chopper 4 over the outer loop, a car fire here. this is at cabin john parkway. so fire and rescue just pulled up on the scene. we have two left lanes getting by. 95 at route 3, an overturned vehicle in the median slow things just a bit. westbound toll at wiehle avenue, a right lane blocked due to an accident. we'll send chopper up to frederick town a get eyes from that problem in earlier. let's check in with storm team 4 chuck bell now to find out what kind of day we'll have. warmer weather? >> yes, indeed. a nice way to begin meet lo meteorological spring. spring sort of getting under way. a little bit of a cold start this morning. near 40 downtown.

door. here is the way the next 24 hours look. tonight still dry, rain moving in. tomorrow most of the rain canning to an end. temperatures in the 40s. still watching for a chance for rain and snow thursday night into friday. and then a slushy mix of rain and snow likely during the day on friday. tom has the commuter forecast in ten minutes. people are in line already waiting for the polls to open. news 4 as learned loudoun county and prince william county may be the most highly contested in the state today. virginia has a uniquely diverse

electorate. it could signaturekocould sugge. polling places have baby busy setting up and getting ready for the morning rush. meagan fitzgerald is live in fairfax county with what voters need to know. >> reporter: lines started forming before the polls even opened at 6:00 which is just a couple minutes ago. you can see folks are waiting outside. this is something that you're probably going to see throughout the day especially here at the lake braddock second deary scho. this is a busy polling location and we're expecting an even bigger it uppoturn outbecause w supposed to get good weather. some important information that you you need to know, first, the i.d.s. you need to come with any i.d. that has been issued by the commonwealth. p p so driver's license,

passport, student i.d. for more information on finding polling places, you can go to elections.virgin elections.virgin elections.virginia.gov. when you show up to vote, you will show your i.d. at the front, you will see a ballot. . and then you will head over to the privacy booth too fito fillt out. you'll scan your ballot on the machines before you head out. and of course you'll get the "i voted" sticker, as well. so we've been speaking with election officials here and i want for bring in one of our election officials, she's speaking right now, she's busy as you can imagine because this will be a very busy day. but this is the election chief here for fairfax county. thank you so much for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> you and i were talking a little earlier about the ballot. and how it can be sort of confusing for some voters. can you clear that up, can you

vote gets counted? >> people are expecting probably certain people to be on the ballot. they will see a number of names particularly on the republican ballot. quite a few more than you might think are actually-of should be on the ballot. in reality, only one person has withdrawn from the campaign. but the other candidates who have suspended their campaigns, you can still vote for them. so you will see their names on the ballot. if you do vote for them, your vote will count for that candidate. >> and you want to fill in your own candidate? >> if you want to write in, that will not count. the ballot will be rejected preliminarily. you'll be asked if you want to redo your ballot, that

are not permitted for the primary. you can choose to do that. and we'll give you another ballot, take your old one. and you can go ahead and cast or if you decide you're going to do it, we override, but it's not going to show up anywhere on the election results. >> got it. okay. thank you so much for joining us. a busy day ahead. so again, polls have opened across virginia and they close at 7:00 p.m. tonight. back to you. presidential hopefuls are waking up across the country this morning. hrk may wat hillary clinton hey watch the result high school this alexandria. ted cruz is in his home state of texas. a cruz win there could be significant. nbc news has expanded coverage of super tuesday. we'll air a special hour long edition of "nightly news" at 7:00 and thbs will have a prime time nbc special at 10:00. and at 11:00, we'll have live reports in virginia. we're working to get more details about a person found

the house went up in flames around 8:00 last night on massachusetts avenue near southern avenue in southeast. police are not releasing the victim's name or any other information about how the person died. breaking news in urbana this morning. a crash that melissa has been following. we've learned that karl neal, the driver of the tractor trailer, died. you can see it flipped over on fingerboard road. the road is shut down. maryland state police tell us that neal lost control of the truck, he hit a guardrail and the truck caught fire. it's not clear how he lost control. chopper 4 headed to that crash right now. should be there in just a couple minutes. keeping an eye on that for you. we'll talk about alternates, how to get around it coming up. also ahead, we're digging deeper into d.c.'s plan to use a fleet of private ambulances. mark segraves shows us who will staff them. and plus wrapping up a

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a lot of you use 80 and we're totally stopped there at park mills. we're sending chopper right the now. this is a fatal tractor trailer crash. it will be 7:30 before it's completely out of the way. germantown to the spur, you're fine. 66 inbound and 95 north in virginia also rolling along nicely. now outside to tom kierein with the commuter forecast. here on the weather deck in northwest washington, the sky is clear, winds are calm.

coat. birds are shouting out the song for the morning as they know it will be another beautiful day. for the morning commute, we'll be in the upper 30s here. so a cold start. you need the heater on with sunshine. clouds closing this during the afternoon. by the afternoon commute, back down to the upper 50s after we peak in the low to mid-60s midafternoon. look at the next snow chance in ten minutes. today the longest ever trip to space is coming to an end. >> leave this incredible place, relinquish command. >> scott kelly is coming home and first thing he'll do, try to stand still. might be tough. he spent a year in space to see how it will affect the human body. the experiment could give nasa the information it needs to send someone to mars. just an incredible mission. >>

your living room. >> sent back some beautiful images. >> great to see. a popular exhibit at the national zoo is off-limits this morning. the potential hazard that will keep you out of the kids farm. >> and right now i'm breaking down a brand new nbc news poll as voters in several states weigh in including virginia. voters are heading to the polls because it is super tuesday. i'll show you which candidates could have a big day today.

the virginia polls are open in decision 2016. you have until 7:00 tonight to get to polling places like the one you see right here in fa fairfax county. already pretty busy this morning. make sure you bring a photo i.d. with you. a new poll out, angie goff breaking down the numbers from the live desk. >> yeah, just got this this new survey monkey poll just in and it shows a big

trump. people were asked which republican presidential candidate would you support right now. trump we're looking at 40%, that is a four point jump from last week. rubio is the second choice at 21%. cruz trailing in third with 18%. now, of the people surveyed, they said they were pretty much -- 47% said this is who they would vote for. on the democratic side, clinton 51%, sanders 41%. we saw a one point increase for sanders. the margin of error just under 2% for republicans and democrats. we'll continue to go over the numbers and bring you anything else of significance. and going into today's voting, here is a look at the delegate count. donald trump is leading republicans with 82. candidates need more than

nomination. there are nearly 600 delegates available to republicans today. now to the democrats, hillary clinton leads the delegate count with 546. candidates need nearly 2400 to qualify. there are more than 1,000 available to democrats today. and look up for a second at this video from a trump rally in virginia where it appears a secret service agent choked a photographer and threw him to the ground. you can watch the bottom right hand corner of your screen. we've highlighted the confrontation where it looks like one man chokes another man and then throws him town. the secret service says it's aware of the incident and is working with law endorsement in radfo radford, virginia for figure out what happened. the photographer says the incident began when he stepped out side of the media area. and make sure you have our nbc washington app, it is where we will send you any breaking news alerts when a winner is declared in both

coming up on 6:18. a task force set up to make sure students are not abused starts work today it in prince george's county. you'll remember deonte carraway has been charged with sexually abusing as many as 17 children. a task force will review the district's safety and security policies and decide what needs to be changed. the group sxegtss to have results by may. carraway now facing new charges respecten indictment claims he engaged in graphic sex acts with at least 11 victims. he faces 1 13 counts of sexuall exploiting children. and all the victims are between 9 and 12. carraway also faces a class action lawsuit. your safety is the number one reason d.c. is about to start using a fleet of private ambulances. mark segraves has details on how they will be used, something you will see only on news 4.

>> reporter: within matter of weeks, fire stations will get a new private ambulance service. news 4 got an exclusive look inside this new private company amr. and learned that they will be using data from past 191 calls to predict where the highest need will be and then they will know where to position those ambulances, 24 of them throughout the city, 18 hours a day. they are also hiring almost 200 emts. and d.c. residents will get priority for those jobs. we'll start seeing those ambulances on the streets by the end of the month. an ohio school district is closed today as police investigate a shooting. >> four students were hurt after

fire inside a high school cafeteria yesterday. two students were shot, two others were hurt as they tried to get away from the shoot thor. >> be hard for everybody to get over this. >> the young shooter was arrested at the school. police say they know the motive for the sooting but they're not releasing it. starting today, you can text 911 if you have an emergency in loudoun county. emergency responders there say the text should be short and it should have specific location and type of emergency info. loudoun county officials suggest first calling 911 if you can. they asked for your feedback and today fairfax county will address your concerns about the cleanup after the blizzard of 2016. some big issues that keep coming up with unshoveled school sidewalks, inefficient police patrol and inconsistent plowing patterns. board of supervisors will review those concerns at 2:30 during their snowzilla snow summit. breaking news right now on the roads. ch

problem here in urban that. so again, this is 80/fingerboard road. shut down both directions at park mills. and you can see all of today of caused by the crash. a fatal accident involving a semi truck which i believe is right here and has been pulled out of the way that the point this morning. we'll get more information on that one as well. so right now, take 85, take 109. you don't want to try to take 80 through that area. 95 northbound at 3, overturned vehicle still in the median. second crash being reported on the ramp there to 3. so a warning for you. may have a couple things happening in that area. eastbound toll road at wiehle avenue, right lane blocked by the extent. that is still hanging around. also some delays there on the westbound lanes. eastbound is where this crash is here this morning. coming up in a couple minutes, we'll go back live to frederick with chopper 4 to take a look at things from above. chuck bell, good morning. good morning. tuesday off to a nice

clear skies out there have allowed temperatures to drop back into the 20s and 30s for most. but on the whole, another nice one coming our way for today. 65 degrees yesterday, and we'll be just about that mild again later on this afternoon. for now, though, a seasonably cold morning outside. 28 in bristow, 32 chantilly. 35 in charles town, west virginia. 40 now in falls church. storm team 4 radar, nothing to worry about now. nothing to worry about for all the daylight hours today. our next chance for rain still back way out here across parts of illinois, northwest indiana. the rate it's going, still with 17 hours away. take puts it in here after 10:00. so most of the rain between about 10:00 or 11:00 and end hopefully before the sun is up tomorrow morning. there is a live picture of the u.s. capitol. sun up in a couple minutes at 6:40. current temperatures in the low to mid-30s. we'll be in the mid-40s by 9:00.

afternoon coming up. plenty of sunshine and mild. low to perhaps even into the mid-60s for a time today. turning breezier tonight. high today 61 in new market maryland, 65 in fredericksburg. going out tonight, clouds moving in and after 9:00, 10:00 tonight, a risk for some raindrops with temperatures back down into the mid and upper 40s. here is future weather. 3:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, there is the ribbon of rain showers coming right through that. so with a cold front, which will make tomorrow noticeably colder than today. colder pattern to finish out the week could lead to a little chance for rain or snow as we get into the day on friday. tomorrow though once the rain pulls out early in the morning, it will be down right windy. gusty northwesterly winds tomorrow could be if excess of 30 to 40 miles per hour at times. tomorrow's temperatures because of the strong northwest winds will hold mostly in the mid to upper 40s. next big thing we're watching for now, thursday night into

starting as snow and mixing as snow and rain friday afternoon. the weekend looks pretty good. on the chilly side, but mostly dry. temperatures in the 40s to near 50. 6:24 right now. some pretty incredible video. this is out of texas. that car slammed right into the gas pump here. this happened at a shell station in arlington, texas. the fire broke out, other drivers started running. no word on whether anyone was hurt. google has been the only company testing self driving cars not to get into a big crash. that is until now. "usa today" reporting the self driving lexus suv crashed in to a bus last month. it was going about 2 miles per hour in california. the bus was going 15 miles per hour. nobody was hurt and google says that its computer tricdriven su made the wrong division when it was training lanes. >> only going 2 miles per hour. can you imagin

>> low impact, yes. >> more reason not to let somebody else -- >> not to trust it, yeah. but the previous crashes have been caused by human drivers rear ending the self driving cars. 6:25. we're doing something special on in-exttastragra instragram, #women of washington. mae owns may flowers. you can see great stories all month long. the kids farm athe national zoo will remain closed until all animals there test negative for e. coli. routine test found bacteria earlier this month. all of the animals have been

the kids farm is the petting zoo, so you have to be careful with your kids. the farm will be reopened after three consecutive weeks of negative testing. and emotional day ahead in prince william county as a murdered police officer is remembered. how you can pay your respects to officer ashley guindon. a controversial ruling in that apple fbi showdown. what options the government has this morning after a judge refuses to force the tech giant to unlock the phone of a suspected terrorist. a clihilly start, but storm team 4 tracking changes in the day ahead.

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it is election day in virginia. meagan fitzgerald is in fairfax county where she says the lines started forming at lake braddock secondary school before 6:00 this morning. expect similar scenes across the country today. millions of voters will weigh in and will likely solidify or even end some campaigns. we will air an hour long edition of "nightly news" starting at 7:00 t

news 4 at 11:00 will have live coverage from northern virginia immediately afterwards. we're also in prince william county where people will be gathering in the coming hours for honor the life of officer ashley guindon. first, though, breaking news on the roads. melissa mollett here with your first 4 traffic. so again take a look, chopper 4 over this big cleanup. a fatal crash overnight in frederick county in urbana this morning. so 80 right now is shut down there near park mills road. big accident there. and this will be shut down until about 7:30 this morning. you can see the front of the cab just completely twisted. went down an embankment there and lost part of its load. alternate, 85 or 109. those are your best bets here this morning. a lot of your 80 to get to 270, so i understand you'll have to take the alternate this morning. 66 t

bw parkway is slow after 32. nothing happening, just volume headed southbound. everything else up there looking good. chuck. four things you need to know about the weather for today. number one, going to be a nice mild day today, but it is the last of the mild days for quite a while. might be next week before we get warm again. moderate rain coming in late tonight. most of it will happen after you go to bed and before you get up tomorrow morning. i'll give you the timing on that coming up. breezy and windy to tomorrow. still watching for a chance of rain/snow combination thursday night into friday. so to your tuesday, a chilly start in the 30s on your way out the door this morning. mid-50s, plenty of sunshine at noon. highs today low to mid 60s. rain moving in after 9:00 or 10:00 tonight. aaron, back to you. it's 6:31. and prince william county police officer ashley begguindobegi gul set

she died during her first shift as a police officer. it will be an emotional day for the police department. derrick ward is in woodbridge with more on how the public can pay it respects. >> reporter: that is something that has been going on in this area since this tragedy happened on saturday afternoon. and now there will be an o outpouring of grief at the hylton memorial chapel. the 28-year-old will be memor l memorialized starting at 10:00 with a viewing and then the funeral at noon. it is open to the public. 28-year-old ashley guindon was just resworn as a proip police officer on friday. on saturday, she responded to a domestic violence call at a home in woodbridge. she was among three officers who showed up at the home on lashmere drive when a gunman inside the home opened fire killing guindon. now, police say that that gunman rodney hamilton h

killed his wife, crystal, who had placed the 911 call. he's facing capital murder and first-degree murder charges. the two other officers who were shot are recovering from their wounds. but this community is still reeling from these two deaths. and today we will indeed see this funeral here. guindon is expected to be buried in new england where her family resides. we're live in woodbridge, da derrick ward, news 4. ahead of today's funeral, law enforcement officers lined a processional route for officer guindon last night. it was an impressive show of support. her body passed the garfield police station where she was assigned and it ended with her flag draped casket arriving at the chapel. the community also lined the route to pay respects. the other victim in this series of events is crystal hamilton, police say her husband killed her before police arrived.

according to her sister on saturday the couple's son returned from a sleepover and his parents were arguing. the situation quickly escalated and hamilton called the police. she told her son to run and as he ran, he says he saw his father pick up his mother and throw her down. the 11-year-old told his aunt that he heard gunshots as he rushed down the stairs and out of the house. >> i everyon said to her, this your protector. and to say that to her and this is the same person who turned around and took her life, that -- it's a hard pill to swallow. >> news 4 has learned the suspect ronald hamilton was charged with assault back in 2007 in another state. he was allowed to enter a diversion program to avoid jail time. search is on for a patient who ran away from the northern virginia mental health

michael marshall went missing about 6:00 last night. you can see his picture here. if you see him, contact police but do not approach him. he's known to exhibit violent behavior. he's believed to have ties to the centreville and sterling areas. district leaders are voting on a new plan today that includes paying at risk youth to steer them away from crime. the program calls for a stipend for those at high risk of crime who take part in the counseling. it would pair mental health professionals with police to work with individual communities. d.c. police would also be required to collect more data on crime and situations where force is used. jesse matthew jr. is expected to enter a guilty plea tomorrow that could help him avoid the death penalty. he is the map wn who faces murd charges in the death of morgan harrington and hannah graham. matthew is already serving a life sentence for a sex assault in fairfax. download our app to get any breaking news

out of charlottesville. 6:36. howard university is now a national treasure. designation which will help to restore its historic campus library. founders founders library has been a central part since 1939. the library has played host to civil rights activism and helped to education thousands of students. the designation was handed over yesterday. >> the partnership seems nag. education and preservation go hand this hand. >> howard will now be able to qualify for tax credits and help funding renovations. plans are to preserve the library's history and also to move it in to the digital age. a massive cleanup shutting gown a main route over to 270. details coming up. critical day ahead for the presidential hopefuls on this super tuesday. we'll show why you virginia will play a major ro

who wins each party's nomination. plus keeping kid away from tanning beds. the proposed ban that is up for discussion in one local community.

apple's fight over security with the fbi heads to capitol hill today. james comey and an apple senior vice president will test tie before the house jew addition and i committee. the fbi wants apple to create software that would allow the government to access an encrypted iphone from a san bernardino shooter. apple argues that would set a dangerous precedent. and the fbi plans to appeal another case. a federal judge in blook lynn blocked a justice department request to open a locked iphone used by a suspected drug dealer. that ruling is a boost for apple over security and gives the company an advantage in the san bernardino case. breaking news right now, chopper 4 over this

you in you aurbana. 80 shut down at park mills road. a titfatal accident. the semi flipped and you can see all the today the brie. they tell us it will be out of the way around 7:30 this morning.the brie. they tell us it will be out of the way around 7:30 this morning. 85 or 109 aror alternates. germantown to the spur taking you 20 minutes. top of the beltway slow over to 270, but totally typical. 66 and 95 looking pretty normal. i'm on the storm team 4 weather deck. clear, cold and calm. when you're waiting at the bus stop, you can see the latest storm team 4 app with the nbc washington app and dress warmly, you will need a hat, warm coat, glove. cold start, we'll be this the 30s between now through 8:00 this morning. and then temperatures will jump this afternoon when you're heading back home. we'll be mild and a bit of a blustery wind. increasing clouds into the low and mid-60s by late a

we're at the polls in fairfax county where voters are already lining up for their chance to vote in today's critical super tuesday primary. you're looking at live pictures here. what you need to know before you head to the polls. plus we're watching breaking news story that melissa mollett has been helping you get around all morning. what we're learning about this deadly crash that is causing problems with the morning commute. your time right now 6:42.

in virginia voters are casting that are ballots. >> and we're in prince william county as a fallen police officer is remembered. first breaking news on the roads. breaking news again this problem this urbana, chopper 4 over the scene. an kroefr turned tractor trailer. they have gotten that out of the way. this is a fatal crash. a lot of debris to get out of the way. we'll talk about the alternates, the work around this morning. early sunrise, sun now up and a clear sky and cold start this morning. mild for today, but another chance for snow on friday. details onha

it is 6:46 and right now our community is having its first chance to weigh in on the presidential election. it is super tuesday. if you're registered to vote in virginia, you have until 7:00 tonight to be at a polling place like this one in fairfax county. we're already seeing lines, so plan a little extra time for your vote. virginia has a diverse collection of voters. political experts say it's america in miniature. meaning a win in virginia could suggest a win later on. now the latest polls have hillary clinton in the lead right now in the democratic race in virginia. she could win up to 95 delegates. and 14 superdelegates today. now, democratic candidates need nearly 2400 delegates to qualify for a nomination. and now to the gop where trump needs -- trump holds on to the lead and he needs 49 delegates available to

the gop candidate needs more than 1200 delegates to qualify for the party's nomination. >> virginia voters have a big impact to make and many rush to the polls the moment they open today. meagan fitzgerald live in fairfax county now. >> reporter: good morning. we've made our way inside the lake braddock precinct here and folks have been riaeeen lined u the polls even opened. it's been a steady stream. folks come in, they register here with these ladies wouho volunteer and then they go to the privacy booth. you see the machines there, that's where the voters will be scanning their vote so that it counts. so keep in mind that when you fill out that ballot, you will see several different presidential candidates on there, many of whom may have already suspended or withdrawn. so there shouldn't be any

you will see that on both gop side and the democratic side. thousand, here is the important information. when you come to vote, this is what you need to know. bring your i.d. with you. so a state issued photo i.d. from the commonwealth, passport, you can bring your student i.d. as well. and election officials are encouraging folks to check which precinct they need to go to to vote. you can do so bee by going to alexandrias.virginia.gov. again, polls are open. and they will close at 7:00 p.m. tonight. and election officials say that if you are in line at 7:00 p.m. recalls of how long that line is, you can cast your vote. back to you. >> meagan fitzgerald live for us. thank you. and a little more on what is at stake nationwide today. candidates will be racing for delegates trying to get closer to their party's requirement in order to qualify for presidential nomination. about 30 minutes ago, we

donald trump is expanding his lead among republicans. this is according to the latest nbc news survey monkey poll. ted cruz is hoping for a win in texas where he hold as slight lead. hillary clinton is expected to dominate most of the democratic contests today. it is 6:49. and presidential hopefuls are waking up across the country this morning with watchful eye. hillary clinton may watch today's results in alexandria. senator ted cruz is this his home state of texas. a cruz win there could be significant. nbc news has expanded wunch. we'll air a special hour long edition of "nightly news" at 7:00 and nbc will have a prime time election special at 10:00. and on news 4 at 11:00, we'll have live reports on the races and results in virginia. breaking news at the live desk. fingerboard road in urbana still shut down because of a horrible crash involving a truck that you saw overturned. it slammed into

we know that karl neal was the driver of that truck and he did die on the scene. maryland state police say the driver lost control for some reason. they're still not clear why. use 85 to get around it. follow first 4 traffic for updates. 6:50 thousannow. we're working to find out more about a person found dead in a fire in a house on massachusetts avenue. police are not releasing the victim's name or any details about how the person died. as we get more tore, we'll have it here and on the nbc washington app. another ban on smoking. as of this morning, smokers cannot light up outside at any city owned property in rockville. that includes all out door parks and facilities. rockville says it's following montgomery county's lead on the ban. it does not apply to privately owned businesses like restaurants. also today, the rules for tanning could be change to go keep your children safe.

measure banning anyone 18 and under from indoor tanning facilities. those places would also have to post warning signs. the push for the change comes because many studies say exposure to tanning rays could cause significant health problems. breaking news in frederick county. you can see crews right for you loading the debris from this crash into this truck to get it out of the way. so the semiinvolved in the fatal accident was just towed away. you can see all the debris that still remains here. they think they will be reopening 80 at fingerboard road at about 35 minutes. maybe a little longer than that. again, this is at park mills. chopper 4 over the scene for us here this morning. your alteralternates, 85, 109. oets either of those are totally fine. 66 and 95, looking pretty good. no major issues. prince george's county, again,

looking pretty normal. inbound 210, 11 miles per hour before you hit livingston. up top, no real issues p. bw parkway south after 32, a tad slow. and 270 at montrose looking pretty good. all anyone wants to know about, when is the next big change coming. it arrives thursday in to friday. it comes with a chance for rain or potentially mixing with some snow. the timing on this, 8:00 thursday night and there after, chance for some snowflakes moving in. temperatures just barely above the freezing mark. by 8:00 a.m. on friday, likely to be a combination of rain and slushy wet snow. temperatures at or just barely above the freezing mark p. and by 4:00 friday afternoon, probably mostly rain, we still could get a few snowflakes friday afternoon highs only in the upper 30s. the fwroupd ahead of the next snow chance relatively warm, so it will have a little bit more trouble sticking to the ground. here's what to expect then. snow likely on begin late thursday evening, wet snow and rain through early friday. and then

afternoon, temperatures mid to upper 30s. could have some school impacts thursday morning. we're watching it extra closely. weather in your plans today, no problem. tomorrow no problem. but late tonight, we do have a quick moving chance for rain showers. most of the rain comes between midnight tonight and 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. it's coming from parts of the midwest. so not a lot of rain expected. maybe a quick quarter ever an inch. outside this morning, temperatures in the upper 20s to mid-30s in the suburbs to closer to 40 degrees downtown and by the way. here is your "7-day forecast." how about 64 degrees today. soak it in and enjoy it. the last mild day for a while. much cooler tomorrow. cold thursday and there is the rain/snow chance on friday. it will no doubt be an emotional day for the prince william county police department. prince william county police officer ashley guindon's funeral is

the 28-year-old died during her first shift as a police officer. derrick ward is in woodbridge with more on how the public can pay their respects. >> reporter: good morning. the final chance for the public to pay their respects will happen in just a due hours at the hylton memorial chapel in woodbridge. the viewing is at 10:00, the funeral starts at noon. 28-year-old ashley guindon had just been resworn as a prince william county police officer on friday. last saturday she responded to a domestic violence call at a home in woodbridge, the person inside that home opened fire on her and responding officers. he had already killed his wife. the other two responding officers are recovering from their wounds. the funeral again will be open to the public here and following this funeral, there will be another funeral in massachusetts where begguindon will be buried. again, this starts at 10 k on and the funeral

we are in woodbridge, dwar rier ward news 4. >> and a warning about scams. several go fund me pages have been created using her name, but police say they were not set up by her family. there is no way to know where that money will go as a result. if you would like to support officer guindon's family, we have details on how to do it safely on the nbc washington app. search officer memorial fund. good morning. i'm pllandon dowdy. you can own a piece of oprah's wardrobe. she's cleaning out her closet and putting homore than 150 ite up forbid on ebay. all start for the low price of 99 cents. the auction runs today through thursday with proceeds going to her leadership academy for girls. i'm landon dowdy. it is 6:56. four things to knowef

home today after a year in space. the longest anyone has spent up there. thanks, scott kelly. and task force starts work today in prince george's county. a group formed after a teacher's aide was charged with sexually abusing as many as 17 children. deadly crash has a road closed in frederick county. state police say karl neal lost control his tractor trailer on fingerboard road. it flipped and caught fire. he died. you have until 7:00 tonight to cast your vote in the republican and democratic primaries. be sure to bring a photo i.d. we'll send out breaking news alerts on our app when results come in tonight. one more check of the seven day forecast. enjoy this mild day today because this is it for a while. rain year night tonight, no big deal. rain/snow quom bcombination thu night into friday. taking a look from above, this is frederick county, urbana, again talking about

shut down at park mills road. they say they should be out of the way here from this fatal crash and all of this cleanup around 7:30 this morning. alternates, take 85, take 109. you don't want to take 80. you will just get stopped from the west side. 66 and 95, no major problems. typical slowdowns. >> thank you, melissa. and that is the broadcast this morning. appreciate you waking up with us. >> the "today" show is next.

good morning. march madness. voters in 12 states head to the polls on this super tuesday. the most crucial day of the election so far. crump and clinton way out in front. will they deliver knockout blows or can rubio, cruz and sanders hang on? our decision 2016 team has it covered from every angle. the director of the fbi and one of apple's top executives facing off in congress today in their battle over unlocking iphones, as a judge deals the government a big blow in court. tearful testimony. erin andrews breaks down over the video of her most private moments she says left her humiliated and ashamed. >>