Through the later part of your morning. Then the steadier rain comes back in the afternoon. You can expect it to be raining on the evening drive with temperatures only in the upper 50ed. Heres a look at the radar. Light rain heading into the district. Heaviest rain off in the higher elevations. As we go through the morning hours, more rain and forecast. Closer look at the radar. Lets head over to chuck. Thanks, sheena. Umbrellas are definitely required for today. Maybe the galoshes as we head into tomorrow because theres even more steadier rain coming our way for your tuesday. Rainfall amounts between now and the time all the rain comes to an end probably early wednesday morning. One to maybe as much as two inches of rain. Right now light rain showers from mount air ri to frederick, maryland. Showers all up and down the i80 corridor. No heavy rain. Steadier, heavy rain starting late this afternoon into the evening and overnight hours. Outdoor planner then, plan on rain drops this morning. Rain drops this evening. Moderate rain for much of the day tomorrow. Rain coming to an end on wednesday and sheena will show you that forecast through the end of the week. Temperatures should be back in the 80s starting as early as thursday. Lets go over to Melissa Mollet partnered up with chopper 4. Headed to a problem in gaithersburg. Right now getting a report of a crash at 370. As youre hitting diamondback drive. Were going to head that way and see whats going on there this morning. 270 looking quite good. You have that slowdown here as youre headed out of fredericks. Road work might be hanging around or the delays hanging around. All of that green showing you where the rain is falling adding to the pain of this morning commute. Inner loop and outer loop of the beltway looking quite good. No big worries there. When we come of issues on metro. Top stories were following at 6 03. A newly open ramp will make rush hour a bit easier in the district. It allows drivers to merge directly from massachusetts avenue to i395 south. Adam tuss will break down the new traffic pattern coming up. Congress heads back to work today with a big task on the agenda. Lawmakers must find a way to avoid a Government Shutdown by friday. Budget negotiations have been complicated by the white houses demand for a border wall. Former president barack obama will make his first major post presidency speech today. Hell be speaking at a university of Chicago Forum about civic engagement. Aides tell nbc news obama is not expected to criticize President Trump. And take a look at these roaring flames that ripped through an Apartment Building in Fort Washington, maryland. The fire has left 11 families this morning. News 4s justin finch is live on the scene with the latest. Justin, good morning. Reporter eun, good morning. Prince georges county fire Officials Say that some of the damage could have been avoided if the fire alarm was quickly activated and if firefighters were called to the scene right away. Here now cell phone calling for help. 11 apartments in all were damaged. Prince georges county fire Officials Say it seems someone tried putting out the fire before they arrived. They found no signs anyone set off the fire alarm. Firefighters made several rescues here and neighbors even teemed up to save each other from a back balcony a woman lowered an 80yearold woman to the ground. And from the front third floor balcony a mother tossed her children to safety in a neighbors arms. The conditions were unbearable. I was in my apartment and i kept sll out and on the back side of this building was a woman, her hanging another woman out of the window and the smoke was just everywhere. Reporter as you can see, that third floor apartment there absolutely destroyed by the fire here. No major injuries to report. The cause of this fire remains under investigation, and this morning 30 people are now out of their homes. Back in to you. Thank you, justin. Lets go to angie goff at the live desk. Shes following the latest on the secretary of defenses trip to afghanistan. Yes. We have new video, aaron, of the secretarys arrival in kabul. Defense secretary jim mattis arriving here greeted by some u. S. Officers and soldiers here. He is the first member of the cabinet to visit the war torn country. He will meet with afghan official alzheimers including the president. They will discuss war needs u. S. Support of Afghan Security forces. Mattis visit came day after the talibans attack. Thats the latest from the live desk. Aaron, back to you. Protests broke out after french voters promote two outside candidates to a Runoff Election for president. Independent emanuel macron finished first. He will face far right populist marine le pen. A bizarre crime in the palisades neighborhood. Yesterday afternoon a man stopped at a gas station on mcarthur boulevard. A suspect approached him and snatched something off of his shoulder. He hopped into the bmw and sped off. He didnt get farr. The cars owner ran to the crash site and started fighting with the suspect a the gas station attendant said it happened really fast. He had a lot of money when he came into the station and evidently that was put into the car and that was stolen with a suitcase. The Police Report was not kbleer what was taken. The 24yearold suspect was charged with robbery. Police were searching that area for a man who ran off with a bunch of cash after the crash. Right now police in the district are searching for this young woman. Her name is Tyonna Jackson. Shes 13 years old. She was last seen yesterday morning on savannah terrace in the southeast. We posted her picture in the nbc washington app. Youve probably seen these missing teen cases on facebook. One post in particular went viral last month but it had a lot of inaccurate information in it. All this week we are trying to clear up whats actually happening. Today d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will break ground on the parks at walter reed. The development of residential, office and retail neighborhood space is going up on Georgia Avenue northwest. Bowser says it will utilize new construction and reuse existing historic structures. Last year mayor bowser signed the Walter Reed Development omnibus act of 2016. It requires them to acquire 66 acres from the u. S. Army to make it possible for this project to move forward. 6 08. We turn now to the quest for the cup. Fans are celebrating the caps victory. So exciting. The caps made their way to round two as last nights overtime win. News 4s Carol Maloney breaks down the amazing victory from toronto. Reporter the capitals players who owned scored two goals in all of last years playoffs scored two here in toronto sunday night. Marcus johansson, nick named mojo, he and his mojo working scoring both goals in a 21 series clinching win. M caps through to round two. Its been a tough fight. I think toronto played really well and they gave us everything they had. A lot of credit to them for that. We stuck with it. We played our game and i think we you know, we deserved it and we fought hard for it. Every game, one goal, five overtimes. Listen, its margin of error is tiny, tiny, tiny. Sometimes its just a couple of millimeters. We came through the last couple of games when we had to up the anti. Up next, a rematch with the pittsburgh penguins. Bring it on. Game one on thursday at Verizon Center. From toronto, Carol Maloney, news 4 sports. Heres the schedule game one and two at the Verizon Center thursday and saturday. Love the home team advantage, home ice advantage. Saturdays game can be seen right here on nbc 4. Game three and four monday and we do you have enough red to get through . Im going to have to continue to find more red dresses. You may see the same ones over and over again. As for the wizards, they will play tonight. They lost game 3 on saturday after they were unable to recover by a fast start from the hawks. They play tonight at 8 00 in atlanta. The wizards lead the series two games to one. A dangerous fall from a moving van. A dash cam captures the moment a little girl topless out of an emergency exit and who swooped in to save her. And new details about a former teacher accused of kidnapping a teenager. What his sister is saying about him ahead of his first court appearance. And you need the umbrella this morning. You need a rain boots and you need them for a couple of days, believe it or not. Were going to have a rain pattern today and tomorrow and it will be a little chilly but we do have much warmer weather and we end out the week. Coming up, chuck at dominion, were putting our energy to work creating a cleaner environment by using cleaner Energy Sources like solar, wind and natural gas. Weve reduced Carbon Emissions by nearly 25 , which is the equivalent of taking close to two million cars off the road. Cleaner air and cleaner water. Depend on us for more than energy. Theres work to be done. Its not going to be easy but theres grit inside of you. And if you need extra motivation the grad fund at Strayer University can help push you forward. Because up to your last year of classes could be on us. Thats right. On us. Today is the day. Strayer university. Lets get it, america. Youre watching news 4 today. Fairfax county police help this lost cockatoo get home safely. Police tweeted this photo. The bird is perched inside the cruiser. Writing her own report there. I know. She wanted to ride along and be helpful. Okay. Fair enough. 6 14 right now. Want to turn to chuck bell. A little cool this morning. A little wet. Little bit. Little bit of both and its going to stay that way for today and for tomorrow. Youll need your insulated raincoat for today as temperatures staying in the 50s. Have your umbrella ready to go, thats what your kids are going to look like this afternoon, morning and in the 50s. Sheena will join you with the five day forecast which has a couple of days in the 80s on it. Whats going on with chopper 4 . Chopper 4 inner loop at route 50. Had a crash there. Going to see if its still impacting anything. New problem here, 27 near brink road. New crash reported there as well here this morning. Another crash westbound Prince William parkway after miniville road. Train single tracking blue and silver road between addison and morgan boulevard. 270 at the top of the beltway looks okay. 66 and 95 no major problems, just a little slow. Listen to wtop 105 fm when you hop in your car. Melissa, thank you. 6 15 today. The former teacher who disappeared with his teenage student will appear in court. 50yearold tad disappeared and was arrested lax week. His 15yearold student was found safe. Police say he kidnapped Elizabeth Thomas last week. Hes expected to appear this afternoon. He faces a charge of transporting a minor across state lines for the purposes of sex. This morning on the today show well learn more about who cummins is from his sister, daphne quinn. He has done this horrible thing that he has to pay for, but hes still my brother and i love him. You can watch the entire interview coming up on the today show right after news 4 today. Bill oreilly will return to his podcast today according to his website he will host a new episode of his no spin news podcast. It will be available on his website to premium members at it will be the first time he speaks publicly since fox news cut ties with him last week. This video, which is on your screen right now, is disturbing, but the child there is going to be okay. A volunteer firefighters dashboard camera was rolling when the back door of a van swung open and a girl, 4 years old, fell out of it. The bus driver kept going. Little girls parents say she has a broken jaw and will need surgery but is expected to make a full recovery. Whats also shocking about this incident is that it took the bus driver 15 minutes to even realize what happened. Its not clear whether she opened the door or whether it was unlocked. Very scary situation. Glad she made it okay. About 60,000 children are taken to the emergency room each year because they get into medication that was left within reach. You can help prevent these incidents by getting rid of consumer reporter susan hogan has a look at why this is the per week to think about cleaning out your medicine cabinet. Reporter listen to this. Consumer reports found in a recent survey that 19 of people have not cleaned out their medicine cabinet in more than three years. This saturday its called National Drug take back day. Its a Good Opportunity to get rid of those old prescription drugs you have hanging around your house. Your medicine cabinet can become a dumping ground for old drugs. The risk for accidental poisoning increases with every bottle of pills you keep. Over the counter medicines can be an issue, particularly ones that look and taste just like candy. Those leftover pills are far from harmless. Taking them incorrectly or accidentally could be deadly or land a child in the e. R. If you cant drop off your unwanted drugs this saturday, heres how to safely dispose of them. Be sure to remove any personal information from the bottle first and then mix the drugs with somethi coffee grounds or kitty litter, seal it in a plastic bag and toss it into the garbage. If you want to know where you can drop off your drugs, open up the nbc 4 app and search drug take back day. 6 19. Want to turn to todays forecast. Rainy and cold, sheena. It is. Before you leave make sure you have the umbrella and rain boots. It is a little chilly out there. Dont expect temperatures to warm up today. The rain and the cloud cover will keep us cooler. Here is the radar. We have some showers off to the west where we have been seeing them all morning. 81 is pretty wet. Winchester, mart continuesburg, charlestown even towards the district now. Very light rain falling around fairfax down to woodbridge. Clinton seeing the more moderate rainfall. 95 is pretty wet since weve seen that rain slide up from the south. Were going to give a little bit of a break. Youre seeing that down to the south. If you look farther down to the south there is mor more rain later on today. As we go through the day tomorrow. If youre walking the dog today, if you need one, heres spade. Hes available foradoption. 8 00 a. M. , if youre walking the dog scattered showers. Chilly. By noon today, scattered showers. Around 56 degrees. More steady rain as we get closer into the evening hours. So well see more waves of rain starting to move in later today as well. 51 in lord, 52 dulles, 54 in the district. Warrington, more rain moving in 5 00 p. M. Rainy evening commute. Periods of rain overnight. Expect more showers and by the evening tomorrow expect more rain around. Temperature wise were in the 50s again tomorrow. We do warm up wednesday, 70ed. 80s return by the end of the week. Chuck and i are back in a bit with a closer look at the forecast. Lets check the roan good morning, melissa. Good morning. Just got off the phone with police in frederick with an overturned tractortrailer. They are not on the scene. We dont know exactly what to expect. Chopper 4 headed that way, 140 at 15. He should be there in the next 10 minutes or so. Inner loop at 50 all lanes cleared. Chopper did check that out for us this morning. We just had the vehicle on the side of the roadway. The rest of the beltway here looks quite good. Were going to head to the north there. You can see all of this rain falling across the area this morning. Westbound Prince William parkway after miniville road, still have that crash. 66 and 95 looking pretty normal. More on the problem in Frederick County coming up. Thank you. Concerns over d. C. s missing kids sparked a social Media Campaign. This week were breaking down the rumors and showing you whats being done to keep our kids home. The first part of our series next. Plus, could selfies hold the se uhoh. How insurance are using photos to figure out how long youll live. Today on Ellen Jennifer lopez stops by with her kids. Ellen airs on nbc 4. Be sure t youre watching news 4 today. You may remember these hashtags, find our girls, missing d. C. Girls, and pray for d. C. Well known people all over the country shared the pictures of missing local teens talking about an epidemic that didnt really exist. Many, and it forced d. C. s mayor to take action. That is why all this week we will focus on an effort to keep our kids home. Chris jenner, viola davis, tirajip. Henson. Talking about them to tmz. We have to look out for all of us. The reality, there was no spike in disappearances. Rather, d. C. Police launched a social Media Campaign back in march and that effort sparked an unintended reaction. Now city leaders including the director of child and Family Services are coming together, not just to set the record straight but also to help find missing children. We really appreciate all the attention and the spotlight that has been shown on our kids who are missing. Certainly we know that the response cant be any one particular agency or certainly not even government alone and definitely not just metropolitan police department. It is going to te wide effort. News 4 was there when local child and Family Welfare agencies came together to launch mayor Muriel Bowsers six point plan to combat the problem. Whatever we put in place, we want to ensure that theres an accountability piece to that as well. Now next month mayor bowser will get those recommendations. The keeping our kids home series continues tomorrow with a look at how d. C. Police try to find children and what they can learn from kids who run away. And were working for you to help bring kids home. We have an interactive map with pictures on the nbc washington app. Search missing children map. It is a Government Shutdown that could hit your paycheck. The final negotiations that will impact thousands of local federal workers. Reporter im adam tuss. Coming through this part of the district today, man, oh, man, you better pay attention. Ill im 26 more likely to develop an irregular heartbeat. I have a 65 higher chance of developing diabetes. No matter who we are, these diseases can be managed or prevented when caught early on. Because with better research, the right medicine, and with doctors who help keep me healthy to begin with, we will thrive. Hey allergy muddlers are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool . Try zyrtec® zyrtec® starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Stick with zyrtec®. Muddle no more®. Try rhinocort® allergy spray for powerful nasal allergy relief. Now on news 4 today, raging flames. Families scramble to safety as neighbors turn into heroes to help each other out. Five days and counting. The steps being taken to prevent a Government Shutdown and the one barrier that could hold up a deal. And a rainy start to your work week, but if you are returning from spring break, dont put away the flipflops just yet. News 4 today starts now. Good monday morning, everybody. It is 6 30 right now. And get ready for another weather roller coaster this week. Be sure to grab the umbrella before you head out the door because you will need it. Later this week it is going to feel like summer around here. Our storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell and Sheena Parveen are tracking all of this for you. Good morning. Good morning. Cloudy and cool over the weekend. That pattern is set to continue. Wihe will it get warm . Nice and warm by the end of the week. For now a rainy, cool start today and tomorrow believe it or not. Before you leave the house have the umbrella, rain boots. Youre going to need them for two whole days. In the district, showers moving through. Sprinkles at best as well as most of the area. The steadier rain, 81 and winchester is where were seeing most of it. Now well see a little bit of a break. Steadier rain is down to the south. That will be moving in later on this afternoon. For the morning commute, wet roads. Temperatures staying in the 50s through the day. Dont put away the umbrella just yet. We have the rain through tomorrow, too. Well take a closer look at that forecast. Lets check the roads with melissa. Good morning. Brand new problem in ronco. Right now do have a crash here at the intersection blocking a couple of lanes this morning. Hoping theyll get that out of the way and that no one was hurt there obviously this morning. Inner loop at 50, that westbound 236 at southland avenue, crash there. Prince william at miniville road, still have that accident. Two problems bottom of the beltway, 4 southbound at cove point and temple at kirby and l allento allentown, police blocking lanes. 6 32. Heres a look at top stories. Police are searching for a 13yearold girl missing from the district. Take a look at your screen. This is Tyonna Jackson last seen yesterday morning on savannah terrace in the southeast. 30 people out of their homes after a fire in a Fort Washington apartment. Several people forced to jump off of their balconies to escape flames. At least seven people hurt. Everyone expected to survive. Washington capitals powered through the first round. They knocked out the Toronto Maple Leafs in overtime in a win in game six. Next onto the pittsburgh night. Go. Bring it friday at midnight is the deadline for the Government Shutdown. Theres still a lot that hangs in the balasz lawmakers return. News 4s angie goff is in the newsroom. Aaron, i feel like weve been here before, right . Yeah. This is a situation weve seen time and time again in washington. It looks like this time the Sticking Point comes down to one of the president s Biggest Campaign promises, and that is the border wall. President trump wants some money for a wall at the mexico border worked into that funding deal. Its a nonstarter for democrats. Another issue on the table, the Affordable Care act. They say they want to withhold some of that money for subsidies in the Affordable Care act, but looking for a compromise. The white house says theyll continue paying for it if democrats support giving them money for the wall. Whats likely to happen is something were very familiar with. Lawmakers will probably pass another shortterm measureo keep the government going for at least another week or two until theyre able to hammer down a longterm plan. Eun, back to you. Angie, thank you. The man police say was behind a wave of bomb threats against Jewish Community centers has been indicted in israel. Prosecutors also say the 18yearold israeli american targeted airports, malls, police stations and a u. S. Senators office with his threats. The hacker was arrested last month after a trans atlantic investigation with the fbi. Today a painful reminder for people who knew and loved the savopoulos family will be reduced to rubble. Demolition will wrap up today. Construction to tear down the house began last week. If i39 5 is part of your to look different this morning. The ramp allows people to directly merge from massachusetts avenue to the tunnel. Adam tuss is live to show us how this is still a tricky way to navigate. Adam, good morning. Reporter good morning, eun. This is going to be definitely different for anyone who comes through this part of the district. Take a i look at all of the signage that are here, all of the barrels here and the newport tall itself is right there in the middle of massachusetts avenue pretty much where it hits Fourth Street and you can miss that portal if youre not looking for it specifically. So, again, a new traffic pattern for us this week. A new way to get around and it is going to require some study and extensive work here to make sure that you get around. Take a look. We took a drive through this tunnel. This is what its going to look as you make your way on to southbound 395 from west bound massachusetts avenue im sorry, make that eastbound massachusetts avenue. Its going to require a little bit more attention in this area. One of the other things happening here is because they got this work done theyre going to be able to resurface the top of massachusetts and third and Fourth Street in this area. New sidewalks, new pavement. That is good. All of this is happening because of the massive Capital Crossing project thats going to add new city blocks to what was the open air section of the third street tunnel, but a lot of traffic is going to be diverted also down to d street or sent around the block here to go back into the portal. So if youre coming through here this morning or this afternoon or any part of the day today, be aware that it is going to be different down here. Give yourself some extra time, guys. Back to you. Adam, thank you. Violence and backlash after election day. The shakeup in the Political Landscape in france and what it could mean for us in the u. S. Youve heard the saying a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, it could be worth a lot more than that. Learn how your selfie could forecast today, later on this afternoon and also tomorrow. Its going to be a rainy couple of days. Also chilly. Make sure you have the raincoat with you. Coming up in just a bit, chuck and i are back with the tingim vo ov got it. I gotcha baby. vo its being there when youre needed most. Love is knowing. Hes the one. vo . It was meant to be. And love always keeps you safe. Were fine. vo love is why we built a car you can trust. Now and for a long time to come. The allnew Subaru Impreza sedan and fivedoor. A car you can love no matter what road youre on. The Subaru Impreza. More than a car, its a subaru. And now your storm team 4 forecast. Good morning, everybody. Sun came up at 6 19 this morning. All cloud cover outside here and thats the way its going to stay. Four things to know about the weather, grab that umbrella. Cool and wet weather today and tomorrow and well turn much, much warmer. Sheena has the forecast in ten minutes. Planning out your mo once this morning and probably two or three more times later today. Well see you back with the extended forecast. Good morning, melissa. Good morning. Speaking of the rain, look at the beltway. All of the green showing you where it is falling. Very wet on the beltway. No issues on the beltway. Keep our fingers crossed. Wouldnt that be nice and a gift for everybody. Chopper 4 at gude drive, a pretty nasty fender bender. Well look at travel times and all the other issues coming up. Melissa, thank you. Nasa astronaut Peggy Whitman is making history again. As of today she has spent a remarkable 535 days in space. That is longer than any other american astronaut. We tweeted this out about her space mission. Quote, it is one of those rides that you hope never ends. I am so grateful for all of those who helped me on each of my missions. The 57yearold is also the oldest woman in e. Former president barack obama prepares to return to the public stage. Learn about his first stop on a whirlwind tour and what will bring him to the east coast. The quest for the cup is still very much alive. Now caps fans are celebrating but theyre already looking ahead at the next matchup with a familiar foe. Reporter it was a fire so fast moving and destructive neighbors only had seconds to save themselves and each other. A live report isp next. U right now on news 4 today, trapped by flames. Tossing her kids off the balcony. Neighbors help neighbors get everyone to safety. Government shutdown. Whats on the line just days from the deadline. Burden to keep it open is on the republicans. The wall is immoral, expensive, unwise. Unsettled weather. Grab your rain gear and the nbc washington app. Storm team 4 says this speedweek full of ups and downs. Score Marcus Johansson pushes the caps through to round 2. The caps clinch the series. Margin of error is tiny, thyme b tiny, tiny. Now its on to round 2. What a battle. First at inferno engulfing an apartment complex. Take a look at this video here. The flames and the fire force dozens of people out of their homes. That fire broke out at the glen rock Landing Apartments sunday. News 4s justin finch is live there now where investigators will return to figure out what caused this fire. Justin . Reporter aaron, theyll no doubt check out the top level apartment here. That shows a lot of damage. Talking about their unit being gutted by flames. Now the roof is also collapsed. As that fire burned on sunday, neighbors had to act quickly. Now cell phone video does show those flames destroying that top floor unit on sunday morning. Now Prince Georges County fire Officials Say they got calls about this fire close to 8 30 on sunday morning. Several calls about a fire off of 2500 avenue of win rock avenue. No one set off the alarm and also someone tried to put the fire out here on scene neighbors had to help each other lower each other from the balcony to the ground and also helping each other by catching a womans children. A lady is screaming saying, help me, help me get my kids. Somebody call 911. I get off my balcony. I see her lower her kids. I see guys running over and she was tossing her kids off the balcony. Officials say if you see a fire the size of a small trash can in your home call 911 and leave. In all, five people were checked out here on scene. Two others taken to a hospital. No major injuries here on scene to report. The cause of this fire remains under investigation this morning. Back in to you. Justin finch live for us in Fort Washington. Thank you. This morning d. C. Police are investigating a bizarre crime in the palisades neighborhood. Yesterday afternoon a man stopped at a gas station on mcarthur boulevard. A suspect approached him and snatched something from his shoulder. Sped off. He didnt get far. The cars owner ran to the crash site and started fighting with the suspect as police arrived. The gas station attendant said this all happened very fast. He had a lot of money when he came in the station. Evidently that was put in the car at some point and that was stolen with a suitcase. Now the suspect from pennsylvania was charged with robbery. Police were also reportedly searching the area for a man who ran off with a bunch of cash after the accident. It is 6 48. President trump marks his first 100 days on saturday. As he approaches that mark he has a record low approval rate of just 40 , but before he gets to saturday Congress Must reach a funding deal by midnight friday to avoid a Government Shutdown. Some republicans say a Government Shutdown cant happen. Afford to send a message to the world that the United States government, by the way, is only partially functioning. President trump is also expected to now to a developing story. The leaders of both china and japan reached out to President Trump overnight urging restraint after north korea detained be a u. S. Citizen over the weekend. Tony kim was detained by north korean authorities on saturday at Pyongyang Airport as he was trying to leave the country. He was in north korea for several weeks teaching accounting at a university there. This is the third american to be held by the regime. And a political shakeup in france and the violence backlash. Angie goff at the live desk. Reporter aaron, take a look at the video of the protest following that first round of voting. Hundreds of demonstrators in the streets of paris. Some overturned cars were burned. Some were arrested. This after two outsiders after a runoff for the president ial election. Far right Leader Marine Le Pen and centrist emanuel macron who wants to stay in the e. U. This is mainstream candidate will not be on the ballot. Former president barack obama will make his first major post presidency speech today. He will be at a forum in the university of chicago to discuss civic engagement. It will have students from high school to graduate school level. Aides seau bomb ma is not expected to criticize President Trump but he will advocate for his administrations policies. Today d. C. Mayor muriel bower will break ground on the parks at walter reed. Its going up here on Georgia Avenue in northwest. Bowser says it will utilize new construction and reuse existing historic structures. Last year bowser signed the Walter Reed Development omnibus act of 2016. It authorized the district to acquire 66 acres from the walter reed campus from the u. S. Army to make it possible for this project to move forward. Now to the quest 4 the cup. Fans are another exciting game. The caps made their way to round 2 with the win in overtime. News 4s Carol Maloney breaks down the amazing victory from toronto. Reporter the capital players who only scored two goals in all of last years playoffs scored two here in toronto sunday night. Marcus johansson nick named mojo, well, he had his mojo working scoring both goals in a 21 series clinching win. Marcus johansson pushes the caps through to round two been a tough fight. I think toronto played really well and they gave us everything they had. I think thats you know, a lot of credit to them. But we stuck with it. We played our game and i think we you know, we deserved it and we fought hard for it. Every game one goal, five overtimes. Listen, its margin of error is tiny, tiny, tiny. Sometimes its a couple millimeters here or there. We came through in the last two games when we had we got the big goals when we needed them. Up next, a remash with the pittsburgh penguins. Bring it on. Game one on thursday. From toronto, Carol Maloney, news 4 sports. Bring it. Here is the schedule. Game one and two are at the Verizon Center thursday and saturday. Make sure you watch saturdays game right here on nbc 4. Game three and four are in pittsburgh. May 1st and may 3rd. If necessary game 5 in d. C. On may 6th. Game 6 on monday may 8th in pittsburgh and potential game 7 on may 10th at the verizon schedule. I want four in a row and be done with it. Right. No more overtime games. Lets check in with Melissa Mollet with a look at your first four traffic. Good mornings, guys. New problem here that just popped up. Outer loop on the American Legion bridge. Sounds legitimate though im not seeing it the rest of the beltway is looking okay. You can see all of the rain across the area with the green superimposed over my maps. Chopper 4 at gude drive hoping they can get things out of the way. 270 at montrose road, main and local roads slow now probably because of the rain. Westbound at 236 southland avenue and westbound Prince William after min miniville ave. Temple hill road between kirby and Allentown Police blocking some lanes. Top of the beltway, no problems. Slowdowns northbound and southbound on 295 as youre near 32. 270 south looks okay. Top of the beltway is a little slow. 66 in bound, 95 northbound, same situation going about 40 miles per hour. Remember to listen to wtop 105 f. M. When yoop good morning, melissa. Its rainy, it is chilly outside. Before you leave make sure you have the umbrella. Rain both today and tomorrow. Were going to be clearing by wednesday though not clearing into sunshine but at least drying out is probably a better description of wednesday. Then we get hotter as we go later into this week. Then well see more sunshine. Heres a look at the radar. Very light showers around the district. Maybe some sprinkles. Along 81 near winchester, ma martinsburg. Wet roads, sprinkles around the district. Look down to our south. We have more rain here and thats going to be some steady rain for later on this afternoon. Temperature wise in the mid to low 50s. If youre exercising today, youll need the raincoat. Keep in mind the steadier rain later on. 5 00, 6 00 p. M. , more rain moves in. Were not done today. Lets head over to chuck with a look at the forecast. Couple of more cloudy days we need the rainfall so well take it. Now that the weekend is over, its all right to rain again. The steadier rain that you see down around north carolina, thats moving in our direction for later tonight. Tomorrow also will be a very rainy day, particularly in the first half of the day. Heres tomorrow morning at 5 00 a. M. Here comes that wash of moderate rain. Second half of the morning commute tomorrow all the way through lunch hour and off and on pockets of rain likely to continue all the way through the remainder of the day, even as late as 7 00 tomorrow. Still some showers around. How much rain . And we do need it. On average an inch to as much as an inch and a half. 2r5 temperature wise were stuck again. Sheena is talking about the 80s. Yes, i am. Near 90 degrees. Saturday and sunday looks good in the forecast. We will be warming up and drying out. The weather as we go into the weekend will certainly make up for it. A lot of people will tnk hot outside. Because it will be. Sheena, thank you. 6 56 now. A selfie may hold the secret to how long you live. Several Insurance CompaniesTesting New Technology that uses facial analytics and other data to estimate life expectancy. It turns out that facial lines and contours, droops and dark spots could indicate how well youre aging. When that data is paired with other information it can help determine whether you qualify for life insurance. I dont take good selfies. Thats not good news for me. 6 56. 4 things to know. 30 people displaced after this fire at a Fort WashingtonApartment Building. At least seven people hurt there. Follow news 4s justin finch on twitter for more. Congress returns today. They have until midnight friday to keep the government open. If they dont, the government will shutdown. D. C. Police searching for a missing 13yearold. Take a look at the picture on your screen, tyonna last seen yesterday morning. Protests break out after french voters promote two outsiders to a runoff. Emanuel macron finished first and he will face marine le pen, an e. U. Opponent. And that is the broadcast this morning. We appreciate you waking up with us. The today show is next. Well see you in 25 minutes. Make it a great monday, everybody. Good morning, countdown to shutdown. A friday deadline for a new spending plan looming large, but republicans and democrats miles apart over everything from health care to tax reform and that border wall. Can even a temporary deal be reached in just five days . Detained. A u. S. Citizen taken into custody in north korea, one of three now being held there. 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