>> i couldn't imagine being in that position or missing my loved one every day the way that they are. and i just -- i can't even comprehend right now. >> an italian aid worker lo porto, also died in the strike. in 15 minutes we'll talk to nbc's tracie potts about tough questions the president and administration are facing over the faulty intelligence that led to this strike. d.c. police are investigating a murder in northeast. officers found the man's body yesterday afternoon. someone shot him. police are offering a $25,000 reward that leads to the arrest. today, john hinckley jr. returns to federal court to argue for more freedom. the man who shot ronald reagan in 1981 is asking to leave a d.c. mental hospital for good. government lawyers are against it. they want him banned from facebook as well. they d hinckley

googling himself. today, the court will hear from two doctors from williamsburg virginia where hinckley spends a lot of his time with his mother. 4:31 your time now on this friday morning. we have made it to friday. weekend -- >> hallelujah. >> but we are still dealing with a chill. i was smart enough to grab the coat this morning. >> very good. i think we need more than a coat this morning. it's that cold to me. >> storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is here to tell us how bad it is. >> aaron, when you think you have done something right by remembering your coat i'm telling you need more than. a hat and gloves maybe. a chilly start this morning. temperatures have fallen back into the upper 30s and low 40s so it's not technically as cold as yesterday. the difference is we have the wind still up. so windchills are down below freezing this morning in much of the shenandoah valley and northern maryland. here's your exclusive sky cast 4 for today. plan on plenty of blue skies and sunshine out there.

but it will stay cooler than average as we go through the remainder of the day. 30s and 40s out the door. mid 50s at lunch. upper 50s. might get near 60 degrees. at least it will be dry for your friday. rain chances are coming back by tomorrow afternoon. more on that in ten minutes. for now, it looks like 66 will be trouble, melissa. >> there's what we're looking at my desk in the traffic center. 66 westbound at gallows looks like they have some construction going on there and now a crash there. a warning there as you're kind of near the beltway. looks like you can stay left and get by. taking a look at 95 into and out of town you're fine. a little bit slow here. northbound as you approach dale city that's because of road work that's blocking off one lane at this point this morning. so nothing too worry about. 95 in maryland b.w. parkway looking good, 270 at montrose, no problems northbound or southbound.

coming up we'll look at 95 in maryland. 4:33. this story has a lot of people fired up online. a student organization at the university of maryland has postponed a screening of the movie "american sniper." that award winning film depicts the life and career of chris kyle. it came after the muslim student association protested. it claims the movie spreads islamaphobia. someone posted a derogatory comment about muslims. >> they're talking the muslim students as well for objecting to this screening of "american sniper." and i think it's important to keep in mind that the concern is not that the film was being screened specifically. but the fact that there wasn't any kind of broader discussion taking place. >> now supporters call kyle an american hero and they want the movie shown on campus. the school says tha creates a dang reuss climate. today, an area university

will celebrate the life of grace mann. her roommate is said to have killed her in the apartment. a vigil for her is set to begin at noon in fredericksburg. organizers want attendees to dress in bright colors. steven van der briel is charged with strangling her. and now it's the bomber's lawyer's turn to spare him from the death penalty. dzhokhar tsarnaev's relatives could testify on his behalf. after three days the prosecution finished presenting vivid descriptions of those who survived the 2013 bombing including a father pushing his 3-year-old in a stroller when they were blown away by the blast. tsarnaev's lawyers will present their witnesses on monday. the video is playing a huge role in a local police officer's misconduct trial. you can see a prince george's county police officer hitting a

teenager and since this video became public that officer is no longer fighting the charge. jerry thomas hit the handcuffed teen three times during an incident in 2012. thomas claimed he hit the teen to protect himself from being spit on. but after yesterday's testimony from the state thomas changed his not guilty plea. >> the trial was going on because he didn't want to admit his guilt. but he acknowledged that the state had enough evidence to find him guilty. and that he would therefore plead guilty under alford. >> now thomas is on paid suspension right now. the state attorney's office wants him to get jail time. you and your wallet won't get slammed by a metro increase. metro won't raise fares or make any significant service changes. today they'll meet with the county council to discuss other concerns in montgomery county. that's at 2:00 in rockville. well, you've probably seen the giant bright billboards

outside the verizon center. one group wants to keep them from popping up in other areas. proposed laws could allow verizon laws in those designated entertainment areas. one concerned group says the signs make the district look unrecognizable. >> one reason we're so beautiful is that we don't have all of the outdoor advertising junk you see all over america's highways. all of that litter on the stick. now we've got the litter on the sides of buildings. >> d-dot crafted the proposed law to prevent the sign glare from annoying people in their homes and apartments. this weekend if it feels you're cruising through the traffic better than before, it might be. they're changing the timing of traffic lights finally. it will affect 650 intersections starting tonight at 8:00. it stretches from 23rd and "u" street to i-95.

d-dot says it will improve travel times and pedestrian crossing times. 4:37. the wizards want you to do something if you're headed to the verizon center tonight, stand up and make some noise. the wiz will tip off at 8:00. washington leads two games to none. players are trying to think about this game as a road game because they're doing a lot better on the road right now. they say a loud crowd should cure their home court problems. let's go wiz. how about those capitals? we need one more win to move on to the next round of the playoffs. they trounced the islanders last night. you know, you have to give it to the fans, come on. they have to finish off the islanders in new york tomorrow though. overnight we learned the time of the game the teams will face off at 3:00 p.m. you can see all the action right here on nbc4. awesome game. i admit i stayed up to watch it. i was nervous that even though we were up something was going to happen. >> couldn't look away. >> i couldn't look away.

>> i think we might wrap this thing up. >> rookie kuznetsov, excellent. well you have to dig deeper into your pocket to pay for your school lunches. now we're getting a look at what it looks to be inside a house fire. and take a live look where it is cold. it is 43 degrees

north korea is slamming defense talks between the u.s. and south korea. the north koreans issued this statement on tv calling the talks a plot to deploy a missile system in south korea. but the u.s. has said recently it's not ready to discuss a high altitude defense system. it comes amid new reports that it's adding to the arsenal of nuclear warheads. take a look at this a helmet camera captured video from a fire at a mansion in new jersey. that camera gives you an inside look at what fighting a fire looks and sounds like. you can see and hear firefighters clearing the home, making sure everyone got out here. then they head up to the attic to fight the flames. that 22-room mansion caught fire earlier this week. it took nearly six hours to get everything under control. still, you can't -- it gives you a little bit of a sense of what that is like for firefighters

but you can only imagine the heat and the adrenaline going there. >> all right. we are talking about a cold start to our day. i'm not even going to say chilly. i'm going to bypass it and go right to cold. >> that's where we are. let's get a look at weather and traffic on the ones with chuck. >> that's right. we'll go from shivers to sunshine today. but a cold start first thing this morning. make sure you have a wind breaker and a hat on as well. temperatures are not all that different from yesterday. in fact in the shenandoah valley temperatures are milder than yesterday. but unlike yesterday we have the wind still blowing so windchills are a real issue this morning. windchills at our bolo the -- at our below the freezing mark. what to wear this morning, a warm coat and sunglasses. bus stop weather, sun is up at 6:20 this morning. low 40s between 8:00 and 9:00 and then when you're coming back home temperatures up near 50 to near 60 degrees. but that's still ten degrees colder than average.

it will be a window up ride to work and school. >> it's a chilly morning, you're right. right now i put up the camera 66 inbound. just to show you the ride at this point this morning. as you can see behind me nice and dark and nice and calm. just what we like right, on this time of the morning. we don't want too many problems on your ride in to work this morning. we do have this construction here -- i should say an accident. inner loop at van dorn street. it's not slowing things down too much. still worth a mention. you might see that police presence off to the right side of the roadway. prince george's county no problems right now. a wider look at things coming up. thank you, melissa. caught on camera. why people are intentionally jumping on to metro tracks. some even doing yoga. with we'll show you -- we'll show you the videos.

is. right now, details coming in from italy about a nationwide police raid to knock down a major terrorist cell. 18 people have been arrested in seven different provinces with a base located in sardinia. now reports say some of the islamist terror suspects are businessmen who conducted normal lives and financed al qaeda in pakistan. police suspect them of work on an attack in pakistan and believe that system of them are responsible for killing up to 100 people at a marketplace bombing in peshawar years ago. >> molette, thank you. we still don't know how a baltimore man's spine was crushed in the back of a police van. a lawyer for the police union said freddie gray was not strapped in with a seat belt as required by the department

policy. as protests continue maryland governor larry hogan sent state troopers to help with crowd control. a group of ministers held a prayer vigil a few blocks from where gray was arrested. >> we need justice in the city of baltimore. we need justice in every street corner, in every neighborhood like never before. >> gray's funeral is on monday. the six officers involved in the arrest are suspended with pay. 4:47. the family of a rockville man killed in a u.s. strike is still reeling from his death. the president is taking responsibility but critics want to know how the cia could have been so wrong. nbc's tracie potts is live on capitol hill monitoring the situation. good morning to you. >> reporter: eun good morning. this is a story about a local d.c. area family 73-year-old warren weinstein, a grandfather, from rockville. an aid worker who had been captured in pakistan by al qaeda. president obama is apologizing

for the u.s. drone strike that killed him and another aid worker an italian man. also as part of those drone strikes there were a couple of them in january. two other americans were killed. these americans were working with al qaeda. and now, questions here on capitol hill how did it happen? how was the information verified before those drone strikes? and why did the u.s. not know it was killing innocent civilians? in this case innocent hostages. one of them an american. eun? >> tracie potts, thank you. attorney general eric holder will walk out of his office for the last time this afternoon. the senate confirmed loretta lynch as his replacement. holder will speak one last time as a.g. at an event in his honor. and a judge declared a mistrial in the case against dawit seyoum. jurors could not decide whether he was guilty of murder or not guilty by reason of insanity.

prosecutors say seyoum killed carolyn cross with a wrench in her alexandria home last september. the man accused of killing three people in alexandria will face trial in fairfax county. a judge granted a change of venue in the charles severance trial yesterday. we learned some of the evidence prosecutors plan to use against the accused murderer. they say the same type of bullets were used to kill the three people. metro is concerned about passengers pushing their luck not on the trains but on the actual tracks themselves. the news4 i-team obtained shocking video here. check out the surveillance cameras which police say show nearly a dozen passengers intentionally trespassing on the tracks since late last year. that includes one couple that decided to turn the train station into their own personal photo shoot. jumping down on the tracks the man snapping photos here while the woman strikes a yoga pose. >> they go down there for a

variety of reasons. to retrieve personal property, some do it as a game. why they go down there is a mystery. >> passengers are increasingly losing their cell phones on the tracks. they should never retrieve them but ask metro staff for help. it will ask you and your child to buy lunch at school in alexandria this fall. it's raising it by 20 cents in september. lunch will cost $2.65 and in secondary schools it will be $2.85. the price hike is necessary to follow the federal regulations mandating the cost of paid meals in schools. absentee voting under way in the democratic primary in virginia. you can vote absentee if you're out of town, if you're physically unable or if your work will keep you away from the

polls. election day is tuesday, june 9. it was announced this week our friend jim vance is leaving the 11:00 desk. he'll be still here at 4:00 and 6:00. it caught the attention of a local band, this is incredible. look at the video they posted on youtube. [ laughter ] that is foo fighters front man dave grohl re-enacting the great moment. grohl is a fan. the foo fighters are playing at rfk stadium at july 4th. you know you're a big deal when dave grohl makes fun of you, basically. >> pretty good work there. >> i mean, the foo fighters. >> look, that clip -- even

before i got here i had seen that clip on youtube before. >> once you start watching it though, you start to fall out of your chair. >> well, jim vance is a big deal. that's okay. >> outside of the whole dave grohl thing. >> so, you know, i know you're cold and you're unhappy. >> i'm happy about the cold. >> about the forecast -- >> yes. >> and unfortunately this is the way it will be around here. i don't mean to throw you under the bus quite that bad, aaron. you're not happy about the chill this morning i can tell by the look on your face. can this coffee be any hotter because i'm cold. outside we go skies are still mostly clear. what's really kind of helping and hurting our cause, the winds have stayed up. 42 at reagan national. north wind at 16 miles an hour and winds are still gusting here. wind gusts 20 to 30 miles per hour. the gustiness and the steadiness of the breeze is actually holding the temperatures up but it's making it feel colder. but plants are not affected by windchill. clear and cold, steady breeze

both helping and hurting our cause. still might have -- a few of the sheltered valleys might get down to the freezing mark. plan on a cool, dry afternoon and these winds are going nowhere. current temperatures upper 30s and low 40s across the area. i think like yesterday, we'll be lucky if we get up to 60 degrees at the most. no weather related slowdowns, it will be green light from the weather department today. future weather shows the chilly sunshine and the steady northwest breeze for the remainder of the day. another cold night coming up tonight into tomorrow morning. you can always have the latest on the storm team 4 weather app right there in the palm of your hand. for tomorrow clouds come back in by lunch time and rain chances are back by 4:00, 5:00 6:00 tomorrow afternoon. i think it will be nicer of a day the farther north or east as you travel. and showery weather all through saturday night and this is into sunday morning now.

and the real -- only real change in the weekend forecast that i think the rain drops may linger a little longer into your sunday. there's your seven day then. 59 breezy and sunny today. rain arriving saturday afternoon. rain saturday night and through much of the day sunday. i think it's late sunday afternoon before we dry back out. melissa, good morning with traffic. >> still have this problem here. 66 here westbound at gallows road. i'm keeping an eye on this right here at my desk for you. we had somebody drive by this. what we were told is a crash. it looks like construction in person. either way you have to stay left there. as you head 66 west passing gallows road. looks like they should have this wrapped up though in the next couple of minutes. it's been there for a little while this morning. wide look at things overall. looks nice and green. everything rolling along just fine as you look at the beltway. taking a look at prince george's county branch avenue pennsylvania avenue indian head highway into and out of town looking quite good right now this morning. maryland 95 here at 198, no issues there.

northbound or southbound. everything is flowing just fine. we have this construction that's still sticking around. should be out of the way here in the next 20 minutes or so. this is the inner loop with two right lanes blocked this morning. more coming up at 5:01. a live look at 95 in virginia. >> thank you, melissa. new details okay, i need a better pizza. one made with only real cheese. a pizza my family will love. (announcer) freschetta naturally rising crust pizza. freschetta. made better to taste better.

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>> welcome back. blue bell creameries closing all three of the factories in texas, oklahoma for cleaning. those creameries will be closed the next week and into the following week. they announced a complete recall. it's linked to listeria in four states including three deaths. now another ice cream recall to tell you about, jenny's splendid ice cream is recalling all the products. now stores like whole foods, value duchy's and super target sell that type of ice cream. the company says return it to the store for a refund. earlier this week blue bell recalled all of its products. someone stole a vintage car from a repair shop in northern virginia and police hope you can help find it. take a look. this is the red 1970 ford bronco.

fairfax county police say only a few are on the roads today. they think this one is easy to recognize as well so even if you aren't a karloffer you might be able to spot it if it's on the road. we're told it has washington state license plates. a georgetown university alum donating $10 million to the school. that money will help launch a new center focused on global real estate. it will offer career planning for students hands on learning through a real estate clinic and opportunities for consulting projects. it's not what one montgomery county police officer was expecting when he pulled over a speeding car in silver spring. when the driver rolled down the window yesterday, he told officer dan campbell that his wife was in labor. he tried to escort them with the lights on but couldn't make it. that i pulled over for a second time and campbell jumped into action. >> i could see that the baby was crowning already and being delivered. i was able to put on my gloves. and at that point, mom did all

the work. and beautiful baby boy came out. >> good, yeah, thank you so much. >> good job. thank you so much. >> hilda aguilar says she would have named the baby after the officer if she had and already picked a name. his name is christopher, he's her third child. congrats. well done officer campbell. stay with us. "news4 today" continues. >> "news4 today" starts now. it is 5:00 a.m. i'm aaron gilchrist and the search is on for several gunmen after a bizarre overnight shooting and chase and wait until you hear who tried to put an end to it all. it's the story that everyone is talking about this morning. a stage collapses at a performance and sends does ups of students to the ground. and why it feels like you're cruising through d.c. this weekend. the big changes on the way