right now at 11:00, a top rapublicanised the lieutenant governor's grace through scandal and justin fairfax then compared himself to

lynching victims. >> we stand here with a rush to judgment but nothing but allegations. >> he faces sex assault allegations and you'll hear the fullco ents. >> it's a storm team 4 weather alert. the winds already causing damage and it's about to get worse. >> i'm darcy spencer in college park a the chipotle restaurant where the line is verycaong beuse they're having a very special fund-raiser. i'll tell you what it's about coming up. >> news 4 at 11:00 starts now. good evening, i'm erika gonzalez. two people rescued from their fairfax home after a large tree slammed on toit. power is out in the area and there's thousands of outages across our region. wind advisory set to go into effect. >> that's right. we're starting to see a lot of these storm reportsome in and i want to get to the graphic and show you where they're concentrated where we were expecting to see the stronger gusts. back along i-81. so what you're looking at, these

little balls here are alls repof downed trees or high gusts and you're seeing a lot in frederick county, maryland and further back we s wind gusts reaching 66 miles per hour folks but at the end ofhe day we're all fair game for power outages. here's what you need to know. we'll still be under an advisory and warning throughout the ,egion tomorrow. guess wh even though the winds are calming a bit now they'll be picking back up tomorrow morning. that commute. we could be talking serious wind chills for kids at the b. st i have so much more. stick around for that. virginia lieutenant governor justin fairfax stunned lawmakers in rnhmond today w he compared himself to lynching victims. the comments came after a top

republican praised fairfax fho he handled sexssault allegations. >> thank you very much. >> applause for justin fairfax in virginia's general assembly today. a cloud of uncertainty looms over the lieutenant governor. this after accusations of sexual assault dating back to 2000 surfaced. he maintains the encounters are consensual. >> god is good and the truthons y side. >> but it's not that part of his speech causing a stir. >> in we go backward. >> he urged due iprocess. happy to be just one example of whether or not we're going to rise or go back down a very dark political road where 50 years ago had fingers been pointed to me in the exact same way it would be a very differenc e. >> moments later he compared himself to victims of lynching. i've heard much about

anti-lynching on the floor of this very senate and want to talk about hundreds, at least a hundred that have happened in the commonwealth of virginia and yet we stand heren a rush to judgment with nothi but accusations and no facts and we decide that were willing to do the same thing. >> silence in the room. republican house majority leader delegate todd gilbyit , quote, this is the most worst disgusting type of rhetoric he uld have invoked. in the last several weeks, two african american women accused the lieutenant governor of sexual assault. both of whom have agreed to testify publicly. lawyers for dr. tyson stress their desire for a bipartisan process. the scandal, one of threerm ting virginia's top leaders.

governor ralph norman and mark hea herring that admitted to wearing black face in the 80s. >> with regards to fairfax, house republicans want him to testify in a public hearing along with his two accusers. fairfax says the investigations should be investigate by law enforcement. virginia republicans released a fund-raising ady. to the controversy surrounding the state's top democrats lead to chaos andas embaent. it argues the gop lead general assembly hasle delivered ership and results. the virginia legislative session ended toy. lawmakers passed a state budget that includes teacher pay raises, money for state employees and newpending on public education. strong words from pope francis heas t it'sic landmark summit to address priest sex abuse. the pope vowing to confront abusers with, quote, the wrath of god. but abuse survivors say it's talknd they are demanding

action. jay gray has the lest from rome. >> pope francishi closes historic summit with condemnation calling cler gy wh use tools of satan and ravenous wolves. social media post justifying thn r survivors see toward the church as the reflection of the wrath god and promising church leaders moving forward will deal with abuse and cover ups with upmos seriously. >> the church will spare no effort to do allt t is necessary to bring to justice whoever has committed such crimes. >> but it stopped short of wha for her a direct mandate or define change in church ilaw. was a show. >> advocates sayhere's no substance after four days of meeting here. just bullet points, a promises

perhaps some kind of handbook for bishops in the coming months with an outline o howo handle cases of abuse. >> so we've been waiting decades for some reform and they're saying a handbook is wt their reform will be. that's not enough. we were raped. the priests are still in ministry. the priests are still out there. >> they say they'll continue to fight for zer tol and a full public accounting of the abused and abusers and urging paritioners. >> i'm asking, i'm begging the catholics out there thateee us to rup. >> to do what they say their church has not. jay gray, nbc news, rome. >> local abuse survivors and advocates sayhey are september cal alpill . there's a list of things catholics can do to help.

they're also asking the vatican to institute a zero tolerance policy, especially for high ranking abusers. >> fire any bishop and cardinal that has covered upbu the of children. and the zero tolerance that's supposed to apply to priest should apply to cardinals as bishops as well. >> ask all your children, including your adult children if anything ever happened to them. >> every step thathe church takes toward transparency is the right step. >> snap is also encouraging people to donate to groups that help sex abuse victims. 8 months after jordan mcnair died, organizers welcome them to a fund-raiser. d thisvent was far bey night out of eating out. >> it's no secret that many college students like to eat at

chipotle but these students are eining up at the college park restaurant for m than just a meal. they're here for a fund-raiser to support the jordan mcnair foundation. the 19-year-old university ofnd maryootball player died last year. >> a couple of friends of ours are athtes too and the posted the flyers on social media and we saw it and thought we' support them and the family. >> mcnair died from heat stroke last june weeks after he collapsed on the field during a preseason workout. the foundation is raising money to support player safety programs a scholarships. >> i was expecting about this many people and it's awesome that everybody is coming out and family. ng the >> the fund-raiser spublicized n social media drew crowd so big it stretched down the swaublide. many of those were maryland students. >> it's a good thing toome together and lift their spirits. >>33% of the sales tonight will go to the foundation. and judging from these lines, we're looking at thousands of

dollars. >> many of the students we spoke to didn't personay know mcnair but they know the tragedy surrounding his death. they want to do their part in supporting the foundation so it never happens agn. >> yeah it makes me very proud of this community. darcy spencer, news t4. foundation was set up by mcnair's parents. they want to rai awareness about the signs and symptoms of heat stroke and heat related illnesses. take a look at this photo. critics are now tgeting the nra. they say the magazine picture insights violence against democrats. and in other news, the stars are out in tinsel town. tonight's big oscar moments you'll be talking about tomorrow. the ballots have been cast and you're theinner because sports final is coming your way. why he thinks this will be his toughest season yet on and offe th field. e.om russia with l

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thenal rifle association is facing harsh criticism for a picture showing prominent democratic lawmakers with the caption target practice. they publish this picture in one of their magazines. it shows nancypelosi standing with gabby giffords.or gi as you know is a victim of gun violence and pelosi has been a target of gun violence including by a lieutenant. pelosi's daughter called the cover anl outrageous crimi incitement. >> the lawyer for r. kelly says he'll still in a chicago jail cell for another day or two. kelly still hasn'teen able to come up with the money to post bail. he's charged with sexuall abusing four victims. three of whom are under the age of 14. he faces0 sexual abuse counts that date back as far as98 19. one of his alleged w victims just 14 years old. a judge set his bond at $1

million yesterday requiring him to pay 10% or 100,000 of that to go free. kelly's lawyer says he isn'tth we despite decades of success. >> he didn't have that money just sitting around in cash. he needs cash but i suspect theo banks will pen tomorrow and he'll be able to g out. >> each of the ten charges carries up to 7n years prison. the sentences could be served consecutively making it possible for him to receive up to 70 years in prison. >> new at 11:00,harles barkley is blasting actor jussie smollett. smollett is charged with filing a false police report in chicago after he said he was the voftim hate crime. tmz sports caught up with barkley in atlanta where he was attending a birthday party. barkley says smollett is a great talentwh but criticize he did. >> he did great injustice to the gay community. he did great injustice to the

llack community. and that's not ct all because every person out there who is black or gay know how difficult it is to be successful and he did immeasurable damage to us plain and simple. >> he maintains that the attack did happen and it wasn't a ax. police say smollett planned the attack because he was not happy with his salary and wanted to promote his career. right now the oscars after parties are just gting started. hollywood honoring the best of the best during tonight's ademy awards. and no host, no problem. stars from the big and the small screens doing the hostingonors this year. all of the glitz and the glamour and the t starst took home the golden statues tonight. >> first time oscar nomin regina king was the first winner of tonight's 91st annual academy awards. she took best supporting actress

for if beal street could talk. the prize for supporting actor went to green book. it's his second win on the category on the heels of his 2017 win for moonlight. best picture contender roma came into the night with 10 nominations early on and won best foreign language film and best cinematography for the director. >> if we came to a different understanding. >> christian le's transformation into dick chaney helped bring honors for best hair and make up to vice and black panther won a pair of awards. ird. costume design and bestitw it 's gross. >> another super hero hit, spider man into the spiderverse took the prize as best animated feature. the rock group queen opened tonight's academy awards and the film based on their early days

with freddie mercury picked up kudos for sound editing and sound mixing as well as film editing. nbc news hollywood. >> and we have much more on the big winners tonight and all of the oscars fashions of course. just open our nbc washington app and search oscars. all right. we turn now to the weather. we have been in weather alert mode this weekend because we have been talking about high winds and if you think, that's still going to be an issue tomorrow. >> we have been getting so many storms reports, especially farther north in frederick county but we were expecting that. areas farther north are under a high wing. warn the rest of us still under an advisory but that doesn't mean the winds can't do damage because they are. check that out. wind gus7 miles per hour. it was roaring higher than that

earlr but it has tempered a bi but through the overnight hours we'll see this shoot back. notice the time stamp there, 8:00 a.m. and wind gusts into the 30 40s and 50s along i-81 so we are going to s the win actually worsen as we head through the monday morning hours. hong is this g to effect us. in many ways. first of all, i know it was war today but tomorrow morning it's going to be cold. 34 degrees. make sure the kids aundled up at the bus stop. it's not going to feel like 34g s. it's going to feel more like the 20s and of course we're factiting the winds the temperature. it's going to feel like the 30s

through the afternoon. goin to have bite to the air. tomorrow plenty of sunshine. if you didn't get the car washed yet i'd say go for it still because we're going to be pretth dry thrt the week. here's a few things i want you to keep in mind as we wrap this up hep. slway from the side of the house where you had swaying trees. we had a lotf saturation from the past couple of weeks and the past couple of months. i want you to be mindful of where you're sleeping in the house. be mindful of whe you park the car. not too late. winds will be gusting after 4:00 a.m. if you're thinking let me move the car, do it after the 10-day. we could be doing power outages. it's fair game for everyone . real here's your ten-day outlook.

dry through the top of t week. the big talker is rain holding off until friday and snow flakes possibly saturday morning. >> that's okay. we'll take a few days without any sort of, any kind of precipitation in our forecast tomorrow. thank you so very much. still ahead, in a day filled with wild endings, the george with wild endings, the george mason women may take

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backstrom hasn't scored in over a month. first period taking care of that. he scores. the great pass and he scores one his two goals in the game. taking advantage. he shot off the former ranger's sticko friday i overtime, on the attack. leads it for ovechkin fakes the sh. tting the buck loose on the goal line. finishing it off. this one kind of a combo goal. if they each could get a half a goal they got two points. caps win it in overtime 6-5. oo>> this afte spring training, nats facing the cardinals. vying for that fifth starter. it's a nice showing today.

gives up just one hit. no runs over two innings riking out three. and in the 6th, here's carter kieboom. one of the top prospects. dropped one into shallow right. gave them a 7- lead. win 12-2 and improving to 2-0 in spring training. let'so racing. kick trip 500 at atlanta motor speedway. it wasn't a quick trip to pit road for b.ccloud. slamming into the back of his 52 guard sending him toward the pit crew. thankfully no one hurt. 33 laps to go, joey logano trying to hold on to the lead but brad kelowski battling. it's a rough week for keselowski. he lost six pounds inen hours with the flu. does his best michael jordan impression here. holding off a late threat from

martin truex jr. winning the quick trip 500 at atlanta. >> george mason holding dayton, tied at 51. 2.4 seconds left. at the buzzer, hits the three buzzer beater to give george mason the win. a game high 21 points. none bigger than that right there. patriots with a wild one. 5 had- -- r54-51 o dayton. >> now to the high school ranks. down to the wire here. down one and going for the win but justin moore bloed by casey morsel. that does it. 53-52. they'll take on gonzaga tomorrow. st. johns girls will face-off for the mutitle. more coming up on sports final not to mention, someone may or may not be ming a

special and first appearance. so stick around. >> interesting. iho wonder that could be. >> we'll be right back. appointment

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bald eagle drama may be over. we're going to show you live ctures of an empty nest where liberty had been staying. keyword, had. scientists say she left because she was stresusd out as her mate disappeared two weeks ago, justice and liberty have been there in 2004 but a second male, named aaron bird moved in but he soon moved onout. another male swooped in, there's a lot of dma for some birds. he and liberty mated in the middle of last week. we're going to put their business out there. the next day, they left two eggs alone in the nest without

incubation for nearly 12 hours. when they returned, scientists say the pair flew the coop and all learned more than we ever could have about bald eagles in the course of the last two weeks. >> do you want me to follow that with weather? keep in mind, be mindful of where you park the car and we coul still have power outages tonight. >> be safe out there. pull the cars into the garage. ts have spor

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