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Transcripts For WRC News4 At 6 20180105

Night if not colder. I think tonight will be colder. We have a wind chill advisory in effect now until noon tomorrow. The wind chill will be between 5 and 15 below 0. Well be tracking it as we move through. So cold tonight, continuing right on through tomorrow, but heres the good news. We could circle that right there. Much warmer next week. Well be able to thaw out for at least a little while. Much more on that coverage and including another wintry storm coming up on monday. See you in minutes. So, there is reason for hope. Thank you, doug. Team and coverage of the cold takes us to arlington tonight. We found people there wearing layers of scarves, layers of coats, even face masks to try to keep warm in this cold. News4s Kristin Wright joins us now. Kristin, i heard you say earlier you were wearing your photographers gloves to stay warm . Reporter i am. I did bring my gloves. They just werent warm enough. So, these ones are nice and toasty because youre going to need it. All this evening, take my advice and cover up everything. Its a bitter day to work out side, or even walk down the street. Its cold out here. This is cold. Wish i had a mask to put over my face. Reporter and for those living on the streets, its far worse. Im the one going to freeze out here and theyre talking about its going to be drop all the way to 10 tonight. I dont know how im going to survive out here. Reporter kevin waters says he might sleep right here on the street in arlington tonight. He told us nearby shelters were full. We called and they said theyd look for kevin because they never turn people away. The lady brought me these two blankets, small little blankets right here. Its hard, you know what i mean . Its real hard out here. Reporter wind chills are near zero and falling dangerously. Im really from up north, boston, and this feels like boston. This feels like boston, yeah, its that cold. Reporter its that cold . Yeah, this is boston cold. Reporter deborah greenfield positive this is just too cold for arlington. Because its just to the bone. It cuts through your clothes like you got stockings on. Reporter and you know that shelter also told us they do have a little bit of extra space this year compared to last year, so theyre thankful for that because theyre certainly going to need it tonight and this weekend, doreen. Back to you. It is awful out there. Kristin, now you all have us wondering what is your photographer doing for gloves if hes given up his to you. Reporter hes very smart in that. He has gloves. No, no one is that crazy tonight hopefully. He has other gloves. He has extras. Back up, warm ones for reporters like me. All right. We wont feel too sorry for him. Hes an experienced photographer and very nice of him to help you out. Theme shaking. No. This bitter cold blast of arctic air is miserable. If you have to be outside. But it made for some beautiful pictures courtesy of chopper4 today. Take a look, incredible images from the sky looking down at the potomac river. Chunks of ice on the surface and a quiet calm on the water. On the ground, a headache for some people in foggy bottom today. A water main break causing an icy mesa long virginia avenue here and rock creek parkway, not too far from the watergate. The road is back open, but crews are still working to replace the broken main, and it could be several days before the pavement is patched up. Doreen . A long clean up ahead for people who live in ocean city, maryland. Look at the boardwalk, still buried in snow. Parts of the city got as many as 11 inches of snow. We found crews plowing and people shoveling out. Most people say todays bitter cold is worse than yesterdays the winter storm clobbered much of the country and many cities along the east coast are still cleaning up. This is the scene in a town just south of boston, a seawall failure led to record flooding which combined with the cold led to a wintry nightmare for a lot of people. As the temperatures continue to fall here and across the country, make sure you have the nbc washington app to stay ahead of any changes anywhere. In other news tonight, it is one thing to see the aftermath of a wild chase and highway shooting. Its another to watch it as it unfolds. Tonight were taking you inside the cruiser of a Stafford County sheriffs deputy as he dodges bullets on i95. David culver has the play by play in a story you saw first on 4. The messy scene halted traffic along i95 for hours. We showed you the overturned suv and began to piece together what happened. But now we can take you along with stafford it all played out. This is the view out of deputy cody mccormicks windshield. The deputy hauling down courthouse road toward the 95 on ramp. As he turns north, his timing just about perfect. Notice the suspects black suv in the far left lane, not far behind it, a Virginia State trooper in pursuit. Hes entering onto the interstate getting behind the black suv, the ford explorer. Not knowing that just two miles down the road the subject had fired upon the trooper. Reporter investigators say the man behind the wheel of that suv is 42yearold gregory lee. They say hed just shot and killed his wife in their heron drive apartment. After a few miles on the highway, watch the suv swerve into the middle lane. The trooper and deputy keeping close. Suddenly the car stops on the interstate. Watch as he angles his vehicle into the left lane. Then he comes back, almost like a 45degree angle, trying to get a position to fire a shot, which he did. Reporter Deputy Mccormick onto the farright shoulder. He saw what we couldnt. Well slow it down. Look closely. That is a hand gun pointed out the window. The bullet hitting both the trooper and mccormicks windshield. Some of the windshield had shattered, causing him to bleed a little bit. He thought perhaps hed been shot. And even thinking that, he continues the pursuit. A few miles up, keep watching. Rollover, rolling over. Reporter lee later died at the hospital. Investigators believe he put the gun to his own head and pulled the trigger. And i believe in my heart there was divine intervention involved. That bullet came through my windshield. Reporter and proud of his deputys quick actions. In stafford, david culver, news4. New reaction just in from a local School Teacher fired for leading a double life as a leader in the altright movement. Greg contee is seen there at that violent rally in charlottesville over the summer, was fired from the academy of the holy cross in kensington. New story and just moments ago spoke to contee by phone. Reporter i spoke to greg contee by phone and he told me he wasnt surprised that the leadership here at holy cross fired him, but he said he was disappointed because he enjoyed his years here as a teacher and a coach. Greg contee had been a substitute teacher here at the academy of the holy cross since august of 2014. He spoke to news4 by phone. I think they fired me because theyre afraid of negative bab lash from the media. Reporter according to School Officials there was never any problems with his work or complaints from parents or students. But in october the school got an anonymous tip, alerting them to a news article identifying the teacher and track coach as a leader in the altright movement and one of the organizers of the recent protests in charlottesville that turned deadly. Contee can be seen in this Youtube Video from the charlottesville protest next to richard spencer. Contee is in the blue blazer and sunglasses. Greg contee used an alias greg altright movement and on his social media accounts. Yeah, i wanted to do it anonymously because there are huge social costs to being publicly in favor of altright positions. Reporter in a letter to parents, the head of holy cross wrote, a substitute teacher greg contee is a member of the altright movement and has been fired. Theres going to come a time where institutions, whether thats schools or employers, just have to say, you know, i dont care. Reporter contee tells me at this point he doesnt plan to contest his firing with any type of legal action. He says he wants to focus on his work with the altright movement. In kensington, mark segraves, news4. It is getting tough to find a copy of fire and fury here in washington. The bombshell tellall book went on sale at midnight last night. White house officials call it a book of lies, but tonight the author is defending his reporter. Blayne alexander has reporter early delivery, fire and fury released four days ahead of schedule and already a best seller despite threats of legal action from President Trump. Not only is he helping me sell books, but hes helping me prove the point of the book. I mean, this is extraordinary that a president of the United States would try to stop the publication of a book. Reporter in a today show exclusive, author Michael Wolff defending the book that airs dirty white house laundry and calls into question the president s fitness for office. Slammed by the white house as complete fantasy. Should steve bannon be fired . Reporter President Trump leaving for camp david, ignoring shouted questions about his former advisor steve bannon who, in the book, attacks and belittles the president s children. But on twitter unveiling a new nickname, calling him sloppy steve. And on wolff, saying he never even spoke to the author for the book. I absolutely spoke to the president. Whether he realized it was an interview or not, i dont know, but it certainly was not off the record. Reporter another vexing read for the white house, new reporting from the New York Times that the president sent his Top White House lawyer to stop attorney general Jeff Sessions from recusing himself in the russia investigation, which sessions ultimately did anyway. And the president got very, very angry, saying to white house officials that he needed an attorney general who would protect him. Reporter later the president reportedly demanded sessions resignation, which he submitted, but President Trump did not accept. Blayne alexander, nbc news, washington. Breaking tonight, maryland congressman Elijah Cummings is expected to make a full recovery from a bacterial infection that sent him to the hospital today. Thats the word from his office. The democrat was admitted to Johns Hopkins for an infection in his knee. Doctors drained the infection in a minor procedure. Todays news impacting the maryland governors race. Campaign for the democratic nomination. Cummings wife cited personal considerations. Questions about Steve Bannons future after his quotes in that tellall book have political insiders choosing sides. Nbcs chuck todd joins us next as we look at the fallout. Fears over just how bad this years flu season is, and what you can do to try to protect yourself. An employee accused of disgusting crime at a familyfriendly restaurant. But what happened next left the victis parents demanding m iand i like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. First place. Both events . Booyah were an awards family. Youll like them both but love our price. Awardwinning organic cheddar puffs from aldi. Simply smarter shopping. Near record cold across our region and its going to get even worse before it gets better, folks. It is. Here we go again. Doug with a closer look at the impact and our weekend, too. Hey, doug. Yeah, guys, youre noticing the flags are calm a little bit. Were still seeing gusts upwards of 20 to 30 miles an hour. Well see that through the night tonight. If youre heading out just be ready for that. Youll be walking along, youre all bundled up thinking youre okay, here comes that nice gust of wind making things colder. Winds out of the west at 12 miles an hour gusting 20 to 30 miles an hour as i mention. It feels like 3 below in gaithersburg, 4 below in patuxent river. Being a friday night, there will be a lot more people out and about tonight. Make sure youre ready for through noon tomorrow. That tells you were going to have wind chills between 0 and 15 below at times. Winds 25 to 35 for those higher gusts, thats what theyll be. There is some relief coming on sunday so we will not have any kind of wind chill advisory on sunday. There is definitely some relief there of, but this is what you can expect tonight. Going out to dinner, getting down around 11 00, were in 0 or below 0 to the north and west. Close to it, though, in the Single Digits the rest of the area. Tomorrow morning waking up, i think the winds pickup again and were close to 10 below in many areas. With the wind chill or the wind gusts, rather, it will feel even colder than that. Be ready. Bundle up if youre heading out on saturday morning as well, going to be quite cold through the afternoon. Heres saturday tomorrow afternoon around 1 00 and were still below 0. 5 below gaithersburg, 4 below in martinsburg, it all has to do with the wind. Fortunately that wind starts to calm. As it does n, temperatures go down. You can see the wind chill pretty close to where we are now. The cold air, the pattern has been locked in. Weve seen that deep trough all across the east and that is allowed for that cold air to come right out of canada and spill across our region. Thats going to change next week. Were going to see the jet stream a little farther to the north. Cold air will move back to the north and well see warmer air coming along our region. But the jet stream around our area, too, and where we sit on that jelt stream has a lot to what were going to see temperature wise. Much warmer next week. Temperatures go above average in the middle of next week, but tracking a storm late week, that one is going to be the one im really watching. But also tracking the storm system on your monday. Temperatures tomorrow 21. Thats why were in a weather alert with dangerous cold. 27 on monday, 39 on monday and this storm im watching very closely, the reason is because weve been below freezing for so long, mostly rain from this storm. Thats whats going to fall. But because its been so cold it may freeze on area roadways and that is something to be concerned about for monday. That might end up being a weather alert day. Tracking the next storm, i have it as rain. It may not be. Talk much more about that, too, over the next couple days. Right now, guys, let me quit out of the way. Theres the whole tenday forecast. Thank you, doug. Thank you, doug. Now back to politics. Yeah. Washington is back to work and beginning a new year with the cluster of political fire storms. President trump raises alarms this week with a buttonsize measuring contest with north koreas leader. The controversy all but forgotten, though, by mid week when the book fire and fury explodes onto the scene. Extensive quotes from steve bannon led the president to brand him with a nickname, a new one, sloppy steve. Although the white house dismisses the book as tabloid gossip, the author says he stands by his reporting. I will tell you the one description that everyone gave, everyone has in common, they all say he is like a child. Author Michael Wolff will be chuck todds exclusive guest this sunday on meet the press. Chuck, we have discussed every week there is a new drama, a new fire storm. Is this one going to be another one that blows over or is it going to be a big deal . Well, look, in some ways its the nature of the trump presidency. Its like a constant stream of fire storms. In fact, i had a close longtime confidant of the president call me today and just say, take the wolff book at its face value. Just remember, hes painting a portrait of chaos and you and Michael Wolff and everybody views it as bad. But the president doesnt. This is always how hes operated. Whats interesting is this person said to me, it is actually a very familiar donald trump. Thats what makes this book i think land with such a bombshell here in this town because i know after i read the book and as i was reading the what shocked me was it was on the record. Ive heard the same things, but ive heard them off the record. Now, i think there are some people wondering in the white house today that if they thought they were off the record and theyre finding out they were on the record and things like that, but, look, i dont know how much legs this book itself has, but its already led to a divorce of steve bannon and donald trump, which has 2018 repercussions. Speaking of him, as you know, hes facing some hurdles at breitbart, some prominent backers have pulled away. Can he stay on at breitbart . Where does he go from here . Its unclear. The president is flexing his muscles here. I mean literally, they almost, you know, ordered the Mercer Family to pull out of anything bannon, to denounce bannon. And they did, the Mercer Family has been very financially supportive of both President Trump during his campaign and many of Steve Bannons activities. Rebecca mercer put out a longer supporting any of his activity. That is a huge blow to him. So, it is and you see people are picking sides and according to a source of mine inside the white house, the president is happy to find out everybody picked him over bannon. And that actually oddly has comforted him more today even as hes been so angry about this book over the last 48 hours. He likes to win. Hes winning something. And he feels good about sloppy steve. He thinks, oh, look, i made i made a new nickname stick, somebody who has been on the other end of a nickname. Thats one thing hes very effective at. So, this fire and fury book is one thing and, you know, who knows where really where that takes us. But this new report from the New York Times about the Mueller Investigation and the idea that the president tried to force the attorney general not to recuse himself, thats a story t ramifications. Look, what it implies is that if Robert Mueller is building a obstruction of justice case against the president , among other aspects he could be doing, the president certainly has provided just what we know look, the president made no secret that is the impetus for firing comey had to do with russia, he made it clear to lester holt. He made it clear to the New York Times in december, he thought eric holder was loyal to president obama. He wished he had an attorney general who was loyal. Its not that hes hidden h

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