i'm pat lawson muse. this is "viewpoint." stay with us for news 4 today. >>> coming home busy travellers are headed back from a long holiday weekend but especially frustrating for one group of travellers. >> a warm up under way as we take a live look outside. soak in the sun while you can when it comes up. not going last for long. >> what we're learning about what led up to a local student's thanksgiving day murder. >> good morning and welcome to "news4 today". i'm adam tuss. >> i'm angie goff. >> right now we're watching the skies and roads on one of the busiest travel days of the year. more of you will be flying today than any other day of the year. now according to aaa 46 million americans are traveling this weekend. that'she

pat lawson muse shows us how she's fighting to remember. >> my children, four children, great grands.> every day, bonita spikes writes in her journal about things and people she's determined not to forget. >> my husband, michael. >> remembering has become her day-to-day challenge. >> i have to remind myself every morning. >> 60-year-old lobbyist whose daily fight is now against early onset alzheimer's. >> i'm losing a little bit every day. >> for years she's worked on behalf of crime victim. >> i saw many mothers sons killed in the streets of d.c. >> crime hit her own family before coming here. her husband, michael, was shot to death in a convenience store 1994, his killers never caught. because the couple always opposed capital punishment, she carried his picture daily as she fought to repealed the death penalty. >> no human should decide who lives or dies but i'm not soft on crime. >> repeal came in 2013, the same year she was diagnosed. now spikes writes as she fights to remember all she has done. and she reads to find comfort. >> i asked the lord and he delivered me from all my fe

i'm pat lawson muse. this past year has presented new challenge challenges, but also new opportunities. it is booming, but there is still a lot more giving today. my guests this morning are leanne posco, senior manager of community affairs for capital one. tamara copeland from grand makers and celeste james is from kaiser permanente, also serving on the washington regional food funders committee. tomorrow you just released your annual report. what do you characterize for us the state of the business of philanthropy in the washington yeej on? the landscape has changed. talk about that. >> certainly with the cessation of giving by the freddie mac and fannie mae foundations, that's made a major difference in our giving. last year the people who responded to the survey say they gave about $228 million to local initiatives here. they still have $4 billion if assets, and the assets are growing. there certainly seems to be increased giving and increased commitment to our region. >> who is now doing most of the g

pat lawson muse at the verizon center with more on how you can help. pat?> hey, pat. >> reporter: wendy and jim, things will soon be winding down here at verizon center. but the hard work is just beginning. between now and thanksgiving, there is a whole lot of packing and sorting and delivering to do to get all the food collected for families to those families. and we have gotten an awful lot of help today from monumental sports, which includes the caps, the mystics and the wizards. >> it's a pleasure for us to do this. lives are involved, and the coaches, and players, obviously. and this is all for a very good cause. >> it's just important to give back. we have all been so very blessed. and we just are happy to help all the families in need. >> now, our phone bank will be open until 7:00 tonight. news4's doreen gentzler is waiting to take your call at 202-885-4949. call her and make a donation or donate at nbcwashington.com. it's as easy as pie. but it will mean so very much to the thousands of families who have a happy thanksgiving thanks to your donation

news 4's pat lawson is live at the verizon center. >> reporter: we are setting the table and let me show you the spread. get a look at this. these are donations that have come from all over the region. from our friends and partners and members the community. from our viewers. just awesome. the response has been overwhelming. we're not done yet. we will still take your donations. we could not do this, nbc 4 couldn't do it without our partners like the magnate nurses of georgetown university hospital who collected cans late week. how many did you do? >> our goal is 7,200 cans in 72 hours and we met our goal. >> that's wonderful. >> yes, yes. >> you're making a presentation today? >> we also -- our focus was on monetary donations. so we were able to collect over $2,000. and we're going to present to nbc for food for families so we can neck a healthy meal for thanksgiving. >> all right, barbara and elijah and melanie, thank you so much. she will take the check. i think they've got another check from washington first bank. which has also collected just about half of that food over there. jose

pat lawson muse in the news room now with new details. pat? >> reporter: jim, if all goes as planned and the doctor is deemed stable enough to travel, he should arrive in the u.s. tomorrow afternoon. a federal official tells nbc news, he will likely be taken to the bio containment unit in nebraska. the doctor is martin salia, a surgeon who lives in prince george's county. dr. salia tested positive for the ebola virus on monday, while working in sierra leone. where he's from. that country is one of the hardest hit by the ebola outbreak. recently, dr. salia talked with the united methodist news service about his decision to take a job there. >> i see it as god's own desire for me. i took this job not because i want to. but i finally believe that it was a calling. >> should dr. salia go to nebraska, he would be the third ebola patient treated there. both dr. rick sack sacra and ashuka mukpo were treated and released from the same facility. >>> a shock and search for answers on the campus of west virginia university. 18-year-old nolan birch died t

pat lawson muse joins us now with their reaction to last night's decision, and the violence that followed. pat? >> jim, a call for more calm follows a night of violent protests sparked by the decision not to bring charges in the shooting of michael brown. this afternoon, attorney benjamin crump and al sharpton spoke on behalf of brown's family saying they weren't surprised by the decision, but they were disappointed with the process. >> we object publicly and loudly as we can on behalf of michael brown jr.'s family that this process is growing. >> reporter: crump says a special prosecutor should have been appointed. and he also called for changes in the future. including a new level of accountability for law enforcement that begins with body cameras for every single police officer. sharpton then made it clear that the fight isn't over, because of the federal investigation that's still pending. >> let the record be clear. you have broken our hearts. but you have not broken our backs. we are going to continue to pursue justice. >> michael brown's parents did not speak today. crump says that

pat lawson muse has that story. >> as students sprinted from marysville-pilchuck high school secondsman opened fire, police got frantic calls from inside, including one from an anxious teacher. >> i am in the cafeteria, i have the shooter, one shooter. >> reporter: megan silverberger, a first year social studies teacher, described each harrowing moment as she came face-to-face with the gunman. >> i need help now. shooter right here. he's wearing all black. i'm staring at him right now sitting next to him. i need staff now! >> reporter: silver berger has been called a hero for running toured the sound of gunfire after a student killed four classmates and himself in the cafeteria almost three weeks ago. >> reporter: the teacher's response was praised by law enforcement officials. >> i can't speak highly enough about the professionalism and the great job she did remaining calm, cool, collected. >> reporter: silverberger calmly provided key details. >> black pants, black shoes, black jacket. >> reporter: dispatchers heard from others at the school. >> there is somebody shooting at our sc

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pat lawson-news has more now. good morning, pat. >> reporter: good morning. you know, thanksgiving is such a special time of year for us. most of us are busy getting ready for family and friends and of course thanksgiving dinner. too many of us, though, will not get thanksgiving dinner. that's why food for families is so important. every year, with the help of our friends and community partners at georgetown who got together and collected hundreds of thousands of cans of food last week were able to put thanksgiving dinner on the tables of thousands of needy families. but we need your help to do it. you can make a donation of any size sometime today. call our phone banks. volunteers are at the phones right now. call 202-885-4949. with me here at verizon center is our director of community affairs, eye aoe that. this means so much to everybody every year. >> thank you so much for being here, pat. it is so good to be out. thank god for a wonderful warm day. our goal is to try to feed at least 4,000 families. we can do it, because we have great viewers who i know

i'm pat lawson muse. we begin with the backlash in montgomery county overtaking holiday names off the school calendar. the school board's sdigs to eliminate religious references to holidays has generated quite a response. though the names will no lonr get on the calendar, students will get the traditional holidays after. the law doesn't allow the closing of schools to recognize a religious holiday, so it will delete the religious references from the calendar. dave mcconnell, let's start with you. the soup tin dent here says the issue is not religion, it's absenteeism. few are happy with us. >> a, the muslims didn't get the holidays they wanted, jews and christians, orthodox, various religions, there's concern they're taking off a name like christmas, a name like easter, yam kippur. >> traditional known in the schedule for why they're off. it sounds like they've managed to make everybody unhappy. >> vermin they brian, do you think the board underestimated the intense backlash? >> i think so. in fairfax cou

pat lawson muse has the details. >> his name is kenneth clayton. he escaped this morning.s is what he looks like. clayton was in custody for simple assault, assault on a police officer, possession of unregistered ammunition and being a fugitive. right now officers are out actively looking for him. if he looks familiar to you, you should contact police. back to you in the studio. >>> they made the difference between life and death during a fire. up next, the cargivers who became heroes of a different kind speak out. >>> and students all over our area stressed out about their homework. but not at this local school. we'll explain how one campus is we'll explain how one campus is throwing tradition out the after filling out their hogan iquestionaire, aight. hogan was awarded an a- from the nra. but now he refuses to release his responses. the nra opposes comprehensive background checks. they want to weaken maryland's gun safety laws. even support letting suspects on the fbi terror watch list buy guns. on gun safety and terror, the nra is wrong. hogan gets an a- from e nra. on

i'm pat lawson muse. >> i'm jim handly. we have team coverage for you this afternoon on all the big developi stories first at 4:00. and we begin with a scare today at a federal building in montgome coun >> chopper 4 was over the food and n facility in silver spring when police of raced in. let's get right to wendy rieger at the live desk. >> pat and jim, let's be clear. this incident happened on the white oak campus of the fda and there was acty no violence. but it was the fear of violence that drove the federal protecti servi to put the campus on lockdown after someone discovered an unauthorized we in a locked vehicle, right about noon today. rumors started flying, and people began calling montgomery police saying they thought they had -- there had a shooting on that fda proper. employees barricaded their doors, closed their blinds. but after police responded, checked the building, an all-clear was given. federal officers are still looking into that unauthorized weap on the silver spring campus. >>> there has been a shooti

i'm pat lawson muse. >> and i'm jim handly. folks, we are kicking it off in the storm center today with meteorologist veronica johnson. everybody is talking about this, vj, on our facebook page. the wind, the cold, and folks, check out the radar. we've got some snow showing up already not too far to our west and north. where are we talking about? >> only an hour and a half away. this is our first cold wave, giving us our lowest temperatures going back to marc feeling a lot soon like january but cold enough to be picking up some of that winter type of from the sky. let's zoom to locations where we're finding some sleet right now in areas of northern frederick county, just west of cascade and north of frederick there. zooming in tighter, just west of 15, out along 64, getting reports of sleet there. it's light snow around winchester, even in the high spots of loudoun county and purcellville. for the most part, most of us are will see rain showers from now until 2:00 a.m. and any flakes that do fall, hard time blasting as they mak

. >>> with pat lawson muse, i'm jim handly. let's go to storm team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson in the storm center with your first foreca this tuesday. vj? guys, this is the kind of cold you really don want to be out outside in for long. you walk to your car, want to move as fast as you can. look how we started the day today. this only tells part of the story. temper in the 20s throughout the area, leesburg, get e this morning. reagan national airport started at 28. the record, 21. and tonight the readings, those temps even lower. good thing, though, the winds will start to ease off. last night our winds picked up right near 40 miles per hour. look at the winds today. they have been just over 30 but now wind dropping in locations like d.c. and leesburg over 30 now. again, falling. your wind chills currently in the teens to low 30s across the area. so, today those wind chills have been in the 20s by morning. we're back in the teens. but will we have a chance to come out of it by tomorrow afternoon? >>> a lawyer accused of s

. >> reporter: pat lawson, news 4, prince georges county. >>> spikes still serves on governor o'malley'srd of victims services and she still works with repeal efforts in states that still have the death penalty. >>> right now thousands of people in new jersey are spending thanksgiving in the dark after a winter storm dumped up to a foot of snow in pars of the state. the heavy snow knocked down trees and power lines and right at this hour crews are out trying to get the lights back on to more than 10,000 customers. a lot of those people affected right now are just relying on generators and fireplaces to keep warm. and it's certainly chilly out there, too. >> that was the same storm that came through our area. the major cities didn't get hit that hard, just like d.c., but just a few miles away in the mountains of west virginia, we saw upwards of 12 to 18 inches and that was in our area. so, yeah, they're dealing with the same thing well up there. now evening planner tonight, und cloudy size, temperatures dropping to the 30s, 39 at 7:00, dropping to 35 around 11:00. we will be rather breezy

. >> i'm pat lawson muse.oman taken into custody after a late-night street fight that involved one person with a taser. cell phone video captured a crowd of people pushing and shouting at each other outside a dupont circle nightclub last night. a witness tells us she was out with friends when she watched the fight and moved across connecticut avenue. >> i never had seen anything like that happen in this area. >> reporter: scary? >> definitely scary. scary, sad to watch. because there was a guy being stomped on his head and he was already on the ground, not moving. >> police wound up arrested one woman. we're told three people went to the hospital. the nightclub tells us police reviewed their video and determined the fight did not start inside. >>> it's anything but sweet. two guys accused of stealing a wagon full of cookies from two girl scouts. police tell us the suspects snatched the wagon and drove off on saturday afternoon. this happened along jason's landing way in maryland. with the help of a vigilant ne

. >> i'm pat lawson muse in the weather center with storm team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson. veronica, this is what everybody wants to know. we're not going to get snow, but it's going to feel like the dead of winter? >> exactly. so the rain moving out, but we are really going to get blasted with our lowest temperatures we have seen since last february, talking some 20 to 25 degrees below average. and that's going to come with a biting wind that starts late tonight and runs through tomorrow. rain getting ready to move out. of course, it's been chilly and wet today. this is the last of it. you can still see wet weather around the beltway. not too heavy. prince george's county, anne arundel county and the west, snow high spots in west virginia starting to fade. temperatures not too bad currently. we're in the mid to upper 40s from leesburg to falls church, fairfax, camp springs and green belt around 46 to 48 degrees. but today in the 40s. by the time we get to tonight, late tonight, early tomorrow morning, temperatures will drop it all the way down into the teens. and in terms

. >> pat lawson muse has been there all day, meeting people. some of them who come every year saying they wouldn't miss a chance to give back. and, of course, they also wouldn't miss a chance to hang out with pat for a minute, because who would not want to do that? pat? >> reporter: jim, doreen, we've had a lot of fun with a lot of friends today. we have wrapped up this operation. show you the guys there. they're locking the truck to transfer the last bit of food to the boys & girls club. but what a day it has been. once again, we issued the call for people to donate to food 4 families this year, and once again, you have responded and responded in a big way. and even though we have packed it all up and shipped it to the warehouse to pack and deliver to the table, our phone lines are open, and we still need every single dollar, every dollar counts. nbc 4's director of community affairs, aisha karima is here again. and talk about the response this year. how is it comparing to what we have seen in previous years? >> let me just say it's been a gre

pat lawson muse at the live desk. >> wendy, we just learned the driver who was hurt in that crash on saturday night has died. the 21-year-old from gaithersburg was thrown from his car after it overturned and then hit a sign and a utility pole. the car landed on its side, right next to a parked car on aspen hill road. investigators say moments before that crash, the driver fled from police after they found out he had a suspended lice to you. >>> well, construction has begun on what will be the tallest building in tyson's corner. there was a groundbreaking this morning on the new capital one headquarters. 31 stories tall when done. 470-feet height will only be exceeded by the washington monument, which is 555 feet tall. in addition to the offices this new building will also include retail and a community center. >> wow. pretty big deal. >>> let's get the word on the weather and just how low are we going to go, doug. >> overnight low temperatures tonight really going to be dealing with the wind chill early tomorrow morning. that's the number that i want you to think about. in the teens

let's check in once again with pat lawson muse, been down there since the wii wee hours. it was dark your first live shot and dark once again. you have a lot of company. >> reporter: it's dark again. the plus is it has been such a good day. great weather has attracted a lot of people here. one of the great things about being outside the verizon center is, of course, you get to see lots of athletes. and we have seen -- gotten lots of visits and donations from athletes today, from the wizards, from the caps and from the mystics. you took time to come out and give to another family. >> yeah. i mean, it's always great to be able to give back. i mean, not everyone is going to be able to have a great thanksgiving. so being able to give to people who don't have. >> reporter: mystics farmer tiara ruffin-pratt. we could not do this, the food 4 family's campaign successfully without the help of so many dedicated individuals like judy holland-hall, one of our former community advisory members. you have been taking donations all day. what's it been like from your perspective? >> phen

pat lawson muse is live at the news desk with details. >> reporter: jim, we just learned in the past ten minutes a fifth person has died after that attack. we know the first four men killed were rabbis and three were americans with dual israeli citizenship. they were praying when two palestinian men armed with a meat cleaver and gun burst into the synagogue. police shot and killed the attackers. israel's prime minister said the country would respond with force. police have already raided the men's homes and arrested some family members. the attack is thought to be retaliation for the death of a palestinian man over the weekend. he was found dead and hanging in a bus. while palestinians call it a murder, israelis say it was a suicide. one of the victims graduated from a hebrew academy in kansas city and the nephew in the faculty at the same school. >> all right. >>> president obama says there can be no justification for attacks against innocent civilians. speaking earlier about the sin gone attack, he said now more than ever is time for israelis and palestinians to work to lower tensi

i'm pat lawson muse. we begin with the mayor for life, the death of marion barry, an icon of d.c. politics for more than 40 years. dead this past week at the age of 78. barry served four terms as mayor and had a virtual lock on the d.c. council ward 8 seat. along with a huge political success many personal failures marks his turbulent life. because of his contributions to the district and citizen and connection with his citizens marion barry's passing leaves a hole in many in this city. joe madison, marion barry was larger-than-life. many people thought he had an exaggerated impression of himself. joe, your thoughts? >> he lived i want to. that's the reality of it. politically. but the reality, i think what a lot of people don't know about marion barry is even more interesting. you know, he was the first young black eagle scout in the state of tennessee. and that he was working on his ph.d. in biochemistry. this was a brilliant man and because of that background he had a mind like a steel trap. the reality is barry's legacy and i've been asked this a hundred times since his death