Starting with a look at the house plan. Reporter programs and paychecks could keep rolling after midnight with a temporary fix Congress Votes on this morning. Money for Homeland Security but just for the next three weeks. Then a meeting between the house and senate. Hopefully the senate will go to conference with us and we can work this out. Time for senate to act. Reporter but the senates voting on a different plan this morning. Full funding, not temporary, with no mention of immigration. Homeland security secretary jeh johnson tells congress a temporary fix will not work. Just makes his 230,000 employees anxious about what happens next. This is not just an inside the beltway political jousting. A failure to fund the department of Homeland Security fully has real impacts on public safety. Reporter new yorks Police Department is weighing in this morning. In a statement, commissioner William Bratton outlines all the programs he would lose if Homeland Security shuts down. He calls it irresponsible at best and dangerous at worst. Lawmakers exploding in frustration. You coward. Reporter republicans criticizing each other. Whatever it takes to get it done and it shows how off the rails the Republican Party is. Reporter and weighing in on immigration saying if the courts if congress is successful getting rid of the president S Immigration orders it could cost the country 6. 3 billion in deficits over the next decade. Tracie potts, nbc news washington. Coming up in 15 minutes, well talk with the nbc news political unit about what Republican Leaders are going to find a way to break the budget impasse. Right now the search is on for two missing teens in loudon county. 15yearold Christopher Rhames and 16yearold stephen sever, last seen three days ago in the pursalville area. The sheriff says neither has ties to the area and both need medications for health issues. If you have information call the Loudoun County sheriffs office. After days ofbowser called for all hands on deck due to the snow. Northwest d. C. , were live hows it looking . Making progress out there . Reporter well, barbara, they are making some progress. Initially we at a different location. We had some trash behind us to show you, but a crew came and took it all away. Weve since moved. Now off 19th street in northwest washington and you can see that this alley trash cans are still overflowing here. They need their trash picked up. There is a big push happening over the weekend. Dpw is bringing in extra crews that will work longer hours. The hope theyll be able to haul away all of this trash in the next 72 hours. Its an all hands on deck garbage pla lose sa. The get all the trash piling up the goal out of here ins next 72 hours. Lets not do that. Reporter it cant happen soon enough for meg ruge. Arge. Her the temptation for her dog benjamin not to other more unsavory critters. Thanks goodness its cold. The rats would are all over the place. Reporter all of the snow and ice has caused a real problem with trash pickup in the district. With such cold temperatures the ice just hasnt melted. Making it difficult for collection crews to complete their runs. How dangerous is this . Very dangerous. We have quite a few people out on injury. Quite a few people hurt daily like i think yesterday four people injured by slip and fall. Reporter how much trash is out there . I would say that we probably have made about, anywhere 60 to 70 collections. That means 30 to 40 still out there we missed. Reporter thats a couple hundred tons of trash that still needs picked up. Extra contractors have been brought in and leaf collection workers will also be shifted to lend a helping hand. Crews will work through the weekend on 12hour shifts until the job is done. Its slowed us down but were going to get this done. Just be patient with us and were going to provide that service. Reporter and if friday is your normal trash collection day, go ahead and put your cans out. If youre in a neighborhood that has been missed youre going to want to put your trash out on saturday. Because dpw crews will focus on those missed neighborhoods over the weekend. Reporting live in northwest, Megan Mcgrath news 4. Thank you, megan. Taking a look outside right now. Storm team 4 meteorologist meteorologist amelia segal joins us with how your afternoon will look today. Good morning. Good morning, barbara. Its going to be chilly. If you can believe it our average high is 51 degrees. High temperatures today for most of us will only be in the low 30s. Heres the latest check of storm team 4 radar. Still tracking light snow showers moving through the area. These now in southern maryland. This pushes out over the next hour. Elsewhere is dry with partly sunny skies as you can see a live look outside with our tower camera and we remain dry for the rest of the afternoon hours. Right now at reagan the temperatures 34 degrees. By 2 00 p. M. Inside of the beltway, we shoot up to 37. 5 00 this evening, still looking at partly sunny skies and a temperature of 35. As the sun goes down temperatures drop quickly. By 8 00 tonight, looking at a temperature of 27 degrees. Now, there is a bit of a chance of a wintry mix in the forecast over the weekend. Ill have the latest timing on that barbara at 11 30. Amelia thank you. Today local politicians are back in court on child molestation charges. Michael gardners lawyer stepped down a week before his second trial wassupposed to start. Live in arlington with what happened in the courtroom today. Richard . Reporter barbara, that new trial was set to begin next wednesday. It has now been delayed at least for a few more weeks. We still dont know when the new trial date will be but the attorney representing Michael Gardner stepped down being asked questions as part of a separate investigation also linked to the case. Gardner has a new attorney. Joseph flood in court today. He has not had an opportunity to meet with gardner, he says at least not meet with him fluff to go to trial. So whats happening is the trial date was originally set for wednesday. Instead, there will be a status hearing on wednesday, and thats when the judge hopes to set the new trial date. Marco gardner is being charged with molesting two girls at his daughters sleepover several years ago. He had been convicted of this before. That conviction was overturned by the state supreme court. So now we have this new trial starting up again, but, again, its going to be a couple of weeks before the new trial begins. 175 jurors set to report here to the Arlington County courthouse monday for juror orientation, to be jurors in the gardner trial. They received notice this weekend they do not need to show up on monday. Reporting live in arlington, Richard Jordan news 4. Thank you, richard. In just over an hour sentencing begins for a maryland man who tried to have his exwife murders. From Montgomery County ordered a hit on his fourth exwife. Security experts met with a Police Officer posing as a hit man at four kearns in silver spring. Eshowed pictures of his exwife and shared he address. He has a lengthy history of Domestic Violence with his exwife. News and new here on news4 midday, the state Department Official accused of soliciting a minor is getting ready to go home. A Fairfax County judge granted a 25,000 bond for daniel rossen. Rossen was arrested earlier this week after police say he had a series of online exchanges with a Fairfax County detective who was posing as a minor. The judge advised rossen to avoid all contact with computers and minors until his preliminary hearing in may. Right now staying on top of two major meetings. Potential republican president ial candidates set to speak at the conservative Political Action conference pap live look from National Harbor ahead of tomorrows straw poll. Plus for the second time u. S. And cuba diplomats meet at the state department to reestablish diplomatic relations. Stay with us. Were comi im jim handly on the news 4 live desk following a developing story at this hour out of southeastern missouri. Seven people have been fatally shot. A gunman also dead. This happened in shannon county. Thats about 40 miles north of the arkansasrder. State highway Officials Say that the 36yearold suspect was discovered dead in shannon county. The other victims were found at four different homes. The motive is still unclear. Well keep you up to date and have the very latest on nbc washington and first on news 4 and 4 00. From the livedesk im jim handly. Thank you. A warning for College Women pap 20yearold student fought off a wouldbe rapist inside her apartment complex. The assault happened wednesday night just off New Hampshire avenue near the university of maryland. The student was dropped off at her apartment in the foyer, a man began trying to talk to her and offered her money. She turned down the money and the man game violent, ripping her clothes off. She was able to fight him off, though. Police are putting together a sketch in hopes of identifying the suspect. Today Montgomery County looks at ways to improve taxi service in the county. The Montgomery County Council Transportation Infrastructure Energy and Environmental Committee will look at three bills. The implementation of a centralized electronic taxicab dispatch system in the county increasing the age limit on vehicles used as taxicabs and also look at allows a permit holder to grant a sublicense for improvements that are being considered. That will happen today at 1 30 p. M. At the mont gumgomery council office. And may launch a president s run, laying out ideas at the conservative Political Action committee conference. Heres a live look. What the potential contenders are saying. Reporter the freezing outside right now. In fact through next thursday only two how the seven days will be at or above normal. Ill let you know when well have brief relief from this this morning were learning more about the man who has become the face of isis brutality. Hes known at jihadi john but now multiple media outlet are saying his real name is mohammed emwazi. They say he is 26 years old, a Computer Programmer from a well to do family in west london. The Washington Post and bbc report he was born in kuwait and moved to london when he was 6 years old. Neither police or the fbi are confirming these reports. Jihadi john has been seen on multiple isis beheading videos but police still havent been able to catch him. New on news4 midday, about an hour and a half ago the spokesman for the Republican Party of virginia announced hes step down. Garren shipley will take new job allowing him time to spend whip maem family. With family. Happening in about an hour a Maryland State Senate committee will look at a bill to let underaged active Duty Service Members drink alcohol. Senate bill 213 would authorize licensed bars and restaurants to sell beer and wine to 18 19 and 20yearolds if they are members of the military. It would bring in 500,000 they tell us in tax revenue but the bill faces serious opposition. The law violets federal putting nearlies 3dsy s 31,000 at risk. And a meeting between americans and cuban officials is under way. Cuba wants to remove it from its terrorist list before they move forward in restoring diplomatic ties. A Briefing Held later this afternoon by both delegations. And right now Foreign Policy is emerging as a key theme as a group of republican 2016 hopefuls speak at a gathering of conservatives. This morning Texas Governor rick perry said he sees the terror group isis as the worst threat to freedom since communism. Wisconsin Governor Scott walker drew instant review however when he said this of isis. If i can take on 100,000 protesters i can do the same across the globe. He has since clarified that he is not comparing isis people isis believers with american protesters. Its a big day for politics with conservatives meeting this weekend, and lawmakers up against a funding deadline. Joining us carrie dann Political Writer with nbc news to help us break it down. Good morning. Good morning. Talk about the cpac meeting. Tomorrow a straw poll to see whos ahead for 2016. Whats it looking like now . They do it every year. Historically a really good way of gauging who has the most support at cpac. Not a great predict here will be the president yifts. Senator rand paul has won the previous two years. Very good at get sag porters fired up and attending this conference. But i think rand paul may get competition. Scott walker despite the comment mentioned earlier that drew rebuke in the media has gotten a good reception at cpac as well. These are the most conservative of republican ace cross the country is that right, attending this meeting . True. A youngleaning bent and libertarian bent in comparison to other similar around the country. Today the department tonight, actually department of homeland xurptly run out of money. The senate is now voting we understand right this minute on the final passage of a clean funding bill. Looking at live picture there from the senate right now. Whats happening with the house and whats going to happen by tonight . Do you have any ideas . What its looking like right now is that the house will probably pass late other than this morning or in early afternoon a threeweek extension of funding for dhs nap would mean the agency would not shut down. But also wouldnt be funded through the end of the year. This is sort of a middle ground House Speaker john boehner came up with bone to avoid shutting down the agency and to assuage to the concerns of conservatives upset about these tactics. What are congressional leaders saying at this time . Weve heard from House Speaker john boehner, he wants to keep the dhs from shut downing. This temporary stop gap measure wont make people happy in the long run but it punts the problem to three weeks in the future but gives both sides more time to work out their differences. What time is it actually expected to expire . 11 59 tonight, friday night. No action t or pass a larger bill what the senate is the try to do now if neither passes both houses of congress, dhs would experience a shutdown tonight. But we hear everybodys going to be expected at work monday whether theres a new bill or not . 80 of employees have to be at work but they would not be able to be paid under a shutdown until Congress Pass as funding bill. Well see what happens tonight, then. Thank you. For more from carrie and the rest of the nbc news political tame check out first read on nbcnews. Com. Virginia will receive almost 2 million in federal funds to help clean up the chesapeake bay. The funds will be used to expand fencing to prevent farm animals from wading into the streams. Farmers surrounding the bay will receive most of that funding. The Virginia Department of conservation and rec 300 to provide Technical Assistant during the cleanup. It must be a little more than 300. Well check on that for you. Everyone seems to be talking about the great dress debate. What color do you think the dress is . It has our newsroom and the internet buzzing with opinions. We want to know what you think. Some poi tois some toys getting an welcome back. We just told you about that 2 million in federal funds that are going to virginia farmers. Its 300,000 that will also go to the department of conservation and recreation in virginia and the area around the chesapeake bay. Toys getting hightech, but these new responsive dolls and interactive gadgets to be vulnerable to hackers. Mark barger explains. Reporter come on guys. We all knew this day was coming. Reporter new technology bringing the fantasy of toy story to real life. They dont just talk to kids these new hightech toys interact. Barbie what should i be when i grow up . Maybe a dancer . Theyre able to listen to the child and have a conversation the same way you would have with a friend. Reporter mattel reveal add toy that uses sirilike Technology Last week. Hello barbie and interactive toy to listen and respond to what youre child is saying and remember past conversations to make comments in the future. Reporter to remember those conversations, the doll uses a wifi connection to collect data on a server. Mattel has been very careful to note that parents will be told clearly which data will be collected, and you need a password to be able to access that information. Reporter other interactive toys might use Bluetooth Technology or collect frfrgs in information from the web. It comes with a risk. As soon as you have information stored there is a potential security issue there. Reporter experts urge parents to remember the Big Technology that can go into a little toy. You do want to protect it the same way youd protect any data or smartphones. Reporter so your childs data doesnt go to infinity and beyond mark barge. Nbc news. Hello barbie goes on sale this fall for 75. Parents were review, clip or delete any audio clips of their child from their server. This next story is causing a firestorm online and throughout the newsroom. What color is this dress . Some say its a blue dress with black lace. Others say its a white dress with gold lace. Its a fact that the dress actually is blue and black, but a lot of people dont see it that way. We want to know what color you think the dress is. Let us know on our facebook page. Well slow results at end of the show and tell you why people cant seem to agree on the color of the dress. Its 11 28 now and still ahead we look at the marijuana rules in the district. Why you may not be aleble to use it in your apartment . And place your bets. Nevada allowing you to bet on the olympic games. Not all events are on the table. And outside, cooler than norms. Storm team 4 meteorologist, letting us know if well see d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser fighting to keep marijuana legal. Appeared on the Rachel Maddow show. Harris questioned the validity of the marijuana law. Bowser says its clear what voters want. Home use, home growth by adults. But i know the people in the First District of maryland would much rather have his attention on their issues. Congressional republicans had threatened to arrest d. C. Leaders if they allowed the law to take effect but no one arrested so far. You may not be able to smoke marijuana everywhere you thought you could. Landlords will not be required to allow marijuana use on their property if thats what they want. So if you rent your apartment, its up to the, whoever owns the building whether or not to allow smoking. Landlords will also be able to include antismoking clauses in lease agreements. If you own your own home you still may not be in the clear, either. There is a kondcondo board on Home Owners Association that could create rules against allowing marijuana. Storm team 4 meteorologist amelia segal joins us with a look at weather and whether there will be nice weather for the wok . Its going to be okay. Temperatures continue to remain cold outside. I cant believe march begins on sunday. And were looking at High Temperatures both weekend days only in the 30s. When they should be in the low 50s. And as far as any rain or a bit of a wintry mix is concerned, well be dry through at least sunday morning. Even for the most part into the midday hours. Its later in the day on sunday where a bit of sleet and rain maybe even freezing rain could impact the area. Looking lady to next week temperatures just on kind of a temperature roller coaster. Average high now 51. Were only going to be at or awe above average on monday and wednesday, otherwise the High Temperatures where you see the blue highs only in the 30s, and a pretty active pattern next week. Plenty of chapses of rain and a wintry mix. Not a lot of snow chances in the forecast. Temperatures in the 20s and 30s. Washington one of the warm spots at 34. 27 in fredfrederick and 22 in frederickberg. The high in your neighborhood. D. C. Warms to a high of 37. Yesterday the high was 39. 32 for a high in leesburg and annapolis as well as baltimore and partly to mostly sunny skies the rest of the afternoon. So with that lack of cloud cover, as the sun goes down tonight, that means temperatures drop quickly. Dining out, your dinner plans, dress warm. Temperatures in the teens and 20s. Thats this evening. A High Temperature tomorrow on saturday of 36. So cold but dry with partly to mostly sunny skies, and the start of sunday will be dry and a High Temperature of 38 degrees. Plenty of clouds on sunday. Now, i want to show you the timing of this wintry mix with future weather. 5 00 a. M. Sunday. Notice its cloudy but dry. For the most part remains dry through the midday hours. Now its getting intowhere we could see some rain some freezing rain maybe a little sleet and future weather says a little snow moving into the area. Here we are at 3 00. That chance of snow north of the district. As we get into the evening hour temperatures actually slowly warm a little bit. So the pink here is sleet. Maybe a bit of freezing rain and the green here is rain. Thats sunday evening. So if you have plans to be traveling, you do want to keep that in mind. We continue to track the wintry mix sunday night and then could see a few lingering rain showers early on monday. Otherwise, by the afternoon were dry and enjoying that high of 51 degrees. We start off tuesday dry, but as we get into the afternoon eechkd evening hours, another chance of a wintry mix. Rain is looking likely on a balmy wednesday. A High Temperature of 60 degrees and then thursday barbara, mostly cloudy skies. Cooler and breezy with a high of 38. All right amelia. Thank you. New this morning, the california truck driver accused of causing a Train Derailment that hurt dozens is a free man. Released from jail overnight after the District Attorney announce head will not be charged at this time. Accused of abandoning his truck on tuesday. 28 people were hurt. Today a man is facing charges after a fatal crash in Frederick County maryland. A woman died when a truck hit the car she was riding in headon. Police say alcohol may have been a factor in that crash. It happened at 8 00 last night on route 40 in the ridge road area of middletown. The Truck Driving westbound crossed into the eastbound lane hitting the car headon. The driver of the car was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Youre going to be able to bet on the next olympic games. At least you will be in nevada. The Nevada Gaming Commission voted in favor of opening up its sports books to olympic bidding. They voepted edvoted yesterday, just in time for the summer games in rio and already creating excitement. You cant limit a certain sport. So many other things well be able to take wages on whos going to win the whole thing and gold silver bronze. So many different variations. But sports that are decided by judges such as ice skating will not abe lewed to edbe allowed to be bet on. Approving a settlement with uber putting them under state regulation. Under the terms, uber drennan required to apply for a permit and those names submitted to the Public Service commission for background check. The settlement applies to uber black and uber suv services. Metro use letters not be payrs will not pay higher fares nopt raising fares on trains or buses or make substantial cuts to services. Metro will focus on other ways budget. You wont be able to use a green belt metro station this weekend. It will be closed. Bus rees place trains between college park and green belt on saturday and sunday because of track work being done. Orange blue and yellow line trains will run every 20 minutes. Red line trainless run between 8 00 and 15 minutes apart. Your student and Stafford County could move to a new school. The fredericksburg star reported they decided to redistrict schools to help with overcrowding. Sfrunts Rodney Thompson shirley hooim and h. H. Poole middle schoolless go to new schools map total of 408 students will move under this option. Stafford county middle school will receive the majority of the students. Students are stent to stafford middle because that school is experiencing under enrol paying at the pump and your pocketbook. Why gas prices are going up. A consumer alert. What you need to know about your credit card to make sur you may want to gas up your car this weekend. Apparently prices are about to go up. Gas buddy dotcom says prices go up in two weeks when stations shift from winter blend gasoline to summer blend. According to aaa it will cost you 2. 49 for a gallon of regular in d. C. Right now. Its a little cheaper in maryland. Prices are average about 2. 36 in the area. Gas is cheapest in virginia at 2. 23 a gallon for regular on average. First 4 traffic receive add bunch of fantastic meet your street ideas and Melissa Mollet says keep them coming. A trip down memory lane tonight and hunter mill road a route that has huge historical significance for our area. Shell talk about that and have you ever wondered about lawyers road in Fairfax County . She looks into that street name as well as take as peek at the original road now somewhat hidden in the woods. If you have a road youve always wondered absent melissa a 2340e9 note on twitter first4traffic. Still ahead on news4 midday, the latest remodeling trends. Bathrooms becoming the new kitchen. Well tell you why. Well show you what you can do when you renovate your bathroom. So exciting to see everyone again. Were all friends. In real life. So lovely. Yeah but we hadnt seen each other in that garb right, and in that hallway in a long time. Saved by the bell reunion. Thats today lifes running out of shaving stuff. And thankfully being able to find backups. Lifes running out of shaving stuff. And thankfully being able to find backups. The deadline is approaching to get more secure credit cards into your hands. Problem is not all are ready. A recent survey finds the industry is lagging behind its own october 15th deadline to get microchipped credit cards in the mail outplacing magnetic strip cards. Three out of every ten credit card holders have been issued a chip card. Men are more likely than women to have a chip card already. News 4 consumer reporter Erika Gonzalez is here with a look what shes working on. Whats going on . Good to see you. Right in the middle of tax season. You may have plans to file yours this weekend. What if someone already filed in your name . Your refund ripped off. Thats exactly what happened to this man right here coming up tonight on new4 at 5 00, ill show you how long it could take to get Something Like this resolved and the steps that you can take if you learned that the same thing happened to you. Coming up tonight on new4 at 5 00. Thank you. See you tonight. There are new remodels trends when it comes to renovating your bathroom. Many people are making their bathroom as showpiece, like the kitchen. Joining us to talk about that is contractor licensed contractor and host of i hate my bathroom jack devlin. Good to see you. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. Youre in town because at the expo show . Yes. And working the capital home and garden show. Whats cool about that is that people can come and get the inspiration they need because it is were stuck indoors now, want to renovate or homes and putting money back into hopefully bathrooms more than kitche talk a little about that. Some of the things people are doing . You see the switch. Bathrooms, people want that spalike feel. Starting to put more effort and money into that. They want to start the day and end the day in a nice comfortable environment. People are starting to kind of not necessarily stop the kitchen remodels but really foescusing on the bathroom. Start with budget unfortunately. Always a tough situation. I know. Nobody likes to talk about money. It is what it is but thats how you prioritize what you want to do. Obviously, first thing i say, a simple way to do that is personalize your bathroom. Start with new tiles. Again, no sharing tiles anymore. That day is gone. I have six brothers. If i had to share all my brothers towels not good. Pick out a color for the towels that have to go with the paint . Some people, if you want to paint, you can paint. If youre not into painting if you rent Something Like that go with pops of color that you can have that kind of bold style, but i can swap out a towel simply. Most people just dont personalize it. I brought pictures of my kids. The bathroom is like the rest of the home. It doesnt have to stop when you walk into that door. Talk about some of the other stuff, the big stuff, like changing your toilet. Go for the lowboys. Are those in . No. I dont want my feet to fall asleep when using the restroom. Comfort height is the right way to go. Look at these pictures. The neolit toilet. Look at that tank. Its sexy beautiful. Different. Yes it can be a little higher in price. Look now can you match that to me says spalike feel and we dont have to stick with the boring old, white porcelain poilt toilet. Expand and make it special. If youre making changing the least expensive . Ripping out gutting your bathroom going with tile i do believe that the toilet can be expensive, but look wallmount the faucets are huge because people dont have to clean around them or anything like that. You can install brand new tile throughout your bathroom as well. Which in this case i brought a couple here to show you. Look at the technology now. Theyre beautiful. These are not what you used ago. The woodlook tile is very very in right now. This is could go on shower floor . On shower floor with a linear drain, 0 an wall. Literally anywhere. You can personalize it. If you want to go with something less bold if you will but it has that grain look to it larger format tiles are in. Less grout to clean. Less maintenance. And dulls expo. Yes. There tonight at 7 00. Come early and meet my friend chris as well. Glad to have you. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. The time right now 11 49. A fashion mystery solved while people are seeing a dress differently. Gentlemen snow days and testing. How last years snow days affected students a. P. Exam scores plus we check in with storm team 4 meteorologist meteorologist amelia many of you parents are worried all the snow days your kids had to affect their a. P. Test scores but as news 4 iteam Scott Mcfarland found out those fears seemed to fail the fact check. Part d reporter preparing his classroom for the twists and turns of the a. P. Economics test test. They get hard around do that on purpose. Reporter test day for students may 14th and kids who score at least a 3 out of 5 on the test earn College Credit for this full year of study. That score is critical. Absolutely. The only thing that will determine if they get a credit or not. Reporter a senior thinks the a. P. Test should be easier this year. Last year snow and snow days cost about a dozen days in the classroom before the big exams like it did for tense of thousands of High School Students throughout or area. At any point did it get stressful . Definitely towards the end because of how many i was taking and how they were falling on the same day. Reporter so concerned about scores plummeting last year local schools heavily lobbied the a. P. Exam administrateors to give local kids a later test day in 2014 and the College Board did, offering a second alternative set of a. P. Exams days later, but the iteams review found only a small fraction of local schools actually used the later date in 2014. None in Prince William county and less than 2 of all high schools in maryland. Most instead chose to race to get kids ready for that original midmay date. Selfmotivated kids. Reporter despite all the worries, a. P. Test scores and the snowfilled winter 2014 jumped in most places. Passing scores up 1 . Passing scores up 3 in Frederick County and even larger increase in loudon. When the snow days keep coming and coming i get anxious, students get ang shut. Reporter a. P. Science teacher, surprised by what the iteam found and it might be contributed to the prerecorded lessons on video students can watch at home and a. P. Students are among the most highly motivated. Whether we have 3 or 15 snow days theyve learned a lot of material. Built a lot of skills. Reporter the new study by Harvard University researchers finds absenteeism by individuals students hurts dhaevment more than the snow days because they fall out of step with their teachers and classmates. On snow days teachers and students remain at least on the same track. All of that snow didnt seem to slow down a. P. Tests participation either. The iteam found in d. C. Public schools percentage of High School Seniors taking a. P. Tests country. Scott mcfarland news 4 iteam. And we have updated the number of snow days for major School Districts throughout our region. Check your district by opening the nbc washington app and searching snow days. And were following a few developing stories for you. The senate just pass add bill that would keep the Homeland Security department running in the the end of september without the immigrationrelated riders attached to the bill by house republicans. The house is set to vote on their version later this afternoon. Funding for homeland xurptly expire at midnight if the two chambers cannot work out a deal. Stay with nbc 4. Well send push alerts on our app with the latest for you on the vote. Police are still searching for two missing teens in loudonun county county. They were last seen three days ago in the pursalville area. Both hes in medication for health issues. Foreign policy is emerging at a key theme for a group of republican 2016 hopefuls at the cpac meetings. Texas governor rick perry, wisconsin Governor Scott walker and florida senator marco rubio all struck hawkish tones in their remarks. Later today former Florida Governor jeb bush and kentucky senator rand paul will address the crowd there at cpac. Time for a final check on the forecast. Amelia . March begins on sunday and it is not going to feel like it at all. Its going to be i bet it wont. Not the way we want it to feel. No exactly. A high today of 37 in washington. Low 30s in the suburbs. Tomorrow its dry, its cold again. A high of 36. We start off dry on sunday barbara, by the Late Afternoon and evening hours a wintry mix could impact the area. Maybe delays potentially monday morning. More on this story. Talking about this. Asked once in the news kavrtcast what color is that dress . Some say blue with black lace others say a white dress and gold lace. In fact the dress is blue and black. Wired. Com has a scientific explanation why people cant agree on the color. It what do do with how we see and interpret colors during different times of the day. We asked and you answered according to our facebook poll most say the dress is white and gold but we both say its blue and black. Yes. And sounds like we are right. Ow producer told me he sees it as white and gold. Whatever you see, most looked at the same time of day, right . Everybodys talking about it. Thats news4 midday for today and for this week. We invite to you tune in at foushgs 5 00 and 6 00 and news throat the wend and back monday morning at 11 00 a. M. With news4 midday. Plan to join us. Well see you monday. Nicole hello. Dont worry. Henderson assured me the coast is clear. Grandpa vlad is at the office. I am here to brighten your day. Brady well, it doesnt need brightening, but okay. Nicole a. K. Whitmores in the news again. But not for another corporate takeover. No. He is making license plates in federal prison. You will not be hearing from him for another 15 to 20 years. Brady love it. Nicole yes. Brady love this. Thank you so much for showing me this. Nicole mmhmm. Well, no wonder your day didnt need brightening. You two look disgustingly happy. Brady [chuckles] we are. Nicole well, im happy for you, brady. 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