>>> hlo, i am pat lawson muse. after losing his father to colon cancer a local man has dedicated much of his time to ecating the community and theenefits of getting screened. according to themerican cancer society, colon rectal cancer can be the most preventib cancer. >>> thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> tell us, ifou ll, about your dad and your motivation for startingiving with a purpose. >> my dad was diagnosed with colon cancer back in 2010, but that's not his story, it's h l hie ended. the reality is my dad was an awesome guy tha lived life to the fullest and loved his grandchildren and kids, and youy know, example, my role model. >>h. y >> yep. >> was that your primary inspiration for starting the group? >> yes, absolutely. seeing and going through the process of being my dad's caretaker for approximately two years. i will say my dad was and they gave him six months to live and the trueht f he is he was with us for two years, o and seeing himhrough that process put me in a mind frame of

i'm pat lawson muse. last christmas dray was a nightmare for one of the city's jewels in the theater andrts community. thieves broke into the anna costia play house and stole omputers, cards and cash a damaged the building, but they did not break the spirits of those who workedo hard to make the play house succeed and help transformhe community. joining us today is raymond caldwell and billy isor an a with the theater alliance. welcome, both of you. you are back in action at the quickly e much more than many thought. , the play break- house started a go fund me page nd the community and your patrons ran to your help. tell us how you do. >> indeed. r community really responded. they saw a moment of loss for us and they recognized the work that we're dog, and so they showed up to the go fund me campaign that wasstarted. tually was able to replace a lot of material that was lost. >> yeah. raising even more than you anticipated. >> yeah. the goal was $20,000, and i think that we spassed that and we want to re

i'm pat lawson muse. living with a serious mental health issue can betough, especially for older adults. a nonprofit in fairfax, though, is helping to ease that burden. trs has been doingthat, helping those living with mental illness or facing lifefrisis for h a century. joining us today is laura mayor. she is director of trs crisis link. thanks so much for being with tus. >>nk you for having me. >> we said 50 years. you've been doi this a long time. >> yes, we have. >> tell us about what you do. >> crisi link is service of a large organization trs. we are the call center answering theational health prevention life line and the local hotline for people struggling with suicidal thoughts. >> you take calls from all over the region? >> yeah. >> i'm surpro learn, in fact, shocked to learn that while many of us are at the thought of spring that your call volume goes upca now e people are in greater crisis as spring approaches. explain that. >> it sure does. in the winter months, notat sayg eople don't struggle

>>> hello, i'm pat lawson muse. from a modern day pastor making history to a 19th century pass for whose history is being honored in our own backyard. she is a pentecostal preacher who made church history recently by shattering the dplglass ceil her organization. bonnie hunter in capital heights,aryland is the first woman ever elevated to the osition of bishop in the international bible way church ead quartered here in washington, d.c. bible way is head ofox apately 140 churches in the nation and around the world. bishop hunter, greetings. >> i'm happy to be here. >> congratulations to be honored as a bishop. you've come aoong way becoming the first woman bishop. does it fl like you broke a glass ceiling? >> yes. we have reached beyond, beyond even my imagination. to know that god will open that door and let uso this far. >> god helped open the door but you did a lot ofsh g. >> absolutely. a lot of praying and working and the work has spoken for itself. >> you have served as the pastor of frip outreach church in pri

i'm pat lawson muse. a maryland dell interrogates facingrowing calor her resignation after use the "n" word to refer to african-americans in princeun george's y. the comment was made at a bar in annapolis i january by maryann lasante. not only did she use theord she's sure everyone has. she's apologized but apparently that's not enough. > since her apology there's been more peoplo have been calling for her to step down. in prince george's couni exec angela brooks talked about this, the idea that a delegate would say som like doesn't everybody speak this way? am the only person who has used thi folks have used terms like tone deaf to referia to her ini response to all of this, but now she's using words like i wt to be forgiven, and i apologize. this is a difficult time for me and is saying she has the support of some of the folks ir district. but, yeah, everybody from the naacp to theth black caucus t democratic party and republican party to the governor to some of our national leaders are also saying that

i'm justin finch >> and i'm pat lawson muse. baseball's opening day is here. >> firstitch justwo hours away and counting. >> and as you can see, the field is ready and this morning so are the fans e >> we harything you need tonow if you're headed to the the game. julie careyegs our coverage. the fans are behind you and they are pumped. >> you said the gates have just open look at all theseea fans alr in line. there were people here at 10:00 this mning when we first arrived. ere's nothing like the enthusiasm and optimism of openingy. da and look at what we saw a short whilago. those early bird fans have retreat ed ed to a visit from t racing president. they came running through a little while ago. theiggest adjustment for fans this year is life without bryce harper. but everybody i talked to here day say they moved on. and theare especially excited to see this new and improved natsline. especially excited to see matt scherzer pitching today. now some folks, likesa i id, it's a big deal to themt to be fi in line. it is a tradition

. >>> good morning, i'm pat lawson muse. if you work in maryland, you could soon get a raise.neral assembly has r approvedsing the minimum wage to $15 an hour. it would rise incrementally to reach $15 in 2025. workers would have a year to comply with th. manyorkers are happy about the prospect of getting a raise. many are not, however, fearing they will lose hours or their jobs. joining u this morning, prince georges county bureau chr lver.ns and jerry tracy, governor hogan has to sign this and we know he could vetot and there are enough votes to override a veto. >>av he's not in of this. he's saying that this is one of many measures that the democ tts who contr house and also the senate have passed that are going to wreck the economy of maryland. that's what he'sng sa he said it's going to be very difficult for small business in particular to come back from this, but costs go up and labor costs go up. so for a lot of these businesses, these folks are just going to have to figure out how to make that happen. and for some of the businesses and also non-profits, it means tough d

thank you. >>> thank you, that's reporters' notebook i'm pat lawson muse. "news 4 today" continues. >>> 6:30 on this sunday morning. here's what we're following for you. new thi morning, firefighters battling a fire along georgia avue in northwest d.c. we're going to take a look at the damage there. >>> plus, tragedy on the lake. a man drowns while ting to save dog. >>> and what reallyappens to that glass once you throw it in the recycling bin? we're going to take you on a little tour. >>> "news 4 today" starts now. >>> and good morning to you on this sunday rning. thanks for being here with us. dark and early. i'm adam tuss. >> goorn g, i'm meagan fitzgerald. we have a nice day ahead. so much to do. march dness. >> got that. >> virginia one. >> got that. final four. >> big deal. cherry blossoms. and,no youwhat, it sounds like lauryn ricketts, this could be t day to go see the cherry blossoms. not as nice as yesterday, so maybe a littleess people out there, maybe. >> yes. ye listen, go see them today, go see them tomorrow, i think yesterday as i was saying

nd i'm pat lawson muse. we begin this morning way very cold start to march, big part of the country's feeling the impact. 220 million people dealing with below freezing temperatures from coast to coast. snow even covers the ground in northwest arkansas. pe our area ttures started the day in the 20s, but tomorrow could feel a lot colder. >> storm team 4 meteorologist lauren ricketts joins us now. the sun is out,eautiful to look at. is it helping to warm things up at all? >> no, not even a little bit. r itlly deceiving out there, guys. look at. its gorgeous out there right now. we've got blue skies out there. listen, it is chly. rightn see in the botto side of your screen you can see that 34 degr mark. it is a little on the chilly side. you step outside the beltway and that's where we have temperatures below freezing. southeast winds at about 6 miles an hour. full sunshine out there. aseaou through the evening for exercise, maybe walking the dogs, you'll need those extra winter layers out there. evening commut

. >> i'm pat lawson muse. weegin with breaking cherry blossom news this morning. the national park servi now says peak bloom will happen earlier than expected. the park service tweeted this morning that the indicator tree is n in full bloom and with temperatures expected to climb into the 70s this weekend, they're now predicting peak bloom will april april 1st, no fooling. >> i love that. >>> we're talking about temperatures ithe 70s. i know. >> coming, but we're not there yet. this old out the morning. >> it is chilly, you're absolutely, right, guys. you're thenking about did spring go of the it looks nice out there. it looks wonderful, but boy is it chilly. now you can see on the bottom right-hand corner of your screen, 44 degrees. but onehing you really can't see, the winds are out there. we've got breezy conditions. inds gusting up to 20 miles an hour. so breezy not windy but we are still seeing a little bit of a wind chillut there on this tuesday morning. 44 right now is our temperature. as we continue through the day, those temperatures are going to be warmi

. >> i'm pat lawson muse. let's kick things off this morning with a check of your storm team 4 forecast and amelia it's beginning to look a lot li spring. oh, absolutely, pat. even just a few days ago compared to this morning arting to see more green out there, more blossoms coming out. it was a cold start this morning. many of us especially in the suburbs kicked off the day with temperatures around or below freezing. at this point we've warmed into the low to mid-40s. 46 degrees in thedistrict. 43 in frederick and 44 in manassas. we're going toarm to a high temperature today of 55 degrees, so overall a few degrees warmer than yesterday and we have beautiful sunshine in the forecast from s rt tofinish. that being said, though, 55 degrees is about five degrees below normal for this time of year. our average high at about 59/60. we're running below normal today. as we move toward the end of the workweek, we see our temperatures soar. i'm going to have more on just how warm we'll be plus when you'll be dealing wit

. >> i'm pat lawson muse. we begin with the weather. we have wind advisories this morning. take a look at the flag in front of our stationn here northwest. it is whipping in the wind. there is concern weee could downed trees and some isolated power outages. >> the high winds come a day afterownpours that caused some roads to wood. thas the scene in kv brle, maryland. you see the truck driving through the high waters even with anotheredehicle stra and check out this cellphone video capturing another water scue on woodburn road. the driver tried to make his way through theef high watere he realized that it was a bad idea. >> amelia draper is joining us. so d are wee with the rain? >> we're not done. we will have scattered showers out there during the afternoon hours. and i can't really out a rble of 24uthunder. but first these areas in brown are under a wind advisory until midnight tonight. upper montgomery, loudoun, frederick, carroll counties.ro and backd the i-81 corridor. we could see gusts up to 50le an hour. bond even ultimate side of the as 40ry, gusts as strong to 45

no i'm pat lawson muse. we had a little this morning. let's check in first with amelia draper. how are things looking on the radar right now? >> as you can see,rm seam 4 radar drawing across the area right now and little is the keyword there. we saw aboutti c to around two inches across the region. just a few meager showers down in parts of maryland and a few flurries just north o frederick city. as we head into the evening, rain is going to start to develop and wit surface temperatures at higher elevations right at freezing, we cod be dealingith some frr for the counties here in purple. that's why the national weather service has issued a new winter weather advisory. this is for the i-81 corridor as well as frederick, carroll counties and maryland. is f gredethrick county in maryland. it goes until 7:00 a.m. elsewhere it expires earlier at 1:00 a.m. it's mainly at that hig r elevation. think of places like braddock heights. we could see anywhere fm about inch. ng to .2th of an you want to be cautious for slick spots as we head into the evening hours and early tomorrow morning.

i'm pat lawson muse. more people are calling complaining about calling saying they're from the irs of theme depa of justice. last year it cost half a billion dollar. whetr you're a victim or not, there are some things you need to know. consumer reporte susan hogue began is here wrapping up consumer week and also adam tuss. good morning to both of you. susan, we'll start with you. you say there are two types of schemes. what are they? >> i can guarantee you i have them. you hav them as well. the first is, we need your social security number or you're under arrest, a usually these are imposters, an they're so, trekky now with the spoofring. you'll see a 202 area code and you think, oh, it's coming from washington, d.c., it must be the government. arehear, and the people who the imposters themselves, the schemers, are so convincing. and especially if you know in your mind that you probably do owe theirs, you're more apt to listen and feelo scared about these things because they do threat this. an they'll tel