Reporter the ninth Circuit Court of uphold the ban. The president violates the contusion in very fundamental way ways. Thats not right. Reporter among those urging the court to oppose the ban, former National Security officials, mostly democrats and nearly 100 prominent tech companies. They argue the ban can the longterm damage and make our troops less safe. Also today the president getting heat for this remark. Putins a killer. Theres a lot of killers. What, you think our country is so innocent . One could argue thats the most antiamerican statement ever made by the president of the united states. Its almost as if theres nothing putin can do now that will get donald trump to admit error. Reporter President Trumps most controversial executive order tonight in the hands of a federal court. And we are watching that court tonight, the ninth circuit which could rule as early as this case is working its suprem justices will have to decide whether or not this ban is unconstitutional. With the travel window open right now, visa holders in the targeted seven countries are taking the opportunity to make it to the u. S. , returning to loved ones, jobs and college campuses. Our coverage continues now with julie carey. Reporter more reunions at Dulles International airport as visa holders from countries targeted by the Trump Administration immigration order hurry to return while the ban is lifted. I just want to thank all the people who support us and who were with us. They made me feel like there is a family here. Reporter its a repeat trip to dulles for these yemeni brothers coming to live with their father in mcichin they first arrived january 28th, but they never made it out of customs. Their visas cancelled. They were sent back to ethiopia. The return of our clients today is hopefully a start to return to a stable and a just immigration policy. Reporter this woman from libya was stopped cold in turkey when she tried to return for Spring Semester at george mason university. I literally felt destroyed when they told me you could not board the flight. Reporter back on campus today, anxious about missing registration and a week of class, her worries were eased when she learned her advisor was taking care of everything. They provided all the support to show me that this is another home for me. Reporter shes one of 82 george mason students from countries impacted by the Trump Administrations executive order. Campus administrators held a meeting friday to answer questions and calm fears. Its difficult to stay focused on class work, difficult to attend class when youre concerned about yourself and what the future holds. Reporter the ongoing worry on this campus and others, if the travel ban is resubstitutin it will keep the best and brightest from other countries from studying here. Also a family of five fled syria and resettled in Prince Georges County after the election. They hoped to find peace in their new home. Now they fear the executive order will threaten their ability to rebuild their lives. The family gave an emotional interview to our web team in an exclusive story. More than two weeks now into Donald Trumps presidency. Hes been signi ining executive actions at a rate quite similar to his predecessor. An umbrella term that includes all the ways a president can exercise his authority. It includes executive orders, patrol car l proclamations and president ial memorandum. President trump has signed 22 executive actions, including eight executive orders. During that same time frame, president obama had signed nine orders when he first took office. We see the white house issue a high volume of executive orders when one Political Party takes over from the other. Thats because the new president can revoke or rewrite executive orders. In some sense theyre not unexpected because hes carrying through on promises that he made. He said he would build a wall. He said he would cut off immigration from muslim terrorist countries. So in that sense theyre perfectly well expected. The National ConstitutionCenter Reports that franklin d. Them. Compare that to president clintons 364, president bushs all these orders can be over turned by the other two branches of government. Congress can just refuse to approve funding to enforce the order or the courts can weigh in and block it. New questions about President Trumps executive action that reorganizes the National Security council. That puts chief strategist steve bannon on the councils principals committee. Now the New York Times reports that President Trump was angry that he was not fully briefed on the details of the executive order that he signed nine days ago. White House Press Secretary sean spicer told reports at the time that the setup was virtually identical in 2001 under president george w. Bush. We dont know precisely what the president was told. But if he was told anything like what we were told by spicer, that was incomplete information. As for that 2001 memo, mr. Bush did not put his chief strategist on the National Security council. Donald trump appears to be the only president since the establishment of the council to include his strategist, that according to politifact. A small plane crashed shortly after takeoff. The pilot walked away without siste serious injury. Reporter the 64yearold pilot took off from this airfield here in fort washington, maryland. Another pilot who took off just before the illfated flight told me that he joked with that pilot before takeoff saying that if he ever had trouble hed try to make it to the field that that pilot who crashed was trying to make it to this evening. It was just minutes after taking off from potomac airfield in ft. Washington that the single engine Piper Saratoga started having trouble. The plane came down over this field near an abandoned farmhouse, taking out some trees before finally crashing into that larger tree. It was the pilot who called in . He called in by secell phone. Reporter he had flown in from rhode island to visit his children and grandchildren. He was flying home when the plane lost power. The Safety Systems did their job. He was seat belted in. The plane did what it was designed to do, from the damage on it. These are very lightweight aircraft at relatively slow speeds. You touch down 5060 miles an hour and youd be amazed at a thousand feet how many places you can tuck the airplane into if you need to. Now i spoke with the pilots wife by phone. Shes still in rhode island. She told me she was supposed to fly here with her husband to see their grandchildren but at the last minute she rhode isl wtay home with that child. The first thing he did after he crashed was to call his wife. Then he dialled 9 11. A man from ashburn, virginia, is again facing a murder charge, accused of killing the mother of his child. The mans name is brian yu. He was arrested. Pham was sitting in her car after leaving work at a hair salon. The judge ruled there was not probable cause. Today a grand jury heard the case and came to a different conclusion. Yu is still in jail. Hundreds more jobs are being cut from cuts in a letter to staff today. 200 positions have been eliminated. Many of them are positions that are currently unfilled. He said the cuts are necessary to fill the 300 million budget gap. Transportation reporter adam tuss joins us coming up to talk about the layoff. We are looking at weather. Doug is tracking some really wild temperature swings, potentially record breaking heat tomorrow, then a chance for snow later in the week. Whats up with that . Kind of amazing. Really any time we get this warm you know colder air is m coicom in. Take a look at the High Temperatures earlier today. 61 is what we 65 in richmond. Weve got even warmer air coming from the southwest. We also have a chance for showers overnight into tomorrow morning. The temperatures skyrocketing tomorrow. Near record High Temperatures. A chance of snow Late Wednesday into thursday. And then much colder later this week. Coming up, a final push in an effort to derail one of the president s most controversial cabinet picks. Reviving the debate about the Redskins Team name, what some lawmakers are doing to try to get the team to change it. Reporter im Darcy Spencer in southeast. This school has been shut down over concerns about bedbug bedbugs, rats and other pests have forced a d. C. Elementary school to temporarily shut down. Tonight were hearing from one father who says the bugs bit his daughter. And were learning when the school could reopen. Darcy spencer is live at the savoy school with details. Reporter its not going to be any time soon, not a matter of days, but a matter of students to return. The school will be shut down for several weeks. School officials hope to reopen by the end of february. Theyre doing a deep cleaning here after reports of bedbugs and rats. Marcus bachelor is a member of the school board. In conversations moving forward in the weeks and months, i would like to see where the ball was dropped and hopefully it wont happen again. Reporter students will be fussed to ferebee elementary school. I think im most excited that students are going to be able to occupy a new space on wednesday and that theyre going to be able to get back to some sense of normalcy reporter aaron dowdys daughters attend savoy. It had been going on for a while. Reporter dowdy says both of School Officials released a statement that says the school is being closed out of abundance of caution due to the length of the problem with bedbugs and pests. The decision was made friday following a parcent meeting. Some accused officials of being slow to act. It was emotional for us because our kids, we love them and we want the best for them. Reporter you can see that there is a Pest Control Company vehicle right here outside of the school. This process is ongoing. D. C. Public schools expected to release a statement or email tomorrow to parents by 3 00, letting them know about Transportation Options for students who are going to that new School Starting on wednesday. Clutter can provide bedbugs cleaning is not enough to tackle a problem like this. Bedbugs can be very difficult to kill because theyre tiny and they can survive and hide in very narrow cracks. They typically require Pest Management professionals rather than exterminators. They need on blood but have not been shown to transmit human diseases. Now to the president s effort to build a cabinet. Democrats pushing forward with their strategy to block the confirmation of betsy devos for secretary of education. Democrats say devos is not qualified to lead the Education Department and they say they will talk all night if thats necessary. Nonetheless, a final vote is scheduled for tomorrow. Devoss confirmation is expected two republican senators have already said they will not vote for her. That would leave the vote tied at 5050. Vice president mike pence would have to cast the deciding vote. If that happens, it is believed to be the first time in history that a Vice President has had to break a tie in a cabinet confirmation. Supreme Court Nominee kneel dp gorsuch is making the rounds on capitol hill. He met with diane feinstein. The committee will review the judges record and hold a confirmation hearing as members decide whether to pass the judges nomination to the full senate. Tonight a new effort to get the district, maryland and virginia to join forces and to pressure the Washington Redskins to change the name of the football team. Tom sherwood has the story. Reporter the aging stadium. It holds a storybook tale of the football glory here until the team left in the late 90s. But the Redskins Team name remains a continuing controversy. The team with such a racist and derogatory name. Reporter hes joining an effort to have d. C. , maryland and virginia all agree to withhold any Development Funds from the team as it looks to build a new stadium in the region. David moon of tacoma park is pursuing the idea in annapolis. To be perfectly frank, im here today because im trying to head off a fleecing of the regions taxpayers by dan snider and the washington football team. Reporter the legislators acknowledge a tough road ahead. Virginia Governor Terry mcauliffe is actively pursuing the team. Ght a new facility at rfk. Or has even a plan to redevelop the rfk area. Council member jack evans supports a team paid stadium at rfk. He says the name issue will work itself out. The multibillion business belongs in d. C. We dont want to lose the opportunity to have the team in the city and have it go somewhere else and then the name changes. That would be ridiculous. Coming up the top ten metro stations for crime. We tell you why metro says it has to slash hundreds of jobs. More problems with the lit yu lithium batteries. The latestfire caught creating a cleaner environment by using cleaner Energy Sources like solar, wind and natural gas. Weve reduced Carbon Emissions by nearly 25 , which is the equivalent of taking close to two million cars off the road. Cleaner air and cleaner water. Its good for all of us. Dominion. Depend on us for more than energy. 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The fact that we even had to come into work on a Beautiful Day like this, man, it was so nice today. Around 60 degrees in most areas. Some of you in the low to mid 60s. It gets taken away just as fast tomorrow another day like today before the big change coming later on this week. Sunset was just after 5 30. 53 degrees currently. Were going to continue to drop maybe to 49 degrees by 11 00. Its still 59 in leesburg, 58 in fredericksburg, 56 in manassas after many of you in Northern Virginia were 65 or better. 61 the official temperature today at the airport. 67 is what were going for tomorrow. The record high is 64. Back down to 60 on wednesday. Then there it goes, taken away just as fast as weve gotten it. 38 on thursday. Chance of snow early thursday too for some of us. Some of the areas might be just rain too. Were going to track this for you over the next couple of days. Thats the warm the storm itself is way back to west. Thats why we get so warm during the day tomorrow. Around 7 00 a. M. The shower activity around 66 here, 270 from frederick, even around the beltway by 8 00 or 9 00. Thats it. The clouds give way to some sunshine. Thats when temperatures get really, really warm out there. A High Temperature tomorrow of 67 degrees. Early showers, breezy and warm. Maybe windy. We may see wednesday upwards of 3035 miles an hour. Look at thursday, thursday 38 degrees. Still a little early on this one, but morning wet snow d. C. North and westward. Some roads may become slushy because the road temperatures will be ot the ro on the roadways. Look at sunday, right back to 72. Wow. Crazy this weather roller coaster. A major outage impacted thousands of cell phone users in our area. What we know about the problem and how long it took to fix it. Reporter metro set to lay off hundreds. Plus, a release of now at 6 30, a new crime report paints a mixed picture about safety on metro. That report detailed the top ten highest crime metro stations. At the top of the list is the minnesota avenue station in northeast d. C. Our transportation reporter adam tuss is there tonight. Adam, what else did we learn from this report . Reporter well, this report definitely tells us some interesting things. First and foremost, erall crime is actually down on the metro system. Things like thefts of electronic devices, thefts of bikes, those are down on the system. But violent assaults are actually up and crime in parking metro puts indepth look at whe system stands. One of the interesting things the chief of police wants to do, in addition to making officers for visible, is he wants to give them more Technology Like a smart phone so that theyd be able to take a look at a picture of a suspect and have all the information they need right there when a crime happens. One thing were looking at is new york city gave every officer a smart type phone. Were looking at having something. What tools can i give them so they can share with the metropolitan officer up the street from me. Reporter increased coordination with the local jurisdictions to make more arrests in a quicker fashion. Metro also today announced some layoffs, 200 jobs going to be cut. Do we know which jobs are going to be affected and are there more anything fromto front line empl. Its not necessarily train and bus operators. If youve been following this closely, the gene