wake up to wellness this week. with our buzsy lives you may fid it hard to exercise at work. but first, check bell has your forecast out the door this morning. we are dealing with a lot of rain. >> rain is a big part of our forecast for the rest of the day after you get to work and school. another rainy day or two or three before any chance of sunshine comes our way on saturday. good amount of sunshine coming our way early parts of next week. but early this morning, not much rain but everything is cloudy and wet and chilly. we are in the 50s across much of the area. here's the next 24 hours. all wet, just a few rain drops this morning, 55. clouds and showers at 7:00 tonight. temperatures at 59 and about 53 tomorrow morning with rain likely. it is storm team 4 day. we are going facebook live right here as of the 6:00 hour. join us on facebook live and we'll let you get a chance to answer your questions. it's traffic

line because of a malfunction at franconia and springfield. we have a crash on 85 near buckeystown pike. there's a crash on the left shoulder there. and 75 at ed mcclain road, we have a crash reported in that area of monrovia as well. northbound gw parkway near the roosevelt bridge, we have a spinout causing slowdowns. we'll have travel times in ten minutes. right now a busy commuter line is back up and running for the first time this week. sunday's csx train derailment shut down the marc brunswick like. here's more from erika gonzalez. >> reporter: after a couple days of

gets back to a regular operating schedule today. there could be minor hiccups, but for the most part things resume normalcy in this area. this after a csx train carrying hazardous materials derailed sunday morning spilling hundreds of gallons of sodium hydroxide. so the line we are speaking of was blocked between union station and silver spring. so a lot of people wound up taking metro instead. we're told the 5 of the 16 cars that derailed have been taken away from the site, hence things getting back to normal. a number of passengers already boarded the first train. folks i spoke to said it was a bit of an inconvenience but they found a way around it. >> and i think metro allowing us to use their marc cars made it very easy. >> stuff happens and you just have to roll with the punches. >> reporter: again, the marc brunswick line back to normal this morning. live in gthersburg, i'm erika gonzalez, back to you. thank you. now sunday's derailment and the

d.c. delegate eleanor holmes norton and the federal railroad administration. norton is concerned about the long-term impacts that spill could have on residents living in that area. now yesterday csx said they removed the soil affected by the hazmat situation. officials will also discuss what kind of chemicals are allowed to travel through the district. it is now 6:03. people who died keeping our community safe will be honored in special ceremonies today. the services are part of national police week. this morning in montgomery county officer noah liata's name will be added to a memorial wall. a drunk driver hit and killed him last year. this morning's services begin at 10:30. later tonight prince george's county will add detective jakai coalson to its list. a fellow officer

shot him after thinking he was a suspect. and a man is taken into custody by d.c. police after stabbing a metro bus driver, hijacking the bus and then hitting and killing a pedestrian. keith loving got on the bus at 10:30 yesterday morning along jay street northeast. police say he attacked the driver with a needle-nose pliers. the driver managed to get off the bus. loving then drove a short distance before crashing the bus into a gas station parking lot where he allegedly hit anthony payne who later died. pape payne's neighbors say he was a nice person. >> he was a nice person. he always tried to help anybody and everybody. >> loving is facing murder charges. to decision 2016 now and the surprise announcement making the race for president perhaps a little less complicated. >> with a heavy heart, but with boundless optimism for the

long-term future of our nation, we are suspending our campaign. >> with that concession, donald trump becomes the likely republican presidential nominee. trump called senator cruz's choice to drop out brave and interestingly cruz's speech came before results revealed trump overwhelmingly won the indiana primary. the front-runner now needs fewer than 200 delegates to take the republican presidential nomination. to the democrats now, a win in indiana for senator bernie sanders. he picked up 43 new delegates but is still nearly 800 behind hillary clinton. senator sanders is vowing to continue pushing his platform all the way through the democratic convention in july. both senator sanders and clinton are expected to make appearances in the d.c. area today. we have learned that more takata air bags may be taken off the market. government sources tell nbc news that the company may have to recall as many as 35

this is on top of the 29 million already recalled. those inflaters can explode with too much force and spray metal shards. at least 11 people have died worldwide and more than 100 people have been hurt. game four and the capitals could use a win tonight for sure. this could be a turning point in the playoffs. one thing that could make a difference in the game is that the pittsburgh penguins will not have defenseman kris letang available to play. he was suspended for a checking on monday. we showed you the hard-hit on monday. the caps are on the road and will be back on saturday. go caps! and there's a watch party on the jumbotron at the verizon center. the doors open at 7:00 with the game at 8:00. it should be a good time. another way the team is reaching out to fans is by getting them when they are young.

be at medstar georgetown hospital. >> look at the babies. >> they are handing out hockey gear to the newborns there. the promotion is part of the team's playoff run. plus, it is something special they want to do for mother's day. >> they know what is up. the cute little caps on the babies. love it. well, talk about a costly cleanup. while the snow from the blizzard this past winter left d.c. stuck with a massive credit card bill. no threat of snow but we are bracing for another day of rain. another day of rain. what you can expect on your way to and from work with your commuter forecast at 6:11. plus, waking up to wellness. we'll help you improve your health all week long. coming up, how to stay active even while you're stuck at work.

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morning, just about to get you halfway through the work and school week. it's not really raining much outside. it's just cool and wet. temperatures in the mid-50s here this morning. rain likely again later on this afternoon, staying quite a bit cooler than average. today's highs only in the low to mid-60s. there's radar with a few sprinkles near frederick and headed over the bay away from us. coming up in a few more minutes, more rain, no sunshine for today. nearing washout conditions for thursday and friday. that part of the forecast coming up in a few minutes. trouble on 270 with the latest. trouble on 270 southbound just before 85 buckeystown pike, we have a closure there on the left shoulder. that's slowing things near frederick. i don't like to see it this early but it's not as bad as being shut down earlier at 109. blue line delays to largo. 270 south from

spur is going to take you 11 minutes. top of the loop to 286, looking good. same thing for 95. see you back here in ten minutes. here at the live desk we are keeping a close eye on a scary situation in canada. this is out in alberta. take a look at some of the video we got into the live desk of a raging wildfire. we know the entire city is being forced to evacuate right now. this fire intensifying due to high winds and rising temperatures. we know that no one has been hurt but neighborhoods have been destroyed. and because the fire spread so fast more than 80,000 people barely had time to get all their things and flee. that's the latest from the live desk, back to you. angie, thank you. a murder and the sound of at least 14 gunshots are shaking residents in d.c.'s petworth neighborhood. officers brought dogs to the scene on illinois avenue where somee

yesterday afternoon. police spent time looking at a white ford mustang and eventually had it towed away for evidence. about four hours later residents reported more than a dozen gunshots about half a mile away. police chief cathy lanier is asking the community to help in both investigations. new details now a school embezzlement investigation. a former stafford county school board member stole as much as $23,000 from a parent teacher organization. the deputies say this happened while emily fallon was on the pto at anne moncure elementary school. if convicted, she could spend a decade in jail. back to decision 2016 now, we are talking local politics. in the city of fairfax incumbent scott silverthorne won a third term as mayor over thomas

ammazzalorso. and it can happen to anyone, you max out your credit card and the company cuts you off. that happened to the d.c. government in the middle of the blizzard 2016. tom sherwood explains. >> reporter: i'm tom sherwood in the district. have you ever maxed out your credit card so much so that the company cut you off? it happened to the district this past winter. during the big blizzard in late january, the city scrambled to hire private contractors to remove the snow. speed things up, it put millions of dollars on city credit cards. so much so jpmorgan cut off the city's credit. to the administrator a rashad young, he said the city's credit was quickly restored. >> it was resolved in over 24 hours so it did not affect our

livelihood. and according to the cdc, a third of antibiotics prescribed by doctors every year are not needed. children under the age of 3 are prescribed the most and it seems the overprescribing is creating dangerous drug-resistant super bugs. as for adults, if you are healthy you can fight bacterial infections on your own. the cdc now wants to cut the use of the drugs by 50% in the next four years. 6:15 now. this week we are focusing on health and wellness. this morning we're talking about working out at work. >> all right. we want to give you a look at what we do in the morning before you see us on tv. here it is. we start by grabbing our coffee, putting on our makeup, meeting with our producers. then it is off to the studio. we have a little pow-wow to talk about the stories of the day. chuck and melissa work from the traffic and weather center. angie monitors the newsroom. a lot goes on. that's how we stay active, we are runningun

but it is important for your health. you don't want to be sitting around all day. there are plenty of stretches you can do right at your desk. >> open your chest open from being crunched over the keyboard. you need to keep your chest open. and stretch back to give yourself a big hug. >> there you go. if you have any exercises you like to do at work, tweet us, facebook us. you can do that, go to our facebook page and #wellnessweek. you can squat at your desk maybe. >> can you? i have never seen that. >> maybe do some yoga. coming up at 6:50, we're answering the question. >> we're talking about the standing desks, are they better than the traditional sitting desk? it might just surprise you. and if you have ever been stuck in traffic on route 1 in college park, you know it can be a big headache. the city is trying to change that today launching a brand new bikein

not capital bike share but 14 m-bike stations are opening today. the membership is $65 a year. there are daily and monthly passes, too. i shared a very special night with some incredible educators in montgomery county. take a look. this is michael williams who was named teacher of the year for the county last night. he teaches history courses at jfk high school in silver spring. he said teaching is another form of activism. you want to change the world in small ways. and he also started a minority scholarship program to close the achievement gap. this is frank caplin, the principal at strawberry knowles school where melissa mollet's daughter received the excellence in administration and super vision as a principal award. congratulations to all the wonderful educators who do so much to help students achieve, not just academically, but in their lives. to be better people. >> this is teacher

week if you didn't know. social media is celebrating all week long. teacher appreciation week, we love to hear your stories. we go to schools all the time and meet incredible teachers of students who love them because of the hard work they do. >> they take so many steps and use their own money to come in early to make sure the kids do well. 6:18, storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is here to educate us. >> it's because of all the rain. he doesn't want to say your name anymore. >> really, that is why? well, i guess it's better than calling me anything else. outside this morning it's storm team 4 day here at nbc4. we are talking over the social media platforms. we're on facebook live right now, join in on the conversation with us live on facebook. outside this is the view from the tower looking down to the parking lot, which you can barely see. so visibility is quite low here early this morning. no thick fog, no advisory level fog, but a lot of low clouds and

parts of the eastern shore. there's more where that came from. the clusters of showers in central and west virginia now will scoop in our direction for later on. so rain chances will increase with time even if it's not raining at your house now, likely to be raining by lunchtime. and all the unsettled weather across the great lakes are coming in tomorrow and for friday. so today, tomorrow, friday, all clouds, all the time. probably not going to get the breaks of sunshine in the midday hours like the last few days. heading to saturday and sunday, i'm optimistic saturday will have enough dry hours to call it a dry day. so there could be some showers saturday night into early sunday. future weather then, a cloudy start this morning, here comes that pocket of rain by 10:00 to 11:00 this morning. likely to be rainy at lunchtime and raining through much of the afternoon today. and maybe into the evening as well. not much in the way of severe weather or a thunderstorm threat for today because temperatures are noticeably cooler. we won't be in the 70s today. we'll stay in the low to

mid-60s. there's your planner then for this morning if you're headed out for a walk. more wet weather coming up for today. thursday, friday, look kind of rainy. what about mother's day weekend? saturday, sunshine and a little bit of cloud cover. highs in the low 70s. and maybe a morning shower on mother's day itself. but we should be back to sunshine mother's day afternoon. how is that wednesday morning commute coming? rain on the roads, never a good thing. >> never a good thing. we have a new problem, this is eastbound braddock road approaching the beltway to the outer loop. there's a broken down tractor-trailer blocking the two lanes. you can get around it to the left is what we understand right now. but still, a little bit slow there. rest of the roadways, overall, pretty much behaving themselves. we have a couple incidents here and there. this is one of them in monrovia. 75 and ed mcclain have a crash on 75. 270 at old hundred road, the earlier crash blocking everything is out of the way. blue

malfunctioning at franconia. it's one of the most famous images from world war ii. ahead, why questions are being raised about one of the men pictured in the photo. new developments in the death of music legend prince. the report that surfaced overnight about his kick

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6:24 now. new reports from prince's death. he was scheduled to meet with an addiction doctor a day after his death. he was going to talk to prince about his ato painkillers, addiction to painkillers. this is all coming from "the star tribune." no official autopsy has been released on prince's death. and incredibly

wanted to watch beyonce perform. the weather was so bad at her concert in north carolina, the open air stadium had to evacuate. one of our producers was there and sent us these pictures of that process. you take a look here, you can see people packed in together going toward the exits, ponchos and all. a lot of the folks are wearing raincoats, too. not only that, because of the weather some who paid to see beyonce were stuck in traffic trying to get there. the people actually abandoned their cars and walked to try to see beyonce. >> and we know the process of getting tickets is difficult. tickets are expensive. >> you're so serious about this right now. >> because i feel bad for samantha and everyone else who went there. i have tried to get beyonce tickets and you can't get them. >> it's not the end of days. we will survive. >> okay. well, the concert did start on time. well, 6:25 is our time right now. today steve harvey is

honor a d.c. woman who is making the world a better place. >> m.e.a.n.s is an online database to help find leftover food from restaurants and soup kitchens and matches it to other organizations in need. she volunteered at food shelters with her mom and saw firsthand how much goes to waste. >> i remember thinking, we can do better than this. we have to do better than this. and that instinct and spark has become a nonprofit working in 43 states and counting to build a network to make it possible. >> how smart is that? today you can see maria rose being honored as one of harvey' heroes right here at 2:00. we really do waste so much food in this country. >> she started a charity after a video went viral. she gave her shoes to a homeless woman to spawn a

>> paying it forward. we brought it to you as breaking news yesterday, an american killed in iraq. now we're learning more about the navy s.e.a.l. and his life. a live look from the national mall where the restoration is taking a big step forward. the noticeable change you'll see. no doubt, they can use more rain to help the grass grow on the national mall. more rain they will get. coming up, we'll track out the future w

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new questions being raised this morning about one of our country's most iconic images. one of the men may have been misidentified. the questions being raised this morning. but first, another busy day ahead for our storm team. as we brace for more showers in the day ahead, if you can believe it, meteorologist chuck bell is tracking when the heaviest rain will arrive in your neighborhood with 4 things to know. good morning, everybody. the sun is already up but you won't see a sliver of sunshine today. 4 things to know about the weather, more clouds, more rain chances, fewer thunderstorm

couple of days, but that's good news there. and there's a little chance for a shower or two on mother's day morning. here's future weather, not a lot of heavy rain here early this morning. but rain likely to be moving into warren and fredericksburg by 10:00 this morning. likely to be coming into manassas and fairfax by 1:00 this afternoon. even into prince george's county more and more likely with time. so your forecast then for today is all clouds for the day. temperatures are in the mid-50s now. and again, rain becoming more likely with time as we go into the day. those little lunch hour sun breaks that we've had the last couple days won't be the case for today. and now our friend here melissa mollet says prince george's county looks like the ride into work is getting even slower. getting even slower, so we typically have slowdowns to indiana head highway. we have a new crash reported before kerby hill road. that will take extra time that police are having to deal with

freeway we have a crash in the two right lanes this morning. and remember, monrovia is still dealing with the problem at ed mcclain road. looking at 66, pretty typical fairfax county to the beltway, 13 minutes. all your travel times coming up in ten. 6:32 right now. we are learning more about the navy s.e.a.l. killed in combat in iraq. we told you breaking news about his death at this time yesterday. now we know his chname, charlie keating iv. the keating's high school track coach said he joined after the september 11th attacks. >> charlie was so impacted by that. a lot of boys decided to serve their country after that. >> charlie keating was killed by isis fighters in a surprise attack. it's the third -- he's the third

since the fight against isis began. 6:33 now. today the fredericksburg murder trial continues to prove the student was insane when he strangled his housemate. both of his parents testified about their son's increasingly strange behavior before the murder. at one point they said steven believed his housemates were going to kill him and make it look like an accident. briel is charged with killing grace mann last year. the jury could begin deliberations as soon as tomorrow. keep your car safe, that is the message from the sheriff's office in loudoun county. they are looking into a series of rim and tire thefts in the ashburn and broadlands areas. suvs, gmc pickup trucks and minivans with customized rims and oversized tires are targeted. so far there have been 11 reported thefts. park in a well-lit area and if possible install

today president obama will check federal response efforts to flint's water crisis. he'll give full remarks after touring the city. he also will meet with community members and residents during his visit. the city switched its water source to the flint river in 2014 which caused lead to seep into the drinking water. 6:34, and work will continue to repair the turf on the national mall today. this is the final phase of the project. kristin wright is live on the mall now with more on how long this will all take. kristin? >> reporter: good morning. sod has never been so exciting. no one wants to see the mall look the way it does right now, all this mud and construction. and before that it was patchy with bald spots all over. well, good news, it's going to be very pretty soon. the national mark service just let us know they are getting close. the first rolls of sod are on the ground officially and it's nice. so green.

restore the turf on the national mall that gets so much wear and tear. so over the next five weeks more than 522,000 square feet of sod will be placed along the mall from 7th to 14th streets. so this is phase two, the first phase was done in 2012. and you know what? the project is supposed to mean better soil drainage and an environmentally greener system. and we all kent wait to see it, right? >> kristin wright, thank you. there's a building in arlington with an amazing view of the monument but it needs help. northern virginia bureau reporter david colbert received a special look inside. >> reporter: behind me, do you hear that sound? those bells are the bells of the netherlands carillion, an incredible site, even more incredible is the view from up top. now this is the structure that stands between arlington national cemetery and what's commonly known as the iwo

memorial, the u.s. marine corps memorial. a lot of folks will pass through here, not really understanding what this is all about, what it symbolizes. well, we got an exclusive tour of this structure. >> we are seeing the deterioration of the skin. we are concerned about what is happening with the bell. >> reporter: it needs structural help, no question. there's an effort underway by the dutch company and the national park service as well as private partners to restore this to the glory that it once held. that's tonight on news4. >> if you haven't been there, it is worth going to visit. so beautiful. surprising new controversy about the marine corps war memorial. >> an amateur historian examined the famous photo behind it saying the marine corps may have misidentified the people raising the flag. five of the people were marines, one was identified as a navy corpsman to raise a separate flag on iwo jima that day. >> for 70 years the government has been saying that that was my father there.

realize that might not be so. >> that was james bradley who wrote the book "flags of our fathers." his father john bradley is the man who may have been misidentified. bradley was not the amateur historian who raised the questions here. the person how did said that men in the photos were wearing different clothing. >> that's interesting to see if they can find out the truth behind the picture. >> the marine corps will have to clear this up pretty quickly. and cutting through the chaos of the republicans. will they unify after ted cruz says he's out of the race? and a new problem in prince george's county really slowing things inbound and another in the district, if we'll have details coming up. a sool bus driver is ch

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school bus but nobody was hurt after a quick-thinking bus driver saved the students on this bus in washington state. look at that. the bus burst into flames, ron kiss carried every student off the bus one by one. eight students on board all had special needs. now he's being hailed as a hero. >> i have to unstrap them, get them out, physically carry them to the back, hand them off to a parent and go in and get the next one. >> now investigators still don't know what caused that bus to catch fire. but thank god he was on it with his quick-thinking and quick moving. >> talk about an underappreciated job. they have to think about safety, sometimes it's noisy in the bus, so many things. a hero award for him, no doubt about it. >> for you, maybe not so much. >> someone has to be the hero, someone has to be the goat. i know how that goes. >> nothing personal, chuck. >> i know what you say when your mikes are off. outside we have cloudy

no rain out there just now but everything is wet from yesterday. we'll be in the low to mid-60s with rain chances going up as time goes by throughout the course of the day. the seven-day forecast with sunshine is in ten minutes. northbound indian head highway before kirby road, it is slow there headed northbound. getting a little worse than it was. eastbound southeast freeway just past the exit for the 3rd street tunnel, a crash in the two right lanes. very slow through the area right now. 270 south, no major problems. top of the beltway, slow there this morning. 66 inbound at 95 north just about on time. looking pretty normal for your average commute. remember to listen to our friends on wtop, 103.5 f.m. when you hop in your car for the latest travel troubles this morning. trying to stay fit while stuck at the office? a growing number of you are turning to things like standing desks to improve your health. we'll show you if they really work.

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bacon supreme omelet breakfast sandwich, loaded with peppers, onions, and potatoes and topped with two slices of cherrywood-smoked bacon and cheese all on a freshly baked croissant. america runs on dunkin'. right now we are following a big shakeup in the race for the white house as republicans begin unifying behind donald trump after ted cruz's sudden decision to drop out of the presidential race. it's one of the things we're working to get you up to the minute the minute you're up. here's storm team meteorologist chuck bell. no big surprise,

temperatures in the 50s this morning. and rain chances are going to go up as we go into the remainder of the day. so have your umbrella ready to go. when do we see the sunshine next? the seven-day forecast in five minutes. two brand new problems off 15 south near the point of rocks bridge. and another problem northbound bw parkway just after the beltway, not seeing the slowdowns. that will start building, though. well, right now a busy commute is back up and running for the first time this week. sunday's csx train derailment shut down the brunswick line causing a big headache for passengers. let's go to erika gonzalez live with more from commuters who are trying to catch a ride. erika, good morning. >> reporter: hi, eun, good morning. back to normal after a couple days of disrupted service here on the marc brunswick line. things are getting back to normal today. maybe a few hicc

things getting back to normal, a regular operating schedule. this after a csx train carrying hazardous materials derailed sunday morning spilling hundreds of gallons of sodium hydroxide. the brunswick line was blocked between union station and silver spring, but we're told this morning that five of the 16 cars that derail have had been taken from the site making things a lot easier to get around this morning. you can hear the sirens going right now, a train should be coming through in the next couple of seconds. a number of passengers already aboard the first train that went through here earlier this morning and told me the service disruption was a little inconvenient but they were able to find their way around it. >> it wasn't too bad because i was able to take metro, but for some people it was a problem. and metro allowing us to use the cars was very helpful. >> reporter: as you can hear behind me, things are getting back to na

brunswick line this morning. we are live in gaithersburg, back to you. >> thank you. we are suspending our campaign. >> senator ted cruz is no longer in the race for president. this morning front-runner donald trump is calling himself the presumptive republican nominee for president. nbc's peter alexander is with us now, peter, trump is turning his attention to hillary clinton now. >> think about this for a second. the latest surprise in an election poll event, the fact that the republican primary is now wrapping up before the democratic one. ted cruz as you heard gasps in the room surprising many people there with that announcement last night. we're also hearing today from reince priebus, the chair of the republican national committee, declaring donald trump the presumptive nominee saying we all need to unite and focus on defeating hillary clin

#neverclinton. this is a challenge for donald trump. last night in indiana, 56% of republicans told us in exit polls that they found this primary season to be more divisive for the party than it is uniting. the big attacks are going to pick up very soon from the democrats. already hillary clinton's campaign is trying to fund-raise off the fact that donald trump will most likely be the nominee. aaron, we'll see you coming up on "today." >> see you in a few minutes, thank you. senator bernie sanders says he has no intention of dropping out, especially after snacking another win last night in indiana. he has 43 new delegates this morning. but because of the way democrats proportionally distribute the delegates, clinton earned 37 delegates as well. she has 92% of the delegates she needs for the democratic nomination and is a full 800 delegates ahead of bernie sanders. this video shows the moment a man is taken io

d.c. police after stabbing a bus driver, hijacking the bus and hitting and killing a pedestrian. keith loving was on the bus at 10:30 yesterday morning along jay street northeast. police say he attacked the driver with needle-noise pliers. the driver managed to get off the bus. loving then drove a short distance before crashing the bus into a gas station parking lot where he allegedly hit anthony payne who later died. cathy lanier says it was an unusual attack. >> bizarre accident. very characteristic for someone to try to take a bus, attack a bus driver. >> loving is now facing murder charges. we are in the middle of national police week. and today two local police officers will be honored for the sacrifices they made for our communities. first in montgomery county you may remember a drunk driver allegedly hit and killed officer liata late last year. he later died from his injuries. at 10:30 this morning, law enforcement officials will add

and in prince george's county detective jakai coalson will be remembered. he died earlier this year after a fellow officer mistook him for a robber. 6:51 right now, and 8:00 tonight is when the capitals start what is probably their most important game in the playoffs so far. the team is down 2-1 to the pittsburgh penguins. a loss and they are one game e way from elimination. they won't have defenseman chkr letang tonight after a hard hit monday night. and here's a great reason to stay alive in the playoffs. the longer they play the more babies get the cute team gear. they will be handing out onesies at the georgetown university hospital. the mascot will also be there. who doesn't love babies? >> a good

they need something for dogs, too. rain caps is what we should be handing out because it continues to be rainy. today will be nine days in a row with rain. >> can you do something about that? >> we can but choose not to. it was very dry here in march and april. so we're replenishing the water table just a smidgen. although it would be nice to have a little more sunshine from time to time. outside this morning, what to expect through the day? well, what you see is what you get. a lot of cloud cover, maybe a little hint of brightness in the sky near the horizon, but you won't get much sunshine. cool and cloudy. up like the la unlike the last few days, the rain chances remain high. the weather and its impact on your outdoor plans give you the red lights for today, tomorrow and friday. light rain and puddles today. steadier rain likely tomorrow and moderate rain at times, especially the front part of the day on friday. storm team 4 radar this morning, no real heavy rain this morning. just a couple sprinkles and drizzle out ther

parts of the eastern shore. the rain we are watching for us today, these little showers here in central and west virginia are the midday rain chances today. then this area of rain out across indiana and illinois, that is our rain chance as we get into thursday and friday. so keep in mind, you're going to need the um brel will habrella t couple of days. ed we have rain chances through this afternoon into this evening. temperatures won't move much in the low to mid-50s. before the rain starts, we'll see the low to mid-60s for today with a 70% chance for rain today and tomorrow. and an 80% chance for rain on your friday. saturday, mostly dry. could have a few showers late saturday night and early sunday morning for mother's day morning. but by mother's day afternoon and into next week, finally the sunshine comes back. may the 4th be with you, melissa mollet. may the 4th be with you, i

[000:53:59;00] southbound bw parkway after the beltway, that's southbound, not northbound, you can see the delays building as you cross the beltway. northbound indian head highway before kerby road we have a crash blocking the lane to slow things inbound at indian head highway and the rest of prince george's county is looking good. overall, the beltway is pretty typical. outer loop there passing new hampshire, it's a little slow. so is the inner loop approaching the woodrow wilson bridge. eastbound, the southeast freeway just past the exit for the 3rd street tunnel we have the two right lanes blocked here this morning. 66 at 95, no problems. 270 at montrose a little slow southbound. and 15 south of point of rocks bridge, we have the overturned truck there. no more blue line delays. this just into the live desk, the tsa announcing it will add more officers to relieve all the backups at the airport security checkpoints.

airports nationwide recently have been long lines. some doubling in size. some wait times up to 90 minutes to get through. there's more passengers and they have been focusing more on screening rather than efficiency. plus, budget cuts haven't helped either. they haven't been able to hire and train officers but that will change as they get more officers to make the lines shorter. over to eun. thank you so much. we are continuing our waking up to wellness series this morning. a big question in many offices these days, whether to sit or stand. >> we are talking about the standing desks. some of our colleagues here at news4 use them, but are they better for your health? researchers say there's no scientific proof that standing desks are better for you. one researcher said the calories you burn standing versus sitting don't add up to anything. redesigning the work environment does more for your health than a desk you might have. local trainers agree that moving

around is your best health. >> you work an eight-hour day at a desk, you should get up at least every hour. get up from the chair, stand and move around or actually walk around the place if you can. >> i do laps around here every day. >> and then you break out and dance. if you have any stretches you find helpful or rejuvenating during the day, tweet us or facebook us using #wellnessweek. tomorrow we tackle the fasting phenomenon, there are a bunch of fasting die yets ots o there. do they work? we'll let you know. before you head out the door, the names of the fallen officers that will be added to memorials today in separate ceremonies. both men died protecting our communities in the last six months. a new report on prince. "the minneapolis star tribune" says the singer was scheduled to

meet with a doctor to talk about his addiction to no official autopsy has been leased. donald trump is likely the republican presidential nominee. ted cruz dropped out last night as he lost the indiana primary. for the fourth time you can take a brunswick train into the district. regular service resumes on that line today for the first time since sunday's csx train derailment. that's the broadcast today. we appreciate you waking up with us. >> the "today" show is next. we'll see you then. enjoy your day. >> make it a great wednesday,

everybody. good morning. presumptive nominee. that's what the head of the republican party is calling donald trump after a big win in indiana. ted cruz dropping out of the race. >> we are suspending our campaign. >> this morning, trump joins us live. feeling the bern. hillary clinton suffers another stinging loss to bernie sanders in indiana. >> i think we can pull off one of the great political upsets in the history of the united states. >> is it the democrats who are now facing a contested convention this summer? mass exodus.