35 at the naval air station. your hour by hour planner, temperatures will stay below freezing in the suburbs probay through:00 this morning. a cold ride in. a cold wait at those bus stops. it will be all sunshine. outdoor recess is allowed today. kidsoill need pack that fleece. you can use the nbc washington app to get aomplete and updated forecast. find and follow me there on socidi a cute little video of the dogs playing on the beach on my you.agram, forecast for take a peek at that. melissa, you have good news on a weesday? >> a couple of closures. oxon hill, nthbound national harbor boulevard, the ramp to an the local is blocked. looking at the nnbeltway, loop and outer loop looking good. 66, fairfax county parkway to the beltway inbound, 64 miles per hour. that's going to take you nine minutes. headed outbound on66, nice and

clear. 95t in maryland powder mill road, northound and southbound looking good. a live look at 270 coming up in a couple minutes. 4:. now t an overnight update on a developing story. one person has died after serious crash in brandywine, maryland. prince george's countysaolice that person was one of the drivers involved in a crash.hicle this is chopper 4 video of the scene. this is brandywine road near crane highway. the other driver was taken to the hospital. word on their current season or what may have caused this crash. >> in rockville, a 3-year-old was hit in a parking t. >> montgomery county police say martinez s of antonio cruz parked in the lot on rockville pike tound 4:00. on toddler got out of the car, he took off running. the child was h by a silver ford explorer.

scene ver stayed on t as first responders rushed to itsave thee boy. no word yet if he will be charged. get ready to slow down inof part montgomery county. s thed section is expected to drop. drivers will have to slow down to 25 miles per hour near westfield wheaton mal from veers mill road to arcola avenue. moving north, the speed limit will drop from 45 mes per hour to 35 miles per hour. from connecticut avenue up to cherry valley drive, instead o 50minneapoli miles per hour it to 45 miles per hour. virginia's governor iki a push to make our roads safer, that means us you will h to put your phone down while driving. drivers aredy banned from using handheld cellphones in highway work zones.

ralph northam was inyelexandria sterday to expand the bill to all asroads. it one of his first appearance since a blackface scandal broke last year. if this passes, it will takey effect julst. using a phone while driving is already illegal in maryland and the district. here's a look at our other top stories beginning with a crash in prince george's county involving five teenagers. it's prompting officials to urge paalnts to tto their children about seat belts. the crash happened on good luck road before noon yesterday. the vehicle exited a driveway and clipped a nissan sedan which contained those students. it started a chain reaction crash. none tf thens was wearing a seat belt. xpected todayplea from the man who drove histo ca a group of demonstrators inll charloe, virginia. james fields junio will plead guilty to hate crime charges and avoid the death penalty. a jury recommended fields spend

the rest of his life in prison. a woman dd and several others wereeriously hurt in the crash during a r unite theht rally and protest. all criminal charges have been dropped against "empire" star jussie smollett. smollett claimed that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack. police say he made up the story and paid the men to attack him. hicago prosecutors have not said why they are abandoning the case against the actor. smollett must perform two days of community service and pay $10,000 in court costs. hear smollett's reaction in the next half ur. democrats failed to the national emergency declaration, that would have stopped the preside from building a wall along the u.s./mexico border. the pentagon announced plans to build 57 miles of fencing along the border. coming up at 4:45. we'll talk with tracie potts

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a boeing 737 max 8 jet forced to make an emergency landing yesterday after being in the air for 11 minutes. the plane was part of the fleet of max 8s that has been grounde following two deadly crashes. the plane was going from orlan to california to be stored until the grounding of max 8s is lifted. shortly after takeoff, the engine erated. the two pilots landed the plane safely. earlier this month the faa grounded the boeing 737 max jets after two crashes involving the same model o plane killed everyone on board. the faa says the latest issue is t related to the anti-stall software that is suspected as a cause fy the dea crashes. on capitol hill, two battles. one over the border wall, the other over the affordable care act. >> tracie potts is live on capitol hill. what's happening with the lawsuit regarding healthcare and

making its way through the courts. >> what's happening is an interesting decision by the justice department. they told a federal appeals court they favor getting rid of the affordable care act, the entire law. not just the money you have to pay if you don't have insurance, but scrapping the whole thing. as this moves its way through the courts, that is a new position for the trump administration, and it puts democrats in sort of between a rock and a hard place. they only have theajity and one half of congress. they're trying to save the affordable care act with aew plan that would expand coverage to more middle class give insurance companies more money for subsidies, for the poorest and sickest patients, but that's not even likely to get a vote in the senate where republicans are in charge. healthcare, here w go again. >> yesterday the house did not heoverturn president's veto of an earlier bill. it would have blocked the

emergency declaration to build that wall at the u.s./mexico border. what happens next? >> the money gets moved. the defense department said they want to move $1 billion from drug fighting tohi building border wall. symbolically the democrat in charge of the funding committee said we don't agree with that. but they can't force the pentagon not to use that money. the pentagon has to inform congress, but they don't have to ge t an okay move the money around. >> all right. tracie potts on the hill for us, thank you. the fallout continues in that college admissions scandal. an invtigation has been opened to figure out if there were al financialo fed aid program laws. georgetown university is one of the universits being investigated. the feds allege dozens of wealthy parents including hollywood actresses lied and paid massive bribes to get their children into elite schools. the universities themselves were

not implicated in the scandal. new video this morning shows two men stealing nearly $12,000 worth of tools in the district. d.c. police say the thieves dressed like construction workers, entered a construction site along 18th street northwest. once inside, they start hauling away several tools, including a big saw. police last saw the men heading into the rear alley. they want to talk to anybody who recognizes these guys m you have heard the popular grocery store chain shoppers is shutting down. e company says it does not have immediate plans to close any locations. tht company says plans to thoughtfully and economically divest its rail operations. several reports say the new of thecompany wants out retail business. they want to focus on wholesale. some wonder whether they'll be shopping, others wonder about theirjo . >> for many people, this job is all they have. they want to know wt's going

on. they're frustrated with being kept in the dark. >> if they close down shoppers, where are we supposed to go? >> that's the question i'm asking. that's my shoppers right there. giant bought several former shoppers in virginia and montgomery counties. the historic all-female spacewalk planned for friday has been a canceled because there are not enough space suits in the right size on the ion.rnational space st two female astronauts were scheduled to float outside the iss and replace old batteries. but they both nee mediu suits, and there's only one that is space ready on board. one of the astronauts pulled herself from the liup. male crewmate will fill in for her. they have lotten of heat for this situation. >> yeah. maybe next time.

>> not many people are happy. the washington nationals swapped their jerseys and cleats for suits at their homecoming gala. >> look at this. th gala was held last night at anthem in the wharf inas.c. it hosted byar lindsay ak and helps to benefit the washington nationals dream foundati. the gala included a dinner and silent auction, all of which helped raise more than $1 million for the dream foundation. news 4 will have coverage of nats opening day. we'll have everything you need to know including the lates news on the team, what's new at the park and weather for first pitch. coverage begins bright and early tomorrow morning and will continue throughout the day on news 4 and the nbc washington app. >> leave your bags at home. >> that's the rule now. >> no bags. it could be a nice day for baseball. >> that's good. >> good way to get the season

started. let's hope it end with aorld series. >> we're hoping. >> optimism reigns supreme. the days are getting longer and longer. we're 5ei iadding about 2 1/2 ms of daylight per day. tomorrow morning, the sunrise is 6:59 a.m. sunrise will b beore 7:00 through september 26th. love longer daylight. sunset this evening at 7:30. we're adding those minutes of daylight up fast. we nd thesunshine. it's a cold start this morning. mid 20s in the shenandoah valley. 21 in manassas. 38 in waington. 35 i bowie. your high today 55 degrees. winds out of the northeast now, out the southeast lat on today. any time we have that easterly fetch, we won't gethat warm. 55 today, five degrees cooler

than average, butot too bad. it won't be as breezy as yesterday. let me walk you through futur weather. no chance for rain today, tonight and tomorrow. maybe a shower up in southern pennsylvia or far western maryland. thursday will be a partly to day.y cloudy on friday, still more clouds, a southerly wind on friday meansa tempes in the 70s. maybe a little chance for a n shower ithern maryland and the shenandoah valley friday afternoon. i think the washington area stays dry. forhe weekend, saturday will be the better half of the weekend and the drier half.er teures in the mid 70s on saturday afternoon. a 70% chance for rain on your sunday. so sunday, cloudy, school showery. stuff you have to do outside this weekend, do it on with highs in the 70s. we start off next week cool before warming back into the 60s. let's go to melissa and traffic.

>> silver spring, outer loop before university boulevard, we had a disabled vehicle, that has now cleared out of the way. the rest of the beltway looking good. oxon hill, nthbound at national harbor boulevard, ther to the inner loop. that ramp to the local lanes is still shut down. looking at 270, frederick down the spur,68 miles per hour gets you there in 27 minutes. no problems along 270 southbound. northbound also looking good. into to, out of town, everything rolling along nicely. aaron? >> thank you. look at this highway mess. drivs were stuck for hours because of a soapy situation, if you will, on the pennsylvania turnpike yesterday. a truck carrying dish soap hit a bridge that spilled liquid all urer the road. nobody was but it took a while to clean up that slippery

mess. this video showing a wild police chase that had a bizarre excuse at the end of it. a driver was flowed by cleveland, ohio police for speeding. she managed to blow through a barricade of police vehicles several times. this is on a highway and in some dizzy residential areas. at one point the entire back of her suv was damaged. she kept going. she finally stopped after beinga forced int light pole. as the driver was taken into custody she told police she was in a hurry on her way to work. i'm going to guess she didn't make it. i ted that excuse, seldom is that a good excuse. some busy local parents hav a new option for getting their kids around the area. >> it's calledhop, skip, drive. it promises safe rides to get kids to and from events. think of it as uber but just for the kids. >> is it safe? >> that's the question.

>> adam tuss has a closer look. >> reporter: every parent wants the bestor their kid. and eighth grader jalen walker is a busy ki football, basketball, baseball, soccer, boxing, swimming. how ch time do y spend in the car? would you say you're in the car a lot? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: six sports. that's a lot of running to and from places. with our traffic, you know how that goes. jalen's mom is using a new service called hop, skip, drivke uber for kids. >> it's great. in advance we can plan. >> reporter: trips are seduled hours in advance. the difference here is these drivers have to go through a strict background check. they have to he five years experience as a caregiver. p, skip drive i starting in northern virginia but planning to expand. average res are 20 to 25 bucks. adam tuss, news 4. >> very interesting.

>> yeah. a lot of parts are just scared by the idea of putting their kid into a car with a stranger. >> i'm terrified abouto. that, it took three days and a dece of chicken to find a prized show that went missing at the atlanta airport. this could work for you, too when we're looking for you in the >> there's a few chick-fil-as you might find me at. this morning that dog is back with her owner. a terrier named gale took off after klm royal dutch airlines improperly secured the dog's cage. airport security staff immediately started searching. an intense search. but the airports about 47,000 acres, so finding her really wasn't that easy or fast. a break came on m somebody spotted her hiding in a quieter part of the airport property. it took about 20 minutes and a little chicken to coax gale out of her hiding place. there she is. she'll have a great story to

talk. good looking >> beautiful dog. >> chuck bell would love that dog. 4:57. still ahead, on the rise. the number of use of force cases among officers in the d.c. police department is going up. >> that same report found that much of that force directed at african-americans, how the department ison reng. plus five high school seniors hurt in a chain reaction crash. crash. the warning county leaders have for 50 years, cracker barrel has been making folks feel right at home,

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. good evening. it's 5:00 a.m. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm molette green in for eun we made it to wednesday. >> halfway there. >> we want to kick thing off forecast of your d the commute. >> melissa mollet has a look at the rails and the roads. we start off with meteorologist chuck bell and we hope an improvin forecast. >> it's a nice warming trend. i told you yesterday this morning wille the coldest part of the week, and that's come to pass. the warmup begins this afternoon. the warming trend will carry us into the first hf ofhe weekend. four things to know about the next four days, cool sunine ming your way for today. tomorrow, the home opener for the nats.