Plata and its going to abmild day so to to be a mild day so to speak. Lets go to monika with your latest timesaver traffic. Were hearing about a fire in glen arden basically on leslie avenue south of route 704 again in glen arden near route 704. More on that in a few minutes. The beltway looks great. No issues to report as you head on the north side of town. Looking good on the beltway college park into Silver Spring and bethesda. No issues on 95 in from baltimore, 270 in from frederick. Well take a live look at the beltway in college park right now which is incident free near route 1 as you head around the bend toward 95 and college park. Lets see if we can take a look at our maps again. No problems to report inside the beltway on the gw parkway. Dulles toll road looks good. 66 to the roosevelt bridge. 395 to the 14th street bridge. Well take a live look outside one more time. This time here near route 50 heading for the beltway and vienna. As monika just mentioned, breaking news story, a fire out of landover, maryland where firefighters have pulled four people from a burning home. The fire started just about an hour ago and as we just heard from monika, leslie avenue and route 704, Delia Goncalves just got to the scene. Theyd setting up gathering information. As soon as shes ready, well bring her to you live. An oxon hill family has lost one toddler while another child is in the hospital this morning. Prince georges county police say a father got out of his car holding his 2yearold when the car started rolling backwards. The father dropped the 2 year old as he ran back to try and stop the car. But before the car stopped, his 3yearold fell out and was run over. The child died a short while later. The 2yearold, though, is expected to recover. Will they rebuild . It looks like theres nothing left of a warehouse after a big fire. The commercial food facility belongs to blue ridge catering. The flames were so intense that firefighters could only attack the fire from the outside of the building. The property was diswroid but no destroyed but no one was injured. Once a rising democratic star, jesse jackson, jr. Now waits to learn his punishment. The former chicago area congressman pleaded guilty to federal charges yesterday. Jackson and his wife admitted misusing threequarters of a Million Dollars in Campaign Funds on personal items. The 47yearold jackson faces up to five years in prison at his sentencing in june. It is 5 03. Jessica doyle is watching your money. Shes here to tell us about a tough day on wall street yesterday. Absolutely. For some time now weve really enjoyed low Interest Rates, it helps us with our car loans, mortgage rates. The problem is were not so sure how long thats going to last. Minutes from the last months fed meeting show some policymakers were concerned that keeping Interest Rates near historic lows, that could fuel innation and turn around and hurt the market. The fed plans to evaluate its current Interest Rate policy at its next meeting march 19 and 20. That spooked the partial. Stocks slipped from the recent fiveyear highs on concerns the fed could roll back its promise to keep Interest Rates low. Checking the numbers for you. The dow stands back below 14,000 after dropping 108 points in trade yesterday. Nasdaq lost 49 points, big loser on the day. It was down about one and a half percent. The s p 500 was off by 19 points. That ticking time bomb, that sequestration is right around the corner. If lawmakers dont act in the next eight days, the automatic budget cuts will go into effect a week from tomorrow. The threat of government furloughs, that has workers pretty upset. Thats why wusa9 has started a petition. This is a first for us. Were asking should Congress Face penalties if federal workers are furloughed due to sequestration. If you want to weigh in on this debate, heres what you do. You go to wusa9. Com. On our home page youre going to find a link to this petition. So far over 800 people have participated. What makes it so powerful, that means 800 letters have been certified and are going to their respective lawmakers to protest this situation. The message is loud and clear. Do something to stop these cuts. The lawmakers, theyre going to read these. Theyll get them. Their staff will get them in hand and they will actually read them. Its nice to see somebody is engaged instead of just complaining and doing nothing. Lets hope something comes of it. What do you have for us in the next halfhour . Saving for retirement. Its something a lot of us think about doing but are you actually on track . Well bring you some benchmarks to think about when you look at your budget. Its scary to look at that. It is actually. Get us moving on that front. Its a little reality check. Thank you. Back to our breaking news now at 5 05. A major fire out in glen arden this morning on leslie avenue. Delia goncalves is live on the scene. She just got there. What do you know so far, delia . Reporter we just came around the corner to get you a better shot. You can see here at this home, a Single Family home here in the 8600 block of leslie avenue, it looks like most of the fire has been extinguished. You can see, though, heavy smoke inside that Single Family structure. A lot of fire apparatus here. We understand the chief has been tweeting. He is here, the fire chief, mark bashoor is on the scene. He has confirmed that cpr is being performed on four victims that were pulled from this house fire. We are uncertain whether or not they are adults, children. Were hearing unconfirmed reports there is a mixture of adults and children. We just dont know how many of each at this point. Obviously a still very active scene in what appears to be a very tragic situation here on leslie avenue. Were going to gather more information, talk to the chief and find out more now and pass that information along as soon as we get it. Back to you. Delia goncalves reporting live in glen arden. You can see in her shot not only the amount of apparatus but smoke still coming from that home. Well let you get busy getting more information for us. Still ahead this morning, Search Operations still going on on that huge explosion and fire in kansas city, that restaurant there. We have more on that story coming up. Less than a week after that nightmare cruise ended, the first lawsuit accuses carnival of knowing the triumph had problems. A safety warning given to capitals players after a scary injury on the ice. Well welcome back. Once again youll need the heavy coats and the hats and gloves. Its very cold. A couple areas may have dipped in the upper teens. Heres a look at your forecast on this thursday. It will be a partly sunny day, blustery, windchills 20s and 30s. Air temperatures upper 30s to about 44. Looking for a high in d. C. Right around 40. Ill be back in a few minutes with your sevenday forecast, talking about the big storm in kansas and any threat of wintry weather around here. Watch out for Fire Equipment in rockville on the Branch Parkway right buy the wouldensville whootensville park. Back to you. 5 10 now. Heres a look at some of the things that are new this morning. A Corporate Jet with seven people on board crashed last night in eastern georgia. Five people died and its believed two survivors do have life threatening injuries as well. The plane started in nashville, tennessee and was landing at the airport in georgia when it ran off the runway. At this point no possible cause. A body has been recovered from the rubble of that massive explosion in kansas city, missouri. Family members believe the remains are of a woman who worked at the restaurant which blew up shortly after people reported smelling gas. 15 others were hurt. Three remain in Critical Condition. Not a surprise on this one. Carnival facing a Class Action Lawsuit over that ship the triumph and its debacle of getting people stuck on it. It states the company should have known that the ship could experience mechanical and or engine issues since it had in the past. Carnival offered passengers 500, a free flight home, a full refund on the cruise they were on and credit toward another cruise. You will see the sun today but that doesnt mean its going to provide us any warmth. Sleet, snow, a bunch of other junk could be coming our way. Howard will 5 14 this thursday morning. Dare i say dreaded wintry mix this weekend . A little bit. Dont we love saying that. Late tonight, overnight tonight, if our going to southwestern virginia, roanoke, those areas, theyre going to have a little sleet and freezing rain. Around here looks like whatever we get will be light and probably not be here till the afternoon hours, maybe mid to Late Afternoon in spots. So im not really, you know the Winter Weather lover in me and ill admit t i like snow. I think its really cool, i cant get excited about this. I wish i was in kansas right now. Right, dorothy . They wish you were too to help shovel out. Lets get your day planner up. Another cold start out there. What a waste of cold air. Were just not happy. But a lot of folks dont mind at all. No shoveling, no plowing. Temperatures in the mid30s by noon. Windchills holding in the 20s then. Well make a run toward 40 for the afternoon high. Wind chills in the 30s. Not as up as yesterday when we gusted to near 40 but we could have gusts closer to 30 this afternoon. The cold is around. Its 22 in williamsport. 19 pittsburgh. Richmond in the mid20s. Roanoke at 29. They could get a little isolate tonight. Around here this morning, weve got 24 over at andrews and crofton and bowie. Its 23 in germantown this morning. Centreville, good morning with dulles at 24. 24 very popular number waldorf, over in alexandria, springfield and dumfries as well. As we look outside, weve got clear skies out there. Pretty morning across the district. A cold one, though. 26, partly cloudy. Northwest winds at 7 make the windchills at 18. The cold is in kansas city at 25. This is why theyre expecting all the snow here. But look at warmth in texas. Near 90 in brownsville. A big storm is coming across out of new mexico, in toward texas. Had a batch of snow last night, yesterday afternoon. Dumps 6 to 8 inches of snow in spots. Another piece of energy through new mexico. Hits the texas panhandle. Its exploding. Heavy snow. Some of these areas seeing 2 to 3 inches an hour snow rates in northern arkansas. Theyre looking at half an inch or more of ice. Ice storm warnings there. Around here, we cant buy a snowstorm, snow lovers. This will be no exception as the moisture heads our way. Well have generally sunny skies with a few clouds. Clouds thicken up tonight. Tomorrow will be cloudy. Well got some precip moving in. This is noon. Models only have it not even toward garrett county. So Late Afternoon. Could be a little snow, sleet in spots but temperatures tomorrow are going to top out well in the 30s to near 40. So i expect a lot of melting on contact. 40 degrees today. Windy and cold. Yellow alert for that little wintry mix late tomorrow, tomorrow night, 39. We drop to 35 in d. C. But we could still have some pockets of sleet and freezing rain north and west for a little while tomorrow night. Yellow again on saturday. A cold rain, 43. Best chance of steadier rains will be south and east of d. C. On saturday. Sunday and monday look much better, upper 40s to around 50 before more rain arrives tuesday with highs in the upper 40s. It is friday eve. We have monika samtani. Youll like the interstates but youll not like what you have to hear about whats going on west of i270. The Branch Parkway, i think theres a pretty big fire. Montgomery county is on the scene. West of i2730 in the rock 270 in the rockville area. Any lane information that comes in ill keep you posted. Lets take a live look at the beltway at river road. No issues as cow off 270 in as you come off 270. The west side of town, everything looks good. Back to the maps inside the beltway where everything is running at or above the speed limit on 66. 295 is always a little bit slower as you head for the 11th Street Bridge but the lanes are open. Well take a live look on the northbound side of i95. This filled up quickly. I just looked at it a few minutes apg. No issues, though minutes ago. No issues, though, springfield to the beltway. Good night for area basketball teams. How about that. Including another impressive win for georgetown as we draw closer to conference tournament time. Highlights coming up in sports. How about the question of the morning. Here we go. According to holiday inn, 600,000 of these are stolen from hotel rooms every year. Is it a, towels, b, pillows, or c, batteries from the remote . Our facebook friend tiki wrote a, have you ever cover vetted one of those cuddled one of th this is dylan right here, this is dylan, and this is his big brother hayden. Dylans only five, but hes already been through two surgeries for brain tumors. And he just went through his second round of chemo. And this is their mother, dawn, who runs this loving and happy home. She too struggled with tumors. But that doesnt slow her down. Her love of family comes first. Their dad, phil, works two jobs, repairing copiers, and on weekends delivering newspapers. But the bills keep piling up, and the heating bill gets pushed off. When you learn about their difficulties, it just breaks your heart. When we asked the Biggest Oil Companies to help families in need, only citgo, the people of venezuela, and president hugo chavez responded. Thanks to them, Citizens Energy is able to deliver millions of gallons of fuel to families just like the berios. Im joe kennedy. If you need help staying warm, call me at 1877joe4oil. Because no one should be left out in the cold welcome back. 5 21. Your weather first. We have clear to partly cloudy skies out there and another very cold morning. Temperatures running in the 20s with windchills in the teens. Well put our futurecast in motion to 9 00. Upper 20s to low 30s here. Well take you toward lunch time. Sunny but brisk. Mid30s. 40 in culpeper. Were going to have winds again today not as windy as yesterday but some of those gusts could be toward 25, even 30 miles an hour. Well get new this afternoon. Upper 30s to the low 40s will be the highs today. So once again bundle up. Good morning, everybody. The georgetown hoyas are getting hot at the right time. Last night they picked up their eighth straight win, the longest win streak of the season. But more impressive are the numbers that this patient, typically low scoring offense put up last night. The 11th ranked hoyas are averaging 64. 2 points a game hosting depaul, up 12. Otto porter had 11 on the night. Under 3 to go. Devonte smith from the top of the key. Big night for the freshman. He caps it off with a big jam home. Career high 33 points for smith rivera. Georgetown scores its highest point total of the season beating depaul 9066. Yesterday we probably had our worst practice of the year by far. I was a little nervous coming into today but once we settled down at the defensive end, we fell into our rhythm. George washington looking to break a twogame skid. George mason wins 6860 picking up their 500th victory at the smith center. As for the coach, its win number 399. The Washington Capitals are being urged to better protect themselves on the ice. After at would defenseman eric carlson had his achilles tendon sliced by a skate. George mcphee bought all his players kevlar socks and hopes that they wear them. A few guys already do. Its not mandatory but its suggested. That will do it for your morning sports. Its kristen berset. We go live to glenarden, maryland. We have an update on this breaking news story. A tragic house fire. We believe four people are being treated. A fire in rockville as well. Branch parkway at Marwood Court. You might want to consider courier drive instead. 270 out of clarksburg looking good into germantown and rockville. Well be back with more news, weather and traffic when we return from [ harry umlaut ] thats one creamy muller. [ sally umlaut ] its greekstyle yogurt. Thick, scrumptious, and more protein than those regular yogurts. Are those almonds i see in the corner thingy . Caramelized almonds i think youll find. Well, who wants ordinary runofthemill almonds when you could have the caramelized kind . If i was this girl, id caramelize my whole apartment. Weird. This greek style yogurt has style. You can say that again. Why thank you. This greek style yogurt has style. Okay. Stop saying it now. Youre sending me mixed messages. [ male announcer ] muller. The european for yummy. Good morning. Im andrea roane. Im mike hydeck. Monika samtani has traffic momentarily. Howard bernstein has your weather. Temperatures in the 20s. Its going to be dry today. Theres a tiny bit of wintry weather we may see tomorrow. Heres a look at the day plan other this friday eve, thursday morning if you will. Sunshine, a few clouds. Temperatures in the mid to upper 30s at lunch time. Topping out around 40. With the windchills its going to feel like its in the low 30s this afternoon a. Few clouds have been passing by overnight. Snow showers up in pennsylvania and the mountains that arent being picked up. Winds gusting in the upper teens to lower 20s. A gust to 28 at the Pax River Naval air station. Temperatures frigid once again. 21 gaithersburg. 25 manassas and easton. 24 at andrews and 23 hagerstown. We have windchills also this morning even colder than that. Well range from the mid30s in hagerstown to the mid40s in fredricksburg. About 40 here in d. C. For the afternoon high. Monika samtani stepping in, timesaver traffic. Thats right. If youre planning to heads over into rockville, weve been telling you about this fire over on watts Branch Parkway. I believe we have a picture of it. This is on the was Branch Parkway, Marwood Court west of 270. You can use scour year drive courier drive instead. Looks like a pretty serious situation. Hopefully that puts that in perspective for you. This item over to 355. You can see its nice and quiet in gaithersburg. 270 the same. Back to the maps, this time quickly to the other side of town. 66 looks great. No issues in from manassas to centreville. If youre planning to head over to the beltway in tysons, youre going to be fine this morning. An accident manassas 234. Now to one of our breaking news stories, this one out of glenarden, maryland. The fire was called in around 4 00 this morning. Reporter Delia Goncalves joins us live from the scene where fire operations are still in progress. You can still see smoke coming from the home. What more do we know about the people pulled from that home . Reporter we now know three kids, one adult pulled from the fire, now in Critical Condition at the hospital. Were also told that another adult, one child expected to be okay. Everyone else at the hospital at this point. The fire started at 4 00 this morning. Take a look now. You can see the fire, the flames have been extinguished. Weve now entered the investigation phase of this mornings fire. You can see smoke just billowing out of this Single Family home here in the 8600 block of leslie avenue. Its right off route 704. Weve learned a bit more about the family from talking to neighbors. It is a mop and dad and their four daughters ages 4 to 11. Were told theyve lived here for about three years. We just exclusively spoke to family members who ran to the scene in tears. They were hysterical because they received a phone call from another relative telling them about the fire and then they turned on the tv and watched the news and saw their relatives home in flames. Lets listen to what they had to say. I seen the house. Already knew that it was my nieces house so we rushed right over. Reporter youre in tears obviously. What went through your mind when you heard . That my familys hurt. I just hope that everybody is okay. Reporter you can obviously tell emotions are very high and it is a touch and go situation. Her family members, one adult and one child will be okay. It is still touch and go for three of the other little girls in this family and one adult. Were not sure if that is mom or dad but we know those four people, one adult, one parent and three children pulled out of this fire here on leslie avenue. They are in Critical Condition at Prince Georges County hospital. Thats what were told by family members. That was tiyana miles, a cousin and then the great uncle alan howard. We spoke to them exclusively just moments ago as they were running to the scene after getting news about their relatives home that caught on fire early this morning. Were going to stay here on the scene and hopefully get some more information for you and pass that along as soon as we get it. Back to you. Delia goncalves reporting live from the scene in glenarden. Just now more on whats been just an awfully violent week in Prince Georges County. Police have five people in custody in the murder of one of two Suitland High School students who were killed this week. All five in one of the cases are now being charged with firstdegree murder in the shooting death of charles walker, jr. The 15yearold was killed monday afternoon in the Hillcrest Heights neighborhood. Police say walkers killers first committed a robbery whether they took the shoes that walker was carrying. And on tuesday another Suitland High School student was killed. There are still no arrests in the shooting of 18yearold aaron kidd. He died in a parking lot of an apartment complex in forestville. His girlfriend is expecting their first baby next month. Also shot in that parking lot, 18yearold andre schufert. He died of his injuries yesterday. In recess or on vacation, whatever you call it, congress is still not back on capitol hill until next week. Even though were just eight days away from those massive automatic federal budget cuts taking effect, now top pentagon officials are issuing new warnings about the consequences for their employees. Some in congress are willing to let sequester take effect. Were sorry about the audio. Theyre talking about 800,000 people just in civilianings being let go. But president obama is telling lawmakers not to allow the sequester to happen. However, if nothing is done in the next eight days, those automatic budget cuts will go into effect one week from tomorrow. It is 5 34. Lets talk money. Jessica doyle is back with more on how unprepared most americans probably including three of us are not as well prepared when it comes to retirement. Well, the question were asking this morning is are you saving enough for your retirement. This is kind of a little bit of a wakeup call. In a new study, most adults are not putting enough away for their retirement. The study was commissioned by hsbc and found more than half of the worlds working population is not preparing adequately. Nearly one in five workers arent saving anything at all. The survey found that most blame the daily cost of living as the biggest reason why folks just cannot afford to save. Among those who do save on average, they expect retirement to last 18 years, but they truly believe theyre savings will run out after just ten years. So to figure out if youre on track, consider these guidelines. Fidelity investments released back in september. The Mutual Fund Company suggests you save at least ail times your final salary to meet basic income needs in retirement. By age 35, think about 35, you should aim to have the equivalent of your annual salary in savings. By age 40, you should set a goal to save twice your salary. By 50 you want to look at five times your annual salary. Five times by age 55 and six times by age 60. So heres an example. Lets say you make 60,000 a year. Would you need to have 240,000 in savings at age 50 to hit your retirement goals. Fidelity of course is the nations largest 401 k at managersor. 12 million account holders so far with an average balance of about 73,000. So that gives you a sense that people are saving but theyre not there yet. Those are some big numbers. Those are huge numbers which gives you an understanding of why people say youll have to drag me out of here, keep working till i die. 70, 75. Exactly. Thats why you see so many retirees in their 70s working parttime jobs because even with Social Security they just dont have enough. Who even know whats going to happen with Social Security. So you need to rely on yourself. What if numbers like that are going to move the age up that a lot of people say theyre going to do. Theyll have to do something. Were always very focused on our children. So were throwing money into 529 plans. You need to reevaluate that if youre not saving for yourself, you shouldnt be saving for college because you can take loans against college. You cannot take loans against your own retirement. Good point. Even if youre not close to retirement age, jessica will be saving us some money when she unveils todays daily deals right after the break. Lance armstrong dies he will not tell all decides lenot tell all to the agency that has the power to reduce his lifetime welcome back. 5 39 on this thursday morning. Another cold, frigid morning. Temps in the 20s. Wind chills in the teens to start your day. Its going to be like yesterday though not as windy and slightly warmer, especially south of town. Were looking at mostly sunny. A few clouds here and there this morning. Windchills 20s and 30s today with the actual temps 38 to 44. About 40 here in d. C. The winds could gust 25, maybe 30 at times. Lets go inside to monika. She has your latest timesaver traffic. In manassas an Accident Route 234 south of lamond drive. On the inbound side of i66, you have your delays out in manassas and centreville but no big deals at nutley street to the beltway. All lanes open along 66 this morning. Back to you. Ive been combing through the days daily deals, emails and retailer websites to find you deep discounts. I hope youre not hungry because were starting with this. Gilt city is getting you a discount at this upscale mexican restaurant. 56 gets you a sangria brunch for two at rosa mexicano. You get tawbl side quack mollie and chips, two entrees, and mexican hot chocolate. Im so hungry. I might not be able to get through the rest of this. This could help you with your next job. Just 7 for an iphone arm band normally for 49. How about a Whitewater Rafting trip in west virginia. 109, two nights of camping with a river rafting trip, including your gear and your lunch normally this is 199. Dates are available between march 22 and june 6. If you have an offer youve seen or air a local merchant with a zeal for our viewers, i would love to hear from you on facebook. Im going to get some food. Facebook question of the morning. Lets check it out. According to the holiday inn, 600,000 of these are stolen from hotel rooms every year. Is it a, towels, b, pillows, or c, batteries from the remote . I hope its not from personal knowledge but jimmy wrote, c, batteries from the remote. What do you think . Log on to our facebook fan page. Leave your response. Well have the answer in about an hour from now. Teaching compassion to young people. Thats the goal of a group called rachels challenge. More on that coming up. You want better roads . Its going to cost you. What will virginia lawmakers do when they try to accept a shaky compromise when it comes to funding transportation projects. Well explain. Lets see whos celebrating a birthday today. And byron wants to. Good morning. Were closer to the weekend and closer to something happening on the weekend, just not what howard would really like to see. Im a snow lover. Im admit it upfront. My snow lover friends, facebook, twitter, just in person. Give me something. In the mountains its there. Its there in the mountains but around here we may get some flakes and sleet tomorrow amp but its going to melt on contact and not amount to much. Well north and west we may get a few spotty areas where we could have a few slick spots but tough to get excited. Here we go. Be excited just for thursday. Closer to the weekend. Be excited for sunshine. Temperatures near 40 degrees but the winds will make it feel like its only in the 30s. Even upper 20s. 37 at 1 00. Your high this afternoon right about 40 here in d. C. A cold morning once again. Low 20s in Williams Port over to columbus. Charleston and lexington in the teens there with mid 20s in richmond and philly at 26. Locally 24 for north beach. 25 in baden. Waldorf 23. Fairfax 23. Niesesthese these are the temps. What a beautiful picture. Sunrise about 6 48 here in the district. 26, feeling like 18 with the northwest wind at 7. So breezy. It will be a little windy at times today but not nearly as windy as yesterday when we gusted close to 40 miles an hour. Temperatures across the country starting to get closer to spring. Look at this. South texas today, brownsville 9 degrees. Dallas 67 but only in the 20s across much of kansas. A snowstorm is raging in the plains today. Had some snow actually yesterday and last night. 4 to 8 inches of snow has already fallen across much of kansas and you can see the heavy snow. 1 to 3 inches an hour. You see this bright yellow and orange. Thunder snow in wichita this morning. We have the energy feeding into it. They could get 1 to 2 feet of snow. Ice in northern arkansas. Halfinch plus in spots. Around here, well, its quiet. Some clouds generally 10u9 of us with south of us with snow showers to the north. How about the futurecast . Well have the breezy conditions today but have get a good deal of sunshine helping to boost temperatures to the 40 degree mark. Runners, its border line. My wife is a runner. She doesnt like to run when its this windy and cold. She may be inside today. Clouds thickening up. Tomorrow will be a cloudy day. Even through midday the precip is out in west virginia. There will be some sleet, some wet snow, some rain. well watch that work its way toward us during the latter afternoon with a little sleet or snow but temperatures will be in the upper 30s, 40ish. This will melt on contact. Western maryland, its possible youll have an isolated slick spot or two and rain develops for most of us as we head into saturday, especially south and east of town. Saturdays highs again on the chilly side in the low 40s. Today its a decent day for february. A little windy, cold, 40. A good deal of sunshine. Tonight 29 in d. C. Tomorrow the clouds around with a light mix later on in the afternoon. Some sleet, some snow changing to rain tomorrow night into saturday. So yellow alerts for the mix and the rain on saturday. Saturday we get to 43. You have outdoor plans sunday, its going to be much better with sunshine and 47 and monday looks good if youre going to extend the weekend to 50 before rain returns on tuesday. Monika samtani, its thursday but its been up and down. It really has been up and down. We have the fires which our anchors will have for you in a moment and our Delia Goncalves as well. In the meantime i have accidents now. Southbound i270 right near 85. An accident was just cleared to the side of the road. Be aware of it as you head out of frederick, past i70 toward 85 where again the accident has been cleared off to the side of the road so thats good news now. Beyond that the lanes are open, just slow route 109 toward 121 as well. Lets go outside live and show what you it looks like if youre planning to head here at 121. This is where the pace improves down into germantown and rockville. Back to the maps this time to southern maryland. Route 4, route 5, 301 i have no issues to give you as you travel 210 accokeek to oxon hill. No issues across the wilson bridge over into virginia. Well take a live look in college park where things are looking good on the north side of town as well. If youre planning to head over on 95 in from baltimore. You want to know that yesterday a committee of virginia lawmakers finally reached a compromise bill on funding transportation projects. This would be the First Comprehensive overall overhaul and approval of the way virginia funds its highway system since 1986. Thats 27 years. The plan would replace virginias 17. 5 cents per gallon gasoline tax with a 3. 5 wholesale gasoline tax. And boost the current 5 sales tax another three tenths of a percent to 5. 3 . That will mean that our gas would be taxed a few cents less but other things would cost a little more. Fairfax county board chair sharon bulleva is happy that state lawmakers have not killed funding for metro to dulles. My understanding is that the 300 million for the silver line is still alive. And hopefully will continue to be. For fairfax county, that was huge. It sure was. However, the republican controlled statehow and the evenly split senate must both approve this compromise bill by saturday and thats when the 2013 General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn for the year. They are down to the wire, andrea. All right, monika. Thank you. We have been following breaking news in Prince Georges County. Now we have another developing story this morning from Montgomery County where fire captain scott graham treated out this photo of a building at the Karma Academy where crews are putting out a large fire. This is in rockville at 176 watts Branch Parkway and watts branch is closed from hurley avenue to ame tree drive. Firefighters arrived just before 5 00 this morning. They have been spraying water on this from the outside because its too dangerous for them to try and tackle it from the inside. Of course well continue to bring more information on this fire as we get it. Also, these are some other stories were following this morning. The big news on day three of the Oscar Pistorius bail hearing is not about the olympic runner whos charged with murdering his girlfriend last week. A detective in the case is facing attempted murder charges for allegedly shooting at a mini bus. This happened in 2011. And pistorius defense team is now accusing that same detective of botching the investigation into reeva steenkamps death. Lance armstrong has decided against doing a full disclosure interview under oath with the u. S. Antidoping agency. If he had agreed, the agency could have reduced the disgraced cyclists lifetime competition ban to eight years. Armstrongs Attorney Says his client may cooperate with the yet to be formed independent tribunals. A major winter storm is moving across the midwest. Winter storm warnings covering nearly all of nebraska, kansas and missouri. In kansas where a foot of snow is expected, the governor has closed the state government. However, the snow is a good thing considering this region has been in the midst of an extremely severe drought. Mike . So many of us parents especially are heart sick over this weeks murders in Prince Georges County at a local high school. Another High School Tragedy we all remember it back in 1999, the shooting at columbine in littleton, colorado. That led to the formation of something called rachels challenge. Us with is peter, a presenter for rachels challenge and this talks about trying to reach out to the community when something awful like this happens. Lets talk about who rachel is first, how this started. Rachel was the first she was 17 years old and she was the First Student to be killed at columbine. And after her death, her parents found a series of diaries that she wro. The theme in those she wrote. The theme in those diaries was kindness and compassion. So rachel and her life reached out to people, whether it was in school or her community through kindness and compassion. She wrote about it. So her parents found that and that became the theme for rachels challenge. Thats ravel right rachel right there, a video of her. The interesting thing is the parents and rachels brother and now you and other presenters around the country are reaching out to people to try to have a discussion about this, how we can change peoples hearts, how we can change peoples minds when it comes to violence, when it comes to bullying, things that happen in school that leads to tragedies like n. What are you doing to try to reach out to communities . Rachels challenge is develop programs. We go from elementary on through college. We go out and speak and present the message. As i said its the message of kindness and compassion. There are different programs that do that. Theyre age appropriate to the programs, to the schools i should say. So weve been out there for 13 years. Weve talked to over 18 Million People in that time. And weve been all around the world actually. One of the things that you obviously when you go to a school, you can talk to an Assembly Full of students but the parents need to be an integral part of this as well. Truly. In reaching out to the parents, if you want to call this call to action today is to reach out to the parents and say go to rachels challenge. Org. There is something you can do. Contapght your contact your School Officials and find out what its all about. One of the things that impacted both you and i and Delia Goncalves who reported on these shootings yesterday is the fact that some of the students who were there had a blank stare when asked about them. Its trying to reach them. Absolutely. Some of them, im no doctor but we know for some of them, its masking that pain. When that happens, that only carries on into adulthood. So the more we can reach out to young hearts now through that, that message of kindness and compassion, it will change. If people want to try to have some tools and find a tool kit when it comes to trying to help students and help parents one deal with a tragedy but two, help to reach them before it becomes critical, theres website they can go to . Rachelschallenge. Org. Its preventative action. A lot of times we hear about these things after they happen. What rachels challenge does, we get there before. I cant tell you how many times weve had students come up to us and actually hand us lists of people they were going after, retribution list or whatever. And they will give that up. Its been its been tremendous for them. Thanks so much for