Im live at many the forecain t. Maybe a few est of the day will be dry later on this afternoon. That is where were talking about some record High Temperatures. Temperatures closer to 70 in some spots and many record highs for today are in the mid60s. Enjoy it for now. Tomorrow were also going to be unseasonably warm. The normal highs in the mid40s about 20 degrees or more above normal for the area today and tomorrow but were back to reality on thursday. A much colder thursday with a chance of snow coming up well take a look at that for your forecast, but for now lets check the roadways with Melissa Mollet. So chopper 4 headed to the outer loop of van dorn ood right now. U street northwest at 10th street that is that fatal pedestrian crash from overnight. Lanes are blocked because of that accident and investigators are on the scene. We just spoke with police and it should be out of the way within the hour or so. Single tracking on the orange line and blue and silver between armory and addison road. All right. Thank you. Right now an overnight debate continues inside the u. S. Capitol, this over the future of our education system. Democrats are trying to derail the confirmation of betsy devos as education secretary. Angie has been watching this all nighter. Shes at the live desk with what we are hearing on capitol hill right now. Good morning. Yeah, that talkathon continuing as we take a live look. Democrats taking turns morning objecting to president um vee familiar to our area. She doesnt cherish education. She doesnt value it. From my hometown of alexandria, quote, while many of our cabinet picks worry me, none worry me more than betsy devos for secretary of education. And mark warner also taking part in this 24 hour push. This is expected to go up until noon when the senate holds the final vote. Thank you. And democrats are trying to get one more republican to vote against betsy devos. Right now that vote is deadlocked at 50 50 for and against with two republicans joining democrats in opposition to devos last week. That pence will have to vote to break the a decisive vote in confirming a cabinet nominee. In just a matter of hours a federal Appeals Court will hear arguments over President Trumps immigration order. It gets started at 6 00 p. M. Eastern time. Government lawyers will argue the president has the power to decide what noncitizens can come into the country when it is a matter of international security. Opponents will argue President Trump violated the constitution and ignored laws passed by congress. Todays hearing comes after fridays ruling by a federal judge temporarily stopping the executive order. Its led to several reunions at dulles airport. Your time right now is 6 04. Breaking news in the last hour and a half. We found out that a woman was killed in d. C. Overnight. He was hit by a car. This happened at 10th street northwest right off u street. The car that hit the woman stayed on the scene, but they didnt say anything else about how this happened. We w on . All right. Angie is not there right now. Oo gh he was last seen early last night. Call frederic him. One person is in the hospital for smoke inhalation after an Apartment Fire in northwest washington. The fire started last night on connecticut avenue right across from the national zoo. Some people evauated the building while others were told to shelter in place by d. C. Firefighters. Metro hopes to cut down on time you spend waiting for a train by removing the least reliable rail cars. Metro general manager says starting next week the 4,000 series cars will be phased out by the end of the accrime report that tells you jt how safe you are while you ride the system. Justin finch is live at the minnesota avenue station for a break down on the crime stats. Good morning. Reporter good morning. First the not so good news. The minnesota avenue happens to top the list of ten stations with the most reported crimes back in 2016. This finds crime is trending down overall but still in 2016 the agency found violent assaults are on the rise. Same for crimes in parking lots. Trending down though, robberies, burglaries and cell phone and bike thefts. Though across the system metro finds eight of its top ten stations reporting the highest crime counts in 2016 are on the green line. And as Metro Transit Policeve rending riders to be on the when you see suspicious things and also to remain on gourd despite this crime downturn. Thank you, justin. Hundreds of people are going to be out of work as metro tries to cut back on spending. General manager announced the agency is eliminating 200 jobs. The cuts are necessary to close a 300 million budget gap. The agency already cut 500 jobs last year. All right. We want to go back to angie at the live desk with some breaking news in Montgomery County. We continue to follow the search for someone whos missing right now. This is in the great falls area and it has been suspended. Crews have paused it overnigh the operation we know included. Officials saying that the search will likely resume lar this morning but they did not give us a timetable. Back to you. All right. Thank you. 6 0 l rig 6 08 right now. You can now vote for the fairfax special mayoral election. You have until 7 00 tonight to vote at any of the citys six polling locations. This special election replaces former mayor who resigned after he was arrested in a meth for sex Undercover Police bust. Love, lebron, and got it what a shot. Theres lebron doing lebron, the cavaliers sent the wizards into overtime last night with that biel too. He was ju what . This game was really important and they didnt really know how important it was for the cavaliers as well. They are reigning champions but it was a tough battle. Even the nba tweeted it calling it the game of the year. Look at this. This is the reaction. The wizards said good job and we will see you many the plin the. Theyre just playing great basketball. We will see them in the playoffs for sure. A report released overnight, why its considered one of the best places to live. And we are outside bringing you your storm team 4 forecast. Reporter hey, good morning. Im live in college park at the metro stop here and were looking at a chilly thats coming up. Plus, we are onworkoroads ne. 6ur time is once again, this wondrous thing called luck shines on a new day. Where will it shine today . No one knows for sure. Welcome back. We are going to see a warmup, record breaking temperatures perhaps. Sheena parveen thought shed go outside. She wanted to test the air a little bit before the warmup rolls in. How does it feel . Reporter yeah, well, before the warmup its a little bit chilly this morning i will say so before you head out youll want the jacket this morning but you will not want it this afternoon. Were talking about temperatures breaking some record highs today. Around 50 degrees for most of 45 gaithersburg. 49 degrees in the district and 56 quantico this morning. Heres what it looks like today. Early for the morning commute, a chance for a few showers to move in. By noon already around 60 degrees. By 5 00 p. M. , 69 for a High Temperature today. Thats a record High Temperature, so these are unseasonably warm temperatures. Almost 15 to 20 degrees above normal for this time of year. So coming up well talk about how much longer its going to last and chuck will have a check on the radar and also our next snow chance. Lets check the roadways with Melissa Mollet. Good morning. Chopper 4 still on the way to this situation outer loop after van dorn street. What we know right now is that we have two lanes blocked here this morning. U street northwest there at 10th street. Lanes blocked there because of that fatal pedestrianra this should be out of the way remember to listen to just a wild scene playing out in philadelphia. Look at this. Police say a naked man stole a taxi and started speeding through the city. This all started when the cab stopped to drop off a woman. As the woman got out she was attacked by a man who took off his clothes and stole the cab. He crashed into a curb and Good Samaritans rushed to stop him. The man was arrested and the woman who was attacked is expected to be okay. New Surveillance Video may help d. C. Police catch the the second suspect threw an man who police say robbed an alexandria bank. Police released these photos from inside the credit union at potomac yard shopping center. He received cash and then took off. No one was hurt, but if you do spot this man call police. Green belt police want you to watch out for a scammer targeting people at atms. There have been nine victims since november. Heres a picture of the man. Officers say he is approaching Bank Customers at the capital one banks at beltway plaza and the greenway shopping center. Each time he asks unsuspecting customers to cash fraudulent checks on his behalf. If you recognize the mana fire crews are looking for h of trash. It started on thursday and finally extinguished yesterday. Days because there is so much garbage. 6 17 now, the patriots are back home and they are holding a big celebration today. People are probably already lined up for the super bowl dhamp i dont know ship parade. It doesnt begin for another five ours but thats not going to stop anyone. Patriots won in houston with the biggest comeback in super bowl history, but it seemed like there was only one thing Quarterback Tom Brady could think about after this. Wheres my jersey . It went missing and now dan patrick says he is going to help track it down. He said in a statement quote, it is important that history does not record that bradys jersey was stolen in the state. And that is a very valuable historic it. As soon as you try to all quality of life. D. C. Moved four spots from last year to make it to the top five. People said that the district has a strong job market and high quality of life. Austin, texas, took the number one spot followed by denver, colorado, san Jose California was third. Cost of living is pretty high in d. C. That must not be a big part of the equation. They have to take in all the different for sure. Normally we have four seasons. We seem to be missing out on one of them this year. No complaints here. Youve had about ten cold days this entire winter. If youre trying to get outside and enjoy the weather today and tomorrow will be good days to do it. Still a risk of a quick shower or two ut this afternoon mild and dry the week. So its the transition wednesd into thursday that im focusing on here. Heres wednesday afternoon at 4 00. That little ribbon of rain chances there, thats the cold front coming through. It will take a little while behind that though. Rain starts to move in by about 9 00, 10 00 wednesday fight. Its the transition from wednesday night into thursday morning that were watching most carefully. Heres 2 00 a. M. Thursday and this blue, that is a chance for wet snow to move back into the area for the first part of the day on thursday. This is not our forecast. This is computer output of how much snow there might be and this is on grassy areas. The roads are going to be really warm so its going to be tough to accumulate snow or ice on the local roadways but i sure couldnt rule out if some slushy snowfall accumulations thursday morning. Today most o ifth going to be north and west of especially with the breeze around but really not that bad. Wheyo theyre bundled up a little bit but they will not need that this afternoon. Were talking about record High Temperatures. Currently at mostly many the about the mid to low 50s across the area. Some spots in the upper 40s right now. But we beale running 15 to almost 20 degrees above normal for this time of year or i should say 20 to 25 degrees above normal and you can see that with your commute forecast. Lets see when the warmth is going to end. He chance of a shower or two today prweather. Thursday is the big sticky spot in the forecast for rain and snow chances and friday morning after everythings done falling from the sky well be down near 20 degrees so it might be a black ice issue on the roads on friday morning. That will keep Melissa Mollet on her toes. Thats going to be hard for everybody. Thats one of the worst days around for everybody. Chopper 4 over the outer loop here ativan dorn street checking things out. That earlier crash is now gone so chopper 4 is going to move on for us this morning to the outer loop at georgia avenue. Brand new report of a crash many the left lane so theyre going to head that way. U street northwest at 10th street. Lanes blocked because of that fatal crash. This should be out of the way the next 40 minutes or so. They believe theyll wrap things up by farmington road, broken down silver between stadium armory andis back here in ten minutes. Thank you. So do you hate having to figure out what to wear every day . Apparently google wants to help you decide. Coming up how the Search Engine is getting into your closet. First though, home safety can be as simple as a download. Well tell you about the best smart phone as tppo here are three other apps you might want to considersiices into home video cameras using your home wifi. You can open the apps on your main phone to peek back at home. Many thing and presence are Free Services but they charge fees for the extra perks. Group me is free as well but it keeps multiple users in constant context over text and allows for picture sharing. Marathon on capitol hill. Senators were up talking while you were sleeping. An update on the education secretary confirmation battle. Pothole problems. We are roads on your commute and how yoge and chuck will have z29kvz zstz y29kvy ysty z29ksz zstz y29ksy ysty im angie here at the live desk. Democrats fight to deny the president s pick for education secretary. Reporter on pothole patrol for craters that can do a lot of damage to your car. Reporter and im live at the metro stop in college park. A chilly start to the morning but record highs later on today. Ill show you how long that will last. And good morning, everyone. Its 6 30. Im eun yang. And im aaron gilchrist. Melissa monitoring the roads and sheena is live watching conditions outside. First well check in with chuck bell with the four things we need to know how this co today es temperature of the entire year. Every othercoth passing shower mainly north of the city this morning. Wednesday night, rain may very well turn into thursday morning snow. So for today, no more than a passing shower or two early today. Most of the Daylight Hours will be dry and incredibly warm. Temperatures today soaring into the mid and upper 60s i think nearly everyone gets above 64 which is the record. Forecasting 69 in washington today. 71 in fredericksburg. Even our friends and neighbors here mid to upper 60s today. For now it is traffic time. That means Melissa Mollet. So right now take a k. Northwest. U street shut down there at 10th street because of that fatal pedestrian crash earlier today. As you zoom out you can see overall beltway looking okay with the exception of that problem outer loop at georgia. Thats where chopper is headed now. Thank you. It is 6 31 and capitol hill is awake and while you were sleeping senators were making the case against President Trumps pick for education secretary. Theyve been speaking all night long in an attempt to derail betsy devos confirmation. If they convince one more senator to go against her, she will not be confirmed. And today, the Trump Administration is also facing a high stakes showdown over the executive order on immigration. The federal passed by congress. And we could see another da president s executive order is on hold. Several families have been e reunited since fridays ruling temporarily stopping the order. That includes a virginia couple. She left behind to see her mother in qatar. She was on the flight home when the president s order temporarily banning People Holding passports from several muslim majority countries including syria. It really make me afraid and i felt that maybe i will not see my husband again. She has agreed to be a part of the state of virginias lawsuit against the immigration are wog killed on irving street northeast at around 2 00 this morning. When we learn more about this indent well send out an alert on the nbc washington app. About 200 people took to the street to protest the idea of hiring new d. C. Police officers. Today the d. C. Council will vote on an emergency bill to increase the force from 3,700 officers to 4,200. Nearly 64 million from automated Traffic Enforcement fees and fines will pay for those officers to stay on the force for five years. The salaries would be doubled in their final year to keep them from retiring. It is a prep day for teachers at savoy elementary school. Theyre getting their new temporary classrooms at another d. C. School building. Classes will begin for there tomorrow at ferebee hope elearrm told us bite marks on his daughterss wch doctors told him look like bedbugs. We wanted the school to be shut down and checked thoroughly, not just a room in the school check. The whole school. The decision to temporarily close the entire school happened on friday after a parent meeting. School officials hope to reopen savoy elementary by the end of the month. A pilot is lucky to be alive after crashing his plane in prince georges county. Look at the scene there. The pilot says the plane lost power shortly after takeoff at the potomac airfield in Fort Washington yesterday. The plane crashed into a large tree. The pilot managed to call 911 and led rescuers to his location. The 64yearold pilot was not seriously hurt. To your car. Were checking on the roads and why you may see fewer this season. Reporter good morning. Were now on connecticut avenue no nrt west d. C. Where of course weve got potholes, weve got smooth spots, its tricky. I mean, anybody who drives in the city knows hi ddot working around the clock, really around the year to fix these potholes. Were asking you to tweet us your pictures of potholes in your neighborhood. What you have to deal with and 4 pothole fix so we can get that information out so we can fix them right away. They try to get to these potholes within 72 hours of hearing about them. They get about 30 calls a day. Heres what ddot is saying