Welcome to news 4 today. Be happier to sit here today talking about the weather. Tom kierein, we are in for some major improvements. You remember where your flipflops are . Yes. Im wearing them right now. Its still pretty chilly. But later today we will have a dreamy springlike afternoon. Look at our temperatures around the region for a february morning. Well take the mid 40s. To upper 40s. Annapolis, 47. Downtown, mid 40s. Shenandoah getting into the mid40s there. Some of the mild air is at 58 degrees on this saturday morning. A few clouds coming in. Still a blustery wind, though. The flag is blowing with gusts of wind, 30 Miles Per Hour. A breezy morning. Then a mild afternoon. Looking like rain wednesday into thursday for the coming weeks. I have the timing on that and we will deal with these delicious details on today. Thats coming up in just a few minutes. Happening today, family and friends are going to gather to say goodbye to antonin scalia. Service gets under way at the basili
Quit. We need that segment to just bow out gracefully. Reporter ted cruz wont. The iowa winner polling second here wants to drive rubio from the race. Here in South Carolina these next 21 hours are going to decide a great deal. Reporter hes linking rubio to president obama on immigration. Even though cruz today had to pull this fake photo of the two. This guy ted cruz is really a liar, ill tell what you. Reporter Donald Trumps one big lead over cruz is down to five in todays nbc news wall street journal marist poll. Running for president , takes guts. I have never done this stuff before. It takes guts. Reporter and showmanship. I supported you then. Reporter the candidate who would ban muslims from entering the u. S. Looks set to win another primary. And, again, trump has shown how he can grab headlines calling today here in South Carolina for a boycott of the fbi in its effort to get the maker of the iphone to turn over to turn over the code, write software to allow the feds to unlock
Accountable. Reporter as children leave for the weekend, parents are receiving a letter announcing the appointment of an acting school principal, john brooks, to help the school work through these difficult times. The schools principal placed on leave after she was accused of failing to report the alleged abuse. What about removing the principal . Was that the right move . Yeah. That was the right move. Reporter anybody else need to do . Anybody else helping him do whatever he was doing, i think all of them should have been fired. Reporter last night a committee of the school board met to discuss the systems policy on volunteers in school. Many parents say if carraway, again a volunteer at one point, had not been allowed to be alone with kids, the crimes may not have been committed. 17 alleged victims ages 9 to 13 have come forward so far. Now, not all the news here is bad. Some safety changes have already been implemented it school. Were live in glenarden. Darcy spencer, news4. A litt
Lenfant plazas 8th and d street entrances shut down because of a power outage. The other entrance is other. 270 south slow out of frederick about, 30 Miles Per Hour right now. 66 is fine, 95 north a little slow as youre headed northbound through woodbridge. Receipt t pretty typical for this time of day. All of this rain not make things easier. Well have travel times coming up. 6 01, developing this morning, one person is in the hospital after an officerinvolved the shooting in laurel. Police responded to the ind uchu International Market for reports of a burglary. Molette green now with more on the history the store has with breakins. Reporter we found out there has been trouble here before. Laurel police now gone from the scene, done with tear investigation here and reopen the Fourth Street to car traffic. Hours ago, they arrested a 15yearold suspect, now charges. There a 20yearold man in the hospital with a gunshot injury, shot once inside by police. All of this following a Burglar A
Police say metros security cameras recorded pictures of the suspect and recorded pictures of the deadly attack. It was 16 days ago that 15yearold davonte washington was shot and killed at this very same deanwood station. Davonte was on his way to get a haircut for easter sunday. 17yearold Maurice Bellamy charged as an adult in that murder. According to court documents, bellamy shot davonte because he didnt like the way he looked at him. This is the second murder at this station in less than a month. What do you make of this . Its very troubling. You know, folks who travel on the metro all the time want to feel safe and, you know, the good news, if there is any good news from this, in all likelihood were going to be able to close this case because of the Security System that metro has here. The bad news is young person in our city to violence. Reporter so where were the cops this morning . Where were the cops, a lot of people are asking that question. Ill have more on that coming up at