a live look outside. tip for getting dressed, wearrs la it is chilly. 42 degrees. it is going to be warming up. musico my ears. good morning, i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. thanks foroining us this morning. we're working for you with everything you need to know to get started.we 'll begin with the forecast with meteorologisthu bell and traffic with melissa mollet. what do you have? >> i've got sunshine for the da forecast you're going to love the way today turns out. a littl on the blustery side. all of the clouds and rain drops from yesterday afternoon are a thing of the past. off to a cold start,32 in gaithersburg and lorton this morning. wind chills in the upper 20s and low 30s. you'll certainly need that layer of fleece first thing this morning. sun's up at 6:50 this morning. it'll be bright and sunny all day long today.

that is the good news. it will be a little breezy. dog walking forecast. look at the 5-month-old guy. dino, yes,in ed. he looks like he would be a happy animal. i heard a sto about little speed racer. hopefully we can do the same for lauren. tenay forecast. >> i loved speedra r's name. suit land parkway, single lay getting by the work zon this is the work zone we see most weekday mornings now. fairfax county parkway to the beltway, i-66, 63 miles per hour or nine minutes. heading outbound, nothing in your way. inner loop/outer loop, earlier work zone is now gone. eastbound 50 at the severn river bridge, looks like it might have cleared.

n't clear. this is the wrong camera. we still have the problem with one lane getting by. eastbound after the severn river bridge, this is 270. >> thank you. a city of fairfax pet stores is under igation for animal abuse. >> humane society went undercer and found alarming conditions. we want toarn you,ome of this video may be disturbing. the hidden camera footage shows 14 dead rabbits in the petland store's freezer. employees are heard on camera explaining when rabbits get sick or are injured they aren't taken to a vet, they're left to die. the same investigation found petland buys rabbits from breeder in m, a centreville, maryland. they say the rabbits there are kept in filthy and terrible conditions. family and the rain, friends came together to remember a woman who was murdered this past week. she was shot to death on joe

street in fairmont heights near the d.c. line on saturday morning. she was transgender and police are trying to determine whether that played a role in her death. friends say her murder highlights the danger for people existing. >> we have to come together. onlyove canill fear and hate. we have to love each other and respect each other for what and who we are. >> before the vigil detectives canvassed the area. there is a reward for $25, for information that leads to an arrest and conviction. 4:33.ti new infor in a story we first brought you yesterday morning. the mother of a 10-year-old boy ffed and put into a police cruiser said her son is

traumatized. officers found a cell phone and bb gun. williams says her son i innocent. >> him being with the group of kids, of course he going to be a suspec with it, but my son didn't even touch anything of what was going on. >> once officers realized how young he was, they contacted youth and family services who contacted his mother. >> a boil water alert we've been warning you about is all over. wsscd lif the cautionary advisory yesterday morning. it impacted thousands of people in the aa highlighted since sunday when a water main b ke on indian highway. 4:34. don't forget to unplug your electronics before you leave home this morning. w overnigh learned a heated blanket is to blame for a house fire in north potomac.

the blanket was left on on a bed when it startedhe fire last night. the family of four was not home at the time. neighbors on dunley place saw the flames and called 911. fire officials say the floor and attic are destroyed. here's a look at your other toptories we're following this morning. new details about a high rfie you saw breaking here on news 4 yesterday morning. overnight fire a rescue from montgomery county said it appeared flames areeled to candle and incense or electrical problems. the fire sparked in a bedroom on the ninth floor of the kensington condo building, no one was hurt. house republicans are pushing for a hearing so lieutenant governor irfax's accusers can testify. they say the investigation

should be left up to law enforcement. two hollywood stars are expected in c court innection with a college admissions scandal. lo lori loughlin and felicity huffman are news 4 will be following the updates from court throughout the da > washington wizards have fired long-time general manager ernie grunfeld. they say he was fired because ake the would not playoffs this year. he had been with the team for 16 seasons. theearch for his replace lmt start at the end of this season. over atrk nats bryce harper made his return to washington and fans didn't exactl welcome him back once he was on home plate. >> he knew that was going to happen,right? come on. when he took to the field as a philly he was greeted with boos. >> bryce harper. >> traitor.

snake. yikes. they were blastin bryce for leaving d.c. for philly. on the field mike scherzer kept up the momentum. harper struck out his first two at bat. that's when i went to bed. he crushed a home run into the second deck. here's what harper had to say about coming home after the me >> i didn't know it was going to be like ithis. heard the boos. for me, that's part of sports. part of the game. for me i just tried i, like said, remember the city of philadelphia is sitting back at home, cheering, screaming, yelling at their tv happy as heck that i'm a philadelphia philly. it's part of the game. knowing that i have these guys back at home lovingt' me, t all that matters. >> fine. making this night worse. phillies beat the nats 8-2. just the first of 19 match-ups against harper's new team. we have plenty of time to make up fort game last night. >> i hope so.

the next t one will beay at 1:05. harper posted at heart f thank you to nats fans on his instagram page. it appears most people still can't forgive him for leaving d.c. because that's how people are. >> people take it personally. i don't think he cares. >> not a little bit. >> he has the phillies w. if you read the instagram post, he cared about the city. he loved his teammates. he mentioned a coupl restaurants. >> that's how life works. i loved richmond and now i'm here. >> you said dueuces. i make millions. get on it. 4:38. coming up. changes comin to anoth sports tradition. the citi open. we'll fill you in on why the tennis tournament will look a bit different here. wild new video showing a bus driver being beaten up while driving. why he endedin up loshis job

you're watching "news 4 today." a violent attack all caught on camera involving a passenger and a bus driver. connecticut transit officials an the attack started after argument escalated while on bus last month. quickly turned physical when a man used his cane to beat the driver, stephen knots. unbuckles his belt and starts to fight back and exits the bus. this attack spilled into the street where knots is seen kicking the passenger on the road. the driver w later fired on the job afterhat attack. new this morning, a maryland man accused of hurting a bird ir a is sitting in a key west jail this morning. william hunter hardesty was arrested for two counts of animal cruelty and allegedly

violating the migratory bird act. he's beend extradiack to florida. this is the video that went viral before the charges were filed. this is hardestyumped on to a pelican in the florida keys. now he's in a florida jail on an $80,000 bond. he kept sayin that he's somebody who actually loves animals and protects them. he's now facing a big fine. >> you can tell that by the pelican when he jumped on him. duh. your pollen f forecast today, trees remain in the moderate range. mold and weeds low. car wash forecast, you can get away with it for the next couple of days.

you're watching "news 4 welcome back. at 4:45 for the first time we are hearing fe white house whistle-blower. >> she is raising red flags about top surityclearances. yeara newbold is an 18 security clearance specialist. she told congress that 25 people had their clearances granted even though she and her colleagues recommended they be denied. sh fears losing her job and spoke exclusively with nbc news about why she is speaking out. >> the protectionf national

security is not a democratic issue or a republican issue, it's an american issue. >> nbc news citingultiple sources familiar with the matter first reported in january that the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, was among those whose security clearance denial wasle over more drama is set to play out on capitol hill today. y >> attorneral william barr missed his deadline to turn over the full mueller report to congress so now congress is taking action. they're set to vote to authorize a subpoena. news 4's tracie potts is live on capitol hill with the latest. acie, good morning. >> eun and aaron, good morning. the subpoena would be the next step. it's not done deal but the vote would give the chair of the house judiciary the power, t authorization to subpoena the full report, by full report we mean without ioreda. the attorney general said he couldn't make the deadline because they are trying to take out top secret information, assified information,

information connected to ongoing investigations. grand jury information which by law has to remain secret.f allhat being blacked out before they turn this report gr over to cs but the concern here is that while the special b counsel rt mueller did not come to a conclusion on whether the president was - should be prosecuted for obstruction, the heorney general decided that should not. where is the disconnect? that's why democrats say they s want to everything. it doesn't look like they will, but the subpoena could change things. that vote happening today. >> tracie potts on the hill. thank oru. he first time in history, chicago has elected an african-american woman to be mayor. lori lightfoot won in a run-off election with 75% of the vote. she thanked the people of nicago commenting the progressive steps the city can take going forward. she willo a be the city's first lesbian mayor when she takes offmae in new details in the case of a

deadly hazing death of a pledge at penn state university. three of the four fraternity brothers of timothy piazza are heading to jail. event an initiation after drinking large quantities of alcohol back in 2017. now those three former brothers will all serve sentences ranging from 30 days to months in jail. piazza's parents say they knew what they were doing and that their son's dea was notn accident. they are seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution for funeral and medical costs. 4:48. former pharmaceutical executive martin skrelly is in trouble againhile he's behind bars. he now in solitary the associated press says the so-called pharma bro was caught with a cell phone. he was allegedly trying to run his new pharmaceutical company

from inside. a woman tried to put up a fight when a robber hit a laundromat in the northeast this weekend. this happened monday morning. the man tried to get cashewsing a broomstick but that plan wasn't going to get him any money. look at this. he came back then when the worker was there, slipped in the door and grabbed the mother. the woman hit him with a brook stic he ran away. ifou recognize the man, please call police. she's not that big. i'm glad she's okay. target is expanding in the district with two new stores getting ready to open their doors this week.s one along connecticut avenue in cleveland park and the other iais on geo avenue park.hepherd both are small format target stores. that is not the end of rget's

road. city is the smaller one but the convenience of having a target near ayou. >> goe long way. >> there goes my money. > artists and parents i arlington county are trying to prevent devastating cuts to en chil arts programs in the next county budget. arlington county board is workingight now on its 2020 budget. at a hearing last night artste supp were among the most vocal asking to be protected from funding ts. firefighters and activists were also there making their case for more taxpayer dollars. nal budge decisions will be made on april 18th. now that school districts in virginia are allowed to start their school year before labor day, students and teacher in fredericksburg are in for a shock to the system. this fall the first day of school will be august 12th. august 12th. let that sink in. school leaders say they're worried about keeping and hiring new teachers with a short summer vacation. this school year doesn't end in

fredericksberg until june giving them a shorter time to fill open positions. at's a longer school year. i'm surprised they didn't shorten it at t endf june so you have more days in the middle. >> see who puts up a 4:51. game, set, match. the citi open tennis tournament will be staying in washington, d.c. great news. >> yeah. it's been here for 50 years. it was on the verge of leaving but as news 4's mark sea graves reports, staying here will have an impact well beyond thecourt. >> reporter: when it started in 1969 it was called ther washington s international tennis turn to namt. while the sponsorship has changed, the mission remains the same. to carry on arthur ashe's commitme60. years later the citi open is one of the only major tournaments played in p alic

park. it raises money for t tnis and education foundation which operates centers like this. >> it's just life changing every day. i see smiles on faces that i didn't see to begin. challenges that kids had when they first came, they're no long there. > in the district, mark seagraves, news 4. >> it's not far from my house. my kids have taken clinics there. the coaches are amazing. i'm so glad to see citi open which draws some big names. >> yes. >> last number nishik gi. >>w up in richmond where they did the same thing there. all of the confederate statues and he wasthere.

it's great to see things expanding. >> chuck bell, it is 42 degrees and give me 65. can i put in a request, just 65? >> thank you. >> easy enough. what else you got? what else you need? >> chocolate crssants? we'll figure that out. i was worriedou would ask for something i couldn't deliver at all. 42 degrees inwa ington. dry start. after a cloudy and somewhat ery finish to yesterday, the showers have moved out quickly. clearing skies allowed temperatures to drop rather precipitously for most of the western suburbs. 36 in quantico. 42 downtown and near the bay. not much of wind yet. it will be adaindy winds out of the west 20 to 30 miles per hour. wind chills down below freezing. won't have to worry about wind

today's high, i can do better than that, 65 degree request.7 how about today. it will be windy. the storm that we had the rain showers from yesterday, look at this thing cranking up here off the jersey shore today as it pulls away. windy leave very conditions up and down the eastern seaboard. if you are traveling to providence or boston, you could have early days there. any incleeanter won't be today. sunny and breezy. tomorrow won't rain but there will be a l of cloud cover during the day tomorrow. don't plan on a lot of sunshine. today and tomorrow the last two days with cheri blossoms at peak because rain chances are creeping back up. the s 7:00 a.m. friday all way up through 7:00 p.m. friday. most of the rain should be coming to a end by early saturday morning. i'm optimistic most of your weekend plans will be done wh dry conditions.

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>>s 4 today" starts now.>> it is 5 a.m. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang a lot to get to this wednesday morning, including that nats game. bryce harper came back to d.c. htand if you tho nats fans had forgiven him foreheading to philly, guess again. did you hear all of those boos? >> yes. it was pretty rough o the field. very cold f reception bryce harper. we'll get into the game a little bit comg up in little bit. first though -- >> we're going to check the forecast and your commute. >> storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell will tell us what we need to know. >> it will be sunny and it