Warm up and not the deep freeze. In all fairness, we are in the deep freeze 50 thing this morning. Another record low at dulles airport. At least a dozen cold records in a month. Looking down over washington. The Washington Monument proudly illuminated. Nothing on storm team 4 radar will be 100 dry. It is 5 in leesburg and 20 downtown and 9 in gaithersburg. There is a lot of cold stuff this morning. Hourly temperatures on the way up. Most neighborhoods freezing by lunchtime. You will need your slush boots out there. There is sloppiness out there. Plenty of sunshine and temperatures into the low and mid 40s. How long can it last in that part of the forecast minutes away. Hopefully forever. Lets hope. A live look at the roads in virginia. It being looks like everything is clear. We dont have many cars on the roadways. Things have been pushed off to the shoulder of the road but they work to get that off the roadway. Clearing all the snow and ice from your car on the roads, especially on the roof of your car. Good advice. Lets go north of Montgomery County. Streets may be covered in snow. Highway officials want you to be patient. With many side streets covered in ice and the hard packed snow plows may have to make more than one pass. We are told crews were working overnight and continue to get the side streets cleared as well. The neighborhood sidewalks in the district could be covered in ice and snow. It seems the sidewalks are hit and miss with streets treated and others are slick. News 4 discovered sections cleared and other sections untreated in the same block. Take care if you are headed out early. If you have plans in that area they may be affected if you plan to go out to lauerle park. The park will open to host other activities and sundays races are planned to go ahead as scheduled. Seems like everyone success impacted by the weather and the most recent snowstorm forced some restaurants to close their doors in the middle of restaurant week. It seems the snow and ice will have an affect on the weather. The latest storms have cost them big. They cleared the path and then we have this much snow again. They could have lost at least a week of revenue with that. Restaurants on both sides feeling the pinch. Local workers losing money and leaving many restaurants deserted. 6 03. The southbound side of the vw parkway shut down because of a crash. This happened at the exit for green belt road. We can show you a look from the scene. Three cars involved. Two seemed to have gone off the road. One appears to be a snow plow. We are looking to find out more but no one was seriously hurt. The George Washington parkway back open after another crash. Chopper 4 was over the scene. Two cars collided in arlington. The southbound side was shut down while police had to clear the road. No one seriously hurt. I Police Officer shot a man after a car pursuit and foot chase. They witnessed the man involved in a criminal activity at comfort inn drive. He lost control of his car. The chase continued on foot and a canine team hid behind a house. The suspect is being treated at the hospital. Prince georges county police have taken a predator off the streets. He is charged with first degree rape in one case and is implicated in two others. You innocent . Yep. Police arrested the 48yearold in cottage city maryland. He grabbed a woman from behind on 38th avenue and held her at knifepoint and raped her. The victim was able to pick him out of a photo lineup and he is a suspect in a rape that happened last wednesday in ravensburg and a person of interest in another Sexual Assault from last september and one last october. The nations first black president will give a speech on the bridge that was the sight of so much violence. Today is 50 years since the march in selma, alabama. It became known as bloody sunday. That violent day would pave the way for so much change. 50 years later, the Edmond Pettis bridge is packed again. Thousands from across the nation remembered what happened here. They dropped on their knees to pray all hell broke loose. On a day known as bloody sunday. They went down the line popping it over. Battered and bloody but unbroken. The number of protesters was around 30,000 as they completed the march to montgomery the journey that was the last revolution of the Civil Rights Movement. Equality including the right to vote. We were determined to get the right for all people. Regardless of the color of their skin to be able to file a ballot and determine their own destiny. Our nations first africanamerican president , barack obama will stand with thousands honoring the sacrifices made. Those who took the first step are quick to point out the journey is not over. While we have progress socially economically and politically, we still have a long way to go. Here in rural alabama, they may understand better than most thou cross the bridge to get there. Jay gray nbc news selma. Back here in washington there will be a ceremony to celebrate abraham lincolns second inauguration. That ceremony starts at the lincoln memorial. Following a news 4 i team investigation, a Northern Virginia congressman is calling for changes at the airports to prevent virt and animal strikes. You ready . Time to spring forward. At 6 10 we have breaking news we want to bring you up to speed on. A Police Officer was killed in a single car crash around 3 20 this morning. We are working to get you more information as to the cause of the crash. We are making calls right now and will get back to you. It has been a year of Unanswered Questions for the families of the 239 people on board flight 370. Tomorrow marks a year since the plane disappeared from kuala lumpur to beijing. No trace of the plane has been found and three americans were on the plane. Australias Prime Minister said he cannot promise his government will continue the searches indefinitely. New calls for changes today when it comes to airports and animals. This after a news 4 i team investigation. We recently reported about 8,000 birds and other animals were euthanized near the runways of dulles and bwi to prevent them from colliding with planes. Now they are asking the federal Aviation Administration invest in a radar system at the local airports. Supporters say it could reduce the need to euthanize animals. They dont have the authority to require this radar to be used. Tsa had a lot of items over the near years, but this may be a first. They found this doggy inside a checked bag at la guardia this week. Apparently the dog climbed in while the owner was packing her suitcase. Tsa worked to identify the owner and the two were happily reunite reunited reunited. Can you imagine . Thats an extra baggage fee. Right . It may still be winter but now is the time to look forward to summer. Maybe teens are looking for the jobs. A new job is happening in north virginia today. How to remember former d. C. Mayor marion barry. Whats going on chuck . We are stuck in the deep freeze this morning, but there signs of a warm up. You can believe it . One. He was dubbed the districts mayor for life. D. C. Leaders are planning ways to memorialize marion barry. They revealed a mural of him in southeast d. C. Its far from the last tribute the district is planning for the mayor for life. Frank smith knew marion barry longer than just about anyone in d. C. We were in the Civil Rights Movement in the 60s and both of us ended up in washington. He talked of his long time friend about how he wanted to be remembered. We talked about it specifically. That would memorialize his activity. With the possibility of the reefs building coming down barry pictured his statue at that spot that was a flash point during the 1960s. They were right on the corner when the riots took place. He was part of a committee to honor barrys legacy. Ever countless young people learned the value of a hard days work because of our Youth Program he founded in 1979. Besides the possibility of a statue the other things are naming streets or possibly government buildings in his name. Barrys widow said he wanted his legacy to be remembered by the city he loved so much. I promise you thats all he was thinking about and what to do with the city. News 4. Today is an important day for teens in loudoun county. The seventh annual teen job fair is happening at the Recreation Center and that will be in sterling. At least 34 Companies Looking to hire teens will be there. Applicants are encouraged to bring a resume. We have high tech firms and low tech firms and grass cutting and snow removal and movie theaters and food restaurants, sandwich places. We have got a range of Retirement Homes and offices here. We have a variety of programs. We need over 100 lifeguards for the county. Some will walk out of the job fair knowing they will have a summer job. Others will leave with opportunities to start parttime work the right way. Its that time of year again. Time to spring forward. While it may not feel like spring you want to put the block ahead an hour. We decided to take a look at how observing daylight savings time may be good for us. There is something we cant see, touch, or taste, we worry about it a lot. Three, two, engineer starts. One year to another if we didnt have a ceremony of what when it happens. There might be a benefit to losing an hour of sleep. Getting more dilight in your life could be good for you. We benefit from daylight. It lowers our Blood Pressure and gets our body producinger is serotonin and melatonin that allows us to sleep better at night. No matter insignificant, places like here where the biggest snow banks may not melt until may or june. Our bodies are designed to be outdoors. When you sit all day in a cubicle, thats not good for us. Dont pass on savings. It has been around for about 100 years and became adopted in the 60s. Over the years it helps it cuts energy from lights and heating. It lowers crime rates to restaurants. All ideas that have been disputed. Some people report feeling groggy or disoriented for days after adjusting their clocks. If you do take comfort in the in fact we fall back in the fall. Thats cute. We want to tell you that the clocks will spring forward. Metro will stop between 1 00 and 2 00 to prepare for the time change. We realized that you lose an hour. You are devastated. I am, but we have been losing hours for the last few weeks. Its going early for the morning show because of the snow day. I dont think we have readjusted. Anythingo anything that gets us closer to warmer weather. The good news is we have just about turned the corner on winter. Keep in mind our last inch of snow didnt come until march 25th. It could still happen again, but it wont be in the next seven seven days. What a gorgeous sunrise. This will not look like this. Tomorrow morning, remember with the time change it will be dark. The early sunrises about ready to take leave. We take them out of the morning and put it in the evening. For now, Early Morning daylight showing a still rock solid frozen potomac river. Clear skies and plenty of breeze at the national airport. Wind chills back into the Single Digits. Check out the air temperatures. It has been obliterated. Down to three right now. 7 in gaithersburg. You get the picture. Its bone chilling gold. We have a quick rise in temperatures. Most should be at or above freezing by 10 00 and most of us into the low 40s. Hometown forecast in maryland and today sunshine and the melt down. 42 today and only 28 degrees tomorrow morning. Below freezing and it wont be in the Single Digits again. Look at how quiet the weather pattern is from the rockies all the way to the eastern shore. Not much going on. A nice quiet pattern seth up shop in the next couple of days. The opportunity to get outside and enjoy. Future weather through today. Full sunshine and temperatures above freezing. Another seasonally cold night and plenty of sun and melting and our cold pattern coming to an end. Get the car washed. Days of dry weather coming and expect very long lines at all the car washes. If you can do it in your driveway they might be the way to avoid the line. 45 today and clear and chilly tonight. Back up to the 50s. He said 50s tomorrow and monday. Our average high is 54 and most of the week will be right around average. Might be close to 60 on wednesday. Had to take the 60s back but this time its closer. Dont think about doing that again. You cant take it back. No more snow for the rest of the year, right . No more snow on the sevenday forecast. Absolutely. We will take that. Fair enough. A major player is in the region for the world series of yeah, im married. Does it matter . Youd do that for me . Really . Yeah, id like that. Who are you talking to . Uh, its jake from state farm. Sounds like a really good deal. Jake from state farm at three in the morning. Who is this . Its jake from state farm. What are you wearing jake from state farm . [ jake ] uh. Khakis. She sounds hideous. Well shes a guy, so. [ male announcer ] another reason more people stay with state farm. Get to a better state. Welcome back. One of pokers most recognizable players in the world is in maryland this weekend. He is taking part in the world series of poker tournament at horseshoe casino in baltimore. He has 13 championship bracelets and more than 18 million in tournament winnings. The tournament is expected to last through monday. It had a nearly 1700 buy in. A lot of poker chips. Today is senior day and John Thompson made a go at it. Diagnosed with a heart ailment, today he gets a shot. Sheer planning on starting adams against seton hall and said the news this week at practice. He mentioned how he doesnt do a lot of coaches that start seniors. He said it wasnt that big of a deal to him. At the end of the conversation you can make an exception. I thought it was a joke. Everyone started laughing. It shocked me. Someone that has not pouted. Someone who found a way to help this teammates to make this team better. Its a big moment for him. A lot of people have been able to see tyler play. It will be good for his career with his name on the back of a jersey. And they take on the pirates at noon at the Verizon Center. That is terrific. The time is 6 27. A story you will only he seer on news 4. A child porn scheme in Northern Virginia. How a 14yearold generated a cyber porn contest. Snow days. How will it impact the common core tests. Storm team 4s chuck bell will have what you need t. Breaking news. We are learn a prince georges officer was involved in a fatal car crash. This was around 3 20 a. M. And we are working on getting more information and who exactly was killed. Its a busy day on the roads. Other top stories, the southbound side of gw parkway at the exit for green belt road in prince georges county. Two cars including what you see there appears to be a snow plow went off the road. We are working to find out more but no reports of serious injuries. A live look at the roads in virginia. V dot crews try to clear the remaining snow. They want you to clear all of the snow and ice off of the cars and trucks and headed out on the roads today. The first family traveling to selma, alabama to mark 50 years since the civil rights marches down there. President obama will give a speech on the Edmund Pettis bridge. Marchers on that bridge were attacked by police with clubs and tear gas and that day became known bloody sunday. At 6 31 we say good morning to you. So happy you could join us. Today is saturday march seventh. We want to go straight to chuck bell who hopefully has more news on the temperatures rising. Yes indeed. The temperatures will be above freezing in every neighborhood by later on today. There is some very welcome refrom what has been a brutally cold pattern. One more cold morning to get through right now. There is the view from National Harbor and mostly clear sky overhead. No more additional snow or rain for the weekend. It will be completely dry. It is really cold. Single digits. Baltimore 7 and frederick at 7. Menassis down to just 3 this morning. Hour by hour plan on temperatures teens to 20s to near 8 00 this morning. Low to fit 40s for highs today. There is a little relief. The big melt down continues into tomorrow. A check of a much milder sevenday forecast a few minutes from now. The latest round of winder weather hit in the middle of standardized testing. The partnership for college and career tests or park as they are known are aligned to common core teaching. Thanks to the snow days students in Montgomery County they got two days of testing in. There is plenty of time to make up the tests. The testing window from the state is long and we have make up days built in. As long as it doesnt go too crazy, we should be able to get the testing in. Three days over the snow day limit. Now the last day of school will be on june 17th. You may want to think about your older neighbors who may be struggling to keep up with a d. C. Snow clearing law. They must be cleared of snow within 24 hours after it stops falling. Serve d. C. Is a group of volunteers who move around clearing sidewalks for those in need. They are asking you to help out through winter months or sign up as a snow clearing volunteer. Crowd crews are using the third shipment of road salt this season. Arlington used up the midseason refly along with the original order. Crews have been mixing in sand to help the salt go a little further. Now to a story you will only he seer. A fairfax team creates child pornography. He masterminded the scheme through the popular kick app. It makes it tough for police to track down the predators. They are asking you parents to get involved. More than 200 million users for made up screen names you can send messages, photos and videos. Its called kik. They said our parents are on facebook and we dont use it anymore. Kik is what they are using. The Child Exploitation unit follows social trends. Kik is the pond that is stocked with all the fish. Were dug up a disturbing case. A detective first reached out to Police Investigating a 12yearold who submitted nude photos to a screen name called aaa productions transferred through the and offered the chance to win 30,000 for child pornography. They tracked to to a home here in fairfax. They knocked on the door and a dad answered and turned over two cell phones belonging to his school age children. The suspect is just 14 years old. On the 14yearolds phone, they found child pornography recorded in fairfax county. Part of the problem is finding the person behind the screen name. Another issue is kik is a canadian company. In the last few months they have become good at honoring american subpoenas and court documents. The lieutenant stresses the company itself operates legitimately and within the law. Putting much of the burden on parents. You need to know what your kid is doing on the phone. Your kid should not have a password you dont have. If you open the nbc washington app and search apps you will be able to find a list of tools to keep your kids safe on social media. Bob menendez rumors that he is about to be indicted. He has been under investigation forever a florida doctor who is a friend and large political donor. According to the associated press, charges are expected to be filed in the coming the senator insists he has been honeyest in his more than 20 years in congress. I have always conducted myself appropriately and in accordance with the law. Attorney general eric holder is expected to announce a decision on the case in the next month. Former Vice President Walter Mondale is in the hospital. He was taken to the hospital with the flu and expected to be okay. He served as Vice President to jimmy carter in 1977 until 1981. We are looking at 6 37. Cyber security. Police make arrests in an email data breech. Preventing concussions on the field. 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Celebrate one year of vertuoline with 100 dollars off. Its the best price weve ever engineered. Men are facing charges after hacking into email service providers. They include stealing more than a billion email addresses. They made billions in the process. One man pleaded guilty and another is still on the run. A man from canada is also in custody. If you planned to stop by our all state Community Spread event, you will have to postpone the plans. It has been canceled because of the snow. The new date has not been spread yet. Nbc 4 and all state land to offer the free service. We will keep you posted when the new date is scheduled. Its coming up on 6 41. We mead a young athlete who suffered more than one concussion and what is being done to protect our other athletes. Now over to chuck. See what i see on that monitor . The rising sun and the promise of rising temperatures comes along with it. The winter warm up is finally here and others. 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President obama and thousands of others will be on hand to remember bloody sunday a historic day in the civil rights move am. They claim the Police Department is racially biased. Could we finally say goodbye to the winter that never seemed to end . Today just might be the last day we see the bitterly cold temperatures. Dylan is on top of that. Even if the temperatures are rising its time to get away. This happens to be the perfect time to plan a trip. The prices are right and so is the sun. We will tell you where to find the best deals and how to get there. Almost time to spring ahead. As you change the clock do you find yourself wondering why you do this twice a year . To help the farmers and save energy . Money perhaps . We are going to dispel a number of misconceptions about daylight savings time. All that and more when we get started. Because its tradition. Thats chuck bell for you. Thats the honest answer. Typically right. Thank you, craig. Every year thousands of athletes suffer concussions on the court, field, or ring. Local scientists are joining the effort to make better protective gear for high schools and the major leagues. Too many months have passed since 15yearold wyatt vance has been able to grab lacrosse gear and head outside. He was sidelined after taking a spill in a football game. I remember the back of my head slamming the ground and bouncing off. Corn fused and disoriented he stayed in the game two more plays. He had a concussion, his second in six months and far worse than the first. It was around two weeks out of school and another week kind of on and off going two hours and coming home with such a bad headache i couldnt do it anymore. Here couldnt focus and he was always exhausted. The cdc said 170,000 kids visit the emergency room for sports related traumatic brain injuries including concussions. All set . That was a ballistics test on a helmet at the National Institutes of standards and technology. They showed me around this Material Measurement Lab that joined forces with the nfl and ge. The purpose of the challenge is to find new materials that can be applied to this problem of concussion prevention. The challenge is the challenge 3, the call to think outside the box on behalf of athletes who take hits and come up with the next generation of color that will absorb and disburse Energy Better than todays helmets. What you will be looking for is a revolution and a big change in how the technology can be used to protect the person inside. The lab is set up to perform a simple drop test. Its similar to the test being designed and built for this new challenge. Can you imagine sensors and inside the material and inside the impact device. You can tell how things are slowing down and how much energy is being absorbed. With months of help from the doctors, wyatt is back to his normal work out getting ready for wrestling season concuser. They say once you get one, you are more flown get more and theyre worse than the last one. I dont want to risk it. Wyatt said his concussion was bad luck. He doesnt blame the helmet but he would love to see improvements in gear. The cdc has great tips for helping student athletes coaches and parents. We put a link for you on the nbc washington app. Just search concussion. We are talking about a warm up. In this moment not right now. Its 21 degrees outside. We are one of the warmer locations. The empty you get outside to the north and west it is near zero. Dulles airport is going to crush another record low at least a dozen record low temperatures between record low mens and maxes over the last month. Outside this morning, enjoy at least the pretty picture. There is the view outside. Rising sun coming on up. You wont get an early sunrise like this for a couple of months. Also dont forget to change the battery in your smoke detectors. Only four days above average in the last four weeks. Even those few days that have been above average have been one or two degrees above where the days have been below have been 15 to 25 degrees per day below average. Its a goodlooking sunrise. 20 degrees in washington. Wind chills are still in the teens and air temperatures in the suburbs are much colder. Gaithersburg at 7. Leesburg and dulles at three. 3 is just crushing the record temperatures will be up into the mid to upper 20s and most neighborhoods above freezing by about lunchtime. Afternoon highs getting back up into the low 40s. The impact on your day will be a low one. Warming up and melting down. Thats the day it will shape up. Wind chill is not much of a breeze but what little breeze there is is in the teens and 20s. Plenty of sunshine and 38 at 1 00 and 42 by 3 00 and 44 for the high today in washington. Outside for the saturday evening, clear skies and chilly but staying above freezing through at least 11 00 tonight. Quiet weather all over the eastern seaboard today. We have a nice stretch of quiet weather coming our way and our next chance of anything out of the sky will be rain coming in as we get towards tuesday and wednesday. Full sunshine with plenty of felting. Temperatures tonight below freezing but not all that cold inside the city. Back near average. Dark morning commutes coming back, but sunsets to 7 00 p. M. Or later starting tomorrow. Enjoy t everybody. Heres the sevenday forecast. 44 today. Set your clocks ahead an hour before you go to bed and change your battery to your smoke detector. Clouds come back but temperatures in the mid 50s and rain this go around and likely tuesday late into early on wednesday. Another chance for what should be raindrops coming up on friday. There is a lot of melt down going on. We like the 50s. It will feel so warm and only going to be like 50 degrees. Kind of sad. The time we are looking at is 6 51. We meet a set of twins on the basketball team. I want to raise my three kids the way their parents raised them. Meet the magnetic twins studying to achieve the same goals off the court. Double trouble for their opponents. Twins kyle and kevin are hoping to lead the cardinals to a win against randolph in the Division Three playoffs. The influence is not just on the court. When is your birthday. . Are. December 27th. Who was born first . I was. Here thinks he has that on me. Two minutes. Magnetic twins kevin and kyle. I wouldnt say that but i look out for him. I worry more about him. Ever since we were a kid, im ahead two minutes. It mikes me fell like his dad or older brother. That stops on the court. I will go along with my teammates. They were all brothers too. We happened to be blood brothers but we are all the same family. Tremendous people off the court. Terrific students. They are over 3. 7, premed. On the court they could be starters. The specific roles are different on the team but together they are studying to achieve the same goal off the court. They want to be dentists. The smile is the first thing i notice about someone. I feel like some people like to smile, but if we can help because of a tooth, you cant avoid it. If you have tooth pain, you are going to see a dentist. If we can make them smile more thats priceless. I want to raise my three kids the way their parents have raised them. They are classy young men and i hope my son and two daughters are everything those two are. They are special. News 4 sports. Winning smiles too, right . March is womens History Month and the women are sharing the biggest lessons in they have learned from their moms. My mothers house and you knew a few things for sure. The food would be good and rules were simple and expectations were high. You like something, you do your best. Dont do things that are wrong or bad. You bring home an a minus. One more problem and you could have make an a plus. That was my life yall. You are a disappointment. A lot more where that came from. All of us have incredible stories about our moms on the news 4 special from our mothers for our mothers at good morning. Change of heart. Overnight a Top Republican leader deciding to join president obama in selma, alabama, today for the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. That Pivotal Moment in the Civil Rights Movement. This as the president speaks out about injustice in ferguson missouri and the work still left to be done. Were there live. Not backing down. New jersey senator Robert Menendez on the offense. I have always conducted myself appropriately and in accordance with the law. But did the senator cross the line when it came to helping a longtime friend and donor . The end is near. Finally, despite record cold
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