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Fake. Reporter in fact, four of the seven schools targeted with the threat decided not to evacuate. Parents were notified but the statement from the Fairfax County Public Schools reports that police did not view the threat as credible. Consequently, students at mclean, westfield, and herndon high schools went about their regular day while investigators scoured the buildings. The private Potomac School also elected not to evacuate but a much different scene at stone Bridge High School in Loudoun County where students were evacuated and there was a heavy Police Presence until that building was also cleared. Bishop Oconnell High School was also evacuated. As for these george mason high students, the threats have them angry. I think its really despicable. I think, you know, it really interferes with our learning and like, you know, i was really trying to catch up on some work and thats really now in the way because now everything is delayed. Reporter and at Mclean High School you might remember this is the second bomb threat for them this week. They started the week with one on they did evacuate or rather that came in before school started, so the students didnt come to school that day. Now, coming up on news4 at 6 00, why Northern Virginia isnt the only area dealing with this problem. Back to you now in the studio. Julie carey, thank you. Now to breaking news in Montgomery County. A child is hurtnt[c after a car slammed into a school bus. Chopper4 flew over the scene just before 4 00 this afternoon. It happened at columbia pike and blackburn road in burtonsville. An 11yearold is being treated at a hospital. Police are searching for the people who were in the car. They ran off after the crash. We are following a developing story in southeast d. C. Where police have taped off an area around the emergency room at United Medical center on southern avenue. Police tell us a man and a woman showed up late this afternoon there. Both had been shot. The man is said to be in what they call grave condition. Investigators say the shooting did not happen at t it may have started just over a mile away were told along 23rd street southeast. Someone shot a Star High School basketball player in the district shortly after a big win last night. The teen hit in the back is expected it survive. But right now his mother wants someone to come forward. News4s pat collins joins us from h. D. Woodson high in northeast. Pat . Reporter pat, for h. D. Woodson, it was probably one of the biggest basketball wins in the schools history. But then later that night the mother of one of the players gets a phone call, a phone call no mother wants to get. All i know i came from work, i got a phone call saying my son been shot. A phone call saying my son by shot and the boy told me come and get your child. Reporter it was an evening that started with a tremendous achievement for her son. You see, gonzaga in double overtime. Undefeated at 320. But later this night back in his neighborhood, he would run into trouble. Somebody seen something. Somebody know something. Something need to be done. Reporter this happened about 11 30 last night about two blocks from the school on 54th street. Kavons mother says her son was there trading insults with another guy when all of a sudden the guy pulls out a gun and shoots her son in the back. She said he ran up some big stairs to a friends house and called her for help. She says when she got him home, she dialed 911. Does he know who shot him . You know he know. Yes, he do know. Theyre going to be need to be got. Somebody seen something. You hear bits and pieces but in the end hes going to get his. Hes going to get caught. Reporter ached released at the hospital. His mother says he hopes to play in the big championship game on sunday. Coming up at 6 00, some neighborhood reaction to what happened here. Jim, back to you. Pat collins. Thanks, pat. The former Elementary School aide who has been charged with sexually exploiting children to produce child porn went before a judge today. His name is Deonte Carraway. Hes 22 years old now. Today he pleaded not guilty in court. He said he wants a trial. The crimes allegedly happened over the course of several months at the judge sylvania woods Elementary School in glenarden, maryland. Scott macfarlane was at the proceeding and hes at the courthouse in greenbelt coming up later on news4 at 5 00. Im Tisha Thompson at the live desk. An unexpected twist in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend ron goldman. Louisia l. A. Police announced detectives are examining a knife thats r Police Officer after it was unearthed during demolition of o. J. Simpsons former home in the 90s. O. J. Simpson was acquitted of the murders in 1994, but a civil jury did find him liable for the killings in 1997. The murder weapon was never found before those trials. Within the last month lapd became aware of an item that was allegedly recovered by a citizen at the rockingham property possibly during the demolition of the site. We still need to vet that. Police say the discovery of the knife could be a hoax. They plan to test for dna evidence, but legal experts say because of whats called double jeopardy, simpson cannot be charged again for the murders. O. J. Simpson is currently serving time in a na on an unrelated armed robbe robbery kidnapping conviction. The o. J. Simpson case became a national phenomenon. It was called the trial of the century when it happened, and even today theres a lot of fascination with the case, and theres cultural significance to the case today. Nbcs kelly odonnell, who covered it back in the 90s, explains. Reporter it comes at a time when the o. J. Simpson case is getting sort of renewed interest because of a Cable Television series that is based on the book the people versus o. J. Simpson, and that has had many people kind of looking back at the case. It has always remained sort of an enduring question because of all of the elements that were there with celebrity and race. It was a cultural touchpoint, it was important in showing some of the divisions of Race Relations in america, and it has remained one of those cases that wherever i go when people talk about it, it brings back a the time, how they viewed simpson in the years since, and then, of course, you can see the man next to him, johnnie cochran, who has passed away. Robert kardashian, who has also passed away, who at that time when i first knew Robert Kardashian and met his young daughters, who would have known they would become the kardashians of today reinventing reality television, so it touches almost every part of our lives. We will have a report from california with more details about what police are saying derni concerning the dna testing that is now under way. For most of us, you look outside and barely see any sign there was some snow. Let me show you what it looked like in st. Marys county. Some parts there saw up to half a foot of snow. It created no issues on the roads or on the sidewalks either. Some people we talked with say theyre hoping that this could be winters last g this time. The roads are clear so its good. It needs to warm up. Its back and forth all the time. Last storm . We hope so. Im getting tired of it. We need some warm weather. He may get his wish. Doug kammerer is up in the storm center right now, and, doug, a little chilly over the weekend but then we need to go find those sandals we stashed away somewhere, huh . Yeah, i think you can put away the coats and the shovels. Last one, that was it. I think thats it. I really think we are done with winter. Dont rejoice thyet in the newsroom. Satellite and radar together showing our big storm system moving out to sea and really intensifying. Hurricaneforce wind gusts out there towards the atlantic right now. It did bring our area a little snow overnight but the snow quickly melted as temperatures rose. 40 degrees right now in d. C. Only in the 30s to the west. Its going to be weekend, at least it will be below average this weekend. So the heavy coats i think you can put them away but youll need the jackets. The sandals, as vance mentioned, the sandals, theyll be out later this week. Well talk about how warm things get next week coming up. Right now doctors are working to save a woman hit by a star in Montgomery County. She was at the corner of East Randolph world and Tourmaline Court in silver spring. She was hit around 8 00 this morning. Randolph road is open again. Some good news tonight now about an evident we told you about last night to help the people in flint, michigan. Several firehouses in Prince Georges County are selecting cases of water for residents but when we visited one station last night, they only had two. This evening were happy to say the donations have started to come in. The collection effort is underwap funder way for a couple more weeks. Search donate water in the nbc washington app to learn how you can help. Theres a hit and run investigation under way right now. Someone illegally driving an atv hit a parked Police Officer. We have the video that could help solve the case and explain why a local Business Owner is upset about these popular vehicles. Also at National Harbor, republicans are looking for a way forward amid a president ial race that is kind of nasty. And astronaut scott kellys Historic Mission in space, he grew about two inches during his nearly one year stay, but a lot has changed since his feet have come back to earth. Initially this time coming out of the capsule, i felt better than i did la time. St in the race for the white house following a debate that included some pretty crass personal tracks, some of the republican president ial candidates are here in the washington area. Theyre speaking at the highprofile Political Action conference known as cpac. Chris lawrence is here with more on that. We have some big news coming from ben carson who is going to stay in politics but hes going to head up a new group. Lets take a live look now at National Harbor right now. Ted cruz is at the maing picture, but i can tell you earlier today we did hear from john kasich and tonight carly fee griorina will deliver the k speech. Dr. Ben carson will take a position with my faith vote. Carson posted a video to their site earlier today. Perhaps the most critical period in the history of the United States. People of faith can make the difference. We are the ones who decide the future for our children and our grandchildren, and the best way for us to do that is by exercising our civic duty and voting. One of the officials with that group says there was Something Like 25 million American Christians who didnt vote last time. Theyre trying to change that this time around. We also l frontrunner donald trump will not appear at cpac tomorrow morning as scheduled. Hes going to stay on the campaign trail. Vance . Thanks, chris. And our chris gordon is at that convention. Hes talking to people about the debate and the tone of this years president ial campaign. Chris . Reporter well, they disagree about a lot of things, but none seem to like the mudslinging. Conservatives from across the country, young and old, have gathered here at the cpac conference at the gaylord hotel. Now, some have already voted in their states gop primaries. Others are preparing to vote in the weeks ahead. They wait in long lines to hear the president ial candidates speaking here today. John kasich, ted cruz, and ben carson. Damian walker will be voting in his North Carolina primary on march 15th. I havent decided who im supporting yet but i came here hopefully to see candidates discuss their positions. I watched the debates last night. Reporter it was a debate many media reports say was marked by rudeness and rancor. This little guy has lied so much. Donald, learn not to interrupt. Reporter this group of College Students attending the cpac conference are part of a dump Trump Movement. I feel that trump is really going to end up tearing our party apart more than anything. He has caused a lot of conflict. We need to focus on getting a conservative in office and trumps not the way to go. Reporter former gop president ial nominee mitt romney told today shows matt lauer why he is now criticizing frontrunner donald trump. You cant have someone whose policies are so far from the views of my party become our nominee, and someone who has dem vated over time that he doesnt have the temperament or the personal qualities to be a great president. Reporter those comments have made some Trump Supporters here at the cpac conference angry. Mitt romney brought up questions about him mitt romney, i dont want anything to do with mitt romney. Its up to us. The voters are speaking and theyre not listening. Reporter youre against any dump Trump Movement . Definitely. Reporter now, theyre conducting a president ial straw poll here at cpac 2016, and at 6 00 youll hear from some of the voters as they cast their ballo ballots. Thats the latest live at National Harbor. Pat, back to you. All right, chris gordon, thank you. Well, this weekend candidates on both sides will be vying for votes with five states and puerto rico holding their contest. Check out the map we have here. Tomorrow there are caucuses for the democrats and republicans in kansas. Louisiana has a primary for both parties. Kentucky and maine are both holding caucuses for the gop, and nebraska has a democratic caucus. Then on sunday the democrats get their turn in maine while the republicans have a primary in puerto rico. So what including superdelegates, 156 for the democrats, and for the republicans there are 178 delegates available. But the magic numbers the candidates are looking for, nearly 2,400 for the democrats and 1,237 to clinch the republican nomination. Meantime, marylands lawmakers are considering a plan to adopt an automatic Voter Registration system. The proposal went before a Senate Committee yesterday. The registration would be at Motor Vehicle offices or other state agencies. Public College Students could also register to vote when they sign up for classes. Right now only oregon and california have automatic Voter Registration. The astronaut scott kelly right now, etion tahes talking his recordbreaking mission in space. Kelly returned to earth this week after spending nearly one year on board the International Space station. And as nbcs mark barger reports, kelly talks about the surprises of his experience and how it gave him a new perspective. Reporter after three shorter trips into space, astronaut scott kelly says only one thing caught him offguard about his longest one. The only big surprise was how long a year is. It seemed like i lived there forever. Reporter kelly came back to earth temporarily 1 1 2 inches taller because of his time in weightlessness. Gravity is doing a number on his body otherwise. My level of muscle soreness and fatigue is a lot higher than it was last time. Reporter kelly underwent extensive testing during h mission as did his earthbound twin brother mark to study the impact of longterm space flight. We have lots of other investigations, lots of other little surprises to spring on scott and mark as we continue on in this process of collecting the data on them. Reporter it could be a year before results of the testing is known, but the information an eventual manned mission to mars. I think we know enough and i think were close enough that if we made the choice, hey, were going to do this, were going to it. Reporter but kelly says his view above this planet made him even more conscious of the need to take care of it. The planet will be just fine. Its us thats going to have a problem. Reporter mark barger, nbc news. Peanut allergies can be deadly for your Young Children but soon dockers could be encouraging parents to introduce nuts to them when theyre still babies. And some of you in Northern Virginia may notice their Drinking Water may taste different. Weve learned theres no need for concern. And the School Officer caught on cell phone video hit agitene in a Baltimore School has been in trouble hielf with msth as a small Business Owner, you know things have a way of moving fast. But if your network cant keep up, it can really slow you down. So switch to the 100 Fiber Optic Network of verizon fios. Youll get 99. 9 Network Reliability, and the fastest wifi available. For a network that moves as fast as your business. Right now, upgrade to fios 50 meg or higher internet and phone and get 250 back. Call or go online today. Small business is better on a better network. And now your storm team4 forecast. And we made it to friday across our region. A little snow overnight last night into early tomorrow morning but it didnt create too many problems out there as the road temperatures stayed above freezing for the most part. Take a look outside right now. Still on the cool side especially when you consider this time of year. Average High Temperature is up to 52 degrees, and right now were sitting at 40 degrees with winds out of the north at3 there too. Not a lot of wind all over but its something well continue to watch. 37 in gaithersburg. Baltimore down towards Patuxent River around 28 degree38 degree. Its cool, not frigid though. And i think the end of the cold air is really coming and coming fast. No rain, no snow across the area. Our storm system has moved out to sea and we talked about this yesterday. Look how intense this storm is right now. I mean, this is a classic comma shaped storm just off the atlantic. It formed just down to the south and that pulls a lot of moisture away from the area but that is why Southern Maryland and down toward the Northern Neck saw the most snow out of the system. That system moves out and behind it we see more clouds tomorrow. Some sunshine early, but then a lot of cloud cover during the afternoon. I think well be dry on our set, but watch what happens saturday night into sunday morning. We see some rain and most of this will be rain, but it could be snow in places. Hagerstown, frederick, around westminster, up towards carroll county, we will see that change over in some locations as colder air tries to move in, but this is not going to be a big deal and its really from around 5 00 in the morning until about 10 00 in the morning and then it just moves right on out. Most of sunday is dry. I think we will see some sunshine late in the day on sunday. High temperatures tomorrow under mostly cloudy skies. 46 d. C. , 45 in martinsburg. 47 in laplata. You will still need the jackets but, yes, you can put away the heavy coats and maybe put them away for a while. Temperatures slowly rising up until the mid40s by around 1 00, 2 00, 3 00 in the afternoon. So all in all, saturday not a bad january day. Its not a very good march day, but, hey, this time of year weve seen a lot of days like this so not too bad. A very low impact forecast for sure and then take a look. Here is where things start to move. We talked about the weekend. 48, a chance of showers early sunday and then look at monday and tuesday. 60 on 70 on tuesday. And if you like that, veronica has even warmer weather moving your way a little later on. All right. Thanks, doug. We like march starting to act like the lamb its supposed to be. A little lion here and there never hurts anyone. Slogas long as he purrs and doesnt roar. Coming up, theres a report somebody found a knife in the yard of the house where o. J. Simpson used to live. At report from california in our next half hour. And well have an inside look at a grueling challenge to determine perhaps the best firefighter on the planet. Im scott macfarlane. The former maryland Elementary School aide charged with nearly a dozen counts of child pornography and sexually exploiting children has his day in court. What he had to say to the judge and what one of the alleged victims paren youre watching news4 at 5 00. A former aide in a maryland Elementary School has been charged with producing child porn and sexually exploiting students. Today he said he wants a jury trial. 22yearold Deonte Carraway pleaded not guilty late this afternoon in federal court in greenbelt. Thats where we find Scott Mcfarlane who has more on scott . Reporter yeah, pat and jim. Deonte carraway now officially facing 13 charges of sexually exploiting children to produce child pornography and here at the federal court in greenbelt, a federal judge told carraway he faces 15 years in prison on each count. The 22yearold volunteer school aide wore an orange jumpsuit and spoke quietly answering each question yes, sir. Deonte carraway formally pleaded not guilty to the charges this afternoon. His lawyer and the judge agreed not to read the details allowed in the courtroom, and those charges are graphic. The feds say carraway not only made pornographic videos of nearly a dozen kids between the ages of 9 and 12, they say carraway engaged in graphic sexual acts with some of the children. He was an aide at judge sylvania woods elementary and is suspected of committing the crimes inside the school itself. His lawyers and investigators declined to talk to us after todays hearing but a relative of one of the victims told hes done a lot of damage. Hes just done a lot of damage. Coming up at 6 00 only on news4, whats happening behind the scenes with the fbi unit thats leading the investigation into this case. How many agents, what are they doing and how are they handling those videos allegedly recorded by Deonte Carraway . Thats the story in greenbelt. Pat, back to you. Scott macfarlane. Thank you, scott. More than 20 years later and the o. J. Simpson murder trial is back in the headlines. Los Angeles Police detectives are testing a knife allegedly found at simpsons former home. Right now its unclear if it has anything to do with a 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, ronald goldman. Patrick healy is in los angeles with the developing details. Reporter so many questions left unanswered 21 years ago when football legend o. J. Simpson was found not guilty in the brutal knife slashing murders of his exwife nicole goldman. The murder weapon was never found, or was it . So this is what we know reporter responding to a clamor of requests for information, it was confirmed the lapd is examining a knife it received in the past month. It is being treated as we would all evidence, so it has been submitted to our lab. They are going to study it and examine it for all forensics, including serology and dna and hair samples and that is ongoing as we speak. Reporter even as a new tv dramatization has renewed interest in the case, lapd learned a retired motor officer had been in possession of a knife that came from the estate where simpson was living at the time of the murders. The captain was told back then the now retired office was in brentwood working offduty security for a movie shoot. J. He cl claimed to be an construction worker prided him with this knife claiming it was found on the property. So he held onto it until just recently when we discovered that he had it. Reporter perhaps the motor officer thought the murder case was closed but not with simpsons acquittal. Shouldnt a trained officer have known better . I was really surprised. Simpson remains imprisoned in nevada on an unrelated case. Even if they can link simpson to the knife, double jep dir protects him from being retried. Now, dateline nbc will air a prime time special on sunday on this case. Josh mankiewicz sit down for a candid new interview with prosecutor marcia clark. She opens up about whose idea it was to have o. J. Simpson try on those gloves. That was not my call. That was not my call. I did not want him to try on the evidence gloves. Whose call was that . That was chris i was miserable from the moment that chris said, no, im doing this. I never expected anything good to come of it. You said to darden that night, i told you so . No. Darden said to me, im sorry, and i said its okay. If that lost the case for us, we were never going to win anyway. Watch datelines twohour special the people versus o. J. Simpson sunday night right here on nbc 4. Open our nbc washington app now. Weve compiled a Photo Gallery of all the key players in this case then and now. Police in manassas, virginia, say they are looking for a second person wanted for firing shots into a house. One suspect whose name is manwell gonzalez was taken into custody last night. That shooting happened yesterday afternoon on aspen place. Authorities believe it may be drug related. The name of the second suspect that theyre looking for has not be we have learned new details about the Baltimore City Police Officer under investigation for this, slapping and kicking a teenage boy at school. The incident was caught on cell phone video. Court records show Anthony Spence was fired from the citys Sheriffs Department back in 2003 and five years ago he was the focus of a Domestic Violence case that led to a protective order being issued against him. Right now spence is on paid leave. The sweetener that you select to mix in your drink might be very different from another kind. There are health differences. Find out which packet might be the best choice for you. And what you need to know about your Drinking Water in arlington. This is Darcy Spencer in the temple hills area of Prince Georges County with video you will only see on news4. Illegal dirt bikes and atv down a Police Officer who tried to stop them. A live report ahead. As a small Business Owner, heres one thing you can rely on your business will change as it grows. Whether its new space, more employees, or better equipment, but if your network cant keep up, it can really slow you down. And thats not good for business. Thankfully, a switch to the 100 Fiber Optic Network of verizon fios is all it takes to keep everything moving in the right direction. With fios you get 99. 9 Network Reliability and the fastest wifi available, with uploads as fast as downloads. But you also get something more. A network that can move as fast as your business does. Right now, upgrade to fios 50 meg or higher internet and phone and get 250 back. Call or go online today. Small business is better on a better network. If you use water in arlington, you may notice it tastes a little funny. The water supply is getting an annual Spring Cleaning so to speak. Crews will be temporarily switching the disinfectant that t chlorine. You should run your water for two minutes into a filter and then refrigerate your water. The Drinking Water meets all epa and health standards. Through in a new study foo finds that giving small amounts of peanut products to babies early in life, very early, might actually help prevent them developing a peanutler ji. Researchers at Kings College studied children at risk for allergies. Those who were given a peanut protein before their first birthday were less likely to show reactions before the age of 5. The researchers say theres a whole lot more work that needs to be done to understand the peanut allergies and they caution emphatically that you shouldnt try this at home. Its to be done only in a clinical study. Many of you have been following p ofers ts over the last few days about the family who thought their grandmothers body had been lost. They had looked at her body in the casket before the viewing and they thought it was the body of someone else. Prince georges Hospital Center and hortons funeral home took their questions very seriously. They assured news4 that the body was, in fact, that of 83yearold virginia gray. Horton funeral home went on to assure us that all procedures were properly followed. When family met with the funeral home and grays personal physician, the family realized that there had been no mistake made. Virginia grays family is now working on scheduling her funeral. Of a big step forward for a bill in maryland named for the Montgomery County Police Officer who was killed by a drunk driver. It could change the rules for drivers all over the state. Try running up 69 flights of stairs wearing 70 pounds of gear and then try doing it in ten well introduce you to a team of local firefighters who are doing just that this weekend, and well explain why. And, sure, its been chilly out there today, yesterday, even tomorrow, but ive got more on the warmest air in months thats set to move into our area. When . Ill time that out and any rain for a cup of coffee just because youre a woman. So why does congress think its ok that women get paid 20 less than a man for doing the same job . Ill fight for pay equity, to protect planned parenthood, choice for women, and expand paid and family leave. Now some politicians will belittle this as a womens agenda. More proof that we just need more women in congress. Im Kathleen Mathews and i approve this message. Breaking news now. A police chase in northeast d. C. Ju Jackie Bensen is on baker street in northeast to explain what prompted this chase and how they they caught the suspect. Jackie . Reporter well, pat, this was a wild chase. It leaves a motorist in a civilian car injured, a United States park Police Officer slightly injured. It ended up here in the 200 block of ken nil worth avenue. You can see theres a white lexus suv that the police are around and that vehicle is facing the wrong way. What were told is a park Police Officer on his way in to work in his cruiser saw that vehicle driving erratically on suitland parkway. He tried to stop it. The driver would not stop. He called in the tags, found out that vehicle was wanted in connection with a homicide in the district. A pursuit was on. As you said, it stretched from southeast here to northeast, a number of cars were struck, and then the man jumped out of the car and hid under the deck of one of the homes here in this area. At that point we understand what he is charged with assault on a Police Officer during the effort to apprehend him. As i said, one person, a civilian, who was in one of the several cars that were struck has been taken to a local hospital and, again, were working with d. C. Police right now to find out what homicide this vehicle was being sought in connection with. Live in northeast washitongn, Jackie Bensen, news4. Thank you, jackie. An officer was injured when an atv ran over him in Prince Georges County. That officer was confronting a group of people riding atvs and dirt bikers who were disrupting traffic. Now National Capital park police want to find the driver of the atv. Darcy spencer has the Surveillance Video of the bikes that you will see here on news4. Darcy . Reporter this all played out in this parking lot here behind me. Im told there were at least a half a dozen of these illegal bikes. They had pulled in here to try to get away from police, and when that of the drivers, thats when he was run over. Look at that. Isnt that pretty weird . Just seeing the video was scary. Reporter rick moore shows us the Surveillance Video that you will only see on news4 where riders on illegal atvs and dirt bikes took over the pargeing lot of his business sunday. One of them ran over a Police Officer landing him in the hospital. They just rode in here like they owned the place and were circling around really like a wild west movie. Circling around trying to figure out what their next step was going to be. Reporter police had spotted the bikes on allentown road and followed them to the mister sparkys business. When police got here all but one bike drove away. Then the man driving the green one was trapped and smashed into the National Capitol park Police Officer and his cruiser to get away. It was an attempted murder. You know. When you run somebody over, you know, its like a police chase. You start hitting reporter the atv driver hopped onto another illegal bike with one of his partners leaving this green atv behind. Now, police found the owner who was not involved. Now they want to identify who was driving it. Police released this photo of a person of interest who they believe was not the driver but was with the group that day. Our hope is at some point these folks that are doing this will realize its a safety issue not only for the community but for themselves as well because there are instances where they actually get injured and some cases killed because of their actions. Reporter and thats right, this Police Officer had to spend the night in the hospital because of his leg injuries. Hes okay. He actually just returned to duty. Coming up on news4 at 6 00. This is a major problem that continues in the county with these illegal bikes. What police say the Community Needs to do to help. Reporting live from temple hills, Darcy Spencer, news4. Desk where just moments ago we got word that ben carson has made it official, its what a lot of us were expecting. Now that i am leaving the campaign trail yeah. I know that [ cheers and applause ] carson was speaking at cpac down at National Harbor when he announced hes suspending his campaign. Remember, he zvedidnt particip in the last fox news debate last night and right after super tuesday when carson finished last or next to last, he said he really didnt have a path forward. Carson is now going to be taking a new position heading up my faith votes, an organization focused on getting christian americans out to the polls in november. Pack pat . A bill named for the Montgomery County officer killed by a suspected drunk driver is moving ahead in maryland. Law last night. Officer noah leotta was killed by a repeat drunk driver in december. The bill requires convicted drunk drivers to install ignition lock devices in their car. They would have to blow into tubes before the cars start. Here is veronica with a look at our weekend and whats to come. We got to get through a few more degrees of the cold first . Exactly. Or at least the chill. Then we have some springlike type temperatures. No more snow . No more snow in the foreseeable future right now. Im not going are you hedging . You sound like youre hedging. Im not going it sign off on it, okay . Lets talk about the weekend because our temperatures will continue to go down and then up, especially next week. If you like spring weather, its coming, but maybe not sticking around. 40 degrees right now in d. C. 37 up to the north. And look at this for the weekend well get closer to the 70 and even higher for a couple days. Evening out on the town, it will be chilly. Were dry. 35 to 39 degrees. But focus on saturday night, not quite as low the temperatures. The rain will hold off. 39 to 44 your temperatures. Not bad at all for going out this weekend. There will be some rain coming in, and that is going to be the early part of the day on sunday. So as far as tomorrow goes, the weather is going to have a low impact on our day with that rain holding off. 30s to start out. Low to mid40s for the afternoon. Im calling tomorrow a chilly day. If you like the sunshine, get out early in the day, and then for the afternoon on sunday, best chance for sunshine. 48 the high in manassas. 50 degrees down south around fredericksburg. Waldorf, about 47 degrees the High Temperature. That puts us a few degrees below average where we would typically be this time of year. The green is the temperature at 6 00 a. M. There could be light snow early sunday morning up across areas of northern maryland, baltimore. Elsewhere just rain showers that will be moving out i think between 10 00 a. M. And about lunchtime. Theres the sunshine for your Late Afternoon and even the evening hours well have a mostly clear sky. Well track the temperatures on sunday. Lunchtime, 3 00, 6 00. A little sunshine coming our way. If it comes early, i think we could top out around 50 degrees. 40s for your sunday evening. So if youre wondering about washing the car, i say yes, just wait until late sunday. Well not late, but sunday afternoon to get out and wash the car. Say around 2 00 or 3 00. The next big change for us, that big warming trend, theres monday. 55. 60 we hit the high and then into the low and mid60s all of next week with rain coming thursday when we get up to 75. Friday around 70. Doug has more on the details of the weekend and how much rain we could get. Pat . Many of us use them every day. Sweeteners. There are so many to choo Hailey Hernandez talked to a dietitian about the differences. Each are categorized by their ingredients like saccharin gets a bad rep for causing illness in rats. Humans are not rats and the amount of sweeteners, artificial sweeteners they were giving these animals were large amounts. Reporter same with aspartame in the blue packet equal but according to the mayo clinic, that he is no Scientific Evidence that artificial sweeteners cause cancer and numerous studies confirm theyre safe. For aspartame its about 19 cans of soda a day over a lifetime, so people arent going to be meeting this. Reporter and she says these two plus spen za, which is the yellow are a better option for patient its with diabetes or heart disease. The good thing about the sucralose products is the fact you can use it in baking and it doesnt really change the taste. Reporter but if you love the real thing, she says you dont have to avoid it. You choose, its going to come down to personal preference. Reporter new guidelines recommend no more than 10 of your daily calories should be in added sugar. When you put that into real life, thats about one can of soda a day. Reporter that basically means if youre using more than ten packets a day of real sugar, youre in trouble, even if it is organic with no preservatives. The one thing that we have to remember with aguy va or honey is it is still added sugars. Coming up, d. C. Firefighters involved in a stair climb challenge. 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Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v they save lives every day, but this weekend nearly 2,000 firefighters from across the country will be saving lives in a different way. Theyll be racing up a 69story high rise to raise money for the leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Mark segraves caught up with a team of local firefighters who say for them the fight against cancer is personal. Our job is to save lives and we can do that more than just coming to work. We can dot that by raising money to fight cancer. Our brothers and sisters on the job are getting fanner is all the time. Reporter these men have been training, getting ready for this sunday when they will be representing the d. C. Fire department at the 25th annual stair climb challenge in seattle where they will race to the top of the columbia 69 floors, 788 feet, 1,311 steps wearing about 70 pounds of gear. So the leukemia and Lymphoma Society have placed pictures, little poster size, on the landings as you go up to remind you of the people that are fighting cancer. Were only climbing 69 flights and theyre in the fight for their lives. My motherinlaw is lymphoma survivor, long term, over 15 years now. Reporter the event raises millions of dollars each year for the leukemia Lymphoma Society. For firefighters, cancer is a real threat. The incident rates are just phenomenal. You have seen a noticeable uptick and its just unbelievable. It comes with the job, unfortunately. Reporter d. C. s new fire chief is from seattle and has done the stair challenge himself. I was probably the slowest man in history. Reporter he says what these three firefighters are doing this weekend is just one example of how dedicated the men and women of the d. C. Fire community. Theyre using their own time, theyre using their own money to fly out to seattle. They have collected donations. It can be the littlest thing like holding an old leytes hand who is scared to pulling somebody out of a burning building. Its just what we do. Reporter last years challenge raised 2. 2 million for cancer research. If you want to sponsor a firefighters climb, we have a link on the nbc washington app. Search d. C. Firefighters. In the district, mark segraves, news4. Now at 6 00, parents went to court as a former teachers aide faced sex charges. The fbi is working behind the scenes as this disturbing case continues to unfold. Caught in the act. Neighbors are taking matters into their own hands after a series of thefts steps from the front door. First to politics though. Voters in six states and puerto rico will weigh in on the president ial race this weekend. Hillary clinton and donald trump both hoping to already commanding leads. We have Team Coverage tonight. Thats right. Chris gordon is at National Harbor where dr. Ben carson Just Announced hes dropping out of the race, but lets start on capitol hill with brian moore. Reporter chris and jim, the race is not over yet, but it seems headed for a dramatic turn. Breathe, breathe, breathe. You can do it. You can breathe. Reporter picking up where he left off on the debate stage whether its little marco or lion ted reporter donald trump assaulted and insulted his republican rivals in michigan, one of nine states on the line between now and tuesday. If you get laid off on tuesday, i still want you voting. Ill get you a new job. Dont worry about it. Reporter while mitt romney is giving voice to the Establishment Movement to tump trump at any cost, marco rubio and ted cruz pledged during the debate theyd support the billionaire if hes nominated. I will 9p support the repubn nominee. Yes, because i gave my word that i would. Reporter they took another step back today saying