last friday you may have seen a clip-on mayor ed lee on n s nbc and when they asked what he was going to ask president obama to get into priority tiger's water. we're extremely excited. and now the implementation at the water program. we are he w we have a total of 31 water stations and half of those are installed at the city hall's. it was a terrific opportunity for young people to get the explore for what the puc does and how to reach out to young folks. and the 6 hundred and 40 member is the context of the mayors commitment to hire 6 thousand young people over the summer so we partnered with the mayor's office. we're in the agricultural pilot program that's scheduled to open next fall this is the first of the seats that's looking at the second try sects on the puc property that can be used for secondary use. there's one in the fall we're working with supervisor avalos office. we have 19 professional service contract and overload million dollars of discolors over the next 5 to seven years with private firms. those are resources we wouldn't have been agriculture to leverage. during t

rev up your engines, stick around for nbc 4's drive time. that's coming up at 10:00. >>> hey, guys. good morning. well, we've been here before. the wizards with yet another chance to get over the .500 mark this season. they visit utah tonight. in phoenix last night, the wizards improve to 21-21 on the season. trevor ariza led the way with a game-high 23 points, wall waiting to see if he'll make the all-star game. he added 18, wizards beat the suns 101-95. let's go the ice for something we've seen six straight times before. the caps lose again, this time to the new jersey devils. adam henrique's 14th goal on the season leads the devils to a 2-1 win. caps with their seventh straight loss. >>> nfl now, richard sherman's pockets are a little lighter this morning, the seattle seahawks cornerback who has been all over the news this week has been fined $7,875 by the nfl for taunting during the nfc championship game last week. sherman who made a choking gesture toward the 49ers' sideline said it was intended for san francisco quarterback colin kaepernick. the cornerback has since apologized

. >> reporter: tracie potts, nbc news, washington. >>> d.c.'s teacher of the year will be sitting with the first lady during tomorrow night's state of the union address. two survivors of the boston marathon bombing and former nba player jason collins will also be there. collins, you'll remember, became the first active male professional athlete playing in a major sporting league to announce he is gay. and with more on the state of the union, we're joined by domenico, and good morning. >> good morning to you. >> well, now we know who -- at least some of those who will be sitting next to the first lady. the big then is, do we know what the president will talk about? >> some of the folks might hint at what the president may want to talk about. talk about education, economic opportunity and expect to hear that word quite a bit tomorrow night. opportunity. inconequality. the subtext is, of course, the midterm elections. president obama wants to do two things. he wants to avoid looking like a lame duck president, because most historians give presiden

s favorite new panda cub. take a look at this photo of the giant panda cub getting her first taste of winter last week. zookeepers put snow in a big bowl and watched her dig in. today the zoo is giving nbc 4 a backstage pass, letting us meets her before she make her public debut on january 28th. we'll share it with you today on news4 midday and on nbcwashington.com. can't wait -- i wish i could hold her. i do. give her a little cuddle. i know what you say -- i know. it's dangerous, right. >>> stay with us. "news4 today" continues right now at 5:00 a.m. >>> people crass parts of the country told to stay indoors as dangerous temperature tighten their grip on the nation. a situation that will be playing out in the region in the next 24 hours. >>> we also have a school closure now. loudoun county public schools are closed today. good morning, everyone, i'm aaron gilchrest. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" for this monday, january 6th, 2014. it's a pretty pleasant winter day outside this morning around the

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s office says there wasn't enough evidence to charge edward nelson. the 90-year-old was attempting to back out of a parking spot, but he drove forward, crashing into the twins. >>> they have an idea what they look like. police released a sketch today, say thing man and two others terrorized an elderly couple and robbed them in their home. investigators say the men forced their way into the house in palo alto yesterday morning. police say one of the men had a gun. the husband and wife forced to lie on the floor while the crooks ransacked their home. the couple was shaken but not hurt. >>> a kidnapping and rape is under investigation tonight. the college of marin says the student was kidnapped and sexually assaulted. jean ely is live with more on what happened. jean? >> reporter: investigators say that assault started here at the college of marin. the college put up these temporary lights tonight because a student tells them last night he came out here and got in his car and there was an armed gunman in the back seat. crime alerts are posted on the camp

nbc news's ron mott joins us live from boston, where it may be worse. good evening, ron, and thank you. >> reporter: hey, larry, good evening to you. let me tell you, it is so cold out here it's hard for me to really convey to you how cold it is. the muscles in my face are really straining to be able to get this mouth to talk, but i can tell you it's 9 degrees right now with a wind chill of about 7 below. the temperatures are plunging quickly. and overnight we're expecting the wind chills to hit minus 20. so there's? real concern about the homeless population in boston. there are teams going around the city trying to get them into shelters tonight. take a look at some of this video. this is some of this snow that fell here over the past 27, 30 hours or so. i live in boston. we expect it to get a little dumping of snow. some of us on the north shore got more than we bargained for. as much as two feet on the north shore of boston. here in the city anywhere from 12 to 15 inches. and on the south shore a real nasty problem with icy flooding. a lot of folks

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s&p was almost 11 points higher at the end of trading. >>> still ahead for us tonight, the surprising story out of london that involves the queen and the cost of living as she does. the big bills and money problems just revealed. >>> and later, remembering a real american folk hero, the legendary life of pete seeger. ♪ we shall overcome >>> we mentioned this before the break, an unusual story popped up across the atlantic in the u.k. today. it's about something we never really assumed to be a big issue for the queen and her royal household, and that's money. nbc's kate snow has more on the story tonight. >> reporter: oh, to be the queen. the jewels, the parties, the lavish lifestyle, the british people spent more than $50 million last year to keep up that image. but this new report from a committee of the british parliament says the royal household finances are in shambles, that the queen has not been served well by her staff when it comes to managing the books, sticking to a budget, or even keeping up buckingham palace. >> for example, the boiler at buckingham palace is 60 years ol

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pepsi co-'s ceo indra nooyl will join us tomorrow. >>> nbc channel 4, they're doing this story. immediately, to me, it was just earth shattering. an explosion went off in my head. if you love burritos as much as i do, the next story is for us. welcome the burrito box. it's being billed as the world's first burrito kiosk. >> what? >> automated. five different varieties available for $3. the first kiosk is located inside a mobile gas station. there's an interactive touch screen menu that lets you choose between flavors, then adds sour cream, tabasco sauce, guacamole, any of that. the machine plays a music video as it warms your food. i've said in the past, andrew doesn't believe that the si singularity is possible, that we could eventually choose how long we want to live. >> you're telling me the machine adds the sour cream and guac itself? i think they have it prepacked and they're heating one up. >> the greatest world we could create. >> it does not commute. >> we have to look into how this burrito box works. >> that's not the same as buying sushi at a gas station. >> no. >> tha

tonight, a new nbc news/marist polls shows that chris christie has lost his big selling point as the only republican candidate who was ahead of hillary clinton in some polls. in the new nbc news/marist national poll, it finds that if chris christie ran against hillary clinton for president, she would crush him. hillary clinton holds a 13-point lead over chris christie in that poll. just one month ago in the same poll, it was a statistical tie. with hillary clinton only three points ahead of christie, which is within the margin of error of the poll. chris christie plans to meet in florida this weekend with potential donors to his presidential campaign. one of them, stan hubbard, a billionaire from minnesota, told politico tonight, he's got a big problem, because perception is everything. perception is reality. i'm sure he's an honorable, decent guy, but i wonder how the hell did he let this happen? i mean, who did he hire? what kind of idiot? it's just ridiculous how stupid. today, rush limbaugh chided republicans who still cling to the hope that chris christie will be the next republ

that's what it s. schedule your workouts the same way. >> reporter: hopefully it will be a schedule that holds for 2014. >>> if you need help sticking to your goals, come see us at the nbc 4 health and fitness expo next weekend. expert advice from chuck bell. >> yeah. >> it will be at the washington convention center saturday and sunday from 9:00 in the morning. going to go on until 5:00 each day. we all know that it does start with your body but more importantly your mind. and the one thing i always tell myself right before going to the workout and trying to pep myself up, not to give in and not go is that i'm 30 or 40 minutes away from a better mood. >> that's true. >> right. >> you'll be done with it by then. >> yeah. >> if you're going out for a run or a bike ride it's going to be tough this morning. >> it is. this is when you know how serious are you about the resolution to get outside and walk or jog or ride the bike in the cold. if you can do it on a morning like this morning, you'll be just fin

our nbc correspondent michael isikoff is here with a new development. >> a bombshell into the george washington bridge lane closures. the lawyers for david wildstein who was the port authority official who ordered those lane closures has just written, and released the letter that he has sent to the head of the port authority in which he says that governor christie had knowledge of the lane closures in the period when the lanes were closed contrary to what the governor stated public any a two-hour press conference he gave immediately before mr. wildstein was scheduled to appear before the transportation committee. mr. wildstein contests the accuracy of various statements that the governor made about him, and he can prove the inaccuracy of some. this is about as big a development as we could get in this investigation. governor christie, of course, he has adamantly denied that he had any knowledge of those lane closures. and he knew nothing about it, and he said that he was stunned and shocked when his, when he learned that his aides had been involved in this, and he fired the deputy ch

s" being onefriend program i would never want to miss. so the war -- not a war, but the messy deal with johnny carson leaving and jay leno coming in. there will be another switch next month when a jay leno leaves and jimmy fallon takes his legs. will it be a drama? >> it certainly was a war, difficult and ugly. >> i tried to be nice. >> i don't think that is the case this time at all. has been extremely practical and the way he handled this and has given plenty of time and i have not seen any negativity. rs arefallon and seth meye 2 really talented people and they will bring a whole new energy to nbc as well as late-night. this is going to be a very long-term run. >> they are very funny, but i'm were a member when watching johnny carson and watching david letterman was something you would stay awake for. now you don't have to. i watch jimmy fallon in the morning -- >> i was going to say, you don't watch it in the evening. >> do you watch it late at night? >> no. way past my bedtime. >> what is your bedtime? >> depends. >> what is your bed

and nbc's grant vincent is joining us from tel aviv. let's talk about the prime minister. he had such a major impact on israeli politics and the perception over multiple deca s decades. tell me more about that. >> reporter:el with, he has such huge significance in israeli society, alex. sometimes over this past week, his -- mr. sharon has been in his final hours, it seems like everybody was remembering their stories about him. one of the best ones i heard is from ariel sharon's time as prime minister when he was chairing a budget meeting of his party members, about some spending cuts that he was implementing. one of the members said to him, prime minister, these cuts are killing the people. and mr. sharon's response to this was to lean forward and say, listen, i'm the only one in this meeting who has actually killed people. and then he leaned forward again and said, i did it with my bare hands. so he may have had a smile on his face when he said that, but it was that tough guy approach, which made the man. made him a vilified man amongst palestinians because of the often b

she noted even -- even brian noted last night it slipped by the nbc sensors. the same word i just used. >> i know. but i was missing -- >> i got it. >> and then the other thing, 1900 for the s&p. we said, well, who wants that? >> some people might sign up for that. >> we're still -- okay. the s&p where it is, what is it, below 1800? we wanted 1848. there may come a time where we think, wow, 1900, we might sign up for 1900. if the market consolidates and goes up another 50 points, maybe that would be good. you see, i'm changing -- that was an ugly day yesterday. combined with the jobs report and combined with the first seven days of the month, and combined that none of the people that used to come in saying we need a 10% correction, none of them were taking that any more. did you notice? they all stopped and they were all saying high single digits to low double digits for the year. >> now you're ready for your so%. >> i don't know. we'll see, right? >> there is good news out of washington. congressional negotiates have unveiled a spending bill aimed to prevent