. >>> good morning, i'm veronica de la cruz. it hasn't been this cold for almost two decades. 32 below zero at fargo, north dakota. minus 21 at madison, wisconsin. 15 below at chicago, minneapolis and indianapolis. the mayor has raised travel warning to red making it illegal to be on the road except for emergencies or seeking shelter. sarah dolloff is braving the temperatures. the temperature is one thing but the wind chill could drop to 50 below? >> wind chill, veronica, is where the weather is going to get you. it will get you fast. hypothermia and frostbite setting in within minutes. people here haven't seen this type of cold in decades. now officials are warning that the conditions are not only dangerous, they are potentially deadly. >> a bitterly cold wakeup for millions this morning as an arctic front causes temperatures to drop to record lows. 30 to 50 degrees below average in the midwest. 25 states with thermometers sitting below 0. in indiana up to two inches of snow fell every hour. the mayor of indianapolis warning pe

. >> hey, veronica. this is the fourth arctic blast of the season and it's supposed to be the coldest one yet. this part of the country hasn't thawed from the first round with the polar vortex and now we're bracing for yet another. as you mentioned, the public schools are canceled here in chicago and surrounding suburbs. public transportation schedules as well as train schedules are modified because it's just too dangerous to stay outside for long periods of time in these conditions. there is also a propane shortage across the midwest so many people are looking for heating alternatives. this relentless weather pattern is really starting to wear on people in this part of the country and it's only january. the temperatures are falling here in chicago and the temperatures are supposed to remain below zero for the next two and a half days. meantime, the wintery mix is supposed to reach the deep south part of this country by tomorrow. brutal even for winter's standards. live in chicago, i'm wendy woolfolk, ba

veronica? >> duncan, thank you. >>> and there are new questions about the most famous american already in russia, edward snowden. this morning, some lawmakers want to know if he acted alone or got help from inside the kremlin. the house intelligence chairman is launching an investigation. >> i believe there is a reason he ended up in the hands, the loving arms of an fsb agent in moscow. i don't think that's a coincidence, number one. number two -- >> you think the russians helped snowden. >> i believe there is questions to be answered there. i don't think it was a gee whiz luck event he ended up in moscow. >> government investigators tell nbc news there is no evidence to suggest snowden had help from another country. the white house, in the moan time, is not commenting. >>> a wake-up call to tell you about, 2 1/2 years in the making and more than 500 million miles away. this is the unmanned rosetta spacecraft launched in 2004. it has been hibernating since 2010 to conservative energy. today, it

i'm veronica de la cruz. the wait is over, football fans, the seattle seahawks and the denver broncos are going to the super bowl. the san francisco 49ers score the first touchdown with anthony dickson's leap over the defense. the niners lead 10-3 at halftime. but in the third seattle goes into beast mode. marshawn lynch brings home a 40 yard touchdown. game tied 10-10. then colin kaepernick in the pocket as it closes in. he fires off to anquan boldin. touchdown. the niners regain the lead, 17-10. in the fourth, seattle's russell wilson with his cannon pass to jermaine kearse. the hawks take the lead 20-17. the seahawks are up 23-17. kaepernick throws an interception in the end zone. >>> to the afc title, broncos and patriots. denver scores the first touchdown of the game in the second. peyton manning connects with jacob tammie. no patriots touchdown in the first half. he connects to demaryius thomas for a touchdown. there you go. denver leads 20-3. three minutes left in the fourth. tom brady rushes for the s

i'm veronica de la cruz. a shotgun, plenty of ammunition and a backpack filled with homemade explosives. that's what officials say a gunman who opened fire at a maryland mall brought with him. police say 19-year-old derian aguilar took a taxi to the mall in columbia in suburban baltimore. he had no criminal record. they say aguilar entered near the skateboard shop zumiez and went downstairs to a food court. returned less than an hour later, dumped his backpack in a dressing room and started shooting. shoppers fled in panic or barricaded themselves inside the mall. police say aguilar shot and killed two employees before taking his own life. those victims identified as 21-year-old brianna benlolo and 25-year-old tyler johnson. >> right now we don't have any type of known relationship between the shooter and our victims, nothing -- not one. we have a couple -- and that's what our investigators were working hard at right now to try to uncover. >> police say they received a missing persons report from aguilar's mo

i'm veronica de la cruz. get ready for an arctic blast of dangerous and life-threatening proportions. in most parts of the u.s., it hasn't been this cold for almost two decades. 32 below zero expected in fargo, north dakota. minus 21 in madison, wisconsin, 15 below zero in chicago, indianapolis. nbc sarah dallof joins us live in the thick of it in chicago. temperatures one thing, but windchill, windchill could drop below 60? >> reporter: yeah, that windchill is where the weather really gets you veronica. and resident it's here haven't these kind of cold in years, officials warn conditions not only dangers, it could be deadly. a bitterly cold wake-up for millions this morning as an arctic front causes temperatures to drop to record blows. 30 to 50 degrees below average in the midwest. 25 states with thermometers sitting at zero and below. in indiana sunday, up to 2 inches of snow fell every hour throughout the day. the mayor of indianapolis warning residents to stay indoors. >> we will have temperatures that a

>> reporter: good morning, veronica. this really is an amazing show here and a lot as you talk about, will be unveiled, some new models and some big changes to what's been the most popular vehicle in america for more than three decades. most every make and model from two-seaters to sedans and suvs, luxury, high-tech or high-performance. if it has four wheels, you can probably find it at the detroit auto show. >> detroit is the show in north america. there is no question about that. are are a showcase for an industry that's made its way back from the bad times and bailouts of just five years ago. >> three years of double digit growth, 10-13% range per year, year over year growth. 2013, 8% year over year growth. 2014, we're projecting $16.4 million in sales. >> reporter: success that can be seen in the extravagant displays here with the focus on what's new and what's next. but the spotlight and early buzz from this show is on a familiar work horse. >> this is such a big deal because it is all new from the ground up. >> rep

thanks,pga veronica. >>> peopleçó waited in long lin braving wintery conditions. at theok firsti] people to buy marijuana '=t(s&y. high school band on the national stage . >> out in colorado people have been lining up since this morning to legally buy and smoke marijuana. chris clackum was there when the first customer made the first purchase this morning. >> 8:00 a.m. we're going to do it. >> 8:00 a.m. >> choreographed for the cameras and precisely at 8:00 wednesday morning, colorado's pot industry opened for business. >> here's your receipts. >> reporter: the first customer at a pot shop in denver, an iraq war veteran who also fought to get pot legalized here. >> now i get to use recreational cannabis to alleviate my ptsd. it's a steppingstone for other states to help veterans as well. >> reporter: moments later hundreds of others were allowed in to buy up to one quarter of one ounce. >> it's a whole new world not having to kind of being underground about it. and be all sneaky about it. >> reporter: what happens here will be watched closely around the world with

and veronica, how cold will it get out there? well, way down. 5 to 10 degrees below zero, and many locations, montgomery and loudoun county, and that windchill advisory and, folks, not an accumulating snow, but look at the clouds roll in. this is the time lapsed camera from reston, virginia. and what you won't see is much in the way of the melting snows. the windchill feels like 5 in silver springs, a nd potomac, ad 13, and riverdale and bowie, feeling like 12 degrees right no now. and the evening forecast, windchills are way below zero by 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, we will start out at 11 degrees to 13, and by 7:00 tomorrow morning. so, folks, we are going to be tired of the winter weather gear. even in the colder conditions and for tomorrow afternoon and the snow chances continue. in a couple of minutes i will be back with the seven-day forecast, and for the meep time, we go out to the weather deck with doug kammerer who is standing by with the cold frigid conditions for the rest of the area. >> well with, it is freezing out h

>> thank you, veronica.he day warm inside of the comfort of your home, snow shoveling laws may have you heading outdoors sooner than you'd like. and as the temperature continues the drop, liz crenshaw here is with the advice to protect your pipes inside of your home. >> we will start with the snow shoveling laws, and you will be surprised how soon some jurisdictions require you to shovel. we start with loudoun county, because it requires public sidewalks to be shoveled within six hours of the snow falls, and in the district, within eight hours, and arlington and prince george georges and montgomery, they allow the residents 24 hours to remove the snow from the public property near your property, and in fairfax and prince, they do encourage people to shovel for safety. and because of the temperatures, be mind fful of the pipes in yo home that might freeze. and in fact, in the last arctic blast, there were over 2,000 calls for frozen pipes and broken pipes. here are the steps that you can take tonight to preve

veronica, back to you. >> that's right. we are going to look at those temperatures coming up in a couple minutes with the seven day forecast as well as how much snow we are going to get, ending tomorrow morning. back to you in the studio. >> the first of what could be more just into the news room. all stafford county public schools open two hours late. now is a good time to download the storm team 4 weather app. down load it for free. >>> police are trying to figure out what led to a crash between a metro bus and woman in a wheelchair. it happened on mlk avenue. the bus was making a right turn on to w street when it collided, at some point, with a woman in an electric wheelchair. the woman is expected to recover. >>> do you recognize this man? police are looking for him after a bank robbery in sterileling. it happened at the pnc bank. witnesses say he's 5' 10" with a thin build. >>> a maryland mother is out on bail on charges of leaving her daughter outside a casino for eight hours while she gambled. security officers say t

let's get back to veronica jackson. all we want to hear about is thawing. >> reporter: that's right. we won't have that tonight. the most important part of the forecast, not what's falling from the sky but already on the ground. we had some effects today and puddling especially on the sides of the road, all of this on the ground will turn to ice. it will be very quickly after the sun goes down. icy conditions and black ice with a re-freeze. 12 degrees in gaithersburg and 19 in college park and greenville and college springs and falls church at 17 degrees. as soon as temperatures go down -- as soon as the sun goes down, temperatures will fall even more. myself, will be driving in the middle of the three-lane highway. dress more. temperatures at 5-13 degrees with a very light wind across the area. high temperatures a little better, 20s 23, 24 around stafford and a chance to see a few flurries coming through churning windy and late in the day with winds at 20-30 miles an hour. continue continued cold with a chance of flurr

veronika jo r veronica johnson, we're going to see something else entirely. >> that's right. that cease some vicious cold, the kind of cold that we haven't had to deal with in quite some time around here. so that's the kind of situation for tomorrow. you're going to need your hat, your gloves, your scarves, anything to keep the wind off of your skin. now, as i mentioned, it's still snowing out here. in fact, coming down pretty good. we measured three inches. we could get a little bit more. let me show you the trees around the area. we do have tree limbses and branches balanced budget covered ever so lightly. it looks very pretty right now. tomorrow morning it's going to get ugly as the winds swik up. some of the scenes around the area right here at nbc 4, this picture from scott fowler. three inches of snow.

if that isn't bad enough, veronica says there is more snow in our forecast. veronica? >> more snow and more brutal cold. and that's just it. it really is unrelenting, and so hard to deal with the fact we've been locked in so long. we get the wind occasionally kicking up and there will be another this weekend. let's take another look at the temperatures out there right now. the winds are between 5 and 15 miles per hour. the temperature is low. the windchill temperatures of course even lower from laytonsville, maryland. new carrollton temperature 9 degrees. and quantity toe with a windchill value of 11 degrees. because we're going to drop even more, down to 5 to 10 degrees below zero, windchill advisory to the north. northern fauquier county on up to the north and west. a very cold start to the day tomorrow. but it is going to be dry. it's not going to stay dry, however, though. we've got a weather system that is going to be moving in. and we're talking about snowshowers, folks, for saturday, and some parts of the area i think could get some light accumulation. i'll show

. >> reporter: and live to veronica for the latest in bank cock.onica tell us about what has been happening today and how disruptive the protests have been. >> well, i have been here all day in a major intersection in bangkok and you can hear the thousands of whistles that are part of the rally, part of the kind of revving up and energizing and going to royal police headquarters and government ministries in order to drive the government workers and police to stop working for this administration of the prime minister ying-la. it's very much like this is a movement that has traction and that is forcing another turning point in a long running political struggle here in thailand. >> reporter: and the prime minister has extended a hand to the protesters offering them talks. will they accept and agree to sit down and talk? >> i think it's very unlikely actually. a few minutes ago i was speaking to the opposition leader of the democrat party and who is a former prime minister and he was saying that the government has been asked many, many times to partici

or let's go live now to veronica question in the cove she's the head of the russian political think tank the institute of foreign policy research and initiatives joining us live here on the program on r.t. international a very good morning to you the turmoil in kiev effectively now spreading westwards with ethnic divisions according to many fueling the unrest just how much more volatile how much worse are these protests going to get well indeed it can get much more violent and what we see happening today in my down on my done looks more and more as the events unfolding. on the square in cairo and we know what those events the ultra nationalists shifts. driving. violence cannot be controlled and the so-called ukrainian opposition actually. gave them a lot to them to allow them to participate in this violence it will be very difficult to stop the door a box off ukrainian fascism was open. and it's only a very decides if the government force that can stop it veronica of the opposition leaders were booed and the history by the crowds for talking to the government do they have any control ove

veronica?>> winter weather advisories for southern maryland and snow is falling across some of the southern maryland neighborhoods, and how slick will the roads be tomorrow? i will tell you when "news4 at [ male announcer ] are you watching cable? here's what you should be watching: your cable bill. because you could be paying way too much. stop spending more for second best. upgrade to verizon fios tv, internet and phone online for just $89.99 a month for one year and we'll triple your speed with a free upgrade to fios quantum internet for 12 months. plus get a second bonus: $250 back with a two-year agreement. fios is 100% fiber optic, so you get america's fastest, most reliable internet, with upload speeds twice as fast as cable. there's no better way to upload, download or stream hd quality video on all your devices at once. why keep paying for cable? move up to fios now for just $89.99 a month for one year and get a free upgrade to fios quantum for 12 months plus $250 back with a two-year

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i'm veronica johnson. we are going to show you some of the more interesting local stories making news this week. alarming incidents caught on camera. the warning metro has for anyone that decides to catch the train after a night of drinking. plus this. >> you eat this kind of food, your hunger mechanism turns off. >> that's right. some direction on your diet. we will get expert tips on which eating plans work and which ones could be recipes for disaster. she's ready for her close-up. we get a look at the zoo's baby panda in her new home ahead of her debut in front of visitors. we start with a story you saw first here on news4. powerful images from surveillance cameras inside of metro stations. a series of incidents unearthed by scott mcfarland show passengers believed to be under the influence of alcohol. there have been at least five incidents since early october. actually, move. four of them caught on camera. metro says that what you are about to see is evidence that you can be too drunk to ride the trai

we begin with veronica johnson on cue.s is just where we said it would be yesterday. >> that's right. folks, this really is hypothermia weather, frostbite type of weather. i felt for the folks i passed today who had to work outside for any prolonged period of time. there's the shot, what you don't see is the wind. we look around to the clear sky. the wind really whipping. the winds were up to 47 miles per hour. the temperatures have been low today, the highs in the 20s with winds gusting around 20 miles per hour. you can see, it's still delivering windchills in the single digits around frederick, maryla maryla maryland, montgomery county, fairfax and stafford county. not good at all. the low temperatures not doing anything to helt the snow. here, one to four. to the north, five to ten, as much as a foot of snow. it's the snow that is going to be on the ground for some time. the temperatures tomorrow morning dropping to 14 degrees. that 14, inside the beltway. wait till you see how cold and low the numbers go outside of the

. >> and a flood watch has been issued so we will go right to team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson. >> that is right. we are expecting moderate and heavy rain in our way the next 24 hours, which means that runoff could be an issue. we have had the ground warming up a little bit, but still a frozen ground when you get down a couple of levels. from frederick county to leesburg and you folks in mas nas sas are include and baltimore and columbia and so all of the way over here to this whole area under a flood watch for saturday. right now, we have showers running through the area, and nothing currently, and what we are e seeing is running down the southern portions here down to bethesda and d.c. and waldorf and allen's fresh, and this is where most of the rain will hold throughout the eveningch and the big story is also the fog. you are looking at a time lapse grabbed from the herndon, virginia camera, and in a couple of minutes w we will talk about the fog and what an issue it could be in the morn, and how much rain we we could get out of the system saturday and where the worst will be

it went off at a major intersection in the capitol and that's where al jazeera veronica pedrosa has more> reporter: this is the scene of the explosion. this is a victory monument, one of the main intersections here in bangkok. and just behind this crowd, there is a stage for anti-government protesters to deliver speeches and hold music. and it was at lunchtime just behind the main stage when a device went off when the crowd that was looking for food to scatter. >> that's when a second explosive device went off just behind me here, as you can see, there are lots of police. n now investigating the scene. forensic scientists looking for physical clues that might lead them to who is behind this attack and others because this is the latest in a series of bombings and shootings that are pretty minor. how fa however, they are causing an atmosphere of fear about coming to these protests, about what lies ahead in thailand's political future. >> that was arningsz's veronica pedrosa in bangkok violence might increase the risk of military involvement which could benefit the protest movement. thailan

let's check in with v.j., veronica, what's going on? >> yes, it will. i think we're sick and tired of the extreme cold and the problems that it's been causing. today, though, we got a chance to get a little sunshine in here. look at the gorgeous sky closer to sunset. again, mighty, mighty cold. your evening planner forecast, dropping to 18 by 9:00 p.m. talking about dry conditions here for your evening and even tomorrow morning. we'll head on down to 15 degrees inside the beltway. other locations back down it the single digits. so again, very cold this evening. and even lower temperatures by tomorrow morning. in fact, our windchillngs now up through montgomery county, northern areas of montgomery county, eight degrees. feels like 23, though, ft. belvoir, and by tomorrow morning, folks, single digit windchills. we'll take another look in a few minutes at the snow that we're expecting tomorrow and how much you could see. >>> new threats out of russia have the olympic committee beefing up their security efforts. this four-minute video was released by a ter

you and i laugh, except for the fact that it is so horrible, but how much more veronica must the new york times to believe something so stupid, but they have no choice. they have been morally and will -- intellectually retarded at the level of a five-year-old child. coexist. that is the lesson they are taught in kindergarten. you will find it in the book. if you boil down the intellectual rhetoric of thomas friedman, and another i youicularly dislike, if boil down the pseudo- intellectualism of the leftist editorialist to its essence, it is one of the lessons they learned in kindergarten, extrapolated into pseudo- sophisticated language. i thinke the two things you understand. were raised to believe that thinking is a hate crime, and indiscriminate... lead to indiscriminate beliefs. invariably to siding with the soviet union over the united states. saddam hussein over america. mass murdering what terrorist dictators over israel. , one like trayvon martin story after another after another. happy to takey questions. thank you for having me. [applause] as a understand it, the questions

veronica johnson is outside on the weather patio with more on the conditions. v.j.? >> well, it is getting slick out here on the weather deck, because it is concrete under here, and so a lot of the roads, and the sidewalks and the secondary roads like right here, as soon as we clear it, it piles up, but the wind is, too, starting to pick up, and we will need the hat and the glove and the mittens and everything to cover up the exposed skin by late tonight or tomorrow morning. and the snowplows are going by, and the temperatures are currently 25, and winds gusting to 26 miles per hour. you could see the blowing snow there on the bottom of the screen. what it feels like across the area, between 8 and 15. and mount airy to 15 and the same over the fredericksburg. if you want to clean the sidewalks,it inow, because this is the time to get it. yes, we will get more snow, but the windchills are going to be dropping below zero, and by midnight, and 5 to 10 or 15 degrees below zero by 5:00 tomorrow morning. and here it will feel like minus 2, and 4 below in hagerstown, and 8:

. >> we start in storm center 4 with meteorologist veronica johnson. >> that's right. we continue to see these waves of extreme cold move in, and through last one sitting for a while now, it's been with us the last couple of days. only ten of the last 24 days, just taking a look at numbers here in storm center 4. only ten of the last 24 days, our afternoon temperatures at or above average. we've got a sunset, folks, and as the sun goes down, it is going to get mighty cold. at least it's a pretty one without any weather falling across the area in terms of snow right now. we're expecting some snow showers. that will come tomorrow. before that, though, another icy cold but quiet overnight period. our temperatures are going to go up a bit, but then they're going to go way, way down again. in terms of cloud cover, yeah, we're clear now. the clouds will be moving in to provide, again, the -- the foundation for some of the snow showers that we're expecting. current windchill temperatures, nine right now. it feels like in frederick, maryland, 14 manassas. you folks around warr

it's nice to see you, i'm veronica de la cruz. a shotgun you plenty of ammunition and a backpack filled with explosives. that's what officials say a gunman who opened fire at a maryland mall brought with him. police say 19-year-old darion aguilar took a shotgun with him. entered and went downstairs to a food court. he returned, left an hour later, and started shooting. shoppers barricaded themselves inside the mall. police say aguilar shot and killed two employees before taking his life. those victims identified as 21-year-old brianna benlollo and 25-year-old tyler johnson. >> right now, we don't have any type of known relationship between the shooter and our victims. not saying there's not one. we just haven't uncovered one. that's why our investigates are working very hard to uncover. >> police say they received a missing person's report from aguilar's mother two hours after the shooting. they found a journal at home that expressed general unhappiness but left no clues about the murders. the mall is expected to reopen this after

. >> and veronica the bitter arctic blast that she has hit has hit parts of the midwest and canceling schools and interrupting travel, an wendy wolfolk is joining us live from the navy pier where you can hear her teeth chattering from here. wendy? >> well, don't let the sun deceive you barbara and jim. this second polar plunge is worse than the first. >> reporter: bitter cold does not describe the latest round of arctic air descending on the u.s. really is. i is bone-chilling. temperatures below zero with temperatures dipping be below 40 in parts of the midwest. and 24 states have declared emergencies due to a shortage of propane gas. and to make it worse, this explosion cut off natural gas flows over the weekend, and leaving how thousands of people without heat in minnesota, north dakota and wisconsin and while the gas flows to the region are improving, officials were forced to shut down two other pipelines for safety. >> if you have three major pipelines go out at this time of the year, it causes a lot of stress on the system, and something that we don't hardly ever see. >> reporter

veronica, how is the weather?ll, it is looking nice for the weekend and a warming trend, but as we go into february, it is active and a lot of winter left, and in fact, 49 days to spring. we will look at next week and what surprises it offers when news4 returns. >>> amanda knox speaks out about today's guilty ver dick. chris lawrence is at the live desk. >> yes, wendy, we just got this statement into the newsroom and in it, knox writes in part, i'm frightened and saddened by this verdict. having been found innocent before, i expected more from the italian justice system. she was sentenced to 26.5 years and her former boyfriend was sentenced to 25 years. and now the italian government has to decide to request formal extradition from the u.s., and then the u.s. has to decide whether they would comply. i'm chris lawrence at the live d desk. >>> athletes are arriving in sochi for the winter games expected to kick off next week. we received a photo and tweet from maria lamb who says that they just arrived in sochi and

buenas tardes verÓnica, adelante. >>> quÉ tal, buenas tardes.omentos de terror, los que se vivieron en una tienda departamental en mazatlÁn, una compradora amenaÓo con un cuchillo a una niÑa de 4 aÑos, veamos las imÁgenes. >>> tras merodear por unos instantes por el centro comercial, la mujer arrebata a la menor de la manos de su madre, la aparta de ella, le coloca un cuchillo en la barbilla amenazando con degollarla, un oficial se quita la camisa del uniforme, y logra rescatar a la pequeÑa de las garras de la secuestradora, una multitud le cae encima a la sospechosa, queda bajo control y termina arrestada. >>> la mujer es una deportista de mazatlÁn, dijo que sufriÓ una crisis nerviosa, el policÍa y testigos que ayudaron al rescate de la menor, serÁn condecorados por su acto, es todo, regreso bÁrbara a los estudios, un placer informarles. >>> gracias, gracias verÓnica. vamose a cambiar de noticias, el terror se apoderÓ de la tienda de una estaciÓn de gasolina en denver colorado, un sujeto se a parapetÓ en el lugar y tomo a una mujer como rehÉn.

. >> veronica pedrosa joins us live from bangkok. the thai prime minister absolutely firm that these elections will go ahead. what has been the reaction to that? >> well, the opposition, the people who have been organising this bangkok shutdown campaign have, of course, rejected this. this has been one of the key demands of the demonstrations that have been going on that yingluck shinawatra step down before elections are held, being replaced by other electorates, transitional council of sorts under which reforms will take place, criticising the family including the former prime minister that's correct san for having led a regime of corruption and nepotism. >> there a few people queueing up. they feature the thai demonstrations. people give food out. they cue for food. make no mistake, they are serious issues at take here that will shape the future of thailand - you can hear the music going off. you can hear the music. >> veronica pedrosa in a city myered with protests. >> french president francis hollande refused to answer questions

. >> next, we have veronica. let's take a look at a picture of veronica in a typical outfit. what did you see? >> a couple things. she's sticking with the dark colors that are making her look like a blob. she's not cinching the waist. also, paints way too short. do you want to see it? >> i can't wait. >> monochromatic with a pop. don't steer all towards black. go for a great jewel tone color like this, matching pants with a cami, showing off the waist with the pop, the belt, and the leopard print, and if you also notice, her shoes in the same color family. that's just going to elongate the leg. >> got it. >> just finding flattering clothing. finding tips to help you look your best. >> exactly. you all have these kind of things in your closet. it's putting the right combinations together. >> thank you, let's look at this before picture. tell us what you think she needed to do. >> she's got a great figure, but again, remember what i said about being a grazer? you want your clothes to graze your body. nothing too loose, so we want to show off her figure. >> you did. you put her

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veronica live for us at a noisy rally in bangkok. thank you for your time tonight. the u.s. named two libyan groups as terrorist organizations for their role in the benghazi attack two years ago. it's the first time. the u.s. said the groups responsible are not believed to be affiliated with al-qaeda but observers say they do pose just as big of a threat. this big debate is was there an order from the tribalaries of pakistan. there is no evidence of that. but what we are facing around the world are local militant groups that share al-qaeda's ideology. we face a threat whether it's core al-qaeda or not isn't going to help save american lives. four americans including u.s. ambassador christens. a new government is taking shape in the central african republic. joy over the ousted president's departure turned violent. widespread looting in the capitol has killed at least 13. mosque along with muslim owned shops and hopmes were attacked. the united nations called for calm, removing foreigners. israelis head a candle ite vigil for former prime minister arial shar owen. he died aft

i'm veronica de la cruz.he ntsb is investigating a crash at the aspen airport that killed one person and injured two others. local officials say the three on board were all private pilots from mexico. >>> dangerously cold weather is gripping a good part of the country with record lows expected across the midwest, northeast and south on n the coming days. and one person has died and another is in critical condition after a high-rise apartment fire in midtown manhattan. i'm veronica de la cruz. let's get you back to "lockup." >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> metro corrections. the time is approximately 17:49 hours. i've activated for antonio coleman. he's on five north. >> antonio coleman had recently been put on suicide watch at the louisville metro department of corrections jail. now, the special operations response team, or s.o.r.t., has been sent to remove him from his cell due to a disturbance. >> team four, come on. coleman has flooded his cell. his excessive beating on

. >> hunker down a and we wiw and the latest with veronica johnson and doug kammerer, and v.j., starting with you, it is is a weather alert day. >> yes, it is towards the morning rush and that is okay, and then later in afternoon and the early evening is when it will really hit. and the storm that we have been talking about, doug. gger than the problematic one we have been talk about, and the storm that is coming in day after tomorrow hitting nearly 60. >> and folks are going, what? well, that is why you are to keep up. tomorrow from 7:00 a.m. to the 11:00 p.m., and sometimes we talk about the areas with the higher snow totals, but this time, everybody is impacted. this time the radar is quiet as we are watching the system off to the west evolving and developing from iowa northward. and this is a clipper-type storm, but this one has more unusual things that will be taking place that allows the snow to be accumulating quickly, and right now it is moderate snow for us, and with more on the impact of the snow on our area, i have meteorologist doug kammerer. >> yes, it will impact the area,

. >>> and right after us, veronica johnson, she is going to take us inside the washington auto show. rev up your engines, stick around for nbc 4's drive time. that's coming up at 10:00. >>> hey, guys. good morning. well, we've been here before. the wizards with yet another chance to get over the .500 mark this season. they visit utah tonight. in phoenix last night, the wizards improve to 21-21 on the season. trevor ariza led the way with a game-high 23 points, wall waiting to see if he'll make the all-star game. he added 18, wizards beat the suns 101-95. let's go the ice for something we've seen six straight times before. the caps lose again, this time to the new jersey devils. adam henrique's 14th goal on the season leads the devils to a 2-1 win. caps with their seventh straight loss. >>> nfl now, richard sherman's pockets are a little lighter this morning, the seattle seahawks cornerback who has been all over the news this week has been fined $7,875 by the nfl for taunting during the nfc championship game last week. sherman who made a choking gesture toward the 49ers' sideline said

soy tu amiga verónica rivera y te espero con mi compañero pancho mercado mañana para que nos enfrenmosxvi en su primer año ,el vaticano indicó que menos de 3 millones de fieles asistieron a los eventos que ofició el papa benedicto xvi en su primer mandato en la iglesia en el año 2005 . >>> es que le va al segundo ,juan pablo ii también era portero en su club . >>> volvemos en sólo a las 11, buenas tardes. vuelos cancelados o retrasados ,histórico fallo de la corte suprema, un mexicano podrá ejercer como abogado a pesar de ser indocumentado, una ley local protege inmigrantes ante una posible deportación y fin de la agonía para las persaonas atrapadas en el barco del polo sur, su travesía todavía no termina, comenzamos . ♪.

i'm veronica dela cruz.ee people are dead after a shooting at a maryland mall. no motive has been determined but they were treated and released. >>> a judge's ruling to take a pregnant brain dead woman off life support. the judge ruled for the woman's husband who argued his wife would not have wanted to be kept alive. the hospital says it has a legal duty to protect the fetus. i'm veronica dela cruz. now back to "lockup." >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ ♪ i'm in this and i'm catching more fish than a gordon ♪ ♪ so everybody bounce your head like a b-ball ♪ ♪ coming and i chew them up like a gumball ♪ ♪ selling more platinum than a harry potter ♪ ♪ i gotta run and on the road ♪ we got it buy food in california and when i open my mouth you know what i'm talking about ♪ ♪ now i'm catching more fish than the gordon's ♪ ♪ i'm the king of the ring bounce your head like a b-ball ♪ there you go. >> to the inmate in san quentin, it may seem like just another day on the yard. but the

i'm veronica de la cruz.." >>> san quentin is a deteriorated penitentiary whose obsolete design is putting officers at risk and causing enormous inefficiency. but for the thousands of inmates incarcerated there, san quentin is home. it's where long days are spent in a small cell, where survival is as much a mental challenge as it is a physical one. >> there's a nine by six cell. now i can put my hand from here to here. and i can't even stretch my arms all the way up. >> you might say this is what criminals deserve, after all, this is prison. but for cellmates, russell johnson and christopher reid, for instance, it's hard time. >> it's certain ways you conduct yourself in here, too, you know what i'm saying? >> let's say for instance someone wanted -- >> somebody wanted to talk to him, you know what i'm saying, we got -- i've got to sit down. you know what i'm saying? >> or i might have to come up like this. or he can just turn to his side right here and walk this way. >> yeah. this is how you do it. you do yo

i'm veronica de la cruz. the city of fallujah is under the control of al qaeda fighters. after the u.s.-led invasion of iraq. >>> the deep freeze that is gripping the country sent temperatures in international falls, minnesota, to 40 below. >>> new york is set to become the 21st state to allow the medical use of marijuana. governor andrew cuomo will unveil in his state of the state speech next week. i'm veronica de la cruz. ♪ ♪ o say can you see ♪ by the dawn's early light ♪ what so proudly we hailed ♪ at the twilight's last gleaming ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ ♪ through the perilous fight ♪ the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming ♪ ♪ and the rockets red glare ♪ the bombs bursting in air ♪ gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ♪ ♪ o say does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ o'er the land of the free ♪ and the home of the brave >>> inside grand rapids kent county jail, captain demery is nearing the end of a 25-year career. he says much of what influenced him came from his old job. >> this is what i went to school for. i

i'm veronica de la cruz.t you back to lockup. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ ♪ you be crying to them boys when you want some mail, you be crying for your wife ♪ >> it's not unusual for de shawn to rap tributes for his friend the shizz. ♪ don't do the shizz >> and now powell even has an audience. after 30 days in segregation, he's been released back to a general population dorm. ♪ we miss you shizz >> wake up, baby! >> kind of excited. feel like i'm back home with my friends. >> finding a housing unit where powell has no known enemies was a challenge, staff finally worked it out. but if he is to stay out of segregation, he needs to be on his best behavior. >> said that if i do anything i will be go back to max and i will not be back in the general population until i leave louisville metro correction department. >> so powell is taking no chances. even when it comes to getting out of bed. >> when i want to get down i ask my bunk mate do you mind if i get down. you know, if it's

i'm veronica de la cruz.s happening. maryland police have released a picture of the 19-year-old who opened fire inside a mall. darion aguilar was armed with a shotgun and explosives. investigators don't have a motive for the shooting which left two people dead along with the gunman. >>> a polar blast will be around for the next few days, freezing temperatures and snow will extend into the south. i'm veronica de la cruz. back to "lockup." >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ >> step on out. cramer. rodriguez. >> 4-4. >> now! >> 4-4. >> you hear those whistles and you hear those officers yelling, you know it's not a false alarm. >> call him in, will you? code four. fistfight, second tier landing. >> an alarm sounds in the sensitive needs unit after yet another fistfight breaks out on the tier. >> take yours down first. >> swing your feet around. swing your feet around. >> i heard a whistle and responded to the second tier landing south block and saw an inmate laying facedown. the of

frds i'm veronica de la cruz.k to the program. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> behind the walls of grand rapids kent county jail, tensions inside housing unit d-3a have been running high since hiv-positive inmate jeremy merithew implied that he contaminated several sandwiches with body fluids and gave them away to other inmates. officers have just been called to another emergency one floor below. the fight has broken out between two inmates. the officer on duty calls for backup. employs pepper spray in an attempt to break it up. but the fight continues. seconds later, backup arrives and the two men are separated. deputies then secure the unit, ordering all inmates back to their cells. >> told you -- >> the inmates involved are byron tolbert and wilfredo vasquez. >> get back over there. >> with their eyes still stinging from the pepper spray, the inmates are taken to the segregation unit. they're placed in separate cells and allowed to wash their eyes out. >> you need water? >> y

. >> she's known as baby veronica, and she was the center of a high profile custody battle. her adoptive parents are white. her father is native american, and he has been fighting for her along side his tribe. the case went all the way to the united states supreme court. at the heart of the case is the indian child welfare act or iqwa which tries to keep if children to their tribes. it was in response when a highly number of native children were removed from their families and placed with non-native homes, severed from their culture in the process. the fundamental protections of the law are still being fought for. >> it applies the indian kids walk into the courtroom and it is not happening. here in south dakota native children are only 13% of the children in the state but more than 50% of those in foster care. and the majority are placed with non-native families, in group homes or in institutions. >> we woman you to beautiful south dakota where leaders are born. >> for the lakota people here the issue isn't just about child custody. it's about cultural survival. >> in the s

. >> she's known as baby veronica, and she was the center of a high profile custody battle. her adoptive parents are white. her father is native american, and he has been fighting for her along side his tribe. the case went all the way to the united states supreme court. at the heart of the case is the indian child welfare act or iqwa which tries to keep if children to their tribes. it was in response when a highly number of native children were removed from their families and placed with

i'm veronica de la cruz.lammed the northeast is still being felt in the form of sub freezing temperatures. it's also been a headache for travelers. thousands of flights have been canceled. >>> the passengers rescued from, by the helicopter from their iced in ship in antarctica are move toward home. their new vessel had been put on stand by in case other nearby ships needed help. >>> flu season is in full swing w widespread reports of the virus in 25 states. i'm veronica de la cruz. now back to "lockup." >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> one big setback. >> about 26,000 men and women are booked in a grand rapids kent county jail every year. since they often arrive in booking, fresh from a crime scene or in various stages of intoxication, the jail needs to quickly gather information about their pasts. that's accomplished with the touch of a finger on a biometric identification device. >> that will run through our whole system of anybody that's ever been here and check and see i

i'm veronica de la cruz.et you back to "lockup." >>> miami-dade corrections, the sixth largest jail system in the united states, is like a small overpopulated city, one that never shuts down. the task of officially running these facilities can be daunting, meals, medications, rec time, visitations. it's a neverending trouble to properly care for a population of thousands. with most of their time spent locked behind bars, inmates at miami-dade corrections welcome the three hours a week they're allowed outside for exercise. >> we come out to the yard, try to relieve some stress. that way we don't have to worry about the officers [ muted ] with us when we're in there and everything. this is one of our privileges right here. basically everybody looks forward to coming to the yard. >> we come out here for a stretch then run, run a little bit, do a little jumping jacks, do a little pushups, you know, do a little shadow boxing. try to get the lungs open. very important because we need that fresh air, you know what i

i'm veronica de la cruz.pelican bay's mainline housing can be, there is a place that inmates fear even more. in prison slang, it's known as the hole. while pelican bay houses some of the worst inmates in the state of california, the security housing unit, or shu, has always housed the worst inmates in pelican bay. >> now, this might look concrete to you, but it's not compared to the shu program. everything is concrete. >> no ground, no grass, it's all cement. lights all the time. noisy. the yard, you look up at the roof and it's like this. you don't see the sky, you still see bars, you know what i mean? >> you know, you can drive yourself crazy like that just sitting somewhere for 23 hours a day. i wouldn't want to see my worst enemy go back there. it's no place for any human being. >> in addition to containing inmates with a history of violence in the general population, the shu houses inmates who have been officially confirmed by the prison as active, valid gang members. >> under current policy, if you are