Absolutely. Looking like a fine day to be outside. A little bit of cloud cover. These clouds are moving on out and that is excellent news. Temperatures upper 40s and low 50s in most of the suburbs. Temperature, how about 71 degrees by 3 00 in the afternoon. Temperatures staying in the upper 60s as late as 7 00 tonight. Suns into the down until 7 30. What to wear . Nothing more than a light jacket. You can leave the umbrella at home for today. A couple more rain chances between now and the weekend. Well talk about that coming up in a few more minutes. For now, lets go over to miss Melissa Mollet and see how things are coming in on the in bound commute. Little slow chopper 4 over in bound 295 at east capitol. Thought something was going on because we have such a slowdown. Not seeing anything right now. Just tried to call police. Not picking up. Try that again and see whats beltway are okay. A little slow. Outer loop as youre approaching connecticut avenue because of an earlier crash. The right slaen blocked by a crash. 14th at otis and north east still have that tree down blocking the roadway there near the monastery. 270 northbound southbound near shady grove road, no problems either way. Travel times in ten minutes. Melissa, thank you. Take a look at the new picture that helped solve a murder in manasses. This person is a person of interest and theyre searching for him and another man in the brutal murder of a man outside of a diner. Surveillance shows the man walking out of a restaurant early monday morning. Two suspects waiting in a white suv followed the victim and shot and stabbed him. The men ran away. Today we hope to learn more yesterdays deadly black hawk Helicopter Crash. Army investigators are going to be combing through that wreckage to get some answers. News 4s justin finch is live this morning. Thats where the training flight left from. Justin, good morning. What are we learning this morning . Eun, good morning. Those who saw that black hawk yesterday say things didnt look right. It was flying below and spinning before crashing. I want to take you now to the aftermath of that crash. This video from Southern Maryland news. Net shows that uh 60 black hawk helicopter left in parts and pieces on the britton Bay Golf Course in winter town, maryland. Close to 140 monday afternoon Army Officials say the aircraft went down. On board we know three people, one was killed. Two others taken to a trauma center. One in critical condition, the other in stable condition. Their names have not released. And news 4 did speak with an eye witness who saw that aircraft go down. We were sitting down on center 40 circle and we watched the helicopter come by sitting very low. My brother made a comment, look how low it is. Oh, my god, its going sideways. It started going backwards and it went down. Reporter Army Officials say that helicopter was engaged in a training flight yesterday. Investigators in from alabama will help determine why and how that crash happened. Back in to you. Justin finch. Justin, thank you. 6 04. Time right now, not unusual to see a black hawk helicopter flying over the area here. They are a big part of the 12th af vee age battalion. Defense Department Staffers tell news 4 that the army flies vips to and from the pentagon in those choppers all of the time. Officials say the Army National guards uh60 fleet oldest in the army. More than half of them started flying 30 years ago. Its still not clear if the Army Aircraft that crashed was one of the older models. Supreme Court Stepping in blocking executions in arkansas. Megan fitzgerald is at the live desk. Good morning. Good morning, un. This came down within the last few hours. The United StatesSupreme Court rejected arkansass request to begin execution. The state was planning on executing these eight inmates in the span of ten days. Two of those executions were set to take place last night. Of course, theyre not happening now. The high court didnt issue an explanation. Arkansass governor asa hutchins said hes disappointed. They called the execution that was scheduled, quote, Assembly Line killing. Back to you. Thank you, megan. You aint got to show me your hands but raise your hands if you incredibly emotional vigil he of a deadly shooting that was videotaped and then posted on facebook. Robert godwin had ten children, even more grandchildren. He was killed on Easter Sunday and now theres a nationwide search for this person, this suspect. D. C. Police say that they received reports that Steve Stephens tried to check into a hotel on massachusetts avenue northwest. Police investigated but those reports were deemed not credible. And some philadelphia schools were put on lockdown yesterday. When police heard stephens was in the area but they didnt find him, he is considered armed and dangerous at this point. Today d. C. s highest court has a big decision to make about your cell phone privacy. Since 2003 d. C. Splis had technology to track criminal phones without a warrant. The sting ray device mimics cell towers. It could let Police Follow innocent people as well. Maryland is they address limits on the devices. A court in maryland ruled a warrant is required. Well, President Trump will travel to wisconsin today where he is set to sign a new executive order. The white house is calling it buy american hire american and it will require federal agencies to buy more goods and services from u. S. Companies and workers. It will also move the h 1 B Visa Program for Foreign Workers away from the current lottery system to ensure the visas go to the most skilled or highest paid applicants. It is 6 07. The city of hiyattsville will become a sanctuary city. They passed an ordinance last night. It prevents Police Officers and be other city workers to provide a persons immigration status. Its a matter of Public Safety that all citizens should be able to trust local Police Officer in elementary school, should have to ponder over whether or not they are safe in their community. President trump has threatened to cut off federal funding to sanctuary cities. For hyattsville that could mean a lots of 20,000 in federal glands. Former president barack obama will make his first public appearan appearance. Hes expected to attend the funeral of dan rooney. We are told president obama is not expected to speak at that event. Well, you probably checked the score when you woke up. You were beside yourself. I just couldnt i thought they were going to win for sure. They looked so good. It was a tough loss for the caps. For sure. Another overtime game, another one. This is three in a row against the maple leafs. Theyre in a hole again. There is still burruss is in toronto. Reporter they enjoyed a lead here monday night, but another overtime loss puts the caps in a familiar position, trailing in a playoff series. Evgeni kuznetsov put away a rebound in the Second Period to give the caps a 31 lead but the leafs take the game to overtime where tyler bozak redirects a pass into the back of the net drawing a win 43. Lead the series 21. Frustrated but not panicked. Forget it and move forward. Obviously were losing the series, but its not over yet. Not everything comes easy. So its not coming easy right now, but at the same time were right there. Three overtime games. Heck of a series. Reporter overtime in every game in this series. One player telling me he doesnt care if it goes to 16 overtimes, they want the were really hoping it doesnt go that long for game 4 on wednesday. A missing cell phone mystery solved and it turned up dozens more in the process. Coming up, the app that helps track down more than 100 stolen phones. Good morning, and it is a little bit of a cool start out there. You can get away with a light jacket this morning. Your commute though is looking really good. More sunshine as we go through the day today. Afternoon temperatures in the low 70s. I think youll like it. This weekend we have some rain in the forecast. Chucks back in just a bit with that weekend weather. Plus, more sunshine should mean more sun screen. Now theres a new push to allow kids to bring it with them in school. The details a whynd n in the middle of a storm destiny struck. Did may imagine april showers bringing her fashionable, flowers at such a sunny price . Never but thats the beauty of a store full of surprises. You never know what youre gonna find, youre gonna love it. Youre watching news 4 today. All right. Were talking about the return of sunshine which makes us happy, chuck bell. Yes, it does. Here comes the sun what a beautiful song. Right . Nothing to worry about. If youre already starting to think about the weekend, i know you are because thats what we all do. Saturday may start dry, but im worried that rain chances may sneak back in on us by 5, 6 00. Sunday im quite concerned. If you have outdoor plans this weekend, i suggest you get it done before lunch on saturday. Sunday could be quite the rainy affair. What about the rest of the work week . Sheena has that part of the work week coming up. Lets go over to Melissa Mollet with issues on 295. I have some backup. We have a disabled vehicle you can see there. Chopper 4 over that. Also east capitol, another issue as well. 29 at feather stone lane, traffic alternating around the taking a look at the beltway, no major problems. Brandywine, suv hit a pole. Travel times, 66 looks okay. So does 95 northbound. Taking a look at 270, no major problems. Top of the beltway, outer loop a little slow. Remember to listen to wtop when you hop in your car today. Eun . Melissa, thank you. 6 15. It has been one year since a mother Fitness Instructor missy beavers was killed and police are still searching for her killer. She was killed when she arrived at a church in texas last april to teach ab Early Morning fitness class. Surveillance video inside Creekside Church caught someone wearing make shift Tactical Gear before she was killed. Police havent offered any theories into why she was killed and so far tips have not paid off. The case will be highlighted on the today show at the top of the hour. Well, today this man will learn how long he will spend in prison for t etan patz. His body has never been found. Only five years ago Pedro Hernandez confessed to the killing. He said he lured the boy into a basement and then attacked him. Although his lawyers say the statements were false, hernandez will be sentenced this afternoon. New details in the investigation into the death of prince. The music icon died last april from a fentanyl overdose. Search warrants released just yesterday revealed that Prescription Medications were found all over his house, often in vitamin bottles. Weve learned several medications were prescribed in the name of princes longtime friend and body guard, kurt johnson. A doctor told police he wrote it in johnsons name to protect princes privacy. 6 16. Check out all of these phones. These wer music and arts festival. Some people who had their phones stolen were able to track down the alleged thieves. Police in the area arrested this man, 36yearold reinaldo hinau with more than 100 stolen phones inside his backpack. This happened after a couple concert goers tracked him down using that find my iphone app and alerted police. However, he was only behind bars for a little bit because he has since posted a 10,000 bail. Cant let your guard down, even when youre partying. Parents and lawmakers in Washington State are pushing to let kids use sun screen in schools. A number of states dont let kids tuesday at School Without a note from a doctor and parent. That includes maryland and virginia. Four states have laws requiring schools to allow students to use sun screen. Its so important to take the precautions now in children. What were doing is against melanoma later on. Well have more on the push for the law coming up. Apply the sun screen before they go to school. Of course. After a few hours they go out to recess. Little kids, they try to get them out as much as possible. When you sweat that comes off, too. Today will be an excellent day to get outdoors. Nice day today. Were going to see more sunshine going through at of noon. Nice today. 60s for a high tomorrow. Thursday, the 80s return on thursday. So were going to go back up again. Then we go into the weekend and were actually watching the rain for your weekend. So well show you that in just a minute, but right now it does look like it could be both days. Were definitely watching that through the week. Currently in the district, 57 degrees. Dulles is at 50. Frederick, 43 now. Mart continuesburg, 43. Winchester, quantico. Clinton is area. If youre walking the dog today, we have the perfect dog for you if you need one to walk, this is peaty. Available at the humane rescue alliance. You can head to the alliance to find more information. 7 00 a. M. , temperatures around the mid 50s. By lunchtime, mid 60s. 7 00 p. M. Will be nice. Near 70 degrees still. If you are Walking Around and your allergies are bothering you, take a look at the pollen. Every day will stay high even as we go into the weekend. Some rain will try to help lower those levels. Locally nice and dry. The clouds will keep trying to move away. Well be seeing increasing sunshine going through the day today. Heres future weather. Dry today. Look at the clouds returning. Tomorrow the clouds will be locked in. We could see sprinkles off to the west. By the afternoon cloudy, cooler, chance of sprinkles. Today 72 with increasing sunshine. Tomorrow different with the clouds locked in and 80. Even friday close to 80. Chance of a few showers and then the rain chances return as we go into saturday. Chuck will have a closer look coming up in a bit. Lets check the roads on this tuesday morning. Good morning, sheena. Southbound 295. That is 2 1 2 mile backup headed in bound. This one, chopper 4 is showing us there at east capitol street. Disabled vehicle on the left side of the roadway. And then on the right side of the roadway. The beltway, as we said, not bad right now. Top of the beltway a little slow outer loop as youre approaching connecticut. 29 at feather stone lane. Traffic alternating around the crash. You can see all the other main routes into town and out of town looking very typical. Nothing else to be worried about. Talking about at this point this morning. Brandy wine street between wisconsin and river, suv hit a pole there. We have a crash there. Reminder on safe track on the green line, surge 14 now underway. College p stations closed until april 29th. 6 21 now. When you take an uber there is no exception or no expectation, rather, for you to tip the driver. Thats because theres no way to do it in the app. Usa today reports that a push is on to change that in new york city. That means it could happen in other cities as well. Ubers competitor lyft already gives customers an option to tip. A lot of people are saying, thats why we like uber. They like that all inclusive package. Very appealing. So with aaron off, its the ladies on the news 4 desk. Now were learning one of the best states for women is right in our area. Not surprising. Maryland, virginia, d. C. . Which one made the top five . Well tell you next. Reporter hate crimes and threats targeting a jewish community. Im plus, carson daly is sitting down with ellen today. He explains how he balances his busy life on today, the voice and last call with carson daly. Tune in at 3 00 and then get all youre watching news 4 today. Heres an exciting record to break. The new Sterling Library is a big hit. The state of the art facility is happening saturday. Highest day ever than at the old building. This new library has expanded hours. I love to see people going to libraries. Maryland fisher men think were on the verge of one of the best blue crab seasons in years. All right. Yummy. The funding may be cut to protect future harvests. President trump wants to slash the epa budget. That includes taking away 73 million allocated to clean up for the chesapeake bay. The administration argues that states not the federal government are responsible for protecting the bay and other water ways. The proposed budget also cuts federal funding for the great lake. Well, it seems that maryland is a good place for women. How about that . Uhhuh. Especially if you care about things like how much you get paid. Care about that. We do, a lot. That state was chosen as the fifth and best state for women according to a new ranking by move hub. The Relocation Company took a look at issues gaps, education, equality, and health insurance. Virginia was at the bottom of the list ranking at 42 out of 50. D. C. Did not get a significant ranking was among the top of the list. Good news for women in our area. Shows the disparity in the region. Its 6 26 now. Dangerous intersection. The changes made to help make your ride to work a little safer. Plus, murder on social media. How a recent attack posted on facebook has a virginia father calling for change. And im storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. If youre planning to be outside today, great idea. Plenty of sunshine coming your way. Plenty of sunshine. There may be more rain chances to worry about. Well talk about that, or at least sheena will. 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