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Accumulating snow coming in on thursday. How are the roads . We have some construction right now. Roadwork right now in northeast washington. A water main break that broke overnight overnight. This is f street northeast between second and third. 66 Virginia Visitor Center everything is running along nicely there. Take a look at 95 as you head northbound. Were nice and clear. Same thing out of town there in virginia. And 95 and maryland cherry hill road everything rolling along nicely. Were watching the closings because of the weather. If you work for the federal court you can take for unscheduled leave or telework. Agencies are opening on time. You can check the nbc washington facebook age or the app for a list of all of todays they ares. Schools are starting late or closed today, however, were already hearing from Fairfax County schools they may send your kids home early today. As of right now close fcps is not trending today. It went worldwide at one point this winter as parents criticized the district for not giving enough notice. Montgomery county schools is a handful that has a max out their snow days for the year. Megan mcgrath is live at bethesda elementary with the changes the School System is making to the schedule. Reporter it has been a tough winter. Lots of School Delays and cancellations and it will mean a longer school year for the kids. Many jurisdictions in maryland have actually used up all their a lotted snow days. A spokesperson is telling parents and teachers to plan on an extended school year. They may have to add days to the end of the year. Lets take a look what is going on in the various jurisdictions here. Montgomery county Prince Georges County and Charles County they have four days built into their calendar. However, all three of those jurisdictions have used five days. Frederick county they have five days built into the calendar and they have used all five. Winter may not be over. Were hearing a wintery mix we could see later this afternoon. Theres a possibility of additional cancellations making the situation even worse. Now the state requires schools to have 180 days of instruction, however, the state can also waive snow days that arent built into the calendar. What will happen this year . Were going to have to wait to see what the state decide to do. In Montgomery County at this point theyre tealing teachers and Staff Members to plan accordingly accordingly. They may have to go until june 15th. Montgomery county couple has been responsible for unsubstantiated child neglect daniel and Alexander Meitiv are gained attention for the free range parenting style. They found their 10 and 6yearold children walking home. She said her children are happy and safe and are not the ones that Child Services should be worried about. Unsubstantiated child neglect and by the dictionary of definition unsubstantiated means without evidence. She said shell continue to let her children walk home from school from the same place. Five minutes after the hour. In the day ahead the Fairfax County Board Chairman set to announce members of a new Police Commission to review policies following a Controversial Police shooting. The Washington Post reports 25 people from Law Enforcement, academia and neighborhood leadership and the media will make up that commission. The commission will maintain public trust after a man was shot and killed by a fai county Police Office john gear was in a stand police when he was sho his home in springfiel records the time with the hands up. An investigation is underway in Prince William county after Police Officers gun was stolen. It was stolen from a locked police vehicle. It was stolen last week but police arent sure exactly when. They say it was sometime between wednesday and friday. A developing story out of l. A. Now. The investigation into a deadly shoot ing shooting in the skid row neighborhood will focus on two officerworn body cameras. Billions have viewed and shared the cell phone video posted on sunday by a witness. You can see a man wrestling with the four officers. Theres a lot of shouting and eventually fife shots. L. A. s mayor said theyll do an investigation. Some groups are calling for an independent probe. What Hillary Clinton just turned over to the feds that is blowing up social media and could prove whether she violated rules as secretary of state. How the snow hammering boston is threatening to throw the Boston Marathon off. A live look at the National California beach goers found themselves pelted with hail. The skies opened up over Huntington Beach dropping peasized hail there. It almost liked like a blanket of snow there. People at the beach made the most of it and tried to make some the snow is making it harder for people to train for the Boston Marathon. More than 100 inches of snow has fallen. Many of their people spent most of their time digging out. The streets are and sidewalks are slick. Some runners are training indoors. The Boston Marathon is next month on the 20th. Training indoors isnt the same when theyre planning for that long. Not that i would know personally. I feel like its different running on the pavement. Thats what i hear. Okay. This wintery mix, again, is heading our way later today. Right storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is out and about in the team 4 x 4. Hes live this morning. Chuck knows about running outside. Absolutely. A chief runner in chief here at nbc 4 i can tell you the winter snow record theyre about ready to break in boston was from 95 96 of 106 inches. In april of 1996 there were 18 inches of fresh snow the morning we went to the funeral for my grandfather. They may be able to crush the record. We have a little wintery mix in our future. Currently in Downtown Washington temperatures are hovering around 30s. The windchills are in the mid 20s now. As you get ready to plan to drive to work and school. Plan on temperatures first thing this morning mostly in the 20s. Well have a few icy spots. 25 to 30 degrees this morning and coming home later today temperature generally in the low to mid 30s with a little chance of wintery mix come our way. Tom will have more coming up in ten minutes as well as a chance at accumulating snow on thursday. For now its time for traffic with melissa. Good morning. Love the hat as always. Taking a look now at a couple of roadways here around the area. No major problems at this point this morning. 270 that is fine. 95 Virginia Dale city everything into and out of town looking good. We have construction here with the left lane blocked until 6 00 a. M. Southbound though at the truck scale. So shouldnt cause too much of a problem there. Beltway at saint barn bass is rolling along. Inner and outer loop rolling along nicely. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. What an artist said is hidden in a portrait of president bill clinton that alludes to his scandal. Milk isnt the only thing doing the body good. How many cups now, more and more americans are discovering that. Shred after shred. Dish after dish. Day after delicious day. Shredding galbani mozzarella yourself inspires meals, and moments, that are simply better. Mmm, galbani sfx kiss . Italys favorite cheese brand. Now, americas number one block mozzarella. For those who appreciate quality and precision, heres grounds for celebration. Experience exceptional coffee and espresso in one essential machine and delivered to you with a push of a button. The nespresso vertuoline. Swissdesigned precision brought to your kitchen. Celebrate one year of vertuoline with 100 dollars off. Its the best price weve ever engineered. One of the biggest events . Our area the Cherry Blossom festival now a few weeks away. Many will head to the tie dam basin to see the trees or invite your family or friends. Maybe today well learn when you should tell them to come. Richard jordan live to tell us what is happening today. Good morning. Reporter hi aaron. Good morning. Theres actually ice in the water back there. Yesterday there was ice on the tree branchs, but the Cherry Blossoms are coming and today we should find out that peak prediction date. A very important date when it comes to the Cherry Blossom festival. This year it will be from march 20th through april 12th. Typically the peak week was the first week of april. Last year was a little late. It was april 10th. Thats when 70 of the cherry trees were in bloom. It is big business for the area of course, because Hotel Reservations fill up restaurants get crowded because so many people come down to get a look at the Cherry Blossoms. Most of them coming in from out of town thats why the peak prediction date is so critical. It helps people make the travel plans. Thats the benefit, of course of living in the d. C. Area you dont need to worry about that. Whatever day it is you will be close by and you can come down and check it out. Of course big event here marking the gift from japan. The 3,000 cherry trees. And we should be finding out today when the prediction for the peak bloom will be. All right. We look forward to that. Well send a push alert from the nbc washington app to your phone as soon as we learn the dates. Later today Hillary Clinton will be in town to attend the 30th annual emilys list gala. Its given to women who have made a Significant Impact on our nation through their consistent leadership and inspiration. Now to a story that is getting a lot of attention online. Apparently Hillary Clinton used her personal email account exclusively during her four years of secretary of state which may have violated federal law. The u. S. State Department Said clinton turned over 55,000 pages of emails in requested last year in an effort to comply with updated laws. The Department Adds that john kerry is the first secretary of state to rely primarily on a state. Gov email account. Dr. Ben carson reportedly is considering a run for president. The wall street journal reports the retired neuro surgery from Johns Hopkins university formally created an exploratory committee. He can raise money that he can transfer to the campaign once it agains. Last month the 63yearold said he explored a gop nomination. A man from Northern Virginia is suspected of helping terrorists is waking up behind bars in somalia. The Associated Press reports that former cab driver liban mohamed was wanted for helping terrorist groups. We learning more about what lead police to arrest a Senior State Department official. Police say daniel rosen was emailing and texting off and on with what he thought was a 14yearold girl since november. The teen was an undercover detective. According to the search warrant obtained by julie kerry the arrest one came one day after rosen got suspicious a cancel on february 23rd. You can ge search warrant by using nbc washington app. A Howard County Restaurant Owner faces charges today as a class action suit is filed against him. Muehlhauser is one of the owner of the rams head tavern. They found footage of six different women. They arrested him last week. We may see a delay in the murder trial of jesse matthew. According to our affiliate matthews lawyers said they need time to hire a dna expert. Prosecutors said the t use dna analysis again matthew. Defense lawyers want their own expert to look. Matthew is cha murdering uva student hannah graham. His june 29th. The university of virginia hosting a series of meetings to come up with recommendations to prevent sex assaults on campus. The Daily Progress reports a that uva will hold a working Response Group this morning. This will be another meeting tomorrow at noon at the special Elections Library auditorium. In response to a now discredited Rolling Stone article about a female student being assaulted in a frat house. We learned two men in their 20s created the man cave in canada. And it created concerns of terrorism. Police discovered this underground bunker in january near toronto. Its a major tennis venue that will host part of the pan a. M. Games this summer. Toronto police said the men wanted to dig a cave to hang out. One of the men works for a construction company. He used his Work Equipment to dig the tunnel. Sometimes you want alone time. Its one thing to have in your basement but dough you have to dig out a tunnel and go underground to watch football . Wow we are, of course watching the weather for you again this morning. A live look outside right now. 32 degrees outside our studio. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein here with what we can expect to see Winter Weather. By the way, theyre watching hockey. Were starting off freezing. We are patchy ice with what melted yesterday. Its frozen up this morning. Storm team 4 radar showing the next system getting closer. Theres sleet in the area in pink and snow in the area of gray and white in the midwest. Leading edge a few scattered flurries north and west of the metro area trying to reach the ground as well as the pan handle of West Virginia. We might have a few flurries this morning. Then some light sleet and a little bit of snow here in this purple zone. After that around 1 00 or 2 00 well get a little bit of snow and sleet quickly coming through and after that it changes over to maybe a little bit of light icing on top of that around 7 00 p. M. Most changing over to a little bit of light rain in the area of green after that between 6 00 and 8 00 p. M. It settles down for a bit. But then more rain begins to move from the west. Thats after midnight tonight. What to expect . A little sleet and snow between 1 00 and 4 00 p. M. Light icing on top of that. After that ending by around 8 00 p. M. Well have temperatures Holding Steady in the 20s this morning near 30 by noontime after a few scattered flurry maybe this morning. We get a mix in the afternoon. But getting above freezing by 5 00 to 6 00 p. M. It should be above freezing. Well have melting of the coating and hovering near 40 overnight. Changing that to rain and rain on wednesday with highs reaching near 50 degrees. Then the cold air moves in on thursday changing the rain over to sleet and snow in the morning. Several inches of snow is possible. On thursday all ending around midday. Sun back on friday but still cold. Finally warming as we get into the weekend. Highs 40s saturday. Near 50 on sunday and monday. Melissa, good morning. Some wires are down . Yeah. Just got the report. Its cottage street. Report of low hanging wires. It sounds like at least one vehicle was hit by a wire. Were trying to get more information on this. A warning at cottage street at gallows road. It sounds like crews are on the way to get it fixed. 66 into and out of town no problems. East and west its looking good. 95 northbound and southbound here in virginia everything is also rolling along quite nicely there. Nothing to worry about. We have this delay. Brunswick 10 to 12 minutes behind. Not a huge delay but worth mentioning. And beltway at central everything is rolling along nicely. Thank you. Today you can go to a brand new exhibit to honor the navy reserve 100 years old. You are able to see artifacts at the u. S. Navy memorial including a world war i uniform and recruiting posters. The exhibit opens at 9 30 this morning and on display until the next year. The may be awarded to selma civil rights protesters. Congress sent the bill to the president for approval. It commemorates the historic Voting Rights march in 1965. President obama will travel to selma on saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the march. And take a close look at this portrait of former president bill clinton. A Philadelphia Artist said his painting includes shadow reference to Monica Lewinskys infamous blue dress. Nelson shanks tell ss they the president removed from the National Portrait gallery in northwest. A spokeswoman said she never heard of shanks claims. Interesting. You can see behind his right shoulder. News for your health this morning. What all of you coffee lovers like another reason to drink. We have one. Researchers in south korea are finding more evidence that coffee can be good for your heart. They say people who drink three to five cups a day show fewer signs of clogged arteries. Its possible coffee might improve insulin sensitivity. The key is you have to drink it black. You cant load it up with cream and sugar. That dilutes the coffee. It doesnt taste as good. Mine is a vehicle for cream and sugar. After five cups i would be bouncing off the walls. Ihop is trending around the country now because its National Pancake day. You can get free pancakes at ihop. The restaurants are giving away free short stacks until 10 00 tonight. As part of the promotion, you can donate to several childrens hospitals. Childrens Virginia Visitor Center<\/a> everything is running along nicely there. Take a look at 95 as you head northbound. Were nice and clear. Same thing out of town there in virginia. And 95 and maryland cherry hill road everything rolling along nicely. Were watching the closings because of the weather. If you work for the federal court you can take for unscheduled leave or telework. Agencies are opening on time. You can check the nbc washington facebook age or the app for a list of all of todays they ares. Schools are starting late or closed today, however, were already hearing from Fairfax County<\/a> schools they may send your kids home early today. As of right now close fcps is not trending today. It went worldwide at one point this winter as parents criticized the district for not giving enough notice. Montgomery county schools is a handful that has a max out their snow days for the year. Megan mcgrath is live at bethesda elementary with the changes the School System<\/a> is making to the schedule. Reporter it has been a tough winter. Lots of School Delays<\/a> and cancellations and it will mean a longer school year for the kids. Many jurisdictions in maryland have actually used up all their a lotted snow days. A spokesperson is telling parents and teachers to plan on an extended school year. They may have to add days to the end of the year. Lets take a look what is going on in the various jurisdictions here. Montgomery county Prince Georges County<\/a> and Charles County<\/a> they have four days built into their calendar. However, all three of those jurisdictions have used five days. Frederick county they have five days built into the calendar and they have used all five. Winter may not be over. Were hearing a wintery mix we could see later this afternoon. Theres a possibility of additional cancellations making the situation even worse. Now the state requires schools to have 180 days of instruction, however, the state can also waive snow days that arent built into the calendar. What will happen this year . Were going to have to wait to see what the state decide to do. In Montgomery County<\/a> at this point theyre tealing teachers and Staff Members<\/a> to plan accordingly accordingly. They may have to go until june 15th. Montgomery county couple has been responsible for unsubstantiated child neglect daniel and Alexander Meitiv<\/a> are gained attention for the free range parenting style. They found their 10 and 6yearold children walking home. She said her children are happy and safe and are not the ones that Child Services<\/a> should be worried about. Unsubstantiated child neglect and by the dictionary of definition unsubstantiated means without evidence. She said shell continue to let her children walk home from school from the same place. Five minutes after the hour. In the day ahead the Fairfax County<\/a> Board Chairman<\/a> set to announce members of a new Police Commission<\/a> to review policies following a Controversial Police<\/a> shooting. The Washington Post<\/a> reports 25 people from Law Enforcement<\/a>, academia and neighborhood leadership and the media will make up that commission. The commission will maintain public trust after a man was shot and killed by a fai county Police Office<\/a> john gear was in a stand police when he was sho his home in springfiel records the time with the hands up. An investigation is underway in Prince William<\/a> county after Police Office<\/a>rs gun was stolen. It was stolen from a locked police vehicle. It was stolen last week but police arent sure exactly when. They say it was sometime between wednesday and friday. A developing story out of l. A. Now. The investigation into a deadly shoot ing shooting in the skid row neighborhood will focus on two officerworn body cameras. Billions have viewed and shared the cell phone video posted on sunday by a witness. You can see a man wrestling with the four officers. Theres a lot of shouting and eventually fife shots. L. A. s mayor said theyll do an investigation. Some groups are calling for an independent probe. What Hillary Clinton<\/a> just turned over to the feds that is blowing up social media and could prove whether she violated rules as secretary of state. How the snow hammering boston is threatening to throw the Boston Marathon<\/a> off. A live look at the National California<\/a> beach goers found themselves pelted with hail. The skies opened up over Huntington Beach<\/a> dropping peasized hail there. It almost liked like a blanket of snow there. People at the beach made the most of it and tried to make some the snow is making it harder for people to train for the Boston Marathon<\/a>. More than 100 inches of snow has fallen. Many of their people spent most of their time digging out. The streets are and sidewalks are slick. Some runners are training indoors. The Boston Marathon<\/a> is next month on the 20th. Training indoors isnt the same when theyre planning for that long. Not that i would know personally. I feel like its different running on the pavement. Thats what i hear. Okay. This wintery mix, again, is heading our way later today. Right storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is out and about in the team 4 x 4. Hes live this morning. Chuck knows about running outside. Absolutely. A chief runner in chief here at nbc 4 i can tell you the winter snow record theyre about ready to break in boston was from 95 96 of 106 inches. In april of 1996 there were 18 inches of fresh snow the morning we went to the funeral for my grandfather. They may be able to crush the record. We have a little wintery mix in our future. Currently in Downtown Washington<\/a> temperatures are hovering around 30s. The windchills are in the mid 20s now. As you get ready to plan to drive to work and school. Plan on temperatures first thing this morning mostly in the 20s. Well have a few icy spots. 25 to 30 degrees this morning and coming home later today temperature generally in the low to mid 30s with a little chance of wintery mix come our way. Tom will have more coming up in ten minutes as well as a chance at accumulating snow on thursday. For now its time for traffic with melissa. Good morning. Love the hat as always. Taking a look now at a couple of roadways here around the area. No major problems at this point this morning. 270 that is fine. 95 Virginia Dale<\/a> city everything into and out of town looking good. We have construction here with the left lane blocked until 6 00 a. M. Southbound though at the truck scale. So shouldnt cause too much of a problem there. Beltway at saint barn bass is rolling along. Inner and outer loop rolling along nicely. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. What an artist said is hidden in a portrait of president bill clinton that alludes to his scandal. Milk isnt the only thing doing the body good. How many cups now, more and more americans are discovering that. Shred after shred. Dish after dish. Day after delicious day. Shredding galbani mozzarella yourself inspires meals, and moments, that are simply better. Mmm, galbani sfx kiss . Italys favorite cheese brand. Now, americas number one block mozzarella. For those who appreciate quality and precision, heres grounds for celebration. Experience exceptional coffee and espresso in one essential machine and delivered to you with a push of a button. The nespresso vertuoline. Swissdesigned precision brought to your kitchen. Celebrate one year of vertuoline with 100 dollars off. Its the best price weve ever engineered. One of the biggest events . Our area the Cherry Blossom<\/a> festival now a few weeks away. Many will head to the tie dam basin to see the trees or invite your family or friends. Maybe today well learn when you should tell them to come. Richard jordan live to tell us what is happening today. Good morning. Reporter hi aaron. Good morning. Theres actually ice in the water back there. Yesterday there was ice on the tree branchs, but the Cherry Blossom<\/a>s are coming and today we should find out that peak prediction date. A very important date when it comes to the Cherry Blossom<\/a> festival. This year it will be from march 20th through april 12th. Typically the peak week was the first week of april. Last year was a little late. It was april 10th. Thats when 70 of the cherry trees were in bloom. It is big business for the area of course, because Hotel Reservations<\/a> fill up restaurants get crowded because so many people come down to get a look at the Cherry Blossom<\/a>s. Most of them coming in from out of town thats why the peak prediction date is so critical. It helps people make the travel plans. Thats the benefit, of course of living in the d. C. Area you dont need to worry about that. Whatever day it is you will be close by and you can come down and check it out. Of course big event here marking the gift from japan. The 3,000 cherry trees. And we should be finding out today when the prediction for the peak bloom will be. All right. We look forward to that. Well send a push alert from the nbc washington app to your phone as soon as we learn the dates. Later today Hillary Clinton<\/a> will be in town to attend the 30th annual emilys list gala. Its given to women who have made a Significant Impact<\/a> on our nation through their consistent leadership and inspiration. Now to a story that is getting a lot of attention online. Apparently Hillary Clinton<\/a> used her personal email account exclusively during her four years of secretary of state which may have violated federal law. The u. S. State Department Said<\/a> clinton turned over 55,000 pages of emails in requested last year in an effort to comply with updated laws. The Department Adds<\/a> that john kerry is the first secretary of state to rely primarily on a state. Gov email account. Dr. Ben carson reportedly is considering a run for president. The wall street journal reports the retired neuro surgery from Johns Hopkins<\/a> university formally created an exploratory committee. He can raise money that he can transfer to the campaign once it agains. Last month the 63yearold said he explored a gop nomination. A man from Northern Virginia<\/a> is suspected of helping terrorists is waking up behind bars in somalia. The Associated Press<\/a> reports that former cab driver liban mohamed was wanted for helping terrorist groups. We learning more about what lead police to arrest a Senior State Department<\/a> official. Police say daniel rosen was emailing and texting off and on with what he thought was a 14yearold girl since november. The teen was an undercover detective. According to the search warrant obtained by julie kerry the arrest one came one day after rosen got suspicious a cancel on february 23rd. You can ge search warrant by using nbc washington app. A Howard County<\/a> Restaurant Owner<\/a> faces charges today as a class action suit is filed against him. Muehlhauser is one of the owner of the rams head tavern. They found footage of six different women. They arrested him last week. We may see a delay in the murder trial of jesse matthew. According to our affiliate matthews lawyers said they need time to hire a dna expert. Prosecutors said the t use dna analysis again matthew. Defense lawyers want their own expert to look. Matthew is cha murdering uva student hannah graham. His june 29th. The university of virginia hosting a series of meetings to come up with recommendations to prevent sex assaults on campus. The Daily Progress<\/a> reports a that uva will hold a working Response Group<\/a> this morning. This will be another meeting tomorrow at noon at the special Elections Library<\/a> auditorium. In response to a now discredited Rolling Stone<\/a> article about a female student being assaulted in a frat house. We learned two men in their 20s created the man cave in canada. And it created concerns of terrorism. Police discovered this underground bunker in january near toronto. Its a major tennis venue that will host part of the pan a. M. Games this summer. Toronto police said the men wanted to dig a cave to hang out. One of the men works for a construction company. He used his Work Equipment<\/a> to dig the tunnel. Sometimes you want alone time. Its one thing to have in your basement but dough you have to dig out a tunnel and go underground to watch football . Wow we are, of course watching the weather for you again this morning. A live look outside right now. 32 degrees outside our studio. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein here with what we can expect to see Winter Weather<\/a>. By the way, theyre watching hockey. Were starting off freezing. We are patchy ice with what melted yesterday. Its frozen up this morning. Storm team 4 radar showing the next system getting closer. Theres sleet in the area in pink and snow in the area of gray and white in the midwest. Leading edge a few scattered flurries north and west of the metro area trying to reach the ground as well as the pan handle of West Virginia<\/a>. We might have a few flurries this morning. Then some light sleet and a little bit of snow here in this purple zone. After that around 1 00 or 2 00 well get a little bit of snow and sleet quickly coming through and after that it changes over to maybe a little bit of light icing on top of that around 7 00 p. M. Most changing over to a little bit of light rain in the area of green after that between 6 00 and 8 00 p. M. It settles down for a bit. But then more rain begins to move from the west. Thats after midnight tonight. What to expect . A little sleet and snow between 1 00 and 4 00 p. M. Light icing on top of that. After that ending by around 8 00 p. M. Well have temperatures Holding Steady<\/a> in the 20s this morning near 30 by noontime after a few scattered flurry maybe this morning. We get a mix in the afternoon. But getting above freezing by 5 00 to 6 00 p. M. It should be above freezing. Well have melting of the coating and hovering near 40 overnight. Changing that to rain and rain on wednesday with highs reaching near 50 degrees. Then the cold air moves in on thursday changing the rain over to sleet and snow in the morning. Several inches of snow is possible. On thursday all ending around midday. Sun back on friday but still cold. Finally warming as we get into the weekend. Highs 40s saturday. Near 50 on sunday and monday. Melissa, good morning. Some wires are down . Yeah. Just got the report. Its cottage street. Report of low hanging wires. It sounds like at least one vehicle was hit by a wire. Were trying to get more information on this. A warning at cottage street at gallows road. It sounds like crews are on the way to get it fixed. 66 into and out of town no problems. East and west its looking good. 95 northbound and southbound here in virginia everything is also rolling along quite nicely there. Nothing to worry about. We have this delay. Brunswick 10 to 12 minutes behind. Not a huge delay but worth mentioning. And beltway at central everything is rolling along nicely. Thank you. Today you can go to a brand new exhibit to honor the navy reserve 100 years old. You are able to see artifacts at the u. S. Navy memorial including a world war i uniform and recruiting posters. The exhibit opens at 9 30 this morning and on display until the next year. The may be awarded to selma civil rights protesters. Congress sent the bill to the president for approval. It commemorates the historic Voting Rights<\/a> march in 1965. President obama will travel to selma on saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the march. And take a close look at this portrait of former president bill clinton. A Philadelphia Artist<\/a> said his painting includes shadow reference to Monica Lewinskys<\/a> infamous blue dress. Nelson shanks tell ss they the president removed from the National Portrait<\/a> gallery in northwest. A spokeswoman said she never heard of shanks claims. Interesting. You can see behind his right shoulder. News for your health this morning. What all of you coffee lovers like another reason to drink. We have one. Researchers in south korea are finding more evidence that coffee can be good for your heart. They say people who drink three to five cups a day show fewer signs of clogged arteries. Its possible coffee might improve insulin sensitivity. The key is you have to drink it black. You cant load it up with cream and sugar. That dilutes the coffee. It doesnt taste as good. Mine is a vehicle for cream and sugar. After five cups i would be bouncing off the walls. Ihop is trending around the country now because its National Pancake<\/a> day. You can get free pancakes at ihop. The restaurants are giving away free short stacks until 10 00 tonight. As part of the promotion, you can donate to several childrens hospitals. Childrens Miracle Network<\/a> i tweeted out more information about it. Dont overdo it with the pancakes. Not that you can. Do you have a record . They know me at the ihop. Were good friends over there. A local School District<\/a> is making tough choices to get more money for the school budget. The increase that could come down for homeowners in loudoun county. Were learning how Bob Mcdonnell<\/a> is making his case for appeal. Why hes innocent of corruption he says. Storm team radar showing sleet and rain coming into the area then well see major changes in the next 24 hours. Tom is timing out what youll see. It includes some snow. Insight is knowing you made the right decision from the start. Insight is knowing how to handle things that dont go as planned. And sometimes its knowing when to step back and see things differently. When you have insight, you can handle your finances with confidence. Thats why at pnc insight is behind all the expert guidance we provide tools we create and services we offer. Right now another one of those dreaded wintery mixes heading this way. Storm team 4 radar working hard right now. The the trip home from work could be atricky one. Apparently theres flurries out west right now. And its another case where the amount isnt the big deal. Of course the timing is important. Good morning to you. The meteorologist tom kierein is looking at this radar for us. Nice hand work there, aaron. This morning were getting snow detroit over chicago and parts of indiana and ohio. The southern edge is some sleet and the far eastern part of that a few scattered flurries trying to reach the areas in gray. Howard frederick, pan handle of West Virginia<\/a> Shenandoah Valley<\/a>. Maybe a few scattered flurries may be drifting to the metro areas. Hour by hour for the rest of the day well have the possibility of a flurry through the morning. And during the afternoon some sleet and maybe a little bit of snow. A coating to an inch at the most. And a little bit of icing on top of that. As we get into the evening hours Going Forward<\/a> the next 24 hour it is gets warmer. Then after midnight around dawn tomorrow we get some rain. It will be in the low 40s this time tomorrow morning with some rain falling. Next weather and traffic on the 1s a look at the bus stop forecast. Now melissa has a new accident. Brand new crash. Were talking about southbound bw parkway approaching the beltway. Were not seeing it on camera. We know that it was just reported it sounds like we have one lane blokd. Well get more information about that. We tweeted it out. 66 and 95 overall loo good. 95 northbound through dale city slow because we hit the 5 30 area. A little bit yellow there. Into and out of town here in Prince Georges County<\/a> were looking good. No major issues. Nothing really reported right now. Well keep our fingers crossed there. Branch avenue pennsylvania avenue indian head highway everything rolling along nicely. 95 at 190 it is looking quite good. We get reports of issues on the brunswick line with signal problems. Could be running up to ten minutes late on the brunswick line this morning. Israeli Prime Minister<\/a> strikes a tone. He is here to lobby goshss with iran over the nuclear program. President obama wasnt told that netanyahu would address congress. Today heads to the hill to make the address. Several law make lersmakers will boycott the speech. Is president obama planning to watch the speech . He doesnt plan to watch today which begs the question we know hes not meeting with him because he said hes too close to that election they dont want the president to appear to influence the election in israel. This banks the question what is happening with u. S. Israeli relations over the issue. Secretary john kerry is negotiating with iran. Hes expected to be in questionhave a knee have a until thursday. President obama and Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> has said it does not damage their relations. They have a strong relationship but this is one issue where netanyahu thinks that the u. S. Needs to be much stronger in terms of sanctions. As of this morning 47 lawmakers have said they do not plan to attend the speech on capitol hill today. That includes virginias tim cain and donna edwards. All right tracie potts on capitol hill. Thank you. Investigators may have crucial new clues to put the one step closer to catching the so called black hat bandits. They struck again robbing a wells fargo in falls church yesterday. It makes eight armed robberies in virginia and maryland over eight weeks. This time the men left footprints in the snow. Investigators took pictures an molds. Multiple Law Enforcement<\/a> agencies are working on the case. Theres a 30,000 reward for information that leads to a conviction. Bob mcdonnell will appeal his Corruption Case<\/a> in may. We went through the opening briefs for the case. He said it was built on a definition of bribery that the Supreme Court<\/a> rejected. He calls Johnny Williams<\/a> testimony into question. Williams is the man who governor t bribes. Mcdonnell said the favors williams received were routine courtesies elected officials extend every day. In the day ahead well get insight into the Fairfax County<\/a> budget proposal. The city manager will present that proposal to the mayor and city council. Its the first of several work sessions and public hearings before the budget is adopted. You can see the proposal on our website thats nbc washington. Com. Your taxes may be going up if live in loudoun county. According to the loudoun times, the board of surpss there and the school board are in favor of a tax hike. They are debating a 1. 15 increase affecting most Property Owners<\/a> in the county. It would mark a shift in the board which has annually lowered the tax rate during the budget deliberations. It has come despite your pleas calling for more Education Funding<\/a> in the county. A final decision on the fiscal 2016 budget either happens later this month or in april. [ chanting ] back and forth on the purple line now. Maryland governor is deciding whether he wants to move forward with the new purple line, which would connect the maryland suburbs from new carrolton to bethesda at the ami theater. Those in favor protested outside. We heard from both sides inside. Were talking 69,000 people a day will be riding the purple. You have buses running around empty saying we need trains. If you cant fill your buses why do you need trains . Supporters of the line say it will prevent even more gridlock in our area. Critics say its simply not worth the cost. Right now thousands are honoring slain russian Opposition Leader<\/a> boris nemtsov. We want to take you live to moscow where several ambassadors to russia including some from the u. S. Are paying their respects. Many placing flowers on Boris Nemtsovs<\/a> grave. He was arrested several times prior to that for criticizing putins government. Putin condemns the murder and in a statement said he ordered several investigations. Thank you. Today lawmakers want to bring politics to your students plate. The specific changes that can impact what your child eats for lunch. A live look at the lit up national harbor. Later we could see ice on the water. Theres the capital wheel. We can see it this morning in the weather and traffic on the 1s. 5 41 now. The battle over nutrition and School Lunches<\/a> heating up. Nearly a thousand nutritionists will lobby on capitol hill today. Skbrnchts skbrnchts skbrnchts. Its the not the amount of sleet but when it arrives. Lets check with tom kierein for the forecast. Reporter if the bus stop this morning should be okay. Some clouds around and temperatures below freezing. Watch out the sidewalks may be a little bit icy. What melted yesterday is refrozen this morning. Watch out for that between 7 00 and 8 00 a. M. As well as 8 00 to 9 00 well be below freezing in the upper 20s. Might have a few scattered flurries this morning. What to wear today. Wear your warm winter gear again. Jackets, umbrella a hat. You wont need the sunglasses. For the an you may need an umbrella as you head home. Were getting a combination of sleet and light freezing rain moving in. Look at the timing on that. Its coming up at 5 51. Now any problems out there . Still a crash southbound bw parkway. Still have one lane blocked here. Not seeing it on camera but its blocked. 66 east the onramp from 123. We have crash on the shoulder. Take a look at travel times. 270 south to the germantown no major issues 11 minutes. Minutes. Thank you. The changes to a homeless shelter one year after a little girl goes missing in d. C. A looking at the stories making headlines right now. A Montgomery County<\/a> couple has been accused of child neglect. Daniel and Alexander Meitiv<\/a> are gained attention for the free range parenting style. They found their 10 and 6yearold children walking home. She said her children are ha and safe and are not the ones that Child Services<\/a> should be worried about. The Cherry Blossom<\/a> festival is nearly here. In hours theyll predict when the peak bloom will happen. Will the cold snap affect the Cherry Blossom<\/a>s this year . Probably. Storm Team Meteorologist<\/a> chuck bell is with the storm team 4 x 4. Do you remember when the blossoms peaked last year . I do. It was fairly late because march was so cold. And march temperatures are typically the ones that matter the most. So keep that in mind. Its been really cold here for the month of february. In fact this february was colder than last year. As a result it could get things off to a slow start. Last week the peak occurred between april 10th and april 14th. And during that fiveday stretch, we were 80 degrees or higher three out of those five days and that cooked the blossoms off the trees or they may have lasted longer. Last march the reason the blossoms were so late last year because march was a cold one. We were four degrees colder than average last march and we had 12 inches of snow in the month of march last year things have took off to a slow start. A colder february this year. Look at the tidal basin. The nasty brown snow. The basin is frozen out. On the whole its march that matters the most when peaking picking the peak blossom time. Easy for me to say. All right chuck bell live at the tidal basin for us. The Montgomery County<\/a> council is meeting and expected to approve changes you should know about. First, the council will vote on a proposal to ban county pet stores from selling any dogs and cats from so called puppy mills. The county no stores do that now. You cant smoke e cigarettes anywhere that traditional cigarettes are banned. That meeting starts at 10 00 a. M. Police have made an arrest in a rash of break ins in arlington. Antwon kennedy was taken into custody during a sting operation over the weekend. They caught him in the middle of the act trying to break into cars at a parking garage on wilson boulevard. They say hes responsible least 50 car break ins. And we know what started a standoff in Montgomery County<\/a>. Investigators say two Business Partners<\/a> argued in gaithersburg. It was yesterday afternoon. The homeowner pulled out a shotgun and the other person ran and called for help. Chopper 4 flew over the scene when police were asking neighbors to leave hairtheir homes. Manhattan the man with the shotgun is in custody. The investigation of this deadly shooting in l. A. In the skid row neighborhood. Well focus on two officerworn body cameras. Sources tell nbc news that audio from the cameras suggest that the homeless man tried to grab the officers gun. Millions viewed and shared this cell phone video posted on facebook of sundays shooting. In it you can see a man wrestling with four officers. There is a shooting and eventually five gunshots. L. A. s mayor said there will be a thorough investigation, but some groups are calling for an independent probe. Right now there is a 25,000 reward for information that helps d. C. Police found releashsha rudd. They have no new leads but are holding out hope she can be found. She lived in the d. C. Homeless shelter. They added security, surveillance cameras, and repaired heating and airconditioning systems there. Many have been afgted eded eded affected by the cold snap and the toll its taken on the water mains. The Washington Suburban<\/a> Sanitary Commission<\/a> said crews repaired more than 400 broken water mains last month. Its the second most breaks in february ever behind the 479 in february of 2007. It fielded more than 17,000 calls. More than double the number during the same time last year. The Utility Company<\/a> continues to ask for your patience as it expects more mains will break. Just tough going all around in this kind of weather. It was pretty cold last winter too. The upanddown temperatures too. Freeze thaw freeze, thaw. Especially this time of year. Were below freezing now. The area in pink some sleet now in parts of southern ohio and into indiana. North of that that white gray zone that is snow. And the zoom in on the radar shows a little bit of flurry activity the area in gray trying to reach the ground. Howard frederick, and Washington Counties<\/a> in maryland and pan handle of West Virginia<\/a>. Its tracking to the east. We might have a few scattered flurries coming through here over the next couple of hours. Thats not the main event. Well have the sleet and a little bit of snow arriving Shenandoah Valley<\/a> by noontime. It moves farther to the east. It gets to the metro area around 1 00 2 00 3 00. The area in lavender is potential snow. The sleet and light snow moving through between 2 00 and 4 00 p. M. After that rain mixes in. The area in green getting rain moving into the metro area around kf 7 00 8 00 p. M. It will linger through mid evening. And temperatures well above freezing by then. We could get a light coating of that snow and sleet between 1 00 and 4 00 p. M. And light icing on top of that after that. But temperatures getting above freezing. Everything will be melting. Large area under the weather winter advisory. That system move on through. Were below freezing now just in the 20s. So watch out naig melted from yesterday is now frozen over. We have patchy ice but dry pavement all around. Thats nebraska avenue live view from the tower cam this morning in northwest washington. If a few flurries this morning. May get above freezing by late afternoon. Keep up with the changes with the storm team 4 weather app when your away from your tv. Up we go tomorrow into the low 50s with occasional light rain and gets cold again and changes over to maybe some snow. Possibly some sleet. Drying out still cold friday with sun back. Then warmer for the weekend and first part of next week with sunshine. Partly cloudy skies. Breaking news on the roads now. Breaking news. Southbound bw parkway. As youre approaching the beltway. Chopper 4 over the scene 3 1 2 mile back up. This from a crash that cleared about ten seconds ago. We saw it get out of the way. We had two lanes blocked. Build up a lot of volume coming southbound here as youre approaching the beltway. Thats going to be pretty nasty this morning. We pushed it out and tweeted it out as well. Pushed it out from the nbc washington app. 66 east the onramp have the crash on the shoulder. You can see a tiny bit of a slow down. Folks looking to the right where the crash is for us. 95 virginia that looks pretty good. Overall Prince Georges County<\/a> not having any major problems now. Branch avenue indian head highway everything flowing in fine this morning. 270 to old hundred road see the slow downs. Nothing major just typically volume. Our Biggest Issue<\/a> right now southbound bw parkway at the beltway. Thank you. A change coming in the way you pay for groceries at costco. Starting next april American Express<\/a> is out in visa is in. City will become the exclusive issuer of the cobrand costco card. It will provide more information in the coming weeks about how you can transition to the new card. You can save a lot of money on your spring vacation by leaving just a few days later. Farecompare. Com checked flights between dallas and orlando in february it found a sound sunday trip cost nearly 480 a tuesday to subtle trip cost more less. March looking ah 5 55 now and the popular phone dating app tinder is launching a new Premium Service<\/a>. Landon dowdy joins us with about your age. Youre right. Swiping left or right is free on tinder but taking it back could cost you. The popular dating app launched a Premium Service<\/a> called tinder plus. Its generating revenue for 9 you can get a new features. It include passports. So traveling singles if theyre going to florida can connect in other countries. Others let users rewind if they accidentally rejected someone by swiping left instead of right. Aaron, back over to you. Can i just go to the bar . Swiping all that crazy okay. Landon dowdy live for us. I was going to pick on you but i didnt. I like to keep it simple. Thank you. Thanks. In the day ahead the Fairfax County<\/a> Board Chairman<\/a> is set to announce members of new Police Commission<\/a> that will review policies. Washington post reporting 25 people from Law Enforcement<\/a>, academia, neighborhood leaders, and the media will make up the commission. The commission will maintain public trust after a man was shot and kil county pol john police when he was shot outside his home in springfield. Records show he was unarmed at the time with the hands up. Maryland lawmakers examining a bill that would gaming. It would add as many as 2500 slot machines at marshall airport. You can learn more about what is happening in Fairfax County<\/a> public schools. Superintendent karen garza holds a listening tour. Its designed to collect and share ideas. Its happening at 6 30 today. Youre encouraged to register ahead of time. March is here but were already trying to look ahead to the warm summer evening. Can you feel it . A couple of months the Concert Series<\/a> will be announced. National symphony will do a special 30th anniversary back to the future. It is a site many of us are longing to see as we prepare for another round of wintery weather. The famous Cherry Blossom<\/a>s a few weeks away. The news of the day ahead that will give us a better idea what to expect at the festival this year. Insight is knowing you made the right decision from the start. Insight is knowing how to handle things that dont go as planned. And sometimes its knowing when to step back and see things differently. When you have insight, you can handle your finances with confidence. Thats why at pnc insight is behind all the expert guidance we provide tools we create and services we offer. Right now on news 4 today a little hope for all of you dreaming of spring in the middle of this neverending winter. Ate nounsment in the day ahead that will give us a better idea what to expect at the Cherry Blossom<\/a> festival. Dont get too excited about the spring like weather. Another dose of winter will be arriving on our doorsteps in a few hours. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein tracking who will be seeing the worst of the next wintery mix. Its going to be the north. Were going to be on the Southern Side<\/a> of it as the system push brushes by us. Its sleet in West Virginia<\/a> and ohio. Getting a few scattered flurries and patches of gray in the Storm Team Radar<\/a> in howard frederick. Here western loudoun few flurries trying to reach the ground. Its not the main event. A big area under Winter Weather<\/a> advisory. 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