just in how this virginia's boy fight to survive could save lives in the future. the action josh hardy inspired lawmakers to take together. plus an accident on the roads. why hazmat crews were called to both of those scenes and dropping temperatures. since you woke up this morning, there is a good chance temperatures in your neighborhood have dropped at least five degrees already, and that's just the beginning. good morning, everyone. you're watching "news4 midday." i'm barbara harrison. a developing story. d.c. police looking for two men in connection with a murder in northeast washington happened on 14th street near brentwood avenue northeast. news 4 megan mcgrangekcgrath and with

more on how neighbors are reacting to this murder. >> r residents say it's disturg but nos surprising that they hear the sound of gunshots in this area with a certain frequency. early this morning those gunshots proved deadly. about 1:00 a.m. when a call for shots came in. when police arrived they found a man shot several times, and he died of those gunshot wounds. now, a ground-floor unit here at the complex in the 2500 block of 14th street was cordoned off with crime scene tape early this morning. residents say they heard about six gunshots. one woman we talked to says she thinks two guns were used because the sound of the shots >> and i heard two small shots, and four larger on. you know? and -- it's sad.

it's sad that we can't live together and people judge and really take your life. that's not for us >> reporter: and police are looking for two men who were seen leaving the scene in a black four-door car. the name of the man who was killed has not been released and so far no word of any arrests. reporting live in northeast, megan mcgrath news 4. >> thank you, megan. and new this morning, it took 75 firefighters to put out this fire in montgomery county. look how intense the flame was out there. still working to find out what caused the fire. it broke out at a home on route 108 in latonsville around 2:30 this morning. no one fortunately was hurt. and right now hazmat crews in lateonsville cleaning up a huge spill blocks onfrom montgomery county.

one person taken to the hospital but expected to be okay. in gaithersburg chopper 4 shot this video of an oil truck that overturned. we're told it skidded off the driveway just off goshenview drive. montgomery county says 2,100 gallons of oil onboard when it happened. hazmat crews o right now a shock to the system when you step outside. whoa. sunday's break from the cold making additions feel worse because it's getting cold so fast and expect it to get colder throughout the day. storm team 4 meteorologi chuck be joins us. >> monday has already seen its high temperature. 40 degrees at midnight and on a downhill slide ever since. the frozen waters near national harbor a little thawing out courtesy of that brief visit to 50 degrees we made yesterday with the sunshine coming back. budget now all cloudy outside.

no snow in the metro, but light snow showers down across the far southern tip of st. mary's county in the lower parts of the eastern shore and lower bay. in and the around the city of washington nothing but cloudy skies for now. clouds are thinning out just to the north and west and that trend continues later on. as skies clear, colder drier air filtering in. down to 29 now and continuing to see temperatures drop during the course of the day. mid-20s by 3:00. low 20s by 6:00 and into the teen bice 8:00 or 9:00 this evening. so the arctic cold is here. chills down near zero and a couple of snow chances ahead. talk to you in the seven day when i see you ahead, barbara. >> thank you, see you shortly. the winter weather is causing a mess. more than 500 flights cancelled at bfw, dallas-ft. worth because of an ice storm in that area. in our area 18 flights cancelled. from the sky fought rails if sto

the rashlgs check rail check schedules. northeast regional trainings between the district boston and new york city. am trach made adjustments because of of course the weather. virginia lawmakers reach an agreement on a new bill that could save lives. news 4 angie goff at the live desk with more. house and senate leaders in virginia just announces they've come to agreement on the so-called right to try bill. this is a bill inspired by 8-year-old josh hardy of fredericberg virginia who last spring while battles cancer was denied a drug needed to save his life. a social media campaign launched by his parents put the pressure on that drugmaker and it changed its mind. this right to try bill would expand action to investigation's drug patr care of a doctor. three versionless be heard in the house today.

the latest from the live desk. back to you. >> thank you, angie. right now an international hunt to find three teens that could be headed to syria to join isis. a new call for help from their parents this morning. and the family of an american hostage killed by isis critical this morning of the u.s. government's efforts to .

developing this morning, three missing british teenagers believed to be in turkey and attempting to join isis. take a look. this is a new picture of the girls at an airport in london. police say they got on a plane to istanbul there. the girls were last seen last tuesday. their families say they're wo >> please come home mom needs you more than anything i you're our baby. and we just want you home. we want you safe. just contact anybody and let them nope that you need help and you've got all the help in the world. >> counterterrorism experts say isis has been targeting young people online especially in places like europe and the u.s. today the girls' school principal spoke saying he wasn't sure how that happened or how it would have happened under the school's strict internet policies. right now the defense circuit meet wig military experts in kuwait to talk about the best way to take town icesis.

the key, make sure countries can prevt gains achieved by the u.s. military-led campaign. the meeting comes after criticism of president obama's strategy for koirngt ice isis. and new information on how a shutdown would impact our area plus an important milestone for bao bao at national zoo. and meteorologist chuck bell. full cloud cover in northwest washington. i look north and see blue skies appearing. sunshine coming back not helping plummeting temperatures pap cold

the national zoo's baby panda cub is becoming a big girl. turns 18 months today. live at the zoo, what this milestone means to bao bao and her mama bear. good morning. >> reporter: hi barbara. good morning. there are not a lot of people out at the zoo today. it is cold even for some of the animals, but next time you do come out to the zoo you may notice that bao bao is keeping her distance from her mother. something most children go through. it's just not cool to hang out with your mom after a certain well, zookeepers here sayre it's it's

all par growing up. bao bao is not baby but still has a newborn effect bringing people from around the world to see her. these girls from thailand couldn't wait to catch a glimpse of the zoo's main attraction. >> very cute. yeah. >> reporter: bao bao is now 18 months old. for panda, that's like 18 years old on the human spectrum. bao bao is ready to be separated from her mother for longer periods of time and also eating on her own. today she was perched up on a tree proving she ready for a little independence and mayjiang doesn't seem to be experiencing anxiety. >> 18 months human separation if separated, traumatic for the kid. sounds like just the opposite. >> reporter: for zoo visitors growing pains. the guests don't want to see that mother/daughter bond broken up just yet. >> going to see all of them i hope and see her come down out of that tree. >> reporter: bao bao seems to be

in a tree-climbing phase these days but this is all very important for her, because in a few days bao bao will be sent to china as part of the agreement with china. reporting live at national zoo, richard jordan news 4. >> thank you, richard. today virginia delegate joe morrissey asking for his things back. federal agents seized case files and computers from morrissey's law office as part of a search warrant. today a judge in virginia hear as motion to have the items returned. morsi is scharged with fakes documents that he presented during a case and is serving six months in jail for having sex with a 17-year-old employee of his law . and right now at the white house, president obama is meeting with governors from around the country. they're in washington for a winter conference among the topics discussed today, funding for homeland secury workforce development, education. well malling across the country are stepping up security after threats from a somali

terror group. in a video at shabab calling for a lone wolf attack at shopping centers like the mall of america. the u.s. says there is no credible threat. homeland security jeh johnson urged caution, but it's still okay to go shopping. al shabaab previously claimed responsibility for a deadly siege at a mall in kenya. that was back in 2013. the family of a woman killed by isiscriticizeing how the u.s. handled her daughter's capture. kaylamueller, last known american hostage. the father told savannah guvry ryguthrie said didn't think kayla had to die. >> we asked and tried and they put policy in front of american citizens' lives. >> muler er mueller's family is starting

a new foundation to remember her. learn more on the nbc news facebook page. and a standoff over immigration and the homeland security budget. thousands of dhs workers could be furloughed within days. tracie potts is on capitol hill with a look whether a deal is >> reporter: brash barks the money more homeland security caught up in a big fight over immigration here on capitol hill. some lawmakers, republicans, do not want to give that money to homeland security because they're over immigration and thess do not like the president's new policies on immigration allowing as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants to stay in this country without fear of being immediately deported. they want the president to roll that back before giving up the money. but now it looks like they may be willing to stand down because a federal judge has ruled in their favor. they're going to let it work its way through the courts and go ahead and work out way to fund

homeland security but do not have a lot of time. the deadline for homeland security toy run out of money is friday if they don't meet that deadline as many as 30,000 people could be furloughed there and another 200,000, the rest of the staff, could be forced to work without pay. barbara? >> all right, thank you, traceyietracie. for more we are joined by a political writer for nbc news. hi. >> hi, there good morning. >> good morning. start by talking about the possible furloughs. who would they be and how would it affect people in our area? >> probably affect a lot of virginia residents, the governor terry mcauliffe says he is concerned about. jeh johnson said head of dhs, a lot of workers required to go to work anybody. >> they wouldn't be paid? >> they would not be able to be paid. about 80%, jeh johnson estimates, are people coming in who would have to come in without being paid. now at a time --

>> part of their contract? work without a contract? >> essential employees. it's both protecting america against these threats and things like helping out when there are storms in the middle of this tough winter for a lot of places in the country. dhs employees do a lot of different things jeh johnson said i'm very concerned about them not able to come to work or coming to work and an agency where morale is notoriously not high anyway coming to work without pay. >> what and does the port have the to do with these particular workers? homeland security? >> dhs is responsible for checking places like airports or ports, watching items that are coming in and going out of the country. those are people who might not be able to do their jobs. >> and, of course the terror threat from al shabaab. tell us about that. isis we have a concern with homeland security about that? >> over the weekend we saw a new threat towards shopping malls. particularly the mall of

america. something politically acting out in an interesting s and democrats knew that this dhs shutdown was possible and something they engineered into their budget at the end of last year. this date is not a surprise on february 27th. known the funding date was coming up and yet now republicans are in a position if they continue to stick to their guns on wanting to get immigration lang stripped out of this dhs funding bill the reason for the impasse, stick to their guns, vee ss a shutdown and republicans be blamed they might risk being in the headlines, blamed for the very thing they say their party is good better at doing. defending borders and defending the country against terrorism. >> talking about the republican/democrat disagreements ps talk about rudy jewel yawn around his attack on the president not loving his country. he wrote an op-ed piece today? >> in the "wall street journal" we saw rudy giuliani walking back what he said he said.

i said the president was a patriot. repeat that again. his concern is with the way the president talks about america. he says past presidents embraced love of country in way we haven't seen the president do he says. the president always seems to focus on the bad things about america. that's his criticism, and i think we'll be talking about this another few days to come and the story's going on since last week. >> do you think rudy giuliani wants to keep it going? >> for republicans, for some especially the 2016 contender, turning into a tough story. scott walker wants to be president, was in the room with rudy giuliani when he said this and didn't speak up at the time. now is coming under fire for that. other republicans dispatched with this i think nimbly. marco rubio said for example, i don't agree with the president. i think he loves his country but has bad policies. that's reviewed by a lot of outsiders at the right way for a republican to handle this controversy. >> thankyou. see you tomorrow. with us this week. >> here up a week. >> see you later. and for more from carrie and the rest of the nbc news political team check out first

read on nbcnews.com. are you planning a family vacation to the happiest place on earth? well why you need to be ready to pay more for that vacation. plus what's better? rent or buy? consumer reporter erika gonzalez is here with a look at renting wedding dresses.

this is going to cost you more to fill up your gas tank.

gas prices up for a third week in a row. aaa says the cost of crude oil is driving up the price of gas. it this is the start of the refinery maintenance season when prices tend to go up. in d.c., the average price is about $2.45 a gallon for regular. in maryland you'll pay about $2.32 a gallon. virginia, average $2.18. west virginia average price is -- $2.13 a gallon for regular gas. going to cost you a bit more to visit the happiest place on earth. disney raising ticket prices for its u.s. theme parks. a one-day pass for disney world sets you back $105 up from $99, up about $6. other disney parks in orlando and california are also raising their pr. and there are some things in life you can get away with not buying, but rather renting, and no one would ever know. you don't have to tell them. news 4 consumer reporter erika gonzalez is here to show us what to save money on renting rather

man buying. surprising things. >> our secret. don't tell anybody. the next couple things we'll talk about can save you a lot of time and really a small fortune. kipplinger personal finance found brides spent an average of $1,300 on dresses last year. we've talked about it at great length. planning weddings your daughter's >> so expensive. >> the dress is a huge part. sites like rent the runway and borrowing magnolia can do it anywhere from $30 to $450. so you know wear the dress once. take the pretty pictures and you put it away and never see it again and are stuck with it. nobody has to know if you do it this way. >> yeah pap great idea. what about all of the alterations and everything? can you get one that fits you? can you alter it to fit you and send it back? >> no. this is going to be the thing with renting sites, going to rental places like rent the runway. they'll be just dresses that come in a particular size and so if you've really got to do a lot of cut and paste to the dress and move this and cut --

you may be better off finding, perhaps, a dress on some other sites like amazon and ebay. people sell their dresses after they have already worn them. they clean them and of course put them up for sale. >> things like rent the runway. can you have them send several sizes or pay the same price for -- >> borrowing magmagnolia a site to give them $99. they send you three dresses. eventually you'll have to put $450 into it but that's kind of like what you put in first. they send you the three dresses. try on a couple different styles and eventually $450 bucks, up to $450 what it costs you's in a couple minutes, back with two more things to rent versus buy, but i want to know if you have seen something perhaps is less expensive to rent than buying? facebook suggestion on our consumer watch page and i'll see you in a couple more minutes. >> yes. okay. come on back. i want to hear more things we can rent and not buy to save money. right now cigarettemakers headed back to court.

what the government wants them to do and the cold seven-day forecast when we could see a break from the big freeze out there. stay with us.

i'm angie goff wit live desk at breaking news out of new jersey. take you live to the scene. you are looking at a major roadway unfire and that is because a tanker truck accident has resulted in this tanker truck exploding.

you can just see the massive a's flames there and black smoke rising into the cold air. we know this is northbound route 90 for those familiar with south jersey. this is on a ramp. it actually taking a wider view it looked like there were two vehicles on fire. now at this point, we can see there's no traffic. the roadway has been closed off. but still no cause to -- cause of this accident and no indication on whether or not anybody was hurt or killed. it is a developing story at this hour. back to you, barbara. . right now a winter mix of freezing rain sleet and snow hitting north texas. and it's affecting travelers in a major way out there. take a look. a semitruck crashed shutting down part of interstate 35 nonch denton. no one hurt. more than 500 flights cancelled at dfw, the dallas-ft. worth airport. a judge cancelled closing arguments for the man on trial for the murder of american sniper chris kyle and another

man because of weather in that area. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell talks about the weather in our area. you would know it dropped. i can feel it. >> absolutely. >> 10 degrees already? >> dropped 10 dpripts we 40 at midnight. i got to work this morning, still 38 degrees after 3:00 a.m. this morning and now down below the freezing even though the sun has been up for hours. clouds are going to thin out and we'll get more and more sun as the afternoon goes along. that will not do anything to help temperatures as we'll continue our downward slide. there's the view over washington right now. lots of clouds here in town and cloudier you live or travel from the beltway. the overall impact on your day will be moderate cold and breezy. roads now we're down below freezing start to refreeze. a lot of those places that saw a lot of melting yesterday where the water ran across is freezing back up again. watch out for ice spots on the roads. 29 at national airport. down 11 degrees since midnight. windchills also dropped now back

down into the teens. hourly temperatures here going nowhere. eve win sun out the next couple of hours. temperatures continue a downward trend into the low 20s by 6:00 tonight and back into the teens as early asinine or 10:00. current windchills backed down into the teens and low 20s. this will be a big part of our forecast for the remainder of the afternoon and tonight. future feels-like temperatures by 5:00 this afternoon, single digits and teens by 11:00 tonight windchills down into the single digits to near zero and start off time tomorrow morning, single digits and teens across most of the metro. there will be places like hagerstown with subzero windchills in the morning. hometown forecast, al sunde degree virginia. wake-up time tomorrow about 15 degrees with a windchill near zero. tomorrow staying on the cold side. have your winter coat and scarf and gloves and had the ready to go. won't need the umbrella. in a fairly dry pattern the next

coupdays. some good news and february is crazy cold. 8 degrees below average for february and february so far is five degrees colder than january. a little snow chance coming our way. be sure to have our storm team 4 weather app ready to a couple light snow showers across the lower parts of the bay and turning into rain across parts of the carolinas. that winter storm impacting parts of north texas and southern oklahoma. that moisture skips to the south over the next couple of days and bring a mostly cloudy day wednesday into thursday and maybe a risk of a passing flurry or two into thursday. meantime just going to be really cold around here. tomorrow start off temperatures in the teens, and rising only into the upper 20s to around 30 degrees for highs tomorrow. at least it will be dry. so finally a little chance to get the car washed and all that salt and grime off of there we've had over the last week. seven-day forecast first check, falling temperatures today. staying cold much colder than average. average high nearly 50 degrees and won't be within 10 degrees

of that maybe until towards the second half of the weekend. that flurry chance on thursday. barbara, back to you. >> all right, thank you. and new today, america's biggest tobacco companies say they're ready and willing to pass along factual public health information about cigarettes. the group says it will not go along with being forced to underwrite and ad dman would have the company's brand themselves assess liars . . -- as liars. ordering the cigarette company, in 2006 to admit publicly they lied decades about the dangers of smoking. the company says the statement is overboard and too broad and too misleading. the prince george's county courthouse is closed today. no trials head today it's a either the district court or circuit court in upper marlboro. the district court in high yitsville is open today. bond hearings he there beginning at 1:15 this ank. circuit court bond hearings going on now at the prince george's county detention center.

crews are working to repair damage after a pipe burst at the courthouse last week. despite incidents at several metro stations the transit authority is say shoring riders you'll be safe if you're riding a train. there was a smoke report somewhere between foggy bottom and rosalind yesterday. firefighters responded to both stations and said it was likely a mechanical issue. over the weekend, four incidents at metro stations. one at l'enfant plaza involving a train with a mechanical issue and the woodley park station had to be evacuated. >> makes me want to get a car sot sassas long as they have an evacuation plan. they need to work on it. so many people put in the hospital the last time something's not working. >> officials checked all stations and found no issues. metro does experience more mechanical issues when it gets extremely cold. it's a common sight. girlinging cookies

outside a store. less common targeted by a thief. the scary experience and how quickly moch slyly moms saved the day. touching mom

well this may have been one of the most surprising maybe awkward and actually kind of funny moments at the oscars last

night after butchering idina menzel's name last year john travolta back to present with her and a little touchy-feely and apparently getting too close for comfort with scarlett johansson. along with the awkward, the funny, sweet and powerful moments. here to talk about it all, elisa rosenberg, pop culture columnist tore "the washington post." >> good to be here. live blogging. >> blocking last night. >> typing away. >> yes the oscars of course are about the movies. tell us about the winners and losers. >> the win winners obviously "birdman," alejandra inarritu and it's the kind the academy loves. a celebration mother and audacious. appears to be one long tracking shot. in a year when technical accomplishment was a big focus at the oscars it wasn't a

surprise to see him take home the statue for best picture and director. >> the star that carried the movie did not win but was nominated. did you think it was awkward at the end when the director did not pull him forward and let him say something? >> i try to be forgiving. it's so hard to be up there on that stage trying to thank everybody at once.o say something political, as he did with immigration. emotions running so high you have to let people people themselves. >> any surpris losses last night? >> i was surprised at the losses for "boyhood" in the technical categories. richard linklater pulled of a an amazing feat putting together a movie over a 12-year period especially with child actors. you never know how that gamble will pan out. >> saw the child actor standing there, in tears throughout a lot of the show. so let's talk a little about the speeches. some of the people made.

patricia arquette. her speech. let's have a listen. >> to every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation we have fought for everybody else's equal rights. it's our time to have wage quality once and for all, and equal rights for women in the united sta! >> meryl streep obviously impressed with what she said. >> very happy there. clearly, wage equality is a big issue because the sony hack over the interviewed revealed a number of pay inequities actresses are using to negotiate salaries. ar kurt was hitting on a big feminine trend in the industry and responding to a specific incident. >> we saw a lot of that kind of thing and so glad you're here to talk to us about it. i know who to call if i have questions about the movies. >> happy to help always. >> thank you, from "the

washington post. glory ♪ oh, glory ♪ oh glory ♪ >> one of the moments you've been talking about on twitter and facebook. john legend and common brought the audience to tears with their performance of "glory" from the film "selma." the tune won the oscar for best original and we have much more about the big show on our website, nbcwashington.com, and also on our nbc washington app. just search oscars on our website. and an important test for the city of rio. months ahead of the olympics, plus our special series on a local world war ii veteran and how he found a role in the secret program r. >> how did you do it? >> it was not planned at all. >> and more from wanda sykes on

and the 2016 summer plirpices. have venues completed for the 2014 world cup. there are concerns over water pollution in several venues and

building a v.elodrome and a braft broa center. and a man approached a girl scout cookie counter. >> looking around. looking at the cookies, and i keep my hands on the box. start to -- like pull it away. all of a sudden he -- all of a sudden he goes for it. i jerk it away but then he's like too strong. so he gets it. >> the theethk off with $600. police quickly caught up because a girl's mom wrote down the license plate as he drove away. the girls got their money back and more. the police bought all the cookies left and threw in an extra $60 tip. how nice of the floispolice to do that. >> revealing one of its oldest secrets on news 4 at the outbreak of world war ii in europe, the u.s. had only a

fledgling signal corps it was called for military communicat this organization years later evolved into the national security agency had a mission during the war to intercept and solve enemy code and decipher the secret messages. while the work was classified there was secret inside the agency itself with permission from the nsa we share with you this morning. >> reporter: in 1944 the war was on in europe and the pacific. and washington's boling field buzzing young recruits eager to sign up for duty. one, james pride. he enlisted with a promise he'd go into training with a small, seg grasegregated group of pilots. >> i was very unhappy i didn't get to fly. to be a pilot, and i still don't know why, because i passed the test. >> reporte every test he took he passed with flying colors. eventually becoming one of the most requested radio crewmen at

chanute field in illinois. >> i worked as a line radio operator at the only african-american on the flight line. >> reporte even so with racism in full bloom he wasn't allowed to even ride from his segregated barracks to the flight line with the rest of the crew. if james pride was disappointed he never actually learned to fly a plane before leaving the service, he was even more disappointed when he returned home to washington. >> they sent mm chanute field to fort meade for discharge. >> re soon learned even after serving his country earning two sets of sill she wings s very wings he wouldn't find a decent job firing negroes. he learned about a military project started two years before. a code-breaking division of the sis. the u.s. signals intelligence service. it was both civilian and military operating out of what had been arlington hall school for girls in nearby virginia.

and while most of the work there was classified the biggest secret at arlington hall station was that african-americans were working there, too. historian david hatch. >> i spoke to early white officers who served at arlington hall and three of them told me they had never seen an african-american at arlington hall. >> reporte the history of the african-american code breakers wasn't easy to uncover. the order apparently came directly from president roosevelt. william coffey was the waiter and house man for the arlington hall school for girls. although he was college-educated it was the only job he could find in his native virginia in 1941. >> the girls' school was take be over by the government by the army for its crypt logic headquarters. he applied to keep his job and became a civil servant janitor and approached william coffey for introductions to any friends who might want a job here. >> reporter: their earliest mission, deciphering messages

encrypted in coded commercial corr spondants where enemy messages could have gone undetected. when the war ended in 1945 the need for army crip tolgs. >> cryptologist didn't end. james pride in 1946 would rided bus from washington to arlington to see if they might have the kind of work he hoping for, but as the bus crossed the potomac, he was told to move to the back. reminding him once again that as a colored man, he was expected to remain out . invisible. >> his story doesn't end there. there's a whole lot more to come. we thank the national security agency for helping us to chase down this story of the invisible cryptologists and help us secure that wonderful historic video as well. we continue the story of james pride tonight on news 4 at 6:00 and the first two stories are on our website now nbcwashing our time right now is 11:51.

coming up should you rent it or buy it? consumer reporter erika gonzalez is back with two more items to consider renting, and not buying. plus dropping temperatures. find out what

we've been talking about a few things you may not know you can rent instead of buy.

check back with news 4 consumer reporter erika gonzalez to tell you how you can save money. eric ka? >> >> the best part your secret. nobody has to know you didn't buy your wedding dress, for example. here's another one. you got a green thumb but have no place to plant? it's what a lot of people struggle with. especially the d.c. area. kipplinger suggests renting space in a community garden may be exactly what you are looking for. you can do a search online for the nearest spaces, and of course their availability this spring. those are a hot commodity in d.c. may have more luck in virginia and in maryland. now, this next one, hear me out on this. such the talker in the newsroom. caskets. you can rent caskets. kipplinger says they can average up to $5,000. a lot of people know it is very expensive to plan funeral services. however, many funeral homes let you rent the casket for a

viewing service for under $1,000 and then can you buy a simple wooden box insert used for cremation. talking about cremation here. now, a lot of people say, is this the same box that you're using for a burial? two different things. one used for the service. and then another simpler model if you will for cremation. some people think, you know yes, i'd be up for it because it is extremely expensive to plan funeral services. other people it's a little weird for them but i am taking your comments and your suggestions about things that maybe you have found that are less expensive to rent than buy. cakes. we talked about weddings. >> wait a minute. rent the wedding cake? >> you don't serve it. rent the wetting cake. it's like a foam cake. take the pretty picture next to the cake and serve sheet cake. >> oh. so you can kind of -- roll it away. you don't get -- >> exactly. >> do a fake picture of the

bride and groom eating it? >> don't eat it. see you on facebook consumer watch, facebook page and leave your comments. >> great ideas, appreciate it. i definitely will come back. thanks. following several developing stories today on news 4. d.c. police are looking for two men in connection with a murder in northeast washington. a man was shot to death at an apartment complex on 14th street near brendwood road northeast. police are looking for two men who left the scene in a black car. and this just in. the justice department is asking a texas judge to help president obama's executive order over immigration to move forward. last week a judge ordered a temporary delay. that decision blocked the president's order that could spare as many as 5 million people in the u.s. illegally and from deportation. the justice department asking for the texas judge to put his ruling on hold while the federal government app time now for a final check on the forecast. tell me it's going to get warm

again. >> it will. not until april. you'll have to wait a little while. in the next seven days all in the cord side of things for sure as of now looks like we're closing out the month of february saturday. might be the coldest february since 1979. >> we all believe that. thanks. that's "news4 midday." we invite you to tune in for news at 4:00 5:00 6:00 and tonight at 11:00 and back tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. with

>> serena: we're where we should be. >> eric: and all's right with the world? >> serena: exactly. >> eric: mmm. >> serena: except your elephant. >> eric: hmm? >> serena: your elephant. our elephants. it's not in its place. >> eric: i didn't know it had a place. >> serena: wasn't it right there? >> eric: yeah, i guess it was. >> serena: did you move it? >> eric: yeah, sort of. i gave it away. >> serena: you gave it away? our elephant, the one we bought together? >> eric: yeah.