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wendy, jim. >> erika gonzalez, tyou. >>> virginia congressman jechwo jennifer weksman stood on the floor with the paychecks that federal workers received.ou >> can't pay your mortgage with zero dollars, they shouldn't have to sell offin belo or return christmas presents to make ends meet. >> for many workers missing a paycheck it's causing them to make difficult choices. >> reporter: it's payday for martin jill. yet they've got nothing is to show i f >> it's a scary time where we're going at the end of three weeks now. >> reporter: on day 21 this couple is doing what it can to hold it together. sacrificing everything from trips to ice cream to therapy sessions for their 9-year-old son with special needs. >> when you're a family that lives paycheck-to-paycheck, that gets difficult fast. >> reporter: can't afford to go without is od. with their fridge and cub board going bare, these employees have been seeking help at the last place they would. >> we never thought we'd get to >> reporter: more than 70,000 people work for the government in fairfax county. >> if they're being negatively impa

in the newsroom, i'm erika gonzalez, news 4. >>> by tomorrow, most of the federal workers furloughed during the partial shutdown should have their full back pay. during the shutdown, congress passed legislagon guarantee them money. the federal workers missed two paychecks during that 5-day showdown. now the rush is on to prevent another shutdown. today houseemocrats rolled out a border secuty plan that does not include a dime for president trump's border wall. but the democratic offer is just a starting point, and talks betweehe house and senate. the plan includes new cash for customs agent and aircraft and boats to police the border. border barriers are part of the negotiations with the g there is a sense of urgency because government funding expires february 15th. >>> next on nts 4 11:00, the backlash over a proposed irginia isill in growing and grabbing national attention. >> for legislatorstio be s there and using semantics and confusing people and really riling people up is really in nobody best interest. >> new tonight, why some of the country's most powerful republicans are ct

i'm erika gonzalez at the live desk. staying on top of breaking news in maryland. a suspect has been taken into custody after an officer was hurt during a traffic stop. now it's unclear how that officer was hurt butw we k the officer tried to pull somebody over on dade street, close to central avenue. and after that shots werefired. we're still working to learn if anybody was hit. but that officer we're toldor suffered m injuries in that confrontation. officers are still on the scene trying to get some more information that we'll make sure to pass along to you as soon as we get it. back to you all in the studio. >>> on day 27 of the partial government shutdown, president ttrump is raisi stakes. less than an hour before nancy pelosi was set to lead a congressional delegation to a war zone, president trump cancelled their transportation and publically announced the trip. for securityos pu, such trips are secret until they arrive at the destination. now they're warning federal workers aren caught the cross fire of a dangerous power struggle. tracie potts is live to br

erika gonzalez at the live desk with new tsdevelopm >> you and wendy touched on this at the top of the broadcast, but we learned that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell andr minority leauck schumer are meeting to try to hamr out a deal to temporarily reopen the government for three weeks. this comes after a day of debate and, two votes in the sena those votes would have reopened the government but they needed 60 votes to pass, and neither had support. one would have reopened the government in exchange for funding the border wall, but it failed 50 to 47vo s. the other vote by the democrats would have reopened the w governmele negotiations continued, that also faileda o 52-44 vote. the decision for mcconnell and schumer to meet came after a bipartisan group of about 20 senators took to the floor demanding action. we'll keep an eye on the movement and let you know what happens. obviously so many peopleant to ow. wendy, back to you. hu thanks, erika. >>> as theown drags on, federal workers, especially the contract workers areoo lng for help. some areetting desperate. a lot of local gov

m erika gonzalez. darcy spencer is on p elice with details how this unfolded. >> reporter: tonight, t house is dark and empty. w crimed off with yel scene tape. there's a cruiser parked out front protecting the house as police and fire officials investigate what happened here. when firefighters went inside the home on elyle place in southeast early saturday morning, they found two bodies. investigators are trying to figure out how they died. from the fire or somethi else. >> we found two vic ms on the first floor, an adult male and adult female. both were deceased. and we're currently investigating the circumstances of the injuries that they suffered. >> reporter: firefighters originly were called to a fire behind the house on d street when they saw the smoke and flames on eli place. no one was hurt in e d street fire but four victim were forced out. a neighbor said police were at the house earling in the morni for what sounded like an argument. investigators are trying to figure out if the two fires a

good evening, everybody, i'm erika gonzalez. it is going to be a pretty busy weekend for storm team 4. d're tracking a potential 30 degree temperatup tomorrow. but first we are expecting a whole lot of rain tonight. there is eve a chance for flooding. we're showing you live pictures coming in from dowown bethesda where the rain is expected t pick up here pretty soon. storteam 4 meteorologist is in the weather center to talk about whatca w expect. first things first, somora. >> for the d.c. metro area going to be a wet, rainy, cold night. let's go ahead and take a look at the radar. you can see where that line is, chances for snow staying in the areas that e under the winter weather advisory. a little farther south inside the d.c. metro area, pretty quiet, some of the heavier rain farther back west in louden county, herndon. farther north frederick county, i saw you on twitter posting the photos seeing theg snow com down. still just above freezing in frederick. you're not going to see that stick. a little farther north, we are se

m erika gonzalez. we want to begin with an unusual smash and grab in the district. thieves using a u-haul truck to crash through the window of a mo le store, going into back office windows and part of the store. this is in the shopping center near the d.c. cost co imi you'r ar with that area. chris lawrence has the story. >> reporter: detectives are looking at the footage from the surveillance cameras to try to determine who pulled this off. me of the workers are trying to clear away some of the debris from what was a pretty brazen theft. when you look at some of the damage there, it's a good thing that no one was working late at night. right now police think someone stole a u-haul truck and used it as a battery ram to basically plow lieu tthrough the back of t-mobile store. it broke through the glass, collapsing metal and even separated the interior wall as well,he part that leads into the store. ere are surveillance cameras all over here that likely captured a lot of this on tape. >> i'm a customer and an employee who works here. >> reporter: right around new york

. >> news 4 erika gonzalez joins us now with one of those stor ts. >> reportengs are difficult for michelle scott. she's going through a divorce, two kids, one with special needs. scott says savings are starting to run out and the pressure of all is starting to boil over. scott has been a gover sent employce 2006 andcurrently wor works for the epa, but really she says she's been workingsi e 13. she says she's a giver by nature but now she's learning how to receive. this weekend scott find herself in line for the food pantry at st. stevens baptist church. >> i did learn tt the department of social services approved me for -- let's be honest, it's just weird you've got to struggle with those emotions of embarrassment or shame or just confusion and frustration with a person who has been working for herely half their life. ot reporter: hard to listen to, right? says she will have enough money to make her february represent, but after that everything she says will start to look the same. s it'lrt to look really scary, she says. and the situation a lot ope le are facing right now. >> nobody cld h

. >>> erika gonzalez is at the live desk to explain why the hopes were crushed. >> we got this breakings alert, there were two bills in the senate that could potentially end t government shutdown, both of them failed. the short of the long is this, first up was the republican spending measure by president ump, which included funding for the border wall in exchange for temporaryio protect for dreamers. and next up was the democratic bill that did not include money for a border wall. they both were turned down. >> let'do what'sight for the american people. >> we have to talk about opening up the government and recognize e pain and unfairness of this wn shut >> house democrats are said to be working on a counter offer to the president that would meet or exceed the 5.7 billion for border security but provideso money for a physical wall. for now, sadly, the shutdown rolls on. leon and pat,ack toyou. >> erika, thank you so much. bout normal day this is the time that fred picket would be clocking out of work. right now he's o furlough from his contract position with the epa. fred is one of the

county police detective, he was killed outside a police station you may recall back in 2016, erika gonzalez at the live desk with the new developments from court. >> this has been an emotional hearing which b hn delayed numerous times. the hearing started minutes ago, and we're waiting to hear from the judge. n a2016 ford opened fire police station sparking a massive response from officers. detective colson was one of the responded he wa offduty, in plane clothes at the time, he was mistaken for being a suspect w and shot by a fellow officer. ford's brothers are also being sentenced for their role during that day. tracee wilkins is inside the courtroom and she's going to have a full report coming up in a few minutes.. >>> d police are releasing new video tonight of a man they say was recently recording up a woman's skirt outside the museum. this surveillance video shows the suspect walking around outside the museum where the newspaper front pages are on display. police say someone saw the suspect put his phone under the victim's skirt this past saturday afternoon. and when confronted, the s

. >> i'm erika gonzalez. incredible video comingur into video today. the coast guard cutting through ice n along york's hudson river. >> a live look at chicago where it feels like 19 degrees below zero. tonight they'll get someno that will impact our forecast in the nrning. >> tt three hours we have coverage of the final winter blast for this week. corey smith is talking about tips to stay warm safely after we're talking abouth a r of fires. >>> and david culver talking to students leaving class today because there was no heat. >> we want to start with our meteorologists with draper and doug kammerer. >> as we make our way through the next 24 hours, it's cold gh again to temperatures dropping to the single digits. no wind chill advisory but now we have a winter weathervi ry. >> it's because of the the timing. scattered snon showerse forecast during the morning commute, so that could lead to delays tomorrow oomorning. >> at what we're dealing with right now. the current wind chills, not much in d.c. wind chill at 17. 17 below in buffalo, getting a blizz

. >>> i'm erika gonzalez. >>> it was quite the busy night and the busy morning. we turn things over to amelia draper in the storm center watching a lot of activity on radar still. >> very heavy rain moving rough the district. fairfax, prince william and northern prince george's county right now. this is moving to the utheast. ads up in f. you're in southern maryland. heavy rain within t next hou or so. check it out. bethes bethesda, the district, alexandria, heavy rain around the beltway. this is part of a much larger system. yesterday, we were concerned about flooding as well as wind. the wind with the storm system hasn't really materialized in our area. the strongest winds the coast.ff so that's a good thing. we're still dealing with rain for at least the next few hours. in fact, rain will continue until about noon, until 4:00 p.m. after that, we start to dry out. with that, we remain under a flood watch. all of the cou in green. this is going to run until 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. this includes the entire d.c. metro area. through charles count a the baltimore

. >> erika gonzalez is wking this story from the live desk. what are you learning?reporter: we just got this information into the news room, g nnlis a story pnsolat tvehe week. we know twold 18 year have been arrested. dante hunt of silver sing and noah barnett, both 18 years of age from silver spring.ed arre in connection to the homicides of jordan a radwa christian roberts. if you remember earlier this weeke hadeported that there was some sort of a 911 call, people hearings shots, t vehicle you see here involved in some sort of a crash ane we that radway and roberts had been shot and killed. now we know two people have been arreed in connection to all this. a developing story at this hour. a developing story at this hour. ay with usts honey, you know, soit's one of those things...ck. ...unless you got it from aldi. their twice as nice guarantee means if you're not happy for any reason, they'll give you a refund and replace it. well fine, why don't you justr? but, you didn't come from aldi. i'm suve you'll love kevin fo huh? one thing you'll never regret is saving

. >>> i'm erika gonzalez at the live desk with the latest on day 20nm of the govert shutdown. two fortunate milestones ahead. tomorrow federal workers miss their first paycheck. and saturday this will become the longest. shutdown in u history. with democrats standing firm in their refusal to provide more than $5 billion for a border wall, there are mountingin cations that president trump plans to bypass congress and declare a national emergency so that heen can usegon funds. "the washington post" reports tonight that the white house has begun laying the ground work for the declaration. the effort includes searching for unused money in the budget and that declaration might endo the shu but it might also set a off a fire storm of opposition. democrats and other critics say they are concerned about government overreach. more on the declaration plansp coming on nbc "nightly news." back over to you. >>> they call it the day of mortification. a local muslim family is speaking to news4 about an incident of alleg religious discrimination. they say the hurtful words came from hospital

. >> i'm erika gonzalez. storm team 4 is keeping a close eye on storm team chances for the weekend. depending on where you live you could be dealing with a good snowstorm. >> we're kickinghis off with three straight hours of coverage today. everyone is talking snow but we have frigid days in the wind to get through. >> we till seeing winds 30, 35 miles an ur. againn setting the stage for th snow this weekend. >> thankfully this isn't forecast we're worried about is it going to rain,ow, sleet, now it's the timing we're trying to iron out. >> the timing. this is not a major storm. but i do want you to keep this in your thoughts the next couple of days, because i think everybody will see some snow and iry think edy will see an inch or more. take a look at these wind chills, 26 in d.c., 10 in pooitpooit pittsburgh, it is a cold day across our regionolder tonight getting outdoors. and then we turn our attention to the storm system. coming into the coast now. back towards the west on friday. here it is tomorrow. look by saturday starteding to moven and by saturday night, everyone seeing t

. >> i erika gonzalez. this morning most of us woke up to tempetures in the single digits. sun is out now but it has done very little to warm us up. >> storm team 4 has bee alerting us all week about this dangerous weather. meteorologist amelia draper i starting us off right now. are we over the worst of it? >> we arever the dangerously cold air for most of us, but check it out. the national weather service hae ed this for upper montgomery. this advisory will be in erect another hour or so. temperatures this morning starting off in the single digits in the suburbs. 10 for a low in washington. it was brutal out there this mornoug. dangy cold. when you have a wind chill temperature of 10 to 15 degrees below zero which we did see,an frostbite happen in 30 minutes. it's feeling like 19 degrees out there. winds out of the west at miles an hour. other wind chill temperatures across the area coming in at 5 below zero in hagerstown and 3 below zero in manassas another cold night tonight. noi'll let you what you can expect tonight for the kids at the bus stop tomorrow morning at 11:

erika gonzalez at our live desk with that angle. >> well, speaker pelosi says she submitted a lntterout trying to find another date for this thunhie wsn" i9churth cly or that the president submit hise "state of ion" in written form. saying that a "state of the union" has never been given since 1970s during a government shutdown. adding that a furloughed dhs employee expressed serious concerns that there were insufficient staffing levels to sufficiently be able to manage the securityoncerns during a "state of the union." this evening we are also hearing that multiple sources say there was a scheduled walk through at the u.s. cayitol t for all security and governme entities involved in the "state of the union" and that that has been postponed at the request of the speaker's office. however, today we have not heard from the white house so that is still left to be seen. back over to you all. >>> now back to the shutdown another angle here. earlier news 4's cory smith showed you those long lines for furloughed federal workers. comcostello was also there and he's got a preview ofhat he's w

. >>> i'm erika gonzalez back here at the live desk. if you are still with us, you know we've been tracking this breaking news out of buoy, two people shot in the area of old fletcher town ad, at fletcher town road. we can show you these live -- these live pictures -- there we are. that.about live pictures of chopper 4, police surrounding it looks to theuspect in handcuffs, lying on the ground there. again, le pictures coming in just a short moment ago. now we can show you the video of how that came to be. we saw police pursuing this individual in the woods. we don't have that video to show you, so we'll stay with the live bear with me here. two people now we're told -- t.ere's the video i was just talking abou so there's this individual being takenut in handcuffs by police through the woods. and then you seeus him j a fewa moments l seated there on the ground.or as fhe two individuals that shot. we are told that they are in critical condition. however, nt this hour we're sure if they're male, female, child, don't know anything about th

i'm erika gonzalez. >> i'maw patn muse. the longest government shutdown now entered y has day 26. lawmakers and the president don't seem any closer to reachi a deal to getting 800,000 federal employees back to work. >> we'll show you a live look right now at the white house. in about half an hour the president is expected to meet with the bipartisan problem solvers caucus to discuss ways to end the shutdown. this comes oneay after a group of house democrats skipped a shutdown meeting. m news4's susancginnis has more from capitol hill. >> reporter: with federal workers soon to miss a second awmakers from the house bipartisan problem solvers caucus meet with the president today, but hopes aren' high following tuesday's debacle when the president bypassed democratic leaders and invited rank and file democrats to talk, all of them declined. >> this was supposed to be a bipartisan lunch. the sheer nact that a single democrat was able to show up. >> i'll meet with him any t he wants. >> reporter: republican leader mitch mcconnell refuses to schedule votes on bills house passed that woul

the seven cisco deputy fire chief erika gonzalez says the fire started in the basement and spread through to homes in the duplex. about 20 people are without a home. the most challenging part of the firefight it was trying to get inside. there were a lot of belongings in the duplex. firefighters had to rescue a lot of people who lived here. >> one occupant they found behind the front door. the engine operator did a great job. a lot of other documents in the fire building went to the backyard where he found six more occupants. and we got them out. >> reporter: back out here live, you could take another look at what the aftermath of the fire is. you in the looks like possibly a bed. a lot of debris and charred man's left after the fire. about 20 people displaced. six people injured including a firefighter who had moderate injuries. at five other people were critically injured. sara zendehnam, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> several people were reportedly detained and sonoma county following a shooting. it happened last night at a property off of todd road outside of santa rosa. according to the press