ance pay nothing out of pocket. talk to your doctor and visit botoxchronicmigraine.com to enroll. for help as flames rip through her silver spring home. this morning hear from the heroes who saved her life. >> could this the new face of republican politics? a "new york times"interview adding more fuel this morning tt rumors tha maryland governor larry hogan may challen president trump in the primary. and a billion dollar real estate deal means a controversial white house staffer might be involved with your new landlord. we'll take aloser look a the deal affecting thousands in our area. >> that's a pretty interesting story. >> yeah. >> lots to get you up to speed on on thisunday morning as we welcome you into to news 4

today. i'm david culver. adam tuss is off. >> and him meagan fitzgerald. >> strong winds rolling through this morning grab your hats and everything that can fly away. >> hold on to it. >>tht's coming ugh. >> this could last through the monday morning commute. storm team 4's lauryn ricketts and joinsg the system us from the weather system with more. what are you thinking about all of this,ry laun in. >> aim thinking we'll have possible power outages, david, because of how saturated the ground is. got a lot ofain and still seeing rain out there right now so we're in weather m alertnly because the winds would pick up after 10:00, 11: this morning and then they will stay with us through monday night. they will be with us f at least a good 36 hours. let's if ahead and take a look at the maps rig now. banners in we had. weather alert because of the winds, n pause of the rain because the rain is scooting through the area. heavy in spots. that's what the yellow is repres this will continue to move up and out of here as we go through the morning. all of this is lifting through our area, but if you're up early

this morning, you'reineading some steady rain. watch out for the puddles out there. a lot ponding on the roadways. big splashes. enough to blind your vision and watch out for the sun coming up before 7:00 a.m. we do have a warning -- we have an advisory. that's what's shaded in that lightolor right here, this light brown. gusts will be up to 50 miles per hour as we head into the afternoon so we'll talk about that and when the winds will down.ly die listen, i can talk about how warm it's going to be. 'll talk about those temperatures coming up in ten minutes. >> we'll catch up with you then. at 6:02 on this sunday, a daring rescue in silver springs as flames through her home. >> firefighters heard her cries and pulled her out. the fire happened on holman senue. neighbors saw tke and heard the woman's desperate cries and fire officials say there were horrid conditions

inside the house that made it difficult f crews to get in and find her. >> she was talking to us. as we wer moving her through, the house, we couldn't see anything but we knew she was still viable. >> how scary is that? the wom suffered smoke inhalation. a second person in the home was able to escape. investigators found no working specters inside that home. >> officls in texas trying to figure out what caused a cargo crash.er to the boeing 767 went down near huson. three people were on that plane when it nose dived into the bay yest officials say the crash killed everyone on board. crews did recomfort remains of the victims. e plane is part of the amazon air package delivery fleet. it was headed to houston from miami when it crashed. a local sheriff says moments after the crash he initially relied on folks who had boats to jump in and help out. >> w were working hard.

people in harvey, obviously were hoping there would be survivors. >> the trail of debris in the water is up to one mile long. authorities say they have not yet recovered the black box. >> speculation is growing around whether maryland governor larry hogan mayha cenge president trump in the primary. e "new york times" sat down with the governor yesterday, and he told them that president trump's 2016 win wa quote, anomaly and added more needs to be done with the gop's shrinki base. hogan told "the times" in part, quote, i think are a lot of republicans concerned about thet future and w us to be a bigger tent and reach a wider audience and not to the alienate poem and not to be as divisive. hogan praised the president on the economy but noted that, quote, we might differ on trade. we might differ on many other things. the governor spoke on friday to news 4's chris gordon about a

possible presidential run. >> it's not something i have any kind of a time lin on. i didn't say was considering or thinking about it. i simply did not completely rule it out. >> this will be interesting to watch. hogan attended a speechpry ident trump on friday. he says he's pleased thepr ident hasn't criticized him so far. >> the family of white house senior advis jared kushner is ae new landlord of thousands of homes in marylan virginia. "the wall street journal" reporting kushner companies bade $1.1 billion for a portfolio of out 6,000 apartments. the company's dealings have drawn more scrutiny because jared kushner is president trump's .son-in-l kushner companies has said it has been hardero to business because of the heightened attention that they are dealing with the companys run by jared kushner's father charles. the dealop spans 16 ties. if you want to read more about

it, head in a our nbcp. washingn >> repeatedly and brazenry violated the law. that's the pick tower that special counsel robertmu eller's office paint of former campaign manage the special counsel's office released its sentencing memo on paul manafort yesterday. they say hey repeatedl broke laws while lobbying on half of ukranian interests. mueller's officeays manafort continued to be unlawful even after being indicted. mueller is not rmending a specific jail sentence. manafort is also facing tax and bank fraud charges in virginia. be can bet the russia p will be a hot topic later this morning on "meet the press" with chuck todd. chuck and his panel will break down the latest developments on the ongoing investigation. that starts at 10:30 right after "news 4 today." >> happening now, the founah and day of an unprecedented vatican summit to address the sexual abuse and cover-up within the catholic church. there was powerful testimony at the vatican yesterday. sitting just feet from pope

francis, this nigerian nun who accused church leaders of being hypocrites, ignoring their faits, more or less and values. she add that the credibility of the church is at stake here. pope francis assembled thisti landmark meeng and defined a new path forward after decades of abuse and accusations o clergy cover-up. last week the church expelled former archbishop of washington theodore mccarrick from the priesthood. r & b singer r. kelly is now in a legal battle of his life. this morning he's still in jail charged with sexually abusing four women. now, he's trying to come up with a large amount of cash to post bond. a judge set his bond yesterday at $1 prosecutors say three of the victims were underage when the alleged crimes happened between 1998 and 2010. they also say there's video of him having sex with an underage girl >> in the video the victim repeatedly, repeatedly says

she's 14 years old. >> right now he's innocent. we haven't seen anything to believeeghese aions are credible. >> presumed innoce, sure, but these allegations are incredibly disturbing. sources tell nbc news that homeland security is looking into a possible connection between kelly and sex trafficking allegations. a homeland security spokeswoman would notrm con or denied if that's true. kelly's next court date is for monday morning. >> a fund-raiser at a local chipotle to raise money for former football jordan mcnair. bring in this flyer, show it on your smartphone or tell the cashier you're tupre to srt the cause. chipotle will donate 33% of the procords to the jdan mcnair foundation. the foundation was started in honor of mcnair who tragically passed away last summer after suffering a heat stroke during a team workout. >> such a sad story. >> the time now is t6:08.

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welcome back. time now is 6:12. we're in storeor strong winds. >> it's a storm team 4 weather alert day. you think the wind could spark some power outages. >> i do. inly with how saturated the ground is with all the snow we got mid-week and then all that melted and now there's been rain. i do expect some of the higher ridge tops wind will bring powei s down. there's been heavy steady rain in the overnight. is it going toll rain day? no. in fact, we'll get rapid clearing later on. bue will you be a to eat

outside? temperatures will be moving right on up into the mid to upper 60s, but the thick is you be outside. i don't think you'll be able to grill outside or go he brunch outside because it's going to be so darn windy out there. it's really not going to be bearable, but temperatures will be nice. gain, we were just talking about. i do believe we could have some power outages. no big snow chances,un rtunately, coming in in that ten-day forecast so we'll have to watch for quiet conditions this week which is fine with me. 39 degrees is our temperature right now. as we go throu m thening. the rain will be pushing east. by mid-morning all of it should be out of here a then we're warming up quite a bit with the mid-morning into the early afternoon with temperatures already moving into the mid-50s but lunchtime. current temperatures out there right now. it's not too bad. we're into the 40s. not seeing new flurries and precipitation unless you're way north of yd.c. and're a little higher on the ridgetop. wind advisory for sunday afternoon. that's the area i shaded this

light brown. in this orange right here, a wind warning. ain, we do have warnings to the north where you could possibly see wind gusts up to 60 miles per 'sur. hehe rain right now, and widen this out. it's all moving off to the east. the ill continue to move t ev by mid-morning and early afternoon you're dry. look at this, by 8:00, right alon the i-95 corridor. it continues to push oby. 10:30 we're dry. we'll have some sunshine out there and rapid sunshine comin ouy, and that will warm us right on up into the 60s for e highs today. as i said, it's going to be pretty windy. we could have 60-mile-per-hour wind gusts all the way up into carroll county. breezy tomorrow with gusts up tp 40 mil hour and a lot cooler tomorrow. all sunshine but temperatures only around 50eges. so, again, some pretty strong winds that will be coming our way wot only as go through your sunday but also into the monday. they die down late monday night.

here we g d 50rees on your monday. we're back in the upper 40s by tuesday. i wednesday we'the low 40s. we'll have plenty of sunshine as we get into your thursday and then friday and saturday we are looking at some rain coming our way. maybe even a ltle bit of snow coming our way, but no big snow chance coming our way as we get into your saturday, unfortunately. >> 68 degrees though today. >> 68 deees, but it' going to be hard to be outside with all the winds. >> thank you, lauryn. >> "reporters notebook" coming up next. >> we'll be back in 15 minutes. >> good morning, i'm pat lawso muse. we begin with reaction to the defrocking of former washington archbishop theodore mccarrick who has been stripped of thee ti of priest after vatican officials found him guilty of sexually abusing minor, adult seminarians. that is fall from grace who was once revered as an adviser by pes andresidents. here this morning is reporter

david culver and the i-team's scott macfarlane. david, the first summit ever to address sexual abus cover-ups in the church is just wrapping up todcc. regardingrick, what kind of reaction has there been to the defrking of the former? >> to your point, pat, and you were here when mccarrick was archbishop of washington this. cannot be understated. this is a man who was larger than life in many ways. as you said, it wa a council of popes and presidents could be at the white house in days and that's how influential he was. from him to go to this positn, no longer being cardinal mccarrick, bishopar mck or father mccarrick, he's just theodore, a huge fall from grace. and t a lot of folks willl you, finally, it should have happened a while ago. the reality is withrt this ular case, with mccarrick. accusations came forward really in june. for church timing sake this was

real quick. certainly quicker than a u.s. criminal process that we would go through, but their point to finally is this overal concern with not only the sexual abuse but the cover-up. >> town university has done something it's never done. it rescinded an honorary degree. meanwhile, do we know what's next for cardinal donald wuerl? he's resigned. he hasn't been replaced. >> also gives you some perspective. he's been here 13 years now. he came from pittsburgh to succd mr. mccarrick. that being said, the leadership of the archdiocese inasngton is still important. we've been told there's an exit strategy, b we haven't been told what it is. >> the timing, we expected his replacement toorome out b the sexual abuse summit. that didn't happen so it's looking like this will likely come down in mid-march. the question is who would then

fill that seat? >> several names have surfaced. on getting a lot more attention than others is an african-american, archbishop gregory, a convert to tholicism and from chicago originally, but they believe he would be the one who could come in and deal with the politicshe that is washington region and also serve kind of as an interim because he's 71 and by 75 would have to put forward hie rement. >> regarding his summit, hopes are high. the pope says he wts something concrete to come out of this. what changes might we reasonably expect to come? >> the first dayf the summit we heard from a cardinal out h philippines an broke down into tears as he gave the keynote address. the words are powerful. there's a lot of emotion tthre. question is what action comes from that, and there can be three days of discussio t whery talk about responsibility. they talk about accountability and transparency but what is going to be done to actually make those changes come to fruition, and that's the big

question mark that remains. people are popeful still. but that hope, it's running low. >> meanwhile, what's being done about marijuana use now driving an irease in the number of weed-related traffic accidents. aews 4 i-team review of police records shows aharp spike in crashes in maryland that are linked to the u of marijuana. >> do you find a lot more crashes that are driving high. >> we found with the marijuana we've found a decriminalization in our area and no opinion whether that's a good thing or bad thing.of a loixed opinions. we found with certainty inalization and the increased availability of pot means people are going to drive after smoking with marijuana and that's without confidence. >> do people find a way in the

way drivers feel when you're under the influence of marijuana or alcohol. >> you need good reason to act quickly when there's a variable on the road. state police who let us run alongith their dui specialists say they know what to look for when they pull somebody over for marijuana. there's a certain look. from redness in your eyes to a lethargy with how you respond to an inability to take the situationseriously. pulled over by a state trooper on the highway. people who may have been im cted by marijuana are too chill forhemoment, but -- but perhaps the most important terms it's dangerous. you're not driving as well au need to be. m maryland, as you mentioned, decriminalization,yland decriminalized it in 2014, but you say police aren't directly linking the increase in accidents to decriminalization. they would do that. a th going to link the

accidents in violation to people simply having accesto it doesn't have to be decriminalized for people to have access to something, but common sense tells you if it's decriminalized, it's more accepted among family members, co-worrs and friends to know thaty somebod you know smokes marijuana. >> there's more people dependant on it. >> there are thousands of people in our area who needed state-supported treatment program, taxpayer funded a treatmeniction citing marijuana as the main reason. >> s we'tch gears now talking to two new polls suggesting virginia's top elected leaders are not under a lot of pressure to resign despite the recent scandals. in a university of virginia insis poll 39% say the governor should resign and 42% say the same in a quinnipiac poll. in both polls, one in three say the lieutenant governor fairfax should resign over a sexual assault allegatione and in five say the attorney general

should resign for wearing black face back in the '80s. what do you make of all of these numbers? >> what stands out to me in the quinnipiac poll you still overall with virginians have support for governor northam and folks saying he should not resign, 48% to 42% but then you go into particular for black virginians and they seem to overwhelmingly support north hvmt the numbers a more than half who have come forward in support of him. overall what you see is folksap oving of him potentially staying in the position. they disapprove an apology with a public statement and tweet and reversal the next day. n't like tha and thought it was overall mess and wrong. what they don't want to see, pat, is an impeachment and lawmakers have been saying they want to avoid that, too. a lot of the state dell says the that i've been speaking to say

that's toute they don't want to go down because it would be divisive. virginians don't want to go down that route. >> what effectas this had on the state assembly that wraps up wednesday?al >> you almost into a new normalcy which is a weird and bizarre place. i mean, this has been a cloud that's hung over them for severand weeks, they are trial to be productive and are getting things done. but their interactions are a little bit strange now. they even said with the governor. i mean, this past week attended something pubically which they did not expect to do. i know it was a chili cookoff. he loved it as lumpingeiet governor. the first lady pam was there and submitted a cli for the competition. do you laugh, connect with him, what do you do? hand that's where they are finding themselves right. n

he's still going forward with signing bills into law. >> and he's going on a to, a listening tour. >> and he's going on this listening tour but even the bills that he signed into law. tox conformity la in virginia, completely overshadowed. signed the bill not in front of cameras but behind the closed doors of his office. >> not business as usual. >> not at all. >> far from it. >> got to tree a. we'll be right back. stay with us.

in maryland, there's growing speculation that governor hogan could challenge president trump primary. hire appeared on "cbs this morning" and didn' sayo. i guess that's what we should say he said. >> but i was working for congress, worke among the number of members of congress who are always flirting with pe next rung the ladder, not because they want to pursue it because doingo givesou more

political cloumpt thinking you're going to run for governor if you're a congressman or congresswoman or you're going to run for a senator if you're a u.s. house of representatives gives you a stronger fund-raising base and gives you access to more people who want to be consultants or staff. it gives bigger political muscle so governor hogan flirting wit the presidency does so -- this on, but be his motiva in a utilitarian way gives him more political clout not just in this state but with the governor's association where he wants to make a big statement. >> we know he's never supported the trump presidency. would marylanders support their govern president? >> i would think, you know in, maryland you would see that support. i look at across the pond and across the river in virginia and in virginia it's interesting. up former state senator, republican, would say he'd likely find far more support in northern virginia where folks are really -- a lot of republicans even anti-trump in

his approach and his tactics and you kind of saw tha play out with cory stewart who ran for senate and aligned himself with that trump tactic. republicans would be more willing to support somebody like hogan in hisac app and his ability to reach across the aisle and to connect wh bot parties here and make something happen that's productive and not nasty rhetoric. that would hold true in northern virginia. you go acrossea the commoh and that may not be a value that they look at as something important and that they would want to be support. >> not to be cynical, the governor has certainly beenal critf the president, not unconsequential, being critical of the leader of his party that. said look at the platform he got by flirting with the idea of for president. he got to speak owns morning, a national show at a time when maryland isn't really in the news, at a time when maryland -- there's no big heated controversy over which he's ref religion. it gives you a platform and there's some value in at. >> all right. weed week is drawing to a close so i want toring up another

news 4 i-team reporter review of health records in maryland and virginia showing an increase in the number of people seeking state-supported treator dependency on marijuana. scott, we're seeing the incinase both women and men. you say especially young women. >> women 31 to 41 yearsi old. alluded to the fact that more people are seeking state-supporte treatment, taxpayer funded treatment people's dependency on mari uana will cos all because we're the ones whoave state-support or government run treatment. in our area it's women who are 31-40 and that comes with some level of secondary andhe tertre th concerns as well. >> you say that this increasen dependency impacts even people who don't use marijuana. because we're the ones who help pay for virginia,.c. and maryland state-sponsored drug

treatmentverograms. notbody has the resources to go to a private provider to get your drug treatment. some people need to use the state system and we all fund the state system so if people depend increasingly wrong on marijuana become ang increasurden for lack of a better phrase on taxpayer. >> deoyou know what makese more dependment. >> this may be somewhat intuitive. but if you start smoking early, do this as a teenager, you're much more likely to become dependant, and experts will say this is why we need to put deterrents or messagi into our middle happened high schools because those who start smoking at 14, 15 y old are exponentially more likely to depend ons marijuana they grow older. >> if you have someone that you love or know or care about that might be gent dependant, what do you do? >> use all the strikes you have attached. trying to negotiate with them if you can, but there are experts that says even with a drug that doesn't have an overdose

capality like marijuana you need an t intervention it person is dependant, needs that drug to exist. >> very eye opening information. thanks. thank you, dave. that's "reporters note book" for today. "news 4 today" continues. a woman was crying for help from inside her burning me, t when firefighters went in to save her, they found more than just flames. >>inding common ground and folks calling for governor northam to resign. crowds are still clamoring for him to step down. >> and meet a 10-year- already has three published books, that's right, three blished books.

find out what got him down this path of success at such a young age.in >> good mo to you. i i'm meagan fitzgerald. >> and i'm david culver. make me feel underaccomplished, three published books. weather alert day here. very strong winds o the way. >> that's right. it's not going to be a good hair day. just heads up for you. lauryn ricketts is keeping an eye on the changing condition good morning, lauryn. what's it looking like? >> right now just wet and soggy out there, but as it continues roughout the day it's wet and windy. we'll dry out pretty quickly. got about an inch of rain last night. that won't be good as we get t in really strong winds because we might have to watch for some power outages later. can you see some fog out there right now as well creating low

visibilities. wait for the rain to get out of here. a pretty surady rain dg the overnight and that's continuing to push off to the atlantic. we are seeing itac clearing off to the west. soua evey this rain will move rate ight on out of here a we'll get sunshine later on this afternoon but not this morning. 39 degrees our a temperature we'll stay in the upper 40s around california and look at temperature difference from 10:00 a.m. to noon. we go bacp to the 50s. we'll talk about those wins and how much warmer they will get and if there's any snow chance coming up in the teday forecast. >> thank you very much. >> a woman is safe this morning fafter a housee in silver spring. firefighters pulled this woman out of a burning home on holman avenue. >> darcy spencer spoke with one of the firefighters who rescued that woman. >> reporter: a woman was trapped in a fire here at her home on

holman avenue in the forest glen community. neighbors saw the smoke and heard the woman crying for help. captaias team foster among the firefighters whocu r her. >> she was talking to us. as we were moving throue the house,ouldn't see anything, but we knew she was still able. >> fire officials said there were horgd conditions inside the home which made it diffilt for firefighters to get in and find her. >> thinking black smoke. very toxic environment, hot and smokey and she was unable to get out. >>oman suffered smoke inhalation. she was taken to the hospital in serious conditions. instigators found no working spectiors in the home. a second person who had been there was able to escape on her own. >> it's pretty scary. i mean,ou know, it sounds like she was by herself sew i'm glad they were able to get her out in time. >> for foster and his crew, it's all in a day's work, but any day you save a life is a good day. >> a lot of guys that were on

that fire did some fantastic things. it wasn't just me individuals that i just described. it was 18 to 20 guys that all worked together to get it done. >> that was darcy spencer reporting. firefighters are expecting the woman to survive her injuries. >> this morning officials texas trying to figure outs what caused a cargo jet liner to crash. the boeing 767 went down near houston. three people were on board t plane when it nose dived into a bay yesterday. officials say the crash killed everyone on board. d crew recover the remains of the victims. the plane is part of the amazon air package delivery fleet headed to hston from mimy when it crashed. a local sheriff says moments after the crash he initial relied on people who had boats to help out. >> the infor right now, and, again, i want to emphasize that this is preliminary information. the aircraft was in what i characterize as a normal descent, andun at a 6,300

feet it began what i would characterize as a very, very rapid descent at thatwe point. had a simultaneous loss of air traffic control radar contact and air traffic control radar or communications with the aircra and the pilots. >> the trail of debris in the water is up to one mile lon authorities say they have not yet recovered the black box. >> hamming today, virginia lawmakers are set t vote on their budget plan and thanks to a strong, fit economy they have millions of extra dollars to spend this year. the proposal includes pay raises for state workers and public school teachers. more money for school counselors, tuion freezes and increased financial aid at state universities and gives extra funds to the state's rainy day accounts. >> let's keep you in the commonwealth right now where more than three weeks after virginia governor's ralph northam's facebook picture surfaced there are still calls r him to resign.

dozenschf protests mg from the capitol building to the governor's resident. a civil rights group organized this rally and want northam to resign showing someone in black face and another person in a kkk robe and his comments that hela woreface in the '80s and his ter his views on late-t abortion. >> if we don't engage we're responsible for all of the evil thatoes on. >> governor northam is adamant about not stepping down. he says he plans to spend the rest of his term working to end racial inequality. >> andfhe family white house senior advise remember jared kushner is the new lanord of thousand of homes in maryland and virginia. "the wall street journal" reports kushner companies paid $1.1 billion for a portfolio of about 6,000 apartmees.

company's dealings have drawn more scrutiny because jared kushner, of course, is president trump's son-in-law. kushner companies has said it's been harder to do business because of theire theened attention. the company is run by kushner's father charles andpa thement spans 16 properties. if you would like to read more about this, find itn our nbc washington app. >> happening today, a fund-raiser at local chipotle to raise money in former of former maryland football jordan mcnair. starts at 5:00 this afternoon at the chipotle along baltienre and college park. bring this flier or even just show it on your smartphone o tell the cashier you're there to support this cause. chipotle is going to donate 33% of the proceeds to the jordan fnair foundation. thendation was started in honor of mcnair who tragically passed away last summer after suffering heat stroke during a team workout.de many ss looking towards their future attend it had one of d.c.'s longest

running college fairs so yesterday college-bound students packed the convention center to meet with reps from historicalla black colleg universities. more than 70 institutions were there. the alfred stree c baprch response oregon this free college fair and for the second year in a row facebook is a key part of the event. >> we are here to let gets know if you wanto go to hbcu there are internships available to you, there are scholarships. we're here trying to promote hbcu. >> the alfred street baptist church has been hosting this job fair for 17 oyears. >>n black history month we're honoring the achievements from our area. one author has sold hundreds of copies from his latest book series, and get this he's only 10 years old.

conor little john wrote a book called tag, you'r it." this all started with a creative writing in class and conor decided to go thera e mile and decided why not. write a whole book. >> writing is fun because it gives me all these new ideas. feels good to have people know what i'm doing and know that i have things out there and it just feels real good. >> ci can barely get through e-mail. his books are on amazon and he's already working on next monday. nbc 4 is celebrating black history month with a show today called "she thrives." join us a little bit later this morning at 1 is:30 right after "meet the press." >> a good o to catch indeed. >> lawyer ricketts will be back to let us know how i breezys going to go but temperatures are rising. stay with

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. all right. welcome back. ble special counsel robert te done s work isn't q yet, but after about two years of work the investigation into russia's interference in the 2016 election is close to wrapping up. >> that's right. to help us figure out where things could go from here is mode"tor of "meet the pre chuck todd. chuck, before this report is handed to the attorney general, i knoik that'sy going to be delayed initially. they thought it the would come ou next week but iteems the president's trip -- >> i think everybody is making wa too many definitive predictions on the mueller report but that's my personal pinion. >> we'll get intthat. do you think this will then lead ahead of that testimony from cohen, michael cohen, the president's attorney? >> the cohen testimony i think is going to be frustrating to watch because there's going to be so many topics that they can't tou n right because the special counsel is -- they will know in advance which

topics theych can't t and can't touch on because he can't answer in an open some of the more intriguing questions will probably come behind closed doors, some of that before that's made public. i think where michael cohenbe coulery damaging to the esident is a picture of howe heints donald trump conducted business during ten years that he worked for him and if he paints a picture of a guy that's very comfortable sort of skirting the laws here, skirting the laws there, does it paint a fill in lanks on a picture robert mueller is painting as well. >> alsowitching gears to the 2020 elections which are just around the corner. we sawome democrats jumping in, bernie sanders this past week, joe biden seemingly teasing he might jump in, beto

o'rourke. i think we do ourirst early surprise and that is i think the sanders strength in ctoparison the iwarren weakness. i think if a this you would havs d more democratic strategist between elizabeth warren and bernie sanders who would have theead start in 2019 and everybody would have put their money on warren. she had de lot of things behind the scenes, had some earlyoperatives in some states and there was a sense for that wing of the party she was tomorrow and h was sterday, but i'll tell you. his following, his announcement, i think it shows y how deep his following, is and she's had a tough start, you know. she has not shaken the trump attacks. >> sure. >> the way -- and do i think that's one of the tests that every one of the through.ts go you don't have to prove you're the most electable. you have to prove that you can take a punch from trumpnd handle, it and i wonder if in that wing of the party and look at warren and sanders and say

elizabeth warren, you couldn't take his punch very well. we're going to stick with sanders for a while. >> even when you look at the immediatelysif fund r that followed right after he announced, i mean the grass root a funds that weree to come in, should trump be worried -bout that? >> money in that sense money won't be an issue. >> but just symbolic banter of it. >> i do it. i do wonder if a bernie sanders can carry the state of florida. you look at hishe comments he has backed off calling maduro a dictator, that's a ripe not to win in south florida. >> yeah. >> and already -- i mean, that's going to be -- can kernie sanderp the electoral college in play as well as other democratic candidates, hint, the state of florida. that's something that i think will be among the question marks that hang oth his campaign throughout the year. >> got a big show coming up. guys. right, >> might even cat chuck and "meet the press"er sunday at 10:30 right after "news 4 today

q." >> thanks, chuck. moreoll lanes could be soon coming to major roads on i-70 and the maryland highway. >>his is a paroled proposal. transportation reporter adam tuss went upn chopper 4 earlier this week for a better look at the issue. >> yeah. in chopper 4 to talk about what's becoming an controversial issue around our area and really maryland. boke a look. we're talking the proposal to add new capacity to 270 and th beltway. governor hogan has proposed adding any number of lanes here along 270, but now accordingo the latest reports they are talking about specifically express lanes or h.o.t. lanes, the lanes like you have in virginia. the concern is tt how are you going to add those lanes without coming into this area? the state of maryland has always said that the continue to look for ways to make this whole project wor e in thesting capacity. as we swing it over from 270

down to the beltway, you can see that there really i't a ton of room to operate with or here, so there's been a lot of pushback. but now the latest configuraon hes to use basically h.o.t. lanes or express lanes that would go on the beltw and 270 and, drivers, they are split on the issue. >> yeah. i don't like it. >> not at all? >> not even a little bit. i don'tare if it's 25 cents i don't like it. >> you want that luxury, but it can get expenseive. >> taking another look at split from 270 to the beltway and making sure how we can increase the capacity and decrease the traffic flow around here. a t of this is in the developmental stage. there are a number of public hearings coming up on this topic and we still don't know how all gets paid for. stay tuned. back to you. >> all right. k> all righty. taking a live l at the white house. it looks pretty, and it looks like temperatures are going to be rising this morning.

but the big concern is the wind. >> yeah. main thing. >> how strong are they going to be? >> 50, 60 miles an hour as we go into the afternoon. >> that's siant. >> significant. enough to have some power outages across the area so we'll have toha watch for later on as we get into the afternoon give how saturated the soil is and how much rain we got last night. ndngd an inch of rain across the region yesterdayow we're looking at the winds to pick up through the middle part of the morning. we're still dealing with the morning and once the rain ends that's when theinds get picked up. >>d a soggy view outside lso a lot of fog out there. may encounter that and the sun is coming upust now, and it's not looking too bad, especially erby this afternoon so a the rain if you want to go ahead and get your car washed today i would go ahead and do it because we've got dry conditions as we go into this workweek. as far as what to expect, the rain is pushing in through the early parts of the morning, very

wind and mild, and i was already talking abo power outages. moderate in spots andhat's what t yellows and reds are representing right now. just rain for us. temperatures in the mid to upper dgs right now but you can see the backof the rain to enter into virginia. that's all going to push through e east in the morning. 8:00, 9:00 should be done with. there temperatures o right now in the 30s and once this rain gets out of here, that's when the temperature goes up. we've got a windni w for areas and counties that touch the mason-dixon line and also we've got some winds. advisor winds gusting up to 50 miles an hour, 60 miles an hour. again, that's what the difference is between that, but just know it's going to be a windy day outhe. there goes the rain moving out. by 850, 9:00 we'rery. look at the rapid clearing we get with the clouds heading into the afternoon so looking a lot better later on this afternoon, but, agaids the w will be pick up. gusts to up to 45, 5050 miles on

average with 60-mile-an-hour possible, especially some of the higher elevationsowod trees definitely a possibility. we stay breezy overnight and breezy thrgh much of the day. tomorrow winds will be gusting 30 to 40 miles an hour. a little bit cooler tomorrow. temperatures right around 50 degrees so very breezy. all sunshine. i did just change that. this is what's going to happen.e our ttures are going to drop by about midnight. those temperatureso are going be in the 40s and then about 7:00 a.m. that's when we're in the low 3s d then we'll come up a little bit. 50 degrees. probably going tot hit t at midnight but this is what you feel like in terms of temperatures. tuesday, wednesday, thursday, dry and then by the time we get intoy we've got more rain chanced coming our way. a here's your buick sir.

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social media st, gps technology irtceais y everywhere. >> it certainly is. hu might note thought much about those behind it. this morning a preview from our news 4 special. justin finch brings us one of the hidden figures who helped develop it. >> ask dr. gladys west what went through her mind when she first saw the film "hidden figures" and she will tell you it was kind of like watching her own story. >> i said we're doing the same kind of things, exactly parallel to it, except they were at different institutions. i mean, they are doing almost exactly. they had the same computers and everything, yeah. that was -- that was cool. >> back in 1956, dr. west began working as a mathematician at the u.s. naval weapons laboratory dahlgren in kings county virginia. the second black woman hired among a few other

african-americans including her husband and in her mostly white workplace she made it her mission to stand out. >> i was always conscious of i've got to do more, you know. i can't just be like everybody. i've got to do more, and so i put a strain on myself. >> she was part of a team that helped develop a global positioning system or in that era before high-tech computers, she was the computer, measuring and mapping the earth, calculating distances and more. in the past year, that work earned dr. west new found integration from air forceo honors internet memes. >> justin finch with that story there. find out what dr. west thinks about her place in history it is one of the stories you're going to see during the nbc 4 black history month special airing this morning called "she thrives go the go nd it recognizes black women who are changing the world. don't forget toatch this right after "meet the press" at 11:30 this morning. a good day to be ins e and

avoid the wind and check this out. >> yeah. >> you played a role in this as well. >> i had a roundtable discussion which hopefully will catch. very great and insightful a we salute the women. history-makers in our community. >> incredible. >> and all gher. >> all of course, we'll have much more today." "news 4 >> that's a storm team 4 weather alert day around here. alert day around here. we're tracktrong winds s♪ ♪ ♪ rhythm is a dancer ♪ it's a soul companion ♪ you can feel it everywhere ♪ lift your hands and voices ♪ free your mind and join us ♪ you can feel it in the air ♪ oh sorry, we were running late. no problem, come on in. ♪

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firefighters rescue a woman crying for help as flames rip through her silver spring home. this morning hea from the heroes who saved her life. >> and could this be the new face of republicanolitics? a "new york times" interview adding more fuel this morning to rumors that maryland governor larryoganay challenge president trump. >> and a billion dollar real estate deal means a controve ial white house staffer might be involved with your new landlord. we'll takelo ar look at the deal affecting thousands in our area. >> as we welcome you in on this sunday morning, good morning to you, i'm davidulver inor adam tuss. >> and good morning, i'mean fitzgerald. mode.in weather alert strong winds will be gusting through the area throughout the day or coming up in a little bit. >> possibly into tomorrow as well so that could mess withyo monday morning commute. storm team 4's lauryn ricketts

is tracking this system as it moves on in closer to us, and you're thinking, lauryn this, could maybe cause some outages. >> i do believe it will. you're absolutely right. given how much snow we had over the last week, wednesday, andha then all melt, and then we had this rain. we got about an inch of rain last night so with all of roat, the gd is really sat rated, so it's not going to get muchoco the trees when it gets over and with that being said we'll see wind gusts up to 50, possibly 60 mes an hour so that's going to be enough to do some damage. again, it's not going to widespread power outages and i do believe that's a few given our saturated soil. rain moving out right now. that's good news. we should be dry. 8:00, 9:00, and you've got church services and things you need t do. a lot of this should be out of here by the time you head out and leave church or maybe go grab some coffee and by the time you leave that coffee shop, so, again, by 8:00, 9:00, most of this will be out of here.

grab your umbrella this morning. grab aight jacke winter coat on monday, winter coat and d.c. weather that will be up and down. more coming up in so, 15 minutes. >> and we need your brunch forecast, too. >> i'll make one. >> a daring rescue. this is in silver springs that happened as flames tore through e woman's home. >> scary mom. firefighters heard her cries for help and ran inside pulling the woman out alive. the fireroke out an holmes avenue in the forest glen community yesterday. neighbors saw smoke and heard the woman's desperate cries so, of course,ify officials went in there. they say though that the conditionsere a little tricky because there was hoarding conditions inside the house that made it vory difficult crews to get in and find her. >> she was talking to us. w were moving her through the house we couldn't see anything, but we knew thathe was still viable. >> the woman suffered smoke inhalation and was taken to the hospital.

a second person who had been in the home was able to escape. investigators found no working smoke detectors inside that house. >> this morning officials in texas trying to figure out what caused a cargo jetliner to crash. the boeing 767 went down near houston. three people were on board that plane when it nose dived io that bay yesterday. officials say the crash killed everyone on board. crews did rover the mains of the victims. the plane is part of the amazon air packagele delivery fe. it was headed to houston rom miami when it crashed. a local sheriff says moments after the crash he relied on the community, folksoa who had to help out. >> we're hurricane harvey survivors. i made some phone calls and people that helped news har were out there helping us and trying because obviously wehoere ng there would be survivors. >> look how devastating that was. that's the trail of debris. it runs up to a mile long. authorities say they have not yetd recove the black box. >> and speculation is growing around whether maryland governor

larry hogan may challenge president trump in the primary. thenew york times" sat down with governor hogan yesterday and he told them that president trump's 2016 win was,uote, anomaly and added more needs t be done with the gop's shrinking base. hogan told "the times" "in quote, part, i think there's a lot of republicans that are concerd about the future and that want us to continue to be a bigger tent and to reach a wider audience and to not alienate people and not to be as divisive. hogan praised the president on the economy but note that quote, we might differ on trade. we might differ on many other things. the governor spoke on friday to news 4's chris gordon about a possible presidential run. >> it's not something i have any kind of a time line on. i didn't say i was considering it or thinking about it. i simply did not completely rule it out. >> hogan attended a speech byes ent trump on friday night. he says he's pleased that the president hasn't criticized h so far.

>> the familiar life white house senior adviser jareds kushner the new landlord of thousands of homes in maryland hand in virginia. "the wall street journal" reporting kushner companies paid $1.1 billion for a portfolio of about 6,000 apartments. the company's dealings have drawn more scrutiny because jared kushner is president trump's son-in-l. kushner companies have said it's been harder to do business because of the heightened omtention. theny is run by jared kushner's father charles. th apartme spans 16 properties. our digital team putting more information together on this. you can check that out in our nbc washington app. >> repeatedly and brazenly violating the law. that's the harsh picture special counsel robert mueller's office paints of presint trump's former campaign manager. theepecial counsel's offic released its sentencing memo on paul manafores yrday. they say he repeatedly broke laws while lobbying on behalf of ukranians interests.

mueller's office says manafntt inued to be unlawful evenei afterng indicted. a specific jail sentence isn't being recommended. mafort is facing tax and bank fraud charges in virginia and, of course, the russia probe will be a hot topic later this morning on "meet the press" with chuck todd. chuck and the panel wil break down the late developments in the ongoing investigation. that starts at 10:30 on news 4. >> there was a powerful day of testimony yesterday at the vatican discussing the ase in the clergy. this nigerian nun yesterday accused church leaders of being hypocrites, ignoring their faith's more or less and values and added that the credibility of the church is at stake here. pope francisssembled this landmark meeting to find a new path forward after decades of abuse and allegations of cover-ups. expelling he church

the archbishop of washington theodore mccarrick from the priesthood. >> r & b singer r. kelly is in a legal battle of his lif of sexually abusing four women. now he's trying to come up with a large amount ofst money to po bond. a judge set his bond yesterday at $1 million. prosecutors say three of the victims were underage when the alleged crimes happened between 1998 and 2010. they also saysthere' video of him having sex with an undaged girl. >> in the video the victim repeatedly, repeatedly says she's 14 years old. >> right now he's presumed innocent. we haven't seen anything, any reason to believe these allegations are credible. >> sources tell nbc news that homeland security is looking into a possible connection between kell and sex terrificing allegations. orhomeland security spokeswoman would not confirm eny if that's true. kelly's next court date is set

for next monday. >> a fund rater at a local egypy to raise money for former footballlayer jordan mcnair. ju let them there you're there to support the cause. chipotle in that location will donate 33% of the proceeds to n whoordan mcnair foundat tragically passed away last summer after suffering heat stroke during a team workout. >> you can call it a green rush. the effects of legalna marij in the district. straight ahead on "news 4 today," the news 4 itime hit the road with police to take a look at a potential imct on our roads. more on tracking down stoned drivers which is comin up nex on "news 4t t

i would much rather smoke a little pot thadrink. >> only on 4, the high stakes of a buddingus iy. the news 4 i-team has just wrapped up weed week, and they were able to take a closer look at what's o happening our roads. >> scott macfarlane and the news 4 i-team m revealiy drivers are getting caught impaired behind the wheel. >> it's close to miight, and e news 4 i-team is on patrol with maryland state police. >> looking for drivers who might be impaired. we're looking for violations indicative of impairment. lookingor an inability to maintain a single lane and proper lane position and look for a weaving pattern. >> when this car blazes by us at nearly 120 miles per hour, the trooper pulls the driver and nd ts a field sobriety test. >> just like that.

>> she said she had several drinks before getting behind the wheel. officers tell the i-team alcohol isn't the only thing they are checking for these days. >> we have marijuana seizures on a daily basis. >> states nationwide look to fully criminalize marijuana,li are looking for those testing their luck on the highway. traffic violations involving marijuana are up about 40%. >> virginia and d.c. told the i-team they don't keep the number of arrests for driving under the influence of but intents have increased noticeably. legal ecam recreationally in d.c. so it's much easier to get my hands on it. >> this w manho will call andrews as he regularly drives after or while using marijuana. >> you're about to go for a drive and you still feelmf table having some marijuana? >>ia. >> not very much.

>> he suffers anxiety and used a vapor w devicech is less conspicuous to take the edge off before hitting d.c. traffic,ut he says he knows his limit. >> does it at all impact how yoe orm behind the wheel? i don't think it does. i actually feel like it makes me moreentive to what's going on around me. i'm driving safer and driving slower so i would rather do that than take a>>xanax. ot everyone agrees there's such a thing as safer. >> police in colorado where marijuana was legalized several years ago say they have seen an increase in people driving high and anncase in deaths. >> in the city of aurora we saw about a 74% increase in fatal crashes between 23 and now, and marijuana has been a part of that. >> i've seent. impairm i've seen what impairment does. >> mary gaston had just said good-bye ter son blake after lunch when the unthinkable happened. >> just a few seconds after he left i heard an impact, and i -- i heard a very loud -- it was --

i heard it and i knew instantly. it was a veryic traum -- it was a very horrific death. >> the driver who hitad blake thc in his bloodstream, twice the legal limit inst washington e and served three years in prison. >> in my view thers a perception that marijuana does not impair you like alcohol that's not true. you are impaired. >> currently there is no roadside test like a breathlizer to detect thc, the ingredient this gets you high. >>o you understand the test? >> back on maryland highways troopers have been trained to detect marijuana impairment signs. >> we're looking for red glassy eyes, dilated pupils, slow, exaggerated movements. >> unlike alcohol, there is no legally allowed limitn maryland for driving under the influence of maryland. they see smokers hebehind t wheel hat night and often in the mornings, too. keeping them busy 24 hours a day, looking for drivers who are

operating at hig speeds. scott macfarlane, news 4 i-team. we have much more for you to check out on this story in the c washington app, including how officers are trained to conduct those field sobriety tests. just clio on investigation see all of the weed week stories from the news 4 i-team. >> and if you're just waking up, od morning. your time now is 7 sack, looking we're reary outside, but in weather alert mode this morning. lauryn ricketts says we'll get some strong gusts of wind coming through. ll be back in just a moment to let us know when. ay with us. st

and welcome back. we're working for to you help you clear the clutter in your life. this is important for all of us, myselfea included. ier we showed you how this trend works. it helped transform a marylane woman's homrom include thor to clean. >> we wondered could it work on this mess. this is one of our co-work efforts's desk. you can see his face over there, maybe, maybeot jim handley. it's his. we could all use a little i de-clutterin our life. here are some tips for our

newsroom and how they cfo work you and your office, too. >>ope in southeast d.c. >> he's clean and concise on air but behind the scenes jim y' handle desk is a mess. we asked this local consultant to give him some advice. >> tackling his mountains of ties. >> i move them when i block the remote and i can't change the achannel. >>nd it turns out there's more >>an the ones on top of his desk. there's one more test. >> in ts method you sort by category rather than location. >> this gives you the idea of the volume of clothes and it makes you a little easier to see which sparks joy and whi one doesn't. >> joy and y. >> jim had to decide what sparks joy. what to keep and what to toss. njoy. >> no joy. >> of course, not everything at

the offices joy. jim had to find a spot for the items he needs to get his job done. >> you know, i have been looking for aorks for likeouple of years. e'm asking everybody do you have a forks and i got a whole box in here. who knew. >> keep all the items of the same category inhome. >> okay. >> so you don't -- you know, you don't keep some of the books in the draw and some on the desk. find aem in one place so home for it. >> finding a new home for his old things is the final step in the process. >> you feel lighter? >> i do feel lighter. >> and also, y know, there's a joy that you'r sending that will make somebody else happy. >> we've got to show youthis, a closer look at the before and after. it looks great. we're wondering if it still looks >> there's zero chance. >>im is actually donatin six suit jackets and 11 ties that no

thnger spark joy for him. one o key components of the method is to pass your items on to others who might get joy out of thoseitems. >> we wanted to point out that jim promises while his desk here at wor looks like what you saw there, his home is much cleaner. >> he swears. this is on him. we don't have proof of it. if you're inspired to clear the clutter, we've got mor information about the process and how it can help you in your home or office. jim on social media has been invoking peer pressure by going around and taking pictures of every co-worker's desk, including your desk. >> he did not. >> i'm in the weather center so i know go in there, desks are in the back againsthe wall and i never see his or wendy's dk d oh, my goodness i'm like their desk is judgment as messy as mine. i was so excited. >> another day for indoor organizing given all the wind

out there. >> absolutely.th gh people may want to go outside because they will have a lot of joy because the temperatures will bee mid to upper 60s but you'll be blown away a little bit because the nds will be so strong. 50 to 60 miles per hour. they will pick up around9:00, sock, headed to church service or early breakfast by the te you leave rain will be gone and the winds will be pick up. will it be range all day? no. we'll have plenty of dry time. will you be able to be outside you'll be able to be outside but just, again, it's going to be so windy out ere, and the winds could lead to some power outages given how saturated the ground is. as we look forward to this week, no big snow chances. i'm sorry. hopefully you got your fill on wednesday. in rushing out and movin east. even heavy rain down through spotsylvania county and fredericksburg but you can see the back edge of this rain. give another hauer or two.

it's long gone. way out of here and then the clouds start to clear and this has it gone by 9:00, 10:00. look at this. then we have the sunshine. the winds wil start to pick up as we continue through the afternoon and this evening. temperatures out there, n bad. we're in the mid to upper 30s to right around 40 degrees. we will shoot those temperatures on up. davi culver asked me for the brunch forecast. haven't done one in a while. 50s for that. listen. if you want to go to brunch it's going to be warm enough to e outside. it will be way too windy to eat outside. temperatures in the mid to upper 60s and as far as the weekend outlook is concerned. exercise and prey windy, dry. it's going to be windy and warm so there's probably a lut of slushhere and eating outside, definitely too windy ar that as well. windisory, again, you can see wind advisories in the light brown. we have wind warnings in the orange right there. that's where we'll have some higher gusts up to about 60 miles an hour. so windy today.

we're breeznd overnight then we're still breezy through the day tomorrow for your monday th gusts up to 30 to 40 miles an hour. and say good-bye to the 60sse tomorrow bec temperatures only topping out in the 40s. look at this. windchills are back tomorrow. 7:00 a.m., it will feel like 20 degrees and by noon in the low 0s and in the lows 30 throughout tomorrow evening. again, enjoy today, but you don't want toh spend too m time because you might get blown away. uesday, wednesday, thursday, temperatures in thd-40s and then we do have chances of rain as we get into friday and as we get into friday and saturday.

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a new panda exhibit as d.c.'s national zoo is now ope we broug you the house warming live yesterday morning. >> that's right. >> it's interactive and what researchers see. the exhibit features a series of games ait acts which teach visitors about the conservation, history and care of giant pandas. >> we hav reproductive scientists and endocrinologists who help us with our breeding program here so those are all important thing and they help us in our mission to save a centerpiecies. >>isitors of the panda house can now navigate the effects of bitat loss onam bo forest. pandas are no longer a endangered species now. they are classified as a vulnerable species. they are so tcute. y are. >> so cute. could watch that all day long. all taking a live look outside.

you might be blown away by the weather, no joke. >> lauryn ricketts says not onl is it going warmer, but it's going to be windy, too. she will tell ust how strong the wind gusts will be coming up reter this b

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adam tuss has this morning on. doppciate you being with us. heads up. it's a weather alert day. we're looking for some strong gusts of wind coming through. >> literally, literally you cod be blownway by this forecast. isn't that right, lauryn ricketts? >> no joke. this could be dangerous. >> absolutely. we're going to be dealing with possible powoutages later on today given how saturated the ground is. i mean, we've got an inch of rain last nightad and we all that snow. that melted pretty quickly whatsday into thursday so can you expect for today? that rain is pushing out through the mid-mornin i'll give it another hour or two and it will be gone off to the east coast. now, it will become very windy. once that rain moves out of your neighbeahood the windsy start to pick up, but the temperature warms up. we're in the 30s. we'll have to watch for some power outages later on throughout the day. here's the rain pulling out. heavy side down around the southern maryland area and in through fredericksburg so you're

getting a little nice clip there in st. mary's count de, but for most of this this is moving on out. you can see t back edge coming through the shenandoah valley. smperatures in the 40 and watch out for the fog out there. we'll continue to takeog the into the 50s for today. for this afternoon, 60s later tn afternoon and in the evening we'll talk about the big cooldown coming our way and any snow chances coming our way. >> snow, my goodness, thank you. >> a woman is safe this morning after a house fire in her silver spring home. firefighrs pulled her out of a burning house on >> a remarkable rescue story. >> a woman was trapped here in his house on holman avenue. nehbors saw the smoke and heard the woman crying for help. captainy tommy thompson was among fire fighters who rescued . >> she was talking to us. as we were moving her through the house, we couldn't see anything, but we knew she was still viable.

>> fire offials say there were hoarding conditions inside the home which made it difficult for firefighters to g in and find her. >> thick, black, dark smoke. a very toxic environment. it was hot, smokey, and she was unable to get out. >> the woman suffered smoke einhalation. as taken to the hospital in serious condition.s investigatound no workingte smoke deors in the home. a second person who had been her was able to escape on own. >> it's pretty scary. i mean, it sounds likehe was by herself so, you know, i'm glad they were able to get her out in time. >> for foster and his crew it's all in a s work and any day you save a life is a good day. >> a lot ouys that are on that fire did some fantastic things. it the wasn't just m or the individuals that i just described. ot was 18 to 20 guys that all worked together get it done. >> everyday heroes. >> firefighters are expecting the woman to survive h injuries. >> reporter: this morning

ontinuing to texas investigate what caused a boeing 757 cargo jet c liner tosh near houston. we know three people were on board that plane whentnows dived into this bay yesterday. officials say there were no survivors. we do know the remains of the victims have been recovered. the plane is part of the amazo air package delivery fleet. it was headed to houston from miami when it went down. the ntsb is launching an investigation. >> the information trit we have t now and i want to emphasize that this is preliminary information. the aircraft was in what i would characterize as a normal descenn at around 6,300 feet it began what i would characterize as a very, very rapid that point. we had a simultaneous loss of eric traic control, radar contact and air traffic control ra communications with the aircraft and the pilots. >> it left behind this trail of debris in the ter. that's up to one mile long. authorities say they have not

yet recovere the black box. >> happening today, virginia lawmakers are set to vote on their budget plan and thanks to a strong state economy they have millions of extra dollars to spend this year. the proposal includes pay rai for state workers and public school teachers. more moneych forl counsellors, tuition freezes and increased financial aid at state univsities, and it gives extra fund through the state's rainy day accounts. >> we'll stay in the commonwealth right now where more than three weeks after governor ralph northam's racist photos appeared tre are still alls of him to azion and an anti-abortion public policy group and sufficiently rights group organized that rally. resign overortham to his medical school year book showing somlane inface and another in a kkk robe and his mission he wore black '80s and

the comments he wade on about late-term abortions. >> the way our country is set up it's supposed to be a of the people, by the people and for the people and so if we don't engage, then we're responsible for allf the evil that goes on. >> governor northam isdamant out not stepping down. he says he plans to spend the rest his term working to end racial inequality. >> the family of white house seni adviser jared kushner is the new landlord of thousands homes in maryland and virginia. "the wall street journal" reports kushner companies paid $1.1 billion for a portfolio of apartments0 the company's dealings have drawn more scrutiny because jared kushner is president trump's son-in-law. kushner companies has said it's been harder to do business because of the heightened attenyion. the coms run by jared kushner's father charles. the apartment spa 16 properties, and if you would like to rand more you check it outin a our nbc washington

app. >> happening day, a fund-raiser at a local chipotle to raise money in honor of former football player jordan mcnair. it starts at 5:00 at the chipotlelong baltimore javy in college park. can you bring in this flyer or show i on your smartphone or tell the cashier you're there to supporthe cause. the event is to honor mcnair who died due to heattre during a team workout. >> one of d.c.'s longest running fairs tooklace at the convention center so college boundtudents can meet with reps from several colleges and stitutions. the alfred street baptist church sponsored this free college fair, and for the second year in a ofw facebook is a key par the event. >> we are here to let kids know

that if you want to go to hbcu ere are internships available to you, scholarships, we're here trying to recruit and promote hbcus and higher education. >> and the alfred street baptist church has been hosting this job fair for 17 years. >> foodies inur area may want to mark this tuesday on the calendars. the natiol museum of a can american mystery culture will show diners traditions of the african-american ee'erience. >> honoring folks from our area. one author from shaw have sold hundreds of copies from his book series. had plenty of time. he's just so years old. boor littlejohn wrote a called "tag, you're it."

all of this started because of a reative writing assignment in class. conor then decided to go the extra mile and write an entire book. his mom and big brother logan helped him out with the ediheng and publishing. >> i felt like running is fun ll these t gives me new idea. feels good to have people know what i'm doing and know that i have things out there. it feels real good. >> what a cutie. >> conor's books a all for sale on amazon, and he's already working on his next book. gosh. and a remind their nbc 4 is celebrating black history month with a special it's airing today called "she thrives." it recognizes african women who are breaking down barriers. weo inviteu join us this sunday after "meet the press." a must watch.ou set dvrs if you can't watch it. >> this man's drug empire was netting about $1 million a day when d.c. police finally took him down. now years later the man at the top of the organizatio d blamed

foens of murders has a chance for getting out of prison. hear from one of the undercover detectives who

so therl n 30-year-old story of d.c. drug kingpin r rafanolds is back in the news. prosecutors asked for a reduction in his lifent ce, but one part of the story has never been told until now. >> in a story you'lnly see right here on news 4, jackie tired spoke to a new d.c. police officer who after his third day at the police academy goes undercover with one of the biggest and most dangerous drug gangs in u.s. history. >> if you would have told me back then that we would still be talking abou this now, i would have told you you've got to be kidding me. >> reporter: for safety we're not showing you the face that members of the cocaine empire knew as jimmy. >> i was in there for three days and got asked did i want to do

dercover work. >> reporter: he was 26 when he began living undercover as a lecocaine d unarmed and using only his wit, he worked his way close to thet top o cocaine wholesale operation that is estimated to have netted rafaelr. edmund a million dollars a day in the late 1980s. 30 murders were td to the operation. you knew it was an organization that enforce discipline with murderer. >> yes. >> reporter: hemeemembers shs of cocaine delivered by the truckload. >> a guy sitting on the back with an uzi. >> reporter: and then there's the face-to-face conversation with e tunds tellinghe drug kingpin who reportedly offered as much as $50,000 for him to xpave them allay. >> het that had because he was a big basketball fan. >> the 1989 bust of the drug organization resulted in charges against almost two dozeneople. the sandstorm of cocaine that covered thenation's capital in misery and bloodshed would

slowly, slowly start to recede. jimmy says his only regret is that many who worked so hard to bring d.c.'s drug kingpin to justice were never fully recognized for their work >> group 32 from the task force that always had my back on ther and always watched me, and i would do it again. as long as y i can liven a city like this now, would i do it again. >> reporter: jackie benson with that story there. of course, we know that edmund did not stop selling drugs when sohe went to p and it was a plea deal from that conviction which led to him becoming an informant which has the u.s. attorney's office in d.c.di recomm a reduced sentence. >> incredible story. all right. you are taking a l livek outside. it doesn't look like a nice day but apparene'y about to be hitting 68 degrees today. but winds will be coming in and will be gusting. lauryn ricketts will be back in ainute to m here's your buick sir. actually, that's my buick. your buick doesn't have a roof rack!

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to be a white house correspondent is to be considered among the best and political jourlism, but it has not necessarily been easy with president trump or those supporters who talk about fak. ne >> i had the pleasure of moderating an enlightening discussion in connection with black history month. take a look.

>> we're in very challenging times to be a journalist, obviously. some might say that journalism is under attack, if you will. do you feel light journalists of color of being targeted by this president? >> it's easy, especially for someone who covers race, it's easy toe say the president is targeting plaque woman. i think that he is someone who likes a fight and thinks that he's benefitted from having those fights and as a result i think that's really what that is about. >> i think she hit the nail on the head when she says president trump likes a fight. i think that's part of how he campaigns, how he governs, to kind of cop stantly be engaging in that way. i think most of us have determined we can't take it personally. our job is to go in there and to have done the homework. >> because the president likes tv and because he likes to hear himself talk to a certain extent, you -- every oval office experience could turn into a press conference, so you better be ready with some questions because this is our chance to

hold him accountable. >> we get into journalism not to be liked by the people that we cover and so if the president is hashing out at you or whoever is lashing out at you, you kind of just learn to let that roll off your back and maybe even pretend that he didn't say that to you until you get back to your office and close the door. >> so what responsibility do you feel you have to the community of color in terms of the questions that you're asking? >> i would say the responsibility i feel is to be right about things, so i think there's also this added pressure to in this job in particular with this president in particular to really try to tell people we're not picking on the president, but here's what he said that's right and here's what he said that is wrong. >> when you sit in the front row that have briefing room, i feel like i have to always be 100% on the mark because everyone is watching and because i feel like i have a responsibility not only to nbc, not only to journalism in general and to make sure that

i'm getting it right for my team, for our democracy, but then i feel that added level of i'm representing, you know, people of color, and so i want to make sure that i'm being a good role mod nell that for sure. >> for me i think in the behind-the-scenes role, i'm never going to be able to separate the fact that i'm black or that i'm a woman from the fact that i'm also a reporter. i don't think that's necessarily going to drive every question that i have or everything that i do, but i do know that i am representing something for a lot of people, and i want to get it right. but also i have -- i put the pressure on myself to make sure that i am somewhat of a conscience behind the snes. >> i was inspired and enlightened and i hope you are, too. that's just one of the stories that you'll see during the nbc 4 black history month special airing later this morning. it's called "she thrives," and it recognizes black women past d present who have broken down

barriers and made history. set your dvrou if can't watch it. it's right after "meet the press" at 11:30. >> and you had a big team behind that, too. so many people, mark stevens, a lot of people that made this possible. >> all right. >> all right. >> it's going to be a wind one. >> it's going to be a veryda wiy out there today. so even though the temperatures will be nearing 70 d rees in sospots, that sounds nice. >> definitely. >> but then you'll walk outside and you'll say this wind. >> we're going to be like what? ugh. really what people are going to do. my app says it's 70 degrees and they ang to go outside and that's exactly the kind of sound i would aume they would make. ugh. we can't just get a nice day or spring day around here in the middle of february. what is up with that?o gotke one or the other and, unfortunately, we've got the winds today. rain and f early this morning so you may be dealing with low visibilities earlier this morning, but the good news is the rain is headingut. so, if you want to go ahead and

get that car ward, today is the day to do it. because the rain is moving out later on this afternoon. we'll be dry, and that wind wilf dry that car o pretty much immediately. gusts up to 40 to 50 miles an hour and even 60 at some of the high pressure ridge tops. the back edge that have rain coming through the shenandoah vale andeaer rain on the eastern shore hand that scooted right through southern maryland. then again you can see this is quickly.t pretty give it another hour or two and it will be long gone there. goes the rainrand thed clearing taking operation as we head into the afternoon. we will hav some sunshine and then clear skies as we head into overnight. temperatures, not that bad out there right now. we're in the 30s to right around degrees. 40 degrees here in d.c. once the rain gets out of here and the winds start picking up, the winds will be out of soutbeest so that's going t able to pick up some of the heat from the deep south and bring it right into the mid-atlantic. but by 1:00 we're seeing those winds up to 20 miles an hour, and they stay with us throughout the overnight. again, temperatures ill be in

thmid-to upper 60s today. wind warnings i this orange. brown.visories in the the difference is a matter of 10 to 15 miles per hour, higher for those counties that are closer to that mason dixon line. we stay breezy today. the winds do not settle dow until aft 7:00 or 8:00 p.m. tomorrow night. today is going to be nice in terms tperatures. temperatures drop just about midnight. still in the 40s and when you wake up tomorro morning those temperatures in the 30s. windchills in the 20s. hello, winter, and the windchills are in the 30s through much of the day on your monday. wind will settle down late monday night, tuesday, wednesday, thursday looking quiet. seasonable, temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. chan rs of rainurn friday and into saturday and temperatures drop by next sund. mo>>

all right. welcome back. it looks like today could be a nice day. >> yeah. >> good temperatures, but it's th rwind. >> it'lly the wind. yeah, the temperatures will be in the mid to upper 60s for daytime highs, but, boy, is it going to be windy out there. hends picking up through middle part of the morning and staying with us all throughout the afternoon and gusting 50, miles per hour. could have scattered power outages today. 40seratures fall into the by midnight and still breeze. and when you wake up tomorrow morning, tem upper 30s, windchills in the low 20s and teens. >> wow. >> and then only in the 40s

tomorrow afterneen, , but pretty quiet this week. no big rain chancesg- no snow chances. we do have rain showers coming friday into satur-y. a move move that temperature back up to 60 degrees. let me tell you one thing. heelia and i were talking about this, sometime thinks that's a sign that spring is coming and there's big cnges in the weather around the way. >> punxsutawney phil might have been right. >> for the first time in a while. >> exactly. >> that does it for us. >> have a great sunday, everyone. everyone. your favorite restaurants now it doesn't matter dash. where you are. ♪ it doesn't matter what you're hungry for. it doesn't even matter how many you are. ♪ restaurants come to you.

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