news 4's barbara harrison reintroduces us to him. >> wow what do you think? >> mamma mia. >> they are big, huh? as big as you were expecting? >> yes. >> maybe bigger. >> reporter: at 13 dayvon is fascinated by dinosaurs. his questions impressed a specialist at the museum of natural history. he showed how they reconstruct the dinosaur from bones like this. >> that's the kind of clues that you look at. >> i have a question. how do you get the bones together once you find the fossils? >> that's a good question. >> when did he first realize his interest in these prehistoric creatures. >> i was in second grade and i read a book about lots of different dinosaurs and i decided i should become a paleontologist when i grow up. >> reporter: he says he's working hard in school. >> a b, cs. but mostly as. >> david is a very social, very charismatic, curious young man. >> reporter: his social worker says he would do very well in an adoptive home. >> what he needs is a lot of support, love and a permanent home. >> reporter: some very special treasurers for dayvon to take h

barbara harrison took him to a d.c.that's all about the kind of work he'd like to do. >> shamir would like to be a forensic scientist one day. rachel exhibits manager at the museum greeted us and invited us to tour the crime solving wing of the museum. >> this is the csi exhibit. >> he wases fascinate bid the scenr clues and learned how evidence would end up at a crime scene lab. at 17 al shamir has a plan. >> go to college and study forensic science. >> what made you decide forensic science? >> i just like the fact that forensic science is solving crimes and helping people out. >> shamir is a great teenager very shy at first, really sort of introverted but also really friendly. >> he was excited to actually learn some of the scientific things he hopes to do some day. >> you're going to leave a fingerprint right in te of that glass. >> he wants and needs an adoptive family that would love him and support his aspirations. >> how long have you been in the foster care system? >> since i was eight. >> i think he could benef

. >> i'm barbara harrison in for jim handly. this weather has a chance to impact your evening. tell us about it! >> hi guys. winds will only continue to ramp up through your afternoon and evening hours and into the night, too. let's take a look what you can expect with winds gusting as high as 40 and 50 miles an hour and will only bring down the windchill temperatures. it feels like the 20s to the teens even rapidly and even lower tonight. right now, that wind at 24 miles an hour sustained with a temperature of 44 degrees, as we start to clear out this weather front that came through the area. look at the dpuss. over 40 miles an hour in so many neighborhoods. windchill advisory throughout the area as we see windchills up to 50 miles an hour and goes through midnight. now, let me show you the impact this wind is going to have windchill temperatures 20s toup d.c. maryland and gaithersburg by 7:00 and in the single digit marks moving in the area close to the 9:00 hour. more on the impact of the wind what it will feel like late tonight and tomorrow morning's rush coming up. >>> the

. >> barbara harrison took them oz%Ñ a special visit to a pretty famous institution right across from> reporter: they were welcome in grand style to washington's famed hotel. the boys, 12 and 10 were excited to learn about the amenities traveling guests dignitaries an even presidents get to enjoy here. >> which room do you want? >> i want the barack obama one. >> that would be the presidential suite. >> wow. >> i like the pillows on the bed. >> it's very comfortable. you can try it out. >> reporter: first a peek out the window at the impressive real estate down below. that sumptuous beg beck conned, nahif went for it nashawn tried a different approach. >> do you know what you want to be? >> a lawyer. >> build houses buildings. >> i'm looking for a family that will love them unconditionally and provide a safe and stable environment for them. >> if i was adopted i would like to have a regular ordinary family with other children. >> someone that treats me like a nice way and someone that can treat me like a real mother and dad or brother and sister. >> reporter: they topped off their vis

barbara harrison took him to one of our museums here that's all about the kind of he'd like to do. >> reporter: he would like to be a forensic scientist some day. >> so you want to be a csi tech? >> reporter: rachel greeted us and invited us to tour the crime solving wing of the museum. >> this is our csi exhibit where you're the witness to a crime. >> reporter: he was fascinated by the scene. he looked for clues and learned how evidence would end up at crime scene lab. at 17 he has a plan. >> i'm going to college to study forensic science. >> what made you >> i just like the fact that forensic science is solving crimes and helping people. >> he's a greet teenager. he is very shy at first, really sort of introverted, but he's really friendly. >> reporter: he was excited to learn the scientific things he's going to do some day. >> you're going to leave a fingerprint in the middle of the glass. >> reporter: he's a bright young man who wants and needs an adoptive family that would love him and support his aspirations. >> how long have you been in the foster care system? >> since i was co

barbara harrison is going to re-introduce us to devon. >> wow, what do you think? >> mama mia! they are big, huh? as big as you were expecting? >> yes. >> at 13 devon is fascinated by dinosaurs and his questions impressed this specialist at the museum of natural history. he showed devon how they reconstruct a dinosaur from bones found like this. >> so that's the kind of clue that's we look at when you look at a skeleton. >> i have a question. how do you get the bones together once you find it? find the fossils? >> that's a good question. >> reporter: when did he first realize his from in these prehistoric creatures? >> i was in second grade and i read a book about a dine -- like lots of dinosaurs, and i decided, i should become a paleontologist when i grow up. >> reporter: he says he's working hard in school. >> as, bs, cs but mostly as. >> that's terrific. >> devon is a very social charismatic, very curious young man. >> reporter: devon's social worker says he would do very well in an adoptive home. >> what he really needs is a lot of support love, and a permanent home. >> wow

. >> barbara harrison takes us to meet xavier. >> reporter: xavier was in his classroom when i stopped by his school recently. is this something you made? what's that? he doesn't speak, but he understands and can respond in his own way to everything. what can you do with this? can you show me what you do with this? xavier is diagnosed with autism but, as a foster child, social workers don't know whether that is a diagnosis from infancy or if it was a later onset. >> as far as we know, the history we have is he's had symptoms all along. he's learned a lot of just how to communicate through sign language and gestures. >> reporter: working with skilled teachers xavier has learned many things. >> arehe can match colors, and he can match shapes. he can point to letters. so it's difficult to see exactly what his cognitive functioning would be because he can't speak and verbalize what he knows. >> hi! >> reporter: and what can be expect the for his future? >> what his potential is we don't know. it depends on the support systems he has to help continue that structure andrew teen. >> reporter:

with the permission of the nsa, news 4's barbara harrison shares with us a secret inside the agency.reporter: in 1944 the war was on in europe and the pacific, and washington's bowling field was buzzing with young recruits eager to sign up for duty, one of them was james pride. he enlisted with a promise he'd go into train being a small seed troop of army pilots, the tuss kentucky airmen. >> i was very disappointmented i couldn't get to be a pie a lot. i still don't know why because i passed the test. >> reporter: every test he took he passed with flying colors. >> i worked as a radio operator the only african-american on the flight line. >> reporter: even so with racism in full bloom, he wasn't allowed to ride from the segregated barracks with the flight line. if he was disappointed he never learned to fly a plane before leaving the service, he was even more disappointed when he returned home to washington. >> they sent me from training to ft. meade to discharge. >> reporter: he soon learned that even after serving his country, earning two sets of silver wings he wouldn't find a dec

i'm barbara harrison. >>> a developing story. d.c. police looking for two men in connection with a murder in northeast washington happened on 14th street near brentwood avenue northeast. news 4 megan mcgrangekcgrath and with more on how neighbors are reacting to this murder. >> r residents say it's disturg but nos surprising that they hear the sound of gunshots in this area with a certain frequency. early this morning those gunshots proved deadly. about 1:00 a.m. when a call for shots came in. when police arrived they found a man shot several times, and he died of those gunshot wounds. now, a ground-floor unit here at the complex in the 2500 block of 14th street was cordoned off with crime scene tape early this morning. residents say they heard about six gunshots. one woman we talked to says she thinks two guns were used because the sound of the shots >> and i heard two small shots, and four larger on. you know? and -- it's sad. it's sad that we can't live together and people judge and really take your life. that's not for us >> repor

you're looking at a live look at norbeck >>> he's had a lot of catching up today, barbara harrison takest xavier. >> reporter: xavier was in his classroom when i stopped by his school recently. >> is this something you made? >> he doesn't speak but he understands and can respond in his own way to everything. >> what can you do with this? can you show me what to do with this? >> xavier was diagnosed as autism. but as a foflter child social workers don't know if it's from infancy or later onset. >> the history we have is had symptoms all along. he's learned how to communicate through sign language and gestures. >> working with skilled teachers he's made progress. >> he can match colors and shapes point to letters. it's difficult to say exactly what his cognitive function can be because he can't speak and verbalize what he knows. >> say hi. >> hi. >> reporter: what can be expected for his future? >> what his potential is we don't know. it depends on what kind of support system he has to continue the structure and routine. >> his hope is that a family will come forward to adopt xavier. >> he

good morning, you're watching news 4 midday i'm barbara harrison. >>> this morning snow totals range between three ad our area but the radar is now clear. some places even had a little sunshine break. ing out right now. our coverage begins with meteorologist tom kierein in the weather center. >> the sun is breakingd areas our west. it's all sunny now, but still below freezing. it was our most snow we have had so far this winter around the metro area. there's the sky lookine west now a live view from the tower camera overlooking the foreground in the middle d on the horizon is bethese da. . snow totals reagan had 4.7 inches. areas to the south had the highest totals. and yesterday was around four to eight inches. that's what we ended up getting. and in waldorf, five to six inches was common. we had totals of six to seven inches from stafford through southern prince county and around culpepper as well. so this was enough snow certainly for fun to have in the snow with sledding and making snow angels. it's not good packing though. temperatures right now are hovering in the low 20s in wa

i'm barbara harrison. >>> just into the newsroom colts linebacker da quell jackson in d.c. superior court after allegedly punch as pizza delivery driver last night. jackson, 52 in this video, returning a fumble gets the redskins this fall. jackson arrested last night. police say in the 1900 block of 12th street northwest around 8:00 p.m. when a pizza delivery driver got into a verbal argument with jackson. jackson then allegedly punched the driver twice in the face. once in the head. the victim told police jackson was angry because he had parked in jackson's parking space. jackson will be in court this afternoon. from the live desk news 4. >>> district health leaders urging you to vaccinate yourself and your kids against the measles. one confirmed case of the contagious virus here in d.c. live in northeast we have important information you need to know. >> reporter: barbara, health officials stress that being vaccinated that is your best defense against the mees msaslemeasles. they say that following a confirmed case here of measles here in the district of columbia first si

i'm barbara harrison. we begin with the weather. at this time tomorrow windchills expected in the single digit temperatures and ahead of the extreme cold we are seeing snow showers in our area. some of you have probably seen them already. storm team 4 meteorologist amelia segal joins us with her first forecast for this thursday "midday." good morning. >> good morning. tracking snow showers and rain mixing in on storm team 4 radar. this activity moves off towards the south and east. not amounting to much because surface temperatures are well above freezing. something everybody is noticing. you see the activity pushing towards southern maryland and the northern neck. heading into the afternoon hours, those of you in and around the d.c. metro area and areas south, like prince william county down through fredericksburg you'll continue to notice snow showers with rain mixing in but by the evening commute, most if not all of us will be dry, and everybody later today will be talking about the wind. just starting to see them pick up out of

i'm barbara harrison. right now students at frederick high school are back in class for first time since wednesday night's shooting outside the school's gilles.ym. two teens were injured. police are still looking to find suspects and a motive. good morning. >> reporter: well barbara, police still have not made any arrests. they're trying to identify who's involved and who fired shots. investigators also say they don't think this is a random shooting. they believe the people involved all knew each other. they also believe there are still some witnesses out there who have not talked to police and they want those people to come forward. all of this new information coming out as students of frederick high school after a day off returned to class this morning. students returned to class for the first time since the shooting. many of them wearing frederick high's school colors gold and black. >> to support the school. it had nothing to do with frederick high i don't thing, but it happened on our territory. so ju

i'm barbara harrison. the bitter cold gripped our area show nothing sign of l up. in fact, much of the country is feeling the pain. a new record low in cleveland, ohio. 17 below zero. flint, michigan tying a record at 25 below zero and a new record at reagan national airport, jus the wind is also still making the cold feel even colder. current windchills. storm team 4 meteorologist amelia segal? the weather center with how much longer we'll have to deal with this bitter cold. good morning again to you. >> good morning, barbara. we'll be dealing with these frigid temperatures the remainder of the day. the wind will die down but temperatures by themselves will be cold. we did set record lows today in washington as well as bwi marshall. not a record low temperature here in february since 1970. windchill advisory remains in effect for just about everybody. for about another hour a look at the current feels-like temperature in your neighborhood when you factor in breezy conditions. feeling 8 below in gaithersburg. 5 below in the pa tuxant river and heading into the even

i'm barbara harrison. >>> breaking news this morning. eun yang at the news desk. >> a jury reached the verdict in the whistle-blower verdict against lanier. stepping from the decision to demote captain hilton burton after a botched barricade in which police shot and kill add man in mount pleasant. burton claimed demoted in retaliation for blowing the whistle on escorts. lanier testified she never personally approved the escorts. the chief was not in the courtroom for the verdict but attended every day of the trial the last two weeks. check more on the story on nbcwashington.com. eun yang at the live desk barbara. >> thank you. >>> and falling debris smash add car windshield. look at damage from chopper 4. a woman behind the wheel of the car yesterday afternoon when a chunk of concrete fell from the beltway. live in morningside, we have what's going on now. are crews able to start repairs there, richard? [ no audio ] >> reporter: -- under the bridge afraid more concrete will fall. right now highway inspectors are up on cherry picker exami

i'm barbara harrison. >>> two schools in frederick, maryland are shut down today after two teen was shot outside fred trik high school. chopper 4 over the scene showing a quiet campus. megan mth grath is live in frederick where all the new developments are happening. good morning to you. >> reporter: barbara, it valley rather quiet on campus both at frederick high school and west frederick middle school. only teachers inside those schools today. students have been given the day off so police can continue with their investigation. students were gathered for basketball when suddenly shots rang out fwop students hit. they're going to be okay recovering from injury but police are still looking for the person or people who fired those shots. taking down police tape as teachers reported to work. but students at frederick high they got the day off. so did kids at west frederick middle school right next door. the two schools closed to limit foot and car traffic near the scene of the shooting so that police can continue to search for clues. >> we believe they fled the immediate area on foot. so w

i'm barbara harrison. the storm is already causing problems to the south of us. this is little rock arkansas. roads are covered with a mixture of snow sleet and ice, in addition to slick roads there are concerns trees may come down because of the snow and ice accumulations. causing power outages down there. that same storm is expected to arrive in our area late this afternoon. in place right now very very cold temperatures. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein began coverage earlier toes. what's it looking like? >> good morning. still looks like a likelihood of snow moving in late this harch afternoon and overnight and much ending by dawn tomorrow. take a look's. areas in bright white moderate snow in weren't kentucky tracking into west virginia. ahead of that the area in the light gray a few flurries trying to reach the ground but the area of accumulating snow still back in kentucky and still about seven hours away of getting closer to the metro area. maybe it will be around 5:00 or 6:00 p.m. before it moves on in. a few flurries maybe trying to reach the grou

i'm barbara harrison. is friday february 27th. >>> congressional lawmakers have 13 hours to break a deadlock to keep the department of homeland security fri shutting down. both the house and senate remain at odds. we expect each to vote on their own separate plan today. nbc's tracie potts son the hill starting with a look at the house plan. >> reporter: programs and paychecks could keep rolling after midnight with a temporary fix congress votes on this morning. money for homeland security but just for the next three weeks. then a meeting between the house and senate. >> hopefully the senate will go to conference with us and we can work this out. >> time for senate to act. >> reporter: but the senate's voting on a different plan this morning. full funding, not temporary, with no mention of immigration. homeland security secretary jeh johnson tells congress a temporary fix will not work. just makes his 230,000 employees anxious about what happens next. >> this is not just an inside the beltway political jous

you're watching "news4 midday" i'm barbara harrison. the bitter cold is leaving a growing amount of ice on biggests and smallest waterways right now. this morning chopper 4 found this boat encased in ice on the south river. the river feeds into the chesapeake bay in anne arundel counselt county. >>> no surprise seeing temperatures in the teens and will chis even lower. tomorrow morning conditions will be worse. storm team 4 meteorologist amelia segal is in the weather center and brins us up to date. >> everyone is under a windchill advisory through tomorrow morning. windchills at times anywhere from 20 to about 5 degrees below zero. when the windchill gets to 18 degrees below vere oh or lower, that's when it's languagedangerously outside. avoid being outdoors at this point. the adviseor runs until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. the temperature now is 18 degrees. beaul sunshine but breezy conditions winds out of the northwest 17 miles an hour. gusting up to 25. windchill temperatures are in the single -- digits. how it's going to feel outside when

you're watching "news4 midday i'm barbara harrison. > and schools close bawd of a latest winter storm as colder air plunges southward delivering ice and snow and already a tough week for parts of texas. monday and ice storm knocked out power to thousands of homes, caused hundreds of traffic accides and prompted more than 1,500 flight cancellation there's. u can see the storm on radar right now. it's still a long way frt could cause us problems tomo morning. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck be is in the weather center with the latest on the timing for the storm. good morning. good morning, barbara. winter weather advisories go into effect late this evening for southern maryland, northern neck of virginia fredericksburg d points sou of us. those advisories may be expanded up to include pards of the metro area. watching thi carefully. for now though cloudy and still cold outside. there's the advisories that include st. mary's county spotsal vaini county. no advisories as of yet here in the metro area. periods of snow arriving between 2:00 and 5:00 tomorrow morning. pre-dawn and more snow

you're watching news 4 midday i'm barbara harrison. we begin with a breaking these that joshua star is out. the school board and him have reached a settlement. it's been a tough couple months for him. megan mcgrath is live from the school headquarters went down. >> reporter: good morning, barbara. sources with montgomery county school system who are familiar with the negotiations tell chris gordon that joshua starr and the board of education have reached an amicable agreement to part ways. starr and the board chair will be holding a press conference at noon a expected to learn the details of that agreement. they are also expected to take questions from the press. dr. starr was hired in 2011 and a source says he's found it difficult to do his job since media reports surfaced about divided support for him on the cool board. talks of an ongoing for the last several days. a source tells chris gordon that dr. starr will not work through the end of his contract which is june 30th. the board did appear briefly in a public session this it morn

you're watching news 4 midday, i'm barbara harrison. it's a new start for the navy yard and its employees. the building formally known as number 197 re-opened today with a new name and a new look. 12 people were killed inside during a mass shooting back in 2013. the navy spent over a year and millions of dollars renovating the building following that horrible day. news 4's megan mcgrath is live at the navy yard with more on how 400 employees are setting in today. good morning. >> reporter: barbara, it was a traumatic and life-changing experience for people who were here during the shooting. there are a lot of bad memories inside this hoping that a major renovation will allow workers to once again feel safe and comfortable in their offices. [ applause ] with the breaking of a champagne bottling with building 197, the scene of such horror a year and a half ago, re-opened. an emotional day for those who witnessed the violence. >> mixed feelings but i'm happy to be back. we'll probably get more emotional as we go throughout the day and when

i'm barbara harrison. begin wig the weather, round one of the extreme cold. and more snow could be this weekend. and the first "midday" forecast. good morning. >> good morning. breezy conditions outside, producing a brutal windchill. right now looking at winds at about 10 to 15 miles an hour and gusts anywhere from about 20 to 30 miles an hour. when you factor in the winds, this is how cold it feels outside. windchills in the single digits feeling about 8 in washington. 2 degrees in gaithersburg and 4 in hagerstown. 8 in fredericksburg. 13 now down in fredericksburg. it continues to feel cold throughout the day today with high temperatures only in the 20s and breezy conditions continuing on into the afternoon hours. so -- 3:00 p.m. a temperature, windchill temperature, around 18. 5:00 p.m. a windchill temperatures around 20. 7:00 dinner plans, only feeling about 24 degrees. looking at colder air to move in over the weekend, and with that the winds also increase. a windchill watch beginning valentine's day evening. saturday at 6:00 p.m. that returns through su

. >>> last week barbara harrison took us back in time to a point in history when the federal government the other institutions all over the country. not absolutely upholding the words in the constitution that all men are created equal. tonight barbara cos her special black history month report tt follows a young washingtonian who signed up to fight in 1944 but found little of our country's promises fulfilled when he came home. >> that's right, jim. in 1945 the war was over but the common interest in saving america had not brought an end to the divide between the races. james pride, a fresh-faced young soldier who had signed up to fight in 1944 was becoming resigned to being all but an invisible citizen of the country he had just served. but things when the war ended in 1945 the country was jubilant. thousands of veterans were coming home among them african-americans who find that atz they looked for jobs their color often obscured their skills and their service to their country. even for jobs in the federal workforce. >> in that struggle i ask your support. >> in 1948 president harry s.

i'm barbara harrison sun is out, temperatures on the rise. heave to here do deliver the bad news chuck bell. meteorologist. you have the floor. >> good news about the bad news it's not going to be a lot of snow. the bad news about the bad news crazy cold again for tomorrow and especially on into thursday night, friday morning with another chance for winter weather coming up on saturday. for now first things first. winter weather advisories from 2:00 until 9:00 today. it does include all of the immediate metropolitan area for later on this arn and this evening. possibly bursts of snow. generally one inch or less. not looking for a lot of snow but roads are cold. that will be a risk of iciness on the roads. again, that's 2:00 to 9:00. temperatures right now, mid to upper 20s, even 30's in fredericksburg. storm team 4 radar shows advisory. the batch of snow we're watch, are the one racing in here late this afternoon, early this evening. where the snow is for now. afternoon hour-by-hour forecast cold for now. snow off to the west of the metro at

. >> barbara harrison caught up with him recently during an aften of bowling. >> moses lee welcomed uso bowl more lanes in bethesda. great to see you. you're ready for the bowling? >> he was first up. proved to have a lot of natural tale since this is something he recently took up. >> i've been bowling for prob a month and a half now. >>> did fall in love with bowling immediately? >> it took a while to get used to. of course i didn't know what i was doing. he's a very bright 14-yeao has been in the fost care systemr half his life. nick has been in care almost eight years. >> i've been in 19 different fost homes. >> how hard has that been for you? it's been pretty hard. getting to know new people transi doing a lot of new stuff. i got to work with it and try to get along. those who know nick say he shows a great deal of maturity for a 14-year-old. nick has just grown remark. he has matured. he has really started to focus on his studies. >> i have all as and bs so far for the first and second term. he needs the love and secu of a family now. she hopes one will come forward to adopt him.

barbara harrison is here in the studio with more on who appears to be a very lucky and deserving lady. barbara? >> reporter: deserving is right jim. her name is marie holmes and she's just 26 years old. she says she's still trying to wrap her mind around the fact she's about to become a multimillionaire. >> i don't know if i want to cry, smile, what like i'm just grateful for this moment. >> reporter: holmes showed off the ticket today and it appears to have the winning numbers. she's a mother of four and says she's been forced to quit jobs at walmart and mcdonald's to care for her children one of whom has the cerebral palsy. >> everything is all -- all the struggle that i ever went through, it was all for him and i just want him to understand that money doesn't change you, but it can help you, so they don't have to worry about debt none of that like they can go to college, all on me. >> reporter: besides setting up college funds for her children holmes says she plans on buying a new house and giving to her church. she did say that she plans on turning that ticket in today after meeti

news4's barbara harrison is here with more on the cruise. >> it's happened again, guys. the ship is called "the grandeur of the seas." about 200 people became sick while it was at sail the past few days. it was expected to be norovirus again, but health officials have not confirmed yet. most people were able to be treated with medication on board the ship but one person was so sick they needed to be in a hospital so that's why the ship returned to baltimore early. here's what some passengers had to say. >> it was the hundredoneymoon from hell. it was bad. lost a lot of money, time sick i was happy to leave baltimore to go to islands and now i'm just happy to be home. >> it kind of seemed like they weren't being very honest with us about the whole situation. we heard there were three people sick then another person said it was over a hundred. so i mean we never got a clear answer from any of the crew members. >> and "the grandeur of the seas" is already back out to sea. royal caribbean says the ship was thoroughly sanitized when it came back to port in baltimore. anyone u

barbara harrison has a special black history month report. >>> at the outbreak of world war ii in europe the u.s. had only a fledgling signal corps as it was called charged with developing secure codes for u.s. military communications. this organization which would years later evolve into the national security agency had a mission during the war to intercept and solve enemy code and decipher their secret messages. well while their work was classified there was a secret inside the agency itself that, with mer permission from the nsa, we share with you tonight. in 1944 the war was on in europe and the pacific. and washington's field was buzzing with young recruits eager to sign up for duty. one of them was james pride. he enlisted with a promise he'd go into training with the small segregated troop of army pilots the tuskegee airmen. but he got shuttled in a different direction. >> i was very unhappy that i didn't get to fly, to be a pilot. and i still don't know why because i passed the test. >> reporter: every test he took he passed with flying colors. eventually becoming one of the most