new at 11:00, a man from our area arrested for spreading white supremacist flyers on a college campus. >> it was very scary. it was terrible. caught on camera. the momentor a tdo makes impact.

tonight been more help is headed to survivors. and we're worki for you health tonight. all that screen time is taking a toll on your child'ss. e >> see these glands literally disappearing in young people. techniques you can teach your kid to hp prevent permanent eye damage. and social media exploding tonight as a raccoon invades the le t of d.c.'s beloved e couple. news 4 at 11:00 starts now. but we begin tonight with a live looutde at a bitterly cold and windy night. it is whipping o ther folks, and you're going to want to throw an extra blanket on the bed tonight. >> you can see that flag doing hte dance ton. >> it is. >> you're going to want t dress the kids up extra warm for the bus stop. let's get right to chiis meteorol doug kammerer. it feels like december outside, doug. >> you guy both said something to me about just how cold it was out there. it's all about the winds. we had the arctic front come in a littlearlier this evening.

the winds really begin to pick up. right now, guys, winds 20 to 30 miles per hlor. at the current wind chills here. 17, d.c. 10 in hagerstown. many areas now even i single digits. zero in pittsburgh. this colder air is going to continue to work its way in here. that's why tomorrow will be the coldest day of the week and the coldest day wve had in awhile. still cold thursday and friday. not to mention the fact friday we chald have ae of rain and snow. i'll go over that with you, talk about that storm. watching our weekend rain chances. you know it's the weekend in d. the last year and a half, nothing but rain. we've gotnother one coming. >> dg, thank you. you likely remember this video from y lastear. an unarmed man, robertwhite, shot to death by a montgomery county police officer. that officer thought white had a gun. it turns out he did not. tonight there areew details about how civil rights activists and police officers thinkke shootings hat should be handled.

news 4's jackie bensen explains the outcry for more transparency. >> justice for robt white! >> justice for robert white! >> reporter: the law enf acement trust transparency act could alsoe called the robert white>> law. montgomery county can bett er than this. hi hey, big man -- >> reporter:s is police body camera video of the june 2018 incident in whi robert white, 41, was shot in the parking lot of a silr springs parking lot complex. he was unarmed. the officer said he thought white was reaching for his gun. >> sir, i do not want to shoot you. >> reporter: per company policy, they turned over -- the nsulting report in which the officer was fou to be at fault caused outrage among white's frien and many others in the community. it has led county council members to propose a law to require that police shootings not oy be turned overo unaffected prosecutors but that the entire investigation be carried out by another law enforcement agency. at a public hearing on the bill,

council members heard from resincntsding 16-year-old nick asante. >> this bill would set the notion that montgomery county does not support discrion on the basis of race. >> the police chief helped encourage the new impartiality measde but war the new law might be difficult to put into practice. >> i'm not opposed to an impartial outsize investigation, what i can't have as the chief of police in this count y is a response time that leaves a victim, a body in the street for iours waiting for someone from another jurisdi to get there. >> reporter: the council's public safety committee will review this on march 25th. in rockville, jackie bensen, news 4. new at 11:00, a bethesda mat could spende in jail for allegedly hanging up white supremacist flyers, but not around here. 23-year-old christopher hodgeman, a stu tnt at university of rochester has been cited in connection with flyers and stick posted in western

new york last fall. the university says itondemns e flyers. hodgeman's lawyer says the flyers weren't hate speech or crime, just a violation of the town's code. hodgeman's nowacing upo 15 days in jail. jim? black history month serves a teaching lesson for children. the one who learned the hardest lesson was a principal. she use the "n" word last week during an assembly. shomari stone with new details. >> disappointed. i think thaip the pri could have made a better decision. >> reporter: jemele williams thomas is upset. her son's principal used the "n" word three times while addressing students. >> using that type of word that holds such weight in anuc ional environment, in any environment, really, it's unacceptable. >> reporter: principal joy morrow said the "n" word a few times at new hope academy, a private sool in hyattsville during its black history month

program. she told news 4 she didot mean it maliciously and was using it to make a point while explaining the racism she witnessed growing up. >> there's a lot of ways to get your point across without using the actual word. >> rorter: principal morrow did not agree to an on-camera interview but told us o the phone, quote, i've apologized. i look at it and think i could have handled thatre difly. my approach may not have been the best, but i'm passionate educator. maybe my words were illchosen, but please don't miss what i was trying to say. >> is plain unacceptable. it's not soothing sorry i maybe did something >> reporter: gentlemen mone mot may be time for the principal to step down. she released a written statement about what she says actually happenedhat dayn its entirety. you can find it on our nbc washington app.

search "principal racial slur." in hyattsville, i'm shomari stone, news 4. montgomery county police arrested an elementary schoolteacher for possession of child porgraphy. poli arrested him in german town today. he taught physica education i bethesda. the news 4 i-team reports he is a -year veteran of the school district. police say the investigation does n appear to involve any images of students. the letter sent home tots par says the school put him on leave when they found out about the investigation in january and they are fully cooperating with the investigation. longtime d.c. council member jack evanss being scrutinized by his peers tonight, and for the first time he's saying hs sorry. t his apologyo the people of d.c. came minutes afterouncil chair phil mendelson announced he plans to reprimand evans. evans proposed punishment stems from his chief of staff usingt her governm-mail to send out business proposals for outside work for evans.

while it is legal to earn money outside of his position, some say this crossed the line. and that he shod be stripped of his chairmanship over d.c. finance. >> he peddled influence with t finance and revenue committee. he should no longer be in charge mmof that tee. >> in retrospect, i would have done a lot of things different and certainly made some major mistakes. >> the d.c. council is set to vote on evans' reprimand in the next two weeks. he's also chair of the metro board of directors. now, metro's launched its own review of the matter to i see evans violated its code of ethics. le? >> jim, a developing story tonight. nbc news was the first to report thatth norea is now rebuilding a long-range rocket site. releasedton think tank the satellite photos showing their report just last week. one of the authors of th report says it appears the north is preparing to build a nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile. these new pictures were released

showing just two days after president trump's north korea summitn vietnam, that active in north korea. a desperate search tonight to pind severalple from sunday's deadly tornado in alabama. the local coroner says 7 of the 23mictims are f the same family. president trump will visit southeast alabama on friday. tonight, jay gray with the search team still looking for survivors. >> reporter: as t sun sets over the strike zone, alabama governor kay ivey opens her state of the state address with a moment of silence for victims. >> and all god's people said amen. >> reporter: and calling for suppor for survivors struggling with what the tornados left behind. >> this is the time for all alabama and our entire nation to rally behind these good people.l together we wring lee county back to its feet.he >> reporter: numbers are

staggering. at least 23 dead, seven of those from one family. 90 or more injured and a handful of people still >> so we haven't given up hope. we're still searching. >> rinorter: while many b the difficult task of clearing away and cleaning up what they caer two days ahe strike now and you get the sense for survivors that the shock is beginning to give way to the realization of just how long, how difficult the recovery is going to be here. communities left in ruins, deep esars clawed into the landscape stretching for m > it's been in the family for years, and that's just something we're not willing to let go. i mean, we're very grateful to have this land. just because this happened means we're not going to leave >> reporter: the violent twisters unable to uproot the resolve ofvivors here. jay gray, nbc news, salem, alabama. now,eb ourte is full of stories from survivors and victims of the torna outbreak,

including that family that lost seven people. read their sto in our nbc washington app. just seah "deadly tornado." it will soon be illegal to smoke on patios at most restaurants and bars in montgomery county. that goes for vaping, too. smoking will be banned anywhere where food is served. but businesses could keep she's tosmoking cusmers by designating rooftop or balcony areas for outdoor smoking. the ban starts this summe and carries a $50 fine. on thek who showed up eagle cam tonight. some high drama high up in this nest. we've been following d.c.'s eagle c for weeks now since justice disappeared. he came back and reunited with liberty. but there was someone new in the nest tonight, a raccoon made a late-night feast around 9:00. check it he was seen eating the eggs in their st. we don't believe liberty's eggs are viable, though. just y had abandoned them before justice disappeared.

no sign of the eagles during the raccoon visit tonight. nex at 11:00, a warning for women who take birth control. the manufacturer's mistake that cout you at risk of becoming pregnant. plus a warning for parents tonight. doctors say children who spend hours on phone and tablets are losing an important part of their eye that can't be replaced. and the cold air rushing in across our area right now. we are i know what it means to have reliable support. i found a company who believes in me. they look out for me. and they help me grow my career. at comcast it's my job to constantly monitor our network, prevent problems, and to help

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we've got an important recall to tell you about for women. there is a png error with some birth control pills that could put you at risk of getting pregnant. now, these pills were made by apatech s-corpation. may not bed arran correctly we're hearing. meaning you could pop a bleplac which impacts the dosage. right n t on nbc washington app, you can find out the dates these pills were manactured. just search "birth control. smartphones and tablets have been around long enough for doctors to see wt kind of impact it can have on your children'sopyes. almologists say they're seeing an increase in conditions li dry eye and near-sighted this in kids and that kind of damage can't be reversed. doreen kbe doreen gentzler working for your health with a story every parent

needs to see. >> for the first time in history see these glands literally adisappearing in young p it's making us very nervous. >> reporter: it's getting hard to find ahild who isn't glued to some type of device, but doctors worry that all this technology is taking a serious toll on their eyes. dr. sandra kramers is an opthalmologist at visionary eye doctors in rockville, maryland. >> we found that screen time seems to be the biggest culprit of why young children seem toe losing their glands at record pace. >> reporter: chances are you've never even heard of your ibomian glands, but they're crucial for producing oil and keeping your eyes healthy. avoidingand is key to eye pain and helping with the vision. so these glands are >> reporter: the top picture here is what those glands should look like. >> they shoul look like white piano keys. >> reporter: but this is what doct ms are seeinge and more of and in younger patients. >> the bottom patient is a 17-year-old who is on the screens on average eight hours a

da. >> rr: part of the problem, too much screen time and not enough blinking. >> we highly discourage fortnite because itas an amazing ability to really entrap a child and they will onl partially blink. and when you don't blink, you don't milk the oil gnd. and this oil gland is similar to the milk gland of a cow. if you don't milk the cow, it's going to dry up. >> reporter: if those meibomian glands dry up and disappear, it can lead to blurry vision, pain, itching, burning and even cornual scar tissue. even worse, this damage can't be sdone. >> it'ind of a race against time because aging will make those glands diorppear. >> rr: there are some things you can do to help prevent this eye damage like the 20-20-20 rule. every 20 minutes you and your child should look away from the screen and look out a window or away at an object that is 20 feet in the distance for 20

seconds. also avoid watching tablets and computers in brightly lit areas toec help pragainst eye strain. doreen gentzler, news 4. >> so there is such a thing of too much of a good thing. blue light ecommited by smartphones, abilities and tvs may also be part of the problem, but the are special glasses and screen protecters that can help in that case. just another reason to avoid the screens. go play outdoors, kids. >> or watch the big screen, tv, a little safer. tomorrow you may need to tap the brakes when you'reding out for your morning commute. potholes scootered across the clara barton parkway here.ee crews havn set to do emergency pothole repairs earlier today but the e uipment se to fix them broke down. thes national pa services isn't sure when that will be fixed or when they'll be able to reschedule their work. and a reminder, if you take the baltimore washington parkway, all those potholes

there, they forced the speed limit to drop from 55 to 40 miles an hour on a six-mile stretch of that highway. 60 tons of asphalt has already een put down to patch up the holes. the national park service says they hope the speed limit drop will help you react quicker to theotles because -- >> our roads in this area -- >> crazy bad this year. >> you've been talki about this before. the freezing and the warming up and the contracting. it was soin bad thisr. i guess we just got slammed. >> that's the thing. the potholes are sond bad then during the summer months when they can get out and do it, the roads are closed because you've got people worki on the roadways. >> construction. >> guys, i'll tell you, cold a in here for sure. this arctic front really made its way thrgh here. people bundled up across the area. the koess, the gloves, the whha, atever you needed. you needed them all because it is just that cold tonight. it feels much more like middle ofuary than early portions

of march out there with those wind chills currently sitting in the single digits and teens. here it is out there right now. the wind really starting to blow. the winds gusting upwards of 30 miles an hour.30 d.c., degrees with a wind of 22 miles per hour right now out of the northwest. 22 miles per hour with higher wind gusts up to 30. looking at wind chill. 8 in winchester. 16, manassas. 23 in annapolis. 17 degrees right now in the city. it is just brutal. it's going to be even colder when you wake up early tomorrow morning. so nhing on the radar. we did see a couple of snow flurries up toward the mason dixon line, but not a lot for the rest of the area. here's the front moving on through. snow s wers in oceancity,. maryland and then more snow showers back here towards the mountains. for us it is just the cold air that's coming in with this system. you can clearly see this colder air sinking on in across our area. not just us, guys, it is the

eastern half of the nation. just look ahi 13 in denver. 22 below in international lls. below in chicago. 1 in cleveland. 17, d.c. this is some really cold air making its way all across the eastern part of the nation here and is going ttay that way for the next couple of days. tomorrow getting out to the bus stop feels like the single digits. i think between zero and 10. 35 in the afternoon. one saving grace, we get some sunshine but it's not going to mean a whole lot l take ak at where we start tomorrow. 8 in d.c. 1 below in hagerstown. 7 in manassas. just a frigid, brutal morning, but even in then, afternf you're thinking about getting lunch outdoors tomorrow, i don't think so. 19 in d.c. 14 in frederick. 16 in leesburg. once again a very cold day. but just like our other real cold outbreaks, this one very short lived. i think we get a on thursday. thursday back up to 42. yeah, that's still col for thi time of year, but without the

okay.nd sunshine early, hance of friday, 40% rain and snow showers. something to watch. 52 on saturday. look at sunday, up to4. guess what, everybody? it comes with rain. we expect rain on t weekends. saturday, however, does look dry. and most of nex weekmonday, tuesday, wednesday, actually a pretty nice period here. does look pretty good as well. some chances of rain as we end the week next week. by the way, cherry blossoms in stage one. stage one and our official cherry blossom forecast comes out tomorrow afternoon. amelia draper will be down there with the cherry blossoms when the wind chill is at 15. >> oh, boy. >> how did she pick that straw? >> i'm going to be right herein de because i've got to monitor the weather. >> she's going to love you. coming up, a local legend wave good-bye to the mason nation. >> sports coming next. but first here is jimmy fallon. hey, guys. we're playing catch phrase with

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this is the xfinity sports desk. tough night for george mason and one star in particular. >> yeah. >> that was hd to see. >> not the way you want to go out. >> no, it's march, too. we'rlways hyped about march madness. when you think about it, it's the end of some of these college kids' careers. the end of the basketball season is bittersweet. this means the end of the otis livingston era. tonight his senior night and last game in fairfax where he will be missed on and off the court. patriots fan dressin up for st living's final in fairfax. this one, though, not the fairytale second half, livingston trying to ph it up the floor but down he goes. otis hurts his ankle, limping to the locker room. he dideturn. the patriots couldn't do much. without him later in the half off the mason miss, here comes jenkins. he takes it all the way for the sl part of a 23-0 vcu run.

but a coolng moment. ston takenth out of game early still getting a standing ovation at eagle bank arena. well-deserved. otis emotional u beats george mason 71-36. the fewest points all school history. all right. moving on. 15th ranked virginia tech oad te taking on 14th ranked florida state. skipping ahead final seconds, hokies down three. ball worked around to ahmed hill. knocks down the three. ties this game up at 61 so we e headed to overtime. in o.t., all florida ste. seminoles up two. mj walker makes it five. florida state outscor tech 12-0 3 in overtime. they win it 73-64.we downst palm beach, nats fans enjoying the sunshine. hosting the r sox. a little chopper and tries to beat it out to first.ck kendris is safe but comes up

in pain. left with a strainedri ham. you may remember he's making his way back from a torn achilles last so we're hoping it's nothing serious. max scherzer, serious trouble today. tzu-wei lin takes scherzer yard here five runs in 3 1/3 innings. red sox go on to beat the nationals 8-4. the wizards partnering with special olympics for the spread the word to endhe word unified basketball game.an thomas band john wall two of the coaches. they were taking it very seriously. traror a, a refer ree, well, he got an earful from bryant, let me tell you. he game team adults without intellectual disabilities to encourage infloougs collusion. the night success unless you're thomas bryant trying to get the call from your teammate. one lasthing for you, celebrations to former capitals

coach barry trotz picking up his 800th career win. >> wow. >> fourth among nhl coaches all-time. the only problem, he got it with the islanders who are now tied with the caps atop the metropolitan division. >> that's all right. >> last couple of weeks. >> quite a few he got here. >> 200, i think was. we looked it up. oney c

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