One day. Were going to be watching the high water and everything like that for the rest of the day and through tonight. Shreve mill wasnt the only place where water posed a hazard. Deep polls formed on dry mill road outside leesburg. Forcing cars to take it slow. And check out this pond in the middle of a Shopping Center parking lot. And in fairfax county, a creek under floodprone woodburn road was already nudging the bottom of the bridge. Now expect this to be closed off for a while, im doing a little experiment here at the end of my 4 00 live report. I put my hat down on the street to see how much the water might recede in an hours time. It only dropped back a foot. I expect this to be closed for some time. When i join you at 6 00, preparations under way at schools with the hopes that everything will be back to normal again tomorrow. Back to you in the studio. Wow, that looks like great falls. Well, the sun is out and things are starting to warm up facebook posts, snow, blizzard lover that you are. You were thankful for the weather were getting right now, huh . Most definitely, guys. Its been a rough couple of weeks here. We had the blizzard, weve had a couple of storms since then. We had this monster storm over the last 24, 36 hours with snow and then ice. And then today, just rain and yeah even some flooding out there take a look outside. Well show you whats been going on. We have seen the rain coming in and moving out across the region. The rain coming down heavily. Were picking up an upwards of rain. Martinsburg. Back to the Shenandoah Valley and close to an inch to the south. Its moving out. We have nice weather to look forward to another potential storm. Talk about it all in my full forecast. Just a few hours ago, the Prince Georges County council appointed a new police chief, hank stawinski, a 23year veteran of that department. Hell hit the ground porn case against a library aide at a county school. Bureau chief Tracee Wilkins is live with a look at that case and stawinskis other priorities in his new role. Stawinski was born and raised in Prince Georges County. His father served this police department. And now hes the new chief. And with a unanimous vote from the county council. Hank stawinski, a prince georges native and 23year veteran of the police department, is appointed the new chief of police. You have my personal word that should i earn that trust today, know that it will be my daily work to earn that trust every day that follows. His coming into office as one of the countys most farreaching cases of child sexual abuse is unfolding. Its very disturbing that he would manufacture trust so that he could abuse it. Stawinski stood shoulder to shoulder with county leaders last week promising the countys full commitment to deonte carroway. Facing multiple charges for creating child pornography and sexually abusing as many as 50 children. So far, 16 victims have been identified by police. My main concerns right now are did he work with anybody else. And how did he finance this . Because that will tell us if there are additional victims out there that were not aware of. Right now thats our daily work. One of many highprofile cases that have tested stawinskis leadership skills as interim chief and demonstrated his ability to partner with the county states attorney angela brooks. I find him to be the perfect mix of intelligence and integrity. You cant have one without the other. Hes a scientist of sorts about crime. Rechbd tony lee spoke on behalf of stawinski. Saying areas of the county challenged with higher crime need his leadership. Hes just good police. Well stawinski was appointed again unanimously by t there were concerns raised by some Council Members including stawinskis ability to insure theres diversity within his department. Coming up on news4 at 6 00, he addresses that and we talk more about what some of the other concerns were as well. Reporting live in upper marlborough, im Tracee Wilkins. Back to you. A longtime Swimming Coach at st. Marys college is now facing child porn charges. Officers arrested andre bashens after searching his Calvert County home on friday. Were told they seized a number of devices and found evidence of child pornography. Barbins has been the swim coach at st. Maries college in maryland for the past 18 years. The school tells us the assistant coach is now filling that role. Were learning more about the plans to honor antonin scalia, the Supreme Courts longestserving justice. The body of Justice Scalia will lie in repose on friday in the great hall of the Supreme Court. If youd like to pay respects, you can do so from 10 30 the funeral detail still being worked out. Likely to be held saturday at the basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Justice scalia was in attendance when pope francis said mass there last year. Justice scalia died this past saturday in texas at the age of 79. If you call 911 in the district in a few weeks, a private company may be the one to take you to the hospital. News4s Mark Segraves broke the story yesterday that a company had been closen and today the acting fire and ems chief explained how it will make room for other improvements in the department. When gregory dean took over as fire chief a few months ago, one of his Top Priorities was to fix the growing problem of slow response times. Over the past several years, there were multiple reports of no ambulances being available for emergencies. Last week, dean signed a deal with amr, one of the largest private Ambulance Services in t to handle nonlifethreatening 911 calls. If its a nonlifethreatening nonevent, our goal is to et go our units back in service by having them transported by amr. Dean says once a d. C. Firefighter or paramedic decides the patient can wait for private transport, amr will be required to be at the patients location within ten minutes. The chief says the new plan will also allow paramedics and firefighters to get muchneeded training. And for the fleet to get muchneeded maintenance. Currently our members get on a rig and they go from 7 00 in the morning until 7 00 at night. No breaks, no food. Anything. We need to also take care of our members. Hopefully this will allow us to do all three of those things while improving the Service Delivery we provide to the community. Now the private Ambulance Service is going to cost d. C. Taxpayers about 12 million a year. But some of that money will be recovered through insurance payments for those transports. Mark, what qualifications will these private ambulance personnel have . And who will have the authority to oversee them if things should go wrong . Yes. I asked chief dean just about that. He said that they are going to have the d. C. First of all they will be certified by the department of health. They will have the same emt training and skills that d. C. Firefighter has. Now to your question about discipline and when something, if anything goes wrong, d. C. Fire department will investigate any complaints that come in about private transports. If they decide that something is needed as far as discipline, theyll make raemgs to amr and it will be up to amr to take action this is a performancebased contract so theres an incentive for the company to adhere to any disciplinary recommendations that the department makes. Mark segraves, thank you so much. A maryland family, at the center of annapolis. We werent the only ones dealing with some wicked weather. Well show you where some folks barely made it out alive after a possible tornado touched down. Okay now, who gets the pat collins snow stick . Were getting real close to a winner. The final four coming up. I lead the 11 oclock news with stories of gun violence. And like many of you, my family lived through the beltway sniper crisis. In congress, ill fight to expand background checks on guns and ammunition, ban assault weapons, and mandate gun safety locks, because too many kids die from accidental shootings. Lets show the nra were not afraid of them; as democrats, as americans, as parents. Im Kathleen Matthews and i approve this message. Hallelujah those cheers are from rescuers who freed a woman trapped in her home after a possible tornado here this storm hit yesterday near century, florida. First responders and volunteers used any tools they could find to pull that woman out from underneath twisted metal and doors. Well the woman was rushed to a hospital and is expected to survive. At least ten homes in that area were damaged or destroyed from the storm. A tornado caused this damage on the other side of florida. Ft. Lauderdale, Severe Weather stormed through this morning, tearing roofs off buildings and toppling large trees. The strong winds also toppled a tractortrailer here on the highway. Check this out. In the nearby beach, beach chairs were thrown into the water and boats flipped over. About 55,000 people lost power concerns now are about some flooding this evening after the quick melt we saw across much of our region. We saw some of the high waters earlier today in the takoma park area. This is sligo creek parkway and this is standing water. Ponding water. One of the concerns as we operate under some concerns about high water coming on the heels of all the rain weve had and the melting snow. Sligo creek is running high and fast because of those factors. Something else that people are going to be concerned about in the days on the other end of this snowfall. In Montgomery County, eric ward. News4. Well the weather is warmer, the ice and snow melting. And yet a lot of kids are still home from school. We want to know what you think. Did your School District make the right chose to close or delay classes today . Participate in our flash we survey. Well show you the results after dougs forecast. I think they did make the right decision. Even though temperatures were above freezing, with the rain we saw a lot of ice across the region this morning. Caused a lot of problems on the roads. So good thing, i know my kids were excited to be home. I no he my wife was so excited to have them there. Not really. Take a look outside. Weve got sunshine across the region. 49 degrees, winds out of the west at 13 miles per hour. One of the warmest days weve seen in the last few weeks. 43 gaithersburg. 52 towards fredericksburg. A nice afternoon. A little breezy. But still quite nice. No rain to talk about. This was the rain we saw last night. It was snow first, then changed over to the ice, the nasty ice that coated everything. Then it switched over to rain. Could you see whats happening. Some very heavy rain. Even thunderstorms develop just to the east of d. C. Moved up towards fill l. A. Bringing in 5065mileperhour winds. Those storms stay just to our radar will be quiet for days. Thats very good news, theres a big storm system. Weve got another storm making its way down from st. Louis. It looked like it could come into our region a little bit earlier this week. Not going to happen. It should stay down to our south for the most part. Kind of fizzle out. Down towards florida. We showed you the tornadoes, bigtime storms down there. They saw tornadoes in the panhandle of florida, saw them down towards the southern portions of florida early this morning. Theyve dealt with a big mess. Tornadoes in florida this time of year, not that rare and believe it or not, it has to do with el nino that was predicted with this el nino that florida could see a lot of Severe Weather during this winter and theyve seen it for sure. For us tonight, weve got the cold air and the potential for a refreeze tonight. 28 degrees, gaithersburg, 29 in frederick. 27 back towards winchester. So expect areas of ice tomorrow morning, we have that one culpepper county, twohour delay early tomorrow morning. I do expect to see more delays, i dont think well see any more surprised of the delays because of the ice. This evening, just wet. But tomorrow morning, areas of ice, expect delays, weve got new the yellow. It wont be a huge impact we dont have you in yesterday. Just the yellow. A cautionary for sure. Wednesday afternoon no problems. So i think schools may be a twohour delay in some locations. By tomorrow afternoon, were really in the clear. The forecast tomorrow, the impact forecast on the low side. Clouds and sun. Quiet, weve been in weather alert mode since last friday. So its very good that not only are we out of it. We dont see another storm coming for at least the next six to seven days. As a matter of fact weve got great weather, 48 tomorrow, not bad. 39 on thursday, 44 degrees on friday with plenty of sun. Saturday ah, saturday, 63 degrees, some sunshine. Get out and about. I dont know, send the kids to the playground. Do whatever you want. Saturday right now is looking great. Sunday also looking good. The next storm comes next tuesday, and im talk about it shes up at 5 45. Ha ha so what do you think . Did your School District make the right choice to close or delay classes today . Heres a look at the nbc washington flash survey . Doug, you should shtick around for this next one, were talking snow stick challenge. Theres not snow out there any more. But we did get hundreds of clever entries to the latest challenge, our chief snow correspondent pat collins live at his office in northwest d. C. Where theres no snow. First of all, doug, i got to talk to you. In the last 30 hours ive had like 19 changes of clothes. Down, no down. Boots, no boots. Hat new york city hat, gloves, no gles. Here i am at connecticut and look down here. Its grass. I swear to you, there was over three and a half inches of snow here i measured it. I have pictures of it. Today, nothing. But we went ahead with the president s snow stick challenge yesterday. And we got scores and scores of entries. The entries were terrific. And it got real, real close. In the judging. But our judges managed to come up with the final four. It was president s day. And it was snowing. So it was time for another snow stick challenge. Do something patriotic in the snow. Do something patriotic with the snow. The best patriotic snow pics gets a pat collins snow stick. Try saying that three times fast. We assembled a team of judges to select a winner. Susan hogan, our consumer reporter. Mark segraves, expert on all things district. And aaron gilchrist, our morning news anchor. Make that good winner, aaron. They liked what they just sort of artbased. Theyre in the snow, theyre carving out flags and being creative that way. Other people just sort of literally threw themselves into it. We had a great showing and it was harder than i thought it was going to be to find a winner. Using an olympicstyle method, they graded the entries. Here, now, in no particular order, the final four. George Washington Crossing the delaware. The iwo jima reenactment. The Teddy Roosevelt snow sculpture. Anned twoman patriotic parade. So theres the final four which one would you pick . Which one should be the winner . I can only tell you this wait until you see what happens to the winner. Its a good thing we have a picture. You know you got to love a challenge with a trumpet. We may hear that trumpet again. S hard enough to play, but to play and walk at the same time, that takes talent. You guys realize we only have two snow sticks left is what im hearing. Only two . And mona, who sitting over here, shes responsible for ordering snow sticks. She said how many more storms could we have this year . It better be capped at two. Buddy. Whoa. We may have timed it perfectly. Two more, pat. Chief meteorologist and chief snow correspondent, what a team. Thank you, guys. Im root here. Coming up, a lot of chatter about whether the contract talks with redskins quarterback kirk cousins have stalled. We made calls to get some answers. It was a crash on a marc train, between an marc train and an amtrak train that changed the way we commute. Look back at that deadly accident 20 years if you live in fairfax county. Find out why you could be paying more for taxes. Virginias primary is two weeks from today, it follows on super tuesday, im chris lawrence, were getting a better sense of where voters in the commonwealth are leaning when it comes to the candidates. A new poll for t for Public Policy shows on both sides, the national frontrunners are leading in virginia. So, take a look at the standings here. Among the republicans trump has a sixpoint lead over his closest rival, marco rubio. Senator ted cruz right behind. Heres where things could get interesting. When you look at the favorability of these candidates. Rubio actually has the highest among all the candidates. Trump who is leading in the polls, the highest unfavorable rating on either side. For john kasich who placed second in new hampshire, heres the number to keep an eye on in yellow. 39 , nearly 40 of the voters didnt have a feeling about him one way or the other. Dont know him. On the democratic side, Hillary Clinton, with a 12point lead over bernie sanders. She, like trump, has a lower favorability rating and a higher unfavorable rating. But one area where she could benefit, take a look at this when asked whether they would be more or less likely to a socalled democratic socialist, now republicans overwhelmingly said less. But so did more than a third of independents, meaning Hillary Clinton could get some of those crossover voters. Wendy . Thank you, chris. When you look at some of the big campaign contributors, it turns out that the nfl team owners are ready to dig deep into their wallets. The citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington reports more than 2. 8 million was donated to candidates and their superpacs. Redskins owner dan snyder gave a lot to jeb bush but texans own certificate the biggest contributor, giving 2 billion to support seven different candidates. Im jason farr, a contract talks between the skins and quarterback kirk cousins are still indeed ongoing. That refutes an earlier tweet negotiations had broken off. Cousins is a free agent that led the skins to a 97 record and a firstplace finish in the division. The team hopes to lock him up for a longterm dea