ready to help with rescue efforts. kids will be showing up soon at this fairfax county elementary school but police are still searching for a man they say tried to grab a young boy in front of the building. what we're learning about the crime and what we know about the man they're looking for. a pleasant start to your morning as you look at the national mall now. but you might want to keep your umbrella handy. tom kierein has your headlines. >> hey, aaron, yeah, we have a few clouds coming through. no rain coming in yet. scanning our sky, we're off to the dry start this morning. west virginia virginia maryland the metro area all dry for the morning. temperatures right now, quite a chill in the air. just near 40 in montgomery and prince george's county. much of fairfax county and fauquier just near 40. chillier spots out in manassas, 36. we'll stay above freezing.

live view from the tower camera looking east over northwest washington. headlines for the rest of the day, we have about a 30% chance of some showers this afternoon. and then a greater chance of showers moving in later this week. next week and traffic on the ones coming up at 6:11. your bus stop forecast and what to wear for this chilly mondaying. a look at your first 4 traffic with melissa. >> a brand new crash popped up. this is northbound indian head highway at farmington road. when i was talking to a couple of minutes ago, i said it's getting slow there and i came in and this is why. northbound indian head highway sounds like a serious crash, but it sounds like at least one lane is getting by. eastbound 198 at route 1, that situation in laurel with the fire. this is the restaurant here that had the fire overnight. but it looks like all those lanes are now open. 95 northbound in virginia as you

drive through woodbridge live here you don't have any issues. a little bit of volume before this. we were going 45 to 50 miles per hour this morning. so just a warning there. of course it's pretty typical. but a warning for you. 66 headed into town you are about 41 miles per hour there as you're headed out of manassas. out of town you're not having any problems here this morning. now back in ten minutes with some travel times. >> thank you, melissa. it's 6:02 and this morning the death toll from nepal's 7.5 earthquake is rising. rescue crews are struggling to reach the remote mountain villages and we are getting an update on how much it will cost to repair the damage. news4's angie goff is following all the developments from the live desk. >> that death toll surpassed 3,600. take a look crews continue to dig through the rubble for survivors. people are catching planes and buses, whatever they can to evacuate the region. now, some first aid has arrived, but so much more is needed.

there's overcrowded in t a shortage of supplies. a lot of places as you mentioned not reachable because of the landslides. also just in you mentioned how much this could cost to recover. well, one agency said long term reconstruction could be in the long run upwards of $5 billion. this is in a country where the average family lives in poverty. aaron? >> angie, thank you. an elite search and rescue time arriving in nepal today. they met members of the virginia task force one as they were preparing to leave. that group is part of the fairfax county fire department. we'll be following all their efforts to help out and you can do that as well on the department's facebook page. some of you are organizing ways to hem in your neighborhood. in rockville, the adventist church is holding a fund-raiser this weekend. basnet told us about the fund-raiser. her family lives in nepal. basnet said they need more than

donations. >> please pray for me my family my people. all my nepalese people they need your support and your blessings. >> basnet's family survived the earthquake but lost their house and everything they owned. tonight students at george mason university will hold a vigil for the victims and you can follow all of the stories from here and nepal on nbc washington.com. 6:04. right now police are looking for a man who grabbed a little boy just as school let out in fairfax county. that boy was able to get away. this attempted abduction happened in front of ravensworth elementary school and megan mcgrath is there live with a warning from police. megan? >> reporter: well aaron, certainly parents are on edge in the springfield area. following an abduction attempt. a man grabbed a boy outside the main entrance of ravensworth elementary school. attempted to abduct him at 3:15 in the afternoon on friday.

so this occurred in broad daylight. police say that the boy was able to put up a fight. he resisted. he was able to get away from this man and was not injured but the suspect is still on the loose. and police are looking for help in trying to locate him. he's described as a white male 20 to 30 years old. he's 6 feet tall with blond hair. he was wearing a black long sleeved shirt and jeans at the time that this happened. 3:15 friday afternoon outside the ravensworth elementary school. if you saw this person in the area police would like to hear from you. we'll start to see the parents and children arriving here this morning but disturbing news learning of this situation. and police are hoping to find this suspect. we have more information that you can get on exactly what happened and what police would like you to do. you can go to our mobile app or our website, nbc washington.com. megan mcgrath news4. 6:06 now. tomorrow the montgomery county

council can vote on a plan to renovate the office building. the $31 million renovation project has been on the table for a while but last month george leventhal dropped the proposal. the board of education argued the money should go to solving the overcrowding issues instead. according to "the washington post," levin hall believes he has the votes to move forward. 6:06. even if you're not a big sports fans you want to watch the capitals play tonight. it's do or die, one and done, the game is at 7:30 at verizon center. we did find some tickets for less than $100. you can watch the game on comcast sports net. winner goes on to the eastern conference semifinals. and eun, tell us about your wizards. >> the wizards they're moving on in the playoffs. they took care of business last night, beating the raptors and sweeping the first round. look at the celebration there. the first four game sweep in

wizards' franchise history. aubt -- how about that? they're still waiting to see who they'll play next, it could be the atlanta hawks. go wiz. oh, my gosh, we have softball sized hail going on. >> did you see that? right now severe weather is leaving its mark across the south. the problems we're learning about this morning in texas as a dangerous line of storms rolls through. and a brand new crash on 66 causing some big backups now. we'll have more on that coming up in a couple of minutes. plus another police department in our area ready to equip its officers with bo

you're watching "news4 today."

>> police in prince william county will soon be outfit with body cameras. county officials approved a $3 million budget to equip 500 officers with these cameras. the rollout will begin in july starting with 50 officers. tomorrow a major case in the same-sex marriage fight is going to the supreme court. the court could effectively legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. groups are already taking sides here. take a look this group held an interfaith prayer service to show their support for gay marriage. on saturday opponents of gay marriage held a big rally on the national mall. the decision in this case is expected in june. all right. 11 minutes after 6:00. >> we are talking about a chilly start to the day. we were hoping for a warm-up. this is a pretty sky. i hope this means we'll have pretty weather. >> yes, the sun will be breaking through. sunrise is five minutes away. we have a partly cloudy sky at the bus stop this morning. you need to layer up a low

chill in the air. low 40s by 7:00 and 8:00. and a rapid warm-up throughout the day ahead. have the fleece on and have the umbrella available for later on today, you'll need the sunglasses from time to time. next weather and traffic on the one, a look at the hour by hour rain timing for the afternoon. now melissa, what's happening with our monday commute? >> two brand new crash, 66 eastbound at lee road starting to see some backups because of that crash. then this one, 66 eastbound at route 50. you can kind of see it there off to the left side of the roadway. looks like it's on the should ever still is slowing things down a bit this morning. some travel times in maryland, not looking so bad. 270 south from germantown to the beltway, 16 minutes. outer loop seven minutes. and 66 east fairfax county to the beltway will take you 15. not so terrible.

remember to listen to our friends from wtop when you hop in your car. a frightening scene that left traffic at a stand still. the accident being blamed for this massive fireball. new numbers in the race for the white house. we got these poll numbers in the last few minutes showing that what vir

just in new poll numbers that tell us how you the voters feel about those who want the top job in our country. for the first time, jeb bush would beat hillary clinton in the battleground state, but clinton beats all other potential republican challengers. now even with that she fails to get 50% of the vote against any of them. now, as for the gop, still no clear front-runner but bush and rubio, marco rubio from florida, closest to the top. while clinton holds a solid lead among democrats including former democrat chris webb and o'malley. now over to you, eun. >> thank you, angie. now 6:17. the clinton foundation said it made some mistakes in how it disclosed its donors. the foundation is under fire after new books sparked questions about whether donors

have sought influence beyond the charity. acting chief executive says that the charity accidentally lumped in government grants with other donations. she says the foundation will refile some tax returns to fix that issue. critics say the book lacks hard evidence. the book is due may 5th. today we expect to hear opening statements in the case of a man on trial in the deadly shooting at a colorado theater. james holmes is charged with more than 160 counts including murder attempted murder and rigging explosives at his apartment. prosecutors say holmes shot and killed 12 people and injured 70 others at a movie theater outside of denver in 2012. holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. his attorney said he was in the throes of a psychotic episode. and today, dzhokhar tsarnaev's family c the stand in the boston bombing trial. he was found guilty on all

counts for that bombing at the boston marathon two years ago. a jury is deciding whether to sentence him to death. you take a look here, in this video you can see tsarnaev's family arriving. they can testify to say he should serve life in prison instead death. police are hoping forensic evidence helps them solve a suspicious death in bowie. a groundskeeper found a car ingulfed in flames at the golf course. the fire was so intense, the license plates and v.i.n. number of the car were destroyed. police are trying to determine who shot a man several times in d.c. this shooting happened last night in a parking lot near montelo avenue in northeast. paramedics rushed the victim to the hospital in critical condition. heavy flames, thick smoke could be seen for miles. look at the video right here as

this tanker truck caught fire near los angeles. that truck was carrying 8,500 gallons of fuel. that road has since reopened nobody got hurt. hotel guests rocked by a series of explosions and then a huge fire. this happened at the quality inn in fairfax county. the guests say they thought they were being attacked early yesterday morning. the fire started in the electrical room of the hotel. a group of air force cadets happened to be visiting from new york and helped evacuate the guests there. everyone was able to get out safety but almost everything that was in their rooms was lost. 6:19. seven firefighters are waking up at home after their fire truck crashed on a way to a fire. they were on their way to a building fire and the fire truck swerved to avoid hitting a car and instead the truck hit a telephone pole causing the truck to flip over. look at the pictures from the

scene. it happened on branch avenue and curtis drive in hillcrest heights. the firefighters were treated and released from the hospital. a judge will decide whether the stafford county school board can move forward with a redistricting plan. eight stafford middle school parents filed a grievance over plans to move the students to different schools to relieve overcrowding. lawyers for the school board argued the parents don't have a right to sue. a developing story right now. a severe storm moving across north texas producing a number of tornadoes. you take a look here at our live radar picture. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein says there have been 19 tornado reports in just the last 24 hours. at least one of those tornados was a mile wide. and that strong storm system is mying high winds and -- is bringing high winds and hail to texas. >> oh my gosh we have softball sized hail. >> look at that. that was taken 75 miles outside

of ft. worth. that hail pummelled the area. right now, at least 30,000 customers are without power. we're following reports of water rescues and so far, nobody has been seriously hurt there. you can see what happened to the windshield right as they were tracking some of the storms there. >> the people in the car are lucky that softball didn't come right through and just smack them in the head. well it's that time of the year where you're wearing shorts one day, then you need the jacket the next day. where's my fleece? >> who knows what's going on? this is definitely a jacket kind of day. meteorologist chuck bell is live with the storm team 4 x 4. are you smelling that or eating that? >> wait that's my doughnut chuck bell. >> it did have -- it didn't look like it was necessarily all that good. so i just took a little nibble out of it. >> doing you a favor. >> the rest of it will taste just as good.

>> i'll still eat that doughnut, you know it. >> this particular doughnut has passed inspection. i'll bring it back to you as your official food taster. a very nice morning out in manassas. we're up here with goodies food truck. as a result we are handing out free coffee and doughnuts. a chilly morning so as a result you'll need a hot cup of coffee and doughnut on the way in to work and school. 43 here in manassas and 40s all over the map. front royal down into the upper 30s. for later on today, a nice enough day. we're facing a small little chance for a shower. 30% chance for rain today. most likely timing of the rain drops between noon and 5:00 during the peak of the daytime heating. temperatures are back up into the mid 60s. so after a cold 40s up to 64 for a high again, just that 30% chance for showers around. your seven day forecast calls for a little bit of a warming trend over the coming days. tomorrow 68 and breezy. then back up near 70 on

wednesday. rain chances are back for thursday and friday. but all anyone cares about, other than a free doughnut and coffee is the weekend and the weekend is looking very nice indeed. we're here at the vre stop in manassas. i hope you have as much good news in traffic. >> unfortunately i don't have such good news. chopper 4 is over this crash. this is the one we're telling you about, northbound indian head highway at farmington highway. one on the left shoulder so you don't have to worry about this but then we have the right lane partially blocked and the other right lane is blocked as well because of the crash and clean-up. just a warning as you're headed out there. 66 eastbound at glebe road a lot of volume headed there because of the crash. 66 southeast bound at route 50 a crash there. this one is off to the left side of the roadway. you don't have to worry about that one too much.

then at 395 at the third street tunnel, lots of things happening there. in news for your health even a little bit of television can make your kids overweight. kids who watch one hour of tv a day were 70% more likely to be obese. researchers at the university of virginia conducted this study. they found most 5-year-olds watch more than three hours of tv every day. a new study finds that more kids will choose healthy lunch options with some incentives. researchers at the cincinnati children's hospital medical center found more students bought so-called power plates at elementary schools. the plate includes four nutritious foods and a prize. workers put smiley faces on the plates and they were given prizes like stickers minibeach balls and temporary tattoos and sales rose 300%. researchers say this is a low cost and effective way of getting our kids to eat healthier foods at school. well this morning, a rogue coyote is off the streets of new

york city. a surveillance camera was rolling when police officers cornered the animal at an outdoor cafe which is a bold thing to do. they tranquilized the coyote. she was not hurt. she's at the spca for more care. she could be released back to the wild pretty soon. this is the latest in a string of coyote sightings this month. should expect to hear about that in colorado. >> right. this is manhattan we're talking about. just running out of space. animals have nowhere to go. well if you feel like you're spending more and more of your day in your car, you're not alone. how much more we're driving this year. and how many miles we have logged in our cars. clear skies and cool conditions as we look at the national harbor right now. how warm it will get where you live with your neighborhood forecast at 6:31. get back! tensions at a boiling point in baltimore after a violent

weekend in the streets. the damage caused by people of the coffee drinking world, dunkin' has a dark roast coffee that's deliciously roasted just right for a bold start and smooth finish that's never bitter. put down the dark roast you've been putting up with and reach for the one you deserve.

at dunkin' breakfast just got zestier with guacamole made from real avocados, tomatoes, cilantro, and lime the new bacon guacamole flatbread. ole, indeed! america runs on dunkin'.

right now downtown baltimore is open for business but you'll find scars of the violence that played out in that city streets this weekend. meanwhile, the man who died in police custody sparking this violence will be laid to rest. the members of the obama administration that will be on hand. but first, good morning. i'm eun yang along with aaron gilchrist. a light jacket may come in handy this morning as we deal with some cooler temperatures outside today. look at the numbers right now. >> the wool stuff. we are hoping that things will warm unlike yesterday. storm team 4 meteorologist tom keeb -- kierein. welcome back. >> spread your fingers out you

will feel the chilly breeze this morning. right now in gaithersburg only 42. in montgomery county a few clouds are floating through now. partly sunny into the upper 50s now. that's it for the high in much of montgomery county. and there may be a few scattered sprinkles moving through. bright and sunny in woodbridge. prince george's county generally the mid 40s. 60 degrees by late afternoon today. that's probably the warmest time of the day. may be an isolated sprinkle later on in the afternoon. right now, ft. washington in prince george's county at 44. partly sunny there later this afternoon. ought to be making it up around 60 as well. throughout much of prince george's county eastern southern suburbs the light sprinkles may be coming through that's later in the afternoon. right now, our temperatures are hovering just around 40 degrees right now. so quite a chill in the air this

morning, melissa. you have an accident where chopper 4 is up over -- where is this? >> chopper over this. this has been there for a little while so we're getting a little bit of bottlenecking. northbound indian head highway at farmington road. you can see the vehicle off to the left of things and then on the right side of the roadway. so we're slowing a little bit. looks like according to the map a lot of red because of people hopping off on to livingston road. you might want to stick with it instead of taking livingston poth are slow. 66 west blocking a lane. eastbound at 50, another crash with blocking a lane as well. so we are having somebody drive live for us. 66 west near nutley. look at the westbound lanes as soon as you hop on outside of the beltway you're seeing it pretty jammed there because of that crash and all of those delays in northeast washington newton street northeast at 22nd. a water main break with the closure. remember inbound 395 at 3rd street tunnel nothing happening. quite slow.

i'm back with travel times in ten minutes. >> thank you, melissa. it is 6:32. today will be the funeral for the baltimore man who died after becoming critically injured in police custody. 25-year-old freddie gray died last week during a police van ride to the station. gray's spine became severed. baltimore police have not explained how or when the incident happened. the obama administration will have a presence at gray's funeral. the head of the president's initiative for young men of color will attend. broderick johnson is a baltimore native and will attend with two other administration officials. as the family prepares for today's funeral, several investigations are under way right now. city, state and federal investigators are all looking into gray's death and tensions in the city of baltimore still high after violent protests this weekend. nbc's tracie potts is live on capitol hill with more on how people are growing impatient and they're looking for answers and arrests. >> reporter: exactly.

all about the questions. we saw 34 arrests over the weekend out of thousands who protested peacefully. police said most of those arrest for the looting and smashing of windows and cars were from out of town. this is a big national story right here in our backyard. but they're looking for answers. why did gray die after being in police custody, how did he sustain the injuries he did why was he arrested in first place? we do believe that one of the investigations the state -- the state's office, state's attorney's office is supposed to issue a report on friday that should give them some better sense of where they want to go from here. but those protests over the weekend got pretty violent. >> tracie potts, thank you. in annapolis, another group rallied in support of law enforcement. they carried signs that said blue lives matter. about 100 people took part in yesterday's rally.

a group called united for blue organized that event. and right now search crews are still looking for five people off the coast of alabama. strong storms capsized several boats during a regatta there on saturday. a sailor took the video you see here it shows the choppy waters in mobile bay. two people died. meteorologists say that storm came in fast and furious. new this morning firefighters are still on the scene of a restaurant fire along gorman avenue in laurel. chopper 4 flew over the happy fortune restaurant a few minutes ago and you can see the caution tape wrapped around the building. we are told the flames sparked after midnight. the cause is still under investigation. it appears contract tack -- talks are back on in the president's office. it had been paused as they dealt

with the "rolling stone" rape story. as you might recall, president teresa sullivan survived a 2012 attempt to oust her from the job. her contract ends next summer. this week you'll spend more money to visit shenandoah national park. it will go up $10 to $40. if you don't want to buy a pass, you can buy a $20 pass good for up to seven days. there's a visitor's fee for the van tours. new developments coming in from nepal as rescue teams battle deteriorating conditions, hoping to find survivors. the u.s. aid is headed that way. and breaking news on the beltway. brand new crash in maryland. we'll have details on this one coming up in a couple of minutes. but first, logging more miles in our cars.

breaking news right now on the beltway. we are talking about the outer loop at 95 in maryland. we have three lanes blocked. we're talk about a three-mile backup at this point this morning. so going to get nasty out there. outer loop at 95. as far as travel times in maryland the travel times we have up at least, not a big deal. 270 southbound germantown to the beltway, a tiny bit slow. and 95 north here 15 minutes behind from quantico to the beltway. 395 inbound a little slow from the beltway to the bridge. i'm back in a couple of minutes. maybe you stash away extra cash for your summer driving gas prices are up again. you're paying 13 cents a gallon more today than you were two

weeks ago. d.c. drivers paying the most as you might expect. a gallon costing $2.63 on average. in our area of maryland, drivers are paying $2.57 a gallon. in virginia a gallon will cost you $2.34. and in west virginia a gallon will run you $2.53. whether you take 66 or 270 or the beltway, you're not alone on the roads. and the federal highway administration says more are hitting the roads than ever. in february alone, americans drove more than 221 billion miles. that is the second highest figure for february in the past 25 years. so far driving is up 4% from last year. yeah a lot more cars on the road. people are willing to drive longer distances. >> even on the smaller roads that i get congested all the time. coming up on 6:41 an

absolutely gorgeous view of the sky here over the potomac, but it's cold. >> yeah storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein with your weather on the ones. is this a sign it won't stay cold all day? >> it is, eun, as the sun will be warming up. driving this morning, no travel for the morning and midday, but some roads may be a bit wet during the afternoon. may have to slow things down as you're headed back home from work and school. for the morning commute, in the mid and upper 40s. through much of the morning with bright sunshine. but then some roads may be wet by later this afternoon as few showers come through and we climb into the low to mid 60s. only around 60s in the rural areas. we -- back to you. putting a stop to scenes like this. how metro plans to crack down on fare evaders like this today and why it says these riders are putting you at risk. a warning for parents in fairfax county right now as police search for a man accused

of trying to kidnap a child outside of a school. who they're looking for and how

right now the death toll in nepal is growing rapidly as rescue teams brave rough conditions and the threat of more aftershocks. the specialty crew from our area that is ready to help with rescue efforts. breaking news on the roads

first. breaking news here, top of the beltway, we are talking about the outer loop as you approach 95 in maryland. a three-car crash has three lanes blocked and now three mile backups. outer loop as you're approaching maryland 95. going to be a mess now for the next couple of hours. no doubt. tom? sunrise this monday morning live view from the storm team 4 tower camera sun coming through the breaks in the clouds. increasing clouds in the afternoon. a chance of a few scattered showers into the low to mid 60 by mid afternoon. this morning the death toll from nepal's massive 7.8 earthquake is rising. and it could get worse as rescue crews reach the remote mountain villages there. we are learning more about how much it will cost to repair all that damage. angie goff's following the developments now from the live desk. >> that's right. $5 billion that's what officials are saying it could cost in the long term for nepal to get back

on its feet. take a look, you mentioned that rising death toll. sadly, that number has surpassed 3,600 people. rescue efforts are proving extremely difficult right now with threat of landslides across the area. supplies are limited though aid is starting to make its way in. meanwhile n the wake of the aftershocks we are watching as people scramble to get of the area evacuating by plane and by bus. this is the most devastating earthquake to hit nepal in at least 80 years and it triggered that avalanche on mount everest that killed 18 people including three americans. the united states among several countries now sending aid to nepal. the pentagon says a military plane is expected there today. search and rescue teams from the united arab emirates from france and england are all headed to kathmandu as with espeak. and the pentagon's plane is carrying a team from our area. take a look here news4 crew met

fairfax one. it's part of the fire department. we'll be following their efforts to help out there and you can too on the department's facebook page. we're now hearing from the people in our area affected by this earthquake. sujita sujita basnet grew up in nepal and she now works in a local subway. her family lost everything. >> she told me that, yeah, no building damage but we don't have house anymore. she told me that. >> is that the house you grew up in? >> yeah. >> basnet told us the haitian seventh day adventist church is holding a fund-raiser this coming weekend. we're posting the latest news from nepal on the facebook page. we're also watching a growing you were inial of people saying they'll be at a vigil for the victims tonight. at george mason university in fairfax at 6:30. 265 people say they'll be there.

6:48 now. right now as you get your kids ready for school fairfax county police are looking for a man who tried to kidnap a boy in front of a school. this happened just as classes let out on friday afternoon at ravensworth elementary school in springfield. news4's megan mcgrath is live with what you need to know. >> reporter: well, eun, you can see behind me here the officer inside pulling up to the scene a short time ago. as they prepare for students to come here to ravensworth elementary here this morning. a lot of watchful vigilant adults will be keeping an eye on the children as police look for a man who tried to abduct a boy from in front of the school. the boy was near the main entrance to ravensworth when a man came up behind him and grabbed him. then tried to lure him away. now, the boy fought back. he got away. and he was not hurt.

but this suspect is still on the loose. here's his description. he's white, 20 to 30 years old. 6 feet tall with blond hair and he was wearing a black long sleeved shirt and jeans at the time this happened. we're expecting to start seeing students arriving here within the next hour and a half or so. they're returning to classes today. everyone asked to be extra vigilant and keep your eyes open and if you have any information on the suspect you're asked to call police. reporting live in springfield, megan mcgrath news4. 11 before the however and tomorrow the montgomery county council can vote on a big plan to renovate the office building. it has been on the table for a while now. last month, george leventhal dropped the proposal. they argued it should go to solving the overcrowding conditions of the schools instead. leventhal believes he now has the votes to move forward. all right. we really need everyone to rock

the red tonight. it's do or die for the caps. they face off against the islanders for a decisive game seven at the verizon center. the puck drops at 7:30. we checked stub hub, there are still a few tickets available for under $100. you can watch the game on comcast sports net. the winner goes on to the eastern conference semifinals. of course season's done -- we know that the wizards beat the raptors last night. and they're sweeping the best of seven series. it's the first four-game sweep in wizards franchise history. washington is still waiting to see who they'll play in the next round. could be the brooklyn nets or it could be the atlanta hawks. >> yeah. a couple of years ago we were not having these conversations about the wizards. great to see them in this position. >> you're rockin' the red, tom. >> been a long time. we're all psyched. this morning off to the chilly start. so you need again to pull out

the puffy coat this morning as temperatures are down to near 40 degrees. but the sky will be cooperating today. we'll have bright sunshine through much of the morning. by noontime though just some clouds beginning to build and we'll have those clouds begin to move in from an upper level disturbance begins to move on through. the clouds may produce a few sprinkles later this afternoon. in low 40s in montgomery prince george's county much of fairfax county is hovering around 40 degrees now. it's dipped into the 30s in prince william and fauquier and way out in western loudoun county and shenandoah. look at this, posted on twitter and facebook and shared on instagram. this preengreen, thanks to all the recent rains. we're all clear now, but later on today some more rain is going to glean things up -- green things up even more. i know many of you mowed and you'll need to later on this week because the grass is growing really fast. all the spectacles of green

these are scattered sprinkles. looks like the greatest chances are in shenandoah valley panhandle of west virginia. between 2:00 and 6:00 is when it will come through the metro area. only lasting briefly, but have an umbrella handy. you may be needing it when you're headed back home from work and school. highs reaching the upper 60s and then tomorrow a bit milder. blustery wind and partly cloudy. beautiful day on wednesday. then a cooler rain moves in on thursday. a pretty good chance of rain on thursday and friday. that's the next chances of rain later in the week. saturday and sunday great weather for the outdoor activities that you may have planned. up around 70 degrees. we have breaking news on the roads with melissa. >> breaking news on the beltway. this is the outer loop at 95 in maryland. we have more than a three mile with backup. a three car crash is blocking three lanes. a lot of threes this morning. pretty nasty there. you'll want to stay away from

that if you can. i know it's tough. 66 inbound here as you're approaching 50. again, very slow because of a crash there. also inbound a crash at glebe has slowed things down quite a bit this morning. taking a look at 95 in virginia no real problems here. 95 as you're headed north. a little bit slow overall. just our typical volume. listen to our friends on wtop when you hop in your car. indian head highway, that crash is cleared off to the right side of the highway. still a bit of a slow down. and 270 at montrose road that is looking good. guys? >> thank you. today you could see some extra metro transit police officers as you walk into your metro station. metro launching a pilot program to crack down on those who don't pay the train or the bus fares. the next two weeks officers will give warning and then starting

on may 9th, officers could fine you anywhere from 50 to $100 for not paying for the trip. the 90 day program is expected to improve customer and employee safety. new this morning a new poll finds most americans support same-sex marriage. quinn ape yak university surveyed many and 58% say they support same-sex marriage 34% opposed it. we found the results in the last half hour. the new numbers come one day before a major same-sex case hits the supreme court. the court could effectively legalize gay marriage nationwide. yesterday this group held an interfaith prayer service in arlington to show its support for gay marriage. saturday opponents of gay marriage held a big rally on the national mall. a decision in the case is expected in june. coming up on the "today" show kim kardashian sits down with matt lauer for an exclusive interview. that reality star opens up about her stepfather bruce jenner's

transgenderness. >> i always wonder what life would be if you don't feel like yourself. i don't even think we have to understand. >> more of that interview coming up next on the "today" show. all right. who doesn't want a nice chocolate doughnut and a hot cup of coffee to start your day, right? >> always a good thing. >> especially on a monday. >> absolutely. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell live with the storm team 4 by 4. good morning. >> that doughnut i have been sampling it for you. it remains extremely tasty. we're alongside the goodies van here. as you can see, we are taking free treats to the streets for you this morning. goodies is providing the coffee and doughnuts in this beautiful

1952 international harvester metro van. as an old car lover can tell you, this thing is awesome as good as the doughnuts and the coffee. come on out to manassas train station and get your free goodies today. >> thank you, chuck. 6:56 now. here are the four things you need to know before you head out the door. the trial of the man charged in the deadly mass shooting in a movie theater is set to begin. 12 people died and 70 others were hurt outside of denver in 2012. james holmes pled not guilty by reason of insanity. today in baltimore the funeral for the man who died after becoming critically hurt while in police custody. freddie gray died last week. a man tried to abduct a boy in springfield, it happened just as coolschool let out at ravensworth elementary on friday. search and rescue efforts are going on around the clock in nepal as the death toll from the devastating earthquake climbs to more than 3,600. look for a live report coming up in a few minutes on "today." live view from our storm team

sun climbing higher in a partly cloudy sky. some sun this morning. a few sprinkles this afternoon. three mile backups on the outer loop of the beltway. it will be cleared in the next couple of minutes. >> thank you. that's the broadcast for this morning. >> the "today" show is next. see you in 25 minutes. we hope you'll joi

good morning. breaking overnight. massive death toll. 3700 killed in that earthquake in nepal. rescuers desperately searc r survivors in the rubble of a country in ruins. aftershocks fraying . and up on mt. everest, new video surfaces of the avalanche that nearly buried base camp. shattered. >> oh my gosh. we've got softball sized hail goon. >> a driver caught in an texas. tornadoes touching down near dallas. th> "today" exclusive. kim kardashian west