Let s get right to chief meteorologist Patrick Rockey with more on what we can expect. After our wintry weekend, the work week is going to look and feel a lot more springlike. Even our cool downs won t be that cool. A cold front will approach the region on tuesday. Ahead of that front southwest winds will warm us up into the upper 50s and the lower 60s. We will see increasing clouds and a slight chance for showers, mainly on the outer banks. But as the cold front crosses the region on wednesday, we do expect scattered showers. In fact, some of our northern communities, like the middle peninsula and the Northern Neck may see a little sleet or snow mixed in at the start. We will start the day with temperatures in the mid 40s, falling into the 30s by the afternoon. Some of the wet weather will linger into early on thursday, but most of the day is looking dry with clearing skies and high temperatures back in the mid 40s. But then we start a warming trend. We will climb into the lower 50s on friday, mid 50s on saturday and around 60 on caused thousands of accidents across the state. According to state police most of those crashes happened right here in Hampton Roads. Newschannel 3 s allison mechanic spoke with vdot officials today to see how they can better prepare for the next storm. So allison what did they say . Well barbara les according to vdot the storm isn t quite overp for them yet. They still have a lot of cleaning up to do but they say they did a lot of preparations for the storm and say they best way for the number of accidents to go down is for drivers to stay off the roads. 1 35 25 the storm is not over for us we are still working to clear roads we havent hit yet and clean up slush that is still there. Most of the ice and snow from this weekend s storm may be gone from the roads but for the Virginia Department of transportation their work is far from over. 1 34 04 we will probably be out there tonight working on roads that we havent hit yet lower priority roads and secondary roads. This weekend s storm hit drivers hard causing Virginia State police to a third of those accidents happened solely in Hampton Roads. And vdot says the accidents likely could ve been prevented if drivers were more cautious. 1 34 30 a lot of time our trucks are out there and they are being passed by vehicles. Drivers need to pay attention. Our drivers are out there and we have very few accidents ourselves so the roads are in decent condition. Bill collier with vdot says they prepared the roads well before the storm hit. Vdot says they had access to 25 thousand tons of salt and nearly 10 thousand tons of sand. But that wasn t enough to stop the hundreds of crashes. 1 34 51 whether the pavement is wet or slushy you can still have a problem even though the roads are in Good Condition by our standards. Now vdot is looking to see what they can do on their end before the nextp round of winter weather. 1 36 50 we continually update our procedures 1 37 00 its not that we learned a whole lot of things but that we continually there are number of trucks getting repaired today but many crews and equipment have already been sent up to Northern Virginia to help dig out there. Once the drivers and trucks get back they will be quickly repaired so they can be ready for the next storm. In Virginia Beach im allison mechanic newschannel 3. Keeping elbow road clear of ice and slick spots has been a problem for two Hampton Roads cities during this storm. Todd corillo explains the challenges Virginia Beach and chesapeake have faced. Elbow road is drying out but this weekend was another story. You can still the sand and the salt that lingers after a winter storm created some not so great driving conditions. Part of the issue the rural nature elbow road runs through chesapeake and Virginia Beach. Both cities experienced icy conditions forcing them to over the past few days in Virginia Beach the issues could be mitigated somewhat if funding materializes for a planned widening of elbow road. And in a storm that means treating re treating and keeping a close eye when conditions rapidly change. In Virginia Beach todd an amazing rescue in york county today after a trailer home caught fire. It happened at the harwood trailer park off route 17 just after one30 this afternoon. The assistant fire chief says a woman was in her bed when the fire started. He says an offduty sheriff s deputy and williamsburg fire lieutenant along with bystanders took action to save her. The woman wasn t breathing but they were able to revive her. Authorities say she was then flown to norfolk sentara. We re told her injuries are life threatening. A woman tells newschannel 3 she called 911 because there were kids crying saying a man exposed himself. Tonight we are learning how history of doing this in the past. Newschannel 3s Margaret Kavanagh has been looking into this case and joins us in newsroom with the story new at 5. This is the checklist for bail determination for 69 year old Virginia Beach man. It states that police think he s a danger to the community. 55 32 he d tell the kids all i got some candy i got some candy Ralph Gutshall remains held without bond facing 4 counts of indecent liberties in Virginia Beach. His next door neighbor says she called 911 when a group upset children between the ages of 69 told her that someone on the balcony exposed himself. 54 17 the kids came running up to me and they were like miss britney has something to tell you something to tell you and the little girl was saying that man up there showing me his and i don t know what to say or what to do she says she told their parents, then the cops. She says it happened on this balcony. We re told there are many children who live in this complex and play gutshall was arrested on january 7th. Today we got the checklist for bail determination which states he has a history of similar charges in pennsylvania. It states that he says hes seeing a psychologist and apologizes for what hes done. 59 04 we both agreed that he needed psychological counseling which he did and for a while i actually attended with him randy weems says he lived with gutshall for over a year. He says he was trying to get help through therapy. 59;13he gave an excellent methods of how to deal with any of these impulses such as meditation breathing exercises praying to jesus and he seem like he was on the ball making progress but randy says he is angry at his former roommate and say hes been kicked of their condo. 02 13 i regret what happened and hopefully i can find a roommate that s more compatiblep and safer gutshall denied an interview with us. He is not on the sex offender registry and we are working to live in the newsroom, mk, newschannel. Seven people were taken to the hospital after a car drove into the front of a chesapeake post office. It happened just before 1230 on north battlefield boulevard. Police say the driver of the car drove into the building from a parking space in front of the building. Officials say all seven people taken to the hospital are expected to be okay. Right now the crash is still under investigation and police haven t said if charges will be filed. This isn t the first time a car drove into a building in Hampton Roads. We ve kept track of the crashes and created a Photo Gallery on our website. To see more vehicles into buildings head to wtkr dot com. Click on the news tab and then go to photo galleries. Coming up on newschannel three first lawmakers banned cigarette smoking from restaurants now one local senator is going after the controversial ecig. Should the socalled vapes get the boot too. Plus ladies, are we getting ripped off at stores . A new vapefree restaurants. That s what a Virginia State lawmaker is proposing newschannel 3 s kelly rule joins us in the studio with the story new at 5. Senator john miller is proposing a measure that would ban Electronic Cigarettes cigarettes or Vape Products in restaurants and other Public Places like movie theaters and even malls. But some ecigarette shop owners i talked to feel it shouldn t be up to lawmakers. After smoking for ten years neil ruiz says he transitioned to vaping about two years ago. 06;02 you breathe better, you do taste better and if he wanted to he could use an ecigarette or vape product while out to eat at any restaurant in virginia as long as the place doesn t have its own rules restricting them. But a bill introduced by district one senator john miller could change that. It expands the current cigarette ban to ecigarettes which would mean no vaping in restaurants and other places like elevators and cashier lines. His reasoning to prevent people from exposure to the vapor. 12;56 as a responsible vapor you should just respect that owner of ecig city in Virginia Beach chris ebilane agrees users need to be respectful in public settings but feels that the senator s reasoning is wrong. From vaping in a room and a room without vaping as opposed to cigarettes which has so many chemicals 16;00 it should be up to the Business Owners if they want to allow it or not it shouldn t be mandatory by a state or county or cities 20;10;59 but are ecigarettes and their vapors really harmful . According to the fda they haven t been fully studied yet so it s unclear what the risks are, how much nicotine is inside, or if there are any benefits to using them 17;37 we actually haven t had any issues with anyone coming in johnny mallozzi manager of 219 bistro in downtown norfolk says he wouldn t let customers use ecigarettes inside the restaurant but he also hasn t had anyone try to recently. 18;40 i think everybody who eats and drinks would rather do it without smoking so if the law passes users like ruiz say they would obviously comply. But he hopes it s not the first step of lawmakers banning them completely. 06;37 as long as i can still do it on my own time then yeah that s fine senator miller tells me he expects the local Government Committee to hear the bill in the next week or two. His hope is that after that kelly rule, newschannel 3. 11 people were forced into the cold after an Apartment Building caught fire in chesapeake. It happened just after seven yesterday morning in the South Norfolk section of the city on border road. Four apartments in the building were impacted. Fire Officials Say it took less than 30 minutes to contain the fire. No one was hurt. The red cross is helping to find housing for the People Living in those apartments. Officials say they are still working to determine how this fire started. Now to a recent study that shows women may be paying more for virtually the samep product. The new York City Department of Consumer Affairs revealed a big price gap after comparing nearly 800 items with male and female versions. That Research Shows on average the womens versions of a product costs seven percent more than the ones for men. And as Michelle Miller explains price discrimination is not limited to retail. Nats just this please. Last name. Have you ever been here before . Cbs went undercover. One female producer and one male producer visited a handful of dry cleaners in new york city they brought nearly identical 100 cotton button down shirts in comparable sizes and requested the same service. Nat dry cleaned huh . Yes please. Our female producer was charged at least twice as much in more than half the businesses visited in one she was charged 7. 50 while her male counterpart just 2. 85. At another she paid 3 dollars more. But it happens more than just at dry cleaners. The new york city study found differences in clothing like these jeans, personal Care Products like these razors, and toys like this scooter. Their research showed that women paid more than men for similar prodcuts 42 of the time. Tod marks the senior project editor for Consumer Reports has been researching this sot tod marks you don t realize how badly you re getting ripped off, or being taken advantage of, as a woman, because you ve become so conditioned to pay more. While there is no federal law that bans this practice, gender price gouging for services is illegal in new york, Miamidade County and california. Sot michael cone, trade lawyer fisherbroyles we don t really know who is responsible for it. Michael cone is a trade lawyer who says part of the problem are the extra costs for women s products tacked on from the getgo. He found that women s clothing, shoes and gloves often enter the country with a higher import tax than men s. Sot michael cone, trade lawyer fisherbroyles it may be 5 extra paid to uncle sam, but by the time it hits the shelf it can be 10, 112 13 dollars. Michelle Miller, cbs news, new york after our wintry weekend, the and feel a lot more springlike. Even our cool downs won t be that cool. A cold front will approach the region on tuesday. Ahead of that front southwest winds will warm us up 60s. We will see increasing clouds and a slight chance for showers, mainly on the outer banks. But as the cold front crosses the expect scattered showers. In fact, some of our northern communities, like the middle peninsula and the Northern Neck may see a little sleet or snow mixed in at the start. We will start the day with temperatures in the mid 40s, falling into the 30s by the afternoon. Some of the wet weather will linger into early on thursday, but most of the day is looking dry with clearing skies and high temperatures back in the mid 40s. But then we start a warming trend. We will climb into the saturday and around 60 on sunday and monday with plenty of sunshine stretch before you shovel stretch before you shovel that s the word from doctors new at 5 a weekend of snow, sleet and driving through the slushy mess has some folks heading to the car wash. Newschannel three spotted people trying to polish up their vehicles in Virginia Beach earlier today. Brine used to treat the roads seemed to be their biggest concern. The forecast people may have to make another visit to the car wash before the week is over. The snow and ice may be melting here but there seems to be no relief for our neighbors in washington dc. An update on the winter storm