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WRC News4 Today December 31, 2017

I feel like its this one is going to be really good. Im feeling good about this, too. The last morning show of 2017. Angie continuing her time off. Were glad to have you with us. Its a cold start on this sunday. Freezing out there. Storm team 4 meteorologist is here. First. We have big news. Oh. Lauren isnt here. Down in North Carolina. Oh, my goodness. She just got married. Congrats to her and her husband eric. Eric there is in uniform. Thats not a costume, folks. Thats a marine serving our country, so she is now celebrating i think shell be gone for a few weekends for good reason. I think this is a point in time where youre allowed to do that. She looks beautiful. Congratulations to them and all the best wishes as we go through the next couple of weeks and months and years and rest of their life and happily ever after, Something Like that, right . Lauren looks so gorgeous, by she does. Theres not a question about that. She looks absolutely gorgeous. I love how the bottom part of our banner said lauren is off the market. Sorry, guys. Thats fantastic. Congratulations to lauren. We are very excited and happy for her. This morning, though, youre going to want more clothes than what you saw her wearing. Were talking about windshields below 10 degrees. Its cold all day. If you have the plans tonight if youre heading out for the new years celebrations, expect it to be bitterly cold. It feels like 6 degrees in washington. It feels like 0 in gaithersburg. One degree in clinton. 6 in leesburg. Were talking about temperatures still only in the 20s for a daytime high. We have a wind chill advisory for everybody until 9 00 a. M. Monday. Were looking down 5 to 10 below zero. Thats dangerous cold. Ill talk more about this and what to expect for your new ar happy to have you on this sunday morning. New this morning, a man is in Critical Condition after an officerinvolved shooting. D. C. Police say the shooting happened last night on hstreet in northeast d. C. Take a look at the scene here. Hstreet was shut down for hours for traffic near 8th street while Police Investigating all this. Police chief spoke at the scene. He says police were responding to some type of domestic situation. Thats when things escalated. Our officers responded for a second time to a domestic situation. They were out here. They were looking for a suspect and returned to a home. Not really sure about the details of the domestic. When they get on the scene, they confront an adult male who appears to be armed with a handgun. The officers end up firing their weapons. Police officer tweeted this picture of that handgun. They say it was found at the scene. Well update you on this developing story as we learn more about an fbi raid that happened in sterling. Documents alleging that the man at the center of the raid is an isis supporter and may have been planning something quite sinister. The documents revealing information what he did as fbi agents were breaking down his door down on friday. Here is how things unfolded. Reporter the house here in sterling is dark. Its quiet now, but on friday, it was a scene of an extensive fbi raid. And now we know why. The man who lives here, allegedly under investigation for ties to terror. Fbi agents spent hours taking evidence out of the home of sean duncan, but they had been building their terror case against him for some time. According to Court Documents, a relative tipped off the fbi in february of 2016, saying duncan had converted to islam, may have been radicalized and expressed approval of westerners being isis and conducting an attack in the u. S. The documents also reveal that duncan had conducted hundreds of internet searches for weapons, ammunition and paintball venues and looked up how to make bombs. The documents say when fbi agents came to the front door for the raid on friday, he ran out the back in his bare feet, tried to get rid of evidence he had destroyed, memory chip and thumb drive. The records also show in june during an investigation of the death of his infant, authorities found numerous searches on his phone for isisrelated material and attacks, weapons and body armor. During the raid of duncans home, fbi arguments carried out countless boxes marked with red and black evidence tape. Duncan is expected to make his first appearance in federal court on tuesday. In sterling, virginia, darcy spencer, news 4. Dozens of people in gaithersburg have to find a new place to live after a massive buildings in an apartment complex. Take a look. This is video youre only going to see right here on news 4. A resident capturing the blaze. Look at that. Wow. Flames coming out of the roof there. Shot through the roof there. Fire starts around 4 00 a. M. Yesterday. Luckily everyone got out safely, but they had to brave the bitter cold once they were outside. While no residents were injured as a result of the fire here, one Montgomery County Police Officer was treated for smoke inhalation. No word on how this thing started. Three, two, one happy new year whoa. Dont worry. You didnt miss this years new years ball drop, that was just a test. Looks like its working, too. Yeah. One of the last things organizers had to do ahead of tonights big celebrations in times square. A crowd of onlookers. The 12,000 pound ball, by the wai it helps to ring in 2018. Coming up, well go live to times square and chat with chris palone. He has a look at the party tonight. That will be cold in times square. I have no interest in standing there for hours in the cold. The practice run that would be me. I lived in new york. Its always fun to walk at a distance from there. Standing in that all day long, its one of the things maybe once in your life. Those sticking closer to home for the holiday, there are plenty of things to do around here for new years. Absolutely. You dont have to stand up all night to ring in 2018. Starting at 10 00 a. M. , bring the kids down to yard park in southeast d. C. For noon yards eve. Get this, there will be a holiday wonderland for children and adults but a balloon drop right at noon. I like that. Over in alexandria, celebrate with first night alexandria. Always fun there. Music scattered throughout celebrations. Adults have to pay there, the kids are free. The fireworks will go off at midnight and those are free for everyone. For the first time ever, there will be a ceremonial hoisting of the anchor of the Capital Yacht Club. I like that. Not the new thing. No. That would be a bad thing as a matter of fact. Yeah. Wouldnt volunteer for that. Whatever you do, make sure you celebrate safely. Plan on celebrating new years eve into the wee hours you have options to get home safely, metro trains operating late. If you want a free lyft ride, a code will be posted today after 2 00 a. M. This afternoon for a free trip up to 15. Enter that code into the lyft app. No excuses. Be safe. Well, hey, no excuses if you dont bundle up today, either. There is no way around it. It is frigid out there. Is there any far as these temperatures are concerned . Well check in a second. We have how cold it will get. You have to check for your power ball ticket. Everybody at home look. Perhaps youre waking up a millionaire, maybe a multimillionaire. Well run through the results from last nights big power holy night sleep in heavenly peace sleep in heavenly peace it feels good to be back. But the living rooms pretty blank. Its really nice when clients come in and have done some of their own research. Working with a bassett designer was really easy. Just kind of ties in very well. We love it time to pull out your lottery tickets. We have last nights winning power ball numbers. Take a look. They were 28, 36, 41, 51, 58 and the power ball number, 24. Did you win . Im here. Dont expect to be a multibillionaire from those numbers. It turns out that no ticket won the jackpot set at 384 million bucks. The prize now million, now separately the megamillions jackpot has grown to 343 million after no winner on friday. Good luck to anyone who is playing. Hey, it is football sunday. And its round two for the redskins and the new york giants. The skins already beat the giants this season, 2010. Theyre going to look for another win at 1 00 p. M. This afternoon at metlife stadium. Not going to be in the playoffs, though. No, neither team. This will be their last game for the season. Thats why lauren also isnt around because she would be watching that game. Absolutely. She wasnt getting married this weekend. She had bigger things to do this weekend. She did. Lets talk about the cold. It is brutal out there. It is very brutal out. Im talking like this is just the type of cold where you dont want to go outside. If you have to go outside, you have to cover up all your skin, especially tomorrow morning we have a wind chill advise for your new years morning. Look at this, every county in the area shaded in this blue chill advisory running until 9 00 a. M. Monday. Going into your new years day morning, were looking at the wind chill numbers 5 to 10 degrees below zero. That is going to be dangerous cold. We know youll get frostbite with exposed skin in 30 minutes with this kind of weather. You have to be very bundled up there. We could have passing flurries around today, but thats really about it. Its 19 degrees right now in the district and feels like 6 degrees. So, look at the rest of the area. We have 3 degrees feel like temperature in wind chester. Feels like zero in gaithersburg. 1 in clinton. 15 dulles, 6 degrees in quantico. Its very cold this morning, but wait until tonight. Were going to get colder as we go into your new years morning, like i mentioned. Here is your new years eve planner, 9 00 a. M. , actual temperature will be around 21 dprees. Noon 23, by the afternoon staying in the mid 20s, staying breezy, too. By midnight tonight, if you all the new year, were looking at 19 degrees by midnight and well get colder as we go into tomorrow morning. Ill show you more on the new years day forecast and what you can expect coming up. Well check in with you then. We have reporters notebook up next. Were back with 15 minutes with more of the mornings top stories. Good morning, people over the washington region and the country rushing to prepay their property taxes before the new limits kick in under tax reform. Treasurers office is scrambling to handle the crush then comes word from the irs most taxpayers wont get the benefits they are hoping for. Scott mcfarland and scott are with us this morning. Gentlemen the one word that comes to my mind is just utter chaos. Yeah. Good morning. If you watched chris gordons report on thursday night, you saw he was in the fair fax tax office with these huge lines of hundreds and hundreds of people waiting to pay their taxes. Then an official came out and made the announcement, hey, we ju we interpret it, you will not get this benefit and everybody left. It was just an amazing visual to see these huge lines and then an empty office once this irs ruling came down. Scott, the irs, the changes in the tax law are going to affect the people in this region maybe more than in some other regions. Uniquely impactful no matter where you are in our area, this new irs rule, because it limits deductions for your property taxes. Where are some of the most Expensive Properties in america . We know its right here, your mortgages, your rent is. The Property Owner has a huge mortgage. Property taxes are immense here. But what montgomery did and what Prince Georges County thought about doing, allowing people to prepare, makes total sense politically. You are responsible as a county government to be responsive to your constituents and clearly they were going to want this if they could make this happen. It caused a bit of scrambling. Why they were thinking of doing is this. They have to be responsive to what their constituents want even if it means a lot of hard work and scramble. A lot have collected money that they will have to get back. Thats the question that were waiting to find out what happens. You have a lot of people who in some jurisdictions mailed in their prepayments, and so paid online . Will those be cashed, returned . You know, theres still a lot of Unanswered Questions in this. Scott, if we take a broader look at the new tax law, talk about some of the other ways it might impact residents in this region . The lax law itself is a bit of a mystery. The supporters will acknowledge theyre not sure how its going to play out. They think it will be favorable to those who get their paychecks and see more in the take home and less in the taxing. Property taxes where people are most directly impacted because they recognize when they write their mortgage, theyre folding in that tax money each month and the mortgage bill is a hard bill to pay. To see that and see the ls frustrate some number of people at the end of 2018, at the end of 2019. Im wondering what the political implications of that are. In maryland n Northern Virginia n d. C. , is this tax bill going to be as popular as it is in the other 48 states in america . Remains to be seen. As does the results in the Virginia House race thats still hanging in the balance. The thin house race 94th district lands in court before Elections Officials could draw names out of a pot, democrat Shelly Simons asked a court panel to reconsider the decision to give one contested ballot to republican david yancy which tied the race. If simons wins the seat, the House Chamber will be split 50 50 between republicans and democrats. Who would have thought that we would see this kind of drama played out here in virginia and its actually a drama thats being followed all over the country. Virginia is the place to cover politics for next year, not just because of this but what were going to look at the house race and how pivotal virginia will be in 2018 and in the president ial elections. So virginia is a hot spot. Yeah, this has got a lot of people paying closer attention to, you know, these kind of intricate things about how do we decide a tiebreaker in the state . A lot of people had no idea it was decided by chance, which was put on hold while we still wait in the courts to see what happens with this final ballot. Scott, who someone think their one vote doesnt matter. This is the place to watch and cover politics right now. Two spectacles. Lot of disappointed people wednesday morning at 11 00 a. M. Lot of nonpartisan journalists and observers of politics and people outside of virginia were disappointed they didnt draw a lot. You want to see what that was like when you draw a winner of a contested race in the ballots of power, chamber of the legislation out of an old f canister. Weve been deprived that opportunity. Somehow the democrat does prevail in the 94th district and simons wins and its a 50 50 split, the choosing of chairmans of committees, the choosing of who gets what piece of power and who doesnt is going to be pure theater because who is in the room when the votes are taken . Do you have all of your horses lined up . Do you have all of your votes lined up because in a 50 50 split, one absence, one bathroom break, one missing vote could be pivotal. So what kind of scrambling must be taking place right now. Both parties are preparing to that and alerting their membership you have to be here and there. Your commitments must be to us many. In virginia, its a part time legislatu legislature. You go to new york, michigan, those are fulltime legislatures. Virginia different. Many have other tasks and other opportuni responsil is their responsibility until the power and control is determined. Well be right back. Stay with us. A purple lined construction worker held at gunpoint. News 4 reported the connection between the hold up and killing of a teen in silver sfrings. Ms13 gang members are at the center of both crimes. News 4 worked on this story and looked at the charging documents. Tell us what youve learned about this case, these cases an how you determined they were connected . Right. So the first case was back in october. As we all know, purple Line Construction has been going on and Maryland Transit Authority has taken over, bought a lot of properties that are in the way that had to be so there was this one property on university boulevard east and a purple lined employee was going through doing a routine inspection before the house was to be demolished and he came down some steps and was confronted by four men armed, one with a handgun out another with a machete strapped to his leg and there was a brief interaction between the two where they all looked at each other, didnt know whats going on. Fortunately for this employee, the ms13 gang members who they turned out to be let him leave the house unharmed. He called police. Police came back, raided the house and found out that it is what is called in the gang world a destroyer. Its a vacant house they squat on and even had shrines to their saints that they honor in the ms13 culture. Okay. Then a few weeks later, a teenager one of the four people arrested in that case was released on bond on december 22nd. On december 24th, found shot multiple times in an Apartment Building less than a quarter mile away from that same location where the purple line incident happened . The cases are connected . Because we know that the suspect in one was the victim in the other. So Court Documents show ms13 members are frequently found in that neighborhood, were talking between university boulevard and New Hampshire avenue. You read the charging documents closely, what it reveals is that Montgomery Countys gang unit apparently routinely does undercover surveillance in that neighborhood that you just described between university boulevard and rhode island avenue and during that surveillance they witnessed these four ms13 gang members who are known to them go in and out of that house. And in that neighborhood. And also shows Tacoma Police have their own surveillance going on in this area. Scott, it makes you wonder where else theyre hanging out . You probably read the Washington Post article couple weeks ago about the violence, the intimidations, the fear of people in langley park are living in because of gang members. What struck me is how frank police have been about their concern and their recognition about ms13 in our area. In years past, police were always circumspektd about talking publicly about gangs for risk of empowering gangs fu

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