indeed. >> yeah. >> temperatures are rights, but -- >> but we've got this amount of wind that's going to be coming through. >> yeah. >> we're talking strong gusts of wind. lauryning ricketts is tracking it all from the storm team 4 weather center. the issue is this could linger into the monday morning? commu absolutely. not even monday morning, david, but monday evening. for winds will be with us a good 36 hours, and they haven't quite picked up yet so you're out a about and headed to church and headed to get some coffee, walking the dog, it's fine out there right now. we do have some rain. especially to the eastf i-95, but that rain is quickly moving out of our area. steady rain overnight and listen, i had a lot of puddles on the way in causing massive road spray where the water just came over my windshield so beh careful wit that. that's not going to go anywhere any time this morning like think will dry out later on this afternoon with all of that wind that we're going to v.give it another hour. all that have rain will be out of here, and this may get clipped a little bit, especially

northern counts, but for a lot of that we'll stop in the mountainre ranges. 40 d right now. winds are out of the south. b that's importaause winds will continue to be out of the south as they push in some very warm air. look at this. oh, yeah. your eyes aren't deceiving you. we're in the 60sn later this afternoon but definitely a lot cool tomorrow. morewinter-like. we'll let you know when the winds cam down and we' let you know about snow chances coming up. >> from the 60s to ow, all right. >> the aye-yi-yi. a woman is lucky to be alive after firefighters pulled her from a burning home. >> the firefighters rushed in to save her while she was crying for help,kehis as s and flames were ripping through her home. news 4's derrick ward is live this morning in silver spring. he's got more on this dramatic rescue. hey, derrick. >> reporter: good morning. indeed it was dramatic. belies m on this street what was going on here yesterday. take a look at the house. there. see it over

the damage is kind of hard to see from her. do you see the charred area over the window and, of course, a hole in the roof and all that have belies the danger that came from this house late last night. well, actually it wasn't le last night. it was about 6:20 last night. that's when firefighters got to the scene on holman avenue. they encountered smoke and flames and they heard screamshe fromoman that was inside. now, of course, undercohose itions they go inside, and news 4's darcy spencer spoke with the firefighters about the conditions they met and how they saved the laugh. >> she was talking to us. as we were moviner through the house we can't see anything, but we knew that she was still viable. it wasn't just me or the individuals that i just described. it was 18 to 2t guys tl worked together to get it done. >> now, one woman was able to get herself out of the house. the woman that was rescued was in the hospital. she's in serious condition.

she suffered smoke inhalation. now, they said that the firefighters encountered hoarding conditions and no working smoke detectors,o that's what the story is behind that fire at this point. the cause of the fire is still under investigation, but a cautionary tale about detectors. live in sterling springs, news 4, back to you. >> all right. appreciate it. 9:03 is your time now on this sunday morning, and officials down in texas are trying to figure out what caused a cargo jet liner tosh c the boeing 767, it went down near houston. we know three people were on board that plane when it nosedived into this bay yesterday. officials say the c everyone on board. crews did recover the remains of the victim. we've learned the plane isart of the amazon air package delivery fleet. it was headed to houston from miami when it went down. a local sheriff says moments after the crash he initially relied on people who had boa to help out. >> we're hurricane harvey survivors.

i made some phone calls and people that helped us in harvey were out there helping us, you know, trying, because obviously we were hoping there would be survivors. >> this is the trail of debris in the water. it's up to one mile long. authorities say they have not yet recovered the black box. speculation is growing around weather maryland governor larry logue hogan may challenge president trump in the primary. the "new york times" sat down with the governor yesterday. he told themha t president trump's 2016 win was, quote, anomaly, anddded more needs to be done with the gop's shrinking base. hogan told "the times" in part, quote, i think there are a lot of republicans that are concerned about the futurend that wan us to continue to be a bigger tent and to reach a wider audience and to not alienate peele and not as divisive. hogan praised the president on th 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.

that i not something have any kind of a time line on. ididn't say i was thinking or considering about i simply did not completely rule it out. >> it will be interesting to see if he does go through wit t.hogan attended a speech by president trump on friday. he says he's pleased that the president hasn' criticized him so far. the family of white house senidviser jared kushner now the new land lovers thousand of homes in maryland and in wvirginia. "tl street journal" reporting that kushner companies paid $1.1 blion for a portfolio of about 6,000 apartments. the company's dealings hav drawn more scrutiny because jared kushner is, of course, president trump's son-in-law. kushner companies have said it's been harder to do business o becausthe heightened attention. the companies run by jareths charles. the apartment spans 16 properties and our digital team putting together some more information on heat. can you that out in the nbc washington app. >> repeatedly and brazenly

violating the law, that's the harsh picture that special counsel robert mueller's office paints of president trump's c formerampaign manager. the special counsel's office le reed its sentencing memo on paul manafort yesterday. they say he repeatedly broke laws while lobbying on behalf of ukranian interests. eller's office says manafort continued to be unlawful even after being indicted. mueller rs notecommending a specific chale sentence. manafort is the facing tax and bank fud charges in virginia. yoil can bet thisbe a hot topic this morning on "meet the press" with chucked to. hey will break down what's going on in the investigations. that's happening at 10:30. >> the fourth and final david unprecedented vatican of the vatican summit to address t clergy sexual abuse and cover-up within the catholic church. it was a powerful testimony at the vatican yesterday. sitting just feet from pope francis there, this nigerian nun

who accusedhurch leaders of being hypocrites, ignoring their fast's more or less values. credibility t the of the church is at stakehere. pope francis assembled this landmark meeting to find a new path forward after decades of abuse and accusationsf cover-ups. last week the church expelled former archbishop of washington theodore mccarrick from the priesthood. r & b singer r. kelly is now in the legal battle of his life. this morning he's stn jail charged about abusing four women. a judge set his bond yesterday million. prosecutors say three of the victims were underaged when the alleged crimes happened between 1998 and 2010. they also say there's video of him having sex with an underaged girl. >> in the video the victi repeatedly, repeatedly says she is 14 years old. >> right now he's presumed innocent. we haven't seen anything, any believe that these allegations are credible.

>> rep tter: souell nbc news that homeland security is look nothing a possible connection between kell and sex trafficking allegations. a homeland security spokeswoman would not confirm or deny if that's true. kelly's next court date is set for monday morning. we want to tell you about this event handing at a chipotle to raise mon for former football player jordan mcnair. it's on college avenue. just tell them that y're there to support the cause. chipotat will d one-third of the proceeds to the jordan mcnair foundation. the foundation was started in honor of mcnair who tragically passed away last summer after suffering heat stroke during a teamrk woout. and can you call it a green rush. the effects of legal marijuana in the district and the news 4 itomb hit the road to take a

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would i much rather smoke a drink.pot than >> hmm. >> only on 4, the height stakes. industry. the news 4 i-team has just wrapped up a weed week, and thee were ao take a look at what's happening on our roads. >> scott macfarlane and the news 4 i-team revealing many drivers are getting caught impilred behind the wheel. >> dui 7 going in for traffic. >> it's close to midnight, and the n is 4eam is on patrol with maryland state police. looking for drirs who mig be impaired. >> we're looking for violations indicative ofrm impt. looking for an ability to

maintain a single lane, improp lane position, looking for a weaving paern. >> when this car blazes by us a2 nearly miles per hour. a trooper pulls the driver and conducts a field sbrit test. >> just like that. >> she say she had several drinks before getting behind the wheel. >> overs tell the i-team alcohol isn't t t only thingy are checking for these days. >> we have marijuana seizures almost on a daily basis. >> reporter: states nationwide including locally look to fully decriminalize marijuana, police in maryland are seeing more drivers testing their luck on the highway and crashes involving marijuana up 80% from last year and traffic violations involving marijuanaup, too, up about 40%. virginia and d.c. told the team they don't keep track of the number of arrests for driving under the influence of marijuana, but in the district the overall number of driving under the influence haveno increaceably. >> it became legally recreationally in d.c. so it's

much easr to g my hands ton. >> reporter: this man who we'll call andrews says heul rly drives after or while using marijuana. >> reporter: you're about to go for a drive and you still feel comfortable having some marijuana? >> yeah. >> reporter: not very much. he suffers anxiety and typicalld vapor device which is less conspicuous to take theef edge offe hitting d.c. traffic and he says he knows his limit. >> does it at all impact how you perform behind the wheel? i don't think it does. i actually think it makes me re aware of what's going onou me. i'm driving safer and lower. rather do that than take a xanax. >> not everyone agrees there's such a thing as safer. places where marijuana was legalized years ago has a seen increased number of people driving under the influence of marijuana. >> we've seen an increase in

fatal crashes between 20 is a and now. bd marijuana hn a part that have. >> i've seen impairment and es immarymount >> reporter: mary gaston said good-bye to her son after lunch when the unthinkable happened. just a few seconds after he left i heard a impact. it was very loud, and i heard it and i knew. i knewan tly. it was a very traumatic death. it was very -- it was a very horrific death. >> the driver who hit blake had thc in his bloodstream, twice the legal limit in washington state. he served three years in prison. >> in my views ther a perception that marijuana does not impair you like alcohol does. that's not true. you are impaired. >> reporter: currently there is no roadside test like a breathalyzer to detect thc, the increedient tt gets youigh. you understand the test. >> reporter: back on maryland highways more troopers have been trained to identify marijuana impairment signs. >> north marijuana, we're looking for the bloodshot red and glassyey , die late pupils, drooping of the eyelids,

slow, exaggerated movements. >> reporter: unlike alcohol, there is no legallyll aowed limit for driving with marijuana in your system. troopers say they see smokers behind thehe ws not just at night but often in the morning, too, keeping them busy 24 hours a day looking for drivers who are operating at high speeds. scott macfarlane, news 4 i-team. >> and we've got moren information this story if you check out our nbc washington app, iluding how exactly officers are trained to conduct those field sobriety all have you to do is click oni investigatns to see all of the e'd week stories from the news 4 i-team. >> reporter: taking a look outside at the white house. wet start to the morning but you might not want to go outside. hit or miss. temperatures are rising, but we also have gusting winds coming through. lauryn ricketts will be back a lauryn ricketts will be back a ju minute

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. we a working for you to help clear the clutter in your life soer this week we showed you how one tidying trend, would. it helped tracks formed a maryland's womanome from include thor to clean. >> that looks great, but question is does it work on this mess right here? you can see the name plate on the desk. it's one of ou co-workers. news 4's jim handley. >> yeah. quite the mess there.

this is until we called in our experts. here are some tips to have this work i your office as well. >> he's clean and concise on air but behind the scenes jim handley'desk is a mess. we asked our consultant to come by and give jim a few tips. >>his is me. typical day. ir >> reporter: f up tackling his mountain of ties. >> i only move them when they block the remote and i can't change the channel. >> reporter: and it turns out there's more than just the ones on top of his desk. >> there's one more tie. >> reporter: sort by category rather than location. >> so this gives you an actual of the volume of the clothes. the this makes it ail lite easier foro you decide which one sparks you and which one . esn't. >> joy and j

>> reporter: jim had to decide what sparks joy and what to keep and what to toss. >> thank you. >> no joy. >> nojoy. >> reporter: of course, not everything at the office sparks joy. jim had to find a spot for the items he needs to get his job done. >> you know, i have been looking for forks for like a couple of years. i'm asking everybody do you have a fork, and i've got whole box in here. who knew. >> keep all the items same category in one home. >> okay. >> so you don't -- you know, you don't keep some the drawer and some on the desk. >> yeah. >> keep them in one place so find a home for it. >> reporter: finding a new home for his old things is the final step in the process. >> you feel lighter. >> i do feel >>lighter. nd also there's a joy that you're sending t make somebody else happy. >> yes, yes, that's importkst. >> it l a lot better there. i love how his idea of something sparking tjoy,s brings joy, this brings joy.

>> i u could some advice in my house. >> yeah. >> he's so much more joyful now. >> yeah. >> i swear to god i sawll those ties sitting there, i think they are all going to goodwill. >> there's a big omle. >> givesody else joy. >> they are on somebody else's desk right new. >> what about the forecast? is this goi to give us joy > yeah, no, i mean, well, mayb listen, temperatures in the 60s so, yes, joy. >> ylsh. >> we'll have the winds so you can go -- can't go outside to enjoy i well, you can with you binds will be gusting 50 to 60 miles per hour so we have windnd advisoriesarnings in place. temperatures also nice but it will be very windy. h kind od on to your hat type of weather, but the rain is pushing out which will help dry things out. the only concern that i havee si're so sat rated, since we had so much snow that we got and then the rapece and on top of that on wednesday and then it melted. then we had the rain overnigh last night, the grounds are

saturated so it won't get much to get tre tpling over and that's why we could have power outages later on today. thereto goes the rain moving out of here pretty quicknd we'll continue to see dry conditions. i'm watching this little bit right here, but for the most part that stops at the mountains. this is the last lit eee of rain scooting through the i-95 corriden. cu temperatures 30s and 40s out there, and we're going to shoot rightn up in the m to upper 60s today. again, that rain is moving out right now. it will become pretty sunny as weteontinue into the oon so your weekend outlook, listen, l you want to go out and exercise atle later on, it's going to be windy but dry. skiing, wind and warm and if you're eating outside it's going to be too windy for that. here's a look at the warnings up to the north and advisories to the south and pretty much whata means. winds gusting to 40 to 50 miles per hour.

enjoy. tomorrow the windchills will be in the 20s and 30s. anywhere going it will stay with us and settle down tomorrow night. not quite as gusty. gusts to 30 to 40 miles per hour asts opposed to g to 40 to 50. next chance of rain comes friday and saturday. i'm keri dan of nbc news. >> and i'm mark murry. >> life doesn't give you politics nd sometim does and it looks like we'll get one in 2019 in a very ompetitive race in a very competitive state. >> the north carolina board of elections ruled voters in the state's ninth district will have another shot of picking their house member after serious allegations of election fraud on the part of a republican consultant. >> the first election do-over w since 1957n voters in louisiana went back to the polls for a house race because of a voting machine malfunction. >> and ite could a barn burner, too. it's a swing district where the sides were only divided by less than half a percentage point in november, and keep in mind that

north trolina is alsonding purple statewide. >> so we cld have a potentially super clo election in one of the mostrt imant states for control of theenate and the

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a new panda exhibit now open at d.c.'s national zoo. this is something we brought you guys yesterday. the house warming party that was

under way. >> it's interactive, and it outlines what researchers see,ib so the e features a series of games and activities which teachers visitors about the conservation history and careanf pandas. >> we have reproductive wientists and endocrinologists that help uh our breeding program here and those are all important things and they help us in our mission to save a species. >> very cool. >> visitors of the panda house can now navigate the effects of habitat loss on bamboo forests. pandas are no longer an nodangered species. they are classifieas vulnerable species. so that's some good news. > mm-hmm. e want to take a live look for you outside. a lit te wet startthe morning but temperatures are rights, but it also looks like winds are going to be significantly picking up. lauryn ricketts will let us kw what our workweek looks like and the rest othef

. ood sunday morni to you. thanks so much for joining us. i'm megan fite jerald. >> and adam tuss has this sunday off. culvevid what's so fun? >> i thought you were going to say i'm adam >> i've made that mistake before. m well within it and if i'm not the winds will knock some

sense into it me because it will be quite windy out thereto. >> adam -- >> what's this>> about? was going to say -- people call you add am anyway. iust called you add am. thank you, david cull version and meagan, him. all right, guys.av we he those rain showers moving right on out of here. listen, a lot of them are just to the east of i-95 right now. we continue to see them move on oure and now w looking at clearing. look at this. w'll have some sunshine later on. talking about whether this line would stay together. watch how it's breaking up. it tends to do that as it moves over the mountain range as a lot of moisture can't make it over. i think for the mostart this rain is done and we're drying out for the remainder of your sunday.at tempes right now 30s and 40s. however, we're heading into the 60s today. that's good. at's bad is we've got the wind. winds are going to be the maina story telieve it or not, not the warm temperatures.

winds will be gusting 50 to 60 miles an hour. high wind warnings in place for portions of our area. we'll talk abo the winds and talk about them hour by hour and let them know when we cool back down because this only going to be a slight special that we have on this forecast for temperatures in the 60s, so we'll show that you ten-did i forecast coming up in had a little bit. >> all right. ricketts, thank you. a woman isor safe thisng after a house fire in her home in silver sprg. firefighters pulled her out of her burning house onma h avenue. >> darcy spencer heard from one of the firefighters whoed res the woman. >> a woman was trapped in a fire here at her home on holman avenue in the forest glen park community. neighbors saw smoke and heard the woman crying f help. captain tommy foster was among the firefighters who her. ued >> she was talking to us as we were moving her through the housee we couldn't anything, but we knew that she was still viable. >> fir officials say there were hoarding conditions inside the home. that made it difficult for fire

fighters to get in and find her. >> thick, black, dark smoke, very toxic environment. it was hot,, smoknd she was unable to get out. >> the woman suffered smoke inhalation. she was taken to the hospital in serious condition. investigors found no working smoke detectors in the home. a second person who had been a there we to escape on her own. >> it's pretty scary. i mean, you know, it sou bs like she wa herself so, you know, i'm glad they were able to get her out inep time. >>ter: for foster and his crew, it's all in a day's work, but any s day youe a life is a good day. >> a lot of -- a lot of g that are on the fire did some fantastic things. it wasn't just me or the individuals that i just described. it was 18 to 20 guys that all worked together to get it done. >> reporter: firefighters are expecting the woman whourved to -- or the woman who escaped to survive her injuries. >> this morning off in texas continue to investigate

what caused a boeing 767 cargo jet liner to crash near houston. three peoe were o board that plane when it nose dived into that bay yesterday. officials say the were no survivors. the remains of the victims have been recovered. the boein aircraft is part of the amazon air package delivery fleet. it was headed to houston from miam when it went down. the ntsb is launching an investigation. >> the information that we have right now and again i want to emphasize that this is preliminnfymation. the aircraft is in what i would haracterize as a normal descent, and at around 6,300 feet it began what i willri charac as a very, very rapid descent at that point. we had a simultaneous loss of r traffic controladar contact and air traffic control radar or communications with the aircraft and theakpilots. >> a look at this trail of debris in the water. it's up to one mil long. authorities say they have not yet recovered the blackap box.

ning today. virginia lawmakers are set to vote on their budget plan,an an to a strong state economy they have millions of extra llars to spend this year. the proposal includes pay raises for state workers and public school teachers, more money for school counselors and tuitionfr zes and increased financial aid at state universities and gives extra funds to the state's rainy day accounts. >> meagan, we'll stay in the commonwealth for the next story. three weeks after governor northam's racist year book photos suaced there's still calls for him to resign. dozens of protesters marching from the capitol to the governor's mansion, a civil rights group and organizing the rally. they want him to resign over three things, his medical school year book showing someone in blackface and another in a kkk robe, an admission he wore blackface in the '80s and comments he made on wtop about

late-term abortions. o>> the way that country is set up is that it's supposed to be a government of the people, by the people and for the people so if we don't engage, then we're responsible for all of the evil that goes on. >> reporter: governor northam id amant about not stepping down and says he plans to spend the rest of his term working to end racial inequality. >> and the family of white house seniorar adviser kushner is a new landlord of thousand of homes in maryland and virginia. "the wall street journal" reports kushner companies paid $1.1 billion a for portfolio and about 6,000 apartments. the company's dealings have drawn more scrutiny because injured kushner is president ump's son-in-law kushner companies has said it's been harder to do business because of the heightened attention. the company is run by jared kushner's father the apartments span 16 properties. if you would like to read more check out ourhibc wton app. happening today, a fund-raiser at a local chipotle

to raise m in honor of former maryland football player jordancnair. starts at 5:00 this evening. it's at the chipotle along baltimore avenue in college park. bring in this flyer and show it on your s trtphone or justell the cashier you're there to support the cause. ipotle will donate third of the proceeds to the jordan mcnair foundation. the foundation was started in honor of mcnair who tragisslly away last summer after suffering heat stroke during a team workt. man students looking towards their future attended one of d.c.'s r longestning college fairs. college-bound students packed the convex cenr to meet with reps from historically black nicolleges andrsities. more than 7 a institutions were there today. the baptist church sponsoring this free college fair and for a second year in a row facebook is a key part of the even >> we are here to let kidsif kn

you want to go to hbcu there are internships andho scrships and we're here to promote the scholarships. >> the job fair has been hosted for 17 yea foodies in our area may want to mark this tuesday on their calendars. the natiol museum of a can american history and culture is hosting a special event in its cafe. chef jerome grant will discuss some of the dishes served at the sweet home cafe and what those dishes can teach diapers about african-american traditions. the event starts at 6:45 tuesday evening. tickets cost 40 bucks. >> this bryck his month we're honoring the achievements from our area. one author from shaw has sold hundreds of copies of his latest book series and get this, he's old.so years copper littlejohn is his name. he wro a series of bks called "tag, you're" i his latest seabrook about a group of friend fighting off zombies.

all wf this starth a creative writing assignment. copper decided to go the endra mile a turned it into a book. his mom b andther logan helped him out with the editing and the publishing. >> i felt like writing is fun because if gives mell these new idea. feels good to have people know what i'm doi andnow that i it things out there and just feels real good. >> that's really cool. all for's books are sale on amazon and he's already working on his next book. >> oh, my gosh. >> nbc 4 is celebrating black history month with a special airing today. meagan h a big role in this as well. it's called "shees thr recognizing women past and present who are breaking down barriers. join us at 11:30 this morning right after "meet the press." >> she'sust a seventhgrader, but she's full of big ideas and one of them has gone gloefnlt ahead we'll meet this week's harris' hero. faas

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f> most kids spend their weekendsusing on hobby, sports, nintendo, ipads, but not this seventh grader. she spend a lot of free timein heothers. >> now her small idea of helping the homeless has gonena internat mikayla and bundles of love are this week's harris' heros. >> mayla west is pretty shy until it comes time to doing he something for . >> where did this idea come from? >> well, when i was 3 i always wanted to help the homeless by giving them money and i wondered why no one ge themming in. >> reporter: she came up for the idea of bundles of love when she was just 8 years old. her birthday is close to christmas and s felt like she was receiving too many gives. >> incentives, my parents giving gifts and all my friends giving me guests, i asked for stuffor the homeless and then we bundled it into boxes. >> i said don't worrybout

what's in there. the most important thing is the love you're giving them i'm going to call them bundles of love. >> that turned into a small after-school club. how many joined you the first time? >> five or six. >> reporter: and the next time after that? n 20. >> and theext time after that? >> 44. >> reporter: now there are 15 chapters all over the country and twon canada. we asked mikayla t bring a couple of friends out to show us how the bundling works. she brought out entire school. >> l me see what you have here. >> reporter: starting with survival items like sks, coats and toothpaste. >> they makes cards and wrap it all up in a blanket. >> reporter: and they enjoy going out and delivering the bundles and m daughter is a part of it. we have a bundle in our car. >> tell me abouthat you feel like when you putourself in their problem. >> i feel sad for them but at the same time i fl like i know

that people. ove th >> reporter: this program has also had a big -- >> we all got in aar. her dad and i thanked mikayla because she had an opportunity to see what christmas is all about. >> reporter: all this christmas, all this giving all because one ttle girl's birthday was too close to christmas. >> leon harris with thattory there. mikayla will be graduating from her school next year and hopes that the bundles ofup love g continues on. >> she is special indeed. >> if you would like to learn more check out our nbc washington app and just search harris' heroes. all right, folks, listen. we're warming up so that's the good news. the bad news is we've got some wind that' t comingough. apparently it's going to be pretty intense. wauryn ricketts will be back to let us k what's going on in this forecast. time now is 9:44. we'll right back.

the nearly 30-year-old story pr d.c. drug kingpin rafael edmund. ecutors asked for a reduction in his life sentence but one part of that story has never been told until now. >> this is the only part of the story you'll see now. jackie benson speaking to a n retired d.c. police officer who after his third day at the police academy goes undercovne with of the biggest and most dangerous drug gangs in u.s. history. ha if you would have told me back then we would still be

talking about this now, would i have told you you've got to be. kidding >> reporter: for safety we're not showing the face of the man that members of the drug empire knew as jimmy. >> i got asked after tifee days wanted to do undercover work. >> reporter: he was 26 when he began living undercover as a cocaine dealer. unarmed and using only his wits orked his way close to the top of the cocaine wholesale operation that's estimated to have netted edmund . $1 million a day in the late 1980s and 30 murders were tie to the organization. >> reporter: you knew it was an organization that enforced discipline wh murderer. >> yes. >> reporter: he witnessed shipments of cocaine by the truckloads. >> a guy sitting on the back with two uzis. >> reporter: and then there was the face for face confrontation with the coach of georgetown.

the kingpin asking them 50,000 each but thompson told him to lee it alone. >> he w happy to comply because he loved >> reporter: jimmy says his only regret is that many who worked so hard to bringd.c.'s drug kingpin to justice were never fully recognized. >> the group that always had my back on the street and watched me. as long as i can live in the ci now i'd do it again. >> jackie benson with that report right there. >> he should write a book or netflix series or something. >> we know edmundteid not selling drugs when he went to prison and it was a plea deal that actually led to him become an informant this has the d.c. oice now

recommending a reduced sentence. >> it would be terrifying though being a rookie and going undercover. >> could have gotten killed. >> like "the depart." >> i remember that movie. leonardo dicaprio. >> that's all i could think of watching that story and keep thinking about how warm it's going to be because we won't be able to go outside and enjoy it. >> the 'twind. >> cin for losing. talking about temperatures nearing 70 degrees but it will be so t windy outre it will be tough to enjoy it. the wind is coming from the southwest so we're not talking about a blustery wind. that wind is helping to take the temperatures on up. that's not reston. that's not -- my srces -- that's not reston. i've lived here lock enough to know the capitol --reston, virginia, unless reston got really quickly built and built that capitol. cloud cover and not the prettiest day out there right now. however, conditions are improving, and we're already

looking at clearing conditions back of the shenandoah vale, anu evly we'll all get some sunshine out here, and that little bit of rain that i saw break up over the mountains ,s advertisnd most of the rain off to the eastern shore so we're going to dry out for the remainder of e day and looking a lot better out there today as we get some sunnine later this afternoon, especially compared to yesterday. temperatures out there right now in the 30s and0s across the board, so it's still a little on the chilly side, but we're going to take the tempera the 60s today. unfortunately, we've got the winds with us throughout the day. they will be picking up in the next hour or so, andst they wil with us all the way through the overnight and through much of the day tomorrow. however, if you'reoing to go ahead hand get your car washed do it today because we're going to be dry and we're pretty quiet heading into this week. thank gooseness, even thoughou do have the winds around with us. wind advisory in place in the light area in green. we just had some flood warnings that were issued, and then we also have a high wind warning for areas in that orange.

pretty much the difference is we'reee going to gusts up to 50 to 60 miles an hour. tomorrow still breezy. gusts of 40 to 50 miles an hour, so not quite as windy but still temperatures will be in the mid-40s tomorrow. and, again, with temperatures in the mid-40s and breezyinds that will actually now come out of northwest tomorrow, we're talking about windchills, s 60s today, but when you head off to work tomorrow morning we'll have our tperatures in the tee and 20s for windchills, and the air temperature will be in the low 30s. windchills throughout your monday will be in the 30s. quite a c from the 60s today. not much of a windchill today because those a temperature the in the 60s because the wind switched out of the northwest for tnorrow t will bring down some cooler air. we stay cool tuesday, wednesday and thursday. winds settle down tomorrow night and we're pretty quiet tuesday, wednesday and thursday. two chances of rain friday and saturday. saturday

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