Reverend register green served walter Memorial Baptist Church in northwest for more than 40 years. He says he applied some of kings philosophies to his own work. Turner sat down with green who said kings outlook had a big impact on his life. He was a freedom writer when he first met dr. Martin luther king jr. He tells me the day he got out of jail was the first time he met him. Looking back at that experience, it was one of the best things that happened to me. He remembers it like it was yesterday. He was a College Student preparing to study theology when he decided to become a freedom writer. Protesting segregation at rail and bus terminals in the deep south. The philosophy at this point is no bail, jail, no bail. He spent close to two months in the Mississippi State penitentiary because of it. This letter will probably relieve you. At 77 years behind bars to his parents. He and other freedom writers were invited to the Ebenezer Church to meet dr. King in atlanta. Martin luther king jr. Surprised them. He had a chance to thank us for what we had done. And let us know hes been supportive for what the freedom writers have been trying to do. One year later they crossed paths again. This time at Virginia Union where his wife of more than 50 years now got his autograph. That black and white photo hangs in their living room wall today. He finds himself staring on it often reflecting on his legacy. And the dream millions heard in 1963. He had this conviction that lasted all his life. That if we just love, we can arrive at what john lewis always talked about is beloved community. Wusa 9. This morning a wreath was laid at the Martin Luther king jr. Memorial to commemorate what would have been the civil rights leaders 88th birthday. Were joined live from todays peace walk honoring dr. King in southeast washington. Good afternoon. Its been a morning of service in south dc. Lets go to the community center. Right now we have volunteers who we know have been making sandwiches, making lunches, they will be passing that out. This follows a round table discussion happening inside. Out here on the street, were getting ready for the 11th annual mlk jr. Parade. Its well attended. Folks will be lining the street. You can see a lot of folks walking in. Two blocks away beyond that police barricade, that is elizabeth campus. Thats where all the parade participants are gathering. Following this mornings peace march. They will be coming here. We actually went down there, caught up with some of the participants, including a nine yearold boy and his mom from maryland. They came into the city, the little boy is named franky brown and he says that dr. Martin luther king was an inspiration for young and old alike. His mom said its important for her son to be here, to learn about the culture, the legacy, and the man. Of course were going to be here and have much more on this well attended 11th annual mlk parade happening here on mlk avenue in congress heights. There will be several road closures until 2 00 today. Were live in congress heights. Wusa 9. At another event, wusa 9s Leslie Foster was the mc at a Prayer Breakfast local lawmakers and religious leaders were among the thousands of people in attendance, marking this holiday of service in honor of dr. King. Because of the king holiday, there are no confirmation hearings scheduled on capitol hill for trump cabinet nominees today. The president elect will be meeting with the son of dr. Martin luther king, Martin Luther king jr. , Martin Luther king iii in new york today. However, everyone in dc is talking about the president elects promise of Health Insurance for everyone and his ongoing twitter war of words. Jamie has more. Reporter president elect donald trump told millions of twitter followers to celebrate Martin Luther king day by honoring the great man. The tweet comes as mr. Trump spars with another civil rights icon. I dont see this president elect as a legitimate president. After georgia congressman john lewis doubted mr. Trumps legitimacy because of russian hacking the shot back. Mr. Trump tweeted lewis should spend more time fixing his district. Adding hes all talk no action. Hes an icon of the civil rights era. He was beaten during the Voting Rights march from selma to montgomery alabama. The president elect also lashed out at the out going head of the cia. Mr. Trump tweeted that the agency couldnt do much worse and asked if the cia director was the leaker of fake news after brennan said the president elect doesnt fully understand the russian threat. When he speaks or reacts, he needs to understand the implications that impact the United States could be profound. The president elect said hes almost ready to unveil the proposal to replace obama care. Hes looking at the pharmaceutical companies. Hes looking at ways to drive costs down and give accessibility andoptions to people th they will release details of the plan after the inauguration. The president elect also said he would use executive power if necessary to replace the Affordable Care act and the war of words between the congressman and congressman lewis and the president elect has many of you talking on social media. Just because you live during the Civil Rights Movement doesnt make you unaccountable for your words. Remove representative john lewis from his post. And leslie tweeted thank you john lewis for your decency, dedication to equality and your fight for justice, thank you for speaking out notmypresident. Civil rights is old news. Black americans continue to struggle and all liberals have to do is mention the past and not do anything. Johnlewis. Wed love to hear your take. Log on to our social media pages and join conversation. We escaped the ice this weekend. Were off to a soggy start to the week. Showers move in later today and hang around for much week. Meteorologist melissa joins us with your first alert forecast. Before the showers get here, were dealing with clouds, and that will be the story of the day, the cloud cover along with the cooler temperatures, most of us end up actually staying dry for the afternoon. Its by tonight that we start to track some additional showers into the region with the yellow weather alert on the way tomorrow. Lets talk about this, 42 right now. Weve had this east and southeast wind coming in throughout the day. Its limited the ability of the clouds to clear out. What the sky looks like right now, thats what its going to look like into the afternoon. With the clouds afternoon, the struggle, temperature wise, upper 30s in gaithersburg. Mid 30s in hagerstown and frederick. And 41 degrees in waldorf. For the rest of the day the clouds are in place. Tomorrow, this is the next weather system im tracking in here. This will bring showers for your tuesday. Well time that out in a few minutes. 3 00 p. M. , 46 degrees here in town. 6 00 p. M. , as the sunsets, 44 degrees. Well track the rain for tomorrow and well talk about the forecast for the inauguration coming up in a few minutes. You can get to the forecast and future cast on our free wusa 9 app. Tpright now dc homicide detectives are investigating the death of two people found inside a home in northeast washington. Theyve been at the home on limon place near 17th street northeast since around 2 00 this morning. Investigators havent released the victims names. Theyre still working to determine the cause of the peoples death. On super hero day at school. Most students choose to dress like a power ranger or a marvel character. But not one little girl from columbia maryland. Her costume of choice has gone viral and captured national attention. Hillary lane introduces us to ine 8yearold to find out what its back to normal this week for eightyearold michelle after she became an unexpected star last week, the internet fell in love with this picture, the eightyearold dressed Like Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg on super hero day at school. It all started when mom picked up this book, all about ginsburgs life. She read it and she read it over and over and over again. The book describes the prejudices she faced as a woman throughout her life. Beginning in the 1950s. As she pursued a law career. Girls couldnt really get to do anything. They would just have to find husbands and that was all. But ginsburg shattered those stereotypes and now has a seat on the highest court in the land. Girls want to do anything they can. And for this 8yearold, that was the definition of a super hero. We like to see how up for girls rights. And ginsburg supported this little girl right back. You look just like me. You need to thrive on reading and learning. When somebody does that for your kid, shell have that to treasure for the rest of herlife. Shes proud of her daughter. I like that she felt comfortable enough to be herself. Shes grateful for the woman thats blazed her own trail and is showing women everywhere that anything is possible. It makes it so that they dont have to question like, can i do this . They see it, and they know they can do it. After 146 years, the show will not go on. Wringling brothers barnum and bailey officials are talking about how theyll fold up the circus tent for good. They broke greatest show on earth will be closing. They talked about what will happen to the performers and the animals. The animals currently in the show, we are looking for suitable homes for them. In the next few weeks, well be meeting with people individually and some of those services that well be providing will include job placement, housing, search support if theyve been living on our train, interview preparation, resume preparation, those kinds of things. 30 shows left. If you want to see the wringling brothers barnum and bailey circus your last chances in the area are in march and april in the district and fairfax. See how one trump supporter is helping people who share political interest help america this next story may sound ghoulish use of anti trump art work. The artist organized a blood drive and donors gave a pint of blood. This particular project was conceived to inspire peace and unity amide a country divided over our 45th pretty. Ilma gore is the artist. I, conceptualized this image. Inspired by betsy ross in the creation of the american flag. She has more politically charged art projects in the works. A Southern California man wants to make dating great again. Hes designed a website aimed at making romantic connections between supporters of president elect donald trump. As Chris Martinez shows us thousands are signing up looking to have true live. Thats why i quit my day job to do this. You might call david goss accidental cupid. I heard stories of dates gone bad because of political differences. He created the website trumpsingles. Com. People can come and meet each other. They dont have to worry about talking about politics and all of a sudden the person gets upset and leaves. He figured the site would appeal to friends and maybe a few dozen others. But he says thousands of Trump Supporters looking for love have signed up. Including amber williams. Shes all ready been on two dates. The first one, we went shooting. Shot ar 15s. I had never done that before. It was fun. For goss, the response has been as controversial as trump himself. Ive been told im a racist, homophobic, and im phobic just for having a business. Making dating great again. He says his current membership includes people of all ethnicities, religions, and sexual orientations. Our app is your one stop shop for everything you need. Caught on camera, firefighters in denver california rescue a dog trapped on the island. The little dog named theo escaped from his backyard and went scurrying after some geese. Thats when the pup became trapped on the small island on sloanes lake and couldnt make its way back. The owner called the fire department. And firefighters sprang into action. We go through the same motions whether its a dog or a human. Weve been doing it quite a because dogs love to chase geese and get out on the ice and they fall through. It took firefighters in Denver Colorado about a half hour to cross the icy lake and rescue theo he was cold and shivering but ultimately theo is going to be just fine. A little typeo there. You never know. Good story about theo. And an okay story for us. Good news about some rain falling. We need the rain. There was rain in northern maryland. But a temperature difference of 4 degrees is what meant we had a cold rain instead of dealing with much more of a mess out there. We got lucky. Its going to be mild this week. So were not going to be dealing with freezing temperatures. No winter precipitation, but hey, weve got some rain chances to talk about. Lets get you through the next couple days and also talk about the weekend. This afternoon, its doing to be cloudy. About what it looks like right now, thats what s Martin Luther king holiday today, cloudy and cool. Tomorrow, rain and showers return. And were also watching a more important day for rain showers, that is inauguration day. Right now were watching rain chances that will most likely happen the second half of the day. But crossing our fingers that the timing might shift back a little bit into friday evening instead of friday afternoon. For the rest of the afternoon, cloudy and cool, 44 for the high in dc. A couple degrees warmer than we are now. I want to show you a cool photo. Lets take a trip to kansas. Youve been hearing about this ice storm the last couple days. This is a photo of how much freezing rain they got in dodge city kansas, this is actually ice thats accumulated on a tiny piece of grass. When you take the total inch of ice that you see, divide it in half based on how much is on either side of the object. Thats about a half inch of ice. They have power outages. Crazy things that system that brought the ice storm there and the Tornado Warning to the Dallas Cowboys stadium last night after the game, that weather system is moving into our area for tomorrow. Is it going to be the same set up . Absolutely not. Just some showers around. But none the less, lets track them on the future cast, past midnight tonight, youll see the shower chance in the area. The best chance tomorrow morning will happen northwest of town. There will be off and on showers. Areas of light rain, mist and drizzle for your tuesday. And we get into wednesday, well keep a couple showers around. Well get a break. And then we talk about fridays forecast. Right now what ive got for friday, increasing clouds at the inauguration, showers arriving later in the afternoon. Temperatures as we head toward lunch time, making it to around 48. Climbing into the mid 50s in the afternoon. But were going to be watching the timing of the rain closely. Because there will be hundreds of thousands of people out there on we would hope for dryer weather rather than wetter weather. Next three days, cloudy and cool today. Periods of rain, light showers tomorrow. Yellow weather alert. Join in. Well track the showers on wake up washington. Its mild. 58 degrees for wednesday. 50s all the way through next weekend. And well see more showers in the forecast next sunday. Theres more wusa 9news at noon. One of many pieces in my life. 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See your doctor if your asthma does not improve or gets worse. Ask your doctor if 24hour breo could be a missing piece for you. Learn more about better breathing at mybreo. Com. One might think mlk day would be trending all weekend long on twitter. But instead it was great americans day. They created a social media fire storm after this tweet closed today but not for mlk day but great americans day. And the internet was not happy about it. Were being called racist. Thats not the people, its not the mayor, its just unfortunate that were being painted with that brush. It was an honest error. I think they pulled the verbiage from it. They posted it on the tweet. And when there was a reaction to it, theres no cover up. Were all looking at it and saying hey, we need to change it. Great americans day was designated in 1985. The city council is meeting later today to consider changing thats it for wusa 9news at noon. Well be back at 5 00 though. Until then, ha ternoon. Fios is not cable. 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