>> some are seeing snow. others rain. we have live team coverage on the storm team 4 weather alerts. police aking tonight, say it wasn't a panhandler that killed a maryland woman last year. it was her own husband and step daughter. >> good evening, one abama hospital is treating more than 40 patients and has had to send other pients to surrounding hospitals.er home aftome leveled. at least 22 people dead and we're told that number could rise. much more on this breaking story ahead. but first we tell you about our weather alert here at wehome. re getting updated snow totals and a better idea of what

could be a morning commute. storm team 4 meteorologist leads our live team coverage tonight. >> that's right. for someusf it will just be wet but for a few of us it could be very icynd that could mean delays. take a look at the radar. what i wantou guys to know is we're on the tale end of this. so this is the last of it. e final of the precip line just to the west of frederick into washington county. it's goingo continue t move toward the northeast and move out of the area. p allhas been the set night long. areas touching pennsylvania border are the ones seeing snow. again, becoming sparse in frederick county maryland, the last of it pushing through right now. we head farther south. rain falling in the district. still down toward prince william. we were actuallin s some deep yellows and oranges meaning we're picking up moderateo heavy rain. now as we head throughout the evening, i mean, the overnight hours, i'll talk to you about how your commute is loaning.

we look at the totals we have been seeing coming in. expected frostburg, maryland, thurmont, frerick at about .3 inches. s'll look at the latest update coming up but i'l that a lot of it is turning to slush the farther north asn that r and snow line increases further north. >> all right. you really had to go outside of the beltway to find more than rain tonight and in frederick county they actually saw a little bit of everything. a little bit of mix of everything including the snow. along jacobs is live route 85 for us with a look at the conditions there. nicole, how is it looking tonight? >> erica, as the snow has come to an end, the nig of course has come to an end as well. but there's crews out spreading salt to make sure what is wet on the roads doesn't freeze. >> a little rain, a little

sleet, a little snow. >> it's aut time for this to be over. >> but not before march comes in like a. li >> a few years ago we had snow in april. >> fingers crossed that's n c the this year. >> it's been pretty cold this season so i'm not too surised by it. >> but a the salt yard, 300 tons of salt has now amounted to this as parts of maryland continues to deal with snow.

>> we're hoping it's cancelled but my husband is iisting he has to go to work. >> it is 17 days away. a simple reminder, winter isn't over until mother nature says so. >> and theemperatures hovering right around 33 degrees right now. it is expecd to drop making anything untreated on the roads likely to freeze. erica. >> all right, nicole jacobs live for us tonight. thank you. ouag team cov continues with news 4's darcy spencer who is in tyson. so i guess you could say the rain is probably the betterf optione had to pick between the sleet and the snow and so forth but still, that could prove problematic for folks on the roads tomorrow morning. what are you seeing >> ll, that's right, erica. we have been checking out road conditions in northern vginia

since much earlier this afternoon, from northwest . washingt out to loudon county and nowun fairfax . if you take a look at our live camera, we're showing leburg pike right here in this tyson's corner area. you may recognize the roads and ca dealership and we're near the mall area. what you see here are wet road conditions. that's what we have been seeing for the most part today. some folks did get isnow. personally didn't see any flakes of snow today in any of our travels but weid see some freezi rain earlier. so it really depended on where you are in northern virginia in terms of what sort of precipitation you got. for the most part, the roads are simply wet. on thing i noticed, not a lot of traffic out there. of course at 11:00, the traffic wi lighter but even earlier today it looked like a lot of people decided to stay off the roads which is obviously good now the one thing you want to watch for are the temperatures.

we're hovering right around that freezing mark. so that's what makes it tricky. it's 33 degrees. we could have icy or slick road conditions come tomorrow morning. you're heading out early tomorrow morning for a commute, ssibly walking to school or heading out to the bus stop, you want to wear your boots and look out for slickpots on the sidewalks and parking lots in particular. back to you. >> take it slow out there. darcy, thank you so much. as darcy mentioned with the temperatures falling overnight, you'll want to keep it here when you wake up. any possible delays or cancellations on air and of course through our nbc washingtonucapp. and melissa are going to have the latest on the forecast and the commutet starting a 4:00 a.m. all right. let's go back to that breaking news that we mentioned at the top of the oaast. the situation in alabama. we are watching the credible images coming into our newsroom. look at this here. the force of the tornadosh ring off the roof of thisnd

buildingn some of these akages people are just walking around trying to in the magnitude of all of this. the sheriff of lee county, where all of those people died said the tornado tore a path of destruction several miles long. there are people still trapped beneath the rubble at this hour. a hospital so overwhelmed with patience it is cancelling elective procedures tomorrow. the storm killing more than 20 people this powerful storm is also effecting several other states in the deep south. lashing georgia, south carolina, and florida. dan continues ouroverage of the deadly severe weat>>r. powerful storms in the south. >> it's amang the amount of devastation that storms can do. >> a torna touched down in eastern alabama today. buildingsked down, left in ruins, playgrounds mangled. the state of emergency has been

declared. search and rescue operations have been launched. >> this just came on so quick and change sod many lives that i mean, it's really sickening to watch and -- but i'm grateful at my family is okay and there's a lot of people out here that their family is not. and my heart goes out to them. >> near macon, georgia, another twister touched down. devastation left in it's wake. also in theas sout heavy downpours lead to flooding. in birmingham, al wama, aan had to be rescued when her car was surrounded by washington. inmississippi, roads were closed in yazo county and residents had to leave heir homes and find higher ground.sn heav in the heartland. travel was tricky. highways were empty. the snow was so heavy, the gateway arch was nearly hidden by flurri. a reminder from nature that winter is not over. nbc news. >> i want to give you a clearer

picture of just how wideng ran these winter storms were. at one point tonight, more than 60 million americans were under a severe weather threat. all right. meanwhile, back here in our area, police in montgomery county are trying to track down a woman and her ld4-year daughter. nobody has seener or her daughter since friday. police found the woman's vehicll parked ate forest mall. authorities are concerned about their welfare and say t could be headed to family or friends in another state. we're toldas she h shorter hair than in the photo. her daughter may bewaring a leopd printjacket. >> all new at 11:00, virginia's attorney general breaks h silence about the black face scandal. hear his message for mvoters. >> sy people thought a panhandler killed a maryland woman. tonit, a dramatic twist. the victim's loved ones arrested leave the g to country police say.

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a w wan who first thought to have been murdered by a w panhandler actually killed by her husba andtep daughter. police in texas arrested keith smith and his daughter valeria smith in harlingen, texas. they w te trying escape the united states. it was back in december when keith smith claimed that his wife jacqueline wanted to give a panhandler money so shewn rolle he window. he said a man reached inside and snateced herace and pocketbook and then stabbed her to death. >> poihas to the fact it was not a panhandler and that the circumstances were very diffent and people took advantage of baltimore. and we want to make sure that the truth comes out and justice is done. >> keith smithisnd daughter were seen crying at a press conference following the incide. the story gaining national

headlines when oprah winfrey warned people not to give money to panhandls. anrgument at a family gathering in fairfax county ends in gunfire. a man shot and killed his wife, another man, and then killed himself. the incident rattling neighbors in this tight knit neighborhood on cromwell drive in springfield. police spent hours going in and out the home gathering evidence. police say he shot his wife and nathaniel cooper before taking his own life. there were about ten people in the home last night including several children. civil rights leaders, activists, and presidential hopefuls went to selma, alabama today. they joined hundredsf people in recreating the historic 1965 marchro the edmundpettus bridge. the march came to be known as bloody sunday after alabama state troopers beat the peaceful

protestors. the violence shook the nation and eventually lead to the passage of the voting rights act. virginia attorney general mark herring broke his silence tonight after admitting to wearing black face decades ago in college. it is just one of the scandals that's been rocking richmond in recent wes. he talked to darcy spencer about healing deee divisions in state. >> this is obviously been a very difficult time for virginians, the last few weeks. >> virginia attorney generalri mark h making his first public appearance since admitting heeore black ft a party in 1980. >> i am so very sorry that something i did along time ago when i was 19 has added to and contributed to the pain and to the sappointment. >> herring was a guest at mount zion united methodist church at leesburg where there was an event addressing race relations

and racial injustices. >> he says he has grown from his mistakes. >> i know why it was wrong. it's the dehumanization of people of color and the minu mimimization of oppressive both men have resisted calls for them to leave office. >> it sounds like you'reni pl on staying. you're not going anywhere. >> i'm still listening to virginians about how they have been impacted by this and listeningohem to see if they would like me to continue. if i still have the >> herring was praised for appearing at this event. >> it takes a great deal of courage, notenly to f mistakes but to face the people and that is a testament to your character, sir. i knew you would do it. >> herring said he hopes sitive change will come as a result of the controversy. >> virginians really want to take this moment, this focus on

race inirginia right now and try to make some good come of it. >> in northern virginia, dar spencer, news 4. >> all right. we are still in weather alert mode. it looks like maybe we're starting to see the endfhis weather event but as far as what happens to the roads, really all depends on how cold we get tonight, right? and that could mak things tricky or not so much, depending. >> right. soele are defin seeing this system taper off. so that's the good news but as erica was just mentioning, this is going to have an impact on morning commuters and i'll let yoknow whatreas could still see school delays or cancellations. for now, let's take a look at our drive cam. right now we are rolling through montgomery county headed toward river road. you could seey pre wet slick roads. just rain at this point in that portion of montgomery county and what we are expecting is some areas to turn to iceds we h

into the overnight hours, especially on untreated roads so here's a look at the radar. notice back west, the tail end of this is starting to move oser toward 95 and ili-95. a few snow flakes falling with that. primarily a rain event now. heading farther north. quiting down in frederick. still some snow on the ground and then up into carol county light sno falling. down to washington d.c., rain becoming light as well. but we did see some heavy rain in southern maryland not too long ago. we're turning o future cast so we can talk about timing. by 4:00 a.m., it should clear the entire region and then the clouds will clear after that and we'll wake up to a good deal of sunshine for your monday morning and even though things will be dry we'll still be running into that issue with commutes. so let's talk about schools. school closings nots looking likely. once we started seeing how warm things were staying h and far

north that line was pushing up, we knew that cancellations weren't going to be as impactful in the d.c. area. out west they did see up to 6 inches of snow, fairmont, frostbefros frostburg. delays, i won't rule that out. we have slick slush on the ground still and as far as montgomery, howard ty co i'm highlighting this primarily for northern ermontgomery, nor loudoun and northern howard county. could see delays. for the rest of us, temperatures in the low 30s. it will be cold. y will be bre but it will be dry. all right. let's talk about road conditions rrtomorrow. to morning counts north and especially ones under a nter storm warni are going to see ice and snow on the roads. d.c. metro, a few icy spots north of the beltway. northern maryland w looking and slick through tomorrow morning. as far as the numbers go for

your monday, a cold one. temperatures in the 30s. on around we'll see temperatures in the upper 30s. so it's going to be breezy. it will feel colder tomorrow. stormeam 4's 10-day outlook shows plentf sunshine at the top of the week but take a look at those numbers, specifically wednesday morning and thursday morning 10 to 11 degrees farther north. we'll be tracking another system that has the potential for snow or rain. >> so again we'll be keeping track of things. we start at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow and then cf coursecking our nbc washington app for updates on school delays. stil ahead, despite the rain, d.c. united kicks off the 2019 d.c. united kicks off the 2019 seonas

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d.c. united back in action. they were in action tonight. >> it was a great sportsnite for d.c. sports fans. capitals, wizards and d.c. united all i action, all winners. d.c. united staing their season against the reigning champions, atlanta united, not letting that cold dreary night rain on their parade starting a new wayne rooney getting the guys ready. the fans always ready no matter the weather in extra time for the first half, rooney sends the .corner kick in acosta gets a foot on it and comes in to finish this one off. arriola plays a great game. d.c. takes a 1-0 lead. united keeping the pressure up and the big boot on it and finds it's way in. the goalie misplaying it and acosta f gets hisirst goal of the season

d.c. united beats atlanta united 2-0 the final. now to the racourt, bey beal and the wizards hosting the timberwolves. third quarter, tied at 66, off the turnover, here comes the wizards. alley-oop for jeff green. i13 pointsthe me wizards take a two point lead. look at this touch pass from green. it's absolutely beautiful. he had a team high 26 points. and less than a minute later, wiz start to pull away. pass over to bradley beal. he steps back knocking dow the tray, 22 points for beal. wizards up to a 6 point lead. wizards u 4. beal on the drive, leaves it for parker. absolutely throwing it down. 22 points for thhim. wizards get the win 135-121.ca pitals in new york with a matinee match up against the rangers. first period, caps already down a goal b puck gets out to carl

hagland. ranger.er he puts it right in the back of the net. the first goal since the caps acquired him in a trade. so caps tie it at alone. this onel the way to a shoot out. 's stuck when alexander throws his stickndey, you know what, you can't do that. initially ruled no goal.in todd makg his case. the rule is,he if you throw t stick, it's a goal. yo see it here. the stick is rown. eventually the right call is made. the caps win it 3-2 in a shoot out. we h plenty more coming up tonight on sports final. maryland legends get together to celebrate 100 years of terps basketball. inside the celebration in baltimore. plus two ars, two different languages. they talk about their chemistry on the field despite the language barrier and expectation for the season. all of that coming up on sports

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commute. >> exactly. let's take a look at the roads. if you live in frederick county, maryland, northern montgomery, northern howarou're looking at ice. maybe a little bit of snow still on the gr d.c. metro area, some icy spots. southern ryland, wet and slick. be careful. give yourself some time so you timeake your >> good advice. >> that's our news for now. you have sports final coming up next and wake up with news 4 today. we begin at 4:00 a.m. good nightverybody. e choosing my car insurance was the easiest decision ever.ed

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