Temperatures below freezing. Bundle up, its a windy and cold day coming. It say windy and cold day. Southbound 28 at frying pan road. Brand new crash on the left side of the roadway being reported. Well try and get you more information and tell you exactly whats going on there. Eastbound 70 before 270, still have that accident in the way. You can see 270 southbound as youre heading out of frederick slowing. Prince georges county as promised no major issues, inbound, a little throw after 301 inbound 210, livingston road before the beltway. A tad slow. Taking a look at the beltway, no major problems on the beltway, westbound east capitol street a little slow. Ten minutes. Now to decision 2016 where candidates are back on the campaign trail today after huge wins for donald trump and Hillary Clinton. Despite their dominance on heres a look at who won what, starting with the republicans. Donald trump took two states including virginia. Senator ted cruz won two states arguably his home state of texas and a large number of delegates. Marco rubio won his home state. The florida voters weigh in a little more than two weeks. Political analysts say Bernie Sanders strategy worked. He won four of the seven he targets. Hillary clinton now has 1,000 delegates nearly half what she snead to qualify. Well zoom in and take a look at how the gop primary started. Trump took 25 of the vote. Senator marco rubio took 32 . And senator ted cruz took 17 in virginia. Generally speaking counties that are closer to washington, d. Went to rubio. Farther south you go out to the west, appalachia, voters chose trump. You take a look at the democratic results now, Hillary Clinton won by a wide margin in most counties. Clinton took 64 of the vote in virginia. Compared to senator Bernie Sanders 35 . Now, virginia could be a major factor in the general election this november. And voters in the primary said they were thinking about that when they left the polls. Angie goff breaking down the numbers from the live desk. Good morning, aaron. People are voting for donald trump and marco rubio. And they have different priorities. In virginia, half the people said they wanted a candidate with political experience voted for marco rubio. He also took more than 60 of the people who wanted someone who could win in the general election. Donald trump, they took the voters who wantth outsider. 60 said that is one of the most important qualities. They also wanted a candidate, someone who would tell it like it is. Nbc news political director moderator of meet the press chuck todd will join us to talk about his predictions just ahead at 6 15. It is 6 04. It may be one of the most exciting times for people who live in our area. The National Cherry blossom festival kicks off. Today well hear when the peak blooms may be. Lets get to news4s Megan Mcgrath live around the basin. It means spring is around the corner. Reporter i know, but ive got to tell you, it doesnt feel right now with the win and temperatures falling this morning, its hard to believe that the Cherry Blossoms are going to come out soon but that is the case. There. Weve just got the smalest of buds forming on the trees, in a matter of weeks, were expecting to see Cherry Blossoms at the tidal basin. Its march 14th through april 22nd. Were going to hear the estimate of when we can expect to see peak bloom. Last year peak bloom was april 10th. It was a big deal for the washington area. 1. 5 visitors come to seat Cherry Blossoms. 126 million generated by the festival. And peak bloom is when 70 of the blossoms are out. Were going to get that estimate later on today when the National Park service thinks that that peak bloom may happen. Of course, a lot of factors in terms of temperatures, what happens, they really cant get a great idea until about ten days prior to peak bloom. So theyre going to tweak it as we go along. But our first estimate can happen later on this morning. Back to you in the studio. T 6 06. In just a few hours, the maryland man charged with murdering his own 2yearold daughter will appear in court. Daron boswelljohnson will be in preliminary court charged with killing his 2yearold daughter and his wife. Today, two virginia families may begin to get closure in the murders of their daughters. We expect Jesse Matthew jr. To enter a plea in the deaths of Morgan Harrington and hanna graham, the College Students who were abducted in charlottesville and murdered five years apart. Matthew is charged in both cases. The hearing will happen this afternoon in charlottesville. Once the deal is announced well send an alert to your phone. And now pepco and exelon merger d. C. Mayor bowser has pulled her support for the nearly 7 million deal. Last friday, the d. C. Service commission rejected the deal. One of the conditions was eliminating a threeyear rate freeze for customers. The lawyer who represents pepco said she will not agree to those terms and she represents more than nine groups that must give their approval for the deal to go through. Pepco and epsilon have about ten days left to resolve any differences. Were tracking developments in new york state after a Train Derailment forces a number of people from their homes. This video just coming in from the scene. What were learning about the accident. Also ahead, they worked around the clock after the blizzard of 2016, well show you why several plow drivers are still waiting to be announcer and now your storm team 4 forecast. Im tom kierein on the storm team 4 weather deck where the wind is gusting. Right now, its calm, but once in a while, it blasts through here. In fact, i just lost my precious storm team 4 hat. Hang on to your hat. Here with the win gusts, gusting 40 miles an hour. Hag geerstown had a gust of 45 miles. And to the bus stop, temperatures in the 40s. Heading back home, well have bright sunshine but the winds will be gusting but colder. Windchills in the 20s. So layer up. A look at our snow chances for thursday night into friday. Chuck will have that in ten minutes. Melissa has a new crash. Brandnew crash at bw parkway. Just approaching outbound new york avenue. Eastbound 70 at 270, crash there as well. As far as travel time, beltway looking good 95 to 270. 66 inbound, 95 northbound also looking good. Remember to listen to our friends at wtop 105 fm when you hop in the car. A legal battle over the purple line may stop the lawsuit from going ahead. A federal lawsuit has been filed by friends of the capitol trail. Purple line supporters believe the line and the trail can peacefully coexist. The Chevy Chase LakeShopping Center will be torn down to make room for the purple line. The death of a loved one is hard enough on families, imagine the funeral home losing that loved ones body. The local family dealing with that nightmare. Also were looking at rubio as they its about taking a stand. For too long, wall street banks had their way. They crashed our economy. But democrat Donna Edwards wont take their money because she stands up for us. As a single mom, she knows the challenges our families face. Shell be our voice. Tightening regulations on the big banks and fighting to keep dark money out of politics. Democrat Donna Edwards, marylands next senator. 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. I am a unifier, i would love to see the Republican Party and everybody get together and unify. And when we unify, its nobody, nobody thats going to beat us. Donald trump looks to the future after his super tuesday sweep. Hillary clinton campaigns today in massachusetts with a powerful super tuesday performance under her belt. The two frontrunners attacked each other in their victory speeches last night. Nbc news political director and moderator of meet the press chuck todd joins us live from new york. Chuck, thanks for joining us. What are you watching for here from the republicans . Well, now, its the question can the party somehow rally around somebody to stop trump. Because right now, the 54s are propelling donald trump. He is racking up impressive victories. And more importantly, he is driving up turnout in these primaries to record levels. Candidates pulling off what trump were doing, the Republican Party would be celebrating in the streets. They would have a candidate that was powering up voters in this event. But they absolutely believe that trump is going to be a general election disaster. Ill tell you, time is running out, theres essentially two weeks, yun, for the Republican Party to shore up this nomination. By the way, he is the only candidate in this field on the republican side that can win enough delegates to secure the nomination before the convention. Ted cruz and marco rubio, their only hope is to deny delegates to trump and fight the convention. Well see how that plays out. What about who came out to vote. You tweeted last night that were seeing record voter turnout in almost every state including virginia. We are. I mean, it was amazing. 30 upticks in turnout. Alltime records in all of these southern primaries. Pretty much i think its every single primary a record turnout, except for vermont last night. Other than that, its been across the board. Look, its a new type of republican voter. This isnt a traditional republican primary voter. This has been folks that hasnt participated in primaries. This is trump bringing them to the polls. These are folks theyre not as conservative as, say, the traditional republican voter is. And thats why donald trump hasnt been punished for some of his positions that run count tore a traditionally arepublican past because hes eelectorate into a trump party. Moderator of meet the press chuck todd, thank you. Well see you on today show. And its getting more intense as he gets more delegates. Donald trump made millions while hard working americans got scammed. That is a new ad funded by a airing today called trump a liar and said he takes advantage of people, specifically former students of trump university. The school said it would teach students about real estate but later folded. Its the target of a Fraud Lawsuit right now. And looking ahead the next big primary day is saturday march 15th, people in florida, missouri, illinois and ohio will vote. Before that there are contests this weekend in kansas, kentucky, louisiana, maine and nebraska. A reminder to you, you can open our nbc washington app to see how each virginia county voted. You can also use our compare candidates tool to see where each candidate stands on the issue, search compare candidates. A messy situation were tracking in new york after a train derails. Take a look at the video we got. We have crews working here in the snow to try to contain an ethanol leak now. This is in the town of ripley where people are sheltering in ple. And 18 cars derailed. Thankfully, nobody was hurt. We will get more information on what caused the accident. Eun, back to you. More than a month after the big snowstorm, many of the plow contractors who helped dig the district out are still waiting to get paid. D. C. Officials say its more of a backlog that adds up to as much as 45 million in unpaid invoices. Mayor Muriel Bowser not saying why it took so long to pay them but she did say it shouldnt be much longer. Any invoices that we have are being processed in the normal course. Were about, i think, 30 days today. So i dont anticipate any holdup. District like many jurisdictions rely heavily on private snowplows to clear the roads when it snows. A strong show of support for Prince Georges County in the battle for the future Head Quarters of the fbi. Maryland representative steny this. He said the state has been focused on making green belt the new site. He also said he felt green belt would be a better option. He said prince georges makes sense because of proximity. And a bill that would send parents to jail hosting underage drinking parties is moving forward. Parents could face up to one year for the offense, two years for the second offense. This bill was made after two neens Montgomery County killed last union in the a drinking and drive accident. They had been at a party where a parent allowed alcohol to be served. The boys fathers testified last week in annapolis, that theyre scheduled to hold a version on the bill later this month. Reading is so very important and fun, too. Thats why today were celebrating a great day, march 2nd is read across america day to celebrate dr. Birthday. I had a chance to read for hope for henry which is a wonderful nonprofit at Georgetown University hospital. I read my favorite horton hears a who. Today, dont forget to post your pictures of your favorite dr. Seuss book. You can tweet your favorites nbc washington. Weve been feetitweeting about. Im going out to the d. C. Do you have your hat in the hat ready . Its in the car. Lets check the forecast with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. Hey, chuck. Dont wear it outside, aaron, those big dr. Seuss hats will carry you across the parking lot. Winds could gust up to 50 Miles Per Hour during the conversation of the day. Watch out, everybody, a lot of wind energy to deal with. Right with drops moving out of the Southern Maryland and out of the picture. Winds gusting between 30 and 40 Miles Per Hour. At most reporting stations. Strongest gusts last hour at g hagersto hagerstown, 45 miles an hour. Down to the 50s in fredericksburg and Southern Maryland. Already in the 50s. And below freezing at the sea creek lake. Not much in the change. Well stay in the 40s for the remainder of the morning until lunchtime, then temperatures will trail off. By 5 00 this afternoon, the high already in the rear view mirror, by 5 00, temperatures upper 30s and low 40s with windchills down at or below freezing before the sun even sets today. What about tomorrow because thats the next thing were watching for. Heres tomorrow night at 7 00, cloudy skies. Rain and some snow, shenandoah valley. By 11 00, everyone has a chance for light snowin and around the metro area. By early friday morning, rain sneaking into Southern Maryland. There could be hit and miss rain showers. Cold rain at that. Most of the rain friday will be down south and east of the metro area. So well be keeping a very close eye on that the next couple of days. Snow likely to begin late tomorrow evening. Some rain early into the day. Slushy friday. Temperatures near 40 degrees. Were not expecting a lot of trouble. Then saturday, a little chance for rain snow mix and most of the weekend, melissa mollet, will be dry, albeit chilly warmer weather next week. A report of a tree branch on gw parkway, right now slowing things a bit. Until they get that out of the way, a warning for you if youre head out some time soon. Cooking about other issues, outbound new york avenue and a lane there. Weve had these high Wind Warnings neng this morning. That went just into effect. Southbound bw parkway at 175, had those slowdowns and a crash blocking the ramp to eastbound 175 completely. 270 at montrose, we dont have any issues. A live look at 66. Pray on just a little while longer pray on a memorial for a wife and dedicated mothers who spent her time helping Wounded Service members. Police kay crystal hamiltons husband Ronald Hamilton killed her after she made a Domestic Violence call for help. Police say round hamilton shot and killed ashley guddon and wounded two other office. Family members say crystal loved being a 11yearold son. Her sister shes focusing on her. Shes the splitting image of her. Everything that they did together he constantly talks about. I think thats going to be the toughest thing is trying to get him past all of this. The family says its now planning the funeral for crystal hamilton. The cofounder of aol has died of cancer. Family members say that jim kinsey died at his home in mclean. He was 75 years old. He was famous for that youve got mail greeting. Kinsey arrested aol with steve case and is largely associated with growing aol during the early days of the internet. Getting a cabernet with your latte, which Starbucks Stores co also ahead, no pleasure cruise. The socalled curse cruise ship into the harbor. And tomorrow Team Meteorologist chuck bell has more on the winter blast and how the right now, theres no sign of the Cherry Blossom at the tidal basin, but we are already thinking about this years Cherry Blossom festival. Were going to tell you about the big announcement in the hours ahead in about 15 minutes. Plus, before you can think spring, our storm team is dealing with really cold and windy conditions. Storm Team Meteorologist chuck bell is here with 4 things you know before you head out the door. You have to wait a little bit for the spring thing . We have to wait a little bit for sure. But temperatures flirting with the first 70s since december. But for today, the first thing you need to know, another blast of winter wind. Winds blasting at 40 to 50 miles an hour during date. Another surge of cold air, well be seeing falling temperatures during the day today and below freezing by tomorrow morni night into friday. But a taste of april next week. The wind is blowing the cables around and the cameras are shaking this morning. Winds 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour. Heres a way the day is looking. Mid40s by noon. And 37 by 7 00 p. M. Melissa mollet, it will be a cold one. Breaking news top of the beltway. Brandnew crash, outer loop