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Contact your rep and tell them you support the bill. Republican Thomas Massey tweeting hes changing his vote from no to hell no. The president got a standing ovation during his white house meeting with freedom kcaucus members. But for some in that meeting applause does not mean votes. The president was very gracious, but nothing new came out of it. We want President Trump to have a successful agenda, but in order to get to yes, we have to bend the cost curve down. Do i think it gives the president a loss . Absolutely not. When you look at this, were going to get to the finish line because the president s committed to get to the finish line. Moderates and conservatives are committed to get to the finish line. Reporter the day began with an uphill climb, 30 republicans are voting no. Trump may be a great negotiator. Clearly youre not ready. Reporter for the white house, there is no plan b. The only focus, sell this bill. Tonight there is no guarantee on when that vote will take place. A white house spokesman saying theyre hoping the debate will go on tonight as scheduled and theyre pushing for a vote to take place sometime tomorrow morning. Nbc news has been tracking the republican lawmakers who plan to vote no today. Heres a look at the list from our region in maryland. Andy harris. And in virginia rob wittmann Terry Mcauliffe said he met with the entire congress yesterday to urge them to block the bill. The governor sounded much better than that when he originally said that. We reached out to virginia congresswoman barbara come Stocks Office but we have not heard back. Changes to the Health Care System could have a big impact ma of them are ccerned they will lose benefits under the gop plan. Kristin wright talked to people today concerned about their coverage. This is something i worry about every day, every day of my life. Reporter what happens next with the question of health care in america is really important to Christine Farley in northwest washington. Her son was born with cystic fibrosis. The expense is huge. Reporter now 19, he takes about 30 pills a day and the rest of his life depends on costly medical supplies and drugs. This little vial he puts in once a day and this little vial is 27. Reporter christine is thankful for Good Health Insurance from her employer but wonders about her sons future coverage as he gets older. The protection for people with preexisting conditions is of primary importance to me. Reporter meanwhile gop lawmakers support of the Health Care Bill say the Affordable Care act must go. The white house fighting for what the president long promised. The problem with obamacare is it took all of these benefits, man dat mandated that it had to be offered. Costs spiked and choices we want away. Id like to see those things that are working very well in the Affordable Care act stay and id love to see a discussion about how to make health care in the United States even better. Reporter she says for all americans. In washington, kristin wright, new news4. We have continuing coverage on the nbc washington app. Well have the latest lawmakers reaction and tell you when the bill might come to the floor. Just Search Health care. There is stepped up security at Rockville High School tonight after a disturbing crime on that campus. A 14yearoldl classmates in a bathroom during school hours. That case got National Attention after we learned that one of the suspects was in this country illegally. Now, new reaction from the suspects attorney as we learn how he found his way into the u. S. And ended up in the Montgomery County school system. News4s chris gordon is outside the school with these new developments. Reporter there have been threats here and they have been ugly. Maryland governor larry hogan says they will not be tolerated. Rockville high school has received telephone calls threatening to shoot what the caller referred to as, quote, illegals and to burn the school down. We cant condone any kind of hate speech like that. Its terrible and its not something that should be allowed to go on. The board of education and the superintendent have received many, many emails that are hateful, threatening, just disgraceful. Reporter extraol students left Rockville High School. It has been a week since a 14yearold female student said she was dragged into a restroom and raped. Two male students were arrested. One appears to be an undocumented immigrant. Today i spoke by phone with the lawyer representing Henry Sanchez millian. He says the 18yearold is not guilty. Nothing in the statement mentions bruising or skaccratch or evidence of a fight. Reporter senator ron johnson released a letter saying if Border Patrol had properly done its job neither sanchez millian or the juvenile defendant would have been present in this country to commit this heinous act. The lawyer for sanchez millian says the youngster traveled alone from guatemala and was stopped after crossing the border in texas. I. C. E. Examined the situation and decido his own recognizance and arranged for him to be flown to dwi at the expense of his father where hes been living in Montgomery County ever since. Reporter Henry Sanchez was enrolled here in Rockville High School. Tonight hes being held in custody at the Montgomery County Detention Center awaiting his preliminary hearing in this rape case. A Police Cruiser crashed. The officer involved now charged with drivings unding under the e and its not the first time. The accident happened early this morning on the beltway near pennsylvania avenue. Tracee wilkins joins us with new details. Reporter jim, now we know that for a while after this accident happened Prince Georges County police were searching for this officer. 5243. Reporter with this accident involving a Prince Georges County Police Cruiser first happened, dispatch could not locate officer christopher brown. We now know according to sources close to this investigation that brown left the scene, returning 30 minutes later. He has now been suspended and is facing multiple charges connected to dui and speeding after wrecking his cruiser in the southbound lanes of the beltway near pennsylvania avenue this morning. Prince georges county police say that it appears the officer clipped the back of a tractor trailer, spun out of control and hid the gua hit the guardrail. This is not the officers first runin with dui. In 2012 the same officer was involved in another crash in his cruiser while under the influence. He was charged in that crash, pled guilty and was disciplined administratively. The chief released a statement saying i find the circumstances gravely troubling and i apologize to for the appearance of impropriety. Know that when i have the facts i will take appropriate action to remedy this and will make the facts known to the public. On twitter we had a viewer ask how was this officer able to stay on as an officer after a previous dui in his cruiser. Police spokesmen tell me that because it was a misdemeanor the first time and he followed everything that the court asked him to do, had a probation before judgment, he was punished here within the department. They cant say what happened, but because of everything that was done he was allowed to stay on the job. The man who drove to a security checkpoint near the white house claiming to have a bomb in his car went before a judge today. Shawn keegan told authorities he spoke telepathically to President Trump. He was arrested on saturday after driving from roanoke, virginia, to a white house checkpoint and telling police had an asteroid in his car. There was no explosive device found in the vehicle. Keegan was arrested on charges of making a false bomb threat and driving a stolen vehicle. He also under went a Mental Health investigation. There have been four Security Breaches at the white house so far this month. The suspect in the wave of threats against Jewish Community centers lives in israel and has dual u. S. Citizenship. Hes 19 years old and he was arrested in southern israel today. His name has been sealed. At a brief Court Appearance his public defender said he has a brain tumor that affects his cognitive functions. The threats were made against dozens of u. S. Sites and at least one Delta Air Lines flight using phone calls and emails. Authorities say the suspect made the threats from his bedroom and masked the origin with sophisticated technology, some of which he built himself. Terror in london. Up next, a closer attackers criminal past and why police had him on their radar years before yesterdays rampage. A murder that has haunted his family and friends for months, but tonight a new plea from the parents of a former dnc staffer killed on the streets of d. C. Reporter whats it going to take for metro riders to come back to the system . Probably not fare hikes and service cuts but that happened today. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. Cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of the download speeds. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, datafree. Get the best. Go to getfios. Com pl tonight the death toll has risen in the wake of that london terror attack yesterday. The fourth victim, a 75yearold man. An american was also among those killed. He was from utah and in london for his wedding anniversary. He also learned more about the suspect today. Police identified him as 52yearold Khalid Masood, a British National known to police. He has several past criminal convictions but was not part of any active terror investigation. Reporter a day after a brazen attack on the heart of british learning more about the assailant and the victim. 52yearold Khalid Masood born in kent in england was known to the police for a string of petty by violent offenses. But they were not looking at him on a suspicion of terrorism or did they have any intelligence on him being involved in a plot that was perpetrated on the capital yesterday. They said hed been in prison as early as 1983 for some violent offenses. Now there are questions as to whether or not he was radicalized in prison. But they say he acted alone. One of the victims, an american from utah, has been named as curt cochran, a 54yearold man here on his anniversary with his wife. She is being treated in a London Hospital for severe injuries. We learned more about the raid that took place overnight in london a seven people have been arrested, six of them are being held on charges related to the suspicion of preparation of terrorism. Two of them are women. Were waiting to see if theres any more information, if they have connection to the attacker yesterday. New at 6 00 tonight, the family of a Democratic National Committee Staffer who was killed near his home in the bloomi bloomingdale neighborhood of d. C. , the family is asking for the publics help. They need help raising money so they can continue their own investigation to his death. Police do not know who killed seth rich last july. Tomorrow an office dedicated to solving his murder will open in arlington. The investigation hasnt gone as fast as i had hoped. Were doing everything possible. But now we want to move to a 24 hour a day approach. Were going to have a rapid attack, rapid response, 24 hour a day forensics until this is solved. D. C. Police think rich was shot and kle attempt. Although his wallet was not taken. Some people think he was tied to the release of dnc emails by wikileaks. Wikileaks even put up reward money to help find the killer. The goal is to raise 200,000 through a go fund me page. So far the family has raised almost 9,000. Now, to the firestorm in the house intelligence committees russia investigation. Committee chairman is a republican. His name is deafen nuvin nunes. Critics say that move raises questions about whether nunes can remain in his postand whether the committee can conduct a credible investigation. At the end of the day, you know, sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the wrong one, but youve goto stick by the decisions you make. He knows full well that there is grave objectivity. Nunes says the information he shared with the white house shows the president and his Transition Team may have been inadvertently caught up in legal communication intercepts after the election. Critics accuse nunes of trying to give mr. Trump political cover for the debunked wiretap accusations that the president levelled against former president barack obama. And critics note republicans are already sending fundraising emails about that. Starting this summer, youll have to pay more to ride metro. The board giving the green light to fare hikes today to try and close the 300 million budget gap. We told you these were coming. In addition to those rate hikes metro will also be cuttingle les routes. The fare hikes kick in july 1st. Adam tuss is at metro he headquarters with what you to know. Reporter to raise fares didnt come without drama today, a packed board room so full some werent allowed inside, pushing and shoving outside the board room as some forced their way in. Others taking the mike to make the case to not reduce service. Rather than cutting routes in the future we definitely encourage the board to subject down on some dedicated sustainable funding source. Reporter from a fare standpoint, youll pay an extra quarter for the bus, ten currents for more rush hour rail service, a quarter more for off peak rail service and ten cents more for daily parking. There will be an increase in peak and off peak read head ways for the time you wait for a train and metro will cut some of its least its very expensive. People are thinking about uber or taxi. Reporter Paul Wiedefeld hinted at the fact that hell try to be more vocal in the future about getting more money to fix metro. We have to put information out there about what our needs are, clearly so people understand what were up against. Reporter all of this coming on a day when Virginia Governor Terry Mcauliffe says he wants a full review of how metro operates and hes appointing a former transportation secretary to lead that review. We nd answers. Reporter metro yet again trying to deal with a tough day. Its been pretty rough here at metro headquarters. The fare hikes and the service cuts, you still have a couple of months. They kick in at the beginning of july. We want to hear what you think. In our flash survey we asked will the metro fare metro. So far many of you say you already avoid metro. You can vote on the nbc washington facebook page. Coming up, they answer the call for help. Then gunfire erupted. Tonight a tribute to some local Police Officers honored for their bravery after a colleague was killed in the line of duty. Plus, some chilling new clues in a womans murder a well, doug, a little warmer than it was yesterday, but our blossoms, i think, are still at risk. Well, i think were getting out of that now. Last night temperatures went below freezing. Tonight that below freezing area will be outside of the city. I do not think the city will see temperatures below freezing again. That means very good news for the blossoms. This weekend could be a great weekend. Theyre expects to hit peak bloom this weekend. Right now, clear skies, really abundant sunshine all day. Still a little bit on the cool side. Temperatures dropping 40 degrees by 9 00, 39 degrees by 11 00. Current temperatures, 46 gaithersburg, 50 culpeppeculpep in charlottesville. Heres pictures of kids at wolf trap elementary. They were excited to talk all about the weather. And theyre excited about the warmer temperatures coming our way. Whats not coming our way, rain. We do need some rain. Were not going to get any any time soon. But we do have a couple of chances on sunday and even into next week. Back to the west, heres a warm front. It does have a few showers with it but not very many. That warm front will come our way and bring the temperatures with it as well. 72 in nashville, 74 in towards parts of arkansas. Thats the warmer air that will be moving our way. Even st. Louis is around 60 today. That warmer air moving into our area tomorrow. Its been on the cold side. You know that. Tomorrow the warmer air moves in across our region and the pattern region, much warmer pattern. Cold air locked to the north and then a warmer pattern that sticks around for a while. How about tomorrow . Well, lets take you through hour by hour. Around 8 00 starting to see cloud cover in here. Weve got the clouds at 10 00. Its cool and cloudy around 10 00. Even some showers activity. If the showers move in early enough we could even see some freezing rain. By around noon, the chance of rain is done but were still in the clouds and still not a very nice day. Tomorrow afternoon into teche evening we clear. Temperatures soar. Bus stop forecast, chilly 36 de