tv bank this week. no one was hurt. alison: leon, a crime alert in montgomery county. this right here is video of an armed robbery at a gas station. you can see here terrifying video of a suspect holding a gun to the man running the register, using the other hand to hold something covering his face. another grabs the cash. this is all at the shell station at west lake drive in bethesda. this happened on the 9th at 2:00 in the morning. so if you know the men in the video, montgomery county police want to hear from you. leon: preparations for the pope s visits is nearly upon us. if you have been looking around lately, you can see pretty much all that is going into in terms of the preparation. abc7 s suzanne kennedy is live outside of st. matthews in northwest washington. she has a look at more to prepare for the visits. suzanne: this is where the pope will be on wednesday at st. matthews cathedral. he will participate in a prayer service with the bishop. they are putting up the
in this video they blind side a reand one knocks them down and the other piles on. a crushing blow. they say the dirty hit was ordered by a coach because the ref was using racial slurs. he told us we need to hit the ref. brad: tonight as the friday night lights hit our area, they are talking about the video. and this one from new jersey. ripping off a helmet and swinging it as a weapon. long-time ref adams said he has never seen anything like the video. before every game i work i tell the players be safe and keep it clean. play within rules and have fun. this is fun. he remembers another game that they taunted his players and he pulled them off the field. he hopes the right lessons are learned. we have to be more vigilant on the lessons with teach the kids outside of football. back live you can see the officials are getting warmed up for the game. the official denies he used racial slurs slurs or ethnic sl. criminal investigations underway. they don t expect anything
knows who they are and will come forward. kevin: the suspects are not afraid to get physical. one cabby was pepper sprayed and another punched square in the face. in last saturday s armed robbery the driver was cut with a knife. kevin lewis, abc7 news. leon: thank you, ketch. today the man who nearly died of the hands of a hit-and-run driver was in the courtroom when she was sentenced to ten years in jail. we have more on the emotional testimony today. jeff goldberg? jeff: it was, leon. noor shaikh is a husband and a father of three who said his life took a horrible turn on the afternoon of january 27 at his own business. crying today in court, shaikh says he cannot work anymore. he is in constant pain. and his medical bills are totaling nearly $900,000. as noor shaikh addressed a judge in court today he could barely talk through the tears. it s hard for me. i m completely broke. i swear to god, i want to die. today, 40-year-old alexandra mendez was sentenced to ten years i
fast. there was no way that anyone could get out of this house alive. the tree was 15 feet high and it was very, very dry. we re told a lot of needles were found underneath as well as in the area that collects needles underneath the tree. it provided a big fuel load for this fire to spread. we re told that don pile s body was actually found in the great greatroom area. it was normal for him to sleep on the first floor. his wife sandy and the grandchildren were on the second floor of the home. it appears they all did die from smoke inhalation. again, we re continuing to gather new information. a press conference is scheduled any moment now including the anne arundel fire chief and executive. police credit witnesses who whipped out their cell phones for helping them track down a woman wanted in a parking lot hit-and-run. alexandra menendez is charged with many charges. here s northern virginia bureau reporter david culver on columbia pike. reporter: mk auto is back open tod
did. reporter: coming up on news4 at 6, it became quite clear during this press conference that investigators still have a lot of questions about what exactly sparked this fire and why it went up so quickly. we ll have more coming up on what they re going to be doing to answer some of those questions. we re reporting live from anne arundel county. doug frigid temperatures today. now we re hearing windchills into the single digit snz. they ve been in the teens today and into the low 20 rz. temperatures on the cold side, the average high 44. this is where we were today, 38. that s all we could get, 36 in frederick. it didn t even feel that warm with the winds gusting 20 to 25 miles per hour today. take a look at the current windchill, 28 in d.c., 21 gaithersburg, 31 in culpeper and 24 toward winchester. the wind will continue to stay up through the evening hours but then start to die down moving through the evening. if you re out and about this evening, it is going to be