tomorrow. by around 6:00 tomorrow shouldn't be raining for the bus, to -- so that's good. looking good tomorrow afternoon. i'll show you that. and there's another storm just like this one coming for the weekend. now to that crash that brought a busy travel corridor to a standstill. and right now at the height of a rainy rush hour we are still waiting for all southbound lanes of i-95 to reopen in maryland. it is nearly seven hours since that truck overturned. this is what it looked like earlier, backups for miles. drivers had no place to go. news4's pat collins talked with some of those who were stuck there. pat? >>. >> reporter: wendy, we have half of the lanes open now. let's take a look down at that accident scene. southbound 95 here. two of the lanes are open but they're working on the others to clean it up. what an ordeal here today.

imagine you're on your way to work you pull onto the highway. you come to an abrupt stop and all you can see is a sea of brake lights. so you sit there. and you sit there. and you sit there. that's what it was like for drivers here on southbound 95. this man said he missed three meetings. what was it like down here? >> it was brutal. brutal. about two hours and i finally got off and i don't know where the heck i'm going right now. that's why i got my gps. >> reporter: this man was running on empty. what did you do? >> i had to make a u-turn to, you know take another road and i'm running out of gas. without gas i can't do anything. >> reporter: and this man had a two-hour bonding experience with his car. >> it was unbearable sitting in traffic for a couple hours.

my first thought of course was when i saw a gas tanker sideways was, i mean what's going to happen. >> reporter: all three drivers caught in the middle of this humongous traffic backup on 95 in laurel. the cause, this 7,500-gallon tanker truck overturned and stretched out over three lanes of the highway. biodiesel fuel leaking. a dam built to contain the runoff. police say four vehicles were involved in the accident. three cars and that tanker truck. one woman take on the hospital, her injuries said to be minor. it took hours to offload the fuel, to right the tanker truck, and then finally tow it away. and police say they wanted to be extra careful with this one. >> we're not trying to inconvenience anyone. we want to have a safe

environment for those people. if we allowed those people to come through it would be neglectful because it could have caused multiple accidents. if there were toxic fume that could cause medical problems. so we took the safe action and diverted traffic. >> reporter: the emergency response here today was fast and effective. but they had a little help from their friends. more about that coming up at 6:00. a man accused of firing at random along highways and public spaces in maryland has been linked to two more incidents. laurel police now say 35-year-old hong young shot out the window of one restaurant last weekend and threw rocks at another about two miles away. police say a surveillance camera reported that second incident. young is accused of shooting at five other places including the national security agency. his defense says young was hearing voices that were telling them to do this. a former contractor who admittedly groped a girl on a middle school campus won't spend

a day in jail. john epps struck a plea deal today in montgomery county. kristin wright is live in rockville with details. >> reporter: this case is the one that made montgomery county parents concerned they weren't being told quickly enough about alleged incidents of sex abuse of sex assault. john epps will not go to jail, but he is now a sex offender. on the right in yellow, john epps. on the left, a 12-year-old girl between classes. watch as they walk past each other. epps reaches out. prosecutors say it is this moment the 44-year-old man touches the girl's backside. a teacher, seen here standing in the hallway, saw it and told school security. today a montgomery county circuit court judge accepted a plea deal in the case. epps pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and

fourth-degree sex offense, misdemeanors. he got five years' prodags. he will not go to jail. as a condition, the married father of two boys is now required to register as a sex offender in the state of maryland for 15 years. epps is not to go near a school. as a contractor he worked in 58 schools in montgomery county at baker installing security cameras. >> i'm hoping what we've achieved here today is to make sure he is monitored, he is supervised and he stays out of our schools into any kind of foreseeable future. >> reporter: montgomery county schools is now requiring that contractors go through the same background checks as employees. the school district is also working with the montgomery county police department and the state's attorney's office to improve policies concerning the identification and the reporting of alleged incidents of sex abuse and sex assaults.

it took the school baker middle school one month to notify parents about the incident involving john epps. a man accused of having unprotected sex with to women while hiv positive pleaded guilty today. he pled guilty to two counts of reckless endangerment but prosecutors don't believe he's remorseful. court records say after cleaves was arrested he went online to solicit more sex partners. the women he had sex with still have to go through six months of testing to find out if they are infected. his sentencing is set for late thermo. it was a matter of convenience. that's the explanation from former secretary of state hillary clinton about her use of personal e-mail while she was in office. the former secretary defended her cho said in hindsight she should have used a government account for government business. mrs. clinton says the server she used for her e-mail was private and secure. she did admit to deleting

personal e-mails from that >> i believed were within the scope of my personal privacy and that particularly of other people. they had nothing to do with work. but i didn't see any reason to keep them. >> 55,000 pages of e-mails have been turned over to the state department to be reviewed and then released to the public. another maryland democrat is joining the race for u.s. senate. today congresswoman donna edwards announced she will run for senator barbara mikulski's seat. prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins is live at national harbor with the impact her decision could have. tracee? >> reporter: it's going to have a serious ripple effect on the political scene here in maryland and also across the nation. she officially made that announcement today and she did it on social media. today democratic u.s. congresswoman donna edwards said

per twitter that she is running for this u.s. senate seat hoping to fill senator barbara mikulski's seat once she's retired. edwards made the announcement through social media with the release of a two-minute video outlining how she began in politics and what she's done as a congresswoman. since 2008 edwards represented maryland's fourth district which includes parts of prince george's county and anne arundel counties. democrat chris van hollen of maryland's eighth district which includesmont fwomry and parts of carroll and fred fridays announced his hl intention yesterday. >> i'm announcing my candidacy for united states senate. but if you'll join me in this fight, there's no way we can't win. and when i step into barbara mikulski's shoes as your next senator, you'll always know where i stand. with you. >> reporter: coming up on news 4 at 6:00 what this now means now

that edwards' seat will be vacant. we have a list of names of folks who have said they're interested. that's coming up. also more information on what this means historically. i'm tracee wilkins. back to you in the studio. near lay dozen potential candidates for president are making their pitch for the support of the nation's firefighters. >> firefighters embody the best values of our nation. >> reporter: former florida governor jeb bush was one of six potential republican candidates to address the international association of firefighter today. the group remits 300,000 firefighters and has poured millions into recent elections. a number of democrats also spoke including former virginia senator jim webb and former maryland governor martin o'malley. a dangerous situation could have taken a tragic turn if not for a standard piece of equipment that's carried by montgomery county firefighters. they were called to a home on

fort fortson street. when they swrd the home a carbon monoxide detector attached to their first aid kid started binging. they evacuated and got the residents to the hospital. firefighters stay co levels in that home measured 600 parts per million. the maximum recommended level is nine. three arlington residents are recovering after a porch collapsed with them on it. it happened last night on north madison street. the three were standing on the concrete porch when it gave way, dropping them about ten feet. today a relative told news4 one of the victims is hospitalized with a broken leg and back injuries. another adult was treated and a child was injured but didn't need to be hospitalized. school kids in faulkier county are going to spend a full day in class this friday the 13th. that along with two other days have been converted from half days to full days because of all that snow. le with the school board's

calendar revisions yesterday, there will be no half days until june. pothole palooza is getting worse. new tonight, the best way to report these monster commuter craters and how long you can expect to wait for a fix. it looks like a real deal check from a major retailer. how a letter in the mail nearly fooled a local man and the scam you need to watch out for.

it looks like a big payout, a check with your name on it. how exciting. but there's a catch. consumer reporter erika gonzalez is here with a big warning for you. >> yeah money with our name on it is always exciting but it is one of the latest scams targeting consumers in our area. we regularly ask for tips from you and this one came from one of you. a maryland man told us about a check he got in the mail. he said there was something about it that just didn't smell right. >> i'm glad i called you and said hey, i got this. >> reporter: david checked in with his wife after he received a strange first alert the mail. >> and you see the postmark is from spain. so you say what is that about? here you're getting a letter from a company here in the states but the postage is from overseas. >> reporter: the letter appeared to be from walmart.

>> i also thought it was interesting it said walmart, inc. >> reporter: in it a job proposal. >> we're going to hire you to go to other stores and buy stuff on our behalf and you get to keep the merchandise but we want you to serve as our quality control evaluator. >> reporter: you heard right. a quality control evaluator, ake, secret shopper. but he said he never filled out a survey and he's not looking for a job. with the letter came a fat check. >> the check is $1,995.15. this is a good-looking check. it has my name. it has my address. it has my zip plus four on here. >> reporter: on the back, if you hold it up, there's some type of like iridescent water marks on it. >> yeah. so you see all this and you say, boy, this looks pretty legit. >> reporter: you think somebody would send you $1,900? >> this seems like the old something for nothing, you know? you don't get something for nothing. i said what have i done? i haven't done anything. >> reporter: bird followed the

letter's instruction and logged onto a website. >> and when you get to that front page of that website there is no walmart logo. punch in this pass word and this user i.d. >> reporter: but bird stopped short. >> i said oh no no no. this is a scam right here. >> reporter: he was right. walmart told us it does not solicit secret shoppers. in fact it confirmed frontsters are sending fake messages via text e-mail and snail mail. they ask the consumers to deposit the enclosed check, then wire back the money for one reason or another. find out more about scams like the on our web site, nbcwashington.com. walmart's warning illustrates a letter similar to the one bird received but bird didn't bite. >> work for anybody who gives me the check up front and then says okay get to work. >> check scams can come in different variations not just appearing to be from a retailer. they can also come in the form of a fake lottery scam no matter

what it is if you deposit the check and the funds appear it doesn't mean that the check is good. bottom line the federal trade commission warns until the bank confirms the check cleared, you're responsible for any money that you withdraw against that check so, heads up folks. be on the lookout for that. if that comes your way, just toss it in the trash. >> all right. calls good to know. target is cutting hundreds of jobs as it works to save $2 billion over the next couple of years. the company will lay off 1,700 workers. another 1,400 open positions will go unfilled. most of the cuts will come at the company's headquarters in the minneapolis area. uber is looking to expand and it's focusing on women. today uber announced a partnership with a united nations group that is dedicated to gender equality and it promised to create 1 million jobs for female drivers by the end of 2020. officials say that fast-growing company can be ideal for women

because of its flexibility with scheduling. right now uber has about 160,000 drives across the united states. 14%, or about 22,000 of them, are women. a fast-food chain is making its meals healthier for kids, specifically its drinks. burger king has pulled soda off the kids meal menu board. the restaurant chain quietly made the move last month. milk and apple juice are now the options shown for kids' meals. you can still get soda if you ask for it. mcdonald's and wendy's made a similar move earlier this year. >> i ike that move. >> mm-hmm. >> all you have to do is tell your kids it's not allowed. they don't allow it. they go oh it's not allowed. okay. i guess i'll get the milk. >> as far as the weather, it's a good thing it's warmed up. >> i want more snow. you know me. >> i do. >> i would love another foot of snow. that won't happen. today it's the rain and the fog

through the rest of the evening. we really do think we've seen the last of the snow. can we say that for sure? no not exactly, but the pattern still looking on the warmer side. radar, a lot of rain across our region. some of that rain on the heavier side back towards luray and the shenandoah valley fredericksburg and leonardtown, montgomery county and right through the district seeing some of that heavier rain come right on through the beltway. look at this right towards route 50 making its way out of tuxedo maryland chevrolet, maryland towards bowie and crofton. follow 50 all the way to ocean city. it's raining there too. take a look. the wider view showing where the rain is across our region. look at the southern component of this drawing up the moisture across our region. we're going see this rain right on through the rest of the night tonight. it is going to be a very rainy night and a little soupy too. look at the fog outside. already seeing visibility below a mile in some locations. 48 currently.

fog could be a big issue overnight. r50 in fredericksburg huntingtown. warm spot easton at 54 degrees. the rain is going to be an impact tonight. ponding on the roads. again, this is going to be up around the orange area here ponding and isolated flooding and poor drainage areas. driving earlier, there were quite a few areas with standing water. give yourself extra time. also you can't see how deep the potholes are. 6:00 we have the rain. around 11:00, we've got the rain. going to be raining then too. tomorrow morning, though, the rain starts to move to the south and east. by 5:00 a.m. most of the rain is out of here. i still think we'll be dealing with wet roads during the morning rush. but the roads should not be all that bad as the rain will be mostly to the south. may try to come back during the afternoon around fredericksburg maybe around portions of southern maryland. but most of the area tomorrow stays dry. watch what happens afternoon. the clouds start to part. we get warming conditions.

and by tomorrow afternoon, it is looking beautiful. your afternoon is looking spectacular with that sunshine. high temperatures in the mi a few more clouds chance of a shower early, especially to the south. most of us remaining dry so that impact forecast on the low side tomorrow. no real big impact from the weather. wet roads but clearing late. this should be down around the low side. that's what i'm putting in for earlier. i'll check on that. now 64 on your wednesday, 56 sunshine on thursday. more rain coming in late friday with a high of 48. if you have plans friday night into the day on saturday it will be rather wet. 61 degrees on saturday, 54 on sunday. right now early next week not looking too bad at all. before i finish just want to say hello to the fourth and sixth-graders at simonehaycock elementary. >> why drones are hovering over

local landmarks in the middle of the nigh >> reporter: potholes potholes they are everywhere. no doubt you're hitting them in your car and some are quite deep.

race a at the center of another deadly shooting. >> and more plans for protests as anger simmers. it's unknown whether the protests will draw the thousands that were part of rallies in madison, wisconsin, yesterday. young people packed the capital and the streets to voice their concerns about the shooting of tony robinson the unarmed black teen was killed by a white police officer last friday night. the wisconsin department of justice is investigating. and autopsy results are due later this week. robinson's family is urging restraint while the facts are gathered. >> we are completely unbiased in this. yes, tony was a loved one of ours and we will miss him and there's nothing we can do to bring him back. but we want to know the facts of the matter and nothing else. >> last year the deaths of unarmed black men in ferguson missouri and new york city triggered a nationwide wave of demonstrations against the use of excessive force. the u.s. ambassador to south korea says he is eager to get

back to work. mark lippert spoke to the media as he left the hospital after last week's attack by a man with a knife in seoul. the ambassador underwent three hours of surgery, got 80 stitches. >> it was obviously a scary incident. i've got a little rehab left to do on the arm. the face feels really good but thanks to the great medical professionals i feel like i said pretty darn good. >> hundreds of south koreans rallied for lippert as he left the hospital today. his alleged attacker is apparent lay well-known anti-u.s. activist. over the next few weeks the secret service will start testing drones over the district. the drones will fly between 1:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. it's part of a government program to find ways to interfere with rogue drones and knock them out of the sky. back in january, a government intelligence employee caused alarm when he crashed his drone on the white house lawn. he was off the clock at the time and said he had been drinking.

d.c. police are questioned about the use of undercover tactics. >> new tonight, why police chief cathy lanier had to answer accusations from d.c. nergson protesters.

some prince william county commuters may be able to take a quicker ride home soon. >> vdot announced it will allow some commuter buss to drive on the shoulder when traffic bogs down on i-66 inside the beltway. >> northern virginia bureau chief julie care joins us live in arlington from one of the areas where the new rules will be in effect. julie? >> reporter: well commuters on i 66 tonight have to be happy about this drive, but it doesn't always look that way. oftentimes at this time of night it is real gridlock down there. that's why on monday march 23rd a new pilot program kicks off. it will allow commuter buses bound for prince william county to go onto the shoulder sometimes when traffic slows. i-6 drivers may have already noticed these signs ready for their big reveal soon and the work that's been done in recent months to remove other signs and reinforce the shoulder lanes. the buses on shoulders program

will be tested in two east bound and two westbound sections of i 66 inside the beltway. and only when traffic in the regular lane slows to 35 miles per hour can the commuter buses shift over to the shoulder lane. there they must travel 25 miles an hour. >> why are we picking certain locations because those are the locations where the shoulder width but enough to implement the program. those are also the locations of severe congestion and the spot where is the maximum number of buses are using. >> reporter: now, coming up on news 4 at 6:00 i'll tell you what a longtime bus commuter on this route thinks of the plan as well as one of the bus drivers and i'll also tell you what vdot is going to be asking maybe begging of the vehicle drivers out on the road. back to you now.

storm team 4 tracking a dreary wet night in the dmv. you can see how dreary it is on i-95 at the icy in laurel where that tractor-trailer overturned today. just to make that situation more dreary pockets of rain in some places. doug what's the new timing for all of this as this system moves through? >> it moves through overnight into tomorrow morning. it should be out of here by the early rush tomorrow, but the bigger factor is going to be this evening and right on through the overnight hours. now we have a new dense fog advisory. this is our tower cam. stocked in. we have the fog. it's thickening lowering as we make our way through the evening. we'll continue to see that. temperature-wise this is fog across the pro poewe toe mack and we'll watch that too. the numbers here. let me go back. i got to step away for just a second. look at the rainmaking its way in across the region. some of that rain on the heavy side. it will continue to be on the heavy side. parts of montgomery county right now seeing some of that heavier

rain right along i-95 where that real big mess is around the i-95 icc area right around laurel. some heavy rain there. more heavy rain down toward the south. this is all part of a much larger system that will just continue to pump in the moisture as we move through the overnight hours. could pick up another quarter to a half an inch of rain so watch out, give yourself a lot of extra time tonight. complete details on the rest of the forecast in just a minute. lab tests are under way now after hazmat crews removed those viles of powder and liquid from that home in d.c.'s chevy chase neighborhood. crews were called to that house yesterday evening after the homeowners found those viles in a safe in the basement a safe that had been left behind by previous owners. this is in northwest just off connecticut avenue. there weren't any injuries. a grand jury indictment has been returned tonight against a d.c. man accused of attacking an elderly alexandria cup until their home. investigators say the couple surprised horace white while he

was in the house. white is accused of stabbing the 84-year-old man. neighbors claim white took the man's wife to an atm to withdraw money. the indictment includes several counts including burglary abduction, wounding and carjacking. she's accused of being asleep while her child wandered the street. now a prince william county mother is facing charges. michelle gonzalez was arrested after a 911 caller reported a 2-year-old on a road in manassas. police searched the neighborhood and they say they found gonzalez asleep in a nearby house. she was arrested and charged with felony child neglect. the child was not injured. d.c.'s police chief is on the defensive today. local activists are accusing the police department of using extreme tactics to stop and question innocent people mostly in african-american neighborhoods. news4's mark segraves has the chief's reaction. >> reporter: groups like the local aclu accuse the department of using excessive force and

what they call jump-out squads to stop and detain suspects. giving examples such as an incident where police took down a suspect high on pcp. >> but when you came you were so brutally abusive towards him that it scared and traumatized everyone and we want you to help us but what you're doing isn't necessarily helpful. >> use of force unlike what is depicted on tv is not always pretty. >> reporter: about a dozen protesters held up signs during the hearing. several testified to having witnessed police using the tactic of undercover police jumping out of unmarked cars and swarming a group of suspects. >> the police are offering what is essentially a military solution to a social problem. >> reporter: chief cathy lanier told the council the only time her officers are in plain clothes and unmarked cars is when they're po patrolling for drug dealers or those with guns. >> we can't doo that in uniform because then the drug transaction doesn't take place. >> reporter: lanier says her department gets lots of complaints about flis political analyst using the tactics

described by the protesters. >> when we finally track down the details we found out wasn't involved at all because we are not the only law enforcement agency that operates in the city. >>. >> reporter: at 6:00 how the chief plans to use technology to ease the public's concerns. in the district mark segraves news4. two students expelled others given until midnight to get their things. now a new video involving racial slurs and a university of oklahoma fraternity has surfaced. the latest involves the housemother for sigma alpha epsilon. it appears to show her using racial slurs as she sings. and it comes after a video of sae members chanting racial slurs and referring to lynchings came to light. now the house has been boarded up and members have until midnight to move out. >> that's not who we are, and we don't want to be defined by those who completely violate our values. >> the housemother released a statement today saying she's not racist and that she was singing along to a song from "trinidad" but she said she understood how

the video may appear in the context. the school says other students could face disciplinary action. there are new questions being raised after that train crash in north carolina. and while a railroad expert says proper protocol may not have been followed. a landmark measure produced on capitol hill. why some senators are fighting to change federal marijuana laws.

oh my god! oh! >> there are questions tonight about whether a train operator had any warning before hitting an oversized truck that got stuck on the rails. that crash in halifax, north carolina sent more than four dozen people to the hospital. the truck driver was trying to make a left turn and got stuck on the tracks and couldn't back up. a state trooper tried helping the driver but couldn't clear the tracks. new tonight, a former official with the federal railroad administration says it appears the trooper didn't stay in contact with train dispatchers during the process. the train was headed from charlotte to new york city with about 200 on board. unimpeded research and removing the fear of federal prosecution. >> that is the goal of a new

bipartisan bill that vounlds medical manl. senators paul rand keirsten gillibrand and cory booker introduced this measure earlier. it would categorize mamg as a schedule two substance, a move they say would allow states to enact medical marijuana laws without fear of federal prosecution. >> probably tens of thousands of people in our country who have diseases that are incurable and that would like to seek palliative treatment. >> the government should not block families from accessing treatment that would ease their children's suffering. >> the proposed bill would also allow for legal banking of profits from recreational marijuana in states that have legalized it. construction on the new d.c. united soccer stadium is expected to begin this september. today mayor muriel bowser team representatives, union leaders announced they have reached a labor peace agreement. the mayor says it's part of her

effort to assure good jobs for district citizens. the new stadium at buzzard point in southwest d.c. will need 800 full and part-time workers to build and staff it when it's opened in 2017. >> d.c. united employees hundreds of d.c. residents and they continue to invest in community-oriented initiatives and programs that benefit our city. >> the mayor said good jobs are crucial for middle and lower-income residents who are often priced out of the cities increasingly expensive housing market. coming up on news4 at 6:00 tom sherwood found out what one local union worker is doing to buy her first home. it's nasty out there this evening. take a look our rockville camera shows the picture well. a lot of rain and a lot of fog. new dense fog advisory.

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anytime you have the fog you'll be dealing with the road. let's look and show you what's happening across our region 48 the current number at the airport. numbers not going anywhere fast. we'll see rain and fog at all hours this evening. that will be big concern not just the rain but the fog. it is raining just about everywhere and raining fairly hard. one exception, down around fredericksburg. i think you'll see the least amount of rain if you look down around fredericksburg stafford spotsylvania county but everybody else seeing heavier rain coming through loudoun county right now, montgomery county. let's zoom into this area right here including into the d.c. metro area. heavier rain around the 270/495 split around bethesda gaithersburg right around olney olney, montgomery village. down towards fairfax county. city of fairfax, centreville, also seeing heavier rain. we'll continue to see that

through the night. another wave that's coming through. this is one wave and here we have another one here. we're not going to see much of a lull in between. may see a little bit in the way of lighter rain but the heavier rain moves in back across the region. once again notice down to the south, not seeing it here. current temperature down around norfolk, 68 degrees. so once again the warm air just down to our south. but that's why we're seeing the rain around our area. that's also why we're starting to see fog. dense fog advisory in effect until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. involves about the entire area with the exception of some of the areas i mentioned, spotsylvania county fredericksburg parts of southern maryland not in the advisory. it's mostly to the north right now, frederick, gaithersburg half-mile visibility in annapolis, less than a hahird of a mile towards frederick. 270 will be a mess with some of that fog and heavier rain this evening. heads up making your way out there. tomorrow's forecast showers will end early, then we'll see

clearing skies then warm. tomorrow afternoon will be beautiful after kind of a crummy looking start. the afternoon looks great. 61 to 66 degrees across the region. 56 on thursday with a beautiful day, plenty of sunshine on thursday. little breezy. 48 degrees on friday. we'll see rain late most of friday looks dry, but then the clouds increase rain late in the day and that will last right on through most of the day on saturday especially in the early portion of the afternoon. if you have plans to be outdoors on saturday you might want to think about that one. maybe moving them to sunday. sunday is looking dry. look at the next couple days after that nice and warm temperatures in the low to mid-50s. all this rain is making a bad problem even worse. potholes are now looking like ponds as they get filled up with water. transportation reporter adam tuss is in northwest d.c. wire >> reporter: i think it's safe to say we have a pothole problem and we do have a few ponds out here. this is 45th street in northwest near yuma street. take a look.

the cone in the middle of the pothole there and all down the street. you see the potholes and the craters and roads around our region are in rough shape. a slow turn around the corner and you can almost sense the minivan is fearful of what's coming. >> they're all over the place. everywhere you go there's a pothole. >> reporter: we measured them some one foot wide some two feet wide many three feet wide or more. and they can be deep. >> all over the place. i actually have an app that tells me where the potholes are. >> reporter: jamie had been busy reporting the problems on her hand-held twice. do you think the city is doing enough? >> no not at all. not at all. they need to be doing better. >> reporter: judging by some road it's more like the surface of the moon than say, yuma street. this is yuma street at 45th. take a look. you can practically play hopscotch in all the potholes out here. it's never-ending. more here more over here. they are huge on this road.

and we've been telling you about one massive pothole in particular on fox hall road northwest. it's still there and creating quite the headache for drivers trying to get around it. back here now live you want to report a pothole here in d.c., the best way to do that is to call 311 or tweet dxdot. they'll get a hold of it then. at 6:00 we asked you to share some of your pothole pictures with us. we'll show them to you and see if we can get them fixed for you. back to you. >> vre is looking for volunteers to test out its new smartphone app expected sometime this spring or summer. lit let riders buy tickets with their phones. we've posted a link to vre's test volunteer application on our nbc washington facebook page and they are accepting them through friday. numbers from the american public transportation association show the use of mass transportation in the d.c. area fell by two

third of a percent last year. that decline was steeper on metro, which saw a drop of 0.8%. metro blames the drop on a number of factors including harsh winter weather that caused school and office closures. and the road is open again after a water main broke along busy route 1 in prince george's county. this happened just north of the beltway in college park. the wssc says that maintains the pipe says it was a six-inch main. crews wrapped up repairs this afternoon and once again those lanes are open. d.c. says only minor glitches today. the first day of new common core aligned standardize test or so-called part tests. we're told some staff briefly showed up at the wrong locations today. montgomery county schools started administering its tests earlier this month. but snow days have disrupted that schedule and we're told some computers failed to boot properly.

we're told that has been fixed. the test is controversial. the artist who created that master summer hit have been found guilty of copying a chart topper from 40 years ago. pharrell williams and robin thicke copied marvin gaye's "gotta give it up" to make "blurred lines." if the musicians now own the gay family $7.3 million. they deny copying the song. the director of the gaming agency is stepping down. he will be leaving the agency at the end of a month to work for a private law firm in baltimore. martino held his post since 2010 when he was appointed by former governor martin o'malley. under his tenure five casinos have opened in the state. a federal appeals court is upholding virginia's policy of keeping death row inmates in solitaire confinement.

the fourth circuit court of appeals made the ruling today by a 2-1 margin. the majority of the courts say prison officials are entitled to broad latitude in establishing death row security procedures and that the policy does not violate their due process. a note from the boat. today jurors at the trial of the accused boston marathon bomber were shown photos of that handwritten note that came from the inside walls of a boat. prosecutors say dzhokhar tsarnaev wrote it while he was hiding from police in the backyard of a boston suburb. the note has lines of blood and several bullet holes. it says the u.s. government is quote, killing our innocent civilians and, quote, as a muslim i can't stand to see such evil go unpunished. during cross-examination, the defense may note that all the bullet holes were from shots coming into the boat and that no bombs, guns or weapons of any kind were found inside. a former ravens linebacker struggles each day with als. >> new tonight, why he says he

opposes new death with dignity legislation in maryland. and hillary clinton answering questions tonight about why she used a private e-mail account while she was .

a former ravens player with lou gehrig's disease said he felt compelled to testify against a bill in maryland

death with dignity, which would allow people to get fatally ill people a prescription to end their lives. >> o.j. opposes the legislation. given the terminally ill with six months to live the right to end their lives on their own terms. he was able to testify with the help of a computer. >> it's been challenging, of course. however, i did not create my life so i have no right to negate my life. >> reporter: brigance played in 2000. he joined the front office years before being diagnosed with als in 2007. >> with the use of no hands i was able to write a book two years ago. i can't tell you of the numerous people who have been encouraged through their own personal struggle because i decided to face my struggle against als. >> reporter: 80 people signed up to testify for and gent the death with dignity bill.

a qualified patient would have to be a terminally ill adult with six months to live declared competent, a maryland resident and self-administer the prescription overdose. the patient would have to a ask the doctor twice then a third time in writing witnessed by two others. >> i am not ware of anybody being told oh you have six months to live and they run out and get the medicine and take it. it really is getting down to that end time. >> reporter: the senate committee asked is pain really the indicator here. what are the social moral, implications? does this bill encourage people to take their own lives? >> to me this issue is about our humanity. it's also about freedom. it's about honoring wishes. it's about options. >> i don't know how many days i have left to live but each and every one has a purpose. the thought there would be a legal avenue for an individual to take his or her own life in a

moment of despair robbing family friend and society of their presence and contribution to society deeply saddens me. now at 6:00 above and beyond. hillary clinton defends her use of personal e-mails as secretary of state and says she turned over everything that's been asked of her and more. >> i did it for convenience, and now looking back i think it might have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning. >> so the question now, will that explanation be enough. good evening. i'm wendy rieger sitting in for doreen gentzler. >> i'm jim vance. new reaction from democrats and republicans about the clinton e-mail controversy. our brian mooar is on capitol hill with the latest. brian? >> jim and wendy, hillary says she's turned over tens of thousands of those e-mails in question. but not everything. after days of controversy, hillary clinton is defending her

use of private e-mails as secretary of state, calling it a matter of convenience and nothing more. >> looking back it would have been better if i had simply used a second e-mail account and carried a second phone. but at the time this didn't seem like an issue. >> reporter: the former secretary says the vast majority of her e-mails were to government employees and archived on government e-mail servers. >> i fully complied with every rule that i was governed by. >> reporter: she says 55,000 pages of e-mails have been handed over to the state department which announced they'll be publicly released after they've been reviewed and redacted. >> we said we expect the review to take several months. obviously that hasn't changed. release will be posted on a publicly available website. >> reporter: but clinton also revealed she didn't keep thousands of e-mails she considers personal. >> emails about planning