northern virginia reporter david culver explains the new initiative by fairfax county police. >> it really was heart-breaking. >> reporter: that's how he felt when the space he prays in was marred by vandals. this was 2011. just about every custom window shattered. in three years' time its beauty restored with some new additions. >> we record a 24-hour video coverage. these are infrared cameras. we also supplemented them with additional cameras inside the mosque. >> reporter: following the advice of fairfax county police they beefed up the mosque security. >> it was just one of those one-off incidents. i think generally the community here is very welcoming. >> the grounds here are pretty big. >> yes, very safe. >> reporter: tom oversees the grounds and is cautious of preserving a safe sacred place. >> if you have ever grown trees or bushes anybody can hide behind them. >> reporter: while not wanting to share all of their security techniques they set up random patrols through the night. >> if people see that they know we're here at any time. >> reporter: but he's looking to join the worship

news 4 david culver reports, getting hitched today is a sure-fire way to never forget your anniversary. >> we're gathered here today in the face of this company to join together this couple in honorable legal state of mat that mony. >> i take thee tiffany to be my wedded spouse. >> reporter: fulfilling what it means to be mine. and this young, smiling witness looking on with excitement. >> with this ring. >> i thee wed. >> reporter: the d.c. marriage bureau opening its doors for a special saturday session. >> the staff came up with this idea and they volunteered to come in of their own free will on a saturday morning when they didn't have to and perform the weddings and help couples get their licenses. so it's great. >> i now pronounce you legally married. >> whew-hoo! [ applause ] >> reporter: brack to mohammed and tiffany. >> i now pronounce you legally married. you may kiss your bride. >> reporter: that kiss followed by a family hug. sealed with the signature of their sweet witness. >> here you are. congratulations. >> the d.c. superior court's marriage bureau processed more than 7,

. >> host: we hear from janus in culver culver culver city kentucky on honor others' line. janice go ahead. >> caller: first i would like to say that we love nashville and in college we learned many things and because of my education in college i don't believe that we should be involved in the affairs of overseas then be drawn into their wars. because of the way they have done i don't think we should do that anymore. i was just wondering what do you think about our involvement in the affairs of russia or with isis or jordan? >> host: caller, thanks. president williams. >> guest: again. >> host: go ahead. >> guest: my reaction is we live in a global society now and what happens anywhere in this global society has an impact on all of us. i am not a proponent of fighting wars indiscriminately and we certainly don't want to risk our sons and daughters lives irresponsibly but on the other hand i think we have a responsibility to ourselves to make sure that we are having positive impacts around the globe to the extent that we can. >> host: president williams someone asked off of

i'm david culver in woodbridge.ow that cou change the look much your child's class. >>> new figures just out today will have drivers wincing the dangs number of recalled cars on the roads and what you n do to make sure your vehicle is safe. >>> the drug molly sendsa dozen college students to the hospit. fo transp t specialty progra en h athlet those are some of the 400 items that prince william county schools could cut from your kids. that is if they don't come up with $17.5 million from the coun board. >> our northern virginia bureau repo david culver is in wood with a look at the brewg budget battle. what's missing from here? x minus 4. perfec it doesn't matter how many xs or ys you plug in the math probm now plaguing prince willia county public schools isn't getting solved. want to do the next one? >> factored into the equation class sizes. it's tough to find an empty seat in ms. allen's algebra class. it's one of the courses required to gradu from here. you get more one-on-one attentn f the teachers. if you're i

practicing for hours with the marching culvers of new york a drum line and dance troupe that he says has redefined him. >> my mom was always getting constant phone calls. your son is doing this. your son is doing that. and then one day i just said you know what i got to start getting my act together. >> reporter: the culprit of beating bad influences and going places they never dreamed of. performing for the nfl, college basketball games. and a brief appearance in the movie "bird man" after the director saw them performing in a park. you're in it. >> i don't even know what to say. >> reporter: the band recruits at-risk kids from all around the new york city area. >> stay together in one line. >> reporter: terrell saurs who used music to change his life started the band to give back. 45 are members, dozens are on the waiting list. since it's free students have to commit to good grades community service and a positive lifestyle. >> we're building a future of ceos here possibly. future managers. this is just not, again -- >> use more than three words. >> reporter: manny's teachers say h

and our northern virginia culver met today in woodbridge with some of those most affected. course the kids. >> their little feet scamper in. this is mrs. gray son's kind class taking in a litt bit of history. under the most extreme of budg cuts this full-day kind class would look more like this. empty. why? well read the simple but wise words left. i have money. i like money. i buy stuff. troubl is the money isn't there. the school board says they're $17.5 million short. at the high school level, plans to ease certain class sizes would have to be scrap if you're in a class size you don't get that commun noby t about budgets in school maybe not using those words. but this student acknowledge thatd miss classmates are on the frontli really a major n for a lot of peop the school board and the superv restore full-day kinder specialty programs and make sure that the capital improv progr intact. >> cory stewart is on the board of supervisors. that group determines how much fundin the schools get. that's based on what you taxe there are going to to be some progra that have to be e

david culver tweeted this video of the snow-covered state house in richmond. most of virginia is blanketed in snow today, including the roads. so far today, virginia state poli are saying it's fielded moren 800 calls statewide. megan mcgrath is live in wood where the snow came down fast and furiously this morning. megan? >> yeah and unfortunatel it came down during the start of rushr and lasted through rush hour so the timing on this was terrible. it wasn't that we got that much snow. it was jus that it was mixed in with the normal rush hour traffi you take a look behind me here this is route 1 in woodbr. u can see at this point, it's in pretty good shape t seeing any snow cover at all. we just have wet conditions. so everythin is a-okay on the major roads here in woodbridge this point. howeve this morning, that was not the case. take a look at this video from early this morning and you can t a feel for some of the condit. s started a little bit befo 4:00 this morning, and it came down steadily throught the morning. it didn't really taper off until about, oh i

i'm david culver. coming up, why it's not only religious leaders they're directing their message to but also those of you who attend services. >>> a major drug bust at dulles airport. we'll tell you what investigators found in a passenger's water bottle >>> new at 6:30, neighbors are reacting to a fight over a patriotic van. the man who owns it is being told he's got to move it out of his driveway. >> they said because there's lettering on it, it is a commercial vehicle. >>> and right now we are minutes away from a vigil at the university of north carolina where three people were killed near the campus in chapel hill. >>> first though, a local effort to keep sacred places and the neighborhoods surrounding them crime-free. >> next time you go to your house of worship you could be in for more than a sermon. northern virginia bureau reporter david culver is live in fairfax with more. david? >> reporter: doreen and vance, you can't walk within 100 feet of this mosque without being watched, even at night. r

david culver is live outside pentagon city mall with that story. >> reporter: wendy and jim, usually it's the cops who put the criminals in the back seat of their squad cars. but last night here at pentagon city, one arlington county police officer himself took the back seat of a nearby cab all to catch his suspect. it started with a call from inside the mall. two guys walked out of a store without paying for clothes. officer fitzgerald head thad way. he spotted the pair at this metro station. >> one suspect immediately fled. >> reporter: notice all the gear officer fitzgerald has to wear. still he took off after the suspected thief. then all aif sudden, unexpected backup arrived. >> a red taxicab and the driver roefled down his window and said, hey, hop in, i'll help you out. >> i thought about it for a second. i thought, well, not such a bad idea. >> reporter: together the crime fighting duo, cabbie and cop, followed the suspect down 12th street. >> he waslike an all pro. he was yelling go go go hop around the corner. he did an ads brake right next to the suspect and i hopped out.

thank you our team coverage continues with news4's david culver.e seem to have live cameras everywhere to capture the snow moving through. he's in arlington. david, what are you seeing there? well, i guess we're not going to hear from david just yet. we'll have to wait a little longer to find out about that. >>> we'll have to wait to find out about the prince william shurp intent to make up in $11 million of budget cuts. tonight's school board meeting is canceled because of the weather. we expect to learn the details on the budget this monday night at a public meeting. >>> and then there was one. out of the field of hups of entryent hundreds of entries, we have a winner in the snow us your pet challenge. >> news4's pat collins caught up with the entry who earned an official snow stick. >> reporter: snow us your pet. the snow stick challenge. best pet picture gets an official pat collins snow stick. we had a ton of entries and an award winning panel to judge them. from the nbc 4 hall of fame liz crenshaw and our highly regarded i-team tish thompson

. >> david culver tried to get their reaction to a story in the washington post. the paper obtained an affidavit where it says lloyd welch admitted he kidnapped the sisters. mother nature forced a lot of things to close today, but not one of our local markets. >> i always idolized myself after sean taylor. >> sean taylor still admired by so many prospects, including one safety that hopes to land in washington. i'm diana in indianapolis. i'll h. >> the snow certainly canceled a lot of plans. local farmers market decided stick it out. they're very grateful for a >> it came down fast and furious. visibility was low, and caution high for those on the road but amid it all, this outdoor farmer's market went on almost as usual. >> it's not a lot of people just walking around. people come out here looking for sfw. >> be it the farm fresh eggs or country ham people have grown accustomed to old man winter couldn't keep them away. >> regulars are coming out. they're here today. >> those regulars were truly great. the efforts of the merchants who had to brave dicey roads to g

police say 26-year-old culver was driving recklessly when he hit a man riding a bicycle. he's accused of trying to drive away but witnesses blocked his car until police arrived. >>> president obama is hosting foreign dignitaries at the white house for a summit on how to combat violent extremism. joel waldman is live with the ideas expected to spark debate. >> reporter: president obama is hosting community leaders from around the united states as well as dignitaries from some 60 countries around the world. the aim of the three-day summit, preventing violent extremism particularly in the middle east. awaiting the hearts of minds who may be lured in the world of violent, treatmentism treatment -- extremism. >> there has to be more than a military response. it requires not only a whole of government effort but a whole of society effort. >> reporter: in the past few days, isis released a video showing the beheadings of 21 coptic christians leading egypt to attack a group inside libya. reports out of iraq say 45 iraqis were bushed alive in a similar fashion to the jordanian pil

community service saying the public humiliation of the really was punishment enough before david culver will be in the courtroom today and we'll break the news for you on a push alert as soon as the sentencing happens. >>> right now fairfax police need your help finding the driver in a deadly hit and run. someone found a woman lying in the middle of a braddock road in centreville. police say she had been hit by a car while trying to cross the street. the accident happened in front of a normally busy shopping center. but because of the cold a lot of people weren't out. >> very tragic event. so we are trying to piece everything together we're looking for witnesses folks that may have seen or heard something. >> police are still working to put together a description of the car involved in this accident. >>> 4:31. want to go back to tom to tell you about this brutal cold weather and wind that we're dealing with. >> that's a good word for it brutally cold windchills right now. temperatures are hovering right in the low single digits. and it will be staying just in the low single digits over

for now, we're live in charlottes david culver news 4. >> thank you. >>> an 11-year-old girl is chargedmurder of a 2-month-old baby in ohio. the accused is the daughterbabysitter. while her mother was sleeping she took the baby upstairs and death. >>. you don't see stuff like this hardly ever. i have been a policeman 30 years and have never seen anything like this. >> we're told it was the moth 11-year-old who called 911. the baby was flown to cleveland >f you park in the rosslyn neighbor at arlington county polic are urging you to be on guard. they are investigating aie break-ins. thieves have smashed dozens of car windows in the past week stealing pricey items. police say the break-ins may be connected and they say pay attention to whether anyou and always take your valuables out of your car. >>> if you park in the rosslyn -- we just told you that to bw features on the express lanes designed to keep you safe. they put new signs saying entrance to make sure you know you're getting on the lanes. they are adding reflective markers at those entrances. >>> we're been talking about redd bul

before you take the case to trial, in my opinion, you have a burden at trial, 12 jurors and culver them all the beyond a reasonable doubt that the individual is guilty. during the course, we as prosecutors do not have an abiding faith beyond a reasonable doubt in a knowing what happened then it is our obligation to not go forward. notwithstanding the anger and upset it can cause. and we moved a lengthy memo random. >> you do not think you knew what happened in the room? >> not without a reasonable doubt. there was sexual contact but whether it was forcible, forcibly compelled sexual contact, we looked at a lot of evidence were able to conclude that it happened. >> an interesting story. during this time, he resigned. suppose it was as he said, was it a terrible injustice to him? >> i think the way -- i do not believe it was a terrible injustice to him. i believe with all respect to him and his ex-wife the reason we were dealing with this was because of things he put into play. we would not have had dealt with any of it if there had not been some sort of sexual -- so no. as other informat

. >> our david culver trying to speak with the welch family. "the washington post" obtained an affidavit which says lloyd welch admitted he kidnapped the sisters from wheaton plaza in 1975. he also says lloyd witnessed his uncle sexually assaulting one of the girls. both men have been named persons interest but have not been charged. look for updates on nbcwashington.com. we're working to get surveillance of a robbery in false church. police say a man held up the teller and took cash from the apple federal credit union. police didn't say how much money was taken. >>> happening today, a group of people say they will march to stop d.c. police from using the so-called jump-out tactic. that's when police are in an unmarked police vehicle and they jump out to go after someone t. group is march the congress heights metro station to the 7th district police station at 6:00 tonight. organizers say they're creating awareness about the 2011 death of rafael briscoe shot and killed by police while running from an unmarked car. >>> police transparency coming

david culver is there and will break the news through a push alert and app soon answer thes s the sentencing. >>> and ice and snow is coming? >> exactly. right. the snow arrives tomorrow between noon and 2:00 p.m. and when it gets here it will stick immediately. a live look outside where we're seeing beautiful sunshine but that's not going to be the case tomorrow. with future weather. we continue to track snow showers for the afternoon hours, around dinnertime between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. this is when sleet and freezing rain potentially starts to mix in. so we could see ice accumulation on top of snow accumulation. temperatures actually continue to warm saturday night into sunday morning. so by midnight on saturday into early sunday morning, looking at mainly rain. and then will be dry here by about 10:00 a.m. on so most if not all of your sunday will be dry. a look at the timing. so the snow changes to a wintry mix between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. tomorrow. that mix changes to rain around midnight tomorrow and again, ice accumulation possible on top of this snow accumulation here. you can see this

northern virginia bureau reporter david culver will be in the courtroom today. we'll break the news with a push alert through the nbc washington app as soon as the sentencing happens. >>> today you'll get a chance to weigh in on udc plan to close its downtown community college campus. about 2500 students would be affected by that plan. those students will be moved to the main campus in van ness. udc officials say that decision was made because of rising rent at the north capitol street location. today's hearing is at 3:00 p.m. he at the downtown campus on north capitol street. >>> breaking news that could impact your commute. >> getting a lot of information from metro right now. just hearing in my ear here that orange line no service between west falls church and ballston. orange and silver single tracking through east falls church. major delays here this morning because of a cracked rail. this cold weather making a mess for metro. going to have more information in a couple of minutes. >>> outside is not the place you want to be this morning. as we deal with the

you can follow david culver on twitter for updates. >>> mandatory reporting of campus violence is oneills moving forward to combat the on campus issue. lawmakers yeste advanced legislation that requires colleges to write transcripts if a student is found guilty of assault. the bills in response to the death last fall of hannah graham. the bill is moving through the chambers. we expect to find out whether your kids in montgomery county public schools will start school at a different time. the school board expe final decision today. we are live in rookville with a look at the options they're consider. morning, megan grath. >> reporter: should they be allowed to get a little more sleep beforeo class? that's been the topic of debate for awhile now. later this morning we're expected to the school board is going to be voting today as to whether to change start times. whether to push them back to allow students to get more sleep. yesterday those in favor of the later bell times they staged a sleep in here in front of the board of education. they have a little bit of fun with it. a lot of peo

northern virginia bureau reporter david culver is live in chantilly to explain how this would work. >eporter: wendy, police are calling it worship watch. the new initiative includes part of what you see on the outside of this mosque, security cameras covering just about every angle. but they, well they learned the hard way. >> these windows are custom made so they were quite expensive, took us a while to get them built and put in again. >> reporter: this is the place fuzon powell both worships in and helps manage. it's mubarak mosque in chan tilly, just three years old, this place of muslim prayer is heavily secured. >> we put up all around the mosque camera surveillance. i think there was about eight cameras. >> reporter: wow. >> since then we've also supplemented with another six or so inside the mosque. >> reporter: it's expensive. >> it is, yeah. but it's unfortunately something that is necessary. >> reporter: necessary, given what happened here in 2011. just weeks before they were supposed to open their doors, vandals did this. news4's megan mcgrath was there as police investigat

i'm david culver. >>> an nfl player attacked a man over a parking spot. he says he was parked behind his apartment and said when he offered to move his car jackson came after him. >> he choked me for more than one minute. he choked me like this. >> around your neck? did he hit your head against the side of the car? >> yes. >> reporter: jackson is charged tonight with simple assault. he has a court hearing later this month. still ahead, the victim talks with pat about why this alleged attack blind sided him. >>> tonight we're learning about more problems in the metro stations. just a few hours ago the district announced results o testing of the emergency radio systems that allow first responders to communicate when they are within a metro station. they revealed failures at several stations. mark seagreys joins us with more. >> reporter: that's right, ever since that deadly accident here d.c. fire has been testing its radios inside metro stations and tunnels every week. the most recent test resulted in multiple failures including one station that failed twi

northern virginia bureau roert david repo david culver will be in the courtroom for us. > now police need your help finding the driver in a deadly hit and run. someone found a woman lie management middle of braddock road in centreville last might. police say she had been hit while trying to cross the street. this happened in front of a normally busy shopping center, but because of the cold most people weren't out. police are still working to put together a description of the car. >>> police are trying to figure out what happened to a man and woman found dead in a car at mountain run lake park. her found last night. we're told that both of them had signs of injury. at this point, town and county police are asking anyone who visited the lake yesterday to give them a call. >>> new this morning, a new record says metro knew the radio network in the subway tunnels did not work properly but never told the fire department. their communication system is under scrutiny. the report says metro was aware the radio system was not reliable, but did not relay that information to fire officials. met

today the state board of equalization will meet in culver city to consider reducing that tax from 36 cents per gallon to 28.5 cents. the excise tax is only part of the overall tacts on gas on california. people -- overall tax on gas on california. people pay 64 cents in taxes and fees. >> i'm buying a scooter. [ laughter ] >> i'll be going over bay bridge at 3:30 a.m. >> doesn't your commute kind of prevent that? [ laughter ] >>> we have a few things going on in traffic. we have a few commutes getting busier. nothing huge out the door. we just checked the chp reports and it looks like the most slowing is out of the livermore valley out of the altamont pass area where we usually start to see traffic slow right around 5:00. so this is not too unusual out of tracy on 205 and westbound 580. once you get past flynn it loosens up. here's a live look at the san mateo bridge. westbound roadwork is picked up now that we're at 5:02. it's the eastbound 92 roadwork that continues from foster city to clawiter. it's nearly empty right now on the richmond/san rafael bridge approach. no delay there

i'm david culver. >>> investigators launch a sex investigation at a local nail salon tonight. >>> judge internal affairs to be made public in the john gear case. northern virginia reporter david culvert just stepped out of the courtroom with an update for us. david? >> reporter: jim, this is a big win for the family of john gear. essentially today's order now forces the fairfax county police which is right across the street here to release the internal affairs records on the officer responsible for shooting and killing john gear. that officer is adam torres. he shot and killed gear on august 29th 2013 while gear stood unarmed in the doorway of his springfield home. police said he later had a gun on a nearby stoop. for 16 months fairfax county police refused to release any information on the criminal investigation, even withholding it from prosecutors. in december, the judge ordered police to make public the 12,000 documents and reportings from the criminal investigation. they say just five months before killing gear officer torres had a meltdown with a prosecutor in a separate court pro

today, the state board of equalization will meet in culver city to consider reducing that tax from 36 cents per gallon to 28.5 cents. the excise tax is only part of the overall tax on gas in california. people in the state currently pay 64 cents a gallon in various taxes and fees. >>> time to check traffic. liz? >> i made it just on time. thanks, guys. let's see. so we have an issue heading to the bay bridge toll plaza. the metering lights are still off. they are stuck in the off mode. there's some sort of issue going on. they are going to have to turn on the lights manually instead. so already, traffic is backing up through the maze. usually they have had the lights on for 20 minutes by now but that will likely cause a big backup behind the toll plaza. right now it looks okay on the span. but those delays are growing on the incline. and then a couple of issues in the south bay to tell you about. first this accident at mckee is in the commute direction northbound 101 approaching the mckee exit and the latest tweet from kcbs says it's clearing from the middle lane. traffic backs up fro

i'm david culver, news 4. >> extra special for a lot of families out there. >> i like the whole not everrgetting your anniversary. >> that's right. that's crucial. nice setup too. they did a good job. the time right now 7:27. >> we're checking out the storm damage from the strong winds in our region. >> plus the winter weather is causing treacherous driving conditions. we're going to show you the mess on the roadways. >> overnight a flash freeze settled into the area. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell will tell us how long this cold is going to last. living with chronic migraine feels like each day is a game of chance. i wanted to put the odds in my favor. so my doctor told me about botox® an fda-approved treatment that significantly reduces headache days for adults with chronic migraine. 15 or more headache days a month each lasting 4 hours or more. it's proven to actually prevent headache days. and it's injected by my doctor once every 3 months. the effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away as difficulty swall