Lot of rain. Be careful as youre driving. We have quite a bit of steady rain around the beltway. The roads are already wet out there because of rain overnight. Were continuing to see that falling around the beltway and down 95. As you head into d. C. , no matter from what direction youre coming from, the roads are slick out there. Visibility poor at times too. Temperatures mild. You do not need thejgc heavy co today. You dont need the insulated rain coat. But dont forget to grab the umbrella before you leave. Were looking at a pretty rainy day throughout the day today. Your friday commute, by noon today, well see areas of rain around. 5 00 p. M. , a bit of a break and spotty showers but still looking at the wet roads. Well talk about when this will end and when the temperatures will go down to a crashing halt. Well take a look at that coming up. Good morning, melissa. Good morning, sheena. Brand new problem, 95 northbound near garrisonville road. A crash, car vs. Tractortrailer. Delays inbound because of that. A warning for you there. Right now in gaithersburg, 28 at schiffele square road. They fell overnight. Pepco trying to get this out of the way for the morning commute. I know how important that sp for people. In frederick, 355 at the Monocacy River bridge, that repair is complete. Aaron . Melissa, thank you. Its 5 02. Now to the explosive comments out of the white house this morning. Its the top trending topic on twitter and youll hear about it all day. The president is accused of making controversial and derogatory comments during an oval office meeting. This happened while talking about immigrants from african countries and some other nations. A democratic aide confirms the president said why are we having all these people from expletive countries here. He also added, why do we need more haitians. Take them out. Someone responded, because if you do, it will be obvious why. Its not clear who made that comment. This marks eight years since that devastating earthquake. A 7. 0 magnitude earthquake killed hundreds of thousands of haitians and much of that island is still recovering. Chris lawrence was there in the weeks after reporting on that earthquake. Hes going to share his perspective with us coming up. Well check in with tracie potts on capitol hill. Were going to check in with Darcy Spencer outside of the Haitian Embassy this morning with reaction. Darcy, good morning. Reporter good morning. The haitian ambassador calling the president s comments regrettable and based on cliches and stereotypes. The comments are being condemned on both sides of the aisle, republicans and democrats. Virginia senator tim kaine said all he said he said that the president said who ran against trump in the primary. He also took to twitter and said america was built on the backs of immigrants from around the globe. We must honor that history, not reject it. It starts with respectful rhetoric and signing bipartisan daca legislation. We have more reaction from lawmakers in the next hour. Darcy spencer outside the Haitian Embassy. Thank you. The president s comments are getting a lot of coverage on many news networks. Including cnn where don lemon and Anderson Cooper had strong reactions. Cooper gets emotional on the air. Let me be clear tonight, the people of haiti have been through more. Theyve been through more, they withstood more. They fought back against more injustice ever has. I was there when a 5yearold boy was rescued after being buried for more than seven days. Do you know what strength it takes to survive on rainwater buried under concrete . A 5yearold boy buried for seven days. Meanwhile, don lemon opened his show last night calling President Trump a racist. He went on to say that the remarks made by the commander in chief were disgusting. We will continue to follow this developing story on the president s controversial comments. Stay with us for team coverage. You can head to the nbc washington app for more. 5 05 now. Developing this morning, former white house adviser steve bannon is set to testify before the House Intelligence Committee next week. This is part of the investigation into russian meddling in the election. Sources tell nbc news it will happen next tuesday. Bannon ran the Trump Campaign during its final months and then served as the president s top adviser until being fired back in august. Last week the new book firend to a meeting between russians 2016 campaign as treasonness. Days later, bannon left his job at breitbart news. Deadly mudslides in california. Rescue crews are hoping for miracles as they search for survivors. The search is becoming more desperate bit second. At least 17 people have been killed from ages 3 to 89. More than 40 others are still missing and in all,t 65 homes have been destroyed while nearly 450 are damaged. We now know the name of the man killed wednesday night on branch avenue in the temple hills area. Police say shawn sims died at the hospital after his car collided with another vehicle near st. Barnabas road. The woman behind the wheel of the second car was critically injured. After an argument between two High School Students and ended with a stabbing. Prince georges county students worry for their safety now. Megan mcgrath is live at Central High School this morning where the incident took place. Megan, whats the reaction from the school and whats going to happen today . Reporter well, the kids are going to be returning to classes here and were going to keep an eye on things to see if theres any extra security. But some pretty tense moments yesterday after the stabbing occurred. It happened shortly after the students arrived here at Central High School. Two students stabbed. Theyre going to be okay. But they are still recovering from those injuries. A lot of shaken parents and shaken students here at the school. Police have arrested edwin martinez. He is a 19yearold junior here at Central High School. Hes been charged with two counts of attempted murder, assault and a weapons charge. Police say that it all began with an argument yesterday and stabbed two freshmen. The school is on lockdown for a time. Students say that they would like to see more security here on a daily basis. The school doesnt really take proper precaution of what happens in the school and whats being brought into the school. Its a school thing to get it under control. Reporter worried parents came here to the school trying to get information about what happened and about their children. Just making sure that their kids were okay. They did not receive any texts or emails about what was going on. Many are very upset about that. Coming up later in the show, im going to have more on what the School System says about why they didnt send out any emails or text alerts and well hear from parents themselves. Back to you. Megan, thank you. Its 5 08 now. The Prince Georges County school qceo, kevin maxwell, wil appear before the prince georges house delegation in allegations of systemwide grade changing is expected to be the focus there. A state ordered audit of the School System found staff changed grades after quarterly cutoff dates, kept poor records and received little oversight from the school district. The county submitted a plan for improvement to the state board of education. Capitals ten home game Winning Streak Ends with a loss to the panthers. Last nights caps lost 31 to the hurricanes. The loss snapped a fivegame winning streak overall. The caps, though, getting a rematch against the hurricanes tonight in raleigh, north carolina. The caps wont be back in d. C. Until next friday when they take on the montreal canadiens. Just a blip. Theyll continue to roll. Come on. From abuse to adoptable, a dog found near death making huge strides in his recovery. Coming up, well tell you about max and his incredible transformation. Good looking puppy dog there. The daily grade today, b plus. Temperatures will be close to 70 degrees. 67, that would be an average High Temperature for april 15th. Enjoy it everybody. Because january is coming roaring back tomorrow. But the rain coat ready today. A discount for families with a twist. How the new ad is making you prove that youre pregnant to get the deal. 1ur time is 5 mommy youre strong get the deal. 1ur time is 5 aw, you bet i am the egg white grill. So you can bring on the day. Thanks for coming congratulations my first customer the egg white grill. So you can bring on the day. Here at the live desk, were getting new video out of japan where a snowstorm trapped more than 400 people on a train. That snow was so thick, the wheels on the train couldnt turn. It was stuck in place for 15 hours. Now, the cars did have heat and electricity, but only one working bathroom. Apparently, it was too dangerous to evacuate everyone because its dark outside for a lot of that time and the snow on the tracks was that deep. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt. Eun, back to you. Chris, thank you. Its 5 13. The deadly smoke incident at Lenfant Plaza a station. Many of the lawsuits have been dismissed. But the glover family filed azv 50 million lawsuit. The next hearing for that case is scheduled for march. If there is a trial, it could begin late next year. Happening today, a new report on the deadly 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Connecticut state police are breaking down the response by the Newtown Police department. In december of 2012, a gunman killed 20 first grade children and six educators inside that school. The gunman then killed himself. The prosecutors report revealed it took six minutes for a Newtown Police officer to arrive on the scene there and enter the school. Happening today, class will be in session today after burst pipes shut down George Washington middle school in alexandria for three days. The burst pipes soaked an electrical grid and cut off power, water and the fire alarm system. After repairs, the fire marshal has given the school the okay to bring kids back to the building. Very short sch but theyll be full force next week. A puppy near death is now standing on his own in fairfax county. Just over a month ago, police found this dog now named max near wakely court in centreville. He didnt have a collar or a chip. He was emaciated and couldnt even stand up. Animal Protection Officers think that he was kept in a cage most of hi it was hard to deal with. It was hard to look at him around not be able to do anything. It was waiting, waiting to see the medications would work. Waiting to see if he had it in him to fight. Look at max. Hes up and running around. Hes very friendly despite what happened to him. He still has recovery to do before he goes to his forever home. Maxs foster family will have the first opportunity to adopt him. Look at how loving they are. It takes even though hes been traumatized, ha 1 loves people. Thats why dogs are amazing. They dont seem to hold grudges. They have unconditional love. If that was one of us locked in a cage. Dont even look at me. I know. Theyre amazing animals. You know i love the animal stories. He looks fantastic. So happy for max. Theyre resilient. A lot of dogs like the rain too. A lot dont. Your dog likes to go in the sflan. He would be happy if you got to take the dog out before you head out to work, its going to be a quick in and out for many people with their dogs. We have the rain moving through the beltway. This is pretty steady rain. Weve seen it overnight. The roads are already wet. Be very careful driving. The roads are slippery. Visibility is reduced out there. Heres a look at the beltway around the district. The green is showing us where the lighter, also Prince Georges County, through much of maryland really and northern virginia. We have spotty light showers. More rain to our south. Thats pretty much heading straight north. Well see more waves of rain and as we look off to our west. A weather pattern unsettled. If you look a little farther to our west, we have snow and ice here. Theres that colder air. Its waiting to move into our area and there is a small chance we could see that briefly through the area. Mainly far west of the district. Its 60 degrees right now with cloudy skies and the rain. Look at these temperatures around 60 degrees. Its not going to be a cold rainy day. Its going to be a mild, rainy day. 8 00, still scattered showers lunchtime. Spotty showers around through the afternoon. Maybe a bit of a break. Then more showers return tonight. There you see that cold air i showed you. Some of that could try to inch into part of the area. Again, if youre farther north and west, you canxd see that briefly very early tomorrow. Then we clear out and the falling. Heres what your weekend looks like. Early showers on saturday. But highs falling back down into the 30s through the day. Sunday at 29 degrees. Snow chances next week. Closer look at the tenday coming up. Finally friday. Good morning, melissa. Good morning, sheena. We have this one thing we keep b valki about this morning. Its at schiffely square. 270 southbound after 109, crash there on both shoulders. As for the alternates for 28 here. They parallel each other. Garrisonville road, crash on the shoulder. Little volume headed inbound. Lehigh way at clifton road. A warning for you. The beltway looking okay. All of this green, all of the rain falling across the area. You have to deal with that when youre driving this morning. Aaron . Melissa, its 5 19 now. The Consumer Electronics show wraps up today in las vegas. Some companies are trying to convince people that their gadgets are things they will actually need. Special effort there. This selfdriving suitcase can follow you through the airport. But it has lithium battery that you have to take out before you get on the plane. That makes me nervous. You can outsource playing with your cat with this robot for 150. Theres a gadget you can cuddle. The robots makers say you can feel it breathe and it will play lullabies for you. Then theres a smart toy het for 6,000. You can ask alexa to flush the toilet for you. Have we become that lazy . If you dew point reach back and flush that toilet, get this off the screen. Im done with that. 6,000 . Mudslide danger. Have you seen this clip of a car nearly washed away in a flood . Thousands shared it. Now were hearing from the man behind the wheel coming up. First, digging out of debt. 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So customers wont have to bring the actual urinesoaked ads into the store. Its basically a free pregnancy test and a way for ikea to get the word out about their family program. The promotion is not running in the u. S. But you dont have how many people sit around the table and said oh, thats a great idea. And it actually happened . They have kits. You can go to the cvs and buy them. Dont approximateee on the newspaper. Done with that. Were helping you dig yourself out of debt. How about that . In the new year. This time of year, theres a pretty good chance you might hear from a Debt Reduction company wanting it help you. Consumer reporter susan hogan is working for you. What you need to know before you hire somebody to help you reduce your debt. If youre struggling with debt and you cant figure out what to do, be careful not to get tempted with a debt relief company. While some are okay, many of them actually can put you deeper into debt. Heres what to avoid according to the federal trade commission. Any company that charges fees before it settles your debt. You should not have to pay anything up front. Never let a Company Pressure you to make voluntary contributions. Thats another name for fees. Avoid companies that tout a new Government Program that will bail out personal Credit Card Debt and stay away from a company that tells you to stop communicating from your creditors but doesnt explain the serious consequences. Before you sign up with any debt relief company, there are Disclosure Requirements that the company must follow. We have a list for you on our nbc washington app. Just search debt relief. K next at 5 30, her ancestors were slaves on georgetown universitys campus. Now shes a student and she has a few lessons to share. Hear her story just ahead. Good morning am im storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell outside where the rain is coming down in sheets this morning. 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