easter weekend. the forecast is looking really nice. i want it to get warm. i'm waiting. >> i think we might have the answer in the storm team 4 weather center with tom kierein. patience is a virtue, molette. hang in there. we'll get sunshine hanging on into the afternoon. right now, cloudy and cool in the 50s just about everywhere. way off in the horizon, a live view from the reston camera, you can see the sunshine way off in the shenandoah valley with temperatures in the mid-50s. under the cloud cover, we're in the 50s. reagan national at 57 degrees. hour by hour with the sunshine breaking out by noontime, we aught to stay in the near 50s and will rise to the lower 70s. we'll see a chance for a shower mainly south of the metro area, and a small chance at that. then mild andry

by mid-evening with clouds coming and going. summer-like weather is on the way. that's coming up in a few minutes. tom, thank you so much. now to a developing story out of virginia, portsmouth police say two little boys at the center of an amber alert have been found safe and unharmed after their own mother abducted them. portsmouth police say the mother, asia jarvis, threatened to shoot her sons, dominique and messiah, if she didn't get money from their father. according to the station, jarvis dropped off the boys with a family member around midnight this morning before driving off. call police if you know where she is. this morning the family of a fairfax county woman is trying to cope with her devastating loss. a man hit her with her car and turned around to hit her again. this happened at route 50 at rugby road. this is the scene

chopper down there. maria's daughter says her mom was on a walk when the 75-year-old was shot and killed. they arrested this man inside a fitness center at a nearby shopping center after they allegedly robbed and assaulted another woman there. ascencio was described as an incredible mother. d.c. police are looking into a double shooting where families call home. two men were shot at the village parkland apartments on stat stanton road in southeast. we are told bullets hit both men multiple times. no word yet on any suspects. and all things metro moving over to the green line. green track 14 work gets underway today. we are live with more on what you need to know before heading to the train today. derek ward has more. hey, derrick. >> reporteec

that, take a look at what the scene is here. you notice people in the yellow jackets. these folks are waiting for shuttle buses. that is going to be the way to get to these stations that are affected by the surge. take a look at the map. now, this surge affects the green line, like the northeastern tip of the green line between the green belt and prince george's. the greenbelt near the college park stations are closed. they are suggesting passengers do this like new carollton. if you are going downtown, you may want to consider taking mark, they are using extra trains to get you to greenville and the college park

also the university of maryland shuttles are beefing up as well. take care of the excess ridership. but there are more shuttle buses on the roads as well. so that will mean it will be issues for traffic around here, but that's the way of the surge. it ends on april 29th. derrick ward, nbc4 news. the days of free parking along the national mall are over. starting next month, parking meters will be installed near the mall. the title basin and in some parking lots in east potomac park. it will cost $2 to park. don't expect to get weekends for free either. the meters will be in effect seven days a week from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. this is going to start in june. this is to enhance the visitor

we're going to use it to pay for the national park service circulator of the national mall route. >> the national mall service says it is hoping to increase turnover in the areas and encourage people to use public transportation. a blood drive is being held today in honor of the fallen firefighter known as john ulmschneider. the american red cross is hosting the blood drive at maranatha fellowship at 9:30 this morning until 3:00 this afternoon. meantime, the man who shot and killed him along with wounding another firefighter was sentenced to four years in jail. he said he was having a diabetic emergency when diabetics forced their way into his home. his attorney had this to say after the sentencing. >> he certainly wants the community to know that that was something he did not intend and quite frankly he was

mental capacity. >> lumpkin will serve time for the gun he used but not for killing the firefighter. and today in more than 180 cities across the country, activists are calling for president trump to release his tax returns. one of the cities is d.c. this is a look at the march route. organizers say they hope to send the message of transparency to the president. >> to the administration looking out for the american people, the only way to know that is to understand who he's beholden and how he earns his living. >> supporters of the tax march promoting the demonstration with the inflatable 13-foot tax march chicken. the presidents don't have to release their tax returns, but since the 1970s, all of them have. president trump won't release his because he's being audited. and a church vandalized this past week will hold a vigil tonight and you're welcome to attend. this weekend volunteers hoped to clean up and erase

the little rufr univer united c of christ. the same thing happened down the road when the vandal targeted the jewish community center in northern virginia. at 7:30 tonight, they are holding a vigil to bring together different faiths. and on wednesday of this past week, we reported that a 20-year-old man was arrested in connection with the hate crimes. if you're headed out to six flags this holiday weekend, don't expect to ride the joker's jinx roller coaster. investigators are looking to see what caused it to get stuck this wednesday. two dozen people had to be rescued from the ride. no one was hurt, but it took three hours to get all the folks down. last month the ride was inspected and had no violations, but it was cited for three areas of improvement. and later certified as okay. the coaster will stay closed until further notice. panic at penn station. look at this video right here. we're going to tell you about the spark that led to a

of people while passengers duck for cover and rush to escape. a somber remembrance. how virginia tech is pausing this weekend to reflect and remember tho lost. se

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panic at penn station. a chaotic scene broke out last night after people used a taser on a man inside the station. many thought they heard a gunshot and scrambled for the exit. 16 people were hurt during the stampede. this happened during the new jersey transit train got stuck in a hudson river tunnel for hours. no word on what caused the train to get stuck. from trains to planes, you may want to give up your airplane seat if you fly delta. so the airline says it will let emee

$10,000 to give up a seat on overbooked flights. yes, that's a lot of money. all of this in reaction to the backlash united received after a man was dragged off a flight. i bet a lot of you saw that video on social media. united said it is reviewing its compensation policies but now require employees to book flights at least one hour ahead of departure. take a look at this wicked weather. you can see it there. this is yesterday about an hour outside of amarillo, texas. the castro county sheriff's office says the whipping winds and heavy rain caused flooding, downed power lines. only two buildings were damaged. thankfully, no injuries reported. but forecasters say it appears one super cell managed to produce at least six significant tornadoes. we'll bring you closer to home now and take you outside for a live look. allergies might be hitting you hard today. we've got tom tracking why you're getting slammed with

some relief. and a new show of force for north korea. the military display and why the

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counts mostly in the oak tree pollen in place today and tomorrow. first part of the week, it's a good day to get out to exercise if you don't suffer from allergies. we'll have temperatures in the upper 60s to near 70s. mid-70s mid-afternoon with sunshine breaking out. maybe an isolated thundershower later in the afternoon. i have new hour-by-hour timing in the first couple of minutes. we'll take you to north korea right now where they held a massive parade today to honor the birthday of its late founding father kim il-song. it featured an array of missiles and other weapons including several prototypes of several intercontinental ballistic missiles. one of the missiles had never been seen before today. kim john you cng-un watched fro podium. hi accused president trump of pushing the world to nuclear war. and threats have been flying back and forth. u.s. intelligence officials don't think the north has

the u.s., but cyber is a different story. >> the case of north korea is a kinetic threat against the united states, but likely a cyber threat. so we would raise various threat levels in the event that something happened and we felt as though it was a possible threat. you always want to caution on the side of caution. >> you can watch the entire exclusive interview tomorrow on "meet the press" with chuck todd. jack reid and john mccain will also be on the show. and today marnks four years since the boston marathon bombing. three people were killed and more than 260 others were hurt. this comes a few days before this year's annual race. right now security prep is underway in the city to prepare for the big event. the fbi, state and local police are all working to keep you safe. boston' m

prepared for any situation, but they are reassuring people there there are not credible threats. and molette, the weekend marks ten years since the virginia tech mass shooting. the remembrance event happening today at 10:00 this morning, there will be a run to honor the shooting victims followed by a community picnic. then at 1:00 this afternoon, the first responders will be recognized at the virginia tech baseball game. our coverage this morning begins with aaron gilchrist for what was an emotional conversation about that tragic day. >> we talk about going into the classrooms where bodies were laying on the floor. and everybody's cell phone was just ringing over and over again because parents had seen on tv there was a shooting on virginia tech and they wanted to see if their kid was safe. >> reporter: senator tim kaine fought back tears has he talked to first

the scene from virginia tech back in 2007. >> every hospital was full of the injured and so we spent a couple days going around and talking to some of these kids. >> reporter: on what kaine calls the worst day of his life, he was in japan on a business trip asleep when the shooting started a world away. >> ron, who was the head of the security detail for the governor said, hey, you got to call back home. there's been a horrible shooting. it was still ongoing. >> reporter: first in a dorm room, then now in the infamous norris hall. a gunman brought chaos and carnage to southwest virginia. when it was all dofr, 32 students and faculty were watching now. the gunman killed himself and the entire community was left in inexplicable grief and shock. >> we were with the family members who lost loved ones and there were incredibly, painful, raw interactions but it formed a bond. >> reporter: kaine and h

visited the injured with moments of tears. and he held an unscripted and raw moment at the campus. >> i was told by some, disappoint appoint a panel, because if they lay out what happened, it will be a blueprint for a lawsuit against the state. and i said, i don't care about the lawsuit. i mean, if we can do nothing else for these families other than learn from it, we aught to do just that. >> reporter: the panel came back with a critical report from colleges, law enforcement, mental health providers and lawmakers. they resulted in changes in a lot of areas, but kaine still regrets not getting the legislature to embrace background universal checks for buying guns. >> i don't know how much it is going to take before you wake up and say, we can reduce this. >> reporter: and now, ten years later, kaine speaks of the dead and surviving like family

members and still keeps in touch with the injured and families of people who died. >> there's a daughter of one of the professors who was killed that i have, you know, over time sat down to get advice from and referenced. >> reporter: relationships born out of tragedy for one man, a driving force to keep working with the virginia tech 32 and to keep their memory alive. on capitol hill, aaron gilchrist, news4. >> a powerful story. our coverage of the remembrances at virginia tech continue all weekend. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey is headed down to blacksburg to join us live at 9:00 tomorrow morning for a wreath-laying ceremony and a moment of silence on campus. and switching gears, we'll get to the weather forecast. heating things up, summer-like tomorrow. >> yeah, indeed. but this morning you need a jacket and it is cool and cloudy. but tomorrow, shorts and flip-flops, you'll feel like a

saturday morning, gray sky and we are going green. all the trees you see there near the capital and everything around the region going green quickly on this april morning, mid-april. there's the gray skies over this with our tower camera from upper northwest. temperatures right now are climbing, into the upper 50s to near 60 degrees in parts of the region. leesburg, 59. so is frederick. and sunshine in the mountains, but still a lot of clouds east of the blue ridge and east of the mountains to the bay. but they should be breaking up in another few hours. scanning the clouds, no rain here locally, just a few sprinkles south of cambridge and then as of 3:00 p.m., we have a few isolated showers or thundershowers popping up in the shenandoah valley. then after that, they get closer to the metro area around 6:00 p.m. with a few passing

showers with brief rumbles of thunder coming through between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. that may interrupt the nationals game. after that, we'll move into southern maryland with a few showers. no severe storms. then we'll get the cloud cover in and out overnight tonight. there at nats park, first pitch is 1:05 taking on the phillies. temperatures should be up near 70 by then and partly cloudy. partly sunny, 3:00 p.m. then after that, toward the end of the game, it may be interrupted by a passing shower or thundershower in the mid-70s. then summer-like weather for easter sunday back into the mid-80s in the afternoon. and we'll be in the 60s in the morning for easter egg hunting. it's going to be comfortably cool with sunshine and dry conditions. and then in the afternoon, like summertime, then back to work and school on monday. maybe some sprinkles in the morning. sun back in the afternoon into the mid-70s. a bit cooler tuesday. and then wednesday, some much-needed rain coming in. we are in a drought. we could use it and it will help to wash someth

after that, we'll be likely dry on thursday, maybe a few more sprinkles on friday. and then next weekend, that following sunday. that's the way it looks. the cherry blossom festival coming to an end. we'll tell you about the finale tonight and what you're at perdue, we take some unexpected extra steps to raise healthy chickens with no antibiotics ever. like putting oregano in their water. it has natural antioxidants and we don't have to use antibiotics in their diet. perdue. over 200 products no antibiotics ever.

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"saturday night live" and harry stiles is the guest host. this will be fallon's third time since ending his run as a cast member back in 2004. and saturday's show will be the first of the "snl" episodes airing live coast to coast. watch it right here after news4 at 11:00. >> despite being here early tomorrow morning, i have to watch that, especially with all the news this week. let's move on to cherry blossoms here, but they are gone. you can still celebrate the cherry blossom festival today. >> yes, it's the finale of the annual festival. springtime celebrations are going to wrap up with firework festivals at the southwest waterfront. it gets underway at 2:00 with beer and cider, music, food trucks, all of that. the fireworks will go up sometime between

and we have to go figure out what that is. we're talking about the heat moving on in for the holiday weekend. we'll tell you how tom is tracking what to wear. and we'll tell you what to expect. and then we're following this developing story right now, the military called it the mother of all bombs. what a new report is uncovering about who was actually killed in thisttack. a

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9:00 on this saturday morning. if you rely on the green line to get around, listen up. metro safetrack surge number 14 underway starting today. the first phase will run until april 29th. the greenbelt and college park stations will be closed during maintenance work with shuttle buses replacing the trains. organizers of the tax march on d.c. are urging president trump to release his tax returns. demonstrators will be marching on the national mall starting at noon today. supporters promoted the rally with an inflatable 13-foot tax march chicken. and now to north korea with a massive parade being honored for the late founding father kim il-song. and they debuted several of their