Its unbelievable how many on 70 degree days were going to start up in the month of february. Really mild stuff. Weve already had four sefts this month and we have a couple more headed our way. The first one coming up later this afternoon. So right now, there are a lot of clouds around this morning. And there have been a few spripgels down across southern maryland. Otherwise, sort of a damp feeling to the morning. Clouds will gradually scatter away late this morning into the afternoon. Afternoon highs today, up into the low and mid 70s and even warmer tomorrow. Tomorrow may be an emergency call out sick to work day. Were still dealing with breaking news in news 4 traffic. Breaking news as youre headed into d. C. This morning. Take a look at the problem. Northbound 295 shut down at malcolm x avenue. All traffic being pushed on to malcolm x. Southbound sunf maryland, suitland parkway may be your best bet. It is under investigation which means it could be some time. Megan mcgrath has more from the scene to explain to us exactly what is going on. Megan. Well, were really starting to see some tie ups here because of a single car accident that has all of the northbound lanes of 295 closed. You can see this is the detour right here at malcolm x avenue. We are now starting to see lots of traffic slowing down as cars are forced off of 295 down on to malcolm x. So within the last half hour, we are starting to see major traffic tie ups in the area. Now, in terms of how long this is going to remain closed, we dont know. You can see the Police Officers are here manning this detour. The accident itself is a little further down the road just beyond malcolm x. Were told its a single car accident. We dont know any of the particulars, but there apparently is s we bumped into a motorist who went through that debris field and got a flat tire. Certainly after they finish their investigation, sheer going to have to clear all that up. Right now, everybody northbound is closed. Back to you all. We want to get to Erica Gonzalez at the live desk following a Police Shooting in the district. Whats happening . Lets go back to this developing story. We can tell you that we have a crew headed to the southeast. The intersection of calvert street. We understand park police were there on the scene respond to go a traffic spot and attempt to go make that traffic stop. The driver of that vek we understand rammed the officers car the webb the officer discharged his weapon. How many times . Cant tell you right now. All those details into our news room. But we can tell you that the suspect remains at large. There are no closures in there. The officer that was responding to this was, in fact, injured and discharged had is weapon. As soon as we get more details, well bring them to you here at the live desk. Time is 5 04. A big fire causing serious damage to a home in ft. Washington. Look at those flames on the roof. Two people lived there but were able to get out of the house. It happened between 1 00 and 2 00 this morning. The fire is in the garage and attic. Its not clear right now what caused it. Those are the voices of hundreds of people protesting the Trump Administrations reversal of rest room protections for transgender students. The Justice Department and department of educationro admin straegzs policy. It called on all Public Schools to let children use bathrooms that match their gender identity. So protesters took to the streets last night to shout their disapproval about that reversal. This isnt a problem around the country. They are making it a country around the country. They have waving at these kids calling them sexual predators. This being seen as a major set for transgender rights. Justin has a look at what this can mean for your childs school. Good morning. Moms and dads out there, thj be a School Department very soon. The issue is how schools handle the issue. For right now, there may be however, it is an about face. To let transgender students use the rest rooms and locker rooms of their chosen gender identity. That was their interpretation of a federal antidiscrimination law in Public Schools. The Obama White House even tried withholding federal dollars from schools than the did not comply. With that guidance, the Trump Administration says states can now address how schools handle those rights. This is a change in how the jufts department treats the issue of transgender rights given the laws that are already in place. We are live here outside the white house. Im justin finch, news 4. Back in to you at the studio. Thank you, justin. The trump change comes as the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next month on a case directly dealing with this issue. Gavin grim, a transgender student suing the school for not allowing him to use the boys bathroom. Well have a look at the annual conservative conference. We are learning more about the house fire in lorton that claimed the looich of a little boy. A 5yearold died in that fire. He started the fire while playing with a lighter in the garage. His mother and two neighbors tried to rescue him, but the flames made that xwoobl. Disappointed we couldnt get him. I really, really feel bad about his mom because she had to stand in the front yard and watch. It was terrible. Firefighters urged parents to have frank their kids playing with fire. Neighbors set up a gofundme page to help pay for his funeral. Its been about a week and the fbi is asking for your help to find a missing teenager. Michaela is 15 years old. Police now believe she ran away from her home with a man she met diop line. That man is on the right side of her screen here. Authorities believe the two of them could be headed to georgia. Right now, there is a search for this missing man in rockville. He lives at the Montgomery Countys mens emergency shelter. He is without his prescribed medication. Cease known to hang out around the rockville center. The issue is with the Westwood Shopping Center in this property is slated for redevelopment in the future. Well, we have brand new video this morning that will help you panda lovers out there breathe a bit of a sigh of relief. Bao bao has arrived safely in china. She was in a special panda plane. There she is. She seems shooip shy when she was finally let out of her crate. She did warm up, though, after seeing some treats. All that bamboo. Bao bao will stay in quarantine for a month to make sure shes healthy and that she doesnt spread her germs to the other pandas. The head of the Research Center joked that he hoped she could dialect quickly. Might see people in shorts today, sheena . Yeah. You could even wear shorts outside right now. Flipflops this afternoon, whatever you want. Temperatures are already in the 50s. The normal temperature for the Morning Hours this time of year is 32 degrees. Were going to get really warm this afternoon. Maybe even record highs. Coming up, a look at your bus stop forecast and what to wear, thats next. Also ahead, calming your food fears. A weeklong series continues with how one mom makes her live with her daughters Food Allergies easy and safe. And dinner just got cheaper. What mcdone ld as is add too its d gol breaking news right now. On 295, take a look at this had. 295 northbound right now shut down at malmalcolm x avenue. All that traffic being pushed on to malcolm x. If youre headed in from maryland. Suitland parkway instead. Indeed, an incredibly mild morning here in the washington area. Temperatures are already above our typical eyes for this time of the year. Right now, mid to upper 50s. Couldnt rule out a sprinkle or two in western maryland, but most of us will be dry. Nothing more than long sleeves this morning and sunglasses this afternoon. It may be shorts and tshirt weather tomorrow. Extended forecast, coming right up. Thank you. Right now, were also following breaking news out of news 4s Megan Mcgrath just arrived at the scene of a Police Involved shooting. Megan. Yeah. This is a Police Involved shooting involving a u. S. Park Police Officer. If you look behind me, you can see the scene here. And were seeing Police Officers with flashlights just beyond that cruiser with the flashing lights there maybe looking for physical evidence, shell casings and the like. Here is what we can tell you so far as to what happened here. It was about 4 00 in the morning. A Park Police Officer was trying to make a traffic stop here. As the officer got out of his cruiser, police say that that suspect, the car that he had pulled over tried to ram his cruiser, tried to ram him. The officers leg was injured and that officer did fire his service weapon. The person was injured. Whether they were struck or not. All of this is very clear and well continue to bring you updates as soon as we get it. Megan, thank you. Its the kind of clue you expect to hear about in a tv show, maybe, but this is real life. Police in indiana say a teenage girl managed to record a suspects voice right before her death. That recording came from 14yearold liberty germans cell phone. She and a 13yearold girl were found dead along a hiking trail in indiana last week. German managed to snap a photo of a man walking near that trail before she died. This young lady is a hero, no doubt. To have enough presence of mind to activate the video system on her cell phone police say they are not sure if the voice is the voice of that man in the video. It is probably the last thing you would want to do if you ever had to take a field sobriety test. Were not doing yoga. I dont know what youre doing. Put your hands down. Okay. I didnt ask you to do a summer assau somersalt. The officer tried and tie trooed again to get the 23yearold woman to walk in a straight line. She couldnt do it. At one point, the woman tried to kick the officer. She was arrested and now faceses aggravated drunk drivering and battery charges. 5 16 now. Get your pennies ready. Mcdonalds is expanding its dollar menu. The fast food chain is cutting soda prices to just 1 a cup. You can get a cup of specialty coffee for just 2 pl. That includes smoothies, and shakes. Lets go back to that breaking news on i295. Center right now, we have about a onemile backup as youre heading northbound. You can see that little bit of red here as youre headed northbound. 295 shut down at malcolm x avenue. If youre headed in from maryland, you have to use suitland parkway instead this morning at least for now. 66 is okay. Southbound 95 after 123, left lane is getting by that crash. Inner loop ramp to old georgetown road, blocked by a work zone. Beltway overall looks pretty good here this morning. Bottom of the beltway, looking quite good. Well have more on that problem on 295, coming up. Guys. We want to turn to Sheena Parveen right now. We are looking at just 70 what the today . 74. 75. Mid 70s. Bring it. All of it. Its going to feel like play. It is going to feel like may. So i know wondering, why is this happening . Where is the cold air and why isnt it coming here . Here is what is going on. We have warm air right now. The arctic air is up to our north. The arctic air gets closer, but this is still saturday. That warm air is still here. There you see that ball of arctic air coming in on sunday. And this is really the weather set up. We havent had prolonged cold because this arct air has no reason to stay down here. Then we go into next week. It moves up to the north and that warmer air moves back in. That will be the trend as we end out winter here. Were going to have balls of arctic air ball r drop down quickly and move back up and the warm air is going to stick around. It is very mild to start the morning. 54 in the district. Normally we would be around freezing if we were around those normal temperatures, but way above that this morning. And this afternoon, were dry on the radar. Appear few sprinkles to our south. If youre dining out but lunchtime, mostly cloudy. 67 degrees. Happy hour, 74. By dinnertime, were still going to be around 70. Still very warm. Here is future weather. We go through the day today, were warm and dry with that south wind tomorrow. Still a very warm day, mid 70s. Warm on saturday. Here comes the rain saturday afternoon. So if youre planning your weekends, keep in mind rain saturday afternoon and then we go into sunday and sunday will be cooler. 50 degrees and breezy. So that is the short cooldown, but look at next week. We jump back up again. We like it. Thank you, sheen ma. 5 19 right now. The next nats game you go to could be shorter. Major League Baseball announced its doing away with the intentional walk. 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The show, which is centered in the fictional town of salem, debuted back in 196 5. Last month, the show celebrated its 13,000th i cant even do that math episode. The nbc long running soop oprah, i was a kid. That was you know, the summertimes, if you werent outside, you curled up with my grandmother, we watched soap operas with her. Really . Yes. Things you learn about aaron on a daily basis. The design team responsible for the National Museum of africanamerican history and culture now has a new high profile project. Well, applebom associates has been chosen to lead the team for the obama president ial center. They were also involved in the look of the u. S. Capital Visitors Center and the National Holocaust memorial museum. As we celebrate black history month, the power of family, struggle and life coming together. In the early 1900s, an africanamerican couple fell in love while performing in a circus. Now their great, great, great grandson is sharing the story of show called the very last days of the first colored circus. The message here is powerful showing how their love for each other helped them overcome the hate that surrounded them. A love story to them and also a love story to the town of lepleta and the surrounding areas of how my family settled there sxrazed families there on a little bit of nothing. But what we had a lot of was just love. The show runs through march 5th at the antecosta play house. For more information, head to the nbc washington app. A wonderful tribute to his great, great grandparents. And the community. 5 25 now. If you spend any extra time layering up today, you certainly dont need that, chuck bell. Take it off. Not that kind of show. Yes, its going to be a jacket off kind of a day to be outside this afternoon. Warm, dry for most. Tomorrow, potentially warmer still, but your weekend, we will be dodging the drops on your saturday. The timing of that is coming right up. And the parking versus public parks. Which would you rather have . Well tell you where parking spots could soon be replaced with grass. Plus, students sent home from a Maryland School when their teachers dont show up. 5 29 is your time here are the top stories were working for you this morning. The northbound lanes of i295 are shut down near malcolm x avenue southeast. Park police are there investigating. Melissa mollet will have your alternate routes. The Trump Administration has reversed a policy that provided transgender students with rest room protections. Well explain what the reversal means in your schools, coming up. And you probably didnt win the powerball jackpot. The Winning Ticket for that 435 million prize was sold in indiana. The numbers on your screen there. The powerball was two. The jackpot back down to just 40 million. Thats ahead of saturdays drawing. Now could be the time to play when not everyone is going bonkers over buying tickets, right . 40 million, who needs 40 million . It is going to feel like spring again to going to get to the forecast in a moment. First, Melissa Mollet is following breaking traffic news that could be a big deal this morning, ma lielissa. The. Northbound 295 shut down at malcolm x avenue here this morning. So all traffic right now being pushed on to malcolm x. Those backups are building if youre headed in from maryland sometime soon. Definitely taking suitland parkway instead. No word on when this is going to wrap up here this morning. Inner loop ramp to old georgetown road, that is blocked by the work zone there. 270 southbound here, fought bad from 70 down to the spur. You can see 63 miles per hour. Its going to take you 29 minutes. Northbound, also looking nice and clear here this morning. You dont have any worries. 270 northbound. Still have the situation southbound 95 after 123. Left lane getting by that crash. The rest of 95 looks okay. 66 into town and out of town, no big problems there. Top of the beltway, all of these routes into town and out of town looking okay right now, going to check in with mr. Chuck bell. I have to say, we are happy with todays weather. You know when we have very little sleep, were happy with that. I know that summerhad like dress res back in fashion for sure today for the ladies. Its going to be such a mild day. May need a wrap here early this morning on your way out. Temperatures in the upper 40s to low and mid 50s. Thats already above our average high. By later on today, with increasing amounts of sunshine, because theres a lot of cloud cover this morning. But well get plenty of sunshine later this had afternoon. Early t