The hospital. Im shomari stone and ill have that story all new at 11 00. And the massive search for the missing plane and what the u. S. Is planning to do to find it. A spike if homicides in the district and tonigd yet another person has been shot and killed. Good evening, im jim vance. And im wendy rieger sitting in for doreen gentzler. Weve had three homicides in less than 24 hours. Who two in southeast and the latest one in north d. C. Jackie bensen in an area thats seen much violence. Petworth has been hard hit by the violence of the last week and thats especially concerning to residents because theyve been working for many years and very successfully with police to improve Public Safety here. The latest violence includes a homicide sunday night in southeast washington. And another murder just this afternoon in the 600 block of division avenue in northeast. The district has averaged a murder a day since last week. Weve had a higher than normal number of homicides since christmas eve. In petworth violence began on december 23rd three shootings within hours of each other. In each case gunmen opened fire on a person drivg a car. One shooting left a 21yearold man dead. The next day a woman was shot and killed near a bus stop at 14th and randolph streets northwest. Police have identified a suspect, 35yearold marvin lopez. Hes not been located. We have a lot of fear because of the number of incidents and the nature of the incidents. Reporter advisory neighborhood commissioners represent the areas where some of the shootings occurred. Both have heard plenty from concerned constituents and offer similar assessments of the situation. A lot of the neighbors they dont believe that the police are actually as engaged as they used to be in terms of getting out of their cars going into the businesses asking them how are they doing. The commissioners say residents who want to about the violence can begin by identifying their Police Service area called a psa and going to a monthly meeting. Its a wonderful opportunity because the big wigs show up. So youre going to have your highlevel Police Officers there and youre going to have the patrol officers there. So youre going to get the different perspectives. Reporter every single resident of the District Of Columbia lives in a Police Service area the information is available on the citys website. Well he was shot in the head. Doctors said he wouldnt make it. But 9yearold jaden stancel not only survived hes thriving. Today he took a huge step in his recovery. Shomari stone joins us to show us the incredible progress he just made. Shomari . Reporter well wendy, this 9yearold boy is absolutely remarkable. He feels good to be outside, he says to breathe the fresh air. N the hospital for three months. Tonight he was released. [ laughter ] 9yearold jaden stancel giggles in a wheelchair outside after recovering at med star hospital for three months. Tonight, doctors released him. [ laughter ] good. I feel i feel i wasnt going to be able to go out the hospital like this. In october, jaden was on a playground with friends in northeast d. C. A stray bullet hit him in the head during a shooting that targeted two men at mayfair mansions. Doctors told his mother he would die. Im overwhelmed. My son has done a remarkable recovery thanks to childrens hospital. R police and the officer who drove him to the hospital in his car after the shooting. Police arranged for santa to deliver gifts in the hospital. Because i got everything i asked for. Im very pleased and blessed and grateful. Reporter but his mother is also concerned. She doesnt want to return to mayfair mansions with jaden. She worries about the violence. I hope i can find a place to live. Jaden hopes to move into a new community. Where do you want to live . Somewhere safe and quiet and comfortable. Repor and tonight, jaden and his mother are staying with relatives until they find a new place to live. I talked to a Council Member and she said shes doing what she can to find them a new community. Meanwhile, d. C. Police urge anyone with information, if you know who is responsible for the shooting, detectivt to hear from you. You can also call the department anonymously. Im shomari stone, news 4. Thanks shomari. A look at weather now. Doug little damp out there, little chilly but nothing to be all that alarmed about, is it . No were talking flurries here. Saw them come down a little bit earlier this after county Prince Georges County and a few others down to the south. Take a look the radar. Picking up shower activity fairly well. These are just very light flurries towards culpepper, into southern maryland. Its not going to amount to anything. No worries as far as the morning commute is concerned. However, we may see a few flurries through the morning. Cold new year yeah thats for sure. New years eve, the coldest weve seen in a while. Watching what could be a bigger storm weekend. Ive got it all for you coming up in just a ce minutes. New tonight, a woman killed in a house five late this e fir crews on the scene saw flames shooting through the roof. They found 70yearold Betty Ann Davis on the first floor. Firefighters pulled her out of that house, but it was too late. A dog and a cat inside the house also were killed. Took 60 firef put out the flames there. Theres still no word on what st fire. Well he was just 17 and family members say he was ambitious, dedicated to his family. Tonight 17yearold carbajal is being remembered after a freak accident. He was riding in this nissan sunday morning when the driver d to avoid hitting a deer. The car slid off the road, slammed into a telephone pole. The 17yearold driv survived but carbajal did not. Any time he would see us he would always say, did you miss me . And now, i guess its too late, he can hear me and i would tell him that ihim. He was set to graduate from Lee High School this spring. He had plans to become a mechanic. That crash is still under investigation. The u. S. Has now joined the search for airasia flight 8501. Jim has more on this now. Right now, the uss sampson is in route to the search area. Five countries are now involved in the search halfway between where the flight originated indonesia, and its destination of singapore. 30 ships, and 22 aircraft four helicopters are combing the seas and small islands that dot the route. Airasia has been upgrading its gps tr systems on its plane. But this particular plane had not yet been modified. Which makes finding the plane more difficult. Its the same problem in the search for mh370 that disappeared earlier this year. Now aviation experts say its going to take a concerted effort to get gps tracking on every plane. Well the industry knows that the technology exists. A lot of it is about money. But the equipment is out there, i think its going to take regulatory action to get every airline with it. That flight disappeared shortly after asking to climb above storm clouds but couldnt because of other planes in the area. Investigators now want to talk to those other pilots about conditions at the time. At the live desk im jim adly. In greece tonight, the death toll in the ferry fire stands at 10. That ferry caught fire sunday trapping passengers for more than 24 hours. Survivors say the lower decks became boiling hot, melting their shoes. So far, 427 people have been rescued, but the original manifest listed 478 passengers and crew. That suggests that others might still be missing. Congratulations, officers. Some boos mixed with some cheers all of which shows the ongoing tension between new york citys mayor and Police Department there. Mayor bill de blasio and Police Commissioner bill bratton say they will meet with Police Union Leaders tomorrow. Mayor de blasio spoke at the Police Academy graduation today. Some people in the audience cheered. No apparent response from the cadets. On saturday Police Officers some of them turned their backs on the mayor at the funeral for one of the two murdered officers. Those officers who are unhappy claim that de blasio seems too sympathetic to protesters in high profile cases. A large crowd is expected tomorrow for the funeral of a Charles County officer, who was ki in a car crash. Jamell clagget was killed in an accident on december 21st. A mass is set to begin at 11 00 tomorrow morni at st. Peters church in waldorf. That area including popular hill road will be closed until after the funeral concludes. Hell be buried in a cemetery next to thwell he says he was beaten and bruised and now hes suing. A local College Student is suing for 3 million. Tell you why hes blaming his fraternity on an attack. And white house wedding crasher. A couple is forced to move their wedding so that the president can play golf. There were two things that could mess up the wedding. One was weather, and the other was the and some terrifying footage of a torna. A University Student is suing his fraternity. He claims he was beaten and bruised during a hazing. Kevin hayes says this happened last year in an offcampus house. In his 3 million lawsuit, he claims that members of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity beat bodyslammed and spanked him with a wooden paddle on a daily basis. He also said he was instructed not to tell anyone. Hitting with their fists, slapping with their hands, bodyslamming. And did they say why they were doing it . It makes you stronger. B omptowie state is not named in the lawsuit. President obama crashed a wedding hours before they were set to tie the knot. They learned they would have to move the wedding because their commander in chief wanted to play on the golf course. But, as nbcs Chris Jansing shows us they then got another big surprise. Reporter it was a match made in military heaven two west point grads who met while stationed in germany, both captains. Where better to mary than at their latest posting on the 16th tee of their bases golf course with sweeping views of the pacific. Oi felt the details were set, then i got excited. Reporter but 24 hours before the i dos, a call saying you cant. The nuptials would have to be moved. We knew there were two things that could mess up the wedding the weather and the president. The couple had invited the presida polite regret. From the phone call the president made to the surprised couple neither did he. I feel terrible. Nobody told us. This isnt the first time the president s golf games have stoked controversy, though. Where are his priorities . The president admitted he made a mistake back in august when he hit the links right after making a statement about the beheading of american james foley by isis. I should have anticipated the optics. Reporter and critics pounced while he was on the green after sending his attorney general to ferguson after riots and protests. But this time no penalty stroke for the president. The ceremony was held a short distance above the 16th green. It has an even better view, so its a blessing in disguise. Youre not just saying it because its the commander in chief . Because hes our bosss bosss boss, and then a few more . No not at all. The company who handled the logistics for the wedding anyone planning an event is told the plan could change when the president is in town. This is cell phone video catching an ef3 twister tearing through columbia mississippi. A man sh video and then dropped the phone and ran when it started getting scary. He later found the cell, realized it was rolling the whole time. Learned a fifth person died from the storm and fema is ground to find out where the area q f aid. We have the new year coming up and the weekend, hows it going to look . The coldest air is coming in for new years eve. It is about time. But the timing not exactly the right thing. In colorado something different. They with snow. Now a white new year. Snow coming down in boulder, i know so many of you are wondering whats going on in this area. There have been more winter storm warnings in hawaii than around our region. Thats just amazing. We have not seen that kind of snow. That again right outside of boulder, colorado. Some locations picking up three to ten inches over the next day or so. For us were just on the mild side. 44 degrees right now. We have some cloud recover and temper of e region into the 30s. But were not cold just yet. 36 gaithersburg. The coldest area at 33 in haguerstown. But these are still e highs for the year. Radar showing a few showers. Rain and snow showers across portions of the area sprinkles or flurries and that will continue through early tomorrow morning. E ts boundary and air of low pressure that will track to the south. So if you live in the southern zones, southern maryland, culpepper and fredericksburg youll have a chance to see those early tomorrow morning. Dont be surprised if you see them around the d. C. Area. Temperatures fell through the day for many of us and we did see those clouds all day long. Tonight, the clouds are here and the showers, the sprinkles, the flurries theyll be here around 7 00 a. M. F us will not see them. Well be on the dry side. Not anticipating problems for the rush. We start to see the clouds get out to the west and then the clouds move out by around 4 or 5 00. So i think well see some sun tomorrow afternoon. But thats when the cold air sets in and again, some of the coldest air weve seen so far this season. As we move through the day, well dry out and 40 degrees between 5 and 7 00. High temperatures tomorrow cooler than they were today. 38 back to martinsburg, and it gets colder still as we move through e day on new years. High of 37 28 the low, 27 the low on thursday. So as we move through the day, wednesday into midnight mostly clear. Around 30 in d. C. If youre at the festivities. It will be chilly. And were talking about low 20s. Many of you in the teens overnight. Thursday looking good for the winter classic and then saturday and sunday watching a storm system here. That storm system will bring us a chance for rain or snow. Right now it all depends on where that storm goes. Will it go to the north . Will go to the south . Were watching for the possible storm and well continue to watch that for you and have the latest for you tomorrow morning. Thanks doug. We got sports coming up. Long delay in a wizards game in houston. You might call it an is there an elk in your bed . With sleep number, now theres an adjustment for that. Only at a sleep number store find the lowest prices of the season, with the c3 Queen Mattress set only 1199. 98. Plus 24 month special financing on all beds. Know better sleep with sleep number. This is the xfinity sports desk brought to you by xfinity. Dont know if you know but theres a big time hockey game coming up on new years day. But theres also a hockey game tonight that matters. Last game of 2014 for the caps team. And the next time you will see them will be outside at nats park. And the wi three days away. But they had to wrap up this year in new york against the islanders. They played with some grit. This dad not happy with his kids there. Thats pretty funny. Caps trail 30 but battled back. A great pass to set up backstrom. Really that pass is perfect and backstrom finishes with his 12th goal of the season. Later in the period in the faceoff there, s into the back o. B. s 17th goal ovis 17th goal. Breaks their heart with a slapper. Caps put up a fight, but fall to the islanders 43. Do not forget nbc 4 is your home for the winter classic pregame show at 11 00 a. M. On new years day. Puck drops at 1 00. We are pumped for that. All right, wizards visiting the rockets, causing problems. This was quite a game. Look at this. Some problems with the rim. Dwight howard is trying to fix it. They wheel out a new basket. 37 minutes later, they figure it out. Wizards led by 11. Wall to beal 33 for him. Wizards up 5. Beal loses the ball gets it back gives it to paul pierce. Buries this three. You dont live him open. 21 for him tonight. Wiz up by 7. Threepoint gamel at line. Hits the second freethrow. So its a fourpoint game. Houston brings it down and james harden hits the huge three with seconds left. Washington inbounds it to end this one with hold on 104103, big win for the Washington Wizards tonight. All right, its black monday. All around the nfl were seeing changes to coaching staffs. But not here in d. C. Not yet anyway. Head coach jay gruden who will return next season will meet with the owner and gm before he makes any decisions. Veteran ryan clark has made his decision to retire. Meanwhile, kirk cousins, the thirdstring quarterback is hoping to still win the starting job next season. Kirk expects the competition, but if the staff decides it rg3s job no matter what cousins would like to be traded. Thats not the only area that needs to be addressed this week. Sometimes the best addition to your Football Team is sub traction. T w have to figure out. Been with these guys for a long time and there are some things you want to address. I promise you this this will not be the same Football Team, football s now that well have at t of nex year. Well have a lot of changes and hopefully for the better. Theres chatter about offensive coordinar jim haslett and after yesterdays performance, i can see the argument as to why he may need to get fired. But jay gruden is set. Certainly like to hear what he has to say, and the questions addressed to him as well. Cannot imagine how haslett could be on this team next year. Cannot imagine how we dont need a whole new roster. He didnt bring in a lot of his own guys. Maybe this time he brings them in. From cincinnati he didnt bring a lot of those guys. But can w about the wizards kicking butt and taking names, that was a huge win tonight with that whole western swing coming up. Goodbye for the first time in a quarter cent beiji glowing with ice lanterns. 150 artists have created these stadiums everything from warriors to doggies, carved out of ice and filled with brightly colored lights. Most years the festival is in the far northeastern part of the country, this show just opened today. We show you this because we love to bring you all the news. I think its pretty. Tradingin or selling your car truck or suv . Webuyanycar. Com takes the hassle out of selling in just 3 easy steps. 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