g.w. the colonials undefeated at home this season. hosting duca wr ne. this three ball is good. it's 9-7 before the colonials went on a tear. the break. to paul engineering enson. nice little reverse layup there. to 20-9. g.w. lead. still in the first half here. the dukes turn the ball over. kevin larson for the lay-in. had he a fwam high 20 points, and the second half g.w. did not let their foot off the gas. joe mcdonald gets it from savage. he had 16. g.w. with a blow-out win. 74-59 they take it. >> a lot of people am -- we were playing bcu tuesday on national tv and we all watched them last night. i told them it won't mean as much unless we win today. you know? we want to stay undefeated. now, you know, tuesday will be more special. >> we have one more college score for you. catholic defeated merchant marines 68-67 today. also in the nba, the wizards, they're in action tonight. late start. 10:00 out in portland. >> is a geelz. 32 assists at the babying.d the team's barry alvarezes playe

g.w. loses this one. the final 59-65. all right. to espn's college gameday show virginia student tyler lewis had to make a half-court shot in 18 seconds to win 18 grand. he missed three but on the fourth you see here he nails it. the crowd goes nuts. kimberly jumps on to the scorer's table of course. i'm actually a little jealous because it's a lot of dough. but congratulations to tyler in the end. i'm not hating him. well the pressure was on serena at the australian open final. her opponent maria sharapova. serena going for her sixth australian open title and she took command early first set. serena up 5-3 with a set point. she blows the backhand by sharapova taking the first lead or first set 6-3. williams is fired up of course. second set went to tie-break. serena match point and ends in style with and wins. she passes chris everett and martina nat nat with her 19th grand slam title, second all time in the open. round three of the waste management open, italy's francesco molinari tease off on the three. the ball rolls into the cu

but before it did, it dropped off no less than six patients here at g.w. hospital. at least two of them in metro uniforms and several others had been passengers on the train. one man said the whole train filled up with smoke. at one point they thought they were going to die. people passed out on that train and here's more of what bob wadington had to say about his experience. >> we didn't go anywhere for a while. all tried to get down. some people passed out and pretty scary. >> you heard just a little bit of what he said there. his wife is currently being treated at the hospital. as you can see, he was doing ok but his wife had been more affected by the smoke. she's going to be ok but he was very worried about her. understandably for a while, they both arrived at the hospital here along with about four or five other patients who got off that ambulance bus just a few minutes ago and are now being treated here at g.w. hospital. reporting live i'm tom roussey, abc 7. >> thank you, tom. new at 6:00, a promising young football player is on the road to recover tonight tw

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that's put g.w. up six. back comes rhode island. they were hosting richmond. up by six at halftime. came back down. just two now. t.j. cline. that's good. the spiders take a one-point lead over vcu. they were in the half. it's the kindle anthony show. richmond up seven. anthony getting started. spider on top six. that three-pointer added to the lead. he had a game high 22 points. richmond starting to pull away. scary moment for vcu. weber goes down and landed awkwardly. he had to be helped off the court. he returned to court on crutches. 14th ranked vcu. they fall to richmond 64-52. also a very huge game tonight for second ranked virginia. the cavaliers. they're at home tonight. hosting fourth ranked duke in charlottesville. serena going for the grand slam title. sharapova's return hits off the net. a wicked back hand. she took the first set 6-3. second set now. serena up 6-5. maria on the serve. looking to a tie break. she does exactly that with the big-time forehand. championship point for serena. serena realizes she won the open. she continues to celebrate. she takes it 6-3, 7-6.

g.w. holds onto win the final 69-66. the lions lead the cowboys 20-14 in the third quarter. back to stuart scott, very inspiring story right here, i remember when i was in high school my mom would tell me, you can do tv. i told her no way. but when i watched stuart scott he made me say hey i could do that, especially being a young african-american kid involved in sports and wanting my career to be involved in sports. what did he say? >> cooler than the other side -- >> of the pillo >> if there were ever a time for your months, -- ear muffs every day this week. >> la la la -- >> i know, you don't want to hear it. you're from chicago. 18 degrees there now. 37 on tuesday. it's not that bad. 43 is our average high this time of year. wednesday and thursday, highs in the 20's. overnight lows in the teens. get ready for a better blast for sure. >> thanks for joining us. tt2wút3n@24 bt@q[ tt2wút3n@24 "a@qk,d tt2wút3n@24 bm@q@'h tt4wút3n@24 " dztq :p8 tt4wút3n@24 " entq jtx tt4wút3n@24 " gzt& ss tt4wút3n@24 " hnt& c]l tt4wút3n@24 " iztq )44 tt4wút3n@24 " jntq ;dt tt4wút3n@24 " lzt& #

g.w. 26-20 halftime lead. second half. here comes mason charging back. edwards, nice screen. 29-28. how about that? nice spin move there off the glass. 38-31. colonials up right now in the second half. 52-42. >> 17th ranked bcu. visiting due contain. lewis, oh he had a game coming off the bench. 16 points for lewis. bcu up 13. later in the half due contain, back in. a little over a minute left. rams to melvin johnson. he can shoot it. three ball here. knocks it down. 14 points for him. bcu. they beat ducayne 70-64. american defeated lafayette. and catholic they beat scranton 71-65. the place he calls home for 17 years. unfortunately, it was not the homecoming he had planned. the game tied 3-3 in the third. >> the coach brutally honest about trying not to cry during that tribute. >> i knew if i started leaking i wasn't going stop so i really thought about how i could not. after watching it i thought i would go down and look down and i don't know if i had a water bottle but i felt like i was going to have a little bit of a leak. luckily i was -- a little later in the year. >> g

g.w. out to a 20-9 lead. fans are pumped up at the smith center. he had game high 20 points. second half, gw continues to roll here. nice cut by joe mcdonald. easy lay-in. 74-59. gw wins. colonials stay undefeated at the smith center this season. >> playing at home is just completely different. i think the home court advantage that we have here is something unique with the colonial army and the faps give us a lift, a little extra push. >> these guys have done a great home run undefeated this year. it's early in the season. so win or lose tuesday we've got a long ways to go. >> maryland men's baskel plays tomorrow. northwestern also. the pro bowl taking place in the nfl. >> good look. >>> snow may be in the forecast but thous of people are thinking warm thoughts as they willingly jumped into the chilly chesapeake bay. there they go. about 7,000 people in annapolis took part in the polar bear plunge today. raises money for the maryland special olympics. since 1997 they have raised more than $20 million. that looks absolutely frigid out there. got to [ cheers and applause ] >>>

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ambassador to saudi arabia under president g.w.h joins us now. >> you say this wall predates isis. tell us about it. >> when we had completed the invasion of iraq in 2003, king abdullah said to me he wanted american air force planes to patrol the border with iraq. he was concerned about drug trafficking and militants coming into saudi arabia. we didn't have the assets at that time to provide that surveillance and king abdullah was very unhappy about it. for the last seven or eight years they've been tendering bids for the construction of some sort of border security system. many companies around the world had fiercely bided in a competitive basis for these contracts and so this is something that predates isis but going forward, they have decided the time has come. jenna: the border wall if you will is not even just one wall. it has several layers to it. we actually have another full screen, i hope we can show that to viewers as well because it talks about the technology. you have 40 radar towers, 120 feet high. you constantly sweep

by the way, we are still awaiting an update from howard university hospital and g.w. we will bring that as soon as it becomes available. reporting live from northeast washington, andrea mccarren, wusa9 news now. >> thank you, andrea. we will have more from the mayor at 5:30. plus our community is rethinking metro after the tragedy. that story at 6:00. >>> well, a suspicious fire broke out at penn station in new york at an underground construction site. it was all under control two hours later. >>> lawyers for bob mcdowell have filed an appeal for their client's 24 month prison sentence. earlier today the judge denied bond meaning he has to report by 2:00 on february 9th. we don't know for sure where he will face his time, but the judge is expected to recommend that mcdonnell heads to fci petersburg. >>> sexual assault reported on a virginia college campuses are not automatically sent to the local commonwealth attorney for investigation. but as peggy fox reports, lawmakers will soon decide whether to require campus police to notify prosecutors of all reported sexual as

he pointed the fingers at president p g.w. bush and all the swrens and said i acted on your behalf. he looked at white people and said i was your hero. i did it on your behalf. >> well the day that kock is released, it will not be made public. >> the second day of a former nfl player's murder trial. we'll take you through it just ahead. >>> now, the number of measle infections in the state of california dropped dramatically over the last week. there are now 91 confirmed cases in california 54% increase from nine days ago. more than half of those cases are linked to an outbreak at a disneyland amusement park. mexico and at least seven other u.s. states have also reported measles cases. >>> now, it was an emotional day with the family of a man who prosecutors say was shot and killed by a former nfl player. jurors were shown grisly crime scene photos from aaron hernandez. the judge issued a warning to the jury before they left for the weekend. >> aaron hernandez's defense team comes out swinging in opening statements this week asking why? why would such a promise, outstanding young ath

building the station right in potomac greens another option is just north of the neighborhood next to the g.w. parkway. the other two and less likely possibilities are behind the potomac yard shopping center near existing amtrak train tracks. >> it is definitely a phenomenal idea. >> christine lives right nearby and hopes planners will take a closer look. >> rush hour behind here in 2018, that station is expected to open here in potomac yard. the city is thrilled it's going to be paid for through a mix of business tax revenue and money from the state and federal government. no money from taxpayers, the city council set to make a decision on where to build that station at some point this spring. live in alexandria jeff goldberg, abc 7 news. >> good deal. thanks jeff. sounds good. that's it nu now for abc 7 news at 5:00. >> one of the riders sickened by that smoke at l'enfant plaza plans to file a lawsuit. what he thought his last words were to his family. >> new details on the plot to bomb the u.s. capitol. learn what's being credited with foiling that attack. >> big changes when it comes to a

but he still cannot breathe on his own and is soon going into another surgery at g.w. hospital in d.c. investigators took the suspect into custody at 6:00 this morning. and now they're trying to figure out exactly why this happened. >> this surveillance video shows the beginning of an incident that would leave 40-year-old noormustafa shaikh, a fear of three. >> he is a fabulous guy! i mean -- >> struggling to stay alive. >> i saw the body the ground laying there. >> she works with shaika. police say yesterday at 4:45 39-year-old alexandria mendez drove in the lot. while trying to turn around and get out hit two other cars but kept moving. shaika ran to stop her at which point she ran over him and stopped. >> now we have a crowd forming. please don't leave this, guy is on the ground in front of her. >> she hit the gas running over the foot before driving over shaika and taking off leading to an all night man hunt. >> i want everybody to help us get the lady. that's it you know. >> investigators from arlington, fairfax city and county and the u.s. marshals office eventua

. >> they finally got out and were treated at g.w. hospital before being released. thinking all night about the chaos. >> everybody was just mixed up. get out, get out. we don't know where we're going. >> while many were treated on scene, the incident sent more than 80 people to area hospitals including 18 to medstar washington hospital center. >> most of the patients had some signs of smoke and soot in their mouth or on their face. >> this doctor says the smoke inhalation led to swollen airways making it hard for people to breathe without the help of oxygen tubes. he says the hospital was prepared and ready for the emergency and that patients got help quickly following an event they will never forget. >> i think most of the patients are still a little shaken up but everyone seems to be thankful to see their family and go home. the ones that we sent home. time will tell how they'll do. >> here now is a quote from suzanne glover the daughter-in-law of carol glover. "she was an amazing, strong woman. she loved deeply from a strong christian faith. carol glover grew up

you guys know what happened to the corcoran ornaments now that the corcoran is closing and going to g.w? >> they all came back with us. the individuals who made them took them back and i took great pride in giving away white house christmas tree, candy-colored ornaments for years, for years because we paid for everything. >> on ebay right now? >> they may be. i honestly don't know what happened to the noah's ark and the white house. so, thank you, mrs. carter. >> if they are on ebay the price just went on. -- up. my mom volunteered at the white house under george w. bush. she always enjoyed when you came and spoke to the volunteers. rumor had it, you were going to write a book. where is that book you were going to write for us? >> it's a good rumor. i personally have decided for the time being and further away from when i retired, i had the opportunity and pleasure to serve some great families and they were always very nice to me and very kind. and a lot of what i know and the questions that come out are very personal and i prefer to keep them to myself. [applause] >> we have one last q

. >> there were more demanding at g.w. and georgetown in terms of how -- than georgetown in terms of how they answered questions. >> help you put that in your applications -- hope you put that in your application for law school. another point that deserves to be mentioned here is within this framework, there has been discussion about the fact that there remain some discretion on the part of our immigration enforcement authorities in this country, even after the november memorandum after daca and so forth. it is different from the way prosecutorial discussion -- discretion usually works. normally you say, we have finite resources. we will sometimes not do it because perhaps we think the circumstances of the case don't trigger any kind of moral outrage. there's also the practical reality that says, you will not be able to get everybody. that operates as an exception to the normal rule that says you break the law, you can expect the prosecution is at least some possibility. here even to the extent you can say there might be s