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cyber campaign to up end the presidential race. a short time ago, elijah cummings called for sessions to resign immediately. >> by the end of this week, we are expected to hear the trump administration's next move when it comes to his controversial travel ban. the white house was expected to roll out a revised executive order today but postponed it. the decision came as people praised the president's joint address to congress, and dozens rallied outside of the white house, calling on the president to hear the voices of those who have fled their home countries. ellison barber was there. >> our people, people in the building behind us, they don't understand what it means to be a refugee. >> never again! >> reporter: most of the people in this group are refugees. >> when we left the former soviet union -- >> and jewish. as much as it may look like a protest with all the signs and chants, this is not a protest. they say they are simply here >> i did not know english. i vaguely remember when we left moscow. >> reporter: stories like anna's. >> when we arrived in boston months later, i remember sitting on a bench exhausted from the transatlantic flight. my mother waited for our host hoping they had not changed their minds. she had $247 for herself and her two children and didn't speak a word of english. >> reporter: when did you and your family come to america? >> september 1988. i started the 1st grade a week later. i first faced antisemitism when i was 4. i was at a ballet lesson, and the accompanist was playing, and i was in a back corner, and the lines like went to and fro, and she said don't let her lead you. she will lead you right out the window. my mother had been beaten up, and there was a war in afghanistan. i want people to see what refugees look like. we are not scary monsters you know, hide in the closet or are set on some sort of evil intent. >> we just want to live. >> reporter: outside of the white house, i'm ellison barber, wusa 9. a standing ovation for a sailor's widow. the moment last night replayed again and again, and it may be the single most memorable moment of president trump's address to congress. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> reporter: for 1 minute and 38 seconds last night, our divided nation stood united by a widow's grief. the standing ovation for carryn owens, widow of ryan owens was the culmination of a month of pain for the family and the education about the president about his most solemn and important role. one month ago commander-in- chief trump traveled to dover the first time the dignified transfer of an american service member's remains home this is what it looks like, a solemn ceremony, usually attended just by close family. most families request there's no media coverage, including the owens. the next morning president trump shared with a prayer breakfast his impression. >> very, very sad, but very, very beautiful. very, very beautiful! >> reporter: scott taylor, himself a former s.e.a.l. was with the president that night at dover. >> when i was marching away, he said behind me to himself this is really tough. that's good thing it should always be a tough decision to send people into harm's way. >> reporter: owen's father has pubically questioned the reason for the raid in yemen where his son died. his widow may have questions, too, but for her own reasons, she came stood while the country honored her husband's memory. taylor said we should all be thankful she did. >> reporter: how important is it for people not from military communities to see that? >> very important that they see what the cost is. it's very important to the president so he can see what the cost is. >> reporter: garrett haake, wusa 9. police are guarding portions of a park to continue the search tomorrow, looking for human remains at homes run park in virginia. stephanie ramirez said it's from a tip. >> reporter: now homes run park is actually behind these homes. police set up a large command center to my left. the scene they are investigating is all the way to the right behind those homes. >> reporter: by wednesday afternoon, police told us they did not find any human remains, but they appear to be protecting something with the white cover seen beyond the trees. what we know so far, it's gang- related. >> it's a community, and everyone knows it's surprising for everyone in here. >> reporter: henry rivera was frustrated learning that the group believed to be connected to this is yet again the notorious latin gang ms13. rivera is a hispanic male. >> all immigrants are not hispanic, and when you get things like this, it doesn't make us look good. >> reporter: this is the same park used for at least two ms13 murders 3-4 years ago according to investigators, and the u.s. attorney's office says the two gang members and at the least four members dismembered one of their own before burying the person in a shallow grave. convictions came down last spring this search has several units involved, and detectives are not saying yes or no if it's connect to the recent ms13 murders in springfield and dumfries or if it's connected to the cases of after 17-- old and 14-year-old missing since september, and a police spokesperson said right now they are not ruling anything out in fairfax county, stephanie ramirez, wusa 9. >> police also searched tyson park, but they have since ruled that area out of the search. gang violence is not just a problem here. in central america gang members are allegedly targeting children, threatening them with harm if they don't come up with cash. andrea mckaren spoke to one mom who has experienced this threat firsthand. >> reporter: we learned the children are being targeted because the gangs assume their parents are making money in the united states and sending it home to central america. tonight we draw back the curtain on allegations of gang recruitment, violence, and extortion. >> [speaking foreign language]. >> they threaten to kill them if they don't do it. >> reporter: carmen says a gang in central america is aggressively tryi he live there is with his grandmother. >> they have to decide if they want to be alive or join them. >> reporter: she says gang members have beaten him and stolen his bike, and according to carmen a gang leader even killed a man in front of him. >> he first shot the person, and then he took a machete and cut his testicles, and he opened him up and took his heart out and started eating the heart. >> reporter: and your 11-year- old son witnessed that? >> yes. >> reporter: carmen lives in the dc area, but she is so terrified of gangs she would only agree to an interview if we disguised her identity, promised not to disclose her home country or the specific gang tormenting her son. the same gang that raped his 13- year-old sister. >> she was coming out of school, and there were a group of men in a car, and they came out and had put the towel over her face. >> reporter: the teenager said the gang members drove her to an abandoned house in a remote area where a friend was already held captive. >> they tied her up to a chair, and her friend was trying to escape. her friend was screaming asking for help, and she was shot. >> reporter: was she killed? >> yes. >> reporter: and those girls were just 13 years old? [speaking foreign language]. >> yes. >> reporter: we have no way of verifying carmen's account, but we have spoken to numerous gang experts, and they confirm this type of brutality is common among gangs with no relief in sight. >> gang member said if she said anything or if she reported what happened, they would kill her and throw her body into a river. >> reporter: through tears carmen describes how her family in central america pays says it's the price of survival. carmen's teenage daughter was able to flee central america and is recovering in the united states. carmen hopes and prays her 11- year-old son will make it through the immigration process. andrea mckaren, wusa 9. >> it's just horrible she has to wake up in fear every day she may get a phone call that something happened to her son. we asked carmen what she thought would be a possible solution to the gang epidemic in central america, and she thinks the only hope is sending in american troops to fix the problem. tonight we are under a wind advisory in the wake of the brief but violent storm that hit the dc area this afternoon, and here's some of the damage. a tree split the roof of a home, and fortunately no one was inside. another fell on to a house near holy cross hospital in silver springs, and the homeowner just stepped outside no one hurt there, and topper is tracking more winds tonight. >> in fact, officially wind gust at 78 miles an hour with the storms, and now a wind advisory, covering just about everybody until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. what does that mean? winds could gust 50 to 55 miles an hour. inside of the metro, 45 to 50. the mountainous peaks, 40 to 45. the winds over the last hour, 30-mile an hour gusts at national, and 38 at martinsburg, and let me show you the wind gust tracker, and this is the forecast. 6:00a.m., winds gusting to 41, and 43-mile an hour wind gusts in frederick, martinsburg, and winchester, and 9:00, winds 30 to 36 miles an hour. we will come back and talk about when they will finally die down and what to dress for. we will talk about friday's flakes. see you then, topper. a lot of rumors on the internet about this moment. some say two congress members did not stand for the navy widow's standing ovation. >> whites together. >> it's a piece of arlington's history you may not know about. how the community is turning a marker of struggle into a symbol of determination. car with a wing man. meet the unlikely duo there's a wicked allegation on social media about something that happened during the president's speech last night, and we will verify if it's true or not. look at this tweet from the editor in chief from the daily wire. the tweet reads awful, top democrats refuse to stand, clap for navy s.e.a.l. widow honored by trump. then there's a link to the story. i will walk you through this step by step. first shapiro admitted it was taken during a different portion of the speech all together, and he put this update at the bottom of his story "for the purposes of been changed to a screen shot at the time of the standing ovation. the original image was from a different point in the speech and could have been misleading, although the article remains correctly reported." he is standing by the headline, which again is this. awful, top democrats refuse to stand or clap for navy s.e.a.l. widow honored by trump. we will sit down at my computer and go through the speech to see if the video support the that. -- supports that. there were two points miss owens got a standing ovation. here's the first one, watch this. you can see the vice president and the speaker stand up. look at the bottom of the screen. congressman wassermann schultz standing up for the ovation. and now fast forward to the second and longer standing ovation, out, and you can see miss owens there, and then it will cut away to the large shot of the inside of the capitol. i will pause it right here. congressman wassermann schultz and ellisson are sitting down. these are the republican lawmakers here at the bottom of the screen, the democratses for the top. you can see a majority are seated at this point. in summation, did top democrats refuse to stand and clap adds the daily wire reported? we can verify as you saw that claim is false, but did some democrats not stand for the entirety of the standing ovation for mrs. owens? that's true. if you have something you are wonder if it it's legit or not, reach out to me. adamlongotv. all around the dmv, there's hidden relics for our area's past. one such artifact is in arlington county. >> decades ago a wall was built to keep neighbor from neighbor, and tonight john henry learned about the effort to make sure everyone in the community could learn about the imfact that the wall once had. >> reporter: sandra green has lived here for 70 years. >> i'm a lifelong resident. >> reporter: but when she was a kid, locals called it something else. >> falls hill is the original name. >> reporter: just about everything here was different. >> when i was a kid, it was an all-black neighborhood. >> reporter: right next door, another community growing, too. in the '30s, people started to move into a new subdivision. >> wood lawn village. >> reporter: with that came a wall, but not your normal boundary line. it was built to keep the blacks out of the white's village. >> it was to separate us from them. we never interacted with people on the other side of the wall. it doesn't give you an opportunity to find out what you may have in common. >> reporter: now arlington countier to down a larger section of the wall in the mid- '60s, making it easier for kids in this neighborhood to walk to the schools nearby, and that said, now days many people don't even know the wall existed. >> when did you find out about the wall? >> shortly after we moved into our home in 2008. >> reporter: but they had lived in arlington before that, and they had never heard of the wall. >> we had no idea. >> reporter: that's part of the reason why the historic preservation coalition worked to get this marker put up. unveiled on sunday, now standing next to the few remaining pieces of the wall. the president of the arlington historical society believes it will teach us a lot. >> it's a reminder of how we human beings have a great capacity for being evil to our rose above the hatred, which the wall represents to live in their community and be good citizens. >> reporter: from arlington. >> when you know your history, it helps you understand who you are today. >> reporter: john henry, wusa 9. >> that's why they say you should build bridges not walls. bridges you can walk over, but walls close you off. >> very much in the public mind right now. we are also talking about the 3 degrees of what the heck is going on? >> we know already. >> here's the deal. >> he gave it away. >> being the genius i am, i went from 80 to 76, and you may think why did you do that? the new models said 72. i knew they were low, but they were a little too low, so i went 76 instead of the original 80. get what the high was? 80, of course. it was 76 at dulles, but 80 at national. we will go with 60 tomorrow, but that's a midnight temperature. don't dress for 60. it's 63. unless it is going up tonight, i'm okay. winds out of the south, southwest. gusting to 30, and in case you missed the top of the show or earlier in the show, a wind advisory covering most of the area, and going all the way down into southern maryland, and that's gusts up to 50 miles an hour or 55 in the mountainous areas. it will seem colder than that, and it will be dry. windy thursday morning, and winds will kind of slowly die out wednesday afternoon, and cooler, and then windy and cold on friday with flurries, and maybe a snow shower, and a clipper system, and they will break your heart and everything has broken our heart this winter. cold saturday in the 40s and cool on sunday in the 50s, and it was on twitter and facebook, and we ended up with the warmest february on record, the third warmest meteorological winter on record. tomorrow temperature in the 40s, low 40s el 9:00, temperatures are not moving much. low 40s to mid-40s, and 1:00, we are trying to get to 50 downtown. 48 in fairfax, and maybe 50 in culpepper, and with the winds, guess, dress more for the 30s and 40s. this time tomorrow night, the 30s for the suburbs. frederick, leesburg, and headed for the 20s tomorrow night, one of the colder nights north and west of town. on the day planner, 40s to start, and the temperatures do not move much. a lot of sun tomorrow, and maybe a bright day. snow showers are possible on friday, and not yellow weather alert. 43 on saturday, and the full sun with not much wind. good news on sunday, and a little milder, low 50s, clouds late. low 60s, and 66 on tuesday with showers late, and then 58 on wednesday, and all the cherry blossom forecasts will bloom the 15th to the 17th, and new record. >> this story is getting a lot of attention tonight about the love between a goose and a car. >> halle lives on a farm outside of boise, idaho, and she said the goose recently started to hang around, and the goose has no interest in her. it's the car he's after. when holly drives away, so does the goose. when the car slows down, the goose does, too. holly says it's gotten to the point she can't run errands because the goose won't let her. >> the goose will take off and fly right behind me, keeping the pace 50 miles an hour all the way. >> it's the car, he will not follow me to the mailbox or anywhere else. he will not leave the car. >> i guess there's something for everything, right? it's the new normal for holly and her car at until lincoln finds another mate with nesting season. >> 50 miles an hour? >> that's a lot of love. here's the cool part of our story. our sister station in boise captured the video with a 360- degree camera. if you log on to our website, you can control what you see. see? you just follow the goose with your mouse. >> follow the goose with your mouse? >> oh, technology. what are we doing these days? could the following ad for your viewing convenience. so i just switched to geico. what took you so long? i know, i saved a ton of money on car insurance. geico also gives you 24/7 access to licensed agents! booooyah. good game, you really crushed it. no son, geico crushed it. ♪ ♪ so coming off the wizards' huge win over golden state, the million dollar question was could washington follow that up with a win against the team in the east of toronto who the wizards are fighting for playoff positioning with. they had not beaten the raptors since february 2014. how long is that topper? more than 2 years, good work. th led by noyon. bradley beal with the same numbers he played with last season. the star of the night was mcdonovich who came the bench to lead with 27 points. the wiz beat the raptors. well done. down a level in new york. g.w. at fordham, the colonials trailing by 2, and oh, the prayer, and g.w. got fouled on that 3-point attempt with less than a second remaining, and oh, he made all three of his free-throws, and g.w., they steal one at fordham, and it's 67-66, and all right, as the calendar has turned to march, it's a special time of the year for college hoops fans, fans who hope to see their team cut down the nets at the end of the ncaa tournament. for the fans of the terrapins women's basketball team, that's a possibility. ho will depend on their seniors. we caught up with the ladies before they left for indianapolis and the big 10 tournament. they are ready for one last ride. >> it's definitely hitting me it's winding down in my career at maryland and i think just trying to savor every moment and play every game like it's my last. >> a lot of emotions, last go around, i'm just really excited prodders, shuckersers, and sniffers, [ inhales ] all giant produce is triple checked. farm, crate, and store. we're focusing on fresh... my giant. 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