this is georgetown pike at springvale road. so again, we have wires down and that closure to deal with here this morning. just talked to megan mcgrath, she's on georgetown pike at balls hill road. she says crews look like they're leaving, this could be reopening there along georgetown pike in the next couple minutes. eastbound old dominion drive diverted on to 123, downed wires there at beverly road. westbound southeast/southwest freeway after the 11th street bridge, two left lanes blocked right now because of the crash. and we're see something low down slowdowns there. as you back you can see the beltway behaving itself here this morning. 66 inbound at washington boulevard, a crash slowing things. westbound 50 and 301, all lanes now open. >>> happening today, university of maryland student killed in a car crash will be laid to rest. christine died in the crash last week in potomac. she was a passenger when the car went off the road. the driver lost control and slammed into a concrete barrier. the service is at saint rafael cat

co avoid the intersections ofns o georgetown pike nearwn pike springdale road, georgetown pike at laughtonas old dominion drive at 123. let's take a live look outside t right now at 270. 2 270 as you head down towards tow the spur the southbound sided s volume picking up a little bitit but the good news is traffics ta is still at speed. spe you can see you're still're s hitting pockets of wide openerep state from frederick on down. little bit of congestion cgest picking up north of this point t by the truck scales. the metro is on time right now.ight we'll keep you posted. pos that's your traffic. tra >> this morning d.c. policeg d.e are investigating a deadlyea shooting. police say a man was found a mas yesterday afternoon in the 3100 block of mlk avenue invee southeast. the victim was taken to the t t hospital where he was laterer pronounced dead.ed d the suspect is on the loose.he police are looking at looking surveillance video from nearby a businesses for any clues. >> want to take you to annapolis where there was a a legislative hearing on drunk o driving yesterday. lawmakers want to

georgetown beats st. john's, your final score 92-67.omen's hoops, fifth ranked maryland taking on seventh ranked ohio state. the only conference loss for terps this season coming against the buckeye. they're up seven in the second quarter. rejana jones. the terps within five. a few plays later, kelsey mitchell had a game. she buries the three-pointer there. later on more from mitchell. another stepback three-pointer. the final score 94-86 ohio state. >>> on the men's side, maryland moving up in the rankings again. checking this week at number two. the terps coming off a huge win against 18th ranked purdue on saturday. second time this season maryland has been ranked as high. >> we have to talk about it. it's different. i think number two we don't have to. i'm proud of our guys because it's february, whatever. we play 24 games and we're number 22 in the country. and we got a lot on our plate. we've been able to handle it. >> right now to a certain extent we can care less. we're just trying to get better each and every day in practice and

georgetown pike nearorge springville road georgetown t ke at laughton street as a well as old dominionrive at 123 so please use caution asti you head out around those t intersections. we'll have more information onen that for you as the morning continues. outer loop disabled oldloop georgetown road. caution there. things coming from 270 looking l good through frederick andrederk gaithersburg. 95 northbound through daleth city quiet.bo watch for ponding conditions.oni use caution especially oncaut those secondaries or near waterways and just reiterate rei this morning practice turn around don't drown. silver hill road for exampleil we have flooding reportedl repr eastbound after saint barnabas t road.s to fi al want to find an alternate there in princehere i george's county. we'll keep you updated anded take a live look at some oft next look at traffic. back to you on the desk.on >> apple ceo is ready for aadyor legal battle with the fbi.th the >>> less than a week beforeekef super tuesday.uesd highlights from last night'sghtf town hall and why gop g frontrunner donald trump wasnero not

georgetown springvale road, georgetown get pike at lawton, old dominion doo at 123.at 123.ive yourself time to geto g around fairfax this morning.. that's your traffic.r tric. allison and steve. ste >> all right, erin thanks.rinha >>> still ahead this morning isis with a new target thisget h morning taking aim at facebook o and its founder. >> plus, donald trump a noald show at last night'sight republican presidential town hall in texas. in tas and it didn't take long for lon the other candidates to take shots at the frontrunner. the latest from the campaign trail is next. >> in the south cleaning upe so from tornado outbreaks. the midwest digging out fromt snow. this is indiana. blizzard passed through last nidight. night. that blizzard dumped more than a foot of snow that some areas e burying everything in sight. s >> republicans preparing tolicas face off in houston tonighton for their last debate before bef super tuesday. last night in texas, all but one of the gop candidates satop down with fox's megan kellyan kl for a town hall. hal donald trump missed the forummpe du

>>anchor: today was so great and such a tease but i can't wait to get into march. crack at georgetown coming up losses this weekend and they have a chance to avenge each one started today with georgetown. they didn't shoot well in the 1st and there's a 2 point lead at the half. make your finishes georgetown with her when. villanova 1 77 to 67. the bearcats coming awful tough loss to tulsa. there is no more room for error with the bearcats squad today. off to a quick start and they are all 8 to nothing. in the 2nd half kevin johnson jacob evans now and you see when's it.. cozart in centerfield and (phone ringing) you can't deal with something, by ignoring it. but that's how some presidential candidates seem to be dealing with social security. americans work hard, and pay into it. so our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. (elephant noise) (donkey noise) hey candidates, >>anchor: we got a taste of spring today but it's not to stick around . >>reporter: should be equal up tomorrow but still much above our average high. we will update the forecast tonight at 10 of 11. >> a

he moves into sixth place on georgetown's all-time scoring list.he hoyas moving the ball around a little bit. then they kick it back out to isaac copeland, who drains the three. 23 for him. georgetown ran away with this one. turns the corner and flies in for the slam. georgetown cruises past st. john's, 92-64. let's go to columbus, ohio. the maryland women taking on ohio state. steel-kimbrough gets the and cuts the lead to 3. that is as close as it would get. kelsey mitchell just dominated this one. ahead on the break, she gets the easy two. marilyn falls 94-86. randy wittman was asked by a gets theif john wall recognition he deserves nationally. it is an interesting question. someone made the argument that wall is not the biggest star in washington, possibly behind the popularity of ovechkin, bryce harper. but it seems the wizards star is recognized when it matters most. he did earn a spot on the all-star team. he was named the eastern conference player of the month for december. >> who determines that? .ou have got to go out and play you have got

we're on georgetown spri spri springvale road. they have to restore power, all of that needs to be done before the road will re-open. quite a mess. >> the trees starting coming down horizontally. >> reporter: first the rain. and then came the wind. close call for david. falling tree just missed his car. >> as soon as i started driving down to my driveway, two fell down, missed me by about 30 feet. or so. and then we had a power outage also. >> reporter: high winds brought trees and limbs crashing down last night. in many cases on top of power lines. a number of road closures including this one on old dominion drive in mclean and another mess on georgetown pike in great falls. work crews spent the morning worked to repair downed lines. we met lisa as she cleaned up her yard. no major damage at her house but -- >> we have quite a few degrees down in the neighborhood and back to georgetown pike and three huge trees down on georgetown pike that brought down power lines. >> reporter: you can see here live dominion virginia power on the

so also have an issue georgetown pi a morning. aside from the other situation there, of course, in mclean. taking a look as we zoom in, eastbound old dominion drive diverted on to 123, downed beers wires at beverly road. overall beltway not looking too bad. southbound bw parkway between 198 and 197, have a pothole hole. i'll see you at 6:01 and we'll get chuck under control here. >> you saved him. good job, melissa. >>> 5:53. and developing now, a republican could be the president's choice for the open seat on the supreme court. nbc news confirmed nevada governor brian sandoval is meeting with president obama about the job. he supports abortion rights. president obama says the right nominee could force his opponents' hands. >> and i think it will be very difficult for mr.co concludes that this person is very well qualified, that the senate should stand in the way simply for political reasons. >> we've also learned the head of the senate judiciary committee will meet with the president next week. no word on when we'll hear about ap

and in a press release, he said, that georgetown law mourns the loss of justice scalia.ryone is comfortable with that association, two professors are actually speaking out. now, professor pell err and professor sideman, they say they're not comfortable being associated with the school at large, mourning the loss every justice scalia, professor side man, he sent e-mail expressing these thoughts to the faculty, then professor peller wrote his own e-mail and also forwarded along professor sideman to the student body. now in a e-mail professor sideman said he is not comfortable speaking about the issue further at this time. but did i speak with some people here around campus, to see their thoughts on the issue. >> i guess each one can have their opinions based on their own personal of justice scalia. but i think in general it is something to mourn, because he's been a supreme court justice. >> i was actually a bit offended by the response, just because i think as adjust tis of the supreme court, a man who has contributed a lot to jurist prudence, we should just respect him.

them within one eight seconds left, georgetown down by three. the three and the comeback falls short. 75-72 final score. george mason hosting davidson. mason down one in the final seconds, jenkins with the floater, no good. the patriots up by one. the inbound pass goes to gibbs who throws up a desperation shot at the buzzer. no good. george mason pulls out the victory. americanantime hosting army. anduson finishing with 19 10 rebounds. caliparihad coach john didn't hang around long after arguing an offensive foul. john. not happy. he had to be that is not a good luck that fired at the wildcats because 80 9-62. out, the capitals conclude their road trip tonight against a very good down this team. they are ranked first in the nhl in points. a woman to build upon their impressive record this season. much of the teens success has to do with the sky, who has been playing out of his mind including that had trick over minnesota on thursday. ladies and gentlemen, do not forget our new sunday night sports show is tomorrow at 11:30. we have some great loc

thin there's georgetown on the outside looking in they need.d. georgetown looking to start that run on scene your day a big test. butler four second lester ohio yay's down three. foul, they can't believe it.ey c he needs all three free throws to tie, here's the first two he's not worried third free throw clutch overtime.im smith he's out down three. two second left. desperation. its blocked georgetown lose 90 to 87 in overtime. how about maryland?aryl >> facing 20th ranked purr due. forcing mistakes. flock inside. leads to the break. bre layman out for two of his 15 layman getting teammates involved.in even points two minutes left. it works forces a turn over. o lay it in for the tie just not enough. maryland allowed purr due to t shoot. 79-yes, sir.ir. dropping them to 23 and six on the year. gw pretty much in eliminationmia game. gw down seven they fight for the lose ball they'll get it down low slight did you know lay up k did you know he had 12 later in the frames. time out. they drew it up. one handed. nervous down two. no good. gets rebound

georgetown, today it was packed out there, folks enjoying the weather. again, tomorrow is looking soggy as rain moves in during the late to mid morning hours. temperatures not so bad. 49 in washington. 46 degrees in manassas with clear skies. will cloud up early tomorrow morning, 7:00 a.m., and limited sunshine possible. a temperature of 47. showers arrive by 10:00 a.m., and the temperature at that point around 53. the high tomorrow, 55. we will hit that at about 4:00 in the afternoon, and we continue to track areas of rain, andn and maybe looking to ski tomorrow, and rain likely there at times as well, and spring-cleaning, just what you want to do on your sunday, but a good day to get a jump-start on that. you can still open up the windows and get the fresh air and heading out and about you will be good as long as you have the umbrella handy. temperatures in the low 40s. coming home, mostly cloudy skies and the temperature around 51 degrees. right around normal. our average high is about 49 degrees. tuesday, a high temperature around 50 with cloudy skie

let's check out xavier leaving for georgetown, but what about bob? nope, just trevon, myles and edmond. felt like a mid- sumner night's dream when georgetown beat xavier in january. the hoyas have gone 2-and-6 since that game, and here comes an angry xavier team. myles davis: "we needed to be the tougher team agianst georgetown and they came out more tough than us. they were ready to play. they played their best game. they were comfortable. we remember that game vividly. so, this is a big game for us to redeem ourselves and keep weather now 3shot adlib wx 3shot condensation cloudy. breezy and 3shot adlib wx 3shot condensation today: partly cloudy. breezy and warm. high: 67 tonight: chance of rain ripley to highland county south . mostly cloudy. scattered rain. ending by mid-day. mostly cloudy. high: 56 coming up next weekend... with us today is rebecca bromels.. sampler, presented coming up next weekend... with us today is rebecca bromels.. that's for joining us. the macy's arts sampler, presented by artswave, returns february 27 and 28, celebrating

your >> still to come this morningsoi georgetown universityniversity professor dr.sonr dr is here talking about a newlk book on thein president's legacg and the politics of race in i america.ica. >> and the man charged with the brutal murder of a d.c. a d family and their housekeeper hop is in court today. tay we're live with a preview pvi next.ne 7:27 now on a friday morning. ♪ >>> there's a look at thek beltway right now staying on top of this situation and you can au see traffic is just starting to sneak by there on the inner lo loop. outer loop all lanes stillll closed.clos two lanes inching by on the inner loop but keep in mind,n m there were delays for miles. mi. so it will take long time foronr traffic to get caught up there.. if you can find another route ih this morning and avoid thend ave beltway between wisconsin and connecticut avenues. >>> maryland's highest courtst postponing the trials of six baltimore police officers o charged in freddie gray's deathh state's court of appeals aea deciding whether officer williai porter can be forced to testifyt again

you play a georgetown team. there's no in between. >> later, top ranked villanova continues their quest for another big east crown. >> villanova is dialled in from outside. >> the wildcats will have their hands full with a streaking butler team fighting their way up the

georgetown pike at river bend, still blocked there. leesburg pike is the alternate. 270 south on time. top of the beltway looks good. 66 into town, 95 north bound, can't complain. remember to listen to wtop 103.5 when you hop in your car. >>> maryland's largest school district now has a new leader. dr. jack smith was unanimously voted in as superintendent of montgomery county public schools last night. his contract won't be official until july, so he says he'll spend the next five months learning about the school district. >>> your kids spent a lot of time as home as we dealt with the blizzard. and how we know when some of them will have to make up all of that time they missed. >>> and it promises to protect from us whooping cough, but a new study says that booster may not be as effective as you thought. it's about time the taco...came out of its shell. unleash the power of dough. give it a pop. that sound. like nails on a chalkboard. but listen to this: (family talking) that's a different kind of sound. the sound of the weekend. unlea

georgetown pike westboundtown lanes closed at river bends riv b road.stbound traffic getting bytraf without any incident. incid we'll switch it over right nowch r for a look 395 cruising there tre no problems bottom of thettom beltway. this is a look through inin virginia. you can see traffic picking upfic but moving along okay towards tards the beltway.th keep in mind though as gary as has been mentioning with thewith the wintry mix coming downown especially east of the district use caution take itse slow watch for c some salt spraypr and some water spray out by out b the bay bridge especially.sp let's go ahead and take a lookeook right now. n you can you can see 95ee5 cruising up towards the towds the beltway no problems.lty no problem 50 inbound looking good.nd lking problem free.re metro on or close to schedule.cl we're going to keep youosinto k posted. that's your look at trafficr ok a early this friday morningy m commute. holly.holl >> thanks erin.hank >>> to montgomery county nowtg where a year long search for a montgomery county schoolgo superin

you'll want to exit at old a o georgetown road. road.eeing several miles of mo backed up traffic on the innera loop and outer loop leadingoop l towards that closure at connecticut.nn hazmat team is respondecing tono that fuel spill right now soillo let's take a live look outside o and show you exactly what thatta scene looks like. look at that backed up trafficrf on the outer loop and inner andi loop you can see right now no nw traffic getting by except forep one vehicle can which i'm w i going is an emergencycy responder at this time.r at look at that backup right there. b again, inner loop and outernner loop we have a crew l on our waw to that location.ocatio to get more information.ti no word yet from police on howih quickly they're going to bey'ret able to get that fuel spilluespl cleared and get those loops reopened. it is a typical morning cacommute in other locations.ats asides from the top of theop of beltway right now metro is running on schedule.chedul we'll certainly keep younly updated and get you more mor information on this

. >>> this is a team georgetown actually beat handily on the road. so can the hoyas stop their slide by beating the musketeers again? they are looking to right the ship. a close game in the first half. smith, rivera hitting the three to tie this one up at 33. georgetown only trailed by two at the break. by the second half, not as close. again with the triple. that would stop a run by xavier. a game high. xavier blows out georgetown. the hoyas are >>> savannah state and howard. it was a quiet night for the nation's leading scorer. he banks in to three. they finish with 24. but it was not enough. howard loses 66-56. >>> division 3. royals visit the cardinals. so the tie with the royals in the landmark conference. catholic was down. and royals brendon scored two of his game high. scranton trailed. knocking down two clutch free- throws here for catholic putting the team up 77-74. last chance for the royals out of the time-out. but ethan, his three ball is no good. catholic wins a close one, 79- 74 northeast. >> with four seniors and just to have the mind

georgetown down three with time running out. smith for the win. no. it's bullock with the block.omeback, ball short. the hoyas lose again 75-72. >>> seventh ranked virginia hasn't won at duke in 21 years. this is how you change that. cavali cleaning up the mess. eight off the bench in the first half for the senior. duke. brandon england. also, attacking the rim. up three at the break currently. they are ahead 61-58 in the second half. >>>? >> -- j.a. action. william and mayor, ty, jumper working. more in the second half. you see the defense and then he makes the single roll look easy. the sophomore on fire. finishing with a game high 34 points. winning it 99-82. sticking with the georges, mason down to the wire with davison, five seconds left. one-point game. missing, but then the perseverance pace off with -- that buzzer-beater is no one else -- that's george mason surviving with a davidson. the terps don't lose often at home. actually, been almost two years since a team has beaten maryland in college park. the badgers roll into the xfinity center this evening looking to snap th

i saw you in georgetown a few weeks ago. you gave a lecture on sexuasadism and how you helped catch the mill creek killer in st. louis. i-i'm not much of a, uh-- a public speaker. i don't know. i thought you seemed cool. you look kind of young to go to georgetown. um, i'm a juni at northwest high school. and you just go to lectures on anger excitation for fun? i don't have a lot of friends. so you're interested in profiling? yeah. i mean,i read a lot, you know, true crime, like graphic novels, mostly. they're all about whether there's really such a thing as evil, like nature versus nurture, all that, so i figured it'd be smart to hear it from an expert, you know? so you said a lot of 'em kill prostitutes? it's the number one serial killer target, actually. well, is that for sex or because they think they're dirty and they need to be punished? what would it mean if somebody were stabbing them and cutting off their hair? i've never, uh-- i've never heard of a case like that. do you wanna go to the bau with me, maybe talk to so

not a good stretch for georgetown. they came into the verizon center on a three-game slide. s even worse, st. johns came in on a 14 losing streak. someone's streak had to stop.

according to the map here, georgetown pike shut down at river bend road. and now a fuel spill because of that crash that they are trying to clean up. we'll try to get more information on that one for you here in the next couple minutes. 66 looks good. again you can kind of see before you head out what roads might be affected, beltway at branch avenue, we are a little wet through that area there. and inner loop at colesville road, a work zone, left lane getting by. weather and traffic on the 1s. >>> it's shocking to hear that any person is capable of executing a defenseless 2-year-old girl. that shocks the conscience. >> quote, you messed up and coward, some of the phrases being used to describe the man accused of killing his other daughter and her mother earlier this week. while daron boswell-johnson is facing murder charges, the victim's families are coming together today to remember neshante davis and her daughter, chloe. there is a vigil in capitol heights to remember the teacher and her daughter at 5:30 tonight. the case is generating a lot of anger ev

x' opened the second half on a 15-0 runand xavier goes to 24-3 with a win at georgetown. wednesday night, at the cintas center, it's xavier against number one in the country, villanova and for the moment, uc is off the bubble. but if uc plays the rest of the way, as it did today? the bearcats won't have to worry about making the ncaa tournament. uber bearcats fans, nick lachey soaking it up...at fifth third arena. the bearcats gary clark had himself a game. six of 12, 13-points and eleven rebounds. this was a big bucket by kevin johnson. johnson was off the bench, eight points in 21-playing minutes.freshman jacob evans played well, too.

georgetown pike, two different closures because of downed he wired at springvale road and balls hill road. they are on the scene trying to get that fixed. looking at 66 and 95, looking pretty good right now. 66 inbound, 68 miles per hour. perhaps going faster than we should. no major issues. >>> it's 4:33. we turn to decision 2016 where tonight the five remaining republican hopefuls for president have their last chance to debate before super tuesday. we could see one of the candidates try to take on donald trump. among other marco rubio criticized the frontrunn frontrunner's stance on the federal health care law last night saying he wasn't strong enough against it. tonight's cnn debate starts at 9:00. you'll hear from tracie potts ahead at 4:45. >>> we hope to learn more from metro officials today about recent safety concerns. metro's board will meet today two days after a recent shooting on a green line train. the rider's advisory council is expected to talk about safety issues. this is the board's regularly planned meeting. we also hope to get an update about the red signal violati

. >>> still have closure georgetown pike at river bend road. all lanes blocked because of a crash with a fuel spill. spoke with police and they were saying it was a car versus a plow. so trying to get everything cleared out of the way. again down south here in st. mary's county, california, maryland, 235 and 237, you can see the slushy mess there on the roadways. that's really where we're seeing the issues here this morning down in the southern parts of town. inbound, a disabled truck in the right lane. >>> zika virus hits the district. what we're learning about the victims including one who is expecting. >>> and you might want to give yourself extra time to get to work this morning. rain and snoin spots. the latest on that as well as a look at the weekend coming up. i do everything on the internet. but it's kind of slow. my friends say i should get fios because it's the fastest. i just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. that's seriously better. we're out of 2%! i wonder what else could be better around here? i heard that. switching to better

eight seconds to go, georgetown down by a three. devonte a rivera with the three, but it is blocked. 75-72 final. duke and virginia went down to the wire. cats down one. .alcolm with a reverse layup 62-61. -- and he scores the winner at the buzzer. huge win for duke. sorry, virginia. davison.son hosting mason down one. jenkins puts up a floater, no good. up by one.s inbound pass tickets. george masonss to pulls up the victory. in conjunction with black history month, the university of maryland honored the 50th anniversary of the historic 1966 national championship game. ,he texas western squad majority african-american players, groundbreaking, starting five black players in defeating an team to capture the title. one the players got emotional talking about a historic moment. just, i my father and i just pointed to him, thanking him for what he went through for me a long time ago. .hat is my special part >> congratulations to that team. in toronto, all-stars, zach levine with a between the legs dunk. take another look. look at that.

klein applauds the georgetown push to lift the moratorium and wonders how many restaurants will want to move in. >> the demographic is not appropriate. the rents are high. >> we have fun. the restaurants were cheap. >> that is gone forever. but the neighborhood wants some of its life back. >> basically you want more restaurants here. >> we would love to see more restaurants. here. >> it's capped by the counsel legislation we haven't addressed. >> in northwest washington, sam ford, abc7 news. >> archive of the rosa parks personal letters writing and photos are available online. the civil rights icon 10,000 item collection has been loaned to the library of congress. it was kept away from the public for years as her family and friends battled for legal custody. in 2014, philanthropist howard buffet bought the archive and loaned it to the library. coming up on "abc7 news at 4:00" -- how thieves are getting into cars without even breaking in. we're not talking about leaving it unlocked. they are getting in without breaking anything. >> tensions as we count down to the oscar sunday. how wi

old georgetown georgetown, you have one lane blocked. germantown road. route 28. trees blocking that intersection as well. in addition to old georgetown road at 495. got trees blocking the lanes there. also, slow going. 13,400 block of hathaway drive. that's near edward >> montgomery county fire and rescue. we have been log okinat your twitter feed. looking at a long list of issues in the county. it is a busy, busy night. >> for the last hour, 45 minutes or an hour. numerous -- >> they have a heavy call volume. line already deployed. almost not necessarily 100%. but you know, close to 80% of our units are busy and committed. so number of water rescues, on goldsboro road. that intersection is closed due to high water. did rescue a person out of the vehicle there. did have an honest to goodness flash flood. sundale road. water seems to be receding a bit. some are traveling from vehicles. and uptown areas, we have some issues. anywhere along seneca creek. water basin there. we have high waters. and heavy rain. just overwhelmed some of the storm train. -- drain. >> wi

georgetown pike westboundbou lanes did reopen at river bendin road.aside from that 1395 north95 n like i mentioned stall after duke. we should start to see a lot of red picking up on our mapn om because things are slowinglowing down from the beltway towards bt that point. poi 66 inbound backing up through t centreville of that's yourlle ' traffic. back to you guys. >> erin thank you very, very ve, much. >>> still ahead the capitals cap will, you know, celebratekn, cee today. to they won their first game in gai two weeks. >> also we're talking superalkis bowl predictions who will win. n sports junkies join us after the break. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> we are checking out thear commute as we have some snow w falling in parts of our area a and closing some schools in sls parts of the dmv as well. w you're looking a eastonas maryland right now. right take it easy.ta it's coming down everywhere. tucker just poked his little l head outside.ad out he said in northwest d.c. it's coming down at a pretty good p clip. it's not 76ing. >>> welcome back. in prince georges count

and around cincinnati from hamilton, lebanon and middle town. another batch of snow, hillsville, georgetown, west union moving to the southeast. just north of interstate 71, also lawrenceburg down to carrollton. just have snow showers in a scattered form. temperatures now are in the 20s. visibilities are being reduced where we have snow showers. coming up, another check of radar and when snow showers end, that comes up in 10 minutes. >> local 12 has crews out around the tri-state. perry schaible is where we have seen some of the heavier snowfall today. she joins us live from deerfield township in warren county. good afternoon, perry. good golly, what's going on? >> we're a mess, we're a mess. good afternoon, you know what, bob, i've been in mason throughout the morning, i'm not too far from where i was earlier this morning. this is deerfield township, just a few snowflakes coming down at this point. a lot earlier on today. ening chaing conditions and the roads have changed as well. by 5:00 this morning. by 6:00, it was slushy, now it is just wet pavement. that doesn't mean you don't have to

pike, and there t on georgetown pike that brought down power lines. >> reporter: by late morning many roads had reopened but georgetown pike and springdale road in great falls, there's a lot of damage here, and crit cod be a lingering problem. megan mcgrath, news4. >>> and we have some gusty winds out there right now. our winds gusting 25 to over 30 miles per hour and for prince george's county along the western portion of the patuxet river, still could see some river rises through the rest of today, early part of the day tomorrow. take a look at radar. it's busy with some light sprinkles, showers all moving through, and wet snowflakes, but where we will see that snow accumulate will be out here. this is 5:00 this afternoon. you can see the white, that's still snow at 7:00, and we're going to continue with the snow all the way as we go into the overnight period first thing tomorrow morning. 9:00 snowing, and there could be inches of snow throughout west virginia, western maryland, and that means good skiing for this upcoming weekend. look at that. frostburg, elkins, down towards beave

rockville pig, the ra viville p inner loop shutting down. 270 south diverted on to gor georgetown. we're trying to get more information on this. again, we'rein come by on the inner loop. i'm not sure if that's because they're coming off of connecticut avenue for example. rest of the beltway look quite good. our problem there sort of pulsating here in the top corner. bw parkway north at 32, that left lane getting by. no major issues any longer there, so you don't have it any more worries headed to bwi. >>> clearly based on what happened something failed. >> school leaders saying the system failed the very students it was designed to protect. that is the message from the county school board on the child pornography case that angered parents from every part of our region. and pathey want to know why deoe carraway was left alone with students long enough to get their trust. there are 17 victim. the school board will decide whether students can be left alone with volunteers. the board will also review its hiring and background check policies. carraway's background check did not turn up

kimberly: a lot of people out today at the georgetown waterfront. >> the perfect place.to establish some momentum at home. lift pastgetown >> now, the jolla, theywith la have been struggling did they have lost six of their last seven and fell behind early today. it was another low point this season. we pick it up in the first half. passing down low to markets derrickson -- marcus derrickson. they make it in. xavier would lead by 11 in the first half. georgetown comes back. we are tied at 33. but the musketeers completely dominated the second half. they work the ball around. he will lay it in. xavier up 20. they are now only 14 have a 14 the season. navy hosting army, this ago to double ot. driving, but kevin ferguson is there to put it back in. .7 s navy, 80-78. and work out in full swing down in florida, a fresh start under the new skipper, dusty baker. he has published so much during -- accomplished so much during his lifetime in baseball. we decided to reach out to the redskins coach joe did who had more than a decade between his two stints. >> i called him, he called

they flew out to 'dc' and gave the georgetown today. chris mack....some experts think he's got a number one seed in the upcoming tournament first half, xavier built a nice lead...but had to hang on for a two point lead at the half. james farr had a 14 point day.second half now. and watch the musketeers move the ball. it'll wind up with trevon blueitt. he was five of ten and had 13 points. eleven of those in the second half.and edmund sumner was just terrific. the speed through the baseline. sumner was six of nine, made all of his free throws.. xavier was 29-of-31 from the line.and sumner was simply unguardable at times. look at this. xavier shot 54-perecnet from the field for the game.'x' 15-0 runand xavier goes to 24-3 with a win at georgetown. wednesday night, at the cintas center, it's xavier against number one in the country, villanova four more local teams in action tonight, including kentucky which tips off in a couple of minutes at texas a&m to thomas more college, where the saints were looking for their 25th win of the season an

georgetown trying to revive ncaa tournament hopes. a win over providence put them on the tournament level. highlights ahead in sports. >> forget georgetown found thise year feels a lot likeor 2014. that season they finished 8th in the ncaa town: this year six in the big east and in dangers ofrs missing the torn many. happen win today over providence could move them back on to to tournament. first half the bubble just about burst.bu went out to 49-49 lead. they turned it on in the second half. lead down to one, fine second ohio crass with a chance. smith two second left for the tie. shot is deflect ted george down loses a heart breaker 75-42. >> george mason, american false to army, 65-59, and virginia a just lost to duke on a contested buzzer beat ter 63-62. georgetown they have a big oneig next saturday at home. it will be on fox 5. that will be a big game. they are going to need to get a few more wins hear or they arey problem the unfortunately goinge to make the ncaa tournament. >> all right.ht. so, not just uncomfortable but dange

georgetown loses again, dropping a heartbreaker on senior day, 90-87.eorge washington in a battle hosting vcu. the closing seconds, the colonials down two. wide-open look, too strong. the lay-up is no good. the rams free throws, gw falls, 69-65. the washington nationals getting ready for the upcoming season in florida. don't we just love spring training, all the promise and excitement before opening day arrives? is one of several new faces on the roster. somewhat up inll the air. he will likely play center field this season. the former philly is glad to be on the right side of that starting rotation. ben: i was happy. i don't have to face those guys know more, man. taking bp, i was like, i'm glad he is on my team. erin: what are your expectations for the team the season? championship.ies we have a great team, great coach, great coaching staff, and scott: trading their uniforms for aprons, d.c. united players took over a restaurant this afternoon, acting as celebrity workers during the restaurant's first official day. 8 are thenews channel official stati

we can almost draw line of from brooksville to georgetown to mount or two hillsboro. look at futurecast. notice of the rain builds and. through dinnertime, it dikes that it backs his way up into interstate sunday one quarter. after midnight you start seeing some blue mixing up. we' ll start getting some wet snow. as a go into the overnight hours, it turns moreover to snow than rain. our easternmost neds desk easternmost communities will see the most of human relation -- accumulations. chilly conditions for the middle the week. by the end of the way, temperatures will climb close to 60 by next weekend. 34 for a low tonight. evening fog for a few more hours. showers over to snow. tomorrow is going to be cloudy in chilly. look for a high around the 30' s. here' s her seven-day forecast. we quickly break up into a big-time world with temperatures in the 60' s by friday and saturday. mike: i just heard 60. sheree: i' m looking for to it after today. mike: was it real or a hoax a explosive device attached to a rental car. how it was found. and what authorities are now sayin

second half, wideman takes georgetown to flight school, capping a 16-0 bulldog's run. looks over, right? well, here they come. part of a 14-1 run in the final 2:30 minutes. and they force overtime. and campbell denied, and georgetown falls back under .500 for the first time since november. >> we don't quit, and so at this point to say we're going to always have fight, that's what we do, we are not going to quit and never will quit. >> and the 741ce coming to washington in 2004, and jake who was working his way back from hand's surgery, and the cats take on the blackhawks at 12:30 and that can be seen right here on nbc 4. >>> sad news to leave you with tonight. according to adam jones, the oils are banning this pie in the face celebration due to safety concern. >> thank you so much for that. >>> we want to leave you with the last note on the breaking news that we have been covering. news4 confirmed ashley guindon was shot and killed on her first day on the job. she was responding to a domestic incident in woodbridge, and two other officers injured, and we

georgetown's faculty voted unanimously to join of st. mary's in condemning the dismissal of the professors. following an uproar, newman reinstated the teachers. and they returned to work yesterday. >>> concerns about the zika virus. may have pope francis reconsidering the catholic church's anti-contraceptive stance. zika is especially dangerous for pregnant women and has been linked to birth defects. pope francis said he may be open to leaving an emergency exception but did rule -- exception for contraception, but he did rule out abortion, calling it evil. >>> repaying a controversial sex abuse settlement. cosby said that's because she cooperated with police who reopened the case last year. the lawsuit stems from the 2006 settlement, which barred andrea constad from voluntarily discussing the case with law enforcement. the suit claims constad lives in canada, she had no obligation to discuss the case. >>> look at the trending stories. remember earlier this week, when kanye west tweeted that he was $53 million in debt? >> yeah. you know,

sorry, it's not georgetown, i'm happy to do weekends here.ou can work there, you just can't get paid. and so i called up -- i called up the division which i knew well. you can't pay me and he was like terrific. you are my highest employee ever. and another example of our system not working well, family, four other kids at home, by the way, no one had asked the question, when i told the team they were like no way, really. i didn't have medicaid people struggled with how to get them medicaid even though there's fast-tracked process, stayed in the hospital, nobody -- everybody said, well the case manager is working on it to figure out there and children's national. it's a wonderful hospital. a health system in children. you know t social construct and i will come back to this a few times, their family and situation hasn't been fully taken in to the clinical care environment. we were able to intervene on a weekend to get them set up with the appropriate resources so they could go home, and you know, the -- having four children myself i think we o

including emily murky, who met him when she was a georgetown law student. >> i don't think there is a law student in the country who wouldn't say that he's had an influence on them in some way. his judicial philosophy is something that you may not agree with but you can't ignore it. >> candles and flowers placed on a red, white and blue banner at the steps of the court where he >> i'm a law student so i've read a lot of his opinions and they are pretting entertaining to read and i just think regardless of the politics it is cool to stop by and pay your respects to someone who had a big affect on the country and the social politics of the nation. >> flags are flying at half-staff outside of the court, a sign of respect for the justice. a controversial figure nominated by president ronald reagan. some stopped to paid respects. >> i was here advocating for workers' rights and i thought it was important to come down, only a few blocks away to pay some respect and recognize public service is really important. >> reporter: tonight donald wuerl issued sympathies to his family. live from the

senior day, georgetown battling butler. overtime. hoyas down three, needing a prayer. isaac copeland takes the inbounds, the shot is blocked. georgetown loses again, dropping a heartbreaker on senior day, 90-87. catholic against susquehanna. the cardinals up 7. it's time to celebrate, catholic, you are going dancing. the cardinals when the conference title, 83-80. the washington are getting ready for the upcoming season in sunny florida. all the promise, all the excitement before opening day arrives. is one of several new faces on the nationals roster. his role with the club still somewhat up in the air. he would like to play center field this season. the former philly is glad to be on the right side of the vaunted starting rotation. i was happy, i don't have to face those guys know more. taking batting practice, i was like, i'm glad he's on my club. erin: your expectations for the team this season? ben: world series championship. we coach, great coaching staff, and i'm pumped. scott: girls basketball action, 6-a north regional final, oakton taking on fairfax. connelly

as you head toward evergreen and areas like idaho springs, georgetown and bailey you are looking at 6" to 10". for the denver area, no advisories maybe 1 to 4 -- 1" 2- 4%" for the denver area. -- to 4" for the denver area. -- down south into los angeles county and possibly down into the far south, more rain there. 50s and parts of the eastern plains and high country 20s to upper 30s, 47 in grand junction. on the cloudy side with a chance of a few rain showers coming in later on this evening and that will turn over the snow tonight so we will time that out for you in just a moment. right now back to you though, britt. >>> crews are still working on cleaning up a massive rock slide on i-70. they will close the interstate from nine in the morning until four in the afternoon. one lane will be open outside of that time with the pilot car guiding vehicles between glenwood springs to the east side of hanging like tunnel. delays are still expected with the open lane, detours are still an option but it could take drivers up to four hours. you can see those detours on >> police are looking for

of course, right away, i knew things had gone very badly. >> the folks in georgetown have no idea how very badly it has gone. both in jonestown and back at the house where staff member sharon amos has received jones' suicide order. she gathers her children in the upstairs bathroom and slits their throats and hers. >> when we came back, the guyanese defense force was there. they said, everybody come up into the living room. we went and sat in the living room upstairs, about 50 of us in a circle, and they brought out body bags. sharon had killed herself and her three kids while we had been gone. so -- >> on that night when it all went down, before i laid my head down, i just said, you know, to as many people as i could, don't do anything stupid. if you are feeling like hurting yourself, talk to someone. and as i drifted off in this maddening coma, i looked at blood dripping from the ceiling because we were below where sharon and her children had died. >> good evening. in one of the strangest cases of mass suicide and murder ever recorded the government of guyana said the bodies of 383 m

but one day i was driving on the road that leads to georgetown north carolina when george washington took this trip he took a diary and i highly recommend it. it's a wonderful printed source and he said he was bored out of his mind because the roads were sandy and the words were playing the end it wasn't cheesy so he decided to break by stopping at a plantation just north of georgetown called hampton. it was a plantation that have to had to be huge because there was so much drainage and it was very different from a tobacco plantation. he left the road to go to hampton and he was greeted by three women. one was elisha credited with figuring out how to make a commercial prop. her daughter who is a widow because her husband had been killed in battle in the american revolution and then harriet's daughter. washington spoke with the women as i supposed to keep the conversation they took a little roll into the research really wish i could show you but any of you that come from the south, it's a beautiful plants and trees and there was one in the middle of the front and she said you know, mr

morng good news here for folks along georgetown pike. a large contingenttg there of dominion virginia crews have now arrived to try to takek care of the storm damage. d we think it happened right hapnd around 5:00 o'clock last night t police officers were telling mee that that's when folks starteded reporting that their power was out and if you can kind of -- o can you see that mike? kind ofn thread that line of grass inn between the fence line and the e road, and you can see those tho trees down across and hittingng those power lines pulling themne down to the road. the roa we did just see one truck coming with a new power pole so that tells me that -- wove replace at least one of those. also, traffic lights are out o here. so fairfax county police areolia here on the scene helping toelng direct people.pl most people being pretty goodino about it knowing you treat thate as a four-way stop.to a couple of other locations across great falls, mclane areae as well we're hearing about. some in mclean proper and some s also we're told around l

melting ice floats in the potomac river in front of washington harbor in georgetown. in april of 2011, the rising potomac filled tony and joe's seafood restaurant with ten feet of water. the damage was devastating. today, they positioned all of the outdoor furniture at the restaurant within the perimeter of the floodwall that can surround washington harbor. the restaurant is waiting for the property manager's decision. whether the floodwalls will be pulled up for protection. >> cranes come out and then the cranes are pulling up the walls coming from the ground and pull it up all the way to the top. >> up the potomac at great falls, virginia, the swift water rescue team is getting prepared in case of flooding. >> we drive around to make sure see how the roads look and what the possibilities are of flooding. >> this is walker road in great falls, where flooding is measured in feet, not in inches. this is an area that will be monitored for flooding closely tomorrow. by the local swift water rescue team. >> if you're driving around, turn around, go home. don't try to get

profile concerned, the wind gust from the northwest 50 to 60 mile-per-hour wind gust estes park two georgetown not as windy but breezy around the city five to 15 mile-per-hour winds, tonight but likely into the day tomorrow before things start to settle down sunday, the skies, couple of clouds early broke apart through the afternoon and a little batch moves through to the early overnight but by morning, high-pressure back to the west will start to take to the weather situation as this builds west to east the next few days, spectacular a very slow moving ridge kind of like camp football perspective offensive line blocks everything coming through which means nice and quiet weather across the mile high city in the entire state for that matter all the way through most of this week. now considering the northwest overnight tonight into tomorrow morning through the day tomorrow we keep it a little cooler lows in the 20s, little breezy but tomorrow afternoon a little cooler than what we saw today but still plenty of sunshine highs in the upper 30s and low 40s but as we had to kickoff, beautiful evenin