>> all around the prince william and stafford county areas we're seeing a lot of this. this is what is on the ground n right here i parts. this is just off of route 1 here go the roads are mosy clear. not all roads will be good. stl back from that storm here last night. the temperature right now just below freezing as we speak here right now. so a lot of people waking up to scenes like this. cars covered in s aw ando ice in some parts. and perhaps causing more problems than needed on a day like today. a lot not going to school today. peopleill still of coure on the roads and for those people, vdot and virginia state enforcement saying to be safe, take itlow and build more time into your commute, especially this morning. we're live here in stafford county, i'm justin finch, news 4. >> thank you, justin. >> 4:05 right now. irring the worst part of the storm,nia state police responded to more than 2,000 traffic crashes and disabled vehicles across the state. u're looking at the aftermath of two crashes involving state troopers. the first one last night around 6:45 the vehi

some places could get four inches.ed icks bureau, stafford county into st.that's where you're t four to six plus inches of snow. so here's a few "a" future cast here. i'm using this forng ti it struggled a bit about finding where t no-snow line is. 10:00 p.m. you can see that's roing out. by about midnight everything should have moved out of the area. tomorrow morning we're waking up to dry conditionsn the d.c. metro area as well as plenty of sunshine. now, if you move through monday afternoon, we still want to keep into a there are going to be delays because farther south we could be talking about refreeze as well. as far as your weather questions go, any snow north of c., maybe a few flakes. but for the most part, no a will this la night? no, it will not. problems tomorrow morning, most certainly. it's going to be south. i'stick around. have the ten-day forecast towards the end of the show. back to you, erika. >>> come up, we'll have a live report from fedex on the redskins and that very tough loss. t.at's coming up next in sports. t.at's coming up next in

stafford, culpeper county and fredericksburg are all on two-hour delays. how much snow did we get and how did it stack up with storms in the southeast and the mid-atlantic, you ask? storm team 4 ameliar dra joins with us some answers. >>> just an incredible storm system. at up with point, almost a half million points in virginia and north carolina were without power, causing a state of emergency to be declared for north carolina and anrginia. check this out. le areas setting record snowfall amounts. roanoke picking up 15 inches of snow before the a foot of snow raleighoss the area and picking up about a half a foot of snowfall. a lot of snow falling. especially in western parts of virginia. the stat i love, the onewa you to heartion winter green ski resort picking up almost o o fe snow. all the ski and snow board lovers are roicing with that. you head to fredericksburg out, 50 miles and you're seeing six inches of snowfall. the most snow definitely falling in our southern areas. if youp did pick snow, you want to be on the lookout onight and tomorrow morni

culpepper county, stafford county fredericksburg, most of southern maryland, parts of prince george's, charles county, st. mary's county. if you're in the areas of red, you could have issues eowly tomomorning. just know that, getting up and door ng out the front tomorrow. you may need the ice scraper, i saw some frost on some of the cars here in northwest d.c. today. so, you may need the ice scraper early tomorrow morning. now, tomorrow afternoon, not as today, we saw a high of 41, 42. tomorrow, we get to 44. tw degrees warmer than that. going to be amazing. amazing. a frigid start, but mostly sunny skies. yeah, another chilly day. we'll need the coats again. and this kind of weather is going to last the rest of the week. 44 on your wednesday. 46 on thursday. rain late on friday. and this is going to be another big storm, guys. we're talkingbo one to two inches of rain, 53 degrees on friday.e' so, you know on the warmer side there. rain again on saturday. a high of 52.

stafford received his b.a. from adrian college and master's degrees from lock college. without objection, the witnesses' written statements will be made part of the record. mr. demarco, you are now recognized for five minutes to give an oral presentation of your testimony. mr. demarco: thank you, mr. chairman. good morning, members of the committee. mr. chairman, thank you for inviting the housing policy council to be part of the discussion. before i go further, i want to thank you for your long service to our country and your pursuit of the sound housing finance system. i also want to recognize congressman delaney and the other members of this committee whose time in congress is coming to a close and thank you for your service to our nation. the housing policy council believes that the bipartisan housing finance reform legislation we are here today to discuss is an important advancement in this long-running legislative effort to modernize our housing finance system and replace the precrisis model that failed us so badly. i want to acknowledge congressman delaney and hi

stafford and spotsylvania counties, just because you here in this area doesn't mn you'll have a lot ofso i want to poin that out for t kids watching thinking hey, i might not have school tomorrow, there's a lot of factors, any snow for what, charlottesville, roanoke, ashevie, raleigh getting into the snow, so snow to the south. the area of low pressure is just coming throughia geo and will travel off the coast of the carolinas. it may track further to thi north means d.c. we could see snow. if it tracks to the south, it meanfredericksburg, you won't see anything so we have to watch this track as ito evolves i the afternoon. but i was talking about that dry air,ou see how nobod is neeing anything right here? we have dry air the upper levels of the atmosphere. we'll have this sharpcutoff line that may inch to the north. if you're in maryland you're probably see sgshine but everybody cold enough to get snow. temperatures in the 20s and 30s. if'r y montgomery county you might be lucky if we see flurries. prince george's county and anne arundel and going into northern virginia, shenandoah v

saint mary's county, kin george, stafford, redericksburg, parts culpeper.the most and you could be dealing with black ice tomorrow morning. >>> package thieves, a common nuisance this time of year.ft it is not that you see someone put their kid up to it. this is reporting last friday at a home along inez court. this child who appears to be no older than around 00. looks back for directions and th then snatches the package. >> it is always bad. but at the same time of year, to commit such an act, and then to have a child do it. >> they're hoping they can use the video to help track down the parent or older person who put the kid up to it. >>> ♪ >> hundreds flooded into the sills of the building demonstrating out the offices of nancy pelosi and others. they want her to make climate change a priority and to create a committee focused on solutions. >>> whatever congress does, there are four things you can do to reduceour environmental foot print. you've probably heard bore but it bears repeating. try using plastics made from plants. that will help on the burnin

the stafford county school district will not open today. melissa is standing by aisha look at the roads. watch out herern this g. the stairs from your front door to your drive way. and wow is it cold this morning. 15 degrees inas ms now. 15 degrees in gaithersburg. only 21 in annapolis. but stanton has dropped all the way to zero this morning. that is super cold. as you'reetting ready to hit the cold, seat heaters on highest seatings today. temperatures though with plenty of sunshinetoday. we'll get into the low 40s for afternoon high temperatures. only 9.5 hours of sunshine today, melissa. >> that's depressing, thank you, chuck. good morning, odever you can see the left side is blocked and you're getting by os the rige of the roadway. two different things on the beltway right now. south of the vehicle into the guard rail. that's what police are telling us. right side blocked by a stalled semo. here's a real delay this morning. we had some lane closures because of this earlier crash and you're still seeing the delays here. as you look south

. >> as sabrina's appeals began, her defense attorney contacted clive stafford smith, a british-born attorney special e specializing in civil rights and death row cases in mississippi. stafford-smith handles half the death row appeals in the state. >> i met sabrina at the women's prison just outside jackson, mississippi. she was just this scared girl. she had lost her child. she'd lost her liberty. she was facing execution. so i guess my first meeting with her was just to try and get her to stop crying. >> clive was god-sent. clive would bring me artwork, you know, pencil and paper, stuff like that. and he always would see the lighter side and make me laugh and, you know, show me that i was human. >> clive immediately set to work on sabrina's appeals, looking for any mistakes made by district attorney forrest allgood. >> forrest was just a very dedicated prosecutor. he tried everybody, okay? black, white, yellow, green, purple polka dots. he's going to try everybody. forrest never discriminated against anybody when he was trying to kill them. >> forrest allgood prosecuted a 16-year-o

in virginia, prince william county, stafford, king georgege culpepr, fauquier and fredericksburg cityls closed. calvert county and st. mary's county public schools are closed today. charles county public schools will start two hours late today. the full listing of closings and delays on the bottom of the screen ightnow. they're also available on our p. >> let's start with chuck bell to see what we can expect for the week ahead. >> good morning, everybody. monday morning and almost everybody around the d.c. metro area saying what snowstorm. it w piling up fast and furious. these are totals well down to our south. linville, north carolina. 18no inches of boone, north carolina, 16 inches.

in virginia, all is clear on i-95 from stafford to springfield and north on 395. interstate 66 inside and out the capitol beltway, volumes are still low, traffic is still light. elsewhere on27 the hike southbound from fredrick through upper montgomery county, full speed ahead. you don't see any red on that p. no travel troubles and no delays. traffic moving quite well this morning. we'll see if that holds true. it'll be interesting to see if we have any semblance of a morning rush hour this morning. back over to you. >>ave, thank you. >>> 4:31 now. happening today, members of congress will return to capitol hill following ahristmas recess. this comes as we enter day six of the partial government shutdown. >> and there is no end in sight. theepublican controlled congress has not been able to come up with an agreement that president trump will sign. the president$5 is demanding billion to build a wall along the u.s./mexico border. >> the house s andate both passed separate spending bills. the house version includes funding for that wall. the senate version does not.

. >> we saw plenty of snow this morning, as far north at fredericksburg, stafford and prince william counties. let's go to doug kammerer for more. >> it reallys where we saw the snow during the day yesterday tere we're going to see the big problems earlyorrow morning with the potential for icing. already seeing that out there. we're also talking about you folks in southern marylan too. take a look at the storm. it's still going, guys. we still got snown thealeigh area, just to the east of raleigh. nor fo norfolk, virginia beach, snowing there. still snowing fromha same system, making its way out of ea. for us tonight, the wig thingbis the cold. look at the numbers. 24 degree s around fredericksburg. wee seen everything freeze back up. you may have to get yourself earlyime tomorrow morni to get around. staying cold, and then we start tracking the next system, and that, o, will be a very big storm. that one will have big weekend imkcts. we'll tbout that, i'll show you when it moves in and when to expect it coming up in about ten minutes. >> doug, thank you. reaking newsget to out of we

without electricity to them they're not just bringing new skills home after a six months that india stafford college but also an opportunity to get their communities life off the dock. god wanted me to go to india. where i am writing to here i remember about the year. that i'm doing this for my children. three women who've never been away from home three mothers undergoing training in india to become solar panel technicians they come from mexico kenya spending the need. of course at the barefoot college in india last for six months they're learning to install and maintain solar panels and to make solar powered lamps the trainees do things over and over to live become second nature kenyan. comes from a village which has no electricity. a light to my comment we all know that darkness is not the best so bringing light to the community is. big achievement. a lot of things become harder after sundown something west timor born you mean are also knows. without light my children can't do their homework and when it gets dark they have to go to sleep when i get home we're going to have solar lamps. th

county, stafford, king georgege culpepr, fauquier and fredericksburg city schools closed. calvert county and st. mary's county public schools are closed today. charles county public schools will start two hours late today. the full listing of closings and delays on the bottom of the screen ightnow. they're also available on our p. >> let's start with chuck bell to see what we can expect for the week ahead. >> good morning, everybody. monday morning and almost everybody around the d.c. metro area saying what snowstorm. it w piling up fast and furious. these are totals well down to our south. linville, north carolina. 18no inches of boone, north carolina, 16 inches. winston-salem, 14.5. that's down in south western virginia. even blacksburg, virginia tech, 9.5 inches of snow there and 10 inches in ttcharville. what do you need to know about today? it's very slushy andno and icy for the southern part of the area. a lot of melting during the daytime hours today but a hard refreeze likely tomorrow morning. the snow isn'tur over for friends and neighbors well down to the south.

wes stafford, served as an intermediary.as, he became worried when the president sent this picture of his dog. bush's habit of revealing hints of who he could be made the job of keeping the former president's identity a secret harder. timothy, have you ever heard of the white house? i got to go to the white house at christmastime. included with most of those letters was a give the and a challenge. be sure to say your prayers. i do every day. this birthday present will show you the time all around the world. timothy never caught on to the hint and only found out the real identity of his pen pal after he graduated from the program. when he did find out, stafford says he was surprised to have been pen pals with someone who had been president of a nation. although compassion international and timothy have lost contact, the bond he had with the president is not forgotten. kaylee hartung, cnn. ♪ it's the time of the season for loving ♪ for a limited time, $50 for them $10 for you. applebee's. now that's eatin' good in the neighbor

stafford, northbound 95, we have wood reported in the roway. debris. careful there. south arlington ridge road tween 23rd street and 395, lanes blocked by a water main break here this morning. as you zoom in you canee not causing any delays rig now. that is supposed to last until 3:00. eun? >> thank you. 5:21. the countdown has begun to a weg man's opening in d.c. it is going to a new community being built but you might not see it when it's ne. we'll explain the project next on "news 4 today." >>> tune in to nbc 4 this afternn for ellen. actor steve correll will join th show. we'll hear how his near deathpe ence turned into another encounter. stay tuned to news 4 at 4:00. 'll be right back. you know when you're at ross and you find a deal on cookware that makes you say. yes! ...oh, yeah! bring on the holidays! that's yes for less. everything you need to pe p, cook and serve up ason. it feels even better when you find it for less-at ross. yes for less. and you realize you are the the hostess with the mostest. you know when you're at ross yes!yeah! that's . entertain i

he had the longest torso and so tom stafford could fit in there. a lot of people thought we had to change things, but no, gus had short legs but a long torso. >> fascinating. you know, this brings to mind, i'm going to deviate from the hardware and let's talk about people. l let's talk about the original seven astronauts as you knew them. let's just take them one by one and think about it. >> go back over the seven. there was c.c.g.g.s.s.s. i'm the last of the smart s assist. that goes on. don't write that. that is one of the better lines. what happened? i didn't know of the fellows. i met al shepherd when we were up there for interviews in washington. we stayed at a marriott near the pentagon and the pool was frozen and we were ice skating. i remember doing that with al. we got to know each other rather rapidly. we had three navy and three air force and one jar head by the name of herschel glenn. we were surprised about john when we first saw john at that press conference because we just weren't prepared for something like that. john had done some

page, stafford, fredericksburg and culpeper are opening two hours late. all of these closings and dela e in the nbc washington app. >> melissa is keeping an eye on th roads this morning. > but we begin with chuck bell tracking a very cold morning. i hope it warms up a little, chuck. >> it will warm up a little. o emphas a little. we do have a clear sky overhead temperatures t have fallen rather dramatically overnight. 28 igt wash. a bit of a northwest breeze it is going to be a cold sta this morning. temperatures from the low and mid 20s from now until we can get the sun up sometime after 7:00 it will be bright and sunny start to finish today. it will look great but it just won't feel very warm. afternoon highs struggling to get into t low and perhaps the mid 40s around the city. but most of the outlying suburbs will barely get above 40 degrees. it's going tool stay the next couple of days and the weekend plans, they might be in ouble. that forecast is just ahead. >> thank you, chuck. taking a lk at tyson's corner, we have a crash blocking the left side r

and going towards quantico and waldorf, stafford seeing heavy rain right now and that willin co. just north of quantico, watching this area, towards woodbridge,ai that's heavy making its way off to the east and will continue to do so, all part of an upper area of low pressure spinning toward the region. we sawt t earlier today and temperatures way up. now, they're coming down. todaywere the highs incredible. 66 in clinton, maryland, 67 in d.c. this can't b right. 77! i think that should be a 67 there. 68 degrees towards frederick and 69 the warmest w saw in warrington. 69. look where we are rightno and 51 in d.c. and out to the hywest the rain is changing to snow. temperatures will not get above where they are now. heading to the malls or outdoor shoppinger ce make sure you dress warm. it won't be frigid butllt will be c 47 tomorrow at noon, 48 by the afternoon. wind chills by the upper 30s all day in the city. low to mid-30s in the all in all, not a bad day.ea sunshine, 50, not bad. in between the buildings and h shadows, m colder for you. less win on sunday with more cloud cove

page, stafford, fredericksburg and culpeper schools are also on a delay. on the nbcn washing app. >> now it's so cold tevt ything froze. >> plenty of sunshine yesterday afternoon. everything started melting off the grass and on to the sidewalks and once the sun went wn it didn't take long until we were back below freezing. it's a hard freeze this morning. we're not just barely below it, even though that's all you would need, we're way below. 28 in washington.n we're d to 17 at gaithersburg. 16 atmanassas. 22 at prince george's county and a real outlier for how cold it could be this morning, stanton down to 2 degrees above ro. that is cold. here's your hour by hour planner then, for day. here's the good news. sunny, sunny, sunny, all day long. sun is a up 7:16. down at 4:46. in theon highs will pea low 40s across most of the area under an increasingly sunny sky. area of low pressure has caused all the mess down to the south. that's eventually working it's way off of the coastline. still a few clouds over southern maryland. future weather brings an improving

no issues in virginia between edericksburg, stafford. springfield. 395.d a lot of people still on holiday. not a federalli y. all hov restrictions in effect. normal metro service. bre on. schedu 270 running well between frederick and montgomeryun . still have 121 blocked from the earlier structure fire. news 4 has crew on their way to the scen we'll keep you posted. that'she very latest from the trafficer ce. back over to you. >>> dave, 454 now. lebron james will be spending the day with doctors. the nba star is suffering from a groin injury in last night's game between the lakers and golden state warriors. james heard something pop before he was taken to the locker om. it's not sure if he will be able to play on thursday. >>> so we may bearp this morning, thankfully most of us here at news 4 hadnc c to spend the christmas holiday with our families. >> now we would like to share with you our station's annual christmas poem. take a look. >> twast the night before christmas and -- you animals! >> there was coco in the >> sweets on the set. >> chocolate trea

the ey had enough room in re tom stafford could fit in. >> fascinating. capt. schirra: this brings to mind, i am going to deviate. let's talk about the original seven astronauts. let's just take them one by one and think about it. capt. schirra: i am the last of the smart s's. that goes on. that is one of my better lines. [laughter] , i did noted was know any of the fellows. i met out shepherd. the pool was frozen. we got to know each other rather rapidly. marine byone jar head the name of her show. we were surprised when we saw him at the rest conference. .e had international flights had been on the tv show. so, john had the presence in front of the camera and the press that we did not have. .e competed with each other we bonded so closely. we were like brothers. still are. sibling rivalry is also part of other good and we had a lot of that. >> how would you describe you guys, one by one? capt. schirra: scott, i would the songribe as being "yellow bird." and we got music sick of hearing that song "yellow bird." very confident, by the way, but did not trade the

that includesspotsylvania, stafford county up into culpeper, out ow towards ra pa han knack all underr weather advise. what you can expect is 2 to 4 inches. the 4 inches, please take this, will be farther south. more than likely fredericksburg andarther south. in areas like southern fauquier, that's 1 to 2 inches possible into effect at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow and doesn't expire till midnight. let's talk abo the system. just take a look at the gravity of the system. the area of low pressure here and we are seeing how far reaching it is. snow already moving into asheville, north carolina, into southern virginia. it's going to continue to pull towardshe east. now, something interesting here. the reason you'rehe seeing very stark line is because there's an area of high pressure to the nth of the system. and it really has just been pushing down that ow, that rain and keeping it from impacting a lot of the states farther north. depending on how much it loosens its grip tomorrow, that's how much fthther n that chance for snow lifts. this futurecast right here is based on one model and it's sayi

the stafford act and public law 8499. under the stafford act and the national response framework, the corps works under the direction of fema, serving as a lead federal coordinating agency for emergency support function number three, which is public works and engineering. public law 8499 provides a separate source of authority for the corps to prepare for and respond to floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters. under these authorities, the corps maintains 50 specially trained response teams supported by emergency and preawarded contracts to perform a wide array of public works and engineering missions. the 2017 hurricane season was historic in its scale and we continue to identify and apply lessoned learned to sustain and improve our performance. the extraordinary impacts of hurricanes harvey, irma and maria resulted in an unprecedented response. for hurricane harvey, 14ds2 million of mission assignments. nearly 1,000 corps personnel deployed and 15 employees remain engaged today supporting six active recovery missi

herman attended hilton high cihool in dale , and his parents live in stafford. >>> a florida judge haswarded the parents of a groupf marjory stoneman douglas high school students a victory. he refused to dismiss a lawsuit file against the high school resource officer scott peterson. he was on duty the day a gunman opened fire in that school, killing 17 people. he's being sued forby negligenc parents who say he didn't do enough to stop the gunman. peterson says he had no legal duty to do so. the judge disagreed, saying as a sworn deputy and the only armed guard on the campus, he was obligated to go after the gunman. >>> new this morning, nged in the classroom. it's happening to hundreds of local students when it comes to learning science a social studies. scott macfarlane and the news 4 i-team take a closer look. >> reporter: we found d.c. public schools violating t ir ownrequirements, not giving ough cla time in science and social studies to students in at least four middle schools. d.c. officials familiar with the issue tell the i-team the school district made the changes because of p

this guy is t 13th eagle rescued by mccall during his 11 ars at the stafford county sheriff's office.he as found sick on saturday. sergeant mig caccall captured i took it to a center foeta rehabion. >> beautiful. >> let the eagle soar. like he's never soared before. >> you are going to sing? >> that's -- for those that are not aware, yeah. that was john ashcroft singing. >> a wonderful song. >> it sure is. >> rocky coast t golden shore. >> yes! >> never mind. >> break out the harmonica and play along with you. it will be a cold day to be outside toda and this cold pattern as we were mentioning to you on monday, remember monday whe i said that will be the last mildfo day for thseeable future? i meant it. today is not warm at all. and the warmup in sight at all. there is national airport here this morning under a partly to mostly cloudy sky. 35 at the airport which is usually one of our warmer locations. light winth out of the nst at 7. so wind chills are in the upper 20s in downtown. get awayrom the water though and most areas are below freezing. 29 now inga hersburg, 28 in frederic, mar

paraguay lawyer clive stafford smith organization reprieve has represented eighty prisoners at guantanamo has been released one of the great truisms is if you don't know your history years you wrote learn from history and your mistakes and you know we have someone in the white house right now who knows nothing about history. of repeat any mistake that's been made back to the spanish inquisition and so we need to truth out there. but today some say the american administration seems even more determined than ever to stop the truth about the cia's post nine eleven program getting out and that led to one of the most disturbing claims we heard during the course of making this film . and it's this that the torture of detainees in the cost is now impeding the quest for justice following the nine eleven attacks over the past years legal hearings have been underway at a secret court on the u.s. naval base in guantanamo. america's justification for holding prisoners at guantanamo is controversial. by declaring that the war on terror is an actual ongoing war the us government has argued it can detai

early this morning, a homeowner called stafford count 911.outside was demanding to be let inside the house. the homeowner grabbed his gun and fired off a warning shot. but the 16-year-d broke a window to get inside anyway. the family barricad themselves in a bedroom and waited for police. officers found the teen asleep a couch wrapped up in a blanket. he was turned over to his parents. police say he'll be facing multiple charges >>> rescuers are calling it a miracle. a sniffer dog found a 12-year-old boy alive and uninjured after spending 40 minutes buried under this avalanche in the frenchalps. the chance, by the way, of surviving an avalanche, typically are minuscule after 15 minutes under the snow.eo amateur vere shows the rescue helicopter called in to a airlift the boy from the mofrtainside. ch police say the boy was skiing offtrail and a group of seven skiers, when he was swept away more than 100 yards. police say hvi sd in part because his airways weren't blocked with snow. >> wow. >>> surprise explosion at a restaurant sent people run

page, stafford, fredericksburg and culpeper are opening two hours late.d dela e in the nbc washington app. >> melissa is keeping an eye on th roads this morning. > but we begin with chuck bell tracking a very cold morning. i hope it warms up a little, chuck. >> it will warm up a little. o emphas a little. we do have a clear sky overhead and as a result tpe

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prince william county, stafford, fauquier and spots veilian. maryland, calvert county and st.ty schools are closeo ow. we've got the full list of scosings scrolling at the bottom of your en, and you can also find those in the nbc app. what is prompting t closures and what folks in the areas are seeing in terms of total. >> it's azing. you look at county likes that, prince william and stanford county fairfax count we had a trace of snow there. nothing in washington, d.c. if you live north of 66, you really didn't see any snow at all. res and t school clo we've got people that are going to wake up tomorrow with nothing. >> feast or famine. >> incredible, incredible totals. take a look. we've got this storm coming on through the area. this did cause some damage around the danville area. all across parts of north carolina and into parts of virginia as well, where not only was the sw lling, but also some sleet and freezing rain, freesat caused a lot of and a lot of power lines to come down. pas of north carolina aswell. here is the storm. over the last 12 hours, and you notice, thi

we use what is called section 420 in the stafford act to say we are not just going to rebuild the community back to its predisaster condition. if we are going to spend billions of dollars, we are going to do this right. we are going to factor mitigation into the recovery effort up so we are not having to replace blown out infrastructure again and again. you watch states tear down building codes. it is my understanding that ,lorida, the 2001 building code which proves effective was stripped down this year before michael hit. we need to start asking the questions as to why. i do not want to put fema in a place where we have to hold back preparedness funding or holdback recovery funding until building codes and proper land use planning contracts are put into place. we make it a point to force communities to get better. disasters youal have talked about, these are all attributable to climate change. how is the agency adjusting to the? are you looking at modeling disasters or are you looking at how you are getting funding? for thethat doing agency in terms of its mission and how it responds to t

paraguay lawyer clive stafford smith organization reprieve has represented eighty prisoners at guantanamo has been released one of the great truisms is if you don't know your history years you wrote in your mistakes you know we have someone in the white house right now who knows nothing about history. of the repute and a mistake has been made back to the spanish inquisition and so we need to truth out there. but today some say the american administration seems even more determined than ever to stop the truth about the cia's post nine eleven program getting out and that led to one of the most disturbing claims we heard during the course of making this film. and it's this that the torture of detainees in the cost is now impeding the quest for justice following the nine eleven attacks over the past years legal hearings have been underway at a secret court on the u.s. naval base in guantanamo. america's justification for holding prisoners at guantanamo is controversial. by declaring that the war on terror is an actual ongoing war the us government has argued it can detain captives of this war

. >>> a stafford county teen terrifying a young couple. the scenepice olnf e ucourt. the sheriff's office says the 16-year-old started banging on the door, yelling to be let in. the home opener even fired a warning tshot. whent didn't stop him, the husband and wife barricaded themselves and their bab inside a bedroom. eventually -- quote muted" the living room couch. taking a nap naked on the couple's couch. this scene unfolded early in the the 16-year-old started b dging on ther banging to be yelled in. the homeowner fired a warning shot. when that didn't stop, the couple barricaded themselves in the bedroom. eventually teen got in. deputies found him naked and asleep on the living room couch. they quickly arrested him. >>> an update on a story you saw this morning on the "today" show. the three-day manhunt has ended with an accused cop killer in custo custody. the suspect is believed to have shot a killed corporal ron sing after the suspect was pulled overor allegedly driving drunk. the officer is reynold as a hero who drove two and a half hours each way to attend t

notice areas like stafford, fredericksburg, king george, la plata, down toward the leonardtown area.ution to the forecast. we're looking at a high likely hoodf this being a low impact event. if you're getting the tree it will be cold but dr for sunday, want the warm jackets. f and thenex field sunday afternoon. temperatures only in the 30s. that's cold. definitely the warm jacket.y event high is running below normal. on monday we have increasing suhine as the storm system pulls away from the area. still chilly with highs in the mid 40s. next freeway, and next saturday, there's anc c of rain. it will be the wetst year ever. >> we' continuing to follow the breaking news. the verdict in the charlottesville murder trial. more to come at the top of the hour. >> plus, a local veteran went all out to celebrate the holidays. after his death, his family stopped celebrating. >>> and a reminder, arlington memorial bridge shut down this weekend for somesi int repairs and work. here's what will happen. the entire bridge is blocked from 9:00 p.m. friy until monday morning. sunday, redskins versus g

if you're in red, this includes stafford, king george, parts of calvert county.e something wet, you wan to treat it asck bla ice. 94 -- we go above average for a challenge on friday but any time we to that, that will bring in another storm so out ahead of that, friday into saturday. behind the system on sunday. and then cooler again for most o next week. a lrain potential on 40 and saturday. >>> ming up, make sure your lau room doesn't go up in flames. >> reporter:e've seen an uptick in laundry room fires. keep s know you have to this clean but this is just the beginning. >> and that's next. wendy rieger has a look at what is new. >> we're live as the jur is deliberating the sentence for the charlottesville murder trial. julie carey is ithe courtroom with reaction once we get it. and then the shopping score. did you know that some shops are attaching a sce to you? and helping students with special needs becomeef and adam tuss, who i don't h recognize whes not in that c chopper 4, will be joining m at 5:0 you know when you're at ross and you find a deal on cookwar

o mo stafford county is still dry. you might be seeing a wintry mix by 4:00 a.m.g me into our area, it is already pushing out. this weekend is about the chill. tomorrow, mould skies biffle 5:00 p.m., we hit a high of 42. we're blow normal saturday and suay. potentially some shown out there, especially around the mason dixon line. a high of only 40 out there. all in aall, low impact on the weekend. but for sunday game then the redskins sunday at 1:00 p.m. the temperatures only in the 30s to may be0 near degrees. so fedex field sunday. it is not onl going to be warm jacket weather but i would recommend the hat and gloves as well. it will be feeling like football weather. this is area. you have about a30% chance. if it even happens, it is still looking like a low to maybe moderate impact availability where saint mary's county has a school delay monday morning. we'll continue to monday store. of course we'll have updates. >> by wednesday and thursday, warm into the mid 40s. rain is in theas for friday. a potential of heavy rain to the wettest year on record. also a bi

page, stafford, and fredericksburg city schools are opening two hours late. of these cloesings and delas are in the nbc washington>> app huck is back with us. you say it's not as cold as it's goin toet this morning. >> i can't. >> well, typically our coldest part of the day is that 30 minutes before the sun comes up. >> before s t comes up. >> that way you have been able to maximize your darkness. boy have we maximized it all right. taking 5 or 6 degrees off the feels like factor. teens and 20s. 16n gaithersburg and winchester 21. the current temperature in leesburg, 15 in manassas. even in maryland, the only n plac really below freezing or super cold are the ones right ong the bay. so sun is up at 7:16. plenty of dry air and sunshine. you'll probably need the seat heatersn high this morning. and many even needing some ice scrapers this morning for frost. but it will turn into a nice off afternoon, sunny today, highs 44 degrees. satellite picture shows the unsettled weather from the big storm still well down to our south. we will continue to get a north to no

what does all this mean for the big game out there at cal and stafford?ratures in the 50s. what about our rain chances? i think 11:00 a.m., you may need a jacket. noon kickoff. a slight chance for rain. and then throughout the rain, we'll be looking for cool temps. that's in about 20 minutes. >> sounds good. >>> still to come. from feast to famine, a big change in the bay area's real estate market. houses are not selling like they were. we crunched the numbers. >> plus a meeting of world leaders. president trump one of many to attend the g 208 summit. who did the president avoid? we'll let you know. housing mark complete one-80. what was a sellers market in may, has turned into a buyers market, with for sale jo in the last six months, the housing market has done a complete 180. it's turned into a bayers' market with houses not being sold. >> the south bay seems to be the most affected by this. damian trujillo is live at a home that won't sell. >> reporter: that's right. they were hoping to sell this hope. 4,100 square feet at $4 million. it's now at $3.5

that was stafford, i think. the backups to 9. we became the prime crew for the last gemini flight. that was gemini 12. >> was that the last one scheduled? mr. lovell: that was the last one. i wasn't going to go on gemini if i was 10. >> so it gave you an opportunity to fly gemini again? mr. lovell: it gave me a command opportunity. >> and you are involved with the spacewalking mission on that. tell us about that. mr. lovell: they decided to do some pretty detailed work outside of the spacecraft. it started with gemini 9. they were going to have an astronaut maneuvering unit. they got outside and try to do the work. the handholds were not good. his visor fogged over. he had trouble doing things that he could do easily in training. eventually he came back into the spacecraft, and they abandoned that. they attempted it again on 10. on 9, 10, and 11, when dick all of usheated, forgot about one of newton's third laws of motion. for every action there is a consequent reaction. when he touched the spacecraft, the craft repelled him. you don't see that on earth. when 12 rolled around, they

in virginia, traffic is moving wellnd if you're heading north from stafford, garrisonville on 95, taken tour. easy shot from quantico to 123.f 18 minutes i you're heading all the way up to washington into the southwest. st under 1/2 hour. that's the very latest, aaron and erica, back over to you. >> dave, thank you. >>> 5: now. developing this morning, we're working to learn more about a serious overnight crash in rockville. >> it appears that at least two cars were involved here and you can see that both of them had a lot of serus damage. we know fort people were hu. at least two of them rushed to the hospital with some serious injuries. >>> prince gorges county family's christmas was interrupted in the worst kind of way when their home caught fire. it started around 4:30 on dade streetn capitol heights. >> news 4's justin finch is live on the scenet capitol heights with how everybody made it out okay. rjustin? orter: well, erica, aaron, that family describes a very quick and intensifier burning in their home on christmas day. if you look you can see from the front door here that you

herman attended hilton hig school and h parents live in stafford. >>> chopper 4 over the scene of a big truck fire earlier today inlargo. the truck was fully engaged in flames in a parking lot not far from the commuty college. firefighters got to the scene and quickly knocked the fire down. no one was in the truck now not ly and right clear exactly how that fire started.to >>> now we tur scare for d.c. first responders. firefighters called out to a home in northwest to find dangerous levels of carbon monoxide there. >> there was no detector in the house, but if somethi w firefightee wearing that may have saved them and a man inside. >> dar spencer spetell us about this life-saving tool. >> reporter: d.c. battalion chief saysf oneese devices potentially saved the lives of a fsident andirefighters last night.or it's a pble carbon monoxide detect carried by firefighte firefighters. it the unit sounded as soon as medics walked sba the houst in northwc. alerting them there were dangerous levels of the odorless gas in the home. the original call was fo fa man down unknown reasons. they found

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mary's county going through stafford, spotsylvania, king george, eve southern fauquier, cull pupper, a in this winter weather advisory. farther south, those are the in pink. the snow is trying to make its aving onere but it's he can of a time doing it. it's mainly staying to the south bu t look at sharp cutoff line. we have a lot of dry air from the north battling with this moist air moving from the south. the dry air is winning. that's why our friends to the south aren'tin seeing any but i believe this dry air can break down as this moisture gets a little bit more full and as thiw area ofressure moves off the coast of the carolinas. e could see some more snowflakes but only to about right here. if you're in the greater washington area, you'll see flurries. temperatures cold enoughor to su snow. we're talking about 20s and 30s. 30s throughout much of the day. so culpepper, you are on the edge. pretty much culpepper, fredericksburg, going out through luray, you're on the age of thisl where you see a few inches or maybe nothing. if this storm system moves up the north, we could have th

i know he and senator robert stafford, who is my predecessor, as senior senator from vermont, we're good friends, both served in the navy, during world war ii, but i think those who have actually served, who are willing to serve, wanted to serve, they have a different view of america, and you can see it with him when you go to normandy, do things with him, he came across, it wasn't words on a paper. it was thoughts from the heart. >> indeed, there will be an opportunity all week, to remember and to pay our respects to this late president. he will lie in state we're now told at the u.s. capitol, and i'm sure so many people will want to go pay their respects. senator leahy, thanks so much for joining us. >> i want you to know both marcell and i will be there. we cherish our friendship with both george and barbara bush. and even though this was expected, we both mourn him. >> everybody who remembers him mourns him as well, senator, leahy, appreciate it very much. and one more note, the late president, george h.w. bush, will lie in state, in the u.s. capitol rotunda, the times will be monday

when he did find out, stafford says that he was surprised to have he been pen pals with someone who hadation. although compassion international and timothy have since lost contact, the bond he shared with the former president is not got be. kaylee hartung, cnn. >>> the countdown is on around the world to new year's eve. and in the case in new york's times square, many people preparing for the big party there. workers are putting the finishing touches on that giant ball that drops at midnight tuesday here in the united states on the east coast. marking the start of 2019. this year as every year, dozens of the waterford crystals wer s replaced with new handmade triangles. more than 1 million people are expected in times square and more than a billion people around the world will be watching the festivities from new york. we're getting close to the new year. thank you for spending this day with us. i'm george howell in atlanta. let's do it again, more news right after the break. stay with us. so we improved eve. we used 50% fewer ingredients added one handed pumps and beat the top safety s