Grab your coat this morning. Day two is coming up for today. Tomorrow will be in the 70ed. Friday might set a record high temperature. Yes, indeed, a bit of a chill in the air. Generally on the way outside. Frederick, maryland, 45 out the door. 71 at lunchtime, 64 at 7 00 this evening. Toms back with the impacts the weather will have on your walk around town coming up in ten minutes. Thank you, chuck. A scary situation for students at Woodson High School in fairfax on friday. Students finished the day on the football field after an explosion inside a classroom as they head back to school today, news 4s Kristen Wright is live with the investigation underway. Kristen, good morning. Reporter hey, good morning. We believe one student is still in the hospital this morning. Students here at woodson were scheduled off the School Calendar monday and tuesday. In just a little while they come back to school here for the First Time Since that chemistry fire. On friday, this as we learned that federal investigators have questions about what happened. A teacher and five students were hurt in the fire. The school was evacuated. This was on friday. A teachers chemistry investigation sparks a fire. That teacher, five students hurt, two with serious burns. The School District said they had been contacted by the u. S. Chemical safety board and they are responding to their inquiries. That board could launch a formal investigation, meaning a six to 12month review and potentially new safety guidance nationwide. The board, by the way, does not have the power to levy penalties or fines. There will be no experiments like the ones that happened friday here at woodson. Today the School District has suspended the use of open flames inside classes right now. Back to you. Thank you, kristen. Today we can expect the man responsible for an overturned ambulance to plead guilty to a list of charges including manslaughter. You may remember sebastian isikson. Police in prince gorges county say he was drunk back in september of 2014. He rear ended a car on the beltway. The paramedics got there to help and he punched one of them and car jacked an ambulance. He stopped when he hit nine cars in a parking lot at greenbelt plaza. We expect for a state prosecutor to ask for a 43 year sentence. A former state department worker will be sentenced for voyeurism. He filmed women from 2012 to 2014. He could face up to 11 years in prison. It is now 6 03. A developing story this morning. D. C. Police are looking into how a man died while in the custody of security guards. Police responded to a call for an assault early sunday morning at a residential building in the area of good hope road southeast. Officers found 27yearold alonzo smith handcuffed by the guards unconscious and not breathing. D. C. Police requested medical help but smith died at the hospital. Major developments coming today about a Police Officers death in illinois. Lieutenant joseph glen know wits died and they believed he was murdered. At a News Conference today about his death the department is expected to say that he killed himself. The conference starts at 11 00 a. M. Now to decision 2015 in virginia, the democrats won a key race in Senate District 29. That includes parts of Prince William county, but it wasnt enough to take control of the state senate. Now going into the election, we told you that the gop held a slim lead in the state senate. Were talking 21 to 19 seats. The democrats only needed to one to gain one seat to gain control. Republicans managed to secure the support they needed to hold on. In the house as many expected, the republicans maintained control. The virginia controls the state legislature altogether. Thats not good news for Governor Terry mcauliffe and his plans to push forward with gun control and medicaid expansion. In Prince William county a win for the democrats in Senate District 29. Jeremy mcpike beat hal parrish. A new era in alexandria. He lost to alison silfverberg. Big news in loudoun county. Phyllis randall won defeating scott york. In Fairfax County, stacy kinkaide will keep her title. Shell be sheriff for another four years after defeating brian wolf for a second time. Right now we are compiling a list for you, a list of all the maryland winners from last nights elections there. You can find that list in the nbc washington app. It is now 6 06. One of those races is making history in college park. Patrick wojan was elected last night. Wojahn says he wants to bring more amenities, High Quality Developments to college park. Ohio voters said no to legalizing recreational marijuana. Voters said they did not like the idea of a group of wealthy investors controlling production of the drug. In houston voters decided not to protect gay and transgender people. The ordinance would have established nondiscrimination protection failed with 61 voting against the law. Democrat kevin steel won the District Attorney county race. Pennsylvania, steel and bruce castor traded political shots over never charging or prosecuting bill cosby on sex assault allegations. New details in this story. Youll remember the run away blimp. The pentagon is suspending the missile detecting program it was part of. It broke free from military grounds in maryland last week and traveled uncontrol up to pennsylvania. Some people are filing claims because of the damage it caused. The missile detecting program will not return until they figure out how the blimp broke free. Doing what he could to protect several students from a storm, the actions of one School Bus Driver being hailed a hero. Cool temperatures this morning. Chuck has your what to wear forecast at 6 11. News from the live desk where im tracking a deadly plane crash in south sudan. The scene at the crash site this morning and what were learning about those on board. Live desk in south sudan. T the nile river. Plane pieces strewn across the ground. Dozens of people including children after a cargo plane crashed. This is a mile away from the International Airport. Now the crash has not affected airport traffic. Its planes are still taking off and arriving this hour. Reports say 25 people died. Were working to figure that out. Its not clear how many people were on board and why the plane went down. It is now 6 11. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s. Weatherwinner because its going to be a nice day. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein on the National Mall and has your walk to work forecast. Hey, tom. Reporter we can hashtag it whacky wednesday. Its in the 40s on the mall. Beautiful shot of the capitol. Predawn glow behind the capitol. What a warmup on the way. Thats the whacky part. Going from the 40s all the way into the 70s. Walk to work forecast, dress warmly for this morning but then this afternoon youll be comfortable in short sleeves as temperatures jump into the mid 70s. Absolutely awesome autumn day. Lets check traffic. Whats going on now, melissa. Top of the beltway, talking about the outer loop on georgia avenue. Just moved to the right shoulder. Things looking better than they have opening up a bit. Things not so bad here with that on the right shoulder here. 270 southbound. A little slow. As youre approaching Montgomery Village avenue, watch out for that. Travel times, Fairfax County parkway to the beltway, very slow this morning. 27 minutes instead of about 10 because of the earlier crash near 50. Quantico to the beltway going to take you 38 minutes. Thats a long one as well. Listen to 103. 5 fm when you hop in your car. Thank you, melissa. Stop yet so you had your home and theres a good chance youre going to hear one of them. The gas powered leaf blowers. Cracking down on people who use them. No need to pay for an expensive gym membership. The simple activity that can help you lose wei right now thousands are stranded in indonesia after a volcano, this one, erupted. Take a look at that. It forced three airports to shut down and has blanketed farm lands. Debris and ash shot up more than 11,000 feet into the air. In nearby towns they are said to be okay. Still no timetable for when hundreds of flights annual all of these passengers will be able to leave and also the flights to be able to arrive. No injuries reported. Im just a driver. That School Bus Driver from texas being called a hero this morning for sheltering kids from a powerful tornado. This happened last week near san antonio, texas. Video of the incident just being released now. It shows the driver rushing to get these kids on that bus and then struggling to hold that door closed. The driver may not think hes a hero, but one student on that bus said he saved their lives. I dont see him as a bus driver, like he saved our lives. Hes not just a man that drives us. If it wasnt for him, i mean if it wasnt for him, we would not have been here. The bus driver is a special person. They take a lot of responsibility. The winds topping 100 miles an hour for that region. Nobody hurt in that incident. The School District awarded the driver with a cross the line award for his bravery. Egyptian investigators have just started abnalyzing the blak boxes from a crashed jet. All 224 people were killed last saturday on their way from egypt to st. Petersburg. Most were russian vacationers flying home. U. S. Satellite detected an infrared flash heat signature at the same time as the disaster. Investigators say the cause could be an engine explosion or a bomb on board the jet but they say theres no evidence of a missile strike. A developing story this morning at 6 18. A new name has surfaced in the search for a new leader for metro. That name is paul wiefelde. He is the chief executive at bwi. Another candidate is no longer being considered. You may face problems until a new leader is in place. Adam tusk spoke with some of you riding metro. Many of you say you want the right fit, the right person for the job. D. C. Police tell us theyre investigating a young couples death as a murder suicide. Police found johnmichael robinson and Desiree Cooper dead inside a capitol hill row house. You may remember the scene on tennessee avenue in northeast washington monday evening. They say robinson shot cooper and then killed himself. Now to southeast washington. Were working to learn more about the man who died in a shooting yesterday afternoon. D. C. Police are investigating his death as a murder. The shooting happened on benny road not far from the benny recreation park center. Virginias governor pressing the universitys top person saying the university of virginia shouldnt be tarnished. They say uva mishandled rules on sex violence on campus. Before making the report public they revised the report to 26 pages after University Officials and the governor accused the report of having factual errors. D. C. Public schools are starting the Budget Planning early to allow you to have a greater say in your childs education. There is a public hearing at 6 00 p. M. At Stewart Middle School northeast. One priority is extending the school day which the Teachers Union has been resistant to. Henderson wants feedback to parents and forums scheduled throughout the rest of the month. Happening on capitol hill we want Eleanor Holmes jordan to argue against a School Voucher program in the district. It uses federal funds to pay for low income students to attend private schools. They will have a hearing on whether to reauthorize the plan. Congresswoman norton says it has not improved academic achievement. It is now 5 21. Neighbors fighting to get rid of gas powered leaf blowers in their neighborhood. Near American University theyll be at an Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting. They say gas powered leaf blowers are increasingly common and theyre too loud. Theyre worried about pollution from the leaf blowers. They Want Companies to buy more environmentally friendly Battery Powered blowers instead. The meeting begins at 7 00 p. M. 6 21 our time right now. If you have to blow leaves, you might as well have a nice day to do it. Right. Today is that kind of day. Leafs falling everywhere. Were running out of daylight. Thats what keeps the leaves on the trees, shortened daylight. Outside for today though, wow, what a great looking sky outside early this morning. The downtown monuments were illuminated moments ago. Theyve gone dark. Skies are mostly clear now. Theres our exclusive sky cast 4. Thats what the skies look like as we go through the day. Warm weather continues around here for today on through the remainder of the week. Its a dry, quiet morning. Even warmer today. 72 degrees yesterday. Thats ten degrees warmer than average. Well be even warmer than that today. Loving the 70s. Tennis, golf, anything you want to do outside. Today is going to probably be the best of all the days to do it. Clouds come back tomorrow. Still warm tomorrow. Cloudy with a risk of rain. Pick of the litter, friday temperatures pushing 80 degrees. As far as rain chances, nothing to worry about today. Tomorrow a little chance for light rain, drizzle, sprinkle or two. A lot of clouds around on friday. Just enough sunshine to get at the record warm temperatures. Rain chances move back in late friday night and will linger into the front part of your weekend. What about today . Hour by hour. In the chilly 40s. Grab your sweater and coat on the way out the door first thing. Shedable layers. Temperatures in the upper 60s by noon. 73 at 4 00. 64 by 8 00 this evening. It is seven day forecast time. How about a 75 today . Still near 74 tomorrow. Again, a lot of clouds around and a risk for a little light rain. Fridays high, 78. That would tie the record for the day but then the warm weather takes leave for the weekend. Showers likely for the first half of your saturday and much cooler weather for the second half of the weekend. Breaking news now. Breaking news right now, 355 at south drive right in front of nih we have a bad accident there involving a motorcyclist here this morning. Were trying to get some more information about that one. Right now 355 is shut down both direction there is at south drive. 66 headed into town, right now have a couple of different incidents, some disabled vehicles in bound at monument drve is the latest crash here this morning and you can see some of those big backups there. Also on 95 we are really slow here this morning. Just through the woodbridge area. Heres why. 95 north at lorton two right lanes lost and 123 one lane lost because of a disabled vehicle. All of that adding up for a big mess. Much more on the problem, 355 at south drive. Right now we are shut down on 355. Taking a look to make sure we are looking the same way. Were pushing this out on the nbc washington app. Thanks, melissa. 6 24. News for your health now. More americans than ever are taking prescription drugs. New research in the journal of the American Medical Association says 60 of americans use drugs. Zocor is the most popular drugs. People take it to lower their cholesterol. Speaking of trying to lower things, if youre trying to lower your weight, it just got a little easier. Researchers with the London School of economics say its as simple as going for a brisk walk. Thatll do it they say. People apparently who make a habit of taking fast walks generally have smaller waists than people who run or play sports. Results are best when you walk 30 minutes. Equal benefits for women of all ages and increasing benefits for men older than 50. A lot of ecoli cases linked to chipotle. The numbers are going up. At least 37 people have now been taken ill to have become ill eating at this restaurant. Chipotle has voluntarily closed 43 restaurants in the state as Health Investigators search for the source of the infections. Health Officials Say the number of potential cases would likely grow as more people hear of the outbreak. Taking some time away from social media could help your real social life. Imagine that. 1300 people in denmark dropped facebook cold turkey last week for an experiment. Researchers wanted to measure their overall happiness. They found Life Satisfaction increased. Many people found it easier to concentrate, focus on friends and family and be more productive. I think it makes perfect sense when youre connecting with individuals, looking at them, having real conversations. You have a better sense of whats going on. Ill respond to that in twitter. Hell text me the answer, how are you doing . People who are more depressed because their friends on facebook were so happy. Going to hawaii, tahiti. 6 26 right now. Paying more to leave your car. New parking rates set to take effect in d. C. Breaking news on the roads right now, shut down 355 both directions at south drive. A motorcyclist struck. Details coming up. Also ahead, new poll numbers showing how the president ial candidates would stack up if election day were today. The results that are raising eyebrows this morning. Your time right now, 6 27. Every sip. The taste uniquely dunkin. Each cup uniquely you. Brewed fresh because its not just any coffee. Its your coffee, your dunkin. America runs on dunkin. Breaking news on the roads right now. Have this crash here. Chopper 4 over the scene. This is a motorcyclist struck in the intersection there, 355 at south drive. Another picture here from one of our Montgomery County cameras. We are shut down right now, 355 there at south drive in front of nih. Avoid it. Take georgetown, take connecticut. You dont want to take 355 this morning. 66 in bound near monument drive, thats our newest crash there. Still causing some slowdowns there with different