jack smith holding a news conference this hour, the caseur is attract attention from theonf white house to annapolis and all acountry.acou the issue more than just salt,hn it involves immigration than. as you saw fox5 marina maraccoma spoke exclusively withexcl superintendent smith last night. she's live tonight in rockville with more. marina. >>reporter: hey, there, jim, we're still waiting for t this rest conference but we shouldwe note it's been five days since the incident took place atcide rockville high school. we've yetckvi to hear a press conference from theco superintendent.nf first time hethe broke his slovenes was on sunday night with a public we had to stake out here at the board of education three hourshe to finally get dr. smith to answer some of our questions. again tonight we're here waiting for him to come out and answer them again.th i can tell you when we walked in here about 4:00 his car still not parked.park i just got word he's in the building so we're now waiting for this press conference to get underway. as soon as he's in this room ofom course we'll take that pressat confere

the low 70s. a chilly annapolis. near 80 in culpepper and frederic fredericksburg. tomorrow morning, you'll need a jacket, cool in the 50s, but then an umbrella in the morning and later in the afternoon. maybe some rain boots and a poncho tomorrow afternoon as some rain showers come through. there's only a small chance of an isolated storm this evening. mostly cloudy by 11:00 p.m., back down to the upper 50s and patchy, dense fog tomorrow morning for the morning commute and then a shower chance increases by 11:00 tomorrow morning as we climb into the 60s. so fog for the morning commute and showers likely for your lunch hour and then by 5:00 p.m. for the commute, wet roads, maybe thunderstorms coming through. temperatures in the low 70s. right now, getting one thundershower, maybe just a rain shower here in central faulk ear county. as we go to the evening hours, these patches of green are rain showers during the day on tuesday, there's the time stamp by noon time, still settled, then these areas you see popping up in the yellow and orange, isolated thunder showers co

temperatures in the mid 50. 55 washington, 56 dulles, 54 in annapolis, the actual cold front still draped across pennsylvania, west virginia overnight between 3, 4:00 a.m. we could get the gusty line of showers. if you're up at that hour you'll notice it. otherwise it is mostly cloud particular, temperatures in the 40s and 50s. low temperatures overnight, 51 in the district. 46 manassas, 50 leonardtown. i'll have a first look at the wednesday forecast. nice warmup coming your way. > a barricade situation in prince george's countiened with police arresting a man who was hulled up inside a paragraphy theater. this is video of the officers walking the man out of the theater at the mall. we're told it all started when officers spotted the man breaking into a car and then a house. he drove off, police tried to stop him but then they say he ran into a empty theft tore and hid up in ceiling. > prince george's county police are still looking for a gunman responsible for a deadly shooting today in suitland. it happened on southern avenue. officers arrived and found a man with several gunshot wound

did you want to talk a bit about outside of monetary policy, what is next on the agenda for the many annapolis -- minneapolis fed? neel: i met with my research department and asked them, what would be the biggest economic risks and challenges we face as a country? let's fear -- let's go back and hear your ideas. another one was issues of economic opportunity. and inclusive growth. the lunchtime speaker that was fantastic today. we announced a major research initiative, working with all of our colleagues across the system. or we and inclusive growth institute that is trying to encourage the federal reserve to do research on issues of economic opportunity. position has been monetary policy is to blunt of an instrument. be targeted at communities or demographics so these issues are purely distributional. , ite can do the research helps unravel these challenges. rigorous analysis and potential solutions. i feel like it's an important contribution for us to make. white unemployment and black unemployment in america. it is almost always two times. recession and white unemployment to 6%, pretty good

the 40's. 47 at quantico and washington. only 48 in frederick. 51 in warrenton. 41 in annapolis. we go through the evening we hang on to the clear skies. the temperatures will drop in the 30's. but they will hold in 30's overnight in the area. not like the teens and the low 20's we saw this morning. so a big improvement. the southerly winds take over. high pressure gave us cold air and the sunshine. warm front on the way. computer model show us with only clouds. we talk about that. we'll look at the next ten days in five minutes. larry: talk to you soon. tonight a hunt for a killer after an artist was found tied to a chair and stabbed to death in northwest washington. corrina mehiel's body found tuesday. tonight her car is still missing. d.c. bureau chief sam ford joins us live with the la sam? sam: we are in northwest washington not far from george washington university where we spoke with a mel chin, the visiting professor who brought mehiel here to help with the corcoran art gallery. i appears he was one of the last people to see herself alive. >> we had dinner sunday night. sa

again outside of the city it's cooler. annapolis is 53 chilly. and winchester 5 2 hagerstown 52 and frederick thunderstorm activity there. 54. headed to the upper 60s and low 70s for highs today. there's the forecast vlingt here's erin como with a look at traffic on tuesday morning. >> 5:07 looking at metro their service kicked in 5 a.m. and we're dealing with safe track surge 13. single train yellow line between braddock and huntington vandoren. you know the drill for this watch for delays and adjust your schedule aside from that metro rails are on time rights now and metro bus is shaping up to be quiet commute so far. i'll let you know if that changes and moving over to tuesday morning commute right now we're seeing a lot of green on the best way and gary mentioned, grab that umbrella and have patience rain moving in through through chantilly, dulles and rockville. let's take a live look outside and see how that impacted roads. this is 28 by air and space museum you can see road spray. traffic looking good. again with those slick spots we could

did have rain at the airport. 62. 56 right now. towards annapolis. on the radar. not much now.sonburg area. what came through earlier. right in there. came right on through the d.c. metro area. little earlier this evening. and now, tracking this system. this was a very strong system. earlier. it will move through. heaviest part will move through during the overnight hours. that dpuz not give it the energy it needs to produce strong storms. that being said. moves across the region. back side. will see couple storms. not anticipating severe weather back towards the west today. look at highs today. beautiful. 74, d.c. 79, raleigh. air we went to keep ourselves tapped into. we will tomorrow. then we will start to see the cooler air, funnel on in here. no cold air anymore in the forecast. talked about that, the ults dot day. last week. timing it out tomorrow morning. 7:00 a.m. couple showers. mostly dry for the morning rush. watch what happens around 10:00. yeah, pretty good round of showers. boundary. moving on showers, watch the back side of the system. couple thunderstorms. any s

the water temperature are only about 44. that's what we're looking at at north beach in annapolis. the chill is in new england. pittsburgh's in the 50s. it's upper 50s in cleveland. it's 60 in lexington. the milder air is coming in. we'll feel that nice milder air the next few days. clouds are also trying to come in. see out west, dc east, lots and lots of sunshine. few clouds into upper montgomery county. loudon, and the rest of the blue ridge. the temperatures are responding nicely. and we expect them to be in the mid 50s for highs this afternoon. we might see isolated showers north of town tonight, pretty quiet over night and into the morning on tuesday with a few showers west of i-81. midday tuesday, look at the thmps, low 60s on our way to in the afternoon. but a front over night tuesday night. and before we wake up wednesday morning, take some showers, and get them out of here. so wednesday is looking better. as far as this weekend, got a couple questions we'll have to talk about. you can always get the forecast any time on the wusa 9 app. >>> u.s. backed iraqi forces are pushing deeper into mosul. the h

as low as 10 in the district, 8 at annapolis. let's take to the noon hour and see if it gets much better, not by a local. it's still in the teens and single digits. thursday is going to feel like a throw back to the dead of winter. you definitely want to watch your step in the morning because we have had. definitely watch your step and find your layers right now. tony, back to you. > come inside, sue. >> i will. > all right. as we recover from the biggest snow and ice storm we've seen this season, some of you weighing in on the response local jurisdictions had to this winter blast. so far the generally been pretty good. fox5's teisha lewis is live in arlington with more. >>reporter: hi there, tony. you know what, so far it has been good. we talked to a few people here in arlington and most of them are giving it two thumbs up. that's the same thing also on social media. i was thinking about this time last year when we had the big police p hard and the day after the blizzard and the roads were still covered in snow. that is not the

today the victim's mother drove to annapolis to tell elected officials if nothing changes more people will be killed. he was a convicted felon and he was ba firearms in stores. a legal loophole allowed the resident to order replica antique black powder pistol online. on the same day the weapon arrived in the mail he met his estranged girlfriend in the germantown target parking lot. you can see she runs before he pulled the trigger twice before fleeing in the white pickup truck. >> please, close this internet gun purchase loophole. >> go online and watch the video and tell me the gun should not be regulated. the prosecutors assert -- >> i shot her. >> seen her confessing to the premeditated execution style murder was aware of the legal gap and used it t advantage. >> i cannot find the words to explain the nightmares, the sleepless nights. the flashbacks that have overcome me. >> they will now decide whether or not to accept the bill. if it does out will move to the senate floor for a vote. kevin lewis, abc7 news. alison: thank you. staying with maryland now. for the second year in a ro

the northeast away. gaithersburg, toward annapolis again. that's where we have the icy mess kaugz those slippery roadways. so you don't want to be driving out there if you don't have to. down 95. remember the ground temperatures are freezing off to the west and closer to the valley and blue ridge mountains we still see snow falling and expect that. national zoo at 2.7 inches. this is so far. fairfax seeing 2.5 inches s to the west and up to the north and west of the district. temperatures are still around freezing. these numbers are not budging much and as we go through the day today staying in the 30s. wet and icy roads. still looking at that through much of maryland. snowy and icy heading south otherwise 2 to 5 inches to the west and then farther out to the west and that's where the totals are going up to possibly 5 to 8 by the time the whole thing is over. today we're talking about the school closures but tomorrow delays are more likely because we're going to be dealing with ice in the morning and we'll see a refreezing event. temperatures

i mentioned the winds. 37-mile-an-hour wind gusts in martinsburg. 25 in d.c. and 20 towards annapolis. if you were out on a boat it would be rather breezy for sure. pretty good chop on the open waters. not dealing with that for too many of us. the radar is clear and we will st c this system, go back to the beginning here, look at that line of showers and even some thunderstorms came through bringing 40-mile-an-hour winds with it. we saw quite a few wind gusts, over 40 with the line now. we're clear. we have some breezy conditions, but that's it. and look at this from d.c. back to chicago, all clear. and the temperatures are all warm, 58 indianapolis, 68 in nashville. this is the air mass we're going to continue to tap into until friday. and by friday we tap into this air mass, very cold air that will be making its way down across our area but not tomorrow. another nice day. high temperature around 69 degrees. breezy and warm. nice afternoon. tomorrow will be a very nice one, very much like today. less breezy. still a little breezy tomorrow. wind on friday, now, again, friday something

around the region, it is a big annapolis, 59 d.c., but the further south and west, more mild come into the 60's closer to culpeper. sunday predominately drive. sunday evening, we bring in rain, especially sunday night and heading into monday morning. that is when we are most likely to deal with the showers. just a 20% chance sunday, 50% chance of rain monday. 60% chance of rain tuesday. we are looking for the increasing chances. even if it slows you down this week, it is rain that we could really use. 59, and back to 74 monday and tuesday. mid 60's wednesday, than a little cool down heading into thursday and friday. monday, a few of us could get a thunderstorm with the warmer air moving in. kimberly: i misspoke earlier, we have to get through sunday. so sad for the maryland women. an amazing run. robert: a surprising, shocking loss. the ducks too much for the turtles, next. >> and now the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. robert: a sweet 16 matchup for maryland, facing oregon. the terps were playing catch up most of the game. second five. jones gets big i

the delegate is most interested in the education piece and putting the left lane law on the highway signs. in annapolis, cheryl conner, abc7 news. jonathan: virginia has approved a similar left lane bill that would fine $100 for driving slow in the passing lane but yet to take effect. michelle: now wild video caught on video. a cop gets more than he bargained for when he goes after a runaway cow. the officer is following the call from the cruiser. when the cow runs into the fence yard, the officer thinks he has her. the cow has other ideas. ramming through the fence as the officer runs out of the way. here it is again. slow motion. so far the cow is still on the run. jonathan: that is an angry cow. 10-week-old puppy is recovering after being found emaciate and near death in howard county. someone called 911 finding the puppy in a container friday afternoon. animal control took the puppy "eddie" to an emergency clinic. the vet said that eddie is now responding well to treatment and already received adoption requests. officials are looking for whoever left eddie in bad shape. well, in less than an hour r

one of the sean your leaders is the player in annapolis. justice sweat. perfect sounding name for an athlete. >> i want to be the person to bring the energy. be disruptive. >> the navy senior is a force on the court. as a freshman justice decided to go with lacrosse. >> sweat, justice sweat in there trying to get possession of it. >> that lasted a year when she went back to her favorite sport. >> it has always been basketball. having the opportunity i had to take it. >> she has blossom told a terrific all-around basketball she was named the patriot league defensive player of the year. not bad for a student athlete that started her college career as lacrosse player. >> she is a really inspirational example of someone that chose you can do whatever you set your mind to and have success in what you are passionate about. >> she is passionate about serving her country. this summer she is moving to san diego where she will be a surface warfare officer on a destroyer. >> that is why we all came here in the beginning. no matter what the reason is in the back of yo

the school was deemed safe and students were allowed to return. in annapolis department there swept the school after receiving a similar call. firefighters found nothing there and the day went on as scheduled. five dozen community centers and jewish schools have been since january 9. we know that this event is going to start at 7:30. it is called tales, not bombs, with people showing up with signs and solidarity -- it is called bagels not bombs, with people showing up holding signs or solidarity. found aomeone threatening note left at a moue exactly what the note said, but we know that someone left it at the mailbox of the islamic education society. last night the wizards spoiled the homecoming of kevin durant. it was a scary moment to start the game for the prince george's county native. his own teammate fell into his knee. look at this. clearly in a lot of pain, he left the game, not to return. he is expected to get an mri today to see how bad the damage is. as for the game, it would go down to the wire, but the wizards pulled out a win, tying a career high

around the bay, annapolis at 59 degrees. fredricksburg up to 61 degrees. temperatures near 60 in the panhandle of west virginia. all dry here locally. sprinkles north of baltimore. here's your forecast. peak blossoms. a lot of clouds around. this afternoon with showers moving in from the west. i've got new hour-by-hour timing of the showers in the metro area. that's in a few minutes. >> thank you. >>> a grethe cherry blossoms ar blooming. peak bloom is expected to happen during this wonderful weather weekend around the tidal basin. thousands of folks are expected out there. opening ceremony at the warner theater is set to kick off tonight but it is sold out already. there are other things happening for the next couple of weeks. and if you plan on usie ining m there are delays on blue and yellow line because of safetrack related work. >>> no deal. the republican measure to replace the obamacare act was pulled moments before a vote. why this is a major setback for president trump who's now blaming democrats for the bill's >> reporter: after a seven-year race

the cold. storm team 4 radar still tracking snow showers in and around annapolis. n the radar as rain, but it's snow. we will see a few more snow showers coming through. take a look back about 12 hours ago. you look how the whole storm came

this is the maryland state highway administration dome in annapolis. now, usually, when we do these things, you got to walk in mid march halfway into the building to get any salt. here we are, we're bearing down on st. patrick's day on friday. i can lay down here and you'd be hitting the salt. that's how much they have here. they're stocked ready to go. they've got plenty of supply. now, what they're not so sure they have though is the complete attention of marylanders. and here's why. you can look at this two ways. on the other hand you can say, well, everybody should be fresh. they should be ready. they shouldn't have anything keeping them in the way of paying attention to the storm. on the other hand, you can say well, they're rusty, nobody dealt with this issue. governor larry hogan of maryland said this standing about five feet from where we are, if anybody got that in their head, forget it. hogan said peo serious about this storm. >> some people are sort of lulleded into a false sense of security because we have this great 70 degree weather, i thi

if it does, it will move to the senate floor for a vote. in annapolis, i'm kevin lewis, abc7 news. erly: tonight we know why the statue of liberty went dark for an hour last night casting a ghostly image on new york harbor. the national park service says a light controller wasn't properly reset after someone changed out faulty equipment. more outages are expected in coming weeks when a new emergency jonathan: it looks like we have to wait longer to see the famed cherry blossoms at the national mall in all their glory. they are beautiful. the national park service is pushing back the expected peak bloom to march 19-22. it was forecast to start as soon as next tuesday but the coming cold snap the reason for this delay. kimberly: doug joins us now. what do you think about that? doug: they can't pick the exact day. they say between 19 and 22. we first saw 14th. jonathan: that would be the first day ever. doug: they may have to change it again. it's weather dependent. let's start with our coverage. the cherry blossoms love these temperatures. 6 o's at 6:00. 65 downtown. 63 in reston. 61

annapolis in 41. 40 in woodbridge. the temperatures are headed down. in the next few hours we drop in the metro to the mid-30's. the sunset at 6:03. we are coming up on the time a week from sunday when we return to daylight savings time where the sunset is an hour later. of course, sunrise same thing. sky will look different. get dark later. get light later a bit. it works out that spring march 20 will begin. the deal. snowshowers and flurries are ending. most of pennsylvania loaded with the snow squalls today. the pennsylvania police reporting white-out on the interstates but that has diminished as well. clear skies and the gusty winds. wind chills in the morning from the teens to the early 20's. then they will stay in the 20's hitting 30-degree mark. by saturday night and sunday morning the wind chills are in

this is along the 9500 block of annapolis road near forbes boulevard. spite what appeared to be a large fire, the flames were quickly put out. fire crews cleared that scene around 4:45 this morning. no word yet on a cause nor if anyone was hurt. >> also happening today, a woman arrested three times on the white house complex in just six days is back in court. >> fox5's melanie alnwick live outside the treasury department where that woman was most recently arrested. melanie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, guys. and yeah, tuesday, friday and then again on sunday, this would be fence jumper just isn't giving up so perhaps a judge today might hold her a little longer this time. let's take you to what happened here on -- just on sunday. 38-year-old marcy anderson wall of everett, washington, she was arrested again sunday climbed a fence and set off an alarm at the u.s. treasury building. that is right next to the white house. wall was first arrested last tuesday. it was close to 11:00 p.m. she was trying to jump the white house fence but got caught

little bit milder down to our south. 39 in warring ton and still 31 by the bay in annapolis. looblg at the winter storm warnings from the shenandoah valley to up state new york and new england. one is out here across northeastern missouri and another piece of energy coming upg the coastline, they will merge off the virginia capes and that will be the storm that forms into the big blizzard which gives us significant amounts of snowfall here but a serious blast of snow and winter in new york city and boston. they'll get a lot more than us. here's future weather by 8:00 tonight, likely to be mostly light rain or rain/snow combo but by 11:00 it should be most if not all snow. during the overnight hours, all snow upper montgomery county loudo loudoun, you folks are in the bull's-eye for the most snow. the closer to the beltway and the pink shading is the rain/snow line. all rain south prince george's into south maryland and by 7:00 in the morning the rain/snow line retreating farther south and clearing across southern maryland and leaving us back into snow for most of the daylight

to low income students was passed by the maryland general assembly with the agreement of its top democratic leaders. in annapolis, chris gordan, news 4. >>> d.c. cherry blossoms could hit peak bloom in two weeks. national park says says between march 14th and march 17th. that's when 70% of the trees around the basin are blossoming. as tom sherwood shows us, the early bloom also means changes to the festival. >> the cherry blossom festival has been around for 90 years, the premier tourism event mere in the nation's capital. more than 1.5 million people are expected. and the most fun celebration of japan/u.s. anywhere in the world. [ applause ] . we are going to make this cherry blossom festival great again because it's already great. [ laughter ] >> the parks service announced warm weather would bring the blossoms unusually early. >> and the projected dates are march 14 to 17th, 2017. >> that's even before the month long festival was officially to begin days later. the festival planners scrambling to move up some events. >> okay. what does that mean for the festival this year? the festival will now start on march

generals and the captains and the majors and the people under ground that graduated from west point and annapolis and the air force academy. they are doing their thing. but i think it wall will start very soon. we had almost 200 bidders to build the wall. we have great pricing and great designs. jesse: are you going to pick the design for the wall? >> i'll be have much involved in that. general kelly is going to do a great job. jesse: let me know when they break ground, i may be down there with a shovel. the plng round. i'm going to name a name and you give one or two words to describe that person. kellyanne conway. >> very nice woman. jesse: hillary clinton. >> disappointed. jesse: mark cuban. >> bheekd all the way but when i wouldn't return his phone calls he went other way, picked the wrong horse. jesse: vladimir putin. >> don't know him, but certainly he's a tough cookie and i don't know how he's doing for russia. we'll find out one day. jesse: elizabeth warren. >> i think she would lose badly. i think she hurt hillary clinton very badly. jesse: why? >> i watched those speeches. anger and hat

enjoy the 70 while you can in annapolis but it's about the damage. so many people have so much cleaning up to do because of enormous trees that came down and alexandra limon found one of the biggest and most damaging in our region to come down. >> reporter: we're in the to forest glen neighborhood, which is across the street from hole the cross hospital. this huge tree that the montgomery county fire and rescue department said blew over and got knocked down on to this home. you can see an incredible amount of damage to the roof. parts of the attic are sticking out. we're near myrtle road and forest glen, luckily nobody i was hurt. one of the homeowners tells me he was outside picking up some debris been knocked down. meanwhile, i spoke to his wife. she said she was across the street at the holy cross resource center for ash wednesday, and she was extremely worried for her husband's safety. >> i was across the street, and i heard a loud noise and i knew it was a tree coming down. and i looked out the window and i went, my, that's our house. and my hus

right now, 51 degrees is the average high temperature and as of noon that is where we sit. 46 in hagerstown and 44 in winchester. 50 degrees in annapolis. through the afternoon, wind will continue but gusting 15, 25, 30 miles for our and should not be much higher than that. west, according to futurecast even though we will be sunny at 5:00, clouds increasing over the mountains with a couple of disturbances to watch, the first one could bring snow showers there and they kind of stay west. until the overnight when a patch may go through the area. service temperatures will remain above freezing tonight so any light snow or snow showers that develop will accumulate in grassy areas or rooftops but should have no impact travel was. tomorrow during the day, once the clipper comes through in the morning and northwesterly winds will kick in and bring streamers of snow showers out of the great lakes and across western pennsylvania they will start to whip up. do not be surprised to see a few passing snow showers but no impact well into the 40's tomorrow, breezy and it will look like winter in spots with sunshine in between times as well. skies cl

the u.s. naval academy in annapolis and west point. e were 26 reported assaults last year compared to 17 the year before that. there was a decline in reports at the air forced academy. 48% of female cadets and 20% of male cadets experience sexual assault at military academies. our investigative unit learned oakland is paying a public relations firm to deal with the media in the wake of the deadly warehouse fire. >> one executive is reportedly getting paid $500 an hour. and you at home are paying for it. tonight at 11:00, speaking with one lawmaker who calls it a waste of your tax dollars. >> you feel it could be better spent? >> absolutely. there's no way to get around to it or justify it. >> okay land says the p.r. firm hopes it will reduce its risk of getting sued. we'll explain and tell you why there are parts of the contract the city doesn't want you to see. watch our full investigation tonight at 11:00. >>> is and if you have a tip for our investigative unit, give us a call at 888-996-tips. or nbcbayarea.com. >>> there's moisture i