i'm pat lawson muse. it was a box office blockbuster. the movie "hidden figures" told the story of three african-american women, former nasa mathematicians whose numbers crunching played an indispensable role in launching the first american astronaut . >> they tested me through the computer. >> she's the she can handle any numbers you put in front of her. >> this is about inventing the math, because without it we're not going anywhere. >> yes, sir. >> that's john glenn. >> the movie "hidden figures" chronicled the plight of these women who and fought to integrate the teams behind the space program, women who excelled, paving a path building a ladder for the women we you to nasa's modern figures. dr. p ank tatpatel is can the n program and a professor with the engineering department at catholic engineer and dr. crystal johnson. lakisha hawkins is an aerospace engineer and a propulsion team lead at nasa. welcome, all of you. >> you. >> thank y for having us. >> i know you saw the movie. >> yes, yes. >> what

i'm pat lawson muse. you know, we know, d.c.'s a very popular place to live. we also know strong demand for housing here has made it tougher to find affordable housing in the city, in the region. but several area developers are joining forces with non-profits and houses of worship to put more affordable housing on the market. one such effort is called the faith-based development initiative. joining us to talk about it are david bowers, who is vice president of enterprise community partners, and reverend patrice shepard, executive pastor in southwest and founder of lydia's house. thank you both for joining us this morning. so, david, your company's leading the initiatives? tell us about it. >> enterprise community partners started the faith-based development initiative ten years ago, really as an effort to get new units of housing, new affordable homes on the market. our approach is to work with houses of worship who own land that's undeveloped or underdeveloped who may have an interest in building housing

and so we want to tell the american side of the story. >> and that was pat lawson news reporting. 1983 first black person honored in canada. back here the park hopes to complete and open the museum by year 2020. to learn more about the josiah henson project, head and search henson museum. >> very cool. >>> the sound of howling dogs not coming from your neighbor's yard, maybe it is, but it's also filling anchorage, alaska, for the ceremonial start of the iditarod sled dog race. >> about 2,000 dogs belonging to 72 mushers are getting ready for the big race. they've left the downtown area yesterday for an 11-mile course on city trails and streets. ceremonial start is a allow spectators a chance to meet the dogs. the official start of the race is tomorrow. this is just a warm-up. >> yes, makes me think of uconn cornelius from rudolph. >> no, no, come on, amelia. >> nope. >> play along. >>> well, there's no snow here, there's that. >> no snow, no rain. and at this point, we do need moisture. any form of moisture -- >> are we in a drought? >> we are. >> we need six to nine inches to get rid

. >>> good morning, i'm pat lawson, this is reporter's leads to a state emergency declaration by the governor of maryland. 50 million in new nunding over five years to help the state of maryland with presengs recovery and enforcement efforts. we are joined this morning and scott, let me start with you. the money will help cut through the red tape. why has it been so tough for states and localities to cut through the red tape to coordinate efforts to tack this will problem? >> let's be clear, this is a crisis in maryland, but it's not a unique crisis to maryland. other states throughout the country are feeling the same thing. the exponential growth in heroin and ownership yoid-related deaths in maryland, mind boggling. it's more than doubled in the past few years. it's a crisis. getting people access to the overdose reversal drug. giving people access to drug therapy is easier said than done. it makes money, it takes manpower out there doing outreach to people. citizens of maryland, and the simply don't have the money or the manpower to do that. they're asking for all the help they ca

news 4's pat lawson muse with this. pat?ndy, bus driver who operate out of the robert godard bus lot say their lounge is infested with something that they believe may be mold. take a look at this picture of one of the problem areas. several t operate out of the lot which is located in lanham, have complained about respiratory problems. today they raised concerns raised by would school board members. >> i was made aware of this by a bus driver on friday night. monday morning i came. it looked like mold on the wall, but i'm not a mold expert. i was told our maintenance crew would be out here 5:00 a.m. this morning to test for mold. and when that didn't happen, i was very disappointed. >> until we get to the bottom of this, our employees need to be removed from the building immediately, given some accommodati accommodations. we have two to three schools in walking distance we can make available for them to use. you'll see we're talking about a temporary building something students are in. we can get a new one for them. >> now a

. >>> i'm pat lawson muse.e begin this morning with a push to move federal agencies out of washington, out of the region. the house committee on and government reform passed a resolution introduced by its chair utah representative jason chaffetz that says relocating federal agencies would make the government more representative of its people. he also promoted it as a way to cut government spending. scott mcfarland and tom sherwood are with us this morning. gentlemen, this resolution has generated a lot of debate and chaffetz says he wouldn't -- it doesn't mean he would force agencies to move. so what does he hope to accomplish here? >> it is nonbinding, is would be symbolic, say the u.s. house deports the moving of federal agency headquarters outside d.c. to other parts of the country. what a powerful symbol. a statement that a lot of people from outside, congressmen who represent areas outside d.c. want to send to their constituents saying i'm against washington, d.c. i'm against the powers that be, the instit

. >> i'm pat lawson muse. wendy is off tonight.person in critical condition. police say the driver may have been speeding when this car slammed into a pole on smallwood drive in waldorf, maryland. >> news4's derrick ward joins us from the scene. >> reporter: as you can see behind me now, the cleanup continues. what's left of that car is now up on a flat bed tow truck. how this crash happened and why. a single car crash at the intersection of smallwood drive and st. niklas drive in waldorf. it happened just after 12:30. it was as quick as it was deadly. this man was waiting for the light to change when the car came by. >> the speed was super fast. my truck shook. >> reporter: there were about four or five others cars as that speeding car came on. >> there was a car in front of him. what i'm guessing is to avoid hitting the car, he must have turned to his left. >> reporter: the car hit ra utili -- a utility pole and broke apart. emergency responders arrived. >> they had two individuals deceased inside the car. there was a third indiv

. >> i'm pat lawson muse. first let's get to the fraforec. >> and we're talking about rain for today and the chance of snow comes as we go into the weekend. so that is something we'll be watching very closely. it is currently 65 degrees already in the district. we are warming up very quickly despite the cloud cover out there. we have a breezy south wind that is keeping the warm air here. but the closest rain is in west virginia. and we are mostly just seeing the cloudy skies at the moment. you can expect the rain to be steadier through the afternoon. so for the rest of the day today, the rain starts to approach. so by the evening drive, we expect scattered showers around. temperatures in the upper 60s. tomorrow morning the rain quickly moves to the south and it will get sunny and breezy. we'll talk about the weekend forecast with the chant of snow straight ahead. >>> new developments just in. we know that someone shot at four people in the district with a paint ball gun. no one has been aaeeen arrested. there

pat lawson muse in our newsroom with that. >> the federal government has once again postponed any announcement about a possible move for the fbi headquarters. in a statement, the general services administration says the agency and fbi have worked, quote, diligently, but says they need appropriations from congress before they make an announcement. the gsa planned to announce its location last fall, but delayed that decision. that search for new headquarters started during the obama administration. now we have a new administration and a president with a reality background. the washington business journal points out that with a gop controlled congress the president could potentially go on with this current search or take a new approach or even call the whole thing off. back in 2014, the gsa landover, green bebelt and springfield as the finalists for the new headquarters. delays cou the gsa did not provide any timeline for any future announcement. >>> we do know maryland is about to join the legal battle against president trump's travel ban. attorney general says maryland and five other states pla

. >> today pat lawson muse with someone whose job it is to bring missing children home. what kind of insight are you getting into this false report? >> wendy, first and foremost, he confirmed what police have been saying. we are not, not seeing an uptick in the number of missing children in the city. d.c. police have told us last week that they're simply sharing missing child stories more and more often on social media. robert lowry jr. is with the center for missing and exploited children. i asked him today about why some missing children cases g s get a attention while others don't. the way he sees it the child's age and the circumstances surrounding the child's disappearance matter more than race. >> i think what seems to capture the public's attention the most is those young children who may have been stereo typically abducted by an offender who wants to sexual assault them. and i would say that the media attention is driven largely by the age of the child. you know, this child touched all of our hearts and garner aed a lot of media attention. >> you the public are t

i'm pat lawson-muse. we begin this morning with the reported rape of a 14-year-old at rockville high school. it's generated national headlines and stirred the emotional immigration debate and prompted threats against the school. two suspects, a 17-year-old and 18-year-old, are charged in the case of the 18-year-old, we know is undocumented and has a pending immigration case for failing to appear before a judge. the 17-year-old's status is not being discussed because he's documentation. tracee wilkins and david mcconnell are with us this morning. thanks so much for being with us. what are your thoughts about the police response to the threats and school's response to what happened? >> well, first of all, mon montgomery county police have to take any threats seriously. if you have folks now threatening rockville high school, of course the police department has to step in and do its due diligence. their response has been completely appropriate. in terms of what the superintendent has been saying there b abou

. >> good morning, i'm pat lawson muse. >> a we're tracking severe weather that could be moving through our area as early as this afternoon. tom? >> you can see that there on storm team 4 radar. they are advancing from the west heading across west virginia right now. they have a history of producing wind damage and even some isolated tornadoes. right now severe thunderstorm watch put into effect until 5:00 this afternoon, all of the area in pink covers east and west virginia and most of virginia. metro area and much of maryland. this is in effect until 5:00 p.m. we could get up to 70-mile-per-hour wind gusts that would cause likely power outages scattered across the region this afternoon and those storms are going to continue to advance off to our region here from the west. live tower camera showing breaks in the cloud cover right now. storm team 4 radar showing this line. a lot of lightning with it as well coming across west virginia. the hour by hour timing, by 2:00 this afternoon, storms, frederick, northern montgomery and southern loudoun into falkier and prince william county. betw