, ann yang, tracee wilkins, and susan hogan. they had a lot of tough decisions to make he. >> i've done this a lot with you now. this by far, they were amazing. >> the attention to detail and the time that it took to put these ent together, i am just blown away. >> reporter:ow here in no particular order, the final four. "mission impossible". "the bird box". "back to the ture". "and e.t.". there you have it the final four. which one would you pick? coming up at 6:00, the judges' .

choi jim, wendy. >> that's a tough one. >> you know what i liked this year, you had so many video entrances, it's not just the still pictures. and the music that went with it. >>nghey danced, we laughed and cried. >> ited a a different dimension, texture. see you at 6:00. wh> meane, it's throwback stthursday. time we did one of these, pat wound up psyching out d.c. bomayor muriel wser. we went, what? he offered her a snow stick and took it away. took it away. u can see his redemption

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finally, the family of a murdered tcher is trying to change maryland law. >> laura wallen was pregnant when her boyfriend killed her in 2017. now her parents are i annapolis pushing for laura and reed's bill. >> megan fitzgerald explains te bill. >> reporter: it's beenrl n a year and a half since laura wallen w murdered by her boyfriend. police say he shot the high school teacher andurd her body in a shallow grave in

damascus. laura was pregnant with her son who she was excited to name s at the ys r en beeoois own life in prison. so today, a renewed fight for justice and for laura's legacy to live on. >> due to maryland's current ws he could not be charged for the murder of reed wallen. >> when we first found out that laura was murdered, the first thing i asked it's double murder right? >> reporter: laura's father joined state senators and lawmakers to push for the so-called laura and reed's bill. >> we're teing to make s that cases that happened with laura and reed, the states attorney can go after people for murdering two lives. >> reporter: if the woman is eight weekr pregnants more, and the suspect knows she'

expecting, the suspect could be ged with double murder. some lawmakers say that confirms that life starts at eight weeks which could lead to a t ban fight abortion in the state. despite the opposition,laura's family is hoping this year will be different. >> she would be very proud. she is proud of us already for what we'r doing. >> reporter: in annapolis, megan fitzgerald, news4. right now at 6:00, a locd coast gufficer accused of plotting an act of terror. >> it's a very significant threat. >> the warning from prosecutors held behind ed bars. roger stone silenced. th strictrder from the judge he targeted in a controversial instagram post. hate crime hoax. >> i'm offended by what's happened, and i'm also angry. >> the wild scene outside a a

chicago courtfter the arrest of jussie luollett. outcries of anger. >> i defended our country. >> activistsushing for the ual rights amendment see their rights hit a dead end in virginia. a judge a says coast guard officer is so dangerous he needs to be locked up now. so lieutenant christopher hasson will remain in jail for now. >> t shocking allegations against him, include the amazing of a cash of weapons a plotting to murder innocent civilians. but the defense said he fes nonviolent charges and the government is overhyping the case. >> chris gordon is live outside the courthouse in greenbelt with