i've played handly. he's really good. >> handly is hot these days from what i'm told. >>> we got sports coming up. the wizards back on the court after the all star break and that means the debut of >>> this is the xfinity sports desk. >> that brings chris miles here and it also brings a guy who's so happy to be here, he's happy to be anywhere other than brooklyn. >> when you lose every single game, that's not a good situation. that's what was happening. the wizards' newest player will make his debut tonight. bojan bogdanovic will make his debut tonight. bogdanovic is in his third year in the nba and averaging a career high in points and is a proven reliable shooter. john wall has played against his newest teammate for a couple of years now and seems very familiar with his game. >> he's good to have. i think he could help our team out a lot. he can score the ball, shoot ball. he helps on second unit a little bit, making those guys a little more comfortable and a lot more ball movement. >> nats manager dus

i'm wendy rieger. >> i'm jim handly. we've seen a little bit of everything today. check out this video just a little while ago, a pretty heavy snow shower making its way through stafford county. we saw some right here in the district on the way to the studio a minute ago. >> like a teaspoon of snow. >> this is causing near whiteout conditions on the roads. let's go right to our storm center. >> we continue to track those snow showers moving on through. the bigger deal tonight is going the wind. winds gusting to 40 miles per hour. temperatures now in the 30s and windchills already in the teens. >> talking about the snow showers, more action in some spots now than there was out there this morning because the cold air is here and we're seeing a dusting in spots outside of our studios here in northwest washington. >> that is going to put some strain on the roadways. as i mentioned, the windchill the big factor right now. 12 in gaithersburg, 21 in manassas. this coming off a day that hit 74 yesterday. here are those snow showers. you see them coming across this like thi

good afternoon i'm wendy rieger. >> i'm jim handly.f the new details we're learning tonight involve a baseball bad. the victim, a ea woman. police tell us she admitted to beating him with that bat in the days leading up to his death. >> reporter: he was found naked, tied up in a closet. he'd been beaten to death with a metal baseball bat. she kept him locked in the closet because she said that's where you keep demons and dogs. the victim, walter clark, 63 years old, a retired cook disabled by diabetes. the murder suspect, 76-year-old thomasine bennett. neighbors say she's known for her oatmeal raisin cookies. the murder weapon, a metal baseball bat. walter clark found naked in a clos

good evening i'm wendy rieger. >> i'm jim handly.he latest in the a wave of anti-semitic crimes this year. in addition to maryland and virginia, there were also threats in ten other states. most of them were along the east coast. >> the jewish federation of america says that before today some 60 jccs and jewish schools had received at least 70 bomb threats since early january. mark segraves is in rockville this evening at one of the schools that was threatened. >> reporter: you know, we're just getting word now of a third school in our area in annapolis that also received one of these bomb threats. here at the charles e. smith jewish school that call came in just as students were getting ready for their early morning classes around 9:30. the head of school here tells us today that because of all the threats around the country, they were prepared for this. >> the political climate in the country is such right now that it leads to this type of situation. i know that the president denounced

i'm jim handly. >> i'm wendy rieger. this is the third case of a missing teenage girl in our area in the past few weeks. >> please help us to find venus. if venus is listening, please come home. we are concerned for your safety. >> at a news conference police updated the girl's status to in danger. they say she knew the maryland teenager found dead over the weekend in fairfax ou

good evening, i'm wendy rieger. >> i'm jim handly. captured on surveillance video. the shooter still at large this evening. let's head right out to news4's pat collins not far from the scene. pat? >> reporter: a friend says the two construction workers were called home from work for an emergency. they were walking here on alabama avenue when all of a sudden, gunfire, right across the street from a church. check out this security camera video. it comes from the community of hope church on alabama avenue. the double shooting happened across the street from the church. now look closely, and you can see one of the shooting victims running down the sidewalk to a nearby church, looking for help. this man was there. he asked that we conceal his identity. >> he fell inside of the church and said, i've been

i'm jim handly. >> i'm wendy rieger. this is a case that stretched from the east to the west coast.ed of kidnapping a georgetown student and captured on surveillance video is now in custody. let's get to pat collins in chevy chase with the details. >> reporter: wendy, there are kidnappings and then there are kidnappings, but this one, this one for the paolo alderossi is 34 years old. he's from italy. he lives in london. he enjoys the finer things in life. he's been arrested and charged in a bizarre kidnapping seem here in d.c. fasten your seat belts. january 26th, it's in the afternoon. a georgetown student is walking down the street. a guy in a car motions him other and says, how do you get to dulles airport. that guy is paolo. he kidnaps that student and takes him for a ride he won't soon forget. it's all spelled out in the court papers. he drives his captive to the suntrust bank in georgetown and tells the student to go inside and use his debit card to withdraw $500. but the debit card doesn't work. so he takes the student to the wells fargo bank t

i'm wendy rieger. >> i'm jim handly. it was a chaotic scene.e of it captured by a witness with a cell phone. we pick up this exchange right after the sounds of gunfire here on holbrook street northeast. tonight police are reacting to this video. darcy spencer live now in northeast >> reporter: just within the last hour, i had the opportunity to speak to a relative of the man who was shot and killed during this exchange of gunfire. he says the family is very concerned about what happened. they are raising questions and they want a thorough investigation, which the police are promising. it's important to note that the chief came out today, held a press conference. but right now they're not laying out the exact sequence of events and what exactly happened leading up to the shooting. in this video posted on twitter, you can see some of what unfolded on holbrook street in the trinidad neighborhood last night. we're not showing the entire video because of its graphic nature. in the portion we are not showing, you hear shots. you see the suspect on th

i'm doreen gentzler. >> i'm jim handly. those officers signed onto a complaint with the department of the handling of allegations of misconduct as it relates to minority complaints. officers also allege rampant discrimination, denial of promotions and denial of transfers of black and hispanic officers. tracee wilkins first told us about this complaint a few months ago. she's live in palmer park with new reaction tonight. >> reporter: what we know from the department of justice is that they are in receipt of a letter. they have passed it onto their civil rights division. we do not know if they are investigating the allegations that have been made here. we also know that the prince george's county police department is interested in getting to the bottom of what's happening. more than 70 minority prince george's county police officers have signed onto a complaint filed with the u.s. department of justice alleging discrimination within the police department. >> the number of people that were involved with it, you know, 50 and 6

good evening, i'm jim handly, i'm erika gonzalez in for doreen. only news 4 cameras were there when the 17-year-old came walking through her mother's door. >> 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 cas

. >> i'm jim handly.ur shomari stone just arrived on the scene in hawk run terrace in montgomery village. what are you hearing? >> reporter: right now there are unanswered questions. we are on the 8500 block of hawk run terrace. police say that the public is not in danger in this neighborhood or in gaithersbur fired. police say they received many 911 calls. officers and fire personnel arrived on the scene. they found a man dead in the parking lot. police say they have detained some people who live here where the body was found. what does that mean? are they suspects, persons of interest? at this point police say they are just questioning them. detectives are trying to figure out exactly what happened here. police have not identified the bodies, so we don't know who this man is. they're waiting for the medical examiner's office to arrive. we don't know if the man lives in this neighborhood. that is one thing that many people have been asking. i explained to them that police are still gathering details. thi

. >> i'm jim handly. a why wouild start to the week.tgomery county strong winds knocked trees onto homes, some of them with residents still inside. >> this is the scene in fairfax county where thousands of people and businesses still electricity this evening. >> simply amazing how strong those wind were. only the third time since 2001 that we've seen those winds over 65 miles per hour. we saw them in the d.c. area. take a look at the numbers. 66 miles per hour wind at reagan. 73 at joint base andrews. that's just amazing. we haven't seen winds this strong since the drach owe. now the winds have died a little bit. we're down into the 20s. it's breezy. 31 camp springs. the winds have come down enough national weather service no longer has us in the wind advisory. it is still there however for the eastern shore and parts of the delmarva. your forecast back here in about 15 minutes. >>> the parking lot of a shopping center is now

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jim handly and wendy rieger are in the newsroom. >> our scott macfarland had been looking into plansrotect lawmakers. >> new at 5 tonight, the rapid push to expand safety and whether it could be a larger security issue. also new at 5:00 in just a few, turning heartache into music in the hopes of changing minds. >> this is an inspiring message that people are bringing to a local school and why they hope it will save people's lives. >>> also, remember earlier this week when thousands of people in california were fleeing their homes because of that over flowing dam? >> that was just the beginning fo >>> amelia, you know, this feels like the warmest winter ever. how does it rank among other winters? >> doug said we're not that close. >> this is the third or fourth warmest winter on record so far. we're not talking about any record daily high temperatures. just oemverall it's warm, but oa day by day basis we're not hitting those record highs. take a look at the first weather headline. again, third or fourth warmest winter on record. and it's mild this weekend and not only that, take a loo

i'm jim handly. >> i'm wendy rieger. this is the third case of a missing teenage girl in our area in the past few weeks. >> please help us to find venus. if venus is listening, please come home. we are concerned for your safety. >> at a news conference police updated the girl's status to in danger. they say she knew the maryland teenager found dead over the weekend in fairfax ou police are connecting the dots. >> reporter: this investigation is taking on a new urgency tonight. first off, you've got the missing case of venus iraheta, the 17-year-old from alexandria. police desperately trying to find her tonight. then you have a separate murder investigation that police are now saying is possibly linked. it involves a 15-year-old girl. today i smopoke with that girl' mother. asking we not use her name or show her face, from her home the mother of alexandra reyes told us about her daughter. my daughter was a good person, not because she was my daughter but because she was truly good, sweet. she got along with everybody. lat

. >> jim handly and wendy rieger are standing by in the newsroom. >> we already have cherry plos blossoms out. doreen gentzler had a one on one with a doctor. >> the new information he and his team are learning about the effects and impact of zika. also when a vaccine might be ready. >>> also new at 5:00, it's a day in the classroom that's out of this world. local kids get to meet a nasa astronaut. >>> also we're going to introduce you to a little girl who is a nats, as in th fanatic. >>> and we're going to take you to doug and the >>> if you are getting a tax refund, are you planning to spend it or save it? >> a new survey shows most folks plan to hang onto that money. susan hogan is here with the details. we're saving. >> you should save it if you can. 66% of americans say they expect to get a refund this year, but they aren't to eager to spend it. according to a survey from the national retail federation, 48% plan to put their refund in savings. that's slightly less than last year's record high of 49%. nearly 36% plan to pay down debt with their money. and the survey found a record low

i'm jim handly. >> i'm doreen gentzler.as an incredible story of survival after his private plane crashed in prince george's county today in a large wooded area. mark segraves has more on what went wrong and more about the pilot. >> reporter: really dramatic mana this airport today, but today something went wrong. weather was perfect for flying today, with good visibility. but shortly after this plane took off from potomac airfield, something went wrong. this man saw the plane flying over his neighborhood just before it went down. >> i heard it turn his engine off and it turned around. >> reporter: the plane was flown by 65-year-old gerald kenpen who was flying home to rhode island. after the plane crashed the pilot got on his cell phone and called 911 for help. >> the problem was he was flying probably by instruments or whatever. he really couldn't give us much on landmarks. so he gave us, i believe it was a house in the distance and a barn and some power lines. >> reporter: the plane crashed into this tree. >> thefe

i'm jim handly. >> i'm doreen gentzler. there are no reports of fatalities.e know of at least eight people injured and a massive effort to search homes and clear debris is underway. that same system will create the next few days too. we have team coverage of all this tonight. we begin with kichris lawrence the live desk. >> to say this is a pretty severe storm sound like an understatement. it has been ripping down power lines and lifting homes right off their foundations. right now there are dozens of people who have some minor scrapes and cuts. at least two serious injuries, but there have been no reported deaths. some 10,000 homes are now without power, which has prompted louisiana's governor to declare a state of emergency. a lot of people in new orleans say they have never seen destruction like this. >> i'll say to the people of new orleans we have had our fair share of tragedies but you know the people of new orleans are as tough as they come. >> people are being told to stay off the roads and out of the affected areas. lis are doing house by house searc

. >> handly says he's stood in line for a chik-fil-a milk shake. >>> doctors say you need to be vigilantf you need to take certain heartburn s. african-american performers faced in the early 1900s. a look at black history month through the arts. >>> in news4 your health, a warning about a popular drug used by millions of treat heartburn and the risk of kidney damage. these are proton pump inhibitors or ppis. they're sold under brand names like prevacid, prilosec, nexium. these drugs have been linked to kidney issues before but a new study from washington university finds that half of patients who experienced chronic kidney damage had no idea they had it until it was too late. they say those people did not experience any problems that would tell them that their kidney function was in decline. researchers say patients should always tell doctors when they are taking these ppis because they're over the counter and only consume them when absolutely necessary. >>> parents know boys and girls can certainly act differently. now new research suggests those differences may begin before birth. some

i'm jim handly. >> i'm doreen gentzler. the executive order on immigration has been wrapped in house for the way in which it was rolled out, calling it hastily executed. also in court, we learned of at least two students from our area who are stranded overseas. and the visas of tens of thousands of people have been revoked. julie carey was in court for today's hearing. >> she joins us live from outside the federal courthouse in alexandria. what have you learned? >> reporter: not only is the commonwealth of virginia going to take the lead in this case, but the attorney general wanted to broaden the challenge. he's hoping to argue that it was not only those visa holders that were detained and turned around at dulles last weekend who were harmed but anybody holding a student or work visa in virginia who comes from those seven targeted countries. it's on virginia's college campus that is the string of the trump administration's executive order is already being felt. the count is just beginning but already 350 students or