. >>> molette greene is keeping a live look at the airports for us. >> the runways are open for business, but if you have a flight today, check in with your airline before heading to the door this morning. here's a live look outside reagan national airport, i just checked on the numbers on flightaware.com for the latest. nearly 50 flights canceled at reagan this morning. and we are seeing 30 wiped from the boards at dulles and 11 flights canceled at bwi marshall. that's the latest from the live desk, molette greene, back to you. >> don't forget, you can search nbcwashingtonweather in the app store and google play. >>> things could be very dangerous for you out there. just ahead, tragedy strikes a local neighborhood. how one woman died just hours after the snow stopped falling. >>> a live look at the roads. the storm team 4 by 4 is checking out conditions in realtime all morning long. danella is also watching out for you in your weather and traffic. we have them together on the ones. >>> it is extremely cold now near zero. teens in the metro area. your dettedco &"x0000htdeed c0 >>> welcom

molette green with a breaking story. >> this story is developing in belgium where president obama is holding talks with nato. a bomb squad called to check a suspicious package found a bus not far from the nato headquarters. this is happening in the capital, brussels. before this came up, the city was already on lockdown for the president's first visit there. we'll keep you posted on this developing story. back to you. >> thanks. 5:0. >>> they're calling it the white coat effect. why doctors may be the ones raising the blood pressure in their own patients. >>> ahead, new information about a tax scam that could cost you this year. what the irs wants you to be listening for. >>> cold and windy conditions as you step out this morning. look at the cherry blossoms there. not ready it bud yet. we'll see the strongest wind gusts. ♪ [ wellington ] multimillion-dollar athletes can afford almost anything. ♪ but what they really want... welcome back, sir. [ wellington ] ...is what they never stop loving. ♪ [ whistles ] [ wellington ] mcdonald's dollar menu at breakfast. with options like the sau

news4's molette green has more from the live desk. >>> right now, we know that four planes have reached the search area. three more are on the way. in all, 12 planes will fly over the southern indian ocean. and two ships are also in the water looking for any sign of the missing jet. the search zone remains huge. even though it's been cut down to an estimated 622,000 square miles, that's about the size of alaska. but time is running out to zero in on those pingers that are coming from the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders. their batteries could give out within two weeks. experts warn that despite the massive multinational search, it still could take years to find the wreckage. we're staying on top of today's search efforts throughout the morning. back to you. >> thank you. >>> 4:33. this morning, the secret service has not said what punishment three agents will face after an incident involving alcohol overseas. the men were in the netherlands ahead of president obama's arrival on monday. saturday night into sunday morning, one agent apparently got drunk and passed out outsi

. >>> i'm molette green. into the newsroom, learning about a car possibly crashing into the macy's store at columbia mall. howard county, maryland, fire and 'em just tweeted this news a few minutes ago. this could be the work of a burglary at the mall and at the particular store. we're still working to find out information, what happened including the condition of the driver. stay tuned. we'll continue to update you on the developing story throughout the morning. back to you. >> thank you. >>> 5:15. we have breaking news. two tickets hit the $400 million mega millions jackpot. one of the tickets was sold in maryland. here are the winning numbers now. 11, 19, 24, 33, 51, and the mega ball was 7. good luck. >>> the other winning ticket was sold in florida. here's a live look at the sunoco gas station in merit island, south of cape canaveral. >>> 16 after the hour. vice president joe biden is in lithuania to reassure baltic leaders that the u.s. will defend its nato allies in the wake of russia's intervention in

molette green is following breaking news from the live desk. molette? >> we just got new information on the pilot of the missing malaysia jetliner that has investigators very curious this morning. we just learned that files were recently deleted from a flight simulator found at his home. now a news conference just ended a few minutes ago. and investigators say they are trying to figure out what information was on those deleted files. we've also learned that background checks on all but three passengers are still pending. and those passengers are said to be ukraine and russian nationals. that's the latest. back to you. >> thank you. >>> concerns about retaliation this morning after police shot a murder suspect in northwest washington. law enforcement sources tell news4 that police officers are being warned about possible retaliation. an officer with the capital area fugitive task force shot and killed 19-year-old da'quan hendricks yesterday. police say the officer opened fire after hendricks shot at them. police were trying to arrest him in connection wi

we'll go straight to molette green at the live desk. >> we just found about 122 potential objects spotted that satellite that could narrow the search area. we've been watching a news conference from malaysia. it ended a few minutes ago. we learn good new satellite images taken three days ago in an area cover being 154 square miles. -- covering about 154 square miles. some are bright indicating they could be solid materials and range from three feet up to 69 feet. three to 6 feet. 12 planes including one from the u.s. navy are flying over the area looking for any debris to link it to flight 370. we'll keep you posted. check in with nbcwashington.com for the latest. >> thanks. >>> the first step toward a potential multimillion dollar lawsuit against malaysia airlines has been out of chicago. a law firm filed court documents monday that demand malaysia airlines and boeing turn over evidence of a possible design and manufacturing defect that may have caused the plane to plunge into the indian ocean. a spokesman for boeing told nbc news the company has no no comment now. a representative for m

. >>> news4's molette green just learning about more wind damage. she's at the live desk. >> thank you. the strong winds knocked a tree on top of a silver spring home, and that tree has power lines attached to it. right now, montgomery county fire on the scene along sandalwood lane in the 12300 block. it's near new hampshire avenue. firefighters tell us no one hurt when the tree came crashing down. that power crew is headed there to try to work on those power lines. back to you now. >> thanks. >>> 6:03. danella sealock keeping an eye out for backups in first 4 traffic. >> that's right. it's that time of morning. folks traveling inbound to the city starting to see backups. first we'll talk about a chemical spill. here's what's happening. there is a dump truck, it's broken down and is leaking antifreeze on the road. traveling in manassas, look out along godwin at sudley road. what they're doing is waiting on a sand truck on come and get some of the chemical off the roadway. you may see at least one to two lanes blocked in the area. now, as aaron was s

news4's molette green at the live desk. >> aaron, take a look at your screen now. chopper 4 giving us a first look at the scene in fairfax station, route 23, ox road. we told you a while ago about three big rocks in the road there blocking traffic. our news crew is on the way headed there to give us more information from the ground. you can see from the pictures, the impact to traffic. we want to first 4 traffic's danella sealock with more on what kind of impact there is this morning for commuters. danella? >> thank you. >>> yeah, it is a -- affecting the northbound lanes. i just want to -- i know a lot of drivers when you look at the live shot are like, what is the boulder. concrete slabs, you see how big that is in the roadway. that is what's blocking the lanes. so left side of the road is blocked. in fact, looks like just the turn lane is getting by. and as chopper pans out, are you starting to see a delay already. this is along ox road. look at this. folks are jammed already. we are tracking your backups. they look to be from this angle at least a mile of heavy

. >>> coming up on 5:06, news4's molette green is following breaking news from the live desk. >> aaron, there's a possible hazmat situation going on right now on the campus of georgetown university. d.c. police and fire and ems already on the scene in the 3700 block of o-street in northwest. what we can tell you is that they are investigating a powdery substance that was found in one of the buildings, but police are not telling us yet which building they are looking at. our melissa mollet is headed there and will bring us more on this developing story in just a short bit. back to you. >>> thank you. 5:06 now. and it's enough to make your head hurt. the money being wasted by headache sufferers struggling to find relief from their pain. >>> also ahead, feeling cranky this morning? why your friends and what they post on facebook could be to blame. >>> you're going to need to watch for slick spots out there as we wake up to freezing temperatures this morning. what you can expect throughout the day with your hour-by-hour forecast. that's at 5:11 with weather and >>> welcome back. you may wa