that i grew up in. ♪ new tonight at 11:00, damage control after a historyon lesso slavery at a local school goes horribly wrong. >> the performance of a fetime. jussie smollett back on the set of his tv show tonight afters prosecutay he staged his own hate crime.

and pot smoker or not, weed is taking a toll on yourlet. the news 4m i-t explains how some people's need for weed is costing taxpayers millions. news 4 at 11:00 starts now. african-american children designated as slaves, classmates acting like slave >> we begin tonight with what many people are calling a history lesson on black history month gone very, very wrong. criticsay madison's trust elementary school in loudoun county needs a lesson of its own on sensitivit >> news 4's shomari stone is live inct ashburn with rn tonight to what happened at this school earlier today. shomari? >> reporter: good evening. we spoke with the loudoun count public school spokesperson and he told me that he regrets this lesson happenedithat quote, trivialized slavery. we tald to the naacp and they say this was a racist,

sensitive game involving children. >> there are some implicit biai problem here at this school into controversy surrounds madison's trust elementary schoo in ashburn, virginia. some parents and the naacp don't trusthe school's judgement. third, fourth and fifth graders were instructed during p.e. class to play a game that involved students acting as runaway slaves. an obstacle course meant to represent the underground railroad. michelle thomas says some african- designated slaves. e >> it's awful, to be honest with you. it's really insulting. it makes me feel unsafe because i have kid in loudoun county public schools. >> reporter: loudoun county public schools' spokesperson says all students in the exercise, including minorities, were members of the underground railroad. principal david stewart sent this letter home to parents on

february 12th apologizing for wh he says was a culturally insensitive exercise. pa the prin to be honest with you, mr. stewart, is doing as goods a job anybody can do, given these circumstances. he understands the gravity of it. he understands the racm behind it. >> reporter: he also says, quote, in this instance the content will be retaught to st tents. howeves incident has revealed a need for us to further ex-moplore how this can be repeated. the loudoun county naacp president says she met with school administrators here and the offend parents. now literally i'd say around a couple of minutes before wen appeared television, the loudoun county schools spokesperson called me and i asked isre tny discipline or implicit bias training for the teacher or teachers that came us with t lesson plan. is said, quote, we can't talk about personneles, end

quote. live here in ashburn, i'm shomari stone, news 4. >> okay, shomari, thank you. tonight, all eyes a o jussie smollett for all the wrong reasons. his attorneys tonight lashing aw out at chica enforcement saying the actor feels betrayed. but the police say the vicious hate crime smollett claim took place was nothing but fiction. the "empire" star released on bond today, charge with a felony for filing a false police report. authorities say he hired t guys to help stage the attack and wrote them a check. smollett has been celebrated in the past for being an openly gay black actor on a hit tv show. many fea that his case could cause real harm. >> our concern is that hate n crimes will publicly be met with a level of skepticism that previously didn't happen. >> investigators say smollett was unhappy with his salary and orchestrated the attack for publicity. the associated press reporting smollett will make nearly $2 millioor this season.

now to the latest on that terror plot arrest and the coast guard lieutenant suspected of plotting mass mr on an unimaginable scale. he's bind bar for now. christopher hasson lives in silver spring and works in washington. leon harris isr in the nm to explain why he could be freed. that's disturbing, ileon. really is, jim. christopher hasson's lawyer blowinghe government is his actions out of proportion, arguing that hist cli only faces nonviolent drug and weapons charges. the fbi aested hasson after the coast guard found suspicious internet searches on his work computer. in a posting, he allegedly described himself as a white nationalist. prosecutors say that hasson compiled a hit list of democrats and tv journalists and that hes expr dreams of committing mass murder. agents found a stash of steroids and this stockpile of weapons and ammunition inside his apartment. >> the sheer number and force of the weapons that wereecovered

from mr. hasson's residence in this case, coupled with the dist hbing nature of writings, appear to reniect a very scant threat to the safety of our community. >> as terrifying as his plots may have been, hasson is only being charged right nowes with poon of firearms and synthetic prescription pain kisers. prosecut now have two weeks to file more seriousaf charges. r that if they don't, hasson could be freed. doreen, back to you. >> leon, thank you. amazon's arrival in northern virginia isomg into focus tonight. new drawersings are giving us a new drawing of the physica landscape of national landing and what it will look like when it's done. news jackie bensen is live in front of wasn't of the buildings amazon plans t transform. hi, jackie. >> reporter: well, doreen, as you can s behind me, this section of crystal drive is dark and kind ofeserted at night. tonight we learned that amazon's

plans call for this area to be busy and bustling 18 hours a day. p>> we areme for amazon. >> reporter: a small group of supporters holding signs greeted the rsvp attendees at the ouncil of governments eve billed as a regional conversation with amazon. inside founders hall at george mason 'suniversi arlington campus, people were given a look at what the most high-profile business location in recent memory, 25,000 jobs over about a like., will look three properties in arlington. 241 t18th str and 1770 crystal drive will be the fir50 000 square feet of what amazon prefers to call not a campus but a neighborhood toe known as national landing. >> we are a biking company so we design our parking garages so the autosnd the bikes have different entrances in them. we have a greatat dedn to green space and sustainability.

wer priority for first floor retail. only build our inside food service to serve 1/3 of our population in seattle. weloan really push our ees out in the neighborhood to support the small business community. >> reporter: the assembled amazon real estate andme gove leaders answered questions about affordable development force and tech education. at one point "washington post" reporter robert mccartney addressed the elephant in t room, would amazon pull out of the northern virginia deal as it did in new york if the promised financial incentives were approved. >> the incentives that the state has offered orpost-performance. meaning there are no incentives back to amazon foreveral years after we create the jobs, invest the dollars and the taxes are generat generated. >> reporter: so not much of an answer but he did try. amazon estimates 1/3 of its workforce here will come from d.c. and maryld and they estimate that more than 50% or at lst % of those employees

will come and gok from w via public transit. live in arlington, jackie , bensews 4. >> all right. jackie, thank you. there is a bol proposal to ease congestion on i-270 in the capital beltway byg addin toll lanes in maryland. the big question is how is it going to wor we went up into chopper 4 to check out the i-270 and 495 exchange. there are h a lot ofes and businesses just beyond the highways. governor hogan propose adding express lanes. drivers are divided on this idea. >> yeah, i don't like >> not at all? >> not even a little bit. i don't care ift's 25 cents. i don't like it. >> you want that luxury, but it can gete. expens >> the project is still in the early exploratory phase. there i no timetable for one construction would begin or who

would pay for it. well, many are still dunking on nike tonight. more than 24 hours after the company's shoe exploded, b injuring thet college basketball player in the country. nike's stock taking a hit today, falling 1%. duke star zion williamson is day-to-day wh a kneetrain. it would have been a whole lot worse. the freshman phenom w injured last night during a huge game against rival north carolina. the game so big tickets were at super bo-level prices. and people like former president atch zion ma came to play for about 30 seconds. the star is the projected top pick in this year's nba draft and his injury raised more questions about nike and college basketball making millions of dollars on the backs of unpaid student athletes. nike released a statement today it wished zion well. it called the shoe snafu an isolated occurrence and said

it's working to identify the issue. pat collins and his snow stick challenge make winter weather a little more bearable around here. tonight we have a new winner. >> i feel like we need a drum roll here. pat challenged you to recreate your favorite movie scene in the snow. it came down to a three way tie between "e.t.," "bird box" ands "m: impossible." >> in the end, the "bird box" scene from the peacock family won out. >>excited, huh? >> i'm very excited. this is a huge honor. as a d.c. transplant, this makes us feel at home. we're really honored to have the snow stick. >> you can browse some of the best submissions right now. open the nbc washington app and search "snow stick." so many creative ideas. >> and the blindfolds, babies and snow, you've got to get that quick. you can't wte any time. those blindfolds came right off, she said. >>ou do.

>> "mission: impossible." i still want to know how that guy is hanging there. >> i know. >> iidn't see that part. >> very, very clever. >> good stuff. let's show you whains happ out there right now. will we need the snow stick over the next couple o days? probably not but it's in the forecast. much more. see you back here in a minute. our wee wee continues next with how we're all paying f w marijuana,hether we use it or not. nd as the news 4 i-team explains, the cost is only going to keep going up. >> eventually it got to a point where i was smoking when i woke up befor i wenet

for thousands of people in r community,he need for weed is too strong to control. >> iet couldn't anything done. i wasn't able to accomplish anything because all i wanted to nue smoking >> as states nationwide move to fully decriminalizimarijuana, the news 4 i-team found more users are seeking help. >> there are mounting medicalst cos for marijuana dependency treatment for users and taxpayers. our investigative reporter scott macfarlane has our report. >> reporter: before becoming a dad and posing for pictures with his kids and picking up the toys around the house, life looked a lot different for matt paris. >> you started off with marijuana. >> yep. >> wasn't casual, though, was

it? >> no, it was never very casual. >> reporter: he said first it was marijuana that controlled his life. >> eventually it got to the point where i was smoking befwhi woke up, before i went to bed. >> reporter: then harder drugs like opioids. the turning point came seven years ago racing down i-270. >> we flipped the car three times in the middle of rush hour. >> reporter: when he crashed en route to d.c. to buy more drugs. surviving that accident pushed him to seek help. >> i'm here for a reason, you know, and i went and asked my mother for help. >> reporter: addiction counselor angela caldwell says marijuana dependency is something she often sees. >> look, you're not going to find a lot of people that are going to die from marijuana overdose, but it does not discount the effects. >> reporter: the news 4 i-team analyzed years of data from the virginia and maryland departments of health. we found thousands of people admitted to programs citing marijuana as the main reason. we found thousands more who had

cited marijuana as one of the reasons. the largest increase nationwide among women, 18 to 25 years old. in our area it's women 31 to 40. not surprising, says caldwell, as states move to decriminalize marijuana, making it more available. >> it's just been such a part of their culture. it's so socially acceptable. >> it's hard to convince the young people this is trouble. >> it's harmful. >> it's harmful. >> they're not trying to hear that. >> reporter: harmful and costly. in virginia alone we found spending on state-supported treatment programs for drugs reached $155 million last year. caldwell says the argument that marijuana can be addictive is difficult to make to patients and even some in the substance abuse treatment world. >> if it's monopolizing your time, attention and distracting you from life or disrupting you from life then it's an addiction. >> then it's an addiction. >> reporter: national research shows those who begin smoking as teens or smoke daily are more likely to need treatment. medical experts testifying

before the u.s. senate in 2016 said marijuana does have addictive properties. >> a serious potential side effect of prolonged marijuana use is addiction. marijuana is less addictive than opiate pain killers are but is an addictive substance. >> reporter: a survey reports 9% of marijuana users admit becoming dependent. >> i just don't want people to think that all of a sudden it's just okay for everybody to do it and it's completely, you know, unharmful. because that's not true. >> reporter: matt paris eventually got clean and as a counselor he's now helping others who might be following his same journey. >> it wears off and you eventually want more and the constant smoking, you build a tolerance to it. >> it stops working. >> exactly. >> reporter: learn that casual marijuana smoking doesn't always remain casual. scott macfarlane, news 4 i-team. >> i o you someone you know is looking for help with any type of substance h abuse, wee resources to share on our nbc washington app.

just look under "investigations." so dg is here with a look at what our next 36 hours of weather will bring. >> yeah. changes. >> and then some. >> again. we saw the last 36 hours was rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain. then today, 60 degrees. >> right. >> that was beautiful. tomorrow we got the rain coming in. actually, the rain's tryingcoo in overnight. temperatures will fall back to the 40s tomorrow and all-day rain on saturday before another huge change. let's take aook and show you how things are shaping up right now. really a nice night. much warmer than it was last night. lo at this. still 49 degrees right now. wins out of the north at 8 miles an hour. the reasone' is got cloud cover across our region that is just not allowing those t temperaturcool. look the numbers. 43 in fredericksburg. i amri really not w about a refreeze tonight, even though we saw so much mmpting. atures are just not going to get close to freezing in most areas. look at the rain trying to come

in. now the atmosphere a little dry here. some of this not reaching theou . look to the west. snow, winter weather advisory. still tracking rain making its way. yousan see the clo coming in. look at all this moisture. look at a little area of snow there above 4,000 onfeet. we have any chance of that. we're way too warm. we are going to see some showers. look how much moisture is he. it loo like it's all moving our way, doesn't it? it's not going to make it here.t high pressur the north is going to build in and keep that rain to the south. let me show you whatal i'mng about. it looks like it's coming our way. watch what happens. it hits the area of high pressure and right down to the asuth, just moves down to the south. t does so, it ushers in some rrlder air. to will only be in the 40s, today was near 60. most of the rain tomorrow, 1:00, well to our 'tsouth, but c rule out some shower activity through around noon tomorrow. d. southward. if you live in uculpeper, ray,

fredericksburg. you have a better chance ofng sehowers. north of d.c., i'm not expecting ntil you but just wait need the umbrellas on saturday because you will. here it comes. friday night, no problem. heading out friday night, hey, piece of cake. no problem there. just take the coats. it's going to be a little chilly. watch what happens on saturday. some of this rain will be hngvy duhe day. a high of only 44, too. that's a chilly rain. some of you in the upper 30s. sunday, 68 let's talk a little bit more about sunday here. here's what to expect. earlyhowers possible but nothing heavy. that system moves through.winds really pick up. gus of 40 miles per hour but that brings in warmer air. temperatureslimb into the 60s, maybe close to 70. i'm calling 68 degrees. 52 on monday. 52 and sunshine, that's a nice day. tuesday looking good with a high of o0. chan snow, yep, on wednesday. it's not a big chance.

don't worry about that one. i don't think we'll be pulling out the snow stick for wednesday. however, nextweekend, the first weekend of march and really the first whole week of march is looking cold and stormy. something could happen then. we mig need t snow stick then. if we don't get it then, that's it. >> sunshine and warmer temps in betwn now and then. >> for three days. >> booking vacation. all right. doug, thanks. coming up, the hometown kidc is the diffee to the caps' is the diffee to the caps' victory in

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this is the xfinity sports desk. remember in "happy gilmore" when happy asked the golf ball, are you too good for your home? the caps might be starting to wonder that asy they p in their fifth game of a six-game road trip. locals pbably think we're having a heatwave down here, but actually the caps are pretty looking for their sixth win in nine games. his ovechkin, four goals in last three games. trying to add a little something to that. earl on, though braden holtbyhe was star of the show.

holtby with the save and then the cross bar with theho save. about that? take another look. holtby 40 saves on the night. cross r had at least one. in the second, caps on the power play. ovi, he loves lamp. 43rd goal of the season. that lea the league. caps up 1-0. later in the period toronto native tom wilsonhowing out for his home crowd. big hit here. puck's loose. lars eller to brett connolly. heke scores. another look. wilson with the big hit. eller to connolly. that ties his career high and the caps are up two. now into the third, it's a 2-1 game, leafs on the pow play, holtby again with the save. here comehe capsoing the other way. eller pushing it. toronto tom, toronto tom w son this, tuesday it in for the shorthanded goal to show off for the family and frids and the caps get the win 3-2. well, the newest capital didn't exactly suit up tonight.

that's carl haglin. a two-time stanley cup champion with the penguins. doug, you like that. carl also part o teams with the tngers andhe penguins that beat the caps in the playoffs five times. now he's here to help us not hurt llus. a right. crazy finish to this maryland's women's game. tied with 6 seconds left. kyla charles steals the inbound pass. takes it all the way for the hoop and the bucket. a game high 29 points and eighth ranked marylandent on a 9-0 run in the final 50 seconds to take their firsteand only of the game to beat minnesota 71-69. incredible finish ere. and let's go back to hockeyt cool e at the canadian embassy celebrating the nhl's 100 greatest playersnd art display from renowned canadian artist tony harris. don't worry, caps fans, alex ovechkin on. displ

they did put him next to sidney crosby. don't know what's up with thas ov best friend, the stanley cup. one caps fan very, very excitea to say the. . >> it was, i mean -- >> no words, huh? >> no words. d but the win the cup on my birthday. so i had the best g birthdayt ever. i was, like, i will always remember that because it was my birthday that they w the cup. i told my family that they don't ever have to get the n else for my birthday. that's it. my caps won on my birthday. that's it. i am happy. >> happy dance. >> they did it for her. >> you'd think she won a snow stick or something. stick or something. geico makes it easy to get help when you need it.

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