effected ai by this. . megan mcgrath is live on southern avenue in d.c. with a look at what the crews up against. it is cold, isn't it?

>> reporter: it is cold ani has been an extremely busy week for eweutility crews. if you take aoobee can e eyrearatorat a water main break along the county line an southenu this is one of several hundred water main. breaks that we have seen around the region in just the last week. it's caused all kinds of problems from closed roads to traffic tie ups. we have had school closures and we're not seeing the e oit at least t t. warinhis water main. break season, if you will. a long, cold night fowo crews in alexandria. they spent hours down in a hole repairing a broken water main. more than 100 customers lost service. without water mcarthur elementary cancelled classes for the day. road closures and i streets all the result of bursting pipes. a stretch of southern avenue had

had to be closeth i morning. even walking around can be treacherous. >> you have ice, you take your time, watch where you'reoi. >> reporr:n e st w eve ov 160 main break breaks ae atp54 breaks since february 18th. blame it on the extremes in temperature and the icy cold water flowing through the pipes. dominic bowman doesn't care what caused the problem. e he just shower. >> it's really sprinkly water. i'm not satisfied. >> reporter: a little trickle? >> yeah what can that do for a grown man like me? >> reporter: what do you do if your pipes freeze or break? who do you call? that depends on where th problem i if the pipe is inside your home, call a plumber. if the pipe or meter is outside call them. and there are a number of

different ways that you can report a problem. you can cl yo uli u n soivth an e-mail and wssc even has a phone app. but as you would imagine, they are very very busy and they are asking people to beatnts they fi outrellhe ksrendhediat t cro x them. reporting lye ingin live, megan mcgrath, news 4. prince georges county also dealing with problems from the weather. another pipe burst at the district court. take a look at a court worker who took a video of te casca io e lly . employeesaut case files and evidence are all at risk of water da. the district court is open today. right now a man accused of jumping the white house fee is scheduled to be in federal court. the 42-year-old has a status hearing. he jumped the fence went inside the mansion and made it all the

way to the the east room before secret service agents tackled him. this is video of the day of the incident last fall. the security breach led to the resignation of the secre service dict. p noguilty. today crews are expteto begin consucton t third street tunnel project. here's a map of the affected area in. the district. there will be overnight lane closures on 395. crews will shut down the 395 southbound off ramp to the third street tunnel. this is all part of t cit crossing project that will completely cover the tunnel and bring new buildings over it. we have breaking news in california. a train derailment, dozens may be injured and a mbca are off e tracks. we're gathering information and will bring it to you shortly. . plus it's expected to land on the preside' today the keystone pipeline bill. john boehner wants the president to do something befo

breaking news right now from the live desk several people are hurt out near california after a train crashes into a truck. that truck there on the tracks when the metro link commuter train was coming through. this is in oxnard, california. the train going from ventura

county to los angeles. only one car stayed on the tracks. and that truck blew up. it was engulfed in flames. the driver did escape, tried to run from the scene. he was later located by police and is being questioned. at least 30 people are hurt. the ntsb is keeping tabs on the investigation and mayena crew outhe l ael fi o mo about what happened. >> thank you, richard. right now, it's legal for people in alaska to ske marijuana. ove ice third state where recreational marijuana is legal. adults 21 and older c he to an oue of marijuana and grow six plants in their homes. 53% approved the measure back in november. the district is set to legalize marijuana onhuda barring a lt nu a congress. midnight on wednesday, adults

can possess up to 2 ouncesf marijua a gw re rna plants their homes. if d.c. take away your pot because you cannot prove that you're of age, you can pick it up within 21 days as long as you bring some sort of i.d. you cannot smoke or possess marijuana in any fer pli housing or oferaro you can be arrested or evicted from federal housing for that. voters approved the ballot measure last november. a warning this morning from the department of education. why a local school system could lose out on $3 billion. the head of the v.a. forced to apologize for misleading statements. we have new reaction from a top military group. i'm meteorologist chuck bell. we have warmed up a little bit from our record lows early this morning. still plenty of snow pack on the ground. that's what's allowed us. there may be fresh snow as

congress is poised to pass a new version of the no child left behind baalaw that could serio costrie ors un s. the department of education says a lieu would taren $2 million federal dollars from that district. the new version of the bill would benefit any school where low-income children are located.

right now school districts of low income students receive that money. if you received a ticket on i-66, you may not have to pay a fine. the department of transportation say says electricnmistakenly were open to all traffic yesterday rng. th wki wh li t denehi dve m have bn ticketed as a result of that. the signs have been fixed now. v-dot says there was a power failure that caused that problem. a new poll says virginians are happy with their wmer accordingo nepo released this morning. 49% of the voters approve of the governor's first year in office. 25% disapprove. senator warner got. a 62% approval rating. the veterans affair secretary say

says sorry, c i ly ecl rc. ro md ld a homeless veteran that he serve edd in the mility it he sat s on mcd graduated fme point and completed army ranger training but served in the 82nd airborne, not in the special forces unit. he says he's committed to the ongoing efforts to reform the v.a. though. he took office in july of last year. the head of the american legion wrote that he was disappointed by the lie and that he should be held to a higher standard. right now, we're waiting to hear from senate democrats at a press conference. lawmakers have battled for weeks over immigration using the homeland security budget as leverage. republicans have a plan o to end the impass. will we see a breakthrou? nbc's tracie pos reports. >> reporter: today's policy lunches could be key in finding a middle ground on funding loamland security. >> we can't afford to play politics with our national

security. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> reporter: monday democrats blocked funding ties to immigration getting rid of the president's orders that delayed 5 million undocumented immigrants. now mitch mcconnell says he will try to separate the two issues. >> it's another way to g t senatutu. >>or governors urged lawmakers to act. >> governors are frustrated. quit throwing us your problems. >> reporter: if if there's no by friday, tens of thousands of tsa workers, border patrol agents and. others could be forced to work without pay. >> that's not good for the homeland security of is nation. it's not good for pu s and it's notn e bl be inr >> reer fht comes as the mall of america reassures shoppers its safe there despite a video threat from the militant group. even if the senate works out a

come proo miez, it's noclr if the uswi go along. house republicans are said to meet here tomorromo tracipos, nbc news, washington. >> for more on what happens next, we're joined by a political writer for nbc news good morning. are we going to see any action on senator mitch mcconnl's proposed compromise? >> because of the way the senate votes, it takes a long time to get to everything. so i don't think we'll see a vote today. but we'll get a sense of how house republicans are going to react to this. they have been warring between themselves over th issue. a lot of -- there are a substantial block of house republicans who say the president's executive action on immigration is a constitutional crisis and we have to do something about it,ift means aemra stdf hand security. >> is either side willing to compromise? >> i think what we'll see because they have to fund the department at some point.

i think for republicat'a big polic rk ben by the public as bei responsie r shutting down the agency. democrats, so far, are not looking like they are going to budge. republicans may have to work this out amongst themselves. >> let's talk about t kste pipeline the ied the president's desk today. an op-ed was written today saying that americans deserve to know why the president plan s tos to veto thll hathr esenner wh >> the ids in a 'ing to veto the bill either today or in coming days. he has ten days to do it. it will probably be dath he will tohibi. e ithouse maintained that the state department is doing their over review of the pipeline pipeli e impact, ener impact, and the president has said i want to wait for that review to be done. i'm going to base my decision on that review. congress shouldn't cutha review sht. > jt t thsk or will he have to do something today?

>> i think we'll see a veeto today or coming da. >> wllonnutoat f at thank yo >or from the rest of the political team, check out first read on nbcnews.com. a treaty rescue mission overnight. more than a dozen man tus stuck in a storm drain. it was not an easy one. new information on the outcome of this ten-hour operation. . look at the size t manatees. plus faster service.

new today take a look at this video. rescuers in florida work through the night to release 19 manatees stuck in a storm dr the rescue took ten hours nape used heavy equipment to save those mammals. teams from seaworld and the florida fish and wildlife conservation commiio helped with that very tricky rescue. your internet is going to improve very toonsoon. websitesstt inht ie xtew weeks. you have probably seen the letters whenever you type in a web page that the first letters that come up. they organize how your browser downloads websites. the ones we are using today were designed a decade ago. the new version will load web

pages must faster especially on your telephone. right now, we are getting new information about this early morning accident invog a state trooper. plus a first look at our seven-day forecast. when we could see snow again. and a tragic accident leaves an actor from "american horror story" dead.

right now, we warmed up from this morning but most of us are are still below freezing. here's a look at storm team 4 radar out there. a winter storm i affecting parts from the southeast parts of our country to the northeast. we have a report from charlotte, north carolina. but we begin with dylan dreyer in new york. >> reporter: he the u.s. coast guard cutter we are literally cutting through ice here. this is the huds river. and the ice is just continuing to freeze up and take over this entire river here. this river is so important because barges carry about 70% of the home heating oil for the northeast up and down this river. so from west point to albany is where it freezes. if theyre uthic mucllhehus i will flow. downstream and end up clogging up the new york harbor. there's a delicate balance.

but the vessel i'm on now, it's such a perfect hull to breakthrough the ice. it can breakthrough 13 inches. then if it's deeper than that, it has ways to ride up on the ice and come back and rock its way to break up the they also go out to calls from barges that get stuck and make a circle around the bae d t them ouofhece. this is an impot vessel. there's two or three gth g up and do t rer ng d. thiss tstinrs since 2004. the cold is making mh re icy than nma >>rt: is major weather system at started in the southern plains as a big ice storm, moved across the mid-south right into the carolinas this morning. some of our mountain communities got as much as thrfo inches osn. ree artte area, an inch, an inch and a half, a lot of problems on the streets and many school cancellations. and there's a bigger storm coming tomorrow night. in charlotte, larry sprinkle.

>> my sister lives there and was asking if she was going to get out of work tomorrow. >> that will stop us here sometimes too. i told you that i used to think that 32 and 2 felt the same. >> we have learned a lot about cold in the last couple days. dulles international dropped to a ridiculously low temperature this morning, down to 4 degrees below zero. it's the coldest ever so late in the winter season at dulles airport. so finally the warm-up back underway plenty of sunshine now. it's helping with the warm-up. but nonetheless, it was a cold way to get the morning started. these are the lows tmorn national rpo o drd 14 but dulles, minus 4. missed a 142-year-old record by only 1 degree. look at all the zeros on the

map. all dropping to zero this morning. for now, though, the impact the weather will ha on the remainder of the day is fairly low. cold sunshine, 22 degrees in washington. a light breeze out there has windchills back int the teens. current temperatures 11 in manassas. temperatures will climb quick lyly up to ther dre stf e ea the r aund: this afrnn a then trending back into the upper 20s and seeing it won't be fe l of temperatures like we saw into this morning. windchills mostly in the teens. you'll need the winr atnd layered up if you're outside today. prince georges county, 29 today. 19 by tomorrow morning. nowhere near as cold as it was. tomorrow, increasing clouds, temperatures near 40. then we have a snow chance coming our way on thursday. make sure you have our weather app ready to go. the snow today is going to stay

just across the lowepas the bay te te virginia. there's the snow that's out of the charlotte metroa. there'snotr coming. just like that on so we'rgngoo nohe ee i todlsea mix of clouds and sunshine. a little more. cloud cover later today. that will hold temperatures up overnight and into tomorrow. then tomorrow, probably one of our warmer days of the week. temperatures all the way up to near 40 degrees. that's still 10 degrees colder than average for the later parts of the month of february. into wednesday, nothing to worry about on wednesday. but thursday morning, 6:00 a.m. here comes our chance for snow. better snow chances and a better chance for accumulateing snow south of the d.c. metro area. we'll be watching this carefully. one of our computers estimating not a whole lot in the way of snow on wednesday into thursday, but it could be as s o or threinesn ut mard a could get an inch as far north.

a lot of time to fine tune this but any time there s t forecast u' nd st tuned to the forecast here for the next couple day so today,unin f t makiove the freezing mark. back down to the ueree tomorrow morning. so cold, but nowhere near as bone chilling as it was this morning. up to near 40 degrees tomorrow. and then on thursday, at least a 50% chance of snow across the area. again, our highest likelihood of accumulation will be in southern maryland. flurries on friday. look how cold it is later in the week. and then finally back up to near 50 on monday and that will come with a chance for rain showers. >> thank you. let's check in with richard jordan at the live desk. he has something tte about whas ppin a virginia state trooper was injured this morn tere ason-9inri wamouy. look at the pictures we're getting in here. this was on 95 near mile marker 152 early this morning. that trooper was parked along the side of the interstate there

using a radar trying to catch speeders when police say that a ford explorer speeding by the driver lost control, that suv overturned, flipped on to its top and crashed right into. the patrol car. that trooper taken t hospital. idi he's okay. he's already been treated at the hospital and released. the driver of the suv, a 23-year-old man from virginia, was also injured. just minor injuries for him as well. he's now being charged with reckless driving. when you see pictures, it's incredible they survived this crash. >> that's reallyom. real tn upars both of them. thank you. a bar owner in howard county is facing chargefoet videotapg men in the restaurant's bathr. he's one of the owners of the rams head tavern in maryland. the investigation began after a woman said she was in the restroom at the tavern when a digitalama lln

f. policy v showed a man placing the camera and six women in the bathroom. he was arrested last week. the ram's head group says no other locations are involved in this particular incident. d.c. mayor's empowering males of color iniaac criticisth morning. we're learning that the aclu is questioning the program for boys only. in a letter, the aclu says the black female students share many of the same struggls ei male counterparts. a council member requested a legal evaluation of the $20 million program. iadti, e aclu letter shows that studies show that separating boys and girl. s does not improve academic performance. a new report looks at the suspension of elementary school students. the study released bth universitofalorow that elementary children lost 18

million days through suspension between 2011 and 2012. alexandria stood out for its decline in the number of suspended students during that same period down from 16% to 6%. maryland schools suspended 2% of elementary school students. virginia virg % tu e de faiaxlo don reported low suspension numbers. montgomery county father who lost his wife and two children in a plane crash is sharing his story. angie spoke with him. >> he lost most of his family that day. it was a story that touched hearts here and across the nation. and when i sat dowal ken, he td h w wa hero who died trying to protect their two sons, 3-ye-o ce and devin who was just 7 weeks old. >> i knew she was trying to do everything she could to keep

them calm and try to make sure that it wasn't painful for them. >> ken's wife was found in their house cradling their babies trying to shield them from the smoke and fire after the plane crash. in a matter of days, donations and hundreds of thousands of dollars poured in to help ken and his 7-year-old daughter who was at school at the time of the crash. tonit 0,enal aut hrafuhe or all that support and how it iheing both of them go on. >> thank you angie. we have information you should know if you platoe part ofheare rp rn is a and how a man discriminated for the color of his skin for years became an essential part

right now, hollywood is mourning the death of an actor killed in an accident. ben wolf died in los angeles. the akctor was hospitalized aer being h ba deir a painsuv last week. police say wolf was jay walking so the driver will not be charged. wolf is best knowfoho on the fsee"america horror story." he was 34 years old. as part of black history month i met a washingtonian who

signed up to fight in 1944 but found little of our country's promises fulfilled when he came home. in 1945 the war was over, but the common interesin saving america had not brought him into the divide between the races. he designed to being all by an invisible citizen, but things did change. when the war ended in 1945, the country was jubilant. thousands of veterans were coming home among them african-american w would find as they looked for jobs their color obscured theisklsnd their serve tin ever bsn e der workforce. >> in that struggle i ask your support. >> reporter: in 1948 president truman called for the desegregation of the armed services and the federal workforce. >> about that time i got a call. >> reporter: veteran james pride says he got the call from a

friend who didn't give him a lot of information, butwas a job and he needed one. >> i h nid wt w ey just told e me here's where go to find out. >> reporter: 2013 was the division number for this room full offranmeca tjo ttrsle ta hard copy a key step in providing analysts with information of critical importance to the sitof the unitedtas. appresng was important but repetitive and the segregated work space was stiflingly hot. to the lounges, the library. the lunchroom and the line up for the advancement to more important and higher paying jobs. >> they called the organization the plantation. >> many of the afrme who came dinthw d after ward had college degrees. >> reporter: david hatch manages

the cryptology museum at the fort meade headquarters. there was a turning point for james pride when in a critical moment his color didt tt. he was ueny ed for something that required a special skill. >> saying that you can read morse. and if you can, we have a job for you. so i said, fine, where do i go and when? he said right now. >> reporter: his mastery of morse code propelled him to an indispensable role at the national security agency and there were many in the segregated 213 th sepgsal skills. he and his colleagues began to find ways to become indissensible and an important part of the workforce.

>> before he was ret, w our seniorep at the pentagon. >> reporter: james pride worked on secret projects he cannot even speak about today. today there's a head of equality at the nsa who creds james for the advancements that they have seen foevne ahe cy >> it's or history and our heritage. we have grown and developed and learned from it. and what we have now is a wonderful legacy of history that shows that african-americans had a tremendous impact even though they were isolated. >> reporter: as james pride proud of rising from the invisibility of that basement? >> success is more important than pride. >> james pride may have been one of those invisible cryptologists, but he's no longer an invisible american. he says he truly liha we have ce lo curing racism but laws cannot prevent people from harboring racist thoughts. nearly 90 now he wishes he could

live long enough to see that a regrettable memory from our glorious american history. all three parts are on our website at nbcwashington.com. the bitter cold can make your skin feel dry and chapped. what to do about dry lips and what else can be causing that problem. plus employees stealing gas. an i-team investigation. how does sexy mark anthony go about landing his dream woman? >> just marketing. >> he tells meredith about his

a d.c. fire employee is scheduled to appear in court this it morning to face charges of stealing gasoline on the taxpayers' dime. accused of using a government-issued cred cd for fill ups. the news 4 i-team found millions of dollars have been stolen by federal workers across the country using those cards to buy gas for personal use. >> generally we don't catch them on the first time. they have been doi it for a little bit. >> tonight on news 4 at 11:00, the i-team takehouse inside the

investigations. see how agents catch gas guzzlers in the act. right now, you can sign up for two popular events in our area, active duty and reserve members can register for the 40th marine corps marathon. military members gediou when you rejgister online. the rest of us re through the lottery system. it will stay open for ten days. it will be october 25th. about 30000 runners are expected to participate this year. you can also sn up for a chance to get tickets to the easter egg roll. the yearly tradition will be monday, april 6th. you have until noon this thursday to enter for a chance to win tickets through the lottery system. we put all of the information you need to know on nbcwashington.com. this year's theme is gimmie 5 as part of the let's move campaign. she is asking you to share five

things you are doing o to live a healthy life with #gimmiefive. dry lips, record cold temperatures, dry lips can often be a symptom of a br problem hereo explain that is dr. cheryl burgess. before we go to the bigger problems, what can you do in the cold weather? >> definitely the cold and decreased moisture so hydrate yourself because that could be a sign and symptom of body dehydration. so vaseline is one easy inexpensive way to do it or you can use the chap sticks that have bees wax on them. >> vaseline will work? >> vaseline will work as well. you don't have to pay a lot.

>> it makes sense that lip licking would cause yo lips to dry. is that something that people do? >> yes, but we see a lot of athletes do that w and it's particularly in the sports where they a doing a lot of running and mouth breathing. you have a lot of dryness of the lips. saliva is one of the number one things that it dries your lips out. so we see a lot of athletes chew gum and keep their mouth hydrated and juicy, if you will, and their lips as well. but that's just part of breathing through your mouth. >> so if you have that problem, maybe check how you're breathing. >> we also see it islp apnea. people who can't breathe due to obesity or snag may be prohibiting their breathing so they will breathe through their mouth or you can see it in asthmatics. so anything where air is flowing

to and from the lips will dry it out. >> so is it possible a person who has sleep apnea may not know it? >> that may be the symptom. because most people when they are asleep they don't know what's happeni it oy y li with someone do you know you snore or have issues at night. >> what about allergic reactions in medications? >> lipsticks, number one for women. lipsticks, red dyes in the lipsticks can cause issues. toothpastes oral hygiene products that contain alcohol. we see certain medications can dehydrate you. also vitamin a, that can do the same thing. the topic aiei preparations such as rino they are vitamin-a base ued too. if you get it on your lips, you can also get dryness of the lips. >> good informat a ousrehiinit st t cold. >> if it persists, you should

seek counsel. >> thank you so much. coming up, a new report out today on the safest birth control and how women are taking advantage of it. plus is there any li i sight frothbier metlosthu l

developing right now from the live desk a house explosion

in new jersey. take a look at the video that is just coming in. you can't even sew the house there. it blew up. there was a gas leak in the area. a gas crew was working on it at the time when the he exploded. at least three people are hurt. one of them believed to be one of the gas workers that was responding to the area. you can see still se ame there, but not much else. the house has been wiped out. neighboring homes had nds blown o he. thsti an investigation to determine exactly what was the issue here. although we know it was a gas leak, but what else may have contribute ed to utthlo thfi ie' any ty iur in this. the latest report is that three people were rte. >thyou. w today, a new government study shows more women are choosing to use long-acting but revers

reversible th b col. 7% ofensiuds hormonal implants compared to 2% back in 2002. >> they are 99% effective. they are reversible the fear they may render you infertable is not true very few se fes. >long-acting contraceptions were used by women in mid-20s and 30s who already had one child. birth controlar the most common popular contraceptive method nationwide. time for a final check for this midday of our forecast. >> cold today but all eyes are turning towards thursd. a littlehan of some snow coming our way. the storm wi bpag to our south. snow chances will be higher and any accumulations will be higher in southern maryland opposed to northern maryland. we'll be watching th vy carefully. otherwise just cold weather continues. mildest day will be next monday near 50. but that comes with a chance for

rain. >> thanks so much. stay warm. that's news 4 midday. we thank you for being with us and invite you to tune in for news at 4:00, 5:00, 6:00 and 11:00. we hope you'll pto join us. have a terrific day. you stay warm, see inhe morning.

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