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He says that security is being reviewed across the School System. He also says that the system serves students no matter what their immigration status. The superintendent of Montgomery County schools tries to reassure the community after a 14yearold student was raped in the boys bathroom at Rockville High School last week. This horrible incident shouldnt change anyones mind that the schools are safe for our students. Reporter jack smith pledged to not allow this assault to become a political issue and denounced comments he has seen since this attack. While someone tried to make this into a question and issue of immigration, what comes down here is that we serve every student that walks in our door. We are a Public School system. Reporter Maryland Governor larry hogan with strong words against Montgomery County schools after a 14yearold student was raped in the boys bathroom at rockvil Montgomery County government and the Montgomery County police are cooperating. The School System is not. It appears as if they have something to hide. Reporter hogan accused the School System of withholding information from the state board of education about the rape and the schools involved. Two boys who were students have been charged 18yearold Henry Sanchez and 17yearold jose montano. Officials say sanchez had an immigration case pending since august. A spokesman for county executive Isaiah Legget says they are cooperating. We dont want our county Police Enforcing Immigration law. But in this case, i think everybody can agree that if these folks are convicted that these are folks that we dont want in our county. Reporter one new piece of information that came out during this press conference was from Montgomery County police, explaining this rape happened in what was described as a remote area of the school tha again something that the School Superintendent said is being addressed to make sure all areas of every school are safe. Now the pta of the school will be meeting tonight at 7 00. As that investigation continues, the city of rockville in Montgomery County is considering a controversial ordinance to become a sanctuary city. Rockville police have an informal policy to not ask anyone about their immigration status. The ordinance would make that policy official. The city held a public hearing on the matter earlier this month where opponents said they feel the change would make the city less safe. The iteam reports that there were 27 high School Sexual assaults or sexual incidents requiring a response from the police in the 20152016 school year. And in april of 2014 the School District told the iteam it installed mirrors and cameras to reduce blind spots in some the hallways at a different high school in rockville after two students had consensual sex in an area where the staff would not defect them. According to a freedom of information act request that the iteam made back in 2015, about 5,000 cameras were installed in schools across Montgomery County. Chopper 4 is over the scene of a serious crash in ft. Washington right now. This is a live picture at ft. Washington road and river view road. Were told that four people were hurt in this crash, two of them are in critical condition. One of the injured is a child with critical injuries. No word yet on what caused this crash. Now to the effort to repeal and replace what has been known as obamacare. The house is set to vote on thursday on a replacement plan. President trump went to the capitol today to wrangle reluctant republicans. Blaine alexander is on capitol hill where the ske fire. Reporter absolutely, doreen. In fact, this is a major test for President Trump, who campaigned on this promise. Meanwhile, Republican Leaders are calling this their best shot at repealing obamacare. Today on capitol hill, President Trump the salesman, working behind closed doors to get House Republicans on board with the Gop Health Care plan. We had a great meeting. I think were going to get a winner vote. Reporter two days ahead of that crucial vote, a firm message from the president to his own party. The message was if we dont get this done, were going to lose the house and the senate next year. He was that blunt. Reporter and even personal. Here a light moment as the president jokingly calls out at least one member mark meadows of north carolina, a vocal opponent still not convinced. I serve at the pleasure of the people of Western North carolina. When you serve at their pleasure, its only those 750,000 people that can send you home hoping to win conservative support. Repeal obamacare taxes this year instead of next and give states more flexibility on medicaid. As he left capitol hill whats your response to the fbi investigating campaign ties to russia . Reporter the president remained notably silent on mondays bombshell from fbi director james comey, revealing the fbi is investigating possible links between the Trump Campaign and russia. The white house once again shooting down those allegations. They continue to see that there is nothing there. Every Single Person who has been briefed who has come out and publicly talked about it. Reporter an investigation that started in july and could stretch for years to come. And thursdays Health Care Vote will take place seven years to the day since obamacare was signed into law. And of those republicans who are currently leaning no, at least five of them would have to flip to a yes in order for this bill to pass the president might have a small raise on the way for federal workers. The administration is going to recommend a 1. 9 raise for federal workers. It would take effect in january. That raise was not included in the proposed budget released last week. But federal agencies have been told to build the raise into their Spending Plans for the fiscal year that begins in october. Thats according to the washington post. The increase is a bit smaller than the 2. 1 pay raise that president obama authorized for federal workers this year. Montgomery county has nearly 50,000 federal workers and some lawmakers fear that the president s Budget Proposal could be devastating for the county. Today the Council Passed a resolution condemning the trump plan. But what does that resolution really achieve . News4s chris gordon asked lawmakers that question. Reporter were reporting from nih tonight, one of county is fighting to protect. Now, the council today may have achieved something that no other local government throughout the United States has ever even tried before. The Montgomery County council proposed the resolution to condemn President Trumps federal Budget Proposal and to urge the United States congress to reject it on behalf of Montgomery County residents. All in favor of the resolution before us, please raise your hand. And that is unanimous. Reporter afterwards i asked some of the Council Members what theyve achieved. We understand that this is not going to resolve anything. Reporte has this ever been done before, a county council condemns a president ial budget . Im not aware of it being done before. Reporter you think it will have an effect of any kind . I do think it will have an impact. My belief is that local governments throughout the country will be encouraged to fo firefighter was surprised to hear that the koim wcouncil wasg on President Trump. Its incumbent upon the council to be aware and sensitive to the enormous impacts and connection that this community has to the federal government. Reporter craig is a lifelong Montgomery County resident. Im not sure they have the power or authority to do Something Like that on a local basis versus the federal basis. It doesnt seem like it would be the right thing to do. Reporter the Montgomery County council says it took the action on behalf of the 48,000 county resident who is woce who work for the federal government. Some may dismiss the Montgomery County council vote to reject President Trumps budget as simply a symbolic act of nine democrats representing a liberal action and follow their example. The proposed budget would also cut funding for pbs, the public broadcasting system and npr, National Public radio. To protest the move, a familiar character joins parents, children and advocates to rally on capitol hill today. Advocates collected more than 660,000 signatures and delivered them to the senate offices. We want to save pbs kids so that our kids can see the same great kid family programming that we enjoyed as kids. The president s budget would boost defense spending by 54 billion and cut the same amount from nondefense programs. But congress has the final say on federal spending and president ial budgets rarely get approved without changes. A d. C. Man has been awa strip searched by a Laurel Police officer in a Public Parking lot. News4s Mark Segraves reports that before the judges ruling Laurel Police denied the fact that a strip search ever happened. I feared for my life. He would have shot me. They did something horrible to me. Reporter thats how Alan Sergeant described the incident back in 2015. Sergeant says he was strip searched in the parking lot of this cvs on route one while passers by watched. What happened to him is to demeaning, degrading, humiliating and really terror e terrorizing. If you can imagine being pulled over for no reason, taken out of a car and searched and then strip searched. Reporter at the time of the incident officials with the Laurel Police department denied that any strip search took place and called the allegations, during the Court Proceedings it was revealed when laurel officials told the public it didnt happen, police had evidence that in fact it did. And we were able to determine in discovery that there was underlying documentation that they possessed showing in fact that an illegal strip search had happened. Reporter the court entered a judgment against the officer for 125,000. Alkol remains on the Laurel Police department. A spokesman for the Police Department declined to comment. In laurel, Mark Segraves, news4. Heightened security on some International Flights into the u. S. What prompted the new restrictions and whos following suit with a similar ban. Reporter it was 15 months ago that Heather Ciccone was shot and killed as she was sitting in her car. All that time her family has been waiting for action, waiting for today is that day. Today felt much more like spring. But get ready, here comes the cold. Were talking about a temperature drop of 30 degrees by tomorrow afternoon. Say it aint so. The Trump Administration confirmed today its imposing new restrictions on Electronic Devices larger than a cell phone carried by travelers coming to the u. S. From several overseas airports. The u. K. Has announced similar measures. Reporter the u. S. Department of Homeland Security is ordering the heightened security for direct flights into the u. S. On nine overseas airlines coming from ten airports in the middle east and africa. The order, which temporarily bans the carry on of most electronics will take effect on friday. It prevents passengers from carrying on board any Electronic Devices larger than a smart phone. That includes tablets and laptops. But those items will be allowed in checked baggage. Id rather be secure. Reporter the u. K. Is implementing a similar device ban. Nbc news has restrictions were not prompted by any specific new threat but follows elevated intelligence that terror groups the steps being taken are appropriate commensurate with the intelligence we have. Reporter as restrictions are tightened to adjust to evolving threats, passengers may give up convenience for safety. Possibly in the future people will just get used to the fact that you cant bring a laptop or ipad onto an aircraft. Reporter for now, most passengers will not be impacted. The new rules covering about 50 flights daily into the u. S. Run through mid october. The president s travel ban figured into some of the questions for Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch today. His confirmation hearing is still underway even now. Chris lawrence here now with some of the highlights. There are 20 senators on the Judiciary Committee and they all get 30in youre looking at a tenhour hearing. Judge gorsuch has been fielding questions all day on everything from religious tests to abortion. He did say he wont comment directly on President Trumps immigration orders because theyre being challenged in court right now. Judge gorsuch seemed to go out of his way to make clear he would make his decisions independent of the man who nominated him. Is a blanket religious test consistent with the First Amendment . We have a contusistitution at does guarantee free exercise. I will apply thefearlessly. In that interview did President Trump ever ask you to overrule roe v wade . No, senator. What would you have done if he would have asked . I door. You have said several times that he is not above the law. No man is above the law. Judge gorsuch has some ties to our area. His family moved to washington when president reagan selected his mother to be the first woman to lead the epa. In 1985 neil gorsuch graduated from Georgetown Prep high school. He attended Harvard Law School and came back to washington to clerk for three judges including anthony kennedy. Outside witnesses are going to testify about gorsuch tomorrow and the Committee Plans to vote on his nomination on april 3rd. A decision to skip a nato meeting next month is raising new questions about the message the white house is sending to u. S. Allies. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has decided not to attend the meeting of Foreign Ministers in brussels on april 5th and 6th. Instead hell remain in the u. S. Where president t meeting with Chinese Program xi jing ping. Tillerson is scheduled to travel to moscow later in april. And critics say the snub of nato sends the message that china and russia are more important to the u. S. Than our democratic allies. Officials at the state department say its simply a matter of scheduling problems. Ivanka trump will have her own office in the white house. The administration has confirmed the president s daughter will have an office in the west wing. Ivanka has applied for a security clearance and will have access to classified information but the white house says she will not have an official title, she will not get paid for her work. Since the inauguration, the president s daughter has been closely advising her father. Ivankas husband jashd cured ku is a Senior Advisor to the president. Mother and child killed in a tragic crash. How the community is coming reporter an arrow pointing into the woods where two bodies were found several weeks ago, victims of gang violence. Today county leaders talking about ways to stem the gang well, the spring felt a little more like spring, but i dont think we should get used to it. Were not there yet. No. Thats a perfect point. Were not there yet. A lot of people asking me when can i start gardening, when can i start doing the spring type things . Our last freeze typically is the latter half of the month of march. Were not quite there just yet. Temperatures today in the 60s. Temperatures dropping through the 50s. Yeah, well be nice around 7 00 tonight, 58 degrees at that time. Still a nice night to get out for dinner. You may not want to eat outdoors. 55 degrees at 9 00. 51 degrees by 11 00. The cold air not coming in tonight. It will be overnight into tomorrow morning that we see that. Right now still at this time very nice. Were seeing some sunshine through some mid to high level clouds. Cooler along the water. Patuxent river coming in at 52 degrees. 61 in frederick. H high temperatures this time of year average around 58 degrees. When do we need to get there . How about april 21st when the average temperature is near 70 degrees. That is going to be very nice as we head towards the next few weeks. But we still have to go through a little bit more cold air. No rain right now, but take a look at the radar here. Back to the west were looking at some clouds. Look at the last few frames right in here. Thats the rain coming our way and thats the cold front coming our way too. The cold front is up in canada moving down behind this. Much colder air back toward the west. Look at these numbers. 44 chicago, 35 minneapolis, 42 buffalo. That cold air will seep in overnight. By tomorrow morning you will feel it. Windchills tomorrow morning, 29 d. C. , 33 even around 1 00 in the afternoon, the windchill 34 in d. C. Again, nearly 30 degrees colder. At least it will feel 30 degrees colder tomorrow afternoon than it does right now. 29 back towards martinsburg and 28 in winchester. Even tomorrow evening were still seeing those windchills down close to freezing in many areas. At the bus stops, make sure the kids have the coats. Dont let them talk you out of the coats and the pants tomorrow. 44 by noon. By 4 00 coming in around 46 degrees. Just know its going to be a cold one tomorrow. Cold on thursday and then notice friday. A few showers early but then the wind switches out of the south and we go up to 60 on friday, 74 on saturday. And the rain coming on sunday. Coming up, an urgent phone call, then minutes later a woman was we have new reaction from the victims sister as two men are facing charges now more than a year after the woman was murdered. Reporter the name of the company is unity and now theyre taking their namesake one step further. Im tracee wilkins. Coming up on news4, what folks here are doing for a coworker who lost his girlfriend and their baby in one fatal accident. Could wegmans be coming to d. C. For the first time . Well tell you where now at 6 30, a step closer to justice as the family of a murder victim reacts to news that two men have now been charged more than a year after her death. She was everything to us. Reporter and then for her to die this way devastating. Plus, how strangers are rallying around a man who lost his son and girlfriend in a horrific crash. I feel the love. I feel the support. New revelations in the disappearance of the lyon sisters more than 40 years ago. And a megafight is brewing in maryland over a megachurch. Why some residents dont want the place of worship in their neighborhood. Youre watching news4 at 6 00. Now at 6 30, wondering what happened and why. Now two men have been arrested for the murder of a young woman found shot to death in her car. Pat collins have reaction tonight from the victims family. It will forever be on my mind. In fact, you can probably see the police tape still in the woods here where they searched everywhere. Reporter when she heard about the arrest today bonnie put some flowers down at the place where it happened. You see, she remembers that december night back in 2015. The night when a young woman was found murdered in her driveway. It was bonnies husband who discovered the body. The motor was still running. Her foot was on the gas pedal. It was revving the engine. Her cell phone was in her lap. And her car door, her side was open. Reporter the victim, 21yearold Heather Ciccone, shot to death at close help her friend whose car had broken down. She was found dead about five miles away in her car, in this driveway alongside a country road. Her family devastated by her murder. She was a great sister, a great daughter, an aunt, a friend. She was everything to us. Reporter after 15 months, police have now charged two men in connection with the murder. 29yearold Joshua Williams and 28yearold jonathan vejarano. Both men have felony records. Both men were in jail in other cases when the murder charges came down. So whats the story here . Whats the motive . Are there any more suspects . Detectives arent talking. They say theres more police work to be done. In news4. Metro Transit Police are trying to track down a man who they say touched a person inappropriately during the height of the evening commute. Take a look at the guy in this surveillance image. Hes accused of Sexual Assault battery. Investigators say it happened on the orange line near the clarendon station last monday. There are few words to comfort someone after they lose their spouse and child. Tj henderson lost his whole world in a crash on the Suitland Park way last month. His coworkers are hoping their kindness might offer a little bit of support. Reporter 2yearold ter rions tricycle sits down. This quiet home was filled with family just days his High School Sweetheart and girlfriend ebony lyons and their son. It hurts me being in this house, being in the same bed, their toothbrushes. Reporter they were cukilled march 9th after a crash on the Suitland Parkwaparkway. Someone donated the casket to us too. I feel grateful about that. I feel the love. It destroyed our entire office. We were all in tears. Reporter henderson works parttime at unity towing in springfield. A family oriented business, so much so they even have a baby in the office. There is that smile reporter when they got word of what happened to tjs family, they started a go fund me page to try and help with funeral expenses. Hes always had the disposition. To see him struggle, its heartbreaking. Reporter for tj, the support is helping. And i only been with that company for about 10 months. It means a lot to me, so fast that they highly support me so much. Reporter if you were interested in helping out henderson and his family, you can log onto nbc washington and search tow truck driver help. In springfield, im tracee wilkins, news4. Fairfax county elected leaders say its time too quickly ramp up efforts to counter gang violence. Their alarm comes after a series of gang murders across Northern Virginia. Bureau chief julie carey was at todays meeting and joins us with a look at some proposed solutions. Reporter first off, by weeks end we could know the identity of the two bodies found back in the woods in Holmes Run Park a few weeks ago. Already police and elected leaders convinced they were the one supervisor thinks it might be time to get some undocumented teenagers out of Fairfax County Public Schools. The arrows point to the murder scene in the woods where two bodies were discovered in Holmes Run Park. Since last fall across Northern Virginia seven have been killed by gang members, including a 15yearold girl. Most alarming to all of us is the increase in juvenile crime and violent crime. Reporter supervisor pat herty thinks some of the blame lies on the hundreds of unaccompanied undocumented minors who have come into the community in recent year who s find family in a gang. Many of which have no family connections, many of which cant read and write in their own language. They put them in our high schools and it puts a huge strain on our schools, on our Police Department. Reporter herty will removing some undocumented immigrant students, educating them instead in a residential setting like the one offered at Prince William countys youth for tomorrow campus. Can we get some of these undocumented minor children into federally funded programs that give them the help they need outside of our School System. Reporter School Supervisor penny gross says efforts must be revamped recognizing the nature of gangs has changed, social media the new recruitment tool, the gang crimes more brutal. This is something that i think the entire county, the entire region needs to be involved in. Reporter now, looking ahead, the community in this part of the county will come together next wednesday night for a town hall meeting on gang violence. And one more final point made by a Fairfax County school spokesman, he says they responsible for edge kaucating children regardless of immigration status. Coming up, new developments in a notorious crime that rocked this region 40 years ago. A crucial clue never revealed in the case of the lyons sisters. Reporter a large church with a 1600 seat sanctuary on more than 15 acres of land along New Hampshire avenue. On news4 tonight, why some people in this neighborhood say they dont want this place of worship here. Take a look at our tower cam out here. Weve got a looks like a big crow getting a little bit upset about the weather coming in. Get off my camera come on cant be that mad. Temperatures onl30 degrees y it was the s Washington Area lived their lives. On march 25th, 1975, two young sisters walked to the Shopping Mall near their home and were never seen again. 12yearold sheila lyon and her sister catherine went to the Wheaton Plaza mall. They never came home and their bodies have never been found. Later this year a man will finally go on trial for their murders. Our news partner wtop radio has launch aed a new podcast which takes a deeper look at this case. Four hours after the lyons sisters were supposed to be back home, their parents john and mary realized that something was wrong. John lyon picked up his kitchen phone and dialled 911. Within a couple of 412 was on its way to the lyon family home. Within moments, the Police Officer who responded for Montgomery County police said that he realized that the girls had not run away, but he said that he tried to soft peddle his concern because he didnt want to alarm john and mary lyons. During the early days of the investigation, police did put out a sketch of someone who came to be known as tape recorder man. It turns out that there was also another sketch that was generated, but that sketch was never released to the public. And we learned a little bit about why that was the case and how that second sketch actually looked a lot more like the man who will be going on trial for the lyons sisters murders. That was Neil August Steen record didnt do yesterday. Up next tonight, a debate over development. Well tell you why some people say that building a church on that plat of land there will ruin their neighborhood. Plus the story of a local woman who won a million d announcer while everyone discusses the future of health care, 18 million americans are already choosing it. Partnership, where Health Outcomes are valued over volume. Where Early Intervention and management of chronic conditions is leading to better outcomes. And costs are more predictable and affordable. Why do so many seniors choose Medicare Advantage . Maybe because with age comes wisdom. Medicare advantage. Leading the way. Its a wildly Popular Grocery store chain and listed as one of the best companies to work for. Now it may be coming to the district. To open a wegmans in tenly town neighborhood in northwest. Thats according to the washington business journal. If the deal works out, it could be the first wegmans in the district. Plans to open a store at the former walter reed site on Georgia Avenue fell through last year. Mary thomas lives in virginia. She helped a friend the other day and shes being paid one millionfold. Mary thomas won a million bucks with a virginia lotto scratchoff ticket. She and her friend julie worked an overnight shift recently. After work they decided to go get some tickets. Mary showed julie how to work the selfservice machine and how to scan the ticket after scratching it to see if it was a winner. Julie won 12 ck its almost like doug seeing a wegmans in his neighborhood. She says she is still in her words freaking out. Freak on out, mary. Way to go. Way to go. Wow. Good for her. Great pictures. Who knew youd get some excited about a grocery store, doug. Weve had that story about wegmans coming to different parts of the area dont get your hopes up. It has fallen through in the past. So true. If its coming close to where we are, its life changing. It is life changing. Okay. Trust me, man. Ill tell you whats going on outside right now. The temperatures next couple of days, it is not going to be fun. But notice thats where the wegmans would go, right down there. 63 today, dropping to 46 tomorr, and back up to 60. Weve got another cold snap here but its only two days. Again, we go from 63 to 46. It will feel like 33 tomorrow. Right now no windchill. Its quite nice. 62 degrees. Winds out of the north. Lot of clouds cover across the region right now. Cold air is not moving in yet. 57 pittsburgh, 67 in roanoke. Its to the 80s just to the south and 30s just to the north. Could produce a couple of showers overnight, not anything this evening but overnight tonight as this front moves on down. This is the front right here. You can see it with the showers moving on down. That will bring in the colder air. Tomorrow starting off at 38 degrees. 44 and windy at noon. Windchills around noon could be heres the warm coat, put on the hats again. Sunglasses. 47 on your thursday, much warmer friday and saturday. Saturday looking great with a high of 74. 62 on sunday and rain likely most of the day on sunday. Cool monday and tuesday. Theres a church in downtown Silver Spring thats planning to relocate if the county approves the move next week. Their future neighbors say its a megachurch and they are not happy about it. The church chose a plot of land along New Hampshire avenue just north of mcneal lane. Kristin wright has our report. Its just amazing. I love to watch the birds. I love to watch them in the trees. Reporter all of this, the birds, the trees, the land, Winnie Barnes little piece of heaven. It is. See it kept. Reporter winnie and many of her neighbors in Montgomery County are afraid that proposed plans to build a large church on New Hampshire avenue would take away from their peace and quiet. They want a school, they want the church. Theyre talking about a playground. Theyre also talking about a ball field, parking for all of those folks. Its going to be massive. Reporter jesus house d. C. Says theyve out grown the Current Location in downtown Silver Spring. Now theyre trying to develop 15 acres into a large church complex with a sanctuary seating 1600 people. Its hard to count how many churches are already on New Hampshire avenue. Jesus house leaders tell news4 the plan is to extend their reach deeper into the community to help those in need. Jesus house also told us theyve worked hard to, quote, minimize any impact its proposed project would have on the surrounding community. To the people here, the land is reporter clover leaf Civic Association has called this neighborhood home for almost 40 years. He says hes most concerned about the possible Environmental Impact of the new church. If all of the sudden theres a great influx of water down the stream, its going to cause havoc the whole way down the stream all the way to the chesapeake bay. Reporter when winnie moved here, it was just a dirt road. She knows things change but she questions if its in gods plan this time. We got sports coming up. Caps have clenched a playoff spot, but no time to celebrate. Well tell you why the team is this is the xfinity sports desk. The caps have a game tonight. Reporter guys, tonight is one of the final 11 regular season games for this Washington Capitals team. First they need to handle business against the calgary flames. This time last year the caps were heading into the post season well ahead of the rest of the division, but thats not the case this year, meaning the c foot on the gas. Over the weekend the caps were one of the first teams to clench a playoff spot with the penguins and blue jackets nipping at their heels, theres no coasting into the postseason. Pittsburgh, columbus and washington are three of the top teams in the league. Two of those squads are going to have to face off in the first round. In other words, everyone is gunning for the one seed. The players happy to keep the level of competition high as they roll into the playoffs. I think its you know helps a lot when youre in a race probably right to the end, right to the playoffs. It makes you have to get into that playoff mode and have to play your best. Obviously thats what we want. You know its going to get ramped up and youre closer to the mark than when you were sort of just easing yourself into it. So i think that will help us prepare for the playoffs if we put the right focus in all of those reporter so lopts of meanin full hockey left in this regular season and a meaning full one tonight for Braden Holtby. Holtby becomes the second goal tend toer to play 300 games wit the capitols. Only one player in nhl history has earned more wins in his first 300 games than holtby. Hes also one of the most respected leaders on the team. Hes the backbone. Hes a phenomenal guy off the ice and the guy i looked up to from the first day i sat in the corner over there with him for a long time. He was comforting. Hes our leader on and off the ice. Great guy. Its harder as a goalie to fit into these leadership roles. Theres that kind of space between you and the group at times. Youve got to work to minimize it. Throughout the years ive gained more experience to find ways to do that and make sure my ma versa. Reporter how about a little extra love for Braden Holtby tonight . The fans voting on his bobblehead for his 300th career game. Looking for a little love on the hardwood, the Washington Wizards are on a slide right now, losing four of their last five games, including two straight losses. The wizards still third in the east. Two and a half games back of the celtics. With only 12 games left in the regular season including a fourgame road trip, this team knows they need to Start Playing with more consistency heading into the playoffs. Nobody wants to lose. Nobody likes losing. Were going to see how to figure it out. Were running out of games. Its not going to get any easier. Our schedule is tough. Weve got to some wins. Lets go caps. Thats our broadcast for now. Tonight, banned on board. Tablets and laptops banned on the cabin. New intelligence pushing the u. S. And britain to ban anything bigger than a smartphone. The president s personal appeal to republicans fall short and tonight the gop Healthcare Plan is on life support. 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