scraping up, and carrying away what they can. >> they need it. that's why. >> reporter: and there is still so much to do here. texas governor rick perry got a first-hand look at the damage from the air today. >> it's a stunning amount of devastation. >> reporter: so many here have lost so much. >> irreplaceable treasures and things that the men and women who lived here two days ago see strong across the roads and in their yards and then in some places never be able to find them or replace them. >> reporter: it is an emotional struggle for survivors battered by the violent storms but not broken. >> it's really a close-knit area here. >> reporter: a bond and history they will call on during what is sure to be a long and difficult recovery. costly as well. state and federal officials will only say likely hundreds of millions of dollars as they continue to assess the damage here. jay gray, nbc news. forney, texas. back home get ready. temperatures are heading south overnight. >> meteorologist doug kammerer is in the storm center with the latest. >> you look outside right now and it is a gorgeous picture. looks like plenty of sunshine. over the past couple months we've been talking about temperatures way above average. today, however, we're sitting outside below average. take a look ut there right now. you can see a few high clouds across the area and now down to our city cam you can see what is happening across the region. temperature right now sitting at 60 degrees at the airport. that is below average. the average high temperature is 63 for this time of year. winds right now out of the south about 8 miles an hour. i expect the number to go up just a little bit before we end the day today. 57, a cool 57 in gaithersburg and leesburg. down to the south fredericksburg right now with more cloud cover around 61 degrees. look at charlottesville only around 56 down there. they have a lot more in the way of clouds just down to the south and even a few showers along the blue ridge. roanoke by the way 46 degrees out there right now. there is cool air across the area and there is going to be even colder air moving in overnight tonight. cool around 9:00 down into the upper 40s in most locations. 46 at 11:00. then 39. this is in the city. 39 at 5:00 a.m. 40 by 7:00 a.m. when you step out the door it will be a very chilly start. some areas will be near freezing. overnight tonight. and there are freeze warnings in effect. i'll show you where those warnings are and who is going to be affected the most coming up. >> thanks, doug. you may have seen and heard fighter jets fly over the district this morning. nasa and the faa are preparing to bring the space shuttle discovery from florida to the washington area to dulles airport. two t-38 training jets flew about 1500 feet over the city taking photographs and scouting out possible routes for the shuttle. they wanted to make sure it could pass safely over the monuments. discovery is set to arrive april 17th traveling atop a 747. it will then be flown to the smithsonian's air and space m museum. a judge in texas today ordered a psychiatric exam for the jet blue pilot accused of disrupting the flight. the exam will determine if clayton osbon was legally sane that day and whether he is competent to stand trial. passengers said they wrestled him to the floor after he left the cockpit and ran through the cabin screaming about religion and terrorists. it happened last week and forced an emergency landing in texas. he also has a detention hearing on monday. prosecutors say he should remain in federal custody without bond. some welcome news today on the jobs front. fewer americans are filing for unemployment. it's another sign that the recovery is accelerating. in this fiercely partisan election year both sides came together today to celebrate a little common ground. steve handelsman has the story. >> i want to thank all of you for coming. >> reporter: president obama and top republicans came to the rose garden. they cooperated on a bill to help new business start-ups and, coincidentally today got the good economic news. the number of americans claiming new unemployment benefits last week. 357,000 was the lowest in four years. >> our economy has begun to turn a corner but we've still got a long way to go. we've still got a lot of americans out there looking for a job. >> reporter: this was atlanta airport. people lining up to get jobs -- 700 will in new restaurants and shops here. there's hope tomorrow's national jobs report will show another strong bounce back. the bill signed today cuts red tape to promote business start-ups. critics worry wall street giants like goldman sachs might abuse the bill to avoid regulation. the goal is getting financing for small businesses to grow. house republican leader eric canter. >> i hope it represents the kind of bipartisan work that we can actually accomplish here in washington over the next few months. have a very difficult economic situation still. >> reporter: our record warm weather is helping. retail clothing sales are up. outdoor sporting goods sales. and that means jobs. >> when we start to see these retailers do well because of an early spring, many of them will take the sales and continue to create jobs and look for opportunities to grow their business. they'll need new people to do that. >> reporter: more americans hired, music to president obama's ears, as he runs for re-election. tomorrow's the big day -- the march jobs report. will it show another positive move in the hiring direction? i'm steve handelsman, news 4. invisible children, the group that produced the viral kony 2012 video that targets african warlord joseph kony released a sequel today. >> telling your leaders that you care is critical for the success of these efforts. your voice. >> this new video show cases the efforts to uganda, in uganda, and encourages people to take action and also addresses critics who say the group distorts facts and doesn't spend enough to help people. noticeably absent is jason russell the narrator of the original film. last month he was diagnosed with brief psychosis after a public outburst. lawyers for former penn state assistant coach jerry sandusky tried to get the judge to throw out some critical evidence today. the judge said he's not ready to rule on their motion to dismiss the child sexual abuse charges. nbc's michelle franzen has the latest from pennsylvania. >> reporter: jerry sandusky walked into court this morning where defense attorneys were expected to present arguments asking a judge to dismiss all child sexual abuse charges against him due to what they called lack of sufficient evidence. instead, defense attorney amadola asked the judge to withdraw the motion for now he said until the evidence is more concrete. outside the courthouse he says he is still concerned the ongoing investigation that includes grand jury testimony won't give them enough time to prepare a defense at trial now set to begin in june. >> we're ready with what we have. the problem is what we don't have and what we don't have right now is any additional discovery the commonwealth gives us at our request or our own volition as well as the grand jury materials which we know we're not going to get until right before trial. >> reporter: the former penn state assistant football coach faces 52 child sex abuse charges involving ten alleged victims dating back more than a decade. sandusky's defense team says they are still missing key information about his accusers. >> for instance to have a case where there is no person. they say there was a victim and we can't tell you how old the person was, what their name was, who they are, or whether they consented or what. >> reporter: prosecutors expressed their own frustration, saying they have provided as much information they can due to the ongoing investigation and accused the defense of using delay tactics. >> we look forward to the day when the victims under oath testify as to the abuse to which they were subjected. >> reporter: that day in court for both the alleged victims and sandusky now two months away barring any other delays. following the hearing sandusky left the courthouse and remains confined in his home while this court case plays out. michelle francen, nbc news, belafonte, pennsylvania. time to play ball. the nats played their first or will play their first game of the season this afternoon. >> what a ticket. after bill murray threw out the first pitch before the game began the nats are in chicago to play the cubs. steven strasburg was the opening day starter. strasburg began well. here with a strikeout to end the second inning. we'll have much more on the nats coming up right here on news 4 at 5:00 and 6:00 tonight. it's still a megamystery. today maryland lottery officials say no one has come forward to claim the winning megamillions ticket bought in the state last week. what they do know is the ticket was sold at a 7-eleven in baltimore county, one of three winning tikds in the record-breaking $656 million prize. lottery officials say they looked at surveillance video to see if they could identify the person who bought the ticket but no luck. we'll have more on that in a live report from baltimore coming up on news 4 at 5:00. for its part the illinois lottery gave the convenience store that sold one of the winning megamillions tickets its jackpot today. we still don't know who purchased that ticket in red bud, illinois, but the moto mart received a $500,000 check. in turn, moto mart is sharing the money with its ten employees. a lottery official says the situation is a perfect illustration of what lotteries are all about. >> just shows you that lotteries are all about luck, all about randomness, and anything is possible. even selling a ticket to a player in red bud, illinois. >> the split leaves each employee with about $50,000. that's before taxes. not bad. >> not bad. we'll take it. we would. when news 4 at 4:00 continues what whitney houston's family is saying after disturbing details are revealed in the singer's final autopsy report. >> is kanye west dating kim kardashian? the singer declares his love in a new song. and a pilot talks about making an emergency landing i have never encountered such a burning sensation... until i had the shingles. it was like a red rash. like somebody had set a bag of hot charcoal on my neck. i had no idea it came from chickenpox. it's something you never want to encounter. for more of the inside story, visit shinglesinfo.com take a look at this video. residents on the outskirts of the german city of dresden were surprised by an unusual sight this morning. a driver who wanted to load a container on to his truck miscalculated that container's weight, up ending the vehicle. luckily for the driver he wasn't inside the cab. it took two cranes to get the truck back up on to its wheels. matt lauer got a chance to ask ryan seacrest if he was after his job. >> there was some back and forth yesterday on "today." seacrest announced he will be joining the nbc team during the olympic games this summer. on the tonight show jay leno told viewers what really went on between the two of them. thnchts morning on the "today" show matt lauer interviewed ryan seacrest about the rumor that seacrest might take over his job. here is a piece of the interview. take a look. >> ryan, a friendly -- we have talked about this. we've joked about this. there is no tension here. >> they went to commercial break. show what happened right at commercial break. >> great to see you. >> nice to see you. >> nice move. i can't believe they caught that. i thought that was a secret. >> you catch me off guard and they have the best shot. >> put him on a high chair so it is easier for him to fall. you know what? i don't know. >> see that again. >> that editor at leno, we need to hire that person. >> amazing. >> were those doubles? we missed that part. hey, seeing double is a twins remake in the works? an ex-couple that just can't seem to stay apart. and whitney houston's family responds to the final report on her death. time for hollywood headlines with georgia alfredas cohost with the russ par morning show heard week days on wkys 93.9. let's start, georgia, with the final autopsy report. it came out late yesterday. what's the reaction to this been? >> i think fans knew this and were expecting this but whitney houston's mother they say was hysterical. she was devastated because she thought that whitney was doing better. she had no idea that she was as the report says using it as often as she was. so they say she is devastated. the real thing is she doesn't want people to see whitney as a druggy but remember her as a talented singer, great mom, which i think people will. i think, you know, she is wrong about people just seeing her as a drug addict because you can't say whitney without thinking i will always love you or bodyguard so i think that fans will remember her as a great singer. >> especially over the long haul. >> she has the new movie out in august. >> "sparkle" please. >> and i hear she does great in it. i hope fans will remember her as a great singer. >> some exes can't stay apart. j-lo and mark antony getting together again. >> one night and one only. on kviva. this is their show that isn't doing that great in the ratings. and they need to do something to spice it up so they'll perform together on the show on may 26th and their top talent will be performing on that night's show. hopefully it'll do really well and show up on the next season. we're hoping it gets another season. >> i think they need you to do the introduction. >> k viva! >> you do it well. who knows what the one night will lead to? >> they say it's one night only but if it does well i'm sure they'll do it again. >> kanye west is singing a new tune. >> yes he is. i have so much to tell you. kanye west has this new song. >> let's give a listen first. ♪ $6,000 pair of shoes we made it to the paris news ♪ >> all right, georgia, what is going on here. >> the name of the new song is thera flu and he actual aide miaide -- he actually admits he is in love with kim kardashian but at the time she was in love with chris humphries. he even says chris humphries is lucky jay-z didn't drop him from the team. here's a funny little story. how about kim kardashian was seen doing the walk of shame this morning? >> uh-oh. how did we hear this? >> i saw the pictures online. what happened is she and kanye west went to see "the hunger games" last night. she had on the same clothes she left in last night this morning and here is the situation. kanye west has a women's designer line. i know he had something in that house she could wear so i don't know why she left in those clothes. >> assuming she needed to change clothes. >> i'm just saying. you spend the night somewhere you change in the morning. >> putting two and two together. >> surely they just stayed up watching -- >> you're buying into the rumors. >> yeah. the walk of shame. i've never done it. just heard of it. i'm not quacking. i'm saying i've never done the walk of shame in case my mom is watching. >> all right. so you're looking forward to seeing what's next on the real housewives shows. >> the real housewife of beverly hills, one of her stars is getting her own show. lisa vander pump is getting her own show based around her hollywood eatery that is really popular these days and also candy burress who is on the housewives of atlanta is getting her own show and it'll be based on pop singers, well, people who want to be pop singers. she is with the r & b group eskate and one of her buddies tiny is married to t.i. they have their own show on vh 1. that's just the reality world. >> okay. speaking of reality, schwarzenegger and devito are getting back together. we remember them in the movie "the twins." now they're triplets? >> well, that's what they say. arnold schwarzenegger if he has his say, eddie murphy will play the triplet. that would be funny. hilarious. >> it would be. >> i would love to see those three together. we'll see if that happens. >> so is the movie "grown-ups" good enough for a sequel? >> no, no. i'm sorry. it had all these great comedians in it. adam sandler, chris rock, selma hayek, david spade, but they're making a "grown-ups 2" and laettner from -- not laettner -- who else? i am trying to think who was going to play this role and i forgot but they're doing a "grown-ups 2" and i'm like really? i don't think it was good enough. >> tell us how you really feel. >> oh, yeah. >> what is coming up tomorrow? >> this weekend we'll have an egg-citing weekend. no. we're giving away tickets to marsha ambrosia and the funny thing is i said her name wrong just then. she told me the last time in studio you're saying my name wrong. it is marsha ambrosius. she told me that's not how you say my name. she is british. i said sorry. then when she left i said it the same wrong way just to show her. just kidding. come on my show? tell me how to say your name? >> we all know how to say your name. we'll be tuning in tomorrow morning. thanks so much. coming up next on news 4 at 4:00 a bank's curiosity saved the life of a cat. why the bank had to sue to save its life. plus hear the flight recordings as an some interesting pictures here from mars. the red planet. nasa says this traveling plume of smoke is a massive dust storm on the planet. the phenomenon is called a dust devil. it's created by strong surface heat. this particular dust devil was captured by a special camera orbiting mars. the plume is 12 miles above the surface. that's nearly the entire length of the capital crescent trail. despite the size of the plume scientists say you wouldn't be knocked over by it because the atmosphere on mars is very dense. >> it looks a little like a twister at the very bottom. >> it does. >> it is. that is exactly what it is. i would see those out in colorado quite often. >> really. >> clear skies. everything is great. then you look off in the distance and there is a big dust storm going on. >> yeah. >> really amazing. also had one in elementary school. fifth grade. a big one right there over in burke right by the mcdonald's. >> yeah, yeah. there was a huge one that we all put our faces in. that was really cool to see. >> all right. >> it was that. >> one of those -- anything can happen. >> way to go, doug. he knows about them from first-hand experience. >> yes. but not on mars. let's take a look and show you what's happening right now. temperatures a lot cooler than they were yesterday. by ten to 20 degrees. but it's still a pretty nice day. actually i was walking outside a little earlier loving today. a lot of people really enjoying it. a great day to get out and about running, maybe doing a little biking. one thing i will say though, pollen is even higher today than it has been over the past couple days. 60 degrees right now. the current temperature. winds out of the south about 8 miles an hour with all that sunshine. at least most of us seeing some sunshine but even with the sun, only at the 57 in gaithersburg. 57 leesburg and 57 in martinsburg. down to the south we have a little more in the way of cloud cover so charlottesville right now only around 56 degrees and there is a freeze warning in effect overnight tonight and through tomorrow morning so we will be seeing a very chilly morning. winchester, la ray, really right around i-81 back to the west but it also includes frederick county, maryland once again for temperatures that will be very close to the freezing mark. cover up those plants. bring in any sensitive vegetation again. it should not affect the washington, d.c. metro area but i still expect most of us to see temperatures in the low to mid 30s overnight tonight. storm 4 radar nothing to show you as far as rain is concerned until you move way down here with a little