>> maryland again, it is a may issue state. you can apply, no open carry per se in maryland, in the since you need a permit. if you are issue add permit to carry, you'll be able to openly carry or concealed carry, you must have a permit to carry in maryland. >> are we saying when you have open carry, anybody can carry a gun, people tend to be more responsible. >> i would think so. it has been a law since day 1. they have to experience. >> would you agree, if the district of columbia were not predominantly black they would have similar laws and others who feel insecure with a lot of people in the city predominated by young black youth to give them the same open carry like in virginia. does race and socioeconomic background play a role why you don't have this in the district? >> you have economical issues, however you have a lot of politicians and political -- >> armstrong: does race play a roll role. >> i would say it is a possibility. >> one financial where with all to get through a process. district of columbia is second most

maryland, virginia to have a fiarm, a aso the process of concealed and carry? this is a responsible gun show, trainer, certified in the we'll be back. >> armstrong: let's get into the restrictions and the process. >> in the district of columbia, as an example, it is restricted for magazine capacity orr magazine for semiautomatic firearm would be 10 rounds. depends on the firearm on what as the district is sometimes convoluted, depends on the firearm that you are actually concealing. example, if your maazines seven rounds, that capacity for that firearm, start with the firearm, seven plus one in the chamber, that is eight. multiplied twice. that is the maximum for that firearm you can carry which is 16. >> armstrong: what happens someone watching this show today, owning a gun, what is the process, what is the best way to train tooet comfortable with the firearm? >> in maryland, best way is to first register yourself with a course, take the 40 hour course withth training and handling. >> armstrong: that is 40 hours. >> yes h. go to a gun range and shoot. >> armst

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland reserves. the gentleman from maryland. . price: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from louisiana, mr. scalise. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. scalise: i thank the chairman for the good hard work his committee did in bringing this bill to the floor and now we have the opportunity to have a vote on the house floor that will send a bill to president obama's desk that guts obamacare and defunds planned parenthood. this is something very important to people across the country but this is something that allows us through the reconciliation process, which is a rare opportunity -- there have been a really good bills this house has passed whether getting the economy back on track or pushing back on so many of the radical agenda items through regulatory actions or executive actions to try to circumvent the constitution and congress. because of the senate's rules, it requires 60 votes to bring a bill up. so many of those bills don't even come up for debate, mr. speaker. so the budget process of reconciliat

the gentleman from maryland. mr. van hollen: i'm pleased to yield one minute to the jet from oregon, mr. schrader. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. schrader: after drafting and passing a deficit busting debt and budget bill last month, my republican colleagues want to get some of that back on the backs of middle and low income americans. these are people struggling to recover from the great recession. they're having trouble staying afloat and now lose access to affordable health care. it's irresponsible. i don't get it. the affordable care act gives millions a hand up, not a hand ut, to afford health care. families are put in the driver's seat and are seeing good results. this is something we've done in oregon far long time. mr. speaker, i don't understand why we want to create greater uncertainty for small businesses trying to do the right thing by their employees by eliminating the small business tax credit like my republican colleagues want to do today. rather than waste tim

and osu had cut the maryland lead to just two. williams was off the bench to drop nine on maryland. later in the half, maryland by four, jae'shawn tte gets his own fall. but watch williams. who winds up with the ball and gets this to fall. it cut maryland's lead back to two point. ohio state shot just 36-percent for the game.down one, williams with the ball again. and this would give ohio state the lead. tate had 16 to lead the buckeyes. remember the buckeyes lost at maryland earlier this year by 35.just over three minutes to go, rasheed suliamon buries it. maryland by four.and with the terps up two with two minutes to plaly, it's melo trimble.four terps in double figures, trimble's 20-led 'em all. 66-61 maryland. ohio state's rpi right now is '79', which is fringe, at best for the tournament. but they do end the season against three ranked teams. and if they can find a way to win two of those, that would help. help. and calvin johnson just carson palmer'd the detroit lions. megatron has told the lions he's retiring. that's despite being just 31 years old...and despite leaving almos

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland reserves. the gentleman from maryland. . price: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from louisiana, mr. scalise. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. scalise: i thank the chairman for the good hard work his committee did in bringing this bill to the floor and now we have the opportunity to have a vote on the house floor that will send a bill to president obama's desk that guts obamacare and defunds planned parenthood. this is something very important to people across the country but this is something that allows us through the reconciliation process, which is a rare opportunity -- there have been a really good bills this house has passed whether getting the economy back on track or pushing back on so many of the radical agenda items through regulatory actions or executive actions to try to circumvent the constitution and congress. because of the senate's rules, it requires 60 votes to bring a bill up. so many of those bills don't even come up for debate, mr. speaker. so the budget process of reconciliat

this is in maryland. the right-hand side of your screen.ou can see cars are just moving at a very slow pace. >> if at all. >> yeah. it looks like a park lot. this has been the frustrating situation all night and now into the morning. >> somebody ask on twitter, how do we know that these people have been stuck from last night? we don't know that for a fact but traffic never dissipated from last night. it's still moving. you don't expect to see that at 5:30 in the morning, right, melissa? >> you don't expect to see the evening commute at 5:30 in the morning that. is all traffic headed into maryland this morning. it is nasty and where molette green is right now. we have a report of three new crashes -- five new crashes actually. we have the center of this roadway blocked. we're going try to get a chopper over that to see what's going on. we have a problem at inner loop central avenue and outer loop near river road. they just popped up. penn south, 120, four minutes bhiechbl behind. chuck, please tell me you have better news. i'm the most hated

maryland's will go into effect across the state at noon. several cities in virginia have declared snow emergencies, too, including manassas starting at 8:00 a.m. and falls church at 8:00 a.m. >>> the state is responsible for clearing the roads. some crews have already been out pretreating streets to prepare for the storm. in montgomery county, they're asking for everyone to help out by staying off the roads. >> the county is going to be ready. we want the residents to help us. they can help us by making certain they're off the roads starting friday afternoon and possibly all the way through sunday. >>> 4,000 trucks and plows are hitting the streets today. d.c. says it will send out 411 pieces of equipment and maryland plans to have 2,700 pieces of equipmenten the road. >> 4:31. chuck has four things to nobody this forecast. hey, chuck. >> good morning, everyone. we've tried to boil it all down into a simple format. get things done fast. if you have to do it, get it done before noon today. all bets are off in the afternoon as far as accumula

we have charlie gishler with maryland highways joining us. i snow we just smoke with emi-- spoke with emily allen. are you seeing any major incidents or accidents out there. >> we have a lot of disabled vehicles out there. most people did a great job of listening to our warnings of not trying to drive. unfortunately there are still people venturing out and they're becoming stuck. we're dealing with that on the capital beltway near the u.s. 50 interchange. several ramps are blocked. our crews are trying to get them out of there. unfortunately what happens, we can't treat the ramps then, we can plow them. also some of the tractor-trailers moving through the state are becoming disabled. basically we staged the big wreckers, the heavy-duty wreckers that are designed for towing tractor-trailers. they've been active in key locations. we're dealing with one that is closing eastbound route 50, maryland 2 in the perality section. >> you mentioned the disabled vehicles there on the interstate. generally the first places that are clear. that shows how t

southern maryland in the lower 20's. the satellite and radar, not a lot going on at this hour, clear skies, the clouds building early tomorrow morning. the approaching system to the west. .çthis is not the big snow maker that will impact us for the upcoming weekend. ,his will move off to the east likely bringing snow showers in flores noontime tomorrow, but no accumulation. mainlyme lows, 12 to 20, clear and cold, increasing clouds in the morning. tomorrow, clouds increase during the midday, 31, 32 degrees by lunchtime. skies, snowy flurries by 4:00 in the afternoon with temperatures in the middle 30's. where is the big storm right now? will to the north and west come over portland, dipping to the south, across the country the next 48 hours. that should arrive here with snow as early as midday, early afternoon friday. it's too early to tell exactly how much we will see, but so much as determined by the tracking of the system and how it moves in. some models have it slowing down, some have its beating up, but this is what

across the state from western maryland to the eastern shore. for drivers who work round the clock during a snowstorm, missing a big one hurts them financially. >> what do you figure it will cost you if you don't push snow this week? >> well over a grand. >> reporter: i asked joe burk hard what caused the delay from the state this year? >> they gave me one reason one time and another reason another time and they're telling me they're trying to activate it now and whether they get it implemented in time before the storm, i do not know. >> reporter: we called the maryland highway administration. this evening we received a statement saying sha has been working for several days to clear up some confusion related to insurance requirements for our contractors. >> reporter: so what could have been a big problem clearing the snow appears to have been resolved this evening. ahead on news 4 at 6:00, we'll tell you how it will affect maryland residents facing a big snowstorm just days ahead. >> that's the latest live in frederick, news 4. >> d.c. water is

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but maryland was just too much... brionna jones gets the steal, she takes it all the way fothe layup... coach frese leads maryland to the 76-56 win ending iowa's 25 home game win streak ... the northern iowa women's basketball team got a huge wininn the road at missouri state, 65-60. benton community grad madison weekly scored a career-high 28 points. she's ... the iowa state men's basketball team dropped to 1-2 in big 12 play after a tough loss to baylor on saturday. the cyclones had a 12-point lead in the 2nd half, but baylor came back to win 94-89. the schedule doesn't get any easier with iowa state traveling to texas and kansas state the next two games. "we sort of got punched in the mouth and we need to do better at responding. but coach has been preaching to us on building on our foundation. this is a learning experience as much as it is a season. we gotta learn, come together, get stop rebound and punch them back. i think this is a learning experience, we can learn from this and we can really move rward." "you

there could be a shower into portions of southern maryland. back to the west, the next storm system. this is friday's storm getting its act together and will move on through giving us showers until late friday night. cold but not as frigid, 27 d.c., 19, culpeper and into in leesburg. 42 in geathersberg high and 42 in washington. more sunshine to the west of the mountains. i think we will see some of that but most see cloud cover during the day. sun and clouds. 42 on thursday and 45 on friday. friday night, if you are heading out, take the umbrella. not the big umbrella. i think you will be fine with the smaller umbrella. most rain on the light side. some of the rain is heavy at times and saturday starting overnight. most looking good. high temperature of 53 degrees, a great day to come out to the nbc4 health & fitness expo. we'll be down there friday, saturday and sunday. i'll be there saturday. rain in the morning and talking about the rain ending most likely in the hours and 54 in the afternoon at 2:00 and much colder as you exit the stadium

there's the rain across southern maryland.wakeup time tomorrow morning, looks like most of the metro will have a solid foot of snow on the ground. look at the snow totals where the air is a little colder and we can fluff the snow a little bit more. look how much snow it's cranking out by 5:30 tomorrow. snow totals probably around 18 to 20 inches downtown. more like 24 to 30 at dulles airport. there will be places along the blue ring and high spot that could get 36 inches or more. that is a lot of snow en by snow lover standards, melissa. >> that is a lot of snow. just enough for my son to make a snowman or snow angels. he could get buried. perhaps a little too much. >>> chopper 4 is going to be there in the next couple of minutes. sterling, we have a crash reported there. tunlaw road, the water main break, all lanes blocked. as we zoom out, looking quite good. no problems to speak up quite yet. we know that's going to change. saturday and sunday too, metrobus closes at 5:00 tonight and, again, saturday and sunday as well. we'l

cummings of maryland. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 580, the gentleman from maryland, mr. cummings, and a member ask my colleagues opposed, each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland. mr. cummings: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cummings: my amendment co-sponsored by government operations subcommittee ranking member gerry connolly, would strike the six-month moratorium on rules imposed by the bill. title 2 of this bill prohibits an agency rule from taking effect until six months after agencies submit information the bill requires to the office of information and regulatory affairs and that office posts this information on the internet. under the bill, if the office of information and regulatory affairs fails to post any of the required information, a rule would be prohibited from taking effect. this is an arbitrary moratorium and the bill allows for only two exceptions. one exception is if the agency exempts a rule from the notice requirements of the a

maryland was unstoppable in their first year in the big ten. the women's basketball team did not lose a conference game, and the outlook was simple. it's maryland, and then everybody else. well, the buckeyes had something to say about that today. the terps celebrating their ten-year anniversary of their 2006 national championship. red shirt senior brene mosley controlled the first half. 13 points before the break. 20 in the game. terps up three at the half. but the script flipped in the second half. kelsey mitchell attacking the rim. three-point play caps a 7-0 run. buckeyes back in front. ohio state pulls away down the stretch. mitchell, great look to alexa hart for 2 of her 20. buckeyes spoil the party. 80-71 the final. >> that's the great thing about sports is it humbles you. you're not going to go out and win every game, but you're striving for that. obviously disappointed. i thought ohio state came in and played hard. this game will help us in terms of improving. ohio state is a great team. they're ranked in the top ten for a reason. >> ho

that is why the blizzard warning continues all the way down into southern maryland. it is not about falling snow, but visibility. biggest storms here are the top five dc. downtown. top five. you will have to get over 16.6 to get in the top five. another beautiful storm, 32.4 inches february 10. so, it has its work cut out. it will probably end up in the top ten on both sides of that category. so make sure you have batteries, bottled water. if you lose power and you are on a well, the well will not pump you any water. mark your down spouts if you have to dig things out. this all has to melt. i always dig out my down spouts after a big storm. if somebody plows your driveway, good to know the boundaries. and mark and clear your storm drains. live look outside, 31 right now. quiet. calm before the storm if you will. heaviest snow 10:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on saturday. that really has not changed. we want pictures. tweet us pictures. we will be live tonight at facebook at 6:40 for your questions. 15 to 30 across the board. 10:00, i think if you are in culpeper, get off the

the mayor of laurel, maryland. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> keeping our coverage on the roads now with dylan dreyer. >> you're in elk ridge, maryland, south of baltimore in howard county there. how's it going? >> well, it's going exactly as we told everybody it would go. that's the reason why we're saying to stay off the roads. they're not good. i mean, i feel guilty saying stay off the roads yet we're the ones driving on the roads. there's nothing else except this other truck. it looks like he's going at a pretty good pace. along i-95, there are areas that the road is plowed and then for a five-mile stretch, it looks like the roads haven't been touched at all. you get stuck in the snow grooves. every teen miles we run into different conditions. you can kind of feel the gusty winds around, too. that reduces that. >> the off ramps haven't been plowed so they can't get the cars through it. it's kind of a ghost town on 95 north, which ask a great thing because the more people that stay off the roads, the bett

suburbs, maryland, in further north and west, a dust ing to an inch, panhandle of west virginia, maryland, up into pennsylvania. blustery, strong winds later tonight. gusts to 50 miles per hour, might have a few scattered power outa outages. wednesday, sunshine back, high only near 30 tomorrow. >> thank you. that's it for news4 midday. thank you for joining us. we're back this afternoon at 4:00. >> you can get news and weather updates with the nbc washington app. we hope you have a great day. neighborhood,i feel like it's got a lot of what we were kinda talking about. the kitchen is light and bright,new. we should definitely go see it. [agent] hi...welcome i'm maggie.melanie.maggie. so nice to meet you. [mother] this is brendan. [agent] hey brendan. living room. [dad] hey. [mother] hey sweetie. [dad] sorry about that. what about this? this looks good. [brendan] no. [mother] isn't it so great?i think we found it. [agent] hey brendan,you might like this room. [announcer]redfin pays its agents based on your happiness... that's real estate, redefined. >> announcer: today on the meredith vieir

meanwhile in maryland, a 40 percent of guns used in crimes are coming from out of state. they plan to work closelyç to reduce gun violence n around the region. a d.c. resident is warning othen drivers to slow down.to s take a look at this sign.sign someone put this up in the 4700 block of black den street northeast it readsed to speed t trap. we're trying to figure out whatted to is. actually it warnings drivers not to speed, maintain the speed the limit because there is a speedpe camera at the bottom of the hill. > we're learning that a fire that heavily damaged a condoon building in ocean city was sparked accident limit you can see cellphone videosmokeeavy out over the beach on wednesdayd the fire marshal says investigators determined theat blame started in an opeorn parkg area on the ground floor of the pelicans beach condos. luckily no one was hurt, but the building has been deemed unlivable. still ahead at 6 tonight, a big push to get driverless cars onrv the road. what the federal government is s doing to jump start the processr plus how long will it take for k dri

, to tell us how that problem was fixed. >> maryland's state government is getting ready. governor larry hogan met with his cabinet. >> we've been in touch with the department of transportation and fha and everyone is preparing. >> reporter: joe burkhardt who has been one of the largest independent contractors working with the state for more than 20 years says mare land delayed giving him contract approval over insurance issues. his 14 plows and two salt loaders would remain idle in the coming blizzard, and he wasn't alone. a substantial number of independent snowplow operators across maryland haven't gotten contracts either. >> they tell me they're trying to activate them now. whether they get it implemented in time for the storm, i do not know. >> reporter: we called the state highway administration. fh ascent a statement, an independent snow contractor saying sha will have all of our eligible resources available for the upcoming storm. sha has been working to clear up some confusion related to insurance requirements. the bottom line is we are prepared and ready for this

we have rural areas in our state, large rural areas, the eastern shore, maryland, western maryland, southern maryland, and the nra was saying that "the governor wants to take away your guns, "the governor wants to take away your guns." so i pulled the hunting permits of everybody that was registered to hunt in our state and i wrote to them myself and i said, "thank you for being hunters. "thank you for paying your permitting and licensing fee." "without that, we couldn't preserve our open spaces. "now let me tell you about the falsehoods and the lies "the nra is telling you." and by the time we got done passing the bill, and it wasn't easy, hallways were jammed, traffic around state circle was shut down by the numbers of people that were flowing in there. but by the time we got it done, they didn't even bother to send it to popular referendum, which they could've done to overturn it because we had grown such a broad consensus by-- - right, you won the argument. - we won the argument. and nobody in maryland to this day has lost their ability to hunt or take their kids out and teach them how t

one point game but maryland able to close it out down the stretch.... the terrapins hand iowa their first big ten loss this season 74 to 68 the final iowa jon: 2015 was a year of ups and downs for iowa state athletics. today i had the chance to sit down with a-d jamie pollard. we talked about everything that happened and everything to look forward too. and it starts wednesday with matt campbell's first iowa state signing day. " signing day is next wednesday. what do you expect out of this first signing class for him? i think there will be a lot of excitement. i think it's clear that he's been able to get in on and get early commits. and hopefully all of those commits end up signing the dotted line come next week he's clearly elevating us he's sending a message about what's important you know you can see they're recruiting a lot of o-linemen and d-linemen. that's his background that's what he played. he's sending a message about recruiting in the midwest so i think that will resignate with our fan base i think you'll see a lot of iowa connections." jon:

outer -- maryland and across the outer banks. this is intensifying off the coast and it will help pull the rain out. so as we look for rain through the night. if you are out tonight you still deal with the rain. temperatures will fall between 36 and 42. we'll talk about the weekend weather in a few minute. leon: you got it. a dozen marines are missing after helicopter crash. it's off the island of oahu. rough seas with a big challenge now. 30-foot waves in the area. the cause of the crash is under investigation. stay with us at abc7. we will keep you updated on what we learn. maureen: crossing state and the city lines to compromise on gun control. attorneys general from virginia, maryland and d.c. stemmed down today. the talk about how to reduce the gun violence in the area. northern virginia bureau chief jeff goldberg is live with the result of the discussion. jeff? jeff: a pledge by the democrats to work together on the issue. but no specifics how it will take shape. >> the top cops from a district of the state and the commonwe

see you in 10. >>> right now, new slowdown here on 95 in maryland.outhbound there at powder mill road. the right lane, the only thing that is blocked here this morning. that emergency road work started around 9:30 last night. not sure when that will wrap up. outbound, right lane and right shoulder blocked because of an incident there. remember two issues on 395. southbound, seminary two left lanes getting by, until 8:00 a.m. northbound, just after edsel, that work zone for the next 15 minutes or so. then out of the way. 66 here at 123, no problems into town or out of town, everything there rolling along quite nicely. see you back here at 5:01 with a live look at 270. >>> campaigning for clinton, who is expected to hit the trail for the presidential hopeful today as well as what all the other candidates are up to. >>> changing police policy. who is proposing an overhaul of how maryland officers do their job. >>> and what would you do for unlimited data from your cell phone carrier? the catch to look out for if you plan on signing up for a certain offe

southern maryland.nowfall amounts will be extreme from i-95 westbound. the american model is cranking out 35 inches of snow in leesburg and our forecast is every bit that aggressive. it looks like 18 to 24 or more snow drifts of 3 to 5 feet will be likely. travel will be impossible saturday and sunday at the least. it will be a long slow climb out from there. seven-day forecast coming up in a few more minutes. >> all right. chuck, thank you. >>> it's 6:24. slick conditions across our area this morning. charlie gischlar joins us now from the maryland highway administration. charlie, can you hear us? >> i'm right here, yep. >> let me ask you. we've been sort of wanting to roads all night long and heard the forecast. people seem to be concerned, bothered by the fact that it seems the roads weren't treated ahead of the storm yesterday schl that the reality? >> what happened here is we have these conference calls and contract out to a third party and they said, yeah, there's going to be a storm coming. we di

positive thing for maryland basketball. erin: the turgeonites will be in action tonight as they host northwestern. tip-off at 8:00. leon: i miss them. alison: we are less than two weeks away from the iowa caucus. the debate over guns is rising to the top of the national debate. jeff barn breaks down where each of the top candidates stand on the issue. jeff: two weeks before the caucus season, they are on the attack on the issue of gun control. >> i insist this president if he could get rid of the second amendment he could. >> guns don't pull the trigger. people pull the trigger. >> there is a reason gun owners of america endorsed me in this race. >> the top candidates agree enough laws are in place to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. the focus should be on mental health programs. all fully support the second amendment. >> in any republican primary everyone say they support the second amendment. unless you are clinically insane. >> donald trump heard the message loud and clear. trump the mogul used to support longer

southern maryland as well. already had around 10 to 12 inches of snow, wood bridge, 14 to 15 inches of snow. four things to do. it will be much better on your back if you shovel every four hours rather than trying to get rid of it all at once after the storm ends. clear snow from around the fire hydrants. clear snow from the heat pump outside the house. that will keep that running efficiently. make sure you check on your elderly neighbors as we have this storm continuing. winds gusting 30 to 35 miles an hour. planning to see drifting here in northwest as these gusts come on through. that's the way it looks. we'll be back out here with more updates throughout the morning. >> tom mentioned the fire hydrants. i was at bailey's cross roads. those folks asking three feet around the fire hydrants. >> if you spray pack or cooking spray on the shovel, both sides, it will slide right off and the snow won't stick on the shovel. >> good tips. >>> a live picture of what's behind us, that's logan circle. >> and kont don't b

western maryland, too. meanwhile around here, yeah we're going to see some of that make its way into the area. take a look at storm team 4 radar. we've been tracking it throughout the afternoon. you can see right around areas of hagerstown down toward martinsburg, that's the squally line that we're seeing. it's headed east toward areas like thurmont. eventually making its way toward thurmont, frederick, maryland, balliger creek within the next few minutes. meanwhile, we'll expand it out and show you the back edge around morgantown, elkins. that is the last of it that will be coming through here. up until about 8:00 p.m. this evening we're going to be seeing some of these snow showers make their way in with a little accumulation. what's next for us, the windy and the cold that will follow especially for early tomorrow morning. school day recess, well, what grade does tomorrow get? a "d." it's going to be way too cold. for thursday, a grade of "a." for friday, "b." we'll do not too bad toward the end of the w

so much colder air up across northern maryland.f you live up there or traveling that way, be careful. on planning out your day. a lot of slipperiness for the area this morning, lots of melting did your the early afternoon and then light rain showers move in between about 4:00 and 8:00 this evening. it will be rain to start as temperatures will be above freezing. keeping an eye on any chance for that turning to ice by early

frederick maryland feeling like six degrees, three below and hagerstown. we have a windchill advisory in effect overnight through noontime tomorrow, including montgomery, frederick, and loudoun counties. tonight, the temperatures 7 to 16, with the windchill factor above0 below zero to 5 zero. we will talk about the cold weather the remainder of the day tomorrow and the potential of snow. i will tell you when from the belfort furniture weather center in just a few minutes. for up-to-the-minute information on the developing weather situation, download the stormwatch 7 weather app, and follow us on facebook, twitter, and wjla.com. leon: the breaking news in prince george's county, where the was a crash involving an ambulance in several cars. one of those cars was impaired impaledsty impaled by -- by a pole. tom: we also spoke with the driver. he said he is very fortunate to be alive. on thecident happened inner loop of the beltway. this is video from earlier this evening. prince george's county fire and ems said the beltway in the left lane that sideswiped th

it's "maryland, my maryland." think they should think of another song. >> i think the recommendations are interesting. using "star spangled banner" isn't going to happen but francis key scott is a marylander. i think saying it's political correctness gone amok, what are we going to do, take all the statues down of thomas jefferson and george washington down because they were slave owners, i don't think you can rewrite history. it's not wree writing history. history always changes and the society always decides who and what they're going to honor. >> let's continue with the conversation after this break. >>> coming back now to report 'eers notebook we want to touch specifically on virginia, the new ceo of the alexandria chamber of comrce hoping to capitalize on the new way, on the new mgm grand over at the national harbor. you know, in some respects saying like, you know, we can sear it from here, it ooh knowset that far, how do we get in on a piece of that pie. >> i can see the moon. it doesn't make me an astronau

bartonsville here west of frederick maryland 6:33.:49 as the line of the snowshowers move through to the district. i have to update the estimate. 7:15 to 7:30 coming through. they are still holding together it's fast-mover snowshowers. the wind is increasing and changing the direction. then the temperatures will fall. we have a wind advisory until midnight for the wind gusts of 40 to 50 miles per hour. the wind gusts will increase. temperatures will fall. the big story by the morning is the wind chill. it will feel like the single digits. burst of snow on the leading edge of the cold front. reducing the visibility. look like winter wonderland in the areas that get it. then the skies will clear. we have more of what to expect in a few minute. maureen: thank you. leon: the d.c. county voted a year ago to not allowed a person to retire before discip

he signed with maryland saying "dunk" you very much but i'm going with maryland.tied with 25 to go, and then melo from about 25 feet, game over. terps win, 63-60. >>> the hoyas off the loss at creighton hosting depaul. this is peak from the corner. highway as on a 6-2 run and second half, a hostile takeover. rivera tie its at 17-and georgetown back on the winning track. >>> austin price leading all scorers with 16 and the mountain hawks roll 65-50 over american university. so great stuff going on there. >> absolutely. >> oh, everyone is looking forward to it. get your coat, everything. >> it will be windy in the afternoon. >> thank you for caring for someone with alzheimer's means i am a lot of things. i am his sunshine. i am his advocate. so i asked about adding once-daily namenda xr to his current treatment for moderate to severe alzheimer's. it works differently. when added to another alzheimer's treatment, it may improve overall function and cognition. and may slow theorsening of symptoms for a while. vo: namenda xr doesn't change how the disease progresses. i

but maryland scored30 points in fraser was a load inside. maryland led 40-30 at halftime. second half: alex kastanek connects from long range. later the inbound to whitney jennings pays off. but the turtle just kept building the lead. walker kimbrough with two of her 19. later it is brionna jones getting two of her 15 in the land of the giants. the terrapins topped the hawkeyes 76-56. a key stat. iowa had 8 assists to 16 turnovers. we got to get control of this. this has been too many games now where we have had way too many turnovers/ i can't say enough in terms of coming back and seeing all the great iowa fans and having family and friends at the game. we played for her. coming back to her home and put on a show for her and that's what i thought we did. so brenda frese is two and oh as a coach in carver hawkeye arena and the hawks see their 15 game home winning streak snapped. john campbell, tv9 sports and i'm joined right now by scott schebler who's in the major league's right now. scott, the big news for you was the l.a. dodgers traded you to the cincinnati reds in the

buckeyes end maryland's run. 80-71 the final. >> back over to the men's side. down the road in charlottesville, fifth ranked virginia hosting notre dame. dancing in the post. smooth like butter on toast. 21 points for the senior. virginia pulls away in the second. darius thompson knocks down shots. they win their 11th in a row. 77-66. ho this certainly does the trick. marcus strong to the rim, getting busy in the paint. team high 16 points for the freshman. devonte smith getting busy from outside. he scored 15. georgetown moves to 2-0 in conference. 80-70 the final. despite having the nfc clinched, the skins will play all of their healthy starters in the season finale against dallas. by healthy that means those excluded from the injury report. that likely means no deshawn jackson. that also means kirk cousins will start. jordan reed will also give it a go. since that week 13 loss to dallas when he caught just three passes for 33 yards, reed has averaged over 100 yards receiving per game and has scored five touchdowns. reed has certainly had his issues with inju

but southern maryland right now, it's in the mid-30s. so it's kind of a wet snow that is falling for this morning and into early afternoon. a look at that bigger chance of a major snowstorm coming later in the week. that will be coming this half hour. >> you've got our attention, tom. thank you. >>> developing right now, three freed americans have left iran after spending time there as prisoners. now among them is "washington post" correspondent jason rezaian. we want to get straight to "news4" derrick ward with more on the release and home coming for the journalists. where is he now, derrick? >> reporter: well, indeed, you know there are going to bo b some happy moments at this week's release of pritz never of iran, anywhere between four years to 40 days. one of those happy reunions will be happening on k street at the headquarterses of the "washington post." jason rezaian who was a kropt for the "washington post" has been in captivity for 545 days. earlier the post released a statement saying they could. be happier and they recently re

so why is it going away in maryland?he news4 i-team has some answers. >>> plus, it's the dog that stole our hearts during the blizzard. a special reunion with the rescuers who helped save a st. bernard. >>> a father of two was punched in the head and later died moments after leaving this georgia avenue lounge. tonight his family is speaking out. coming up at 5:30, we're learning new information about the moments le [mother] yeah but this neighborhood,i feel like it's got a lot of what we were kinda talking about. we should definitely go see it. [agent] hi. melanie. maggie. living room. [dad]what about this? this looks good. [brendan] no. [mother] isn't it great? [agent] hey brendan,you might like this room. [announcer]redfin pays its agents based on your happiness... that's real estate, redefined. >>> you're watching news4 at 5:00. >>> it was a horrible random assault. a man punched in the face and later died. >> it happened last summer as the victim was leaving a bar on georgia avenue. today for the first time his famil

. >> all right, jacqui, right now, maryland, d. company of, va are a, all under a state of emergency. the d.c. mayor once again gave update on the city's preparation for the storm. >> yeah. more on what she said from northwest. sam? sam: mayor made it crystal clear, this is a deadly storm. emergency management officials want everybody off the streets by 3:00 this afternoon. so wherever you plan on riding out this storm, you need to be there in less than three hours. they want everybody to have 72 hours worth of food and water. with winds reaching up to 50 miles per hour. they say, it will be a good day if less than 25,000 people lose power. this is all hands on deck situation. this city is shutting down right now. the district of columbia is now under a state of emergency. >> we see this as a major storm. it has life and death implications and all the residents of the district of columbia should treat that i way. the need the city's full cooperation. we head to the bleed's help, too. to send a clear messaging, that we want people t

. >> reporter: maryland law is clear. drivers must stop at crosswalks if anyone is waiting to cross. but police say it is safer if everyone looks out for each other. >> pedestrians, you can't assume the driver can't see you. bicyclists too. >> reporter: this safety measure could save your life. >> wear something bright. the people need to see you. >> reporter: montgomery county police have done several sting operations at this very crosswalk. and ticketed drivers who didn't stop. the captain contacted the state highway administration right after that bicyclist was killed. and, once again, he urged the agency to put flashing lights or something at this crosswalk to prevent another tragedy. >> hopefully, that story will help. >>> a changing of the guard today. in prince george's county, hank stewinski has taken over as the interim police chief. the former chief stepped astyed to take on a higher position working for county executive in a public safety role. and a post on facebook yesterday, he called stewinski a good man an

jones was committed to maryland for more than 13 months.this martin luther king day the wizards hosted a matinee versus the portland trail blazers who picked us up in the third quarter. good ball movement from the blazers. the ball ends up in the hands of mccollum who knocks down the three. 25 on the day for him. skip ahead to the fourth. wizards turn it over. alan crabb with the steal. blazers won the break. blazers win by ten. 108-98. high school hoops. this is in springfield, mass, in the classic earlier today. jags were down two. and kellen taylor drives. that send the game to o.t. where they went on to win 72-69. well, even though the redskins' season is over we still have fullback young with us on the sister station newschannel8 for the weekly show. we will discuss all things nfl playoffs and take your calls as always. that is in about 30 minutes. see you then. leon: see how happy he is to come in here. erin: exactly. leon: thank you. maureen: we are saying goodbye and good luck to our beloved and respected colleague at abc7 and a tra

some areas by 11:00, 18 already in frederick, maryland. that won't happen tonight. 36 in camp springs. by around 10:00, 11:00, that's when i expect to is he some freezing on the roadways. look at the radar. not much to show you, but some snow up here to the north. i doubt this is reaching the ground but it would be just flurries up towards northern portions of frederick county. here is what's coming though. we have two systems, one off the coast, one back to our west. this one will bring colder air and a chance for snow, a few flurries maybe tomorrow morning in our area but much bigger concern back towards the west here. back towards areas like garrett county, maryland, western mineral county, 3 to 6 inches of snow toward the western portions of the allegheny front here. so again some good snows for them. for us, we're not dealing with anything. they have a winter weather advisory. we'll see a few flurries, that's about it. a great ski report. liberty mountain open 100%. winter green 100% open. if you're thinking about skiing this weekend,

three of those in virginia and one in maryland. i want to show you this new video that we got into our newsroom tonight. one of the hardest hit areas in the south jersey shore area. this is from sea isle city, new jersey. the town under nine feet of water. all of the water and the wind even brought down power lines knocking out power to thousands of people. b.j. and amelia say the flooding will only get worse because of the high tide. the flooding could also be a major problem in long island, new york. now, speaking of new york, the city that never sleeps is offensively shut down tonight. more than two feet of snow fell at central park. the governor took to the unusual step of enforcing a travel ban in the city, and some surrounding areas, closing roads and commuter rail systems. it is expected to be lifted in the morning, though. jim and doreen, back to you. >> erica, thank you. >>> a live look now at the capitol dome tonight. the snow, it's ending or already over for most of us. >> this is officially one of the biggest snow event