Potomac phil . Potomac phil dont is he real . Hes real. Hey, pal, how are you . Im good. Im doing well. Not your normal pairing at 11 00. You have to take it today, right . We begin with new information on a developing story out of delaware. One of four people taken hostage at the massive prison complex is dead. Thats right. There was a standoff with inmates at the james t. Vaughn correctional center. They took over a building and took those workers hostage yesterday. After 18 hours, police ended it this morning. And in just the last half hour, prison Officials Say a corrections officer, steven floyd had died. Prayers all day yesterday was that this event would end with a but it didnt. So today all of us mourn the family of sergeant floyd. The inmates told the local paper they did this because they had problems with their treatment and with President Trump. Floyd was the 16 year veteran of the Delaware Department of corrections. Also developing, in Silver Spring, police just arrested a suspect for a shooting at leisure world. A woman was shot in the leg there about an hour and a half ago. Its not clear how badly she was hurt. Were working to find out what we can about the person that police arrested. Were also following a developing story in the district. Police are scouring the area for the gunman after a deadly shooting on the d. C. maryland line. Somebody fired into a car at last night near the corner of Eastern Avenue and hunt place in northeast. A man inside the vehicle was killed a she is expected to survive though. Montgomery county, police are investigating another attempted robbery at the drug store in maryland. They say this morning someone tried to rob a cvs. Megan mcgrath joins us live from Silver Spring. Reporter good morning. Yeah, it happened again, a man with his face covered, armed with a gun went into a 24hour pharmacy in maryland and robbed the people inside. This time, however, a little bit different, police were in the area and able to take four people into custody. There have been several very similar crimes that have happened lately in a number of different jurisdictions. Investigators are now all talking to each other, trying to figure out if any of the crimes are connected. An Early Morning robbery attempt at the cvs fapharmacy. Four people are taken into custody and suspects is this man, seen in Surveillance Video from another recent cvs holdup. Its apparent there are some similar like events in other jurisdictions, Robbery Detectives have been speaking to one another for the past several weeks about this trend. Last thursday, there were three other similar crimes on the same day in Montgomery County. This video was taken from a cvs robbery on arlington road, the robberies, two at cvss in bethesda and another in Silver Spring happened within a two and a half hour period on january 26th and several other crimes including prince georges, anne arundel and howard counties. So 17 crimes in different jurisdictions, they are comparing notes and Surveillance Video where they have it and still though, a lot of work ahead of th look for connections between these crimes. Back to you. Thank you. Also in montgomery, an Early Morning house fire was caused by an overloaded fireplace. Dozens of firefighters showed up but theres no hydrant on martinsburg road. They had to use a tanker truck to get the water in. No one was injured but the fire caused 100,000 in damage. Time right now is 11 05. Its a great morning which could mean a chilly afternoon. Heres what we can expect. Yes, a not to bad today. Were going to stay dry, mostly cloudy skies, were up to 46, it feels like 41 and its a west wind. Its going to keep temperatures closer to 50 as we go through the afternoon. Look at what happens after the afternoon hours, once the sunsets, look at the temperatures dropping off. Overnight its going to be cold outside tomorrow morning. Today a decent day but we keep on going down. Look what happens for the weekend. Normal high is 44. Today well stay above that but we keep dropping to below normal as we go into saturday. Highs in the upper 30s, feeling more like winter this weekend. Well talk more about that forecast and what you can expect coming up. Thank you very much. President trump began his day speaking at the National Prayer breakfast. He discoverussed also too shot at Arnold Schwarzenegger and rating as new host as celebrity apprentice. They hired Arnold Schwarzenegger to take my place and we know how that turned out. The ratings went right down the tubes, its been a total disaster and mark will never ever bet against trump again. I want to just prayor if we can for those ratings, okay . Schwarzenegger immediately responded to the president suggesting they switch places and the president would return to host his former show and Arnold Schwarzenegger would become president. But we cannot sustain ineffective traditions over optimal outcomes. Ill gather information on what process should be reform and make sure we are functioning in the most productive and efficient way possible. Regardless of the circumstances, shaping our country or our department, we must all remain focused on the mission at hand before us. Newly sworn in secretary of state Rex Tillerson making his first address to state Department Employees last hour. Tillerson alluded to some unspecified changes he may make to the department but he says his approach will never be quote change for the sake of change. One of the first issues that secretary tillerson will have to deal with is warning to the country on twitter, saying iran is officially on notice. Over a missile test launch earlier this week. A top aide to irans Supreme Leader brushed off the threat saying his country would continue to test ballistic missiles. Im not going to im not going to comment on a conversation between myself and the president of the United States other than what we have said publicly and you can surely understand the reasons for that. Meanwhile, australian Prime Minister be tight lipped about his conversation with President Trump over the weekend. Taking in under 1200 refugees from an australian detention center. A Senior Administration official says the conversation there was yelling on call. The tone of the conversation was blunt. Police are saying a group offage taters turned this peaceful protest violent at the university of california berkeley. Demonstrators let fire and threw rocks and fireworks in response from a talk from the ultraright website breitbart news. Then this morning President Trump tweeted about the post and wrote, if u. C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view, no federal funds . A word from Montgomery County office of consumer protection. They want to educate consumers and businesses about certain donation boxes. The i team is working for you on the same isse. What our cameras found in businesses across the county. Zoo. A look at whats next we have new video of a kidnapping suspect. The man is accused of kidnapping a georgetown student exactly one week ago. Investigators say it started near 34th and o streets in student into his suv and forced him to withdraw cash from a. T. M. Machines. A battle is brewing between congress and d. C. Over the death with dignity bill. Jason chaffetz says his committee will work to kill the bill. Democrats admit they dont have the bill in the house. The vote passed the dv council last year. Transportation crews around the region are working on a bold goal to eliminate all accident related deaths. Reporter these flowers at this intersection offer a reminder. Crossing the street can be deadly if everyone isnt paying attention. These flowers are here for this woman, 49 idea rose cruz, a december while simply trying to cross. Surveillance video of the moments before hard to watch. Its these moments that are causing transportation agencies to fight back. Well, changing the Safety Culture of our region, sometimes it means you have to make a physical change to an actual intersection like whats happening here in alexandria. This city just adopted the vision zero initiative. Zero traffic related deaths or serious injury, that is the goal of vision zero. We think its important to have a bold goal and need to throw everything we can at it. Reporter lambert is the head of Transportation Services in alexandria. Its an acknowledge mts that roadway crashes are preventible. Reporter johnson guides his 2yearold through a new pedestrian and traffic signals. Anything they are doing to improve the safety around here, its going to reporter better road design one thing but Everyone Needs to be more aware. Everybody seems to be on their cell phone all the time. I think if people pay more attention, its a good thing. Reporter for now, alexandria, the latest city to try to make sure everyone just gets around safely, an issue they say has become a Public Health concern. In 2016, there we 2016, there w pedestrian death in alexandria, an increase from one death in 2015 and none in 2014. There were two in 2013. An update to a story about a Prince Georges County man with a rude awakening. The incident would have been a bit upsetting for anyone but not leonard miller. His house has been hit not once or twice but five times. Hes lived there since 1971 and doesnt seem to be too worried about it happening again. Who knew . Im 88 years old and ill be 89 in a month and a half. Then if i live after that, then who knows. He is so cute. The house is being repaired now. Miller believes the curve in the road is what is causing so many accidents. I hope somebody does something. I cant imagine his insurance is pleased every single time. He told pat hes going to put a bullseye on the side of the house. He talked to him yesterday, hes a fan of 4 traffic. A new warning about what appears to be donation boxes in stores. This is interesting, as Scott Mcfarland shows us, you need to look before you give. Recently you might have seen these at the checkout counters, the picture of a cute kid or animal up front. The i team went looking and found them throughout the area, popping up in yogurt shops and county owned liquor store. If you read the fine print, your but into somebodys pocket. Pulling you in with that photograph but whats crazy about it, the box screams charity and then whispers but its not. Reporter the i team wanted to see how often people will drop change into one of these boxes so we set up our own surrounded by cameras catching every angle and people did donate. Coming up tonight on news 4 at 11 00, what drew people into it and why county officials are now issuing warnings about these boxes. Scott mcfarlane, news 4 i team. Africanamerican history and culture is celebrating its first black history month. To commemorate, they are putting on special programs and events. First event was held last night, they showed a screening of oscar nominated documentary, based on writings of james baldwin. The Film Screening helped to shed like on climate. On issues related to race that plagued us during 1960s and 50s and 70s when he was an act vist, still with us today. Museum opened back in september. It could welcome its 1 millionth visitor already this month. Wow. Ollie the bobcat is back at the national zoo and undergoing a full medical exam. The female was discovered missing monday morning and returned and trapped on zoo grounds yesterday afternoon. The zoo thinks she escaped through a gap in her enclose youre netting which has been fixed. They are beyond happy that she is back. Over the moon thrilled. When you find a member of your family or find somebody thats been missing, it kind of fills you with just joy. Crazy joy. Zoo staff say sightings she may have romed a mile away. I think she was kind of looking for a boyfriend, on the prowl. You think so . A boyfriend . Couldnt find a boyfriend no, orangutan had to do the tinder thing, we did that story yesterday. It would be weird with an orangutan. She would need another bobbobca. I think ollie went to ollies trolley. The workweek is wrapping up. It is friday eve. As we get ready for the weekend, a change to Colder Weather conditions. Sheena is going to let us know how much colder its going to get, melissa. I. D. Theft jumped a whopping 16 , practical tips on an ibm super computer is getting into the tax business. H r block is teaming up to work on identifying credits and deductions using artificial intelligence. Watson has been used to find solutions in other settings. Im morgan brennan. Check it out, theres a new alert this morning about identity fraud. A leading Cyber Security group says i. D. Theft has jumped a whop 16 in the last year. The credit card with chips helped cut down on fraud, crooks are finding new ways to steal. Heres nbcs reporter it happens every second of every day in america, someones personal identity is stolen. Last year six out of every 100 consumers were victimized while new chip credit cards have cut down on instore fraud, criminals have changed their strategy. They went from targeting the retailer in the brick and Mortar Stores to the retailers. Com sites. Thieves stole jerrys Social Security number then racked up thousands in fraudulent charges. Using my information, they attempted to open almost 30 accounts, ten of which they were successful. Account takeover froud was up 61 . They hijack the information and orders new credit cards and in 2016 a 40 jump in card not present transactions with criminals using stolen credit cards to make online purchases. Because so many people use the same user names and pass words, cyber thieves will steal media site then try it on Online Banking and credit cards. Dont use the same pass word for bank as you do Retail Shopping and email. More advice, use long pass words, song lyrics and numbers, even mixing languages, use twostep awe then indication logins. I constantly check my credit report. She discovered leads to track down her thieves but an overwhelmed Police Department doesnt have the resources to go after the thieves. Nbc news, washington. Clearly see a perfect clear shadow of me. Six more weeks of winter it shall be. You heard it there. Six more weeks of winter according to everyones favorite groundhog. Saw his shadow. He became a National Celebrity thanks to the 1993 movie, groundhog day. Do you have a headache . What does he really know . I feel like weve been negative on Punxsutawney Phil this morning and for good reason. Hes been wrong a lot. Hes been wrong a lot. This morning before phil came out of his little hole we were talking about the overcast skies and passing snow showers and he sees his shadow again because theres so many cameras around. Same thing, saw his shadow also . What does potomac phil know. I know more than the groundhogs, i hope so. Groundhog today, usually today this movie plays over and over on tv and its a fantastic movie. Youve got to see it. The first headline here, phil much to us. Our temperatures locally are going to be going down. So cooler air moving in for the weekend feeling more like winter and this weekend also, super bowl sunday it is going to be feeling like football weather. Seasonable for this time of year. Were talking about the mid40s and our shower chance weve beel now. Shouldnt be an issue, 46 in the district. 43 in quantico. Temperatures will be getting near 50 and winds will pick up today too, its already getting a little breezy but your exercise forecast looking dry. By noon about the mid40s staying breezy and dry out there especially if you are maybe doing a late evening run. Not too bad. Heres a look at the satellite. A lot of clouds around, you might see a little break in the cloud cover with some sunshine. Not much though today. We go into this afternoon and we stay breezy and dry, colder overnight, morning temperatures tomorrow will be in the 20s by tomorrow te colder than today, around the low 40s but saturday were looking at upper 30s. Then we go into sunday and theres that chance weve been talking about. Its getting a lot smaller, mainly dry for sunday. A closer look for that with the tenday forecast coming up. A popular trail that provides that provides great access in the great falls overlook area is being shut down this month. Were going to tell you why and for how long. Hillary clinton was treated more like a rock star than a failed president ial candidate. A look at whats next for clinton whose public tiki barber running a barber shop . Yes surprising. Yes whats not surprising . How much money david saved by switching to geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Whos next . After taking time away from the public eye following the election, Hillary Clinton appears ready to return to the spotlight. She has plans for a new book and series of speeches where we can get her first extended reaction to one of the most intense and hard fought elections in modern history. Peter alexander reports. The audience chanting her name before its showed Late Wednesday and many waiting to catch a glimpse as she left with bill clinton taking selfies with fans. Aside from the inauguration, she intended to be her own, weve seen very little of clinton since h for weeks these have been our only glimpses of her, snapping a photo during a hike in the woods. Those chance encounters even inspiring their own snl can sketch. A