Almost 12 hours of testimony. A virginia father publiinne under his truck while his garage goes up in flames. I thought i was a goner. Tonight, his teenage daughter honored for saving his life. It was not a town hall meeting open to the public but tonights president ial forum on gun control was also not stocked with obama supporters. The president spent more than an hour fielding questions at george mason university. We have Team Coverage beginning with Chris Lawrence and some of those questions for the president. Chris. Reporter yeah. One of the first came from the widow of chris kyle the american sniper shot and killed at a gun range by a former marine. She challenged president obama with equating guns with violence. While youve been president we are at the lowest murder rate in our country, all time low for murders. Were at an all time high of gun ownership. I challenge the notion that the reason for that is because theres more gun ownership, because if you look at where are the areas with the highest gun ownership, those are the places in some cases where the crime rate hasnt dropped down that much. A sheriff challenged the president s executive action that force more people to register, dealers and conduct background checks. He argued none of the guns used in recent Mass Shootings came from an unlicensed dealer. What would you have done to prevent these Mass Shootings in the terrorist attack . The young man who killed those kids in newtown, he didnt have a criminal record and so we didnt know ahead of time necessarily that he was going to do Something Like that. But he was able to have access to an arsenal that allowed him, in very short order, to kill an entire classroom of small children. The president also promised not to support any candidate, even a democrat who doesnt support what he called common sense gun reform. Jim. Chris lawrence, thank you. While president obama was inside the Johnson Center on the george mason campus, protesters on both sides of the gun debate were demonstrating outside from nra members to the parent of a sandy hook shooting victim. Shomari. Reporter it was very divided outside here of the Johnson Center. You had protesters on both sides passionately demonstrating outside, many of them say they want to see change. Some folks feel the government is taking away their Second Amendment right. On the other side you had folks that said president obama is doing a good job, showing leadership. They Say Something needs to be done to combat the gun violence in america. Guns save lives. Background checks save lives. While they questioned president obama at a town hall. Are we not doing dialogue . Is dialogue not a thing anymore . There was a much more fiery demonstration outside the university. Two days ago the president unveiled executive orders that would broaden background checks and enhance enforcement of current gun laws. Its an emotional moment. Were here celebrating the president s actions to try to save other families from having to live through this pain. Reporter mark bardens 7yearold son was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School sho shooting. He pays tribute to his son at a makeshift memorial honoring the 20 children gunned down. Reporter do you feel the president s executive orders are a step in the right direction . Absolutely. He gave the Congress Numerous opportunities to try to do something. Guns do not kill people. I can lay mine on the sidewalk, its not going to hurt a soul. Reporter an nra member from virginia tells me hes here to support the Second Amendment and says the president s executive orders are unconstitutional. The executive branch of this government is not allowed to pass law, only the congress is allowed to pass laws. Reporter they say they will continue to protest as the president ial election upcoming and many plan to go back into their community and talk to people and try to get more people on their side so they can continue to voice their concerns. Live here at george mason university, shomari stone, news4. Breaking news coming in from annapolis. About an hour and a half ago Police Responded to a wanted man on madison street. He barricaded himself inside an Apartment Building when officers arrived. That apartment has been evacu e evacuated and an s. W. A. T team is on the scene. We will bring you new developments as they come in. The former federal police chief who admitted to making midwest meth in a federal lab while on duty is going to prison for 3 1 2 years. A judge sentenced him after marathon hearing today. Scott mcfar lan was lane was in courtroom tonight. Reporter the judge compared this federal Police Officer to walter white, the character from breaking bad then he had to face the music. Reporter anything you want to say about the decision the judge handed down. Reporter Christopher Bartley sad nothing to say outside the courtroom but in the courtroom said he was scared and ashamed. Prosecutors sparred for 12 hours today before the judge finally ruled. They were arguing over evidence including these photos from inside the lab where bartley tried to make the midwest. On the huge campus of the commerce departments nist headquarters. They said not only did bartley break the law and plead guilty to a felony, they say he tried to cover it up and lied to firefighters. Lied to his own colleagues in the Police Department and exposed everybody to dangers of a meth lab. Reporter he said it was a training exercise. The judge listened and said that excuse is preposterous. Only two possible options. One seeking to try it for the first time or it was a legitimate Training Program. The judge did not agree with the Training Program argument. Reporter Christopher Bartley ordered to report to prison march 1st. Speaking of weather we are dealing with fog out there. It is just the beginning of a roller coaster weekend of weather. Were holding on, doug. It is a roller coaster weekend. Temperatures going way up and then crashing back down. We are dealing with fog. Some temperatures still on the mild side and has to do with cloud cover. Look at our temperatures. 40 in d. C. , 39 in manassas, 39 in fredericksburg. Still on the mild side this time of night. Mar vinceville, 22, and in lorraine. We have cloud and fog and what we will continue to deal with tonight. Headsup, could be areas of dense fog and already seeing some around the manassas area and culpeper as well. Not as cold as far as weather, a big weekend storm we will talk about it and the roller coaster temperatures coming up. Thank you. Tonight in Fairfax County, teachers, parents and students are showing support for a bold budget presentation, one that requests more money for Fairfax County public schools. For the past nine years that School District has had to scale back on spending. Tonight, the district superintendent said shes done cutting the budget. She wants smaller class sizes and better pay for teachers. For her, its nonnegotiable. Were losing Great Teachers to other jurisdictions. We opened the school year with 200 vacancies, unheard of in Fairfax County. She says it will be tragic if it is not fully funded. You will get to weigh in before the school board makes its final decision in april f. Future markets are looking up right now following whats been a dismal week on wall street, investors worried about a slowdown in china. The markets in china have been up a few hours now, up and down but no suspension of trading like we saw last night. Back at the live desk, federal authorities have arrested a man in houston trying to help people in this u. S. Travel overseas to join a terror organization. Hes from iraq but living with his family in texas several years. Investigators say hes been in touch with other men in milwaukee and sacramento and one who has also been arrested. He will be in Court Tomorrow and Pete Williams will have more on the today show. Thank you, chris. New pictures of a man police are trying to find in connection with assault and attempted robbery on the metro tuesday night. It happened on a yellow line train. The victim was cut on the ear, youll recall, and ran off the train bleeding to find help. He was taken to the hospital for a medical condition. If you think you recognize this person, youre urged to call police. Mayor Muriel Bowser admits d. C. s 911 call center has at times been understaffed and overworked and today she took a step to help get the problems solved. She names Karima Holmes as head of the agency and covered the area of dallas, texas. Last year, they saw a huge spike in 911 calls and a failed response to a choking child who later died and smoke incident that left one woman dead. Next at 11 00, how a young woman saved her family from a fire after lifting a truck off her father. It was crazy strength and adrenaline. I had to do something. Local breweries ban together to help a fellow Business Owner and new mom battling cancer. The dollars go to her. New tonight, how close that Powerball Jackpot could get to a billion dollars. A father under an suv in a garage and gas explosion. Her grandmother among those still inside the house. News4 Jackie Bensen explains what this virginia teenager did. The minute the jack slipped there was an instantaneous strong smell of gasoline and then this whoosh. Reporter eric zribz the scene of his home on november 28th. He was pinned underneath the truck he just row movremoved a wheel and his garage caught fire. We were cooking off food and then there was a fireball. Reporter his last hope of survival ran in, his 19yearold daughter, charlotte, all 56 120 pounds of her barefoot but he knew his daughter, knew the steel and strength that earned the former Mcclain High School pole vault ear place at the u. S. Air force academy. I felt the weight shift and said, you almost got it. And then it was just and suddenly, im pulled out. Then, he says charlotte realizing the truck gas tank was about to explode and possibly engulf the house, jumped in the drivers seat and somehow gunned the truck sideways out of the garage on the three remaining wheels. Tonight, charlotte, surrounded by the members of her family spared from harm that night including her baby niece, was given the Fairfax CountyFire Department citizen life saving reward presented by virginia km, jim moran. Burns to her feet and hands and back injury kept her from returning to the air force academy right now. Its no surprise her future plans include public service. If i cant do the military bran branchs, probably intelligence or government or something or maybe even fire and rescue. I dont know. Right now, im healing up and making sure everyone in the family is okay. In vienna, virginia, Jackie Bensen, news4. What a woman. A special beer is brewing in virginia for a woman battling stomach cancer. Its named after kerris cure. She learned during the pregnancy she had cancer, stage 4 and her son, lance, was born early. Her husband, who owns a brewery, joined 18 brewers in springfield for a fundraiser today. It was pretty hard. What can you do . We immediately turned to lets do what we do well. Lets brew a beer. Overwhelming. There are so many good people here, it really does, it makes you feel like everybodys on your side. The money raised from the sales of kerris cure beer will help pay roses medical bills. History is in the making of the powerball. If nobody wins saturday, it could go up to 1 billion bucks. Saturdays drawing is worth 7 70 million, more than the gdp of nine countries. After taxes, you can also buy a lot of things. The usa today did some math. You can buy 75 million lattes at starbucks if you wanted to, thats a lot of bathroom trips. According to a lottery spokesperson, it could climb to nearly 9 900 million based on current ticket sales. If that one rolls over next wednesdays drawing should easily exceed that 1 billion bucks. Cut back on sugar, salt, saturated fats. Thats the main message of the new dietary guidelines released by the federal government today. For the first time the guidelines suggest limiting the amount of added sugar you consume to 10 of a days calorie intake. Thats about 12 teaspoons a day or the amount of sugar in one 16 ounce soda. Theres controversy over chloryl, those long standing cholesterol limit, those are gone and no mention of cut back on red or processed meat in these guidelines. If you want to hear experts talk about health and weight loss, youll have a chance to do that at this weekends health f Health Fitness expo. Its free at the Washington Convention center. All kinds of good fun and good information. Well be there. It wont be raining inside the convention center. No. Saturday is a good thing. When you say 1 billion, you know what you have to do for that, right . 1 billion. Youve done that before. You have to do it. Lets take a look out there. Were dealing with fog, we have cloud cover and we have mild temperatures tonight, the warmest night weve seen so far. Starting to see the fog develop across our areas and clouds across northwest. It has not quite reached the ground. You can see a little towards the airport right now, a little fog trying to form there as well. Temperatures on the warm side, 40 degrees, winds out of the northeast at 6 miles an hour. We are seeing some fog. Most areas, the fog is at least above a mile, not causing too many problems drivingwise but could be an issue tonight. 22 the conditions at martinsburg and on the other side of the mountains, 37 degrees. This is the marker for the cloud cover. No rain to talk about. Here are the clouds. Here in the mountains, look at the clouds, all to the east of the mountains. This is what they do sometimes with the earl flow and block that flow and produce the fog and clearing skies and why we have colder temperatures. The clouds to the west arent far off, making their way our way and when they do so we will see cloud cover all day tomorrow. And we will see shower activity during the evenings. Lets time it out. No problems with morning rush as far as rain is concerned. Could be fog. Heads up for that. W by 6 00, 7 00, the rain in the computer models is trying to stay longer. You might need an umbrella at 7 00 p. M. , about the time most of us are heading out to dinner. This could be with us a while. Any rain out there could be fairly light. If youre out on a hot date, make sure you have the umbrella. 1 00 in the afternoon saturday, no problem. Here comes the rain saturday night. If youre out saturday night you need the big umbrella. We have the chance for a lot of rain and good news is it should be over sunday. Talk about that in a second. Areas of fog between 5 and 8 00 a. M. 4 00 to 7 00 p. M. Tomorrow afternoon when the showers come in and more showers if not rain. The commutes may not be all that bad. 41 degrees at gaithersburg, 45, manassas, 46 at fredericksburg. More clouds saturday, High Temperature of 53 degrees. Saturday, just cloud cover. It will be dry and a very mild day. Rain will come in late. It will end sunday morning. Temperatures up to 59 degrees sunday. Very good news here. We will see rain 9 00 or 10 00 at night. If youre tailgating no problems but the wind is a factor. 30, 40 miles an hour winds will blow the plates off the table. Headsup for that. By 4 00, 56, end of the game, 40s, wind chills in the 30s and it will feel a lot different by the end of the game. Next week, different again, High Temperatures only in the 30s. Cold numbers. Not boring anymore, is it . Not at all. Coming up, ovie inches the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services recently asked patients to rate the quality of over 3. 500 hospitals. Fewer than 6 received 5 stars. Among them was Cancer Treatment centers of america in philadelphia. Cancercenter. Com slash eastern. Ove making it far too easy. Im not a very good lipreading but im sure he said you like that in russia. Everywhere you hear you like that and its for the redskins and the coach likes it for the redskins. The coach would like to see them go all the way. A burgundy and gold super bowl win might provide motivation for the playoffs. Right now, caps are the best in the nhl. Jason, the best start you like to see. Gets the puck going. Watch closely. Somehow he scored. His 12th goal of the season, capitals up 10 at this point. Watch this. Allen ovechkin didnt like that stick and he scores. His 22nd of the season. Number 497 of his career. Caps had two more and from Braden Holtby saving 34, they win it 21. The super bowl scramble is almost here. And starts with sundays game with redskins and packers at fedex field. You break out the cliche, playoff season, must win, there is no tomorrow. For all the red hot hype with redskins, first post appearance in three years, the team is s y staying cool. Theres nothing new were adding as to playoff week. Pick up the tempo or turn the music up, really, when it comes to preparation and getting the team ready physically and mentally to play not a lot of change goes on. The end of t the regular sn versus postseason, its football, dont try to change anything, just do what got us here. Its only thursday, dont be Walking Around with your head up, just treat it like any other week. Keep it cool. Signing to a three year deal, dennard span, with the giants. Spent the last three seasons in d. C. And missed 101 games due to injury last season. Introducing murphy earlier today, murphy comes over from the rival the mets where he set a Major League Baseball record of home runs in six straight postseason games. The foundation thats been laid here is a talented talented group and hopefully i can help add to what has already been laid. I think both sides felt this was a good fit and the right fit for both of us. To the court. Fear the turtle again, eighth ranked maryland women again hosting nebraska. Watch this. Melanie howard gets the bucket. Howard led with 15 points and maryland cruises past nebraska 8950. One more redskin notes, former tackle joe jacoby named a finalist into t ah hopefully life imitates madden football. Steve from studio 6b in Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight, join jimmy and his guests mark ruffalo, kendrick lamar,