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Down. What i saw was a bunch of police officers, everywhere, had every intersection of the mall locked down. Reporter 3 15 in the afternoon near hollisters clothing store. Mall open and shoppers out and about. Police moved in and quickly took control of the scene. Searches for evidence, questions for witnesses, a press to identify the suspect. Earlier police say there was conflict between the victims and the suspect but they broke it off and moved away. Minutes later they got back at it, this time with bamboo sticks, this time with a knife, this time with deadly consequences. Are you looking into the possibility this could be gang related . Again that would be one of the things investigators are looking at but unable to confirm that. Reporter at 6 00, reaction comfort from the police. Live in wheaten, pat collins, news4. Can you give us a chance. Your organization is terrible. Youre attacking our news organization, can you give us a chance to ask a question. Youre rude. Im not going to give you a question youre fake news. Sir in a Testy Exchange donald trump blasted cnn for reporting what he called a political witch hunt. Response during the president elects first News Conference since july, addressed a buzzfeed report surrounding russia and allegations unproven about trump. Chris is here to break it down. President elect jumped in, immediately addressed unverified report of dossier that claims russia might have something on intelligence agencies would be a quote tremendous blot on their record. Plans to ask for report on hacking in the first 90 days and over nearly an hour addressed a range of issues starting with that report on russia. I think its absolute disgrace, as far as hacking, i think it was russia but we also get hacked by other countries. If putin likes donald trump, i consider that an asset, not liability. Will you release tax returns to prove what youre saying . Not going to release them because under audit. Only ones who care are the reporters. Obamacare is a complete and total disaster. Going to be submits as soon as the secretary is approved, a plan. Repeal and replace. Will be essentially simultaneously. Couple other head the department of the veterans affairs. Hes the undersecretary of health and va. Also president elect plans to announce a Supreme Court nominee in first two weeks and reiterated the u. S. Will build a wall now saying mexico will reimburse the united states. Trump is handing over companies to his sons, don jr. And eric. Wont create a blind trust or fully divest assets. Nine days until the big day. Man in charge of the Washington Field office for the secret service says one of the things theyre preparing for is lots of protesters. Sat down with mark seg raises who joins us from the agent in charge quick to remind us, isnt the first inauguration and this is what they do every day, protect the president and other leaders. But well aware of the tension and bitter feelings leading up to this inauguration. Believe a lot of people will come out and voice their opinions and exercise their First Amendment rights. We make no distinction based on methods or agenda but if somebody decides to break the law we have a plan in place to efficiently address that. Special agent in charge doesnt hesitate when asked if team is ready but wants to make sure the public is prepared as well. Ask people for patience, will be lines, we have a lot of check points and we have right number of people to get everybody in in safe and orderly fashion. Says protesters welcome to voice opinions and can bring very large signs but they need to on secret service would never disallow a sign based on content but determine it could be used as weapon or in threatening way, disallow that. As for disrupting inauguration, says no Credible Threats as of now. Work closely about Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community partners to make sure were aware of emerging threats. Monitoring adversaries trends and tactics and constantly adapting. Signs can be up to 20 feet long and three feet high but cant have a pole or stick attached that could turn them into a threat. There is also a list of items you cant bring. Also starting on wednesday night parking restrictions will take effect throughout parts of the area, particularly near the lincoln memorial. 6 00, what the secret service says about possibility of President Trump walking along the parade route and compare the first limo used in president ial parade to todays beast. Live look at Reagan National airport where big crowds are expected. Airport Officials Say expect longer than usual wait time and congestion on the surrounding streets. Urging everybody to monitor flight status with their airline directly. Offering all day parking for 10 on inauguration today only. B and c near the metro station. You have to reserve the spot ahead of time. Got up to 57 degrees earlier this afternoon. Felt like spring. Now the clouds back in. Back rain. Advancing southwest and heading northeast and heavier downpours in West Virginia but just scattered light rain showers heading in. We have a little bit more into the evening hours from Shenandoah Valley to metro area. And temperatures back into the 40s once the rain picks up. Montgomery to frederick, just lightly. Scattered sprinkles around. New hour by hour timing on when the rain will be leaving, look at wintry mix for the weekend and first peek at inauguration day. There is more fallout tonight from the federal corruption investigation in maryland, Prince Georges County delegate now resigned. Democrat Michael Vaughn announc immediately. Tracee broke the news on twitter earlier. Reporter sat in the maryland house for 14 years and said he was resigning for Health Reasons but president of the senate hes its because hes going to be arrested. Opening day of the maryland legislative session and throughout annapolis, the talk centered around the ongoing fbi corruption probe unfolding in the county and in annapolis. Its disgraceful and were extremely concerned and more information will be forthcoming. Ongoing criminal investigation. Delegate Michael Vaughns seat sat empty. About an hour before, he submitted letter of resignation citing health issues. Thankfully recognized whatever he did was wrong and prepared to pay the price and not drag this out. Stepped up and resigned. Delegate on that committee who voted yes on 2013 bill allowing liquor sales in the county could Face Criminal Charges for accepting bribes and influbsing the vote. Vaughn only one to vote for the bill on the committee. Not charged or named in the investigation. Disappointed. We do a lot of good work for the people of Prince Georges County and if a couple of people allegedly not followed the hard work, its disappointing. A former Council Member and will campos, charged with misusing funds and accepting bribes funneled through nonprofit organizations. Victor ramirez was a mentor to campos, had this to say about the arrest of his good friend. Not going to comment. Said cant believe politicians are still breaking the law after jack johnson arrested for his own pay to play scheme. Were going to come after you. Talked to folks who sat on the committee about how this is all impacting their work, Prince Georges County and maryland politics. Live in annapolis, tracee wilkins. Tonight high school is hosting a petition ask kool kids klan with all capital ks, sent home letter to parents stunned about the petition and language in it. Next meeting starts at 6 00. Two neighborhoods in d. C. Now have own main street organization. District and Community Leaders launched this group, Columbia Heights and mount pleasant. This was made possible by 200,000 grant from the district as well as private funds. Car after car, window after window, smashed. Check it out. Unwelcome surprise by alexandria residents and how you can prevent it from happening to you. Virginia lawmakers back to work with budget issues on the onenda, pers as ceo of exxonmobile. Rex tillerson put exxons interests before americas im not here to represent the us governments interest. Instead, tillerson sided with putin. With billions in russian oil deals. He opposed us sanctions on russia. Forced to pay hundreds of millions for toxic pollution. Putting profits ahead of our kids health. Tell your senators to reject Rex Tillerson. And protect american interests not corporate interests. I checked, everythings there. Wait a minute. Hey. Hold on, i can explain. You better have a good answer. Switch to geico and you could save a ton of money on your Car Insurance. Why didnt you say so in the first place . I thought yous was wearing a wire. Haha, what . Why would i wear a wire . Geico. Because saving fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance is always a great answer. A busy day up on capitol hill today as several of Donald Trumps picks take questions from lawmakers. Jeff sessionstoifi testifies second day and Rex Tillerson grilled by Foreign Relations committee. Trumps nominee for the secretary of state and elane chow received a warm welcome for three hour hearing. Joined by mark murray. Tillerson ay new line on russia calling that country a danger to the u. S. Part of what he had to say then well talk. We must also be clear about our relationship with russia, russia today poses a danger but it is not unpredictable in advancing its own interest. It has invaded ukraine, included the taking of crimea, and supported Syrian Forces that brutally violates of war. Departure from the president elect. Departure in the Opening Statement but asking him questions about russia, particularly marco rubio, republican from florida, wasnt as hawkish about russia and he was hitting tillerson about vladimr violating human rights and murdering journalists and opponents and wouldnt go as far as rubio wanted. Fascinating. From what i was able to pick up, rubio is potential no vote for tillerson which could be a big road block for him getting confirmation and also passage through the Foreign Relations committee. The president elect also today denied reports that russia has compromising salacious information on him. What do you make of his comments today during the press conference . He went after news organizations that have reported unsubstantiated memos and information in full but even nbc news has been able to report jim, these kind of allegations, unsubstantiated as they are, having out, floating across world and u. S. Intelligence community able to pick it up. That was part of the information they ended up having when they were briefing donald trump. Nbc news also reported that donald trump did not end up reading or even orally getting that information but still while they are denying some of the specifics, it is interesting that that kind of word and leaking of rumors around donald trump unsubstantiated as they might be, thats ought there. And mark unprecedented testimony in the Jeff Sessions hearing. Cory booker testified againsts had colleague, slamming his record. Un eke. Any impact . When it comes to korey bookers president ial prospects. Some were viewing against Jeff Sessions as way to end up having a rallying cry with democrats and putting him front and center on the national stage. Also testifying against Jeff Sessions was icon civil rights icon john lewis, democratic congressman from georgia, had tough comments as well. There were africanamerican republicans testifying on Jeff Sessions behalf. That was the storyline. What a week and only wednesday. Thanks so much. Nbc nightly news with lester holt will have a closer look. Coming up at 7 00 after news4 at 6 00. Marylands General Assembly is kicking off. One of the Biggest Challenges is trimming from the budget. Where will it come from . Chris gordon in annapolis. Governor hogan warmly greeted lawmakers but could be a bump in the road ahead. Wants to repeal what he calls the road kill bill that democrats passed last session, forcing the governor to prioritize all road work. Pressing thing to focus on is stopping legislation that would kill most of the transportation products. Frederick county alone is losing six projects as result of this terrible piece of legislation. Faces a shortfall, need to cut from the budget. Money important to local counties. Continue to need transportation dollars, support for education. Top priorities. Fact of the matter is Governor Hogan has funded education at highest levels in the history of the reporter possibility of spending cuts for healthcare causing concern. Received preliminary approval for new hospital. Cuts for that before theyve even broken ground. Dont want to see more damage done. Local lawmakers are watching to see what the u. S. Congress does on health care. Repealing the Affordable Care act would eliminate health to marylanders and put us in the hole from the beginning. Governor says he believes there is Common Ground for democrats and republicans to Work Together to help marylands working families. Chris gordon, news4. They relied on high interest loans just to get by. Now getting some of the money back, used to pay to settle debts. Big win for consumers. Rain impting theac getting dark and getting wet. We have light rain moving into the metro area from the soung and west, live view from the storm team for city camera looking over washington. Bridges jammed w coming through. Heading out what to wear, rain jacket, umbrella, rain boots. Wont need the puffy coat. Not that cold. We have this rain, bigger area coming in up Shenandoah Valley, moving closer. Coming up out of culpepper and up to northern shenandoah. Area in yellow is moderate rain west of winchester, heading to frederick in another half hour or so but steadier area into metro is around 7 00 this evening. And north and west up 270 driving in more moderate rain towards frederick. And hour by hour, rain mostly passing well west but next wave arou around 7 00, passing north and west central maryland. Pockets of rain through 9 00 p. M. And much of it ends and moves away after midnight tonight and begin to dry out. Temperatures dropped back. Hovering near 50 in the metro area, upper 40s to the south. In the upper 40s for the rest of the evening. Dawn tomorrow, patchy fog around for the morning commute. Temperatures by 8 00 a. M. Around 50, and climbing into mid and upper 50s, getting mild. Afternoon soaring into the mid60s on thursday afternoon with sunshine in and out. Friday increasing clouds, 50s in the morning, dropping to 30s by sunset and evening. Moisture from the south. A little above freezing predawn. And once were into the rest of the day, freezing. Wintry mix, Morning Light snow, ifrmg or less, and little sleet after that. Midday but afternoon icing that continues and then ends. Sunday lot of clouds. 30 in the morning, near 40 later. Clouds around on mlk day. Mild trend. Rain wednesday to early thursday but dry and mild for inauguration day. A terrible start to the day for some people in alexandria, car windows smashed out. Glass on the ground. What can you do to protect your cars in these situations . Im adam tuss, have advice from the poli coming up. Plus a local politician makes good on promise to give away a gun. Next move as he seeks to draw attention to the laws. In richmond, virginia, lawmakers face a big challenge, budget shortfall of more than a billion dollars. Coming up tell you about some of the things still determined to spend more money on in spite of the money trouble. Surprise visit by virginias former governor following vindication on corruption charges. His mess ang to other lawmakers. Youre watching news4 at 5 00. Right now at 5 30, back to business for virginia lawmakers, top issues theyll face and how its going to impact your neighborhood. But first frustrated residents after windows to nearly two dozen cars are smashed at local condo community. This is not a good morning. Happened between king street and braddock road, trend around our region. Adam tuss went to take a look and get advise how to protect your car. Reporter not the way you want to start your day. Window smashed out kind in the parking garage. But one car not enough. This car window smashed up. Other cars where this happened. Another windshield smashed out, owners happened. 21 cars in total busted up here in this garage. 21 cars in one night, would think in a Community Like this, someone would have heard something. Reporter resident after resident finding this waiting for them today. Really scary because we have a little baby. Going to school and really scared. What happened mommy . Reporter its odd feeling to see car banged up and personal belongings messed with. Dont feel the same. Now i dont trust anyone. Whats happening. Reporter not far away, two dozen windows smashed out in the west end. And concern all over. Green belt metro parking lot recently more smashed. What should you do . Leave car unlocked for someone to get in . Bad idea says the police. Higher likelihood experience a theft if the car whether in the street or parking garage, wherever theres cars en masse, its easy for a suspect to continually walk by and check door handles. Thats what they do. Reporter a lot of glass to clean up. Residents say the trend has to help. But could escalate to something else. Reporter for now, the police investigating. In richmond, one issue dominates the 2017 General Assembly session which started today, closing a big budget shortfall. Despite that problem, lawmakers still hope to spend more money in key areas. Reporter teachers, state troopers, Mental Health workers. All state employees had expected a pay raise but a 1. 2 billion revenue shortfall put that leaving. Police seeing a significant impact. Talked to head of police other day. One guy left, up and comer top notch guy, went to oregon and made 20,000 more. Reporter pushing a bonus for state workers but lawmakers say they need to find funding to do more. Need to work hard. They work hard, show up every day and do the job of the people and need to make sure thanked and rewarded. Reporter and bipartisan agreement to boost Mental Health treatment and tackle the opioid abuse epidemic. For him its personal. Son hooked on opioids after a car accident and struggled for years. Its an emergency and families are damaged. Reporter introduced a bill dispensing three days of pain killers. Seeing prescriptions for large amounts from emergency rooms. People already addicted are by the time its done. Reporter bathroom bill, why the sponsor says its his top priority and democrats warn could drive business away from virginia. A familiar face today on the Capitol Grounds in richmond, visiting for First Time Since announced wouldnt be retried on corruption charges after the Supreme Court overturned his conviction. Said hes not lobbying but did attend the opening Prayer Breakfast with lawmakers. Reacquainting myself with old friends and thanking people for service and kindness to me in a tough time. Virginia beach and teaching at regent university. Police are asking for help. Looking for man accused of sexually assaulting a conveneience store clerk. Clerk says this man followed her into the stores back office one morning this week, threatened her with weapon and assaulted her. Said the same man exposed himself to her in the store last month. 11 days into the new year and cavs star ovechkin has another milestone. This is a bigs one. Just over a week away, dec happy birthday vance, we wish you many more miles ahead on your harley. 75 . Who cares. 75 is just a number. Jim vance youve been the coolest guy in this building since before i walked into it, since i walked into it and when i walk out of it, its a pleasure to work in the same building with you. Happy birthday. His birthday actually yesterday but when you hit that milestone you get a week of birmgds. Cakes tributes all over facebook. Check them owl. Caps star Alex Ovechkin is about to hit another milestone. And could come against rival, making it sweeter. Hoping to see history. Caps going for sixth straight win and hosting Pittsburgh Penguins and Alex Ovechkin is looking for 1,000 points. One point shy of 1,000 points for his career. You always need to be ready to witness another moment that defines his greatness. Ovechkin scores not often can you recognize history happening right in front of you. Thats one of the plays of the week. Will go down as one of the greatest playersat he scores in a flash. I just remember my first game. It was like five minutes ago. Never quit, have to enjoy every second of the moment you have an opportunity. Scores point number 999 to the roof. Now 879 games later Alex Ovechkin is one point away from 1,000 in his career, all happening in front of our eyes. His teammates never tire of talking about him. He plays the game in different way than most people. I dont think anyone can deny hes one of the best goal scorers the league has ever seen. Doing it a while now and nothing is going to stop him. Its good to be on the same team. Alex kids awn running around with a russian jersey on. Changed the game for the better. Trying to do my best. Reporter hope you heard that. Lots more years to go, more records and milestones. See if he gets one tonight. From verizon center. Carol maloney. Thank you. This was controversial giveaway, rifle raffled off. Were there as winner steps for forth. Reporter called most egregious predatory lending ever Rex Tillerson put exxons interests before americas. Im not here to represent the us governments interest. Instead, tillerson sided with putin. With billions in russian oil deals. He opposed us sanctions on russia. For war crimes forced to pay hundreds of millions for toxic pollution. Putting profits ahead of our kids health. Tell your senators to reject Rex Tillerson. And protect american interests not corporate interests. The virginias governor election still a year away but one candidate making headlines with controversial move. Corey stewart gave away a gun. Congratulate you on winning the rifle. Virginias governor making good on last promise to give away a rifle for a supporter. Did it for attention. Guns dont murder people, people murder people. Member of the nra, support the second amendment. Giveaway prompting reactions. Pandering, got to get people riled up. Grew up around guns but lost several friends to them in mass shooting in florida. Made big impression on me. Only time i ever saw my father cry. I always felt people can have guns to protect themselves but theres more we can do to protect gun violence. Stewart believes guns are the way to prevent violence. People carry weapons makes community saver. Reporter right now if you were governor make it so citizens dont have to pay anything. Just wrong to pay money to exercise a constitutional right. Would like to get rid of concealed permits whatsoever, anybody could get it so long as pass a background check. Reason is its not dangerous. No reason a law abiding citizen should have to apply to the government to obtain a permit. Reporter an idea fired up virginia gop support in the past but never enough to pass. News4 did reach out to candidate ed glispy for a reaction but declined to comment. Also candidate in Frederick County doing something similar. D. C. Residents who paid loans will get some money back. D. C. Attorney general sued cash call and today announced a multimillion dollar settlement. Susan hogan has the details. This is a big win for the d. C. Attorney Generals Office and even bigger win for the 1300 residents affected many paid Interest Rates close to 300 on their loans. Being called one of the most egregious examples of predatory lending the d. C. Attorney Generals Office as seen. One of the consumers caught in the middle. Wiped out my savings. Her credit shot after losing her job, bills piling up, knew getting a traditional loan at bank was out of the question. I found this one and took a chance. Cynthia responded to online ad from cash loan servicer, Interest Rate 139 . After 47 payments, that small loan cost more than 13,000. I was cheated. Im going to get some of it back. Cash call accused of violating the usury law which casts Interest Rate to 24 . Accused of charging upwards of 300 . Cash call argued that the loans were not subject to usury laws because the Partner Company that issued the loans actually located on indian reservation which is exempt. Cash call the company we sued in this case sought to contraserene the usury laws by having operations south dakota. But a federal judge ruled against cash call saying its clear the choice clearly based on desire to shield from state usury and licensing law. Now d. C. And number of other laws have settled lawsuits against the company and getting restitution for their residents. Said although we kr confident of our legal position we concluded in parties interest to settle. Unfortunate that companies out there will go to such extremes to hurt people. In d. C. s case paying 3 million of refunds and even debt forgiveness. More than 1300 each. Attorney Generals Office will contact those consumers directly. We just learned new information about the fire today at watergate complex. D. C. Firefighters say it was accident. Started from Construction Material on a balcony on the 13th floor. Undergoing renovations. Neighboring apartments do have smoke damage. Well Doug Kammerer is on the slopes day at his weather seminar, amelia has rain for us. Up to 50s . 50s today, 60s tomorrow and saturday a wintry mix. Snow move in and transition to sleet and freezing rain. If you have plans on saturday, if you can get out of town on friday or little bit earlier, it would be a good idea to start thinking about a backup plan. Get you into tonight first. Storm team4 everywhere but d. C. Metro. Further back west and up around the Baltimore Metro area but this rain in culpepper county is moving towards the district. Have showers until about midnight and then tomorrow its about the mild air. Still mild on friday but by saturday a wintry mix impacting the area and going to be a storm team4 weather alert day. Martin luther king jr. Day is looking dry. Work to 9 00 p. M. At 10 00 p. M. Still seeing showers but my midnight most of the area is dry. Temperatures about 50. Wet roads versus icy tonight. Look at tomorrow. 65 degrees for a high. Wendy was saying felt like spring today. Its going to feel even tomorrow. Plenty of clouds and freezing but tshirts just fine for outdoor exercise. Commute is looking dry. Recess for kids will be fabulous and take Time Outdoors to have lunch. Going to be comfortable. Road conditions to friday still dry but saturday icy and slushy at times throughout the day. On sunday still the chance for slush on area roads especially later in the day with chance of new freezing rain back into the area. Tomorrow, 65, mild, gorgeous, enjoy it. Friday start off in the 50s but by afternoon in the 40s, evening in the 30s. Saturday only in the 30s. 70 percent chance of a wintry mix, snow, sleet and freezing rain all in play. Sunday rain back into the area. 39 on monday, chance for rain showers but mostly dry and more 50s and 60s. Its all a weather rollercoaster out there. Despite Donald Trumps claims this week, there are still gowns available for the inaugural balls but should you rent or buy . Kristen wright compares the prices for you. And thousands of protesters expected for the inauguration opal lee is 90 years old. Walked more than 120 miles across the country. Arriving in capitol hill, mission make juneteenth a national day of remembrance. Excelled on june 19th. Oldest known celebration of end of slavery. Recognized as emancipation day for southern slaves, many of whom didnt learn of their freedom until two years after the end of the civil war. Good for her. Transition team is playing down the glitz of the inauguration but the ball and other events will be are being made. News4s Kristin Wright shows us a way to dress for less. Reporter everyone turns attention to washington, first ladies shine the brightest. My favorite is Jacqueline Kennedy of course, we love the gown she wore in 1961 to the inaugural ball. Damian west knows fashion. Theyre busy with customers wanting inaugural ball look for less. Kind of fun. Its smart decision. Not investing in dresses to only wear once and never see again. This mar kwassa retails and and this is a great assignment for me because i too have to get a dress for the ball. These are my three favorites. Red, white, and green. Decisions decisions. All right this may be the one. I love it but really like the red one too. Runway online store, 50,000 dresses and inauguration tab. Online dresses are shipped. In store go out the door. Own your moment and return it for free. Politics aside, inauguration is time to reflect on the old and usher in the new, even if it is a rental. In washington, Kristin Wright, news4. Now at 6 00 the president elect meets the questions about his policies, business interests and controversial report about russia. In the meantime the cabinet picks in the hot seat today, tell you how defending their record and how one hearing made history. In nine days trump will be sworn in in washington, how the secret Service Plans to keep the president safe. Begin with Donald Trumps first News Conference as president elect. And also his first News Conference in six months. Outlined plans to prevent conflicts of interest between his Family Business and white house role but overshadowed by his fury over what he calls fake news. Jay gray with the latest of the hearings but begin with Steve Handelsman outside trump tower in new york. Reporter good evening