>> like the weather, you mean? >> i couldn't see what was behind him. >> just the current conditions. and the northwest wind has faded off considerably. only an 8-mile-per-hour wind now around town. and plan on winds around the 5, 10, 15-mile-per-hour range yesterday. nothing compared to yesterda peak gusts, national airport, 52 miles per hour. bwi marshall had a 54-mile-per-hourgust. and dulles gusted to 57 miles per hour. so, really a howling gale yesterday. that has calmed down this morning. temperatures are mostl in the 20s and 30s. it's a typically cold start. dog walking forecast, look at at. these two here, they wanted to french coasth that something fierce. if you need a dog in your life, s a humans reie s rrescue alliae good place to find a dog on youh own. dog walking forecast is it

won't be windy or thwet. sounds like progress. gaithersburg, northbound 270, after montgomery village avenue. the right lane is the only thinb gettin the work zone. you see that delay. and southbound is open. we called to talk about this purple situation on copper road there. nothing is happening. they say everything is okay. just looks like a clicglitch on map. white's ferry, shut down. storm debris along t potomac river. they could change their minds throughout the day. springfield, southbod 95, befo franconia road. right shoulder is blocked by that accident. beltway, inner loop and outer loop, no problems or roadwork. we're staying on top of a veloping story thismorning. a deadlyiscovery in bethesda. someone found a body alon old georgetown road last night. the personpp was wraed in a black tarp not far from the wild

wood center. it's not clear how that person died or ended up b near the stop. news 4 has obtained body camera video from the pizza gate at comic ping-pong in 'snorthwe. he look at the video. >> you can see the officers responding to the scene. we obtained a video from reve news through a public records request. listen to the chilling interaction beten the gunman, edgar welch, and officers, as they cuff him. >> what were you doing in the location? >> making sure nothing was there. >> pedophile ring. >> what?s >> what weap you have? >> .38 and ar-15. pocket.nife in the right >> he believed an ternet conspiracy theory that hillary clinton an john podesta were

running a trafficking ring in the restaurant. he fired his ar-15 multiple times inside that restaurant. and pointed a weapont an employee. a judge sentenced him to four years in prison. tracking breaking news out of oregon. mo than 180 people are stu on an amtrak train that hasn't moved in more than 30 hourth train was traveling from seattle to los angeles when it hi aree that had fallen on the tracks. this photo from passengers shows the area the train isan sd in. amtrak kept everyone on the train because power is out in the nearest town. a maintenance crew is not expected to arrive until 9: this morning. we're told there is food on the train. passengers are being fed. we'll keep you updated a we get information on the situation. feeling for the passengers after 30 hours. an update to a house fire in laurel. a 91-year-old man has died after

firefighters pulled him from his home yet. this started in theitchen on laurelton drive. the man's caretakeralled 911, but by the time firefighters arrived, she had passed out from the smoke. the 91-year-old died from smoke inhalation. his caretaker is in critical condition. a former youth lder at a megachurch has pleaded guilty to inappropriate action with a second girl. she was his music student at the life church. he ex tsed himself her and sent her text messages saying he wanted to mry he he was convicted last year of doing the same thing to a different teenage girl in 2014. 's 4:34. looking at our other top stories. a australian jury convicted pope francis' pop financial adviser. he was found guilty of molesting s o choir b 1996.

a sentencing hearing is set for tomorrow. hall is the most senior catholic player ced and convicted of child sex abuse. right now, president trump is a few hours away from landing in vietnam for a nuclear summit with north kean leader kim jong-un. he left from joint base andrews. you can see that here. he will arrive in hanoi later this morning. the president and kim will talk about a plan to denuclearize north korea. michael cohen will testify before the senate intelligence committee in ad clo door meeting. it is the first of three congressional meetings this week. coming up, susan mcginnis will give us aev prw of what we can expect. r. kelly is out of il. he is waiting trial on several accounts of sexualst abuse aga minors. tonight, a local dance team is hitting the smallen scre. last week, we introduced you to

the west springfield dance team. before joining the team, some of these n girls hader danced a day in their lives. >> thetried out for "the world of dance" show in new yenk and ent to l.a. for the big taping. here's your sneak peek. ♪ >> nice. >> a little bit impressive there. this is some of what the dance team performance for derek ho h hough, neo and jennifer lopez looked like. >> it's a cl show i you check it out. >> that's the sameoutfit she wore to the oscars. >> if i were j. lo, i would wear that every day. coming up, the sto behind some strange new video that's going viral this morning. we're going to tell you how a teen ended up crashing into a gym from the school's ceiling. rst, a popular gift becoming a crime solving tool. at-home dna kits are working to

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you're watching news 4 today. >> welcome back. dna testing can tell more than just about your family history. it's also a new frontier in crime fighting. >> doreen gentzler is telling us how genetic testing is helping crack cold cases here or across the country. >> reporter: it starts with a swab of yourr cheek a tube of your saliva. with companies like 23andme, forensic testing is a tool in fighting crime. >> if a criminal puts his dna into a family databases, law enforcement can make family investigation andth f their

investigation. >> reporter: the technique got noriety last year, after the golden state killer was found. e big break in the case, dna from a distant relative on a public genealogy website. and police didn't need a warrant to tap into it. as home a kits become more popular, the databases are growing larger, giving police a chance to make an arrest i this is a loide d.c.'s crime lab. the work being done here every day, has solved sex assaults, murders andold ses. it could prevent future crime. dr. jennifer smith i the director of d.c.'s department of errensic sciences with decades of past ence working at the fbi. evolve.ign the science >> that day and age, we needed a stain about the size of a

nickel. now, we can get dna and amplify it or copy it from very, very small stains. sen staps y even staps y tains you can't se. >>sritics say genealogy rai privacy concerns. >> you can see you law enforcement officials respond to that side of the story. that's tonight at news 4 at 5:00 and 6:00. and this week,oreen is taking a closer look at the testing kits from the good and the bad to the somewhat unexpected results. set your dvr. >> it's 4:41. i had to take a sip of my coffee. >> aree calling it coffee >> #illhavewhatsheshaving. temperatures up in the suburbs and around 50egrees later today. you'll need the hat and the winter coat for today. the daily grade, b-plus.

ten-day forecast coming right up. plus, a slithering stowaway. i can't look. snakes on a plane are scary enough. listen how this python managed to make its way on an international flight. no way.

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and confiscated the team's equipmt and recording from the interview. he asked about the country's humanitarian crisis and showed the president venezuelans eating out of trash cans. it was that point when he apparently left the today, house democrats will use their new majority to try to stop the president's efforts to build a wall along the u.s./mexico border. the house willote to block the president's emergencyde aration. it is expected to pass the house. the senate would vote on the bill, wherehe futur is uncertain. also today, the president's ng-time lawyernd fixer, michael cohen, will begin a three-day run of congressional totestimony. >>y's hearing will happen before the senate intelligence committee. sun mcginnis joins us with a look at the day ahead. >> that's right. lawmakers have a lot of quesons for michael cohen over the next three days. here's a preview of theohtems that c is expected to discuss in his public testimony.

he's prepared to talk about lies, racism and cheating on the part of president trump, as well as evidence of criminal conduct. al, information about the presidens financial statements, which we may eve s e. and cohen'tivation for lying and why he decided to tell the truth, as well as details of president trump's involvement in the hush money scheme, where cohen facilitated payments, if you remember to the two women, who had affairs with president trump, stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. and the moscow deal, which she said he stopped all activity february 1st, 2016. it continued into june 2016, anl as as anyone told cohen to lie. and of course, aaron and eun, his testimony coming before the expected release in coming days of the robert mue salpe counsel report on russia. >> all right. susan mcginnis live for us this morning. thank you. we have an update to aews

4 i team investigation. noww child care center is open for federal workers on capitol hill. you may remember our report last year showed a two-year to t for year wait l children of staffers. at the time, parents told us they had to quit working for se theys, in part, bec couldn't secure spots. renovations inside a hoine office buiare complete. and a larger child care center is open. it's a walk from the capital itself. here's a look at the newsenter here. house administrators tell the i-team it's larger and the wait list is shrinking. today, a prominent pastor will be laid to jorest. e. cherry founded from the heart ministries in prince george's county. throughout his time there, he ledn international ministry spreading across five continents. he passed away unexpectedly last weekend at the age of 79. a viewing is planned at from the heart ministries at 8:00 a.m. memorial service follows at the united methodist church

is going to vote whether to change the historical position, that sexual relationships should be solely between men and women. thpe vote will h at the church's general conference. they usual meet everyour years and the next one isn't until next year. but divisions over lgbtq issues have become so sharp within the church, that the council of bishops called the meeting. new details on a deadly plane crash in florida. a student pilot's thinking saved girl.fe and a they took off on saturday. their planeost power andell into a home. the flight instructor was killed. he ran to help a 17-year-old girl who wasind to a wall by the plane inside the home. he used his shirt to stop her pleading until paramedics tharrived. the people inside of that home at the time were not hurt. another scary situationn

e sky. take a look at this violent wind that forced a british airways plane to make an emergency landing yesterday. someune on the g captured the moment the entire plane was swinging side-to-side. that's a scary sight. this flight was on the way to london, to gibraltar at the time. the pilot was able ty saf land the plane. if that's what it looks like on thas ground, what it like on the plane? >> that's like being a flea on an elephant's back. >> if they missed that rock. >> the wind wasn't as intense. but it made for bumpy landings there. you can see the turbulence, as planes touched down at reagan national airport. his is why you need experienced, smart pilots, to help you in these situations. >> isn't that every landing at reagan? >> stop it. no. >> that's a scary landing. c i don'te where you're coming from. before we check in withk,ch

one last flight scare for you today. >> i can't lnsk at this se. >> that's a two-foot-long python that sneaked out t of australia scotland, on three international flights. >> no one caught this thing? >> it hid in a woman's shoe. >> can youmagine when you found that shoe? it was packed in her b that 40-hour trip. experts believe it went into hibernation and began shedding its skin mid flight. a rescue group is taking care of the snake. >> oh, no, no, no no, no, no. it's supposed to be in australia and it's in scotland. we climate is all different. who knot the snake is up to. >> do you put the shoe back on? >> what's that quote about snakes on a plane again? >> throw the whole thing out. the lugge, all of it goes in the garbag we'reetting close to march. >> yes. >> that's the beginning of me meteorological spring. >> that's the million-dollar on ques i did digging back. the last significant snowstorm of the winter last year, didn't

come until march 22nd, right after we saidello to the spring equinox. the year before that, a march finale to snow chances. and a 2-4 inch snow in2017. and in 2016, after the big blizzard in january of '16,he last measure of significant snow came around valentine's day. and we didn'tave significant snow after the middle of february. i bring this up because there's two or three chances for snow around here in the next ten days. it won't be today, tomorrow or thursday. you have a couple of dayto settle down. 39 in washington. 24 in fauquier county. 26 in montgomery county. 37, now, in annapolis. and your planner for today, a garageincrease in clouds during the middle part of the day. no rain chances. it will bedry. temperatures will reach the upper 40s to around 50 degrees for most ea just about average here for late february. tomorrow, a little more cloud cover will keep most areas in

the mid to upper 40s tomorrow. slightly cooler than average. and a significantatrn change, set to arrive here on saturday night into sunday. and next week, the first full colder march, looks way than average. be ready for that. today, prettyuiet weather, up and down the east coast. we'll jump ahead to thursday morning. ot anything really expect the day thursday. as we get into early friday morning, this could be a slushy 1 orhe i of snow around here before it ends as rain late friday morning into friday afternoon. saturday, another chants, where it will be only rain on saturday. any snow chances will be way northf the pennsylvania border. and sunday night into monday, what might be the best chance of anow . monday night, that could be 3 to 6 inches. we'll keep you posted on that. and another chance wednesday of

next week. all that means is you need to enjoy the next three quietdays. >> hey. if you tell me to enjoy the day, i will. 66 here on glebe road. everytng is nic and clear right now. southbound 95. in springfield, before franconia road. right shoulder, blocked by the crash. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway, no problems. seeing a slowdown here as you ere approaching 50. i don't h an issue reported. that's od. glen echo cabin john parkway, had a problem there yesterday with a tree. today, it's an accident. a so, warning for you. and white's ferry, storm debris along the potomac river. that closed again today. aaron? >> melissa, thank you. a new d.c. homeless day center is now open, just a block away from the white use. the doors officially opened yesterday. the woman running itas once homeless herself. the center offers basic comforts many of us take for granted. laundry, computer access, healta

. the program director says this new facility hopes to offer something beyond the services -- a smile and a little love. >> one of the thingsed i not when i was homeless, people don't talk to you. you know? and that just makes it worse. >> the new center is leated in th basement of historic new york avenue presbyterian church. tonight, the nhl will celebrate black history month. john lewis and william o'ree will participate in a ceremonial puck drop during tonight's caps game against the ottawa senators. history marks the black in hockey theme night, honoring diversion and inclusion in hockey. the reigning stanlon cup chs made a few roster tweaks before the tradene deadli the caps acquired nickan jensen hagelin. they also waivedan d smith-pelly. amazing atch the

overtime game. >> you have to take me to a hockey game. >> anytime. >> i went to ee. >> dnd done. we're going to the caps game. you're going to have the best time. >> as long as i don't get hit bk a a teen in florida is recovering a skylight and landing on a gym floor. >> this happened during a wrestling tournament in gainesville. here's cell phone video of the incident as it happened. witnesses say the teen tried to get up butcouldn't. you see him on the floor. there was apparently another teen upoo on the there. >> it looks like a hard fall, too. >> want to see it again? boom. it's not clear high thwhy they the roof in the first place. t officials plan to release more information on this, possibly this week. >> they probably wer't supposed to be in the ceiling. >> definitely not supposed to be up there. >> i hope he's not hurt. >> w'sll see if thether angles, too. today, a bill to get help for 9/11 first responders gets a

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news 4 today, starts now. >> good morning, everyone. i'm eun yang. >> and i'm aaron gilchrist. thanks for joining us this morning. a wild monday weher-wise. strong winds blew across the region all day yesterday. took down some trees and power look at this video. this is in tenleytown. our camera spotted this near the whole foods there. >> today's forecast has better news. melissa mollet isy standing with your roads and your first 4 traffic. we beg with chuckbell. things going to lookda up to >> a lot less wind to toworry about today. 'm pleased that our whole crew made it to tenleytown. that's about three blocks from the fostudio. things to know about the weather today. quiet weather returns. it will be nice and tranquil for the next couplys our average high is 50 degrees.

we will be within a degree or two of average. and dry weather for the next few days. our chance of anything coming out of the sky may be rain/snow mix ely fridaymorning. that's a couple of days away. plenty of time to work out the details on that. right now, in the upper 20s in the shenandoah lley. some are in the 20s and others in the 30s. 36 in columbus airport. 31, prince george's county. your wake-up weather, it's a typically cold day out there. temperatures in the 20s and 30s as you get your tuesday ing. tuesday's high temperature, 52. technically, that's two degrees wahan average. we'll take it. >> i'll take anything above average. beltway university boulevard, inner loop, outer loop, everything is looking good righo same situation when you take a look at the maps. no other issues, as far as thew be is concerned at this point this morning. this is our slow spot, northbound 270 in gaitheburg, after