Warm. Thats pretty much been the goal for anyone venturing outdoors today, we saw a lot of winter coats, hats, scarves and gloves as people stood in the including line in woodbridge, virginia this morning. Lets get to storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer, its hard to believe its april 5th. Exactly right, pat. The reason is the temperatures now, 45 degrees, thats the average temperature for february 5th, not april 5th. Look at the numbers across the midatlantic. 45 d. C. , 42 hagerstown, 39 to the north and wind chills are even lower, look at the wind chills around our region. 33 camp springs and 38 around leesburg. A very cold afternoon, leading to a cold night tonight. Freeze warning in effect for the entire area as temperatures will get below freezing. Make sure you bring any sensitive plants in and cover those with sheets, not because it is going to be a very cold night tonight. Now next couple of days, take a look at the headlines, continued cold. Yeah, thats right, right on through the day tomorrow, on the cool side. The nationals forecast, there will be rain on thursday, well talk about the chance for rain and what it means for the nats home opener and a cold weekend. Could we get colder than today . Ive got your forecast for you. The chilly forecast in a few minutes. Right now voters in wisconsin are casting ballots in the president ial primary. Ted cruz and Bernie Sanders are favored to come out on top tonight. Its an open primary, any registered voter in wisconsin can vote in either partys primary. But this is the first election in that state with new voter i. D. Laws. Voters have to show stateissued i. D. S at the poll, this could prevent about 300,000 people from taking part. Supporters say it will prevent voter fraud. New at 4 00, Bernie Sanders is back on the ballot in d. C. This afternoon as city council temporarily took sanders off the democratic ballot. News4s Mark Segraves has more. Senator Bernie Sanders will appear on the d. C. Primary ballot come this june. It wasnt without debate and controversy. Sanders almost lost his position on the ballot, after the d. C. Democratic party failed to file his paperwork on time. They missed the deadline by a few hours. Today, the d. C. Council voted to extend that deadline by 24 hours. Thus paving the way for sanders to be on the ballot. But some Council Members did express concern. One Council Member saying that he and others in the room had fought to get other candidates kicked off ballots in the past and questioned whetr they should be trying to get someone put on to a ballot. Vincent orange, Council Member here, also questioned whether they should be interfering in Party Affairs and said that sanders could have come to d. C. And gotten signatures on a petition just like Hillary Clinton did. But pay a 2500 fee and avoid what orange called engaging with the residents of the District Of Columbia. D. C. Mayor muriel bowser, who supports Hillary Clinton for president , said she will sign the legislation. Come june democrats will have a choice between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on the primary ballot. From the d. C. District building, Mark Segraves, news4. First at 4 00, a theft ring gets busted at Tysons Corner mall. Awe three suspects are from florida, all under arrest. Athlete were spotted at lord taylors, they tried to run but were caught by the Fairfax County police and urban team. Police recovered 76,000 in stolen goods. A woman by the name of arianna carp has been arrested in the past, accused of taking highend items from bloo Police Caught her with 91,000 worth of stolen items in her car. Fairfax county county driver is cited for causing an accident involving another vehicle and a Fairfax County connector bus, route 50 and majestic lane in the fair oakes area. Police say the driver plowed into another vehicle at a red light, pushing it into the back of a bus. The driver of the vehicle in the middle was slightly injured. A police chase that began in Montgomery County ended with this crash in northeast d. C. Police say two armed suspects carjacked a person in a parking lot on first avenue in Silver Spring last night. D. C. Police spotted the vehicle about an hour and a half later. The driver refused to stop. After a brief chase, the car crashed into a light pole at intersection of minnesota aeng and bang road. The driver and passenger were taken into custody. A team of local and federal investigators returned to the scene of a townhouse fire in Montgomery County. Theyre calling the deaths of a man who lived collins has details from gaithersburg. Remember the fire at this townhouse in gaithersburg last week . Where the body of a man was found inside . It now appears that this may be a case of murder. That this may be a case of arson. The victim, a 63yearold man found in the basement of this townhouse, he was a jeweler by trade, he had a history of blood problems, but recently had cleaned up his life. He joined the mormon church. Police are calling his death suspicious. Theyre investigating it as a possible homicide. They have turned this scene into an archeological dig. Looking for clues and evidence. More on the victim, more on this unusual investigation, coming up. News4 at 5 00. Today, mourners from across the country remembered a Virginia State trooper at funeral in hamilton. Chad dermyer was shot to death at a Greyhound Bus station on tuesday. A 30mile procession involving hundreds of Police Motorcycles escorted the troopers body to the sermtary. He was remembered as a man who would protect and serve others, a woman who survived last weeks shooting said her life was spared because of what dermyer did. This is no playground, someone decided to use a planes emergency slide even though no one was in danger and the whole thing caught on camera. Just released ten minutes ago, the potential new Health Concern for people that coldlike february, breezy and of course, dry, thats been blowing around all the pollen today. The pollen count for trees high. The biggest contributor, oak. You can take all other things that are pollinating, cottonwood, poplar, sycamore and birch, you still wouldnt come up as high as it is for oak. A big contributor for folks suffering. It doesnt help that the pollen is being blown around with all the wind today. Our gusts around 20 to 30 miles per hour. Right inside of the beltway. Bringing down the wind chill temperatures in the 30s, another cold night coming our way as the wind dies down. More on the freeze warning and what you can expect with this Supreme CourtJustice NomineeMerrick Garland spent another day on capitol hill meeting with senators, the meetings were with republican senators Susan Collins and jean shaheen. So far the senate has no plans to hold a hearing on the nomination. New at 4 00, latinos are at higher risk for developing heart problems than previously thought. The American Heart Association studied 1800 middleaged and older latinos. Half had cardiac dysfunction, but only 5 knew they had a problem. The group also had a higher rate of other risk factors. Half were obese, twothirds suffer from diabetes and onefifth smoked. Researchers say most of these can be reversed with a healthier lifestyle. Wheres the bus . The app thats sewsed to make commuting easier is drawing complaints. The problem that left some folks out in the cold this morning. Unlikely help tha pointed tpo unlikely help tha pointed tpo thank you. 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Right now, get super fast 100 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds plus tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month, online. Cable cant offer Internet Speeds this fast at a price this good, only fios can. When you head to the bus stop the last thing you want is a long wait, especially in the cold. But metros newest bus tracking system had some issues this morning, leading riders to guess when the bus would show up. Transportation reporter adam tuss has been working the story and joins us live from the west is the problem fixed now . The problem is fixed. After about an hour when riders were wondering whats going on with the new system. Metro was able to find a fix. It turns out it was a server issue and bandwidth had to be increased to a third party so people could get online and see where the next bus system was coming. Next bus is now out and new bus eta is in. So metro was able to find a fix after about an hour. Some people said they were left out in the cold wondering where the bus was. Tell us what is the new system . How does it work and is it an upgrade . Its supposed to be an upgrade. Whats happening is you have a more accurate timetable for when the buses are going to show up. It might not sound like a huge deal but for anyone that relies on a bus, if you know its coming in five minutes and it shows up at that time, its an incredible tool to have and to at the bus stop. Metros next bus system which it relied on previously, it often was criticized for not working properly. This one is supposed to be an upgrade, it tells you the next stop that the bus is at, how many miles and how much time it is away. A big tool for people to find out. But its got to work. As we saw this morning, it ran into a couple of hiccups before it could get online. Metro says everything back up and running again for bus eta. Sounds like a good idea, hope it works next time. Thank you, adam. The man who charged the cockpit after his plane took off from dulles will spend nine months in prison. David patrick diaz was sentenced today for interfering with the flight crew. Diaz admitted to the outburst on the united flight last march. He was heard screaming jihad and saying there was something in the belly of the plane. Passengers tackled him. Diaz will have to undergo Mental Health treatment and play 22,000 in restitution to United Airlines. What a cold day, doug, tell us its going to warm up a little bit. If you would have said tell us its going to warm up, i would have said well, but you said a little bit. So that i can do. Only in the 40s today, tomorrow well get into the 50s. But its not going to last, because temperatures go right back down as we head towards the weekend. Right now it sure does look like a pretty day. Beautiful blue skies there. A little bit in the way of wind. Right now temperatures 45 degrees. Winds out of the north at 12 miles per hour. Thats why we had the wind chills in the 30s. Here are the current temperatures. 33 culpepper and 34 in martinsburg. Temperatures very much like they should be at the beginning of february. Definitely not aprillike temperatures. No rain or snow to talk about. We did have snow this morning. Winchester down towards warrenton and culpepper reported light snow this morning. Course. Were talking cold and wind chills again by around 11 00, notice the wind chill into the 20s, 25 leesburg, 27 d. C. And 27 around the fredericksburg area. Tomorrow morning not quite as chilly. Wind chills will be about 10 degrees warmer. 26 in gaithersburg, 27 in manassas, so still a cold start to the day. Even around noon wind chills getting close to the 40degree mark. It will be a little better tomorrow. With some sunshine less wind in the afternoon. I do think tomorrow will be a much nicer day than today. This will be a typical day than mid march, but i think well have it temperatures in the mid 50s with sunshine. All eyes on thursday, thats the nats home opener, everybody asking about the rain. Heres thursday morning at 7 00 a. M. No rain early, so the morning rush looks okay. Around 9 00, here comes the rain and a pretty strong front, t could produce some thunderstorm activity. Nothing severe, but it could come through the metro area. Right around 11 00, 12 00 and move out. This is the good news, by 2 00, its out of here. 4 00, the nationals forecast looking pretty good. If youre getting out there early. If you want to tailgate, 58 degrees, its going to be on the rainy side for sure. Rain ending by 2 00, maybe a little breezy, temperatures around 62 degrees, right now the game looking okay. Next couple of days, temperatures moving in the right direction. Up to 62 on thursday, but then as we head towards the weekend, high temperatures well below average, by about 15 degrees on saturday, could even see a few showers. You talk much more about the sevenday forecast. Veronica has more at about 4 45. Breaking news, live desk, the ashburn man accused of murdering his exwifes new his life in prison. Julie carey said the judge just handed down a life sentence for minh nguyen. He shot Corey Madison four times last year. A detective said he believes matson ran outside after he was shot to try to steer nguyen away from his wifes children. Nguyen pleaded no contest last year. Matsons widow, denise, called her late husband a hero. She gave birth to the couples first child eight months after her husbands death. For some its a social media revolution, why facebooks new technology for the blind is helping them to connect to the world in ways they never thought possible. Well spring is supposed to be the time for planting flowers. Not protecting them. 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We understand that a group of children came together to help the cops. How did they do that . These arent just kids, these are Elementary School children. Who realized that the police in england were looking for two alleged robbers and murderers and they knew where the suspects were. But they couldnt communicate to the helicopter. So they laid on the ground and made a human arrow pointing in the direction of the suspects. Ingenious. What the helicopter did is look at that radio the police on the ground. They ended up catching both guys and arresting them. I would have been the guy that pointed the wrong way. Thats brilliant, absolutely brilliant. I say pay those kids, give them some kind of reward. Thursday night football fans are now going to be able to watch the game on twitter. This is fascinating. 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