sex abuse. most of them involving teenage girls. we'll break down the charges before kelly appears in court tomorrow. the owner of the super bowl champion patriots busted in a massiv prostitution sting in florida. robert kraft denies doing anything wrong. police say there's video. >> the next court filing from robert mueller expected tonight. why the special counsel's investigation may not be done as soon as we think. >> announcer: news4 at 6:00 begins with breaking news. the investigation spurred by a shocking tv documentary series has singer r. kelly facing charges of sexual assault. >> the allegations span decades, some of the accusers were young teenagers at the time. >> erika gonzalez is following the story for us, she has new details on the possible evidence against kelly. >> attorney michaeli avena says he has video evidence r.

kelly engaged in a sexual act with a minor. >> repeatedly on the video both theictim and mr. kelly referred to the victim's age as being 14. that occurs in excess of 10 separate times ono.he vi >> in a press conference about an hour ago, avenue nagnat tee called the video superior to the evidence used in r. kelly's 2008 criminal case in which he was acquitted. avenatti says he knows of at least two more tapes similar in nature. today an arrest warrant was issued for thesinger. a grand jury brought forth ten felony charges of aggravated timinal sexual assaul against him. office said three vicms were

between 13 and 16. r. kelly is supposed to be in court tomorrow for a bond remember in january there was a docuseries involving r. kelly in which numerous women were sharing stories that they had been abused by r. kelly in some way, physicly, mentally, throughout all of this r. kelly has maintained his innocence. it's important to know we have ronot heard his or his attorneys today. if convicte uld face three to seven years per charge, and therwere ten separate charges hoar. definitely still a developing story we will be watching. back to you all in thest io. also breaking tonight, one of the most powerful team owners in the nfl caught up in aos tution scandal. new england patriots owner bobr

kraft c with paying for sex at a massage parlor in south heorida. police say six-time super bowl champion was caught on camera twice paying for a sex act. a spokespern for kraft denies that he engaged in anything illegal. kraft was spt uatin a sting targeted multiple massage parlors in florida. >> he's being charged with the same offenses as the others,th d is soliciting another to commit prostitution. >> is there video evidence of his alleged acts? >> yes, sir. for all the individuals being charged. >> law enforcement officials say evidence also iicatesa kraft was gular at the massage parlor. a spokesperson for the national football league says they're monitoring developments in thec . the late senator john mccain used to say theussia investigation was like a centipede, there's always another shoe to dr. a lot of folks are waiting for special counsel robert mueller to drop his shoe, but we're

learning the wait may be a bit longer. contrary to previous estimates, a j seniorustice official tells nbc news that the report will not be handed over this week or next. blayne alexander is tracking it all for . what's the latest? >> reporter: the latest is we have guida te when not expect this report. but still growing signs are showingnshat special c robert mueller is winding down this investigation. so really all of washington o a pi needles awaiting that report. remember, there is no guarantee thathat report will ever actually be made public. the wayte house downplg the upcoming report from special counsel robert mueller, who is believed to be wrapping up his russia investigation. >> there was no collusion, there was no obstruction, there was no anything. that's the nice part. and everybody knows it's a hoax. it's one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on this country.

i look forward to seeing the report. if it's an honest report, it'll say that. >> reporter: president trump pecting vindication while leaving it up to william bwhr ether public.e the report something to the demanded by law, but could be demanded by >> i can't imagine that congress, in some extent a bipartisan way, doesn't demand everything bob mueller has.he >> on day mueller is to release a sentencing recommendation on paul manafort, the president's former campaign chairman who paded guilty to charges related to lobbying work for ukraine, while in the oval office hoping to put an end to the trade stand off with china. >> i would say it's more likely a deal will happen. >> reporter: the two superpowers working to strike a deal before march 2nd toea end a that has unsettled the global economy.ne week president trump will be in vietnam for his highly anticipated second summit with

north korea's kim jong-un. back to you. >> thank yo blayne. in just about an hour and a half president trump will address the republican governor's association in downtown washington. one of the men in the crowd is not closing the door on challenging mr. trump for the presidential nomination in 2020. chris gordon spoke with maryland governor, larry hogan, and joins us with details. >> reporter: this could add fuel to the fire. in my interviewtoday, governor hogan attacked president trump's reelection campaign, calling its tactics something you'd expect in north korea. maryland governor larry hogan says he is aware of all the speculation that he's considerg running for president. he's a popular republican and a consistent critic of president trump. here at the national governor's association winter meeting in

washington, hogan is criticizing the trump reelection campaign. he says it'sreuring the republican national committee to shield president trump from primaryal ngers. >> it just didn't seem like the right thing to do, to be saying we're going to shutown all debate. we may eliminate primaries, and we're going tth do eveg we can to skew the process. it sounds like something you would hear about in north korea rather than the united states of america. >> and i will be faithful -- >> reporter:ogan was the first republican governor since the 1950s to be re-electe in maryland, a heavily democratic state. at hogan's second inauguration, jeb bush praised hogano strongly, some thought it sounded likeush was suggesting that hogan should challenge president trump. >> with this phenomenalxale of leadership barely 30 miles from washington d.c. you'd think

and hope leaders would beaying attention. >> reporter: this summer hogan f thebecome the chairman national governor's association. he's traveling to iowa and has an tnvitation to go new hampshire. he tells me people have approached him about the idea of running for president. >> when i didn't say w considering it or thinking about it, i simply did not completely rule it out. they said under no circumstances would you consider it? i said, look, you can't never say never.or >> rr: governor hogan tells me he has no time line to make the decision whether or not to run for president. he says he is very grateful to the people who think he would make a good candidate. that's the latest live in nortwashington. doreen and jim b k to you. >> he's going to keep us guessing. chris gordon thank you. >> a gray and cloudy friday to end the week, but it beats another stow storm. >> it does. doug joins us with the twists and turns on the february roller

coaster. >> doreen, you don't want a blzard? >> no. i had enough snow this winter. i'm ready for spring. >> i think a of us have had enough of the rain. record rainfall last year and we're continuing that tread as we head into 2019. another rainy weeke in store for us. you can see where that rain is now, downe south traveling i-95 southward tonight into tomorrow, a wet mess. same thing with i-81. eventually that mov in here. temperatures to the north cooler, 30s, low 40s, that air is dripping across our region too. so tomorrow with the rain on the chilly side. it's a nasty afternoon on our saturday. ice evening tonight, not bad. rain moving i, tomorr i'll show you when. and then windy and warm on our sunday. winds 40 to 50 miles per hour. we'll talk about that,

temperatures way above average. i'll see you back here in a minute two women have accused virginia's lieutenant governor of sexual assault, and now one is accepting an invitation to tell her story in public. today house republican leaders invited both women and lieutenant governor justin fairfax to testify at the capitol. but a northern virginia bureau chief julie carey reports tonight, the decision comes over the fierce objections of some democrats who say it's an election year ploy. >> reporter: with just a day left in this 2019 session, house republicans say it's time to move ahead to open an investigation. >> the courts of justice committee will schedule a meeting where we will invite dr. tyson and ms. watson to testify. we will also be inviting lieutenant goverr fairfax to testify. >> reporter: it's been two weeks since the second of two women came forward to accuse the uaeutenant governor of s assault, alleged incidents that took place in 2000 and 2004,

incidents lieutenant governor justin fairfax says were consensual encounters. both women have said through theirttorneys they want to tell their story to the general asiblif. >>ver the last three or four days the victims have constantly asked u to do our duty. >> reporter: vanessa tysonaid she'll speak to law enforcement in boston where that assault occurred. but house democratic leaders blasted the gop announcement. they say the criminal justice system is the right place for an inquiry. >> the justice and due process that we seek, should be byen a w rcement entity. not by individuals who will be on the ballot in november. >> reporter: but this democratic delegate, a sexual assault survivor himself takes a different view. >> because survivors of sexual assault are and should be entitled to cose whichever legal venue they desire to seek

justic when i was raped, i did not report to law enforcement. becaide i not believe that that was a way inhich i would achieve justice. >> reporter: the lieutenant govern's spokeswoman issued a statement warning the gop plan would be an exeliise in cal theatre. now meredith watson's att ney says she will accept the invitation to testify but unlike tyson, watson says she does not plan to take her complaint to police orrs prosecu in north carolina where her alleged assault occurred. >> have we heard from professor tyson's lawyer tonight? just within the last 90 minutes she said while her client is prepared totestify, they don't have any formal invitation yet and she says a necessaryne a tyson doesn't want to get embroiled in political

process. right now democrats are not in ubagreement with rcans on this. >> salms very politico far on this. >>hank you, julie. we are staying on top of several breaking stories for you tonight, two celebrity scandals, r. kelly facing charges of sexual abuse and new england patriotswner robert kraft one of many named in a prostitution bust. we'll have updates on both those stories at 6:30. u> it's friday so chuck todd will be with to break down the wee

another long week with a dizzying set of political

developments once again. >> again. let's get right to it. special counsel robert mueller as usual reserving the right to remain silent amid a new report his findings will not be delived to theustice department within the next week. bernie sanders joins the presidential race. llike 2016, there are plenty of candidates in hise this time. maryland governor, larry hogan, growing more outspoken about weighing the possibility of a primary challenge against president trump. >> chuck todds nbc news political director and mod rerar of "meet the press." weed leaoday that report is not likely to come out next week or the week after. clearly we expect tt it will address the heart of the inquiry, whether president trump or anyone o hisampaign knowingly worked with russia during the interference in the 2016 election. we're also expecting obstruction

of justice to be cered in that mueller report. what else might we look for, k? ch >> i'll be honest. i'm sitting in doug's >> it's like forecast -- >> it's like forecasting the weather. it's hurricane mueller, category 5 and it's sitting out there. theal question is, there' sorts of models one has his hovering over the white house and dumping and dumng and dumping. another model has it maybe just missing washington but hitting trump tower in new york. there's one conservative model that has it hitting where hillary clinton lives or it could go out to sea.hi i tnk washington is preparing for this mueller storm. we just don't know which side is -- needs more disaster preparedness if it turns into dud, what does that do to the congreional democrats on capitol hill. or if it sits on the white house and spawns tornados of

legislation and investirotions that even further. in some ways we've been in this weird purgatory on all sorts of other things whave a north korea summit, until mueller speaks we're not getting past much. >> nothing moves forward. >> nothing moves forward. sense of come s on, man. what are you doing here? >> how likely is it we'll see it, n just from leaks but officially. >> i am an optimist that we're starting to seople on both sides of theperum on mueller realizing no matter what you think of it, the more out tere better. i'm not prejudging what thera attorney ges decision is going to be. i get the sense whether you're jared kushner or adam schiff, whatever it is, it's in everybod it come out there as much as you can legally do. there's grand jury success resi

issues and stuff like that. anything you leave to ambiguity is bad fcy democt this point. i hope that is starting to have an impact on thoseth involved i decision. >> let's turn to bernie sanders jumping into the race for the white house. raised a lot of money initially, a lot f more challen s this tiaround. what is his path to victory? >> there's a path to victory that's familiar, it's donald trump's path. largeel solid base 30%, carries you through and you can win a bunch of primaries, as people get squeezed out, you get -- remember, donald trump never could win a majority until the very, very >> even then we didn't expect him to. >> that's right. it was more of he had a floor of supporters. i tell you this with bernie.ix i -- months ago if you told me bothlizabeth warren and bernie sanders were going to be in the race and jumped in earl

would have put my money on warren having a better entrance than sanders. and boy, i and a lot of other people have been wrong on this one. i think bernie sander bernie sanders' support is much deeper but is it enough? i would say this, the big loser this week is elizabeth warren, she doesn't look as strong as i thought she would in that lane with bernie. >>e've been reporting about larry hogan dancing around it, what do you of it. >> he said himself i'm not running right now. we'll see. he not wrong. if you're a republican in charge -- he's not alone in this republican governors concerned about the president's standing, o's weak. ev a good day he's sitting atdi5%. his stan is weak unless

you're in a deep red state. there's a point if the mueller port is bad and it looks like it makes him unelectable, regardless of whether congress does anything about it, there im an at to be said, do you have this? p theroblem for larry hogan may bee the minute views the president as vulnerable, he may not be the only republican that views the president as vulnerable. who knows, maybeio marco r still, i'm not saying -- the point is, the weaker he appears, the more crowded the larry hogan lane mht get. >> but there are few who, like larry hogan,li are w to challenge -- >> bill weld and larry hogan in some way,ld b weld the one announced challenger, inome ways they're the canary in the coal mine. >> u're goodf analogies this

week. >> doug is on the phone f>> you. i got you. >> we can all understand that. tile we wait for mueller you can count on chu bring you the latest on "meet the press" sunday morning at 10:30 here on nbc 4:00. following breaking news out of chicago, r. kellnes attor said the singer is, quote, shell shocked by sex abuseaghargers nst him and he'll turn himself in tonight. these are liveictures of his studio, cameras set up righthe outside t door. someone is starting to come out, we're seeing live aerial pictures, not him we understand.

doug, the weekend is finally here, and also we can confirm that chuck today is watching your weather forecast carefully. >> i like how he keeps my seat warm. it helps out. >> he was saying doug'she guy on the way out. >> i love that guy. chuck todd, thank you. i appreciate that. so funny what's been going on the last couple days,in m into the next few days, i love how the models come out with different stuff. all the models agreeing on rainy saturday, that's for sure. you have the umbrella ready, you need it tomorrow. not tonight. tonight 46 degrees right now. not too cold, cool for this time of year, dropping to 43 by 9:00. heading out toinner you nee the jacket, but not the heavy coat, not the gloves or hats, you don't need the umbrella tonight. 47 d.c., 46 forth bell var. no rain in then area duth

trying to pick up rain not hitting the ground. look where it isng hithe ground, a long fetch of moisture coming out of e gulf of mexico, all of that rain moving our way, we will see the rrin the day tomorrow. let's show you. not at noon so if you have early tomorrow morning no problem, take the dog out, for a run, as long as you're in by 1:00 in the aftnoon you should be fine, here's the rain by about 3:00. everybody t in on rain tomorrow night. heading out on your saturday night it's going to be a wetne for sure. some locations picking up half an inch to an inc of rai or more. monday, nothing around d.c. but we a high wind watch for higher elevations, frederick county back to the west. winds 50 to 60 miles an hour in these areas. that's something we'll beng trac too. in the city winds gusting to 40

miles per hour. we go from 44 and rainsa rday, to 68 and wind sunday. then we go average here monday and tuesday. sunshine,zy br but temperatures around 50. i'll take average any dwe of the when it's 50 and sunshine. a that's nice looking day. >> we like the sound of that, thank you, dog. next at 6:30, drug bust at dulles airport. a d.c. s charterool facing questions tonight about a clsroom skit thatnvolved students playing slaves. one of the parents talking to news4. staying on top of breaking news, scandals involving r. kelly and robert kraft. thes l on both those stories,

breaking now at 6:30 r. kelly's lawyer said the singer will turn himself into police tonight. >> it comes hours after a judge in chicago issued a warrant for his arrest. the r&b superstar is charged with multiple counts ofua sex abuse spanning decades. tonight we know some of the victims were unrage. >> charlie from our sister station in chicago reports. >> reporter: it is the first in what will likely be a long legal war for kelly, an indictmen with 10 counts of aggravated sexual assault involving four women. >> the first victim was involved in incidents which occurred between may 26, 1998 and may 25,

j1999. a gray returned an indictment on four counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse based on the victim being under the age of 17 and robert kelly being more than five years than the victim. >> reporter: the other charges reveal a similar pattern. >> aggravated criminal sexual abuse is a class two felony with a sentencing range of three to seven years per count. >> reporter: they were the first to report the allegations against r. kelly. today the reactions were mixed. >> now there's another chance and i'm glad the state attorney issaking thi seriously and doing this. we'll see how this turns ou i think chicago wanted to be first. we're all journalists, right? first isn't always best. first isn't always most thorough. i'm glad somebody got him.

>> nbc's charlie woj how ski reporting. r. kelly's lawyer says, quote, kelly is shell shocked by the allegations against him. police in florida say they will not release details about the charges against new england patriots owner robert kraft. kraft has not beente arr yet but he's charged with two counts of soliciting a prostitute. police say there's video of kraft at a massage parlor. it's one of several busted in connection to human trafficking and prostitution. kraft's representatives s the deny that mr. kraft engaged in any illegal activity. a project at aharter school was supposed to teach students about black history. instead it left students upset and parents outraged.

news4 mark segraves is gathering reaction a from the school's founder. >> reporter: administrators are calling it a teachable moment here at elsie whitlow stokes elementary school in northeast. but parents wish it never happened. >> unacceptable. >> reporter: sharon has three children at the school she loves it but her fifth grade son game e upset about a skit his assmates put on. >> two african-american boys portraying a scene of slavery ingeaten by a white child, unacceptable. >> reporter: the school administrator wrote it was regrettable that the teacher did not stop the skit. i spoke by phone with linda moore, the founder of the school.'s she said the a bigger issue to focus on here. >> what happened in the classroom is indicive of the

difficulties we as a nation are having and have always had of coming tops g with our history n slavery and racism. i feel we should ignore our history and there are many ways to teach children. >> reporter: parents agree it's a tough topic for teachers and students. but as this parent told us kids of all ages are l race relations one way or another. >> it is a difficult situation. >> reporter: school officials acknowledge a confederate flag was used during one of thebukits could not say whether a teacher or student brought the flag tocl s. mark segraves news4. there is also outrage over a lesson at a northern virginia elementary school meant to teach students about the underground railroad. it involved third, fourth and fifth graderst madison's trust school. the kids split into groups and ran a physical obstacle course

aimed to give the children a lesson about the journey slaves made to eedom. but parents, school officials and community members said it missed t mark. >> it was a dinner table conversation, what did you do in pechlte. class today, this is what w did. you did what? people died on the underground railroad and it shouldn't be a game. >> school officials said the teacher came up with the curriculum outside the school's curriculum and apologiz. it's one of the many ways illegal drugs are smuggled into ourcountry, air travel. this week alone, customs and border protection officers uncovered more than 250 pounds of illal contraband. cory smith looks at the efforts some people take to conceal them. >> reporter: look at this photo,

wh do you see? chocolate, right? what about this one? looks like tea doesn't it? to the untrained eye, there's nothing here. to customs and border protections officers there are red flags everywhere. >> looks like it's been tampered, let's take a sample test, and it's a narcotics substance. exact.shush to be and the shipment of tea? >> we found a narcotic substance. >> reporter: it sws the length people go to to smuggle illegal hentraband into country. in more than 30 years experience aficer christopher downing has seen it and then some. >> shrunken heads. >> reporter: dulles is among 300 points of international entry, every day officers something. >> sometimes it's ignorance and sometimes they figure the law of naverages play their side. >> reporter: as soon as the flight lands the agency gets to from the basement. >> coming off the plane, getting

off the carts, have a handler come. >> reporter: to baggage claim. >> we come and search people around the carousel. >> chey figure they get through. >> reporter: two seizures of this size so close together is uncommon, stopping them is all in a day's work. being on the front lines of protecting their own communities makes this more than a job. > getting that stuff off the streets of northern virginia, that's huge. >> reporter: cory smith news4. when we come right back, a sexual abuse survivor addresses the catholic church's most powerful clergy. will a summit make a change. taking on tn smoking and vaping. how virginia is trying to kicka ction to nicotine. one thing we don't need more of is rain, but we have it coming our way. we'll track the rain for sd

if you want to buy cigarettes or vaping products i virginia, you're going to have to be at least 21 years old. governor ralph northam signed a bill this week that bans people under 21 from buying tobacco and the liquid nicotine used in vaping vices. active duty military personnel are exempt. the bill had bipartisan support worth noting in a commonwealth known for tobacco production. on itsay now to the governor's desk a bill that requires clergy in virginia to alert authorities about reports of child abuse or neglect. the senate passed that bill today. it was sponsored by carey delaney. the focus today at the vatican was on the victims. a survivor testified beforers

church lea gathered in rome. pope francis is leading a summit on preventing clergy sexual abuse. a former nun who was abused as child and as an adult has little confidence this summit will bring aboutan real . >> demands the records. gotorming into your archdiocese but do someing. there won't be a church unless some significant changes happen kly. also today, two american cardinals addressed the of theodore mccarrick, the former arch bishop of washington. the cardinals from boston and chicago said his case brought about a new spirit of accountability within the church. a photographer's snapshot of her son posed like mohammed le ali is a viral sensation. is a viral sensation. dou

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campaign teaching african-american children to eam, as pyre to be whatever they want. >> how a photo project for two little boys exploded into something much more. >> my name is unique jones gibson, i'm the founder of because of them we can. february 2013, i marked a black history month campaign where i placed kids among black history makers and their quotes. the first image we launched was my son portraying muhammad ali. and for the entire month we launched other iconic images like a little spike lee, a little rosa parks, a little malcolm x, whoopi goldberg. all these amazing people we had learned about but never had seen reimaged through the eyes of a child. i only planned to do it for 28

days but the people wanted more. we produced through our platform, which reaches millions of people monthly over 1,000 stories. so it has evolved over the last six years to a movement that exists onlineut also offline. >> whatever you've been entrusted with doing, do it to the best of your ability. whether you're required to make coffee or to lead a project, focus your energy on making sure that you always show up as your best self. >> i feel like i'm changing things by helping people to really reevaluate the way that they look at the african-american community. people who aren't in the community. i think that the work really does a great job at getting to people's hearts in order to

convince their minds what i know is true is that black excellence happens daily. black excellence and black history is happening and taking place right now in some part of the world and it's our job to seek out that story, find that individual, and amplify it. what an impressive woman. see more about how her campaign has grown beyond the internet during the nbc 4lack history move special this weekend, "she thrives" will feature stories of black women in the dmv who are elevating the conversation about black identity, culture, and politics. >> join us early omorrow morning at 5:30 and sunday right after "meet>>he press." et up to record it if you can't be there then. doug is back with a check on ko our weather. good news and bad news. >> which do you want to hear first? >> good ws.

>>unday is looking great, high of 68. >> thank you,doug. okay. >> we have to get through saturday, though. shaping up to be rathe rainy. the rains coming in this now on saturday, it's a lot of rain. look what the same storm system did -- we don't have it now? >> now you have to describe it, what you were going to show. >> it shows i snow coming do part -- >> okay. >> we've got it. this is out towards flag staff, arizona.s 35.6 inc in one day. >> what? >> one day. and then you go to arizona -- rather you go to las vegas. that is las vegas, nevada, they saw snow, they were out of school day, that does not happen often and they do not have built in snow days so they have to add an extra one. snow into parts of las vegas. let's show our friendsn southern california too they got in on the action as well. down around pasadena, parts o

hollywood, the top of the hills, the snow lineboas at 1,500 feet, the hollywood sign is $15.69 so i believe they were just above the snow line. look at that, getting out and playing in snow. i'm sure those ks have never maybe even seen snow and they have it out there today. out there n for us. we have dry conditions, temperatures wise sitting at 47 degrees. windsut of th north at 9 miles per hour. 41 frederick, 4 manassas. says 37 in winchester. somebody needs to check this one,te winch is always on the colder side. he rain is all in our southern zones not hitting the ground, if it is it's very, very light. tracking more rainngma its way in here. we're waiting for the southwest storm move in, it's starting to pick up moisture here in kansas, eventually it move gs it our way. not at 8:00 a. or noon, if you

have things to do tomorrow morning, no problem. 1:00 we're dry, by 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, then it gets heavyt 6:00, really heavy rain for the evening rush -- wait, it's saturday noning rush. if you're rushing to dinner, everybody, watch out forth , you will need the umbrellas out there. by 11:00 still some showers getting out of here. but we're not done. the cold front has to come through, cing through wit showers early sunday morning, actuallyrings in warmer air during the afternoon. it happens from time to time. 11:00 a.m. it's not raining, it's the wind and the warmer es temperat rain heavy at times tomorrow afternoon into the evening. rain ending sundaymorning, so sunday will be dry, it's going o be windy, gusting up to 40 miles an hour, a high wind watci is effect for higher elevations. a high ofgr8 s. monday and tuesday looking nice, dry, 50s.

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this is thedefinity sports . bye-bye bryce. he ain't comingback. >> he's probably not coming back. kind of over itre i have a weird analogy. you know when you're texting back andorth withsomeone, enjoying the convo then yoump a antant question and the person stops texting back. >> you get the three dots maybe. >> you don't even get that. that's what's happening between the nationals and bryce harper. now the team owner is over it. the club offering harper a 10 year $300 million contract at the end of last season that he

rejected. since then the ns have spent plenty of cash on other free aggrega agents. >> nothing hashanged on our end, we moved on as i said back then. to ad to, there was no w wait around. we filled out our roster. like i said,h we w him nothing but the best, but, you know, the doorlways that -- is cracked a little bit, but i just don't -- i have no clue at mhis point what they're up to. we haven't heard f them in a couple months. >> not even three dots there. the wizards back in action tonight for the first time since the all-star break. despite the start of a season messier than jim handly's desk, wiz is thick in the playo race. >> please pardon, the buzz but this place was buzzing a few daysago, theome of the charlotte hornts you get that. it was buzzing because the nba

all-star game was here. it's back to reality for the wizards tonight, the start of the 24 game push to the playoffs. three things because they're of the playoff spot. number one, bradl beal, let's face it, has to connue at an all-star level. you think about o the month february alone he's been averaging 28 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds and continues to make winning plays. number two, this tm has t get better defendinghe three point line. worst three point defensen the nba, allowing 37% from the three point line. and the wizards have to be a better rebounding team they're 28th in the nba with rebounding. maybe that changes with players like bobby portis. think about it in four games he has 29 rebounds. jar marie parker, 49 rebounds. head coach believes parker can be the leading rebounder on the

wizard's team. three things to watch for if the wizards get to the playoffs. if only it was that simple. dave johnson, news4 sports. an emotional win for denny hamelin and joe gibbs racing when he won the daytona 500 for e second time. it was the first time since e' jo son itdied. was the biggest of his career. meanwhile, hamelin who was discovered by jd was happy to give the gibbs family a lift when they needed it. >> it'see bn a tough month losing j.d. but it's a proud onw g we were able to do it forjd, i saw how excited his kids were in victory lane. i saw how excited and emotional j.d.'s wife was in victory lane, melissa. for me, i just -- i was so proud to be able to get them a

victory. grew up in virginia, and we always rooted for the redskins pictures of me all over with my redskins gear on as a kid. i met joe at an autograph sessn when i was 12 years old, i feel like i'm a small part of joe gibs' life but to be able to give him his biggest commen accomplishment. some caps move, they made another trade before the deadline gting nick jensen for madison bowie and a pick as well from the red wings. >> love seeing that story. >> incredible scene at the daytona 500. so much emotion and what a win. >> nice to see that family have something positive. >> absoluly. ch needed lift. >> thank you. that's going to do it for us. thank you for havings in this week. it is friday, nbc "nightly news" is coming your way nex >> see you at 11:00.

breaking news tonight.av shockwes as the billionaire owner of the new england , patriotsrobert kraft, is charged in a day spa ostitution sting. tonight the video surveillance c operation thaught the architect of an nfl dynasty and a powerful friend to the president. we have reaction from south florida to boston. also breaking, prosecutors charging sinr r. kelly with sexually abusing underage girls for more than a decade. one kelly's alleged victims in the indictment speaks to nbc news. new fallout on the jussie smollett saga. and we take a closer look at thc technology polsay they used to unravel this story. ere's late word of the mueller investigation, that looming mueller report. d richargel is inside syria with the isis bride begging to return to america.