response times by d.c. fire ems. the fire chief says the department has made progress but is still struggling when it comes to advance life support calls. response times have not improved nearly a year into the district's use of a private ambulance service. he made the statement in a letter to firefighters and paramedics. a spokesman released a statement countering that statement saying in part, quote, the bottom line is that we are responding faster to 911 calls adding that the department is aggressively hiring paramedics and adding three medic units. this comes as the mayor is scheduled to tout the department's improvements today and announce changes in the way the district bills insurance companies for ambulance services. we'll be at today's announcement. as early as today the trump administration could roll back federal guidelines that allow

them to use bathrooms with who they identify. president obama called on schools to revamp bathroom guidelines. that has quote, given rise to significant litigation and needs to be changed. if it is changed it could have an effect on several legal cases including that of gavin grim. he sued the school boort board for not allowing him to be use the boys' bathroom. huge crowds at national harbor as the conservative political action conference gets underway. extra security is already there. president trump will speak on friday. montgomery county wants you to help find this woman with au

her mother said she spoke with her yesterday, but she won't say where she is. police say they're worried for the 22-year-old's physical welfare. if you see her call police. and we told you about another missing person at this time yesterday. now police are saying she could be in danger if she doesn't get her medication. mattei is 15-year-old and has a serious medical condition. she was last seen nearly a week ago on banks court. police say she was wearing a pink georgia state sweatshirt, dark leggings and black shoes with pink stripes when she went missing. let's go to our news room and the live desk. yesterday morning we were sending bao bao off to china. she's almost there, she had a nice flight and lots of snacks. >> good morning. and you survived. you guys survived. well, forget the panda cam because we have now got the panda tracker. we know that bao bao is very close to safely landing in her e.

tracker. it shows that bao bao is scheduled to land probably in about an hour and a half right before the 6:00 hour this morning. we are going to work on getting that video of her grand arrival. we all said that final good-bye to the 3-year-old panda yesterday when she left via the panda express on her 16 hour journey. bao bao was eating. the officials saying that pandas spend 13 to 16 hours a day eating and they had 65 pounds of bamboo an board among other things in the suitcase. so she's probably very happy and ready for a good nap. she will eventually join a panda breeding program once she is in her new home. >> i spend about 13 hours eating too. i knew we were connected in many ways. >> now we understand. >> and eun, just so you feel comfortable the weather in china when bao bao lan

cloudy so not too bad for bao bao. >> a little sunshine for her as well. let's hope anyway and of course all that really matters is if the food is any good. does she like chinese food? >> she likes bamboo. a lot of that. >> it's hump day, it's wednesday. it's baby thursday? >> friday eve's best friend. >> a couple of rain drops this morning. if you can't find the umbrella it's going to be all right today. things are getting ready to warm back up. we should be in the 60s today and two or three more days dead ahead likely to be 70 or higher here. saturday's outdoor plans may be in serious trouble. pretty high chances for rain morning and afternoon. sunday is looking better. for more on your wednesday, rain drop chances let's go over to sheena. >> some showers on the radar right now. mostly south of the district

towards la rea. it's this weather system and it's mostly sliding from west to east, not so much to the north, but on radar we do have the showers around culpepper. and this is mostly just light rain. it's nothing very heavy. we're not looking at any thunderstorms but what we are going to be looking at later today, we're not going to see that rain this afternoon. the first half of the day, but the temperatures will be a little bit warmer today in the mid-50s by lunchtime this morning. not even that cold either. we're starting in the mid-40s for most of the area so you don't need the heavy coat this morning, but this afternoon, maybe the short sleeves. even warmer temperatures in the forecast coming up. we'll have a look at that for you, but for now let's take a look at the roadways for you. >> so a little bit of construction hanging around. this is another piece that we see almost every day for the past couple of months. ck

street and virginia avenue. right lane gets by each direction here this morning. northbound 295 at benning road there in northeast, have that right lane blocked as well. the beltway looks quite good. no problems innerer or outer loop. quantico to the beltway you're on time from quantico to the beltway. you're going to get there in 18 minutes. southbound you don't have any problems there. taking a look right now at prince george's county, bottom of the beltway, everything into town and out of town just fine. a little bit of a slowdown inbound 4 and that has now disappeared. you know, open the door. >> it is a call they were not even supposed to take. the d.c. police officers who went beyond the call of duty to save a man's life and it was all caught on camera. a warning for anyone using metro, where you're more likely to hurt yourself during your morning commute. and a special report, what we're learning about police

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if there's one thing you see all morning this is what you need to watch. incredible video of a rescue by several d.c. officers. >> open the door.

get your seat belt off. >> yes, sir. >> their day should have ended sunday night but instead they answered one more call. the driver was dazed from crashing into a utility pole in northeast and could not free himself. with the car on fire, officers rushed in to pull him to safety. >> without training and you know, just our instinct, the job field that we're in at any given moment anything can happen so we have to react quickly. >> another couple minutes if we hadn't been there, if we hadn't stumbled across it it would have been ap different story. >> officers refused to leave the car until they knew no one else was inside. it's not clear how badly the driver is hurt. we're working to get an update on his condition. those are our everyday heroes right there.

>> some new video of a rocket launch? >> that new video coming into the live desk. that russian supply ship had just launched to the international space station. >> and liftoff. liftoff of the 66 -- >> lifted off and it was a success this time. the supply mission follows, you might recall that botched launch back in december. the ship came crashing down less than 7 minutes after liftoff. this is a live look at mission control. also where they're making sure everything goes smoothly and russian officials going back to that botched launch in december now saying that they are blaming an engine flaw in the manufacturer for the last accident. back to you. >> all right. thank you. some good news is that we are in for another mild day. >> that's really good news. i guess it's a little bad news. you might need an umbrella depending on where you live. i'll take that for the 70 degree weather. >> only in the 60s today. but we'll be b

thursday and friday. but for this morning as you can see there on storm team 4 radar, there are one or two lonesome sprinkles out here mainly west and southwest of the d.c. metro area. looks like most of our small rain will be here southbound in the fredericksburg area. our friends and neighbors less likely to be hit by a rain drop today. we'll have a look at the ten-day coming up. and information on the murder of kim jung un's half brother. who is demanding two of the suspects be freed. >> pain. i just lost my baby. >> and the emotional interview with the parents of a young woman killed in a story we first brought you yesterday. why they say she was never supposed to be in thear in if c

good wepdnesday morning. we have some showers through your morning drive. otherwise it's going to be milder today and even warmer tomorrow and as we go into friday, i'll show you those temperatures with your ten-day coming up. >> town hall gets testy. why these people from northern virginia went off on their congressman. >> first, the white house is following through on its promise to crack down on illegal immigration. >> they issued new details on plans to potentially deport millions of undocumented immigrants. we're live on capitol hill. how is this going to be carried out? >> reporter: good morning. 15,000 new and additional federal agents are expected to be hired to help enforce some of the new plans here. there will be no more catch and

an illegal immigrant is uncovered. they'll be held until they have a hearing. and those who are in the country illegally less than two years, they will now be immediately deported. the lag time on that used to be two weeks, so a big change there. and adults who pay smugglers will be prosecuted. those who pay smugglers to have their children moved in illegally, they'll be prosecuted or expelled. a lot to uncover and work through here. one thing to mention also, these changes will take months and some cases years to really carry out and several civil rights organizations are already preparing a legal challenge to the measures. >> and congress is in recess this week so lawmakers in their districts and really getting an earful from their constituents. what are some of the issues voters say they're concerned about? >> reporter: that's across the country. a lot of people getting a

to push back to some of their congress members and what they're talking about is of course the new immigration measures. that's something that frustrates a lot of people across the country, but also the revamping or changing of obama care, there's a lot of concern across the country about that and some still pushing back about cabinet selections for the trump administration, so a lot of people very frustrated and letting their congressional members know. >> thank you. one of those town halls jay just mentioned happened last night in virginia. republican congressman got an eergful. so many people showed up they couldn't all fit into the building there. he represents virginia's 7th district that includes culpepper. he drew criticism earlier this month saying that since obamacare and other issues have come up, women are quote, in his grill, no matter where he goes. pressure is growing on congresan

own town hall. >> we have no desire to be confrontational in our representative. we don't want to do anything that would be disparaging to her. >> a group of residents scheduled the town hall for this friday but her reporter and former delegate doesn't trust the group's intentions. >> well, i don't think this group is asking for really a dialog or for a real town hall. what they're looking for is a show. >> representative comestock has held a series of town halls where she's answered questions by phone. neither she nor her staff immediately responded when we first asked about this story. and we're working on more details about the death of kim jung un's half brother. >> identifying another suspect. in the

they want to question a north korean diplomat. this as north korea calls for the release of three people who have already been detained in the case involving the estranged half brother of north korea's leader. a vietnamese woman, an indonesian woman and a north korean man have been arrested unreasonably the north korean embassy said in a statement they released to the media. the women told authorities that they took part because they thugt they were actually shooting a prank for a reality television show. he was killed at the international airport last week while getting ready to board a flight. more as we get it. back to you. we wanted to bring you up to date about that tragic crash we first told you about yesterday morning on route 28. we've learned that a recent graduate was killed in that crash. the loudoun county sheriff's office says perry was thrown from the jeep which was slam

a drunk driver was behind the wheel. now the 22-year-old's parents hope her story will save someone else's life. she was supposed to take uber home but for some reason changed her mind. she was working as a substitute teacher at loudoun county schools. >> she's got a very good life ahead of her. >> she had a plan. >> her dreams, she was following it and working hard. >> so incredibly sad. perry's friend was also thrown from the jeep but survived. the sheriff's office has charged 26-year-old andre glen with dui and driving on a suspended license. glen and a third passenger were not seriously hurt. 4:50 your time right now. it's something a lot of you take every day and now we're learning more riders are getting hurt on metro. here's a breakdown of some of the new findings. slips and falls on escalators are up. many of the falls happene

stairs or when passengers were not paying attention. there were also more injuries caused by rear end collisions on buses and by drivers braking too hard. metro has listed all its safety initiatives and solutions. you can find them on the app by searching metro safety. >> please watch your step and keep moving upon exiting the escalator. >> new audible escalator warnings here. metro testing the warnings to help prevent some of those injuries we just mentioned. al-carr introduced a bill that would allow police to ticket certain drivers who block the box. if a car enters the intersection when the light is green or yellow then it has the right of way. carr says drivers are taking advantage of that and crowding intersections. d.c. already has a similar law. >> tonight you have ah

the total is the third largest in powerball history. everyone if you pick the cash option you walk away with $244 million. >> you always take the cash. >> why not? the odds of winning are one in 292 million, but you could be that one. >> you could. >> i could be that one. >> there you go. i'm buying some powerball tickets. >> i have mine. >> you do? >> yeah, of course. i told you i only buy if it's over 200 million. i didn't win saturday so i was like, okay, i'll get some more for tonight. >> i would take any amounts of millions, you know what i mean? >> i don't know why i do that. when it's a large amount i'm like okay now it's time to go out of my way and go to the gas station. >> we're winning with this forecast too. >> yesterday was nice but today is going to be milder. and then wait. just wait until tomorrow and friday. we have 70s in the forecast.

yeah, about 25 degrees above normal. for this morning we are starting with some showers, mainly to the south of the district. if you are around culpepper county and those areas, that's where we have some shouwers around. rain for part of your weekend. here's a look at the radar. that big area of rain, that's going to be sliding south of the district but as we go through the morning hours we are looking at it in the area. so here you see it approaching near fredericksburg as well but still off to the west of that near culpepper and also near la ray. some very light rain and down to the south as well. i think it will mostly be staying south of the district. everyone is in the 40s except for frederick now dropped to 39 degrees but this is still pretty mild for this time of the morning. 46 now in the district. if you are exercising today, chance of a shower by 7:00 a.m. especially south of d.c. 46 degrees. by noon, 58 and by this afternoon, 65 degrees.

here's a look at future weather so throughout the day today we will stay on the dry side especially this afternoon, but again, that chance is mostly through this morning. then we go into the weekend, but look at those 70s before. rain chance comes back on saturday. cooler on sunday. good morning, melissa. >> good morning. so right now taking a look at the beltway, overall you can see we look pretty good here. inner loop just fine. same thing on the outer loop. don't have any road work there as i'm looking at my list. taking a look at 95 in maryland. as you're headed southbound down to the beltway you can see we're on time there. no worries here this morning so that is not a big problem. 270, northbound/southbound near the outlet, looking good at 66 and 95, no problems. >> all right. thank you. schools across our area participating in the african american read-in over the last several weeks. i had a chance to go to ken more middle school to share a boo

there about some of the important figures through history and the impact they've had. this young man here, isaiah i think his name was, read a poem. did a really nice job before i read so a thank you to the librarian. >> you did some interviews too? >> did an interview with one of the students. had a great time reading with the young people at ken more middle school. school resource officers are not new but who they put in cuffs in front of your kids is. the i-team investigation next. it will have you doing a double take the next time you take money out of the atm. where a skimmer showed up and what to look for the next time you stop by the bank. >> and some say they're getting better and others say they're getting worse. the

thousands of local students are in schools that don't have clear guidelines on how the police officers designed to protect the campus should be working with children. black stubtdents and students wh disabilities were three times as likely to be arrested than their peers in schools. numbers like that highlight a better need for specific training and specific rules for when offrs

classroom incidents. >> our leaders at the top have to set clear and concise expectations for that partnership. and if you don't have this done appropriately, it is a disaster and that is what you don't want. >> one major local school district did not provide the i-team with their specific rules for school resource officers. more on that and what could be changing with the district in the report tonight at news 4 at 6:00. the next time you take cash out of the atm your money could be at risk. take a look at this device police found in laurel. it turns out this is a skimming device that can steal your credit card number. it was found at a 7-11 on monday. now, there are a few ways you can be more vigilant. check for anything unusual including a different color card slot. these skimmers can be loose or uneven so if you jiggle it a little bit you can tell if it isn't quite right and if you thin

want to call police immediately. good morning, everybody. it is 5:00 a.m. now. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. we're working to get you out the door and to work and school on time on this wednesday. >> we'll get a check on the roads and the rails. metro just opened up i think. first let's get a look at the forecast. you guys are all smiles. >> we're on track for our warmest february on record. >> and we were talking about potentially winning the powerball. >> which is what the real smiles were about back here. i'm like sheena. i don't bother playing until it's over about a quarter of a billion dollars. outside for us today, a little bit of a squeeze play going on. two areas of high pressure there squeezing the moisture in our general direction. not expecting a lot of rain today and rain chance mainly south of our little dashed line today. could get a sprinkle or a drop around the immediate metro