Waco, texas. Sevenday forecast and more about the cold, coming up. Thank you, chuck. Developing right now, an arrest this morning in the deadly shooting of a transgender woman. Montgomery county police say that rico leblond shot zella ziona in a alley behind the Montgomery County shopping center. They say the two knew each other. Theyre also investigating this as a possible hate crime. Leblond faces first degree murder charges. Friends say that the victim zella ziona was elegant and brave. A transgender woman openly identifying that way just within the last several months. Friends are still trying to figure out why anyone would want to kill her. News 4s Jackie Bensen has the story. It doesnt make any sense how somebody could have hate as a motive of killing for no reason. Reporter friends since seneca valley high school, now one is gone. 21yearold zella ziona was shot to death in broad daylight in this Service Alley between two strip Shopping Centers near lake forest mall. Witnesses saw a group of four or five young men near her and heard what sound like arguing. Police are exploring the possibility that this was a hate crime. She just wanted to embrace her life. She wanted to show the world how to be transgender. She helped people. She inspired somebody else naed chris to come out and be himself, because its hard for people to be themselves. Reporter Barbie Johnson says the victim was like a second mother to her little girl who keeps asking, wheres zella . When zellas around, theres not a single frown in the room. Reporter johnson says the quiet bravery her friend showed in the face of those who didnt understand or approve will always, always be an inspiration to her. She was just amazing. Theres no reason for you to hate somebody for who they want to be. Thats what she wants to be, thats what she wants to be. Theres no reason to kill them just because you dont understand. Thats cowardly. Jackie bensen reporting there. In other news, a 68yearold woman is dead after this crash overnight in rockville, maryland. Montgomery county police saying penelope garland was driving fast without her headlights on around midnight when she hit this yew nilt pole near the ramp to the icc. They say no one else was in the car and we know the road is back open this morning. At least one woman is hurt after a fire overnight in upper marlboro, maryland. In this video, you can see more then a dozen Prince Georges County firefighters at the town home on campus way south near harry s. Truman drive. People are outside, clearly upset by all of this. Firefighters tell us that the firec started around midnight. Well let you know when they find out how it began. A murder in temple hills, maryland, was not a random attack. Thats is what Prince Georges County police are saying on linda lane. New video right here from overnight showing you all the detectives out on the case. Officers say that someone stabbed a man to death around 8 00. Police have no suspects in this case. A love triangle ends in murder. And this morning, an anne arundel woman, a 13yearold girl and 18yearold man all face first degree murder charges. Polic say ann anastasi told them her husband killed himself earlier. Police say there was a plot to kill the man and jacqueline riggs. They say the married couple was romantically involved with riggs who lived in the basement. Police believe gabriel struth actually committed the murders. Yerd a federal judge sentenced gregory cawley, the man who dealt the drugs to eight years in prison. He pleaded guilty to moving jason leathams body after he overdosed an a mix of drugs in ashburn last year. The victims sister read a letter during the sentencing. I am no longer a middle child, im no longer a little sister. My parents have been replaced by two fragile beings with broken hearts. The sentence was for tampering with evidence. Leathams sister says she also wants cawley prosecuted for selling those drugs to her brother. Its 8 35 right now. Happening today, i want to remind you, it is saturday. Okay . School bells, they are ringing this morning in prince georgess county. Were talking about saturday school. It begins today. News 4s derrick ward is live at High Point High School with details on the pilot program. Everybody scratching their heads over this one, derrick. Reporter when you learn about it, it actually makes sense. Today is the kick jf. Classes will begin in ernest on the 24th. Theyre orienting people about it today. You can come and register for it. Joining me is dr. George thomas, the founder of this program. What is the goal of saturday school . Saturday school is to help students to succeed in the regular school. Thats the main aim. And for a school like the schools that feed into high point, its in a highly diverse student population of minority students, majority students. And some of the students need enhancement so that they are performing, that is the academic achievement is up to par, especially with the majority students. Thats the main purpose is to close the achievement gap. What would a typical day at a saturday school be like . Well, a typical day would be its very rigidly structured. Its got to be c its a no nonsense program. And the idea is to concentrate on the basic academic subjects. Prince georges county has decided to concentrate on mathematics. Thats fine. In Montgomery County where we started our program, we emphasize all of of the basic academic subjects, creating mastery on the part of students in those subjects, reading, math, language arts. Up to the middle school, the eighth grade. Excellent. This will be starting on the 24th. Grades one through 12. Register now. It will be going on at nine schools. The day will actually start with breakfast. Feed your mind and your body as well. Live in High Point High School, derrick ward, news 4. Back to you. Derrick, thank you. At 8 38, donald trump getting new attention for publicly insulting an appoioppo. What started the fight and how hes defending his word. Signs of improvement for lamar odom. The youre watching news 4 today. Now to an updatec on lamar odom. We are hearing he is showing signs ever improvement. Sources telling e that he is off life support and breathing on his own. Odom has been fighting for his life in las vegas at a hospital there after being found unconscious in a nevada brothel. Doctors say he suffered at least one stroke. The former l. A. Lakers champion was once a reality tv star after he married khloe kardashian. And exchange of insuls this morning in the race for the white house. Donald trump and jeb bush took turns on twitter calling each other pathetic. Take a listen to what started the jabs between the two republican candidates for president. When you talk about george bush, say what you want. The World Trade Center came down during his time. Hold on. You cant blame george bush for that. He was president , okay . Dont blame him or not, he was president. The World Trade Center came down during his reign. Right after that interview with bloomberg news, jeb bush rushed to his brothers defense. He argued george w. Bush made the country safer following the attacks. Well, it was a homecoming to remember. Under friday night lights. How a young mans classmates surprised him for a moment that hell never forget. Grab a jacket if youre headed out soon. We are in for a chilly fall weekend. Chuck bell will break down how low the temps will get the east coast, the largest rummage sale is open now at the park in leesburg. Its open to the general public from 9 00 until 3 00 today. Whatever you buy, keep this in mind, benefits the hospital and nursing scholarships. You may want to behere at 1 00 this afternoon for a silent auction with big prizes, were told. We have tickets to the washington redskins, some of their games. We have three antique grandfather clocks. We have fine art, original art in there. Well, if you cant make it today, dont worry. The sale will be back on tomorrow, same time, same place. You can bring the donation today, also to the new food center in alexandria. The nonprofit alive and its coalition of congregations run the new facility. During yesterdays dedication, volunteers told news 4 the new renovated space will help them reach their goal of ending hunger in the city. The need in alexandria is probably greater than most of us realize but the reality is, theres plenty of food but its the distribution. What this warehouse actually becomes, is a more efficient way to distribute food to those in need. Well, the food center sends out a weeks worth of food to families who need them on the last saturday of every month. If you need assistance or you want to donate, you can contact alive by going to our nbc washington app and searching food. This is going to be a story youll want to share. Hes not captain of the Football Team or is he class president but hes won the hearts of his classmates. We were there last night as they surprised him by crowning him homecoming king. News 4s shomari stone has the story. Lets go, eagles, lets go. Reporter under friday night lights, Osbourn High School hits the gridiron against battlefield high in manassas city, virginia. Its a homecoming game. This crowd along with Alex Guevara Sanches is excited. Do you like the homecoming game . Yes. Reporter why . Its a lot of fun. Reporter a lot of fun . Yes. Reporter alex has special needs. Students and teachers admire his devotion to school and his nice personality. Hes a great kid with a great heart. Hes always smiling, always willing to help anybody out. He always says hi. He always has a high five for me. Hes just wonderful. Reporter so wonderful that the senior class voted him to be homecoming king. He just found out at halftime. Congratulations. Congratulations, alex, were so proud of you. Thank you. c awesome job. Reporter homecoming Queen Octavia samuel doesnt mind sharing the spotlight. Im happy that he won. I wanted him to win this entire time. Reporter a special moment he will never forget for the rest of his life. Its his time to shine under the friday night lights. I feel happy. Reporter happy . Yes. Reporter you look pretty nice with that crown on. Thank you so much. Reporter isnt that nice. Whats next for alex . Hell be featured in the Christmas Parade here in manassas city on december 5th with the Osbourn High School homecoming Queen Octavia samuels. In manassas, shomari stone, news 4. Great uplifting story there to get us started on this saturday. Makes you feel warm inside. We need it on a day like this. So it looks like temperatures will be slow to rise. Very slow. That northwest breeze is going to do its thing today and keep temperatures well down into the 50s for highs today, staying in the 50s, we have not had a day that chilly since april. It has been a while, everybody. Cold nights are coming. Tonight will be cold. Tomorrow night will be even colder. For now, though, it is a sunny start to your weekend. Hope you have a lot of outdoor plans. The weather will be cooperative. Youll just need to have that extra layer ready to go. If youre going out to dinner and a movie, layer up for sure. 50 now with sunshine in washington. Noticeable breeze, fight a bit of a ripple on the potomac this morning. Northwest winds average 10 to 20 miles an hour today. Highs in the 50s, that woil feel cool to chilly. Lows down and near freezing tonight. Likely will be at or below freezing tomorrow night. Theres the freeze warnings for tonight out across the Shenandoah Valley, northern maryland, as close by as frederick and loudoun county. Lovettsville, youll be close to freezing tonight. Snow in october . Go up to northern new hampshire, mt. Washington probably going to get snow showers for today. No snow for us. Temperatures will be way too warm for that. Cant rule out an isolated sprinkle or two across maryland. Hour by hour, 47 at 9 00, 52 at lunch time, 55 at 4 00 this afternoon and back into the 40s by 8 00 tonight. Lots of great fall color to look at out in the Shenandoah Valley. Westbound, Deep Creek Lake is probably the best spot to take a look at foliage today. Saturday in october, of course youre watching College Football. The Nittany Lions going to the horseshoe tonight. Its an 8 00 kickoff tonight. Temperatures in the mid40s at kickoff and back down to near 40 degrees by 11 00. The other game in the big ten, michigan, relevant again spar. More games coming up later on in the show. Temperatures by tonight into tomorrow morning, mid30s in the western suburbs but monday morning, thats the cold one for sure. Monday morning temperatures back down into the upper 20s to low and mid30s. Heres that sevenday forecast now. 58 in breezy today. Cold tonight into tomorrow morning. Another cold night, sunday into monday. Notice, though, how dry it continues to be. 50s today, tomorrow and monday. 60s are back on tuesday. Courtesy of the return of a south breeze. That will bring temperatures into the 70s for both wednesday and thursday. And it looks like hardly anything in the way of a rain chance until we get late into the week, perhaps into early next weekend. More of your College Football forecast and the weekend headlines coming up when news 4 today comes back right afte youre watching news 4 today. Youve heard of an organ transplant, right . How about an arm transplant . This is an incredible story. One man from alexandria is one of the very few people who went through that procedure. News 4s Doreen Gentzler shares his story of recovery after a very scary accident. Reporter heres what jeffrey swedarsky knows about his arm, it came from a philadelphia man who was left brain dead after a drug overdose. The rest he tries to figure out for himself. I find a scar, i find Something Else on my other arm, what is this . What happened . I found callouses. I believe he was a guitar player. Reporter jeffrey is one of the few people in the world to undergo an arm transplant. It happened after he fell 40 feet off a staircase at a d. C. Hotel last year. I was leaning against it, checking out things on the ceiling, not even thinking about stuff. Just like that i fell over the side. Somehow with my left arm i grab and grab one of the different poles and catch myself which straightens me out but tore my arm off completely. Reporter the good news, jeff fell to his feet, avoiding a potentially deadly fall on to his back or head. The very bad news, the force of the fall was so strong, it ripped his arm off. After multiple surgeries and more than two weeks in the hospital, doctors were unable to reattach it. Mentally its absolutely horrible, horrible thing. Because its something thats gone and can never come back. It kind of got worse and worse until i found hope. Reporter that hope, the arm transplant program at the Johns Hopkins hospital in baltimore. They are not considered standard of care yet. Reporter kate knott is the transplant coordinator at hopkins. She says it can be tough to qualify for the arm transplant program. The level of amputation cant be too high up on the arm and patients need to be healthy and have Strong Family support. Hands therapy becomes a fulltime job for about the first year. When i say a fulltime job, i mean coming to therapy monday through friday. Reporter jeffrey says he had to take at least 100 tests, physical and mental, before he was accepted into the program. Then doctors told him he might have to wait years before there would be a suitable donor. But sure enough, after just 3 1 2 months, he got the call. And exactly one year to the day after he lost his arm, he got a new one. Its tough. Every day is tough. But at the same time its incredibly exciting. Reporter jeffrey says hes beginning to get feeling in his new arm. Though it will take a while to get full sensation. But this new father says he has good reason to work hard at his therapy and finally, he says, hes starting to feel normal again. You could be gone in a second, in the blink of an eye, and theres nothing we can do about it. So enjoy every moment of life that you possibly can. Truly remarkable. That technology will be used for so many more things in the future. As we mentioned, nerves grow just one inch per month. Thats why it could take years before he gets full movement and sensation into parts of his donor hand and arms. How neighbors are trying to dig out as more rain challenges their efforts. Why you should nold count on uber if you need a ride around town this weekend. Oh, boy, its sure starting to feel like fall. Chuck will let us know what will be the coolest day of the week. Stay tuned. Your stop stories at 9 00 on the dot. Montgomery county police make an arrest in the deadly shooting of a transgender woman. Police say rico leblond shot zella ziona in an alley behind Montgomery Village shopping center. This is being investigated as a possible hate crime were told. Right now leblond is charged with first degree murder. A 68yearold woman is dead after this crash overnight in rockville, Montgomery County police say penelope garland was driving fast without her headlights on around midnight when she hit a utility pole. This is near the ramp to the icc. At least one woman is hurt after a fire overnight in upper marlboro, maryland. They spent hours at this town home on campus way south near harry s. Truman drive. Were looking at 9 00 right now. A lot going on. But were also tracking changes in your weather. Lets head outsite to storm b bell. No coat . You know why this makes me feel good up here . Why . Its sunshine on my shoulder, it makes me happy. Its john denver. You guys are too young for that. My director, naomi likes that song. Sunshine, will turn into the 50s later. National harbor, sunshine there, sunshine in Northern Virginia over reston town center. 54 in annapolis. Freeze warnings are up for everywhere west of i95 for tonight into tomorrow morning and monday morning promises to be colder still. Temperatures, its chilly and it will be in the 50s all through the course of the day. 53 your high in gaithersburg, 58 in fredericksburg,