Effected ai by this. Megan mcgrath is live on southern avenue in d. C. With a look at what the crews up against. It is cold, isnt it . Reporter it is cold ani has been an extremely busy week for eweutility crews. If you take aoobee can e eyrearatorat a water main break along the county line an southenu this is one of several hundred water main. Breaks that we have seen around the region in just the last week. Its caused all kinds of problems from closed roads to traffic tie ups. We have had School Closures and were not seeing the e oit at least t t. Warinhis water main. Break season, if you will. A long, cold night fowo crews in alexandria. They spent hours down in a hole repairing a broken water main. More than 100 customers lost service. Without water mcarthur elementary cancelled classes for the day. Road closures and i streets all the result of bursting pipes. A stretch of southern avenue had had to be closeth i morning. Even Walking Around can be treacherous. You have ice, you take your time, watch where youreoi. Reporr n e st w eve ov 160 main break breaks ae atp54 breaks since february 18th. Blame it on the extremes in temperature and the icy cold water flowing through the pipes. Dominic bowman doesnt care what caused the problem. E he just shower. Its really sprinkly water. Im not satisfied. Reporter a little trickle . Yeah what can that do for a grown man like me . Reporter what do you do if your pipes freeze or break . Who do you call . That depends on where th problem i if the pipe is inside your home, call a plumber. If the pipe or meter is outside call them. And there are a number of different ways that you can report a problem. You can cl yo uli u n soivth an email and wssc even has a phone app. But as you would imagine, they are very very busy and they are asking people to beatnts they fi outrellhe ksrendhediat t cro x them. Reporting lye ingin live, megan mcgrath, news 4. Prince georges county also dealing with problems from the weather. Another pipe burst at the District Court. Take a look at a court worker who took a video of te casca io e lly. Employeesaut case files and evidence are all at risk of water da. The District Court is open today. Right now a man accused of jumping the white house fee is scheduled to be in federal court. The 42yearold has a status hearing. He jumped the fence went inside the mansion and made it all the way to the the east room before secret Service Agents tackled him. This is video of the day of the incident last fall. The Security Breach led to the resignation of the Secre Service dict. P noguilty. Today crews are expteto begin consucton t third street tunnel project. Heres a map of the affected area in. The district. There will be overnight lane closures on 395. Crews will shut down the 395 southbound off ramp to the third street tunnel. This is all part of t cit crossing project that will completely cover the tunnel and bring New Buildings over it. We have breaking news in california. A train derailment, dozens may be injured and a mbca are off e tracks. Were gathering information and will bring it to you shortly. Plus its expected to land on the preside today the Keystone Pipeline bill. John boehner wants the president to do something befo breaking news right now from the live desk several people are hurt out near california after a train crashes into a truck. That truck there on the tracks when the metro link commuter train was coming through. This is in oxnard, california. The train going from Ventura County to los angeles. Only one car stayed on the tracks. And that truck blew up. It was engulfed in flames. The driver did escape, tried to run from the scene. He was later located by police and is being questioned. At least 30 people are hurt. The ntsb is keeping tabs on the investigation and mayena crew outhe l ael fi o mo about what happened. Thank you, richard. Right now, its legal for people in alaska to ske marijuana. Ove ice third state where Recreational Marijuana is legal. Adults 21 and older c he to an oue of marijuana and grow six plants in their homes. 53 approved the measure back in november. The district is set to legalize marijuana onhuda barring a lt nu a congress. Midnight on wednesday, adults can possess up to 2 ouncesf marijua a gw re rna plants their homes. If d. C. Take away your pot because you cannot prove that youre of age, you can pick it up within 21 days as long as you bring some sort of i. D. You cannot smoke or possess marijuana in any fer pli housing or oferaro you can be arrested or evicted from federal housing for that. Voters approved the ballot measure last november. A warning this morning from the department of education. Why a local School System could lose out on 3 billion. The head of the v. A. Forced to apologize for misleading statements. We have new reaction from a top military group. Im meteorologist chuck bell. We have warmed up a little bit from our record lows early this morning. Still plenty of snow pack on the ground. Thats whats allowed us. There may be fresh snow as congress is poised to pass a new version of the no child left behind baalaw that could serio costrie ors un s. The department of education says a lieu would taren 2 million federal dollars from that district. The new version of the bill would benefit any school where lowincome children are located. Right now School Districts of low income students receive that money. If you received a ticket on i66, you may not have to pay a fine. The department of transportation say says electricnmistakenly were open to all traffic yesterday rng. Th wki wh li t denehi dve m have bn ticketed as a result of that. The signs have been fixed now. Vdot says there was a power failure that caused that problem. A new poll says virginians are happy with their wmer accordingo nepo released this morning. 49 of the voters approve of the governors first year in office. 25 disapprove. Senator warner got. A 62 approval rating. The Veterans Affair secretary say says sorry, c i ly ecl rc. Ro md ld a homeless veteran that he serve edd in the mility it he sat s on mcd graduated fme point and completed Army Ranger Training but served in the 82nd airborne, not in the special forces unit. He says hes committed to the ongoing efforts to reform the v. A. Though. He took office in july of last year. The head of the American Legion wrote that he was disappointed by the lie and that he should be held to a higher standard. Right now, were waiting to hear from Senate Democrats at a press conference. Lawmakers have battled for weeks over immigration using the Homeland Security budget as leverage. Republicans have a plan o to end the impass. Will we see a breakthrou . Nbcs tracie pos reports. Reporter todays policy lunches could be key in finding a middle ground on funding loamland security. We cant afford to play politics with our National Security. The motion is not agreed to. Reporter monday democrats blocked funding ties to immigration getting rid of the president s orders that delayed 5 million undocumented immigrants. Now Mitch Mcconnell says he will try to separate the two issues. Its another way to g t senatutu. Or governors urged lawmakers to act. Governors are frustrated. Quit throwing us your problems. Reporter if if theres no by friday, tens of thousands of tsa workers, Border Patrol agents and. Others could be forced to work without pay. Thats not good for the Homeland Security of is nation. Its not good for pu s and its notn e bl be inr reer fht comes as the mall of america reassures shoppers its safe there despite a video threat from the militant group. Even if the senate works out a come proo miez, its noclr if the uswi go along. House republicans are said to meet here tomorromo tracipos, nbc news, washington. For more on what happens next, were joined by a Political Writer for nbc news good morning. Are we going to see any action on senator mitch mcconnls proposed compromise . Because of the way the senate votes, it takes a long time to get to everything. So i dont think well see a vote today. But well get a sense of how House Republicans are going to react to this. They have been warring between themselves over th issue. A lot of there are a substantial block of House Republicans who say the president s executive action on immigration is a constitutional crisis and we have to do something about it,ift means aemra stdf hand security. Is either side willing to compromise . I think what well see because they have to fund the department at some point. I think for republicata big polic rk ben by the public as bei responsie r shutting down the agency. Democrats, so far, are not looking like they are going to budge. Republicans may have to work this out amongst themselves. Lets talk about t kste pipeline the ied the president s desk today. An oped was written today saying that americans deserve to know why the president plan s tos to veto thll hathr esenner wh the ids in a ing to veto the bill either today or in coming days. He has ten days to do it. It will probably be dath he will tohibi. E ithouse maintained that the state department is doing their over review of the pipeline pipeli e impact, ener impact, and the president has said i want to wait for that review to be done. Im going to base my decision on that review. Congress shouldnt cutha review sht. Jt t thsk or will he have to do something today . I think well see a veeto today or coming da. Wllonnutoat f at thank yo or from the rest of the political team, check out first read on nbcnews. Com. A treaty rescue mission overnight. More than a dozen man tus stuck in a storm drain. It was not an easy one. New information on the outcome of this tenhour operation. Look at the size t manatees. Plus faster service. New today take a look at this video. Rescuers in florida work through the night to release 19 manatees stuck in a storm dr the rescue took ten hours nape used heavy equipment to save those mammals. Teams from seaworld and the florida fish and Wildlife Conservation commiio helped with that very tricky rescue. Your internet is going to improve very toonsoon. Websitesstt inht ie xtew weeks. You have probably seen the letters whenever you type in a web page that the first letters that come up. They organize how your browser downloads websites. The ones we are using today were designed a decade ago. The new version will load web pages must faster especially on your telephone. Right now, we are getting new information about this Early Morning accident invog a state trooper. Plus a first look at our sevenday forecast. When we could see snow again. And a tragic accident leaves an actor from American Horror story dead. Right now, we warmed up from this morning but most of us are are still below freezing. Heres a look at storm team 4 radar out there. A winter storm i affecting parts from the southeast parts of our country to the northeast. We have a report from charlotte, north carolina. But we begin with dylan dreyer in new york. Reporter he the u. S. Coast guard cutter we are literally cutting through ice here. This is the huds river. And the ice is just continuing to freeze up and take over this entire river here. This river is so important because barges carry about 70 of the Home Heating Oil for the northeast up and down this river. So from west point to albany is where it freezes. If theyre uthic mucllhehus i will flow. Downstream and end up clogging up the new york harbor. Theres a delicate balance. But the vessel im on now, its such a perfect hull to breakthrough the ice. It can breakthrough 13 inches. Then if its deeper than that, it has ways to ride up on the ice and come back and rock its way to break up the they also go out to calls from barges that get stuck and make a circle around the bae d t them ouofhece. This is an impot vessel. Theres two or three gth g up and do t rer ng d. Thiss tstinrs since 2004. The cold is making mh re icy than nma rt is major weather system at started in the Southern Plains as a big ice storm, moved across the midsouth right into the carolinas this morning. Some of our mountain communities got as much as thrfo inches osn. Ree artte area, an inch, an inch and a half, a lot of problems on the streets and many school cancellations. And theres a bigger storm coming tomorrow night. In charlotte, larry sprinkle. My sister lives there and was asking if she was going to get out of work tomorrow. That will stop us here sometimes too. I told you that i used to think that 32 and 2 felt the same. We have learned a lot about cold in the last couple days. Dulles international dropped to a ridiculously low temperature this morning, down to 4 degrees below zero. Its the coldest ever so late in the winter season at dulles airport. So finally the warmup back underway plenty of sunshine now. Its helping with the warmup. But nonetheless, it was a cold way to get the morning started. These are the lows tmorn national rpo o drd 14 but dulles, minus 4. Missed a 142yearold record by only 1 degree. Look at all the zeros on the map. All dropping to zero this morning. For now, though, the impact the weather will ha on the remainder of the day is fairly low. Cold sunshine, 22 degrees in washington. A light breeze out there has windchills back int the teens. Current temperatures 11 in manassas. Temperatures will climb quick lyly up to ther dre stf e ea the r aund this afrnn a then trending back into the upper 20s and seeing it wont be fe l of temperatures like we saw into this morning. Windchills mostly in the teens. Youll need the winr atnd layered up if youre outside today. Prince georges county, 29 today. 19 by tomorrow morning. Nowhere near as cold as it was. Tomorrow, increasing clouds, temperatures near 40. Then we have a snow chance coming our way on thursday. Make sure you have our weather app ready to go. The snow today is going to stay just across the lowepas the bay te te virginia. Theres the snow thats out of the charlotte metroa. Theresnotr coming. Just like that on so wergngoo nohe ee i todlsea mix of clouds and sunshine. A little more. Cloud cover later today. That will hold temperatures up overnight and into tomorrow. Then tomorrow, probably one of our warmer days of the week. Temperatures all the way up to near 40 degrees. Thats still 10 degrees colder than average for the later parts of the month of february. Into wednesday, nothing to worry about on wednesday. But thursday morning, 6 00 a. M. Here comes our chance for snow. Better snow chances and a better chance for accumulateing snow south of the d. C. Metro area. Well be watching this carefully. One of our computers estimating not a whole lot in the way of snow on wednesday into thursday, but it could be as s o or threinesn ut mard a could get an inch as far north. A lot of time to fine tune this but any time there s t forecast u nd st tuned to the forecast here for the next couple day so today,unin f t makiove the freezing mark. Back down to the ueree tomorrow morning. So cold, but nowhere near as bone chilling as it was this morning. Up to near 40 degrees tomorrow. And then on thursday, at least a 50 chance of snow across the area. Again, our highest likelihood of accumulation will be in Southern Maryland. Flurries on friday. Look how cold it is later in the week. And then finally back up to near 50 on monday and that will come with a chance for rain showers. Thank you. Lets check in with Richard Jordan at the live desk. He has something tte about whas ppin a Virginia State trooper was injured this morn tere ason9inri wamouy. Look at the pictures were getting in here. This was on 95 near mile marker 152 early this morning. That trooper was parked along the side of the interstate there using a radar trying to catch speeders when police say that a Ford Explorer speeding by the driver lost control, that suv overturned, flipped on to its top and crashed right into. The patrol car. That trooper taken t hospital. Idi hes okay. Hes already been treated at the hospital and released. The driver of the suv, a 23yearold man from virginia, was also injured. Just minor injuries for him as well. Hes now being charged with reckless driving. When you see pictures, its incredible they survived this crash. Thats reallyom. Real tn upars both of them. Thank you. A bar owner in Howard County is facing chargefoet videotapg men in the restaurants bathr. Hes one of the owners of the rams head tavern in maryland. The investigation began after a woman said she was in the restroom at the tavern when a digitalama lln f. Policy v showed a man placing the camera and six women in the bathroom. He was arrested last week. The Rams Head Group says no other locations are involved in this particular incident. D. C. Mayors empowering males of color iniaac criticisth morning. Were learning that the aclu is questioning the program for boys only. In a letter, the aclu says the black female students share many of the same struggls ei male counterparts. A Council Member requested a legal evaluation of the 20 million program. Iadti, e aclu letter shows that studies show that separating boys and girl. S does not improve academic performance. A new report looks at the suspension of Elementary School students. The Study Released bth universitofalorow that elementary children lost 18 million days through suspension between 2011 and 2012. Alexandria stood out for its decline in the number of suspended students during that same period down from 16 to 6 . Maryland schools suspended 2 of Elementary School students. Virginia virg tu e de faiaxlo don reported low suspension numbers. Montgomery county father who lost his wife and two children in a plane