forecast. >> storm team 4 meteorologist tom kieran is here with more. tom? good morning. the patchy ice north and west of us, otherwise no travel problems but we do have a winter storm warning just issued. all the counties including howard, montgomery, loudoun, northern faulkier, this is for tonight into wednesday. this morning into this evening we are fine, but mid to late evening we could see a quarter inch of ice possible in this zone. could be a real mess on area roads tomorrow morning. likely we'll have delays tomorrow morning because of that icing coming in tonight. but for today, we'll have just some clouds in and out this morning with patchy fog and ice. watch out for that this morning. we'll be in the upper 20s through mid-30s until noontime. by mid-afternoon temperatures

should be right around 40 degrees with the clouds beginning to move in with a light wind. and now we'll check on the commute for this tuesday morning with danella. good morning. good morning. still no accidents in the roadway, but traveling the beltway inner loop and outer loop at connecticut avenue, two vehicles just pulled over to the shoulder lanes here. the travel lanes are open. we'll head up right now to university boulevard traveling westbound just west here with the road work on the side of the road. heads-up with light volume in the area, easy to work around this. i'm back in ten minutes, see you then. 4:32 is your time now. it could be a long day for target's cfo. the senate judiciary committee will grill john mulligan about his company's recent data breach. the secret service and justice department are still figuring out what happened. mulligan wrote an op-ed saying the store is speeding up a $100

million program to implement new technology to protect getz cyber theft. the goal is to have it ready by early next year. this morning the "usa today" is reporting more than 800 soldiers received illegal kickbacks and fraupt payments when they persuaded friends to sign up for the wars in iraq and afghanistan. the payments totaled $300 million with individual soldiers pocketing as much as $275,000. the recruit program ran from 2005 to 2012. closing arguments could start today in the trial of brian mahiew. the timing of closings will depend on whether the defense presents a case here. if it does not, closing arguments could begin in a few short hours. officers all over virginia are looking for a police reservist who has been missing

since friday. this is 45-year-old kevin quick last seen leaving his mother's home in nelson county south of charlottesville. authorities became concerned for his safety when his silver suv was spotted in the background of this atm surveillance photo. you can see it there. they eventually found that car abandoned more than 100 miles from where quick was last seen. >> i hope that they will catch the person that did this to him. i feel sorry for the family. >> you'll see cars parked all over the place for no reason. i mean, that's just the way it is around here. >> the surveillance footage also turned up with this man's photo. officials are not sure if he's connected to the disappearance of quick but they are looking to question him. 4:34 now. the d.c. police officer's union wants the city council to reject a deal to give the officers their first raise in six years. the arbitrator announced the terms of the deal. officers would get a 4% raise retro active to the middle of last year. they have received nod raise this year and a 3% raise after

that. the union says that doesn't keep up with the cost of living or make up for the past six years. this morning police are looking for the driver who hit a teenager on his way to school and then drove away. this happened yesterday morning off 17th street near lyman place in northeast d.c. day marcus grant was about to cross the crosswalk on his way to the bus stop when the car hit him. grant hit his face on the window of the car and the impact knocked out two front teeth and split his lip. by the time he came to, the car was already gone. >> i was just in shock, that's all. i was just in shock of being hit by a car. and all i know is after that happened i just got up and ran home. >> when i see his face, at that point i'm instantly mad because i'm like, you hit my son and didn't stop. >> grant's mother says he needs dental surgery to replace his teeth and will have a permanent scar on his lip. police say they don't have much to go on here.

all grant could tell them was that the car was white. no the day ahead the embattled mayor delgadio says this is an effort to disenfranchise voters who elected him four times. he was censured for using county funds but never indicted for his actions. all this winter weather is taking a toll to the school calendar. >> and we have the possibility of icing. all these counties in color, that's coming in later tonight. i'm going to show you the timing on that in a few minutes. and the death of phillip seymour hoffman is bringing a local drug program to light. the ef

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welcome back. today facebook turns ten. this morning mark zuckerberg reflected on the past decade in what else but a facebook post. he said it's been amazing to see the world use the site as a tool to build a real community. facebook was created back in 2004 when zuckerberg and the harvard class decided to launch that social network site just for students was the original idea. zuckerberg appears on the "today" show to talk about the milestone and the company's future. construction on the new

arlington county homeless center own 14th street will cost about $5.5 million. $15 million in totalas been set aside by the county for a complete remodel of the building, including the cost of furniture, phones and non-construction renovation costs. the two-story remodel could begin as soon as march. the county board will choose an official bid on february 22nd. well, the honeymoon is over for kids in stafford county who have to make up the snow days they have enjoyed this winter. that means they have to go to school on president's day. students also have classed on may 23rd and june 11. school is supposed to get out early on those days. >> it is fun to enjoy i the snow day but then the makeup comes. >> it would be nice if winter could end. >> amen to that. we'll go to tom kieran. it is still early february, tom. dream on, dream on. yeah, we've got to get through the rest of february. there is the sky over washington now, mostly cloudy. watch out for patchy ice in this red zone. what did not dry out overnight

is frozen up solid this morning. shenandoah valley, the panhandle of west virginia into frederick county, so watch out. the pavement looks wet. in fact, that could be patchy ice because temperatures are at or below freezing in most of the locations, including nearby suburbs in maryland and virginia. near the bay right at freezing. hour by hour, we'll have sunshine in and out through the morning. near 30 by 8:00. then by noon, the mid-30s. aught to be near 40 degrees by mid-afternoon. here's the timing tonight for icing. some rain likely beginning to move in around 8:00 to 9:00 with icing north and west. so a combination of rain and light icing initially. but then the icing begins to accumulate 10:00 p.m. through midnight all the way into dawn tomorrow when we have the ice accumulation. i'll show you that area that's going to get the highest amount and we'll look at the timing on when it will be ending coming up in about ten minutes. now a look at our traffic with

danella, good morning. good morning. not seeing any accidents to warn you about right now, but i'm checking an accident at prince william parkway. so traveling this way, police are off in the shoulder lane in the hov lane. but other than that on i-95 in virginia, nice and clear. also clear is 395 northbound and southbound. this is the view at duke. clear crossing the 14th street bridge. back to you both. thank you, danella. the dramatic winter weather swing as we've been dealing with is taking a toll on the roads. the impact all the potholes have on drivers and our cars. and the newest milestone for the olympic torch as the start of the winter olympics draws closer. [ mom ] hi, we're the pearsons, and we love chex cereal.

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i'm molette green. the food and drug administration is just releasing this info about this $115 million effort called the real cost. and it shows young people with wrinkled skin, yellowing or missing teeth to try to scare them off. the feds want to reach kids 12 to 15 with these commercials and print ads to start running next week. and to see if all of this is really going to work. the plan is to follow about 8,000 of them for two years. that is the latest from the live desk, i'm molette green, back to you. the senate is expected to pass the farm bill that dictates corn subsidies to food stamps and the cost of an acre of farmland. the bill sailed through the house yesterday. most notably, $8 billion was taken away from nutrition assistance and food stamp programs. the bill will cost taxpayers $956 billion over the next ten years. also on the hill today, the

senate will hold a hearing on the safety of west virginia's drinking water. west virginia's secretary of state natalie tenant is expected to testify. earlier this month 10,000 gallons of toxic chemicals leaked into the elk river. that river flowed into a water treatment plant and contaminated drinking water for about 300,000 people. since that leak, federal regulators are looking into how the state monitors chemical storage. as soon as today the autopsy results for award-winner actor philip seymour hoffman could be released. he was discovered on his bathroom floor with a syringe in his arm and several bags of heroin inside his apartment. the new york medical examiner's office is looking into whether or not the heroin found near hoffman's body is linked to a blend of heroin and synthetic morphine. batches of the dg mixture have been found in our region since september. 37 heroin overdose deaths have

been reported in maryland alone. according to doctors at the bread for the city clinic, the bad batches of heroin contain a mixture of heroin and other chemicals like synthetic morphine making them more potent and more dangerous. health officials are putting teams of people together to try to stop overdoses from happening. >> they are meeting quarterly to discuss data results and trends around a possible increase in deaths related to opiate abuse. >> the bread for the city clinic at 16th road southeast is handing out overdose kits and educating people how to use them. bob and maureen mcdonnell have to watch what they say around friends and family. a judge ordered the former governor and his wife not to discuss his corruption case against him. the judge orders the mcdonnell not to have contact with potential witnesses ahead of their trial in july. the lawyers want the restrictions lifted so they would only be banned from talking about the case. d.c. fire and e.m.s. could

wrap up their investigation into how a man died outside the fire station by the end of the week. vincent gray says two weeks ago 77-year-old frederick mills collapsed across engine 26 in rhode island in the northeast. his family says no one in the station would help. gray said he has spoken with the mills family. >> we will get to a conclusion as soon as we possibly can. we want to do it quickly. we want to do it thoroughly and we want to do it fairly. and i know that his daughter wants to see justice done. i've talked to her twice. >> d.c. council member tommy wells tells news4 and investigation confirmed the 911 dispatcher sent an ambulance to an address in northwest instead of northeast. mills will be buried on saturday. 4:48 is your time now. the clock is quickly counting down to the start of the 2014 olympic games. we are just two days away from the start of competition in sochi.

you are looking live at the village of the gateway to the mountain cluster of venues. today the local college students will begin a once in a lifetime journey to get a behind-the-scenes view of the olympics. 27 grad students are working on an mba in sports management from george washington university. they will spend the next two weeks in sochi learning how the games are run. they will meet with olympic sponsors, see broadcast operations, visit the athletes' village and learn about the marketing of the event. the professor of the class has taken students to the olympics forhe hands-on experience for more than a decade. our forecast is 30 seconds away now, but first the olympic torch making its final stop today before it ignites the olympic cauldron in sochi on thursday. the torch is touring the capital of the region where the games are being held. it is stop 134 on a relay that has seen the flame reach the highest point in europe, the deepest lake in the world, and even the international space station. you might remember that.

tomorrow the torch will head to sochi ahead of the opening ceremonies. we are getting close. keep up with the games any time of the day with our nbc washington news app. you'll see there is an olympic tab on there. and turn on breaking news alerts and we'll send you the latest news from the games. download it from the app store or google play. >> exciting. jim handley is in sochi. we'll have reports from him throughout the week starting at the games next week as well. >> if you follow him on twitter and facebook, he's putting photos out there. we are getting a behind-the-scenes look from his twitter account. a lot of fun there in sochi. we'll look outside right now at the city cam. a cold start to your day back in the 30-degree area. >> we'll get to tom kieran with an update on your forecast. we do have a winter storm coming and the hits just keep on coming. we've got a possibility of some patchy ice right now. and we'll check in with danella to see if there are any problems on the roads, but that's due to

the fact that some of that moisture from yesterday just didn't dry out overnight. and it is frozen up this morning. watch out for that. then we have a winter storm warning for tonight. and that is for -- oh, boy, icing coming into tonight. and that iciness will be tonight into tomorrow morning's commute. so stay tuned. right now, though, where do we have the patchy ice and the slipperiness is generally the shenandoah valley, the panhandle of west virginia, northern loudoun county and maybe extreme northern montgomery county into frederick county, washington county. so watch out for that. the patchy ice is due to that moisture from yesterday. they got that sloppy snow, but look at this. we have a new winter storm warning for this evening into wednesday afternoon. it includes all these counties including howard, montgomery, loudoun, shenandoah valley, much of the panhandle of west virginia and western maryland. this is for icing tonight. i think there's a possibility we could get a half inch to as much

as a quarter to half inch of icing on the elevated surfaces. that's rain that falls, freezes on tree limbs and power lines. and that's going to be causing problems, especially in the untreated surfaces like sidewalks or pavement that has been icy and delays will be likely tomorrow. much of the region is in the 20s to near 30 degrees. and hour by hour through the day today, we'll have our temperatures getting above freezing by mid morning. by noontime, partly sunny, the upper 30s. that's hovering near 40 degrees during the afternoon. then tonight is when the icing will begin to really pile up. and chuck bell is in the storm team 4 weather deck to look at the areas most under that risk. >> reporter: thank you very much. slippery puddles out here on the sidewalks first thing this morning. watch out for that. tonight into tomorrow morning could be a much larger problem. in and around the metro area, a

freezing rain threat for sure but mostly the elevated surfaces with temperatures hovering generally just at or slightly above the freezing mark. metro south just at or slightly below freezing. western parts of fairfax county to montgomery county, an icy glaze is possible. a much higher risk of a much larger problem into northern maryland where temperatures will not just be at the freezing mark, they are well below the freezing mark. freezing rain up to a half inch of ice. and again, that's a high risk. so this part of northern maryland, frederick county, into the panhandle of west virginia, may including the northern shenandoah valley. that could be severely impacted where the danger zone is for the northern end of 270 out to interstate 81. tom? thank you, chuck. we'll probably have delays tomorrow morning, so be sure to tune in to nbc4. stay with us throughout the day as we update you on that. then some rain after that ice begins to melt off tomorrow morning through midday wednesday. maybe sun back in the afternoon with highs in the upper 40s.

a couple cold days and a much better day of reprieve on thursday and friday. then into the weekend we have a possibility of a storm coming in to give us some accumulating snow. on sunday, that may linger into monday. stay tuned. now, this patchy ice around, have you heard of accidents due to that? no, and that's a great, great lucky thing happening so far. drivers hitting the roadways are taking their time. no accidents in the area, but leaving my neighborhood this morning i did see icing on the ground. the beltway looked really good. we'll head down to charles county right now checking local roads for anybody leaving the house any time soon from charles county as you travel on roads like 5, check south 301 looks good. also looking good, 210 and crossing over the wilson bridge, smooth sailing. i'm back in ten minutes. back over to you both. new concerns about cold and flu season. the new study showing the impact the illnesses have on an unborn child. but first it's a problem hard to miss when you get behind

the wheels these days. the toll all the receipt potholes is taking on drivers. and how you can weigh in on the future of the

welcome back. at 4:57 this morning, unattended laundry is blamed for an apartment fire in montgomery county. this happened last night on the

complex near doristown. the firefighters say this started when clothes inside a dryer sparked. no one was hurt. today you can offer your opinion about a plan to transform the white oak area of montgomery county. the county council holding a public hearing at 7:30 tonight on the proposed white oak science gateway master plan. that's highlighted here on the map. the idea here is to turn business parks and the fda village into a more livable community. the county also wants to use a rapid transit bus system to make it more commuter friendly. a new scholarship is giving away $25 million for these upcoming school years to a select set of students. the dream u.s. scholarship will be awarded to students who were brought into the u.s. illegally as children. early numbers estimate the scholarship will be awarded to about 1,000 students for this upcoming school year. each year about 65,000 undocumented students graduate from u.s. high schools across the country. the scholarship was created by a

former owner of "the washington post"," and a former republican cabinet secretary. tonight you can tell prince george's county executive rashon baker what you think about his proposed budget in upper marlboro starting at 7:00. be careful on the morning commute tonight with a few extra dangers on the roadways due to the shifting weather. the region is seeing a lot more potholes and sinkholes. the increase is apparent when you look around and see the hubcaps lying on the curb. >> i was driving and it just went right down in the hole. and i'm like, oh, my god, and i'm thinking, you know, is this my life? i don't know what to think. >> you might remember that huge washout on massachusetts avenue in southeast last week. take a look at it now.

the road has pretty much disappeared. >> here's the thing, if you have a routine, you drive on a street one morning and the next morning there's a pothole there not the way before. >> you heard that woman, it can damage your car with an expensive repair. >> and in d.c. it's either hit the pothole or the car. >> don't forget to call them in. stay with us, news 4 continues this morning at 5:00 a.m. prince george's county getting national attention as president obama pushes for better technology in the classroom. plus dramatic changes coming to the district's drug laws. what the new rules are for people caught with marijuana. and we begin with the threat of more wintry weather. several counties are under a winter storm warning in the hours ahead as a new system threatens to bring freezing rain tonight. we have some school delays already this morning to tell you about.

>> all of them are in west virginia. grant, hampshire, jefferson, mineral and morgan county schools open two hours late today. >> storm team 4 meteorologist tom kieran is here now with what you need to know to get ready for the day ahead. schools are delaying due to patchy ice that's around this morning from yesterday's sloppy snow that fell. it is frozen up this morning, so watch out for that as we are in the upper 20s to near 30s. most of maryland and virginia, west virginia, including our nearby suburbs. and right near washington and right near the bay we are at or below freezing. here are the future temps, we'll have them around 8:00 or so. still below freezing in the 20s to near 30 degrees. then by noontime for the lunch hour, we are in the mid-30s to above freezing everywhere else. then peaking this afternoon, partly sunny to mostly cloudy near 40 degrees. i think much of the region is there for the afternoon. the big story today is the patchy ice north and west of the metro area. big winter storm warning for tonight. it