investigators say geda first exposed himself to children playing on this playground. not long after police say he tried to lure two boys just 8 and 9 years old to his apartment by offering them food and drinks. then investigators say he grabbed their wrists but the boys manage to break-free and run for help. geda told police he wanted the boys to play in an apartment. it's an incident that concerns many neighbors but at least for now, geda is behind bars and being held without bond. >> reporter: they are very concerned that there are more victims out there so they're asking parents to have a conversation with their children and if they see anything or feel like there's something suspicious and they might've interactions with him contact police right away. >> thank you. >> it is one of the biggest construction projects in our region causing a lot of traffic delays in the center of washington, d.c. now we know a big change will ease some of that congestion and

make it easier for thousands of commuters to get from downtown d.c. to northern virginia on 395. as mark segraves depending on the direction you're driving, getting out of town actually may be more difficult. >> reporter: this is how traffic along massachusetts avenue between the convention center and union station has been moving along for nearly the past two years. $2 billion capital crossing construction project over 395 has created some traffic issues along this stretch. >> it's caused delays. we've been concerned about people being able to safely get from one sidewalk to the next. >> reporter: starting on saturday, drivers heading out of town on mass avenue will get a break. this new ramp will open carrying eastbound traffic directly on to 395 southbound making it easier for cars to get from the center downtown to north virginia or the southwest waterfront. the current detour down to the

>> we expect it's going to relieve some traffic in the downtown area during major events and rush hour. you'll see a lot of congestion in this area. we think there's also going to be good improvements to the bus service. there's been some time delays over the past year and a half as this construction work has been going on and we want to see the metrobus i am prove. >> the new ramp will help eastbound traffic. cars traveling westbound on mass avenue and h street will no longer be able to access 395 at third street. drivers will either have to get on 395 earlier at the new york avenue ramp or cut through the neighborhood off mass avenue to d street. >> people are going to have to make some adjustments that's only reasonable. >> reporter: so everything changes down here on saturday and while eastbound traffic on massachusetts avenue trying to get out of town will find it much e

all of this traffic going westbound on massachusetts avenue and coming off of h street will have to find a new way to get on to the freeway. in downtown washington, mark segraves, news4. >> maryland governor says the federal government should step up and pay more to fund metro. and he made those remarks on the same day that metro is trying to figure out how to secure dedicated funding for the system. maryland pays more into metro than any other entity including virginia, d.c. and the federal government. he talks about this with transportation secretary elaine chow. >> the discussion i had with the secretary of transportation was 40% of the people that ride metro are federal government workers. you need to pay more. they only pay $128.40% of the riders are theirs. >> our news partners are reporting that metro's gm will release plans tec

dedicated funding for the system very soon. governor hogan wants to reduce the time you're stuck in traffic. he unveiled the state's $100 million plan to reduce the congestion. chris gordon will have that part of the story at the bottom of the hour. >> we know more now about that confusing sound that one family heard this weekend when they called prince george's county 911. some described it as a fax machine noise. here's how sharon snowden explains it. >> you've reached 911 emergency, all lines are busy, please hold -- >> reporter: well, today prince george's county police told us that tone is designed for people who have a tyy device. the noise activates the text that tells the caller not to hang up. >> we pushed it out on the nbc washington app now we've got more on

d.c. today chief peter knew schum he's dividing the city into north and south zones. each will get a patrol chiefs. will allow the department to toughen it's fight on crime and make it to more community events as well. the changes come as a veteran instant chief retires. >> no surprise, applause, a hug and a standing ovation for assistant chief diane grooves. nearly 30 years, a proud d.c. cop. >> i could not have asked for a better career, how blessed i am to the community. thank you. thank you for accepting me. thank you for welcoming me and you made the city safer. >> reporter: chief peter new sham on the city's unusual tight ties to the city and a

advocatist since the 1970s. grooms was always available. >> i would like to announce when did you sleep. you could call diane 12:00 in the day, 1:00 in the day, 12:00 at night, 1:00 at night and you got a response. >> grooms says her work in d.c. was divine intervention. she started on the fairfax force. >> i went with fairfax county at first and waitressed on the sides. if i can make it as a copy, i'm going to waitress. i like it. >> but in 1990 d.c. beckened. i saw the ads for the metropolitan police department. i called the number, came down for an interview and the rest is history. >> next month grooms will take over private security for the $2 billion wharf project rising in southwest still close to mpd. >> i don't feel comfortable. i don't feel scared leaving. i know the department in this city is in great hands. >> it will

chiefs to take over her current duties. in the district tom sherwood, news4. >> not a bad day today but definitely a lot different than what we saw out there yesterday. yesterday highs in the low 70s, today we're only in the low 60s and we've seen a lot of cloud covers and showers. take a look at these numbers here. a far cry from yesterday. only 53 in ocean city. look back to the west, 80 degrees in lexington. we've seen hours during the day today across parts of our region. most of those out of here and right now i'm tracking this area of showers and even some thunderstorms including a severe one just southwest of cleveland. that area of rain moves our way overnight tonight. showers overnight into tomorrow morning. much warmer tomorrow. we do get around 80 degrees mark and a few showers and storms likely. heavier weekend rain and that could make for a soggy sunday. we'll talk much more about that in ten minutes. >> thanks, doug. are you getting excited about the

tonight? in just a couple of hours the cavs and wizards both are seeing action. we have team coverage on all the games. for what many are calling a must win. we're going to start with carol maloney whose at the he verizon center with the wizards. >> reporter: it's been a 38 year wait to host an nba round one game two for the wizards but that wait is almost over. the wizards and hawks they tip-off at 7:00. you see the guys on the court right now behind me warming up. they're hoping for a repeat of game one. not expecting this to be easy though. eat your wheaties wizards fans. a bruising battle on easter sunday. john wall led the way with his playoff career 32 point. they'll need him to be at his post-season again tonight. the wizards -- the hawks are coming for him hoping to steal on the wizards home court. hawks they're promising a physical affair tonight. wizards are like bring it on.

aggressive. we got the first game on them and in their mind they're going to try to get one. we just got to be ready to be prepared for their punch. >> we expect it to be physical, a lot more physical for them to be heavily focused and play with a lot of energy. they're going to try and beat us up a little bit and get off to a great start. >> they don't want brad and swron to score as much and they want to let us score so we're going to adjust to that real well. >> reporter: let's get physical. that's the theme not just here at verizon center but, of course north of the border where the caps are fighting for their playoffs live. sherry is joining us later in the show and she will set the scene up north. for now, though, from verizon center we'll have more coming up i'll send it back to you guys. >> win tonight. we're not going to worry about that any more.

says he won't seek reelection. we'll have reaction to the surprise announcement coming up. >> he was the number one rated host in cable news, reaction from the bill o'reilly camp after he's forced out of fox. >> it's a day out of the classroom but the lesson bigger than ever. just ahead on news4 we'll tell you how this walk to prevent

bill o'reilly just released a statement saying it is tremendously dis heartening to live fox news due to unfounded claims. o'rile little went obto say he's going to look back with pride. those comments came after fox fired him after more than two decades at the fox news channel. he's been dogged by recent reports that fox spent millions of dollars to settle sexual harassment claims that were made against him. the reporting prompted dozens of

show. tucker carlson is going to take over his old time slot. >> in politics on this wednesday, there's big news coming out of capitol hill as the trump administration seems to be displaying mixed messages. >> also tonight the powerful chair of the house oversight committee says he's not going to seek reelection in 2018. >> and that election in georgia has the attention of white house. let's talk about jason chaffetz. why would he leave -- decide not to run next year. >> what's his strategy? >> the first statement wanted to spend more time with his family, when you hear that from a politician, something has to be beyond this. there is some skutle butt. he did not knock this down that he might have his eye of running for utah in 2020. that's three years away but one path that maybe actually getting into the governor's mansion in utah, is to get out of washington, d.c. and get

special when he's chairman of the house oversight committee that's policing over donald trump and he might actually decide, i want to get to utah and focus on utah issues if i'm going to run for governor. >> really? okay. >> interesting. you think you got to reconnect with the folks back home in a greater way if you're going to make that run for state office. >> exactly. >> we want to talk about that house race in georgia. the democratic newcomer, outperformed everyone, nearly got to the 50% threshold. falling just short, is this a loss for democrats or do the republicans see this as a win? >> we got to wait till june 20th when the runoff is. the way i saw last night was on the one hand republicans were able to breathe a sigh of relief. they get to go into overtime now. just short as you mentioned. on the other hand you look it was good news for democrats. they have the enthusiasm on their side in

special elections that we've seen in kansas last week and last night in georgia. democratic performance is beyond what we saw and they're starting to outperform where hillary clinton was in the general election. so democrats can take that as good news. >> what other races we looking at? >> next month is montana a special election. statewide is at large, montana only gets one congressional election so statewide. i'm also focused on the virginia primaries that are going to be happening on the democratic and governor side, june 13th. i'm already fired up for those. >> so are we. >> let's look at iran and the nuclear deal, whether iran is cheating on its nuclear deal that it made with us and then we have north korea and the saber rattling as it's been called and the armada heading to australia. >> it was heading to australia, it's now going to north korea. >> the one thing that looked at the trump foreign policy as it relates to noror

a lot of the rhetoric that's coming from the trump administration, the policies are very similar to what we saw in the obama administration. i mean the talk is certainly a lot tougher but the moves and the actions at least so far seem to be out of the obama playbook when it comes to north korea and the iran deal. secretary state rex tillerson ended up giving remarks very tough on iran but he made the point they are holding up their end of the agreement on at least this iran nuclear deal but the administration wants to restudy this. >> all right. thank you, mark. >> thank you. and be sure to stay tuned after news4 at 6:00 for complete coverage of all the days political headlines with "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> we're tracking developments in the hernandez what is an apparent suicide. an attorney for the former new england patriots player is demanding his own investigation. corrections officials in massachusetts found hna

cell this morning. the department of corrections says hernandez was knots on suicide watch and there was no reason to believe he would take his own life. hernandez was in the process of appealing his murder conviction. that conviction could be vacated under a long-standing legal principle in massachusetts. >> several students from louden county high schools are stepping out of the classroom today for a real world lesson on mental health. our reporter david culver went along with them to understand how one simple action is changing minds. >> reporter: you're walking with junior will center. as he goes out the door to join 1,600 other students. >> what is it about this walk do you think that stands out? >> i think it's really getting everyone the time to reflect while they're walking and just the nature and everything. it helps people realize that life is a lot better than it seems someti

stresses do you think a lot of people, peers, you yourself deal with the day-to-day? >> the main thing is school. every year in high school there's a major jump in the work and stress but then there's also things like sports, friends, relationships. so i think everything just piles up and it just gets too much for some people. >> reporter: it was too much for ryan bartel, the then wood grove senior took his own life in 2014. >> reporter: do you feel like this is your son's legacy now? >> absolutely. >> reporter: following the student's lead, successie bar tell helped launch we're all human suicide prevention watch. it was only at wood grove until this year, now five other schools joining in. >> we were moving those barriers. we're making sure that it's okay for them to talk and we're giving them a platform and a voice and the fact that other schools have jumped into this is because they recognize that. >> reporter: as part of the walk, students write down their

near the end. they toss the cards into the fire symbolizing their worries burning away and realizing they're not the only ones. >> there are a lot of people who go through it. it's quiet. >> reporter: that quiet replaced today by music, laughter and signs encouraging these young people to keep pushing forward. in virginia, david culver, news4. >> if they only reach one kid in need it was a success. a plan to relieve congestion among one of the areas busiest highways. it could save you 30 minutes on the commute to and from work. >> the temperatures are going to rebound after our cool and cloudy day. doug takes a look at just how warm it's going to get. we a

we were having a little pollen discussion as we always do when we get together this time. is the worse over and how long before the trees cycle out? >> i think the worse is over but coming off of sunday that was the peek and it was actually the largest we've seen in four years as far as pollen suffering go. the worse pollen we've seen in four years. it will continue to come down over the next couple of days. i think sunday is going to be the day where the pollen really relaxes. that's when we're going to see that beneficial rainfall. it will be sunday and of cour

what's happening. plenty of leaves on the trees right now. virtual explosion over the last two weeks of trees and pollen around our region. that pollen level very high today. 62 degrees the current temperature. yesterday it was 72 at this hour with plenty of sunshine. a spectacular day. today 62 and rather cool. 61 winchester, only 59 in la ray. much cooler. on the radar most of the shower activities gone. few more showers, culpeper county, right around coming through your area in the next 15 to 20 minutes. very light rain. what i'm watching however is a system back to the west and you take a look here. we've got one system over our area, another one passed to the north and another one back to the west. this will make it's way across the east and this area will move on down towards our region. first off, though, what else will be coming our way much warmer r.

54 in roanoke but 80 in indianapolis, 88 in st. louis and that warmer air will move our way tomorrow. here are the showers around chicago. thunderstorms too. they will move down across our region and here we are in future weather. 8:00 a.m. tomorrow the shower activity around so heads up. we may see some showers during that morning rush. they're not going to last long and most of them will be out of here quickly. we could see some more showers tomorrow afternoon maybe even a rumble of thornd or two tomorrow. not expecting much in the way of severe weather but we will see some showers and much warmer temperatures tomorrow too. on friday, some more cloud cover and again a chance for a few showers during the afternoon. so your forecast tomorrow 81 degrees warmer. few showers, maybe a thunder or two. maybe a strong storm too. nothing too strong or severe. 83 on friday. we're still warm on friday. look

64 on saturday. let's talk about saturday. if you're going to be out saturday, you have plans. obviously all the kids have a lot of games this time of year. here's your saturday planner. 60 degrees, showers possible at 11:00 but no big deal. 64 by 3:00 and 62 by 7:00. again, few showers possible on saturday but sunday is the day with the rain and not just rain, high of only 54 so it'll be a nasty rain as well. if you've got plans to be outside on sunday, you might want to rethink that. next week looking great and look how many 80s on in this ten-day forecast. >> nice. very nice. >> well, they are homes in foreclosures, they haven't been repossessed and so they sit empty. >> these are called zombie foreclosures. the steps being taken locally to address that issue. >> ahead, how much time commuters will save daily along i-270 under a new plan to modernize the highway.

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>> announcer: you're watching news4 at 5:00. >> now at 5:30, imagine shaving 30 minutes off your rush hour commute on i-270. it's a plan outlined today by maryland's governor. all with the goal of easing traffic congestion and providing

commuters. i-270 the main road for commuters. now we know more about a $100 million plan to modernize that route. >> reporter: wendsy, as you can see the northbound lane, the far lane is heavy and slow. the state is planning to reline the roadway to add express lanes and it will be a brand new interchange at watkins mill road to serve gaithersburg. these renovations are designed to reduce the amount of time drivers on i-270 are stuck in traffic. ask commuters about traffic on i-270 and chances are you'll hear horror stories. >> if you're stuck there, you're stuck and that's not a good thing for anyone. >> reporter: today maryland governor unveiled the state's new

congestion and reduce the time commuters are stuck in it. >> if they say we can shave a half hour off the morning commute in a relatively short period of time while we work with the feds, we're going to do so. >> reporter: the plan will expand driving lanes and add traffic lights to on ramps. montgomery county executive says it will start to bring relief almost immediately. >> when you look at the 270 corridor and you think about the taxes that are generated in this county, it is a life blood for the entire state of maryland. >> reporter: other county leaders say they want to see more extensive improvements on i-720. >> reversible h.o.t. lanes that allow for transits as well as cars much like what you see in virginia. >> reporter: the transit unions wants to have input into the new transportation plan. >> our approach would be to incorporate public transit with bus rapid t

designate a bus lane to ease the traffic on 270. >> reporter: ahead when drivers can expect some relief from the traffic congestion here along i-270. chris, back to you. >> transportation is on the minds of officials all over our area and now a federal judge is deciding to pay federal funding for the purple line. the owners in montgomery county and prince george's county sent a letter to transportation secretary elaine chow last week. they're urging her to finalize the purple line's $900 million funding grant should the judge green light funding. construction was supposed to start in the fall but it stalled after a lawsuit by chevy chase residents over environmental concerns. a federal judge will issue a ruling on that lawsuit by the end of the month. >> and after two years of fighting for higher wages, contract workers at the reagan national are going to get a raise. the metropolitan was

airport's authority board overwhelming approved that today. many of those worksers are currently making $7.25 an hour. starting next year the base rate, $11.55 and that increases to $12.15 in 2019 and goes up to 12.75 the following year. baggage handlers will share will be the ones getting that raise. >> the washington post express getting to the heart of fans emotions with the caps trailing their series right now. the front page of the takeoff on the famous painting the screen. of course the person screaming we're in a caps jersey and the headline is, again! sherry, i got a feeling the players are not quite as worked up as this situation as

fans are feeling pretty anxious against game four against the maple leafs. it's 60% of followers say they are freaking out before tonight's game but the players on the caps, they're not panicking. they will definitely be playing with a heightened sense of urgency. >> absolutely no panic. we got a lot of confidence in ourselves and we want to focus of having a high urgency in our game and doing it for 60 minutes. we had it for certain periods of time last game now we got to do it consistently the whole game. >> no panicking. we can be a little bit better in some areas. >> we're pretty focused right now. i like what i'm hearing from our guys and they're fairly loose so it's always a good sign. they're not too tense. that's always a good sign i think as a coach. >> we're still a confident group. i think we know we've had more

what we've worked all season to get good at. closeout games, and i think we have a good game plan and it really all comes down to everyone executing it and that's our plan tonight. >> if we can get a big win here, three games on home ice again, we'll be pushing for our best game tonight. >> reporter: i asked one player if he could take the fans out of the game because they were crazy here on monday night, but these fans here they can yell all they want. it's not going to bother them at all. live from toronto, news4 sports. >> thanks. a tennis star serena williams is in the spotlight, speculation that followed after she deleted a crippic post snapchat. >> a man arrested for stalking an harassing

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. >> cloudy and cool for your evening. right now at 62 degrees. by 8:00 we'll be in the upper 50s and have the umbrella handy for tomorrow and friday and right on into the weekend. i'll have the latest timing coming up in just over ten minutes. >> the secret service in new york reportedly has

a man who has turned up at ma leah obama's internship on three separate occasions just this month. it is siting law enforcement sources saying the man had a sign proposing marriage to president obama's oldest daughter. the secret service did detain him, took him to a police precinct and he was turned over to a hospital for a psychological evaluation. the secret service and the manhattan d.a.'s office are not commenting. >> is she or isn't she? now serena williams did a snapchat today with what looks like a baby bump and now a lot of folks are wondering if the tennis superstar is pregnant. fueling the speculation, the caption on the photo says, 20 weeks but then the snap was deleted just a few minutes after it was posted. williams recently got engaged to the co-owner of red dit. she's scheduled to play in madrid next month. she hasn't played in a tournament since january when

final of the australian open. >> when you're in a mexican restaurant and you can't stop eating those chips, turns out that long head belief about salt making you thirtiy isn't really the case. it's making you hungry. they were simulating a mission to mars. had two groups, testing their diets with different levels of salt. they found those with the saltier diets drank less but ate more and here's why. researchers say salt helps your kidneys hang on to water and that process of retention requires a lot of energy and that makes your body crave more calories. >> a twist tonight in what started as a show of support for a local sports team and why the banners that hang from a building across from nats park are coming down. >> zombie foreclosure. ell

it's a problem playing neighborhoods in montgomery county and prince george's county. these are properties that are foreclosed and neglected and drive down property values and attract crime. news4 darcy spencer

maryland. >> reporter: we are here in capital heights. what you see behind me is one of the many boarded up, vacant properties that they're dealing with in prince george's county. it's a very difficult problem with zombie foreclosures and one way they're trying to deal with it is by going after the banks. houses boarded up, grass and weeds growing out of control. signs that prince george's county is still dealing with the effects of the housing crisis. there's still a large inventory of vacant and foreclosed properties that families once called home. >> it was one of the hardest hit counties in the nation. >> reporter: councilmember mel franklin is proposing a pack yachlk bills to go after banks and owners to go after zombie foreclosures. >> there's this limbo of whosable accountable fors

would set up a vacant and hold what he calls first lien mortgage holders accountable if their properties aren't kept up, the fine up to $1,000 a day. >> even the person left the property, they couldn't afford the property, the banks still made money off the property. they should do something to make it look presentable in the neighborhood while they -- they're going to sell it again. >> reporter: if the bill passes the county will have a better idea of where and how many houses they're dealing with and make sure they're being maintained. >> they should put some money into it or hire a bunch of workers out here that don't mind so they can even put it back on the market to sell or have residents live in it. >> reporter: coming up on news4 at 6:00. they're dealing with some of the very same issues. they just passed legislation. i'll tell you about that and you'll hear from very frustrated residents who live right by those abandoned properties. back to you.

dozens of latino groups gathering here in the district to discuss their fears about the trump administration policies. the national hispanic leadership agenda. that latino priorities are at risk under this white house. among the concerns, deportation. the white house has not been clear on what will happen to so-called dreamers and the latino groups say the fear is also impacting reported crimes. in l.a. reports of sex assaults among the latino population has dropped since the year started. >> what we have seen is much sound and fury creating an unprecedented atmosphere of fear and confusion and anxiety in the immigrant community. >> more than 21,000 undocumented immigrants have been arrested since president trump took office and according to i.c.e. about a quarter of them had no criminal history. >> religious groups should have equal footing to participate in programs that generally

the public. >> religious groups are gathered outside the supreme court today as justice heard arguments in a case that is essentially challenging the separation of church and state. that case is one of the first for newly confirmed justice neil gorsuch. it involves a lutheran church in missouri suing over what it calls discrimination. so the trinity church says it applied for a state grant to make improvements to a playground and day care that are run out of its property. as part of the upgrades, they wanted to replace the playground surface with recycled rubber tires to make it safer but the church's application was rejected. primarily because missouri law prevents state money from going directly or indirectly to a relevant jesus institution. now supporters of that law say it's a separation of church and state. while supporters of the church say the state's decision only protects some children and not the ones

preschool. >> so are church's good neighbors? that's the title of washingtonen magazine. some churches in vibrant areas are struggling to survive. dan reed wrote that article and he told us how churches are ada adapting. >> my name is dan reed. i'm an urban planner by day and i'm also a columnist for washingtonen magazine. it's called city scape. it talks about architecture and design and planning issue in the washington, d.c. area. i'll be talking about how many churches are finding new and innovative ways to raise money to continue doing what they do. fewer people in the d.c. area and around the country as a whole, fewer people are going to church. church attendance is down and for a lot of congregations, they get most of their funding from tithes. this is a church here i

don. it's baptist congregation that about ten years ago was trying to figure out ways to keep the doors open while maintaining their old traditional sanctuary, so they partnered with residential developer to build apartments on top of their church. another church in the area that you might be familiar with is arlington temple united methodist church. they're a congregation that came in the '60s and they wanted to serve a lot of office workers so they opened a church. they realized that the best way to keep going financially was to put something on the bottom floor and after a long time of trying to figure out who their ground floor tenant would be they finally got approached by a gas station. today this might be the only church that you can actually drive in to and buy gas

this allows them to not only keep their doors open and keep doing what they're doing but provide opportunities for other people to live or to work or even buy a tank of gas. i know when i was growing up, i always hated having to get dress and go some where to go to church when i was a kid. i can imagine probably a couple people here who head down in their jammies sunday morning for services. >> wouldn't that be niegs. you can read his full article in may. it's available tomorrow. >> tomorrow on news4 at 5:00. some wineries in our area are welcoming the whole family that includes the kids. vineyards where kids are more than welcome. >> i really enjoyed watching that. >> progressiveness. >> yes. >> so what's going -- when is the warm weather coming in? >> it's coming tomorrow. we went from 70s yesterday to 60s todaynd

the 80s. this is spring. we're up and down, absolutely. take a look at your weather headlines. keep the umbrella handy through the end of the workweek on into the weekend as well. especially on sunday. sunday's looking like a washout. we're warm tomorrow and we're still in the 80s on friday. as we look to the weekend, saturday by far is looking like the better of the two weekend days. right now we're in the low 60s. so it's chilly and cloudy out there, mainly dry. 62 degrees in washington. tomorrow we start off at 58. some patchy fog around at 7:00 a.m. and some scattered showers as well. we see a mix of clouds and sunshine. 75 degrees at noon. a high tomorrow of 81. we're 20 degrees warmer than today but tomorrow afternoon on into the early evening hours we will have some scattered showers and maybe a few thunderstorms. not a huge threat for severe weather but if we do see a storm or two materialize i can see it slow moving with h

as the sun goes down around 7:40 we'll be mainly dry at that point. still 79 degrees at 7:00. the commute to and from work you could be dealing with rain. tomorrow looking like a nice day to have lunch outdoors. it's feeling a bit like summer again. outdoor exercise if you can pick what time you want to go for that bike ride or run, late morning and midday hours do look to be the best time period. then we look to the weekend because friday, pretty much a repeat performance of tomorrow. yard work over the weekend, get it done earlier on saturday. some showers are possible later on saturday and it's just all about rain on sunday but we do need the rain. of course we also have earth day on saturday. so we have a lot of stuff going on with that including nbc washington participating. it will be cool you want long sleeves outdoors. exercise over the weekend is just going to be indoors sound. don't get the car washed, between the pollen and rain just wait until monday. take a look at

days. here's low 80s thursday and friday. saturday we cool down in a big way. we're in the mid-60s and some showers around especially later. not a washout on saturday. the same cannot be said for sunday. we're talking about one to two inches of rain and highs only in the 50s. it's chilly, damp and cloudy. after that next week really nice. we start out in the 60s and finish in the 80s. >> for years the apartment building across from nats park has allowed residents to hang nats banner off their balconies but now some of the banners have gotten more political and the apartment management is saying no more. no more banners allowed. tonight on news4 what tenants and an attorney have to say about the ban on banners. >> and then all new at 6:00. the fight is heating up for local restaurants. what they put on tv that has them face ag

tenants versus building management. >> some of the signs support the nats but others are a bit more political like resist and black lives matter. >> so management has banned the banners. kristin. >> reporter: pretty much everybody who walks by this building takes a hard look at these signs and we're about to show you

it's become a bit of a political controversy here. we talked with apartment management. they told us we're about to have the windows washed here and we just want the place to look clean. right across the street in nationals parks, no surprise to see hometown team banners hanging from apartment balconies but lately the resident banners have gone beyond baseball. >> it was fine until it became something that became a bit of a lightning rod. >> residents like warren turner think the tipping point the nope sign pointing up to the trump sign. that's what triggered the e-mail. >> the building manager e-mailed residents hanging anything off of the balcony including nationals banners is a lease violation. we have these rules to remain our exteriors remain clean and banners free. >> i've lived here

there's always been flag out here. >> it's a way of spreading message i guess but i don't know if people are liking it or not or how it's going. >> reporter: for some passers by. >> it doesn't really bother me too much. >> it's not just about safety, it's not just about safe sanitation issue or health issue. it can also be about other things. >> reporter: attorney joe cohen says landlords have the right to set rules for renters but that interesting legal challenges could be raised by tenants wanting to hang banners. >> the tenant would have an argument before a judge that there was basically silent permission given to do just that and the judge would have to say what's reasonable here. >> reporter: residents have until may 1st to take the banners down or risk fines and evictions. several others are still hanging, perhaps a sign of resistance. in southwest d.c., kristen wright, news4. >> now at 6:00. breaking niz

bill o'reilly just addressed his firing for the first time. >> trump administration, strong message to one nation as questions mount over its position on another. >> new at 6:00. the news4 i-team on the hook for thousands of dollars all because of what they showed on tv news4 at 6:00 starts now. >> first tonight a man in custody accused of trying to abduct two little boys from a playground. good evening i'm doreen glentsler. >> the man also exposed himself to a teenage girl. it happened in the white oaks section of montgomery county. officers arrested the man on his balcony where they say he had been watching kids even after the alleged incidents. megan fitzgerald talked to neighbors and she's on the scene now with more.

community say they're scared. they tell us there's a lot of kids that play around here and they're always at this playground behind me. parents never thought twice about it until sundays. it was during the evening on easter sunday when police say geda was watching kids play on a playground steps away from his apartment. investigators say first he exposed himself to children playing outside. not long after, they say he tried to lure two boys just 8 and 9 years old to his apartment by offering them food and drinks. investigators say he grabbed their wrists but the boys managed to break-free and run for help. she lives in the complex and took these pictures of geeda moments after he was arrested. >> it's sad that these kids can't play because of what's going on in the back of our yards. >> reporter: she's worried about the safety of her kids and others in the neighborhood and hopes that geeda never returns. >> yes, i'm concerned because i don't want him back around here