Desk, its another rejection on the merger of pepco and exelon, that Decision Just came toup t. This was supposed to be a final regulatory hurdle for the merger deal that would create the Largest Electric utility. The Washington Post reporting the deal fell apart after regulators said there was no evidence after pepco said if coopera kooch couldnt perform adequately. They are considering a motion to revise the merger. P it looks as though the provisions laid out in the revision will allow the deal to actually happen. You meet remember the pfc rejected the deal once before. The mayor stepped in, negotiated a big settlement, 78 million. It was supposed to benefit the community. Now here again today, we hear about a rejection and more revisions on the way. Keep an eye on the nbc washington app, tom sherwood on twitter as well to see how this all pans were learning what may have caused a man to kill his coworkers. Cedric ford shot more than a dozen yesterday and killed three of them p. This Morning Police said they served ford a protection from abuse order about an hour and a half before the shooting. They think that may have upset him and triggered at attack. Police shot and killed ford about ten of the shooting victims are in Critical Condition right now. Flags are flying at halfstaff in kansas today. A woman and child are recovering after being hit by a vehicle this morning in little falls place and lee highway. The woman and child are not badly hurt and were working to find out what led to the crash. Well, it is a windy day out there to say the rooes. P temperatures rising to r wind, it will feel a lot cooler than it actually 1. This is our live tower camera and you can see overlooking the cathedral, it is on the windy side with gusts up to about 40 Miles Per Hour here in d. C. 30 Miles Per Hour in 44 in leesburg. And its enough to shake you done to your bones because this 1 what it feels like outside. Feels like were in the 20s for the most part. Thats pretty much where we will stay for much of the day. The weekend forecast coming up. Severe storms and tornados are now responsible for five deaths in virginia. Search and rescue teams found a womans body in woodstock, she was driving during the storms wednesday when her car was swof of a bridge. There are early reports of up to 23 tornadoes up and down the east coast on wednesday. 13 ofos virginia. The National Weather service has confirmed at least six portornas in virginia. Just into the live desk, a final sentence for form er d. C. Cop. A federal judge signing off on a plea deal for darrell best, the sentence 18 years in prison. Best was both a d. C. Police officer and a Church Pastor when he assaulted a 17yearold girl in 2014 and a 16yearold girl in 2015. These incidents happened at his church and d. C. Police headquarters. Best pled guilty to two sex abuse charges and a child porn charge. As we understand it, he has been in jail since he was arrested last year and he will have to of course register as a sex offender. Mark segraves will cover this story for us. The changing temperatures around here are making pothole as problem. Take a look at this monster on an exit ramp off the beltway in maryland on the ramp from the outer loop to New Hampshire avenue. We sent chopper 4 to check it out when we heard the pothole was actually giving cars flat tires. Right now maryland state highway says its working to fix potholes all over the beltway. You might have to sweitch lanes to fwets around the crews working. And get ready to see stepped up Police Presence along your commute. Metro is making a shift in the security. Megan mcgrath is live at the gallery place station. Good morning. Reporter barbara, people who ride metro, they should notice an uptick in the number of Police Officers out there on patrol inside the metro system. uaa iw,n early evening. Ate the increase of security comes profile crimes,co including thir weeksni shooting onfa axd trai this assault involving ac group of high school students. Some tasks to axd private secury al ujip r t hahp hc ride arnbr some tasks to a private security firm. Ride ars like the idea. P. So far ive never seen a police map aroundxd when things happen, sokoni its ani good i. Reporter metro has signed a millionnrjfni5 dollar deal wi outside Security Company to safe guard money collected in the system. That will free up 17 transit reassignedkoni to patroleondut. Thats a lot. Compared to the metro trancenl either that they alreadylpfa ha. So 17 extra officers will be fa good. Reporter the plan also calls for an overlap a g of the day and evening shifts so there are moree1 officers in the system i the afternoon whenw3 schools ju out and when rush hour begins. While many riders welcome the Police Presence, some saynic it not cenough. That there need to be tougherxdf crimes in theni metro system. Them in jail and right on yut t next day. Reporter and 11 officers willlpsn be reassigned to patro immediately, six more in 60 days. Where they will be deployed, that will be determined by crime trend. Back to you. 6v after the break, caught on camera. co a text Police Officer risking his life to save thei] person inside this burning truck. nrlp and this this is how a lot of the debate sounded last night, onei]q jumping t in, ano candidate jumping in, another one, all on top of each ot. 9n the winners and losers later in the newscast. Fa Kathleen Matthews imagine paying 20 more for a cup of coffee just because youre a woman. So why does congress think its ok that women get paid 20 less than a man for doing the same job . Ill fight for pay equity, to protect planned parenthood, choice for women, and expand paid and family leave. Now some politicians will belittle this more proof that we just need more women in congress. Im Kathleen Mathews and i approve this message. I] here are some of the soci images lighting upnr so ah eing hailed a hero. The officer pulled a man out of a car after he crashed into a wall on a turnni ramp. This happened on 29yearold plan to safety. The man was taken to thenr hospital and he is ex mqym to be okay. I hope youre not eating right thousand. In a sippy cup. E1thousand. Social media after finding mold in a sippy cup. Valve ofq the sippy cup. It seem this is is not the first time moldq hase1nilp been found sippy cups. Tommy tippy says theco company in the process of creating a new style of sippy cup that÷d willn feature a twooknr piece valve t is easier for parents to clean. 1 Health Experts say you probably want to toss those. Back . Uzq that gives every yearcoxd says this year i giving away abouteon 20,000 wor ofxdi] swag in each cobag. There is a trip for twojf to st laser and fat burningr treatments. It does include someni like a 1303d printing pen. And someq 9t gum. Thati] costnpcolp 15. Yikes. Must be nice. Were back in 60 seconds. Check out this fireball that lit up the night sky over spain lasp night. Experts say itni came from partf a comet that crashed against the earths atmosphere. Twoni other fireballs have crosd therir skies in spain ine1jf th two days. Lauren, lets talkut definitely talk about the weather to the weekend because a little breezyni out there tod. Winds calm tonight. So if youre headed out for a night on the town tonight, after about 7 00, thei] winds will settle down. But well fallqmy into the 20s tonight. A chilly start tomorrow, and fabulous. It will beco feeling more like spring by sunday. And then our next shot of rain really not coming until wednesday. Maybe a few sprinkles on monday, butmy really not until wednesd with ourko next frontalnb sys. Headed out to brunch tomorrow morning, it will be a cold start, so bundle up. Maybe bring upper 40s for your saturday. Well top out around 60 and looking good fore1 sunday. Just learning about a major Child Safety Seat recall. Jf transitions 3 in 1 combination booster seat curious children can loosenlp t internalco harness increasing t risk of an injury in a crash. Even flo says the problem only affects the seats when usedi] a forwardiafacing harness booster. No injuries have been reported. Even flo sendingt out a fix fo this. And ben carsons debate comment that is getting a lot of atte. ze rahsjjj at q r t hahp hc America Great again, were going to be enough to stop donald trump from thefa contest that hs won to date and theco delegates that hes wrappudr up. He looks likeq he hasconixd a v clear path to the nomination. This was marco rubiost c last t chance to try to makexdq a dent trmp trump. And he appeared to get under Donald Trumps skin. But either hes ableco he an ted cruz combined aree1 able to get under Donald Trumps skin and dent his support or donald trump will go on to win on tuesday in the big super tuesday states and look stronger than ever. Next week. Marco rubio doesnt have any delegates yet, right . He amassed some in iowa and in South Carolina whereniw3 of course he came in secpsqbut donald trump has a huge lead and the big thing F Marco Rubio now is looking forward to march 15th. Thats when his home state of florida will vote. There is aok huge bunch of dell delegates you been for grabs there. And donald trump will have to up his game, too. Bu andq thats what marco rubio was trying tolp ef0 se last nig. He kept on pressing donald trump for statistics. Now, his supporter, Trump Supporters when you talk toq them, they are not that concerned about the sp m9n what they want to hear about is leadership. Emperor with no clothes and its an important appeal to big donors. Be john kasich . We heard from carson trying to get into the governor kasich, e floor. Can be somebody attack me, please . You heard him say can somebody attack me. Because that seemed to be the only way that he or kasich could get in if they could respond to an attack. The most part. For benq carson, there isnt really a path for him to the nomination now. Q r t hahp hc his function right now seems to be in part takinge support aw frome1 perhaps ted cruz or dona trump. Lxmejjut folks who are Su Ben Carson would probably go one of those twoxda5 ways. For john kasich, his homenr sta of ohio where he serves as governor will beni voting on mah 15. And hes hoping that he can win a big chunk of delegates right there in that state and prove that he is in fact viable going forward. Do you think this is the five we willlp see for a while . It doesnt seem to be an incentive for might be to drop out of the race before at least some of these contests next tuesday. After that well have to take a look. Carrie dann,g joining us. Its ani] excitingjftime. Sa meanwhile democratic tomorrows primary in South Carolina. Q; uqno Terry Mcauliffe has his sights set on getting voters ti the polls next week for super this weekend campaigning for hillary clinton. The democrat tells news 4 clinton will be in in northernf virginia and hampton road area this honest. 35yearold was found on tuesday and police are still looking for suspects. Fewni answers for a family decades after their daughter tied. Thousand investigators arefa re newing their efforts. She was found dead 34 years ago this week and was only 20 years old. The loudoun countyni Sheriffs Office put out the sketch you see on youri] screen of her las serious boyfriend. Look like fatoday. Suspect. Hes a person of interest. And they want tofa talk to him. Former teachersnr aide accused offa sexually to those students. ni prosecutors sayni deonte carraw abusedxd 17 children in gasolin arre children out of class and that he ranfa a club to walknr child home from school. I asked him, i said why are youxd walking all thesekoxd ki. 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In a meansco theyre closing so they should be out of there by 3 00 thisco afternoon they say. Best ones to own if you dont want to pay a lot to ensure them. Check it out. On for. The odyssey took the top spot and then the crv. In nithird, the do f grand c a carav than 4,000 a year. R just for insurance. Okay. Qnr after the break, the four thing3 that you need to know about the oscars. Including the role Vice President bi en will play. Temperatures only warming into the lower 40s today, but and, boy, that wind is anywhere from 35 to 40 Miles Per Hour. So windy all the7ejuauhahe clouds will be decreasing as we evening. T will pjf be right around 60 degrees. Make some plansi] outside. 61 is what werejf predicting f sunday. And again, breezy out there on news is those winds will die down. Maybe pick up a little bitni on monday. Chance of a light sprinkle on monday. And then wednesday, next chance of rain, butc look at those temperatures before we drop toward the end of next w3week. There is a brand new exhibit to takefa your kids to called a new moone1faq rises. Faxdy e cf1o and it opened at the air and space museum today. Take a look. This is the sorte1 of thing tha you will see there. The smithsonian tweeted thisco picture out this morning. Q its one of more than co60 phot of the moon on display. They show everythingeoyomxd moo mountains and cratered landscapes to the apollo landing sites. Hollywoods biggest night is almost here and we have the four things you need to know. W3 the oscars red carpet has been rolled out, but the awards are bei ee1 oversha backlash. There is hash tag with the title and either creator says to expect a protest on oscar day. The goal is to advocate for more diversity across the nominee categories. Even with the backlash, chris rock announcedni ont twi that he willw3 still host. His post calling the events the white b. E. T. Okawards. The oscar as nominees. The Vice President will introduce lady gaga during the i he will use his time on stage to raise awareness about sex assaults on campus. Lady gaga is performing her oscar nominatedni song from the which deals with rape on a collegeko campus. Those oscar speeches might get shorter this year. Jfco names of all the people a winneo would like to thank a;÷ugcq they hopeq the winnerq will instead use their 45 seconds to 45 it seems like so much less. All right. There are eight best picture quite know which one might win out. Nominations include the big short, brooklyn, mad max fury 1 road, the martian, the revenant, room and spotlight will least dicaprios performance catapult him tot t oscar win . He play as fur trapper who survive as bear attack and left for dead. The critics are saying its forxd bestxde1 actor. I saw that and it was absolutely fantastic. So my vote is for leo. I also liked the little boy yeah, that wasxd fantastic. A lot of goodq performances this yea after the break, the start of street car service in the district. We have a preview of this weekends big debut. After years of hold ups, d. C. Street cars are finally getting ready to roll. Debut at 13th and hokjf streets. Know l molette green has a preview. Ep tomorrow alop a much different h street corridor. And theyjf startedxd literalt roslyn with routes 10 and 12. 8g÷ and if you feature going around the city in an arc. Reporter they once carried passengers all over washington with their own sweepers to clear the t tracks. Q so this one is route 10. Q from process len a roslyn all t kenilworth avenue. Reporter for the First Time Since 1962, passengers willr board d. C. s new street cars. City leaders welcome the long delayed project back to the capital city, the fa2. 2 mile lo line rides the h a w3 cars. Still ride the bus. Reporter this trolley expert who runs the capital rolly museum in Silver Spring isnt so sure how well a new generation of street cars will fit into 5i modern day life. So its a trial balloon. By theco delays that have gonen along so far. Reporter and takeok a look 2r50i6xd drivers beware godont block th or you risk being ticketed and towed. There is a fleet about five street cars that run every 15 minutes. And its free for now. With noxdo[ sundayu service. In northeast d. C. , green, news 4. Andfa right now, some excitement about going to theco dmv. Depau. Ent of Motor Vehicles will have a Ribbon Cutting it at the brand new Benning Ridge service center. Its on benning road. There is one tmv in every quadrant of theu vep rated ore1 replaced three i the last thr e years. And we have aittle bit of flurry activity today. I got a lot of messages when i was at wtop saying its snowing this winchester or montgomery county. We could still see a fewu flurries as we continue through the pyv becausefacg u eyre com out of the northwest flow and actually off the great lakes. Not going to amount toxd anythi. But fairly windy ase1 we contin into the evening. By the time you head home, windchill will be right around 30 w3degrees. And if yourexd traveling, a fe showers north and east as you head up toward new england. But otherwise quiet. It will beok sunny, go through the weekend. So saturday and sunday looking gorgeous. Of course we will time everything out for you coming up. And a gun compromise headed to the governors desk which governort fa mcauliffe will sig this afternoon in richmond. It will require anyone convicted of domestice1 violence tx happd and it will put state police at gun shows for voluntary background nichecks. a ua gun control advocates have kr reserve the laws that let you conceal and carry a gun. Virginia stateco legislatur has approved the firstc legislation in the u. S. To popular fantasy games. The big would require thet websites2 gister with the commonwealthnrq Agriculture Department and would prohibit people 17 years old and younger mcauliffe must decidexdo[ wheto signs7 the bill. Stage, the lion is a coming of anyonet xd story sdrined as a r audiences. T joining us now is benjamin glad to be here. Dlgaajjtraer and performer . Other e its a true story. Im from greenwichi] village. 0a jju what i was going to y i better writemf at bne1down, t. Had youi]fa handled becoming xd Greenwich Village . I had no interest and im not acting in the show, too,xd beca its a true story. My fatherco has an old fguitar he plays folk songs beautiful. Can you tell audiences what they can expect from the show . Sure. So when i was 28t years old, i wase1 diagnosedok ande1 cured o advanced stage cancer. And so i talk about how can we turn them into goodt things. Fa how can we be alchemists, use art as that kind of magic. Andq music ist what helps y get through your experience. Lp yep. And you share that with people. You to sixw3 guitars in thet s. Why six . Theyre all . ; you can tune a guitar however you want, it allows differente1r and guitars are sexy. Are you on a bar chlt stage with just guitars . Xd you got it. Sounds amaze. W3 what do you hope that people will take away from the show . So something that really interests me is taking music that otherwise wouldnt exist in a theater, folk music, rock and rollxdxd music, and letting it r on stage toco tell stories. And how long will you be7oo washington . Ill be here until the 10th of april. People can find tickets at thec lion musical. Com. You2 pretty young,ni so you have a lot more life to live. D5uau ink you will to part would of the show . I have to live the life first, but people can get the record later this spring and theyxd can hear this chunk for themselves. Fantastic. Good to meet ood luck. Thanks a nilo making it feel a lot colder tha it actually is. Winds gusting up to anywhere theret 30 to 40 miles. Temperatures right around 40. And this is what it feels like when you step outside. Feels like were in the 20s right now. And thats how it will be throughout the day. Maybe feeling around 30 byxd lar on this afternoon. And well get some clearing later on this afternoon through tonight. Here is your future cast. 8 15 tonight, you can see clear skies. Q temperatures will fall pretty quickly into the 2juc overnight. So you will wake up on saturday morning with some sunshine. But temperatures in the 20s to iq9n well warm up into the upper 40s throughout the day. Sunday looks good,ok as well. Next chance of rain notjf until wednesday. Problems. Severely tee formed still born baby. Its the firstc c ijp possible link outside the nervous system. Researchers say more studies are needed so they can better that may belp connected. In news 4 yourt health thi morning, there is a warn to go parents about an annoying problem that can run ra xrant were talking about lice. The cdc reports that up to 12 million children a year will get lice. If you thinkni thats bad, ther is an outbreak of socalled super lice and its already spread to half the country. Ok rehema ellis explains howjfq to stop it. Reporter 11yearold lilafas getting checked for lice today. There is another one. cf1 o reporter sure enough, theyre back again. Her mother says this family. R p. It wasnt like she was likenr itching her head. Identified super lice, resistant to the main chemical in over the counter treatments. 9 ] sfroed 25 states. Ce have its important not to nrpani. Lice are not a health u hazar. They dontni transmit disease. Repeatedly over several weeks. Ask yourym doctor forxd prescrn treatment. Wash clothing and linens in hot water. Its notlp your fault, someby gave it to you. Reporter lila is learning i go to school. What do do, did you share hats, hairbrushes . We have to make sure leak our heads arent together. Reporter q familqeya trying stay super vigilantt en about lice. Rehema ellis, nbc news,w3 norwa, connecticut. Quite a problem. Into some delays on metro this weekend. Fa this morning we are learning new details about the gunman in that mass shooting in kansas. Police say cedric ford went on a rampage killing three people and wounding more than a dozen others before a Police Officer was able to take him down. Sarah plake has the latest from newton, kansas. Reporter workers inside a rural kansas plant described chaotic scene. Everybody was running, people were screaming, crying. We didnt know what to do. All of a sudden pop, pop, pop sglchlgts and i started running, too. Reporter when it was over, four people were killed including the gunman. 14 others wounded. Five critically. Witnesses say the suspect Cedric Larry Ford who was an employee of the plant was armed with an assault style weapon and handgun. Ford also shot and wounded three people he encountered on the way inside and opened fire. He was randomly shooting people. Reporter the first officer to arrive immediately engaged the gun p man and single handedly took him down. The only reason he stopped shooting is because that officer stopped the shooter. Reporter police say ford was served with a protection from abuse order filed by his girlfriend just hours before the shooting. 3 30, he gets served. P 5 00, we have the first shooting. Reporter Officials Say this investigation will continue, but as of now, this community is starting to mourn for the tragic loss of life here in rural sarah plake for nbc news. Right now the candidates for president are spread out across the country campaigning for super tuesday. Events happening right now, marco rubio is wrapping up a stop in dallas. And Bernie Sanders is in minute men. Rubio is targeting texas ahead of next weeks super tuesday vote. It offers the motst delegates o the nine states. Were sing a now. He challenged donald trump from the very first question last night this houston. Rubio hit trump over immigration. His hiring practices and his position in the palestinian israeli conflict. But it was a discussion over the Health Care System that got really explosive. Rubio pushed trump to explain his plan beyond removing state boundaries. Heres what you didnt hear. This is an important thing. What is your plan . I understand the lines around the state, whatever that means. Is this not a game where you draw a map. You dont know made it means. Thats the problem. What is your plan on health care . Moderators had a hard time containing the debate this houston last night. Trump and senators rubio and ted cruz talked over each other so often that the debate itself was sometimes hard to understand. You can download our app to see more of the most talked about moments from last nights gop debate. Im Melissa Mollett with your first 4 traffic and a look at the rails. Lets take a look at lapping as far as the track work goes. Red line running every 12 to 24 minutes. Silver line every 10 minutes. Blue line, every 20 minutes. Same thing on the orange line. Green line every 24 and then the yellow line, overall theyre calling it regular service. At for the silver line, trains running every 10 ipts ins between ballston and wehle reston east. Yellow line regular service, but only between huntington and mt. Vernon square. Red line single tracking between Friendship Heights and grosvenor. Thats why were having some of those delays. P have a great weekend. Ill see you monday morning. There is new vcontroversy involving police using tasers because a man died after officers used a taser on him. Hospital staff called for help when they say 49yearold randy nelson became violent during a recent Mental Health evaluation. After nelson started throwing punches and objects at police, officers shot him with a stun gun. Bloo breathing. The official cause of death is still being determined. P. Bill cosby is dropping his definite iff defamation lawsuit against Beverly Johnson because he has criminal proceedings in pennsylvania that impede him. They plan to refile the civil case against johnson before the statute of limitations expires. Johnson accuses cosby of drug and trying to rain hpe her at h home back in the 80s. Cosby faces charges in pennsylvania for an assault for a cup of coffee just because youre a woman. So why does congress think its ok that women get paid 20 less than a man for doing the same job . Ill fight for pay equity, to protect planned parenthood, choice for women, and expand paid and family leave. Now some politicians will belittle this as a womens agenda. More proof that we just need more women in congress. Im Kathleen Mathews and i approve this message. Here are some of the stories lighting up social media. The wait is over, its you can now watch fuller house until your Hearts Content on netflix. Weddings, birthday parties . Divorces. The show brings back most of the original cast for friendly family shaenanigshenanigans. The ol accept 107b twins declined to take part. And spin lover, i have some exciting news for you. Next week were partnering up with target to free classes harmg march 4 to march 6. Search full cycle on our app. Always a good workout. A pony turned unicorn in california decided enough is enough. Juliet, a 20yearold pony unicorn spent most of her days making d taking photos with lots of kids. Unicorns are popular with that age set. Juliet became loose and neighbors and local animal control spent hours trying to catch her. Shes back at home. The opener we owner was not issued with a citation. P. I wonder if she gets to take of on the horn. Yeah, she needs a break from it. Looks like a warmer weekend in store. Lauren is back afte picking up kids up from the bus stop, windchills in the 20s to 30s, but winds will decrease this evening. Light winds tomorrow. Might want to put on the layers early what you the temperatures will be in the 20s, but we will warm up and well have slots of sunshine. So if you want to go kayaking or hiking, temperatures for saturday will warm up again into the mid to upper 40s. So looking good. But dress in layers. You might not need the layers by the time we get into sunday. Temperatures right around 6 0 degrees. A little bit of a breeze on monday as a cold front pass through the area. Could have a few sprinkles out of that system, but that is all were looking for. Otherwise we get into tuesday, temperatures will be right around 6 0 degrees. And then wednesday, another cold front coming through. Thats when well have our best chance of rain and p temperatures drop after that unfortunately, well be in the 40s. Possibly the 30s end of next week and into the next weekend. So concentrate on this weekend. Our eyes are mfeks feks eigh the mild emanuel. Thats it for us. Were back this afternoon at 4 00. You can get with the nbc washington app. Announcer today on the Meredith Vieira show. You want a good seat in the restaurant . The truth may shock you. Will you share a hotel room to save money. You will not believe what one grandma did without telling anyone. And evalongoria is here. And she starts right now on meredith. [applause] makes you feel real good. Feel real good. Thank you