Make it easier for thousands of commuters to get from downtown d. C. To Northern Virginia on 395. As Mark Segraves depending on the direction youre driving, getting out of town actually may be more difficult. Reporter this is how traffic along massachusetts avenue between the Convention Center and Union Station has been moving along for nearly the past two years. 2 billion Capital Crossing construction project over 395 has created some traffic issues along this stretch. Its caused delays. Weve been concerned about people being able to safely get from one sidewalk to the next. Reporter starting on saturday, drivers heading out of town on mass avenue will get a break. This new ramp will open carrying eastbound traffic directly on to 395 southbound making it easier for cars to get from the Center Downtown to north virginia or the southwest waterfront. The current detour down to the we expect its going to relieve some traffic in the downtown area during major events and rush hour. Youll see a lot of congestion in this area. We think theres also going to be good improvements to the bus service. Theres been some time delays over the past year and a half as this construction work has been going on and we want to see the metrobus i am prove. The new ramp will help eastbound traffic. Cars traveling westbound on mass avenue and h street will no longer be able to access 395 at third street. Drivers will either have to get on 395 earlier at the new york avenue ramp or cut through the neighborhood off mass avenue to d street. People are going to have to make some adjustments thats only reasonable. Reporter so everything changes down here on saturday and while eastbound traffic on massachusetts avenue trying to get out of town will find it much e all of this traffic going westbound on massachusetts avenue and coming off of h street will have to find a new way to get on to the freeway. In downtown washington, Mark Segraves, news4. Maryland governor says the federal government should step up and pay more to fund metro. And he made those remarks on the same day that metro is trying to figure out how to secure dedicated funding for the system. Maryland pays more into metro than any other entity including virginia, d. C. And the federal government. He talks about this with transportation secretary elaine chow. The discussion i had with the secretary of transportation was 40 of the people that ride metro are federal government workers. You need to pay more. They only pay 128. 40 of the riders are theirs. Our News Partners are reporting that metros gm will release plans tec dedicated funding for the system very soon. Governor hogan wants to reduce the time youre stuck in traffic. He unveiled the states 100 million plan to reduce the congestion. Chris gordon will have that part of the story at the bottom of the hour. We know more now about that confusing sound that one family heard this weekend when they called Prince Georges County 911. Some described it as a fax machine noise. Heres how Sharon Snowden explains it. Youve reached 911 emergency, all lines are busy, please hold reporter well, today Prince Georges County police told us that tone is designed for people who have a tyy device. The noise activates the text that tells the caller not to hang up. We pushed it out on the nbc washington app now weve got more on d. C. Today chief peter knew schum hes dividing the city into north and south zones. Each will get a patrol chiefs. Will allow the department to toughen its fight on crime and make it to more Community Events as well. The changes come as a veteran instant chief retires. No surprise, applause, a hug and a standing ovation for assistant chief diane grooves. Nearly 30 years, a proud d. C. Cop. I could not have asked for a better career, how blessed i am to the community. Thank you. Thank you for accepting me. Thank you for welcoming me and you made the city safer. Reporter chief peter new sham on the citys unusual tight ties to the city and a advocatist since the 1970s. Grooms was always available. I would like to announce when did you sleep. You could call diane 12 00 in the day, 1 00 in the day, 12 00 at night, 1 00 at night and you got a response. Grooms says her work in d. C. Was divine intervention. She started on the fairfax force. I went with Fairfax County at first and waitressed on the sides. If i can make it as a copy, im going to waitress. I like it. But in 1990 d. C. Beckened. I saw the ads for the metropolitan police department. I called the number, came down for an interview and the rest is history. Next month grooms will take over private security for the 2 billion wharf project rising in southwest still close to mpd. I dont feel comfortable. I dont feel scared leaving. I know the department in this city is in great hands. It will chiefs to take over her current duties. In the district tom sherwood, news4. Not a bad day today but definitely a lot different than what we saw out there yesterday. Yesterday highs in the low 70s, today were only in the low 60s and weve seen a lot of cloud covers and showers. Take a look at these numbers here. A far cry from yesterday. Only 53 in ocean city. Look back to the west, 80 degrees in lexington. Weve seen hours during the day today across parts of our region. Most of those out of here and right now im tracking this area of showers and even some thunderstorms including a severe one just southwest of cleveland. That area of rain moves our way overnight tonight. Showers overnight into tomorrow morning. Much warmer tomorrow. We do get around 80 degrees mark and a few showers and storms likely. Heavier weekend rain and that could make for a soggy sunday. Well talk much more about that in ten minutes. Thanks, doug. Are you getting excited about the tonight . In just a couple of hours the cavs and wizards both are seeing action. We have Team Coverage on all the games. For what many are calling a must win. Were going to start with Carol Maloney whose at the he Verizon Center with the wizards. Reporter its been a 38 year wait to host an nba round one game two for the wizards but that wait is almost over. The wizards and hawks they tipoff at 7 00. You see the guys on the court right now behind me warming up. Theyre hoping for a repeat of game one. Not expecting this to be easy though. Eat your wheaties wizards fans. A bruising battle on Easter Sunday. John wall led the way with his playoff career 32 point. Theyll need him to be at his postseason again tonight. The wizards the hawks are coming for him hoping to steal on the wizards home court. Hawks theyre promising a physical affair tonight. Wizards are like bring it on. Aggressive. We got the first game on them and in their mind theyre going to try to get one. We just got to be ready to be prepared for their punch. We expect it to be physical, a lot more physical for them to be heavily focused and play with a lot of energy. Theyre going to try and beat us up a little bit and get off to a great start. They dont want brad and swron to score as much and they want to let us score so were going to adjust to that real well. Reporter lets get physical. Thats the theme not just here at Verizon Center but, of course north of the border where the caps are fighting for their playoffs live. Sherry is joining us later in the show and she will set the scene up north. For now, though, from Verizon Center well have more coming up ill send it back to you guys. Win tonight. Were not going to worry about that any more. Says he wont seek reelection. Well have reaction to the surprise announcement coming up. He was the number one rated host in cable news, reaction from the bill oreilly camp after hes forced out of fox. Its a day out of the classroom but the lesson bigger than ever. Just ahead on news4 well tell you how this walk to prevent bill oreilly just released a statement saying it is tremendously dis heartening to live fox news due to unfounded claims. Orile little went obto say hes going to look back with pride. Those comments came after fox fired him after more than two decades at the fox news channel. Hes been dogged by recent reports that fox spent millions of dollars to settle Sexual Harassment claims that were made against him. The reporting prompted dozens of show. Tucker carlson is going to take over his old time slot. In politics on this wednesday, theres big news coming out of capitol hill as the Trump Administration seems to be displaying mixed messages. Also tonight the powerful chair of the House OversightCommittee Says hes not going to seek reelection in 2018. And that election in georgia has the attention of white house. Lets talk about jason chaffetz. Why would he leave decide not to run next year. Whats his strategy . The first statement wanted to spend more time with his family, when you hear that from a politician, something has to be beyond this. There is some skutle butt. He did not knock this down that he might have his eye of running for utah in 2020. Thats three years away but one path that maybe actually getting into the Governors Mansion in utah, is to get out of washington, d. C. And get special when hes chairman of the House Oversight committee thats policing over donald trump and he might actually decide, i want to get to utah and focus on utah issues if im going to run for governor. Really . Okay. Interesting. You think you got to reconnect with the folks back home in a greater way if youre going to make that run for state office. Exactly. We want to talk about that house race in georgia. The democratic newcomer, outperformed everyone, nearly got to the 50 threshold. Falling just short, is this a loss for democrats or do the republicans see this as a win . We got to wait till june 20th when the runoff is. The way i saw last night was on the one hand republicans were able to breathe a sigh of relief. They get to go into overtime now. Just short as you mentioned. On the other hand you look it was good news for democrats. They have the enthusiasm on their side in special elections that weve seen in kansas last week and last night in georgia. Democratic performance is beyond what we saw and theyre starting to outperform where Hillary Clinton was in the general election. So democrats can take that as good news. What other races we looking at . Next month is montana a special election. Statewide is at large, montana only gets one Congressional Election so statewide. Im also focused on the virginia primaries that are going to be happening on the democratic and governor side, june 13th. Im already fired up for those. So are we. Lets look at iran and the nuclear deal, whether iran is cheating on its nuclear deal that it made with us and then we have north korea and the saber rattling as its been called and the armada heading to australia. It was heading to australia, its now going to north korea. The one thing that looked at the trump Foreign Policy as it relates to noror a lot of the rhetoric thats coming from the Trump Administration, the policies are very similar to what we saw in the obama administration. I mean the talk is certainly a lot tougher but the moves and the actions at least so far seem to be out of the obama playbook when it comes to north korea and the iran deal. Secretary state Rex Tillerson ended up giving remarks very tough on iran but he made the point they are holding up their end of the agreement on at least this Iran Nuclear Deal but the administration wants to restudy this. All right. Thank you, mark. Thank you. And be sure to stay tuned after news4 at 6 00 for complete coverage of all the days political headlines with nbc nightly news with lester holt. Were tracking developments in the hernandez what is an apparent suicide. An attorney for the former new England Patriots player is demanding his own investigation. Corrections officials in massachusetts found hna cell this morning. The department of corrections says hernandez was knots on suicide watch and there was no reason to believe he would take his own life. Hernandez was in the process of appealing his murder conviction. That conviction could be vacated under a longstanding legal principle in massachusetts. Several students from louden county high schools are stepping out of the classroom today for a real world lesson on mental health. Our reporter david culver went along with them to understand how one simple action is changing minds. Reporter youre walking with junior will center. As he goes out the door to join 1,600 other students. What is it about this walk do you think that stands out . I think its really getting everyone the time to reflect while theyre walking and just the nature and everything. It helps people realize that life is a lot better than it seems someti stresses do you think a lot of people, peers, you yourself deal with the daytoday . The main thing is school. Every year in high school theres a major jump in the work and stress but then theres also things like sports, friends, relationships. So i think everything just piles up and it just gets too much for some people. Reporter it was too much for ryan bartel, the then wood grove senior took his own life in 2014. Reporter do you feel like this is your sons legacy now . Absolutely. Reporter following the students lead, successie bar tell helped launch were all human Suicide Prevention watch. It was only at wood grove until this year, now five other schools joining in. We were moving those barriers. Were making sure that its okay for them to talk and were giving them a platform and a voice and the fact that other schools have jumped into this is because they recognize that. Reporter as part of the walk, students write down their near the end. They toss the cards into the fire symbolizing their worries burning away and realizing theyre not the only ones. There are a lot of people who go through it. Its quiet. Reporter that quiet replaced today by music, laughter and signs encouraging these young people to keep pushing forward. In virginia, david culver, news4. If they only reach one kid in need it was a success. A plan to relieve congestion among one of the areas busiest highways. It could save you 30 minutes on the commute to and from work. The temperatures are going to rebound after our cool and cloudy day. Doug takes a look at just how warm its going to get. We a we were having a little pollen discussion as we always do when we get together this time. Is the worse over and how long before the trees cycle out . I think the worse is over but coming off of sunday that was the peek and it was actually the largest weve seen in four years as far as pollen suffering go. The worse pollen weve seen in four years. It will continue to come down over the next couple of days. I think sunday is going to be the day where the pollen really relaxes. Thats when were going to see that beneficial rainfall. It will be sunday and of cour whats happening. Plenty of leaves on the trees right now. Virtual explosion over the last two weeks of trees and pollen around our region. That pollen level very high today. 62 degrees the current temperature. Yesterday it was 72 at this hour with plenty of sunshine. A spectacular day. Today 62 and rather cool. 61 winchester, only 59 in la ray. Much cooler. On the radar most of the shower activities gone. Few more showers, culpeper county, right around coming through your area in the next 15 to 20 minutes. Very light rain. What im watching however is a system back to the west and you take a look here. Weve got one system over our area, another one passed to the north and another one back to the west. This will make its way across the east and this area will move on down towards our region. First off, though, what else will be coming our way much warmer r. 54 in roanoke but 80 in indianapolis, 88 in st. Louis and that warmer air will move our way tomorrow. Here are the showers around chicago. Thunderstorms too. They will move down across our region and here we are in future weather. 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow the shower activity around so heads up. We may see some showers during that morning rush. Theyre not going to last long and most of them will be out of here quickly. We could see some more showers tomorrow afternoon maybe even a rumble of thornd or two tomorrow. Not expecting much in the way of Severe Weather but we will see some showers and much warmer temperatures tomorrow too. On friday, some more cloud cover and again a chance for a few showers during the afternoon. So your forecast tomorrow 81 degrees warmer. Few showers, maybe a thunder or two. Maybe a strong storm too. Nothing too strong or severe. 83 on friday. Were still warm on friday. Look 64 on saturday. Lets talk about saturday. If youre going to be out saturday, you have plans. Obviously all the kids have a lot of games this time of year. Heres your saturday planner. 60 degrees, showers possible at 11 00 but no big deal. 64 by 3 00 and 62 by 7 00. Again, few showers possible on saturday but sunday is the day with the rain and not just rain, high of only 54 so itll be a nasty rain as well. If youve got plans to be outside on sunday, you might want to rethink that. Next week looking great and look how many 80s on in this tenday forecast. Nice. Very nice. Well, they are homes in foreclosures, they havent been repossessed and so they sit empty. These are called zombie foreclosures. The steps being taken locally to address that issue. Ahead, how much time commuters will save daily along i270 under a new plan to modernize the highway. Theres the view. Theres more to life than the climb. Youve gotta stop and look around a little. Come, shed lifes layers in asheville. Let the child inside you out to play. Remember who you are. Life is for the taking, not for taking it easy. Asheville. Discovery, inside and out. Announcer youre watching news4 at 5 00. Now at 5 30, imagine shaving 30 minutes off your rush hour commute on i270. Its a plan outlined today by marylands governor. All with the go