Still have that crash reported there, as well. Beltway moving along quite nicely. Well take a look at travel times coming up in ten minutes. Hi, sheena a. Good morning, melissa. Temperatures this morning, very mild. A lot of people, if youre going to grab the jacket, dont grab a heavy coat. A lot of people will not need one this afternoon. Take a look at these numbers. 54 in the district. Our normal temperature for this time of the morning, this time of the year, its 32 degrees. It feels unseasonably warm outside right now. Most of the area is in the low 50s. And as we go through the day today, we could have some areas that get close to a record high temperature. Look at your thursday planner. By noon, 6 degrees. By 4 00 p. M. , were looking at 74. The normal high is 49. And its going to stay dry as we go through the day today. Even by 7 00 p. M. , temperatures still in the 70s. If you have the dinner plans and if you have anything to do outside, do it outside today. Youre going to enjoy it. Speaking of being outside, were also going to be taking a look at that pollen in just a this morning enjoying the nice, mild temperatures this morning. Sheena, youre right. It is so hard to believe that it is still only the third week of february. It feels like a midmay morning out here this morning. As youre going to be making plans to get outside and enjoy the day. Rain chances today are very, very low. Maybe a stray sprinkle in the shennendoah valley. Start your fake sniffling today because tomorrow is going to be an all hands on deck emergency call out sick to work friday, for sure. Mid 70s and dry for a friday afternoon in february. Are you kid meg . Plan on taking tomorrow off if you can get away with it. Remember, its all about faking it sniffle today to make tomorrow believable. Well be here, just for the record. 6 02. Were following breaking news on an accident weve been telling but on i295. Traffic is now getting by in at least one lane. Scene. Justin, whats going on now . Eun, as you said, traffic is now moving here on i295 northbound to my right im seeing we still have some responders here on scene. Some blue and red flashing rights here. But to my left, these two lanes are moving. Thats that third lane that we got word from vdot would be closed as this multi car crash Investigation Continues this morning. We know of at least one injuries. The accident of those injuries are not clear at this time. As you can see, traffic is being moved over into these two lanes here to our left here. The investigation is still going on. To my right, im looking at police cars on scene and looking at it, it seems as one vehicle is clearing away debris and fuel may have spilled. A very mangled car here to my right. A twodoor vehicle is crashed and mangled to the right here. But yes, traffic this time on i295. The third lane to your right will be closed with the two left facing lanes are going to be open. Back in to you. Justin, thank you. Its now 06 04. Now to erika at the live desk. This is a story that we have been monitoring throughout the morning. We have Megan Mcgrath who is on the scene gathering details. We understand this happened about 4 00 in the morning in southeast. Now, the officer is a Park Police Officer that was there for a traffic stop, we understand. The suspect in a dark colored older model dodge charger, according to park police, rammed that vehicle into the officers cruiser. The officer discharged their weapon, but its unclear if the suspect was hit by this. We can tell you that this suspect fled the scene. The officer, we understand, was injured. What youre seeing in that area, fought really any road or street some activity there. There are investigators on the scene. Megan mcgrath is also on the scene gathering details for the next time she sees you. 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 education wrote a letter withdrawing the Obama Administrations 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. The Obama Administration guidance was issued as an interpretation of title 9, which baens sex discrimination in education. This new guidance essentially knocked down that the white house says it gives states the ability to make decisions on the issue. It will have to immediate affect because the old policy notifies schools they could lose federal funds was put on hold by a federal court. This 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 sued the Gloucester High School for fought allowing him to use the boys bathroom. The 2017 conservative Political Action conference or cpac continues at National Harbor today. Steve bannon, Kellyanne Conway with, Reince Priebus and mike pence will speak tonight President Trump president is set to take the stage tomorrow. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson will meet with mexicos president tonight. The trip is seen as an attempt to smooth over tensions sparked by President Trumps attempts to its now 6 07. Breaking news, a major fire if prince georges county. Ferocious flames in ft. Washington, maryland. This is on tescanco road. In ft. Washington, maryland. Fire officials got a number of calls before they actually got there about seeing these flames very visible from this home. We understand that the fire may have either started or spread from the attic and the garage. We understand that two people in their 70s were able to get out of that house okay. But, again, a number of calls about 1 00 in the morning because of this huge fire in ft. Washington, maryland. At the live desk, im erika gonzalezs. D. C. s fire chief is acknowledging that response times for the most critical 911 calls have not improved. Yesterday, d. C. s mary leased a times. It starts with staffing the 911 call center with a nurse. That person can screen calls and determine whether someone actually needs an ambulance. Officials say d. C. Gets hundreds of calls for ambulances for people who arent having an emergency. Another part of the plan would require Insurance Companies to pay more of the cost for ambulance transport. The fbi is now getting involved and asking for help with finding michaela metei. Its been about a week since her family last saw her at her home. Michaela is 15 years old. Police now believe she ran away with a man she met online. That man, metei metsla, whose photo is from the fbi. Authorities say they could be headed to georgia. Michaelas family is especially worried because she didnt take her medication with her. New overnight, someone is waking up a big winner. One person won the Powerball Jackpot the Winning Ticket was sold in indiana. Sorry, folks. Here are the numbers if you want to check yours. 10, 13, 28, 352, 61. The powerball was 2. The odds of winning the jacket pot were one in more than 292. There were a few 1 million winners, but none in our area. It happens that way. The lottery says almost 3 Million People won something in this particular drawing, so were back down to 40 million for saturdays drawing. 40 billion. No big deal. Ill take it. Me, too. Food allergies can be frightening, but were working with you to ease your fears now. The Simple Solutions one local mom found to make sure her kids eat right. Plus your storm team 4 forecast. Sheena. It will be mild the entire day and warm. Your thursday coit areas of fog this morning in some spots. But by lunchtime, dry. 5 00 p. M. , 74 degrees. Unseasonably warm. Close to a record high, coming up. Chuck will have a look at your daily grade for today and well have a look at rain for part of your weekend. Stay tuned. Plus the most reliable breaking news on the roads this morning. Lets get right to first 4 traffic. Good morning. So northbound 295, again, after malcolm x avenue, crash there with the right lane being shut down. So we are getting by in two left lanes. We still have delays. Justin finch just showed those to us. Travel times elsewhere, 270 southbound is fine. Top of the normal for this time of day. 66 inbound, 95 north, no big worries there. Listen to wtop 103. 5 fm when you hop in your car this morning. Good morning, mr. Chuck bell. It looks very, very nice here today. Such a nice day to be outside today. Help you out a little bit, what to wear, no real jacket required today. Just some long sleeves perhaps or early this morning. A precautionary tale of maybe needing an intrel out in the shennendoah valley this afternoon. Rain chances are below 20 and well have enough sunshine where you may need your sunglasses. Daily grade . No question about it, a plus weather for today. Up into the low and mid 70s this afternoon. Potentially even warmer tomorrow. And the weekend, well, lets just say that the first half of the weekend may be the a little on the soggy side. Sheena has that peek of the weekend forecast come up in a few minutes. Thank you, chuck. This morning, crews in north dakota will clean up the debris andda a few protesters set their tents and teepees on fire after they left the camp. All protesters were ordered out of the camp by 2 00 p. M. Yesterday so cleanup can begin before the next section of the pipeline. Ten people did not comply with the deadline and were arrested the. This morning, were learning dialan roof, South Carolina church should the shooter, had a second target. The pastor says he canceled service that night because he was running late. 6 15 right now. The mardi gras celebrations in new orleans begin this friday. And police have found a new way to keep pedestrians safe. Take a look here. The city of new orleans has installed new die drawlic barriers throughout the french quarter. The city says the bare injuries will protect touristes and residents from potential terror attacks during mardi gras. The installation several overseas attacks where trucks drove into large crowds. Los angeles is closer to leasting the 2024 summer olympics. Du budapest, hungary, has withdrawn their bid due to lack of interest by the residents. New results of a car dependability study might just price you. Jd power says the most dependable car brands are lexus and porsche. The study looks at the number of problems that car owners had with cars that were about two years old. Followed by toyota, buick and mercedes benz. The studies found people had the most problems with their cars after three years of ownership. You should try ten. Then youre going to see. Real problems. At some point, youve got to let it go. Thats right. If youre thinking of buying a used car, there is a big sale this weekend. As amy cho explains, these are not just ordinary cars. They were put together by a very special gr oh, yeah, shes clear. For these mechanics, the car is clear. Very impressive, given the fact that they go to high school. Thats the timing belt right there. I try to teach them as if they were in the shop. Its all part of an auto motive class at damascus high. It teaches students the nuts and bolts of fixing cars. You have to think about the bigger picture. Its stuff that you just cant get from another class. I would like to do this as a side job and to, like, fix my own car so i dont have to pay a mechanic. The students learn everything from the basics like changing tires to the move advanced skills like taking apart entire engines the. Learning how to change your tire, learning how to change your oil. All those things are practical things you can do yourself and they can stay with us for a lifetime. We saw everything dow go back outside and work for someone else. Thats one of the driving forces behind this class. Amy cho, news 4. Now, the sale is this saturday at Damascus High School from 9 00 to 11 00 a. M. The it will include used computers that have been fixed up by students in Montgomery County. You can now flood your instagram followers can more pictures and videos faster. The photo sharing app now lets you share up to 10 photos and videos in a single post. Thats a lot to get through. Dont worry, though, the images and videos can be rearranged and still turned as needed. I love an inextra gram filter. The down side to the new feature is that youre limited to a single caption for the mass post. But thats okay. Now when you go on vacation, you can do ten pictures so you dont have to do a multiple post. Or if you go to right now the herschram doing ten posts i already get going through inextra gram as it is. Lets have a check on the roads, melissa. Still have this problem on 295. But it is getting better. This is after malcolm x avenue is where the crash was. Now everything is on the right shoulder. If youre headed in from merrell, you probably can stick with 295 at this point this morning. Suitland parkway was a Good Alternative and we are starting to see some volume there, but now im not so worried about it. Southbound 301, a broke b down struck there. Lee highway just west of gal lows road, still have that truck fire. 66 and 95 overall looking quite good here this morning so you dont have any big worries. As far as the beltway, beltway is moving along nicely. As is 270 northbound and southbound and t95 in maryland. Melissa, thank you. 6 19 just about right mow. And were talking about really warm. This is justr its near record is what it is. Yeah. These are near record high temperatures were going to have today for part of the area. Its going to feel like may. I am so excited about this. Me, too. Im very excited because now you can do stuff outside. Normally in the winter months, youre kind of stuck inside. You can go running outside, feeling like may today and tomorrow and for half of saturday. Some areas, we have rain saturday and then the colder air gets here on sunday. So we do have a cooldown short lived, though, before we warm back up again. Temperature trend for today, 74. 76 saturday. 70 saturday. This is 25 degrees above normal in case you forgot where were supposed to be this time of year, way down here, that dash line, 49 degrees. By sunday, temperatures are really going to drop to archbtd 50. Thats a cold front moving through. Big change over the weekend. With the warm temperatures, weve seen pollen levels right. Tree pollen g come spring. Temperatures right now, you dont need the jacket. We are in the mid to low 50s. 50 degrees gaithersburg, 53 in the district right now. 52 dulles. If you have any plans to exercise today, perfect day. By noon, 67. 5 00 p. M. , 74. Warm today and dry or the most part. Dry tomorrow. We still say warm saturday. This is when the rain moves in the second half of the day, 3 00 p. M. We could see thunderstorms. After that for sunday, we get cooler and breezy. For today, 74, mostly cloudy. Isolated shower. But for the most part, well be staying mostly dry. Friday, 7 6. Theres the rain saturday. Much cooler and breezy on sunday. Chuck will be back with a closer look at the warmth, as well, coming up. Breakfast is the most important meet he meal of the day, but it will be the toughest if you have Food Allergies in your home. Time is 6 2 1. Today, we continue our series on food fears. Allergies can be teddy and for a parent, simply making the breakfast in the morning can be a challenge. With what one local mother is doing about protecting her daughter. Dealing with kids and allergies can be challenging. Dairy is a common allergy. But how do you keep milk out of your childs diet . The same thing with eggs. But there are some ways around it. One way is a food challenge. Were going to try some scrambles eggs. Sashas 18monthold daughter is allergic to eggs. The. We brought her initially because she has e exema. And i was told kids with exema continue to have allergies the. Keeping eggs out of her little girls diet has been hard. Eggs are in everything, just like peanuts. Gabrielle las allergist is going to give her a food challenge. That involves taking small amounts of the food of concern and introducing it at 15 to 20 minute intervals and watching for any kind of reaction. Gabrielle la will have her egg calling tomorrow and well have the results for you on our website. Make sure to check in. And if you missed any of our food fears stories, take a look at our reports on peanut allergies, gluten free diets and sugar. Its all on the nbc washington app. Search food fears. Developing overnight, an teen. Protests spill into the streets. Well show you the incident caught on camera sparking outrage across the country. A Park Police Officer opens fire after a driver he pulled over rams his police cruiser. A live report, coming. Remember that old phil collins album, no jacket required, thats the weather for today and tomorrow. Did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. A park Police Involved shooting. Were on the scene. Plus, crash investigation. Its impacting one of our busiest routes to work. First, though, as we approach 6 30, put the heavy coat away. You will not need that today. Chuck bell is out on the weather the patio, but we begin with Sheena Parveen with a look at this winter warmup. Wow, sheen if a. It does not feel like winter at all. In fact, its goingo may today, tomorrow and half of your saturday. I think youll really like it, though, before you head out. You dont need the warm jacket at all. 53 degrees in the district currently. As we go through the day, look at whats going to happen. Then theyre going to keep on going up after that. Because of the warm air in place. Also talking about pollen out there. So today, tomorrow, saturday especially, we see those medium to higher levels. Then it start