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WRC News4 At 5 February 19, 2015

But if possible we could get to 2 below there. The record in d. C. Set back in 1896 at 8. Recordbreaking cold. But the windchill overnight tonight, 10 to 20 below zero and to top it all off, cherry on top, all the fixings, more snow come for weekend. Well talk about that including some ice. Ill talk to you about it when im inside and take off my hat. Our Team Coverage continues with transportation reporter adam ts who is out in the elements looking at the impact on riders out in alexandria. Adam . Reporter it is brutally cold out here wendy. Doug just told you about it. The wind is picking up and a lot of people out here waiting for a train or the bus in this cold. Its only going to get colder. You know metro could not get around the cold. Take a look at some of tweets from earlier today, on the green line broken rail outside College Park Red line train malfunction there. And riders were tweeting out pictures of the backups, this one along the red line. Take a look at one more here. This was just outside the noma station where riders said they saw flames on the tracks. Turns out those are Freight Train trax and they do use a heater underneath the rails to heat them up. Regardless it is cold and right fielders are having to bundle up. Yes, its cold but we need to working. Put on your long johns, woolen socks, jacket, hat, youll be fine. You can withstand the cold with the proper equipment. Reporter car batteries all over the area are dying and aaa says its feeling a Record Number calls to fix them. At 6 00, what you might be doing right now that is draining your battery. Youll want to prepare as the cold air moves in. Live in alexandria adam tuss news4. While were on transportation tonight Fairfax County schools are responding to us from trapted parents whose kids had to wait outside in the cold for school buses that were delayed this morning. Chris lawrence is in newsroom to tell you about that. Tonight School Officials are apologizing to parents and students but it was 10 degrees outside this morning and with windchills 7 below zero every minute that kids are waiting can be dangerous. Students openly pushed officials to close school today or at least delay it. Theyve been venting their anger on social media. One student tweeted, kui i still cant feel my toes. Dwlts delays were due to mechanical issues probably brought on by the Holiday Weekend where the buses didnt run for a few days. The School District did warn parents about the problem via a robocall at 7 30 in the morning after High School Students were already out the door. All in the south lake herndon, and marshall pyramids are running 30 to 60 minutes late this morning. This includes high schools, middle schools, and elementary rultds. But fairfax just released a statement saying it wasnt as bad as that call indicated. We have about 1,500 buggss on the road each day and only 55 of our buses experienced delays of more than 15 minutes. An official says all the Elementary School buses did run on time but this is the second time this year that Fairfax County has a major issues with buses on a frigid day. In the newsroom im chris lawrence. The Prince Georges County circuit courthouse in Upper Marlboro will be parade klosed for second day in a row tomorrow. The frigid weather is blamed on a pipe that burst overnight. All proceedings will again be canceled for friday as repairs continue. Its been one of their Top Priorities and u. S. Park police tell us tonight they have found the car involved in a deadly hitandrun that left a local woman mourning her fiance. Park police tell news4 theyre talking to a person of interest in the crash that killed rick warrick as he was changing his tire along the bw parkway in laurel earlier this month. His bride to be, jewel pearce was seriously hurt but survived the crash and talked to news4 from her hospital bed. He walked into court facing six counts of voyeurism. When he left he pled guilty to more than 50. So whats next for the rabbi whos gotten National Attention for spying on and secretly recording female congregates . News4s chris gordon live outside d. C. Superior court. Reporter the courtroom was h women who put their trust and spiritual lives in the hands of friendBarry Freundel. He was a leader of kesher israel congregation in georgetown until his arrest in october. Rabbi Barry Freundel spoke publicly for the first time today. In court he was sworn in and asked by the judge, you want to plead guilty to 52 counts of voyeurism . Thats true, the rabbi replyied said, 52 count, theoretically the maximum sentence could be 52 years. Prosecutors also said an additional 100 women appear on videos the rabbi took since 2009. Prosecutors say that the case had gone to trial, they would have prove than the rabbi installed and operated recording devices at the National Capital mikvah the ritual cleansing bath for the purpose of recording women fully or partially undressed without their knowledge or consent. The judge asked Barry Freundel do you agree with the prosecutors statement of facts . The rabbi replied, yes, your honor. After court, the husband of one of the women on the videos reacted to the plea. The point is he pled guilty. I saw tears in his eyes. He was crying. And it brings it to an end. Reporter there are reports the rabbi refuses to leave the house that kesher israel provides for him. His lawyer today clarified the situation. He is almost packed up and will be out within two weeks. The synagogue had offered to let him stay in the residence till march 1st but then wanted him to forego his pension of 25 years, which is in the neighborhood of 100,000 of his money that the synagogue is holding. When he refused to do, that they put out that press release saying he is illegally staying in the apartment. Reporter the rabbis plans for the pewfuture on news 4 at 6 00. Thats the latest live at d. C. Superior court. Chris gordon news4. A woman who was on her way to a Job Interview in maryland is struck and killed. Vanessa dixon was standing at bus stop in Silver Spring yesterday when an suv ran into her. Police are investigating this as an alcoholrelated crash. And today were learning more about the victim. She was a mother of five. She comes from a large tightknit family. Her niece is one of several people who are speaking about her tragic death. This is hard for us. Its my aunt. And she just wanted to go to work so she could take care of her kids naps it. Coming up on news 4 at 5 00 her sisters thoughts on the man who hit her. Video could help determine exactly what happened to a woman who died in fairfax after sheriffs deputies used a taser on her while snefs restraints. Authorities are still investigating Natasha Mckennas death at the Fairfax County detention stwoernt weeks ago. They say any video and data will be handed over the determine if criminal charges should be filed. New details that came out today reveal that mckenna was in a mesh spit hood and restraints when deputies used that taser. She was many the process of being referred to alexandria for allegedly assaulting a deputy. Now to a pair of bold and violent bank robbers. Not only are they walking into banks with guns out, yesterday one of them pointed a gun at a customers head. The fbi tells us tonight the black hat bandits have hit seven banks in seven weeks moving from maryland to Northern Virginia. A 30,000 reward was Just Announced today. Heres Northern Virginia reporter david culvert with a closer look. Reporter theyre called the black hat ban diplomats. Just look at the collage of surveillance images and youll see why. Since early january theyve hit seven banks across our region dress in all black, their faces always covered, sometimes with a fake beard and sunglasses like in this mclain bank of america robbery. Other times theyll wear ski masks or bandannas. Four of the seven robberies have happened in Fairfax County. These suspects are extremely brazen. Certainly using a handgun, putting it to someones head is an extremely frightening thing for anyone to have to go through. Reporter so daring theyve jumped the counter and went straight to the vaults. If you find yourself in a situation like this comply with the orders try not to get in the persons way. You dont know what theyre capable of. Reporter two of those bold robberies happened the same day, just 40 minutes apart. The first one at this bb t here in vienna. The two suspects each had a handgun, demanded money, then took off. Within an hour they sended up at this Sterling Wells fargo, the security cameras catching them again. Look at the cash piled up on the counter as they aim at the teller. The fbi wants names and theyre willing to pay for them. A 30,000 reward if you know something. In Fairfax County, david culv news4 has obtained video of girls fighting at a local high school. New tonight, how to address a problem that parents say is just getting worse. Putting the pedal to the metal. Why maryland is closer to raising the speed limit on high. I know grandmas house isnt the most exciting, but its only for a few hours. Look what ive got. When you get verizon fios, you get beautiful hd picture quality, super fast internet, and americas most reliable network. So you wont miss a second of that movie, that game they love, or those moments with family. Can we sleep over . Please come on make your house the house. You get more from verizon fios the tv Service Rated 1 in hd picture quality and signal reliability based on Customer Satisfaction studies plus americas fastest most reliable internet. 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I department see any teachers anywhere trying to break this pup. So that means that this was just going on. Reporter we received this video after airing the story about a teacher at Forrestville High School being punched and knocked out by a student on january 29th just a few days after this fight. The person who emailed this video said the school was out of control. I dont think we have one school thats out of control. Reporter Darryl Williams chief of Student Services for Prince Georges County schools, says while the students involved were disciplined due to School Confidential policies he cant say to what extent. He says his job is to ensure students and parents feel safe in every school. And hell review the culture at forrestville. Whats the day to day life here at forestville and other schools . And what does the principal and the staff feel they need that we can bring as an additional resource to support this school to be the robust school that we know it is . Reporter parents hope that will mean no more violent incidents at this high school and military academy. I guess for me as a parent, its time for me to begin to investigate whats really going on here. Reporter Tracee Wilkins, news4. Now, School Officials also told us they have complete trust in the principal at Forestville High School and believe that he is able to deal with the issue surfacing at the school. Maureen mcdonnells lawyer say the public shame was punishment enough and tomorrow well learn whether virginias former first lady will go to prison. The same judge that sentenced her husband, former governor Bob Mcdonnell will be sentencing Maureen Mcdonnell tomorrow. Prosecutors are suggesting 18 months for corruption that included taking gifts from a wealthy businessman. Her lawyers want Community Service and wrote to the judge saying mrs. Mcdonnell has lived the Worst Nightmare of a Public Officials spouse vilified in the media and blamed not only for ruining her husbands political career but for sending him to prison. A highly debated change for marylands highways is getting a green light tonight. Today the state Senate Approved a measure to raise the speed limit from 65 to 70 miles an hour. Now, this marks a milestone for the bill which stalled in the Senate Committee last year. A poents of the measure think its a dangerous move that could make drivers think theres leeway to speed up to 80 miles an hour. The bills sponsor says the increase would not be mandatory statewide. And the museum at the fords Theater National Historic Site was closed again today after a water leak flooded that museum floor. An inch of water was found in the museum on thursday wednesday morning. Maintenance crews are still looking for the source of the leak and believe it may be r related. That museum located under the historic theater where president Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. No Museum Artifacts were damaged by that. Doug can you feel your face . Yes. I was standing right behind you. Just point over your right shoulder. Heres the thermometer. Right behind you. Now down to 11 degrees outside our studio. I mentioned a snow shower to you. We just saw it on the other shot. Coming right downtown. Some snow coming down across the city right now. Its not going to be much. Its going to last maybe five ten minutes. Thats it. These are just flurries. A snow shower. This will continue to move on down. A chance for flurries yesterday. 17 degrees at the airport. The windchill 1 degree. 17 after a high today of 19. I have to check that though. We stayed below that 20degree mark extremely cold. 13 in martinsburg, 10 in gaithersburg 17 in fredericksburg. Not much showing up on the radar but you can see these little streerms here. These are lakeeffect snow showers coming straight down from the great lakes. You can see a few coming through Montgomery County back along portions of martinsburg, then that one coming right across the potomac right now eventually moving towards Prince Georges County. Current windchill, 1 in d. C. Zero manassas 7 below in hagerstown 3 below in winchester. Extremely cold night but were just getting started. Tonight, brutally cold, windchills 5 to 20 below zero through noon tomorrow including one of the coldest days we have seen in february in years. And, again, we could set some records overnight tonight. Feelslike temperature, the windchill as we move through the overnight hours down to 4 below by 11 00, 12 below gaithersburg 11 below, manassas. Look what happens early tomorrow morning. Were at 20 below in gaithersburg 22 below in hagerstown 15 below in manassas culpeper at 12 below, Gaithersburg Rockville coming in between 15 and 20 below. Extremely cold start to the day and even around 1 00 in the afternoon, were still right where we are right now. So its going to feel very similar tomorrow afternoon than it does right now. Just some extreme cold moving on in here. It will stick with us through the day on friday and into saturday. Now, cold and rather breezy early tomorrow but then the wind will die and its just going to be a cold afternoon. Tomorrow afternoon will feel better than it does right now because of those winds. But then watch what happens on saturday. Clouds move in and so does the chance for snow by around 1 00 2 00 3 00 in the afternoon we hope to see that snow or will see it just about everywhere. We think enough cold air will move in that we could see the snow change to ice. We could see a couple inches of snow early on saturday. Ice would be a big issue too. Roads could be an issue on saturday evening. High of 32. 48 on sunday. All of that snow and mix changes over the rain on sunday. It was out of here by around 11 00 or 12 00. Sunday is not a washout. The afternoon on sunday not a bad afternoon. Then 33 on monday and then another chance for some snow coming up on wednesday. Ill tell you, this january weather has just been horrible. All right. Were a month later in february. Well Breast Cancer doctors are rushing to make a new cocktail of drugs available to patients. The discovery that could prolong the life of some women by more than a year. Its been nearly a year since we al

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