the motivation that matters is that of do doug evans. he wanted to get rid of his many african-american jurors as he could, and that is unconstitutional. i think they were receptive, and i hope that they will decide that the mississippi supreme court was clearly erroneous in its finding. is aner: if this case outlier, which is what you were saying, the chief justice and other justices asked you, what kind of a rule can we have to prevent outliers like this? prof. johnson: no new rule is needed. the rule that is needed is one the court has already laid out, that there has to be a sensitive into racial motivation. hopefully that will not produce things in most cases, but a court has to be looking for the fact that he may try to conceal that. opinion of that , thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ was three giant networks and a government service called pbs. 1969, an unusu

heads up this thing is moving quickl at 55 miles perhour. >> thank you, doug. >>> doug will be tracking the system the next few hours and you can see the weather for your neighborhood any time in our nbc washington app. >>> we are just learning the northbound george washington parkway is closed the entire weekd. there's a massive 10-foot deep sink hole there. adam tussas the details. >> reporter: the breaking news that we just learned over the last couple of minutes here, the gw parkway northbound between 123 and the beltway likel to be closed throughout the weekend. as can you see, a massive hole here on the northbound lanes, it goes deep. crews h to dig into that. basically a storm water drain burst, it was a 60-year-old pipe what we're told, well in over a foot in diameter, that was just overwhelmed likely by the rain we had yesterday, and nowws c have to get in there and p a new drainage pipe in there. chop 4er was over t area as the sink hole started to develop prepondera pa this nationa service said it is a big job and they're trying to get to it as fast as possible. as crews cont

doug and amelia are back in two minus with an update to the forecast. leon and pat, back to you. >>> if you're planning to do your taxes this weekend, we have some news that might be very welcome for you. you may not be hit as hard by the new tax law as you thought. >> new information released from the irs shows refunds are climbing. susan hon is working for y with what you need to know. susan. >> music toll of our ears for sure. a couple of weeks ago we warned you that early filers were seeing smaller refunds this year and in some cases owing money for the first time. now four weeks into the filing season things are looking up. according to theirs, the average refund check is just er $3,100, that is up 1.3% from last year. 47.7 million returns have already been processed this year. th fewer than this time last year. now this is the first time we are actually submitting our returns under the tax cuts and jobskct which t effect last year. the overall nearly doubled the standard deduction and put a cap ontate and local tax deductions, some taxpayersho did

let's go down to doug kammerer, who's stillaving fun and filling up. doug? >> the crowd that came out, he here we are right outside the first base gate. inside was electric, amazing.y obviouhe first day of the new season here, so many high hopes going on for the nationals today, unfortunately not coming away with a win, but it was a great game max scherzer had his game going on with the exception ofno . thatil guy kd us. but it doesn't matter, everybody had a great time. then in the end they came here to the salt line. a great place to be for dnk and, of course, food awell. you know i had to get my food on. i'm an oyster guy. these are from the chesapeake bay. that's really good. and they're made rightthere. they're made righthere on that grill. i now need a drink. that's coming? okay. i'm going to give you these. thank you very much. did you gs have fun today? go nats! let's show you what's happening weather cewise. ay today for baseball, absolutely. a little on the cool side, it's still nice. the exception when we have the wind. that's the oy time it feels

doug, have you done that? i know you wouldn't have got caught like that in a game of pickle. >> that was upsetting to me because thahawas the only cnce the nats had. >> they were saying they were working on fundamentals. c ites to the end, 10 strikeouts for jacob degrom. second time in mlb history both starting pitchers strike out 10 or more on openi day. the mets shut out the nats 2-0. >> good at bats for most part all day. we made himwork. he was doing pretty ll. for me there's positives there. we have to build on it and move on. >> he's a heck of a pitcher. tip your cap in that sense. but we'll get him. it's all part of basketball. baseball. hats off to him. >> the hits are going to come, we're going t score runs. no doubt. we'll come back and do it again. >> each opening day is kind of special in its own way, but this one different because the first bryce harper years not in a nationals uniform. did you miss him day? >> no. i'm not upset that he's gone. i think the locker room is going to be better here. i

doug is tracking scattered night. for your monday an update on the timing of that next at 5:00. >>> apple says it is showtime. >> the tech and online service company unveiled a new subscription streaming service. >> we haveep thet from apple headquarters in california. >> reporter: apple is taking t plunge into original programming and story telling, but the truty is, ave some catching up to do. >> apple tv plus. >> reporter: tim cook called on hollywood a listers to help unil the new video streaming service today. >> all of this and the chance for us to collaborate again has brought me back to television and i'mit e about it. >> reporter: they talked about their new projec for the ad-free service. >> i love circles. >> reporter: which will debut this fall, but no details on price as apple goes head-to-head with netflix, amazon and others. >> this is a way of getting us sort of hooked on apple not just as a maker of phones but of entertainment and other services. >> reporter: they introduced a service.scription >> we

doug says it won't last much longer. stay tuned for live updates over the next half hour. >>> police officers walk into unknown dangers every day. >> tonight police in fredericksburg warn of a invisible threat. one that caused fourer offto overdose. >> tonight only on news4, david culver looks at how the increasing usef drugs in our ea is exposing officers to a potentially deadly danger. >> reporter: when fredericksburg police officers hit the streets, they areocussed on the seemingly obvious dangers. >> we're trained to watch the hands and watch for threats. >> reporter: but in april last year, officers added a new threat to thelist, one you cannot see. it started as they responded to a call for help from this hotel. kortney burrohs dialled 911 saying her husband james was struggling to breathe. >> at the time i didn't think there was aisk to me. i thought i was there to help somebody. >> we didn't know until at the end of this there was white powder almost all over everyns surfacee that room. we couldn't see it, it was

thanks, doug. >> thank u, doug. >>> to politics now. the house judiciary committee is moving forward with a massive investigation into president trump. >> the committee, chaired by democratic congressman gerald nadler is requesting documents from 81 individuals and entities, a sweep from presint trump's business interests to his political activities before and after his election. >> nadler said the committee is oncussed on questions that concern obstrucf justice, public corruption and abuses of power. blayne alexander has been digging through the list a joins us with the latest. hi, blayne. >> doreen and leon, good evening to you. this is something we've been expeing to seeince november. remember after the midterms last year we heardte repy once democrats controlled the house we would see a lot of new sweeping investigations into the president and his affairs. well, it appears now that's exactly what we're seeing and democrats are apparently justd. getting star today the house judiciary committee launching a sweeping new investigation i

doug mckelway is live with more. doug? >> we're on standby right here. things running slowly here at the courthouse. the sentencing hear was set for 3:30 this afternoon. we had a runner come out around five minutes ago to say that judge t.s. ellis is not yet present. our runner did tell us that paul manafort is in the courtroom and not looking well. he was wheeled in a wheelchair in the courtroom. he also had a cane with him. our runner describes him as having to pick up each of his individual legs to get out of the wheelchair and into a courtroom seat there. let's reason through what the changes he's been found guilty of and the possible sentencing here. five counts of filing false income tax returns and two counts of bank fraud. as you said, charles, manafort could face potentially technically 80 years in jail. it's a misnomer. the reality is that sentencing guidelines that he realistically will face 19 to 25 years in jail. judge ellis has wide-ranging latitude. he can shorten or lengthen the sentence depending on how he sees it. we talked to manafort'

doug was there. thriller for the cs tonight and lightning and what could be a ploff ay >>> this is the xfinity sports desk. >> boy, this wasntense tonight. >> i had to look at the calendar and make sure it was not may already. >> exactly. >> the way the two teams, capitals/lightning, a presview f what could be. the capitals outworking the lightning tonight. not having it pay off. washington coming off a win last night, but had the quick turnound hosting the tampa bay lightning. the best team in hockey. all right. this is pretty cool whether you like the lightningno or t. steven stamkos throwing this little girl a puck. look at her reaction. >> aww. ni you jougot to love it. she was loving it t. second period tied at three. tampa on the power play. ice puck movement to nikita kucherov. leading scorer nets his second goal of the night. not much you can do to stop that one. lightning take a 4-3 lead. more problems for the caps. michael kevny along the boards getting into it with a lightning player. goes

and coming together tonight to bring us a monster rainstorm packing >> let's go right to storm chief doug kammerer. >> brobably the time i'm coming on the air with you about 11:00 tonight and really heavy rain right on through the day tomorrow. this is two systems one of which back towards the great lakes. this swinging down across our area, and it's actually going to help to lift this storm which you can really see vengting just off the coast of theca linas, and we're talking a lot of rain associated with this storm. tomo tow is going be just one nasty day. behind only that, but this storm we get rather windy. here come the c stormsing together. it's going to be a mess of a thursday for you, and we think a mess of a friday as well. the rain is over by friday, but we're talking 40 mile per hour winds in behind this system, and tracking yet another storm into next week. all of this, i've got it for you coming up in just about 15 minutes. >> and we are working for you as this storm moves through. wake up tomorrow to news 4 today. be here to alert you to any issues. news 4 starts at 4:00 a.m

even though doug was on the zamboni. i don'tit get focused on the present, virginia head basketball coach tony bennett knew the would be questions about the past. like last year when the cavaliers lost in the first round of the ncaa tournament, came the first number 1 seed to be knocked out by a 16 seed. bennett told his team to respect the game and respect the the cavaliers got the message. in the second half. virginia opening the ncaa cournament play against gardner webb and mbia, south carolina. reason for anxiety early in the game cavaliers had some flashbacks from lasyear. that's jose perez. knocks down the three. gardner webb is up by ten. wait a minute. what's going on? uva, second half push. deandre hunter, watch him wiggle in here, get the bucket and the foul. and that gets the cavaliers going. more virginiaoffense. ty jerome showing his range. is he inbounds? yeah, he scores. taking advantage of the chances as virginia cavaliers make it oust fir round a 71-56 win. they'll be facing oklahoma coming up on sunday

were later in the program we'll talk about the media and its culpability here let me go to doug doug i mean when do we start the second half of the investigation maybe under another. special investigation because from what i understand what miller. gave to the attorney general barr is only half the story when do we and should we and will we look at exactly the some of the issues that alan dershowitz mention the upper levels of the of the of the f.b.i. and members of the general in the d.o.j. they still have a lot to account for go ahead doug. you know interesting peter the very fact that you asked that question leads me to believe that we're headed that way there's just too much curiosity and momentum now carrying this people are going to want to know this is kind of a unique moment in history from the antiquities to the middle ages even in the modern times very often we'll find that the winner will prosecute the loser even in latin america right now that's happened twice maybe three times in brazil it's happened in argentina it's happened in. it happens in a way in france not the he

g let'so to doug now. doug, it's pretty amazing that suffering from hypothermia and knowing his extremities had to be so cold that that worker was actually able tlimb down the ladder himself. >> very much so. because the very fir thing with hypothermia is the loss of extremitiesnd having to climb a tough factor. and another tough factor how mark sea. graves saying in order to come down he have had to go back up 100 feet. and we had 30 mile an hour winds at the time, about an hour to two hourso, about 30 miles an hour. at that height at 120 feet that wind speed at that height, 120 feet would have been about 40 miles pwa hour. if h to climb another 100 feet up, that wind speed could be upwards of 45 miles per hour. just imagine yrself on a ladder or tower like that with 45 mile per hour woming at you and then you put in the cold. that'shy he had to call 911. 33 right now in d.c. you add in the wind and this is the way it feels out there. your feels like temperature, your wind chi, 22 in d.c. his would have b

doug? >>> a flood warning has been issuedor loudon county, fairfax county, northern arlington coty, fauquier county. as we've been telling you this is the area that's seen the heaviest rainfall and will continue.n leesburg, fall rates 1 to 2 inches per hour. this is getting nastyfa t. more on this after the break. >>> working for you consumer a rt. a popular grocery store chain is closing stores in maryland and susan hogan virginia. n hogan is here to explain. >>> new privacy problems for secebook. we're back in 9nds. >>> baby >>> baby cough syrup could mak your baby sick. there's a recall issued now forl dg natural's baby cough syrup because it might be contaminated with bacteria. that could lead to vomiting or h di. the carton has an expiration date of 11/20 if you have this medicinein your cabinet you can return it for a full >>> sad news for shoppers food customers,he grocery store is closing its doors. >> susan hogan is working for you with details what you can expect in the months to

you're playing along with me, doug, thank you. cannot wait, the cherry blossoms are in stagene outf six. as we look forward to peak haoom, here's you can expect. temperatures the biggest variable to help the blossom comeout. average peak is typicallye l march, early april. we saw them come out last year around april 5th. storm team 4 we're g release our official forecast tomorrow between 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. for when w think peak bloom is going to be. i'm going to be live down at the tidal basin. a wonderful time of year. hopelly that great news helps thaw this out. this is the school day tomorrow, starting off temperature of 24. with even a breeze, i like we're in the single digits. make sure the kids have the coats, gloves, scarves at the bus stop. 30 degrees at. rece breezy. over all, we have mtly sunny skies. our average high 52 and with a lot of cold in the forecast through at least mid to late march it's going to keephe blossoms closed up through at least that time. we look at temperatures versus wind chills through friday. 35

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