the whole nine yards. >> that was doreen gentzler reporting. in the virginia senate lawmakers are considering a bill inspired by josh that would make it easier for terminally ill patient to be approved for experimental medication. >>> we know snow makes parking difficult. but where there's a will there's a way. take a look at this parking job in new york city. the driver of the jeep took advantage and created their own parking shot. i think the next question is how do you get down from there? >> four-wheel drive. >>> here is a pretty cool way to show how much it snowed in your neighborhood. this viewer tweeted this time lapse video. this was taken in frederick, maryland. you can see as the snow keeps falling, you're seeing less and less of the bottle of wine there. by the time it was all said and done i'm sure that wine was nice and chilled. we hope it was white wine right? >> can't treat your reds like that. >> you can chig your red for little bit, but not an extended period of time. >> it seemed like everybody who went to the grocery store an

game for an all new episode of "the black list" followed by news 4 at 11 cooke with jim vance doreen gentzlerer. >> doug will have the latest after the game for what monday morning will look like. >>> that will do it for "news 4 today." "meet the press" is next. >> go >>> this super bowl sunday mitt romney gets out just as he was being pushed. >> i decided it's best to give other leaders in the party the opportunity to become our next nominee. >> with romney out, the republican field is now set. which candidates benefit from the romney departure? i'll be joined by mitt romney's 2012 running mate, congressman paul ryan. >>> plus, isis executes a second japanese hostage. former defense secretary robert gates joins me on the fight against the terror group. >>> also, are the big hits the fans love jeopardizing the future of football? >> i wasould forget things, i would forget places. i would have this erratic behavior towards my child.

i'm doreen gentzler. >> and i'm jim vance. that recommended sentence stells from maureen mcdonnell's conviction on corruption charges. our chris lawrence reports, the defense team has other ideas. >> reporter: we got the court documents showing prosecutors asking for the 18 months but her defense team does not want maureen mcdonnell to serve even a single day. mcdonnell's attorneys argues they should be put on probation and do 4,000 hours of community service. if a sentence is handed down maureen is requesting a split term. prison and home confinement. this calls for virginia's former first lady to serve five to six years in prison. based on the 24 months her husband bob mcdonnell received they feel a year and a half is fair. even though was her husband who sold his office she eagerly participated in the conspiracy. "mrs. mcdonnell benefited from the bribery scheme personally receiving as 20ds,000 shopping free and participating in multiple expensive dinners and vacations, and as she did so she was at times exuberant." prosecu

. >> i'm doreen gentzler. don't expect it to change either before you wake up tomorrow. chief meteorologist doug kammerer starts us off. slap you upside the head? >> i heard that so much when i was a kid. my cad used the exact same line. i don't think he ever did it though. you walk outside, your body will feel it your head your body your feet everywhere. let's show you those numbers right now. notice 11 the current wind chill in d.c. we're at 5 in gaithersburg 2 in hagerstown, 7 in manassas. now we're talking about the cold air. our next storm system coming in sunday night to monday part of the weekend. i'll let you know what that storm system brings and how cold things will be tomorrow. shomari stone will let us know how cold things are outside and how people are dealing with this cold air. shomari? >> well doug let me tell you first off the bat it is awful. you're talking about smacked upside the head. my body is snacked edsmacked up and it's bone chilling. hello. this woman just went like this indicating how cold it is. normally this is one of the busiest intersectio

. >> i'm doreen gentzler. the federal government is open tomorrow on time. d.c. schools will start on time tomorrow. but the dangerous conditions mean another snow day for thousands of area students on wednesday. fairfax, prince william, loudoun, falk wire two hour delay for prince george's anne arund el. >> we'll begin with doug. i heard you say earlier, it will get really cold again, huh? >> all right. you got me now? it's been on there, buddy. i'll tell you. the temperatures have been on the cold side for sure and they're going down and down big time. we'll be talking about that during the day tomorrow. the outdoor impact tomorrow temperatures start off at around 15 degrees early. will rise during the day tomorrow. 27 by 11:00, 33. then another chance for snow. another compact system that will move through and give us a huge wallopg the evening hours tomorrow night. so your wednesday headlines, cold but nice early. most of the day tomorrow not bad, but here comes the arctic front, here comes some snow here comes wind chills below zero. we're talking way below

. >> i'm doreen gentzler. that wind sent a tree crashing into a home and had heavy construction equipment swaying from a high rise tonight. it's also causing our temperatures to dip. let's get over to meteorologist doug kammerer. it is cold out there. >> we're talking wind chills in the single digits. they were really gusting and, boy, they brought down the temperatures quickly. look at the wind in gaithersburg. up to 56 miles per hour. the highest i saw in this area. wintergreen, the ski resort 65 miles per hour there. but closer to home annandale 54 miles per hour. so we did see some damage out there. we also saw power out ajs throughout the evening. now starting to see those a little bit better. hagerstown look at the wind chill, 5 degrees. that's how it feels. 16 towards washington. now, tomorrow morning the actual temperature will be around 21 degrees. it will be windy, it will be cold wind chills in the single digits to teens. we'll talk about how fast we'll see a warm-up here and what our next chances f

. >> i'm doreen gentzler. heavy smoke poured from the train after it crashed near white plains new york tonight at the height of the rush hour. kristin wright has the details. >> they're on their way to the crash site which has become the deadliest in the history of the metro north railroad. here's what we know so far. the train was about 45 minutes into its trip from grand central station in new york city when it slammed into the suv. investigators say the suv was on the tracks because a crossing gate came down on it at a railroad crossing at valhalla in west chester county in new york. the driver got out of the car to look at the car and was about to drive away when the collision happened. the train pushed the jeep more than 800 feet down the tracks and both burst into flames. the driver of the suv was killed along with five people on the train. we are hearing from some train passengers tonight about the frantic effort to get out. >> somehow, some of the people in the head car got out. it seemed maybe they b

i'm doreen gentzler with doug kammerer here in storm center 4. jim vance is with us as well.en the confetti started falling. >>> meanwhile, the northeast is getting ready for more heavy snow to fall. this is what's headed their way from chicago. hundreds of monday flights already canceled and now amtrak is preparing for possible delays on the northeast corridor tomorrow. doug how about us? what are we looking at tomorrow? >> right now, snow in parts of the area up toward half an inch to an inch in some locations, especially across montgomery county and howard county frederick county too. the rest of it is changing to rain. we even had snow around the d.c. metro area an hour ago. that's all changing to rain. the rain/snow line continuing toward the north. this is a very big system. it's continuing to move our way. you see the rain and snow. but even toward the west we have more rain to go. we're going to see a rainy night tonight and a rainy start to your monday. tomorrow morning, winter weather advisory in effect until 8:00. it now includes all of montgomery county as we have

i'm doreen gentzler. >> i'm jim vance. for an awful lot of people in the area this is the biggest snowstorm of the season. you're looking at springfield, virginia right there. 395 and 95 i think. the roads, the interstates, all roads covered in snow. >> so much snow federal government offices are closing tomorrow. we also have a long list of school closings. d.c. prince george's county montgomery county fairfax and prince william county all planning to close tomorrow. you can see the full list of school closings at the bottom of your screen. >> team coverage tonight. we've got crews all over the place, but we're going to begin with doug. doug as i understand it heavy stuff hasn't really come down yet. >> no i think we are going to get some o of the heavier snow through the overnight hours tonight. we did have one heavy band that brought one to two inches of snow quickly. that moved out. then we've seen a lull in the action. we still have that lull back towards the west. it was over d.c. earlier but now starting to fill in

doreen gentzler caught up with josh and his mom to see how they're doing. >> reporter: josh was diagnosed with cancer when he was just 9 months old. he was treated but it came back twice. eventually all those years of chemotherapy took a toll and josh needed a bone marrow transplant. but that wreaked havoc on his body. >> his body just started to freak out. his heart failed his kidneys failed his lungs were not working well. >> reporter: that's when an aggressive virus took advantage of his weakened immune system. his mother amy, says their only hope was an antiviral drug called brincidofovir, but it's not approved by the food and drug administration yet, which means a doctor can't prescribe it. so the family asked for expanded access or compassionate use to get the medication for josh. the drug's manufacturer says no. >> where there's a will there's way pip said that once and we just didn't let go. and so many people didn't let go with us. our family was a tremendous part of this. i mean i think they ran the best pr campaign in the world. >> reporter: for this family social media was the

>>> good evening, i'm doreen gentzler. >> and i'm jim vance. one of the u.s. allies is pulling out of the operations against isis tonight. it follows that gruesome execution of the pilot from jordan. the united arab emirates suspended air missions over iraq and syria. the country says those missions will not resume until search and rescue teams are moved closer to syria in case another pilot is shot down. it's unclear if one of those teams might have been able to save that pilot. jordan has called for the middle east to unite against isis and has promised retaliation. with the battle against isis in mind, the senate confirmation hearing for president obama's selection to lead the defense department. that nominee is ashton carter. he was grillsed about how he would fight isis. we have more from capitol hill. >> ashton carter sailed through his nomination hearing today but lawmakers from both sides of the aisle expressed their nr the slow-going fight against isis. >> reporter: ashton carter the pentagon insider nominated to be defense secretary gave a sober asse

. >> news 4's doreen gentzler tells us the unique procedure that helped save his life. >> i try not to go back there a lot, simply because i thought i was asleep for a night. and here it was three to four weeks later. >> reporter: when michael freeman, pastor of spirit of faith christian center awoke in his hospital bed, he says he had no idea he almost died. >> you kind of wake up and they tell you you're in a different month, you're in a different hospital. >> reporter: what he thought was a common cold turned out to be an aggressive pneumonia that was attacking his lungs. doctors at their local hospital said there was nothing more they could do for him, but his wife dolores didn't give up. >> i was never frightened, i was never worried, i was never concerned. >> reporter: at the suggestion of a family member, they reached out to med star washington hospital center where they have a program called ecmo short for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. it's a machine typically used for patients whose hearts won't pump. but some hospitaltion use it for patients like pastor freeman whose l

that is going to be followed by news 4 at 11:00 with our all-star team of jim vance, doreen gentzler and doug kammerer. >>> 6:09. coming up, not again another major recall involving the most popular vehicles on the road. if it sounds familiar, it's because we've been down this road before. the safety risk putting you and your families at risk while driving. >>> watching for rain, chuck is putting his final touches on his forecast and is timing out when the rain will hit your neighborhood, plus how it's going to impact your technology has improved our lives, in small ways. in big ways. but what about this? couldn't this be better too? at redfin we asked ourselves the same question. which led us to create new ways to take you inside a home or instantly schedule a tour. but we paired that with our own agents who aren't paid on commission but on your happiness. and that's what makes it all work the world has changed and now real estate has too. i was not aware of how much acidity was in my diet. i was so focused on making good food choices, i had no idea that it was damaging the enamel o

i feel great to be alive. >> reporter: doreen gentzler, news 4. >> great story. dr.olina tells us most hospitals in our area don't have an ecmo program because it's complicated and requires a lot of training and experience. >> guess what? it's frigid outside, really cold. >> dangerously cold outside this morning. people who were somehowr blanket and a space% heater. that's the kind of morning it is. about the only place that doesn't look cold, the moon. it's mild here by comparison. if you've got a great picture send it in instagram forecast for you on twitter @chuckbell4 and i'll share as many as i can. near record colds, records for tomorrow morning it's 5 at national airport. i don't know that we can get all the way down to 5 at national airport. but dulles international airport, the record is 11. that one is as good as dead in the water already. bwi march shel shall's record is 5. that one is in jeopardy. what to expect? dangerous windchills, windchills running 10 to 20 now, barely above zero today. lots of icy flashes. that flash freeze has a lot of black ice ou

. >> doreen gentzler joins us now with more on how researchers are explaining what can happen to anyone. doreen? >> hi pat and jim. ever wonder what happens when we die? researchers, including some at the universities of virginia and maryland, are trying to find answers to that question. and people who have had near-death experiences have a loot to tell them. >> feeling it was surreal, it was, obviously, but it was not humanly relatable. i don't even know how to tell you how it was exponentially comfortable. >> reporter: 48-year-old kristin di domenico remembers the experience vifd i.d.ry a visit from her father who passed away years ago. >> she said i love you, and i'm worried about you. >> reporter: last october kristin was running a race here at lake fairfax park in reston when she suddenly collapsed on the trail out there in the woods. doctors say she went into sudden cardiac arrest and died here that day. >> so i ventured off -- just a little bit off the trail and dropped. >> reporter: kristin believes that when her heart stopped beating she had a near-death experience, a phenomeno

. >> doreen gentzler joins us with one man's powerful story. hi doreen. >> hi jim and pat. question is can faith help us heal? well some doctors are saying yes after a local pastor who was very close to death made a miraculous recovery. >> i try not to go back there a lot simply because i thought i was asleep for a night, and here it was three to four weeks later. >> reporter: when michael freeman, pastor of spirit of faith christian center awoke in his hospital bed, he says he had no idea he almost died. >> and you kind of wake up and they tell you you're in a different month, you're in a different hospital. >> reporter: but what he thought was a common cold turned out to be an aggressive pneumonia that was attacking his lungs. doctors at their local hospital said there was nothing more they could do for him, but his wife, delores, didn't give up. >> i was never frightened. i was never worried. i was never concerned. >> reporter: at the suggestion of a family member they reached out to medstar washington hospital center where they have a program called ecmo short for extra

. >> news 4's doreen gentzler has the story of one brave little girl. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: theresa pereziagh and play. but that can be tough when you're barely 2 years old and the only thing keeping you alive is an artificial heart. it started last march. theresa barely 2 years old was throwing up had cold symptoms and wupz so lethargic she couldn't even play. >> it's scary yeah very, very scary especially because the symptoms are sort of vague. then when we found out her heart was really big on her chest x-ray and it wasn't pumping well, then we my the reason behind her symptoms. >> the doctors diagnosed her with dilatedÑo cardiomyopathy meaning her heart muscle wasn't working and she would need a transplant to survive. melissa jones is a nurse practitioner at children's national health system. >> the best way for her to wait for her heart transplantation was to implant this ventricular assist device or the artificial heart. >> the device is called a berlin heart, nearly the size of theresa herself. as long as she was using it she would have to stay at the hospital's intensive care unit.

. >>> good evening, i'm doreen gentzler. >> and i'm jim vance. one of the u.s. allies is pulling out of the operations against isis tonight. it follows that gruesome execution of the pilot from jordan. the united arab emirates suspended air missions over iraq and syria. the country says those missions will not resume until search and rescue teams are moved closer to syria in case another pilot is shot down. it's unclear if one of those teams might have been able to save that pilot. jordan has called for the middle east to unite against isis and has promised retaliation. with the battle against isis in mind, the senate confirmation hearing for president obama's selection to lead the defense department. that nominee is ashton carter. he was grillsed about how he would

. >> i'm doreen gentzler. we begin with breaking developments in the killing of a jordanian pilot. news4's handle hand is tracking new information from the white house and he's at our live desk with the latest. jim? >> doreen and jim, the king of jordan is meeting with president obama right now before he leaves to return to his grieving nation. king abdullah was in d.c. for a scheduled trip today when we learned that isis had executed a jordanian pilot they were holding hostage. we just got new pictures from the video isis released today. it shows the pilot on the day isis says he was burned alive. nbc news is not showing that video. his execution has led to public outrage in jordan angry crowds gathering in the capital of oman today. the jordanian army has vowed to avenge the death. meanwhile, the u.s. military says the execution just hardened its resolve to defeat isis. >> there's nobody letting off the gas. we're going to continue to put pressure on isil regardless of these barbaric acts. what these acts do however, i mean they bring into stark relief just how despicable these p

doreen gentzler spoke with a woman from potomac falls, virginia about her near death experience. doctors said she collapsed in a race in reston and nearly died. >> the freedom that came from really letting go was amazing, was undescribable. >> we're all going to die, and wouldn't it be nice to know what happens on the other side. >> the scientists who are learning about what happens when you die will help unravel this mystery. the topic is inspiring others to share their near-death stories on our facebook page. you can watch doreen's full report on news4 tonight at 11:00. we'd like you to post your comments. >>> gps can get you home. it can even pinpoint your location in an emergency. new at 6:00 tonight, a virginia company is using (vo) after 50 years of designing cars for crash survival, subaru has developed our most revolutionary feature yet. a car that can see trouble... ...and stop itself to avoid it. when the insurance institute for highway safety tested front crash prevention nobody beat subaru models with eyesight. not honda. not ford or any other brand. subaru eyesight.

doreen gentzler caught up wi josh and his family to see how he's doing now. >> hi wendy, jim. josh hardy recently you can see he's an 8-year-old so full of life. he's got a great sense of humor, loves to have fun with his three brothers. but he and his family have been through a long struggle to survive a series of medical problems. as we learned, the journey isn't over yet. when the camera turns on josh hardy can get a little shy. lots of people want to know how you're feeling, josh. >> good. >> reporter: so it can be tough to see just how far the 8-year-old has come over the last year. that's because when the world first met josh he was dying. >> he is gosh 100% from where he was this time last year. i mean just he couldn't even sit up. he couldn't eat. he could barely stay awake. >> reporter: josh was diagnosed with cancer when he was just 9 months old. he was treated but it came back twice. eventually all those years of chemotherapy took a toll and josh needed a bone marrow transplant. but that wreaked havoc on his body. >> his body just started to freak out. his heart fai

coming up at 6:00, doreen gentzler continues by sitting down with two officers who deal full time with mental health calls. how they're saving lives and making the community safer. tisha thompson, news4 i-team. >>> a staten island mother comes to the rescue in a new york minute. >> and the new york police department says she may have saved an officer's life. >> reporter: undocument immigrants living in our area fear deportation after a federal judge in texas overturns the president's executive order granting amnesty. this is chris gordon. we'll tell you what to >>> we're just hearing the harrowing 911 calls made in a bad crash that involved a roll reversal of sorts in new york. >> nbc's michael george shows us why a mother who responded to an injured police officer didn't initially know she was saving his life. >> hello? hello? hello? there's a police officer that was in an accident. >> reporter: that's not a police officer you're hearing on this radio. it's staten island mom debbie. debbie saw an officer get into a car crash near her home. she sprang into action. >> her kids screamed,

doreen gentzler is here with part of a news4 exclusive with ken gim el. >> this is a heartbreaking story. ken sat down with angie goff. he talked to her about the horror of that day last december and while there were some initial questions about survivors, about how he knew in his heart that his wife and young sons were gone. he opened up about his motions his daughter are doing. >> there are many people who watch your story and not with able to understand how somebody goes through such loss and such tragedy is able to wake up every day. >> as i told my daughter, we don't o let this completely defeat us become what defines our lives or ruins the rest of our lives going forward. for the most part we need to persevere and do wo to honor mom, marie, cole and devin. >> that full interview with angie goff and some of the things ken gemmell and his daughter were able to salvage from their gaithersbs torn down. join us tonight for that story on news4 at 11:00. >>> it's called right to try. a measure inspired by josh hardy could mean expanded opportunities for terminally ill patients in virginia

then at 6:00, doreen gentzler continues with this type of information.hompson, news4 iteam. >>> the news4 iteam is uncovering some big problems waiting for people outside our area's casinos. gamblers are losing big at local casinos and not at the tables. rather, car thefts at or near maryland's two largest casinos. as scott mcfarland shows us, betters walk in for some action at the tables, but they walk out to find the real drama outside. >> reporter: you risk losing every time you walk into a casino. >> i knew something wasn't right. >> reporter: but larry mcmichael didn't expect to lose outside, too. it's 5:00 inside the garage of maryland live casino in anne arundel county. watch your screen closely. you're about to see a car thief take mcmichael's 2005 audi. a man seen walking throughout the garage makes his way to the line of cars being handled by the valet. >> just moseys in and gets in my car. >> reporter: slowly slides in before quickly pulling out. >> mcmichael didn't know how easy it happened until the iteam got the video. >> i was heartbroken.

i'm doreen gentzler. >> i'm jim vance.im by isis that american hostage kayla mueller was killed today in an air strike has not been confirmed. but u.s. intelligence community is working hard to learn more about this. nbc's jennifer johnson with more on this from capitol hill. jennifer? >> reporter: jim and doreen, that's right. the white house, the pentagon, the fbi all cannot confirm what isis is claiming. still, there is great concern that this may be true. isis is claiming that jordanian fighter jets hit a building killing an american female hostage identified as kayla mueller, a 26-year-old aid worker from arizona. while there is great concern u.s. officials say they have no evidence yet mueller is dead. >> i can not confirm those reports in any way. >> reporter: mueller's family says kayla was taken captive by isis in august 2013 while leaving a doctors without borders hospital and was devoted to helping war refugees in syria. jordan's fighter jets have been pounding isis targets since an isis video surfaced showing o

. >> i'm doreen gentzler. we begin with breaking developments in the killing of a jordanian pilot. news4's handle hand is tracking new information from the white house and he's at our live desk with the latest. jim? >> doreen and jim, the king of jordan is meeting with president obama right now before he leaves to return to his grieving nation. king abdullah was in d.c. for a scheduled trip today when we learned that isis had executed a jordanian pilot they were holding hostage. we just got new pictures from the video isis released today. it shows the pilot on the day isis says he was burned alive. nbc news is not showing that video. his execution has led to public outrage in jordan angry crowds gathering in the capital of oman today. the jordanian army has vowed to avenge the death. meanwhile, the u.s. military says the execution just hardened its resolve