border, 1 to 4 between frederick and over toward leesburg and winchester. you get up south of montgomery county, gaithersburg, leesburg, rockville, silver spring trace to an inch and that might be pushing it. unfortunately normally in january this would be a slam dunk for a snowstorm, but we don't have any cold air. tonight here comes the heavy activity. you'll see yellows with 30s across the board. by midnight that's heavy rain, fredericksburg to manassas to culpeper, a cold rain, a miserable night, 34 in manassas, 33 in gaithersburg, but the upper air is what's going to lose the cold profile. that's why we're thinking primarily rain tonight. 3:30 in the morning heavy rain exiting east of 95. we get a little break early in the morning, about 6 a.m. on futurecast. then we'll see another round of rain and snow shower for the remainder of the day, but even then temperatures will be above freezing. day planner, 39 at 7:00, 38 at 9:00 with rain, 39 at 11:00 and 39 at 1:00 with showers. not a lot of movement in the temps. about next three days miserable for the

roads here in leesburg are in very good the, loudoun county the city of leesburg and local shops out here putting chemical down. there's no snow sticking on the roadway. sidewalks, depends if anyone's put it out. this bank on my right here the capital one bank here on east market street you can tell they've salted sidewalks and the snow is not sticking much there. the grass is totally starting to turn over to white. we've had about a quarter inch of snow maybe one-third inch so far, but we do have light to moderate steady snow now. snowing 35 or 40 minutes here in leesburg and will continue throughout the remainder of the afternoon. running errands today, leave extra time. drive slow. roads are in good shape for now because they've been treated. any steadier snow they could lighten up and the get snowier at times. back to you. use caution out there. >>> and keeping an eye on the roads from the first 4 traffic center. joining us with the latest. >> good morning, barbara. take a look here. seeing pretty good accumulation. this is 270 at old hunter road. all of these folks hopefully hea

we're looking at 16 in sterling, 15 in leesburg and laytonville and 18 or 19 in rockville. we've got a clipper tomorrow, rain or snow shower. morning commute is fine, evening commute could have showers pushing through. behind it very cold friday and saturday and still tracking this mix coming from the south for super bowl sunday. i would go ahead and plan for some kind of winter precipitation sunday afternoon into sunday night. in the wake of that a very cold start to next week. come back. we'll talk more about the super bowl mix in a bit. >>> still ahead on wusa9 the defense department says farewell to the outgoing defense secretary chuck hagel. >> plus pope francis has some parenting advice for all the dads out there, those stories over 20 years 31 million students started college, but didn't complete a degree for lots of reasons. at devry university we believe there are also lots of reasons to finish. so we help you maximize qualifying credits you've already earned. so you can graduate sooner and get on to a great career. because whatever kept you from finishing before..

a little snow still around leesburg either side of 15. we're looking at reports of sleet toward new brunswick. for the most part, we are looking at a half rain overnight. there are still winter weather advisories essentially west of i-95 until noon. there's still winter storm warnings out toward cumberland, romney and hagerstown. i think hagerstown will have a hard time making criteria. you'll probably get 1 to 3 inches in the winter storm warning area. in the meantime leesburg, gaithersburg, manassas, you've probably seen all the snow you'll see tonight. temps are still above freezing, 34 in leesburg, manassas and culpeper. we'll come back, talk about when the precip shuts off completely tomorrow and look ahead to the strongest clipper of the season sunday night. >>> we just checked a bunch of traffic cameras and as you mentioned, it is tough to find any snow out there tonight. >> our mola lenghi saw some snow earlier tonight in leesburg, but he's moved over to maryland where now it's just cold rain. it looks nasty. >> reporter: that's r

around 30 in frederick and leesburg. ginsburg around 32. 20s in hagerstown. tomorrow evening in 24 hours from now we do it over again. temperature tomorrow night the same as tonight. 25 at 6:00. 27 in leesburg and 32 downtown as we get into the 8:30 hour. temperatures already in the low 20s in gaithersburg and mid 20s in manassas and culpepper and 26 in la play ta, another cold night tomorrow. tonight clear to partly cloudy. windy and very cold. yes, more slick spots. low temperatures 18 to 24. winds out of the northwest at 10 to 20. 24 tonight downtown. 19 in fairfax and sterling. 21 in college park and bowie. plenty of sunshine tomorrow morning and peasy and cold. temperatures -- morning and breezy and cold. temperatures 18 to 30. by afternoon mostly sunny, breezy and still cold. high temperatures 34 to 38. winds out of the northwest at 10 to 15. it will feel a little colder than 30s tomorrow. day planner, downtown temp, low 20s to start. sunshine, yes. 24 at 9:00. 29 at 11:00. only 33 with full sun by 1:00. so, the next three-day, the afternoon rain shower

live in leesburg, jeff goldberg abc 7 news. >> thanks jeff. you can get up-to-the-minute information about the weather on our website at wjla.com. you can also see what the weather looks like in your neighborhood on the abc 7 stormwatch weather app on your smartphone. a news conference begins in just a few minutes with new information about the investigation into the metro smoke incident at the l'enfant plaza station. we expect to hear from lawmakers and the ntsb. roz slater is live at the capitol tonight with more. >> we expect that briefing to start in a couple of minutes or so after a closed door meeting between the ntsb and 12 members of the national capital delegation. that's all our lawmakers. what they've been talking about, of course is that deadly metro incident last week where smoke filled the tunnel at the l'enfant plaza station. it trapped some 200 passengers on that yellow line train. one passenger died. as a result it was, and dozens of others were hospitalized. now, these investigations usually take time. but -- and they are in

futurecast 10:00 tonight already 19 in gaithersburg, 21 in leesburg and manassas. single digits early morning and back up to 10 in gaithersburg, 11 in leesburg, 12 in manassas, 13 in la plata. these are not wind chills. by 1:00 tomorrow, upper teens and low 20s in full sun. winds will subside tomorrow afternoon. so while it will be very cold, it will not be windy. by 6:00 we're in the teens again in the suburbs, but low 20s in d.c. 8:00 mid-teens gaithersburg, manassas, culpeper upper teens headed for the low to mid-teens again tomorrow. futurecast, widen this out a bit. sunday at 9:30 clouds in place and temps right around the freezing mark and by 6:30 in the morning monday you see the magenta there. that is freezing rain. this is not a snowstorm, nor a classic ice storm, but that said we're still very concerned about the morning commute on monday, thus we've issued a yellow alert. not concerned about snow, just a freezing rain event. so tonight clear, breezy, very cold, late wind chills 0 to 10 above, temps themselves bottoming out 8 to 18 above. day planner 16 a

leesburg right now, coming in with fog about a third of a mile visibility. we'll continue to watch out for that. same deal goes for areas around kul culpepper. tomorrow morning, you could see dense fog. we've got a lot of travel issues early in the morning and that's why i think you should leave early. tomorrow is fine. thursday is good. friday most of the day is going to be okay. we'll see cloud cover around the area. here comes our storm on friday night. and i do think it will start off as rain for most of the area but also a mix back to the north and west. take the umbrella if you have a hot date on friday night. down to the south, there's the rain. look at the mixture on saturday morning. snow to the west and a mix around the d.c. metro area. this will be some accumulating snowfall and parts of the region most likely to the north and west of d.c. but i still think d.c. will see accumulating snowfall during the day on saturday and then again late sunday into monday as we have yet another storm system that comes in. that brings in the arctic air again and

leesburg 30 mime ace way from d.c. if that moves back 30 miles we could see some rain there, but all of us will have a good chance of rain i-95 to the east. back to the west maybe we all want to move back towards our friends, leesburg and frederick during to the day on sunday. 45 degrees on sunday martin lug day, 41 degrees. and then next week we stay side most of the day, but look at thursday. back into the 30s during thursd afternoon. >> all right. thank you, doug. >>> new at 6:00, anoty bottom bar dealing with fallout from recent violence. coming up, the debate over its liquor l. > right now a man is facing a murdr allegedly similar cone and she ultimately died. >>> in a report out today, navy says a pilot flew too low in a maneuver. severely injured after e jebting durg the training exercise. >>> in one of his last days in office martin o'mall says he white house. he said today he'll join johns s univey as a visiting profr next month. he will focus on government by and urban issues. o'malley a democrat finishes s s

leesburg lower 40s. maybe 43 in reston and mcclain. 40 in andrews, maybe 45 as you get in to charles county and southern maryland. and the temperatures are still pretty uniform. 34 in annapolis without any wind to speak of. so there is not a small craft advisory. now we'll break it down, these are city temps. 32 to start. you'll be in the 20s to start. 34 at 9:00. and 42 with the sunshine at 1:00 p.m. okay, so on saturday, yellow alert, no surprise there, mainly rain with a little bit of snow and the polar plunge fest that will be so cold and miserable. but a good cause. 40 for the high. 44 and pleasant on sunday. but then the clouds are return. next seven days. the reason why the clouds were returning on sunday is because of a clipper approaching our area from snow showers possible on monday. i'm not sold on the track of this just yet that they might dive up to the north. but in the wake of the clipper, much colder on tuesday and wednesday lower 30s. sunshine next thursday and back in the mid-40s. >>> t

30s in gaithersburg downtown and 34 out towards leesburg. again what appears wet is actually black ice. we're already below freezing in gaithersburg and manassas. we'll come back and talk more about black ice and not one, but two more storms headed our way. >>> the maryland state highway are expecting the snow to put a dent in this evening's commute. our stephanie ramirez is in frederick. how are the roads looking out there where you are, steph? >> reporter: the area right now we're done with the heavy snowflakes, but look at this view that you have behind us downtown. if we move over to the roadway, they are wet. and that's what you want for the commute home, was it the biggest snowfall that we have seen in that area, but enough to get people talking. on a snowy day like this, what else do you do, but pose for a photo? >> what we don't have is weird for me. >> reporter: at least for some it was enough to have fun. the snow blanketing a little bit more than expected today on the beltway by tyson's corner on 270 headed north. no plows or caut

temperatures 25 in gaithersburg 28 in leesburg. the roads will be a problem right through tomorrow morning. that winter weather advisory continues until 10:00 tomorrow and that's everybody that's seeing snow tonight. winchester upwards of three inches, loudouty county through portions of southern maryland continue to see that. what will we see overnight? periods of snow some heavy. roads are slick and there will be some rush delays early tomorrow morning. take a look at the latest computer models. here's 1:00 that same area mobt gomry county fairfax, right on down the potomac may see more by about 1:00 2:00 3:00. but by 5:00 that's out of here. tomorrow morning we'll start to get a little bit better but it will take some time to get the roadways better. then then it just gets cold. take a look at the wind chills. 7:00 down to 25 in d.c. 19 in gaithersburg. that's on the cold side. wednesday, down around 7 in gaithersburg. in leesburg with the snow on the ground it will feel a whole lot colder the next few days. wednesday the coldes

winchest martinsburg, ha leesburg could see a snow shower late in day but no accumula rainfa. down to the south, a half an inch in d.c. two inches over towards pawtuxet river. that grat is tight, so somls giving a tenth of an inch others an inch. all about where the system sets up. east of 95 will be the area that sees the most rain. 39 for tomorrow for a high 45 on sunday 41 degrees coming up on monday. then next week temperatures above average until thursday. that's when we go back down into the 30s. ladies? >>> thanks doug. it will be a while longer before you'll be able to buy google glass. the tech giant will stop selling e wearable computers to indivis aft next monday. companies a developers will still be able to buy it for work purposes. the glasses let you record every second of your life. some critics have worried it could an invasion of privacy. google plans to release a new version of google glass sometime this year. >>> all this week the news4 consum watch has been showing us ways to get a fresh start on our finances in 2015. now you've let us know some of the ways

leesburg, we are starting to see the change over. just south of leesburg, bright colors, that is going to be sleet. not so much of heavy rain, but rain continues for areas off to the south and right along the blue ridge we are starting to see flow as well. off to the newport, temperatures you can start to see the temperatures dip. 30 for westminister, 34 for frederick and 32 for gaithersburg. a lot of areas will see snow later on tonight as the change over occurs. more on the futurecast coming up. let's go to beverly with traffic. >> reporter: 270 corridor primarily wet pavement. a new crash 270, they looked both directions near falls road. i believe what they found is in the southbound sound near falls road and impacting traffic there as you come down out of the local lanes and the main lanes both slow there, too look at that crash activity. on the inbound lanes of route 4 the crash past wood yard, moved over to the quote unquote right shoulder, which is a travel lane at this hour. that is why it is so slow out of upper marlboro. th

feels like 6 below in leesburg, eight below in gaithersburg so when you factor in the winds it's two above in the downtown area so dress the kids and yourself for the wind chills but not so much for the temperatures so dress them from five below to five above. by 11:00 the winds had been gusting to 25 miles per hour and we'll see gusts overnight over 30. good news is they will subside by late tomorrow morning so wake up weather bitterly cold, 6-16 at 5:00, 5-15 at 7:00, and even by 9:00, still bitterly cold, temperatures 9-16, winds though will make the wind chills 0-10 below by daybreak. >>> well thank you, topper. and it is so cold out there tonight the d.c. mayor bowser issued a cold emergency weather plan that includes opening warming facilities and then deploying mobile hypothermia crews out there for anybody who may not have a place to get warm. >> because of the freezing temperatures, montgomery county is requiring its residents to bring in the pets from the cold. >> they need all of the warmth they can get overnight into the morning hours because a deep freeze. >> those freez

south of leesburg heading east getting close to fairfax. and maybe a drop or two a little flake there just on the north side of bowling green, headed down toward that location. but in terms of accumulation we're not going to see that anymore. temperatures the big story from here on out. temps and wind. let's head outside to meteorologist doug kammerer with more on what you can expect overnight. >> yeah, veronica this winter blast started off with snow and now we'll see extremely cold temperatures. tonight the sun will set in about the next ten minutes or so and what we're going to see here are water. the snow and ice will quickly turn over to all ice in the area. notice everybody that saw snow today, below freezing. 30 in manassas 30 in leesburg. 25 in gaithersburg. 28 in martinsburg. the warm spots, charlottesville, fredericksburg, in the upper 30s to 40. snow snow towards that area but some areas will see problems overnight. everything will freeze. roads will become slick. walking will be tough as far as sidewalks are concerned. so please

it's kind of a messy slush out here on route 7 in leesburg. about half an hour ago, it was just wet rain. now it's slush. i want to ground, though. that's where you can see the accumulation. in our last half-hour, i made an x here in the parking lot. let's take a look at an update and see where it is. it's almost covered, guys. not as much as last time but you can see there's quite a bit of snow here on the the ground here in leesburg in this parking lot. we'll keep you updated on the road conditions here as the snow continues to fall. be careful as you're heading out to work this morning. back to you in the studio. >> that's nikki in northern virginia. now we want to send it over to germantown, maryland, where vanessa herring is joining us. >> good morning, vanessa? >> reporter: it's kind of the same story. you can see where most of the cars have been traveling. it's kind of cleared out but the roads are still slick. take your time. allow yourself some extra time if you are heading out today. you can see the accumulation here on the ground. i

temperatures are cold 36 in leesburg 37 in baltimore, 40 in huntington. this isn't just rain but a cold rain and that cold rain will continue as we move on through the night. notice where the rain is back through i-81 leesburg annapolis, just about everybody sieg it, but right around the l'enphant plaza area right around downtown, that's where the steadiest rain has started once again. it was over the west but it is right over towntown. they'll deal with that for the next 15, 20 minutes until we get into lighter green back towards the west. the darker the green, that means the heavier the rain. right now it's right through downtown and i-95 right on down through the beltway around the newington area. so heads up. it will be a very slow commute as we continue to move out. now, the wider view showing more rain back down toward the south so even when this rain and the showers continue to pull out, we will see more back towards the west. we're not done with this just yet. then you notice where the air is now coming from. it's coming over the great lakes, comi

looking at the ground reports still some snow in leesburg, but there is a lot of rain. you know if you have been tuning in this was mainly going to be wet across most of the washington area. low pressure over the gulf in florida, coming up the coast. it has not really turned into a coastal storm just yet. advisories until noon, winter storms to the west. we will be hard-pressed to see the snow levels getting close. the temperatures do it close to freezing. there could be some icy spots but we will have to track the second half of the weekend and quite possibly the likeliest snow set up this season so far. the full forecast just minutes away. >> road crews were not taking any chances with the winter weather. dozens of trucks hit the streets afternoon. they are standing by in the overnight hours as well. richard reeve has the latest from virginia. >> good evening, leon, this was a night of what if. what if it snows like crazy, what if the roads froze, what if conditions are terrible. we ended up with this, and it kept a lot of folks busy. vdot crews are remaining on stand

leesburg may not see a drop. when does the rain arrive and leave sf i'll have the timing coming up in my full forecast in about ten minutes, erica. >> thanks amelia. >>> tonight a sports analyst and former nba basketball player is facing charges for allegedly soliciting a prostitute in d.c. jason pew is at the live desk with more. jason. >> erica, greg anthony is a sports analyst for cbs. he was in town -- anthony will not work the network again this season. anthony is accused of using a computer to solicit a prostitute. d.c. police arrested him just before 6:00 yesterday evening at the double tree by hilton hotel in downtown washington. booked and jailed and released later in the evening. if convicted, anthony could face up to 180 days in jail. now, anthony did issue an apology saying "with this last i have embarrassed many. i will work to regain the trust i lost." >> thanks jason. >>> in howard county tonight police are investigating the suspicious death of a woman whose body was found burning in a trailer. fir

forecast lows 29 in rockville, 28 fairfax, 27 sterling, 26 leesburg, 29 bowie. we'll come back, talk about clouds increasing tomorrow ahead of one clipper and >>> taking a look at stories trending now, miss a birthday party? get a bill. don't you forget it, bruce. it's a story that's heating up on neighbor today. >> 5-year-old alex told his buddy he would be attending his shindig and according to the plymouth herald in the uk something came up and alex went on a trip with his parents. he wasn't there. well, a couple weeks later alex's parents found an invoice in his backpack for about 16 pounds or $24 for a no show fee. >>> a lot of you checked out the new clint eastwood movie american sniper over the weekend. >> but some tweets from michael moore are raising more than a few eyebrows. the filmmaker tweeted my uncle killed by a sniper in world war ii. we were taught snipers were cowards, will shoot you in the back. snipers are not heroes and invaders are worse, but if you're on the roof of your home defending it from invaders coming 7,000 miles, you are not a sni

our team coverage continues now in leesburg rich how does it look out there? >> leon the snow definitely picking up now. we just want to show you we're right off edward's ferry road off route 50. i want to show you some of the grass to give you an idea not too bad. it's sticking on grass. when we look over the road over here edward's ferry road not a big deal yet. wet surfaces but vdot says it is ready. now, today we did visit a vdot facility off of route 7. they say they have between 650 and 700 trucks with salt and sand. add midnight they'll have about 1,000 trucks ready to go. and the district says it has about 200 snow plows that will be in service by 8:00 p.m. and in maryland about 2400 pieces of snow equipment statewide. most of the major thoroughfares around this area at least have been pretreated to deal with anything hopefully to keep this snow from sticking. loudoun, though expected to be one those hard hit areas especially when you get into those higher elevations towards the blue ridge. >> it's kind of a crap chute for us. at the same time we'll be

we're live along route 7 here in the leesburg area. you can see traffic is starting to pick up a little bit here in town. roads are simply wet. we've seen a little bit of precipitation this morning mostly rain a little bit of freezing rain mixed in there. but at this point, it doesn't look like it's doing anything. vdot was prepared though. yesterday afternoon they sent the trucks out, they salted major roadways and some of the heavier traveled roads in the area. so they were ready. they have more trucks on standby should there be any problems take today. but every looking pretty did good in northern virginia out on 66 as well as dulles toll road and right here in the historic area of leesburg. but it looks look the worst is yet to come. darcy spencer, news 4. >>> and as darcy mentioned, another storm headed our way. so be sure to download the nbc washington app. it's free and easy to use. >>> developing this morning, we are working right now to find out more information about a huge apartment fire in prince george's county. this is a

friend who know him locally, lives in leesburg va va withirginia with his wife. david's going to have an update coming up. >> there is new leadership today in the district. >> news4's tom sherwood was there for the big event. >> so help me good. >> bouser the district's 7th elected mayor since modern home rule began in the 1970s, sworn in at the convention center. >> it is the greatest day of my life to be sworn in as mayor of my hometown. >> she was the highlight of an hour-long ceremony for her. sworn in as the city's first elected attorney general. newly elected ward three member took time to chide president obama for displaying the d.c. auto tag but not doing much more. >> i do thank him for that. but really? is that it? is that really it? >>. >> reporter: but mostly it was a party atmosphere of good feeling as bouser now leads the city. >> good bless the district of colombia. >>> as tom mentioned one of the other big moments of the day was when the district sworn in the attorney general. voters decided to make it an elected position. he grew up here in the d

we love you. >> this evening, a prayer vigil will be held at the yoga studio in leesburg where simran worked. that's tonight at 7:00 and richard reid will have the latest on that tonight at 11:00. cloudy skies this evening could give way to wintry weather by the morning. meteorologist steve rudin is in the weather center to tell us which areas will be affected. steve? >> all right maureen, it looks like it will be mainly north and west of us here in d.c. and some changes are on the way as we move towards the latter part of the upcoming weekend. look at satellite and radar not a whole lot going on out there right now other than the cloud cover. it stays dry for this evening and at least until about midnight or so but we do have a winter weather advisory that will go into effect. areas shaded in purple. those are the areas under the winter weather advisory starting at 4:00 morning and it includes frederick and washington counties. the panhandle of west virginia and the i-81 corridor where you may see a little bit of a wintry mix, even some freezing rain. not looking for anything like th

. >>> leesburg police are issuing a new warning about synthetic marijuana. they're seeing a spike in the number of people who need medical attention after ib hailing what is labeled k-2 or spice. but synthetic marijuana is actually a type of in-cense it is illegal to use or sell it in virginia. last year leesburg police investigated 40 incidents related to k-2 and so far this year they have already had 14. >>> if you love your work -- want to tell you about a conference about the keystone xl pipeline today. two senators a democrat and republican and ambassador from can in a today will talk about a bill here. republicans struck down multiple democratic amendments to the bill although they did pass a measure saying quote, climate change is real and not a hoax. the president has said he will veto the bill if it passes. >>> this just into our newsroom. prince william county schools are opening two hours late this morning. again, prince william county schools two hours late. >>> today you can have your say on the recent violence in ward 8. residents are invited t

farthewest the bright white areas, big flakes are faultlling near leesburg. all snow across most of howard county and frederick counties in maryland northern prince y getting a few wet flakes. but these temperatures this is the saving grace. we are in the mid and upper 30s to near 40 most of virginia and in the nearby suburbs. but farther north and west down to near freezing and we're seeing some of that sticking. here is the timing. green is rain, pink is the wet snow. white is the accumulating snow. and we'll see that as we get into the after hour accumulating snow creeps farther and farther south all the way west of fredericksburg while rain south and east of us. we get the wet snow in the afternoon hours. 11:00 p.m. still snowing west of washington and moving right over the metro area the rest of the night and quickly moving across the eastern shore by this time tomorrow morning. leaving in its wake 1 to 3 inches. in the dusting to an inch south and east but 3 to 5 farther north and west. and in the mountains, 5 to 7 inches by the time this all ends by da

temperatures willing in the teens about 23 hours from now. 10:00 19 in leesburg, manassas. in fact, wind will be about 5 above if you're going out tomorrow. if you're going out late tomorrow, we're looking at maybe 19. [ audio difficulties ] be fine for the commuters, but watch that carefully. i think the mild air will win and it will go to all rain with temps around 40. tuesday dry and cold, wednesday showers possible and possibly snow thursday with highs in the mid-30s. >> we're still watching how much snow. >> one model has sunny. 1 model has rain and 42. one model has snow, so at this point it's a little hard. >>> so caps, wizards, what's up? >> caps, they're streaking in a good way. >> we got a lot coming up in this sportscast. tonight we're saluting one of d.c.'s finest, alex ovechkin, of course, a lot of impressive stats, but this might be one of the better ones we've come across, the great 8 i call it percolates >>> now wusa9 game on sports with dave owens brought to you by xfinity. >> all right. who were these strange men donning the red sweaters with the caps lett

feels like it's already 30 in gaithersburg, feels like 29 in leesburg. we're headed for a cold night. if you had big plans tonight, bundle up. winds die down. temperatures will plummet. by 8:00 tonight 30 in gaithersburg, 32 in leesburg and manassas, 35 downtown. by 10:00 20s, hagerstown, frederick, gaithersburg and 30s barely down toward la plata and also waldorf. by midnight if you're out late, temperatures in the 20s pretty much across the board. get ready for a cold night. looking ahead, well, again a bit cold tomorrow but minus the wind. so a little give and take saturday, good enough for a jog or hike tomorrow. sunday milder with showers and the best chance of showers sunday will be east of i-95 and martin luther king day looks great, breezy, though, temperatures in the 40s. we'll come back. we still have a couple flakes on the seven-day. >>> the white house has announced a new push to encourage public/private participateships to fund new roads and -- partnerships to fund new roads and other projects. vice president joe biden and d.c. mayor muriel

to till 9:00 p.m., a trace of snow leesburg frederick, martinsburg, hagerstown winchester area too. this for us will be nothing more than i think a nuisance event to deal with a low-impact kind of system. so at the bus stop on thursday for recess, for dismissal, all a green light. any refreeze that takes place or any slick roads i don't think will happen until very late on thursday around 9:00. okay. so that's the next system coming our way. and there's even another one as we look toward the weekend and doug kammerer has more on that. >> that's the big one everybody is talking about now. we've heard bigger stories from this storm and it will have a little more of a punch to our area coming up on sunday into the day on monday. let's take a look at it before we get too excited about snow. the weekend shows that saturday there will be cold air in place. we'll see a lot of it. we have high temperatures in the 20s on saturday. so it's set for a storm. but this storm is coming from way back to the west. we're talking act areas down toward the southwest, getting snow into -- or rain in cal

mid-20s in gaithersburg, leesburg 27, 26 manassas, 26 la plata, 28 into fredericksburg. by midmorning back around freezing downtown, upper 20s to around 30 in the suburbs. by 1:00 walk to lunch, it will be comfortable because there won't be any wind, temperatures near 40 downtown, upper 30s in the suburbs, exactly average this time of year. by 5:00 temps start going down a little, mid-30s north and west, 39 downtown, 38 in manassas. by 9:30 temperatures fall below freezing again in the suburbs and hold in the mid-30s downtown. so for tonight clouds hang tough, mostly cloudy, cold, low temps in the 20s, upper 20s downtown, low to mid-20s in the burbs. by morning skies return partly cloudy and cold, 22 to 36, winds start to turn west, northwest at 10 and then by afternoon now the winds are west, southwest, a good sign. that will get us milder air by the end of the week. high temperature 38 to 42, average for this time of year. we really can't complain about that. 30 in oakland, finally make it out of the 20s in oakland, 37 in cumberland, upper 30s in hagerstown, martinsbur

so that's what you're seeing is the business district here in leesburg. not too far from the circle. the roads are simply wet. we haven't encountered any ice. we came out via route 66 and then dulles toll road. that's mostly what we're seeing is rain this morning. very small amount of freezing rain. reporting live from leesburg darcy spencer, news 4. >>> you could still see there is a little snow on some of the grassy areas along the side of the road, but good news to hear that the roads are not having much trouble first thing this morning. the farther north and west you travel, you may run into a little bit more trouble. but temperatures are just above the freezing mark across the entire viewing area now. so most of the news 4 nation waking up to just cold and nasty outside. it's a hot soup kind of a day today. french onion, chicken noodle doesn't matter as long as it's a nice hot bowl. you'll need it. 37 right now in washington with light rain continuing to fall. so it's nasty outside. winter weather advisory goes until 12 noon for everywhere west of th

the pink is sleet and snow mixing in leesburg warrenton, across i-66, 70, 270, areas of northern and western howard county now reports of sleet coming down throughout the area. that winter weather advisory continues through 9:00 p.m. into dare d.c. areas, prince william, prince george's county anne arundel county and up to the north. even after 9:00 p.m. we could see some refreezing taking place. watch for slick spots late tonight. this is a small, fast-moving system. we have another system coming up for the weekend. i know super bowl sunday. i'll have the details on that coming up. >>> i'm wendy rieger at the live desk. a man with ties to our area is now on the fbi's most wanted terror list. his name is liban haji mohammed a u.s. citizen but born in somali and worked as a cabdriver in washington. he left in 2012 to join the al shabab terror group in east africa. he is also a close associate of a convicted terrorist, zachary chesser. news4 covered this case extepsively when chesser was sentenced in 2011 serve 25g years in prison for trying to support that terror group. the fbi has a

talking about leesburg picking up a couple of inches of snow. down to the south it was mostly a rain event. that's what's going on right now. we have nothing down there, even towards parts of charles county. 36 degrees, winds out of the northeast at three miles per hour. 36 here, but notice what's going on back to the north and west. 30 degrees in gaithersburg 29 in baltimore, 34 in leesburg. many areas close to the freezing mark tonight. that's the only real concern overnight, not any more rain or snow. but we could see icy patches by early tomorrow morning with a temperature around 30 degrees inside the beltway. dry conditions tomorrow and melting conditions too. temperatures around 44 degrees. i think tomorrow will be a pretty nice day all in all as we will see sunshine and a mixture of clouds during the day thursday. future weather though taking us through friday. no problems friday during the day. friday will be another nice day, a little cool with some cloud cover. but watch what happens as we move in through 8:00 9:00 10:00. snow to the w

leesburg winchester warrenton, frederick. what does high impact mean? i think more than 4 inches in most of the area. this is something we'll continue to watch in the next couple days. it ends early monday morning. we expect delays and cancellations monday morning. guys? >> keep us posted. >>> maryland's new governor facing a battle over budget cuts. where the backlash is coming from tonight. >>> cleveland, los angeles, baltimore, they've all been used to represent d.c. in movies and on tv. coming up at 6:00 how the city is trying to attract more filmmakers to use the real thing. >>> the district now has more than a thousand children living in homeless shelters many of them in hotels. i'm mark segraves and i'll introduce you to one of those families. >>> a local prosecutor will play a key role in the unique case of joe morris see, who sits at a statehouse during the day and jail at night. arlington county commonwealth's attorney theo stay mos will head a team of prosecutors handling new charges against morrissey. the richmond-area democrat is now accuse

there's a look at the rainy conditions leesburg gaithersburg baltimore, any snow i think will stay up to our north and it's rain for now early monday morning. here's a look at your time line. sun or a little bit of snow and mixed conditions with rain between noon and 7:00 p.m. it's rain after 10:00 p.m. on sunday. and rain for monday morning. so more of a low impact storm system for us. mainly rain annapolis waldorf, we've got around an inch to rain for leesburg, warrenton, a quick coating on the ground. high accumulations right up here. hagerstown frederick, those counties that border pennsylvania. and we could see things ramp up very quickly thereupon where they could get a couple inches before switching over the rain. storm team four-day forecast 34 for high saturday breezy but dry. lunchtime on sunday about noon that's when we'll see the snow little bit of rain mixed in and our best chance to see a light coating on the ground. look at this 40 degrees. temperatures continue to go up. monday morning, right now 37 the high. we'll look at the extended forecast in a little bit and brea

live in leesburg jeff goldberg abc 7 news. >> thank you. of course the stormwatch weather team is continuing to track conditions as the weather system moves out and another potentially more powerful one begins to take shape. chief meteorologist doug hill breaks down the timing of the next winter weather threat in a few minutes. leon? >> we go to breaking news coming out of annapolis where crews have recovered two bodies with the charred remains. this comes hours after news chopper 7 captured these images of the search crews of the investigators getting their first look inside the ruins. stephen tschida is live in an annapolis to tell us what he just learned there. what's the latest? >> i went back into the fire station and spoke with the captain russ davies just seven minutes ago. he was a bit more forthcoming one-on-one than he was during the news conference. we now know that those two bodies which were found today were discovered in the basement of this massive home but he did qualify that by saying the fire was so intense that the house

now we'll look at futurecast for this evening if you're headed out, low 30s, manassas, leesburg, maybe 31 in gaithersburg by 9:30. by 10:30 do the last walk with the dog, mid-30s downtown, everybody else 30 degrees, the crazy cold tonight, pretty much average. let's look ahead. good time to wash the car or truck, dry tomorrow and saturday. can't promise sunday, though. breezy and not as cold tomorrow, a bit colder saturday behind the front, lower temps a little bit. showers sunday could actually change to snow showers sunday night. we'll come back and talk more about that in a few minutes. >>> want to hop down to havana? you're one step closer. the federal government eased travel restrictions to cuba. starting tomorrow you no longer need approval from the u.s. office of for assets control and as long as you certify you're traveling through one of the 12 approved categories such as educational, religious or human terrible, you can simply make the trip down there. at -- humanitarian, you is simply make the trip down there. beginning march 7th southwest will offer direct flights from bwi

until then live in leesburg jeff goldberg, abc 7 news. >> jeff thank you very much. let's go now from northern virginia to maryland where chris has been driving around in mobile track 7 checking out the roads there and he joins us now. what are you seeing chris? >> well alison much like what jeff said the news for drivers right now is pretty good. you can see we're traveling about 60 65 miles an hour here on route 270 heading north through maryland. there isn't any snow. doesn't appear to be any ice on the roads right now. traffic is moving really well. if you look on the side this is the type of snow that is a little bit heavier, a little bit wet and makes for very pretty driving. trees are covered in this type of snow. since it's not on the roads, you can appreciate it a little bit more. now, we are heading towards frederick. we hear that there are some roads in frederick that did get a little bit more snow on them. perhaps, didn't get as well driven as this one. a little bit warmer to melt that snow. so once we get there, we'll let you know what we see. also, as w

we'll only get up to 32 in leesburg. 33 downtown washington. 32 andrews. forecast lows for tonight dropping into the mid-20s for most of us. we'll drop down to 25 in manassas. 26 in leesburg and frederick. 24 in culpeper where you have a little more snow. we're going to see the temperatures on the rise after that. so wednesday 32 degrees. that's it with the snow showers ending. 39, though, on thursday with more sunshine arriving. and we'll get up to 40 degrees on friday and that's the beginning of this milder trend. in the first alert seven-day forecast, just in time for the weekend we're going to see those temperatures popping closer to 50 degrees. we'll keep it dry through most of the weekend as well but sunday there's a chance for a rain shower late in the day. stay with us. we'll the world is filled with air. but for people with copd sometimes breathing air can be difficult. if you have copd, ask your doctor about once-daily anoro ellipta. it helps people with copd breathe better for a full 24hours. anoro ellipta is the first fda-approved product conta

back to leesburg winchester the darker shades of purple indicate the heavier snow. around 7:00 fredericksburg lexington park mechanicsville no snow for you. most of it will stay to the north. back towards front royal and the gainesville area and manassas. but even around the 9:00 hour starting to see some showers, but most will stay to the north. that's why we think most of this activity will be to the north. few flurries but after about 11:00 in the morning, most of it is about done. to the south, maybe a dusting if that around leonardtown, towards chesapeake city towards fredericksburg. half inch for waldorf. one to two inches in fredericks fredericksburg and leesburg. maximum of three in these areas. two down to the south. that's all i can see in montgomery county. two, maybe three inches for you on the high side. same thing towards marshall. so we are going to see some snow and it will accumulate. this is the reason temperatures got in the low 20s. 21 in la platea early tomorrow morning. next four days 36 tomorrow for a high. 28 on wednesday. 24 on thursday. tha

when you factor in winds. 6 degrees in leesburg 4 in gaithersburg 6 in camp springs. overnight tonight until 9:00 p.m. there called be a few flurries not amounting to much but something to notice. cool cloud formations people tweet tweeting me and great pictures. right now, 11:00 p.m. at 16 degrees. starting the day off with a temperature of about 12. it will feel like temperatures are anywhere from zero to 10 below zero. only 24 for a high temperature in washington and clouds will innees clougt the day tomorrow. will increase throughout the day tomorrow. a windy increase. here's your planner by friday. still, a cold start. temperature around 27 degrees. not as bad but chilly by all means. clouds will decrease. 11:00 a.m. stlae degrees. high of 37 will hit it by 3:00 in the afternoon. for the weekend, we have oh thethe health and fit nessness expo. it will be chilly but dry. starting off at 27 degrees and 20 on sunday. there will be more snow monday tuesday, wednesday. and i will have more when we're coming up. >> tonight, often the winds and windchill temperatures ou

temperature is 3 t 25 in gaithersburg, 34 in leesburg and 36 in manassas, still 36 in d.c. but as we mentioned earlier you don't have to see the temperatures exactly 32 for ice to form. what is black ice is? it looks wet but it's actually frozen. that's black ice. slowdown and also be careful walking. your driveways will freeze first so be careful walking to get the paper or walking the kids to the bus stop tomorrow. let's talk about visibility down to one mile at dulleis s, half mile in leesburg and mile and a quarter up toward gaithersburg so we have fog and black ice. if you drive early tomorrow morning in the dark only use low beams, slowdown and allow extra time and allow distance between you and your friend in front of you. we'll come back and talk about when temperatures climb above freezing and look at not one but two storms in the next faradays. >>> epic radio communication failures and problems that literally blew the smoke into faces of trapped metro riders, just two of the early findings released from the ntsb looking into the deadly tragedy in the tunnel nearly

tonight, nothing will melt. 27 degrees right now in leesburg. the network members you see a live numbers. so, they should change. 30 degrees right now. chevy chase, 28. morningside, 29 degrees. those values will all drop. their temperature, 28 in gaithersburg. 34 in fredericksburg. the wind played a key role and they will knock the temperatures down. 37-30, the high low officially at reagan national. i will point out that our average high 44-29 tells us statistically, climatological he we are past the coldest part of the winter. guess what happened? we will have the coldest weather pattern we have had all winter. so, we will drop down the thermometer tonight, 14-23 degrees. this is a satellite and radar. we've had some heavier snow bounds moving in. notice the pattern is slowly shifting out. the strong winds come down the backside of the system. we will continue to enjoy sunshine and breezy weather tomorrow. the next system, a cold front. and wintry mix thursday evening and thursday night clear out on friday and have a potentially more subst sys

seeing a few flurries come down leesburg and hagerstown. accumulating snow and frostburg and petersburg elkins and then a look at your sunshine 4-day forecast a look at friday and saturday and sunday and the health fitness going on and storm team will be there answering weather questions thursday friday saturday. i'll be back to talk about this later. >>> they found something important down at the bottom of the java sea today. they have found the tail section of flight 8501 more than 100 feet below the surface. the ceo of airasia says the black boxes should be in that part of the wreckage. that plane crashed 11 days ago while flying to singapore. there were 162 people on board that plane. they've recovered 40 bodies so far. >>> freight trains filled with hazardous materials traveling daily through d.c. the iteam show us how one spill could threaten workers and even the capitol. >>> a father mourns the l of his son who may have been distracted while crossing the radio tracks going home. >>> is there an elk in your bed? with sleep number, now

leesburg to toms brooks and luray, 1 to 2 with a coating to just over an inch in and around d.c. warrenton up to the north and east. your four-day forecast mix to snow tomorrow morning. again, road issues possible early tomorrow. not so much this evening. high temperature, we get up to 41 after the storm system pulls out, then it's late sunday with a high temperature of 45 late sunday when we are going to be dealing with the next storm system. and yes it will impact your monday morning rush. we'll take you through a time line coming up later in the newscast where that storm system moves in out, and what we're expecting with it. back to you. >>> a ransom deadline passes for two hostages in the grips of isis. >> richard engle has new information about the two men in captivity. >>> talk more text less. why the pope is ordering the faith to feel put down that ce >>> and we want to hear from you about the stories that get you going right here first at 4. when you've got something to share, you need upload speed. and only verizon fios gives you upload speeds... ...as fast as your downl

last year leesburg police investigated 40 k-2 incidents. this year they've already had 14. >>> president obama is on the road right now to push the middle class tax cut plan that served as the centerpiece of his state of the union speech last night. but republicans are pushing back and flexing their muscle with a startling move on iran. news4's steve handelsman has the story. >> reporter: the day after the speech house speaker john boehner slammed the obama message. >> all the president really offered last night was more taxes, more government more of the same approach that has failed the middle class for decades. >> reporter: and, as mr. obama headed out to sell his plan to boost middle class take-home pay by cutting their taxes and hiking taxes on the rich the new senate republican leaders said no way. >> there's not a lot of serious lawmakers that can do with talking pointsecifically not to pass. >> reporter: the obama focus on taxes did win praise from one key republican. >> we'll see if we can get a tax reform package done. i'm glad th

southbound lanes now open there in leesburg. northbound still shut down. alternate is charles town pike over to berlin turnpike. 395 north at seminary, two left lanes blocked from an earlier crash. 66 no problems in or out of town. taking a look here at 95 in virginia through dale city a little slow at 26 miles per hour that's the the bend there. typically gets slow. ap pen penn line 15 minutes behind for track work. travel times coming up next. >>> 5:31 now. and there is tension this morning between the pentagon and iraq. iraq's prime minister claims the u.s. and its allies are not doing enough to help fight isis. tracie potts live on capitol hill with more on what defense officials here are saying about this. >> reporter: good morning. defense secretary chuck hagel says that we've had a significant tangible and measurable impact on isis despite those from us trace trags frustrations from iraq's prime minister. and brand new this morning, video from northern iraq the kurds are launching a major new offensive against isis. they'

in downtown leesburg today, frozen sidewalks and walking with care was a must. the shovels also out as people cleared their path. and then take a look at this picture sent into us from a viewer. 16th street in south arlington. cars yeah kind of like bumper cars as they headed down the icy hill. now i want to take you back out here to our live shot in vienna. the roads, some of the main roads in decent shape but side roads in slick conditions and for the morning, a challenge. we'll send it back to you guys. >> all right. thank you, adam. >>> from the parking garage at the grovener metro, the scene was actually kind of picturesque this morning. but it wasn't pleasant for drivers who started the day cleaning off their cars or trying to push their way out of ditches on the side of the road. road crews are now out making sure streets are passable for the evening rush. >>> metro buses are now operating under a moderate snow plan they call it. that means service along most of the routes will be okay. but some of the routes might be detoured to keep the buses off street

and the future cast at 10:00, you can walk with the cold. 17 in gaithersburg. 19 in leesburg and 18 in manassas. notice these temperatures happened at 10:00. not much different than where they are right now. they won't change much. by 6:00 in the morning they would go up a little bit 267892 in leesburg and 20 in gaithersburg and mid-20s downtown. and left seeing any watches of blue here, but a couple of flurries are possible tomorrow morning and add a couple of the snow showers here as well. accumulating snow that will be west of the divide in to western maryland. by 9:00 we have temps near 30. and at one time this will be pretty good. and with the sunshine that you could walk to lunch. by 6:00 the temps will fall quickly tomorrow. the arctic air comes back at us with the lower 20s 24 hours from now downtown. we will probably see more single digits. keep that in mind. okay tonight, mostly cloudy, breezy, very cold. a flurry or a snow shower is possible. low 16 to 22. the winds are southwest at 10 to 15. and so these temps are not much lower than what they are currently. so we've got 19