At the height of the rush hour. Kristin wright has the details. Theyre on their way to the crash site which has become the deadliest in the history of the metro north railroad. Heres what we know so far. The train was about 45 minutes into its trip from Grand Central station in new york city when it slammed into the suv. Investigators say the suv was on the tracks because a crossing gate came down on it at a Railroad Crossing at valhalla in West Chester County in new york. The driver got out of the car to look at the car and was about to drive away when the collision happened. The train pushed the jeep more than 800 feet down the tracks and both burst into flames. The driver of the suv was killed along with five people on the train. We are hearing from some train passengers tonight about the frantic effort to get out. Somehow, some of the people in the head car got out. It seemed maybe they broke the window or something. And then a number of us were smelling the fumes from the car fuel and we said you know we need to get out. The fire was starting to spread back towards the second car. Its believed about 750 people were on that train. Metro north is the nations second busiest railroad. In the past two years there have been five accidents including a derailment that killed four people. Well follow the developments through the n online and have the latest on news 4 today starting at 4 26. At the live desk im kristin wright. Also developing tonight weve learned a teenager shot this afternoon near a busy Shopping Center in southeast d. C. Has died. The shooting happened at the intersection of east capitol street and ridge road. Jackie bensen is live at Police Headquarters tonight with details. Jackie . Reporter doreen this happened in broad daylight in the middle of a busy street. D. C. Police officers cordoned off the entire block of minnesota avenue southeast that crosses over busy east capitol street. Officials tell news 4 the victim, who was on foot was shot about 4 15 p. M. At the same time several 911 calls were made reporting the sound of gunshots in the area. The gunman is believed to be been on foot and may have chased the victim for a while. They were called from a small but busy strip Shopping Center. Officers were seen questioning one man who appeared to be in his late teens or early 20s. Its not clear if hes a witness or possible suspect. This is first homicide in the district since january 25th. Live at d. C. Police headquarters Jackie Bensen news 4. Tonight the d. C. Health department has confirmed a case of measles in the district. The virus was diagnosed back in january. Health leaders stress it is an isolated case related to International Travel and not connected to the cases in california. The centers for Disease Control says the 102 people in the 14 states highlighted in yellow became infected with measles. It is considered extremely contagious but it is preventable with a vaccine. Most but not all the cases have been linked to several dozen people who were exposed to measles at disneyland in california. Those people were not vaccinated. A check on our weather now. Theres another cold night ahead before we get a nice warmup. Chief meteorologist Doug Kammerer joins us. We shouldnt get used to that warm air, huh . No it will be here for one day, and that will be about it. Then were talking about even colder air moving in on thursday. This map might throw you off a little bit. Take a look at the snow actually making its way closer to our region. This snow is part of a warm front. That warm front extending down from chicago right on down towards our area. South of that warm front were going to see much warmer air move in during the day tomorrow. And that cold air and that snow will ride just to our north overnight tonight. So what are we expecting behind this . First, well be on the mild side during the day tomorrow. But then once that next cold front moves through, look at the wind chill forecast for thursday. 20 degrees at 11 00 a. M. 15 by 5 00 by 8 00 were down to 11 degrees. Thats in the d. C. Metro area. Many of you between zero and five. Even colder than it was last night, and we got one more chance of snow. Ive got that in the forecast as well coming up. Thanks doug. Tonight, the government spokesman in jordan says that that country has executed two al qaeda prisoners in retaliation for isis killing one of its pilots. Isis released the video today purportedly showing that pilot being burned alive. Jordan had been willing to exchange a suicide bomber for the pilot, but it demanded proof that he was alive. Jordanian officials now believe the pilot actually was killed back in early january. President obama met with Jordans King Abdullah tonight before the king cut his trip to washington short to return home. The woman who survived a hit and run on the bw parkway over the weekend is listed in serious condition now. Julia pearce has two broken legs and other injuries. Her fiance rick warrick was also struck by the car and died while both were on the side of the road. Hed been trying to change a flat tire when the victims daughter dialed 911 for help she was upset, but some are questioning the tone of the Anne Arundel County dispatcher who took the call. Can you all please hurry up . Maam, stop yelling. I need a location. So two people were struck . Yeah. They both lets stop whining. Its hard to understand you. The Anne Arundel CountyFire Department told news 4 the dispatcher could have made a better choice of words but he was trying to get information to send help. Meanwhile, police are still looking for the driver of the car that fled the scene. New tonight a middle school in d. C. Said black history had nothing to do with the departure of three social studies teachers. Parents originally told news 4 that three teachers at Howard University middle school had been fired for teaching black history beyond the normal curriculum. In a Statement Released today, the school says those teachers resigned and that black history was not the reason. Search is already under way tonight for the next superintendent of the Montgomery County schools. Dr. Joshua starr announced today that he and the School System are parting ways as of february 16th. Larry bowers who is currently chief operating officer of the school has been named interim superintendent. The school board did not say why starr is leaving. Starr said the board wanted to go in another direction. Your commute on metro may take a little longer. The cold weather is forcing metro to restrict the speed of trains in some location because of the potential for cracked rails. Metro is using a track geometry vehicle that examines rails to determine where restrictions are needed. The speed is being reduced by onethird. We put out a list earlier on social media where the speed is restricted and you can find it on nbcwashington. Com. Police in Prince Georges County moved in today to remove some squatters in another upscale house in the county. That house was abandoned. It had been foreclosed on. Residents are asking tonight whether the police should be doing more. Robbery suspect and nine others including children were found squatting in the home. The people there say the police need to do something about this. Weve got a swamp of vacant houses in Prince Georges County where the next set of squatters can be. And we cant keep having 21 cars come to every house twice a year to get to solve this problem. Police raided that same house last summer. At that rate they found a suspect in a d. C. Shooting living in that house. You heard about them infest infesting College Dorm Room hotels even movie theaters. Now theyve pinpointed the origin of bed bugs and why getting rid of them could soon be even harder. Shomari stone show us how to keep the bed bugs from ever biting again. Theyre creepy. Reporter Michael Ralph is enthusiastic over bed bugs. These guys are crazy. Reporter hes called the bug man, a professor of entomology at the university of maryland. He tells me a new International Study found that bed bugs who bite humans evolved from bugs that fed on bats 250,000 years ago. We lived this caves and in those caves were bats. Apparently what happened is those bugs that were on those bats took a liking to human beings. Reporter and today he says bed bugs are a big problem in the u. S. Thats because of the worldwide sale of merchandise, the bed bugs resistance to pet ta sides, used furniture sales and International Travel. People are moving around more. Theyre coming in contact with bed bugs in different places. Reporter and he says if youre real concern about bed bugs first thing you should do when come home from traveling is open up your suitcase. Take the clothes that are inside put them inside the dryer and turn it on. Im going to run it through a dry cycle medium heat 125, 30 degrees for a half hour. It will kill every listening stage of a bed bug. Reporter this couple is visiting d. C. And staying in a hotel. Did you check your bed bugs . No we did not check for bed bugs. Reporter why not . I didnt know what to look for. Reporter you should look behind the headboard or the sheets for the bugs or russcolored stains. Sleep tight and dont let the bed bugs bite. An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure. Reporter shomari stone, news 4. Next at 11 00, a news 4 iteam exclusive. You fire it up and walk away and what happens next is caught on camera. This is their job. They get up in the morning just like you or i get up in the morning to go to work. Crooks trolling for cars and the one sign that could make your ride an easy target. Tonight on news 4 at 11 00. Some questions cant wait until morning. So im one of many nurses at cigna with answers anytime, day or night. Im lauren and ive got your back. You used to sleep like a champ. Then boom. What happened . Stress, fun, bad habits kids, now what . Lets build a new, smarter bed using the dualair chambers to sense your movement, heartbeat, breathing. Introducing the sleep number bed with sleepiq™ technology. It tracks your sleep and tells you how to adjust for a good, better and an awesome night. The difference . Try adjusting up or down youll know cuz sleep iq™ tells you. Only at a sleep number store. Where youll find the best buy rated mattress with sleepiq™ technology. Know better sleep with sleep number. If youre one of those people that gets up in the morning, goes out and turns on your vehicle and then goes back in while it warms up, you might want to stop that. There are thieves looking for people just like you. The iteam is showing you how quickly and often theyre stealing your car. Iteams Scott Mcfarland went undercover to prepare for this report. Reporter a morning routine playing out in so many neighborhoods this time of year warming up the car while waiting inside from the cold. Seconds. Reporter but watch this. Recent Surveillance Video from a beltsville home. The white car idling in the driveway as another vehicle slowly drives by and within seconds a man hops in the white car and takes off. Thieves call them puffers because of the puffs of ignition coming out of the back. Theyre easy to spot and easy to steal. People usually again think their driveways are safe. Reporter the iteam spent several cold morning with the w. A. V. E. Team. We may several arrests throughout the day. Reporter were not showing their face because they work undercover not only looking for cold car thieves but warning potential victims, too. Theres one right next to it is lit up as well. Reporter in an Upper Marlboro neighborhood we notice that puff of smoke from a bmw, but within minutes were surrounded by other unattended cars. One, two, three, four. Reporter including this honda. Go ahead and pull up. Reporter officers approach the drivers to alert them about car thieves. I have to take that into consideration because its a onecar family. I wouldnt want my car to be stolen. Reporter this fusion sits in the driveway running more than 20 minutes before officers finally knock on the door. Vanessa says she didnt realize its illegal to leave your car unattended in maryland. I have to actually be with the vehicle. It would be a 70 fine. Reporter but this day no tickets, just a warning. Im think about it. Reporter police tell us that can make things worse. Sometimes theyre armed. Reporter escalating a stolen car to a possible carjacking. These hopin crews will troll gas stations. Reporter easy pickings. That ones running right there. He just went inside. Reporter when they steal the cars theyre not stealing them to keep them. Correct. Reporter many of the cars end up being sold online or exported overseas like this black car swiped from a gas station. Investigators found it in a shipping container before it headed to africa. This is their job. They get up in the morning just like you or i get up to go to work. Reporter organized teams use the stolen cars to commit other crimes. As our iteam cameras roll officers pull this vehicle after spotting it driving through several gas stations and speeding. They suspect the riders may have been searching for a vehicle to steal. One in the chamber, 11 in the magazine. Reporter Police Find Marijuana and a gun on the guy. A drug ring and now homicide. Reporter w. A. V. E. Team members say theyve noticed thieves getting bolder. They caught this man sliding into her car while she pumped gas, first stealing her purse. When she goes inside to pay, they take the entire car. Reporter that car theft one of 244 already this year in Prince Georges County. Thats down slightly from last year but police say its also a reason to keep the keys with you in your hand or pocket while fueling up your car and why you should avoid those Early Morning warmups in the driveway. Scott mcfarland news 4 iteam. To watch those caught on camera we invite you to our website at nbcwashington. Com, click on investigations. Just dont give them the opportunity to rip you off. So a little bit warmer tomorrow . A lot warmer tomorrow. Tomorrows a great day. Tomorrows probably the best day that weve seen for a while and the best day we will see for a while. Everybody get outside and rejoice. Its going to be that nice. Outside for lunch maybe. Temperatures tonight are on the cold side. 31 currently at the airport. But notice the wind direction. Its at 9 miles an hour but out of the south. As we all know that warmer air comes out of the south and thats what were going to see during the day tomorrow. Currently, though, 23 in gaithersburg 21 manassas. So were still seeing wind chills in the low teens and 20s in most areas. It will be a very cold night and cold start to the day for wednesday. Nothing on the radar as far as rain or snow goes until you get just up to the north and west. And ill show you that in just a second. You see d. C. All clear up towards philadelphia. Thats allowed things to cool quickly. Here are the clouds. You notice how close the snow is right up there towards the pittsburgh area. Itss with a little clipper system that will move our way. Could clip some areas of maryland maybe around frederick and up to the north of 70 and 270. That will be about it. This will move very quickly. Then behind it weve got warmer air thats going to settle on here in the next day or so but thats about it. Its not going to last long because thursday back to another cold front. This will be a strong one. Notice what happens around 8 00 in the morning. Snow start oss to break out right around the time of rush hour. It will come down for a fairly good clip for a 15 20 minute period. That will be it before it moves out of here. Im not worried about the roads for the most part what i am worried about is what comes after. Thats the real story. It will be the cold and the wind on thursday. Remember i it felt yesterday, temperatures felt 30 degrees colder during the evening hour thats what well see again on thursday. But even colder. Chance for snow its conversational snow. Flurries or snow showers around leesburg and frederick. Best chance of any coating or a little bit more will be frederick over towards portions of Northern Maryland pennsylvania. Thats really about it. Tomorrows story, though nice temperatures. 48 degrees in d. C. 49 fredericksburg 46 in gaithersburg. Wouldnt be surprised to be closer to 50 during the late afternoon, 2 00 3 00. So theres no impact other than get out for lunch. Tomorrow might be the only day we did it. We are looking good tomorrow afternoon with that sunshine. Temperatures the next few days going down big time. 34 for a high on thursday and then friday morning, were down to 17 forecasting 8 degrees colder than what we saw out there this morning. A very cold start. 35 for a high on friday windchills in the mid20s. We start to break out of that on saturday but then the next storm still waiting to see exactly where that one goes. If its able to track a little farther south it could mean more snow for us. Right now i have it going north of the area that means more rain. But a mixed bag over the region. But tomorrow is a day to rejoice. Rejoice, goit. You want to do lunch in. You paying . Sure. Sports coming up. You know those Stanley Cup Winning kings . This is the xfinity sports desk brought to you by xfinity, your home for the most live sports. So maybe this is what the caps need to turn it around, huh, what do you think . Yes, bring the stanley cup champs in town. Turn their game around. Exactly. Thats what they did. We knew the caps were going to pick their game up with the l. A. Kings in town but they put on a show down at the Verizon Center tonight. And it was sensational. The kings were there but the crowd belongs to troy brouwer playing in his 500th career nhl game and he made it count a couple first period the l. A. Turnover to kuznetsov. Back to brouwer and he scores. Perfect feed from kuzy there. Troy cashes in. Third period now. Caps up 20. Caps take advantage. Tic tac toe back strum finds the net. His 16th of the season. Caps up 30. Caps loving that the kings keep gibb giving them the puck. Eric fehr. Sick move by fehr to beat jonathan quick. Capitals with a 40 lead. Later in the period hits keep on coming for the kings. Clifford playing the puck and mike green decides to send him into the bench. Whoa really not a good night for l. A. Holtby 27 save shutout. Caps win it 40. I think weve learned from some mistakes earlier on in the year that we need to continue to force teams to make mistakes and not let them come at us. Overall we played tight. We didnt allow them too much score chances either. So good job. Good job, guys. The cavsps bounce back now time for the wizards. Tough times like these are why you sign leaders, veterans like paul pierce who know how to regroup these guys before facing the best in atlanta. We just got to get our edge back. Thats all it is. Weve got to play with a better swagger. Right now that swagger hasnt been there over the last couple of weeks but it starts with the defense. Im going to continue to preach that. Once you have a defensive swagger around this league, teams are intimidated by that. So time is now for us to start trying to peak, trying to develop those consistent good habits so that we can continue through the playoffs. Hopefully john wall is feeling better. Up to syracuse. Hanging out in an igloo, why not . Second half up 6, ball kicked out to jalen hudson. 18 points for him. He comes back under ten seconds left tied at 70. Turns around. Hits before the buzzer. 18 points for him. None bigger than that. They beat Virginia Tech 7270. Also down in alabama, i follow a Sports Reporter down there. He tweeted there was a High School Basketball game the final score was 20. Can you imagine covering that . I complain about covering the redskins all the time. They scored the first two points during the first two minutes of the game. Was anybody watching by t technology has improved our lives, in small ways. In big ways. But what about this . Couldnt this be better too . At redfin we asked ourselves the same question. 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Be a little delay on that. Cool dude, though. I want him to have my back. Thats it for now. Tonight show is coming up next. Yoplait. With a smooth and creamy taste your whole family loves. Dont miss yoplaits exciting new flavors creamy caramel and cookies n cream. Steve from stage 1 in Universal Studios in hollywood, los angeles california, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight, join jimmy and his guests ellen degeneres, neil young and featuring