atm from a local 711 by smashing a vehicle into the store. this morning news 4 is headed to the scene. is 4:00 a.m., good morning, everybody, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> isle eya . we'll get to those stories and more. we want to check with yndr commut forecast. >> melissa mollet has the roads but first start with chuck bell and your storm team 4 forecast. >> hump day is here. clear ski and light wind overnight. it's been bombs away on the temperatures, almost all the suburbs way below freezing this morning. 27 now in gaithersburg. 24 in manassas. 27 in winchester. 36 in washington, 35 in annapol annapolis. sub freezing temperatures int st. mary's county this morning. bundle up. it's ane cold get going. most areas will climb nearly 30

degrs towards daytime highs in the mid to upper 50s. another nice one tomorrow, still acking out a pretty high chance for some rain and storms friday. good morning, melissa. >> i have a crash investigation in d.c. so this is eastern anue tween varnum and randolph crash investigation with all lanes blocked. they are still blocked but with police. this should be clearing prettys . outer loop of the beltway express lanes and the toll road with lanes blocked there. two things in virginia, eastbound toll road ramp blocked to the beltway and ramp to little river turnpike t westbound side work zone with the ramp blocked there. guys? >> melissa, thank you. those of you waking up in prince georges county may have seen and heard a lot of police sirens overnight. >> cory smith is at the live desk with the latest on an atm heis >> yeah. that atm was taken from a 7 1

store. we just goteo into the scene we can show you. take a look. this is in the 7700 block of fin's lane. you can see the mess left inside the store after the crash. this happene just minutes before 2:00 a.m. our megan mcgraph is headede to cene right now. less than an hour after that, few miles away, a car slammed into a house. now, investigators a telling us this is not related to that atm heist we just saw but no word on if anyone was injured. we'll be sure to update you on both of those as we learn more. back to you. >> cory, thank you. nc developing in p georges county overnight as well, officers swarmed an apartment complex after a woman was shot. lice were called outo the apartments on bell cresasroad here et west highw just before 8:00 p.m. last night. a woman had been shot and she died a short time later. investigators have not said anything about any possible suspects in this case. now to the latest on what's being called the biggest college

admissions scam in history. >> rich folks were cght buying their kids' w into prestigious schools. this scandal centers around eight elit universities. court documents say college paid william m singerlions to get their kids into top colleges and universities. among them, tv actress lori laoghlin ande lyssa huffman. federal prosecutors broke down th different crimes tha singer is charged with. >> one was to cheat on the s.a.t. and/or the a.c.t. and the connections use his with division i coaches and use bribes to get these parent kids into school with fake athletic credentials. >> singery apparen photo shopped faces of his client's children on to actual athlete pictures and paid coaches to put their children in their designated admissions spots.

>> prosecutors also saidinger bribed a former georgetown coach is ang those indicted. gordon ernst was the head men's and women's coach at georgetown university for 12 seasons. we talked to a local student to try to get the best score she can for her dream school she tells us this scandal is heart breaking. >> i worked so hard for so many months to try to get to my goal, and knowing that people can just get in because their parents and because of money isn't fair. >> court documents allege georgetown's former coach was paid nearly $3 million anded designt least 12 applicants as recutes to facilitate theiradmissions. it's now 4:04, paul manafort will be back i court today, this time in d.c. >> this is his second sentencing hearing in a many weeks. manafort faces up to ten years in prison as pt of special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation. pleaded guilty to two counts

of conspiracy. each punishable up t five years in prison. lastmonth-sentenced to 47 months by a judge in virginia for financial crimes. nowho the crisis in the catholic church, six i years prison for the former vatican mister. georgepell is arrested ofle ing two choir boys in 1966. he must serve a minimum of 3 years and 8 months before he's eligible for parole. pell denies the allegations and plans to appeal this se. the vatican launched its own investigation to determine defraught. will be >> the federal aviation administration is facing criticism for not grounding boeing 737 max jets. much of the world,he including european union and the united arab emirates have grounded the ple. in ethiopia, u.s. investigators

continue to scour the area where the jet liner crashed and killed in the u.s., united airlines t flies longer max 9s, southwest and american airlines y the max 8s, all three airlines say they do not have safety ns. some lawmakers and the union nepresenting american airs flight attendants say the u.s. should join other countries and keep t plane out of the skies at least until more is leard. >> the 737 max should be grounded immeyately. >> v concerned about their safety but also the safety of our ctomers whoe care for everyday. >> the faa released a statement saying any issues affecting the airworthiness of the aircraft are identified, it will take immediate and appropriate action. boeing says it will roll out a software patch within weeks that should address a computer glitch

that may have contributed to the inan crash involving an on board anti-stall system. this massive infno forced more than 100 families out of their homes overnight in new this isntense fire you're nrk. seeing in yonkers. firefighters were called out on the scene and are still therebu ing out hot spots. every fire in the city was working to contain the flames. firefighters believe this starte t on the floor. they're still working to figure out exactly what caused the sparks to fly here. tragedy at disney world.st a cction worker died after an accident at sney's epicot theme park in orlando. officials say the 58-year-old rker fell in an area of the park that is under construction. the worker has not been identified. investigators say there is no sign of foul play. 4:07 now. nity leaders com are fighting to keep a charter school alive in southeast d.c. a school board voted to shut it down next year. the d.c. public chart school

eiard says national collegiate prep is shut down because of performance issues like poor test scores, low enrollment and 'sclining graduation rate. the scho founder says some of those problems are due to other errors. she says the class of 2018 lost several students that moved tore areas but the school did not keep track so it appeared those students dropped out. school leaders say now their plan is to try to get the board to reverse its decision. >> don't understand how you close a school in the mostan di franchise community when they made eight of their nine goals. d the school board s national collegiate prep was, quote, the lowestg perform public charter school and declined year after year. no one ever wants do close a school, but we're focussed on the quality education for all students. an hvac installation has to be done at central high school in capital heights that mnens school year students have to attend forestville high

school. district leaders say the $20 million project is too big for students to be in the ilding. rents worry about their kids catching a bus several miles away. students sayt they just w a comfortable place to learn. >> one day you get inthere, it's freezing cold. the next day it's burning up. >> we had issues withur bus already where they're not picking kids up, bus drivers are not coming, now we're talking about putting me kids on a bus. >> forestville high school is being used as a swing space since it closed the plan i to have the elementary school which is there now to move out this summer to make way for central high school there could be a new course for high school students in maryland, organ donation, according to our news partners at wtop, a new bill moving through the general assembly wod makeway. the bill could require county boards of education to begin teaching the course in public schools starting in the 2020,

2021 school year. also new thi morning, amazon is removing books promoting autism curesnd misinformation about vaccines. the online marketplace confirmed its removing books that unscientifically claim children can be cured with autism with methods such a eating and bathing and toxic form of bleach and taking medicine meant to treat arsenic and lead poisoning. following this month's deadly tornado outbreak in alabama, a return to normalcy this week. students are now back in class in lee county. the first day was yesterday ath were greeted with some familiar ces. members of auburn baiversity's etball team were there along with the school's mascot. a little more than a week ago, 23 people werey killed an ef-4 tornado. nice to see that people are trying to startiv their again. in colorado, a small community has been cut off by recent avalanches.

40 to 60 feet of snow cover the road. disconnecting the people of souray from everythingouth of them and it will be that way for another week until all that snow can be cleared. the departmentsf defense approved a new policy regarding transgender troops. it t will f most part bar troops and recruits from transitioning and require them to serve in their birth gender. the policy falls just short of oue al transgender ban that was ordered by president trump. it will likelyhe force military to eventually discharge transgender iividuals who need hormone treatments or surgery and can't or won't serve in their birth gender. well, core seths and otherf shapers give you the look you want. now doctors are saying it may come at a prine. c up, we're breaking down the newest warning. chuck? he> all right. it's all about sunshine for today. and a nice little two-day warming trend. ill tracking a pretty high chance for rain on friday and the weekend looks dry, b oh

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i'm cory smith at thrive in thellowing break news district. we're working to learn more about a really bad crash overnight. take a look at pictures from that scene. an f-250ersus what looks like a ford focus in northeast. that is right at the d.c./maryland line. d.c. fire officials telling us the crash involved two vehicles. two people were trapped inside one of those vehicles and we're told ty have critical injuries. no word yet on what may have caused thecrash. again, we're working to learn more about that crash. we'll give you more updates as they become available. our partners reporting ahat

easternue closed both ways tween barnem street and bunkeroa hilld because of this accident. back to you. >> cory tsmith,nk you. tomorrow when empire star jesse smollettea a in a chicago courtroom, cameras will be allowed. he is facing more than a dozen charges. chicago police say he lied about being the victim of a racist and homophobic attack. smollett's attory jed said details about the case have been leaked and added that many of them aren't true. prosecutors say smollett staged the attack to further his career. and it's not only jessie smollett facin mounting troubles. >> both r. kelly and the michael jackson estate are under increased scrutiny. kelly has been charged with molesting teenage girls and in a recent documentary jackson was accused by two men of molesting them by children. but the popularity of neither entertainer seems to be taking

hit here. according to nielson music, jackson's mus has seen a slight increase in sales, 6,000 of his albums sold last week and his music was strea md more than lion times. but fewer radio stations have played his music and canada, new zealand and australia has gone as far as barring his music on the air waves. meanwhile, radio stations are playing r. kelly's music more. he seems he has seen a 71% increase since his interview with gayle king lasteek on cbs this morning. morning people are watching his music videos online as well but fewer people are streaming and wnloading his songs. parents, doctors are warning you to vaccinate your children. centers for disease control says there's beeew 12 cases of measles in the last week, bringing the number of cases tor 228s the country. no cases have been reported in our area.wo last month passengers reason on an international flight to san francisco became infected with measles from a traveler who

picked it up from another country. last year was the second highest total cases in that disease in more than 20 years. >> we're continuing the numbers rise because the disease is so highly contagious. and every time you have pockets of unvaccinated people, the disease isea going to s very quickly. >> measles can spread through a coughi sneezing and lingers in the air or on serv e surfaces for up to two hours. uses rning for anyone who shape ware so it may help you look amazing but some doctors warn the clothing may not be doing such great things for your insides. internists say once you squeezed yourself into shape ware, your muscles are going to relax weakening your core. your core helps stabilize your spine. that means shape ware or popular workout core sets could lead to back injury. >> it's like weang any typef brace anywhere.

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be. >>oh, boy. i got nothing to say that won't get me in trouble here. >> how about that weather, chuck bell? >> for a shorttime. >> he's going to go change during the commercial break. >> it's a very cold start on a wednesday morning around herebo temperature freezing at national airport and next to the day. but boy, you get aw from the city or the weather, it's noticeably colder. unlike the last cple mornings, though, there's not much of a breeze to worry about, so wind chills will note an issue, but the actual temperatures are cold enough. 28 now in winchester, virginia, 25 iwarington. 26 at dulles airport. 27 in montgomery county. 28 in upper marl borrow this morning. here is your planner for today, what a great-looking day it's going to be. mostly sunny and a huge jump. many spots will climb nearly 30 degrees from where we are nowno afternigh temperatures. that is a big-time warmup for rsure. tomorrow, won't start off anywhere near this cold.

we'll be mostly in the low 40 tomorrow morning. but, we will have a little bit more of a southerly breeze tomorrow. clouds will gradually be on the increase, but it wl be mild d dry tomorrow, mid to upper 60s on your thursday. now, this big storm out here in the middle of the country, one that buried colorado under feets of snow. you could have delays in colorado and all this rain moving towards st. louis and f chicago, travel delays there. for us, 100% chance for rain is focussed on your friday. so dry today with sunshine, dry torrow with little bore clouds. it will rain on friday. probably the morning, the noon and the evening time, but it won't rain 100% of the time. but it will rain probably two or three times on you. the weekend, sunny and chilly. saturday will be on the breezy to blustery side as well i'll give you the ten-day outlook in the next half hour. melissa? >> thank you, chuck. still updating you on this situation eastern avenue that bad crash video we showed you

with that large pickup truck. we're still shut down eastern between varnumnd randolph street because of this crash investigation. all laned are blocked. 66 prince william parkway nto town, out of town no worries there even though we have little bit of construction happening. 95 northbound quantico to the beltway, nice and clear as you look at the northbound lanes. headed out of town southbound on 95 also looking good. no bigomplaints there. tyson's outer look of the beltway, express lanes there works zone with lanes blocked in the express lanes. the express lanes. main (clucking noises) the express lanes. main everyone wantso be the cadbury bunn because only he brings delicious cadbury creme eggs.

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>> announcer: news 4 today starts now. right now aive look outside on this wednesday morning. tsndle up, layer up before you head e. temperatures are below freezing in most parts of the area thi rning. it will be warming up by the time you head out for lunch today, little bit. >> i feel like monday was a tease. the rest of the week would waru but tomorrow it is. chuck says so. >> good morning, everybody, 4:3c i'm aaron ist. >> i'm eun yang. it will look and feel like a irst we ring day, but

do have to get through some of this cold weather out there this morning. storm team bell has a look at our forecast and check in with melissa mollet for a look at the ros. one more really cold day, chuck? >> this will be far and away the coldest morning of the next couple. almost everybody below freezing. as soon as you get outside the capitol beltway or away from the water, it is freezing. 28 in new market, 2maryland, in new market, virginia. 27 in, columb 30 degrees in fredericksburg. bundle up. wakeup weather forto y, sunrise just under three hours, 7:23 this morning for sunrise. so we'll be well below freezing between now and then, but the dry air mass thas in place that has helped get us so cold this morning, dry air also warms up very, very quickly. so by on in the day today, most areas will jump more than 30 degrees. we're going to get cloo 60 today. enjoy. nice and mild for tomorrow, too. but, rain and showers and maybe even a rumble or two of still looks like