fur we are expecting a lot of clouds and rain to return. -- a few leftover showers aross the area. you can see the green there into southern new jersey and eastern delaware. it is generally out of here. later today, we'll see some of the showers redevelop as the system will be very slow to exit over the next couple of days. other story, temperatures, it is cool out there. 38 at reagan national. 36 at dulles. 34 in hagerstown. so cold in winchester, we're not getting a number. 46degrees your daytime high. another day where we're socked in the clouds. i'll have more in a minute. an opening day commute anterior letter. getting to and from the washington nationals game today on metro will be just a little bit crowded. metro is predicting standing room only on green line trains. expect heavier crowds at the west entrance from the navy yard station because it is one block from the stadium. tony perkins and dave ross will join us live coverage from nationals park beginning in our 6:00 hour. in libya, rebels helped rescue a pilot from a downed plane. the foreign minister has defected and is now in london this morning. former d.c. schools chancellor michelle rhee and nathan saunders says test tampering may have taken place at some schools. kaya henderson says she is confident in the agency's findings. d.c.'s inspector general is investigating the entire matter. police say the murder of a pizza delivery man may have been ambush. authorities believe three men phoned into the order and stole $13 from bennett. bennett was shot and killed sunday night in seat pleasant. president obama is laying out his energy plan t includes reducing u.s. alliance on foreign oils and boosting energy production domestically. jennifer davis has the details. >> we cannot keep going from shock when gas prices go up to trance when they go back down. >> reporter: the president says nuclear power needs to be part of the solution. he has ordered a safety review of all u.s. facilities. he lashed out at critics blaming his administration for price tags at the pump. >> any claim that my administration is responsible for gas prices because we, quote, unquote shut down oil production is simply untrue. >> reporter: but republicans counter his administering has opportunity that and much more. >> it has increased permit fees t has prolonged public comment periods. it has done just about anything it can to keep our energy inspector for growing. >> the president encouraged brazil to drill more and sell it to us. >> reporter: nancy policy says the president has support from congressional democrats but green peace is not on board. they issued a statement saying the president is focusing too much on, quote, risky energy sources and should look to safer, cleaner options instead. in washington, jennifer davis, fox news. happy march 31st to you. conditions out there not so great for driving. good morning, i'm maureen umeh. welcome to fox 5 morning news. tucker, it is not looking so great out there. >> at least the measurable rain has pushed out of here. i think the game will probably happen today. >> but gosh, why rain on our parade. opening day, always nice to have some sunshine. >> not going to happen today. i'll show you the rain showers and again, the measurable rain pushing off to the east here during the last couple of showers. we have a lot of low clouds. they will hang tough during the morning hours. we'll see showers return during the course of the afternoon. winds are out of the north and east at nine t will be a cool, cloudy day with high temperatures only topping out in the middle 40s. we should be in the low 60s this time of year. good luck getting there today. highs, 45, 46 here in the city. >> at least you make the weather sound good. your sunny disposition is what we're talking about. we have an opening day commuter alert for you. getting to and from the washington nationals game today on metro may be just a little bit crowded. metro is predicting standing room only on green line trains. game time, 1:05 p.m. we'll have live coverage from nationals park in our 6:00 hour. let's get a quick check on the roads from julie wright. >> as the game is letting out, there will be a lot of folks head downtown for the caps game this evening. metro will get a double dose of a lot of people today. right now, waking up to wet pavement and drizzle. wipers working overtime. overnight roadwork still in place over near the hot lanes as you travel to and from 123 and route 7. no incidents to report for those continuing southbound along 270. lanes are open headed out of gaithersburg headed for the lane divide. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. new this morning, president obama secretly september the cia to libya weeks ago. agents are now inside libya according to u.s. officials. intelligence experts say the cia would have sent them to make contact with the rebels. they've they've been on the ground in libya as part of a shadow force. >> we've been quite leer that we've reached out to the opposition, that we are working with them, that we are trying to assist them in their efforts to bring about that transition to a democratic process. >> meanwhile, colonel ghadafi's foreign minister has defected and is in london. he has been questioned by british officials this morning. new details in the chase of thee children barricaded in a room with a sheet of drywall. as their mother sits in jail, the father of the two other children is speaking out. he says he tried warn authorities that 26-year-old christina moore was a dinger to the children. he has custody of the winds twins but says moore was granted supervised visitation and unsupervised visits when the boys were five. early early this week, she and her boyfriend were arrested for p extraing their three young daughters in the room with drywall. he says his calls were brushed off. >> it is not just random news to social services. it has been ongoing for a long time. when a name keeps popping up, popping up, you would think they would pay more attention to it. >> he says the twins once came home with welts and the boys said moore and robey regularly barricaded them in rooms also. police say 38-year-old paul bennett may have been ambushed. they believe the three suspected killers phoned in the pizza order. $13 was taken before he was shot and killed. d.c. mayor vincent gray attended an emotional vigil on the one-year anniversary of one of the worst mass shootings in d.c. history. four people were shot dead, another five wounded along south capital street. you might remember this scene. the rampage was in retaliation for an earlier shooting over a missing bracelet. at least two of the young suspects arrested had been in and out of the court system. david catania introduced legislation that will create a comprehensive comiewght mental health screening. possible test score tampering at d.c. public schools. both the former d.c. schools chancellor and the head of the teachers union are now speaking out about the matter. sarah simmons has her. >> reporter: former schools chancellor michelle rhee is speaking out about this as well saying that she does conceited that it is possible that there may have been some cheating that occurred during her tenure. she says that she believes the vast majority of the schools, there was no cheating. but she says this really indicates that they do have to have testing security that is strong at both the state level and the district level. the current school chancellor has been speaking out about this and has talked to fox 5 saying she believes the independent firm which has done the investigation looking into this, that the firm found that there was no evidence of grade tampering or cheating on the standardize the test. the head of the teachers union says that the agency only conducted interviews and he believes there are glaring issues that were not addressed here and that the erasing was limited to management and english literature. >> those were the theafts happened to be changed. the grades that did not factor into the school store in terms of improved education, those numbers were consistent with the school and national averages. that was an indication to me as a professional that individuals knew which ones to erase and which ones not to erase. >> reporter: saunders says he welcomes an additional independent investigation done by the inspector general that is occurring and by the way, the standardized tests here in d.c. start this year next week. back to you. >> thank you. it sure doesn't feel like baseball weather but weather permitting, the nationals are less les than nine hours away from opening day at home. the nats held a final workout yesterday as well as a fanfest before today's season opener. they will host the braves at 1:00 p.m. this will be the first time hosting an opening day game in four seasons at nat park. in 2008, ryan zimmerman hit a walk-off run against the braves. the team is inducting the newest class of honorees into the d.c. sports hall of fame at noon. the game is at 1:05 for the weather agrees. just before the first pitch, the nationals will honor members of the military and their families during a patriotic tribute. d.c. mayor vincent gray will give the play ball announcement. the judge of a popular television court show is in the hospital this morning. u.s. soldiers are injured on an aircraft carrier. we'll have the headlines. low levels of radiation found in some milk. we'll hear what u.s. officials are saying about this one. q experience the limited edition white collection from air wick, a choice of elegant fragrances, like white lily and orchid, to brighten up your world. add a touch of sophistication to your home, with the white collection from air wick. looking for fragrance that lasts ? try new air wick double fresh. it warms two refills simultaneously, filling any room with long-lasting fragrance. which we've already prepped-hold on, 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(chef) easy-off. good food deserves a clean oven. try new easy-off cooktop cleaner, unbeatable on tough grease. other stories making headlines this morning, a fighter jet exploded on an aircraft carrier off southern california yesterday injuring 10 sailorred when a fire broke out. it happened during a training exercise on the flight deck of the u.s.s. john c. stennis. four of the sailors had to be flown to the medical cent are in san diego. they are now in stable condition. in japan, nuclear safety officials say they are looking into reports that high levels of radiation are now in a village just 25 miles from the plant. here at home, very low levels of radiation turned up in a sample of milk from washington state but federal officials say there should be no reason to worry. the fda says the findings were expected because of the crisis in japan. judge judy is in and l.a. hospital for an undisclosed condition but she is expected to be released sometime today. tmz reports the 68-year-old was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance yesterday morning after complaining of intestinal pain. a spokesperson says judge judy is feeling much better. president obama has laid out an ambitious goal to reduce u.s. oil imports by one-third. up next, not everyone is on board with some of the plans for alternative energy. we'll have a full report. tucker has the forecast. >> we have fog and mist across the area. some very cold temperatures. i'll have details on the forecast and julie wright will have the detail on your traffic this morning. we have a lot of sports going on today. shell at -- she'll tell you about that in just a minute. senses thousands of odors. and automatically releases a burst of freshness... that everyone can enjoy. 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the measurable rain we had around here yesterday. pretty much out of here. >> is it? >> yeah. >> let's hope. >> i know we have a big baseball game today and effect wants to get out and enjoy it. it looks like we'll get the game in. won't be a beautiful day for it. most of the activity now is to the east pushing into delaware and southern new jersey. generally out of here so that is good news. here in the district, still got clouds, still got drizzle, still got mist and much of the area having that experience at this hour. roadways will be on the wet side. satellite-radar, bring a picture. lots of cloud cover across the area. i don't think we'll see much in the way of sunshine today. open it up for you a little bit. it looks less ominous off to the west although it is. we have more shower activity redeveloping to our south and west and we'll watch a coastal system get going late this afternoon and tonight. even later today, bring along an umbrella here. there will be some occasional showers during the course of the day. it will be very cool. that is another big story. temperatures later today only going to get into the middle 40s and right now, we're in the middle 30s. 37degrees at reagan national. 36 in gaithersburg. 39 for you in quantico. 37 in leonardtown. hagerstown is 34. we have had some issues with some sleet and even a little snow off to the north and west so travel conditions out there might not be ideal. cool, cloudy, drizzle, showers likely today. 46degrees your daytime high and remember, our average day tim high this time of year in the low 60s. we are not getting there unfortunately. showers continue tonight, cool overnight with the coastal low and that will slip off the coast during the morning hours tomorrow. 38 the overnight low. we will see a little sunshine by tomorrow afternoon and temperatures warming back up into the low 50s. saturday, 55. look at sunday and monday. that is a lot better. upper 50s near 60. some more rain by monday. sunday looks great. let's look at the weather forecast. let's do some on-time traffic and you know what means, julie wright in the house. >> tucker, lanes are open around town. wet pavement closer to the beltway and wipers are working overtime this morning especially if you get stuck behind the truck. all that road spray kicking up in your face. no incidents to report as you travel from colesville road headed over towards 270. southbound 29 as you make your would i out towards university boulevard. we had overnight roadwork in place partially blocking that ramp. heads up there. traffic volume still moving at speed fair oaks to 123 and out towards the beltway. no problems reported in either direction at the wilson bridge. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. one of the main routes into the district is about to get even more congested. expect major traffic delays on new york avenue starting april 25th, a stretch of the road between penn street northeast and florida avenue northeast will be reduced from sick lane to four. crews will be rehabbing the new york avenue bridge. we already told you it will cost more to catch a d.c. cab. now d.c.'s mayor has extend the the limits of the taxicab fuel charge. it will now cost an extra dollar for trips that begin in the district and end in other jurisdictions. the extra fee will stay in place until july 27th. it was an emotional rally yesterday in the district against the new system of monitoring d.c. taxi cabs. cab drivers and owners protested outside the wilson building. they are against a proposed medallion system saying it is too expensive. when the discussion got a little too heated, d.c. councilman marion barry got involve making a comment that some cab drivers felt was pretty insulting. >> those of you who are not from america, we welcome you. but we do think just a little bit differently here in washington. that's all. we have disagreements without attacking anybody. we have disagreements without shouting down anybody. that is how we do it, right? >> barry acknowledged how hard cab drivers worked as he tried to calm the understandably angry crowd. he told them if they want to be heard, they should come to the council's hearings on the proposal and testify. in the wake of the turmoil in the middle east, the white house is shifting some of its attention towards its energy policy and that includes curbing oil imports by one- third. notten is on board for some of of the steps being taken. mike emmanuel has the specifics of the story. >> reporter: in what the white house called a deliberate pivot from libya and the turmoil in the middle east, at georgetown university, the president shifted focus to energy security and set this goal. >> when i was elected to this office, america imported 11 million-barrels of oil a day. by a little more than a decade from now, we will have cut that by one-third. >> reporter: the senate republican leader accused the president of saying what people want to hear and says the administering is at war with american energy. >> it has canceled dozens of drilling leases. it has declared a moratorium in drilling off the coast. it has done just about everything it can to keep our energy sector from growing. >> reporter: rather than opening up new public lands and waters to drilling. the president blamed the industry for not doing more with what is already available. >> right now, the industry holds tens of millions ever acres of leases where they're not producing a single drop. >> reporter: but the industry accuses the administration of sluggish permitting and says environmental lawsuits blocking large areas have slowed exploration. >> west opportunity here to create over 500,000 jobs if we're given access to these areas that have been off limits and they've all been taken off the table. >> mr. obama reiterated his call for more emphasis on clean energy including wind being solar, hydro and geothermal and his hope that by 2035, 80% of u.s. electricity will come from clean sources. another option, nuclear power has been heavily scrutinized following the earthquake and tsunami in japan which damaged three reactors. but nuclear provides 20% of u.s. electricity right now society emphasis is on reassuring the public. >> nuclear power, if it is safe, can make a significant contribution to the climate change question. and i'm determined to ensure that it is safe. >> reporter: the energy secretary says plans to build new facilities are moving forward. >> we remain committed if industry wants to make these investments, the u.s. government stands ready to help with the loan guarantees. >> reporter: the rafnlg price of a gallon of gasoline has shot up 80 cents over of past year and is expected to continued into the summer driving season. that could have an economic impact and a political one as well. it is opening day for the wash nats but last night the wizards grabbed some headlines. up next ache real battle on the hard court. things got a 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million homes each year. septic backups can cost about six thousand dollars in expense, and countless hours of repair. rid-x. help save yourself from disaster. i'm guessing this won't be the scene at nationals park today. fans, players getting treated to some of the white stuff at the exhibition game between the cleveland indians and their aaa affiliates, the columbus clippers. game was stopped after two and a half innings. >> i can see that. sledding who be more appropriate. >> i think so. to basketball now, lebron james and the miami heat came limping into town after getting pummeled by cleveland. >> they were in a fighting mood temporarily. got through the first quarter, no problem you b there was a fight with just under nine minutes to go in the first half. it started when that guy right there elbowed john wall. here it is in slow motion. they get into it. here it is up close. there is the elbow. and then wall stays on trying to get the ball away. you see what happens next. he throws a punch. both would get ejected as would former wizard and current member of the heat jawan howard. wizards lost again 123-107 despite a career high 39 points by wizards rookie jordan crawford so they have a been looking a little better lately. >> yeah, but they lost. >> the heat is considered one of the better teams in the league. >> who do you side with in that. >> you got to take the local guy but fame john wall, not going to fight the big guy. >> sports analysts stated vcu shouldn't be in the ncaa tournament much less the final four but the rams are proving their critics wrong. we have a report. >> reporter: it is written all over richmond. they love their vcu rams and today, the big sendoff to the final four. this is the crowd that gathered to send their team off to the final four in houston. who do they play? the level of excitement in. >> insane? >> the basketball team is red- hot and it is hot inside that rodney the ram costume. cedric page is the ram you will see security courtside in houston. >> everything is a miracle, a magical run. >> tell me where air from. >> woodbridge, virginia, woodbridge, virginia. woodbridge, virginia. >> reporter: northern virginia are the fastest growing student population at vcu. gordon mcdougal is the assistant vice president for university alumnae relations and he will tell you the alumnae relate to this. >> there is the excitement level that i've not experienced in any of my career in any other institution or here. i couldn't put the phone down. every time i put it down, it rang. >> we have a good sports team. we have good academics. we have good he go here. don't think of us as some school in richmond. think of us as a really good school. >> reporter: vcu's president certainly believes he is on the plane to houston. what are the odds of winning this whole thing? >> if you look if these boys' eyes and you see the confidence they have and their hunger to win, there is no question in my mind. >> reporter: as they loaded on to the buses, the coach gets