Chuck bells in the storm team 4 weather center. You have to remember now we had our last significant snow last year march 25th and today is only the 20th. So this is not unprecedented. Just annoying. 34 now in frederick and new market maryland. Also gaithersburg. 37 in winchester. Just out to the west and north of the immediate downtown area winter Winter Weather advisory. It includes all of Montgomery County and Loudoun County. So a snowy slushy commute around for between about 6 00 and 10 00 this morning. By noontime, most of this will be changing over to just all rain. But here on storm team 4 radar, look at the rapid containinghangeover from rain to snow. This is mostly snow martinsburg to hagerstown right now and mostly rain from fairfax and Prince William county south into parts of southern maryland. Here is future weather thousand. By 7 00 a. M. Most of the metro area all in the form of snow. Stays that way through 9 00. Road temperatures are above freezing. But the persistence of snow for many hours across Northern Maryland means we could still see 3 to 5 inches there northern Montgomery County towards the blue ridge. Around up to,town one inch to maybe two in the form of slushiness. Breaking news this morning, bw parkway, were talking about northbound here shut down completely at route 50. All northbound traffic right now being pushed on to eastbound route 50. And right now we understand that southbound bw parkway is also shut down temporarily as they turn those northbound drivers around. So going to be a mess this morning. Youll want to take your alternate. Nasty crash there this morning. 66 headed in and out of town no problems there. Same thing 95 here in virginia. Nice and clear there. Prince georges county in general looking pretty good. Nice and green. Lots of movement. No Real Construction to talk about there this morning. An beltway at st. Barnabas road moving along nicely as well. Again, more on the bw parkway crash. Weve been pushing it out. Its 4 33. And Columbia HeightsBusiness Owners are telling their employees to stick together after a series of crimes targeting people headed to work. There were two attempted armed robberies yesterday just a few minutes apparent one of the victims spoke with news 4. She was walking to work when two young men came up and tried to be rob her. Put hands in the air help help. One gentleman was kind enough in a car to stop and he rolled down his window. He chased them down and the people across the street came running. They stayed with me for a while. Just like a nice community. D. C. Police say more officers are now on patrol in that area. Today the socalled beer pong rapist will be convicted. Police started investigating him after a student alleged point degs ter sexually assaulted him after a tournament. Point dexter had been victimizing young adult men for a decade luring him in to his home. In court, we may hear directly from his victims about the impact of the assaults on their lives. The man accused of killing a pastor heads to court today for a bond hearing. The 38yearold is charged with firstdegree murder. Montgomery county police say he killed the pastor on march 11th. He told police the pastor was possessed. Police say that he said quote, i kill demons. Just kill me. The pastor had reportedly been asked to pray over him who said he heard voices. Met stroero is promising accountability after handrail fires at Tysons Corner reportedly overheated, no one was injured. Metro is call this is a systemic problem because the fires also happened during construction of the silver line. Metro says it will hold the contractor accountable. New pictures of the damage inside of a bethesda rite aid after a bmw plowed through the window. The car almost went fully inside the building and took out a refrigerator in the path. This was yesterday. No one was seriously hurt. No word on what caused the driver to lose control. The ncaa tournament has only just begun and there have been some Pretty Amazing upsets so far already. Georgetown and vcu both in action last night. Well, wait to get to vcu, but you lets start with george up to. If you watched, youre probably a little tired morning. The hoyas taking on Eastern Washington in portland oregon. Eastern washingtons coach predicted a win before the game. He was wrong. Georgetown won that game 8474. See, you cant trash talk like that. Georgetown is a strong team. They play again on saturday against fifth seeded utah. And now to the there is my tweet. You probably saw my Facebook Post and tweet shortly after they lost to ohio state. I was literally standing up for the last ten minutes of this game. It took overtime to decide this in the end, ohio state moved on. So vcu, theres always next year for us. Well do it. Yes. Youve been consistent. Here is a look at todays games. Virginia takes on belmont on trutv, maryland takes on valparaiso at 4 40 on tnt. Go terps. And i want to mention Fairfax County schools open on time morning just in. Fairfax county schools on time. Im Richard Jordan at the live desk following a developing story this morning. We just got in new video overnight from a huge fire in chicago. This was in the Archer Heights neighborhood. Take a look at the video coming in of the warehouse fire. There were 160 firefighters that responded to this more than 50 fire trucks there at the warehouse. Now, here is the the irony. Inside that warehouse, fire extinguishers are halved. No reports of any injuries. But fire investigators are still trying to determine what caused the massive blaze. Happening right now were closely watching this spring snowstorm. Here is a live look outside of our storm team 4 weather deck. Just raining right now in northwest washington. Chuck bell is back at 4 41 with a look at whether your neighborhood will see rain or snow today. Also ahead, new information on the can deadly you museum attack in tunisia. Who is claiming responsibility. And how on to make your trip to the Cherry Blossom festival is breeze when you take the metro. A promise from the d. C. Government that it hopes to smooth your commute. They plan to hold its pothole apolooza next week and plans to accelerate its Response Time the aim is 48 hours after the report comes in. You can see the iteam investigation into how long d. C. Takes to fill potholes and learn how to report them take helps them get filled faster. Just go to the investigations session on the nbc washington app. We may be seeing snow today, but today is also the opening of the Cherry Blossom festival. If you want to something inside you can head downtown to the Convention Center for an art tour. Art at the center begins tonight at 6 30 and its free. And if youre headed down to check out the Cherry Blossom festival this weekend, youll probably want to take metro. Some tips to make your trip easier travel during the times that are not so busy. Avoid taking trains between 4 00 and 6 00 p. M. Thats when most stations are crowded. Also avoid getting off at the smithsonian station. Instead get off at the lenfant plaza, archives or Arlington Cemetery station. Weather and traffic on the 1s it is 4 41 now on your friday morning. Temperatures are in the therts and 40s. Mid30s Northern Maryland and out into the panhandle of west virginia. All rain. And it will stay that way south of washington. Culpeper for to fredericksburg down to st. Marys temperatures well above the freezing marg. Winter weather advisories posted for howard frederick. Winter storm warning in washington county. So the overall impact on your day, there you can see rain changing over to snow across much of the area. It will have a high impact in Northern Maryland. Already a tough day on the roads. Already a mess on the roads here. Breaking news this morning, probably going to be like this for much of the morning. Northbound bw parkway completely shut down at route 50. So right now all northbound traffic being pushed on to route 50. And southbound lanes also closed because they are trying to turn some of the northbound traffic around. 270 at mopmontrose everything flowing. 95 at lorton also looking good. A Family Reunion decades in the making. And we were there to capture it all. The emotional moments after the break. And a School Murder plot stopped before it was too late. How police managed to foil a students plan. Good morning once again. Rain changing over to snow now from the north he said of the capital beltway right up the 270 corridor out to hagerstown and into the shenandoah valley. Moderate rain fairfax and Prince William county. It is now 4 45. Today the man accused of a murder in Silver Spring will be in court. Investigators say eric ramirez shot Jonathan Lopez on piney branch road monday night. Lopez later died. Police say lopez was dating one of are a mere rexer are a mereradiculopathy mere residents exgirlfriends. A big break in a cold case. \ mere residents exgirlfriends. A big break in a cold case. Mere residents exgirlfriends. A big break in a cold case. Mere residents exgirlfriends. A big break in a cold case. A grand jury returned an indictment against raymond pose city yesterday. Crystal anderson was 29 when she went missing in august of 2011. Posecity yesterday. Crystal anderson was 29 when she went missing in august of 2011. Andersons family was there for the announcement wearing her photo in tribute. Her mother recounted her desperate search. For months i searched for my child. And i couldnt find her. And i looked out the door and said oh, god the world is too big, where could she be. The Charles CountySheriffs Office says the motive for the murder was robbery. Police are investigating two similar car breakins over the past two days. Maryland National Capital park police say the breakins happened wednesday at convince arrest chord knolls park and thursday at the be cabin john tennis facility. Car windows were smashed and items stolen. Police say they have arrested four gang member this is connection with the crimes. They say the gang is notorious for auto thefts and similar crimes. President obama and israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu say that they will keep consulting on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The two leaders spoke by phone yesterday. President obama called to congratulate netanyahu on his election victory. The two also discussed u. S. Nuclear negotiations with iran. Netanyahu has been outspoken critic of president obamas diplomatic outreach to iran. New this morning, an australian cafe that was the site of a deadly siege is back open. The lindt reopening comes three month after a gun man took 18 people inside hostage. Two hostages and the gunman were killed. Plaques are how displayed on a wall inside of the cafe. A terror group loyal to isis claimed responsibility for that december attack. Isis claiming also for the vicious attack that left 23 dead in tunisia. Gunmen stormed a Popular Museum two days ago, popular place with western visitors. Nine have been arrested. This is the deadliest attack on civilian miss in tunisia in 13 years. Tucson police say they arrested two 17yearold girls, two 15yearold boys and an 18yearold on wednesday. Officers made the arrests after another student told School Administration of the alleged plot. Police say one of the students arrested did bring a knife to school on wednesday. Younger students could be charged as adults. The fbi now investigating the death of a black man found hanging from a tree in mississippi. The 54yearold was last seen being dropped off at the river walk casino in vicksburg on march 2. His family filed a missing persons report later that week. Sheriffs deputies were searching for him when they found his body not far from his home hanging by a bedsheet. The fbi says it is not yet clear whether this is a homicide or suicide. It is 4 49. Marylands governor is backing a bill that will allow some criminal records to be blocked from public view. Larry hoe gapgan says he believes in Second Chances and the act would allow people with nonviolent misdemeanor criminal records tom public after three years. The bill passed the senate and now heads to the house for approval. An economic boost planned for the vienna area of Fairfax County. Navy federal credit union is expanding its headquarters and adding 600 new employees. The Worlds Largest credit union is investing 114 million in this the expansion. The state is providing a Million Dollar grant for Fairfax County to help with the project. Youll want to hear this. For years a local woman has been anxiously a waiting for the emotional moment of meeting her brother for the first time. She learned she had a secret brother, but was never able to meet him will until thousand. 20 years ago, stacey bertottis other told her she had a brother and he was put up for adoption. With very Little Information to go organization she started her search. Every search came up empty that was until a friend found him in atlanta. I always felt like i had a brother, but i never knew. There you see the meeting right there. Theyre at Reagan National airport. Big hugs tears, too. And they have a lot of years to catch up on. And the fact that they found each other. Its amazing with the internet searching, social media. Just connecting people. And you saw the kids in video. She has kids, husband, and a whole new family for him to get to know. All right, mr. Chuck bell. I didnt. Good morning. Its raining outside at our studios here. But snowflakes are all over the place this morning. All you have to do is just go a little farther up to the north and wednesday, and wham it changes right over to snow. If youve got snowflakes flying in your yard send me a picture, picture, chuckbell4. Or look us up on the storm team 4 Facebook Page or instragram, as well. But winter hanging on tough around here. Snow in march, not all that unusual. Latest snow on record in washington april the 12th. 1918. Almost 100 years ago. Had 2 inches of snow in the month of april. For us road impacts for today, biggest impacts will be on i70 68 270, and i81. Red light conditions there for sure. I495 the capital beltway and i66 west of town could be slushy in spots especially the closer you get out to i81. But i the95 south of town use caution. Could be raindrops. Wet roads are bad enough around here. 41 in washington with an east wind at 3 miles per hour. And temperatures will hold steady pretty much all day long. So the temperature you have outside your house right now, probably sptd goingisnt going to move more than a degree or two. Hometown forecast clarksburg maryland snow gradually changing to rain this afternoon. Temperatures mid to upper 30s. Cloudy dry, temperatures down into the low 30s tonight and then 58 tomorrow. Have our storm team 4 weather app ready to go on your smartphone. Whether is the continuation of the changeover from rain to snow now across parts of Northern Maryland going right up the 270 cowry door ry corridor. Rain and snow today, becoming a mild and sunny day tomorrow with temperatures up near 60 degrees. Back into the chilly 50s for sunday. But at least it looks dry both days this weekend. One place its not dry interstate 270. Thats where we find megan mcgrath. Reporter yes, it is not dry, chuck. Were seeing snow on the first day of spring. Take a look at our live camera here. Look he conditions out here on 270. We just passed shady grove road. And i would say within the last, i dont know, 10 12 minutes we started to see the switchover. It had been raining and then we started to see some snowflakes mixing in and you can see now looking at our windshield here that we have these large snowflakes coming up against the wind shield here. There is still rain mixed in there, but we are definitely seeing an increase in the number of snowflakes mixed in with that rain. And these flakes are rather large. Road conditions at this point just wet. Major roads have been pretreated. We knew all of this was headed in our direction. But it could start to get sloppy here. Well continue on our way north and well update you you throughout the morning on the conditions. Now we have breaking traffic news so well send it over to melissa mollet. Breaking news again northbound bw parkway completely shut down at route 50. All northbound traffic being pushed on to eastbound 50. Some southbound lanes also closed as they try to turn drivers around here this morning. Taking a look outside the beltway, bw parkway looking nice and clear in and out of town. Outside the beltway, of course. 95 also no problems there. 270 now of course megan driving north on 270 through shady grove. Southbound also looking quite good. No issues. But again, it is wet and slushy especially up in the frederick and northern Montgomery County area. 66 at route 50 looks blurry, but nothing happening there. In and out of town looking good. Same thing looking here at prince georges county. Overall no major issues in prince georges county. Ill take another look at this problem on bw parkway. We understand it could be shut down for several hours this morning. Youll want to take your alternate. Move over, president jackson. The new movement tr