street southeast. they were respond to go a shooting call when they found a man with a gun. the struggle between the officer and the man led to the man's shooting. the man's details have not been released. london, raids have been taking place. boris johnson visits the u.n. he is that country's foreign minister. he's been called the donald trump of britain. there are a lot of new developments since the story broke. let's check in with erika gonzalez at the live desk following all of them. >> eun, good morning. an early start in london. they had a news conference, as a matter of fact, a few memberships ago. after conducting multiple searches, this is what police know. british police arrested seven people in connection with the attacks in london. however, police believe the main attacker acted alone and that yesterday's events were inspired by international terrorism. four people have

the attacker, and seven people are in critical condition after an suv slammed into a crowd of people in westminster bridge and a man with a knife attacked a police officer outside of parliament. >> we must not allow terrorists to sew discourse in our city. >> prime minister theresa may may condemn this as a sick and depraved terrorist attack. president donald trump was among the world leaders offering condolences. the countdown is on for house republicans to strike a deal on a new healthing care plan. the vote is expected to happen later tonight on capitol hill. the big concern now is whether the american health care plan has enough support to pass. house republicans are making big last minute changes to the bill. some lawmakers are lobbying president trump and the white house to change regulations that would be imposed on insurance companies. the president will meet with the conservative freedom caucus this morning to hammer out

at least 28 republicans are leaning towards voting no on this plan. coming up, we will sloo look into the blockbuster claim from the house intelligence committee chairman. he says trump's transition team and possibly president trump himself were inadvertently surveilled following the election. former president barack obama is reaching his first post presidential milestone here in d.c. starting tomorrow, his portrait will be included in the national port ral rat gallery iconic exhibit america's presidents. this is the only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the white house. each one is so different. i can't wait to see what his looks like. today, metro's full board is set to vote on a plan that would increase fares and cut service. if approved, if you need to hop on a bus, you'll pay an extra 25 cents. metrorail will c

10 cents during peak hours and 25 cents more during offpeak hours. there will likely be longer wait times for traines and some bus routes will be cut altogether. this plan is to help metro close a nearly $300 million budget gap. new fares will take place in july. celebrating for team usa. erika gonzalez is at the live desk with that big win. how cool is that? >> let's just say we are glad we weren't up late watching this. the world baseball classic is finally over and team usa are the champions. >> daranado has got it and the u.s. win tess wbc title. >> they beat undefeated puerto rico 8-0. the game was played on the west on coast and ended at 1:00 in the morning. this is the first time, as a matter of fact, usa was in the final and it's their first championship, too. opening day, less than two weeks

april 3rd against the marlins. >> i can't wait for that. erika, thanks so much. the cherry blossoms that survived last week's cold and snow are now getting ready to bloom. >> now they just have to make it through today's cold blast. the national parks service recently tweeted the ashino blossoms have reached the fifth of sixth blooming stages. the park service expects the tree toes reach their peak bloom this weekend. keep an eye out. it's now 4:34. we want to get another check your roads and traffic. >> let's keep an eye on the roads -- the rails, maybe? i will be. i will be watching the rails. >> so let's go to chuck and sheena. how about these blossoms. what do you think the with weather is going to do for them? >> it's too bad we can't cover them with something like you can a potted plant outside your house. just

trees. >> yeah. but if they've made it to today, i think the strongest ones down there are going to be just fine. >> and this morning, temperatures are the coldest until around sunrise. this is what it feels like outside. it feels like the 20s, 25 degrees. that's what it feels like in the district. 23 in frederick. if you're in lorton, it feels like 28 degrees. if you're about to step outside, you want the very warm jacket right now and you may want it this afternoon. but we're going to have plenty of sunshine with temperatures close to 50. look at how long the temperatures are expected to remain in the 20s and slowly getting up to nearly 40 degrees by lunchtime. so it is going to be a cold first half of the take. let's take a look at the rest of today's planner and a sneak peek at the weekend. good morning, chuck. >> outside, if you're going to be doing anything outside as sheena mentioned, absolutely have your winter coat on. later today, afternoon temperatures today, back up near 50 degrees. so about the same

afternoon but without that fierce wind. you had to stay on the sunny side of the street yesterday if you were out walking around like i was. because otherwise, on the shady side, it was cold. as you get into friday, a lot more cloud cover coming in and there may be a sprinkle, but rain is not going to interrupt any of your outdoor plans tomorrow, particularly tomorrow afternoon and evening. looking very nice. and saturday, near perfect weather coming our way. it will be, indeed, a pleasant start to the weekend. what about temperatures? how about 76 degrees on saturday. at all bring those cherry blossoms up to full bloom, i suspect. and sunday, we're a little more optimistic now that any sunday rain chances now coming in. so much later, melissa, it might even be after sunset. >> that would be nice. we have flag football for the first time on sunday and we don't need any rain. taking a look, inner loop and outer loop of the beltway. that earlier problem has cleared out of the way. 66 here coming into town from

beltway. you're on time there. listen to wtop 103.5 fm when you hop into your car this morning for the latest on any traffic trouble owes your commute to school or work. 95 rolling along just fine. bottom of the beltway, no issues there. as far as travel times, everything nice and clear. aaron. >> na his sa, thank you. days after some electronics were restricted on certain flights, we're learning the reason behind the ban. the two terror networks that may be working together. it's the move that created a lot of flack surrounding fafsa. why officials say they were forced to remove a tool that makes applying for financial aid easier. and on the scale of one to you can't predict the market. and on the scale of one to but through good times and bad... ...at t. rowe price... ...we've helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. call us or your advisor. t. rowe price. invest with confidence.

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center filed their own lawsuit against the county. we've learned new information about that electronics ban. >> a senior law enforcement official tells nbc news isis may be getting help from al qaeda. it was ordered after intelligence officials found out that isis operatives wanted to plant explosives inside laptops and other dweess. last year, a similar style attack blew a hole in a plane over somalia. >> what you have is two different groups that compete with each other, but both of which have the same mission, to shock the world by bringing down an international airliner. >> britain has joined the u.s. and is telling passengers at some middle eastern airports to check their laptops or tablets. we are off to a cold start today. i cannot wait, sheena. >> we're talking about the 70s as we go into the weekend. not now, though. right now, you need a very warm jacket. 'r

outside, but it's all going to go uphill from here. so that's the good news. coming up, chuck and i are back with a closer look at the warm-up. and another blockbuster claim when it comes to wiretapping and president trump. and students on edge after a fellow classmate was raped in a school bathroom. the threat made on the heels of this disturbing

sglooe good morning, everybody. it's 44:44. temperatures are cold everywhere. but this might be the last morning you need your coat. i'll give you the whole ten-day forecast coming up in just a few minutes. don't go away. new details about how police nabbed three men accused of breaking i

several area gun stores. and a plane for metro users. why walk on the left, stand on the right could become a thing of the past. new claims this morning that there was some sort of surveillance on the trump transition team. >> news 4's tracie potts is here with details on this latest bombshell. >> good morning, guys. here is what happened. the head of the intelligence committee went to the white house, didn't go to his own committee, to tell president trump that there seemed to be some evidence that members of his transition team, there was information collected on them. some communications were intercepted after mostly the election. this move by devin nunes missed a lot of people on his committee, including the top democrat who said he thought that it was inappropriate for him to go brief the white house on something like this without briefing his own committee. nunes says this information was incidentally collected as part of survenc

at all to do with russia or the russia investigation and he pointed out that it was collected legally. but he said there were questions about whether it was appropriate and he didn't elaborate on what that means. president trump says he was somewhat vindicated by all of this, but democrats and others like john mccain who said it was bizarre, the sort of insiding going on within their committee with one not talking to the other. and then the top democrat on the committee came out and told "meet the press daily" that he now thinks there's more than circumstantial evidence that there was collusion going on between trump transition members and representatives from russia. it's all still playing out. we'll stay on top of it for you. >> tracie potts live on capitol hill, thank you. 4:46 right mow. montgomery county is now at the center of a nationwide debate on immigration and students seem to be caught in the middle. parents are now questioning the school system's ability to keep their kids safe after

a bomb threat. the threat happened yesterday. the caller said they would the bomb the school and shoot, quote, illegals. this comes after the rape of a 14-year-old girl inside rockville high school last week. one of the suspects is an undocumented im grant. we spoke with a senior at the school who admitted girls don't always feel safe in the hallways. >> they -- i mean, girls don't like the attention they get necessarily always, so -- i mean, i don't think they're scared because they see how much our school is trying to do now to prevent this from happening in the future. coming up, we'll tell you the restrictions rockville high school is now placing on students to make sure they stay safe. most of us shop online and pick restaurants based on star ratings or reviews, so why not schools? according to "the washington post," the d.c. state board of education approved a five-star rating plan last night. it would allow parents to see how well their child's public school stacks up to

the ratings would be based on things like test scores and attendance. but a lot of school districts, you can't really choose your school. it depends on where you live. we are learning more about how police track down a plan accused on of police carrizing several gun stores. surveillance video shows what happened during the break-ins. three suspects appeared in court yesterday. the atf says a fourth suspect helped lead agents to the other three. dozens of guns were stolen, but so far only one has been recovered. prosecutors are not yet saying if a break-in at united guns in rockville, maryland, is corrected to the three in northern virginia. today, a police officer who died her first day on the job will be honored. officer ashley gwendon's family will be there to accept the award on her behalf. she was shot and killed last year

violence call. two other officers were hurt in what shooting. they will be honored today, as well. officer ricardo biddy is in the business of saving lives, but recently he needed someone to save him. during a recent chat, biddy didn't seem like himself and martin, who was an emt, could sense something was wrong. he called 911 and rushed to biddy's home. biddy was unconscious in his prince george's county police cruiser suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. at an awards ceremony yesterday, he said their bond is even stronger now. >> to say that, you know, your best friend, you know, came to your aid and saved your life is -- it's remarkable. and, you know, i'll be forever grateful to him. >> what an incredible story.. and just to have the presence of mind and the training to sense that something was wrong and go into action. it really probably saved his life. >> very fortunate. 4:50 is our t

chuck bell is here with us. it's freezing outside. >> it is freezing outside. >> these cold days are numbered, right.? >> our average last freeze in washington is right towards the end of march. so technically if this was our last freeze, it would be a little early for a final freeze. does that make you feel better? >> no. >> that's in d.c. dulles airport, the average last freeze is closer to april 7th. get away from the urban heat island and it's a little later. the robe it feels so cold late in the year is we've already had our first 80 degree day and we've been in the 70s ten times. so it was the warm february that the got everybody thrown off schedule. outside for today, we will not hardly even see a cloud today. high pressure has blown all the moisture away. it's also responsible for this bitter cold start here this morning with everywhere below freezing. but this big, red line on the map out near st. louis, that is the warm

tomorrow. so this is the last of the real cold for quite some time. i can't say it's our final freeze, but it very well might be. at least inside the city. for today, there's future weather. not a cloud in the sky all day today. a few high clouds moving in as we get towards sun rooiz time for tomorrow. then the during the morning hours tomorrow, as the warm front comes on through, it will bring a lot of clouds with it and it might ring out a stray little rain drop or two during the first half of the day tomorrow. but by 1:00 tomorrow afternoon, everything is back to being dry and the skies will be partly sunny with a clearing trend as we go through the day toll. then clear skies friday night into early saturday. saturday, partly cloudy and maybe mostly cloudy, but way warler. right now, though, it is cold. 32 at national airport, but it feels like it's in the mid 20s. feels like temperatures are even colder than that out towards the shennendoah valley. upper highs today, with uer

without the wind, it will feel a lot better than yesterday. as far as blossom viewing for very, a lot of clouds, maybe a sprinkle, but not a bad day to go down to the basin. near perfect coming up on saturday. nice and warm. and with some 0 plus degree weather coming up on saturday, that i think will bring the blossoms to fruition and we will get to hopefully look at them for quite some time. you'll notice, melissa, we moved a lot of those numbers up for next week. now it looks like in the upper 60s to noer 70 for many days. >> i like that. that changes the dress opportunity for us, chuck. i don't think you're concerned about that, but -- >> do you want me to wear a dress? taking a look here top of the beltway, everything looks good here. no major problems top of the beltway the bottom of the beltway, beltway at branch avenue is rolling along jus

taking a look here at 270 from frederickstown, spurrier, 27 minutes inbound .if you're headed outbound for some reason, that's going to be nice and light, as well. eun. >> now i have this image of chuck in a dress. okay. you'll be able to take the new escalator the next time you use the bethesda metro station. but that's not what has people talking on our facebook page. metro's general manager suggested the riders were hurting the escalator by violeting the travel etiquette. >> we do not promote, obviously, the walking on the left. it does -- these are very sensitive pieces of equipment and you can imagine this one almost ten stories how that can impact it. >> so the problem is metro does promote it and you can imagine people on social media are

we've seen a lot of people tweeting screen shots of the policy. others on are commenting on facebook that it's crazy to stand on the left. one man writing, people are going to mow you down. we've reached out to metro for clarification, but we haven't heard back. but it makes sense when you're on an escalator, if everyone is standing the weight or the balance -- >> and it also makes sense that you just ride the escalator as opposed to walking. >> this is washington, d.c. you know no one is going to -- >> you're right. but there's your controversy. later today, we could learn how much you pay to use metro and whether or not it will go up. >> what's expected to happen in just a few hours. a follow up on a story we first brought you earlier this week impacting a lot of parents and college students. the crime officials say is bhooint behind the recent change when it comes to applying for student aid. and ahead at 5:00, we're

some of d.c.'s best and brightest students just received a surprise of a lifetime. dunbar lifetime senior michael degaga now has a full ride offer to attend george washington university. he is one of top ten d.c. students across theit

hand delivered acceptance letters and scholarships. he was born and raised in ethiopia. michael says he could have never imagined this opportunity. i knew from the moment that i wanted to go to college that i had to find a way to pay for it, school, and that it's really expensive and nobody in my family can do that for me. >> michael is on track to become dunbar's class valedictorian and wants to study mechanical engineering. he's applied to several schools, but this scholarship probably makes his choice a little easier the. >> yeah. >> a full ride. by the way, george washington university one of the most expensive schools in the nation. >> and one of the best. >> congratulations. only on news 4, new developments about a vital change for students applying for college aid. >> we told you how the irs removed a key tool as part of the online free.application for federal student aid, the fafsa. that the was a result of

without warning, march 3rd, the irs removed the data retrieval tool link off the free application for federal student aid's website, also known as fafsa. the data retrieval tool allows students to automatically download their tax returned information, including their parents. the irs called this a precautionary step following concerns that information from that tool could be potentially misused by identity thieves. the irs told us it saw things that were suspicious, but would not say exactly what that means nor would they confirm whether this was an actual breach. the irs believes the issue is relatively isolated. meantime, financial aid expert say getting this tool back up and running is vital to millions of students who are depending on federal financial aid. >> this will affect anybody who completes a fafsa, even though returning students, because you have to fill out a fafsa every single year. so, of course, it will affect them.

>> now, while the irs will not tell us what specific criminal activity occurred, news 4 has confirmed that several leaders of the senate and house education committee has requested a briefing with the department of education about this outage. back to you. "news 4 today" starts now. it is 5:00 a.m. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. what do you like to call thursday? little friday? >> friday eve. >> something like that. >> rt mrp. >> metrorail juopened up. >> you still call it little friday even though you weren't here monday or tuesday? >> it's still friday, chuck. i can't change -- little friday, excuse me. now we're just confusing poem. chuck opened that door and we walked right through it. >> fair enough. for the rest of us that have been here all week, it is thursday. good morning. >> good morning, chuck.