As a trekkie i have a hard time with that. Well look at your day. Melissa mollet will have a look at the roads and Sheena Parveen outside to check on the cooler temperatures. Its chilly. I have my arms crossed. They say dont cross your arms. I say, its chilly out here. I should have brought my jacket. I will say, it is a beautiful start to this thursday. Take a look right now. 55 degrees. Theres a thermometer behind me. I tried to move it. It says mid 50s out here, too. Yeah, its a little bit chilly with an east wind moving into the area. As we go through the day today, your commute will be dry. You will notice changes this afternoon. More clouds moving in. Overcast skies later on today. For your commute we will be dry. Temperatures right around 67 degrees by 5 00 p. M. So another cool afternoon. Thats head of that rain though. Lets take a look for your friday morning. Of a jacket. Good morning, chuck. Jackets today, umbrellas for tomorrow, jackets for the weekend. Live picture outside. Sun just about ready to come up. Sun is up at 6 07. Again, a lot of rain down to our south. This is all going to be lifting in our direction. Clouds filling our skies today. Dry around here as sheena was mentioning. Heres a look at tomorrow mornings commute. 8 00 a. M. Friday morning. Pockets of heavy rain right through the d. C. Metro area. Your friday morning, if you can plan it early now, go ahead and do that. Tomorrow mornings commute could be badly impacted by rain drops. Well talk more about the week end and the cooldown in a few more minutes. Chopper 4 zoomed in five miles because of the no fly zone showing us 295 near benning road. Northbound almost a two mile backup. That is work zone. Recently southbound. One lane northbound is the only thing getting by. Gainesville, quite slow because of an earlier crash. All of that has cleared. Inner loop and outer loop of the beltway very good at this point this morning. 270 southbound out of frederick slow here. Then things open up. Then youre clear all the way down to the spur. Aaron . Melissa, thank you. Working on two developing stories for you this morning. The first, police will update us on the capture of an inmate that escaped in jesup, maryland. This is david watson. He managed to break free after he was transferred to a mental hospital. Last night he was found hiding inside an 18 inch drainage pipe. And we are working to learn the condition of a woman who was apparently set on fire at a motel. This is video of the scene after v. Last night. The motel is on 4th street northeast near gallaudet university. Witnesses say the woman was set on fire by a man in the room at the motel. Were told he ran away but the motel does have security cameras. 6 04. This morning a Montgomery CountySchool Resource officer is being credited with stopping a possible attack. News 4s Megan Mcgrath is live with the details. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Police arent sure whether he had a plan or not but they say 18yearold Mario Alvarado drove on to campus here at Einstein High School in a stolen car. In the trunk was a stolen Assault Rifle with five magazines of ammunition. Now the School Resources officer who was here at the school noticed that something was a little suspicious and when he drove off of campus, that officer pulled the car over and thats when the discovered. We had the s. R. O. There, you know, who potentially could have stopped a tragedy because we dont know what this individuals intention was. Reporter alvarado ran when the car was pulled over. He returned a short time later and was arrested. The car was stolen from a rockville county Maryland Police officer. It was an unmarked car. Megan live from Einstein High School. Thank you. Today adam evans from alexandria will send off 26 cyclists representing the 26 children and teachers lost to gun violence in newtown, connecticut. They make the 300 mile journey on leg one of the fifth annual ride on washington to remember the kids killed at elementary. The video is here. They are leaving at 7 15 this morning. Today on capitol hill congressional members who are also members of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority will denounce this weeks hate crime. Thats what Campus Police are calling it. It was targeted by the incident. On monday someone hung bananas from nooses with the sororitys letters and well have the interview with the first black female School Government president. Its widely believed the hate was a response to her recent election. You may be waking up to breaking news with news about the queens husband. Reporter breaking news this morning from Buckingham Palace. Prince philip will stand down from his royal duties in the fall. Currently 95. Hell be turning 96 next month. When we broadcast we knew there was an emergency meeting. The duke has remained very active and has the full support of the queen. She will continue to carry out a full program of engagement with the support of the royal family. From the live desk im Erika Gonzalez. Thank you, 6 07. House republicans preparing to vote on their plan to replace the Affordable Care act. After weeks of negotiations Republican Leaders are confident they do have the votes to replace it. Well have a look at the changes at 6 30. If you live in the city of alexandria, you may be paying hundreds more in property taxes. It would raise taxes 350 a year. The extra tax money would go to help address years of over systems and the metro. D. C. Playoff teams could use a win right now and the caps have to win to stay alive. Mustwin situation. They battled back against the penguins last night but it wasnt enough. News 4s Sports Reporter cher Sherry Burress shows us what they have to do. Reporter the caps are on the edge of elimination. Washington scored two goals in just over a minute. Snat schmidts slap shot ties the game 22. But pittsburgh Justin Schultz provide the difference. They last 31. They return home knowing their next finish will be the same if we dont change. We have nothing to lose. Play like we are free. Let this game is the most important game of the year and if we dont have the urgency that we need in that game, then we wont earn the right to keep playing. Trotz says he needs his top line player to play like top line players. The caps play at home this saturday and the wizards will be at the Verizon Center tonight. They lost both games to the celtics on the road. Tonights game is at 8 00. Weve been sugar free this week, but news 4s pat collins has been sugar free for two months. Coming up. How hes changed his lifestyle and how you can do it, too. And you might need a light jacket this morning. It is chilly outside. You will definitely notice changes in the air. Many areas in the 40s. Tomorrow morning youll need a heavy umbrella. Chuck and i are back your weekend looks like coming up. Plus, a serious warning from google you need before you check your email. The scam thats sitting in your in box good morning. Its 6 13 on a thursday morning. Getting closer to the weekend with each passing minute sun is now up in our eastern sky. Going to be a nice looking morning. It is chilly though. A lot of the suburbs are in the 40s. You will definitely need to be ready for a bit of a chill. Bus stop temperatures, 46. Outdoor recess today, afternoon highs in the 60s. Kind of breezy as well. Dont forget your long sleeves and jeans. Might even need a light jacket. More about tomorrow and the rainy weekend coming problem on 295. Talking about a two mile backup northbound before benning because of a work zone still hanging around. Southbound quite slow. Beltway overall no major issues. Take a look at your travel time coming up. Melissa, thank you. 6 14. Incredible video out of louisiana. None of the students on this bus was hurt but it must have been a shock to start floating down the street in flood water. When you go to a car auction this is the last thing you expect to happen. Take a look, a car plowing into the crowd and crashing through a wall. Three people were killed, others critically injured. Someone cherokee inside the auction site when a driver lost control and hit a wall. The driver was an employee at the auction site. They dont know what caused the driver to accelerate. News 4 is going sugar free or sugar lighter, if you will, all week long to highlight the impact sugar has on your health. We are just past the halfway mark. Weve been tempted and weve survived that as well. This is what our pat collins has found. Take a look at his impressive results. Im pat collins and this is my lunch. Ill show you whats inside in a minute, but first ive got to tell you, do you know what they call people who go off sugar for just one week . Amateurs. Ive been off it for two months. Ive lost 20 pounds. Were good friends. Let me show you something. This is my belt. This is pat collins now. 20 pounds ive lost, but i didnt do it by myself. I had some help. I want you to meet janet bowman. Shes my conscience of calories. Shes the one who taught me that sugar is the death. What are 4 things you shed never, ever do to stay away . Skip meals because then your blood sugar level will drop and youll be starving. Two, avoid all carbohydrates. Again, your body wont be balanced. Three, never avoid fresh fruits and vegetables. Four, never drink excessive artificially sweetened items. Now for my lunch. 100 calorie bag of protein bar. Less than 4 grams of sugar. I dont think of meat anymore, i think of protein. This is turkey flavored protein. A cheese stick, a really good snack and a big apple. And in my off hours i dont get in the same zip code as beer. No beer. Having crabs without beer is like having Peanut Butter without jelly, but i dont do that anymore either. Pat collins here with us now this morning. Im on Facebook Live. Thats why im holding up my phone. Nice job. 20 pounds . Yeah. I have to give janice a lot of credit. Hard to do this by yourself. She helps you navigate through all of the food traps you find at work, at home, when you go out to eat. Its nice to have someone to talk to you about thisnd website. Im surprised what she said about not avoiding carbs. I thought you were supposed to avoid all the bred and pasta. You have to limit what you can have. Units. You can have one unit of a carb. Maybe you want to have one slice of bread. The point is to not have bread and potatoepotatoes. When you go to a steakhouse, they come out with the big loaf of bread with butter, send it back. Send it back. A couple of things we have been doing hi, emily. Love you. She knows how to make things taste great. Cauliflower. Make cauliflower your friend. Theres a way to make this into rice. I tried that. Make it into something that tastes and looks like mashed potatoes. It really, really is good. Were running out of time. This is pb 2. I love Peanut Butter. I sometimes would take a spoon and dip it into Peanut Butter and lick it. The oil makes it unhealthy. Some genius came out with a way to extract the oil they call it pb 2. Its dry. Two parts of this, one part water, stir it up and its like essence of Peanut Butter. Put it on app apple. Sorry, pat. I have to go have breakfast. Come back. Sheena . Or well tell you you can keep sending us questions that you have about going sugar free. Well be joined by a professor in the department of nutrition and food studies. Send them by commenting on our social media. Now lets check your forekats with Sheena Parveen. Good morning. We love hearing from pat collins. It is chilly. 44 manassas, 55 in the need one we have nelson here. Actually from puerto rico. More clouds this afternoon. By 6 00 p. M. Overcast skies. Still overcast. Heres all the rain heading our way. This will be for early tomorrow morning. Heres future weather. Well watch it move in through the Early Morning hours. Heavy rain in the forecast. Some of that could be around by lunchtime tomorrow, too. We will be tracking that. Weekend will be a lot cooler. Thank you, sheena. Chopper 4 zooming in for us showing us how good the camera is. You can see we have some smoke over the baltimore area. Fire Department Training activity here at bwi airport. Do not be alarmed here this morning. Northbound 295, one right lane getting by. Seeing real delays inner loop and outer loop, no major problems. Travel times, 270 south is fine. Top of the beltway is getting typically slow. 66 in bound and 95 northbound looking pretty much how they normally do. Remember to listen to wtop 103. 5 f. M. When you hop into your car. Email scam impacting g mailboxes worldwide. If youre thinking youre immune, think again. Plus, watching Facebook Live for a living. I just did that. Why more people will soon be monitoring your social media posts. If you have to head out the door before today, you can catch matt lauer. Youll hear why hes not a fan of savannahs choice of music. We like the same youre watching news 4 today. Welcome back, 6 24. New this morning, another racial slur was used at a game between the Boston Red Sox and the baltimore orioles. These incidents could mean changes at every major league stadium. Someone used the n word after the National Anthem on tuesday. This after orioles outfielder adam jones said he was called racist words on monday night. He also said someone threw a bag of peanuts at him. Its now reaching out to all 30 teams to see how they handle fan security. Theyll be at nats park next week. There is a subject line today. It says someone has shared a document on google docs with you. Do not open that. Google says it is a phishing scam. It gives you a bug and it sends the scam along. Im amazed. This was a good one. Whoever did it, id be afraid of them. Now if you click the link, the first thing you should do is change your password. Then go into g maim and g. Mail and revoke access. It has disabled accounts responsible for spasm. Its been nearly three years since Robin Williams has died. Theyll get a chance to see him play one last role. Williams doesnt appear on screen but lends hisam the film hits theaters may 12th. 6 26 is your time right now. Murder at a neighborhood gas station. The reason they believe this was a random attack and what the victim was doing moments before he was shot. Reporter campus hate crime. For the first time were hearing from the young woman targeted on news 4. At the end of the day going through the adversity that i faced in the pat three yeahsrs wewe got the keys ys to our new house ahhh wooo this is exciting weve got our own house yeah im sorry do you like it here maddie . I love you. I love you too. Now on news 4 today, a stolen car and stolen police rifle. An arrest that led to a high school scare. Youve heard about the hate crime on campus. Now hear from the young woman apparently targeted in that crime. A major announcement from Buckingham Palace. A member of the royal family is ready to step out of the public spotlight. News 4 today begins with breaking news. We begin with those new developments announced from Buckingham Palace. Prince philip has decided that he will no longer carry out public engagements after this summer. Prince he is 95 years old. In the past Prince Philip has suffered heart problems but has maintained a vigorous public schedule. The palace did not offer anymore news. It is 6 30 right now. Busy morning around here. Were tracking our next chance for showers. Storm team 4 meteorologist Sheena Parveen and chuck bell have more on the rain that could roll into your weekend. Uhoh. You have your choice. You can be cold or you can be wet. I dont like either one of them, but unfortunately were going to be dealing with a bit of a chill and some rain moving in and that rain will be heavy tomorrow morning. Currently though i think youll need a light jacket before you step outside. Many areas in the mid 40s. 44 manassas, 55 in the district currently. We mostly have the mid 40s. Were in the mid 50s in the district. By lunchtime, more clouds roll in. 64 des. Overcast skies in the afternoon. Highs around 67. Look at all of this rain back to our west. Thats moving in our direction for tomorrow morning. You see it to the west and southwest. Speaking of the commute, we have some slowdowns in d. C. , melissa. Take a look at the slowdowns, sheena. 295 northbound. Just hearing in my ear we have cleared the work zone. We have the delays northbound and southbound here. Inner loop and outer loop of the beltway, no big issues. Looking pretty good right now. 66 and 95. Slow spot in bound. Very typical. 95 in order bound. After the beltway these routes into town and out of town, nice and light. Melissa, thank you. 6 31 now. Heres a look at our top tore stories this morning. Police arrested a Montgomery CountyHigh School Student who apparently brought a gun on campus. Mario alvarado is accused of driving a stolen car to school. A rifle was discovered in the car. Well have more on who discovered the gun and where it came mr. In a life report. A d. V. Family needs you to be on the lookout for this young girl. Her name is dajanay bowens. She was last seen on tuesday. She was wearing a white shirt, multicolored leggings and blue jean jacket. Call police if youve seen her. It will be a tough road to the washington capitals. They lost game four to the Pittsburgh Penguins last night, 32. It continues on saturday. This Morning Police at American University are still searching for the person responsible for an act of hate on their campus. On monday someone hung bananas from nooses representing the Alpha Ka