blue and gray and beige and brown uniforms. so many first responders came to pay tribute to ashley guindon. it took nearly an hour to clear the church after the service. then they staged a final salute to this fallen young officer, also once a marine reservist. thousands of first responders coming together to pay tribute to ashley guindon. the newly sworn in prince william county officer was shot and killed on her first shift saturday night. guindon's mother, in from massachusetts, was held in the embrace of two prince william county officers as she entered the chapel, followed by other family members. >> she sought the life of a peace-maker. blessed are the peace makers. >> during the service, ashley was remembered as a loving daughter, a highly intelligent young woman, driven to pursue a career of service. she was a marine reservist before joining the police f

celebrate an amazing life. a life all too short. amazing nonetheless. >> nearly 4,000 filled the church in an overflow area. fellow officers determined to share the pain of this loss. and to offer comfort through their presence to guindon's family. >> we want them to know we're here for them during this time. >> outside the chapel perhaps the saddest moment, the end of service call. >> this is the final call. for officer ashley guindon. 2016. >> a final salute as the motorcade led ashley guindon on her final journey home. >> ashley guindon's body will be flown back to massachusetts where she will be buried with military honors. back to you. >> julie carey. and friends plan to hold a vigil tonight for the other victim of that shooting, the

hamilton. friends and family will gather outside the hamilton home in woodbridge at 7:00. police say that ronald hamilton killed his wife and then opened fire on police officers when they arrived on saturday night. crystal's sister said the couple were arguing about crystal going out with friends. today is one of the biggest days on the political calendar. and it's the first time local voters have a chance to make their voices heard in the presidential primaries. virginia is one of 12 states where voters are making their choice this super tuesday. >> we have live team coverage beginning with northern virginia burg reporter david culver who is in bristow tonight, talking with voters as they leave the polling place. >> voters in virginia could heavily influence this race. >> you know what, that's right. and voters in virginia, the commonwealth tell me they've seen iowa go through it, nw

hampshire, south carolina and now virginians have their chance to cast their ballot. it's been interesting, over the past several days, i've talked to several different voters, and most carry this frustration with their options. they don't like their choices for the most part. yet they're still showing up here at the polls, where we are in bristow virginia, in prince william county and have to narrow it down to one choice. >> we caught one norine blackford. >> have you been trying to figure out which candidate matters to you? >> i think i'm going to go with trump. >> gary miller tired with the process, the lack of options, despite many candidates on the ballot. >> there was a candidate for none of the above. that's what i would pick. >> really? >> yes. >> when you go in there, who do you go for? >> the lesser of the evils. >> who is that for you today? >> kasich or

through, one of them? >> no. >> you feel like this is your only chance to vote? >> this is it. my one opportunity to vote for them. >> emmanuel braino, using this day off school to give his two kids a lesson in civic duty. voted as a family before he officially cast his ballot. >> i wanted to get them involved so we voted and we had 2-1. we went for it. >> who did you go for it? >> we went for sanders, actually. >> for bernie sanders? >> yes. >> folks including the family you just met right there, you realized it's a divided issue even within families. that is who they're going to vote for. i'll explain more on that, when i see you at news4 at 6:00, i just got off the phone with democratic and republican strategists, why virginia is so important, why prince william county where we are and neighboring loudoun county carry so much value. i'll break it down at 6:00, send it back to you. >> david culver, thank you so much. we'll be

that. candidates on both sides are making last-minute stops across the country in an effort to push more supporters to the polls. nbc news has reporters following each campaign tonight and some candidates are looking ahead to the next contest. >> i'm jacob rascon on the trail with donald trump who is so confident in his super tuesday chances he's moved on to states like ohio and florida, where he will also point out he is ahead in the polls. >> i'm andrea mitch until miami, where hillary clinton is hoping to hold a big victory celebration against bernie sanders tonight. she is far ahead of sanders in most of the big southern super tuesday states. she's also hoping to make inroads against him and try to win massachusetts, or minnesota. >> i'm gabe gutierrez in miami. marco rubio's home town, and where he'll be as his campaign looks to the crucial primary here on march 15th. but first, super tuesday. while rubio trails donald trump in every state, the campaign hopes to

labels donald trump a con artist. >> i'm halle jackson in houston, following ted cruz's campaign. moving forward his campaign hoping to play in arkansas and oklahoma, too cruz has predicated his whole campaign on being strong in the south. tonight it will prove whether he can be or not. we'll be continuing our team coverage tonight. you can go to our website, or the nbc washington app. we'll be mapping out which candidates are winning in particular counties, of course we'll be sending out breaking news alerts when the winners have declared. if you haven't had a chance to vote we're putting together a comparison of all the candidates, more specifically where they stand on particular issues. make sure to stick around after news4 at 6:00, for a special edition of "nbc nightly news." and lester will be back for a special report as the results start to come in. all right folks, take a g

look at the storm team 4 radar some of the super tuesday states are getting hit with rain as voters head to the polls. >> doug is here with a look at what we can be expecting in the next 24 hours. >> things are going to feel a lot different around here. >> yeah, guys, we're talking about a major shift as far as what we're going to be seeing here through the next 12-24 hours. temperatures today, beautiful. i mean look at these numbers across our region. high temperatures in d.c. close to 65 degrees. 65 in martinsburg, 65 in d.c. 71 in warrenton and 70 towards fredericksburg. the warm air is here. but with the frontal boundary you can see it defined. take a look at the thunderstorm activity moving through. we're a not cooler. these numbers, sitting at 60 degrees in d.c. look back to the west. 24 in chicago. you think cold air is moving our way, i'll show you how much colder tomorrow will be. when we have a chance for snow in a minute.

montgomery county lawmakers are calling for action after this weekend's deadly crash on river road. a walt whitman high school senior and his parents were killed. congressman chris van holland and isaiah leggett sent letters to the state highway administration calling for an immediate study of that road. >> one of the primary concerns is that the crash happened at one of the main access points to walt whitman high school. you can see how close the high school is to this intersection of river road and pyle road. there is no light here and the speed limit on river is 45 miles per hour. today we found a montgomery county police officer setting up a speed trap near the intersection. our transportation reporter adam tuss found that neighbors have been complaining about this area for years. meanwhile, a warning tonight following the discovery of skimming devices on atms in some 7-eleven stores in prince

she spoke to a woman who lost hundreds of dollars to this scam. >> i have to tell you after our story aired at 4:00, a man came up here to our location and reported that he was also a victim in this scam. he lost hundreds of dollars, now these scammers are putting the skimming devices on atms, as well as cameras. that are small as an eminem candy. >> it's one of those things that you don't think about. when it happens to you, it is a little disconcerting. >> robin, the victim of an expensive scam. thieves placed this card reader on an atm inside this 7-eleven store in bowie. stole her information and used it to withdraw hundreds of dollars from her account. how much money were they able to get out of your account? >> over 800. and it was shocking when i found out and then i went back and

missing. >> this tiny camera also found on the machine. through this pinhole, the camera photographs victims as they punch in their personal identification numbers. >> the combination of access in your p.i.n. and your data, allows that person to go to an atm machine and withdraw funds as a debit. >> these skimmers and cameras were found on atms at three different 7 e11 stores in bowie. discovered by an atm technician last thursday, federal investigators looking into the possibility this is part of a larger ring. this woman a relative of a news4 employee said she got a call from her bank. >> were you able to get your money back? >> i was. >> police are warning residents to check their accounts and statements for fraud plenty misdrawls. >> i went to withdraw cash so i canay

it back in the end and i still didn't win the powerball. >> that certainly right. now coming up on news4 at 6:00, you'll hear from the man who we just interviewed minutes ago who also says he was a victim of this scam. i'll tell you the one thing you can do to know you're putting your card into one of those fake card readers, we're live in bowie, darcy spencer, news4. check out our gallery of skimmer photos on the nbc washington app. right now juch search skimmer. right now there are new guardrails in blaise on a busy road where a truck driver lost his life in frederick county, maryland. karl neil's tractor-trailer flipped on fingerboard road near park mill road in urbana. just before 11:00 p.m. last night. investigators are looking into what caused him to lose control. this is the latest in a recent

involving big rigs. a news4 i-team review of federal transportation records found 49 fatal accidents, involving large trucks in maryland in 2014. the last full year for which data was available. frederick county suffered the most with eight. we checked virginia, a found the most fatal crashes involving these trucks were in rockingham and in prince william counties, four of them in the last year. tonight the search for a missing woman. the grandchildren of the woman say they went to this funeral home for a viewing, but the woman in the casket wasn't their grandmother. that story coming up. i'm jason pugh and the redskins have locked up their quarterback for next season, kirk cousins is au(kp happy mant does it mean for the future? i'll have that next. plus was it suicide or

something else? police tell us a virginia man shot himself while he was running from officers. why friends and family are calling for their own autopsy, you're watching

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loved one you lost -- is not the person who wound up in the casket. >> this is an unbelievable story. that is the situation a family in our area is trying to deal with tonight as they cope with the loss of their grandmother. news4's pat collins spoke with them earlier and is live in northwest washington. pat? >> jim, what happened to virginia gray? her family wants to know. you see, she died last month. there was to be a viewing here last friday. but when her grandson and granddaughter showed up at the funeral home and went inside, it was the wrong woman. lunacy is what it is. it's unspeakable. i can't -- this is straight out of a bad script. hollywood script or something. i've never heard of anything like this. >> virginia gray was 83 years

she had a daughter. four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. >> she was sweet, as a grandmother should be. she stayed in church a lot. >> on february 19th, miss gray fell unconscious at her home on dix street northeast. an ambulance took her to the prince george's county hospital where sometime later she died. her grandchildren say they contacted the horton funeral home on kennedy street, to prepare miss gray's body for the viewing and the funeral. they say they bought and brought new clothes to the funeral home for their grandmother. >> miss gray's grandchildren say when they went to the viewing last friday, the woman in the casket had the new clothes on. but the woman in the casket wasn't their grandmother. >> i saw a the body of another female. that wasn't my grandmother. >> what went through your heart when you saw that? >> my heart dropped. ias

>> we reached out to the prince george's hospital -- no response. we reached out to the horton funeral home -- no response. it's been more than five days now and the family has no idea of the whereabouts of virginia gray. more about the hurt all of this has caused, coming up at 6:00, wendy and jim, back to you. >> incredible story. pat collins, thank you, pat. to a big developing story tonight football fans, the redskins are bringing back quarterback kirk cousins. >> and the team is locking him up for next season. what about the long-term future? jason is here to tell us about that. >> kirk cousins is going to be your quarterback next season in 2016. a nice payday for kirk cousins, he's not complaining. when it's all said and done he'll be here long-term. today at 4:00 p.m. was the deadline for teams to franchise tag players. redskins used their nonfranchise tag to pay him $20

it allows the redskins to keep cousins for next season. but other teams can negotiate a contract for the quarterback if he comes to an agreement. the skins do if they do not match. whenever the team signs cousins they will get two first-round picks in return. either way, it's a pay bump for cousins he earned $700,000 last season. had one of the best performances in quarterback history for the redskins, set a single-season passing record. the redskins have until july 15th to try work out a long-term deal with cousins so they can still get something done during that time. we'll see what happens. amazing figure there. all right. thank you, jason. attorneys for sportscaster erin andrews have rested their case in the lawsuit against a hotel where she was secretly videotaped. they are seeking $75 million against a marriott in nashville. and the man who stalked andrews. michael barrett. he also spent some time in jail after he released nude images of andrews from secretly recorded video

in her hotel room in 2008. andrews took the stand again today. >> walk right by the fans, near as close as they are to me and i think my god everyone in this stadium has seen that video. >> during cross-examination, the hotel's lawyers asked andrews if she has done well in her career since the videotape was released. and she replied yes. the hotel says they have nothing to do with the stalker's actions. this trial is expected to wrap up this week. police are trying to figure out who shot a man near montgomery county college. investigators tell us the man in his 20s was shot off-campus somewhere and flagged down a driver along hungerford drive. that driver took the man to the college, where they called police. police say the victim isn't cooperating, he was shot in the leg and is expected to be okay. a fashion statement so to speak in got a passenger into trouble with the tsa at bwi marshall. it's these

that's a pair of shoes. the women had them in her care i didn't-on as she went through security. were paired with faux bullet-studded bracelets. tsa prohibits replica guns or ammunition. the woman could have checked the bag. do you know who is living next door? police in northern virginia made a surprise discovery. this is not the only

sorry. that will be the case through the next couple of hours. watching this radar. now take a look back towards the west. here's the front. we've got this front moving through. it's a cold front and that cold front is going to change things dramatically over the next few hours. look at the showers, a couple of thunderstorms developing. strong winds with these. i don't expect much in the way of thunderstorm action tonight. could see a rumble of thunder or two but it's not going to be much. by 10:00 we're dealing with the clouds for the most part. the showers back to the west. watch what happens around midnight tonight. we see some enhancement with these showers. this is when we could see the rumble of thunder, a brief heavy downpour and then it's out of here, not going to linger long. it's going to be here through the early morning hours. by 8:00, it's gone. we're dealing with sunshine and the colder temperatures tomorrow afternoon you'll notice a huge divens out there. 43 degrees and windy. chilly, wind chills in the upper

around 3:00. only rising back to around 45. even with sunshine tomorrow afternoon. what to wear? yes, she's got the right idea, it's the warm jacket, no, the heavy coat and the scarf, that's how cold it's going to be tomorrow. it's going to be equally as cold on thursday. not quite as windy. 42 degrees on thursday, thursday night into friday, tracking another system, this one will have a mix of rain and snow with it some computer models giving us some snow. it goes until friday morning. that's why there is at least a little concern. not much, but a little, because we could see a few slick spots in there for that early-morning rush. we're going to continue to watch that storm. veronica is back at 5:45 with the latest on what to expect in the next seven days. imagine being frozen alive. to save your life. our doreen gentzler is taking a look attt

county is changing. we'll explain the reason for that, and how it will impact people even over in prince george's county. winchester, a memorial set up for a young man who died here sunday night, there are a lot of questions and a lot of anger about the circumstances surro

. some residents in winchester virginia plan to take the streets again tonight. angry after a man died after being chased by police. they're questioning the officer's version of what happened. >> police say delondre middlefield shot himself as he ran off. meanwhile there's another new development in this case. late this afternoon, we learned that police in petersburg, virginia, had been looking for minfield since september for an alleged armed robbery and assault. jackie benson has our report. >> a memorial set up for a young man who died here sunday night there are a lot of questions and a lot of anger about the circumstances surrounding his death. how are you going to jump a fence and shoot yourself in the back of the head? >> the death sunday afternoon of 20-year-old delondre minfield

>> police responded to a fight and chased minfield after he ran from the scene. the news release went on to say a as officers approached, minfield stopped and shot himself. >> if we let them do the autopsy, he shot himself and i'm not going for that i'm not going for that. >> his friends claim several people saw him attempting to climb this fence, a short distance from his apartment as the shooting happened. a memorial has been set up at the spot where he fell and it is growing. >> fear in every black man's soul in this town right now. would probably cover all of texas. >> minfield's friends say they were taken aback to see some of the same officers who responded to the fight were on duty yesterday during a protest held at police headquarters. the investigation is being conducted by virginia state police. in winchester, jackie benson, news

police officers have voted no confidence in their police chief after the death of a prince george's county student. the police union representing the officer says chief lance hatcher has allowed old equipment, inadequate training and disputes to weaken the fight against crime on campus. the vote followed the death of 20-year-old gerald williams who was stabbed during a fight near campus last month. police say the driver of that atv involved in a car crash here in montgomery county has died. 26-year-old mark hutchinson died after his atv flipped over. when it collided with a car at sugarland road here in white ferry road. the cause of the accident yesterday is still under investigation tonight. the driver of the car remained on the scene. well, a bit of a surprise when police responded to a call about gunshots in falls church. this was about 4:00 yesterday morning on cherry drive. a neighbor called police saying someone fired shots from inside a vacant h

officers found this man, he had been squatting in the home. his name is michael stride. and while searching the vacant house, they found a six-foot python and several handguns. animal control is taking care of the snake. there are more signs that the purple line is closer to reality in maryland. businesses are closing along part of the route. the rail line would connect part of montgomery county and prince george's county. news4's chris gordon reports on the impact of people living and working along that route. >> it's a landmark, chevy chase shopping center on connecticut avenue just inside the beltway. but the landscape is changing, making way for a large real estate development. it's located near the proposed purple line, the 16-mile-long light rail system linking bethesda in montgomery county to new carrollton in prince george's county. >> i think change

growth. you know, it gives different opportunities to come along. >> t.w. perry hardware and building supplies has been here since 1911 and it will just be a matter of weeks before the hardware store relocates to brookeville road in silver spring. >> i'm sad to see them leave. but the good thing is, and i already checked this out, all of their employees are going with them. so that's good. >> joseph a. banks men's clothier is already closed. images hair salon next door semty. but the lemon terrorist says it's staying and restocking its shelves. that leaves the big question -- about the future of chevy chase supermarket. they say there's time until the real estate development is built, and the purple line comes through. until then, they're not announcing their decision. it remains open for business. >> well there will be a change under way because our council has approved redevelopment of that particular area. in anticipation of the purple line. >> the

here in bethesda. ahead, could a new federal lawsuit filed by the friends of the capital crescent trail stop the purple line in its tracks? i'll have that part of the story coming up on news4 at 6:00, in montgomery county, chris gordon, news4. former d.c. mayor vincent gray is set to kick off his campaign for a council seat this weekend. gray is running for the ward 7 seat now held by yvette alexander. the kick-off saturday. gray says the move to run in his home ward is motivated in part by residents who he says are not happy with their current representation. well, mum's the word after a top-level meeting over the supreme court vacancy. the president and vice president met with congressional leaders about the opening that was created by the death of justice antonin scalia. republicans have said there would be no vote on any obama nominee. and would wait for the next president to fill that vacancy. neithere

the meeting or say what was discussed. well it's a case that could end up in the supreme court. a fight between apple and the fbi. again. should the fbi have the right to force app toll create software to hack your phone? the government makes its case in the war on terror. and we may be getting a better idea of where the new fbi headquarters could be built, if it lands in maryland.

right now on capitol hill, apple's top lawyer is fielding questions from lawmakers about the fbi request. to hack one of the san bernardino shooters' iphones. the fbi wants apple to develop a program to hack it apple says that would create a back door that could break encryption on other devices and set a dangerous precedent. >> hundreds of millions of law abiding citizens trust apple's products with the most intimate details of their daily lives, the only way we know to protect that data is through strong encryption. >> we only use the tools given to us under the law. it's our job simply to tell people there is a problem. everybody should care about it. everybody should want to understand if there are warrant-proof spaces in american life, what does that mean? what are the costs of

how do we think about that? >> it does not directly impact the san bernardino case, a judge in brooklyn has said that the obama administration cannot force apple to help it gain access to a device in another separate case. >> the second most powerful democrat in the house made a big pitch to his colleagues today to bring the new fbi headquarters to maryland. maryland congressman steny hoyer testified before a house subcommittee. the state is offering two sites, landover and green blt. but hoyer says the state does have a preference. >> the state has been focused on green belt. we've got transportation plans for greenbelt. but we think the landover site is also a preferable site over the virginia site. >> the commonwealth has proposed a site in springfield, hoyer hopes the decision will be made by the end of the year. there is growing evidence of a possible link between the zika virus and a condition that can cause temporary paralysis. researchers in france looking at an outbreak

syndrome from a couple of years ago and they found all of the 42 people who had been diagnosed did indeed have zika antibodies, meaning they had been infected with that virus. guillain-barre is a neurological illness, it can cause muscle weakness and even the inability to walk. experts say they need to look at more locations before confirming a connection between those two conditions. a hotly debated virginia bill has taken another step forward. state senate approved a measure to requiring schools to notify parents if their children will be assigned to read a book that includes sexually explicit material. the measure passed with a 22-17 vote. it passed the house unanimously last month. if it's enacted, it would be the first state law forcing schools to notify parents about explicit books. imagine if the only way to save your life is to be frozen

breakthrough in our doreen gentzler joins us to explain how local doctors are studying how this cutting-edge procedure can save lives. and a farewell sunrise, american astronaut scott kelly caps off an amazing space voyage as he returns to earth. and are you ready? are you sure you're ready? mid 60s today for highs, wind chills in the 30s tomorrow. and that's not all. storm team 4 tracking a chance for snow at the end of the week. we'll have de

for the thousands of people who are treated for traumas every year, life or death can come down to a matter of minutes. >> but a procedure about to go into clinical trials at major trauma centers in maryland may bring, may buy surgeons some time. doreen gentzler is here with more. >> it's not a new concept, but this is a new application. it's all about cooling the body. really cooling it. when body temperatures hit the 70s, severe hypothermia and death can be next. this procedure proposes to lower the body's temperature even further. by at least 20 degrees. when a person undergoes a severe physical trauma, the body often goes into shock. >> right now trauma patients 0 who have cardiac arrest from bleeding so much that the heart stops have almost no chance of survival. >> r. adams cally shock trauma center at the university of

patients every year and when a patient comes into the shock trauma center, time is critical. >> every minute, even seconds count. our goal is going to be to try to make decision to do this, within about five minutes of the person losing a pulse. >> this is epr, emergency preservation and resuscitation. >> our goal of doing this is to cool particularly the brain, but the rest of the body, too. down to around 50 degrees fahrenheit. for these patients we're talking about, the heart has already stopped. we're trying to buy time. >> for surgeons to at least stop the bleeding. >> dr. samuel tisherman is heading up the epr study at the shock trauma center. epr is not yet in practice. he started thinking about this more than 20 years ago when cooling down the body temperatures of nontrauma patients led him to investigate cooling the body temperatures of critical patients. in epr, the trauma surgeon puts

aorta, pumping a large amount of ice-cold fluid into the aorta, cooling the brain and the heart from the core. >> there are people who suffer cold water drowning or are found stuck in the snow, and they get very, very cold.zú)oç but we could still sometimes save them. even if the heart has stopped. >> 25-year-old justin smith looked frozen solid last year, lying in a foot of snow. no pulse, not breathing. >> in this particular instance, the coroner was called. >> on the advice of dr. gerald coleman, paramedics rushed him to nearby lehigh valley hospital in pennsylvania. >> i called a code blue, we had 15 people waiting here to start cpr in this room. >> doctors used a defibrillator on justin and started to reoxygenate his blood to warm him up. hours later, doctors saw brain activity. >> justin's case from

body temperature to ever survive exposure from hypothermia. back in baltimore, dr. tisherman is looking forward to the summer when he hopes clinical trials can begin. only people suffering from penetrating trauma such as gunshot or stab wounds will be eligible in the beginning. >> if you have any kind of therapy where less than 120 of your patients live, there's room for doing something better and something new and this we think this is it. >> patients will be unconscious and in most cases near death and not able to give consent to participate in the study. but researchers are going out into the community near the trauma center to give people information about the study and what they hope to accomplish. again they're hoping to begin this trial in baltimore this summer. jim, wendy? >> fascinating. astronaut scott kelly will be back on solid ground later this evening. >> set to land on terra filma after spending near lay

station. and this morning, he tweeted an incredible round of photos. capturing his last sunrise. from the iss. kelly, along with a russian cosmonaut both set to depart late tonight and land in kazakhstan. by the time they land, the pair will have circled the world more than 5400 times and traveled 144 million miles. scientists hope these longer missions can be the first step toward a trip to mars. all right, so did you know that today is the first day of spring? meteorological spring. march, april, may. >> we've got to wait for that. >> that's the equinox. for those of us researchers scientists putting together the climate data, we've got the standards he

may for meteorological spring. we kick it off on a mild note, in the mid 60s today, we know how fickle spring is it's not going to stay that way. as a matter of fact, look at the rest of the day, recess weather, almost failing grades, certainly towards the end. it will be cold tomorrow, chilly on thursday and a little snow early in the day friday. question mark, delays? yes, there could be in some areas as you'll see in a moment. let's talk about here what we have for the evening out. just clouds coming in, it's rain after 9:00, 10:00 p.m. 55-60 degrees. so the change that you're going to notice is that 11:00 p.m. to just after midnight as we make our move from the 50s to the 40s. and low 40s by 8:00 a.m. the rain will move through here. it will be ending around 6:00 a.m. off east of i-95 and thawing temperatures, but at least sunshine on tap for the day tomorrow.

scanning the area. you can see how dry it is, we've got rain that's now getting into west virginia. here it is at 9:00, hagerstown, down towards loray and charlottesville. it's through in a hurry. we've got sunshine for tomorrow. just a cold, wet and windy. so the weather tomorrow will have a moderate impact on our area because of the change over a 24-hour period of time. cold, windy, you'll need the coat. it will feel like winter tomorrow. we'll see our temperatures drop and hold steady after lunch time. about 45 degrees for a temperature and the wind chills even late in the day, 4:00, 31 to 37. yeah, that's a lot like winter. so the kids are going to need the heavy coat. the scarf, too. heading out the door for tomorrow morning. next change for us, yet again, is what we get late thursday. and that of course going to be the next system coming in, we're right now it looks as though we're going to get rain and snow starting late, at 11

thursday. for us by friday morning, it moves out, maybe light accumulati accumulation. doug has more coming up on news4 at 6:00. new problems for the proposed $7 billion merger between pepco and energy giant exelon. news4's tom sherwood reports mayor muir yul bowser and another key city official are refusing to go along with a compromise deal approved last week. >> a d.c. public service commission last friday approved the pepco/exelon merger. but with conditions. one of those conditions eliminated what would have been a three-year freeze on the electricity rates for residential customers. but today mayor muriel bowser said she couldn't support the deal that took benefits away from low-income rate-payers. bowser followed objections from council member who represents residential rate payers, who said

is a bad idea and she won't approve the merger. she said rate payers are her priority. >> my issue is to make sure that residential consumers in particular and particularly those low-income consumers get immediate and tangible benefits. >> the new opposition from bowser and mattavu-fry could delay or kill the merger. pepco and exelon have about ten more days to show that all nine parties involved in the merger, including bowser and mattavu-fry approve of it. officials say intense negotiations are under way to resolve any differences. in the district, tom sherwood, news4. a mother, finally get justice for her daughter, a man accused in the deaths of two virginia college students is expected to make a plea tomorrow, we'll find out the why the mother of morgan harrington is changing her focus. and the polls still open across the country on this super tuesday. and we'll have team coverage at the top of the

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for a cup of coffee just because you're a woman. so why does congress think it's ok that women get paid 20% less than a man for doing the same job? i'll fight for pay equity, to protect planned parenthood, choice for women, and expand paid and family leave. now some politicians will belittle this as a women's agenda. more proof that we just need more women in congress. i'm kathleen mathews and i approve this message. . tool jesse matthews, the man suspected in the murders of two virginia college students is expected to enter a plea de

the mother of morgan harrington today, to talk about why she says it is the most logical solution. >> i'm confident that he's the man. >> jill and dan harrington have waited years for justice for their daughter morgan. >> for six and a half years. that's a long time. >> the wait is expected to end wednesday, when jesse matthew junior makes a plea agreement in the morgan harrington and hannah graham abduction and murder cases. i asked jill if she had any hopes the trial would have brought answers. >> we all are seeking and hoping for some piece of something that will make us understand the why, how could someone kill our daughter. how can that be? but it's an illogical act. there's no answer that will make the act make sense. >> her focus instead, justice. >> justice for morgan, for us, is about finality, that there is

rather than it be infinite. so there's finality, as well as accountability. that he will admit blame. >> it's unclear whether matthew will admit guilt or make another plea allowing him to maintain he's innocent. >> i would prefer the standard guilty instead of the offered guilty. but again, the main thing for me is that he is prevented from being in a situation where he can hurt anyone ever again. >> and harrington says helping save the next girl has been her goal since morgan's death. >> i didn't need to harm him. i really wanted to protect others from him. and this will certainly do that. >> the harringtons will be at wednesday's hearing as they've been at every other before now. jill says it's it fulfill as promise she made to morgan. >> that i would do everything within my power to not rectify her murder

to her murder. and tomorrow will be the punctuation on that promise. >> jesse matthew has already been convicted in a separate case, a sex assault in fairfax. >> he is currently serving a life sentence for that case. it's a fight for survival on super tuesday. 12 states, seven candidates, and still an hour to go before the polls close in virginia. >> every poll shows i can do practically anything and nobody is going to leave. >> they're running their campaigns based on insults. >> the stakes are high and so is turn-out. >> that's just noise, are we going to get change, get what we need? or is it just politic as usual? >> tonight we have live team coverage. >> from the candidates' final push for votes. >> to the message that's resonating with local voters. >> news4 at 6:00. starts now. >>

in the race for the white house. >> there are more delegates at stake than at any other primary night this year. 595 republican delegates up for grabs, donald trump leading the polls. in every state but one. on the democratic side, hillary clinton hoping for a strong showing to solidify her lead over bernie sanders. >> our team coverage begins with steve handelsman in texas where ted cruz is hoping his home state will keep him in this race. steve? >> hi doreen, thanks, this is a redneck country club, what's what they call this music venue in stafford, texas. ted cruz' election night headquarters, where he hopes to celebrate a victory tonight. texas senator ted cruz cast his vote on a super tuesday that's do or die for him. >> any candidate who cannot win his home state has real problems. >> state polls show cruz with a lead over donald trump. >> i voted for ted