signed, lexi and jasper. she keeps signed cards with her to surprise heroes in person. >> that's one, there's one. >> reporter: her facebook page labeled lex nader and jasper is filled with photos of the little girl with her heros. along with letters of thanks from those who have received her thanks. >> i get smiles and happy cards. >> reporter: how does that make you feel? >> happy. >> reporter: recent murder of a philadelphia police sergeant robert wilson iii caught lexi's attention. she zen everyone connected to his 22nd district more than 300 men and women a signed card. >> kind of a nice surprise? >> yeah. >> reporter: you think they made them feel a little bit better. they're going through a tough time right now, aren't they um-hmm. >> reporter: printing hundreds of cards isn't cheap neither a postage the family accepts no donations much this is a little girl on mission. >> she has a goal. she has style and we would never tell her to stop ever. >> military police officers, firemen and emt's a person who

downtown lexie brown. the slump over, that ties the game. lexie brown again she takes over, finishing with 15 points. maryland wins 58-48. the terps final four. -- the terps advance to their second straight final four. leon: number one versus number two. still ahead, something that you have to see, terrifying video from california, a firefighter falling through the roof of a burning home. an update of his condition. plus volvo's new safety invention. and controversy over a new law in indiana. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] leon: a california firefighter is fighting for his life. he was leading his crew across the roof of this burning building when he fell through the roof. the indent was caught on video . his doctor said that he suffered burns to 65% of his body. >> any patient in this situation will have a certain amount of pain, so he is receiving powerful medication. nevertheless, he is following commands and appears to be understandi

this is where lexi and justin's home begins, the subway. they've slept here for the past fours years, since they were 17 and 18. they also pay close attention to their appearance. in a rich city like new york, that's of vital importance. maintaining personal hygiene is a challenge. lexi and justin also wear used clothing. >> from the donationc losets at, like, hetrick-martin institute, or streetwalk, new alternatives church. >> the two have a lot of friends on the streets of harlem. they spend their days hanging around, trying to get food. the ended up here for many reasons. it's a lot for a young person to have to deal with -- orphanage, foster family, drugs, problems at school. >> just because i'm trans. there are certain lgbt shelters, but sometimes they're full, there's not always a lot of beds, there are waiting lists. and the regular shelters, i'd rather not deal with all of that, having to explain myself." >> it's estimated that forty percent of the homeless teenagers in new york are homosexual or transsexual. their parents have kick

at lexi's urging.t to meet and thank some new heroes not lawmakers but police officers, firefighters emt's and members of the military. lucy iain. >> all right great story bruce. thank you. >>> wisconsin man probably should have taken the bus after his night out out town. >> coming was that did he in the back of a police cruiser and why he won't be driving for awhile. >>> plus intense flames inside a california tunnel but all the drivers out safely. why firefighters were already on the scene. >>> and a daring rescue caught on camera. a police -- actually a sheriffs deputy risking his life for a woman trapped inside this burning home. ♪ >>> a first time look at one intense fire that erupted inside a big tunnel in california's bay avenue. it all went down during yesterday' morning's commute. a crash had firefighters on scene clearing debris when they got reports of a second crash. as they raced to that 11 of the cars burst into flames sending a wall of smoke into the tunnel. dozens of drivers had to get

for spring break with all those monuments around lexi will be on the look out for heroes to surpriseh a card and her thanks. in the newsroom, i'm bruce gordon fox 29 news. >>> sheriffs deputy crawling on hands and knees through a burning building trying to find a woman trapped inside but the smoke was just too much. how they were finally able to pull her to safety. >> a 12-year-old stabbed trying to protect his mom from armed robbers. >> they she shed coming in and he pulled out 95. i said you're not going to stab my momma. >> what accept those guys run running. >> you probably have one box in your cabinet right now. what people are finding finding in their mac and cheese you definitely don't want to eat. ♪ >>> this is dash cam video out of milwaukee. police pulled over a suspected drunk driver this weekend. they say he was too drunk to even take a breathalyzer test. police spotted the guy easily. he was spotted driving the wrong way on highway into oncoming traffic. police say the guy finally stopped once they shined their spotlights in his car. cops say the guy could barely stay co

here comes another steal by lexie. what can brown do for you? four steals today and the scoop there. this has become a tradition. after the game brenda frese doing the robot right there. you can tell she's mid-30s, 40s. we used to do that back in the day. 70-60 maryland over michigan state. george washington women in the a-10 tournament. the lady colonials coach of the year. that happens when you have skyscraper washington tips it up and in. gw cruising over st. louis today. >>> nfl, brian owe rack poach has 40 -- orakpo has 47 sacks in five seasons. he's also had four torn pectoral muscles, three healthy seasons. that's a problem. orakpo is a free agent one year after receiving the franchise tag 11 mill. critics don't people he's worth the big money. teammates say he's worth the risk. maybe his hometown texas could be a landing spot, dallas, houston? >>> meanwhile more redskins notes. they resigned tight end niles paul today. mike shanahan loved this guy, but jordan reed took his spot. paul has been a good backup in special teams. >>> finally t

lexi brown. she had it going today. gets the steal here. goes all the way for the lay-in. career day for lexi brown. more from her in the second half here. spartans turp the ball over. moseley up to brown for the lay-in. a career high tying her career high 27 points. maryland goes on to win, 70-60. the terps face northwestern in the semifinals tomorrow. >>> the gw women's team a top seed in the a 109 tournament. today the colonials facing st. louis. up three in the first half. hannah shibly not shy at all about shooting three-pointers. had 14 points and gw was up six at halftime. second half st. louis off the miss.uell jones to shibly to kara washington down low. she had a game high 24 points. the colonials win 77-63. next up fordham and the semifinals tomorrow. a little spring training baseball for you. the nationals taking on the braves. that's hall of famer cal ripken junior throwing out the first pitch. tyler moore looking really good this spring. here the second inning with the man he takes this ball deep two run shot. finished 2 for 3 with five rbis in the game. zimm

obama would like to rebound against lexi brown? tim: lexi would take him to the hole so fast. it would be ugly. don't do it mr. president. it would not be good for your image! alison: all right. tim, we'll be watching. see you in a little bit. leon: love it. love it. thanks, man. let's get a check of the weather. looks beautiful outside. a little nippy out there. alison: yeah what's this week going to be all about? doug: all about changes in the next several days. at the moment looking live outside and it's pretty. it's doesn't -- deceptively chilly out there. clouds will increase through the day. temperatures is the big story now with numbers well below our average high of 58. 45 in gaithersburg. if you extend the view out a bit, you'll see we're not alone in this by a long shot. temperatures low 30's. even at 30 degrees in detroit and chicago right now, a lot warmer. the cold air is hanging tough. not only are folks dealing with afternoon temperatures of 30 degrees in chicago, they woke up to a little kind of frozen sunshine, i guess we could call it. eileen whelan out in fr

lexie brown went off. a win to advance to the semi final against northwestern. good news for redskins tight end nile. they signed him for three more years. the contract is worth $10 million. he earned it. he posted career highs across the board. today, paul tweeted out. taking on the braves in orlando. second inning, smacks one to right center. nats take a 2-0 lead. bases loaded. clears the basis. a triple. final for this one 9-8. second round of the cadillac championship. the king hole in one. not exactly. in the water. the club follows suit. he would recover, three under today and two under for the tournament. >> i know that feeling. >> one other bit of redskins news. reports they are poised to pursue a running back who had a breakout season with the ravens. finishing fifth in the league. he said, we will take it. a win is a win. >> 35-2? i don't believe it. let me know if you guys are happy about this. just in time for easter, peeps you can drink. >> warmer temperatures coming this weekend. also police arrested a man suspected of a string of rates. and harris

the terps got off to a hot start today in big part to lexi brown. she had it going, hitting the midrange jumper here. she drives to the basket getes the layup to go there. and showing off the range, the three-pointer is good. coming up here you see the steal. she's going coast to coast. michigan state did not have an answer for the sophomore guard. maryland up nine at halftime. second half more of the same. off the turnover moseley ahead to brown. she ties a career high with 27 points. maryland they win their 22nd game in a row, 70-60 the final. terps will face northwest in the semis tomorrow. what impressed the coach the most about brown? >> i thought her defense, you know obviously we're extremely aggressive lexi brown, i mean when you talk about her play, i thought she had a sensational game for us. >> you have to have a completely different mentality when tournament time comes around. i wasn't trying to lose in the quarterfinals and that was really it. >> coach jonathan sipis and g.w. women are the top seed in the atlantic ten tournament the col

one of the big difference makers in the game lexie brown.e point in the sweet 16 she heated up in the second half. 13 of her 15 coming after halftime. maryland wins its 28th straight game. the terps advance to the final four in tampa. brenda frese's sons marcus and tyler, they're loving it. no school for them. next stop, ginoeno auriemma and the uconn huskies sunday. >>> on the men's side devonte smith-rivera says good buy to georgetown announcing he'll forgo his final season of eligibility, plans to sign with an agent, hopes of getting drafted in the nba. dsr was an all big east first team selection this season and the junior was the hoyas leading scorer. the nhl playoffs right around the corner. all the caps have to do is win four of their remaining six games and it won't matter what the teams behind them do in this season's final two weeks. tonight they face the hurricanes the only team not in playoff contention. but it doesn't always mean it's going to be easy for the caps. tonight, though alex ovechkin going for his 50th goal of the sea

lexie brown, all night long. 36-32, the terrapins. after intermission, the terps opened up the game. the leaner. 44-38 maryland. the terrapins still pouring it on. 55-40, the lady terps took the four-point lead and made it into a 15-point game, 87-70 the final. >> so proud of lauren, the night that she had for us. to send her out with a victory here at extended a, tremendous night -- at the xfinity center a tremendous night. >> pulling an undefeated team, it was very emotional, but i'm glad our team was able to come out and i'm glad i gave them a great game also. tim: maryland will play duke in the sweet 16. carolina, down the court, the leaner .6 seconds left. ohio state does not call the timeout, time expires. carolina advances to the sweet 16. the university of maryland confirmed what we suspected with melo trimble. he suffered a concussion last night in the game against west virginia. he took two very hard hits in the head, the first on this illegal screen. amazingly, no foul was called. later, melo trimble went down and was inadv

that's lexi brown. maryland would win it 74-63.hey advance to the big ten championship game which will take place tomorrow. >>> a few more scores for you. george washington the women's team they were big winners today, they advance to the championship game of the atlantic ten tournament. >>> let's move over to hockey now for a moment. alex ovechkin with the return to the ice after missing the capital's last game with a lower body injury. on pace for another 50-goal season and little trouble with buffalo tonight. everyone excited to see the great 8 back in the lineup everyone with the exception of the sabres that is. first period buffalo's up a goal. mike green, taking the puck around the net and finds curtis glencross. second straight goal for him. as many games. we're tied at 1-1. second period jay beagle looking to set up brouwer there. he scores a career high for him tenth goal of the season for beagle beagle. up 2-1. and then the captain ovechkin. on the power play. that is goal number 44 on the season for alex ovechkin. he lea

. >> lexi i made a little snowman. >> my name is jasmine. >> this blogger goes by the name of j.b.beautiful on youtube has been sharing a very personal journey. >> we have been trying to conceive for six months now. this is our sixth cycle. god willing, this is the last time that we're going to be doing this. >> she says that she and her husband have been trying to conceive for months and for a very long time has been unable to get pregnant. she's gone through treatments. they want to have a family. >> and of course, i'm not pregnant there there's another video that she posted where you can just see that she's not feeling well. >> this journey can really mess you up mentally. >> there's a new video that was posted just a couple days ago and the message is a little bit different. >> what are you doing? >> nothing. i just want to say how much i love you. >> you can see her attitude is way different. >> got to work tomorrow? >> no. >> oh that's so good. >> why is that so good. >> we can celebrate. >> what? >> what you think. >> are you pregnant? >> uh-huh. >> no. >> i swear. >> he doe

terp women took on michigan state in the big 10 quarterfinals and lexi brown went crazy. she channelled her inner dee brown, that's her dad. dropped 29 points on the spartans and led the terps to a win to advance to tomorrow night's semifinal game against northwestern. all right. final note. the g.w. women defeated st. louis 77-63 today and advance to tomorrow's a-10 semifinals against fordham. all right. we are already in the swing of things. march madness going on. >> almost spring. >> almost. you know we're really close to spring because daylight savings time, that begins on sunday morning. we spring ahead by one hour. look outside right now and you can see what it looks like. it's still bright out there. but at this time monday it's going to be sunny at this point. >> wonderful. >> i know. that's good news on the way. it's still cold out there right now. as we head out doors, make sure you bundle up tonight. bright skies once again. temperatures in the middle 40's. at least we have the winds out of the southwest at five to 10 miles an hour. once we have winds out of t

for us a peaceful solution in ukraine is a must for stability and peace around lexy and territorial integrityine is basic principle for us and a solution should be found to diplomatic negotiations rather than increasing tension in ukraine. in libya, the territorial integrity of libya is important. we invite both governments from tobruk and from tripoli to turkey. we're supporting the efforts for national reconciliation and if there is any new reconciliation attempt by u.n. we will give turkey's support. libya, in fact has a big chance if they -- there is a reconciliation process, because of natural resources and the [ inaudible ] of society which doesn't have much difference of ethical or sectarian difference like in syria or iraq. cyprus has been our common agenda for last half a century. again, we discussed italy and cyprus cyprus. again, turkish position was clear. in 2004 we supported the plan at that time and i suggested to mr. binky moon that we now a ban ki-moon plan before the end of his term to end this long-surviving crisis. we ask cyprus to come to negotiation table and we need to

lexi is one of thousands of teen who had two cameras mounted on their car in exchange for a discount on auto insurance. watch what happened when she was 16 looking down at an ipod. her eyes off the road for six seconds, almost barrelling through a road sign. >> if a car would have been coming, i would have hit them straight on. and who knows what condition my car or i would have been in after that. >> reporter: the wisconsin teen wasn't hurt, but it could have been much worse. >> she could have been killed, could have totalled the car. and she wouldn't have even known what hit her because it happened so fast. >> reporter: aaa found distractions contributed to 58% of the teen crashes it studied. cell phones a factor 12% of the time. >> over 50% of the teen drivers that were on a cell phone took no evasive action. they didn't steer and they didn't brake until they hit the vehicle in front of them. that's scary. >> reporter: and friends can be fatal too, with each additional teen passenger in the car the risk of a deadly crash increases dramatically. >> teen drivers many times feel like

that's laurie and lexie out there, bonnie medina's daughter and granddaughter enjoying some of that hailon the ground. and tonight we have a severe thunderstorm warning for this in d.a. aly city. you take a closer look the hail, once it gets to be about the size of a quarter, it's become large enough to issue a severe thunderstorm warning. and we had that just before 7:00 tonight. you could see the hail detected on the doppler radar, as the cell moved east to west across south san francisco. similar story in the hills east of san jose. a slow-moving thunderstorm, 5 to 10 miles an hour almost a walking pace. and once the hail got to that size uft judge under the size of dimes and pennies, that fell down up to one to three inches deep and cold enough there to stick around for a while. this took many people by surprise. with more on that send it over to christie smith who joins us live from san jose. >> reporter: yeah, good evening to you. kind of impressive this hasn't just all melted away. even a short time ago we saw people jumping out of their cars, all bundled up like this was sierra s

. >>> maryland, young lady lexie brown leading the way, lady terps under suspicion for grand theft.y had 10 steals today. maryland wins it 19th straight and the robot. big 10 basketball, they won 70- 60. brenda's ballers face northwestern tomorrow at 6:00. >>> we told you the nats won earlier. we'll show you more highlights. you got jordan zimmermann. he threw the no hitter a year ago. one hit in two innings today. clint robinson, nice glove work there for the double play and tyler moore hitting that home run. nats win it 9-8. >>> let's finish off a fun friday with the top plays of the week. for this first one pay attention because check this out. this is virginia/syracuse lacrosse. watch the goalie brendan mullins' buddy. he fakes it like he's giving the ball to the goalie. everybody thinks the goalie has it including the tv camera and before virginia knows what happened the orange is on the other end and got ya, pretty good. that was pretty good stuff there, the old hidden ball trick, sleight of stick. that's no. three. so you know no. 2 has got to be pretty good. let's get george

gets around to lexie brown. buries the three. 23 for her tonight. terps up four. the second half terps up two. kimbra cool as a cucumber. maryland with a four-point lead. second half terps running away with it. mincy could not miss from three tonight. 6 of 7 from behind the arc. 27 points for her. on pyre. maryland beats princeton 85-70. our jason pugh down at the xfinity center with more on maryland's big win. >> dianna when the president picks your team to lose that can motivate any squad, not that maryland needed much motivation today against princeton, but not having the commander in chief in their corner certainly provided it. >> sorry, man, but we had to bust your bracket. [ cheers ] >> i'm hoping one of these years that he will -- two times now that we haven't been picked but obviously i understand it in terms of the family tie. >> is it too late for him to jump on the maryland bandwagon? >> he still can. there's still time obviously. he can jump back in and maybe redo his bracket. >> have more room on the bandwagon, president obama, sorry that we busted yo

and they may do it without lexy brown who sustained a knee injury in the game.d me they will have to wait and see if she can play. we will see. all right, from spokane, dave owens, wusa9 sports. >> thank you, dave. now the caps seeing some points as they inch closer to clinching a playoff spot. barry and the caps visiting those predators who try to clinch a playoff spot. leads to a back hander. caps getting a big hole. slow start. they did wake up troy brower. first with two goals here. the caps get this thing closer to 3-2, but the predators would score here as nationals goes on to win 4-3. scoreless for the sixth time in seven games. gepts the rangers in new york. the wild card spot, and boston tied for the second and final spot. all right, big props to the folks who brave the cold and went to rfk tonight to watch dc united versus l.a. are you kidding me? i love soccer, but not in these conditions. stoppage time. some great work. d.c. united wins 1-0. i think chris looks like the guy from maroon 5. it may just be me. fedex field was the site for an internation

lexie brown off the double screen headed terps with 15 points. terps beat tennessee 58-48 advancing to the final four for the second straight year. the first back to back appearance in the final four in program history. >> no one expected this team this season to do what they've done. they've just accomplished so many great things this year and couldn't be more proud of this team. >> i didn't want to lose this game and at halftime misty was like guys, i do not want to lose this game. connecticut takes on dayton, close 1st half. uconn huskies get a four point lead, but dayton hanging in there. flyers down one. late in the 1st half kelly austria on the break with the layup, up one at the half. uconn trailing in the half in a tournament since 2011 for the first time, but didn't last long. this is uconn. the huskies take over in the 2nd and win 91-70 advancing to the final four the eighth straight season. maryland will face connecticut next weekend. >>> they may not be playing the best basketball now, but the wizards are postseason bound. they clinch

. >> lauren mincy and lexie brown took the pregame speech to heart combining for 50 of the terrapinsints. brown was five of 11 from three. mincy a senior had 27 points and played in her final game at xfinity center tonight. she said it was very emotional. brianna jones added another double double to her resume with 10 points, 10 boards, maryland with the emphatic 85- 70 win to advance to the sweet 16. >> to play a team like princeton who had an incredible year, we were extremely excited to be able to bring them out here. they had unbelievable fans. we had unbelievable fans. it was a fun game. >> obviously being my last time playing on this floor, but i'm really excited, especially to play duke. >> they're a joy for this theme and everybody that's worked so hard -- team and everybody that's worked so hard, just really happy for everyone. >>> wizards facing the warriors tonight. the last time the two teams met washington was on a losing streak and got pummeled. tonight paul pierce with the pump face for three, wizards up 10-3. later pierce misses a jumper. nene tips it. 15-10 golden st

lexie is one of thousands who had two cameras mounted on her car in exchange for discount on auto insuranceme she braked hard, a video was e-mailed to her mom. >> she was constantly messing with the radio. so we had disabled the radio. >> reporter: then this happened. >> i was looking at my ipod so when i looked up i was on the other side of the road. >> reporter: the wisconsin teen wasn't hurt but it could have been much worse. >> i was like oh, my god, she could have been killed, could have totalled the car. and she wouldn't have even known what hit her because it happens so fast. >> reporter: part of a generation driven to distraction. >> they believe that it isn't the cell phone which is distracting their driving. it's the car keeping them distracted from communicating with their teen friends. >> reporter: according to government data, cell phones only contributed to 1% of teen accidents, but aaa says the problem is much worse phones to blame for 12% of accidents only behind distractions from other passengers. >> one additional passenger, teen passenger in the car increases their fatal

lexie brown gives a little taste of what the five-hour trip might hold. >> our last trip coming backe big ten tournament we had a karaoke session in the back of the plane. the plane was packed. it was hot. everybody was irritable. it was 2:00 a.m. but we had karaoke in the back. >> reporter: who was the best voice on the team? >> probably nobody. nobody. >> that's diplomatic. >> you heard doreen mentioning that the women team is practicing against men. the top teams need good training so when they play the best they're ready. >> guys with big egos likely to get scooped by girls. >> you know, a lot of stories about men who played on those teams wound up making the men's team so they use that as practice to pry to make the men's squad. some of them do it. >> it made them better. >>> so from a team gelling like the maryland terps to a team unravelun unravel unraveling, the wizards. >> i didn't see no arguing, to be honest. i would tell you if it was. i didn't see no arguing. i think guys just trying to help us through the tough times. >> i don't think we argue as much as people think we

i think he picked lexie. let's see. >> adam, who is the winner of this knockout?table. and i think she's going to -- >> two quick pictures of the school i spoke at yesterday. they were such sweet, sweet people. we had such great fun with them. i want to thank the young kids. they're call physically chahere. to my new frie sidney i was telling you about. god bless you, sidney. >>> she's an academy award-winning actress, helen mirren, we'll talk to her about her newest ♪ ♪ nah nah nah ♪ kraft natural shreds not made with just any milk we start with fresh milk carefully selected from only us dairy farms ♪ masterpiece masterpiece ♪ because to make something amazing you gotta start with something amazing ♪ masterpiece ♪ kraft natural cheese ♪ masterpiece ♪ (song "peter cottontail" plays throughout) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ with walmart's low prices you can trust every day, there's even more to celebrate this easter. walmart. in this moment your baby is getting more than clean. your touch stimulates her senses and nurtures her mind. and the johnson's® scent lather and bubbles help enh

. >> and characterizing this win, players like lexi brown celebrating didn't shoot well, but down thech, she made three big buckets after the game. i asked her about it. she said you know what, i have to step up and my team needed me. that has been the mantra all season long. maryland wins it 58-48. in spokane, dave owens, wusa9 sports. >> now you remember they celebrated the final four birth in kentucky yesterday, setting furniture on fire? >> mike is working this morning, already, he is talking trash about the uconn women. >> just a little. >> defending national champions, but maryland pride is all over social media. great job, ladies. let's look at twitter. fear the turtle. well -- >> birdland, advance to the final four. they will take on the number one seed, uconn. maryland's fourth final four. look at her celebrate with her kids. congratulations. lady terps with a hard fought win says tim ellis, hashtag, final four. fear the turtle. another one, this is great. this guy actually got motivated to get on social media because he was so happy about the win. mr. main event dubbed reall

sophomore lexi brown loves proving the doubters wrong. >> i don't think a lot of people thought that we could make it to back-to-back final fours, so i know all the work we put in this summer and the preseason, so, you know to be able to make it back has been amazing. >> boy, this is going to be a tough one for maryland. they take on uconn sunday at 8:30. the huskies are the two-time defending national champs. jim, pat? >> diana, thanks. >>> a veteran defends his fallen friend in a unique way. why he took one man's outfit very personally in a video that is going viral this afternoon. now he sits down to talk about why he confronted a panhandler. >> reporter: who was that woman who led police on a wild high-speed chase here in northern virginia? >>> one woman is reliving terrifying moments on board that plane crash in canada. it happened late sunday night. the air canada flight skidded off the runway hit power lines and broke up. the woman who is from southern california is finally back home tonight and is recounting those horrific moments on board. >> the oxygen masks fell down and t

lexi is one of thousands of teens who had two cameras mounted on her car in exchange for a discount on auto insurance. every time she braked hard, a video was e-mailed to her mom. >> she was constantly messing with the radio, so we disabled the radio. >> then this happened. >> i was looking at my ipod, so when i looked up i was on the other side of the road. >> the wisconsin teen wasn't hurt, but it could have been much worse. >> i was like oh, my god. she could have been killed. could have totaled the car. and she wouldn't have known what hit her because it happened so fast. >> part of a generation driven to distraction. >> they believe that it isn't the cell phone which is distracting their driving. it's the car keeping them distracted from communicating with their teen friends. >> according to government data cell phones only contributed to 1% of teen accidents, but aaa says the problem is much worse. phones to blame for 12% of accidents, only behind distractions from other passengers. >> one additional passenger, teen passenger in the car, increases their fatal crash rate by 44%. f

tim: downtown lexi brown, they need you tonight.tournament so many of the games have been phenomenal and down to the final four four. leon has all four of them. for one, i enjoyed seeing mike k win again. i went to maryland. i understand maryland-duke but he is a class act. great coach. good friend. he's going to his 12th final four which ties him with the legend of john wooden. way to go mike. >> being with these kids and sharing this moment and this final four i am so happy. i'm so happy for them and to be with them. they are -- look i'm not saying just because we've won, i've said it the whole year. i love my team. tim: as we close in on baseball's opening day the nationals are getting warmed up by getting the kids ready. screech has been visiting schools, the military. this is barnaby manor elementary school. screech surprised them by showing up and giving them gifts. let's play ball. bring on the mets. that's one week from today! leon: all right. tim: how about that? good stuff! leon: that feels good to hear. tim: absolutely. l

lexi had a great game. but everything is going to go good for that game. a lot of people stepped up and stepped up last game. so we're going to get in the flow of the game. whoever has a great night, we'll be hyped for them. tim: more on that game coming up at 6:00. the nba washington wizards play indiana tonight in the phone booth. wiz kids need a win badly. i said last night, and leon got on me. i said the wizards quit against the warriors the other night. coming up in sports at 6:00 bradley beal responds to that. come on man. they lost by 30. defense was nonexistent. wizards scored one basket in the third quarter. i said quit. we'll see what bradley says. i know what you said. leon: i got my man's back. tim: i know you did. i know you did. alison: thank you. all right, coming up next on abc 7 news at 5:00 the federal government responds to reports about a popular company's flooring. leon: alison: "7 on your side" with a consumer alert now. a second blue bell ice cream facility is now linked to the deadly listeria outbreak. a contaminated ice cream cup w

they want to make it to tampa, florida, but the terps need a big performance from point guard lexi brownnd's second leading scorer, just one point against duke on saturday. maryland battled tennessee in the sweet 16 a year ago. brenda frese expecting an extra fired-up vols squad tonight. >> i think they'll have great motivation. talk about we were the team to end their season last year so you don't forget that as a competitor and as a winner. >> they're going to have probably some revenge mind-set because of last year. once we step between the lines it's them against us. like i said before it will be a dogfight. we won't go down without a fight. >> maryland and tb tn tip off at 9:00. >>> let's move to the baseball diamond for a moment. we are seven day ace way from opening day at nationals park. general manager mike rizzo not completely satisfied with his roster at the moment. so he made a move. reliever jer my blevins traded to the mets for matt den dekker. jeremy blevins only spent one season with the national after coming over in a trade from oakland in 2014. the left-handed reliever

doctors, lexi and lindsey, i've forgotten which one is which. for more information on beauty redefined, go to our website, nbc10.com, with the nbc 10 mobile app and link there provided for those who want to find out a little bit more. thank you very much, ladies. appreciate you coming in today. >>> now, your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist brittney shipp. >> good morning. tracking snow and the final hours of winter. spring officially starts into the evening. we have a mix of snow and rain. for travels expected all day, but especially over your evening commute, and even as we start to see the system moving out, we're dealing with the possibility of freezing rain. be very careful, at least through 9:00 p.m. dry weekend on tap for us which is nice. we'll see our temperatures recovering. i'll go over that in seven-day forecast. look outside now, can barely make out the comcast center you see how foggy it is and we're seeing snow coming down at a good clip there in center city and outside of the city right now. snow coming down 33 degre

>> guest: well, i think that in his book "the lexis and the olive tree" he presented a picture in which markets and democracy working hand in hand would transform the world into you know, peace loving prosperous nations and filled with kind of happy co-citizens and then in the process, not even subtext but quite explicitly ethnic conflict and religious extremism would be swept away. and, i think if you look at the history of the world in the last 20 years just the opposite has happened. after the fall of the berlin wall, we have seen, you know alongside the spread of markets and democracy we`ve seen increasing ethnic conflict, the rise of militant islam confiscations, calls for re-nationalization, and two genocides of magnitudes unprecedented since the nazi holocaust. so, and i think that, i argue that it`s because whenever a market dominant minority is present markets and democracy are not usually reinforcing but on a collision course. c-span: a couple of other statistics, one billion people in the world make less than $1 a day. >> guest: yes. c-span: and a total of two billion, or hal

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