That far. As far as were concerned this is an extremely urgent situation. And that they need to act immediately. The house leaders scheduled a meeting about what happened next week. 4 31 is our time right now. I made the mistake of not putting a coat on this morning. See . I swore i wouldnt put sleeves on again. But its 45 degrees outside of our studios. Feels cooler. Chuck bell is in the storm team 4 Weather Center with a look at what you can expect in morning. Yeah dont be like aaron today. Put your coat on before you go outside the door. It is indeed cold by comparison to how mild we have been the last couple of weeks. Upper 30s and low 40s, in annandale, virginia fairfax, off to the chilly start. Barely above 40 degrees by 7 00 a. M. Highs staying below 60 degrees so a big change compared to the milder weather. Youll need your sunglasses for later on today, but temperatures today will struggle mightily to get back into the upper 50s to around 60 degrees. Down to the south of town. So 59 for a high in culpepper. About 58 degrees in the naval station. Tomorrow morning, may have to start worrying about frost possibilities tomorrow morning and saturday morning as well. Can i say i dont like that . You can tell me that. You just cant do anything about it. Taking a look right here now, this is our biggest problem, 95 northbound at dale boulevard. We have two lanes blocked, so you have to stay left here. We just got off the phone with police and they are not seeing the actual action here on the camera. Outer loop at Central Avenue two lanes blocked. Thats because of some road work thats going on from overnight. Prince georges county looking pretty good. 270 into and out of town also rolling along nicely. Back with more road work in a couple of minutes. Molette green at the live desk. Later this morning, Michael Browns family will sue the city of ferguson, missouri. Late last night, we got word from lawyers for browns parents that a wrongful death suit will be filed today against the city, but the statement did not say if the officer who shot and killed the unarmed teen would be named in the suit and the law firm would not provide any additional details. Browns shooting touched off days of long protests. A grand jury and the Justice Department did not prosecute officer Darren Wilson who later resigned along with the police chief and others thats the latest. Back to you. Thank you, molette green. By the end of the day today, we could see the Surveillance Video showing a Prince Georges County Police Officer hitting a teenager. Officer thomas is on trial for hitting the boy three years ago. The teenager was screaming and shouting in a holding cell when thomas walked in. Prosecutors say thomas then slapped, pushed and punched him. The Prince Georges County states Attorney Says video of what happened will be released after the verdict in the case. Today, former cia director David Petraeus could be sentenced for leaking government secrets. He is expected to plead guilty for sharing the secrets with his lover paula broadwell. He could have a year in prison and a 100,000 fine. As early as today the woman you see here could become the nations first black female attorney general. The senate is moving forward on the long stalled nomination. Confirmation vote the confirmation vote could happen later today. The president railed against Republican Senate leaders for delaying the vote over an unrelated political spat. This is Loretta Lynch we are talking about here. In 15 minutes we will talk to nbcs tracie potts on the politics at play in this issue. A showdown between d. C. s mayor and d. C. s first ever elected attorney general may be averted for now. At issue, the new attorney general karl racines battles. Racine opposes bowsers plan and instead he wants more powers and a bigger budget. The d. C. Council held a five hour round table on the dispute and they say it needs more public discussion. The mayor is happy to have more public debate. A big drug bust in maryland. 100,000 bags of spice were confiscated. According to police they started an investigation after an increase in overdoses in washington county. We are told that people who had overdosed were as old as 50 and as young as 11. 4 36 now. Some businesses in maryland are not happy with mgm. Mgm is facing a discrimination lawsuit filed by several Prince Georges County businesses. The businesses claim they were purposely left out of the bidding process to build the new casino. They say mgm used at least one white owned company masking itself as a minority owned business. The allegations and the complaint are absolutely baseless mgm said and theyll defend the lawsuit. Lots of you will be rocking the red as the capitals take on the new York Islanders here. The fifth game of their playoff series set for 7 00 p. M. Its all tied up right now. We checked stub hub for you and you can still buy tickets for the game for as little as 63 bucks or as much as 700 online. Lets go caps. Push it right over and make it happen. New details are emerging in the wake of freddie grays death. Take a look at temperatures right now. A lot of you waking up to some as we were told to keep breathing we suddenly go into the nose dive and that was incredibly scary. I really felt like we were just diving down. Sky west flight 305 was flying normally when at 37,000 feet the pilot suddenly decided to bring the plane down. Flight radar reports that the plane dropped 24,000 feet in under ten minutes yesterday afternoon. The pilots thought there was a cabin pressure problem after a passenger passed out. Aviation analysts say any time theres potential for a cabin pressure problem, the priority is to get breathable air. The plane landed safely. Sky west says there was never an air pressure problem. Only miscommunication between pilots and flight attendants. Take a look at the video right here. For the first time in more than 40 years a volcano is billowing smoke and ash in southern chile. Cool video. Yeah. Neighboring homes remain empty after they were evacuated. That volcano is about 600 miles of the countrys capital. Makes you respect nature. And all the world that gods created. Always. Every day of the week. Around here we are looking at 46 chilly degrees outside our studios. I looked it up. Theres a 39 the windchill in Silver Spring right now. Did you say windchill . According to i dont want to go back to this chuck bell. Please tell me it will warm up. Weather and traffic on the ones at 4 41. It will warm up vum. Just not today or tomorrow or the weekend. You get the picture. We had a substantial change in the pattern around here. The warm days are now a thing of the past. Outside this morning, a few fair weather clouds from our tower camera vantage point. Its 48 degrees here. 42 at reston town center. 39 degrees in manassas. So bus stop weather for you this morning, low to maybe the mid 40s. 7 00 to 8 00 mid to upper 40s. Coming back later this afternoon, temperatures in the 50s, but thats ten degrees colder than average. A check on traffic with melissa is right now. Good morning. At 66 at the beltway as we drive into town no problems at all. Looking pretty good. Dont have any issues there which is great. Do still have this problem, 95 northbound at dale boulevard. With the two lanes blocked you have to stay left because of an overnight crash. 355 north, at gude drive, this lane is blocked. Money, security and honor. Three things could impact memorial day and july 4th in you celebrate at the capitol. It could be an indication of a lawsuit. What a letter the answer to treating your dogs fleas and ticks is staring you right in the face. Nexgard, from the makers of frontline® plus. Its the o that kills both fleas and ticks. Vets recommend it. And dogs, well theyre begging for it. Nexgard is for dogs only. And hasnt been evaluated for use in pregnant, breeding or lactating dogs. Reported side effects include vomiting, dry flaky skin diarrhea, lethargy and lack of appetite. Use with caution in dogs with a history of seizures. Recommended by vets. Loved by dogs. From the makers of frontline plus. Youre watching news4 today. Welcome back at 4 45. Today will be the fifth straight day of protests in baltimore following the death of freddie gray. Governor larry hogan says he wont order a state investigation into how his spine was severed while in police custody. Demonstrations are planning to call for answers at the spot gray was arrested. Five of the six arresting officers have now given statements to investigators. Video shows them loading gray into a police van on april 12th. And some time later he suffered a spinal cord injury and died a week later. Are there some bad apples out there, id be the first to admit we need to improve the relationship between the Police Department and the community. And i think that needs to start with training. The Investigation Centers on how grays injury happened and what officers did when gray asked for or needed medical attention. The Police Department expects to turn over the investigation to the States Attorneys Office next week. And there will be a Prayer Service for freddie gray this evening. It is at the Sharon Baptist church in baltimore. Service begins at 7 00 p. M. A grand jury will decide whether a Fairfax County Police Officer will face charges for shooting and killing an unarmed man. Torres shot john geer during a standoff. Other officers said geer had his arms up when she was shot. 3 million was paid to the family. He hopes the grand jury will reach a decision by the end of the summer. The Senate Passed a bill to fight Human Trafficking but took a months long battle over abortion language to bring the bill to the floor for a vote. The bill expands Law Enforcement tools to target sex traffickers and creates a fund to help victims. Lawmakers feuded bitterly in public for weeks. The partisan battle led to a delay in confirming the next attorney general. Loretta lynch has waited for 55 days for senate vote on her confirmation. Nbcs tracie potts joins us live from the hill. Do we expect this confirmation to happen soon . Reporter yeah the vote is supposed to happen this afternoon. Since they worked out that Human Trafficking bill that you just talked about because Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell had said that until that was worked out they wouldnt take a vote on her. Now that thats worked out heres what we expect to happen. A cloture vote which is a vote to move this forward, two hours of debate then a full vote on confirming Loretta Lynch as attorney general. She needs 51 votes. She has it with the five republicans who have publicly said theyll vote in favor of her. They were not willing to do so until this was worked out. She is expected at this point to be confirmed this afternoon. All right, tracie potts, thank you. Congressional parties are costing you money. Capitol hill police are warning congressional leadership about parties inside the capitol during memorial day and the july 4th holiday. Members of congress their staff and guests can watch the concerts and fire works from private terraces and the parties are becoming a security issue. Police want to restrict access to the balconies but not everyone is on board with that solution. They say only the staff. Im not interested in the staff. Im interested in the public that has to come in only. During last years concerts Capitol Police racked up more than 12,000 hours of overtime patrolling the parties. Costing taxpayers more than 700,000 dollars. The university of virginia is hoping to save some money by offering about 800 employees early retirement. The deal includes nine months of salary and 9,000 in the health care subsidy. The University Says its a onetime offer and it hopes to restructure or eliminate some positions. It is official, pope francis will visit cuba in september. The vatican confirmed the pontiff will stop in that country before coming to washington on september 22nd. The pope wants to highlight work thats been done to end 50 years of mistrust between the two nations. Its 4 49. Today First Lady Michelle Obama is headed to virginia. She will be in manassas visiting a Technology Company to announce new commitments to serving americas veterans. Its called joining forces and it encourages businesses to train and hire veterans and military spouses. A face only a mother could love. Thats how a lot of folks are describing the new National Security agency mascot aimed at encouraging employees to recycle. Its just a big blue recycling box. His name is dunk, apparently. The new mascot. Twitter lighting up with comments about this. Youve called the mascot the stuff of nightmares. [ laughter ] others say its breaking new ground for creepiness. [ laughter ] you can see in this video the mascot is a blue recycling bin. Do you think its the pink shorts causing the creepiness or the weird shoes . People give me an aside when i wear pink shorts. If you want to see that more closely or scare your children, its on the facebook page. Its odd looking. Thats all right. He doesnt look like he needs an extra layer of warmth today. Hes got that plastic bag around him. The rest of us though and you let him skate by the pink shorts comment. When is he going to wear those . I didnt want to know. I had move on. Outside this morning, you guys have already comment on how noticeably colder it is. D. C. Has been above average the last 13 days in a row. That streak of above average days will come to a crashing end as we go through the remainder of the day today. Temperatures later on this afternoon are more than ten degrees colder than average. So very chilly by almost late april standards. We are at 48 degrees at National Airport where the wind is out of the west at nine Miles Per Hour. So what do we expect . A cold morning and a cool, dry afternoon. Winds gusting up near 30 Miles Per Hour at times this afternoon. Current air temperatures are in the upper 30s and some mid 30s down to winchester and front royal. And temperatures five to about 15 degrees colder now than were at the same time yesterday. Overall, no real rain threat so it wont be a big weather impact today. But you need your jacket for sure. No weather slow downs today in the traffic departments. All green lights. Hourly temperatures will climb but only into the upper 50s to near 60 degrees. The big push of cool air is wrapped around a deep area of low pressure across Northern New York and new england. Thats actually snowflakes in central pennsylvania. A cloudy day today. Might spitd at you one or two random rain drops. We wont have anything in the way of an organized rain chance. Today and tomorrow ten degrees colder than average. Tomorrow morning and potentially saturday morning as well, we may have to start worrying about frost potential. The next couple of mornings. Saturday morning could be a different story and i had to put a little rain chance on both your saturday and sunday. But the whole weekend will not be washed out. Molette green, how is traffic looking . Still have this problem, 95 northbound at dale boulevard. We have a two mile backup as youre headed north there at dale boulevard. So youll want to stay to the left as they get this cleared up. Actually they just moved the camera around so it doesnt look so bad right now. Just to mess with me here this morning. 95 southbound here, no problems it is nice and clear. Northbound dale city is your issue at this point this morning. Taking a look at Prince Georges County overall everything is nice and green. Dont have any big issues there. 95 at maryland, b. W. Parkway into and out of town looking good. Silver spring, two lanes blocked because of road road. 270 north, no issues either way. Im back in ten minutes. And well see you then, melissa, thank you. Driving into d. C. Could start taking a toll on drivers. You wish your dog could fight off fleas and ticks. But since he cant. You rely on frontline plus. Because frontline plus unleashes a deadly killing force to kill fleas and ticks, plus flea eggs and larvae, preventing a new infestation. Its protection lasts a full 30 days. No wonder frontline plus is the 1 choice of vets for their pets and yours. After all, your dog is a lover not a fighter. Frontline plus. The vets 1 choice. Youre watching news4 today. Your time is 4 55. Rolling stone magazine may be facing a new lawsuit. A university of virginia administrator may sue the magazine over the discredited article about rape on campus. The fourpage letter was sent yesterday and eramo was painted as a false friend in the article. And eramo tried to discourage her from reporting the assault. As a result, shes received threatening emails. Rolling stone deeply damaged me personally and professionally using me as the personification of the heartless administrator. It attacked my lifes work. Pictures an i. D. Numbers of some elementary schoolers were posted online. The link that included the information is down. According to administrators the identities of at least 16 students from wood acres elementary were revealed. It was part of a presentation that ended up on the u. S. Department of commerce website. There was a written apology issued to parents over what happened. Takoma parks effort to go green could cost the city millions. The plan is to convert streetlights to more Energy Efficient ones. The city can save 200,000 a year but the cost to convert to l. E. D. Through pepco is estimated to be 2. 7 million. It is not clear when the formal proposal will be brought before the council. We told you that Transportation Leaders are consideration congestion pricing in downtown d. C. That pricing would charge you a fee to drive downtown during rush hour. News4s transportation reporter adam tuss reported that Tysons Corner is considering the same play. A aaa midatlantic spokesman told adam it could make a big difference. They think it can resolve the congestion plan because theres the plague and the hex on our houses. Both our houses. The pricing could be would be like a plan currently in place in london where it costs about 17 to drive downtown during the day. And stay with us. News4 today continues right now at 5 00 a. M. News4 today starts now. Good morning. Im eun yang. Now at 5 00 a. M. Hours after Police Arrest a man they say raped a woman at a popular d. C. Park, the Fitness Community rallies around her. How they hope to bring attention to the crime and keep it from happening again. Developing news overnight in the Michael Brown case. Whos expected to announce today that theyre filing a lawsuit . And John Hinckley heads back to court. The hearing that could give president reagans attempted killer full freedom. First, the forecast. Chuck . Temperatures are in the mid 40s around town but out to the north and west temperatures are back in the mid 30s in some neighborhoods now. As a result, the Weather Service has issued a freeze watch through 8 00 9 00 in this morning. All well west of the 95 corridor really along i81 that the real potential is. The wind is up so that should keep us from having a killing freeze. But temperatures have dropped into the 30s. Lighter winds across the shenandoah valley. Thats the reason for the freeze watch thats been put up. Going out the door for your Early Morning run, layer up, everybody. Up into the upper 50s by later on this afternoon. Temperatures only in the 40s and 50s. I have to bring in any jacket this morning. Were talking about the situation 95 northbound in virginia. If we can pull up traffic for one second here, please. At dale boulevard you have to stay left because we have those two right lanes blocked this morning. So again we just got off the phone with police and theyre saying you know what, this is going to be around for a little while. Even part of a ramp thats blocked here as well this morning. Other situations, traffic wise, well talk about those in just a couple of minutes. See you in a little bit, melissa, thank you. Coming up on 5 00 a. M. Right now and the d. C. Community is banding together after a woman was attacked on her morning run. This happened near Meridian Hill park in northwest. Its a place where families and joggers go often. News4s Megan Mcgrath is live with how that community is responding this morning. Megan . Reporter well aaron, Meridian Hill park is popular with dog walkers and joggers and the 24yearold glenn vert green used the park to find a victim. Green was charged with kidnapping and theft and Police Released this Surveillance Video yesterday. They asked the public for help in finding their suspect. It shows a man in dark clothing walking in the area near the time of the assault. Now police say that green saw the victim jogging in the neighborhood. He grabbed her and dragged her down the alley and raped and robbed her. A rally is bringing attention to
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