news 4 at 11:00 bhins w breaking news. now at 11:00, years ofon accusa >> they appear to have caught up with r. kelly. reaking tonight, one of the most successful r & b artists in history placed in handcuffs as

the singerlfurned him into chicago police tonight. a community on edge tonight after a rash of car break-ins. what you need to know to protect your vehicle, your valuables and your loved ones. >> leave it in a locked car i a well-lit parking lot in the early evening, it's just very upsetting. i'm tracking rain and very windy conditions for part of the weekend. i'll let you know what to expect both days. my complete forecast in just minutes. good eveningto we begin ght, everybody, with the man some say is one of the most creative musicians of our time. tonight r. kelly is facing the music. >> a little more than an hour ago, the embattled singer turned infter a two-decade-long trail of sex abuse allegations. ri leon h live -- >> prosecutors tell us the superstar singer's sex crimes

against children go all the way back to 1998. police arrested kelly tonight. court e making his first appearance tomorrow. now, we want to show you video of his surrender. th happening moments ago. he's now facing multipl charges ofggravated sexual abuse involving four suspected victims, including at least three between the ages of 13 an 17. kelly, by the way, is 52. he was auitted of child pornography charges back in 2008 but he's been dogged for decadet claims te violated underage girls and women and helds some sex slaves. >> so now there is another chance. i'm glad ate's attorney foxs taking this seriously and doing this. >> mr. kelly is strong. he's got a lot of support.o and he's going vindicated. >> new allegations surfaced after the lifetime channel aired a docuseries that featured his alleged victims telling their stories. kelly has consistently denied anyccusations of sexual misconduct. we will continue to follow this

story wherever it goes. at the live desk, leon hais, news 4. jim and doreen, back to you. >> all right. leon, thank you. now to theinain m into our region. it could keep you inside for at least part ofd. your week >> doug kammerer tracking that rain. doug, it's going to be coming down prettyeavy attimes. >> at times tomorrow. there is a little bit of a change to this forecast. i'must looking at some of the latest information right here. most of the day tomorrow during the d may be on the dry side. this is a little different than what i was looking at a little bit earlier. let's take a look at what we've been seeing all day. you notice all this rain around the roanoke area, downar t richmond. it has not been able to move for the north. tomorrow it may have a harder time moving to the north. some of you are going to see that rain during the day. i'm going tou take hour by hour and show you which places have the most rain during the day tomorrow. everybody gets in on the rain tomorrow night. ce evening. wasn't too bad out there. we've got some cloud cover but

temperatures aren't t bad. again, i'll take you through thg tif this. windy and warm, 40 to 50 miles winds.r how much more on next week's forecast. see you back here in a minute. >> doug, thank yo newant too, a rash of vehicle break-i in one northwest d.c. neighborhood. the latest victims, two youngs girlho had their backpacks and school work stolen. that incident one of least nine in d.c.'s chevy chase neighborhood so far this year. news's jacky bensen has more on this troubling trend and what you need to know to protect your belongings. jackie? >> reporter: jim, the people who are doing this are able to smash a cash's window and grab the valuables inside so quickly, so quietly, that people have beend stan nearby and not even noticed what was going on. >> i opened the door and then there was just glass all down here on this part of the seat.

>> reporter: steve howard describes the result of a quick presnowstorm trip to the safeway on connecticut avenue near chevy chase cir on tuesday, about 6:00 p.m. after his daughters, ages 8 and 11 recovered from the shock of seeing the smashed glass, they realized the thieves that taken only two things from the vehicle, their backpacks. these are images of identical models that their parents filed with the police report. >> they have, like, key chains and class work that they have gotten gheded back that were excited about. but my one daughter is in middle school and has a computer part of her program. her computer that she's supposeu to every day from school was stolen. >> reporter: statistics maintained by d.c. police show an increase in the crime of theft from auto in the second police district in upper northwest. there were 213 between january 1st and february 22nd of 2018. that number jumped to 405 for the same time period ts year. in psa 201 where the howards'

van was broken into, 14 thefts in auto from 2013. that number doubled this year. >> to leave it in a lked car, well-lit parking lot in early evening. it's just very upsetting. >> reporter: the safeway store has security cameras mounted outside. it's not clear if they captured any images of the brenk-in that ha in the lot tuesday. neigors tell us the are heartened by what appeared to be additional police patunls a this area. now as to prevention, we are o vetera break-ins in the news van. within theened to me last few months. i can tell you that if your car has a trunk, it's best to put backpacks,bags, things like that in the back. ardor to do if you have a minivan or station wagon. it's something you should try to take everything inside with you that you can. sometimes as we know, whe you've got kids, backpacks, it is much more difficult. live in chevy chase, jackie

bensen, news 4. >> allja right. ie, thank you. last night we told you about a history lesson gone all wrong at a school in northern virginia. tonight similt outrage a d.c. school. it started out as a school project at elsie whitlow stokes in northeast. to put on a skit to show what they learned about slavery during the civil war, but one ays that's not all that happened. >> two of the african-american boys p strayed ane of slavery being beaten by a white child.ac ptable.>> a confederate flag was brought into the classroom but it's unclear by whom. a school startadministrator addd pants in a letteraying the whole thing was, quote, regrettable. the school's founder says they're using this incident to talk to the students about race

and provide sensitivity training for teachers and staff. house republicans in virginia are inviting the lieutenant governor's accusers to testify at the capitol. democrats say it's just an election year ploy. both vanes tyson and meredith watsonccused justin fairfax of xual assault. e lieutenant governor says the encounters were consensual. lawyers for both women say their cliento want tell their stories to the general assembly but house democratic leaders say the investigation should play out in theus criminalce system not the legislature. >> the justice and the due ocess that we seek should be by a law enforcementy. not by individuals who will bein on the balloovember. >> constantly over the last three or four days the victims have constantly asked us to do our duty. >> dr. tyson's attorney says her client doesn't want the hearing to be politically charged.

the lieutenant governor issued a warning that the gop's hearing would be just that, political theater. a look at somee day's top stories, beginning with the powerful owner of the new engld patriots charged with prostitution, tied to an internatiouml trafficking probe. >> robert kraft busted in southl florida ande say they have him on camera paying for sex inside a massage parlor. women from chinaame to the states for what they thought were legitimate jobs but wereo sent t florida massage parlors instead. authorities say the billionaire paid for sex just days before winning his sixth super bowl. he denies the charges. a plot twist for disgraced actor jussie smollett. "empire" producers have cut him out of the last two episodes of thisso sean. the show cited allegations he orchestrated a racist and homophobic attack on himself for publicity. smollett insists he is innocent. filmmaker tyler perry said today the evidence against smollett

indicates he's not. the special counsel will not deliver his final report on the russia probe by the end of next week after all. we expected robert mueller to william rney general barr his report in the coming dahe but t justice department hasn't made a decision yet whether to release some or any of it to the public. top democrat lawmakers wrote to barrimoday urging to release it. maryland's drivers licenses could be in for a makeover. it's a change some states have already adopted. >> a bill making its way through annapolis adds a new gender option. "m" would stand for male. "f" would stand for female. >> but "x" would represent unspecified or other genders. news 4's darcy spencer introduces us to the family fighting for this change. >> "m," "f" or "x"? >> her 15-year-old recently asked her if they could move from maryland to d.c. that's because the district he

option to put "x" instead of male or female ondr your er's license. lu is nonbinary, which means they don't identify as maler female. lu would rather not drive than have to pick a gender to get the license. >> they made it clear this third option on the driver's licenoe, o"m," not "f," but an unspecified was important to them that the idea of moving was very appealing. >> reporter: but instead of ving, kalina decided to fight to change maryland law to allow an "x" as a third option on your cense. >> this actually would make the driver's license more accurhee for purposes of being really who they are. >> reporter: the bill just passed the maryland s'sate. eing considered in the house. advocates from thegbtq mmunity like lily pastor are also pushing for the bill. >> so to be in the where you're saying either i

self date my own sense of or i give up having a driver's license, that's an awful choice to have to make. >> advocates tell me the change would be simplll you'll s have the "m" for male and the "f" for female, but then thereould be an "x" for those who don't identify asth gender. delegate sara love is the lead sponsor of the bill in the house. she says this is about fairness. >> for a lot of people, they do not identify as male or female, nd so having to check one of those boxes just isn't right for them. it's just not who they a. reporter: darcy spencer, news 4. coming , an i-team investigation. >> pot parties exploding across the district. and now d.c. police are cracking down. >> our goal is to make arrests when people break the law. >> police keeping their promise but what happensext? ahead what the i-team uovered abou dozens of those cases being dropped. and it's been a week-long

effort to clear the clutter, but tonihat may be the toughest task yet. my desk. this is the before. next we're going to sho

some say it's a gray area in d.c.'s marijuana law. vendors gifng drugs to customers. dozens of officers often spend hours raiding these pop-up parties. >> but the news 4m i-t dug through hundreds of records and

found those arrests rarely to convictions. so is this a waste of resources? our invgative reporter jodi fleisher has the story.♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: youan find them in every corner of the dontrict very night of the week. the news 4 i-team went undercover to show you pot parties popping up inside businesses, warehouses even homes. the district's marijuana law says you can grow it, smoke it and gift small amounts to others,ou just can't buy or sell it. >> for $45. >> reporter: creating an entire industry that exchanges cash for ockskers, t-shirts even that come with marijuana products as a gift. >> i don't see a problem with it. >> reporter: he says he doesn't frequent or host pop-up parties but last month he got arrested while standing outside of one at a building he owns and rentsut for events. >> 20, 25 police officers drawnd the building, guns

and it was terrifying. orter: police also arrested the two women who were lrside setting up for the party. prosecutors havedy dropped those cases. the i-team found that's not uncommon. we tracked down records for more than two dozen pop-up events and followed every case through the courts. out of 255 people charged, the ipple found exactly three have gone to trial. >> marijuana prosecutions in the city have always been very leanest. >> reporter: police chief peter wsham told the i-team he wasn't surprised to learn prosecutors dropped 189 of those cases. >> when y80% ofr arrests get dismissed, that's got to be frustrate. ar >> not with r to the marijuana. i've grown accustomed to that. >> reporter: so we asked the obvious question, why continue to have officers spending their time raiding those parties? >> if you're gifting it on a large scale to numbers of people, you know, under the guise of you're giving them something leelse, it'sly distribution. i don't think that's even gray. >> reporter: in a statement a

spokesperson said prosecutors fully support police efforts but that successfully prosecuting those cases requires aigr legal standard. >> it's a big problem and i think it's a waste of time. >> reporter:.c. councilman says officers shouldn't be focused on enforcing a law that is likely to change. he's already introduced arlegislation to allowuana to be bought, sold and taxed. >> we are saying thatndore more people should be allowed to operate in this business, to the consequence of being hout >> you can smell the hints of the cannibis in it. >> reporter: purvis owns a mobile massage businesses. he infuses it to lotions and saps which he gifts to his clients. it's all described on his website. >> they tied it into the whole pop-up party, and i'm like, that's crazy. i think it's wrong. >> reporter: his is one of 22 cases prosecutors haven't dropped. three dozen others accepd guilty pleas. >> this is our signature cannibis butter. >> reporter: the chief says pop-up raids often originate

with complaints from neighbors, upset about noise and traffic and that cash-only sales make those parties a target f crime. records show officers sometimes recover thousands of dollars and guns, which are illegal to carry in the district. >> we've seen a couple of robberies associated with these pop-up parties. we have seen at least one homicide. >> rorter: purvis agrees safety is important, but even after his arre, he still sees the gifting law as gray in the pop-up pares and his own business. >> it definitely makes me have to rethink how i'm going to do it. i definitely don't want the police i comingagain. >> the u.s. attorney's spokesman told us they have moved for with the most viable pop-up party cases and that they arego g to prosecute any involving weapons or violence. jodi fleisher, new 4 i-team. all week long we have been working forou with tips on clearing the clutter from your life. today it was my turn. you may have seen the videos on social media of my desk.

>> uh-huh. >> it's pretty infamous around these parts. i admit it wasn't the tiediest in the newsroom so a local konmari consultant showed me the organizational method that encourages us to only keep the items that spark joy in our lives. all right. drum roll. tada. here is the final result. >> wow. >> find out more on the konmari method and all of our tips for clearing the clutter in the nbc washington app. you know i dumped and donated about six huge garbage bags. i cleaned up our neighborhood a bit, doreen. >> it looks like none of it sparked joy. >> so much crap in there it's not even funny. >> we're takn g betsw long. >> i know doug has started this thing. >> the only other optione was were literally going to -- >> set it on fire. >> you know, start from scratch because it might have -- i'm glad we got somebody in here, man. because that -- >> could have been deadly. >> we got some good weather on sa >> not bad. on to -- >> do some house cleaning,

right? >> even early. i think we'ree going to able to get out most of tomorrow, especially d.c. without rain until the evening hours. ,f you have some activities to do outdoo the forecast has changed just a little bit. take a look outside. no problems now. temperatures definitely on the cool side, 44. this is actually the high i'm going for for the day tomorrow. 44. yeah, going to be a chilly day with that rain coming in. currenno temperature 36 in gaithersburg. in winchester. 32 in fredericksburg. no r nn right. you can see it way down to the south. let me show you where this is. well down to the sou. tice it's even pushing farther south. an area of high pressure that ia dominatingually bringing in colder air and dryer air. you can see it's all kind ofdr ng out as it moves our way. this is why the forecast has changed just a little bit. we a still going to see that

push of moisture in our area during the dayornd into tw night. notice where the rain is. let's takeby you houour here. 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, maybe taking the dog for a walk or getting things you needater in the day, heading to the store, no problem. watch what happens around the noon hour. fredericksburg, leonardtown, d.c., dry. even at 3:00 in the afternoon, still dryf north washington. no rain there, however. warrenton, waldorf, fredericksburgleonardtown, you are seeing the rain by about 6:00. this what i was tellingou earlier. that's when the rain really comes in here with one front that makes its way on through.ow we will see s around dinner time. 11:00, the showers out there. bless you, jim hanley. that's from your desk, i'm telling you, pal. as wer make y -- as you make your way into saturday night. watch this. take aook at the heavy, heavy rain.

sunday morning, 1:30 in the morning. the good news ishis all moves out by 6:00. we're starting to dry out and we will dry out on sunday. the heaviest rain overnight saturday night into early suniny mo how about the rest of the weekend? rain heavy atimes tomorrow ternoon and tomorrow evening, really into the overnight hours. rain ending early sunday morning. so sunday's dry. but it's windy m andh warmer sunday afternoon. so windy, in fact, the nationav weather s has a high wind watch in effect for 50 to 60 miles an hourinds. most of this is at area of elevations along the blue ridge towards the west. ven in the city, we could see winds gusting up to 55 miles per monday and tuesday, actually looking pretty nice. high around 50 withce sunshine. chf flurries on wednesday and then a couple of chances for storms could be wintery. as we makeur way into the first weekend of march. the first full week of marchth k will be colder than average. a couple of stormy chances in

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this is the xfinity sports desk. >> wizards in action tonight for the first time since all-star break. despite a first half of the season that was nastier than nl 's desk, the wiz in the playoff race. 24 games left in the season. three games behind for the final playoff spot. dwight howard potentially comin. ba so can the wiz do it? bradley beal didn't haveo travel far after last weekend's festivities in charlotte. wiz taking on the hornets. hoping the team can start o their home stretch -- the home isstretch, that not at home, justo clarify my language. anyway, bradley beal with the flush right there. he had 14 points in the first quarter. wiz up by 11. but then here come the hornets. nicolas batum. batum goes thete dyna they say. >> oh, god. >> final seconds of the first

half. that's kemba walker. outscored by 16 in the thi-- th hornets get the bradley beal treatment. flying through the lane. throws it down over twoellas. season high 46 points.r, then late also the nice feed to bobby portis. makes it a five-point game but the deficit was too much. kemba walker nails this triple. that about wraps it up. wizards fall in charlotte, 123-110. >> we can't be worried about anybody other than ourselves. we got to play better and focus on how we play. we have to do it for8 minutes and be able to do it night in and night out. that second i quarter,t was problematic with turnovers and -- but we got to fige it out and go b hke tomorrow. we play much better at home. >> and also want to note that bryce harper and the nationals' relationship pretty much over as the team owner officially said

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