Morning. Live look 270 at falls road, no issues northbound or southbound. Brand new crash in my ear 270 southbound well talk about that in a second. Right now lets talk about something nice like the weather. Great looking day to be outside today. Got a little fog here this morning. Suns up in 14 minutes. Have some fog around here early this morning. Not too thick in and around the metro area. Pockets of thicker fog. Advice biltd under a mile there. Visibility under a mile in la ray. Four things in four days. Tomorrow it will be warm and dry. Saturday, hot little hint of early summer humidity around. Maybe a stray shower or two on saturday afternoon or sunday, but no weekend washout is coming. For more on the good news about today, lets go to sheena. Good morning, chuck. We like todays finally the sun has returned and its going to be with us all day long. Once the fog clears up later on this morning, youll notice all the sun around. A little bit of a glare while youre driving. 7 00 a. M. 60 degrees. By noon, 73 degrees. In the 80s. 7 00 p. M. Showers possible overnight. By 7 00 p. M. I think youll notice the increase in cloud cover a who had of some of that rain. Temperatures 59 in the district. 58 dulles. Quantico, 58. Pretty comfortable this morning, but you will definitely want the short sleeves this afternoon and all the way through the weekend. Coming up in just a bit, chuck and i are back with a closer look at the showers overnight and your weekend forecast just ahead. He was from bowie, maryland. Killed in the line of duty. Breaking news in delaware. State trooper shot to death there. Corporal Steven Ballard was 32 years old. Well have more on memorial for him in a moment. Erika gonzalez at the live desk. Two suspects were involved in the situation. Police say one of them is in custody right now. But the other one, thats why were still talking about this this morning, about this ongoing scene thats happening in delaware. That second suspect has barricaded himself inside a home. This is the scene from middletown, delaware. The shooting happened in the town of baer. This is about 15 miles away. A s. W. A. T. Team has surrounded the area. The suspect has been firing at officers. This has been going on for several hours now ever since that shooting happened yesterday. Were going to let you know when there are any changes in this situation. From the live desk, im erika gonzalez. Erika, thank you. We continue our Team Coverage with a closer look at Corporal Ballard. Pamela osborne from our sister station tells us more. Here in glasgow. This is where Corporal Ballard would be reporting to work, but instead you can see the flags are flying at half staff. A visual marker of the mourning thats being felled. Corporal ballard was a husband, a father, and he was simply doing his job yesterday when he was gunned down in the middle of the afternoon in a wawa parking lot. State police say Corporal Ballard, a 32yearold 8 1 2 year veteran with the Delaware State Police force had approached a suspicious vehicle with two suspects. One suspect pulled a gun and fired several times at Corporal Ballard. Witnesses say it happened so quick. Shot him right in the head. I mean, its sad when you try to save somebody its even worse when you find out they didnt make it. According to Corporal Ballards facebook page, from bowrie, maryland. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends. In glasgow, pamela osborne, nbc 10 news. Five minutes after the hour. There may be hope that the government wont run out of money to pay the hundreds of thousands of federal workers that live in our area. Theres now a oneweek extension on the table. It would delay the deadline until next friday night at midnight giving lawmakers a chance to work out a longterm deal. Metro expects to have full bus and rail service tomorrow despite threats of a sick out from workers. Nearly 500 metro employees asked for a sick day for friday. Every single one of them was rejected. Metros leadership and its Largest Union are locked in a bitter contract dispute. Its so bad sources tell news 4 that workers are telling their supervisors that theyre skipping work on friday. According to their contract, Union Membersre to strike. A woman is in jail after causing a tense situation on a metro train. Metro Transit Police say the woman had a knife and was on some kind of illegal substance when she is that righted to argue with another passenger. This happened around 9 00. It happened at the white flint station. 30 minutes later none of the passengers was injured. Happening today, hundreds of Airport Service workers plan to walk off the job. The strike is to protest their employer, huntleigh corporation. The organization is accused of violating federal labor laws. The strike comes on the heels of a successful protest. This last week the metropolitan Washington Airport Authority agreed to raise worker pay to 12. 95 an hour by 2020. Everything is back to normal for your morning commute on the marc train. A small fire forced passengers off the marc train. Investigators tell us the brakes over heated. Fire crews still at the scene of that fire at college park. According to our News Partners at wtop, there are currently four hot spots that keep flaring up. Fire crews are expected to be able to leave after day after days of fighting that fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Wall going to load up for three. Knock it down the wizards are back on top in their playoff series. Theyll be back in atlanta tomorrow night where they had their two losses in the series. Former Vice President joe biden receiving a standing ovation. Home is hopefully where the wins will continue to happen, this time on the ice. News 4s Megan Mcgrath is live in northwest with the excitement building up for the caps big game tonight. Hey, reporter yeah, thats right. Theres a lot of excitement about the big game. In fact, its happening all around town. Take a look behind me. Weve changed our location. Were behind the hotel monaco. Theyre rocking the red. A little battery issue with megans microphone there. A huge game tonight. Thats right. This is the first game of the second series. They have to take the court off, put the ice in. Hoping home ice makes a big difference. David culver just one of the many people at news 4 rocking the red for the catchps. We want you to show off your colors, too, of course. Send us your pictures on instagram, facebook, twitter with the rockthered. 6 08. You could begin tonight calling this football season. The Washington Redskins pick 18th. On the defensive side of the ball the skins are looking for some youth. Theyre also in need of help in the middle of the field at both the linebacker and safety positions. They may also want to think of a quarterback they can develop just in case they cant keep kirk cousins signed to a longterm contract. Breakfast is about to got a lot easier. How theyre making your favorite morning meal just a cell phone click away. Good morning. Im storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. A little bit of patchy fog and thicker fog in other areas. Temperature wise, were in the mid to upper 50s now. Up, up and away for temperatures today up to about 80 degrees by lunch and low to mid 80s for highs today. A little chance for some showers over the weekend. Forecast coming up in about ten minutes. New overnight. Big changes from United Airlines. How its adjusting the way it treats customers le you after ik laughing what are you doing . Well, now that your dad is going back to school i thought id hang up some of his homework on the refrigerator, just like we do yours. Wanna help . What are these . I dont know. Im not even sure if im hanging these the right way. laughs daddys school looks really boring. Well, we dont have to understand it, we just have to be proud of it. [narrator] virginia529 plans are for adults too. Huh . [narrator] tame the tuition monster at any age at virgina529. Com. Melissa mollet continuing to follow breaking news in first four traffic. Trouble on 295. Melissa, whats going on . Skbl major trouble. 5 mile backup. 295 after the 11th Street Bridge. Bad accident, serious injuries. Avoid it if you possibly can. 95 north before powder mill, two lanes blocked. Debris there. 66 eastbound at washington boulevard, two lanes getting by the earlier crash. Travel times, 270 is okay. Top of the beltway okay. Pretty good there in virginia. Remember to listen to wtop 103. 5 f. M. When you hop in your car. Right now, sheena is looking at fog. Yes, melissa. Patchy fog. You might be running into it. Keep that in mind. Heres a live look across the district. You see the fog, low cloud cover. Clear skies. A lot of sunshine in store. Once the fog starts to clear out, 59 grease currently in the district. As you leave for your morning commute, we are looking at nice, dry conditions but, again, remember that foggy just showed y fog i just showed you. No umbrella. By noon, 73 degrees. Quite a change in our weather. By 5 00 p. M. Looking at the 80s in the forecast. A nice, dry evening commute. If youre exercising today youll also want to have the short sleeves. That goes into the weekend. Coming up, chuck and i are back with e in a bit with a look at at the neighborhood section of Chestnut Street and garrett street at 7 00 last night. The crash involved a motorcycle and a bicycle. The bicyclist died. 6 15 now. Developing this morning, a man convicted of killing a state trooper in pennsylvania is now facing the death penalty. Eric frein was sentenced to death by lethal injection late last night. He was convicted of killing trooper ryan dixon and wounding trooper alex douglas three years ago. He ambushed them in their barracks. You may remember it took nearly two months before he was caught. 6 15 now. President trumps tax plan promises to benefit large corporations, Small Businesses and you. Many economists say it lacks important details. Watchdog groups say the president s tax plan will grow the deficit and cost 6 trillion over the next decade and it wont come close to paying for working out how the government will pay for all of this. We will be back here with very firm details. Were working on lots of details. We will let you know the specific details. Now there are still a lot of questions about this tax plan and we are working to get answers for you. This afternoon at 4 30 our consumer reporter susan hogan will host a Facebook Live chat with a financial advisor. Virginias race for governor will take center stage this weekend in fairfax. The first debate will get underway on saturday at 7 00 p. M. News 4s tom sherwood will moderate that. Lieutenant governor raffl northam is running against tom perriello. They have six weeks before the primary. He was flying blind. Bad weather, two failed instruments and three other people on board. May day, may my engine. Point me to the nearest airport. There is a route 58 that goes to danville. You probably should be pretty close. A virginia pilot turned to the Washington AirTraffic Control in leesburg to get the plane on the ground safely last easter. They crash landed, but those emergency commands helped everyone on boardwalk away. Controllers who helped guide the pilot down were recently honored for their actions. Honored and up here to receive this award in recognition is beyond my dreams, however, i never would wish it upon anybody. It was a very, very traumatic experience knowing that their lives are in your hands so you have to do everything right to make sure they make it. Wow. The pilots only resource after he lost most of his equipment on board. They told him how far to turn to land exactly in the right spot to land. Briave men and women have a new reason to be honored. They were saluted for their h heroism ceremony. I had the opportunity to emcee it. Can i just shout out to Alexandria Police department for their awesome twitter feed . A lot of fun . Yes. You can be among the first in the country to test out mcdonalds new mobile ordering app. This sounds like trouble. The Fast Food Company says customers can order food through the app and pick it up at one of 50 restaurants in the d. C. Area. You can choose to pick up your order at the front counter, the drive through or at a new curbside spot. The app gives the restaurant your location so the food is fresh when you arrive to pick it up. Mcdonalds plans to launch the app nationwid first 4 traffic who is still following breaking news. Big issue on 295 but a good update. Southbound after the 11th Street Bridge, have a fivemile backup. We just heard from d. C. Police that one lane is now getting by. That is going to help, of course, still have a massive backup and youre going to want to take your alternate if you have a good one. 95 north before powder mills, two lanes blocked for debris. 66 at washington boulevard, looks like that may have cleared in the past couple of minutes. Still quite close to that area. 270 south, a crash report there. Still hanging around and a new problem on gw parkway on morning side lane. Sounds like both sides of the roadway affected a vehicle down an embankment. Hi, chuck. Good morning, melissa. Good morning, everybody. Heres a check of our tower cam. A gorgeous shot, a little bit of fog. You can probably see the rising sun in our eastern there it is right there. Officially sun is up. 6 15 is the official sunrise this morning. Early sunrises are one of the best features of this time of the year. Visibility now down to zero in maryland. Half mile in front role, half mile in warring ton. Half mile at joint base andrews. There are areas of thick fog this morning. Not too much of a visibility issue. Watch out and keep your low beams on and speeds down a little bit. Otherwise, a little bit of fog with temperatures in the 50s. This fog wont stand a chance. The strong april sunshine will have it out here. No later than about 8 00 this morning. Afternoon temperatures today, upper 70s to low and mid 80s. Again, on your way out the door this morning mostly in the 50s. Nice cool, dry start to the day with the fog around. By later this evening there is a chance for rain today but probably not until after 8 00, 9 00 this evening. Then were back to a little taste of summer for tomorrow and saturday oh, so summer degrees. Theres that chance for rain in kentucky and tennessee. That will be coming in our general direction. It wont get here until after the sun goes down. Heres 7 00 on future weather. All still dry. Once you get past 8 00, 9 00, there is a chance for a passing shower or two. That will be in and out of here by 9 00 tomorrow night and 2 to 3 00 tomorrow morning. Theres your five day forecast. 84 and sunny today. 83 and sun any tomorrow. Slight chance for a stray shower or thunder shower on saturday afternoon. No big deal. Big issue for saturday will be the warmth. Sunday a slight chance for a passing shower. Still on the mild side. I know you love those 80 degree days. Chuck, thank you. 6 21 right now. This week weve been sharing stories about d. C. s missing teens after a nationwide social media campaign. Were trying to find ways to keep our kids home. Now a run away is explaining why teens are leaving. She talks to our cameras. Hear from her and how to help from police. This homeless mans transformation is going viral. Well show you that still ahead. I feel like that was so meant be to happen to me, like im such a different person. And today on ellen, Kim Kardashian west opens up about how she changed after being robbed in paris. She explains the ordeal and said it made her a better mother. Tune in or set your dvr for 3 00 today on nbc its custom made so you know its good quality. Im just speechless because its perfect. Youre watching news 4 today. 6 25. For weeks d. C. s missing children were brought into the national spotlight. Police debunked the social media rumors that large numbers of young black children were missing from the district. But as in every city, there are run aways. All this week weve been sharing stories about how to keep our kids home. Today the perspective of a run away and the group that helps teens in need. Heres news 4s justin finch. Reporter often the young faces on these flyers are running from something. Many young people dont feel safe, dont feel safe in their community and dont feel safe in their schools. Just need to go. Reporter just last month news 4 was there as a mom and daughter were reunited. When asked why theyre leaving home. Theyre leaving. They dont know what theyre looking for. They dont know what theyre trying to fi at risk kids since 1974. Interest she says has grown through d. C. s missing kids cases went viral with many wondering why so many are children of color. Where we see the young people that are missing or are coming into our services, more often they are young people coming from communities that are strained and stressed. If you look at our society, the people who are most strained and stressed are people of color. Reporter and now shore is advising the district that it makes Child Welfare reforms. I am seeing this as a wonderful opportunity. Reporter justin finch, news had 4. We posted about the facts behind this story on the nbc washington app. Check out our interactive time line of the key moments exploring this issue. Search d. C. Missing teens. Distracted driving. 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