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firefighters rescue aoman ying for help as flames ripped through her silver spring home. this morning hear from the heroes who saved her. >> could this the face of republican politics going forward. a "new york times" interview adding more fuel this morning to rumors that maryland governor larry hogan may challenge president trump. >> and a billion dollar real estate deal means a w controversiate house staffer might be involved with a new landlord. we'll take a closer look at t deal affecting thousands in our area. uary, this 24th of fe
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2019, we welcome you into news 4 today. good sunday morning to you it. am david culver in for adam tuss. i'm meagan fitzgerald. >> we're in weather alert mode. it looks like a h or miss. today it's 68 degrees, warm and comfortable. >> we love these temperatures. >> andhen here comes gusting winds. apparently these winds that are going to be ptty intense. >> right, lauryn ricketts? >> we'll see pretty strong winds. 50 to 60 miles an hour, guys, so, yeah, temperatures will be in the 60s today. we've got to get on uphere. i think by noon the temperatures will be in the 50s. we're in the low 40s right now but once the skies start to clear that they are doing in the shenandoah valley and rains are gone then thes temperature going to go up a little bit. there goes the rain and it's be pretty quick. it utbooingied on o of here. clear, e clouds temperatures go up. winds go up as well, but the winds are coming out of south and west and that will be aump
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temperatures up. any rain that we had. i thought that le would go through and that would die at the mountains. it's dying at the mountains so we'rery looking atonditions for the remainder of the day. any more rain today,, but could you be outside later even though the temperatures will be nearing 70eges in some spots? yeah, you could be outside and it's pretty darnth windy. means you'll have power out action. the ground is so saturated not even with the snow and ice and wind that we got on thursday but all the rain we got lastt. ni with the ground saturated won't take much to take some trees igdown. any bnow chances coming up on that ten-day forecast. we'll show you coming up in 20 minutes. >> snow. >> 68 degrees to snow. >> i know. >> dramatic rescue in silver springs. a woman cesperatelying for help as flames tore through her home. >> firstus respondersd in to save her as smoke and flames building.ough the derrick ward joins us live. sounds like a pretty daring
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rescue. >> reporter: indeed it was, but, you know, these firefighters told news 4 owes darcync spe yost night it's all in a day's, would. can see the house behind me. we're in the 2500 block of holman avenue and silver spring, and can you see some of the damay the fire, the charredr area ohe window and hole in the roof. it was 6:20 last night when all of that that's when firefighters got here, and and they were welcomed by smoke, t flames and screams of a woman trapped inside. they indeed went inside a told darcy about what the conditis were, what they met when they got into the house and how ty saved a life. >> she was talking to us. as we moved her through the suse we couldn't see anything, but we knew was still viable. 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: and, of course, the conditions they yet with werest al worst case scenario.
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we were told there were hoarding conditions inside and working smoke detectors. we're told that a woman did make it out on her own and that the woman that they rescued is in serious condition in theho ital suffering from smoke inhalation. we're live here in silver springs, derrick ward, news 4. back to you. >> derrick, thanks. at 10:04 on this sunday morning, officials in texas are trying to figure out what caused a cargot er to crash. the boeing 767, it went down near houston. the people wer on board that plane when it nodes dived into this bay yesterday. russia officials say the crash killed everyone o boards and crews did recover the remains of the victim. we learned the plane is part of the amazon divery fleet headed from houston to miami when it went down. a local sheriff says momafts r this crash he initially relied on folks who had boats to help out. >> we're hurricane harvey survifrpts i made some phone calls andha people helped news harvey were out there helping and trying -- you know, obviously, we wereg there would be survivors.
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>> check this out. this is the trail of debris in the water. it's up to one mile long. authorities say they have not yet found the black bo speculation is growing around whether larry hogan will challenge president trump in the primars. said that president trump's 2016 win was an anomaly and add that had more needs to be done with the gokis shr base. hogan told "the times" in part, a te, i think that there a lot of republicans that are concerned about the future and want us to be a wider tent and not to alienate peopl a or be divisive. hogan praised the president on the economy and noted that we might differ on trade and might differ on many other things. he spoke on friday to chris gordon about a possible presidential run. >> it's not something i have a
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timeline on. didn't say i was thinking or thinking about it. i simply did not rule it out. >> hogan attended a speech by friday night. he's pleased that the president hasn't criticized him the family of white house senior adviser jared kushner is the new landlord of thousand of virginia.aryland and "the wall street journal" reporting that kushner companies paid $1.1 billion for a portfolio of about 6,000 apartments. >> the company's dealings have drawn more scriny because jared kushner is president trump's son-in-law. it's been harder to do busins because of the heightened attention. 16 apartment spans properties. if you want to read more about this, our digital team is posting moredetails i our nbc washington app. repeatedly and brazenly violating the law, that's the ture special counsel robert mueller's office paints of president trump's former campaign manager.
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thespecial counse office released sentencing on paul manafort. they repeatedlyroke laws on behalf of ukrainian interests. they said his actions continued to be unlaw full even after being indicted. mueller is not recommending a specific jail sentence. mueller is alsoacing tax and bank fraud charges in virginia, and no doubt t about it, russia probe will be a hot topic later this morning ons"meet the prith chuck todd. chuck and his panel will break down the latest developments of the ongoing investigation that starts i ls than 30 minutes at 1010:0 right after "news4 today." >> we'llhat withhuck ten minutes from now. >> the fourth and final day of the unprecedented vatican summit to address the clergy sexual abuse and cover within the catholic church. it's been a powerful few days of discussions, d testimonies at the vatican. just yesterday a nigerian nuncu d church leaders of being hypocrites, ignoring their faith's me or less and values. now nearly 200 catholic church
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leaders have ended their historic summit and they ended it with a mass of penance and a powerful message from pope francis. >> the church will spare no fort to do all that is necessary to bring to justice who so ever has committed such crimes. the church will never seek to hush up or not take seriously any case. >> strong words there, but manya survivors advocates say words and prayers are simply not enough. they demand thee zero tolerance for any cardinals or bishops or other officials c in therch who cover upju abuse. st last week the church expelled the former archbishop of washington theodore mccarrick from the priesthood. r & b singeror kelly is now in the legal battle of his life. jail orning he's still in charged with sexually abusing four women and now he's trying to come up with a large amount of mon to try to post bond. a judge his bond yesterday
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at $1 million. pollutors say three of the viims were underage when the alleged crimes happened between 1998 and 20 ome of the they also say there's video of him having sex with an underaged girl. >> in the video, the victim repeatedly, repeatedly says she 14 years old. >> you know, right now he's presumed innocent. we haven't seen anything, any reason to believe that these allegations are credible. >> sourc tell nbc news that homeland security is also looking into a possible connection between kelly and sex traffic allegations. a homeland security spokeswoman would not confirm or deny if that's true. kelly's next court date is set for monday morning. >> happening today, a fund-raiser at a local chipotle to raise money in honor of former football player jordan mcnair at the chipotle on baltimore avelee in c park. an you bring this flyer and show it on your smartphone or go
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up to the cashier and tell them that youe supporting the cause. chipotle will donate one-third of the proceeds to the jordanir mc foundation. the foundation was started in honor of mcnair who passed away last summer after suffering heat stroke during a team workout. 10:10 i your time. temperatures aring if to get warm out there. it will feel a bit like spring, but winds are the bigry s lauryn ricketts is tracking some lauryn ricketts is tracking some strong gusts that could pose an
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will have around-at-lock coverage of the summit all week long. lester holt will be covering this in hanoin tuesday with a special edition of "nbc nightly news." and chaos turns i deadly venezuela. at least two people are dead and hundreds are injured after violent clashes broke out with protesters yesterday. venezuela's national guard fired tear gas on people w had cleared a barricade border between venezuela and colombia. ey were clearing the way to bring humanitarian a through. the president nicolas maduro has ordered the military to stop any hed from coming in to the country. as also ended diplomatic relations with colombia. opposition leader juan guaido has promised to bring aidth int country from the u.s. meanwhile, bringing you back to the nes., person is dead after a small plane crash. this ise in a h in florida. firefighters rushing to this ectic scene yesterday afternoon.
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it's not too far from tampa. aircraft had recently taken off fr nearby airport, lost power and went down into that home. incredible' pilotraee on board survived. the plane trapped and pinned a teenage girl inside her bedroom of that home. crews were able to fre her and says that she only had minor injuries. caught on cameras, the rescue of a woma hanging from a burning building. intense video. take a look. onig the-hand side of your screen, you can see the woman from northeast china dangling from a window sill betweenh the seve and eighth floors. ehe flames just billowing out of the high r apartment building. had to break up i two teams. one tried to calm the woman dowe and other ran up the stairs to try toescue her the second team was able to pult er backo the building carrying her out to safety. she's expected to be okay, but, wow, that is intense. >> all caught on camera there. >> after seeing all of this snow this past week, it's good to
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keep in mind that spring is right around the corner and going to kind of feel like it today, too. around here, spring trains erry blossom time. one pop-up bar will get you ready for the festive time of the year. the drink companies popping t u fo third time in a row. ikis year the bar will look l yo veofteu'ed spp ramen noddles. it will feel like college. they will be serving japanese inspired cocktails. the cherry blossom pop-up bar fill stay around through the middle o april on seventh street in northwest. still too soon to tell when the actual cherry blossoms will bloom. the real challenge gsting into that bar. >> long lines out the >> got in to find out who can get us in. >> cannot waital
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speounsel robert mueller, his work isn't quite done yet, but after about two years of working on the hevestigation of russian's interference into016 election is close to wrapping up. >> it's been going on for a while. h yeah. >> tp us figure out where to go from here "meet the press" moderator chucked to, todd, i know this report is expefied, at t this coming week. it's now kind of been put off because the president is traveling. before that report goes through nethough to the attorney l, do we think though that michael cohen estify? >> well, michael cohen will have his testimony in congress. >> yeah.
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>> obviously, and i think the thing i'm going learn, that i'll not -- interested in is i don't think we're going to learn some of the things that he's been doing with thel, specl counecause i think some of that is just not done yet. that's going to be dis with somebody that's watching it. i think it will be the most interesting to perhaps the public will be the picture he paints of how donald trump conducted business, that the trump organization, how with lawsuits and how he dealt with personal attacks and things like tha because that picture may matter when it comes to the picture that robert mueller is painting. >> mm-hmm. >> so switching gearso the- to the 2020 election. we see some new democratic candidates jumping in like bernie sanders and then you've got joe biden and beto o'rourke hiing atumping in. if they do, how would that shake up the race? >> at this point, many already announced candidates, we're sitting here now i think if you're not inoond you'reng around, you better -- you better hurry up and get in.
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it's yogi berra had an pression it's getting late early. it is if you're joe biden, even if you're the sitting vice president. i think the fact thatou look cial and ces both fin in staff and places like iowa and new hampsre and you -- you see that ey are all in a you look at the head start bernie sanders, for instance, is y already, hav cannot sit here and wait much longer. i think april 1 is basically -- if you're not in by april 1 you won't be the nominee. and even if you're the sitting former vice president. >> you go back to 2016 look a republicans, not enough room on the stage for all the primary candidates. >> that's why we'llniave two ts of death baits because it's so filled up. >> who do you think would be st to challenge donald trump? >> see, this is -- >> given histactics. >> and i actually think that this is -- so this is what democrats -- they are not looking for electability solei but for all of the candidates,e if you- you've got to the have the ability to take him on, and if you're perceivedint not stigate ability to take him
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on no matter how well liked you tare, i think you're goinbe punished and penalized. i think elizabeth warren is finding this out right now. >> sure. >> the fact is even though her message resonates with so much of the party, i think there's a hesitation about her because oh, my gosh, the first time i went up against him with this native amoican stuff he seemedeat you down. >> yeah. >> and in that sense, i think voters are looking at who is going to be tough enough to ahndle it. >> >> it doesn't mean it's the only issu obut it is of the main factors that democratic voters will be looking for. >> a lot to unpackhis morning on "meet the press." >> all right, guys. >> about nine minutes from now. >> chuck todd, appreciate it. catch "meet the press" right today"news 4 speaking of beating you down sounds like the wind is going to be the big thing today. >> the wind is going to be the big even though temperatures will be nearing 70 degrees winds will be the main sty, gusting, 30, 40,
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'50 miles an hour and winds wilg stay with us ghrough the day tomorrow as well. we're looking at pretty windy conditions over the nex 36 hours, so today windy and mild. tomorrow breezy and cooler, and then we're pretty quiet ase get into your tuesday and wednesday. so there goes the rain and soat long to one thing i want to mention, if you're out driving around today before thatkiind starts p up, it will start picking up now between now and about 11:30, over the nt hour, and that will help dry out the puddles. man, i was driving around this morning coming in work and there was so much ponding on the roadways, just floods your windshield. to watch out for that so weou g an inch of rain yesterday and the ground is so saturated. a lot of this water doesn't have anywhere to go and that's why i'm worried abouter poutages. current temperatures out there right now, once we start to get this clearg which we're starting to see right now temperatures are going to shoot on up. 30ss and 40 right now but we're in the mid to upper 60s today, again, with very windy
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conditions. gusts up to 50 to 60 miles an hour, so if you're headed to brunch, toody w to eat outside. temperatures nice and in the 50s and for any other things you o ed to get done, exercise. know it's going windy. skiing, it's going to be warm and wind, and, again, as i said, eating outside a little too windy for that. wind aisory in th brown and wind warning in the orange so the winds will be just a little stronger to the north through maryland, but, again, on average gusts up to 60 miles per hour. we'll have winds overnight and throroh the day tom gusting up to about 40 miles an hour, when you head off to work tomorrow morning and get the kids red for, schoindchills will be in the 20s and most of the day windchills will be in the 30s so 46nd for tomorrow a big change from today. winds settle down by two, wednesday and thursday. wednesday and thursday. we're quiet a friany nd
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all-new colgate total. do more for your whole mouth. time now is 10:26. four thingsou need to know. a silver spring woman is expected to be okay after being rescued from her burning home. a second person was able to escape. fire officials s there were no working fire alarms in the home. the ntsb investigating a p deadlylane crash in texas. e people were kille the cargo jetliner nose dived into a bay near houston. today the jordan mcnair foundation will hold a fund-raiser at a chipotle in college park starting at 5:00 p.m. to raise money in honor of the former terps football player who died last summer during a
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workout. and keep it right here on nbc 4 for "meet the press." moderator chuck toddnd the panel will break down the latest in the russia probe. all that starting right after "news 4 today." >> don't forget our african-american special right after "meet the press." >> that's right, absolutely. might be wise to stay inside and watch that. pretty windy out there today. pretty breezy. winds settle down wednesday, thursday and friday. >> thanks very much. >> thanks very much. that does it for "news 4 [phone ringing]
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