. ♪ ♪ >>> schoo closings are beginn pile up like the snow outside as we expand our this morning.o county schools just announ are now closed. a lot of status changes this morning. wel be staying on the air until 8:00 to keep you up to the minute on the changing cond as they get worse by the minute. >> let's check on current complas with your weather and traf >> just got a snow total in from the northn neck of virginia. theye had 5 inches of snow in reedville eastern norn neck. stl one band of moderate to heavy snow this white bright aream calvert county and acro north st. mary's head towd fred. one of the worse spots in the area at this point this mornin be dumfries road. that is whe amelia segal is right now. 95 in virginia that entire area 234 is really nasty. also in maryland, 95 into and out of town bw parkway just a mess tmorn stay off the roads if you can. >>> want to show you live tenleytown upper north washington. you can see the snow starting to pile up more right outside our fronyard. e sitting at about 32 degrhere. and this is the situati that we're seeing all across th

tomorrow the schoo vote and select on choices for making school start times school bells 20 or which would cost l nothing. the montgomery county education association is the union that represents the school system's 12,000 teachers. >> we did a survey of our members and about half responded, and of those who responded about 63% were opposed to changing bell times. they were in support of keeping things as they are. >> reporter: some teachers are not convinced that there is a correlation between a later school start and academic improvement. if the montgomery county boardo put a change of school time into effect it will take effect in august, the next school year. that's the latest. live in montgomery county chris gordon news4. >> thanks chris. >>> there is an investigation under way tonight in fairfax county following the death of an inmate. 37-year-old natasha mckenna died yesterday a short time after she was taken off life support. last week mckenna was being transferred to alexandria to face an assault charge. officials say she was combative and that they shot her with a taser in

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school oic say teachers are not required to break up fights, ono th to the schoo resource officer. nobody serus hurt in that battle. nohaesil filed. those stuwedisciplined. >>> maryland lawmakers are considering a new bill that would makeru dealers responsiblr deaths of people whooverdose on heroin. the billas introduced today. it would athrow state's attorney to trace the heroin that caused the overdose and charge the dealer with homicide. dealers code up to 30 years in if convicted. about 550 people died from heroin use in the state last year. >>> news4 cameras got an up-close look at how first respondersrar disasters on metro. new tonig'l you why one lawmara training now is not good enough. >>> and where are the most aggressiv drivers on your commute? we'll it will you the two main >>> tonight senator bab brar mccull see wants all first respond tra for deadly situation undergrou at metro. right now the training is not mandatory whatou i i sn we sent transportn erda tuss in t to get a fisthand look. >> reporte they smoke and fire inside a metro tunnel. this is ju a test at metro'

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the schoo system says the coun board of supervise enough funding for those needs.hen it comes to spending per studen pri william county is among the lowest in the region. th p about $10,000 per pupil, arlington county nearly double that cost. still, the school board right here considering a list some 400 items long to cut from the budget ny talks about budgets in school may not those words. but this student admits potel impacts are discussed, given he wrestles and plays footba he worries abo one item in particular. when you hear sports are on those too? >> that's really a major conce for a lot of people. there's even a threat to elimine full-day kindergarten could affect thousands of little ones. ahead at 6:00, the county weighs in on the contl cuts. what he wants to save. in woodbridge i'm david culver news 4. >>> here we go again. i know we use that a lot. here we go again. but, here we go again. we've got snow making its way in across our region. right now there's no snow. it's jt the cloud ce across the region. temper have been on the mild side today. mild rela

buthe i-team's review found only a small fraction of local schoo actually used the later date in 2014 out of 12 in fairfax county, in prince william county, len of all high sch i maryland. most ch to race to get kids ready for that original midday date. >> they're pretty self-motivated kids. >> a our review shows despite all tse worries ap test scores in the snow day-filled winter of 2014 actually jumped in most place just loo passi scores are up 1% in montgome count fairfax county, prince william county png scores up 3% in fredecc and an even larger increase in loudoun. >> whenhe snow days keep comi a coming i get anxious the students get anxious. >> science teacher claudine was sured by what thi-am fou. mht attributed to those prerd lessons on video studen h at home. and she says a prshgs among the high motivated. >> whether they have 3 snow days or 15, they've learned a lot of matl learned a lot of skis. absenteeism by individual studts hurts achievement more than a those snow days because abse students fall out of step with t teachers and with their classmates. on sno days, teache

news4's chris gordon is live in rockville tonight with the last-minute push by some to change the schoo chris? >> reporter: hi wendy. you'll like this. it's all about drama. this demonstration behind me they're using signs and slogans and sleeping bags and even -- whoa i dropped something here -- even this which is athletic black, which football players use under their eyes. they're using it to dramatize they get up at 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning and have to go to bus while it's still dark >> that's what we really need! >> reporter: a sleep-in with some students in sleeping bags others wear pajamas. parents and students demonstrating their desire for later school start times in front of the building where the montgomery county boa of education will vote on the issue tomorrow. >> when you're really tired you get black circles. so we put black lipstick i think it was, une to show we need more sleep because look how tired we are. >> just daud today in english i was really tired and i think it was harder to concentrate than it would have been with a lot more sleep. >> reporter: they would l

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the student success act also ensures parents have the information they need to hold their schoo accountable. it's their tax money, but more importantly, it's their children. and they deserve to know how their schools are performing. the bill reaffirms the choice is a powerful life line for families with children in failing schools by extending the magnet school program expanding access to high quality charter schools and allowing federal funds to follow low-income students to traditional public or public charter school of the parents' choice. finally, the student success act reins in the authority of the secretary of education. we must stop the secretary from unilaterally imposing his will on schools and this bill will do just that. perhaps, mr. chairman, that is why the white house and powerful special interests are teaming up to defeat this legislation. they fear the bill will lead to less control in washington and more control in states and school districts. let me assure the american people that is precisely what this bill will do. i urge my colleagues to help all children regardless of

he's a graduate of harvard law schoo, and i'm going to engage him in conversation and then open it up to you. so, john, what is the role of the national security division when it comes to cyber? >> thanks, peter. the national security division is the first new litigating division in the department of justice in 50 years. and relatively new. we were founded in 2006. it was one of the reforms from post-9/11, and the recommendation was relatively simple. prior to its existence at the department of justice, spy cases, terrorism cases, applications for intelligence before the foreign intelligence surveillance court, and cyber cases, all reported through different chains at the department of justice. so the idea was to set up a one-stop shop at the department of justice that would have the sole responsibility for the national security portfolio and thus be a bridge to the intelligence community and law enforcement. and in particular, one of the founding reasons for our creation was to tear down the wall that had existed prior to 9/11 both legally and culturally between law enforcement and n