we begin with darcy singapore slick roads in -- darcy spencer on slick roads in maryland. >> reporter: we're in on decatur avenue in kensington. we were driving down the street. it feels like you could sled on this street. there's so much ice. this is what you may encounter on a side street or one like it this morning. we turned on to a secondary road here. it looks a lot better -- there's someone walking in the street. right there on the side. the sidewalks are very icy and snow covered, so literally a young woman walking in the travel lane here, very dangerous thing to do. again, the sidewalks are very icy and snow covered. so you definitely want to look out for pedestrians this morning. that was something very dangerous to do. again, the secondary roads, they are wet this morning. they have been treated and retreated. but you never know when you're going to hit a patch of ice or black ice. 270 looks pretty good. again, the secondary roads. but the problem is getting out of your particular velopment. if you live in one. and you definitely want to allow yourself extra time and take i

let's go live to darcy spencer in lanham with reaction to the president's speech. darcy? >> reporter: well, un, as you can imagine, there was a lot of excitement out here this morning. workers who work not only here at this costco, but the one in beltsville, wheaton, hundreds of costco workers were given a special invitation to come and watch the president give his remarks in person. >> oh, it's awesome. it's good. yeah, it's our privilege to have the president here. >> reporter: they lined up in the bitter cold and amidst the fresh fallen snow for a chance to see the president of the united states. >> i am elated. i am elated. i'm very happy. so glad to have the opportunity to do this. >> reporter: and he was right here where they work every day. costco. employees received a special invitation to witness his remarks. did you ever expect him to come to costco? >> no, but i -- i really appreciate it. you know he's a great guy, and we love him. >> reporter: the president speaking about his state of the union proposal to hike the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour for federal co

darcy spencer spoke with johnson's uncle tonight. she joins us live in college park with more, darcy? >> reporter: erica, as david said, the suspect lived in this house here in college park and police are saying there does not appear to be a connection between him and the victims but the uncle of one of those victims told me tonight he finds it hard to believe that there is no connection and that this was a random crime. >> just trying, not knowing why. >> reporter: george is the uncle of tyler johnson, the 25-year-old man shot and killed by a teenager armed with a shotgun at the colombia mall. >> a parent's worst nightmare. you don't realize it until you're in the middle of it. >> reporter: johnson was working at the zumies skate shop when he was gunned down with breanna. the two were not romantically involved. >> they were unfortunately at work, which for kids these days, is a good place to be. >> reporter: in fact, howard county police say so far, they have found no connection between the shooter, 19-year-old darion aguilar and hi

news4's darcy spencer joins us live in silver spring with more on a new study. darcy? >> reporter: good morning, barbara. you know, if you drive this section of the beltway, this comes as no surprise. there's a lot of crashes. take a look here. this is part of the beltway that we're talking about, and highway officials say the blame sits squarely with drivers and not the design of the road. janis drives his towncar for a living, so he knows firsthand it's bad out there on the beltway. >> texting. you know, it looks like they're not texting, but they're, like -- >> reporter: it's no surprise to him that this four-mile stretch from 495 in montgomery county, from georgia av few to rockville pike, is the busiest and averages 260 crashes a year. some of them fatal. >> the other guy you want to go to the right, the other one want to go to the left, but they don't see each other, so they're, like -- >> reporter: state highway administration officials say nearly all of those wrecks have one thing in common. driver error. many told us they have to pay extra attention, because o

news4's darcy spencer is live in arlington with more on that. hi, darcy. >> hey, erika. we're right across the street from the emergency shelter here in arlington county. they're preparing to take on extra people during the bitter cold. now, tonight we ask people, what are you doing to prepare for this cold weather? some say that they're stocking up. others say, what can you do? and one woman told me tonight she's just going to pray. walking on ice caked sidewalks can be tricky. parking lots are sheets of ice in some areas, too. motorists looking out for slick spots and black ice. >> just drive slow, be safe. you will be all right. >> it's going to get worse. we're about to be blasted with the coldest weather in two decades. you ready for this kind of cold? >> i'm absolutely ready. i'm going to stay home. >> that sounds like a good plan. >> yeah, exactly. that's what everybody should do. >> reporter: some are getting ready to hunker down. temperatures are expected to plummet to the single digits monday night into tuesday. >> stock up with goodies to get home and bundle u

news4's darcy spencer is on the road live with the conditions there. darcy, where are you headed? >> reporter: good morning. we just turned on to frederick road in gaithersburg. we were up in germantown a little bit earlier. you can see here on frederick road there is -- can't tell exactly what it is, whether it's ice or snow here on the roads. a little bit of slush. a little bit of everything here. so they have been coming through and treating the roads. but it looks like there's some of that really hard stuff. and it's formed on some of the roads. that's going to be tough to get off of there. maybe it will get better as the morning progresses and more traffic get out here and starts to smash it down a little bit, getting things mixed up, getting the heat from the cars. as you see, cars passing in front of us on montgomery village avenue. you see the snow and the slush sort of flying around. so again, they've been at it, the crews have been at, it clearing the streets all night long. but there's still stuff out here on the roads. not enough to plow. you got to have a couple of in

news4's darcy spencer is in a car driving around montgomery county. good morning. what do you see where you are? >> reporter: good morning. yeah, we're up in germantown. and you see we're making the turn here on to 118. what we're going to do is take you on 270 i believe south heading back toward washington. we drove out from northwest washington this morning, up river road, on to 270. the good thing is there's not a lot of traffic out there. so we were sharing the roads with some of the plow trucks and salt trucks, not a lot of people driving out there. that's the good thing. you see here as we're taking the ramp, you see a little bit of snow cover on the ramp, and not a whole lane here. so you can't see the lines. but you do have a clear path. you definitely want to take it a little bit slower than you normally would. i don't believe that it's icy, but again, you see the patches of snow here and there. we definitely don't want to hit those. that could be slick. now we're getting on to 270 south now heading back toward washington. you can see traffic is beginning

sabine is taken as the wife of president michael d higgins was a lifelong friend of miss darcy's paid a private visit to her in limerick prison last sunday. when her case was caught today supporters of her is disrupted court proceedings with banners and chanted anti war slogans paper textures were moved to the courts by clarity is darcy's case was adjourned to an assist to court to be dealt with if every thirteen minutes. maura harrington who has been involved in the campaign against the chopin to draw scorching county mayo was excused by judge patrick durkin this afternoon. he'd ordered she be detained in the court precinct after she told to disrupt proceedings the judge accepted she was coming to the gate of her husband's but she not disrupt his court again and disk mode the business of other citizens. the hummer and rte news s district courts groucho has begun filming sixteen cars and trees of the forest park in county court following the discovery of a disease which is spreading to woodlands throughout the country the farthest part of school borrow will be sold for six months in a

darcy spencer continues our coverage now live from the mall with details. >> reporter: chris, tonight we went to the family homes of both victims, and understandably we were told it was just too soon for them to begin speaking about their tragic loss. >> very nice family, and very sad to hear that. had no idea until right now. >> reporter: he tracked reports of the murder-suicide through social media, not knowing it was his own neighbor in mt. airy who was one of the victims. >> floored. had no idea that -- i didn't even know he worked at the mall. but yeah, our thoughts and prayers are with the family. but very nice, very quiet, very good families. >> reporter: family members of 25-year-old tyler johnson told news4 it was too soon for them to speak about his death. he was killed at the state shop where he walked, along with 21-year-old breanna, a store manager with a young child. police have not said what the motive may have been or whether the victims may have known the shooter. >> stand and to declare, and we ask you, god -- >> reporter: tonight, a local church youth group held a v

news 4 darcy spencer is in leesburg, virginia tonight where there's still a few slick spots out there. how are things looking? any better out there? >> reporter: overall not too bad. we drove out here from northwest washington this afternoon and i have to say really not too bad. this is route 7 here in leesburg, and traffic is getting by just fine. here's a couple of cars coming now. you just want to watch. keep your speeds down just a little bit. we hit an icy patch a little earlier this evening and so there are some of those slick spots out there that you want to look out for. here's one of the dangerous things that still is lingering. some icy spots like this. this is a solid sheet of ice right here in this parking lot and whether you're walking through or driving through you definitely want to be careful. let's go to some video we shot just a short time ago. this was at a gas station here in the leesburg area. some people were having little bit difficulty getting in and out of the parking lot because there's an ice build up and people we talked to said the roads are not too bad. k

darcy? >> reporter: derek has you can imagine this mall was a very busy place on this very cold saturday morning, we spoke to people who were working inside the mall, we spoke to people who were here shopping. many people came here with their children and never did they imagine they would be caught up in a shooting investigation. >> i think five or six shots, like first, boom, and then boom boom and in the back, we heard two or three more. >> reporter: roger was working at the pretzel shop at the columbia mall when he heard the shots. >> we go hide and even at the outer store, by macy's, all of them were hiding out as the shooting was in progress there. >> reporter: he waited in a safe place behind the store and watched the chaos unfold on the store's surveillance system monitor. >> some people scampering, runging for safety, including their kids and everybody. it was really a terrible thing to see. >> reporter: andrew mueller was with his 4-year-old son getting an eye exam when he heard the

news 4's darcy spencer is live now with details. darcy?reporter: jim, we are talking about 4-year-old girl. sometimes they get nervous if you leave them in a room alon for a matter of minutes, let alone eight and a half hours. that's where this little girl was in that parking garage at the maryland live casino while her mom was inside the casino, and today police had some very harsh words for that mom. >> shocking, appalling, disturbing. >> those words to describe this mom, accused of leaving her 4-year-old girl in the car while she gambled for hours at the maryland live casino. >> we don't do this to animals. we certainly shouldn't do this to children. >> reporter: it happened new year's eve. police say the little girl was in the car for eight and a half hours before she was found by security officers on the fourth floor of the parking garage. >> parental selfishness, absolute stupidity. just reckless. reckless abandonment. >> reporter: the little girl was cold and scared, but she was not physically harmed. her mother, 24-year-old alicia

with more on the very cold conditions, news4's darcy spencer joins us live in silver spring. darcy? >> reporter: well, good morning, barbara. we've been dealing with quite a bit out here. we've got the snow. we've got the ice. we have the cold. and now, we have this bone-chilling wind. we've been talking to people all morning about how they're dealing with this. imagine if you had to take a bus for work, there were people out waiting at this shelter, in the bitter cold. fake a look here, a lot of people walking around sheer. there is a lot of ice on the sidewalks, very treacherous conditions. how would you describe the cold today? >> bone chilling. >> reporter: it was an icy, cold commute for people getting back to work today. >> it's really cold! >> reporter: for some, taking mass transit and waiting at the bus stop in temperatures dipping well below the freezing mark. >> i'm very, very cold. i'm not driving, because everything is ice. i'm scared to have an accident. >> reporter: elinore jackson had a 20-minute walk in the arctic air to her job in downtown silver spring. >> as long

darcy spencer live in forestville now. what are you seeing? >> reporter: good morning. i have to wonder if i'm the only one thinking i'm tired of winter. people looking out their windows and cars, they've got work to do. weather. not only do we have the latest video in to the newsroom, but also an updated list of school dallas cowboys adelays -- schoo delays and closings. >>> president obama is preparing to take his state of the union on the road this morning. he will travel four states over the rest of the week to push proposals he outlined in his speech. in some cases he says he is prepared to go it alone. the president says he will use executive order powers to protect federal lands, raise gas mileage standards for big trucks, and establish a government-backed retirement savings program. as we reported yesterday morning, he says the biggest move will be an effort to raise the minimum wage. >> in the coming weeks, i will issue an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay their federally funded employees a fair wage of at least $10.10 an hour because if you

darcy spencer now gives us a closer look at the lives lost. >> very nice like i said. very nice family. sad to hear that. i had no idea until now. >> reporter: greg dodd tracked reports of the murder suicide not knowing it was his own neighbor who was one of the victims. >> floored. had no idea. i didn't know he worked at the mall. so our thoughts and prayers are with the family. very vice, very quiet, good family. >> reporter: family members of tyler johnson told news 4 it was too soon to speak about his death. he was killed at zumiez skate shop where he work along with the store manager, brianna benlolo who had a young child. police have not said what the motive may have been or whether the victims may have known the shooter. local church youth groups held a vigil at the mall where the gunman took the lives and created so much chaos. a morning at the mall turned to tragedy for so many shaking their sense of safety. >> i come here every weekend to have brunch. we walk to get exercise. you don't see that happening here in columbia. >> darcy spencer, news 4 today. >> ri

darcy spencer spoke to his neighbor. >> like i said, very nice family. very sad to hear that. i had no idea until now. >> he tracked reports through social media not knowing it was his own neighbor in mount airy who was one of the victims. >> floored. had no idea. i didn't know he worked at the mall. yeah, very -- our thoughts and prayers with the family. very nice, very quiet. very good family. >> family members of 25-year-old tyler johnson told news 4 it was too soon to speak about his death. he was killed at the zumiez skate shop where he worked with brianna benlolo, a store manager who had a young child. police have not said the motive for the killings or whether the victims may have known shooter. the local church youth group held a vigil at the mall where gunman took the lives and created chaos. it created tragedy for so many shaking their sense of security. >> i come here every weekend to have brunch. we week to get exercise. you don't see that type of thing happening here in columbia. >> maryland governor released the statement on behalf of the people of maryland i wan

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darcy spencer spoke with the family. >> reporter: the murder happened right here inside this apartment. the victim's son found her body. he came here because he hadn't been able to reach his mom for a couple of days. >> it was very devastating. i didn't want to believe that she was dead. >> reporter: ricky hall says he had to force his way into the apartment because there was a chair blocking the door. he says his mom, 51-year-old claudia hall, was lying on her bed with a cover over her. >> i yelled her name, tapped her, moved her. i knew she was gone. i just ran out crying and called for help. >> reporter: police say hall died of strangulation. she also had been stabbed in the stomach. >> i still can't believe she's gone. she was loving and caring, very helpful. and a people person. >> reporter: hall says he went out with his mom for new year's. >> she called me on new year's day and said she had so much fun and that was the last time i heard from her. >> reporter: police have charged 52-year-old alfonso cleveland with second-degree murder in hall's death. cleveland was her husband an

as darcy spencer reports police are not hiding their anger about the situation. >> i think it's terrible're not supposed to leave your kid nowhere. she gambled for hours at the maryland live casino. >> your family is first. i can't say on camera what i really feel. >> it happened new year's eve. police say the little girl was in the car for about eight and a half hours before she was found by security officers on the fourth floor of the parking garage. >> you don't leave your kid for nothing. you wrap them up and take them with you. if you can't take them with you, you don't go. >> reporter: the little girl was cold and scared but not physically harmed. the girl's mother is facing three charges. second-degree child abuse, leaving the child unattended and neglect. >> we don't do to animals. we certainly shouldn't do it to children. they say she put sheets or covering over the window so you couldn't see inside. security guards found the girl after following the sounds of her crying. >> nothing roused the suspicion of anyone to call police that it was something suspicious going on. police s

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