station in richmond, and we just learned the gunman is also dead. we're still working to get more information because it's unclear how many other people have been hurt. pat lawson muse will have the latest in a couple minutes at the live desk. >> here in our area it started with a traffic stop, quickly escalated into a physical confrontation between park police and two men. >> and now we're hearing about claims of excessive force. news4's pat collins is at d.c.'s superior court with details on what happened. pat? >> reporter: chris, a simple traffic stop turns violent and ugly. what really happened easter monday on 9th street southeast. do you think they targeted you because they thought you were gay? >> yes, yes. >> reporter: that's john davis. he's 50 years old. he says he was hand cuffed and tased, tased twice in his back by a park police officer during a traffic stop in t0

3000 block of 9th street southeast. >> he hit me several times. i thought i was going to die. >> reporter: it happened monday morning shortly after midnight. mr. davis and his friend, timothy cox, were in this minivan. they were stopped because it was missing a tag and missing a headlight. but mr. davis says there was more to it than that. what did they accuse you of doing? >> sexual acts or something like that. we had our clothes and stuff on. we didn't have our clothes pulled down. we just pulled over. >> reporter: park police say they have no evidence the officer used any homophobic slurs. they say mr. davis was tased before he was handcuffed. >> driver was resisting shtionz so the officer told him if you keep resisting, i will tase you. the driver kept resisting and so the officer tased him. >> reporter: now, there's a second chapter to this story.

this is what he looked like after the incident. there are two versions of what happened here. and coming up at 6:00, i'll have both sides of that story. i got to tell you, it's unusual. it involved a hula hoop. i'll see you at 6:00. wendy, back to you. >> all right, pat collins. now to the search for the suspect who stabbed someone at a metro station. metro says a man was trying to catch a train this morning when he got into a fight with a newspaper vendor. the vendor allegedly stand the man and then took off. prince george's county bureau chief is outside the station in capitol heights where police say they know exactly what they're looking for. tracee? >> reporter: there are so many cameras around here that they've got perfect hd video of what happened. this contractor says he was shocked to hear the washington express paper man he

with every day allegedly stabbed someone. metro spokesmen say they don't know what caused the express paper man to suddenly stab a 24-year-old man who was going to catch the train this morning. it happened just before 9:00. >> they get into an altercation that escalates to physical and on the sidewalk behind us here the suspect tackled t e ed the and ended up stabbing him. >> reporter: police are searching for the suspect and are working to positive identify them but say they have no doubt they will be able to catch him quickly. >> at least three two camera views of this incident. we are able as a result of that to identify the suspect. that's how we knew he was the newspaper vendor. in addition to that there were multiple witnesses. >> reporter: there was also a female newspaper contractor at the metro entrance who is now working with metro transit detectives. >> there were two newspaper vendors handing out the newspapers. his colleague obviously knows who he is. the station manager is here every day and has seen

spokesman released this statement saying, we are looking into exactly what happened. we are aware that an express contractor was involved and are currently gathering more information from police. this contractor says he didn't know the suspect's name but talked with him every day. he calls the whole thing unexpected. >> he talks to me. that's it. keep it moving. >> reporter: coming up on news4 at 6:00, commuters who get their papers from this guy every day react to the possibility of him being a stabbing suspect. reporting live in capitol heights, i'm tracee wilkins. back to you all in the studio. >> thanks, tracee. right now folks from new orleans to chicago are cleaning up after a path of severe storms just rolled through the area over the past 24 hours. that one system spawned tornadoes in at least three states and injured nearly a dozen people. flash floods also hit several states forcing rescue crews to jump in and help stranded drivers, some of whom got swept ay

sort of puts everything in perspective of what we're getting. >> right. we've seen some wild weather this spring, haven't we, amelia? >> we certainly have, wendy, and that kind of how the season goes as we see the cold air battling the warm air. it's easy to get severe weather, especially further back to the west in parts of the midwest. now, we're going to continue to see that line move toward our area here on storm team4 radar. this is not that line. this is some meager showers out ahead of it. a lot of this not even hitting the ground. i want to show you the line that's going to continue to move toward the east and this will be here by tomorrow morning. so any thunderstorms we see that develop tomorrow could contain some high winds producing some isolated wind damage. about a moderate threat of that and a low to moderate risk for heavy rain in the forecast. now, it's not going to be a day where you're seeing rain from start to finish. we will have rain at times and maybe a few thunderstorms and maybe some limited sun in the forecast. breezy to windy. right now it's mild.

breezy and windy into the overnight hours and by 11:00 p.m. the potential for isolated showers. more rain in the forecast for tomorrow. much better chance of rain than we'll be dealing with tonight. i will show you future weather and at one point this weekend we will be dealing with temperatures that feel like 20s. i'll let you know when that is at 5:25. i'm pat lawson muse at the live dresk following the breaking news in richmond. there's a lot of new information just coming in. we just learned that state police now say the man who opened fire at this greyhound bus station is dead. one state trooper has life threatening injuries. two other bystanders have nonlife threatening injuries. sources say troopers were here at the bus station conducting a narcotics training operation. as part of this operation they were told to go out and talk to people at the station. so a man who one of the troopers was talking to pulled a gun and shot the trooper at close

police say he then fired back killing that suspect. we had also heard that some of the troopers were not wearing uniforms. however, state police say the trooper who was shot was, in fact, in uniform. the bus station will stay clo s closesed for the rest of the day. as we get more updates we'll bring them to you here and on the nbc washington app. >> thanks, pat. a new inspector general report is warning of serious security risks at thousands of federal buildings. tom sherwood looked into this report and discovered far too many security badges and not enough control over them. >> reporter: identification damages. you probably have one. pretty much everyone does, especially federal workers. but now a new inspector general report says there are too many different types of federal building badges and too little is done to keep track of those given to employees, contractors, and visitors causing a serious security risk. there are hundreds of federal buildings in the washing

more than 9,000 federal buildings nationwide. all leased or owned by the general services administration. the ig report says too many different types of badges create the risk of identity fraud, tampering, and counterfeiting. >> there are lots of people that go in and out of government buildings, as you said, and it's important that the agencies know who is going in and out. >> reporter: despite the report, several employees and contractors say federal building security is tighter than it used to be. >> i think they have tightened it up immensely, especially after 9/11. you cannot get an i.d. that easily anymore. >> reporter: the gsa acknowledged in the report that it does need to do more and says it's already trying to streamline its security badge policy. in the district, tom sherwood, news4. it will be another month before we learn if metro will be shutting down certain lines for extended periods to make repairs. general manager paul wiedefeld

saying, quote, i want to reassure you that while i am keeping options open on how to proceed, no decisions have been made. moreover, any service change in that plan that could affect your commute will receive ample notice to customers, businesses, stakeholders, and the region as a whole. wiedefeld says he hopes to have a plan in place to address the safety concerns in four to six weeks. a local college student is dead and now a former classmate is charged with killing him. harry malik robertson pictured here is accused of stabbing gerald williams. police say back in february they fought over a small amount of money and things turned violent outside an off-campus housing complex at morgan state university. both men are from bowie. in the race for the white house, donald trump in the district today meeting with the republican national committee. but trump has a long way to go to get the support of women of any party. just 24% of women support him in wisconsin ahead of this state's

yesterday trump called for punishing women who get illegal abortions. he quickly reversed that position. he also posted an unflattering photo of ted cruz's wife last week and defended a top aide charged with battery or simple assault on a woman. super pacs are now running this ad in wisconsin. >> sure, i get some grief when i say i'm voting for donald trump, but you know what? i want to protect my family. >> every other time he opens his mouth it's something that's derogatory towards women. >> he's constantly portraying women as inferior. >> hillary clinton is leading in the democratic race, but polls show she is trailing bernie sanders in wisconsin at this moment. as early as next tuesday the d.c. council will vote on special legislation that would allow bernie sanders to get on the ballot here which would be in time for the june primary. news4's tom sherwood broke this story on twitter yesterday. the sanders' campaign did everything it was supposed to but the local d.c. democratic party

elections' deadline. at-large council many anita barnes is introducing a measure on tuesday that will extend the deadline. parents and loudoun county public school officials want some answers. how did explosive material remain on school bus that later carried students? montgomery county police say a 6-year-old girl was sexually abused by a day worker picked up from this 7-eleven parking lot. coming up at 5:00, her mother takes us inside her home and explains how this was able to happen when she was just feet away. extensive security measures are in place in the district today with the nuclear summit under way. whether you drive, ride, or even walk in the area, we're ing togo stronger is rebuilding a newborn's heart... and restoring a father's faith.

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tonight we're hearing from a woman who says a man she hired to help move some furniture sexually assaulted her 6-year-old daughter. >> that pan was a day laborer that the mother picked up outside a 7-eleven in gaithersburg, and that's where we find meagan fitzgerald this evening with this story.

meagan? >> reporter: yeah, wendy. the single mother of two says she came to this parking lot because she was looking for inexpensive labor, but instead she says she got one of the worst lessons of her life. tisha said she needed help moving heavy furniture. >> well, i had a large bedroom set that i needed moved and i didn't want to spend a minimum of three hours for labor. >> reporter: so last wednesday she decided to come here to the 7-eleven parking lot along north frederick avenue to pick up two day workers to help her out. one of them was 44-year-old jose compos gonzalez. ajay says she was working in her room while gonzalez was just feet away. >> my daughter was upstairs in her room, and the day laborer was undoing the armoire. >> reporter: that's when court documents say gonzalez inappropriately touched the 6-year-old girl before leaving the house. shortly after, ajay says her daughter told her what happened. >> i was

happened in my home. >> reporter: she also called 911 and after a five-day investigation, gonzalez was arrested. investigators say he even admitted to the crime. >> when you hire somebody to come into your home, you have no idea who is coming to your home. you don't know what their background is. >> reporter: ajay says she learned the hard way why she should never bring strangers into her home, even if it means saving money. now, she says, she can only hope what happened to her family is a lesson to others. >> i just hope one day, you know, god will erase the memories of what happened. >> reporter: police believe there are more victims out there, so they're asking anyone with information about the case or anyone who knows of children who might have come in contact with gonzalez to contact the montgomery county police department. coming up at 6:30, police explain what was said, what gonzalez told the victim moments after this incident happened. chris? >> thank you, meagan. new at

a defendant to be shocked in his courtroom. now that judge will serve one year probation. robert nalley was a judge removed from the bench after being charged with a civil rights violation. he will have to attend anger management classes and pay a fine. the family of a montgomery county police officer killed by a drunk driver is working to get maryland to pass a stronger law in his name. noah's law is named for officer noah leotta. the maryland senate and house have both passed this bill but the senate version is stronger and supporters want the toughest version passed before this general assembly adjourns next month. >> we are not going to rest. we are going to be here through the end, and i want

standing with my family beside governor hogan watching him sign this bill into law and it could be the strongest bill that it can be. >> officer leotta was struck and killed by a car while doing a drunk driving enforcement last holiday season. officials at george mason university have figured out a way to honor the late antonin scalia. they're going to name their law school after him. the school announced an anonymous $20 million gift from a donor along with renaming the law school that money will help establish three new scholarship programs. justice scalia spoke at the dedication back in 1999 and he had served as a guest lecturer as well. he lived in nearby mclean. scalia died earlier this year at the age of 79. and today we learn new information about a number of road projects that are meant to improve your commute. virginia's secretary of transportation says nothing is final yet,

lanes on i-395 heading to the d.c. line. the express lane plan also extends lanes further south on i-95 toward fredericksburg. when all is completed in 2021, virginia will have an 84-mile-long express lane network. these improvements are not just for driving. they also include buses, trains, and also those who car pool. parents and grandparents in virginia are running out of time to get a jump on paying for the kids college education. >> the deadline is today to enroll in the 529 prepaid program that allows you to purchase semesters of college tuition for newborns up to ninth grade. the benefits are better if they're used in state. the first payments for the program are not due until may. and you can get details on savings calculators and how to get started on your plan. just go to the nbc washington app and search college

we're working on several developing stories including a new report about the nfl and injuries on the field. why cold weather may not be safe for players. some d.c. residents haven't seen their mail for several months and now they're turning to news4 to get answers. it's the biggest hit on broadway but the producers of

and now your storm team4 forecast. >> there will be some isolated showers around the area tonight, but most, if not all, of your evening looking mainly dry. breezy and mild. tomorrow we'll be tracking rain at times. rain looks to favor the first half of the day but as we head to the afternoon, some scattered showers and maybe an isolated thunderstorm still possible. we could have a few thunderstorms around during the morning hours as well. for saturday cooler temperatures move into the area and the chance of showers, especially during the first half of the day. once again on sunday extremely windy. plenty of sunshine and i can't stress this enough. with the winds on sunday during the morning hours, it will feel brutal outside for this time of year. now, tomorrow the weather having a moderate impact on your day with rain in the forecast at times and the chance of your dealing with a thnd

going to be tweaking your plans tomorrow whether you're changing your outdoor exercise routine or not going to get your lunch outdoors. right now we're at 73 degrees. winds out of the south at 20 miles an hour. that southerly wind bringing warmer air into the area. lows tonight only dip into the low 60s. here is tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. notice scattered showers in the metro area. as we look further back to the west over west virginia, some brighter cles there, heacolors . as we move into the midday and afternoon hours, we'll start to see some limited sunshine breaking out across the area. i stopped future weather here at 1:30. notice this line of rain potentially a few embedded thunderstorms. the brighter colors showing up on future weather. that's some heavier rain. during the late afternoon and early evening hours, a cold front actually moves through and as that front moves through, that could touch off a round of late-day showers and thunderstorms. but, again, it looks like the most rain will be occurring during the morning and

even low 80s. 79 in the district, 75 in gaithersburg, and 80 in manassas. so the rain intensity tomorrow, some moderate rain and a few isolated thunderstorms. on saturday we're just talking about showers. so the bigger umbrella tomorrow and on saturday the small umbrella will be just fine. tonight the roads will be just fine. most of them staying dry. wet roads at times and on saturday with showers possible especially during the morning hours and dealing with some more wet roads. this is what it's going to feel like sunday morning at 6:00 a.m. when you factor in windy conditions. 27 in washington, 21 degrees in frederick. cherry blossom 10-miler sunday morning not going to feel very nice. the temperature feeling like 28 degrees. a high on saturday of 64, so it will be cooler. i want to show you how on saturday showers favor the morning hours and areas along and east of i-95 here on future weather. notice as we work toward the midday hours, any of that rain

lauryn will have your hour-by-hour temperature forecast throughout the day tomorrow and more on the thunderstorm potential coming up in ten minutes. >> thanks, amelia. right now at 5, the circus is in town and it could be your last chance to see them. why the elephants will be out of the big top. commuters are having a tough time getting around downtown d.c. the restrictions due to the nuclear security summit. ahead, the cia leaves explosive training material on a loudoun county school bus. how could this

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back to our breaking news. in richmond chopper4 is just about to arrive over that gray hound bus station where a state trooper was shot. we learned that trooper has life threatened injuries. the gunman who shot him, he is dead. that's different from the first reports we heard from sources who said the trooper was dead. he is not dead. >> that trooper just finished taking part in a narcotics training operation at the station. he was standing next to a man just talking to him when that man pulled a gun and shot him. two bystanders were also hurt. we'll bring you the latest developments from the live desk as soon as they come in. and we also now know which federal agency left an ex blow si training device on that school bus in loudoun county. >> it carried students before a

device. chris gordon joins us from loudoun county at the sheriff's office with details he has just learned. >> reporter: we are here because we have just learned that the cia, the central intelligence agency, accidentally left explosive training materials on a loudoun county school bus that students rode on earlier this week. there was a meeting here this afternoon between the sheriff, cia representatives, and school officials, and afterwards within the past hour they gave me a briefing of what happened. the cia conducted k-9 training with the loudoun county sheriff's department here at briarwoo woods high school. >> a piece of that training material fell out and remained within the bus and it was discovered later when the bus was taken in for a mechanical checkup. >> reporter: the explosive training material was found beside the engine of a school bus ye

maintenance. school spokesman wade byert described it to me as looking like a small plaque package. it had no detonators or triggering device attached to it so it was considered safe. >> atf came out and took the substance. they gave us a detail on the substance, what it does and doesn't do. when it's in a benign state, which means it has no blasting caps or electronic triggering devices on it, it is a safe substance. >> reporter: apparently one explosive training device was left behind on the bus. >> there should have been a checklist. i worked for the federal government for many years. we have checklist after checklist. the federal employees involved in that drill should be disciplined by a verbal or written warning and put in their personnel jackets. >> reporter: this e-mail was sent by the school system to all parents informing them that the bus carrying the explosive material had been used to transport 26 students on monday and tuesday of this

it's just very, very scary. very upsetting. >> reporter: ahead on news4 at 6:00, i'll tell you what steps the loudoun county school system is taking to make sure this never happens again. that's the latest live in loudoun county. chris, back to you. >> thank you, chris. right now we're in the midst of a two-day nuclear security summit going on right here in the district. today president obama met with chinese president xi jinping. he says they discussed the threat from north korea after that country's recent nuclear missile test. the president says china has also agreed to implement u.n. sanctions against north corikor. meantime, that summit is creating a mess for commuters and folks who live in that part of town. megan mcgrath has more details on the local impact. >> reporter: flashing police lights, road blocks, even military vehicles are standing by. the nuclear security summit

under way and the area around the convention center is now a secure zone. that means no cars -- >> left on 9th. >> reporter: and limited pedestrian access. it made for a bit of confusion this morning. >> usually i go straight down but i didn't know that was closed off. i have to walk all the way back down. >> reporter: the mt. vernon metro station is closed until friday night. trains drive straight through without stopping. leon mason had to use the gallery place station this morning. >> more time traveling and it inconvenienced me a lot, but it is what it is. i got to do what i got to do. >> reporter: streets all around the convention center, including massachusetts and new york avenues are closed. made for a tough rush hour and for people who live in the secure zone, it's even worse. >> a nightmare. middle of the night all the lights are keeping us up. middle of the night you cannot walk around. you need i.d., which we understand. it's a great purpose. we understand it, butt

you can't drive, you can't park. things like that. >> reporter: now, people are going to have to be patient just a little bit longer. the summit lasts two days. but things should get back to normal by friday night. in northwest, megan mcgrath, news4. it is the hottest ticket on broadway, and tonight the folks behind "hamilton" are coming under some pressure for a recent casting call. the post asked specifically for nonwhite men and women for roles in upcoming productions. well, the actors equity association union says that language does not comply with its rules. the show says it will amend the notice to say all ethnicities are welcome to audition. "hamilton" features a nearly all minority cast. the show is set to open a chicago production this fall with traveling tours starting next year. right now a lot of families are heading to the verizon center to see the ringling brothers circus and one of the star attractions making its final run. the elephants are leaving the show after this

ringling brothers circus for more than 140 years. we got a chance to get an up close look today and their handler talked to us about what their retirement means. >> we're still going to continue to have a large variety of different domestic and exotic animals. we're going to have the best athletes from around the world. so the greatest show on earth will still continue. we're excited for the trap significanc transition. it's going to allow us to focus on our conservation efforts. >> the ringling brothers will have six more shows in d.c. this weekend and a lot more, more than a dozen, in fairfax, virginia, starting on wednesday. in may all the elephants will be moving to an elephant conservation area in florida. the circus elephants are the subject of our nbc washington flash survey. we've been asking do you agree with the ringling brothers' decision to retire the elephants from the circus? tonight many of you ha a

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>> reporter: back in the day we didn't just drink coke, there was also royal crown, nehi, nugrape and more. ak ka seltzer wasn't just for hangovers and cigarettes were refreshing. the icons of the early age of advertising are up for grabs at quinn's auction in falls church. this is the vast collection of former nbc correspondent boyd matteson who spent 40 years amassing advertising signs, memorabilia, and toys that represent a slice of our history known as americana. >> this particular piece is a diecut enamel humble oil sign. this was used -- i believe it came out sometime in the late '50s and was used throughout the 1960s. just a great example in fantastic condition. >> reporter: there are toys like milton beryl's wind up whoopi tin car in its original car and the atomic

was the original hot wheels. matteson's collection will be auctioned off april 6th along with the antique biscuit and tobacco tins. >> this particular one is the limousine car from the latter part of the 19th century, early part of the 20th century. the crawford biscuit tin. it opens up. >> they date back to the turn of the previous century, including something called roly-poly tobacco tins issued in 1912 in excellent condition. >> you don't often see this condition. >> reporter: and what home can be complete without this classic. >> it's got to be late '70s era, early peacock carpet. >> reporter: if you have a hankering for a dose of nostalgia, head to

auction next wednesday and let yourself go back to what we considered a simpler time and grab a piece of it for the future. who doesn't want some early peacock carpeting. you can bid on these items and some of them are so very cool april 6th at quinn's auction galleries in falls church. it starts at 6:00 in the evening. >> i'm surprised that a museum hasn't swooped up that stuff it is so cool. >> and we couldn't even put all of it on the air. i mean really impressive collection. >> you forget things like the cigarettes were just such a part of our life, of america. >> glamorous. >> those days gone forever. >> yeah, yep. >> consumer reporter susan hogan is getting some answers tonight. how she was able to help a number of homeowners who haven't got their mail since thanksgiving. >> and members of the women's u.s. soccer team, they file a complaint against their own team. why they feel like they aren't being treated fairly.

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we have more breaking news at the live desk. we've just gotten the charging documents against the man accused of pulling that pellet gun at the capitol visitor center earlier in week.

prosecutors are charging larry dawson with assaulting a federal law enforcement officer and federal employees with a deadly weapon. the two charges carry a maximum 55 years in prison. capitol police say dawson set off the metal detector twice. when the officer pulled him aside, he pulled that pellet gun from his waist and pointed it. several officers told him to drop the gun but he refused. a court date has not yet been set. chris? >> thank you, pat. ten nenants in one d.c. con say they have not received their mail in months. they have contacted management and the post office and still no mail. >> that is still they contacted susan hogan. >> talk about frustrating. in fact, one resident even missed a notice for jury duty. fed up with the situation, they decided to take matters into their own an

in six months and neither have about a dozen residents in his condo building. >> it's been really hard. we've missed a lot of important mail for a long time. >> reporter: so what's the problem? well, according to the u.s. postal service, the lock and bracket that allows the carrier to access a unit of mailboxes had been broken and the postal service is not authorized to deliver mail that is not secured. so an alternate delivery plan was put in place. that plan residents have to trek blocks away to the post office to pick up their mail in person. >> i work like 80-some-odd hours a week. so when i am home, i usually want to be sleeping rather than driving up to the post office and getting my mail. >> reporter: so if the postal service knows what the problem is, why doesn't someone just fix it? >> this lock is a usps issued. only they can install it or remove it. >> reporter: sam said he calls and e-mailed the u.s. postal service but no one ever

>> we have been calling po postmaster general, anybody we could call. >> reporter: fed up with the mail delivery dilemma, the residents decided to contact news4 to deliver results. two hours after we contacted the usps, look who showed up at the condo. a postal employee who check out the lock. the postal service tells us this was a shared responsibility. while it's required to fix the lock, the building management must fix the bracket that security the lock. well, that's news to sam. jik say that has never come clearly to us that you need to fix a bracket and we will bring a lock back. >> reporter: bottom line, the bracket has been ordered and mail will be delivered once again. >> i think it's a little bit sad that it has to take possible public embarrassment to do it. my tax dollars at work. >> however, as you heard, both the d.c. postmaster and condo building management say the repairs will be completed this week so mail will be delivered.

>> certainly took quite a while. thank you, susan. good work there. some of america's best soccer players are demanding equal pay. five members of the women's national team have filed a formal complaint against u.s. soccer. the women have won olympic gold, world cup titles, they have also shattered ratings records for some of their matches. but if they make the world cup roster, their bonus is just 44% of what a player would get on the men's team. star goalkeeper hope solo is one of the women taking part. >> we continue to be told we should be grateful just to have the opportunity to play professional soccer and to get paid for doing it, and in this day and age, you know, it's about equality. it's about equal rights. it's about equal pay, and we're pushing for that. >> the u.s. soccer federation released a statement saying in part, quote, we're disappointed about this action and are proud of the commitment we've made to building the women's game in the united states over the past 30 years. well, as the mercury falls, the risk for a

football apparently rises. looking at nfl injuries a study in the orthopedic journal of sports medicine finds the risk for concussion doubles when the temperature is 50 degrees or colder. that's compared to games played with temperatures above 70 degrees. researchers say the equipment may be more dense in cold weather, so the impact is greater, but they also say players in warmer games may mistake their concussion symptoms for heat-related illness. we are now past the period that the national park service deemed peak bloom for the cherry blossoms on the tidal basin. >> we're still finding some b s blossoms in parts of our areas. our crew found these in the kenwood area. a lot of the trees had enough blossoms to inspire this guy to pull up an easel and paint. >> kenwood is one of the best shows in town. it's spectacular. >> sort of off the radar for a lot of

neighbors. >> but good, i'm glad to see they're still hanging on. >> we've been worried about that yesterday. >> we've been worried about it for several days, but the little suckers hanging on as much as they can. and, you know, they may have to let loose a little bit because we still have some breezy winds not only today but tomorrow, saturday, sunday. in fact, we've got windchills on sunday. that's what we're going to be talking about. don't put away the winter gear just yet. yeah, it's going to be pretty chilly. temperatures right now, it's hard to believe we're talking about windchills in the 20s by sunday morning. our temperature right now in the low 70s. we're going to fall very slowly tonight ending up in the lower 60s for overnight lows, but what a nice day it turned out to be despite the cloud cover and despite the winds. but the winds out of the south helped bump up that temperature. so that's what we were seeing. now, we have the clouds in place. we had some limited sunshine out there this morning. we've got some isolated chances of showers as we

it. a lot of this is evaporating before it even hits the surface. so look at the weather and your plans. just some isolated showers especially late tonight and then overnight. so you're good to go. tomorrow we could have isolated thunderstorms in the morning. plan to bring that umbrella with you and keep it around for saturday as well. daytime highs tomorrow touching near 80 degrees. so let's go ahead and show you the future weather. 7:30 tonight, you can see just isolated chances of showers, even going through the overnight, and then tomorrow morning for the commute could have some wet roadways, and then maybe an isolated thunderstorm as we go through midday. otherwise we'll get some clearing, so we're keeping that chance of showers as we go through late tomorrow afternoon. but most of that activity is probably done in the early afternoon. i do believe that chance of showers -- thunderstorms should be just in the morning. then we get into the saturday morning. clouds will fill back in. that frontal system that will pass through the area will stall just to the south of us. area of low pressure, we'll ride along it like a train, and that will bring cl

the morning on saturday and then continuing through midday on saturday. so your travel impacts on friday, especially if you hit an isolated thunderstorm just minimal to moderate. we go through the weekend, again, just a chance of showers on saturday. temperatures in the 60s, but by sunday upper 40s, lower 50s, and we will be windy. we're going to see wind gusts up to about 30 miles an hour through times on sunday. this is what we're looking at for a feel-like temperature. we go from the 70s, 6:30 in the morning on sunday into the 20s. so if you're running that cherry blossom 10-miler bring that cold gear. year going to need it. by monday we rebound with a southerly breeze back into the mid-60s. another chance of rain showers, maybe a few wet snowflakes mixed in by tuesday morning because that temperature will be in the 30s to around 40. we'll get some sunshine midnext week and then rain chances on thursday. >> thanks, lauryn. and here is a look at the results of our nbc washington flash survey. our viewers have been weighing in on

83% said yes. two major road projects are about to get some major funds from the state

two flight attendants wound up in a hospital after bad weather forced an american airlines flight to make an emergency landing. the flight took off f

to stop in little rock when it encountered some intense turbulence that caused the drink cart to go flying. >> the pilot opens his door up, and you could see the pain in his face. >> the flight did land safely, and the flight attendants had only some minor injuries. well, you have to go through anne arundel county to get to the bay bridge and the beaches, so the maryland governor just announced a big boost for anne arundel county drivers. >> $145 million a being set aside to ease some of those traffic problems. >> reporter: exponential growth in western anne arundel county make this is stretch of 175 obsolete. the governor is providing a $139 million solution for the maryland 175 corridor. >> i made it very clear that building, maintaining, and fixing maryland's roads and bridges would be our top transportation priority

administration is making $45.7 million available to widen maryland route 175 from two lanes to six from disney road to reece road. 18.5 million is earmarked for intersection improvements. as the governor announces his commitment, the senate resumes discussing a transportation scoring bill. legislation the governor believes will usurp local decision making and his own authority to select and prioritize projects. >> it has the potential of putting in place a scoring system that would jeopardize all the road improvements that we talked about today and most of the other road improvements and nearly all of the county across the state. >> reporter: the bill requires mdot to come up with a scoring system based on nine factors including economic benefit and public safety. the governor has to provide a

administration chose a lower scoring project over a higher scoring protect. republican legislators and republican county executives aren't buying it. >> now is not the time for the general assembly to micromanage transportation choices in maryland. news4 at 6:00 begins with breaking news. chaos and confusion amid the gunfire at a busy bus terminal in virginia. one man is dead and a state trooper is clinging to life after a dramatic exchange at a greyhound station in richmond. right now new details are emerging about what happened in the moments before that shooting. back to pat lawson muse at the live desk with the latest. >> doreen and jim, state troopers were at the bus station conducting a narcotics training operation before the shooting. as part of that training troopers were told to talk to people at the station. a man one of the troopers was

him at close range. other troopers fired back killing this gunman. two bystanders were also injured. a man who was in the station at the time tells us what he saw and heard. >> i was outside. i had my hand on the door handle when i heard two gunshots go off. i didn't think they were gunshots but then there were like five, maybe ten more after that and i could see the muzzle flash through the tinted door and so i ran out of there. >> i mean of course you don't think it's going to be a gunshot an then i saw the floosh inside and knew it was a gunshot. i'm like there's no way this is actually happening. i saw people coming out the front door, the side door, the door to the restaurant, so i bailed as fast as i could. >> state trooper who was shot has life-threatening injuries. that's different from the first reports we got from sources who said the trooper was dead. we had also heard that some of the troopers were not wearing uniforms. however state police say the trooper who was injured was in