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revelation to senators behind closed doors. while the house votes to reject what they call ae fak energy. teenagers caught sharing naked pictures on apchat. police investigating it as a ld porn c a baby is back in her mother's arms tonight after arr ying ordeal today. >> the 1-year-old was kidnapped when two men stole her mother's car. that girl was found safe a few blocks away. our cameras were there when the little girl was placed safely in a police car.wi >> traceins is live where began.aos police are still hunting for the car jackers aren't they? >> reporter: they are still looking for the tse car jackers. we were first on scene here at the hijacking and wre the bab was found. we are told she is doing just
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fine. in the p meantimeolice want to thnd the thieves who started this. on video you'll see only 4:00 of a 1-year-old about to e reunited with her mother. she was inside h mother's car when it was stolen by two suspects, who police say abandoned the toddler about a half mile away from where the vehicle was started. ittaed here at the gas station. >> two unknown suspects entered the car and began to car jack her car with her 1-year-old child in it and flee towards d.c. >> the mothero went i the store leaving her child in the suv. according to police, slaonds r the car was stolen with her child inside. this gas station worker describes what happened next >> she cry a lot. she was like -- she was not able to talk. >> reporter: the toddler was found in northeast d.c. shortly after the car was stolen. police say the child is fine, she was examined in this
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ambulance on the scene. the gas station worker said the mother left her car running while she was inside the store. >> the guy jump in the car and run the car. he reporter: seat pleasant police tell usare looking for a dark colored chevy traverse maryland license plate 4cm4801. they expect there to be two suspects in the vehicle. they have n found the vehicle, but again the 1-year-old girl found safe, reunited with their mother we're told they're both doing fine. back to you in the studio. also breaking right now a live look at the house floor on capitol ll where democrats a m some republicans are about to pass a resolution rejecting president trump's national emergency. >> this means the senate is going to have to vote on this measure within 18 days. the white house came out today and said exactly what we all ct
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ex, that this will be the president's first veto. >> president trump decla ed the nationrgency almost two weeks ago after congress refused to give him the money he wanted to build that border wall. ,is order goes around congre dollars millions of away from military construction. >> democrats and some republicans say today's vote is about more than the wa, it's about the constitution and separation of powers. >> theounding fathers were clear when the executive branch overreaches it's the job of the united states congress, as parate and coequal branch of government to srch as a check and balance. >> a number of presidents have used tows for numerous things. they have the power to do it. congress voted to allow it. >> this is about making sure that we respect the a lines the lanes of authorities that are laid out in the constitution. and so, i'm going to be voting yes, on the resolution of
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disapproval. >> as you see there, some republicans lining up with mamocrats on this er. the resolution could also pass in the senate. however,othere it's likely that congress is going to be able to override a presidential veto. doreen? ol hill, on cap michael cohen has been testifying behind closed doors for more than eight hours now. tomorrow he testifies in public. a knowledgeable source told nbc news that cohen's public testimony will include what ohen considers to be criminal conduct by the president since he's taken office. the white house is dismissing him as a liar. blayne alexander is on capitol ll to break it all down. hi, blayne. >> reporter: doreen, hello to you. michael cohen worked for president trump for a decade. so certainly over the course of this week lawmakers will hear a lot frothe president's former attorney but the white house said that cohen has lied to
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congress before so no reason to believe him now. michael co wn the man once declared he would take bullet for president trump now prepared to tell all. the president's former attorney giving threeitays of c hill testimony, the first one behind closed doors with the senate intelligence tee. >> this was the man in the room with donald trump at some of the moston cquential times when he's r aning for president after he's in office. >> reporter: public testimony comesmo toow. a source tells nbc news he's expected to discuss everything from hush money payments to crimes cohen said the president committed while in office. >> what i tintend keep focussed on is untangling the complicated financialar ngements between donald trump and russia. >> reporter: but republicans eager todiscredit cohen who is headed to prison in part because of lies he admitted toli t the last time he was before the committee. theas white house slamming hi a disgraced felon.
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>> inow he says he's been born again and all of that. i don't know how you separate fact from fiction withhe mr. con. >> you expect hel to t the truth this time? >> no. >> reporter: committee members expected to grill cohen on the previous lies t durings round of hearings. now today was behind closed is whent leon, tomorrow we expect to see the fireworks ay out in public when cohen is testifying before the house oversight com ttee where a source says cohen is expected to detail what he claims to be racism, lying and cheating byt. the presid leon. >> thank you, blayne. ayne alexander on capitol hill. we know the president will be watching that.he in vietnam getting ready for a high stakes summit with north korea. the president arrived this morning and was greeted by the
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vietnam president. kim jong-un arrived there first he travelled two and a half days on a bullet proof train that carried him across china. summit meetings take place on thursday. lester holt is in hanoi with the subtle messages the u.s. is trying to send the reclusive regime. >> reporter: as president trump and kim jon oun converge hanoi, a thought about why the u.s. favors vietnam as aight for this summit. the answer is all around me. it's commerce, it's business. this once war torn country embraced capitalism while staying true to its communist roots the u.s. wants to show that as a w forward for north korea. we'll explore more of that on n nbc "nights." >> nbc "nightly news" is live from hanoi tonight. to another story, a social
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media sexting scheme at a local high school. it involves pictures of naked underage girls. it started at robinson high school in fairfax county. cory smith is there this afternoon with a look at how one student broke this case open. cory? >> reporter: this investigation actually began two weeks ago. the day after valentine's, a police officer came here to robinson high school and spoke to a student who told him that he was in a snapchat group where another student was not just posting pakedtos of underaged girls but also asking for naked photos of underaged girls. take a listen. tonight parents in fairfax are having tough conversations with their kids about the dangers of social dia. >> it surprises me this happens just with middle school, high scol that kids are stupid enough to do this. >> reporter: according to this rant police identified a robinson high school student who aledgeedly posted naked
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photos of underage girls. police sayhree other students also had access to the account and they're all considered suspects. >> i'd be all over that in a second and be trying to hunt down the kids doing it and talking to the parents. >> reporter: so far one female victim has been identified butl there ce more. police say there was a message posted to the group asking for photos from four other high schools. >> when you're young i think your concentration must be on studies. these are one of the negatives a aspect of internet. >> reporte parents say it's another reminder to let them know that the internet isac cally forever. >> anything you put out there will beut there forever. it'll never go away. you never want to share anything like that. >> reporter: again police telling us right now they have but they our suspects are not done investigating.
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they have cell phones and they're questioning students. all told we kno at least a dozen different snapchat accounts are involved in this vestigation. we reached out to fairfax county public schools and they said they are aware of the investigation a would n comment further. >> thank you, cory. surveillance cameras capture an attack inside a d.c. bar. we want to warn you you may find the video disturbing. this fight turned into a shooting. through it all, three suspect faces are visible. police hope this helps catch the shooter and his accomplices. >> reporter: according police it was at a private party when the gun fireke out. it started with an exchange of words, then you can see as people try to separate the t men who we arguing then the
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ulfirst suspectls out a handgun and fires one shot. then he pushes his way through the crowd firing at least fourho more as the victim lay on the floor. the victim is then seen on the floor leaning against the bar bleeding from his leg. the suspecthen returns trying to kick and stomp the victim. at one point beating the victim with a chair as two other suspects watch. the first suspect is then seen walking toward the door. the victim thenlunges at a second suspect and struggle.men then that second suspect throws a bar stool on the victim. later the female suspect wearing a beskpack com back to look for the gun, which she finds. she's seen putting the handgun into herac bac and then heading toward the door. >> it's absolutely horrible offehae, which is why w the video out there. we're asking the com fnity to comeward and assist us in identifying these suspects. >> reporter: if you recognize
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these suspects or know anything about the incident, policeant to hear from you. in northeast mark segraves >>s rare that we getthideo news4. at is that clear. you can see those images quite clearly. >> hope it helps catch those people. a search for answers tonighe after somound a body in a bag at ato busp along a busy y montgomery couroad. only on news4 tonight you'll hear from the woman who found that body and called police. we're learning more about the man killed in a hit and run steps away from his work place. coming up next, an i-team 4 investigation getting results. look at the highs today. good around our region, 53 d.c., 62 in richmond. 30 in state college. the colder air is going to head out
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a gruesome discovery made at a bus stop in montgomery county is now ce of murder. just about 24 hours ago a woman found a man's body inside a bag at a bus stop along old georgetown road. there are still a lot of questions about how it wou up there. chris gordon talked with the woman who found the remains. he is live in bethesda with an a . chris? >> reporter: doreen, the woman who discovered the body over ba us stop right across old georgetown road has given pole rough time line that could help dettives determine how long the body was there before she found it. police say it is now a homicide
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the victim, a man, his age and identity apparently n.unkn the woman who found the bag with has body in it beside the bus stop ask we not use her name or show her face. >> it's heartbreaking. it's saddeningto think t -- one, how someone could do this to a person. and two,ow busy the street is and how people would just pass by it thinking it's garbage or trash. and not stopping to at least investigate to see what it could possibly be. >> reporter: she called 911 from the j-2 bus. she says she was last at that bus stopg friday morn 10:30 a.m. and there was no bag there at the time. she didn't notice if it was there monday morning when she arrived for work. she says monday evening at 5:30 e saw the bag and opened it, discovering the body bent at the
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knees. >> aal f position. >> what made you think that? >> the legs were bent, the knees were sticking r:t. >> repor detectives did not open the bag or examine the body se it was ne bec windy and they wanted to preserve the evidence. they sent the bag to the medical examiner's fice. detectives do not believe the victim was murdered here, indicating his body may have been dumped. a man who rode his bike on the sidewalk beside the bus walk an hour before the body was discovered said he didn't see it here. >> an hour before didn't see anything. i would have noticed definitely because i was close on the sidewalk. >> reporter: he believes the body bag was not here at 4:30 yesterday afternoon. it was discovered at 5:30. detectives are still trying toh verify time line. and montgomery county police are offering a $10,000 reward for
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information leading to an arrest in this trder. that's latest live in bethesda, leon back to yo >> thank you, chris gordon. a new development in the battle over the congressial seat in nth carolina's ninth district. the apparent winner was republican mark harris but the result was not certified because of allegations that an operative tampered with appte abs ballots. on thursday the state board called for a new special election. harris announced today he's not going to run in that race. he's blaming house issues. house democrats are sending subpoenas to three cabinet secrets demanding answersn o separationst e southern border. elijah cummings said the committee has been seeking documents for seven months today they agreed to sending subpoenas.
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barr has been on the job less than two wks but the family separations began under the zero tolerance policy enacted by former attorney generalsseff ns. new law under consideration in maryland to address weaksses revealed by a news4 i-team investigation. a year ago this week scott macfarlane showed loopholes in the safety net to protect children from potential predators in the classroom. now a legislature who called the story heart wrenching is pushing for chang in the law. >> the first couple weeks i was rait was nerve ing. >> how did this teacher who lost his job in florida for sexually laced texts with a student end up in aroom in had two different maryland schoo districts months later. >> what i did really wasn't all.inal at it was an ethical mistake. >> the teach is eric greco we're not showing his face beuse he was not charged by
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police and fears retaliation. he knew somehow calvert county public schools and montgomery county schools failed to find s troubled past. >> why do you think you slipp through the cracks? >> i think at some level the districts didn't do their due process of checks and balances. >> background checks? >> backgrounds, like one complete. >> reporter: the i-team investigation found in 2016 the maryland state department of education had for months stopped checking names against a national data base which lists names of teachers whose licenses are revoked in other states. the state told the i-tea there were data security concerns and 's up to school saltems. both cvert and montgomery county sools said they didn't know the system was down. >> it's a state license, not a local license. >> you need the ste to tell you if a license has been revoked? >> that's correct. >> reporter: both sysacms owledge they do not and often will not check with all
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prior eloyers when they run background checks on teachers who apply. allowing this teacher to slip through until his past was discovered neay a year later, leading to his firing. >> reporter: when you saw that report what did you think? >> it was heahi wrenc to know that was the only thing between possible creditors and my chdren. >> ct wilson sponsored legislation requiring school districts to perform deeper background checks. neighboring states already do. >> you think maryland is weeker than the neighboringtates when comes to stopping predators. >> without a doubt. we don't do proper background checks most of the time it's criminal background check which is fairly useless in these matters. eporter: the law would require teachers sign a statement saying they've been a subject of a verified complaint. a house committee will vote in the coming days. s marylandte teacher's union
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tells us they're supportive of the bill. as for delegate wilson he said the i-team report and the teacher has helped spark change. >> i'm grateful to the teacher stepping up to show the vacuum in our hiring processes. i hope this does him justice with the mistakes he's made. >> reporter: this bill must also pass the full sente and must do so in the coming weeks. in annap news4 i-team.farlane >> watchur entire series on slipping through thecracks, t head our nbc washington app. on news4 a p only married man accused of killing his girlfriend. now a friend of ths victim shedding new light on a possible motive. doug is tracking a stormy pattn comingur way as
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doug you 'a popular guy today, sunshine, warmer temperatures, nice out. >> so you you're saying today because of the sunshine and then next week you're saying -- >> maybe not. >> at least not for the same as s. >> right. >> not for the same reasons. >> it was quiteice today. it had everybody thinking spring. >> it did. bring it eon. n the upper 50s in our southern zones it was amazing the temperature difference between north, hagerstown 43 ani mond close to 60 today. sun went down about a half hour ago. still at this hour about average, 49 grees. winds out of the north at 12
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miles per hour. hagerstown is down to 40 wherek frederrg is at 51 degrees. we have cooler weather to the north, warmer to the south. ne're in the middle of interesting pattern going onro the east. nothing as far as the radar is concerned now. way.going to stay that you can see what's happening, we have one srm system to the north, follow these clouds just north of us. another one you can see showers around at gnta, this isng to move just to our south. so we're going to stay dry the nextouple ofdays. that's good. until the day on friday. kidsrow no problem for the at the bus stop, 33 degrees, a little chilly b not bad 45 cool at recess. and tomorrow will feel cooler because i think we'll see more cloud cover, especially in the afternoon, that's something to watch out for during the day tomorrow. and then the cold weather pattern comes in. next week we are a talkingut a
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colder pattern, a stormy pattern, too. a couple of the storms could come up t coast. you know what that means, that's bigger storms and possible biggerms st small storm on friday. we'll talk about this at 6:45, a ance of rain on saturday and this is the one i'm watching sunday into remonday. whate seeing there? look at all the 30s next fek. i'm outtime. i'm not going to tell you what we're seeing until 6:45. >>uess we have to stay tuned. thank you doug. next at 6:30, the fight over finalhours had edded to a decision this week. she came to this country from egypt andound work as a security guard. ow the man who hired her is accused of killing her. tonight in a story you'll see only on news4 we'll hear for the first time from one of her heart brokens. frie searching for the car and driver involved in a deadly
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news4 at 6:00. happening right now at 6:30, the search for a hit and run driver in fairfax county. >> a man in his 70s struck andal killed whileng home from work. he was hit feet away from one of the gas stations he worked. >> megan fitzgerald joins us live at the scene. megan? >> reporter: doreen, i talked to this man's coworkers the day and they're absolutely devastated. they say he alwaysalks down leesburg pike to get home. but today his journey ended he
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died rightind me here at theon mp of 495 south. >> my heart is broke. >> reporter: it's been a tough morning for employees at this shell gas station. he says his friend and coworker chundra worked the overnight shift for nearly a year here. he saw him beforehi he left morning at around 5:45 remembers their last conversation. >> he told me morning mr. ali, can i have some i told yes, okay. you can take. i pay. >> reporter: then chundra started to walk home as he does every but about an hour later police showed up atob his >> the officer came here toictut was accident and died. you know, he was so sad. >> reporter: sometime after 6:15 police say they received a call
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that a body was found near then crosswalk route 7 near the onramp to 495 south. it was chundra, a man in his 70s who coworkers say moved here from napal for a better life. the driver never stopped. >> it's scary. i watch people to make sure they get across incase i have to call police or an ambulance. >> reporter: elizabeth works across the street from where he was killed. she said this area is dangerous forri pedes. she watched this morning as police spent hours investigating. bu so far no leads. >> it' y very sad,ou know. so this is life. but i wisan they find the driver. >> reporter: and doreen, police are leaning on the public tonight. they're asking anyone who hasrm inion about this crash to contact them as soon as possible. back to you. >> let's hope they findthem. thank you, megan. d.c. leaders continue to
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call for metro to run longer hours and sell fma current tenance plans. today d.c. mayor muriel bowser called for late night metro hours to return on the weekend and called for longer hours on weeknights. >> ouresidents and businesses have nowcr made ifices for two years in order to provide ample time for maintenance.it now time to win back our riders and restore the hours that we need in our region. >> metroou slashed operating a few years back as a way to give maintenance workers time on the tracks, and they say it would be a mistake to make a change to the maintenance hours now. troling details revealed in an alexandria courtroom today where a security owner isar d with killing an employee. a woman the married man was also in a relationship with. cell phone video shows the nutes before the woman was shot to death. in a story you'll see only on
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news4, northern virginia bureau chief julie carey speaks to some f the victim's grieving friends. >> reporter: she came to this country om' jiegypt and landed a job in security. her employer also became her lover and now stands accused as her killer. her heart broken friends listing to troubling evidence in court. this woman who asked we not show her face remembered her as someone who always looked out for her. >> whenever you need her, she's there. >> reporter: friends s her relationship with ckankam had >> when they fight or argue he would take the gun and squeeze it here or like i'm going to kill you if you go out. >>ryeporter: on jan 11th she was found dead in her apartment bedroom, she had been shot once in the mouth.
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in court prosecutors pomyed a video er cell phone created just before she died. in it she h tells drunk boyfriend to leave she doesn't want to see him anymore. hels t her you're pissing me off, grabbing the pne away. another video months earlierim shows pulling a gun on theim victut he re-holters when she said you want to kill me. the suspect's wife and friends covering their faces. do you believe your husband killed her or not? defense attorneys also declining comment but in court they grilled one detective about the eight-hour long ierrogation of their client. did mr. cane dam ever say he shot her? no. still the judge ruled there's snough evidence to move t case to the next step. julie carey news4. loudon county school board
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kickedff a regular meeting but this time things could get heated. the county ncaa chapter is encouraging people to come out after a claroom exercise many found insensitive. kids took part in an obstacle court meant to mimic the slave experien on the underground railroad. we'll have more at news4 at 11:00. a vote that could tearut a the united states third largest faith community. the united methodist church voted to uphold its ban on same-sex marriage. the church is deeply divided. some members in favor ofer inclusion we i tiears. conservatives in the global
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church, especially leaders in africa celebrated the decision. online dna tests helping police solve crimes even without dna from a suspect. >> law enforcement can make a family connection and further their investigation. >> at 6:45 weighing safety and privacy. what you should know before you rn over your genetic information. and a grilling for drug makers on capitol hill. why you're probably paying morei for preions in the new year. and unless you've downloaded the nbcng wasn app your app may tell you there's snow coming on friday. we'll talk about it, i'll let you know wt toha
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big phma executives forced to answer to congress today about the skyrocketingrices of your prescription drugs. >> ceos from seven drug makers werebo grilled the high cost
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of their medications. they also acknowledge they could play a roll in lower prices but say the system isomex and place the blame on insurance companies. lawmakers disagreed. >> i think you and others in the industry are stone walling on the key issue, which is actually lowering list prices andse reducing tist prices are the easiest way for american consumers to pay less at the pharmacy counter. >> how bad is this problem? according to thelt cong firm rx savings solution, in just the rst two months of 2019 more than 650 products have een pricehikes. the cost for those brands went up an average of some of them went up as much as 9.5%. >> nbc news will have more on the sticker shock at the pharmacy coming up on nightly news after news4 a 6:00. dna websites collect your
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genetic information now police are using it to solve crimes. up next how they're doing it even when suspects have never taken a test. taken a test. a z35whz z16fz
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today's top stories. mom and baby reunited after a terrifying aften. the 1-year-old was in the backseat when someone stole her mother's car from asa seat pleant gas station. the little girl was found unharmed half a mile away in d.c. moments ase the h passed a resolution opposing president trump's emergency declaration to build that border wall. the result was widely expected
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more than a dozen republicans emjoined every docrat in voting for the resolution. the senate will take it upee betw now and march 15th. predent trump's former fixer, michael cohen jus wrapped up nine hours of closed-door testimony with the senate intelligence committee. cohen will testify in public tomorrow before the house oversight committee. a source told nbc news thaton test will include what cohen considers to bena cri conduct by the president since he's taken offius. the white is dismissing cohen as a liar. home dna testing has opened up a frontier inrime fighting with police using science and skill to track down suspects through their relatives'dna. even someone who's never taken a genetic test could potentially be exposed. it all starts with a swab of your cheek or tube of saliva.
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that's all you need to dig into our unique dna for clues abo your health and heritage. now with the popularity of these companies, forensic genealogy has become a powerful tool in fighting crime. >> ifr a family mem puts their dna into one of these family search data bases, law enforcement can make a family connection and further their investigation. >> the technique got national attention lt yearfter the golden state killer was captured in califora nearly 40 years after his reign of terror began. e break in the case, dna from a distant relative on a publicy geneal website called jed match and police didn't need a it. ant to tap into >> there are no specific paramers for going into those sort of data bases. the companies themselves have restrictions.
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>> as home dna kits become more popular, the dataas have growing larger. any time you smoke a cigarette or drink from a cup or eat with a utensil. those are potentially sources of your dna. >> this is a rare look inside d.c.'s crime lab, the work being done here every day has already helped to solve hundreds of sex assaults, murders and cold cases. what's more, it could prevent future crime. dr. jennifer smith is the director of d.c. department of forensic sciences with decades of past experience working at the fbi. she's seen the science evolve. >> in that day and age we needed nostain about the size of a nickel. we can get dna and amplify it or copy it from very small stains, even stains you can't see. we had a case where an individual was wearing a hat and they went into a store, they shot someone, when they came
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out, the hat blew off their head. we were able to retrieve the hat td from the inside of that hat we were ableo get that individual's dna and through the data base comparison we were able to find that aindividual. for what's next? >> in the future we'll be able to perhaps even predict what a person's hair color is or what their eye color weis. ight be able to determine what their ancestry is. >> critics say the practice raisesuestions about privacy. but for those in law enforcement the public safety aspect outweighs those concerns. >> apprehending criminals to me is the highest priority consider. if it's working within the law and gets the case solved then all the better. >> just know this, by taking any of those genetic tests you're essentially giving up the rights to your dna, potentially becoming a genetic informant for officers and exposing everyone on your family tree. d.c. andre maryland the only
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two jurisdictions in the country that ban police from using familial dna searches to solve crimes. last month a maryland lawmakeri oduced a bill that would prohibit officers from searching public genealogy data bases, too. more than 60% of americans with european ancestry can be identified using dna data bases now, even if they haven't voluntaril submitted their own dna. to a different type of technology and potential damage to your skin. new research shows blue light emitting from your digitalde ces may be speeding up the signs of aging. >>what? >> dermatologists say long term exemployee sure to blue light can cause problems. comi up tonight on news4 at 11:00 we're working for you with the simplehings you can to do to protect your skin without cutting back on your screeti
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. >> that's a big one really? >> really. he we have to see this. >> we have story at 11:00. >> this i got to see. >> the crow's feet and everything going on with the eyes down here >> think how much younger we could look if we were skipping our -- >> know. look, i'm actually 28. i look 43.im >> how much do you spend on your phone? playinglways on there different games. that's an interesting story i want to see that. >> coming up at 11:00. what's coming up in the weather? the next couple days we have some nice daysda like although a little bit more clouds not quite as ne as today. temperatures wise we're at 49 right now. dropping throu the 40s. looking at a cool night tonight but not overly cold. thes cold air coming. tonight right now 47 out towards dulles. 44 camp spng. not a bad evening on the chilly side. we're dry, going to stay that way the nextpl c days.
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that's good news we need dry periods because we've seen so much moisture over the past veral months and over the past year. watching two systems one to the north and one to the south, that's where they stay,eaning we stay on the dry side through friday. 30 in state college, 62 down around richmond we were in the middle, 47 hagerstown, 53 in ppc. for highs today. you can see what ed if this front lingered to the south or if ito camee north, that would great. we're going to stay with this over the nex couple days, cold to the north, wmero the south. until thursday night, friday, where enough cold air moves in we could see snow.e averst snow fall has been february 24th. last snowfall on record april
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28, 1898, 4 inches of snow. days until spring, 22. that's astronomical spring. mother nature wants to send us back towinter. 46 a chance of snow here. again, this right here, talking 1:00 a.m., watch what happens around 5:00 a.m., chance for snow. this may be overdone. notice by 8:00, 9:00 it's out of here. i'm not expecting much on friday morning. once again it's all about the timing wit f thatday system most of us however should be okay. i'm not anticipating much in the way of delays on friday. rain on saturday and here's t bigger storm here. sunday into monday bringing in colder air b andind it could be snow, maybe significant snow north and west of d.c. sunday into monday. and all next week, that is january cold as we head into march. >> yes, it is thanks for that. >> thank you, doug. coming up whenlaheyer you boo is now the one you whoo!
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>> announcer: this is the xfinity sports desk. welcome back to your ns4 at 6:00 i'mherree burruss live at capital one arena. the capitals feeling confident that this roster now can defend their stanley cup title. that team getting ready to tak ottawa in minutes. this morning the capitals on the ice getting readyor the senators. now the trade deadline has passed. 19 gameso go. this is the group, the caps will defend their stanley cup championship with. carl hagelin a big r son it took so long for the caps to win the cub. at of teams with the ranrs and penguins that eliminated the
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caps from the playoffs five times. now he's in wasngton and the team happen to have a nemesis on their side. >> ali battle for what seeke forever with a guy like that when he wa playing for pittsburgh. now he's part of our family. so far a tremendous guy. >> i thought of the amount of time i spent clipping video on this player, i was like, you know, when i saw him move out west, i'm like okay i'm done with him. but anxiously happy to have him back in the eastern conference yd definitith us. >> they brought me in for a reason and hopefully thetaans can srt liking me now and i'm on the right side. hopefull i was doing something good before when they hated me and hopefully now i can do some good for this team insteadrtnd they s liking me. >> reporter: the caps celebrating black history in hockey tonight, willie oree dropping the pk with john lewis. oree the first black hockey
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player in the league.ni t he was a guest visiting the black hockey historyour mobi museum. we caught up with the legendt nbs experience being the only african-amerilayer on the ice. >> racism, bigotry, ignorance, there wasn't a day that went by at there weren't racial slurs and taunts towards many e. i let itt w in one ear and out the other. i didn't want it to affect my game. i fought because i had to, not because i wanted to. the guy wanted to see what i was de of. i never fought one time of rational remark. i gained the respect of ooayers but itquite a while. >> reporter: meanwhile we arein ge our first look at some of the nationals players thi spring training, sanchez signed eatwo year deal with the nats this ofn. he got his first start today. sanchez striking out matt carpenter in the first inning.
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trevor row sen that will in his first appearance in 2017 one striket in one inning of work the cardinals win 6-1, but it means absolutely nothing. imagine getting to drive o your favorite relief pitcher from the bull pen to the mound. today nats fans got a chance to do than p team auditioning drivers for the season. they had torive around a course designed in a curly w, avoid hitti teddy, the racing president. the hopefulsill be submitted fr applicants. this past season, sean too little was the only one who rode the cart. hee okednts a say if they're going to be driving him around.>> that's a cool idea. >> that one guy with the one a ha leaning back. >> he's not the guy.
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breaking news tonight. president trump and kim jong-un at the second summit here in hanoi. a side of the secretive north koan leader the world rarely sees, his aide falling behind, rushing to keep up. tonight inside the nuclear negoations and fears before the two men me alone. and a ockbuster back home. michael cohen testifying on capitol hilland a source telling nbc news he plans to detail alleged criminal conduct by the president while in office. and late today, a congressman's apparent threat to air cohen's dirty laundry hours before he goes public. controversy ivanka ng ove trump's comments when asked about congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez and her green new deal. what she said and how

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