welcome to nur"news4 today". >> let's get over to storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. >> good morning. good morning everybody. anyone wants after a couple of weeks in the deep freeze is a few mild days to get the car washed and straighten things out and thaw things down a bit. milder weather has returned to the area. outside this morning 0 storm team 4 radar shows we're dry. we'll be dry for most if not all of the weekend. there's our next chance for rain and snow across parts of the midwest. our snow chances start to increase after midnight sunday night into monday morning. but for now temperatures climbing in to the upper 20s and low 30s so seasonably cold start. 31 at national airport. 38 by 10:00. how about 50 degrees today. nice day to be outside. decent amount of sunshine. clouds start to seep back in late tonight and for your out and about planner for saturday night relatively mild.

we'll talk about your sunday and snow chance when i see you in a few. >> this morning marks one week since the deadly maryland mall shooting that left two employees dead. right now their friends and family are getting ready to honor and remember them. news4 derrick ward joins us live from the columbia mall with a look at today's events. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. there's nothing remarkable about this mall parking lot. there's emotions you can't see that are front and center and will be for some time. now it's been one week ago, will be one week ago today that breana benlolo and jonathan taylor lost their life. mental health issues seem to be at the center of why. also in the days since remembrances of the victims. there is a vigil, has been a

vigil for benlolo and johnson. that was on thursday and there's a memorial gone up outside of the mall and another inside. at the zumiez store, shoppers left messages of condolence and remembrances for the victims, for those lives cut short violently and unexpectedly and continuing in that vein today at 11:15, there will be a moment of silence inside the mall. it's a sense they have embraced what happened here and not push it aside and begin the healing process for a place that for all intents and purpose the center of this community. right now we're live in columbia, derrick ward, news4. this morning police say they have pieced together more of what gunman darion marcus aguilar was doing in the hours before those shots went off inside the mall. earlier we told you police said he stopped in burtonsville. although they didn't know why. we now know he met someone at a

wendy's there which now has investigators wonder if aguilar acted alone. >> there's no indication right now there's anybody directly involved in the actual shooting. there do not appear to be a lot of people who were close to this individual. >> investigators are now trying to figure out if the person he met with is the same one seen on surveillance video who was with aguilar the day he bought the shotgun in december in rockville. police say after shooting been low and johnson aguilar took his own life. >> in the day ahead we're following a developing story in michigan. police are looking for a man who shot two college studio audience near michigan state university. this happened around 9:00 last night at an apartment complex near the campus in lansing. the school has been sending out mobile alerts. one person is in critical condition. the other was treated and released. a mexican restaurant in the

district plans to re-open after some men came in with masks and guns and robbed customers during dinner. they busted into the restaurant on 12th street a few blocks from catholic university. the robbers took customers cell phones and pointed a gun at employees forcing them to open up the register. this morning another setback for crews trying to fix a huge sinkhole in the district. we just learned in the past hour about another water main break along massachusetts avenue in southeast. repairs could leave people without water. thursday night a water main break caused the road to open up near dupont park. it's not threatening any homes but it could be seven to ten days before the road is back open for drivers and that's if the weather cooperates. here's how you can get around. if you're headed towards the city get off mass avenue by turning left on n street, hang a right on 34th street and take

the left back on to massachusetts avenue. some 7,000 cars use this stretch of mass avenue every day so you could expect some delays. >> right now we want to take a live look at new york's times square. this place is expected to be very busy. all eyes will be on the big apple tomorrow for the kick-off of super bowl xlviii and the country's biggest brightiest intersection has been transformed into super bowl boulevard. police will be on high alert as they figure out who sent suspicious letters to several hotels near the site of tomorrow's game. one of the managers said he opened up a letter and powder fell out of it. he claims a typed letter inside did mention al qaeda. investigators say that the powder is not dangerous. one of thoselers was also sent to a business owned byormer new york mayor rudy giuliani. and people headed to the game have to travel light. tsa is working with police and only fans with game tickets will

be allowed to use the rail line that goes direct try to met life stadium. they also cannot have bags any larger than the size of a clutch. clear plastic bags are allowed. as many as 15,000 people will ride that train to stadium. >> you can expect plenty of security in place high above tomorrow night's game. there will be no-fly zone during the game. pilots will intercept any aircraft that comes within a 30 mile zone. those planes have state-of-the-art night vision an long range cameras. taught keep this year's biggest football game safe. >> we'll try to make radio contact with them. tell them where we are. would we are. what we would like them to do. our primary job is to intercept that aircraft, determine whether they are friend fore. >> if southern breaches the no-fly zone most people on the ground won't know about it. agents have blackhawks and f-16s on stand by incase the situation

escalates. >> happening today 100 new traffic cameras will ticket violators in the district. they will ticket speeders and red light runners and add drivers who block the box at an intersection. cameras will issue tickets to drivers who don't stop for pedestrians at a marked crosswalk. these cameras will be issuing tickets to truck drivers that illegally go down neighboring streets. it's called about d.c. street safe. fines will range from $50 to $300. you can find where the cameras are by logging on to our website. threats involving one of president george w. bush's daughters, what police say a man demanded that now has him behind bars. >> the dangerous discovery in a stick of butter that prompted one store to pull the product off the shelf. >> the punishment two men face for knocking over big boulders that stood for centuries in a

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this morning a 44-year-old man is in custody accused of threatening to kill former president george w. bush. prosecutors say benjamin smith threatened to kill the former president so that he could go out with his daughter barbara. police arrested smith in new york yesterday morning while he was sitting in a car with a loaded rifle and machete and container of gasoline. according to court documents the man's mother called police when she found a threatening note and a rifle missing. this morning police are

trying to figure out 0 how razor blades got into two separate packages of butter in new jersey. customers found a r razor bladen a package of kerrygold butter. the supermarket has pulled alkerygold butter from its store shelves and turned it over to federal investigators. >> nasa face as lawsuit because of a recent discovery on mars. last week nasa released pictures after finding a mysterious rock that had not been there a few days earlier. a california man claims it's a living thing and suing the space agency for failing to investigate it. he calls it negligent that nasa didn't do further investigation. what did he know and when did he know it? this morning new allegations against new jersey cover chris christie and the claims are

coming from the man who used to be one of his closest allies. >> good morning, you are focusing on the sunshine and mild weather i'm focusing on our next little chance for snow coming back into the area. we'll talk about the warm weekend and