We saw this band right now coming through parts of the manassas area. It did put down a coating of snow. These bands will continue to do so. We will continue to watch these move through. Lakeeffect snows. I told you yesterday on the air you may see more snow from these snow showers than you do from our storm. That storm has raced up towards boston. For us, were seeing the wind and some snow showers. Wind advisory in effect until 6 00. The governors in connecticut, rhode a massachusetts are urging everybody to stay off the slick roads. There are also reports of minor flooding along the coast. Thousands of people are without power and there are blizzard warnings in effect. Some snow did fall in our area. This is how it looked in frederick. It all changed over to snow by 5 00 a. M. Big change from wednesdays record high in the 70s. This is crazy. This is crazy. Unbelievable that i was walking out in a tshirt and today im out here in a jacket and hat and everything. Its weird. Yesterday you got your windows open, shorts on. Today, look at this mess. Schools in frederick, howard and Washington County opened two hours late because of the slick conditions. You can get the power of storm team 4 in the palm of your hand. Just open up the nbc washington app on your smart phone, get the hour by hour forecast. In alexandria investigators have pulled a body from the potomac after a man fell off a boat into the river. Its a boat that offers fine dining tours on the potomac. Rescuers began around 1 30 this afternoon. Several agencies tried to rescue the man, but he died in the water. Breaking news in Prince Georges County. Weve been telling you about that discrimination complaint filed against the Police Department. Tracee wilkins is learning a lot more about whats inside that complaint. Shes live at police headquarters. Reporter for about a week communication with the Prince Georges County Police Department about photos that we obtained that are included in that u. S. Doj complaint. These photos show what some officers claim to be racially insensitive pictures. Today we contacted the department and let them know that we were doing a story where we would include those pictures. And just a little while ago the Police Department released those pictures to all media. And they are now saying theres going to be a 4 30 press conference where they address these photos. The u. S. Department of justice is reviewing a case filed by some Prince Georges County alleging discrimination within the Police Department. Yesterday representatives with the dojs Community Service division met with officer filed the complaint. There is still no word on whether the doj will officially investigate the filing, now reportedly including up to 90 officers. Some of the report alleges racial insensitivity within the departments ranks. There are a number of pictures included as examples of these alleged offenses. This picture of a training dummy wearing an afro wig with a black mans face taped it is one example. Prince georges county spokesmen say they were not the only officers with access to this facility. These license plates seem to read go ef yourself obama. The plates were recalled after a citizen complained. In reviewing the records of the Motor Vehicle administration, it has come to our attention that personalized plate gfyobma has been issued in error. After our inquiries the mva went onto say records indicate that the personalized plate was not returned. Therefore mva will send a pickup detail to retrieve the plates. A spokesperson told me that that officer who had those plates, the private citizen, has also pointed out the fact that maryland did give the officer those plates. The mva is saying this is largely an Automated System and every once in a while an offensive plate will slip through the system. There are four big developments today from the trump administration. After more than 30 hours of debate and a party line vote, alabama senator Jeff Sessions is now the attorney general. During a swearingin ceremony, the president called sessions a man of integrity and principle. Sessions was the first sitting u. S. Senator to endorse donald trump for president. The president signed three executive orders that call for a task force to tackle Violent Crime as well as attacks on police officers. President trump is also calling on the Justice Department to crack down on criminal cartels. The feud between the president and senator john mccain is heating up ga mccain criticized the white house for calling last weeks yemen raid a success. The president said that mccain has been losing so long he doesnt know how to win anymore. Thats a quote. The president is also questioning whether a senator misrepresented judge Neil Gorsuchs comments. He told the media that gorsuch called President Trumps criticism of the judiciary disheartening and demoralizing. The controversy is growing over ivanka trumps clothing line. It all started when nordstrom decided to drop her line for poor sales. Kel Kellyanne Conway said, go buy ivankas stuff is what i would tell you. I hate shopping and im going to get some myself. A lot of p conway violates an ethics law that says an employee shall not use Public Office for private gain or for the private gain of friends, relatives or persons with whom the person is affiliated in a nongovernmental capacity. Congressman chaffetz called her remarks wrong wrong wrong and wholly unacceptable. Sean spicer says conway has been counselled. But attorneys tell us a typical employ who violated the rule could be suspended for several days and lose pay. Dozens of students homesick from school. Whats going on at a local concert thats raising health the controversial plan to install a gas pipeline under the potomac. Plus the tax scam the irs says you need to hear about. Take a look, snow falling right now. These are live pictures along i66 in fairfax. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Which means we can deliver equal uploads and downloads. Welcome to 8 and a half maple street. Its half a house. And even though it only has half a kitchen, half the closet space and a half bath, its a full house to the wilsons. Because they have fios, their half house has full internet, with uploads as fast as downloads. Dont pay for uploads that arent up to speed. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for only 79. 99 per month online for one year. Only from fios. My son was throwing up all morning. Had to keep him home today. Turns out more than 80 Students Elementary School are home as well. It could be an outbreak of norovirus and is spreading. Nor row vire norovirus and is spreading. Nor row vire norovirus and is spreading. Nor row vir nor row vi norovirus symptoms include vomiting and fever. Parents should keep their kids home if they dont feel well. The irs is warning you about a dangerous scam. It says to be skeptical of any tax preparer who promises an extremely large refund, especially if theyre using credit or benefits youve never been able to claim in the past. Scammers usually look for the elderly or those with low incomes to take advantage of. Con artists could also file a false return in a clients name without the client ever knowing a refund was paid. The bottom line is if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. 70s yrd what is going on . Plus, winter is causing a big commotion to the north of us. alarms wheres the car . Itll be here in three. Uh, four minutes. Are you kidding me . No, looks like he took a wrong turn. Dont worry, this guys got like a fourstar rating, were good. His name is randy. Thats like one of the most trustworthy names ordering a getaway car with an app . Are you randy . Thats me awesome surprising. Whats not surprising . How much money erin saved by switching to geico. Everybody comfortable with the air temp . I could go a little cooler. Ok. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. This fight between students happened in the hallway of the monday. Reporter we received an email from a parent of a student here at Einstein High School in kensington, maryland, saying that she has a video that is very upsetting. It shows an incident she says happened here recently, showing a female student being beaten. The behavior in this video is disturbing and disheartening and not a reflection of the values or culture of mcps. This type of behavior will not be tolerated in our schools. Reporter ahead well tell you what has happened to the alleged assailant in this incident and the student who was attacked. Sounds like. A woman in west hartford, connecticut, captured the rare occurrence on video. Thundersnow is a thunderstorm that happened while its snowing instead of raining. Focuses across the northeast are reeling from that storm. Tough going up in new york city as well. Reporter if im standing here in central park, yesterday it was 62 degrees. Right now, 24. The snow has stopped but this has been a harsh reminder that here in new york winter isnt going anywhere any time soon. In new york, winter is back. Coming down. We cant keep up with it. Reporter a powerful noreaster left a blanket of white and ma travel miserable. More than 50 million americans are under winter storm watches and warnings. People found better ways to get around. Its pretty close to whiteout. Its tough, really slippery. Definitely have to be on your game to be able to drive in this. Reporter some areas including boston had blizzard warnings. Connecticut got the rare phenomenon thundersnow. Now people along the massachusetts coast are seeing high winds and rough surf. The heaviest snow is still in front of us. The cleanup is also in front of us as well, followed by the freezing temperatures. Reporter children in new york enjoyed a rare snow day. Making snowmen. Reporter the return of enjoyable for others. Unfortunately at least one death is now being blamed on this storm. Officials here in new york say a doorman was shoveling, went to go back inside, slipped on the ice and crashed through a plate glass door, killed him. It truly is amazing how much difference just a few degrees can make from what new york got to what we had here. Yeah and what philadelphia got. Same thing happened in philadelphia downtown. The airport reported. 3 inches. About two miles away, reported 6 inches of snow. You might get more from the afternoon snow showers that we have right now than you did from this mornings event. Now the big deal is the cold. Lets take a look and show you how things are acting outside right now. The clouds are here, the winds are here and so is the cold. This is the snow a little bit notice the sides of the road are totally covered right now. Theres the clouds making their way south and east. Clear skies here, clouds here. Look at this, this right here is snow shower activity just down to the south and east. 5 degre 35 degrees right now, winds at 20 miles an hour. 32 manassas, 32 fredericksburg. Windchills in the teens in many locations. We have that wind advisory in place for everybody you see here shaded in brown through 6 00 tonight. It includes the district, back towards the blue ridge. We may see some minor damage here, trees down, power outages. Outages already. 25 miles an hour in fredericksburg, 33 in washington, baltimore, 44 miles an hour winds. The wind is the real deal. Again the windchill is what were going to be seeing. Heres the radar currently. Big snow showers right now. In fairfax, you know exactly what im talking about, from fairfax down towards springfield, you probably have at least a coating of snow, maybe even a half an inch of snow out of this little snow band. Were not done just yet. Weve got a couple more snow bands making their way down, these are snow squalls that will bring brief heavy snow. These will probably last another 12 hours before they start to our blizzard up towards boston, for them it has been a monster of a storm. For us, weve got one more cold day. Right back to 60 on saturday. 62 on sunday with a good chance for shower activity. Wednesday, thursday, maybe a chance for showers, maybe mixing wi with snow. A battle for a pipeline here. Why planners a kbaecompany wants to buil gas pipeline beneath the potomac. But environmental groups fear a negative impact on the environment. They want to build it in hancock, maryland, near the West Virginia and pennsylvania border. It could affect Drinking Water in that area and in d. C. As well. Reporter were in the woods of hancock, maryland. Residents in this area have voiced concerns about a proposal to put an underground natural gas pipeline right beneath where were standing, cutting through underneath the Potomac River and into West Virginia. Proponents of the pipeline say its needed to provide natural gas to people in West Virginia. It will come all the way from pennsylvania. The people here in maryland say its not going to serve them but theyre going to take all the risks and they dont want it. Theyre fearful that a rupture in the pipeline could harm their Drinking Water. Many of the homes in this area get their water from wells. Theres further concern that because people down river in d. C. Get their water from the potomac, a problem up here could affect the Drinking Water for millions of people. Proponents of this pipeline say theres nothing to worry about. We do a lot of studies ahead of time. We want to be a Good Neighbor here for a very long time. Reporter were a long way before the pipeline breaks ground. It has to get federal and approval from the National Park service. Residents say theyre going to fight this every step of the way. They say theyre willing to physically stand in the way of the pipeline here. They say if that doesnt work, theyre willing to go to court. Paying with your phone is quick and easy but be warned of some new ways scammers are going after your money with an app. What is up with our weather . Doug is crunching the numbers fortunately theres a bedples diswhere you both get whatess . You want every night. Enter sleep number and the ultimate sleep number event, going on now. Sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. She likes the bed soft. Hes more hardcore. So your sleep goes from good to great to wow only at a sleep number store. And right now save 50 on the ultimate limited edition bed. Judge neil gorsuch paying another visit to the capitol to meet with some senators who will vote on his nomination to the Supreme Court. President trump and his nominee dont seem to be on the same page about the judiciary. Especially when it comes to the judges now deciding whether to reinstate the president s temporary travel ban. Reporter the white house said this afternoon that judge gorsuch and the comments that hes making privately to lawmakers here werent specifically directed towards the president but more generally about any criticism of the judiciary. We know that the judge is not speaking out publicly but apparently has had quite a bit to say to lawke Supreme Court nominee judge neil gorsuch back on capitol hill today talking to lawmakers behind closed doors about what President Trump said. Courts seem to be so political. Reporter about judges deciding the fate of his travel ban. He said any attack on any i think his term to me brothers or sisters of the robe is an attack on all judges. Judge gorsuch specifically said you should feel free to mention what i said about these attacks being disheartening and demoralizing. Reporter gorsuchs Office Confirms he said it but the president lashed out at blumenthal. Ask senator blumenthal about his vietnam he misrepresented that. Because of politics perhaps theyre not going to vote for him. Thats a shame because thats not being honest. Reporter democrats question whether the judges private criticism is orchestrated to make him appear independent of the trump administration. Welcome to the white house. Reporter the new attorney general sworn in today with three new executive orders aimed at reducing crime and an eye on the immigration battle underway in federal court. And theres another big issue that could affect a lot of taxpaye taxpayers, the tax reform. The president brought it up today saying his comprehensive plan should be ready to go in two or three weeks. Right now across the area, a little bit of everything were seeing. Sun in spots and heavy snow showers in others. 495 at 395, one of our traffic the ground and reducing visibility to under a mile. The evening commute potentially more impacts than we were this morning from the rain and snow showers. This is all coming off of lake erie. You can see the heaviest stuff in parts of Loudoun County and sterling and prince willi yalia coun county. Waldorf, youre going to be getting some heavy snow moving in, putting down a quick dusting. As we look to mount vernon, still some snow there starting to pull out of the woodbridge area. The winds die down as the sun goes down but still kind of plea breezy today certainly cold, certainly feeling like winter. Coming up at 4 45 it hasnt felt very much like winter, though, this entire season. Doug is going to break it down. Youve certainly heard buyer beware. But now theres a different kind of warning for the seller. A popular payment app isnt just a big hit with millennials but local scammers as well. Reporter venmo, the digital wallet app links to a credit card or bank account letting you easily send and receive payments. Some users say they got digitally burned. This person was very eager to buy the car and i met him right here at reporter he say the buyer who responded to his craigslist ad sent him money via the app. Even before they met up in d. C. Signed the title over, drove back to my apartment and actually helped him replace the tags and then he drove off. Reporter 12 hours later willburn got an email saying the payment had been stopped. I actually saw the money out of the account and reversed. I couldnt believe it. Asked me to meet him in manhattan and said that he could only pay through this app. Reporter he watched the guy transfer 5400 into his account. It came into my account saying it was successful. Reporter but the next day i got an email from venmo saying the transaction was cancelled. I got screw grounds for these scammers. These scammers find whats popular and try to work it. Reporter Better Business bureau recently posted a warning about scammers using venmo. There is that delay. Theres those days in between when the transaction was put in and when theyre taking that money from the buyers account and putting it into yours. People think its instantaneous and its actually not. Reporter she and her brothers are out 900 for the three Football Tickets they sold. Were season Ticket Holders for the 49ers. Reporter even more frustrating was how they say venmo responded. They didnt do anything. I called them. They gave me the runaround, not telling me anything. Theres no consumer protections. Reporter the iteam found hes right. The spokesperson told us there is no b protection. The app is designed for pavements between friends and people who trust each other. Personal accounts may not be used to receive business, commercial or personal transactions. Transactions on venmo should really be done with people you can trust, people that you know that are going to be good for the money. Reporter venmo recently implemented alerts within the app. Alex never saw his car again. On the bright side, it was a really old car that needed to go and somebody took it off my hands for free. Reporter experts recommend linking accounts to a credit card instead of a bank account so you have some protection. They say its best to use cash or on ticket items. Its the end of an era. By now youve seen the headlines, a changing of the guard when it comes to the way you did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. You could take a closer look at socalled chocolate cities a new exhibit at Prince Georges County africanamerican museum. It will focus on areas around the country whose populations are majority black. Prince georges county itself is featured along with the district. There will be an opening reception for the exhibit tomorrow night at brentwood. We are just a year now from the opening ceremonies for the 2018 winter games in south korea. The long time host of the games is passing the torch. Bob costas is handing over his duties. It just felt like now is the time to step aside. Costas has hosted 11 olympics but hes not retiring. He will continue working with nbc sports and the mlb network. Sunday night football anchor will take over there. We has kids. We all sat down and watched the games and there are specific moments we remember. Now to be the person in prime time chiefly responsible for weving fre i weaving from moment to moment, how could you not be excited for that. Needless to say, it has not been a very wintery winter around here. Whats behind the unusual weather . Doug is tracking the numbers and lo right now places to our north are being pummelled by snow. From pennsylvania to maine, snow is piling up by the inches and that is delaying thousands of flights and cancelling school for a lot of kids. It is a pretty busy afternoon for storm team 4. That blast of cold air not going anywhere over the next 24 hours. Amelia is in the storm center. Tonight were going to see temperatures fall into the teens and 20s across the area. With temperatures now well below freezing w ie ing snow showers and the snow actually sticking to the ground, unlike this morning. Tracking some snow around fairfax pushing into bethesda right now. The top of the beltway, this likely impacting the evening commute. You know any kind of weather falling from the sky does around here. In addition to that, most of us under a wind advisory until 6 00 this evening. Even overnight were still breezy. Look at the feels like temperatures right now when we factor in the winds gusting anywhere from 2540 miles an hour. 13 in gaithersburg, 19 in washington, 21 in fredericksburg. It is going to be a bitter cold start tomorrow morning. Take a look at the feels like temperatures. Tonight were in the teens. Tomorrow morning you see were in the teens still. By the afternoon, the winds subside and it feels like were in the 30s. Still another cold day tomorrow. By 7 00 a. M. Were around 21 degrees. Degrees out there. Well have a mix of clouds and sun during the day. By lunchtime, 33 degrees. Any snow thats falling right now is going to be gone by tomorrow. 3 00 we hit our high of 39 degrees. 7 00 p. M. Were try and around 34. Two cold days, but before this we had record warmth this week, 74 degrees back to back days. Ov overall this winter has been the seventh warmest winter on record. Whats behind all the warmth . Doug crunched the numbers. A far cry from what we were talking about back in late october with my winter forecast. This currently is the jet stream across the united states, big ridge of High Pressure to the west, big trough of low pressure to the east. That brings the cold air across the east. This is what i was expecting for most of the season of winter. What have we seen . Well, the jet stream has been completely different,o thats why portland and seattle have had incredible snowy winters. Thats why areas like tahoe have seen feet of snow, ten feet. That jet stream coming through the pacific does not tap into any of the colder air towards canada. That cold air is locked up to the north bringing the jet stream to our north and north of chicago, boston, new york, all experiencing extremely warm winters. January, extremely warm month. The 12th warmest january ever. February also starting extremely warm with the exception of today and tomorrow. How much snow have we seen . Just 1. 4 inches of snow. We need that jet stream to change if were going to get more snow. Its possible, but not probable. Looking at it right now, my snowfall totals may end up on the low side. Even as we look to the next too, we really have kind of historically until february 18th to get potentially a big storm around here. We go past february 18th on this tenday. You see really no major chances for snow. On saturday a high around 60. Saturday by far the better of the two weekend days. On sunday, rain looking likely. Sundays forecast very tricky. Stay tuned. Well continue to update the forecast. Valentines day is looking good. Maybe a bit of rain and snow next thursday, guys. Today aside, our area has been seeing some unusually warm weather. This has put our local schools in an unusual situation. Jim handly is in our newsroom with more. Reporter by this time of year schoolsve not this season. Heres the surprising part. It is costing our local schools some big bucks. Also new at 5 00, celebrating female athletes. Part of National Girls and women in sports day. How some local hard working kids are getting the attention they deserve. Our Tracee Wilkins has been Digging Deeper into a story that was first on news4. The new developments about a lawsuit against a local Police Department, including photographs and allegations of Racial Discrimination within the department. A reminder that metros safe track Program Resumes this weekend. Let this be a headup. You may need to build a lot of extra time into your trip. The Arlington Cemetery station closed for more than two weeks. Trains will not run on the blue line between the roslyn and pentagon station. You can find travel alternatives in our nbc washington app. Today metro officials got together to take about crime, delays and people skipping out on fares. Their main concern is safety. Reporter metros police chief out with his annual crime report. With this report, theres more good news than bad. As first reported by news4, overall crime on the Transit System is down and Metro Transit Police have actually been doing a pretty good job when it comes to fare evasion. They say they have handed out many more citations for those issues, in part because they now know where people are doing that. On the rail side its piggy backing or people using the swing gate next to the we really cracked down on that and the elevator usage. Theres an opportunity there to bypass the kiosk. We know where the fare evasions are occurring. Reporter also at this metro meeting today, possibly allowing vendors to sell food and drink during the evening at searcerta metro stations. Also board chair jack evans handing out this flyer earlier showing that train conductors in japan actually apologize to the riders when theres a delay. They fell 30 feet from the air. Now the famous daredevil involved in a circus accident is telling his side of the story. Was the roughest day of my life. I dont know how to put it into words. Will the show go on . Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Which means we can deliver equal uploads and downloads. Welcome to 8 and a half maple street. Its half a house. And even though it only has half a kitchen, half the closet space and a half bath, its a full house to the wilsons. Because they have fios, their half house has full internet, with uploads as fast as downloads. Dont pay for uploads that arent up to speed. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for only 79. 99 per month online for one year. Only from fios. Game night is our daughter allies favorite night. And knowing that her favorite General Mills big g cereals are glutenfree, like honey nut cheerios, rice chex and lucky charms, she can enjoy it her way. Try new very berry cheerios. The taste of real fruit in every bite. So berry good. The fbi evacuated the plane and the bombsniffing dogs went through the luggage. Investigators cleared the plane and passengers were allowed to continue their flight. Tightrope walker nick wal n wallenda promises the show will go on. Five performers were in the middle of rehearsal when they tumbled several feet to the ground. What went wrong is still a bit of a mystery. Reporter Nick Wallenda is still rattled 24 hours after a training accident that injured five acrobats. Without question, yesterday was the roughest day of my life. I dont know how to put it into words. Reporter eight people are on a high wire rehearsing a human pyramid like this one with no safety net when something went terribly wrong. Somebody might have fainted. We just reporter wall lenda and oths grabbed the wire has others fell, some more than 40 feet with substantial injuries. Theres a traumatic brain injury, pelvic injuries, stuff like that. Reporter all are expected to survivor. And despite the horrible accident, wallenda and members of his team will perform in their honor. So even with five members of the team missing, the show will go on. The news continues now with jim and wendy. News4 at 5 00 starts now. Breaking developments right now in a story we brought you first of news4. County leaders now talking about a discrimination complaint brought by dozens of officers against the Prince Georges County department. Also tonight, a health issue at a local elementary school. Its an illness that kept more than 80 children out of the classroom. And a serial burglar strikes in two neighboring counties. What investigators say hes getting away with thats leaving them disturbed. First at 5 00, tonight the cold is settling in, some gusty winds are going to make it feel even colder out there. Im wendy rieger. Im jim handly. Weve seen a little bit of everything today. Check out this video just a little while ago, a pretty heavy snow shower making its way through stafford county. We saw some right here in the district on the way to the studio a minute ago. Like a teaspoon of snow. This is causing near whiteout conditions on the roads. Lets go right to our storm center. We continue to track those snow showers moving on through. The bigger deal tonight is going the wind. Winds gusting to 40 miles per hour. Temperatures now in the 30s and windchills already in the teens. Talking about the snow showers, more action in some spots now than there was out there this morning because the cold air is here and were seeing a dusting in spots outside of our studios here in northwest washington. That is going to put some strain on the roadways. As i mentioned, the windchill the big factor right now. 12 in gaithersburg, 21 in manassas. This coming off a day that hit 74 yesterday. Here are those snow showers. You see them coming across this like this. Look at that line. They are coming straight from the great lakes in through Fairfax County down through parts of charles county. Really coming down in springfield. A lot of people tweeting me and putting pictures on my facebook page. Ec
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