seven-day period with one exception. i've got that for you and a small chance for snow in my forecast. cell phone video by news4 shows watter flowing into the courthouse in upper marlboro prince george's county today. that courthouse was already closed. tracee wilkins was already there when td pe burst. she joins us with the problem this is causing for law enforcement. >> reporter: actually, two pipes burst this afternoon. cause major league jor issues inside the courthouse. what they're saying is they believe this was all weather related. it's been freezing cold and these pipe take it. if you look closely, you see what looks like rain inside the prince george's co courthouse. an employee shot this video just as water pipes burst again. >> just within the hour two successive pipes hav some flood ong the first floor of the duval wing. we have evacuated the building

entirely. >> reporter: the court was already closed to the public due to pipes that burst last week. but today workers were called in to cover and/or retrieve personal items when it happened again. >> today they were preparing to test the sprinkler system so we were there with tarp trying to cover computers and cover files, case files, evidence there thae trying to preservitude. >> reporter: county workers scattered, carrying boxes, picture, degrees and other personal items. initial flooding disrupted the electrical system inside the courthouse making the problem worse. >> we have water on our carpets and in our offices. it's dark. it's cold. >> one of the employees that works there was like are you going to the courthouse i said yeah, i got to be there. she said no point, turn around and go home. >> reporter: dozens of county residents were confused about the courthouse being closed again and what this would mean for the business they had and the dates they are legally obligated to. >> she said work here.

water break or something, not letting anybody in. i wanted to make sure for myself. >> reporte a lot of people doing the same thing because they have again, business inside of this courthouse. so what's happening and what do folks need to do to take care of that business? and what about all the people who have been locked up and were hoping to get out of jail by coming to court and then being able to leave? well we have more on that coming up on news4 at 6:00 what the prince george's couy court syst is doing to try to handle all of this. ths the second busiest court in the state of maryland. live in upper marlboro tracee wilkins, news4. at least 100 customers in this alexandria neighborhood without water tonight due to this water main break. it ruptured this morning on janneys lane near west taylor run parkway. it caused the street to buckle the entire block still closed off right now. news4's kristin wright is following the impact all this is having on residents and a local school. her live report coming up. the frigid temperatures we've had for the best week led to more than 160 water main

breaks and leaks in montgomery and prince george's counties. the wssc the water utility for both county says its crews had to deal with 75 of these breaks just yesterday alone. customers should know if you have an issue with an indoor meter or household pipe you need to call a plum. if the pipe or meter are outside, then you can call the wssc. smoke in the station, emergency vehicles outside, delays for riders after four separate incidents this weekend. we wondered if the smoke problems for metro are getting worse. transportation reporte looked at these issues and tweeted out some of the findings earlier today. adam some reason for concern. >> reporter: that's right, jim. a lot of metro riders are paying more attention to smoke and fire incidents and now hard numbers to back up a spike in fires. we crunched the numbers and found there were 104 fire incidents on metro last year. that's up from 86 fire incidents

in 2013. where there's smoke, there's usually fire. there's ban lot of smoke and fire on metro tracks recently. metro documents reveal the number of fire incidents is up comparing 2014 to 2013. take a look here. in 2014 104 fires on metro's tracks. in 2013 86 fires on the tracks. metro blames a harsh winter for an increase in mechanical failures and delays even fire incidents. just this past weekend, faulty brakes sent smoke pouring into the woodley park s an evacuation. all of that happening in heavy snowfall. robby haddad says he was trying to get into the station that day. >> i was coming into it. people were coming out. and, you know, some guy was telling me that a little explosion went on and fire. so that made me think twice. >> reporter: and the fire department responded twice to reports of smoke in the tunnel near foggy bottom this past weekend. other riders like dave moss say they're now thinking twice about using metro all together.

>> fortunately i moved a little closer to work. i do most of my walking now. had to get out to bethesda today so no avoiding the metro today. >> reporter: other telling statistic, metro rail on-time performa fell shot of its targeted goal in 2014. and back here now live when it comes to breakdowns with individual metro railcars there are some that are breaking down all the time. we'll tell you which ones at 6:00. live at woodley park adam tuss news4. a young man from maryland is in custody after police tried but failed to arrest him last month after he was accused of raping an underaged girl. his name is zachary crawford. he's 18 years old. he raped a 13-year-old girl in frederick last fall. they say he and the victim did know each other. officers tried to arrest crawford last month, but he moved away. he turned himself in over the weekend. a lot of you are commenting on this next story.

sharing it on your facebook page. the owner of the ram's head tavern in savage maryland is charged with secretly videotaping women in the restaurant's bathroom. kyle mulehauser was arrested last week. police began this investigation in may when a woman who was using that restroom saw a hidden camera fall to the floor. dna evidence from that camera allegedly matches mulehauser's. police are now checking for camera oth ram's head tavern locations sxwroop we're still waiting to hear tonight the motive for a burst of gunfire overnight that led to one mas death. that gunfire erupted along brentwood road in northeast just off rhode island avenue about the time the oscars were ending after midnight. the victim in this case is marcus mccohen, a man from upper marlboro maryland. people who live in the area tell us they heard at least six . >> it's sad. it's sad that we can't live

together and people judge and really take your life. that's not f >> police are looking for two men leaving the area. tonight a department store clerk is charged with embezzlement. ann is acued of stealing and reselling thousands of dollars worth of store merchandise from the jcpenney store in springfield where she worked. the investigation began when the store discovered the lost of $200,000 worth of merchandise. court documents reveal police seized jewelry, clothing and a watch from stockton's springfield home. environmental ilss in virginia say csx should be payi more than $300,000 for a derailment in lynchburg. last year's crash dumped nearly 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the james river. and now the department of environmental quality is proposing al $361,000 fine. 17 cars te railed from that

train. three ended up in the river. crews tested the water for several days. they did not find any lasting environmen. the ntsb has released its first report ant that deadly n crash new york that killed a mother of three. according to the report the woman's car was on the tracks before the crossing gates came down. one of the gates hit the back of her car. she got out to look then got back in her car and tried to drive off. the report says the metro north train was going the speed limit and the driver of that train followed the rules, used the ho the emergency brake. five people on the train were also killed. congress is expected to hit another roadblock in its effort now to avoid another shutdown of u.s. homeland security in delaying paychecks for thousands of local workers. funding for the agency is cut off come friday if no deal is reached. a months of long standoff has old-year-olded n

the next vote is staged in the senate tonight. tens of thousands of homeland security workers are expected to remain on the job but will instead work for ious until a deal is cut. and the news4 i-team has learned that thousand of d.c. area employees of the department of homelan a at risk of temporarily working without paychecks or just being outright furloughed. and at least one major local government facility is expected to lock its gates all together. scott mcfarlane reveals some of the local impact of this impasse on our nbc washington facebook late today, and he joins us now in the studio with more. scott? our review of government mem does and discussions with offices with oversight of the agency vereveal for the fist time some of thcalwl impact of the gridlock nowhere nor significant than frederick county. it will u.s. fire administration is expected to be shuttered.

the agency has dozens of employee hundreds of training firefighters there, and the gates are expected to be closed if there's no deal. memos we reviewed from fema based in d.c. show as many as 3,600 employees there could be furloughed. the agency reveals it would not be able to process declarations of emergency or disaster in the meantime. congressional records we obtained show more than 1,000 o work for those ious and wait until the impasse ends to get their back pay. 600 tsa workers at bwi and 300 coast guard employees included. and estimates from virginia. about 10,000 federal employees would go to work without their . >> this is treating them like a commodity that sometimes you need and sometimes you don't. and it's just a bad way, i think, for the federal government to really set an example for how employer should operate. >> all of the governors including me are hopeful that one way or another between now and the deadline on friday the

house, the senate, and the pres reach some sort of an accord. >> whether local furloughs constitute a crisis or emergency is also a political issue. there is near consensus many of these employee who is stay on the job are ultimately going to get paid full pay for their time worked. i just posted a story about the impact of these cults and more local workers likely to be affected on our nbc washington app. sort of a company town when it comes to federal workers. are the furloughs going to be a problem here than in other parts of the country? >> very possible. the administrative employees are more at risk of being furloughed, more so those on the it's fair to say d.c. area federal workers likely to get the brunt of the impact. >> thanks, scott. new tonight, thousands of dollars in guns disappearing from a local apartment complex. only on news4, why investigators think this is an ins smart cars, smart why more states are investing in

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man at an alexandria parm complex is in jail charged with stealing from a tenant. >> this after a rash of burglaries at presidential

greens complex on executive avenue in northern alexandria. julie carey first learned of the investigation months ago and joins us live from the apartment complex with details you'll hear only on 4. julie? >> reporter: well it's been months that residents here at presidential greens have complained to management that money and other items turn up missing when they have repair jobs done in their apartment. thr e man and now he's as a maintenance man at presidential greens william parker was trusted to enter apartments to do repair jobs. but now he's charged with burglary and grand larceny for taking cash on january 27th from a unit he was supposed to be working in. >> he did have access to numerous apartments in that apartment comp we're certainly looking to see if he's connected to any more crimes in that area. >> reporter: news4 has been watching this investigation for months since we pulled these search warrant documents that show thousands of dollars and many weapons have been stolen from presidential green units.

this woman, who didn't want her face shown, is one of the victims. in october, she made a maintenance request. she says william parker asked her to leave with her kids while he worked. when she returned she says the $500 in rent money she'd left on the tv was gone. she called managemen >> i needed proof. what more proof do you need? he was inside and the money was gone. >> reporter: this woman says she and her family were asleep in their apartment when a maintenance man came to do a repair. she he opened the door and grabbed her husband's wallet and the 500 bucks inside. >> from everywhere they say that people have been entering into the apartments missing stuff and everything. so we don't know what's going on. >> reporter: there was no answer today at one of the two units where dozens of guns and other weapons were taken. this is the inventory detailed in court records. the link between the missing money and guns investigators write that parker had done

maintenance at all the units shortly before the burglaries. he's only been charged with one crime so far, but both rez death penalty wes spoke with arearrest. >> i'm glad that he's in jail right now. >> reporter: now, the management offices down on that far corner. i stopped in there today to ask some question particularly about why william parker was consumer sentiment on here so long as a maintenance man when some of these complaints first surfaced way last spring. they referred me to a regional manager and my call to her has not yet been returned. coming up on news 4 at 6:00 what police say about what you can do to avoid becoming a victim when you do need somebody to come into your apartment to do repairs. live from alexandria julie carey, news4. >> julie, thank you. it took 75 firefighters to put out an intense blaze at a home in montgomery county this morning. take a look. this fire broke out along route 108 in gaithersburg in the area near dorsey road. we're told the homeowners were not home at the time. the fire did more than $400,000 in damage. no word yet on a possible cause.

it's a mystery. the drainage pipes that move water in and out of the ft. mchenry tunnel in baltimore backed up this weekend and the transportation officials still can't figure out why and they're calling it a rare event. they discovered this problem saturday night. it closed the northbound right tube of that i 95 tunnel for most of the day on sunday and they will likely close it again after tonight's evening rush hour so they can finish their repairs. fairfax county is hoping to come u se regulations for the growing number of donation dropboxes all over the county. now, the bins are now commonly found in parking lots. some complained they're eyesores because donors set large items beside them when they won't fit inside. so the county is now looking to regulate where the boxes can be placed and limit the number of boxes on a single property. public hearings are planned for the coming months. social issues are part of the oscar buzz after last night's awards a one in particular got a significant

shoutout. suicide prevention. the winner of the best documentary short was hbo's "crisis hotline veterans press 1." it highlighted the mission of that hotline to keep veterans from committ >> this immense, incredible honor really goes to the veterans and their families who are brave enough to ask for help. >> later, writer graham moore, who won for adapting the screenplay for the "imitation game" talked act his own personal struggles as a young man who felt that he was >> when i was 16 years old, i tried to kill myself because i felt weird and i felt different and i felt like i did not belong. and now i'm standing here. and so i would like for this moment to be for that kid out there who feels like she's weird or she's different or she doesn't fit in anywhere. yes, you do. i promise you do. you do.

stay weird. stay different. and then when it's your turn and you are standing on this stage, please pass the same message to the next pn who come ace long. thank you so much. >> we have a message to pass along here as news4 where we are changing minds. we have a wealth of resources about mental health and suicide prevention. go to nbcwashington.com and search changing minds. plus on our facebook page the nbc washington fac now, we are trying to continue this discussion. so go there and check it out. i'm pat lawson muse at the live desk. we have some breaking news happening in downtown washington. an accident with multiple reported at 400 mass avenue northwest. here's a look at the sce live now. this is happening where fourth h, and mass avenue intersect. d.c. police are on the scene. fire and ems have just left the scene. we understand major crash investigators responded a short time ago. there were multiple injuries. we don't know exactly how many or how serious the injuries are. again, this accident happening

at 400 mass avenue at the intersection of fourth h, and mass avenue. news4's chris gordon is on the way. that's it from the live desk. >> thank you, pat. all right, doug. a one-day break. back in the tundra tonight. >> it is amazing, the weather we've seen. snow on saturday some areas picking up close to a foot of snow in the d.c. metro area only about 3 inch then everybody got to about 50 degrees yesterday. it was a glorious day to get out and play in the snow. today, well mother nature says none of that. we're going back cold again. right now 30 degrees is the current number windchill sitting at 18 even though we had some sunshine. temperatures fell in many areas most of the day. look where we are now, down to 23 already in gaithersburg 25 in win chester, 31 in fredericksburg and 28 towards annapolis. the average high today is 49 degrees. of course we were nowhere near that. and look at these windchills. 17 in gaithersburg 12 in winchester 15 in manassas 16 down towards patuxent river.

the only storm out there is a storm to the south. this one is wreaking havoc towards arias like dallas memphis, little rock all the way down towards the atlanta area. there are winter storm watch, winter storm warnings winter weather advisories towards louisiana here and this storm will eventually move across and could provide upwards of 5 to 8 inches for portions of the carolinas. that's amazing and that's the cold air that's made its way down here. for us it should stay to our south. but we're expecting cold air through tos we make our way through the night tonight. 11:00, 7 degrees in washington, 5 in winchester 3 in manassas. early tomorrow morning, 1 below in hagerstown 15 in d.c. 9 in leesburg. these are the windchills. again, we ear talking about incredibly cold numbers tomorrow even during the afternoon, temperatures or windchills only in the teens. impact forecast tomorrow we'll call it on the low side because all seen the cold. we know how to dress for this now. arias of ice early. a lot of black ice across the

area. i think that will continue too. tomorrow morning for a low of 13 in d.c. 6 in leesburg 4 in manassas. the record tonight in dulles i believe is 14. we are going to shatter that record. i've got them down to about 5 degrees. it would be the fourth record so far this month out there at dulles airport. so once again a very cold night. baltimore i don't think you'll get too close to that record there. 2 up around the 9-degree mark. 31 degrees on your tuesday, 37 on wednesday. chance of snow south on thursday with a high temperature of 32 degrees. then on friday 30 degrees for a high temperature after a low of 16. dulles could set another record early on friday morning. and right now the weekend looking dry and temperatures moving in the right direction, high of 43 on sunday. rain right now looks likely for the day on monday. next safer and smarter. why next-generation vehicles have the potential to save lives and save you money. >> reporter: there are robbers and then there are robbers, but

you dot often robbers using words like the ones used in this home invasion in bethesda.

it's looking more and more likely we could sel shutdown of homeland c reach a deal over immigration. >> this comes amid a threat to one of our country's largest shopping malls. there were lockdown drills earlier today at the mall of america near minneapolis. u.s. officials say there's been no credible threat but there is an alarm that was raised after a somali-based terror group called b put out a video urging an attack on that particular mall. that is the same group that killed more than 60 people at a mall in kenya two years ago. >> the threat is a lone wolf inspired by this call for an attack to pick up a weapon that they could get at any gun show. >> in these challenging times in particular most unfortunate that there's eve an possibilit a shutdown of -- >> congress has until the end of k before funding runs out at the department of home security. kayla mueller 'twas only

american woman held hostage by isis. now her parents are talking publicly for the first time since they were notified of her death earlier this month. they sat down with nbc's savannah guthrie for an exclusive interview. if family said mueller was determined to help people in pain and travelled around the world to do it. they're starting a foundation to honor her life and dedication to serving others calling it kayla's hands. >> when she was home in may, i was holding her hand you know just holding her hand and i just got teary and said i just don't want to let go of your hand. the next morning she came out and she had it like this and she said you'll always have my handle. >> kayla's parents say she was not happy unless she was using her hands to help others. you can see more of their exclusive interview with sava tonight after news 4 at 6:00.

a terrifying attack in an upscale local neighborhood. >> home invaders ambush a an 85-year-old and his wife. news4's pat collins talks to the victims and why investigators say the thieves kne

we're not going to hurt you. we will no.

we respect you. >> a scary moment for a man and his wife as thieves confront them in their home. the suspects knew exactly what they were looking for and what where to find it. >> tonight we're learning how police managed to track them down. pat collins spent the afternoon with the victims and joins us live from the police headquarters in gaithersburg with the details. >> reporter: this home invasion unlike others. in this case you might say the suspects turned >> i was so startled i was focusing in on all the shattered glass all over. and thinking this is a break-in. i wonder what's going to happen. >> reporter: he's a retired surgeon and former professor of surgery. he's recovering from a cataract operation. he and h wife married in june 1955. they've had all sorts of

adventure their life scuba diving around the world, but nothing like the encounter they had at their bethesda home on presidents' day when two robbers broke into the place with what appeared to be a black baseball bat. >> we hear successive bang crash, bang crash. >> reporter: so the masked men who broke into the door who had the black bat in his hand tells the doctor and his wife to come into this room to face the wall and then he says -- >> he says we're not going to hurt you. we will not hurt you. we respect you. and the said we're doing this because the economy sucks. s-u-c-k-s, pat, if you want to put that in there. >> reporter: while one of the robbers kept an eye on the couple the second robber went to a room on the second floor where the doctor's wife kept a box. the box had cash money and silver dollars she had earned and saved for 35 years.

turns out that secret second-floor money box was right beneath the thermostat. turns out a heating repairman was working on that thermostat just a few days before the book 'em, dano. >> it was very clear from the beginning that these two suspects knew where this cash e coins were stored in the home so it was very clear to detectives that someone had intimate knowledge of where they might be. >> reporter: so who are these schts and why did they do it and some good advice from the doctor. that's at 6 croc. you may use it to get around in our area. now the popular app waze will have more information as drivers try to get around the district. d dot is partnering with waze to provide its own data to help drivers including real information on things such as marathon floods, construction.

waze works by users posting incidents such as crashes they come upon on the roadways. >> doug in the storm team 4 weather center. we could set another record. >> dulles has only been there since 1962. that's how long we've been keeping dates. this record 14 will get down there no problem. 5 for dull dulles tonight. that record, no problems. d.c. the airport there, the record for washington down to 1. we won't get close to that. look at these numbers. 30 in d.c. look at cold back to the west. this is what we're watching here around state college, pittsburgh morgantown all that cold air continues to make its way our way. and it stays here. the cold remains right on through early portions of next week here all the way down toward the south, not one, but two significant winter storms moving just down to the south, one of which could come up to our area. we'll talk about that at

heartbreaking and unimaginable. just two words used to describe the tragic results of a plane crashing into a maryland neighborho inside one of those houses hit by that burning debris a mother and her two young children marie gim el. she was killed as she tried to shield her newborn son and her 3-year-old son, both also killed. marie's husband and her 7-year-old daughter were not home at the time and now they are trying to move forward. doreen gentzler is here with part of a news4 exclusive with ken gim el. >> this is a heartbreaking story. ken sat down with angie goff. he talked to her about the horror of that day last december and while there were some initial questions about survivors, about how he knew in his heart that his wife and young sons were gone. he opened up about his motions

his daughter are doing. >> there are many people who watch your story and not with able to understand how somebody goes through such loss and such tragedy is able to wake up every day. >> as i told my daughter, we don't o let this completely defeat us become what defines our lives or ruins the rest of our lives going forward. for the most part we need to persevere and do wo to honor mom, marie, cole and devin. >> that full interview with angie goff and some of the things ken gemmell and his daughter were able to salvage from their gaithersbs torn down. join us tonight for that story on news4 at 11:00. it's called right to try. a measure inspired by josh hardy could mean expanded opportunities for terminally ill patients in virginia. last spring you'll recall while battling cancer josh who is from fredericksburg was denied

drugs to save his life. an intense social media campaign put pressure on the drugmakers who changed their minds. well lawmakers in virginia today announced an agreement on a measure that would expand access to investigational drugs for terminally ill patients under the care of their doctor. several versions of the bill are making their way through the statehouse and senate. a uva football star is close to fulfilling his nfl dream. >> new tonight, news4's diana russini explains how he's overcome tragedy and why it drives him to succeed. and we continue to follow a developing story in alexan yet another water ma.

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eli harrell is someone we hope to be watching sundays this fall. the university of virginia standout is at the nfl combine trying to impress the scouts for the upcoming draft. >> so close to fulfilling his dreams. and the dreams of his mother even without her by his side. diana russ. >> i watched her take her last breath so, that was tough. i can see it right now, but that's what drives me each and every day. >> reporter: 15 years old, too young to lose a mother to cancer. >> i had a lot of lonely nights.

you know my mom was all i had and losing her so early really forced me to have that grittiness about me. >> reporter: uva's eli harrell, raised by hisolder brother now on a mission to play in the nfl. >> i can't wait. getting chills now. you know i feel like i have a lot to prove. being a junior, i just turned 21. i'm one of the youngest guys here. going to uva, didn't win a lot of game never went to a bowl game. i want to get back to winning. >> reporter: out of the 32 teams the virginia defensive lineman drims of playing for the washington redskins. met with the team at the combine. >> it just felt so good. felt so real and i was just comfortable, you know. i went in all the other meetings nervous. but when i sat down with them i felt like i was talking to people i knew for a very long time. >> reporter: there's a chance

the washington redskins could draft eli, and it's going to be a challenge for washington to find a player more motivated than a man playing in the memory of his mot >> having a mother, you know really doing everything for you, you know it's pretty tough when you lose her. she was my rock. she would be proud of me right now. >> in indianapolis diana russini, news4 developing right now, more than 100 customers including a school without water kristin wright talking to residents as we speak. . >> i felt like everyone was looking at me that black girl made te she was black, not because of merit.

we continue to follow breaking news in the 400 block of h street where mass h street and fourth street all kind of come together. three people hit, one in critical condition, two serious. transported to the hospital. metro says buss in that area are experiencing delays of up to 20 minutes and that goes in both directions. and of course that is the major way of getting out of town. so expect a lot of problems with traffic there. news4's chris lawrence is on the scene right now. we'll have a live report coming up from him in just a moment. now to that water main break in alexandria causing bigger disruptions than first thought. >> news4's kristin wright talked to residents on janneys lane and is there live with their reaction on this cold night with water.

>> reporter: yeah. it's not good for them. one of the neighbors we've been talking to all day just simply wants to go out of his driveway here to go to the store, but the water folks are telling them you probably shoot-aroundn't do that because look around here it is unstable. over here you see the backhoe sitting. they haven't even been able to dig for the pipe because they are have to wait for the gas company to come out and do that what they o do before they can each get to this pipe. it's going t water kept coming from an eight-inch pipe that burst underground. the force of the water washed out the ground under the pavement. janneys lane in alexandria buckled. work crews became the weight of a single vehicle in the wrong place could be disastrous. the mess is right in front of sam's home. he was told not to move his car from the driveway. >> in case we need to buy something, in case we need to go

somewhere, we cannot do that anymore. >> reporter: his next-door neighbs had to park down the street and walk with their 3-month-old. >> i've got two small kids so it's significant not to have water but we'll just pick some up at the store and make do with what we've got. >> reporter: what we've got is seemingly endless calls for broken pipes with the cold and now sudden fog. on janneys lane right now it's the waiting game. >> did they tell you how long it could be? >> no. >> reporter: so here you have the neighbor we mentioned sam here who's discussing with the crew whether he can safely drive out to get to the store. as you can see, quite a few problems for people here tonight. tonight on news4 at 6:00 what to expect tonight with this water main break and tomorrow and just how long it will take for these guys to make the repairs.

live in alexandria, k we'll see another cold night tonight and this is going to continue as we make our way through the next couple weeks. this cold air, more of these pipes continuing to freeze across our area. take a look right now after what has been a pretty nice day as far as sun is concerned, look at this. the sun going down tonight at 5:54. that's in about five minutes. the sunset after 6:00 beginning next week. so hey, that's something to talk about. temperature-wise though not much to talk about here. you know what we're going to ta about. cold cold and more cold. 30 degrees right now, dropping to 19 by 11:00. yesterday we were at 50 degrees. felt beautiful, but look at these windchills. 13 gaithersburg 25 in reston 15 down in manassas 17 ft. belvoir and 15 camp springs. we've seen those winds gusting 20 to 25 miles an hour throughout the day. they'll start to subside as we move through the overnight hours. we'll still see cold air. storm team 4 radar clear around our region. it's going to stay that way for the next 48 hours or so. commuter forecast overnight

tonight, 26 degrees, just cold this evening. tomorrow morning watch out for more ice. l there early this morning. we could see it with a low temperature down to 13. that's in the city. host of you will be in the single digits once again. mostly sunny, still cold light wind tomorrow so, that's big news. 25 to 32 degrees as we move through the day tomorrow just another frigid arctic day, temperatures ranging between 15 and 20 degrees below average tomorrow. same deal on wednesday, high of only 37. 32 on thursday. there is a chance for some snow in our southern areas, fredericksburg maybe the northern neck maybe toward portions of southern maryland. that storm will be watching. it could come up the coast, right now 30% chance of snow on our area 30 degrees on your friday and this weekend looking cool 36 on saturday 43 degrees on sunday. not a bad weekend, at least it will be dry, dry and sunny, still cold but not frigid. the next storm coming up on monday. and right now that storm looks like it's going to bring us a chance for some rain.

but still a lot of time to figure all this out. one thing as we mentioned, the average high temperat in the middle of this weekend is 50 degrees. we stayed well below that all the way through guys? >> all righty. that next car you buy may be safer because it's smarter. smart cars have the potential to save lives and save you money. and automakers are racing to get these next-generation vehicles on the road. some new cars already alert drivers when another car is on their blind side or when they're drifting out of their lane. well now several states are experimenting with high-tech highways where roads communicate with the smart cars directly. >> instead of just putting up a sign that says sharp curve ahead, there may be an information point that's speaking to your vehicle that tells the vehicle there's a sharp curve. >> that road-to-car commun tested out with fiber-optic cables. and the smart car revolution is expected to take some time to

unfold but most cars are expected to be on the road from-in about 12 years. there's a new auto recall to tell you about tonight that affects mercedes-benz drivers. national highway t says some mercedes vehicles need to be checked for risk of engine fires. it affects 147,000 cls class sedans and e-class sedans and wagons model year 2013 through 2015. the news4 consumer watch did call mercedes today, which told us customers may continue to drive their vehicles until this recall has been performed. mercedes-benz will notify owners about repairs come mid-march. great news for target customers. that retailer has slashed its free shipping eligibility for online orders. slashed it in half. now customers shopping on target.com only need to spend a minimum of 25 buo qualify for the free shipping. they used to have to spend 50. target says the cut follows an enthusiastic response to its

free shipping offer during the holiday season. she's a single mother and she's out of a job. >> but tonight she could be the happiest woman in america. we'll tell you why right after

she's a single mother and now she's out of a job. >> but thanks to powerball, this north carolina woman is now a multimillionaire because today it became official. pat lawson muse joins us with the exchange of a very big paycheck. very big indeed. we first met marie holmes a couple weeks ago when she claimed she had a winning powerball ticket. today the north carolina lottery confirmed she is taking home a third of the huge $564 million jackpot. holmes had to quit jobs at mcdonald's and walmart to take care of her four children. one as cerpalsy. she said she gave her mom $15 to buy the tickets and her whole life has completely changed. she's constantly flanked by security and was joined today by a lawyer and a financial adviser. holmes opted to take the lump-sum payout and after taxes e home $88 million. she says the biggest impact will ch >> this is going t hug difference for them. like going to be able to go to school not worry about paying

for it. it's just going to be very fortunate for them. and i can actually get them in programs that they need to be in. >> reporter: holmes says her plans also include giving money to her church traveling, and moving into a new home. and despite the fact that she can now buy her children anything they want holmes says she will still say "no." in the newsroom i'm pat lawson muse. back to you, jim. >> good for her. thank you, pat. students at one local high school are confronting racial stereotypes, and they're doing it by reaching out to their peers. >> and the result is a viral video that's getting a lot of attention. as zachary kiesch reports, it's becoming a tool to bridge a racial d >> there's just so much more to a person than the color of their skin. >> i think our job as producer and director was to try to get the best truths out of people. >> he was, like you get straight az? you don't looke get straight as. >> i'm surprised at the level of honesty because i had no idea it would go as far as it did. i, too,

am b-c-c. it highlights the struggles of being black and latino at the predominantly white chevy high school. the assistant prin lot of the same issues we struggle with as a society we also struggle with them here. >> reporter: robinson says he's been working dialogue around race and stereotypes since he arrived 13 years ago. >> this video is great because it starts that dialogue amongst the students. >> it's also involving students of all races with developing solution to the problem. >> reporter: the video, which has over 10,000 youtube view is a production of two students. it's raw and filled with emotion. >> it's just so hard for black students because we feel that we have to go the extra step. >> the stories wery there, you know. the experiences were there. they're real. and they are very prevalent. >> reporter: the pair have visited more than two dozen

classrooms using personal testimony in the video to facilitate conversation with their peers. many are unaware. >> if i could use one word to describe the reaction that we've been getting in classes it would be shocked. >> reporter: a better bcc, a better america. the two say that's something that happens one conversation at a time. reporting in montgomery county, zaar now at 6:00, a showdown over homeland security the funding for that agency is about to run out. we'll report how a new security bit could change the debate. unanswered questions about d.c.'s marijuana law. how the city and federal governme are preparing for big changes this week. and wssc says it is losing almost 190 million gallons of water each day because of broken pipes and water mains. tonight the lasting impact on a . three people hit by a car

near fourth and s near west d.c..this is a live traffic camera picture. chris gordon just arrived at the scene. we'll try to go live to him in minutes. thousands of federal workers in our area could be forced to work without paychecks if funding for the department of homey is allowed to run out on friday. >> the fight in congress over that agency comes amid a terror threat against one of the nation's busiest malls. steve handelsman is on capitol hill now with more on this. steve? >> jim, thanks. here on the hill at this moment the senate is voting they're almost done it looks like for the fourth time in a row democrats will block the republican plan to link funding for the department of homeland to killing the obama immigration executive orders. in this fight that so far democrats seem to be winning, the president and his democrats are taking advantage of the terror concern in