and she knew her grandmother, mary ellen queen. >> reporter: she says she feels their spirit cheering her on. >> i couldn't do this or be here without feeling them. >> reporter: short-colomb has a little bit of time before she has to declare a major. but she says right now she's leaning towards history. at georgetown university, jackie bensen, news 4. >> i bet she's getting a warm welcome on the campus. >> you know she is. >> we're proud of her. so, doug, a lot of rainy action out there tonight. >> yeah. we saw some rain out there. if you went to dinner -- i know our dinner break a little bit on the wet side. >> mm-hmm. >> i didn't have my umbrella with me. >> you didn't hear? >> i knew it was there, but we had a little bit of drizzle coming through, too. a little bit of drizzle, i hope you had the umbrella. you'll need it tomorrow for sure off and on throughout the day. it won't be a washout, but keep that umbrella handy. a little bit of drizzle but not a lot going on in the area. winds out of south at 9 miles per hour. look at the temperatures here. 57 degrees in gaithersburg. 57 in

two cops came over and grabbed me and escorted me to the front of my house. >> reporter: mary ellen andked investigators what was going on. they were handed the search warrant stating investigators were looking for anything connected to bomb making. >> i said how do you know it was a bomb? we don't even know it was a bomb. >> reporter: that was the first you heard of such a thing? >> because we thought it was an accident. >> reporter: did they seem to be accusing the two of you? >> yes. >> reporter: both of you. >> yes. >> reporter: were you frightened? >> oh, yes. >> reporter: what were you afraid of? >> that they thought we did it. >> reporter: around colusa the raid on peter's house just days after roberto's death was big news. the neighbor began sending out real time updates on facebook. >> there was a parade of cars driving around the whole neighborhood. >> as these detectives were asking their questions and as they were ripping my house -- going through my house. >> reporter: when they left? >> they took our computers and our cell phones. we had a business. nobody could call us. >

they took him away again and he disappeared forever we've never been able to accept his death and mary ellen and the other survivors welcome the opening of the soon to be finished memorial park in the hope that it will help chile see that the map which is we're not just victims of a dictatorship but of a society that never acknowledged their suffering. you see in human i just didn't call them and watching out is there a still to come trying to break the deadlock and america meets with the social democrats as she works to form a government. of egypt denies accusations that pressured t.v. hosts to back donald trump's recognition of jerusalem. how are they following screens in place for parts of southeastern australia things should improve slightly at least as we go on through the next couple days you still see a little bit of cloud there just coming into new south wales easing across victoria as well not just way further east with remember sydney getting up to forty seven celsius and sas they going on into sunday thirty three celsius on monday still plenty warm enough but that twenty three tha

later they took him away again and he disappeared forever we've never been able to accept his death mary-ellen and the other survivors welcome the opening of the soon to be finished memorial park in the hope that it will help chile see that the map which is we're not just victims of a dictatorship but of a society that never acknowledged their suffering. you see in human i just didn't feel. the winter deep freeze continues to grip much of the northeastern united states and canada with record breaking cold temperatures in baltimore boston and hartford connecticut it's down to a storm dubbed the bottom cycling that can be seen in the satellite image is being blamed for nineteen deaths in the united states. so just time for a recap of the top stories her knowledge is there and syrian government forces and the allies are advancing on it in the province for an offensive to try to recapture it from rebels has caused thousands of civilians to flee towards the border with turkey in freezing winter conditions it limits the largest remaining rebel held territory in syria since arsenal would driven out l

my name is mary ellen hannibal. it is my pleasure to introduce, richard dawkins. evolutionary biologist, founder of the richard dawkins foundation for reason and science and author most recently of science in the soul. selected writings of a passionate rationalist. he was voted prospect medleys number one world thinker and was on the daily telegraph 100 greatest living geniuses list. he earned his degree in zoology and a doctorate in animal behavior from oxford university and later returned to become the universities first professor for the public understanding of science. his best-selling books include the selfish gene, the blind watchmaker and dad delusion. they have sold more than 3 million copies and have been translated in more than 30 languages worldwide. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming, richard dawkins. [applause] >> okay, are we all -- can you hear me? that sounds pretty good, not bad! okay. so, we have a lot of heavy duty questions and things to ponder tonight. i thought maybe we would start with something a little later. [laughter] and

and she knew her grandmother, mary ellen queen. >> reporter: she says she feels their spirit cheering her on. >> i couldn't do this or be here without feeling them. >> reporter: she has a little bit of time before she has to declare ha major, but right now she says she's leaning towards history. jackie benson, news4. >> what a story. pretty darn inspiring as well. >> well, turning to the weather and rain, how much of this stuff will we get, sheena. >> we'll get more this afternoon and mainly tonight. i have to applaud chris he actually brought his umbrella today. >> she told me she would laugh at me all day if i didn't. >> so good thing you te involved. >> you're welcome. because you needed it this morning. right now not looking at too much around the district but later today more rain moving in. 62 right now. look at how mild it is outside. over cast skies with spotty rain. most of the rain is in maryland. buie breaking out of that heavier rain, but calvert county pretty heavy rain currently. this is all making its way from south to north. so that rain in the forecast. if you are eas

and mary ellen young-truman, when truman became president and she went to the white house, he sort of jokingly said, mom, we're going to put you in the lincoln bedroom. and she said, i just as soon sleep on the floor. and when he introduced her to one of his friends, a congressman from mississippi, he remarked, this man never met a republican until he was 18, and she says, he wasn't missing much. so, you get the idea, the background that truman had. yet he transcended it because this was unfair to him. all people should be treated as equals. so, he became the first president to address the naacp, which he did in 1947. now, i don't mean to say these problems only existed in the south. one thing always tell my students. people think that racism is just something that is in the south, but this is a wall. we talk today about building walls. this is a wall in detroit, separating a black neighborhood from a white neighborhood. the were race bias in detroit, chicago, in the 1940s, as african-americans tried to move into white neighborhoods. and i won't read this but you can see, this is in m

stanford and professional coaches have been brought into work with my boss and his team her name is mary ellen and she is white. when she first starts working with us it's my job to tell her what is wrong with everybody else. literally. [laughter] after nine months of working with her for undergraduate education after nine months of working maryellen has conducted a 360 review and ready to tell me how i am regarded by my colleagues. i trust her enough to listen to the feedback. it is a stereotype of women that tell me not to do any of those things. she lets me continue. yes i have a tendency to blurt things out when i am moved or frustrated but my frustration is more intended. when i practice law by passion and anger be channeled into useful arguments but in academia is seem to push people away like i have to apologize. why am i this way? to take 20 years of therapy? how about focusing on when you are this way and then decide what you want to do about it. what if anything i want to do about it? she is telling me my power lies to be in charge of my voice. and to begin taking notice of myad beha

ellen? >> all right mary ask and you should receive. already getting photos so working to get them on the maps. traffic lane cameras as you look out your window get an idea of what the roads are looking like here's the beltway off forestville road and bradley boulevard. you saw a lot of this on your drive in. either the roads have been treated and wet but it's so shiny out there you might also run into icy patches especially on bridges and over passes this morning. here's the beltway at the national harbor. traffic very light out there still this morning and heading to the dale city area hardly anyone out there but snow collecting as well. i've been looking at cameras in downtown d.c. here's 13th street and k street northwest so here's where you see snow on the roads different than the beltway ase beltway as well and wisconsin also if you are on q street here's a live look here. send me photos. under score ellen bryan on twitter and facebook. >> thank you so much. >>> 4: 14 your time and we were talking about the number of plows virgini

mary lou and tony . my wonderful sister luanne giorgio and her friend ellen, raise your hands. thank you.my cousin's cousin, my cousin's son, john and his friend suzanne zachary. raise your hand. eventually my nephew matt and amanda are coming in from baltimore, they will be here eventually.heather wishart smith, raise your hand. if you read the book you know about heather because she's written twice about the broken water line in the swimming pool incident. she was a junior officer and we've been friends ever since so thank you for being here with my daughter. bill closely, my naval academy classmate and dave, we are here in the crowd tonight. four of my business colleagues, robert bonelli, president of jordan national gas products in the back, thank you for being here. and from the cv memorial scholarship association, an organization i am involved with, we have our president steve murder, retired. and we have barb whidden and lisa mahar, and we have catherine tracy austin husband lloyd, thank you for being here. before we get into it, let me give you some insight about writin