Hometown highs. Right now a busy highway is back open following a water main break that causeded a sinkhole in alexandria. Chopper 4 over the scene for us last night while you were sleeping crews finished the repairs there on the southbound lanes of richmond highway. We checked with fairfax water and the water main is fixed and the water is back on this morning. Now a look at traffic from melissa mollet. Good morning. Right now actually looking pretty good. 95 in virginia, dale boulevard, looked a little slow on my map. Doesnt look so bad when you see it in person. Wider look at things, everything flowing quite nicely. 2270 at old hupd road getting a little bit of volume out of frederick. A little slow around this bend. And we typically do see that this time of the morning. 95 in maryland no issue there is. Same thing bw parkway into and out of town. And we do have cancellation Brunswick East 890, canceled all together today. Ill be back with travel times and also hearing about a new crash top of the beltway at connecticut avenue. It is now 6 02. A developing story this morning. A possible case of measles in Fairfax County. Health Officials Say that patient is quarantined this morning. Richard skror dan is live at the Fairfax CountyHealth Department with more on what we should learn later today. Soo. Reporter in just a few hours, the Health Department will release the test results that will either confirm or possibly rule out the possibility of measles for this patient. That confirmation corrected later on this afternoon. Right now the patient is at home in isolation because the measles is very con passenger yus. Its not clear as to how this person may have come in contact with the virus, how they were exposed, how they got measles or possibly got measles. Again, were still waiting for the test results to come back. But every precaution is being taken including looking at exposure sites, who may have come in contact with this person that can now, at risk. Simple teams to look out for of course high fever and then the bumps and rash. Several states have at least one reported case of measles. Virginia wouldnt 18th state if todays results come back positive. There is also one case in d. C. Now, weve gone ahead and posted on facebook and twitter some of the symptoms that you should be looking out for. But again were waiting for the test results to dockcome back later on today. Richard jordan nbc 4. Today greg anthony will be back in the courtroom. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of soliciting a prostitute. He was arrested in january while he was in town to announce a College Basketball game. Court documents show that anthony responded to an ad placed by police on a classified website. Police are trying to federal government out who stabbed federal government out who stabbeded a plan to death at the Donovan Hotel along 14th street. Were waiting for police to release more information. A second teen shot at Frederick High School in maryland is back home and out of the hospital. Two teenagers were shot last week at the school while attending a jv basketball game. Police are still looking for whoever was responsible for that shooting. Police are asking anyone who was at the game during the shooting on february 4th to hand over any photos or video that may help in the investigation. The other teen involved in the shooting was released from the hospital last week. Today metro will go over its emergency plans for leaders from across our area. Council of governments meeting later today. The interim gh will tell the council what the agency is do to go prepare for another emergency like the one at lenfant plaza. A woman died that day. The individual you see herevideo you see here is from metros training facility. You can see the agency has created training in response to what happened last month. This week d. C. Fire and ems will also respond. By friday it will stop encrypting its radio signal which was accused of slowing communication between First Responders last month. Encryption means only fire officials can hear what is being said. Mayor bowser ordered the change. Today you may want to try your luck at playing power ball. Tonights jackpot is an estimated 485 million. That is the fifth largest prize in u. S. History. If you take the cash option, you could go home with 327. 7 million. Id lose my behind. Always at that time cashtake the cash too. Keep in mind your chances of winning, 1 in didabout 175 million. Make sure you have the nbc washington app. Well send you the winning numbers as soon as theyre announced. A messy scene leaving traffic at a stand still after a massive pileup involving a the least 100 cars. What is being blamed for triggering will accident. It is chilly right now. Take a look at these temperatures. It will shaping up to be a beautiful day. The sun will be shining. Tom kierein is preparing you the milder conditions. First, though, its okay to have an extra piece of bacon with your breakfast apparently. Why you may not have to worry about your cholesterol as much anymore. Take a look at this picture. Police released these new photos of someone they say stole two kittens this northwest washington. We first told you about the story yesterday. Police say the man in the black cap shown here took the kittens from the petco on 14th street in northwest. The kittens were three months old and were up for adoption. There a 500 reward in this case. New this morning, we are reading through a new report about how often black boys graduate from Public Schools around the country. The foundation estimated that in 2012 13, that school year 59 of black boys graduated compared to 65 of latino boys and 80 of white boys. Because those numbers are estimates, the Washington Post says its hard to tell whether thats an improvement over previous years. It is now time to check our forecast. Weve been talking about a nice day in store for us. But you have to Pay Attention because it will go away very soon. Tom kierein kicks off our weather and traffic on the 1s. Enjoy it while you can and dress warmly. We are a little below freezing. Wear your warm codes, scarves, gloves. Hometown temperatures right now in vienna its at 24 degrees. High there later this afternoon in Fairfax County, a few high clouds coming in. Prince william at 25. Mid40s there by midafternoon. And this bowie, Prince Georges County 24 there, afternoon highs reaching low pourts. A few clouds coming in. A look at our coldest air yet for the season thats coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6 21. A new crash . Brand new crash 395 north at seminary road. We have two lanes blocked. So a little hard to see here. Well be pushing this out on our nbc washington app in just a minute. That will cause a big issue. Taillights here outer loop for us this morning, looks pretty good. 66 east, 395 north, not so bad right now on 395. But of course going to get worse most likely. Looking good in maryland. You might be able to get away with crashing on a couch at work for a quick cat nap. I wish. Benefits you should share with your boss. Plus they stole our hearts. Why this team from innercity chicago may have to forfeit all the games it won. 6 15. In just a matter of hour, congress could receive a request to use military force against isis in iraq and syria. This comes as yet another american hostage is killed by isis. The president s request would prohibit the use of, quote en endid youringen endureing offensive ground forces. Some members of congress say they are not sure what that means. They will look at sending foors forces to syria. Debate on this issue could last a month. As another hostage is killed the state department has hinted there may be more american hostages. Kayla mueller was killed by isis. She was taken hostage in august of 02013 while leaving a hospital in syria. Her family received a message from isis telling them she was dead. Kayla has touched the heart of the world. The world grieves with us. The world mourns with us. U. S. Officials dont know how she died. But they are certain it was at the hands of isis. Parents of an 8yearold girl are upset that their daughter was able to leave an Alexandria School without the teacher noticing. Rebecca and her houseusband want their daughter to attend another school. They plan to meet with the superintendent this afternoon. Friday morning 8yearold natalia left Williams Ramsey elementary and started to walk home. She was running down the street and a strarngnger found her picked her up, called 911. Natalia was gone to about an hour. She said she left school because a teacher ignored her complaint about a bully pushing her. It is 6 17. New this morning, two people are dead and 65 are hurt after a 100 car pileup in south korea. Officials say 7 of the injured were in serious condition. The pileup occurred in foggy weather on icy roads. Also this morning, as excoast guard officer in soth korea has been sentenced to four years in prison for they go against during last years deadly ferry sinking, the court says lives could have been saved if the captain had broadcast an Evacuation Order after he arrived to rescue passengers. The court also said the captain falsely stated that he had issued an Evacuation Order in the day after the ferry sank. Horn 300 people died making it one of the country east deadliest disasters. 17 after the hour. A fairfax teen with epilepsy may soon be able to use cannabis oil to treat her condition. Virginias house of delegates unanimously passed medical mayor hair legislation yesterday. The Senate Passed a similar law last week. 15 15yearold Jennifer Collins and her mother helped convince lawmakers to pass that bill. Governor mcauliffe has expressed support for medical marijuana in the past. Doctors say more teens are using drugs made out of household supplies or bought from smoke shops. Urgent care centers say theyre seeing an uptick in patients uses over the counter designer drugs like spice, sip threat tick marijuana and bath salts. According to the national smut on drug abuse, spice products are now the second most used drugs by high school seniors. Regular marijuana is still first. Some people in need of Housing Assistance could get a little help ifn Fairfax County. They will start handing out federal vouchers to some on a long waiting list. They had been frozen after sequestration cuts. There are more than 800 people on the list and the county can only help about 280. The current u. S. Little League Champions are now under investigation and we could learn the results today. Another team in chicago said the Jackie Robinson west squad recruited players from outside the city limits. They won the u. S. Championship but lost to south korea in the world championships. If Little League officials strip the team of the title, the Las Vegas Team they beat could be awarded instead. It is against the rules to recruit players who live outside of the playing zone. Same rules apply at high schools, too. So hopefully they can work this out. 20 after 6 00. Up to 32 degrees at this point. And well need to enjoy today as much as you possibly can. Thats right. 322 degrees outside of our studios in northwest washington. Lets check in with tom kierein now, hes out on the weather deck. And it is below freezing, not too bad. I was checking the latest winds on the weather app. And the winds are only around 5 Miles Per Hour. We have clear sky now. So doesnt feel too bad. And we have a polar plunge, though. The coldest air yet will be coming our way and all over most of the eastern half of the country. Upper midwest will have an arctic blast blowing in over the weekend. Monday morning, near record cold here. The record low in washington 5 degrees set 110 years ago. We may be near that on monday morning. Right now temperatures around the region are in the 20s, mid20s nearby suburbs, downtown near 30. We is a mostly clear sky, just a few high clouds drifting over later today. By 8 00 app. M. , near 30. Near 40 by thoonnoon. Late afternoon, high clouds coming back in. Near 30 by dawn tomorrow. Then the strong winds blow in thursday afternoon. May get back up to around 40 around noontime. And then it plummets down into the 20s by sunset on thursday. Windchills will be in the single digits. Maybe a few passing snow showers during the afternoon. Then friday frigid, teens in the morning. Light are winds afternoon highs upper 20s. Valentines day, might get a little light snow. Just a brief dusting possible. Highs reaching the low 30s. And coldest weather moving in another surge on sunday and into monday. Very strong winds on sunday. We may have subzero windchills highs only theyre 20. Theyre record cold monday morning. Monday afternoon mid20s. Might get a bit of a wintry mix coming up on tuesday. We have a couple accidents this morning . A couple of new septembers. And im also hearing that we have green line delays that just popped up to the greenbelt. 395 north at seminary road two lanes blocked because of a crash there. So really see something volume starting to build there on 395. In german up to 270 north at middlebrook, an accident there on the ramp not sure if its blocking at this point, but the crash is on the ramp. Potomac, Montrose Road southbound at seven locks is shut down. Alternate iswooton parkway. Everything else looking pretty typical. Back will ten minutes. 6 22. A special hiring our heros job fair today, happening at the Marine Corps Base at quantico. Starts at 10 00. There is also a workshop where you can talk about resume writing and interviewing skills that begins at 8 30. And like all of the hiring our heros fairs, this one is for military veterans and their spouses. More than 60 companies will be at todays fair. You may want to look into insurance if youre renting a home or apartment. A new survey found 6 in 10 american representnters do not have insurance. 45 say its too expensive. 37 of those are covered but 4 didnt even know if they had it. The National Association of insurance commissions reports the average cost of renters insurance is 187 a year. Its called the silent killer. Carbon monoxide is odorless and colorless and kills more than 400 people every year. Tonight on news 4 at 11 00, Erika Gonzalez will walk us through a Prince Georges County home to show us where properly placed c. O. Detectors should be. Shell show you how inexpensive it is to keep your family safe. Were working for you tonight at 11 00. 6 24. In news 4 your health, arethere could be a big change on federal cholesterol guidelines. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee recommends cholesterol levels no longer be listed as a nutrient of concern. It says its not associated with a higher risk of Heart Disease which we had heard for years. And that means you may be advised to not limit it as much as anymore. So you can enjoy foods with high cholesterol will that but remember eat everything in moderation. You may need a nap. Paris researchers found napping actually helps restore your bodys immune system. They found a 30 minute nap could improve your health and stress levels. Small study analyzed hormone levels in 11 men who slept for only two hours the night before. Researchers saw a significant improvement following a nap. However, they still recommend that you get 7 to 9 hours of sleep. Schlep . 7 . One of the most important Little Things you can do for your health every day. And i really do feel better and look better even when i get an extra hour on the weekend or something. But 7 to 9 . Did luck. Good luck. After 17 years of bringing political comedy to a whole new level, jon stewart announced hes stepping down from the daily show. I dont have any specific plans. Got a lot of ideas, a lot of things in my head. Im going to have dinner on a school night with my family who i have heard from multiple sources are lovely people. So hes going to be reintroduced to his family. Thats always good. That was part of his announcement from last nights show. Stewart says he doesnt know when his last show will be. His contract expires in september. He directed a movie recently. Im sure he can come up with a lot of things to do after this part of his life. Hes a young man. He can did whatever he wants. Sgr Stephen Colbert also left. And now hell be on letterman. So well see where stewart lands. Nothing left to watch on comedy central. Well, a car left covered in concrete after pieces of a maryland overpass scrum passpass crumbled. Steps being taken to make sure this doesnt happen to other driver. Plus the new room now open for you to see at the white house. A live look at National Harbor this morning. Tom is breaking down the calm before the cold. And your weather and traffic are always on news 4 today. Keep an eye on your screen for youre looking live at the suitland parkway overpass on the beltway which is open for the morning commute. Workers will be looking at it today after chunks of the bridge fell on to a car below. Leaving this damage be smashed. Megan mcgrath will join us in a few minutes with a look at the work being done to keep you safe. Dont let the cold temperatures get down. Well be enjoying a squik break. Tom has a look at the calm before the cold sflp and youve. Nice today and then the bottom falls out. And these next 30 seconds of optimism brought to you by storm team 4. Yes, enjoy this break today as we will have our temperatures reaching the mid fourth by midafternoon. Here is the hour by hour forecast. By 8 00 right around 30. Bright sunshine. By noon should be right up around 40. A much lighter wind today. And then by afternoon, back down to mid40s. So this will seem pleasant. Subfreezing