Well. The people of wisconsin are amazing, they want to see strong borders, they want their jobs to stay here. Ted cruz claiming today starts his run to a first ballot nomination hits talk radio. It will have national repercussions, not just for the 42 delegates at stake here in wisconsin, but i believe its going to powerfully impact the states to come. Cruz agrees, with trump. The john kasich, who has given up in wisconsin should drop out. But he refuses. Kasich dreams of winning the nomination, after a divided disputed stymied and deadlocked dwengs. Which is why trump and cruz also agree that Convention Rules ought to block kasich from being the nominee. Im steve handelsman, news4. Thank you, steve. For complete coverage and analysis, be sure to watch news4 at 11 00. You can get the latest results throughout the evening on our website or on the nbc washington app. Bernie sanders name will be on the ballot in d. C. Sanders was in jeopardy of being left off the ballot because of a clerical error. As Mark Segraves reports, the Council Voted to fix that today. But not everybody was in agreement. Mark . Yeah, good evening jim. While the council was quick to approve sanders for the ballot, two d. C. Council members did not vote in favor of it. Both for very different reasons. The ayes have it unanimously. While technically it was a unanimous vote two Council Members were not among the yes votes, Council MemberVincent Orange voted present rather than yes or no. Before the vote at a meeting he questioned whether the council should be interfering in party politics. And put some of the blame on senator sanders. In this particular case, the Bernie Sanders campaign did not put people on the streets in the District Of Columbia to collect signatures. They decided to pay so this is where we find ourselves today. The Sanders Campaign followed all the rules. And paid a 2500 fee to appear on the ballot rather than collecting investigates. Hillary clinton did both. But the Democratic Party did not file the paperwork on behalf of the candidates until the day after the deadline according to the board of elections. Council member anita bonds recused herself from todays vote because she also serves as the chairman of the Democratic State party. You think mr. Sanders should be on the ballot . I think that anyone who is and wants to run for president and follows the guidelines as prescribed should be, yes. I have no problem with that. Now because this is legislation it has to be approved by the mayor. D. C. Mayor muriel bowser, who is supporting Hillary Clinton in the primary tells me that she will sign this legislation reporting live from the d. C. Council, Mark Segraves, news4. And right now talking about those cold temperatures around the region today. Highs where they should be in the month of february. Not the month of april. Take a look at numbers outside now, even with sunshine this is the highest weve been all day at 46 degrees. 46 as well in richmond and 44 towards hagerstown. Only 41 towards ocean city. Freeze warning in effect for everybody in purple. Thats just about everybody watching. Very cold night tonight for sure. The wind or the temperatures down below freezing once again. So a very cold start to the day tomorrow. So continued cold, coming up in a couple of minutes, were going to talk about the nationals forecast. We have the home opener coming up on thursday, but theres a good chance of rain on thursday. Ill break down the hourbyhour forecast and show you which time has the best chance for the rain. And a cold weekend, thats right, the cold weather returns just in time for the weekend. Ive got the fourday, the sevenday forecast as well we have breaking news now. In the past 15 minutes, the irs announced that its headquarters on constitution avenue will be closed for the rest of the week. Th decision comes after a fire in the basement there yesterday. A spokesperson says the fire damaged the air handling system and crews are working to repair it before the building reopens. Employee who is can telework, are expected to do so. And a reminder this is not going to give you more time to do your taxes. Returns are not processed at the irs headquarters. Life in prison is the sentence for the social media mogul who murdered his exwifes new husband in Loudoun County. Prosecutors told the court that minh nguyen was fuelled by an obsessive rage when he burst into the victims home, firing his gun. Bureau chief julie carey joins us live from leesburg where she just spoke with the killers daughter. Julie . Well right after, right before the sentence was imposed, the killer, minh nguyen, broke down crying, sobbing, telling the judge he takes the blame for the murder. But the judge told him he fears nguyen may still be a danger to the victims family. And so he imposed a sentence well beyond the recommended guidelines. Tears shed by the victims family and friends, replaced by hugs and smiles after the sentencing. From the time Denise Mattison arrived at her town home last year to find her husband Corey Mattison mortally wounded she called him her hero. When minh nguyen burst into the house shooting and hitting him four times. He led the shooter out the door. He knew what he was doing, he was taking the danger and luring it away from us, theres no question in my mind. Prosecutors told the judge they came to the same conclusion about mattisons actions that tragic night. Say nguyen was fuelled by an obsessive rage o 2015. After he learned his exwifes new husband was caring for his kids, he fired the first shot even before he got into the house. Then after shooting mattison, he jumped on top of him, punching the dying man. Nguyens family urged the judge to show mercy. Pointing to his struggles with Mental Illness. But the judge decided Denise Mattison and her kids shouldnt have to fear nguyen any longer. Theres no victory here. Am i able to now say to my children, when they ask, are they going to continue to be in danger . Can i now give them that promise . I can. But even that doesnt make me feel good inside about that. Mattie is the oldest of denise and the defendants three children she took the witness stand and testified for the prosecution. She has changed her last name to mattison and now considers the victim her father. I did my best and i wanted to honor corey, my dad, any way possible. And i wanted to don could be safe. The youngest mattison, baby corey, born eight months after her fathers death. Denise tells me the little girl has already been given a book that tells her fathers heroic story. Back to you in the studio, jim. Julie carey, thanks. Three people from florida have been arrested at Tysons Corner center. Theyre accusing of running a shoplifting ring. Security workers at lord taylor store called police after they saw the suspects in the store last month. Fairfax county police say they found 76,000 worth of stolen items in the suspects car. Theyre also accused of having tools to remove security sensors from the merchandise. According to a 2011 news report, a florida woman with the same name as one of the suspects was arrested at a mall in the boston area, in that case, she was accused of stealing items from a bloomingdales than 90,000 worth of merchandise in her car. Back then. A new report suggests the hacking at Medstar Health systems may have been easily preventible. The hackers broke into a computer server that had a known vulnerability. A person familiar with the investigation told the nbc washington app that hackers exploited a wellknown design flaw on the Medstar Health network. Urgent public warnings about the flaw began at least nine years ago. The fix is as simple as installing an available update. Medstar says it continuously applies patches to fix vulnerabilities in their software. When we have issues with metro most of the time it has to do with the trains. But today a big problem involved new technology that is supposed to tell you when the bus will show up. It stopped working for some time. And that left riders frustrated and guessing. Transportation reporter adam tuss has been following this story. Hes joining us now from the weal adam . Thats right, jim. This is a particularly bad time for this system to go down. Because it had just started working and some said it replaced a system that was working just fine in the first place. Regardless, metro says it wants to hear your concerns and will get back to you with a quick response. Figuring out the bus schedule with technology, that can be a gamble. You would say 10, 15 minutes, but well, let knee get 20 minutes just to make sure. Others need a little more help with technology. You dont even have a phone. No, dont carry a phone. How do you know when the next bus is coming . I come over here and see what the sign says on the wall. Things have gotten more technical. Today metros new bus service prediction arrival service, called bus eta went down. Leading to a host of angry tweets. Some saying they had to wait with the kids in the cold. Others calling the new system terrible. And another tweet saying the system is woefully inaccurate. Metro sent us a statement saying for about an hour, until bandwidth was increased at the thirdparty host. Normal functioning since then. If you have an issue with the service, send it to feedback wamata. Com. Or send to to bus info. This service just replaced old next bus system which was often criticized. And riders say the entire system needs to function better. It comes 10, 15 minutes late and then they drive like theyre on a sunday drive. Metro says the new bus eta platform drills down to give you specific information including how many stops away the next bus is. And for a system thats trying to win riders back, convenience matters. Now again bussa eat is up and running, the information is suppose to be updated every 30 seconds. Adam tuss, news4. A man found dead in a house fire. Police s homicide is on the case. That story, coming up. A new effort to change a neighborhood by shutting down a handful of local strip clubs. Political scandal intensifies, tonight the secret ecordings thatr a deadly townhouse fir death investigation. Tonight were learning new details about a man found dead in the basement unit. That fire broke out along windjammer way in gaithersburg last weekend. News4s pat collins is there with reaction from one of the victims friends. Pat . Doreen, they say he had some health problems. That he had trouble walking. And in many ways they say he was vulnerable. Friends worried about him. Do you think there might be some foul play involved here . I thought it might be a slight possibility. You were worried for steve . I was concerned about his wellbeing. Thats lynn corn, she suspects somethings wrong here. She says shes known the victim for nearly 20 years the victim, steven scalabrin was a jeweler by trade. He made these pieces for lynn corn. She says over the years he had problems with drug ab that recently, he had turned his life around. So what do you make of this whole thing . I dont know. Im still, you know at a loss for words because its unbelievable, i had just spoke ton him as i said, two days earlier. And i was real pleased with him that he had cleaned his life up. 63yearold steven scalabrin found dead in the basement of this townhouse in gaithersburg. Found dead after an intense fire here last week. Atf, Montgomery County police and fire investigators all over the scene today. Looking for clues and evidence. Looking into the possibility that foul play may be involved. We dont have a causef death at this time. What we are, what we are saying is this is a suspicious death. And were investigating it as a homicide. I think theres more to be known here . I wonr. Things. More to be known. More questions to be answered. The Investigation Continues on. Jim, back to you. Pat collins, thanks. Another busy day on capitol hill. For merrick garland. He met with a number of senators to talk about his nomination to the supreme court. His talk with senator Susan Collins of maine marked only his second meeting with a republican senator. Afterwards, collins told reporters she is more convinced than ever that Republican Leaders should move forward with nomination hearings on garlands nomination. Garland also met today with republican senator john bozeman, hes from arkansas, but that meeting was behind closed doors. The terror attacks in brussels are prompting a new push to protect americans from terror attacks by increasing security at airports and other transportation hubs. Today Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson Democratic Senators highlighted some changes they would like to see. They want to increase the number of Specialized Security teams at transit areas. They also want to shore up security in socalled soft target areas. And they want to donate security screening equipment to foreign airports. Were focused on transit hubs generally. Rail, bus, air, we have to be concerned about the security of the American People at public gatherings, public places. Secretary jeh johnson says u. S. Officials do not have any specific and credible intelligence about a plot like the one in brussels last month. You may remember this video. Passengers pinning down david diaz after he charged the cockpit of a united flight that had just taken off from dulles last year. Today diaz was sentenced to nine months in prison. During the flight he was heard screaming jihad and saying there was something in the belly of his lawyer said diaz struggles with Mental Illness and alcoh alcoholi alcoholism. The governor of alabama called impeachment effort against him in his words political grandstanding. State lawmakers took steps today to remove Robert Bentley from office. His leadership has been in question since the public learned of his alleged affair with a longtime aide while he was married. Nbcs jay gray has our report. After months of speculation and weeks of growing controversy, this afternoon lawmakers in alabama began the formal process of impeachment against governor Robert Bentley. We believe theres enough probable cause to warrant asking the state senate to try this case and if guilty, remove the governor from office. Bentley is accused of having an affair with his senior political adviser, rebecca mason. Who has denied the relationship and stepped away from her job last week. As public out to be the governor talking on the phone with his alleged mistress. Bentley is adamantly denied having quote a physical affair with mason and said he wont leave office, releasing a written statement this afternoon that reads in part there are no grounds for impeachment and i will vigorously defend myself and my administration from this political attack. But opponents say he can no longer effectively do his job. Its about the competence of him to fill this position, to lead us in this state. To stand before our legislative body and tell us the truth. Bentleys credibility now being questioned in alabamas state house. Jay gray, nbc news. New clues in the deadly amtrak crash. What the train operator did seconds beforehand trying to avoid the accident. And a final goodbye for Virginia State trooper who was ambushed at a bus station. A new campaign ad, in the Maryland Democratic primary for u. S. 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Creating wind chills in the 30s all day. The w