Normal. Branch avenue here you can see at speed at 54 Miles Per Hour. Again going to keep an eye on the situation in gaithersburg for you. Weather is looking better than my traffic this morning. Not as chilly as yesterday morning but still a chill in the air on this monday morning. Your monday headlines mild afternoon and then a chance of some rain moving in by this time tomorrow morning. Temperatures right now in Montgomery County just near 40 degrees as is Fairfax County. Low 40s now Prince Georges County near 50 in washington by the bay. Parts of Northern Virginia have dipped down into the upper 30s including Prince William county and Fauquier County. Theres Shenandoah Valley this morning. And heading out the door and waiting for the bus, youll definitely need a jacket. Well stay in the 40s between now and 8 00. Bright sunshine. Milder between 8 00 and 9 00. Into the mid 50s with bright sunshine. Next weather and traffic on the 1s coming up at 6 11. The storm team 4x4 hits the road and were going to fedex field for the game forecast. Chuck bell will join us live then. Back to you. All right. Thank you. 6 02. Now to a developing story right now. An nbc news cameraman diagnosed with ebola is on his way to nebraska. The plane took off from liberia yesterday after a quick stop to refuel in bangor, maine, the jet is on course for omaha. This comes after another u. S. Patient, thomas duncan, is battling for his life. His condition was downgraded over the weekend from serious to critical. The head of the centers for Disease Control will brief president obama on the ebola situation later on today. Two patients in our area who were being tested for the disease do not have it. The centers for Disease Control says a patient admitted to Howard University hospital does not have ebola. A person at sahady grove hospitl in rockville was also tested for exposure and that test was negative. Police told us they brought a warrant to arrest a man at his apartment on wheeler road southeast this weekend. When they showed up, he brought out a gun and according to police he would not put it down. They say the officers then shot him. Vdot will kick off a project that could mess with your commute. Crews in alexandria replacing pipes on north king highway south of the beltway. The road work should not impact your drive home. You can expect to see it in that area at least until the end of the month. As you get ready to head out this morning, we want to tell you about a major metro project getting under way. Today metro is shutting down escalators at one of the busiest stations to make them work better for you. News4s Megan Mcgrath live at the bethesda metro station for more. Reporter were on that escalator right now. You can see just how long it is. 106 feet long to be exact. Its the second longest escalator in the western hemisphere and theyre on the way out. These are over 30 years old and theyre going to start swapping them out. The work actually getting under way today and so what that means for riders here at bethesda metro station is youll have one less escalator to get you where you want to go and that of course could mean some crowding as you make your way to and from work. Two escalators will be working. One in each direction but that third escalator is going to be down as they swap it out. The work is expected to take 2 1 2 years. People should also keep in mind if they do have issues with overcrowding, theres the possibility that they could shut the station down until things thin out. Youll want to have just alternative plans in case they have to do that on occasion. Inconvenient for a lot of people but when its all said and done, there will be three brand new escalators and things should be much better. Reporting live from the bethesda metro station, Megan Mcgrath, news4. Back to you in the studio. Thank you. The longest game in playoff history could turn into a short stay in the playoffs for the nats. They face elimination today when they play the San Francisco giants shortly after 5 00. That game is in San Francisco. To move on in the playoffs, the nationals will have to win today, tomorrow and in a possible game five later this week. I think we can do this. I really do. The team is awesome. Im just hoping we can pull out a win especially today. We know a lot of you are pulling for the team to win as well. A lot of people have their good luck thing. Maybe you dont change your socks or underwear for some people. Grow beards and wear red. Some people kick it up a notch and take it to the next level. One guy did that with a rubber chicken and a kitchen knife. Here we go. One, two, three. Yea lets go nats. A rubber chicken were talking about here. The guy who cut the head off that rubber chicken calls himself the rubber chicken man. He said hes been doing this ritual since 2005 to help the nats win. So far the nationals have been doing each year better and better and better and so we continue to knock the heads off. One, two, three. Yea lets go nats. Hes been doing this for a while. Last time he did this was memorial day when the team was having a rough time. And he says right after that, turned things right around for them. I guess fans are saying whatever it takes. Willing to do anything to get a win tonight. Whatever it takes. Youre absolutely right. Nats are not the only Washington Team on a major stage tonight. The redskins take on the seahawks as well. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell has storm team 4x4 at fedex field for your game time forecast. A study that no parent wants to hear about. Sexting is the norm among teenagers and well look at whether that choice is changing their behavior. Were staying on top of a developing story. One airman killed and two others missing in a typhoon in japan. 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The study found no link between sexting and future risky sexual behavior. 6 11 our time. Tonight the redskins take center stage to monday night football. Our team takes on the Seattle Seahawks, the defending super bowl champions and its a home game. We sent meteorologist chuck bell to fedex field with the storm team 4x4. Chuck . Good morning, aaron, once again inside the 4x4 diving deep through data trying to figure out how were going to win this game. Im on the twitter feed for the redskins. They think the answer tonight is number 12. Andre roberts has experience with seattle. He knows their tricks and he doesnt like pete carroll. Lacks like the weath looks like the weather will be good. You need an extra layer of warmth. Temperatures in landover, maryland, were at 51 degrees but many suburbs are still in the 40s. Bit of a morning chill this morning. Temperatures 60s by lunchtime and most neighborhoods in the low 70s for highs today. So a very nice day. It will be dry. That also should favor the home team because it rains all the time in seattle. They would prefer rainy weather. It will be dry and breezy. Game time temperatures will be in the 60s. You may want to have a Little Something to wear just to keep you on the warm side out at the game. Tom will be back with your sevenday forecast in ten minutes. For now, Melissa Mollet has breaking news with first 4 traffic. Breaking news in gaithersburg. Were talking about Snouffer School road. This is some time. Chopper 4 over the scene. Petco trying to get the downed wires out of the way. Otherwise looking good at this point this morning. Travel times to share with you. Were pretty much on time around town. 95 northbound from quantico to the beltway, a tad slow. Outer loom from 95 to 270 on time at ten minutes. Im back in ten minutes. Thank you. A scare on the tarmac. The investigation into how two planes bumped into each other. Trapped in a hot air balloon as it landed in the ocean. Its unforgettable. Thats all i can say. Dont know if well do it again. For the couple onboard this hard landing was only the second hard landing was only the second most memorable part of the tr hardin Fairfax County the second most memowe had to cut the tr a lot of waste. We consolidated offices. Started sharing printers. We can walk a few feet. Replaced computers, but kept the monitors. They still work fine. We even discovered that the phone company overcharged us by three Million Dollars i approve this message because congress doesnt need another right winger. They need someone who can balance a budget. Oh, and we definitely didnt need so many government studies. Ive been preparing. I have the right feeling going into tomorrow. I know that what ive worked on for the last eight months is going to be at my fingertips. Doug fister says hes ready and hell pitch for the nationals tonight with their pennant hopes on the line here. Fister faced the opposing pitcher in the world series two years ago. It is anyones game tonight. Go nats. The search is on hold to find two american airmen missing off the coast of japan. The water is too rough. A huge typhoon swept four airmen into the ocean this weekend. One died. Right now another is recovering on the mainland. People in tokyo are bracing for the storm as it is heading their way. This morning ntsb is investigating a tarmac fenderbender at new yorks jfk airport. A delta connection plane was parked waiting to approach its gate last night when it was hit by a jordanian flight. The Royal Jordanian planes nose hit the tail of the smaller delta connector. No one was hurt and neither plane was seriously damaged. We learned new information about deadly stabbing in Montgomery County. Police say that 18yearold andrew david stabbed his uncle to death, russell david, saturday night in the home that they shared in gaithersburg. Police believe the two may have been fighting. Its been almost two months since a ferguson, missouri, Police Officer shot and killed an unarmed man. The family of Michael Brown is asking for the officers immediate arrest. The grand jury is determining whether there is enough evidence to arrest darren wilson. Community activists, clergy and the brown family lawyer called for swift justice yesterday. You got a factual dispute issue, you take it to the jury. If you take it to the jury, he should be charged. He should be booked and fingerprinted and we should get what we asked for from the very beginning which is justice. The grand jury has until january to decide whether the officer should be charged. Last week officials investigated a claim that the jury leaked information related to the case. The search for Malaysian Airlines flight 370 received new focus and new equipment. An australia ship has been outfitted with sonar, video cameras and jet fuel sensors to find the missing plane. Search efforts were put on hold for four months while the ships were customized. They will spend a year looking for the plane that disappeared without a trace on march 8th. Theyll focus on a 23,000 mile patch of the indian ocean off the australian coast. All of you oriole fans are pumped for the pennant. This is cover of the baltimore suns sport section today. Otown. Os swept the Detroit Tigers and beat three of the leagues best pitchers in the process. Orioles play on friday in front of a home crowd and we expect it will be going pretty wild out at camden yards. Os have not been this far in the playoffs since 1997. Theyll play the Kansas City Royals who havent been to the playoffs for 29 years. Players say it doesnt matter who the opoeponent is, theyre willing to defy expectations. To win three in a row was pretty shocking. A lot of people had us at underdogs. That shows what you kind of team we have and what kind of guys we have. Both teams will have plenty of rest before the series starts. We know youll be talking about it before then. In fact, right now the hashtag alcs is number one trending topic on twitter in our area. A lot of kids grew up in this area as os fans because there was no baseball in d. C. Some stayed. Some jump shipped. Were excited for both. Everyone gets behind the os. They didnt just sort of kind of sort of beat the tigers. They whipped the tigers. Im still looking ahead to the San Francisco giants game for our nationals. Im getting nervous. Keep hope alive. 20 minutes after 6 00. Breaking news on the roads right now. Lets go to Melissa Mollet in first 4 traffic. Breaking news in gaithersburg. Snouffer school road shut down between centerway and 124 because of downed wires. Petco out on the scene along with police redirecting traffic. Your best bet as far as alternates is goshen road. 270 is looking pretty good at this point this morning. No major problems there. Wider look at things, you can see were slow here 295 passing 50. Otherwise we look typical for this time of day. 66 and 95 okay. 95 through dale city is slow as normal at this time of day. Follow us on twitte twitter first4traffic. Good morning, tom. You are looking better than i am today. We have got another chilly morning and the temperatures are down into the 30s to just near 40 degrees around many of the rural areas. Closer to washington suburbs in Fairfax County, low 40s. Low 40s Montgomery County and in Prince Georges County. Right now in washington its near 50 and in the low 50s right near the chesapeake bay. Upper 30s Prince William, fauquier and in the Shenandoah Valley this morning. And definitely need a jacket, long sleeves and long pants this morning as were going to stay chilly herehrough mid morning and a nice warming after you need the heater on driving this morning. Well have beautiful afternoon. Turn the heater off and have windows open and youll need sunglasses and well be in low 70s by later this afternoon. Quite a dramatic warming from where we are now under a partly cloudy sky. Tomorrow morning we might get a few sprinkles of light rain right around this time tomorrow morning and then some sun back midday on tuesday into the mid 70s. Perhaps an afternoon shower as well. A small chance of that ending any showers tuesday night, wednesday beautiful day. Bright sunshine. Morning lows 50s. Afternoon highs into the upper 70s and on thursday, still mild. 40s in the morning. Afternoon highs low 70s. Friday, for the game friday, it could be rainout. Looks like a wet day on friday. Temperatures just near 70 degrees. And then over the weekend we dry out just in time. Morning lows 50s on saturday. Afternoon highs upper 60s. Upper 60s again sunday. Great weather for outdoor activities. Next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6 31. Hometown high temperatures for the day ahead. Erin . Tens of thousands of people are back at work and students are back in class following massive protests that shut down parts of hong kong. Today is the deadline for prodemocracy demonstrators to scale back protests. Demonstrators say they have taken steps to begin negotiations with government leaders. Protestors are demanding political reform. A hot air balloon ride near san diego, california, is one to remember. Take a look. A man was proposing to his girlfriend during the sunset ride yesterday when the balloon drifted off course and hovered over the water. My fiance and i were getting engaged up there. Next thing you know the balloon was veering off toward the water and on our way back to land so air was stagnant so it was going straight down. Couldnt go back this way. With the help of some lifeguards and surfers, the balloon made it back to shore. No one was hurt. At least they will have a memorae story to tell because they survived. If you went to bed early, you missed a touching moment during the bengals patriots game. They donned replica jerseys to honor devon stills daughter, leah. The 4 year old recently diagnosed with neuroblastoma. He recently sat down with nbc sports to talk about the day leah was diagnosed. She was looking at me and said to me, dad, this is all your fault. You should never have brought me to the hospital. I broke down crying because i didnt know what to say. Instead of releasing him, the bengals originally kept still on their practice squad so he had insurance to pay for his daughters costly medical bills. So far still is being credited with helping to raise more than 1 million for pediatric cancer research. You can watch that full interview on this mornings today show here on nbc 4. Theres also an amazing video online of still giving his daughter in a pep talk. Shes in the way. I cant watch it without crying. Very touching. If you step outside, you may know youll want a jacket this morning. Its going to warm up though. Just how warm it will get in your neighborhood in your weather and traffic on the 1s at 6 31. Plus, the final say on gay marriage in virginia. The implications of some huge cases the Supreme Court could take up starting today. And welcome ne