threw me on the floor. and right there in the foyer, and then he ripped off my pants. >> the student says her instinct kicked in and she began screaming and kicking. the man got scared and ran off. detectives say the same person recently tried to expose himself to another woman. police are putting together a skechl of him now. a state department official accused of accused of soliciting a minor will be in court this morning. daniel rosen was picked up from a d.c. jail yesterday. he was arrested earlier this week after police say he had a series of online exchanges with a fairfax county detective who was posing as a minor. rosen's security clearance has been suspended. the search continues for two missing teens in loudoun county. 15-year-old chris forever rings and 16-year-old stefan siefer

were last seen three days ago. both need medication for health issues. if you have any information, call the loudoun county sheriff's office. time to take another look at our forecast. thankfully the snow has moved out. hoping for a much more peaceful weekend. >> let's check in with tom. >> but it is still cold this morning. we're calling this #freezing friday. most of the day we'll stay below freezing as temperatures right now are hovering upper 20s to near 30. not going to have much of a warming as the day does progress. a little break in the cloud cover later this morning. right now getting just a few scattered flurries around the metro area. at the bus stop this morning, staying below freezing. watch out for patchy ice especially on sidewalks and front steps that weren't completely cleared of snow yesterday. we'll have that with us through 7:00 a.m.. a little bit of sunshine breaking out. afternoon highs if it neighborhoods around washington may make it a little above

freezing right in the immediate metro area near the bay near 30 degrees where the snow was heaviest in southern maryland northern neck probably going to stay in the 20s the rest of the day today. temperatures may reach a little above freezing in culpeper down to charlottesville. afternoon highs hovering right around 30 degrees. and it may whoever in the mid-20s out in the mountains, high temperatures just in the upper 20s. montgomery fairfax, prince george's county hovering right neert freezing mark all way through the afternoon with a partly sunny school. a look at the hour by hour changes, getting colder that's coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s. alexis davies, how are we doing? >> still looking good traveling on the beltway. looking at this accident northbound 395 at the 14th street bridge, two left lanes are blocked. police are on the scene as well as the tow truck, so you'll be slow in that area as they're getting that car out of the way. westbound 28 between 355 and monroe street all lanes blocked

due to the earlier water main break yesterday. your alternate is 355. and then southbound 355 at woodmont avenue in bethesda that rate lane blocked due to a work zone. it is now 4:33. today we expect to find out how many years a maryland man will spend in jail for trying to have his ex-wife killed. 37-year-old was convicted of ordering a $1,000 hit on his fourth ex-wife. the computer security expert met with a police officer who posed as a hit man at four corners in silver spring. enow showed pictures of his ex-wife and shared her address. prosecutors say he has a lengthy history of domestic violence. a hearing in the case of a local politician accused of abusing a child. michael gardner's lawyer stepped down citing an ethical conflict. the trial is set to begin next week. today a judge will term if

garner can secure a new attorney. he was arrested last year for allegedly abusing a 13-year-old relative. in 012, he was convicted of know lessing two girls at his home but the conviction was later overturned. garner was once the chairman of the democratic committee in falls church. i'm richard jordan at the live desk. the truck driver involved in a terrible crash out near los angeles with a commuter train has now been released from jail. we just got the video in from overnight. he's not facing any charges yet. prosecutors say they want to wait until the investigation is complete before they present any charges against him. that driver saying he accidentally made a wrong turn, got stuck on the tracks and then ran for his life when he couldn't move his vehicle. police later caught up with him and arrested him. there have been six septembers at that same crossing in just the past seven year, but some time some 30 people were injured when the train cars flipped on to their side. 4:35.

two people have been arrested for a set of armed carjackings in northwest d.c.. both happened yesterday just blocks apart on p street in george up to. u.s. park police caught one suspect yesterday afternoon.up to. u.s. park police caught one suspect yesterday afternoon. theyron funeral services forphilip snodgrass will be held today. he died earlier this week when police say a man running from a crash scene flipped his car and crushed him. snodgrass was walking to a night class this northwest washington when that happened. police say they are closing in on a map suspectn suspected of posing as a police officer. this is the vehicle at the center of the vehicle, a 2008

volkswagen passat. court documents reveal a half dozen incidents where the driver tried to pull over other vehicles. police are investigating whether there are other instances of this crime. no charges have been filed. virginia governor manage call live is praising state lawmakers for approving a budget. the deal includes raises for teachers employees and college faculty. it restores $30 million for local governments. it does not raise taxes and does not expand medicaid like the democrats wanted. virginia's even come is beating projections, so the state has hormonemore more money to work with. the met proceed board decided not to raise fares on trains or buses. they also say they will not make substantial cuts to services. metro says it will focus on other ways to balance the budget. you won't be able to use the greenbelt metro station this weekend. it will be closed. buses will replace trains between college park and greenbelt on saturday and sunday

because of track work. orange blue and yellow line trains will run every 20 minutes. red line trains will run between 8 and 15 minutes. in less than 24 hours, a section of the government could run out of money. why congress' last ditch effort might not be enough. >> folks in boston are in a snow fight after a record breaking storm and it's all over parking spot. why you might be upset too, if you knew what the city was about to do. a live look outside where it is below zero right now on our weather deck. get ready tom is timing out how low temperatures are going to get for your weekend. it's 32

take a look at this scene. the roof over a toys for tots warehouse caved in due to all the heavy snow. a coordinator up to $20,000 in toys for underprivileged children may have been destroyed. the 20 by 80 feet toy is directly directly above the toy storage area. it can't begin sal vamging what is left until the roof is repaired. the building's other than still hasn't had access to the inside of the building. he says insurance will not cover the loss of the toys. looks like space savers will soon be a thing of the past in boston and folks are not happy after digging out a park space, bostonians used space savers to hold a park space. you can see a chair, maybe even.

boston's mayor says on monday, they will no longer be allowed. >> i think the mayor's office needs to reassess that considering the arm of snow we've had. >> a lot of people were here day, hour, nights. >> starting next week, space savers will be removed and destroyed along with the regular rash collection. >> that's a tough call. if you spent your entire day clearing out a spot and someone else comes and takes it? >> you're going to have fights in the streets. 4:41 our time. we want to give you a look at today's forecast. >> tom kierein here now. >> still boston dealing with the aftermath of all that snow. here just a few scattered flurries passing south and east of the metro area. this little patch of gray a few flurries southern prince george's county charles county quickly passing into calvert st. mary's. just a brief passing flurry. temperatures right now are in the upper 20s. we'll stay this way with the

chance of the few flurries through 8:00 a.m., otherwise sun breaks out. partly cloudy. just hovering near 30 noontime and during the afternoon may briefly get a little above freezing midafternoon. next 24 hour, we get cold. down to the teens by this time tomorrow morning starting off saturday with a clear sky. a look at roller coaster temperatures next weather and traffic on the 1s. alexis, is that accident on the 14th street bridge still causing a problem? >> it is. we're seeing response on the scene as well as the tow truck. cars are being moved to the right. two left lanes are blocked. southbound route 1 left lane blocked due to disabled vehicle. in maryland westbound 28 between route 355 and monroe street all lanes blocked due to the water main break yesterday. he is known as the face of isis brutality. and this morning officials are putting a name to that face. and why tech experts say you will need to protect a you new

15 before the hour. once again, it is a last minute scramble on capitol hill. congress has to make some kind of deal on funding for homeland security today. nous house house republicans are sighing a short term fix. tracie potts is live for us. walk us through the house gop plan. >> reporter: it's pretty simple three weeks, that's all the money homeland security would get while the house and senate try to sit up to together in a conference and work out something more permanent that may or may not deal with the sticking point which has been rolling back the president's immigration order that allows undocumented immigrants to stay here. so a three week temporary fix while they try to work that out. but it's not clear if senate democrats will participate in that conference. they have a separate vote set

today that would fully fund homeland security, doesn't deal with immigration at all, but there is a separate vote in the senate on immigration. so two completely different plans coming up for a vote just hours before this deadline. >> let's look more at that first option. if you take us forward from there, if congress can only pass a short term solution are we right back where we started in a couple weeks? >> reporter: we may be because they have yet to deal with the issue of immigration that con receiver difference republicans are pushing. at some point they have to degree here on capitol hill whether or not to deal with that as part of the overall funding for homeland security. so if the temporary fix gets passed, it means the coast guard, tsa agents border control, they will get paid for a few more weeks. but jayeh johnson says it really just creates a lot more anxiety for the 230,000 people who work for him. >> tracie potts on the hill for

us. thanks. this morning we're learning more about the face of isis brutality, he's known as jihadi john. now media outlets are saying his real snay mohammed emwazi a computer program from a well to do family in west london. "washington post" and bbc are reporting he was born in kuwait and moved to london when he was 6. neither police nor the fbi are confirming the reports. jihadi john has been seen on multiple isis beheading videos but police still have not been able to catch him. parents of an american journalist killed by isis tezsays the u.s. government needs to do more to fight the wrist group. diane and john foley says the government kept them in the dark and failed to help them when their son was being held captive. >> we really feel that our government needs to have a clearer policy and be more up front about what they can and cannot do or will and will not did. >> foley's parents say the

government intentionally did not provide a network for families in will this situation. foley was kidnapped in syria in november of 2012 and executed in august of 2014. developing right now from the live desk, surge crews in china looking for people that fell into the water after their boat capsized off the coast of mocau which is near china. there were 19 people on board the boat when it capsized. 15 are missing. the people are believed to be illegal immigrants part of a human smuggling operation. 4:48 now. today all eyes are on jeb bush at a high profile gathering of conservatives. take a look. this is an idea of his star power. bush joins a big pool of potential republican candidates at the conservative political action conference. governor scott the walker governor chris christie senator ted cruz and others spoke yesterday. bush is expected to play up his

conservative credentials as he competes for attention with senator rand paul and governor rick perry. let's stop whining. it's hard to understand you. the maryland 911 dispatcher who told the teenage girl to stop whooinining is now out of a job. the 13-year-old girl called for help for her dying father on february 1st. she had trouble staying calm. her father was rick warrick. he and his fiance were hit by a car while changing a tire on the bw parkway. the fiance survived. park police believe they found the car and driver who hit the couple, but no charges have been filed. mayor bowser is fighting to keep marijuana in the nation's cat. she appeared on the rachel maddow show last night criticizing andy harris. heiress has questioned validity of the marijuana law. bowser says it is clear what the voters want. >> home use home growth by adults. but i know the people in the

first district of maryland would much rather have his attention on their issues. congressional republicans had threatened to arrest d.c. leaders if they allowed the law to take effect. you may not be able to smoke marijuana everywhere you thought you could. landlords will not be required to allow marijuana use on their properties. so if you rent your apartment, it is up to whomever owns the building whether or not to allow smoking. land lords can also include anti-smoking clause in lease agreements. if you own your own home you city still may not be in the clear if there is a condo board or homeowner's soergs. they could also create rules against allowing marijuana. toys of course are getting high tech but these newls could be vulnerable to hackers. the toys that use siri-like technology they listen and respond having full conversations with your

kids-life thatkids- -- that's not right, i'm sorry. but in order to do that they use wi-fi connection. >> mattel has been careful to note that parents have been told which data will be collected and you need a password to be able to access that information. >> mattel says the new toys will be available this fall. >> those things scare me. toys that respond to you? >> kids should talk to other kids. sorry, this is way out of control. >> or talk to me if you have to. >> if you have to. >> i know. it's not really on top of their list but come on. i have to rank higher than a stuffed toy. >> you do. and we're dealing with cold temperatures again. this winter is unrelenting. we have a few scattered flurries. that patch of gray you see moving south and ooefs washington that's a little bit of just some light flurries now in charles county, just now

coming into st. mary's and calvert, quickly passing through. temperatures are below freezing. we're in the upper 20s around 30 degrees all across virginia, maryland into west virginia around the bay and eastern shore. so anything that melted a little bit is going to be a little icy this morning. so watch out icy spots. otherwise payment will be dry most locations as we stay below freezing for the morning commute. afternoon commute, we'll have dry roads. most of the ice gp because the sun will be breaking out and melting any ice on roads as temperatures may be a little above freezing. but the sun will work and melt the ice. keep up with the roller coaster temperatures with the storm team 4 app. kids had a blast yesterday running through the snow. this picture posted on twitter by mama bear. and look at our roller coaster temperatures over the next 7 days. we stay much colder than aver average high is 51. we start getting warmer on sunday upper 30s. then near 50 monday. cold again on tuesday. up near 60 on wednesday.

i said 60. and then back down cold again on thursday. so this is that kind of year we have our temperatures going up and down. so just a small chance of some flurries this morning and partly sunny, then saturday into the mid-30s. sunday afternoon, might get a little sleet and rain. soaring to near 50 monday. tuesday another chance of a wintry mix maybe of a little rain and snow in the upper 30s, though. so any snow falling will be melting. and then yes near 6300. chance of a wintry mix on thursday with temperatures in the upper 30s. now let's check on our road conditions this morning. we've had one accident. alexis davies is in. you want to watch out for slick spots. but no incidents being reported this hour on the beltway in maryland or virginia. on the 14th street bridge 395 northbound left lane blocked due to an accident. response still on the scene.

southbound route 1 at dale boulevard, left lane blocked there. traveling 95 toward the beltway looking good no incidents being reported. 270 out fredfrederick, maryland look going. 95 between the two beltways at route 212, no incidents being reported in this area. coming up, teacher respect this one northern virginia school district are dealing with an overcrowding problem. and it means hundreds of students moving to new schools. the plan stafford county is getting ready to roll out. plus what the new era of leadership in maryland might

we're in the middle of tax season and you may have plans to file yours this weekend. but before you do you'll want to watch erika gonzalez at 5:00. she'll show you what happened to one man after he learned somebody else had already filed in his name and the acceptssteps you can take. president obama will travel with the first lady and their daughters to selma, alabama, honoring the anniversary of historic civil rights marches. protesters were attacked violently as they marked across the bridge and violence stunned the world and eventually became known as bloody sunday. as part of their trip the first

family will also honest or the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act. underaged service members may soon be able to drink alcohol in maryland. today a state senate committee will consider a bill that would allow 18 19 and 20-year-old members of the military to drink beer and wine at bars an restaurants. the measure has received push back. drunk driving is a big concern. the law would also violate federal statutes which puts federal funding at risk. new leadership in maryland could eventually lead to toll lanes on i-270. montgomery county council man superintendents converting the two hov lanes in on reversible toll lanes. governor hogan is viewed as road friendly and he called his pick for transportation secretary the greatest highway builder in the country. the project would take several years from start to finish and would require a public/private partnership. first 4 traffic has been bombarded with fantastic meet your street ideas and melissa

mollet says keep them coming. tonight at 6:00 melissa takes a trip down memory lane and hunterville road a route that has huge historical significance for our area. and have you ever wondered about lawyers road? she looks in to that name as well and takes a peek at the ridge road now somewhat hidden in the woods. >> it's been gun getting a little history lesson on the streets. >> absolutely. stay with us. "news 4 today" continues right now at 5:00 a.m.. cruel cold meeting you once you 12e7 outside. temperatures are below freezing in most areas. so you'll want to watch out for icy spots especially on our side streets. amelia segal is in the storm team 4 x 4 with a look at the roads. we'll check in with her in a bit. and there are a few school districts that will get another late start this morning.

prince george's county prince william, spotsylvania and fredericksburg city schools all on a two hour delay. now let's check in with tom kierein for your forecast. >> temperatures below freezing, going to stay this way through the morning. storm team 4 radar showing a couple flurries here. a few flurries flying through the area. northern montgomery county, another one a little larger here passing flurries quickly out of charles county northern st. mary's and calvert. watch out for patchy ice. i took this picture of the parking lot here in northwest washington. and there is patchy ice will. so whatever snow did melt is now frozen back up again. upper 20s shen dough have ae shenandoah valley. innocent mountains generally in the 20s. a cloudy sky over the metro area. we'll have patchy ice through the morning. cold afternoon, just barely getting above freezing. and followed by roller coaster