obamacare but that will no longer happen. the vote has been postponed until tomorrow. now, a meeting today between the president and the house freedom caucus it seemed to end without the support needed to hit the 215 votes necessary for the bill to pass the house. now, the press secretary he still hosted his daily press briefing after that meeting and he said that some members of the house freedom caucus did in fact say they would vote yes. though he would not say who or how many. now, the president was also on the phone with different house members until late into the evening working to earn votes for the bill. now, let's turn to speaker ryan. he postponed his weekly press conference scheduled for today twice. signaling trouble. the press conference has been postponed without any rescheduled time and there is instead a house republican conference meeting scheduled for 7:00 p.m. tonight. now, speaker ryan has also been meeting with those who oppose the bill all day in an effort to convert them. so, what if it doesn't pass tomorrow? will

repercussions for those republicans who don't support the jbill? can you imagine if e repeal and replace of obamacare that republicans have been talking about for years doesn't pass because of republicans? listen to what the press secretary had to say about that today. >> this is something that we've talked about. you've taken a bunch of these free votes when it didn't matter because you didn't have a republican president and you got to vote for repeal and go back and tell your constituents something like 50 times, well, this is a live ball now. and this is for real and we're going to do what we pledged the american people and keep our word. he believes not just him but the members of the house and the senate have an obligation to fulfill the promise and pledge they made to the american people. >> reporter: the white house maintains that they are confident the bill will pass. in order to avoid a vote at 3 a.m. tomorrow morning it has been postponed noting "this should be done in the light of day, no t not in the wee hours

than 48 hours since the body of corinna mehiel was found in a row home. >> so far police released a picture of her car an photo of a person of interest but still no arrests have been made. matt you talked with one of her friends from gw. >> reporter: yeah, we did about an hour and a half ago. his name is mel chen and he worked on a project with her here at the university connected to the corcoran school of arts and design. he really had some wonderful things to say about her. let me read them. corinna was brilliant always ththe first to smile. she embodied a life of kindness and generosity. mel chen says he had dinner with corinna on sunday night. we asked if she may have expressed any concerns about her life being in danger. >> never, never. no our departure was full of

>> reporter: he says she was a woman of action and would leap to help someone in need. she also is wanted to end violence against women. >> she recognized that the liberation of men is part of that process. to the person who did this to her, you're too late. you failed. corinna mehiel was already liberated and he will boldened so many people to fight for their beliefs. her spirit will continue. >> reporter: meanwhile d.c. police still at the scene of the crime today yellow tape still blocking the sidewalk along 14th street northeast. the investigation also taking them to beltsville maryland. this picture of a person of interest was taken at this convenience store. an employee telling us police were here wednesday and again this morning and there is this picture, corrina's prius with kentucky plates. police say they captured this image on a traffic camera and say pay close attention to this yellow bumper sticker on

the back. that's it, those two pieces of evidence that yellow bumper sticker authorities are hoping maybe you might be able to see that car and spot that sticker and also that picture calling it a person of interest. by the way, corrina's family contacted fox5 today. they were asking that we view this story again to get this word out. obviously they want to get this person arrested. d.c. police say they're still working this case but didn't have any further information. one more thing before we go. mel chen told us that he was having dinner with corrina on sunday night and remember, this was a short-term project. she was only in d.c. for a short time and she was scheduled to leave d.c. very soon after that dinner. live on the george washington university campus tonight, matt ackland fox5 local news. >> ♪ >> new tonight, police in prince george's county need your help identifying the suspect in a double shooting that left an 18-year-old dead.

alyssa banks was shot to death back in october on prince place in upper marlboro. a man was also shot but he survived. detectives today released this sketch of the man they are looking for. a $25,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest. >> meantime police in prince george's county have arrested one of their own after he got into a crash overnight in his police cruiser. christopher brown was off duty when he struck a tractor-trailer lost control then crashed into a guide rail along interstate 495. brown left the scene after the crash but returned a short time later. responding officers suspected he was under the influence of alcohol and tonight he faces charges including speeding and drunk drive. he's been suspended by prince george's county police. >> big change is on the way for metro riders of the today the voted to raise fares and cut service. rail fares will go up 10 to 25 cents and bus fares by a quarter. trains would are a arrive at stations every eight minutes throughout most of the system during rush hour. metro will also get rid of some

the changes are expected to save metro an estimated $29 million. >> ♪ >> all right, 5:05 right now. outside 47 degrees. definitely a cooler day than we've seen the last few. >> let's check in with sue palka and get the latest on& the weather. i would call this gorgeous actually. >> it is gorgeous and feels better than yesterday but you're right it's way below average for this time of year but at least we're not dealing with that big wind, reit? guess what? a warmup is going to be getting under way very soon but we are still running a little bit on the cooler side. we haven't been able to get up to 50 degrees yet at d.c. although we've touched 50 south and east of d.c., south and west 51 for manassas, culpeper 50, fredericksburg 50, out toward cumberland you can see they're at 52 degrees as wie. as well. we'll be staying on the chilly side but i did want to give you the headline for the warm weather lovers. a spring warmup is about to begin tomorrow. not as warm as it will be over the weekend but we'll start

taking the edge offer this cool air in a big way. also wanted to show you while we could certainly use some rain around this area we may even have a chance of getting a couple of sprinkles or a very light shower early tomorrow and i wish my map would move on. it doesn't seem to want to go. it's not allowing me to move forward so i'll just tell you that the next thing i was going to show you is there was some very warm temperatures south and west of d.c. that's what's going to be moving in our direction but tonight we're going to see our temperatures falling into the 30's. last night we had 20's. we won't do 20's tonight but we will do some 30's and we're going to watch a couple of light showers that are going to pass along the mace so and dixon line as a warm front moves through our area. oh, got a new clicker coming. let's see if this helps. thank you clicker man, matt. let's see if we can get that to work. it isn't.s the battery, maybe- maybe it's the computer. well its a two for one special. i'll tell you what, we will get this worked out and now this is how you realize it's live television because we surely would have edited this out if it was on tape. >> i'm looking at

right now. just went to black. >> oh. >> a bigger roar message or something. >> thank you for in. i'm in another room so i didn't see that. >> spring warmup. >> that's all we need to know. >> yeah. >> at its good news in the forecast. >> exactly. >> thank you sue. >> coming up at 5:00 the outrage over the rockville high school raped has boiled over on capitol hill. >> tom fitzgerald is on that story tonight. fitz. >> reporter: jim, sarah, breaking news tonight. the house judiciary committee set to open hearings on immigration break downs is the question surrounding the rockville high school rape investigation coming up an exclusive interview with the chairman of the house judiciary committee, what he wants to know and what he plans to do. sarah. >> good morning. [laughter] >> and a warm welcome there for education secretary betsy devos from a group of maryland kids whose class she visited today. but we'll show you the group of people she had to get through first that were awaiting her arrival outside the

they weren't nearly as happy, though. we'll explain coming up. >> ♪

>> ♪ outrageous over the rockville high school rape has reached capitol hill. officials say both suspects were detained by u.s. border agents in texas in 2016 and park for deportation. >> they were released to

family. they are both in jail charged with raping a 14-year-old student in a bathroom. tom fitzgerald live on the hill tonight with more on this case and the effects are wide ranging, fitz. >> reporter: they are jim, sarah, good evening. the chairman of the house judiciary committee telling fox5 tonight he intends to continue an investigation into immigration break downs, policies that were not in force that he said led to a situation that allowed these two suspects now under arrest in the rockville high school rape to enter the united states from the u.s.-mexico border and make their way to and montgomery county, maryland. the house judiciary committee tonight requesting from ice customs and immigration enforcement what is called the complete alien file on these two individuals. they are also asking for data on how and when each individual entered the united states and in a letter to the homeland security secretary general john kelly tonight, the

wants information if either individual" was a member or associated with any criminal gang, the chairman telling fox5 news exclusively tonight he intend and to impanel a hearing next week to ask many of these questions. >> we have already received a good verbal response from the department of homeland security that they are looking forward to responding to this letter as an opportunity to tell how they're changing policies so that in the future, people showing up at our border will not get released into the interior of the country so that things like this will be far less likely to happen. >> reporter: back in montgomery county meanwhile there was this scene, the u.s. secretary of education betsy devos met with protesters as she and maryland governor larry hogan arrived at the carter rock elementary school in bethesda this morning. devos did not take questions about the

school rape investigation. however, the u.s. department of education did release this statement in her name. it read in part "my heartaches for the young woman and her family at the center of these terrible circumstances." governor hogan, as you well know, blasted the montgomery county school board this week for not providing answers to questions from the governor's staff and the maryland state board of education. when we spoke to him today, the governor reported there has been progress on this front but he urged the schools to continue to be more transparent. >> have you gotten the answers that you demanded on tuesday morning that you were not receiving from the montgomery county school board . >> we had a conversation a little earlier and i asked for continuing discussion. we don't have all the information. it is an ongoing investigation and we kind of want to let everybody

>> reporter: the job of educating these students in rockville high school goes on, though but it has not been easy this week as you well might imagine and not made easier by the fact there continues to be a long and steady stream of threats and threatening messages sent into the school. the spokesperson for montgomery county public school tells us they have been flooded with threats, some of the messages claiming that there are explosive devices that will be involved, some firearms, some people leaving messages saying they will come to "shoot illegals." those are the words from the mcps spokesperson today. now, as far as these messages, one of the school board members, patricia o'neill is calling for calm saying she shares the concern over this attack but in this current environment she says there is noplace for these kinds of threats: i was as angry about this as a lot of your parents seem to be?

incident, i mean, the breath just came out of me because i was so shocked and horrified, how could this happen in montgomery county public schools? you know, it's -- >> reporter: how did it happen. >> i honestly -- i don't know. >> reporter: finally tonight we are hearing for the first time from the attorney for one of these two suspects, henry sanchez. the defense attorney in a statement saying his client is the subject of a rush to judgment, is innocent engaged in what he calls a consentual act and will plead not guilty. we should remind you in the state of maryland, the victim in this case is 14 years old. that is below the age of consent. we're live on capitol hill tonight, tom fitzgerald, fox5 local news. >> virginia governor terri mcauliffe weighing in. he was asked if he supports the idea for

thoroughly check if students are undocumented. here's what the governor had to say. >> what do you expect a school to do? >> i don't want to stereotype. we do have very serious sexual offenses committed by many individuals and i don't want to stereotype anyone. but if you are involved in some type of activity like this, well, i'll tell you, you need to be deported as soon as possible. >> governor also said he got word from secretary of homeland security that the more than 11 million people currently in the country illegally woul would not be deported unless they committed a serious criminal offense. >> howard university expanding out west. >> we'll tell you about the new california campus and the goal for students who attend that specialty school. >> ♪ >> and we first told you about his amazing story overcoming homelessness. now you can see his artwork in his very first art showcase. hey, gary. >> and here he is

carleton joyner, better known as the painter man. >> that's it. >> reporter: in just a couple seconds we're going to come back, we're going to talk to the painter man, we'll tell you a little bit about his story and where you can finally come and buy, buy his artwork. it is amazing. stay with us. fox5 news at 5:00 will continue. >> ♪ >> ♪♪

>> ♪ >> all right, a story you saw first on fox5. a d.c. man homeless for seven years found a way to make this world beautiful one stroke, one color, one image at a time. his name is carleton joyner. many people know him as a painter man. he was creating a piece when a passerby stopped and started a conversation and his personality spoke for itself. >> i'm peculiar. i feel what i feel. i do what i do. and i

and if you took it away from me and said carleton you can't paint no more, you can't express yourself anymore, i might as well be gone. >> well, today many of the painter man's work is on display for everyone to see in the district. >> an exhibit and fundraiser is going on right now at touche on eighth street. gary mcgrady is there and joins you live. i like his attitude, gary. >> [inaudible] >> reporter: so, here's the deal. we heard from gary a minute ago. sometimes in live tv things happen as evidenced before. >> uh-huh. >> it happens. >> all the time actually. >> yeah. all right. >> so, we try to get that coming up in just a bit. let's move on. >> okay. >> ahead at 5:30 after a string of threats against jewish community centers a teen arrested for the

>> alex limon on that story for us today. hey, alex. >> reporter: hey, guys. i'll have reaction from local jewish community organization os. why they tell me they're both relieved and saddened coming up. >> a day after a deadly terror attack outside of parliament lawmakers return to work with a message from the prime minister we are not afraid. what we know about the suspect and his possible motive. >> are you past your prime? >> probably. [laughter] >> studies shedding new light on when we really peak and it might not be when you think, jim. there may still be time . >> [laughter] we're back after this. >> ♪

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cheryl mitchell killed after her car collided with a school bus. two others who were in the car are expected to be okay. the driver of the bus was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. there were no students on the bus at the time of that crash. >> police in prince george's county are investigating an armed robbery at a country style chicken and waffles overnight in temple hills. police say two suspects held -- entered the location on saint barnabas road, held an employee at gunpoint and demanded money before taking off. a third suspect waited outside in a van to help the two suspects get away. if you know in egg, pleaseif yoe call prince george's county police. >> a teen missing for several weeks. jenae robinson miller last seen on march first. her mother says the 16-year-old ran away from her aunt's home in camp springs. prince george's county police handling that investigation. >> friends and family gotd in montgomery county to say their final goodbyes to damaris reyes rivas the 15-year-old missing since december was found dead in

virginia back in february. police say her murder is connected to gang activity in the area. 10 people and four adults and six teens have been arrested in connection with the case. there have been an estimated 150 threats against jewish community centers and schools around the nation and some of them led to evacuations and emergency responses right here in our area. >> now the fbi says a man is indeed in custody for the crimes and they say he's a jewish man who was taken into custody in israel. >> fox5's alexandria limon is live in rockville tonight with reaction from the local jewish community to these unexpected turn of events to say the least, alex. >> reporter: that's right, we're at the jcc of greater washington in rockville. this was one of the places in our area that got threats via phone calls and e-mails and people i talked to today tell me they feel both relief as well as sadness about the news of this arrest. now, here is what we know so far. israeli police say they've arrested a 19-year-old man as

a prime suspect in this recent wave of threats against jewish organizations all around the united states that we've seen in recent months. now, the fbi released a statement confirming their cooperation with israeli police to make this arrest. and according to the associated press, the suspect's lawyer said outside of a courthouse that the 19-year-old suffersrom a very serious medical condition that may have affected his behavior and that condition prevented him from serving in the army and also from going to school. the the attorney also said his condition could affect this investigation. now, police have banned the publication of the suspect's name. they're not releasing it. they've only said he is a 19-year-old jewish man with dual citizenship in the united states as well as israel. now, today we spoke to the executive director of the jcrc for his reaction to the news. >> i think there's a b

sadness in the jewish community that the person who was disrupting jewish institutions is in fact jewish and history shows that one can be jewish and be anti-semitic simultaneously. it may be hard for people to believe at times but it's happened many times in the past. we are facing an increase in antisemitism there's no doubt. if you look at the statistic you'll see that over the years the number of religious based hate crimes as a total percentage of bias crimes has increased dramatically. >> reporter: now, while authorities confirm that that suspect is likely the prime suspect in most, if not all of the threats we've seen via phone calls and e-mails around the united states, the truth of the matter is that here in our area, we've also seen other types of anti-semitic incidents like vandalism in school bathrooms and also football fields, things like that and so the jewish community

there's still a cause for concern as well as an opportunity spread education and awareness. reporting live in rockville, alexandria limon, fox5 local news. >> ♪ >> and we have breaking details in that ed didly london terror attack. >> the death toll is now up to five. just moments ago we learned an elderly man aged 75 injured in the attack died in the hospital. >> rampage unfolded yesterday afternoon and officials say the attacker rammed a car into pedestrians on westminster bridge where that latest victim was at the time eventually crashing into a fence near parliament. >> british officials identified the attacker as khalid masood a 52-year-old with criminal convictions. isis is claiming responsibility calling the a attacker a "soldier of the islamic state." >> british police have arrested eight people linked to this attack after caring out raids in

>> curt cochran and melissa were set to return to the united states today. >> parliament was back in session today. prime minister theresa may addressed lawmakers following a moment of silence. she saluted the heroism of police as well as the ordinary actions of every were unin the british capitol who went above their lives -- went above and beyond their duty in the aftermath. the prime minister also had this to say about the attack. >> it is wrong to describe this as islamic terrorism. it is islamist terrorism, it is a per version of a great faith. >> and the prime minister also revealed the attacker was kingdom and was previously investigated for having extremist links. >> also today, flowers were laid at westminster to remember those killed in the attack. this is england's worst terror attack in more than a decade. >> ♪ >> all right, moving on, back to the district now and we want to go back to

exhibit and fundraiser kicking off on h street in northeast. >> the artist on display is named painter man. fox5's gary mcgrady is there live and joins us now with more. hey, gary. >> reporter: okay, let's just check -- can you hear me? >> we got you now. >> reporter: we're all good. >> many uh-huh. >> reporter: perfect, perfect. okay, let me introduce -- and a lot of people know him already. we fondly call him painter man. you have a real name. carleton joyner. >> yes, carleton joyner. >> reporter: it's rare that i come across somebody that i don't have enough time on television to talk to you but you just told me something that surprised me. that you -- you haven't been painting your whole life. >> no. >> reporter: this is a relatively new thing for you. >> yeah, y yeah, man. >> reporter: when did you start. >> i started -- i always dibbled and dabbled with pencil but when it came to selling art, right before i was kind of sketching himnt out and a lady saw me and i was sleeping in dupont circle park andhe came bac

little hut and scared me and everybody around. >> reporter: i can imagine. >> and she said carleton try this and she gave me a half a gallon of black and white but only that much in it because she was a old lady but she didn't give me any brushes so i went in the alley and tore up a sofa and i took the sponge out and i been painting with it every since. the only time i don't use a sponge is when it's windy out because i paint in the literal street. >> reporter: you started with black and white. >> yeah. >> reporter: then you end up with something like this. >> uh-huh him. how long did this take you to do? this is amazing? come on, be real. >> 20 minutes. >> reporter: 20 minutes. >> yeah. >> reporter: and you never knew before eight or nine years ago that you actually had this at a again. >> no, i didn't go to no school or anything, no. >> reporter: doug is going to show more of your pieces behind us. >> okay. >> and we're all about you right now. this has been quite a whirlwind for you because a couple of weeks ago you were hanging out at the popeye's down the street. >> right around the corner. >> reporter: and now here you are with your own exhibit. what do you think aboutha

to do exceeding abundantly above all i could ask or even think. >> hallelujah. >> reporter: that's right. preach it. i mean we got this whole group here. >> that's the truth because it been many times i was going give up and people made me not give up by saying, hey, that's looking better, that look better than it did last week. my encouragement came from the world so when i get it big, we got it big. >> reporter: i believe -- >> i'm going to find a way to give it back. >> reporter: i believe everybody has a gift and you just discovered y yours. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: tell me what you want to accomplish going forward. this is your first exhibit but there's something about you, you're so real, you're so connected to these people that you're just now meeting. where do you want to go from here? >> i believe that success is not a billion dollars. >> reporter: come on, you're if i knowfine.you can walk with. >> that's my sponge. >> reporter: he has

his sponge. >> i believe success is not how much money you have or how many things you have. success is when whatever you do have that god gave you, that you pass it along to somebody else. my goal is to teach somebody what i do with this, kids and older people. i want to know when i'm gone, somebody's -- somebody's couch is crooked because some kid done took the sponge. >> reporter: we just have a couple seconds. >> okay. i want to bring your sister over. come on. this is carleton's inspiration. i don't have time. i just wanted everybody to see you guys. i've been here awhile. the love between these two, he gives her so much of the credit for what's going on. i could talk to you all night. you're my new best friend. >> reporter: i don't have a way to wrap this up the. we're at touche its a supper club. it's painter man's first exhibit. it will run until 11 o'clock. he's selling all his work here and you don't have to pay him what he wants, you can pay him more, right? >> a lot more.

>> reporter: so it's not so much that he sets the price, you do that. >> yeah. >> reporter: he also has a go fund me page. just to kind of help him. >> absolutely. >> reporter: he's inspiring all of us. >> yes. >> i think. >> reporter: i'll toss it back into you guys. >> i think that would look really good over my couch. >> i think so, too. >> i like that. >> he's wonderfully talented gary and i love his spirit. >> reporter: it took him -- it took him 20 minutes. imagine what he could do in 23 minutes. >> gary, just don't get in the spot. >> with two sponges. >> wow. >> wow. this, too. >> excellent. gary, thank you much. >> beautiful. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> coming up, major shakeup in georgetown. >> the hoyas moving on after two straight losing seasons. who's out of a job tonight. >> howard university is expanding to the west coast. how a new partnership with google aims to diversify the tech industry. sue. >> you know, gary said are you going to be able to hear me. i'm going to say lie be

to to click it. tomorrow we're going to start out on the chilly side again, there unto 37 for the kids with a lot of clouds around and maybe some mid morning showers, light stuff but after school i'm going to describe 62 as on the mild side is that it should be a little bit brighter after school. tomorrow is the beginning of warmer weather moving back into town. times out nicely with the cherry blossoms at well. we'll have a look at your weekend forecast in the seven day. it's just ahead. we'll be right back. >> ♪

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>> news is breaking in the sports world. the end of an era for the thompson family on the hill top. john thompson, iii fired. he posted back to back losing records the last two years. that's the first time the school has done it since 1973. jt3 hired back

teams made the ncaa tournament eight of his 13 years as head coach. the highlight a final four appearance back in 2007 but since the hoyas experienced early round exits failing to advance past the second round. thompson has coached four current nba players, roy hib barred jeff green otto porter jr. a name emerging harvard's tommy amacer. >> howard university students will have the chance at the ultimate internship with google part of a program to diversify silicon valley's tech sector. 30 howard juniors and seniors will head out west to spend 12 weeks at google this summer. they'll receive instruction from senior google engineers and howard faculty for course credit. google says eventually it will want to expand the progeria. to include other historically black colleges and universities. >> meantime google helping kids in south carolina with their homework. the tech giant installed wifi on more than two dozen school buses. school officials say most students

at home in that district. some kids spend up to two hours on the bus so this gives them plenty of time to complete their assignments. i was just wondering this. for parents each device is a filtering system to make sure the kids are doing schoolwork and not surfing or playing candy crush or anything like that. >> i feel as though if i can just do a small portion to help the students, and help the parents that don't have wifi that can't help their kids with their homework, i mean, it makes me go home and know i did something to make a difference in that child's life. >> my oldest, she was actually failing two of her classes and her grades have gone up to passing. >> google hopes to eventually expand the program around the country. still it is in a testing phase but that is a great idea. >> i love it. >> yeah. >> all right. >> could the best years of our lives simply be the years we're best at things. >> i hope not. research shows -- throughout our lives, that's depressing. >> it really is. >> that research it shows that throughout our lives there are certain ag

different qualities. it starts as early as age 7s7 is considered the ideal age to learn a new language. boy. but if our brains are sponges in second grade by the time we graduate, they've reached peek potential. 18-year-olds have been found to perform the best on memory tests. overall attractiveness. [laughter] >> get this. peaks at age 23. we're both doomed, my friend, so, you know, you can laugh all you want and happiness was shown to decline toward middle-age and then repeek at age 69. and don't even, and here is where it gets interesting. the age at which we are happiest with our bodies is age 74. 'cause you're not i'm happy with myself no matter what. so even though you probably -- you won't care. >> that's what it is. >> you're like this is me, i have lived a great life and -- >> when they talk about the memory i totally believe that. >> i do, too. >>

quartekeycard, all that stuff. >> i threw my keys away the other day. lack of sleep that might be the other issue. let's talk march madness. >> let's do it. >> the bracket is it busted by chance. >> yes, it is. >> maybe you can should have o paid attention. >> high school students majoring in march mathness. stick around. back after this. >> ♪

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y2ay1y y16fy >> ♪ >> here we go. we'll call this the gateway to the weekend. >> yes. >> yeah. >> i love that. thursday is the gateway and friday you'll start to get the feeling that we're turning that corner again. >> lovely. >> still expecting mid 70's. >> that's excellent. >> for saturday. >> good news -- i was down near the tidal basin yesterday. >> what did you think? was it crowded. >> you're seeing a lot of people coming into town and experiencing it for the first time. >> and did you think that the blossoms looked like they had taken a big hit. >> i was driving so i just saw

>> good idea. don't tweet while driving. >> right, right. >> we'll get a photographer down there to update you but i can tell you people who have been talking to me on twitter and facebook say they think the blossoms look pretty good despite the fact that it took a big hit last week and certainly took a hit last night with temperatures pretty chilly but weather headlines going forward, we're going to do something about that. for starters, there are the possibility of a few showers tomorrow morning as the mild air comes in. but i don't think everybody is going to see it. in fact, i think those showers will mainly track up through pennsylvania and there could even be a touch of freezing rain up there. but, that's the beginning of the warmer air. 70's are and finally back in the forecast on saturday and we are going to be staying mild on sunday but a little bit unsettled. a lot of clouds saturday. more clouds on sunday with some showers around second half of the day so if you're thinking about heading down to the tidal basin, maybe do it earlier on sunday or go on saturday and that spring feel is sticking around next week. we'll have mild temperatures

continuing but it will be a little bit unsettled and we'll have chances for showers as we roll through next week but the colder air is going to take a little vacation. it's going to be moving up to the north and that will allow the jet stream winds to transport in warmer air back into our region. 61 or so tomorrow and then 70's for saturday. at this hour we're still at about 47 degrees. i don't think we got up to 50 degrees today in d.c. i'll check the climate data in a little bit but you certainly did get there south and west of d.c. with temperatures into the low 50's and then as we expand the picture, you can see how close we are to warmer air coming back in. how about nashville at 67. little rock at 82. atlanta is 63. new orleans 81. houston 82, so that's part of the warmer air that will try to push in and this is the leading edge of that warmer air. notice there are a few showers with it. as that crosses our area tomorrow, it could produce a couple of showers, not this evening though. we'll be cool at 7 o'clock, 44 degrees. by about 9 o'clock, 42. and by 11 o'clock, we're chilly but we're not going to be as cold ton

hitting the 20's and a few teens. talked about a couple of showers. you'll be able to see on futurecast that they really only briefly dip down across the mason-dixon line. we'll see clouds in the morning freezing rain in spots up to the north. 1 o'clock still cloud deal. in the afternoon looks like we'll get clouds out of here and a bit more sunshine. friday afternoon looking pretty good. wanted to mention we could really 82 us a whole lot more rain, although the drought index was just updated today and there's a little bit better news in that there has been some improvement for some areas. severe drought still for many of our western suburbs and the rest of us in a moderate drought. a few chances for showers that you're going to see here on our fox5 accuweather 7-day forecast. some showers possible sunday. about a 40 percent chance. monday, tuesday we're still mild and we have a chance for a few showers. and even as we get more sunshine back into the picture on wednesday, 67 degrees, thursday 64. so, i think the cooler days for the time being at lea o

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>> ♪ >> you know it's maddening this time of year to predict who will advances in the ncaa tournament because you always have upsets. >> that's why brody decided to get a big assist from a class that's crunching the numbers. >> reporter: hey, sarah i need all the help i can get with my brackets. roughly 7 million brackets are entered into contests and pools. everyone has their own method for picking the madness from which team is on the hot streak to who has better looking uniforms. for one high school clues in montgomery county the field of 68 brings with it a lot of excitement and a lot of work. these are the sights and sounds we and associate with march

but at blair high school, these are the sights and sounds of march madness. >> which games does everybody in this competition think are going to be close? >> reporter: this is david stein sports statistic class that has turned sport's greatest tournament into his semester's math project. >> where you need ucla to beat kentucky. >> sports teams professional teams and college teams are using analytics mathematics to figure out effectiveness of decisions and to be able to evaluate decisions that the team has made math has become a really crucial element in sports. >> reporter: in this class, there is a lot of math in the madness. >> somebody have a calculator. >> each time looked at what variables what factors they think would be most significant. >> their offense and defense sufficiency. >> field goal percentage. >> the opponents of those opponents rate. >> we used rpi as well and a imno the quite sure what that

i'm not sure what that is, either. what i am sure of is that these kids take the competition and the trash talk seriously. >> there is a mess massive twitter feud. >> they have a bird so we took a picture of somebody eating a bunch of feathers everywhere and said this is your model after we're done with it and stuff like that. >> reporter: like any good group of sports statisticians these teams have a web site to tout their prognostications, the photoshops, the blog, the smack talk it's part of an over to the make math engaging for high schoolers who aren't exactly known for their attention spans. >> it was exciting of course. what's actually going on in the real world. >> what we're doing we don't necessarily know the answer going into it so it's a lot more interesting and sometimes the data doesn't make sense but we have to figure it out so it's a lot more real world instead of just living

textbook like a lot of other math classes. >> reporter: and the homework isn't bad. >> you have to watch games as part of your assignment. >> we've come a long way in that math education particularly at blare in figuring out ways to get the kids to engage their math, use it in complicated situations where there aren't easy answers and it makes for not only a more useful education but a much more exciting and engaging education. >> so if you want to check out their prognostications, 5:30 blare spelled out not the number dod word press.com. they have north carolina with the highest chance of winning. they had the same project for the election in the fall and their class gave hillary clinton a 98 percent chance of winning. >> oh. >> it was close. i mean, this election was like nobody other so i think this is -- >> i just wanted to point out by the way i'm number eight in the fox5 march madness and you're down in the 50's. >> wow, the hate. >> i know, but like eight is

[laughter] >> like, oh, i'm eight. [laughter] >> calm down, boy. [laughter] >> all right. thanks for being with us here at 5:00. >> tony and shawn standing by with the news at 6:00 right now. >> this is fox5 local news at 6:00. >> no vote for now. that is the decision on capitol hill right now. thanks for joining us. i'm shawn yancy. >> and i'm tony perkins. at this hour gop lawmakers are scrambling to come to some kind of agreement over affordable healthcare. so what's next for the future of the american healthcare act? political reporter ronica cleary is here. the interesting thing here is the problem not just democrats in some ways more of a problem some of the republicans. >> reporter: absolutely, tony. every minute more news is coming out on this. i'm going to update our viewers on what i told them at 5:00. now choosing today for the vote, it was meant to be symbolic. today is the seventh anniversary of obamacare becoming law. now the plan was for this to be the day that the house

obamacare. that will officially no longer happen. the vote has been postponed until tomorrow. now, there was just recently another blow to the potential for the bill to pass. it just broke. newest mates from the congressional budget office show that the federal deficit would not decrease by as much as initially estimated. now initial estimates predicted the federal deficit would decrease by $337 billion in the next 10 years. the new estimate predicts a decrease in the federal budget of only $150 billion. now, still, that is seemingly a significant decrease but likely not the news that republicans were hoping for this close to the deadline. now, speaker ryan, he postponed his weekly press conferences twice today. again, signaling trouble. the press conference has now been postponed without any rescheduled time and there is instead a house republican conference meeting scheduled for 7:00 p.m. tonight but we no