Her say babe, pretty women wonder where my secret lies. Sam Oprah Winfrey did not miss a beat. Unable to read her script, she started reciting Maya Angelous poetry from memory. First Lady Michelle obama was among those in the audience and she stayed in the dark through the end of the show. At this point, pepco is telling us that there are no other problems in the system. Everything should be back to normal. Reporting live from northwest washington, sam ford, abc 7 news. Alison the show must go on over there, sam. Thank you. Meanwhile, the outage forced the university of maryland to close campus today at 2 00 p. M. Brianne carter continues our Team Coverage live from college park with the latest from there. Brianne, what can you tell us . Brianne within the last five minutes, weve learned that University Officials say most of the power to the north campus has been restored. That includes a number of dorms there on the north campus and in talking to students, many were afraid they wouldnt be able to get back in their dorms because of an electric swipe measure they would need to try to get back in. Taking a look behind me Student Union back here and for hours, people have been sitting outside of the Student Union. Students were swarming the campus, sidewalks and streets in the middle of the day when most of them would be in class after this campus wide power outage. Students tell us they were listening to a lecture, taking a test and the lights just went off. Some students reportedly used their cell phones to light up one of the exams they were taking. During this some students say they were trapped in elevators. We understand in talking to Prince Georges County fire and rescue, officials there say they responded to about half a dozen elevators and they were able to get those students out safely. At this hour, we also understand the university of maryland working with pepco as we mentioned to try to get all of the power back on as quickly as possible. Take a listen to what the students saw in the middle of the day. The professor was giving a lecture with the power point and all of a sudden, the lights went off and she was walking outside talking to other professors trying to see what was going on. She came back in and said well wait it out. After about five minutes, theres no point in waiting. You guys can just go. So came outside. Everybody was outside already. It is lights went out and class resumed. Brianne classes were canceled the campus closed so no evening or afternoon classes for those students. We understand in an email alert that wo students as well there will be limited Dining Services for students between 4 00 and 7 00 this evening as things start to try to get back on line here. Again, just within the last 10 minutes learning that some of that power is coming back on on the north side of campus. Reporting live brianne carter, abc 7 news. Leon trips to some of the areas museums had to be cut short today because of the outages. Guests had to evacuate the buildings once the power went out. Diane cho is live at the air space museum in northwest washington with more of what happened there for us today. Diane . Diane leon there have been lines outside of the museum here this afternoon ever since they reopened to the public obviously, the lines arent so bad right now. Earlier, there was a much larger crowd out here and they started letting people back inside before 3 00 today. There were a lot of disappointing people waiting outside when they started evacuating the museum earlier this afternoon. A lot of people were also walking up to the front of the museum coming from other places wondering what was going on. The air space museum was one of four smithsonian museums evacuated today for the power outage. We talked to one man from philadelphia who said they were only inside for about 30 minutes today before he said the power started blinking and they were being told they needed to evacuate. A little worried, you you always think of the worst. You know, they were kind of you know, keep moving keep moving. You know you always worry the worst. But it was orderly. Diane everything is back up and running again. Power was restored and the spokesperson for the smithsonian said they couldnt let people in right away. They had to make sure their fire and Safety Systems were back up and running before they could let everybody back inside. Back to you in the studio. Alison thank you so much for the latest there. And stay with abc 7 and wjla. Com for any updates on these power outages. We will bring you any new information as soon as we get it. Leon good thing it wasnt too hot or too cold outside. The power would have been really nasty out there. A mix of sunshine and rain around here today. Alison in fact some areas could see thunderstorms later this evening. So our chief meteorologist doug hill is standing by tracking the weather alert for us. Hi, doug. Doug hello there. Thunderstorms this evening will isolated and showers more widespread. Moving towards the washington metro area at a pretty good clip right now. Lets get you started outside of the belfort furniture center. Live doppler shows a line of showers from martinsburg, hagerstown down the i81 corridor and they are moving to the east. Dont see any lightning detected. Dont expect any from this line but a couple of little downpours. One near martinsburg and the one farther south. Well watch that move through the area. Best guesstimate around 5 30 6 00, there will be scattered showers. This is just the beginning of a very protracted period. I want you to look out to the west and the lefthand side of your screen all the weather that you see severe thunderstorm warnings and a Tornado Warning in Southern Indiana right now so all this energy will be mixing up with a cold front coming up from the north rather and a warm front from the south later in the week. Well be stuck in a pattern of clouds the difference tomorrow will be the temperatures. Were in the lower 70s now. Tomorrow and thursday only in the 50s for highs. The periods of rain and drizzle and maybe late friday when the warm front comes up we could get close to 80 degrees by friday and then maybe some rocking and rolling. Some heavier thunderstorms late friday. Busy weather week. For this evening, just scattered showers with isolated thunderstorm. Look ahead to better weekend forecast in a few minutes. Leon . Leon thanks, doug. Something much less uplifting here now. A woodbridge mother charged with child neglect. Police say they found amber gates 3yearold and 4yearold girls living in filthy unhealthy conditions. Northern Virginia Bureau chief Jeff Goldberg is live now with more on the investigation. Jeff . Jeff well leon police were called to this neighborhood here in lakeridge on sunday night, called by a relative of amber who was concerned her two Young Children were home alone at a home in this complex here. That was not the case. When police did arrive on the scene, they were able to gain access to the home only to find horrific Living Conditions inside. Dog and rodent feces everywhere. Holes in the walls, cigarette butts and trash all over the place. Prince William CountyPolice Arrested her charging with two counts of felony child neglect. Her two daughters, 3 and 4 years old were taken to the home of family members where they are staying now and said to be doing ok. Police do not know why she kept the home in such terrible shape. One neighbor tells us shes seen police at the home two times before. Its really sad. I wish you know wish you would know so you could somehow help. Could have been reported earlier or something. Both children seem to be ok. Obviously, the conditions of the home were not satisfactory. Jeff and we did speak with one relative of amber who did not want to reveal his identity. But he said that he is shocked, angry and completely disappointed by this entire situation. Now, she is out of jail on bail. We knocked on the home to try to get a comment. But no one answered. Live in lakeridge, Jeff Goldberg, abc 7 news. Leon thanks. Montgomery county police have released a Surveillance Video of a suspect wanted for a hate crime at a jewish temple. This video shows the person wearing the mask made popular by the movie scream. They say that person painted swastikas in gaithersburg. Montgomery county reporter kevin lewis will have more on this case coming up at 5 00. Alison . Alison in d. C. Police are looking for the person who shot a teenager to death. It happened last night on 37th street and southeast. Police found 16yearold luke holt of northeast suffering from gunshot wounds and he died at the hospital. Police are asking anyone with information in this case to contact them. Leon about 25 minutes ago, fairfax water said a 14inch break along route 1 in alexandria had been fixed but Traffic Congestion in the area does continue. Right now, only one lane of traffic in each direction is open on richmond highway between fryload and highland lane. This morning eight town homes were affected by this break. Residents there were surprised to wake up to find no Running Water and a flooded street. Saw the flashing lights and i opened the window and then i saw like water all over like a flood. Leon Water Service has been restored. That happened before noon. Crews hope to finish repairs and fully reopen the roads later tonight. Alison Loudoun County sheriffs deputies say the death of two people found in an ashburn home appear to be the result of murder suicide. A spokesman said investigators received a call around 9 00 last night from someone in the house on walkfield court. The caller said he had shot someone in that house and was planning to commit suicide. Deputies later entered that home and found a man and woman dead inside. Their names have not been released. Leon an American Health care worker who is being treated for ebola at n. I. H. Is doing better now. N. I. H. Says the patient has improved from fair to good condition. Were told the patient contracted ebola while volunteering in sierra leone and arrived at n. I. H. Rather more than three weeks ago. Alison kentucky senator rand paul is officially running for president now. He announced his bid for the republican nomination. And paul held a Campaign Rally in louisville kentucky. He will then travel to early nominating states with a pitch aimed at the libertarian corners of the g. O. P. The first term senator said that he plans to keep his senate seat while he runs. Well have more details on whats ahead for pauls president ial run coming up in our next halfhour. Leon as for the man hes trying to replace, tall order for president obama now as he begins to sell the Nuclear Agreement with iran just the outlines of an agreement. This being sold to members of congress and the American Public and hes getting heat from the right and left about it. Scott thuman shows us now the president is responding with some sharp words. President obama we are so much better if we have this deal in place than if we dont. Scott president obama quickly firing back at critics who say the deal with iran could endanger the rest of the world like potential president ial candidates rick perry or scott walker who say if elected, theyd immediately revoke it. It would be a foolish approach to take and, you know perhaps mr. Walker after hes taken some time to bone up on it, hell feel the same way. Scott hes working to ease fears of some israeli leaders who worry it will only embolden their enemy. President obama what ill say to the israeli people is youre right to be suspicious of iran. Scott obamas biggest challenge, though Convincing Congress especially over lifting sanction. Even democrats leary of the president s plan. How will they dilute their stockpile from 10,000 to 300 thats not known. How will the sanctions relief that u. S. And other nations provide, how will that be phased . President obama it will be really, really tough. The analogy, its like youve signed a contract to purchase a home. But youve still got the appraisal, the inspector got to make sure that there isnt some kind of environmental disaster on the land. Scott which may mean a series of close votes here on the hill. The president s biggest sell unprecedented inspections, the removal of weapons making material and the ability to slow the process if iran wanted to break the deal and build a bomb. Currently, it might take months. The president believes it could now take a year. On capitol hill scott thuman, abc 7 news. Leon coming up at 4 00 a jury continues to deliberate in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Look at the dozens of charges that jurors have to examine. Alison a move to a fresh start in ferguson missouri. What voters will decide today. Reporter huge demand fuels an expensive need. Im chris papst. Well tell you about the alison jury deliberations are under way in the case of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The jury is weighing 30 criminal counts today. Abcs Marcy Gonzalez has more. Marcy the jury spending today going line by line to the 32 page verdict form. The seven women and five men deciding Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs fate going over each charge and considering the evidence including those videos of the moments leading up to the Boston Marathon bombings showing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev placing a bomb right next to families and then the gruesome heart wrenching aftermath. I know that this trial has been emotional. I have to imagine the deliberations are going to be very very hard for these jurors. Marcy during yesterdays closing arguments along with showing those images prosecutors said the attack was part of tsarnaevs plan to punish america. Defense maintaining that he was a follower influenced by his deceased older brother saying the defendant did play a role and theres no excuse planting bombs at the Boston Marathon was a senseless act. Adding, but if not for tamerlan it wouldnt have happened. Of the 30 charges that tsarnaev faces, 17 carry the possibility of the death penalty. If hes convicted, the same jury will return for the trials sentencing phase. Marcy gonzalez abc news, boston. Leon breaking news just coming in. The bethesda metro station now is temporarily closed because of an escalator outage. Red line trains are bypassing the bethesda station right now. Buses are being made available or riders can go to the Medical Center as an alternate station. Alison . Alison leon voters in ferguson, missouri are heading to the polls today. Three positions are up for grabs following the fallout from that department of justice report. It found evidence of racial bias and profiling in the City Police Department and the court system. The city manager, police chief, judge and two Police Officers all resigned and the court clerk was fired. All right. Lets switch gears now. Get a check on how traffic is looking around here today. Jamie sullivan is here with more. Hi jamie. Jamie good morning. Good morning. Im used to the morning shift. Good afternoon, alison. Lets start with traffic. Its pretty heavy for you right now heading outbound on 66 were seeing a lot of red and yellow. 29 minutes. Just under 30 is what its going to take you to get from the beltway closer to Fairfax County parkway. As we shift gears, i want to zoom in a little bit and talk about traffic lights malfunctioning so weve got this on seventh street northwest at madison drive northwest. A lot of lights in the area are out. You want to keep this in mind and make sure if you see any of these lights that arent working, treat it as a fourway stop. As we move a little closer to bethesda, i want to talk metro so if you do typically get on at the bethesda metro station, it is temporarily closed. Thats because of the escalator outage. Your alternate Medical Center and they have buses as well. Lets take a live look and i want to show you 66 so where i was showing you some of those delays. We had an earlier accident right in this area near the Fairfax County parkway. Thats now gone but i want to take a look at this backup and give you an idea of how slow this traffic is. Again, it does start near the beltway. And this gives you a really good idea of just traffic kind of inching along. So again a slow go for you this afternoon. Not morning. And we do have pretty typical delays as well. Normal stuff on the beltway. Thats a look at traffic. Back to you guys. Leon thanks, jamie. Alison weatherwise, today started out kind of messy and then it was decent and now we have the rain moving in. Doug probably going to get messy again. This is the pattern that we talked about yesterday. It was so beautiful for opening day. And then the clouds rolling in. We have a chance of showers this evening. Tomorrow, tomorrow night, thursday, thursday night, friday afternoon again. So very busy weather week. Lets get started with a look at the armynavy country club in arlington and a little bright spot in the sky you may see. Theres a sun trying to break through but theres a lot of cloudiness and the farther west you go from washington, thats where youll encounter the rain. And theres fair amount of it well be dealing with here. The clouds during the day have been pretty persistent. Every now and then, glimpse of blue sky that you saw there. You may see that for a couple of minutes. Most of us will be watching west of this line of showers. So far, no lightning strikes reported. There are a couple of heavy downpours between strasburg and front royal and a little farther north, thats going to spread eastward during the evening. So there will be showers that will impact the metro area during parts of the rush hour. Probably 5 45 6 00 in that time frame and well have plenty of opportunities for more showers as we work through the next few days. 70 degrees at Reagan National right now. 71 in charles hill. 75 in hagerstown. A little cooler to the west. Well turn cooler the next couple of days but the cooler areas coming from the west or the north, its going to actually come from the east. Its going to come off the atlantic ocean. Temperatures now on the beaches about 60. Whats going to happen is the cold front will come through the area later tonight. As that happens, it will swing the winds off the ocean and bring in the cooler air. Instead of 70s tomorrow and again on thursday, well be in the 50s. For this evening, youll see the temperatures slowly drop into the 50s. Well have more periods of showers through the overnight hours as well. Well see more showers at times tomorrow afternoon. A little broader look at radar shows theres no shortage to areas of showers developing to the west. Again, as we get through late tonight and tomorrow thats when we see the cold front come south and that will bring more showers and that will be the mechanism here by early tomorrow morning to turn the winds off the ocean. So it will be chilly and cloudy and drab with periods of showers and drizzle. That will be the story until we hit friday. By friday this whole front will come back as a warm front and by friday afternoon, we could approach 80 degrees with partly sunny skies but then a strong cold front could produce pretty widespread showers and thunderstorms. So pretty dramatic changes. 50s next two days. Near 80 friday and if things work out the weekend may be just fine with partly to mostly sunny skies and highs in the upper 60s to about 70 degrees on saturday and sunday and that trend continuing into monday as well. Alison looks like a lovely weekend. Doug at least no more snowflakes and temperatures in the 30s. Theyre gone. Alison you know it. Doug theyre gone alison thanks doug. Coming up here on abc 7 news at 4 00, a mother is in jail charged with a disturbing crime. What her neighbors are saying about accusations she gave her baby cocaine. Alison students faculty and staff protested at galluadete university this afternoon. Their message stop all forms of Sexual Misconduct on campus. Leon Stephen Tschida was there at the rally and live now with more from northeast. Tell us about it. Stephen well leon first of all, the university has the worst record on reported sexual offense of all schools in the country per capita. This is according to some analysis done by the Washington Post and it found there were 11 reports of sexual offense for every 1 is 1,000 students back in 2012. Today, hundreds of people donned these teal tshirts and held this rally. They paraded around the campus to denounce sexual offense and bring attention to the problem and call for a remedy to this situation. Now, we talked with some students and faculty as to why gallaudet would top this dubious list. Mber of proposals. Some are trying to put the most positive spin on this that they can. Being on the top of the list teaches us that we have the courage to report here and we do. Stephen obviously, theres the voice of an interpreter there for the students here. Again, gallaudet is the premier institution, university for the deaf and hard of hearing in the world. It is at the forefront. So obviously, this distinction, this problem is something that the faculty, the students really want to deal with. Reporting live Stephen Tschida abc 7 news. Leon thanks steven. Rutgers University Says its banning all fraternity and Sorority House parties for the rest of the Spring Semester after several alcoholrelated incidents on that campus. This ban applies to all of rutgers 86 fraternities and sororities. Groups will be permitted to hold their end of the year formals at off campus facilities where Third Party Vendors serve alcohol. Still ahead here at 4 00 a trip to d. C. That oprah wont soon forget much the latest on the power outage that left parts of the district and maryland and oprah in the dark. I knew that god could get us through that. I didnt think it was too big for god. Alison a story of faith. Hear from the wife who refused to take her husband off life support even when the doctors advise her to do so. Leon lets continue now with coverage of the top story this evening. Power outages around d. C. And maryland. Pepco says shortly before 1 00 this afternoon, a transmission conductor in Charles County fell to the ground resulting in a loss of power supplied to a couple of stations. The u. S. Capitol, the state department and several museums in d. C. Lost power along with the university of maryland. But since then, power has been restored to some of those buildings. Crews are now working to restore power to those who are still in the dark. And weve got several of our crews following this story around the region. Look for updates tonight at and on line at wjla. Com. Alison thats oprah standing there in the dark helping with the presentation here in d. C. One shell never forget. Lets get to the weather today. Some of us could see rain and storms later tonight. Leon lets get the latest on that. Doug hill tracking it for us. Doug lets check live super Doppler Radar, no thunder right now. We got our convenient lightning detector in the righthand corner of the screen. Clearly, good downpours between strasburg and front royal. Theyll move eastward through marshall and through loudoun. I know my counties well faquier county and then when you go farther north, just isolated downpours. There will be rain coming across the entire metro area probably before 6 00 this evening. So it will have an impact on parts of the area. Lots of batches of precipitation today. Same tomorrow, same thursday and then friday, i think, is the best chance for more widespread heavy rain and possibly thunderstorms. Thats the story. If you want to know the details, temperatures go from the 70s today and 50s. Might hold in the 50s the next couple of days and then close to 80 degrees on friday. Cloudy, cool isolated showers as winds turn to the northeast near 50 degrees and areas of light rain and drizzle. And break out close to 80. And check out the weekend for you you. Leon rand paul is joining the race for the white house in 2016 officially. He made the announcement today. Joe webb has more. Reporter more than 1,000 supporters warmed up for 90 minutes for music by jimi hendrix, metallica and bruno mars gave rand paul a rock stars welcome in louisville this afternoon. And spoke for 26 minutes before he said what they all came to hear. Today, i announce with gods help, with the help of liberty lovers everywhere that i am putting myself forward as a candidate for president of the United States of america. Reporter he swept into the United States senate in 2010 largely as a tea party candidate, rand paul repeated many familiar themes to the friendly crowd calling for a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. Term limits for congressmen. And a stop to warrantless searches of personal information. I say that your phone records are yours i say that the phone records of lawabiding citizens are none of their damn Business Reporter many familiar themes but a lot of talk that sounded like campaigning. Senator paul called for moves to get more people in the tent. A Defense Strategy where peace is the goal and repeated calls for inclusion of all people in pursuit of the american dream. Any law that roportionate ly is against people of color is repealed. Reporter senator paul called for a stop of what he calls overseas nation building and vowed no more money for haters of america. He described his candidacy as a fight to take our country back. Senator paul is hitting the campaign trail running he will be in the key primary and caucus states of new hampshire, South Carolina and iowa before the end of the week. In louisville kentucky, im joe webb reporting. Alison a trash bag filled with bathroom supplies caused a huge headache for commuters this morning. Someone reported a suspicious package at the dorothy mark train station in howard county. This is just before 6 00 a. M. Or 6 30 a. M. Rather that station was evacuated and diverted. It caused delays on route 100 and an investigation found the package was not dangerous. Leon marylandry hogan is planning an Economic Development trip to asia. He plans to visit south korea, china and japan at the end of may or early june. He says there are a number of initiatives that maryland is looking at to stimulate Economic Investment and job creation in the state. One of them is the possibility of getting Asiana Airlines and korean air to bring flights to b. W. I. Airport. Alison walmart is hiring for its new store opening this summer in south riding virginia. The company has about 300 full and parttime positions available there. A temporary hiring center is now open at route 50 in chantilly. You can submit applications at careers. Walmart. Com. Still to come at 4 00 neighbors are reacting to news that a mother has been charged with giving her baby cocaine . Why they say this is just the latest disturbing crime in the same area. Leon if you still havent filed your taxes, there are some new rules that youll need to know about. Take a look at the changes from the i. R. S. When abc 7 leon a disturbing case in lancaster, pennsylvania. A mother there is charged with giving her 6monthold baby cocaine. Alison Kristina Butler spoke with neighbors dealing with this fact that this isnt the first shocking crime targeting a young child right on their block. Reporter this is tonya madden the 24yearold mother accused of intentionally giving her 6monthold baby cocaine. Why would you do Something Like that . Thats disgusting. Reporter neighbors in the 100 block of north plum street have a hard time understanding how a mother could do Something Like this. Thats ridiculous. That amazes me. A 6monthold. Thats really sad. I mean especially like just being in my neighborhood, i feel like its really disappointing seeing that kind of stuff happen in the city. Reporter madden was arrested last week after Lancaster Police determined a baby couldnt have accidentally gotten cocaine in his system back in march. The boy has been with foster care since. I dont think she should be given another chance. Reporter madden and the baby live in the same building where a toddler was killed in january. Police say shandrea dixon beat her almost 2monthold to death her and wrapped her body in a deflated matted res and put her in the trash. The body has never been found. Its sad to see it every day. They still have all the balloons and everything out from the first baby so yeah, it is just really sad. I work here too, so i feel like its my community and its really disappointing. Alison were told madden faces aggravated assault and other charges. Baby has shown significant improvements but will continue to be monitored. Leon up next on abc 7 news at 4 00 rescuers say its a miracle one young boy is alive. Alison every year the i. R. S. Tweaks the rules to determine how much income tax were going to pay. For the 2014 tax year its no different. Rebecca jarvis explains whats new to your tax forms this year. Rebecca the big kahuna by far is the Affordable Care act. People who dont have coverage will be paying penalties. People who received coverage through the exchange and a credit are going to have to reconcile the credit they received and people who had coverage through an employer or individualally are going to check a box. Rebecca for high income earners, those lucky to make 250,000 plus tough love. A top tax rate kicking in more for medicare, more limitations on itemized deductions like mortgage interest and charitable contributions and curbs to the exemption credit. The amount that the i. R. S. Lets everyone take. For most americans, theres good news when it comes to the personal exemption. Its up 100 this year to 3,950. Students and teachers could get a break. The American Opportunity tax credit continues up to a 2500 credit per student for qualified Higher Education expenses. And educators can claim up to a 250 above the line deduction for items they purchased for their classrooms. Some Energy Credits are still available. At least through 2016 certain solar, wind and geothermal products will qualify. And medical deductions are once again limited to 10 of your adjusted gross income. But if youre 65 or older, you can stick with a 7 1 2 threshold through at least next year. Rebecca jarvis abc news, new york. Leon the actor best known for his role as sheriff roscoe coltrain on the ducks of dukes of hazzard has passed away from complications of pneumonia, were told. He starred on the series that ran from 1979 to 1985. Alison a georgia man made an amazing recovery thanks to his wife who refused to take him off life support. Matt and Danielle Davis were only married seven months ago when a devastating motorcycle crash left him on life support and in a coma. Despite the doctors advice, danielle refused to pull the plug and instead, she took him home and took care of him. Then one day, weeks later, he woke up. I knew god could get us through that. They take it for granted. Alison matt didnt remember the last three years of his life or that he was even married to danielle. But now hes doing yoga. He drives a stick shift. And hes spending time getting to know his wife once again. Leon wow. Alison thats an amazing story. Leon thats phenomenal. Thats phenomenal. All right. Rescuers say in this case its a miracle that this young man survived. Alison speaking of phenomenal listen to this story. A young boy with autism lost in the australian woods for days finally safe at home. 11yearold Luke Shambrook wandered off from his parents campsite and he was spotted by a helicopter pilot four days later. Rescuers slid down embankments to come to his aid while volunteers used chain saws to clear a path for a stretcher. Weve been overwhelmed by the response and were very thankful that we laifive in a society that puts a lot of effort to finding children who are missing. Alison rescuers say the boy survived rainy and cold elements and was found in the dense forest with nothing to eat or drink. Leon thats a tough kid. Good luck to him. New perk for starbucks employees. Company is offering a chance for a four year degree for free. Coffee chain announced its expanding its Tuition Program that will pay full tuition towards a bachelors degree through Arizona State universitys online program. Employees will have access to 49 online degree programs including nursing to Software Engineering and theres no strings attached. Companies are in business not only to make a profit but to take care of our people and serve our community. Thats what this is about. Leon this program is open to any starbucks employee with a High School Diploma who works 20 hours a week. It plans to send 25,000 employees to college over the next decade. Alison we want to remind you now that sugarland star Kristian Bush is promoting a solo project and giving fans the chance to win a v. I. P. Experience with him at a concert in atlanta. Youll also get to spend a day with him in his studio. If youd like to enter, all you have to do is go to wjla. Com contes wjla. Com contest and you have until april 12th to enter. Good luck. Leon see how the weather will hang out. Doug showers will move in and well have plenty of chances of rain over the next few days. Thats the story. If all works out all right, the weekend will work out fine. Lets get you started and take a look. This is st. Johns Regional Catholic School in Frederick County in frederick, maryland. You can see by the clouds there rain getting very close to that region. 68 degrees currently and Doppler Radar shows the rain advancing from west to east coming out of the mountains and right now across the blue ridge getting into western Frederick County. There are a few heavier downpours down there. Zoom in on those and show you the downpours again. The red colors show its very heavy rain brief but heavy. No lightning and Thunder Associated with these systems as they continue to spread from west to east. 5 30 5 45 to 6 00 the general time frame. 75 in frederick and 73 degrees in manassas right now. And weve got a weather pattern here thats going to turn a little bit cooler on us. This is what we expect the maps to look like tomorrow morning. A cold front will have passed just to our south and put on the brakes and hold stationary. That changes everything. Instead of having warm sotherly winds, we get chilly winds out of the east and northeast out of the atlantic. Meanwhile, well continue the pattern here through the day tomorrow and the front goes farther to the south bringing in more cooler air. Eventually its going to turn around because this front will lift backward as the warm front but the warm part of it will be very wide and its been well to the west. So its going to take probably thursday night before the winds go back to the south. So it will probably be warmer thursday night than it will be thursday afternoon. And then friday we break into much warmer air. We could be in the upper 70s to near 80 with some sunshine and this cold front late friday afternoon will come head long into the warm air and boom, thunderstorms a good bet here late friday. For tomorrow, kind of drab and dreary. Only in the low to mid 50s for highs with periods of rain. Not heavy rain. Not raining all day at all. Some patches of rain. Youll see the cooler temperatures and then the big surge in temperatures on friday and noticeable increase chance of showers and thunderstorms with a cold front late in the day and saturday and sunday look just fine. Upper 60s to near 70 with sunshine. More sunshine autoon monday and 30 channels of showers on tuesday because we wanted to. No, theres a chance of rain. Alison just for fun. All right. Thank you very much. Doug all right. Leon how about if we look ahead to the next hour . Coming up next hour here on abc 7 news at 5 00 motion from the defense. Find out what charles severances lawyers are asking for before hes back in court at the end of the month. Alison and the white house says changes in the climate are taking a toll on your health. Find out what the administration plans to do about it. Thats tonight at 5 00. But first, lets get a check on our traffic situation. Jamie sullivan is back with details. Jamie we have some slowing, alison. I want to start off with giving you an idea of what it looks like the American Legion bridge. This is slow. This is on the inner loop and outer loop. Get ready for this congestion. It is normal. Nothing out of the ordinary for you out here on the beltway. I want to show you what youre averaging working your way from mclean a little bit closer crossing the bridge. 17 miles per hour. Lot of red that we really are seeing. As we move to bethesda i want to talk about whats going on with the bethesda metro station. It is temporarily closed right now. That is because of an escalator issue. And it is Medical Center thats the best alternate for you. Buses are also in that area too. So want to plan ahead because youll need a little bit of extra time. Traffic lights malfunctioning in the d. C. Area. Seventh street northwest right at madison drive northwest. In this area weve got a lot of other traffic lights that are out. So just make sure to treat it as a fourway stop. As we move to take a look near good luck road congestion as well. Were still sticking to the beltway where i show you a lot of this congestion this afternoon. Just want to get ready for these delays. Again, we had a couple of earlier accidents. Theyve mostly cleared out so our interstates we are accident free. Thats just normal slowing. Thats a look at traffic. Back to you. Leon all right. Up next at 4 00 a weekend of highs and lows for a local robotics team. More on the search for the person who stole the teams trophy and their robot. Leon dont be surprised if you hear some loud aircraft noises overnight. The north American AerospaceDefense Command or norad plans to fly aircraft as part of nighttime exercises here in the region. Theyre set to start at midnight and go until 2 00 a. M. On wednesday as well. However, if the weather is bad overnight, the exercise will be postponed. Alison a safe driving message has kicked off in virginia much the arrive Alive Campaign focuses on the increased risk of teen driver crashes. They usually occur during the warm weather months ahead of us. Also including prom and graduation season. The campaign is sponsored by the Virginia State police and the group called youth of virginia speak out. Virginia High School Team top honors at a robotics competition. Even the prized robot that won it didnt make it back. Alison someone stole their s. U. V. On the way home. Heres more on the brazen theft. John this robot created by High School Students will eventually be able to pick up containers with arms and move around on its own but its a work in progress. This is why. Last week the robotic team in Loudoun County won some top honors at a competition in knoxville, tennessee, but their highs quickly turned to lows. Their s. U. V. The next morning with their trophies computers and their actual robot were all stolen from their hotel. The team known as robo loco has earned a spot in the National Championships in st. Louis in just two weeks. They must raise now 1,500 and build an entirely new robot. They have already started and today, virginia senator tim kaine met with the team and got a firsthand look at the new robot in training. They kept winning and winning and win the finals and went on a wild card and the next morning wed wake up and we lost everything. What a horrible thing. Yet if i know these guys and ill talk to them, my sense is theyre disappointed but also resilient and trying to figure out what the plan b is and thats a lot of life. John as for that white chevy stolen with virginia tags in tennessee, still no trace police out there say but the students here say they are very confident they will get this robot ready to go for finals in two weeks. In Loudoun County john gonzalez, abc 7 news. Leon we have breaking news and a tragic discovery in Princess Anne maryland. There are new details available now on a family of eight found dead of Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Horace holmes has been working on this story. Horace we just received a statement from Delmarva Power. The company said it did not cut off power to the home of rodney todd. Todd, his two young sons and five daughters were found dead inside their house yesterday. The state medical examiner has ruled the cause of death for all eight now, just learning this to be accidental Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Delmarva power says todd was behind on his utility bills and they had discovered an electric meter illegally connected to the house where the family had been living since november. Power company says it disconnected that meter for safety reasons on march 25th. And todd had been using a generator to power his home. The family was last seen alive on the 28th. Now, Delmarva Power says it is deeply saddened by this tragedy and urges all of its customers to contact them if they have any problems with their power. Im Horace Holmes reporting live in the newsroom abc 7 news. Now, abc 7 news at 5 00 starts right now. Leon widespread power outages. Power is out at the entire state department. Everything blinked off. Phones, everything went off. Leon the white house, the u. S. Capitol and metro some of the many areas affected. So what caused all the problems . Feel violated. You dont feel safe. You feel alone. Leon a masked man on Surveillance Video the prime suspect in a troubling case of vandalism. The hate symbols hes suspected of leaving behind and big plans for local Animal Shelter raising eyebrows. The hefty price tag that has people wondering how much is too much . Alison powerless. People streamed out of buildings, metro escalators ground to a halt when the power went out in a large part of the district and the maryland suburbs today. Leon places like the white house, the capital and the university of marylands campus all lost power after an explosion at the riceville switching station in Charles County, maryland. Sam ford kicks off our coverage live from pepco in northwest. Sam . Sam leon alison a combination of a drop in voltage and Power Systems that are designed to react to such events left people in the dark throughout the area and you particularly notice it when youre in a place like the warner theater. To stand as her daughter. Sam oprah was on stage at the warner theater where they unveiled a stamp in memory of poet maya angelou. The first lady was in the audience when the main lights went off and tripped to low power backup. The same thing happened in buildings across the area. It started because of a transformer explosion and fire at a pepco substation in southern Charles County, maryland. Pepco says that caused a voltage across the area to dip and in certain buildings