maryland avenue at 7th street and derrick ward is on his way. we'll see live pictures from him shortly. taking a look at 95 from 32 down to the beltway we're nice and clear at this point this morning. don't have any big problems there. now, right now chopper 4 soefr the top of the beltway near georgia avenue. no major problems there. 66 and 95, we are on time here inbound and outbound this morning. we'll have travel times for you in ten minutes. >>> thank you. it is 6:02 and president trump tweeting a warning of sorts after a federal appeals court refused to reinstate his travel ban. >> as you know, it kept people from seven predominantly muslim nations out of the u.s. the argument that the ban allegations and presented significant constitutional questions. derrick ward has more now with the reaction to this stoppage. >> reporter: see you in court. that was the response from the president after an appeals court, a three-judge panel, an appeals court in the ninth circuit upheld the suspension on his ban from travel from seven mostly muslim countr

derrick ward, news4. >> keep it together, derrick. it's going to be okay. >>> and hopefully we're going to be able to get the images of bao bao getting on the plane. >> yes. that would be interesting to see. i mean, that flight alone. and for folks who want to get a last glimpse of her, this is a nice day to do it. >> perfect day to do that. play a round of golf, tennis, shoot some hoops outside, maybe go on a hike. . all that. it is wampling up quickly. there's a live look overlooking reston. the dulles tollway from our reston live camera. a lot of sun, just a few high clouds drifting over. temperatures jumping. that is a 20 degree jump here in the last couple of hours. it's leesburg up to 50 46 in gaithersburg. county and fairfax as well. reagan national, one of the cool spots there. but that wind should be shifting a little bit. and even there it should be jumping into the 60s today. terrific day to go on a hike along skyline drive. and our hour-by-hour temperatures. yeah, coming up here at 10:00, near 50. mid-60s at 2:00 p.m. then

right now we're live in bethesda, derrick ward, news 4. >> thank you, derrick. we'll stay on top of the developments there. >>> it is warming up, but you can see there in derrick's shot and this one, it's cloudy and there's rain out there. tom is updating his forecast with when you can expect showers and those strong winds to roll >>> and take a look at this video here. rushing water and a driver in danger. a child on that car as well. the dramatic rescue as flash flood waters surrounded this vehicle. y27mly y16fy now during havertys presidents day event. havertys. life looks good. >>> welcome back. take a look at these dramatic images that are coming out of california. firefighters lowered that life vest to the man and that young girl as the water continues to race and rush underneath them. they, along with another man who was in another car, were caught in flash flooding out in santa clarita. this is just north of los angeles. president other man was also rescued and no one was hurt. >>> you don't have to drive very far to visit one of the

as derrick ward explains, it's about recognizing the contributions of african-americans to the american story. >> we hold in our hearts the deepest regret, and with gratitude and repentance, we honor the enslaved people who built the falls church. >> there's a plaque honoring the architect, james wren, but edward henderson says the honors stopped short. >> but he was an architect, so he needed builders. and these were skilled laborers. >> reporter: they were also slaves. there's were the hands that formed these bricks that laid them, that erected these walls. their work still stands, but so does their anonymity. henderson had an idea. >> to create a plaque to recognize the enslaved workers. >> every detail was vetted, even the lang one word in particular you won't find on the plaque. >> the word apology. and it was the church itself that said, that's not strong enough. >> reporter: we thought strongly we should at the words repentance. >> the distinction is important. >> while apologies are important, repentance is a change in direction. >> reporter: this church community figured promin

derrick ward joins us live with more. >> reporter: hey. indeed, that is the venue for this meetingha governor's association. he requested this meeting after that i.c.e. action we talked about. it all stems from a raid outside the rising hope mission church in alexandria. that church also serves as a hypothermia shelter. earlier this month, several men leaving that shelter were detained and some arrested by i.c.e. agents. there is an i.c.e. policy called the sensitive location policy which says agents are not to target places like schools, churches, and hospitals because of the sensitive nature of those locations. apparently this raid took place, or these arrests and detentions took place just across the street from that sensitive location. now, the governor sent off a letter asking for some clarification on how these policies would work here in virginia and who's authorizing them. he is worried about what effect this will have. we rd talked about the possible chilling effect of these i.c.e. actions. >> i'm meeting with general kelly in the

derrick ward is live at the zoo where there's plans for a private celebration today for bao bao? >> reporter: indeed it. will be bao bao and a few of her closest hundred friends. she actually doesn't leave until the 21st. but folks are lining up now to say special good-byes. these are friends of the national zoo. take a look at the panda cam a panda hiding behind a tree there. i'm not sure if that's bao bao or not. but she is the panda of the hour. she was born back in 2013. and of course she's approaching 4 years old which is about the time pandas born in the u.s. are sent to china to breed. and that will help keep the captive population diversified genetically. it's a sad time and happy time here. friends of the national zoo today are having a special good-bye ceremony. with me now is the executive director of the friends of the national zoo. what are these folks going to be doing today? >> we're expecting 2,500 friends of the zoo members. they're going to be here. it's a special access time for thoem say good-bye to bao bao just for members. they'll get treats and sign postcar

news4's derrick ward shows how they are working together to make a difference. >> reporter: a violent week in the district. evidence markers, crime scene tape, officers down, seen too often repeated on the street. saturday afternoon, a different kind of reaction, facing off on the court instead of the courtroom. d.c. police cadets versus students and ball players from anacostia high school. >> stop the violence, basketball-style. >> reporter: frederick is one of the organizers of this annual stop the violence basketball classic. stemming from an earlier effort to curb police brutality. >> really, at the end of the day, it amounts to o >> reporter: and the effort has grown into something broader. >> to engage our community and be more involved with what's going on. >> something they will address, all of the causes of the violence, i.e., like a job, i.e., much bigger than that, the lack of a sense ever community. >> this is a positive interaction our cadets are going to have at anacostia high school. >> we have a lot of issues. we've had student deaths, things that impact our community

news4's derrick ward at the zoo. there's a private celebration happening today for her? >> reporter: indeed, there is. it's a bittersweet thing. i've talked to several people and they say that's how they feel. these are friends of the national zoo. folk who is belong to that organization, that club. they get the first chance to say a special good-bye to bao bao. they can fill out some postcards that will accompany bao bao back to china. then later on there's going to be some feeding down here. take a look. this now. bao bao is at the enclosure. she was munching on some bam bow. that's what people come here to see. they're on their own schedule. take a look. this line for folks started at about 7:00 this morning. par dom don me. and people were coming from as far away as new jersey. take a listen. >> we've seen them as babies growing up. i feel part of it. yes. >> sad to see her go? >> very sad. it's bittersweet. yeah. >> reporter: and of course now this -- bao bao is actually going to leave until the 21st. there'll be time for others to come say good-bye. and what we're

derrick ward breaks down a timeline of what happened. >> reporter: it all started here at about 11:30 in the 4100 block of 51st street in bladensburg. folks that live around here say they heard as many as five shots. were police were called here because there was a report of someone breaking into cars. when police got here, the suspects were leaving the scene. they say that suspect's car hit a police cruiser and then tried to run down an officer who was on foot. officers shot at the car. there was a chase, but they say they lost sight of it. a short time later, a car was found burning in the 3700 block of j street northeast. the vehicle. police are trying to determine if that is, indeed, the car. they don't know if anyone was injured. we do know the officers involved are on administrative duty pending an investigation into this zend. derrick ward, news 4. >> thank you, derrick. >>> we're in the middle of a legal showdown over president trump's immigration order. this morning, a federal appeals court has denied the trump administration's request to immediately reinstate its travel ban.

derrick ward was there. he's got our story from arlington. >> hey, what's up?oks a lot better than last time i saw her. >> reporter: just some old friends reuniting at this falls church volunteer fire house. the background for that reunion this condo. sadie was trapped inside. firefighters got her out in time. >> a lot of people consider pets to be a part of their family. yeah, we find one, we're going to bring them out. >> reporter: sadie's owner was so thankful she brought the firefighters lunch. she's also starting a campaign to get these door stickers out that alert firefighters to the presence of pets in the home. in arlington, derrick ward, news4. >>> he marched for civil rights and was the first man to represent the district on capitol hill. now he's in danger of losing his home. >> we're working for you this afternoon. jim handly and wendy rieger are in the newsroom with more. >> they have lived in the same home in washington for 55 years. >> the two have times. now they could lose everything. the impassioned plea from the community to keep them from lo

derrick ward, news 4. back to you. >> derrick, thank you very much. >>> we're in the middle of a legal showdown over president trump's immigration order. this morning, a federal appeals court has denied the trump administration's request to immediately reinstate its travel ban. this all comes after the justice department filed an appeal on friday's ruling, temporarily stopping the order. doj lawyers argue the order is a valid exercise of the president's authority. the justice department has until monday morning to respond. meanwhile, here's what it means for us. travelers from the seven countries banned in the to get on flights and enter the united states. it's as though the executive order was never actually issued. as for visas issued before the executive order and those that were revoked, those are once again considered valid. >>> president donald trump is defending his claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election. he talked about it with fox news' bill o'reilly for a super bowl interview. >> ma

. >> derrick ward joining us with more. >> reporter: good morning. that winter meeting has been going on for several days now. later today, virginia governor terry mcauliffe will have a one on one with the homeland security secretary. this all stems from a raid earlier this month at a church. i.c.e. has a policy regarding what they call sensitive locations. that would be churches, hospitals, schools. they say they won't target those locations. in this instance, we understand that the agents waited directly sensitive location before detaining and arresting several latino men. the governor sent a letter to homeland security regarding their policies. this meeting is expected to take place at 11:00 today. governor mcauliffe is actually the head of the governor's association. so he plays a big role in this meeting. but this is a one on one he requested. a lot of governors probably have similar questions on their minds. it'll be interesting to hear what comes out of that meeting. we hope to talk to the governor after that meeting and have some clarificatio

. >> derrick ward is live there with a look at what happened and what police are now trying to figure out. derrick, what have you learned? >> reporter: good morning again. this is returning to normal around the one bus bay there. that is where the shooting happened. the entire lot was closed earlier this morning. now buses are being allowed inside. the station remains open. but this happened at about 2:00 a.m. this morning. two teens, a 15-year-old male and a 16-year-old female were shot at this station. police do not have a suspect description or any sort of lookout at this point. we know the male is in critical condition. the female suffered non-life threatening injuries. these are crawling with platforms and throughout the lot. no doubt metro officials are looking through that evidence. but they're also collecting things on the ground that may help them solve this case. but again, two teens shot. a 15-year-old male and a 16-year-old female at the naylor road station. male remains hospitalized in critical condition. no lookout or suspect information. but again, service normal here.

live here in d.c., derrick ward, news 4, back to you. >> thank you, derrick.apparent shift tonight in the new administration's posture towards israel. the white house is warning tonight that new settlement construction may not be helpful in achieving peace with the palestinians. today white house statement is significant because president trump had never questioned the settlements before. he even slammed the obama administration for not u.n. resolution that had condemned the settlements. president trump will discuss the issue with prime minister benjamin netanyahu at a white house meeting february 15th. >> new sanctions on iran could come as early as tomorrow. it would be the trump administration's first disciplinary action after iran test fired a ballistic missile. up to two dozen iranian people, companies and government agencies could be penalized. throughout his campaign, president trump accused the obama administration of not being tough enough on iran. >> a taller stronger fence around the white house is one step closer to being built. approval from the n

. >> news 4's derrick ward is live this morning and explains how officers first heard the shots. derrick? >> reporter: yeah, good morning. we're in the williamsburg you are looking down at the 6300 block of north 29th street. this is the scene of this homicide. police have been on the scene here since about 3:30 this morning. at that point, we're told that they heard gunfire. they were already in the area because of a noise complaint. at some point, they heard gunfire, responded to the scene. that's why there they found an t male who had been shot. he was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. we know only he's in his 20s, perhaps 24 years old. no identity on the victim or any suspect information. they're saying there's not a threat to the public. it all seems to center around a house at 6300. we hear more now from a spokesperson for arlington county police. >> there was a house party going on in this area. we believe this was the result of a dispute that happened at the house party. we don't believe there's any larger threat to the >> n >> reporter: now, police have se

her mom talking to derrick ward about the moment that she got that terrible news. >> everybody was callingming and everything. i was home relaxing. and it was late. and i said okay. >> reporter: that call, a parent's dread. the news that a child was killed early saturday outside this sports bar. her cousin wounded in the same incident. her mother says it started out as a night of fun. >> she goes out with her cousin. they are always together and with her boyfriend. they were all out promoting her boyfriend and her cousin. >> reporter: her boyfriend was djing at the bar. her cousin an aspiring rapper. she says the boyfriend had been robbed beatened and bloodied inside the bar's bathroom and they were trying to leave and had gotten just outside. >> that's when they said somebody has yelling they got a gun, they are shooting. >> reporter: she was pronounced sometime later at the hospital and a light had gone out for this family. >> can't say anything negative about her. as a little sister they gettan your nerves but they love them. >> people taking young lives. the affect it has on >> reporte

now sadie's owner wants to show her gratitude to the fire department with some food >> as derrick wardls us, she also wants pet safe with something as simple as a sticker. >> reporter: that visitor to the falls church volunteer fire department would be sadie and her owner erica. >> she looks a lot better than the last time i saw her. >> reporter: the last time firefighters saw sadie, the condo on his fire. >> the conditions were pretty smokey. you really couldn't get a lot of visibility in there. >> reporter: sadie almost self-rescued but not sure if she should fight or flee. >> she's pretty skittish. >> reporter: davis got the frightening call at work there had been a fire but the dog was okay. >> they had wrapped her in a blanket. she had a fire hose around her neck as a leash. they were sitting with her. i was so appreciative. >> reporter: hence lunch for the fire house today. the close call got davis thinking. anyone with a pet should have a way to let first responders know. these door stickers do that. she brought lots of them and donated them to a local animal shelter. >> just he

derrick ward is covering this investigation for us. >> reporter: we're here outside the adrenaline dance studio in the tyson's corner area. this is believed to be where it all started. someone put a note on the door saying the studio would be closed today and tomorr a of classes. but that note makes no mention of the serious allegations levelled against one of the instructors. fairfax county police say 19-year-old chase clark pecklo has been on their radar since february 6th. that's when the owner of the dance studio called police to report an alleged sexual offense had occurred between a student and one of their instructors. detectives found inappropriate contact among pecklo and three girls. >> communicating with under aged minors 13 to 14-year-old females. >> reporter: that's alleged to have happened between december of 2015 and last november. there was even more investigation and more charges. pecklo according to police had a sexual relationship with one of the 14-year-old girls. besides being an instructor at adrenaline, he also worked at the stage door dance studio in manassas. >>

news 4's derrick ward is live in bethesda to explain what this is all about and what the church is doing now. >> reporter: good morning. well, this is all about the macedonia baptist church you see here along river road. this church was actually built back in the '20s, but it was part of a thriving african-american community that sprung up shortly after the civil war. former slaves settled here along river road. as you can see, a lot has changed. there's been an uptick in development. take a look. there are plans now to build a garage on some land not far from here that has already been paved over. members of this church say that garage will be built on a parking lot that has already been built on a cemetery that was the resting place for former slaves, on february 23rd, the county council is set to give some preliminary approval to plans to build this garage, but people here at this church and other opponents to that development say, wait a minute, there's supposed to be some studies done to see if there are actually burial grounds underneath that parking lot. one councilmember has call

we're live in arlington county, derrick ward, news 4. >> thank you, derrick. >>> also developing this morning, u.s.-backed iraqi forces have launched a large-scale operation to reclaim the rest of mosul from isis. prior to the operation, leaflets were dropped into the area to urge isis members to surrender and warn that the military was moving in. the united nations is warning that the start of this battle puts hundreds of thousands of civilians at risk. >>> homeland security secretary john kelly says the trump administration is working on a streamlined version of its immigration executive order. the original executive order, you'll recall, has been blocked by the courts. secretary k d plan yesterday at a security summit. this was in germany. he promised a short phase-in period for the new order. >> in particular, to make sure that there's no one, in a sense, caught in the system moving from overseas toward our airports, which happened on the first release. >> president trump says we could see something on a new executive order on immigration sometime this week. >>> and the president

derrick ward in northwest d.c. now with what went wrong and how residents were able to deal with it. >> reporter: it was kind of interesting. what we understand is this was limited to one cell, one tower located somewhere else. but it just showed people how much they rely on their wireless phones. this just happened to affect verizon phones. folks did some interesting things to do some work-arounds on all of this. for some people who live in this dupont circle neighborhood, it's been a trying weekend. those who happened to be verizon customers it's been like the dark side of the moon. >> we lost the ability to send and receive phone calls. >> reporter: it's been that way since friday. there have been periods where services worked but the only work around for people was to just to call customer service. >> my husband called from five blocks north. >> reporter: she went five blocks in the other direction for the same purpose and they both got some answer. >> we're working on it, no updates. same thing on sunday,morni

this happened just about 9:00 or so last night when she came back to her home just as news 4's derrick ward were speaking with her mother about her being missing. the two shared long tearful hugs during which she apologized for running away after a dispute with her mother. she says she was safe in her month away though she did not say where she was. tracking news online and were surprised police were trying to find her. she is now very relieved to be back home. >> you were okay though? >> i was okay. >> were you in a place thats of okay. >> i was. >> i know she was very scared about what could happen to me. >> reporter: now, she did reveal she may have ties to those other missing persons cases and after speaking with us she also spoke with fairfax county police and we are live outside police headquarte headquarters. back in to you. >> thank you. and this morning we're also learning more about why the 17-year-old disappeared. this all goes back to january 12th of this year when a body washed up in the potomac river in virginia. that was the body of 21-year-old christian rivas. police say he

. >>> derrick ward and david cull ver kept people up to date as the story developed. and you can also read more about the other cases connected to this one on the nbc washington app to get another look at the emotional reunion. >>> let's check in with angie at the live desk. >> this story is developing out of green belt and we do have video from the scene to show you. this is where a man was found shot to death in the stairwell of this apartment building on breezewood drive. police investigating and say this is a homicide. still waiting to get more this deadly shooting. so far police have not released the victim's name. they haven't released any details on the search for a gunman but stay with news 4 and we will bring you the latest as we get it. back to you. >>> it's 5:05 now and developing this morning new reports that trump campaign officials had repeated contacts with russian intelligence officials in the year before the election. at the heart of this report are phone records and calls that were intercepted at the same time they discovered evidence that russia was

derrick ward, news4. >> developing this morning, two men are in the hospital. this after a shooting in northeast d.c. police say that one man was shot in the stomach. the other man was shot in the leg on 51st street. both victims were conscious when officers arrived. d.c. police are still looking for whoever is responsible. >>> and this morning a d.c. police officer back home after recovering from being shot thursday night. another officer is still in the hospital. jackie benson tells us more about the criminal history of the suspects who died during that shooting. >> reporter: timothy lionel williams is the man seen on the ground here. we're not showing the portion of shots fired because of the graphic nature. court records show williams has a criminal history dating back to at least 1989. he was sentenced to eight years in prison after crashing a stolen car into a police cruiser ending a 20-mile chase clocked by radar at 143 miles an hour. in 1994 he pleaded guilty to armed robbery and weapon charges and

news f derrick ward is live with the emotional reaction from the boy's father. >> reporter: it was aneed emotional day here in court. one of the most emotional that even the prosecutor said he's seen in some time. the father could barely speak. he had a prepared statement, broke down a couple of times. again, this was a trial that had a lot of people running high with emotion. today the woman behind it all who's now convicted of killing her child learned her fate. it was june of 2015 when this scene occurred in montgomery county. but investigators determined this was no accident. they say the driver narges shafeirad had poisoned giving him enough of the over the counter cold medicine to kill an adult. she placed him in the car, purchased gasoline, doused the interior with gas and set it on fire. she survived by authorities say the child was already dead when she placed him in the car. narges shafeirad and her husband were in a divorce and custody battle. the father said in court today that his life is now meaningless and after today's sentence of 50 years in prison the state's attorne

derrick ward father and we'll have more in the next hour. >>> here's a look at the live eagle cam.exciting waiting game is already underway. the female bald eagle laid her second egg of the season. we got the first glimpse yesterday. if all goes well, it should hatch in just a few weeks. mark segraves is along the anacostia where d.c.'s mayor just signed legislation protecting the river. >> mayor bowser just signed legislation giving her more authority to declare protected wetlands in d.c. along the potomac, the anacostia, rock creek. they say that's important for residents, for tourists and for the new families of bald eagles that now inhabit this area. the second egg came yesterday evening here at the national arboritum. >> we didn't have bald eagles breeding here for 50 years. 1947 was the last nest we had here. >> reporter: the nest at the d.c. police academy and the arboritum both have eagle cams with sound. visitors are kept back by signs and fences but you can still get close enough to see the bald eagles when they take a break to stretch their wings. >> you don't think you'

derrick ward is in vienna with the latest. >> reporter: as you can see behind me, the adrenaline studio is closed. that note says they are closed today and tomorrow. but in the meantime fairfax county police are asking anyone who has a child or is a student here to talk to that person who is a student to find out if there was anything inappropriate going on. this is because of one of the instructors here who's facing some serious allegations. they want to make sure that no one here that they don't know about has been the victim of any kind 19-year-old chase clark peklo was a dance instructor. he led classes in areas like hip hop dance here and at the stage door dance studio in than naman. police say peklo maintained inappropriate communications with an under aged girl for almost a year starting in december of 2015. >> there are three victims, two 14-year-olds and one 13-year-old girl. >> reporter: peklo is also alleged to have sexual relations with one of the victims who was just 14 years old. >> detectives are looking to see if any other children that came in contact with mr. peklo as

derrick ward sends us new video. police went to the gesher jewish day school for a threat around the same time and the school was evacuated. they were also reports of threats in florida, north carolina, delaware and couple of other states as well. >>> this video might make you think twice of handing your kids the car keys. a teenager drove his car off the 7th floor o houston. the car landed on its roof. you see that right there. the teenager was okay. he had a few cuts apparently, he was taken to the hospital as a precaution. he told them he got confused and confused the gas pedal with the brake. >> witnesses say it was like a scene out of a movie. >> the driver plowing his truck into a crowd of people enjoying a parade this was saturday night in new orleans. now police say the driver had a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit. nbc's gabe gutierrez has the latest. >> reporter: this morning 25-year-old is being held on $125,000 bail charged with multiple crimes. his pickup truck plowed into a crowd o

we're live in northeast, derrick ward, news 4. back to you. >> thank you. winter storm that's has people in parts of the northeast cleaning up this morning. that storm was the big eflt snowstorm of the season. >> folks are digging out from philly to new york. but their cleanup could seem minor compared to what's happening in new england which got the worst of the storm. back here at home it's plain cold. sheena parveen joins us to tell us about a weekend warm-up. >> believe it or not, we have a warm-up in store for us as we go into the weekend but for the rest of today, we're talking about a cold end to the week. look at the feels like temperature across most of the mid-atlantic states and up in the northeast. we're looking at the 20s and teens even an hour earlier, feels like 22 in the district and 19 in leesburg, to ends off the work, we're not going to see the warm-up today just yet. we'll be mostly around 40 degrees this afternoon. we are going to stay dry though but then we go into saturday and sunday. warm weather again. we'll be back in the 60s, i'll

we have our news 4 derrick ward headed to the scene.s ahead on "news 4 today" at 9:00. >>> an active search for a shooter happening in the district. police say a man in an older model white ford expedition shot a female special police officer in the leg. she's expected to be okay, but police say it happened yesterday at an apartment complex on green street in southeast. you're looking at video from the scene. investigators say the officer was working a special detail at the complex. >>> felt good out there yesterday. tom kierein says we may be in for re today. mo >>> good morning. a few breaks in the clouds. a little blue showing through. we'll get increasing sunshine into the afternoon. temperatures soaring up to around 70 degrees this afternoon. then a bit cooler for presidents' day. we'll be making it into the low 60s with sunshine again tomorrow. back to work and school on tuesday. a lot of clouds, a bit cooler, in the mid-50s. a little rain maybe wednesday morning. sun back in the afternoon, near 70. warmest day over the next ten d

derrick ward talking to people on maryland avenue in northeast where there w a major fire at a row housele, man and a woman, critically hurt. two firefighters also injured. we don't know how the fire started. but yocan there is some pretty big flames and a big response as well. >> a teenage girl is missing. right now sierra adams' family says they don't know where she went after she walked away from home last night. adams went missing in woodbridge sh15 anything th c help bring her home, call prince william county police. we want ch on the roads with melissa. >> the fire you were talking about, maryland avenue, we still have all lanes blocked because of that investigation there. still out ther on the scene. outer loop on kennelworth avenue, beltway looks nice and light. crash athe sing lane getting by. inbound 4, crash in the left lane. >> k yo we'll take a quick baa then ccf >>> sunny and outside. temperatures i20 wind chills back in the upper teens in many neighborhoods this morning. so it will be a cold day to be outside today. afternoon highs, upper 30s and low 40s. it will turn noti

. >> news 4s, derek ward has the the story live from al, andrea, fairfax county. quite a night, derrick. >> reporter: indeed. when you cover stories like this, there is sometimes a tragic outcome. 17-year-old had gone missing on january 15th from her home. she has been last seen here on beauregard. since then no word. a month of uncertainty and fear for this family. earlier today, fairfax county police actually stepped up their efforts to find her. calling it a critical missing person's case. and tey where this young woman was. bulletins have gone out. what have you. we were actually here interviewing her mother at the time. and there was a knock on the door, the neck thixt thing, opee door, in walks venus. >> i know she was, very scared about what could happen to me. and i love my mama. >> the county had begun to step up their intensity to find the young woman. because there were overlapping cases, other investigations were starting to overlap with this one including an incident where a young woman was missing and found dead. but again, a happy ending here. why did she go missing? she