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Person who tied up a woman and stabbed her to death inside a d. C. Row house. Police say they have a picture of a person of interest. Sam ford is live in northwest where he spoke to the professor working with Corrina Mehiel. Sam . Sam that is right. We are outside the Columbia Plaza apartments in northwest washington where he just finished talking to mel chin. He is the person who brought Corrina Mehiel to washington to help him with a project that the at the corcoran art gallery and he is devastated. 34yearold Corrina Mehiel was found tuesday afternoon tied up and stabbed to death in a basement apartment on capitol hill. Police are on the scene for a third day. And active in the community of arts in North Carolina. Her killer took her car, a prius with kentucky plates. Its not clear if the car was spotted in capital beltway but spotted in beltsville but the Police Released a photo of person of interest. This was taken at route 1, garrett avenue in beltsville. Professor mel chin said mehiel was about to return to North Carolina when he saw her. He was the last person to sea her sunday evening. We had dinner together on sunday night. She was ready to go back to the studio to get things together again and work on the project. Im devastated now, when i heard it. Its inexpressible how much of a loss it is to myself and everyone who sam we will have more on this story on abc7 news at 5 00. Including video from one of the neighbors on the 14th street who believes he saw the victims car leaving perhaps after the murder. Reporting live in northeast washington northwest washington, im sam ford, abc7 news. Alison thank you. We turn now to the war on terror now and the investigation in the deadly attack in london. As molly hunter reports, today Police Identified the man who drove into that crowd on westminster bridge. Molly tonight, london is playing tribute to the victims. Honoring those killed including 48yearold Police Officer keith palmer, stabbed by the attacker. Doing what he loves, protecting our city, protecting parliament. Molly this man from utah kurt cochran who was in europe celebrating his melissa. The only word i can describe it as is surreal. But kurt did live his dream. Molly his wife melissa is among those injured. We are not afraid. Our resolve will never waiver in the face of terrorism. Molly meanwhile, british Prime Minister theresa may is defiant, responding to isis claiming responsible for attack calling the suspect a soldier of the islamic state. The suspect caught in this Surveillance Video driving a gray hyundai across a packed bridge, aiming for pedestrians, mowing them down and crashing into a railing outside parliament. Before fleeing his car. He was shot and killed by police. He has now been identified as khalid masood, 52yearold born in britain with a lengthy criminal history but none terrorismrelated, police say. They believe masood was a lone wolf. Confirming he was known to Domestic Intelligence of the attack. The language isis used in that claim indicates the attack was inspired but not directed by isis. Molly hunter, abc news, london. Alison the american killed whom she mentioned in that attack also had ties to our area. Kurt cochran lived in utah but grew up in cumberland, maryland. He attended fort hill high school. Also today a terror scare in antwerp, belgium. Police probably stopped another terror attack. They arrested a French National after he sped through a busy shopping area. Pedestrians had to jump out of the way so they wouldnt be hit. In the car they found knives, a shotgun and a gas with unknown liquid. Michelle an arrest with the threats called in to Jewish Community Centers Across the country. As Richard Reeve reports an american living in israel is in custody in this developing story. Richard police say that man is behind dozen of threats to Jewish Community centers and schools. There is a sense of relief that some one was apprehended. Richard the f. B. I. Says they had no information that the 19yearold had contact with institutions in the d. C. Area. Since january, the Bender Community center in rockville received two bomb threats. One by phone and the other by emails. Every time the call took place the institutions had to decide whether to evacuate and how to respond. Richard in one case, youngsters were forced to evacuate to the nearby charles e. Smith Jewish Day School which also received a threat february 27. A tough teaching moment. To be vigilant and keep an eye out, keep an ear out. Richard Authorities Say the 19yearold suspect used acknowledge technologies to hide his location and disguise his voice. His motive remains unknown. Its impossible to explain hate. People are richard the Jewish Community is saddened by the fact a jew is accused of making the threats. The suspect Attorney Says the client suffers from a brain tumor that affects his behavior. Authorities say the threats also went to australia, u. K. , new zealand and even a commercial airline flight. From the live desk, Richard Reeve; abc7 news. Alison thank you. The man from maryland who allegedly traveled to new york city and killed a black man in a hate crime was in court today. 28yearold James Harris Jackson is now facing murder charges. Police say jackson is a military vet from baltimore with a deeprooted hatred for africanamericans. They say that is what prompted him to take a bus to new york city to find 66yearold Timothy Kauffman on the street and stab him multiple times on monday. Its believed that he was specifically intending to target male blacks. Its well over ten years that he has been harboring these feelings of hate toward male the reason why he picked new york, the Media Capital of the world. Investigators say they believed jackson considered other attacks and turned himself in. 24 hours after the killing. Michelle the General Services Administration Says President Trump Washington Hotel does not violate the lease terms. The g. S. A. Says the Trump Organization is in compliance barring the property from profiting. He transferred control to the adult children. Doug the blue skies and sunshine look like spring. The Cherry Blossoms look like spring today but the temperatures not so much. Gorgeous, the torpedo factory. Its chilly out there. In the metro we havent gotten out of the 40s today. Well below average. 47 at this moment at reagan national. 51 in warrenton. 49 in fredericksburg. The warming trend is on the way and it will begin tomorrow. The day planner or the evening planner chose the temperatures falling into the 30s later tonight under the cle you are out. Overnight we will stay in the 30s. Its 32 in waldorf and 34 in Downtown Washington when you wake up. Through the day tomorrow we expect a warm front to approach in the warning, that is likely going to bring scattered showers to the area but its the leading edge of the warmer air. The warmer air will move in for the weekend. It will feel like and probably look like spring, too. We will check out the weekend and the next ten days in eight minutes. Still to come this afternoon, its been a roller coaster season for the Cherry Blossoms. They are given another test. Did they weather the cold last night and this morning . An update after the break. Alison then later after months of discussion, metro decides to raise rates. Find out how much more you will be paying. Brad and tonight exactly one week after a terrible rape, a theres a moment of truth. 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So, stop taking victoza® and call your doctor right away if you have severe pain in your stomach area. Your medical history. Taking victoza® with a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. The most common side effects are headache, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting. Side effects can lead to dehydration, which may cause kidney problems. Nows the time for a better moment of proof. Ask your doctor about victoza®. Alison education secretary betsy devos joined Maryland Governor larry hogan at carter Rock Springs Elementary school in bethesda today. They read the things i can do to a group of second graders. The event was part of National Reading months. Michelle several protesters showed up outside the school today. Some to talk about education. Others to voice their conc high school. Maryland bureau chief brad bell is live in rockville with new developments in that investigation. Brad . Brad the rape exactly one week ago. The new developments are concerns about safety at the school after threat received here. The security has been beefed up because of threats against the School Including a caller according to the spokesman threatened to shoot illegals at the school. And another who threatened to burn the school down. Its gotten out of control. Some of the calls are racist, xenophobic. We want people to take a step back and think of the students at the center who are affected by this. Brad this is rape last week of the 14yearold girl allegedly by two fellow students who came last year into the country illegally as unaccompanyed minors unaccompanied minors. They were caught by federal authorities and released to continue the journey to maryland. A set of facts fueling anger we saw again today. Im not sure what the answer is. But to ignore it and say there is not a problem is beyond appalling. Brad she was among the protesters who gathered at a joint appearance by governor larry hogan and education secretary betsy devos this morning at a bethesda elementary school. Most were concerned about education but others had signs dealing with immigration. Inside the school, Governor Hogan asked for calm. We cant condone any hate speech like that. Its forrable and not something that should its terrible and something that shouldnt be allowed to go on. Brad we asked secretary devos if she had a comm she said she did not. We did get to ask Governor Hogan another question. Is it fair to link what happened here at rockville to the immigration debate . When we come back at 5 00, we will have his answer. In rockville, brad bell, abc7 news. Alison okay. Well see you then. Thank you. Lets check on the evening commute with trenice bishop. She is on traffic watch for us today. Hi there, trenice. Trenice hi, alison. This afternoon we have a couple of issues and certainly heavy delays starting early this afternoon. First, i of the afternoon first issue of the afternoon 270 corridor, there is a problem in the local lanes before falls road. I ties you up making your way from rockville away from the spur. A half an hour ago we had one reported southbound 270 at the split for the beltway. That is adding extra volume for folks trying to make it to the legion bridge. Live pictures and you can see northbound 270 at a snails pace to make the trip home through rockville. Elsewhere, we will make it to the beltway as you approach the legion here, the outer loop left side. We had report of an earlier crash beyond the camera view. It looks like its gone. But the delays take you from the split at 270 all the way to annandale. We had a work crew that was late cleaning up some stuff in the roadway. They blocked the left center lane for a while. Express lanes are open but the outer lane through lanes are heavy again. There are no reports of new issue through district. We had an earlier crash withoutbound on the southeast southwest freeway after the third street tunnel and that is out to the right of the roadway. The travel lanes will reopen soon as i did see a call for a tow truck to the area. Michelle . Michelle thank you. A warning from Prince William county police to residents. Watch out for bears. Right now its the season where they tend to roam around. There have been several sightings. Virginia bears are active and hungry from late march through early may. If you see one, keep your distance and to help avoid runins, keep food and alison a sign of spring, less scary sign of spring but the peak bloom for the famed Cherry Blossoms in the nations capital. Some late season stretches of cold are taking a toll on the flowers as we know by now so lets check in with ryan hughes who is live at the tidal basin. We were all watching and waiting to see what last nights chill would do. How are they faring . Ryan a little bit of good news and a little bit of bad news. Start with the good news. The National Park service telling us there is no damage from the Cherry Blossoms from last night and this mornings cold but the bad news, a little bit of a different look. They are calling it marble effect. You can see some branches have White Flowers almost near peak bloom. Then look here at another branch branch. You can see the blossoms there dead and brown. That is from the cold snap last week where we are told 50 of the Cherry Blossoms will not bloom this year. It will be less dense and co but there is a little bit of progress. We have now moved in the puffy white stage. The blossoms are expected to peak come this weekend. The National Park service telling us it will still be a great sight to see and the weather is expected to be fantastic. For more on that, lets head inside the to stormwatch7s chief meteorologist doug hill. The weather is expected to be great. Doug it will feel like spring around here. But we start with a look at the low temperatures this morning. These were the air temperatures. 19 in martinsburg and winchester. In washington only 30. That is what saved the blossoms. Had we had these temperatures the tidal basin, the losses would have been profound but we are looking good and the weekend weather will cooperate. If you are thinking of seeing the blossoms saturday and early sunday is the best bet. Rain is likely getting through sunday afternoon. Through the evening we hang on 45 degrees abnormally cold weather continues but not for long. We will drop to 40 degrees. 9 00 tonight, light winds. In the morning instead of temperatures in the upper teens the western zones are in the 30s. A couple of spots could be close to briefly or below the 32 mark. But low in the city is around 34. Around freezing briefly sunrise and a quick rise of temperatures through the day as a warm front moves in the area. The temperatures in the afternoon holding through the mid40s. Dropping tonight. As we get through the overnight we get 30s. Then it changes in the morning. Clouds roll in ahead of a warm front. We will see clearing and the temperatures in the lower 60s as the winds go to the south. When we get to friday afternoon it will be delightful. Saturday is better. Extended outlook shows rain developing. Storm system could bring it sunday night. Monday a chance of showers so mild weather as we go back to the 70degree mark for monday and tuesday. Then we turn cooler. Look at the numbers. Daytime temperatures in the low to mid60s. Most importantly as we get through tomorrow, look at the lows tonight. Only the mid40s. Maybe spring is here. Michelle hopefully no more extreme turns again. Doug i hope not. Please no. I think we are done with it. Alison thank you, doug. Still ahead michelle why former Vice President joe bidens trip to the hill has him seeing himself in a new light. Alison then later, have you heard about this . Why an olympic Gold Medalist tweet to the woman who won silver that year has people catching their michelle back with a live look at the eagles nest at the national arboretum. Today the arboretum sent an email saying the two eggs in that nest could hatch any day. One of two eggs in another nest at the metropolitan Police Training academy hatched last week. That camera is offline today and a message says there is a highly woodpeckers working to fix the technical problems. Alison i dont think she likes it. Hey, get out of my nest. Michelle we are leaving. People all over the world, they love their dogs. Alison of course. Michelle today is National Puppy day here in the u. S. Alison all right. This is a chance to see cute peppies. Lindsey mastis has the cutest puppies of the day. Lindsey people love sharing pictures of their dog. These guys here are taking a nap. They are available for adoption from lucky dog animal rescue. We have richie the service dog. He got to hang out on capitol hill. He is actually being trained by lab celebrity that provides service dogs to military veterans. Rory put on his bow tie for the occasion. Herbie got to do what he does best. He got to eat grass on National Puppy day, which he loves. Keep moving this around. We have many more of the pictures on the website wjla. Com. Upload pictures of your favorite pup at burst. Com wjla. So maybe by the end of the night you can post a picture of your doggie. Michelle in the commercial break i will post on twitter. Get the puppy love out there. Alison thank you. Just hours before it was officially National Puppy day, look at the cute pictures. This is former Vice President joe biden. He met a little guy with his name. This is little biden. He is a 4monthold golden retriever. Photos of the meeting on capitol hill wednesday are going crazy online. Puppies and babies, cant get enough. They look like fast friend. Coming up, the museum undersiege. The piece of history that blocks off this building. Metro in and you might feel the fiscal pain. Isjust wanna see ifa again . My score changed. You wanna check yours . Scores dont change that much. I havent changed. Oh, really . Its girls night they said business casual. I love summer weddings oh no. Yeah, maybe it is time. Maybe i should check my credit score. Try credit karma. Its free. Oh woah. Thats different. Check out credit karma today. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Alison we are covering metro now. The unanimous vote today by the board of directors to raise fares. Stephen tschida is at the about here . Stephen well, it will add up to a lot of money if you ride metro regularly. The ridership is down, the costs are up. Metros g. M. Said he had little choice other than to pass the system 300 million red ink for next year off to those who ride metro rail and metro bus. All in favor, say aye. Aye. The ayes have it. Stephen a unanimous vote means you will pay more to ride metrorail and metrobus. 10 cents more for metrorail in the peak periods. 25 more for offpeak and to ride the metrobus. That is combined with fewer trains and reduction in some bus service. This protester dressed as a can of sardines to illustrate discomfort and denounce fare increase. Raising fares and cutting in the system. Stephen when asked about the effect on the poor riders metro g. M. Pointed out there are few options for generating revenue. There are expenses tied to driverring the service. It has to tied to driverring the service and it has to come from service. Stephen metro did not raise the price of weekly bus pass that remains 17. 50. This is a move aimed to ease burden on the lowincome workers who rely on buses to get to and from work. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Alison one more note about this here. Virginias Governor Terry mcauliffe wants a top to bottom review of metro so he has tapped former transportation secretary ray lahood to do it. He will have a panel looking in the governance and the longterm financial needs and the study is supposed to be done by the end of the year. Michelle a restaurant in the Reston Town Center is suing the hour parking fees. Jacksons mighty fine food and lucky lounge says the fee is hurting business and violates the lease agreement. Its asking for 500,000 in damages and to end charging for parking. Earlier this month, several hundred people marched near the town center in protest over the parking fees. Alison okay. This time yesterday we were talking about how critical the overnight hours were. Doug 27 was the magic number. Alison how did it work out . Doug got down to 30 instead. No effect on the Cherry Blossoms. Tonight is same. 32, 33. After tonight i dont sigh any low temperatures that cold for a long time. Alison nice. Doug maybe until next december. I hope. It is chilly out there. The best we are doing is 47 right now. Its well berow average. It will turn chilly with the clear skies around the area. However, the numbers are not as cold as last night. 30 to 3 southerly wind. That is a great wind direction for us and warmer. Bus stop in the morning we have temperatures in the mid30s. Clouds increase. We get through the midmorning to late morning across the area, a warm front is passing there. Could be a few showers crossing the area. We will be in the 50s. By dismiss mall time, the skies will dismissal time the skies will brighten up. A big change is coming. On saturday, the better of two outdoor weather days for activities because it will be dry. Look at the temperatures. 73 in the afternoon. 67 on sunday. But sunday will feature cloudy skies and a good chance the showers develop in the afternoon. Showers sunday night as well. Give you a look Going Forward for ten days. We see 73 on saturday. Mild on sunday. Lower 7 os monday with a shower. 70 degrees on tuesday. 6 os round out the tenday outlook from wednesday sunday. Perhaps we have finally got to a spring weather pattern. But i know well enough not to guarantee. I guarantee nothing except for steve rudin will be back in 20 minutes. Michelle we are monitoring a developing story after an apology today from the head of the House Intelligence Committee about his bombshell announcement on President Trumps wiretapping claims. Our amy aubert joins us from the live desk with the latest. Amy today, the House Intelligence Community chairman nunez privately apologizing to the democratic colleagues but he is still defending the move to let the president know of the findings. Yesterday, he briefed reporters saying u. S. Intelligence officials may have legally picked up communications of the president s transition team, perhaps including the president himself as they were surveillance foreign nationals. He said what he saw had nothing to do with russia or saying there is still no evidence that the president was wiretapped. Today, the White House Press secretary and lawmakers are speaking out. I dont know why he would tweet the president on something we gave him. I dont know it makes sense. I did not sit on the briefing. He was part of the trump transition. All of this results to the trump transition by and large. Its very clear. He himself, i dont know if that is a cry for help or let me out of here or whatever it was, but it was highly unusual. Amy nunez still not saying where exactly he got the information. At the live desk, amy aubert, abc7 news. Michelle thank you. The president s claims about wiretapping is just one of the topics Time Magazine asked him about for this weeks cover story titled is truth dead . In the article the president says, im a person but my instinct turned out to be right. He goes on to talk about how he predicted brexit and that he would win the u. S. Election. And he goes on to say i guess i cant be so badly because im president and youre not. Alison officials at the Virginia Siege Museum had to remove civil war era artillery rounds from storage because they were still active. A military bomb squad had to remove two cannon balls and two artillery shells after xrays showed they were capable of exploding. A petersburg city spokesman said the rounds would only go off if someone lit the fuse. Still. Just in case. Michelle scary. Alison coming up at 4 00, we will talk about the zookeepers wife. Kidd oshea sits down with the new movie honoring a hero. Plus, how putting the phones down is paying off for people stopping in at this Jummy Olabanji with a look at what is coming up on good morning washington. Jummy thanks, michelle. Tomorrow on good morning washington, we face the serious problem of missing girls of color in the d. C. Area. The devastating impact on families and the solutions to bring home missing children. From the hottest Beauty Products to worldwide snacks. Find out how to get in on the subscription box craze. Keep it here for traffic and weather every ten minutes tomorrow morning starting at 4 24 on good morning washington. Alison we are back with this. You have to hear this. It could be a gaffe from olympic Gold Medalist kristi yamaguchi. It is unclure if she knew what she unclear if she knew what she was saying, thought about it but she sent a tweet to Nancy Kerrigan wishing her luck on dancing with the stars and yamaguchi specifically told kerrigan to break a leg. Remember kerrigan had her leg broken by a rivals exhusband in 1994. But kerrigan didnt mind. She tweeted back, thank you so much, im excited to get start and the advice you have for me. Michelle we will see how many retweets that gets. Between twitter, facebook, instagram and snap chat people spent time on social media. That averages up to five years for the average person. Media kick calculates people spend 40 minutes a day on youtube, 3 on facebook, 25 on snapchat, 15 on instagram and one minuted on twitter. If you had them together, over the life span you get five years and four months. You will spend seven years and eight months watching television. Three years and five months eating and drinking. Then six months doing laundry. There you go. The most time spent on the phone. Alison then there is traffic. Get back to that. Goodness. Owners of a pennsylvania restaurant want you to put down the phone and enjoy your meal. They put up a sign with rules and i your phone for the entire meal you will get 10 off your check. Shooting the breeze. Talking, whatever. Nobody picks up the phones. Nice. Alison the restaurant said they would refer to see people having conversations not tweeting or sending texts. Michelle so true. Sometimes i go out with friends and we all put our phones in the center and the first person to look at it has to pay extra for dessert or whatever the case is. Alison good one michelle incentive. Alison or take the whole check. Alison good idea still ahead crying and sobbing. I was a mess. Michelle next at 4 00, a woman who survived five days alone lost in the grand canyon. Shares how she stayed alive. People living in one portion of West Virginia have been waiting for this construction to have for im jeff goldberg, the big change it means for their lives coming up. Announcer countdown to first pitch brought to you by michelle breaking news in the newsroom. Richard reeve at the live desk. Richard breaking news out of Calvert County where an 8monthold baby is dead after being attacked by a dog. This happened in lusby. Calvert county Sheriff Office tells us when deputies arrived on the scene a minute after receiving the call, the dog was still attacking the child. Deputies were forced to shoot the dog. We have crew on the way to the scene and we will get you information as it comes in the newsroom. At the live desk, Richard Reeve; abc7 news. Alison terrible, rich. New developments to tell you about in a case from alabama. This woman made a daring escape. Right here. You see her jump from the trunk. Police charged 28yearold Manuel Townes with her kidnapping. He was released from prison in january after doing five years for michelle a woman stranded in the grand canyon for five days makes it out alive. She got lost sightseeing and ran out of gas in the middle of the canyon. On top of that she wasnt able to get Cell Phone Service to call for help. She made a series of videos saying goodbye to her family. But after walking 11 miles and leaving behind help signs she finally reached 911 but was cut off before giving her location. I felt disconnected from everyone. Was there even a search on . Michelle the rescue group was able to pin point her general location and she was airlifted to safety. Days later after this happened she was alison really . Michelle incredible. Hopefully she had a map that time and a lot of gas. Alison maybe friends. Yeah. To help out. Michelle sure. Alison in 1939, antina dabinsky and her husband secretly housedded housed hundreds of jews in at the zoo. Last night a movie about her life premiered at the holocaust museum. Kidd oshea spoke with the movies star, jessica chastain. Kidd how are you . Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Kidd talk about the animals. What was it like. How many were real . We see you in the picture here. In heaven . Was it heaven . It was for me. She believed that all living creatures were equals. They went in and out of her house, slept in her bed. The children grew up alongside animal to communicate with all living features really, we tried to showcase that in the film. Kidd working on the film, seeing it come together, what is it like for you . Its so moving to be here. We were in warsaw a few weeks ago. Its the first place we showed the film. It was very moving. Im having a similar experience here walking through the museum and seeing the section of the warsaw yet yet warsaw ghetto. Im shocked this could have happened. Not that long ago. Not that long ago. Its important to remember we learn from our history. That is how, you know, once you touch a flame you learn its hot. We learn from history. Hopefully the more we look at this time in history, we will learn not to make the same mistake. Kidd congratulations. Beautiful film. Thank you. Michelle that was kidd oshea. A company is planning a Research Trip to they are bringing regular civilians along for the ride. Ocean gate sevenweek expedition is the first trip to the titanic since 2005. Its part of a study to observe the threat of the oil spill on the ocean floor. 54 civilians will be traveled with them listed as mission specialists. You are there with a mission. If somebody comes with us they will work on operating the sonar, they might be on the communications or taking pictures. A greater awareness of wonders underwater can help the word. Michelle eyeopening and fascinating. This comes at a steep price for the civilians. Each paying more than 105,000. They plan to take the expedition every year to see the oil spill effect on the wreckage and they are taking applications for 2019. Alison wow back at home now. Flooding plagued people in huntington part of alexandria for many years. But as Northern Virginia reports today is the beginning of the relief for folks living close to cameron run. Jeff the noise of the woodchippers at work and bulldozers is music to the ears of carla breedlove. No words to explain it. I feel so wonderful that people care. Jeff she and her husband lived at this home in huntington in the alexandria section of Fairfax County for 46 years. They have endured numerous devastating floods. Especially in 2006. It was the most saddest thing i have ever seen. Construction of a new levee means flooding is a fear of the past. Joyful feeling, happy feeling. The county leaders holding a groundbreaking for the levee slated to be 27 feet long and six to 11 feet tall to protect the flood prone area of 160 homes from the storm and the tidal sr river and cameron run. The 40 million project is funded by a bond referendum approved by voters in 2012. Got worked the way it is supposed to work. In terms of solving a problem that desperately needed to be solved. Like a relief off your back. Jeff that is how the breedloves feel knowing future floods wont be a threat. A feeling worth dancing for. Just be happy in there is construction in the meantime the construction will not make the situation worse. In Fairfax County, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. Michelle we have the weekend in view. Alison monday you were telling us that saturday would be great. Steve its a lot warmer. Sunshine on the way. It will stay dry for the first half of the weekend. Doing okay here. A little bit c year and the time of day. Hardly any wind out there. 47 in reagan national. Crack the 50degree mark in fredericksburg. Same in luray. 46 in winchester and 45 in hagerstown. Satellite and radar, High Pressure overhead. Mainly clear skies. Tonight a few added clouds. 30 to 36 degrees with the winds out of the south at around 5 to 10. Waking up tomorrow morning around 30 degrees or so, you will want to bundle up early on. But be able to shed the jacket as you head out the door. Because we have warmer temperatures on the way. Highs tomorrow in the lower to middle 60s. A good deal of sunshine. Warmer temperatures yet for the day on saturday. We are talking highs in the 70s across much of the area. It stays dry. Good amount of sunshine. It will change for the day on sunday. A better chance of rain. Saturday, 7 to 75 degrees. Upper 60s with the afternoon showers and the periods of rain by sunday night. Keep in mind the average high for this time of the year is 59 degrees. Once we weekend, we are at 73 on monday. 70 on tuesday. Back in 60s for the remainder of the week. Thursday afternoon a busy rush hour commute. Here is trenice bishop. Trenice hey, steve. Busy for sure for folks trying to head home from centreville to manassas. We have one blocking two left lanes. I dont have good eyes on it but i can show you heavy delays. Stop and go already on the 66 corridor westbound. Now from just around the beltway toward 50 in fair oaks. You will pick up the heavier volume as you approach the accident activity. You can see her the camera shot at 66 at lee highway. Stop and go. Snails pace as you make your way to the manassas corridor. Elsewhere, we had an earlier reported incident. That was on the inner loop beltway headed to the springfield mixing bowl. That has been cleaned up but finding volume from 395 northbound to arlington. Back to you in the studio. Seth rich who worke july. The case still is unsolved. Im scott taylor. Coming up, now a team of private investigators are going to take their shot at solving it. Michelle coming up tonight at 5 00 former president obama missing the cut. Because my teeth are yellow. These photos . Why dont you use a whitening toothpaste . Im afraid its bad for my teeth. Try crest 3d white. Crest 3d White Diamond strong toothpaste and rinse. Gently whiten. And fortify weak spots. Use together for two times stronger enamel. Crest 3d white. Michelle update to the murder of d. N. C. Staffer seth rich. A team of private investigators are on board in an attempt to solve the case. Iteam investigator scott taylor with how they plan on helping. Scot 27yearold seth rich shot and killed on sunday in july in the bloomingdale neighborhood of washington, d. C. Eight months later, still no arrests. Now g. O. P. Lobbyist jack berkman and a team of private investigators want to take a crack at solving it. I dont know how you could call it a robbery. Shot twice in the back. Gold chain around his neck, no credit card or money taken. Scott an independent probe that richs family have no part in. Seth richs face plastered all over the neighborhood has not solved the case. Why would a group of private investigators make any we will look at the link analysis and try to establish a timeline and see if there were individuals that may have been missed. Scott the Team Includes forensic psychologist and Security Specialist and George Washington grad students. Berkman says the claim of former u. S. Intelligence officer told him the russians had something to do with richs murder. It will continue to be investigated even though police and richs family arent buying it. We are being approached by others that are confirming part of the source. The police tell me they dont have an update on richs murder but they wont rest investigating the case until its solved. Larry tonight, story time inside, dueling voices outside. Marylands governor gets an earful about a High School Rape and his guest today. A neighbor steps forward in what could be evidence in murder. Attempted closing heist. The loot, jaw dropping. Dueling protest as Governor Hogan met with betsy devos. Some protest the education secretary and the policies. The growing outrage prompted extra security at rockville high school. Brad bell well is there. What are you seeing . Normal high school. There were threats and this afternoon at the dismissal time a couple of hours ago we saw extra police. We are seeing a school that wants the community to focus on the school play. Controversy around it. The anger was on display today at a protest for an appearance for larry hogan and education secretary betsy devos. Most were concerned about funding but others had immigration and the rockville high rape on their mind. Its important the governor knows we want to support immigrant families. Brad inside the school he couldnt hear the protesters as he read to sembled grader second graders. So we asked about the rape of a 14yearold girl allegedly by two 17 and 18yearolds in rockville high. Its an ongoing investigation. Brad then we asked one more question. Should there be a link between immigration and a crime . There is a