We start our day early at 4 00 a. M. In fact. Make sure you get the very latest information. We invite you to check us out on the tube and online as well. We could get a decision this week in the whistleblower trial involving the d. C. Police chief. Closing arguments are expected to begin tomorrow. Today chief cathy lanier faced a tough crossexamination. Our Kristin Wright joins us now from d. C. Superior court. Kristin . Repor well chief lanier took the stand for a second day today, and her testimony contradicted that of several officers last week who said look there was no clearcut policy on celebrity escorts and that chief lanier approved many of them. Superior court, police chief cathy lanier testified that mpd considers celebrity escorts on a casebycase basis approves them only when Public Safety is a factor. Today lanier testified for several hours in the whistleblower case filed by a former commander of the department. Captain Hilton Burton says he was demoted in retaliation after he contradicted chief lanier in testimony he gave to district counsel concerning use of Police Escorts for celebrities. In court today, chief lanier maintainedt burton was demoted for several other reasons, including the handling of a barricade situation in 2011 and pushback against a supervisor. In crossexamination, burtons attorney asked lanier whether she was just angry, that after Charlie Sheen tweeted about his mpd escort burton revealed that mpd regularly provided free celebrity escorts, contradicting the chief. Today lanier insisted she had no knowledge of it at the time. Burtons attorney highlighted a media interview chief lanier gave in which she stated that the department does not provide celebrity escorts. Lanier responded by saying that that section of the story was taken out of context and that she was making a broader statement about how the department handles celebrity escorts. Again, closing arguments begin tomorrow m. Li at superior court, Kristin Wright news4. Isis has released a new video showing captured british journalist john cantley. This is a still frame from that video which isis claims was shot in aleppo. Its the eighth video cantley has appeared in delivering isis propaganda. Cantley was kidnapped with american journalist james foley in syria more than two years ago. Foley was executed last august. The white house is expected to ask congress on wednesday to horize military force against isis. And today the president s focus was on ukraine and his simmering battles with congress over whether to take a harder line with russia and iran. Today he argued for patience and he got some very public support from the leader of germany. Steve handelsman is live on capitol hill with more. Hi steve. Reporter hi doreen. Republican critics are charging our commander in chief is weak and endangering the united states. But this was one of americas closest allies today backing the obama approach. President obama and german chancellor Angela Merkel agree on ukraine. More Russian Troops are reportedly crossing the boarder into that nation and arming prorussian separatists. Western sanctions have not forced Vladimir Putin out of ukraine. But they still might, said both leaders. We continue to encourage a diplomatic resolution to this issue. Translator ive always said i dont see a military solution to this conflict. Reporter but republicans who have been to the region are reing the president to send more weapons to the ukrainian army. How could we not allow them support to defend themselves . Reporter on iran and Nuclear Weapons there is a similar dispute. Merkel and mr. Obama want to give talks more time. It does not make sense to sour the negotiations a month or two before theyre about to be completed. R repubn critics want tougher sanctions on iran immediately. As ive said to congress bile the first one to work with them to apply Even Stronger measures against iran. But whats the rush . Reporter its a warning to iran to make a deal and to challenge hawkish israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu, who president obama says he has real differences with on iran. Republicans still plan to bring netanyahu here to the hill next month to highlight and endorse his hard line. And president obama still plans not to see the israeli leader whos in the middle of a reelection campaign. Im Steve Handelsman news4. Thanks steve. In the last hour we have learned more about the next move for the former second in command at the secret service. The agency announced the resignation of Deputy Director a. T. Smith today. He is stepping down to take a position with immigration and customs enforcement. Still no word yet on his exact title in that new role. Recent Security Breaches and other scandals have led to several other highlevel resignations in the secret service this year. Its now been more than a week since a man was killed and his fiancee seriously hurt trying to change a tire on the bw parkway. Police are still searching for anyone with information about who may have hit them. Park Police Officers handled out flyers near where the crash happened in laurel. Rick warrick was killed in that hitandrun crash and his fiance jewel pierce suffered two broken legs, a broken pelvis and a fractured skull. New tonight, were hearing from a friend of the man who prompted a deadly fourhour Police Standoff in Montgomery County this morning. Pat collins has been at the scene of the barricade all day. It happened outside a landscape business in silver spring. Pat . Reporter jim, the man who died here was a mechanic here. They say he would often greet you with a wave and a smile. And people who knew him here people like Janet Gonzalez said they have no idea what caused him to do what he did here. The man who died in this standoff with police was a mechanic for a Landscape Company here. Janet gonzalez saw him just about every day. Everybody knew him, like if anything was broken down he would come up you know, they would come up and ask him, fix it, and he we glad to do it. I dont think he had any problems with it. Reporter miss gonzalez said she e man do anything suspicious or scary. Did you ever see him act in an unusual way . No never. Never. He always smiled. Every time that we broef by each other, you know, going in and out, he would just wave thats it. Reporter but there he was today, this mechanic at the Landscape Company, with a shotgun in hand and a long standoff with police. And the cops they didnt hold anything back. The Emergency Response team deployed Armored Vehicles called to the scene. Now, it began this morning when the man came to work pulled out a shotgun from his truck, and then fired off a shot into a pile of mulch. At one point he left the business t vehicle, and retrieved a shotgun. He pointed at one employee then shot a round into a mulch pile nearby. Reporter police had to the place surrounded. And they made attempts to get him to surrender. It went on for about four hours. But then then came the shot that ended it all. At approximately 12 16, they did hear a shot and had determined that he ended his life there. Reporter now, this began about 8 16 this morning. Police continue to work the scene here. Live in Montgomery County pat collins, news4. Thank you, pat. New at 6 00 were working to learn more details about a violent attack on a georgetown universi student over the weekend. According the hoya newspaper, the victim was walking on m street near 33rd about 1 30 sunday morning when she was assaulted. D. C. Police and georgetown universi police are looking for witnesses. The hoya reports that the woman was treated and released from the hospital. A local hospital is promising to bring one of the best Disease Treatment facilities in the world to northern virginia. Toy inova announced plans to renovate the old exxonmobil campus into a new cancer and Genomics Research center in fairfax. Exxonmobil announced plans to vacate that campus back in 2012. The 2,000 employees who were working there are moving to houston. Inova hopes to open the new center by 2017. New at 6 00 tonight, responding to the pajama protest. Why some Montgomery Co teachers say delaying School Start Times will not help students. Samesex couples getting married in the deep south. A decision today that could signal a Larger Supreme Court late year. Reporter the new 95 express lanes b a month, so hows it going . Tonight, samesex couples in alabama are able to get married after the u. S. Supreme court refused to block a lower court ruling. It could signal the high courts thinking as it considers a case that has an fekt on gay marriage throughout the country. The chief justice in alabama says he considers the marriage licenses handed out today illegal under the state constitution. Fo counties today reportedly refused to issue the licenses. Gay marriage is now legal in 37 states and the district. The National Football league has hired a woman to be its first medical expert. Dr. Elizabeth nable was named chief health and medical adviser for the league. Dr. Nable is a cardiologist. The president of brigham and Womens Hospital in boston and a professor of harvard and harvard medical school. She will work directly with commissioner Roger Goodell to identify airs of the league to enhance player safety, care, and treatment. Learning how to use the new electronic i95 and 495 express lanes in virginia it can be a little bit challenging. And now there are some changes coming. New at 6 00 tonight, our transportation rep explains that its in the name of safety. Adam . Reporte thats right, jim. Clear signs of bigger Police Presence coming to the express lane network here in northern virginia. And specifically with the 95 express lanes were getting a Progress Report how theyve been going now that theyve been open a little more than a month. Take a ride through the springfield interchange where the 95 and 495 express lanes meet and you could see how there would be some confusion. Roads crisscrossing everywhere. So now better direction. Now the big sign that says entrance only flashing beacons on the top of it to call out to drivers that youre about to enter the 495 express lanes. Reporter and mike mcguirk with transurban,r of the express lane says extra state police are being called in to monitor the shoulders near edsall road in superstorm sandy. Drivers have been waiting on the shoulder until the hov rules on 395 end then jumping in those lanes. For drivers, its unsafe illegal, you should only stop in the shoulder f emy and you have to do it. Reporter focusing on the 95 express lane news4 as learned 90 of the traffic on the road does have an ez pass so thats good and the average toll has been 4. 30. Drivers we talk to certainly are using the new lanes. It takes me about ten minutes to get home. Reporter wow. As opposed to maybe an hour with traffic or bad weather. Reporter wow. What about the thought of paying to get around traffic . Well some like grant dekeman have their own sweetheart deals in place. Youre okay with paying to get around the traffic . Yeah. Actually currently, mom, i know this might be not the best time for her to find out, if she does happen to watch the news but its still connected to her account, so as of now, shes paying and im reaping all the benefits. Sur shes happy youre getting home faster. Right. Reporter now, we do expect new numbers on the number of people using the express lanes later on this week. What about you, off gripe or a concern, a safety concern about the express lanes . We want you to tell us on our facebook page. Reporting live in alexandria adam tuss news4. Thanks adam. We have just learned a d. C. Employee is facing charges now for pulling a gun during an argume. Jim handly at our live desk. We just got the police report. It says an employee at the districts Wastewater Treatment plant pulled that gun during an argument over a parking space. George johnson now faces five gun charges. The report says two men asked johnson to move his that Treatment Plant at blue plains because it was blocking them in. At first johnson got out of his suv with a baton. That prompted one of the other men to threaten johnson. Police tell us it was at that point that johnson reached back into his car and pulled out a sawedoff shotgun. He never pointed it at the other men. Johnson is now out of jail tonight. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him and will be back in court sometime next month. At the live desk im jim handly. Jim, thank you. Doug is back with more about our weather, that gorgeous sunday we had, it seems like a distant me now. It was amazing. Wasnt it . I mean 68 in d. C. Whats even more amazing, still only 43 up towards frederick. Those people did not see that warm air weve seen but we set a record High Temperature yesterday and now were talking about sleet and even snow and even some freezing rain coming in. Its all along the radar right now, storm team 4 radar showing where that rain sleet, and snow is. Most of it is now rain in our region but you can start to see some pinks moving into parts of our area. Down to the south, just some shower activity after what was some heavier showers back towards waldorf and clinton over towards huntingtown area most of those now off. More towards fredericksburg along 95. Back to the west this is where were seeing heavier rain through the winchester area Frederick County virginia paige county and clark county back towards virginia in through the panh virginia. Notice t pinks on the mountaintops and up to the west of frederick. This is the area we will still see first the freezing rain then the cold air moves in and the rest of us start to see it. Heads up if youre driving 270 past frederick. This is the area were watching here maybe along 15 250, we continue to watch that, and in through portions of northern Montgomery County you folks will bt see the sleet and freezing rain. The cold air is mo in. Notice all the rain changing to snow and freezing rain at this point. Thats why we have the Winter Weather advisory but this is not a very big storm. Lets talk it. Winter weather advis t the morning. Loudoun county, Montgomery County, Frederick County back to the pajd this is all until 3 00 in the morning. Farther to the east though Prince Georges CountyAnne Arundel CountyHoward County this goes through 5 00 a. M. As thats the precipitation will last a little bit longer spop what will we see . Mixture of sleet, freezing rain some snow possible not a big storm but it doesnt take a lot to create slick spots. You only need a trace of ice on the roadway to get that Winter Weather advisory and thats why we have it inmont fwomry and loudoun counties. The temperatures above freezing in most locations but theyre getting close to that 32 te gree mark. 32 in gaithersburg 32 in huntingtown, 33 in baltimore and annapolis. That one degree difference that could pose the problem. Gaithersburg youve got the moisture moving in right watch out. Some of those roads could get on the slick side. Heres future weather through around 9 00 and this is what were talking about. Rain in d. C. Northern virginia back to the west. S where were seeing the sleet, the freezing rain and the snow just about all of them in our region as the cold offering moves down even the d. C. Metro area could be talking about sleet and freezing rain in and around midnight and 1 00. By early tomorrow around 5 00 a. M. Its down to the south. Well continue to watch it move south. Most of us should be dry, but we could still be dealing with residual effects from any ice that does fall. Heads up tomorrow morning. Tom kierein will be in at 4 00 a. M. With that. 44 on tuesday, 45 on wednesday. Light snow on thursday and then look what happens. The bottom high on friday even colder for the weekend. Weekend right now the coldest weve seen so far. Thank you, doug. Maryland casinos already taking business away from atlant new at 6 00 one thing you can find only in vegas that could be coming to maryland next. Im julie carey in arlington where police are urging Vehicle Owners to do a doublecheck right now when they park in a ga. The kile murder trial under way in texas. Well hear ow howe the judge respon ques about vo after 50 years of designing cars for crash survival, subaru has developed our most revolutionary feature yet. A car that can see trouble. And stop itself to avoid it. When the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tested front crash prevention nobody beat subaru models with eyesight. Not honda. Not ford or any other brand. Subaru eyesight. An extra set of eyes, every time you drive. A dpang member accused of running a drug operation from a baltimore has been tensed to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors say that tavon white impregnated four guards and used contraband cell phones to direct drug activity on the streets. He testified against five krebs officers a kitchen worker and two inmates charged with helping him to run that operation. Five of them were convicted and the other three were acquitted after a twomonth trial. The state of maryland is considering a plan to open a small casino ins