jim handly has look at day one of the expo. ♪ >> reporter: from high impact to something more zen, youngero older, the expo provides fun ways to stay fit and find out about health. >> i'm interested in health and fitness and i think it's very important. so just trying to pick up tips. >> reporter: with free health screenings varp around the washington convention center, people lined up. >> it's all about healthy futures. we're featuring that. we have fitness demonstrations, we're doing free blood pressure and body fat. >> reporter: and of course there was some good old fashioned fun. >> what were you doing here today? how was it? >> i used to be a skier. >> reporter: and he'll probably be back next year. >> i come every year. >> reporter: jim handly, news 4. >>> our nbc 4 health and fitness expo is free and continues tomorrow at the washington convention snsh. amelia and i will both be out there, that starts at 9:00 a.m. and runs until 4:00 in the afternoon. we hope that you'll come by. open our a p for a school of events. >>> a little bit of everything in the forecast for tomorrow. one of

i'm jim handly. >> i'm erika gonzalez. the sun has now set on a beautiful day here in the district, a day in which many of you walked outside for the first time in a long time trying to dig yourselves out. >> the cabin fever is about finished with us and we are helping you get back to normal tonight and we have new information for you this evening on everything from closings to that metro service. >> we've got team coverage, teams of reporters covering the big story for you and storm team 4 chief teorologist doug kammerer here with what to expect tonight and into the morning. >> well, guys, what we'll expect tonight is the re-freeze and it wasn't a lot of. temperatures today barely got above freezing and with some sunshine, we were able to get milking tonight and i want to take you back to yesterday. look at the storm, really just hammering the entire area. tremendous amounts of snowfall around the region. this storm definitely one for the record book, for sure and this is what we said. this is the original snowfall foreca

i'm jim handly. >> and i'm doreen gentzler. all of the major districts in our area are closed again tomorrow. trying to give crews more time to clear neighborhood streets and school parking lots. >> we have team coverage in d.c., maryland and virginia. but we begin with chief meteorologist doug kammerer in the storm center. so doug, will this refreeze be an issue again tonight? >> yeah, it is going to be an issue. it already. temperatures drop below freezing fairly quickly in many locations. right now most of you are in the 20s. take a lack at the numbers out there. 28 in leesburg. 23 manassas. 19 in frederick. but take a look at gaithersburg. it was 28 last hour. up two degrees to 30. 31 was the temperature in d.c. about three hours ago. now we're up to 36. that's some very good news. temperatures actually rising now as a result from cloud cover moving in. we we're still having the refreeze. so watch out early tomorrow morning. obviously very icy, very slippery. temperatures right around the 30-degree mark in most locations ou

i'm jim handly in storm center 4 with chief meteorologist doug kammerer. we know you want to hear about the busy weather week coming your way. >>> but first, we're working some breaking news out of prince george's county. chris? >> reporter: an ambulance has been involved in a very serious crash on the beltway. this is what it looked like on the inner loop just off st. barnabas road and oxen hill. news4's jackie bensen just got some new information. jackie welcome back, are -- what are you hearing? >> reporter: when you take a look at the pictures we received from this accident, it has the potential to be much worse. it involved a power line coming down and being partially across the beltway. a short time ago, we spoke to mark brady from the prince george's county fire department. he says this began when a car sideswiped the ambulance. >> they struck a small tree, a tree stump. hit a light pole before coming to rest with significant damage. the two paramedics sustained injuries, albeit not life threatening. however, were transported to a trauma center for

. >> i'm jim handly. ht we're learning about arrests in two separate murders in popular city parks. let's get right to news 4's pat collins live at police headquarters with details. pat? >>. >> reporter: jim, last year the city of alexandria had four murders. today they closed two of them. the suspects, gang members. alexandria police have closed two murders that happened in two of the city's parks late last year. though they say the two cases are unrelated, the suspects in each of the murders are said to be members or associates of the ms-13 gang, and these deadly acts evidence of the rise in gang violence in alexandria. >> the intensity of the violence haskhd risen a great deal than last couple of years. we, unfortunately, had two of the victims here in alexandria die because of that violence. >> reporter: november 9th, 24-year-old jose perez found nearly decapitated in beverly park. a popular play place for children known in the neighborhood as the pit. police are not saying the motive for the murder,

i'm jim handly. >> i'm wendy rieger. a stunning fall from power.a former police chief is in court trying to avoid prison time. >> his job was to keep a secure government facility, but instead he was making meth on the campus. news 4 i-team reporter scott macfarlane is at the courthouse and we'll have more in greenbelt and a breaking news report coming up shortly. >> but first, the first officer charged in the death of freddie gray appealed a judge's decision to force him to testify against a fellow officer. one of william porter's attorneys argued that immunity would not protect him from new charges and that's according to the baltimore sun. porter is scheduled to testify against officer cesar goodson and officer goodson was the van driver and is facing the serious charge of the six officers second-degree murder. his trial starts on monday. >> a former prince george's county police officer will be sentenced tomorrow for pointing the gun at a man's head. officer santiago faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted. it stems from a case back in may i

. >> i'm jim handly.that wreck involved nine vehicles and now we're learning more about the person that may have triggered it. this was on the intersection of route 202 and lottsford road in the largo area. let's go right to pat collins. what have you learned? >> reporter: jim, it was a violent crash that took the life of a 53-year-old woman and police say the driver who caused it didn't have a valid license. the man who was in this truck, the truck that triggered a nine-car crash. the crash that killed a 53-year-old woman. that man, police say was driving on a suspended license and had a warrant out for his arrest to face a driving under the influence charge. that man has been identified as 34-year-old juan sanchez. according to court documents obtained by news 4, sanchez was arrested on new year's day 2014 and charged with speeding, driving under the influence, driving while impaired and when he didn't show up for trial a bench warrant was issued for his arrest.

i'm jim handly. how that patient died when security would aren't let him leave. >>> i'm doreen gentzler, remember the pit bull who protected its owner after a house fire? now that owner may need legal protection. >>> hi. i'm pat collins, downtown. what would you do for a playoff ticket? don't answer that just yet. wait until you see what some others will do. that story coming up, news 4. >>> first to that developing story at medstar center, a vertebrae in his neck was broken and now the medical examiner says the death of a patient who clashed with security guards, that death has been ruled a homicide. news 4's jackie bensen is live with us with details of the findings. >> according to the d.c. medical examiner's office, the cause of 74-year-old james mcbride's death is blunt force injuries to his neck and severe damage to his spinal cord. in late september, mr. mcbride was injured after struggling with security guards outside the hospital on irving street northwest. a d.c. police department report sa

. >> i'm jim handly. in the last half hour, we started to see the snow moving across parts of our region. >> storm team 4 meteorologist doug kammerer has a look at the conditions right now. >> again, guys, the snow not going to be the biggest impact as we make our way through the next couple hours. some of us may not see any at all. others may see a quick downburst of snow as we move on through. what we're seeing right now is just that, scattered shower activity. you notice most of this to the south is rain, waldorf, fredericksburg, culpeper area. mix of rain and snow right now around the leesburg region. up toward the frederick area around mt. airy, we have seen snow showers come through. a couple of them already around leightonsville, here's mt. airy and damascus. a cup of snow showers moving through the region. now the wider view shows more snow back toward the west. this is what we're watching. this area back here. really produce some of these snow showers. between, say, now and around 7:00, 8:00. aft

. >> i'm jim handly.ot a team of reporters and meteorologists working for you through all of this tonight and through the weekend. we've been out in this blizzard all day long. >> we'll start our 10:00 hour in stormcenter 4. chief meteorologist doug cka kammer kammerer, it's starting to get worse out there. >> it really is. we're now seeing the change. the winds are starting to pick up and now we're also really starting to see the first very, very heavy snowfall move into the area. take a look outside right now. you can barely see the airport. visibility down because of the moderate to heavy snow. 23 degrees right now, winds out of the northeast at 22 miles per hour. so you see the winds picking up. that's just the sustained winds. the gusts are over 30 miles an hour in some spots. here's the radar. you notice the snow coming on in from the south but now it's moving more from the south. it was coming southwest and now it's moving more from the south. eventually it will be from the southeast and then event

at the live desk, i'm jim han y handly. >>> the leading medical experts have released new guidelines.verage risk for breast cancer should begin mammograms at the age of 50 and they should be screened every other year until the age of 74. the panel says women in their 40s may benefit from the screening, as well, but they are at a higher risk for false positives. the bottom line, talk to your doctor about your risk and come up with a plan that works for you. >>> with maryland governor larry hogan's cancer in remission, his hair is beginning to grow back. the governor had his first haircut since finishing chemo. he had that today and he tweeted a picture. hogan was diagnosed with non-hodgkin's lymphoma back in june. after months of treatment he announced in november that he was cancer-free. >> after years of complaints over the deplorable living conditions, the district has taken the landlord to court. why many feel it's part of a bigger plan to force those residents out for good. >> powerball jackpot, it has soared into record territory now. some may want to take a closer look >> deplor

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