Lawson muse. Were following breaking news, a complicated story happening right now in last half hour. White House Press Secretary sean spicer responded to a report from the Associated Press that report says the president is considering using National Guard troops to round up undocumented immigrants. It says the plan could involve as many as 100,000 troops. However, spicer says that report is quote 100 not true. Its false. Thats a quote. The ap says asked the white house for comment before publishing the piece but did not get a response. All of this comes as immigrants are feeling a lot of tension and anxiety. Especially with reports of new detentions from federal immigration agents, justin finch is live in alexandria where people are responding to those reports this morning. Justin. Reporter thats right. In fact, members of the Faith Based Community and also protesters went inside this i. C. E. Field office behinde latino men detained last week. We were told the names are not given and they are pursuing other means to free them. Your heads are in conflict between church and state. Reporter what they are calling the illegal detaining of immigrants is specifically a case we have been following. News 4 first to tell you about several latino men arrested outside the Rising Hope Mission Church in levalexandria. All detained by i. C. E. Agents after leaving the hypothermia shelter last thursday morning. Of the dozen or so taken in, one was lets go and did have a green card. Todays protest concerned President Trumps executive order puts undocumented immigrants without criminal past at risk. Previously i. C. E. Was going after undocumented people government is staking out homeless shelters to arrest people inside will turn people away who otherwise might be sleeping and freezing on the streets. A huge role in helping us to end the criminalization of immigrants and end the exploiltation of people of color and immigrants. Thats why were very glad to stand here today with the Faith Based Community as well. I. C. E. Maintains those detainments respect their sensitive locations procedure, not arresting those outside places of worship and churches and schools and medical treatment facilities. Now after our report, the Office Reached out to i. C. E. For more clarification for the safety of virginia residents. Back into you. Justin finch, thank you. President trump heads to South Carolina today to meet with leaders from boeing. The president sent out this tweet plant and after spend the weekend at his winter white house in florida. The founder of Crossroads Media could start as early as today. Sean spicer filling two jobs stays on as press secretary. Much of the talk across the country is still focused on President Trumps news conference. One of the most contentious moments came when the president was asked about including the Congressional Black Caucus in discussions on urban policy. Are you going to include the Congressional Black Caucus . I would. Do you want to set up meeting . Do you want to set up the meeting . No. Are they friends of yours . I know some of them but set up a meeting. I would love to meet with the black caucus. Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus says the white house has now asked for a meeting. Maryland congressman Elijah Cummings put ot ata meeting with President Trump and the decision to ask for Michael Flynns resignation came solely because flynn misled the Vice President about phone calls with a russian ambassador. The man asked to fill the role of National Security adviser has turned the job down. Robert harward said his decision was personal and general Michael Flynn was forced to resign after admitting he misled Vice President pence about phone calls with the russian ambassador. Democrats have been on the hill for hours now. They were there all night speaking out against another one of president s nominees, overnight we are heard from senator after senator saying scott pruitt isnt the right person to lead the epa. Many say they dont approve of his record in his home state. Someone who is standing with the industries and contrary to people suffering in their own state has not earned the right to be our adminit epa. A few hours ago senator Chris Van Hollen spoke of the importance of protecting the chesapeake bay. The nomination is expected to pass. A cold morning but Sheena Parveen is here with when we start to feel the warmup. Its coming. It is coming and it will continue as we go through the weekend. Wait until you see the forecast. Were still in the 30s in the district. 37 degrees. The clouds are starting to break and theyll continue to do so by noon, temperatures around 40 by then. 4 00 p. M. , 50 degrees and if you have plans this evening, were going to stay dry, about the upper 40s. Look at the weekend forecast, well being in the 60s well above the normal high of 48 degrees. Well look at the threeday weekend and well look at a very mild stretch under way thats straight ahead. All right, thanks, sheena. New this morning, somebody is now checking out how bad the damage is at this house that was hit by a car. We sent chopper 4 to on oak view drive. You can see the car slammed into the back door. Were told that nobody was inside the house or i should say nobody that was inside was hurt. The driver of the car was hurt but is expected to survive. And were working to learn how two people are doing after this bad crash on suitland parkway. This picture from the morningside volunteer fire department. You can see how bad that car was banged up. It looks like at some point it managed to flip on its side about 3 00 in the morning when this happened. Two people had to be flown to the hospital. Take a look at this car. It is riddled with bullets. 13 shots fired into the car during rush hour on route 50. Prince georges police are still trying to figure out who fired on the car yesterday and why. They had to shut down eastbound route 50 for nearly five hours. The three men inside are being treated for gunshot wounds. They are expected to be okay. Neighbors in high theyve had eight armed robberies reported in the city since middecember. Many of the robberies are taking place in one specific area. Were talking about the part roughly bordered by Queens Chapel road and hamilton street and ager road. The suspect or suspects are targeting latino men, leaving for work at this time in the morning. The robberies are taking place between 4 00 and 6 00 a. M. On weekdays and more frequently on fridays. The crime streak is forcing neighbors to be even more on alert. From now on, ill be watching who is behind me and front of me and aside. Its terrible. Police believe there could be more victims however some may be reluctant to come forward. Bao baos flight plans are set and shes going to china. You only have four more days to see the panda. Shes leaving for china to take part in a bao bao has a 16hour flight from fedex that leaves dulles this tuesday afternoon. Get out there, youll have good weather to enjoy her one last time. Remember when tie shawn was sent back, my niece was heart broken for months. Were trying to pick aun up off the floor. Shes in pieces. Looking for an explanation atwo passenger planes collide. After the break, a look at what happened to the people on the frontier and southwest flight. And facebook founder and Ceo Mark Zuckerberg is laying out his vision for the future, doing it in a 5700 word essay and hes earing that no one was injured but frightening moments in phoenix. The wings clipped and you can see the wing tip right there, came up a mangled mess. We dont know whether this was a pilot error or something else, put on another plane to get where they were going. Two things can slow you down this weekend, safe track work and a da your first alert traffic and look at this weekend. Safe track surge number 12 still under way, no service there. Taking a look elsewhere, orange and green line running on a regular weekend schedule. That is good. On the yellow line, every 20 minutes trains will be running between huntington and Mount Vernon Square only. On the green line 15 minutes and silver, every 20. Remember president s day on monday. We have a special schedule. Metro hours 5 00 a. M. Until midnight. Trains operating on that saturday schedule. See you monday morning. This morning, ceo and founder of facebook Mark Zuckerberg is sounding off about the world around him and big changes coming to facebook. Heres more from his 5,000 word manifest to that talks about the Global Political ambition and fiery debate over fake news, Mark Zuckerberg laying out his vision for future in a 5700 word essay, 1. 86 billion users. The 32yearold executive wrote progress requires humanity coming together, but also as a global community. Zuckerberg says after 13 years of connecting individuals, facebook is now shifting its focus to develop the social infrastructure that works for all of us. Zuckerberg published a statement thursday as an update to the founders letter. The year facebook went public, setting it on the path to become one of the most valuable companies in the world. New comments comes weeks after donald trump rolled out the America First policy. From this day forward, its going to be only America First. America first. Zuckerberg did not mention trump by name and says he started working on the statement before election day. According to cara swisher. One of the criticisms it created filter bubbles where you only hang out with people you like and creating a more global facebook. Reporter addressing fake news, writing weve made progress fighting hoaxes the way we fight spam but we have more work to do. He was moving ever closer to the idea that facebook is a Media Company and does have responsibility, something he had never done before. Reporter on facebook, a wide range of reactions, some positive saying thank you for standing up for the global vision. Others pushing back saying youre good with computers but your politics need serious work. Some wonder if zuckerberg is a close stepper to running for public office. Hes sort of preparing himself for it and has the wherewithal to do it, enormously wealthy and popular and people like a business person in office, not out of the realm of possibility. I dont think hes doing it any said he has no plans to run for president. Hes currently in the middle of a tour of the entire country trying to meet people in all 50 states by the end of the year. There is a brandnew online tool to help you figure out when to go to the dmv, the best times and this is only for virginia customers. It shows how many people are currently waiting at each office as well as the current longest wait time. The estimated wait times begin a half hour each office opens and the times are updated every five minutes, well link you there if you go to the nbc washington app. Voters are electing a new Virginia Governor and new poll says democrats have the inside track for the job. The poll comes out of quinnipiac and says if the general election were today the Democratic Candidates for governor would beat all of the republicans running. The democrats are pretty much deadlocked for the nomination. Polls saying they each have 19 support from voters with 61 undecided. Four republicans are fighting for nomination of governor and ed gillespie and rigleman and wagner will say why they deserve it most. Theres a public debate at 3 00 and primaries are in june this year. Gillespie is consider the republican frontrunner, well see if the ties to President Trump will help stewarts bid. You can save time simply by talking to your google home device. The new shopping feature is googles way of competing with the alexa device, a few Google ExpressRetail Partners include costco and whole foods and wahl greenz and pet smart. It is free through the 30th of april. You go milk, eggs, put in the basket. Whatever. Theres a new efo to save you money by streamlining the way food is labeled right now. Its pretty confusing if youre trying to figure out when something is going to go bad. And most of us the scientific way smell the milk jug and as tom costello explains, the two new categories. Safe to assume nearly all of us at some point have done a food label double take, sell by, best by, best before, enjoy by, use by, best if use by. 15 to 20 variations of that message appear on food labels today. Sometimes the label is wrong. I know i have that problem sometimes if they use it by a certain time. I think i would do the smell test to see if it smells like its on the verge of rotting or spoiling. Now two Food Industry giants are moving to simplify the language to just two new standard phrases. Best if used by will product quality before it diminishes and though not necessarily become unsafe. Think cookies and crackers and pasta. Use by will apply to the few products highly perishable and eaten before they pose a safety issue, think protein like uncooked chicken and beef and seafood. Milk and yogurt, companies will decide which is best. Because consumers are afraid by what they mean, consumers might be throwing food away when its still perfectly good or perfectly safe to eat. Reporter and americans throw away a lot of food, 30 to 40 of all food is wasted. Equally 20 pounds of food per person per month. I always say when in doubt, throw it out. Keeping food longer should save families money. With the voluntary rollout, the simplify labels should be in place by 2018. Tom costello, washington. Played ale apollo and Space Shuttle programs, were going to tell you about the launch taking place this weekend and he was a great man. And that is a quick sample of a documentary being shown as part of a Film Festival here in the district next week. Well tell you how you can screen the films during and didnt realize how difficult it was going to be to tie all that space together. With an open floor plan, you need to separate it ything that we needed. Fabric combinations marry the rooms together. Having someone with bassett has been invaluable. We couldve never dreamed up this room without bassett. They have their mars, spacex is about to send a rocket to the International Space station with a long range goal in mind. Kerrie sanders explains the plan. Elon musk and engineers at spacex have a dream of going to mars and the launch set for saturday morning is a big step for getting there. This morning, spacex engineers say they are highly confident but it is Rocket Science after all. A tough reminder of that last september, when one of the spacex rockets blew up on the launch pad caused by a highly technical fueling problem. But elon musk is undeterred and his team back at it this morning. The mission to resupply the International Space station but the launch of a reusable rocket one step closer to his grand idea to send humans to mars. But musks dream of getting to mars has a wr in nasas labs it is not easy to grow things in space. Thats the real challenge. Reporter fiction meets science. You are actually growing a potato on what would be mars . Correct. Reporter plants create vital oxygen to astro knots can breathe which is 35 million miles from earths atmosphere. Are we going to mars . Eventually, we are, thats the ultimate destination and we can get there in the 2030s. Reporter that would mean if you have a newborn at home right now, by the time that child is in high school, theyll be launching rockets from here with astro astro knots, designation, mars. A huge rain storm is rolling into southern california. Some communities could see a months worth of rain now through tomorrow morning. The storm comes just days after tens of thousands of families they were ordered to leave after water levels at the oroville dam became so dangerous. These images so impressive. The water levels at the dam were 32 feet below the emergency spill way. Officials say at that level they feel comfortable with the incoming storm. Meanwhile, back here, our weather is going to warm up take little . Its going to improve. It will be very nice especially for those who have a threeday weekend. They can enjoy it absolutely. Unseasonably warm weather again. Well have another warmup and rise well above normal for this time of year. Its going to carry over into monday, president s day, if you have the threeday weekend its going to be nice. For your friday, we have the clouds around, a little bit stubborn to start off the day, stratus clouds are sometimes hard to clear but these are passing through. Well be seeing these break and well have a decent afternoon i not nearly as wi nxt week and following weekend, we have no big cool coming. This morning, is actually going to be our coldest morning for quite a while looking forward. Temperatureswise right now, we have 40s on the map. 41 leesburg with a little more clearing and if youre in quantico, still in the 30s, 37 even in the district right now. If you have the plans to head out today, its going to shape up nicely around lunchtime, temperatures closer to 40. Happy hour, low 50s and more sunshine and by dinner time, temperatures will be in the upper 40s. Nice and dry for your friday night plans. Theres the area of cloud cover i was telling you about. It is moving through the area. Well see improvements today developing sunshine and 52 for a High Temperature. Heres your weekend forecast, saturday and sund