ureau chief tracee wilkins joins us now live. she's at police headquarters with some new information about this. >> reporter: prince george's county police are saying that it was not the pursuit that caused the death of this innocent man but the decisions that the driver of that stolen car made last night. police say 22-year-old larry henson of southeast was behind the wheel of that stolen car that injured a police officer and took the life of an innocent 61-year-old driver in temple hills. >> but, again, mr. henson through his flagrant disregard for the safety of the public has led us to a place where we've lost a life. >> reporter: this all started with what appeared to be a routine traffic stop last night for driving without headlights but quickly escalated according to police when the driver took off, striking and injuring one officer and two additional officers who tried to catch up to the fleeing car. police say there was a brief pursuit at about half a mile later. henson crashed into multiple cars along branch avenue

killing one driver 61-year-old charles viveret of clinton. >> we wish to express our condolences to the family who lost the individual killed by the reckless behavior. >> reporter: henson ran but was caught. he was already on probation for an armed carjacking in prince george's. >> every critical incident this set of circumstances will be reviewed by our executive review panel. they there will be recommendations made. >> reporter: this is the second time that a police pursuit in prince george's county has ended in someone's death. just a few weeks ago it was a police officer who died come. on news 4 at 6:00, the department responds to that. one person is dead after another crash. this one shut down part of the b.w. parkway for nine hours. police say this was not an accident. it happened early this morning near route 202 on the northbound side in cheverly. a lincoln intentionally forced a

ford mustang off the road. it rolled over and caught fire. the driver in that mustang was trapped and was killed. we're told the people in the lincoln then bailed out before officers got there. they still had not been caught. tonight, new reaction to more than 60 charges filed against a former fbi agent. because of his actions, dozens of cases against drug dealers have now been thrown out. news4's mark segraves joins us with the fallout. >> reporter: these charging documents filed today here in u.s. district court tell a story of an fbi agent gone bad. former special agent matthew lowry stole heroin from drug dealers at crime scenes and right out of the fbi's own evidence control center. according to prosecutors, lure matthew lowry began stealing heroin back in 2013 from evidence seized during high-profile drug busts in the d.c. area.

between 2013 and 2014 he tampered with nearly 2,000 grams of heroin. lowry's attorney says his client didn't do it for money. >> he was afflicted with a very serious and painful medical condition. he was prescribed pain medication. he became addicted to it. so he made a very criminally poor judgment to medicate himself and to deal with his medical condition by taking small amounts of heroin that had been seized during the course of some fbi drug investigations. >> reporter: the heroinrin lowry stole was from evidence in five major drug investigations dating back to 2011. after the fbi learned of the tainted evidence prosecutors were forced to dismiss charges against 26 defendants some of whom had already pled guilty and were serving time. and the fallout didn't end with closed cases. two ongoing investigations were dropped as well. >> agent lowry understands that he did wrong and that there's a punishment component that goes wit, so i think he's realistic

about the nature of punishment. >> reporter: now, his attorney says that lowry will walk sba into this federal courthouse next time and plead guilty to all those charges. this may never have come to light had lowry not overdosed behind the wheel of his car last year and been picked up by police. at 6:00 how he was able to get his hands on all of that heroin without anyone noticing. kids in frederick, maryland got one more snow day today, a decent coating on the grass and the bushes. the pretreated roads were primarily just wet and no one we talked to seemed to be too happy about the spring snow. so when is it finally going to feel like spring around here? >> that's the big question. doug is in the weather sent we are the answer. >> this summer. >> yeah. at the rate we're going. >> letshow you's show you the snowfall

totals. through portions of maryland we saw a little more. d.c. metro area we saw about half an inch. only a trace at the airport. here's the snow. going away pretty quick. still seeing some rain this afternoon, eve an little in the way of drizzle that continues. don't be surprised so see that drizzle this evening. it will be cool. if you are heading out, it's going to stay on the chilly side. 37 degrees at 7:00 dropping to 36 for 9:00 and 11:00. forecast coming up for the rest of the weekend and spring temperatures. the chilly start to spring didn't stop people from getting out and getting down to the cherry blossoms. >> derrick ward is live at the tidal basin tonight. not really any cherry blossoms there right now, derrick. am i right? >> reporter: perfectly right.

you win the $64,000 question of this newscast. it doesn't look like spring and doesn't feel like spring down here but don't worry. in just a matter of days these trees will be full of blossoms and it's just matter of time. we rarely if ever see the cherry blossoms this early in the year. but the cold wet, snowy weather we've seen today makes the beauty of the blossoms seem that much more distant. >> i think they're going to have a hard time growing some cherry blossoms in this weather. >> reporter: there were those who held out a ray of hope that they could catch some sign of the blooming beauty that's come to symbolize springtime in d.c. at the tidal basin. >> we were expecting the cherries but the weather here it should be spring but currently it's still winter. >> reporter: now, there were some signs of the season to be found around the tidal basin and they were just that -- signs. literally. and elsewhere around town little bits of spring could be found holding their own amid the white stuff that fell in the early morning hours. but here at blossom central

sightseeing went on without even much of a hint of the buds or eve the warmth associated with springtime springtime. >> it's just unfortunate because we're only here for a day. >> reporter: even without the pink garland that will soon surround the tidal basin and beckon thousands, tourists found a certain beauty here. >> really clean and tidy. >> reporter: on this first day of spring very cold. now, the peak blooming period is expected to be sometime between the 11th and the 14th. the first blooms should appear in the first month of april. coming up on news 4 at 6:00 we'll talk about another rite of spring that happens regardless of the temperature. at the tidal basin, back to you. a judge has delayed sentencing for a man convicted of sexually assaulting men he met playing beer pong. joey poindexter was supposed to be sentenced in montgomery county court today. police say he had been victimizing young adult men for a decade. meeting them at bars and luring

them to his maryland home. the latest in the middle east where it's been a violent day. an isis affiliate is claiming responsibility for suicide bombings that killed at least 137 people. wounded more than blasts occurred in the yemen capital. a government official tells nbc news in both cases the suicide bombers set off their explosives inside mosques and then again outside when the people were running for safety. this is the deadliest attack in yemen, which is war torn for decades. tonight one community in our area is investigating its first murder in almost a year and a half. fredericksburg. police arrested chance sumpter for first-degree murder. police si that thanks to a tip they found him hiding in a closet of his apartment just after a man who lived in that same complex was found stabbed in the chest. that man, joseph wormley, died

at the hospital. police say the two knew each other. this is fredericksburg's first murder since november of 2013. an american university professor sentenced to jail. we just learned david pitts will spend a year and a day in prison for breaking into stores and setting fires. you'll recall this occurred back in september at the fox hall square shopping center. he's accused of lighting a chair on fire then starting another aze in a wooded area. college students ask tough questions today to police in charlottesville, then walk out in protest. our david culvert is on campus at uva tonight. we'll get to him in two minutes. and they met a woman at a mall while they were looking for work but instead walked into a nightmare.

breaking news in the district one person shot and one person beating on a metro bus. >> jackie bensen just got to the scene. >> reporter: this was a wild and unfortunate ride on the 92 bus this afternoon. it was head odd the reef center in the 2400 block of good hope road southeast. there was an altercation inside that bus. it ended up with a man pulling out a gun, shooting at another man and injuring a woman. she was just ride topg bus. she was hit in the leg and will be okay. i'm joined by dan stessel from metro because he has an interesting story for us. we initially thought the two men, one woman went to the hospital with a gunshot wound we thought the two men with injuries were victims. your investigators found something different. >> the video evidence aboard the bus, equipped with five cameras, they determined that the two individuals, those two males who were transported were actually the two who were involved in the fight. so now they're at the hospital but they are also in police

custody. >> reporter: and the road is closed bus not going anywhere for a while. >> it will be processed for crime scene. they're reviewing the video off the bus and talking with those suspects and the female at the hospital. fortunately, she's going to be okay. >> reporter: dan stessel from metro. a robust presence here by both investigators and police from metro, transit police and also d.c. police. you can see because of the video on that bus they were quickly able to determine that these two men who were injured were actually the two who had been involved in this fight. one man pulled out a gun, shot the other and wounded a female passenger just on her way into the district to the reef center on the 92 bus. live in southeast washington jackie bensen news4. >> good to know there are five karas on board. nearly all of maryland's campsite ts along the pappa lags trail are back open. most were closed when a falling tree killed a hiker.

the victim jason parrish, is a musician from the philadelphia area. all week crews have been fixing limbs and trimming back other potential hazards. house speaker john boehner plans to visit israel. this trip was planned before this week's election when prime minister benjamin netanyahu won his fourth term. boehner angered administration officials when he invited netanyahu to deliver a speech to congress earlier this month. netanyahu used that speech to criticize the obama administration's negotiations with iran on a possible nuclear deal. the house committee investigating the deadly attacks in benghazi has asked hillary clinton to turn over her private e-mail server. the committee chairman wants a third party to decide which e-mails on clinton's e-mail server are made public. he says clinton is responsible for causing this issue by using a private e-mail server. so far clinton says the server will remain private, but she's pledged that her state department-related e-mail will

be made public. the illinois congressman who resigned this week over questions about his spending habits is under federal investigation. a source tells the a.p. that the justice department is looking into whether republican aaron shock committed crimes while in office. questions began to swirl after it was discovered shock used there are 40,000 from his congressional account to make over his office in the style of "downton abbey." there were also questions about his business deals and lavish spending on overseas travel. cracking down on fracking. tonight the white house is laying some ground rules when it comes to what you know chemical companies are putting into the ground. the obama administration is requiring companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to disclose which chemicals they're using to pull those resources from the ground. this form of drilling is a controversial issue in apartments of maryland west virginia as well as pennsylvania and new york. environmentalists have complained that drilling companies have polluted people's drinking water.

and the royals are continuing their u.s. tour. they're stopping in louisville kentucky today. prince charles and duchess camilla arrived early this afternoon and plan to visit a cultural festival at the african-american heritage center there. this is their last stop before they leave the united states. this isn't the first time a member of the royal family has been to louisville. queen elizabeth was at the kentucky derby in 2007. efforts to fix what feels like a pothole plague in the district are about to kick into high gear. here's news4's melissa mollet with details. >> reporter: a promise from d.c.'s government as they try to smooth out your commute. the department of transportation plans to hold its pothole palooza next week. it also plans to accelerate its response time to reports of potholes planning to get to them 48 hours after the report comes in instead of the normal 72 hours. news4 i-team's investigation into how long d.c. takes to fill

those potholes and report them on the investigation section on the nbc washington app. this is not right. this is wrong. >> dozens of men and women gathered at penn state to protest a fraternity accused of posting photos of naked women on facebook. some of those women were passed out. police say the invite-only page had more than 100 members. accused fraternity kappa delta rho has already been suspended by its national organization. now demonstrators want the school to take action against those involved. right now students at the university of virginia are demanding more answers from police. they abruptly ended a meeting today over the arrest of a student, martese johnson. our northern virginia bureau reporter david culvert is in charlottesville with what police hoped to accomplish. >> reporter: that phrase repeated more than a dozen times. representatives of black student groups angered by what they call a lack of transparency and cell

phone cameras were led into this student-led discussion. on stage were the chiefs of police for several local agencies and the secretary of of public safety who oversees the alcoholic beverage control commission. the contentious hour of questioning grew more and more tense. it ended with students marching out. following them out, martese johnson, the arrested early wednesday morning. abc agents took him into custody. it led to a bloody scene that went viral and ultimately sparked protests. >> this campus, this place has been through a lot in the past couple months. >> reporter: ahead of the meeting we heard from schatz schill and albemarle county police chiefs. their agencies were not behind martese's arrest but they're hoping to mend a weakened relationship with uva students. >> but ask as we move forward what could have been done differently. even my own officers asked, why are you going? we weren't involved in that. well yes, we're all painted with the same broad brush.

all of us. >> reporter: the student who is gathered were also angry with their own student council who they say left them out of the planning for this dialogue. martese didn't say anything at the event, he just left hugging several of his supporters. at 6:00, you eel hear from secretary brian moran. he oversees the abc. what he has to say about today's event. questions answered more than a deck i.d. lateade later. the closure for one almost 14 years after the 9/11 attacks. and what happened and why? a tragic end in the search far missing man and the way he was found could reignite racial tensions. the important step that's about to take place for people who work at the washington navy yard. this last day of winter brought us a little snow earlier. now the low clouds, the fog still there.

spring is just like an hour and 20 minutes away. >> not really sure wendy. >> we've been talking about this for weeks, buddy. >> how far is spring? >> 6:45. >> an hour 20 minutes, 40 seconds away. >> like pi squared. >> i could watch that all day. but we won't. we'll show you what happened earlier today. spring officially begins in an hour. look what winter brought. this is reston this morning. watch this. the snow is falling and watch the landscape there. snow covered but then the clouds start to leave, the rain starts to come down and we start to lose the snow. this is exactly what we told you happened during the day yesterday. yeah kind of a nasty evening out there right now. take a look.

current temperature sitting at 38 degrees. winds out of the north at 15 miles per hour. so our windchill down in the upper 20s to around 30. it's a very chilly evening if you're heading out on this friday night, you may need to take the umbrella with you but definitely the jackets. 35 huntingtown, 38 in fredericksburg. 41 down towards -- sorry -- >> are you okay? >> it's coming. >> let's go. take a look at the radar. not much going on now. we are all good. everything is a-okay. and it will continue to be. thank you, my friend. i appreciate that. i can't -- i can't hold it. i can't hold it handly while i'm doing the weather. there goes the rain. this there goes the snow as it moves through the region. still snowing up around the new york area. for us we saw about a trace down towards the airport, upwards of 6 inches back towards washington county around the hagerstown area. temperatures tomorrow much much nicer.

we can all take a nice sip of what spring will bring us tomorrow. 60 degrees in d.c. 63 fredericksburg 57 in gaithersburg and 57 up towards hagerstown. nice and mild if not warm when you consider where we are out there during the day today. impact forecast for tomorrow should say tomorrow not today, a cool start but a nice afternoon. i think we'll see sunshine during the day, mixture of sun and clouds through our saturday. saturday looks good sunday looks good, too, a high temperature of 51. it's a little bit cooler. some of you will stay in the upper 40s but with sunshine and light wind sunday should be a pretty good day too. monday we get cool again. down to 45. back up to 50 degrees on tuesday. we stay dry through this period. and then we have a chance for some rain coming up on thursday. a pretty good chance of some rain on thursday with a high temperature close to 70 degrees. wednesday a high of 62 degrees. then we get close to that 70 then go right back down as we head towards friday into the weekend. that's going to be the setup over the next few. we go up we go down we go up,

down, that is the month of march. tomorrow the first official day of spring and we're bringing good news. 60 degrees. we'll take it. can i get some more water? >> yeah. we got a pitcher for you, buddy. thank you, doug. a virginia native makes national headlines. >> for all the wrong reasons. the allegations against a retired football player who's already facing quite a few problems off the field. i'm scott mcfarlane in the newsroom where we've learned the man at the center of a news4 i-team story has learned his fate today. >> reporter: she's search warrant documents tell of a horrific crime. kwo two young women afive are mongolia agree to clean a house but say they were drugged and sexually assaulted.

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first at 5:30 a terrifying trip for two young women from mongolia who came to our area to study. >> they tell police they were drugged and sexually assaulted after being lured to a burke home with the promise of a job. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey uncovered this story digging through search warrants. she joins us live from the fairfax county courthouse with a story first on 4. >> reporter: well these search warrant documents that i picked up today tell the awful story of two students who thought they were getting a house cleaning job only to wind up in the hospital. now it's important to note while police have identified potential suspects no arrests have yet been made. but they're taking the unusual step of getting the word out about this alleged assault because they fear there could be more victims. the two women tell police they were at boston common mall in arlington on march 8th going store to store inquiring about jobs. according to the search warrant affidavit another mongolian woman approached them and told them she owned a house cleaning

business and had a home that needed cleaning. a man who works at the mall drove them to his burke home. there the women say they were offered wine. they say their customs dictate they drink it. both say they soon blacked out and remember very little else. one woman says she briefly awakened to find a man sexually assaulting her. the next morning another man in the house reportedly asked is that the girl that was screaming last night? what happened to her eye? did someone hit her? when the women got home, the other alleged victim found evidence she'd been raped. they went to inova fairfax hospital. police and a mongolian embassy representative arrived there. the search warrant affidavit documents their physical injuries. one woman had multiple contusions and lacerations and required nine stitches. the other had a handprint bruise on one leg and a large abrasion over her right eye. >> the allegations are extremely serious and extremely disturbing and concerning that people would come here to study from another

country and have something like this happen. our detective believes the victims and is working very hard on this case. >> reporter: the fairfax county police executed a search warrant at the burke home seizing floor samples that reveal red stains and they seized electronics there. >> this is an ongoing investigation and certainly the lab work will be key into whether or not charges will be placed. >> reporter: coming up on news 4 at 6:00 i'll tell you more about why police think there could be more victims. they would like anyone with information that could be helpful to this case to contact the detective directly. you can go to our nbc washington app and click on "sexual assault" to get his contact information. back to you. he's accused of holding a gun to a man's head. now a police officer in prince george's county is facing assault charges. jenchesky santiago seen here when he first joined the force, is accused of threat ang man outside a home in bowie last may.

police say santiago was on duty at the time. we're told it happened after a dispute over parking. >> it's disturbing. it's unacceptable on this police department and it won't be tolerated. >> it's our responsibility to continue to maintain the trust of this community who we have promised that we would hold accountable even our own. >> officer santiago's police powers have been suspended now. he's been with the department for three years. later tonight the navy is closing the temporary offices it opened for employees of the navy very hard building 197. the news4 i-team reports the final employees who were relocated in the wake of the 2013 mass shooting returned to building 197 monday morning. in late 2013 the navy set up work areas at an old coast guard office building near ft. mcnair and southwest d.c. hundreds of buildings 197 employees at naval sea systems command have been working from there ever since. workers have been gradually returning to the reopened

building 197 since february. the last bunch leaves the temporary space tonight. today the maryland senate voted to end state-mandated storm water fees. nine counties and the city of baltimore pay fees which critics call the rain tax. this bill is now on the way to the house. the law would not require counties to charge a fee to meet federal storm water requirements to clean up pollution in the chesapeake bay, but counties would have to show they can meet the requirements. richmond native and former nfl darren sharper is now facing rape charges in las vegas. he's already in jail in los angeles accused of drugging and raping two women in 2013. these new charges in las vegas accuse him of forcing sex on two women last year while they were incapable of resisting. sharper also faces similar charges in new orleans and the phoenix area all stemming from alleged attacks that occurred in 2013. a former d.c. fire employee admits he used taxpayer money to gas up his own personal jaguar.

his crime the subject of a recent investigation by the news4 i-team's scott mcfarlane. as scott reports tonight, that man has lost his job and could now be headed to prison. >> jim, the i-team revealed government workers have stolen $2 million worth of gasoline in recent years by swiping taxpayer-funded fuel cards to fill their personal cars. terrell mccray a-31-year-old former staff assistant with d.c. fire, is one of them. he pleaded guilty today in d.c. superior court to fraud. the feds say he used his federal government fleet card last year for thousands of dollars of gas that he either used in his personal jaguar or resold to others. he'll face up to 180 days, six months in jail and will be sentenced in may. the i-team's learned the d.c. fire department let him go shortly after our investigation aired last month. >> over the country. they're everywhere where the government does business and needs automobiles and transportation to get places.

>> a second former d.c. fire employee pleaded guilty to fraud for misusing a gas card last month. that's kimberly pinkney, who will likely avoid jail, but she's agreed to pay back the money for the gas she'd stolen $11,000 worth. back to you. spring is here! and it's time to clean jewelry. i will make this fast and painless. stick around. i'll show you a few things. are you cleaning my house, erika? that would be fantastic. take a look out there. looking good tomorrow, starting off cool. if you're getting in that morning run on the cool side. 35 degrees. going up close to 40 by 9:00 a.m. then boom, 60 during the afternoon.

30 federal investigators are working a death case in mississippi after an african-american man was found hanging from a tree. the fbi and justice department joined this case to help determine if otis bird's death was suicide or murder. a special agent said this afternoon that everyone wants answers and wants them quickly. bird was found about a half-mile from his home after he was reported missing two weeks ago. there are more than 5 million americans living with alzheimer's and there is no drug no therapy to stop or slow

the disease. doctors stay an experimental drug though, is showing some great promise in early research. in this small study from drugmaker biogen it slowed memory loss in people just starting to show symptoms. experts in the alzheimer's field are optimistic about the findings but urge caution. >> this is very early in those human clinical trials. it will be going to its next phase where often we've seen these drugs fail. >> the alzheimer's community is buzzing about an experimental drug which is showing great promise again in early research. again, more than 5 million americans living with alzheimer's. no drugs, no therapy. the doctors say this experimental drug may benefit mills s millions of others in the earliest stages. even though the cherry blossom festival has begun, there will be track work on metro this weekend. trains on the orange silver blue and yellow lines will operate every 18 minutes this weekend.

the red and green lines will have a regular schedule. usually track work is suspended during this festival but this year metro decided to continue track work for the first two weekends. a community fixture left in ruins. now there's a new snag in the plan to get a local landmark back up and running. . >> reporter: a lawsuit filed by a deaf and homeless man who says he was denied an sperpter while locked up for six weeks. his s

this homeless man says he was put in jail for six weeks and he could not communicate with anyone because he is deaf. >> now he's suing the arlington county sheriff's department for not introproviding him with an interpreter despite repeated requests. >> news4's kristin wright has his story. >> reporter: abraham told us his story from his attorney's office in washington. abraham is deaf and spoke to us through an interpreter taking us back more than a month he spent in jail he says confused scared and isolated.

>> knocking on the walls, knocking on the doors, and just constantly being ignored. >> reporter: abraham was arrested and accused of stealing an ipad at reagan national airport february of last year. for two days he says he didn't even know why he was handcuffed. for six weeks he says the jail refused to provide an interpreter. he doesn't read or write english except one word. >> a paper and pen and wrote interpreter. every time i made that request i was denied. >> reporter: he filed a lawsuit against the arlington county sheriff and the virginia department of corrections. the 27-page complaint claims they violated the americans with disabilities about. arlington county sheriff's chief deputy paul larson tells me they plan to fight the suit. did you provide him with an interpreter? >> again, i'm not going to get into the specifics of that. but i'm very confident that we did what we were supposed to do. >> reporter: attorney tannenbaum's law firm is take tong case pro bono. he says abraham missed meals in

jail because he couldn't hear the alarm telling inmates it was time to eat. and tannenbaum says abraham couldn't even communicate with doctors. >> he went six weeks without any medication to treat his back. >> reporter: abraham says he pleaded guilty without knowing what he was doing and was released from the jail. the lawsuit seeks monetary damages, the amount not determined. abraham says he doesn't sleep. >> that experience has really scarred me. >> reporter: kristin wright news4. a plan to bring back a capitol hill area landmark is back to its original spot. it's no longer moving ahead. roadside development says after months of negotiations they were unable to finalize an agreement to buy the old hardware site before the contract expired. you'll recall that store was gulted by a fire back in 2013. this plan would have redeveloped the property with fragers getting a long-term lease. it's been seven years since the iconic watergate hotel

closed. it's now set to open soon. the $125 million renovation is almost done. that watergate hotel will be hosting guests starting late summer or early fall. the watergate complex made famous by the 1972 burglary that led to the resignation of president nixon. mayor muriel bowser says the rejuvenated hotel will be good for business. it's going to generate 350 jobs and some tax revenue for the city. >> prime property down there. well we are less than an hour away now as the countdown continues. doug's in the storm center. doug? >> i think everybody's just excited to get some spring like weather in here. we haven't had a lot of it. we've had one here or there. tomorrow will be another one that just coincides with the saturday. right now we have the cloudy conditions. a little bit of drizzle in parts of the region and eve an little bit of a breeze. 37 degrees right now, windchills in the upper 20s to lower 30s. 37 around 7:00. temperatures won't fall all that much. it will continue to be a fairly chilly evening. 34 rockville, 34 gaithersburg manassas at 37 degrees,

warrenton at 38 degrees, annapolis at 35. we are very cool. our average high this time of year is 58 degrees so we're about 20 degrees below average today and it's all because of that storm right there. this is the storm that brought us the rain early then switched over the snow by early this morning and most of the area down to the south of d.c. as we told you, this was mostly a rain event. but seeing all snow around philly all snow around new york city and that storm continues to pull on out. what's behind it? better weather. cool to start the day but then we'll get into mild weather, sunshine on our saturday as wendy rieger would like to say, everybody can get out and -- >> frolic! >> thank you. i knew she was listening. yes, frol sick the word tomorrow. get out there and have a good time with it because it will be that nice even around 5:00 tomorrow afternoon, nice and mild if not warm when you consider where we were today. what do you wear tomorrow? it's the sunglasses and the light jacket. that's going to be about it. you won't need the boots, you won't need the heavy coats for sure. get out and do a little bike riding. 40 degrees at 9:00 a.m. 57 by

1:00 60 by 5:00. remember everything wb linebacker on the wet side especially some of those back trails so heads up for that. 51 degrees on your sunday so, the weekend's pretty good. we are going down towards monday with a high temperature of only 45. back to 50 on tuesday and then we get warm again, 62 on wednesday, 69 on thursday. could get near 70 but pretty good chance of some shower activity at least some rain on thursday. guys? this weekend we have a new museum opening, a little north on the campus of george washington university. g. swvmt the new home of the city's 90-year-old textile museum. the same facility will also be hosting artifacts that are connected to the history of our capital city. this is the latest for g.w. which as you recall acquired the corcoran gallery and its art school just a few months back. well despite the snow and all-around gloomy weather we've had this winter it is the first day of spring and nothing is more synonymous with this season than cleaning. right? consumer reporter erika gonzalez is here to show us how to get

this over with fast so we can get back more of our day. >> reporter: it won't be long before the flowers bloom and the sun gets so bright you have a clear shot of all the things in your house that need cleaning. but i promise this will go quick. we turn to the cleaning pros at "consumer reports" for their best advice. when tackling windows, there's a couple different items you could use. paper towel, newspaper, or microfiber towels although the newspaper will probably save you the trip to the store. you can make your own glass cleaner with three items that you likely already have in your home. dish soap ammonia, and rubbing alcohol. when tackling your floors this traditional mop is what you may have but this is what the experts say you should have microfiber. this may be better for bigger stains the experts at "consumer reports" say microfiber is 20% more effective at getting bacteria and dirt off your floors. nobody likes the taste of burnt coffee so aside from washing your carafe with soapy water,

now is a great time to do equal parts water and vinegar and run it through the machine. you've got a lot of different surfaces in your home and the dusters can be very expensive. for about $5 you can do the pledge or the swiffer multisurface wipes. toilets can be tough to deal with but this is what the experts at "consumer reports" says does the trick. a little bit of clr around the rim, a little bit of water, let it set a couple minute then scrub, scrub, scrub. moldy shower curtains you don't have to throw this away. toss this into your washer with a cup of vinegar, a couple of towels you set it with warm water on the gentle cycle, pull it out before the spin cycle starts and then shake dry. it's time to declutter your closets. three simple piles -- keep sell and donate. don't forget about this guy. send for reinforcements and give your mattress a flip. your dogs and cats shed all over your furniture.

take a lint roller give them a few rolls. see, it was quick and painless. leaving you with plenty of time to enjoy the weekend. erika gonzalez news4. a mother calls it one of the worst days of her life but now she and her family are finally getting some closure after her son went to work and never came home. >> kind of open up the door and say it would be nice if matt was here and knew what was going on. and changes in the wake of the news4 i-team investigation that found some local government drivers take beerg f

rap mogul suge knight collapsing in court after bail was set. his lawyer said he was dripping with sweat, told him he hadn't eaten or taken his medication. he's accused of running down two men in southern california earlier this year killing one of them. walmart will pay $10 million to the children of comedian james mcnair who was killed in the car crash that injured comedian tracy morgan last june. mcnair died when that walmart truck hit a van carrying him, morgan and others on the new jersey turnpike. morgan's attorney says he suffered a traumatic brain injury. the family of a man killed in the september 11th terror attacks can finally have a small

measure of peace. >> more than a decade later, the victim's remains have been positively identified. >> reporter: matthew yarnell's name has been on the black of the memorial ever since it was erected near the steel beams from the towers on display. though matt was long considered a victim of the 9/11 attack, the medical examiner's office had never been able to say conclusively that he was killed there until now. they announced they found a match. we spoke to matt's mother michele yarnell, over the phone. >> it's eesit's sort of a confirmation of something we've always known, but, i mean, it wasn't going to change anything. it just makes you feel like okay well now we know and we can put everything to rest. >> reporter: the m.e.'s office has been retesting the remains found at the site at dna technology advances over the years. 2,753 people were reported missing that day. of them 1,640 have been

identified. matt you matthew's family now added to the list of people who finally have closure. >> matthew was a very intelligent, fun-loving guy. he was a prankster. he was very very caring very nice to his friends. >> reporter: matthew's friends spent weeks combing the streets of manhattan looking for him back then hoping he'd turn up in a hospital somewhere. not having proof of his death all these years made it harder to let go. >> every now and then especially at the anniversary or on his birthday or some special occasion you always kind of open up the door and say, you know, it would be nice if matt was here and if we really knew what was going on and where he was and what happened. >> the medical examiner's office says they'll keep retesting others' remains as new methods evolve. >> and their hope is to bring closure to as many of the victims' families as possible. we are still following breaking news involving a shooting on a metro bus.

metro transit police say the victim was an innocent bystander. >> news4's jackie bensen is on the scene at good hope road with new reaction from a woman who was on that bus when the shot was fired. jackie? >> reporter: well the victim we now know she was just riding the bus downtown. she's going to be okay. we're told she was struck in the knee by a bullet after two men who were on the bus got into an argument it's ka lated into something physical and then we're told one of the men pulled out a gun, fired at the other, missed and hit the lady passenger. what we can tell you is there were plenty of people on that bus and this cawed quite a commotion. here's what one of those passengers had to say. >> well we was on the bus on our way down from the store. between this bus stop and a second bus stop there was a scuffle in the back of the bus. all of a sudden we heard a gunshot. okay? so commotion started going on everybody started to run off.

when i got off, there was another scuffle in the front of the bus. it was terrible. shot right here and blood profusely coming out. she didn't know she was shot until she got off the bus. >> reporter: those two guys on the bus, when the police arrived they had sxwrurinjuries from their fight, they were take on the hospital they never mentioned to the police that they were the ones who were fighting and one of them had fired the gun. those metro detectives looked back looked at the video from the five cameras on board the bus, quickly figured out they were suspects, not victims, andry restand ry arrested them. jackie bensen news4. a local fbi agent is facing prison time for stealing and using heroin from the fbi's evidence room. tonight his attorney is explaining how and why he