so that's how you have to plan your weekend. all the good outside stuff on sunday. 49 degrees the current temperature. sun, 6:32. on the verge of rising the next couple minutes. cleveland park, 50 degrees. bladensburg 48. silver spring, maryland, 48 degrees currently. we do have a northerly wind, northeasterly wind a little later on today around the low pressure system sitting just off the coast. clouds. you can see them coming into kentucky and tennessee. clouds on the increase today. so not quite as pretty later o. 45 to 50 at the bus stop. by noon time a partly sunny sky will hit a temperature of 60 degrees. by 5:00, after maxing out at 62. we're back down to 61 degrees. a quick look at your four-day forecast. a split weekend for us. showers and potent thunderstorms coming our way late saturday afternoon and evening. jerry. >> veronica, hanging on tight for that. friday commute, dry pavement number accidents along i-95 from dunnfries from the interchanges in hrar ton, newington, springfield. look at that. fair amount of volume on the southbound side as well. again, no hangups to report. let's head over and see how we're doing. southbound, interstate 270 through gaithersburg and rockville to points south. all travel lanes open. one more stop. take a gander here. route 28 remains closed in dickerson. accident investigation continues. today is emancipation day. a lot of roads that switch to rush hour inbound mode will be carrying two-way traffic. every time that happens we have the potential to have serious accidents because folks think they will be all inbound or inbound one direction. not the case. please be aware of that. metro, vre, no delays. we do have one delay, marc brunswick 870 delayed 11 minutes. jerry, thank you. 6:02. new from overnight, there is a ferocious storm heading towards the washington region. within the past few hours it's killed four i in the midwest region. this is brand-new video just into our newsroom from arkansas. it also spawned a tornado in southern oklahoma. melissa is live in the newsroom with a look at the damage. melissa, good morning >> reporter: good morning to you, eun. a 24-year-old man and his 18-month-old daughter. also an elderly couple in oklahoma. take a look at the destruction there. a large tornado ripped through the tiny southeastern town of tushka. debris flying about. piled up in spots. two people who died in tuskha. efforts to assess the damage have been hampered since the tornado hit after dark and downed power lines and trees made traveling out of that area fairly difficult. the storm cell is part of a system that prompteded tornado watches and caused damages in kansas, missouri and arkansas. the man and his little girl died five minutes before strong winds caused the tree to come crashing through. he packed up his wife and kids and went to a shelter at an elementary school. he thought about warning that family but did not want to wake anybody. as soon as we get any information on injuries or damage, we will pass that information along to you. >> well check in with you soon. melissa, thank you. d.c. firefighters on the scene of a fire in the city's west end neighborhood. flames broke out at 24th and n streets northwest. proof sprinklers work, they had put out the fire by the time the firefighters arrived. the search is on for a missing woman from bethesda. 94-year-old miriam buttrock sumberg was involved in a car accident on the beltway on river road. police say she exchanged information with the other driver involved but never returned home. she suffers from dementia and has the beginning stages of alzheimer's and drives a silver nissan sentra, pbt-961. anyone who sees her should call police. a woman died after a car hit her while crossing the street in the 5000 block of river road in bethesda. police say 76-year-old nancy lawless of west virginia died from her injuries at the hospital. the driver of the vehicle stayed at the scene. no word whether he will face any charges. two virginia men are going to court hoping to save you money when you take the dulles toll road. they filed a class-action lawsuit arguing that the metro authority does not have the right to set tolls for the dulles toll road. they claim recent toll increases exceed the cost of maintaining the roadway and that would make the toll hike an illegal tax because it is not a government entity. >> the bill is passed. without observation motion reconsiders late upon the table. >> the house approved the bill 260-167. a short time later, it passed through the senate. the bill, which cuts $38 billion from the $3.8 trillion budget was the result of negotiations involving the white house and lawmakers from both parties. that deal was made just in time a week ago to avoid a complete government shutdown. 6:06 is our time. a traffic alert for anyone who plans to drive in downtown d.c. this weekend. there will be extensive street closures around the world bank and international monetary fund buildings. the organizations are holding their semi annual meetings in town this weekend. the streets around that building will be closed from 7:30 tonight until 5:00 sunday. g and h streets, pennsylvania avenue, 18th, 19th, and 20th street. 6:07, 55 degrees. the search for a missing 20-year-old student. the important clue police found outside her home. you may want to reconsider what is for dinner tonight. what is in 50% of every piece of meat. the weather is clear now but it won't stay that way all overnight, a local group honored the men who died when the "titanic" sank 99 years ago. members of the men's "titanic" society gathered at the "titanic" memorial at the southwest waterfront overnight. at the exact same time the shift started to go down. they dressed like the men on the "titanic", ate the same meal and gave a toast. the men paid tribute to those on the ship who gave up their spots on the lifeboats for women and children. a group of workers from wrc and nbc started the "titanic" tribute back in 1979. and you are looking closely. you recognize those faces. >> i recognize a lot of those faces. great to see them. it's a nice tribute they do every year. >> next year, 100. it's going to be a big one. it's just about 6:11. a live look outside. beautiful. look at the sky. looks like we are going to get some sunshine. >> as promised, a little bit of sunshine. a wee bit. by afternoon, it will be another gray afternoon for us. and then mostly cloudy evening too. as we look forward towards saturday. we are talking about heavy rain moving through. flood watch starts saturday morning and goes through saturday evening for parts of northern virginia, shenandoah valley and central foothills. 49 degrees in district heights. chan tilly, 42. aspen hill, 45. takoma park, 46. mid-40s and 50 degrees at the bus stop this morning. sunshine early. but increasing clouds. so by lunchtime today, yep, 60 degrees, partly cloudy sky. mostly cloudy by 5:00. the temperature back down to 61. there's a look at the line that we have been watching. it's coming through missouri and arkansas. big producer of severe weather, tornados as well. we could be looking at heavy thunderstorms of our own here on saturday. so there's a possibility of flooding and possibility of some very high winds. mainly during the late afternoon and evening but early on we get some showers around here. a split weekend for us. sunshine returns sunday. >> let's head downtown and look at the construction zone, constitution avenue, 20th street. you can see the westbound blocking the two right lanes. volume pretty light right now. because of emancipation day, if you krafl canal road, connecticut avenue, pennsylvania avenue, parts of 16th street, independence avenue, they will not be switching over to rush hour mode because of the hole day. they will be carrying two-way traffic. please be very careful. every time we have a holiday where the traffic pattern changes we have a potential for serious accidents. elsewhere, moving along on the beltway, kennel worth, green belt, both directions. no accidents or incidents. dry pavement. we'll check the trains for you. no delays, metro, vre. marc brunswick 870 behind schedule by 10 minutes at this point. joe, eun. >> jerry, thank you. air traffic controllers under fire for sleeping on the job. who is now saying naps are necessary. and the major delays on metro this weekend. why you may have to change your plans fo 6:15. ment nation's entire traffic control system is under review after a half dozen incidents of air traffic controllers falling asleep on the job. the faa and the controllers union will visit facilities nationwide to reinforce standards in air traffic control towers. the latest incident happened this week when a controller in nevada fell asleep. former controllers are speaking out. they said the grueling schedules and sitting in dark rooms have made taking naps on the job almost necessary. the man who runs the faa air traffic control resigned yesterday. reagan national is now has two controllers working the night. washington looks to take a 2-0 lead in their first round playoff series against the new york rangers. the caps tied the game with only six minutes left to force overtime. that's where simmons sent the fans home happy with the o.t. winner. game 27:30. go caps! it's a busy weekend in town. it could be a long one for fans trying to use metro. five orange line stations will be closed. tracee wilkins joins us live from the new carrollton metro station. >> reporter: good morning. this is not only work that's needed but highly recommended by the national transportation board. you know they're going to want to take care of this work. it will mean inconvenience for some folks. you will have to plan around some of the closures. there's going to be major changes on the orange line. metro has a way for you to get around all this but you need to plan some extra time. from 8:00 p.m. tonight until monday. no service in landover, new carrollton. this work is recommended by the national transportation and safety board. so there will be repairs and resurface work done on 17,000 feet of rail. they will replace 500 track fasteners and 300 rail ties will be repaired. they will repair escalators and elevators as well. now, there will be free shuttles to help get people around all of this mess but you will need to plan an extra 40 minutes if you're planning on traveling the system. also, there may be delays on the red and blue line as well. so be prepared for that. they're saying trains that are running from vienna will run up to stadium armry. if you want to continue on the orange line you will have to take a shuttle. >> thanks very much, tracee. it could take longer to get to your destination every weekend on metro. they are scheduling public meetings for next week. they are considering scaling down its weekend train schedule to save $72 million. trains would run every 18 minutes on saturdays. sunday, every 20 minutes. then after 9:30 at night the wait would be even longer. 25 minutes between trains. right now trains run on a 12-minute interval on the weekend. public meetings and town halls are scheduled to start mid-may. right now brand-new in the crisis in libya, a joint message from the u.s., britain and france. leaders of the three countries, including president obama, issued what they call libya's pathway to peace. it's a joint op ed piece running today in europe. the u.s., britain and france pledge to keep up the military campaign until leader moammar gadhafi leaves the area. foreign officials are meeting in berlin to work out how operations will be carried out. nato and its partners must keep up the military campaign to protect civilians and push gadhafi out. it says tens of thousands of lives have been protected but the people of libya are still suffering terrible horrors at gadhafi's hands each and every day. a massive search effort is under way in tennessee this morning for a 20-year-old nursing student who was abducted from her home. holly bobo's brother tells police a man dressed in camouflage came into their home and kidnapped her wednesday morning. he said the man dragged her through a carport and into the woods but he couldn't catch them. police are now testing blood that was found outside the home where the struggle took place. meanwhile, members of the community are passing out flyers and praying for her safe return. >> please try to get home to us. if anybody knows anything about her, please, please help us find her. >> it might have been somebody close, somebody that kind of knew her routine, knew when i left, when she left, my daughter left to go to school. >> members of the community are offering a $25,000 reward for information about holly bobo's disappearance. >> a new study released overnight shows nearly half of the u.s. meat supply is contaminated with staph bacte a bacteria. researchers studied more than 100 samples, including beef, turkey, chicken and pork from grocery stores around the country. they found half was tainted with staph, a bacteria linked to several human diseases. researchers stress that most of it is killed with proper cooking. this morning several teachers are waking up on the roof. chopper 4 is live over the montgomery village middle school. if nothing else, that probably woke them up. good morning, teachers. they made good on a promise they had made to their students. you can see the remnants of their sleeping bags and sheets and blankets and whatever they had up there. students raised more than $600. they will come down at 7:00. if they were playing monopoly, it probably blew it all down in the helicopter backwash. >> just hold up the signs. >> maybe they weren't expecting a helicopter to fly over. >> always got to promote yourself. >> yeah. >> all right. let's talk temperatures across the area right now. starting out on the chilly side, manassas, through culpepper right now. you folks over there, culpepper, calvert, 39 degrees. waldorf, 43. it's going to be cooler today. cooler weekend, too. high of about 63 degrees. some sunshine early on. but then a lot of clouds late. increase in clouds. by noon time, high 60. weekend, we are looking at stormy weather on saturday. during the afternoon, late afternoon and evening. jerry. >> veronica, let's check things out on 395. beltway, landmark, shirlington, smooth sailing. dry pavement. no accidents. maryland, 270 southbound through the enter changes in montgomery down to rockville. moving along nicely. closure up in dickerson. accident. we're told a power pole down. route 28 is likely to be closed for a while. good news all the way around. no delays, metro, vre or marc. >> it is the end of the line for two historic tv shows and may signal a beginning of the end of a genre. it could ruin your wedding day. prince william and kate middle ton are getting welcome back at 6:25. a major and historic change is coming to daytime television. abc canceled one life to live and all my children. the move leaves general hospital as abc's only daytime drama. the network says the shows were doing well creatively but both had declining ratings. one life to end debuted in 1968. all my children in 1970 its last episode in september. only four remain, including nbc's "days of our lives" >> prince william and kate middleton can expect subshine and clear skies on their wedding day. the skies have been clear on april 29th the past two years. the average temperature over the past 20 years has been 61 degrees. last year it reached 67. still too soon, though, to make any promises, of course. the office says it cannot yet make a detailed forecast for the big day. well, coming up at 6:30, where a woman was attacked in the middle of the day while taking out the trash. why police are worried the attacker might strike again. deadly storms and tornados are wearing apart the midwest. the damage looking good from rockville pike to i-95. outer loop from i-95 headed to silver spring, travel lanes are open there. let's head south. here's the outer loop. inner loop around eisenhower, no worries. one more stop, we'll head west. both directions near the exit for i-66. and you wonder why we have so many accidents over here. look at that. getting through the work zone. no accidents right now. let's update the rails for you. metro, vre, marc, no delays. joe. >> jerry, thanks very much. the threat of a government shutdown is finally over because a budget deal that will fund the budget has been approved and is now on its way to president obama's desks. both the house and the senate approved the bill yesterday. the bill cuts $38 billion from the $3.8 trillion budget was the result of negotiations involving the white house and lawmakers from both parties. and there are a lot of people who don't like that budget, especially here in the district because that budget bill restricts how the district can spend its own money. megan mcgrath joins us live from capitol hill where in a few hours they plan to let lawmakers know just how angry they are. >> reporter: they're not happy at all with what has happened and bars the district from using locally-generated funds for abortion services and imposes a controversial school voucher program on the district of column bee. district leaders have called on residents to rise up and to demand voting rights for the district of columbia. you may recall a group called d.c. vote held a rally on capitol hill. mayor vincent gray and several council members were arrested during that rally and protest. the mayor called on residents to keep up the pressure and to continue to demand full representation for the district of columbia. there is another rally scheduled for later on today again on capitol hill. there are a number of student groups that will be participating. it's going to help at 11:30 this afternoon at second and c. whether the mayor will be participating, we're not sure at this point. whether there are any acts of civil disobedience we're not sure. we will keep an eye on it and let you know. 6:34. a warning for women in fran cone yeah after a mom was sexually assault indeed broad daylight. police say the 62-year-old victim was taking out the trash when she was attacked outside her home along water lily court and valley view drive on tuesday. she was grabbed from behind and assaulted in a secluded area. her attacker then took off. the victim was hurt but is expected to survive. she was not able to give a good description of her attacker because she was attackeded from behind. >> her 11-year-old son was attacked by the director of the charles barrett recreational center in alexandria. the boy says gordon started choking him. his mother believes him and wants gordon prosecuted. >> that could have been anybody else's child. and i just see it like, you know, i'm looking out for my son. >> gordon has worked for the city of alexandria 24 years and now is on paid administrative leave. news 4 has learned metro employees are getting parking tickets after being caught not paying the meters. cars were parked 15-minute waiting zones and expired meters at the brookland station in northeast washington yesterday. many had metro stickers or orange vests displayed in the car windows. the discovery came 24 hours after we noticed the same problem at huntington station in alexandria. metro transit police are issuing tickets. metro said its employees must pay for parking just like everyone else it is 6:36 right now. right behind us, ladies and gentlemen, the world famous sun. take a look at this freak accident caught on tape. what nearly killed a man as he was walking down the street. rules for h.o.v. are changing and about to get complicated. crews are on the scene. they have to have plenty of room. it does remain closed out there in dickerson and will be for a while. a little bit of a detour has been set up. crews are that hard at work getting powerback on. connecticut avenue, calvert street, because of emancipation days those of whou travel connecticut avenue, canal road, 16th street, pennsylvania avenue normally in rush hour road, one-way kwroeupb bound. two-way traffic on the roadways. as you head out, just be aware of it and please be very, very careful. check your trains and see how you're doing. metro, vre and, no delays. joe, eun. >> thank you, jerry. metro is moving ahead with major service cuts. when you could soon be waiting 25 minutes for a train. and take a look at this freak accident. what nearly killed a man as he was walking down the street. now take a look at this video. this is something you don't see every day, thank goodness. a man in southwest turkey is lucky to be alive. this was a shack that fell right on top of him. the man was walking along the street when the structure blew right over him. see him on the sidewalk on the left. the shack weighed a ton. he did have to go to the hospital but he survived. >> reporter: they do have ways to help folks get around all of this with free shuttles. riders don't have any issues with free shuttles. you're just going to have to plan for all that's going to be happening. the orange line. metro will close the orange line from stadium armry, newcarol to know 8:00 p.m. tonight until monday morning. deanwood, chefferly, landover, new carrollton. they will conduct safety and reliability work on the orange, blue and red lines. but the orange line will be the only one to shut down. this is work recommended by the national transportation safety board. so they need to get it done. it will be repairs and resurface work on thousands of feet of rail. they will replace 500 track fasteners and 300 rail ties will be repaired. now, there will be free shuttles to help get people around all of this mess but you will need to plan an extra 40 minutes if you're planning on traveling around the orange line this weekend. if you're going from vienna, at stadium armory you will have to take a shuttle if you want to get on the orange line. metro is also talking about service cuts. next month you'll get a chance to talk about those. the proposal is to have trains run every 18 minutes on saturday and 20 minutes on sundays. right now the trains run 12-month intervals. at night, the wait times would extend to 25 minutes between trains. metro said the proposal could save $72 million. public meetings and town halls are scheduled to start mid-may. a temporary repeeve if you drive a hybrid and live in virginia you'll be able to keep using h.o.v. lanes on most area freeways for another year. vdot said hybrid drivers will be able to use h.o.v. on 95, 395 and the dulles toll road through june of next year. i-66 will be open to hybrids but must display the new clean fuel license plates. those must be issued before july 1st. >> they estimate that about 20% of the h.o.v. traffic on 66 is made up of hybrids. and that's enough to where they need to cap it to keep those lanes first and foremost for car poolers. after july 1st, vdot will issue clean fuel plates so police officers will be able to spot them after they receive the deadline. officers will ticket violators. pepco is making progress to improve its reliability. the utility says it has trimmed trees on more than 1,600 miles of power lines, replaced 70 miles of underground cable and upgraded power lines that have had the most outages. they also hired more customer service representatives and added more phone lines. they have been under fire after thousands of customers went without power for days after storms last year. the nation's entire air traffic control is under review after a half dozen instances of falling asleep on the job. next week the federal aviation administration and controllers union will visit facilities to reinforce professional standards in air traffic control towers. the latest incident happened this week when a controller in nevada fell asleep. present and former controllers are speaking out. they say the grueling schedules and sitting in dark rooms have made taking naps on the job almost necessary. the man who runs the fa a's air traffic control operation resigned yesterday. reagan national is among 27 airports with two controllers working overnight. this morning ford is expanding its recall of f-150 pickup trucks. nicole lapin joins us live with more on this story. nicole, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, eun. it's not only the f-150 trucks. it's lincoln mark lts. they're expanding it to 1.2 million vehicles because the air bag can deploy when it's not supposed to. two drivers were knocked unconscious because of it. ford said no accidents have been linked to the glitch which affects 2004 and 2006 models. the automaker was reluctant because it felt it was unnecessary but caved into pressure from regulators. perhaps this is a permanent question but i think we know each other well. pay your taxes or get free stuff? cinnabon is giving away two bites on monday evening. p.f. change's has a discount on food. mccormick and submit's, $10.40 tax free gift certificate. office depot has free photocopies through monday. and the chemistry.com is offering a three-day free membership to, quote, help singles take their minds off their taxes. >> only three days, though? >> only three days. >> doesn't it take a little longer to meet someone? we like it. we like the freebies. who knew there was so much free stuff for tax day. >> trying to soften the blow. >> that's right. >> when you're hopefully working lieu the weekend to get it all day. >> thanks so much, nicole have a great weekend. >> you too. >> 6:51. time to take a look at our weather forecast for the weekend. doesn't look so great. >> no. it starts today. today is not nearly as pretty or warm as it was yesterday. >> that was great yesterday. >> yeah, it was. very, very nice. >> hard to beat yesterday. >> well, that's true. monday was pretty good. >> monday was nice, yes. >> some folks say it was almost a little too hot for them. >> no complaining. >> they want plain old spring, nice, sunny weather. fading sunshine. 49 is the temperature right now reagan national airport. we have a light wind out of the north right now. so dry conditions. take a look clinton, maryland, 46 the temperature. 44 in fredericksburg, virginia. and 39 has been our cool spot around warrenton, manassas, talkier. 10 degrees cooler than yesterday because this cold front came through during the overnight. north-northeasterly wind. you can see clouds off to the west. increasing fallout. next system, driving rain and storms coming through missouri and areas of arkansas. so a stronger system coming our way for saturday. look at that live right now. through memphis, tennessee, greenville, mississippi, down towards areas of monroe, louisiana, the yellow boxes are a tornado watch. self tornado watch boxes out until 10:00 a.m. central daylight time. rain advancing. showers at first. thunderstorms is the yellow off to the west. there's 4:00. so late afternoon, evening we get the storms around with very heavy rain and probably gusty winds as well. because of the fact we could look at flooding, flash flood watch early saturday and just off to the west. more than an inch of rain out of that upcoming system. today, clouds increasing. we're cloudy by evening hours. 60 through the high. your evening in the 50s. mid-60s for saturday. again, fairly wet. so get the outdoor activities in early. >> 395 loading up rapidly. very good shot. beltway headed up towards the accident edsell road. heavy traffic through landmark. no accidents. just volume. elsewhere, trip from the west, i-66. sun just starting to come over the horizon. so a couple of spots right after 28 centreville, fair oaks and vienna. once you cross "the hills" you will hit the sun. here's the g.w. parkway, national airport where traffic is very light so far this morning. good news there. ought on the rails, good news to share, metro, vre, marc, no delays to report. >> jerry, thank you. >> 6:54 now. in just a few hours, a group of student activists is expected to take part in a protest similar to the one that got d.c. mayor vincent gray arrested earlier this week. megan, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, eun. all is quiet here on capitol hill for the moment at least. but in a couple hours we're expecting to see quite a few protesters here. and we are just receiving word that mayor vincent gray will be among those participating in the rally here on capitol hill later on this afternoon. now, supporters of d.c. voting rights are not happy with the budgets. it bars the district from using locally generated funds for abortion services for low income residents and imposes a controversial school voucher program. district leaders called on leaders to rise up. on monday, the group d.c. vote held a rally on capitol hill. mayor vincent gray and several council members were arrested during that protest. the mayor has called on residents to keep up the pressure and to continue to demand full representation. again, another rally here on capitol hill later today. just receiving word that the mayor will be participating in that rally, whether there are any acts of civil disobedience or not, we will have to wait and see. it gets under way at 11:30. megan, thank you. 6:55, news 4's melissa is live in the newsroom with this morning's top stories. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, joe. a nasty storm that ripped through the midwest has killed at least five people. take a look at the damage. two people were killed in oklahoma and three in arkansas. a dozen more on injured. it's expected to hit the washington region sometime tomorrow night >> a bill that helped avert a shutdown is heading to the president's budge. it will cut $38 billion from the $3.8 trillion budge stkpwhraoet don't get nervous as you take a look at your calendar. yes, it is april 15th. taxes aren't due today. they're due monday this year because of the d.c. emancipation holiday. caps fans get ready to rock the red. they look to take a 2-0 lead in the first round playoff series against the rangers. game 2 set for 7:30. i know you will both be watching that game from home, right? >> absolutely. >> too bad we can't watch it in person. i would like to go. it will be so awesome. >> give us a call, right? >> exactly. >> thanks very much. let's get a look at our forecast out the door wise. >> a little bit of sunshine coming our way early in the day. we're in the low to mid-40s now. high of 63. wet and stormy tomorrow. >> be careful traveling downtown. two-way traffic along parts of canal road, connecticut, pennsylvania avenue. because of the emancipation day. american legion bridge is good. back to you. bye. >> that is news 4 today. thanks for starting your day with us. >> have a great weekend and a great day. >> bye. 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