Alert this morning. Their car windows had been smashed and their vehicle tags personal possessions and even their tires stolen. All while they were dropping their children off. John gonzalez talked to parents today. Imagine heading into work or dropping your child off at daycare and minutes after parking your car, this happens. Well, thats exactly whats been happening to employees of this Community Building on Martin Luther king jr. Avenue in southeast d. C. Stole my tire and my lug nuts, got into my trunk. The wheel and tire taken off ivan lanys car and while parents drop off their children at the daycare downstairs a process that takes what two or three minutes, their cars are broken into and ransacked. It seems individuals know the people that work here and they Work Schedules and their timing and theyre casing cars. This mother has watched the apparent thieves in action. One morning, i parked right there and they were standing right here and trying to open the door. At the time when the parents are dropping off their children in the morning, you can see theres a long line of traffic here on morris headed to Martin Luther king avenue but one parent tells us that the guys who hang out here in front of the school actually wait for that light to turn green so traffic is moving and, perhaps, no one is watching. The parent would go there and saw young man breaking into her car and she ran out. And they ran. In one case, temporary tags were ripped off the car and in another, a diaper bag was snatched from inside the vehicle. Come outside and your window is broken. Thats almost 300. Parents and staff have reached out to police. No one has seen stepped up patrols in the area. Not sure this is what those victims want to hear. In the last five minutes we got this response from d. C. Police. A theft from an auto is strictly a crime of opportunity that can be prevented if you take away the opportunity. The big melt continues today with more beautiful weather in store. A lot of people already taking advantage this noon. This is video from the tidal basin there at the foot of the monument. You can see lots of people out there. After months of bitter cold we are finally getting a break. Chief meteorologist doug hill is here with a look at our first forecast, doug . Still patches of ice in the potomac river. That will break up over the next several days. 54. Good news right now winds are calm and were in good shape weatherwise for this day but the sunshine wont last for long. Temperatures in the 50s. Still a couple of 40s in the Higher Elevations and the warmer temperatures well to the southwest. Charlottesville, 59 and we may find many areas close to the d. C. Metro area close to 60 degrees later this afternoon and a lot of melting. As we get to the late night hours, well above freezing. Youll hear the dripdrip from the rooftops continue through the overnight hours as well. Sun will shine through for the afternoon hours but were watching the area of moisture developing a little farther to the south and west. This area of low pressure pulling moisture from the gulf of mexico through texas. Whole pattern is pushing in our direction. Rain developing around midday tomorrow. If we get around an inch and thats a possibility, then we could have some standing water from the snow melt combined with an inch of rain to be some flood potential here and there. A lot to discuss. At least the temperatures will stay above average for sometime to come. Thats the latest jummy and autria, back to you. Police are investigating a deadly crash in Montgomery County this morning. Darnes town road is shut down right now. A woman was killed and several other people were injured after three vehicles crashed just before 8 00 this morning. One of the vehicles overturned. No word yet on what caused the crash but Montgomery County police do say they responded to several reports of icy roads. To a developing story now. Police are still trying to figure out what caused the crash that killed a Prince Georges County Police Officer over the weekend. Officer Brennan Robain was only 26 years old. Police say he lost control and crashed into a fence early saturday morning. Suzanne kennedy takes a look at the new evidence being examined by investigators. The Prince Georges County Police Department is in mourning on this monday as they search for more clues into a fatal accident that took the life of a Police Officer very early saturday morning. Outside Police Headquarters a bl bunting is hanging in honor of the officer. He was traveling on route 193 at what appeared to be normal speed when the accident took place. Authorities are releasing a videotape, though, acquired through a traffic camera. It shows the moments leading up to this accident and Authorities Say they are searching for eyewitnesses. What were showing the video for is trying to get Community Assistance and locating witnesses or people that know people that have witnessed the accident. Either in a bus or the minivan. Authorities have been able to talk to several eyewitnesses including the officers girlfriend who was in the vehicle at the time of the crash. That is permissible by department standards. There is no date set for this officers funeral and he leaves behind a 3yearold little girl. A go fund me site has been set up. 10,000 have been raised already. Suzanne kennedy, abc 7 news. A search is under way right now for a group of people who tried to attack a d. C. Police officer. The officer tried to make a stop along clifton street northwest. As he exited his car a woman tried to restart her dirt bike. Police say a group of people on a. T. V. S and dirt bikes surrounded his cruiser and started kicking it. Some of them drove towards him at a high rate of speed. He got back into his car and drove away unharmed. A new report out by the Childrens Law Center and d. C. Lawyers for youth is expected to highlight a big problem in d. C. Schools. The Washington Post reports the chronic truancy rates are now above 50 in d. C. High schools. In fact 56 were considered chronically truant with 10 or more unexcused absences during the last school year. A Northern Virginia youth hockey coach charged with possession of child pornography has a pre preliminary hearing today. He approached youth hockey players on line pretending to be a 13yearold girl. He was caught in a sting operation when he allegedly sent an undercover officer child porn. A judge denied bond for suspected serial shooter hong young. Young faces several charges including attempted firstdegree murder. Police say he is connected to at least five recent shootings including one on the i. C. C. In Prince Georges County. And at a building near the National Security agency at fort meade. At a Court Hearing today, the judge said young had a passport and bag ready as if he was prepared to flee. Prosecutors rallied in Norman Oklahoma today. The outrage surrounds a university of Oklahoma Fraternity after video allegedly shows its members using a racist chant. That video was posted on line. The fraternity shut down overnight and has karen traverse reports, the university promises to take action. Students and staff gathered on the university of oklahoma campus before dawn in a peaceful protest. 20 years, i have not seen anything that has so deeply troubled me as this. The University President is referring to this shocking video. Appearing to show members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chanting a racial slur and saying that africanamericans would never be admitted into their fraternity. The video was reportedly shot this saturday and posted on you tube by an Organization Called unheard. An alliance of africanamerican students. Its unclear how it was obtained. Overnight, the National Chapter of s. A. E. Shut down the Oklahoma Chapter saying in a statement we apologize for the unacceptable and racist behavior of the individuals in the video and we are disgusted that any member would act in such a way. I think the strongest thing we can do right now is express our basic values condemn what has happened in the strongest possible terms. Vandals struck the fraternity on sunday after the video went viral and quickly spread across the campus community. Were deeply outraged and disturbed by the incidents that took place. Others say they dont want this incident to represent their school. Learn from it. Grow from it. And build as a community and unify. Oklahomas president says all ties between the university and s. A. E. Have been severed. And the fraternity has until midnight to vacate its house. Reporting from northwest, karen traverse, abc 7 news. Checking news from around the world now. New military operations are under way right now to fight boko haram. A general from chad confirms troops from his country and niger are opening up a second front in northeast nigeria to fight the islamic extremists. Officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency and iran are holding Nuclear Talks in tehran today. Iranian state television is reporting that the government is again willing to give International Nuclear inspectors access to a site where high explosives may have taken place. The site is about 300 miles west of tehran near irans border with iraq. Testimony resumed today in the Boston Marathon bombing trial. Dzhokhar tsarnaev on trial for the bombings which left three people dead and more than 260 injured. More than two dozen witnesses took the stand during the first two days of testimony last week. Tsarnaev could face the Death Penalty if hes convicted. Starting today, hundreds of thousands of federal workers will receive courtapproved notices alerting them they can join a lawsuit over those 2013 federal government shutdowns. The lawsuit claims by requiring certai employees to work for more than two weeks without pay, the government violated the fair labor standards act. A judge agreed the government did violate the law but still has to decide if workers are entitled to statutory liquidated damages. Workers are only eligible to receive damages if they join the case. Coming up on abc 7 news at noon anger and frustration after another Police Shooting of an unarmed black teen. Therotests being sparked today and what weve learned about the teen and the officer. A scandal surrounding the worlds biggest dog show after the sudden death of one of the prize winning dogs. Why foul play is suspected. Plus finding higher paying jobs. The new program being pushed by the president. And grab that umbrella. The warmer temperatures also bringing some rain with them. Doug is timing it all out next. The week long march commemorating the 50th anniversary of the bloody sunday demonstration is under way. Its retracing the steps the protesters took in 1965 starting in selma, alabama. It will culminate with a rally at alabamas capital on friday. The event marked a huge step in American Civil Rights sparking Voting Rights acts that allowed africanamericans the right to vote. In the meantime tensions continue in madison, wisconsin today after the shooting of an unarmed black 19yearold by a veteran white Police Officer. Students walked out of school today in protest. And abcs Marcy Gonzalez has more on the effort to try to keep things peaceful. Today, more protests in madison, wisconsin. Outrage still simmering after unarmed 19yearold Tony Robinson was shot and killed by a Police Officer. See the things happening first in new york and youre like what if we lived in that place . Now we do. We do live in a place like that. Police say around 6 30 friday evening, complaints started coming in about a man matching robinsons description fighting at a gas station and running through traffic. Police soon tracked robinson down at this apartment. Veteran officer matt kenny the first to arrive radioed in to report a disturbance inside. Kenny reportedly forced his way in. The 45yearold claims he was attacked by robinson and moments later. Shots fired. Shots fired. Kenny shot the teen saying it was selfdefense. Though its not clear if he knew robinson was unarmed. Robinson was on probation after pleading guilty to being involved in an Armed Robbery last year. But his family says he was not a violent person. To die in such a violent, violent way is it baffles me. Officer kenny is on paid leave while the States Justice Department Investigates and he was involved in the shooting death of a man in 2007 and exonerated Marcy Gonzalez abc 7 news. A murder mystery at a dog show. A 3yearold irish setter jagger died just one day after competing at britains dog show. The owners say an autopsy shows meat laced with poison was found in the dogs stomach. Two other competitors have now come forward saying their dogs were also poisoned. Authorities are now investigating. President obama is launching a program to both train and Hire Technology workers in an effort to drive up higher income employment. The president announced the program called tech hire during a speech this morning at the National League of cities in washington. The white house says of the five million Jobs Available today more than half a million of them are in fields such as software development, Network Administration and cyber security. Heads up drivers. Coming up in the day ahead, Muriel Bowser is expected to outline a major change to a busy southeastern washington. Shell make the announcement near the intersection of Martin Luther king and malcolm x avenues and the project is designed to improve pedestrian and Driver Safety there. The project is part of vision zero. Its a program aimed at eliminating all traffic related deaths. Another traffic alert. This time for folks in virginia. Vdot plans to close northbound lanes of i495 tonight. The multiple lane closures will impact roads north of the dulles access road starting at 10 00 tonight. Crews will be installing an overhead sign structure as part of a project. All lanes should be back open by 5 00 tuesday morning. Well hopefully, they can getefore the rain moves in tomorrow. Is that likely . Pretty good chance i think. The rain is definitely going to be, you know, be all rain. No chance of snow with this one. Temperatures are too warm. Till he will you, youll see in the forecast theres a slight chance late thursday night to get a brief wintry mix. Well explain it all to you. Look at this. Live shot right now from st. Leo the Great Catholic School in fairfax, virginia. Now, some high clouds and well see that continue to increase. But theyre thin high clouds. Well have plenty of sunshine shining through continuing the snow melt across the area. 53 degrees in fairfax right now and temperatures across the in great shape. Were at 54 degrees right now at national. 53 degrees right now in fredricksburg and well have that push of light westsouthwesterly winds which will continue the temperatures well above average and even tonight, the melting will continue during the overnight because we think overnight temperatures will remain well above freezing as well. Now, as far as the bigger picture, theres cold spots here and there. This is looking more and more like an early to mid march map here as far as the temperature distribution but our weather is coming from this direction. So well get the rain moving in from the southwest but its also going to bring warmer air in. In fact theres a warm front kind of leading the way here. Well deal with the next couple of days. Heres the washington area, theres some of the high thin cloudiness. This first little area of moisture moving through the Raleigh Durham area diminishing showers mainly south to charlotte charlotte. We go farther south and west and find a bigger system developing pushing through the eastern plains. All this low pressure will pull moisture our way and could be too much of a good thing. It will wash off the salt and sand and stuff but that combined, the rain coming in combined with the snow melt is going to create a lot of puddles in the roadway and the possibility for some localized flooding. High pressure by is overhead now providing a delightful day. As that swings out, that opens the door in the atmosphere for the heavier clouds and the rain. Theres the warm front separating much warmer air. I dont think well get into the much warmer air tomorrow. Well push in for that briefly until the next cold front comes through our area and that will bring in more seasonal temperatures. A lot of melting. Concern rainfall wise, computer model suggests by the time the precipitation ends, we could have close to an inch of rain in northern suburbs and a little bit more in Higher Elevations to the west and under this pattern, about an inch of rain combined with what we see with snow melt could cause the flood issues. Some beautiful weather tonight. Well stay well above freezing with cloudy skies and the seven day reveals the good chances of rain developing tomorrow. 70 . Back near 60 on wednesday with sunshine. Mid 50s on thursday. Thursday night, friday morning maybe a mix. That will change to rain. Look at the highs every day well above freezing. Finally yes its taken all winter. Were getting a round of applause from behind the camera. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. Thanks doug. Coming up here on abc 7 news at noon, we have new details about william and kates visit to the united states. And apples big announcement. Will consumers bite or pass on the new product . Bill cosby is launching an efforts to repair his reputation. Yes im going to be in wheeling West Virginia capital music hall. The comedian posted his first video message since the Sexual Assault allegations against him exploded. It does not mention the more than two dozen women or the accusations. It promotes an upcoming comedy performance. Video getting mixed reviews this afternoon. While some say this is the first step in reputation rehab, others argue its too little too late. Today, we expect to learn more about the highly anticipated apple watch. The tech giant has an event scheduled in just about 30 minutes from now. Apple is expected to announce when the watch will go on sale and how much it will cost. The company is also expected to reveal what apps will be available. Apple plans to stream the event on line and we will, of course have all the highlights later this afternoon on abc 7 news at 4 00. The british royals are coming to washington next week. On march 18th Prince Charles will address representatives from several Major Companies to talk about environmental waste. On that same day his wife, the duchess of cornwall is scheduled to visit the shakespeare company. The next day after that they will stop at Carlos Rosario Public Charter School in the district and then theyll head to kentucky to continue the u. S. Trip. And hes leaving his son at home. He is. Both of them. Rain on the way tomorrow. Doug is back with a look at how much we will get. In a race, its about getting to the finish line. In life, its how you get there that matters most. Like when i found out i had a blood clot in my leg. My doctor said that it could travel to my lungs and become an even bigger problem. So he e talked to me about xarelto®. 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Do not take xarelto® if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. Tell your doctor before all planned medical or dental procedures. Before starting xarelto® tell your doctor about any conditions such as kidney, liver, or bleeding problems. Xarelto® is proven to reduce the risk of dvt and pe, with no regular blood monitoring and no known dietary restrictions. A swiss firm is attempting the first ever round the world flight powered by the sun. The Solar Impulse two plane took off on a record breaking journey this morning. Its attempting to fly around the World Without using a drop of fossil fuel. It will take place over 12 stages hopping from city to city and pilots believe this is the future of aviation. So long fuel exciting. All right. Lets take a look at the forecast today. Its pretty sweet. We have sunshine. Rain in the forecast tomorrow. Let you know today at 4 00. Thanks for joining us. [dramatic music] yo whoa whoa ah. He to millionaire. Im terry crews. 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