This out of the way. 270 south, a little slow through hyatts town at 109 headed southbound. Also a brand new problem near 15 near 50. Follow police direction. We have a crash there blocking both sides. 66 at 234, accident there. Travel times in ten minutes. Right now were working for you to get a better description of a man who police say broke into a womans home and sexually assaulted her. This happened in the mt. Vernon area in fairfax county. Molette green is live on the scene with more on what we hope to learn from police today. Reporter yes, good morning. In a case like this, police really are in need of getting a Police Sketch out of this suspect right away. Were hoping to get that sometime today. All 1of this happened saturday morning. The 51yearold not a new resident here says she was sleeping and she this man inside her apartment. And the suspect threatened her and sexually assaulted her. Were at the woodlawn gardens apartment just off route 1 where neighbors say this is uncommon. Fairfax county police again working to release a sketch of this man. We dont have much of a description to go on at this point. Police are telling us that they want residents in the area to double check their doors and their windows to make sure they are locked. Because they just dont know what theyre dealing with at this time. That is the late st live from alexandria. Know comple molette green, news 4. Montgomery county police say a car dref rigove right into a store and then drove away. It happened at you can see that there is going to be some major cleanup there today. Amazing grace hundreds of people remembered the victims of saturdays deadly shooting ram pain in kalamazoo, michigan. The community gathered to pray for the eight people shot at the hands of jason dalton. The shooting spree happened over a seven hour period at an apartment complex, car dealership and a restaurant. Six people died, two are critically injured. Vigil organizers asked people not only to pray for the victims and their families, but also for dalton. Comfort those who are so deeply hurting. Come beside those grieving, those struggling to make sense of all this. The suspect jason dalton is due in court for arraignment today. It is happening today, there is concern that some new shelters meant to help mothers and children will only hurt them. This is a site on 25th place in northeast washington. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to put one of eight family homeless shelters at this location. Right now there is just a vacant building that sits an Industrial Area next to rain tracks. There is a meeting tonight with Council Member kenyon mcduffy to talk about getting the location changed. And to virginia where the state legislature has two new plans for taxpayer dollars. Neither includes medicaid. But both the house and senate plans to set aside more money for state employees and public schools. The proposals are an answer to governor mcauliffes 109 billion budget that he outlined back in december. Neither proposal gave the governor as much money as he wanted to e week away from super tuesday. And candidates are spread out across the country asking for support. Most of the republican hopefuls are in nevada ahead of tomorrows caucuses there. Donald trump won saturdays gop primary in South Carolina. Democrats have a whole week of campaigning before their primary on saturday in the palmetto state. Hillary and bill clinton will be in texas today. Bernie sanders is in massachusetts coming off of a loss this weekend in the democratic caucuses in nevada. A direct appeal to voters here today in virginia. Republican hopeful john kasich has three events in virginia. Starting at 10 00 this morning, with a town hall at George Mason University in fairfax. This afternoon he will speak near the university of virginia in charlottesville. And tonight the Ohio Governor speaks with students at Virginia Commonwealth University in richmond. Today track work could affect you even if you dont take metro. There could be more cars on the road for the evening rush in beginning at 8 00 p. M. , workers will replace rails between the smithsonian and federal Central Southwest stations. Trains will run every 15 minutes because of the single tracking. Silver line trains will only run between balance stop and wehle reston east. This work will happen again tomorrow night at 8 00 p. M. Elevator problems have the Washington Monument closed again today. National park service says it will be closed until further notice. A damaged elevator box shut down the iconic building over the weekend as crews actually worked repair the problem. Contractors damaged the box on friday. The monument has been closed at least eight times since may because of different elevator problems. On the mend. The big step toward recovery for a number of birds that were hurt in that Potomac River oil spill. Also ahead, if it seems like more people you know are coming down with your flew, its not your our area. Chopper 4 over the issue slowing things down on the outer today Camille Cosby is set to give her deposition in the civil suit related to sex assault allegations against her husband, bill cosby. Its part of a case brought against the famous comedian by seven women. Bill cosby has repeatedly denied the allegations. Cosby tried to stop todays deposition saying his wife knew nothing about the allegation. A federal judge denied his motion. An encouraging sign of fuel spill in the Potomac River. Today Animal Rescue ares will release several geese back into the wild. At first the rescuers said they werent sure if the birds would make it. They will release 20 geese into the bell haven park avenue at noon. Dominion virginia power has admitted the oil came from its crystal city sub station. Soo go so good to see progress there. 11 after 6 00. Tom kierein is out on the storm team 4 weather deck. How does it feel out there . You feed your winter coat this morning. You can check the weather where you are with the nbc washington app. Dont have any rain. Clouds are beginning to break up. We do have wet pavement with temperatures hovering in the lowe 40s. Later this afternoon with the sunshine, that will dry everything out and temperatures should be up around 50 degrees by late afternoon. More on that big active pattern here for the week ahead. Minutes. Big problem on the beltway, right . Beltway near connecticut, outer loop ramp to connecticut avenue, have a crash on the ramp slowing things down quite a bit there. Also have a brand new report here 295 south near east capital. An accident reported there. Going to debt moget more informn that one in a minute. 66 looks good, 95 north to the beltway no issues there this morning. 2 270 south to the purchase okay. Five minutes behind because of the problem near connecticut avenue from the outer loop. Listen to wtop 103. 5 when you top in your car. A big day ahead for some local leaders on a historic trip cuba. The work the group is doing in the day ahead and how it could benefit our region in the future. Also ahead giving therd and first lady a run for their hone. The video clip that will have you talking today. What had this 106yearold woman so excited. We built our factories here because of a huge natural resource. Not the land. The water. Or power sources. Its the people. American workers. And that builds communities. And a better future. For all of us. Because making something in america means so much, to so many. Weathertech. Proudly made in america. voand exceptional customerity preownservice,les. Head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. Flip your thinking about buying your next one. A historic trip cuba. Moments after touching down yesterday, the delegation toured a popular tourist destination. Today the delegation which includes mayor Muriel Bowser will get down to business. They will meet with high level cuban officials as well as hair counter parts in local havana government. David culver is traveling with counter parts in local havana government. David culver is traveling with that delegation. Reporter a very busy day for the delegation here in cuba. They have got several meetings set up with officials from the cuban government. They will be meeting with Foreign Ministers as well as the equivalent of the mayor here in havana. And those meetings are for the purpose of bringing some ideas back to the united states. Thats what the delegation says theyre doing. Its an exploratory mission. They say theyre not making any firm deals while theyre here, but certainly a lot to see here. Im david culver, news 4. Today for the first time this 30 years, the Supreme Court will hear cases without vjustic antonin scalia. The court is now split ideologically. As a sign of mourning, black drapes hang over the doors swellings scalias seat. President obama plans to no fall to the next president. Happening today, a connecticut judge will hear from the gun maker which made the rifle used in the sandy hook massacre. The shooting killed 20 first graders and six teachers and staff. The company that made the gun, a bushmaster ar15 says federal law protects from a wrongful death lawsuit. The victims families says the gun is too dangerous to sell to the public. This morning we are getting new video of the aftermath of devastating and deadly attacks isis claiming responsibility overnight. You can see walls ripped from the buildings in damascus and homs. More than 120 people died. Militants are fighting for control of a nearby town while world powers including the u. S. And russia are working to negotiate a in iraq has now been found. Officials have been looking for that material since at least november. It was reported last week that it was taken from a u. S. Oilfield Services Company near basra. The material was stored if it a protective case and was not damaged. There are no concerns about radiation. A scary story but a happy ending. Investigators are now working to find out why a ski lift failed if in west virginia. Stranding more than 100 people midair. 25 people fell off the lift, a few had minor injuries. Everyone else stuck for hours. This was at the timberline resort. The lift is now closed indefinitely. Were keeping an eye on a vote that could raise property taxes in spotsylvania county. School board wants an 8 cent increase. That money would cover teacher raises and 47 new positions. The county administrator says funding for schools, but lowers property taxes for residents. Supervisors will consider both plans tomorrow night. High levels of Carbon Monoxide found inside a Prince Georges County church after members got sick during sundays service. Six people including two children went to the hospital after a faulty hvac system caused a Carbon Monoxide leak at the Refreshing Spring Church of god in riverdale park. Another 12 went to the er. The good news, everybody is expected to be okay. Carbon monoxide is blamed for the death of a family in michigan. The bodies of a couple and their four Young Children were found by a relative on sunday. Investigators say the family was using a generator after a power outage friday night. This news 4 your health, hpv infections are down in the u. S. A recent study for the center for Disease Control shows that the vaccine made a difference. Researchers looked at infection rates before and after 20006 when the vaccine was introduced. Girls and 34 in women in their early 20s. Experts say most teens are not getting all three doses of the vaccine which gives the full protection. It seams liutection. It seams li s it seams lieem like the flu hitting communities pretty hard. New numbers show across the country the number of flu cases is going up. The cdc reports the flu is now widespread in 12 states. The flu is concentrated regionally in 18 states including maryland. Virginia follows into the next tier. The cdc reports two children tied from the flu between february 7 and 13. Well, apparently social media fame for the just for the young. A 106yearold woman visited the white house and just completely took over facebook this morning. She is so excited. Virginhave virginia mclauren shh her dancing sues on at still dancing at 106 . First lady trying to keep up with her. The secret to still dancing at 106 is just keep moving. You heard it right there 37 ms. Mclauren is there d. C. And has always had a dream of visiting the house. She was invited to take part in the black History Month celebration there. And she said it was her life long dream to visit the white house and meet the obamas was such a treat for her. The video apparently posted eight hours ago, 14 million views. Hundreds of thousands of shares, too. Just mice to see somebody excited like that, being able to visit our house, the white house. And dancing. Good for her. 6 21. And no dancing for us in the weather department. Lets check in with chuck bell. Well, many just to today. A little sxhitexcited about . No dancing for singing for you, aaron. Outside this morning, yes indeed a quiet day forget the week started. The rain showers from yesterday are gone. You can be umbrellafree for take. What to expect, a mix of clouds and sunshine. Roads are damp, but no actual rain. Well be in the mid50s for most areas and then clouds come back tonight and lead us to unsettled weather for the middle of the week. So weather impacting your plans. Not much of an impact on your outdoor plans for today. For tomorrow, chances for at least light rain showers coming in, but by wednesday and thursday, start planning on moving outdoor plans inside for wednesday and thursday. Could be very stormy around here and risk of thunderstorms wednesday afternoon and evening. And rain could be heavy enough to introduce a bit of a flooding concern, as well wednesday night into thursday. So middle parts of the week will be quite impactful from the we today right now sits at 40. Some breaks of sunshine, mid to upper 40s by monoon team and 49t 1 00, 52 by 3 00. And going out this evening, leave the umbrella at home, chilly with temperatures in the low 40s. For tomorrow, a chance for some rain and very light rain could be in early enough tomorrow morning where there could be a loan lonesome sleet pellet or two. Saturday and sunday, both the sun will be out but noticeably chilly. Well talk more about the impact bad weather will have coming up. For now a look at 270. 270 here, you can see all the traffic headed southbound. A big snake of white coming down 270 morning. Looks like pretty normal volume. Its show, but thats how outer loop at connecticut, still slow. Outer loop all the way over from 95 because of that earlier problem ramp to connecticut avenue. 295 south near east capitol street, a crash there, as well. Inner loop p at little river turnpike, a disabled vehicle. And this is pretty slow, as well, 66 inbound at washington boulevard, that is a disabled vehicle off to the right side of the roadway. Really slowing thing as bit more than we would like here at this point this morning. Well take a big look at the beltway when im back at 6 31. 6 24 now. Developing right now, a new possibility your car could be recalled because it high school a deadly defect. U. S. Regulators investigating whether to recall as many as 90 million more cars that have takata air baegs in them. They have been linked to nine deaths. If the recall happened, it would nearly quadruple number will of cars recalled just here in the united states. And there is a Traffic Alert for you. Major construction at American University could slow your commute for months. The department of transportation says that there will be moderate delays starting this morning around nebraska avenue. Large trucks will be delivering materials for american campus construction project. Delays are expected to continue until may. A reason to hit the town on a monday night, stars from house of cards owing will waig will w carpet tonight. A screening of the season four premiere starts at 8 30. Kevin spacey will be there. Robin wright who laplays the fit lady wont be able to make it. Season four will be available march 4. 6 25 now. Growing controversy with the Academy Awards less than a week away. A new report says hollywood is not only, quote, white washed, but fails on every level diversity. Hundreds much films were examined. They found female characters represent less than 30 of speaking roles in film and less than 40 in tv shows. Minority characters made up 28 of speaking roles, about 10 less than the population. 2 of all speaking characters were lgbt. And now to a developing story were watching in fiji after a powerful cyclone slammed the island nation where the death toll stands this morning as the clooenup begean upbegins. And calm skies here, but big changes could bring changes. Chuck bell is preparing you for those changes. Plus fighting back. The stern messages from the head of the fbi it has for apple as it tries to gain access to the smart phone of a suspected terrorist. They owe it to the victims. Director of the fbi is sending a stern response to apple after the tech Company Refused to access one of its phones. But first our storm team is tracking some big change on the horizon. You see the mild temperatures . They will be gone before you know it. Chuck bell is tracking another round of rain, though, and storms that follow that in your four things to know. Good morning. Yeah, well start seeing the battle between winter and springtime. A little hint of spring today and the next couple days before another shot of winter comes our way later in the week. So a tdry start. Today will be rain free. Rain back in to the broadcast tomorrow. A powerhouse storm coming our way for the wednesday thursday time frame and then another snap back to the cold as we head toward the weekend. So here is the way your monday thats when ill see you with the 7day forecast. Today a mix of clouds and sunshine. Temperatures running about four or five degrees warmer than average. We will take it. A check on the School Forecast with tom kierein coming up in about ten minutes. For now it is time for first 4 traffic. Melissa mollett working hard digging in to all the