Does look like april around senate park. The capitol dome gleaming. The newly refur beneficiaried capitol dome, now that they removed the scaffolding. Theres another view from our city camera, overlooking the title basin, the washington monument. A gorgeous blue sky. And the windchills right now are at least a little more tolerable. They were in the teens. Windchills into the 20s. Still feeling like february on this april 5th. Kristin wright out in the cold all morning. Are you surviving . Reporter i am. Thank goodness the sun is out. Here at meadows farms, they are totally ready for spring. Like, the real spring. This plant here, i want to show you, it actually does okay when its cold. It does all right on an unseasonably cold day in april like, this but there are many they had to get inside yesterday because they knew the cold was coming. Its cold, and on top of that, windy, too. Temperatures are hovering just above freezing in woodbridge, virginia. Windchills in the 20s. Cover the azaleas now. Theyre putting the tarp on on this cold, april morning. The frigid air too much. A reminder that Mother Nature is the one in charge. It is living. You cut it, it grows back. You prune it, it comes back. Reporter the tropicals cant be out in this not so tropical weather. They move them inside the nursery, along with carts of other coldsensitive plants. Then, when it gets nice, we have to take everything back out. Thats a job right there. Reporter and on a day like, this the job is challenging for this landscaping crew. Of course, it does make a difference here. Yeah, were going to plant it, but some of them we cannot plant od for warmer spring days. You know, they even had some plants and trees blow over near the entrance because of all the wind weve been experiencing. So, yes, they are certainly ready for some warmer, real spring air to come through here. Back to you. We hope so. Thanks, kristin. Developing right now. Two people accused of stealing someones car are now in d. C. Police custody. Police say the carjacking happened in silver spring. Then officers chased the car to the intersection of minnesota avenue and benning road where it crashed. Police closed the road for a while. Theyre still working to repair the traffic light the car hit. In fairfax county, a woman was stabbed this morning. Shes recovering right now and is expected to survive. Fairfax county police say the woman was walking on route 1 in alexandria when someone stabbed her shortly after midnight. Its not clear who the suspect is. Its a somber day in virginia as family, friends and colleagues say farewell to a fallen state trooper. The under way in hampton. A procession and private burial will follow. Last night many paid their respects. The father of two was killed last week at a bus station in gunman and fellow officers killed the gunman. The irs headquarters in downtown d. C. Will be remain closed today after yesterdays fire. It wont affect your tax returns. The irs told workers to rework remotely after a transformer fire broke out monday afternoon in the basement. The building on constitution avenue is now without power. The irs says this wont impact those tax returns, the processing will go on. It happens in other facilities. All other area officers are open today. Voters in wisconsin today could change the course of the president ial campaign. The polling precincts are open right now. 42 gop delegates, dell ga delegates are up for grab. The polling gives Bernie Sanders and ted cruz slight leads in their races. Get the results later tonight on our nbc washington app. Also today the d. C. Council plans to take an emergency vote on whether to allow sanders onto the democratic primary ballot. The d. C. Democratic party filed paperwork late both for sanders and clinton. An activist questioned the legitimacy of Bernie Sanders name on the ballot. Today the council would clarify the party has a 24hour grace period for handing in paperwork. If the majority of the council agrees, the matter goes to the mayor. Thanks to a buzzerbeater thanks to an Upper Marlboro basketball star. Gives it to jenkins for the championship look at that. Thats giving them the win over north carolina. Josh hart landed 12 points to help the team hoist up that trophy after the game. North carolinas brent is from Upper Marlboro, too. He may not have been on the team but his brother is kris jenkins, so the celebration stays in the family. Look how villanova students reacted. The pavilion on campus was packed with students celebrating at the watch party. Students and fans poured into the streets and the party hasnt stopped yesterday. The university has canceled all classes today so students and staff can continue to celebrate. Those in tennessee decide on a new state book. And new video today, what proted an airline crmpew in. Here are some of the stories lighting up social media this morning. Beauty and pinups just revealed its new face. Meet katie mead, an olympian who has down syndrome. Shell showcase the brands fearless hair rescue treatment. She is also breaking down barriers as the first model with bo down syndrome to star in a beauty campaign. The holy bible is tennessees official book. According to our news partner, lawmakers in the state took the final approval vote yesterday and the state senate voted 198 in favor. Some argued the measure conflicts with the provision in the tennessee institution stating that no preference shall be given to any religious establishment or mode of worship. One time of you they last released an album back in 2005, but the Rolling Stones are back, according to billboard. Com. The band is set to release a new album, maybe as soon as this year. The stones have released 22 studio albums in the uk and 24 in the u. S. The band started as a blues band in 1962. Just wrapped up a tour in april gives us one more winter slap before it goes. It happens. It needs to stop. I miss the warm weather. We all do. Another bitter day of cold here for us and for millions across northeast. Temperatures 10 to 20 deg along the east coast. Folks in places like boston and cleveland got snow. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom is tracking the weather. When is spring back with us . Time is on our side. Before tomorrow, feeling wintry cold. Drum roll, please, were above freezing. Were in the midto upper 30s in washington, north and west of the metro area, south and east and around the bay. It is getting a little more comfortable with the winds beginning to settle down as well. Less windy in the afternoon. The weather headlines for this afternoon. Another freeze coming in tonight. Then warmer weather moves in wednesday afternoon. So, exercise forecast today, if you want to ride a bike, take a hike, it will be 40s around late morning, noontime. By 1 00, low 40s. Mid40s by 2 00. May get to upper 40s by 2 00 p. M. And breezes wil thank you, tom. New video today of something you may never see at the airport. A Flight Attendant for United Airlines in houston opened the emergency door, inflated the slide and used it. There was no emergency. United said they dont know why she did that. Shes also not working on any flights any more. Maybe she was just having fun. Thats what i think. Maybe she was planning to retire and thought she was going to go out. Who knows. We have new information on how much the train that crashed near philadelphia was able to slow down before hitting a piece of construction equipment. A model rocket explodes outside a california school. One person is dead. What were learn being this tragic accident after the break. Right now, police in the district are investigating a homicide in northwest after a woman that was attacked last september died. Now, the woman, 43yearold medina Michele Thornton passed away on sunday. Monday, the medical examiner ruled she died from complications from that attack back on september 19th. Thornton was found in a home in the 300 block of delafield police. Police are offering a 2500 reward for any information the ntsb plans to conduct more interviews today to find out what caused an amtrak derailment in philadelphia. The train hit a backhoe on the tracks, but its not clear why that backhoe was left there over the weekend. Nbcs tom costello shows us what new data is revealing about the crash. Reporter this morning investigators want to know why amtrak Maintenance Equipment was sitting on two sets of tracks sunday morning as train 89 approached at 106 miles per hour, just under the posted limit of 110. Were still gathering facts on that information as to who had the authority to be on that track. Reporter the train slammed into a backhoe, killing two amtrak workers with decades of experience. Later today they plan to investigate other members of the work crew. Among the questions, did miscommunication play into their role . Investigators in washington have now reviewed the trains black boxend camera that captured the crash. The damage on the train was unbelievable. The luggage from the top rack was strewn all over the place. Reporter a pennsylvania doctor who helped the injured took these photos of the ripped and twisted cars. The window had been torn out of the side of the train and was lying across two sets of the chairs. There was metal, broken glass, plastic. It looked horrific. That was tom costello reporting. Five people are dead after a Helicopter Crash in tennessee. The sightseeing chopper went down yesterday afternoon. The faa has not released the names of those on board. Investigators are trying to figure out the cause of that crash. Lets check in again with tom kiran with the weather. Were not done with the cold yet. After we get to the upper foerts this afternoon, a hard freeze, all the counties in purple, all of virginia and maryland, freeze. 11 00 p. M. Tonight through 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow, the freeze effect, bring in the plants you have outside in. Right near freezing in the metro area. And likely some frost as well. By dawn tomorrow, temperatures down into the low and mid20s from the mountains all the way to near the bay. Right on the bay waters it will be bottoming out by mid30s by dawn and a little near freezing in downtown. Fairfax counties in the mid to upper 20s by dawn tomorrow. A pastor is recovering after being stabbed at his home. Dave januariy was stabbed yesterday. They say it was a domesticrelated incident. The times mirror report a man accused in the stabbing is in custody. The church reports hes in stable condition. A tragic accident on the grounds of an an 18yearold was using a model rocket when it exploded and he died. A 17yearold who was with him was also seriously hurt. Both teenagers were students at a Southern California high school near where the accident happened. Witnesses said it appeared the teens were tested out a project when something went, quote, terribly wrong. Well, after the break, a new deal between the nfl and twitter. A reminder, you can watch news 4 anywhere you go. Just 22, harper, high into the air to right field. May be a little early but nationals are in first place in the National League east. There are a lot of high hopes for the team, especially stars like max scherzer and bryce harper. Harper hit an opening day home run for again for the f year. Well be live at the ballpark for the nationals home opener on thursday. Starting this fall, youll be able to watch thursday night nfl games on twitter. Twitter won a deal to broadcast the games online. The nfl signed a multiyear agreement with twitter to deliver video and other content to fans on a daily basis. Yahoo was the first to stream an nfl game online for free last year. The games will still be shown on tv, of course. Walmart is apologizing for this picture put on a tshirt. It made a lot of maryland fans red with anger. The tshirt has a maryland logos but on the state of massachusetts. Walmart first defended them online at first but now pulled them from the shelves. The company said, quote, were so embarrassed, we may never stick our head out of our shell again. It was 70 degrees yesterday and now were tain windchills in the teens. Yes. After the break, toms back to tell us how much th there will be no federal help coming to virginia to clean up autopsy the tornadoes. The governor just got word fema denied his request. Four people died. Fema says the damage from the tornadoes was not beyond what the commonwealth can pay for. Virginias state coordinator says his office will submit an appeal. Well, talking about our weather and the cold, tom, any warmer right now and how much colder are we going to get . Dress for a winterlike day. Looks can be deceiving. Looks like a nice, sprik day but its feeling more like winter. You need a warm hat, gloves sunglasses. That bright sunshine, the april sun climbing high in the sky. The winds will settle down a little bit. Then theyll increase again on wednesday but shift direction into the southwest warming us into the upper 50s. A hard freeze overnight tonight. Bottoming out in the low 30s. Suburbs and rural areas by dawn tomorrow. As we get into wednesday night, not as cold, well stay above freezing tomorrow morning all the way into the weekend. Thursday in the upper 40s in the morning, afternoon highs in the 50s. Tomorrow rain showers likely washing out the nationals home opener on thursday. Ending thursday night. Some sunshine back on friday. Low 40s in the afternoon. Slight chance of showers on friday. Weekend might get sprinkles on saturday with highs in the upper 40s. Another cold morning, afternoon with 40s. Monday, highs in the low 60s. Sounds good. Thank youm. Cholesterol and Heart Disease may come with serious side effects. 25 million americans take the drugs known as statins. Some patients say the side effects of muscle weakness, cramping is too much. Some thought the complaints might be psychosomatic, all in their heads. Reporter most of the most popular drugs in the country are statin, taken by about 25 million americans to lower cholesterol and reduce Heart Disease. But they can also cause debilitating side effects, muscle pain, weakness and camping. Reported by 5 to 20 of patients. Diane was one of them. Everything was sore and every time i moved, id get this more an achy, a bad, achy feeling. Reporter for years, some doctors thought these complaints might be psychosomatic, all in their heads. A new Study Concludes the pain this now confirms for the first time that muscle intolerance to statins is a real problem affecting a significant portion of patients and that those patients now we need to develop alternatives to treat them. Reporter the good news is, there is potential relief. The drug has been approved. Reporter already two cholesterollowering drugs have been approved by the fda. One repatha cuts levels of bad cholesterol by half. Diane says the medication changed her life. It does the same thing, but it doesnt have the side effects the statins have. Reporter but the bad news is, theyre expensive. About 14,000 a year. And only fdaapproved for people with hereditary high cholesterol. The question now is whether the fda will approve them for a wider group of patients to cut their cholesterol and their pain. York. Coming up after the break, new information from the live desk on efforts to strengthen u. S. Airport wall street. The nra. Theyre powerful. They usually get their way. But not with democrat Donna Edwards. Ote a loophole to let the nra spend dark money to kill gun safety laws, Donna Edwards said no shes fighting to ban assault weapons and putting the safety of our communities first. Because to democrat Donna Edwards, the special interests arent special. We are. Working for us pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. At the live desk. Jeh johnson just wrapped up a News Conference with democratic senators. They Just Announced new proposals to strength u. S. Airport security. Johnson says the new plan would authorize an increase in the number of across the country and allow grant money to be used for active Shooter Training and preparedness. Take a listen. What is being proposed here by way of these amendments. Public safety and Homeland Security at airports and at transportation hubs generally. Another part of the plan to increase security with additional bombsniffing dogs and nonsecure or soft areas of support like checkin bagga claim. In march alone 225 people were killed by terrorist attacks in various parts of the world. Johnson says these proposals are vital in keeping america safe. We just learned president obama will speak from the white house at about 12 15 this afternoon. Hes expected to talk about efforts to discourage corporations from moving abroad for tax breaks. The several democratics have announced bills to make it tougher for corporations to avoid paying taxes. A maryland re sake of public safety. Prince georges county Police Say Three men were stabbed at martin anys in ft. Washington early morning. Phillip harrington of south d. C. Faces assault charges. The three victims were hospitalized and are expected to be okay. A Traffic Alert this morning. You may want to give yourself a little extra time if you live parts of shreve mill road. A big project starting today on shreve mill road shut down between Evergreen Mills road and dulles greenway to replace gravel with pavement. Its surprising its been gravel all these years. Only residents will have access. That detour will last about six weeks. Ill see you tomorrow morning for news 4 today. Ddot inspections in 1, 2 and 3. Crews are also inspecting the overpass over rock creek parkway and cathedral avenue until 3 00 this afternoon. Clear, blue sky, bright sunshine, but on radar this morning we had several snow showers, panhandle of West Virginia down into North Central virginia this morning, west of the metro area. Also snow showers on the Eastern Shore but theyre dissipating now. To the cold weve also had snow around. All clear now on the radar and no travel problems weatherwise. This was a photo from the web cam on skyline drive around 9 00. You see the snow showers over the shenandoah valley. It did put down a little dusting. This was stevens city, virginia. Post your picture on facebook, twitter and instagram. Love to see whats going on where you are. All these hearts that are bro