concerned. >> dr. jack smith is the superintendent of montgomery county schools. he says this assault should not become a political issue. >> while someone tried to make this into a question and issue of immigration, what comes down here is that we serve every student that walks in our door. we are a public school system. >> coming up at 5:00 we'll tell you how officials plan to make the area of the assault safer. and a person is dead after being found unresponsive. they found the person inside a home yesterday afternoon. you can see from this video that by nighttime police had that neighborhood blocked off with crime tape. right now this is being called a death investigation. they have not said whether the person is a man or a woman. we start the morning with details on a new missile launch in north korea. erika gonzalez is athe

desk. >> u.s. and south korean officials say the launch failed almost immediately. this is a day after the north warned of a pre-emptive strike over a test over the weekend. this video we're showing you is of a recent launch. andrea mitchell asked secretary of state rex tillerson if he thought the threat of pre-emptive military action represents dangerous escalation, tillerson said, no comment today. back to you. today president trump will meet with maryland congressman anthony brown and other members of the congressional black caucuses executive committee. they hope to discuss several issues with the president including historically black colleges and universities and health care. and time is running out for republicans trying to secure votes for the replacement of the affordable care act. the house votes on that issue tomorrow. the president is already warning republicans they could lose re-election if they

for the american health care act. we'll take a closer look the chances the bill will pass in just a few minutes. round two for neil gorsuch. he will be on capitol hill where senators will get another chance to question him. yesterday gorsuch stressed his independence from mr. trump and said quote, when anyone criticized the honesty or integrity or the motives of a federal judge i find that disheartening. public witnesses are expected to testify tomorrow. today the board that oversees reagan national airport will get a closer look at some major construction plans. these plans are expected to change how you use the airport. the biggest change would be new security check points outside the metro station. that would mean the main hall that is now open to everyone would be a part of the secured area. if all goes as planned the new check points would be open by 2020. a separate multimillion dollar jet concourse is also slated for construction and would open after the security changes. well, they are the second

western hemisphere and today all five at the bethesda metro station have been replaced. the official ceremony and ribbon cutting doesn't happen until 3:00 this afternoon. the bethesda project has been going on for nearly three years and cost more than $8 million. today is an important deadline in this year's marine corps marathon. the lottery for the race opens today. you'll find out on march 30th whether you're selected. the registration fee is $160. you don't have to pay until you're selected and then registered. this is the 42nd year for the marine corps marathon. the race is on sunday, october 22nd and nbc 4 is a proud partner of the race. >> that means you'll see the big peacock out on the race at some point. >> i'm more likely to be on the race. >> the peacock is at mile four. you should come out. >> are you running it this year, chuck? >> i will do something,

quite been able to finish the race because apparently the aging process is a real thing, but i've done 18 miles the last two years but i haven't been able to do the whole thing. >> just be happy you're not in the peacock costume. i've heard it doesn't smell good on the inside. that's what i heard. >> i don't think the people in the peacock thing smell that good either. >> not by the end of it, no. >> this morning it's a topsy turvy weather world. temperatures are 60 degrees now. it will be nowhere near that -- talk about things that aren't working right. there's me on the top of that list. temperatures are not as cold as we thought they were going to be this morning. there are a few little rain drops down here, but you should be preparing for the cold because the number one thing you need to know about the weather, don't be fooled. there's a hard freeze in store for tonight. but we're still all optimism about saturday. for more about the confusing day today let's go t

i think once people actually head outside and get their day going you will start to notice that the colder air is moving in. right now though, it is still 57 degrees outside. so it's mild this morning. obviously you don't need a very warm jacket right now but as we go through the morning hours once the sun comes up it will be getting colder. the winds will be picking up too, so we have a cold front that is trying to move into the area currently and it will be moving through as we go through the day today and that cold air is going to get here by noon. 44 degrees, we'll be staying in the mid-40s as we go through the afternoon. so as you see, we do plan on getting colder as we go through the day today. it will be windy but nice and dry. chuck and i will be back with a closer look at the forecast and a warmer weekend ahead. let's check the roads now this morning. >> i like the idea of a warmer weekend for sure. rock creek parkway here north of virginia avenue, still have that work zone hanging around. this is the one that loves to bother us in the morning. left lane getting

work there in each direction. now, taking a look here 66 east of 28. you can see that looks just fine there in the centerville area. bottom of the beltway everything is rolling along just fine there as well. no major issues but remember on the beltway outer loop near route 1 college park, right lane getting by that bridge work here this morning. rest of the beltway looking nice and clear. we'll take a live look at 270 coming up. a man accused of groping a woman at a metro station. who police want you to be on the lookout for this morning. >> and a story that has a lot of buzz in our facebook and twitter pages. the location wegman's may be considering for a new store. >> have you noticed lower prices lately? ene new trds that could be

welcome back. at 4:39, if you take metro's orange line take a good look at this picture. this man, police say he's wanted for groebing someone during the height of the monday evening commute. investigators say it happened on the orange line near the clarendon station. the community is rallying behind a father who will lay to rest his girlfriend and two-year-old son later today. >> for t.j. henderson, preparing their funerals has been difficult. ebony lions and the couple's

this month. henderson works as a part-time tow truck driver in springfield, virginia. his bosses say it's been a heart breaking experience so they started raising money to help. >> it hurt me being in this house by myself, being in the same bed and seeing they toothbrushes and his last happy meal. >> they've raised more than $3,500 to help with funeral costs. if you would like to help we have a link to the go fund me page on our nbc washington app. just search tow truck driver. you may have seen this in your news feed. erika gonzalez is at the live desk to talk about how chuck barris has died. >> he's died at the age of 87. the gong show, the dating show, the newly wed game, he was behind them all. his publicist confirming the news that he died of natural causes late tuesday at his home in pal

back over to you. why some people in montgomery county are trying to keep a certain church out of their community. and call it a kind of beginner's luck. what a northern virginia woman has to thank after hitting the lottery big time. >> here's the thing, the kids may not need to wear their coat at the bus stop this morning but they'll be needing it by lunch time and coming home time. temperatures right now, it is 57 degrees in arlington. it's 27 in maryland out west. so plan on plummeting temperatures during the course of the day and a strong wind too. mo about there

good morning. it is kind of mild outside but you see there is a cold front on the way. that's going to be dropping temperatures as we go through the day, so before you leave, even though you might not need it now, grab the warm coat. you will want it later on this afternoon. windy and colder and we're talking about a big warmup for the weekend. chuck and i are back in just a bit with a closer look at that. president trump's health care plan on life support. the threat he's making to congress if they don't pass it. and attention shoppers. the area that could soon see its first wegmans. 16 before the hour right now and she was doing the same thing a lot of college students are doing this time of year, hanging out with friends during spring break. >> police say the 18-year-old was shot in a parking lot monday night in northeast d.c. hanging out with her friends. she was home from st. augustine university in north carolina and was watching a rap video being filmed when someone pulled out a gun and fired several shots. her loss is already

>> i just miss her warm smile, the close relationship that we had. >> this is the second homicide to affect this family. in an unrelated case, her cousin, carington carter was murdered four years outside of an apartment complex in capitol heights. both cases are unsolved. house republican leaders are racing against the clock to get the votes needed to pass their plan to replace the affordable care act. >> the house is scheduled to vote on that bill at some point tomorrow. tracie potts is live on capitol hill now. the latest nbc news count shows 27 house republicans either opposing or leaning no on this bill. is this vote going to happen tomorrow? >> reporter: the vote is going to happen but that 27 is a problem because if they all vote no, even if most of them vote no, this bill is dead in the water at least on the house side because they can only afford to lose 21 votes and have it move forward to the senate. w,

dozen people either saying no or leaning no are four area politicians from the eastern shore to central virginia. republicans who have said they don't want to support this plan. >> and tracie, former vice president joe biden is returning to capitol hill to rally with some democrats to save the affordable care act. this is in part to mark the 7th anniversary of the law. is that right. >> reporter: it's been seven years since the law passed and now obviously republicans are trying to repeal it, so vice president biden is coming back to rally with democrats. also democrats have what they call their own counting session where they sit down and try to figure out what the votes are for and against this republican plan and they're setting up what they call the facebook live war room. they're taking to social media today to try to get public support. all right. thank you. an altered headline is being

a fake news headline to attack his rifle. the conservative group took a real story and created a fake story that said he was okay with removing a statue of robert e. lee. neighbors are concerned about a new plan to relocate a megachurch. jesus house d.c. says it's outgrown its location. now they're trying to develop 15 acres. the plans call for a large church complex with a sanctuary big enough to seat 1,600 people. >> they want the church, they're talking about a playground, they're also talking about a ballfield, parking for all of those folks. it's going to be massive. >> now, some neighbors are also worried about the environmental impact of building this new church. jesus house d.c. leaders say that the

current rules and regulations and they've worked to minimize impact on the community. he was illegally strip searched by a laurel police officer. now a federal judge has awarded a d.c. man $125,000 for this incident. pt it happened back in 2014. allen was pulled over by an officer who forced the man to pull down his pants and underwear while standing in a cvs parking lot after a traffic stop. he was never under arrest and never charged with a crime. to this day, the department denies the strip search ever took place. the officer remains on the force and has been since promoted. people who saw this story on our facebook page are thrilled that wegmans may first have its first grocery store inside the beltway. developers are in talks to open a location in the northwest. it could take over the fanny mae

>> we could walk there. >> i'm going to get so fat. that area is set to be redeveloped. the developer told the journal that they do not have a deal the place just yet but would be happy if wegmans decided to move in. >> they're in listening mode. they want to hear what the community has to say before they announce that -- this huge thaem is going to be on board with the projeblgt. the company is also looking for new opportunities but does not comment on specific sites until it has negotiated a lease. plans to open a store at the former walter reed site fell through last year. >> our friends in virginia, you know who you are, they talk about wegmans like it's the second coming. >> have you been into one of these? >> no, i have to go. >> it's a little sensory overload. >> i really hope this happens. >> you can live in there. fredericksburg woman says she is in her words, still freaking out. >> and

she won $1 million playing the virginia lottery, but get this. she says she and her coworker decided to buy some lottery tickets after recently working an overnight shift. her friend wasn't sure how to play on the self-service machine so mary taught her. ju julie won $12. mary, $1 million. good karma. >> she is excited. look at that face. >> they're not sharing it? >> no, i don't think so. >> not this time. >> but aaron would definitely share his with me. >> it's 57 degrees outside our studio right now. >> you know what? it's mild outside right now. and when you walk outside, i didn't need a warm jacket but i brought one anyway because i know the temperatures are going to drop and they will as we go through the morning so i think by the time many of you walk out side you're going to notice the wind

temperatures are dropping. most of the area not seeing that just yet, but make sure you grab the warm coat because later on today you will notice the big change. tomorrow morning we're talking about the 20s and over the weekend, it will be warm but we do have some rain chances. right now 57 degrees. very mild but our winds are going to be bringing in that colder air. we have a cold front on the way and here's what the temperatures look like. hagerstown is 44 degrees but feels like 36 because of that wind. the rest of the area though, mostly in the 50s. 53 dulles. so if you're exercising today, keep in mind by 7:00 a.m. it's going to be colder outside. right around 40 degrees getting windy. you'll need the jacket by noon and by 5:00 p.m., windy with temperatures in the mid-40s. so there's that cold front moving right through hagerstown. you can even see some lake effect snow at the top of your screen. then we have some rain just south of mostly charles county but

south. . so we're on the mild side of this cold front right now but things are going to be changing soon. watch those temperatures drop by 10:00 a.m. today. we should be mostly in the 30s. and rebounding to about the mid-40s this afternoon. tomorrow morning though, look at these 20s. tomorrow morning is going to be cold and then we go into friday. that's our next rain chance in the morning hours so keep that in mind. saturday though looking nice and dry and also very warm. today though, 46 degrees. temperatures dropping through the day. windy and colder. 46 will be our afternoon temperature. right now weir at 57 but things will again be changing. then we go into tomorrow. that's going to be a cold day. look at the morning temperatures in the 20s. a chance of an early shower on friday but then we go into saturday. look at that, 76 degrees. looks really nice. let's check the roadways on this wednesday morning. >> good morning. so right now 270 at montrose road northbound, southbound we're rolling along here this morning. don't have any big problems there. overall the beltway is actually looking quite good.

and southbound, everything rolling along nicely there on 95. bottom of the beltway, no major problems there. everything is looking quite good there. outer loop at route 1, college park right lane was getting by, that has now cleared out of the way. see you back here in ten minutes. grocery shopping isn't always fun but chances are, you'll like what you see the next time you have to go. what could be behind lower prices. also next at 5:00, it's the project some metro users have been waiting years for and today several new escalators open at one station. why you won't be able to use them until the evening commute. >> and an area teenager raped in a school bathroom. your time is 4:53.

this might free up some time in your already hectic saturday. you'll soon be able to have costco items delivered right to your door. >> first wegmans and now this? i'm a happy girl. >> they're teaming up with a startup delivery service called shipt with a t. >> and a p. >> you're going to make me say the wrong thing. it will expand to 50 cities by the end of the year. right now sh

a year for unlimited grocery delivery. it's like burnt. it's not clear if that price will change since costco customers already pay a membership fee. >> you know what happens when you get back? >> no e-d on that. >> you remember that commercial about shipping pans and other items? >> yeah. things like home delivery are creating a new kind of shopping bargain. >> supermarket prices are down for the first time in half a century. check out these average prices from the federal government. everything from ground beef to cheddar cheese to a pound of tomatoes to a carton of eggs have seen prices drop. that is the result of new online competition and home delivery options from amazon, fresh and walmart. >> we're going to see more price wars than ever before, but that means smaller margins for the supermarket. >> if lower prices aren't enough for you to shop in person, some stores are also

side pickup for you as well. all this convenience to make our lives easier. >> 4:58 right now. >> criminals are running drugs through neighborhoods and using mailboxes to close the deal. >> the news 4 i-team discover how innocent homeowners may be at risk. >> reporter: drug deals happening in mailboxes. we'll show a surge of cases of people trying to deal drugs, marijuana included, by mail. the feds have seized more than 100 suspicious parcells from local post offices just since october according to our investigation. nationwide they've retrieved nearly 35,000 pounds of marijuana from the mail. drug dealers think this is an increasingly safer way to deal. >> i think that they view this as a -- as safer as far as there's less of a chance of getting caught because they don't

quite as long. >> reporter: but it's often innocent homeowners who are victims of all this and on the receiving end of some of these packages. we'll explain why as part of our full investigation of marijuana by mail later tonight. it is just about 5:00 a.m. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. >> a check on the roads with melissa in just a second but first we'll go to chuck and sheena and talk about this warm, cooling day. >> it's an upside down forecast kind of day today. temperatures are as mild now as we're going to be for the remainder of the day. a little surprising how warm we've stayed during the overnight hours. >> the cold front hasn't moved through yet. but it's on its way. we have faith. >> yeah, don't worry, everybody. eventually, this will work. temperatures will be falling laten

the afternoon. so you may look a little crazy going out the door this morning with your heavy winter coat but you'll be happy you have it later on. right now the last of a little rain drops across far southern maryland. if it's not raining at your house now it probably won't be. today it's all about the tumbling temperatures but as we head toward the weekend, since that's the most important part of any forecast, especially on hump day, how about mid 70s on saturday and a rain chance on the second half of the day on sunday. that's the easy part of the forecast. for the tough part let's go over to sheena. >> we are going to see these temperatures dropping because that cold front has to move through the area and it already has movered through part of the area. hagerstown now 40 degrees. so hagerstown is dropping. feels like the 30s there. the winds are picking up making it feel colder. frederick is at 50. so that cold front right on the doorstep of frederick. we'll be getting colder there soon. gaithersburg at 46 but it will be getting