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Mid to upper 20s around now. Another cold day with mostly cloudy skies. Chance of flurries mid to Late Afternoon today. Doesnt look like its going to be an inch. There may be a one inch potential for tuesday morning. Well talk about that when i see you next. Memorial services for the General Police reservist foudea. Kevin quick s memorial is set for tomorrow. Quick disappeared two weeks ago. His car and then his body were found days later outside of richmond. Four people are charged in connection with his death. At this hour, two men are behind bars and will be questioned in the shooting of an 8yearold girl. Now shes at Childrens Hospital fighting for her life. Darcy spencer got to see the arrest documents and has more. The mother of the little girl says shes still in icu. The bullet hit her lung. Shes on a ventilator but responding to her moms voice. Her mom says shes relieved two have been charged in the shooting, but it doesnt change what happened to her daughter. Were learning more with through these documents. Kerry brown and that than yell patent are charged. The documents say after the gunfire erupted children in the courtyard pointed out the suspects to a witness and says there they go as the suspects were running away. Police arrested the men around the corner. When they were being questioned, heres what they said. They it wouldnt an Apartment Building to buy an ounce of pot for 100. They say the victim opened the door for them. Once inside the building they say a man pulled a gun. During the struggle the gun dropped. Patent picked it up and fired shots. One witness told police he heard what sounded like a robbery happening in the hallway when the suspects were in the building. The documents say neither suspect had any money to buy the drugs casting down on their story. Police say they did have masks when they were arrested and a. 22 caliber handgun was found nearby. Michaelas relatives tell me theyre foe cushion attention on her. Theyre hopeful shes going to make a full recovery. Darcy spencer, news 4. Right now in loud oun county, deputies are looking for a man linked to a series of robberies. The robberies date back to december. Officers thisnk the man held up women. They think the attacker pulled out the gun and demanded they hand over their wallet. This morning after the verdict of a florida teen, dozens of people marched to the courtroom in jacksonville. Jordan davis was shot and killed after he was allegedly playing loud music coming from his car. The state attorney plans to retry 47yearold michael dunn on first degree murder. Dunn is guilty of four lesser charges including three counts of attempted murder and firing bull are lets into a car. The jury was deadlocked on the most serious charge. In 2012 dunn argued with a group of three people inside an suv over loud hip hop music in a gas station. Dunn fired 10 shots. Davis was hit and died from his injuries. He was not armed. Race is the elephant in the room that was not discussed. Weve got to deal with how the perception of young black men. They did find him guilty on something. Hes not walking. They did what humanly able to do. We can hope for a different end and additional trial. A sentencing hearing will be set next month. Dunn faces more than 90 years in prison. A dire situation developing in the rocky mountains. As of this 6 00 a. M. Hour, two are unaccounted for avenue after an avalanche. Looks like seven skiers were at the top of the mountain when this happened. Two went to the hospital and two others were not hurt. Emergency crews posted this picture of the search efforts. You can see how heavy the snow is out there. Because of dangerous condition, crews wont begin searching until day break. Last week, six died in three states including colorado from avalanches. Crews have been using explosives to prevent avalanches. The snowstorms continue to overload the snow pack. This season is on track to be the worst in 20 years. A major crowd funding site was the target of a massive online hacking. The site was shut down immediately. Kick starter does not know if hackers got a hold of private information like credit considered numbers. The site started beefing up security measures. They apologized for stress this has or will cause in the future. Kick starter is known for all allowing independent funding for individual pieces. The travel changes many in virginia will face once the silver line starts running. Tired of winter conditions . The blizzard conditions now that gives us nothing to complain about here. Dont think we will escape the snow. Theres a chance well see the snow. Theres a chance well see Winter Weather of good is in every blue diamond a good that comes in 25 flavors. From whole natural to wasabi and soy sauce. And once good gets going, theres no stopping it. Get your good going. Blue diamond. Snack nut of the u. S. Ski team. A live look at boston which has a fresh coat of snow this morning. Up to nine inches of that snow fell overnight. Much of massachusetts under a blizzard warning. Strong winds gusting 50 Miles Per Hour out that way. The snow fell at a rate of three inches an hour. Salt trucks are very busy, plows doing everything they can to clear the roads and keep up. The governor is warning drivers to stay off the roadway. Chuck warned us yesterday about the winds coming in. Oh boy. As soon as the snow tried to stop, man the wind just really picked up yesterday afternoon. Hopefully you had your heavy coats ready to go. We were going out to dish last night. It was a cold walk around Downtown Washington last night. Its a cold start first thing this morning. Yes indeed. Another opportunity you could see snowflakes here over the next little while. Another ripple coming our way in the atmosphere does indeed have an opportunity any way for bringing us light snow. Dont get your hopes up everybody. You have plenty of snow on the front lawn most likely. Nick we get today will put a fresh dusting of white on it. Thats being optimistic. Our next chance of seeing legitimate snow arrives on tuesday morning. Tuesday morning everybody. For now, your sunday morning, nothing to worry about. Storm team 4 radar scanning the skies, nothing close by. A couple of light snowflakes heading in from page counties. An opportunity for a first morning snowflake. Chance of light snow towards roanoke and southside, virginia. Its part of a ripple in the atmosphere drifting overhead the second half of the afternoon. D skies will see sunshine this morning. No advisories of any kind posted anywhere. Any accumulations should be one inch or less today. Its cold. 19 haguers town, 27 Prince William county, 24 fredricksburg. Just a little hint of a northwest wind remains. As a result wind chills in the teens this morning. On your way out the door for sunday morning services, bundle up. Today, few flurries nothing to worry about. Tuesday, chance of morning snow coming our way. Thursday and friday, yes indeed all indications that a warming trend is coming. Keep that in mind this morning. Current wind chill in gaithersburg is 9 degrees. Breaks of nine this morning. Clouds by late morning and early afternoon time frame. Here we are at 6 00 this evening, the little ripple coming through, chance of light snowflakes. In at 4 00 or 5 00 and out at 7 00 or 8 00. Teens and 20s tomorrow. Clouds coming in second half of the day tomorrow. All of your monday will be dry no. Problem about that. Early Morning Hours of tuesday morning, our next opportunity for snow coming in. That actually could leave an inch to two in some locations. Were keeping a close eye on that. Todays snow chance a tenth of an inch. Early tuesday morning, that might be an inch or two. Well keep you posted on this. Heres your sevenday forecast now. 36 degrees for a high today with at least a 40 chance. Snowflakes and snow flurries. No accumulations today. Nothing to worry about. Quiet back to work for some tomorrow. Its president s day. A lot of people, federal government especially, off tomorrow. Bankers hours. They dont have to go to work tomorrow. Why didnt i become a banker . Milder toward the end of the week. Making up snow day, a lot of kids are going back to School Tomorrow that didnt count on hit. Time to pay our dues right. Next up reports notebook. Good morning welcome to reports notebook. Im pat lawson muse. We begin with d. C. Politics in the mayor race. The maryland d. C. Employees International Union gave to gray. The mayor is trying to bounce back from two second straight first place finishes in the poll taken recently. What do you make of endorsements . What do you make of him coming in second in the polls today . Well, hes obviously hopeful his endorsements will make up for the fact hes losing in the straw polls. These arent always the final word. Endorsements dont really make that much difference a lot of times these days. Its nice to have them. You can raise money on them. There seems to be a continuing lingering doubt about this investigation going on and what its going to reveal. It doesnt seem to have an effect on voters. The mayor obviously is touting a great record and Business Development in keeping the red ink out of the budget, doing all things a normally successful candidate can do. Theres still doubt. Theres avenues of polls, endorsements and all. What happened to the 12 points he was leading less than a month ago over bowser the number two contenders. You hear these polls and different paths of whos going to lead whom. The point is that vince gray has a base. Im going to stick to my story ive been saying all the time. I go to the wards. Thats the base that will tell me whos going to be the next mayor. Joe, how much do straw polls and labor endorsements for gray at this point . The labor endorsement is significant. Theres 20,000 members that live in the district. You multiply that times maybe two as it relates to family members and the influence they have in the city. So when you go for an endorsement, you want to try to get the endorsements that have the greatest s in the city. Thats a big one, a major one. I agree with everyone. Except for this i should point out. Remember, this is a short campaign. Getting an endorsement now only a couple of months away can have significance. Barv a basically a month and a half. Eric holder calls for banning after they serve sen ens temperatures. This has been a big issue in the district for those that cant vote at this point. Is this long overdue, jerry . Weve been hearing about this all the way back to almost Walter Washington time. Mayor washingtons time. The fact i served my time, served my sentence. Why cant i come out and live a normal life . Part of that is being able to vote. Remember pat, at that time when i speak of Walter Washington, im speaking into the time when voting was really on the lips of washingtons because of home rule. A lot of that has to do with a lot of people saying those that have served their time should be able to vote. This has been around some time. Let me fast forward. I have literally thousands of people who listen to my show i they can get through. Theyre truck drivers, are in all kinds of occupations. Youll hear story after story. I might have gotten busted on a misdemeanor im sorry, felony that might have been drug related. Ive been clean ten years and still cant vote. I have family, pay taxes, still cant vote. This is a major issue for washington d. C. And certainly major issue for the nation. Quite honestly, it impacts africanamericans substantially. We are the ones who are disproportionally arrested. It seems the trend is nationally to move in favor of letting these folks vote. Ill repeat the arguments weve made. Ive done my time, done my obligations, and i should have my full rights. These are non violent. It has to be done state by state. This is not a federal issue. Thats why a voter cant do anything but encourage it. D. C. Public School Students taking the advanced placement exams have increased 45 in the past three years. A number of them has increased. This is something d. C. Chancellor is proud of of course. The report by the College Board shows 14 of seniors in 2013 who took the exam scored a three or higher. Thats the grade many colleges and universities require to issue College Class work. Big deal for her. Dave . It is. Shes touting it as a big deal. It started under michelle and now following on to henderson. Skeptical parents are worried about schools being closed, worried about the quality of education. Lots of things hold their feet to the fire collectively. This is something they can point to and say look, were doing some good. While theyre pointing to it and looking good, i hope they can latch onto something that had concrete. Because, pat, the problem in this town for the last 50 years 40 years in d. C. Schools, has been the turn around of curricular programs. If this is going to help the student, i hope they latch onto it, build on it, develop it and make it concrete in the school learning. Its very important when you couple it with what Eleanor Holmes norton was able to accomplish by allowing students who want to go to college and get assistance no matter what school they went to. It used to be if you were in maryland you had to go to maryland. Students from the district can go anywhere in the United States. Thanks to the tag program. You have to have the grades to do it. These advancement courses and ive had my children involved in them. They mean a lot. They really count when comes to applying for college. This shows theres seriousness. Were moving in the right direction. Id rather go in that direction than the other. Weve got to take a break. Well be right back. Stay with us. Progress on treating the mentally ill in virginia. Authorities could detain a mentally ill person up to 24 hours under a bill approved by the virginia senate. The Upper Chamber voted overwhemingly to approve this by senator deeds who suffered a personal tragedy in his family. How much progress is this . The sad thing is it took this attack to do it. This is something that people in virginia, across the country have been complaining about. Legislators would not deal with it. Then it takes losing a life, having a state senator attacked, physically scarred. I dont like legislating that way. But its progress. You are still behind a lot of other states when it comes to hours available. As a matter of fact, dave, Mental Health america, an Advocacy Group says the average Custody Order in the country is 72 hours. Virginia is now going to 24, still behind the curve. You wonder why they didnt get as much as they could. They did move forward. They have changed things. Its right, out of tragedy comes a good thing, a better law helpful to people. Maybe we could say the work isnt done yet. They have to think act this more or get more funding or whatever it takes to get more beds and treatment. Lets hope that the National Scene will pick up on this and correct the problems that we hear all the time across the country because this is a very, very serious situation where people who need help cant get help for hours or days. Lets hope this will bring light across the nation as to changing laws in many states. Governor mcauliffe has allies in his efforts to expand medicaid in the state of virginia. Hes got support in the senate, that includes state hospital, insurance company, business organizations even republicans in the senate. Hes getting resistance in the house. Do you think hes going to be able to pull this off this year . I think so. For all reasons you just cited. What you have here is money. Millions of millions of that hospitals and the Health Insurance which by the way is their money. You bring it back to the Common Wealth of virginia. I think its a matter of time. Whats going on in the house of delegates is politics. Yeah, but pardon me. Its strong politics. This is republican doctrine almost. They dont like obama care. They say its just a big power move to the government to take over. They also make the point in virginia and will elsewhere that the money will not be there after ten years or so. That the government may not extend the funding. Thats what theyre worried about. We used to call it unfunded mandates. Theyll be in the red again, have a huge expense on every other expense theyve got. They wont have the money. Theyre against it for that reason. Its going to take a lot to change their mind. Republicans can be against it, but i talked to people in the streets about medicaid, whats happening in virginia, food stamps and things they want to slash. Poor people in the country suffer. Poor people and old people. I think its time republicans in the house and general a sessemb wake up you and realized slashing programs goes to helping the poor. Talk act minimum wage in maryland. Lawmakers will hear a measure to raise the minimum wage. The governor is pushing this and supports the 10. 10 hourly minimum wage by the year 2016. A pro Business Group warns this could lead to thousands of job losses, weaken the states competitive position. This was Research Done at t george mason university. They can research all they want to. Majority of republicans are in favor of raising the minimum wage nationwide. The majority of republicans. Number two, the president signed for contract workers which takes place next year, new contracts. You increase morale. You eliminate high absenteeism. You get quality workers. So, its a great as someone said its a great business model. Of course the governor is doing it because we know he wants to run for president of the United States and wants to be on the right side of the progressive movement. Yeah but the republican and the opponents view is that it will cost too much for bosses. Theyll have to lay people off, spend too much money, and that it could cost a lot of jobs. Some firms in maryland say theyll have to close down operations and burger joints. They say its not worth the effort. Other issstudies contradict thi and say theres not that much reaction from Small Business men, they havent laid off and this is overreaction. Poor people hah need jobs living on 7 an hour cant make it in this region. Not d. C. , the region. This is a high cost region. Governor o mali is doing same thing others are doing. Theyve been pressed against the well to raise the minimum wage. Think about it. 7 an hour or 10 an hour . Fat cats have to pay it now. Thats our program. Im pat lawson muse. Thanks for being with us. Sty with us. News 4 today continues. Good morning everyone. Welcome to news 4 today. Im angie goff. Im richard jordan. Another cold start to the day w. Temperatures like this, doesnt look like snow will melt away. Yesterday was gloomy. Chuck, hoping to see sunshine. Good news for you and everyone who needs sunshine in your life. Youll get sunshine first half of sunday. More clouds back by later this afternoon and a chance of a passing snow shower this afternoon. Not looking for accumulations. For those of you who are winter and snow weary, theres a chance of snow today. You can see on the storm team 4 radar, best chances west and south of washington. Nonetheless we could see a little passing snow shower or two during the mid to Late Afternoon hours today. Its cold. Yesterday morning we were in the 20s and 30s. This morning teen others and 20s. Its 10 degrees colder out the door this morning than heres youou hr planner. Teens and low to mid20s this morning. Rising up to the freezing mark by 11 00. Most of the afternoon spent once again in the mid20s with increasing clouds. Best opportunity of snow flurries after 1 00 and before 6 00. By later this evening, clearing out and another cold start monday. Best chance of snow tuesday morning. More about that in a couple of minutes. All right chuck. With the chance of flurries today, a lot of people in the area are growing weary and looking toward to spring. Derrick ward has reaction from those suffering from the winter woes. Reporter okay. I think weve got the idea about the winter thing. There will be snow. At first its picture esk. I build snow men, snow forts and have fun. Then accidents start from the rain, ice, more wet snow. It makes getting around harder than it shushould be. You have to be very careful. Im getting tired of it. Reporter on this hill, perfect for sledding and by the looks of tracks, plenty of it goj going on. Where are the kids now . I guess theyre tooired of it t. This woman cleared the sidewalk. Despite making repeated calls to the department of public works, shes feeling snow bound. We cleared a path to the curb. Guess what . I finally got my mail for two days. Reporter its going to take more than a few shovel loads to clear everybody out. Only time and new seasons can do that. Im done wit winter, ready for spring. A lot of kids will be back to school on tomorrows president s day holiday to make up a snow da Charles County students will be in school. School systems are using president s day to avoid extending the school year. Some districts are considering adding to the end of the school day and cancelling recess. With more flurries on the way today, keep up you with the changing weather by downloading the team 4 weather app. Get cancellations and delays as ey come in the newsroom. Download for free in the app store or google play. Investigators are looking to learn more about the body found in the wheel well of a plane. It was spotted yesterday in the South African air ways jet. It arrived from johan esburg. The airline says its deeply concerned and cooperating with the investigation. Yeah, its horrible. It shows the desperation of these people to basically leave their way of life behind and come to a better place. Investigators are not sure if the man was a stow away. They do not expect foul play. The medical Examiners Office will conduct an autopsy. A family is in mourning after finding out one of their loved ones died in a fire. It was a fire near the student home on campus. The business major was from buoy. Two others were in the home but were able to get out in time. Investigators are looking into what caused the fire. This morning, Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron is recovering from surgery. News 4 recently interviewed him. The 80yearold fell on ice friday in atlanta. Doctors had to replace part of his left hip. We hear hes expected to make a full recovery. Aaron is the teams senior vice president. He broke the Major League Home run record playing for the braves 40 years ago. Expect delays on metro continuing through monday. Dupont circle and far gut north. Tomorrow metro opens at 5 00 a. M. And closes at midnight for president s day. The trains will run on a saturday schedule. You can park for free in garages. The Washington Post reports the fair fax connecter will add three routes intysons. That marry will be 50 cents. New routes from the crystal city area to roz land and courthouse stops. The non stop will be called the silver line express and will move from the West Falls Church metro to the wylie metro station. That fare will drop to 5 each way. Changes take effect when the first phase of the silver line opens. So far no date is set for that. A constant string of cars. Lights on the los angeles highway as work slows the track. Take a closer look. Looks like quite the light show. Construction crews are paving the six mile stretch of highway this holiday weekend. It doesnt seem to keep travelers away. Locals had weeks of rn watching to prepare for the slow down. If you have lived in la, you know theres not a lot of alternatives. The Officials Say the work will be done tuesday morning. A russian satellite launched in the 1980s will be crash landing on earth today. Ex perts believe the unmanned space object will land somewhere in the pacific ocean. The fragments could scatter anywhere. The satellite will land quickly. Russia has no control over it o essentially making it a free fall. Now in russia, taking you there live. Temperatures in the 40s and 50s. Athletes compete in the winter games. How warmer weather is adding to concerns about Climate Change. Massive efforts to bring you up to date on everything at the this morning, security in sochi plus the warmer weather in russia. The olympics games dominating discussions including at meet the press. David gregory joining us with these issues. Good morning. How are you . Doing great. We want to start with security concerns. Were hearing from fans saying everything over there was scary leading up to getting here. Now it seems safe. Do you think it was overblown . There was certainly concern. One thing people have experienced is a tight perimeter, a secure zone. So far, so good. I think there were pretty heated calls about what could happen over there. Again, thankfully thus far, nothing is material xized. Given where it is situated and threats preceding it, there was ample worries. Its generalized and nothing specific. Its hard to act on. People were talking about how warm it is. We saw people in shorts. You dont expect that. Thats right. They seem more like the spring games. Its interesting doing research about this. This is a zone of the world that makes you question why the winter games would be there. Theyve had warmer temperatures. Its a subtropical zone. It may make sense for sure. The contrast is striking to what we expienced here on the east coast and they experienced there. I think whether its weather event there is or here, intensity of weather, flooding in great britain, the Climate Change debate has been with us. It reemerges in times of extreme weather. You try to wonder what extent Climate Changes in the atmosphere influence our weather patterns, more extreme weather, and the cost of that to states and so forth. Well talk about the policy changes results and whether theres a new urgency to act to change as were seeing. We saw the russian policy about gays and same sex marriages. We saw that here in virginia this week. This is a big moment. We see how quickly politics have changed about this in the United States. Some look at the olympics in russia and say is this a chance to evolve . Its worth while to remember how quickly things changed in this country. Attention on what could change because of the games. Coming up today, someone that knows a thing or two about the games, mitt romney. He has how much its cost to run the games and is hit worth it. He talks about the importance of the Olympic Movement and the way to go about them. Particularly cities like boston and others are buying for future games. Its an interesting time to talk to him. Meet the press with David Gregory right here at 10 30 a. M. Thanks. Tj oshie was selected because of success in shootouts. He tweeted thisust a few hours ago saying very humbled by everyones support for my teammates and i. Another tough task at hand today. Looks like oshie is becoming a household name at the white house. The crowd loves him and the rest of the team. President barack obama tweeted congratulations to oshie and his team saying never stop believing in miracles. Wow. We could see more scenes like this in the week to come. This is an Early Morning watch party in arlington as team usa took on russians. There could be a rematch. The gold medal game is one week from today. You were making fun of me yesterday. Thats the result of that. They started eed at 7 00 in th morning. They had a great game to watch. Were getting a look at what you wont get to see watching the games in sochi. Its the behind the scenes. Thousands of reporters, producers and engineers from around the country. Huge operations. The place they spend theirwork day is impressive. Janelle takes us inside this huge home away from home. Its a city within a city. The ibc, International Broadcast center. Down every long hall that seems to never end, youll find journalist buzzing around. 11,000 from all over the world work these sochi games. Many work day and night, 24 hours a day. Nbc including the associated press, cctv, broadcasting stations from france, australia. Long hours, long day, a lot of responsibility. My job is organize the camera crews and reporters. Its amazing. Absolutely love it. So much fun. Such an adrenaline rush. Its crazy but great fun. Its also a lot of work. Most of us are locked down here a month. We can find everything we need. A general store bank, laundry services, mcdonalds. You can get a massage. Five minutes cost about 1. 50. After a break, were off again tracking athletes. Every country here has their own star athlete to watch. We have many athlete, not just one. We gain a lot. The player name. Shes the best player. That was janelle wang reporting. One of the people reporting working hard is our own jim handly. See his reports on news 4. We have posted his reports, interviews and photo slide shows on his blog. Follow him on twitter and facebook. Hes updating quite frequently. Im wondering if hes going to come back. Hes having a good time. Did you see the seat for the usa russian hockey game . He was there. Front row. Wow. How does he do that . I dont know. Pretty impressive. I like the food pictures. Maybe its just this time of morning. Youre an eggs kind of gal. He had this bread thing filled with cheese. Onward we go to the Weather Department where we are talking about, yes, indeed another chance of snowflakes. One of them coming today, wont be a big deal. Another chance early tuesday, may be worth watching out for. Ill show you that here in a second. Outside now, on your sunday morning, indeed, a cold start. A dry start at least for now. Theres even a lite bit of sunshine coming our way in the front part of the day. Storm team 4 radar, nothing going on in and around the immediate metro area. There are snowflakes, not so terribly far away, page heading to washington, virginia. Be on the lookout. Route 11 could see light snow. Down across South Central and south western virginia a better chance of snow. This is the ripple in the atmosphere thats going to roll overhead in the afternoon bringing a mostly cloudy sky for sure and a chance of a couple of snowflak snowflakes. No advisories, warnings or watches. Anything that happens today will be light if at all. Main thing, its cold in the upper teens in maryland. Mid20s fair fax. Upper 20s arlington and the district. Mid and upper 20s Prince Georges County this morning. Our next legitimate snownce is coming up early tuesday morning, late night monday night and early tuesday morning. First shot out of the dark, maybe an inch in washington. That two to three inch, maybe northern montgomery and loudoun. We might get more than an inch in washington. Change in the pattern later in the week. Milder air coming our way. The last time washington had consecutive days above 60 degrees was right before christmas where we had five in a row over 60 degrees. I dont think we can do five days, but weve got a couple of chances being over 60 thursday and friday. Out the door weather now is cold. Wind chills in the teens. Clouds roll in today. Heres the first chance of snow showers coming through between 2 00 or 3 00 on the front end and 7 00 to 8 00 then it will be gone. Not a big deal. Today mostly cloudy. Well get sunshine here in the morning. About a 40 chance youll see snowflakes today. Not looking for accumulations. Then tomorrow, more clouds than sunshine. Like today, it will start out sunny and end cloudy. Theres the snow chance early tuesday worth watching for. Sounds good. Thanks. All right. One more day until jimmy fall long takes over the tonight show. Fall long takes over the tonight show. [ male announcer ] pillsbury grands biscuits. Delicious, but say i press a few out flat, add some beef, sloppy joe sauce and cheese, fold it all up and boom delicious unsloppy joes perfect for a school night. Pillsbury grands biscuits. Make dinner pop. [ angelic music plays ] toaster strudel best morning ever [ hans ] warm, flaky, gooey. Toaster strudel [ female announcer ] try new pillsbury heatngo mini pancakes. Yeah. That was the dunk that crowned the new king last night in new orleans. The wizards john wall won the nba slam dunk contest. Wall beat out dozens of others to take the title. In overwhelming show of ppt for the man who could be the nfls first publicly gay athlete. At the time crowd gave michael sam a standing ovation last night in the school celebrating the football teams win in the cotton bowl. Sam was named mvp prompting loud cheers from the crowd. Sam is expected selected in the april draft. Fall long had time to sit down with mark barger and his predecessor jay leno to talk about whats in store. The majority of viewers dont realize the tonight show starts in new york. Youre going to reintroduce it to the city and the viewers. Yeah which is fun. In the exact same studio. Not the same city, building, but the same studio in the building. You know whats funny . If you look at the tonight show with johnny. It was low budget. You could see the fly wood and the rpet it really looks funny. Off to the side guys are standing and smoking between the set. Its hilarious. You think they have plywood for you . No. Its mahogany. Its gorgeous. Its a work of art. Its beautiful. Its classy, glamourous. Its everything new york city is. At some point theres going to be a slip in a demo or rating and then critics will say the sky is falling, nbc made a huge mistake. Hes not jay. Are you ready for that . Totally ready for that. Its going to happen. Im starting on that the day after. I wish you wouldnt do that. Theres always somebody mad. Thats the funny thing. Always somebody mad. That happened to johnny. 1969 someone sent me an article, when is par coming back . Johnny brings out bim bow actresses and so forth. Theres always somebody mad you have to do what you do. Jay is going to be watching you take over the tonight show. Youre watching seth myers take over your show. Whats that going to be like for you . Like selling a used car. Its a good car. Im going to give it to seth. I didnt tell him about the transmission. Its not my problem. Thats what im doing. Here you go. Ive been driving this 20 years. It runs good. Take it. Im out of town. Why are you running . That was mark barger with fallon and leno. U 2 will be joining in as the musical guest. Justin timberlake too. Everybody wants to be on the show. U 2 my all Time Favorite group. Ive seen them in concert. Theyre wonderful. Got to give jimmy a shot. Takes time to get used to something new. Theres proof in the is this the bacon and cheese diet . This is the creamy chicken corn chowder. I mean, look at it. So indulgent. Did i tell you i am on the. [ both ] Chicken Pot Pie diet me too [ male announcer ] so indulgent, youll never believe theyre light. 100calorie progresso light soups. [ female announcer ] at 100 calories, not all food choices add up. Some are giant. Some not so giant. When managing your weight, bigger is always better. Ho ho ho green giant good morning. Welcome to viewpoint. Im pat lawson muse. Two days ago many of us gave our loved ones candy hearts for valentins day. This morning we foc on healthy hearts. Heart disease is the number one killer of men and women. It claims the lives of more women than men and claims more lives than all cancers combined. February is Womens Heart Health month. We want to talk about Heart Disease this morning and ways to reduce the risks. My guests, chairwoman of the circle of red and board member of the American Heart Association of greater washington. Doctor, cardiologist at Howard University and deanna lenses is a heart attack survivor. Welcome all of you to viewpoint. Doctor, cardiovascular disease kills one woman every three minutes in this country. Thats astounding statistic. Why is it killing so many women . One of the reasons theres lack of women to recognize leading cause of death is Heart Disease. There has been progress in the last 15 years. Level of awareness and women recognizing this is the number one killer, work needs to be done. Why is it taking so long for women and doctors to figure out this is no longer just a mans disease . In terms of evidence and Community Efforts and physician community, it has to be done together at all levels. Thats why the initiative by American Heart Association, the Red Dress Campaign launched in 2003 to address this issue. Deanna, you are in your early 40s. At the age of 40 you suffered a heart attack. Tell us what happened to you. It was a frightening day. I had been a volunteer with the American Heart Association for ten years. I have family history. I lost my mom and dad too. In the Emergency Department i was dismissed. I felt something was stuck right here. The problem with women and Heart Disease, women present differently than men. If i look at my mom, dad, myself, all three have a different story. It wasnt until the second cardiologi cardiologist came in and said well do a work up on her. I ended up having a 70 blockage. Were there signs before you went to the er. There werent. Even my ekg presented normal. It wasnt until they ran enzymes and took me to the lab they realized i actually had a heart attack. Darby, one of the aims is to educate women about the fact it doesnt just hit out of the blue. What happens is many of the women dont know theyre having symptoms and like deanna says, sometimes they go into the hospital and doctors dont recognize it. Were trying to educate women on what the symptoms are. They present a lot different than men. Its not the gripping of a chest and falling down having a heart attack. It can feel like the flu. Dizziness, clamminess. Sometimes you feel you have an elephant on your chest. Were trying to educate women on Lifestyle Changes they can make so theyre not all of a sudden hit with a drama event. This is not just work for you. Its also personal. You have history in your family . Yes. Both sides of my family. My dad had a stent. At 44 my brother had a heart valve that had to be replaced. My mom is afib. My husbands family has had severe Heart Disease. Mom and dad died of Heart Disease, one brother died. Two brothers died of heart attack before turning 50. Your risk is high . Exactly. Women have at least one risk factor. Talk about that. So there are risk factors in women versus men. The traditional risk factor we often talk about, age, smoking, hypotension, diabetes and cholesterol. Some of the factors taken into account with one of the traditional risk models is family history. Then women who have clampsia are at increased risk. Also ethnic defense as well. There are preventable risk factors and controllable risk factors . Thats correct. Whats the difference . Some things you can prevent. Smoking would be preventable. Right. Smoking, eating right, exercising regularly. Family history is something you cannot change, however, what you can change about it is recognize your risk early. Weve seen that young her women age between 25 and 34 years old, they have lower level. Their lifetime risk dying is from Heart Disease and not cancer. Increasing awareness in younger women about it. For women to try to evaluate their cardiovascular health, try to bring it up as a discussion with physicians early on so they can start practicing Healthy Lifestyle to decrease risk down the road. Were talking about Womens Heart Health. Well continue our discussion after this break. Welcome back. Were talking about Womens Heart Health. You were talking about risk factors. Want to go back to one you brought up, stress. How big a risk factor is that . Thats very difficult to assess. In fact, our risk prediction models, women do face stressors compared to men. They have to take care of family. They have to balance the work and family life. A lot of responsibilities of taking care of children also falls upon them. So some so steps they could take is try to make time for themselves, try to seek family support. However, its very difficult to quantify. Can you be a totally healthy and have no other risk factors but be under a lot of stress and be at increased risk of major risk of having a heart attack . It is possible. We have example here with deanna. It is possible, however, like i said, there are some things we can do to reduce our risks which would include keeping our stress levels low. Walking which is simple, 30 minutes a day if possible to incorporate into your daily routine. Make taking steps, avoiding the elevator, parking further way. Getting extra steps in daily. Deanna, stress was a factor in your case wasnt it . Stress is a huge component for me. Im a military spouse. I have a young child. Life in itself. One of the things as women, we tend to put our families first. Something interesting ive learned, sleep is a big component reducing stress, to make you get adequate sleep, working out and exercise. Youre only as good to your family as you are to yourself. Thats something we forget. Thats something go red for women tries to make sure women are aware of. You have to be your own priority and advocate to have that Healthy Lifestyle. Darby, are the risk factors different in men and women or the same . Theyre doing research to come up with that. Most of the research has been done to date on men. The risk factors for women were finding things like stress. Were hoping theyll be able to come up with that research soon. Thats very important point you just bring up because in the you studies, women have been unrepresented. 20 to 30 of women in the studies. There have been efforts to increase representation of women in studies for example, Womens Health studies. Doctor, how many forms of Heart Disease are there . What are the most common . The most common is coronary Artery Disease and congestive Heart Failure. Those are two big ones. And then stroke which we dont often realize. Heart attack is because of hardening of the arteries which doesnt affect the vessels of the heart but also to brain and legs. Its a sus stemmic disease. Once you have Heart Disease you have increased risk of stroke. Which is more preventable . Cardiovascular disease has common risk factors. Once you take steps to decrease risk, you decrease risk of stroke. The most common cause of congestic Heart Failure is coronary Heart Disease and hypertension. The first guidelines to prevent stroke are given. Talk about the significant of that. The newest rask sesment guidelines came out november 2013 which now incorporates strike which was not there prior and incorporates ethnicity. Africanamerican have higher risk than white woman. It offers in evidence we have thus far to give a tool to the physicians to more accurately define risks and also very often we have been defining we usually define ten year of cardiovascular risk. However with women, the lifetime risk of having a cardiovascular risk or stroke is higher than a continued risk. If i take a 35yearold woman and look at the ten year risk versus lifetime risk. Lifetime may be higher and give them more accurate picture of their risks and motivate them better to take steps towards a good morning everybody. Im storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell tracking a chance for a snow flurry or two this afternoon. Another chance of snow arriving early tuesday morning. Outside the door first thing this morning, its 10 degrees colder than yesterday morning. Youre definitely going to need the winter coat. Radar shows not a whole lot of rain or snow chances first taking place. Thats good news. Its cold for sure. 23 fredricksburg, 26 beautiful Southern Maryland now. 24 panhandle of west virginia. Out the door weather this morning, generally mid20s across much of the area. Low 30s by later on this morning. Highs today in the mid 30s at best. A chance of a snow flurry or two this afternoon. Chance of an inch or more tuesday morning. More on that coming up. Welcome back. Were talking about heart health. We were just talking about strokes which seem to be happening so much more frequently to men and women as a matter of fact. Dean deanna, youre working with the campaign called power to end stroke which is the number one cause of disability. People dont realize its important to understand the sign. Its very systemic. With one of the initiatives the program has, it teaches people the signs and symptoms and aware. Most of all its call 911. If someone is around dont delay. Theres a short window of time between the onset of stroke and when disability occurs for them to administer medicine at the. That can change or save your life. I encourage people to go on heart. Org and look at the power of this. Theres so many useful tools to save your life, educate you and make lifestyle choices. Darby, you touched on choices earlier and the signs. The signs and symptoms are different in men and women. Tell us what similymptoms are i women. From you like symptoms, sweaty, nauseous, feel dizzy, pain in your lower chest and back, may feel like an elephant is sitting on your back. Pain in the jaw . Radiates from your jaw up to the arm a. Thats a classic symptom. If a woman is run down suffering from fatigue which many of us are, is that a symptom . Right. Thats very important. If youve noticed new episodes of fatigue maybe overactivity or exertion which you werent noticing before, many of us will shove it down the rug and say its stress. However we encourage women to discuss this with physicians, any new similarymptoms you noti. Many are occurring when you exert yourself. It gets better when youre resting. It could be Heart Disease. You need to get help. Why are women more likely to die than men after a heart attack . When they have lower awareness that its the number one killer. Two, they have lower awareness of recognizing symptoms and often present late. They may not have recognized Blood Pressure which is a sign and may not have recognized cholesterol. Because of late presentation we have poorer outcomes. Why are women more likely to have another heart attack within five years of getting a stent . This is all the more reason to be more aggressive with women with Heart Disease. Aspirin. Do you take it deanna . I do. I defer to great doctors. Consult your doctor before starting that. I take cholesterol medication and heart medication. I try to manage through that. A lot of times you can help with your cholesterol levels. Its important to know your numbers and what they mean. And exercise. Thats a huge component in your overall cholesterol numbers. You can control what you eat and control your physical activity. Thats certain willy a way to manage your overall heart health. If youve had a heart attack, you shouldnt just take an aspirin everyday because you think its right to do . Mine was prescribed by my doctor. I remember after i had my stent, somebody said oh, youre fixed n now. You tend to think youre fixed and dont want to follow up. Women do get dismissed in the er. When my mother had a heart attack, they prescribed her an antidepressant. Its important to know your body and own personal signs and symptoms. Darby brought up great points of what you should be looking for. If your body feels different, not right, you know. React and not feel silly about it. Weve welcome back. Darby, you were telling me about the Youtube Video you send women to because theyre often in denial. Exactly. This video about having a little heart attack. Its a mom has take an care of kids. Last thing she wants to think about is shes having a heart attack. Shes like, im not one of those having a heart attack. Classic symptoms are there but everybody ignores them taking care of their family. Thats common of women of all ethnicities. 48 of women over 20 have cardiovascular disease . Thats a number that needs to be expressed. It has to do with risk factors, lifestyle again in a big way in terms of what they eat, what cholesterol levels are, if theyre exercising or not. Theres social, economic and ethn ethnic responsibilities. You were telling me how it changed your life. Tell us what you did differently once you had the heart attack. Most people when you have the heart attack youre in denial. You think youre kind of fixed. I realized choices i was making werent always healthiest ones. I manage stress better. I looked at my diet. Sometimes we want to be thin and forget about the healthy side of it. Its an overall awareness of your body. Im a mother and want to be around for my son. Its important to take charge. Darby, you can manage stress by walking from the parks lot to the building . Exactly. Doing your 10,000 steps per day. For christmas we got our kids the recorder for the information. Its easy to go out and do exercise. Reduce the amount of salt in your food. Take a yoga class. You can make little changes along the way. For women, its tough, doctor, isnt it . Weve got to squeeze so much into an already packed life, packed day, packed schedule . Right. One important way to think about it is not just living longer but living healthier during this journey. We really do have to motivate ourself and try to take small steps at a time and not a big change which can be difficult you know to deal with our schedules. And small steps, small changes reduce the risk how much . You can get anywhere from 5 to 10 Risk Reduction by incorporating 30 minutes a day of exercise. It does not have to be 30 minutes done at once. Get benefits by spurts of exercise. For example, ten minutes three times a day or 15 minutes twice a day. However, it is recommended at least one 50 minutes during the entire week of moderate intensity a aerobic exercise. Easy way is start the walking. Take it from there. Deanna, youre doing that. You mentioned checking, knowing your numbers. What numbers do we need to know . What needs to be on our checklist . The most important baselines to have. You can correct me if im wrong. Definitely cholesterol. Hdl and also your bad cholesterol. You need to know and have control of your Blood Pressure. Its funny, i know somebody who likes to move their arm to get the Blood Pressure they want. You need to be on top of your Blood Pressure and know your baselines. There are regulations and guidelines but may not be the best for you. Work with your cardiologist to know where you need to be. A lot of people dont know where their numbers are and what they mean. Thats how to manage your lifestyle. Darby, talk about how critical this is to talk about this with our mother, daughter, sisters, friends. We talk about everything else. I know. No one wants to admit they have a problem. Heart disease is the silent killer that kills 500,000 a year. One out of three women die from it. We all have to tell each other and give them information about what to look for and education, education, education. We all have smart devices. I encourage people to go on go red for woman. Org. They can help to educate and let them know. It gives a print out. They can take it to their cardiologist and say i have questions. Can you answer these. Thats a nice way to get involved. Send emails to your friends too. Thank you so much. Thank you. Life saving interview. Thank you for being with us. Thats viewpoint. Im pat lawson muse. News 4 today continues. Not only will you want that winter coat as you head out this morning, but the scarf, gloves wouldnt be a bad idea either. Or just stay inside. Good morning everyone. Welcome to news 4 today. Im angie goff. Im richard jordan. Its cold to start us off. Dont be surprised if you see snow in the day ahead. Chuck bell enough already. Todays snow chance much like yesterdays, less actually. Conversational snowflakes a possibility this afternoon. No accumulations of an inch or more. Thats welcome news. There will be another chance of getting an inch of snow tuesday morning. More on that coming up later on. Your sunday morn as good off to a decent start. Clouds gradually increase. Theres little opportunities for snow in the southern parts of the valley now. Wave in the atmosphere rolls overhead this afternoon and maybe it will ring out a couple of flurries. Thats about it. The bigger issue is the cold. Were 10 degrees colder than yesterday. Wind chills are back in the teen across the area. Heavy winter coats are indeed recommended out the door this morning. Temperatures mid to upper 20s. Wind chills mid to upper teens now. Going to stay cold. Temperatures rising in the mid to upper 30s at best. Best chancy or two is after 1 00 and after 7 00 this evening. Now back to you. Hank aaron is recovering from hip surgery. We recently interviewed him. The braves say the 80yearold fell on ice in friday. He broke the Major League Home run record playing for the braves 40 years ago. We all knew the snow days would have to be made up some time. For some students it starts tomorrow. Five districts will forego the president s holiday and send kids back to school. Charles, st. Marys county, fair fax, fredrick county will take part. Some districts are even thinking about adding time to the end of the school day or even cancelling recess. As chuck mentioned, we could get more snow today and tomorrow. Of course you can track the weather in the palm of your hand. Download the storm team 4 weather app. Search nbc washington on the app store or google play. A little girl is fighting after she was shot in the chest. Police believe they know who did it. Darcy spencer has been following this story. She has the report. Reporter the mother of the little girl says shes still in t theicu. She was shot in the chest and lung. Two men have been charged in the shooting, but the mom says it doesnt change what happened to her daughter. Were learning more through the documents. Karie brown and nathanle are charged. Two children pointed to the men and said there they go as this suspects ran a way. The Police Arrested them around the corner. When arrested this is what they said. They went to the apartment to buy an ounce of pot. They say the victim, michaela opened the door for them. They say inside the building, a man fired a gun. They say they fired shots as the man ran away. 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