appropriate, certainly there is never a bad time to remind any firearm owner whether you own a firearm legally or illegally. these weapons must be secured especially when there are children in the home. this did not need to happen. and it happened because someone was acting irresponsibly and had a loaded firearm that was accessible to a 6-year-old boy. that's just very, very tragic. >> you just heard chief davis talk about an unsecured firearm. what police are telling us is that the child was able to access a book bag belonging to a 20-year-old man who lives in the home, which is owned by the little boy's great grandmother. now, the child, the 6-year-old boy apparently was able to get into the book bag, get the loaded revolver, was playing with it, accidently shot himself we're told at the time the great grandmother was home. the boy's 9-year-old and 11-year-old sisters were home but the man who owns that book bag, a 20-year-old man who is

apparently a boarder or some type of tenant at the house, he was not physically present at the time. he is now being questioned by detectives at prince george's county police headquarters. reporting live in clinton i'm jackie bensen. back to you. >> all right. tragic story there. jackie, thank you. now to our other top story tonight the weather, wind gusts clocking in at over 40 miles an hour today creating problems in the air and on the water. tonight we have team coverage of the dramatic rescues across our region. first up to reagan national airport. it was a shaky landing today for a united flight after the jet blew two tires as it was coming in. and the wind played a big part. news 4's jane watrel is live at the airport with reaction from passengers. jane? >> reporter: well, jim, the wind is still playing a big part out here. it's very windy out here. in fact, passengers say they were told to buckle up. that there was going to be turbulence ahead. but no one anticipated what could happen next.

it was a turbulent morning at reagan national airport with plane after plane landing in winds gusting up to 35 miles an hour. united flight 1075 from houston to d.c. was no different as it approached the runway according to passengers. >> it was swaying. i mean, it was swaying. i was not feeling good at all. >> we did have turbulence coming in, coming down through the clouds, and he did warn us about that and everyone fastened their seat belts and we came in for a little tricky landing. >> reporter: a tricky landing that resulted in some scary moments. united officials say as the boeing 737 was touching down, something unusual happened. the plane's two rear tires blew out. >> we were leaning actually to one side and then i was sitting by a window on the plane and i saw smoke. so i knew a tire had blown and then the pilot announced that a tire had blown. >> reporter: the plane was towed to gate 11 where work crews had to change its rear tires before allowing it to fly again. united officials say none of the

122 passengers or five crew members were injured. this group from abbiville, louisiana says it was quite the welcome to washington. >> it's a controlled crash is what it is and he did great and no one panicked and there was no panic over the loud speaker. so he did okay. >> yes. it was quite scary. basically it felt like a crash landing. the pilot did a very good job. >> reporter: well the plane had to be towed to the terminal in order to get its tires changed and then it was sent on its way. this all happened around 11:00 this morning. no other incidents were reported. reporting live at reagan national airport, i'm jane watrel, news 4. >> thanks, jane. the wind also created some trouble along the tidal basin and several people had to be rescued from paddle boats that were being tossed about. derrick ward joins us live from the scene with more on how this all went down. >> reporter: how are you? indeed those people did have to be rescued from the paddle boats

and then the rescuers themselves had to be rescued. it just goes to show you the problems the wind can cause even on a relatively tranquil body of water like the tidal basin. before it got too windy today paddle boats were out plying the waters of the tidal basin with high winds actually pushing two of those boats up against a bridge support. four people had to be rescued by employees of the boat vendor. but when the vendors went back in their powered boat to retrieve the paddle boats they ended up in the water and had to be rescued by members of the harbor patrol. the good news is that only one of those employees was slightly injured and taken to the hospital for observation. >> now we talked to the park service today and there are no set rules about when and -- when they want the boats out and when they don't. however when you have white caps like today the rule is they'll pull the boats in and now we see why. on the tidal basin, derrick ward, news 4. >> thank you. the high wind combined with the dry conditions prompted a red flag warning across our region. this is the aftermath of a brush fire in rivera beach in anne

arundel county. this afternoon chief meteorologist doug kammerer with more on the potential threat. hey, doug. >> yeah. hi, wendy. a very dry atmosphere. we have not seen much in the way of rain at all and you combine that with the very gusty winds. that is what prompted that red flag warning and that fire danger out there so, please, be careful if you are out and about. 65 degrees is the current temperature right now. humidity only 31%. the winds? they're gusting over 25 miles an hour, still down at the airport. some locations still seeing winds upwards of 30 to 40 miles an hour. current temperatures on the warm side. 69 right now in fredericksburg to the south in through northern virginia and talking about leesburg right now 59 degrees. frederick, maryland a temperature there of 61. we do have a chance for some shower activity. there are a few sprinkles out there. mostly in through portions of southern maryland and the panhandle of west virginia. just to the north and west of -- just to the north and east of winchester but only expect a sprinkle or two. most of this not reaching the ground down around the fredericksburg region. overnight tonight temperatures dropping to about 55 degrees at

11:00 and waking up tomorrow morning to a rather chilly 47 degrees at 7:00 a.m. it will be windy once again during the day tomorrow and then a big shift in the weather. i'll talk about it coming up in a minute. right now an accident involving a dump truck is impacting the evening rush here in southeast d.c. the truck hit an overhead sign on i-295 near pennsylvania avenue earlier causing part of the sign to dangle over the roadway. no one was hurt. one lane of traffic on 295 is still closed as crews remove the sign. the special prosecutor investigating the death of an unarmed florida teenager will not be sending this case to a grand jury. prosecutor angela cory says she'll -- she will be the one to decide if george zimmerman will be facing charges for shooting and killing trayvon martin. this happened in february in sanford, florida. zimmerman claims he acted in self-defense and today's decision means zimmerman will not be facing a first-degree murder charge. protesters who marched on the sanford police department today say they still want justice.

anything that gets this case to the courtroom the right way i think is what we all want. >> whether it's a grand jury or special prosecutor we just want justice for trayvon martin and for trayvon martin's family. >> the attorney for martin's family says they expected this announcement by cory and are hopeful a decision will be reached soon. students at american university are tackling some of the ethical questions raised by this case. the black law students association held a town hall today to talk about racial profiling. race relations and prosecutorial discretion in light of this case. they also plan to begin writing letters to the attorney general in an effort to put a greater spotlight on those issues. bail has been set at almost $10 million for two men who are suspected in that shooting rampage in tulsa, oklahoma. five people were shot last friday. three of them were killed. the suspects have been identified as 19-year-old jake england and 32-year-old alvin watts. police say the victims were all

black, chosen at random. based on facebook postings police say one of the suspects may have wanted to avenge the death of his father. two years ago. a death that he blamed on a black man. a showdown over slot machines and table games in the maryland legislature. there were several last-minute changes to a bill over the weekend but it's unclear tonight whether a vote will be held before the session closes this evening. darcy spencer is live for us in annapolis with the developing story. darcy? >> reporter: jim, as you know it's always like this on the last day of the general assembly session. it's always down to the wire. they have until midnight to get all of the work done but this year the budget and the future of gambling in prince george's county are hanging in the balance. casino gambling with slots and table games could be coming to prince george's county. the most likely place officials say national harbor. county executive baker stays would generate millions of dollars for the county. >> i think this is the most important vote that they're

going to cast for prince george's county in this term. because that's $69 million that could come back to the county. >> reporter: but that vote is anything but a sure thing on this last day of the legislative session in annapolis. >> what do you think could happen here? >> i think anything could happen. i think it's still a 50/50 shot that something will come out before midnight. >> reporter: the senate bill would send the question to voters through a referendum but it still hasn't been voted on in the house of delegates. >> clearly, when you have that kind of money, it's a sea change in the type of revenue to come locally to prince george's county you have to take a look at it. >> reporter: some lawmakers are concerned that national harbor would compete with slot sites in arundel mills and baltimore so under the senate billwouldn't cs until at least 2015. >> delaware and west virginia have already ratcheted up in terms of promoting table games. we need to be competitive to make sure we're seizing on that amount of revenue that's coming in. >> reporter: lawmakers say the priority is to pass a budget.

house speaker michael bush says the senate is holding up the budget to get the gambling bill passed. if the budget of the state of maryland goes down and the senators are more concerned about the obsession with gaming than with school construction, school funding, hospitals, higher education money, then let them wear that. >> reporter: would you agree with speaker bush that the obsession with gaming in the senate is holding up the budget? >> well, i think our top priority needs to be the budget. >> reporter: the gambling bill still has to be voted on in the house ways and means committee. a member of that committee just passed by me and said he's on his way inside to vote on that bill. at that point it would go to the house floor. but again, there is a lot of work to be done. the statewide budget is the priority. they have until midnight to get it done and there is some talk that there could be an extended session for the first time in more than 20 years. reporting live from annapolis, darcy spencer, news 4.

republican presidential hopeful rick santorum did not campaign today because his young daughter is still in the hospital. she suffers from the rare genetic condition known as trisomy 18. bella is 3 years old and has been in a northern virginia hospital since friday. a campaign spokesperson says she is recovering and could be released later today. santorum has canceled all his campaign events to focus on his daughter's health. this is the second time his daughter has been hospitalized this year. searching for answers as the investigation into a fighter jet crash in virginia continues. there are new concerns for people whose homes were destroyed. a mother's weight could raise a child's risk of autism. >> weight loss wager. how some people are cashing

another's weight during pregnancy could impact her child's chances of getting autism. researchers looked at 1,000 women and found that babies born to mothers who were considered obese were twice as likely to suffer some developmental delays. researchers now want to know if it's the weight or the higher instance of type 2 diabetes that is causing this. currently more than 60% of women of child bearing age in the u.s. are overweight or even obese.

>> stepping on the scale can be daunting for a lot of us but what if the numbers you saw could turn into cold, hard cash. well, now there is a website that has dieters putting wagers down on how much they can lose. and if you stick to the plan, it can really pay off. diana gonzalez has more on just how it works. >> reporter: taking steps together to lose weight. these three women are members of a team in a weight loss challenge with other teams across the country through healthy wage.com. >> we pay you money to lose weight. >> reporter: there is a lot of cash on the line. >> each member of the team pays $60 and the grand prize for the team with the highest percentage of weight loss over three months is $10,000 to split between the team. >> reporter: they call themselves the biggest winners. also on the team, shelly's husband and a friend. >> we want to be the biggest winners by being the biggest losers. >> i used to be really skinny and when i came to this country

i started gaining weight. >> reporter: healthy wage also offers individual weight loss challenges. the website boasts total money won $430,100. total weight lost? 866,500 pounds. >> starting in about 2008 major academic journals published research demonstrating diet wers a cash incentive were more than five times as likely to lose weight. >> i have carrot sticks. >> reporter: yvonne and wendy work together so they pack healthy lunches and motivate each other. healthy wage also uses social media to give dieters support. >> we have a nutritionist and a psycho therapist who are available through live tweets or chats and so people reach out with any questions over facebook or twitter. >> reporter: these contestants got weighed. >> 196. >> reporter: because of the money prizes weight has to be verified at participating health clubs or by health care professionals. when they start and finish. but these women say --

>> i don't care about the money. i just want to lose the weight. >> i think it's an absolutely wonderful idea. we also have to think long term and the competition will end so you have to find internal reasons, reasons why you're going to stay with this healthy eating and stay with the exercise. >> there are several health clubs around our region that can serve as officia weigh in stations including many la fitness, valley total fitness, gold's gyms and results gym locations. weigh ins from weight watcher centers are also accepted. boy, if you were out trying to ride your bicycle into the wind today trying to exercise in this, it's fierce out there. >> it is. >> it really was. i saw one gust, 43 miles an hour today. >> really. >> out at the airport. any time you're over 30 it's pretty windy. you get over 40 and you're talking about tropical storm force winds. that is what we saw out there across the area today. some locations still gusting to near 40 miles an hour. the good news though the winds will begin to die down. the bad news is, the cooler air

is coming in. we're in for a big weather pattern change here. it's going to happen over the next few hours. you can see the cloud cover right now down along the potomac. temperature right now 65 degrees so right now still on the mild side. those winds gusting to over 25 miles an hour still at the airport. wind gusts around the region though, take a look at this. still close to 40 miles an hour. 35 in leesburg. 26 in frederick. 30 right now in martinsburg. 26 out there toward annapolis. the winds are still gusting but we don't have the strong, really strong winds we saw out there a little bit earlier so they will continue to calm down as the sun continues to go down, too. temperatures around the region 59 degrees in leesburg. 64 in manassas. 69 in fredericksburg and out toward annapolis at 66 degrees. take a look at these numbers. see the nice 60s? yeah. say good-bye to those nice 60s because i think we'll have a hard time getting to 60 for the next three to four days and that's going to come with some cloud cover, too, talking about a fairly cool cloud pattern or weather pattern coming on

through. here's the showers and the clouds that we've seen across the region. the clouds making their way in. a few light sprinkles right now across the area. but most of this rain not reaching the ground as a result of the very, very dry atmosphere. this area of rain right here in pittsburgh, that actually has some thunderstorms with it. we'll see that come through portions of western maryland. maybe into the panhandle of west virginia. but i do think it would fall apart before it makes its way toward virginia and in toward the district. we need the rain. you know we need the rain. we have been extremely dry. average rainfall for this time of year? 9.79 inches. we have only received 5.69 so over 4 inches below average as far as the rainfall is concerned. and again, i don't see a good chance for significant rainfall for almost a week. maybe upwards of a week and a half to two weeks. again, we do need to see that rain. also for you pollen sufferers you would love to see some of that rain to bring down the pollen levels. right now it's over 1200 the pollen level out there. low pressure moving on through the region.

that's going to ush inner in th cooler air. cloudy and breezy. tomorrow you need jackets. same deal on wednesday. you may even need the umbrella on wednesday. we'll see a few showers but once again not talking about a significant rain event here. maybe 0.1 inch at the most and i doubt most of us will see that. this evening mostly cloudy. quite breezy. mountain sprinkles. 53 to about 60 degrees. tonight and into tomorrow morning we'll start off on the cool side tomorrow. 37 to about 46 degrees inside the city. we'll call it partly cloudy and a little bit on the breezy side once again. tomorrow afternoon, mostly cloudy. windy, cooler. high temperatures struggling to reach 60 degrees with winds out of the west at 15 to 25 miles an hour. that is going to be a cool day. wednesday even cooler. many areas on wednesday in the low to mid 50s just about all day long. we do rebound very quickly though. thursday back to 60. friday 65 and wait until you see what i had for the weekend. >> wow. all right. make up for this.

kicking wendy today. >> i'm having a bad day. >> i'm sorry. >> i know. >> if i could do anything. >> get me a regulator i can wear across my nose. >> there you go. >> thank you, doug. coming up next it is the souvenir that now tourist wants. a woman bruised and tossed around after getting too close for comfort. >> wow. >> that's some wind. >> my goodness. duke ellington and marvin gaye got their start here. d.c.'s historic howard theater is revamped and ready to open again. in sports the regular season is in the rear view mirror as

after an up-and-down season the caps are ready to make amends in the playoffs. >> dan hellie is back from vacation. welcome back. what you got? >> thank you guys. the capitals if you listen to some fans have a lot of amends to make over the last few years. different role for the caps this past season. the past year the caps have been one of the top seeds only to get upset by a lesser opponent. now after an injury riddled regular season the capitals are the underdogs. getting ready to face the defending stanley cup champs. starting in boston on thursday. >> let's go, guys. >> the postseason is the caps' second season and also their second chance. >> you put the last 82 games out the window because they don't matter anymore. now it's a day in and day out

grind battling, you know, with your opponent, get grudges, start hating them. it's the best game in the world and the best time of the year for it. >> right now you don't have to -- we don't have to listen to you guys and the fans hwan than they say. we just have to concentrate and do our best to be together. >> it's been up and down this season. we just made it into the playoffs and we're looking forward to it and excite today play in the playoff. it is a tough matchup against boston but we haven't played our best hockey yet. hopefully we can. >> nicholas backstrom hasn't played much this year period missing 40 games with a concussion. much like mike green who was an all star last year he missed 50 of this season's 82 games and is ready for a new start. >> most of us have been through

it including myself so it's a different feeling this year. i think in the past we've kind of been too worked up about it. there is an even keel right now and i think that's good. >> we have to stay clean and go from here. we're the same team that we were at the beginning of the year so a lot of guys are becoming healthy. it's nice to see them back and have a good game against new york, it was perfect for him and i think he needed that coming into the playoff series for sure. with those guys coming back and greeny getting more healthy i think it's boding well for us. also getting healthy goaltender michael nerver. on the ice this morning albeit by himself after thursday's collision with marco sturm left him nursing his left knee. backup braden holtby earned the trust of his teammates. now he could find himself between the pipes in his first nhl playoff series. >> i'm confident in my abilities and not really trying to focus on td playoffs and focusing on

making saves. in fact you get the start and, you know, it saves on getting harder in the playoffs. you know, the same type of shots and everything. obviously more intense, but, you know, it doesn't change your abilities at all. >> nothing better than playoff hockey. capitals general manager george mcphee said today that michael noivert could practice with the team tomorrow and didn't rule him out at some point in the series. first two points in boston and then back in d.c. we'll be in boston on thursday for game one. >> exciting. thank you. coming up next on news 4 at 5:00 gun fire erupts in a quiet potomac neighborhood but police say it was no random act. >> help for people who lost everything when that fighter jet crashed into the virginia beach apartment complex. >> ready to celebrate? tonight a look at the festivities during this year's easter egg roll.

an update on our breaking news. a 6-year-old boy in clinton, maryland dead after an accidental shooting in his home. authorities say the child found a gun in a book bag and shot himself. police are interviewing a 20-year-old man not related to the victim but lives in the home. police believe he may be the gun's owner. no charges filed. a united airlines flight blew two tires today while landing at reagan national airport. it was flight 1075 from houston. the plane was towed to the terminal. united says no one was injured but the wind did play a role in

the rough landing. >> the wind to blame for a rescue needed in the tidal basin today. people got stuck against a bridge and three employees ended up in the water trying to bring the boats back to shore. no one was seriously hurt. >> the winds are going to die down. yes, wendy. right now our latest wind gusts 26 miles an hour and starting to get more in the 20s and lower 30s rather than the 30s and lower 40s like we had earlier so that is good news there. 65 degrees the current temperature under mostly cloudy skies. you can see the wind gusts right now upwards of 26 miles an hour. the winds are going to die down a little bit but we're in for much cooler air. i'll show you where the air is coming from and what you can expect over the next couple days including the weekend. it's not too far away. just five days. >> all right. thank you, doug. a young man is wounded and the calm is shattered in montgomery county neighborhood after a late night shooting. >> this happened in potomac. three blocks from a high school. pat collins has our report.

>> reporter: gunfire in potomac. how many pops did you hear? >> i don't really know. >> reporter: more than one? >> yeah. sounded like three or four or five pops. >> reporter: after that police showed up? >> reporter: oh, yeah. >> reporter: this happened about three blocks from churchill high school in a neighborhood where the homes sell in the high six figures. gun play like that isn't supposed to happen in a place like this. >> you don't think about something like this around here. >> i don't know that anything like this has ever happened before. i've been here since 1965. >> reporter: the time 11:30 last night. the street, liberty lane. police say the gunman goes to the front door of this house. he gets into a struggle with a guy who lives here. the struggle turns into a fight. it spills inside. shots are fired and the 21-year-old resident is wounded.

police say this is no random act of violence. >> detectives were able to talk to the victim at length today and they have determined and believe that the victim was targeted, that this was not a random event. that gunman went to that house to get something or do something. >> correct. >> harry troy owns the house. he said last january he rented it to four young men. >> tell me about the four guys living in the house. >> i don't know much about them. >> you rented your house to them. >> yeah. but i don't know much about it. >> reporter: police are talking to the men who live here trying to develop more clues and track down the gunman. in potomac, pat collins news 4. three college students were arrested on the steps of the annapolis state house this afternoon with the maryland student climate coalition. a demonstrator sat on the steps holding signs that said "wind works." they say they were protesting the failure of the state senate to pass the offshore wind energy

act that would create a wind farm off the eastern shore. they are from the university of maryland and st. mary's college. not clear if they'll face charges. an easter monday event marred by violence in recent years took place today without any problems. hundreds of people converging on the national zoo for a gathering that has become a tradition for african-american families. there was an easter egg hunt, musical performances. police were also there to keep things safe. the zoo has hosted this free easter monday event since the 1890s when african-americans were not allowed to attend the easter egg roll at the white house. the event is open to all families. >> reporter: residents at a virginia beach apartment complex are trying to salvage what they can tonight after that f-18 fighter jet crashed last friday. the navy is still investigating the cause of the crash and has only said that a catastrophic mechanical malfunctions likely to blame. 63 people in 46 units at the complex have now been forced out of their homes. today fire officials tried to

help residents retrieve critical documents and medications. also today the navy began handing out compensation checks to help those impacted. andy fox has the latest. >> reporter: navy lawyers spent the morning handing out 41 checks just like this one to residents like esther leaderman, counting more heroes. >> all i can say is, god bless them all. they're heroes in my eyes. they really are. but i finally get in and see the damage they won't let me see. i have no clothes except what is on my back. >> she got a check for $2,202. and i got one for $956. >> the entire process very orderly. information provided over the weekend produced checks handed out today. they are thankful and yet tired. >> pretty much sleeping in and out of your car the whole time.

you don't know where you're going. >> again, the navy's payments were around $2300 for individual residents with more going to people with families. a prince william county man is being called a hero tonight for quick thinking during a house fire over the weekend. bill kim saw his neighbors' home go up in flames. he ran out of the home, found two women, a child, and a dog inside. they got out just in time as the roof caved in minutes after they left. the home owner says he is grateful while kim says he was doing the right thing he is my neighbor. i see him every day. i didn't realize one day he'd save my family. >> i don't feel i'm a hero. it's just something you do you don't think about. i'd want the same thing from somebody if that was happening to me. >> reporter: it took more than 60 firefighters to put out the

flames. crews say a candle on the front porch sparked the blaze. fairfax county is set to vote on the second page of the dulles rail project tomorrow. they're expected to give the green light to the expansion. it will cost $2.7 million. the approval means the county will pay 16% of the total cost to build the project. they will also pay a portion of the operating cost once the silver line is completed. phase two will extend the line from reston to loudoun county and while fairfax county is expected to approve this deal, still not clear whether loudoun county executives will give it the green light. next a big week. a local landmark helped launch the careers of duke ellington and ella fitzgerald. now it is ready to shine again thanks to a $29 million makeover. a sex scandal involving an nfl cheerleader and high school student. tonight a friend breaks her

after a $29 million renovation and a 30-year hiatus the historic howard theater is preparing for a big opening tonight. city leaders joined a huge crowd for the ribbon cutting today. there were bands, dances on the theater's plaza, along with the unveiling of a statue of duke ellington. originally this ftheater was built in 2010 and it will feature a state of the state the art sound system, new seating, a

gift shop. today mayor gray reminisced about the old days. >> as somebody who grew up in this city and went to school in this city this is a convening place. it didn't matter what high school you went to. everybody who went to school came to the hollywood theater. >> opening night once again is thursday but there is going to be -- there will be a benefit concert to support the restoration efforts. smokey robinson and comedian wanda sykes are going to be among those scheduled to perform. >> it looks beautiful down there. facebook made a very big buy today to expand its online social media empire. the company purchased the photo sharing software company instagram. forget this $1 billion. the deal comes just days after instagram unveiled a version for android phones. the deal will still allow instagram to run on rival social networks like twitter, facebook. facebook founder mark zuckerberg says today's purchase is facebook's biggest one to date and they are very excited to

improve the photo sharing experience for facebook users. tlae when we come back the first family taking part in an annual rite of spring. the white house easter egg roll. we'll take you there. plus relief from soaring gas prices. what analysts are now saying about the pain at the pump. doug? >> yeah. the facebook, you just go back away from timeline. get the timeline thing away. anyway, our time line looking okay. the middle part of the week and the end of the week, yeah. the end of the week, yeah. we'll talk about it

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take a look. the president, first lady michelle and their daughter sasha and malia kicked off the big event. there's a bunny rabbit, too. the family cheered the kids on as they scrambled toward the finish line. later the obamas read books to the children. the easter egg roll is the largest public event at the white house. news 4's melissa mele was there with more on the celebration today. >> reporter: if you are an easter egg loving kid, this is about as good as it gets. the 134th annual easter egg roll on the south lawn of the white house. >> i just kept hitting the egg with the spoon. >> reporter: there were miniature blazers and bunny ears, squeaks and screams, giggles and songs. this year's theme is let's go. let's play. let's move. and focuses on health and wellness with a hula hoop dance party on the south lawn. >> there's not much like hula hooping in front of the white house. there is an obstacle course, live musical performances on the rocking egg roll stage, story

time with celebrity readers, and some very serious easter egg hunters. this is also a celebration. it's her 9th birthday. she and her family came all the way from atlanta to roll eggs in front of the white house. >> have you ever seen the white house before? >> no. >> reporter: what do you think about it? >> incredible. >> reporter: she and her brothers -- what did you think about the easter egg roll? >> good. >> reporter: a part of history between giggles and photos, children big and small using these wooden spoons to guide eggs across the perfectly man cured grass. >> loving it. loving it. definitely an experience and very fun to be here. >> reporter: also on hand a huge cast of characters from mr. potato head -- how you doing? you want to say anything? to peter rabbit and, oh, yeah, what would an event like this be without this big white furry guy the easter bunny and his bunny wife?

the tradition of the easter egg roll started back in 1878 but before that was first done on the lawn of the u.s. capitol. some of this year's wooden commemorative eggs even have first dog bo's stamp of approval. >> just so wonderful that the white house is so accessible so everybody can enjoy it. >> i would like to do this again. >> reporter: by the end of the day they'll hand out more than 13,000 of these hardwood eggs and bring a lot of smiles around here and make a whole lot of memories. at the white house, melissa mele, news 4. >> what a day down there. right now you can get a look at designs that could be in store at the national mall. the nonprofit trust for the national mall is holding a design competition and unveiling finalists' designs this week. their plans include adding lakeside gardens, underground pavilions, and grassy amphi theaters to the mall. you can see models of their creations now through sunday at the smithsonian castle and national museum of american history. a panel of design experts will select the winner and announce

their selection next month. boy, it is blowing out there. and we have a red flag warning up for our region. here is doug to tell us what that means and what is happening with these winds now. >> a red flag warning simply means conditions are favorable for fires and if fires do occur they will spread very, very quickly. our atmosphere very, very dry. humidity only 31%. any time you see these winds gusting over 20 or 25 miles an hour that would really help any fires that do begin to build out there. spread very, very quickly. so not a good day to be out and about today. especially around or maybe producing some fires out there. 65 degrees the current temperature out there right now with the winds out of the west-northwest at 17 miles an hour. here's the temperatures around the region. dulles right now at 62. 64 in manassas. huntingtown coming in at 66. it is nice and mild backup don't get used to it. we're going to see one of the cooler stretches of weather we've seen in quite sometime. storm 4 radar showing the frontal boundary that is moving on through the area.

a little bit in the way of thunder back here toward the west right around the pittsburgh area. this area of rain will try to make its way through but i don't expect much in the way of rain here. most of this in southern maryland not reaching the ground although we are seeing a few sprinkles from time to time. that's really about it. overnight low temperatures about 46-47 in the district so not too bad there but back to the west we're still going to be in the 30s. 38 in martinsburg. 39 in winchester. 40 in la ray. but we may be even cooler than this especially in some of the valleys back here. that is why the national weather service has once again issued a freeze warning for areas like this back down toward petersburg, rockingham county, virginia. watch out in those areas again, cover the sensitive plants. the same area under a freeze watch for tomorrow night so a couple cool evenings.

tonight new details in the case of the nfl cheerleader accused of having sex with a teenage boy. >> sarah jones is a cheerleader for td cincinnati bengals and was also a high school teacher. it was during that time prosecutors say she sexually abused one of her students. >> now for the first time a friend of jones is speaking out in her defense. jeff rossen has the exclusive report. ♪ >> reporter: sarah jones like we've never seen her before. behind the scenes with the other bengals cheerleaders. >> take care of us on our flights and as we perform. take care of our families as we leave. >> reporter: on a recent team trip sarah is playful. and giving. flying to iraq last year to see

the troops. apparently they liked her. but prosecutors say this is the same woman, the same bengals cheerleader, who got into a sexual relationship with a teenage boy, one of her own students when she was a high school english teacher. now charged with first-degree sexual abuse. her mother is charged with covering it up. both pled not guilty. >> we're family. she is kind of like a baby sister to me. >> reporter: lindsay vaughn has been close to sarah for years both on the field cheerleading together and off where the bond grew even stronger. people see the skimpy cheerleading outfits. they hear the sex crime allegations against her. people jump to conclusions about who she is. >> yes, yes. well, that's the world that we live in. >> reporter: what don't we know about sarah jones? >> smart, christian girl. she doesn't drink.

doesn't party. probably totally opposite of what you think of when you think of an nfl glamorous hot cheerleader. >> reporter: especially the one we've seen in the news. >> reporter: very much so. very down to earth. very much so. loves her students. loves teaching. loves the bengals. just a good girl. >> reporter: so when you see these headlines, "first degree sexual abuse" and "inducing a child with e-mails" prosecutors say they have evidence, e-mails, phones, texts, what goes through your mind? >> our team was like a family and we support each other. i don't know anything about that. i don't want to know. i don't need to know. i know her. and it's terribly shocking. being a bengal is not just about the cheerleading outfit. i know you may see that and that's something that is easy to hang on to in the news because it makes good headlines. but she's a real person. we're real people.

we have families, careers. we represent ourselves in this community. >> the trial for sarah jones is set for june. >> now at 6:00 someone has come forward tonight in the maryland megamillions. >> rescues and a flight scare in the nation's capital. >> a child was shot with adults in the home. investigators want to know how this could happen. >> a guy walked into a d.c. polling place and claimed to be the u.s. attorney general. >> hello. do have you an eric holder? >> and it appears he got away with it. good evening. i'm jim vance. >> i'm doreen gentzler. we begin with the escalating tension mounting in the trayvon martin case. the unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a florida neighborhood watch volunteer in february. there has been no arrest. today the special prosecutor announced she would not go to granju