Headlines for its portrayal of muslims. New reaction to a maryland Student Group delaying a screening of american sniper. And the news 4 iteam uncovering dangerous stunts even yoga poses on metro tracks. First tonight, emotions running high in baltimore. Protesters demanding answers in the death of 25yearold freddie gray. Grays spinal cord was severely damaged in the back of a Baltimore Police van nearly two weeks ago now and we still dont know how that happened. Today a lawyer for the police union said gray was not strapped in with a seat belt as required by department policy. News 4 Chris Lawrence is live at our desk with whats happening, chris . During earlier tonight, officers hauled away at least two of the protesters for Disorderly Conduct and destruction of property and at one point demonstrators surrounded a police car downtown. Hands up dont shoot. The majority of the protesters have been peaceful not provocative. The tension did flare up at one point when a small group got ve
Googling himself. Today, the court will hear from two doctors from williamsburg virginia where hinckley spends a lot of his time with his mother. 4 31 your time now on this friday morning. We have made it to friday. Weekend hallelujah. But we are still dealing with a chill. I was smart enough to grab the coat this morning. Very good. I think we need more than a coat this morning. Its that cold to me. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is here to tell us how bad it is. Aaron, when you think you have done something right by remembering your coat im telling you need more than. A hat and gloves maybe. A chilly start this morning. Temperatures have fallen back into the upper 30s and low 40s so its not technically as cold as yesterday. The difference is we have the wind still up. So windchills are down below freezing this morning in much of the Shenandoah Valley and northern maryland. Heres your exclusive sky cast 4 for today. Plan on plenty of blue skies and sunshine out there. But it wi
Where we dont need much of a freeze threat. But it has wind chills back down. How about a 26 degree windchill in hagerstown 32 the current windchill in washington. Highs today, plenty of sunshine. That breeze will be with us all day long as well. Northwest winds 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour today. High temperatures will gradually climb up into near 60. Rain chances are back over the weekend. Well talk about that in a few minutes. For now, Melissa Mollet with first 4 traffic. Some big backups, chopper 4 over this big stretch of delays we have this morning. B. W. Parkway southbound at powder mill road, quite slow. The delays there are remaining. Wide look at things, overall no major problems. Take a big look at the beltway. Same thing 270 into town out of town. You dont have any issues there. 66 now at 50. You can see eastbound and westbound pretty open. Dont have any incidents right now. 66 keep our fingers crossed there. Taking a look at 95, slowest spot is northbound through the dale city
This morning. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell has your weather headlines. Chuck . Good morning, aaron. It is indeed a very cold start. We still have freeze warnings in Northern Maryland and Shenandoah Valley and frost advisories down to culpepper and warrenton. Skies are mostly clear, it is really cold. The wind has stayed up overnight. If the wind lays down between now and 7 00 at all, that will still mean a freeze is possible. But temperatures are comfortably above the freezing mark. But the other side of the coin since the winds are up windchills 29 in gaithersburg and hagerstown. 33 degrees in washington. Upper 30s and low 40s and mid 40s by lunch time this afternoon. Another chilly night is coming up tonight. If youre going out to dinner and a movie, you need a little wrap to go out the door. Little pashmina as we were talking about earlier this week. Thats right. All right, now 66 eastbound here as youre driving in after 50, not having any issues right now. Everything looki
Connected though. Time now to turn our attention to the weather. We had a Beautiful Day yesterday. I hope we have more of the same. Not so much. Not so much . 4 31 or time right now. We have clouds rolling in. Its a distant memory. Now it got up to 78 yesterday around. It was spectacular. A perfect day, except for the pollen. Pollen count was way up over 800 for the pollen count. Mostly tree pollen, oak and sycamore. The temperatures are generally in the 40s to low to mid 50s. And the storm team 4 radar were all clear here locally. Theres a live view from the storm team 4 tower camera dry pavement all around the region here. Your headlines for this thursday morning, well have a cool morning. Stay in the 40s and 50s through about 8 00 or 9 00 this morning. Then during the afternoon youll likely need an umbrella. Then a mild weekend to follow and after that summerlike weather begins to move in as we get into next week. If you have been waiting for that hang on its coming soon. Tomorrow m