Wind once again. Looks like another hard freeze coming but how many more should we expect . The forecast coming right up. News 4 midday starts right now. Good morning, everyone, im molette green. And im erika gonzalez, the first budget being delivered to congress this morning and were paying especially close attention to this because it is the president s first budget and working to fulfill his Biggest Campaign promises. 1. 1 trillion proposal significantly slashes the funding of several cabinet agencies, while also boosting defense spending. It puts aside money to fund the border wall with mexico. Dont even think about it. We will build the wall. Dont even think about it. Heres a look at some of the areas that could be hit hardest under the budget proposal. It includes the state departments which could see a big cut in funding. The Environmental Protection agency is also in line for a big cut, not only in funding but in its workforce. More than 3,000 of its employees could lose their jobs. And those cuts to the federal workforce and the epa are getting a lot of attention here in d. C. Justin finch spoke to workers outside the epa this morning and joins us from the newsroom. Justin. Good morning, that reaction this morning was mixed, some angry, others calling it a deja vu and this budget could cost the epa 3200 jobs, thats unsurprisingly concerning to many employees we spoke with this morning. We caught them getting off the metro at federal triangle, wondering what it would mean to their lively lo llihoods and environment. Devastating for environment and for the government and just devastating for the entire world. Concerned to be called out on a budge jobs can leave . Unfortunately no, its happened before to the epa. Were always on the chopping block, considered a political football. So unfortunately for me, im not surprised. Been there before but does not enjoy being there again. Employees tell us the proposed job cuts could have Significant Impact to contracted workers and years of environmental research, back to you. Justin, thank you so much. Switching gears now, another frigid morning out there. There is some good news. The sun is out. Yeah. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell joins us with how much the sun will warm us up today. A little bit. I wouldnt call it a warm or balmy day at all but temperatures are getting above the freezing mark. 34 in washington and one degree warmer than the High Temperature was yesterday. Theres still a lit bit more snow pack on the ground temperatures are getting up to the freezing mark. 29 up in haguers town frederick. Towards Tysons Corner there are blue skies over northwest washington but the farther out north and west you go the more cloud cover there is and gusty winds as well. Winds gusting 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour has temperatures lowered quite a bit to the windchills only in the low to mid20s, its a bundle up kind of day for sure. Afternoon temperatures will get close to 40 degrees. Well talk about the milder weather just in time for the weekend and rain chances coming up. Chuck, thank you so much. Developing now, two acts of violence in france. This all taking place with the country under a state of emergency right now. Remember france has been targeted by a series of terror attacks. The government using a new alert system to tell the country about a shooting at a high school. But police are now saying the shooting was not terror related. This happened where a principal and two other people were shot, a student, 17 years old was arrested and police are looking for a also developing, someone detonated a bomb at the same offices as world bank this morning. Now theres a major Police Presence as detectives try to figure out who sent the bomb. This is in an upscale part of paris. Police say a letter bomb blew up. One person was hurt but not seriously. President trumps revised travel ban was dealt another legal blow this morning. A judge in greenbelt granted a preliminary injunction tell trarly blocking its enforcement nationwide. As part of the ruling, he called the intentions to impose a muslim ban highly relevant. This is on top of a judge in hawaii who also blocked the order overnight. Nbcs Hallie Jackson has the latest. Reporter in the face of a stinging setback, donald trump defiant. Were going to take our case as far as it needs to go, including all the way up to reporter the president promising to fight the decision blocking the latest travel ban which would have gone into effect today temporarily barring immigrants from six mostly muslim nations but derrick watson, a federal judge in hawaii ruled that executive order amounts to discrimination, writing a reasonable objective observer would find it intends to disfavor a particular religion. The judges basic argument was once a muslim ban, always a muslim ban. The department of justice says it strongly disagrees with the Federal District courts ruling which is plflawed in reasoning and scope. Promising to keep the revised travel ban created after the first one was put on hold by a appeals court. This is a watered down version of the first one. This is a watered down version. And let me tell you something, i think we ought to go back to first one and go all the way, what i wanted to do in first place. Reporter its that original ordeha around country last month. And confusion at airports. The revamped version was rewritten to avoid legal challenges but judge watson determined this new ban didnt seem that new at all, citing for example this interview from a top trump adviser last month. Fundamentally youre still going to have the same basic policy outcome for the country. The Hawaii Attorney general applauding the judges decision. The way our government works, we also need to be able to also take our own steps to be able to check and balance out that whole process. But with one of his signature immigrati immigration 3r078ss ats risk, the president is on attack. You dont think this was done by a judge for political reasons, do you . No. This ruling makes us look weak. House Speaker Paul Ryan who argues its a matter of National Security says hes confident the ban will eventually be Intelligence Briefings about the lack of vetting standards or ability to vet from certain countries. I have no doubt this will stand. And with nbcs Hallie Jackson reporting, in all more than half a dozen states are trying to stop the revised travel ban. The republican plan to replace the o Affordable Care act just cleared a major hurdle. Passed the House Budget Committee by 1917. Three republicans joined all democrats in opposition to it. It will now head to the rules committee where we could see changes to the bill. The Alexandria City Council is considering a property tax rate increase of 5. 7 cents. According to the washington post, the council is under pressure to raise money for School Construction and maintenance. This hike could cost the average homeowner 356 more than what they currently play. The council is also considering higher fees for sewers and trash and new storm water you have less than an hour to finish your brackets and tell us who you have winning it all . March madness gets under way in about an hour. Well tell you your bracket is going to get busted but maybe one of the six times from our region will make it to the next round. Check out all of the things that those teams are posting to get fans pumped up. Virginia tech, v. Cu, west virginia, uva and terps, university of maryland are all playing today. Carol maloney was there to see both teams get the last practices in before today. Not too many nerves. Trying to cherish every moment with the team, playing college basketball. When youre on the court, you try to not think, got to be natural, been playing basketball your whole life. Its just another game, just like third grade, out there having fun. What a great perspective, both maryland and virginia are virginia plays at 12 40 and maryland just before 7 00 tonight. You can follow carol on twitter at Carol Maloney 4. The big question is who is going to be the upset and of course who do you have winning it all . Well, former president obama has North Carolina beating duke for the championship. Hes continuing his tradition of publicly filling out a bracket. We should point out that mr. Obama has only gotten the championship correct one time since he started doing this back in 2009. Presiden trump said he would not be publicly filling out a bracket this year. Its crazy, you know . I know. Every year, but all right. President obama has maryland and virginia winning first round and losing the second round. He doesnt have a gwyood winnin streak. A man accused of plow. A look at his repeated arrests for dui. Danger overnight on the u. S. mexico border, an exclusive look at the deadly encounter. Developing right now, one person was killed in a shooting along the border with text and mexico came from across the border from mexico into the rio grande valley. Youre looking at exclusive video from nbc news, its a boat with a bufrnch of bullet holes. Three people were in the boat were struck and one of them died. Today marks the end of the first year of a university of virginia students prison sentence in north korea. Still has 14 years of hard labor left on his sentence. Im only human. He was convicted a year ago today of trying to take a propaganda banner as a souvenir. He was in north korea on a fiveday tour, not illegal but risky for an american. Investigators are not getting much access to see how hes doing. Chilling video of robbers trying to break in a gun store in fredericksburg. Metal security gate at fsg on tuesday night. 20 minutes before this video, the same robbers broke into another store and only got away with cash there. This makes four burglaries at gun stores in our area in the past week. Look at this video, last thursday two people stole 30 guns from a shop in rockville in just 90 seconds. Police in virginia say that top of precision matches their robbers. And were following a developing story in Prince Georges County. Imagine coming home to find somebody dead in the stair well of your building. A man was found shot to death on campus way south in largo last night. Prince georges county police have not identified the manor even a motive in this case. A Prince Georges County moms guilty plea could spark changes to a maryland law and save children in a potentially dangerous situation. She suffoca 2014. Her family says there were warning signs. Nobody reached out to anybody to help. They just let her out two days later to kill my daughter and her brother. Lawmakers want to make anyone who learns about a threat against a child to report it not only to Law Enforcement but the department of social services and the states attorneys office. That way theres plenty of opportunity to save a child from a dangerous situation. We just learned new information about the man accused in a hitandrun involving a stolen snow plow. This is William Sanchez third dui offense within ten years. Officers saw the plow hit a car near the intersection of centerville road and liberia avenue and then take off. Police went after the truck that matched the description of a stolen truck in fairfax county. Sanchez was arrested and charged with dui, hitaun charges. Nobody was injured in that hitandrun crash though. Meanwhile a man is recovering after a leisurely walk with his dog through Rock Creek Park quickly turned into a very serious situation. Just take a look at this video which shows you the seriousness of the situation. D. C. Firefighters shot this while having to rescue the pair yesterday afternoon. Heres what happened. The man was walking his dog on a trail near 16th street and colorado avenue when the dog took off and flipped down a snow covered hill and got stuck. The man tried to rescue it but also got stuck. Thankfully a passer by heard the mans yell for help but getting to them was no easy task for First Responders. He was probably 200 feet down on a 60 degree incline and holding on to a tree keeping him from sliding further down the hill and into rock creek. The pair was stranded for about two hours in brutal temperatures below ee released but First Responders say he suffered minor injuries and the dog is okay. If you commute tore o from gainsville or hey market, you have to wait for rail service. According to our News Partners the wait may be indefinite. The board is set to vote tomorrow to move forward with plans. The existing broad run spot instead of extending west, Prince William county leaders believe it would have brought more Economic Development nfor the county. It was one year ago today that the metro rail system completely shut down. Crews spent the day checking hundreds of underground jumper cables and metro started the safe track Surge Program in june. Shutting down service stations to make repairs in hopes of preventing another system shutdown. The current surge runs through april 9th and affects the blue and yellow surge is expected to happen in june on the red line. This weekend on the green line they plan to close the greenbelt metro station. Youll be able to tail aa free shuttle bus to the college park station and hop on the green line. The green line will run on a regular weekend schedule between college park and branch avenue. An item that most of us carry when were at the gym or traveling or now just everywhere we go, caused a fire on a plane and images of the aftermath are making the rounds on social media. But nbcs tom costello actually takes us through moments the moments whether this womans headphones exploded while she was sleeping. The injuries were horrific, a passengers face and hair and skin burned after the batteries in her headphones caught fire on a flight from china to australia. The victim told investigators she was asleep listening to music when suddenly she heard an explosion. As i went to turn around i felt burning on my face. Them on the floor. They were sparking and had small amounts of fire. With passengers choking on the fumes from burntd plastic, flight attendants doused the fire with water. No confirmation on the type of batteries involved but lidge th ion batteries are a concern. Kids trapped in the third floor. Reporter a 3yearold died from a fire that investigators started with lithium ion batteries in a hover board. Injuries from exploding e cigarettes and laptops and galaxy note 7 cell phones last year. It was brown, electronic smoke, that brown green gray ugly stuff. Reporter researchers at underwriters showed us the danger the batteries pose. We all have a flammable solution inside of them that will burn if it gets too hot or internal failure of the battery of some sort. Reporter already under recall, half a million hover boards and all of those galaxy note 7s. Live with and keep in their purses and pockets every day. Reporter the concern now lithium ion batteries are common in most wireless head phones. Tom costello, medication nenbc washington. Switching gears, yoga pants could be polluting our airways. So many bad jokes there. The result on the new study on popular workout wear. I was going to go in. Leave it there. We told you about the damage to the Cherry Blossom trees along the triedal basin. The new information expected today that could impact your plans to view the trees i 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. Liftoff. Way before most of us work up this morning spacex successfully launched a satellite into orbit. The launch at the Kennedy Space center in florida was initially planned for earlier in the week but had to be moved due to the weather. Dont cancel your plans to see the Cherry Blossoms just yet. In the next few hours we should know how badly the cold weather and snow damaged the blossoms around the tidal basin. We know a significant number of the blossoms are just done this year but the national bloomed much before the cold may survive. Fwl tligt be enough of these green buds that are waiting to come up and number of backups coming up its still going to be a spectacular show. This is the first time in the trees 105year history they will not reach peek bloom. The festival will go on. It starts saturday and its still a lot of fun. I know but its like having a party and then the honoree, guest of honor is not there. Theres still a chance, right . Youre saying theres a chance . Yes, there could very well be at least some amount of the blossoms able to come back out but keep in mind its not the only thing we have to look forward to spring time around here, dogwoods have yet to come out, managnolia trees and we have to get through one last slap in the face from winter around here, which will last at least another day and a half before some slightly milder weather tries to move back in for your saturday. Dont expect it to be warm again. There are no 70s on the tenday forecast. In fact, there arent any 60s on the tenday forecast. If youre wondering how unusual it is to go from 80 degrees in march to snowfall, we have done it before back in march of 1990, we had four days in a row. 808 or higher. The 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th. That was the earliest peak blossom on record for the Cherry Blossoms, march 15th. Ten days after that, we had 2 to 5 inches of snow around here. It can happen its just a very unusual occurrence. 34 in washington. The real issue has been the northwesterly breeze, the windchill factors are down in the upper teens and low 20s still. Still feels like wintertime and 18 now in frederick burg. Four things you need to know, plenty of sunshine for the d. C. Area, still breezy, another frozen start tomorrow. A little chance for rain showers coming up on saturday. And our colder than average pattern is set to continue into next week. But theres how its looking through the weekend. High on saturday up to 56 but breezy and chilly again for sunday. Those blossoms dare to sneak out. Over to