. >> we s did findome snow-dusted roads in montgomery county. shomari stone begins ourive team coverage in bethesda. shomari, how are the roads there looking? >> reporter: the rain turned to snow during thevening commute. at least an inch has fallen and the slick roads in some areas. right now many streets are freezing, especially secondary ads in some neighborhoods in montgomery county. tonight people tell us they're concerned about driving to work on icy roads tomorrow morning. >> people need to be safe because this area doesn't know how to deal with snow. unless you've gone to college like i have in the midwest and snow and all that kin of stuff, you know how to do it. if you don't, don't do it. >> reporter: so what are you going to do tomorrow morning? >> have a cupe f cofd then i'm going to go to work. >> okay. >> reporter: right now, make sure that you give yourself plenty of time if you plan on goin to work and taking your kids to school. the good news is that there is a delay.r we're now joined by my colleague news 4 f darcy spencm resto

to charles county, back to montgomery county throughout the day and the afternoon and the evening and road conditions vary. you might have roads thatre clear. right here at rockville pike. there's some roads that have slushy and then we went into the neighborhood streets and some of them didn't look like they had seen a plow yet. so keep that in thmind. good news is, many schools will be closed so maybe people can sleep in tomorrow. >> thank you so much. >> be careful getting home tonight. >> our team coverage conditions. >> virginia state police saying th responded to more than 300 crashes across the state today. >> corey smith talked to folks out on the road. how are the folks dealing with the weather? >> about as good as the folks there. we drove up on one of the state police officers arriving to th scene of an accident. we'll show you here in a second. the snow continues to fall in northern virginia. thha only things been more constant is this stuff. we have seen a lot of snowplows come to this gas station whe a we to gas up for the long night and long morning ahead clearing roadw

you can see one involving a montgomery county officer.is cruiser was hit helping another driver whose car spun out o 270. >> meaghan fit gerald is it looking any better now the sun is setting? >> reporter: yes. so it looks like things are almost back to normal. transportatiel officials us that every road, even streets andikneighborhoods the ones here have been treated as clear. they tell under the circumstances these snowplow drivers from on a 5:00 p.m. according to them, they hit that goal. aye last few have been extremely busy for snowplow drivers. >> we have been pretty busy the last couple days. >> crews have been working around the clock, clearing, treating the roads all montgomery county to make sure they're safe for >>drivers. i seen a few cars in ditches. this hasn't been too bad. >> reporter: but roads caused dozens of crashes since sunday.h opper 4 shot this video t os morning collisions and cars sliding a tough road on 270. but sinceen th road conditions seem to have improved throughout the day. some roads looked a lot better t

that's why prince george's and montgomery county will be on a tomorrow. i think it will make a huge difference getting to school around 9:00 rather than7:00, give that sun time to work. still a lot of ice out the. agan national, 10.3 inche we went 6 to 10. they were ove that. bethesda, this was my house. i love being in the bulls eye. kwlumia 13. wheaton got a call in from harry about 11 inches there. thanks for that call. most of these are maryland numbers. i have virginia numbersoming up later. right now, clear skies. we are seeing melting. once the sun goes down, we will fall quickly. yeah, everybody will refreeze quickly. down to freezing at rs gaitrg, the winchester area, today. tonight will be a tough night. really tomorrow morning, t refreeze j after sunset tonight. then a tuesday morning mess. if you have to g upefore say 7:00/8:00 to drive, i really thin we will run into a lot of ice. tomorrow will be a major refreeze. lot of ice out there. just give yourself extra time. if you can wait until after 9:00, i really think that will make afe lot of d

. >> reporter: the cold is caung montgomery county health officer to issue warning. >> minimize exposure, minimize exposure to being frost bit and rtunities and risk of being hy hypo therm you can. >> reporter: west ox road is wes the temperatures go down below freezing tonight, we could have a a refreeze it could be hazardous for theus morning hour. that's the latest in fairfax. wendy, back to you. >> storm team 4 is working to keep you and your family safe as this winter weather hits and moves through. we have live radar, up to the minute forecast, a full list of any school closings or delays for you all on our free nbc waington app. just hit the weather tab. >>> anyone w drives on i 95 south in prince willint c will tell you one of the worstl bocks they face is near the bridge. that could soon all change. julie carey reports on improvement projects set for there and several other traff nightmare locations around our region. >> reporter: witness the aquac n bottlenec bottleneck. it looks like rush hour but it's 1:30 in e afternoo and there's no accident. these backups every day all day

from 2:30, the chae line from leesburg to northern montgomery county. by 4:30, the change line, in prince george's and charles county. and 6:30, all-snow everywhere. temperatures will be bely freezing v fast. total snow amounts. not really a lot of snow. a coating to 2 inches around town. 2 to 3, mainly, north and west. and there could be an ilated 4 inches there or so. winds out of the wt and northwest, will keep chills in the teens and the 30s all day tomorrow. windchills on thursday morning, air temperatures, 10 downtown but near zero in the shenandoah suburbs. we'll be bk in the 50s thex week. this will be a distant memory. >> southboun b.w. parkway.t look the hopoles in the middle of the roadway. this is not the only road be careful as you're headed out. because of the potholes, tlmy aret everywhere. we still have that left side of the roadway blocked for police activity. inner and outer loop of the beltway, no compliants right now.gr n and yellow line. in virginia. looks od. so does 95, northbound and southbound. inmaryland, 270 and top of the belt

includin fairfax a montgomery counties. our team coverage starts nownd with doug amelia in our storm center. how low will it go? >> it's going way low. we're talking about something we haven't really seen in about five years here. and that's wind chil below 10, below 0. >> and when you have wind chills anywhere from 10 to 15 degrees below 0, you can get frost fte in minutes. >> take a look at these wind chills right now. 2 degrees. it feels like 2 now in d.c. puff low just went down to 24 plow with an ongoing i blizzar buffalo. 35 in chicago. you talk about winte weather and boy do we have it across the nation right now. look at these winds gusting to 33 miles an hour at the airport. over 40 miles an hour in annapolis. you add the wind withhe temperature and you get these extreme wind chills. from 9:00 tonight until 10:00 tomorrow morning, wind chills below 0, down to 15 below in some spot maybe ev colder. frostbite threat, yes, within about 30inutes. so, guys, we're talking one cold tonight. we'll show you just how long th

winter blast too much if it gets them out of school, but there'says a price to play later in the montgomery county public schools has already reached itso limit. emergency closure days. d.c. public schoo has used one day. at thisoi p prince george's county public schools tacking on one day at the end of school and in fairfax county the school days are going to be longer so thos hours can b used to make up for this inclement weather. and storm team 4 working to keep kwo your family safe. we've got live radar, up to the minute forecast and school closings for you a on our free nbc washington app. >> there is always a pay back for school days. >> now to the latest on those efforts to keep the government from shuttg down agaust a couple of weeks from now. >> as lawmakers tryo work out a deal there is a different effort that would pu money in the paychecks for federal workers. >> reporter: so democrats are calling this part necessity, part gesture tof appreciation for those affected by the 35-day partl government shutdown. new legislation to give many federal workers a raise. virginia congressman injur

all of montgomery county, snow has stopped forit ae bit but it's coming right back in. ht snowc. around. area and which are n where there's the darker purples, there's heavier snow. back towards fauquier county, and this is the area i still expect to see the s heaviestw throughout rest day. where your totals will continue to go up. y look to the west, what aim watching with the storm system? this is tev upper low that's going to continue to move in and continue to eance our snowfall right on through the lull. we'll see it moveas back in. he upper low moves in closer it fills back in. south'sowards st. ma county. you folks have already seen some sleet and some freezing rain. that will continue to move into parts of the area. by late today that moves out as well. you go back over to snow and everybodyees a little bit more. how much more? well, oneo two possibly. really more like 1 around frederick. d.c. 2 to 4 inches and 4 t 6 waldorf to fredericksburg and these numbers will continue go as it goes on through the day. these numbers will drop because this is additional snowf

. >> montgomery county school district is jumping at the chance to hire federal wor rs during tutdown. they need more than substitute teachers. chris gordon available inside and outsidecl e sroom as well. >> reporter: this is the second job fair for furloughed workers. >> i think we can help probably everyone we see. we have substitute positions available. e also do hire security assistance, building service workers, we have our technology fields. it'sll not a just about substitute teachers. >> reporter: jonathan has worken fora 31 years. >> i have a daughter in college, tuition bills are due, that's on source of stress. >> reporter: stacy is a single ther with a young daughter. >> she knows i'm not getting a paycheck and we havere to be

it involves a montgomery county police suv.elissa and chuck will join us in a few minutes with the latest updates. we wanto checkith our team coverage on the roads. >> crews covering every angle of the aftermath of this weekend's storm. in a mihete, we'll on conditions in maryland and virginia. first, adam tus has been driving all over d.c. this morning. he's on the national mall this morning. adam, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, aaron. good morning, eun. stopping to enjoy some of the sights. snow in washington, d.c. makes for pretty pictures. look here at the lincoln memorial. we have snow covering the entire walkway here. there's been some shoveling that goes up the steps. but obviously,f you're coming out here to see some of the sights later on today, be aware that there's a lot of cleaning up that still needs to be done here. ape is looking over evng etis morning. we've got to out here and do this. you wonder if the park service would be out here sooner without the shutdown.ou check thist. look at the roads we wer

any time in issuing a winter storm warning for the washington metropolitan area, which cludes montgomery countyce georges county, the west along interstate 66, down so areas of waldorf to the south. baltimore, notice, to the north, they're under a winter weather advisory. our winter storm warning starts at 4:00 p.m. today and ends at. 1:00 tomorrow afternoon. the reason for that is, of course, the i snow already on our way. f snow, 4 to 7 inches we wanted to show you the area of snow, which we expect heavy amounts of snow to our the high country. 4 to 7, gaithersburg, montgomery county, to the north and west. also toward annapolis and the east because of, again, a low pressure system which will sta to develop move up the shoreline. areas there across the maryland, eastern shore, as well, will be picking ue serious amounts of snow. with that, feels like temperatures, cold air in place, temperatures in the 20s across the board. the wind chill temperature, what it feels like. mes, cold air is in place. storm syslready on the move. wanted to show you this graphic once again, tonight, as folks conti

chief manger files every year from the montgomery county police. visibility and transparency is is a best practice, something to be applauded. finally, you do not have to create these resources on your own. you do not have to reinvent the wheel. as i mentioned, every resource i mentioned, including some other ones, are in the app. great resources from the f.b.i. i wish i could say we are going to solve this problem after this panel or maybe even in advance of the 88th winter meeting but we won't. implementation of the mayor's compact, think about the ideas that will present on this panel, will be important and thank you for the commitment you have made to these issues. >> thank you so much, mr. lieberman. i hope that you will check out hose resources on the app. i am certainly looking forward to seeing that report. mayor bill, you and your city have been through quite a bit ver the last year. please share your response and how you all are working through this. mayor peduto: thanks, mayor. i can remember exactly where i was when i first heard it. i

and they all have stayed with me and will never leave me. >> reporter: in montgomery county, pat collins, news4. >>> guns will not be allowed inside rginia's churches if governor ralph northam gets his way. the gun control measures, the governor sup this year, all failed in the general assembly. >>> when somebody spotted a hole in the ground in south florida, they thought this was an ordinary sinkhole but on closer inspection, itd turut to be something entirely different. >> it sure did. leadingecret tunne straight to a nearby bank and now the hunt is on for some bank bandits. >> reporter: this morning the fbi in florida is digging for answers after discovering a tunnel leading to treasure. >> this is truly a unique case here. >> reporter: agents say a call to a road crew about a sinkhole led to atunnel at leas 50 yards long near the entrance in the woods, a pairf ots, a generator, a rope and a wagon of the tun leading right to a chase bank nearby. >> even if you could get into the bank, isn't t vault the real problem? t i wan talk to them, yeah. these are great questions. >>

county schools are closed. in virginia -- >> now, to the delays. montgomery, prince george's,er frk and washington county schools will open two hours late. invirginia, fredericksburg city, arlington,fafax, stafford, and king. coun manassas city, alexandria city and falls church avschools. e all of that information at the bottom of your screen. >>> it is so icold,t is historic.s the temperatuf the week are the coldest in a generation. the weather is blamed sor at leasen deaths at this point. thousands of flights have been canceled, leaving passengers stranded. and 85% of c thentry is feeling this at some level, with 230 million people impacted. >> our melissa is standing by with your commute. we start withtorm team 4 belorologist chuck everyone is suffering this morning. >> the temperature when i pulled in was 6 degrees. national airport, typically, one of the warmerplaces, is a frigid 11 degrees with a 1 below zero windchill. dulles has dropped toro i think the old record was 2 for the date. 7 i fnt royal. 3 in gaithersburg. it's not as windy as it was yester

. >>> a man dead after trying to rob a silver spring bank, according to montgomery county rmlice. the man walked into the bank and demanded $20,000 yesterday. the manager hit the panican butn the gunman took off. a police officer confronted the su tect outside of bank and shot and killed him. >>> it's 38. coming up,ed fir for her faith. a dishwasher's disagreement with her boss leads to a $28,000 verdict. why she will only get a fraction of the cash. >>> buying a suit when you are 7'7". a lk at a shopping >>> you're watching news 4 today. >> the great white way in new york city honored one of its own by dimming the lights for carol channing. she died on tuesday. she was known for her roles in "hello dolly" and "gentlemen prefer blondses." she was 97 years old. >>> the washington wizards are just hours away from an overseas match-up. they will take on the new york knicks in london. the wizards were at the cfort practice yesterday. hopefully the jet lag has worn off. they arrived in the u.k. an entire day late, after snow grounded their private plane earlier this week. looks like th

. >>> that's right.ea ng news tonight in montgomery county. chopper 4 first on the sce in silver spring where wee found a heavy police presence and several roads blocked off. >> dectives tells two people were discovered dead inside a car on stuart lane. shomarirrtone justed on the scene. what are you learning now? >> reporter: good even gentlemen. a montgomery county police department accidentuc reconson team is behind me. you can see that i am standing approximately 100 yards away from where the flashing lights are behind me. that's where the scene where this occurred. let's roll someideo from chopper 4. police say around 8:30 tonight, a car hit several parked cars or st lane. this scenes -- [ lost audio ] >> you can see the video there from above. we've lost shomari's audio. police are working the scene where two people weread discoved inside a car below. >>> on to that winter blast tonight. good news here, folks, the morning drive should fine for most of you. but there's concern. something like this is in store for your evening commute. you

county. >> to delays, montgomery, prince george's, frederick d washington county schools will open two hours late. in virginia, fredericksburg ci, arlington, fairfax, stafford and king george and spotsylvania county schools are on a two-hour delay. and rappahannock, and manassas, and alexandria, and falls church schools. >> the federal government will open o time today. and a reminder, we have all of at information at the bottom of your screen and in the nbc washington app. i >>> so cold, it is historic. the temperatur of the week are the coldest in a generation. the weather is blamed for at least seven deaths at this point. thousands of flights have been canceled, leaving passenrs stranded and 85% of the country is feeling this at some level, with 230 million people impacted. >> our melissa mollet is standing by with yr commute. let's beg with chuck bel and a look at the numbers, if we have to look at them. >> you have to look. you have to look. it is a very cold beginning thursday. one more day closer to the weekend and one more day closer to the beginning of the end of the cold. etwe have

chief manger files every year from montgomery county police, this report this, something to be applauded. finally, you do not have to create resources on your own. you do not have to reinvent the wheel. every resource i mentioned, including some others are in the app.great resources from the fbi. i wish i could say we would solve this problem after the panel or maybe in the advance of the winter meeting but we won't. therefore, implementation of the mayors compact, thinking about the ideas presented on the panel are important. thank you for the commitment you've made to do that . >> thank you so much mr. lieberman. i hope you will check out those resources on the app. i'm certainly looking forward to seeing that report. you in your city, mayor, you've been through quite a bit over the last year. please share your response and how you all are working through this . >> thank you, mayor. >> i can remember exactly where i was when i first heard it. i was with the sergeant my chief of staff was in the backseat and we were going up the hill to mercy hospital to check on a couple of the officer

thanks. >>> a story i montgomery county. right now, police are investigating how two men mysteriously died. chopper 4 was over the scene in the white o area last night. you can see a police presence. witness told 911, a car crashed into several other pa parked vehicles on the road. when detectives arrived on the scene, tre were two men dead in the car. police are not saying how the men died. >>> in houston, texas, police officersreighting for their lives after being shot yesterday afternoon. this happened on the city's southeast side. the officers were serving a warrant for drug activity in a home, when several officers approached the front door, the suspect opened fire,ng four officers. police returned fire, killing both suspect >>> back to the storm team weather alert. the latest bout of winter weather to hit right around the commute, makg your ride home a big headache. crews didn't waste time preparing the roads. people flocked to grocery stores, cleaning off the bread and milk. >> justin finch is live at the van dorn str

this is 27 montgomery county, side streets were a little sprough. silverng, 16 feet at colesville aad. tree brought down by a trick. the beltway, inner loop and outer loop, no problems. >>> this morning,eg we're with leftover snow and slick roads. >> you want to take yr time and watch for slous conditions. justin finch joins us from montgomery county. how are you roads looking where you are? >> reporter: you wre right. yot to leave yourself extra time. the snow we saw earlier, is starting to slack up. now, seeing this morning, we saw, too, the overpasses, the ramps. we are seeing snow accumulate there. the salt trucks and the plows are working the s.ro know that again, as the snow falls down, areas that weren't perhaps -tweated or melting before, you may see thosere as problem spots today. the neighborhood streets have a lot of slush on them. now, we're just above freezing up and down with wary of the shiny patches on the that could be slippery. as of right now,he highways look great. it's the main roads and the sidewalks that you want to be careful

there's the winter weather advisory.ud county, northern montgomery county, washington county, the panhandlewest virginia. th snow won't be that impressive. we can get a half an inch to an inch around town maybe 1 to 3 inches closer to the pennsylvania border. more snow chances into the weekend. more about that coming up in the next few minutes. after that, the news continues. >> thank you, chuck. >>> it's 6:31. developing this morning, the fbi foiled a man's plot to carry ok a terror att the white house. >> the fbi arrested a man who n planned to useti-tank rocket to storm into the white house. early last year, someone informed the fbi that taheb was planning an attack. coming up, justin finch will have more on the undercover operation that halted this uld-be deadly plan. >>> new on the political front, president trump's approval rating is down from just a month ago. and here's what the npr/"pbs news hour" poll found. from january 10th to 13th. among those surveyed, 39% approve of president trump. 53% disapprove. that's a 7% net change. want then americans government to make a compromise an

even two schools closed i montgomery county because of burst pipes. a very cold day for sure in 2014, and that's what we're expecting tomorrow morning. it does look like some of them are going to delay or close tomorrow vupt as a result of a frigid air coming in. wind at 26 miles per hour, but we've got gusts to 40 miles per hour making it feel even colder. these are the wind chills with the sustained winds, as i mentioned 25 miles an hour. 4 below in martinsberg. you add in these wind gusts close to 40 miles per hour. th includes d.c.'s wind chill rglow 0. 30 in fredericks and we have a wind advisory that continues -- there y go, arlington count apublic schools a tr delay. the wind is going to die down tomorrow morning, you're still going to have wind chill tomorrow morning but i think a two hour delay really helps. again, you are going to see some more delays i think and maybe even some closures. lasted about 20 minutes or so, o some of that on the heavier side especially north of d.c. that's the front. oncet came through, temperatures dropped quick

. >>> in montgomery county, officials are turning sev indoor aquatic centers into warming centers. the four locations aren up o your screen right now. shelters will be open from 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., pets are welcome. >> we're dealing with bitter cold in our area. but it could be a lot worse. look at this. a wintertorm buried parts of the midwest and sneenortheast, r several inches of snow. eanwhile, in chicago, ice caused a plane to skid off the runway at o'hare international airport on saturday. in update new york, the hudson river, completely frozen over. >> how does this storm compare to others you have to cover? >> biggest one for me. >> peopleehink they hav four-wheel drive they can op. >> the storm is responsible for killing one person. a snowplow driver in kansas died when he lost control of his truck and it roldover. chuck bell will have the forecast for your neighborhood and all of the advisories and warnings in effect. we have the locations of warming centers and shelters all over our area. >>> as we enter day 31 of the government shutdown, the reality of missing anot

in two thousand and ten the cost of living in montgomery county thirty percent higher than the national average and was the tenth wealthiest counties in the u.s. . but we want to live in the county we were born and raised in. families up here. i don't know any other place. jose and i went to twelve here in montgomery county we went to great schools we met my cousin introduced me to or on facebook. an interest group and i knew she liked star wars me being a nerd sent a picture of the guy with the stormtrooper helmet on looking at i'm not your creature improve you know she's all this is really awesome you know i could give you whatever. you know i'm kind of in there i was like my look here's a virtual hug we can share this. looking back on i was like. i was a virtual. who's they started talking to me on facebook and let's be honest and this one sexy guy was talking it's got to that he's very good looking guy. is very lucky. the first date came up my cousin they were like go there don't to learning about dating and don't turn me about your married or your ex-wife what you're going to do do

when you don't need it, make you give it. >> the manna food center in montgomery county tells us they'll waive normal income requirements for affected workers while the shutdown drags on. right now, another area bank stepping up to help out federal workers, today, the capitol area fd bank going to have five pop-up markets. federal workers can receive bags ofgroceries, no questions asked. free produce and non-perishable item given out at select giant stores. >> it is a tough january for many families in our community. their budget is already gh stretched with a missing paycheck or two, it just makes it harder to make end's meet. often, what we're seeing isood is that part of the budget that people tend to >> the markets just opened up six monthutes ago. 'll be open until noon. all you have to do is bring your federal government or federal contractor id. >>> and those furloughed federal bovr government workers are finding a haircut is not in the budget. we go to a local community barbershop offering to help out. >> reporter: haircuts, buzz cuts, trims. furloughed fedal government rkers are

montgomery county schools is going to be closed tomorrow. >> that's right. news4 gave you continuing coverage ons the storm t morning, and this afternoon. and we are far from done, folks. coming up next, we'll have a live report from virgini >> and we' going to take a look at road conditions >>> we are showing a live look outside on the roads. fese are live pictures i-66 in roslyn. you can tell the plows have been out there a number of times. i think a lot of people are still doing the smart decision and taking it a out there.ly so please, if you don't have to be out there, just stay inside. >> don't be in a hurry to get into a ditch. >>> the snow still falling in parts of our .ar it's been going in fits and starts all day today. >> right now that it's dark and temperatures are dropping, everybody should be extra careful if you decide to head outside. >>hat's right. ws4s cory smith is live in manassas with a look at the conditions there. and itoo like it is coming down pretty well down there, cory. >> reporter: yeah, leon and erika. seems no matter where you

in montgomery county, derrick ward, news 4. back to you. >> thanks very much. >>> thetorm team 4 coverage of the winter storm is available anywhere at any time. l have you to do is download the nbc washington app. >> yeah, because, folks, we're not done with it yet. doug says more snow is g come as we continue to see a lot of snow blanket the region, but let' send it to doreen who is down at thes health & fitn expo. doreen? >> reporter: the green cape, ere's so many things t do here at the nbc 4 health & fitnessexpo, but'm going to tell you something you can do for somebody else if you e me down her >>> e moic is the best music. >> they don't always have the best music. >> expousic islways great. >> despite the snow, if you can get there safely we're still oh. the final day of the nbc 4 and telemundo 44 health and fite necessary expo. >> news 4'stz doreen gr at washington convention center to explain the importance of organ donation. good morning, doreen. >> goo morning, meagan and adam. we hope that people will come down a joi

she's the montgomery county police department's outreach officer for people with autism and other intellectual disabilities. the two met at an autism walk. jenn: she told him just always tell the truth no matter what. and then laurie just did this. she's like, that's a message. that's a message the police need. we are going to do something about this. >> this is our idd ambassador -- this is jake edwards. i thought it would be great to have jake come speak to our officers and share the experience that he had with our officers and how we could learn from each other. diane: and that's what they've done for three years now. jake and laurie have teamed up to train police officers how to interact with those who have autism. jake: sometimes when people talk to me with a serious tone of voice or a scary face, i cannot stay in control. i just cannot help it. diane: officer megan mccool has taken the class twice. officer mccool: it's probably the best hands-on type of experience or training that you can get because you can describe somebody with autism all day long, but to physically see someone with a

r> reporter: as a montgomery county police offi is about to put thewa cuffs ord jones, the suspect takesrom apri 2017 shows officers and a polure k-9 in hotsuit.e >> around. come around. >> reporter: aofficer's body camera shows him jumping a six-foot fence. >> wheree is at? >> an officer jumps a fence and e'nds on him and says, where is he? ps sitting on top of the defendant beforeeeling up a piece of plywood and realizing that he has the defendant, he's caught the person they've been chasing. >> reporter: police say theee vehiclesred in the floorest gle area in a deal for a large amount of marijuana, several pounds, but dispute led to an exchange of gunfire. the cars scattered. evidence shows a bullet hole near the driver's side headrest of a dodgech challenger. per 4 captured the scene from the air that afternoon as the suv containing jones, 28 and another mtoed near dale drive in silver springs. after jones was taken intoy, custfficers searched the area and found a gucci backpack a witness had seen h carrying. it held 3 pounds of pot and a .45 caliber handgun. jones with a previous f

trav travel to the hospital. >>> in montgomery county, two cars collided on route 27 this morning. they say a cross crossed over the center line and hit a sharp curve and hit an mion car in damascus. one driver died. two more are in critical condition. neighbors tell news 4 they see crashes here too often and want more signage to warn drivers. >>> new at 11:00 tonight, the high cost of those police body cameras. the cameras were hailed as a to restore community trust after some high-profile police shootings, but "the washington post" reports that smaller police departments acrosstr the coy have decided they c afford the programs. they're too expensive to store d manage the footage. arlington county police opted not to use the cameras after a pilot program revealed the cost would be roughly $300,000 a year. in a statement to news 4, arlington police officials explained the challenge is not purchasing the technology. they wrote, "it's implementing the program, which requires upgrades to existing infrastrture and the need to hire additional staff to support it." >>> the hottest ticket

our drive cam driving through montgomery county. roads looking good. big props to the crews, the salt truck crews out there. >> it is flying. that's a good pace right there. >> yeah. yeah. yeah. >> as we go to break, folks, here's the live look at some scenes today. this is our national mall cross-country skier today. people walking the mall. mother and son coming up, too.ok t the castle. >> it's wonderful if you live downtown. beautiful area to go for a walk. it really is lovely because the snow is quite beautiful. >> there's the castle. people building snow men we'll be right back with more pictures as we take you around oue dmv on r first storm day oue dmv on r first storm day it hasn't always been easy, has it? ♪ there have been days when you doubted yourself. ♪ and days when you were ready to quit. ♪ but you didn't. ♪ because you had the courage to venture into something powerful. education. if i leave you with just three words of advice: never...stop...growing. [cheering] >> welcome back. at high noon to news 4's special coverage of o first snows

county schools are closed today. >> now to theelays in maryland. howard, montgomery, prince georges, anne arundel, frederick and washington county schools are on a two-hour dey. >> in virginia, alexandria, arlington, falls church, fredericksburg, king george, stafford and wind chester schools on a two-hour delay. >>> west virginia, berkley, hampshire, jeffern and morgan county schools two hours late. all thaton informas on the bottom of your screen and in the nbc washington app. >>>f team coveragee storm and its impact. we're spread out across the regi now monitoring road conditions near you. >> melissa mollet has a che on your commute in the first 4 traffic but we begin with lauryn ricketts. cold, too, lauryn. >> we're certainly talking about very chilly conditions. the main story today, not the little bit of snow that we got yesterday. really not even the ice. re all ws were out t night. thank you to them. we are talking about winds and very, very cold, dangerously cold wind chills headed our way. snowfall totals, nothing to write home about. we picked up a quarter

. >> reporter: montgomery county y state's attorohn mccarthy praised the tough sentence, 15 years in pris handed down to 52-year-old felix silva for knowingly having sex with a 14-year-old human traffickingim vins evidence agait him included videond pictures he took of the sexual assault, including this selfie. >> he is the kind of person that creates the market thatllows for young children like this 14-year-old girl to be trafficked. >> reporter: prosecutors say in the summer of 2017 the -year-old was working at a bar called lily's cafe in wheaten. at one point, members of the ms-13 stre gang beat her with a bat, 26 blows because she refused to be prostituted for which the gang receivedr $100 each time. she later agreed to meet him across the street th went to a residence with him. news 4 has not been able to determine whether a official complaint has been filed for how the 14-year-old came to be working at the bar, as court documents state. >> maybe the liquor board should take up with this particular m establit to determine whether or not they should remain open using underage chi

take a look what's going o around montgomery county coming towards e bethesda area. these areas right here, let's go ahead and zoom on in to where we're seeing this, around leesburg, you can see a little bit more enhancement here making it's way across the potomac, towardseston and great falls. more around middleburg and marshall. back to the twhitep area. we will continue to see these throughout the next couple of hours. these april lake-effect snow showers coming all the way down he lakes. follow this band right here all the way into our region. really kind of neat to see that. we don't see that too often around here. we're seeing it today. that just shows youold air is moving across the lakes. canadian air moving across the lakes. so rigow current temperature sitting at 34 degrees. but look at the wind. 16 miles an hour. the windcll right now is 24 degrees in the city, but if many an you it's already in the teens. look at the current wind gusts. 30 miles an hour in d.c. 33 in camp springs. 20 in martinsburg. near 40 in winchester. we will continue to see these win

and montgomery county here. we're seeing a driver who has things wrong. heehould not b where he is right now, going underneath a downed .wire street.g south on 16th that's what you do not want to do. that's why police have trafficck here blo throughout the morning here. want to show you the actual mess here. take a look. these arrethe downed take a look. brought down by a d.c. public works dump truck overnight here. we're told tt maybe the hopper was um in the back. you'llee a power pole here was snapped, in addition to the downed traffic light. if you look north there, you see the traffic move along. you'll notice thatraffic is diverted at that point., looking back south of the circle here, we're seeing traffic from d.c. go northbound. eastern avenue at 16th street. this is an area of blair circle. everything will divert here at 16eeth strand resume service at alaska avenue northwest. this will be an issue throughout the morning, especiallyn the morning commute. we're hearing this will likely last throughhe morning. pepco tries to restore power and power

late today montgomery county council members released legislation to overhaul how police shootings are investigated and who does the investigating. scott macfarlane joins us now to explain new at 6:00 tonight. >> if thi bill becomes law, independent investigators would be called in to review deadly police shootings in montgomery county. investigators who are not directly affiliated with the county pice department. as it stands now the county police department investigates nts own officers for fatal shootings and the hands over the findings to the prosecutor tin howard counto reew. the councilman who offered the bill said he did so because of a shooting last summer. the officer was cleared of chargesut they're concerned the county police department led the investigation and never made the results >> you have justifiable bri community concern, why did that happen? what happens in the investigation? why weren't charges filed? that cas in particular exposed serious deficiencies how we conduct ourselves as a county in these investigations. >> the montgomery county police told us they have n

this is prince william, fairfax, montgomery county, the district, arlington and etienne kabong.u're i d.c. metro zone you see rain moving in tomorrow ab 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. and the chance to see snow, maybe a little bit of sl in the metro zone i'm seeing temperatures warm enough that we look at just wet roads out there. and if we doee any mix it's going to be all rain out there by about 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. tomorrow evening. this event in the metro zonen winds d by 10:00 a.m. sunday morning. then we head to the southern, zo stafford, king george y county, for this is an all rain event with rain moving in between:0bout and 478 tomorrow and it's over by 10:00 a.m. on sunday. notust the southern zone but area wide we can see around an inch of rai and that could lead to some minor flooding out there. something we'll be keeping an eye on. taking you out to the western zone, frederick, loudoun, culpepper county, down through orange. you'll see a wintery mix tomorrow between 10:00 and 1:00 p.m. this means snow is in play, maybe a dusting, freezing rain, you could see some ice accumul

we're talking about the montgomery county/d.c. line.colesville road,e we h wires and a traffic light brought down by a dump truck. that area is shutdown, northbound and southbound through the morning commute. here's what you can do. we zoom in on that closure point. if you're headed to d.c., we're working for you here. traffic on the east-west highway. out of traffic pushed off there. we're going to have a live moment for you at the scene. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway,oesn't look bad. in northwest, arkansas avenue, between decatur and allison street. water main break shuttin down water main break shuttin down sogme my name is elaine barber, and i'm a five-year cancer survivor. surviving for five years is a big deal. i had so many people at ctca helping me find a way to go through the treatments. the reality of cancer is not everybody survives. at ctca, they have a huge celebrate life event. that was amazing because the whole day was about all of the survivors. i'm excited about my future. learn more at cancercenter.com/phila

th the latest live from montgomery county, chris gordon news4. >>> leon harris here back at the livecalls to end the government shutdown. today some senior fbi agents came forward to talk about the impact of another missed paycheck for them. leaders of the fbi agent's ssociation held a n conference. they say that lack of funding is not only forcing thousands of agents to work without pay it' also hampering investigations, affecting recruiting and forcing many employees to make tough choices abouthich bills they can afford to pay. >> the fbi family comes in times of crisis. it isad truly that we must resort to this, because we are being let down by our elected officials. >> that's association president tom o'nnor. he emphasized that agents are still coming to work and doing their jobs every y, even though they aren't getting paid, but he couldn't comment on the impact on specific investigations. jim, doreen, back to you. >> leon, thank you. >>> 33 years ago this week a tragedy in the skies, a maryland police helicopter spiralled out of control and i crashedo these woods. killing both

this is in montgomery county. happened around midnight along georgia avenue. lanes are now back open. >>> happening today, volunteers going to be cleaning up the park around fletcher's boathouse. it begins at7:30, half hour from now. it is in northwest d.c. it's been leavingith run-off from the potomac because of the recent rain and snow. lauryn ricketts sayin today, they'll get a break. >> yeah. lunteers. all the lunteers. all the vogo hey babe, wh c's the password for tle bill? lunteers. all the vogo rollerbladeking22. capital "k". ok... what about the phone bill? it's the entire alphabet backwards. z y x w v... i got it. i got it... what about electric? shrimp uh uh. lobster? it didn't work. the words "all seafood" or like different seafoods? no, just like work your way through the ocean. what? forget all your passwords. bill pay on the td bank mobile app keeps all your bills in one place. the best internet meets the best things to do on the internet when you switch to fios, the 100% fiber-optic network. and right now is your last chance to get a year of am

. >>> quitery scene in montgomery county today. chopper 4 was overhead minutes after a police officer shot and killed a suspected b robber. witnesses say they felt like they were in the middle of a movie or something. all ts unfolding on wain avenue in silver spring. meagan? >> reporter: yeah, police say this officer andpe the s got into some sort of confrontation before that spect was shot and killed. then they taped off the area just behind me here as they tried to figure o if this guy had a bomb. this wasn't the scene anyone expected to see while trying to get to work this morning in downtown silver spring. >> i guess crazy things happen. it sounds like something from a movie. >> i looked up and i seen so many police officers coming down. 11:00 when dozens of montgomery county police officers surroundedain avenue, blocking off parts of coalsville road after a gunman tried robbing the bb&t bank. >> walked into the bank manager's office, stated he had a bom in his backpack, he alsop liftedis coat and displayed a handgun. >> the as

. >>> in montgomery county this morning. >> t friends and recent college graduates were found shot to death inside a car. we showed you the scene from chopper 4 yesterday morning. ictim as entified the christian roberts and jordan radway. they were found shot inside a car just off stewart lane in white oak. a relative tells us the family is crushed. >> what are you going t remember most? >> his fun-loving personality. his sweetness. >> vigil will be held this friday at paint branch high school where the two played basketball. vigil will follow friday's game. >>> started with a woman not kshowing up for w in montgomery county, ended with her son in jail f murder. ozzi maine kamara is charged with killing his moth. she wa killed after she went to her home to do a welfare check. that's where ty found her. officers say she was dead and her son had blood and cuts on his hands. investigators have not released a possible motive in this case. >>> developing this morning, investigators are looking for surveillance video in the possible hate crime against empire star jussie smollett. he was a w

this was the scene after montgomery county police say an armed gunman walkedth into bb&tnank on w avenue and went straight to the manager's office. stated he had a bomb in his backpack, he also lifted up his coat and displayed a handgun. >> he says the suspect dammed $20,000 in cash, but the manager was able to hit p theic button to alert police and the suspect took off. chopper 4 was flying above moernts after the off spotted the suspect who was heading towards the silver spring metro station. >> at which point he was nt conf by a montgomery county police officer who observed the suspect with the backpack on. there was a confrontation. the suspect was then rshot. >>eporter: buildings were evacuated, then surrounding reets blocked off while police used robots to investigate a possible bomb inside the suspect's backpack. it was a disruptio for some folks. >> it's just crazy for this area. >> reporter: but in the end no one got hurt. >> guess crazy things happen. sounds like something from a movie. >> reporter: now, police tell us something that was designed to found ke a bomb was inside t

hampshire, hardy, grant, mineral jefferso and morgan county. >> to delays, montgomery, prince george'sick and washington county schools will open two hours

and earlier you heard about the montgomery county report that has been published under the leadership of teague manger. would you share your insight with us now? >> first let me thank mayor burke and mayor peduto for the -- for your leadership when these things happen and your compassion. it is, as a police chief, it is so help to feel -- in terms of responding to these kinds of awful, tragic incidents when you have -- when your boss is doing the right thing and working with you. this truly is what was described up here by these two mayors is certainly, it is a club you don't want to be a member of. so let's think about, you know, and these -- unfortunately we have more and more mass shootings around the country. you see the statistics they can numbers we have had since the 1980's, how they're increasing exponentially. but the majority of the hate crimes, the vast majority of hate crimes you'll deal with in your city, aren't going to get this kind of national coverage. they're going to be vandalisms, they'll be threatening letters, they'll be swastikas spray painted on a school bus. t

molette green introduced to this choir at montgomery county.onight they perform on one of the mostamous stages in the world. they are in nashville now to perform at the grand old opry. the only high sc group from maryland invited to perform there. >> what an honor. >> ye >> the school will be hosting a live streami event good luck to the performers wishing them the best. what an iredible experience for the rest of heir lives to remember. >> yes it's cold outside. but summer wilbe here before you know it. >> when? when? >> so soon. >> don't tease me like that. well that' why camps in montgomery county are calling on parents to sign up kids now. we parents know even though it's still january, the camps fil up fast, right, >> absolutely. as long as there is this federal government government s atdown looking for opportunities, discounts, things for furloughed familie to still be able to take advantage of and we found them. we asked the folks at parent magazine to lay it out. there is a big camp fair happening sunday. but right now we are previewin

okay, so from robotics to sports, the montgomery county camp fair will have everything you need to kn coming up on sunday in bethesda. and look, weut out the call to parent magazine. hey, are there deals for furloughed federal worker people impacted by this shutdown, and we brought out a little preview for you of some of the 60haamps tt are offering deals. okay, soo i want t talk to coach parker really quickly. basketball is your thing. tell me about the program. >> most parents struggle to find good basketball programs so we have done the job of making it simple and fun. >> and thenf coursedrones. who doesn't love to fly drones? in a children love to learn s.t.e.m. and flyg drones, yes. >> let's make ithappen. then we have the robots, dash and dot and the mad scientist happening over here. i just love it. club i kids, right? >> yep. we have science and technology for kids ages 4 up to 15. >> okay. and then kid museum offering a whole lot of deals as anwell. then you've got the hands-on learning going on. >> kids learny doing it. kid museum. we do robotics, a weo have kids build their

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