Basis. Reporter this morning a tweet from the president , contact your rep and tell them you support the bill. The president got a standing ovation during his white house meeting with Freedom Caucus members, some of the most vocal conservative holdouts. The president was very gracious, but nothing new came out of it. We want President Trump to have a successful agenda, but in order to get to yes, we have to bend the cost down. Im hopeful that we can find a way to yes. Reporter the day began with an uphill climb. 30 republicans decided or leaning no as democrats are digging in. He may be a great negotiator. We clearly are not ready. Reporter for the white house, there is no plan b. The only focus, sell this bill. Theyd debate will continue tonight as planned. Theyre saying that they hope theyll have enough votes to go ahead with a vote on the house floor, but no guarantees when that will take place. Were still learning new details about that deadly attack in london, including the suspect and his victims. This afternoon we know an american was among those killed in the attack. His name is curt cochran. He and his wife were visiting london to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. The cochrans lived in utah. They were on their last stop during a tour of europe and were supposed to return to the u. S. Today. A Police Officer and mother of two also died in the attack. The attacker is khalid masood, a 52yearold man who was born in britain. Masood wasnt part of any current terror investigation but he did have prior drcriminal convictions. British Prime Minister theresa may say police once investigated masood for extremist links but determined he wasnt a threat. Police think masood was inspired by isis but acted alone. D. C. Police want you to take a close look at the man in this surveillance image. Hes considered a person of interest in the murder of an artist who had been visiting our city for work. Officers found corrine neil bound and stabbed in an apartment on h street. Take a look outside. You walk outside for lunch and you see that beautiful, beautiful sunshine, those blue skies. Look, dont be fooled. It is chillier than it looks out there. Lets go to tomorrow team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer. It is brisk. Definitely a little bit on the cool side. You may have needed the jacket. Right now up to 47 degrees at the airport. 50s back into west virginia, 60s even farther back to the west. Thats the warmer theirs coming in here. Ocean city maryland only 36 degrees. Weve got the cooler air. Thats finally going to start to move out, though. That warmer pattern starts to move in tomorrow as a warm front comes through. Couple of chances for showers, but no big storms and staying on the warm side. Right now the tenday forecast, the warmest tenday forecast weve made so far this year. That will make a lot of people happy. More threats are coming into Rockville High School by phone and email. And the debate is intensifying over how immigration officials handled two students accused of raping a classmate. Chris gordon is live with new reaction from the governor in maryland. Reporter Rockville High School has put into place strict new security procedures to track each student throughout the school day. Montgomery county Public Schools is undertaking a comprehensive review of its security procedures for all of its schools. It says it has good reason. Weve had hundreds of calls that are hate filled, racist. D now theyre saying theyre going to shoot up the illegals in our school. Reporter this follows the rape of a 14yearold female student last week. Two male students are charged with rape and sexual assault. Sanchez was stopped crossing the border from mexico into texas last august. He was released before a hearing was scheduled. Rockville high school has received telephone threats to shoot what the caller to as illegals and burn the school down. Today Maryland Governor larry hogan reacted to the threats. We cant condone any hate speech like that. Its terrible. Its not something that should be allowed to go on. Reporter now, ahead at 5 00, well hear what one of the lawyers representing a defendant in this rape case has to say about the charges facing his client. Back to you. First at 4 00, dueling protests today outside the Bethesda School hosting education secretary betsy devos and governor hogan. A small band of supporters believes voucher programs, which the secretary and governor support, will open up opportunities for disadvantaged students. But a larger crowd carried signs condemning those programs as a step toward privatizing Public Schools. I dont believe in using public taxpayer dollars to fund private schools. We have more let the children in poor neighborhoods have access to good schools just as we do here. Governor hogan and devos visited carter Rock Springs Elementary in bethesda where they read to students. They took turns reading aloud dr. Syracueussseuss. We learned just a few minutes ago what about what happened in a quiet neighborhood. Imagine worrying your home could flood every time it rains. Why some relief could be coming to a very concerned neighborhood. Plus the way to try to beat maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. Cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of the download speeds. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, datafree. Get the best. Go to getfios. Com the fcc promised to investigate the 911 outage that impacted a lot of at t customers this month including folks right here in our area. Now were getting new details on just how widespread it was. On the night of march th more than 12,000 subscribers could not reach 911 on their cell phone. That outage impacts callers across the southeast, northeast and central parts of the country. At t says it recently changed networks and that is what caused the problem. In Fairfax County every time it rains folks who live in the huntington area of the county get anxious. That could change soon. Ground was broken on a new levee and pumping station. Many homes along were built before there were floodplain regulations. Those are susceptible to flash flooding and tidal surges. Criminals running drugs through your mailbox. The news4 iteam shows you how dealers can move load of pot through the u. S. Mail. The immediate measures investigators are taking. The father of a local woman died while he was waiting for the medical equipment he needed. We stepped in to help her get r money backhe. Im wendy rieger at the live desk. We have some new information on the case that involves the trump hotel. A federal agency rules that President Trumps election does not violate the terms of that lease. That lease for the Trump International hotel on pennsylvania avenue prevents any federal official from being involved in the project and ethics experts questioned whether the president violates that lease the moment he took the oath of office. But the General ServiceAdministration Today ruled in the president s favor. Gsa oversees trumps lease for the luxury hotel. It is just blocks from the white house. The president says he has transferred control of his entire Business Empire to his children. Following some breaking news right now. A Prince Georges CountyPolice Officer is charged after wrecking his cruiser overnight. Our bureau chief Tracee Wilkins has been following this story all day and broke it on twitter. She joins us with some disturbing new details. Reporter weve been talking with Prince Georges County police about this officer throughout the day after we received word from several sources that it appeared that he was drunk on the scene of this accident. Let me show you what the scene looked like earlier this morning. We now have word that the officer who was behind the wheel Christopher Brown has been suspended and also facing a number of dui, reckless driving and speeding charges associated with this charge. This happened in the southbound lanes of the beltway near pennsylvania avenue. He clipped a tractor trailer, spun out of control and hit a guardrail there. No one was injured in this incident. What is most some point he walks away from the crash. The first officers who respond to the scene was actually the District Heights department. When they got there, they could not locate the officer. He eventually returned to the scene and was taken into custody. Coming up, more details into this investigation and also more information on the fact that this was not the first time this officer had a dui. A image seizure at the Us Postal ServicesMail Processing facility in d. C. News4 has learned that postal inspectors are investigating at least 37 parcels suspected of being used to traffic drugs through the mail. Montgomery county police and customs agents were using canine dogs and they caught a scent of narcotics in those packages. Federal agents tell us they have recovered thousands of pounds of drugs includie ining marijuana shipped through the u. S. Mail this year. A lotf homeowners who are getting caught in the middle. An investigate by Scott Macfarland and the iteam reveals a new surge of local cases and how you might end up being caught. Reporter drug deals no longer relegated only to the street corners but possibly on your block. Inside a mailbox, like the case a drug runner paying her 50 a parcel to deliver marijuana to his home. Hed leave her an envelope with cash in the mailbox in return. It is difficult for Law Enforcement to deal with. Reporter former Maryland State Police narcotics investigators Neil Franklin says its not only common, but dangerous. A lot of times the package is left right on the porch, right at the front door. Reporter it is illegal to mail marijuana and other across state lines. Its the u. S. Postal Inspection Service that investigates these cases. We pulled dozens of their search warrants. They look for certain states of origin, arizona, california and colorado and washington. They look for heavy taping of packages and they look for these Us Postal Service click and ship labels often used by businesses but also used by drug dealers to make drug shipments look lick legitimate business shipments. The feds launched more than 2,000 investigations into drugs in u. S. Mail last year alone and seized more than 35,000 pounds of marijuana. They caught permission to seize more than 100 suspicious parcels in the d. C. Region just since october. Thats clearly something that were interested in prosecutor virginia. The top federal prosecutor in alexandria dana boente think it could be smarter for the dealers to use mail. They view it as safer, less of a chance of get caught. Reporter federal search warrants said marijuana by mail dealers often use invalid addresses, some times a vacant or make home from which the recipient can make the pick up. It may have been just been like this is a good spot. Reporter thats what happened. Dealers listed his wifes name and their home address in an effort to ship Illegal Drugs to Prince Georges County. There are weaknesses in the federal safety net against mailed marijuana. Internal auditors found postal auditors near d. C. Failed to properly secure and lock up parcels suspected of nearly half of the post offices last year failed to do the same. By october of this year it will create better guidelines for handling of suspicious packages. Takes a lot of resources and man power. Even with that, were only intercepting a small portion of it. Reporter some cases are harder to stop than others. Takisha cole was a letter carrier herself until she was convicted of distribution. In news for your health if you suffer from allergies you know that medicine can help ease your sniffles. But a thorough Spring Cleaning can go a long way toward keeping your allergies in check. You should switch out your air filters on a regular basis, clean out the inside of vents if possible, wipe d using antibacterial solutions. Make sure the vacuum cleaner bag is empty when you use it. Follow the House Cleaning system, start from top, go to bottom, then go from left to right, then back to front. If you follow that system youre going to make sure youre going to clean everything in one shot around the room and do it in the right way so that you maximize your time and make sure everything gets cleaned accordingly. And they recommend you clean your floors last and if possible keep your windows closed especially on windy days in order to keep all that stuff out. Well, its the news that a lot of us knew was coming but still hoped it could be avoided. Metro will charge you more for less. Well give you the when and the how much. And the first full weekend of spring is almost here. Dougs on his way in to tell us nbc 4 is working for you to help prevent identity theft. Pack up all those bank statements, bills and personal documents and bring them to annandale for our next community shred. Its this saturday. You have to be in line by 10 45. And there is per car. For information on what you can and cannot bring open the nbc washington app and Search Community shred. Such a good project. Doug, can we put our heavy winter coats away and when . I think we can. I think we can. I think we finally can. I want to say thank you to you. Youve got the storm team 4 app open on your phone right there. Of course. You can download it too. Thank you very much. The nbc washington app. I need to thank you as well because before the break you said you wont need your umbrella. How do you say it . Umbrella. I say umbrella too and everybody gets mad at me. I want to thank everybody else for being a part of this great day. Its a beautiful day, plenty of bit on the cool side, 47 degrees. Temperatures dropping tonight. Its going to be another cool night. Rather chilly at 9 00, about 39 degrees at 11 00. Temperatures below average. Our average high is up to 56 degrees. Were close to 10 degrees below average right now. Along the patuxent refer only 3940 degrees there. On the raradar, nothing to show you. Notice the drought monitor. Its changed a little bit, taking d. C. Out of the severe. Still Montgomery County, Fairfax County, Prince William county down towards fauquier still severe drought. We need rain. We do have a warm front makes its way our way. Behind this warm front it is very warm, into the 70s. This will pass through our region during the Morning Hours tomorrow. Fayetteville, arkansas. That is all coming our way. So we are going to get much warmer the next few days. That pattern looks like it wants to stick around as well. Notice by 8 00, some sun, but here come the clouds. With that warm front, could see some showers associated with that and a lot of cloud cover. Still chilly to start off our friday. By noon, clouds all over the area and then we start to break out. By this time the winds start to shift and temperatures start to go up. At the bus stop, 36 and chilly. 63 in the afternoon, rather breezy. Look how far temperatures climb on saturday. Up to 76 degrees. A beautiful afternoon on saturday. Sunday, only a 30 chance of showers. Not a washout with a high of 66. 73 on monday, 72 on tuesday. Look at this, guys, 60s and 70s the entire tenday forecast. You said we could put away the winter coats. Looks like it. Love it. This certainly is not helping with the nations divided political atmosphere. Did a lawmaker muddy the waters by talking about someone possibly listening in on the president . Its sort of a hard and fast rule of riding an escalator. You stand to the left and walk to the right when youre on it. But is metro leave it to the pros . I am a pro. I made this lawn from seed pride, and less water than youd think. To those whod say the grass is greener on the other side. I politely disagree. Pennington smart seed. Guaranteed to grow with 30 less water. Reclaim your turf. Youre watching news4 at 4 00. Starting this summer, metro riders will be paying more for less service. The board voted today to raise fares and cut service. Starting in july, youll pay anywhere from an extra dime to a quarter for bus and rail trips. The time you rawait for trains will be longer. Transportation reporter adam tuss will have more on all of this ahead in our next hour. We really want you to weigh in on our nbc washington flash survey. Will the metro fare increase make you less likely to take metro . So far a lot of you say you already avoid it. Etiquet etiquette. Stand on the right . Metros gm manager is sparking a stir saying riders should stand on both sides and not walk up the escalators at all. Heres part of what Paul Wiedefeld said yesterday when he unveiled the new escalators at the bethesda station. We do not promote obviously the walking on the left. These are very sensitive pieces of equipment and you can imagine this one would be a rise of almost ten stories. Transportation reporter adam tuss is life at metros headquarters. Are you getting any dl clarification . Reporter this is an interesting one. For so long weve all thought stand right, walk left. On the metro website it actually says to do just that. But we talked to the general manager about all o