Bisecting some of our viewers. It wont be cold enough for snow but possibly for freezing rain and sleet and thats what well be on the lookout for the next several days. Again it will be here by monday morning. With another storm to the way next monday Area School Systems say there are lessons to be learned from this mornings decision that helped to contribute to a mini carmageddon. Reporter im peggy fox in Northern Virginia where School Officials are learning from that rough ride to school this morning and applying it to the next storm. Fast falling snow hit at the worst possible time, the morning rush, sending cars skidding and crashing and that meant gridlock. Everyone looks forward to a nice two hour commute on a 17 mile journey. Reporter many parents and students across the region were surprised this all of the large School Districts decided to start on time today. I think that was a little risky. It was very slippery outside. I think it at least should have been a delay. I think it was fine. I walked my child to school. Ive been up since 2 45. The snow didnt come down till 10 00. Reporter the delay was decided against because forecasters today the chief operating officer it would have put students in the worst of the bad weather. If i could take it back, i would contemplate the two hour delay a little longer. Im scott broom in Montgomery County, maryland, looking for answers today after a little bit of snow this morning caused a lot of mayhem. Where were the salt trucks . Today we were stuck in the same traffic arrives else. Reporter the maryland state Highway Administration said 250 crews were out in the d. C. Region hours before the first flakes fell before dawn today, but once the snow started a full rush hour was underway. There was a lot of volume like a normal rush hour today. So we were stuck behind those vehicles. Reporter the outcome, gridlock and students in Montgomery County taking to twitter, epic fail tweeted one kid. This was one of those days where the weather that was coming hadnt arrived yet. Reporter Montgomery County schools. The federal government stayed open, schools stayed open and i am sure it did make it more challenging for our plows. Ultimately we thought there wasnt enough snow to cancel. A twohour delay wouldnt have bastos anything. We felt the best thing bought us anything. We felt the best thing to do was open school on time. As we know, its a tough call either way. A school bus filled with students returning from a white house field trip hit and killed an elderly pedestrian today. It happened this afternoon at columbia pike and tech road in silver spring. That bus was returning to Hammond Middle School in laurel carrying 14 children. None of them were hurt. The students boarded another bus back to laurel. D. C. Mayor vincent gray leaves the crowded field of candidates in the democratic mayoral primary. However, a majority of voters want somebody else in the office even though they give gray high marks for job performance. Its the irregularity from that 2010 campaign that is still haunting him. Bruce johnson reports Muriel Bowser has emerged as grays nearest challenger. Reporter d. C. Council member Muriel Bowser was out walking in the voter rich area of ward 5 today. The latest public poll has her moving away from the crowded field of challenging but still eight points behind mayor vincent gray. The poll says District Residents want to elect a new mayor and our campaign is positioned to win april 1st. Reporter bowser won the Washington Post endorsement and counts on voters still bothered by the 2010 Shadow Campaign of the mayor to put her over the top. When you have officials who corrupted an election, a campaign, for me thats disqualifying. Reporter mayor gray thus far refused to single bowser out in a crowded field of seven challengers. Today he was slamming another opponent, councilman tommy wells, who is calling for the mayor to dismiss his fire chief and Public Safety director. I think its a ridiculous political trick. I notice the further down some of these people go in the pops, the more desperate become some of the polls, the more desperate become some of the tactics. Reporter gray calls it a surge, strategy to make the latest poll lead grow. According to this latest poll, mayor gray has a significant lead at this point but not insurmountable. Hes got 28 of the vote followed biobaseer in second place with 20 of the vote. By bowser in second place with 20 of the vote. Councilman jack evans today took aim at Muriel Bowser campaigning in her own backyard on kennedy street in ward 4. Councilwoman bowser touts herself as an economic councilwoman and yet in her ward it is sorely lacking. Tonight there will be a democratic mayoral candidate debate on the radio at 7 p. M. And i think all eight candidates are invited. New information on a u. S. Postal carrier attacked and robbed and beaten on his own route in northeast d. C. Yesterday. Now hes out of the hospital after treatment for minor injuries. The u. S. Postal Inspection Service is offer being a 50,000 reward for offering a 50,000 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of the two attackers. This sadly was the third attack on a u. S. Mail carrier in this region in the last three months. In november nail carrier Tyson Barnett was murdered while mail carrier Tyson Barnett was murdered while out delivering the mail in prince georges county. The abuse case at a woodbridge daycare takes a closer step towards trial and a judge says there is probably cause to move the case to circuit court. Two former caretakers at the Minnieland Academy at the glenn face two counts of child cruelty. In testimony two former employees say the women abused the children including spraying toddlers with water, stepping on their toes and hitting them with objects. The charges involve three children, but at least nine children were affected. The Defense Attorneys suggest it was Corporal Punishment and the discipline was appropriate. Coming up next an altercation breaks out between a Police Officer and the man who was video taming videotaping him making the arrest. We are cold and clear now. We had about an inch and a half of notice on the weather terrace. High temperature 38 at national, low was 30, averages now 50 and 33, record high 74, record low 12. We will come back, look ahead to the weekend and to our next st can you and i as regular citizens whip out our cell phones and video the cops making arrests . Even the courts say yes as long as were not violating any laws and that is why this confrontation is under investigation. Take a listen. I havent done anything wrong. Leave i have done nothing. Whoa, whoa, whoa, sir. There is no reason for you to be here. You dont. You just lost it. We are concerned about what we saw in the video and the department will be taking a thorough look at that video. You just lost your freedom of speech apparently. That man was recording last sunday as Baltimore County and maryland state cops made a handful of arrests over a public disturbance in towson. We shonould te the man with the camera was not arrested, nor did he file a complaint. However, that video hit the internet and went viral and thats what sparked the investigation now underway by the Baltimore County police. Cameras are always on, always on. A few million here, a few there and pretty soon youre talking real money. Today the folks who run d. C. , maryland and virginia were talking real money that theyve just committed to making your ride on metro a little better. Agreed in principle that the three jurisdictions will each this year contribute, put up 25 million, so that we can purchase more high capacity trains on metro to obviously deal with all the issues with the tremendous growth that we have with metro. Metro is in the midst of a huge upgrade. That includes a transition from the sixcar train to the eight car train. Metros general manager calls todays 75 million commitment a key downpayment on the future. You know that old saying in this world nothing is certain except death and taxes and lets face it, we can add potholes to that list, but we here at wusa9 want to wipe these craters off the list, but we need your help. If you see one, shoot us an e mail and picture if you can. We will report it and stay on the case until it is filled. Go to tellwusa9. Com. Fill in the location of the pothole. Thats where you can upload a picture. The pothole patrol and your fellow drivers thank you. From the super bowl to the home of a d. C. Cop, alleged child sex trafficking happening in more places more often than most of us lets teupda you on the Affordable Care act. The department of health and Human Services says over 4 Million People have signed up for healthcare so far and there are five weeks left in the open enrollment period. White house Officials Say the update is encouraging and there will be a new push to increase those numbers. A record enrollment is needed in march in order to reach the initial target of 6 million by the deadline. At the super bowl this year police rescued 16 children from pimps who were allegedly prostituting them in hotels near the stadium. Here close to home d. C. Cops found one of their own allegedly marketing kids for sex out of his own apartment. Now congressman frank wolf of virginia is pushing a crackdown on the child sex trade at a hearing on capitol hill today. Our bruce leshan was there. Reporter the stories almost too heart rendering too tell. I didnt know about sex trafficking until i was in the middle of it. Reporter like bryanna, honor role student, cheerleader recruited into prostitution at a small town cafe. One guy offered me 1,000 for an hour and i couldnt believe it. Reporter or stephanie boot who testified about a guy pushing her to prostitute herself at the age of 13. There were three men that night and at the end of it i couldnt stop vomiting. Reporter congressman wolf said children are being sold for sex at Hotels AcrossNorthern Virginia, in sterling, in ashburn and herndon and they are often advertised on websites like backpage. Com. I cant believe, i dont know the people at backpage, but they must have a hard time sleeping. Reporter the wife of senator john mccain testified about a state bill to allow prosecutors to charge child sex traffickers with racketeering in arizona, the site of next years super bowl. You and the senator have these beautiful kids. Yes, we do. Reporter you worry about even them . Yes, i do. Reporter by some accounts this is among the least reported of all crimes. Investigators suspect that they are hearing about just 1 of all the cases. I can tell you that our caseload is extremely overwhelming right now. Reporter detective William Wolfe works with the Northern VirginiaHuman Sex Trafficking Task force. The average age of induction in commercial sex in the United States is 13 years old. Reporter 13 . Yes. Reporter these are little kids. Yes, sir. Reporter and america may be failing to protect them. On capitol hill bruce leshan, wusa9. Now wolfe just helped pass a bill that pushes the Justice Department to target websites like backpage that facilitate sex trafficking, but hes urging an even more aggressive crackdown before he retires after the next election. The maryland civic gave preliminary approval to a compromised bill over dog bites today. The measure would hold dog owners liable for bites but protect any owner who did notten a dog was dangerous. The bill not know a dog was dangerous. The bill comes in response to a law that made landlords and owners strictly liable without knowledge that a dog was dangerous. This bitter Winter Weather and labor shortages are causing delivery delays. At the port of new jersey truckers have been stuck in line for hours trying to pick up cargo. Those delays are backing up product deliveries at major retailers up and down the east coast. The truckers try to make the shipments, but they are running on fumes. Were spending a ton of money on fuel. Were paying our drivers to sit idle at the piers for hours upon hours. Now the port of newark is the largest on the east coast. There are now discussions of diverting cargo to other ports if they cant fix these backups. Speaking of backups, there were quite a few of them on the road. Whats this about more snow monday . Not so much snow. Im more concerned about rain to ice. In the end snow but more of rain to ice. Id argue thats even more. We dont like that. You lose power in that situation with ice. First things first, lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, 38 was the high today. Snow totals 1 to 2 inches, 2 inches in vienna, gaithersburg, a little over 2 1 2 inches in baden, 1. 5 here and 1 inch at prince frederick. All the snow is pretty much gone on the weather terrace. February over 11 inches so far snowfall, average 5. 7. Statistically it is our snowiest month of the year. It has snowed eight of 26 days in february. Now lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, down to 34, dew point relative humidity 31 . You dont think the air is dry inside your house . Its running at about 12 indoor relative humidity. 31 chevy chase, 27 white oak, 29 reston, 32 leesburg, 30 fairfax, 34 dumfries, woodbridge, dale city and 34 in waldorf. Even colder tonight, could be an icy patch on your driveway. Most of the roads pretty dry today, bus stop temps 15 to 30. Clear and very cold tonight, 14 to 24, winds light southerly at 5 to 10. Theyll calm down and by morning were looking at temps in the upper teens, low 20s, city temps, upper 20s by 9 00, mid30s by 11 00. Winds pick up and then upper 30s by 1 00. Next three days even colder friday, 31, still chilly saturday, rain or snow shower possible, 44. These temps are going in the right direction for a while. Were actually near 50 sunday. That hasnt changed, but then monday well say rain or rain to ice, arctic air lurking, a band of snow tuesday and very cold next wednesday. Isnt this march coming up here . March is coming in not like a lamb or lion, kind of in between. The nationals are a couple days from their first spring training game. Well hear from two of the newest nats about how theyre adjusting to the new team coming can you see us . Are you there . Youre breaking up. Are you there . Is it you or is me . Wait, no. Dude, im lagging. Is it you or is it me . Why is it so slow . 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At 8009746006 tty v. Now game on with kristen berset. When the Washington Nationals take the field for the first time friday, you might get a sense of deja vu because the jorityof the roster is the same from last year. Gm mike rizzo made just a few minor adjustments in the offseason, but overall this is a tight knit squad. Imagine being the new guy coming into this clubhouse. New pitcher doug fister and outfielder nate mclouth are two key pieces added this offseason. Both have dealt with trades before, but theyre just anxious to finally be a part of this team. The biggest thing for me is finding out what everybody is about, finding the way of the land here in natsville i guess youd call it. I know a good number of guys here from, played with a few of them, played against most of them at one point or another. Its a pretty easy transition. Theres still a little bit of new guy in school type of thing. Heres the lineup friday in the first spring game. The competition begins with Taylor Jordan starting and nate mclouth will be on the field. College basketball season is winding down, the regular season. The cavaliers have three games left and a strong finish means they could capture the acc title. The cavs are the surprise of the season ranked 12th now way 235 record. Tonight they host the reigning acc champs Jim Larranaga and the miami hurricane. You got to be ready for whatever opponent away, home, whether their record isnt where yours is. All those things come into play and i think were seeing that and knowing when a team comes to play, theres a bulls eye or target on you and you have to be ready for it early and often. Heres your daily reminder to vote in our game of the week poll, three games to choose from this week. Text the code you want to 25543 or vote at usa todayhighschoolsports net. Com dc. Maryland would beat the kansas jayhawks team in the 2004 final rout for the schools only national championship. 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