is the message president trump in histed last night second state of the union, and not surprisingly, it was a speech applauded by his party and criticized by his opponents. we'll share more of what he had to say and what it could mean for another partial government shutdown. that's coming up in just a moment. good morning,yo ev, i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. before we get back to your news on this wednesday, aklet's a live look outside. we hope you enjoyed yestery's -- glorious. >> okay. >> it was. >> it was ghoers you apparent glorious taste of spring. >> yes. >> we'll have another one today, except in the formf rain, rather than high temperatures. >> any time we can get above 07 in february, rit? chuc bell is here to fill us in. ia know meligrees with me. >> i do. >> glorious? >> s. >> ah! >> you know what, even if we only have it for one day, it's worth it to have that because it wasua fe. >> sure, absolutely.

we'll take it in no complaints. it was a new recor yesterday at national airport. broke the old record that was set bac in 1991. it will be about 20 degrees cooler this afternoon. so, don't plan on any more 70s for a ile. but we did manage to make it above 70 ten days earlier than we did last year. took us until the 15th last year before we had a 70 degree day. no rain this morninds the rre wet because of all the mild air sitting on that cold ground. it likeaving a cold can of coke on a hot summer day. the condensation is coming from the ground up. temperatures in the 30s to around 40 now. wake up weather then. cloudy and on the damp side in the 40s for yr early morning activities. today's high, only 53, but chance for rain coming in just about the time we get the afternoon commute going. re about how long that rain chance hangs around and our next chances for little rain/snow mix coming up. lit's go to melissa for traffic. >> good morning. still have this issue in upper marl borrow, we'reaking calls.

police investigation traffic from forestville road cannot go bound on suitland parkway either. just a warning for you. inner loop,uter loop of the beltway, no problems there. everything is cleared there. northbound 270 montgomery village, northbound one lane getting by. 6 eastbound and westbound no problems. ♪ this one of the moments you will see over and over again today, docratic congressional women standing up and cheering during last night's state of the union. the moment of unity came after president trump acknowledged that more women are now serving in congress than ever before, but the cheers didn't last. last night was president trump's second state of the union, but his first before a divided congress with speaker nancy pelosi sitting over his shoulder. >> the speech lasted for nearly 90mens. the president called for unity

d dug in on topics that divided washington for weeks. p thsident says crime is increasing due to undocumented immigrants getting into the country. nv support his message the presidented the family of a couple who officials say was killed by an undocumented immigrant. turnpeech took a local when the presidentenoned virginia governor ralph northham's aportion cy. >> then we had the case of the governor of virginia where he babyd he would execute a after birth to defend the dignity of every person i am asking congress to pass legislation to phibit the late-term abortion ofchildren. >> the president's call for congress to take up new legislation comes nearly a week after northam accused of promomenting infanticide b republican critics. he made the remark on a radio show. the governor said his comments were grossly taken out of

context and the bill is no longer pending. the democratic response also took on a local tone when stacey enramsoned the hardship federal workers endured during the government shutdown. >> ming livelihoods of our federal workers a pawn for political games is a disgrace. the dosh was a stunt. engineered by the president oat the united . one that defied every tenant of fairness and abandoned not just values.le but our >> coming up, we'll have more on the state of the union with news 4 tracie potts as well as reaction from local lawmakers of possibility of the another governusnt shutdown in ten days. the pressureounts on the governor and lie tenant governor of virginia. justin fairfax is accused of assaulting at a democratic national convention. he denies he ever assaulted her

but said they h a one-time consensual. old classmates wrote a letter g supportiernor ralph northam. nine people say they do not believe the governor is racisto who wentchool with him. our northern virginia bureau chief is moniting these stories for us. it is now 4:35. we want to get a check on somr of yher top stories right now. police in prince william county have increased their patrols after seone shot a home more than half a dozen times. it happened early monday morning in mont claire. no one was hurt and investigators do not believe the home was targeted. partments are sti smoldering after paris' deadliest fire in more than a decade. french prosecutors tell nbc news at the death toll is currently at 10. dozensf others are injured. we showed you these massive officials arrested a woman who lived in tha building on suspicion of starting the fire. wizards star guard john wall is nowt out for aast a year.

the team says he needs surgery on his left achilles tendon, which we tore in a foml at h about a week ago. wall was already out for the season after having surgery on his left heel. hi next surgery is expected to happen some time next week. 4:36 now. he first ight, for time test trains ran on theti newest sec of the silver line. chopper 4 flew over the track yesterday. a pair of trains was expected to run fromhe futur innovation center through the dulles international airport station to the e of the elevated tracks west of the airport. the innovation center is just across route 28 from dulles. the second phasesi of ther line is set to open in 2020 at the earliest. >> theinkhole neahe white house has been fixed parts of 17th street have been closed foa more tha week after the sinkhole opened up. crews say the underground damaga was worse expected. now the problems have been taken care of and the area has been reopened to traffic. well, we've been talking on social media about the divots

and the holes you're dodging on the roads and news 4 has been you've been tweeting us to check out some of the biggest and more dangerous problems on the roads. this wild weather we've had the rain, the snow, freezing ures and spring like temperatures coming after that has led to real potholear probls nd the region. >> 1,900 potholes were reported in the district this january compared to 500 service requests for the same time period last year. transportation officials say it's been a real challenge. >> it's about the freeze thaw cycle and heavy volume of rain which saturates the ground, causes that condition a in some cases makes it much worse depending on the nature of the weather. that also affects our ability to fill them. ift's raining or snowing, we're not able to get out there and fill them. as soon as the roadsy, we are th there repairing news 4 megan mcgraph is out onothole patrol this morning. she'll join us live with more how to get the roads fixed. >> i hate them >> you can't avoid them

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dog owner. hill's pet nutrition is pulling 25 canned dog food products from shelves after complaints pets getting sick. the company is blaming a supplier error for the elevated ls of vitamin d found in the food. essential nutrient for dogs can cause kidney failure and even death. one pet oer said her dog taco died after eating hill's. torevent this from happening again, we now require the supplier of our vitamin mixo nduct additional quality testing on every batch of this ingredient del to hill's. but not much consolation after a beloved pet dies. it's now 4:41. a florida woman says her brillian dog saved her life. >> and of course it was all caught on camera. the rescue happened after the woman collapsed from a stroke. the dogs ran across the street to a neighbor'sor house help. this was all captured on the doorbell camera. look at lsis. it recorded the neighbor

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y339by y16fy >> announcer: you're watching news 4 amday. m speaker, the president of the united states! this morning, the nation is reacting to preside trump's state of the union address. both lawmakers and voters paid itose attention to last night's speech. mixed bipartisan themes with familiar rhetoric ranging from border security to the russia investigation. >> with mores,n the addr news 4 tracie potts is life for us in d.c.ha tracie, grade are people giving president trump's second state of the union. >> as you mpeht , it depends on who you ask. republicans say the president hit all the righthe themes re. the democrats and republicans need to work together. he talked about immigration. he was very clear that he will bud the wall not really leaving a lot of room for compromise in these negotiations to stop a

governmentshutdown next week. and he talked about things like abortion and trade and foreign policy, pulling out of what he called endless warse then laid out some areas ehere he thinks democrats and republicans mightble to work together, like infrastructure and cancer research. but it's immigration that really seems to be the big issue here. he spe a lot of this nearly talking a half speech about immigration, including ad-libbing that the s u.s.uld have more legal immigration. that was something that we had not heard and was notriginally written into the speech. >> tracie potts for us this mornintr ie, thank you. after the president delivered his state of the union speech, local democratic lawmakers were quick to criticize t topicsy feel he should have touched on. >> most notably they felt the president totallygnored the 800,000 workers impacted by the government shutdown. news 4 scott mack far land has reaction from capitol hill. >> reporter: it was a late night of people reacting to what thee pres said in his state of

the union address. we spoke with several local members of congress late last night and they said they we noting what they didn't hear, no references to federal workers, to those furloughs from the last government shutdown or the possibility o another one in just nine days. >> there are a lot of things i didn't hear. i didn'ter hear rce to federal government employees or contractors who suffered through the longest shutdown in history due to president trump. i didn't hear a genuine expression of gratitude to men and women who serve in the military. >> you would never know that 800,000 federal workers and equal number of federalac con employees were furloughed for 35 days, losing two tychecks. >> president has events later today to move on from the state of the union address and re-enforce some of the points he made. local members of congress back in session later today, but there are no local republicans whoespond and re-enforce what the president said last night because there are no more local republicans in the congressional delegation. eey're swept away in

midterms last november. on capit'm hill, scott mcfarland, now back to you. coming up on"today show" team coverage of last night's address with analysis from hallie jackson, peter alexander and "the meetpr ess" moderator chuck todd at:0a.m. 4:48. developing this morning, school bus driver is recovering. polied say a man poi a gun at a bus on a busy highway and fired multiple s afternoon.ay troopers arrived within minutes and later took the suspected shooter into custody. the driver was the only person shot at and is expected to be okay. one student was on boardhe at t time but was nothurt. i'm meagan fitzgerald here at the live desk with bizarre new details from sunday's deadly southern h in california. investigators say the pilot's law enforcement credentials found on scene were fake. antonio pastini described as

retired chicago police officer, butca c police confirmed to nbc news that pa nini waser a member of the force. the badge they found had actually been reported lost back in 1978. ntsb officials say s pastini wa commercial pilot. four other people on that fght were killed. e cause of this crash here is still under investigation. aaron, back to you. >> bizarre indeed. thank you. 4:49 right now, family and frnds are mourning the deaths of five children killed in a crash in prince georges county. they held a candle lightigil at the morningside town hall municipal center last night. they released balloons in the child's honor. derek sims said h is not only morning his son, but all of the

children. >> i'm not onlyin mou my son, five children that lost their life in the accident. it's god's will, god's purpose and never question him. >> sims set up a gofundme page to help with funeral costs that's raised more than 12,000 dollars. police say the children were riding in the backseat of an suv when it ran off route 301 and crashed on a snowy field in buoy. police say the mother of the sisters dominique taylor was driving. she survived along with man in critical condition. or the first time, indian head highway has been bumped to the top of prince georgesounty transportation construction list. yesterday county leaders sent a letter to the state asking for prioritizeunding for construction. route 210 is known as one of the deadliest and most congested roadways in our entire region. in december, three young children were killed by ate susp drunk driver. some money from mgm national harbor is dedicated to help improve that roadway. the casino can pay up to $15

millionear depending on its profits. so far it's been able to contribu about half of that amount. whether to stay funded or o not, we have t work with our colleagues in the general assembly to make sure we can move forward. >> there are at least seven intersections along route 210 that need to be paired. to do that, the county is looking at an additional 30 years orruore ofction and it could cost half a billion dollars. here is something that may haved sloown your drive home from work. look at this, underground transformer exploded yesterday afternoon in rose linat happeni the intersection of north lynn and 19th street. crews were on the smoky scene trying to restore power outages in several buildings. several drivers use the key bridge were stuck in traffic. nortne was if you know that region of rosalynn, you're stuck in any so of backup, you can't go anywhere. you might as well park and get a coffee. >> chuck? >> i want some sort of -- not

only was it national weather person's dy, youn't give ne anything, then it was 74 degrees. >> chuck -- >> lay it on me. i need some money. >> the profound respected appreciation i have for you, >> you know you're not getting anything with words like that. let's take a look and see how nice it was. >> did you see my facebook post? i was saying what a wonderful person you are. >> i can see your fac now. that was just trying to ingratiate your social mia followers. 70 degrees yesterday. that was a record for the date. the old record 70 set in 91 so peeking back in the record books. last year our first 70 degree day came on february 15th. not that far away from yesterday's date 2017, first 70 degree day came he january 12th. so way on early side. and 2016, remember we had that big blizzard i january of '16, so the year started off colder so took a little .long 79 our first 70 degree day back in 2016. we had to wait until march to

get that one. no more 70s today. no more 70s anywhere in the next ten days. 43 this morning with cloudy skies overhead. mid to upper 30s in the shenandoah slley. low 4 around the city. cool and damp outside this morning. all about the cloud cover for today. chances for rain increasing once we get pas lunchtime today. so if you're going to go out this morning and not come back r until after 3 4, grab the umbrella. look at all that rain across parts of th ohio valley. that's all mostf the deeper moisture will pass by to our north, but it's going to be mori than enough to get you wet and get you mad. temperatures will hover in th40 s overnight tonight and rainfall amounts, though not all ndat crippling of an amount, rain moving in should be moving out just around the tail end of the morning commute qmorrow. expecting arter inch of rain. once the rain leaves tomorrow, it will stay mild, 64 tomorrow and 62 at lunchtime on friday. temperatures fallingnto the 30s by friday evening into the 20s by saturday morning.

coldut dry for the weekend. tracking a little chance for rain which could become a ra /snow mix monday into tuesday of next week. no big snowstorm on the horizon yet. >> we'll keep an eye on it. thank you, chuck. we are trying to get mrme inion on this one. we have a police investigation, so right now that section is shut down. traffic from forestville road also cannot go on t inbo suitland parkway at this point. inner loop, outer loop of the beltway, no problems. everything looking good there on the beltway. 66, s95, samuation taking a look here right now. 66 west of nutley intotown, out of town rolling ang nicely and 270 southbound from 70 to the p spur, 67 mil hour gets you there in 27 minutes. aaron? >> melissa, thank you. it 4:54. protecting rt about your child's identity. a new law meant to help kids

from identity theft. >> some parents say it's putting their kid's information at risk. susan hogan is working for you with what you can doo help keep your family safe. >> nwell, th law allows us to freeze our child's credit, but a local mom's concern that the process to do this may actually be putting both her and her children's information at risk. >> we want to protect. their our first children. >> for ann that protection includes freezing her twin son's credit, but unlike freezing your credit where you can do it all online, a freezing child's credit requires parents to send sensitive information, like full social security numbers and rth certificates by mai to all three credit bureaus. >> just trusting that somebody trustworthy picks it up and goes through lots and lots of different hands. > news 4 contacted the credit bureaus. they understand why parents would be uncomfortable sending these documents by mail, but

assured us the process is safe regardless, ann says she's not convinced. because i'm too scared to send it through the mail. i'm hoping they'll find another route to say, well, if you don't ngfeel comfortable d this, then we can do this. i anon't know what this this other this is, i'm hoepg it's something that seems a bit safer. >> now coming up tonight ont nes 4 5:00 p.m., we take ann's concerns to an identity theft expert. we'll get his take on it and you then can decide whether it's right for yo back to you guys. next on news 4 today, how tryou can take c of your finances and take your life back. >> we are showing you the help in our area to help you do just that. plus, gunfire rings out in the street bullets found inside a local home. we're talking to the people who live in that house. ayws 4 tod continues right ayws 4 tod continues right sometimes, the pressures of today's world can make it tough

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>> announcer: news 4 today starts now. madame speaker, the president of the united states! that, president trump walked into a joint session of congress to deliver his state of the union address. it was a lengthy speech that drew immediate praise from epublicans and criticism from democrats. we are covering the speech this morning and showing you how your local leaders responded. good morning, everybody i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. that coverage begins in just moment. but we do want to check on your morning commute and. foreca

melissa mollet is standing by in rmur first 4 traffic but we begin with sto team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. good morning to you, chuck. >> good morning, eun. good morning, everybody. after a gorgeous tuesday afternoon, i don't know what you di with your afternoon yesterday, my dogs got three different walks yesterday because it was sonice. 74 record-breaking degrees yesterday afternn. that's allust a distant memory now because clouds are moving in and all that rain to our west has eyes on us for later in the day today. l don've home without the umbrella. it's not cold, butot it's just in the 70s anymore. we've fallen into the upper 30s to low 40s across t area now. afternoon highs today will be some 20 degrees colde than yesterday. only in the low 50s today. cloudy, damp, not really much of a rain threat untilt least after lunchtime. but once the kids are coming home from school after 2 to 3:00 p.m., rain becoming more and more likely today. , be sure they carry their umbrella with them. they'll need that coat with