first at 4, some big developments in a long-awaited transportation project. we just learned that the d.c. streetcar is going to start running on h street in northeast next saturday. mayor muriel bowser announced the district will launch the street cars on the morning of february 27th with a grand opening ceremony at 13th and h streets. the project cost $200 million and between the safety and equipment problems, it's been delayed for years. cars will run along h street from union station to benning road. no word yet on the cost to ride, but at first it's going to be free. our streets are plagued with potholes and we know you've been swerving all over the place to avoid them. >> it's like an obstacle course out there. tom sherwood joining us from rock creek park talking with the park service about their effort to patch those potholes. tom? >> reporter: guys, this is the season for potholes and they're bad all around the region, including rock creek park.

now, park service crews here are working around the clock to repair hundreds of potholes on beach drive. it's more than six miles long. it carries 12 million vehicles a year. the park service wants you to be alert and cautious. >> potholes are going to develop. they're going to grow, but we're out every day. the potholes behind us were just repaired. we hit them yesterday. we hit them again today. >> reporter: now, potholes are a problem every day, but coming up on news4 at 5:00 and 6:00, we'll tell you how this beach drive is going to be a commuting problem for years to come. i'm tom sherwood in rock creek park. erika, back to you. >> thanks, tom. we want to show you a live look from our storm team4 x 4 out on pothole patrol. we are at 6th street in northwest trying to help you avoid and report some of the potholes. you can tweet us

and follow along to see where drivers are running into trouble. the evening commute will be a lot smoother on macarthur boulevard. a pipe burst this morning and shut the street down for the entire morning rush. drivers had to turn around near reservoir road. that pipe is more than 100 years old. first at 4, there has been a lot of reaction to what pope francis said on a flight home from mexico. he said women in certain countries could use contraception to avoid getting the zika virus and passing it along to their babies. he also answered questions about donald trump's immigration views. he says anyone who wants to build a wall along the border with mexico is, quote, not a christian. today trump responded at a rally in south carolina. >> for a religious leader to question a person's faith is

disgraceful. if and when the vatican is attacked by isis, which as everyone knows is isis' ultimate trophy, i can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that donald trump would have been president. >> on the campaign trail, democratic candidates are working to win over minority voters before this saturday's caucus in nevada. bernie sanders met with some civil rights leaders at the national urban league right here in d.c. he says he understands the struggles of the african-american community and it's, quote, unacceptable that 35% of black children are in poverty. hillary clinton has been complaining on the south side of chicago where she's talking about police violence. tonight clinton and sanders will face off at a town hall in las vegas that will hair on msnbc. president barack obama tweeted today about his upcoming trip to cuba. the president announced he will be taking a trip in march. he would be the first sitting u.s. president to visit cuba in

the president says even though relations have thawed, there are some differences still. nbc's brian moore will look at some of the agenda on the president's historic trip in about ten minutes. jackie bensen is on her way to breaking news in the district. two people are dead after a shooting in northeast. this happened just before 1:00 this afternoon on 58th street. that's not far from the d.c./maryland line. both men were found shot in a home there. police do have a description of a person who was seen running from that scene. as soon as jackie gathers more information, we'll bring that to you live. demolition day in the district where crews are about to start tearing down buildings to make way for a new sports complex. >> this is on the former st. elizabeth's campus. the sports complex is just one part of a much bigger plan to redevelop that whole area. >> mark segraves is live at st. elizabeth's with more of the details. what are you hearing, mark? >> reporter: behind me is buil

facility, and soon not just any crew, the mayor, mayor muriel bowser will jump into that hydraulic excavator, and she will begin the demolition herself tearing down this building, making way for a new training facility for the washington wizards. it's a $56 million project that hopes to be open by 2018. it will not only play home to the training facility for the wizards but the home games for the women's team, the washington mystics. meanwhile, a bigger project on this property. you can take a look now behind me and see a lot of these old historic buildings still here on the campus of st. elizabeth's here east campus. those buildings will be made into residential and mixed use. again, they're to come online in 2018. coming up at 5:00, we'll take you inside building 119 and we'll introduce to you a local guy who is going to help with the construction. chris, back to you. >> thanks a lot, mark. storm team4 is tracking

>> oh, my gosh, one minute we're up, the next we're down. let's get to chief meteorologist doug kammerer in the storm center. doug? >> at least today we've got the sunshine. it's a chilly day out there, but the sun does make it feel a whole lot better. a little bit of a breeze too. look at the high temperatures, ten degrees below average. like we told you yesterday, we'd be ten degrees below where we were yesterday. yesterday's high 49. we're at 39 today. 43 in warrenton. a chilly day for sure. tomorrow another chilly one, another cool day, but not too bad. a beautiful weekend. we're talking about temperatures in the 60s broadcast saturday and on sunday. that's something we're going to be watching. the latest on our next storm moving in on tuesday and into wednesday. our latest thoughts on this in about 10 to 15 minutes. >> thanks, doug. communities' big concerns about who is working inside local schools. the possible changes after a teacher's aide haen

of the unthinkable. millions of cars just made a new recall. we're going to tell you if your ca is affected and which safety f

d.c. police have arrested two people connected to shooting that toddler inside a barbershop. the two men are terrance atchinson and barry ploomfield. they're looking for a third suspect but here is a look at his picture. his name is anthony chambers. the toddler and his dad were

in wrenn's barbershop. both of them did survive. i'm tracee wilkins in glan arden. tonight the prince george's county school board will review a number of policies after volunteer here at this elementary school was charged with a number of counts involving child pornography and sexual child abuse. this all stems from deonte carraway who was a volunteer at the judge woods elementary school in glenarden. he's accused of sexually molesting children at this school and multiple other locations as well. so far 17 victims have been identified. one school board member tells us after hearing about the charges, it was important to him that the board immediately review its policies on hiring volunteers to work within the school system, background searches, and it's policies for rompingeporting ab within

coming up, we get a preview of what's going to happen at the board meeting. president obama will nominate a supreme court candidate that has received past support from republicans. that according to vice president joe biden during a radio interview today. meanwhile, new information about the remembrances for justice scalia. he will lie in repose tomorrow at the supreme court where the public can pay respects. the funeral mass is saturday at the basilica open only to family and friends. the family requests that instead of flowers, donations be made to the supreme court historical society. catholic charities, or ben dick teens of mary, queen of apostles. we're going to tell you what makes this trip to cuba so unique and why local leaders say they are not going to be talking about money. storm team4 tracking quite the weather roller coaster this afternoon. everybody is talking about the chance for snow next week. doug has an update for you first at 4.

you're watching news4 at 4:00. president obama is heading to cuba next month. the first sitting president to visit the country in nearly 90 years. >> the u.s. government has restored relations with cuba, but the obama administration is hoping to force the regime to change for good. brian moore has new details on the president's plans. >> reporter: in old havana, president o

becoming the first sitting president to visit these streets in 88 years. he's hoping to open a diplomatic door that can't be closed. >> our objective here is to do as much as we can with the time we have remaining to make this an inrevirsable policy and the indications to date are the american people support that. >> reporter: on the streets of miami, reaction was mixed. >> he needs to push on human rights and i think this is a great opportunity to do that. >> i don't know if him actually going to cuba is going to fix anything. >> reporter: well, the president will travel with lawmakers from both parties. these members of florida's cuban-american delegation are fiercely opposed. >> it's not a surprise he's going to cuba. it's not a surprise that he's going to go bow down to an anti-american terrorist. >> reporter: cuban-americans ted cruz and marco rubio both criticized the president's call. >> my problem is it asks nothing of the cuban government. they're as repressive today as they have ever been. >> in addition to sitting down

dissiden dissidents. just this week the united states and cuba great to restore regular air service for the first time in nearly half a century. while there are several loopholes from visiting family and humanitarian projects to religious activities and journalism, general tufourism t cuba is still banned under u.s. law. the trade embargo remains in place until congress decides to lift it, and that is unlikely in this highly charged election year. brian moore, nbc news, washington. a local delegation will be heading down this weekend, including d.c. mayor muriel bowser. david culver has been twice in the last year. >> that's right. and they're calling this an exploratory mission because they don't want it to be seen as a trade or commerce mission. instead, think of more of a networking trip if you will. the delegation of 41 is going t÷ focus on health, education, business, and government. they're going to fly out to

the trip will include d.c. mayor muriel bowser and maw rens jones, virginia's customers and trade secretary. >> it's a remarkable opportunity to explore opportunities. it's countless opportunities on education, hospitality, health care, and more. that's why this is exploratory committee to go down with our eyes open and see what's up. >> but even the discussion of restarting business with cuba evokes a lot of strong emotions. i just got off the phone with a cuban-american lawmakers from virginia. you're going to hear about his concerns, chris and erika, when it comes to this trip. that's ahead on news4 at 5:00. >> looking forward to that. great insight. appreciate that. you're going to want to stay with nbc 4 on this delegation to cuba. news4 will be joining the delegation for this historic trip and we'll have live reports throughout the day. how do you think the district government did during last month's blizzard? the public got a

on transportation and the environment. the committee heard from people about what the did he got right and what could be improved. one person talked about their experience during the blizzard, about when a business plowed its parking lot leaving a giant pile of snow on the sidewalk. >> fortunately, the bid came out and shoveled a way through the sidewalks so the kids didn't need to walk on the streets. that's a perfect example of where a citation might have done some good. >> one person who testified suggested that the district government help clear sidewalks as well as the streets. committee members also talked about compiling a list of trouble spots for snow removal ahead of the next storm. boy, oh, boy, i have just been looking at the picture behind us all afternoon. it is a gorgeous day, doug. >> it really is, guys. plenty of blue skies. it really is just picture perfect across the area. a little bit on the cool sid

yeah, that's true. temperatures though only in the mid to upper 30s across much of the region. some locations in the 40s but with the sun, it helped a little bit. take a look outside right now and show you that picture from our city cam looking across the beautiful city right here of washington, d.c., looking out towards the potomac. it almost looks summery. you can see the boats in the foregrou foreground. that doesn't look like summer at ough all, 39 degrees. by summer time we will flip these around and it will be 93 and we'll be like let's go back to cooler weather. 38 in patuxent river. a little bit of a breeze so we've had a windchill. storm team4 radar is clear. no rain or snow in the picture over the next couple days. what we have right now is clear around our region. you can even see the snow. look at the snow up here towards the mountains of west virginia right around ski liberty. you can see some snow on the mountain peaks there. back to the west we're watching another system. this system moving our way. this is a warm front. it's not going to have any moisture

our region but it's going to bring in a great weekend. now, tomorrow still going to be on the cool side and overnight tonight we'll start off rather cool tomorrow morning. down to 26 in the city. 20 in hagerstown. 22 in frederick. we'll see a refreeze again tonight and tomorrow morning will be chilly. tomorrow morning at the bus stop, it will be cold. temperature es around 27. tomorrow afternoon, more clouds, a temperature of 42. heads up, make sure you bundle up tomorrow. it willing one chilly day, and then we get to the next couple days. the impact tomorrow on the low side. weather will not have much of an impact on your day but what will is your next storm. very warm out ahead of the system. we have the jet stream moving to the north. we have a couple pieces of energy with the storm that don't even come ashore until sunday. there's one piece coming out of california. another one coming out of the pacific from canada. it travels all the way down towards our region. these two pieces meet and hi

one, that makes the difference of where the storm is going to go. right now we know there's going to be a storm. where does it develop? we also know it's going to get very cold on the back side. the pattern is right for a storm. we've been saying that all along, but will it be rain or snow? still way too early to tell right now. we really won't have a great idea until saturday night or into sunday. stay with storm team4. we'll continue to keep you posted, but, yes, still a chance we could see snow in the area next week. i'll show you the four-day forecast. i have to show the 63 on saturday. i had to do it. just had to. >> we can never see that too much, man. you can show it all you want. >> thank you. thank you, doug. it's one of the most popular stories on the nbc washington app this afternoon. the not so normal report card that one school accidentally sent to parents and why those folks didn't think it was so funny. and millions of cars are being recalled. ta

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crash. toyota says there's a possibility that in a severe frontal crash, the second row window seat belt could come into contact with a metal seat cushion frame. if that happens the belt could be cut and would not restrain passengers. toyota says it's received reports of two crashes, one in the united states and another in canada in which a rare seat belt had come apart. the recall now includes model year 2006 through 2012 rav4s and model year 2012 to 2014 rav4 ev models. they will be notifying all owners and adding resin covers onto the metal seat cushion frames at no cost to the drives. susan hogan, news4. well, you will soon have a chance to dress just like oprah. the mega media star is doing some spring cleaning, if you will. she's going to be having a closet sale on march 1st.

dresses, coats, shoes, and jewelry will be going up for auction on ebay. the bidding starts at 99 cents. all of the items come from her closet at harpo studios in chicago where she once recorded "the oprah winfrey show." the money raised will go to her foundation, the oprah winfrey leadership academy for girls. and you can get a look at rare and familiar flowers and plants from national parks around the country and you don't have to go very far. head down to the u.s. botanic garden in southwest d.c. the new exhibit opened today and showcases artwork from more than 70 artists. it includes the giant sequoia. if you haven't run over one of those big bumps in the road, you probably had to swerve around one. >> everybody has. those potholes are everywhere. we're going to show you which stretch of road some say is the worst in the entire area.

down. storm team4 is tracking a very interesting next few days. and an update on the forecast that has a little bit of everything coming ufirst at 4p .

now at 4:30, a war of words is breaking out between donald trump and pope francis. the pontiff says anyone who wants to build a wall along the border with mexico is, quote, not a christian. trump says it's disgraceful for a religion leader to quen

we finally know when d.c. street cars will open to the public. the grand opening ceremony is scheduled for next saturday, february 27th at 13th and h streets northeast. it will be free to riders at first. and we are on pothole patrol this afternoon. this is a live look from the storm team4 x 4 in northwest d.c. tracking down some of those painfully deep potholes. if you haven't hit one yet, you have likely had to swerve around them. they're pretty common following big swing in temperature and we have had them. molette green shows us some of the worst she's found and how drivers are managing. >> reporter: on some streets driving is more like being on a speedway playing a game of dodge the pothole. >> take my time. if i can dodge them, i dodge, but it's so hard to dodge because there's so many. >> reporter: big, small, shallow, deep, in groups of two or three, they all make for a tricky and possibly dangerous ride or walk. >> no, i actually don't drive,

me because i don't want anybody popping a tire at me. >> reporter: cori white says two weeks ago she popped two bike tires on this pothole still in the photo gallery on her phone. >> full much ice, really deep. the cars were trying to get around it, so i tweeted at the district department of transportation and they were really, really responsive about the bike tires. >> reporter: bike tires, car tires, no match for craters in the road that can tear holes in your wallet. >> i did hit one, and probably knocked my car out of alignment. >> reporter: and he tells me to fix his car it cost him about $175. check out the pothole here, a couple of them on this street here in northwest on wisconsin circle. weaver lo we're looking for potholes, on pothole patrol on news4. tweet us your stories. in northwest d.c.,

green, news4. and you feeunfortunately, lo see more potholes with our winter continuing, temperatures will be going up and right back down. i think it will be cold as we head into the first part of march as well. evening impact forecast, your temperatures from the upper 30s, it's been a chilly one today. at least the wind will settle down but look at this. by the time we get to 8:00, we're already down below freezing. 31 the temperature. yes, there could be a few icy patches but now i think fewer icy patches than what we've had to deal with. your early morning temperatures were into the 20s, but next time we get to subfreezing temperatures will be the midpart of next week. average low is 31 degrees. your friday, saturday, sunday, monday, look at that. a grouping of the next couple of nights, early mornings where our temperatures will be above average, above 32 degrees until we get to midweek and, of course, it is midweek we are trackin

another storm. radar, satellite, pretty quiet right now but i will show you clouds that will be moving into the area and we'll talk about our next chance when we could see a little rain. >> thanks, v.j. investigators are trying to figure out how a two-alarm fire started in falls church. it happened at a three-story apartment building on patrick henry drive. when the fire crews got there, smoke and fire were pouring out of the building and they had to call in additional firefighters to help. first at 4, arlington police have a suspect in custody and think he may be linked to a series of robberies at some convenience stores around the area. his name is cameron richardson. he picked him up outside a 7-eleven. police think he may be linked with the five robberies. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey joins us live in a few minutes to explain what the officer noticed that led him to arrest him. developing in kansas,e

firefighters are battling a massive grass fire that's burning out of control on the kansas/missouri border. the fire destroyed at least two older barnes and scorched several acres of land. well, what you get from your cable company and how much money you pay could soon be changing. in a 3-2 vote, s.e.c. commissioners adopted a policy that would open up the market for set top boxes. it would let customers decide whether to use yir service provider's box for one from a competing company. americans spend an average of more than $200 a year on cable company boxes. the chairman says you will soon have more choices. >> those competitive objections will do what competition always does, which is drive better services, drive down costs, and create opportunities. >> you can weigh in before a

a coalition of cable companies including comcast have argued that the rule change may raise prices for consumers because of the cost of implementing a new system. comcast is nbc universal's parent company along with nbc 4. i put this story up on my facebook page. school officials are apologizing for sending parents a hurt feeling report from a school in delaware. >> this is getting a lot of attention on facebook and nbc washington app. the sarcastic form making fun of whiners was accidentally sent out to parents in an e-mail with normal school updates. the form says, quote, tell us in your own words how your feelings were hurt as if anyone cared, end quote. the principal apologized to all parents in a recorded message. >> i got two kids, third on the way. whining could get a little annoying even for teachers. last month's blizzard is still causingbi

what many hope will help repair the popular beaches that many of you will flock to in a few months. and the strange place a man's four-legged friend was found. t y it wasn'

i'm scott macfarlane with the news4 i-team. what is your cell phone worth to you with photos, numbers, and e-mails it's priceless for some people, and we found crooks are

area have seen a new crime trend of cell phones lost or stolen being held for ransom when the rightful owners tracks it down. like this recent case when a 13-year-old's phone was snatched. when his mom texted the number back a woman responded asking for $200. >> that's my son's phone and it was stolen. >> reporter: you're not paying for that. >> i'm not paying for that. >> reporter: the i-team goes under cover as police meet up with the woman who asked for the money. scott macfarlane, news4 i-team. >> scott's story got us thinking, if you lost your cell phone or someone stole it, how much would you pay to get it back? it's today's nbc washington flash survey. call or next the number on your screen or head over to the nbc washington facebook or twitter pages to cast your vote. we know a lot of you are sleep deprived and we have some eye-opening

that up. more than a third of americans are tossing around turning. sleep experts recommend adults get seven hours a night. anything less is linked to health problems like diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. the cdc reports 1 out of 3 people do not get enough sleep. this was especially true among african-americans and people living in the southeastern part of the united states. delaware is looking for money to repair popular beaches that were damaged in last month's big winter storm. governor jack markell plans to ask for $2.5 million in federal disaster relief. the money would help fix the north end of rehoboth beach boardwalk and repair broken storm water pipes. a heart-warming reunion after a dog went missing during a snowstorm. >> yeah. the dog's owner briefly let him off the leash during a walk. the dog just took off and disappeared. this happened monday on penn state's cam

retriever. they looked for him for two days. finally the owner found him at the bottom of a 15-foot sinkhole. firefighters had to use a makeshift harness to hoist him out of there, but the good news is sky is just fine and he's already back home safe. all right. over in the storm center, it's doug and veronica tracking that roller coaster forecast. they're going to tell you what's in store photographer the next seven days. plus, less than 48 hours to go until voters in two states head to the polls. the new way to show what a lot of you here in our area really think about these candidates.

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first at 4, a developing story and a major showdown. one of apple's biggest rivals speaks out on the standoff between the government and the tech world which could have some huge implications for your phone. some clouds move in tonight but clouds next week could bring rain and, yes, a little bit of snow. there i said it. i'll have the details coming up. in a surprise move today pope fray sis waded into the u.s. presidential election. when he was asked about donald trump, the pope said a person who would build a wall on the mexican border is not a christian. trump fired back. steve handelsman is live on capitol hill with that reaction. steve? >> reporter: erika, here on capitol hill last year pope francis courted controversy urging congress to do more to fight poverty and global warming but nobody saw this

>> great people. >> reporter: in south carolina donald trump sounded surprised when he learned peep francis had questioned his face. >> the pope? what did the pope say? i like the pope. >> reporter: asked about trump francis says, a person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not christian. the pontiff had gone to the u.s./mexican border to support migrant fleeing poverty and chaos. trump fired back. >> for a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful. i'm proud to be a christian. >> reporter: and trump slammed mexican leaders who oppose a wall. >> they're using the pop pope as a pawn and they should be ashamed of themd. >> reporter: francis' condemnation could apply to the rest of the republicans who all back a wall. jeb bush a roman catholic. >> that's not an unclinsian thing to do. >> reporter: marco rubio also a catholic. >>

comes in and as a result the united states has a right to do that as well. >> reporter: democrat bernie sanders who opposes the wall courted black leaders in washington. hillary clinton in las vegas last night with union workers as the immigration fight again put a spotlight on donald trump. could this affect the race? well, about one-quarter of u.s. voters are catholics who tend to swing between voting for democrats and republicans, but about three-quarters of them in a recent poll said they admire pope francis. i'm steve handelsman, news4. >> thanks, steve. steve just had a lot of words about the candidates. how about one? people were asked to describe candidates and pollsters put their answers in a word cloud. the more common the answer, the larger the cloud. donald trump, the most prominent was crazy, businessman, loud, arrogant

marco rubio, young and inexperienced. and the key words about senator ted cruz was conservative. take a look at the democratic side. hillary clinton, liar is the most prominent word along with other popular answers such as untrustworthy, dishonest, and experienced. for senator bernie sanders, take a look here, communist, socialist, and old were the big ones. take a look at the poll. they did this poll -- it's not coming up, but if found that clinton was leading sanders in virginia 52% to 40%. trump, on the other hand, is leading republicans 28% to senator rubio's 22%. senator cruz right behind though at 19%. erika? >> thanks, chris. fairfax county schools will defied whether to cancel classes on primary election day march 1st. proponents of the closing say the large number of voters expected will make it too disruptive for students and staff. in loudoun

scheduled to be open, but there's an online petition drive asking the board to close them. fourth grade teacher kaitlyn brown started the drive two days ago and so far already has 1,500 people that have signed it. many are worried about safety because normal school security procedures are suspended. elsewhere in the area, prince william county has already decided to close schools march 1st. arlington and alexandria schools are scheduled to be open. it's scott macfarlane. breaking news into the live desk. the trials of all six baltimore plifs charged in the death of freddie gray are now on hold. the maryland court of appeals ordered the trials be delayed until a decision could be made on whether officer william porter can be forced to testify at the trial. povertier's trial ended in a mistrial over a hung jury but prosecutors still wanted to use his testimony against the other five officers. porter's lawyers say that violates his fifth amendment

was set to begin monday, but again the trial of all six officers now on hold. back to you. we're going to take a live look at the former st. elizabeth campus in southeast washington. demolition is getting under way. it's the first big step in the plan to redevelop that area. >> a new sports arena will be built, a practice facility for the wizards and the home of the mystics, but there's much more planned for the campus. homes, retail, and restaurants, office buildings as well. there it goes, little by little. >> the construction project will bring 600 local jobs to our area. the mayor is there today. she's going to be helping to highlight the demolition and talk about some of the local recruitment for those jobs. there she is. she's just getting off the bulldozer now in a hard hat and the bright yellow blazer that we see at the construction site. a lot going on in the district. shomari stone last night was down at 395 in the tunnel where they were hoisting some of the

development going on down there for the practice facility as well. we want to head to storm team4 meteorologist veronica johnson who has been watching this storm, sort of a storm, sort of not. v.j., what are we looking at the next couple days? >> you're talking about that storm system for midweek, not even on the map yet. not until we get to the tail end of the weekend on sunday when it makes its way into the pacific northwest. that's when we'll have a better handle on it. getting a little more certainty with the storm, if you will. lots of uncertainty right now, but i'm very certain that folks are going to love the upcoming weekend. all right. let's talk about tomorrow. temperatures start out subfreezing again, 27. between 7:00 and 8:00 a.m. at the bus stop. of course, it's going to be cold. then cool by tomorrow afternoon. we'll see some more high clouds moving in. 42 the temperature. that puts us above today. still could be a little breezy at times during the afternoon, but temperatures will be slightly higher. there you can see on our sky cast those clouds

through. again, some high clouds from time to time. so a partly sunny to mostly cloudy type of day coming our way. into the 30s still at lunchtime, but 40 degrees at 5:00. then we'll start dropping into the 30s late. 8:00 38 degrees. high temperatures again anywhere from 40 degrees leesburg to 42 la play that. if you're going to go out friday night, not too bad at all. we'll be between 35 and 40 degrees. you'll need a warm jacket or a light coat. those temperatures aren't going to change much at all as we head into saturday morning. look at this, how quickly the temperatures will rise. from the 50s at noon to around 60 degrees at 1:00. warm, a little breezy on saturday. but that really is the change you're going to notice on saturday. we are just going to spring forward from the 50s to 60 and it will feel like a spring day. so a little taste of it for saturday, the high 63. more clouds on sunday, the high 60 degrees. nice and mild where we could see

think late in the day. in fact, our future cast shows that. this is a look at sunday with the clouds increasing. 4:00 there, some rain showers passing through the area. not much at all. early look at the storm system, tuesday, wednesday, still looking likely. it could lag and come in later on tuesday, and it could last into thursday. the exact timing, the intensity, the amount of cold air still in question. we'll get some rain, we'll get some snow. the amount of each too early to call. so still lots of uncertainty here which is why, again, you just need to keep tuning back. make sure you download the nbc washington app because we're also updating that. we're dry on monday, 51. still time to plan for that midweek storm, but once we get it, the cold air looks like it will be setting in for the remainder of next week so our temperatures go way up where we get a little bit of spring and that's what i think we should focus on first, the spring coming our way this weekend. guys? >> thanks a lot, v.j. we're working several develops stories including the countdown to the summer olympic

one of the most popular sports, well, the spotlight is being focused right here in our area. >> reporter: she's from here but now she lives and works in hong kong. she traveled 8,000 miles to visit some friends here in washington. wait until you see what happened here. it was a robbery. a robbery with a sinister twist. the story coming up at 5:00. price matching, pretty simple concept. you find a product for a cheaper price at one retailer and you ask the competitor to beat that price. well, one nonprofit consumer group decided to put retailers' price matching policies to the test and shared their results with news4. mystery shoppers were sent to dozens of major retailers to see how much they could save and how easy it was to get stores to comply with their policies. >>

we'd save a lot of money by either buying it online or getting them to match that online price. >> well, if you think price matching is too time consuming, think again. on news4 at 5:00, consumer reporter susan hogan takes it's guesswork out of comparison shopping. the tech world is now embroiled in a big fight with washington. we're going to tell you who is chiming in after a federal judge ordered apple to unlock an iphone.

we've seen a cool day across our area. yesterday close to 50 degrees. not bad at all. today a high temperature of only in the 30s. right now we're at 38 degrees in d.c. 34 at gaithersburg. 36 at frederick and right now culpeper coming in at 40 degrees. we have much warmer air coming in over the next couple days. no rain or snow to talk about. we're not going to be seeing that at all but what we are going to be watching ask a frontal boundary that is actually just back to the west. clear skies right now but we are tracking a front, and that front actually making its way our way. that frontal boundary located right in through minneapolis down around the chicago area. that's actually a warm front and that will bring in much warmer air as we move through the next few days. tomorrow it will bring us some cloud cover, but then we'll see some nicer weather. now, tomorrow starting off going to be a rather cool start. 26 degrees in the city. 24 in gaithersburg. 22 in frederick. again, going to be fairly cold when you wake

we move through the day tomorrow and some of that ice could be out there at the bus stop like it's been the last couple days. temperatures at 27 degrees. 3:00, temperatures up to 42 degrees and that's about the high for tomorrow. i want to show you what's happening down to the southwest. look at wichita. 76 degrees today. it was 70 in colorado springs. 74 in dallas. that's the warm air coming our way. i'll have more on that in a minute next at 5:00. google now supporting apple in its fight against cracking an iphone that belonged to one of the san bernardino shooters. >> apple says this is going to set a dangerous precedent. marg barger has the latest. >> reporter: tech giant apple is finding support from one of its fiercest rivals, google, as it fights a judge's order to help the fbi crack an iphone used by one of the san bernardino shooters. both companies

would set a dangerous precedent. >> i think what apple is suggesting is this little key that the government is offering or asking for creates a slippery slope that could potentially be made vulnerabilities for the millions of phones that are deployed around the world. >> reporter: the fbi want apple to create new software to bypass a security feature that erases all data after ten wrong password attempts. the government says the help is only needed on this one device. >> slippery slope, that technology would exist and how do you stop people from asking for it. >> reporter: apple says they have been assisting the fbi, but that the latest request goes too far. in an open letter, ceo tim cook says, creating a, quote, backdoor to bypass encryption is he says they do not have and something they consider too dangerous to create. the manhattan district attorney disagrees saying it's critical for prosecutors to gain access to data stored on phones. >> this is a decision where to draw the line between public safety and privacy that needs to be

the legislature and the courts. >> reporter: the fbi says it's running out of options as it tries to recover potential evidence stored on the shooter's phone. mark barger, nbc news. news4 at 5:00 begins right now with some breaking news out of northeast washington where police are on the scene after two men are shot and killed. >> it happened on 58th and eads street. >> reporter: i can tell you we are one block from drew elementary school. school was in session at the time this happened, but the school was not placed on lockdown. now, police were called here to a home behind me on 58th street just after 1:00 this afternoon. it's believed the shooting took place inside the home. we actually saw investigators looking at a bullet hole in the wall of the building. we can tell you that police told us that two men were fatally injured.