In the winds. Temperatures are into the 20s across the area so feeling into the lower 20s out there. 24 for hagerstown. Leesburg at 28 degrees. It will be a nice day with lots of sunshine. Here comes our front. Let me step out of the way here. Here comes our front for tomorrow, our first dose of cold air. Then colder saturday night into sunday w. That we could see a couple of showers or snow showers. Howard will have more details on that. Temperatures today into the 40s with sunshine. Beverly, timesaver traffic, whats going on . Reporter not too much which is a great start to wednesday. We get a break after yesterday. Sky 9 has been checking out the ride for you on the beltway getting through college park. The 95 corridor southbound out of lowrl to get there. No lowrl to get there. No laurel to get there. No early problems for you. Just the building volume to tell you about in Silver Spring. Virginia 95 business as usual with the slowdown coming up through stafford to the express lane entrance, jamming out of dale city, getting toward the woodbridge interchanges and then again getting into newington. 66 your slowest east of manassas past sudley road to the visitors center. All lanes are open. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has ordered firefighters to stop encrypting their emergency radios. This comes in the wake of last months deadly metro smoke incident aboard a yellow line train. Delia goncalves is live outside the Wilson Building right now in northwest. Delia, do we know exactly when this encryption will stop . Reporter you know, we just ound midnight from the Mayors Office. A spokesperson from mayor bowsers office. She confirmed to us that this encryption has already been lifted. We dont know exactly when that happened but i can tell you that the mayor is expected to make an official announcement this week. But we have been hearing from the president of the fire union who says the system has always been flawed and always needed to be reevaluated. He says this private system led to those communication failures during the smoke incident at Lenfant Plaza last month. Firefighters in the metro system could not communicate with supervisors above ground after learning people were trapped on that train. And of course one person died. But the Administration Says despite the timing, there is no connection. The radio system, the Mayors Office says, was under review before the mayor was inaugurated and of course that happened weeks before the smoke incident at Lenfant Plaza. Coming up at 6 30, ill tell you why the Fire Department made their Radio Communications secret in the first place and the backlash they received for it. See you in a halfhour. Back to you. All right, delia, thank you. The u. S. Embassy in yemen is being shut down. The embassy has been at the center of crisis for months. Shiite rebels took over much of the country. The state Department Says the few americans who had been left behind have now been moved out of the embassy. The city of prescott, arizona is grieving the death of Kayla Mueller. She had been held captive by the terror group isis. Mourners are leaving flowers and handwritten notes on the Courthouse Plaza in memory of the 26yearold. President obama is vowing to bring muellers captors to justice in his words, no matter how long it takes. The militants who kidnapped the young woman in syria claims she was killed by a Jordanian Air strike. Three white men in mississippi are now headed to prison for killing a black factory worker. Itself men adds mitted they went hunting admitted they went hunting for black people the night it happened. One was given a 50year sentence. Hn joce ri got 18 and a half. Dillon butler got seven. They beat, ran over and killed 47yearold James Craig Anderson back in 2011. In the judges words what they did was ugly, painful, sad, and criminal. One person from Fairfax County is in selfisolation this morning waiting to find out whether or not they tested positive for measles. Results are expected sometime later today. Theres some concern because Fairfax County has some of the lowest vaccination rates among school age chirp in the state. Expert children in the state. Experts say theres little or no chance of getting measles if youre vaccinated against it. Far less likely to get sick and die with the measles virus. Theres no evidence whatsoever that the vaccine is toxic, that the vaccine contains toxic chemicals that the vaccine causes autism. All of that is fraudulent data. Health officials will hold a News Conference later today if the results come back positive. Moms and dads, your kids love these. Capri sun juice drinks about to change. Theyre going to start using sugar instead of the high fructose corn syrup. The change will apply to the original capri sun drinks. They will also replace the artificial sweetener sucralose. A 2 investment plus a little luck and you could net 485 million tonight. Thats the value of tonights power ball drawing. Its the fifth largest in u. S. History. Nikki burdine is live at the tenley town market in northeast with more. How many do you intend to buy, nikki . Reporter all right, guys, truth be told, ive got my cash right here. Im not growing to tell you how much cash i have but im getting to buy more than one. If you need me to buy one, send me a tax. Ill be glad to pick up a few. Its too good, too big not to play. Were sitting at 4 5 million 485 million. Thats just under half a billion dollars. Can you imagine what you can buy with this . I certainly can. Thats a lot of money and the reason its so big is because there hasnt been a winner in two months. It started at 40 million. Because there hasnt been a winner in so long, thats how its grown so much. The drawing is just before 11 00 tonight and will stop selling usually a couple of hours before then. We are here at the tenley market rye now and they opened just a few minutes ago but they dont start selling tickets until 7 00. You Better Believe as soon as those doors open and they start selling, im going to be in there buying a few tickets. Even though the chans are one in 175 million, they seem preft lofty pretty lofty, you never know. Im a dreamer. I think we all are. Look for my email, okay. Reporter got it. Thanks, nikki. Boston gets back to normal sort of after a massive snowstorm but the snow is not over yet. Thats hard for them. D. C. Police are looking for answers after a man found murdered in an upscale hotel. Howard . Were happening at some temperaturing this morning down in the 20s although 30 at national. Its cold this morning but some arctic air bearing down on us. Ill let you know when its going to get here and how long its i love the taste. 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A cold frosty start for you but well have sunshine, seasonably chilly temperatures in the lower to mid40s with not too much wind. Tomorrow winds could gust 35 to maybe 40. Temperatures fall into the low 30s. Well stay in the 20s on friday. Full details of the sevenday in about six minutes. Beverly has another update with timesaver traffic. Reporter good wednesday morning. Pretty good on the roadways. Sky 9 looking at the beltway heading into bethesda in each direction passing connecticut avenue between 270 and college park. Everything has been pretty much open. The building volume on the outer loop heading into Silver Spring past connecticut avenue. Were looking good. Southbound side of 270 heaviest volume out of frederick towards hyattstown past the truck scales heading past shady grove road to get into rockville. Volume light main and local lanes. Virginia 95 heaviest volume is still north into stafford past the express lane entrance getting out of dale city to woodbridge. More heavy traffic leaving newington. Just about 6 12 now. Theyre getting a breather at least for now in boston. Public schools are open. Commuter trains are starting to slowly return to service. Subways, trolleys, Commuter Rail lines were out of commission tuesday because of the latest huge snow dump there. Service is running now, just fewer trains and buses. Forecasters say there could be even more snow coming to the area on thursday. And a much larger storm is expected sunday into monday as well. A murder mystery at an upscale d. C. Hotel. Police found a man dead inside the donovan hotel. It happened sometime yesterday morning. Cops say the man was stabbed to death. So far there are no arrests and no apparent motive. A second teenager is recovering at home this morning after being shot outside frederick high school. A second victim is already home. The teens were shot last week outside the schools gym during a basketball game. The other teenager left the hospital last friday. Police have made no arhees in the case. Arrests in the case. If you have epilepsy anywhere in your family, you know how debilitating it can be. Thats why pearntles of epileptic children are parents of epileptic children are celebrating. A bill has been approved in the virginia legislature. It would give people with severe forms of epilepsy to use two oils derived from marijuana. Governor Terry Mcauliffe is expected to sign that bill into law. It is 6 13. An American Company sees its stock soar to Record Numbers. But first up, when we return, a man in custody charged with a triple Fatal Shooting in chapel hill, North Carolina. And the Justice Network is now on the air here in washington, the nations only Network Dedicated to crime and investigations. Its mission to make your community safer. And who better to report those stories than former americas most wanted host john walsh. The Justice Network debuted in the last hour on our digital 9. 3 channel. 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Says libyas facing the worst political crisis and escalation of violence since qaddafi was overthrown back in 2011. Later today, opening arguments are scheduled to begin e socalled american sniper murder trial in texas. Prosecutors say the widow of former Navy Seal Chris kyle will be one of the first to testify against eddie ray routh, a former marine charged with capital murder in the deaths of kyle and kyles friend chad littlefield. Back overseas a 100car pileup in south korea has claimed the lives two of people and left another 42 injured. Officials say those numbers could increase because emergency workers are still trying to reach all the cars involved. No word on what caused that pileup just yet. Newsweek meanwhile twitter account is back up and running after being hacked by a group claiming to have ties to isis. We understand it was taken over for about 14 minutes. The hackers posed direct threats against president obama. The fbi is now investigating. A settlement has been reached between burger king and a retired soldier from chantilly who claims he found neementdzs in his sandwich needles in his sandwich. The lawsuit claims he was injured by the needles. The exact terms of the settlement have not yet been released. We do know the dollar figure being associated with apple on wall street about 700 billion. Yesterday it became the first u. S. Company to be worth more than 700 billion based on the value of its stock. It makes apple worth nearly twice as much as the second most valuable company exxon mobil. Not a bad group to be in there. Certainly an exclusive company right now for apple. That is real money. Some serious cash. Give the lotto a run. 6 19. Were all sitting here talking about our dreams if we win the lottery. And one would be to go to a nice warm place right away. Andrea howard said what would you like if i won. She said a cheeseburger. In paris. Weather wise were looking at a decent day today before the really cold air moves n. Were talking not one but two arctic air masses. Then on tuesday next week, a potential wintry mess around here. Lets get to the forecast because its a sweet looking sky early. The sun is coming up not quite annual hour from now. We have an hour from now. We have early color. Temperatures climb into the low to mid40s this afternoon. About 45 will do it for the high in washington. Your winds northerly to easterly. Only about 5 to 89 miles an hour. Still a little breezy in spots this morning but the winds for the most part will be in a nice range today. Then this evening were back in the 30s. Not too cold tonight. 20s to about 30. The arctic front arrives tomorrow in the afternoon. The winds will kick up. Could have snow showers like we did the last time we had an arctic front. Those windchill temperatures will be dropping. This morning low to mid20s up north. 25 gaithersburg. 29 on the bay in annapolis. To the south weve got 30 degree readings. Southern maryland looking at 20s to about 30. 24 in hagerstown. In town, well, the waters of the potomac keeping national at 30. North, northwesterly winds at 10 with clear skies this morning. Futurecast all quiet today. Today is not a problem. In fact, if you like to get out and exercise, you can do it today. It will be bearable this afternoon in the 40s. But after that, could be a week or more. Weve got snow showers in cleveland this evening. Tomorrow that cold front in the morning is getting toward the mountains. Were going to see it here midday. With the front not only will the winds kick up but if you look right here, see the blob of blue . The models are hinting at snow shower active for the afternoon with the colder air moving in and those winds i think will gust at times 35, possibly 40 miles an hour. So that on friday were in the 20s. A stronger cold front sunday keeps us in the teens and tuesday right now looks like it could be snow to sleet to freezing rain to rain unless it stays all frozen. Then just an ugly potential on tuesday. Tonight 20s, 31 in town. Tomorrow 32. That will be an early afternoon high before dropping off. 18 thursday night. There will be windchills friday morning, 5 below, 10 below with highs on friday in the mid20s. Saturday a little bit after break but saturday night with that next front, some snow showers or light snow. Then brutally cold on sunday in the teens. 6 21. Good morning, beverly. Reporter good morning, howard. Wednesday right nothing too out of the order father along the 95 ordinary along the 95 corridor in virginia. Woodbridge into newington, 395 hangup with a crash northbound at seminary moved on to the shoulder. The delays coming north of the at that point. The beltway as you make your way through maryland, that has been accident tree. Weve had lanes open now the beltway headed south of branch avenue on the inner loop down toward the wilson bridge. Outer loop toward landover. Into cheverly building volume on 50 to get to kenilworth avenue but lanes are open on kenilworth to 295 south past eastern avenue. Just the volume building to head into southeast at this hour. The trial of several 9 11 conspirators comes to a screeching hall at guantanamo bay. The white house is expected to send congress a formal request for use of military force against isis. Wusa9 is at 6 25 here are some stories you may have missed. A hearing is set today in the september 11 terror case that came to a sudden halt after a surprise revelation from the defendants. They identified a courtroom interpreter as someone they recognized while they were held in c. I. A. Custody before being taken to guantanamo bay. One of the defendants said he recognized the interpreter from his time in the black sites overseas where prisoners were subjected to torture. The pentagon admitted the interpreter worked for the c. I. A. In the past. President obama could submit a bill today asking for congre of force against isis. One senator who attended a closed door meeting about the issue said the bill would stipulate there would be no enduring combat operations against isis. The senator bob menendez of new jersey says the measure would expire in three years. The man accused of killing university of virginia student will not be facing the death penalty. Jesse matthew is charged with firstdegree murder and police say he is responsible for Hannah Grahams death. Graham disappeared september 13 of last year and she was last seen on Surveillance Video with matthew leaving a charlottesville, virginia bar. Grahams remains were found in october. New bills are being proposed in maryland to make cha