police say an overnight shooting led to the third murder that happened on dallas drive in temple hills. police do not believe any of the murders are connected. fair fax police want to clear up some confusion about an e-mail that says a serial rapist is on the loose in reston. it all stemmed from reports on march 13th of a man, a suspicious man, spotted on a running path. well, extra patrols were sent. two days later, the "washington post" ran an article on an east coast serial rapist. that is when an e-mail began circulating that tied the suspicious man to the unsolved rapes. police have issued estimate and say "in part, there is absolutely no information which remotely ties the suspicious male to the east coast rapist."

police say regardless, people should be extra careful on those running paths. still ahead tonight, a gas station manager fired and facing some charges she gave gas away, a lot of it but she insists it was for a good cause. we will tell you about that. also,ome georgetown university students say their dramatic protest yesterday paid off. plus, the best-paid athletes in the world and the one team that brings in more cash than any other. what you got, buddy? >> rain wreaking havoc on the golf course. we are all over the place. nationals lost a starting shortstop and caps try to put out the flame at home. tell you all about it when news4 at 6:00 continues.

those georgetown students who chained themselves to a statue chu for eight hours yesterday in protest got the response they were looking for. university officials have agreed to meet with the students tuesday. students upset about what they claim is a lack of access to sex education on campus. they also want the school's health plan to cover birth control. their protests including duct taping their mouth which is symbolized censorship. metro prepares for an atck. metro held a simulation between

the foggy bottom and rosalyn stations. metro is practicing a coordinated response between police, firefighters and other emergency officials. tomorrow, they will simulate an explosion on a metro bus parked at rfk stadium. tomorrow's drill will start at 10 a.m. a frederick, maryland, gas station manager has lost her job tonight. and she is facing charges for what she did to raise money for earthquake victims in haiti. this is all according to the frederick news post but according to that paper, alice butler give away near lids 9,000 worth of gas from the jefferson street service center on south jefferson street and did to get people to give money to the frederick-based nonprofit mission. however, she did not have permission from gas station's owners f she is convicted, butler faces up to 15 years in prison. after the break, getting pay to play. we know athletes are well

compensat compensateded. the rain is moving in, folks, and some parts of our area are unde

some people living near wall street returned home today. they were evacuated late last night when a crane fell onto their building. this morning, the crane was removed. it was being used in a construction project when it tilted last night and hit that 25-story apartment building you see there part of the building actually broke off and fell to the street below. fortunately, no one was hurt. while we are in new york, the new york yankees not only have the most world series championships shall the team also has the world's highest-paid athletes. each yankees' player averages about 7 million bucks a year. a-ro making the most that team just beat out spain's real madrid soccer team. they average roughly $6.3 million a player. dallas mavericks the next american team on that list, number five. the los angeles lakers come in at number six.

a few hundred couples celebrated black marriage day at the union temple baptist church in southeast. the reverend willie wilson led that convenient this afternoon t highlighted the benefits of married life and promoted marriage in the washington african-american community. after the ceremony, wpgc radio threw a reception and one lucky couple won a free trip to the bahamas. would be good time to get away to the bahamas as well. some rain is moving in. meteorologist chuck bell joining with us that forecast. chuck? >> there, craig, just indeed. if you are booking the travel plans, get here before next weekend, wait untilou see the 5-day forecast. in the meantime, it is range and raining hard in areas, especially out to the west of the washington area right now. there is a live look at the u.s. capitol building under a cloudy sky. still no rain drops here in downtown washington but i will show you the radar here in a second and you will see that the rain is nosing in. current temperature outside, 60 degrees, temperatures really surge, thanks to a southeast wind at 20 miles an hour.

humidity climbing, dew points which were in the teens and 20s this morning are now in the mid 40s and climbing. boy, that is been a wild march. not only have we not seen a single freeze this month. overall, march is more than five degrees warmer than average. the rain showers are coming in overnight tonight as a result of the potential for heavy rain. the national weather service has issued a flood watch west of the blue ridge. hagerstown, martinsburg, winchester out to the west of there flood watch for overnight tonight that officially goes until 6 a.m. tomorrow morning, the heaviest of the rains tomorrow morning, the temperatures remain in the low to mid 40s now, out ahead of the showers, temperatures in the high 50s to near 60 degrees. winchester, virginia, a half inch of rain so far. cross junction, virginia, not far away, a third of an inch there as you get toward thurmont, maryland, a quarter inch, but the rain showers come down. look at live doppler, see the rain showers just moving into

the western suburbs at this point in time. i will zoom into where the heaviest of the rain showers r hagerstown, martinsburg, far western maryland, washington county getting in on the heavy rains at this point in time and then along interstate 81, down to the south of there from winchester down through front royal and i-81, spots like that getting heavy rains at this time. there you can see on the broader view, rain showers extend all the way to the southwestern virginia and further than that out into parts of the ohio valley. so we have a lot of rain between now and the next time we see the sunshine. area of low pressure moving out of the ohio valley will bring the rain, the heaviest of which will come overnight tonight into the morning rush hours tomorrow morning. be ready for a messy monday morning commute tomorrow and then showers with maybe even a rumble or two of thunder tomorrow afternoon. no severe weather expected though. rainfall amounts could average one to three inches of rain across the area and even heavier amounts of rain as you get toward new england and new york. rumble or two of thunder tomorrow. the flood watch is up, west of

washington tonight, it will be mild rain turning heavy at times, one to two inches of rain possible during the overnight hours tonight into early tomorrow, then tomorrow, shower weather continues with a risk of a rumble or two of thunder and nights 60s. 63 tomorrow, 56 on tuesday with a 70% chance ofain there the sunshine comes back on wednesday. thursday looks like a beauty of a da a high near 75. 78, friday. craig, both saturday and sunday, peak cherry blossoms and 80 degrees. you got to like that. >> you got to love that chuck, thank you so much. appreciate it, buddy. there is your weather. up next in sports, an early start appeared to have slowed the caps a slow start this

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>> they have a few players out with jury. no excuse for losing a game to calgary, not a good team. entering today's game you can the capital scored 100 more goals than the calgary flames. this afternoon, it was the flames doing most of the scoring, burning the caps for four goals in the first period and win number 50 will have to wait another day. go to verizon center and stop, drop and roll what the caps did in the opening period here. down 2-0 already. calgary in white. bouwmeester in front poked past theodore. cal gar ray 3-0 lead. by that, bruce boudreaux says i have seen enough, pulled theodore. this game was a little chippy. mike grier, a calgary native leveled at mid ice, a rough and tough afternoon tilt. wakeup call there final seconds of the first period, 3-0, flames in white with the puck at the

blue line beats nicholas hegaman here. this is kind of -- what the back hand beats him. 4-0 at the first. second, same score, alex ovechkin shoots and scores, league-lead 46-th of the season. spinning and somehow into the net. take another look. this is silly, craig. nobody could stop t caps fall 5-3, second floss a row. >> one of those games you do for and good for us at this point, you know, trying to work on our first periods a bit and probably a good wakeup call. >> we have been in this position before, where we have been a des splat hockey team. three years ago we needed to make a push and win every game during the playoffs, not the same situation and when you play desperate hockey. >> we didn't have that step.

i don't know how to describe it other than you know your team, know your kids. we were on four cylinders instead of eight today. >> caps will go for win number 50 against ottawa. talking baseball now, rookie ian desmond will start at shortstop for the nationals on opening day. desmond made the decision ease if i for jim wriggleman. spat bathing .278, 2-3 with two rbis in a 9-3 win against the braves. scott olson on the mound fortunates, looking good a strikeout here, one of four in five innings of work, gave up just one earned run, trying to become the nats' fifth starter, making a case for that this afternoon. bottom of the first now, the all-star, ryan zimmer, gets this one, drives one to the opposite field, a throw-run jack for zimmermann. nasa up like that zimmermann,

four rbis in the ball game. bottom two where we go, desmond at the plate, having a real good spring, looking good here, a man on second, takes the time and chops one up the middle. that going to be an infield hit. 9-3678 they only have five more spring games before opening day april 5th. golf now, last year's arnold palmer invitational was pretty special. you remember, tiger woods playing in his third tournament after knee surgery. on the dark, final hole, first event of the season, you remember the first pump, right? >> long time ago. >> arnold palmer invitational different without tiger. the final round was postponed because of rain. mr. arnold palmer checking out the action in the golf cart there the par 5, 4th. landly, third shot of the bunker, in the cup for eagle. currently fired 12 at 4 under.

landly's playing partner says, hey, dude, doing that too. his third shot, same hole, just off the green. and that's in for an eagle as well. then tied for sixth at minus 7. how about kevin na. pga tour for seven years, never won. here on his first hole of the day. from 50 feet away this is a bomb. na, yes. rolls it in here. he is in second place all by himself at minus 9. he is making a run at the leader board because here is your current leader, ernie els, third shot on the nine, on nine from 53 yards out and this ball has gps. into the cup for birdie, leads by two strokes at 11 under and then the rains came, final round, resume on monday morning and also resuming on monday will be the nascar race down in martinsville, watched out because of precipitation. >> mother nature messing up

games. >> there you go. >> nats pacing themselves. >> come on strong the end of spring so you can get momentum into the opening season, opening day, april 5th against the phillies, a good one. >> hope that is a sign of what's to come.flhopefully. starting tomorrow, you can join us every weekday morning at 4:30 a.m. we are going to have all the day's news, of course, the weather, traffic as well on the ones. again, starting tomorrow morning, news4 today will beg bright and early at 4:30. meanwhile, "nbc nightly news" is up next. hope to see you back here at 11:00. until then that is the news. good night.