this is in tilden park. don't race over there yet. the snow melted as soon as it hit the ground. >> number four from the live desk. a new cnn/orc poll released this morning shows 2/3 of americans say a special prosecutor should investigate contact between the trump campaign and russia. >> number five, a 22-year-old man shot to death in chicago after the city went nearly a week without a fatal shooting. according to the chicago tribune, the city had passed a milestone on sunday morning. for the first time in more than five years. >> number six, soccer players in sweden are marking international women's month with inspirational tweets on their jerseys by well-known women. they include, i'm not bossy, i'm the boss. and believe in your damn self. >> wow. okay. that got me up. number seven will give you a reason to smile, maybe. national dentist day. they normally don't get a lot of praise because, for obvious reasons. today is the day to give your dentist props and be nice to them. >> ouch. >> adele's concert was interrupted but not by an

that's the section that runs from rock creek parkway to tilden tweet in northwest. bearer of bad news, jim. two more months to get all this work done. take a look at what it is doing to traffic on a nightly basis. this has been the scene for months here. the national park service says it's important to get this work done right the first time. yep, this is going to take a bit longer. >> we just appreciate the public's patience. we know that this is an inconvenience to some folks. >> reporter: specifically work on widening the trail that runs alongside beach drive and some drainage issues. they're pushing the date back about two months. >> we want to get this done all at once so we're not creating further conveniences for drivers, pedestrians, cyclists in the future. >> reporter: that means this stretch won't open until august at the earliest. the initial hope was the spring opening. the trail is l the work has made his path harder. >> you have to go down farther about two miles down to get on the trail again. >> reporter: he'll be happy when it's all done. meanwhile

the stretch of road between rock creek pork way and tilden will the national park service plans for that to be completed by late spring. contractors are using that extra time to revamp the walking trail along beach drive. >>> today hundreds of federal workers will rally on capitol hill. they'll be bringing up issues like pay, retirement and agency funding. this is organized by the national treasury employees union. under president trump's executive order there is a hiring and raise freeze on the federal employees right now. this rally starts in about another 20 minutes or so in the northeast corner of the capitol grounds. >>> new honor for former president barack obama this morning, the john f. kennedy library foundation named him the winner of the kennedy profile in courage award. the foundation says president obama quote elevated the standard of political courage in a new century. president obama will receive the o ward in may. and president trump travels to new n sailors and ship builders. what you can learn about a major build jum of the nation's military. >> emergencies happen forci

the national park service reports the beach drive closure between rock creek and tilden street has beenended through august. officials had originally planned for work to wrap up by late spring. this is just phase one of a three-year reconstruction project on beach drive. get this. the overall project they say is still on track to be complete by fall of 2019. we have a traffic alert for you now also from northwest washington. the intersection of canal road and fox hall road will be closed for five weeks beginning march 13 while d.c. water works on a large valve replacement project going on now. improvement program to improve the water system. the project is expected to wrap up on april 21. trenice bishop has traffic. trenice: there are delays on the beltway and many of the thoroughfares. the heaviest volume on the beltway is on the river route from maryland and the virginia area crossing the potomac across the legion bridge. the inner loop also heaviest to make the ride back home to the 270 spur. we have an issue for folks in the sterling corridor. this is a live shot of 28 northbound at

to 2:30, 3:00, producing up to 1.5" of rain in throughout the tilden park area. about .6" rain in san francisco. that's some heavy rain right now noticed from saint helena into yountville for the morning commute. we have seen the rain nonstop. discovery bay, oakley, byron and into brentwood this morning. so you know vasco road is going to be a nightmare. meanwhile 580/680 corridor on a day in which the sun is shining it's always a very bad commute and right now we have heavy rain there at that corridor out of the tri-valley. rain showers in san jose, and we are going down to story road level where you can see the light to moderate rainfall all the way to mckee road very popular for the morning hours. meanwhile around the peninsula mountain view los altos hills sunnyvale all with moderate rain, san lorenzo park prone to flooding with moderate to heavy rain. that cell is sitting there for 20 minutes. all this is atmospheric river conditions, tapping into subtropical moisture from the south lifting up in a northerly direction going east. the biggest line of activity

. >> reporter: tilden is not your average philadelphia public school.ich neighborhood. inside -- >> let's see. >> reporter: -- more than a dozen languages are spoken. it's one reason why the principal has always held the idea that his school is meant to serve more than just the students. so when it was chosen as one of the city's first community schools, it made sense. >> we have a lot of folks beating down our door, you know, excited about this work. >> reporter: there's been an outpouring of support from potential partners, organizations that want to team up with the school. >> we had shampoos, conditioners. >> reporter: one idea taking shape is expanding this food pantry. soon it will move from a closet to this classroom and be open to kids and the community. an idea she likes for her neighbors. >> there are a lot of children in our community that we don't know are hungry and maybe it will make a parent feel a little more comfortable to go to people that they know. >> reporter: but others like parent jackie figger o wa are impatient. the first group