Tonight and lead us to a mild day tomorrow. The polar plunge arrives midweek. Your sevenday forecast coming up. All right, chuck. Thank you. New this morning, firefighters are trying to figure out what cause this had house fire in Prince Georges County t happened on dartmouth avenue, not far from the university of maryland. News 4s Kristen Wright is live there. Kristen . Reporter good morning. Crews are here on the scene, boarding up the windows. Let me show you. Concentrating on the upstairs left side of the home here. They have new information they can share with us. First we want to share with you video overnight of firefighters trying to put out this fire. The fire was going quite strong and was heavy when they got here. This is at about 4 30 this morning. Firefighters appeared to be concentrating on that front corner of the room i just showed you on the second floor. A lot of smoke coming from that room in the Early Morning hours. College students live in the house. Were told six
From the police to indicate that. I have been talking to people who live in this community throughout the Morning Hours here. They tell me this is relatively a safe place to live. Greenbelt Elementary School is just down the road here. One gentleman who came home last night saw the aftermath of all of this and said it was quite alarming because this neighborhood he says is safe. We just got this statement right here from someone from the synagogue saying they regret the incident and that the synagogue had no involvement in the incident. The synagogue in this statement the synagogue is saying they are now going to change its policy. They basically rented the facility to an outside group and now changing its policy no longer allowing outside groups to rent the space there. There was some sort of hiphop party, neighbors tell me going on inside last night. We can tell you what happened from what neighbors and police tell us. The shooting happened about 100 feet away from the facility. A 16
Shes been quick to get to work. Four years ago she was arrested as a councilmember during a protest on capitol hill but this time the mayor says shes returned with a lot less tension to continue the push for voters rights. News4s tom sherwood reports. Reporter that was then 2011, four years ago. This was now. Democratic mayor Muriel Bowser being escorted to the halls of congress. Her first full day on the job, bowser appeared with d. C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes norton. With both houses of congress in republican hands, the democrats have their hands full. I want to recommit our efforts in the district for a new pathway towards statehood. Reporter bowser on sunday told a National Audience on nbcs meet the press that the city for too long has been treated unfairly. To remind everybody that we are 660,000 taxpaying americans that go to war. We are washington, d. C. Reporter appearing with police chief kathy lanier and the school counselor, bowser said the city wants its own statehood right,
Too. Guys . Thanks doug. Crews in our area say theyre ready for whatever comes. Dozens of trucks already out this evening. Theyre pretreating the roads across d. C. Maryland and virginia. Theyre using more than salt as well. Well tell you what else theyre using to keep the pavement from freezing coming up in a report just a few minutes from now. Potential jurors in the Boston Marathon bombing trial got their first look at suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev today. Some of them seem transfixed by the sight of him. As Nbcs Jay Gray reports now, this is likely to be the nations most closely watched terror trial since the Oklahoma City bombings two decades ago. Reporter the marathon bombing trial began under heavy security this morning. Officers on the ground and in the harbor surrounding the federal courthouse. Throughout the day, as many as 500 prospective jurors shared an Assembly Room with the suspect in the case 21yearold Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Dressed in a dark shirt and khaki pants, tsarnaev seem
8501. D. C. s new mayor Muriel Bowser celebrating tonight at her inaugural ball. News4 at 11 00 starts now. First tonight, officials have Winter Weather advisoryoubun for parts of our area this weekend. And even d. C. Could see some sleet falling saturday. Lets go to storm team chief meteorologist doug cameron to find out what were going to wake up tomorrow. Many of us will wake up to sleet falling around the region around the time around 6 00, 7 00 it 8 00, 9 00 in the morning. Many of us seeing freezing rain. No rain or no freezing rain out there right now. We have nothing across our area. We continue to be on the dry side. But weve cooled quicker than expected. That is going to have concerns for tomorrow morning. Rain down to the south. This is whats moving our way and this whole area right in here will start to fill in as it moves our way because of that we do have that Winter Weather advisory. Not for d. C. , even though they could see sleet. Back to the west we could see accumula