john st. john''s in work and is it guarantees a spot at a university after they release. the idea that it continues not only beyond prison but beyond the classroom. robert tait is pursuing a degree in english. >> when i came home find a job, find steady housing, find steady income and then you know get back to family and start to build my life over again. i was starting that 30 years old, as a 17-year-old. >> the programme provides assistance with call of those things, and more. >> specifically for a population coming back to the community, it's vital to re-establish community and a new community, not the one that you left behind. becoming the place to find a new self community, and build a new life after prison. >> the new programme is yet to see a graduate. but participants appreciate the chance to expand their child. >> a graduate of the prison to college pipeline programme helps other inmates reintegrate into society. good to have you with us. the hope is to reverse what we have seen and heard of so often - the school to prison pipeline where kids are, effect minority kids fun edged from public schools where they have problems into prisons. the hope is to do the opposite. people going from prison to college. how well is it working for you? >> it worked very well. in regards to confidence level of getting a formal education, and sending me on a path that an academic career is possible and being able to pursue that has been greatly influenced. >> so far you are one of a few. a dozen or so that have been able to do this. you are in college at john jay. i imagine coming out of prison it must be tough, and you have to find work. how is that working for people that are part of the programme? >> well it is hard to figure out a schedule. a lot of time we have to go to school at night. once you get into the grove, the make i made was trying to rush in, get everything done. if you prioritise and get back it becomes a small divide once you adjust. >> this is all done privately funded. there is no public money in the state of new york going to prison or education. do you think it would be a good idea to expand this programme. to have more inmates have a chance to do this? >> yes, it would be very good thing to be able to expand to more facilities and see the result of that and expand it nationwide. it helps a lot of guys gape the confidence and see the opportunities. >> so far the graduates - no one has reoffended. >> yes. >> and the numbers are stark about other inmates. 75%, the numbers are. shows that 75% end up reoffending within fi

st. john's. probably not john thompson iii. he didn't play this. first half up. st. john's up two. nik hoyer goes baseline. finishes with a slam. 24 points for him. storm up 11 at half. second half. trying to get back in it. working in and around. smith rivera knocks down a three. game high 29 for hem. georgetown within nine. dsr not the only sharpshooter on the floor. drains the three career high 26 points for him. st. john's beats georgetown 81-70. virginia hosting virginia tech. london is back after breaking his nose missing a game. made his presence felt. second half two-point game. he drains the three. 11 points in his return. cavs up five. late in the half. dishing out as well. game high 19 for him. virginia with the senior day, and atkins didn't disappoint. he beat the senior for the big-time slam. 16 points in the game for atkins. virginia beats virginia tech 69-57. ryan zimmerman played at third, left field and first base. this season all signs pointing to first. our jason pew at spring training to ask all about the plan. >> ryan zimmerman is making the transition from thir

st. john's depaul. how about the st. john's defense to set up this. harrison at the other end with the finish. poor tommy hamilton never had a chance against sir dominick pointer. he says don't bring that stuff in here. a rim rodder. never had a chance. the perfect setup for deanglo harrison. what a block. for hockey fans the caps are making their february west coast swing. they've won four of their last five games. last night's win over san jose came late. late in the night and late in the game. overtime, ward gets a juicy rebound. it's off to l.a. the caps are now within two points of the pens. three of the islanders in the metro division. speaking of hockey how about this? rob gronkowski of the patriots super bowl honeymoon still in full swing. at the florida everglades minor league hockey game playing dodgeball. the gronk, does anybody have more fun than gronkowski? and if you missed it earlier, today is r.g. 3's 25th birthday. he announced on facebook and instagram that he and his wife are having a baby, their first. >> he's only 25. still young. >> who is the sponsor? i'm joking. >> stop

st. johns. complete control for most of the game. hoyas get it down low. hopkins with the dunk, but it was all st. johns. phil greene had six threes. here's one of them with the leftwing. st. johns rolls 81-70. the hoyas' three-game win streak is over. >>> number 2 virginia hosting virnlgt. who is that masked man? that's london peranis, broken nose. he plays through. virginia tech up three. uva responds. stepping into it, virginia would come back and take the commanding lead. then late going, malcolm braun steps in. he had 19 points for the afternoon, as virginia improved to 27-1, as they could be running for the final four come march. >>> west virginia, bob huggins trying to take out number 19 baylor. but this is not going to help. gary brown injures his ankle, done for the day. that's a tough blow for west virginia. baylor, prince with 20 points. baylor goes up by 16. royce o'neill gets his three- pointer, as baylor cruises, 78- 66. >>> well, the wizards are looking like a team that doesn't like to play basketball right now, dropping six straight, including two to two of the worst teams in the nba. tonight, home to detroit and gua

john gruden in florida. georgetown st. john the big preview. why the caps need braden holtby to stand on his head tonight and stop the march of the penguins as abc 7 n >> the winter weather didn't stop the new secretary of defense from his first day on the job. ashton carter arrived at the pentagon at 8:00 this morning to start a whirlwind day. scott thuman is live in our newsroom with the challenges that carter is now facing. scott? >> they're numerous maureen. first day at work for ash carter. he's picking up the helm after chuck hagle was pressured out. he becomes the fourth defense secretary under president obama and as you showed he came to work despite the fact that the federal government was shut down and understandably. he's walking into a job with countless serious dilemmas and few easy answers. the one grabbing the most headlines, how to handle the threat with isil and ukraine, north korea iran. daunting list of challenges. now, he was sworn in this afternoon officially by vice president biden. >> i'm honored to rejoin the men and women of the defense department in what is the highest calling which is the defense of our country. >> he also met with president obama but what to me perhaps, is most interesting here was his address to all department of defense employees in which he stated "i have pledged to provide the president my most candid strategic advice. i will count on your experience and expertise as i formulate that advice. i'll also ensure that the president receives candid professional military advice there." he used the word candid twice letting staff know that he'll be open with his feelings perhaps, even if they aren't necessarily in line with what the the president is always thinking. remember, the obama administration has been criticized for allegedly micromanaging the pentagon. it will be interesting to see if he bridges the gap that has been perceived between the white house and the pentagon. maureen? >> thank you, scott. midshipmen at the u.s. naval academy spent their snow day helping residents and neighbors and business owners in downtown annapolis shovel out. the effort was organized by the midshipmen action group. group organizes service projects for the community around the year. and we need a lot of community help today. to get out of the snow. >> winds weren't too bad. chance to clear things up. tonight, refreezing or anything is melty and slushy out there today. tell you the tuesday weather story for you. mechanicsville in st. mary's county, eight inches of snow. all along, we said the farther south you are from washington, the more snow you'd see. that's the way it wound up with parts of calvert county 6 1/2 inches and six inches in alexandria. five inches in burke and also reports of leesburg of four inches of snow from late last night early this morning. we're in the 20's now. the warmest spot is 28 at reagan national. temperatures will fall quickly tonight and light winds. we do have some concern about the refreeze and icy spots developing. please be careful tonight and early tomorrow. think about that as you get ready for work tomorrow and the kids that going to school as well. different issue to deal with tomorrow afternoon and that will be the approach to another strong cold front and maybe some heavy snow squalls or snow flurries. 12 to 17 is the air temperature range early tomorrow. the winds will be light. the cold blast will be moving in during the day. start with sunshine and see increasing cloudiness. our futurecast starts at 8:00 tonight and you can see the front running through michigan and northern indiana. through the day tomorrow increase in cloudiness and the snow will start to get heavier through the ohio valley. in fact widespread week and as this advances eastward between 4:00 and 8:00, we expect some heavy snow showers, maybe some snow squalls that will be heavy enough to interfere through parts of the rush hour. followed by gusty winds, falling temperatures and clearing skies late at night and we get into the day on thursday. it will be bitterly cold again. highs around 20 or so. this is the futurecast for tomorrow morning. we'll have some sunshine as you see, but then the clouds roll in and hear a better definition and read the heavier snow squalls coming towards the tail end of rush hour. this is one model's version. could come in an hour or two earlier. to get the idea north-south line of heavy squalls of snow moving through the area. major accumulations but enough to whiten the ground and roadways and sidewalks. that's not good with falling temperatures and rush hour still in progress. so we start the day with kind of a little glimpse of sun and the clouds and the snow showers late in the evening and then everything goes crazy with this cold air. because by thursday we're going to only see highs in the lower 20's at best with gusty winds. as we get through friday morning, maybe some below zero temperatures staying in the teens and then a chance of snow or mix of rain/snow combination as we head through the weekend. maureen and timmy? >> thank you so much, doug. we're hoping that alex ovechkin is once again going to be the star of the game? >> i'll tell you, he's been red hot. >> good. >> doug is over here talking snow. we're talking ice. caps hope to keep the lid on the iron city. georgetown is ready for the red storm. cousins try to keep it in family. hear the latest >> the ncaa basketball tournament around the corner. who's in? who's out? we're looking at teams more closely. georgetown hoyas play host to st. john's in the phone booth. neither team is in the top 25. georgetown is 16-ly. quirk of the schedule the hoyas haven't played a game in a week. they last played seton hall and won that game by 19. so this is a very, very important game. >> aggressive team on defense and offense. i think that the game is going to be chippy. not sure what he means by chippy. you know, do i expect two teams to play extremely hard? absolutely. probably said chippy so i'm not sure whether i'm looking and expecting chippy. >> hey, john. this is chippy. seton hall has suspended the junior guard sterling gibbs for throwing the forearm shiver here to the face of villanova's ryan archie. gibbs has apologized several times since saying hey, this is not me. i am really sorry for the embarrassment. even more sorry to ryan. he accepted the apology. the incident is over. the suspension is for two games. our play of the night. number 23 west virginia trailing number eight kansas by one. final seconds, look at juwan stat on

st. john gibner would like to comment. >> john gibner, deputy city attorney like to follow up on the possibility it didn't go to our question supervisor jane kim about how the departments are admonishment but in terms of what the remedies are the contract for the project will exterior the contractor comply with the construction so non-compliance will mean suspension or the contract or - or for potentially departure time a process that follows a hearing so a ranger of options and also non-payment we can suspend payment to the contractor so there are ways to terminate the contract permanently. >> do the agency feel like they've got the capacity i like the ordinance i know our office on a daily process gets e-mails from the public regarding violations to the planning code and they're real violations and follow-up with the departments they don't have the resources to actually enforce against the violator so it becomes a frustration within the law enforce the law and we get kind of or you know non-responses from the department it's not their fault they don't have the resources that's why i'm sensitiv

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st. john's. the red storm leading in the first half. jordan from beyond the nba line. the only bright spot for georgetown was smith-rivera, who finished with 27, including this deep trey. st. john's continues their hot streak in the second half. philip green drained six threes helping the storm to an 89-70 win. second ranked uva and virginia tech. second half come uva, barreling through the defenders, and one. second half, london parentes, playing his first game since breaking his nose against florida, nice pass come inside to malcolm brogdon. win virginias, 69-47. they cannot get any worse than it did last night. the wizards traded goods with a sixers team that is pretty much tanking on purpose. multiple reports say paul pierce and bradley beal will play tonight in detroit. at verizon, fourth quarter and jason richardson with the drive and bucket. the flush. later in the fourth, smith drives. and there is that guy again, he finished with 14 and 13 boards. the wizards lose 89-81. that is six straight losses. the caps hope and to be the last place team in the metro division last night. cannot do that if there is no d. canes take the lead in the first. in the second, jeff skinner f

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st. john's church. that building is still there. sir edward hired john fraser, a philadelphia architect, to build this wonderful second empire house on the corner of connecticut avenue. as soon as this house was built the british delegation became the center of washington high society. you were not anybody until you have been invited to a reception or dinner at the legation building. that would knock your status up even higher if the legation staff came to one of the functions in your home. in 1880, a representative from maine, james blaine, also decided to build in dupont circle. blaine was a two-time presidential candidate and a professional secretary of state. i think he served under four separate presidents. by 1880, he amassed enough money, probably legitimately, to build this large house at 2000 massachusetts avenue which still stands today. he had just been appointed secretary of state to garfield. garfield was assassinated months later, so blaine did not last long in the new administration and did not have enough money to support this house the s

john is live in mechanicsville with a check of conditions there. john? >> good afternoon. the sun is out here in st. mary's county. we're thawing out a little bit. at last check still pretty cold. about 32 degrees and i can tell you the snow stopped falling around 11:00 this morning but that's after it snowed relentlessly for about seven hours straight and here's what's left behind. take a look. a good three, four inches of snow on the grassy areas and a lot of this was on the roads and even the main roads. this is route 5 but you can see this afternoon, it is nice and clear. just a little wet. we have some video to show you of hundreds of salt and plow trucks that came through here throughout the morning and they started off with the pretreating and then the salting and then the heavy lifting. they dropped the plows and did a great job of clearing the main thoroughfares here. before that it was accident after accident this morning here on route 5 and really throughout the entire area here in southern maryland. cars, reports of cars hitting utility poles, cars on the sides of the roads. and even cars into cars. we spoke to one lady driving her pickup truck. she was going down the hill and said it was very icy and she felt the impact. >> i was hit. i was going down the hill and the car was speeding behind me and tried to slam on the brakes. when they tried they fishtailed into me. i'm so sorry, i have to answer this. this is actually related to the accident. >> and just moments after we spoke to her there, she was actually transported by ambulances to the hospital suffering some minor injuries. that's her pickup truck left behind. so again like we've seen already this winter, not a major snowstorm but just enough snow at the wrong time of the day that created plenty of headaches. john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> our team coverage continues this noon in virginia where state police received more than 800 calls about the crashes or disabled vehicles. since the storm began. jeanette reyes has been reporting on the road conditions all morning long and joins us live with what you need to know before you head out the door. jeanette? >> well right now, we're in springfield and road conditions are drastically better now compared to earlier this morning. traffic is moving at regular speed so on interstate primary roads. plows are now working their way into your neighborhood streets which you may have seen still need a little more treating or plowing especially those sidewalks there. but take a look at how b conditions were earlier this morning. that snow started to come down around 4:00 in the morning and conditions were quickly deteriorating. nearly 1500 vdot crews pretreated all of the roads in northern virginia overnight and continued to do so well into the morning. at one p

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john gonzalez. he is live in mechanicsville this morning. john? john: it is a winter wonderland in mechanicsville, maryland. here in st.cks and plows have been coming through. this is route 5 trying to clear the main thoroughfares. but it is getting very treacherous out here. we have heard of a number of accidents. there was a fender bender up the road. this woman driving this pickup truck was going down a hill. she told us moments ago that there was a car behind her that could not stop and slammed into the back of her. this woman is going to be treated. we also talked to a utility company and they tell us, they have also gotten a lot of reports, a lot of calls from people crashing into utility poles. you can see what was once a very wet snow is now turning more fluffy and it is still coming down at this hour. jummy: thank you, and thank you for watching this morning. you can get more news, traffic and whether updates on our sister station, newschannel 8. from preemie to 4t big size assort many. site wide on all of their clothing. normally the prices are $30 to $60. everything slashed at least by 67% so just $5 to $20.

st. joe's prep the best recruit in our area john reed. he will play defensive back for the nittany lions. another prep player headed to michigan to play for jim harbaugh. johnn jr. the son of pat schermer kyle schermer, there he is going to vanderbilt. look at this. this is just ridiculous. richard green tonight going for the green. playing in a pro am in australia. this is a par 4. doesn't look very impressive. the ball is going to go into the bunker. but watch, it comes right back out. like the clown's mouth. in miniature golf. a hole in one. that is amazing. a shame it was not in real competition. that is sports. we are right back. [ female announcer ] business travel isn't just about the going. it's also about the going home. and being connected all along the way. whether you're working or recharging do business travel on your terms. acela. take off. >>> happy birthday to you -- >> when you think of what 108 years old looks 2hp like this. rosy is celebrating 108 years on this birthday. her family and friends came to celebrate in bucks county. she said faith, family friends and good food is why she's made it this long. >>> beautiful. >>> thanks for joini

john? >> always a fun day to see the smiles on the faces of these high school football players continuing their dreams of playing at the college level. the biggest recruit from our area, st. joe's prep's john reed, he is going to penn state. reed played receiver and cornerback at the prep. he was recruited as a defensive back. he's the third best recruit in the state of pennsylvania according to rivals.com. he chose nittany lions over offers from a number of other big schools like alabama and notre dame. >> i wasn't necessarily a tough decision for me you know close to home the networking is great, coaches are amazing up there. i thought it was a pretty easy decision for me honest lply. it's stressful with coaches constantly contacting you but they sometimes forget you're a football player and you have to worry about your own team also. it was difficult. >> another st. joe's prep player heading to michigan to play for jim harbaugh. you might recognize his name, john runyon jr. his father was one of the best offensive tackles to play for the eagles. the senior runyon also played college ball at michigan but he never pressured his son. he said he could play anywhere he wanted except ohio state, of course. >>> coming up at 6:00 we'll hear from penn state's head coach james franklin on how good a class he got today. what a day the nittany lions had. for now, i'm john clark 37. >>> today is a day designed to highlight the importance of getting girls involved in sports. athletes like sara hughes went to capitol hill to talk about the positive impact sports can have on women. >> sports help kids not only get more active and be part of a team, but helps them off the field and develop other skills like self-confidence. >> they reduced the number of ways to reduce concussions in student athletes. >>> after such a mild day today, now we are tracking snow showers for early tomorrow morning. it does look to be on the lighter side. i don't think everyone will

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