throughout the morning and the day. breaking news at the life desk. this fire in rockville. erika gonzalez is on it for us. >> firefighters very concerned this morning because they can't seem to locate the person that owns this home. this was a fire late last night in rockville on the 16,000 block of willow lane. look at how massive this fire was. this home completely consumed. because of that, firefighters are calling this a total loss. it took 75 firefighters to be able to put this out and, again, the concern still this morning with firefighters staying on the scene overnight is that they cannot seem to find the person that owns this home. >> thank you. developing right now. police are investigating several shootings in the district. you're looking at one of the scenes near the rhode island metro stop. police say five people were

last night and one is a juvenile. police are investigating a shooting on brentwood road and another on rhode island avenue. just a few hours before, police say two people were also shot on fairmont street northwest and police have not released any suspect information and we are told all seven victims have nonlife-threatening injuries. this morning, counselors will be at the potomac high school to help students cope with loss of a classmate. student was shot and killed yesterday. we are not releasing the teen's name because the police have not yet. one student was at a loss of words. >> that is depressing. we just lost a student. like right -- >> police say the teen was shot on iverson street a few blocks west of the high school and they are searching for a suspect and a

more calls this morning for attorney general jeff sessions to resign after revelations that he spoke with the russian ambassador during the presidential election. a small group of demonstrators gathered outside of the white house last night holding signs that read lyin' jeff and sessions lied. this morning, it's unlikely president trump will ask for sessions resignation after releasing a statement calling him an honest man. a series of tweet the president acknowledged that sessions could have, quote, stated his response more accurate to congress and it's saving face for democrats losing an election that everyone thought they were supposed to win. the president said the real story is the illegal leaks of classified information. while jeff sessions will remain attorney general, he will not be involved in investigating ties between russia and the trump campaign. sessions recused himself yesterday from any current or potential investigation. all this follows reports that se

ambassador twice during the election and contradicted his statements, that, quote, i did not have communications with the russians. sessions insist he did not mislead the senate because those communications were part of his duties as a senator and not as a campaign surrogate. >> in retrospect i should have slowed down but i did meet one russian official a couple times and that would be the ambassador. >> the acting deputy attorney general and virginia prosecutor dana boente will take over the investigation. ahead, what this means going forward and two trusted advisers have having to defend their meetings with russian officials and vice president is explaining his use of a private e-mail account while he was governor of indiana. erika is following other breaking news story. >> a homicide investigation happened at 11:30 last night when police in princerg

about hearing shots fired in the area and they did find one person dead inside an apartment. this is in forestville on the 7,000 block of donel place and a number of investigators on the scene and they don't think this is random. this morning, they are still looking for a suspect and a motive in this case after one person was found dead inside an apartment there. from the live desk i'm erika gonzalez. we are making calls on a serious crash on landover road in prince george's county. this is traffic camera video right at the interchange with the beltway. prince george's county fire officials tell us an infant was critically injured in this two-car crash the last half hour and two adults were also hurt. we will bring you updates as they come. get ready for slow downs on metro. safetrack surge 13 starts tomorrow and runs through april 9th and impacts yellow and blue line riders. trains

single tracking and expect to wait 24 minutes between trains. if you use these stations metro says look for another way to get around while surge 13 is in effect. you can find alternatives in the news4 washington app. search alternatives. >> some people stayed up until midnight to get their hand on an nintendo switch and lined up at a walmart? alexandria to be there when the game system went on sale. foss -- this is for a video game system. do you hear me? >> we didn't preorder! soware here. been here since 6:00. >> that is dedication. >> that is one word. >> the father and son waited in line for six hours! the reason this has so many people excited you can stop playing the game on your tv and use a tablet to play it on the

want to go so just keep playing forever! the switch cost 300. >> this is why people don't have friends any more! you're playing video games all of the time. >> you keep playing and never stop. you have to stop to eat and check your forecast. >> we will check on the road with melissa in a second. first, i didn't expect to see snow on cars when i woke up! in our parking lot, its, you know? >> here is the thing. just to calm your nerves. some areas below freezing and some are not. the ones below freezing seeing sticking but not that bad. >> it's not that bad. we will see these move on quickly and moving at 25 miles an hour. as soon as they are in they are out of here. >> in prince george's county and near

light to moderate snowfall. it's passing quickly. gaithersburg and leesburg is starting to get it and the higher elevations. passing snow showers in the forecast today. here is lauren for the rest of your day. good morning. >> good morning. we are going to warm up but not too much. low to mid-40s for daytime highs today and topped out in the 60s yesterday and just afternoon midnight. feeling cooler out there today. passing snow showers as you drive into work and some could create low visibility. otherwise temperatures in the low 40s but look at that windchill. oh, boy. 20s and thirty as we go through the morning. it's not[( going to be wendy w you head out there but 9:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. it will pick up and deal with that on the commute home and breezy for your saturday but plenty of sunshine and cool for the weekend so we will talk how chilly we are going to get and how much warmer we are going to get next week. first talk

>> good morning. live picture. beltway good luck road you can see the moisture on the screen. a lot of the grassy areas you're going to see that dusting. not sticking to the main roads at this point. this morning, your neighborhood might be a little iffy like mine was in montgomery county this morning. bottom of the beltway you can see no major problems there. everything is looking good in and out of town. same situation when you're looking at 66 and at 95. no big worries there. beltway, overall, nice and green here this morning. we will take a look at 270 coming up. it is a proposal that some parents may like and others may hate. what kids in virginia schools could soon learn about in sex ed. >> be prepared to see clearance signs at hhgreg stores. why the company is closing up shop in our region. >> get ready to pay more for your costco meership.mb

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2011 and they say every five or six years, they raise their membership fee. >> jackson and ready. >> the boys are best friend and live in kentucky and wanted to trick their teacher and thought if they got the same haircut she wouldn't be able to tell them apart! that is the only difference they see in themselves. people couldn't help but post comments about the deeper meaning here. >> it's really cool to see that move on from our family right into his relationships with his friends. and there is an innocence that children have that sometimes we lose so if we could get some of that back, i think it would be amazing. >> >> that was ready's father the]z yes, the teacher played along with the trick of having the same haircut. >> how sweet are they? >> what we could learn from children. >> every day. you won't notice the wind as much when you walk out the door this morning. >> you

snowflakes out there. >> we have passing snow showers. the key here is the word "passing snow showers." they are not going to stick around. we are not going to see an all day snow type thing and you don't need a shovel but some cars this morning if you're north of the district seeing a coating on the car and maybe on the ground. coming up we will take a closer look what you can expect today and some much colder temperatures today and for the weekend. that is next. imagine what your office would be like if all of the women stayed home from work today. where that could happen is coming up. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. maybe that's why we've been ranked highest in customer satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. and now you can love fios too. get our best offer of the year. 150 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone. all for $79.99 per month, for the first year with a two-ar agreement.

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well, look at that. nothing. not even a little breeze anymore. >> so is it all gone already? >> are you upset, eun? >> no, i was worried for nothing? >> no, and these things are just flying right on by and that's how it's going to be all throughout the day today so it could create some low visibilities. they're moving east at 25 miles an hour. and they are sticky in some spots. where those temperatures are below freezing coming up in a few minutes. >> thank you. 4:46 now. new details this morning about meetings between the russian envoy and some of president trump's add vie sour trump's advisors. jared kushner participated in a meeting with michael flynn. the white house played down the meetings saying it was meant to establish a line of communications with

is now playing down the now attorney general's meeting with the russian ambassador during the presidential campaign. it's a developing story we're following from every angle. >> edward, what is the president saying about all the political fallout surrounding his attorney general? >> reporter: well, we haven't seen any tweets yet but the president in a statement calls this a witch hunt and yesterday the president says that he has total confidence in his attorney general. >> the attorney general jeff sessions has recused himself from any justice department investigation concerning russia. so why are democrats still demanding his resignation? >> reporter: during his confirmation back in january testified that he said quote, you know, i didn't have communications with the russians. now, the attorney general is makes a distinction here saying that the question was about the campaign related things so he was not encompassing everything. demts

not what he's saying in his answer. in his answer they're saying he had no communications with russians so therefore, according to democrats he's lying. >> all right. edward lawrence for us on the hill this morning. thank you. there is a new e-mail scandal this morning as well. this time it involves vice president mike pence. the star reports that while he was indiana's governor pence not only youused private e-mail for state business but that his personal account was hacked last summer. the vice president's office says pence complied with indiana law and that all government e-mails were archived. pence criticized hillary clinton for her use of a private e-mail service while she was secretary of state. march 8th is international women's day. this year there is a call for a one-day strike called a day without women. organizers are telling supporters to wear red

the their solidarity. women are being encouraged to take the day off from work, paid and unpaid labor. the organizers of the women's march on washington are planning a day without a woman demonstration. they say it is a way to highlight the economic power that women hold in the u.s. and global economies. fairfax county police are identifying the officer who shot a man near herndon. the officer shot a man outside his home back in january. he later died. investigators say he shot his brothers and refused police orders to drop a knife he was holding. at the same time smoke was coming from that home and another man was trapped inside. >> the department is supposed to release the name of an officer involved in the shooting within ten days unless there is a threat to the officer or their family. a judge recently ruled there is no threat. the officer is a 16 year veteran of the department. he used deadly force twice in the past in 2005 and

made public and determined to be a lawful use of force. some neighbors in fairfax county are on edge after days of police combing the area near their homes for human remains. the fbi and fairfax county homicide detectives remain tight lipped about what possible murder or disappearance they're investigating in the park. the recent tip led them there. more than a dozen gang members were arrested for two murders in northern virginia but police want say if those arrests are connected to this search. no remains have been found so far. pieces of an army uniform are stolen in the middle of the night. now the fbi is looking for the thief. he was caught on surveillance camera early thursday morning. this is the armed man. he also took a government owned 2015 elan tra. a note left on the building

makes investigators think he has ties to fairfax, virginia. >> giving back is a big part of what we do here on nbc. and a special series called give help us do just that. tomorrow actor blare underwood visits two charities in our own backyard. one of them is called the armed services arts partnership. they offer free comedy classes to veterans. the other is called bunker labs. >> it's very healing to be able to express yourself and develop the stress for -- you know, have the stress reduction and the reductions in anxiety that come from artistic expression. >> i think the thing that is most beneficial is the sense of community and just a sense of belonging and acceleration for some things that they might not just had exposure to on active duty. >> it airs tomorrow at noon right here on nbc 4. >> very cool. all right. us

more than 20 minutes all these emotions and now we're okay. >> we're up, we're down. >> you mean your emotions. >> i was getting a little worried. you know how i feel about snow. >> i thought you were going to just get in your car and leave or something. >> no, so we had snow falling this morning. yes, on your ride it was sticking in some areas. if you're north of the district we're talking about temperatures below freezing so there is a little bit of sticking but these are passing snow showers. so if you are in parts of frederick county you may see your car coated this morning but as the sun starts to come up the sticking is supposed to be much less with these passing snow showers. cold and windy as we go through the day today. 20 degrees today. i think that's the bigger story as we go tomorrow morning and sunday morning. here's a look at the radar. we do still have that snowfall in parts of

if you're near 495 here, faland seeing this snowfall. they are moving through so if you're driving through just take your time, slow down a little bit. right near front royal also near 81 off to the west, that's where we're seeing another round of passing snow showers. you see it moving through through the afternoon. not very widespread but then they clear out as we go through tonight and tomorrow you don't have to worry about that but you have to worry about much colder temperatures. today 36 by 7:00 a.m. if you're exercising, a passing snow shower in the forecast. take a look at future weather as we go through the afternoon feeling at or below freezing with the wind. by tomorrow morning some areas could be feeling like the teens. look at those morning lows. tomorrow morning, sunday morning, mid-20s feeling colder and the highs in the 40s but a dry weekend. let's check the roads on this tgif with melissll

around for quite some time. so southbound gw parkway, the ramp to reagan national airport, the southbound ramp is blocked here this morning because of a water main break. the northbound ramp was closed earlier. the northbound ramp is now open. you don't have to worry about that one anymore. as we widen out here you can see the beltway is quite good here. top of the beltway everything moving quite nicely and 270 down to the spur you're on time. going to take you 26 minutes. >> all right. thank you. it could drastically change the way kids in virginia get sexual education. the proposal that has some parents divided. you've seen them sold on social media. maybe ern you have a pair but this morning some people are slamming some leggings and we'll let you know why. and the next phase of metro's safe

morning from jane fon da. the winning actress said she had been raped and sexually abused as a child. she also said she was once fired from a job for refusing to sleep with her boss. fonda is 79. a curriculum aimed at

every high school in virginia. lawmakers passed a bill that adds no means no classes to sex education courses. it calls for age appropriate discussions of consent. that includes what it means to agree to have sex and the legal ramifications of not asking for permission. schools must step in because these conversations aren't happening at home. >> i thought, you know, if the first time our -- our students are hearing about what's appropriate is a college orientation, then we've missed the boat and it's too late. >> fairfax county high schools already have this curriculum. if the governor sign it is bill into law school districts and individual stuntss will dents w allowed to opt out. >> several big name tech companies are taking the side of a transgender teenager. apple and other companies are asking the u.s. supreme court to allow gavin grim to use the

he's suing the school district over this. the case is scheduled to before the high court but the gloucester school board wants a delay. tnow the company is facing different kind of problem. lularoe has been hit with a federal lawsuit. the lawsuit says it overcharges customers in pennsylvania by charging a sales tax. pennsylvania does not charge a sales tax on clothing. hhgregg is closing stores. it identifying underperforming stores and decided to cut them. we have a full list of the affected locations in the nbc washington app. think allhe

couple days ago when we saw temperatures close to 80 degrees around here. >> i remember that. >> oh, the good old days. keep that in mind today if you see snow flakes falling. a live look outside, and storm team 4 radar here where you can see some of the snow showers, the scattered snow showers still coming down. it is 5:00 a.m. right now. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. >> i was a little bit concerned but now i feel better. >> i hope so. i mean, we might still see some snow falling through the area this morning but don't freak out. they're passing through. they'll be leaving soon. >> you know, they're moving right along. 25 miles an hour, so just in a blink of an eye they'll be gone. but it is leafingving a little on the roads. temperatures are below freezing north of the district, but if we look in parts of montgomery